Youtube comments of L.W. Paradis (@l.w.paradis2108).

  1. I love seeing employees stand up for themselves. Excellent.
    950
  2. This took a toll on an eminent scientist, Dr. Bhattacharya. The injustice is so troubling.
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  3. Not one reporter who refuses to lie can stay on mainstream media. Not ONE. Thank you, guys. Happy holidays.
    527
  4. How many homeless people could have a home for 1.4 BILLION?
    437
  5. Bill Maher is right from the standpoint of the Precautionary Principle. And he has a right to his opinion. Why shouldn't he talk about it??
    431
  6. Joy and Kamala think someone else is "the crazies?" 😂😂😂 Come on, man, that's flat-out FUNNY.
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  7. John Money misdiagnosed Janet Frame as schizophrenic and had her committed. She narrowly missed being lobotomized, only because she won a literary prize only a short time before she was supposed to have her brain ruined. Jane Campion directed the film based on her life. It is a tear-jerker, and all of it is true.
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  8. AOC talks like there ISN'T a pandemic. Why the mixed message, AOC? Aren't people who LOST jobs without health care now, during COVID?
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  9. Of all the things I love about Dr. Campbell, right at the top of the list is his meticulous documentation, and the fact that he always provides links to the original papers, and encourages reading. No one else is as good.
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  10. If Pelosi is willing to give up being Speaker, over MEDICAL CARE IN A PANDEMIC, then GOOD RIDDANCE.
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  11. More than that -- she was cured, literally, of Stage 4 melanoma; she is a natural polyglot, without ever having had to study, and has lived much of her life speaking languages that are neither her first nor her second; she is one of the great beauties of her generation. She is the most remarkable person in the world.
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  12. One of Kim's best. And she's right, it is not about the vaccines, or stopping the spread, or the science. It is something else entirely.
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  13. We are lucky they still DO document drug trials this carefully. Next time, they won't. Just like they changed the laws for . . . Wall Street and Silicon Valley.
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  14. 💯 Joe Rogan: the scariest thing IS that they are willing to do this to kids.
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  15. I only just found out Musk never earned an engineering degree.
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  16. "You can choose to be in solidarity with everyday people." Yes, Dr. West. We can choose.
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  17. "It should bother you, too." The best comeback I have heard in YEARS.
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  18. She's a failed actress. Acting is hard. This game is easy.
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  19. What Joe Rogan said about the DNC is exactly why and how Biden was installed.
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  20. This is too tragic. Is there any global crisis that the US doesn't make worse?
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  21. Forty years ago, my mom's friend had a little boy with truly severe ADHD. His mother took him to Puerto Rico for treatment, where her family was from. A doctor there changed his diet, and he was fine after that. He was unusually sensitive to additives, and especially food coloring.
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  22. Each Jimmy Dore segment BETTER than the last!!!
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  23. When will the US push Ukraine toward diplomacy? Thanks for bringing the Jonathan Cook article in MintPress to our attention, Jimmy!
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  24. What Chris Hedges is describing is TORTURE. Solitary confinement is torture.
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  25. This problem is so cool because of its relationship with chaos theory. It gives you a simple way to explain sensitive dependence on initial conditions that even a middle school student could understand and appreciate.
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  26. Books pushing trans hormones for grammar school children: should not be censored. Books questioning mRNA vaccines: should be censored. Wow. That makes sense.
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  27. A very intelligent doctor I once knew told me that stress does not "kill" in the way we usually think -- if it did, no one in a war zone would be alive for long. But stress makes every illness worse. I know that in the US, the fearmongering and hate-spreading has affected us all. The generalized stress is off the charts.
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  28. The Flint water comparison was GENIUS.
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  29. You failed to address Ana's threat. The threat was made because Jimmy defended Aaron, and it was based on her having a written apology from Jimmy.
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  30. Or old ones, either.
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  31. What a brilliant woman. I am truly humbled listening to her. Eloquence personified.
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  32. An adult son was convicted of murdering his parents in my state, and it turned out that a motorcycle gang that was dealing drugs were the perpetrators. This man was on death row for a number of months. He was the one who found his parents dead. The three were farmers on their small farm together. His brothers and sisters all told the police he was innocent, and hired a private attorney. He was still wrongly convicted.
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  33. This is so disgraceful. That poor woman, and her poor family. Start by thinking of them, being treated like the NYTimes treated them during their moment of grief.
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  34. I've heard that NO mRNA vaccines are approved for use in China. I was interested in exactly this topic, and I thank Dr. Campbell for coming through for us again.
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  35. For the rest of us, what freaks us out is how we'll afford food and whether we can work to 75.
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  36. Glenn Greenwald just did a great piece about what matters in this incident, and did not mention Kyle at all because that part is extraneous to his point. He talked about how baseless "Russian agent" smears have become normalized, and about the weaponization of metoo to settle personal scores. He stuck to what is important, and gave examples of both, from prior incidents.
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  37. "Unoccupied vehicle" is not a carjacking. If the owner or lawful occupant is not in the car or near the car, it is NOT a carjacking. It is auto theft.
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  38. WHO CARES ABOUT HER???? If anyone does, and votes the way she tells them to, then that's the problem.
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  39. Reagan was the first to tax SOCIAL SECURITY benefits. HOW could that go unnoticed??
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  40. THAT IS THE ONLY WAY neoliberals can win. They can only be "least bad." They have no support, except among the economic "elite."
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  41. This media suppression is some of the worst I have seen. Inexcusable.
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  42. NEVER open the door if you are not expecting anyone. You have NO duty to open the door. Remember that. If someone is beating down your door or barking orders at you from outside your door, call the police and report them.
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  43. Haaretz has been criticizing AIPAC for years. Many of their columnists consider AIPAC to be interferring in Israeli elections. This is vital to note.
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  44. Outstanding broadcast. Max and Jimmy keep topping themselves -- very much needed now.
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  45. For anyone who spread not just misinformation but sheer hatred during the pandemic to still have anything to say about anything, nevermind about WAR, is a disgrace.
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  46. If he is forced to take a plea, then we don't have a justice system. This needs to be put in front of a jury.
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  47. Max is so tough, it is always a pleasure to see him. A rare soul. Let's go Biden. Oops, Brandon.
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  48. Colbert's selling out makes it look like all his previous comedy was really ENVY. People like Colbert are very damaging.
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  49. A child's future reproductive choices MUST BE PROTECTED. Reproductive choice is a fundamental human right. There should have never been a rush to medicalize or criminalize. Or propagandize in public school.
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  50. Worse than that, they all got RICH(ER). There is NO reason to think this won't happen again. It worked so well for them this time.
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  51. This horror is beyond words. Please allow me to commend Democracy Now! for bringing these stories, and for the way you are treating them. No one else is reporting on the war the way Democracy Now! is.
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  52.  @praharmitra  1. Every partial sum is, by recursion, the sum of two natural numbers, and hence must be a natural number. 2. The set of all partial sums is countably infinite.
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  53. Jimmy and Stef: I have to say one of your best ever --- nearly every day now.
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  54. AOC had a "press conference" where no questions were allowed. Perfect.
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  55. Cuomo deserves everything Jimmy dishes out. Every word.
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  56. No one has enriched his family more than Biden has, pure nepotism.
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  57. I CLEARLY remember when serious, responsible scientists were expressing concern that any coronavirus vaccine could result in ADE (antibody dependent enhancement). This comes as no surprise. It is consistent with the prior concern during the vaccine development. From what I read in 2020, these vaccines could have been worse.
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  58. Being told "it's all in your head" is typical in the US.
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  59. Gosh, the elite is full of highly competent and sober people.
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  60. Are we supposed to support a blatantly unconstitutional law because MTG opposes it? 😂
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  61. Outstanding! Bring back more, absolutely! We must not forget this history.
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  62. What Greenwald said is exactly what needs to be said.
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  63. This IS starting to get serious. We literally cannot believe what they say about anything.
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  64. Is Dr. West the most gracious? Every time.
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  65. The real disgrace is that anyone who said this was mercilessly bullied and vilified.
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  66. Recently, Chris did the best interview available anywhere of Leonard Peltier's tremendous lawyer. Given that Peltier's life is in danger, removing the interview is truly disgraceful.
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  67. Kyle may deserve the slap, but let's be clear: the bad guy in this picture is BERNIE.
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  68. Let's take a broader view: how can children be required to take ANY non-fully-approved drug or other medical treatment in order to attend PUBLIC school? Like, ever? No. Just no.
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  69. The idea that there is a college admissions counselor anywhere who tells students not to say they play piano or violin in order to get into an "elite" school tells you EVERYTHING. This show is over.
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  70. I LOVE the way Kennedy did not smirk or otherwise react to that tweet. THAT is the demeanor I want from a President. And YES it does matter.
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  71. My cousin in Montenegro got Pfizer. She got a blood count prior to her first dose. Then a doctor spoke to her prior to her second, asking her about side effects from the first dose, and took a second blood count before giving her the second dose. She was warned that for about a week after the shots, she should be more careful, because she was more likely to get sick. Montenegro. Not a developed country. (Hi YouTube censor! How's your day going?) P. S. She's 72.
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  72.  @praharmitra  You don't understand then. The set of natural numbers is closed under addition. All natural numbers, all the time.
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  73. "Even Obama doesn't believe it." Exactly.
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  74. ​ @USEismydream  The bill is unconstitutional.
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  75. Aaron and Jimmy together: always an excellent show.
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  76. Don't think people's first reaction is that the censorship is unfair. Their spontaneous reaction is "what did that person do wrong?" Even when they themselves know better. It's psychologically engineered that way.
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  77. I have to give them credit for one thing: they make me care a lot less whether I live or die. (Unvaccinated, btw.)
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  78. Under normal times, the laboratory would have been closed pending the results of a vigorous investigation. That's how things used to be done.
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  79. Paula Jean's story is horrifying. The corruption boggles the mind.
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  80. So far, only Joe Rogan gave us a truthful account of his COVID.
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  81. Please keep giving voice to Jewish and Israeli activists for peace. They have been ignored for so long, and it's heartbreaking.
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  82. Genuinely concerned for some of the people featured here.
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  83. "Perception is reality." "Was it a mistake not to have a primary?" 🤔 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  84. "Pandemic? What pandemic?" To Nancy, it was a stock buying opportunity.
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  85. The guardrail gatekeepers forced Chris Hedges and Phil Donahue out of MSM for daring to question war.
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  86. Dr. Cornel West on TJDS, live.
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  87. "Bernie was sent to make sure we didn't have a third party." -- THANK YOU
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  88. It's worse when they systematically lie to you and bully you if you express concerns.
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  89. "Transgenderism" is a very vague label for an ideological position the contours of which are poorly defined. The only thing people clearly agree with is that you DO NOT make this part of the public school curriculum before senior year in high school. Concentrate on anti-bullying. Every child should feel welcome in public school.
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  90. GOOD FOR TUCKER. Now you know why he was fired.
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  91. Notice how what should have been an honest look at Syria, one of the most tragic stories of war and destruction -- and war crimes -- of our time, has devolved into a debate over who showed whose female private parts to whom and who giggled about them. For some, life and death, terror from the sky, or a slow death by starvation. For others, what (not) to do when haute designer wardrobes malfunction. "They must hate us for our freedoms . . . "
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  92. EVERY major Democrat promised no mandates. Biden, Harris, Pelosi, . . . But that was during the campaign.
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  93. "The Jimmy Dore" issue? There isn't one. It's about Medicare For ALL.
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  94. I guess Ben Shapiro will need to volunteer the next time there is a terrorist atrocity. Poor, poor Ben.
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  95. Matt likes his insurance. That's nice.
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  96. I think Kasparian's accusation against Aaron Mate, that he denies children were killed in gas attacks and other war crimes, is even worse than the now-cliched accusation of being with the Russians, etc. Especially because AARON is the one who wants to find out who committed these heinous acts.
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  97. Under normal times, the laboratory would have been closed pending the results of a vigorous investigation. That's how things used to be done.
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  98. The words "chaos agent" are not just a partisan slogan.
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  99. Feeling hurt and betrayed is a sign of inner goodness. They expected better, they thought whites were better than that -- because they themselves were better than that.
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  100. Here's a thought: why are so many prominent people, in major media and elsewhere, involved in the abuse of minors?
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  101. The whole thing reminds me of the actual Nazis.
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  102. This was essential BEFORE the pandemic. Gawd.
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  103. About AOC: "She started tweeting where she lives, on Twitter . . . " "You're not in Congress to center the drama around you." Greenwald is the GOAT.
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  104. This is unforgivable.
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  105. There may be an ethical argument here, certainly, but as a matter of law I see NO WAY this could be a crime. How could anyone find beyond reasonable doubt that this was a criminal homicide?
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  106. People who are tortured are tortured more. People who are abused are abused more. Let's stop telling ourselves pretty stories about ourselves. Start by facing the truth.
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  107. I can't listen to that creep, Murray.
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  108. I don't use marijuana, I haven't seen it in this century, but I think weed SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ILLEGAL in the first place.
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  109. I believe you more than any commenter I've seen. I felt that. :)
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  110. Chris Hedges just did the finest interview of Leonard Peltier's tremendous lawyer. Peltier's life is in grave danger. YT destroyed this.
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  111. I've never asked this before, and normally it would not occur to me, but: Could you PLEASE make the entire Richard Wolff interview available for free on YouTube in about 4 to 8 weeks as a stand-alone? It's too important to have it stay behind a paywall in perpetuity.
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  112. What I am most sorry about is that he doesn't have a strong instinct for protecting his little ones. He will follow the crowd before he protects his children. I hope you find a spouse worthy of you.
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  113. Now that Biden has won, I thought we were supposed to ASK FOR STUFF. Oh. "Not yet." Huh.
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  114. ​Talking bs is protected by the First Amendment.
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  115. During the '60s and '70s when I was a kid, the spectre of nuclear war caused everyone to question the ethics of scientists. It wasn't so called "conspiracy theorists" who questioned scientists, it was intellectuals who questioned scientists and the ethics of these technologies.
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  116. Will we ever be rid of Ghislaine Maxwell's dear friend Hillary?
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  117. Whatever else a person may say, the resurrection of so many frankly Nazi-era symbols and slogans has been disturbing, as have various clearly fascist pseudo-arguments, like "Hitler didn't kill his own people." (!!!) for that one. So much for what woke has accomplished.
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  118. How about this, Brie? If we continue to support this cancelation move, innocent people will not be able to afford a decent lawyer. They had no reason to think they should have to plan for it in advance.
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  119. WHEN do you think health care for all will BE "real," if not during a pandemic in an employment-based health insurance system?
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  120. Gosh, I could swear somebody said it takes ten years on average to develop a vaccine.
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  121. Authenticity in politics is so rare, I'm finding myself shocked over and over at Kennedy's answers. I forgot what it was like.
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  122. Grilled? They went easy on Fauci.
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  123. Everyone later laughs about the times they were teased in school. No one who was bullied laughs about it, ever. They are not the same thing.
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  124. We have Immigration and Customs Enforcement? "Well I'll be."
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  125. "So they're not following science. This is all politics." Thank you, Jimmy. What will it take?
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  126. As Whitney Webb always says, don't be persuaded by what people say, always look at what they do.
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  127. We laugh at this, but in truth, his rant is ugly and hateful.
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  128. "If we bomb our enemies for WMDs, it will teach our friends not to use WMDs." Whaaaat?
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  129. And we wonder how "the Germans" were able to look away . . .
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  130. This was an unfortunate time to take the side of someone who mocked Brittany Spears.
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  131. How much 💰 did Raskin make from this pandemic?
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  132. What a beautiful little girl. She is so solid, well-spoken, and has a very good, clear memory of what happened. I wish her a good life going forward. So disturbing, no way to know how this will affect her in the years to come.
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  133. Yes, more control over our own privacy, and less government censorship. Amen.
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  134. Pro-tip: Never lie to the judge. Never. Never. Never. Never. Never.
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  135. People don't like it when a right is taken away. Brie got this one right.
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  136. So it does have gaslighting down pat. 🤣🤣🤣
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  137. That's not a nice thing to say about lesbian truckers.
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  138. Before a major cicada infestation, there was a report on the radio about how to reassure preschool children about it. I thought the concern was excessive -- until the cicadas came out. It was that bad. It must have been hell for some dogs, too.
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  139. 12:19 OTHER countries BAN what we put in our food.
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  140. Jeffrey Dahmer joke is genius, Jimmy! Fully deserved! Oh, and LET'S GO BRANDON.
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  141. 😂😂😂😂 🎯
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  142. Why did anyone think billionaires are a good idea?
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  143. I didn't think I could admire Max more than I already did. Tonight I do. Thank you Max.
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  144.  @kebayjones837  Not true. Goggins was deployed to Iraq with SEAL Team Five. He began running ultramarathons to raise money for the families of fallen SEALs.
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  145. For those who don't believe this to be possible: remember Rotherham. Think about how long that took. The last victims were not yet born when the first were attacked.
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  146. I believe him. I remember well when we signed the various accords against WMDs. I remember being surprised that research into certain antidotes to such weapons was also restricted. When I learned why, then I understood. What RFK Jr states is fully consistent with all I knew BEFORE 2020. That's important.
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  147. "The stories I could tell you . . . " in a fake whisper . . . my god she has less shame than Pelosi, Trump, the Clintons . . . Prince Andrew. My god.
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  148. In the early 1980s, I still remember the would-be PMC railing against steel workers and accusing them of being overpaid(!) I asked one woman if she knew that at USS Southworks, there was at least one death every year. She gave me a blank stare.
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  149. They think Aaron's sense of honor is a sign of weakness, so they went after him.
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  150. Thank you. How dare anyone go after any minor, ever? In any manner? No excuse for it.
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  151. Aaron Mate's calm, rational voice --- perfect for these times. Soothing my brain.
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  152. Senator Paul was tremendous in this interview. Said everything that must be said and confronted NOW.
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  153. I feel sorry for all the Jewish people who are opposed to this and feel ashamed. The actress who spoke has NOTHING to feel ashamed about!!!
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  154. Why George is great. If only America had someone like George.
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  155. This is her being an old school Republican, taking responsibility for exactly what she did and no more. And telling the truth.
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  156. "Sex assigned at birth." Stop right there.
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  157. But then, they would all have had less money. Let's be real.
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  158. Will THIS be deemed "qualified immunity?" Police aren't expected to know about freedom of the press?
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  159. Blaire White makes it ultra clear that she transitioned in her early 20s and is generally opposed to minors transitioning.
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  160. 💯
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  161. ​ @koray2573 Nonsense. If you have to go, then you have to keep it quiet.
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  162. Nor did Trump end any wars. He did send a drone to assassinate an Iranian leader -- because someone told him to. The look on his face when he announced it showed he didn't know whether what he had ordered was justified, or what the ramifications would be. But that he has no special war-mongering record or instincts is true.
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  163. The pregnant woman story appears in The Brothers Karamazov. It is a standard smear. It already was, back then.
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  164. We owe Glenn a lot. Thank you, Glenn.
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  165. You need to get a lawyer to write them a letter, and to prepare a sworn affidavit. I'm serious. Maybe you could go together and share the cost. A plagiarism accusation could affect you for decades. This reminds me of the very first identity theft victims. NO ONE believed them, it took months to straighten out, some lost $10,000 in the process, and some still had it following them around for years. Now, most cases are no big deal, and almost no one loses any serious money -- a regular burglary or pickpocket is worse. Well, welcome to accusations of plagiarism because of AI. You are first. :/
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  166. EVERY trivial claim of feeling unsafe is respected --- except this one, which is real.
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  167. Why didn't her normal friends tell her to go to a psychiatrist immediately?
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  168. She is counting on your not remembering.
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  169. The Red Cross workers are the epitome of courage.
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  170. I appreciate why Aaron would be very reluctant to sue, and I respect that. I hope that this time he will. TYT did this for MONEY. They have to be forced to disgorge their profits. It matters for all the journalists who do not have Aaron's stature. This was so dirty, and there are people who'll be influenced by it. Anyway, if he decides not to, I respect that decision.
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  171. A joke I saw: Money Pox . . . The k is silent.
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  172. OUTSTANDING article by John Pilger today on the role of the West in Afghanistan's immense tragedy.
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  173. "Parrhesia" WOW Haven't heard that in years. God I love this video.
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  174. "Teigen felt an impact to her business." That sums it up very well.
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  175. In this clip, RFK Jr did not praise Tucker. He stated a fact about viewership.
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  176. Rich people can get exemptions. They can get treatment, too.
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  177. Look how rich they are, with this level of incompetence. They love the system.
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  178. Glenn Greenwald explained the bill well -- it is not a border bill. It is a funding bill for war. Mayorkas deserves to lose his job. That is separate.
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  179. Whoopie says "people feel differently." Yeah, they feel like reading a history book and learning what happened during Nazism and the Holocaust. But Whoppie doesn't have those feelings.
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  180. That they are willing to force this on children is CHILLING.
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  181. Thus we literally need air conditioning, thus we have to continue generating energy. I think I see a vicious circle.
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  182. I believe Krystal is fully sincere now, and worried. The lack of responsible media is a crisis as well. Media is profitting from fomenting division.
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  183. When these things happen, I can see in Krystal's eyes that she is thinking about her kids.
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  184. By Dershowitz's logic, should the BRICS take preemptive action against the US?
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  185. Bill "my maid and driver say they're happy" Maher never saw Parasite.
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  186. The aide workers' murder was a torture murder.
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  187. YES
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  188. This is the least that should happen to the ice cream chomper.
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  189. Wait. Smalls now gave Tucker Carlson credibility? I thought Smalls was the guy no politician would go near. Now he can give Tucker Carlson credibility? Smalls was perfect. 100% on point. No warmth toward Tucker. No rudeness, either.
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  190. The downside: they no longer have to.
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  191. I still remember the hammer attack.
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  192. I remember when innocent until proven guilty was real.
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  193. Even if the prosecution were perfectly justified, shouldn't prosecuting a former president be taken more seriously? Shouldn't it be pristine?
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  194. If I did this to someone by sheer mistake, I'd quit my job the next day.
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  195. No one who has ever suffered trauma will ever feel fully connected with other people again. Not under rabid capitalism, at any rate.
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  196. The prosecutor is supposed to be the representative of all the people. A leak from the office of the prosecutor, IF that's what did happen, is a huge deal. It must never happen.
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  197. No one should open the door to a claim of police being on the other side. If someone tries to break down your door and claims to be the police, call the police. You have no duty to open your door. It's YOUR door. Anyone can shout "sheriff."
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  198. ​ @FaithwalkerTodd  WHAT in the world??
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  199.  Kabelo Ntsala  Is this video too long for you? Kyle addressed that, starting around 13:47, about 4 minutes long. "If you lose, you still win." Krystal, too: https://youtu.be/64A7A8QWDNc
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  200. "53 death penalty offenses" -- and Biden is joking and bragging about it.
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  201. Science is using fancy words for a runny nose.
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  202. ​ @l.sophia2803 Mandela was indeed considered a terrorist. The anti-apartheid movement was considered a Soviet plot.
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  203. Other countries have taken care of this by not vaccinating anyone under 30, absent a truly compelling reason, and no longer having a general COVID vaccination policy for anyone under age 50. (It's not about your show, dears.)
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  204. Here's an idea: don't advertise your personal life on Facebook or other (anti)social media.
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  205. The Reverend Chambers is coolness itself.
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  206. I would make no assumptions. Sometimes kids in this position are deeply ashamed of their parents. Their parents make them feel like freaks.
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  207. The proposed harbor is a transparent move, and will attract even more countries to the BRICS+.
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  208. Why was he ever nominated in the first place?
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  209. Michael Moore overstated the case, but only as a matter of style. His substantive point is RIGHT, as usual. :/
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  210. This RFK Jr interview is SUPERB. Thank you, Jimmy! You always come through! Everything you said was right.
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  211. 1. I despise these defendants. 2. These sentences are not only unjust but absurd, as is the government's "psychological fallout" garbage.
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  212. Dave Chappelle: "Twitter isn't a place."
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  213. Richard Wolff just went on Jimmy's show, and so did Chris Hedges again.
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  214. What a relief it is to see a comment that is intelligent and thoughtful. I can exhale now.
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  215. 💯 Remember when Bill Gates had one dinner with Jeffrey Epstein, and donated $1 million at Epstein's behest? Then it was two dinners, $2 million. Then . . . 😂
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  216. So . . . A guy who made his fortune in PayPal, and another Internet banking scheme he designed, is now after Maduro. I am shocked, shocked I tell you. And here I was sure he was a genius.
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  217. So, this story means Omicron is really contagious, just like colds.
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  218. I suggested healthy lunches, and already got censored.
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  219. Anyone who has read a serious book on evolution, such as E. Peter Volpe, has read about frogs often being the proverbial "canary in the coal mine." Extreme dysfunction due to pollution shows up in frogs first. This is how we learn other animals -- and people -- may be at risk.
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  220. Aaron's father, Dr. Gabor Mate, was a holocaust survivor but never says that, because as an infant he was hidden and never ended up in a camp. But Dr. Mate was very sick and almost died while his mother was also in hiding separately, and his father was interned and presumed dead. This is how tremendous a human being Dr. Mate is. Aaron's mother is fantastic as well.
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  221. Another performance by Congress for fundraising. It worked perfectly last time.
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  222. "People just didn't want to believe it." Thank you, sir. That sums it up.
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  223. Back to the only real issue: why did Ana smear Aaron Mate? Why did Cenk join in?
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  224. 8:23 Brilliant analysis, Brie. One of your best!!! ❤
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  225. Glenn, thank you for interviewing a truly principled man. I am so impressed.
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  226. Pelosi sounds like a high school mean girl. That much logic.
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  227.  @a.p.5429  Yes, books have been written about this -- for decades.
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  228. If you fully compensate people for loss of liberty, they may not mind so much?
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  229. We've redefined vaccines, civil liberties, national emergencies, womanhood, and now recession. Why not? By comparison this is trivial.
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  230. Gallows humor. Got punch all right.
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  231. Don't worry. They'll turn on him if the market crashes. I mean "when."
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  232. "As we found out?" Ghislaine had a prime seat at Chelsea Clinton's wedding. You have to ask whether Epstein would have been arrested under a Clinton administration. I wouldn't swear either way.
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  233. With Julian Assange in jail, they did not expect this email revelation.
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  234. Did anyone cover Abby Martin's lawsuit? She got Georgia's anti-BDS law struck down as a violation of the First Amendment. I thought that was important.
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  235. Can you imagine how those 11 women felt to hear "Cuomo sexual?" It could push a traumatized person over the edge.
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  236. Naomi Klein's world was upended? I can never retire and may need to emigrate. The pandemic was the "one more blow" I could not take.
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  237. Question: Why are we paying attention to either of these women? (For the same reason our choices for President are Biden and Trump? Part of a pattern?)
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  238. Many people believed his daughter's testimony saved him. She was studying for a PhD in clinical psychology at the time, and she eventually raised the baby with her husband.
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  239. Watching Jewish and Israeli voices for justice and peace being systematically silenced for decades has also been heartbreaking. It tears at your soul. Take care, warmest, warmest wishes to you.
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  240. "I don't wanna be a leader." Jimmy. That is working-class Catholic Chicago talking. You ARE a leader. Please own it.
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  241. Sounds a lot like money laundering, doesn't it?
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  242. Oh my goodness, there you go, thinking. This is 2024. You could get in trouble.
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  243. Agreed. I have never voted for a ticket with Joe Biden on it, and even knowing how bad Biden is, he has surprised me.
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  244. Never forget who prevented a nuclear exchange: Vasili Arkhipov, and he did so singlehandedly, at a moment when he thought his own death was inevitable. The Guardian did a great piece on it.
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  245. Those are really her kids' names? And . . . They are why she ran for the SENATE?
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  246. Well, my parents were refugees, and where they were from later got bombed by the US, so I always knew. Having misfortune in your life really isn't all bad.
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  247. Megyn Kelly is so obvious about not liking other women that it has become ridiculous.
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  248.  @vsmith6109  Arrest requires probable cause. Anonymous accusations made to media require persuasive abilities and a calculation by that media on ad revenue likely to be generated by reporting the accusations.
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  249. "Pay" them? Waddya mean?
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  250. His prior record has no bearing at all. If he was putting people in fear of serious bodily harm THIS time, then self-defense and defense of others is proper even if he were a veritable angel who took a drug this one time, or had a spontaneous psychotic break this one time. AND if not, not. Exactly why do you think his record matters? It doesn't matter any more than his deft Michael Jackson impression on previous occasions. We don't judge the "value" of alleged victims. We judge their CONDUCT. As for the family, I agree wholeheartedly with you. Their treatment of him is very relevant to the issue presented. I don't understand why they merit an interview.
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  251. Glenn Greenwald, Kim Iversen, Matt Taibbi, Max Blumenthal, Aaron Mate, Chris Hedges, and Richard Wolff come to mind immediately.
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  252.  @bennyblanco6719  They confuse kindness and class with weakness, because that's how their "brains" work.
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  253. "Irreparable harm to trust" -- THANK YOU KIM. They are contemptuously counting on the short memories that the advertising industry cultivates in us.
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  254. Someone is crazy, that's for sure. When we read about castrating boys to preserve soprano voices we are outraged and incredulous. Look at us now.
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  255. The January 6th mob was a GIFT to the worst people in the DNC. Useful fools.
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  256.  @praharmitra  Who said the limit of the series is a number? It isn't. The series tends toward infinity. In the case of pi, for example, or any convergent series, we can make the rational approximation as close to pi as we like by taking a sufficiently large number of terms. Hence the difference between series that converge and those that do not. (We never get "closer" to infinity. Or somehow end up with a negative fraction.)
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  257.  @rustyoak8860  They should come in dressed like her, and if they're disciplined, go on strike and stage a walkout.
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  258. Exactly.
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  259. Seeing that reaction was traumatic, for me. I felt like a hunted animal.
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  260. Remember when an Amazon lawyer said Chris Smalls was no threat because he wasn't articulate?
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  261. Police in France also targetted the eyes of leaders of the gilets jaunes, with rubber bullets that can blind. Firefighters joined in the protests on the side of the gilets jaunes. Our media mostly ignored it.
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  262. Compassion challenged in a serious way. Tragic.
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  263.  @TheBakingGirlShow  You have no idea whether this is true. Yet something within you made you write it, post it, and not delete it. You told us nothing about baby sam, but a lot about Eva.
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  264. "But Ukraine is a democracy."
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  265. Can someone explain to me how unidentified DNA remains uninvestigated at a murder scene? And how character witnesses that have a financial interest in seeing a conviction are not impeached?
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  266. Vaccinate those with vulnerabilities, plus everyone who wants it, PLUS tell people the full truth, about the benefits and risks. BOTH.
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  267. THIS was the best report on Israeli voices for peace and justice I've seen so far.
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  268. Every politician is calculating how to benefit from this, and how to benefit their friends -- especially the DNC Clinton-Biden-Pelosi wing. The stock market rise should tip you off.
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  269.  @niclasjohansson2071  One hopes.
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  270.  @snigs5T5  What part of "the vaccinated are catching COVID" is still eluding you? This is becoming a cult.
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  271. I guess those of us who aren't supportive of billionaires aren't "just jealous?" Could that be it?
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  272. OMG, just verified that. From age 12 through high school, she went to school in Montreal. Why didn't someone ask her what she meant by her comment? When, exactly, was she bussed and why? Was she harassed at the time? Her parents were eminent professors.
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  273. I've seen more criticism in Haaretz than in the US press. Our press has incredible problems now, at the worst possible time.
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  274. The burden of proof of any medical intervention is always on the proponent. They need to PROVE the kids themselves will benefit. You never treat minors to benefit adults. Not "just this once." Never.
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  275. ​@snowbird6855 Until recently, many people trusted others enough to participate in finding a solution to the pandemic. I knew better, only because I have had a bad life. This lady is a hero, and a rock star. She had no way of knowing. Nothing like this ever happened to her. Dr. Campbell said it perfectly: she was philanthropic.
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  276. There are entire countries that do no recommend vaccines for this age group.
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  277. @ing-mariekoppel1637  What needs to happen to prove to you that they don't care about babies?
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  278. Graham just tried to attack Malone and Malone's credentials, rather than ADDRESS HIS POINTS.
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  279. Ask anyone who dated a cop.
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  280. Glenn Greenwald just posted Jeremy Corbyn opposing vaccine mandates, too.
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  281. Yeah there's a problem that needs to be addressed: the billionaires say no. They don't like to be contradicted.
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  282. So the bottom line is, anyone who expressed skepticism of the vaccine must now demonstrate their loyalty by getting vaccinated. It's not about their need for a medical procedure.
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  283. Lol, you think he got it by "working hard?"
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  284. We always knew a contagious disease would be a disaster in America, where people routinely go to work sick.
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  285. @Aunt Shawna You can never use lethal force to defend inanimate property, only to defend life or to prevent serious bodily harm. If you do not know that, you have a lot to ponder.
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  286. THANK YOU!! Absolutely right. My GOD.
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  287. The NYTimes' business model depends on not doing critical thinking.
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  288. I am so sorry. You did the right thing. I can see you are a wonderful, thoughtful person. Everyone normal can see that.
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  289. Sandy, we will never forget you. Never.
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  290. We saw the clip. This distorts what Kennedy said, and is frankly a smear. I'd die if someone said this about me.
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  291. Just watch, he'll run for president. Qualification: being able to get away with anything.
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  292.  @praharmitra  You didn't say that. Math isn't supposed to be cryptic. But your comment does point up the difference between convergent and divergent series. "Two, yes, finite, yes. Infinite? No." That was all you said.
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  293. Police are allowed to lie to you, short of explicitly promising a particular legal outcome in exchange for a confession. But the Good Cop Bad Cop game, calling interrogation "therapy," invoking God, etc., all is permitted. I wish people knew. :/
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  294. "With help from autocratic governments including Russia" Now we know how bright Thom Hartmann is.
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  295. They have convinced me: the Sandinistas need to run OUR elections. No, I mean it. THIS is a real election.
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  296. No, Robby. Nothing to do with looks or charisma.
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  297. No. A tiny group in power in Israel and a handful of their billionaire supporters have outsized influence. See Amy Goodman and Bernie Sanders' speeches for a contrast. Or Haaretz for that matter.
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  298. I could never confuse Ukraine and Iraq. Is this an elite thing?
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  299. They were in captivity for 15 months. They must have been fed.
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  300.  @royalzak2670  Kyle blew it. At this point I pity him. Jimmy and Aaron are being so gracious here.
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  301. Thanks, Jimmy, for releasing the entire video! Sweet!!
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  302. Three words: "gender affirming care."
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  303. Shutting down an economy with no UBI. Nothing more immoral was ever done.
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  304. Is that what they were convicted of?
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  305. Yes, BEFORE the nomination went to Biden.
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  306. This mom and dad did a LOT of work to make this happen, a lot of watching, to make sure there were no accidents. This is about the healthiest upbringing a child could have. Magical!
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  307. Kim's intuition correct again: latest report is that the entry door to the school was not propped open by a teacher after all.
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  308. SUPER Sabby today. 💯 She comes prepared, every time.
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  309.  @III-ip8uc  Except for people over 65 and people in every other developed country and a whole bunch of undeveloped ones.
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  310. Can you check yourself our of the hospital? In the US you can, unless a court order to keep you is obtained.
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  311. Her ten-year prison sentence was supposed to be followed by four years in a mental hospital (which could have included various privileges introduced step by step), followed by four more years under court supervised release. This sentence would have taken her to age 30. Why wasn't that done?
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  312. Please do something nice for yourself this weekend. Now.
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  313. I will no longer accept a routine dismissal of these coincidences. Investigation is called for. Because something is wrong.
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  314. ​ @TyrianHaze Not even then.
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  315. Now you know where "independent media" gets its funding.
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  316. Who entered the capitol with lethal arms?
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  317. Did they check for terrorist affiliation? Did they check for vaccination status? Oh, that's right, surveillance and mandates are NECESSARY (for us).
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  318. Love Aaron. Also, just saw Jonathan Cook's superb analysis of how this war arose at MintPress. Incredible read, very even-handed.
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  319. It is quite amazing, isn't it? Their generals, plural, risk their lives. I guess they actually do believe in equality.
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  320. So . . . This was a good start.
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  321. Telephone only
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  322. Huge amounts of money changed hands. There is nothing to prevent it from happening again.
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  323. This is a ludicrous scenario. Every single person ordered to do such a vile thing, and who obeys, becomes an accused murderer.
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  324. Brian Thompson had a working class childhood. Don't you see that makes what he did worse?
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  325. Beautifully said. He can afford to design a space at home, and a walking program, with aides. That is what money is actually for.
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  326. My biggest surprise has been how they've been able to petrify people with COVID. Newsflash: Man is mortal.
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  327. This execution is clearly unconstitutional. Every execution should be, but even under our horrible precedent, this is unconstitutional. She cannot appreciate why this is happening, or even what is happening. The people seeking the death penalty are the criminals.
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  328. I am shocked, shocked . . .
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  329. Exactly! Of course people who can never have enough money or enough power or enough control over our lives are worried. They will always be worried, as long as any of us own anything. They want it all. They even say so.
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  330. Well, if one guy is psychologically unhinged and the other is corrupt and senile, why do you think you need more choices? Now is not the time.
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  331. Adam Andrzejewski also died in his sleep last year.
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  332. And AIPAC, which is in the US, undermine peace and justice activists in Israel. Look up Neve Gordon. Check his bio.
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  333. No, he was there. He is a worthy spokesman for another view, unlike Americans who still cannot find Ukraine on a map but do know how to moo and bray in unison. I don't agree with him, but I agree with inviting him. George is a great man.
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  334. Sounds like Yang really wants to be Mayor of New York City.
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  335. I want to know what she made. 💰💰💰
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  336. So, The Intercept is high school with money. (Many thanks to Frank Zappa, RIP)
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  337. Well, Matt, maybe COVID isn't "real?" If M4A is just a slogan, then we must not be in an epidemic.
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  338. If only. She is going to vote on a WEAKER bill, the "skinny bill." She is even worse than you think, which seems impossible, I know.
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  339. ​ @Earl_Family "Hate" speech is constitutionally protected. There is no such unprotected category in the US.
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  340. "Stopping spread was never in the document." I read the actual documents, too, and knew that. To think we were strong-armed into saying that false things are true.
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  341. "Biden does nothing?" He supports it.
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  342. He did go along. Face it.
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  343. Not to mention the demand to prove over and over and over that they are not fascist or racist, no matter WHO they are. Clearly a loyalty oath, a demand for ritualistic self-flagellation. Glenn helped get Lula Da Silva out of prison, fights for Assange, and needs bodyguards. But this kid thinks he is better than Glenn.
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  344. Brilliant lady, brilliant journalist. He lets her talk, then asks the right questions, and listens to her answers.
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  345. The real shame is that people care so little about children that this sort of thing becomes a political event for extremists, rather than having a simple ordinance requiring an ID at the entrance, no one under 21 admitted, no exceptions.
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  346. And of course Jeremy Corbyn.
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  347. "That's just remarkable," Miss Kelly? You loved every minute.
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  348. We do not have the best universities (how self-serving). We have the universities that lead to the most lucrative careers. That's hardly the same thing.
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  349. "Divisive" and "toxic" -- pure Orwellian sloganeering
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  350. Of all of your guests, Sabby truly comes the best prepared.
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  351. Obama "earned" his money. Now we know how. Never more clear than now.
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  352. Code Pink has been great on this. I'm genuinely surprised.
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  353. You mean cash in? That's what usually happens.
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  354. Formal training??? Seriously, this is ridiculous.
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  355. ​@fabsmaster5309 I'm a "boomer" who will never retire. Pro-tip: do not, I repeat, do not contract cancer before Medicare. Very poor planning.
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  356. You are discrediting yourselves by attacking the fact that at age 55, and after a bankruptcy for medical bills, and living in a small bungalow for 23 years, Dore got a nice house, though not extravagant by Los Angeles standards. When did you live in bungalow during decades of your adult life, with a spouse who had to go bankrupt, too, to keep you alive? I can't believe you keep this up. I'm shocked.
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  357. Emma should be FIRED.
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  358. Who made you read that, Jessica?
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  359. ​ @leonardlithen6787 True. But their being veterans makes it worse.
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  360. From potential fertilizer to pooper scooper? No, not an improvement.
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  361. Has anyone else exposed David Weigel, like Jimmy Dore and Stef Zamorano just did? Does anyone, ever?
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  362. ​@criticalthinker420 If you are retaliated against in any manner for raising a legitimate safety issue in the proper way -- especially one that involves some regulatory standard mandated by law -- then you are entitled to unemployment benefits. Fighting for benefits is good for society. Companies that shirk their safety regulations and try to avoid their unemployment compensation responsibilities are in the wrong.
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  363. Question: who took Epstein's place in the network? Don't tell me it's over.
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  364. He was a bricklayer. His instincts are totally opposite to the DNC's. In Europe, there are leftists like Jimmy, still. Rare here, but they exist.
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  365. It's just shocking to hear someone be cool about this. In the US, everyone who opens their mouth sounds hysterical.
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  366. I agree that no one should judge her. The facts concerning what she did that night are facts she provided to law enforcement voluntarily, to help them establish probable cause for Kohberger's arrest. I disagree with normalizing not calling 911. We can suspend judgment about her, without saying it's "understandable" that a person would fail to call 911. You are supposed to call 911. This crime has to be thoroughly investigated. It's tragic for the other roommates, but they have to be investigated. She can decline to be questioned further if this is bad for her mental health, but if a court subpoenas her, she will need to testify.
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  367. You see in Jimmy's face how much the abandonment of the working class vs. true progressivism mean.
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  368.  @not_yourbusiness1820  "I support everyone who fights against Russia." An amazingly large number of people said exactly the same thing in WWII.
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  369. Is a ban on lobotomies constitutional? Or does it discriminate based on mental health status?
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  370. Insanity
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  371. Now I need for the doctor to explain the rapid and equally extreme pivot to gender-affirming care. It feels like a continuation of the pandemic mass formation.
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  372. I don't call what he does "work" in the first place.
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  373. She knows very well what side her bread is buttered on. She was poor, now she's rich.
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  374.  @bonniemoerdyk9809  Yes, it is. Evil people never want for company, and they make you feel like "something must be wrong" with you.
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  375. If i had Hunter Biden's income for three months, I could retire. For a year, I could retire in style.
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  376. After Bill Gates gave that interview, what I want to know is why he is being consulted on anything that has anything to do with anyone's health?
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  377.  @elenaustyuzhanina297  My family is from a place the US bombed with depleted uranium. No, no one asked me if they were all right. See what's wrong with collective responsibility?
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  378. "He's got his Uvalde hat on." 😂😂😂😂😂
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  379. "Why are you slamming her against the car?" Because he can't kneel on her neck like he wants to.
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  380. ❤Norman❤
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  381. A pony?
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  382. Dangerous dust, kicked up by DHS helicopters, during the COVID pandemic. Why am I not surprised?
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  383.  @goodwifeweaver  It wasn't confusing. His comment was classic flak.
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  384.  @gdiwolverinemale2745  Working fewer hours increases productivity (value of product produced per hour worked), for obvious reasons. Yes, the redistribution of wealth to 0.05% of humanity has been a disaster, agreed.
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  385. 4:38 Jimmy is back to doing stand up! Love it.
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  386. Bravo, you are a hero. People are being shoved out of jobs for one reason or another everywhere, especially if they have seniority, because they are better paid.
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  387. In France, management can go to prison for this. Look up "Orange," their privatized telecom giant.
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  388. A vote for Biden is a vote for Harris. 😮
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  389. Once you are full grown, always remember: if you apply for a job and are rejected, you don't know why. You don't know why the person hired was hired. If you apply to a prestigious school, or for a loan, or an internship, same story. Don't read the articles on how to interview, etc., as though they were written in good faith. Don't be immobilized by self-reproach. Watch this video and think. Sex, drugs, money, . . . who knows what changed hands?
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  390.  @jonritchey8653  Yes he did. See the explanation above. SEALs are tactical and special operations, and have a code of confidentiality concerning actual battles, for good reason. They can't just write a book without permission about actual deployments, and vetting of the story.
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  391. ​@mollkatless "Wrong" in what sense? It is not speech that can be proscribed unless it becomes a targeted harassment.
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  392. "Trevor Noah blasted for mocking Moderna's CEO" -- all the people who own Moderna stock were mighty "triggered"
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  393. Interesting that the Indian press covered extensively the Serb opposition to an (Anglo-Australian) Rio Tinto lithium mine on their territory, and Djokovic agreed with the demonstrators, including those who broke the law by blocking highways.
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  394. ​ @louisfifteen Sweden didn't shut down in the first place. Working class warehouse and delivery workers were never shut down. Groceries were never shut down. The post office never shut down. Gee, how did all those people live?
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  395. If they rejected your request for religious exception WITHOUT a fair hearing, then they broke the law, and they must know it. They expect to get away with it.
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  396. The defense attorney who forwarded that material to the other side better call HIS malpractice insurance carrier.
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  397. Because billionaires have private security. "Why aren't you rich?"
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  398. "That's what Hillary Clinton did, and she lost to Donald Trump." Do we need more proof? Lord.
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  399. You know why.
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  400. "Bread and Circuses," hold the bread.
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  401. In the fall of 2019, all the major actors knew the pandemic was coming, Trump included.
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  402. You're right, totally irrelevant and appears biased. But coincidentally, many cultures consider soap an inappropriate gift (except for family who know you love a certain soap).
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  403. Clearly excruciating for Dr. Finkelstein to recount.
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  404. ​@Curt-Gevert This will not be taxable income. It isn't compensation for work (except in the perpetrators' eyes). The lawyers will get 30 to 40% of the recovery, so each will get a share of what's left, around 600 to 700k. Barely enough to start over upon release, if that. But not 200k to 300k, no.
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  405.  @thejquinn  They were constantly after Dore, to the point of being bizarre. When Dore appeared on the show in 2016, he was much more courteous to Seder than Seder was to him -- and Dore was the guest. Dore admitted there are things he doesn't know. Seder was personally condescending instead of attacking Dore's points. Seder is basically a decent guy, which makes it worse when he targets you. The criticisms were ad hominem, not based on refuting Dore's ideas. I wouldn't go back to his show, either. You would? Why?
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  406.  @kaderathebeekeeper22m3  Is the Declaration correct or not? Are they the doctors they purport to be? People attack Julian Assange using your logic. "He helped Trump win."
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  407. The worst is that they bombed cities and region with anti-Milosevic governments in place. And the bombs contained substantial amounts of Depleted Uranium (DU). Americans always get to define "human." That's what money can buy.
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  408. The thing is, if the Times expects them to tweet well, are they journalists or ad agency creatives?
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  409. Not to mention the Chinese Embassy. This was a much bigger deal than Americans realize.
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  410. The joke's on us.
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  411. ​ @zerocool5395  Who promotes GMOs in the food other people eat.
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  412. ​@amandabeaty1492 True as it stands, but the OP recited the totality of the circumstances. The total picture is what matters. A person on anti-psychotic medication is no more likely than anyone else to commit any crime. A person with a criminal history and mental health symptoms is more likely to be medicated, especially in prison.
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  413. Anyone who knows about how Gates IMMEDIATELY connived to push Paul Allen out of Microsoft when Allen developed a highly treatable form of cancer and still thinks Gates is a philanthropist should learn more about human character.
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  414. SUPERB INTERVIEW!!
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  415. When she interviews Aaron Mate, who testified about the OPCW scandal before the UN, then we'll know Amy is back.
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  416.  @billyvalencia6758  Unfortunately, COVID does not appear to work that way. But there is a lot we do not know.
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  417.  @StreetxDSM  When I was a child, two people working minimum wage could afford a modest apartment in a reasonably safe area of ANY major city -- NYC included. THIS was how you could start a life, wherever you want, and where you can develop your skills best. State universities were a few hundred dollars per class. By the time I was grown, this was nearly over. WHY?
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  418.  @gaiangalaxy3198  Yes there has: you must do what we say. Questions, no matter how well-framed, no matter how well-founded, must be dealt with harshly.
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  419. I think Dr. Grande has the fairest and best critiques of police misconduct on the web. This is not easy to do so thoroughly and dispassionately.
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  420.  @joejones9520  The workplace has gotten sinister. My friend worked for a firm where the payroll clerk always read her Bible at her desk at lunch and participated in charities, etc., and made sure everyone knew. A bit odd, but would it alert you to mistrust her? Well, when she found out that a new employee had had breast cancer, she tried very hard to have her fired. I would not have expected that, say, fifteen years ago. Today, nothing surprises me. I've seen worse.
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  421. So . . . How does one discuss the ICJ ruling?
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  422. According to Ted Cruz, this must not be an emergency. Or, emergencies and non-emergencies are the same, thousands and billions are the same . . . He sounds literally irrational. People like that used to mutter on a barstool, now they are senators and run for president.
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  423. Loved the Assange question, how Jimmy puts it.
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  424. This is one of those "rare" decisions that has nothing to do with the petitioner, and EVERYTHING to do with all of our free speech rights. This is great news, and that is certainly rare.
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  425. 1. Everyone should have equal access. 2. How can anyone expect McCarthy to work with Raskin? I mean, in human terms.
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  426. Tim Kaine refused to free the Norfolk Four, who were factually innocent. The detective who set them up was convicted of corruption in a separate case. This was Hillary's choice.
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  427. "Here it is. The moment we've all feared." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  428. He must have been watching all the white supremacist garbage online.
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  429. Hunter and buddies sure did.
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  430. Question: Why should people who lost health insurance during the shutdown take a vaccine that could make them very sick, even temporarily? "Who's going to pay for it?"
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  431. If that didn't wake people up then, what about the global financial meltdown in 2008-2009? How many times does this have to happen?
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  432. This took courage on Mary Trump's part.
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  433. If the side effects are SO rare, should be easy to compensate the injured fully, huh?
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  434. Anyone who followed the trial is not surprised. They tried to turn a Title VII case into a crime, because Title VII is so hard to use against real wrongdoers.
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  435. Especially ugly to bring religion into it in this way. Moore is not this stupid. He made a conscious decision here. Disgraceful.
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  436. We know the man isn't normal. He needs to have absolutely no influence over anyone's life anymore, least of all over public health.
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  437.  @RockyDaTherapist  Exactly. No amount of money could ever repay him. Also consider just the cold mathematics. He had to pay his lawyers from that recovery, and contingency fees are generally 30 to 40%. Now consider how much he would have made over 24 years, and saved for retirement, and paid into Social Security; that he would have paid off his home, and what it would be worth in Austin, Texas, now. Two million dollars doesn't cover all that. How did they come up with the number? Just enough to make sure he does not end up homeless in retirement. Sounds like that's what they did. A final insult!
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  438. Imagine. RFK Jr will talk to anyone about pressing issues. And he doesn't arm wrestle family to say what he wants them to say.
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  439. ​ @innocentnemesis3519 He was her ideal.
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  440. The "Culture of Narcissism" segment is truly brilliant. It should be transcribed and circulated everywhere. I am serious. We need this.
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  441. Jimmy and Max are the two toughest guys on the Internet. A joy to watch.
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  442. "Hey, science and innovation is a great thing." "You know. Big things you wanna do that are big." "Robert Kennedy Jr. was advising him that vaccines were causing bad things." "I told him that was a bad thing, don't do that." These are quotes from Bill Gates. Sounds like he has what Brandon has.
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  443. I think this is the time to have a discussion, FINALLY. We never had a democratic consensus about ANY of it. No one asked us. They manipulated people into shouting down dissent.
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  444. They are slime. They have no shame at all.
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  445. THANK YOU Nothing more need be said. Just this.
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  446.  @seguismundoxavier426  The students aren't interested in doing journalism. Journalism can be dangerous. The students want to make money like Ana makes money.
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  447. @elmew23  He looks like he eats badly. All that money, and no baked eggplant, no mushroom soup, no heirloom tomatoes with goat cheese, no weekly facial? 🤣
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  448. His call for better labeling is a tell. We all know other countries ban what we tolerate in our food.
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  449. They should have to reveal all their stock trades, mid-2019 to present.
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  450.  @ajbluesh377  JIMMY DID NOT ENDORSE THIS GUY. He is standing for the PRINCIPLE of being willing to speak to people like him. We don't know whether Magnus is genuine, false flag, confused, a plant. Possibly non-neurotypical. SO WHAT? You must have the intelligence and discernment to listen to all types of people without being drawn into their orbit.
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  451. I remember when saying "nothing is off the table" militarily was a job requirement for president.
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  452.  @eadweard.  I've seen this, too. It's not the usual thing, but it isn't rare.
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  453. It does feel odd to hear anything sensible come out of her mouth. I don't know what to think, either.
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  454. PERFECT GUEST!! So glad we can count on Kim!!!
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  455. How can anyone look at the DNC and RNC at the federal level and think that money does not rule?
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  456.  @wioi  He approached a LOT of women. A lot of them said no, or someone interrupted. Like a group of girls or a boyfriend came by and he backed off. At least two did get in his car and lived. He let one go because she had cut her hair short, the other escaped.
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  457. A: "He's a college dropout with absolutely no medical expertise." B: "You are a conspiracy theorist!!!!"
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  458. WHY doesn't EVERYONE talk like this?
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  459. What saddens me is how rare it is for anyone to be as fair to Glenn as he is to everyone. Due process and presumption of innocence cannot be allowed to deteriorate further.
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  460. I guess Kyle and Krystal don't know what it's like to be working class, where one false accusation of sexism by bougie girl can end their livelihoods. They wonder why regular people mistrust them?
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  461. I believe RFK Jr. I remember well when we signed the various accords against WMDs. I remember being surprised that research into certain antidotes to such weapons was also restricted. When I learned why, then I understood. What RFK Jr states is fully consistent with all I knew BEFORE 2020. That's important. Thank you for your post.
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  462. @ktom5262  Who do you think is arming Ukraine? Who do you think was behind Zelensky's refusal to negotiate a peace early on in the war?
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  463. 💯
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  464. Nothing to forgive. She accepted responsibility for what she did, and accepted a fair punishment. How weird is that, lol?
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  465. Worse. Not fully human.
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  466. I am SO sorry for his girlfriend. So, so sorry.
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  467. Noise pollution (including from insects) is very real. Have sleep deprivation last long enough, especially in a stressful environment separated from friends and family, and you will have all kinds of serious cognitive symptoms. The explanations you grab for might become hysterical, but the problem itself has zero to do with mass hysteria. Sleep deprivation is used in torture because it will eventually break everyone.
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  468. Remember underage "groupies?" If rock stars could, why not billionaires? I think that's their mindset. They did not think it was wrong.
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  469. WHAT violence on campus???
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  470. So Trump is closer to Jeffrey Epstein than we thought. What happened to Lisa is no big deal.
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  471.  @jerryjanusz1410  🤣
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  472. Anyone who wants to join the military should watch this first, and The Confessions as well (a Frontline documentary about the Norfolk Four).
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  473. I am not sure there are too many people who will vote for him. Now, I'm not saying he won't win . . .
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  474. If the US had the same death rate from COVID as Japan's, we would have 50,000 deaths from COVID, and not 800,000. Instead, we have had over 100,000 drug overdose deaths since this started. No one is asking real questions.
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  475. I kept saying to myself, "Harris? No, they wouldn't do that."
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  476. It makes sense that the security state runs the country. Surveillance, regime change, and covert operations are the best ways to serve the billionaires, their only constituents.
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  477. That's funny, because I am suspicious of endocrine disruptors. I mean it, too. Once there is more than a single factor causing something, good luck figuring out what's happening, unfortunately.
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  478.  @GreekOrthodox7  Bill Nye is a successful engineer and inventor, and worked as an aerospace engineer before working in media. He is (or was, not sure) CEO of The Planetary Society. "The Science Guy" is not the same as "The Scientist." He doesn't claim to have a doctorate. Could Nikola Tesla be called a "Science Guy?"
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  479. Being a Canadian, Peterson must know that French has two words for pride, one of which is fierte, a virtue in a classical sense. The other is orgueil, and is a sin and always has been. Yes, perhaps the worst. (So, English is impoverished? Or is imagination?)
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  480. "You have this huge institutional left . . . Really well-funded . . . Like The Young Turks . . ." Has it ever been said better? Actually, Glenn keeps going and he gets EVEN better . . .
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  481. FINALLY someone says it.
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  482. Do you not understand that this has been going on for decades now? If you've only just noticed, then at least the current, uniquely grotesque version of cronyism has gotten our attention.
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  483. Super well-spoken lady. What should have been the very happiest time of her life . . . I am so chagrined.
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  484. Brand likes money.
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  485. No, she said she would call Kamala Harris whatever she wants. That was the uncool thing. Mispronunciation itself is no big deal. Why would it be?
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  486. How is it that these university administrators, of the very most "elite" universities, do not know Title VII law, which nearly everybody agrees sets the standard (or at least informs the standard) for harassment in the university context as well? Just STATE THE STANDARD.
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  487. Wow, I didn't realize RFK Jr. was getting it worse than Trump does. 🤣🤣🤣
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  488. No accountability? THEY GOT RICH(ER). There is no reason to think they won't do it again. No reason at all.
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  489. "We're short of workers!" So, for the first time that workers have SOME leverage since the Reagan administration . . . don't mix this with emigration reform. That's gaslighting.
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  490. This!
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  491. Anything that has been happening for over 2 billion years does not strike me as a pressing problem.
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  492. No one comes better prepared than Sabby.
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  493.  @chiragpatel2423  Painted Assange as Putin puppet, operative, or stooge, and pretended his incarceration was either no big deal, or essential to upholding Feminism.
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  494. Not too smart. Just robot smart.
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  495. Why, then, do the systems that demand the most memorization produce the most creative people? Shakespeare was forced to memorize Latin, and was hit with a wooden rod when he made errors. What happened? He rebelled. The point is, who cares what school wants? They pretend to be your friend. Don't be snowed.
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  496.  @1956paterson  Why have you bought this nonsense about "gender studies?" Don't you have any idea what students study? The most common major BY FAR for decades now, for well over a generation, has been Business. This accounts for 20 to 25% of degrees -- and the next most common majors are health care-related. Well, a business degree without advanced mathematics and finance, or enough accounting to pass the CPA, is a fluff degree. And stuff like "gender studies" accounts for well under 1% of all degrees. Why do you adopt these ridiculous talking points? And what makes you think a gender studies major who knows photography and web design (and can write) won't get an advertising job faster than a business major? He will. WHY do people keep repeating this? Did someone on Fox News make their money by selling it to you?
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  497. Look, here is the problem: If someone calls for actual violence against another person, AND gives details on where that person can be found, does that transform the speech into a true threat? If it does, it is not protected speech. It is a true threat and should be treated as such. But should an entire site be taken down because of some true threats? Was the site's purpose to transmit threats, and the rest of the conversations were window dressing?
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  498. Responsibility? Honey, they cashed in.
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  499. "But, but, but . . . Zelensky is Jewish! Of COURSE there are no Nazis in Ukraine." Remember that one?
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  500. He doesn't really know what he's talking about.
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  501. Supporting Ana with innuendo against Jimmy is much worse than saying straightforwardly that you are on Ana's side, while pretending to be above the "drama."
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  502. No, I'm sorry -- ignoring the larger picture in this instance is unacceptable. Greece was pushed to the brink, and essentially did collapse in 2015, and for years, 25 to 30% of those under 25 had no job and no hope of finding a job. It is an EU neo-colony. When Greece elected a decent government, it was not allowed to govern. The banks decided policy instead. And then, the very same forces who did this also determined that Greece should be the stopping place for all refugees. Can you be serious? At the very end, Helen Benedict gives a nod to "a few nice Greek people -- they aren't all racists." Benedict, who has had her choice of living in London or New York her entire life, is going to pontificate to a people who still see no solution for their own predicament. She is the embodiment of petite bonne femme bien pensante. I'm not sure whether the Greeks are racist, but I have no doubt the English are. After all, they don't have to live there.
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  503. How can anyone watch the Rev. Chambers without laughing in delight? What a woman!
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  504. You are being lied to, and it is a vastly simpler than you think. People label certain postures as signs of weakness, and react mindlessly to them, not mindfully. Blaming a victim is convenient -- you even see abused children blamed, even preschool children. This is convenient because it lets bystanders off the hook. If the victim is responsible, then they can conveniently turn their backs and be on their way. How nice. Consider this: you are a passenger in a solid car with a great driver at 10 am on a dry, sunny day. You get broadsided by a drunk driver, hit and run. You have zero responsibility for the accident, yet full responsibility for participating in your rehab and doing all the exercises, eating well, and making your psychological needs known in an appropriate way. That's already a lot. And zero of it is your fault. Not a tiny bit. Literally zero. Think this through. I recommend a real book: Peter Levine, In an Unspoken Voice. Please get that, and take your time with it. There's also The Body Keeps the Score, and In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. These are real books by real people.
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  505. Could she please stop repeating "clear and present danger?" THAT is NOT the Brandenburg standard.
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  506. ​@patricksullivan7140 If we explain, for example, how they spend more on lobbying than in taxes -- in order to lower or eliminate their taxes -- then score government contracts and buy Treasuries, so that we owe them our taxes (including interest, i.e., passive income, on those Treasuries), you will probably not see it. 😊 That's just one example.
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  507. Adam Smith was right. With the advent of a few free markets, the rentier class wanted their feudal power back and schemed to get it.
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  508. And that is being generous.
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  509. "What do you think I should do?" "That is a very personal choice." "But I really want your opinion. What do you think I should do?" "I'm sorry, I can't say. It is too personal." "Well, but would you do it?" "No." Am I talking about getting vaccinated, or getting an abortion, or both? Be careful what you wish for.
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  510.  @benny360  The first sentence of the description of this video says "opening remarks." So . . . this lady risked her life for her country, and you can't read a sentence before you criticize her. (She just mentioned something public scrutiny . . .) Here's a question: why should anyone lift a finger for you, much less be willing to give their life to protect you? Help me with this.
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  511. @andrewcool8101  How do you know that the person banging on your door and shouting "sheriff" actually is the sheriff? Anyone can bark "sheriff." He shouldn't have opened the door at all. That he did shows consciousness of innocence and basic trust of others. He made the mistake of thinking others are upstanding because he was.
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  512. Greenwald was right about another thing, too: Hunter Biden IS an issue. Just watch.
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  513. This breaks my heart the most. These survivors should be at peace in their older years.
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  514. No one needs comedy writers anymore. Just follow the DNC candidates, all the material anyone could ever want.
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  515.  @stoneyrules  No reasonable, rational person said the vaccinated would be dropping dead. (Maybe that was a false flag? See BBC documentarian Adam Curtis on that issue, fascinating stuff.) The point is, the burden of proof for ANY medical procedure is on the proponent of the procedure, who must demonstrate safety and efficacy, and the burden of proof for MANDATES is correspondingly greater, to show necessity to protect the public, not just the individual. When was that burden met?
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  516. We in the United States are still waiting, waiting . . .
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  517. Briahna and Katie are the best of the best. Honesty is so soothing.
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  518. AMAZING ALL of it!! ❤
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  519. Sam Seder is still obsessed with Jimmy? Someone explain this to me.
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  520. Getting rid of Trump does nothing to change what caused Trump. But not holding him and his gauleiters to account, while robbing the rest of us of yet more of our civil liberties, is the worst possible outcome. Trump better not get away from this, too. That would be TERRIBLE.
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  521. They (the West) have harmed a lot of people. That doesn't mean Russia is clearly in the right in Ukraine. Any war that can be avoided must be avoided.
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  522. The sheer complexity of our brain guarantees that they are sensitive and fragile.
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  523.  @W._Langman  Make up a story about a stranger you don't know anything about, make sure the narrative comports well with MSM talking points and memes, then add outrage, or SMH, etc., and don't notice that you are actually talking to yourself about something you just made up.
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  524. All the misinformation in some of these comments is tiresome. What do they think age of retirement means? The age is based on years worked, and they've earned it. Moreover, people must not know France. There is no stigma against older people, like you see in the English-speaking world. Most older people go on to another job -- the one they've always wanted. They don't lie around starting at 62. Or they open a boutique, a bookstore, a cafe; they teach French to foreigners, or tutor part time. Or they paint or they write, if they have the talent. Or they keep a productive garden and some chickens. No wonder they are adamant about keeping the retirement age where it is. The last third of an adult life SHOULD be secure. Annie Ernaux was among the last to know that she had won the Nobel Prize at 82. She had her phone off while she was working. (Her response upon hearing the news was, "are you sure?" Contrary to propaganda, France is not an entitlement kind of place. They work and they fight for everything they have.)
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  525.  @christopherrobinson7541  Friday would be December 9: "Beijing will allow BioNTech's mRNA vaccine in mainland China but limit its use to German nationals, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday."
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  526.  @jamesanthony5257  Exactly. In-state tuition was what people earned by working full time over the summer. One summer paid for a year.
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  527. We don't have a First Amendment. Not anymore.
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  528. Do you ever get the feeling that they are experimenting with us, to see just how much we'll accept? I do.
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  529. The Memorandum Opinion I just read states that several breach of contract claims against Harvard were not dismissed. It is dated Sept. 11, 2024. Have they since been dismissed? Obviously she has no defamation case. She defamed these researchers, not vice versa.
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  530. ​ @claytonhenrickson9326 Why? What reasonable suspicion was there that she was committing a crime? You don't believe in the Bill of Rights?
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  531. Freedom of speech. Meet speech you disagree with, with more speech. Simple.
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  532. "The beatings will continue until morale improves." I never thought we'd accept it.
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  533. Perfectly stated. No kidding. 😢
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  534.  @johnsanders561  Exactly. Good reminder.
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  535. I thought the evidence was sufficient to convict Rittenhouse with respect to recklessly endangering Richard McGinnis (jury instructions, pp 6 - 10, especially 8 - 9). Other than that, I expected acquittal. But as a matter of PRINCIPLE, I believe minors should not be tried as adults. Love Glenn's ending. Thank you, Glenn.
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  536. Proved your point at the end: Graham moved the decimal point. If everyone who is unvaccinated had simultaneous COVID, we could need ONE million hospital beds, not ten. People goof up math when they're upset.
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  537. They did. The settlement was 2.5 million. Small, in my opinion. This is the Bay Area.
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  538. To me, the exercise intolerance is the key: if I am basically well, exercise, followed by a brief rest, makes me want to get up and exercise again. This is how I've recovered from fatigue following viral illnesses -- through progressive exercise. If that makes you feel worse, something is wrong. Exercise is good for you and gradually increases your energy. When it doesn't, it's not "all in your head;" look for the reason.
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  539. @AdamJones381  He's making fools out of everyone with these smart-sounding platitudes. He lived long enough outside of the West to know what real work is. This is getting paid to have fun. Duping delight is the tiny smirk that passes over his face quite regularly. Learn to spot that. Or watch your wallet.
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  540.  @jman75234  I'm not arguing specifics of strategy. What the progressives are asking for is a committment to draft legislation and put it up for a vote, with all the work that entails. Perfectly sensible demand. Or should we wait for the next pandemic? Maybe that will be a better time.
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  541. Love Dr. Cohen. He inspires confidence with such ease. I'm impressed by anyone who can be very sick, recover, and talk about it so calmly.
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  542. I hope he feels better after sleeping on it. These Kyle types are not worth it.
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  543. Vive la France.
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  544. @greatbriton8425  Try to give hints, names, books. I realize that's annoying. No fun to see the work go poof.
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  545. This is a GOOD story. Many people in your situation don't have a positive outcome. Love to hear it! Brilliant work!!
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  546. So the snake emojis were warranted? 😂😂😂
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  547. Pfizer makes Viagra . . . clear now? 🤣🤣🤣
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  548. Good for the ACLU, just found their brief and will read it --- it's not too long. The First Amendment concerns us all.
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  549. So true: He was told he would be killed if he told! Thanks for posting this.
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  550. When I was a kid in my teens and 20s, everyone I know who had any serious viral illness ---- mononucleosis, hepatitis A, meningitis, pneumonia, etc., all took 9 months to a year to feel like themselves again, meaning, to feel as though they had never been sick. These were young, healthy people. I truly hope long COVID sufferers will take heart. Worry is not good for you. Be good to yourselves.
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  551. Okay. HOW could parents fall for this? When they were growing up, how many trans kids did they know -- diagnosed or not? Did any kid confide in them that they hated being a boy and wanted to be a girl, or vice versa? Did they ever hear about anything like it at all??
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  552. Is this news to anyone? SERIOUSLY? Also, no one should join the armed forces of this country. What a pity.
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  553. ​ @studlyasianmatt2440 Yeah, especially with that high voice. Can't picture him in a uniform. He needs to stay safe at home. His wife is a doctor.
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  554.  @not_yourbusiness1820  Therefore their comments are inaccurate? Their accounts are older than YOURS.
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  555. "He's dead, you have to be careful, . . . I'm very proud of what we've done."
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  556. Good for Riley.
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  557.  @KdotLINE  I had read Anderson was not charged, in exchange for her full cooperation. Do you know for sure?
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  558. Only if their marketing research tells them it will increase their views.
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  559. Yes, amazing.
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  560. Yes, one of the very hardest to accept.
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  561. Certain foods are literally formulated to make it extremely hard to stop eating them. Corporations literally research how to do this.
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  562.  @smirky101  It wasn't a "death threat." Basic First Amendment law. VERY basic. Hyperbole is not a true threat. Gross rudeness is, in general, protected speech. It has to have something more wrong with it to be unprotected. The First Amendment is important. Spending a few dollars on it is hardly irrational.
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  563. No, she said she would call Kamala Harris whatever she wants. That was the uncool thing. Mispronunciation itself is no big deal and means nothing. But when I make a mistake, I quickly apologize.
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  564. Wait . . . You change this by VOTING?? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  565. T H A N K Y O U
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  566. A LOT lot of money changed hands -- rushing upward, as usual.
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  567. He has lost the cognitive capacity to continue his sociopathy.
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  568.  @10003159  The comments were crass and inappropriate and unacceptable. So he apologized in writing and promised never to repeat the performance. Most people -- well, normal ones -- consider that a successful outcome. How about you? What do you think about the woman trying to weaponize the incident seven years later, to deprive someone of the means of pursuing their First Amendment freedoms?
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  569. A radiologist from India saved my life.
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  570. There was no ERROR, Briahna. The money changed hands precisely as intended. Better than intended, in fact. There is no down side in doing this again.
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  571. Becoming?
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  572. Beyond perfect
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  573. BLESS THAT LADY AND HER HUSBAND.
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  574. Claudia is a minor. Minors shouldn't even have these accounts. They aren't prepared for an instantly global and virtually perpetual record of their YOUNG lives that they can never control, and never shed. Giving them this platform is abusing them -- for MONEY. The psychological effects are already apparent. But as long as tech stocks go up . . .
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  575. This is the best, and fairest, news program -- by far.
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  576. Exactly.
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  577. A handful of billionaires
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  578. Robby, Jewish Voice for Peace filed suit against Columbia last March 11th. You could read the court papers if you wanted to. If you focus on "antics," perhaps that's because you're failed to do your due diligence. Also, for your information, a significant proportion of demonstrators ARE Jewish. Nor were the demonstrators blocking anyone's ability to move freely, including to avoid them completely.
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  579.  @christopherrobinson7541  What is your source for this, and when did they start? As recently as a month ago, no mRNA vaccines were approved for use in China. I will research this right now.
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  580.  @christopherrobinson7541  I found the research, proved I was correct and that you were not. Now we can just wait for my posts to be shadowed, to make the picture complete.
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  581. Are they vaccinated and boosted?
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  582. "Greed is good." "Kindness is weakness." I wish Trump were alone in this thinking. Everything Mary describes has echoes throughout the country.
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  583. Now THIS is very important. Why is the news trickling in? We need the truth in one whole report from our agencies. They are required to work on our behalf.
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  584. This guy comes across as phonier than the worst DNC Clintonites, and that is saying more than I thought I would ever say, more than I thought could ever be possible.
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  585. I don't understand why Kyle feels he has to weigh in on this, frankly. I just don't get it. But part of this dispute is NOT personal at all. Aaron Mate was defamed, and what TYT did was phenomenally disgraceful.
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  586. Any decent political system would suspend all but essential safety operations AT ALL OF THESE LABS pending investigation.
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  587.  @josec1538  Dore agrees with you that joking was wrong. That is why he delivered a formal apology, in writing, promised never to make crass jokes like that again, also in writing, and gave Ana a small gift -- SEVEN YEARS AGO. And now, because Ana does not like the criticism she so richly deserves, she brings it up. To make Dore stop "running his mouth." And she reminds him of the note wrote. And takes a SWIPE at his WIFE. It really doesn't matter what anyone thinks of Jimmy. You don't abuse people the way Ana did, to make them bend to her will. She achieved a lot of what she was after. She misjudged Aaron Mate's power in journalism, but she knew that Jimmy's blue collar cultural background and his personal trauma would make him an easy target. Greenwald did the best, drama-free take on what's important about this incident, and related it to many others, to show why it matters.
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  588. This is like an unending nightmare or a mass hallucination. Or a loyalty oath.
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  589.  @dustinslesinger3697  The push to block puberty could render many gender dysphoric children without a choice to become birth parents someday. I am pro-choice. No, no /s. This has people very concerned.
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  590.  @tinawindham6958  He was fully exonerated many years ago. I don't know whether he ever got any compensation, not that there is a way to compensate him for his trauma. His life is changed forever.
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  591. To oppose a treatment a typical side effect of which is permanent sterilization is not unreasonable. I can't believe that a society with a long, ugly history of eugenics isn't suspicious of puberty blockers in teens, just because they are not "gender-typical." So what if they aren't? Should only cheerleaders and football players have kids? That's where we are.
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  592. Well yeah, they let him escape.
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  593. It is perfectly obvious why they censor Jimmy rather than sue him. They don't want to have to appear in court and explain themselves under oath. So censorship is the only thing they can do.
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  594.  Bd Newbie First Amendment right to advocate this. Plus I like knowing who to avoid. Like Chomsky.
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  595.  @smirky101  I think for a person to be able to spare five bucks but not 50,000 bucks kinda . . . makes sense, no?
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  596. "Biden isn't countercultural. He's demented." -- My tea goes through my nose.
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  597. Graham. Graham. We all agree with you that "cancel culture" is crazy and evil. Aren't mandates a form of cancel culture? Does anyone mandate that your ex-wife take zinc? Does anyone deprive her of an epi-pen? If so, let us know. WE will stand up for her.
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  598. Thank you for doing this work.
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  599. "Imagine if you're a BABY" good grief, Jimmy is savage.
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  600. ​Nonsense. Countless people with "mild" side effects now have heart problems, memory problems, autoimmune conditions, fatigue, and generally diminished health. To minimize these is unethical. Their ability to work has been compromised. That alone is serious.
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  601. Pairs well with his wife's Vogue spread.
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  602.  @greatbriton8425  We know. 🤐😓
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  603. Gates is an expert on First Amendment law now. And here I thought he was a virologist and an agricultural expert. /s
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  604. Simple. Bill prefers inciting violence.
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  605. Among Jimmy's finest moments. Thank you, Jimmy.
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  606. Yes, but look at where the votes are concentrated: in the most densely populated areas. That is why the Dems STILL have a majority in the House. We all know that in terms of territory/geographic area, Republicans generally win. IOW, if you look at area, not population, vastly more area is Republican. When was it different? Not often.
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  607. One of the best guests they ever had.
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  608. My real name sounds Russian (mom part French). Trust me, it's not viewed neutrally.
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  609. I've been genuinely stunned by the lack of basic intellectual integrity and curiosity during this entire episode. I still don't understand what happened.
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  610. ​@AndyRosebrook LOL, nice try. Psst. People who come here are readers.
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  611. This was it. This is the book I used to learn trigonometry in one long weekend, and qualify for Calculus I. I still do not know how I did that, but I am absolutely certain that I could not have done it using any other book. Wow, what memories, lol.
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  612. If only Pam Bondi were telling the truth . . . . smh
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  613. You do notice the advertising continues during Russell's videos. But the revenue sharing agreement is suspended. If Russell is so harmful to the community, why continue to broadcast him and keep all the dough? That sounds pretty harmful to the community.
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  614. To me, this is the sign that ME is a serious issue. After a viral illness, it's very common to feel tired for a period of time. But if you don't have post-exertional malaise, you will gradually feel progressively more energetic, not less. You'll take a walk, and at first feel sleepy afterward. But if you keep it up, after a walk and a rest, you'll want to take another walk. People who have ME do NOT get that energy. That is not good.
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  615. ​ @bluecoffee8414 And lots of Americans support Biden or Trump . . . Nearly all do.
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  616. Glenn, Max, and Jimmy got balls. Nobody gets past them.
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  617. You may be healthier for it.
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  618. ​ @amirfamhi6248 The same Amendment requires Due Process, as does the Fifth Amendment.
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  619. A few other salient facts: Djokovic won Wimbledon despite the intense pressure and hate bombing he received during the Australian Open fiasco, and the fact that he was relatively out of practice because of it. Djokovic has had COVID and recovered. He follows a special diet that is primarily vegan and glutin-free. In several studies, vegans and vegetarians had less risk of severe COVID. It is at least possible that his diet and refusal to take this vaccine have benefitted his performance. Maybe not, too, but . . . Something he is doing is working.
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  620. No, Martha, this is not a very difficult time for Trump's campaign.
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  621.  @therealdeal3672  And? Is McDonald's fine dining? Or health food? If money equals value, a Kardashian is more valuable than a CERN physicist or a Nobel Prize winning writer.
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  622. No, she said she would call Kamala Harris whatever she wants. That was the uncool thing. Mispronunciation is no big deal. Mace is probably life-long monolingual.
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  623. ​ @willisverynice Zero possibility.
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  624. Could DeSantis be a bigger panderer? No. No, he couldn't.
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  625. America isn't a "prosperous nation." It's a country with a small hyperprosperous class.
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  626. The Nazis weren't socialists. This pulled out again! Robbie, the WORD "socialism" once had enormous prestige, and was necessary to attract German workers. Everyone from Einstein to Helen Keller considered themselves socialists. Robbie's lack of education does make me wonder what is going on at university. The most conservative Republican professor I had never spouted this nonsense. Is every class a meme class now?
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  627. Authenticity is so rare, I'm finding myself shocked over and over. I forgot what it was like.
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  628. WOW, what a lineup!! What would this world be without Chris Hedges?
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  629. As well as ethics.
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  630. He is 54.
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  631. Imagine having only two jobs. Everybody I know with two jobs has a third side-gig.
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  632. Well, it's only nanoparticles known to travel to other parts of the body, so . . . What could go wrong?
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  633.  @TheBakingGirlShow  How would you know? "All I said was . . . " And all I said was that you told us who YOU are. You have no idea who baby sam is. You brought up guilt, shame, etc., not me. I don't assume you feel either. I have no idea whether you're capable of it.
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  634.  @TheBakingGirlShow  You sure did bring up guilt and shame, to me. You didn't even bother to delete before denying! Funny. :)
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  635. "Epistemological violence" is purely a slogan. It means nothing, it's a signal for you to stop talking and genuflect.
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  636. ​@0098Elaine After he got it and was hospitalized, he was chastened and said he wanted all Americans to get the treatment he got. Notice the subtext -- we do not have that offered to us. Accidentally told us the truth.
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  637.  @CoercedJab  Employer pays for unemployment in my state.
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  638. ​@xumametcalf7538 The mother claimed she attempted CPR, then the EMTs did as well. What did that do to a child close to death? Could she have had the bruises from a prior incident? Look, either you believe in the standard of proof beyond reasonable doubt, or you don't. I do. This was a thin case. You don't convict based on a possibility. You need more.
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  639. ​@cmontes7961 Especially when you take great pains to hide it, and to use your grant-making authority to bully legitimate dissent into instant, complete submission. Lots of money flowed upward, lots of lives were destroyed. I don't see a problem. He meant well.
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  640. Remember how they told us Silicon Valley "creativity" would save the world? Remember how they said that if you had doubts, that shows you're old?
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  641.  @puccipuu1797  There should be zero chance of homicide. If one person is in distress due to an accident, the other would immediately call paramedics and begin resuscitation --- if it was an accident. But a diabolical killer might do that to make a murder look like an accident. Maybe Dr. Grande is right. Forget the choking part.
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  642.  @kevinsyd2012  So . . . why would someone with that history be recommended to take the vaccine, at age 14? (Note: not at age 74. At 74 minus 60.)
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  643.  @duffydope  It didn't. This is the culmination an eight-year-long civil war in the east. I agree the invasion was not justified -- any war that can be avoided must be avoided, just as any escalation that can be avoided must be avoided. The provocation for this invasion was huge, and comes straight from NATO. Supporting Nazis in one country at a time. Or more.
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  644. Thanks for remembering that. No one was more ridiculed than Carter. Heartbreaking.
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  645.  @Sam_Guevenne  And NO, you do NOT tattle to HR. Good gawd. Are people nuts? If you're a friend, you mention it in private.
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  646.  @-nigelidisi4568  Maybe if Bill Gates had finished school he would have known not to frequent Jeffrey Epstein. Like, in ethics class or something. Seriously, though, why cite someone whose father was Seattle's top corporate lawyer, whose mother got him his first business meeting with IBM, and whose private high school provided three years of college-level English classes? Why cite anyone who is a rare exception? That tells you nothing about the monetary value of university.
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  647. This is when the name-calling starts up. They have a repertoire of those.
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  648.  @malimillions  Thank you.
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  649. This will prove what they are. They do not care about ANYTHING except the money they get from their donors.
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  650. If that were true, it's not relevant. You don't get to kill a person who is on drugs. You don't get a freebee. If that were true, then you could kneel on anyone's neck who has taken an overdose, and say oh well, I didn't do anything criminal to them. I have never seen such a lack of logic in the people who defend Chauvin.
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  651.  @janasoraya  "Guilty?" This is not a criminal case. Did you read the alleged defamatory article? Do you know how to find articles, like, in newspapers and stuff like that, no talking, no pictures?
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  652. No. She knew the child may have had a gun. She was told about it earlier in the day.
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  653. ​ @wesjones1417  The CEO agreed the firing was done incorrectly. He wrote a good post on it, actually.
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  654. It is unconstitutional for government to use private actors as a cat's paw to do their censorship for them, but having YT or Twitter do it instead of government makes it really harder to prove.
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  655. Bien sur. Les Anglo-Saxons cherchent toujours de nouvelles strategies de concurrence economique.
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  656. I would expect the press to be used like this, when it investigates nothing.
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  657. I just found out I have a $4600 MRI bill from 2019 that was never on my statement before. The hospital resubmitted it to insurance repeatedly, and the final decision came almost two years later. The doctor who ordered it told me it should be free to me. He retired last year. The hospital said it would be at most $1900. Well . . . no, we don't have real insurance.
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  658. ​@glellio88 It is not a "natural" reaction to anything. These kids are being manipulated by the adults around them, who are vicariously working out their own issues on innocent minors. So, you think it's "natural" to pile on? This is what you teach your kids? This is Lord of the Flies in real life. If someone appears to be abnormal in some way, steer clear. This is a minor, and you don't know what's going on with them. You are not qualified to judge. If you cannot be kind, or at least civil, leave them in peace.
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  659. What he does best.
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  660. ​ @Eleerm  The global corporations rely on the US military as their own police force. They could never depend on foreign contracts and global logistics to offshore production without the US military to protect them.
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  661. 5:03 THANK YOU David. The first Wednesday in November 2016 might have been a good time to get serious.
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  662. You beat me to it, and surpassed me. What the $#%& is going on at colleges nowadays?
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  663. Briahna says "sterilizing vaccine," like she never heard of that before.
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  664. $29 million per year is over $3300 per hour --- 365 days per year, 24 hours per day. Over $3300 for every hour, waking, sleeping, weekends, holidays. Explain how any job could possibly lead to earning enough in one year to be set for life, in two years to have your children set for life, and within ten to have several generations after you, yet unborn, set for life?? There is no way they earned this.
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  665.  @olliemck60  So, the vaccine protects the vaccinated. I don't have to get vaccinated to help you. You get vaccinated to help you. Done.
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  666. Nomiki is doing exactly what she accuses others of.
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  667. On 9/11, after the first tower was hit, people in the second were told not to evacuate.
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  668. Fifty years of American diplomacy and coalition building against terrorism down the drain.
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  669. Lost nearly all my income in March 2020, sent her $100 anyway.
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  670. Stealth sterilization of minors.
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  671. The fear mongerers do this to mothers. Have mercy.
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  672. "Gotta get a pool." I hope you're already ashamed. Sam is the son of a prominent lawyer, not the youngest of twelve kids from the South Side of Chicago.
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  673. Robbie doesn't know the WORD "socialism" once had enormous prestige, and was necessary to attract German workers. Everyone from Einstein to Helen Keller considered themselves socialists. Robbie's lack of education does make me wonder what is going on at university. The most conservative Republican professor I had never spouted this nonsense. Is every class a meme class now?
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  674. Robby took the mRNA vaccines and has no idea they are "self-replicating?"
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  675. 😂😂😂 Just take money out of politics. Simple.
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  676. Gosh it was a great idea to foist Biden on the country.
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  677. Just think about all the news we won't hear about Friends of Jeffrey, for one thing.
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  678.  @tonyr4873  But We Are the West smh
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  679. Only they had to bribe or threaten people to spy on their neighbors. People here do it for free/with glee.
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  680. @waynefay8210  With the widespread drug abuse and dysfunction, I would not be so sure.
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  681. Bless you, George. Go get 'em.
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  682. @__riprock  Suppose, purely for the sake of argument, that she's angry. That proves what? That is evidence of what? Anger is a normal human emotion, no less than sadness or happiness.
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  683.  @janasoraya  A defamation case is not about who is good or bad. Even bad people have free speech rights. Of course, at the rate we're going . . . :/
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  684. And Truthdig, where Chris Hedges used to write, is dead, too.
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  685. Why put this into kids' heads anyway?
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  686.  @AwesomeBlackDude  They accomplished exactly what they wanted: they are getting rich fast.
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  687. This happens all the time. It is hard to bear.
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  688.  M.E. Hedges  Men are still required by law to register for the draft. Women are not. This is news to anyone?
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  689. "It's hurting Brandon very badly?" Let's go Brandon.
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  690. There's money in it. End of story.
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  691.  @snigs5T5  You should listen to this editorial. Carefully.
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  692. There is NO WAY any American corporation could move its factories to Asia without the support of the federal government. No way, none.
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  693. This witness was 17 at the time, which is not under the age of consent in London or Paris. She is very valuable for providing details on the Epstein-Maxwell MO. Ryan made good points.
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  694.  @hosstbl1  At the speed they are required to do it, it most certainly IS skilled, and is far more stressful. Then slow the pace and have imput from the workers concerning how fast they can pull and pack.
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  695. ​@befferluger805 They should absolutely teach the history of eugenics in America. They should absolutely teach that Stalin banned lobotomies and that it took a couple of more decades to end the practice here, because 💰. Definitely teach all that history. Americans should know.
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  696. I'm sure he got it.
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  697. "I don't know why you're such an apologist." Astounding.
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  698. Robby: why was in-state college tuition once something that kids paid in full, on their own, with a summer job?
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  699. There is no evidence of there being a population that had a lower rate of the known side effects than any other. You are not racially superior. In fact, Denmark has higher rates of many common cancers. In 1976, the swine flu vaccine was withdrawn due to 1 case of severe neurological side effects per 100,000 innoculations. We are in the realm of orders of magnitude greater numbers of significant side effects per innoculation of these vaccines. In any case, it was always regarded as unethical to impose vaccination on anyone.
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  700. ​ @nicofelie  With graduate degrees, they could go to night school to get their foundational science courses done, work in labs and get credit for it, then apply to a PhD program. They do not need a second Bachelor's or Master's in bioengineering first. Universities have the option to admit people like them with "deficiencies" in a few core courses that they can make up during their first year. THANK GOODNESS
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  701. Whatever else one may think of this man, and whatever valid criticism he deserves, EVERYONE wants political leaders to SPEAK EXACTLY LIKE THIS.
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  702. ​ @OptimusPrinceps_Augustus  Too much truth for you?
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  703. The press needs to be held accountable as well --- I had to consult Hindustani Times to find out that Berlin had a huge march to end military aid to Ukraine.
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  704. @AdamJones381  Practically everything he said. There wasn't an original idea expressed, or a particularly fine turn of phrase. If you thought so, read more. Find out what you're missing.
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  705. @user-pq7jj3vs3e  No, COVID didn't interrupt anything. Government policies brought about the interruption. Demonizing all rational discussion of alternative approaches brought about the interruption, AND WORSE.
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  706. They were able to paint him as "nutty." A smear, sure, but that's easier than other methods.
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  707.  @britsareweak  Hillary PAC refugee, is that you?
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  708. He had insurance, too.
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  709. Levy is immensely courageous. He is so angry, I don't know how he bears it, it touches him so much and he is so determined.
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  710. I was afraid I would cringe -- but now I see RFK Jr is right again. JFK had a national fitness program. It's no joke, it is essential. Kids are on SSRIs, ADHD medication, puberty blockers . . . They need to be on fresh air and push ups, for real.
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  711. I believe Mate should SERIOUSLY consider suing this time.
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  712. We live in a country where people bring Siri and Alexa into their HOMES. Face it, it's over.
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  713. This stunt was about evictions? I thought AOC was selling merch.
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  714. Testing the waters, to see how much they can reveal without consequences?
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  715. Glenn Greenwald has pointed this out many times: no level of government can use private actors to violate our rights. I think there is a way to frame a Section 1983 case. Well, it's relatively uncharted territory. This is why I love having lawyers like Brie on the show.
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  716. Fathers with money and a new wife who want custody usually find a way to get it.
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  717. It already happened: they all got richer.
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  718. A state college near me, located in a diverse big city neighborhood, used to have tons of excellent foreign language classes and a rich program for Spanish majors and minors with outstanding profs. It has "had to" grossly cut back on classes. But now they say "Latinx." (They also built a new luxury dorm, that is mostly empty. Coincidence?)
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  719. Notice how Sister Helen Prejean did not make this only about Trump. Because it is larger.
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  720.  @lovebaby4888  🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  721. Glenn on fire. He is loving this. Yes, all the tough guys do like to go on The Jimmy Dore Show, to let loose.
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  722. "But . . . but Elon is a genius!!"
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  723. Those people are going to die of cancer and no one will do anything about it. EDIT: If anyone can find a way to make a buck off of them, they will.
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  724. Not only that, but he states that if anyone did feel uncomfortable after a date, he honors their feelings and apologizes. Is there something else needed? What in the world! Mayor Morse is right: MSM is the real scandal here. Frightening. Why do people think Trump gets away with screaming "fake news?"
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  725. As long as she isn't for mandates, or pushing them hard, just short of outright mandates, I don't care what she does. I don't care what anyone does. It should be up to them.
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  726. Remember the 52 hostages taken from the US Embassy in Teheran? Released within hours of the inauguration of Reagan.
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  727. Jimmy hits it way out of the park again.
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  728.  @nedludd7622  You're the "covidiot" if you think immunized people are being infected with polio or diphtheria or measles left and right, or if you're confused about the difference between 10 months and ten years. What's with the name calling, anyway? What do you think it accomplishes? I mean other than trying (and failing) to divert anyone's attention from the fact that you did not respond to a single question.
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  729.  @not_yourbusiness1820  If you're going to be abusive, learn English first.
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  730. Certain types of boycotts have always been restricted, but requiring a LOYALTY OATH that you won't engage in that boycott is foul.
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  731. 9:40 WHY this equivocation? What "negligible risk?" I would absolutely vaccinate a child, so don't misunderstand the question. It's not a rhetorical question. I assumed there was no evidence of a link at all. This is not like the incredibly tiny risk of brain tumors from overuse of cell phones. This is so small, and cell phones are so new, that it could not be confirmed until we had 20 years of data, and it didn't change behavior very much if at all. We have the data on MMR vaccines.
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  732. You have to laugh at the first couple of sentences, if you still have a shred of honesty. Right on target.
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  733. Whatever one's politics, one should consider that in this world, most people believe Putin, not Johnson.
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  734. "We have talent in the Democratic Party." 😮😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  735. Great points. There are uncontrovertably patriotic people who have written about "blowback," and who are actually trying hard to provide the citizenry with facts, not propaganda. There are even voices from Muslim countries who have severely criticized American foreign policy, but without giving one inch to terrorists (like Tariq Ali, who wrote a Letter to a Young Muslim, pointing out, among other things, that the Vietnamese never resorted to terrorism or anything like it). Why aren't these taught? Serious question, because I don't get it.
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  736. Very glad you are better.
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  737. It sure does, lol.
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  738.  @ExpatZ266  Anne-Laure Bonnel is the war correspondent and filmmaker I trust the most. Her documentaries are subtitled.
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  739. I wouldn't say he "called her out." He called on her to lead, and not to be afraid, because it is the right thing to do.
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  740. Has she consulted an attorney?
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  741. ​@ubiquitousdiabolus She already stated she did not vote for Biden last time, and won't vote for the DNC candidate in 2024.
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  742. Oh no. What if our guys did the war crime?
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  743. Why everyone loves Kim. Why everyone loves Abby.
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  744. The panic disorder was partly caused by knowing that at your most vulnerable moment, surrounded by people who are sworn to help you, you were instead subjected to psychological abuse. This is grave. Believe me, I know. Be extra, extra good to yourself. Like that Rilke poem: "You must change your life."
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  745. It's not technically precedent, because other courts on the same level can rule differently, but it is highly persuasive AND it shows lawyers what a winning strategy is. There will probably be appellate precedent soon.
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  746. "A weapon against the establishment Democrats" . . . Nomiki says that like it's a bad thing? 😂
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  747. His own country is proud of him. It's Five Eyes backlash.
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  748. ❤❤🥀🥀🥀 to you for this
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  749. Even The Onion couldn't make this up.
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  750. THANK YOU. The only interview of him should be about Jeff and Ghislaine.
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  751. He had extensive experience in manipulation.
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  752. "WE will never mandate vaccination." --- Biden, Harris, Pelosi . . .
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  753. This is all a deflection. They defamed Aaron Mate, and Dore denounced them for it. This cover story should end right here, with a calm and civilized letter -- from Aaron's attorneys to TYT's producers. Everything else is nonsense.
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  754. This was Bill Gates' plan all along. Remember how you used to buy a CD-ROM with the MS Office Suite on it, and now it's a yearly subscription? I remember articles in the financial press 20 years ago saying he was trying to find a way to charge a toll for Internet use -- and these were his friends writing about it.
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  755. Do you actually know the math, Robby? A billion dollars at age 32 is like accumulating over $85,000 a day since birth. WHO can "earn" this? No one can. No one's "work" is worth that much. That cannot be what is going on.
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  756. Great idea, absolutely. He did the work to curate them. One of the few who deserves to call himself a curator.
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  757.  @mikevincent6332  Probably somewhat more than 5%, but recidivism is huge, yes. Also, they corrupt all the other cops, to where nearly all cops will cover up for the wrongdoers
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  758. On the contrary, if Floyd was using opioids since the beginning of the year, he was habituated. Hence a larger dose would have no effect, or perhaps modestly delay his death if he were in extreme fear and anxiety. Painkillers are used not just to keep patients comfortable, but to avoid overtaxing their cardiovascular system with the anxiety that severe pain will invariably bring. You don't like facts, do you?
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  759. When Richard NIXON was more "progressive" on several issues, and medical care and college were affordable then, what do the DNC Democrats EXPECT?
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  760. Daryl Davis is so generous.
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  761. Considering that two impeachments failed to remove him from office, having these indictments do so seems legally dubious to me. U of Chicago Law School is de facto better than Harvard or Yale, so I'll want to read this article.
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  762. ​​ @JW-vd4il  Yes, very, very impressive. Lovely young lady.
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  763. A carjacking is a crime against a person, and puts a person at grave risk of injury. Hence you have a right to use lethal force. It is not a property crime.
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  764.  @TheBakingGirlShow  You seem to think you're in charge of their diagnosis -- even though it is a fact that CHILDREN do not have BPD, nor a slew of other mental and emotional illnesses, many of which only surface after puberty, and often a full decade after puberty, due to the way the human brain and higher cognitive functions develop. So your whole point was ridiculous. Wonder why you made it?
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  765. The fact that those with proof of full vaccination had to wear a mask was a clue right there.
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  766. His girlfriend is trying to console herself. Remember when his little daughter said that her daddy changed the world? This is so heartbreaking. It's the kind of thing that should reduce everyone else to silence. We will never know how much they lost.
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  767. Kyle. The reason Jimmy is targetted the way he is, is because he is perceived as weak. Jimmy is perceived as weak for one reason only: SOCIAL CLASS. You don't know this? Really? You fell for it? Notice how Aaron Mate will have none of it. Please take a lesson from how he deals with this.
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  768. Don't worry, there is no coming back from this.
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  769. They are clearly not starving.
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  770. I feel like saying, thank you for your service. It seems like a war, huh? No, seriously, THANK YOU. BTW, you might be interested in George Annas, American Bioethics. Just the first chapter is quite an eye-opener: it includes a discussion of the SARS epidemic, which in this hemisphere mainly affected Canada, and the anthrax terrorist attacks. It states that we must not compromise our constitutional principles out of fear -- it is unethical, and it does not work. Hmmm . . .
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  771.  @stephaniezena9863  I think there is literally no way a child can know, professionals have an incentive to push it (imagine if free services were mandated, ha) and every adult human being has a human right to try to become a birth parent of a healthy baby. Transitioning can deprive a person of that right.
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  772. When were boosters tested on those who have already had a proven case of COVID?
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  773. The United States had one 9/11; in WWII, the Soviets had 10,000. Yes they went bonkers, but look at us. The Soviets were both worse and far better than we were told. The important thing was to make us believe that nothing important was happening in the USSR. The precise opposite was true. (In fact, among so many other things, it was Arkhipov who saved the world.)
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  774. Sadly . . .
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  775. 💰💰💰💰💰 talks
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  776. WHO believes this now? That the IOC didn't have the technology to determine her eligibility before she got to the Olympics? Or the grace to let her skate in peace, and sort things out afterwards? "You can skate. You may not medal no matter what you do." Congrats on the emotional destruction of a brilliant 15 year old, a true prodigy. Hope you're proud.
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  777. I had thought that Nikki Haley opened the question by saying that current leaders are past their prime. That context is relevant, but the way Lemon countered it sounded like he was clueless. Still, I don't see what this much outrage is about.
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  778. Brilliant presentation, Jimmy. Thank you for fighting for us.
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  779. In their view, not nearly enough.
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  780.  @kimbrooks2868  Because it's scary. If we lose dollar dominance, serious stagflation is assured. Or worse. Our national debt is roughly 130% of our GDP. Russia's is under 20%, China's around 60%, probably less.
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  781. Biden is being "underestimated?" How is that possible?
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  782. She's talking about criminalization, where she has a point, but that was not what Charlamagne was talking about. Freedom of speech, free discussion, and freedom of thought comes first. He's right.
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  783. When no one asked about decomposition, I wondered. When suddenly, no one "believed in" decomposition, I knew something was wrong.
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  784. Happening faster than I thought possible . . . Ghislaine just needed to be on the run a little longer?
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  785. Not "stimulus" payments. Emergency payments.
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  786. An Adam Curtis documentary describes how this changed the course of New York City's history after its municipal bond default. NYC always had affordable housing for all working people (like London and Paris always did, and Paris sort-of does, still) before the bankers took it over.
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  787. ​​​ @hrs2044  Does being trans give you special rights to say how minors who have gender dysphoria should be treated? So that a bisexual person who opposes pulling kids into what that person perceives as an overly ideological movement should be prevented from expressing their view, or shamed if they do? You prove their point. Wonderful.
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  788.  @not_yourbusiness1820  My account is private. A troll would create a pseudo presence. Blocking you, BTW.
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  789. I was struck by Robert's observations about envy, and how no one will admit to it. Well, what I've noticed about myself is that my lack of envy is not normal, and not a good thing. Envy can be a powerful motivator. It isn't necessarily negative. Envy that causes a person to undermine someone else is poisonous, but envy that motivates people to become more excellent and outshine others is not a bad thing. Or at least I don't see why it should be.
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  790. Remember the Opium Wars, guys? China remembers.
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  791.  @IPITYTHEFOOLZ  Go join the Azov Battalion. They'd love to have you.
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  792. Prayers are always for show. He disrupted the show. The music was about to start, too.
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  793.  @notamurderer6226  Flagrantly false dichotomy. An independent investigation could tell us who is responsible. By your logic, we should be sanctioned for starving Afghanistan when we could end the famine easily.
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  794. That is being generous.
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  795. Russell Brand never said his conduct was not gross. He said it was.
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  796.  @DottieMinerva  Money is an even bigger factor.
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  797. He's not that smart.
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  798. 1. First time I've heard Gabbard genuinely sound upset and flustered. 2. Who is going to join the military at this point? For what? What were they thinking??
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  799.  @howard1852  Whew. The t word, not the r word. I think you're good. /s
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  800. Jimmy IS the real deal. That's why he is being betrayed. Happens every time.
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  801. It is deeper than that. Police lie as a routine tactic. They are allowed to do this.
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  802. She didn't say ADL was credible. She said Musk himself has alienated advertisers, and if he really supports free speech, he may have to eat the financial loss that comes with it.
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  803.  @mortkebab2849  So . . . Isn't it a matter of being unlucky, for everyone who encountered your comments on this thread? Especially since we are here watching videos on science and mathematics, which does require a modicum of effort, say, by comparison to watching cute babies and animals? Isn't everyone's life just the tiniest bit less happy, all because we read your posts? Sheer bad luck. Trivial in itself, but consider the aggregate. Especially these days.
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  804.  @xmurshedz  From 13:05 on, Vijay is on fire. He mentions Assange about a minute after.
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  805. Do people appreciate just how much harm the CLINTONS did? It's hard to keep track.
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  806.  @docpittillo  Yes, Glenn is tremendously well-educated and hard working, and older. And has an unusual devotion to principles and care in sharing only actual facts. Of course he's going to be better. Still, good on Steven. Glenn welcomes him and expresses appreciation. Perfect.
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  807.  @asddsa8203  Especially for a little girl.
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  808. @LocoGeorge123  I have no problem condemning October 7. The actions of the Israeli government since then has condemned the hostages.
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  809. ​ @rc8929  When the "swine" flu vaccine was rushed into production in 1976, 1 case of Guillain Barre per 100,000 inoculations was enough to have it withdrawn. Now, young men who generally do not need this have over 5 times that many cases of a heart issue: over 5 per 100,000. Where is the benefit relative to cost?
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  810. ​ @tfhssn No one INDEPENDENTLY WEALTHY ever has to do anything. There are still people who were illegally fired and have not yet been compensated and given their jobs back.
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  811. This is truly tragic, and profoundly, profoundly shameful. (Let's focus there, please, people in the comments.)
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  812. I have just one question: how did all these creeps suddenly become politically SO influential? What made their voices more important than anyone else's?
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  813. This is what I could never understand: our lack of universal health care is headwinds for starting YOUR OWN BUSINESS. We are LESS autonomous than people in other countries. A free market needs a "commons." Adam Smith said so. This idea is SO not radical.
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  814. Katie Halper is having real discussions on this subject, with clearly differing views, for people who might want to consider the arguments. They are not focusing on Dore.
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  815.  @black_squall  Who is "their own?" The people who pledged, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal?" Or someone else?
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  816. Speechless. Literally shaking my head.
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  817. Today, Vietnam has 10,000,000 more people than Germany, after what we did to their land. And vastly less COVID.
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  818. Aaron Mate is too modest to say he is risking his life to bring reporting from Syria. Yet he was repeatedly smeared by TYT.
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  819.  @afterburner5560  He might go. Dr. West has a generous spirit, and did a tribute to Michael Brooks recently. The point is, these scolds trying to paint Dore as anathema could not be more wrong.
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  820. Whatever it is, a new surge of money upwards is certain.
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  821. Every candidate. There are more children of alumni donors who were never scrutinized.
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  822. In America? At this point, anyone who can make a buck off of it. That's where we have been since 2008. Flagrantly. Really since Reagan, but it was not yet inevitable and inexorable.
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  823. ​ @joeterzio7175  A society that has the history of eugenics that this one has decided to risk the future reproductive choices of any child who deviates from Barbie and Ken. Shocked, I tell you, shocked! SHOCKED!
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  824. @@jassasingh9880 I used to think that. Then the meth labs invaded the lovely small towns all over the US. I shudder to think what opioids have done, to the once wonderful places. As for Canada, I could never get in, and it's too cold anyway, and with strange politics now, that I cannot comprehend. Anyway, thank you so much! Where my family lives has the same weather as Rome! :) I lived in Paris, and the quality of life was lower there, than where I plan to go. The world has become very strange. I would never have predicted the last three years, not by any stretch, not ever.
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  825. @christheghostwriter  Has anyone EVER read a Supreme Court case? A true threat cannot be vague. If it is vague, it is not a true threat. Whether or not you care is about your fee fees.
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  826. ​ @davidfoster9890  We will need a multivariate analysis to find out for sure . . . Hm, why don't I trust the healthcare establishment to do the research? I wonder why I mistrust them. /s
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  827.  @hayleylongster4698  ME TOO, I just couldn't. She was 14. She did not need the vaccine, much less the booster.
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  828. Confirmed: there is nothing the NYTimes won't do.
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  829. So we'll said. Please write more about this.
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  830. 💯 😂😂😂
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  831.  @HamishDuh2nd  A decent job after completing school is the least a person should expect. Universities were supposed to provide much more than that. Now they drive people into debt and fail to provide either a job or an education.
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  832. I don't agree. I want to see European data. I had no interest in mRNA, or in J & J because it appeared to have some grave side effects for a small number of women. Found that sinister. I've been enthusiastically in favor of vaccination, BEFORE ALL THIS. Now I know how little to trust our government agencies. (Not at all.)
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  833. Exactly. If someone is dangerous, the last thing to do is to be sincere.
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  834. Shame on Dr. Gupta. SHAME. Edit: Let's go Brandon.
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  835. He was vaccine injured, and was worried that his career was over.
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  836. ​ @under-en6lo  Yes. And more do not.
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  837. Employers don't even take a personal risk at all. They are covered by the corporation. The corporation will take legal reponsibility for whatever goes wrong, not the employer himself. He has no liability. Example: at BP, who took the risk? Not Tony Hayward.
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  838.  @Djevan41598  He chose to appear in this report, and allowed his minor children to appear as well.
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  839.  @rvrmn2682  No. You have a right to send a letter to a judge. Can you be serious? Whether it was wise or ethical is beside the point. Suddenly, everything you don't like is a "crime?"
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  840. Everyone knew the hysteria surrounding vaccination requirements for a JOB would subside. The earliest victims who were fired had it the worst. That's always how it is with various manias and mobs. Don't get picked off in the beginning. If you can last, you'll be left alone.
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  841. Of course. Their financial interest is in your being healthy or dying quickly.
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  842.  @vernonsheldon-witter1225  Crime in the US is soaring, hand in hand with inflation.
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  843. Most people survived and made full recoveries. There is currently a study of people in their 90s and older who contracted COVID prior to vaccines and had mild illness. They don't know why, and want to figure it out. In a lot of places, the average age of death from COVID was slightly higher than life expectancy at birth. That was reported by the Financial Times back in 2020, and basically held up.
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  844. Well, if it was in fact a plandemic, a reward to the chief planner is to be expected, no?
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  845. God, Dylan is real upset. Funny to see him more upset than Jimmy for about half of this.
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  846. Jimmy: You are SO RIGHT to look at her stance on Ukraine as the key factor in judging her.
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  847. The usual. Father has more money, father has new wife, father still mad at old wife, child having a difficult puberty lashing out at mother. The rest is details.
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  848.  @LD-tn6ff  "Statistically proven?" Perhaps you can tell us why these clinics are being closed down in other countries. The person who made the comment is not "actively fighting" anything except for the right to share their views without being silenced or condemned.
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  849. THANK YOU
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  850.  @Water-7814  Clinton is the single person most responsible for where we are today. Even more than Reagan.
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  851. Dr. Didier Raoult . . . we heard about that.
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  852.  Suzan Wabbajack  But he himself has lots of kids. Um. One of the moms had to prove it in court, and did.
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  853. ​@pequodrequiem681WHAT insurance?? So why are the Blackrock vultures already on the scene? And what do people do until they get their paltry payouts, if they ever do?
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  854. I can't see the problem with the ears. It's cute.
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  855.  @serialcarpens290  I'm so glad you said that. I often get the feeling we are being tested, to see what they can make us accept, and in what ways.
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  856. They have been SCARED TO DEATH. Tragic, really.
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  857.  @4Mr.Crowley2  Not to mention Dr. Phil, The Secret, and I forget what else.
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  858. So true. They did.
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  859. @johnjames4681  And this booing helps bring peace --- how?? Would you have supported booing people from Iraq or Afghanistan?
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  860. I, too, am shocked shocked.
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  861. This will sound strange, but is meant sincerely: being this astute has got to be emotionally painful sometimes. Aaron and Max must have their moments.
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  862. We REALLY need more solid information on how to recognize these people. His wife did not know. Clearly his second wife didn't either.
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  863. People who aren't prejudiced against the cognitively impaired?
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  864. @ThomasKing19933  Now you know why they cannot admit the true origin of this virus. This episode was not so different from the 2008 financial crisis. Now is a good time to reread Glenn Greenwald: With Liberty and Justice for Some. Find out how the powerful are always shielded from having to take any responsibility for their actions, while we suffer inordinately our own mistakes and for theirs. Someone has to.
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  865. When the mRNA vaccines were introduced, I went to the MIT website and researched how mRNA works. When I found out that a nanoparticle is orders of magnitude smaller than a red blood cell, I decided to seek out the adenovirus vaccine. There was no supply anywhere near me. And then, those were temporarily withdrawn. That did it. I declined to be vaccinated. Whew!
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  866. Why are cops doing Netanyahu's bidding on American soil? Think about this. If he were a man of stature, it would still be perverse.
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  867. The issue isn't the content of the editorial. Let's assume it did contain inaccuracies (as we all know, Senators never make mistakes). Does that mean it should not have been run? I think it means it should have gotten a counterpoint the following day.
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  868. Did someone say "childish fixation?"
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  869. Briahna Joy Gray has more courage than 10 × AOC. Sublime!
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  870.  @Lyle-xc9pg  Be careful with that if the person is from a different culture. Trust me.
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  871. EVERY trivial claim of feeling unsafe is respected --- except this one. Which happens to be real.
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  872.  Diana Novak  The real tragedy is that we don't know. Unfortunately that is true, although a lot of people will insist it's not due to the vaccine, or that it is due to the vaccine. That is why the first principle of medicine is, first do no harm.
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  873. "Allowing?" The government is supposed to meet "bad speech" with MORE speech, not censorship. That is the law. As for Facebook, it has Section 230 protection. By the way, did you catch the fact that true statements and mere opinions, parodies, jokes and such, were all targeted for censorship??
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  874.  @hrs2044  How large of a risk should a minor be FORCED to take for six to nine months of immunity to something that will rarely be serious for someone this young? More to the point, should we be permitted to discuss this, or do the oligarchs and their political lackeys decide, and we better shut up?
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  875. I never heard her music until she won this award. She struck me as a lukewarm Madonna knock-off. If she has struck out on her own, to benefit from her work rather than let all the middlemen grab an unearned chunk -- BRAVO. I hope more artists can follow her lead.
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  876. Well come on. Jeffrey and Ghislaine ran with the best crowd.
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  877. "Accomplices" is a mistranslation. The word means they got along extremely well.
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  878. Fifty years of American diplomacy and coalition building against terrorism down the drain.
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  879. Aaron Mate and his father are two of the best people on this earth.
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  880. Bloomberg IS what the current Democratic party stands for.
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  881.  @stephenlock7236  Just like the US, huh?
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  882. Lying headline
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  883.  @TheBakingGirlShow  I wish you peace, love, nirvana, and bliss. And of course safety, because, well . . . People who need to bully, yeah. After their irresistible impulse to kick someone who shared an injustice they suffered, as a child. Of course safety. 'Nuf said.
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  884. Congratulations. I'd love more success stories like this.
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  885.  @jeeperspeepers8323  An "invasion" is what Russia did to Ukraine, the US did to Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, etc. Maybe expand your vocabulary?
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  886. @RobertGrzybowski-bb9gf  If you've never been there, you don't know.
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  887.  @AllYouHaveToDoIsBeHonest  First, we are not supposed to torture anyone. Second, didn't you hear that these inmates are completing their sentences, earning degrees, and going on to earn major scholarships for advanced degrees? How short a time do you imagine a factually guilty murderer serves? Nothing in your premise is true.
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  888. Graham: "The Democrats gave us Trump." Respect!
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  889. Wait. You don't know why she cannot maintain a suit against them? Really? Remember all those years when you thought our civil rights were "excessive?" Yeah, well . . . here we are. I predict she will get this dismissed on free speech grounds, but she'll have to do it on her own dime.
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  890. "What does the fact that Pelosi is associated with the first Kennedy loss in Massachusetts?" ONLY GOOD THINGS
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  891. Straight-up false.
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  892.  @Rokaize  Absolutely ridiculous. Looking for nearest well-lit area to pull over is both legal and prudent, and a well-known as something motorists have a right to do. Once Nazario pulled over IN the closest well-lit area, it should have been obvious to any rational officer that drawing a gun was not the proper response. Moreover, taking out a cell phone while still operating the vehicle as you claim he should have done is, in fact, illegal, and cell phones have been repeatedly mistaken for weapons by irrational police. People (plural) taking out their cell phone have died in a hail of bullets. The initial stop had to do with an allegedly missing license plate. In a well-lit area, the presence of the temporary plate was more visible. There was no inherent danger to anyone except Nazario. Moreover, Nazario did not speed. So much for your theory.
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  893.  @mynameischess230  Um, her sheer courage?
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  894. They knew this. Division was the plan.
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  895. I think that was a major Monsanto/cancer case, not a vaccine case. Please provide details so that we can find it. He is a very successful toxic tort lawyer.
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  896.  @jairkerker2821  Max Blumenthal on workers being fired over mandates and passports has been tremendous as well.
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  897. YES, finally, Brie gets to the point: New York has empty buildings everywhere. Robby had to push push push. 💯, Robby!
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  898. ​ @Appreciation-Community  LOL
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  899. At my law school, their monthly magazine just bragged that 28% of its L1 class identifies as LGBTQ+. Future lawyers clearly know what to say to get attention.
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  900. I CAUGHT THAT RIGHT AWAY. Ana is a p i g. That shows you the kind of "feminist" she is!!
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  901. Robbie: "If they violate copyright, they can be sued . . . . " Because intellectual property lawyers are free.
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  902. "When is this guy leaving?"
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  903. "Romney-Reaganite economics" -- sounded like Saagar wanted to say zombie economics. :D
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  904.  @needparalegal  You might want to study syllogisms. E.g., Insects are animals. Birds are animals. But insects are not birds. You've heard of that, right?
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  905. The Republicans and not the Russians??
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  906. So John Kirby is up on the ICJ ruling, correct?
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  907.  @JuxJacy  I bet he wouldn't explain because he couldn't. :D
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  908. Well, come on. How important can it be if it didn't happen to Nomiki? 🤔
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  909. Fifty years ago, two people earning minimum wage could rent a decent apartment in ANY American city, and make a start. No social media or cameras following them around for life, either.
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  910. You would have thought Adolf himself had come back from the dead and been elected an MP.
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  911. Nadine Strossen is the Greatest of the Great. She has made her mark as one of the finest First Amendment lawyers in American history.
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  912. Bri just pointed out the extent of the corroboration in Tara Reade's case. Robbie made great points, too.
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  913. 💯
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  914. Citizen's United . . . That is First Amendment law, too.
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  915. One of the WORST things I have ever heard. Yes, this is a criminal coverup.
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  916. People who oppose talking to people like Magnus were raised by advertising, not living parents. If you are that susceptible to any message, work on that.
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  917. Absolutely best thing to do is to laugh at these people. Nothing else deflates them like humor.
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  918. Not what the voice recording says, but nice try.
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  919.  @ExpatZ266  You may be right about that. I know for fact certain things he said were misleading. Example --- We know that we DON'T know who is responsible for the Bucha atrocities, and we know that the story propagated in the West is impossible, while the Russian explanation has not been confirmed.
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  920. You love her. She loves money. What's not to love?
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  921.  @LordMephilis  If you are on private property to defend that property, and it is not your own property, and you are armed, you are supposed to be a licensed security guard, and you are not supposed to leave that property unless there is some clear necessity for you to do so. At least that's the law in most states, including Illinois. I have no idea WHAT they allow in Wisconsin.
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  922. This might be Professor Varoufakis's best interview.
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  923. ​@jamesmorrow1646 Good thing President Mummy is on the case! Nuland, too!!
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  924. ​ @jdee3421 😅😅😅 excellent
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  925. Most normal women want a written apology, a card, and some tangible token of contrition if you make a crass joke about us, especially if other people are present to hear it. You and TYT are making sure that never happens again. Thanks a bunch.
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  926. YES. Five bucks per show adds up. Don't forget Glenn, our god. Of course Briaha, our intellectual beauty. Chris Hedges, etc. A consortium is necessary.
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  927. Just heard Vijay Prashad on a Pacifica Radio affiliated YT show give a brilliant analysis, too. Most of Asia, Africa and Latin America are not blaming Putin. Given the fact that he had alternatives to this massive escalation of the Ukraine war, that should be sobering. Americans need to ask some questions.
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  928. 11:08 "If you're against the establishment, [Colbert] is against you." Yup.
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  929. Trust me, the audience is skeptical too, Robby.
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  930. If you don't genuflect to Likud, you will be called anti-Semitic.
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  931. Shameful on her part.
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  932. 💯
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  933. $$$ Money for someone.
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  934. Fear breeds exclusion.
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  935.  @therationalnational  To think Blue Cross hasn't dropped its request for charges to be brought, now that they know it was simply rudeness, not a "threat." What whimps.
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  936.  @Dez083  I'm saying the quiet part out loud. Not to mention my work as a civil rights lawyer. You? What do these people have to do? Does X number of dollars guarantee they will have complete immunity from scrutiny, no matter what they do? And defenders, no matter what they do? How much proof do you need?
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  937. Someone thinks men or women can make it on their own in this economy? What, did everyone grow up in an affluent suburb?
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  938. Sirota: If we are "dealing with people who don't care," why do we have to vote for them every single time? (Because Trump? Trump was defeated.) Why do we have to make their lives easy?
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  939.  @RandomYTCommenter  Relatively small detail. A global rentier society is a chilling proposition.
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  940.  @gaiangalaxy3198  I think you're a false flag. You sound like one and you function as one. The burden shifts to you to show that you are not.
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  941. Being outdoors gardening was one of the few healthy things people could do.
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  942. No. The point is that digging up this freak in order to take sides is what is ridiculous. But now I'm interested in whether they are disciplining students who make fun of her, etc. I'm interested in what they are doing to the kids' self-expression.
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  943. Original COVID was more dangerous to people over 70 and people over 40 with several serious comorbidities. But by the time of the vaccine rollout, this had already changed.
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  944. He really, really should not have gotten involved. Answer tweets that falsely assert he doesn't do real news with links to all the videos where he did do real news. Easier and simpler.
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  945. Only Western. Throughtout Asia, the attitude is so different, it's often startling.
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  946.  @zacharyrivera566  Exactly. He especially should not have ghosted Dore and invited Cenk's nephew to replace him -- who proceeded to use sexist language on the program.
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  947. @Jenkmode89 Excuse me, but what did you hallucinate? Also, is . . . someone a cop because they say they are? Does someone have a right to bang on your door and enter your home because someone told them something?
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  948. This was one of Robby's few outstanding editorials. I frankly don't see how anyone can disagree with the substance of it.
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  949. You are rational. Why is that so rare? ;/
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  950.  @bolo2393  Confused with Apple. Yeah, Jobs robbed Wozniak from day one. The Microsoft screw was different. The first time Paul Allen had lymphoma, Bill Gates used the occasion to try to squeeze him out of Microsoft. Of course that makes Gates qualified to decide health policy.
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  951.  @AnaLucia-wy2ii  If the side effects are SO rare, it should be very easy to compensate the injured, huh?
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  952. Nadine Strossen wrote a brilliant book on that. You would be shocked at how many examples she found -- well before the pandemic.
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  953. So, these 6-figure salary, stock option millionaires do not understand that they are getting paid for "soft skills?" Of course they should be fired. What did they think their jobs were?
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  954.  @SuperSpidey313  No, he's focusing on reported stories. It's Assange they had to neutralize. Everything Saagar mentioned, that is being requested, could have been LEAKED.
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  955. Reid: "Maybe he's just a jerk." Well then good thing he was injured instead of someone Joy thinks is Nice. /s
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  956.  @steven5054  So Wolff and Hedges stupidly play along . . . when they could come on Sam's show instead. /s
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  957.  @HamishDuh2nd  THIS.
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  958. So true.
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  959. People who do the right thing end up with no money.
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  960. "Trust is beginning to fade?"
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  961. Some billionaire can give them a bunch more money. One percent of a billion is ten million.
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  962. Everyone forgot Charlie Hebdo?
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  963. Okay. HOW could parents fall for this? When they were growing up, how many trans kids did they know -- diagnosed or not? Did any kid confide in them that they hated being a boy and wanted to be a girl, or vice versa? Did they ever hear about anything like it at all??
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  964. I admire your spirit. It is inevitable, but it will not be pretty.
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  965. That was to be expected from him.
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  966. ​ @styracosaurusqvt4841 And why wouldn't they? It's not like they think they have enough money yet.
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  967. 2:55. NO, Brie. The client directs the accountant. I was waiting for someone to come up with this excuse.
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  968.  @MissRed92837  Yes. He came back, then fought with her even worse, in front of witnesses, and then murdered her. Take the correct lesson from this. Even the police failed Gabby. She, like so many young, good-hearted, innocent women, needed to save herself. Nobody was going to do that for her. That's the tragedy, to me. So sad!
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  969. YES. WE DO. So sorry about this rot. Good luck and welcome.
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  970. ​@CourtneyHaynes Is their job winning, or serving? Hmm. Head scratcher.
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  971. Wow, a politician who is eloquent. That alone is heartening.
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  972. ​ @angelbunny101 Yes he does support a living wage. Biden does not.
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  973. Wow, Joe has been living the equine life.
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  974. Here's a tip: people will not ask your age, but they will use your graduation date as a proxy. Graduating later can make you look younger. The most important thing is to graduate into a good economy for your sector. Think about whether to have a "Plan B" or to go for broke in a field where you love the work and excel naturally. People who advise you to forget your true passion and be "practical" may be doing you a grave disservice, because if you end up having to compete with people who LOVE love what they do, you probably can't. They may be able to work 50 and 60 hour weeks, no problem. That is always a drag -- and not practical, either.
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  975. OTOH, in France we're almost viewed like Asians are in the US -- suspected of being really smart. That was fun. Mistake to come back here.
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  976. If I did not know that ALL of the new tech and social media behemoths were deliberately designing addictive applications -- and there is massive evidence they do, and have deployed the cognitive research to design addictive apps and have for decades -- then I would agree with you. A good parent could have a child with a behavioral addiction that the child succeeds in hiding. This happens.
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  977.  @DeadKraken  The problem Westerners all have is that they can't grasp that non-Western peoples have a different view of time.
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  978. No, he has not achieved "success." He has achieved notoriety and massive amounts of money. A civil rights lawyer, a concert pianist, a Nobel prize-winning writer, a cancer researcher, or a pediatric neurosurgeon have achieved success.
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  979.  @Jasondirt  Matt Taibbi's image of the giant vampire squid comes to mind.
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  980.  @juannpacheco1980  They are uneducated for a reason.
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  981. The incompetence of these doctors is not just astounding but frightening. They don't have any idea what they are doing, but they think they know.
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  982. This is not a joke, The View is influential, and no one should take anything that comes out of their mouths seriously.
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  983.  @Virginie-a  You don't care enough to spell his name right.
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  984. Did Nomiki ever hear about "chilling free speech?" If not, she was not prepared for this interview.
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  985. The press needs to be held accountable as well --- I had to consult Hindustani Times to find out that Berlin had a huge march to end military aid to Ukraine.
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  986. This segment was OUTSTANDING.
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  987. True. Only spooks and those in the pay of spooks (who took out too much debt for their mansions) could be this cold.
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  988. ​@cybersecuritydeclassified4793 That's old news. They suddenly decided she needs massively more scrutiny? If she is an objective danger to anyone, why let her fly? You sound like you didn't wait to hear who reported this, and how. 10:32
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  989. I felt like a hunted animal in 2021. After BIDEN promised to end the divisiveness! I will never forgive or forget. I am still not the same after that.
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  990. "Well, menstrual cycles are no big deal" . . . I guess everyone is going to transition anyway?? 🤣
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  991. This report on Glenn Greenwald's resignation from The Intercept is THE best one BY FAR, of any report made so far. Deepest appreciation!! We can rely on you. Thank you.
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  992. @patricksullivan7140  What is Bernie's net worth? What you describe is not a fortune. If someone worked nearly constantly from his mid-teens until age 80, and attained the Senate, what is he supposed to have? $50,000 per year for 40 years is already 2 million. A major high school principal makes more in a lifetime.
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  993. She always looks like she is auditioning for a sit-com destined to fail.
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  994. This has become INSANE.
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  995. Those who did worse are the first to condemn. That is as ordinary and as banal as the horror of war itself.
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  996. 12:12 Labeling?? Other countries BAN chemicals we put in our food.
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  997. 1. We don't know. 2. We MUST find out.
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  998. Once they have made up their minds, they almost always ignore evidence to the contrary.
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  999. At the elite level, sports is a mind game. COMFORT matters!!!
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  1000. And by the way . . . On June 15, Reuters reported that China's holdings of U.S. Treasuries had skid to 12-year low. Japan had been picking up the slack but now it is also cutting its holdings. How about that? Of course interest rates must go up. And dollar hegemony must go down.
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  1001. ​ @juliafox52  💯
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  1002. Absolutely every physical job and every physically risky job must have a union. It's a necessity.
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  1003. Of course luck is a huge part of life. Don't people know anyone hit by a drunk driver? Or anyone who had pediatric cancer? Medical malpractice? Crippling depression? A parent who commits suicide? Or who died of COVID in spite of taking all precautions? The wisest people always acknowledge the role of luck, and understand its gravity. This was a great talk.
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  1004.  @StreetxDSM  If the price of that dreck food were to go up, people would eat less of it and have lower medical bills.
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  1005. This guy oozes duping delight, as well he should. This is a job?
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  1006. I think that government leveraging private monopoly power to censor speech based on content, or to impose prior restraints, should be considered a government/state action prohibited by the First Amendment (absent a compelling government interest to justify it).
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  1007.  @gaiangalaxy3198  Spoiled? I'm not an American, I'm non-Western, and I avoid speaking English whenever possible. Very bad guessing, but in line with the false flag narrative you are apparently pushing. You seem to want people to refuse to be vaccinated for extraneous reasons, having nothing to do with a rational cost-benefit analysis, and certainly nothing to do with their health. You insult them, repeatedly, hoping that will make them mad enough not to be vaccinated. Or maybe it's simpler. You had the vaccine, you didn't really want it, now you have second thoughts, so of course you want everyone else to be in the same position as you are. That's common, too. The simplest explanation is usually the best.
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  1008. From the heart! Good to hear.
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  1009. "Harm" has been redefined. Check what it meant in 1976.
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  1010. Katie, always brilliant.
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  1011.  @10003159  One single remark, from someone who has a lower rank than you in the workplace, isn't "sexual harassment" under the law. She could have had him fired, because that is always easy to do, for a good reason or for no reason, but she couldn't have successfully sued. I mean, it was crass and inappropriate. Okay. But a big deal? At a station that was trying to imitate Howard Stern and pick up some of Stern's fans?
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  1012. Certain foods are literally formulated to make it extremely hard to stop eating them. Corporations literally research how to do this.
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  1013. The fire was too convenient for certain people to dismiss your suspicions.
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  1014.  @marshallmathers2146  Agree. Jimmy and Aaron just did a livestream. Really excellent. Aaron does not pull punches, that is certain.
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  1015. That sounds weird but it's true. There are no thought crimes, and speech that isn't a true threat or a call to violence or conspiracy to commit a crime is usually protected by 1A.
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  1016.  @factmanamerican882  Just the opposite is true. The Founders were ardent disestablishmentarians. Government is not suppose to spend public money on any religion. "Judeo-Christian" is a modern slogan, by the way, adopted to appear inclusive. During most of American history, Jewish people faced heavy discrimination.
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  1017. To any heritage
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  1018. ​ @Alsayid The difference between minors and adults needs to be much more clearly delineated. MUCH more. When 16 year old kids had jobs, and 18 year olds were joining the armed forces or getting married or both, 16 was different from what it is in the age of (anti)social mass media and kids who don't even date or go out much on their own. Beauty pageants for these kids are a bad idea. They can never escape anything they did as minors. The pictures alone being online forever is a risk.
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  1019. 56:13 THANK YOU JOE ROGAN (Now we know why the Russiagate nonsense was so important to push and push.)
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  1020. The four women smiled, waved to the crowd and appeared in front of a banner calling for Palestinian liberation. Where is the interpretation? We may hear later that they were simply being diplomatic. There is no obvious reason to believe they were coerced. Their actions didn't appear to be coerced.
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  1021. Please more Goggins. If only he knew how much he is loved.
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  1022. You'd enjoy Greenwald, With Liberty and Justice for Some . . . If it's possible to enjoy that book. It's staggering. What you're talking about is WAY worse than we think. WAY.
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  1023. Good rule of thumb, yup. 👏
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  1024. My favorite thing about Sabby is her preparation when she is invited to a broadcast like this. Respect!!
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  1025.  @collybeans586  Known troll.
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  1026. Look, in 1970, a kid could get a minimum wage job and save up enough money over the summer to pay for a year of state college. And three roommates could get minimum wage jobs and rent an apartment ANYWHERE --- San Fran, Manhattan . . . Those were different people. Who created the world where that became impossible? Robby thinks that government is subsidizing college??
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  1027. This was my question all along! There has been enough time for certain lab animals that were first administered the vaccines to complete their lifecycle, including giving birth and monitoring the lifecycle of the pups. I wanted to see this data.
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  1028. The REASON people say "gender" rather than "sex" is because "sex" is also an activity. I support the correct use of the terms as explained by The Rational National. But there is nothing nefarious about the misuse of the term "gender" in Chappelle's case. It IS a misuse, however. Useful explanation. Let's use terms correctly. Having said that, if there is a good reason Chappelle ought to self-censor, you have a serious burden of proof. Just saying that this or that joke endangers peoples' lives is not sufficient.
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  1029. Robby made a great legal point.
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  1030. Of course it will happen again. Do you realize how rich they all got??
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  1031. We thank you for the tragedy of idealism. Most people are not selfless.
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  1032. It declined really quickly too.
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  1033. Perfect timing, between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. No one could make this up.
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  1034. Thank you.
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  1035. Sure, sweetheart.
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  1036. ​@ultravioletiris6241 😂😂😂😂😂 The stupid assumptions you make. By contrast, we've got top-notch people running for President! Tremendous interpersonal skills.
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  1037.  @HeyHEY-fg9rp  You really don't know who ruined this country, do you?
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  1038.  @dootdoot94xo44  This is so exceedingly rare, maybe as rare as one child in a billion, and all the children become profoundly socially deficient. These are not Disney stories, and the children are not "raised by," but alongside of, wolves or other animals. It's not heartwarming, it's horrifying. A few escaped slavery or indentured servitude, or a parent who was so alcoholic they failed to care for them. Some never had normal speech. I don't think a single one adjusted to urban society or got married.
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  1039. "Why he speaks me like this" LOLOL too perfect
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  1040. Most women with children under the age of 3 don't want to work. Either they have to work to meet their expenses now, or they are afraid to stop working because no one will rehire them once their youngest starts preschool and they want to return to their careers. And if no one will rehire them . . . How will they pay for their kids' education?
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  1041. Average lifespan was mostly influenced by lower suicidality (self-harm of all sorts, including vodka abuse) and lower maternal mortality rates. America's maternal mortality is higher. I was stunned to read it, and checked it. Twice. Please see for yourself.
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  1042.  @alexmcbride7563  No. His big picture view has been all too accurate. Were it not for COVID, Trump would have won -- and we all know why. Or are wilfully blind. When Dore gave this interview, he was (1) overly optimistic about the midterms; and (2) perfectly willing to concede to Seder that Seder does know more about politics than he does. It's Sam who reflexively dismisses working class voices, or demonizes them. He seems like a nice guy. He should rethink this. So should all the other suburbanite VIRTUE SIGNALERS. This move is not working so well. You needed a pandemic to get rid of Trump. (!!!)
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  1043. How anyone could ever fall into any of this is incomprehensible. I really mean that.
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  1044. "When times are tough, you lose your health care." Who shills for this system? Who are these people? A real journalist should investigate. No one is endorsing the system for free.
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  1045. There is no statute of limitations on murder.
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  1046. Robby: "I don't have an answer to the national security issue . . . " To be fair, Congress probably doesn't, either.
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  1047. We went from "money is also free speech" to "only money is free speech."
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  1048. Nick is outstanding here.
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  1049. Oh please. She obviously has to be much smarter than a lot of people to be here. Smarter than Robbie for sure.
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  1050.  @THEROOTMATTERS  This was pure sarcasm.
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  1051.  @itsallagame7354  Ban those writers, ban those cats. That'll show 'em.
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  1052. "Screw you" to the progressives, or to anyone, is always dangerous. Americans don't like to be made to feel ineffectual, that no matter how hard they work or what they do, it will not count.
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  1053. @El Topo Shame on you.
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  1054. Love hearing this. FINALLY! Acknowledgment that you are entitled to careful, respectful care.
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  1055. @maxroberts7393  What achievements? Maybe you don't know the factual predicate here. (And yes he was from a very rich -- and deeply troubled -- family.) Did you used to say the same about Bill Gates? How did that turn out?
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  1056.  @marshadingle3550  On the contrary, it should go without saying that every degree should lead to a decent job -- one that allows a person to live independently. The rest is up to the individual. A high school diploma should provide that minimum. It's not that I disagree -- of COURSE college is not vocational school, nor should it be. It should be more, not less.
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  1057. The police encounter was on August 12. Brian was back in Florida August 17 -- 23, and on the 23rd he returned to Utah and rejoined Gabby. That is a pretty long cooling-off period. It was also an opportunity for Gabby to confide in someone, and to get away. Who doesn't talk? Everyone tells someone. . . . People want "answers" rather than the right answers.
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  1058. When I see someone as bad as Nomiki, I have to wonder who is behind her. How can someone whose career is in the media not understand the First Amendment? She does not look like she got in legitimately.
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  1059. Try listening. That could still work.
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  1060. No she didn't. What a thing to accuse her, or anyone, of.
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  1061. Did you notice how lazy the prosecutor was? All that was said was boilerplate, with no attempt to prove up the facts of this case. They're used to winning without working for it. 😮
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  1062. Why are so many veterans homeless?
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  1063. OMG, you think ShoeOnHead is funny, too. She was my (very) secret pleasure. Yeah, she can be a hoot.
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  1064. The best were hurt the most.
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  1065. I don't feel sorry, either, but I don't need to feel any way in order to defend choice.
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  1066. Aux Etats-Unis, il faut toujours soupconner qu'il s'agisse d'une nouvelle maniere de gaigner de l'argent sans travailler. L'argent est audessous de tout.
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  1067. Yes, she is outdoing herself tonight!!
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  1068. ​ @andre8860  No one who resists has anything to be ashamed of.
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  1069. Yes, please!!
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  1070. THIS is what's disturbing. We've been lied to so much, and systematically, and by now, everyone must know it. If your friend had actually watched the video or read a complete transcript, and come away feeling uneasy, thinking it could be antisemitic, all on their very own, without hearing someone else say it first, then there is a simple disagreement about interpreting facts we have in common. This, on the other hand, is sinister.
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  1071. And the money was made. Don't forget that part.
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  1072. @Reckless RonThank you for this. Very nicely said. If any doctor could tell me the rate of serious side effects of these vaccines, and how they compare with the serious side effects of vaccines we are familiar with, I'd have no qualms. Even if the side effects could be grave, the simple fact that they are KNOWN and freely shared, would reassure me. I had a very minor operation last fall, and when I was told that rare cases of serious bleeding are possible, and I had to consent to a transfusion if needed, I felt reassured, not worried -- because I knew the doctor would be watching for these rare complications. Anyone watching now? I don't see it happening. Those sickened are shouted down.
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  1073. I can't stand Coulter or that protester. That she's a professor is the icing on the cake; it forces me to dislike her more.
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  1074. @Jerbert-qn4in  No there isn't. Both of my grandfathers were self-made millionaires in a country where that was a remarkable feat. They lost everything in WWII. No one has done well since, no matter how hard they worked, how resourceful they were, or how strong their characters and physical health. Even if there were genes that influence wealth -- and I think that's laughable, unless it be the same ones as those that produce narcissism -- you can't assume they exist in a given case.
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  1075. Did you know the French National Assembly passed a law prohibiting vaccine mandates and passports for minors? It is a start.
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  1076. What "performance bonus?" Pumping up stock prices is "performance?" Fun fact: $10 million a year is over $1,140 per hour --- 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.
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  1077. ​@goofywill90 It wasn't a true threat under the First Amendment, which prevents a lot of unwise political speech from being criminalized. But practically speaking, you are 🎯
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  1078.  @brahmburgers  You think this was a trivial mistake? It was incomprehensible.
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  1079. YouTube is interrupting your excellent presentation too often. I hope you are receiving fair compensation, because otherwise that is REALLY bad.
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  1080. Life in prison was appropriate. Despite her display, I mean.
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  1081. ​ @dandylandpuffplaysminecraf8744 When are you going to face reality?
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  1082. Remember the story that the schools are "so bad" that cancelling school will benefit kids?
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  1083. I am still attempting to determine whether Russian troops have actually crossed the border into Ukraine proper, and taken new positions within Ukrainian territory beyond what they had prior to this week. Discrepancies wherever you look. I invite everyone to look, including the current map on the first page of the NYTimes online edition. Best of luck.
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  1084. Take it at face value: release it all, before anyone from the Trump administration enters the top position in the DOJ.
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  1085. Outstanding presentation, Kim!!
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  1086. So, WIRED is supposed to be the authority?? Not these doctors? I could just die for real. I've really had it.
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  1087. What part of "fascism" is still lost on you?
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  1088. He tagged him as official Russian state media. Whether he said more than that, I don't know.
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  1089. ​ @pugloveu7d Wait. You're kidding. Right?
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  1090. When cha-ching 💰
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  1091.  @nomennudum5270  "shut up, get vaxxed and boosted, and get back to work"
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  1092.  @vee5294  The characters of the deceased men was not an issue in the case. They were not on trial. The lack of police or national guard protection had nothing to do with "defunding."
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  1093. Oh please. How this nonissue between these two women arose is ridiculous. Proof that rich people are as ridiculous as everyone else, in case we didn't know.
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  1094. How is it that no one seems to know? It is illegal -- ILLEGAL -- to use deadly force where there is no imminent threat to the safety of persons. Deadly force in defense of mere property is a crime. It's not a matter of opinion, it's the law. If these kids posed no threat to anyone's physical safety, then it was illegal to use deadly force.
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  1095.  @briancrawford69  The ones who aren't have no voice on geopolitics. I think that's the problem people have, and why they use hyperbole to make the point.
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  1096.  @darkstarmatter5678  Er, you don't know that husbands leave and fail to support their kids? This is a new, shocking development for you??
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  1097. 1 in 5000 are the serious ones. The doctor featured here was great. Watch the Campbell video; total adverse events is much higher, but many are not considered significant.
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  1098. "F u Aaron Mate?" You forget that part?
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  1099. Jewish Voice for Peace filed suit against Columbia last March 11th. Robby could read the court papers if he wanted to. If he focuses on "antics," perhaps that's because he and the rest of the MSM failed to do due diligence. Also, for your information, a significant proportion of demonstrators ARE Jewish. Nor were the Columbia demonstrators blocking anyone's ability to move freely, including the space needed to avoid them completely. That is important.
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  1100. ​ @martinheath5947 I felt like a hunted animal. After BIDEN promised to end the divisiveness. I will never forgive or forget. I am still not the same after that.
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  1101. I feel the most sorry for Europeans who were hurt. As an American, I knew that if I were hurt, it would have been my problem. I would have been jeered at, not helped, much less compensated. That was why I knew not to take the vaccine. 😢
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  1102. Well said! Glorification of the worst because they found a (usually dubious) way to get rich (monopoly, planned obsolescence, etc.) has got to stop.
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  1103.  @peetky8645  The Hill broke its agreement with her. No, they can't censor her speech even after she leaves.
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  1104.  @paulclinton6414  Oh, you again. LOL (Psst: it's not working)
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  1105. The first student brought up a contradiction in Bannon's rhetoric concerning "Judeo-Christian" values, and his response was a little too rambling and defensive. The second student did the same, highlighting actual contradictions in what Bannon is on record as having said. This is classically Socratic. The answer was very interesting, because Bannon's best ideas are NOT the ones that were implemented. Travel bans, sure. Accountability for the economic destruction wrought by Big Money? HA. Trump depends on Deutsche Bank. Bannon also used a slogan word in his answer, "triggered." Not a good sign. The third student gave him an opportunity to comment on the demonstrators, who were the real deplorables in this picture. No problem. Bannon again gave an answer that shows that his best ideas are NOT the ones that are implemented. The student then pointed out that those who have attained political power are publicly distancing themselves from him, and asked him to comment. Again, interesting. Bannon did not mind the question. The fourth student began by taking a stand for freedom of speech, then asked an excellent question about Bannon's view of Trump's and the Republicans' election prospects in 2020. The fifth student first thanked him for staying over, to talk to them. Then she asked a very astute question about about political trust. Bannon appreciated the question, and was enthusiastic about answering, because it gave him a chance to talk about the things he is most passionate about. She made a counterpoint, and he tried to play folksy. He used another trope that she did not, "sorry for mansplaining." The sixth student said that the economic progess was not thanks to Trump, and that Trump did not, in general, solve the problems Bannon correctly highlights. AGAIN, Bannon's best ideas were NOT not not implemented. And Bannon DOES have lots of good ideas. The seventh student asked a very open-ended question on immigration, allowing Bannon to express himself on a matter he is passionate about, and show off some more of his good ideas. Which go nowhere. See a pattern here? So, who was so disappointing? I thought it was illuminating. Bannon is interesting to watch. Nothing ever comes of the good policies he endorses -- especially on taxes! Ha.
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  1106. "Entitled??" I remember when a full year of in-state college tuition was something you could earn with a summer job.
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  1107. ​ @gugy68 I agree. Does everyone know at 18 whether they will want children AND be able to welcome them? People who went through normal puberty are having fertility problems now. What will happen to medicalized kids?
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  1108. Better off than four years ago? Coronavirus DEATHS "acceptable?" Exactly how crazy?
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  1109. If he commits an assault, "what was she wearing?"
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  1110. Mitt makes me sorry there is no anthrax in the mail. JUST KIDDING. Don't come for me. 😂
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  1111. Her free speech point is correct. Imagine thinking that because someone is rich, we have to genuflect to them and treat every twitch they may have as a sign of genius.
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  1112. Yes, thank you.
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  1113. 1. Why is this video public? 2. WHO needed THIS to know that Crowder was awful? Really?? It was always obvious.
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  1114. They don't? Sounds about right.
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  1115. Yes, because the Clintons would do it again.
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  1116.  @esecallum  A doctor has a duty to treat an illiterate properly. A doctor has a duty to treat a person with no computer properly. You don't know this?
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  1117. This $83 million judgment was the New York Times headline the day the ICJ verdict was handed down, and a few days before the BRICS+ began their summit.
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  1118. There were unfounded allegations. What happened was bad enough. I don't understand the need to invent anything. The video of hostages being bloodied and pulled into jeeps was horrifying.
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  1119. The woman begged for compassion for her (rare) vaccine injury. Instead, Graham accused her of anti-vaxx propaganda. Sleep on this, Graham. It will look different in the morning. I hope.
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  1120. ​ @RomanShein1978 But to be clear, I don't disagree. Food quality and quantity, and water and soil pollution could be a larger issue, of course. We have to start at square one and do the research with an open mind.
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  1121. Not only that, but you can buy your own truth. What's the matter? Aren't you successful?
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  1122. What a shame Jeffrey Epstein is no longer here to give us vaccine advice. We could still consult Ghislaine. Between her, Gates, and Epstein, isn't she the only one with a college degree?
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  1123. ​@AoE2Replays I'm occasionally disillusioned by Dore, but I think he almost always believes what he says. His recent interview with Tucker Carlson was funny, with Tucker holding his arms tightly folded across his chest as he was forced to agree with points made by a man who still espouses socialism, based on his own concrete experience as a worker that Tucker knows nothing about (and that even Trump has some hazy notion of, from having known actual construction workers). It was kind-of funny. 😂
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  1124. ​ @MillieandMaxMusic  Well I am an attorney with special expertise in scientific evidence and in ethics. My entirely factual and noncontroversial post to you was just censored. Not that it matters -- you are an obvious troll.
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  1125. All of which is true, actually. There are excellent vaccines. Vaccine is not a magic word that makes every drug attached to it good for everyone.
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  1126. The one question I always had was how a guy without a college degree got this job. Was the brand "Snowden" that strong, or is his father a huge Big Deal? The brand helped, that's clear. There is something we were never told.
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  1127. He got to be on Joe Rogan. Good for him.
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  1128. "Biden is doomed?" Finally some good news.
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  1129.  @matthiatt6834  That's where the money is all right.
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  1130. ​ @tonifitz6831 You have literally no idea what you would do. The people most adamant about what they would do tend to be the least strong.
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  1131. Are you kidding? If she were to be paralyzed, the haters would grin.
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  1132. "Following the science" assumes science is something settled, rather than a set of methods and a means of evaluating the results of structured empirical inquiry.
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  1133. Exactly. If you attempt to critique them, they accuse you of racism, etc.
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  1134. I heard someone call this "Bat Fever." First time I laughed about COVID since this started.
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  1135. All the hippies and all of Hollywood were skeptical of vaccines back during Reagan.
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  1136.  @nokateno  We actually do not know. In a strict sense, other explanations are possible. But it is nevertheless demanded of us that we denounce Russia, as a loyalty oath/litmus test -- or else. This is not good.
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  1137. Without crediting Ritter (I have no reason to think one way or another about his reporting), we do know that MSM is highly incentivized to make us think that the coming winter catastrophe is "worth it," and that "victory is right around the corner." This delays the inevitable economic fallout of the NATO/WEF position on this.
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  1138. Si les ÉU veulent être le banquier du monde, ils ne doivent pas voler de l'argent.
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  1139.  @thejquinn  Brooks went off on him really badly, not just calling him one name. He turned a discussion on policy into a very personal matter. I think an encomium from Jimmy would have been awkward.
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  1140. Overriding consideration: Trump cannot be allowed to get away with what he did. It's that simple.
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  1141. 1. The timing of the emergence of the story, days after Russian troops left, needs to be explained. 2. The satellite images are from three weeks ago. What is the expected degree of decomposition at the temperatures at the time? Was there no precipitation? This is why we have forensics. (Um, you do know three weeks is a long time -- right?) 3. Reuters reported on 4/4 that the Pentagon can neither confirm nor deny that Russian troops were responsible for the atrocity. 4. Russia's request for an immediate UN Security Council meeting was blocked by the UK. 5. China and India have both called for independent investigation. 6. The atrocities with the best evidence so far were committed by Azov Battalion members against Russian POWs. Now, watch Kim's radar.
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  1142. He is clearly being suppressed. Look at the viewer counts by video.
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  1143.  @patriciacampbell6443  Really? One of my closest friends who always votes Republican and who practices marksmanship tried to get me to take the vaccine. Now she is sorry she got vaccinated. She did it for her elderly dad, thinking she was protecting him. If my dad had been alive, it probably would have tipped the balance for me as well. I am far left, by the way. In other countries, the left opposed the mandates. In France the left made it illegal to so much as ask a minor if they were vaccinated, much less to try to force them to take it. After that, no one was asked anymore. Never follow just American health advice. If Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, Germany, France, etc., aren't doing it -- don't do it. Whatever "it" is!
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  1144. I can. It took a while.
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  1145. Some people get off on hate, and she is so good at stoking it then misdirecting it. I.e., away from herself.
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  1146. ​@Gurmansd The Red Army told the truth.
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  1147. There's also a kinky practice that became normalized and needs to stop. Period.
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  1148. ​ @RetroDawn Well, then why did Trump allow it, 2017 through 2020??
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  1149.  @retrogamermama7941  He's the plaintiff. And this isn't a criminal case.
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  1150.  @halodisciple8459  Everyone does.
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  1151.  @track1949  Trump can't do what she just did.
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  1152. Kamala Harris's mentor was a Rev. Jim Jones supporter, too. Funny how that didn't matter, either.
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  1153. @maxdamagus  And why wasn't this confirmed by the governments intent on prosecuting him?
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  1154. Perfect, thank you.
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  1155.  @VinceGwhite  He's . . . not bourgeois?
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  1156. Uvalde police: "Teachers left a door propped open."
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  1157. The very saddest thing to me was the surprise of people who were injured and expected others would care for them. I knew better.
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  1158. @El Topo Joined a month ago, for this?
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  1159. Thirty-two minutes on Cenk is 20 minutes wasted.
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  1160. I doubt that. HIV and Hepatitis C are probably worse.
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  1161. ​@IronskullGM Society is creating more desperate people, not supporting them to the point of default on the national debt. Our financing of a tiny group of billionaires and their pet aggressions and proxy wars are destroying us.
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  1162. Where are the law enforcement, doctors, teachers, social workers, and other professionals to prevent extreme abuse?
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  1163. "Maximum ten people" . . . "I strongly urge" -- magical thinking We may need a lockdown -- which means we have to put emergency UBI in place at the very same time.
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  1164.  @fromeveryting29  We have very few choices, and most people know it.
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  1165.  @W._Langman  I'm talking about the "incel" story, "birthrates," etc., you and another poster made up.
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  1166. She said precisely the opposite.
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  1167. Bertolt Brecht's version of Antigone says exactly that. Chilling to read it, in an adaptation of something written about 2500 years ago.
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  1168.  @audiolego  People were coerced. Don't blame yourself.
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  1169. I feel too sick to my stomach to find it funny.
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  1170.  @dracodraco1982  Do you think that a person suffering from gender dysphoria and going through puberty is exceptionally stable, unlike most teens? If so, they don't need treatment. They're doing great.
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  1171. Watch the last few days of his show. Then you'll know.
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  1172.  @ruebert8089  Prove that no instructor, not even a guest lecturer, can have a romantic relationship with any student of that university, regardless of the age of the people involved. Then prove such a policy not only exists, but should exist. You're talking about invalidating some marriages.
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  1173. NO
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  1174. ​ @jrjr7390  No one should tell you, much less coerce you. They should provide you with solid advice.
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  1175.  @fortusvictus8297  Non sequitur. It was made clear that he was never the instructor of any of the people he dated, and did not pursue romantic relationships with anyone where his status could make them feel pressured or beholden to him. Any of these people could have said "no" without fear of ramifications. They had no idea he was "a big shot." He did not use it as leverage. I don't see a problem with workplace romance. If there is a conflict of interest, one or the other needs to get a new job before they pursue the relationship. So, they are now two people who met at work, rather than online or at a bar. So?
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  1176. Both she and Justice Barrett are proving to be far more principled than any of their detractors predicted!
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  1177. ​ @danielbb8570 Until the dollar is abandoned by more and more countries as sole reserve currency. Then it won't be funny.
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  1178. Erm . . . Are their profit margins tightening? "Affecting" is rather vague.
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  1179.  @ab8588  So weird. Three generations of my family lived part of their lives in Argentina, I'm trilingual but my fourth language (Spanish) is very poor. My father took lessons when he was around 50, to improve (his was not good, either, to be honest). Spanish is awesome, the verbs are like Latin, practically -- why don't these people take the time to learn it? Good for the brain.
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  1180. I guess this tells us who the FBI will try to entrap next . . .
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  1181. I will never forgive them for their Michael Ratner obituary. Nowhere near what it should have said. But when you add in this one, tells you everything. Shame.
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  1182. No, squishing something valuable that could go to a poor kid is grotesque.
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  1183. Looks like facial recognition software for eyes only just doesn't cut it. Back to Plan A.
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  1184. My mother always said that.
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  1185. A lot of Jewish people are speaking out, and have been, long before October 7. I love Amy Goodman for refusing to silence them, like Netanyahu and his allies do.
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  1186.  @carnmarth334  Not in my state, except as a write-in.
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  1187. ​ @theresamc4578 He is not a genius.
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  1188. It's just like middle school. Six kids jump you, you get suspended.
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  1189. In 2021, when I had concerns about the safety of the vaccines, instead of having those concerns addressed, I was made to feel like a hunted animal, and the lock downs destroyed us economically. We were hard targets during every catastrophe of the last 40 years, and during every family tragedy. We will never fully recover from this blow. We'll be lucky if we can stay afloat. Full retirement is out.
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  1190. Slight signs of slight damage to slightly important organs, like the heart and the brain. Good thing we have two of each, huh?
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  1191. When I was in high school and questioned the latest US bombing, I was told that I was lucky. The Chinese can't question their latest bombing. Except there wasn't any, but you get the point.
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  1192.  @nedludd7622  Got censored, in case you're curious. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 The OP was also correct that the vaccine makers have exceptional shields from lawsuits, coupled with no meaningful compensation for injury, in contrast to the special fund available for ALL the childhood vaccines (which actually produce long-lasting immunity).
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  1193. Or trash talking about it. Or asserting that "if by chance it happens," no one will be punished. Something like that. Not evidence it was done. But I'm waiting for someone to call it compassionate gender reassignment.
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  1194. I just raised some non-rhetorical, entirely sincere questions about Japan and India, open to any answers or discussion, or refutation of facts mentioned. I got censored immediately.
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  1195. Do you have any really close family members? A sister, brother, aunt, uncle, first cousin, if not parents? GO STAY WITH THEM FOR THREE WEEKS. Then you can rethink all of this.
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  1196. If a terrorist is brought into an emergency room, HE will be treated.
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  1197.  @patricklim4314  What a shame that when someone makes a nice, reflective comment, someone really crazed come along and posts this. Happens a lot.
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  1198. Exactly
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  1199. ​ @Teanson There's no evidence of that.
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  1200. I get the same impression.
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  1201. George, you were the only political leader to predict a landslide.
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  1202. Two of them put kids in cages, two of them murdered innocent people with drone strikes, etc. But loved the video, Jimmy.
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  1203. Trying to hide something or trying to make us think they are trying to hide something.
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  1204. We already HAVE pervasive and ubiquitous mass surveillance. So, what happened? Don't tell me we need more laws and more surveillance. Someone may need to surveil the surveillers.
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  1205. You imagine the French themselves don't demonstrate? Where have you been?
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  1206. Anyone starting lawsuits? Sounds like only that might free you.
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  1207.  @robmoore8393  Did you notice where, in the Q & A, she said she was opposed to criminalizing all treatments for the youth? That is because she does acknowledge that transgender people exist, and that they feel that something is fundamentally wrong from their very earliest memories. She explained how it is never something that just pops up during puberty, nor is it something that is common, especially among biological girls. In fact, it is very rare, and almost always affects boys when it does happen. The Frontline documentary on the subject was fascinating. Not one transgender child was ever in harmony with their biological sex. Some even looked to be the opposite sex as toddlers, and people spontaneously thought they were. Dysphoria is a key symptom, but something else is definitely going on. Having this disorder suddenly become "trendy" is deeply sinister, and harms actual trans youth, without a doubt.
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  1208. Insightful! They are so right to strike!
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  1209. ​ @cybersecuritydeclassified4793  6:42 Get it? The "just started" part?
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  1210. I agree.
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  1211. But lots of imagination.
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  1212. COVID ruined me also. I can never retire. Twenty years ago, I was literally secure. My income then would cover a modest but perfectly fine life now. I can hardly believe it.
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  1213. A question for those who released this man: do you imagine you did him any favors?
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  1214. Her "power" is illusory. This kind of power pops like a soap bubble.
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  1215. ​ @jessicajensen1976 So they will vote for President Poop the Pants? Good. The faster American hegemony falls apart, the fewer people globally will die.
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  1216. For fun and profit.
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  1217. As long as it makes money, they will. Same for everything -- adulterated food, poor education, unproven pharmaceuticals, perfidious social media, devices that provoke behavioral addiction, fraudulent foundations and NGOs, unjustified wars. Everything.
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  1218. ​ @thelastestsportnews Precisely what Professor Gordon is suggesting. I think the hypothesis that Israel knew is strong. It is not yet proved, no, but . . . Well.
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  1219.  @sunmarsh  The tattoos part has me wondering. And no one can have money for emergencies on $15k per year. You know you can count on help. Which is fine by me, but let's be real.
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  1220. My education changed how I think completely. I was a product of inner city public schools, K through 12, where the majority were children of immigrants. There was no comparison pre-advanced mathematics and logic in college, and post. I was a different person, post. My advanced degrees did even more for me.
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  1221. When it's in response to a cancer diagnosis, RUN.
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  1222. Not only that, but were it actually true, it would be useful to provide the information. Not everyone knows the subtleties of this stuff. People make an innocent mistake sometimes --- if not this guy, perhaps others. This reporter gives no indication she cares one whit about informing anyone or improving anything. I am sick to death of these people.
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  1223. Never waste a good crisis!
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  1224. The Gates Foundation makes more money overall on its grants than it spends on those grants. Its grants are structured that way.
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  1225. Original footage should be given to all journalists. If one group lies about it, the other can demonstrate that they did. Government isn't supposed to show preference.
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  1226. You are truly lost.
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  1227.  @victorgl9709  Exactly, he deserved more for profound pain and suffering for a quarter of a century, knowing all the while his wife was murdered the day after his birthday, their was child alone, and he was railroaded. My point is that it is paltry as "unemployment compensation." It doesn't even make up for the money, much less everything else. Peanuts!
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  1228. Everyone knows there are two sets of laws, one for rich, one for poor. But no one knew it was this bad.
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  1229. Not what the Court held in the American case, coming from the baker in Colorado, however. The US Supreme Court sidestepped the core issue, because the baker was deprived of his constitutional due process rights before the state commission that ruled against him. They never gave him a fair chance to make his case. That basically meant that Colorado could not sanction him, given that he never got a fair opportunity to be heard on his First Amendment claim (oh the irony).
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  1230. Kendi sounds like a grifter who doesn't care if he drives people to support the ACB nomination, as long as his own checkbook is fattened. Controversy = Attention, for him.
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  1231. "In fact, she did some of her mean tweets about me." Every lying infomercial starts with a testimonial exactly like this, Cenk.
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  1232. For people who understand French, see Benjamin Bayard. He says that European laws and American laws concerning personal privacy and data ownership are in direct conflict and irreconcilable. See, for example, Bayard on Thinkerview. Staggering.
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  1233. I remember when I was in grammar school, the girls just several years older than I was sought out rock bands, to be groupies. THIS is what the billionaires and royals are emulating, and consider themselves entitled to. They want to be rock stars. Yeah, it is that stupid.
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  1234. Musk's Five Accomplishments: 1. Blew up another rocket, better than a fireworks show. 2. Appeared on Joe Rogan. 3. Appeared at President Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress. 4. Cleaned up the wall of receipts proclaiming DOGE savings, to make sure it's accurate. 5. Fired and rehired the appropriate federal agency staff to get their attention and make them more efficient.
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  1235.  @panama2468  Is Jimmy on the federal payroll? Is he collecting campaign contributions on false pretenses?
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  1236. Correct. They don't have to pay for that.
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  1237. Yes. Thrilled to see this segment posted today. Two of the best journalists in the business today, and two of the best EVER.
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  1238.  @beansdestroyer  I'm a leftist. I don't think the material world bends to our delusions, or to our most heart-felt wishes. I don't know what was worse, the mandates or this.
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  1239. The one credibly accused sex trafficker had close ties in both political parties, and Trump appointee Acosta was forced to resign because of his role in granting him a sweetheart deal on earlier trafficking charges.
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  1240. A bilingual English-Portuguese speaker will learn French several times faster than anyone else. Spanish or Italian bilinguals almost as fast as Portuguese ones. It's a sight to behold. You usually can't do that with Germanic languages or Slavic ones. Most of them are too different from each other. (Ingmar Bergman struggled with German and hated it.)
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  1241. Terrible, terrible news. I am so sorry. I cannot begin to say how sorry. A truly great man. There will never be another like him. He had everything, real heart and real mind. So sorry for his family. A huge, huge blow.
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  1242. Angie Speaks is so perceptive. This turned out to be a great segment because of her.
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  1243. Off-label compassionate use was an established norm of medical ethics.
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  1244. Pakman likes Biden. That settles it, can't vote for Biden. 😅
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  1245. All of this comes across as a dress rehearsal.
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  1246. I was reading an account by Erich Fromm concerning what forces were in play that could lead to another world war. He wrote in 1962 or so, and he understood the basic outlines of what we are seeing now. It was quite shocking.
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  1247. I feel sorry for religious people.
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  1248.  @mjkittredge  No, your standard of living in the major cities is terrible.
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  1249.  @peterstafford4426  Whoever he is, this original post is precisely on point.
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  1250.  @gdiwolverinemale2745  I didn't say it was a linear relationship, and it is obvious that it couldn't be. But nice try. I thought everyone knew about things like marginal value, diminishing returns, etc., which characterize economics. You know, optimization problems; Economics 101. Re: "national balance sheets" We've had about 40 years of reducing taxes on capital, which has then purchased government bonds and become the government's creditor -- instead of paying taxes, they collect interest on the national debt. In the meantime, industry, farming, and fishing are gutted while the service sector grows. Laws which prohibited banks backed by the government from taking certain risks in highly volatile securities markets have been repealed. Gee. What could go wrong? Oh, I don't know. It should be a blast to find out. In the meantime, go after seniors. BTW, do you have any familiarity with France? When people get their pension, which secures their basic needs, come what may, they don't usually retire. They very often open their own shop. Sometimes they even paint, or write. Did you ever wonder why you have to say "bonjour madame, bonjour monsieur" when you walk into a boutique? It's not owned by some conglomerate, it's that older person's joint.
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  1251. Conflict of interest -- no, it is NOT okay. Report her to the bar for that. I don't believe she has an excuse. She should have no involvement in this going forward.
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  1252. I was just sense or . . . Well, can't say that word, either. My post supported the First Amendment rights Shapiro seeks to deny to others. No bad words.
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  1253.  @thedevilsadvocate5210  Yes, that is horrifying.
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  1254. Think about this! Columbia still feels like a police state --- the university where Edward Said was a professor, where Michael Ratner graduated first in his law school class . . . WHAT has happened to us? How could we accept this?
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  1255. Marianne Williamson is clearly the best candidate? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  1256. TRUTH. He works hard. Often deeply resented. But "Holocaust denier???" His parents' families all perished in the Holocaust. The charge could not be more perverse and obscene.
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  1257.  @jaymike987  Where do you get your information?
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  1258. Looks more and more like RFK Jr is being deliberately undermined. Corbyn was destroyed on this issue in UK, and not only Corbyn, but all the Labour Party dissidents from the neolib, WEF party line. They tried it on Melechon as well, and had less traction, but may have had enough to keep him out of the second round in the French presidential election, thus resulting in a Macron-Le Pen rematch, to great disappointment. SOUND FAMILIAR?
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  1259. ​ @billsmith9737 ??? oh brother You're an ad for baby daddy.
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  1260. She made solid points. She rejects these sentences, like every rational, well-informed person.
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  1261. We don't have what we have because we "worked" for it. We took it.
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  1262. Haaretz has been criticizing AIPAC for years. Many of their columnists consider AIPAC to be interferring in Israeli elections. This is vital to note. It's key to understanding who AIPAC is.
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  1263. ​ @tethergobrrr She disagreed with his opining on the matter, as though it is a slippery slope from Maher's expressing his opinion to prohibiting treatments for everyone else. It isn't. It just really isn't. It's another perspective on the issue. He attacked no one. If and when he does, fine. Push back then. But he did not, at all. :/
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  1264. Does anyone care about Cenk anymore? Does anyone listen to him?
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  1265.  @Bierdaddy1  Robby suggested reasonable sentences. What's with extremist thinking 24/7/365?
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  1266. Outstanding segment, thank you.
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  1267.  @cejannuzi  That would cost less. Omit the fuss and bother.
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  1268. Let's see if I understand: corporations have transferred production of most pharmaceuticals to India and China, to benefit from lower labor costs. Now, when India needs COVID vaccines, we are going to assert patent rights. Gates is smart, huh?
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  1269. And they are acting like there is no pandemic.
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  1270. ​ @Selvarin No. The daughter is a separate individual. Her medical information should not be divulged. This is real simple.
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  1271. They are all crazy, and feeding each other's craziness. This isn't amusing anymore.
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  1272.  @NathanSimonGottemer  I know it's ridiculous, but plagiarism is something you cannot leave on your record. I understand why people just let it go. DON'T. You'd be surprised what two little pieces of paper can do -- a short letter, and affidavit where you swear you did not use AI or cheat in any way -- stated in legalese. Boom. The sorry episode, OVER.
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  1273. Jimmy and Max, the unbeatable one-two punch. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Max!! 💖🌹
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  1274. It is for kids too young to get married.
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  1275. Pushing back on Trump now raises the unfortunate issue of HUNTER. Duh. The Democrats and the country needed a stronger President.
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  1276. Congratulations, Katie, on the exposé! Also, when you wear it, the hat is much improved.
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  1277. What is shocking is when 80%+ of what TUCKER CARLSON (!) has said about the crisis is more accurate and sensible than the NYTimes. Who would have believed it? I have no words.
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  1278. Do nose jobs cause fertility issues? Ever?
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  1279.  @marciabradley7660  Purveyors of positivity are hiding extreme viciousness. Who could possibly believe pediatric cancer is a result of "attracting negativity?" Or some sort of personal failure? (Did the mother fail? Did the father?) Were the people who died on 9/11 all on a negative trip? And our troops who died in Afghanistan and Iraq? If only they had read The Secret, they'd all still be around, attracting abundance.
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  1280.  @johnstrawb3521  Stupid? The POINT is that the storyline keeps changing. The reason why mandates are "essential" and persuasion "can't work" keeps changing. When the facts are so fluid, is coercion justified? Is closing off all discussion and debate justified? In a democratic society where people have a right to bodily autonomy and medical privacy, and a right to decline treatment, that is impossible. The jeering mob has you duped, possibly? They succeeded again in making their style of coercion seem cool? Dore just proved to you that Biden and Pelosi lied to get elected.
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  1281. Hitchens' final statement was tremendous.
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  1282.  @kevinmcfarlane2752  Then there is no standard. It's like calling trash talking a true threat to individual physical safety.
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  1283.  @janeclarkson8471  I'm so sorry. ;/
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  1284. Another concern: isn't what Tolle described as an epiphany at times a possible symptom of impending psychotic break?
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  1285. Beautiful.
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  1286. Anyone who can be duped into voting for Biden or Trump AGAIN, well . . . I have no words. This has become absurd. I know people with better qualifications and personal qualities to become president. We all do.
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  1287. YOU are the only person I've ever heard of in the English-speaking world who knows Pierre Hadot . . . Thought of him not that long ago.
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  1288. ​@timogul False. It's exactly the opposite. The drugs are not generally indicated, because in most cases the risk significantly outweighs any expected benefit. But if the Court doesn't strike down the statute, then no one can have it, regardless of individual need. The point of the question was that the brief provided incorrect information to the Supreme Court. Way to go . . . .
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  1289. So, AOC doesn't think there is a pandemic? Is that it? While she was running, BEFORE THE PANDEMIC, AOC said that M4A was essential and a human right.
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  1290. I know. It is sick.
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  1291. ​ @andrewdutton-nx3dh  In the US, there was no mandate on elected officials.
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  1292. But are they fully vaccinated? We demand to see their vaccine passports.
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  1293.  @africkinamerican  Maybe you don't know that for the last 30 years, Business has been the most common university degree? Next are the various medical specialties, with Nursing on top. If you think Gender Studies is something that more than 1 to 3% of degrees, or that those people don't follow up their degree with an MSW, MLS, MPA, MEd, or go on to Law, then you . . . don't know.
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  1294. I want that doctor! 🤣🤣🤣
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  1295. The First Amendment isn't just another talking point, is it? She should know the law by heart, in her sleep, at every hour of the day and night . . . Private colleges should either embrace free speech or be forthright about embracing speech codes, and enforce them equally for everyone.
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  1296. ​@MorteWulfe There is no such thing as the trap of the bell curve. Bell curve logic describes actual data. The data come first. Either they show this pattern or they don't, and in any case deviate more or less from this pattern.
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  1297.  Johnny G  I know. Imagine being a grocery store bagger or a nurse's aide during COVID, instead of doubling your money on Amazon stock. Stoopid. /s
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  1298. There is something about Sam Seder that I like. He has got to rethink this. See what Katie Halper and Briahna Joy Gray have to say. Krystal's editorial the other day. Kyle Kulinski.
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  1299. Sabrina, great segment!! Small observation: my neighborhood had a large office supply store that included a full-service copy and print store with furniture and office machines as well as electronics. It closed. Half the space was rented to a medical facility that buys plasma. This sh!t is real.
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  1300.  @carsythe  I doubt that most adults who are severely dysphoric can make a sound decision. Are you willing to allow a child to sue later, for being treated before age 18? Or are you determined to shield doctors from all liability, no matter what the circumstances? Do we have a good model of what permanent gender dysphoria is? I don't want to see these treatments made criminal, for the sake of the one person in two or three million who truly needs the care as early as possible. But the doctors are not regulating themselves. We know that. Whatever happened to holistic medicine??
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  1301. 😂😂😂
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  1302. I feel for us. They run our show, too.
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  1303. Why does Brie think that a journalist should follow up and find out what the person this story is about actually believes? Hm, maybe because that's what journalists are supposed to do. Brie never said the journalist was obliged to believe the child. She was obliged not to pretend that the child had not expressed a viewpoint. If a story were about you, should the journalist contact you and ask you your view on it? Even a criminal would get this courtesy.
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  1304. Very happy for you and your family.
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  1305. How are so many people missing the point? It's simple. Let's say you get a minimum wage job. Great! No problem: you work X hours, you must be paid for X hours, under the Fair Labor Standards Act. You are protected by law. You WILL get what you deserve for sure, based on your work. But you have higher aspirations. You work very, very hard, and become truly outstanding at what you do. But does that mean you'll be admitted to school, or that you'll get the job? No. There are 100 applicants like you, for fewer than ten seats, and at least 20 or 30 of these applicants are as outstanding as you are, and possibly a little more. No one is suggesting hard work is not essential. It is all the more essential. But it is "no guarantee." That was the point. More than that: a society where larger and larger numbers of deserving people get less and less is not going to work out, yo.
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  1306. Do it!!
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  1307. Look how the Maxwell trial is causing no ripples. No one cares about any of it, from the looks of it.
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  1308.  @matthews7069  I'm the most concerned about the requests from the FBI, frankly.
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  1309. And they don't see any reason to hide it.
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  1310. Don't worry, you can.
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  1311. A master class
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  1312. @Aquafyre  According to the Watson Institute, it is still the US military.
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  1313. Yeah, and the Christopher Steele dossier!!! Oh. Wait. 😂😂😂😂😂
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  1314.  @nedludd7622 Another fact: the manufacturer's description of what these vaccines do -- which everyone who is vaccinated receives prior to signing the consent form -- do not state the benefits that MSM has been pushing. The manufacturer's fact sheets don't promise immunity. They promise some reduction in the risk of infection and transmission, and excellent reduction in the risk of serious illness or death, for at least six months. That's it. They're not blatantly lying. Why is everyone else in the political class lying? When they are supposed to be auditing VAERS, among other things, such as making tests and treatments available?
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  1315. You give Biden too much credit.
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  1316.  @chriskennedy2846  I don't think this is mixed messaging at all. I respect every clinician who acknowledges the evolving evidence, given that the virus and the vaccines are so new, as well as the simple fact that not every person on earth is eligible for vaccination, or willing to take it even if they probably ought to. It is still up to the individual. Everyone should start from that premise. Societies with less coercion and more civility are now administering more vaccinations. No surprise to me.
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  1317. ​@stuartwray6175 The struggle with autocorrect is never over. You cannot win every battle.
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  1318. In all seriousness, where did this come from? Why is it here?
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  1319.  @pn3940  Then why lie about him? The truth is bad enough.
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  1320. The more this gentleman talks about the BILL OF RIGHTS, the more I like him and the more hopeful I am.
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  1321.  @DaleSandusky  I would have never believed any of this were possible. It is so demoralizing.
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  1322. Smeared him already with a MeToo story.
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  1323. I know Leslie Wexner was the largest donor by far of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Look up his relationship to a certain Jeff. Wexner pulled his commitment after the Claudine Gay fiasco. I wonder if y t will allow you to see this. 🤔 If you do see it, please let me know.
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  1324. And lives only get worse.
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  1325. CLASSIC And, who does that remind you of? 😂
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  1326. A friend or delivery person texts or calls. Always. I can't think of an exception in this century. You're not being too cautious in refusing to open the door.
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  1327. Jimmy, there are a LOT of reasons why you have a show!! You and Stef.
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  1328. I'm surprised that a law prof framed the issue this way. She spoke of the tendency of IDF veterans to commit violent acts -- this is imputing a propensity to crime based on some characteristic. The point is that these people committed an aggravated assault and must be prosecuted. Stick to the evidence at hand. Their identity is irrelevant.
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  1329.  @MJMilano7  DNC primaries are effectively and openly rigged because of the system of superdelegates. They are not attempting to hide it. If "rigged" connotes something hidden to your mind, then we can call them advisory primaries. Democratic they are NOT. No one pretends they are.
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  1330. Listen to the end. After Emily took the discussion into a productive direction, he made the point that even if this document were a plant, it doesn't affect what we do know. Fauci did redefine gain of function research by narrowing the concept to get around the moratorium.
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  1331.  @anonymousdontbotheraboutit2895  Read a few cases. They apply qualified immunity where EVERY IDIOT knows the actions taken are unequivocally wrong. But "the police can't be expected to know."
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  1332.  @voidstellar5770  Precisely
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  1333. You beat me to it.
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  1334.  @jaybleu6169  How long do you think $700 lasts, even assuming you have shelter? Do you know what the cost of basics is in Hawaii??
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  1335. Then explain 1980 to 2020.
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  1336. That's so yesterday.
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  1337. I think he's on a roll, working harder on all of these issues.
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  1338. Hunter must still have paintings to sell . . . 😂
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  1339.  @marylynnkingry8353  Who said not? This wasn't a criticism. If it upset Tulsi, who is always composed (her military discipline is obvious), you know it was bad.
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  1340. Thank you for that excellent, thoughtful observation.
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  1341. They don't call it FIRE for nothing: Finance, Insurance, and . . . Real Estate. 😮
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  1342. Netanyahu will do exactly as he pleases. Any questions?
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  1343. "This" means what? If you accuse a person of lying, the burden is on you.
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  1344.  @Cree_Money  I would agree, EXCEPT he has a chronic condition that took years (and a bankruptcy) to diagnose and treat, and his doctor urged him to get vaccinated. He was never for the mandates. True, after he was injured and ostracized for daring to say so, he did a complete about-face, and then the more he read, the more sorry he was he took that advice. So it took time. I almost got vaccinated. Had I had a living parent, I probably would have. That would have tipped the balance for me. OTOH, I suspect my late mother would have told me to wait. She was very wise.
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  1345.  @RHsapperdaddy1993  You might get a response after the midterms?
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  1346. He's mentally off. It's not plain as day?
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  1347. ​ @paaklapi  I don't see that. Go back to October and see.
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  1348. Have I ever hated Biden more? 🤔
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  1349. Of course they did this to you. Did you consult an attorney? The manufacturers are immune, but the abuse from health care providers is actionable.
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  1350. Full indemnity + full patent protection + little or no funding for compensating the injured = cannot be honest . . . CANNOT
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  1351.  @chadwickerman  To be fair, there are many countries where that does not factor in at all. But it is wildly unrealistic here.
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  1352. 50,000 years ago humans knew what a woman was.
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  1353. Love how you said that.
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  1354.  @benny360  The first sentence of the description of this video says "opening remarks." So . . . this lady risked her life for her country, and you can't read a sentence before you criticize her. (She just mentioned something public scrutiny . . . hm.) Here's a question: why should anyone lift a finger for you, much less be willing to give their life to protect you? Help me with this. Wait. On second thought, don't.
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  1355. Remember, jealousy sounds too simplistic, and self-serving, but it is almost always the entire explanation. They are looking to take you out as competition. It's all operating on a lower level than you can imagine. I used to tell myself, "Why do I let girls do this to me? I like boys." 😂
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  1356. Megyn is very smart. She used to have to work very hard for six figures. Now, she displays her looks and runs her mouth and makes multiple millions.
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  1357. Against the least qualified president in history by far, Biden needed a pandemic to win.
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  1358. At this point, it is unethical to fail to report side effects. Doctors are supposed to, and patients can do so and should.
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  1359. Exactly
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  1360. It's shocking how in southern Europe, grandmas came out to demonstrate for abortion. BUT abortion in many countries is permitted (and partially paid for by universal health insurance) only for embryos, so 8 to 10 weeks or so, not 14. After that, a doctors' panel has to approve a reason.
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  1361. Who didn't see this coming?
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  1362. Exactement. Parfait.
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  1363. "Neocon cuckoo clocks" -- no one ever said it better
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  1364. ​ @rpena0899 What are "typically feminine characteristics?" Does preferring combat boots and short hair make you less of a woman than if you wear a pink tutu and feather boa? What nonsense is this?
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  1365. No, she said she would call Kamala Harris whatever she wants. That was the uncool thing. Mispronunciation is no big deal. Mace is probably life-long monolingual.
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  1366.  @kyle-ri5mz  Probably is.
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  1367.  @Rubylove48  Thanks for mentioning that!
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  1368. "I was in a newsroom once." Um, how is this obviously TYT? No one thought that. No one thought they operated a newsroom. Not in their Howard Stern imitation days, not today.
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  1369.  @esecallum  Sounds like this person is a French-speaker who had trouble at least in part for that reason. Non-English-speakers are discriminated against in Canada. Did that occur to you, maybe?
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  1370.  @Samperor  You think affirmative action is worse than reserving half the seats for people whose parents attended the school and give money to it, and applying a far less stringent standard on admitting them? At least affirmative action attempts to account for objectively harsher circumstances, not reward privileged ones.
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  1371. Or they'll stay home, or vote third party. Do you expect DNC control of Congress in two years? Really?
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  1372. What disturbs me the most is the report that satellite images "proved" intact bodies first observed on the ground in early April were there since March 19. Try telling the cult that this is literally impossible. No one mentioned decomposition. No one thought to raise a question. One more biological fact in the dustbin.
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  1373. ​@jackgrove4621 Well that's a cheerful thought. Maybe a neurologically and psychologically normal person should be president? Okay I can dream.
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  1374. Kanye is a genius. It makes me sad that people treat him as though he weren't intelligent. I don't agree with him, either. That's not the point.
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  1375. Thank you again for this, Katie.
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  1376. TRUMP would do whatever his best and most recent flatterer asked him to do. That wasn't obvious in Trump's drone wars? Trump was the single most narcissistic and fundamentally LAZY person to be president. He lifted the ban on US funding of gain of function research at Fauci's behest. (Then they played good cop, bad cop.)
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  1377. It certainly seems to be, but probable cause is not the same thing as guilt beyond reasonable doubt. That's why all evidence has to be tested in court.
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  1378. ​ @tonifitz6831  What LAW did she violate? Spell it out. Not moral code, but law.
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  1379.  @tonifitz6831  No you don't. You have no idea what you would do if your adult son came to you and hinted that he had killed his girlfriend. You imagine you know. This is too extreme for anyone to know. Did she think she was "protecting" him? Maybe.
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  1380. @steveharmon3293  I agree with you 99%. What disturbed me here is that the teacher accused a minor child still in middle school of displaying a racist symbol. I consider that a very serious accusation that one should take great care in making -- against an adult, much less a child. She wasn't careful. Not cool.
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  1381. She got her position the old-fashioned way: she really was excellent at a few relatively arcane areas of law, and then . . . She married a Harvard Law professor.
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  1382. Batya perfectly on point, and seeing all the principles that were crushed and are still being crushed.
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  1383. 😅
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  1384. Thank you for this.
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  1385. You can tell Ana is a feminist by the swipe she took at Jimmy's wife, insinuating Jimmy wanted her to dress better. 3:33 He just wanted to get her a nice pair of jeans as a gift. Guys like him don't know much about fashion.
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  1386. His own power.
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  1387. I know. If this isn't an "it," then I don't know what is.
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  1388. WHY did everyone just believe it? WHY?
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  1389. 💯
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  1390. Always a tell! Thanks.
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  1391. The strategy of shifting risk on those least able to bear it is always their move. They do it for everything: health, housing, education, mortgages, pensions, disability, and disasters. It's always the problem of the individual. The political animals themselves are always set and make money for shifting the risk.
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  1392.  BORG  I hope so.
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  1393.  @kiralevenson1706  I know. Religion is one of the biggest cover stories put to use for manipulating others. Most normal people are taken by surprise, because even those who are not particularly religious feel that it is sinister to use religion to dupe others and manipulate them. Most people would never dream of doing such a thing, and don't expect that others would, either. That's why it works so well. Just like crime, it is furthered by the element of surprise.
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  1394. ​ @acbower4468 You mean between the extremes of nothing and frenzied genocide + nuclear exchange? It seems like a whole array of possibilities exists.
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  1395. 💯
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  1396.  @billsmith9737  Sadly, between the pandemic, the terrible response to it, the inflation, and these stories, plural, from more than one state --- yes, after a point, they will affect the willingness to take the plunge. Why was the Texas mother denied? Or the ten year old girl? These were not elective cases, they had a medical need.
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  1397. Except that everything she said was true.
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  1398. Where are the adults who don't misuse social media? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Just kidding.
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  1399. Brilliant.
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  1400. ​ @FreefallSC He's not familiar with journalism. Probably born after 9/11.
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  1401. They Are Corrupt
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  1402. NO ONE in the White House has ever pursued a single policy that benefitted me in my whole adult life. Not one time. No.
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  1403. Why doesn't a spiritual or religious pregnant mother not have a religious exemption if she believes she has a sacred duty to the child she's carrying not to take ANYTHING into her body that could possibly harm the child?
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  1404. Is he wrong? That Netanyahu isn't wrong is what is wrong.
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  1405. @TheSaltySiren  Other reports say his story changed 13 times, and in one version, he said he did it. It's evident that the drive to punish the mother is based on the fact that she was a poor mother. There is no credible evidence that she committed the crime.
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  1406.  Celtic Pride  Shows what you know about India! Read Arundhati Roy on that issue.
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  1407. If Glenn Greenwald and Max Blumenthal are "left," if Nadine Strossen is "left," if Yanis Varoufakis is "left," then yes. (But that is a BIG qualification these days, innit?) Political branding in the US is bizarre.
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  1408. The irony of TRUMP appointees bringing an end to Roe v. Wade.
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  1409. ​​@HarrySmith-hr2iv Why don't you go and participate? Edit: I wonder why my substantive post is ____ but this silly riposte is still up. That always happens.
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  1410. There are enough stories like this that a full-scale study is warranted. Same goes for excess cardiovascular events in vaccinated people under 50 after mRNA vaccines but not in others, including those who had COVID. There is too much data to ignore. They have to study it systematically. Responsible doctors and researchers are calling for it.
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  1411. Not only that, but the Red Army was not all Russian by any means. Some of its heroes were Jewish.
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  1412. Well, when you leave school with a debt several times as large as the down-payment for a modest house, and the billionaires comb social media to decide whether you can work, I kinda believe it.
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  1413. ​​ @IronskullGM Every last one does better than we do. Or, does less badly, if you prefer. I won't take a drug the Scandinavians consider unsafe. I don't look to our public health. They've not proven themselves.
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  1414.  @mellie4174  She also might have been involved, but to press the story that she herself did it seems to be incoherent. If they cannot figure out the nature of her possible involvement, and prove it to a jury, our system is supposed to let her go. It's not supposed to try to get her to plead, after denying her a fair trial already. (BTW, getting a defendant to plead is often done to prevent a civil rights suit for damages.)
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  1415. And she is a nurse? That's worse than dumb.
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  1416. Do you care about mass shootings that can't be politicized in some way that strokes you? You don't. No one does. If Columbine didn't prove it, Sandy Hook did. And Uvalde reminded you all. Just give me a break with your grievances. "Brie said, Brie said" matters more to you than the people who died.
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  1417. AND it will eliminate any attempt to let others know that that was done, and that free discussion was interrupted.
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  1418. Don't doubt it, there are a lot of people around who would welcome a repeat of Kent State. So glad George asked!! ❤ love him 10:25
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  1419. Let's be honest: the university presidents did a terrible job. This is evident from the explanations given by these two distinguished scholars. The factual premises of Stefanik's questions were not challenged, the presidents showed no real interest in the concerns of Jewish students, and were lukewarm in their defense of the First Amendment when they should have been passionate. Political speech during times of controversy and war must be zealously protected. Amy Goodman shined here. Thank you, Amy.
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  1420.  @RobinHood-pf2bf  Oh stop. This is horrendous.
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  1421. Your taxes go toward paying the interest on Treasury bonds.
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  1422.  @bunjier4041  Um, no. Just no.
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  1423. The moment Dr. West said "empire" with reference to the US, I knew his tenure was in trouble.
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  1424. Because the US media tells you what to believe, and you comply.
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  1425.  @JohnSpartan-117  Are you joking? Without a union, a teacher could get fired for giving a bad grade to a rich kid. What makes you think that anyone who has the task of evaluating anyone else isn't at risk: of being fired, of being defamed, of being threatened, of being let go because the security measures are too expensive? Of losing the profession they worked to achieve? Seriously, where have you been? Every inherently dangerous job needs a union. Sad that it's so.
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  1426. THIS Captain America
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  1427. But that' the threat. You put it perfectly.
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  1428. It's not an excuse, it shows just how monstrous this evil blow-up clown really is. This election was a no-brainer. Trump was too much of a sociopath to do the simplest thing. Too lazy, too.
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  1429. Excellent.
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  1430. No, HE is. SHE is correct on the First Amendment and ambiguous speech. HE is correct, however, on fundraising.
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  1431. When you read who gave Glenn the ultimatum, and made clear TI would violate its contract with him, it was their worst journalist: Peter Maass. Reminds me of Mary McCarthy, The Groves of Academe. Being the worst isn't an impediment, it is the single most important job qualification.
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  1432. AMEN. I felt like a hunted animal, and will never have the means to retire.
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  1433. Once a cause and manner of death is established, we'll have a basis for speculating.
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  1434. Did you ever think we would be witnessing full-blown war psychosis, and tons of people would be praising it as normal and innovative? And others would know no different?
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  1435. The year after my elderly father died is now a blur. The summer after he died, I told myself that I could do no wrong. Please know that. Keep walking, and napping. Try walking 2 to 5 minutes longer each week. Do that as long as it feels right.
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  1436. I remember Trump executing a top Iranian general by drone, and then making a statement that showed he had no idea who this guy was. Someone (Jared?) put a paper in front of him, flattered him, and Trump signed it. Trump did the same thing when he got behind Fauci and lifted the GoF moratorium.
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  1437. Sad that we need a tort lawyer to head these agencies --- and we do.
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  1438. Bravo for the learned rabbi.
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  1439. 💯
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  1440. It detracts from his own good points, too, such as they are.
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  1441.  @fortusvictus8297  If you have to lie blatantly about what I said, you must have no response.
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  1442. No, Jessica was good here. That's why you're mad.
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  1443.  @cliodyncycwatch924  Have you thought perhaps that what needs to happen is an immediate cease-fire and serious negotiations, rather than a proxy war? Or should I say, the severe escalation of a proxy war that started in 2014.
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  1444. It's not censorship. Professional organizations do have standards.
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  1445. Is this one of those riddle-me thingies? Drives me crazy!!
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  1446. Didn't surprise me. Saw through him.
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  1447. Whatever you do, don't try reading. Remember the pandemic: "Don't do your own research."
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  1448. Cool! Please tell us more!! Recommend some books! 😊
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  1449.  @MarkMphonoman  Do you feel sorry for the vaccinated people who are hospitalized?
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  1450.  @kellyfowler6426  Did you actually believe most unvaccinated people are nuts? Has the media convinced you of that?
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  1451.  @nedludd7622  Ron said the same thing. If you think the vaccines are right for you, absolutely get them. It has nothing to do with herd immunity. It has nothing to do with anyone else's decision. Yup, calling him a covidiot is clearly false flag.
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  1452.  @nedludd7622 People should definitely take medical treatments they know nothing about. Which means signing important consent forms they don't understand. More false flag rhetoric. Are you Hillary Clinton's speech writer? Did you coin the phrase deplorables?
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  1453. ​ @Tanouuuu Most are "ethnic" French, too.
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  1454. Talking the talk and then doing absolutely nothing about it is more demoralizing than not saying anything at all. AOC is MORE demoralizing right now than any Republican.
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  1455. I didn't think this existed since the Vietnam War ended. 😢
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  1456.  @low_vibration  You are naive. The dollar will end its hegemony as global reserve currency sooner than you may think.
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  1457. Je deviens de plus en plus soupçonneuse . . . Provocateurs? Je ne sais plus.
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  1458. ​@SenegalStyleLansarAuto Oh he did? Seems he released a few.
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  1459. The Japanese should decline to have anything to do with that accessory after the fact.
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  1460. Exactly. Now he will have no responsibility. The government will be paralyzed.
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  1461.  @charleneblack2792  Maybe you're not the person to tell her to accept responsibility? Or at least not now. Maybe at 21, her present attitude is still due to her childhood. At 21, nearly 2/3 of her life was childhood, and another 1/5 was adolescence. That's still a big chunk of the total.
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  1462. THANK YOU WHAT happened to the Precautionary Principle?
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  1463. LOVE that phrase. Perfect.
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  1464.  @benny360  The first sentence of the description of this video says "opening remarks." So . . . this lady risked her life for her country, and you can't read a sentence before you criticize her. (She just mentioned something public scrutiny . . . hm.) Here's a question: why should anyone lift a finger for you, much less be willing to give their life to protect you? Help me with this.
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  1465. ​​ @ledaswan5990 Does someone need to study virology to understand the emails that were made public? Does someone need to study virology to make basic decisions about their medical care --- such as, whether to take a vaccine or treatment, and who to pick as their doctor or their children's doctor? Does someone need to study virology to understand English modal verbs? Does someone need to study virology to participate in public policy debates, like the federal funding of gain-of-function research, which Obama paused by executive order? Please tell us. We need to know.
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  1466.  @katiavramova7629  You are confusing two entirely separate and different cases. Please take greater care in commenting about a homicide.
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  1467. This is a good point. It's also why people like Jimmy in spite of his flaws.
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  1468. The cops did the job they were hired to do: they protected the insurance companies.
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  1469. Ana's evolving views are not a "sudden shift" in the first place. That alone is false. (Maybe the homeless guy who assaulted her is a Trumper? 😂😂😂😂 . . . Just kidding, honest.) Nomiki was vile here.
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  1470.  @rdpatterson2682  Exactly. She'll be fine by 16.
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  1471. Now is a good time to watch Stephen F Cohen again at the 92nd Street Y in New York from a couple of years ago. He was prescient. Remarkable scholar.
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  1472. These corporations are countries now.
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  1473.  @jaybleu6169  I didn't know there was anywhere in the 48 states where $700 covers a month of food and gas, even for ONE person -- especially if you have no kitchen, but even if you do. Will the necessary aid be forthcoming within a month for everyone?
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  1474. "Influence actors?" "Narratives?" "Misinformation?" These are serious matters. Please drop the slogans. Please review Orwell, Politics and the English Language.
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  1475. ​@briandingle665 I thought "advice" was something the patient or his guardian could consider, and accept or reject. That was what "advice" used to mean.
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  1476.  @LordMephilis  The gun charged was dropped because it was confusing. The rule of lenity, like the rule of presumption of innocence, should apply to any unclear law. That is fair. The people (adults) who gave him the gun are being charged anyway. We'll see what happens to them.
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  1477.  @jackdispennett744  I don't understand why people don't know this. It is a perfect statement of a VERY clear legal principle.
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  1478. Interesting how MeToo switches on and off on a whim.
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  1479. She is wonderful, for real.
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  1480. One word: Debt Two more: for necessities This is how they get away with all of it.
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  1481. As long as the oligarchy was buying Hunter's paintings, there was no issue. 😂
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  1482. Daryl Davis is right about so many things: first of all, the First Amendment is not just a law limiting government, it rests on deep cultural values. Gut those values, see the rights disappear.
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  1483. It's a ruse. It is posturing and careerism. People will say whatever they are rewarded to say. It is really, really simple. The most racist people will accuse others of racism in a heartbeat if it allows them to leapfrog ahead in their careers.
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  1484. Well, if it were a criminal trial of Jones, definitely not guilty by reason of insanity.
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  1485.  @toffanful  Also, the NYTimes assert the bodies were there for three weeks. What is the rate of decomposition at those temperatures? Was the area otherwise abandoned?
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  1486. We are the only major country without Universal Healthcare, and the one with the most COVID deaths. The whole world is watching.
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  1487.  @Dan-xo9ly  How could people be manipulated into taking this? The first time a serious or grave side effect was minimized should have caused everyone to pause and demand answers. Even if it were to turn out to be very unusual, we've just seen how WE will be treated if we get injured. Not to mention how good the record-keeping truly is. That tells you everything.
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  1488.  @brian8507  "what if humans do not yet understand what a 'sum' is?" Mathematics isn't mystification, only available to initiates. Its arguments are universally true, and ultimately accessible to all who accept its axioms and rules of inference. Plato already noticed this. (The demonstration given here uses the operation of "supersum," an extension of ordinary summation. As for ordinary summation, very young children have a basic understanding.)
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  1489. Kennedy was a maniac for sports. Kind of quirky, but fine. Do people not know about the Kennedys?
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  1490. Amy Goodman has provided the very finest coverage of this war. It is humbling to hear from these brave people. Thank you so much, Amy.
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  1491. Great point. She laughs at Gaddafi's murder.
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  1492. If they would all stop getting richly rewarded, that alone would be progress.
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  1493. ​@letsomethingshine That minors should be allowed to have treatments that will likely sterilize them for life is not "science." It is a policy choice. And it makes money for someone. Choice means the choice to be a birth parent someday. Some people decide to do that in their 30s and 40s, and had no idea they would want to when they were only 16. I am for protecting choice, "even" for kids with gender dysphoria and fluid gender presentation.
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  1494. Yup!
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  1495. I knew Blair was vile. I knew he was shameless. I didn't think he was in the throes of malignant megalomania.
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  1496. The speed with which it did is what is really staggering.
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  1497.  @f58534  Whenever he wanted to avoid an issue, he smirked, curled his lips in that special funny way, and said, "conspiracy theory." When you can't censor, discredit.
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  1498. Hmm. Who is Koch-funded in this picture? Not Brie.
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  1499.  @sontos539  Well, drinking is up since COVID. Marijuana is available everywhere, too, what a coincidence.
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  1500. He's a newscaster, not a journalist.
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  1501. Do you support this form of censorship of those who don't share your views?
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  1502. ​ @shyaammohan8975 The one that got away.
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  1503. Well, if he's rich, he gets to buy his own truth. Isn't that how it works? /s
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  1504. "Hey, science and innovation is a great thing." "You know. Big things you wanna do that are big." "Robert Kennedy Jr. was advising him that vaccines were causing bad things." "I told him that was a bad thing, don't do that." These are quotes from Bill Gates. Sounds like he has what Brandon has.
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  1505.  @notlucas6859  There is nothing irrational about being reluctant to take ANY medicine that is not FDA approved, especially if you are under 50, in good health, and have no underlying conditions. And ESPECIALLY when we have all been manipulated during this whole episode. I generally like vaccines. Prevnar 13 was approved several years ago for everyone, not just 60 and older. Did you get it? As for me, I've decided to see what Europeans will do as far as approval. I'm done with this.
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  1506. Congressman Griffith was outstanding. Why do we need to go to a UK website to hear about it?
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  1507. On June 15, Reuters reported that China's holdings of U.S. Treasuries had skid to 12-year low. Japan had been picking up the slack but now it also cut its holdings. How about that? Of course interest rates must go up.
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  1508. How are you doing now? I believe you will recover. I truly mean it. I'm sheepish about giving you any advice, because it is obvious that at this point, you are doing serious research on what to do and are taking care of yourself, but when I was caring for my late father, I was so pleased to find out that systematic studies of dietary interventions were being done, and that the results were astounding. An anti-inflammatory diet is remarkably powerful. I know it isn't easy to follow to a T, but I know you can do it. My dad did, and he survived something that had less than a 30% survival rate.
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  1509. Compare Uvalde.
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  1510. He was talking about policies hostile to Russian Federation and hostile to nuclear detente. He also said Biden is a lifelong hawk and proponent of proxy wars, and that his nominees are horrible.
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  1511. Those who don't know, read The Torture Machine, by Fred Hampton's lawyer Flint Taylor.
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  1512. ​ @TobbeVijlto  Sophie Scholl was even fewer people. But in any case, you are wrong about the numbers here.
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  1513. "The Democratic bench not only seems short, it seems nonexistent."
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  1514.  @reven-docta79  The left? Please. How many faculty have been fired or denied tenure for supporting the Palestinian cause? That is routine, and has been for a generation. How did Chris Hedges lose his job? He was heckled at a right-wing campus for his principled opposition to the war in Iraq, and the NYTimes took the side of the hecklers. Phil Donohue was similarly silenced. For at least 30 years, the most common college major by far is Business. Without the math and accounting needed to pass the CPA, or to have a chance at passing the first part of the CFA exam, that degree is mostly ideological talking points. College campuses have been primarily vocational for a long time, which in this society is synonymous with anti-intellectual. Don't let the countercultural cosplay currently in vogue fool you.
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  1515. I'd want a lot more.
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  1516. Very true
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  1517.  @terirea7743  I don't deny that, but most people at least vaguely know they exist. The US is not great at giving anyone a voice apart from its own designated "elites."
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  1518. Animal lovers are the most special people of all. Melts my heart!
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  1519. THANK YOU BRIE for mentioning Uvalde, and for citing the case of the mother. 🙏
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  1520.  @Themata  you made me choke on my tea 🤣🤣🤣
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  1521. Carlson is shouting down Nye and accusing Nye of shouting people down.
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  1522. They did a terrible job. Let's face it.
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  1523. Nanoparticle anything should raise questions. Good grief.
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  1524. Tasteless
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  1525. Most lucid analysis of Orange Caligula I've heard in a long time. Zero mystification, zero hysteria of course.
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  1526. But Trump.
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  1527. ​@Coonbooga He doesn't say he did, he said if he had . . . , then he would . . . . SHEESH
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  1528. They are the wealthy and powerful.
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  1529. Send Trump some money and a greeting card with your hopes. 😊
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  1530. Alexander Cockburn wrote for The American Conservative, whenever he was sure his anti-war position could be furthered by joining forces with them. Because war is that much of a horror and it must be stopped.
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  1531.  @layinlow77  We have to laugh not to cry! 😂😂😂
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  1532. ​@phoenixgamer1565 I consider a mandate to keep your job extreme coercion. Psychological coercion by itself, no matter how severe, is not "force," I agree. But having to keep your job to pay for food and shelter, literally, is.
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  1533. ​@SamtheIrishexan Your instinct about misinformation is 💯. As far as his being a "nice guy" --- he was specifically trained to create that impression. His eyes look too dead to me.
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  1534. I knew it was a club, but this is ridiculous.
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  1535. She likes money. A LOT lot.
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  1536. @Millie and Max Music  You sound like you have a doctorate.I didn't know Bullsh*tology was a thing. You do, however, have the freedom to say it's so. Odd, though, that the stupidest drive-by taunts are never removed, but solid information is censored all the time. It makes it appear as though people are far less intelligent than they are. I wonder why social media wants us to think that?
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  1537. LOL, perfect. Thank you.
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  1538. No change means things don't get worse. Fat chance.
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  1539. 3:58 THANK YOU, ROBBY The role of the CDC should be to give guidance, strongly urge certain practices, and GIVE REASONS for their recommendations. Then allow people to choose.
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  1540. 7:03 Why we love Dr. Campbell.
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  1541. @Lee_303  That's a more realistic view. I admit it. There was a brief moment right after 9/11 that was shamefully squandered, faster than anyone could imagine.
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  1542. A husband and father cannot be forced to donate a pint of blood to save his pregnant wife's life. We all agree it is monstrous to refuse, no argument. The state STILL cannot force him. That is because the Fourteenth Amendment protects bodily integrity and autonomy. This is implicit in the concept of liberty. Or, it used to be. I think you should be careful what you wish for.
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  1543. In the meantime, the focus is off of Bankman-Fried. Funny how that works.
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  1544. @You are correct But You'd know the person needs extensive therapy.
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  1545. The US Embassy in Ukraine states on its website that the biolabs were funded by the US Department of Defense. Not NIH. (Interesting, huh?) Not sure about the claimed Hunter connection.
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  1546.  @chodysseus420  Because right now we have no evidence that the two surviving roommates had any involvement at all, and the facts in the affidavit are facts D. M. voluntarily gave to police to assist them. Why is it so hard to suspend judgment? I don't believe in blaming anyone, OR normalizing the failure to call 911. We don't know what happened this time, and every individual deserves the benefit of the doubt.
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  1547.  @Suteruni  He is rich. Hence the state board looks the other way.
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  1548. At this point, great guys like you are giving attention to The Guardian that they could never get on their own any more. 😉
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  1549.  @Brian--0311  When did American troops finally land?
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  1550. At a time when we REALLY needed a laugh . . . brilliant! This is how I hoped technology would be used.
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  1551. Robby, one of those "burned body" photos turned out to be computer generated.
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  1552. A true threat is not and has never been First Amendment-protected "free speech." Don't confuse matters. The protesters supporting the Palestinian children -- that is free speech. Unfortunately, that speech is resulting in negative consequences for the protesters.
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  1553.  @MrIkesimba  He was making an analogy to something we are all familiar with. He should have been clearer. But it was not a lie. Also, we know that anyone not pushing the consensus narrative will be denounced, right or wrong. When Russell Brand is making more sense than most people do, simply by calling for calm, unfettered discussion, you know we are in a real bad way.
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  1554.  @peterg76yt  No, he had the requisite ruthlessness. The first time Paul Allen had lymphoma, Bill Gates used the occasion to try to squeeze him out of Microsoft. A real public health advocate, that one.
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  1555. Well, yeah. They figure these kids learned nothing in college.
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  1556.  @martincerny3294  They should have said virus RNA. Clearly and unequivocally.
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  1557. Don't imagine his ethnicity has nothing to do with it. The elephant in the room.
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  1558. When I watch that January 6th clip, I have to wonder to what degree oxycontin played a role.
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  1559. Love Dr. Campbell. What a noble person!
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  1560. The number of people Elizabeth confessed to and did nothing tells you everything.
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  1561. Lord, 4k per month qualifies a single person in Chicago for certain benefits. I didn't think I would live to see when a salary of $50k would not be considered solidly middle class. People with degrees expect $80k to start. Insane. (And what's it like in New York?)
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  1562. ​ @subo88 No, she made a very solid point. It took her too long to structure the argument, which is not unusual for her.
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  1563. Glenn, you look GREAT. Did you finally take a well-deserved vacation? Hope so!!
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  1564. The vaccine mandates made me feel like a hunted animal. I was counting on 2020 and 2021 being good years, and I lost a chunk of my net worth and nearly all of my income. This was the fifth major blow to our family in the new century. I cannot take any more. I'm blessed to have family in Europe, and I'll be joining them.
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  1565.  @TheBakingGirlShow  I said no such thing. You claimed you didn't bring up "guilt" and "shame" to ME, which you certainly did. I don't care if you do or don't delete, do or don't edit, do or don't misrepresent. The opinions you have expressed are of no consequence to anyone at this point. If they hurt anyone's feelings earlier, they sure don't have any effect now!
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  1566.  @TheBakingGirlShow  Fast thinker, fast writer. Standing up to bullies is a family tradition. My father was a virtuoso at it.
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  1567.  @socktier6334  This story about the pregnant woman was proved to be a fake. Floyd did five years in a Texas prison. If you were capable of thinking for yourself, you would realize that Texas is MUCH tougher than that on people who do what George Floyd supposedly did, according to that bogus rumor. The defense you are parroting might have made some sense if you had seen Chauvin jump up the moment he noticed Floyd was motionless and check his vitals. Do you see that happen? Ha. Quite the contrary. And where did you get the idea you are allowed to kill a dying person? Can you put a pillow over grandma in extremis?
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  1568. This blew my mind: the closest (well, least distant) living descendant of the T Rex is . . . the chicken! Actually, the wild fowl from which all chickens were bred. They are native to southeast Asia, and look like colorful chickens. Crazy, lol.
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  1569. Chris Rock says something intelligent. Of course he's being denounced. I mean, it's not like he didn't anticipate that reaction.
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  1570.  @jamesmorrow1646  Haven't you pulled this stunt before, goading people into providing links when you know links are shadowed (because they are hard to monitor for TOS violations), then using the missing links (pun) to "prove" the evidence must not exist. Do you think the vaccines are sufficiently safe to mandate, given their degree of effectiveness? That's the question.
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  1571. You're thinking of the English-speaking peoples. And imagining everyone is like you, or wants to be.
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  1572. ​ sixmillionisimpossible When will you wake up? Nearly a quarter of the century is over.
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  1573. Immunity? What happened to responsibility? They will suffer anxiety or depression if we deprive them of "agency."
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  1574. Hope so
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  1575. That was 🤮 (and I hate that emoji)
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  1576. ​@historyeraserbutton1662 Are you kidding? You've heard of Jazz Jennings? Just because you have morals and your friends have morals . . . well, . . . assume it ends there, until you see proof to the contrary.
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  1577. Nicely done. Informative, with literary flair.
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  1578. I just don't understand. I thought Musk was so busy.
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  1579. The Intercept is reporting on it, so it's not a threat to his income. Plus, it's coming out. That simple.
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  1580. Believe 900 women? I guess not.
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  1581. Agree about a multipolar world. Jeffrey Epstein and Hunter Biden are the poster boys for what late-stage finance capitalism American-style has wrought, and the millions rendered homeless in this century could populate a large country.
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  1582. It's as if they were trying to see how much we will swallow.
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  1583. Matt wasn't alone in pointing out that CARES was a massive wealth transfer upward. The only thing I agreed with is that people need to be able to explain what that Act did and how. Matt is right about that, and he's right that it means having knowledge of finance. That was the one clearly true thing Matt said, and he did not sound persuasive when he said it. Yeesh.
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  1584. That's confidential medical information. I might wonder why you were telling me sensitive personal information about a minor child that should not be shared with strangers.
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  1585. ​ @InMyBrz False. If they didn't ask, and she offered, she demonstrated a lack of appreciation for keeping sensitive information confidential. EVERY job requires confidentiality to some degree.
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  1586.  @Combaticus  I wrote a post showing the algebra and reasoning, and why this is a signal demanding further study. The post was removed. Now mathematics is censored.
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  1587. @BoiseLou It's simple. All bullying should be banned. You don't have to discuss private parts to do that. Nor do you need to offer a course in abnormal psychology. A boy comes to school in a dress? So what? Your options are to be friendly, gracious, or to leave him alone. That checks all the boxes.
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  1588.  @noahhaon2147  Are you nuts or something?
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  1589. Martyr has a similar meaning in other languages as well. Some use "victim" and "martyr" interchangeably. It's one word.
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  1590.  @Rokaize  A licensed, insured driver has a right to drive. If the officers are not morons, they can figure out what you are doing by pulling over in the first available well-lit location. Granted, officers are often morons, and goons. Point taken.
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  1591.  @Rokaize  I am an attorney. We will see how this civil rights case turns out. Only a court can revoke your driver's license. A police officer cannot. Any license can be revoked. A badge can also be removed from a police officer -- he can be fired. A police board may need to be consulted, but a court need not be involved. It is ordinary for drivers to proceed to a well-lit area to pull over. Police are impersonated more often than you are obviously aware, and police should know citizens have a right to protect themselves against such a crime. If you are an officer, I suggest you inquire about added training or community college classes.
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  1592. Why? Because they are deeply, deeply sick.
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  1593. If the Twin Towers collapsed due to the aircraft hitting them, which is so extraordinary that lay people have no basis for negating (or evaluating) the claim in any way, Building 7 is a different matter.
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  1594. This is nothing. Just wait until we see the side effects of puberty blockers.
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  1595. This is so terrible.
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  1596. ​ @WeAreTheDraiken Oh is that all?
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  1597. ​ @MarkVA71 Great news!!
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  1598.  @emhu2594  That could still take time. But that it is looking worse and worse -- yes.
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  1599. "Why don't they overthrow the people who have the power to use them as human shields? They must LIKE being human shields."
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  1600. Fang is good for sure.
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  1601. ​ @yesenia3816 Timestamp? If you're going to accuse her of the worst, prove it.
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  1602. She's laughing at people who have a conscience.
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  1603. ​ @slee2819  Look, they're all terrible. Face the truth. Don't be scared.
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  1604. People put Siri, or whatever that spy device is called, in their homes. They give them as gifts. The news is out that someone is indeed listening. Nothing happens.
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  1605.  @1848revolt  Also correct. Adam Smith would be heaven compared to this.
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  1606. Omg, my two favorites. What a perfect start to the weekend.
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  1607. Nancy Pelosi presided over a loss of House seats. Who is surprised?
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  1608. This only plays to Trump's base. It turns off independents. Is that a good idea?
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  1609. ​ @cassiescornerreviews6884  If the side effects are SO rare, should be easy to compensate the injured fully, huh?
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  1610. Yeah, because this became public.
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  1611.  @pookiewookie7679  She has reported this story very well.
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  1612. People fail to appreciate how often infidelity leads to someone's death.
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  1613. 2:54 " . . . where are people finding all of these Nazis?" 😂😂😂 Perfect, Shermichael.
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  1614. Well, the Internet turned out vastly worse than anyone ever feared.
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  1615. Even Justice Jackson agreed; see her concurring opinion. It's great, from every political perspective, and Glenn Greenwald mentioned it when it came out.
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  1616. I have been, too, in private conversation with only one other person, not in front of anyone. I was verbally attacked and shouted down immediately. I never knew people were this disordered. Has me more worried than COVID at the moment.
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  1617. Love Ben. One of the best.
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  1618. Seeing insanity play out in front of me has lost all its charm.
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  1619. I envy you. This was not surprising, to me. I really mean it. I envy you.
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  1620.  @cryptocoin5318  Oh really? You mean CDC, NIH, and Lord Fauci haven't been fulfilling that role admirably? Or do you mean Gates was instrumental in ending the Obama moratorium on funding gain of function research? The first time Paul Allen had lymphoma, Bill Gates used the occasion to try to squeeze him out of Microsoft. Of course that makes Gates qualified to decide health policy. Social Darwinian health policy.
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  1621. ​ @lawfirmandshoerepair Sure, if he is first given a chance to face his accusers and defend himself.
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  1622. More to the point, does anyone support Harris?
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  1623. ​ @Dashr44  Well, there is more to the story, but jumping to THAT conclusion really makes 0 sense.
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  1624.  @praharmitra  There are no "infinite sums," actually.
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  1625.  @MrVarhansen  If you are concerned that her conduct could harm your career or interfere with other friendships in a serious way, have a lawyer write her a letter. When people realize that there is a real world out there, separate from their obsessions, and that their behavior could cost them serious money, they stop. She is counting on other people not being involved and her story being just as believable as yours, or moreso. She thinks she has free rein, and that you have to be cautious. That's why she does this.
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  1626. @drummerk6756  The paper did not violate ANY law by taking an anonymous tip, then checking public records to attempt to verify it, and then not even publishing it. The police violated federal law because they seized items that cannot be seized absent subpoena. Look it up.
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  1627. Egyptian pharaohs were from the Upper Nile or, more often, Lower Nile at different times in their history. One group looks more like modern Egyptians, the other, more like Sudanese. As for the rest of the ethnic stuff, it's a bunch of silliness. The fake images that involve real people and create obscenity IS serious.
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  1628. We know to expect this. 😢 When you go to bed tonight, please be grateful you are in Britain. Think of that, right before you go to sleep.
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  1629. Maybe they do get it : he exposed their game. 😁
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  1630. First of all, abortion was not widely criminalized in 1776. Second, the Fourteenth Amendment was passed AFTER the Civil War. Third, a husband and father cannot be forced to donate a pint of blood to save his pregnant wife's life. We all agree it is monstrous to refuse, no argument. The state STILL cannot force him. That is because the Fourteenth Amendment protects bodily integrity and autonomy. This is implicit in the concept of liberty. Or, used to be. I have an idea: end school massacres and sex trafficking of 14-year-olds. Try that first. See if you can. One court reconsidering abortion, another trying Ghislaine Maxwell. Awkward.
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  1631.  @lolazal1  Yes, exactly. I don't know what to do anymore.
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  1632.  @gertrudewest4535  Tuition and fees at a state university used to be so low that a full-time summer job paid enough to save up and pay for an entire year. Kids worked and saved up, and studied harder, and managed money better, and had pride. Gee. What happened?
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  1633.  @stevenkelby2169  Forcibly vaccinated with a non-FDA approved vaccine? Wow. What happened to cause you to think like this? It's not even legal.
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  1634. ​ @webysoe9652 President Mummy
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  1635. The lawsuit against the university is what Brie supports. I do as well.
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  1636.  @jonathanarcher6060  Not by himself, no. He was thrown under the bus right along with Julian Assange.
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  1637. ​@cropcircle5693 It's not a true threat, but names of Supreme Court cases . . . Um, guess? Just take a WILD guess . . .
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  1638.  @50-50_Grind  Oh, that's funny. One would think the Democrats would have proposed a viable candidate not once but twice, and certainly after 2016. One would think they would have gotten serious.
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  1639. As you can see, Americans have truly lost their minds.
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  1640. This video will KILL them. BJG is awesome^^3
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  1641. Why didn't Trump fire him? Trump went along with him on lifting the moratorium on gain of function research funding.
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  1642. TELL HIM about all the countries that DO NOT vaccinate babies. Look up the websites of the Ministries of Health of places with excellent child health. We are talking Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland. Yes, it takes some doing, but my GOD this is important!
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  1643.  @ericpratt9509  Except that she DIDN'T. It is nonsense to claim that by suggesting progressives consider voting for a progressive candidate, she "essentially" told them to vote for Trump. By that logic, absolutely any Democrat would be fine, regardless of record or positions, and no one dare make any demands -- no one dare raise a question. Funny. That's just what we've got. Trump was the biggest gift of Joe Biden's life.
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  1644.  @Name-jw4sj  OH. They should stop having her on, eh? Even now that Biden has won? Tell me, why does Briahna need to be deplatformed now? What imperative is served? To make sure Democracy Now! moves further toward the DNC and identitarian woke-washing?
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  1645. @GaloSigma395  I don't remember -- I was living at home, and had no chores or errands to do, I could just put in entire days. I love math but am not at all gifted in it. This somehow clicked. It was great.
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  1646.  @low_vibration  Blocked you, four-day-old account.
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  1647. ​ @exodus_from_babylon Everything rude, unethical, or unwise isn't a crime, bro. Nor should it be.
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  1648. How could Assange be a traitor? Extraterritoriality, obviously.
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  1649. Let me see if I understand. They had "plenty" for a legitimate warrant, but instead they lied to obtain a warrant fraudulently. Well now I feel all better. /s
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  1650. The POPE?? A conspiracy theorist? 🤣🤣🤣 No one could make this up.
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  1651.  @michaelwaninger3155  You've seen his contract?
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  1652. Going cold this winter will be "worth it." Where is Madeline Albright now that we need her style?
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  1653. You haven't noticed they seem to be on a killing spree? This is supposed to be a last resort, to protect life and limb.
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  1654. They are welcome to wear gargantuan prostheses, too, I am sure. They should, at the next school board meeting.
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  1655. IOW, she isn't. She's being lucid, as you will find that many Israelis are as well, to an impressive degree given the circumstances. We just don't hear about it.
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  1656. Why does Chomsky think we want to go outside and run into people like him? ALSO, let's GO Brandon.
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  1657. I can relate to these sorts or reversals. I've had a cascade of "impossible" events happen, one after another, many times. Please listen to this advice: First, take the long view. Whatever career you may embark upon before age 40 you will be doing for three decades. So, you have got plenty of time. A lot of people do not really know what they want to do early on, and may not be ready to make a real commitment before age 30. So let go of the past, it matters far, far less than you may think. In fact, being older when you graduate could be an advantage. Just ignore the people who got lucky and went straight through. They are not common in any case, they do not matter -- and they are not you. Now with that out of the way: Take care of your health. Good food, sleep, exercise -- no shortcuts. You have to. Remember, here, too, being a little older is advantageous. It will make it easier for you to focus and follow through. People are often still a little fragile in early adulthood and don't hit their stride or their prime before their late twenties, or even later. Third, every major urban area has some pubic university that is essentially open enrollment, and offers night classes. Find the best teachers at that university and study with them -- remember, the teacher is even more important than the subject. Find the right teachers and get the most you can out of it. Don't worry too much about your major right now, or getting a degree -- focus on rebuilding, and being excellent in your work. AND did I mention, studying with the right teachers? Once you do these things, you'll be in a position to come up with new ideas. You'll see. What happened to you is really unfortunate, and it has disrupted your life, but it does NOT have to determine your future. A lot of people have disrupted lives at the moment. Sometimes disruption is the prelude to new opportunities. This is a good time to take a pause. Your health is your foundation. Put your focus there. Having some art in your life is also important. What was your favorite thing to do when you were a child? This is an important question to return to from time to time. One other thing: if you have bad grades on any college transcripts, consider petitioning to have them removed. State your case, make sure they know what happened, and stress that your goal is a true fresh start. Ask someone who is good at this, find out exactly where to address your request and how to write it up, and get it taken care of.
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  1658. She said that civil disobedience involves being willing to be arrested --- that is clear. But it shouldn't involve this level of force.
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  1659. Face consequences, for faking? My goodness, it pays well. "Money is truth."
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  1660.  @TheAlyconaria  So, the fact that someone may be wrong in their assessment of risk means that they "need" someone else to force highly personal, intimate decisions on them? Only if you could PROVE that one person's decision to forego an immunotherapy vaccine would present a grave danger to others in the community would you have any basis to usurp their decision making autonomy over their own bodies. There is no such proof. There never was. To insinuate that it exists is a lie. The OP didn't say his experience was capable of being generalized. But when personal experience deviates so greatly from the statistics provided by certain governments, it is rational to ask questions. It is not rational to draw conclusions. But it is rational to seek out more information. According to Worldometer, COVID has a very low case fatality rate in Japan. Who knows why? (Who knows if the numbers are accurate?) If that is true, then the OP's personal experience is hardly a surprise. In any case, when US mainstream media invades the hospital rooms of dying COVID patients with their cameras, that is mere anecdote as well. It is also profoundly indecent.
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  1661. ​ @kingade2931 He actually went down there to investigate, exactly as he does when he brings a case to court.
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  1662. TWICE
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  1663. Or Clinton taking the Lolita Express, though not for one of his global conferences on the rights of women and girls.
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  1664.  @norman_5623  If your doctor has told you demonstrably false things, one of which cost you over $5000 dollars, and you are unable to change doctors, perhaps you might have a suggestion? People need reliable information, and then they must be allowed to make their own health care decisions. How this became mass hysteria I still don't understand.
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  1665. Everything makes sense now.
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  1666. Are Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube censors experts?
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  1667.  @johnsonpatrick80  Shame on you.
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  1668.  @RedClaw8605  You mean should they be deported? I thought that was obvious. Is the Pope Catholic, etc? First serve time, then out you go.
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  1669. How far do you want this to fall??
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  1670.  Jeff Hook  This is not true. Morever, Emma ws a MINOR. Under the law she is a child, not a woman. Seek counseling.
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  1671.  @beruthlessfordemocracy3203  Well, if TRUMP ever used the word "rigged," that does it. Off limits forever -- or else. /s
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  1672. If there is no hashtag, how is it relevant? /s
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  1673.  @benwyse  Kim's face speaks volumes. :)
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  1674. ​@jameshurst6119 No police report, no report to an attorney (who is an officer of the court), no sworn affidavit, no testimony under oath in a court or other tribunal --- an anonymous report to mainstream media, and a movie with shadowed actors. This is still insufficient for an arrest. In any event, what jobs should be open to actual felons, once they have served their sentences? Should they work again? Which jobs? What's open, what's closed?
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  1675. Il n'en est pas question. Vous avez raison. Ce que je tire de ce témoinage, c'est qu'il faut absolument protéger les enfants. Je trouve ce qu'il dit choquant quand même.
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  1676. Despicable.
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  1677. There is one thing to try if this happens to you: practice being unattractive. Think about it. You can put on an act of not being desirable. There are ways. Make it seem like you aren't special. Claim you once had cancer and can't have children. Claim you are torn between liking men and women. Use your imagination. STOP feeling you need to be sincere. Pretend that "now I'm telling you the truth." Then lie. The point is to make him think he dropped you of his own volition. Make him think it was his idea to break up.
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  1678.  @sstargaze333  Puberty blockers can't be far behind. Sorry, that was rude. But I am beyond furious.
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  1679.  @aaronc4899  At first I read correct decisions as correct delusions, lol.
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  1680. Pause for a moment and look at the expanding BRICS+. Now ask yourself why Westerners cannot get along most of the time with the global south? During the recent summit, Lavrov made an ironic observation about "diversity, equity, and inclusion" as he was introducing the new members. I didn't think the BRICS would expand before peace was concluded between Russia and Ukraine, and I'm not thrilled, to put it mildly. But what does that tell you???
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  1681.  @kaym.2854  Their lack of compassion for the elderly and infirm is complete. They would treat a cocker spaniel better.
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  1682. Brie is 💯 here. That's why you have to hurry up and make a bunch of posts against her, so that people won't listen.
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  1683.  @papaal7014  If you're so cynical, why aren't you rich?
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  1684. He has been a creature of government his entire life, and does not know the law.
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  1685.  @Urban_Paradise  I don't disagree with everything you say. Having to say things in code speaks volumes right there.
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  1686. Did you pay for the second? Not paying would have cheered you up.
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  1687. Amen. The more this gentleman talks about the BILL OF RIGHTS, the more I like him, and the more hopeful I am.
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  1688. @James Herndon Please don't buy into the "college produces SJWs" nonsense. The most common major in the US is Business, and has been for decades and decades. More people major in Financial Engineering than in various "Gender Studies"-type fields, which is a rare degree -- and probably leads to some decent jobs in advertising or fashion merchandising.
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  1689. Yeah it's bad, but let's not be demoralized.
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  1690.  @robmoore8393  I never said that biological sex does not correlate with gender. Of course it make no sense whatsoever to pretend that biological sex isn't binary, then to engage in very risky treatments to change one's body to conform more closely to the morphology of the opposite sex. What are transitioners transitioning to? The incoherence of claiming sex isn't real and isn't binary is obvious. I'll tell you something else: most of this is a grift. Follow the money. It is mind-boggling how much money is changing hands over this issue, and ending up in pro and con pockets. Something is very wrong with this picture on many, many levels. Something that once affected a tiny fraction of a percent of people is suddenly proliferating. I know that is not possible, absent some really bad environmental or psycho-socio-political change. It is cult-like -- and it will harm the tiny minority who are born this way. It already has.
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  1691. 💯
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  1692. After the US bombed where my family is from, I haven't cared about its leaders or its ruling class. But we can still reflect upon the death of a person as a person. Memento mori. Russell Brand actually had some very perceptive and compassionate remarks. To pause and think about those things seems like the better response to me, for now. After the period of mourning and funeral, that is a very different matter.
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  1693. He'll need a new name and photo. He'll have it by Monday.
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  1694.  @mamalulu2841  Crickets for you. No, I mean real crickets. High in protein, I hear. I think Gates said so.
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  1695. This is how Krystal Ball treats a man whose father was assassinated while running for president, and who was a young teen when he lost his father. Not that ANYONE should be treated like RFK Jr. was treated, ever. But even being who he is did not give Krystal a moment of pause.
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  1696. Transitioning kids is like saying that to prove you support the civil rights of the disabled, you have to break kids' knees
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  1697. You just scared me. Because they are always howling for war . . . ergo . . . oh my God!
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  1698. A request: a comprehensive documentary of the repercussions people have suffered for defying Trump on the 2020 election: all the political losses, loss of income, severe trauma and other emotional issues, the death threats and other threats, in detail; hide the victim whenever that is prudent. Imagine the power of seeing that person having to be in the shadows . . .
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  1699. I love how I keep getting censored here.
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  1700. We thought it would be higher.
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  1701.  @thekurtcobainfoundation4200  Take the sage advice of other posts! Fire is horrible, and a horrible sign. The rest of your post sounds like he might have a madonna/whore complex. Those men often turn on a woman after they become intimate, and then they become dangerous. Or, they will sleep with their future wives only to have children, and frequent prostitutes the rest of the time. Very, very bad. Sometimes these people go on to murder prostitutes. The point is, the fact that he sees you as too pure to ask you to do these other things now does NOT mean he respects you as a human being. He puts you on a pedestal to satisfy his needs.
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  1702. ​ @tedmarley4341 Be sure they pay you. Don't do that for free, for God's sake.
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  1703. The first student brought up a contradiction in Bannon's rhetoric, and his response was a little too rambling and defensive. The second student did the same, highlighting actual contradictions. This is classically Socratic. The answer was very interesting, because Bannon's best ideas are NOT the ones that were implemented. Travel bans, sure. Accountability for the destruction wrought by Big Money? HA. Trump depends on Deutsche Bank. Bannon also used a slogan in his answer, "triggered." Not a good sign. The third student gave him an opportunity to comment on the demonstrators, who were the real deplorables. No problem. Bannon again gave an answer that shows that his best ideas are NOT the ones that are implemented. The student then pointed out that those who have attained political power are publicly distancing themselves from him, and asked him to comment. Again, interesting. Bannon did not mind the question. The fourth student began by taking a stand for freedom of speech, obviously in opposition to the noisy crowd outside, then asked an excellent question about Bannon's view of election prospects in 2020. The fifth student first thanked him for staying over, to talk to them. Then she asked a very astute question about about political trust. Bannon appreciated the question, and was enthusiastic about answering, because it gave him a chance to talk about the things he is most passionate about. She made a counterpoint, and he tried to play folksy. He used another trope that she did not, "sorry for mansplaining." The sixth student said that the economic progess was not thanks to Trump, and that Trump did not, in general, solve the problems Bannon correctly highlights. AGAIN, Bannon's best ideas were NOT not not implemented. And Bannon DOES have lots of good ideas. The seventh student asked a very open-ended question on immigration, allowing Bannon to express himself on a matter he is passionate about, and show off some more of his good ideas. Which go nowhere. So, who was so disappointing?
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  1704. Did he? This report is unclear.
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  1705. I never thought anyone could make Putin look good . . .
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  1706. ​@virgilhilts3924 No. She had a three-month TRAINING period, followed by the Thanksgiving to New Year's period. Laughable. If they gave her until the end of First Quarter (through 3/31) and she didn't meet her quarterly targets, even that would be shabby but fine, not irrational. She refused to be subjected to gaslighting. GOOD.
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  1707. I know you mean this in jest, but I agree in large part. I want them to live in a nice place. Why not? Also, not to be concentrated in one single state, and to find out what northern winters are like, for some realism. I hope this turns out well for them. I hope they find good jobs and love it, and all those huge empty houses can probably be divided into nice apartments. I'm not kidding, either. They will probably improve the community.
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  1708. Great question. Where is the sense of justice?? The reason private corporations in the US removed alleged harassers from their jobs was because after an internal INVESTIGATION, they determined that the corporation could be held legally liable for not removing a perpetrator once they knew other employees were in fact harassed by that person in the workplace. In other words, the victim would be the one who would ultimately be unable to earn a living in that job unless the corporation took action, and failure to act would not be fair or legal under Title VII. Not one point applies: no investigation, none of these accusers have to work with Russell Brand, none of these accusers are even known, and Russell Brand does not work for YouTube. Literally nothing.
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  1709. I agree that this mud slinging is the wrong way to go. Aaron Mate should bring a very calm and civilized LAWSUIT against these people. Cenk, did you personally check the label on Aaron's "Russian blanket?" Playing the MeToo card is disgusting.
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  1710. 👏👏👏👏👏👏
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  1711. You're missing the point because you don't listen to arguments. You want to take sides as fast as possible.
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  1712. @frankwerts9279  First of all, they do not have access to all of your information. Second, you entered into a contract with your bank, and banking is a regulated industry with obligations to you as well. I have no contracts with Musk.
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  1713.  @Clay8668  Except that, for better or worse, that is not true. Not even close: more Democrats listen to him than to any other newscaster.
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  1714.  @bologna3048  Don't be arrogant and cruel. He knows. Better than you do, obviously.
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  1715.  @shaneskywalker7945  She is petrified by the fear mongering. Just saw the Norway Ministry of Health website. They do NOT recommend vaccination for anyone under 16, and do not offer vaccination for anyone under 12. Young kids in Norway cannot be vaccinated. No mandates, for anyone.
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  1716. Goat cheese is remarkably good, better than from cow's milk.
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  1717. ​ @tamacmcmillan3518 Not unless you have 2+ years of basic living expenses in your emergency fund, apart from other savings and retirement accounts. Those people have choices, yeah.
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  1718. Ben's work is tremendous, and meticulous.
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  1719.  @andrewaustin9991  OP did not say they went to China. They said they went to the three acknowledged democracies, however imperfect they may be. (Ours isn't perfect, either. Electoral college, and two senators per state . . . Remember??)
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  1720. Not at all. This was no surprise. Don't let that one bother you.
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  1721. Yes, absolutely. Say, what a shame Jeffrey Epstein is no longer here to give us vaccine advice. We could still consult Ghislaine. Between her, Gates, and Epstein, isn't she the only one with a college degree?
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  1722. Ana gained a lot by using both tactics. Think about all the relationships she obliterated.
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  1723. Listen carefully to Bill Gate's discourse. Don't watch, listen -- and try to forget who is talking. He sounds less educated than Trump. Actually, he is, too.
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  1724. Do you trust anyone who says "pregnant people?"
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  1725. You're right. I cannot imagine it. Collins, same. They remind me of the proponents of lobotomies. (You know the researcher who devised those got a Nobel Prize for it, right?)
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  1726.  @jimpollard113  The jury agreed. It was, however, within the law to convict, and a different jury might have thought otherwise. The facts were totally misrepresented by MSM, and Rittenhouse, a minor facing adult charges (which I do not agree with doing to any kid), was smeared. And now, the law with respect to self-defense is being misrepresented. I see nothing good here. Less bad than a conviction for any intentional homicide, which had zero support in the evidence. No one standing up to question the practice of trying juveniles as adults in the first place. Rittenhouse, a lost and traumatized kid, being lionized(!!!) And still being smeared, for that matter. MSM doubles down on smearing him. Nope, nothing good.
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  1727. The more this is pushed, the less people can tolerate it. She is giving incorrect medical information and has no understanding of medical ethics, among other things.
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  1728.  @ChastityTrammell-my5zn  This is why tort settlements need to be substantial. Medical care and rehabilitation are VERY expensive, as is counseling (and necessary coaching is up to you). Insurance won't cover what you need. Guess why? They expect you to sue. It's not fair that you didn't have the things you needed to make up for it as much as possible.
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  1729. Cancer patients cost too much.
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  1730. The shadow banking connection -- THIS. THANK YOU SAAGAR.
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  1731. Kim doesn't know about this stuff. Sign of health and intelligence.
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  1732. The UK and Israeli media, countries where there is much less hesitancy than here, have been more honest about issues with the vaccines, not less.
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  1733. ​ @Jon-g2d5k Why? Are you jealous of everyone in Epstein's black book? 🤪
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  1734. Amazing how the mind of a genius works. Impressive, isn't it?
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  1735. You'd think they all have Mad Cow disease. Sponge brain.
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  1736. ​ @lookingatoceanwaves And you ignore genocide and sterilization of gender-distressed kids.
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  1737. @LeNoLi.  It was infuriatingly misleading, and encouraged the notion that mathematics is the province of a Secret Society of Geniuses, rather than the study of universal truths. (For a great antidote, see the book Love and Math, Frenkel.)
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  1738. Not only that, but books. He reads BOOKS. Who knows what's in those books? 🤨
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  1739. Of course. And without a doubt, some of the stuff will be true. Some could even be brand new, accurate information. That's how gaining trust works. And I have said 0 that you did not know already.
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  1740. He's not very bright, actually.
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  1741. Right. COVID was their stock-buying opportunity.
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  1742.  @user-pq7jj3vs3e  I was sick with COVID for two weeks and didn't grocery shop. The prices soared in that short time.
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  1743. 8:14 THIS What about compensation? She only got what she should have had in the first place, not compensation for the harm done to her.
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  1744. Here is a woman who could have become a truly outstanding economist. She joined Facebook instead. Hard to believe how low a person can go.
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  1745. Watch while you CAN!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  1746. Explain Acosta. Better yet, make him testify before Congress.
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  1747. The more this gentleman talks about the BILL OF RIGHTS, the more I like him and the more hopeful I am. I am definitely behind RFK, Jr.
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  1748. It wasn't Laura, it was her father in law.
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  1749. Sounds like you missed the irony in her comment.
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  1750.  @billtmarchi4320  Why would that be a reason to bomb a building containing Associated Press offices? The remedy for speech you don't like is more speech, not bombardment.
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  1751. 4:02 Brie called it a straightforward case of her breaking the law and facing the consequences.
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  1752.  @peterstafford4426  The troll is here, on behalf of the locusts. A good sign.
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  1753. I have to commend Tucker for the well-timed laugh. Both were, actually. Nice.
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  1754. Did you join FB? I didn't.
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  1755. ​@Chimchimchu Yes. In general, each successive variant was less deadly than the previous one, at least to some small degree. The real difference came with Omicron. Omicron variants are generally less deadly, CDC admits it.
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  1756. I guess that during a pandemic, we should write a letter to the New York Times.
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  1757. Our cities are disasters because of "personal responsibility." It's almost 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  1758. God, this hit me.
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  1759. Cha-ching
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  1760. ​ @Find-Your-Bliss- I gave up more than half my income one year to keep an innocent man out of jail, and gave up years of my life to care for an ailing, immigrant father. But "you do you."
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  1761. ​ @AI_Storytelling_now A handful did, but you're right.
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  1762. Notice how even a truly great man has trouble talking about his behavioral addictions, and hesitates for a moment, and a brief but unmistakable look of discomfort and shame passes across his face. That should tell everyone something.
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  1763. I think we all know what's behind the curtain.
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  1764. Aw. You give them too much credit.
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  1765. COME ON. She said the university that did this to a student should be sued. That is where to put the focus. 💯 No one can work again, after an admitted mistake? The institution that took hearsay as gospel deserves the ire -- and the lawsuit.
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  1766.  @traceynomatterwhat383  Anyone who would tell a painter or pianist or violinist, etc., to break a board is vicious. Anyone who would tell anyone to do that is vicious, but telling artists and musicians is so obviously vicious that it should unequivocally scream "charlatan!!" to everyone's ears.
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  1767. Also, you can boycott the social media you consider negligent.
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  1768. ​ @Alsayid The kids don't have to post their own beauty pageant pictures. You can be sure someone will. Their lives are out of their hands. It is not fair at all.
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  1769. Seems more like COVID variants made COVID less severe.
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  1770. EXACTLY. We need to think calmly and figure out what is going on. I have got to wonder about endocrine disruptors in the environment as well. To act as if this is just normal, that suddenly a new generation is dysphoric and we should "affirm" them, is insane. I suspect this isn't just "social contagion," frankly, and it reminds me too much of the coercion about vaccines and the refusal to acknowledge side effects as the evidence emerged.
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  1771. No, they're not illegal. There are time, place, manner restrictions -- there is a perimeter that must be maintained and a judge's movements must never be impeded. But any law that prevents all protest is unconstitutional.
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  1772. BTW, more fun facts: Mark Kelly was a Navy Captain and an astronaut who piloted the Shuttle. He also saw combat as a Navy pilot. Last I heard, the Navy trains people in how to shoot straight. Also, his parents were both police officers. Apart from being shameful, that ad says a lot about what media does to people's grasp of reality.
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  1773. SO mean to cows.
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  1774.  @SteakCutFries  You are totally right. When you hand over your information, you cannot control what may happen to it. It's protected purely by contract, not HIPPA or anything like that, meaning you would have the burden of suing if you found out they broke some promise to you.
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  1775. She checked her bank account and her stock portfolio today. Both are fine.
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  1776. When I was in high school and questioned the latest US bombing, I was told that I was lucky to be here. If I were in China I couldn't question the latest bombing. Except China wasn't bombing anyone but you get the point.
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  1777. Good move! There are too many great things to do with your time instead.
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  1778. I thought it was pretty bad. Devoid of nuance, cookie cutter, and above all designed to soothe listeners who are easily upset. I think we all know by now why so much hysteria is swirling around this case, and it is not all because "Brian's parents!!!" There are other reasons as well.
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  1779. Yes, ditto.
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  1780. Do you know what the Department of Education does? Among other things, it supervises the funding of public education for disabled children under the IDEA, which local property tax payers cannot afford.
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  1781. Sabby knocks it out of the park every time. She needs to be in the lineup every time.
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  1782. He sounds like this on Useful Idiots, his own show. He is great in his writing.
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  1783. Early, actually. The very frail get sweeter.
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  1784. "Extra beleaguered retail manager" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  1785.  @Taj-cs3ut  Are you sure? The faux outrage about Jimmy's explanation of what happened is pretty stupid.
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  1786. Who gave AOC permission?
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  1787. Can you believe Bill's relationship with Epstein, and Chelsea's with Ghislaine Maxwell, has had no effect? And her intervention is to undermine the election by suggesting Biden not concede "under any circumstances?" No one could make this up.
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  1788. A 10% excess death rate is known as decimation.
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  1789. ​@ChrisKoch-gq9dt But he wasn't robbed. What that might imply is the question. Not having solved the case, how would anyone know that it was a "botched robbery?"
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  1790.  @ChrisKoch-gq9dt  Right. Evidence?
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  1791. You are a wonderful parent. Could anyone design a better curriculum than you just did? I doubt it.
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  1792.  @Metapharsical  A vaccine is not supposed to cause serious harm. That's a thing.
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  1793. Could I possibly agree with Gaetz (Gaetz!!!?!) two days in a row? Erm, not quite but really close . . . Strange times.
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  1794. So, we are at the point where bona fide leftists have to agree with every word Matt GAETZ just said. Wow. Strange times.
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  1795. Very compelling, and in contradiction with the interview just presented on Push Back/ The Grayzone, by Aaron Mate. Really worth it to consider both and compare them.
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  1796. Just like he knew that the Microsoft antitrust conviction would result in no punishment -- exactly what happened.
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  1797. Brie's question why the same scrutiny isn't applied to Dershowitz is right on 🎯 Isn't it? Yes or no?
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  1798. She does.
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  1799. California lawyer and former Senator. Gawd! SUPER sad.
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  1800. ​ @gammasmash1924 You think that's envy??
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  1801.  @peetky8645  Reports are that she had the test BECAUSE she had significant health issues in the pregnancy. She's a young woman. There was no reason for testing until the problems cropped up. Duh. And by the way, this should be YOUR call because . . . ? Because a special kind of megalomania afflicts people nowadays?
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  1802. Bri ROCKS. Give it up: 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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  1803. Were it not for the terror attacks, THEY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN HOSTAGES.
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  1804. Oh stop. Just stop.
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  1805.  @rainedyani8505  You believed it without checking?
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  1806. No, her First Amendment point is highly pertinent. This is key, for all of these cases. The guest gave a perfect answer.
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  1807.  @cassiescornerreviews6884  The business about "variants" is clearly nonsense: they were pushing the VERY SAME mRNA vaccines (as well as other vaccines, in UK, for example) through MANY variants, and making the same unsubstantiated claims about their efficacy in reducing spread.
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  1808. Notice how vague "gender-affirming care" is? What, exactly? Letting every kid who wants to wear makeup wear makeup, etc.? Getting counseling for every kid who needs counseling? Who is against this? Why does any of this require dangerous drugs for minors?
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  1809. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ WHAT could be more clear than that?!
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  1810. This took forever.
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  1811. Please be PROUD you were an idealist. They say people start with themselves. You started with yourself, so of course thought people in government (who swore allegance to the Constitution) could not be this low. Well, . . . How could that be your fault? I say be proud.
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  1812. Are you kidding? They got their money, and they can't be held liable.
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  1813. When it took me while to recover from COVID, which was no big deal, I discovered that the CDC diagnoses "long COVID" much sooner than the WHO does. Color me shocked, shocked. :/
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  1814.  @mmolchin  That's easy. Socialism for Wall Street, straight from the Federal Reserve.
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  1815.  @yanniritsarntyios5744  Dore's point was the study he presented knocks out the main justification of MANDATES. Mandates are not a scientific issue but a political one. Whoever supports mandates has the burden of proving they are necessary and effective.
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  1816. Soviets stopped a nuclear exchange twice: Arkhipov and Petrov.
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  1817. There are a lot of jerks out there. It isn't you. Find an art.
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  1818. How could anyone vote for either Harris or Trump? You see a good way for this to end? With what the US is facing??
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  1819.  @johnsmith1474  In an environment where non-Jewish members of Congress are pretending to speak for Jews, it sure is relevant. Did you know that students have already sued Columbia, including Jewish Voice for Peace? They filed in March. I found the court papers, digging around. I read about it on a UK website.
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  1820. A financialized economy based on indebtedness and corporate looting, rather than people being rewarded for making real things, is what happened.
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  1821. I can. You get what you pay for. If you want action, you contact an experienced attorney and pay $10k for advice. Everything has been privatized.
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  1822. I don't own Apple anything. Never did.
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  1823.  @rorygreen2088  Some of it is true. She openly dated the SF mayor, who was estranged from his wife long before he met Kamala. She then got some very important appointments. Her husband is well-connected also. This is common, actually.
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  1824. ​ @bbbanks6912 When it's too late.
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  1825.  @itsallagame7354  JOINED THREE MONTHS AGO
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  1826.  @Rokaize  Nazario wasn't a violator. The police were.
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  1827. Maybe you should take a look at the Westboro Baptist Church case; RAV v. City of St. Paul; and Brandenburg v. Ohio. RAV was a Scalia opinion, and Scalia joined the opinion on the flag-burning case (Texas v. Johnson, I believe). You're confusing the First Amendment with Miss Manners.
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  1828.  @loralieisa  This is false. Trump was NOT treated with hydroxychloroquine after contracting COVID.
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  1829. 1:54 Funnier than Che's joke, no?
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  1830. Why are we attacking vaccines, when the sole serious question is the safety and, most important, the efficacy of the COVID vaccines? That needs to be studied, and the COVID vaccines need to be improved.
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  1831.  @patricks2577  Wars have causes. Those who want to prevent war need to understand those causes. I know of no genocidal war Russia started. Nazism and ignoring peace accords has no genetic or ethnic basis whatsoever, it is purely political. I don't know, maybe banning Dostoevsky courses and cats will save lives.
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  1832. The US was never as bad as it has been since 9/11, either, and is falling fast. Today's US is not a good picture of what it once was like. It was much freer, and people born right after WWII had huge opportunities. A 1970 college grad could go to any city and find a job, and afford an apartment. Minimum wage and a couple of roommates could make Manhattan rent. But the Five Eyes are very worried about the non-Western world, that is clear, especially Russia, Serbia, etc. NATO isn't as solid as it was. The elites in NATO countries are tight with US/UK, maybe more than ever, but many people in France, Spain, Greece, and even Germany see through US/UK and want to cooperate with Russia. There is literally no anti-Slavic prejudice in France. It was a breath of fresh air living there.
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  1833. You didn't miss it, you caught it.
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  1834.  @1956paterson  A real university education is not only supposed to provide the skills for a job, but real flexibility: to go to graduate or professional school, right away or years later, to switch careers later in life if you want to and need to, to provide career and placement counseling to alumni forever. That was the promise. I remember.
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  1835. So well put. Graham is just not logical -- and neither are a lot of people. :/
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  1836. ​ @scottkeller8890  Their biggest problem is that almost all are GMO and extracted using chemical means. An organic, cold-pressed seed oil has its uses . . . Good luck finding one, though. 😒
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  1837.  @seekeroftruth6728  My parents were in Europe and fought the Nazis LOOONG before any Americans showed up, which was only after 80% of the actual Wehrmacht were already dead. But leave it to you to bomb, take credit, and help Nazis escape to South America. And posture. Don't forget to posture. It still works, um, for now.
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  1838.  @sammyslam1  So, if the telephone company had refused to give telephones to, say, Angela Davis, the solution was for the Panthers to start their own telephone company? Kim just explained how she started from nothing. People like her should start over? If a lifetime were infinite and we could skip meals at will, sure.
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  1839. Well said. Melenchon is the hardest working of the bunch, which still counts in France. But you put it perfectly.
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  1840. Alexander Cockburn used to say the same thing.
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  1841. The dissent was based on jurisdictional principles, so that is better than something substantive and possibly persuasive to future right wingers.
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  1842. The ability to edit used to let you know something you wrote was still up. That's no longer true, either.
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  1843. These are all GREAT. I clicked this hoping to laugh. Thanks.
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  1844. I just finished reading another Carl Elliott book, his latest: The Occasional Human Sacrifice. Fraud isn't the half of it. Look into studies with many deaths.
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  1845. The shocking part is that she is calling attention to herself and her money, she can't keep it to herself. Who does this? Her security consultant must have had a word with her. The new media has made us all a little nuts.
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  1846. ​ @susiq1121 That's purely your view. The First Amendment does not allow government to pick a preferred viewpoint on the question.
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  1847. My family is abroad. I'm afraid Americans will ruin that, too.
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  1848. You'll be fine. 😊
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  1849. Why a Glock? Seriously?
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  1850. If they had the ability to be embarrassed, they could never do the things they do.
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  1851. Robbie's ignorance almost ruined this segment.
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  1852. WE ARE SO HAPPY THAT YOU'RE HERE.
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  1853. Are crimes committed against the trans community hate crimes?
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  1854. Not up to Gaddafi level yet. "Our side" did a great job there.
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  1855. LOL
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  1856. ​ @rodiculous9464  Yeah, because trans kids used to be enslaved.
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  1857. Of course people who can never have enough money or enough power or enough control over our lives are worried. They will always be worried, as long as any of us own anything. They want it all.
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  1858. Good. The sooner he learns, the better. Bigger problems are coming.
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  1859.  @kimk2635  Yes, thank you. (For people thinking to judge us, just consider how the US government handled COVID, for anyone not independently wealthy.)
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  1860.  @cryptocoin5318  That was your comeback? Hmm.
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  1861.  @saltymonkey8874  Not at all. They can't see the world from multiple perspectives. They don't seem to understand. China does not believe Ukraine is a sovereign country. They OBVIOUSLY believe it is a US puppet. With Department of Defense funded biolabs. I don't agree, you don't agree, the guys don't agree. That's nice. Kim can put herself in other people's places with ease.
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  1862.  @shahbazshaikh9169  As a matter of fact, that bare theoretical possibility would have to be reasonably foreseeable to matter at all. It would then apply to grad students dating undergrads. After all, they serve as TAs, and it's not rare for people with the same interests to date. What if one of them later becomes your instructor? Yee gads! We don't curtail a basic right based on a bare possibility.
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  1863. That Numberphile video was nothing short of vicious. I literally hate them for doing that.
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  1864.  @christopherrobinson7541  Sept 30 [2022] from Reuters: "Indonesia . . . has granted emergency use approval to an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine developed by a Chinese company, becoming the first country, ahead of even China, to do so." Emphasis supplied.
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  1865. ​@rachelsill79 That was my thought. He left her for about a week after an argument, and went back to Florida with some excuse about cleaning out a storage unit and selling some things. She had a chance. That was enough time to call someone, talk it over, and reframe that relationship.
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  1866.  @Logan800  Oh yeah? Not a blond Aryan-type against a very brunette, very ethnic male? She knew how to use what she had in her "favor," and how to target people. A lot of manipulators do, regardless of sex, race, color, creed, etc.
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  1867. ​ @Peter-rh2gn  Dore has been voting third party for a long time.
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  1868.  @laurajames7809  What a great comment!
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  1869. 1970s school was where kids went to buy acid.
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  1870. 😂😂😂
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  1871. Watch the whole Vivek clip. It was possibly the only time Lemon was right on the history.
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  1872.  @jamescloud6967  1. No one in their right mind wants to be a billionaire. 2. Do you imagine billionaires trust other billionaires? LOL
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  1873.  @NMemone  Amen. Not to mention all the straight kinksters. All of a sudden everyone is pretending they went away.
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  1874. She doesn't have a prayer.
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  1875. The look of disgust both Briahna and Emily have in this part of the segment was perfect. They couldn't suppress it. Wonderful.
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  1876. ​ @margaretf6147 😅😅😅 that was good
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  1877. DEI looks like a typical fraud -- designed to stop lawsuits against employers, which is what Brie said. People who criticize every such effort (and this one really deserves it) do need to put some energy into proposing real solutions. As for Briahna, she needs to speak more slowly, with fewer digressions. She sounds like she is speed-reading a legal brief, not presenting an opinion as a newscaster who wants to communicate with the audience.
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  1878. Later in the segment, it was revealed she was arrested.
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  1879.  @chazbennett8676  I meant the concerted one, with 70,000 troops allegedly ready to attack, OBVIOUSLY. Everyone knows about the 8 years of attrition.
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  1880. He doesn't. He keeps getting boosted.
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  1881. Duh. Who thought anything different was happening?
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  1882. So, how many more true things are the Russians telling us? 🤣
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  1883. ​ @Heckatomba THANK YOU I hope the cases I cited are a good start, if I'm allowed to post that!
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  1884. The FBI also said the laptop was Russian disinfo.
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  1885.  @Time4me2change  Honestly, hating on someone in the hospital!
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  1886.  @nedludd7622 I don't know what you mean by backtrack. These immunotherapy vaccines do not render anyone immune to COVID. This isn't obvious to you? I make small edits primarily to check whether I've been censored, if that's what you're referring to.
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  1887.  @nedludd7622  What feelings? The part about not caring rings true, though. Typical false flag tactic.
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  1888. Look at that PBS woman's face. 😮😅😅😅
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  1889. Same here. 😐
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  1890. No consequences? They made bank. That's some consequence.
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  1891. Support means easing the effect of Western sanctions on Russia, which China will do.
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  1892. They almost certainly have immunity.
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  1893. You don't quintuple that, and more, without insider trading. How many people's net worth and retirement were destroyed in the pandemic? Wouldn't you have loved to know to sell in 2019, and pick up Amazon and Tesla in 2020? Please. 😂
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  1894. That is correct. Rather than checking his ID and telling him to go home, police expressed their appreciation to him. Complete insanity reigns.
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  1895.  @inmate0054  He was a minor. He had no business being there with a weapon of war strung across his chest. Anyone who reasonably believed Rittenhouse was the instigator of violence had a right to DEFEND THEMSELVES AND OTHERS by trying to wrestle him down and take the weapon away, just as you would or I would, if we were trying to disarm, say, a school shooter or other mass shooter. What twisted nonsense have you been listening to?
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  1896. But no one knew the Afghan government would collapse within hours, no one knew COVID was coming . . .
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  1897. ​ @micclay  😂😂😂😂😂
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  1898. Why did Trump remove the moratorium on federal funding of gain of function research? Who whispered in his ear and flattered him?
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  1899. ​ @narendra62 Was there anything untrue here? It wasn't strong enough, if anything.
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  1900.  @Vitez-sd2kc  "Death to the fascists, freedom for the people."
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  1901. Krystal did a great job.
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  1902. The problem long predates the "jab." But did it make things worse? I think so. There is mainstream research now that had to admit it did.
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  1903.  @deadgolfer6345  If it was your CEO arguing for no cost of living raise and no pension for you, because "we can't afford it," you might question it.
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  1904. ​@Mixedworld.58 is young. Think about what the Carters were doing 40 years ago. Jimmy was 59, actually, and Rosalynn 56.
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  1905.  @aidanmartin7923  New ones were also built, with DOD money, oddly enough.
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  1906. There is one thing to try if this happens to you: practice being unattractive. Think about it. You can put on an act of not being desirable. There are ways. Make it seem like you aren't special. Claim you once had cancer and can't have children. Claim you are torn between liking men and women. Use your imagination. STOP feeling you need to be sincere. Pretend that "now I'm telling you the truth." Then lie. The logic behind this is to make him think he dropped you.
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  1907. They do real work.
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  1908. It's entirely unclear whether anything the guest is saying is factually accurate. The demonstrators at Columbia did not block anyone's ability to move freely, including to avoid them completely.
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  1909.  @Eastbayrob  At age 55, after 23 years in a small bungalow. Wild, isn't it? And when he was in the bungalow, they were jeering that he's "jealous" of "successful" people.
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  1910. No one could make this up. No one is that perverse.
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  1911. "They fact checked it on the show" -- Briahna. Wow, just wow.
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  1912.  @johnsonpatrick80  As long as it doesn't affect you, I wouldn't worry.
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  1913. Exactly
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  1914. So . . . Instead of stimulus, we will have rude pointing and a new 9/11 commission. Sounds good to me.
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  1915. 💰💰💰
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  1916.  @veramae4098  There are sufficient keywords in the OP to find good documentation.
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  1917.  @Gigi1111Layna  Exactly. Paul Pelosi's fine is peanuts, and ultimately the taxpayers have to pay the hospital emergency services for an indigent crime victim! If he was perfectly sober, he deserves full compensation from the perpetrator.
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  1918. OMG, this is such a grift. He wrings his hands for a paycheck. See what principled people sound like: Haaretz and their writers, Naomi Klein in The Guardian, Amy Goodman at Democracy Now! I mean, if you care, put some effort into it. They've been focusing on bringing accurate information about the conflict for decades.
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  1919.  @EverettBurger  Hustler still around?
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  1920. Joking? Right??
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  1921. Show me solid evidence and I'll believe it. That has become very common --- as has provocation from the FBI and others. But then, Afeni Shakur once proved that, decades ago, representing herself in court.
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  1922. 8:50. THIS Thank you. We need to recognize what a small number of people control the rest of us.
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  1923. For those who don't believe this level of compliance to be possible: remember Rotherham.
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  1924. The people I feel most sorry for are the v injured who thought they would get help. They didn't even get human sympathy.
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  1925. ​@catherineberry6971 No, honey. Late capitalism. Money = truth. Although, to be honest, this already happened at least once before in European history, long before the advent of capitalism: in Athens, before they lost a BIG war.
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  1926. I would love to see it, finally.
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  1927. You are magnificent. Thank you for standing up. I'm assuming the court case is proceeding. I am so, so sorry. Do something very nice for yourself every day.
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  1928. ​ @cassiescornerreviews6884 If the side effects are SO rare, should be easy to compensate the injured fully, huh?
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  1929. I have an idea. Get a stop watch, run it to 9 minutes and 29 seconds. See how long that really is.
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  1930. ​ @ChristopherMoltisanti-j4w People refuse to acknowledge the Israelis disagreeing with Netanyahu's policy. They are being systematically de-personed. 😢
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  1931. ​@rickstevens1479 Yes. His name was found in a "little black book" as a client. That was the "link." They chose not to charge him, with anything.
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  1932. CONGRESS has platinum health care with taxpayer dollars, yo.
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  1933. Jimmy is not a Republican, JFK Jr is not a Republican, Tulsi Gabbard is not a Republican, etc., etc.
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  1934. "Oh that's good, Tommy. You're the best colorer . . . " This is priceless.
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  1935.  @andrewwells6323  "As a group, these companies enjoyed $79 billion of U.S. income and collectively enjoyed a federal income tax rebate of $4.3 billion. That’s an average income tax rate of negative 5.5 percent." (Did you fail to click, to read it all?)
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  1936. She has admitted to "discrepancies" in her story, and attributes them to memory lapses due to the trauma and her young age. Why did you believe this?
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  1937. Okay, okay, I'll say it: Free Luigi!! 😂😂😂
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  1938. Antisemitic speech is constitutionally protected unless (1) it rises to the level of a threat or incitement to violence, when it can be a crime; or (2) occurs in a workplace in violation of Title VII, or in a classroom or dorm in violation of Title VI, when it can be a tort. This is very simple.
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  1939. She could be killed if she loses focus, with the stuff she does.
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  1940. If a school shooter is brought into an emergency room, HE will be treated.
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  1941. I am frankly sick of these stories, with no one attempting to obtain legal recourse. Yes, the PHARMACEUTICAL companies are not liable, BUT medical malpractice still exists, as does conflict of interest. Any illness, vaccine-related or not, must be treated in a manner that is consistent with proper medical norms. Cases have been filed since 2021. Hospital administrators and foundations cannot invest in a pharmaceutical company, then hide the harm caused by that company's products.
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  1942. Outstanding reporting. Brilliant.
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  1943. If they fit, first congratulate yourself. Next, go on vacation as soon as we can travel again and enjoy them.
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  1944. No it wasn't a landslide. It was decisive, given our system. Improve your vocabulary?
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  1945. THANK YOU for posting this. Anyone who has read Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic, knows that overuse of psychoactive drugs on the young could have a bearing on violent outbursts, and that the issue needs to be openly investigated. It's not a crazy conjecture anymore! They know it, too. I'm sick of what is being done to the young. ;/
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  1946. Amen
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  1947. In 1977, a minimum wage summer job paid a full year of in-state tuition and fees at all the great state universities. That is a LOT more than $10.66 today.
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  1948.  @waywordprairie922  You misinterpreted what I said. (Why? That's for you to figure out.) Just for the record, I believe I had COVID in March 2020, there were no tests available, the very poor antibody test I had in July 2020 (the only one insurance paid for) had a false negative rate of 30 to 40% 100 days out, and . . . I have declined vaccination due to the significant safety and effectiveness concerns. Why? What did you think? That I'm a pusher?
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  1949. Re: Jack I wish the person with such an important report had a more serious demeanor, at least while he sets out his research. Then he can indulge in commentary as much as he wants. From the look on Leslie's face, I think he agrees.
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  1950. The economists at U of Chicago played a big role, post-1980.
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  1951. OMG, she wanted to be an actress so, so bad. I feel for her now.
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  1952.  @BrokenAbyss  Thank you. Mentioning Pool was "cringe." Forgive the cliche, but I did cringe this time.
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  1953. So, expansion of NATO to Russia's very border will be achieved one tweet at a time.
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  1954. In a series of gilets jaunes protests in Paris, firefighters were defending protesters against the police. In one incident, a firefighter placed the French flag on the ground and then motioned to the police, like, if you want to come after us, then you have to step on the flag. Indeed.
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  1955. ​ @threeofeight197 Exactly! Why do they? They can, of course, but they shouldn't. They should do their own due diligence.
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  1956. Never saw this lady before! She is hard-core. Remember HSBC. That came to the surface.
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  1957. She should be sued. Let her lawyer make the argument that she can't be liable for defamation because she does not do news.
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  1958.  @LPAFilm  Medicine for every person is supposed to be individualized. I don't support criminalizing these medical procedures because it will harm the one person in two or three million who genuinely needs the invasive treatments as early as possible, but we also know that there has been a massive increase of prescribing drugs and doing surgeries without the safeguards that were once in place. The call for laws always means that a group in society has failed to regulate themselves.
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  1959. @paaklapi  I've heard her mention the hostages. The whole cease-fire debate centers around that --- or it did, until evidence of war crimes surfaced.
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  1960. ​ @MartinChap  I love these ads!! Hysterical.
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  1961. Those neighborhoods never have freight trains with dangerous cargo passing anywhere close. They don't live in the same America. They never cross paths.
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  1962.  @janeztomazic5546  And threatens Dore for defending Mate.
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  1963. In 2020, the private schools around me, all Catholic in my neighborhood, opened in the fall, established the school routine, closed for a long Christmas break and had some online instruction, were cleaned in depth, and then welcomed the kids back. IT WAS PERFECT. Public schools never reopened that year.
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  1964.  @jamesredmond6699  Yes!
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  1965. Jimmy has got this 💯 right. It was always the law that a doctor can use a FULLY approved medicine "off-label," in their professional discretion and with informed consent, like anything else. It's an EUA drug that has certain restrictions, not a fully approved one.
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  1966.  @brian8507  🤣🤣🤣 Is it a full moon?
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  1967. 1. I have never voted for a ticket with Biden on it. 2. Having said that, there was no good way for the last election to turn out, or the one before that, or before that, or before that . . . Tucker just told you this started in the last century, under Clinton if not much earlier. He is right.
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  1968. Was this a parody?
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  1969.  @zM-mR  Another fact to look at is average age of the population of the BRICS overall, compared with EU or NATO or Five Eyes. That matters.
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  1970. Were Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell plausible? Maxwell at Chelsea's wedding? Maxwell sitting in the late Queen's chair? Epstein mentor Leslie Wexner the largest donor to Harvard Kennedy School of Government? No, wait, all that was plausible. Never mind.
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  1971. We (in the US) live in a society with a history of horrific eugenics movements. The thought that very young adults who are LGBTQ+, nevermind children, are undergoing treatments that could prevent them from having the opportunity to be birth parents one day, *if* they so choose, is starting to sound REALLY sinister to me. We can't TALK about this? Oh brother.
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  1972. LOL, it's a public university. I suggest you investigate before speaking --- or at least watch the entire video first.
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  1973. ​ @komicsreviewer8505  No one is trying to kill them.
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  1974. A good time to remember this case: "Kalief Browder was sent to Rikers Island when he was 16 years old, accused of stealing a backpack. Though he never stood trial or was found guilty of any crime, he spent three years at the New York City jail complex, nearly two of them in solitary confinement." Kalief committed suicide.
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  1975. ​ @foodie135  Serpico was more sensible in his choices of where to flee, but Tara Reade has fewer choices. Likewise Edward Snowden.
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  1976. 😂😂😂 cool I think you are right.
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  1977.  @hb-youtube  Great point. Bully-cry in a nutshell. It's sinister.
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  1978.  @f58534  George W. Bush, what are you doing here -- don't you have some paintings to work on?
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  1979. Does stopping at a red light present any risk of myocarditis?
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  1980. This is the same shock I experienced listening to a French station discussing freedom of discourse and the war in Gaza. Judith Butler was invited to speak in Paris, and her talk was canceled by the mayor of Paris. The leader of the Jewish peace group that invited Butler was so well spoken that it was stunning, after all the bullying we are subjected to all the time. She was so calm. She appreciated the gravity of the crisis and was so diplomatic. And she is only the leader of a small group, not a nation.
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  1981. She also said her electric stove takes forever to heat up.
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  1982.  @Silence_Duder_Gooder  How is their math? Do they learn to study well on their own, and not be distracted by the new media?
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  1983. "What should they be doing?" Translation: the stock market is on a tear. What's not to like?
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  1984. This was NOT exculpatory, if true -- and Hunter's report is hardly reliable, he was passing out, his own words. Hunter is a major liability to national security.
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  1985. Wow, you sound worse than the opponents of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa! 😂😂😂
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  1986. Harris's mentor was at one time a fan of Jim Jones' People's Temple in San Francisco. Quite a story.
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  1987. Full indemnity + full patent protection + little or no funding for compensating the injured = cannot be honest
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  1988. She always comes prepared. Refreshing!
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  1989.  @EugeniaSpivey-M.Ed.  The best people stood by him.
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  1990.  @PearComputingDevices  The state and local governments ordered businesses closed, the official number of unemployed is at least five times the number of available jobs, and you still think the people are at fault? That they chose this catastrophe? A lot of people who were doing fine in January cannot make ends meet as of August 1. If a government takes away your civil right to circulate freely because of a PANDEMIC, you don't think it should compensate you for the loss? Can a person shelter in place if they are evicted? Can they eat properly to stay healthy with no income? You are pretending nothing happened, that there is no global emergency. I see a lot of people cannot accept that we are living in unprecedented times.
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  1991.  @xtech4200  Wow. At age 55, Dore gets a new house, after living in a small bungalow for 23 years. I.e., since his early 30s. So I guess he's not "jealous" of Jeff Bezos after all. Wasn't that your story, all those years when he lived so modestly?
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  1992.  @joeterzio7175 Except that it is perfectly plain that the choice surrounding whether to take the vaccine was nothing of the kind. If the emergency were what you claim it was, worthy of withdrawing freedom of choice, there would be patents lifted, vaccines from Russia, China, and Cuba freely available, and vaccination would affect spread, not just severity. But COVID's dangers, significant as they are, have been greatly exaggerated. The latest omicron wave saw the most heavily vaccinated populations hit first with surging infections.
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  1993.  @christophereverett2353  No. That's not what the Court held, because it didn't reach the issue. Jack Philips was denied due process, and the denial was considered particularly serious because he was attempting to vindicate his First Amendment rights when the Colorado Commission basically showed their bias against him and refused to give him a fair hearing. That's why it was 7-2; states can't do that to people. If he had won what you said, then the current case would not be before the Court. The law would already be crystal clear. I explained the Colorado baker case in my prior post.
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  1994. Just had a thought the other day: compare the complexions of the NATO members and those of BRICS+.
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  1995. She looks like a major makeover was undertaken.
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  1996. Jimmy, why is everyone anti-science now? The more they scream, "science!!," the less real science they support.
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  1997. If Trump is SOOOOO dangerous, you'd think they'd run a strong candidate again him, huh? 🤔 Seems like.
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  1998. And Shapiro maturely called for the kid's award to be cancelled. Playing to the crowd as usual.
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  1999. You are describing people at risk of suicide. I might be, if I had permanent crippling from any medical procedure, and I am the LAST person to consider such things.
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  2000.  @cht2162  I'm so sorry.
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  2001. Stop it, you're hurting the pregnant dudes.
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  2002. Dress rehearsal
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  2003. Reading a book on PTSD: During the WWII bombing of London, some children were sent to the countryside to save their lives. Those children were more traumatized by being apart from their parents than the ones who stayed in London and lived through all the bombings, with their parents. That's what we're doing at the border.
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  2004. I figured out early on to check the websites of other countries' ministries of health. Most weren't very good, but the CDC and FDA were hands down the worst.
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  2005. ​@dancroitoru364 When were these done, and where, using what data? I haven't seen a single multivariate analysis, and don't expect to anytime soon. We won't know until these are done, and they tend to take quite a long time to complete properly.
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  2006. Max Blumenthal interviewed him, and his point was that these conditions were present before the pandemic. Contemporary Western societies were susceptible prior to the lockdowns. Excellent interview.
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  2007.  @jman75234  Make Biden do it. All the more reason. Listen to Krystal Ball's editorial. That lady makes sense. I provided a link, but sometimes posts with links are shadowed (hard to monitor for TOS; annoying but understandable).
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  2008. Harsh. True. 😢
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  2009. Astute. But watch them attack on another issue, after lying low for a short time.
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  2010. That was easy to get away with. Joe helped out.
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  2011.  @jodyhoevel6393  Jimmy and Aaron's livestream will be posted soon, I'm sure. Worth watching. No one there was trying to ruin Kyle's career over this. Of course not. They are coming out as being the most credible by far, and the most principled.
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  2012. Um, compelling empirical evidence that he is not competent? That happened.
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  2013. @KayGeraci  Jobs where the worse you are, the bigger the bonus. Doctors aren't paid like that. Exactly the opposite.
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  2014. ​ gocelts Class actions against CPS overreach have succeeded.
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  2015. I'm surprised you didn't know how ordinary this is.
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  2016. Simple. It's not about health.
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  2017. ​ @chocomalk  Read? You're telling these people to read? I admire your optimism.
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  2018. Real reason for Jimmy being hate bombed: nothing to do with AOC, etc. Jimmy pointed out the CARES Act was the BIGGEST UPWARD TRANSFER OF WEALTH in human history. It's always about "follow the money."
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  2019.  @theheretic3764  I think it is absurd on its face to blame Tucker for the Buffalo shooter. It's typical of MSM to identify "Enemies" as fast as possible, as if news operates like day trading. That's separate from Tucker's own citing of the 1965 Act. Actually, it goes to show how Tucker is MSM, too.
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  2020. Fundamental rights over your health care is pretty important. Remember the mandated vaccines? That affected you.
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  2021.  @darkdemonqueen  When I was a kid, divorced women would never marry a man who did not agree to adopt the children and raise them, nor did they date casually, much less allow a man to live with them unmarried. Even engaged didn't cut it. How times have changed. What you said may not be popular, but it's usually right.
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  2022.  So much white privilege  "On Wednesday (May 27), Trump tweeted that he has instructed the FBI and Department of Justice to investigate Floyd's death: At my request, the FBI and the Department of Justice are already well into an investigation as to the very sad and tragic death in Minnesota of George Floyd.... — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 27, 2020 ....I have asked for this investigation to be expedited and greatly appreciate all of the work done by local law enforcement. My heart goes out to George’s family and friends. Justice will be served!" So, . . . is Trump "the left?"
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  2023. BORING GUY, this "Nicholas." How old is he? Has he had freshman rhetoric yet?
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  2024. @Future inmate Donald Trump He is talking to one person. This person may be a fraud. Or not. Will it hurt you to see what he says? Personally, I am sceptical and do not trust Magnus. I support Jimmy talking to him anyway.
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  2025.  @infinitytoinfinitysquaredb7836  Rachel Maddow is, instead, doing quite well.
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  2026.  @jamescook6564  The "truth" is there is no such thing as mental illness, there are only a lot of stupid jerks who need public humiliation to set them straight? I can see how some people would come to that conclusion. They could, for example, start with themselves . . .
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  2027.  @tonifitz6831  People go to prison based on breaking actual laws. Although there seems to be a shift in sentiments where that's concerned. We have the largest jail/prison population in the world by far. It's not accidental.
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  2028.  @nuancedmilitarism8402  The President is the Commander in Chief. Watch who you elect President, then. That's not some orange freak in this instance, that's his boss.
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  2029. Um, China and India won't do that.
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  2030. I felt that way, too, and within a few days felt as though I needed to hide.
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  2031. 5:05 Try LISTENING. Barely more than one minute. You can do it.
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  2032. Do American presidents see souls? That is so funny.
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  2033. BULL
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  2034. Started to shift right around the time you were born.
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  2035.  @mortyshallman  Ask that of the vaccinated with breakthrough infections who refuse to wear masks.
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  2036. Maybe you don't understand French. I listened to their statement in French. You clearly don't know what they said.
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  2037. 61
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  2038. "To initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."
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  2039. Voting RFK Jr in the primary.
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  2040. I know. It's not a surprise.
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  2041. The conspiracy theories are too tame.
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  2042. ​ @hittitecharioteer Are you kidding? They aren't doing it for free, yo.
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  2043. We should all reflect on how someone like this dude was trusted in the first place.
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  2044. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." That's how.
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  2045.  chinchin3627  That's not about feelings. There are laws against stalking. You don't have to be petrified to invoke them. That said, the IDF is certainly making Palestinians feel intense pain. The Israelis subject to the Oct 7 attacks felt intense pain. Nothing to do with this absurd prima donna deliberately looking for someone to bully, just as OP said.
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  2046. Meghan is the only child of an only child. Neither her nor her mother had full siblings. That's why her mother was her only guest. Her mother was her only relative, before Harry and Archie.
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  2047.  @MrRjsnowden  Press for a diplomatic resolution now. This war will end with diplomacy in any event, hence the sooner the better. The US is still poking the bear, to no purpose except its own. Do you imagine we are helping Ukraine now?
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  2048. He's right up there with Samantha Power.
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  2049. I like Saagar despite his politics, but I HATE when he is right. It's never good news.
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  2050. "Outside agitators?" Like Cornel West?
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  2051.  @elizabethkraszewski6603  True. Bottom line, they have rights only because at some point, they risked their lives to get them.
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  2052. Wow, Briahna gives a great analysis, and certain people snipe at her anyway.
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  2053. These are matters for Title VI lawsuits, not Congressional pseudo-trials. Congress should occupy itself with whether we should fund wars and what we should do about inflation.
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  2054. All those antitrust cases are published. Microsoft was convicted and unpunished, in a nutshell. The 9/11 attacks happened while the case was on remand to decide a proper punishment. After that, impunity was assured.
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  2055. If most of these people never bother their hideous heads over how old a teenage girl is, and whether she is of age yet, would not shock me in the least. They consider themselves entitled. Everything Gaetz himself says shows it.
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  2056. Kim, so sorry to hear about your family member suffering from myocarditis.
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  2057. I haven't been, either, but I do know men over 50 and women over 60 should consider vaccination. It should be up to the individual.
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  2058. Very sorry, at an age when a woman should expect three more decades of good health.
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  2059. They first said the ten-year-old pregnant child was a hoax.
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  2060. But what constitutes discrimination? Does a biological male have a human right to play on a sports team with biological women? Why would declaring themselves to be trans, and taking hormones, give them that right? Then why shouldn't men who don't identify as trans or take hormones be allowed on the team?
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  2061. Why did Cenk and Ana defame Aaron Mate?
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  2062. Never joined either. Treacherous.
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  2063. Thank you so much, Glenn. Yes, complaining about mean tweets is obscene. No one would believe it if it weren't in our faces every day.
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  2064.  @BobSmith-lb9nc  Consider who. Consider why.
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  2065. Why do you say he is acting like he's guilty? We see what the media presents to us.
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  2066.  @socktier6334  Floyd was saying he couldn't breathe from the start? No one called an ambulance? So Chauvin's actions should have been charged as first degree murder, obviously. At no point was the maneuver he used appropriate, not even for 9.39 seconds, much less minutes. It was not only held too long, it was wrong in the first instance. Thanks for the clarity on that point.
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  2067. Actually, what I said was misstated. T Rex does not have any living direct descendants. It does have living relatives, with whom it shares a common ancestor relatively recently -- jungle fowl, which are the wild "cousins" of chickens. Way closer than, say, a brontosaurus and peacock, lol.
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  2068.  @kellyfelly6645  See the Bill Clutter analysis of this case. He thinks Christopher is innocent. He could be wrong. This is a tough one.
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  2069.  @karinavizcaya5094  I am no fan of anecdotes, but since they seem to impress people -- I fed my father vegetarian plus fish. He had stage four bladder cancer, aggressive cell type, surgery only, no other therapy. Five years later, not a trace. Never had a recurrence. This proves nothing, except that it is possible, and probably deserves systematic study.
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  2070. Oh, now I see! The new claim is that they are not "self-" replicating. Sort-of like redefining gain-of-function, or redefining post-viral syndromes, or vaccine, or informed consent . . .
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  2071.  @stephj9378  Don't worry. The comic relief has a downward influence on blood pressure.
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  2072. I decided to do that. Made my decision in 2019, the irony. Couldn't travel to get my plans underway, and was impoverished by the pandemic shutdowns. :/ All the more reason to leave, of course, and all the harder to make the leap.
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  2073.  @mochithepooh5368  That is literally the reporting system where doctors are directed to report ARs by federal regulation. Of course the data should be scrutinized and vetted, causation and correlation should be carefully distinguished, and we should know the true number. That is THEIR job. Under oath, and testifying before the Senate, the CDC head said she did not know the true number. This was a cordial exchange, nothing like Fauci and Rand Paul. She admitted flat out that she does not know. She ought to know by now. I suggest you look into the system and what must be reported, and by whom, as per the government's own information provided on its own websites. It's obvious you didn't look.
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  2074. 15:13 "I don't exist without my books, I exist through them."
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  2075. Natali on point: spreading a drug out in the population is no substitute for clinical trials, ever. PERFECT, thank you.
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  2076.  @theshapeexists  Not at all. This type of government overreach is ubiquitous. The sooner it came to the Supreme Court and was struck down, the better.
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  2077.  @leroyhudson4311  See the FOIA case. The FDA wanted three generations to produce all the material it has. The judge said no, start now and finish this year. This is a federal district judge in Texas. It's mind boggling.
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  2078. She knew that by eighth grade. Idealism is for chumps.
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  2079.  @blondiek35  I'm so sorry. I have faith in you getting better because of how you expressed yourself. Was there a time when you couldn't have written what you just wrote, or made a decision about how to relate to your mother? I'm thinking that being able to say what happened and make decisions about your future is a huge improvement already.
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  2080. Too bad his commentary was politicized as well.
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  2081. @justinstephenson9360  The definition of incitement is very narrow, and the US has no thought crimes, or prescribed personal associations. Its laws against discrimination apply to the workplace, school, public spaces, means of transportation, and so forth. You can say whatever you want -- you can even agitate for repealing Title VII and Title IX. That's your First Amendment right.
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  2082.  @ricksterbobolishious7523  Offensive? What would that be? In any case, leftist thinkers as diverse as Slavoj Žižek and Dr. Gabor Maté have agreed with a version of what most people consider conservative parenting. European left, to be clear. Not contemporary American libs. I think everyone should read Hold On to Your Kids. It would freak a lot of liberals out. 😅
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  2083.  @zach.0  Read the message Ana wrote.
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  2084. And I would give anything to have been able to grow up there. The US never bombed where your family is, I'm guessing.
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  2085. @christheghostwriter  Re: your last paragraph I thought of that myself. I shouldn't be doing this for free. All the aftereffects of the pandemic haven't been shed yet, which is why I'm still commenting. (Needless to say, I never joined Facebook, Twitter, etc., under any name -- or this platform, before the shutdowns.) My license is in California, not Florida. Look, it's plain that you don't know the law. What does distress me is that First and Fourth Amendment rights are being undermined drastically, from all corners. Maybe you should stop and think about whether you want to be a part of that. Forget about me, lol. This is bigger than the both of us.
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  2086. Well, a person might watch this and many others like it and come to that conclusion: https://youtu.be/7jQm4iAyUwY
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  2087. He listens with his eyes.
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  2088. We got a good look this time at the disdainful expression Robbie has when he looks at her. I didn't know, since they usually only show her response, making her look bad. Robbie doesn't have half the education she does. She certainly worked harder to get the same job.
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  2089.  Lorenzo Stewart  Bezos? Musk? Buffett? Where did you get this nonsense? Is there anything you won't swallow?
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  2090.  @boknow5506  Okay, this is just silly.
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  2091. ​@Tom Novak Are you entirely sure about that? They know not to spring it on an unwilling audience without fair warning? And if, somehow, a kid whose parents do not want them there ends up being there though no choice of his own? Then what happens? ARE PARENTS SUPPOSED TO KNOW THEIR KID SHOULD NOT WITNESS OR ATTEND A DAYTIME WHITE HOUSE CELEBRATION? Well this is new.
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  2092. @cnice7903  Check the CDC maternal mortality rates for 2020 compared with 2021.
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  2093.  @kingdong7517  Joe Rogan did not get vaccinated. I don't know about Russell Brand. In France, the CGT organized a demonstration of vaccinated health care workers in support of their unvaccinated colleagues and against mandates. Mandates are an issue everywhere. The Scandinavian countries have no mandates.
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  2094.  @hazmat5118  Did immunization against flu and covid render anyone immortal?
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  2095.  @N_Jones  No, they won't be ignored. The early variants were more dangerous than current ones, and Dr. Campbell pointed that out many times. The fact is that the vaccines did not have the overall benefit/risk profile they were expected to have, and only had a reasonable benefit/risk profile for a relatively short time, for older people. It is also a fact that fear-mongering and other chronic stress is very bad for people's health.
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  2096. ​ @pauliseri935 🤣
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  2097.  @24hourjukebox55  and we keep doing it . . . Hmm
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  2098. "Visitation by demons" I suppose that explains our politics as well as anything.
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  2099. I'm glad I downloaded the published article before this disappeared.
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  2100.  @patrickbateman783  Worse. Look up HSBC money laundering for terrorist cells and drug cartels. Too big to jail.
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  2101. Yes, extremely intelligent. Really a pleasure to listen to.
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  2102. Truth.
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  2103. All the independents are supporting Assange: Greenwald, Hedges, West, Mate, Martin, Dore, Blumenthal, the list goes on and on.
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  2104.  @Rokaize  It was roughly a mile, well under two minutes, and with Nazario having slowed down and activated his turn signal, showing the officer his intent to pull over as soon as it was safe. These scared rabbits could end up killing a grandma. They need to find another line of work.
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  2105. 28:51 We always said that if this were ever to happen again, WE would stop it. Instead, we are arming it.
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  2106.  @DunderHead.5000  So sorry.
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  2107. And they've known that for a long time.
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  2108. There always were.
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  2109. OH WAIT. I finally figured it out. Jimmy harassed Ana. Therefore, F U Aaron Mate. This equals feminism. Just keep harassing, and I will cancel you.
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  2110.  @corrocot1  No. This woman is 100% an American product. She abandoned her father in his last illness. Irish people do not do that. I know they are not all saints, far from it, but they do have certain lines they rarely, if ever, cross. . . . Entirely against their grain.
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  2111. His father is Treasurer? Sorry. He should not resign now, as if in response to false accusations, but everyone knows a new political party must avoid not just impropriety but also the appearance of impropriety. Jimmy knew not to be enmeshed, lest he become a target and harm the cause.
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  2112. ​@dennisg4053 Evidence that it does? Official IDF videos failed to show it. Ironic, since it's hardly impossible that it happens sometimes. But . . . No evidence.
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  2113.  @steven5054  The "Tim Pool" talking point is suddenly everywhere. Say, you remind me of Pompeo.
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  2114. No corporations have a "left-wing bias." They have a money bias.
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  2115. I did, too.
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  2116. Thank you. These "congratulations" posts are disingenuous. Anya and Max just had a baby. Where is the US government to protest??
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  2117. This law is unconstitutional. But it takes a Supreme Court ruling to get it declared unconstitutional, and that is never simple, no matter what anyone says.
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  2118. Think about this: not one of these people gives us what a pediatrician does, or a heart surgeon. Why are hundreds of millions flowing their way? I mean the whole industry. It's senseless.
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  2119.  @machsimillian14  Yeah, our funding of Wuhan was a real help to the world all right. The scores of biolabs in Ukraine are as well, I am sure.
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  2120. Every one of Joe's "little mistakes" somehow ended up with more $$$ going to the top. So weird.
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  2121.  @p6x2  No, she takes other cases and does other work for free. That's what pro bono means.
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  2122. Russian gallows humor: "Everything they told us about communism was a lie. Everything they told us about capitalism was the truth."
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  2123. The boiling frog metaphor comes to mind.
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  2124.  @spectralthundr9525  Wrong talking point? Weren't you supposed to say crypto paleo archconservative far right Proud Boy Alex Jones-channeling Putin bot Assad puppet (ultra)grifter? Or some such. Must be in your other notes.
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  2125. This got into Yale?
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  2126.  @shadowwolf7622  Not the kind of stuff this woman is spouting.
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  2127. This is the problem with sh!tl!bs, in a nutshell.
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  2128. Even Alexander Cockburn, son of the "notorious" communist, was glad to join forces with The American Conservative on a few narrow but crucial issues, like ending WAR.
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  2129.  @JohnSpartan-117  Oh really? 😂😂😂 Okay, now we get it. Nevermind.
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  2130. Shockingly true.
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  2131. I thought Twitter was taken private, and delisted a few weeks ago. So, this story about Bankman-Fried's stock needs an explanation.
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  2132. Harsh
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  2133. ​ @addammadd  In other words, reading isn't your thing. That's fine. Are you into math? Music?
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  2134. I think the scents or sheep here is ironic.
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  2135.  @studiobauhaus7740  Because this is who treated him and helped him with HIS vaccine injury. Duh.
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  2136. No, they got richer. This is how it works. You haven't noticed?
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  2137. Where was that?
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  2138. DNA from a convicted murderer would raise questions. It would still not be conclusive proof of innocence.
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  2139. ​ @victoriaman117 yup
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  2140. My real name sounds Russian. When I lived in France I found out the difference between a little racism and none at all, and it was life-changing. The Hitler Hierarchy, attenuated edition, exists here. But no one here can complain given what people of African descent suffer. BJG and Batya had a tremendous discussion about that. Brilliant, brilliant women. Haven't made a new white friend in this century.
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  2141. Well, if bathroom obsession is "left" according to these clowns . . .
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  2142.  @ClarkPotter  Please don't encourage her/him/them, etc.
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  2143. ​ @danielgriff2659 Great point.
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  2144. Just because Trump hardly ever reads doesn't mean he didn't read Hitler. That would fit with a nonreader.
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  2145.  @nuancedmilitarism8402  Then do something to rescue the refugees US military "engagement" creates. Another boat just capsized. Where was the world's largest military to do its humanitarian best? You sound like the guy in the Graham Greene novel, the one set in Vietnam.
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  2146. Her case is based on a contract. In the US, the cases that accuse the pharmaceutical companies of misrepresenting their products to the public have more likelihood of opening the door to liability. They had no right to obtain consent or persuade politicians or employers to institute mandates by lying about their products.
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  2147.  @superbide  What's your sample? How long have minors been transitioning? How many are in their 60s today?
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  2148. I think that is too strong a statement -- I don't think she was on "Fauci's side this entire time." She should, however, come clean and apologize now for what she did say.
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  2149. ​ @alan4sure Except that it wasn't. People had a false sense of security, and hence were dangerous to others.
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  2150. I am shocked, shocked there is corruption going on in that country.
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  2151.  @alex-qd6of  Actually, YES. We used to consider 21 to be adulthood.
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  2152.  @mhicaoidh1  You have states like California proposing to become "sanctuaries" (!) for trans youth, and other states proposing to criminalize a treatment that a tiny, tiny minority (one in a million or one in two million, maybe) might actually need, but we can't speak freely about any of this? And the issue isn't about some personal preference -- the issue is about something that could sterilize a child. No dystopia I've ever heard of came up with anything this crazy.
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  2153. That was a war crime and a terrorist act, concluded in one day. It was not a genocide by any standard whatsoever.
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  2154. We are back to, "Where do babies come from, Mommy?" It will be problematic forever.
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  2155.  @luigivincenz3843  The NASDAQ didn't agree today.
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  2156.  @Janoip  You might want to cite your sources. 🤣
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  2157. We finally found a guy who didn't use Epstein's jet. I'm still impressed by that part.
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  2158. @Joe-pc3hs  Well, the United States is the main instigator of the Ukraine war and feeds it, and is also the main weapons supplier for the genocide taking place in Gaza. Our involvement means that the wars ARE the business of Americans. I don't know the nature and extent of our involvement -- and hence, responsibility -- in these other areas.
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  2159. ​@squatch545 There has been a system-wide signal giving mainstream journalists permission to criticize vaccines, highlight vaccine risks and injuries, admit to having tried alternative treatments, etc. You know. All the things they could not say two years ago.
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  2160. If only there were some way to keep Trump in his basement . . .
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  2161.  @naijaplayer  Conjecture.
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  2162. So, if your kid did that, you can't think of what to do about it other than call the cops, risk ruining their whole life, and place them under house arrest, or cheer them on for their entrepreneurial spirit? Huh. I could think of other stuff.
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  2163.  @DonPeyote420  I was wondering what thread this was from. I had said in another thread that calling the cops on your child for something that puts no one in physical danger is an unfathomable betrayal. You explained what is really wrong with it and why it is not useful better than I did.
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  2164. Remember when everyone said the Internet would make information democratically available to all, and that the old way of duping the people was over? Remember that? I do.
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  2165. Agree, only because this is well before Epstein's indictment or conviction. That matters.
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  2166. Well, let's consider this: a fraudulent school cannot be sued, so those who did nothing wrong are left with debt. They cannot file for bankruptcy to rid themselves of the debt. How can this be fair? The people who ran the schools can never be forced to disgorge their unearned salaries.
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  2167. Katie Halper actually had some UAW workers on her podcast. Better than this, though this was quite good,, to be fair.
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  2168.  @fortusvictus8297  Isn't it interesting that whenever anyone has a solid point, someone pipes up right away to lie about what that person just said? It's not about sides, either. All sides do it. Is there a culture more anti-intellectual anywhere?
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  2169. Moral clarity that is rare. Thank you.
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  2170. Joe knows exactly what he's doing: keeping Hunter alive and out of jail.
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  2171. Robby didn't ask these hard questions of FAUCI.
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  2172.  @johnstrawb3521  How so? He and his wife GOT vaccinated, as soon as possible. Your pig won't fly, hon.
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  2173. Neera Tanden, to Save Lives. 1:21 You cannot make this stuff up.
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  2174. Sure there are consequences. They rake in campaign dough.
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  2175. This is exactly what I would have done. Good to know it works.
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  2176. It worked for her. 💰
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  2177. ​@primesspct2 No we don't have a story something like this.
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  2178. @Alexa M Jimmy and Stef are not suggesting Trump won. (He didn't.) Nor are they suggesting the process that resulted in Biden being nominated was honest. (IT WASN'T.)
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  2179. "I'm shocked, I tell you! Shocked, SHOCKED!"
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  2180. Harsh 😂
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  2181.  @Mali-kd1zz  His books are great fun anyway. This is a good video for finding out not how Putin thinks, but for finding out how Hollywood thinks.
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  2182.  @jamesg6587  They are hiding the fact that signs were ignored. Of course someone in corrections suspected something, and among the inmates you can be sure some knew.
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  2183. You sound healthier than most people who are 20 years younger. (I say this as a committed vegetarian. NO sugar for me, no seed oils.)
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  2184. ​​​ @kevreilly7  You know, he wasn't for mandates, he didn't promise complete immunity, he was less keen on people under 50 and without comorbidities getting the vaccine, and he never told pregnant women to get it. That showed some brain cells working, in stark contrast to many. If only every MD had done the same.
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  2185.  @kerrybrooks1010  Well, either he is claiming influence he doesn't have, which may warrant a fraud investigation, or he's claiming influence he does have, which may implicate him in corruption at the highest level. But I understand why you ignore the DRUGS.
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  2186.  @kerrybrooks1010  Maybe if we had been informed, Biden would not have been the candidate at all. Same for Hillary.
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  2187.  @pipopipo6477 Exactly. Can't picture Seder doing any such thing. Greenwald is in real danger right now, from a real fascist.
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  2188. Let's see if I understand: corporations have transferred production of most pharmaceuticals to India and China, to benefit from lower labor costs. Now, when India needs COVID vaccines, we are going to assert patent rights. Gates is smart, huh?
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  2189. Oh really???? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  2190. My father and my mother's only brother were both WWII British Army veterans, and they were born in Yugoslavia! Seriously, who wasn't in the Resistance from Day 1??
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  2191. He knows that. He expects to join that class.
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  2192. Does anyone wonder exactly how reporters and camera crews get into patients' rooms? What sorts of consent are needed? We still have HIPPA. Is there an incentive offered to waive all privacy protections?
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  2193. It's the new fascination with utterly unqualified rich people.
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  2194.  P-J Proudhom  As a cover, so that when, for example, he suddenly emerges as the owner of more American farmland than any other person (and uses it for things like GMO expansion and carbon "offsets"), or it turns out that he went to Epstein's apartment more than one time, he can point to one of his vaccine programs and say "but philanthropy!!! Are you against philanthropy???" I can think of an analogy that might impress you: when the Clintons' dealings with Russian uranium schemes, or crucial role in ill-advised bombing campaigns, or . . . um, Epstein, are revealed, they can say, "but misogyny!!! But vast right-wing conspiracy! But, but Trump something something RUSSIA!!!" In the meantime, let's all empower women and girls. You really don't get it? How sweet.
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  2195. No pardon of Leonard Peltier?
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  2196.  @vell0cet517  She had immunity from a prior infection, and took all usual precautions. I suppose Biden, Harris, Fauci, and all the other vaccinated who had COVID anyway must have not been contagious. How did a recovered COVID sufferer, who worked diligently during the pandemic, suddenly become a risk? More to the point -- did you watch the video? I know you didn't look up the case and read it.
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  2197. Exactly. One in ten women with long COVID after giving birth is not a high number at all. "Post-viral syndrome" is well known, particularly in women. It's common for women (not "pregnant people") to have a less severe case of any major viral illness, but then a longer and slower recovery.
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  2198. No one could threaten your spelling.
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  2199. No one destroyed Taibbi.
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  2200. The one Ana doctored and posted, making it look like Mate endorsed Assad, when Mate was actually trying to explain why a dictator like Assad, who we would expect should have been deposed long ago, still has support in Syria. Try that one.
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  2201. At the rate things are going, all someone has to do to ruin any demonstration is to pay a dozen people to show up with swastika flags.
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  2202. @cacornhusker2940  You really haven't noticed how smart she is? Most of the negative comments here are from people who cannot keep up with her pace, or the complexity of her arguments. Granted, as a journalist and newscaster, she should slow down to help them out. :/
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  2203. ​ @daveblackman816 Yeah, they got too rich to pass up the next opportunity.
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  2204. The DNC aren't "doing anything?" Excuse me, how rich have they gotten?
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  2205. She admitted it -- because of the source. Because of who espoused it.
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  2206.  @allydea  Survivors of trauma that is severe enough are neither dead nor truly alive. Whether anything that happened to our gymnasts created that level of PTSD is something neither of us knows. It seems not, but I don't KNOW.
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  2207. So well said.
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  2208. ​ @BlackSun90 Are you kidding? This is how you justify law breaking?
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  2209. ​ @kennybachman35 Sue? She resigned. Resignation might have been a condition of getting a severance. She's all done there.
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  2210. I cannot cope with this anymore.
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  2211.  @richarddebow5090  she doesn't owe you an explanation
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  2212. We know they try hard not to . . .
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  2213.  @mattdillon4398 A report in a law-oriented news source, Sept 2020: "Tucker Carlson Successfully Argues Nobody Really Believes Tucker Carlson Is Reporting Facts" So he got a defamation lawsuit dismissed. LOOK IT UP. 🤣
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  2214. @JanetSmith900  I think it is very unlikely that anyone actually repels other people, and in any event, dwelling on it cannot possibly lead to any desirable outcome. I've been around, and I have never seen it. Envy, resentment, or fear of being labeled a "certain kind" of person are the usual reasons for shunning someone or abusing them, coupled with what I said before: fear of being called upon to stand up for another person or help them in some other, tangible way. You'd be surprised how common envy is. You may think you have nothing to envy . . . Guess again. It is more random than you might think. When something (like envy) is common, it sometimes lands on a person because they happen to be present. If someone else had been there, they would have been targeted instead. Try observing people who seem to be popular and who seem to be unpopular, as dispassionately as possible, and then try to identify patterns. Then see whether you have a tendency to talk yourself out of your impressions ("that can't be," "that must be," etc.). There is little "can't be" and less "must be" in this world.
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  2215. Oooo, yes, brilliant point. How far have we fallen?
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  2216.  @charlespancamo9771  Look up the actual Rasmussen-Heartland report. Surveys are often wrong. Do you imagine no one holds these beliefs? You must not have been paying attention. Refusing hospital care to the unvaccinated has been very seriously proposed. It is a subject of ongoing debate. Not only that, but it seems like those who reject the idea are being treated like THEY have to justify their position. Refusing care is treated like the new norm, providing care "must be justified."
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  2217. As if he's alone in that.
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  2218. Campaign fundraising in full swing . . .
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  2219. That is an abject lie. Reagan was vastly worse.
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  2220. Try putting his full name in a search engine, and see the cases he lost come right up.
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  2221. Lololol
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  2222. ​ @phantomzxro1 Exactly. It is perfectly fine to disagree with Brie, but she is not making a poor argument here. Peterson is suddenly tweeting pure abuse.
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  2223. You didn't listen, either. All they had to do was to be scrupulous about press releases and PICTURES. That's their job, no?
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  2224. A hypercompetitive society, where kindness is equated with weakness, and anyone weak is ridiculed or shunned, is an unhappy one.
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  2225. Those are usually coordinated campaigns. (Y Tu Mama Tambien had a swarm of religious fundamentalists denouncing it, if you can believe it. "N'importe quoi")
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  2226.  @themightykabool  The arrogance of not doing her job, as though that's not a thing for her. I guess doing your job is for little people? What was more important than familiarizing herself with this crucial report? Even if (especially if?) her agency intends to disagree with it. Please do tell.
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  2227. ​@Curt-Gevert One of the finest lawyers in America, a former federal judge, Kevin H. Sharp, represents him. See what he says about it.
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  2228. ​@Curt-Gevert Did you watch the entire show? Do you grasp how money changes hands? There is always a reason to question witness credibility, especially in a high profile case.
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  2229.  @kyle9438  Hey, there are no pacifists in this picture. I didn't say there were.
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  2230.  A.A.G.  Leave it to Trump to care enough to find out what you (claim to) know. /s Remember the Maynard G Krebs character . . . "Work???!" Carnival barker . . .
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  2231. Yes! This lady comes prepared.
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  2232.  @yayger825  ABSOLUTELY NEVER. There is a popular video where a law professor and an experienced police captain discuss this, the police captain being in his third year of law school. WATCH THAT. I'll link below, but video links are sometimes shadowed, as they are harder to monitor for TOS.
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  2233.  @yayger825  Also, do you understand that the police are allowed to lie to you about absolutely anything, except to promise a certain result if you make a statement, promise to testify, or confess to the crime? They cannot promise leniency, etc., in exchange for information. Short of that, they can tell you anything -- even that the dying victim spoke your name before leaving this mortal coil. ANYTHING.
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  2234. 💯
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  2235. Disagree. It should have to be divulged, then left up to the voters. Anything else is an impermissible loyalty oath, and thus unconstitutional.
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  2236. Does the DNC understand YET that they are hated? Do they get how many people are totally opposed to everything they stand for?
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  2237. Have you seen the Medicine With Dr. Moran video from 5/1? He discusses a very important article, published in Nature, about heart issues associated with vaccines. They have not proved causation, but urge immediate attention to figure out what is going on. This is the first mainstream confirmation. Nature is gold standard.
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  2238. So . . . Politics is a 7th grade playlot -- with billions.
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  2239. Her constituents are millionaires. She is doing just fine for them.
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  2240. I've had flus like that. Not quite the same, of course. COVID is never the same. :/
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  2241.  @thedarkone9552  You might read the report of the ICJ and see what they say. The American judge voted with the majority.
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  2242.  @cozytown5540  The first student brought up a contradiction in Bannon's rhetoric concerning "Judeo-Christian" values, and his response was a little too rambling and defensive. The second student did the same, highlighting actual contradictions in what Bannon is on record as having said. This is classically Socratic. The answer was very interesting, because Bannon's best ideas are NOT the ones that were implemented. Travel bans, sure. Accountability for the economic destruction wrought by Big Money? HA. Trump depends on Deutsche Bank. Bannon also used a slogan word in his answer, "triggered." Not a good sign. The third student gave him an opportunity to comment on the demonstrators, who were the real deplorables in this picture. No problem. Bannon again gave an answer that shows that his best ideas are NOT the ones that are implemented. The student then pointed out that those who have attained political power are publicly distancing themselves from him, and asked him to comment. Again, interesting. Bannon did not mind the question. The fourth student began by taking a stand for freedom of speech, clearly indicating disapproval of the din outside, then asked an excellent question about Bannon's view of Trump's and the Republicans' election prospects in 2020. The fifth student first thanked him for staying over, to talk to them. Then she asked a very astute question about about political trust. Bannon appreciated the question, and was enthusiastic about answering, because it gave him a chance to talk about the things he is most passionate about. She made a counterpoint, and he tried to play folksy. He used another trope that she did not, when he said "sorry for mansplaining." The sixth student said that the economic progess was not thanks to Trump, and that Trump did not, in general, solve the problems Bannon correctly highlights. AGAIN, Bannon's best ideas were NOT not not implemented. And Bannon DOES have lots of good ideas. All dead in the water. Mysteriously. The seventh student asked a very open-ended question on immigration, allowing Bannon to express himself on a matter he is passionate about, and show off some more of his good ideas. Which go nowhere. See a pattern here? So, who was so disappointing? I thought it was illuminating. Bannon is interesting to watch. Nothing ever comes of the few good policies he endorses -- especially on taxes!
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  2243. @OneLine122  Exactly. There is evidence for generational epigenetic trauma. And people recover from the trauma they themselves experienced, as well as from generational trauma. No, it's not like wealth, but it is not like eye color, either. This was just odd.
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  2244. Actually, Jimmy defended Aaron Mate against a smear by TYT, that has since been taken down by TYT. Or aren't Moderate Rebels, Gray Zone, Krystal, Kyle, Katie Halper, BJG, etc., progressive leaders?
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  2245. @kesivan  I just told you what I looked at and what I found, but YT does not seem pleased. The burden of proof for a claim is on the proponent. Cut and paste a whole bunch of times is evidence of agreement, not truth.
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  2246. The number of gun-related homicides in the US is 62 per million people per year (6.2 per 100,000). Suicides is higher, yes -- but let's remember most school shootings have a suicidal perp.
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  2247. Great family. Humbled to know what they are facing.
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  2248. Yeah, but who would buy that comic?
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  2249. ​ Newton-Reuther Who are you to say such a thing??
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  2250. When you tell an entire population that it is ON ITS OWN, and that whatever happens to them is their own problem, how do you expect them all to agree to vaccination? If a person is the one in a million who is crippled by it, the social Darwinists will laugh in his face. And if the rate of harm is substantially higher, forget it! No one will risk it. We created this mentality, and it's easy to see how.
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  2251. Perfect.
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  2252. Four wrote or joined in the concurring opinions --- all excellent. All the women Justices, actually.
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  2253.  @jholland404  I share your very important question concerning the, ahem, treatment.
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  2254.  @talyahr3302  Exactly how the corporate world works. They can give us scores and decide not to hire us, or hire anyone without a score. They do exactly that with credit scores and lending, and auto insurance rates, too.
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  2255. I wonder how much she made before she was exposed?
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  2256. Thank you. I'm hoping people will be ashamed one day.
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  2257. ​ @marywiggins7411 Reporting her and getting a lawyer might be better. We have to get serious with these people. Enough is enough.
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  2258. In the US, the idea is to marry money.
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  2259.  @JustMe-on7gy  YOU ARE BOTH . . . sad.
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  2260. This is the first case I don't feel sorry for. The sheer idiocy of her actions are too great a barrier for me. I've never reacted to any other case in this way before.
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  2261. Max in excellent form!!
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  2262. ​ @Tomc8030  Without consulting a doctor? Without seeking counseling, considering alternatives, and so forth? I think it's either bizarre or callous or both. You?
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  2263.  @larrysherk  You can't use that logic to scrap all civil liberties indefinitely and with no opportunity to challenge such rules. It's not evident that the death toll is legitimate, among other things. Dying with COVID as a contributing factor, or OF COVID, are not the same. Those who want power will insist that it is. P. S. Mattias Desmet. Remember that name.
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  2264. Well, I've been virtuous all my life and now I'm broke. I deserve those resume virtues, big time. 😊 (No, I really have been. Gave thousands to keep innocent people out of jail when my own income was peanuts, took care of an elderly father completely by myself, and lost tons in income and assets because of that, etc., and took my own tragedies and challenges in stride.)
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  2265. Um, yeah, follow the money.
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  2266. Someone believes black men are not being systematically murdered?
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  2267. It doesn't take but two minutes of Max to get the whole picture. 😅
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  2268. So wonderful. I love birds. I wish I had known your father.
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  2269. ​@stoutz The vaccines never had standard testing. That is impossible in so short a time. Find a pre-2019 text on how vaccines are developed, and on bioethics as well.
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  2270. ​ @davidswift1644 When was he contemptuous? He changed his mind when the evidence emerged.
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  2271. Brock Turner got six months. Raping someone who is unconscious has some serious implications, generally.
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  2272.  @andrewwells6323  Yes they do. Look it up.
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  2273.  @andrewwells6323  Just one source:  "a new ITEP report assessing the taxpaying behavior of America’s most profitable corporations, . . . Corporate Tax Avoidance Remains Rampant Under New Law, released earlier this week, finds that 60 Fortune 500 corporations disclose paying zero in federal income taxes in 2018 despite enjoying large profits. As a group, these companies enjoyed $79 billion of U.S. income and collectively enjoyed a federal income tax rebate of $4.3 billion. That’s an average income tax rate of negative 5.5 percent."
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  2274.  @andrewwells6323  Ha, ha. You can take any phrase from my post and use it as a search term. This doesn't even address local tax incentives to locate a business in a particular state, or touch on the ways they spread their real costs of doing business to the rest of us. If they had the pricing power to pass those costs to the consumer, they wouldn't be so quick to enter into arcane schemes, spend more in lobbying than they pay in taxes, etc. They already push pricing as high as it can go in light of demand.
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  2275. You're speaking fluent American English.
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  2276. Krystal is right. Biden and Harris are deeply disliked. People who were sure Biden was better than Clinton were just proved wrong by this nomination.
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  2277. 6:04 Listen to the end, or at least for about 70 seconds. I guess you didn't get that far, huh?
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  2278. This mirrors corporate culture. A private-sector boss can fire you for expressing your opinions. The demand was to make school more like a business, and to train everyone for jobs. Well? In the corporation, only a tiny number have First Amendment rights.
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  2279. That was painfully obvious.
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  2280. She has more than 600 dollars around her neck.
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  2281. That anyone would advocate banning a book against permanent gender reassignment for minors should chill you to the bone. This is something we can't read, and criticize where it merits criticism? This? These treatments run a risk of permanently sterilizing trans youth before they are old enough to make that decision. My God. It wasn't so long ago that there were policies in place to prevent LGBTQ people from becoming parents.
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  2282. Also, a disproportionate sentence can be commuted without a pardon. A pardon is the greatest gift a president can bestow.
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  2283.  @alinkakabaeva  You take self-reference to a new level.
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  2284.  @eminentbishop1325  YES! Finally, a reality check!
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  2285.  @klauskinski5969  Then by all means distribute it as relief for food prices. Or house homeless children, or make community college entirely free. A mere drop in the bucket . . .
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  2286. So, these are Trumptards, eh? Why do so many countries -- France, Germany, Russia, Japan -- have more vaccine hesitancy than the US does? Or didn't you know that? Maybe reviling people is not working . . . Ever think of that?
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  2287. Remember the Dalai Lama's relationship with NXIVM cult. Look that one up.
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  2288.  @zsom1987  I never liked Cenk.
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  2289.  @smb123211  No. We are suspending judgment until we know the truth, as best as we can know it from our distant vantage point. But if you told your wife and she affirmed you, WELL THEN.
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  2290. I actually don't agree about Haitians in general. I think their self-respect is exceptionally solid. Anyone, from any group, can become a lackey for a price. Similar to "marry for money, 'earn' every penny."
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  2291. Be prepared to be shocked again: France has a higher cancer rate, proportionately twice the smoking rate, and still has a longer life expectancy than the US. French women were usually in the top three major countries for life expectancy, the other two being Japan and Sweden. This might have changed after the pandemic. Several Scandinavian and northwest European countries have higher cancer rates and longer life and health span: good food, early detection, excellent care. I guess that works?
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  2292. I think she looks stricken. She has gotten along well in this society and has lost sight of how bad some of its bad actors are. Lucky woman. Oh well. "Wake up and smell the coffee," sweetheart.
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  2293. ​@nickfanzo False. It's the question of "gender affirming care" (an advertising slogan, by the way) for minors that she cannot see through, which is admittedly bad enough. But she's not some sort of Epstein-Clinton-Gates apologist, no. She "trusts the science." 🤦‍♀️
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  2294. It was for my whole life until now.
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  2295. But she just pointed out how the waivers make no sense. They are political, not public health.
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  2296. Five years. UNBELIEVABLE. WHAT A DISGRACE.
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  2297. And what do you think is preparation for Law, an MBA, an MPA, an MLS, or a D.Ed? None of those people need advanced literature classes? Oh yes they do.
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  2298. Just checked the statistics --- the largest number of workers in the manufacturing sector, in terms of total workers and not as a percentage of the total labor force, occurred during the Carter administration: roughly 20 million people. So, later than we thought. Pre-Reagan, not coincidentally. The purchasing power of the minimum wage peaked about ten years earlier, around 1968 or 1969. Back then, a couple starting out, both working full time for the minimum wage, could afford an apartment anywhere: San Francisco, Denver, Seattle, Chicago, New York, Boston, . . . literally anywhere.
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  2299. ​ @cinattra If police escort you into a public building, and you know about all the rights you have under the First Amendment (which preempts laws to the contrary), it seems to me you might not have criminal mens rea. Does that sound possible to you?
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  2300.  @laureencriss8220  SO happy you did! That there has been no progress on treating these injuries is infuriating. But I think most people will make full recoveries. Be extra kind to yourself. Remind yourself to do that.
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  2301. It is not "self-defense" if the person claiming a right of self-defense created the circumstances that led to his need to defend himself. It doesn't work that way. IOW, this will have to be sorted out in a real court, with witnesses under oath, and not before Judge Jeanine or Facebook.
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  2302. It's disgusting but it came as no surprise. Why does anyone defend Hiroshima and Nagasaki, still?
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  2303. Oh no not that 😢
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  2304.  @Dan-xo9ly  Oh, by the way, significant stomach pain could signal liver involvement, AND they know it, or should know. That is not off to a good start right there.
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  2305. Bellingcat claimed without evidence that a lobbyist organization with hidden ties to Assad corrupted Jimmy Dore with $2500. First of all, Dore has made it clear that his price is much higher. I think that someone who "wants to be a millionaire" either asks for more than that, or is profoundly math challenged. /s Have you yourselves verified that the organization was indeed a front, and that Dore either knew or didn't know and didn't care, before "educating" us? It was styled as a prize for independent journalism, according to Bellingcat itself. (P. S. I could have sworn the word you were looking for was "inform.")
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  2306.  @Burcaawi2010  He gave the circumstantial evidence for. He takes care not to overstate anything.
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  2307. You must know that in the cases of various forms of abuse, PTSD, and so forth, when there is a legitimate perpetrator, either they cannot be located or refuse to come in, and (absent court order) it is always their right to refuse to come in. It is not a stigma to refuse and proves nothing either way. Hence these disciplines have to develop ways to determine whether the patient is being truthful. She explained that under direct examination.
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  2308. 44:30 If you drop out of high school, or any school, you can always go back. You can't get your breasts back. It's over.
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  2309. Good jobs for Hunter?
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  2310. You did not fall under the influence of horrible people. That's good. It does happen.
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  2311. The problem is, there is no reason to believe that lawyer.
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  2312.  @strykerjones8842  The most common major BY FAR is Business. Next comes the health sciences, Nursing on top. Very few students take any class that could make any employer suspect them of thinking, much less disobedience.
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  2313.  @plotlinevideo3719  I think he means that even those guys saw this as a win for Smalls. The twitlibs didn't get the memo, oops.
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  2314. Why?
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  2315. How does that apply here? Kennedy is an eminent toxic torts lawyer and has been litigating these types of issues for his entire career. Both Briahna Joy Gray and Kim Iversen have done solid segments on their shows on the issue. Kennedy certainly has informed views on regulatory policy and how to avoid conflicts of interest. You don't have to agree with him, but the story that he's some crank is straight-up false.
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  2316. Of course. What was done to them is brutal.
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  2317.  @brian8507  You said: "what if humans do not yet understand what a "sum" is?" But they do grasp the zeta function. N'importe quoi. Seriously though, the concept of axiomatic systems has been thoroughly explored. You can't invoke the usual axioms of the algebra of the real numbers and get finite sums for divergent infinite series. It is really stupid to get in a pissing match about math, in order to brag to strangers that you're a mathematician, and thus privy to the Grand Mysteries (of Eleusis?) It is impossible that you do not know about what I just said.
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  2318. I know just what you mean.
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  2319. Bravo. Good job on this, guys. You did the right thing, and this correction was spot on. The questions you raised in the first report were valid. This is a child, and her welfare was at no point made paramount by anyone. This is what we can expect to see when we withdraw basic rights from anyone.
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  2320. You're right. I've never heard it said more succinctly.
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  2321. The very finest interview of Leonard Peltier's tremendous lawyer was conducted by Chris Hedges, not very long ago at all. YouTube destroyed the entire archive. "Because RT."
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  2322. Amy, you have been the preeminent journalist covering this war. You have touched my heart like no one else. Respect!!
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  2323. BJG brought two guests to The Hill Rising today to address exactly this question. It was magnificent.
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  2324. Anyone who has read Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic, knows that overuse of psychoactive drugs on the young could have a bearing on violent outbursts, and that the issue needs to be openly investigated. Great book, chilling stuff!
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  2325. @johnjames4681  So then why the comparison? It also does not compare to being BOMBED WITH DEPLETED URANIUM, as Djokovic was as a child. As infants, children, pregnant women, and other innocent civilians were.
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  2326. Are you a billionaire? Well???
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  2327. They're not just teaching school, they're everywhere.
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  2328.  @goingconcern  Did you read the instruction? McGinnis was an unarmed bystander, and a reporter and video producer for an independent CONSERVATIVE publication. He was in the line of fire. (Oops. So much for facts, you too, huh?) As a matter of law, self-defense cannot be carried out recklessly, to endanger bystanders. That's why the instruction was included.
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  2329. WHY IS THE FILIBUSTER FAKE? Make them get up and speak.
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  2330. Oh no, 🤣
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  2331.  @petergbrics7260  Not surprised at all. So many people who grew up in Europe in the 19th and 20th century had a remarkably healthy upbringing in a clean environment. Kids in America were overdosed with antibiotics and it harmed them.
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  2332.  S S  Okay. Someone who states she has given birth, and has written and published a memoir claiming she gave birth, is actually lying, and is transgender, and no one noticed but you just now. Is that the correct narrative? Sure it is. Anything is possible. In fact, it has to be true if you feel it's true. Of course.
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  2333. At least she didn't vote for Biden.
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  2334. I believe beans are an excellent food, but they take long, careful preparation. Most people won't do it (sort, soak, rinse, bring to a boil, then throw that water away). Lots of foods need more preparation than we do.
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  2335. The real shock is that he is math blind. No one worth $3 billion should care about $1 million. His net worth fluctuates by more than that every hour.
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  2336. How could anyone think Biden -- or Trump, or Hillary -- are worthy of being president? This is a bad dream.
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  2337. Too believable.
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  2338. Or Tulsi and Jill Stein.
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  2339. He is lying.
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  2340. You could read Haaretz and find out that there are Israelis who think much the same as Brie.
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  2341.  @godofbiscuitssf  What's contrarian about being opposed to evidence-free name-calling? Are smears obligatory now? Do those who refuse to engage think they're Big Shots, or something? Too smarty pants for their own good? They should shut up and get in line?
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  2342.  @boostinggtirtime  They know about the risk of immune enhancement in mRNA immunotherapy. They did engineer the vaccines to avoid that, and tested for that. Look, there is NO drug that has killed absolutely no one. None. Never. MRNA has been studied for at least 20 years, in the hope of curing metastatic cancer with it. This issue of massive "inflammation" is not some new thing.
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  2343.  @ezerasurfr  Not only that, but all the COVID vaccines are working exactly as they should: the extremely rare cases of COVID after full immunization are very mild, and none have been deadly. That shows the unwanted immune enhancement is not happening. If it were, someone would have rapidly progressing, deadly COVID after full vaccination. Literally no one does.
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  2344. Every purported fact was incorrect on some level.
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  2345.  @jamesmorrow1646  What vaccines are EUA, developed in a year, contain nanoparticles, and required four shots in under 18 months? None before these. If Medication A has sufficient characteristics of a vaccine to be called a vaccine, it does not mean that it shares all the other, positive characteristics of other vaccines. Hence it makes no sense to say "vaccines save lives," AND ascribe that characteristic to this new medication. Whether, on balance, IT saves lives, AND has an acceptable risk profile for all age groups for which is has been prescribed, is precisely what is at issue. This is to be proved, not assumed. Precautionary Principle 101.
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  2346. SO happy for her! Perfect outcome.
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  2347.  @paragonexperience  Give her an opportunity to correct her work. That used to be a principle and everything. She's not some lout, she's a published author.
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  2348.  @jasonstroon  You FIRST stated the vaccines were FDA approved. I told you they were not, and I was right. Then you failed to respond to me, but EDITED your post, to make yourself sound informed. Shame, shame, shame. But you call other people names. Right.
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  2349. 1. Criminal laws, if ambiguous, are always read in the direction of leniency. 2. I'm against anything that's against the First, Fourth, or Fifth Amendments.
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  2350. @bluebee5266  Sadly, no. You give BCBS too much credit. Now they are wasting our tax dollars.
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  2351. It's also interesting how well they get along. ;) It's real.
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  2352. The Supreme Court is hearing arguments concerning abortion while Ghislaine Maxwell is on trial. "Awkward"
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  2353. No imagination needed. :/
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  2354. Make the student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy, then. That's how the schools are off the hook, via bankruptcy. Those who drew salaries working for these schools never have to pay the money back, either. Exactly who should bear the burden? Where was government to stop the fraud??
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  2355. Imagine schools being closed, then coming back to this. Question: are students "disciplined" for making fun of her? Is it "hate speech" to laugh your head off?
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  2356. It's a demonstration of power. "See? We can do anything we want!!"
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  2357.  @jackremington3397  How do you know who she voted for? Is there someone good to vote for?
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  2358.  @victorgl9709  I think it was based on a special law compensating the wrongly convicted. Prosecutors are immunized. I'm not sure how they could come up with so little.
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  2359. True intelligence and individual, independent thought is banned now. Has been for two years. You are the virus.
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  2360. The "subtext": the power of the dollar grows out of the barrel of a gun. Realists always knew that. The purpose of degrading Russia is to degrade any threat to dollar dominance -- which grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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  2361. 1:32 Instead of NOT admitting he has weaponized the Department of Justice? 😂
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  2362. Today, people are so afraid of being smeared, especially over the Internet where it is pervasive and potentially permanent, that seeing it done to RFK Jr (even RFK Jr!) will motivate them to support him.
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  2363. You beat me to it! I should have read before posting.
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  2364. Kim was on Glenn Beck. Watch the segment, see what YT blacked out as being against community standards.
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  2365. Krystal, he runs on being a billionaire. OF COURSE this news is devastating, but not how you think. He's a loser after all. That's what counts in the minds of his supporters.
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  2366. I would have never believed that fear could do this. I thought that grown people knew they were mortal. I felt the same way on 9/11. I thought Americans knew what bombing was and how terrible it is. They do enough of it to know about it.
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  2367. ​ @hotshotphil Yup. The story we were fed that "this time it's different" was a lie again, and massive amounts of money flowed upward again. Funny how that happens.
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  2368.  @terirea7743  Thank you, too.
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  2369. She likes haute couture as well.
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  2370. And Aaron's integrity is what jackals perceive as a sign of weakness. Whereas you appreciate him. Says it all!
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  2371.  @ZoeyZoco  I don't want to see this criminalized, either, but when a treatment that can result in functional castration or permanent infertility is being given to a minor, and there are not appropriate safeguards in place, I see why people want there to be a law. I don't understand what happened that is now preventing the profession from regulating itself and giving good advice to families. The Precautionary Principle and "first do no harm" used to be followed. I don't like what has happened to them.
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  2372.  @stoneyrules Wrong. I speak French. Montagnier was mistranslated. It had to be deliberate, it was that far off. OH WELL.
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  2373. Um, let's hope not.
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  2374.  TRUTHNTRADITION  I guess every guy into BDSM can choke his high girlfriend then, and get away with it. Good to know.
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  2375.  @Leo-ty2nl  The press could not call Chauvin a murderer, until today, but any opinion writer who wanted to say that in his opinion, the verdict should be guilty, and explained his reasons for thinking so, would be protected by the First Amendment. The standard for defamation of a public figure is not as subjective as stated in the other post.
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  2376. LOL What about norms and guardrails? What about feeling safe in our own HOMES?
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  2377. Bombshell? The US government always did this.
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  2378. By magic. By Attracting Abundance.
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  2379. @Israel-nb7ip  His source money to invest in Tesla and become Chairman of the Board was from "financial engineering" with Peter Thiel. He pushed out the principal founder. Another Tesla Edison story! How ironic.
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  2380. ​ @questworldmatrix  Um, no. Look at the vaccine schedule in 1960, 1970, 1980 . . . And today. Please. Lots of childhood vaccines are excellent -- they have been shown to improve a child's immune system overall, not just immunizing them against the virus in the vaccine. Others are not so great. Lots have adjuvants I would not like to give to infants. Something is wrong with this picture.
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  2381. Exactly. This is how people make money now.
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  2382. In most states, I know that once you have probable cause to arrest, you can obtain a court order directing him to submit to a DNA test.
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  2383.  @Bluebelle51  Dore did make a tasteless joke, embarassed a colleague, and he owed Ana an apology for doing it. He gave her a written apology, even though he knew it could be used against him later. Tells you pretty much all you need to know. And now Ana tries to come between Jimmy and Stef, his wife. Ana must be a sensitive soul all right. /s
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  2384. Sabby always comes prepared.
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  2385. That's not a disease. 😉
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  2386. He gained money. He needs money. Just look at him. He really, really needs money.
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  2387. "Digital?" Love the double entendre.
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  2388. Wow, almost this entire thread is shadowed.
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  2389.  @joshvalkenaar4076  Says someone who knows a bullshitter when he hears one is more like it.
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  2390. Jimmy and Max -- unbeatable!
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  2391. 1 in 800 is 125 in 100,000 -- hence, 125 times what is considered an important safety signal. Drugs that have a 1 in 100,000 adverse event safety profile are closely scrutinized and usually withdrawn. That means even drugs for sick people. Vaccines are given to the HEALTHY.
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  2392. Well . . . Did you join Facebook? Do you use PayPal? Are you a member of Amazon Prime? Do you have one of those Siri robots or whatever they're called? I didn't, don't, never have. Why enrich these people beyond what can't be helped?
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  2393.  @Meilan39  Exactly! The sciences are empirical, mathematics is purely deductive. Once a mathematical theorem is proved, it can never be refuted based on future "evidence."
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  2394. It is true that statistically, young children usually do not die of COVID, but the ones who do have a horrendous death. Has he not read about it? It is heartbreaking. It is so bad that if you're sensitive, do not read it about it.
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  2395. I wonder if he got a bonus.
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  2396. The more this gentleman talks about the BILL OF RIGHTS, the more I like him and the more hopeful I am.
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  2397. ​@deloresosborne2818 Why does anyone vote for either party at this point?? I voted third party, in person, on election day 2020. I did not regret my choice.
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  2398. Because Tucker cites the Immigration Act of 1965. It's Putin's fault.
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  2399. High school graduates. People used to be adults at that point. Natalee was over 18. If they still needed chaperones, better not to go.
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  2400.  @rogerward801  If he gets high enough, he might.
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  2401. I HOPE JFK Jr. continues to talk about how we have lost so many rights that we once took for granted -- the Bill of Rights has been eviscerated.
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  2402. Not just "we." The Department of Defense did, not NIH. Definitely Russia. /s
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  2403. Not on any published medical research paper, either. Weird.
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  2404. Puberty blockers
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  2405. @You are correct But Which is plenty. More than one therapist knew.
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  2406.  @urrywest  Your efforts to make Dore look bad are not working.
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  2407. ​ @marohan You wish? If it's Biden again, people will stay home.
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  2408. Worse than that. He has a chronic condition, his doctor urged him to get vaccinated, and he got the vaccine with the highest number of adverse events. He then became ill, and his reaction presented as long COVID. After all of that, lifelong friends attacked him. That is a big deal.
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  2409. HUGE public service, thank you so much. Respect your work more and more!
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  2410. Just the opposite. He does not sound guilty at all. The more he speaks, the less he is likeable, but that's different.
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  2411.  @PrinceCezar27  A professor of Nursing Education is an "anti-vaxxer" when he demonstrates how the vaccine should be administered, according to pharmaceutical company guidelines? A program, with FULLY vaccinated hosts (Jimmy and Stef), should be censored and cancelled entirely for discussing it? And you think there is no cause for concern? How does someone get to think like you, so that we can prevent it? I assume you may be a false flag, since you function as one.
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  2412. Well, the part about wresting control of her own career from the industry is impressive. I don't care for her music. There's no arguing about tastes.
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  2413. Take real cabs. They are much smarter, especially if from "the global south."
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  2414. ​ @bmass0828 Oh brother, I was waiting to hear this one! Did the US send in divisions of robots and drones? No?
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  2415. "Are the wages of work being REIMAGINED?" THIS clown has a job?
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  2416. I unsubscribed a while ago. He is spreading the usual contempt re: vaccines. Now is not the time. It persuades no one. If it did, we wouldn't be in this position.
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  2417.  @IWearShaqs  Look up the current NIH statement on ivermectin. Stay current. Also, listen to the Lex Fridman podcast of Sept 1st, where he interviews a real virologist from Columbia University. I say this, having believed the use of ivermectin in India as prophylaxis was a rumor. Well, after doing the research, I find that it was broadly used in at least one state, that the WHO criticized India strongly for making this decision, AND that at present we still do not have a clear picture of whether it was beneficial. What I want to know is: WHY AREN'T WE informed? It's about time to have a serious conversation, and to share information, not spread contempt.
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  2418. Never voted for a ticket with Biden on it. Otherwise, agreed.
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  2419.  @Smiley_McPants  That made precious little sense. OP has a point.
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  2420.  @DarkPassenger  I was a caregiver. Personally. Enough said.
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  2421. Maybe the purpose of the narrative is to take some focus off Bankman-Fried, not to mention whether what he did will spread to fragile banks? That idea just occurred to me.
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  2422. I don't believe this diet is best for most. No broccoli? No onions or garlic? No mushrooms? No avocados? No olive oil? No thanks.
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  2423. Who reported Jeffrey Epstein? Do you know anyone who ever stood up on behalf of a victim? In your experience?
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  2424. It's not about feelings or moral condemnation. Lucid thinking proves him wrong. His very existence depends on other people. The very language he uses to express his "ideas" depends for its existence on other people. The money that counts as money depends for its existence on other people. He is incoherent.
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  2425. Who told you this? 😂😂😂
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  2426. ​ @sdrc92126  AND it was hot!!
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  2427. Katie also looks beautiful in this. Well worthy of the mittens.
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  2428.  @hittitecharioteer  I wouldn't, either, which is why I'm broke. 😂 Yes. I am saying they are doing it for the 💰.
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  2429. Do you grasp why, if prolonged, it could be? Do you know what severe unsleep does?
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  2430. Yes. He is on 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥.
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  2431. Still money on the table, apparently. Can't leave it there . . .
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  2432. If Hunter is clean, why does he need so much cash?
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  2433. Look what they did to us. I wish I had been born in 1929 and died in 2019. Yes, even if I would have lived through WWII as a youngster and teen. I wish I had never seen this.
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  2434. Did she receive a written apology? Is it a risk to put that in writing? Think it through. But that isn't the point. This began differently, with TYT smearing Aaron Mate. The threat against Dore came when Dore denounced the smear. I agree this mud fest should end right now -- with Mate's lawyers writing a letter to TYT's bosses.
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  2435. Of course not in the US. 😢
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  2436. This was truly brilliant. It makes me want to go on living to know there are intelligent people in this world.
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  2437. Uvalde police: "Teachers left a door propped open."
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  2438.  @scottmcloughlin4371  Of course not. I never, ever do. I know better.
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  2439. 😅😅😅 exactly
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  2440. So . . . Robby is crediting the "left" with a good call? I'm unclear on this.
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  2441. Zawe Ashton is genius.
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  2442. @steveludwig4200  Read the statement from his attorneys. He is suing for false prosecution. The judge in the case is pushing for the prosecutor to be disbarred. Such moves are rare.
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  2443. He wants to see the data. 😂
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  2444. OP: Who told you this? It is categorically false.
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  2445. And somehow, the money keeps gushing upward.
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  2446. I knew Americans were deluded, but . . . Wow. Do billions love Trump? Biden? Hunter Biden? 😂😂😂
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  2447. You could read Briahna Joy Gray's article.
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  2448. Bezos isn't a person. He's a country. We need a Realpolitik diplomacy with him.
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  2449.  @alicewynne8242  I think it's worse than that -- they were petrified and manipulated into compliance.
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  2450. @karinavizcaya5094  What do you think is in the factory-farmed meat??
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  2451. If this were such a serious illness, you would think that we'd be sharing all information as quickly as humanly possible. Instead, we've been watching suppression of information across the board, in every country.
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  2452. Obama placed a moratorium on funding gain of function research, the mildest restriction there is, pending further investigation and discussion. What happened?
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  2453. NEVER allow a stranger to touch your child. NEVER.
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  2454. Now I get it. The only CNN watcher I know just flat-out dropped me as a friend without a word.
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  2455.  @joannedepina8142  My understanding was that relatives of the child's mother fought for her. Blake did not have as strong a case for keeping her. I don't know where you got your information.
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  2456. ​ @24hourjukebox55 AMEN
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  2457. The first post knows Glenn is a lawyer.
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  2458. Not a problem in most other countries.
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  2459.  @chrisburden4127  That was funny. Thanks!
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  2460. Meloni resurrected slogans last used during WWII. That's what people in Italy and those who speak Italian are focusing on. It's not proof that she is fascist but it certainly raises the question. In France, the collaborators used to say "work, family, fatherland." Kind-of ironic, since they were betraying France. When no one knows the history but everyone is fluent in memes, well, then you get posts like yours being popular. This isn't analysis, this is advertising. Nor is motherhood and family under attack in Latin Europe like it is here, that they need a new defender. The "multiculturalists" here who want to censor her are just as ignorant, so there is that.
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  2461.  @jordan2170  I didn't intend for it to come across that way, but you're right. In this video, Dore concedes that he is NOT as knowledgeable as Seder. (Well, no kidding.) In other videos, Seder falls all over himself looking for ways to disrespect Dore as a person. The fact is, Dore has been uncanny at times in showing exactly the right political instincts. And at other times not. He was traumatized by having to declare bankruptcy when he developed a very rare bone disorder, and he still feels ashamed about it, because he wasn't raised to view bankruptcy as just some paperwork to fill out. It still shows. Of course it clouds his views. And sometimes it gives him insights that people who will always have enough money to pay a doctor will never grasp, because they don't know what it feels like not to have means for real necessities. They have no idea. So, I value his perspective, even though it will not always be right.
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  2462. We have to teach gender studies. Who has the time?
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  2463. Robby is being deliberately obtuse, and this is not the time.
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  2464.  @therealcirclea762  Marx had a very devoted and loving family. He denounced capitalism for turning family ties into just another transaction to exploit.
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  2465. Agree with both. 💯 Reminds me of when the BLM and the January 6th demonstrations both had federal provocateurs.
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  2466. This ruling causes me to breath a sigh of relief. WHEW!!!
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  2467. A Soviet did this. We were told Communists were incapable of independent, critical thought.
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  2468. This is the question.
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  2469. I thought that preserving children's future reproductive choices should always be a human rights priority.
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  2470. Notice the instant ad hominem attack. Comical, it was Hillary's go-to move.
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  2471. Does Dr. Gupta know what a woman is? How about a horse? Does he know what a horse is? Next, worms.
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  2472. Biden run again? Oh Lord, makes me think of Galloway: you wouldn't send him out for a loaf. Seriously, though, it would prove DNC wants to cede power.
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  2473. And massive debt. Can't pay? Why, you can give us a 99-year lease on mineral rights!
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  2474. "You're just jealous."
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  2475. @Frankie T. Wankum Esq. Gay people have kids. She also said "or a college kid trying to make her way in life." The point that there may be many good reasons why that woman took that job is lost on you? Should someone have to exhaust all possibilities in order to make that point?
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  2476.  @kerrijill7442  Of COURSE. That's why Department of Defense was funding the biolabs, not NIH.
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  2477. ​ @orube144  Exactly. Why didn't it work on 9/11, or October 7, or for children in Gaza right now, or for Nagasaki (note today's date)? This is just a version of the Just World fallacy.
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  2478. But extreme concentrations of wealth pay for the news the owners prefer. So, lying pays.
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  2479. That kind of publicity about one's private life is usually a bad sign. People who are happy are afraid to reveal anything that might spark jealousy, or get someone interested in their spouse.
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  2480. Yeah. Yeah, they do.
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  2481. Thank you
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  2482. I don't understand why nothing has been done.
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  2483.  @paulclinton6414  Then you haven't been paying attention . . . no problem, just own it.
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  2484. ​ @888ssss Education, too.
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  2485. And people thought that when The Guardian destroyed Jeremy Corbyn it was a shame but not a sign of worse things to come. Oh brother.
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  2486. I'm opposed to capital punishment but my heart is with YOU. The victim in this picture is the one whose life was taken from him.
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  2487. One percent of one trillion is $10 billion. The budget is over $4.7 trillion. Not to be petty, just accurate.
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  2488. I agree with Glenn as a matter of principle, but money runs this show. There is no viable candidate who wouldn't do what Biden is doing.
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  2489.  @WeToddEd-r3g  Thank you. The time to push back hard is now.
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  2490. YOU were poor, Cenk? Jimmy Dore was poor.
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  2491. Maybe he's just not that smart?
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  2492. Well this turned into a Streisand Effect moment.
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  2493. Was any abused child asking for the abuser who did that to them? I'm reading a book by a woman who treated Holocaust survivors. You know where I'm going with fault here . . .
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  2494. Exactly. "The political juice is going out of this one." -- BJG THAT IS THE PROBLEM, BRIE. Look, prosecuting a wheel chair-bound serial killer won't save lives or bring his victims back to life. It must be done ANYWAY.
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  2495. These are ordinary observations in UK and other countries. Maybe they are all wrong? Maybe. Or maybe they are less entranced by 💰💰💰
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  2496. One employer is one thing, egregious as it was in this case. But EVERYONE was in on it. All the mass social media platforms CENSORED it.
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  2497. So, who studied these hundreds of thousands of pages in the first place? Nobody did? That could be a good guess. I'd like to see the evidence that the documents were scrutinized to the same degree as all other vaccine data have been in the past.
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  2498. Where did you get that one? 😂
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  2499. They would never have asked him. HE would have asked THEM.
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  2500. Weird stare. Not compelling.
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  2501. Even more sinister: we assume just about every opinion is allowed online. What is removed is therefore thought to be illegal, or nonexistent -- as though no one thinks that way. THAT is not true.
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  2502. @joeycernak4220  Her claim is that he never even remembered her birthday, among other things. I wish kids would not go public like that. It is so unwise, and the press shouldn't push them. Remember Heather Graham? Her parents could not forgive her for Boogie Nights, and she was hysterical in that film. Her role was no worse than an edgy SNL skit. She always refused to discuss it with the press. She very politely shut them down on family matters. I hope she stuck to that.
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  2503. That word struck me as well.
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  2504.  @brandonburns5365  I'm sorry to say that it is. By common, I mean a significant percentage -- not all, not most. This is news?
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  2505. Was he able to name any city of the region correctly? I missed the beginning.
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  2506.  @Rampart.X  Not yet. Just banning musicians and cats.
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  2507.  @Rokaize  Graham v. Connor? The petitioner, who was a diabetic beaten and manhandled by police, and deprived of a drink of orange juice he needed, WON that case. It established that there must be an objective standard for excessive force claims, not the subjective one that the police demanded a right to use. We don't have a police state. Yet. I only wrote this to demonstrate to some other eventual reader that you are incorrect, or possibly dishonest. I don't plan to respond further. Blocked.
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  2508.  @Rokaize  Why did the cops try to make a deal to cover up the encounter? Consciousness of guilt, perhaps? Could be.
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  2509. Jimmy was right to recommend Max Blumenthal's piece on Rokfin, about mass/crowd formation and mass hypnosis, with a prof from Belgium. Great stuff.
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  2510. The headline creates a justification for an apparently unlawful shooting in defense of mere property, and Secret Service protection in defense of mere property. Do presidential grandchildren's cars get a Secret Service detail now? I thought just their persons merited that.
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  2511. This is a good thing.
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  2512. ​ @spikeontheroad2560 Like now?? I'd love to see Joe Rogan and Tulsi knock some sense into all of you.
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  2513.  @thepants1450  Christmas. And it was with her husband. It was nothing, just kind-of bawdy, adult horsing around, and someone who was jealous made the pictures public. Krystal stood up to the people who tried to make it into something it wasn't. She was great.
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  2514. It is evidence of what it SAID, not evidence that what is said is the truth. It is evidence of "reputation." How else do you prove what The Sun said? You have to produce an authentic copy.
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  2515. There are many. We don't hear from them.
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  2516. "Just calm down! We all know you're rich, too."
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  2517.  @BK201DarkerThanBlack  Dore did have a medical bankruptcy. He was bankrupt because of a rare bone disorder. He really did lay bricks. He was the youngest of 12 from the South Side of Chicago, and his childhood home did not contain a bookshelf. He got his first nice house at age 55. (Hey, let's cancel him over "nice news skirt.")
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  2518. 💯
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  2519. You're right. This wasn't a fair test.
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  2520. It was obvious for a long time that those two are off.
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  2521.  @iq-ride9329  Not you. CNN. 😂😂😂
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  2522. Obama's letter was proper. The doctor should go through proper channels to make his concerns known.
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  2523. ​@foreveryoung9561 Billionaires spend more on lobbying for the laws they want than they do on taxes. Then they get government contracts and buy US Treasuries, and WE owe THEM our taxes, on the contracts and interest on the national debt. Wake up. BTW, posts like this one are often shadowed. Guess why?
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  2524. I had never seen Drag Queen Story Hour, and had heard about it once, thinking it had happened only once. So I had to check out some performances online. The few I saw for very young children were no racier than having a clown read to kids. If something else is going on somewhere else, that's different.
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  2525. Goethe said it, in Faust.
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  2526. Doctorate in Education. Disgrace.
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  2527.  @nedludd7622 What makes you think you need that much protein? Look up the BMJ article on vegetarians and COVID.
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  2528. Adults used to have to have at least a full year of psychotherapy prior to undertaking drastic medical measures that can never be undone. Perhaps this was too rigorous, but what is happening now is too lax. Every child has a human right to preserve their future reproductive choices, to the greatest extent possible. Government should not be coercing doctors and patients, but ask yourselves why we are here.
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  2529. ​ @steven_z20-l3f  She made excellent points today.
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  2530. The first student brought up a contradiction in Bannon's rhetoric, and his response was a little too rambling and defensive. The second student did the same, highlighting actual contradictions. This is classically Socratic. The answer was very interesting, because Bannon's best ideas are NOT the ones that were implemented. Travel bans, sure. Accountability for the destruction wrought by Big Money? HA. Trump depends on Deutsche Bank. Bannon also used a slogan in his answer, "triggered." Not a good sign. The third student gave him an opportunity to comment on the demonstrators, who were the real deplorables. No problem. Bannon again gave an answer that shows that his best ideas are NOT the ones that are implemented. The student then pointed out that those who have attained political power are publicly distancing themselves from him, and asked him to comment. Again, interesting. Bannon did not mind the question. The fourth student began by taking a stand for freedom of speech, then asked an excellent question about Bannon's view of election prospects in 2020. The fifth student first thanked him for staying over, to talk to them. Then she asked a very astute question about about political trust. Bannon appreciated the question, and was enthusiastic about answering, because it gave him a chance to talk about the things he is most passionate about. She made a counterpoint, and he tried to play folksy. He used another trope that she did not, "sorry for mansplaining." The sixth student said that the economic progess was not thanks to Trump, and that Trump did not, in general, solve the problems Bannon correctly highlights. AGAIN, Bannon's best ideas were NOT not not implemented. And Bannon DOES have lots of good ideas. The seventh student asked a very open-ended question on immigration, allowing Bannon to express himself on a matter he is passionate about, and show off some more of his good ideas. Which go nowhere. So, who was so disappointing?
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  2531. Question: how does she make a living?? Every grocery bagger is doing more for all of us. No comparison. (Yet which one is rich?)
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  2532.  @soakedbearrd  It depends on what the meaning of "is" is.
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  2533. It's about COVID, natch.
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  2534. ​@myhandlewastakenandIgaveup ABSOLUTELY Also, facts accurately stated are more likely to be gone than rants, because rants are just opinions. Makes it look as though we are all very, very unintelligent. I choose my words carefully. 😮😅
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  2535. Even ADAM SMITH was opposed to the neofeudal, unproductive rentier class.
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  2536. To be honest, this is a surprise: every major power in the world is thinking about their own intelligence, and questioning just how good it is. That's the geopolitical meaning of this event. The human meaning, on the other hand, should be clear. If it isn't, I don't want to know. 😢
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  2537. If Fauci told me anything, I would want to know how he got close enough to talk to me. He never had my permission.
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  2538. No one should be surprised. No one gets paid to be scrupulous. Lots of people tell the truth for free.
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  2539. In 2016, perfectly normal and legitimate questions concerning what Bill Clinton's role would be in a Hillary administration were treated as indecent. That was before we learned of Bill's friendship with Jeffery Epstein.
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  2540. Well said.
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  2541. Not only that, but you can buy your own truth. What's the matter? Aren't you successful?
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  2542. I disagree. Americans DO NOT CARE. Does it affect their net worth?? WELL THEN???
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  2543. Remember the Dalai Lama's relationship with NXIVM cult. Look that one up.
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  2544. When police saw someone obviously young out there by himself, carrying that firearm, why didn't they question him? Classic Terry Stop. They might have, for example, suggested that he go home. How did that play out? You don't wonder about it? You're not concerned?
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  2545. The first student brought up a contradiction in Bannon's rhetoric concerning "Judeo-Christian" values, and his response was a little too rambling and defensive. The second student did the same, highlighting actual contradictions in what Bannon is on record as having said. This is classically Socratic. The answer was very interesting, because Bannon's best ideas are NOT the ones that were implemented. Travel bans, sure. Accountability for the economic destruction wrought by Big Money? HA. Trump depends on Deutsche Bank. Bannon also used a slogan word in his answer, "triggered." Not a good sign. The third student gave him an opportunity to comment on the demonstrators, who were the real deplorables in this picture. No problem. Bannon again gave an answer that shows that his best ideas are NOT the ones that are implemented. The student then pointed out that those who have attained political power are publicly distancing themselves from him, and asked him to comment. Again, interesting. Bannon did not mind the question. The fourth student began by taking a stand for freedom of speech, then asked an excellent question about Bannon's view of Trump's and the Republicans' election prospects in 2020. The fifth student first thanked him for staying over, to talk to them. Then she asked a very astute question about about political trust. Bannon appreciated the question, and was enthusiastic about answering, because it gave him a chance to talk about the things he is most passionate about. She made a counterpoint, and he tried to play folksy. He used another trope that she did not, "sorry for mansplaining." The sixth student said that the economic progess was not thanks to Trump, and that Trump did not, in general, solve the problems Bannon correctly highlights. AGAIN, Bannon's best ideas were NOT not not implemented. And Bannon DOES have lots of good ideas. The seventh student asked a very open-ended question on immigration, allowing Bannon to express himself on a matter he is passionate about, and show off some more of his good ideas. Which go nowhere. See a pattern here? So, who was so bad? I thought it was illuminating. Bannon is interesting to watch. Nothing ever comes of the good policies he endorses -- especially on taxes! Ha. Envy of the young is always such a sad stance to adopt. That is one war you cannot win. Thank goodness.
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  2546. 14 month
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  2547. He knows. He's the one studying it. Watch to the end, ffs.
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  2548. Depends on their mission.
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  2549. Yes. That was criminal.
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  2550. They "don't care about consequences." But: "YOU HAVE TO VOTE FOR THEM! GO VOTE!!!" TRUMP!!! RUSSIA!!! Think of the CHILDREN!!!
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  2551. Robbing and starving Afghanistan: "Everything happens for a reason."
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  2552.  @bethphillips5997  Why did she admit to police that she struck him? Notice how he knows to remain silent.
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  2553. Charlie Hebdo? How soon we forget, huh?
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  2554.  @christmastiger  Why would they feel responsible? They did do the right thing. I don't know what you mean.
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  2555. Wow. She must need a raise. Ackman is on the case.
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  2556. In my family, two generations already did less well than the previous ones. This is new for some. It's been the norm for many.
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  2557.  @eemoogee160  Last couple of weeks he has been on a roll, frankly.
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  2558. It can be expressive conduct: expressive of a threat to those with opposing views.
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  2559. She did an outstanding job here.
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  2560.  @stayingloyaltonaymencke606  You got CNN talking heads confused with Jimmy Dore's wonderful wife? Yeesh.
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  2561. They did a poor job standing up to demagoguery. I expected much better. I wonder if they do support free speech. The real problem could be that they don't.
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  2562.  @JCGErvin  You think we can get health care without a fight? Nice to think.
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  2563. Reuters:  Sept 20 (Reuters) - The White House on Monday criticized the use of horse reins to threaten Haitian migrants after images circulated of a U.S. border guard on horseback charging at migrants near a riverside camp in Texas . . . Reuters witnesses saw mounted officers wearing cowboy hats blocking the paths of migrants, and one officer unfurling a cord resembling a lariat, which he swung near a migrant's face. The Independent: Sept 22 -- The second-in-command at a union for US Border Patrol has tried to defend the use of horse reins around migrants in Del Rio, Texas, where tens of thousands have arrived from Haiti. . . Recent images from Del Rio have shown migrants fleeing Border Patrol agents on horseback who are wielding their reins like whips, with a Reuters witness catching an agent unfurl and swing one in front of migrants. British sources. They don't have a dog in this fight.
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  2564. @A_Boogeyperson  Trust your own experience. "Someone, somewhere is doing well." I thought so and was wrong so many times. I agree about categorical statements, though, you're right about that. Maybe it is possible. Humans can astound us.
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  2565. Keep listening. You must have missed that Robby believes "an authoritarian state" should not intervene in parental decisionmaking. That's contrary to his "libertarian" "principles." Well, I believe that an authoritarian state most certainly should intervene on the side of preventing the sterilization of minors, or anyone incapable of consenting.
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  2566. As long as it works for fundraising, you'll see more of it.
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  2567. I don't have a smartphone. I don't want to carry a surveillance device on me that I can't stop looking at. I'm already addicted to my tablet. COVID did that. It even got me.
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  2568. The ruble fell below 60 per dollar, so the Russian central bank cut rates, to raise it back above 60. They don't want to hurt allies or exports. The ruble's value rose too fast. We are the ones with the inflation.
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  2569. PEN decided to cancel the event, no one else. The writers can always decline an invitation and write an open letter concerning why. No one tried to close down PEN.
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  2570. As soon as we were told COVID kills the elderly and people of color, some people started rooting for the virus.
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  2571. ​ @ud7845 This OP is typical of those who insist you agree with everything they think, or they will misrepresent you and dismiss you. Irony is having a field day/ year/ decade.
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  2572.  @Joe-pc3hs  You mean it's the Chinese this time? They're to blame?
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  2573. EVERYTHING in those homes capable of absorbing chemicals should have been pulled out and replaced. That means everything made with fabric, everything.
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  2574. ​ @letsomethingshine Since when should parents be allowed decide whether their children should be birth parents themselves someday, and to enjoy sex someday? Children are not their parents' property to do with whatever they will.
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  2575. @letsomethingshine  No, children cannot make an informed decision. They have not yet experienced erotic longing, which for many people includes the intense desire to have a birth child.
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  2576. Exactly. What Musk said might not be acceptable in UK. I don't know the law in UK. Jessica doesn't know the law here. Brandenburg v. Ohio is the law here. "Clear and present danger" is too vague. It is not the standard. But she keeps repeating it. Wait. Isn't that misinformation? 😂
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  2577.  @xstatic-ow5mz  Two people, both fully vaccinated, who were getting regular tests? What guideline is that?
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  2578. So, the word on the street is that Joe is out? Is that it? (Or am I being optimistic?)
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  2579.  @deetrixreed8961  She was going to use MeToo to have Dore deplatformed, or at least to cause him to lose his audience, if he didn't stop criticizing her. And she still had the written note from seven years ago as her "proof" that he's a sexual harasser. Why are you playing dumb? This has been his living for the past 15 months. Are you a child?
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  2580. Amen! Let girls be tomboys, let boys play with dolls. Whay is everyone so hung up? Does any of this sound like dangerous drugs are necessary? Why would they be?
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  2581. It's the height of Hillary's career, for her.
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  2582. ​@CharlotteFerrariBreton The crux of the case is the purchase of the gun for a troubled child, knowing what they knew, then abandoning their son at school even after the emergency meeting --- knowing what they knew. The rest, I agree, is irrelevant emotionalism and manipulation.
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  2583. Neve Gordon had to leave Israel due to death threats for making a comparison between Israel today and South Africa during apartheid -- not polemically, but as a history and political science scholar/professor.
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  2584. ❤❤❤
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  2585. For people who grew up in Jewish homes where ethics and justice were always a priority, facing this is not easy, either. People hesitate to say it, because, obviously, compared to what is happening in Palestine, . . . it cannot be compared.
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  2586. Remember all those heart-warming stories about how parents of a child with a rare disease did their own research and then found a therapy that saved the child? Remember how it was pitched as a Miracle of the Internet?
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  2587. Anyone who trusted her doesn't have the judgment to run the county dog pound.
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  2588. Megyn is very smart. She used to have to work very hard for six figures. Now, she displays her looks and runs her mouth and makes multiple millions.
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  2589. She is worse. Just imagine.
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  2590. I thought under 30, but the point stands.
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  2591.  @MissRed92837  He left her alone for a week and flew back to Florida. That was her chance.
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  2592. She is brilliant, but her speech is too fast and her presentation and reasoning too nuanced for post-social media brains. You have to be a reader to follow.
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  2593. Sources? I don't doubt you, I always ask.
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  2594.  @ZoeyZoco  This isn't the case right now.
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  2595. Exactly. Heavy on principle, no personal drama.
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  2596. That a society with a history of eugenics should embrace anything that can deprive anyone of the right to try to have birth children someday, just because they are dysphoric as a preteen, should sends chills down your spine.
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  2597. Civil suits. I don't see a crime. They should be liable in class actions.
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  2598. They must need volunteers for the army real bad, for "some reason."
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  2599.  @kel-in5gi  Ah . . . Non sequitur? Read it again. Telling an Asian student not to mention playing classical music as an extracurricular pursuit is bigoted.
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  2600. Where did you get that information? Of course children are vaccinated against polio. This polio variant appears to have arisen through use of prior vaccines types that created a risk of polio, rather than secure immunity without risk of disease.
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  2601.  @joeterzio7175  Correct. So, what can others demand of you? Basically anything? Jail the unvaccinated? Drive them out of hospitals? Refuse to rent to them? What? There used to be this law called HIPPA, governing MEDICAL PRIVACY -- even Nancy Pelosi mentioned it (during the campaign) as the reason why the government cannot mandate vaccination. What happened?
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  2602.  @vnevala  Of course Trump profitted off the back of the common man. Who do you think worked for him? What happened to those people when Trump filed his business bankruptcies?
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  2603.  @jocksharerock7318  Say. I have an idea. WATCH THE WHOLE PROGRAM BEFORE YOU JUDGE. Or at least watch substantial excerpts. Might be a good idea.
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  2604. A hyper-individualistic, money-driven, and yet socially conformist society is very hard to live in. At least one of those three must have a safety valve. Most societies are less individualistic. Some are individualistic and money-driven, but allow for more eccentricity, and celebrate quirkiness (think Britain). Money is important, but in most places it isn't everything, and people completely obsessed with it are shunned, not admired. Nor do most people expect to be liked by everyone, or seek that out. The tyranny of "popularity" is imposed on us, to the point where it can affect our very ability to make a living -- or, it can make someone rich for no obvious reason. We have a hard row to hoe.
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  2605. Why do you believe it? That assertion has been contradicted many times.
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  2606. The first rule is not difficult for people of normal insight and intelligence, and the fifth is easy for me (you can only envy the people you don't know, and the fact that anyone does well is proof it can be done). Two, three, and four -- wow have I had problems with those, and I am highly disciplined.
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  2607.  @peterjv8748  Who should get to decide when a new vaccine using a new technology should be mandated, with complete immunity from liability for injuries, and full patent protection for the manufacturers? See David Hume on that; empirical facts don't determine what ought to happen in the realm of ethics and public policy.
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  2608. DARVOed, yup (deny, accuse, reverse victim and offender)
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  2609.  @adrienneclarke3953  For a lot of people, retirement is a new start. It can be.
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  2610. Because it came from a jackalope.
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  2611. OMG, like the Clintons.
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  2612. You say that like it can't happen. 🤣
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  2613.  @neiladlington950  I strongly recommend Nadine Strossen's book on that. Anyone who thinks they are wise enough to institute censorship needs to deal with the facts and the arguments she presents. Then come and tell us how that's going to work.
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  2614.  @cherokeecharlie4016  He is not selling the person, or endorsing him. He is selling the principle of talking to people like him, and he is selling the principle that an interview of this nature IS distinct from an endorsement. Jimmy is promoting his vision of journalism. I appreciate why it appeals to people more than the major networks do.
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  2615. There is some truth in that, but Israel also has a robust peace and justice movement, exactly as South Africa did. They are a minority, and they are suppressed at every turn. AIPAC has also been a force of suppression and has sought to influence Israeli elections in favor of right-wing extremists. AIPAC IS HERE. American journalists who cross AIPAC and report on the Israeli peace movement are fired from their jobs. The Middle East is more complex than you might think.
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  2616.  @nedludd7622  You need to stop with your false flag. Everyone can tell you are trying to anger others and turn them away from a vaccine that might be suitable for them.
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  2617.  @nedludd7622 P. S. Don't drive in this condition.
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  2618.  @nedludd7622  Don't post in my condition? Wow, sexist, too.
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  2619. Katie in her Russian hat for sure.
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  2620. ​ @zhenren9703  Hmm. Maybe you should talk to someone. A living person, I mean, not just here. 🤔
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  2621. She said other things are more important. Maybe the inflation isn't affecting you?
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  2622. U of C also had a terrible reputation for neglecting the physical health of students, for decades. I knew a PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology who nearly died of pneumonia, and had to go home to California and be treated at Stanford. She returned and completed her thesis. Yes, they did this to a woman who was ABD. The Social Darwinism is rampant.
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  2623.  @Sarada.Amaru.999  You are correct about the imposed prolonged social isolation during a critical period of development.
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  2624. Thank you for linking to these articles. Tremendous public service!
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  2625. @Jerbert-qn4in  Not only that, but practically speaking, the belief in genes makes people lazy. If an American kid isn't "good in math," we figure it's genes. In Asia and Russia, they figure he needs to work harder. They're clearly right.
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  2626. ​ @MarissaNye You're right, and this is no secret, either.
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  2627. THIS
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  2628.  @kayzbluegenes  Ted Bundy was an attention seeker. John Gacy, too.
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  2629. ​ @RarebitFiends So, THEY structured their monopoly to shelter it. Well, I'm shocked.
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  2630. ​ @triarii9257 Words aren't crimes. If you fully embrace First Amendment freedoms, then you cannot punish such speech. That is well established and has been for years. Many decades.
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  2631. ​ @triarii9257  Under the First Amendment, you can't ban cross burning or flag burning, or even an abstract call for violence. See Brandenburg v Ohio; RAV v City of St. Paul. See what the Court struck down in the latter case -- Scalia opinion, to boot. You can't ban a demonstration near a funeral of a fallen soldier, as long as it does not interfere with the ceremony or the mourners. You forgot about this? Just now? You can find good summaries of all of this at LII - Cornell, or at Oyez. How come?
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  2632. There just happens to be a war in the region that we are feeding. No big deal.
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  2633. In the meantime, some people are producing journalism. https://youtu.be/4qSz3lUid7Y
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  2634.  @TheAnalyticalFailure  The problem is, you are wrong.
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  2635. Did she lie on the forms? This was her late husband's SSA benefit. She's entitled to it now.
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  2636. It never occurred to Russia that crimes of war would be labeled with a false flag by the actual perpetrator. Who does that, like, ever?
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  2637. ​ @oceania2385  That's right, they were not.
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  2638. Perfect comment.
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  2639. Well, I have doubts about the application of the principle, but I agree with the principle that a child born in a refugee camp who shows immense mathematical talent and graduates as valedictorian from their inner city high school has achieved more than the child of lawyers who does the same. See the life story of Grothendieck.
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  2640. What, precisely, did Musk post that was both unequivocally false AND had the potential to incite riots or support the current UK riots? Did you catch that? Seems to me that if this were SOOOOO important, it would be crystal clear exactly what he (allegedly) did. I didn't get any of that from what Jessica said.
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  2641. She's a disgrace, and I would not trust her to sit in judgment of me about anything that really matters to me. Niall is familiar with European politics. She is not.
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  2642. ​ @ClaudetteWeggeland If you watched the entire program, you know that the quality of surgeons was already in deep decline, long before the current madness, and that includes WHM.
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  2643. Good grief, I thought Rabbi Shmuley knew the basic facts of WWII.
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  2644. ​ @Threemore650  Westerners are so trusting.
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  2645. Exactly. When I was in high school and college, everyone I knew who had a significant viral illness needed anywhere from six months to a year to feel 100% like themselves -- usually a full year. This includes mononucleosis, hepatitis, meningitis, encephalitis, pneumonia. They act like this is something new. A flu can make you feel weak or listless for six whole weeks. So what?? HYPOCHONDRIA is bad for you.
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  2646. Biden wins, State Department flips Venezuela, Republicans go further right and retake power. That's the playbook anyway. Studebaker is wonderful on analysis, Mate on heart -- and Eugene (last name not posted?) on political instincts.
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  2647.  @Crazy_Terryy  Would Likud be in power without the US?
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  2648. How so?
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  2649. Short memory. (Vaxxed? Just kidding.)
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  2650. Great quote.
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  2651. ​ @FedoraWearinNas So . . . Should those engaged in civil disobedience be treated like outlaws, to whom anything can be done?
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  2652.  @edsongonzalez7044  When did Jimmy claim to be smart? There is some reason Max Blumenthal, Glenn Greenward, and Cornel West, among others, come on his "dum dum" show. Jimmy always says that the fact HE gets it is proof the smart people do as well. They are pretending they don't.
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  2653. So . . . Brie throws shade on those who did their own research, suggesting this involved their FACEBOOK feed.
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  2654. YES, exactly. THIS should be the focus. My only criticism of Kennedy is that he diluted the message by citing one controversial study that took attention away from that crucial point. This research has been going on, and yes, all over the world.
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  2655. More information did not come in, apart from the information that discussion was closed and dissenters would be punished with loss of grant money. Well, I guess you're right. That's very important information.
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  2656.  @kg-ke1fw  Yes it is.
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  2657. This is aging worse and worse. Try honesty. It might help you.
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  2658. Love Stef's contribution.
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  2659. This is the kind of information everyone should have, and a viewpoint they should hear, in order to make an intelligent CHOICE. The CHOICE must be up to them. Too bad no one reads literature anymore. Then they would know about how fraught relationships always were. Dwelling in contemporary culture makes a person myopic, and cultural forces take on a meaning that makes them appear inexorable when they are not. France in the '80s had two years of paid maternity leave for a special needs child, and whether a full year was paid or unpaid, no one got fired. Gee, how could they afford it? I wonder whether they still do. They Americanized a lot.
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  2660. Her timeline seems to ignore that in 2004, Russia lacked the power to challenge NATO. This was an invasion of opportunity.
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  2661. Scary.
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  2662. One of the victims was from a refugee family that fled Bosnia 20 years ago.
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  2663. It is outrageous but perfectly foreseeable.
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  2664. 9:40 What do the Clintons have on Obama??
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  2665.  @lesaamoore  Aren't your hobbies fulfilling any more?
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  2666. There is also a BIG difference between assigning a book in class as required reading and having it available in a school library. There is also a difference between a grammar school library and a high school library. All of these involve judgments. Get involved with a library board. See how books are chosen for purchase.
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  2667. Do you have a mind to blow?
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  2668. 💯 We should be the healthiest.
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  2669. ​ @garyluciani1082 True, but he was attacked for it, and his assertions were treated as one more reason to yank his income from him. But technically, you are correct.
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  2670. The Vivek story sounds intriguing. He comes across like a used car salesman to me.
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  2671. Col. Douglas MacGregor is right: these types of demands are a sign of weakness.
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  2672. ​​​ @Marty234 Robby's hypothetical is incorrect: anyone can perform a contract or violate it and pay money. That's the standard. Not to curtail market participation in lieu of money damages. Everyone should have the right to leave any job and get any other job they want. And at the highest levels, pay damages for not performing their original contract to stay.
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  2673. @theia1653  Happened to me. I never did open my door. They left of their own accord. I just happened to be working on a sensitive civil rights case at the moment, lol. Coincidence? Maybe, maybe not.
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  2674. I thought becoming the best tennis player is something people have to work hard for, not something Australia hands out. So, it's the sports betting industry that produced him? I believe it. /s
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  2675.  @elenaustyuzhanina297  I have no say in the matter. I will need to emigrate to have an ordinary, decent life in retirement. I voted for LaRiva to register my support for Peltier's release. I oppose how Chris Hedges is being treated, and how Alexander Malofeev, a true genius and only 20 years old, is being made a martyr.
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  2676. Because too few people are like you. 😢
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  2677. "Work Requirements" aren't there to help rehabilitate people who are struggling with the perverse labor market. They are punitive. Our state used to employ social workers to assist job applicants five days per week, back when good jobs for those with lower skills were relatively plentiful and when low income people didn't have to struggle with algorithms. Where is the necessary assistance now? Put funds there.
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  2678. I wish it were a surprise. :/
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  2679.  @jholland404  It sounded unlikely but possible -- especially if the virus came from a lab event. That was how I was thinking.
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  2680. ​ @take_a_quaalude6948 I suspect that's what Robby thinking looks like.
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  2681. I know all these facts. People who make a point to read a lot, take lots of walks, and eat well can do this. Don't listen to all the people who tell you your memory is at risk. They can talk you into it.
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  2682. No, he doesn't. That's the problem.
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  2683. Making this illegal means the one person in several million who actually needs the treatment will be denied care. The fact that it will probably be made illegal is a testament to how unethical doctors have been. The need for a law shows they cannot oversee and govern themselves. Tragic all around.
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  2684. AMEN
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  2685. One more point: It is essential that Trump NOT get away with this.
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  2686.  @myfeelingsarehurt6655  What is relevant is that you cannot shorten a dying person's life. That is a homicide. You cannot shorten a physically fragile person's life. That is a homicide. You cannot shorten a mentally ill person's life. That is a homicide. You cannot shorten a drug addict's life. That is a homicide. There is no "balancing test," taking into account probable lifespan. It could have been days, or hours. It does not matter. If you believe what you profess to believe, you better find a new country to grow old and die in. Because you are too sure that a version of what happened to Floyd won't happen to you, when people decide you aren't so valuable any more, and will kick the bucket soon anyway. Because that's where we are.
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  2687. I knew TYT was trashy, but WOW.
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  2688. ​@joerogan8703 We need more presidents who cannot walk or talk!! Disability Rights!! Woo hoo!!!
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  2689. Oh you have GOT to be kidding.
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  2690. If this were about health care, we'd have universal health care -- without age or income discrimination.
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  2691.  @dadnonlyd3  People on Medicare decline vaccines all the time.
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  2692.  @lauramcclain8651  How one feels at a given moment is a fact, but it is not something that negates or overrides other facts, however much the person may desire it based on the intensity of their emotions.
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  2693.  @johnstrawb3521  If they did that, and it can be proved, they all get disbarred.
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  2694. A typical side effect of puberty blockers and transsex hormones is permanent sterilization. To oppose this for minors is not unreasonable. I can't believe that a society with a long, ugly history of eugenics isn't suspicious of puberty blockers in teens, just because they are not "gender-typical." So what if they aren't? Should only cheerleaders and football players have kids? This has gotten absurd. Choice means the choice to be a birth parent someday. Some people decide to do that in their 30s and 40s, and had no idea they would want to when they were only 16.
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  2695. @OMorningStar  I know it's broken and corrupted. If THIS case cannot go forward -- if they are going to try to force a plea out of an autistic kid -- then it doesn't exist at all. A jury is the only way for the rest of us to say NO. We don't agree with this. It's the only hope.
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  2696. Some of those birds still remember him. I'm so glad I found this post again. Very best wishes to you.
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  2697. I'm afraid the European government repression won't be confronted by its citizens where it is taking place, but instead will end up causing resentment against Israelis.
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  2698. Law enforcement isn't holding platforms responsible. Section 230 protects them. All they have to do is obey a court order to identify those breaking the law (by making true threats, etc.) when they get the order. Private parties they contract with have cancelled Kiwi Farms' services.
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  2699. Aaron Mate, my favorite guest. Which is saying a lot. Justin Jackson is a rising star all right.
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  2700. Appreciation for Marc Steiner.
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  2701. Props up the dollar, defends the petrodollar. Maintains dollar hegemony. Or did you think the world eats Facebook? Babies beg to differ.
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  2702. Perfect summation. Short, sweet, true.
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  2703.  @dzrtsno5630  🤣🤣🤣
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  2704.    How do you think? The age is based on years worked, and they've earned it. Moreover, you must not know France. There is no stigma against older people, like you see in the English-speaking world. Most older people go on to another job -- the one they've always wanted. They don't lie around starting at 62. Or they open a boutique, a bookstore, a cafe; they teach French to foreigners, or tutor part time. Or they paint or they write, if they have the talent. Or they keep a productive garden and some chickens. No wonder they are adamant to keep the retirement age where it is. Annie Ernaux was among the last to know that she had won the Nobel Prize at 82. She had her phone off while she was working. (Her response upon hearing the news was, "are you sure?" Contrary to propaganda, France is not an entitlement kind of place.) The last third of an adult life SHOULD be secure.
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  2705.  @andrewwells6323  First of all, I said federal tax REBATES. "Incentive" is a euphemism designed to whitewash the matter. First you say it doesn't happen at all, then you say it's good for us. (Why am I reminded of Fauci refusing to address "gain-of-function" research forthrightly?)
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  2706. Thank you both. Someone better see it, quick.
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  2707. What disturbs me is the report that satellite images "proved" intact bodies first observed on the ground in early April were there since March 19. No one questioned this. No one mentioned decomposition. One more biological fact in the dustbin.
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  2708.  @jsamadams  Good that you think so. I suggest you do some serious reading on that. Psychiatry has always been fraught with misdiagnoses. It can take a child a year or more before they trust someone enough to confide in them, especially if they fear being blamed for what happened to them, or fear harm will come to themselves or their families if they report what happened. This is a problem for crime victims generally. Do you really not know this?
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  2709. ​@betsybabf748 The free speech standard is not based on subjective feelings. Only true threats and incitement to imminent violence are unprotected speech. Protesting American funding of a war that has been deemed to represent a plausible case of genocide by the ICJ, with the American judge agreeing, is fully protected political speech. Sources: the Westboro Baptist Church case RAV v. City of St. Paul Brandenburg v. Ohio. RAV was a Scalia opinion, and Scalia joined the opinion on the flag-burning case, Texas v. Johnson. One could start with those four cases, or any one of them, and find out.
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  2710.  @iamwhoyousayiam6773  That was a nice suggestion. He didn't tell Kyle who to be friends with. He said if ___ is your friend, let them know it's not cool to threaten people with MeToo to stop them from legitimately criticizing you.
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  2711. Even something like the ability to fast is helpful. To walk or bike. To cook everything you eat. Prove to yourself that you can do it. Make it become easy through practice.
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  2712. ​ @AppleseedVending  Jimmy has a chronic condition and his doctor told him he absolutely needed it. Sad.
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  2713. ​@AnnSmajstrla Do you vet your doctors, dentists, attorneys, psychotherapists, and physical therapists for unimpeachable personal conduct? Or just for legal or professional misconduct? I only care about the law and professional codes of ethics.
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  2714.  @hedydd2  People are left alone all the time. Should we worry about that, too? That is not living.
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  2715.  @williamcondon7729  So, what was the point? You got a job out of it? Good for you, then. Krystal just told you what Clinton was, and she was too kind.
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  2716. Full agreement. 💯 But advertisers will take her opinion into account. That's the problem.
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  2717. Did Kamala struggle to maintain a straight face, or was that my imagination?
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  2718. @theprogressivemichigander6588  Thank you for this perfect explanation. It's rent extraction, just as Adam Smith warned about and thought could be avoided, and Marx demonstrated was inevitable under the system. How are older people supposed to afford a car or a washing machine? You used to be able to buy one for retirement and never need another, not to mention the vast environmental degradation planned obsolescence is causing. All of this is spinning out of control.
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  2719. ​@shelbzillathrilla But this is an even stronger argument for immigration reform, and for an orderly process for immigration. If we had normal population growth, enculturating a larger cohort of immigrants would be easier.
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  2720.  @Bronson37848  In any event, within the last hour, Reuters deemed the report of Russian responsibility for the killings as unconfirmed.
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  2721.  @Bronson37848  Exactly. We are being trained never to suspend judgment until we have the facts, as if suspending judgment makes you a genocide enabler. I would be afraid to stand in front of a jury today. Even ten years ago I would not have said that.
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  2722.  @smb123211  NYTimes claims the bodies were there for three weeks. This raises no questions in your mind? None at all? I mean real questions, that may have true answers consistent or inconsistent with that assertion.
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  2723.  @sopheakko697  The economy is arranged so that not everyone will find a job. If they did, who would volunteer for the armed forces? In any case, full employment would force up all wages, no law needed. Every time unemployment falls really low and hard, "something happens." Haven't you noticed?
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  2724. 8:00 Unlike Joe, whose rationale is wanting a deal for Hunter.
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  2725.  @waywordprairie922  BTW, I've read tons of actual studies. I only rely on studies, of the sort Dr. Campbell relies on.
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  2726. Jimmy and Max -- always a good day.
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  2727. Don't they all?
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  2728.  @Lorenzconnok  Oh brother. If you don't see through Jordan Peterson yet, you may be more susceptible to indoctrination than you think. Krystal's basic point, that good, honest, working people, who we all depend on because they do the essential jobs, are being systematically denigrated, and picked up by self-serving grifters unworthy of representing them, is true.
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  2729.  @alexsmith2910  What an irrelevant, tendentious question. But I'll take it on. Would you ban a convicted sex offender from any and every YouTube channel? Suppose he appears on a panel with law enforcement, to talk about how to keep your kids safe? (Very relevant -- normal people often do not spot dangerous circumstances; they cannot put themselves in the minds of offenders. How do you think clergy or coaches got away with it?) Suppose he appears with a panel of psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, to talk about halfway houses and treatments? Would you censor it?
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  2730.  @e_8074  Agreed. I do see the point that this guy is pretty bad, though. But Glenn warned us, and kept his word.
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  2731. To destroy a tremendous photo like that, wow. Just what kind of mind could could do that?
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  2732. I agree with you. Censorship is not the answer. I only want to highlight one thing: we haven't yet grappled with the environment created by the new media. Part of the reason is that it is much too new. But we are going to have to discuss these issues --- and the irony is that the new media seems to be undermining rational discussion.
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  2733. Until it was explained to me, I thought "let's go, Brandon" was the men in white coats leading Joe Biden away, and that he now thinks his name is Brandon. If that does happen, you heard it here first.
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  2734. Everything she said was true.
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  2735.  @jonmeyer7402  Your last two lines are the most despicable innuendo. You are not a credible actor.
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  2736.  @myrhev  And there is also actionable speech -- like defamation, or intentional infliction of emotional distress (jeering at a person who trusts you and you know to be vulnerable, and telling them they should commit suicide, for example). These are not necessarily criminal but the target can always sue. The problem is, no one can force Facebook, etc., to take down speech proven in court to be defamation. THEY have the choice to take it down, or not. Section 230 immunity has morphed into a monster.
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  2737.  @otomicans6580  The DNC is now an elitist, corporatist neoliberal party. It does a lot of window dressing, but never stands against Wall Street deregulation, an ever-growing surveillance state, a huge military presence all over the world, or any system of health care or higher education that Wall Street cannot draw advantage from in some way (health insurance schemes designed in the interests of capital formation, student debt that cannot be discharged, etc.) Gay rights, marijuana legalization, etc., are now good for business and can also be used as wedge issues and distractions. Whether unfettered immigration drives down wages and causes dislocation, and whether NAFTA harmed some parts of Mexico so much that the people are driven to go north for work, is almost never discussed. If you try to broach the subject, you'll be accused of racism immediately, when the people who set up this system clearly had no concern for the immigrants. Worse yet, so many immigrants are refugees WE created. Now, we refuse them shelter and a fair hearing. How far right is that?
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  2738. I wish I was 1/60 as poor as she is.
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  2739. And why should they work hard for bullshit pay? Think this through.
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  2740. Definitely guilty, huh? Of WHAT?
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  2741. ​@tonygohagan2766 True. She was very polite, and yet unnerved him. 😊
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  2742.  @nosmoking5262  WHO is defending Russiagate? (Certainly not The Hill Rising.) All of this has harmed us. Are you for a race to the bottom? Small difference: journalists and lawyers are held to different standards. If she wants to be an entertainer, and make up stuff for fun and profit, she needs to relinquish her law license.
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  2743. ​@user-re9mz2bt1e Immunity for vaccine manufacturers was inaugurated in 1986 --- that's right, under the Reagan administration. The number of vaccines after that exploded.
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  2744. Yes. They expect you to be used to this stuff by now. 😳
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  2745. Stefanik is THE best little fundraiser I've seen in a generation. Just think of all the 💰 that will not go into Harvard's coffers and will instead go straight into Stefanik's.
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  2746. This requires a dispassionate investigation. Everything else is less than justice. Everything else is speculation. For those who are damning her, I would just say that clearly she provided this information of her own volition. We wouldn't know this without her cooperation.
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  2747.  @mlovmo  I suggest you research that. It is a plausible hypothesis.
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  2748. 💯 You said it best.
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  2749. The actions of the IDF in Gaza.
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  2750. ​@skontheroad This show has gone downhill since Briahna was fired for free speech. She had to get replaced with two people -- classic. My only objection to her was that she didn't always bring to bear her extensive knowledge of the law -- but when she did, it seemed to infuriate a lot of people. You want your own opinions showcased, just like these ridiculous CBS staffers who cried! They should be ashamed.
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  2751.  @shamsheerg7519  FGM is practiced on minors. The children are forced to undergo it. That's not choice.
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  2752.  rik michael  Create a crisis. "Problem solved." The data does not support the panic created. It simply does not.
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  2753. AMEN
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  2754. Why do they think they can lie, when all of this stuff is online and can be verified?
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  2755. Yanis Varoufakis is excellent on this point. As long as we have the national debt and trade deficits we do, the money needs to cycle back -- and where do you think it is going to go? It's funny that he is dismissed as a "Marxist," when half of what he tells you is perfectly consistent with "conservative" principles. Of course Marx himself endorsed what was true in Adam Smith, insofar as it was true. (And why not? It would have been both wrong and politically weak not to.)
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  2756. Europe does censor, and I disagree with that, but they look to protect individual privacy rights, which are hard for ordinary people to vindicate. The US censors to make multinational corporations and Wall Sreet feel more comfortable.
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  2757.  @peterstafford4426  You have to try much harder than that.
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  2758. You were right the first time.
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  2759.  @damer651  Not enough to disrupt his game or his composure, frankly.
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  2760. So well said!
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  2761. ​ @antonyjh1234  Subsaharan Africa and Southeast Asia did even better. Countries around it? Did Germany, UK, France do better? What is your radius? More important, where did people under 30 do better? Under 50? Under 75? And WHY? Sweden had issues with keeping seniors safe, and we need to condemn them for that, and find out why it happened, as well as what percentage these groups were of all deaths.
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  2762. Nope. They've been paid. That's exactly why they accuse others of being paid.
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  2763. ​ @nirguna17 And all of that was never really fixed, so add this on top.
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  2764. Kurt is insufferable about 50% of the time now.
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  2765. May we ask whether he's vaccinated, young, or both?
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  2766.  @susandundon5918  This is affecting us all at this point. But can you imagine being 17 years old? What are you supposed to conclude?
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  2767.  @paulclinton6414  Because Medea Benjamin, Richard Wolff, Max Blumenthal, and Chris Hedges would be regular guests on a Fox cut-out . . . say, have you tried stand-up comedy?
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  2768.  @capncrunch9053  Not at all. Bannon said a LOT of good things. His good proposals are never adopted.
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  2769. We were even better under JFK. You could work over the summer and make your year of college tuition, or afford a security deposit on an apartment anywhere, and pay for the move.
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  2770.  @Silence_Duder_Gooder  You get good at what you practice.
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  2771. I wish I could. :/
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  2772. Why should anyone except an Israeli be "Israel first?" This is a tremendous show, giving voice to Jewish peace activists. Also, besides being brilliant, this woman is so pretty.
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  2773. Whoa, consider what DOJ says happened: people didn't know this was satire!!
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  2774. Except that's not what happened.
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  2775. ​ @cassiescornerreviews6884 How about neither? Could neither work for you?
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  2776.  @facelesstrader1351  What do you think capitalism spawns? And quickly, too.
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  2777. How was the cashier anti-gay?
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  2778. Kyle. Who are you kidding? If you had a girlfriend who weaponized MeToo to get someone banned from this media, you would either drop her, or you'd be too madly in love with her to drop her. Either way, you'd feel a chill down your spine. You'd be scared.
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  2779. EXCELLENT. All of these issues must be on the table, fully explored.
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  2780. 😂
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  2781.  @jasonstroon  The vaccines are Emergency Use Authorization. They are not FDA approved.
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  2782. Gavin de Becker is known for being one of the very finest security experts in history. De Becker is Jewish. He didn't go to college as far as I know. He went to one of the best Hebrew schools in the country.
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  2783. Pain? They got paid.
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  2784. If these serious side effects are so rare, it should be easy to compensate everyone fully.
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  2785. Absolutely no one who cannot follow a checklist or think logically could pass law school exams or any bar exam. Today the ultrawealthy get away with everything, but it wasn't the case for his generation, as was obvious by the fact that he did fail the NY Bar twice (which isn't rare, by the way). The Bar told him "no" twice. BTW, I'm not a fan at all. Someone with his means, and for this flight, could have easily engaged a co-pilot. He killed two people through gross negligence. There's no excuse. Also, I would never frequent a Kennedy. Their rate of accidental deaths involving unacceptable risks is well documented. But this video is chock full of nonsense.
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  2786. No such law commanding love for America.
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  2787.  @rainer250  Then she does put M4A up for a vote in return. Win win.
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  2788. He knew what he was doing. I want my money back.
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  2789. I always want to hear what someone who had power, or had the ear of those in power, has to say. What do my politics have to do with it? How else will I know what X (fill in the blank) has to say?
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  2790. I tend to believe Biden, though. He was never too sharp. As long as the money was flowing, why would he be paying attention?
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  2791. The joke's on us.
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  2792. Correct. It has a devastating genetic defect, and also poses real risks to this mother's health and life. The pregnancy was abnormal for weeks already. This is pretty rare. Yeah.
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  2793. Politics have moved drastically to the RIGHT. Compare Mitterrand to Macron.
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  2794.  @kelliintexas3575  This was Bill Gates' plan all along. Remember how you used to buy a CD-ROM with the MS Office Suite, and now it's a yearly subscription? I remember articles in the financial press 20 years ago saying he was trying to find a way to charge a toll for Internet use -- and these were his friends writing about it.
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  2795. ​ @bidhrohi12  I have to say, I can think of a lot of things to call the hyperbillionaire multinational corporations, but "bums" did not come to mind.
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  2796. Who are the leftists who defend anyone for embracing ethnic nationalism? Examples?
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  2797.  @brentshowers741  Gabbard cannot "veto" legislation.
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  2798.  @itsallagame7354  JOINED THREE MONTHS AGO
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  2799. Did ICE get the memo, too? 😂😂😂
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  2800. So it only comes up after Ana and Cenk smeared Aaron Mate? Interesting timing.
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  2801. How many of these billionaires have defense contracts? 😂
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  2802.  @jstreets1983  I voted LaRiva/Peltier as a protest. In person. On election day.
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  2803. ​ @Memphis2010GFC  Prove he literally said that.
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  2804.  @theusher2893  I know. Those poor, poor plantations owners screaming, "but we don't WANT slaves!," and having Africa thrust slaves upon them. I shudder to think about it.
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  2805. It's a cult.
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  2806. The Westboro Baptist Church case, where funerals of fallen service members were picketed, and it was ruled free speech, established how far away they must stay.
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  2807. Oh no, I read "unelectable" as "uneducable!"
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  2808. I'm struck by how easily they were able to pull Iraq off, and this is just not working out for them quite the same way . . .
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  2809.  @interdimensionalsteve8172  Which is why Katie Halper, Krystal Ball, and Briahna Joy Gray have all been duped, by an illiterate comic broadcasting from his garage.
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  2810. Does Trump have an update on how Ghislaine Maxwell is doing? He wished her well.
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  2811.  @giombi15  Dore agrees with you. That is why he delivered a formal apology, in writing, promised never to make crass jokes like that again, also in writing, and gave Ana a small gift -- SEVEN YEARS AGO. And now, because Ana does not like the criticism she so richly deserves, she brings it up. To make Dore stop "running his mouth." And reminds him of the note. And takes a SWIPE at his WIFE. Um . . . Yeah. It really doesn't matter what you think of Jimmy. You don't abuse someone like Ana did, to get your way. She achieved a lot of what she was after. She misjudged Aaron Mate's power in journalism, but she knew that Jimmy's blue collar cultural background and his personal trauma would make him an easy target.
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  2812. Everyone I know who has not yet been vaccinated plans to get vaccinated as soon as the vaccine is fully FDA approved, which gives access to the 1986 fund (the real one) in case of injury. I hope they expedite the process. There is no reason not to. Forcing anyone to get vaccinated with an EUA vaccine is not appropriate, especially where minors are concerned. Another fact: the two countries with the highest vaccination rates, UK and Israel, have been more candid about side effects, not less, and have had a more open discussion. Why am I not surprised?
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  2813. Re: Trump's response to COVID. I consider it poor, BUT not at all for the reasons Nomiki said. She's factually wrong.
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  2814. ​ @annieMalaugh-vl6oy The youngest was 14. He had to get through 4 years. These are circumstances where bankruptcy reorganization can assist you. MANY men find themselves there, and their retirement accounts are sheltered, at least. I wonder if he would have lost his job if he were to file. He blew a TON of money on lawyers, suing his ex-wife dozens of times.
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  2815.  @jamiedee36  ALL of these accusations about what Brie said are false. It's odd. It's Orwellian, in fact.
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  2816. Yeah, I thought the billionaires would sweep all these dissenters off the stage and make sure they never worked again. Do blacklists right this time. /s
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  2817. ​ @alrent2992 In the meantime, the US has some new meme coins . . . I hear they're nutritious.
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  2818. Love her mimicking of Pelosi et al.
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  2819. Kyle's not worth it.
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  2820.  @BradfordHills  Everyone I read agrees it was self-defense. I don't understand why he was charged. I understand why he was taken into custody. I understand why they needed to investigate this, watch the video frame by frame, etc., all that. Sure. I understand why some people may disagree with what he did, or regret he did what he did. So what? That doesn't mean it was a crime.
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  2821. Loved that
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  2822. Dream on.
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  2823. Still recognizes? 😅
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  2824. Max is damned BRAVE.
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  2825. What I'm having trouble with is why people say Shakespeare was poorly educated. My understanding was that he attended a Latin school, where by the 8th grade, if pupils were caught speaking English on the premises, they were thrashed. Then he was an actor, which further trained his memory. Have people lost the sense of the immense value of an education like that? I know that even today, people in France (who I grant you speak a Romance language) tell me that if they study Latin while young, they can pick up Spanish or Italian by living in Spain or Italy for the summer. These are not linguistically talented people, just regular good students. Moreover, I don't think a recluse could have written the plays, like some of the people posting appear to believe. That an actor-director did strikes me as far more plausible.
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  2826. Tell us more about the DoD-funded biolabs in Ukraine. We'd like to know.
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  2827. A healthy, vaccinated person with mild COVID might not know they have it. To be consistent, the pro-mandate people would need to treat this person the same as an unvaccinated person if they spread COVID. Or will testing every sniffle be the new mandate??
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  2828.  @Bluebelle51  She was grotesque. Seriously.
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  2829. Seriously? Max's father was pure Chicago, like Jimmy's family. Max respects the working class perspective. They have some roots in common. Chicago is a heavy thing.
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  2830.  @TomFoolery-s8p  That's fine, but your criticism misses the mark.
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  2831. Trump is SEVENTY-SIX years old. SEVENTY-SIX. Biden will be 80 years old this month. This is becoming insane.
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  2832. ​ @thepersoner1182 CDC official website: Update on Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Outbreaks — Worldwide, January 2021–December 2022
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  2833. Wow, you really don't like her, huh?
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  2834. Certainly they can. Do you think cases couldn't be brought before everyone had a smartphone? It is called sworn testimony.
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  2835. @traho811  Exactly. Defendants count on people being too scared or embarrassed to sue, and they count on people thinking no one will believe them if they come forward. The truth is a little different a lot of the time.
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  2836.  @jman75234  Make Biden veto it. For the whole world to see.
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  2837. Listen to the end. After Emily took the discussion in a productive direction, he made the point that even if this document were a plant, it doesn't affect what we do know. Fauci did redefine gain of function research by narrowing the concept, to get around the moratorium.
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  2838. I just had the sensation of having swallowed a chest hair.
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  2839. This wasn't a carjacking. The question it raises is whether Naomi Biden's vehicle has Secret Service protection.
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  2840. Effectiveness and safety are two separate questions, always. Safety of vaccine is measured against risk from the illness you're vaccinating against. Make testing easily available and you will have a great case for a "vaccine or test" mandate. That way, people can schedule their boosters without worry, too. When your vaccine wears off, then it's time to test, Kyle. ;) After all, you took Johnson and Johnson. ;)
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  2841. As Brie said, civil disobedience entails a willingness to face arrest. It doesn't mean that you're an outlaw, and police can risk maiming you for life if they feel like it. Are these distinctions too fine now?
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  2842. Not just free, rewarded.
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  2843. ​ @michaelmcclure3383 That's funny. Briahna has made sure everyone knows she did NOT vote for Biden. She never fails to acknowledge that Trump is correct when he says something that happens to be true. The first time, I thought that was one-off, but she always does.
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  2844. ​@alexaschneider-n6n This allegation was not made after the nomination but long before, and was made to police, not the media.
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  2845. The best. She'd be a real President. We've had years of cosplay.
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  2846. Well, you can try it, but . . . I don't recommend it, frankly. 😅
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  2847. 😂😂😂 that was funny She was at a Vogue shoot?
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  2848. If that is the case, the appellate court will overturn it. Be sure of it.
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  2849. For $100,000, I'll hit the thumbs down. I'm sure Jimmy would forgive me. $150,000 per thumbs down on a Jimmy Dore video going forward. Reserve the right to ask for a raise, and quit at any time without notice.
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  2850. This
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  2851. It cannot be for bona fide First Amendment protected speech, religious observance, or assembly.
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  2852. In a society with a horrifying history of eugenics, someone thinks we shouldn't question whether a prepubescent child, or any minor, ought to be offered sexual reassignment, which usually renders them unable to have children. I think everyone should have the same opportunity to become a birth parent, trans or not. I believe in preserving reproductive rights. Deciding whether or not to have birth children is something adults have the right to do. Any treatment that could take this freedom away from a child could only be a last resort, after everything else has been tried, and has clearly failed. Of course I've been denounced for this view.
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  2853. He needed to kick out the jambs just this once. Cathartic. He looked happy.
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  2854.  @chuckthebull  I like this thread. :)
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  2855. I caught that, too. They can get suspended by YT if they play the whole thing. They got suspended over a clip of an ex-President talking.
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  2856. ​@space4099 Every other developed country has free higher education. It is, however, harder to qualify. Up until the 1980s, a minimum wage job was sufficient to earn your in-state tuition over a summer. You could make a year's worth in three months.
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  2857.  @notrandom2  In the US, yes. A study just came out on showing how much life expectancy fell last year -- HERE. Not in Germany, hardly at all in France, etc. But we had record drug overdose deaths last year, too.
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  2858. Well, we have to be sure the baby is worth having here. I mean, what? You want poor people to have babies? Babies are for Elon.
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  2859. ​ @marywalters1181 Exactly. Assange was indicted under Trump.
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  2860.  @mastercontrolprogram163  Good luck being logical and factual around these people.
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  2861.  @danimalthebruce2569  Just the opposite is true. Habitual use leads to remarkable tolerance. You have NO idea what a lethal dose would be to someone using. Why are you so dead set on believing nonsense? You have zero knowledge on the matter, just what your equally ill-informed friends tweet, or something.
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  2862. Okay. Forget her. Someone does a mass shooting -- of a grammar school, say -- and this rotten psycho leaves a social media trail that suggests he was obsessed with you. What do you say? Obviously you are appalled and probably genuinely surprised. (Probably every honest person is shocked and doesn't blame you.) So . . . Do you denounce the shooter straightaway? Unequivocally? Why not? Just do it.
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  2863. We are all pawns for political points. Our lives mean nothing.
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  2864. In France, firefighters took the side of Gilets Jaunes against police, and got into altercations with police. Not just once -- every week for weeks on end. Then, the pandemic came.
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  2865. Advertisers are not about "truth." They are about "perception." If ad men want to shun someone who has been defamed, considering that person to have a spoiled identity, they can do that. They don't care about truth.
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  2866.  @monkeystank5241  It's called Nixon's Southern Strategy, which became the central strategy of the contemporary Republican Party. Of course, this changed its character. The Republican Party was once a party of self-reliant, self-disciplined Yankee types, where people shunned ostentation and mistrusted huge fortunes unless they were the result of obvious ability and decades of hard word -- self-made, of course. These were farmers and shop keepers, not B-grade movie or reality show clowns. Oh the good old days . . .
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  2867. We finally found a guy who didn't use Epstein's jet. I'm still impressed by that part.
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  2868. ​@Taxationistheft928 If they think they're smart enough to render tens of millions of elderly homeless, and can convince (💰💰💰💰) presidents to listen to them, then . . . Yeah.
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  2869. @tonifitz6831  OH I GET IT. "Belonging in jail" requires a criminal law to be broken. That's the connection. You're welcome. BTW, if Brian was psychotic, blaming his family for his actions becomes quite tenuous. A parent cannot raise a child not to become mentally ill. Parents can only be criticized for failing to notice and help the child.
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  2870. I remember. I will always remember. I've had a lot of blows in life. This one was the one that I don't think I can overcome. I don't have the time.
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  2871. True, the term is weaponized. And people who do not understand evidence-based reasoning or Bayesian probability, even on a bare, intuitive level, and spin a more elaborate conspiracy when a simpler story is revealed to be baseless, are giving real conspirators the perfect cover. RICO was designed to address something.
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  2872. P. S. I edit to test whether I'm being censored or shadowed. That is a good test.
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  2873. NOT HER POINT AT ALL . . . What makes this relevant, suddenly, when Russell himself wrote about these things? THAT was her question. As for Turner, the timing of the outrage was suspicious as well.
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  2874.  @rustynuggets  That's not what happened. TYT attacked Aaron Mate, who was defamed, and could bring a lawsuit against TYT. It seems he doesn't want to. Jimmy then sprang to Aaron's defense, and denounced TYT. After that, Ana let Jimmy know she still had the apology note he wrote when he made a crass joke about her and humiliated her, and that she would go public with it if he didn't stop attacking TYT. Oops. That's when the gloves came off big time.
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  2875. ​ @anon69_q  What are some alleged side effects that turned out not to be? Myocarditis, pericarditis, certain rare blood clots, BGS, and possibly lupus are all real, though the demographics of the relative risk are not at all uniform. Age, and even sex play a role. Hey, good thing we have two hearts and two brains, lol.
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  2876. "Progressives got weakened over time." What time period?
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  2877. The Nation wrote about what his foundation actually does, and how. So did a book published in French before this pandemic. So have others. Gates buys the reputation he wants, that's why this is news now. He has done a lot of harm in many areas, because of his influence: to be precise, other foundations copycat what his does. It's like a monoculture.
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  2878. "How dare they do this?" Perfect.
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  2879. Well, . . . well . . . But he and Nancy will make it affordable!!! In fact, they will provide no-interest for 6 months loans . . . /s
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  2880. The number "16 2/3" is an 11% increase over 15, because you have to add 11% of 15 to 15 to get there. Learn this math. You need it now. Watch for this post to be removed.
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  2881. That was the idea. 😊
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  2882. Therefore we should use this one. Right.
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  2883.  @PikachooUpYou  Yeah!!
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  2884. ​ @tedmarley4341 Kennedy wants it back from beyond the brink of MADNESS.
    7
  2885. Yes they do. You must not watch them.
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  2886.  @Individual_Lives_Matter  A life of leisure? He did nothing but work.
    7
  2887.  Barb Richardson  Yeah, that was Macron's partisans' attempt to smear them. After the 2019 general strike and the convergence of the demonstrations, that smear died.
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  2888.  @MeanBeanComedy  Kim Iversen is a Tulsi Gabbard type of Democrat, and agreed with Bernie on a lot of things, but she also has a strong libertarian streak, especially for the First Amendment. She is no fool about economic issues, taxes, etc. She did an excellent critique of Gabbard on drone warfare, first inviting her to come on the show to discuss it, then renewing the invitation before saying anything against Gabbard's position. I liked it a lot. Refreshing. Iversen is upfront: she got vaccinated, she opposes all mandates for COVID vaccines.
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  2889. Glenn Greenwald noticed him and interviewed him some months ago. Glenn, smh. What instincts!
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  2890. Perfect reporter.
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  2891. Let Tucker and Glenn explain it to you. X
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  2892.  @rahimn9246  THIS
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  2893. They should get busy saving Assange's life while there is still time.
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  2894. What it did was keep Tara Reade very, very busy, and afraid, and in legal and financial jeopardy. So the smears did their job.
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  2895.  @fuckamericanidiot  It wasn't the case back when the great state universities cost under $1000 per year in tuition and fees, students could easily earn that amount with a summer job, and the Vietnam War was raging.
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  2896. The fact that so many will vote for her anyway is what gets me. A few because of, not in spite of.
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  2897. I hate pointless regulation, or even neutral regulation. It's supposed to have a GOOD reason. Do these regs help keep fish safe and plentiful to eat? Do they protect the safety of fishermen? If so, leave them alone. BUT if they are just a money-grab, NO.
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  2898. JIMMY COMMENTING LIVE. Starting out with praise of Kyle, and thanking him for certain things he says here.
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  2899.  @gracelynne3918  LOL
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  2900.  @onefreepalestine  Just saw the Ministry of the Interior admitted that the January 19 general mobilization reached over a million. I wonder how many actually turned up!
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  2901. You're right. It is time to force a real change.
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  2902. Nothing she said was irrational.
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  2903.  NEVERAGAIN5784  Take it up with her constituents. Persuade them to vote for someone else.
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  2904. And here I thought we were against cancel culture.
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  2905. Kim is in the trenches, caring, not just talking.
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  2906. Reminds me of a Russian joke, "everything they told us about communism was false, and everything they told us about capitalism is true." But yeah, USSR was both better and worse than we were told. We were supposed to believe nothing important was happening there, but in fact it is the pivotal nation. I only found out the USSR defeated the Nazis about 50 years after WWII, when an Oxford military historian said so on public television, and that Soviets prevented nuclear war twice. Then I started reading Stephen F. Cohen.
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  2907.  @jeffroberts6428  In Chicago, parents with difficult children have no support. A ton of social services, community mental health, etc., was cut after the 2008 crisis. They have no one to call. Parents who have called police have ended up with a dead kid. In Chicago. And a dead downstairs neighbor who opened the door for police. Look up "Police are often first responders to mental health crises, but tragedies are prompting change," in the ABA Journal this month.
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  2908.  @stellarhyme3  Nope. Not this time.
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  2909. No Brie = a little boring
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  2910.  @rrpearsall  Now this is a worthwhile observation. We should ALWAYS KNOW when a corporation offshores production to skirt labor safety laws AND pollution controls. They can point to lower wages as a purely "business decision" within the context of the system. (Not that I agree, but . . . ) How can they say dangerous workplaces and pollution are "business decisions?" They are picking where to produce based on where they can get away with more crimes.
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  2911. A father cannot be forced to donate a blood transfusion to save his three-year-old. We all agree he is immoral. Still, governments cannot force him.
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  2912. That they plan to push this is very true, I'm afraid.
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  2913. Not to mention that she escorted the kids out of the class while bleeding internally. She is a true hero.
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  2914. Taylor Swift is very beautiful, and a fun entertainer, but her singing is barely so-so. If I want pop, I listen to Wham.
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  2915. Listen to this!? We can't let Russia march through Europe???
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  2916. Luckily it's probably false.
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  2917. This is true.
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  2918. This is the same as the other video. And the one before.
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  2919. I HOPE they are false, yes.
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  2920. The notion of a third gender, often believed to have special powers, is not unusual at all. Within those cultures, though, very, very few people are ever considered to be third gender.
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  2921. ​ @agoogleuser704 A race between Kennedy and West, even better.
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  2922. The working class is beyond our own shores now. Once China, etc., decide not to recycle dollars into our financial markets so generously, that is when you'll find out just how productive the real economies in the West are. We all have more stuff. Someone is making it. No, not robots. Robots are a small part of the story.
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  2923. Amen to that.
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  2924. @electricpaper269  Equal access to education with men: do you think that didn't open all other areas to hard work and talent as well? Higher education is more important to women than men because we usually can't work in construction, etc., and are often less well suited to law enforcement or military careers, or careers in sports --- with obvious exceptions.
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  2925. You don't have to imagine.
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  2926. But "herd immunity" is how America does health care. Survive or die. Your preexisting condition is not my problem.
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  2927.  @Besiktas1958  Nobody pays you for your skill. They pay you what they have to pay you. Anyone who can get away with paying zero ("internships") does that.
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  2928. Well, finally a tacit, partial admission.
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  2929.  @Archone666  Yup. Her crying display was of no value whatsoever, to anyone. This harms women. How about taking a mature approach? I thought someone in her position had some gravitas. 1. Do New York Times reporters understand the First Amendment? 2. If she received true threats (such as, for example, Glenn Greenwald received when a cyber stalker was able to recount to him details of his movements that were not generally known), did she follow protocol: advise HR, contact law enforcement, etc., and were these people helpful? Did they suggest paid leave, for example? Did they heighten security around her?
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  2930. I'm a lawyer, California bar, and I've heard nonsense come out of her mouth many times. I don't think she's saying it in bad faith, but she has friends she has to satisfy. How many people of her stripe are "libertarian" EXCEPT where a woman's right to abort an embryo is concerned?
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  2931. Yes. He needs more Athens.
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  2932.  @pinstripesuitandheels  Just curious. Were you the teacher who would punish a kid who was beaten up all year the very first time he summoned the courage to fight back? Reading between the lines, I'm sure I'm not the only one who got that impression, etc. Think. Take your time. Oh, and look up "passive aggressive."
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  2933. ​ @Hollyucinogen  I'm sorry, this isn't funny.
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  2934.  @HomesteadGirls  Most people are mediocre. They aren't bad or good. There's a lot more good than bad, but there isn't too much of either. The mediocre ones tend to treat might as making right. It's easier than thinking it through, being brave, etc. And the few bad do a lot of bad.
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  2935. @Adrian-hq5jk  Claiming that gender, ethnicity, creed, color, LGBTQ status, and the like, are qualifications for weighty positions. Being human is a qualification for a job. Being a woman of color doesn't weigh in either direction for being President, not anymore than being a man of British descent.
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  2936. When the Beatles and Stones properly credited black music for their success, did anyone have a fit?
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  2937. You are too kind. That was Stefanik fundraising, and wow did she do a good job.
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  2938. LOL, true. But Mace said she would call Kamala Harris whatever she wants. That was the uncool thing. Mispronunciation itself is no big deal. It happens to everyone.
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  2939. She is blaming him for threats she received? I really do wish he would sue.
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  2940. 😂😂😂😂😂
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  2941.  @socktier6334  What I can't figure out is why you are not ashamed.
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  2942.  @Ethangelion1.11  He should have been charged with first degree murder. He did not approach Floyd initially with the intent to kill him, but when Floyd went limp and Chauvin continued to kneel, and resisted pleas to get up, by then he HAD intent. Read some cases where ordinary people, not police, were convicted of first degree murder for that very reason.
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  2943. Exactly. One semester was interrupted in March 2020. This was justifiable, though it turned out not to be optimal. But that wasn't hard to recover from. But it continues, even today. It continued for most of the following school year. Insanity. EDIT: No, you're right. Criminal.
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  2944. @nevillegoddard4966  So . . . The new list of Bad Foods includes . . . Red onions, fresh garlic, ginger, parsley, olive oil, avocados, black olives, capers, kimchi, goat kefir, broccoli, zucchini, red kale, spinach, tangerines, blueberries, raspberries, cherries . . . Sure, buddy. LOL
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  2945. Oh, it's permitted now. You must have missed the Bill Gates video that gave permission.
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  2946. ​ @CarlongoArenas No, the First Amendment is crucial here. It's not a partisan issue at all.
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  2947. D, definitely. The Epstein connection clinches it.
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  2948. And they have the nerve to point the finger at Soviets, who bore 80% of the brunt of defeating Hitler. They had 10,000 times 9/11 before going berserk.
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  2949. Compassionate use, provided there is no solid evidence of harm ("first do no harm"), is a very common off-label use of approved drugs, and a common exception to the policy of using only drugs that are "proven safe and effective." For compassionate use, proven safe, with some possibility of effective, is sufficient. I don't understand their initial refusal.
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  2950.  @sthubbins4038  So, undoing some of the most irrational, nationalistic, and fascistic executive orders of the singularly worst president this country -- or many other countries, for that matter -- has ever seen now counts as a big, progressive accomplishment. If you say so. Thanks for warning me. Lesser evil voting does not ensure that we'll have more Trumps. It ensures we'll have worse Democrats.
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  2951. This time, Robby condescended toward her. Robby: why was in-state college tuition once something that kids paid in full, all on their own, with an ordinary summer job? Why was rent affordable for anyone working full time? If state universities were subsidized through state taxes, like they once were, it would create DOWNWARD pressure on all tuition. On the other hand, loans are just like leverage, and create UPWARD pressure on all tuition.
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  2952. She is SO bad. In a different report, she confused who was alleged to have threatened whom, and who claimed that assertion was defamatory. I mean, high school newspapers used to be better. You cannot make this stuff up.
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  2953. 😂😂😂😂
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  2954. Um, fireplace?
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  2955. 4:02 Brie called it a straightforward case of her breaking the law and facing the consequences.
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  2956. thank you Seriously, thank you.
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  2957. How is that relevant? Self-defense is legal. Defending mere property with lethal force is not.
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  2958. Well, how many are willing to admit that the demise of the Soviet Union was, on balance, a bad thing? Because it was.
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  2959. Not if you are independently wealthy, no.
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  2960. People who were hesitant and wanted to get this vaccination from their own doctor, in his office or clinic, were LAUGHED at. Well . . .waddya know.
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  2961. Plus they lied about contacting him. I cannot believe it. What can a rational person conclude?
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  2962. ​@rockyBalboa6699 Her lawsuit against Harvard for breach of contract wasn't dismissed. She alleged disparate treatment in that part. She can't proceed against anyone for defamation. Anyway, she defamed others, they told the truth about her.
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  2963. ​@StuMarstonIf it needs genocide to exist, then no. BUT IT DOESN'T need genocide to exist. If you listened to a few of the many Israelis who Amy Goodman has been interviewing, you would know.
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  2964. ​@LifeBeforeDeath1 Setting fires is very serious, and not a legitimate expression of opposition, but someone setting fires does not make First Amendment protected speech and assembly illegal. You don't get to use that as excuse to violate free speech. Just to be clear. 😊
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  2965. He admits he expected more from the Democrats than Russiagate. He admits he didn't see that coming.
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  2966.  @thatotherguy8138  They aren't looking for firm character. They want people to look away when wrongdoing happens, or better yet, to quickly construct a story as to why it's fine, no problem, it isn't what it seems to be. "Cancelling" happens to scapegoats. By contrast, it never happened to Epstein or his friends. Not really.
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  2967. "Pro-life, pro-gun, pro-wall" This made sense to his brain. I mean "brain."
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  2968.  @billsmith9737  I am reacting to what you actually said, not what you say you meant.
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  2969. "It's a cult." Yup. It is.
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  2970. This was discussed by serious scientists since the very beginning. And I don't mean anyone you've heard about who has been grandstanding. I mean scientists who are up to their ears in research and have no time for communications endeavors.
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  2971. This is pure capitalism, honey.
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  2972.  @Marmocet  The binding agent in a pill can effect how quickly the main ingredient enters the bloodstream, and that can vary so widely that it has major effects on sensitive people. I think you're right. Anaphylactic shock in reaction to an essential nutrient is not plausible. Zinc is everywhere. She would be sick from oysters and walnuts, etc.
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  2973. He'll get campaign contributions for that. Money is good. Money equals truth. It's very simple for him.
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  2974. 👏👏👏👏👏 Love it!
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  2975. Amen!! Back in the 1980s, Mitterrand had a great natality policy. In his first term, PCF was part of the government (and France was flooded with CIA assets as a result). That policy prevented tens of thousands of abortions, while preserving choice and paying most of the cost of elective abortion (but ALL the cost of childbearing, for all women, and that included a clothing allowance). But no one ever talks about that. Hmm.
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  2976.  @ginalynn6963  I want to know why. I meant it straight. I also wonder whether people know that there have been a handful of proven cases of government agencies deliberately spreading an untrue story as psy-ops. You can see how that would function, and why they would do it: the bizarro DC pizza parlor/child trafficking story just happened to draw attention away from Jeffrey Epstein, who was the most connected man in the world. Bizarro "anti-vax" conspiracy tales and blatant falsehoods ("everyone vaccinated will die in two years!!!") make reasonable questions about the vaccines look deranged. I'm skeptical of all of it. You don't know who is trying to manipulate you, or simply testing a marketing strategy or a meme, to see whether masses of people will adopt it. "Influencer" is now a career.
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  2977.  @vg6761  Archaic class system? Brought it up, or saw it's still in force?
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  2978. CNN, MSNBC, Fox all tailor their programming to pander.
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  2979. "Martyr" has a similar meaning in other languages as well. Some use "victim" and "martyr" interchangeably. It's one word.
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  2980. When an ordinary person is literally defamed on social media, proved in court, and that person is shunned and loses job opportunities and friends, what happens? Nothing. There is no social media initiative to assist that person. Social media have zero responsibility, and zero good will. But telling the TRUTH about the Bidens is censored right away, Funny how that is.
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  2981.  @dylanrieger1118  You know who they count as "homeless?" People doubling up with friends and relatives are included. Also, people living on the street or in cars were placed in hotels by the state when the pandemic hit. They were still counted as homeless, of course.
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  2982.  @jasonaubin1455  True Democrat
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  2983. "Who wrote this study -- Putin??" Jimmy forever!😅
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  2984. No
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  2985.  @MatthewLevine79  Yes, that's her.
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  2986. @@jassasingh9880 I'm moving there by 2025. Are you kidding me? I can hardly wait. I wish I had grown up there. I decline to give the country at this point. It's relatively little, and it is westernized, that much I will grant you.
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  2987. Um, who do you think is doing this? You have no idea that TYT aired an actionable segment, then removed it? Aaron could bring a lawsuit. It was that extreme.
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  2988. 👏👏👏👏👏
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  2989. They passed a law making it legal. That is the problem.
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  2990. Great question. 😢
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  2991. Oh good god, this is the BEST. So funny.
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  2992. Bizarre. He was invited because he actually wrote a cogent article. Could you tell from this appearance? Yikes!
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  2993. When he commiserated with Elon Musk about being "tricked" into signing permission for his first-born to transition, that really took the wokester cake. Hey, I get it. Second opinions are expensive.
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  2994. Stephen F Cohen said similar things. It's called intellectual honesty.
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  2995. God, are you all crazy. This was Hunter's claim: that he passes out in a luxury suite with a Russian escort present. Let's say it's true, though there's no reason to believe anything he says. How is this in his favor? He's a security risk unlike any other in history, literally.
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  2996.  @hazmat5118  On a concrete level, how many people under 40 had to be vaccinated to save one life of a person under 40? Notice I am not even talking about comorbidities; put everyone under 40 in one group, even if that means we end up with a higher mortality rate for COVID than we would if we separated out the obese as clearly being at greater risk of death, and hence having more reason to get vaccinated. That is how previous vaccines have been analyzed for effectiveness. The 1976 swine flu vaccine was withdrawn when only 1 person per 100,000 vaccinated developed Guillen Barre from the vaccine. We are getting vastly higher rate of significant side effects, and limited benefit, especially for younger people with these vaccines. I could not believe this was pushed the way it was. How can you even justify calling it a vaccine given the number of doses needed, in under two years, and still it fails to produce sterilizing immunity?
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  2997. 😂😂😂 ❤
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  2998. Why is anyone surprised? Can't wait to hear the excuses this time.
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  2999. I agree with a careful study of this. We know there is a suicide risk in this age group with many antidepressants. Suicide and homicide are not strongly correlated overall, but they are in older teens and the youngest adults.
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  3000.  @cordan305  If you only knew at the time of all the effective therapeutic treatments that don't involve any drugs or any medical devices as a first resort, you would weep. I felt that way when I found out how much they know about who is at risk for severe COVID, and how to reduce risk for everyone.
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  3001. 😂😂😂😂😂 Now that's keeping it real.
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  3002. My doctor just told me the same thing last week. That is an added reason to decide to get vaccinated, AND a reason not to mandate anything, for anybody.
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  3003. We need much higher standards across the board. No excuses.
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  3004. I also thought that luckily, she's in Europe.
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  3005.  @NathanSimonGottemer  Yes . . . full agreement with everything you said -- and I completely understand why people don't want to bother. The problem is, it is assumed that cheating is rampant, and so, if you happened to be "the one who was caught," it is further assumed that you did something Really Bad. You don't usually get a chance to go back and fix it. You really need to deal with it before you leave high school. You can also approach it nicely, and after showing muscle, you can say, "I appreciate that you didn't know how error-prone this algorithm is. We're all learning," or something diplomatic like that. When they push you down, come out on top.
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  3006.  @douglasnewman4163  No you didn't. Not only that, but you just demonstrated that you have better qualifications than she does. MUCH BETTER.
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  3007. What does she do when she is not "strongly, strongly" opposed to a bill? Would we be shocked, shocked?
    7
  3008.  @mysteryjunkie9808  What I can't get over is how bad in bed people are that they need all these "extras." I'm sorry, that's how I see it.
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  3009. Astonishing that reasonably intelligent adults can believe any couple has "the perfect love." This is always delusional.
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  3010.  @jeanetteasmyself442  This is true, and astute. The Republicans absolutely think a boss should be able to set any condition short of requiring the employee to commit crimes or something. Their mantra is, if you don't like it, leave. What goes around . . .
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  3011.  @bdfunke  Was this the subject? She also didn't say anything about Hunter Biden, Hillary Clinton, Ukraine, Burisma, Google, . . . I guess she's cool with all that.
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  3012. ​@alexmeyer2222 True. At this point, they just pay interest on our debt.
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  3013. ​ @Vivi_9  Exactly. This is sheer dupery.
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  3014. This is beyond vile. Is there room in Moore's America for anyone who is not a neo-lib and Catholic? If you don't fall into both categories, would you go to Moore, or anyone like him, for a friggin' JOB? Jimmy: "It was what WALL STREET wants." Thank you, Jimmy. Perfect.
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  3015. YES
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  3016. bingo
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  3017. The pandemic is so bad that we could not even get a floor vote on Medical for All. /s Offloading risk onto individuals is always the game.
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  3018.  @ericthomas917  He joined three months ago, and is now deleting posts. 😉
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  3019. Paperwork was burned up --- because somehow their county didn't have an online backup. Banks didn't either. So weird.
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  3020. Then someone better tell it to you straight: it is illegal to use lethal force to defend property. If you are in the car, then you have a right to use lethal force, but only because you are defending your own safety. So, no one knows civics. Great. A country where so many people own firearms, and we have a debate about a settled question of law -- you cannot use lethal force in any state, merely to defend property. You can only use it to defend yourself and others.
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  3021. Dr. Pierre Kory was just on Tucker Carlson. He strongly disagrees, and says long COVID compares to vaccine injury. When I was in high-school and college, with people in their late teens and twenties, a serious viral illness -- mononucleosis, food-borne hepatitis, pneumonia, meningitis -- took from 6 months to a full year for the patient to be back to 100% normal, as though they had never been sick. These were people in their prime, not middle-aged people with chronic conditions. Why would COVID be any different?
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  3022. ​ @readyfuels17 A lienholder can force sale, depending on the circumstances.
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  3023. He doesn't have a very impressive education, either. Anyone who is motivated to study hard can enter a Criminology graduate program in a minor university. It's not that big of a deal. I don't know why so many people are talking about this as though he were a star astrophysicist at Cal Tech.
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  3024. @centionnaire It's a human embryo. Should a ten-year-old child be required to carry it to term and risk her life to give birth? I think her case woke people up to what state interference actually is. Here's a thought: It is not up to you to decide. You have no right to criminalize her, her parents, and her doctor.
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  3025. ​ @nateauld Please don't go there. I'm a girl, I love math, etc.
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  3026.  @vincevincent6984  Are you joking? You mean to tell me that if you owned a white Elantra, you would have contacted police, in order to "clear your name?" Absolutely no one should do that. It is not illegal to own such a car, nor was it immediately evident that whoever was driving it at the time (who was not necessarily the owner) had anything to do with any crime. I suggest you watch a famous Frontline documentary about the Norfolk Four (all servicemembers) called The Confessions. You need to have a more realistic attitude about what talking to the police may entail, and what can happen to you if you try to "help" them in their investigation. Four men who had nothing to do with a vicious crime needed something like two decades, if not more, to regain some normalcy in their lives, and they continue to be shunned socially to this day. They served this country as members of the U. S. Navy. If it could happen to them, it could happen to anybody.
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  3027.  @Rokaize  No DUI or suspected DUI was involved in this police brutality case. NOR was there any felony except in the imaginations of the officers. Just because they used that word does not make it true, although magical thinking on the part of police such as these would not surprise me. I also explained to you the significant risk of taking out a cell phone under these circumstances. The very short length of time it took to get to the well-lit area made that impracticable in any event.
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  3028.  @Rokaize  Did you READ the complaint? Your understanding is wrong. Your statement that guns drawn was "reasonable" under the circumstances of this case is purely conclusory, with no basis in the facts. The Graham v. Connor case stands for exactly the opposite principle: reasonableness is an objective standard. It is analogous to the "reasonable person" standard. It is not based on what these officers thought was reasonable, but on what a reasonable officer, properly trained (and not, say, prone to brutality or hysteria) would consider appropriate under all the facts and circumstances of the encounter. By your logic, that would allow almost anything. In fact, it does not. What in Graham v. Connor sounds to you like highly general language is in fact quite technical. Naming something a felony stop, or devlaring it to be high risk does not make it so. Probable cause to believe a felony is in progress or is imminent is required. Why would a driver that does not speed up in response to sirens be considered a felon or high risk? I used to advise judges on the law in the cases before them. So I wrote bench memoranda on the briefs and records of both sides, criminal and defense, federal level. Give it up. You thought insults would land?
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  3029.  @Sam_Guevenne  Um, yeah. Which is why Jimmy gave Ana written apology.
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  3030. Maybe that is America First, because that is America?
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  3031.  @bloppysloppy2283  Not even a software engineer. Just someone with a nose for business whose mom was serving on a board with a top IBM exec. BTW, when Paul Allen developed a highly treatable form of cancer, that software "engineer" tried to shove him out of his job.
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  3032. Key skill. I mean $kill.
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  3033. Why did UK agree to the grant of immunity? They had to agree, at the highest levels; it is not something she grabbed.
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  3034. @elephantintheroom5678  Exactly. "Pope Francis makes almost daily calls to a small Catholic community in a church in northern Gaza that is giving refuge to about 700 Palestinians who have lost their homes in the Israel-Gaza war." -- Nov 11, 2023
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  3035. The result of my search, using non-US sources of course: Reuters:   Sept 20 (Reuters) - The White House on Monday criticized the use of horse reins to threaten Haitian migrants after images circulated of a U.S. border guard on horseback charging at migrants near a riverside camp in Texas . . . Reuters witnesses saw mounted officers wearing cowboy hats blocking the paths of migrants, and one officer unfurling a cord resembling a lariat, which he swung near a migrant's face. The Independent: Sept 22 -- The second-in-command at a union for US Border Patrol has tried to defend the use of horse reins around migrants in Del Rio, Texas, where tens of thousands have arrived from Haiti. . . Recent images from Del Rio have shown migrants fleeing Border Patrol agents on horseback who are wielding their reins like whips, with a Reuters witness catching an agent unfurl and swing one in front of migrants.
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  3036. If they read the ICJ's report, they do.
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  3037. No, he didn't have to "deal with this." He could have posted a dozen of his news videos in response to every false accusation of not doing the news. That's what he could have done.
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  3038. Will payment on any of Musk's government contracts be interrupted?
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  3039. No kids at this venue. Big diversion.
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  3040. Excellent question
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  3041. The aside on Obama's megalomania was hysterical. It isn't new. There have been flashes of it since his college years.
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  3042. Qualifications can hurt you. The worst situation is where the immediate superior sees you as competition. If you are hired, you might wish you hadn't been.
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  3043. GREENWALD . . . the Best of the Best
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  3044.  @norman_5623  😂😂😂😂 it was a well-deserved parody, very well done in fact, based on his own words, proclaiming that he represents Science.
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  3045. What Aaron and Tucker said about Snowden and Assange and free speech is what Berkeley believed in 40 years ago. The fact that it no longer is is the frightening part. Thousands of students go through there.
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  3046.  @paulieprinceton4550  There are no good guys in this picture, no. The post you replied to didn't say "good guys." Check it again. No offense but our garbage MSM did this to you. See? That's the real point.
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  3047. I'm glad to see free speech is alive and well.
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  3048. I thought security watches the cameras and intervenes right outside the door. I know many petty theft cases are confronted, or at least were, prior to the pandemic. But clerks are not supposed to be held responsible ever.
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  3049. Well, the doctor who invented the lobotomy got a Nobel Prize. This reminds me of that.
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  3050. Should Graham make medical decisions for anyone? 😂
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  3051. MSM radio today: Biden promised to evacuate Americans and allies while "Afghanistan transitions." I am not kidding.
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  3052. This is true. :/
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  3053. And money changed hands. Lots and lots of money. That always happens.
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  3054.  @hildorhildorson963  India knows the Anglo-Australian world well. :/
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  3055. Notice the number of replies versus . . .
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  3056. Is there a moratorium on property taxes? To be clear: we should have made eviction REALLY REALLY HARD -- in 2008. To present.
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  3057. ​​ @KayDejaVu 😂😂😂 sure buddy
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  3058. Sam Altman just donated $1 million to the Trump inauguration.
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  3059. Why? If you are discriminated against, file suit under Title VI or Title VII. The Asian student association did, and won. IOW, do something real.
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  3060. Wow. How did they manage that?
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  3061.  @johncameron6415  When she's right, she's right.
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  3062.  @ohwyywy1532  The homeless aren't livin' the dream. Neither are Amazon warehouse workers. Neither are all the people who haven't had steady work or rent money for a year. There was less homelessness in the USSR for the simple reason that it was too cold to allow it, and in the warmer parts too traditional for families to let it happen. Also, the subway stations were to die for and still are.
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  3063. Great point.
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  3064. It's a private university, first of all. Second, how do you expect anyone to control the speech of 4000+ highly-educated people with, one hopes, a diversity of political views? It sounds to me as if those who actually did something wrong are facing the consequences, as they should.
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  3065. They were in their own country.
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  3066. I agree. We need to embrace universal values again. The REALLY sad part was all the people who supported bullying (!) in response to the story. Because this was a signal to "take sides."
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  3067. ​ @SpaciousSelf-gx9hc And you're in a cult. "Period."
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  3068. @timogul  I knew what you were talking about. Outside of the realm of American commercialized medicine, you're flat wrong.
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  3069. Brilliant job, Jimmy. Biden is in, his job is to flip Venezuela. Just watch . . .
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  3070. Please never blame yourself. EVERYONE has made mistakes, everyone. Those who lied to us -- and systematically denounced the truth-tellers as liars -- are entirely to blame. I have never seen anything like it. My parents made mistakes with my medical care, and it has never occurred to me to blame them. I never even articulated it until now. Take this as a lesson -- study biology, take night classes, learn to read original research and assess it, make a commitment to good nutrition and other good health habits right now. There has never been more solid information, if you know how to judge its value (there are a lot of people jumping on the bandwagon, too, and it's not always obvious who is providing solid advice), so you can do better in the future for all those you love. Do that in his memory.
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  3071. ​ @Kube_Dog Not true. It took a LOT of character and brain power to see through the manufactured FOG.
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  3072. How old was she alleged to be? I think he's done more harm with pushing COVID vaccines on minors.
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  3073. In France, the firefighters joined the strikes and protected demonstrators against the police, for WEEKS. Look up "pompiers contre la police." The line was crossed, Macron's hands are tied now. We are not even close to that. We have two "sides" -- whether a juvenile is a "white supremacist," based on his Facebook page(!), or whether he has a Constitutional Right to a Kalashnikov. IOW, almost everyone is crazy here. What do you expect?
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  3074. Not even.
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  3075. In some states, they do. Thirty days is common.
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  3076. Check the Cleveland Clinic study. And the Israeli study on acquired immunity from infection compared with immunization. (Guess what's better? Just try and guess.)
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  3077. ​ @cassiescornerreviews6884 "Got vaccinated?" With what? Three of the five BRICS declined mRNA-based vaccines, at least one for wholly scientific, not political, reasons. Most of Europe stopped vaccinating healthy young people years ago.
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  3078. Exactly. Let them rise or fall on their own merits.
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  3079. @D R Yes. Let's first observe that she is presenting you with an actual document. Have you heard it anywhere else?
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  3080.  @extract8058  Oops, I'm not Western. We don't cry over the human condition. Your specialty.
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  3081. ​@MicheleKalina704Life decisions? Lol I don't recall deciding that the financial system should implode in 2008, or that the world economy should lock down in 2020. Or maybe I shouldn't have taken care of my elderly parents. That was a "poor life decision," from a purely financial standpoint. The people who did make "poor" decisions in 2008 and 2020 became phenomenally rich.
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  3082. Yes, this presentation is very superficial. As for trusting your feelings, I defer to Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear. Everyone should read that. There are times when your feelings tell you to get the hell away from someone. Trust those feelings.
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  3083. I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked, shocked.
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  3084.  @frozzytango9927  Elif Shafak certainly does not.
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  3085.  @zenawarrior7442  Um, try listening to the entire presentation. This was true. The perp was a repeat offender, may have had a psychotic condition (Bipolar I), and was ultimately convicted of aggravated kidnapping; the couple sued and settled for $2.5 million.
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  3086. "Embrace the struggle." Love that!
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  3087. You're nice. He's been called a sheepdog and worse for ages now.
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  3088. Middle school lunch room, circa 1983.
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  3089.  @nnenne4  "Coddling?" Are you out of your mind? A minor cannot sign most contracts.
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  3090. This guest just explained why content is poor. Try listening.
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  3091.  @sdrc92126  Schwab's recent books are called COVID 19: The Great Reset, and The Great Narrative (sometimes presented as a two-book set). But thanks for your misinfo. It was very ha ha.
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  3092.  @halofreak1990  I was kidding.
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  3093. I don't agree with Bannon's politics, but this talk is fascinating. A few things he said are not true, however. But the larger outlines are certainly accurate, and he is courageous, too. People fail to acknowledge what he is willing to say straight up, clearly and unequivocally. Good! I support free speech, and then some. But notice how none of his good ideas are ever adopted? Hmm . . .
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  3094.  @Lily-Bravo  You do know that thyroid cancer generally does not kill, and requires lifetime medication and monitoring? Thyroid cancer treated properly is generally curable, and a 2009 lesion in Western Europe could even have a Chernobyl connection. It's also a perfect example of how hard it is to establish cause and effect in medicine. Someone in one of these threads cited a published case study of two men who developed serious myocarditis from COVID, the Omicron variant, as proof of the danger of Omicron and the continuing need for vaccines, neglecting that both men were fully vaccinated and had each had one booster. The point being that we don't know what combos of vaccine and virus are causing this surge, and it won't be so easy to figure out. Multivariate analysis is hard and costs money. Propaganda is cheaper.
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  3095. I remember this young girl. Astounding story.
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  3096. I voted third party as a protest, in person, on Election Day.
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  3097. This is my concern. Exactly this.
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  3098. Everyone needs to read Nadine Strossen's Hate Speech. Everyone. I suspect most people don't understand. EDIT: The subtitle of Hate Speech is "Why we should resist it with free speech, not censorship." The entire book is against censorship. (It has come to my attention that some people don't even know who Strossen is.) 🤣
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  3099.  @itsallagame7354  JOINED THREE MONTHS AGO. I knew to check. 😉
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  3100. ​ @LG-cf4dl Her breach of contract case against Harvard can proceed. It was not dismissed.
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  3101. College algebra was a remedial class when I went. It was good enough to get me ready for calculus in one semester.
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  3102.  @genestarwind4610  Funny to make a spelling comment and misspell "spell." Albeit a wry one.
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  3103.  @S.Valenzuela777  Who in the world persuaded you of this sheer nonsense? And you call that "facts?" Biden represents socialism for Wall Street and Hollywood only -- which Trump has tolerated, by the way. If Venezuela is so horrible, let the government fall without trying SO HARD to tear it down. Funny how hard Washington has worked on massive sanctions and a regime change project, for years and years, with no luck yet. (I'm surprised, too, but that there is the fact.)
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  3104. 😂😂😂
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  3105. She won 33% of the votes in the first round. That means 67% did not vote for her party. In the second round, she did increase her vote to about 38%. That means that still, over 60% did not vote for her party. She didn't "do so well" because she didn't get the votes she needed to win. "Gang up" 😂😂😂
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  3106.  @lesjohn534  I agree. Teach your kids to say unequivocally "I feel unsafe." Giving police any reason to see you as blameworthy is never the way to go. That's all they can go by. Notice how he knew to remain silent!
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  3107.  @johndicus123  I don't know what it is, or how other nations count. If we had Japan's case fatality rate, we would have 60,000 deaths right now. Are they doing something better, that we should do, too, or are they counting differently? Shouldn't we know by now?
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  3108. Humanized mice
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  3109. The same way a six-times-bankrupt reality show star can be president. Or, a mummy can be president. President Joe Mummy.
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  3110. Of course they won't. Krystal's Radar told us what the risks of a new financial implosion are. No neoliberal Democrat will dare shake that tree. P.S., there are no "progressives" in office at the moment; perhaps Bernie Sanders sometimes.
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  3111. When this guy had his first jobs, you could work your way through state college by working full time all summer, and part time all year, for $3.00 to $5.00 per hour. Right. That covered it.
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  3112.  @mhicaoidh1  You could swear they were trying to see how much they can make us swallow.
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  3113.  @IcarusLime  I really mean it about Sam. The other two are very self-important and abrasive, but Sam has a decent vibe. Honestly, I think so. Also, notice how tentative he is about disagreeing with this strategy, plus he did not endorse the Assad innuendo. That was a "tell."
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  3114.  @bsh819  And people wonder about the decline in romance, marriage, and childbearing. Between the economy, indebtedness, and then this . . .
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  3115.  @FSpoon-iw9yj  And DNC needed COVID to beat that six-time bankrupt LOON, the laziest man to ever occupy the office.
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  3116.  @LDiamondz  My gosh. In my state, if a person is residing in your primary dwelling -- for example, in a house divided into two apartments and you occupy one of them -- it is very easy to evict that person. Most of the major legal protections simply don't apply in that case. If the landlord owns an apartment building as an investment and does not live there, or if he has more than a certain number of units (say 8 or 10) and lives in one of them, then the various tenants' rights ordinances and statutes apply. Eviction can still take place within three to six months, at most. It almost never takes a year to evict anyone who has breached their lease. There would have to be some special circumstance to prevent it. If someone can stay with you after you've asked them to leave your own residence, then how do you own your residence? You don't.
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  3117. He is certainly entitled to his First Amendment rights. He may not be entitled to represent ICE as their advocate before the court. Attorneys have special rules of professionalism that are designed to protect their clients, and to prevent the opposing party from being able to leverage their personal conduct against their clients. This stuff is obscure to you, huh?
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  3118. I've seen teachers support bullying. They would only intervene if someone stood up for the bullied kid. (Stood up verbally, I mean, not physically fighting. They have to intervene in the case of fighting.)
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  3119.  @synchronium24  Oh! But she would be willing to keep quiet again about this nefarious sexual beast of a harasser -- provided he stops criticizing HER! Why did Ana "sit" on the story for seven years, so to speak? MeToo started a few years ago. Where was she then?
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  3120. You're right, nothing else quite like it.
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  3121.  @oldenmarlow339  If a trust can be the official winner under the law, then the trust name is made known. I know of a case where "The 'Shy' Family Trust" took the prize. They are not named Shy, they are shy! Weird, but it worked.
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  3122. Great point
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  3123. @_riprock  _You think you know all this? Maybe . . . When it comes to "diagnosis," the mirror is where you need to look first. First of all, to RSVP that you're coming and to simply fail to show is rude. Of course, I assume that happened. I assume but do not know that what we were told is true. Second, the neighbors responded with exceptional warmth. How does that figure? Third, you may just be pulling my chain. You don't believe such nonsense.
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  3124. 💯
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  3125. @rvrmn2682  Someone who is not a party to a case but wants to write to the judge concerning their views on something like the length of a sentence are allowed to do so. The letters will be entered into the record and the judge is under no obligation to take them into consideration in deciding on the sentence. Both the defendant and the government have a right to see them. Families of the convicted and of his or her victims often write to the judge prior to sentencing. Where do you get bribery out of this?? Note that I'm not saying it's a good practice to write -- or that it isn't. There's nothing legally dubious about it is the point.
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  3126. 💯
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  3127. Not what this study said. But if there is someone whose parenting advice not to take, it is Joe's.
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  3128. Defense of property with lethal force is illegal. If the kid did nothing to put anyone in fear of harm to their person, then it was illegal to shoot him.
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  3129. It's not a violation of any criminal law. That said, I HOPE the people whose rights were violated can sue for damages. I doubt it, but hope so.
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  3130. Yes, excellent post. Why am I not surprised?
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  3131. Putin is addressing Russians and other non-Western peoples, who appreciate the stylistic elements, stoicism, and refrain from personal attacks that you highlighted.
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  3132. This is excellent.
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  3133. This law is blatantly unconstitutional.
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  3134. WOW!! I learned trigonometry from that author in one long weekend!!! There was just something about how he explained stuff that clicked. Believe me, I would not not NOT have been able to do this with another book. I tried. No. This was the author for me. That's how I did it.
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  3135.  @Joe-pc3hs  Sincere question: what was the nature and extent of US involvement in those cases? Is there reason to contend that the US should have become engaged but failed to?
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  3136. "Some they will and some they won't . . . " you know the rest . . .
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  3137. I'm so sorry. We do care.
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  3138. Remember. He is paid. I have more respect for that, than for doing it gratis.
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  3139. You've all got that right!! 👏👏👏
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  3140.  @squamish4244  He kept saying he was only speaking for himself, but we all know it does not come across that way. If he were only speaking for himself, he could keep the (essentially private) information with his next of kin and call it a day.
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  3141. ​@barryfleming8488 I see you don't understand the references to what appear to be "Ethiopia" in Homer's Odyssey, but are not. You never wondered who Poseidon was visiting, that allowed Athena to have Odysseus repatriated?
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  3142. @Ashnesss  "She must be . . . " stop right there.
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  3143. He sounds like he stopped at 14.
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  3144. Trump-style politics won. They all sound like him, unhinged.
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  3145.  @madeleine_grayson  Asked is bad enough, but grabbed is criminal.
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  3146. NLG took out NOTEPADS and wrote down what he was doing! 😂😂😂😂 That's called the Legal Observer program, and it is not "unacceptable."
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  3147. The mice are engineered to be humanized. It's all so wonderful!
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  3148. Bless you. The most obvious principles are suddenly thrown right out the window. AND we are not supposed to notice.
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  3149.  @leahvogel5527  To suggest Krystal praised her performance is almost a smear of Krystal! 8:20
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  3150. Well, first it makes COVID look more dangerous than it is, then, after abusing people, it makes the vaccine -- the supposed "solution" -- look even worse. What is wrong with these people? Meaning Biden et al. They keep pushing the worst policy they could find.
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  3151.  @AshGreen359  It was good. If anyone missed it, that's thanks to loonies like Keith Olbermann. The unhinged rule MSM.
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  3152. If you want to spend your taxes on relitigating well-settled First Amendment law, which can have only one outcome, just to give satisfaction to a bunch of politicians, that's on you. They are fundraising on this. You are paying. Does that sound right by you?
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  3153.  @joeb134  Ever? Lol
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  3154.  @Makerx2011  Then she'd get less money.
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  3155.  potato player  You just described Afghanistan. That's who has no food or water.
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  3156. No. She is saying that if the child contacts the journalist concerning a story that is about them, that should not be buried. She is not saying that the journalist has any obligation whatsoever to credit the child's views. She does have an obligation to report them.
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  3157.  @kam0406  There are sporadic, large outbreaks of a slightly different variant of Omicron. It seems to have peaked in UK, coming here now, and doesn't seem to be so bad. A lot of people have natural immunity, too. It isn't everywhere now, and probably won't be.
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  3158. And did you notice how lazy the prosecutor is? All that was said was boilerplate. They are used to winning without proving up the facts. That is a risk to everybody.
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  3159. Oh really? When I was a kid, it was perfectly ordinary for gay people to marry straight people and hide their real feelings from their spouse. That was destructive. Honesty never is. I really don't like to hear honest, courageous people trashed, like those gay and lesbian people who decided to marry who they love. Bravo to them.
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  3160. The REALLY sad part was all the people who supported bullying in response. Because this was a signal to "take sides."
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  3161. Nah, just senile.
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  3162.  @D_B_Cooper  OMG! Laughed, but that lady was so nice.
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  3163. Sure. And it would be wrong to publish them.
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  3164. Got that right! :)
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  3165.  @petergallo7997  Therefore invade Russia?
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  3166. I've always had the nagging suspicion that being vaccinated after contracting COVID might not be wise. The vaccines were never systematically tested on this population, for one thing. Some countries have advised against more than a single dose of the two-dose regimen for those who had had COVID and recovered, for another. I had questions and concerns, not conclusions. Those who claim they know are not being truthful.
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  3167. Money = Value is one of her most cherished principles. Promoting popular cat fights is an example of honoring that principle.
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  3168. No Dore won't.
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  3169.  The Ghey Mantis  The adults in every other developed country HAVE health insurance. She didn't say she can't pay her other bills. You get good at what you do by doing it all the time. The US doesn't have the best artists, writers, etc., just the richest.
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  3170.  The Ghey Mantis  P. S. You forgot to blame her and jeer at her for having health conditions. You're losing your stride.
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  3171.  The Ghey Mantis  Wait. Are you angry because everyone is not willing to submit? Because some people still have dreams? YIKES
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  3172. ​ @ManInTheBigHat True
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  3173. That was sarcastic, right?
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  3174. ​ @utah_koidragon7117 Oh really? Post-viral syndrome is well known, particularly in women. It's common for women to have a less severe case of any major viral illness than men do, but then a longer and slower recovery. COVID is no different. Proportionately more men died at every age up until about 80, but more women had lingering signs and symptoms, including objective things like higher pulse rates and fever. I guess we're back to normal now, since women are disbelieved --- with the added bonus of pregnant women being referred to as "pregnant people."
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  3175. In the US, people with PhDs in nursing are in policymaking positions and can have certain prescribing rights as well.
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  3176. Only Briahna Joy Gray has the spot-on analysis of this move. Perfect. Listen carefully!
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  3177.  @ericaugust1501  My substantive reply is . . . Guess? (Can't see it, huh?)
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  3178.  @bamboo851  What you know about Dylan is what is in the affidavit, which is in the affidavit because she voluntarily cooperated with police. Sheesh, this is one time you should let LE do its job, period.
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  3179. Yes, love her.
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  3180. ​ @theredboneking The French hate him.
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  3181. I don't believe she isn't making money. When I found out that even Gloria Steinem and Susan Sontag were CIA, well . . . and I still like Sontag, an immense talent.
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  3182.  @damienalvarez2957  No, she was right about each substantive point. Communication style is the problem.
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  3183. Tomorrow is a good idea --- April 1st.
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  3184. @lawtongore7053  I just did the math. Someone explain to me why math is scents oared. This isn't the only time.
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  3185. @Jesse Burgen Not what the US Embassy in Ukraine website says. How odd.
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  3186.  @cjlb49  This is strictly a position among certain empiricists. Most philosophers do not believe that transfer of knowledge without values is possible, or, if it were, they would consider it training at best, and not education -- neutral at best, if not profoundly dangerous. The choice of what "knowledge" you choose to transfer implies a value judgment.
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  3187. They have readers that still believe the Steele Dossier is true.
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  3188. ​ @fritztopher How did you come up with that one?
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  3189. The only person of real stature involved with that outfit is Nadine Strossen. I can't picture Glenn joining Bari Weiss. Can you?
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  3190.  @johndocherty322  You are misinformed. The Trump DOJ indicted Assange. Trump was his usual MIA, just like he let the moratorium on gain of function research expire, which was what FAUCI wanted. Trump was lazy. See Greenwald on why Snowden and Assange were not pardoned.
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  3191. I am struck by the fact that so many deeply troubled or neurologically challenged people are emerging as Leaders. The 2020 US presidential election featured two of them, and nearly everyone in the public eye today is as well. Why? What is going on?
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  3192.  @hansreichhardtsohn4522  Oh, just read the rest of your posts. Well, the people of the Sudetenland wanted to join the Third Reich. So did some Ukrainians, for that matter. I'm not engaging further with you, you are a classic time waster.
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  3193. Amen. This is emotional torture for the emotionally vulnerable. I never expected to see this happen. I mean it. :/
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  3194.  @peterjv8748  So why do you keep spreading misinformation?
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  3195.  @jehovahuponyou  I didn't "bemoan" anything. The burden of proof is on the proponent. "The Bible is God's Word because the Bible says so" is not exactly a compelling case, but you have a right to believe it. (You might also consider therapy, yoga, a philosophy class, etc.)
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  3196. He's in his 50s and is from Chicago, South Side. He's actually this way.
    6
  3197. Yes. Same for Trump.
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  3198. And I am sorry that the vaccine failed. I didn't take it, either.
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  3199. 🤣 good one
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  3200. Because she thought it did not go far enough, or secure those rights on a firm, equal protection foundation. Great idea learning and repeating soundbites where complex issues of constitutional law are concerned. That'll work.
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  3201.  @TheCybertiger9  Can you name a place where it's fine at the president's residence, or a comparable place? French beaches are often top optional, and no one is ever blindsided. Come into town for anything, and appropriate dress is expected, even if you just saw the person topless five minutes ago.
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  3202. Brecht's Antigone comes to mind, too.
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  3203. The G in Ghislaine is pronounced like a hard g: gave, gleen, give, gone, etc. That's what the h is doing there.
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  3204. ​ @haroldcruz8550  I agree, but remember that these highly specialized diets are designed for people with significant medical issues. But suddenly, everyone needs it? It's politicized, sadly. 😒
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  3205. ​ @sleigh4019 2000 years? Learned your decimal places yet?
    6
  3206.  @mortisnoctu  No, the equation does NOT prove the theorem. The theorem allows us to apply the equation to every right triangle.
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  3207. 😂😂😂
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  3208. This is what money does.
    6
  3209. Well, that's an optimistic take, possibly.
    6
  3210.  @velocecarriola9214  Americans don't do maps.
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  3211. But she considers herself a woman. So how is disrobing all right for a woman?
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  3212. All I need to see is how their STOCKS and exotic derivatives, swaps, short sales, and hedge funds did. Then I know who they're really for.
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  3213.  @billfrench1069  How dare she know the law? Just how dare she.
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  3214. Thank you so much for having this program. Thanks for having your Mom, and to your Mom for coming on.
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  3215. Take a close look at Ana's DM. She also took quite a swipe at Jimmy's wife. Wow. That's a feminist all right.
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  3216. Agreed. If local hospitals and morgues are literally overwhelmed, they may have to have a brief lockdown. There is no other possible reason, and that one is unlikely and local.
    6
  3217.  @Sarada.Amaru.999  Oh my god I am so sorry. I'm still having a hard time believing this was done to young people.
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  3218.  ali akbar  Wrong thread?
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  3219. I hear "sell," then a correction.
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  3220. It's not just the Justice Department that says acceptance of a pardon is admission of guilt. The Supreme Court said so in Burdick v United States. Ford relied on it when he pardoned Nixon. Glenn Greenwald talked about it. PLEASE PLEASE invite him again some time!!
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  3221. Yup
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  3222. We have the worst health care for the highest price, and the most chronically ill population of any developed country, and the least wholesome food. Yet all of these things have happened under the freest market in the world for food, drugs, and medical care. Well, Robby? How did that happen?
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  3223.  @abusufiansiddik567  Exactly. Israelis are protesting against Netanyahu, but Americans can't? How did it come to this??
    6
  3224. Fauci said something true and even reasonable. I almost fell out of my chair. I'll have to replay it. Could be a first.
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  3225.  Sergio  Whether or not the rifle crossed state lines is irrelevant. Rittenhouse is not facing federal firearms charges. He is facing state charges in Wisconsin.
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  3226. Diversion from the issue, and all focus on Dore. Why would that be? The people who go bankrupt because of medical bills don't matter? Congress does not have a duty to put an end to this insanity? During a pandemic?
    6
  3227. Great to see them made fun of. Great to laugh for a change, not cry.
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  3228. Megyn Kelly is an attorney who has not heard of the Mann Act. 😂 but not really
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  3229. These falsehoods about Michael Ratner are part of a larger campaign to undermine the work of every true radical, especially the most effective and most deeply principled. Michael Ratner's memoir is a life-changing book, and reading it is a powerful experience. The idea is to get people not to read it.
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  3230. 💯
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  3231. Did you actually read their statement? I did not, hence cannot condemn it. I don't believe everyone denouncing the statement carefully read it.
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  3232. I've heard independent journalists report that the far right threatened Zelensky's life if he were to attempt any rapprochement with Russia. I tend to believe it. The Ukrainian people are being used.
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  3233.  faddiegirl  The developed country with privatized medicine has the most obesity, teen pregnancy, drug and alcohol abuse, opioid addiction, and the highest infant and maternal mortality. Why haven't our market incentives worked, my dear? Developed countries with universal health care ALL have better outcomes, and longer life expectancy, and less dysfunction of every kind.
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  3234. Katie Halper has SAINTLY PATIENCE.
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  3235. ​@user-hg2tk3xj9y Of course she is. There is an offset, not a full denial of benefits. If she told the truth on her application, and the government failed to offset, that's the government's problem.
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  3236. Guess what? A post about the Lancet article praising the Russian-developed vaccine was removed. Ironic, huh?
    6
  3237.  Richard Garcia  Um, you think a Harvard Law School graduate has that "problem?" Or do you have a problem with exceptionally brilliant, beautiful women? Why does your emotional pitch make me think it's the latter?
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  3238. At this point, I suspect kickbacks.
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  3239. We also know Bannon was indicted by the Trump DOJ for wire fraud, and was pardonned rather than exonerated. Look it up.
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  3240. First honest politician I've heard in a long, long time. Very soothing.
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  3241. This is brilliant.
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  3242. Take care, and watch some pretty stuff. It's why we all end up watching puppies and babies.
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  3243. This should never be enough to convict. Either we believe in "beyond reasonable doubt" or we don't. I do.
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  3244. @Unchained_Unapologetic256  Please try coherence. Thanks.
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  3245.  @the_motherlord  There were no tests available when I got sick in March 2020. No doctors were available unless you were on the verge of losing your lung function. This was just before our lockdown. I had what appears to have been a mild case, and I had an altered sense of smell: I suffered a night sweat, and the combination of persperation and the mild scent from fabric softener made me so sick . . . I could smell nothing else. It was overpowering. I could not use fabric softener for six months. I still don't know what I had. The antibody test I got four months later wasn't sensitive enough to determine whether it was COVID. My doctor admitted he does not know what I had. :/
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  3246.  @mattdillon4398  He argued in court that nothing he says is fact, but opinion and entertainment, and hence not defamatory. More important, he argued his audience realizes this. What needs to happen?
    6
  3247. "Conspiracy Believers," since they believe any conspiracy story they hear.
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  3248. P. S. Guess who is protesting vaccine mandates and passports in France? The Communists. When irony gets a foothold, a tsunami of irony is not far behind.
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  3249. @gb747gb  It's so long ago that I don't know. I remember that it eliminated all additives, all added sugars and artificial ingredients, and treated food coloring as though it were an allergen or toxin -- he could never have any. He literally could not touch it. He did better very rapidly. His mom had been truly desperate because he had been clearly unwell for several years and no one could do anything for him here.
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  3250.  @matthewschwartz6607  Parody??
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  3251. They will insist that the vaccine is not experimentation, and the release forms you sign when you agree to take the vaccine state categorically that if you refuse vaccination, your medical care will not be affected in any way. They are therefore covered. You are still free to change jobs. You can drive yourself anywhere you want. They consider all this to be sufficient freedom for you, they decided. /s
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  3252. Can this be serious? As if he, or anyone, couldn't have taken countless images of this stuff, and SOLD it already? Or leveraged it? He left office in JANUARY 2021.
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  3253. I heard Russia won't permit foreign adoptions to a country that permits transitioning before 21.
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  3254. No. It shows that this video thumbnail is abusing your intelligence with its ridiculous caption. A motion to dismiss is a normal procedural move at this time. It signals the end of the case in chief.
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  3255. ​@utah_koidragon7117 I remember it well. Reagan put us on this course, of unqualified presidents who pose and jeer, combined with exploding the deficit and turning the country over to the bankers. The Reagan-imposed recession was the worst for young people starting out in life since the Great Depression, until we come to this century. The industrial manufacturing workforce peaked in absolute numbers under Carter. Even after the inflation, the minimum wage had more purchasing power then than it has ever had since -- and it wasn't great then, I agree. It wasn't clearly a living wage since the late 60s. But two people making minimum wage and being prudent could still start out in life, in ANY city. No one had college loans under Carter, they had income-averaging for tax purposes. No retiree paid taxes on their Social Security. The worst part was that by his second term, he wasn't really in charge -- just like now. Who knows who's president? I believed Reagan when he said he didn't know about Iran-Contra. His gaze was like Biden's.
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  3256. "Socialist??" This is FDR for the 21st century. It will be necessary to save our economies from implosion and extremism. FDR did what he did for no other reason.
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  3257.  @milalewis983  Mila, can you blame people who think COVID is a hoax? Is the Democratic political class acting like COVID is real, and is a true emergency? Only when they close a small business.
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  3258. I thought that if someone makes a lot of money, they "must have" "created value." Robin DiAngelo made a lot of money. Ergo? /s
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  3259.  @kayzbluegenes  I think it's great to be brave, but consider that is why so many horrid actors prey on the elderly. Not because they are weak, but because they aren't afraid.
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  3260. Or he can give up the license. All professional licensing is like that. Like Bri said, if you disagree, lobby against it.
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  3261.  @bonniesteinke6624  I was going to add exactly that! 🤣🤣🤣
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  3262. @vvvjjjjjjjj  She has to be fired according to the terms and procedures specified in her contract. Firing presumes wrongdoing, so, saying that she has no ground is incorrect. The procedures exist for those who may fully deserve to be fired. Even Jeffrey Dahmer was entitled to due process.
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  3263. @ablebaker8664  A motion to dismiss is not an adjudication of any facts. It means that even if the plaintiff's story were true, it cannot amount to defamation from the standpoint of the law. The law views her protestations as her opinion, not something she can come to court with to get money out of someone she has a personal disagreement with. She simply has not alleged enough to merit that, and there is no basis for thinking she could. That's what dismissal at this stage means. You aren't a law student, are you? Please don't scare me.
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  3264. @ChannelMath  This made me go back and watch it again, and I agree. 😢
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  3265. Brie also supports free speech. You've never seen her love fests with Glenn Greenwald? Or is listening to what a beautiful, intelligent woman has to say just too distracting?
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  3266. She devoted at least one full podcast on her show to the BLM scandal.
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  3267. Sure, the guy who lifted the moratorium on funding gain of function research, because someone flattered him, put a paper in front of him, and he signed. Not to mention Operation Warp Speed. Thanks for that, Trump!
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  3268. "Bullying?" We had heated discussions in class ALL THE TIME. No one reported on anyone, or ever thought to. If she lowers the grades of students who don't parrot her views, or stops calling on them in class, then she should be fired. We didn't think having heated discussions on controversial issues in school was "news." Snowflake Nation.
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  3269. 💯
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  3270.  @nghtwtchmn129  Not to mention the UN and Kurt Waldheim. The rat line, too.
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  3271. ​ @BakitracinTugungu Perfect post. Exactly that.
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  3272. Mainstream journalists should be a protected class based on being [r-word].
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  3273. ​@purplelove3666 beat me to it --- comic actor
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  3274. Sorry. SHE has a professional obligation to recuse herself. Lawyers aren't just employees.
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  3275. @Uno.Numero  Wait a second --- where did I say I would vote for a dual national?? I care about constitutional RIGHTS. Not like Ben Shapiro, who made a career out of "supporting" free speech, until that meant rights for those defending the Palestinians. Rights means rights, for everyone. Not just People I Like.
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  3276.  @TheAlyconaria  Because there is no compelling need to risk ANY side effect in a young, healthy child. That's why. Because the Precautionary Principle still governs. Because the burden of proof is on the proponent of any medical intervention, always. It's not on the individual to justify saying no.
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  3277.  @joshroyale7678  Biden will keep every promise he made . . . To Wall Street.
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  3278. That's where the money is.
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  3279.  @bidoof4938  Gosh, you'd think they might be pushing identity politics on purpose . . .
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  3280. How to avoid cringe sexism: invite Cenk's nephew on your show, who talks about pocket pussies. (Um, did someone say Howard Stern?)
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  3281. If you press me, yes, of course the Anglosphere is a bigger worry. Let's not exaggerate the difference however.
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  3282.  @aprescoup Who do you label "the" attacker? Only by ignoring the eight years of killing sprees in the Donbass by neo-Nazi dominated militias could you identify "the" attacker.
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  3283. Actually, Ana lied. Aaron never said children weren't killed. He said that based on the evidence, we don't know who committed that war crime.
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  3284. He doesn't say YOU should. Do certain words make your eyes glaze over and stop thinking?
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  3285. The Memorandum Opinion I just read states that several breach of contract claims against Harvard were not dismissed. It is dated Sept. 11, 2024. She can proceed on those. So, this video is misleading as well. Sigh. When people talk about a case, look up the case.
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  3286. He's not arguing. That comes during the closing statement.
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  3287. I didn't at first, then was persuaded by her supporters. Now I know they were just fans.
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  3288. The important question is: what is the result for having contracted an Omicron variant? Is the more contagious variant as likely as the previous variants to cause myocarditis in the young? I hate when the medical establishment treats any of these reports as "definitive," when every one is signal that should result in caution and reassessment.
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  3289. Jimmy and Max are Assange's real brothers in spirit.
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  3290. I can't tell you how sorry I am. My life was altered repeatedly by medical mistakes. Neither my father nor his died of entirely natural causes. I know how you feel in one respect at least: the hurt never goes away.
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  3291. Heartbreaking
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  3292. I can't bear to listen to the whole statement. I am so, so sorry.
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  3293.  @lesaamoore  Conspiracy theory? Ms. Ivermectin? Well. I know you don't read. Seriously though, people who have arguments make them. I thought the name calling would end when Trump left. I guess I'm the one who falls for things, just not the ones you "think." Using the word advisedly.
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  3294.  @duaneslack8516  Not to mention explaining how the free market devolves into monopoly capital due to forces that are nearly insurmountable. I say give me Adam Smith any day, if you can. We'd have no worries about wholesome, fresh food that's inexpensive, for one thing. Too bad that's over. 😢
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  3295. Great catch.
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  3296.  @sensible1163  Nicely said. One single billionaire could give each homeless American $12,000 with 5% of his fortune. In other words, he would not feel it.
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  3297. Either this is how she makes bank, or she is delusional and needs someone to speak freely with.
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  3298.  @ThatsMrPencilneck2U  🤣🤣🤣 You have just proved that you are the wisest person here.
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  3299.  @ThatsMrPencilneck2U  🤣🤣🤣 Best point!
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  3300.  @journathan  Not forensic "science." Go back and check.
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  3301. As this segment pointed out, Reade had more corroboration than anyone whose more convenient accusations were conveniently believed. A lot of people have an interest in hushing this up, and at the time, Biden (and many others) had exactly the reputation among young women of being risky to be around. Journalists who covered the Senate during those years laughed about it.
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  3302. @JiggyJones0  Exactly. In most circumstances, there is no case. "Misgendering" is no big deal. In some contexts, however, it could objectively endanger a person and put them in reasonable fear of harm, or of immediate job loss. Case by case.
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  3303.  @rasputinspickledpeepee1976  I was just subjected to sense or ship, too -- and in that post, I asked a real question, not rhetorical ones like here. Go figure. :/
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  3304. Defending property with lethal force is illegal.
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  3305. Money can eliminate the issues that make people unhappy. Starting from that baseline, a person has a chance to be happy.
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  3306. Intelligent women tend to intimidate a lot of people. Most. (It's not as though other women welcome them.) Yeah, it's that simple.
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  3307. A generation after Columbine and states still have not managed to draft reasonable, constitutional laws to govern firearm use by minors, or anyone. Do YOU want to live in a society where a minor can strap a (I better not call it assault-style) rifle across his chest and strut his stuff?
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  3308. That's right. People on the true left do not repeatedly smear real journalists like Aaron Mate.
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  3309. Perfect point, it's important to be reminded.
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  3310. I'm so sorry. Very best of luck to you and your daughter.
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  3311. There were plenty of times I thought Tucker should be fired, especially in 2020. To think that most of his current commentary about a war (!) is the best on MSM (!!!!!!!) should shame them all to no end.
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  3312. Did it occur to any of them that they can condemn Hamas and all terrorists without attacking anyone's free speech?
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  3313. ​ @suedavis3525  No police report, no report to an attorney (who is an officer of the court), no sworn affidavit, no testimony under oath in a court or tribunal --- an anonymous report to mainstream media, followed by actresses performing while shadowed. Tell me what EVIDENCE you see. By the way, Reade wanted access to certain archives and was denied. She was very naive, and handed in a complaint form without insisting on a photocopy, or a written statement of why she could not have one.
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  3314. ​ @AFK62-u7e What she said was right, regardless of her motive.
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  3315. People love to hate.
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  3316. These videos get the most views. Check the stats.
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  3317. To refuse a vaccination you don't need is a PRIVILEGE? I'm leaving the Five Eyes by 2024, thanks for confirming what I already knew.
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  3318. You can't diagnosis that now. 😂😂😂 🤡 The adrenaline has to work its way through a person's system. Didn't you have health and safety education in 11th grade?
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  3319.  @Sun222Air  It's the demand that those in pain must deny their feelings. Often it is accompanied by a threat: if you are "negative," bad things will happen to you. Chances are, you are not doing that, or else someone would have told you by now.
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  3320.  @rap3208  US control over global media is impressive, and will last as long as their money dominance lasts.
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  3321. What happened to him is that he is being systematically misrepresented for not quashing a story about Biden's son that could have hurt Biden. Expect this to continue.
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  3322. Druggies do lie. Sometimes addiction is convenient.
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  3323. They will be looked down on as cowardly if they bend to disgraceful pressure. They aren't traitors, though. That word is thrown around too much.
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  3324. I agree about the COVID connection. I never heard anyone else say it.
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  3325. Glenn Greenwald
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  3326. We have had MASSIVE deficits for decades. Explain what happened now. N. B. Did you know that "fractional reserve banking" has set the reserve percentage to ZERO?
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  3327. No one cares whether you feel bad for her or not. Trust me.
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  3328. ​ @cassiescornerreviews6884  How so? I only look to published research available at the NIH website, in their free library of medicine, for my information. MIT also had an explanation of the new technologies, as did a number of other major universities. Were they all spreading "misinformation?" Wait. Is that you, Nina?
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  3329. This was written about. One of our servicemen who tried to stop it was killed for that.
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  3330.  @JCDenton-area51  Does opposing an embargo during a pandemic make you a supporter of dictators? I oppose all embargoes now. Either COVID is real or it isn't.
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  3331. Of course Trump lost. He said the country is going downhill and that the rest of the world is laughing at us. You can't say that.
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  3332.  @RJ-hk1ni  Why does it need so much help to fail from the global behemoth? It is baffling, actually. If the US believed in capitalism, it wouldn't bother sanctioning Venezuela. It would step back and watch the inevitable take place.
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  3333. ​@benstern310 Do you not understand? They all spend MUCH more on lobbying than they pay in taxes. They then buy the tax laws they want, score defense contracts, and buy US Treasuries and collect interest. We owe them our taxes.
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  3334. ​ @benstern310 I would not want a billion dollars, no. This is madness.
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  3335. 15:00 Hedges interview begins
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  3336.  @jaybleu6169  I just looked up the minimum wage in Hawaii: $12.00 per hour. Given a 35-hour week, and subtracting taxes, is $700 the equivalent of two weeks? How long will insurance take? And need-based aid? Weren't a lot of tourist destinations suffering economically more than other areas during the pandemic? So, had these communities fully recovered from that ordeal when they were hit? Apparently some were without water for days.
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  3337. Love of 💰 really is the root of all evil.
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  3338. Wait, à bunch of these posts sound the same. And you joined 16 hours ago . . . 😂
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  3339. ​@RockBrentwood We are engaged in this war, before the world stage. If you don't care about Gaza at all, worry about American "soft power."
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  3340. But it wasn't wrong, not in the sense you mean. They funneled money straight up to their cronies, exactly as desired.
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  3341.  @jca9417  We've had huge jumps many times. Previous increases gave rise not to "inflation" under the usual meaning of the term (which I agree has been falsified to a degree, to avoid raising Social Security benefits to match real inflation), but to asset bubbles, and hence was funneled to the same oligarchy. These are the people whose tax cuts required massive deficit spending, and who in turn bought T bonds and collected interest from the Treasury instead of paying taxes to the Treasury. Anyway, in 2020 the velocity of money declined so greatly that money supply increases did not matter.
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  3342. 25:51 Chris was wise to ask exactly how these private equity bankers are able to "load [a company] up with debt." Exactly how leverage allows the bankers to double and triple their profits practically overnight is not clear. It needs to be explained, so that the listeners could explain it in turn. Without this level of understanding, ordinary people will just revert to "personal responsibility," or worse, "positivity" mantras --- or, they will believe Tucker or Elon or Donald Trump will save us. That's what's happening.
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  3343. ​​ @klauskinski5969  Reagan gutted mathematics education for a reason. This is true.
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  3344. Because his parents have a 66-year life expectancy. I mean do the math.
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  3345. She was outstanding here, especially at the end.
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  3346. They are deeply afraid, but I'm not sure why. Please don't get exasperated, as much as that means you need to be saintly. Please don't give up on her. Keep talking, and find out what happened. Something did.
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  3347. Exactly! The more this gentleman talks about the BILL OF RIGHTS, the more I like him and the more hopeful I am. Maybe it really is possible.
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  3348. ​ @fourtysixandtwo4556  Accurate, sadly.
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  3349. That's odd. Trump's DOJ indicted him on fraud. He got pardonned, not exonerated.
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  3350.  @jonm7888  Who's that?
    6
  3351. No, good for her. This was about Dionysios. I thought the right knew their classics. Don't you know what ancient Greeks did during their festivals?
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  3352. Brie pointed that out. A plagiarist teaching is even worse. Miss that part?
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  3353.  @ronobrien7187  LOL, yes
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  3354. Take a look. It's simple.
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  3355. LOL
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  3356. Have you ever seen the movie Bird People? It is very strange. I think you'd love it.
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  3357. The ban after 6 weeks is for any abortions except a lifesaving emergency. You think a mother of two young children should have to risk that? For a severely ill fetus that likely won't survive, either?
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  3358. ​@stoutz So, if VAERS is not reliable and is not being systematically vetted, then we lack information on side effects. That does not mean these are safe. It means an absence of vital information that is necessary to evaluate these substances. The Precautionary Principle applies to place the burden of proof of the proponent.
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  3359. The CIA propaganda web that infiltrated all American letters described in "Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War," by Frances Stonor Saunders, has only gotten bigger.
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  3360. No
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  3361. You don't know the seniors I do.
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  3362. This dude is WAY behind the times.
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  3363. @jeanwesleynew  She claims a trainer in the Marines made that assertion. Without a clip, I can't blame you for not believing her. Still, it makes sense to reserve judgment.
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  3364. @@TOM-TOM-TOM I always do.
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  3365.  @harrymills2770  THIS is what has me worried! We are focusing all of our attention on global warming when the die-off of species has been apparent for a long time.
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  3366. The obesity rate is tragic.
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  3367. The most a young person can count on making by working full time over the summer is about $5000. That should be the top in-state tuition for undergrads.
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  3368. ​@jsamadams And how do you know that the real issue isn't bullying, or molestation, or depression, and the CHILD cannot articulate it? The child is too afraid to say what happened? You had BETTER be sure about this.
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  3369. Listen carefully to Bill Gate's discourse. Don't watch, listen -- and try to forget who is talking. He sounds less educated than Trump. Actually, he is, too.
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  3370. That was then, this is now.
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  3371.  @RebornLegacy  Lauren Paer made perfect sense. Here, 'directionally accurate' means that if the study has revealed an actual trend, then there will be fewer and fewer checks on true bias in the future. People will look at conclusions of a study or paper, and agree or disagree, rather than examining its methods, or addressing methodologies at all. Astute observation.
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  3372. So well said.
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  3373. Brie is trying to make the point that self-defense has a specific definition and specific standards, especially where potentially lethal force is used. "He was a bad guy" doesn't cut it; only the facts of the case matter. I wish she were clearer in making that point. Lee Fang is right about the larger issue and he agrees with Brie's narrow point -- but her point fails to address the larger issue Lee is trying very hard to address here. He was good here. Oh well. :/
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  3374. ​ @briandingle665 He had COVID and weathered it easily. Not paying attention, are we?
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  3375. THANK YOU FOR THIS. I noticed early on that men were more likely to die of COVID, globally, but that women were having far more adverse reactions to the vaccine. I was immediately shouted down. I was shocked. I tried to get the J&J vaccine, and then it was suspended. Between the bullying and that incident, I started looking more closely and decided to stay away. I don't take any treatment in response to being lied to and bullied.
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  3376. ​ @rantube369. SAME. 😂😂😂
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  3377. In my city, lots of cops own FAANG stocks. They know why they do what they do.
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  3378. @patricksullivan7140  Speaking of capitalism, we produce homelessness wherever we go. The Soviets didn't. Housing and a vacation home for high-level civil servants existed before mass industrialization and capitalism existed. What didn't exist before capitalism was nuclear warheads, mass surveillance, television, factory farming, or smart phones.
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  3379. No surprise. Katie, you were fired for making a video about Israeli peace activists. That is a serious big deal. 🤐
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  3380. So why does the car loan get discharged in bankruptcy?
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  3381. Look at Obama's face as he says this. 😅😅😅😅😅😅
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  3382.  @Captain-Obvious  Well, when your IQ is 537 . . . 😂
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  3383. Yes, one of my absolute favorites.
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  3384. Jobs could not have been more wrong. The Market gave us social media addicts. It gave us fast food addicts. And it made a tiny, tiny number of people mind-bogglingly rich -- for addicting the rest. Oh, and by the way, find out what kind of parent Jobs was.
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  3385. Her aim was to prevent Dore from heaping the criticism her "journalism" so richly deserves by reminding him that she still had his apology note from seven years ago, and taking a swipe at his wife for good measure -- just in case Dore didn't know what she is capable of, if he keeps "running his mouth." Why do you think she sent the message? She has a platform, she could have simply presented to the world what a horrible harasser Jimmy Dore is, without sending him any messages, much less referencing the apology note he wrote to her seven years ago, or suggesting he thought she was sexier than his wife. No. Most people are not dumb. This isn't going to work, either.
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  3386.  @_fukunicorn_164  Payment? The thing of value Ana sought was obviously to make Dore shut up. That was the benefit she clearly sought. Or, what do you think the DM was for? Did Weinstein's victims first send him a DM? Or did they just look for the proper venue to tell their stories? Is there some reason to alert a harasser that you intend to expose him? I suggest you listen to Greenwald's analysis.
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  3387. In 2001 and 2020, I was surprised by how scared people were of death. In 2008-2010, I was surprised by how little people feared homelessness.
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  3388.  @SuMMeRFLi5  First of all, you do not have the correct timeline, which her own attorney presented during the press conference she called to announce her lawsuit. The search of the child's backpack was not initiated by her report. Second, you have no evidence that Ohio law requires her to immediately call the police due to the suspicion she had and articulated, which is the only thing that counts with respect to her suit. Third, even if it were true that calling police was required, it does not block her law suit. A mistake, even of that nature, is not full assumption of risk. (Where did YOU go to law school? Don't worry, attorneys know how to keep people like you, who think you know the law better than the judge does, off of juries.)
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  3389.  @m3ke68  Take a look at where the most powerful people in each branch of government went to school. Then see where CEOs of major companies studied, including the ones where the founders did not finish a Bachelor's. Higher ed is more stratified than ever. When I was a kid, a full-time summer job covered a full year's of in-state tuition everywhere: Texas, Michigan, Virginia, Wisconsin, Illinois, California. No exceptions. And a degree from any one of those schools wasn't quite at the level of the advantages Harvard/Yale/Princeton, etc., would give you, but it provided great opportunities. That's long over.
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  3390.  @andybrice2711  Shadowing intelligent posts has the added benefit of increasing divisiveness and making us look stupid. What's not to like? 😂
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  3391.  @deedeeramone34  No, the tone is a sign of authenticity.
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  3392. The intro piece today is treating this report as confirmed.
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  3393.  @smb123211  Nope. Go review the Federal Rules of Evidence. Rule 404. (You REALLY don't get the difference between inculpatory and exculpatory evidence, BTW.) I suppose you've also failed to notice that if we accept your argument about character, it cuts both ways, not just to convict "the Russians."
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  3394.  @df6077  People always say someone else is what they themselves are. Therefore . . .
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  3395. But if we read actual, peer-reviewed studies and cite them for their conclusions, people scream, "Are you a doctor???"
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  3396. An Archie Bunker with a billion. Got it.
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  3397.  @mirasbrush4607  Why does anyone cooperate with this scam, and jeer at the people who work hard but cannot make ends meet no matter how reasonably they live? That is what I do not see in other societies. In other countries, everyone knows the system is rigged. They don't usually go into overdrive to blame the victim and let the perps off the hook, like they do here. A handful do, but this constant barking is not the norm anywhere else. What gives??
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  3398. There was no good way for this election to end.
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  3399.  @F_U23  Current case fatality rate using Worldometer numbers is well under 2% now, and those are cases that are bad enough to come to the attention of the health system. Infection fatality rate is much lower.
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  3400.  @JamieNixx  So, she is a lot like Trump.
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  3401. Well, I see that now, all the people who went along with it are angry at those who don't. I think those who put us through this are thinking, "Mission accomplished!"
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  3402.  @rhysqqq  There is no worse person than a landlord. That's below insurance man.
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  3403.  @mogznwaz  I agree about free speech and support the US First Amendment, but many countries have limits on money spent to influence elections. That should apply regardless of who he supports.
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  3404. When I think of Biden, I only remember the vaccine mandates, and a trans woman flashing us on the White House lawn..
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  3405.  @jprec5174  She didn't make it clear what she was referring to. She just said the son of a Holocaust survivor is a genocide denier. IOW, an ordinary news day . . .
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  3406. ​@bobmex5362 I think watching the WHOLE video, and paying close attention to everything said, especially what Briahna said, as well as Robby's point about the Gretchen Whitmer case, would give you a perspective.
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  3407. And give up a day's pay.
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  3408. Here's a thought: get an elegant planner, and set aside a time to write things in it, preferably daily but no stress, when you want to. Do that for a few weeks. Then go tech-free for 36 hours. (I'm thinking to attach that to my 36-hour fast.)
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  3409. Dr. Campbell did an outstanding analysis of reasonable possibilities -- there are many. And MANY trace back to various government policies.
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  3410.  @dustinbaker8272  Why? She was literally under 18.
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  3411. Paid? I hope so! I don't want to believe in that degree of herd mentality.
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  3412. She said a suit against the university is a good idea. It is.
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  3413.  @handleyobusiness  Where do you see that OP was never married?
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  3414. Joe Rogan left YouTube for Spotify.
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  3415.  @surgtek2006  Aw, thanks! One difference: I might be persuaded to get vaccinated. Still my choice.
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  3416. ❤ Lev Golinkin
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  3417. I still have my clippings of the Enron coverage, about 7 months or so before its collapse. One article called Skilling's office his lair, as if he were a lion.
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  3418. If you looked up the plea agreement and read it, you'd know this was wrong. Powell has a six-year probation.
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  3419.  @rudyrubio2475  So, you've read the court documents, have you? Because they are all publicly available, on the Minnesota Courts website.
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  3420. Question: Do parents who came to the meetings to protest safety issues have FBI files? That's the question I want to hear addressed.
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  3421. Why do they have to prove so hard that they hated Trump? Wait. Did he make them rich?
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  3422. They were reacting to the verdict. THEY did not decide anything.
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  3423. "Roid rage?"
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  3424.  @henryfan48  Except it was the US, not Russia, that dropped two atom bombs, and uses DU tipped warheads. Two Soviets, Arkhipov and Petrov, stopped a nuclear exchange, Arhkipov under extreme duress, in a submarine, and thinking he was likely to die. He saved us anyway, and expected no glory. But facts are so yesterday. Facts are over.
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  3425. Well, Maher doesn't give a toss about working class viewpoints, so in general I agree.
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  3426.  @leeinwis  No, they were used because of their noble, naive sentiments.
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  3427. ​@Curt-Gevert Ask former federal judge Kevin Sharp, who represents him.
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  3428. 🤣🤣🤣
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  3429. So well put.
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  3430.  @alanbeaumont4848  1. The timing of the emergence of the story, days after Russian troops left, needs to be explained. 2. The satellite images are from three weeks ago. What is the expectation of the degree of decomposition at the temperatures at the time? Was there no precipitation? This is why we have forensics. Um, you do know three weeks is a long time -- right? 3. Reuters reported on 4/4 that the Pentagon can neither confirm nor deny that Russian troops were responsible for the atrocity. 4. Russia's request for an immediate UN Security Council meeting was blocked by the UK. 5. China and India have both called for independent investigation. Now, watch Kim's radar.
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  3431.  @franklin9400  Oh come off it.
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  3432. I agree that the Supreme Court should weigh in and establish binding precedent. If the DC Circuit did such a great job, it will be affirmed in the end.
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  3433. ​ @letsomethingshine Yes it is a typical side effect if started before puberty is completed, and it complicates fertility and healthy pregnancy. YES it is.
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  3434. This was a bad call. First, it's false. Ivermectin is a human medicine, and Rogan got a prescription from his doctor. (He's rich, he can.) The NIH stated there is insufficient evidence at present to recommend or prohibit the use of ivermectin, and expressly recommended further clinical studies. Mainstream virologists believe it has sufficient promise to study. Second, it is encouraging contempt for others during a pandemic. And third, it could have the opposite effect than that intended: if you (falsely) tell people Rogan took a horse medicine, other people might get the message that the horse version IS safe! No one should be playing with this, or repeating MSM talking points. Especially not after some of these late-night "comics" recommended letting the unvaccinated die.
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  3435. ​ @andren8788  Well, the threats are not cool. What motivates people to do that? Especially if they pity her?
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  3436. @Jake  You have a point. I support some sort of debt relief, given that Senator Biden made sure these loans could never, ever be discharged in bankruptcy, but there is a need for comprehensive solutions. You know, there was a time not so long ago when a summer job paid enough to cover a full year of in-state tuition. Private universities cost less back then, too, for obvious reasons. Of course federal loans have had the effect of driving up prices.
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  3437. Have you noticed how often after a mass shooting, newspapers state blandly that "he stopped taking his medication?" The idea, apparently, is that stopping medication was a factor in causing the shooting. If we don't ask what he was taking, why he was taking it, and why he stopped, we know nothing about it, but have been nudged toward the conclusion that he shouldn't have stopped taking his medication.
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  3438. @shirleyspadorcio6182  She can't spell Bhattacharya, or remember that he goes by the first name Jay. But she should say when we must give up the entire Bill of Rights, to "feel safe."
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  3439.  @somebodyontheinternet1090  Well, Matt Taibbi didn't know very much about Wall Street but knew to study it before reporting on it. Small detail.
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  3440. ​ @JB-lovin She is correct. I thought American conservatives knew their classics. This in a made-up controversy. I guess everybody forgot Charlie Hebdo.
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  3441.  @bryanhall2860  You would know this, how? The fact that we place no value on humanities is why we are here in the first place. What do you imagine the humanities are, and who do you think studies them? The most common degree in the US by far is Business. Next come all the medical fields, with Nursing on top. Too bad there are not more competent lawyers around to challenge things like vaccine mandates, hm?
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  3442.  @lilly5758  Thank you. My late mom used to say that.
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  3443.  @discogodfather22  Now, now.
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  3444. ​ @kendallhenderson6093  You're on the right track. Now follow that thread.
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  3445. False RFK Jr is right.
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  3446. Tweeting was all Trump had to do to hold on to his base, and he was President. They are taking a page from his playbook.
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  3447. Rethink how you're approaching this. Most applicants in your position come across as desperate, and that guarantees no job. You are probably giving yourself too little credit, and other people too much. That turns into a downward spiral. We live in an advertising-saturated age unlike any other. If being a little less respectful and more arrogant creates more trust in your abilities, then DO THAT. This is a game.
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  3448. ​ @henrylicious Not naive, evil. The naive are innocent.
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  3449. Thank you! This should have wide circulation.
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  3450. Doesn't bother him. :)
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  3451. The Supreme Court overruled OSHA, but I'm not sure if that can help you. You'll have to see a good employment lawyer.
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  3452. ​@noahboy7309 "Far right" is correct for the French context, because the party has its roots in Vichy. It has moderated in recent years, however, compared to what it was under Le Pen's father. Moderate right in France would be Gaulists.
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  3453. Borrowing this joke: Newsflash! New COVID variant identified, BS 24-7 . . .
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  3454.  @nicofelie  You are so welcome! You made my day. Not every university would do this, but really, most would. I would expect this couple to have had a choice of schools. A friend of mine who was a lawyer got into medical school this way as well . . . a ton of night classes, but once she got her minimum science requirements completed, that was it. She needed nothing more. The only thing was, they were unforgiving as to grades. She really did need straight As, which wouldn't usually be the case for an undergrad chemistry major or something. This was about 30 years ago. She got into U of Chicago.
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  3455.  @MuantanamoMobile  A black kid in Rittenhouse's position could never survive a night like that one. The police praised these militia and thanked them. (More adults doing the wrong thing. Have they been investigated for encouraging vigilantism?) They would have mowed down a black youth.
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  3456.  @curiouscat3384  In 1970, working full time over the summer for minimum wage was enough to cover all tuition and fees at the major state universities. This was WONDERFUL for young people. Now, they do online image tending and get consultants for all their applications. They don't learn work, they learn propaganda. Tell your sister that. NO WONDER the young are depressed. This is horrible.
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  3457. ​@foodie135 Of the ones who speak out or write or expose government wrongdoing -- maybe the luckier ones? Only slightly exaggerated.
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  3458.  @thehousedown  Good grief, those mothers had no idea at the time. Those girls had not yet been interrogated. The police at first refused to divulge which girl was hurt, because they could not, in order to investigate properly.
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  3459. @Morgan Robinson (Morgo) So happy for you! Stay well!
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  3460. Truth is the first casualty of war. I have gotten relatively unbiased reporting from France 24 and TeleSUR. The main antagonists are unlikely to be truthful. It's always good to see what they have to say, for the simple fact that they said what they said, not that it's truthful. American MSM will lie about what was said. Kim Iversen, Chris Hedges, Abby Martin, Aaron Mate have been good, especially Hedges. Hedges has a moral core. Pepe Escobar in new videos is a little wacky now, but his serious lectures on the risk of war from several years ago are valuable. Likewise J-L Melenchon, but that's not translated.
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  3461. Last paragraph: perfection
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  3462. Fox lies so much when it comes to labor. That woman in the clip is insane. Will be interesting to hear what Tucker Carlson thinks, lol.
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  3463.  @ivanplacido6996  Er . . . He's a PROGRAMMER. Get it?
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  3464. Because they promised to testify for the prosecution, or they will go to prison.
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  3465. He doesn't remember saying that . . .
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  3466.  @mats7492  And for doing what? LOL Anyone who ever laid a brick or repaired a roof has done more.
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  3467. Got away? If only! He made bank and just became a professor.
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  3468. It sounds like they dealt drugs on the side.
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  3469.  @sthubbins4038  Imagine that. A former bricklayer married to a former teacher, who had to declare bankruptcy due to medical bills despite having private insurance, got his first nice house at age 55. The American "dream" (nightmare) lives.
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  3470.  @waynebollentin989  I agree we don't know. There is, however, breaking news: Glenn Greenwald just posted a very short excerpt of Victoria Nuland testifying on the Ukrainian biolabs, which, oddly enough, were funded through the US DOD, not the NIH. You could find information in the US Embassy in Ukraine's website a few days ago. Have not checked this week. The Indian press, TeleSUR, even AFP were reporting on it neutrally --- asking the right questions, not pretending we have answers. George Galloway was denounced over the weekend for reporting on this.
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  3471. Brie is trying to make the CRUCIAL point that self-defense has a specific definition and specific standards, especially where potentially lethal force is used. "He was a bad guy" doesn't cut it; only the facts of the case matter. I wish she were clearer in making that point. Lee Fang is right about the larger issue and he agrees with Brie's point -- but her point fails to address the larger issue Lee is trying very hard to address here. Oh well. :/
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  3472.  @sheilamacdougal4874  It's not "what about x" when the pandemic RESPONSE is indeed a causal factor in creating other pathologies. You think we aren't spawning agoraphobia? You think anxiety disorder and panic disorder do not lead to disability and drug abuse and suicide? I can take off a seatbeat when I'm done driving. I can take off a mask at home. If I am injured by any medical intervention, especially a vaccine, I cannot undo it, and I know I am on my own. That is why the consent form for COVID vaccination states that you certify you read the fact sheet, that you understand the risks, and that if you now decide not to take the vaccine, your health care WILL NOT BE AFFECTED. You must not have read the consent form. You impugn my solid argument with those inapposite seatbelt talking points? Thanks for proving the OP's point, but I'd rather you didn't. It's too sad.
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  3473. "Entitlement" was once a good word; the Supreme Court used it to mean something that you are entitled to, in contrast to any program that depends on someone's discretion. In the case of Social Security, no bureaucrat can say "no."
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  3474. I was just thinking right before reading this, that I appreciate Amber's perspective, but I would NEVER trust her to make decisions that have an effect on my life. Jessica, I would. I'd feel she is approachable and would take views other than her own seriously.
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  3475. Boxers or briefs?
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  3476. @jamiehopkins3796  I am opposed to making things like puberty blockers criminal only because of that one child in several million who may need them, and I believe in strictly individualized medical care. But my sympathy is with the people who see no other way of putting the brakes on this insanity. It's a human rights violation to deprive anyone of the choice to be a birth parent someday. No school should be saying the opposite, either.
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  3477. ​ @SpaciousSelf-gx9hc “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
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  3478. Thanks! You're great. And that was simple, wasn't it?
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  3479. Why do you believe that a visit to a PRISON is the answer, and not just one more demonstration that "might makes right?"
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  3480. Well, she made people uncomfortable. I mean, are you for that?? /s
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  3481. My respect for Amy Goodman only grows. What good fortune to be alive when she is.
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  3482. ​ @b.pack3 Could the purpose be to drive competition away? Because the rich ARE going to the Ivies or Stanford. Those diplomas are not for the next few years but for the next 60. Once you are a Harvard grad, it's for life.
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  3483. It's probably mostly Jewish people and Palestinian people, to be honest.
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  3484. @sanford943  That's nice. Mine went to work when I was three and that was not fun. Chicago, West Side.
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  3485. @peterbenko9395  Drug use once barred you from employment. Now, a drug can be mandated in order to be allowed to have a job? No. Lots of courts have struck down many mandates, under various legal theories.
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  3486. AP is elective, and is supposed to lead to college credit. The College Board sets the standard for curriculum and the AP test. The College Board is a private organization. The job of a governor is to ensure truth in advertising, not to censor. These are ELECTIVE courses. If the courses do lead to college credit, and there are teachers who want to teach and students who want to study, that is all that matters.
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  3487.  @keeponkeepingon8403  Some women like to have a regular cycle, as a matter of holistic good health. "Crazy, I know."
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  3488. ​@monicawarren3678 It is what they think all right.
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  3489. Because a federal law preempts state laws. For example, federal protection for IVF, federal protection for abortion in patients under 16, federal protection for medically necessary abortions beyond life-threatening emergencies, etc., would be constitutional and would preempt state laws to the contrary.
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  3490. They are getting PAID to be less and less logical. That is what scares me.
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  3491. No, it's about crawling over people and getting to the top the easy way -- not by making yourself excellent, but by destroying everyone in your way. I saw that pattern well before the adoption of wokism. When wokism stops working, watch for the substitute.
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  3492. Animals that do not nurture their young are not companion animals. Period.
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  3493. Yes, great.
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  3494. I've been there. I'm emigrating.
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  3495. I don't even like her music. And she used to be prettier.
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  3496.  @felliesweetie  Complete fabrication. Meghan is her mother's only child, and Doria was the only child of her parents as well (though both had half-siblings by their fathers). Doria raised her. And when Meghan started making money, she paid the tuition for her mother's MSW at USC. What is wrong with you? Look, Harry wasn't going to marry you. LOL
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  3497. Right. The cynicism they expect of us -- and get -- is staggering.
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  3498.  @Mr.Monta77  I did my homework. It taught me . . . Docility!
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  3499. Just what we need, a ketamine-infused foreign policy.
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  3500. His security consultants probably told him to cut it out. He can follow their advice or pay them more or pay someone else more. In any case, whoever could track the plane still can track the plane. They can share it with their small circle of friends, too. They cannot post it on Twitter. Ease of access is a relevant metric.
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  3501.  @DeadPresidents408  What's wrong with the Fifth Amendment, or the First? I support the Bill of Rights. I'm glad she refused to bend. Vote her down, and be done with it. Instead, Hawley said "force her to admit" SORRY, BUB -- Your role isn't to make her talk, it's to vote her down based on her answers/nonanswers.
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  3502. I agree with Emily. Pretending we have free elections in the first place is "to defend" ridiculous.
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  3503.  @spinafex5729  Except that there were only a handful of hot spots where there was any such stress on hospitals, and that was in the first half of 2020. The rest was socially engineered and exaggerated. In my city, we set up huge field hospitals that never saw a single patient. Moreover, there were other ways to avoid infection and keeping others safe, including self quarantine and testing. Those who refused any mitigation are one thing, but to pretend that taking the leaky vaccine was noble and spared others is simply nonsense.
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  3504. He is treated like a cult figure, by friends and foes. Why?
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  3505. "People want to come here." Learn their languages, Robbie, find out what they're really saying.
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  3506.  @somebody700  WHAT welfare? Literally EVERY developed country has a generous social safety net compared with America. We have food stamps for families whose breadwinners work full time and make minimum wage. We have an educational system the funding of which is based on the market price of the real property surrounding a school. We have no universal health care. We have real wages declining for two full generations now, not one. We have gig jobs with no benefits, no disability insurance, and no unemployment compensation until the current national emergency. This is so dire that the recent Stockton experiment, giving people $500 a month, no strings, worked spectacularly well -- those who got the cushion were MORE likely to get a new job, by far. Of COURSE. They could buy a new laptop and a new set of clothes! A few of them could think about taking a community college class, I'm sure. Might have been the first time in a long time they felt less stressed. Do you have any black friends? I don't mean in your community, I mean who live in a poorer one. Do you have any idea how hard they work for very little money? You really don't know this? You think they're underpaid because they don't work? Wow. While you're at it, tell us what to do to get Jeff Bezos to work, instead of taking pictures of his . . . for his girlfriend.
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  3507. Ministry of Acceptable Humor
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  3508. Glenn Greenwald just dropped an outstanding video and at the end he addressed Chomsky so perfectly, with sensitivity and intelligence. He's the only one I've seen do that so far, and he is friends with Chomsky. Of course he disagreed with the statements, while praising the man.
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  3509. Oh, I've seen worse. I live in the States.
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  3510. How crazy are you? No limit?
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  3511. ​ @simonbagel  Ask Sophie Scholl. Oh wait, you can't.
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  3512. ​ @lyndamonchak4072 I think the process can no longer be stopped. Not hopeless, no --- but close.
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  3513.  @pookah9938  Exactly. The real problem.
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  3514. Saw an old video with Emir Kusturica, where he points out that the end of the Soviet Union was also the end of democracy and the beginning of complete corporate control in the West. John Lanchester made the same observation in one of is books on the financial crisis of 2008.
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  3515.  @suprabh2108  Right. And Briahna did not support a mandate. She did point out that individual actors can require masks in their establishments, and might have some rational reason for doing so. Robbie said he will no longer frequent those establishments. Then Brie said at least twice that she respects other people's choices. What I don't get is how her words always get twisted. The other day she criticized the DNC while Robbie criticized Trump supporters. She was the one denounced anyway, for "partisanship." I think people have convinced themselves that her careful analysis and carefully chosen words "must be" a ruse. It "couldn't be" that she means it. Criticize her when she deserves it. Don't when she doesn't.
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  3516.  @stoneyrules  There was no such goal, and we know that because (1) patents were never lifted, and there was no appreciable effort to vaccinate in the poor countries; and (2) animal reservoirs have been identified, making eradication next to impossible. Both points also mean new variants are highly likely to arise, though they may not be worse ones. We also know none of the vaccines promised sterilizing immunity, only high resistance to infection and prevention of serious illness. This was an accomplishment already, considering the valid ADE concerns at the very start.
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  3517.  @stoneyrules  Do you know how many people over the age of 12 live in Africa?
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  3518.  @stoneyrules  As of February 2022, the UN reports 11% of Africa has been vaccinated. Many African countries report 1 to 2% vaccination. In 2022. Africa has close to a billion people, which includes infants and children too young for vaccines. Some countries show high rates of antibodies, meaning the population has acquired a high level of natural immunity, at least for now.
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  3519.  @stoneyrules  If Africans are doing better than we are, we should ask why. Conjectures: younger population, fitter population, more traditional plant-based diet with meat for feasts only, more time outdoors in sunshine, walk more steps per day, more respect for elders, etc. All of that is good for you, but we don't know what it means for COVID resistance yet.
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  3520.  @eelnoops5200  Ask Dr. Rachel Maddow. Or Dr. Jill Biden. I hear they're both outstanding.
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  3521.  @eelnoops5200  Oh, now I get it! In this Social Darwinian dystopia, OF COURSE anyone who is injured by the Holy Vaccine is an inferior specimen and deserves jeering. Took me a minute. Sorry.
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  3522. ​ @byronhotchkiss3254 😂😂😂 oh come on
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  3523. "AOC is Bernie's heir" is about picking a stock. If his pick is right, he gets rich.
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  3524. If they could track Elon before, they can still track Elon. They just can't post it on his new toy.
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  3525.  @Iris-hx6ox  See, Brie wasn't even allowed to bring it up. The nerve!! /s When people think in soundbites, then you can't formulate a complex thought. You have to meme.
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  3526. 🤣
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  3527. ​ @xalivt They are all saying false things about what Brie just said.
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  3528.  @trufflesrheaven  Yeah, too bad they worked all last year and risked their safety and their very lives for us. They'll know better next time.
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  3529.  @brasshouse-fireball  A doctor from India saved my life. I started to say more, but it was so remarkable it could identify me!
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  3530. People are well trained to be massively resentful. They would rather see harm to someone else than to prevent harm to themselves. To be fair, the pandemic fiasco and the two wars we are feeding are great arguments against government spending. So are the two rockets SpaceX blew up this year, so is domestic surveillance by Palantir.
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  3531. It was never nationalized.
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  3532. @Timewave-Zer0  What "key part?" Do you know what the Department of Education does? Among other things, it supervises the funding of public education for disabled children under the IDEA, which local property taxpayers cannot possibly afford. As for privatization, you must not know of all the charter schools that funneled money to founders, then collapsed. Still, I would make all tuition, preschool through doctoral studies, tax deductible, for everyone. Even Musk.
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  3533.  @rafb145  I don't need this clip. I read. I'm a lawyer.
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  3534. Not at all. You should see their polling places and how they are counting votes.
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  3535. But they use more planned obsolescence now. BTW: In 2007, on July 4th, I wore all Made in America, including shoes and underwear. It was my tradition, and all the teens I knew thought it was cool. I can't anymore.
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  3536. She isn't rejecting that premise. The way no one ever listens to the least degree of complexity is scary.
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  3537.  @jimwerther  On the contrary. Most were invented.
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  3538. This is what real philanthropy is.
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  3539. Bravo. Thank you.
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  3540.  @ironmonkey1512  Especially to dead people.
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  3541. Thank you.
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  3542. How could anyone believe that if they were injured, they would be helped? When have you seen that happen?
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  3543. ​ @RomanShein1978 Too bad my first post was ______ .
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  3544. Oh so that's why that city is shining . . . thanks for the heads up.
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  3545. This takes huge courage.
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  3546. It isn't funny, but whatever. Dore stood up against censorship. That's what's important.
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  3547.  @johnlewis9158  Then THAT should be the issue. Instead, we have to focus on what's going on between someone's legs. I'm sick of it.
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  3548. He spouts nonsense and you support him. By this logic, find enough people who want the Koran taught, and the state has to fund no school or every school, including that one. The law used to be that the state could only fund the secular courses in a religious school, for example, mathematics, reading, and art. The kids are free to read religious books with their reading skills, or create religious-themed art, and have it welcomed in class on the same basis as any other art. That was the rule.
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  3549. I still cannot grasp why anyone joined Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. "Come spy on me, come spy on me, I'll help you!!" Tell me who I have to be.
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  3550. If they had responded to the fearmongering during the pandemic, they wouldn't have had babies. People like Psaki are shocked that anyone did.
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  3551. Of course. It works as their cover story!
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  3552. Because that is all your ability to choose to be a birth parent someday amounts to, a fashion choice.
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  3553. ​ @sisaket33 Spain is opposed to Kosovo independence. Trump might have some vague memory of someone saying something offhand about Spain.
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  3554. @krispeekream  His point that police handled this badly is correct. But he was assuming that she was the perpetrator in that particular incident, when she may have been the one acting in self-defense. The police didn't investigate properly or follow the law.
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  3555. Figures that one of the most honorable, careful people in journalism would face smears. Welcome to twenty-first century America. :/ This is not good, folks.
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  3556. A depressive episode or a panic attack is a "migraine." Remember that.
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  3557. Lichtman looks like someone else is pulling the strings.
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  3558. I was just considering applying for a federal job, and there was no mention of a mandate at all. I saw something that said it was lifted early this year. I'd have to double check. (I didn't want the job.)
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  3559. Mitterrand had a great natality policy. In his first term, PCF was part of the government (and France was flooded with CIA assets as a result). That policy prevented tens of thousands of abortions, while preserving choice and paying most of the cost of elective abortion (but ALL the cost of childbearing, for all women). But no one ever talks about that. Hmm.
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  3560. The beauty of this is that Max has Chicago roots, too -- his father grew up in Chicago. He is Jimmy's best guest, every time.
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  3561.  @StevenPenny  Seriously? An institution like a university, with the resources it has to take its time to investigate and reflect on evidence and listen calmly, bears less blame than an activist who blurts something out? I'm pretty sure the university is to blame. Brie was perfect here. I've never seen anyone more systematically misrepresented.
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  3562. Which in itself is tragic.
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  3563. Can you be serious? This was not disculpatory in the least -- and that's if you believe Hunter's words, that he was passed out from drugs in a luxury hotel with a Russian escort. Is there some way this could be in his favor? How big of a national security risk is Hunter, anyway?
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  3564. @Operation45623  Exactly right. Where are we that anyone could think the age and birthplace requirements -- both easily verifiable -- are on a par with whether or not a person participated in an insurrection? Don't you first have to determine there was an insurrection?
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  3565. I agree!! We should be sure to single them out and make them tell us how and when they lost their sight in front of strangers. I mean, what? Do those snowflakes think they're entitled?
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  3566. There is nothing they won't do. This is who registers for the draft, remember?
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  3567. First Amendment protected speech violates no law.
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  3568.  @memebump7612  Nice choices ya got there. Orange Caligula or The Mummy.
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  3569.  @ernestd    The car was not moving. Nahel was threatened by one of the police officers with "a bullet to the head." It is perfectly clear on the recording. ONLY THEN did he take off. Wasn't this translated into l'anglais?
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  3570. ​ gocelts  Yes, I do.
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  3571. I tried to read Tolle. I found it impossible. Every presentation of his that I have ever seen screamed charlatan and faux guru. People who have studied philosophy see through it. I am disappointed that he gave up pursuing his degree because I think he is very intelligent. I think the discipline of completing a doctorate would have been beneficial to him. He might have been a better writer and thinker. He would not have been as rich.
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  3572. They are making you think censorship is necessary "to protect the public." The FTC already has the power to prosecute false advertising, especially false medical advertising, and pandemic profiteers, which is what some of them are. But that's not what was proposed.
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  3573.  @AllMustJump  Are you saying (1) you are certain M4A won't pass the Senate; and (2) no Senator who votes against it will have to answer to his or her constituents for their vote? Then either there is no pandemic, or there is no democracy.
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  3574.  @thehumanity0  What was the impeachment vote? Was that "performative?" (I WISH they had done a better job on impeachment. Look who was president during the pandemic!) Note that the Senate did not even hear witnesses or sub poena documents. How "performative" was that?? Nice that you learned a new buzz word. What's the definition?
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  3575. I'm sorry. Hang in there.
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  3576. PERFECT A great memory is a wonderful thing.
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  3577. Let's hope.
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  3578.  @Rokaize  Oh, you again. Wish I had seen this first. Fair warning.
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  3579. @RickZackExploreOffroad  To smile and wave to that crowd? No, I saw no sign of that. We'll see what they say after all the hostages are free. Then they can speak freely.
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  3580. The Clintons and the billionaires will be there. 🫣
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  3581. ​ @dedetudor. Trump had wanted to consult RFK Jr. on vaccine risks, and Bill Gates told him not to. So, of course, Trump being the man of steel that he is . . . Listened to Bill Gates.
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  3582.  @danimalthebruce2569  Actually, you know how people typically overdose? They are clean for a period of time, often due to incarceration or hospitalization, then they take what they think is "just a little bit less" than the dose they were used to taking before they were clean. That is the typical case. LOOK IT UP. But more to the point, you don't get to kneel on someone's neck and shorten his life, even if he would have died of other causes an hour later. You are still responsible for the homicide. If that weren't the case, anyone fragile for any reason could end up being fair game. And when someone is in police custody and in distress, police are supposed to try to save his life, or summon paramedics and allow them to do so. What parallel hell are you living in?
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  3583.  @danimalthebruce2569  False, misleading, and most of all irrelevant. Your fatal dose or my fatal dose or a user's fatal dose or an addict's fatal dose do not come close to the same amount, with respect to their physiological tolerance, not their psychological craving. Nor do police, or anyone else, get a "freebee." Funny how you ignored that part. In the rich suburbs outside of the city where I live, police brag about how they carry antidote and save lives. They've been carrying it for at least 5 years now.
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  3584.  @danimalthebruce2569  But more to the point, you don't get to kneel on someone's neck and shorten his life, even if he would have died of other causes an hour later. You are still responsible for the homicide. If that weren't the case, anyone fragile for any reason could end up being fair game. And when someone is in police custody and in distress, police are supposed to try to save his life, or summon paramedics and allow them to do so. What parallel hell are you living in?
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  3585.  @danimalthebruce2569  "Paramedics called to treat George Floyd after a police officer kneeled on his neck for more than nine minutes last year testified Thursday that they thought he was dead when they arrived. Derek Smith, one of two paramedics who testified in a Minneapolis courtroom Thursday, said that when he arrived on the scene he could not find that Floyd had a pulse. "In lay terms, I thought he was dead," Smith said. Seth Bravinder, the second paramedic, told jurors Thursday that officer Derek Chauvin was kneeling on Floyd when they arrived. "They were still on top of him," Bravinder said." A "hostile crowd" did this?? Okay, end of discussion here. Waste someone else's time.
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  3586. Kim Iversen reported this a few weeks ago, and was immediately denounced. Like Jimmy and Stef, Kim WAS vaccinated.
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  3587. "Problematic"
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  3588. The consent forms stated that by signing, you acknowledged that you read the vaccine fact sheet, AND that after reading the fact sheet, declining vaccination would have no effect on your future medical care. Those forms were pretty interesting. Too bad nobody reads this stuff.
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  3589. for money
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  3590. You don't see that these are "native" French? Ethnic French? 😂😂😂😂 Well, either you really don't see race, or (more likely) you don't see French as quite white.
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  3591. 11:50 Katie, "psy-ops" -- she is always so funny
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  3592. I knew not to believe anything that comes out of Biden's mouth. Even Briahna makes it clear at every opportunity that she DID NOT vote for him. Biden is the one who made student loans nondischargeable in bankruptcy under any circumstances.
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  3593. Actually, you do. A good 20% were escaping. That's tens of millions of people in Western countries alone.
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  3594.  @stevek5600  No, he doesn't. He panders to YOU, because being a lawyer and building actual cases is hard work, and duping people is easy. WHY DOESN'T SHAPIRO DEFEND POLICE IN COURT? He has the Harvard law degree to do it.
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  3595.  @63mckenzie  Nope, not given that they are at war. This is pretty dark. SNL is awful, and not even unintentionally funny.
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  3596. @tvviewer4500  Health Freedom Defense Fund, Inc. v. Carvalho, the LAUSD case. Some people are saying that the court ruled these were not vaccines. It did not. It only said that the case could proceed, and the plaintiffs would have a chance to bring evidence to show that they aren't. It was fair. In fact, this is mainly a civil procedure case.
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  3597. Maybe they, um, don't care so much about small businesses? Could that be it?
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  3598. Actually, she can't. We have got to ignore her.
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  3599. And he lived separately from them.
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  3600.  @jennperson6008  He said on this show that certain categories at high risk SHOULD get the COVID vaccine.
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  3601. Everything Briahna said was correct and highly critical of DNC. Robbie was more critical of Trump here. What did you think you heard?
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  3602. @Jeff Haddix  Exactly. Plus he defamed RFK Jr., and he pushed strongly for a public policy of neverending boosters. So he interjected himself into the policy debate. Whether or not to urge everyone to keep getting boosters is not a purely scientific question. Science provides the guidelines for making the decisions but cannot make the decisions for us.
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  3603. I'm puzzled as to why the prosecution offers an inherently unpersuasive motive, considering they do not need to speculate about the motive to prove their case. The fear his wife and son would turn on him, as Briahna suggested, sounds more plausible. He may have had more than one motive.
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  3604.  Anni Runaway  Where do you see that I want to protect the doctor? Pushing this vaccine on healthy minors disgusts me.
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  3605. ​ @letsomethingshine These treatments often impair fertility, ability to enjoy sex, etc. This is a big deal. The right of adults to try to have birth children is a Universal Human Right. Your response is to throw around slogans?
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  3606. Twitter and Facebook were designed to induce us to share information to enhance surveillance of us -- for private corporate actors in the first place, to advertise to us, if nothing more. But, of course, for MUCH more.
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  3607. I think this prof made a lot of good points. Apparently, he made no one happy. :/
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  3608. ​​ @nightwithout-stars1951 In conjunction with a number of other facts makes being bullied a weak risk factor. Lots of risk factors never lead to the crime, etc.
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  3609.  syeuwa  Affordable health care? With deductibles of $6000, and dozens of exclusions? It was a subsidy to capital. And what IS the minimum wage?
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  3610. @Ed I doubt that very much. Acting as a provocateur, perhaps? Deflecting attention to a hot button issue, so that we forget about what matters. That's called being a clever politician.
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  3611. When a little voice whispers to you, "oh . . . They wouldn't do that," forget it. It's already done. It was done months ago. Years.
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  3612. ​@rickymakkovik I asked for vaccines they told me I did not need. The one in particular that I wanted, against meningitis, I probably would take today. Tetanus, standing alone, I would take because I have a penicillin allergy and don't want to rush to a doctor if I hurt myself gardening. COVID? No. My concerns were never addressed, and only grew. Vaccine is not a magic word that makes everything called "vaccine" good.
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  3613. If you've never read Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic, do. Put that at the top of your list. It's an old book, and it's about the epidemic of mental illness.
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  3614. 1:02:30 No, Jimmy. The Department of Education is what does allocate money to the states to educate special needs children along side all children. Ending the Department won't send money back to the states.
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  3615.  @jeffreylebowski4927  Maybe they don't want to reach out to real people, who would be scared to death if a former boss threatened them. That's what working class feels like.
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  3616. My heart also breaks for all the Jewish people for real peace and real justice. I've been reading Haaretz, I've been watching Democracy Now, I know who Uri Avnery was, and who Neve Gordon is and why he left Israel. Not news to me. Breaks my heart.
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  3617. Tucker got a defamation lawsuit dismissed because everyone knows that he just voices his opinions for fun. None of them are presented as true.
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  3618. This defense actually works against defamation, believe it or not. It exists to protect hyperbole, irony, and exaggeration for effect, especially when used in an artistic/creative context or as entertainment. But it should not work for a lawyer!
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  3619. Well, she jumped straight to the issue of criminalization, where she does have a point, but that wasn't the issue. Charlamagne was talking about something more basic: free speech, free expression, freedom of thought. And he's right.
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  3620.  @DD-ws6cu  There are videos in depth on why this is a good strategy, too.
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  3621. Small tip, if not a solution: One duck egg is almost equal to two chicken eggs, and they last longer after the "best by" date than do chicken eggs.
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  3622.  @kristintheartist  Ha. Shows what you know. There are unemployed veterans with no income. One didn't have the tech to work from home, and that was that. There are unemployed new graduates. Or, remember Angela Marsden? Look up her video interviews. Get a clue.
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  3623. ​ @jasondavis1949 They think it can't happen to them.
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  3624.  @chad3232132  They live in the same meme soup we do.
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  3625.  @chad3232132  Of course he escalated the situation. He had no business chiding a stranger, or speaking to anyone without wearing his mask. So he broke a rule, too. He doesn't know her ethnicity, or the ethnicity of her immediate family, either. You'd be surprised if you think you do.
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  3626.  @denisedevoto5703  Just wait. We're only in MARCH.
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  3627. Before his stroke, Fetterman was a decent LOCAL politician, actually. He presided over redevelopment of his town and lived modestly back then. He went to a small Methodist college, then got an MBA. Buttigieg was never a decent mayor.
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  3628. EXACTLY
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  3629.  @chuckles9767  Thanks for the reminder.
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  3630. They know why it doesn't work for most cases of severe COVID. Racaniello explained that it reduces intestinal replication of the virus but not lung replication, which is what kills. So its usefulness is limited. It doesn't appear to save lives. But off-label compassionate use of medicines shouldn't be prohibited unless it's known to be a risky medicine.
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  3631.  @maaduufan5140  Her father had had a heart attack, he couldn't come. (You forgot?) Did you know how he paid for all of his kids' college? It's really cool: he won a $1,000,000 loto.
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  3632. Overlook his controversial views? Several are clearly right.
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  3633. We have a lot of serious questions, and no money in finding the real answers.
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  3634.  @TheSandwichMonster  EVERYTHING should be considered, no matter who is "inconvenienced."
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  3635.  @gdiwolverinemale2745  The ability to off-shore jobs depends in great measure on what the government is willing to help you do, like provide security for ports and shipping lanes while you avoid paying payroll taxes. Those companies don't have their own private global security force. The money comes from somewhere . . . hm.
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  3636. He has needed top-flight bodyguards for years.
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  3637. ​ @newworldforward1842 You forgot Hillary and Samantha.
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  3638. One more person intimidated by intelligence. Why not just set up a reading program? You can do it!
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  3639. ​ @antonviet8875 This was tendentious nonsense. Clearly, he does not know what is going on in English class or why people study it.
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  3640. @davidhoyles8595  That's the subject of this prosecution. He is presumed innocent. Follow? The question was what STANDARD Trump should be held to. Yes, a high standard. Whether he met that standard is mostly a political question. Anyone alleging it is something more (like, say, a criminal matter) should come to court with clean hands.
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  3641. @Geewasright  You must not understand how courts work. There is much that any jury must take on faith --- they have to believe evidence is not tampered with, for one thing. They did not witness the making of a tape, or hear what came before and after in the conversation, etc. They were not there. They have to see the prosecutor as serious, credible, and competent, and as having no conflicting interests. They can't be wondering whether money is part of the motivation for bringing the case.
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  3642. Amy is truly the best.
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  3643. It's not evident either way. Also, women do not like other women. Why the need to take sides? I don't. I didn't at the time of her testimony. Having said that, she has the burden of proof.
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  3644. Think of the mice. 😅
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  3645.  @johnnysheehy  You don't know what indoctrinated is.
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  3646. I am trying to figure this out. What do all the Kyle Rittenhouse supporters here believe? That a 17-year-old kid who crossed state lines with major firepower to insert himself where he had no business being should now, what -- simply be released? Have you seen the charges? He cannot claim "self-defense" against all of them.
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  3647. ​ @Clintorres The administrators were awful as well, completely unprepared. How do these people get these jobs? Rhetorical question.
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  3648.  @mfasnoza1778  An architect MUST have a formal education, and a quite broad one: some engineering, applied mathematics, applied material science, and a lot of art and art history. That's why the example was so on point.
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  3649. ​@Unshackled. Oh please, this was performative. Let's see what any of these people actually DO. Don't take this as a substitute for actual investigation and action.
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  3650. In Europe, the state pays for abortions at least in large part. When I lived in France, which at that time required counseling and a number of other measures before approval of elective abortion, the state still paid 70% of the cost.
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  3651. He's not alone by any stretch.
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  3652. If he is over your head, please commit to reading more. Because this is friggin' genius.
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  3653. ​@barryjames73 oh yeah the feewings . . . feewings will getcha every time
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  3654. Russia hate is an important safety-valve for their pent-up bigotry. There's so much they're longing to say and can't.
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  3655. Laughing all the way to the bank.
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  3656. This is the philosophy of America. You think something else is going on in the US? This is always the case. GoFundMe is our medical care.
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  3657.  @gracelynne3918  Bri is very intelligent. I think she is sorry she bought the "narrative." This is rationalization.
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  3658. Yeah, like the editor who vetted Glenn Greenwald's story on Hunter Biden at The Intercept . . . very important to vet. /s
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  3659. ​ @PeterMoss54321 And a handful of children of people born under enslavement were wealthy. Way to miss the central point. Do you think all women could enter all colleges on an equal basis with men during that time? (Even without having a rich father? Please.) OP is a GREAT post!
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  3660. ​ @pierredelecto7069 Why? What did he do, exactly? What he did determines how his case should go.
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  3661. @christr1ut87  I don't disagree with that, except that private universities are not government actors with respect to the First Amendment. But don't get me wrong, I think you're right. This was a communication problem, and I see that now. Brie should have acknowledged Robby's points and complimented him on his radar, and only then brought up her own points. But it was Robby who became objectively rude. Now, if she wants to paint him as some sort of Ben Shapiro hyper-Zionist, and he gets p'd off, at this point I cannot blame him. Takes two to tango . . .
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  3662. Baby formula from any developed country with high standards, strong controls and lower infant mortality rates than ours should be allowed.
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  3663.  @peterstafford4426  I'm sorry Abby got money you were so intent on grabbing but oh well. Better luck next time.
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  3664. I still have an article about Enron LAUDING the C-suite only months before implosion. They predicted the stock would go up another 20 or 30%. I saved it. No special reason. I considered buying Enron, because they offered a DRIP (designed for the micro investor!), and for some reason I didn't.
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  3665. "Proven" liar isn't a job requirement? Why would they want an unproven one?
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  3666. Seeing Aaron laugh so sincerely is great.
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  3667.  @comfortablynumb5597  He's also generalizing about men. Plenty of "high testosterone" men are protective of all weaker beings. Their instinct is to protect, not crush, women, children, and fragile elderly adults. And small animals. Why blame them on the basis of generalizations and stereotypes if they did not themselves take steroids? They were born with testosterone.
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  3668. The people I feel for are the ones who played it straight all their lives and ended up living in their parents' basement, and barely making $40k from part-timing and gigs. I don't understand romanticizing drugs. Hunter had no trouble taking millions from countries where most people are POOR. I could never do that. Glorification of the dissolute bully, as long as he's got rocker style? Also, Hunter is a walking, talking ad for "drugs don't really kill, wink wink." (And COVID is like the flu. /s )
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  3669. DISAGREE. This is what President Carter needed to say to that B-grade actor and fraud Reagan. Where electing unqualified celebrities started.
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  3670. For those who don't believe this to be possible: remember Rotherham. People WILL cover up astounding things.
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  3671. Amber was wrong. Yes they were exonerated, and they settled a civil rights suit for $41 million. (Watch The Confessions, about four sailors in Norfolk, Virginia who confessed to a crime they had nothing to do with.) You cannot bring a civil rights suit absent exoneration. A vacated verdict is insufficient.
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  3672.  @bobjames6622  Where did that come from?
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  3673. The research does not support them.
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  3674.  @AllFather-TheStoicGod  The Daily Beast article cited here states that he is an American citizen, dual national. Given his family background, that does not sound implausible in the least.
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  3675. "Double down" is what they do. Learned from the Clintons.
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  3676. I can listen to these horrifying cases only when Dr. Grande explains them. I cannot bear sensationalized accounts of what is already shocking and tragic. I need a calm, balanced voice and person to explain something like this. I learn so much this way, because I might never be able to listen to accounts of these events otherwise.
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  3677. They must have made sure the evictions would be sufficiently slow not to rattle global financial markets, or provoke a real revolt like the murder of George Floyd did. That is their job.
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  3678.  @Hollylivengood  For a negligent homicide? Then the law is insane.
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  3679. The ruble fell below 60 per dollar, so the Russian central bank cut rates, to raise it back above 60. They don't want to hurt allies or exports.
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  3680. Ha, good one!!
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  3681. I have an idea for him. Apply to a non-profit that represents LGBTQ people. Oh, he'll make $65k a year, maybe. Is that the problem?
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  3682. Briahna's segment on Russell Brand was great, by the way.
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  3683. ​ @darrenuk Who told you everyone was entitled to have a gun? Hardly.
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  3684. Beat me to it. Why is there ANY unemployment in America?
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  3685.  @merb.3576  FULL AGREEMENT, no exceptions.
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  3686. ​ @nicholusshadursky9512  But the student debtor is prohibited from filing for bankruptcy. Get it?
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  3687.  @lewisner  My father's name was Precious, but in another language.
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  3688.  @jordan2170  I said he dismisses working class VOICES, not working class "concerns," since some of Sam's concerns do happen to overlap with working class concerns. Seder is dripping with elitist condescension toward anyone who is not of his class. Repugnant display of ad hominem innuendo. In another video, Seder does one better: making fun of Dore's new house because it doesn't have a pool. Wow, at age 55, and after a bankruptcy due to medical bills, former bricklayer Dore buys the kind of house lawyer's son Seder took for granted all his life. To complete the irony, dissing the working class screams nouveau riche. Classy people listen politely. Get a clue.
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  3689. My heart absolutely breaks. I cannot listen to this video at this time. I am so, so sorry.
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  3690.  @georgegunnell6319  THIS
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  3691. 👏👏👏👏👏👏
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  3692. Wait, this is The Village People.
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  3693.  @therealcirclea762  I know of no culture where kids are egged on to hate their parents as much as they are in America, and that is purely designed to turn them into atomistic units of production and consumption, with no defenses. They must be subject to the Market, and the Market is the sole arbiter of value. Your value is your market value. This is a feature of unbridled capitalism itself. Why do you think Krystal sees through it so well?
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  3694. ​ @bluewater454  It was a joke.
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  3695. Yes and no. Joe asserted he NEVER did anything like this. Er, yeah . . .
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  3696. You've got it. That's what he said.
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  3697. Common for this to happen to women. I needed a tiny dose of a beta blocker, too. This can happen at any age, and need not be related to coronary artery disease.
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  3698. Most weird behavior that does not disrupt the school or involve the use of illegal substances or self-harming will probably go away faster if it is ignored like the childish nonsense that it is.
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  3699.  @cassiescornerreviews6884  Because their comments are dis appeared.
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  3700. The oligarchs will decide this election, based on who will actually be running things behind the scenes for either candidate.
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  3701.  @GSPDUKE  He even has a federal indictment under his belt, for which he received a pardon. Yup, he's been around.
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  3702. I can see where she learned to argue this way -- this is what gets the highest marks in law school. No, I'm not kidding. Her one solid point was that the families of the victims have reason to request and have requested that the manifesto be kept confidential. The whole issue is whether that should prevent its disclosure. Documents like this can be redacted. She's not illogical at all. That's not the problem.
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  3703. Dark. Way funny. True.
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  3704.  @michaelsmith2412  Your statistic is the total number of Americans who died, divided by the entire population of the United States. The overall case fatality rate is close to 2%. The case fatality rate for people under 50 with no comorbidities is likely much lower, and is certainly much lower for children, teens, and young adults. Vaccines must be voluntary. And based on individualized determinations.
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  3705.  @michaelsmith2412  If everyone had already had COVID, with 85%+ not even knowing about it, then that would be the right number.
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  3706. ​ @Katya_Lastochka So? Epstein's victims often did, too.
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  3707. THIS
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  3708. WHY is this man, at nearly 80 years old, not retired? There's a reason, and I would love to know it.
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  3709. NO SHE DIDN'T. Don't you grasp what the issue is? Certain state employees, like police officers, firefighters, and TEACHERS, plus school support staff, have an offset on their SSA. If they filled out the forms correctly and the government made a mistake, and failed to offset, that shouldn't be their problem.
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  3710. Thank you.
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  3711.  @Cmax3891  Those are his best podcasts.
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  3712. ​@stripey7303 Some particle physicists suspect general relativity is limited in its explanatory power, and will be superceded. They are not charlatans, or mainstream.
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  3713. Moira Donegan, The Guardian, is right.
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  3714. Why am I thinking that neither of you has ever read a constitutional case, including this one? The rights you lose will be your own.
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  3715. She is a public defender, fool.
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  3716.  @BrotherAlpha  Exactly. I knew how to get your goat. No, there is no reason for mandates, except for pharmaceutical profits. There was and still is a reason for LIFTING ALL PATENTS, however. (The Mediterranean is emotionally warmer, with a LONG tradition of intelligence, too.) "Things" like me, huh?
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  3717.  @BrotherAlpha  And how many boosters should be mandatory, too?
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  3718.  @BrotherAlpha  First of all, what is your source? Was a multivariate analysis performed? Second, why would such a miracle drug require mandating? That doesn't even make sense. Everyone would want it, wouldn't they? You simply have to persuade them. That shouldn't be difficult. Third, why would European countries known for exceptional infant, childhood and teenage health, such as Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and others of the same caliber in health care, not be recommending the vaccine for young people, and holding off on boosters for those under 50? Why would they do that? (My source is their ministries of health, all of which have pages in English in addition to their languages.) Why would France outlaw mandates for minors? Not rescind, but make it illegal to ask a minor about vaccine status or proof of vaccination? Fourth, why would a recently published German study show that at least 20% of unexpected deaths at home may be associated with heart damage not from illness but from the vaccine? How could that happen? Fifth, why were my relatives in Europe advised not to get boosters? What new information prompted that advice from their (highly qualified) doctors? One of them is 72. A reason for mandates is always to protect others. We assume that normal, competent adults will want to protect themselves. The vaccines do NOT protect others. We know that now. We also know we were actively misled into believing they did. The statistic you cited -- are you sure it doesn't pertain to the childhood measles vaccine? The measles vaccine is known to reduce all-cause mortality. Live attenuated vaccines are the ones that are most likely to show that effect. Look at all these inhuman people, who "don't matter." A human person such as yourself must be lonely by now. How do you stand it? WOW am I glad I can get out of the West. Thank gawd for the language barrier, too. P. S. Does Novak Djokovic count?🤣
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  3719.  @alanpaulsen6174  Absolutely.
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  3720. I am surprised that the DNC has offered NO reason to think they are capable of overcoming their most horrendous mistakes. (Of course RNC won't, but that is not a surprise.) DNC gaslights, guilt-trips, and doubles down. (Sorry for the cliches but DNC pols are cliches.)
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  3721.  @republitarian484  Nope. That's the story you were told. Nearly 80% of all casualties suffered by the Axis fighting forces were inflicted by the Red Army.
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  3722. OH, GATES never KNEW about these questions! Yup, if you pay enough, you can buy deniability.
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  3723. Felt? He has been the law unto himself.
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  3724. I expected not to like this. Except for the anti-abortion stuff, I love it.
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  3725. So does everyone else here. See, for example, 11:20.
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  3726.  @eugenearbenin9560  The coroner's demonstration is a typical prosecutor's trick and should have been excluded as speculative. Only photos of the actual remains and expert testimony should be used. They do that stuff because it impresses people.
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  3727. You mean let them eat GMOs, McDo's, and Bugs? That will keep their strength up.
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  3728. @Penny-em2cs  The real irony is that he was apparently a very good psychotherapist (his advice to people having issues in their workplace is perfect), and that that's the license he has to defend! Wow. The one thing he could do . . . smh. As for the modern workplace, he says that you must identify whether your performance is deficient, or whether your coworkers are bent on undermining anyone who works hard, and that you have to be brutally honest with yourself about which it is and then act on it, post haste. 100% right. Take it from a lawyer who has seen these cases.
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  3729. Because . . . People are nuts now? Could that be it?
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  3730.  @yanniritsarntyios5744  According to Dore and others, the NIH has been funding research in the Wuhan Lab that it should not have been, and Fauci obfuscated it. No one has established where the virus that causes COVID originated. An accident involving research at that lab, possibly something as simple as virus collection and preparation, is very possible.
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  3731.  @daysjours  There are certain "hot button" topics that can now ruin a career, and very few people have the sheer courage to address them. People simply shy away. Glenn was just on Briahna Joy Gray's podcast discussing trans people, and the fact that the label "transphobic" can now destroy a person. (Excellent podcast -- Briahna was outstanding.) It may not be obvious but showing that TicTok of a transwoman taking notes on pronoun errors to save for later use was very brave.
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  3732. Not for anybody who values mental health and warm relations with other people.
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  3733. Wow, Alexander Mercouris looks fantastic, rejuvenated. This is astounding.
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  3734.  @hammerr3  Terrible People should have their house seized, and their bank accounts, and handed over to the TRUE victims!!! I'm on board. 🤣🤣🤣
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  3735. ​ @jfm14 It was not exactly a surprise.
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  3736.  @fortusvictus8297  He was never their teacher. He never met them in the context of being an adjunct at their campus, and thus could not have used it as leverage. An adjunct, moreover, is an inherently temporary, term-to-term contract. How do you see this as conflict of interest? So, is a contractor setting up a software system, which requires temporary supervision of programmers in a department, forbidden from ever dating those programmers, even after he is done? A mayor has to give up his office to date someone working in the city's park district, or the library system? This has become ridiculous.
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  3737. She pointed out that if these are truly public-health related requirements, then the exemptions shouldn't exist.
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  3738. His prior record has no bearing at all. If he was putting people in fear of serious bodily harm THIS time, then self-defense and defense of others would be proper even if he were a veritable angel who took a drug this one time, or had a spontaneous psychotic break this one time. AND if not, not. Exactly why do you think his record matters? It doesn't matter any more than his deft Michael Jackson impression on previous occasions. We don't judge the "value" of alleged victims. We judge their CONDUCT. As for the family, I agree wholeheartedly with you. Their treatment of him is very relevant to the issue presented.
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  3739.  @jerdog333  If you had ever watched Gray's podcast, you would know she is very fair, and probably more critical of Dems than Ryan is, and more broadminded. BJG likes Jimmy Dore, for example.
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  3740. Here is the real question: Is there any reason to WAIT to make them go on the record for M4A? What in the world would that be?
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  3741. ​ @ralphstern2845 Who voted? For LaRiva/PELTIER in 2020, and no one in 2024, given that no third parties were allowed on the ballot in my state.
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  3742.  @GaryTugan  That it WAS a N salute.
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  3743. @StephaneVorstellung  If Set A contains many more elements than Set B, and an attorney arguing before the United States Supreme Court swears that Set B contains vastly more elements than Set A, and everyone knows it's true, then at the very least, she does not know more than he does.
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  3744.  @robbinpapalucas4620  How does this change anything? You cannot stop these crimes by executing the perpetrators. They are insane.
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  3745.  @tynao2029  Way to miss a lot of points at once. Corporations are neither woke nor leftists, nor the opposite. They will say ANYTHING that will cause them to gain greater access to money. They are completely indifferent to any other aim.
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  3746. Read Sally Rooney novels. I promise you, psychologically soothing for these times.
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  3747. ​ @matthewkeesler1871  WHO is "he" in your OP?
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  3748.  @Theonetruegod-hw2ei  What "left?"
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  3749. Are you an American? If you are, you must know not to get your hopes up.
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  3750. You're an angel. It comes as no surprise to me that in some cultures, transgender people are considered exceptionally wise.
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  3751.  @jaybyrd3240  That's a best-case, I'm afraid. I hope there will be time to prepare, at least.
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  3752. There are plenty. Consider why we don't know about them.
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  3753. I'm a lawyer, and have read the books Peterson claims to rely on. I don't agree with his viewpoints, I don't find them original in the least, and can easily criticize him point by point. He slips in unsupported opinions all the time, and tries to make it look as though he has supported them scientifically. He is just pandering. This critique is too generous. I feel for him as a person because he and his family have had to struggle with health issues that are well beyond what most people have, and they are not to blame for it. He feels they need money because of these struggles, and that is why he is doing what he's doing. He's riding this wave. I could never do it, but maybe I should be more assertive.
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  3754.  @nickthompson1812  What "left?" The US has no left. The real left in other countries is against mandates and vaccine passports, and for solidarity and persuasion. And choices. You see three or four non-mRNA vaccine choices in a lot of places.
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  3755. The law requires publication and a period of comment for ALL federal regulations. Emergency powers cannot last forever. That is illegal.
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  3756.  @brainwashington1332  No, it comes across as careful and respectful -- so the Anglophones won't like it, probably. After all, gods get to name the world.
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  3757.  @paulogaspar8295  She could not have found him without his prior consent, or a law which lifts the veil. It isn't "creepy" to donate sperm and produce children, possibly, who you will never know? Or not know whether they exist somewhere at all?
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  3758. On a decide d'imiter le systeme americain.
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  3759.  @dominicm1213  True, they finally did, but the original video they posted was a disgrace. Their insinuation that mathematics is some esoteric knowledge rather than the universal deductive science that it is, ultimately accessible to all (see, e.g., Plato's Meno), was the most disgraceful part of an all-around disgraceful performance.
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  3760. I wonder what you think correct history is. For example, the United States won WWII, that is correct. It was, however, the Red Army that actually defeated Hitler's fighting forces. The Yugoslavs played a major role as well. And the French Resistance on the ground in France was heavily communist -- all before any Americans showed up. Didja know that? 😉
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  3761. @LordOfLight  I think you're right that war is baked into the system. The notion that a system that relies on this level of violence and threat of violence to maintain itself is "the best system," or "the only system," or "human nature" is false, and pseudo tough-minded.
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  3762. Goat and sheep dairy are awesome. Goat gouda has K2 and taurine, all sheep and goat yogurts have taurine, and are naturally high in vitamin A. Americans should not consume cow dairy. It's too hard to find wholesome dairy based on cow's milk in the US. Just find non-GMO goat and sheep dairy.
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  3763.  @josephshields2922  In fact, very few did in the first round.
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  3764. Who do you think "funds" them?
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  3765. I have always been surprised at the people who divorce the parent of their child, and then remarry and are happier. I don't get that. It is the story of at least half the people I know. I wish they'd pause and think it through, and try to find some other alternative.
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  3766. The REALLY sad part was all the people who supported bullying in response to the original story. Because this was a signal to "take sides." "Good faith?" Caring about Hind Rajad would show good faith. I'm not holding my breath.
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  3767. Now you see how revolutions can happen.
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  3768. So . . . If we don't know, we must pretend we do know, because that is Merit. (And Fauci is Science.)
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  3769. Congress could have passed a resolution distancing themselves from her words and affirming their support for Israel. Instead, it voted to censure her, which is a finding of wrongdoing for having spoken and a formal reprimand for her words. They did this even though her speech is First Amendment protected. Instead of passing a resolution, they doled out a punishment. And for WHAT? (Did they make us "safer?") I thought they swore to protect and defend OUR Constitution. You all give up your rights too easily.
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  3770. I didn't know how sick this country was. Is the only Amendment you like the Second? I like them all.
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  3771. Yeah, gotta investigate those thought crimes, pronto.
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  3772. Exactly. WHAT profits? When they went public, they had to declare they cannot foresee profitability under their current business model at this point.
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  3773. ​@planettoybox Once he spoke with you and agreed to represent you, he cannot do that. He would have to prove the timeline: he already had IBM as a client, then failed to do the proper conflicts check. If he took money from IBM after speaking with you and agreeing to represent you, you could have him disbarred. Also, this is unusual. This is why firms specialize: you have tort firms and insurance firms, employee firms and management firms. Take a peek to see whether this guy still has his license. In any case, he should have been reported. If it was only an honest error, the bar often issues a reprimand. If it was worse, he could have been in big trouble. If this could fly, the billionaires could bribe all the lawyers. Lay people don't know and think they have to take it. Depending on when this happened, you could report it now.
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  3774.  @elaughebburg2523  This isn't evident, either. Most Russians expected Putin to deliver, and bring this action to a close by April or May. I believe every war that can be avoided must be avoided. As long as there was any possibility of avoiding this escalation of an 8-year simmering war -- an escalation which greatly changed its character -- it should have been used, especially after a pandemic. Having said that, Western paws are all over this one. From what I can see, most Russians more or less agree with this. Most Russians are like most people -- they have to maintain their realism. Americans are the outlier. They cling to their propaganda as though it were a sacred right.
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  3775.  @scottmcloughlin4371  That's about the most condescending post I've ever seen, and that took some doing.
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  3776. Believes?
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  3777. That's funny . . . in the first weeks after the crime, most "profilers" stated that this was not the perpetrator's first offense. Actually, the alleged obese and drug-addicted past of this suspect don't sound like someone who was in "great shape." Every 40-year-old I know looks younger than this guy. As for the rest, he sounds like a lot of guys of his generation who, unlike Ted Bundy, were unsuccessful in attracting women. The man in the lower right-handed corner of this video made the most sense. I think the police have the right person, but I don't know that, and I have no problem saying I don't know.
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  3778. @@californiadreaming118 Profiles are generated for investigative purposes. They are never considered evidence in court.
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  3779. The reason most people are overlooking that Biden has cognitive decline is because Trump does, too. Here was the proof.
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  3780. N. B. Private schools didn't close down. Typically, they started on time in the fall of 2020, took a very long holiday break (roughly Thanksgiving through mid-January) when they held some focused online classes and assigned homework -- while the school buildings were cleaned and the kids got over whatever viral illness they invariably got -- and then they reopened and stayed open an extra week or so in 2021. They did not lose ground AT ALL.
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  3781.  @Rokaize  Please reference the Supreme Court case that ratifies the police decision to draw guns in a case such as this one. I know I've never seen it.
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  3782.  @Rokaize  I just downloaded the civil rights complaint, which took all of one minute to find. I suggest you do likewise. Everything Dr. Grande said in his presentation was correct, by the way, and very carefully expressed. (He'd make a great lawyer.) Happy reading.
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  3783. @justanothernick3984  Why is automatic "affirming" and social transition considered the correct approach for every child? Given the complexity of the human mind, human adolescence, and gender identity during this particular time -- or any time -- how could there possibly be one valid approach? Just a decade ago, transgenderism was a rarity. The fact that it is suddenly ubiquitous should lead us to ask questions, not inflict aggressive treatments that we cannot fully reverse. Since when do we not protect the future reproductive choices of every child? The only time we didn't was during the eugenics movement.
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  3784. @Tony Exactly. Not ready to exit yet. This is good.
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  3785. ​ @JustinFREAKIN What GOP speech was prosecuted? I think some might have been. But since you seem to know, so give us references.
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  3786. To be fair, it is a religion.
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  3787. What is your source? Do they take their children to conventional doctors?
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  3788.  @crhu319  Not what he said. He suggested the opposite when he said companies have no business delving into sexual preferences.
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  3789.  @lambsquad_9047  What a hater he was. Hate incarnate.
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  3790. @roselipton2113 I answered. It is ______ already.
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  3791. What a complete liar Zelensky is. I would have never guessed this would be his pitch.
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  3792. AIPAC, who are here, have more to say about what happens in Israel than do people like Mr. Cassif, who is there.
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  3793. So nicely put. Unfortunately you're right.
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  3794. It certainly does mean freedom from certain consequences. It depends on which ones you mean. Say. Have you ever read a First Amendment Supreme Court case? Try RAV v. City of St Paul as your intro.
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  3795.  @bradleyriles3889  You do know in-state college tuition used to be so low that a summer job covered it? That built self-reliance. On the other hand, graduate in heavy debt, and what control do you have? Your boss has it all.
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  3796. This was a brilliant report, taking into account all viewpoints!
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  3797. Exactly
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  3798. And that could end up being the mistake. AND that could be the secret of this whole sequence. That could be what is wanted. The labs still exist . . .
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  3799.  @joed1950  Well, a conscience would interfere with completing CIA assignments, one would think.
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  3800.  @Mali-kd1zz  Robert is Hollywood. This is the Hollywood analysis.
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  3801. Try reading the Supreme Court opinion. It's posted. It's short. As a patriotic citizen, you should give it a try for once.
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  3802. Is Louisiana one of the states where corporal punishment in school is still practiced? Will you hit the children who don't learn the Ten Commandments?
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  3803. If you can afford to spend a good chunk of time in another country, please do it.
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  3804. The case Katie was thinking of -- she was right. https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/506/390/ More: https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/justice-antonin-scalias-rebuke-of-innocence/
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  3805. I 💯 believe Brie. In a hypercompetitive society, people will use ANYTHING they can get their hands on to trounce you. There are no limits. There is a lot of jealousy directed at Jewish students. Yeah I believe they are being targeted now, for the usual reasons. And Brie is right, you have to make your case with actual evidence. Who said what to whom, where, and when?
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  3806. Either is possible. No sane person would affirmatively deny the claims of beheading, no --- nor of other war crimes and crimes against humanity by Hamas. Of course not. But either is possible. Brie gave a sound analysis, with excellent examples, too.
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  3807. Are they making changes to their bodies, or just acting foolish like teenagers are known to do? Are they just dressing the part, or have they made any statement or gesture to suggest they are suicidal or suffering from some other emotional issue? Have they been caught with puberty blockers that were not prescribed to them -- or with any medication they were not prescribed? I think this is simple. I'm serious, too. Address each child by the NAME their parents registered them with. Forget about pronouns. Leave them alone to play with pronouns in their own sandbox. They'll outgrow it quicker.
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  3808. @martindenham2207  Capitalism is dominated by envy, resentment and fear -- and grave mistrust of the motives of others. If you want to see real hostility erupt, try telling a boss you have enough money. I've actually done this in interviews when I was sure I didn't want the job. You would not believe the instant anger. Once, freelancing, a boss owed me money. I knew I'd take no further jobs from him, so I said, "It's not about the money," the implication being a principle was at stake. Wow, did HE get mad!! This happened in the US, but coincidentally on Bastille Day! 😂😂😂
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  3809. A husband and father cannot be forced to donate a pint of blood to save his pregnant wife's life. We all agree it is monstrous to refuse, no argument. The state STILL cannot force him. That is because the Fourteenth Amendment protects bodily integrity and autonomy. This is implicit in the concept of liberty. Or, it used to be. Be careful what you wish for. We have fallen far fast.
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  3810. @cruzintheraw  There are laws against harassing people, restraining order or not. Look at it in terms you would grasp: can we stalk CEOs with impunity? Or do strange people showing up at their homes get detained for questioning? Now do you see?
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  3811. Only Max can laugh like that, at this. I appreciate that right about now. Thanks, Max.
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  3812. If all of you believe the civil unrest is so dangerous, with "commie filth" causing destruction everywhere, shouldn't all minors stay home with their parents right now? Or should they do like Kyle? What's your suggestion? Good thing schools aren't reopening. Fewer opportunities for school shooters.
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  3813. I see your point, but Ye isn't well, and it is of the greatest importance that he be persuaded to get treatment, that he have a SAY about treatment, and that the principle of first do no harm is respected for every person. The risk to Ye is greater than for most, because he is an artist and has no other way to make a living, so in the sense that he has a lot to lose and no way to get it back, he faces greater risk than average. Unwell people often suffer from inferior care and even malpractice, no matter how much money they have.
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  3814. And they continue to prosper.
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  3815.  @seekeroftruth6728  You mean you don't know anything about WWII? Are you joking? Who do you think defeated Hitler? My father and my uncle were in that crowd. Did your "skool" tell you it was you? That would be funny were it not tragic. BTW, I speak three languages. Only one is a Germanic language -- and that would be English!
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  3816. 💯
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  3817. ​ @edwardpi9852 When we had more taxes and more regulation of the financial sector, we also had more freedom: a minimum wage job covered the rent EVERYWHERE -- San Francisco, Seattle, Manhattan. A minimum wage job covered in-state tuition and offered health insurance. THAT was freedom, to get an advanced education, and to live where you want, try your luck in a new city.
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  3818. THIS
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  3819. How convenient, after ALLLLL the primaries are over and every challenger smeared.
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  3820.  @soakedbearrd  Funding? What funding? Are you jealous you didn't get your own funding?
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  3821.  @cascademeridian529  YT is worse, especially since it is legally protected.
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  3822. He also said no vaccine mandates.
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  3823. ​@TheRealBozz Not on social issues --- on economic issues, he is left, but no further left than the Scandinavian left. He is normal on social issues. He isn't in any COVID cult, LGBTQ+ cult, etc.
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  3824.  @thehippie3610  Tariq Ali's collection is the single most important collection of essays. Look up Oskar Lafontaine. Look up Le Monde diplomatique from that time. Look up Harold Pinter, Noam Chomsky, Michael Parenti, Alain Badiou, Solzhenitsyn.
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  3825. Good question.
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  3826. That horse left the barn in the 1980s, if not earlier.
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  3827. Because they expect your memory to be about the same as Joe's.
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  3828. ​ @rorykeegan1895 That's nice. But OP made an important point of his own accord. Care to acknowledge it?
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  3829. Chris Hedges has a Master's of Divinity and was a war correspondent for decades. He will speak with anyone. Jimmy's "sins" are mild.
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  3830. Wow, this video proves nothing has changed.
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  3831. Unsubbed while Liz is in the room.
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  3832. "I don't know if a no-fly zone will bring a nuclear war." --- that's a humanitarian message? No wonder video game images were passed off as coming from this war.
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  3833. Really? I think babysitting is a great job for Grandpa Trump. He seems relaxed and enjoying it. I wish it were his only job.
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  3834.  @synapse913  Why do you think this is shocking? She is a nut and an ignoramus. And stands to profit from this $40b package.
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  3835.  @measl  I'm agreeing with you. I have NO problem endorsing what she said. It was right. That's the point.
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  3836. Overt vs. covert? Deft vs. heavy-handed?
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  3837.  @ThereIsAlwaysaWay2  No, they are under foreign occupation.
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  3838.  @TheGreenGrower618  I see your point from an ethical perspective. But do you support censorship to achieve that goal?
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  3839. ​@Nackdad Translation: if it is done in mockery, that is not the same. That's how Larry Flint was found not liable of defamation.
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  3840. Have you ever done a conflicts check? I am genuinely surprised by how thorough they are, and far-reaching. There are conflicts that I would not consider as such, and I am hyper about ethics.
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  3841. By the fact that he has a record? No.
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  3842. People who "look backwards" are negative and won't be rich. Plus they die sooner. /s
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  3843.  Gerald Mirakel  They did not say that. Therefore, in logic and mathematics, their "demonstration" is WRONG. Indeed, in logic and mathematics, equivocation is always wrong -- and deliberate equivocation is worse than wrong. Also, they did use the fact that the series S has countably infinitely many elements in order to get their result, so your comment that in physics there is no infinity is cryptic as well. Math is a universal language. Math isn't a secret society.
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  3844. THANK YOU
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  3845.  @sthubbins4038  Republicans often tell you exactly who they are. They brag about it, in fact. Trump is Exhibit A.
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  3846.  @ganeshacharya234  And that's whose fault? His? Sweden's? MOST of humanity at this moment does not live under mandates and passports. Many states in the US don't have them. Not all the counties of the states that do have mandates have such draconian rules. Take it up with your government.
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  3847. That was the poorest excuse of all. Blame it on the accountant!
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  3848. ​ @Angelalynx999   I'm not talking about children telling parents. I'm talking about peers confiding in one another.
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  3849. People who complied are furious with us now.
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  3850. Who can? How? We have military bases everywhere.
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  3851. If he sues, everything will be examined in court. It does not worry me.
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  3852. ​ @mashupremix  Yes, points for consistency for sure.
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  3853.  @matthewsmith5374  This statement tells you what China has, in its own words, stated to us. Heard it anywhere else? This is the correct starting point. You need to slow down, Bub. The MSM has you.
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  3854. Huh? You mean in order to prove it? What do you mean? The conjecture itself has nothing to do with the reals or the rationals, much less imaginary numbers. It is a conjecture about the set of all integers > 0. Mathematicians always seek to prove conjectures. Once proved, they usually provide insight into many practical areas of mathematics and applied mathematics. This one obviously has a relationship with chaos theory, since it gives us a simple way of studying sensitive dependence on initial conditions, that you could show to a middle school student. Really, really cool.
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  3855. Jewish Voice for Peace filed suit against Columbia last March 11th. You could read the court papers if you wanted to understand the law.
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  3856.  @PitofDoom666  Yup, straight out of Brecht's Antigone. Literally chills me. Right down the spine. I am so sick of this. 😢
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  3857. LOVE THAT
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  3858. 14:56 How was he right about this? 31:05 How about this?
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  3859.  @gregorymagarshak7953  Well, we're here. The DNC lost the Senate again. In what should have been a walk in the park for Democrats. A landslide. And their operatives are blaming BLM, not Russiagate. Wake UP.
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  3860. ​ @Mr.Anderson-y2j  Eight
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  3861. Shh! You're not supposed to wonder about that.
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  3862. But he said he has it. It's his truth. Are you jealous? 😂😂😂😂😂
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  3863.  @vainezaiven6677  Thank you.
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  3864.  @FreeAmerica-sc9hu  Did we pass a tax on enormous, overnight fortunes that set someone up for life? Did we investigate Google, et al., for antitrust violations? Did we hold the Wall Street banks accountable, or pass laws to make sure they could never pull another 2008-09 and drive millions into homelessness while being saved from the consequences of the risks they deliberately took, and profitted from? Listen to his introductory talk again.
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  3865. There is no one to vote FOR.
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  3866. @Tom Piper  There is no fallacy of vicious self-reference here. The actual quote is, "Doctors will bareface lie to you *if* they have been given orders from above." Moreover, OP is speaking as a patient. Hence, in this instance, she is reporting on (a sad truth about) the doctor-patient relationship, based on her experience being in the patient position. But think/do what you want. Don't heed advice, don't listen. Tune out everything that doesn't flatter you in just the right way. Think that you are smarter than everybody. LOL
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  3867. If they were only recommendations and not strong-arm force, threats, and hate, there would be no strike.
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  3868. Just checked, new cases are still declining in the US. I wonder if we all count the same way.
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  3869.  @gaposina  We are being told Russians hate Putin, BUT must take an anti-Putin oath to work here, and Americans think this is reasonable. The US has never been clearly worse than it is right now.
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  3870. Real reason for Jimmy being hate bombed: nothing to do with AOC, etc. Jimmy pointed out the CARES Act was the BIGGEST UPWARD TRANSFER OF WEALTH in human history. It's always about "follow the money."
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  3871. @ileanahernandez1709  How do you know? I don't claim it is or isn't. She left a lot out. Did the family discuss this? Did no one suggest that a young teen should not keep raptors unsupervised? Were these chicks alive? Then why wasn't it stopped? What sort of blender? The ordinary ones from the 1970s weren't capable of this -- but people with means can acquire better ones, in all likelihood. This letter was lazy and mean.
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  3872. @uio890138  There is no such thing as a "hate crime." Just like there is no such thing as a "thought crime." An actual crime can be assigned a higher degree, or a greater penalty, based on an exceptionally nefarious motive, like hatred for a community. That doesn't make the motive standing alone a crime, anymore than the idea of committing such a crime would be.
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  3873. Look, let's be real. A billionaire should have a bodyguard.
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  3874. Che said "people," not "citizens." If someone lives under the occupation of a particular government, or under the control of a particular government, then that government is responsible for that person, citizen or not.
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  3875.  @thehonesttruth415  You're right, "population." That clearly includes occupied territories. The US population includes undocumented immigrants. You're making my case better than I did.
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  3876.  @thehonesttruth415  Israel agreed to the Geneva Convention in 1951.
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  3877. Tucker wants to interview Putin?
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  3878.  @t.3465  Um, look up UBER. That will keep you busy. Or, check the list of the biggest global corporations, in terms of employees. Then check their records one by one.
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  3879. ​@zteamvideo2561 Are you kidding? They all got rich and get to keep the money.
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  3880.  @daysjours  People who should have been disbarred and sued for civil rights violations are VP to a aged, disabled president. You couldn't make it up.
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  3881.  @vade137  Talk to a friend today. Real friend, and in person. Very important. (Blocked)
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  3882. ​@BigRaja-mb8jm Oh yes he is.
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  3883.  JB JG  Actually -- surprisingly -- he isn't dumb at all. He will often have better political instincts and moral instincts than a lot of much smarter, much better educated, and much calmer, more articulate people. He is like a South Side Chicago cab driver, bartender, or barber shop owner. It is almost never a waste of time to listen to him rant.
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  3884.  @currymunch6097  Exactly.
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  3885. @Black Jock Glenn posted the entire story, original unadulterated documents, on Substack. Grim was a too-quiet supporter of Glenn. Betsy, Peter Maass, and that Risen thing were the henchmen. Scahill was the BIG disappointment, because he knew better.
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  3886.  @beelin6707  No, I prefer to have a solid historical memory, thanks. It's called perspective. Up close, and you lose it.
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  3887. So . . . We have two cults to choose from.
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  3888. ​@jimbo5472 Yeah, why would anyone think the answer was Kamala? 😮
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  3889. I certainly have. But I watch her show all the time. If you don't, um . . . Lord, I watch her so much I've heard her praise Trump twice. No, really.
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  3890. ​@troy5140 4:00 This is true. Brie has criticized identity politics. She did a series on how "BLM" became a corporate entity and misappropriated money.
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  3891.  @oc2108  Right. None of this happened. Go back to your afternoon nap, you little sweetie.
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  3892.  @georgezakusilo1584  That's why their central bank, unlike ours, is lowering interest rates. /s 7:28
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  3893.  @QuiteTheLady  I never thought I'd live to see anything like it. Especially during COVID. That this is happening during a pandemic, when we should ALL appreciate the sanctity of life, and want to be a little more gentle with each other, is harrowing. Every time I think we've reached a moral bottom, some people will go lower. Why? That's the part I can't understand.
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  3894. The real issue is, why haven't we been sharing information from the start? In the spirit of curiosity and humility and good will?
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  3895. This alone is reason enough to vote him OUT.
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  3896. So drag a kid into it? They are so foul that no one should go to the games.
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  3897. Great post, BTW.
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  3898.    When someone starts off with "Moscow" anything, I already know how intelligent the comment will be.
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  3899.  @CousinBowling  Oh please wake up. Things are about to get serious. No more non-neurotypical presidents.
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  3900. Notice how what should have been an honest look at Syria, one of the most tragic stories of war and destruction -- and war crimes -- of our time, has devolved into a debate over who showed whose female private parts to whom and who giggled about them. For some, life and death, terror from the sky, or a slow death by starvation. For others, what (not) to do when haute designer wardrobes malfunction.
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  3901. He is a genius lawyer. No exaggeration.
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  3902. @roycrosby4941  I'm neither liberal nor elite, I can't stand that crowd. I like pretty much anyone who did calligraphy on the side for money, and paid her mom's tuition for an MSW after she got rich. And who does not sell herself short in the husband department. She would have to do a lot more to turn me off after all that. Plus, I like actors. I will indulge any artist, actually.
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  3903. ​ @truthcker53  Follow the money?
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  3904.  @oldenmarlow339  A trust is not anonymous, but you're right, you may have some legal issues and need expert advice.
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  3905. During Chernobyl, in France all we needed was an iodine dose, and they could not provide it for everyone so they did not tell us about it. But that was necessary, sufficient for most, and it was not available.
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  3906. ​@danielgillespie7899 So . . . The entity that financed dangerous research in a lab known to be deficient, and did so pursuing its own benefit, has no responsibility. Sounds about right: that's how risk is offloaded.
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  3907.  @JB-nc1ug  Full approval gives anyone injured by a vaccine access to the 1986 compensation fund. Yes it matters.
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  3908. ​ @MrWhitmen1981  And WHO is training engineers?
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  3909. Good. Let me know where you are so that I can sue you real quick.
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  3910. And they all got rich(er), too. This, or something very similar, is sure to be repeated.
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  3911.  @KD-mz5xv  Ditto! 😂
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  3912. Kyle is not only not a lawyer, he has astoundingly poor instincts. Defamation suits are not intended to stifle speech or deplatform anyone. A plaintiff in California with a judgment in hand couldn't get defamatory reviews on Yelp removed -- no demand for deplatforming, just the proven defamation itself. Defamation suits are designed to prevent falsehoods published maliciously from making money for the liar who broadcast them, while the target's life is ruined.
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  3913. They are under a bridge near you.
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  3914.  @kyle-ri5mz  It must be. The billionaires do it all the time. (Tip: check how many multinational corporations routinely spend more on lobbying than they pay in TAXES.)
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  3915.  @parkyayak  It's a problem to stay in the same place. Each generation in my family did worse. I'll be moving to "back where we came from," since my family ultimately died out here.
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  3916.  @GuillermoMedellin-u4c  With BIDEN? Are you sure?
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  3917.  Okay Ya  You joined a few days ago to spout anti-Semitic baldfaced lies? Or is this false flag? To scare people away from scrutinizing the U.S. monetary system, for fear of being associated with the most odious people on the planet?
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  3918.  @michigangreen1915  Does coffee addiction exist as a medical condition?
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  3919. @worrell3831  It is SO unfair. There's a reason why wealth is so unevenly distributed. And back in your grandfather's day, a solid program in high school was plenty good enough for a job that could support a family. If you took good classes and took school seriously, you were fine. People could start real life at 18.
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  3920.  @toowiseforyou  I know. And we had a better economy back then as well. Two people working for minimum wage could afford a decent apartment in any city they wanted, absolutely any city, and they could put themselves through night school with zero debt. They could start out in life together like that. That's called freedom.
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  3921.  @timbaldwin6283  Or reenter through Mexico.
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  3922. Same here. Just wait until they continue pushing Zelensky toward endless war.
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  3923. My self-sabotage is surprising: I'm telling myself I need to get along with everyone, so if someone objects to something about me, I'm to blame. It "must be" my own fault. I've been the patsy of every jealous person. 😂😂😂 The large number of jealous people is not my fault. If someone else had showed up, they would have been jealous of that person. Being the easy target every time IS my problem, in spades.
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  3924. Why is that woman staring at her phone?
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  3925.  @Joe-pc3hs  Or don't want to interact with bad actors.
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  3926. I just remembered that there was a time when I disagreed with that. It was a very long time ago.
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  3927. Thank you.
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  3928. ​@itachiofthesharingan67 No classes were disrupted by demonstrators at the Northwestern campus, where the protests took place only at designated First Amendment fora. Classes were just disrupted by this suspension.
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  3929. The investigative journalist Robert Whitaker, who has studied the approval and use of psychoactive medications for decades, just had an article published in the BMJ describing a new antipsychotic drug for elderly people with cognitive impairment that didn't address their issue but did increase the risk of death.
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  3930. WHO said "white privilege?" Nancy Mace said "white privilege."
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  3931. @letsomethingshine  Laws that protect a child's future ability to have children of their own can only enhance life. It cannot be used "against me." I agree that it is a tragedy that the law has to be invoked for every obvious ethical decision. The right to found a family one day is a Universal Human Right. Read the charter. No one should interfere with that right. Only an adult can decide.
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  3932. Yup. They are trying to paint the Gates connection as a "MeToo" issues at Microsoft, just like Cuomo's coverup is also painted as a "MeToo" moment. Then we can move on to the spectacle of Gates and Cuomo apologists wail, "but they DO SO MUCH GOOD!!!" Pretty rotten.
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  3933. His logic is what got us here. Education does not have "customers." But it sure has created a bunch, for Apple.
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  3934. ​ @andrew_owens7680 Because we don't eat anymore! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  3935. More people need to speak with a lawyer. The doctor is not meeting his responsibility to her.
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  3936. LOL
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  3937. If the vaccines were safe and highly effective and lasted at least 12 to 18 months, then pushing them might have made sense. No mandates in any event.
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  3938.  @theONE-mb1wy  Correct. Threat to go nuclear to have Dore deplatformed if he didn't shut up = depriving him and his wife of their livelihood during COVID, when they can't do live shows. (Or is the concept of actually being working class still too tough for you? He's a former bricklayer who had a medical bankruptcy despite being insured, and Stef taught high school English.)
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  3939. Because they invite him.
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  3940. Was he or was he not either violent or imminently violent AT THE TIME he was killed? That is the sole question here. His history is evidence of the failure of the justice system, not evidence that the choke hold was proper here. Calling it vigilante isn't fair, calling it a crime is premature: let a careful and fair investigation proceed.
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  3941. At what point do we stop excusing the stupidity of confessing a crime on Facebook? This could have happened during Roe and Casey.
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  3942. Delusional
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  3943. ?? These weren't his real taxes? Deep fake taxes?
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  3944. Krystal said that we should not imput insincerity to the student. The student might have believed that what she said was true, but she was wrong to make an accusation of racism based on her feelings, not evidence, and destroy people's lives. Zaid seems to think she engineered this incident to her benefit, because for her, it's prestigious to claim this form of victimhood, and she was in fact rewarded for it. He also said that people who have experienced racism in their lives usually do not react the way she did.
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  3945. Having the schools, their former employees, and the regulatory agencies who were supposed to oversee them all off the hook, and students who were in fact defrauded unable to declare bankruptcy is your idea of fair? Everyone else gets to keep what they got.
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  3946. Excellent advice.
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  3947. The opposite is true.
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  3948. Shapiro's reflex was calling for that the guy's award be cancelled. That was worse.
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  3949. ​@jimmydee1130 True. It's no longer difficult. It's impossible. And it is laughable to suggest that it's merely "difficult."
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  3950. Unfathomable. I cannot cope with this anymore. 😢😢😢😢😢😢
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  3951.  @thedarlingofdirling  Those are usually a bad sign. The opposite is true.
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  3952. Nothing. Egyptian pharaohs were from the Upper Nile or, more often, Lower Nile at different times in their history. As for the rest of the ethnic stuff, it's a bunch of silliness. The fake images that involve real people and create obscenity IS serious.
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  3953. There is a sweet spot for UBI, shown in several compelling studies. Just enough but not too much UBI raises employment: people are more relaxed and give better interviews, they come across as easier to work with, they dress better, get new shoes, get their teeth cleaned, and their nails done. Their health care costs go down. This has been proven. Is there such a thing as too much UBI? Yes, the data supports that, too, but nowhere near as strongly. Just enough yields greater productivity, not less.
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  3954. Not on this score. Are the political machinations too hard for you to follow? Every branch of government that can act should act now. This is a true emergency
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  3955. This is all so sad. She is so young. What a blow.
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  3956. Well, don't we send billions to North Korea?? 🤪
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  3957. @joeb134  At my age, possible. Those things are like crises. Pressure builds very slowly, problems appear to be averted, the numbers look better numerous times, . . . then all of a sudden, whoosh.
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  3958.  @MythicalVigilante  Because she failed to account for profits . . . Soaring profits. Edit: add /s I hope that was obvious.
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  3959. Wow, he does not lie. I understand why that may be disconcerting at first, it feels so unfamiliar.
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  3960.  @migarsormrapophis2755  It is fundamentally a part of the concept of LIBERTY. P. S. OF COURSE I oppose mandatory vaccination against COVID. Law almost always involves balancing interests, very much like in abortion. The vaccines are not nearly safe enough, nearly effective enough, nor necessary to stem an illness that is both highly contagious and highly lethal, to justify encroaching on LIBERTY. The Fourteenth Amendment also protects the right to marry whomever you choose, the right to have children and to parent them, to use birth control if you choose, or refuse it. So, which do you want to give up? More to the point, how do you propose to police pregnancy? You'll have to. Have bounty hunters, like Texas? An inquiry in cases of miscarriage? Manslaughter charges against a bar that unknowingly serves a pregnant woman, who then miscarries? And what do you do with the embryos created at fertility clinics? What happens if a pregnant woman attempts suicide? Incarcerate her? Capital punishment if she survives but the baby doesn't? What happens if someone carries RU 486 across state lines?
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  3961. All of Europe lived like this since recovering from WWII.
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  3962. It is shocking how much doing harm to others makes you rich.
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  3963.  @FuckYourSelf99  I got a feeling I'd be uncomfortable with their privacy policy.
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  3964. ​@Ben Eisenberger To find out, we have to have a careful multivariate analysis, which is difficult, expensive, and requires sound judgment. Why am I not holding my breath?
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  3965. Good for you.
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  3966. Congratulations!!
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  3967. ​@serjya6762 Nah, just deprived of a livelihood and given a right to sleep in their van. Fun times.
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  3968. Matt, why are private prisons not illegal under the 13th Amendment?
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  3969. I think Amazon has harmed the quality of life in lots of ways. Do we walk less? Do we have far fewer small shops to visit, and shopkeepers to get to know, who live an independent existence without bosses over them? Do we spend a whole lot of money on things we don't need?
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  3970. There is no slippery slope. I can remove a mask. An innoculation is forever.
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  3971.  Phuck Censorship  "Unfettered" capitalism is impossible in the electrical grid age. You all keep confusing free markets with capitalism. Here's a hint: what did Adam Smith think could destroy the mechanism of the free market? Answer: the rentier class. Smith was a good economist. The invisible hand wasn't a fetish, or magic. Read about what that class did in his time, then abstract from that to the present. Anyone who thinks the modern-day global exploitation of far-flung labor markets is possible without a very big government (if not "diplomacy," then 800 bases; if not a carrot, then a great, big stick) is a fool.
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  3972. @ThePark 627 So let me see if I understand. Police don't have to JUSTIFY lethal force. The target has to prove he didn't deserve to be shot.
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  3973. ​@Quaker-tc8ue And here I thought the talking point was that "this case has nothing to do with Joe. Hunter isn't running for office."
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  3974.  Azmon Rougier  I wrote a post debunking that story, complete with a link that described in detail what happened. The event had NOTHING to do with "racial profiling" whatsoever. The post was removed. Funny that your post is fine. Gosh I wonder why. Maybe because the censor is American?
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  3975.  @LP12576  This channel attracts haters.
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  3976.  @JoeyBlogs007  With great power comes microdosing. Please keep up.
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  3977. ​@urrywest Yes, this always happens --- at least to normal people. He will be back to his baseline in a day or so. Replying to your second comment, of course. Your first comment is just weird.
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  3978. These perpetrators make me think of Fauci's efforts to avoid the moratorium President Obama placed on funding risky viral research.
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  3979.  @bmass0828  Forced? Why are you all talking about re-education camps? It is a professional licensing board. If Peterson goes, he can voice his opinions. If not, he can relinquish his license. It's his choice. He can take the opportunity to tell them what he thinks. Sheesh, all these agony aunts!
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  3980. ​ @samuelpancake4084 Part of what problem?
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  3981.  @texmexican3654  Yes! Exactly how Epstein got away with it.
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  3982. The plea agreement wasn't even an agreement. The two sides did not agree on what it meant. That alone was enough to throw it out.
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  3983.  @kevinschmidt2210  🤣🤣🤣 for both
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  3984. This is embarrassing . . . I had to look up "cuck" in the Urban Dictionary.
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  3985.  @jadex0x0  There is evidence they make some difference. I think it's a prudent, noninvasive choice. Mandates for kids under 12 or outdoors never made sense. The case for indoor mandates depends on the place. Hospitals enforce them.
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  3986. I don't think you understand what she said even after she said it. Understanding her involves listening skills, thinking skills, a solid vocabulary, and the ability to follow complex sentence structure. On second thought, I know you didn't understand what she said.
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  3987. OH BOY. Kyle, I'm thinking you're too nice, to the point of naivete. I am sincere. TYT is attempting to have Dore deplatformed. I.e., to deprive him and his wife of their livelihood. I.e., this is a guy who laid bricks for a living, and was forced to declare medical bankruptcy despite being insured. No, it's not about dressing one way or another, or saying crass things, or whatever. It's about Jimmy and Stef's livelihood. COVID. They aren't able to do live shows. Please get a clue, hon. Please get a clue.
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  3988. "Blame the worm." 😂😂😂
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  3989. I'm curious whether in fact an attack on the Donbass region from right-wing Ukrainian forces was imminent. I don't believe the Russian response was anywhere near proportionate, much less justified. But the real point is, we should WANT to suspend judgment until we know. Why should anyone WANT to dehumanize any victims? Trick question, no one should. Ever. We've had DNA forensics for decades -- since the last century -- and we STILL have innocent people on death row. What does it take?
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  3990.  @stevenkelby2169  In a society that provides you with nothing but scorn if you are one of the few harmed by a vaccine (or by the pandemic economy, etc., etc.). The countries with the highest vaccination rates have (1) comprehensive health care; (2) a comprehensive disability system; and (3) a more honest media, that candidly informs the public of the risks. It was Israel that noted myocarditis and endocarditis are a risk for young men who receive an mRNA vaccine. Our CDC still thought it was a coincidence. Israel has a higher vaccination rate, BTW. I'm not surprised. Think it through. Not stopping at red lights is vastly more dangerous to me and others than COVID. The analogy is inapt.
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  3991.  @OspreyFlyer  Whose pockets did they end up in?
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  3992. I think that to speak so disrespectfully to a man who lost his uncle and his father at a very young age is repugnant. They can make their points without attacking him and screeching at him.
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  3993. Eisenhower was to the left of DNC. He was much more substantial, progressive, and patriotic than Biden. And self-sacrificing. Harris is the Modern Me Me Me candidate.
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  3994.  @kristis4147  Ignoring the sworn testimony of someone who stated under oath that he believed, rightly or wrongly, that Rittenhouse was an active shooter, and concentrating on Huber is NOT unbiased.
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  3995.  @cglenn1457  Non sequitur. No one suggested a jury cannot ignore a witness. They have every right to discount any testimony they consider lacking in credibility. The issue is why Grande is speculating on matters never entered into evidence, when actual evidence on that very question exists. Don't you ever wonder about things?
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  3996.  @lt2672  Um, mentioning "camel" was not wise.
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  3997.  @hansreichhardtsohn4522  You joined four days ago? For THIS?
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  3998.  @tove236  So sorry.
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  3999. Illinois had only Harris, Trump, and Kennedy on the ballot. I was shocked, and didn't vote.
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  4000. Banks. We always have the money we need to save a bank.
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  4001. He simply makes fun of the people you hate. Cornell West is smarter and Dave Chappelle funnier.
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  4002.  @NelsonMontana1234  West actually knows ancient philosophy. Anyone who has seriously studied ancient philosophy knows that he knows.
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  4003. @oldernu1250  The contents of a lawsuit are immunized from libel claims. How could you think otherwise? Where a lawsuit is allowed to go forward, malicious prosecution/vexatious litigation still could be maintained, but is not likely to work. Look up the elements. (And if it goes to trial, who knows? Perjury?)
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  4004. What? His daughter was there with her boyfriend. The boyfriend was one of the five murdered. Read the Military Times account of who Richard Fierro is. Your post is shameful. You don't even bother to find out what an actual hero did, you make disparaging remarks and insinuate stuff about him. He's in his 60s, his kids aren't children.
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  4005. OMG, that's it.
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  4006. Two things about the wife's mental health and the drugs found in her system: first, if she was experiencing panic disorder, this could have been due to some intuitive sense of not being safe with her husband. That doesn't mean he killed her, because there were certainly other things he did wrong that she may have known or sensed, but her disorder by itself certainly does not make it more likely she committed the crime, either, and her panic could have been exacerbated by feeling unsafe with him. Second, the medications in her system: never underestimate the fact that major corporate interests are aligned against recognizing that some widely-prescribed drugs are very dangerous to a tiny group of people. So, there were interests involved in suppressing that possibility. That would make it harder for the defense to get a qualified expert to testify for their side. This is a tough case. Apparently, a lot of people who analyzed his entire statement to police agree it would be hard to fake believing his family was alive without slipping, and hard to fake interest in seeing the video of what happened. But that doesn't point to guilt or innocence, necessarily. It just means he really did have a traumatic memory lapse, making it impossible to assist in his defense.
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  4007. Satire is protected speech. Remember when the Supreme Court ruled in the Hustler case?
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  4008.  @mortisnoctu  All mathematical proofs are about infinite sets. Even the Pythagorean Theorem is about infinitely many right triangles. That's why deduction is necessary; examples cannot prove any theorem.
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  4009.  @jasminelindros8923  Nope, just the opposite: those who actively cancelled others should live by the same rules they themselves imposed on others. Real simple.
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  4010.  @peterstafford4426  Now that we know Bill Gates was a Friend of Jeffrey/Lolita Express Traveler, how can we withdraw from using the things he's invested in? Bill Clinton and his foundation, same question.
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  4011.  @bmell1252  I know a woman who has decided to decline the vaccine, and has volunteered for a COVID monoclonal antibody study which starts September 3. She is not being unfair to you. EDIT: She herself has been a cancer patient. I forgot about that.
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  4012. Never be ashamed.
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  4013.  @nedludd7622 Mattias Desmet is proved right again, alas.
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  4014.  @nedludd7622  That wasn't me. I didn't post that.
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  4015. ​@blujay9191 The rate of very serious side effects from the vaccines are at least that high. And most people had no reason to be vaccinated. No real benefit.
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  4016. You must have missed the gilets jaunes.
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  4017. He just talked about how he was forced to declare bankruptcy due to health costs. On this program, they act like the are oblivious to all that has happened over the past few days.
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  4018. Have you read any of her opinions? Did she ever show approval for such displays? She was sometimes criticized FOR openly disapproving of "leftist" displays.
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  4019.  @LPempty  He's in it for the money.
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  4020. Too bad I was just censored.
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  4021. @user-ko4zt2zx2k  Notice that Supreme Court precedent states unequivocally that the government cannot act to abridge fundamental rights by using private sector proxies as its cat's paw. That would be toooo easy.
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  4022. ​@lordkuriki5475 ANY attorney can be sanctioned by the court for improperly bringing a case. That doesn't mean they can be held liable for malicious prosecution. Sanctions by the court are for the purpose of regulating the officers of the court. An AG who gets sanctioned can be fired, or, if they are elected, impeached, or they can be removed from the ballot or voted out. That doesn't mean they can be held liable, in a civil suit or a criminal prosecution. Those are two different things. LOOK IT UP.
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  4023. ​​ @LetholdusKaspyr I was responding to a post that brought up treason. The @ got erased.
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  4024. A good lawyer could prevent a child from being removed from her state of residence. There was appropriate care available in her home state.
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  4025. I guess that's why Peterson went to Russia for his drug reaction issue. You know what the true maverick journalist Whitney Webb always says? Don't listen to what people say. Watch what they do. Americans used to be like that. Now, they fall for anything. That's the difference.
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  4026. "We locked up some folks."
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  4027. Anne Laure Bonnel in France as well. Unfortunately most of her reporting is not translated, but I believe her documentaries are subtitled. She is tremendous.
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  4028. Anne Laure Bonnel was on the ground in the Donbass.
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  4029. 《Il vous faut quoi de plus . . . 》 c'est ce que je dis tout le temps. :/
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  4030. No. The First Amendment needs to be strictly respected. Too bad that principle was deeply undermined for years.
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  4031. ​ @unluckynumber7 No. That would explain random male DNA. This is DNA linked to multiple other unsolved cases.
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  4032.  @nicholashildenbrand8632  LOL, that was good. That guy is so successful he spends vast amounts of time jeering at other people. ;)
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  4033. But Ben Nimmo is real?
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  4034. 14:57 to the end was pretty central. Wait until Used Car Salesman Vivek cuts your Social Security, with Blondie's blessing.
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  4035. He has a funny way of telling us his hopes and dreams.
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  4036. I hope no other.
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  4037. Where were her parents? She had been an adult for less than two years. What did they think of this?
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  4038. Can you image the dollar signs in her eyes?
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  4039.  @scottkessel952  I'm sure it soared during the pandemic.
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  4040. These companies demand a level of general culture that young people do not have and the companies themselves don't have. The disturbing part is that kids STILL don't know social media is treacherous because it is a new type of extremely powerful advertising married to surveillance.
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  4041. It's on X. That's why.
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  4042.  @fortusvictus8297  I did look it up, and revise my position. I do not support the sentence, and in any event I support suspended sentences, but these guys should do their research. This nurse made no fewer than nine major errors. Warnings were plastered all over the drug. Then, she neglected the patient in obvious distress. People should look it up themselves, and not just believe the "societal ramifications" spin. These two did not do their homework, given how fast I found actual court documents. See why prosecutors decided to bring such an unusual case. Audi alteram partem.
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  4043. Nor will the real left. I find her to be a freak. She makes Kamala look halfway normal, and I thought that was impossible.
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  4044. Exactly. It's how she got so far so fast.
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  4045.  @grimjawx1650  More motivation: after 30 years, your body is almost the same as if you had not smoked (though it will never be exactly the same). I had my 30 years on January 1, 2021. :)
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  4046. We've already had a hefty dose.
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  4047. I didn't know he was straight until it was specified.
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  4048. A question: do white people feel safe from no-knock warrants executed in the middle of the night by agents in plain clothes? How can anyone think this is not a tactic of dictatorships? The occupants of the apartment were the ones who had a right of self-defense.
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  4049. Tremendous demonstration by the ball players. I love them.
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  4050.  @itsokaytobeclownpilled5937  THERE USED TO BE. Yeesh. There is nothing weird about ancient languages surviving in written form only.
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  4051.  @winstonchurchill586  Yes, more than a quarter: 28%. Remarkable, actually.
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  4052. He may have lied about his son to lure you into opening up.
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  4053. In the meantime, how much money did he rake in? Quit rewarding them. That would be a good start.
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  4054. ​ @StinkFingerr The PROBLEM is that legacy admissions is half the class at private universities. That is how a lot of not that brilliant white kids get in, and African Americans are automatically excluded. It has changed lately, true.
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  4055. IF ONLY!
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  4056. Someone explain to me why a full year of in-state tuition used to be something a student could earn by working full time over the summer.
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  4057. And not just where money is concerned.
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  4058.  @eoghan.5003  Who brought up Syria (Ana), and to what purpose (not to talk about Syria, actually)? Who, on the other hand, WENT to Syria? Who testified before the UN? Etc.
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  4059. Change in management. Those with senority are often targetted, because they are making "too much" money. It happens all the time. The 19-year career IS the answer. Gosh, are most people are like the beautiful lady in this video? Do they think companies "mean well," and just need to be made aware? Good grief, no.
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  4060. Killing in defense of property is always illegal. This was the defense of one's life.
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  4061.  @readtherealanthonyfaucibyr6444  ?? "The" author? Of what? The study is authored by a number of MDs and PhDs.
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  4062.  @greglaprade7507  Except that Chauvin pled guilty to federal charges.
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  4063. Multivariate analysis is needed to find out what contribution the vaccines made to the rise in the excess death rate -- hard, and expensive, and requires unbiased judgment. I have zero trust that it will be done. Hiding the truth when many bad things happened at once is not hard, sadly.
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  4064.  @davidlazarus67  YES! Exactly! Thank you.
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  4065.  @the_motherlord  Interesting! Mine made me sick. I had the worst chills of my life and night sweats combined with the lowest fever (weird combo), extreme fatigue, and a headache and ringing in my ears that felt like a cicada was planted in my head. Whatever it was, I never had that before.
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  4066. Alan Greenspan was one of Rand's disciples. She is hugely influential.
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  4067.  @samhhaincat2703  The "cultural left" doesn't care about other people. It cares about attitude policing. "Left" is a misnomer. Identitarian politics is a DNC strategy of posing as caring about others, while they proceed to divide and conquer.
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  4068. You beat me to it. These people are delusional. They are not mentally healthy.
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  4069. 🤣🤣🤣
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  4070. ​ @zachbot1 What is going on, that people will claim a video says the opposite of what it says? Freaky weird! 😮
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  4071.  @matthall2425  People who suffer from feeling distraught over their bodies and their young love lives have said they felt pressured to define themselves as trans, rather than to allow themselves the time and space to explore their identities without anyone mucking with them. I don't know how large the problem is. It may be relatively small. Whenever it ends up with anyone on powerful medications, we should take notice. I thought we had learned that part.
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  4072. @ouknow1446  Anytime one person is missing, especially a child, something very big is wrong.
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  4073. And no one thinks the influence is the other way around?
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  4074. There are so many conspiracy theories that, statistically, most are not true. But there are more and more "conspiracies" because they are more and more lucrative. People combine and collude to get money without working for it. Nothing mysterious about that.
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  4075.  BxxDxx Hoodoo  Wrong. Not if THEY didn't pump and dump, or if it cannot be proved beyond reasonable doubt that they did. People are PRESUMED innocent, yo.
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  4076.  @charlespancamo9771  I'll never be one to stand behind any poll. That these attitudes do exist and are not a rarity is obvious by now. Or should be.
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  4077. ​​​​ @henrylicious Do you think our "standard of living" is good now? Can you move to Los Angeles, Denver, New York, Boston, San Francisco, anywhere you want? (Or is that impossible without a trust fund?) Can you evade being followed by the surveillance state online, and on camera the minute you set foot on a busy street? Freedom is vastly more important than a new screen device. My standard of living includes that.
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  4078. ​ @c.sanchez4521 I always want to know WHO tells them this and why they believe it.
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  4079. I do not support the sentence, and in any event I support suspended sentences, but these guys should do their research. This nurse made no fewer than nine major errors. Warnings were plastered all over the drug. Look it up yourself, don't just believe what they tell you.
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  4080. In ecology, and especially in food crops, you must strictly follow the Precautionary Principle. A specific GMO is presumed unsafe until proved safe, not vice versa.
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  4081. Major corporations spend more on lobbying than taxes, and it's money well spent. They write our tax code, then buy up Treasury bonds instead of paying taxes. Guess what? Then we owe them money, in the form of interest on those T bonds. Instead of paying taxes, they get interest. And we pay for it.
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  4082. ​ @utah_koidragon7117  Of course, but how does that compare? Were we entitled to commit genocide in retaliation for 9/11?
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  4083. Most important speech by a politician that I have heard about COVID vaccines.
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  4084.  @qlr949  Thank you. Health care especially isn't a leftist issue. If we had universal health care, think how much easier it would be to start your own business. Yet literally everything that has happened in this pandemic has harmed small business and made the oligarchs richer. Jimmy Dore featured a tape of Angela Marsden before Fox Business interviewed her. Everyone should see that. EVERYONE.
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  4085. Did you read the briefs? Then you don't know. Every brief in every federal court must correctly establish the court's jurisdiction over the case. The court will then address its jurisdiction before ruling on any issue in the case.
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  4086. He's from one of the BRICS, actually.
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  4087. I was able to find it, using obvious keywords, but the reporting is very limited. The obvious intent is to make people doubt the report. Look, it may not be accurate, but we can certainly say the same about CDC, FDA, NIH, and above all American/British MSM. I don't know how to hold MSM accountable any more. :(
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  4088. She is so elitist that she doesn't think censoring books is a big deal anyway. Only her students and her children and her friends' children read books anyway.
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  4089.  @AhJodie  And this is the president. I feel better when I avoid thinking about it. Are they trying to experiment with us, to see just how far they can push? Because this has already surpassed everything I ever in my wildest dreams feared could happen. Bless you for your work, I'm a big believer in finding humor wherever a person can. Kind humor. It's the "human condition."
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  4090. 💯
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  4091. ​ @janetspell1396 No he's not. He never went to jail again. He has sued for violation of his rights, his lawyer demanded that he be exonerated of the crime, AND the prosecutor got her law license suspended for multiple lapses. This wasn't the only case she mishandled.
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  4092. @ablebaker8664  My (correct) answers seem not to be here. Ha. Figures. This is what happens to every decent discussion on these platforms. EDIT: oh, they are back! Well what do you know . . . 😲
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  4093. @ablebaker8664  You understand that a defendant can't say, "we didn't follow procedures that were part of plaintiff's contract because the plaintiff is Really, Really Bad." The correct stance would be, "we followed procedures, and got rid of plaintiff because we determined that she is indeed Really, Really Bad." That's fine, then. They win. I mean, that's the template, right? A male need not be as bad as Gino. He just has to be someone whose tenure was challenged for a cognizable reason, and who nevertheless got all the procedures to which he was legally entitled. Harvard can't be mesmerized by Badness, no matter how understandable that may be.
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  4094. @hb1338  Can someone explain to me why a video essay that (quite rightly) denounces academic dishonesty has a bunch of people commenting on it as if they knew what the court ruled, and they clearly did not read the court's opinion -- or if they did, they have no idea at all what it meant? How is that intellectual integrity? You're just making stuff up. The defamation counts were dismissed because under the facts Gino alleges, she cannot possibly meet something called the "New York Times malice" standard, which protects free speech. The court made no findings. It took Gino's claims as true for purposes of ruling on the motion to dismiss.
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  4095. @commontater1785  Probably because the Title IX claim will have to be challenged at the summary judgment stage. In other words, it's procedural. Harvard will have to articulate a nondiscriminatory reason for treating her as they did. If they did not follow the procedures they always followed for men, "she's worse" won't fly. Harvard even tried to say she wasn't stripped of tenure, when she has been stripped of salary, all privileges, and forbidden from setting foot on campus. The judge rejected Harvard's assertion. You don't get to say Jeffrey Dahmer is not entitled to due process because he's Really, Really Bad, even though he was. See how that works?
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  4096.  @RIbigDave  I never suggested she shouldn't be out. Odd that Harvard told the court with a straight face that she was only on leave.
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  4097. @Gingerblaze  No, it was a political decision on Jane Eyre's part. She knew who she was, who she was talking to, and what she needed to say. Anyone who would ask her such a thing was unworthy of her trust. She had the pure singlemindedness of a true entrepreneur, in the best sense, and she knew when and how to display her talents. Jane Eyre is rightly regarded as one of the very earliest feminists works and scandalized a lot of people because of it. It is a brilliant novel.
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  4098.  @helveticaification  Neither does arresting people like Ghislaine Maxwell. Your point?
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  4099. Of course. This report misrepresented the case, which pertains only to minors who are not on puberty blockers or trans-sex hormones already. WHAT ELSE IS NEW? One more example of needing to read stuff for yourself, which I just did.
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  4100. ​ @ryansreaction  Some people still put some things above money. Is that still okay with you?
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  4101. The only story is the fact that they have chosen not to give details, for Charles or Catherine.
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  4102. I think you are very perceptive.
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  4103. A manufactured sex scandal is always on the menu.
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  4104. Did they PAY her to read it? Well then why should she read it? What, do they expect her to be a patriot or something? /s
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  4105. They do???
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  4106. She didn't say ADL was credible or correct. She said Musk himself has alienated advertisers, and if he really supports free speech, he may have to eat the financial loss that comes with it.
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  4107. I have doubts about her thesis, but I don't dismiss it. I like the dialectic. See also a Aaron Mate's most recent interview on Push Back, which supports your view.
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  4108. The ad before this video was of $10m+ estates. That's where they live.
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  4109. In the meantime, none of their stock portfolios suffer. They all got briefed on the pandemic in 2019, under Trump, and they prepared. And they will all get briefed on the next big thing again, whatever that turns out to be.
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  4110. 4:50 This sounds like a great discussion topic. Specifics matter.
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  4111.  @tsubadaikhan6332  Go for it. Watch the Dave Chappell segment on Jussie Smollett for inspiration.
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  4112. Marriage equity is a basic anti-statism law; the state has no right to discriminate among people seeking to marry. NO church can EVER be required to marry anyone. First Amendment, straight up.
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  4113. ​@threeofeight197 How many people have all of those? Only the top 10% is financially secure. When I was a child, nearly 80% were. The standard of living was lower, AND the basics were more easily secured. A middle class person was not in fear of homelessness. The 2008-2009 crisis was unimaginable in 1969. Unimaginable and impossible. We never fully recovered from it, either. That was ten times more unimaginable. It's hard to believe even now. Why was there no price paid?
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  4114.  @pascalpoussin1209  Amen to that! We might actually know where COVID came from, the real source of the Syrian gas attacks, Bucha . . .
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  4115. ❤❤❤
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  4116. A man who was a bricklayer for ten years, and had a medical bankruptcy despite having health insurance, is a "phony" because he got his first nice house at age 55?
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  4117. What did he say, specifically, that you object to? A lot of journalists work for a billionaire now. Get up to speed, hon.
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  4118. @dlxmarks  The case isn't far enough along for the court to have made any determination about her actual misconduct. Motions to dismiss a complaint take all allegations in the complaint as true, as long as they are logically and pragmatically possible.
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  4119. "I'll share that when I'm ready." Who has ever said that to their boss in response to a question about their absence from work? How does someone get a job like that? Not honestly.
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  4120. They tried.
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  4121. Given that f***ing collision insurance/shakedown is mandated by state law, well, everyone has to find a decent company. I don't know. This did not bother me as much as, say, . . . Oil, Pharma, big banks, private prisons, . . .
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  4122. THE JUDGE decided this sentence.
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  4123.  @NKN112011  I am as well. But I would never sentence anyone to death, man or woman, where there was substantial evidence of being used sexually. Not to take away from how phenomenally dangerous Arias was and is, and certainly not to blame the victim. I don't believe she would have stopped at one murder, frankly! That's the impression I get.
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  4124. ​ @dandylandpuffplaysminecraf8744  The scents or sheep here is ironic.
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  4125.  @Slowbro01323  But there is no consensus on a number of issues: how long immunity lasts; how well transmission to others is prevented by vaccination; whether children under 16 should get it; whether young men under 25 (or under 30) should get two doses of mRNA vaccines; whether women under 50 should take Johnson & Johnson or Astra-Zeneca; whether the reported catastrophic illnesses following vaccination are purely coincidental or causally related to vaccination; whether those who recovered from COVID need just one dose, or need to be vaccinated at all. This is what the leading virologists disagree about. Sorry, love. This is still early in the pandemic.
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  4126. All of Congress should have to have the very same health insurance we do.
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  4127.  @veramae4098  This happened.
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  4128. ​ @C_R_O_M________ He died relatively young, even by the standards of his time.
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  4129. Me, too. Shocked me as well.
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  4130. Exactly!! She makes sure to be prepared for a larger platform. Serious lady, and such a relief to listen to someone who is logical.
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  4131. ​ @kdas7590 I agree with everyone on this thread!
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  4132.  @ralsharp6013  Well, not only that, but where else in the world does high school have a cheerleading squad? It's ridiculous, really. If they have to do it, to please their "customers," then tone it down. Make it more athletic, open to boys and girls, and not put girls on display. Serious private high schools here don't have this. It is a mixed message.
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  4133.  @ralsharp6013  Exactly. At college, varsity cheerleading is entirely different, involves certain acrobatics that can be done safely, and includes men and women. But in high school, you often see minor girls sexualized. It depends on the school, but usually the uniforms are in poor taste or skimpy, no boys are involved, and very little gymnastics, acrobatics, or modern dance is taught. So what is it for? To teach girls to cheer boys -- who themselves are playing a school sport where they risk a head injury? I thought school was supposed to be for improving your brain. I wonder if most people know how odd this is, globally speaking. No one else has sports of this nature for young adolescents.
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  4134. You need a lot of money to make sure no one will come along and ruin your life on a whim. That's all money is for. Not to bring you happiness, but to prevent disaster. It works very well for that. The Stockton experiment, giving a group of people $500 a month, no strings, showed massive improvements in mental health. During the pandemic, the differences between rich and poor became stark. It is evident who is suffering.
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  4135. The only people impressed by him are those who really have read nothing. Then he sounds good. And you tend believe him, that this is really what school is, and what kind of propaganda is being pushed at universities, and so forth. Newsflash: the most common major in America BY FAR is Business, and has been for decades and decades. As for the real "left," which exists in France, Spain, and so forth, it strongly supports teaching Latin and Greek and calculus in public high schools. Murray has a good job denouncing Gender Studies and so forth. What would he do, that is as easy and lucrative, without the gender warriors? Symbiotic relationship.
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  4136.  @MJMilano7  Show me where I said Bernie was the most popular politician. We don't know who the most popular politician is. We have never attempted to find that out in any formal, electoral process.
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  4137. That is actually a common path for going into vaccine research, depending on what else he studied and how well he did. These teams have research veterinarians as members.
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  4138. Just saw NYTimes updated its story on the extent of the dealings, and WSJ states that is what prompted his wife to act. I respect the lady for that. I knew what Gates was, I just saw a clip of Paul Allen's interview on 60 Minutes when his book came out (Gates tried to squeeze Allen out of Microsoft while Allen was undergoing radiation treatment for lymphoma), but even I am shocked. Poor kids, yeah. The youngest set to graduate from high school this year, I think. The kids are all cute.
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  4139. The look on Batya's face -- no words necessary.
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  4140. It was an exceptionally despicable act. No one does such things unless they are deranged.
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  4141.  @spartanguitarist6579  In 2022, quite a few people are hungry. Homeless, too.
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  4142. THANK YOU
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  4143.  @napsam71  You'd be surprised. Unless Minister Pandor aspires to live in the West (which she very well may), she does not need a lot of money to have nice things. That is a Five-Eyes problem, primarily. You should try traveling a bit. You might be surprised.
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  4144. ​ @shauneden4229 Joe Rogan allows masks to be worn on his show. He's very laid back.
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  4145. ​ @theendmyfriend No. It doesn't.
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  4146. Robert Greene says that intelligence provokes the most bitter envy.
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  4147. There is no such category. That is a journalistic slogan, not a real law.
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  4148.  @paulweeldreyer7457  Yeah, like that crazy Epstein story. (Bill Gates! Ha ha ha ha.)
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  4149.  @justsomenobody889  But in medicine, there is no 100%. So a doctor calling something "curative" does not imply in every case or nearly so.
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  4150. Musk is afraid of those particular dogs. Do they sniff out dr_gs? Could that be it? 😂
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  4151. She knows what side the bread is buttered on.
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  4152. @kesivan  How about tube letting me answer that? Lol.
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  4153. They should keep diaries of their weekly work -- for their supervisor in their "chain of command." That isn't the Ketamine Kid.
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  4154. Same here. :/ Truly shameful performance!
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  4155.  @MikeCrawch  Yes, and who backs them? They aren't a big group, after all.
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  4156. How many of those are we subsidizing to the tune of many, many billions? If we are, please broadcast it. We should all be aware.
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  4157. You're back?? 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  4158. Oh My God . . .
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  4159. ​@Dr.Vas0 Listen to the real alternative media. Grayzone interviewing Briahna Joy Gray is where to start.
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  4160. Y'know what? You're right. It really is.
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  4161. Serbian cities with anti-Milosevic governments in place were bombed with depleted uranium anyway.
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  4162. Italian good-bye, Robby? Then you must have a solid immune system.
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  4163. A shock collar? Your post should be removed.
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  4164. I wish I could spend two weeks with Max and Anya. I would have sterling mental health, excellent mood, and inspiration to forge ahead.
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  4165. Nice point. They really, really do.
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  4166. Aaron Mate lights up every room.
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  4167. She has made it clear that she did not vote for Biden. Care to clarify?
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  4168. No, it's not, lol.
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  4169. Well, this comment board was sure subject to sense or ship. ;)
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  4170. ​ @michaelseebach4166 lol😅😅😅
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  4171.  @User0resU-1  I'll have to listen again. I'm not shocked, frankly.
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  4172.  @JCDenton-area51  COVID is real exactly when it needs to be real and not otherwise, according to remarkably many politicians, Republicans and DNC both.
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  4173. Pelosi just appointed Kathleen Rice to chair a committee that AOC wanted to chair, and Rice not only started out in politics as a Republican, but also withheld her vote for Pelosi last time. What does all that tell you? Maybe playing hardball in the health care fight during a pandemic is the right way to go? (BTW, appointing Rice over AOC was a low blow, however you want to cut it. What a snake.)
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  4174. ​@zarbins I'm not on social media now. I'm here using a pseudonym, to save videos. I only started this much during the shutdowns in 2020. Just say NO to social media. Even this has had a harmful effect on me, and it's trivial. No minor should post any pictures of themselves, ever.
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  4175. Thank you.
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  4176.  @codyquinn8646  When people have one or two children and 40 to 50 years in the workforce, it doesn't seem excessive to me.
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  4177. He seems irrational. Supporting a no-fly zone even if it risks a nuclear war? Delirium! An immediate cease-fire needs to be negotiated.
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  4178.  @martinpike803  The power plant wasn't bombed.
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  4179.  @davidschlessinger9945  There is no such thing as a progressive view on the lab leak hypothesis. It either happened or it didn't. Rittenhouse is much more complex than neoliberal media portrayed it. A generation after Columbine and Wisconsin's legislature was incapable of drafting a reasonable and constitutional gun law with respect to minors? This is astounding. I didn't know what is legal in this country. As for Rittenhouse's affiliations, the JDL 2020 annual report on domestic extremism said they found no evidence of extremist affiliation. His older sister supports BLM and went to a demonstration after George Floyd was murdered. The relatively unknown commentator Dore had on gave the best analysis of the Rittenhouse case. He made a distinction between taking the broader view and a narrow one, which is the one the court takes. Under a narrow view, the simple fact of being armed does not provoke any particular person, and in any case Rittenhouse fled. He was therefore entitled to claim self defense under Wisconsin law. Not only that, but the prosecutor tried to violate his Fifth Amendment rights. Why would progressives agree with prosecuting minors as adults? I opposed that from the start. We all know why it's done.
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  4180. These numbers are reality. Regardless of any other beliefs a person may have, these are the FACTS.
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  4181.  @Corrupted  Two billion is a million a year for every year since the crucifixion. 400 billion is roughly a million per hour for every hour of a 50 year old man's entire life. Too bad about math education, huh?
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  4182.  @jaybleu6169  I didn't think it was all, and I don't think anyone did. It is ridiculously low for right now. The point is to relieve stress --- as much stress as possible, as quickly as possible. Something is wrong with this picture. Were a lot of the people living there very wealthy? Were lower income people intermingled with billionaires? Let's see how many succumb to the predatory investors. Then we'll know what the real idea was.
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  4183. Briahna gave an outstanding report, and explained why RFK Jr. does have relevant expertise based on his extensive experience in toxic torts.
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  4184. 1. We do not know for certain who did this. 2. We are being asked to believe the most illogical explanation, as a loyalty oath/litmus test. Not good. Not good at all. Sums it up. :/
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  4185. Source? How many had COVID and the vaccine, versus the vaccine alone? How many had neither? (I would guess few or none, but that needs to be verified.)
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  4186. You recognize this is pure theatre, correct?
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  4187. You think THIS is a big deal? You would. Americans live in the virtual world now. It is VERY serious. 😂
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  4188.  @vainezaiven6677  Here's a thought: I can't be the only one who noticed the fast move from COVID vaccine mandates for children to "gender affirming care." What is up with all this? (France made COVID vaccine mandates for minors illegal, by the way.)
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  4189. The argument is about unpaid labor, not "sin." There is no case for reparations for "sin." We're adults here.
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  4190. ​ @weshallbesaved5137 True, but he NEVER supported mandates. Mandates were unethical.
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  4191. ​@Countcho There are two sexes. Many languages have two genders. Some, like German, have more than two.
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  4192. Nothing he ever did was honest.
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  4193. Breaking: THE HILL RISING has been SUSPENDED from YouTube for a week.
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  4194. They wave a Ukrainian flag.
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  4195.  @lazydaisy2292  Well, for that one in 2.5 million who actually needs medical intervention, I don't want new criminal laws to stand in the way. I don't agree with the medicalization of the lives of young people, starting with ADHD drugs and anti-depressants, but I would not make them illegal. It seems to me that medical ethics across the board are wanting, and that affects everyone. An ethical doctor should be reluctant to do anything more than suggest talk therapy, and share information on how likely it is that the child will grow out of their dysphoria while not dismissing the pain.
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  4196. He is mostly Italian.
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  4197. I agree. I almost always defend her because she is very often right. This time Robby is right on target 🎯.
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  4198. Okay. She SAID that what needy Americans get is a disgrace.
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  4199.  @WilliamDotson-s3t  Oh really? In France, asking a minor whether they have been vaccinated is a criminal offense -- a misdemeanor. The French left (the real left, not the neolib WEF clones) helped push that law through last year. Mandate the drug for kids? You can't even ask whether they chose to get it. The fact that we forgot what freedom is is the greatest of our problems.
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  4200. Where did you see that?
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  4201.  @akitadog01  MSM has you where it wants you, huh?
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  4202. Was this a good video or not?
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  4203. Having said that, these were wonderful guests. Will return to what they have to say in the months to come.
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  4204. He was vaccinated, with both doses of Astra Zeneca. He got a rare, serious reaction and could not play guitar at all, for months. Nor could they tell him he would recover.
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  4205. ​ @stoutz  THEN YOU CAN'T MANDATE THEM.
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  4206.  @catherineshaw1122  Hence he brings on Aaron. Jimmy's political instincts usually surprise me by how good they are, and I know he does not have the formal training. When he messes up, though, it is bad, LOL.
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  4207. University of Michigan Law School writes about this case as one of its innocence project cases.
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  4208. THIS. Social media is ubiquitous and potentially immortal. Anyone on earth can see it. This is an entirely different environment for a child approaching puberty, who WILL have overly sensitive moments. The point is to not get stuck in them, and not be shaped by them -- and not have the whole world see them. When I was a kid, it was rare for journalists to get permission to take a picture of a famous person's child. Use of children in advertising was frowned upon and regulated. People were appalled at stage Moms, and felt that child actors deserved special consideration and protection. And the kids weren't cry babies at all.
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  4209. The very idea that a girl who enjoys activities that somebody thinks are more typical of males, who is perceived as a "tomboy," and who may be attracted to other girls, and of course have crushes on her best friend, should be subjected to risky medical procedures for those "reasons" alone, is horrifying. Similarly for a boy.
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  4210.  @Roller_Ghoster  Of course my statement makes sense. Look at what OTHER countries are doing. I heard an interview with Dr. Eric Topol, one of the most pro-vaccine, activist doctors around, and HE called the US approach overly "vaccine-centric." I learned from him that Germans and Dutch just go to their pharmacies and pick up home COVID testing kits, for free, and that they have tracing protocols. I like Dr. Topol, he's clearly really smart and an honest guy. He might be right, he might be wrong, but he sure isn't lying. Look, a lot of other countries are doing better -- or lying. Don't you want to know what's going on with this? Look at the numbers in other parts of the world. Many places with lower vaccination rates have less disease, and many places with high vaccination rates have a lot of breakthrough infections. This is no time for more dumb politics.
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  4211. 1. I want to know DeSantis's actual record. What did he do? 2. Why wasn't Trump's actual record important? Why didn't it matter in his case? 3. Same questions for Clinton, Biden, . . .
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  4212.  @joesecord3066  Except that we know vaccinated people have contracted COVID. In vaccinated people who get it, it is very mild. We don't know that they can't transmit it. With most people not yet vaccinated, this is appalling. Roughly speaking, a vaccine protects me more than others, and a mask protects OTHER people more than me. So logically, you can take off your mask only in places where everyone has had the vaccine.
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  4213.  @bperez8656  I appreciate your discussion, and willingness to consider different possibilities. The only point I would want to underline is that, unlike being LGB, being trans requires supportive treatments that can be quite extensive and even carry some risk. A person who is gay, etc., may benefit from psychotherapy due in large part to how our society is configured, to marginalize all but the neurotypical heterosexual, but gayness is in no way a disorder. You will not find it in any legitimate DSM, and no surgery or hormones are ever necessary simply because a person is gay, lesbian, or bisexual. This is a reason to ask questions about transgender conditions. No, it isn't clear that it's only the fact that people can now declare who they are that accounts for the numbers. Sure, that could turn out to be true. It may not be. It is not super common sense at all. A lot of things are happening to the environment, not just global warming, and entire species are dying off at record rates. Every condition causing emotional suffering and increasing in frequency needs to be looked at closely, without preconceived notions. I only fear that we aren't going to see that happening. I don't think gender dysphoria is the only one, and it may not even fall into the category of being due to environmental disruption. I think lots of other things may turn out to be environmentally triggered. I don't trust the current NIH to find out the truth, either.
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  4214.  @shiroganejpg  WOW, YOU MADE MY DAY!!! BTW, look up the first person to swim the English Channel four times without stopping. This you have got to see! ;)
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  4215.  @andrewwells6323  Tax rebates for major corporations? Oh, you mean this is segregated from the rest of the federal budget, and Special Money is printed just to pay those rebates? Or, the government sells T bonds, and our taxes never, ever go toward paying the interest on those T bonds? Or . . . ?? /s
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  4216.  @andrewwells6323  Oooh!! Suddenly it's the PANDEMIC! Of course! Never mind that this has been going on for at least the entire century so far! Good lord. It's all right. You've gotten me to give up.
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  4217. Ryan, we were assured this is "a pandemic of the unvaccinated."
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  4218. Reuters:  Sept 20 (Reuters) - The White House on Monday criticized the use of horse reins to threaten Haitian migrants after images circulated of a U.S. border guard on horseback charging at migrants near a riverside camp in Texas . . . Reuters witnesses saw mounted officers wearing cowboy hats blocking the paths of migrants, and one officer unfurling a cord resembling a lariat, which he swung near a migrant's face. The Independent: Sept 22 -- The second-in-command at a union for US Border Patrol has tried to defend the use of horse reins around migrants in Del Rio, Texas, where tens of thousands have arrived from Haiti. . . Recent images from Del Rio have shown migrants fleeing Border Patrol agents on horseback who are wielding their reins like whips, with a Reuters witness catching an agent unfurl and swing one in front of migrants. I've been following the British press for all of this stuff for a while now. Anyway.
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  4219. I even remember when the New York Times wrote about the uranium deal with Russia: "Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russia Uranium Deal" -- an April 2015 headline to a story
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  4220. @lesedimakeketa5683  It is not happening outside of the Anglophone countries. Just learn French, German, Spanish, or Russian, and you'll have a humanities education at a very low cost.
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  4221.  @michaelmcclure3383 "Hey, science and innovation is a great thing." "You know. Big things you wanna do that are big." "Robert Kennedy Jr. was advising him that vaccines were causing bad things." "I told him that was a bad thing, don't do that." These are quotes from Bill Gates. Sounds like he has what Brandon has.
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  4222.  @MrGeorgewf  Do I have something against folks who aren't educated determining national and global health policy? Education? Nutrition? People who actually work for a living aren't trying to mandate vaccines or GMOs or Common Core, are they? Weird deflection from the issue. Why did you pull that stunt, hm?
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  4223.  @kf10126  Bless you!
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  4224. 😅😅😅
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  4225. Well, it wasn't staged, and this is exactly how these issues should play out: in court. Not by corporations cancelling people, and placing prior restraints on free speech.
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  4226. Anonymous, to boot.
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  4227. ​@alan8887 No necessarily. The analogy is weak because his YouTube channel does not put him in contact with anyone, and YouTube has no potential liability in the matter whatsoever.
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  4228. ​ @joeterzio7175 Some people feel sorry for President Mummy.
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  4229. And consider what "it" is. Good lord!
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  4230. Why did Trump remove the moratorium on federal funding of gain of function research? Who whispered in his ear and flattered him?
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  4231. Which means fewer and fewer qualified people will want to be teachers.
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  4232.  @Banana_Split_Cream_Buns  Not to mention all the kids whose babysitter was a screen. That is something I agree with Jonathan Haidt about.
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  4233. Imagine if Assange were free to cover the Epstein death and the Maxwell case.
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  4234. Re your second question: the best case that can be made for the CDC, etc., is that IF a child develops myocarditis from COVID, it appears to be more serious, in general, than myocarditis from the vaccine. BUT myocarditis in kids from COVID is truly very rare. It is NOT rare from the vaccine. It is significantly more common. Vaccines and other drugs have been withdrawn for less.
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  4235. The fact that they have the nerve to run for office to speak for others is the story.
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  4236.  @christinabernat6709  Great comment!
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  4237. You fall for The Next Big Thing every time, eh?
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  4238. Countries with tuition-free university and universal health often have criminal penalties against such harassment, for the obvious, unsentimental reason that these societies need for everyone to be productive, rather than on disability and under psychiatric care at public expense. Sorry if I put that baldly, I don't mean it to sound insensitive, but these things go together. You invest in people, you protect your investment. Some have real compassion, others make sure not to commit crimes. So, they all behave.
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  4239. I wish and hope.
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  4240. ​ ladyj7085 What do the two have to do with each other? Did Heard stay married? Is she a mother? Sickest jealousy I've seen broadcast openly. Save it for your little gauleiters.
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  4241.  @ascent8487  Not everyone in the US owes US society very much, if anything. You bomb a lot of people's families.
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  4242. And don't tell me, let me guess . . . Trump is the stable genius. Biden, Hunter Biden, the Clintons, Pelosi, Cuban and Rufo for that matter, are all qualified for their positions. 🤣🤣🤣
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  4243.  @SuMMeRFLi5  False. You clearly do no know the law or the facts.
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  4244. One of the Manson family women married a Harvard Law grad. She died in prison. I don't know what happened to him.
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  4245. An intelligent mammal that nurtures young and an insect that is not essential to pollination are two different things.
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  4246.  @limitedtime5471  Uhh!! That's sexist! Just kidding.
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  4247. If Victoria Nuland told the truth about the "danger Russia will gain control" of the microbes in US Department of Defense funded biolabs in Ukraine, why are WE not demanding inspectors and threatening war, like we did in Iraq? Why are WE resisting the call for independent weapons inspectors?
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  4248. As the Ninth Circuit just said in the LA Unified School District case, "safe and effective for what?"
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  4249. The ISSUE is mandates. PCF/CGT is against mandates and passports, for crying out loud. Every Scandinavian country is against mandates. Every left-wing party outside of the Five Eyes (and several inside them) is against mandates. Ask yourselves why you need them. I believe you that you do. I'm not hearing why. Please, enlighten us?
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  4250. Why do you all think this is serious? AI is raising your kids? Okay, then I guess so.
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  4251. Are you giving him too much credit? LOL
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  4252.  @mabaker  India did distribute ivermectin, against WHO advice. Do we know the result? It would be nice to have an update -- even to say we don't know/confounding variables.
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  4253.  @therealdeal3672  But that fact is exceedingly well known. Oprah creates blockbusters in the book world. Her endorsement is literally better than the Pulitzer Prize or the Nobel, almost always.
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  4254.  @therealdeal3672  We're on the same page after all.
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  4255.  @alby4478  Other translations I saw were edited. Why?
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  4256.  @melianna999  I doubt that one is representative. People who are ill today are more likely to seek out alternatives to the mainstream allopathic doctor, who has lost their trust. That will skew the numbers.
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  4257. Check the CDC statistics on maternal mortality rates in the US. Focus in particular on 2020 and 2021.
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  4258. He's a poor speaker. I'm surprised by how many writers are poor speakers. Taibbi is another example, but he's a model of clarity compared with Ryan.
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  4259.  @tylerchristianharvey1884  Thank you. Not to mention the importance of this report in particular. Jack's demeanor is, like, he thinks everyone already has familiarity with what he's talking about, when in fact he is, like, breaking the news -- at least in part, at least to most people. :/
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  4260.  @nkompass2855  Me, too. They PAY him for this. Of course he thinks it's good!
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  4261. There are more and more people like that, and they rake in serious money. How? I don't get it.
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  4262.  @F_U23  Exactly, and recovery rate is always backward looking. I had a mild case of probable COVID but there were no tests available to be certain, and despite it being mild, I was not myself for a solid six weeks. Long COVID is real, and yet most people recover. I hate that they downplay the success stories. It is unduly scaring people who had it. Of course most will be fine. Totally fine. This is a serious illness, yes, but why the exaggeration? Serves no one. . . . Well. :/
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  4263.  @slundgr  Even NEJM, JAMA, BMJ and Lancet have been more truthful. And they are mainstream. The Guardian, for news, and that is British Labour.
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  4264. Understandable. Sadly!!
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  4265. How were they able to do this to you? Serious question.
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  4266. Those who don't know, read The Torture Machine, by Fred Hampton's lawyer Flint Taylor.
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  4267. Greenwald never said or suggested or intimated that the workers who want to leave over being asked to produce speech they don't like should be "forced" to do it, or anything like that. He knows they have freedom of speech as well. Wow how low can you go for clicks? The way this chick smirks as soon as the off-camera voice said "constitution" tells you everything. What a cynic.
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  4268. Every president's schemes hurt me financially. I could name concrete policies and give numbers.
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  4269. ​ @annabodot962 You are right that a private institution can embrace speech codes rather than free speech. It just has to apply them fairly to everyone: no Palestinian flag means no Israeli flag. Otherwise, they could be sued under Title VI.
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  4270. "Let's talk about anything except Assange." "Yes, let's."
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  4271. We should WANT to know what an opponent says. Not because you'll believe it, but because it's a fact that he said it.
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  4272.  Jack Strawb  Exactly. How the hell did Buttigieg ever get in? Even into the primaries in the first place? Whose bright idea was this?
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  4273. Carlson asked to bring Gershkovich home with him. Did ya miss that??
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  4274.  @justingrimm6642  I have an idea: try ANSWERING the rational arguments presented, instead of name-calling. Over your poor little head? Of course I say the same thing with respect to the same issues. Ask yourself why you can't address the point.
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  4275.  @nox5555  This isn't a matter of criminal law, or even antitrust law. Once you have exhausted other options, then yes, you can bring a civil suit for money damages. Or go for lawsuits and money as a first resort, fine, but don't tell me it's about free speech. It's about money.
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  4276. No, this was way more sinister.
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  4277.  @davidwilliams6966  2016 was bad, 2020 was bad, 2024 is shaping up to be a doozy.
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  4278.  @xitlallicommentstoday2169  perfect Agree 100%
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  4279.  @MorganKreig  If she did that, I hope she is prosecuted. All fraudulent charities need to be taken down fast.
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  4280. ​ @fredgarvinMP Complete agreement. To me, that seems obvious.
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  4281. First of all, the call is to take a look at the advertising. We don't know whether they are marketing to minors. I think every normal person is opposed to the sexualization of kids. This channel has covered Epstein in depth when almost no one else in the mainstream did.
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  4282. Exactly
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  4283. And that giving full immunity to vaccine manufacturers is not wise, either. Not to mention funneling money to Osama bin Laden.
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  4284.  @laureencriss8220  But please do it. I really mean it! :)
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  4285.  @jonmeyer7402  Should a parent be allowed to have their 13-year-old sterilized? Or how about lobotomized? No, your logic is flawed. The whole debate has degenerated into extremism, because the medical establishment is not policing itself. It should have never come to this. We end up either medicalizing or criminalizing everything, and both involve curtailing human rights.
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  4286.  @cpt.oblivion  Anywhere where Hunter is, there goes the neighborhood.
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  4287. "The Patriot Act" shreds the Fourth Amendment. Orwell couldn't make this stuff up.
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  4288. Who said they haven't?
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  4289. 💯 Wonderful show.
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  4290.  @iClone316  Read the EUA vaccination release form, slowly, then tell me whether a healthy person under 30 is clearly wrong in wanting to see full FDA approval first, AND getting tested weekly in the meantime, etc. If I had a teenager, it's what I'd probably suggest to them.
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  4291. Now that one vaccine is FDA approved, certainly reevaluate and be willing to take it.
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  4292. And Harvard couldn't do anything about the abusive fraternities and sororities . . .
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  4293.  @Sloimer  Is there an annual measles shot? An annual tetanus booster? The flu shot covers new varieties circulating, and is not necessary for most who have had the current variety during a prior wave -- but the real difference is the difference in safety.
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  4294.  @layinlow77  National Geographic had an article on leaky vaccines several years ago, before it became politicized. Fascinating stuff.
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  4295. 💯
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  4296. Surprised this survived the sense oars.
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  4297. 😂😂😂😂😂 this was great I will quote you.
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  4298. She must be censoring here. I just got it.
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  4299. ​ @optimal8155 So what do you plan to do about all the kids who didn't have a choice in the matter? Way to miss the point.
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  4300. The ultrarich do nothing that is not calculated to be to their advantage.
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  4301.  @chad3232132  The clearance rate for solving homicides has fallen from what it was, say, 50 years ago.
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  4302. @adamrohde3513  Wait. We have to praise them when they let people live? Tells me everything I want to know.
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  4303. I know. Imagine wanting everyone to stop the killing.
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  4304. Impossible. The French revolutionaries made it their aim to end slavery in their colonies.
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  4305. You know why. We all know why. 😢
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  4306.  @JureDoon  You're talking about applied mathematics. I'm only considering mathematics itself, apart from whether it has any applications at all. You're right that when a particular application of mathematics fails to describe reality, it's not reality that's "wrong." What I'm saying is neither is the mathematics.
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  4307. What's a DS?
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  4308. What do you think a job that is likely to cripple you before age 60 and has zero pension should pay? If you have to retire 10-15 years before everyone who has a non-manufacturing job, you better have enough money to save up 10-15 years in basic living expenses while you're working. I never had to plan for that. Start a union, get a raise, too.
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  4309. Can you move? Do you have security cameras, wrought iron storm doors, an alarm? Do you have an attached garage? I don't mean to sound alarmist. I think the risk is tiny. It is not worth the tiny risk is my point.
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  4310.  @hedleybutler9706  Exactly. Close your social media accounts. I don't have any.
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  4311.  @annettespizuoco9947  We don't know. It is suspicious. The risk is there. The risk of physical harm is, perhaps, very tiny, but is the risk worth taking?
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  4312. What were they complaining about that struck you as crazy? General public isn't exactly how I would call a high-risk maternity ward. It's not a restaurant or bar.
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  4313. He's a tool. Mr. Galloway cleaned his clock. He came across as a schoolboy, the little sniveler of his class. He did not have sufficient gravitas to be disgraceful. Only a grown man or woman can reach the level of disgrace. This was far below that.
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  4314. Reagan was a true child of California.
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  4315.  @rhys5567  She just SAID Obama ended some of these safety regulations!
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  4316. See Matt Orfalea on that. :/
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  4317. Yeah, and what about gun rights? Concealed carry for 12-year-olds.
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  4318. Our ER felt like a police station and was headed by a Doctor of Osteopathy who was young and inexperienced for a long time now. Once when I had a suspected allergic reaction late at night I was asked what I was doing awake. If you call 911, you pay $1200 for the ambulance and must go to that ER.
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  4319. @jwill9237  He made immense profits and built multigenerational wealth by breaching contracts with the most vulnerable policyholders, during the worst moments of their lives, exactly when their very lives were in the balance. The more contracts breached, the more UHC made. This is lost on anyone?
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  4320.  @Blademaster865  Unfortunately, the state legislatures withdrew support from the late, great state universities first. In 1980, it was still possible to make enough money over the summer to pay for a full year of tuition at a state school. Bring that money back.
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  4321. @Will_Moffett  Kennedy IS a policy expert on this issue, one of the very best. Or do you think Hotez should have sole power to influence politicians to suspend fundamental rights? On what basis? Have you ever read a book on medical ethics predating 2019?
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  4322. If it weren't for the horrible COVID wave, it might not have been a big deal. People joke about "my computer guy in Mumbai," or getting hacked "by Moscow," and I could do without the latter. But his tweet was worse than tone deaf.
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  4323. The nicest woman in politics on the bravest Youtube commentator's show. Sweet. EDIT: And SMARTEST
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  4324. ​ @letsomethingshine Choice means the choice to be a birth parent someday. Some people decide to do that in their 30s and 40s, and had no idea they would want to when they were only 16. I support CHOICE.
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  4325. Americans are paid to meme, they are not paid to know stuff.
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  4326. So well said! Please blog if you don't.
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  4327. Great job for a former lawyer, huh?
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  4328.  @Cold4ged  I heard her acknowledge it, but she didn't focus on that, no.
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  4329. Nicely put!
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  4330. Wait. Dude didn't make enough money in the NFL? Or he has memory issues now, and doesn't remember how much moola he has?
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  4331. 😅😅😅
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  4332. No she's not. But Robby made some very solid points here, in certain respects (i.e., pragmatically) better. This was a good discussion.
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  4333. Sadly. It's the only thing the defense got right, frankly. Overall disgraceful display by the defense, but he was right about this. :/
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  4334.  @cassiescornerreviews6884  😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  4335. ​ @studiobauhaus7740  Wait a few days, then reread what you wrote. You think someone else is idiotic?
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  4336. 14:16 This IS basically a war crime.
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  4337. Yes. Horrible!!
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  4338.  @daishan1234  Yes, exactly, and why did they? So many people swooped in on Amy Coney Barrett and attacked her personally, when what they should have done was to stop any nomination from taking place while the country was already in early voting. Literally took the worst course. Horrible. Those personal attacks against ACB were performative! And ugly. She has had tragedies in her life. But she did not belong on any federal court, let alone the Supreme Court, replacing Justice Ginsburg. Did they stop that? NO.
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  4339. Well that's discrimination. 😂
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  4340. LET'S HOPE SO.
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  4341. I know someone who voted for Biden because he was nice to Meghan McCain when her father died. She stopped speaking to me (in a solid DNC state) because I said I'd vote 3rd party.
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  4342.  @markferguson3745  Narcissists are known to be extremely personable and appear to be not only normal but exceptionally accomplished in some way. This is how you will see perfectly good parents trust their child with someone who turns out to be an abuser, for example. Parents, plural: more than one family. An entire community, a beloved coach, clergyman, teacher, etc. (In denial much?)
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  4343. ​ @astromigui But they knew this was likely created in a lab, correct?
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  4344. 2:33 sensitive dependence on initial conditions (compare starting with 26 versus 27, etc.)
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  4345. 2:27 "I hear that Dr. Jill Biden is a great doctor. Have her be Surgeon General." That's what Liz Chaney for President sounds like. 😉
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  4346. @antonyjh1234  I sketched out pertinent questions and mentioned multivariate analysis, which is not easy to do. You blathered the usual talking points. What's the matter? Still too scared to THINK? Psst, it's okay now. You can come out and think. No one will hurt you.
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  4347. It was obvious from the start that the initial reaction to the spreading illness was too slow and timid, and then suddenly became hysterical. Horrible period to have lived through. It has most people primed to underestimate or overreact to reports of illness. They trained us to be irrational.
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  4348. No no, those are chest-feeding people. Wrong pronoun. 😅
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  4349.  @DrFraiserCrane  Eew, I'd want nothing to do with that thing, Gates.
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  4350. ​ @utah_koidragon7117  Well, the already breathtaking speed of the very richest accumulating power and wealth was greatly accelerated. A vast experiment in social control and manipulation yielded very interesting information, and turned out better than the 0.01% expected. Don't get me wrong, I think it was an accident, and I even doubt gross negligence -- the scientists themselves had the greatest incentive to maintain safety. But yeah, the same people got more money and vastly more power. That's the end.
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  4351. Jimmy's not upset that you're not taking his side. You're not that important. Not anymore.
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  4352.  @lachlanbell8390  So you're saying that as a matter of law, the Richard McGinnis instruction should have been refused? The mens rea for recklessness is defined in the instructions. The McGinnis incident occurred BEFORE Rittenhouse was struck by anyone, so this essay you wrote is irrelevant. "Intent" is a term of art which is NOT synonymous with mens rea. A NEGLIGENT homicide must have a mens rea, but certainly not "intent," or "recklessness." You're right. You didn't read.
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  4353.  @thegoodsmaster  Does any of this sound like anything real is being produced? Oh, and more and more of academia is on the list, too. See the documentary on the 2008 crash, Inside Job. There are few honest economists around anymore, not even various "distinguished professors," and Nobel Prize winners. (Or maybe especially not them?)
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  4354.  @curiouscat3384  Total agreement. You are so right. And if someone can become independently wealthy and set themselves and their children and grandchildren up for life in a matter of years, where is their incentive to do real work?? I read this on a French website: Two billion dollars is nearly a million a year since the birth of Jesus. There's a perspective for you. Not to mention most of this money is then placed offshore. Gawd, what they get away with!
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  4355. @janetwalk4996  The ancients talk about the marketplace all the time, and Socrates and Plato talk about the Sophists and their very lucrative commercial ventures all the time. The Sophists made great fortunes in an interesting way. They claimed there was no such thing as truth, and they proposed to teach others to speak in order to persuade, because persuading in the market and in politics -- in other words, coming out on top -- was all that mattered. Anyone who thought otherwise was either jealous or a child. (Sound familiar?) The Gorgias is the best one, for all the gory details, and the Apology, for the poetry. This is over 2400 years old. Not for nothing that Marx did his doctorate on even earlier Greek philosophy.
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  4356.  @Americansikkunt  What rule, with what video? Good screen name for someone who opposes treating the new means of communication as free speech fora.
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  4357. No, it speaks to First Amendment concerns. Read the concurring opinions that came out with the decision today. It's spelled out there.
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  4358.  @antistupid4712  Yes, this was unbelievable. That dinosaur was permitted to single-handedly ruin this show.
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  4359. "Slogan" -- the perfect characterization! :)
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  4360.  @meowth8050  I wasn't bullied until adulthood. Workplace bullying is a criminal offense in a lot of countries. Here, it means tough luck, look for a new job. I don't care about "growth," so called. My family is abroad, I need money to retire and emigrate.
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  4361. People like her should be scared.
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  4362.  @jedahn  Great point. And if you go in and DON'T choose an app, is that even more trouble for you? Will video of people who go in "too much" be leaked? Turned over to law enforcement?
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  4363.  @Nathan-eq3zs  You know, a young person in their late teens does have to make some choices about how to live their life. I can't tell them to do something clearly good, and to have solid ethics, because they could end up poor. They live in a world where even law and medicine might not cut it, where teaching is highly risky, where a doctorate is foreclosed unless you are clearly gifted, and where an engineer may end up serving the MIC, or someone like Bill Gates. Wow, who wanted to be that when they grew up?
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  4364.  @comicbookninja5268  She was barred from the Fauci interview despite being the most knowledgeable on the subject --- or so it was said on several other channels. This was contrary to her agreement of zero censorship, so she quit. We'll have to wait and see what she says about it.
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  4365.  @drumlessons833  I agree with your first point, but you're much too kind to liberals. They sought to gain a foothold among lower-earning PMC people, like teachers. They only rarely cared about the working class. They only cared when it was necessary to stave off the risk that capitalism might be overthrown (hence, FDR; JFK to an extent, and RFK by 1968 even more so).
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  4366. You do know Bannon was pardonned for his alleged role in federal wire fraud, correct?
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  4367.  @annak29  The number of people who participate in ELECTIONS was the issue. Do you believe the extraordinarily high participation rate in the last election, 2020, is a result of, or evidence of, the "vibrancy" of American democracy? When most people voted against the other candidate, rather than for anyone, that is a hard case to make -- regardless of whether or not you believe there were gross irregularities that affected the outcome. The dismal Democratic primary season, and the lack of any meaningful challenge from the moderate Republicans to Trump in the Republican primaries, and the incessant culture wars nonsense ("impeach Trump!!" "Russia!!!" "Joe is a socialist!" "Antifa is taking over!!") at a time when most people want and need real leadership and actual policies that benefit regular working people, is more evidence of just how "vibrant" the democracy is. Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, the Davos crowd, etc., and of course MSM have more to say about what's in store for you than anyone you might vote for. Their needs will be met all right. Yours, only by accident.
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  4368. If a doctor tells you something is a game changer, get a new doctor. You have an ad man.
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  4369. I hear she's a good doctor. /s
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  4370. This one, I didn't expect. Follow the money, forget the rest.
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  4371. ​@elvisnnaemeka6722 You think it's incoherent to make abortion illegal and expect good outcomes? Do you plan to found a pregnancy police? Do you plan to make medical personnel mandated reporters, like they are for actual mistreatment of actual children.
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  4372.  @dylanzrim3635  Not exactly wrong. The point is that there is no solid evidence for the chemical imbalance model. Which means it should not have been promoted. Moreover, SSRI appear to benefit some people, above expected placebo effects. We do not know why.
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  4373. Kim, why did you do this???
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  4374.  @annarock8966  True.
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  4375.  @ritatharp5238  Thank you. If only we could organize and make it happen.
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  4376. True threats are defined as specifically targeting an individual or group with imminent violence, and there has to be some likelihood that it will happen. We have a strict First Amendment, protecting free speech. I wonder how long that will last.
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  4377. ​ @ManInTheBigHat That's big of them, not to hold bathroom issues against him.
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  4378.  @jackflack4253  For real? For free??
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  4379. I would, for a price. $750,000 after taxes.
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  4380.  @jackflack4253  Are all Biden voters humorless? "You decide."
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  4381.  @theiceman6941  This was said ironically. I was wondering how many people would think I meant it straight. No, the president of the United States should not be cognitively impaired. He should not wear adult diapers due to age-related cognitive changes. He should not wander, even briefly.
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  4382.  @yoyo_ma7677  Well, we could see. I like Batya.
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  4383. When I heard about "spider goats," and it turned out to be true (the Guardian praised it!!!), I admit that changed my view.
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  4384.  @jono1987  Most larger communities have had school choice rather than strictly in-district schooling for well over a generation now. Vouchers won't happen. It's a political ploy to get your vote. Vouchers will not happen because there is no way to structure them without causing the public school system to collapse. Having said that, I don't blame any parent whose child is not well-served to be ready to try anything to change that.
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  4385.  @billiamc1969  Their story is the familiar one. That's why it seems true.
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  4386. Now I understand why they keep telling us Russia is losing.
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  4387. If Joe wins, WHO WILL BE PRESIDENT? That's the question you need to ask.
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  4388. Everybody liked in-state tuition you could earn in a summer. Everybody liked affordable rent in every city, even New York, San Francisco, or Seattle. Everybody liked affordable health care.
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  4389.  @ezerasurfr  Thank you so much for this reference. Super!!
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  4390. Leave an infant alone for a few days and what happens?
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  4391.  @lynnm.9243  Thank you. Now, someone explain to me how everyone lost their minds. Because I still do not get it.
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  4392.  @billchessell8213  War, of course. But first it creates unstable excess and environmental degradation, which is psychologically very harmful to people. For example, becoming used to luxury that you could suddenly lose creates a lack of resourcefulness and a dependency on that luxury, as well as moments of extreme anxiety. If something happens and the luxury doesn't continue, you are much worse off than if you never had it in the first place. OTOH, having what you need, and having it be largely stable, so that you can count on having it, but being a little bit "hungry" from time to time, is a better balance. It's also the formula for creativity. I'm describing the material conditions of many creative geniuses. Boom and bust, especially big, big boom and total bust, is horrible. Mental illness, physical illness, violence, suicide, war, extremism, everything. Dangling great wealth in front of us as though it were desirable is such a scam.
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  4393. NONSENSE
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  4394.  @JoleneMarie123  Thank goodness it all turned out all right. She must be thrilled.
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  4395. ​@t.r.reese-ryan Agreed. Same for Libya. We need to know that debacle was analyzed and will never be repeated.
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  4396.  @notlucas6859  It's what's in the needle that counts.
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  4397.  @jasonstroon  There is very, very limited evidence that vaccines limit spread of the virus. This is because vaccinated people have contracted COVID, but only mild cases. Presumably, they can transmit it, and they may fail to get tested, thinking they cannot get COVID because they were vaccinated, or simply because their COVID feels like a little cold. Hence they may spread it more than those who are careful, get regular tests, wear masks, etc. We also don't know how long immunity lasts. I've read 6 months. I think they are giving a low estimate as a precaution, but what if it is only 6 months? Booster shots, twice a year? You're sure that's prudent, and safe? In principle, new virus + new technology, never used en masse, is a greater risk than new virus + traditional vaccine, or known virus + new technology. That's a basic fact of risk assessment. mRNA could turn out to be a real breakthrough, though. I just think caution is in order. So far, this vaccine causes more side effects, especially in women, than just about any other vaccine in general use. Odd, given that men are more likely to develop serious COVID. (Suddenly, we can't be feminists again. Next hashtag, we'll have to be.)
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  4398.  @jasonstroon  How come you didn't know these were not FDA approved? They should tell you that before they inject you.
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  4399. The MOST common major BY FAR is Business, and has been for decades. The next most common majors are all health care-related. A tiny, tiny fraction of a percent of students major in Gender Studies, and if they can also do photography and graphic design, and set up a web page, they have a future in fashion and marketing, much better than any Business major would.
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  4400.  @Viewable11  Er, unless you get an MPA and a law degree afterwards, or an MSW, or an MFA and publish your stories. Depends on your minor, too, and how much math you take. You are too rigid. Only about 1/3 to 1/2 of one percent of all students major in Gender Studies. They sure get tons of attention, though. Hm.
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  4401.  @buddy6743  How sick are you? Just kidding. No one wants an answer to that question.
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  4402.  @waynebollentin989  A lot of people got that wrong. Mate acknowledges that he did, and that more realistic people, such as Douglas MacGregor, were alerting him that he was wrong. BTW, why did Ukrainian officials state that THEY did not believe Russia was about to invade? Look at the triggering event, in the Donbass. That's hard to do, now, because there is no doubt the Russian response was disproportionate and illegal. So, that overarching fact blinds you to the other side of the story.
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  4403.  @noelcayer3599  Here. This is what you do: you find the original complaint against Powell, and you READ that. Next, you find Powell's motion to dismiss the complaint and memorandum in support of that motion. Then, you READ that. These authentic court documents are available for everyone to read, and download in pdf form, online. If your interest is sincere, you may find the real answers yourself (and you may indeed be left with additional questions). If not, then no one can satisfy you.
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  4404. ​ @OptimusPrinceps_Augustus Amy Goodman, too?
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  4405. ​ @OptimusPrinceps_Augustus  Amy Goodman, too? Try saying that about Goodman's reporting.
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  4406.  @sheilamacdougal4874  That wasn't what OP implied, or insinuated. COVID is a bad disease, but the way the response has unfolded and the way the social fabric has been ripped may have worse ramifications. If a person with a heart condition or cancer learns that his chance of survival is 98%+, he celebrates. With a contagious disease circulating, composure is even more important. People die of many things. Have car accidents and shootings killed or crippled more kids under 12 than COVID has? How about people under 40? For young adults, factor in drug overdoses and suicides. If you can't answer these questions, then we have not been informed properly about our risk.
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  4407.  @sheilamacdougal4874  Stop right there. The pandemic is raging now. No one supports that. You want to keep doing what you've been doing, and make more people do it -- people for whom you are not responsible in the least. The asymmetry here is that I'm not telling you what to do. You think you have a right to tell me. That's based on your excessive fear, not ethics, not sound policy. "Rage in all its fury" -- yeesh, take a writing class.
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  4408.  @sheilamacdougal4874 Everyone can make their own decision. You mentioned seatbelts, as if we should all make an identical risk assessment, or worse yet, be forced by law to make identical decisions. Are you sure cancer patients have a reduced lifespan? The Queen Mum certainly didn't. (Your callousness is showing, by the way.) Are you sure COVID is highly dangerous to the healthy? No one else thinks so, not even the doctors.
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  4409.  @loryndabenson2118  Glenn Greenwald just interviewed the tennis pro Tennys Sandgren, who made a decision to forgo the Australian Open purely as a matter of principle. It is GREAT. I'm so impressed.
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  4410. @splinejones4489  👏👏👏👏👏 You saw this before I did.
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  4411. @twoknightfall3722  Are you confusing the black power salute with something you saw in a Marvel comic or a mooovie? Oh this century should be fun.
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  4412. ​ @Dennis-ff2pf  That figure includes all insurance premiums and massive overhead. Everyone along the way gets a cut without providing "care." On the contrary, finding ways to deny care is a major industry.
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  4413. He is making people like Sam and this other person go apoplectic. You'll have to ask them, Greenwald can't tell you.
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  4414. It's about the lawsuits. Jones lost one, is on appeal now, and there are more pending.
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  4415. In the first round 67% voted against Le Pen, and second round had RECORD turnout, highest in almost two generations (since Mitterrand). No, THIS is France. Look at the map, see where NFP won. This is France.
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  4416.  @adamheath1102  Exactly. That's why Kash Patel and Tulsi told their departments to pause on responding. They could write it but not send it.
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  4417.  @adamheath1102  Also, it seems that the Ketamine Kid didn't realize the other two branches of government are independent of executive authority. We should find his citizenship test results.
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  4418. I like this. Simple, fair, and truthful.
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  4419. ​@Rule-Britannia Not as long as you're still the moneybags. Once you're not, your tail won't be in the air. That's how you are. It's your measure of goodness and truth.
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  4420. 👏👏👏👏👏👏
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  4421. $cience $cience $cience Everyone loves $ci . . .
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  4422. All the more reason to point out that for some people, there is some risk. Probably not for most, and probably the opposite issue, hoarding and harmful clutter, is much more common and causing much more anxiety. All the more reason to point out that "one size does not fit all."
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  4423. I've never understood Roe's progeny. Only the first trimester (12 weeks) is fully protected for elective abortion, where it is absolutely no one's possible business but the woman's. Regulation after that, more or less onerous, more or less humane, is common all around the developed world.
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  4424.  @PearComputingDevices  You mean you don't know that there are still people waiting for their FIRST unemployment checks to arrive, and some only started getting their checks from March in July? And that in the jobs that do exist, hours have been reduced everywhere? Nothing is open as it was in February and March prior to the shutdown, and my state has officially "reopened." Other states with current hotspots are worse. Bills that I mail are not arriving to their destination on time. New graduates are not being allowed to start the jobs they had in place before last Christmas. And do you have any idea how much health insurance costs under, say, COBRA, if you want your health care to remain stable during a pandemic? It is prohibitive. My remarks are not special pleading. I have savings and no debts and never carry a credit card balance because I never believed in this economy in the first place. But your discourse is aimed at the people who do. Government works just fine for the oligarchs.
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  4425.  @janlampert5688  Not what it says. Unless the message is made crystal clear, I object to suggesting any more erosion of the Bill of Rights whatsoever. We have lost a LOT already. I'm sure you have noticed, too.
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  4426.  @vegahimsa3057  Sure sounds like it, huh? :)
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  4427.  @ChesneySnow  💯
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  4428. ​ @spicywater123 What college offers those? Juilliard? They get jobs.
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  4429.  @JujutsuKaicenat  Yes she is. Practice following more complex thinking.
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  4430.  @entium1  We would have to see both of your applications to be able to judge whether race was the only factor. Considering what he did for you, maybe his essay showed a person of greater depth and character than yours did. That is possible, too.
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  4431. Nothing to do with it.
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  4432. This report is crucial: it shows to what lengths they will go, without the least bit of shame, to discredit someone who discovered the truth about a war crime. No wonder Assange's life has been on the line for so long.
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  4433. If Putin got ahold of one of "our" boots, all the more reason to ask questions. Deep fake, no pun intended, would make a little sense.
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  4434. Yup. One that will jeer at or shun anyone who fails to get vaccinated and comes down with severe COVID, or gets vaccinated and is injured by the vaccine. That's the society we live in. Oh, and no comprehensive disability system or health care, unlike UK, Israel, etc., countries with excellent vaccination rates. I wonder why . . . ?
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  4435. Hey, here's an idea: QUIT FACEBOOK.
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  4436.  @jamesadey8744  Some corporations indeed are.
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  4437. I agree. I'm glad this documentary did not pursue the issue, though. She does deserve to have a chance to recover from it in private. She was likely a minor when it first happened, if it did. (And if she was a minor, where were all the other adults?)
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  4438. I think they're mad an East European beat a UK player. That's what it usually is. Heightened scrutiny is certain. Of course she apologized. She gets it.
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  4439. ​ @Weshopwizard 😂😂😂😂 That was good.
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  4440. 15:29 Perfect summary, in under a minute. Thank you, Jimmy.
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  4441. Biden ads asking for money right before this video. 😂😂😂
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  4442. ​ @Orcinus1967 Why? The Olympics originated in pre-Christian Greece.
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  4443. You can talk about color, I mention politics (Five Eyes) and poof!
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  4444. Because once under oath, he wouldn't have invoked the Fifth Amendment. Just how easy is it to dupe people? Trick question: too easy.
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  4445. ​ @cookwithnicky Who told you this, lol? You need to figure out why you believed it.
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  4446. I hope they got paid well, Pfizer certainly has the means. Who would be this vile for free? That's a new level of contemptible.
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  4447. Wait. How does a pardon protect anyone from investigation? It lifts the reason for invoking the Fifth Amendment.
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  4448. Which women?
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  4449.  @hrs2044  I don't follow your logic. If the same mob that abused Daphne for supporting Chappelle had instead persuaded Chappelle to change his act, then . . . ? Or do you mean, if it had set its sights on making the harder target Chappelle bend to its will, rather than going after more fragile people like Daphne, then . . . ? I don't know. I guess the mob did need a blood victory.
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  4450.  @hrs2044  You don't know that Daphne was defending her abuser "because victims fall into that pattern." She and Dave were not in that kind of relationship. She was free to have any opinion about his comedy, pro or con. He didn't pay her bills, he wasn't her lover. Unless you knew her up close, you have no reason to impute that type of psychology to her.
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  4451.  @Jo-zw7fw  There's that. :/
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  4452. @detrockcity3  No it wasn't. Property is a creature of the state.
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  4453.  @christnapoleon5044  This is realism. It's not really about Aaron. She has the problem.
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  4454. @cyberspace7208  It doesn't. It is, however, an example of the falling standards he mentioned, when that's not a conversation in a coffee shop or a bar and grill, and instead becomes a road to wealth. I think having to work for money is a better idea.
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  4455.  @digitalnomad9985  Lawyers think for a living.
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  4456.  @kishisetasama  Yeah, they want their prejudices flattered. It's a formula for 💰, which is all we need to know. 💰 = truth.
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  4457. @Marlene-oy6sd  Things certainly have changed. Massive wealth for this kind of lazy grift is now ubiquitous, and people are not astute enough to see it. They are mesmerized by the "glamour" of the Internet. I'm no more jealous of this scheme than Socrates was jealous of the Sophists. I like to work for my money. It gives me a deep sense of pride that this nonsense will never shake. I bet you have no idea what I mean. You never read those books, huh? If you had, you wouldn't settle.
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  4458.  @mjfm4  How many dads get off before 6 pm, practically? Maybe California can leave at 4 pm, which is 7 pm on Wall Street.
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  4459.  @m_christine1070  Which is not a formula for trust. It is pure manipulation. (I.e., what you've just described)
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  4460. "Whew, I'm glad that's settled, Doctor!"
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  4461. ​ @chrissantos5580  You don't understand mathematics, much less finance, that's clear. Of course Oprah can access what amounts to well under 5% of her fortune at any time. It doesn't need to be sitting around in her savings account. She has a team who can structure that transaction on her word.
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  4462. ​ @chrissantos5580 Oprah's compound in California is worth over $100 million. How did she get the money? How does she clean that big place? 😂
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  4463. That moment does not last 8 hours.
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  4464. Are we sure they weren't shopped? I don't say this to defend Clinton, but because the photos could have been planted to discredit the story. I tend to believe the reports that Clinton frequented Epstein and other prominent people on that island, and not just on the plane.
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  4465.  @PFB1994  Perfect comment.
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  4466. WHAT are they doing to kids? Leave the kids alone.
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  4467.  @malvient  Yeah, those people who insisted on full indemnity AND full patent protection, and hiding data, were abject cowards all right. But they made money.
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  4468. There are already laws that cover this kind of interference with business interest.
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  4469. I think you are very wise.
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  4470. Agreed! I only joined this during the shutdown, and not right away. I have never had a Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or any other such thing. My quality of life first went up, and that didn't last. Now, this is a very seriously bad habit. ;(
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  4471. ​ @MR..181  Read the opinion. It's up.
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  4472. No information is information. Tells you everything. "There is no there there." :D
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  4473. One is Caligula, and the other one is worse.
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  4474.  @livinglife1089  And look at all the infrastructure he rebuilt!! /s
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  4475.  @superkoopatrooper4879  Don't look at Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell!! Look over there, at the nefarious pizza parlor! That almost worked, they almost got away with it. For a very long time, anyone who mentioned Epstein (or Harvey Weinstein) was jealous or a kook.
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  4476. Was Shock Doctrine a cri de coeur or a how-to manual?
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  4477. I'm a big believer in age appropriate. It's obvious that children are very different in their sensitivities based on age. She mentioned near the end that of course a school library is curated, and talked about why teens need access to reading material that lets them know they are not alone in their struggles. At what point do we stop coddling?
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  4478. Alexander Acosta Ring a bell?
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  4479.  @epis8613  Exactly!!!
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  4480. Amy has been superb, transcendent. Sometimes it's hard to listen. I have to take a break. But she is always there, reporting on all of it. 😢
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  4481. ​ @TOGAB  Do you know what "independent" means?
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  4482.  @wa-bu3ke  Palestinian Islamic Jihad is a third group.
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  4483. ​ @peetky8645 The Court ruled that it is not a constitutional issue, but as it stands, a matter for the states. The Court did not rule that Congress cannot pass a law regulating abortion. That wasn't an issue in the case.
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  4484. Well, a supposed Christian is all about pushing armed conflict.
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  4485.  @ClownCarCoup  EU is expecting GROWTH? Wow, the propaganda is thick. Not a good sign.
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  4486. Tweeting was all Trump had to do -- they are taking a page from his playbook.
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  4487.  @panama2468  I don't know whether he is a so-called "grifter." I know I don't have to pay for his lunch.
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  4488.  @panama2468  Actually, Dore is promoting the single strongest anti-war narrative on a platform of his size. That's pretty good as far as I'm concerned, and I won't go to jail if I don't pay taxes to support him. I will, however, if I don't pay taxes to support countless wars. Can you name all the places we have combat troops or ships or planes or drones at this monent? I doubt whether many members of Congress can. Even Alexander Cockburn joined forces with The American Conservative on the issue of war and peace, and he was a small-c communist.
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  4489. Release the Epstein materials. See whether that provides insight.
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  4490. Jimmy, they are doing something worse -- they are telling you ordinary people don't count. They can dismiss ordinary people easily.
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  4491. CDC statistics on 2020 and 2021 maternal mortality have been released. I dare not say more.
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  4492.  @tbirdUCW6ReAJ  Ha ha ha, good one.
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  4493. He spread defamation and inflicted emotional distress on the surviving families of dead first graders in a school massacre. What has to happen?
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  4494. ​ @kateoneal4215  Bless you, I just had to break with some of my closest relatives still living, but they are only cousins, so . . .
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  4495.  @paulafraser-shaw1992  What makes you so sure that good health and good health habits are sufficient to avoid the side effects of a highly reactive vaccine? Why did healthy young men develop myocarditis? Possibly, vitamin D can reduce the risk of such side effects, but that is far from certain.
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  4496.  @Chungustav  Not a Jewish belief at all. More like a corrupted version of Calvinism.
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  4497.  @mercyjohnson6436  Sigh. Blocked.
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  4498. She. DIDN'T. Say. That.
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  4499. A qualitative question: In 1976, the rollout of the "swine flu" vaccine was mishandled, and rushed. There were grave warnings about the seriousness of this form of flu, and their were also serious side effects from the vaccine that were relatively rare, but considered important. Fewer than 500 people in total developed Guillain Barre Syndrome that we know of. The vaccine was withdrawn. Why did the system work that time, but not this time?
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  4500.  @stoneyrules  Give it up.
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  4501. DeSantis is the one trying to be Aw Shucks.
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  4502. ​ @michelleerwin3833 You should have listened more closely to her point about campaign staffers. RFK Jr didn't write that tweet, it's basically certain. Now consider whether it was a plant. Hmm . . . But who would do such a thing? Sometimes called thinking not in checkers but chess . . .
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  4503. I did as well, because I read a description on the MIT website of how these mRNA vaccines work. First of all, I had symptoms of COVID in March 2020, and no test was available to me because I had not been outside the country or in close contact with anyone who had been outside the country -- though I had been very close to a known hotspot, and in lots of crowds shopping for groceries in advance of the shutdowns, in one case standing close to a woman who worked in a major hospital. So, I never found out for sure whether I had COVID. Second, after reading the MIT description, I decide to use the J & J vaccine instead. I could not find anyone who was offering it, and then it was pulled for a short time, because it had caused blood clots to the brain. That did it. I started asking questions. Those questions were met with the greatest derision and flat-out hatred that I have ever experienced, and that is saying a lot. Thats when I knew something was very wrong with this picture.
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  4504.  @philjohnson3490  The mens rea of second or third degree murder is less than first degree.
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  4505. Smart. They know the deal.
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  4506. How did this even happen? Isn't it hard to believe?
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  4507.  @Strata666  So why did she wait until after smearing Aaron Mate to bring it up?
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  4508. The real problem is, he got into Yale Law. YIKES
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  4509.  @jocksharerock7318  So let me see . . . You have this friend. And everybody else who watches what your friend watches is just like this guy, the friend. American ingenuity in a nutshell.
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  4510. When did America lead the world in education? The nineteenth century?
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  4511.  @TheDAT9  LOL
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  4512. The CDC and the FDA refuse to tell us the true number of serious vaccine injuries. Therefore in the US, we do not know our relative risk/benefit.
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  4513.  @diversitydeliverer7094  ALL of the relevant documents and communications concern Glenn's departure from TI were made public. Therefore, if anyone misrepresents what happened, they can be proved wrong.
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  4514. THIS
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  4515. ​@Timewave-Zer0 It's not even decided at the state level, but by local municipalities and counties.
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  4516. @concilium1  The federal government has? Are you sure? Did you check it?
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  4517. Heather, starting at about 5:40 and lasting for about 8 or 9 minutes, is BRILLIANT. Everything, in under nine minutes. Perfect.
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  4518. This.
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  4519. It depends on who is doing the vetting, and how. Would you be all right with a teacher being disciplined for introducing Socrates to high school seniors, given that he was -- by contemporary lights -- bisexual?
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  4520. ​@yorgostsitsikas4350 Why should I believe a woman who needs to run to a major publication and "tell all," in order to deal with her romantic disappointments?
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  4521.  @jimwerther  Actually, grammar evolves. "By whom?" means "proven by whom?" "By who?" means "who committed the torture?"
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  4522.  @jimwerther  That wasn't me who asked. I don't think you know what grammar is. See, e.g., Chomsky.
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  4523. @LinA-it9vd  You mean that fake translation of Arabic? This society needs many more honest and loyal Arabic speakers, for our own national security. We should think about how to achieve that.
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  4524. JIMMY, JIMMY . . . the Internet was supposed to ruin your memory . . . Then COVID didn't work, either. What are we going to do with you?
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  4525. Correct. Calling the police on your own minor child for a crime that presents no risk of bodily harm to anyone is an incomprehensible betrayal. Yes, do rethink that before having children.
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  4526. ​@buurisoturi Does everything need a sarcasm alert now? Really??
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  4527. I also express my condolences, but please know this is a different disease. The real crime is that no one will investigate what happened to your friend. They will pretend there is no causal connection.
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  4528. I agree. No one should try to disarm a person they reasonably believe to be an active shooter, rightly or wrongly. Every man for himself.
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  4529. When I first heard "let's go Brandon," I thought the men in white coats had finally showed up for Biden and he thought his name was Brandon.
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  4530. EVERY billionaire who has defense-related contracts with the US government should be closely scrutinized. No exceptions.
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  4531. They acted fast to limit trading in GameStop. See Krystal today, LOL.
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  4532.  @pagemastrogiovanni9195  Not correct. If someone asks me whether I heard Person A say something, and I did, I can testify to the fact that I heard Person A say it. What I cannot do is testify in Person A's place, as to whether Person A made a true statement, why they said what they said, etc. The bare fact of Person A saying something, or making any sound, is something I can testify to, if I personally heard Person A. Suppose this: a woman testifies to being raped. The defense contends she had a consensual relationship with the assailant and made up a rape story later. Can her friend testify that she claimed she was assaulted the very next day? Can hospital personnel testify to that as well? How else would you prove prior consistent statements? Her prior consistent statements don't prove she was raped (she might not have been truthful all along). They do prove she was saying the same thing all along.
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  4533. It's about minors, and there is a legitimate issue. But not to be treated like this!
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  4534.  @TomFoolery-s8p  By the way, he did lay bricks. No, really. When he wasn't tuck pointing.
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  4535.  @Greg-dz8dw  Really? You believe that? I have never seen a more obvious game of good cop bad cop in my life.
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  4536. Me too.😊
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  4537.  @DarkPassenger  Insulin cost is a bubble? Oh that's right, slipped my mind. Social Darwinism. Got it.
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  4538. This is one form of therapy for agoraphobia that has marvelous results in about 70% of cases, but makes a substantial number (though not quite 30%) much worse. It was highly touted in the US and has been largely abandoned. But when it works, as it did for you, it is tremendous. Recovery is, in general, complete and strengthens the person. I don't agree with abandoning it. Anything drug-free, especially for young, developing minds --- not to mention a 70% success rate --- should be tried. If you think everyone should have the same therapy, then you shouldn't be a psychologist or have anything to say about who should be. She has agoraphobia, might you have megalomania? 😅
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  4539. What policy? Not to censor the College Board when it proposes a curriculum and an AP test?
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  4540. Great master class in media analysis today, Jimmy. Genius. "Vote Blue and pray."
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  4541. Zero basis for saying that. You're really mad that she just made clear she declined to vote for Biden, aren't you?
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  4542. I had been suffering from insomnia for nearly two years when a friend of ours invited us to a traditional homemade Indian dinner. I had the best sleep I had had in many, many years. I still remember that night. This was in 1991.
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  4543. Worked out well for him, huh?
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  4544.  @francikoen  It's called testifying under oath.
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  4545. Nope. Russia is obfuscation. Trump is just like all the prominent DNC Dems, except much worse. But all of the same mold. The DNC smokescreen was supposed to make us think Trump was different. Trump et al. is no different from Biden and little Hunter, or the Clintons and little Chelsea . . .
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  4546.  @konstantinkrastev4478  What part of "half fake" is "100% right," LOL? I suggest listening to this entire segment. The key point is not a 3-second soundbite.
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  4547. All was true, too.
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  4548. There is no Colombian University in the US.
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  4549.  @Trippy_Santa  The doctor in this video has a PhD in Nursing Education and is quoting from a recent published study and from the literature put out by the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture the vaccines. Where is your authority?
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  4550. What RFK Jr. said to do in the event of a pandemic was exactly what I wanted to see done.
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  4551. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ 😂
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  4552. Four legs good, two legs better . . . Let's all agree on what we have in common: legs.
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  4553. ​ @tonyg76 You think parents would not want prevention, effective therapies, or a cure? ARE YOU KIDDING??
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  4554.  @tonydevinci1031  Liar. Most of the participants are French "de souche."
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  4555. The same people own WHO and the jails.
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  4556. What happened is he just got an excerpt taken entirely out of context.
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  4557. Nor will they allow anyone else to surrender. Remember Zelensky banned all opposition parties to the left of him. Credible reports that Azov Battalion dominated militias are threatening Zelensky if he negotiates without their approval. I don't believe these were "free choices" on Zelensky's part.
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  4558. And you are so focused on your right to be NUTS.
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  4559. @StevenPenny  The only way to hold "the perp" accountable is to sue in defamation, which should always be an option. But if she never works again, there would be no way to extract a fair judgment. She wouldn't have the money. See how that works? Or stoke your outrage, if you prefer; call up a social media mob. That makes things all better for victims everywhere.
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  4560. That photo of the Prime Minister standing at the podium looks like it must be AI. And yet . . .
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  4561.  @screwsinabell  This guy is copy pasting that completely misleading remark all over this comment section now.
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  4562.  @chrisludolph348  Trump also ended the moratorium on so-called "gain of function" research -- which could turn out to be the true source of COVID, in Wuhan, from the lab there. Trump was a perfect foil, and false flag. His antics duped people into thinking Fauci (and Cuomo) were competent. Why did he keep acting up, instead of replacing Fauci and demanding a full investigation?
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  4563. He pardoned the judge who put kids in juvenile custody for money, and failed to pardon Leonard Peltier. Yeah, real good.
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  4564.  @Red-Check-Mark  Actually, every court has a responsibility to rule on a constitutional claim that is properly before the court, but only the Supreme Court is the final and controlling authority on what the US Constitution means.
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  4565. I like your attitude.
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  4566. Exactly
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  4567. Plus they have a dog.
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  4568.  @gcelosegui  Precisely. You're also free to talk about it in most contexts, too.
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  4569. ​ @MFK1967 WHAT issues?
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  4570. I think he just misspoke. The rest of the sentence indicates that.
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  4571. It's HUAC 2. "First as tragedy, then as farce."
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  4572. "I would have thought that [the new law] was true already." My thoughts exactly.
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  4573. I LOVE these videos. They are perfect.
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  4574.  @jetbtkng  Who is spewing rhetoric? This looked like a real discussion for a change. Oh, that's right, YOU are spewing rhetoric. Sorry, my mistake.
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  4575. This is the only serious gaffe from Biden that I don't mind.
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  4576. In Paris, the CGT (union) organized a demonstration of vaccinated health care workers in support of their unvaccinated colleagues. All the comments to the video are congratulating the demonstrators for their humanity.
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  4577. Both are weaknesses. Only those who strive for true excellence are truly strong.
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  4578. They talked about Epstein more than any MSM.
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  4579. 1. I don't like or trust the guy. 2. It's not evident this is true. He was over 40 when his unit was finally deployed. He would not have been sent. 3. There's enough bad stuff known about him.
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  4580.  @Rokaize  Still can't find the civil rights complaint, huh?
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  4581. We don't know that. Let's not lose hope. I mean, I didn't take the vaccine, and strongly oppose mandates, but I don't believe in fear-mongering, either. We've been through enough!
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  4582.  @userumbleandgettr4freespee501  I never suggested any such thing. But keep on arguing with the people in your head.
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  4583. No. They get paid.
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  4584. Correct. Illinois blocked her.
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  4585. ​ @TRUTHandLIGHT4809 Not if it adheres to First Amendment principles it can't. If it adheres to whichever way the wind blows and the dollars flow, well that's something else. It's a private institution, it doesn't have to respect free speech anymore than your boss does.
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  4586. ​ @tjsbbi She was utterly incompetent, probably because she neither knows First Amendment law, nor in her heart of hearts supports it. Out of these three university presidents, not one was capable of explaining -- and passionately defending -- free speech.
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  4587.  @Naldito15  Thank you.
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  4588.  @Naldito15  ALL true, especially the last paragraph.
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  4589. In the US, you could sue. If you lose, you cannot be liable for the other party's court costs or attorney's fees.
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  4590. Depp v. Heard; the January 6 Congressional Hearings; lots more distractions in the pipeline I'm sure . . .
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  4591. They threaten all of them with firing, and then pick them off one by one . . . it can work.
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  4592. ​ @gracelynne3918 You beat me to it. 👏👏👏
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  4593. Dr. Malhotra is truly a tremendous human being, so brilliant and so kind.
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  4594.  @ScotMayo420  To be doing what Nomiki does for money is as low as it gets. That's Hillary and Nancy level -- with a smaller take.
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  4595. You forgot Samantha Power, the biggest one of all.
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  4596. @augustaseptemberova5664  The evidence is the videos here. Scientists are beyond questioning, sort of like a priestly class. My first reply: shadowed.
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  4597.  @tvviewer4500  Which is simply an advertising phrase, as it turns out.
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  4598. @tvviewer4500  The Ninth Circuit just asked, "effective for what?"
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  4599. Robbie is remarkably uninformed and simplistic in his political stands. He is clearly someone who did not read very much. Almost a caricature of his generation.
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  4600. At his age, he might calm down. Ten years ago, not so likely.
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  4601.  @JorgeAlbertoJerez  Judges have to recuse themselves under similar circumstances. Unthinkable to allow them to judge a case where one of the parties once paid them pretty much anything (prior to their becoming a judge, obviously -- just like here). Has nothing to do with anything so crass as a "phone call." Doesn't anyone know anything anymore? And you're telling someone else to stop being a child. Maybe this show is over.
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  4602. These are all talking points out of Occupation of the American Mind. I'd like to see Amy Goodman interview this soldier. She has the knowledge and moral stature.
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  4603. The incompetence of these doctors is not just astounding but frightening. They don't have any idea what they are doing, but they think they know.
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  4604. This is ALWAYS a huge safety signal when a new technology is involved. OBVIOUSLY cells throughout the body were adversely affected by the mRNA-bearing nanoparticles.
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  4605.  @zugdarr  You have not been all over America. There are vast areas you will never see in the media.
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  4606. University of Michigan Law School writes about the case in their innocence project.
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  4607.  @AngronWasRight  No one said it was pure coincidence, either. The point is, certain entities and the oligarchs who run them always rush through "solutions" to every problem that just so happen to greatly enrich them and increase their store of capital, and of political power. Their strategy has usually affected poor nations more than our own, so we ignored it.
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  4608. You're going to attack Briahna no matter what. And what would be "her side?" She's not a Democrat.
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  4609.  @JillJ-y5f  Dr. Grande just told you, that reaction does not last for hours. She might have simply passed out. But she was not "frozen" for hours.
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  4610.  @carybird24  They mention people like Greenwald to get more views. It works. When I look at their channel every few months to see what they are talking about, I might click on a thumbnail that mentions Glenn.
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  4611. The Ketamine Kid
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  4612. 😅😅😅
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  4613. But they harm millions in the process. Maybe that's their aim?
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  4614.  @tonifitz6831  This did not take place in the UK. The US declared independence from you.
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  4615. @tonifitz6831  The OP, which YOU reference, says the parents, plural, belong in jail. In the US, that requires Due Process and a crime.
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  4616.  @tonifitz6831  She doesn't need a criminal lawyer. Florida did not seek to convict her of any crime.
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  4617. I doubt she doesn't know. It was a valuable reminder of how bad this crowd is, as you said.
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  4618. ​​​ @fgang781 This is nonsense. She has zero knowledge of European politics. Niall certainly does know what he's talking about. But you don't know, either, so she impresses you. 😂
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  4619. The Haitians who made it here obviously have a lot of courage and drive.
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  4620. There are a number of reasons to try this strategy to gain M4A. First, a loss, now, is NOT predictable. What usually happens may not happen this time, because we are not living in normal times. Second, politicians having to go on the record against M4A during a pandemic, in a country shedding jobs like crazy, where health insurance is tied to a job, is a tough calculation for them now. That's what they need to do -- represent us. And if they don't represent us, no more lurking in the shadows. We want the truth in full view. Third, no one ever got anywhere by playing nice -- well, except for career advancement. But real progress? Never. Other than that, Krystal Ball and Briahna Joy Gray gave more technical reasons why to demand a vote now, and Cornel West is for it on principle. Krystal is an accountant and knows about forensic accounting in addition to journalism, BJG is Harvard Law and Bernie's former press secretary, and Dr. West is plain brilliant. So they are worth the time to read or watch.
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  4621. This is propaganda.
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  4622.  @craxd1  Glenn is a type of socialist. He knows the Bill of Rights is nevertheless more important. Such socialists exist.
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  4623. Let's hope they don't top it.
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  4624.  B0omer96  This is the attitude I appreciate! Much needed!! :) EDIT: I said this in reference to your INITIAL post only! Let's QUIT with the name calling! Even when goaded!
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  4625. I'm being scents err d . . . here. It would be ironic if irony were still a thing.
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  4626. ​ @TheAtos1984 I would love to know what he makes for his stammering.
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  4627. I knew NBC lied, I had no idea how much.
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  4628. I think Aaron should sue. This is an example of the mudfest that happens when people don't take proper steps. I cannot blame anyone for not wanting to sue, and Aaron is truly a gent, but . . . a calm, civilized letter from Aaron's attorneys to TYT's producers would have ended this nonsense. Everyone would weigh their words and actions going forward.
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  4629.  @rustynuggets  What behavior? What he already apologized for, in writing, seven years ago? He acknowledged in the apology that he was wrong, as he needed to. Ana was his boss. She could have disciplined him, or fired him. Instead, she and Cenk were imitating Howard Stern at the time, and themselves creating a hostile environment to women. The proof has been posted in many clips, all of which are repugnant. (BTW, Aaron has apologized to Jimmy for being the underlying reason this happened. Jimmy was obviously embarrassed, and surprised by the gesture. Aaron was the last person that TYT should attack.)
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  4630. I've never forgotten that. Hill had material witnesses that Joey refused to call, literally present outside the chamber.
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  4631. ​ @freddiethompson58 Nice point.
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  4632. I was stunned and had to look this up. Reuters reported it. Pfizer wanted patent protection, immunity from liability, and no "bridge" studies of safety and efficacy on India's own population. You read that right. Pfizer was demanding all three. Meanwhile, Sputnik V is proceeding with the requisite local trial to obtain approval in India. If none of this makes sense to you, well there's at least two of us.
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  4633. I'm not sure I ever differentiated a vector-valued function. If I did, I don't know about it. Was I there? 😅
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  4634. Doesn't it matter about what? Doesn't actual free speech matter even more?
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  4635. 🤣🤣🤣 Laughter is the best response. Imagine these 🤡s love lives --- regardless of preference, right? 🤣
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  4636. ​@destro1989 The data is even stronger on olive oil, salmon, sardines, avocados, pistachios, and walnuts --- and goat cheese in moderation. 😒
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  4637. War is peace.
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  4638.  @farmerjohn6526  I suspect, from watching the elites, that if you have enough money you can be cured essentially every time. Trump was far gone, and was brought back. Christie has severe comorbidities and is fine. Chris Cuomo and his wife were unscathed, and she blabbed about their platinum "complementary care," sounding like they were better post COVID than pre. Nancy Pelosi was unworried about masking when it interferred with getting her hair done. All this was before vaccinations. No one at Obama's birthday party or at the Met gala was worried. Then they descended upon (unvaccinated) Joe Rogan like a pack of jackals for telling people what he did when he contracted COVID. Watch what they do, ignore what they say. There's a lot they know that they don't share.
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  4639.  @Nick-qj7ym  When someone tries to blackmail you into staying silent rather than criticizing their journalism, so called, then you have every right to set the context of the incident seven years ago that they are trying to weaponize against you now. Why wouldn't you? Jimmy's remarks gave a much clearer picture of what actually happened. The fact that he apologized at the time shows that he acknowledged at the time that the joke was crass, embarrassing, and not appropriate at work. Ana tried to use it against him now. Gloves OFF.
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  4640. Exactly
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  4641. No, he really said what he thinks, and it was on target, 💯 🎯
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  4642. When a president is as old and frail as JOE . . . ???
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  4643. Katie also gave us "woke washing." Yes, brilliant.
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  4644. Pandemic is influencing us all. :/
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  4645.  @simonneep8413  You don't know whether the timing is irrelevant. That is exactly the question. It is a well-founded question.
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  4646. Stefanik would be a joke but is, in fact, a great little fundraiser.
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  4647.  @decoynick1730  A rare voice of sanity. They are all ready to jeer at front-line workers who were there for us all last year, taking care of the sick during the pandemic. Already forgotten! They should have quit then. Sacrifice will never be rewarded. See what happened to the 9/11 first responders, the war-on-terror veterans, etc., etc. The plot never changes.
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  4648. No one should open the door to a claim of police being on the other side. If someone tries to break down your door and claims to be the police, call the police. You have no duty to open your door. It's YOUR door. Anyone can shout "sheriff." That is a FACT.
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  4649. Well . . . Did Trump do anything about any of this except create superspreader events and tweet?
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  4650.  @gcoffey223  So, what DID Trump do about *coronavirus*? That was the subject. We're listening.
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  4651. Question: will the irony be perceived?
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  4652. FedEx is awful. I had to pay over $30 to send a simple, one-page overnight letter 30 minutes away from the FedEx office I used -- 30 minutes at most, in rush hour.
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  4653. Who doesn't?
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  4654. This is worse than the mass shootings we've suffered here. Notice how similar.
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  4655.  @ChrisKoch-gq9dt  So . . . It "must have been" not a successful robbery, but a "botched robbery." I don't follow the arithmetic here.
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  4656.  @komoriaimi  Even if the most charitable people are libertarians, and even if plenty of libertarians are charitable, they are still wrong.
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  4657. She did a very good job, for the most part, absolutely. And a lot of the points from their first segment stand: if everyone in the media and politics actually made the wellbeing of this CHILD paramount, as they all should have, this would never have happened in the first place. As matters stand, absent a confession and forensic evidence, a lot of ghouls would still be saying the story was a "hoax." This is unconscionable.
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  4658.  @BestResuMS  Thanks, guys! I finally found it.
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  4659.  @stephaniewilson3955  This is a good point. As is the fact that this solution cannot be used everywhere.
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  4660.  @natejones8508  I said it is rare for anyone (example: Intercept) to be as fair to Glenn as Glenn is to people he despises (example: Gaetz), much less those he respects (examples: Assange; Snowden). Intercept violated his contract with them. He was willing to publish his story elsewhere, as he had a right to do under the terms of his contract. They denied that he did, then made ridiculous personal attacks against him. He made the correspondence public. Greenwald is more fair to the likes of Gaetz than Intercept was to him. And he was a founder of The Intercept.
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  4661.  @natejones8508  The story he proposed didn't violate anyone's rights, claim Hunter should be indicted, for anything, or claim Hunter was already indicted, or about to be indicted, and on top it it, the story turned out to be factually accurate. In one case, there is a pending investigation, as there should be. In the other, we are supposed to believe "Russia did it!!"
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  4662.  @kristintheartist  You mooch off of veterans. Where do you think your "lifestyle" comes from? You think you earn it, somehow? Those 800 bases are unnecessary . . . ha. They are very necessary to prop up the dollar. Get a clue.
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  4663.  @MykeLewisMusic  He's not my hero. You remind me of how Piers Morgan embarrassed himself in front of Ash Sarkar. 😂
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  4664. @LibertarianGalt  Speaking of sex scandals, Ayn Rand . . . 😂😂😂😂 Your post just happens to use the same tactics as those denouncing Thomas Jefferson (he owned slaves, had children with a slave who were not recognized, put together his own Deist Bible by literally cutting up the Bible and pasting it into a commonplace book, and so forth), as if that undermines the Bill of Rights, one of mankind's greatest achievements in government and politics. But do go on . . . It's still amusing.
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  4665.  @divisadero8859  "Thank you" for rank falsehoods? Bloom died 15 years after Wolf went public with this, AND Wolf got that doctorate in English literature from Oxford. Failures my fanny. P. S. Er, Jordan Peterson invited her to his program. That should be a hint, at least, that you should look deeper.
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  4666. Seriously? The latest meme-slur impresses you all that much? "Cringe." LOL
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  4667.  @subobing3551  That's not the point. Actually, it occurs in one of America's finest poems: Robert Lowell, "For the Union Dead." Black stand-up comics use it, too.
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  4668. Perfect, sadly.
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  4669.  @alemayehusolomon941  Excellent!
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  4670. So . . . people are surprised that there is skepticism about the pandemic. It's an emergency when convenient, not taken into consideration at all when not.
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  4671. But graciousness right now is exactly what we need!
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  4672. @nunyabidness3075  Academics believe in competition? Then explain tenure, adjunct faculty, and spousal hire.
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  4673. You stopped listening too soon.
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  4674. That is wrong, but if I state facts, guess what happens?
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  4675. 😅😅😅
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  4676. ​ @goforitrazz A LOT of people who had a proven case and recovered were obligated to be vaccinated anyway -- in the US, at any rate.
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  4677. He is. Veterinary medicine as a specialty for those working on vaccines is common in Europe. The first year for veterinary medicine and human medicine was the same at one time (my Mom studied it, but then WWII ended that).
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  4678.  @springbloom5940  It goes to credibility, not character. Character is not relevant. Men often target women with "reputations" for less than perfect character. We all know why. That was one of Clinton's favorite moves. That's how to get away with anything the big, important man may want.
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  4679. Redundant Fs. 😂
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  4680.  @squidsquiddly5970  Nightmare. That could come true. :/
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  4681.  @oleeb  Because Hunter got very lucrative and politically and economically sensitive jobs in foreign countries thanks to Daddy.
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  4682.  @beanlawyer  SAME He's a sad case. But persecuting him for his political stands is fundamentally wrong. He should have freedom of speech, just like any other nut.
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  4683. ​​​ @BillAngler He can join now, can't he? Oliver Stone volunteered for Vietnam even though he had a deferment to go to Yale because he couldn't live with the idea that someone else would get drafted in his place.
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  4684. Kyle did make a very big mistake. It's forgivable. Come on.
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  4685.  @michaelcre8  There are nine categories that can be redacted. The redactions can be challenged in court.
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  4686.  @bennym5244  He was too lazy and self-absorbed to pose any threat to anyone. He greatly increased drone warfare. He knew about COVID, did nothing. He played good cop bad cop with Fauci but never fired him or had him investigated. No surprise, Trump lifted the moratorium on funding gain of function research that Obama had put in place. Get a clue.
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  4687.  imeverywhereandnowhere56  He gave it. Reuters.
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  4688. Money money money money money
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  4689. Yes, she is brilliant and lovely. Sharing about her dad was touching.
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  4690. The first student brought up a contradiction in Bannon's rhetoric concerning "Judeo-Christian" values, and his response was a little too rambling and defensive. The second student did the same, highlighting actual contradictions in what Bannon is on record as having said. This is classically Socratic. The answer was very interesting, because Bannon's best ideas are NOT the ones that are implemented. Travel bans, sure. Accountability for the economic destruction wrought by Big Money? HA. Trump depends on Deutsche Bank. Bannon also used a slogan word in his answer, "triggered." Not a good sign. In general, his style of speaking is above that. The third student gave him an opportunity to comment on the demonstrators, who were the real deplorables in this picture. No problem. Bannon again gave an answer that shows that his best ideas are NOT the ones that are implemented. The student then pointed out that those who have attained political power are publicly distancing themselves from him, and asked him to comment. Again, interesting. Bannon did not mind the question. The fourth student began by taking a stand for freedom of speech, then asked an excellent question about Bannon's view of Trump's and the Republicans' election prospects in 2020. The fifth student first thanked him for staying over, to talk to them. Then she asked a very astute question about about political trust. Bannon appreciated the question, and was enthusiastic about answering, because it gave him a chance to talk about the things he is most passionate about. She made a counterpoint, and he tried to play folksy. He used another trope that she did not, "sorry for mansplaining." The sixth student said that the economic progess was not thanks to Trump, and that Trump did not, in general, solve the problems Bannon correctly highlights. AGAIN, Bannon's best ideas were NOT not not implemented. And Bannon DOES have lots of good ideas. The seventh student asked a very open-ended question on immigration, allowing Bannon to express himself on a matter he is passionate about, and show off some more of his good ideas. Which go nowhere. See a pattern here? So, who was so disappointing? I thought it was illuminating. Bannon is interesting to watch. Nothing ever comes of the good policies he endorses -- especially on taxes! Ha.
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  4691.  @davidwhite4149  Not listening to what people are saying, and reacting knee-jerk style with slogans, is not an improvement. It's more of the same.
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  4692.  @wishfix  Universities receive even bigger grants from Olin Foundation, the Koch family, etc., all of which promote a certain agenda.
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  4693. 7:52 and 8:26 Not what she said. Does anyone listen before condemning? Eight minutes in is too long for you, eh?
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  4694.  @thrillhouse1980  A written apology that can later be used against the person who wrote it is hardly "half-assed." No one is ever obligated to accept an apology, but up until now it looked as though Ana did. This incident was only brought up after Ana smeared Aaron Mate. This mudfest is pure cover up for the real issue. The real issue is the video where they attacked Mate. It has since been taken down by TYT.
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  4695.  @scottwhittaker1681  Amen!
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  4696. Were you vaccinated?
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  4697. I expected the Russian men's and women's teams to win gold. Too bad I never bet on sports.
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  4698.  @erikcortez5775  This one is a notorious troll. Drive-by comments like this all over.
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  4699. @kafikfishna8806  No evidence that you've been to any. You've picked up the current propaganda ("Imagine . . . "), and had one "honest" conversation with one graduate. As for Shakespeare, he studied Latin and read Holinshed's Histories. All those mentioned read compulsively. But you think I'm overreaching. Oddly enough, I thought "some" was greater than "none." When the collapse comes, I wonder what explanation you'll reach for.
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  4700. "Punching left instead of going after Republicans" is true. Whatever lesson you may want to draw, the simple fact he stated is true.
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  4701. That's what you heard? Timestamp, please? Their questions were excellent, because they highlighted the fact that none of Bannon's good ideas are adopted. Travel bans? Certainly. Higher taxes for extreme incomes (the kind that make you and your children independently wealthy in a few years)? Forget about it. Consequences for Wall Street malfeasance and fraud? Ha. And so on . . . Show me one good idea he had that was implemented. In the meantime, he needed a pardon to escape prosecution for federal wire fraud, and may still be in trouble with the state. This was the DOJ under Trump that indicted him.
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  4702.  @elizabethkraszewski6603  I see money as an unfortunate necessity. Measure of worth? Then a billionaire is more "valuable" than Shakespeare, Mozart, and Einstein put together.
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  4703.  @SleepyHiker  That was my point when I said they should have stated the standard. They should have underlined that it exists and would be enforced in all cases, no matter who is targeted.
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  4704.  @L1LP0E  Where do you see that I said Congress should "fire" them? What non sequitur is this? Congress can call for its own investigation, and Congress has impeachment powers.
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  4705.  @nickcharles1284  BEACHES WERE CLOSED, POLICE SENT where I live.
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  4706. "High cost in Ukrainian lives" --- stop and think about this use of "cost"
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  4707. Mark Twain did for me.
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  4708. Glenn and Max do their most entertaining work as Jimmy's guests. 😀
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  4709.  @molonlabe9602  Of course. He got the benefits in NYC, then moved to where he could afford to live.
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  4710. @jam-fam  I'm sorry, it's obvious. Who is doing the repression? France, Germany, etc. But the focus isn't there. "In whose favor" is the repression, supposedly? "Who rules," according to this formula? Well, I say it's those governments who are repressing their citizens' freedom of speech, again. Everyone has to resist.
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  4711.  @katayfa  Read the comments to the NYTimes, every time they write about Russia. Chilling, actually.
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  4712. As long as increasing the divisiveness can be monetized, there will be people who increase the divisiveness. Cha-ching.
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  4713. First, Dore himself apologized in writing at the time. His crass joke was inappropriate, so he apologized and promised never to repeat it again. So, there's no debate concerning what he said. It was not appropriate in the workplace. He himself agreed. Second, look up Title VII. No, this is not "sexual harassment" within the legal meaning of the term. Be willing to learn something.
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  4714.  @winterland122977  I agree wholeheartedly! One small point: "nice news skirt" was pretty crass. (I'm wondering whether people get the joke?) But Jimmy's apology was more than enough. Not only do these people want to ruin MeToo by misusing it to settle personal scores, they also want to make sure no one apologizes for anything, ever. Gee thanks.
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  4715.  M.J. M.J.  Worse than that. TYT tried to smear Aaron Mate, and Jimmy effectively defended Mate. Then Ana went after Jimmy in retaliation, and threatened to denounce him if he continued to criticize her. Mistake: they miscalculated about Aaron. They thought he'd be as "easy" a mark as Dore. Clearly they did not know who he was. They are children.
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  4716. @theBaron0530  I had older parents who were in WWII and friends whose parents were of that generation. None were coddled in the least. Most of the people I know who went to college were expected to work to pay their own way through, and to earn scholarships by working hard in school as well. The Greatest Generation sent their children to fight in Vietnam. I was just a kid then, but I remember well the utter scorn people had for anyone who did not want to go. It was brutal. The financialization of the economy did this. The economy is unraveling. We went from the top three quintiles having a very solid and secure life, and most of those in the bottom two quintiles having a real chance, to everyone below the top 10% being precarious. We are Debtor Nation. This is obvious to anyone not prey to magical thinking.
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  4717. Commercialization is the issue. If your sister wants to have a child for you, and allows you to raise it, that's adoption. No problem. Never was a problem -- I HOPE.
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  4718.  @sunflowers6557  Cha ching? Could that be it?
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  4719. Not misinformation. He was found liable in a tort case -- the standard is that it is more likely than not that he did what he was accused of. No trial gives a definitive result. Only mathematics can do that.
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  4720. I got you. Biden Basement Hour
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  4721.  @haileyjsb3955  No Euro left embraces any of this garbage. Corbyn and Melenchon are anti-passport and anti-mandate, the CGT organized a demonstration of vaccinated health care workers in support of their unvaccinated colleagues and against mandates. The left I follow is a lot like Kim.
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  4722. ​ @whirlwhind666  By Biden Trump Harris standards, maybe.
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  4723. But it's also common in scientists, writers, and university professors.
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  4724. Michael Ratner's book is life-changing.
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  4725. ​@alexli5109 That's what the report said. It must be true. In the US, senior officers don't step into mine fields. In the US, the way things are going, they will have to reinstate the draft.
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  4726. Find out why HSBC got away with money laundering. Do some digging.
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  4727. What did she say that was ridiculous or victim? Have you ever given birth or been present during a birth?
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  4728. Cornel West had a positive experience with people asserting they were part of antifa, and Dr. West made sure to talk forthrightly about what he experienced. Honesty mandates reporting on his experience as well. Let all the chips fall where they may.
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  4729. Nope. Listened again from the top. She is right. You can't seem to follow? The anti-BDS laws that Abby Martin sued about and won were anti-First Amendment laws. Not colleges or opinions. Laws. You didn't hear that? Hm.
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  4730. Because there is no reason on any level not to comply with the document request OR (better yet) challenge it in court via his lawyers. This wasn't personal.
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  4731. Universal health makes it MUCH easier to . . . Start your own business! (Take that, Amazon Google, Facebook . . . ) No wonder they're holding the line on it. Medicare without age discrimination would give ordinary people some leverage.
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  4732.  @alphasylpheed3861  What "serial abuser" puts an apology in writing, knowing full well it could be used against him? Don't mix in your musings about domestic abuse. This was a workplace incident. Ana has no proof it was repeated. But she did try to insinuate something negative about Jimmy's wife, just now. Did you miss it? Here: 3:33
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  4733. Anyone who had even the fleeting suspicion that this dad expresses "toxic masculinity" is a NUT. 😅 A feel-good story for the year. I thought we could have a laugh now.
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  4734. ​ @rockyhayes7699 Briahna was fired because of her view of the war against Gaza.
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  4735. I tried to drop it. They put $5 in my account and refuse to close it unless I spend it or give them my banking information so they can deposit it. I only joined PayPal because I had to, to join an organization (that's supposedly against this stuff.)
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  4736. He did decide to be vaccinated, and declined to say whether his kids were, as a matter of principle. Great guy. Edit: I mean Dr. Batacharya, obviously. I really like him.
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  4737.  @tsrocks2029  That would be fine, if it worked. It seems to work in one direction: to allow more blame-the-victim thinking.
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  4738. Is there a single line that mentions a right to an AR-15? (Take a look at what "arms" were in the 18th century.) There are lines that suggest a person of African descent is 3/5 of a white man or woman. The Constitution is full of interesting stuff.
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  4739.  @pinstripesuitandheels  If the person who wished ME "safety" removes that comment, I will be very pleased to remove mine. There was no threat. People who bully could very well find that one day others will bully them. Is "live by the sword, die by the sword" a threat? No. It is a call to be sensible, and mindful of the consequences of ill-considered actions. Shame on you for accusing others of illegal speech with no evidence.
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  4740. I could swear . . .
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  4741.  @Attmay  Just because he sent porno selfies to a girlfriend doesn't make him a leftist.
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  4742.  @Mrs.Deanna_Ember  He looks guilty because he acts guilty. Okay.
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  4743. She might be dumb. I get that vibe.
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  4744.  @Hgh38  Exactly.
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  4745. The law sets a bright line, no speculation. It is illegal to use deadly force in defense of property regardless of how old the perpetrator is. That's why you can legally shoot someone attempting to carjack, but not to shoot someone attempting to break into a parked car on the street. It's a bright line, and Bri muddled it. She should have stated the law. Whether something has become a "gang initiation" is irrelevant. If these kids did not put any person at risk of physical harm, then it was illegal to shoot them. It's called self-defense for a reason.
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  4746. If he were to say that in case a person is required to evacuate, it could become important to take all possible precautions against COVID, I could see that. But he makes vaccination a first priority in a hurricane(!), then mentions Florida and Texas and skips over Louisiana! What a tool. Who can miss what he's doing??
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  4747.  @mischevious  No, he wasn't nice or warm hearted. Reagan was a profoundly cruel man who knew how to seem nice. His contempt for anyone who wasn't rich was off the charts. His racist stereotypes are still part of our political discourse.
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  4748. And for what? RAW MATERIALS, of course.
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  4749. ​This
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  4750.  @alicewynne8242  Where did I say I "trusted" them? That's right, nowhere. I never did "trust" them. I once specialized in expert witness testimony in the federal system (US), and I never interjected "trust" into the evaluation -- at least not in the sense of blind faith, concerning data or anything else. Peer review does not come close to cross-examination on a particular data set, so it should be treated with more skepticism. Dr. Campbell frequently links to actual studies, and I always look at them. So, "there's no point and nothing will wake them up?" How do you know this and why should I believe you? That's a phrase designed to insulate your views from criticism. Either we are True Believers or we aren't, and "nothing will wake (us) up."
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  4751.  @socktier6334  Yes, he was involved in an armed robbery. No. He did not hold a pistol to her stomach or anyone's stomach. Ever wonder how he got clearance to work as a SECURITY GUARD?
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  4752. When I have posted the name of the statistical technique that would allow us to unravel the cause of these excess deaths, given that so many things very detrimental to physical and mental health happened all at once, my post is not merely shadowed but censored outright. I'll post the name of the technique separately. EDIT: is to test for sense or ship :) works sometimes . . .
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  4753.  @christophermichaelclarence6003  No, I didn't! Thanks.
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  4754. Why Briahna Joy Gray outshines them all . . . Hey, guys, I have an idea! Do some work. You could try.
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  4755.  @karinavizcaya5094  I'm a vegetarian, and make some exceptions for wild-caught fish. I did extensive research prior to the latest fad diet before becoming vegetarian.
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  4756. "You know who else was a vegetarian? HITLER!!!"
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  4757.  @thegeorgiacreekwalker491  Fracking is not profitable now. Simple fact. Of course you're right that we have a problem now.
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  4758. The DNC pseudo-left neolibs almost never denounced Trump for things that are truly wrong with him. In fact, they passed his military budgets, and imitated his vile tweets.
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  4759. ​@fyfyi6053 Look up the meaning of "true threats" under First Amendment law.
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  4760. Was the Constitution amended to include contraception? Interracial marriage? Miranda warnings? Does it say executing a minor is cruel and unusual? Is artistic expression mentioned anywhere? The exclusionary rule? The right to privacy in your car or your cell phone? Maybe study the Fourteenth Amendment. Slavery ended in the Union long before the Constitution was amended. You must not have listened to this radar. Common law English-speaking jurisdictions don't have Napoleonic Codes.
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  4761. Depends on what his real job is.
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  4762. Et tu, Robert? It's as though the whole world were conspiring to make Jimmy Dore look like a genius. Gotta give credit, you compared Putin to Stalin, not Hitler. But there's a little problem in the analogy: Stalin won.
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  4763. OF COURSE Biden is going to win. He's being hired to flip Venezuela.
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  4764. True
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  4765. Bertrand Russell: "Anything can be deduced from a contradiction." A voice from the back of the room: "Zero equals one. Therefore, you are the Pope." BR: "All right. 0 = 1. Hence, 1 = 2. The Pope and I are two. Therefore, the Pope and I are one."
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  4766. ​@theclamhammer4447 It's always ridiculous or absurd, and deserves to be punished in the market.
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  4767. They are used to lying now.
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  4768. ​ @cassiescornerreviews6884  No we did not get "updates" with each new variant. The bivalent booster is the only updated version of the vaccine based on a variant of COVID other than the very first virus that emerged in early 2020. In fact, some scientists wondered why there were no updates, given that mRNA is engineered to be more easily updated than other, older types of vaccines. The original vaccine was never known to work "very well against transmission," because it was never subjected to clinical testing to see whether it did. In practice, we saw that it did not, or at least not for more than a few months. We do not know whether the vaccines had a role in helping prevent transmission "somewhat," because that would require a lengthy multi-variate analysis to determine the contributions of the vaccines versus natural exposure and other factors to creating a degree of immunity that can stop transmission as well as severe illness. There may be asymptomatic carriers transmitting COVID at this point. We don't know. It's time to carefully look at what we do and don't know and admit we don't know when we don't. I am not holding my breath.
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  4769.  @Corrupted-file  He is trolling.
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  4770. I thought so, too, and that was my first reaction, but I wouldn't go there after hearing from some of those from the festival who survived. At least some of them were from a peace and justice movement and want a ceasefire now. So, I don't want to rub their noses in it now, either.
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  4771. LOL 😅😅😅😅
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  4772. Jimmy Dore asked today: why are small businesses having to close due to COVID, while Amazon warehouses are open? How are the warehouses safer?
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  4773. See what Europeans eat. Then check how long they live. Try that.
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  4774. Nor was that the age of elite university grads in the news room. That is absurd. Cronkite himself dropped out of the University of Texas.
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  4775. You're sweet.
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  4776. There were always tax incentives for offshoring jobs, which is astounding when you consider that anyone who offshores uses specific resources, like defense of the global shipping system by our military, that domestic producers do not need. When you find that not just a handful, but MANY companies that offshore also spend more on lobbying Congress than they pay in taxes, then you know something is deeply wrong. And when you realize that everyone already knows this and no one does anything, they are demoralized, then you know something is, at present, unfixable.
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  4777. You do know about Ackman's wife, correct?
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  4778. @kaimanyu586  I did not know how far we had "progressed" on our way to the sub-sub-basement . . . So far so fast. I'm only half joking. Yes, I was stunned.
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  4779.  @happilydivorced7777  WOMEN support each other?? That's the biggest gaslighting in the world.
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  4780. I know this might sound glib, but honestly, we cannot be so dependent on the evaluations of others -- and yet I know very well that we live in a time when their (stupid) opinions have exaggerated importance. Bigger things than "the right college" are at stake: she needs to eat good food, get good sleep, get outside, walk walk walk . . . And read. Have her go to the library and read something she enjoys all the time . . . always have a book going that isn't on any reading list except her own. Have other interests, too, and build competence. My heart BREAKS for these kids, I knew that what they've been facing before COVID was unfair, but this has gone off the charts. All young people are at risk for depression now. It is so important to prevent that. Put the big goal first. Of course she'll be fine!
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  4781. 43:59 Aaron Mate joins the program.
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  4782. Aaron is exceptional. I love Max, I mean I LOVE love him, but . . . He has biases. Aaron is on a different level. Max is tougher, and funnier, Aaron is more sensitive and takes care to consider everyone's viewpoint.
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  4783.  @beni4366  Please continue, we have a dearth of name calling in The Market. Your voice is needed now. /s
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  4784. Perfect summary. PERFECT!
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  4785.  @13ghosts  Well, they are not well by any stretch.
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  4786. Perfect. Thanks.
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  4787.  Benghali In Platforms  People in their sixties marry. People in their eighties marry. People who can't have children or won't have children marry. It's not all about the children, or about transferring property. Children can be disowned if they attain the age of majority before their parent dies. They are all the time.
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  4788. Shows you what fear can do.
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  4789. They should be able to get married, too. SMH
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  4790. Got any more slogans you want to add? I don't think I've ever seen deer in headlights in the same sentence as carrying water. Or was that the sarcasm signal?
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  4791.  @FuIhat  I was shadowed twice, I think. Defending Anya was one.
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  4792. And after we got rid of President Fauci, I was expecting so much improvement . . .
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  4793. The only time DNC acts like there's a pandemic is when it's time to close a small business not using Uber Eats or Door Dash.
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  4794. Nineteen States brought this suit. I thought the right believes in States' rights.
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  4795. ​ @ChipsChallenge95 I'm shocked this was permitted to appear.
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  4796.  PINKYCULTURE  Yeah, heavily armed, massively stupid vigilantes are just what we need! /s (In the meantime, rational people are looking for a place to emigrate to, just in case.)
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  4797. So she faked an honesty paper. I had students who cheated on their ethics paper, but she blows them out of the water.
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  4798. @centionnaire Whether embryos and early fetuses are persons has been determined. They are not. What do you think happens in fertility clinics?
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  4799. True on 9/11 as well: people in the second tower were told not to evacuate after the first was hit.
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  4800. Astounding that Trump, Biden, Harris, Pelosi don't. How did this happen??
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  4801.  @garymorris1856  Ah, okay. Then you won't look at the actual case, which holds that you cannot EXECUTE an insane person consistent with the Eighth Amendment. It is unconstitutional to do so. That is entirely separate from the person's conviction for the crime, which stands.
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  4802. This guy isn't kidding. The West ALWAYS goes to war for raw materials.
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  4803. ​ @thelonertarianthelonertari7098 My grandmother at 90 saw through Ronald Reagan, and no, she wasn't a Democrat.
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  4804. He's pretending again?
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  4805. Who made up his own definition of "equality of outcome?" WHO advocates an actual "equality of outcome?" Peterson advances it, he needs to define his terms.
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  4806. @Marine0317  No he's not.
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  4807.  @VonSolo5  Too tragic. No matter how bad things were, who could foresee THIS? I really want to learn to read people better. I tend to be overly optimistic.
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  4808. I believe in *CHOOSE* life. Both. Emphasis where it belongs.
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  4809.  @tfairborne501  "Murder?" Tell us your proposal for pregnancy police.
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  4810. Bill Clutter develops the contrary theory. Juries almost always return guilty verdicts, even against the factually innocent. I'd be petrified to stand trial for anything. I don't know that Clutter is right, but this is in no way an easy case the way most family murders frankly are.
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  4811. OMG she is the most misquoted woman on the Internet. She SAID we used to take care of these outbursts the SAME WAY WE USED TO take care of, say, a bar fight. The people are ejected, and had to pay for any damage immediately. Then, they were not arrested. You mean you've never broken up a bar fight in your life? I have, near Wrigley Field. A Jamaican bar. Sheesh you kids are green.
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  4812. @erincoco612  If a gag order is needed to protect legal process, then obviously absent the order, the speech is NOT prohibited.
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  4813. ​ @Taxationistheft928 Can you really not understand that post?
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  4814.  @theycontroltheleftandtheri3705  Not true. He really is not well, and is being exploited like mad.
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  4815.  @jackklugman107  He's a known troll.
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  4816.  @newcoatresurfacing5477  He's just a troll. Even a few of those are worth engaging with, but this one is a waste of your time. Plus who knows, he might even get paid if people engage with him. Not worth the outside chance.
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  4817. ​@@fleshnbone187Sorry, but that is sick. And I have no love lost when it comes to the US, none.
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  4818. Not only that, but when I was in high-school and college, with people in their late teens and twenties, a serious viral illness -- mononucleosis, food-borne hepatitis, pneumonia, meningitis -- took from 6 months to a full year for the patient to be back to 100% normal, as though they had never been sick. These were people in their prime, not middle-aged people with chronic conditions. The WHO doesn't even consider diagnosing "long COVID" before twelve weeks. This is very common. When I was a kid, my father called it "post-influenza weakness" and told me to exercise or walk a little bit more each day. He was right. If you want to make someone really sick, tell them you don't believe "it's a thing." They'll feel worse in a matter of minutes. You might get a fever spike out of them, too.
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  4819. LOL, oh no . . . :D
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  4820. Love Glenn, hate UnHerd.
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  4821. Who pays you to refuse to consider other viewpoints? How much are you making?
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  4822. You can't because Whoopie is ignorant as usual and misrepresented it. AP is elective, and is supposed to lead to college credit. The College Board sets the standard for curriculum and the AP test. The College Board is a private organization. The job of a governor is to ensure truth in advertising, not to censor. These are ELECTIVE courses. If the courses do lead to college credit, and there are teachers who want to teach and students who want to take them, that is all that matters. If the courses do not really lead to college credit, they should be scraped, not revised.
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  4823.  @stevencoardvenice  I agree.
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  4824. @christheghostwriter  And how do you think such cases end up at the Supreme Court? Everyone along the line insisted on prosecuting them. Only the Court itself reversed.
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  4825. People who were reluctant to vote for Biden were subjected to every imaginable smear. Now people who want M4A in return for keeping Pelosi as Speaker are getting worse treatment. You can't keep doing this and expecting it to work. You'll overplay your hand, you know.
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  4826. The Magic of Words.
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  4827. No she's not. Remember Charlie Hebdo?
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  4828. Congrats. Hearing your story makes me SO happy!!
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  4829. I agree. There is a tradition of the court jester, who is the only person allowed to say certain things, even to the king. He is a safety valve unlike any other.
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  4830.  @shotgunkawaii116  It has not yet been established that both types of vaccines have the same safety profile. It is simply not true that we know that "both have the same side effects." We are not clear yet on exactly how risky the mRNA vaccines are -- as the recent German study, which only came out in November 2022, can show you. Lots of people were vaccinated in the US long before anyone knew there was any myocarditis risk.
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  4831. Katie is glowing. Love her.
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  4832.  @justthinking526  If Martians are binary. Let's not be hasty. :D
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  4833. ​ @thestormkrow6856  She's Puerto Rican, hence Latina.
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  4834.  @snaggalfrash9013  Did either party run a good candidate for president or vice president in 2016 or 2020? Didn't think so.
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  4835.  @jansenoslo  Were they informed about what they'd get to see there? P. S. Take a logic class. Sophistry could stop being lucrative at any moment now.
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  4836. Beautifully stated.
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  4837.  @yanniritsarntyios5744  Too bad the vaccines provide such short-lived immunity, huh?
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  4838. She is not a Democrat.
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  4839.  @daysjours  Anyway, Kyle does not strike me as sharp enough to see through it. He'll look for signals from other people for how to act.
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  4840. ​ @NewOrleansSeptember There was no evidence presented here, either, just speculation, accurate accounts of certain unscholarly vested interests whom we may ignore, and deft burden shifting. Who do you think has the burden of proof on the question? Her speaking style (not anything she said) made you think that those who believe Shakespeare was the author of the plays (within the meaning of the word at the time) have to prove it. Nope. She needs to show he wasn't.
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  4841. 4:02 Brie called it a straightforward case of her breaking the law and facing the consequences.
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  4842. I've never heard a more eloquent analysis of the principle of nonviolent resistance, when it works, and when it cannot work.
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  4843. Most likely explanation, that.
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  4844. That is far too optimistic.
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  4845.  @hazmat5118  1. "It's not about perfection" is too broad and vague: that could justify a lot of things that no one should accept. That sort of blather proves too much. 2. We were not informed about the risks and benefits, and stories of injuries were systematically suppressed; a vaccine that cannot protect others but only protects the one who takes it, and only for a matter of months, should not be mandatory. 3. I thought of that early on: if this is indeed the product of an accidental lab leak, we may need a vaccine to overcome it. It seems that recent variants are more transmissible and less lethal, which is exactly how natural viruses evolve, so that seems not to be a risk anymore, but we cannot be sure. The next variant could be much more lethal, just as we sometimes have an unusually lethal strain of flu. People have to admit they do not know what they do not know, and quit pretending they do. Interesting that Fauci suppressed the lab leak theory while insisting that everyone be vaccinated, when the lab leak theory could have furnished another reason to be vaccinated. All I can say is that thank goodness that corona viruses are something we have all encountered, or this would have a far more lethal pandemic. Too much of what happened over the past three years smacks too much of being a dress rehearsal for something worse.
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  4846.  @hazmat5118  I think that any heart injury to a young person is a very big deal. I suffered one in my 20s, probably from a medication they should not have given me, so I know. Mine was trivial by comparison to myocarditis, and it changed my life.
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  4847. They loved it. They bought up assets at distressed prices. Too bad for us "chumps."
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  4848. @amentco8445  You'll keep making excuses until you can't -- until the bubble bursts.
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  4849. Exactly
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  4850. What is wrong with you all? Not what she said.
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  4851. ​ @donpietruk1517  Let's suppose you are right. Exactly what level of force does that authorize? If the students broke laws, does that mean that anything can be done to them now? That's like saying October 7th justifies genocide.
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  4852. I guess this tells us who the FBI will try to entrap next . . .
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  4853.  @justtryme2020  So what? Good. Why should she bend to any politician? Let them vote her down. They have the power. Do you respect Biden? Harris? I don't.
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  4854.  @utah_koidragon7117  I actually agree with most of this. Almost all, in fact. Based on the title of the video, I was afraid I would cringe -- but now I see RFK Jr is basically right again. JFK had a national fitness program, the President's Council on Physical Fitness. It's no joke, it is essential. Kids are on SSRIs, ADHD medication, puberty blockers(!) . . . And were forced to take a COVID vaccine almost none of them needed, that was never tested on kids, and had a horrible safety profile for young men. Kids need to be on fresh air and push ups, not these dangerous drugs. If you ever get a chance, look at Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic -- about how mental illness became an "epidemic" in the US, and how drugs that only a minority of sufferers actually need were pushed on millions, including kids. He explains how companies like Pfizer captured the medical establishment, and he mentions Pfizer by name as the slickest in their marketing. Looking at those older sources now is eye opening, and truly saddening as well. We don't have many people to defend us. :/
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  4855. WPA People need WORK. They need JOBS. After six months out of the workforce, people cannot find new jobs. Prolonged unemployment is literally deadly.
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  4856. Won an incredible number of high-profile cases, among other things.
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  4857. Bri's point was that every school, public or private, has to figure out a way to accommodate many different children from different kinds of families. If she homeschools, then you can call her a hypocrite.
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  4858. Love this comment.
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  4859. Lev Golinkin is the best. ❤ 👏👏👏
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  4860. This is the kind of information everyone should have, and a viewpoint they should hear, in order to make an intelligent CHOICE. The CHOICE must be up to them. Too bad no one reads literature anymore. They would know about how fraught relationships always were.
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  4861. ​@johns7530 I keep asking. But at this point, we have some idea. MIC
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  4862.  @xpsxps1339  They remained silent except to their lawyer. Their lawyer, however, did not remain silent. The facts have already been established in court hearings.
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  4863. I think it's worse. You are assuming she is doing her job in monitoring real data and then obfuscating it deliberately. She may not have any idea what the data show. She may not care.
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  4864.  @Lord_Lvcif3r  Often true, and not that funny.
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  4865.  @Theonetruegod-hw2ei  There is no "left" in America, at least not within the political power structure. That's what I'm saying. You are redefining the term to mean less right-wing than the ultra-right. Ironic comment, you can't stop projecting.
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  4866.  @daniyalamed2960  I didn't lose the thread. Everyone knows the American "left" is nonexistent -- Biden is a warmongering corporatist. Trump often verges on straight up fascism, and in those moments is able to make even Biden (Biden!) look good, certainly.
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  4867.  @mjowsey  It may have. He had a rare form of treatable cancer, unlike most pancreatic cancers.
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  4868. 💯
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  4869. ​ @a.jlondon9039 Now when there really are babies deprived of incubators, "it doesn't count."
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  4870. Try putting his full name in a search engine, and see some big tax cases he lost come right up.
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  4871. @stevepalpatine2828  I'd say determined at conception, but cool. Observed is cool.
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  4872. ​@marchuitt Willingness to seek treatment for the types of problems most people encounter at some point (and deal with on their own) is a well-known confounding variable, and more common among liberals, but it doesn't account for the entire difference. Above-average intelligence is also a confounding variable, as it can put a very young person more at the mercy of their environment. A positive environment will benefit them more than it does others, but a negative one will harm them more. (What did the COVID shutdowns and mandates just do? Nothing good for kids. Especially nothing good for sensitive, intelligent, sociable kids.)
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  4873. I thought they were far too young. It's not age-appropriate for anyone but Mom to discuss this with a little girl who is barely pubescent, and her needs are for other information, not for being cautioned about this. If she needs information, she should feel free to ask her mother.
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  4874. Yes, people without health care are vulnerable now. Please "educate" them. /s
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  4875. ​@Nate_K111 That's not true, actually. In minors, sex distinctions can be constitutional.
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  4876. The face, standing alone, is rather well rendered. If it weren't for that, I'd think it was anti-royalist graffiti.
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  4877. I heard on French media that the officer already apologized. Granted, unconfirmed.
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  4878. ​ @titaniumgreen5367 Actually, that is what you have to do. Maybe Americans believe in preemptive war, but I assure you that is regarded as an affront to the rights of man.
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  4879.  @tflg3257  You've persuaded me. No, I mean it.
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  4880. @G R Except that Dore didn't "normalize" a sick band of right wingers with vastly more firepower than any of them have the character or brains to control. Dore talked to ONE guy -- a guy who, for all that Dore knows, is completely unlike any other "Boogaloo." Or, for all anyone knows, could be a complete fraud, pretending to have views he would never really hold, simply to get on this program and dupe people. Dore said so in his disclaimer, at the beginning of the video.
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  4881. @G R You sound like someone who just read their first actual history book and was dazzled. Now you think you have a Message to deliver to the rest of us, that no one else has ever realized in such striking fashion as you have. Yeah. We do know about Mussolini. We know about false flags. We know they are proliferating like crazy right now. We also know there is a danger in mistrusting everyone. Because at that point, everyone here can justify taking your earnestness as pure pose. IOW, this accusation could be turned against you, too. BTW, I pitied that Boogaloo guy, "Mangus," or whatever. He sounded so lost. Of course people like that are sometimes very dangerous, and often end up used and discarded. Look at the Manson family. This is one sad society. I don't think your method is the only way forward, or can even keep you safe.
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  4882. It's not illegal to support Hamas with speech alone. What made you think it was? And if that's not illegal, then, obviously, demonstrating against a plausible case of genocide committed with actual US weapons and funding is perfectly legal.
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  4883. George, you give people too much credit. Hardly anyone cared.
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  4884. She won't be unless someone clearly better runs against her. SHE will of course have the war chest. This would not be easy. But it can be done.
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  4885.  @LMCEK  We were told it was his fault when it happened. No one could cover this up.
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  4886.  @kimbadull6448  Read the books Robert reads. Everything he writes will have one or two things he references that are just perfect for you. The only good Jordon Peterson video I ever saw was when he talked about artistic creativity. He was very sincere there. (BTW, artists may or may not make their beds.)
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  4887.  @lifeapplication792  I wanted to see Trump blocked legitimately. Nominating a real candidate in 2016 to run against him would have been useful. He should have never won. It was a watershed event. You need to figure out why he did win. Insanity.
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  4888.  @rockn997  The Nation reported on neo-Nazis in Ukraine long before this conflict. (Look to research from before the pandemic, always a good policy.)
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  4889. I remember well when some states wanted to impose a script to recite to patients seeking an abortion. It was struck down very quickly. I think the most that can be required is to have literature on alternatives available, which is reasonable -- if the information is accurate. Accurate information is good.
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  4890. The families I know in their 40s who have a house and kids have four jobs between them. I know a full-time teacher who is also a volunteer firefighter, gets paid when called. Then he and his wife work in her family's bakery as well. No, I'm not kidding.
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  4891.  @johnkaylor8670  Exactly. Thanks for the exhale. Do people not know that most PhD programs just require having some money, and the ability/discipline to study a few hours a day, every day? It could be a pose that he had some narcissistic need to adopt.
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  4892. If you are in a "competitive" field, they are out to get rid of any possible "competitor" who appears in their field of vision. It's not personal, true.
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  4893. It looks like they will.
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  4894. NO. That is NOT the case. Who do you think is reporting on this story but people like Katie Halper, etc.?? Where have you been? If you have a problem with AIPAC, say AIPAC. If you have a problem with Likud, say Likud. If you have a problem with Zionism, say Zionism. What is with people? You must not know anything or anybody. This is no different from the insipid "Russia Russia Russia" nonsense, except worse.
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  4895. Suddenly, it is "conspiratorial" to recognize the principles of group psychology? Group dynamics are known to override the rational thinking of the individuals within it, whether that means believing in energy fields or mouthing slogans about "following the science."
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  4896. What are your thoughts about a minor going to an area of civil unrest with a large rifle strapped across his chest?
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  4897. Why did Trump allow the moratorium to be lifted on Gain of Function research? I think we know why.
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  4898.  @dennispanko6311  Yup. Or Clinton, who joined with Harris to empower women and girls.
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  4899. 😅😅😅
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  4900.  @Sam_Guevenne  And you say something like, "did you know you had a wardrobe malfunction?" They might have sensed it themselves, so don't assume they didn't.
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  4901.  @Sam_Guevenne  What "music" is Dore supposed to face, seven years post? Permanent censorship? Is that the world you hanker after, when the Supreme Court just reaffirmed Tinker v. Des Moines?
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  4902.  @Sam_Guevenne  "Whatabout" Ana and Cenk fostering a pervasive atmosphere of misogyny, when they were above Dore at TYT? That is relevant to the totally of the facts and circumstances of the incident, and the proportionality of any subsequent punishment. It also means that Dore's account is more plausible than Ana's, in every respect, including -- importantly -- his claim that his apology was accepted.
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  4903. ​ @JustinFREAKIN  Under Brandenburg, speech can be prosecuted only if it is "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action." The "and" is important: the test has TWO parts. Jessica keeps saying "clear and present danger." She is misinforming her audience about constitutional law.
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  4904.  @taragnor  Gideon v. Wainwright, US Supreme Court decision in 1963. Duh. There was no right to a lawyer at public expense before 1963.
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  4905. Gaslighting to the hilt.
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  4906. Not only that, but he and Aaron Mate made a very important and subtle point: if there were any evidence, of any foreign interference, these consultants would not find it, and could not be credited if they claimed they did. They only engage in circular logic, with one aim: more money for them. Not figuring out what's true.
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  4907. Follow the money.
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  4908.  @gilbertrosa7330  Glenn is right about the uncanny power of social media. I want to say anti-social.
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  4909. Was the report that the US/UK scuttled the April accord correct? Bri mentioned it, referencing Aaron Mate's report, and Robbie apparently agreed. This should have ended in April.
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  4910.  @Sammich_baybee  It cannot be presented in court at all unless reputation has a direct bearing on calculating damages from this alleged libel.
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  4911.  @Sammich_baybee  Define "hearsay." No, the First Amendment is not a "loophole." YIKES. No wonder.
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  4912.  @Nofinator  Exactly. But they also participate in forming reputations, right or wrong. It is unfortunate that tabloids can do that, and celebrities usually need PR professionals to help them control for that. BTW, do you believe everything they say about Harry and Megan? Just curious.
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  4913.  @kevinmyers440  Great point. They just use different tactics of persuasion.
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  4914.  @pm5206  Correct. If very young children are involved, the file may be closed.
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  4915.  @juliesenseman4050  Love your post.
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  4916. George Carlin reruns . . . 👏👏👏
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  4917. PLEASE TELL HER TO STAY STRONG. She might want to research a new pediatrician.
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  4918. What I also find very disconcerting is that there are vaccines that are beneficial for infants and children. How do we combine these with COVID vaccines, according to the doctors pushing this? I know of young teens who were supposed to get their first meningitis shots and got a COVID shot instead, AND had already had COVID and made a full recovery. What is going on?
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  4919. They are really like that. Jill Biden has a doctorate in education. Gives cringe new meaning.
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  4920.  @bradleyriles3889  There are lots of reasons why the dollar may be fragile, and none of them trace back to democratic government. All of them have to do, in one way or another, with Wall Street's capture of the reins of power. A fragile dollar's ultimate backstop is a huge military. By democratic government, I mean one that strives to embody the will of the people. As for me, I got a degree in a country where I am not a citizen tuition-free; fees were under $1000 per year. This is what college is in most of the rest of the world. If a person works full-time for $12 an hour for 14 weeks over the summer, they'll have close to $6000, roughly. That's what a year's tuition at a state school should cost, maximum, and not a cent more. (I think it's still too much, personally, but I'm a realist. Of course community college should be tuition-free, fees only, at least for freshmen. Chances are they are there, instead of at university, because of some calamity, a true family tragedy, or because K-12 failed them.)
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  4921. Because they do not want to be defendants in a Title VII/defamation lawsuit. Could that be it?
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  4922. 😂😂😂
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  4923.  @michellemooresings  There is no evidence yet, strictly speaking. The probable cause affidavit is technically hearsay. Nothing has been tested yet. You've only heard one side. There are missing pieces to this puzzle, though nothing yet to point away from him. Probable cause only means it is reasonable to believe that he committed these acts, and it may be more likely than not that he did commit them. It does not meant that he is guilty beyond reasonable doubt. I expect surprises, but hope there are none.
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  4924. Check the CDC on maternal mortality in the US, 2020 compared with 2021. It went up during the pandemic, and SOARED the following year. 🤔
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  4925.  @RILEYLEIFSON_UTAH  The statistic she posted is wrong. Straight-up wrong. Having said that, British press and Israeli press have been far more forthcoming about vaccine issues and serious problems with the vaccines, and they have the highest vaccination rates in the world. (Why am I not shocked? Honesty is something people appreciate, and respond to.)
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  4926. So well said!
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  4927.  @anthonyclark6388  Wow. I didn't know you had a license to kill someone who might be fragile, or might be dying of something else, too. I guess a pillow over grandma in extremis is not a big deal after all. The things you learn.
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  4928. What did Neely do exactly? Was it illegal? "Erratic" is just the subway. Making people fear for their lives or property is generally illegal. Priors are irrelevant in this situation. Someone with no priors could threaten a person. It's wrong the first time. A person with many priors might just have been goofing off and not scaring anyone this time. Thank goodness Penny will have defense witnesses. The court will decide.
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  4929.  @sward0483  Tell us who you think "debunked" this story.
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  4930. I'm not convinced of her story. Consider A Million Little Pieces. Consider George Santos.
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  4931.  @unreasonable-man.bsky.social  LOL great
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  4932. Same. The choking games are the most frightening.
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  4933. Does he know why he was hired?
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  4934.  @ioidt5080  The bully is the doctor. He violated his oath.
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  4935.  @Animalmanager  I have never voted for a ticket for Biden on it. Primaries, third party, or no one.
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  4936.  @jellyfishi_  great point
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  4937. This newscaster is everyone's nightmare supervisor. Vying for promotion to manager. Gaslight does not begin to describe . . .
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  4938. ​@Sheila-su5he I know, it's just a stutter. And Hunter has great expertise in many areas of law and business and international development and energy and, oh yeah, human rights.
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  4939. @VandeRij-d3k  LOL  What do people imagine is a good preparation for law school or an MBA/MPA? Take any humanities major, literally any, add a year of introductory calculus, a year of accounting, a few courses in economics, a semester of finance, and a semester of computer science: THAT is what the top programs want, plus two years of work experience. (In college, humanities majors, unlike engineers, are expected to complete a lot of electives outside of their field.) The most common college major is Business, and has been since Reagan. Without a CPA or advanced finance, that is a joke.
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  4940. 4:02 Brie called it a straightforward case of her breaking the law and facing the consequences.
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  4941. ​ @117Ender  4:02 Attention span under FOUR MINUTES?
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  4942. 1. Gray was fired. 2. The rape allegations were generally found to be fabricated, just like the 40 beheaded babies story. These do fuel the kind of hatred that leads to genocide.
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  4943. There are plenty. Aaron Mate, Abby Martin, Kim Iversen, Chris Hedges, George Galloway. None are Putin apologists. Chris in particular has a solid moral core, but all of these are good. J-L Melenchon in France, who is running for president there. Glenn Greenwald on the need to maintain a cool head.
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  4944. Imagine having to say this . . . Did you ever see this coming?
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  4945. They don't know anyone whose life was destroyed by medical bills.
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  4946. Why am I not surprised?
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  4947. Best DD yet.
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  4948. Certain foods are literally formulated to make it extremely hard to stop eating them. Corporations literally research how to do this.
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  4949.  Puss nBoots  Trump isn't a fascist, but -- he has absolutely adopted some classic fascist tropes and fascist aesthetics, and has signaled to actual fascists that as long as they support him, he will cover for them. He has their back. Not fascism, but more than "flirting with fascism."
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  4950.  @norman_5623  The distinction between COVID as the cause of death, and as a contributing factor among one or several such factors, was frequently muddled, and there were not enough autopsies performed to refine these cause of death determinations. Nor was there any incentive to do so. Why not? Yeah, back in the day, vaccines were withdrawn for one sufficiently serious adverse event per 100,000 vaccinations, and a procedure was deemed "safe" when the death rate was below 2 per million. A lot has changed.
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  4951. Yeah, bourgeois decadence has no limits.
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  4952. "Do not fall for the game of the rotating villain." -- Nick Cruze. Thank you, Nick.
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  4953. He's blushing all the way to the bank.
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  4954. ​ @miriamweller812 That doesn't make trans for kids a good thing. It just means people are afraid to speak out without a well-funded crowd behind them.
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  4955.  @les0101s  He also gave reasons why those explanations may not be adequate. I'm not judging her.
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  4956. You're so right, it's shocking. In some large cities, street gangs have managed to infiltrate police. In some small places, white supremacist militias have members within police and prosecutors' offices. It is not widespread, but . . . Is it growing? Starting to think so!
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  4957. @timbses  That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
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  4958.  @Face2theScr33n  SHE is hysterically calling for WAR with Russia? And you have something to chide someone else for? When I read your response to me, I thought you might be right, and that I ought to apologize. When I read the rest of your posts, I see I had you pegged the first time, instinctively as it were. Chill.
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  4959. Did any legitimate critic of America's Ukraine policy accuse Ukraine's supporters of intentionally and deliberately supporting neo-Nazis? No. Not one did. But the Senate is saying that about all the protesters. I agree about one thing, however --- the demonstrations should condemn Hamas unequivocally, no excuses. I won't join with antisemites to protest. Jewish Voices For Peace asking for a cease-fire, yes. Ambiguous protests, no. Let's be sensible.
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  4960. I never joined.
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  4961. You can't put a pillow over the head of a dying person. You all get that part . . . Right?
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  4962. @pieteruys2032  Unbelievable. Well I guess this is what empire in decline looks like?
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  4963. Why did UK agree to the grant of immunity? They had to agree to that, at the highest levels; it is not something she grabbed.
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  4964. We don't need passes to cross state lines.
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  4965.  @seekeroftruth6728  That the Red Army, Great Britain, and the Yugoslavs beat Hitler, without atom bombs that sicken future generations. This happened well before Normandy. Didn't you know? You have to know your basic chronologies. (The Japanese don't speak German. You know that part, correct? You should read some contemporary accounts, about how close they were to surrender.) If you don't know this much, then leave other people alone to make their own health care decisions. If you trust the vaccine, trust it to protect you against them.
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  4966.  @Ayo.Ajisafe  In France, CGT (left labor union) organized a demonstration of VACCINATED health care workers in support of their unvaccinated colleagues. Of course. L'Obs (very centrist) has posted the video report. All the comments below it congratulate the demonstrators for their humanity. ("Gee! I wonder why the French have a longer life expectancy?") In the meantime, last year the US had record drug overdose deaths. You'd think something would wake people up, but no. Nothing will. Decent people with a chance to leave should consider it.
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  4967. @WithoutRemorse12  Can you be serious? Do you know what the coasts cost? Do you know what a secure neighborhood in NYC or LA, SF costs? Especially for a young adult in the public eye? Parents who would like to see more initiative and resilience in their adult kids are constrained to finance them. I can blame them only a little, if at all. I'd do the same, tbh, and set some time limits or stuff like that. Having said that, I find her insufferable.
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  4968.  @Magnet423  If someone isn't making sense, then their point isn't valid. Goes for everybody. Feelings are one thing, but public policy that affects everyone is something else. It needs to make sense.
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  4969. This is true, and I wish Bri were crystal clear on this point: it is illegal to use deadly force in defense of property when there is no personal safety at stake. You can defend life and limb with deadly force, and you don't have to wait and see whether the offender is a juvenile, or whether he has a gun -- you have a right to personal safety. But you cannot shoot anyone for trying to break into an unoccupied car parked on the street. That is a homicide, and it is not justified unless an actual person was in danger.
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  4970. Biden wouldn't have known the difference, but surely some members of Congress would? Yes? No?
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  4971.  @MF-fg3lj  You don't have to listen to him. You can verify every source he cited yesterday and today for yourself.
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  4972. @MarianneExJohnson  SO true. Of course, live links are almost never allowed, but at least there, they have the excuse that links are too hard to monitor for TOS violations. Still, it means nothing can be referenced. You can't show others what you found persuasive, or that your post was researched first, before you wrote it.
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  4973.  @petermcculloch4933  This turned into a great thread! Let's see what happens to it, lol.
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  4974.  @kathleenmccollum4040  Great news! Thanks! BMJ reported that vegans, vegetarians, and modified vegetarians (who eat fish) may be at substantially lower risk of severe COVID. DW (Germany) picked up the story right away. American media: silent. Could eating vegetarian for six weeks during vaccination cut down on the side effects, possibly? Has anyone studied that? (Is that a stupid question?)
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  4975. Maybe you don't pay much attention.
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  4976. ​@technokicksyourass Let's assume you're right, and let's assume Tucker's position is not as clear and lucid as OP's. How does that speak to OP's point? I would say not at all.
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  4977. Did you add a digit to your monthly income? Does your computer let you edit?
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  4978. Yes -- a war on civil rights and, even more so, civil liberties.
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  4979.  @jocksharerock7318  Glenn just demonstrated that Biden lied (or is incompetent) only weeks ago.
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  4980. It was news to them then that what they were doing was fundamentally wrong?
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  4981. The vaccines (immunotherapy, actually) do reduce the risk of severe COVID and hospitalization or death for those at higher risk, and do so quite reliably, for only about 6 to 9 months. The cost-benefit analysis is the next question.
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  4982. If a person could just go get a job, everyone would have one. Someone has to give you a job, and in our system, no one has to.
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  4983. You forget that a person with standing to challenge a government act has to bring a justiciable case first, and there are strict rules concerning where the case has to be filed. Glenn explained how that works. If the district court exceeds its powers, there are emergency appeals or even mandamus. No judge reaches out to decide these cases.
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  4984. The story we were fed that "this time it's different" was a lie again, and massive amounts of money flowed upward again. Funny, that.
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  4985.  @andrewcanady6644  Nice, and beautifully put. Thanks for doing that.
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  4986.  @zugdarr  It is so sad, and surprising, for anyone who remembers when more people did have more integrity. At some point I JUST DON'T GET IT.
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  4987. I still have clippings from the Enron debacle. You should have seen how those guys were covered before the bottom fell out -- and they ruined long-term employees' pensions. These were people who started working for Enron when it was a simple pipeline.
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  4988. Ask Kim Iversen what she was told about being half-Asian. You could have asked her while she was here.
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  4989. You have no idea what MSNBC sounds like, do you? Gray is more aligned with Useful Idiots, Katie Halper, etc.
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  4990. ​@hsmd4533 Listen to the entire statement in its context.
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  4991. I support abortion rights and the right to contraception, and I consider these people utterly repugnant. If a 13 year old needs this, a serious crime has been committed.
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  4992. ​ @robertgaudet7407 Good point! LOL
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  4993.  @barrygriffies459  I don't like her, either, consider her qualified, or plan to vote for her. That's a separate matter. Sorry if simple factual observations upset you. Trump still sounds unhinged and always sounds unhinged. No change in that part of his personality.
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  4994.  @tulefogger5169  The head of the CDC just admitted before the Senate that she does not have the numbers of severe adverse events.
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  4995. We have been reduced to discussing how cognitively impaired the United States President is. Still can't believe it.
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  4996. Because a ton went to Elon and good buddy Peter Thiel.
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  4997. Well, the criticism of Briahna's points here on this comment section are proof that her critics do not know what they are talking about at all. Is it some kind of weird jealousy? She was excellent.
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  4998.  @Kube_Dog  It also took the ability to resist being called a monster and having people wish for your demise. That's not easy for everyone. I resisted, but if my grandmother were still alive . . . ? That might have tipped the balance. Also, a lot of people have no knowledge base and are very easily frightened. A lot of people generally ignore health news because it leaves them squeamish. I'm serious. A lot of peoplecannot say no to a doctor.
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  4999. ​ @jimrobcoyle He's not an engineer at all. His academic career is murky, and he got a degree in economics and a degree in physics two years after he was supposed to.
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  5000. ​@jimrobcoyle Also, he made his seed money in financial "engineering" with Peter Thiel, then bought Tesla. He was an "angel investor." 😂
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  5001.  @robisverybad75  How is that a certainty?
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  5002.  @elricmagar9307  I agree with you.
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  5003. @xxzenyaxx "Socialist" parties in Europe are comparable to the Democrats of the '60s. IOW, they are far from being radicals. Market fetishism has less power in other countries in proportion to the lesser benefit their people draw from globalization. The French, for example, do not believe what you believe. They don't have the same history, or world view, or desire to become an American protectorate to further enrich their (much smaller) elites.
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  5004. I think he should sue. Seriously. Make them SAY they are not news.
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  5005. ​ @dustinbaker8272 Who told you, a space alien?
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  5006. ​ @christopherwalch6291 Hope the blacks won.
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  5007. Same.
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  5008. @lucasmurphy740  Never follow only US sources on public health matters. The financial incentives in developed countries that have socialized medicine are much more sane than they are under the US system of commercial medicine. I always want to see what Europeans are doing. A word to the wise . . .
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  5009. Touche.
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  5010. For all of these stories, if you did not make a report, that is where I have no sympathy anymore. I am appalled by the people who jeer at those who followed medical advice in good faith and took the vaccine. They meant to help everyone. They deserve sympathy and respect. But if they were injured and no one reported it -- sorry. If you felt you should take this and you encouraged others to take it, then failed to report a serious injury, you became part of the problem. Step up and make a report. Otherwise, no one should believe you.
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  5011. @rcchristian2  Er, the court just rejected a plea deal that Hunter's lawyers claimed would have given him immunity from prosecution for exactly what is being investigated, and the DOJ disagreed. You been partying with Hunter?
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  5012. The ruble fell below 60 per dollar, so the Russian central bank cut rates, to raise it back above 60.
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  5013. It's based on the MOOLA theory.
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  5014. Were you prepared to be born? Were you prepared to be born where you would speak English?
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  5015.  @barbaradivita2158  THIS
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  5016.  @wvu05  They almost did, and now rely on Vice President Harris as tie-breaker, provided they can keep Manchin in their camp.
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  5017. Well, if the average American kid knows no more than what he might "learn" watching Mr. Beast, then a physics or engineering degree is pretty impressive? Er, I think I see the problem . . . 🫣
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  5018. When you take an oath to support the Constitution, you are supposed to endeavor not to issue orders that violate the Constitution. Then the Court won't be so busy. As it stands, when someone sues and properly invokes the jurisdiction of a federal court, they are entitled to press their case -- against Trump, Musk, or anyone. Then the court will rule on that case. That's how that works.
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  5019. I think he has a sh*t-eating grin. A/k/a "duping delight."
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  5020.  @unboxedcharacter  None of this is relevant. Lethal force in defense of property is illegal. If the kids did not put any person at risk of physical injury, then it was illegal to shoot them. A nation of gun owners is supposed to know this.
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  5021. ​ @markg1727  Kennedy is more concerned with all other aspects of pollution, particularly toxic torts. You know, like Erin Brockovich, who is a moderate Republican.
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  5022. Where my family is from was bombed by America with DU. You can't have it both ways, bro.
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  5023.  @Greg-dz8dw  Best comment!
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  5024. @roxinator69  The DC Circuit case is the most important, in my opinion, and is very easy to find --- a unanimous decision that he has no immunity from civil suit stemming from his actions on January 6th. Chief Judge Srinivasan wrote it. Immunity forecloses liability, and the court determined that immunity does not apply. Immunity would have meant no way to get the case before a jury at all, and is granted far too often in all kinds of cases. I'm assuming that is a final decision.
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  5025.  @nicktoofar3514  So, because of monopoly power, small vendors have little choice but to sell on Amazon, and Amazon has the means to analyze the market, which the small vendor was able to stake out at significant risk, then make an imitation of the same product at NO risk, and promote it ahead of the original -- and on top of it, undercut the price. This spells the end of that small vendor. Do you really not appreciate the marginal value of a dollar to a behemoth (basically nil), and the power of concentrated wealth? Of course, Amazon won't do that to everyone, because then the jig would be up. But they can do it to a LOT of people, and keep doing it, because of their dominance. How do you think someone ends up with a net worth the equivalent of 50 million+ bucks a year for every year since Year 1? (How do you think Amazon got to create billionaires without turning a profit for years and years? But that's another story.) Gosh people have no clue how vast fortunes are acquired.
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  5026. The videos where Hotez FLATLY contradicts HIMSELF repeatedly and acts as a political shill instead of a doctor seal the deal for me.
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  5027. ​@steelcom5976 RFK Jr is willing to debate conspiracy theorist Peter Hotez , of course.
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  5028. You're cool.
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  5029. You really have no idea how smart Oxbridge students are, do you? Your envy and bias are showing. You're criticizing them without listening to what they said.
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  5030. The first student brought up a contradiction in Bannon's rhetoric concerning "Judeo-Christian" values, and his response was a little too rambling and defensive. The second student did the same, highlighting actual contradictions in what Bannon is on record as having said. This is classically Socratic. The answer was very interesting, because Bannon's best ideas are NOT the ones that were implemented. Travel bans, sure. Accountability for the economic destruction wrought by Big Money? HA. Trump depends on Deutsche Bank. Bannon also used a slogan word in his answer, "triggered." Not a good sign. The third student gave him an opportunity to comment on the demonstrators, who were the real deplorables in this picture. No problem. Bannon again gave an answer that shows that his best ideas are NOT the ones that are implemented. The student then pointed out that those who have attained political power are publicly distancing themselves from him, and asked him to comment. Again, interesting. Bannon did not mind the question. The fourth student began by taking a stand for freedom of speech, then asked an excellent question about Bannon's view of Trump's and the Republicans' election prospects in 2020. The fifth student first thanked him for staying over, to talk to them. Then she asked a very astute question about about political trust. Bannon appreciated the question, and was enthusiastic about answering, because it gave him a chance to talk about the things he is most passionate about. She made a counterpoint, and he tried to play folksy. He used another trope that she did not, "sorry for mansplaining." The sixth student said that the economic progess was not thanks to Trump, and that Trump did not, in general, solve the problems Bannon correctly highlights. AGAIN, Bannon's best ideas were NOT not not implemented. And Bannon DOES have lots of good ideas. The seventh student asked a very open-ended question on immigration, allowing Bannon to express himself on a matter he is passionate about, and show off some more of his good ideas. Which go nowhere. See a pattern here? So, who was so disappointing? I thought it was illuminating. Bannon is interesting to watch. Nothing ever comes of the good policies he endorses -- especially on taxes! Ha.
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  5031.  @FreeAmerica-sc9hu  Please show us a typical required reading list at brainwashed Oxford, in the class of your choice.
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  5032. Probably not. To minors, clearly a crime.
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  5033. Well, this comment board was sure subject to sense or ship! :)
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  5034.  @SandorDaroci  I may move there.
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  5035. She is merely acknowledging that there was some evidence of Russian involvement concerning how the Podesta emails came out. Not overwhelming proof, but some evidence.
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  5036. Unsubbed while Liz is in the room.
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  5037. But the vaccine does not prevent COVID, and has risks we still don't know. That's the problem.
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  5038. Normal, healthy food will only be affordable by people with a few million in their account.
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  5039. Just read the case. It was misrepresented, on top of everything. Really disappointing. :/
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  5040.  @krennels  "Goodwill?" Name one country that has dropped more bombs on the rest of humanity, including nuclear warheads and DU. You're not welcome, you just can. Still.
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  5041. Very happy for you. May you have many more years together. ❤
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  5042. Not with Pompeo around. It's not black and white, it's a question of greater or less risk.
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  5043. I stopped opening my door ages ago. A person who needs me has to call or text first. Knowing they made a record creates a mental pause.
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  5044. ​@kw6713a The BBC article, "How the World Embraced Consumerism," mentions decent sources, including of course Bernays.
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  5045. Anyone who supported censorship during the pandemic or over gender issues should face up to what they have done. Now you know. We told you so.
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  5046. It's a thing now.
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  5047. @kyactivetm  As a citizen, he has a free speech right to say what he said. (Non-citizens do as well, they just can't vote to implement their preferences.)
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  5048.  @kyactivetm  But don't be too sure about Wikipedia. Not that I think it's wrong this time. It's that it's wrong too often to trust.
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  5049. Czech. It's closer to German.
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  5050. Yes they were exonerated, and they settled a civil rights suit for $41 million. Watch The Confessions, about four sailors in Norfolk, Virginia, who confessed to a crime they had nothing to do with.
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  5051. ​ @jimwerther NYTimes backtracked a while ago.
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  5052.  @andie_pants  It's not hate speech to stand up for preserving reproductive freedom for all children, even if they are LGBTQ. What, only cheerleaders who like frilly pink clothes should get to be moms someday? Oh great.
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  5053.  @eggsmann594  I'm for it. 💯 I just wonder what he has to say or do to get that interview.
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  5054. 11:01 EVERYONE must hear this! Bravo, Max.
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  5055. Certainly not as promoted.
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  5056. IF ONLY EVERYONE had a real, VESTED pension.
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  5057. Thank you
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  5058. Do you have any idea why eight police officers empty their guns into one man and then handcuff the dead body? There is nothing odd about this? I really want to know. Who sets up these protocols? Is this discussed at any point?
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  5059.  @daysjours  Thank you for reminding us!!
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  5060. Really? I think it's a great job for Grandpa Trump. He seems relaxed and enjoying it. I wish it were his only job.
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  5061. Wow, YOU wrote this?? Don't you love your kids? No one who is happy with their kids, marriage, etc., would spout this stuff. It never crossed my parents' minds.
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  5062.  @HaveYouTriedGuillotines  True. Microsoft indeed lost the case and was found liable, but it won the penalty phase!
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  5063. Money buys freedom.
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  5064. If that's what you think it means, then you've never glanced at a Supreme Court case, much less read one, much less thought about it. Having to be 18 or having to pass a background check is what? A suggestion?
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  5065. Only the plaintiff's case has been heard so far.
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  5066. Wait, you mean it isn't?
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  5067.  @stevejames9261  Looks like I'm not allowed to say Bad things About la Bour. Only good things. 🌈🦄🦄🦄😂😂😂
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  5068. I appreciated his respectful interview of the journalist who is in Poland, on the Ukrainian border, and in opposition to the views of the panel. He rose in my eyes with that.
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  5069.  @jairkerker2821  EVERYTHING she said is entirely incorrect. There is no sole individual who can unilaterally decide to disqualify the electors. How could anyone think so? I marvel at the nonsense people will spread, and we aren't even under real pressure yet. The depression is not here yet, we have no war on our own territory, no major terrorist attacks on our soil in years, etc. What happens when life gets really tough?
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  5070.  @cmflynn75  Follow the money. That's more realistic. That's all it ever was. Where were family values in Gaza?
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  5071.  @MagnoliaZZZZ  The early Slavic tribes lived in close proximity to the Continental Celts in central Europe, and got along well. The Continental Celts moved west, and mostly populated France, which was the single most common ethnic group of Europe for several hundred years. The Slavs moved east, and became the largest linguistic group of the major Indo-European languages in Europe (yes, up until recently, there were slightly more Slavic speakers than Germanic language speakers or Romance language speakers; not sure if that is still true and tend to doubt it. Could be.) In short, most Europeans are part French and part Eastern European, once you go back far enough. Also, lots of Italians have ancestry from Ancient Greece. We think of all of those groups as "exotic," only because North America was populated by northwestern Europeans. They weren't typical. They were unusual. Very adventurous, too.
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  5072.  @iksnaz553  Very interesting. I had not seen these reports. This is excruciating for Gabby's family, being their first holiday without her, but I hope more answers are forthcoming. It seems as though there were a lot of chances to save her life. Not an ordinary case at all. Did you see her mother on 60 Minutes Australia? I was shocked by how astute, intelligent, and level-headed she was, and she admitted she did not have bad feelings about Brian. She is not changing her story now, either. She comes across great. Sometimes you will see a mom who pushes a daughter to date and so forth, unwisely but with good intentions. Not this mom. I got the feeling nothing escaped her, and that Gabby was very much loved and appreciated, and not pushed to get engaged at a young age. I've never seen anything like it, frankly. I wouldn't have thought this could happen.
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  5073. @jimbo5472  Agreed
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  5074. Great point. Rumors could destroy anyone, guilty or not.
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  5075. ​ @verdedeleon82 Just the opposite.
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  5076.  @jeremysanders5104  When did she suggest she was speaking for Congress? I don't mind if they pass a resolution distancing themselves from her views, no problem. The remedy for speech you don't like is more speech.
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  5077. As soon as I saw "Otpor" signs, I knew what was up.
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  5078.  @troy5140  Twice that I heard. She also didn't vote for Biden. Did you know that part?
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  5079. And Cornel West is genuinely brilliant. The smartest people are eccentric. Summers doesn't know about that.
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  5080. Cha Ching
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  5081.  @cryptocoin5318  Blocked the bot.
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  5082. Actually, that is First Amendment protected speech as well, depending on where it is said, how it is said, why, in front of whom, and so forth, but these university presidents can't explain it properly because they don't care about free speech. They never bothered to study it, or prepare for this hearing. They expect their checks to keep coming anyway, so . . .
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  5083.  @tadladapate3064  O'C wrote in part: "These people are still pulling the strings, and they seem to want WW3/global thermonuclear warfare!!! Aliens HAVE to be involved at this point. Right?" The emphasized part to me means sarcasm -- the entire post is intended to be ironic, and to ridicule the OP, rather than responding to OP with actual facts. Probably has none. Not hostile. Responsive to hostility.
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  5084.  @edwardcoit9748  Sorry, we know that is false.
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  5085.  @JakeChinatown  Sorry. I had thought you were asking a question. Oops.
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  5086.  @georgezakusilo1584  Sure, hon.
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  5087.  @ravenswood118  They mean demonstrators. Unless you think they are all bona fide neo-Nazis (which was not the case), how would you justify reporting?
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  5088. Not what he said.
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  5089. @Mark Hule Well, there is that.
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  5090. But once his creditors sue him to get their money back, then he'll have to talk.
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  5091. The BEST interview of Leonard Peltier's tremendous lawyer was on Chris Hedges' RT show. Removed forever!!
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  5092. ​@jackchid6040 A woman who claims she was fired from Cartier because Zelensky's wife snapped at her and complained about her went public with the story. MSM did not pick it up, smaller outlets did.
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  5093. @chiritarisu He's walking back on the strategy as well, but not like the other speakers in this segment, who are firmly opposed.
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  5094. I just found a version The Privilege Walk and tried it out. I think it's a good way of opening up a frank discussion. It does not belong in K-12 or the workplace. College and similar settings could be good for doing this. The PROBLEM is that people feel they can't speak freely about the experience. But it isn't inherently propagandistic. .
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  5095. ​ oddjobbob  Troll. Reported.
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  5096.  @bsh819  No, he can't date dock workers, because he is a smart person with a privileged position. /s
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  5097.  @shahbazshaikh9169  That's not a freedom I would be willing to give up on a bare possibility, especially since there are ways to mitigate that. How often do you have only one choice for a class, with one professor, much less adjunct faculty? Don't take a class from a former boyfriend. You know, not all relationships are just a physical romp. They mean something, even when they are unconventional and relatively ephemeral. We work to live, not vice versa.
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  5098. ​ @presterjohn1697  For many, it is.
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  5099. @Chamu Uemura  That is different from avoiding all fruits and vegetables in their natural state because they contain carbohydrates. Certain fruits and vegetables are strongly correlated with lower rates of certain cancers, notably cruciferous vegetables, black grapes, and berries. Diet is a complex issue. Fast food is something else entirely. It's not only awful, it's engineered to addict you.
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  5100. LOL
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  5101.  @dawndoran3009  On the contrary, they are both supposed to have free speech rights in college, to express whatever opinions they like. It's not minor children she's supposedly teaching.
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  5102.  @velocecarriola9214  Amen.
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  5103. But Russians aren't like us. They're . . . Russian.
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  5104. Personnel matters are confidential. He just told you that he was advised by counsel not to get into specifics, while litigation and administrative process are pending.
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  5105. @edwardsisk-ix8nj  "yes, the woke answer to everything . . . " This is how you all talk now, because someone disagreed with you? Blocked.
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  5106.  @KMLR2012  He characterized your willingness to believe MSM perfectly. He stated that we do not know who sabotaged the pipeline, AND explained why the instantly available Official Story we are being fed is illogical, and unsupported by empirical evidence. And that it seems to be one more instance of a well-worn meme. If we don't know who did this, why would we believe it was Russia?
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  5107. Manufacturing Consent. Reading it now. :)
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  5108.  @001101011010  Chilling comparison.
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  5109. Briahna didn't even vote for Biden in 2020.
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  5110. Read the Military Times account of who Richard Fierro is. His daughter and her boyfriend were with their group and the boyfriend was killed. He is in his 60s. His children are adults.
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  5111. ​@ahmedvawda1282 How do you know? If child of survivors Norman Finkelstein is not, and his parents were not, why do you think they all are? Not all Germans supported Hitler. That those who resisted were extremely rare, like SOPHIE SCHOLL, makes it all the more important to remember them. Doesn't it??
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  5112. Bruce Schroeder was appointed to the bench by a Democratic governor of Wisconsin. He also admonished the prosecution for insinuating that invoking the right to remain silent upon arrest is a sign of guilt, when that is what everyone SHOULD do. Schroeder doesn't strike me as competent overall, but his tirade against violating anyone's 5th Amendment rights was great. Do Your Homework
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  5113. ​@jimmyjones8676 Exactly. These are partisan statements or fashion statements. These people know no history at all.
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  5114. ​@leslielear2189 People get paid serious money to lie. Why would anyone pay her a ton to tell the truth?
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  5115. Let me see if I understand --- if you get REALLY REALLY high, you SEE "Them." Sure. That sounds right.
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  5116. Daddy, daddy I want a unicorn!!!🦄🦄🦄
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  5117. So sorry! For whatever it may be worth, back when we were in our teens and twenties, everyone I know who developed any serious viral disease -- mononucleosis, hepatitis A, meningitis, pneumonia -- took a full year to feel like themselves, meaning, as if they had never been sick at all. We were young people, and we weren't suffering from a novel virus. Then remember all the people who developed chronic fatigue after a viral illness? I was one, and we were in such despair -- even though it had happened to several of us at the same time. Well, it resolved, for nearly everyone, within a year. I realize we were lucky and that there is no guarantee that will be the case for everyone, but remember, we were told we'd never feel like ourselves again. Within in year, nearly everyone did; within two, everyone was clearly much better. Take good care of yourself! Walk in parks and forests.
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  5118. Aaron should have filed suit against TYT for defamation. Then everyone would have shut up on advice of counsel, hooray. (See how sometimes going to court is the right thing to do?)
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  5119. Thank you for your post.
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  5120. So, does Kyle think we need papers to get groceries? We got groceries all last year, before anyone was vaccinated. Medical workers and first responders went to work, risking their lives to protect you all last year, before anyone was vaccinated. Now, when you are SOOO well protected by your vaccine, everyone needs papers? Hm. Odd.
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  5121. Sure. Then they can crack down further on our civil liberties. They'll "have to."
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  5122. Well, although I didn't find a quote verbatim with a quick search, consider this: https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/28/archives/colby-acknowledges-us-press-picked-up-bogus-cia-accounts-tells.html About American journalists working for the CIA as side jobs . . .
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  5123. I'm so sorry. He will recover! And GBS is one of the rare complications. There are many more common ones.
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  5124.  Love Not Hate  How do you figure? It implies no such thing.
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  5125.  Love Not Hate  That's not what he said. The report is accurate, the earlier predictions of what it would find were not. That's what Corbyn has pointed out. You're counting on people not watching, or not understanding. You're counting on their being too emotional to follow the logic of the report or this video, because of the serious and emotionally upsetting nature of the accusations. You're counting on people believing you, based on their fear they will be the next one accused if they don't shut up, scurry away and hide. (See Arthur Miller, The Crucible.)
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  5126. ​@user-tx4wj7qk4t Around for thousands of years? Are you kidding? To return to contemporaneity, I lived in a country where bullying was looked upon as indicating something seriously wrong with the bully -- who was, after all, the instigator. No one was confused about this. My own father put an immediate halt to bullying wherever he saw it. He did it without pontificating or moralizing or chiding anyone. He simply turned the tables. No, bullying is cultural. It was institutionalized in the infamous British boys' schools, and was reproduced here in the fraternities and sororities, obviously the refuge of weak people. It has a bigger hold among the English-speaking peoples than in most other cultures I'm familiar with.
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  5127. Mild cognitive issues?
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  5128. Try listening at 6:50 roughly. It may take a few minutes.
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  5129.  @newlearner5560  She said she respects other people's choices. But that requires continuing to listen past the 10-minute mark. Oh no.
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  5130. @maggiemaloney8599  Because Brandenburg v. Ohio. Because Watts v. United States. Because Virginia v. Black. Because it is absolutely settled law that you cannot criminalize even the most odious speech unless it constitutes a true threat of imminent harm or incites imminent violence. You can't even ban cross burning or calling for revolution unless it meets one of those criteria, evincing intent to cause an imminent breach of the peace or to intimidate a particular person or group of people who are present when you said those words, or performed those acts (for symbolic or expressive conduct). It's not a gray area. It is unconstitutional.
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  5131. @maggiemaloney8599  There is no contradiction between complaining of discrimination and not wanting it criminalized. I've been discriminated against plenty of times. It never crossed my mind to want someone charged with a crime over it. How ridiculous. If I have a viable lawsuit, it's my job to bring it.
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  5132. The things they pick to criticize about Trump make him look like he was not the nightmare that he was. Having said that, Trump's take is laughable: they don't even know who this guy was, instead of saying we have got to talk to everyone and change them. Most of these racists are infantile grifters who might be reeducated if we gave them the right kind of attention and guidance. Fuentes is a sad case with metaphorical diapers on -- which doesn't mean he's not dangerous; quite the opposite. Talk to him until he breaks the law, then come down real hard. Ostracism and no punishment is the worst course. The one we always pick, of course.
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  5133. Who did she blame? She had a cognitive break, and lost her sense of where she was in space. No gymnast can perform if that happens. It is potentially lethal. If you're so tough, why are you clinging to ignorance?
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  5134. ​ @amandawolfe1054  WHAT do you know about France? You took a year in high school?
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  5135. This reminds me of the Wichita swatting case. There was another swatting case recently where police swarmed the home of a 60-year-old man, who dropped dead of a heart attack.
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  5136. ​ @fairandinformed6477  Vance, for more crowd incitement. This got into Yale, then billionaire circles.
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  5137.  @richardmulcahy8607  Censorship has gotten crazy. I was trying to boost your mood. All the latest cognitive and neurological research is very optimistic, and there are now a lot of serious books written by the top researchers for lay people.
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  5138. She is one of those people who think it's a hoot that there are people out there who work harder than she does and MAKE LESS MONEY.
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  5139. ​@marvelmusic4566 So, if she is nuts, that will be obvious to everyone. If someone speaks critically about you, even if their intentions are clearly neutral or good, would you not want a right of reply? Wouldn't you believe you were entitled to the opportunity to be heard? But more important: why don't you see that straightaway? Why do you bristle and label her nuts? ALL THE MORE reason to allow her to come here and speak. Rights are not just a legal concept, they're a culture.
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  5140. ​​ @marvelmusic4566  After reading this thread, I hunted down a few videos of Wolf. I don't pretend they were a representative sample -- in fact, in light of the recent censorship, they are likely to be the ones that survived. In any event, from the few I saw, what struck me were all the times she was careful to state that she was not a medical doctor, that she was not a statistician, and that she did not have the necessary expertise to take a hard look at the data. Then she called upon people who have that expertise to get involved. She had no trouble saying three little truthful words that would have made all the difference over these past three years: "I don't know." I don't hear that from Klein. I don't hear that from any administration mouthpiece. On the other hand, I also noticed that Wolf sometimes exaggerated the risk of certain side effects that we now know to be common, but that were systematically denied or minimized by the CDC, FDA, NIH, and other bad actors. I don't like or approve of either one, or regard exaggeration to be an antidote to minimization. It isn't. We WERE lied to, by those with an obligation to tell us the truth and keep us safe. The only corrective to lies is scrupulous truth-telling. On balance, I find Wolf much more likable and believe she is sincere. I also find it much easier to check her claims and forgive her errors, but only because she is more humble and concedes her limitations. But as I said, I don't like or endorse exaggeration any more than the poisonous gaslighting we have been subjected to. Exaggeration makes it too easy to dismiss the truth that the problems with the vaccines are serious and are not being given the attention they deserve --- and to write people off with pressing concerns as "conspiracy theorists." That that move still works (still!!) is disappointing.
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  5141. Anyone who trusted her doesn't have the judgment to run the county dog pound.
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  5142.  Climate Change will Kill us All !!!  I see you're at it all over. In a store you may cross paths with 50 to 100 people, all strangers, whose vaccine status you do not know. I support wearing masks in such indoor settings indefinitely. Why not? Anyway, the STORE gets to say. Its employees should get to say.
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  5143.  @TheBiggestSqueeze  Exactly. And he won't admit it. He was a knight in shining armor on a winged white horse the whole time.
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  5144. She did. Why do you think she didn't?
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  5145.  @synchronium24  Why did SHE bring it up only after smearing Aaron Mate? BTW, perfect example of why Aaron should have sued: everyone shuts up, on advice of counsel. Bliss.
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  5146. What do the Clintons have on Obama?? 9:35
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  5147. ​ @SlumCut6661 💯
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  5148. Why would you replace a tested representative with someone we don't know, who may end up being another AOC/Kamala Harris? Odd.
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  5149. Well, when you sue someone for $50,000,000, you have to prove they really harmed you to the tune of $50,000,000, before the court will order the sheriff to seize your bank accounts, assets, pull you out of your house and auction it off, grab your car, etc. You think it should go some other way? The Justin Trudeau approach, maybe? 🤣
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  5150. As for me, I want goon squads.
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  5151. ​ @firefighter0585  And your attention span is under 4 minutes?
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  5152.  rs_  How did you get this shabby cut-and-paste through?
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  5153. Yeah, you could swear . . .
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  5154.  @johnmartin4641  A C-suite employee is always always always the public face of his company. He is always in public relations, for which he was NOT qualified. Of course he should have a good job, commensurate with his education and merit. Just not the one he thought he was entitled to.
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  5155. What do you think of Danny Sjursen? My late dad, WWII veteran, always told me that when a veteran speaks out against war, stop everything and listen carefully.
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  5156.  @DonPeyote420  My only point here was that the two extremes (law enforcement, or letting it go) are not close to being a good idea. Obviously you're right that the first is worse.
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  5157. We can count on Kim! Best report on the Lira disappearance I've heard. Emily was outstanding as well.
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  5158. What is the significance of that distinction according to you? Are these just labels, like preferred pronouns, or was there a substantive point in underlining the distinction?
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  5159.  @madcapper6  How dare you suggest anyone celebrated that poor woman's death.
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  5160.  @madcapper6  No, I did not know. I tend to follow real lawyers, like Glenn Greenwald. He never suggested any such thing.
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  5161. Kim just reports the news. Think about why that is shocking.
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  5162. ​@paulabrush3517 It must be that no one reads any more.
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  5163. 3:19 They were willing to do this for 💰.
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  5164. ​@meticulousperversions9064 Don't confuse free markets, as envisioned by Adam Smith, and monopoly capital. That they are the same thing is propaganda, no less than saying that a free market must necessarily devolve into monopoly capital (although there is solid historical evidence of that, at least). Adam Smith would be heaven compared to what we've got. Heaven. Food, for one, would be pure and cheap.
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  5165.  @IcarusLime  I think it's deliberate at this point. A red herring. Divert attention from the issue, act as if COVID has changed nothing.
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  5166.  @gherieg.1091  So end the embargo. Let them fail all by themselves. I though the US "believed" in "free" markets. So, drop all embargoes everywhere, except for armaments.
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  5167. "Legalize child labor?" After work, should the kid get a martini, a smoke, and a . . . ??
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  5168. This existed before Ancient Greece. It existed before written language. You might educate yourself, . . . or not. Your choice (pun intended).
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  5169.  @belkyhernandez8281  Told? In what language? I don't have a television. I'm not on Twitter, Facebook, . . . Do you know who doesn't take responsibility for their actions? Corporate principals and agents. That's what "limited liability" means. You know who else doesn't? Very rich people. They have fluffers and fall guys. They can buy the reputation they want. Look up HSBC. Find out what happened when they laundered drug money and money for terrorist cells. (Hint: too big to jail; Osborne said so. DOJ had to agree.)
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  5170. Even an animal knows where it can find food.
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  5171. Wow. That is impressive! I love when that happens.
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  5172.  @fuckamericanidiot  At the very end? No, Shapiro wasn't joking, not that I could see. Weird reflex to call for cancellation. It would have never crossed my mind.
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  5173. Is Seder that sorry of a guy?
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  5174. What is the biggest surprise in this video? That Congress actually passed a law to declassify information on COVID origins.
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  5175.  @jeffr9854  That's a good point in some circumstances. People still have a right to wear a mask if they choose, when going into crowds indoors. The unvaccinated people I know do, so that disrupts that whole story that it's the same ones who are always uncooperative.
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  5176.  @scroopynooperz9051  We do know why flu is low this year. It is less contagious than coronavirus, and the precautions we took on account of coronavirus helped prevent flu transmission even more. School closings especially. This was not a mystery. Remember the first cases of AIDS? The pandemic was preceded by hepatitis B and C pandemics, both of which are transmitted in the same ways, and probably more easily. If people had taken precautions against hepatitis, they would have saves millions from dying of AIDS.
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  5177. That may be the idea.
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  5178. AND the meter's running . . . cha ching.
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  5179. The Intercept editorial about Glenn is one of THE most disgraceful things I have ever seen.
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  5180. Robby takes off his tie. 😊
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  5181.  @braxtonvestal777  Actually, now that you point it out, I don't know which. But he does know the relationship between where he stands and how Hunter lives now.
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  5182. SHE pled guilty.
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  5183. Well, as it turns out . . . No. Just Cenk.
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  5184.  @Jimi_Lee  I agree.
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  5185. Nothing like a household. P. S. I can tell you're American.
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  5186.  @jakecorenthose2901  Oh brother, here we go again. You bought into the "we're smart, he's dumb" trope. Now you have got to know that one doesn't work.
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  5187. This is an outstanding video, with complete references. We need to keep an open mind, with no holds barred whatsoever. It will not do to assume that the vaccines are to blame; it has to be examined honestly. There could be a lot of factors; my first concern after the vaccines were introduced was whether people who had had COVID needed these vaccines, or should have them. No answers. Then, the bullying came. Well, I don't want to make assumptions in response to assumptions. I want to see real gravitas for a change, I want complete honesty. The sheer stress caused by our politicians and public health officials certainly was harmful. Staying indoors for so long was harmful. Those "mitigation" measures may have been worse than the disease for anyone under 40, and a lot of people over 40, 50, 60, . . .
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  5188.  @froufroufeatherstone6291  HA, did we ever! You don't understand that pro-Soviet Communist parties were the single largest (plurality) parties across Western Europe?? Socialism had so much prestige that everyone from Helen Keller to Albert Einstein supported it. What do you think the Marshall Plan was for? Psst. There are these things called "books." I mean, if you're interested, possibly.
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  5189. Why?
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  5190.  @FuckYourSelf99  Wow. That's Jimmy level, or Dave Chappell.
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  5191. Yes.
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  5192. ​@bean-spiller Those statistics are specious, and in any event do not justify removing freedom of choice. A lot of people support choice in both cases. I, for one, know no one who opposes elective abortion rights or supports vaccine mandates. Some of us actually read books on medical ethics that were published well before the pandemic.
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  5193. @bean-spiller  That's right. Who says living under a bridge is bad? It's just being unhoused. Camping is fun. Who says being fired from a hospital job after caring for COVID patients in 2020, having COVID, and recovering from it, is unfair? Especially if you had the job for 25 years and just need a few more to retire comfortably. Bunch of snowflakes!! Waa waa!!
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  5194. Megyn needs to lay off o o o Ozempic 😂😂😂😂
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  5195. Why wouldn't you regret that it was necessary? We don't regret tragedies? I have never met a combat veteran who didn't regret killing. They had to, and did, and would do the same thing under the exact same circumstances. And they are STILL sorry about it. Of course.
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  5196. We should all be as emotionless as possible. LOL You have the answer for how we should live, that's clear. /s
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  5197. Chicago. Why am I not surprised?
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  5198.  @mikebatl1  I linked articles from The Lancet (British medical journal) and Nature, a premier science journal, that show the ban was lifted under Trump. All are pre-COVID science articles, hence ZERO current politics. They all date from before the pandemic. Posts with links are often shadowed on this channel. One article from DECEMBER 2017 starts out: "US government lifts ban on risky pathogen research -- The National Institutes of Health will again fund research that makes viruses more dangerous."
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  5199.  @horsefootrot5654  Did you see one person worthy of the American presidency run in the last two elections, from either party, for president or vice-president? I didn't.
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  5200. Well, when we have TWO non-neurotypical candidates, that is the standard. Trump just needs to put the Twitter app down and recycle his 2016 speeches, and PUSH another stimulus. He can't. The actual President literally can't.
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  5201. @ffffnnnnul2125  Look into leverage. For example, consider what buying stocks using leverage does to the risk and reward. Financing college using earned dollars is not the same as borrowing against future earnings. A state subsidy of state universities holds the line on tuition, and private colleges feel the pressure to follow suit, at least to some extent. Letting all colleges set their tuition as they see fit, more or less, while underwriting loans (which means borrowing against future earnings) will always create upward pressure on tuition. You find money to pay for it that doesn't actually exist yet, in the sense of having been earned. And needless to say, the states cannot "print" money the way the federal government does. Liberalized bank lending for mortgages forces home prices upward as well. You already know this. I'm just pointing out what you basically know.
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  5202. ​@dehistoriapisciumfish7639 Going berserk and cutting all communications because your mother wants to read a normal book on the matter, without suggesting to you that you ought to read it as well -- yeah, that is a cult.
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  5203. Elensky. "Z"s are banned. Worse tgan a pronoun mistake!
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  5204.  @WolfThorneLives  Nah. Only if the price is right.
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  5205. I read them online to see what they have to say, not to believe what they have to say. Occasionally they cover a story quite well. Rare, but it happens.
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  5206. @TD1237  Her letter was all emotion and political leanings. This passes for a solid argument now? Trump World all right!
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  5207. ​ @patrickvdh8606  You never read Foucault.
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  5208. ​ @Planet_Xplorer This excerpt was.
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  5209. Good point.
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  5210. In no other country do police act like this. Congrats.
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  5211. Do both. Cover all the bases.
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  5212. If there is ANYONE sane and in control of their faculties who justifies this shooting, then this country is not liveable.
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  5213. Defense, such as the Vietnamese fighting the French and the American invaders.
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  5214.  @TaraSykes3  She is wrong about the law.
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  5215. The Supreme Court always publishes the briefs, so I can tell you what they are arguing about: there is a long line of precedent that permits consideration of race in addition to a number of other factors, and previous Courts have ruled that a limited use of race in that way was legal as long as things like legacy admissions weighed so strongly against all non-Europeans. Seth Waxman, who was Solicitor General and is in front of the Court all the time, is arguing that the criteria for using race in a limited way was clearly met by Harvard's admissions policy. Well, now you can guess what the other side is arguing: they believe the line of precedent that allows using race should be overturned. The lead attorney for the other side is a U of Chicago and Cambridge (UK -- that Cambridge) grad who once considered becoming an astrophysicist. This gives you an idea of the brainpower applied to this case. What is at stake also is that Harvard can forgo federal funding. It's a private school, and can continue its admissions policies exactly as they are, as long as it accepts no federal funds. Its policies are not the type that would easily trigger scrutiny under other federal laws. So, in the end, it's about the money. The big question is why Harvard grads are so heavily advantaged for the rest of their lives. Chief Justice Roberts was a Harvard undergrad and Harvard Law graduate. He really did do well in school his whole life, however, and he wasn't admitted as a legacy. He actually worked in a steel mill one summer.
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  5216. Glenn Greenwald analyzed this best.
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  5217.  @huepix  So is France (!!!) The people are kicking and screaming, and enough of their rotten bourgeoisie is gaining from it and joining it that the mass of French are losing. And damn, do they fight hard.
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  5218.  The Ghey Mantis  I've lived abroad and of course do plan to leave. I don't know how or why, but it was my grandfathers who were self-made millionaires, in an underdeveloped country, and who lost everything in the war. (Not the Depression, by the way. Not at all.) Each generation afterwards was "a failure at life" -- because they didn't get rich in America? Interesting perspective on the people who actually beat the actual Hitler, and those who did something real to advance civil rights. But everyone is entitled to their founding myths.
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  5219. I have always thought that dollar hegemony was ultimately based on brute force.
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  5220.  @Skiddoo42  My meaning is that she's rich. The fact that you and I suffer is not something she cares about.
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  5221. WHO is going to investigate this?
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  5222. Read up on vaccine derived polio. It is in the mainstream press in UK. The Guardian wrote about it. It is not a forbidden discourse.
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  5223. She comes off like a phony creep from the first syllable.
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  5224. I'm expecting a promotion.
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  5225. Why? To make the show entirely fact-free?
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  5226.  @kathywedzik4905  You have no evidence of that, just hysteria.
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  5227. THANK YOU
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  5228.  @chrisreay8141  EXACTLY
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  5229. P. S. This is coming from someone who thought several times in 2020 that Carlson should be fired.
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  5230. ​ @sarath_babu Who knew to be offended until they were told they ought to be? Some thought it was Dionysios. I would criticize that because the Olympic Games were a festival honoring Zeus. Dionysios was honored in different festivals, not the Olympics.
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  5231. No, he gets a new, prestigious job at a university.
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  5232. I could not disagree more. This is exactly the logic used when a single denunciation gets an excellent employee of 20 years fired. We've all seen this. The truth is, such abrupt changes are rare. These corrections officials have an interest in claiming there were no signs that anyone missed. "It just happened." Huge rarity.
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  5233. I wonder whether the latest photos of Clinton were shopped and planted, to discredit the witnesses and victims. You always have to consider that possibility. The tactic works.
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  5234. Kim! You were GREAT on Grayzone yesterday.
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  5235. Start by ditching your smart phone, Alexa, and MASK.
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  5236. She never said that they can teach "whatever they want." The major work of an American author who won a Nobel Prize in Literature is not "whatever."
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  5237. So the Steele Dossier was pure DARVO. A lesson to us all.
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  5238.  Dooly Fiberbobbin  Around the entire world . . .
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  5239. What she said about the intervention of a foreign country into American affairs to prevent criticism of it was right. We have a First Amendment.
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  5240.  @darlenelawson1255  I agree wholeheartedly! Perfect comment. "Pro-social" and respectful of individual rights. More testing and quarantine comes with the territory, too.
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  5241. This one, I did not expect. Follow the money. Forget everything else.
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  5242.  @joech1065  Then listen to Glenn Greenwald's analysis. It deals with the issues raised, and never mentions Kyle or any of the personal drama. Instead, he compares the issues raised in this instance to other cases of smearing and denunciation.
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  5243.  @lawtongore7053  Too bad my math was verboten, twice. "Riddle me that."
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  5244.  @Piano_Castle  I showed, with numbers, that every homeless veteran could have been housed.
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  5245. If only it worked that way. Did you miss the part about kids having natural immunity and, with few exceptions, having NO need for this shot? When in fact, other immunizations are likely to be necessary? More is not better. We need to follow the Precautionary Principle in all health matters, especially for kids.
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  5246. Only the Soviets were capable of holding people accountable. Hence they had a Vasili Arkhipov. We didn't.
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  5247.  MD JG  Then why does he need bodyguards to protect him from Trump's buddy Bolsonaro?
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  5248. This comes as no surprise. Consider how unusual he is, being both obese and housebound. He undoubtedly needs Vitamin D. I hope he will feel like going out more.
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  5249. ​ @acc4465 I am glad that the hosts of this program have fans that expose them for exactly who they are, as well as you and others have exposed them. Thanks.
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  5250. This was funny. 😂
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  5251. It will.
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  5252. Are we still a normal country? Are these times comparable to any other times? Do you want another Biden-Trump election?
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  5253. So, "progressive" is all about the bathrooms?
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  5254. Grosskreutz testified. McGinnis testified. Huber's dirty house did not.
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  5255.  @cglenn1457  Does "bias" mean disagreeing with your pet prejudices?
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  5256.  @cglenn1457  So what? If someone asked him whether Rittenhouse hit a girl, should he answer? I don't think so. You're apparently interested in psychobabble, since all you do is denounce people whose views upset you. "Projecting . . . hysterical . . . Blame shifting" Does going ad hominem first mean you win a prize?
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  5257.  @cglenn1457  This appears on your thread? Hit the Mute button. Good grief. If you write stuff, others have a right to respond. You can mute them, and ignore. I will do that now for you. You just insult people. It might be interesting to see all the standard insults and slogans in one list. "Grievances." "Agenda." "Projecting." Got it.
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  5258. 😂😂😂 Best comment.
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  5259. Twenty years? Nearly forty. People stopped eating dinner together in the 80s.
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  5260. Chris Hedges was just on, for a long segment. 🤣
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  5261.  @jonathanarcher6060  This is your gripe? Oh brother.
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  5262. Trump wanted to build in Russia. He is very simple.
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  5263. 💯
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  5264. Did she actually graduate as valedictorian, having worked for it and earned it? Is that not a concern for you? I think that's the most important thing. But it is true that the American campus is unsafe. That's just a fact. We have shooter drills all the time, correct? Robby was good here, actually.
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  5265. Lie, and demonstrate prepotence in one fell swoop. It's more powerful to display it.
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  5266. 20:06 I sympathize with the Israeli activists. This is hard. Gideon Levy has a deep perspective on all of this. People willing to face the facts will be the ones who bring solutions. This is tragic. Agree also about the international community. All true.
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  5267.  @AmericanNope  The DNC isn't the left. Every politician is jockeying for position now. You can't tell from their speechifying? "You just said the two parties are exactly alike!!" (No, you didn't, but two can play stupid if you insist.)
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  5268. Exactly, lol! It's our spoiler alert!
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  5269. You are being too tough on Trudeau.
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  5270. There is something that really makes my skin crawl about seeing a woman of Amy Goodman's stature, dignity, and gravitas having to ask some of these questions. I admire her all the more for doing this report. Wow. Just WOW.
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  5271. No
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  5272. This looks fake to me.
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  5273. Took just under 12 years for Assange to be freed.
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  5274. @tommyboy1861  This is another fad, complete with a new set of talking points. Good. Maybe vegetables will fall in price. I'm here for it.
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  5275. @tommyboy1861  I'm really curious -- how much original research have you read concerning diet and illness? Because there's tons of it out there now, much of it conducted outside the US involving no US funding. Eliminating certain amino acids from the diet holds the prospect of improving lifespan and health span in humans and other higher animals.
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  5276.  @AG-ig8uf  Read the Microsoft Antitrust case. People think MS won. No, it lost but escaped punishment. Anyway, that will tell you a little bit about what he took. Any job that any corporation sent offshore which depends on the military, the federal IP regime, and, in general, on externalizing costs, in order to be safely, efficiently, and profitably performed is parasitic.
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  5277.  @tonyclayton6975  Great point. This has happened before. It's a well-known tactic.
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  5278.  @mustang19ms  In Greece, a very small number of neoliberal political leaders, with support from the US/EU of course, took power and indebted the country, leaving the people with the bill and no way to escape it. You probably know how debt peonage works. What you say about Syria is undoubtedly true. I use Greece as an example for obvious reasons -- it was the victim in a "war" that never got hot, a "war" that was conducted with paper.
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  5279.  @TheDivayenta  I see you haven't read Strossen. The list of hate speech laws that have backfired, the list of people punished that no sane person would ever want to see punished, should scare everyone.
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  5280.  @justinmyres3487  Total agreement. The term "gender affirming care" itself is much too vague. If a boy wants to wear a dress and nail polish, let him. If a girl wants to wear a crewcut and play hockey, let her. If they get bullied, protect them. If they need counseling, get them counseling. Where does anyone see an imperative for dangerous drugs or body-altering surgery, or a reason to risk life-long infertility? What for? They are much too young to consent. People at 16 swear they will never get married, at 20 they are sure they don't want children --- and at 34, they meet someone, fall in love, get married, and have their first child. It happens all the time. (Or have we stopped being the land of opportunity?) I say preserve the choice.
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  5281.  @jasminelindros8923  Whoopie not only supported cancellation, but enthusiastically imposed it on others. She herself then clearly supports cancelling her, i.e., Whoopie, so we should honor her choices in her own case. See?
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  5282. She has been very vocal in stating she did not vote for Biden in 2020. She left the Democrats. Definitively.
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  5283.  @g18886  It's in court now.
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  5284. Sorry. Graham was certainly not mocking her, BUT he was discounting her. If bad stuff happens to you, YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN. Do you not see this? THIS is why there is so much vaccine hesitancy. With genuine compassion for the injured, this would not be happening. Watch out for Social Darwinism, my friend. We have all been steeped in it.
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  5285.  @billfrench1069  Kim got her point. Kim always gets it.
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  5286. Cenk. You've lost weight.
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  5287.  @nedludd7622  Who showed up here and started the name calling and abuse? Trick question, the FBI! 🤣
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  5288.  @nedludd7622  Are you okay?
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  5289.  @nedludd7622  I just went back and reread all of my posts twice. Not one says that, or implies it. Oh, so you're not FBI! You're just one of those people reacting to a "conversation" taking place nowhere else but in your own head. Glad we cleared that up.
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  5290.  @nedludd7622  Found it. Elizabeth's Music and Arts posted that. I didn't even respond to her. Now that I have the chance: "Hi, Elizabeth!" I love artists.
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  5291.  @nedludd7622  Mattias Desmet is proved right yet again!?? Yeesh. This is scary.
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  5292. @Reckless Ron Excellent points, again. I can't find my first post commending you. It was removed for some reason, unless there was a computer glitch or something.
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  5293.  @nedludd7622  I'm sorry. I forgot you don't get irony. Apparently you don't do well with texts in general. You mixed me up with someone else, and kept missing it. Yes, you're the go-to person for medical advice all right. /s
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  5294. My process: I consulted the MIT website for an explanation of mRNA vaccines and decided against it. It was impossible to find Johnson & Johnson because everyone wanted it at that point. I asked in person everywhere. Then it was suspended because of the clot issue. Then I started looking much more closely. BTW, Sweden suggests boosters for those over 80. Swedish kids are not receiving this drug.
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  5295. Exactly. Consider, also, the real elephant in the room: there is a chance you could skew their health insurance pool. If you have a "meltdown," you have a diagnosis and are entitled to (expensive) care. That's what they don't want on their ledger. No job is your friend.
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  5296.  @em3sis  But the opposite is true. America has the costliest health care -- and the money is going to capital, not doctors, CHECK YOUR BILL -- and yet we have: MORE obesity MORE addiction MORE substance abuse MORE bankruptcy related to health MORE teenage pregnancy MORE teenage anxiety, depression, ADHD, violence, etc., MORE infant mortality MORE maternal mortality, and the MOST pandemic deaths . . . How come "free market incentives," to take "personal responsibility" aren't working?? Odd!
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  5297. Well explained!! :)
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  5298. Caring for a dog is not easy. Congrats, give yourself credit! I'm serious.
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  5299.  @ericpratt9509  And I'm not a liberal. "How dare you?" LOL
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  5300.  @Name-jw4sj  You and your friend were planning to protest her appearance here by contacting the channel. If deplatforming in a broad sense, as in globally silencing someone, was an exaggeration, your reaction to disagreeing with her position is absurd, verging on shameful.
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  5301.  @ericpratt9509  Glenn Greenwald is libertarian. Show me where he ever tried to get a channel not to invite someone like Briahna Joy Gray to speak. Do you not hear yourself, you self-righteous prig?
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  5302. Who do you think the wars are for? Who do you think regime change is FOR? Hint: It's not for us.
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  5303. More money for Amazon.
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  5304.  @marty3015  I guess when it comes to school shootings, we also have to be the only society that has to classify them based on victim, perpetrator, weapon type, four or more casualties, three or fewer. No problem. I grant the point.
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  5305.  @nottherealxandercrews4742  What "overreaching?" An article is presumed to be First Amendment-protected. Did you read the article?
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  5306. Um. People already know this is false. You're counting on them not to watch, etc. Or care about dirty, brazen attempts to silence anti-war journalists. Even Alexander Cockburn joined forces with The American Conservative on one vital issue: stopping endless war.
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  5307. 6:34 and 6:53
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  5308. 11:20 Not what she said at all. Do your eyes glaze over faster than President Mummy's do?
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  5309. ​ @jodihouts6032 Try . . . Listening? You have the timestamp. Listen twice.
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  5310. ​​ @jodihouts6032 I apologize, but I am sick to death of people misrepresenting what is DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF US. Here, she advocated for the NASA model, where the best engineers are sought to work directly for a government agency with a sound scientific and technological mission. NASA was better than any private enterprise.
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  5311. SOMETHING has got to change. I disagree with a lot of what Bobby Jr. says, and I think his qualifications are marginal, but to sweep aside the important points he does make is deeply wrong. Why didn't Caroline stick to facts? I trust her less than Bobby.
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  5312.  @Sarada.Amaru.999  I am so, so sorry for your loss. I still can't quite grasp it.
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  5313. Thanks for this. I hope so, too.
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  5314. When they start gaslighting you with "how you feel," and "I understand your frustration," then I'm ready to go, "no no no, you don't understand, I am not fired. I quit."
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  5315. I like dogs, too.
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  5316.  @1977dclinton  Yeah, and Gutfeld is SO spotty. His jokes that land are really great, seriously classic, but how many land? It can take a month to hear a great joke from him. I think that's how he got everyone to watch.
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  5317.  @SpaghetteMan  How can they believe nonsense? They have been fast and furious in embracing nonsense since . . . Why, since right about 2008. In other words, right around the time it became apparent that the US has been allowing the stability of its own currency to be grossly undermined in order to enrich a tiny, tiny number of people who have wrested democratic control of the powers of government from the mass of the people. McCoy just explained it. The pushback you hear is whistling in the dark.
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  5318. Freak show.
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  5319. What "accountability" did you have in mind, by the way?
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  5320. "DOGE Derangement Syndrome?" All bow down to the Ketamine Kid.
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  5321.  @Jerbert-qn4in  It's not political. I gave an empirical argument, which was also mathematically sound. Suit yourself.
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  5322. @Arthur Morgan Holliday Yes. Some oddly rude and indifferent, some clearly and quite deeply unwell. I stress the word "some." Did anyone miss it? I think not. @Sebastian: These have been a rough 2 1/2 years, and I am worried. Not like things are getting better, hm? :/
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  5323. ​​ @loganb9697 You cannot deny that the lid is off. No one is saying murder is justified, by the way. At least no one I see commenting. I don't think anyone believes that.
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  5324. ​ @LetholdusKaspyr A prosecutor usually can't be held liable for their prosecutorial decisions.
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  5325. He knows what a woman is. That makes him think he's a genius.
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  5326. Uh oh. Primate experimentation is highly regulated. It is very, very hard to justify. The reason for it has got to be compelling, with no practical substitute.
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  5327. @holliegolitely6245  Paris IV, among others
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  5328.  Janet Baker  How wonderful. This lady is the BEST! Brave, sensible, no hesitation, and most of all clear-eyed about right and wrong.
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  5329. Johnson & Johnson was phased out in my region.
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  5330. Tweets are scary.
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  5331. He's denouncing corruption.
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  5332. It is vital to hate on people. Especially during a pandemic.
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  5333.  @GC-pq6vm  You should know the facts, if you really were vaccinated. The facts are presented to you in the release form and fact sheet you must receive before you can consent to being vaccinated. It is not a trivial matter to accept any non-FDA approved drug, of any kind. Your access to any compensation in the event of harm is slim to none for most people.
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  5334. Organic? Don't tell me no. I'll pout out loud.
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  5335.  @tonyclayton6975  😂😂😂
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  5336.  @merceddominguez2170  That's a rumor. He's out on bond. He and his mother had to move for their safety. Rittenhouse has been seen breaking the conditions of his bond, though, so I don't know if it was raised or if he was warned by the court and is lying low now. He had the nerve to go to a bar after turning 18. He crossed state lines again to legally drink. This was against the conditions of his bond.
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  5337. Two words, plus a question mark: Rio Tinto?
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  5338. No, she made a very solid argument. She didn't lay it out well. You have to hunt for the premises and put them in order. But she was right.
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  5339.  @ab0lishp0liticians67  Bona fide leftist Israelis are emigrating. Some have had death threats against their families -- young children included (see a pattern?). The US is supporting this.
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  5340.  @sandrad9695  Okay. Your sources, please.
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  5341.  @roberttelford745  LOL, thanks.
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  5342. Fot THAT apartment?
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  5343. @Bronte866  Why do people automatically believe this story? I find that baffling. The wise avoid judging. They don't seek out opportunities to judge when they don't have to. I don't know what's true, Audi Alteram Partem
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  5344.  @Vhc706  Tryin' to make it real compared to what?
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  5345. For a male? Not that hard. But a gay male? Way harder.
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  5346.  @canadianalien370  Wow does he check boxes . . .
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  5347.  @chicomalo4862  What Hunter claimed makes the scenario worse, not better. So, he's passing out in luxury hotel suites surrounded by potential enemy spies. Well. What's a druggie to do, after all? Poor druggie. Do you think Hunter's cute? I think he's cute. /s
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  5348. ​@Johnfisher12345 Not in 2020. He even gave Fauci et al. a presidential commendation. Every president cost me money and did me harm.
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  5349. That's what worries me.
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  5350. They both had good points, and something real to contribute.
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  5351. No you would not. No one makes that choice. The US is too dangerous now. There was a time when a person with an artistic or philosophical bent could choose to live modestly, and still have access to the advantages of urban life. That ended by the early 1980s, and the writing was on the wall before that.
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  5352. God, is Ethiopia the capital of human beauty, or what? Edit: and BRAINS
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  5353. This is a great point. I hadn't spotted the contradiction.
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  5354. Stonor Saunders: when various writers, artists, journalists, and intellectuals found out they were involved with CIA fronts, they were mortified, of course. But that was two generations ago.
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  5355. The very first question is so perfectly formulated, and then . . . the interview gets better.
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  5356.  @TheAnalyticalFailure  About the data.
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  5357. Sigh. WHY am I surprised? My bad.
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  5358. "God and guns" -- not figuratively but literally -- could the most perverse imagination come up with this?
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  5359. Just found out this guy is a chiropractor. The majority of them are salesmen first and foremost. Seriously, people! He has no special knowledge of the immensely complex fields of neurology, cognition, and psychiatry -- or quantum physics. Sheesh.
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  5360.  @abe8435  Agreed. I only wanted to point out that when you look at the facts, the hypocrisy is rank. The opponents of Tara Reade did too good of a job "discrediting" her -- and that, standing alone, means a jury could reject her testimony, but we aren't in court, no one is on trial, and some witnesses who may generally lack strong credibility nevertheless tell the truth about most things. If everything the NYTimes ultimately said about Reade were true, then they have discredited BIDEN for hiring her in the first place.
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  5361. I think they might be waiting for us to croak, and then reevaluate.
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  5362. Kurt is not up to their level yet.
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  5363. ​ @alrightmeow6916  ​EXACTLY. I am so glad you have hiring authority. If only all bosses were like you!
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  5364. They won't even have to disgorge their rotten profits.
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  5365. Many excellent points.
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  5366.  Cannabis Dreams  Why would you say that, Cannabis Dreams?
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  5367. Yeah, you don't speak French. 😂
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  5368.  @richvid9814  Did you read it? I bet you don't like reading.
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  5369. She must be relieved. OMB requires some work.
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  5370. @ClassicFIHD  That isn't the standard at all. I had a fender-bender with an immigrant whose papers probably weren't in order. The accident was nevertheless MY fault. Whether "they shouldn't have been there" has exactly nothing to do with it. If you hit the bumper of a Real Bad Guy, it's still the bumper that counts.
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  5371. ​ @nieshamccoy9419 You are almost right about the principle (see Brandenburg v. Ohio; RAV v. City of St. Paul), but she did a horrible job of articulating the distinction. I got the impression that she neither understands the First Amendment, nor cares about free speech very much. Like, all of this is terra incognita to her. Really got me mad.
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  5372. That this happened at the end of the 20th century is astounding.
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  5373.  @davidlafleche1142  That remains to be determined. In any case, everyone still has a presumption of innocence.
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  5374. ​@indiegogogirl2662 I read that it is even lower for women in blue-collar jobs -- they can retire at 50. BUT, they are in the process of raising it.
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  5375. Every country has one, too. Noted!! :)
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  5376.  @arkoutarkout3654  Try reading. Take it slow. No, six WEEKS is not a long time to get over a bad flu and get all your energy back, even for a teen. When I was in school, we didn't have boys getting abortions. We were old fashioned like that. 😉
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  5377. There is solid evidence that depressed people are less optimistic BUT more realistic than average people, often far more.
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  5378. ​ @zachbot1 💯
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  5379. @ouknow1446  Because "kids are missing" IS evidence something is very wrong. It is NOT evidence they are being consumed.
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  5380. No it wasn't. Every private university incorporates the First Amendment and First Amendment jurisprudence into their contracts with students. Nowhere did she say WHO said these things that allegedly violate policy. Are we going to individualize, or collectivize, punishment? I vote individualize.
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  5381.  @Baratheon.  No one said any such thing. We are talking about the difference between being UNQUALIFIED for a job based (among other things) on unresponsiveness to a Senator, and a CRIME for which she should go to prison. That seems to escape you. There is nothing subjective here. Have you ever met a US Attorney? (Have you ever been inside a law school, like, to visit a friend?) You know, a lot of not very nice people in the world are happy to see what has become of you. Do you grasp that at all? Don't put on a show of how much you despise the Bill of Rights and how little you are capable of understanding basic facts because someone scared you. Keep it to yourselves.
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  5382.  @seanclarke5915  Excellent rundown! We don't have answers, but anyone who doesn't have QUESTIONS, and who isn't attempting to discern patterns, must have been scared away or otherwise distracted.
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  5383.  RussoConcerned  Brilliant idea.
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  5384. That's not a tremendous grade point average. I commend your aggressive attitude. You must have made money.
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  5385. She certainly did call Ole out for what she said to Robby, and she did so immediately, without hesitation. Maybe you need to calm down and watch the entire video. Or maybe you need to believe this cannot happen to you in order to function. If the latter, then ignore me. It's not my place to tell you what to think. Think what you need to think to live in this police state hellhole, because that is what the US has become.
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  5386.  @comment.highlighted  Exactly.
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  5387. @user-ro2vb8by7u  These have nothing to do with each other. Moreover, it suggests to others that empirical evidence -- the kind that actually stands up in court, and that good investigators rely on to solve crimes -- isn't important. She just "had a feeling." If you had a court case, even a civil action, what kind of people would you want on the jury? Enough with sheer nonsense and immature thinking!
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  5388. @sarah.j.777  As a matter of fact, people who actually knew him didn't think he was "creepy," and some still don't. Facts are the basis for the real lesson here.
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  5389.  @itsallagame7354  JOINED THREE MONTHS AGO. Of course I knew to check.
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  5390.  @ServingChrist  How do you know what religious beliefs he has?? Wow, YT is just full of mind readers. Hey, got a stock tip?
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  5391. Don't feel bad. The ruble collapsed in 1998; hence the symbolic stomp dance on Serbia in 1999. We know.
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  5392.  @greendrummers  It's getting close to where we'll have to list the things he hasn't done wrong.
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  5393. I was surprised by how FAST.
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  5394. ​@ashleyen3 These are MINORS. What part of child is lost on you?
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  5395.  BxxDxx Hoodoo  They know about taxes. You seriously think every person who profitted will now be investigated and punished? You should have paid more attention in math class.
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  5396.  @mr.dalerobinson  They would have to prove pump and dump for each individual. You cannot impute the acts of one to any other, unless you prove each and every element of conspiracy and demonstrate each was a co-conspirator. Beyond reasonable doubt. The possible illegal naked shorts by the hedge funds are what I'm curious about. This stock rose way too fast , LOL.
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  5397.  @mr.dalerobinson  Also, buying, then selling, then bragging about what you made on your trade without taking a new position in that stock, long or short, is not illegal.
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  5398. A DO with extensive experience might be as good or better than an MD, but the education they receive is not as sound.
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  5399. From Aaron's face, I think he is feeling Canadian right now. Heartbreaking story.
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  5400. It's not a real market. It's rentier class exploitation. Adam Smith described it.
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  5401. That's funny. A living person testified he believed, rightly or wrongly, that Rittenhouse was an active shooter. Another living person testified he was an innocent bystander in the line of fire when Rittenhouse first opened fire, before anyone had touched him. In fact, that person, McGinnis, was a journalist from a conservative publication that had a generally positive view of people like Rittenhouse. Huber's filthy house was not in evidence. You are easily led.
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  5402. @marthell6159  Influence peddling and tax evasion on a massive scale, even beyond what politicians and their relatives always did and got away with --- plus, doing it with potential adversaries. It's not like the money came from UK or Canada, or even Denmark, or Greece. Get it? Still too tough for you?
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  5403. Well, to be fair, Bill Gates needed to hold his nose and have dinners with Jeffrey Epstein in order to get more money for philanthropy. For the children.
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  5404.  @lachlanbell8390  What made you draw that conclusion? 😂
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  5405.  @MaryPearce-m2s  I agree that EVERY billionaire who has defense-related contracts with the US government should be closely scrutinized. No exceptions. Not even for the latest golden boy.
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  5406.  @federalreservebrown2507  It is illegal to defend property with lethal force. Only physical well being ("life and limb") can be defended with lethal force. So, Wisconsin does not train and license armed security guards now? People make informal arrangements with heavily armed kids to defend property? Or, the adults in the picture use kids that way, then conveniently deny their part? Funny. That's how the Chicago gangs operate.
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  5407.  @CedrickObama  A national health care program like Medicare that does not discriminate based on age is necessary, and its necessity has never been more obvious than during a pandemic when people are losing their employment, and HENCE their health insurance. Its also false that no one pointed out what the CARES Act did -- that it pushed vast wealth upward. Yet again.
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  5408. But they get the job anyway, over by you? Putting the HR hearsay aside . . .
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  5409.  @asajayunknown6290  I had no problem with Harvard-trained lawyers. But undergrad is likely to be different, considering that admissions are less merit-based.
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  5410. @amandabeaty1492  It's not what she said. The totality of the circumstances is what she highlighted, and that was correct. If he were an oncologist who she met on vacation in Newport Beach, and were a widower with two sons, would anyone mention medication? No. Let it go.
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  5411. ​@katibater6513 Nope That was decided in a case called Burdick, which Ford relied on to pardon Nixon. It's solid law.
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  5412. Thank you for sanity. Loved that. I'll borrow it!
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  5413. "To initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."
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  5414. @dn8015 The investment bankers responsible for the 2008 financial implosion kept their salaries and bonuses. Tony Hayward's suspiciously timed sale of BP stock just before the well blew in the Gulf was never clawed back. Short memories?
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  5415. @ablebaker8664  All they would have had to do would have been to follow the procedures in place for the removal of tenure. Your argument cuts both ways because sedulously following the rules in this case would have led to exactly the same result: ridding themselves of a fraudulent academic. So, why didn't they just do that? You'd expect Harvard to know how. The real disgrace is that they fail to avail themselves of tenure removal in far too many cases that truly merit it, and they know it. Gino doesn't have to find an exact parallel in a male to have a Title IX case. Everyone knows that doesn't exist. It never does.
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  5416. @ablebaker8664  See your reply to orangejjay. You claimed she was "adjudicated" to be a liar. Not by the court she wasn't. And you understand my point about discrimination in being denied procedure, right? Because everyone gets that, regardless of how bad. The Manson Family got that. Distinct from substance.
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  5417.  @ablebaker8664  But she did make a case for breach of contract, at least so far.
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  5418. @ablebaker8664  The magnitude of the scandal is irrelevant. Completely irrelevant. To discriminate against anyone for that reason is allowing the crowd to have a vote. In law, they call it "passion and prejudice." I mean, in the old cases, well before Titles VI, VII, IX.
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  5419. @be12  Read. The. Case. I mean those counts were not dismissed. No one has taken evidence yet. Read. The. Case. Pro tip: whenever anyone who is not a lawyer -- and no matter how smart they are, and honest they are -- tells you about a case, read the case. If the New York Times tells me about a case and there is no link to the case, I don't read the article. It's a waste of my time.
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  5420. @be12  False. The magnitude of the scandal is of no relevance at all. In that case, if crowds were more scandalized by women who misbehave than by men, disparate treatment would be justified. If crowds were more scandalized by blond women than by Asian men, disparate treatment would be justified. If crowds were more scandalized by Italian immigrant women . . . You get the picture. Read, then think.
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  5421.  @RIbigDave  Where did I say the two Jeffreys shouldn't have been incarcerated? (Get it?) I did think you could read. In fact, I'm sure you can. You won't, for some obscure reason that -- you are correct -- is way beyond me. I like to read.
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  5422. @RIbigDave  I've read way more than that, in three languages. Of course you have no reason to read the opinion. The only reason to read it would be to know what it says. If you won't, then you don't.
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  5423. @GinKirk7256  It's a great book. They're misrepresenting it. Actually, Jane Eyre does confront her abusive aunt and tells her categorically that she does not love her.
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  5424. Lead causing retardation has a known mechanism. Look up the post hoc fallacy. If there were multiple proven cases, even a tiny number, of retardation after the vaccine, there would have to be a suspension of the vaccine and a study.
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  5425. You are startlingly honest. Wow.
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  5426. @ryansreaction  Columbia students might have read the ICJ ruling. Then they would know what the word means.
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  5427. Well, unfortunately his overall credibility was hurt because he joined a popular Hollywood cult. But what he said about drugs for kids and youth was right.
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  5428. Re: "mostly peaceful protesting" I find it so telling that people who insist there were provocateurs involved in the demonstrations on January 6 will completely ignore the glaring evidence of the same during the George Floyd protests.
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  5429. Not wishing death or suffering on someone and praying for them to be well are two different things.
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  5430.  @AE-bm4no  Do you have a reference for that? If a link might be shadowed, as many are, just tell us whether the information is currently available on the IRS website. I have not found it yet. I am not suggesting you're wrong. What you say sounds logical.
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  5431.  @sueblood7793  Try again. Read slowly.
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  5432. I better say more than I've said so far. This will be hard, but you need to start here: Eat right. Sleep well. Walk every day, near trees or a river or lake or sea, if at all possible. Do that. Then work on arresting ruminations. You are way too self-critical. It's not truth, it's only habit at this point. Facing truths isn't your problem. Enhancing your physical body is. That's your foundation, so that's the place to begin. It's very hard. I know you'll make it. It's the wry note in your voice that tells me you will.
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  5433.  @chrishintz1077  Feeling like others notice you and are hostile is vastly worse. Alone in a crowd can be pleasant, or at least interesting.
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  5434.  @Justinehumanity  So well said! Thank you.
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  5435.  @jayceejm  Why was I shadowed?
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  5436. She wasn't defending that attire in any workplace. She was saying it is nonsense to treat this like an issue deserving national attention.
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  5437. Have you seen Glenn's video on why Trump didn't pardon Assange or Snowden?
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  5438.  @cqtaylor  First honest argument I've heard for voting for Biden all season. He is a warmonger, however. Not that that is a distinguishing characteristic in any major politician.
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  5439.  @rusted8157  No matter who wins, people below the 90th percentile in income and wealth lose -- and soon, even some of them will be losing. This has been true since the financialization of the economy -- since Reagan/Thatcher, and picking up speed under Clinton/Blair. How much more before this house of cards falls? Wow will YOU be shocked.
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  5440.  @sdrc92126  Good point.
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  5441. Ben, two memoirs for you: Michael Ratner's and Flint Taylor's. The first comes from a family nearly destroyed by the Holocaust, and the second had two ancestors on the Mayflower.
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  5442. @Uno.Numero  Okay, that is an irrational rant. Calm down. If you are interested in knowing about actual rights, a small college in Tennessee actually has a website on free speech that gives an outstanding summary. When you feel better, be sure to read it.
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  5443.  @utah_koidragon7117  That's probably true. I don't see why not.
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  5444. These are great points. If every listener realized exactly what you just explained, we'd have a different country. No exaggeration. Why these podcasts (Rogan, Fridman, et al.) create mindless fans (short for "fanatics"), I will never understand. Your thoughts are welcome.
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  5445. ​ @Joseph_Knight Everyone knows to say no. Of course the entourage of a major star can always get a separate room. They have rooms held for that.
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  5446. Show me one country that succeeds in educating their children with Robby's policy suggestion.
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  5447.  @norman_5623  Well, the problem is that we've learned to mouth that "fact" rather than to do the very difficult multivariate analysis we need. You assume that individual vaccines being safe means that collectively they are safe, and need to be administered on a schedule that presumes early daycare and little to no breastfeeding. The fact is that the current vaccine schedule is remarkable, and relatively new. A lot of parents who support vaccines gave them as late as possible to their children, for sound biological reasons. I'm assuming you know about the various problems with polio vaccines, hm?
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  5448. 💰💰💰💰💰💰
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  5449.  @SlurMaster9000  💯
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  5450. She said they investigated the issue when she was at the Intercept. She didn't just pop it out of nowhere.
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  5451. BOTH. Face it. Both.
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  5452. ​@Che Manola All of those sound like good reasons. I remain skeptical, however.
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  5453. I just posted some evidence. Funny, I can't see it anywhere.
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  5454. So Ukraine has opportunities, and not only for Hunter and his cronies? Good to hear.
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  5455. It was an incidental finding, as they were looking for mRNA evidence of a different virus. They stated that this unexpected finding requires immediate study.
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  5456. Did you think that French people actually stop working at 62 and sit on their arses? No, they begin to collect a pension, and thus are secured against the stresses that come with one's seventh decade on earth. Anyone who can continue to work does so, and often they pursue something they truly love, with real gusto. I lived there. I know.
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  5457. Or maybe you did not learn to parse arguments from people you disagree with. That could be true.
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  5458. Where do they go to the bathroom? Your house is pristine.
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  5459.  @super8mate  I love your attitude. And yes, she led other kids out, too. Absolutely, hand it over. It is stolen property. :)
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  5460. @dlxmarks  The defamation counts were dismissed not because the court disbelieved Gino but for a technical reason: she is a public figure (and she herself sought to be) for purposes of defamation, and something known as the "New York Times malice" standard for defamation applies. There is no way she could meet that standard. This judge is really good, and Gino has good lawyers, too. It's worth reading the opinion.
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  5461.  @davidvosspoor4694  I've had to imagine a lot of things since 2008, but this one is beyond me. It's about the money. It must be the money.
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  5462. These corporations do high-level research on creating behavioral addiction to their products, especially in young, developing people. This makes it different. You have a formidable adversary, and you have to take that into account.
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  5463. Lab accident with naturally occuring/naturally developed virus Lab with too lax safety controls and protocols for naturally occurring/naturally developed virus Lab with deliberate release of naturally occurring/naturally developed virus Now, all of the above, with a genetically engineered virus Six different scenarios that need to be considered, in decreasing likelihood.
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  5464.  @gigi9301  Not at all. You just don't get to kill them, however much they may apparently "deserve" it. It is not self-defense. Goes both ways; so called "crimes of passion" are usually committed by men against women. I don't want them treated as low-level homicides. I did think she was shamefully provoked by him. I think the trial was sensationalized. I also think she is very dangerous. All three can be true.
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  5465. ​ @lizzieb6311 She supports the lawsuit against the real bad actor in this picture -- the university that expelled a student based on hearsay that was recanted.
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  5466. That journalist is scary. Has she not heard of the Precautionary Principle? Who does she think has the burden of proof? And what would be the precise nature of that burden?
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  5467.  @lesaamoore  Excuse me, "eastern section?" What was that supposed to mean? Yes, Kim's mother is a Vietnamese refugee. My parents were refugees, too, from a different war. I'm glad Kim exists, it was a close call.
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  5468. You've got it. Must be what the advertisers want?
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  5469.  @calmerthanyou6180  Well, he has privileged information. Whether he shares it in good faith with the rest of us is questionable, considering his record for normal levels of human empathy. Remember Paul Allen, RIP.
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  5470. Oh Lord. BBC coverage has been SOOOOO much better than American MSM that I've been deeply grateful. This was a very painful weekend, even for a leftist like me. (Euro left, different animal. See, e.g., Clemence Guette, Aude Lancelin, etc., . . . Get it? Lol.)
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  5471. @DadSavesAmerica  "The labor theory of value is false." Only if you believe value and market price are identical. If they were, then of course that would be true. But we know they are not: both in theory (see, for example, the recent work of Yanis Varoufakis), and from experience (e.g., the way the price of certain mortgage-backed securities collapsed in 2009; the way no organic farmer and no rancher can make what McDonald's makes; the way videos like this one will make much more money than the math videos from Kenya; the way an inferior immunization product just made record profits for investors, and so forth). Note that I've just given examples from housing, food, education, and health care. That was an accident. It's not like you have to plan that. The examples are everywhere, staring us in the face. Not a pretty picture.
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  5472.  @David-vn2id  How would you know that? Because she has more money? Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell are better than most people if money is your only standard.
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  5473. I knew as the first man was speaking that it was Azov. Not Ukrainian regulars. FIGURES.
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  5474.  @WitlessSod  Exactly. Trust possible liars rather than proven liars . . . How about skepticism? Skepticism works for me . . . I support Jimmy in choosing to do this interview. I don't support the interviewee. I don't know him. I don't know whether he is misrepresenting himself or his beliefs. Or if they will be different next week, for that matter.
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  5475.  @WitlessSod  Why do you think he does that? Do leftists, or astute people in general, expect to hear anything true from someone who joined the Boogaloo Boys (I don't even know how to spell it)? Do they look to people like "Magnus" for inspiration or guidance, or information about the most important issues confronting us? Compare Fauci. At most, Magnus can tell us about himself and about experiences he himself has had -- at most. Maybe not even that. Jimmy was kind to him. I see no problem. Fauci, on the other hand, sets himself up as the leading national expert on the epidemiology of COVID. (And AOC is supposed to be some great radical leader.) That's why Jimmy holds them to account.
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  5476. @kdas7590  No, I was being serious. I'm not "taking sides" because there is no one side to choose over the other. This isn't obvious? Reasonable hopes and actual facts are two different things.
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  5477. Don't give them ideas. One step away from anti-hedge fund = anti-Semitism.
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  5478. And this is bad because . . . ?
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  5479.  @peterbelanger4094  Oh really? I went to major universities in two countries, in two languages, with the native-born in each case, and have a JD. I'm trilingual now, have a knowledge of two other languages, and have no memory of being monolingual. There's no way American anything could indoctrinate me. (For example, I didn't fall for this video.) The US bombed where my parents were from, thus immunizing me from their nonsense. I suspect you don't know too many people like me. (Or you resent the Chinese kids or something.) 😂 You stepped in it this time. Maybe what you said is true of the boring crowd you know. Maybe you should try branching out. But then again, we might not want you to.
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  5480.  @MJMilano7  "Because there are no superdelegates! That's a PUTIN lie!!!"
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  5481.  @beruthlessfordemocracy3203  Whoa. We are talking strictly about the way the Democratic Party runs its primary elections for president. This has zero to do with Trump, or any Republican. Is TDS real? I didn't think so. Now I'm not so sure.
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  5482.  @awakenedgenerations.i.k.h689  Do you understand that not one good policy proposal Bannon has was ever adopted? Because that is exactly what close listening to his speech and all of his answers to the students' questions would have led you to realize.
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  5483.  @cozytown5540  I would bet you never watched this entire presentation. "It was so long!!"
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  5484. The opposite is true. If you calculate "excess deaths" using the method typically used for calculating deaths from flu every year, the number of deaths is higher. There is a good REASON to calculate excess deaths: we know mild COVID can cause persistent inflammation that speeds disease processes like cardiovascular disease and stroke. So, we are probably UNDERCOUNTING total deaths.
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  5485.  @MrHootiedean  Okay, I believe you. But Williamson did not "shame an unstable girl into silence," either. Read her whole tweet again. Moreover, who is anyone to judge Claudia as "unstable?" It was just an impression, fine, based on facts we know . . . But you see, that's the whole point of PRIVATE counseling, etc.? This is not the business of the world to weigh in.
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  5486. What a show today!!!
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  5487. ​​In the US, intentional infliction of emotional distress is case by case and has to overcome a presumption that it is First Amendment protected speech, just like defamation must. It is a civil matter, and could lead to more than a $11,000 recovery to the actual, adjudicted victim, when it really happens and the victim proves it in court. It is NOT a crime. Good law.
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  5488. @JiggyJones0  💯 in reference to criminalization.
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  5489.  @marlinmurrell620  That is entirely different. A burglary of an occupied structure (house, garage, etc.) is a violent crime and you have no obligation to find out what sort of arm the burglar might be carrying. It is a crime that puts a person at risk of imminent physical harm. Of course lethal force is legal. It's self-defense: just like carjacking. It's about the risk of harm to persons, as distinct from property. How do people not know this? That is mind-boggling. It doesn't have to be your house. It can be a friend's house and you're spending the night while he's on vacation. If you are there, you can defend your personal safety.
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  5490. I know. I'm shocked, shocked!
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  5491. It has ALWAYS been a principle of statutory construction of criminal laws to read them narrowly. Bravo Justice Jackson.
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  5492. ​​ @jodiegalloway3614 A person must stay sober to stay safe. That's just a fact. There is no "just this once" that you can do and remain safe. The OP said "predator" because HE is to blame. No one else.
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  5493. @TheDrewSaga That's normal. For France, I mean.
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  5494. Eric did get his PhD there, in "mathematical physics" -- which is probably not an empirical domain for the most part. He probably would have had a greater challenge in some realm requiring a lot of applied physics.
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  5495.  @benwyse  Harsh but true.
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  5496. I downloaded the reference from that video. I will now be sure to read it carefully by Monday. Thank you, Dr. Campbell.
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  5497. Feels almost guaranteed.
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  5498.  @amoeboidtendencies5137  You don't have to read her face. She has brushed aside concerns, supported vaccine mandates, and ridiculed ivermectin, even calling it horse paste. (I don't "support" ivermectin, but that's what's so ridiculous. I don't ask for drugs, ever, except for vaccines. It is a simple fact that virologists support further study of ivermectin, as does the NIH. It is a human drug, not a horse drug.)
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  5499. "Finally, I just took the pill." 😂😂😂 Sorry, that's funny. AMW with two fake SS numbers gives you a pill and you take it.
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  5500. The only journalist at Greenwald's level and very often above.
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  5501. What he said.
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  5502. It doesn't. Nor did it work for him.
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  5503. I remember back in the '90s when we were told no government could stop the Internet. Hmm. So, that wasn't true by any stretch, huh?
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  5504. YES!! :)
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  5505. ​@patriciadyer1122 If you like onions and capers, you can probably get enough quercetin, with the other nutrients in onions. When sick, it may not be enough, but day to day it should be fine..
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  5506. This happens all the time.
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  5507. The 401k began in 1978 and gained in popularity with employers throughout the 1980s. That's two generations. Where are all the 401k millionaires? Education has been so undermined, the kids won't think to ask.
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  5508. It was a good question and a good answer.
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  5509.  @jontomas2271  Jimmy isn't doing well? I thought Jimmy just bought a nice house. I thought that was the gripe. (He also has a very happy marriage that Ana just tried to disrupt. Missed that part?) This mudfest should end right here. Aaron's attorneys should send an intent to sue letter to TYT's producers. That is how it should have been handled in the first place.
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  5510. You mean the bosses who didn't even meet her in person?
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  5511.  @kesivan  MY RESPONSE was TAKEN DOWN. Get it???
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  5512.  @kesivan  And . . . . You are blocked from my feed.
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  5513.  @HarrisonCountyStudio  1. I did not and do not advocate disarming. 2. We live in a society where basic math skills do not exist.
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  5514.  @0_P.E.  Well, you have a point. The problem is when someone comes to your door and insists that they are the cops. If they are, then calling the cops will cause them to cool it. This happened to me.
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  5515.  @alanhart439  💯 nice
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  5516. @davidlink2720  Not at all. A short clip to set the stage is "fair use," and CBS likes the advertising.
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  5517. This.
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  5518. ​@Tzhz It must be nice to live in your head, where every abomination in this world is just a "Conspiracy Theory."
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  5519. If that fact affects you psychologically, then definitely consider January 1, 2021, the first day of the new decade. Sounds like a good plan anyway . . . :/
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  5520. Bravo!
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  5521. My goodness, ME TOO! I mean, when I think of the people looking forward to some respite from the pandemic, and spring, and instead they have war, it destroys me. At the same time, the West is a gilded cage, and the sheen is fake, it wears off fast. It is neither a free life nor a good one.
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  5522. Rule of social media: say something INTELLIGENT and you will be censored. Rant and spew sheer nonsense, you fit their narrative, no problem.
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  5523. You have to ask why he was prevented in taking that course, and by whom.
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  5524. When any policymaker forces very disruptive and coercive policies, and can NEVER prove they are necessary, to any reasonable level of proof, they should be fired. When they are 15 years past the usual retirement age . . . Wow. What does this guy have on the politicians, when neither Trump nor Biden would touch him?
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  5525. Yeah, like we're supposed to be envious of money hoarders. No art, no science, no politics, no love. What is it they do? So, they push people around, benefit from the endless wars, and date plastic cat women? Quick! Where can we sign up?
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  5526. Not only that, but they can scream "NO!!" at the top of their lungs, and be praised for it. They will never get in trouble with any adult who cares about them.
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  5527. I think you would depersonalize, and it would feel like a combination of a nightmare and a movie.
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  5528. That has nothing to do with politics, or to be mistaken for someone else by strangers because of a similarity in names and in some views held twenty years ago.
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  5529.  @jeffhuett101  Exactly.
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  5530.  @bernie4268  You think Djokovic needs or cares about a PLUSH player lounge? He's non-Western, mate. He's not a Bill Gates.
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  5531. ​@WW2SolitaireBoardGameChannel I think he looks great considering what he just went through.
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  5532. In the US, people who are fully vaccinated and have had COVID, and do not live with highly vulnerable people, aren't getting a third one. WHO is against it as well.
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  5533. ​@GordonCaledonia The investigation concerning whether he should stand trial isn't even complete. Kim just explained that most of the allegations, even if true, cannot be framed as crimes.
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  5534. Requesting that someone address you as you prefer is fine, for everyone. Having a cow about it when they don't is absurd.
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  5535. I love you. No, really.
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  5536. Reading SALLY ROONEY novels kept me sane during COVID. Needed to mention that again. Thank god for the Irish.
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  5537. @POPCITY901  Thanks. When you are dealing with a dangerous, obsessed freak, you have got to make him think he dropped you. And then, you can't date for a while, because you cannot run into him, or risk it if he's still watching you, "to figure you out." Or, if you cannot live with such restrictions, then you have to move. It's all so sad.
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  5538. She never said that. She objected to Congress inviting a student to testify about an unproven, implausible claim of antisemitism that would be sanctioned if it happened.
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  5539. Amen​ @grooveman222 
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  5540. This is possible, but not certain. I'm so glad you did mention it, though. We don't like to face that postpartum psychosis is not a rarity. :/ I had forgotten about it. It's motivated forgetting, obviously. :/
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  5541. I feel sorry for any immigrant who has to come here, starting with my late parents.
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  5542. If this vaccine were so clearly a benefit, WHY would all the browbeating and jeering be necessary? This Keith guy is functionally a false flag. He is discouraging faith in the vaccine.
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  5543. ​ @ericheick7044 OH REALLY? I suggest you take a look at the big picture. You know, like the economic history of the post-WWII period, up until today, and not just the last 5 years. Maybe scrutinize the causes and aftermath of the 2008-2009 debacle (which Obama ended up doing nothing to fix). Why did minimum wage cover a modest apartment and in-state college tuition back in 1970? How did we manage THAT, during the Cold War -- with higher taxes and higher interest rates?
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  5544. And Shapiro was suddenly good with saying the kid's award should be cancelled. He went there so fast it made my head spin. Cancel culture is poison.
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  5545.  @kyle-ri5mz  Have you ever seen her show? It's outstanding.
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  5546. In the 1980s, Mitterrand had a great natality policy. In his first term, PCF was part of the government (and France was flooded with CIA assets as a result). That policy prevented tens of thousands of abortions, while preserving choice and paying most of the cost of elective abortion (but ALL the cost of childbearing, for all women, including clothing). But no one ever talks about that. Hmm.
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  5547.  @bradenculver7457  The problem in this case is that Harvard actually was paying her a million a year in salary alone, if you can believe it. I'd have to check her age to see whether their might be a basis for a lot of money, if not that much.
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  5548. @bradenculver7457  This is all true and explained perfectly. The whole lawsuit was not thrown out, however. The Memorandum Opinion I just read states that several breach of contract claims against Harvard were not dismissed. It is dated Sept. 11, 2024. She has a deadline in October to file an amended complaint. Obviously she has no defamation case. She defamed these researchers, not vice versa.
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  5549.  @mariatorres9789  Well, it went from posing some risk, however small, to essentially none. Being driven to school in a car is riskier. The tragedy is that they made parents petrified, just to serve their own agenda.
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  5550. Not one time has he cited an unreliable source in the literature, or failed to provide a link to the study he reviews here. I grant you that not everyone reads. They absolutely should. If you think Dr. Campbell is unreliable, what do you think of Dr. Moran? He does the same, posts a lot less, and is more measured. What do you think of various European countries which no longer recommend the vaccine for younger people? What do you think of France, where asking a minor their vaccination status has been illegal since last year?
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  5551. I admit it. I didn't guess that the NYTimes would go there. Silly me.
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  5552. Yes: 20:25 and 23:08. HOW did essentially pragmatic people come to this?
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  5553. Perfect guest for this segment.
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  5554. ​ @VicePresidentKamala Have you seen them? How do you know they're his?
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  5555. Most of Europe, and most of the developed and developing world, has tuition-free or nearly tuition-free college. Fees might be about equal to $1000 per year in most of Europe, and usually less.
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  5556. You have to address the fact that the Clintons were eager to see Trump run, seeing him as the easiest opponent to beat. This simply happened. Absent COVID, he probably would have won a second time (!!) What do you take away from this? What is the big picture? The problem is, guys who actually grew up working class may be wrong on a particular issue, but they do have some real political instincts. Another problem is that the Democrats have become a party of neoliberal globalists and war mongers. This makes voting for them in any circumstances problematic. They also become worse every cycle. Therefore, voting for them actually has to be part of a larger strategy.
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  5557. Emily did great, too.
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  5558.  @annelid4728  Tell us more.
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  5559. Aaron and Max rock.
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  5560.  @waltlock8805  Unsupervised? After a declared curfew due to unrest? Pretending to be a security guard, which has licensing requirements in every state? Gun control does not mean gun elimination, or sport shooting elimination, or marksmanship elimination, except maybe by prezel logic. Didn't know Kyle was trying out for the Olympics. Huh. The adults who gave Rittenhouse the gun, then left him in the lurch, are more responsible. So are the Wisconsin state legislators. They've had since Columbine to think it through.
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  5561.  @shaykayback  I'll tell you what. When essential workers cannot make ends meet but everywhere you look, you see grifters of every stripe becoming fabulously wealthy, something is very wrong. Who needs to look a hundred years ago (though that brings us to the decade that saw the rise of Hitler and the 1929 stock market crash, incidentally)? Take a look at more recent history, when many people alive today were already born. In 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980 you certainly did not see this many assets in the hands of so very few. What happened? (Can you say "financialization?") Do you think the quality of life is better now? Do you think everyone was "equally poor" in 1970? No. A minimum wage summer job paid for in-state tuition for a full year at the premier state universities throughout the country. Two people making minimum wage could live in any major city -- frugally, but they could. It paid the rent in San Francisco or New York. That's called freedom. Take a look at all the corporations that have no profits but their founders are billionaires. Hm. How did that happen? Take a look at all the corporations that either pay no taxes, or pay more to lobbyists than they do in taxes. Hm. Odd, isn't it? When Uber went public, it stated in its IPO documents that its business model may never lead to profitability. Gee. What happened to market discipline? IOW, don't give me that crap. Don't imagine everyone is stupid.
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  5562. No one was "born in the wrong body." It is not possible.
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  5563.  @susanzoeckler4926  I don't know if you can, but I don't think so. I would never mention the book without fair warning. Greene is not exactly my kind of guy, but he writes very well and I honestly think he can arm people against falling for Mr. Wrong. When you see the manoeuvres, the bubble will burst. Or, on how to avoid criminals, all the way from petty brutes to serial killers: Gavin DeBecker, The Gift of Fear. I think what bothers me most is when genuinely naive victims blame themselves. Maybe no one told them. Maybe no one sat them down and calmly explained. When others go on the attack instead of explaining, the starry-eyed innocent young woman will . . . defend the guy. She will silence the little voice telling her, "there's some truth to this criticism of him" -- out of misplaced loyalty. (File under, bad things do happen to good people.)
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  5564. Then end the sanctions and let these countries fall on their own merits, or lack thereof. Simple.
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  5565. Remember that movie, "A Man For All Seasons?"
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  5566. The top less person, or Joe?
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  5567.  @Lalabooey  Exactly. This should never be part of childhood. Children are supposed to be enchanted with animals. Guns are too serious a matter for minors to have. I would never give a child a toy gun. I would also make any 18 year old take extensive lessons in gun safety and marksmanship.
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  5568. The article title, sufferers can take heart, refers to the fact that they are beginning to be believed. What a relief, hm?
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  5569.  @chrish9164  And speaking of, do those guys look like someone to emulate? Do they strike you as normal? I'd want nothing to do with them or anyone like them. Someone I wouldn't even let into my house is not exactly successful in my eyes. Do I have to point to Bill Gates to make it clearer? Does that help?
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  5570.  @Joshm-j4m  Give me a break. No one thinks that. In fact, they borrow against holdings to avoid triggering a taxable event.
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  5571. If DOJ is sworn to uphold the Constitution, why are they defending this case? They need to defend the government's right to let social media know when there are true threats to Americans, certainly, but don't they need to concede that some of their actions should cease BECAUSE THEY VIOLATE OUR RIGHTS?
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  5572. Based on the latest research, he is giving solid information and is rejecting mandates that have no evidentiary basis whatsoever.
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  5573. Not what she said.
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  5574. More privilege and less competition for the elites is the most likely outcome.
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  5575. ​ oddjobbob  Why are you posting this everywhere? She's Harvard Law, NY Bar.
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  5576. Katie, I want to express my appreciation for this discussion. After seeing what other, ostensibly reasonable, people on social media are doing with this issue, I am absolutely stunned -- spreading some of the most hateful ad hominem and innuendo I have ever seen, not to mention outright misinformation -- and we are POST election. (I thought now was the time to make demands.) I am deeply grateful for every person on this panel, regardless of viewpoint, because they presented a reasoned debate. I didn't know it was this hard to do. More worried than ever. :/ "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone . . . "
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  5577. Really ironic, since Aaron Mate is trying to report real news from a horrific war zone where war crimes are rampant, and Ana wants to make it about some faux sex scandal.
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  5578.  @jca9417  Take a look at the increase in money supply over the forty-year period and compare it to inflation rates, and then think about where the money actually went, and exactly what prices actually rose.
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  5579.  @anthonyblades8377  Tough guys like to protect helpless little things. You must not know about veterans and puppies.
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  5580. FIRST report I've heard of an opportunity for Americans in Israel to be repatriated. **MY GOD**
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  5581. Wait, they should pay us then.
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  5582. @weslee511  We don't have fractional reserve banking any more. We have less. I just checked. The reserve requirement has been ZERO since early March 2020. Source: The Federal Reserve.
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  5583.  @Goodhello369  What do you know about CRT? Did you ever see, much less read, Kimberle Crenshaw's 1988 article in the Harvard Law Review? If there is an 18-year-old somewhere equipped to read that article and pass an AP exam for college credit, then God bless them, don't hold them back. This is an elective -- you get that part, right?
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  5584. Several months ago, a comment said beware of anti-Russianism, because anti-Semitism is not far behind. Well here we are.
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  5585. I hope you're right.
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  5586.  @camwilliams1  Her last radar was excellent. However, the fact that she made a mistake concerning DeSantis and acknowledged it was misinformation, BUT did not acknowledge that she fell for it and spread it herself, was lethal to her credibility. When Kim made an error, she herself mentioned it repeatedly, far beyond what was needed to correct it. Having said that, I had no problem with Olayemi's style. I'm used to tough people. It's a New York-Chicago thing.
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  5587. The English-speaking world always says the same thing about France.
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  5588. There we go! Perfect!
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  5589. Suddenly, embassies mean nothing. Among ALL the other things that now mean nothing . . .
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  5590.  @shamrock5725  Use a flip phone. They don't bother with flip phone users. Every engineer I know has a flip.
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  5591. "Misinformation" and "conspiracy theory" are the most powerful words in the English language. The moment you say them, the First Amendment is flattened.
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  5592. 💯
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  5593. Hope you're doing well! ❤
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  5594. Ha, ha, that was great. Hit the spot!
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  5595.  @galemartin9155  Who do you think took the astronomical short positions? You either don't have a clue what you're talking about, or you are paid to pretend not to know. I sincerely hope it is the latter. In 2021, jaded is (usually) less dangerous than ignorant.
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  5596. @James Herndon P. S. I was stunned, actually, by the rigor of these classes. There is a crisis in higher education employment, so you can be taught by someone who went to U. of Chicago or Yale at a no-name state school. That's where you have to look. These people are underemployed, true, but if they take you under their wing, they can help you. Not to mention that the classes themselves are on a level, and can benefit anyone, in any job. It's not straightforward anymore, I know. Strategize.
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  5597. One of my (non-FDA-approved) vaccine hesitant friends just volunteered for a COVID monoclonal antibody study. What "group" does she belong to?
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  5598.  @mjdailamy4550  Or, they know cha-ching very, very well, and respond to that alone. "Sociopaths" is kind! They really don't care who they hurt, as long as they get something out of it.
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  5599. @sdilluminatigrandfounder1813  A full description of exactly what he did wrong was here but now it's gone. Do you do ad hom most of the time, or just for Fauci?
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  5600. Did you ever see the Frontline documentary The Confessions? Must-see.
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  5601.  @xkaiokenx10  Emily starts out this segment by laughing, and talks about some pop psychology nonsense before Abe. The assassination is reported almost as an afterthought. I guess the lack of gravitas should not surprise me, yet I'm never prepared for it. There is no bottom.
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  5602. WELL SAID
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  5603.  @kathykahle9499  Not enough people under indictment in DC for defrauding their supporters? Probably not.
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  5604. Try it at McDonald's.
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  5605. I've never heard a more selective presentation of basic facts. When did Palestinians have an opportunity for a viable state, for example? (And how is Bari Weiss going to help found a university dedicated to free inquiry? She made her career on canceling pro-Palestinian professors.) Do you seriously believe Russia will lose in Ukraine? Where do you get your news?
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  5606. This thread has lots of great comments in it. Great discussion.
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  5607. exactly
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  5608.  @lazylady8591  It's pure hacking. Happens ALL the time. How YT manages to censor us but not these spammers is a mystery. Always report them, it could help a little.
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  5609.  @Fenristripplex  Read a book. No, I mean a real book. With your eyes.
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  5610.  @richardmckim1313  Do you think that is because of who his lawyer was, or because factual errors in reporting were made? Factual, as distinct from commentary. Nor is it evident that Sandmann voluntarily placed himself in the public eye -- that was an issue in the case. It could be the opposite (others sought to direct scrutiny on Sandmann that he himself never sought or deserved). And no one is "awarded" a settlement. Lawsuits are EITHER settled, or result in an award. So much for your knowledge.
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  5611. Jimmy, this generation isn't taught to look for contradictions, except in computer code.
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  5612. ​ @DarkPassenger  Explain Biden.
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  5613. Perfect point.
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  5614. Does allowing each individual to make up their own mind early in pregnancy translate into being "for" abortion? I thought it meant being for a measure of freedom and respect for others' rights to their own beliefs. If anyone were to ask me if they should have an abortion, and I was absolutely sure they wanted my opinion, I'd say no -- if you have misgivings, don't do it.
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  5615. They're not watching us. They're busy living their lives.
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  5616. 12:55 (about 1 min, 20 sec) 16:34 (under 1 min) And forty years later -- 2008 -- they don't hate themselves, they hate us.
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  5617. And . . . They WON'T.
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  5618.  @Underground3  This is true as well. It is always a dilemma. But no one has to cooperate with law enforcement most of the time (traffic accidents are different; that's what gets us used to thinking we have to in other areas, whereas it's getting behind the wheel of a car that implies consent to report if you get in an accident). Absent a court order, search warrant, etc., they don't have to. No one has to contract with someone else in order to help law enforcement, for Pete's sake.
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  5619. US data is over a year out of date? Is there MONEY in collecting this data, so-called? /s
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  5620. Thank you.
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  5621.  @ericvulgate  This is true as well. But why the sudden pressure, to adopt extremist positions --- or else? Why the fear to broach a simple discussion of competing rights of minors? I'm not talking about criminalizing therapies. We've had quite enough of that lately. I'm talking about discussing ethics. OPENLY.
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  5622. Why do you automatically believe it? Chances are she wouldn't, if only because she was not married yet, if for no loftier reason. You think these women don't think strategically? That's rich.
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  5623.  @johnstrawb3521  LOL
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  5624. No contradiction.
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  5625. ​ @TheTiayahi People literally do. Could you have missed the insulin crisis, just to mention something that was in the news recently?
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  5626.  @asiatmpo1  NATO grants membership solely by unanimous consent of all existing members. Hence even Montenegro could block Ukraine from joining, nevermind Germany or France. The rest of your stuff is about as well-informed as your knowledge of NATO criteria for membership. You've memorized the social-media approved, fact-free talking points.
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  5627. And the most incarcerated.
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  5628.  @covidfactchecker756  The discussion was about the law concerning the use of lethal force to defend property. Of course you can use lethal force when necessary to defend human life.
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  5629. "Consequences?" All the important people made billions off of this. Why would there be consequences to that?
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  5630.  @caboose3903  Also, you are not a limited liability entity. You also don't pay lobbyists to pass laws to favor you. You also don't create massive amounts of toxins for the water, the soil, or the air. You don't require our armed forces to protect shipping lanes, air traffic lanes, or to ensure our unfettered access to foreign markets, prop up the dollar, and so forth. You really don't cost us all that much. I assume we haven't subsidized your private jet, or even a pink Cadillac, used.
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  5631.  @veramae4098  It's more than a guess, but it is not definitive scientific knowledge, no. If scientific inquiry had not been suppressed, we might know by now. Alas . . . .
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  5632.  C M  If you don't see Trump was utterly INCOMPETENT and hopelessly lazy, then you are brainwashed.
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  5633. Choice means the choice to be a birth parent someday. Some people decide to do that in their 30s and 40s, and had no idea they would want to when they were only 16.
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  5634. I like this comment best.
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  5635. He had the means to engage a co-pilot.
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  5636.  @braveheart4603  Exactly. And Greenwald never mentions Kyle, nor does he get into personalities. He just addresses the real issues here.
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  5637.  @RebornLegacy  How ironic that in criticizing the post for overstating the issue, you call it "hysterical rambling." I read it again carefully. Not hysterical, and certainly not rambling. Ideological intolerance is a huge problem, but I think most people do not see how or why it arose. A phenomenally tight labor market, a wildly competitive and expensive system of higher education, with far too few scholarships or opportunities for tuition waivers on the basis of need or merit, an anti-intellectual bent to American society, and . . . the drive to make school "more like a business." Well, there's no First Amendment freedom of speech or expression in most businesses. Most business instead seek to instill "corporate culture," and get rid of whoever doesn't fit in. Once you make university the same, there will be a big fight to see who gets to define the university's corporate culture. See the documentary "Inside Job" for a clearer picture of the result of these trends. Or consider that Business has been the most popular major for 30 years, and that something called "Financial Engineering" is a hot field. What is true is that the new neoliberals of government and academe, and their IP cousins, got nothin' on Joe McCarthy.
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  5638.  @jsnip6720  There is trash all over, lol. You need to be specific. 🤣
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  5639. It was faked. Please.
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  5640. Karl Marx had a doctorate in ancient Greek philosophy, with a thesis on the pre-Socratics. He, like Nietzsche and Freud, read Greek and Latin fluently. You're trying to import modern, American ideas about child-rearing into 19th century Germany? That's how you interpret letters from his father? I thought you wanted to send your child to university in Italy. What do you think he would study there? Not this nonsense. But he didn't learn his Italian (and Latin), did he? 😂
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  5641.  @mixtapeweezy6871  Um, Ana still has the written apology from seven years ago, that she threatened to use to expose Dore, in retaliation for his defense of Aaron Mate against TYT's smears. Is this how we advance the cause of WOMEN? Or just certain women? Aaron should have sued. Then the diversion ends. On advice of counsel, everyone shuts up and goes back to reporting on real news.
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  5642. Agreed. That's about 2 out of 5. No way.
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  5643. Could the list of what they haven't banned be shorter?
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  5644. No it didn't.
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  5645. Anne-Laure Bonnel made a documentary that is subtitled. Her recent open letter to the President of France and candidate Le Pen is still up on her FB page, but I can't find a translation.
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  5646. ​ @allanbrown3065 I think a look in your mirror might be essential at this point.
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  5647. "It's at least four inches." Oh my.
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  5648. "Some scientist," my dear? Why, Science itself.
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  5649. About 50% of all economic activity is mediated in some way by government: government contracts, tax subsidies, dependence on the military to offshore jobs and import the product safely, and benefitting from government-funded basic research and technology, are just some major examples.
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  5650. Could I have 5% of your net worth, Ana? I would be very comfortable.
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  5651.  @kerwinbrown4180  Failure to prove safety and efficacy, or even well-founded QUESTIONS about whether you did prove safety and efficacy = you don't get to push that thing, you don't get government mandates to line your pocket$, you may not even merit Emergency Use Authorization and full immunity from any liability.
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  5652. What's funnier is to think it might have been an accidental double entendre.
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  5653.  @zando5108  Right. Just this time. "This time is different." You do know ChatGPT has started making errors in mathematics, including flubbing simple questions such as whether a given 6-digit number is prime, correct? Not only that, but when you ask it to show its steps, it has stopped doing so. You do know why, correct? I mean, you have some idea?
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  5654. The footage is worse. That's the difference. :/
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  5655. So, luckily, Medicare didn't pay so he didn't get it. That's what decides, the insurer.
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  5656.  @patricksullivan7140  The capitalist system is not big on book reading, lol. Nor does it have the authors it once did, when it was less beastly.
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  5657.  @davruck1  Nicely said.
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  5658.  @nolanarmstrong2458  Have they been asking cogent questions, or advancing competing theories without any evidence whatsoever? Or both, depending on the person? I've been listening to the European left, which has been raising these issues. They sound like the opposite of DNC.
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  5659.  @bidhrohi12  Are you kidding? You must be.
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  5660.  @williamcondon7729  So, there is no limit to how bad a politician can be, as long as he wins? That is an argument that appeals only to those expecting to get a cut out of his victory. There simply is no political home for the majority of eligible voters, which is why most people generally don't vote.
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  5661.  @aprilk141  Are you joking? We have no general workplace harassment law, much less criminal penalties. Do you know the barriers to filing under Title VII? You have to go to the EEOC first and obtain a right-to-sue letter, and the statute of limitations is shorter than for most torts. The procedural hurdles are huge. You need the money for a GOOD lawyer --- but those who have the money are the people least likely to be harassed, because the bullies know they can fight back.
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  5662.  @drewc771  Thinking that an elderly, impaired incumbent (who once said he would not run for a second term) is not a viable candidate is called realism.
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  5663. Let's put aside the ethical and humanitarian arguments that those in power are indifferent toward. Do people really believe that they can subdue all of these young, healthy, hardy Palestinian men? That is not what will happen.
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  5664. What do the Clintons have on Obama??
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  5665. I can. 100% false. Every word. I'm an attorney and I helped an elderly widow save her home from the IRS. Her late husband did this to her, and he told her exactly the same story. This was in the early 1990s. If you don't know how to figure this out for yourself, think about what you need to do to improve your research skills and avoid being the victim of scams. Look up the Sixteenth Amendment, and find out about what happened to challenges to it.
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  5666. Try putting his full name in a search engine, and see some of the tax cases he lost come right up.
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  5667. I expected no red wave. Not after the pregnant ten-year-old girl and Uvalde.
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  5668. Jimmy: "I wonder how he got to be the chairman of Tokyo's medical association?" Low standards in Asia? /s 🤣🤣🤣
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  5669. Not at all. This was enlightening, and very dispassionately delivered. I can't watch roasting on such topics.
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  5670.  @michellelowe15  Who are the best students everywhere? Immigrants' children. What do their mothers do? Work REALLY hard, sometimes two jobs. Overtime whenever offered. I can't believe this nonsense still pulls you in. Nowhere in the world where children learn well does anyone talk about education having "customers." If the college "customers" want Gender Studies or Advanced Cheerleading, or How to Be an Influencer, rather than Calculus and Classics, then what will be taught? Compare MIT's freshman class: MOST are from immigrant backgrounds. WHY do you think that is? Imagine, some of them weren't even on Facebook before age 18.
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  5671. She was right about journalistic integrity.
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  5672. Those who don't know about domestic assassinations, read The Torture Machine, by Fred Hampton's lawyer Flint Taylor.
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  5673.  @honeychurchgipsy6  Your boyfriend's observation about the submissiveness of people in cults is brilliant. We should all pause before we start being self critical when confronted by a difficult person. The first thing to remember is that difficult people often have "friends" (a crew is a better word for it), and these friends may join in, in taking that person's side and criticizing you. Remember that their criticism proves nothing.
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  5674. ​ @unboxedcharacter What's that? Pregnant people?
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  5675. YOU need to wake up. You think he made his money founding Tesla? 😂
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  5676.  @heathfairbairn2460  Your imagination is very poor. I am a Sorbonne graduate. That still means something.
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  5677. All the other times we support "law and order," but JUST THIS TIME the prosecutors are in the wrong, and defending "commie scum." And 17-year-olds who run around with great big firearms should just be allowed to go home. Or, give them some water, in appreciation. The next time there is a school shooting, call Tucker. Or Rittenhouse, if you can spring him by then.
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  5678. And you call other people morons! There is no bottom, is there?
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  5679.  @_fukunicorn_164  If someone told Weinstein either you start casting me in films like you promised you would, or I'll expose you, what would you call that? By contrast, if someone approached the authorities with their lawyer present, making no demands of anyone except to put an end to a serial predator's activities, what would you call that?
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  5680. "Targetted eviction moratorium??" So if you can't pay your rent, don't get vaccinated?
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  5681. Bad people will do what good people cannot imagine doing. You would never think of doing this. He thought it up, then did it.
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  5682.  @crewchief5144  How do you know what the statement said? Full disclosure: I have no idea what it said. I am listening to Israeli viewpoints, meaning all Israeli viewpoints. Pampered American viewpoints are of no interest to me, and that includes these talking heads.
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  5683. THANK YOU FOR THIS
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  5684.  @marias420  He is only 7 years old. My gawd. I was blessed with good parents. I pity this little boy.
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  5685.  @SuMMeRFLi5  Shadowed, my dear. You can see them, no one else can. Several had that happen. Where did you say you went to law school? And have you considered counseling? People who lash out at a young woman who was shot in the chest, and whom the police praised for her presence of mind and exceptional courage, may need to speak with someone. The principle you mistakenly allude to has no relevance to this case.
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  5686. She didn't vote for Biden. Start there.
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  5687. Who was "ragging" on her? Simply pointing out there is a risk to some people, which is true.
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  5688. There is this thing some people like called books. Don't be against it until you check it out.
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  5689. @zenocrate4040  Well, if a person wants to publish, in any field, the Ivies are the ticket. Thank goodness for the University of Chicago, as well as U Michigan and Berkeley, which also open the door. The latter two are public, so it is not a $350k proposition, including living expenses and modest travel allowance for four years. What is MOST maddening is the fact that where you went to school has such an outsized effect on the rest of your life -- and it does, sadly.
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  5690. excellent observation
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  5691.  @SandraMartinez-gv1yf  State school tuition used to be something that generations were able to earn by working full time over the summer. A minimum wage summer job was sufficient to pay a full year of full-time state university tuition. EVERY developed country has tuition-free public university. How do they manage? You must not have listened to the whole video.
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  5692.  @zerocool5395  WHAT "narrative?"
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  5693. I think you are absolutely right.
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  5694.  @petegiant  Please take a basic logic class. If a woman sexually assaults anyone, man or woman, alcohol is not and cannot be an excuse for her conduct, either. Who said anything different?
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  5695. @seanm3463  These countries' ministries of health all have websites in English translation. It takes some digging, but you can find recommended schedules. The Scandinavian countries, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Germany -- start there.
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  5696.  @toffanful  Sorry for omitting the /s.
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  5697.  @smb123211  WHO is JUSTIFYING a war crime?? Nice little sleight of hand. You're a natural skeptic if you say so.
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  5698.  @jameshurst6119  Impartial investigation. What OP called for.
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  5699. Sums up American education.
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  5700.  @makeamericagreatagain3401  Well, in previous generations, this is what minimum wage could do: 1. A full summer of full-time work at the minimum wage equalled a full year of tuition at a state university. Now, only living expenses were left, and people had ways to meet them (part-time jobs, small loans, help from parents, scholarships, work-study). 2. Two roommates working full-time, minimum wage, could afford a small apartment anywhere -- Manhattan, San Francisco, Denver, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston. Then, they had a base from which to find BETTER OPPORTUNITIES. 3. A married couple working minimum wage could afford their own health insurance and save up for a baby. For real. They did not live in Mom's basement. Nope, Mom was now a doting grandma who babysat for their bundle of joy. People had a future. Life moved forward. Does any of this sound possible any more? Well, what happened?
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  5701. This was brilliant. Especially from 13:09 on. Only people like those of India are well-poised to broker peace.
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  5702. @North Korea Is Best Korea Vijay gave an explicit example: the proposal to investigate ALL reports of war crimes in Afghanistan, of course including those of the Taliban. The US threatened the investigator. Say. How come you missed that part? Oops.
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  5703. @North Korea Is Best Korea So it's selectively shadowed. That's the new thing on YT. Now I get it. Vijay mentioned Afghanistan, etc. You didn't listen. 🤣
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  5704. Her point about the First Amendment and Tinker v. Des Moines was crucial. Too bad you missed it. Try more Glenn Greenwald in your media diet.
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  5705. She has got tons of it.
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  5706. FULL FDA APPROVAL, as soon as possible. Yes it is simple. It is a matter of doing the multivariate analysis. They can expedite it.
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  5707. Kim is the only truly independent thinker here.
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  5708. The Westboro Baptist Church case, where funerals of fallen service members were picketed and it was ruled free speech, established how far away they must stay. Any closer, and it can be stopped.
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  5709. Did you fill out a yellow card?
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  5710.  @GingerPeacenik  Fasts that long without some form of supervision are not considered safe by anyone.
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  5711. Campaign contribution hustle. No, wait. Campaign Contribution Hussle. It's a brand.
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  5712. He's not lying. He's being kind.
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  5713. If DNC really thought Trump were an existential threat, they would not have run Clinton and Biden against him. They would not have taken the risk.
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  5714. ​ @utah_koidragon7117  I don't see that she placed the blame on Musk. It was a government official who actually said he could not speak to the free press if Musk didn't want him to. Whether that is true or not, the official said it. It's obvious whose fault that is.
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  5715.  @kyle-ri5mz  Who do you think was president in 2016, by the way?
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  5716. Goat meat. My God. Before I was a vegetarian, I could not fathom it. Now, I can't watch for very long.
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  5717.  @SuperAshleyriot  I sometimes wonder whether this is deliberately done by the government (i.e., killing civilians) to see what they can get away with.
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  5718.  @BreezyYN  Perfect reply. Thanks for that.
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  5719.  @gnomechomsky2524  Because he is math challenged.
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  5720. I prefer neither cult.
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  5721. Robbie, the Red Army, the Yugoslavs, and the Greek resistance inflicted 80% of the total casualties suffered by the Wehrmacht fighting forces long before any Americans showed up. The Red Army defeated the Nazis, and the Americans won the war.
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  5722. No, not "nothing burger." You're supposed to say "word salad." "Nothing burger" offends vegetarians. (P. S. I'm a veg, but I'm sane.)
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  5723.  @emerpus01  Advertisers do, however, use ADL as one source among many to decide where to allocate resources to maximize their profits. Glenn Greenwald will be discussing this tonight. I'm interested in what he has to say. I hope he will be even-handed.
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  5724.  @naijaplayer  We have no information that a carjacking was involved. There was no one in the parked car. A carjacking is a crime against the person. Taking an empty, parked car is a property crime.
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  5725. I'm hopeful Gates will face justice.
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  5726.  @spenserb8082  Wow are you naive.
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  5727.  @lyndakorner2383  They aren't. Belief and disbelief are binary. Skepticism is the suspension of both.
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  5728. THIS
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  5729. THIS. I was just about to say, the trashing of Tara Reade effectively ended the MeToo movement. A person is free to disbelieve Reade. But no one can claim to be fair if they silence her and smear her. If she was so bad, how did she get such an important job, working for one of the most powerful senators of his generation?
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  5730. You have to present evidence.
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  5731. Biden a radical socialist, and his kid profits from disaster capitalism in Ukraine? How political naive are the Trumpsters?
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  5732. Open Secrets will tell you how much money politicians get from billionaires. Some have given over $91 MILLION during a single presidential election cycle.
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  5733. No, she's not. She's actually considering all sides of the issue.
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  5734.  @utah_koidragon7117  It's called a hypothetical. Regular people don't like them -- duly noted.
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  5735.  @elizabethsmusicandarts1590  I know. I taught community college for nearly 17 years part time, not as my main job. The last few years were a nightmare. I often took night classes at a local state college that used to be the teachers' college, and I had many fellow students who were in public education, usually in an affluent district. Their workload was unbelievable. Overwrought parents were using them as free therapists. Emails several pages long, twice a week, that sort of thing -- and those were the good jobs. No real regard for the teachers, or respect; pressure to give unearned grades; impossible for a teacher to say "no" to anything, because "think of the children." I'm not describing bad schools, I'm describing the "nicer" ones where my classmates taught while studying for their Master's degrees. Of course, we had the shooter drills as well at community college, where I taught. I was expected to put myself at some measure of risk to protect the class, and I accepted the need, and the ethics as well. The day I knew I could no longer do that was the day I left. Students routinely harassed teachers and the teachers were assumed to be to blame. I have to say that when Trump came on the scene, that really blew the lid off. Everyone became entitled to their very own facts. Quite a few also wanted to bring their guns to school. I had more students crying in front of me, for various reasons, during those couple of years than during all the fifteen previous ones combined. I wish I were making this up.
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  5736.  @goldilox369  He was screaming they should all be fired, and that garbage men do a better job. Please watch it again.
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  5737.  @cinattra  I don't know what preceded the scene we saw, nor do you. If anyone forced their way in, why no arrests on the spot? This makes no sense, you know.
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  5738. ​ @pissyjo1213 Oh really? 1. The proposal is to look into it. 2. Where do you see evidence that anyone on this channel supports doing that to kids??
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  5739. When a country takes the risks this one does with its financial system, then every dissenting region, country, economy IS an "extraordinary threat" to US security. The US is fragile.
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  5740.  @georgemead6608  Exactly. Aren't those the people who compete with each other by buying their kid a BMW for their 16th birthday? That's somehow all right. I got a 3-speed Italian bicycle for high school graduation. I still appreciate it. (Now I drive a 2004 Volvo, AWD, from the Fjord years. ;)
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  5741. ​ @sdfried4877 Read the Thirteen Amendment. No, seriously. Read it.
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  5742. @sdfried4877  Because it hasn't been. Yeah, why should you read? I get it. No one's paying you. Besides, the militarized police are on the case.
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  5743. "The fever!" -- my God Of course Katie picks up on it instantly. Thank you Katie, for the exhale.
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  5744. Gee. Seems like Dems should have offered a strong candidate after a robust primary season. Seems like.
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  5745.  @timoback3000  Correct. We know what happened.
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  5746. Jewish Voice for Peace filed suit against Columbia last March 11th. You could read the court papers if you wanted to know what is going on, rather than parroting the billionaires. Also, for your information, a very significant proportion of demonstrators ARE Jewish. Nor were the demonstrators blocking anyone's ability to move freely, including the ability to avoid them completely. As for this guest: exactly what did he say that was wrong? Or is this only about identity? Then follow Amy Goodman instead. She has been the best anyway.
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  5747. Something wrong with her.
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  5748. Let's see if I understand: corporations have transferred production of most pharmaceuticals to India and China, to benefit from lower labor costs. Now, when India needs COVID vaccines, we are going to assert patent rights. Gates is smart, huh?
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  5749. Yes, Kyle, there have been people hospitalized or who died from the vaccine -- though the vaccines appear to be exceptionally safe, much safer than many vaccines. Every drug has killed someone, literally every last one. The vaccines do prevent deadly COVID, that is correct. We also need a time frame. How long does immunity last? Will any vaccine prevent serious COVID in 99%+ of people for one to two years? That's what I consider effective. I can accept getting an annual flu shot and a COVID shot, sure. Do we know yet?
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  5750.  @Varun-vv9mi  They pushed Russiagate conspiracy theories to boost revenues as well. Their online comments pages were full of hysteria, with better vocabulary and spelling than Fox News comments. The NYT is not the paper it was twenty years ago. Look into Greenwald's critiques, which give carefully detailed and documented accounts of journalistic malpractice. Look into how NYT pushed Chris Hedges out, for refusing to toe the war mongering line. This is NOT an unimpeachable news source anymore. They recently misreported the terrorist story from France. Would you expect any NYC paper to DO such a thing?
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  5751. Tremendous post. I don't agree completely with every word of Nadine Strossen's new book on hate speech, but she is so smart and her arguments are so compelling, there is no point in talking about hate speech regulation without first reading her book. Her father survived the Holocaust, so she grew up knowing about the power of words to spread evil. Your post reminded me of her.
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  5752. What? You mean you think a normal, educated, mathematically sophisticated person cannot figure out numbers? Then forget about it, just follow orders. This show is over. Even PLATO had a dialogue about how mathematics is universal to humans, nearly 2500 years ago.
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  5753.  @handleyobusiness  A lot of people do what you would rather die than do. You must have noticed.
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  5754. That was a tremendous effort to AVOID criminal prosecution. I'm sorry the history of the commission has been distorted, but not surprised. The "narrative" was that the end of apartheid in South Africa would result in a mass bloodbath. Well it didn't. The generosity of the black South Africans was astounding. Europeans have nothing comparable to point to, unless you count forgiving former Nazis.
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  5755.  @FishareFriendsNotFood972  Fair enough. The irony of people calling this "trad" and then broadcasting their family life and their very young children to a global audience . . . Wow. I have no words. Everyone tells you not to do that. It should be plain as day why it's unwise.
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  5756.  @Somegirl811  Beautifully put.
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  5757.  @JD-gk7eh  When you say "leftist groups," who are you thinking of? The current DNC isn't. But it used to care about free speech, a long time ago . . .
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  5758. They want what "we" have? A currency that is ultimately based on force? Because that's what we have.
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  5759. Perfect.
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  5760. She has exhausted one mine and is still dissatisfied with her net worth. Of course she is exploring another. She is a real entrepreneur.
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  5761. What did your doctor tell you? Don't just leave us with that.
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  5762. Two-day fasts are great. No cooking, no dishes.
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  5763. True, but she realized she misspoke. People may be ignorant, or they may be nervous.
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  5764. Oh brother. That's her whole podcast. That's why she did not vote for Biden.
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  5765. This!! 😅
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  5766. The fact that it's a round number to the nearest thousand tells you everything.
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  5767. Was the report on possible hacking of Hunter Biden's computer removed or blocked?
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  5768.  @THeEiLLaTiKi  Every right winger I know is obsessed with (anti)social media. I've never been on any, except YouTube since the pandemic started. No FB, no tweeting, no LinkedIn.
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  5769.  @krillin876  It has to do with whether the French revolutionaries could possibly be "inspired" by a war of independence of farflung colonies, which is how all Europeans saw the American Revolution. Newsflash: only Americans call it a "revolution." The French overthrew their monarchy, and their rrevolutionaries pressed for ending slavery on any soil anywhere that was under French control.
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  5770. GOOD QUESTION
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  5771. @maxknows189  Provided she fulfills all the terms of the agreement, which includes cooperating with the prosecution in other cases.
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  5772.  @maxknows189  Also, misdemeanors are not automatically expunged. They will forever be guilty, absent further proceedings to expunge their records, or pardons.
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  5773.  @nnenne4  AMEN and THANK YOU. This is becoming disgusting, literally.
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  5774. No one suggested the child should be told any such thing -- well, Emma pretended that was advocated.
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  5775.  @galaxylucia1898  You didn't understand my post. At all. It is wildly unrealistic to expect logic from anyone.
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  5776. Well that was clear as mud, thanks.
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  5777. Agreed
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  5778. By someone who thinks Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme" by assuming the dollar is a rigid yardstick!! 😂😂😂😂😂
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  5779. Trump write apologies and supports Aaron and Max's journalism?
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  5780. Exactly. That IS the real difference. 💯
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  5781. Obliviousness
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  5782. Very good hypothesis. Really appreciate your posts!
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  5783. Krystal did not say that made it all right. She also said there is ZERO discussion about class discrimination. Class discrimination is always swept under the rug. She also said the administration were cowards not to stand behind their employees.
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  5784. How?
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  5785.  @BrianelSuperMacho  This is your response to historically accurate statements? I was parsing Carano's statement, first of all. That was the focus. Does a commitment to accuracy upset you so deeply that you immediately go to ad hominem, and then claim that I must be in need of medical treatment? (Considering my doctor is Jewish, I kinda doubt he'll see things your way, LOL!!)
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  5786.  @emhu2594  I thought "fake victimhood" might be too strong a term to apply here. Now I see you were right on target. I should have been tipped off by the use of the term "feel" where it made no sense.
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  5787. The reason private corporations removed alleged harassers from their jobs was because after an internal INVESTIGATION, they determined that the corporation could be held legally liable for not removing a perpetrator once they knew other employees were in fact harassed by that person in the workplace. In other words, the victim would be the one who would ultimately be unable to earn a living in that job unless the corporation took action, and failure to act would not be fair or legal under Title VII. Russell's case has nothing to do with any of that. Not one point applies: no investigation, none of these accusers have to work with Russell Brand, none of these accusers are even known, and Russell Brand does not work for YouTube. Where are people's heads??
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  5788.  @KeefWard  Yes! Plus they clearly had fun. Really great.
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  5789. Where do you get your information? I see no evidence of broad reading or critical thinking in any group, irrespective of political leanings. I see cult-like behavior and visceral hatred of intelligence (see, e.g., Hofstadter) everywhere.
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  5790. THIS.
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  5791. ​ @BTx933  For those who miss the reference, add in a: /s
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  5792. @jwill9237  OH GOOD. We made you say it. Doctors save lives. No insurance company ever saved a life. It honored its contracts, or made money by dishonoring them. I just showed my lawyer chops -- got you to reveal your true thoughts! This was unexpected.
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  5793. Thank you for this. Of course there is a time when certain diseases should not be treated aggressively, if at all. That time is not age 75 for all forms of cancer. Good lord!
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  5794. 13:11 This is what women do to other women, especially if the victim is a pretty woman.
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  5795.  @kevinjohnson6331  Frankly, your comment sounds hysterical. This COVID agit-prop has hijacked your thinking process. Listen to this segment again, during a calm moment. Maybe in the morning. This is not a true vaccine but an immunotherapy. It lessens the risk of death and disability from the virus and thus buys us time. Lying about it and OVERPROMISING is not working. It is also very dangerous, on every level: physically, psychologically, socially, spiritually. You name it. ENOUGH!
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  5796. The NYTimes journalist simply never talks to anyone who disagrees with him. I don't think he has to spout this stuff on pain of being fired, but he is subject to (relatively) more subtle pressures.
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  5797. Except that no one was threatening her. She could have grabbed her dog, which was not on a leash as required, and left.
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  5798. The irony of that comparison is . . . Lost on you? For real?
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  5799.  @petrusromanus3790  My post about the corrupt judge who was pardoned is in the shade, hidden away from the noonday sun.
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  5800.  @EroticOnion23  And you think they need it like you "need" your iPhone? Er, no.
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  5801. Katy is absolutely right: we need a a measured, careful analysis by someone who actually knows contemporary Italy. The rest is arbitrary.
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  5802. AMEN
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  5803.  @shamsheerg7519  I see. You failed to understand. Choice means the choice to be a birth parent someday. Puberty blockers in adolescence can and do remove that choice. You've been duped by the rhetoric. Of course I oppose the sterilization of minors.
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  5804. Notice how what should have been an honest look at Syria, one of the most tragic stories of war and destruction -- and war crimes -- of our time, has devolved into a furious debate over who showed whose female private parts to whom and who giggled about them. Notice how often that seems to happen. That's what disturbs me. You?
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  5805.  @awaitingthetrumpetcall4529  LOL, I just want to keep it real. I know my politics are different from this woman's but I love her anyway. She's a hero. She believes in the Bill of Rights, and was willing to die for it. Someone has something critical to say, about her brilliant, sincere, totally heartfelt opening remarks? WOW how low can we GO??? DON'T TELL ME, I DON'T WANT TO KNOW.
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  5806.  @brockreynolds870  "If you have to be persuaded, reminded pressured, lied to, incentivized, coerced, bullied, socially shamed, guilt-tripped, threatened, punished and criminalized... if all of this is considered necessary to gain your compliance, you can be absolutely certain that what is being promoted is not in your best interest." - Ian Watson
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  5807. ​ @AHedgecliff4977 That's the reason for the massive fear mongering.
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  5808.  @tysonhelzer6451  Do you not know the difference between a private business having a requirement ("no shoes, no shirt, no service?") and the government mandating one, with the potential of levying fines or other penalties, not to mention having police confront you, for failure to obey? Wow.
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  5809. WOW IS JIMMY AT THE TOP OF HIS GAME!!!
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  5810. Well, yeah. He's white.
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  5811. Trust me, we understand. Take care.
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  5812. So, Olbermann wants to "detain militarily" people on our soil who point out facts he doesn't like to think about? Imagine, he gets paid to say this. This used to be street-corner ranting.
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  5813. Well said
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  5814. I'm glad they showed their true colors. Good.
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  5815. Thought it, wouldn't say it. Well, was thinking in the toilet, but same thing. 😀😃
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  5816. @gordonstewart8897 There's a lot of truth to this. MIT, CalTech, and U of Chicago are among the true academic stand-outs, and Princeton for some things as well. Anyone really serious about a career in the humanities should consider Oxford or Cambridge, or at least find a way to do a year abroad in one of those, and a year in Paris -- and take it very seriously. That's what the Japanese students studying in Europe did, back in the 1980s when their economy was flourishing.
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  5817. "There is no way of knowing whether QAnon is correct in this assertion."
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  5818. I like BJG, but you've set a LOW bar!
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  5819. If I show the math, guess what happens to my p o s t? 😂
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  5820.  @robertholmes12  No, not as long as they cannot exist without being attached to another person's body. A father cannot be forced to give a pint of blood to his very-much-alive and human child. We'd all agree he was phenomenally immoral and perhaps psychologically abnormal; perhaps even dangerous. But no one would force him, or could force him. Interesting, how important we consider bodily integrity and personal autonomy to be, in some cases at least. P.S. I oppose COVID vaccine mandates and passports. France recently made them illegal for minors, with the Left coalition in the National Assembly leading the way, of course. (So much for American stereotypes.)
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  5821. LOL, I see where you're going with that. 😂
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  5822. "How shocked are we that 17-year-olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order . . . ?" So Tucker -- are you suggesting we shouldn't be shocked? This is a predictable activity, for a minor? Kids that age can be expected to cross state lines with serious firepower?
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  5823.  @jean6453  Nah. People over 65 are dead, mostly.
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  5824. ​ @damionstr1ke  Good. It is PERFECT.
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  5825. Well that's odd. News in the UK (including conservatives) and in Germany (including conservatives) saw it that way. They might be better placed to know. Or, they could be more likely to see it, even when it's not intended, for obvious cultural reasons. In either case, no one is grasping at straws.
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  5826. If this were not so tragic and desperate, it would be funny.
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  5827. It may be. Ana's remarks, however, asserting that Mate literally denies that children died in Syria in some sort of apparent war crime or crime against humanity, are defamatory. Her swearing, however, is First Amendment protected. That's modern entertainment.
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  5828. ChatGPT has started making inexplicable errors in mathematics, including flubbing simple questions such as whether a given 6-digit number is prime. Not only that, but when you ask it to show its steps, it has stopped doing so. We have some idea why.
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  5829. ​ @nightskylights4501  Well, but her point is that she has daily experience with this in her job. According to the video, this doctors' group accepted Harold's demands. Why? Why didn't anyone object?
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  5830. And I hope Biden doesn't.
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  5831.  @Viconius  Agree. You can see what happened to these people. They are unwell. Remember, this was done to them, too. This was forced on all of us, and not everyone can resist such incessant fear-mongering. Not everyone is psychologically strong. If I had had a living elderly parent, I would have been sucked in, too. I know that. I have mercy for these people. I just wish they would get help, instead of still hectoring the rest of us.
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  5832. I wish I were surprised.
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  5833.  @crhu319  Froze donations "and a few personal accounts." The Five Eyes sure know how to pick people off one by one and make it pass. BLECH.
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  5834.  @jramir2  Nope. Asking them to start doing some real work to represent our interests, otherwise known as "their jobs," or expect to get primaried. Enough playing with lobbyists and fundraising. There is a crisis now. No more excursions to French Laundry restaurant.
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  5835. THIS
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  5836. ​@Fuzzball I don't know why Loomis's calculus books aren't used anymore. They trained my intuition without leading me astray one single time. When I started real math, oh brother. Let's just say I wasn't "talented." I'm great in algebra and all, and visualizing limits, analyzing infinite series as well, but have seriously deficient spatial intuition.
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  5837.  @GrimAngel01100  So the teachers didn't know math, either.
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  5838. One of the best videos on the subject I have ever seen. Thank you, Ben!
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  5839. I know I should have more compassion for her, but the story makes me sick.
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  5840. "How shocked are we that 17-year-olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order . . . ?" That this statement makes sense to anyone is a sign it is time to create an exit plan.
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  5841.  @lindasimons691  Nah, he's just gaslighting you and taking it to the second level. You know, gaslighting you about seeing through gaslighting. Neat trick.
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  5842.  @jakescott8112  This could happen. This winter, I plan to study hard, watch my money carefully, and cook a lot of bean soup. And hope against hope for a good spring.
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  5843. No wealth ever transferred to me, that's for sure. 😂😂😂
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  5844. ​ @mwmatthews1 The burden is on her to support her accusations. If she knew about this bizarre conduct, did she tell anyone at the time? As an animal lover and vegetarian, it's unfathomable to me.
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  5845. 37:05 I agree with Jelani Cobb. Time someone said it clearly.
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  5846. 💯 The comedy writes itself.
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  5847.  @antonyjh1234  They had incidents with not doing all that was necessary and reasonable for their nursing home populations. Why one area has a greater case fatality rate or a greater overall mortality rate per capita is ALWAYS dependent on multiple variables. Multivariate analysis is very difficult, expensive, requires time and requires judgment. I'm not holding my breath. You are grasping for quick answers that conform to your bias.
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  5848. I have no problem saying I am a cis woman if it is relevant. It is very rarely relevant. But when it is, no problem. I'm cis. And het.
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  5849.  d bc  The New York Post is responsible in that event. This was about material that was subject to subpoena. It was not amplification of a rumor. It was newsworthy.
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  5850. Nowhere does Glenn deify this poor, troubled kid. It's not about "sides," but about due process and real evidence. That's the point.
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  5851. Trying to imagine. Nope, sorry. Can't.
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  5852. He needs a gentle introduction to proofs at this point. What do you think is the best approach? Also: get a linear algebra book that covers the VERY SAME material, but from a more advanced standpoint, and try working through it. Linear algebra for sure, and maybe also calculus I (such as a text that's a blend of calculus and introductory real analysis). See how those go. If you like them, you are "mathematically mature."
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  5853.  @MuantanamoMobile  And can you imagine what being smeared by one group and lionized by another is doing to a young mind that is already on the edge? It's abuse, from both. And these are adults. Glenn was 100% right about the speculation concerning whether he was faking tears. His lawyer said he's being treated for PTSD, which is believable as he seems to have episodes when he can't breathe right. He never made it through junior year in high school, and right-wing politicians are floating the idea of making him an intern in DC. Absolute insanity. I never thought anyone could sink so low. It's as though there is no bottom. He needs to be under court supervision to age 21 and probation to 25, as a bare minimum.
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  5854.  @MundaSquire  And that's being kind.
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  5855. Sadly, a lot of people don't see it. They are so used to figuring out what they are going to say based on partisan power politics. Truth is for chumps, thinking is too hard, there are easier ways for them to make money.
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  5856. @shawnli4746  Whoa, how old are you? Average age of menopause is just over 50 -- about 51 or 52. My friends and I still had perfectly regular periods at 49 and beyond.
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  5857. @Van-Cleef  You should click the link to the studies instead. Your computer/tablet/smart phone can do that, right?
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  5858. They couldn't prove insider trading against her. She lied to federal agents when there was no need to talk to them at all.
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  5859. This is all FALSE.
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  5860. You're missing the point because you don't listen to arguments. You want to take sides as fast as possible.
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  5861. ​ @cassiescornerreviews6884  He was vaccine injured.
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  5862.  @kylemcgehrin8954  OMG she is the most misquoted woman on the Internet. She SAID we used to take care of these outbursts the SAME WAY WE USED TO take care of, say, a bar fight. The people are ejected, and had to pay for any damage immediately. Then, they were not arrested. You mean you've never broken up a bar fight in your life? I have, near Wrigley Field. A Jamaican bar. Sheesh you kids are green.
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  5863. Do people have families they could turn to? A sister or brother, if not parents?
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  5864.  @KenVic-m3r  That's not the point. How often does he know the relevant information with precision? How often does he convey it well? 50% may be generous.
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  5865.  rs_  Yes. I accept that VAERS reports are unaudited. Incidents may also be underreported, as they have been in the past. Not only doctors report, and in any case, what is the basis for a doctor's "clarification" (in this politically-charged) climate (see, e.g., Mattias Desmet for more information)? And the head of the CDC does not have the numbers. Therefore we do not know, either. What you said about person years makes no sense. Vaccine-induced myocarditis generally appears quickly, infection-induced can take weeks. We know this. If you don't make the distinction, you don't capture the facts. Moreover, the vaccine is very incomplete. Obviously this requires multivariate analysis. That's not speculation. My source is logic. (And the fact that I'm an attorney who worked extensively on the Daubert rule in the federal system. I know about taking a hard look at time lines.) I find it funny that you ask me for my "source," as if you've caught me flat-footed or something, when the head of the CDC just admitted before the Senate that she does not have the numbers. That was under oath.
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  5866.  @meowth8050  That is true. Or at least a good possibility.
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  5867.  @meowth8050  Perfectly stated!
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  5868.  S S  Is she lying about births and miscarriages?? Or are you biology-challenged?
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  5869.  S S  What? A person who escapes a cult, has the presence of mind to keep her family's whereabouts secret, and writes a book about her experiences is a "victim?" No, when she meekly obeyed cruel and senseless orders and permitted herself to be denigrated, then she was a victim. Now, she is a VICTOR. Write your own book. We'll see how you do.
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  5870. And she loved every minute of it.
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  5871. ​ @ihatecrackhead  If this were "obscene," it could be seized and very likely prosecuted. In law, that is a technical term. State employees do have some First Amendment rights that those in the private sector do not.
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  5872.  @peetky8645  No one willingly signs noncompetition agreements -- well, absent a big bonus -- and they aren't always enforceable. You can see how they could be structured just to shut people up. That could be acting in bad faith or against public policy or both.
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  5873. Don't worry. Seriously, don't.
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  5874. That's true, too. But threats are a whole different level.
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  5875.  @yourneighborhoodfriendlyme4242  Ana and Cenk aren't the left. Sorry. That's clear.
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  5876. ​ @OldWanderingMillennial  No, she is wrong. There is general principle, and very narrowly-crafted exceptions. "Clear and present danger" is not even the correct legal term. See Brandenburg v. Ohio.
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  5877. They are always getting you to 💩 on somebody. How is it that you STILL don't see it? 😂😂😂
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  5878.  @capncrunch9053  Sorry you didn't have the time to read what I said before "lambasting" me. OH WELL.
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  5879. @purple66666  The biggest problem with global warming is that climate is "chaotic" in the technical sense: very small perturbations in initial conditions could result in extreme outcomes in a relatively short time frame. This makes predictions difficult, not to mention that if we did solve the problem, assuming that's even possible, we would never know what catastrophe we averted. The other problem is political. We see those telling everyone else to use less oil and gas doing exactly the opposite themselves. Carbon credits are now bought and sold like securities. That's what they've been up to -- inventing new ways to trade on the "narrative."
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  5880. Brie --- how do you know that kind of bizarre violence isn't a false flag? I do NOT suggest it is; the point is, quit taking these events at face value. Practice suspending judgment. They do not want you to pause and think, they want you to take sides fast. I think you should calm down.
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  5881. Power of the big bribe.
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  5882. 😂😂😂
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  5883. That's why he should have been off the street. It doesn't show he was a danger to others this time, sufficient to justify using lethal force against him this time. But what bothers me is that Penny must be presumed innocent. What happened to that?
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  5884. I'm not sure what you're taking issue with.
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  5885. Yes, sadly.
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  5886. @squatch545  If you actually read some cases and saw how these are applied in the real world, you might have a clue. If someone apparently threatens you, how do you know whether it is a true threat or a joke, hyperbole, etc.?
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  5887.  @jennybarrett2365  🤣🤣🤣
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  5888. Biden was a bad joke the first time. A joke or a crime.
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  5889. No, she said men opting not to go to college is starting to affect the economy and the earning power of families.
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  5890.  @stimulatemyexistence5669  Be a dupe. Sorry I interrupted my reading of the lawsuit against Neuralink to see this nonsense.
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  5891.  @fatbachelors3922  They won't understand because they don't want to. Nadine Strossen has explained it perfectly. Will they read her book? Sorry. The question is too stupid.
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  5892.  @kristyraney5886  EXACTLY. DNC opposed mandates only until they WON. Thank you.
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  5893. My first question
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  5894. "We've all been there . . . " 😂😂😂😂😂
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  5895. Batya is very sharp and very funny here. Well, always.
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  5896. I'm so, so sorry. There are people who care.
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  5897.  @anacc3257  What evidence do you have that the OP is one of those people? I don't need Rachel Maddow to alert me to people appearing on The Duran, for example. As for critiques of Ukraine and its leaders, I look to people with a solid record of opposing Putin, such as Lev Golinkin. Most of the debate around this subject is completely solipsistic. It's all about who's who on the American celebrity scene. None of these people are serious.
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  5898.  @NotSure421  I am part French and lived there. Piketty sounds like a typical intellectual who learned to read English extremely well, and never paid attention to phonology. All the French doctoral students I knew sounded like this or worse. People who read all of Faulkner's works, or all of Shakespeare's, sounded like this AND talked slower, because they lacked fast access to a productive vocabulary. They had receptive vocabulary. It is unfortunate, you're right about that.
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  5899. My regret has to do with investing badly.
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  5900.  @themanfromdystopia807  Did you ever read the article alleged to be defamatory? Just curious. Or did you come away thinking the case was about who abused more? Because that's not what a defamation case is about.
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  5901.  @themanfromdystopia807  The jury came up with comparative blame for the abusive marriage. Do you think Depp, or anyone, should be liable in defamation for their lawyer's speech? (That was a howler.) Let's use our heads. Kim saw through this. She always does.
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  5902. I think all three are making some good points.
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  5903. That comes to about $500,000 a year . . . For every year since the Crucifixion.
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  5904. ​@yurei8 No parent should be allowed to deprive a child of a fundamental human right, such as the right to have their own children someday if they so choose.
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  5905. Example
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  5906. ​ @kyle-ri5mz HA. No, that's what people had 1945 to 1980.
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  5907.  @_Why_123  Thank you. I agree 💯. My point is that they were vastly rewarded for the harm they did. What's to prevent a repeat?
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  5908.  @brodyespiritu4363  The jury is questioning Question 3. 1:23
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  5909.  @jackchid6040  Since the Internet took off, I've learned that a lot of people don't even know about them. As in, 75% represents a 50% increase over 50% (because 75 is 50% greater than 50). Lots of people don't know how I got that. It "looks wrong."
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  5910. I hope this is rock bottom.
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  5911.  @jasonstroon  Follow the government's advice? I watch and read European news to get the facts. I want to know what other societies are doing. I'm sick of being inundated with sheer nonsense and obvious contradictions that I'm supposed to pretend do not exist. They talk to us as if we were moronic.
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  5912.  @jasonstroon  Roughly speaking, a vaccine protects me more than others, and a mask protects OTHER people more than me. So, with most people still not vaccinated, WHY are we removing masks? Vaccinated people can still develop COVID, they just don't get very sick. So, there's a contradiction right in your face. (But is everyone who sees that an anti-vaxxer? I hope you don't mean that.)
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  5913.  @greatdude7279  Boomers went to college to avoid the draft, and had kids young for the same reason. A married PhD student with a toddler did not usually end up in Viet Nam. How soon we forget.
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  5914. Why are Business degrees considered "practical?" Apart from advanced economics and finance, and the partial differential equations to go with them, or sufficient accounting to qualify for the CPA exam, most of that stuff is fluff. It's learning business speak -- IOW, how to write badly. A history major is a better writer.
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  5915. Look up the lawsuit filed against Tesla by California for severe and pervasive employment discrimination and the administrative complaint against Neuralink for primate torture. Those are eye-opening.
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  5916. You know all this happened --- how? This sounds twisted, too.
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  5917.  @Puleczech  And once he was completely subdued and motionless, then whose fault was it? Who put him in THAT position?
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  5918.  @chinter  You're right. The defense argument is trying to confuse the jury. They have no real argument.
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  5919. You can look up Chauvin's federal plea agreement and see what Chauvin pled guilty to. It describes exactly what Chauvin himself agrees he did, in federal court before an unelected judge. I guess Candace missed that? 😂
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  5920. I hope this helps: all the young people I knew (late teens to early 30s) who contracted any serious viral illness -- meningitis, mononucleosis, hepatitis A, pneumonia, and so forth -- needed a full year to feel like themselves again. But they did. I think you'll be okay. Please do not feel your life is forever altered. There is no reason to think so, I swear! Very warmest wishes to you.
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  5921. I admit I did NOT see this coming. Is this a country anymore?
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  5922. I think Taibbi is awful here. His very best reporting, on Wall Street, was brilliant and scientifically based, of course without being scientism. His current mystification is disappointing.
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  5923. Both Brie and Kim are reasonable concerning masks. Their discussion was reasonable in this segment.
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  5924.  @2bRealist  Oops, I'm wrong. There is now an open letter with 4000+ signatures, asking for action against Powell by the bar. My, my. If only they had listened to you! /s
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  5925. It's openly discussed by Israelis, but they have free speech.
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  5926. ​ @charlescox1905  I have. You can't get that on a license plate in my state. But that does not prove what they are suggesting it proves.
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  5927. "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." Hey, pretty good writing.
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  5928. @Cheirosa81  You're judging these individual alligators based on character evidence, when they were peaceably hibernating. 😲 😂😂
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  5929.  @fast_harmonic_psychedelic  The MSM tells the rest what to think, I mean moo in unison.
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  5930.  @hugomaritz692  Thank you. I truly appreciated that. Exhale.
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  5931.  @sheilamacdougal4874  You've also demonstrated an inability to judge relative risks, but that's common. People who are nervous about flying will get in a car with a driver who has had a few beers. The COVID response didn't cause that, but maybe fear has blinded you to the point.
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  5932.  @sheilamacdougal4874 The war zone point was that risk is always relative. I meant it abstractly. Too bad you took it literally, then forgot about Americans in Afghanistan! Well, those injured by vaccines are not just forgotten, but abused for talking about their injuries. BTW, what is it that I said we should stop doing? Did I say we should stop offering vaccines? Wearing appropriate masks indoors? Voluntarily staying home if clearly prudent and practicable? Quarantining if and when infectious? IOW, mitigating real risk? I didn't say we should stop any of those. What I don't support is forcing the young to lose more of their lives, and scaring people to death with sheer nonsense and exaggeration, and provoking more mental illness. We have that now.
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  5933. ​ @jamesmurphy9426 😂😂😂 I got that.
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  5934. Who? Marcuse's widow died a long time ago. You never cracked open a book by him, did you?
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  5935. This is a very important point. Plus of course, Russia is going to risk being discovered placing utterly useless and superfluous bounties on Americans' heads. Makes sense to me.
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  5936. My fear.
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  5937. ​@leftypaws1131 You're the one who is quick to weave a narrative. Evidence, and its chain of custody, comes first. There is no reason to believe he is innocent, nor is it reasonable to believe that he "must be" guilty. But he has no obligation to prove innocence.
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  5938.  @25lighters91  💯
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  5939. Which IS potentially dangerous.
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  5940.  @rickb3650  True. His father was the name partner in Seattle's top corporate law firm, and his mother sat on various boards and got IBM to talk to Bill. I remember when I wouldn't let my father get me a job that paid a buck above minimum wage.
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  5941. @lordalpacas6464  💯 👏👏👏👏👏👏
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  5942. Well, duh! Why do you think they're doing this?
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  5943. @jamiehopkins3796  I know. Drugs have been pushed on kids far too much. Robert Whitaker wrote the finest book on this subject, and he became the leading journalist investigating overprescription of psychoactive medications. He actually got a piece published in the BMJ recently. The fact that we have to consider making puberty blockers a crime is already a failure of the medical system. It should never have come to this.
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  5944. THIS
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  5945.  @charliebukowski6652  "Research on nuclear issues" isn't an accomplishment. It's a note in the agenda of a college student.
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  5946. 2:21 This reminds me of how they handled COVID: they were incapable of admitting the limits of what they knew, so they lied. When they either do not know or cannot say, they hide and they lie. They lie a LOT.
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  5947. ​@elenabistiu7984 Russia should not have escalated the war in Ukraine the United States engineered and fed, starting in 2014. Not as long as there was still a choice to take a different path.
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  5948. ​ @debbieframpton3857 To do what? To prolong the death?
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  5949. A lot of people don't. They do not understand how cutting a tape can completely misrepresent what was said.
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  5950. Same for France
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  5951. Graduation ceremonies should never be interrupted by anyone, because they do mean a lot to a lot of people, but frankly -- these are not for adults. They're for kids. I never went to one after high school. Jessica acknowledged as much. She got this right. Robby pretty much said the same. His points about "shutting down" were 💯.
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  5952. If the vaccines work less well than had been hoped in preventing serious COVID, and don't work well at preventing transmission, that undermines the case for mandates.
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  5953. ​ @chelo2626ify  His lawyers told him how.
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  5954. @gugy68  Whose mistake was it? If someone defrauds you, are you to blame? Great, don't even prosecute fraud. It's your fault anyway. Buck up, take responsibility. If your spouse beats you, same deal. I didn't marry them, I don't want to pay for them to sit in jail.
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  5955. Still appreciate the point.
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  5956.  @Wackalacka  Nope. See the Supreme Court case concerning Hustler magazine and PARODY.
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  5957.  @entium1  I would still have to compare your essays. You avoided that point. Best friends don't have the same essays. But if he had better essays, would you say essays shouldn't count?
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  5958.  @entium1  I was kidding. Anyway, where did you see I claimed that you said your essay was "better?"
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  5959. Psychosis is real.
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  5960. Neocons used their leverage to the hilt, but you will not see The Squad do anything of the sort. Never. (The new Mod Squad, LOL)
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  5961. 1:57 savage . . . warranted 7:05 EVEN MORE SO -- Obama designed the mass foreclosure program
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  5962. @kevinsyd2012  Campbell did say that these were mild --- they were discovered via blood tests, not symptoms. The study participants were warned not to exercise and were instructed to rest. Campbell made that key point. Moreover, whether there will be ramifications in several years is unknown. How would you like "mild myocarditis" at 15 for a shot you did not need, only to have problems delivering a baby at 34? Or worse.
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  5963. Deepening divisions was the plan.
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  5964.  @LovettGolf  The success of the BRICS "depends heavily on western . . . security?" That is whistling in the dark. Western security depends on maintaining the petrodollar. These are the debtor nations now.
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  5965.  @gloriamoore2486  You're going to make this about politics? This?
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  5966. ​@PotThoughts I remember when Rogan praised Bill Gates as a philanthropist -- more than once. The benefits of not smokin' is a solid memory.
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  5967. ​@WoziBeatz I prefer math. It's universal. ;)
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  5968. Why? Why is prison your go-to? You don't even need a crime? Just the fact that they're bad people? Then a quarter of the country could be imprisoned, at least.
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  5969.  @benwyse  They may not be involved, but your functional analysis is on point. Our kids are generally ill-served. Why? And in response to a justified plea for help, how often do they hear merciless jeering? From everyone.
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  5970.  @benwyse  I say follow the money. Your best bet, almost always.
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  5971. The guys don't seem to understand. China does not believe Ukraine is a sovereign country. They OBVIOUSLY believe it is a US puppet. With Department of Defense funded biolabs. I don't agree, they don't agree. Ryan and Robby need to put themselves in other people's places. Kim has no problem doing that.
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  5972. Robby made a great point in this segment. The JOB of journalists is to find out what is in those documents.
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  5973. Exactly. That someone who should aspire to argue before the Supreme Court is instead so easily hooked on making very ill-advised posts on Twitter is enough to make one weep. We sure have fallen far.
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  5974. What part of "CHOOSE Life" bothered you so much? Having lobbies and politically active strangers decide for you is "freedom?" You always had the right to try and PERSUADE a woman not to terminate her pregnancy if you were actually part of her real life.
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  5975. I love Glenn. If journalists won't state when politicians are lying, "then what is the purpose of journalism?" The purpose is M - O - N - E - Y. (There's a song about it.)
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  5976. Two works: Kalief Browder
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  5977. I wish I were optimistic.
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  5978. Makes me wonder whether he was at an Epstein dinner, or in a Hunter video.
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  5979.  @thereal4113  I get that feeling, too.
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  5980.  @jcmeadows1  Very well stated.
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  5981.  @ThisIsMyHandle333  Oh, like Prager U? 🤣
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  5982. "Hate speech" is not a category of unprotected speech. So-called hate speech is generally protected. "Hate crimes" are not speech crimes; they are crimes having a particularly nefarious motive.
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  5983.  @no_real_names7156  Nicely stated.
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  5984.  @rodrigosimoes9284  No, Stacey is correct. Listen to Mate, Greenwald, Hedges, Blumenthal, Scahill, Norton, Taibbi, Halper, even Wolff, etc., etc., for a while. Of course the current DNC is now right of center, compared with these types of parties in other developed countries, including the English-speaking world -- and compared to where the DNC itself was before Reagan/Thatcher.
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  5985.  @nilnil7325  They are liberal in the British sense: neoliberal corporatists.
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  5986.  @rodrigosimoes9284  Because the whole spectrum has shifted to the right. Eisenhower was to the left of Biden.
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  5987. Well, I always thought law school was something everyone could complete, and had a right to try, but . . . Hmm. Her arguments are that far above you? You're listening for buzz words, to see "which side" she's on?
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  5988. @goodtalk985  Actually, I think the opposite. I think people deliberately misunderstand her and need not do that. They choose to do that. Irony is impossible as well? No it's not.
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  5989.  @simplyme7405  All of your points are great. This was a grave situation, no matter what anyone believes about the legality of abortion. There's also the reality of a fetus close to viability. The girl is a minor. We don't know whether she was of age to consent when this started, if she consented, or if she was so emotionally disturbed that she hid her pregnancy for nearly six months. There are countries where elective abortion at this stage is never legal, but a panel of doctors would look closely, and might approve this one as being justified. No one wants minor girls to be treated as vessels. Well, no one decent anyway.
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  5990. Did you make a report? VAERS is a difficult system to navigate, but you can make a date to do it.
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  5991.  @christophereverett2353  Jack Philips never sued anyone, he was sued.
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  5992. @mark-147  I consider myself very accomplished, and in my social life I don't talk about the things I've done. I've found that when people realize that, they become angry and come up with nonsensical third-rate psycho-babble accusations like that remark. Looks like the mirror is all yours.
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  5993. Dr. Grande would be an awesome lawyer. Go for it! You could defend those with psychological disabilities for two more decades. (Which is plenty long enough in that job. :)
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  5994. If you want to be a true realist, then consider that a male who is not the birth father of your children can pose a risk to them, and to you, as well. Everyone believes that the man they fell in love with is "decent," and wouldn't have fallen in love had they not believed it. There would be no violence or abuse in the family if that were true.
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  5995.  @adrianazollo2688  What's worse is that they don't even like sex.
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  5996.  @doryfishie2  I've been doing that (i.e., reading peer-reviewed journal articles available on PubMed, etc.) all year. Expert witness testimony under Daubert and philosophy of science are my fields. I'm not sure why you addressed this comment to me, except that well-thought-out, rational comments are targetted quite generally. The idea is to pretend the person being targetted said something entirely different from what they said. The pop phrase used to describe this move is "gaslighting." One could also call it non sequitur combined with innuendo. But I digress.
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  5997.  @Papadoc1000  Robbie was ridiculous. The one time a self-styled libertarian goes against libertarian principles is in a First Amendment case, and for what reason, precisely? Briahna gave the correct analysis. This was not about "MeToo," which any sane person saw as garbage, but about free speech.
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  5998. @decentralizeddemocracy8335  Well, we signed treaties saying we wouldn't. Which of course means they never conceded they did. Why did Obama sign the moratorium against "gain of function" research?
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  5999.  @user-zf3mb2rh9n  Vaccine injury.
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  6000. @hankhillsnrrwurethra  Precisely that well. LOL
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  6001. Hillary, but Nancy is trying very, very hard.
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  6002.  @humanbeing2420  They aren't at all. This smear was more repugnant than Jimmy's worst rant. Your innuendo is, too. But this what Americans are now. Not this side or that side. You're all sniffing around to see what someone else has, and your hate for others is never far from the surface -- especially when a real working class kid makes it. Infuriating, isn't it?
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  6003.  @78md74  She brought up a controversial point in a disingenuous way. But her main takeaway was that this woman needed to be arrested, charged, and fired -- and was. If she has examples of similarly egregious conduct that has been defended by the firearms zealots, she could have produced some, instead of making weak analogies and speaking in generalities. Still, 4:02. Too bad it doesn't always happen the way it did this time. Your diatribe is a stretch.
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  6004. Yes. One of her best.
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  6005. She was 80???
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  6006. THANK YOU Brie, for the faux accents comment.
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  6007.  @napsam71  Elon, is that you?
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  6008.  @napsam71  Get back to work, bruh.
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  6009. We will remember this time as one of the worst episodes of mass psychosis.
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  6010. Parasite. That was great.
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  6011. I'm with you on this.
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  6012.  @theciakilledjfk5973  Me too. Those are Stoller's values. He told the truth. About his values. ;D
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  6013. ​@TOGAB Steve Bannon is extreme right, but nevertheless "independent" under the usual meaning of the word.
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  6014. We had near-free education: in-state tuition for a full academic year at Michigan, California, Virginia, Texas, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, everywhere, was something a student could earn by working full time in the summer. The kids who were able to do this were a different people. They were very often grownups, ready for college and for personal responsibility, at 18, and they graduated without significant debt as well.
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  6015. Jimmy and Max are Assange's spiritual brothers.
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  6016. And you out her here?
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  6017. ​ @HomeEF And wasn't this the beginning of the end of any semblance of standards? To think that we need to miss Nixon at this point.
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  6018. Shhhh . . .
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  6019. Considering what is happening to Assange, I think Patrick is in grave danger. This is my opinion.
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  6020. Depends on how much. $$$$$$$$
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  6021.  @sunamiren9063  To be fair, he had a rare medical condition that forced him into bankruptcy. His doctor expressly advised him to take the vaccine early on, and gave him the impression it was an individualized determination.
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  6022. They're making money going after the students now. Because pitching a tent on a college quad is a threat to humanity.
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  6023.  @longrider188  Um, all the major newspapers and television stations have EDITORIALS. You know?
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  6024. Your channel is all horoscopes and tarot?
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  6025. Intelligence and conscientiousness no longer predict "success" but they do predict unhappiness.
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  6026.  @annickalexander  Conspiracy to commit murder charges are brought all the time, regardless of whether the victim even knew about the plot, much less whether they were ever confronted by a gun-for-hire. A person most certainly can be sentenced on the basis of something called "related conduct" to the charges for which they were convicted, even if they were never mentioned at trial. The logic is supposed to be similar to "aggravating (versus mitigating) circumstances," but has gone well beyond that concept. Look up the federal Sentencing Guidelines. If he did attempt to hire anyone to kill another person, then charges should have been brought. He is too dangerous release from prison, ever? Prove it. The government should have to. A serial killer who was active in Paris in the '80s was eventually released, over a generation later, to a halfway house. We are incarceration mad.
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  6027.  notimportant  Really? He even employed artists and writers in the WPA. Temporary unemployment that lasts six to twelve months becomes permanent. You should read about what the WPA accomplished. It's beyond belief, really. People built skills to allow them to find jobs in the private sector, or start their own businesses, once the economy improved.
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  6028.  @JohnHunterPlayerr  Who said they supported DeSantis? Or anyone? Those all sound like memorized talking points.
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  6029. @ClownCarCoup  You didn't spot that the Labor Force Participation Rate number is wildly wrong? Or that growth rates after such an abnormal period as 2020-2021 are less meaningful than sustained growth rates? It's the same with the growth of a portfolio. If it drops by 1/3, it must rise by 1/2 to break even. Why do you bother? NO major politician and NO political party is worth it. I mean, unless they pay you. That I can respect. Groceries aren't cheap.
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  6030.  @2manybooks2littletime25  Well, they say the word "hero" is overused, but you were that man's hero, and his mother's. It is very painful to realize that the elderly cannot count on everyone to respect them, but you did. I can barely imagine what they both went through, so late in life. I feel like I have already been shaken to the core one time too many! Especially . . . Well, you know what I'm thinking, no need to say it! :/
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  6031. Good point
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  6032. My real name sounds Russian. Résumé studies have shown that black-sounding and Russian-sounding names do not get called for interviews, and they have been replicated many times. What do you all suggest? I'm genuinely interested. DEI is nonsense. So . . . ?
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  6033.  @norman_5623  Ridiculous. You must not know how agricultural subsidies operate, or why they are essential. I don't eat birds or mammals at all, or fish very often -- I may be vegan for months on end, in fact -- but it never crossed my mind to withdraw subsidies from ranchers, or not pay for meat inspections just because I don't eat meat. It's a matter of global health. There are young children whose parents feed them beef. I want them to stay healthy. Sheesh.
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  6034. Briahna was outstanding on this issue. She was fired for free speech.
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  6035. Mitch McConnell wanted a vote for M4A so that it could be defeated by Republicans . . . during a pandemic? Sounds like a plan for getting rid of some Republican Senators.
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  6036. @Dooger414  The very existence of the corporation is to limit the liability of its principals and agents. That's why the most that can happen when an oil well blows up in the Gulf, or an airplane door blows out, or a tanker hits a bridge and sinks it, is that people will be fired. They will usually face no lawsuits or charges, or lose a cent of compensation, much less have to give any back. In a year or two, they may even be richer than ever, like the CEO of BP was . . . . Personal responsibility is for little people. 😂
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  6037.  @maxspringfield  It's a research grant. You know, that's what scientists have, for their work? It's how they get paid.
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  6038.  @Reclaimer77  In general, I don't support criminal laws intruding on medicine. Criminal laws don't belong in that domain, and if they prove to be necessary, it represents a much deeper breakdown of the medical system than just this issue; criminalizing this would hurt the one child in (probably) several million that actually needs more aggressive treatment; and I believe in any case that the burden of proof for any new criminal law is on the proponent: you have to prove something should be a crime. We don't assume it. We've had too much encroachment on personal liberty: people lost their JOBS over COVID vaccines, including those who had worked all through 2020 and had recovered from COVID; a ten-year-old pregnant child had to cross state lines to get the immediate care she needed, and her doctor got death threats. This is crazy, all of it. We always want to make something we don't like a crime. Our prisons are the biggest in the world. (edited for paragraphing)
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  6039. @Phil Davidson They are used when children as young as 5 appear to be entering puberty. Off label, up until now, they were used on older children who were suicidal, and only after other interventions were tried and had failed. Is that an answer for you? I hope so.
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  6040. They all have immunity. Why do you think they persist?
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  6041. @user-rl8mg2nw2s  Mystery solved: a foster son he took in as a teen. Good that he speaks of him as a son.
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  6042. I'm stocking up on navy beans, a very long-lasting, wholesome food with an excellent lysine/arginine ratio. One of the cheapest, too.
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  6043. Aaron is PERFECTION in his remarks. Hillary literally stated the election was stolen from her.
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  6044.  @mercyjohnson6436  Your Bible doesn't have this? "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."
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  6045. So well said! Babies have an important vaccine schedule already. How does this vaccine fit in with others? There are teens who are late in getting their first meningitis vaccine and are getting the COVID series instead. I don't support delaying other important vaccines.
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  6046. Koch-funded magazine editor.
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  6047. Look up the court documents and see what really happened. This case is being misrepresented deliberately, and it could serve as an object lesson instead. It's also sad that he was under so much pressure at work, and felt he had no alternative. He needed rehab. This is not a simple case.
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  6048. ​ @annmc-t7p Well, that turns out not to be true. What I don't get is why everyone is spinning this case. It could serve as a lesson.
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  6049.  @suprabh2108  Mandate by whom? A private business can do this, and as Robbie correctly points out, they can lose his business. Who issues the mandate, why, and where is the issue. If you listen to the very end, Kim Iversen gets to the real heart of the matter, as usual.
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  6050. Wasn't that when he failed to recognize his mother in the courtroom, and said she was in jail? There he mixed up different times.
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  6051. Say! I just had a brilliant idea! Develop a safe and effective vaccine!!
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  6052.  @stoneyrules  The vaccines were made with NIH (public) funds.
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  6053.  @realskepticalstoic9704  Yup. DNC will always support war, without fail. It's their only solid "jobs program." Trump is a pseudo-populist con man; he might support war or might not; he's incoherent.
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  6054. But they're all wearing cool masks, Jimmy! What do you want, exactly? /s
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  6055.  @raymundogonzalez6450  So much for "free markets."
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  6056. It isn't. No left party in Europe supports vaccine mandates. No Scandinavian country has them. CGT (hard left, France) recently organized a demonstration of vaccinated health care workers in support of their unvaccinated colleagues and against the mandates. L'Obs posted a video, and all the comments below it praised the CGT for their humanity. Very beautiful, actually. I hope this won't be censored. Usually is.
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  6057. ​@luckylunaloops It has to be a true threat. Hyperbole does not count. What no reasonable person would take as a threat does not count.
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  6058. 😂😂😂 oh that was good
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  6059. Never attack a guy who has votive candles with his likeness on them. It can only mean trouble. /s
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  6060. You were being ironic. At least I figured that out.
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  6061.  @tonyg76  Then you don't know if he was responsible for "divisive stuff."
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  6062. Now I want a second look at Seth Rich. It is an unsolved case, after all. For that reason alone it should be reviewed.
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  6063. I didn't know what that meant until the other day. Incredible misogyny.
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  6064. There is nothing unreasonable about being hesitant to get a drug not FDA approved, but only Authorized for Emergency Use (AEU). Being against AEU, or worse yet against all vaccination, is very unreasonable and irresponsible.
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  6065. His style of delivery presumes far too much knowledge before he even gets started. I wish he were more careful to lay a foundation and then rant. Even I had trouble following, and I get this stuff.
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  6066.  @kyle-ri5mz  One word: IRAQ How quickly we forget . . . smh.
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  6067. Giuliani was prevented from presenting a defense?
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  6068.  @mxxmm4365  He didn't call her a whore. The question wasn't whether his crass joke seven years ago was wrong. Of course it was wrong. He provided a WRITTEN apology -- not a small thing. Everyone knows that can be used against you. The question was, how do you suggest he defend himself now?
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  6069.  @jesseschulepicks  Even Robby agreed with most of what she said.
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  6070. You can read it yourself.
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  6071. ​ @mr.pizzamarlon  The struggle against autocorrect is interminable. No one can win every battle.
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  6072. @Ulysse  Very funny. It had facts and reasoning, no rants, no extremist taking sides. You can guess the rest. These fora are not designed for real debate, much less exchange of real information.
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  6073. Sam Altman just donated $1 million to the Trump inauguration.
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  6074. A version of this happened. Ted Bundy was on a civilian commission in Seattle giving his thoughts on violent crime, and especially rape prevention. No, I'm not kidding. (Bundy had prominent Republican friends, while John Gacy had Democratic ones.)
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  6075.  @mellem4653  Exactly. Bullying is so bizarre. In a lot of other countries, it's seen for what it is, and is not tolerated at all. It's not an excuse for bullying anyone in return, much less hitting anyone, much less murder. But that's not the point. Frankly, you find the most bullying in English-speaking societies, and you also find people looking down on the victims rather than the perpetrators. Most of the rest of the world sees through this nonsense and thinks it's disordered. They don't let children and adolescents behave in that way, because it's immature, uncivilized, and does no one any good, ever.
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  6076. "Anti-work?" No, an end to abuse at work. People confuse work and suffering, as if not wanting to be abused is greedy. No one respects anyone they can abuse, at work or outside of it.
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  6077.  @zawyehtike3089  Hmm . . . Not sure where to start. I base my comment on reading, and meeting and talking with Finish college students studying in the US. The Atlantic ran probably the most extensive series of articles on the Finnish educational system about five years ago, and some of what they said was slightly exaggerated. The series is not a bad place to start, and then you could look for more nuance elsewhere. I guess I would say that a lot of what they do strikes us as counterintuitive, yet there is no doubt they spend the least per pupil of any European Union country and consistently score at the top in the PISA tests. They used to be first in the world; now they are "only" first in Europe. Entrance into the teaching profession is about as competitive as law or medicine (below the top 10% means you probably won't make it), all teachers must have at least a Master's degree, but once attained, the teachers are regarded as professionals and given tons of autonomy -- and then the schools themselves are highly egalitarian. It is ironic. They simply don't encourage competition, but cooperation, and do no standardized testing as we know it until about 6th or 7th grade. Everyone gets meals in school. Everyone gets 15 minute breaks every hour. School days start later and finish earlier, school itself starts at age 7 and is no longer mandatory after age 16 -- but most kids choose to continue, and a large proportion go on to college. They do not do a lot of homework, but are expected to study quietly during several time slots in class every day, so in a sense they have homework sessions in class, with immediate feedback. There is a lot of variety in the curriculum, but also uniformity, in that it is simply expected that everyone should and will attain a certain solid foundation in every academic subject, and be given an opportunity to practice various arts. They don't do tracking in the way we know it, or hear about it in Germany. Kids at different levels who are in the same grade study together in one classroom. Kids may even have the same teacher throughout most of elementary school, until their first serious standardized test at around age 13. They don't have private academic preschools or cram schools. All the kids become bilingual Finnish-Swedish, and most also learn English, so they graduate trilingual, but are not tested in English for their final high school exam ("matriculation"), only Finnish and Swedish. They do not allow corporate influence or control, or business-speak, to influence their profession. There is no notion of the student (or parent) being a "client" or "customer" in any sense; educators do not "deliver" the curriculum to students. Their system assumes corporation heads are no more knowledgeable about education than they would be about medicine. Teachers are really put on a pedestal, at least in that sense. I don't think any other high achieving country runs their schools that way. Most people -- even the egalitarian Finns -- believe that the single most important factor in their success is the thorough professionalizaton of the teaching corps. It is a really hard profession to enter.
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  6078. Why didn't Trump fire him?
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  6079. We have never had a coronavirus vaccine, nor an mRNA vaccine using nanoparticles, which are roughly 1000 times smaller than a red blood cell. We have never had four injections in 18 months for any vaccine, with a fifth proposed this fall.
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  6080. I'm proud to say I decided to emigrate in 2019. Sadly, plans on temporary hold. I don't agree with a soul I see on this video, "pro" or "con." I don't agree that anyone should be filmed in extremis. I don't agree that they can give informed consent. Anyway, I didn't need COVID or another George Floyd to read the handwriting on the wall.
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  6081. Did you read the unfair labor practice charge? No, simply occupying a space that others believe you should not occupy is not "violence," even if the latter are ultimately judged to be correct. One's own workplace, the environs of one's workplace, traditional First Amendment fora, designated First Amendment fora, etc., . . . You think it's clear who does or does not have a right to be there?
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  6082.  @TroyaJamilyn  No one should be deprived of the choice to become a birth parent while they are still a minor. The opportunity to have birth children is a fundamental right. I think it's sinister that we are talking about taking reproductive rights away from a small, misunderstood, and frequently maligned group, while they are still children. Maybe there might be some rare case, where all other treatments were tried and failed, where it could be done, but an honest try of other treatments takes time. I'd expect the trans person to be grown by then. Wow is there a lot of self hate in this society!
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  6083. Love all these posts!
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  6084. ​ @melizbeth1  Is he? Tried in the press, eh?
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  6085.  @LinA-it9vd  Keep telling yourself that. Right up there with "humanitarian bombing."
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  6086. Can you be serious? The rim of the Mediterranean has always been multiracial, including the northern rim.
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  6087.  @jjgreek1  Is South Africa's low rate of vaccination due to the "anti-vaxx loonies?" What is the reason? It appears that an untreated HIV positive person is Patient Zero. We have not been informed of the evidence for this.
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  6088.  @stevenj2108  Oliver Stone volunteered for Vietnam and was decorated. (He could have had a student deferment. Instead, he got a scholarship under the GI Bill for film school.)
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  6089. "Magic," Rose? Other people respond to money in a way that you don't. When you are not corrupt, there will always be a disconnect.
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  6090.  @wildbill9681  It is not FDA approved. But I give up on that, will watch the news on what Europe does.
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  6091.  @clarissa8477  Yeah, she turned out to be someone who understood about consequences all right. Worked like a charm. No better way to show your child exactly what you think of them, and how much support they can count on from you. When other kids are being prepared for college, given music lessons, art lessons, summer camp, etc., risk ruining your own child's life at 15. Show them who's boss.
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  6092. Gavin De Becker is a very interesting guy. He decided to go into security services the day JFK was assassinated. He was about 10 or 11 at the time, watching television with his little sister, the first person he decided to protect.
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  6093. OMG, excellent.
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  6094.  @dositless9554  Why were those charges DROPPED? Or dismissed? Should someone be sentenced on the basis of conduct that was never proven at trial?
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  6095. ^^ Also reading Taibbi, "Hate, Inc." The evidence and details of a story you suspected for a long time.
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  6096. @scratchpenny  Great point. You're right, we should. Like they had no clue six months ago . . . Smh
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  6097.  @moonasha  The UK ambassador to the UN proclaimed the UN too corrupt to be trusted with an independent investigation? Well, I can't say that would be all bad.
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  6098. It got her far, didn't it? Do you know anyone who won't do practically anything for 💰?
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  6099.  @robws007  Another one hit out of the park! 🔥
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  6100.  @billweir1745  Except that those aren't "anti-vaxxers," nor are they people who do not plan to become vaccinated. Many already are. Their concerns are on another level. This is a small number of people, and they are not spreading rumors to dissuade anyone else from getting vaccinated. You'll also notice that some civil rights lawyers do not like EUA vaccine mandates; Dr. Topol gave them a subtle nod toward the end. . . Whole different ball of wax.
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  6101. ​ @trailertrashfire  Because she doesn't support the wars?
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  6102. They are always ready to take advantage of any event, remember that! They got richer after the 2008-09 debacle.
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  6103.  @marciasloan534  Consider how strange it is for a man of his age to have this fantasy. Also consider that fantasies about burning someone to death, especially in their bed, are deeply disordered, at any age. It is not a common thing to think about. Also consider that a crime at 60 might be the one where he finally got caught!
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  6104. Young people are anxious because they CAN'T GET JOBS they can LIVE on. Some will be rich, some will be homeless, rather than all being able to count on a normal sort of baseline, as long as they study and work and do the normal things. They can't count on anything. You might be used to it. A 17 year old isn't.
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  6105. So sorry that recovery hurt so much, but glad for you that you did.
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  6106. Ha. When did Trump ever care? They played good cop bad cop. Isn't that obvious?
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  6107.  @StygianWolf  THANK YOU. What does it take? Scary how few people see through it. Yeesh.
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  6108.  @coachwhitford7315  Um, when you speak more than just one language, the American cosplay becomes not only transparent but stunningly naive. They don't have to work hard to dupe you. At least make them work harder. This is embarassing.
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  6109. ​ @johndearborn5360 Not everyone is bright enough to follow her.
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  6110. @harrymills2770  Looks like yt doesn't want you to see a certain reply.
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  6111.  @harrymills2770  Cents erred . . . D
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  6112. ​ @rc8929  The number I saw was 2.2 per one million. Where did you get one per four million?
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  6113. nothing good
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  6114. Was the explanation of the game too complicated? You needed video graphics?
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  6115.  @nick_nastyy_  Professor Mattias Desmet, U. Of Ghent. His English is flawless.
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  6116. GREAT post. Someone gets it.
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  6117.  @pariah_carey  That's not what I meant. I meant, if you can show me ANY city that has been "burned down," even a small one, I'll agree that "cities are being burned down." But there are no such places. There have been a few buildings burned in a few places, and usually targetted because the owners called police for some small matter and it ended with police unjustifiably killing someone. This is not right, but it happens. I lived in France during waves of demonstrations, and they have been demonstrating since the fall of 2018. Over there, firefighters have stood between demonstrators and the police, to protect demonstrators. I have a more positive view of protest. It sure gets things done there. When I lived there, a kid got killed by police and the president of France paid his respects to the mother. One of the cops who did it cried so hard he had to be sedated and hospitalized for observation.
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  6118.  @pariah_carey  You've lost the sense of how other people live. Is it fear of blacks? Because I don't get it.
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  6119.  @micaelahill8905  Unfortunately, false flags is a real problem, too. Very dangerous stuff, and people are easily taken in by it. Some of the groups that have been demonstrating are disorganized and chaotic, and leave themselves open to false flag operations. CHAZ or CHOP or whatever the hell that was in Seattle is Exhibit A.
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  6120.  @elliestretchprays7851  Or are you projecting your guilty feelings on her?
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  6121. YES
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  6122.  @Joe-qv6jh  No, 1990 was not the Dark Ages. $250k per year was certainly possible. But if a graphic artist made that, it was almost surely at the conclusion of one major free-lance contract, and not a regular salary. The first million dollar per year baseball player was in 1979.
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  6123.  @imveryhungry112  CPI inflation calculator: "$250,000 in 1990 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $587,272.38 today." You're off by a factor of 5.
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  6124. Of course this guy could be a plant, fake, false flag, provocateur. Personally, I don't trust him. So . . . Jimmy should not present a single interview with him because? Because people are such idiots now that they will be hypnotized by THIS guy, and join his movement? I pity him, frankly. I want to hear from people like this, to see what they have to say, not to endorse them. This is called journalism. It is not advertising.
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  6125.  @eze2190  How are you a critical thinker when you just advanced a baseless counterfactual conditional? That's a big no-no. See, e.g., NELSON GOODMAN.
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  6126. Always a possibility. Great reminder.
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  6127. Listen to the whole thing.
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  6128. EXACTLY. The question why the White House did not reach out first, before USING the story, stands. The welfare of the CHILD is paramount. Was it made paramount? No excuses, for anybody.
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  6129.  @oceanechevalier7194  People in France told me this! So cool. One physics major, who was not a language buff at all, said to me "Latin is something different for us. If you listen to your teacher and do your Latin homework, then spend a summer in Italy or Spain, in six weeks you are understanding them, and in 3 or 4 months you are speaking."
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  6130.  @setag54321  Why do you keep saying animal studies were not done? Yes they were. Ask, instead, whether any of the animals that received the vaccine completed a normal life cycle and reproduced with normal offspring. They should not all have been sacrificed for autopsy. Believing the nonsense that animal studies were skipped leads us away from the real question that needs an answer.
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  6131.  @jman75234  Besides, the purpose of this is to get people to vote YES. (Wall Street may have other plans we don't know about.)
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  6132.  JB JG  I think this is basically right. Part of the justification of affirmative action has been that the legacy pool creates a student body that is too homogeneous for what these schools want, so the remaining seats -- which are supposed to be merit-based -- are used in part to achieve "diversity." The Supreme Court has tacitly acknowledged this. Attacking the black students is attacking the weakest target in this whole picture.
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  6133. You had nothing to "fess up." And you did not lie. I am wondering how you got "caught" in a lie. What happened to HIPPA?
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  6134.  @roberthudson3386  Total agreement. And that makes it easier to stare a boss in the face and make your lips move to emit whatever sound is advantageous to you. I'm always struck by two things: how phony all the Heartwarming Stories are, about how this or that person with a serious disability was given a chance and thrived in the perfect job, when the truth is, people will almost always look for a way to get rid of you. I even know of cases, plural, where coworkers tried to get a cancer patient fired. The second is how easily a boss will lie to YOU, the worker, and how shocked people are every time it is done to them. They honestly don't expect it. Why? Because they've been candid the whole time, so they expect that their virtue will be returned to them? That would almost be laughable if it weren't tragic.
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  6135. ​ @trumpetpunk42 You beat me to it.
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  6136. Green cars? Who would drive a green car?
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  6137. Note to self: ALWAYS allege against others what you yourself have done.
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  6138. Glenn Greenwald and Aaron Mate and Matt Taibbi and JIMMY DORE, among many others, have absolutely always said this. Greenwald once defended a neo-Nazi, a good 20 years ago. Trump wasn't on anyone's radar. Now you're making stuff up.
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  6139. "We Want Them Infected" is, um, what happened? Even after vaccines? Even among the multiply boosted?
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  6140.  @velmajacobs933  And capitalist governments are always hugely perverse, in addition to being oppressive.
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  6141. You don't know these are French?
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  6142. It already has. Divisiveness is the watchword.
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  6143. I remember last year when people were indignant at the suggestion ivermectin be studied. One person said that if it ever is, they won't read the study. Grooming for war psychosis? Seems like it now.
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  6144. Well, this market pays more for lies than the truth, but actually, that's pretty normal.
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  6145. ​ @tansywelsh1636  Those aren't the only choices.
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  6146. A program that ends in well under 60 minutes could help you train your attention span. Berletic also uses some general vocabulary and geographic and geopolitical terms you might not be familiar with, so it could enhance your skills there, too.
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  6147. Read the article. And while you're at it, read up on multivariate analysis. That is urgently needed.
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  6148. Thank goodness vodka and cats are banned. That'll show 'em.
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  6149.  @BrazilResearcher  He got the Moderna vaccine on his doctor's recommendation, as did his wife Stef and several other people close to him. They all had minimal side effects, though not trivial -- they were sick for at least a day and weren't themselves for almost a week. Jimmy's side effects were worse and persisted for months, and he had to be treated for "long COVID," from the vaccine, not the illness. He's fine, finally. He was candid about his experience. Jimmy and Stef did not get vaccinated because Biden said, or Fauci said. They consulted their doctor. That is not wrong. That is proper. So, explain what you mean.
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  6150. WHO is fast talking here??
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  6151. Brie didn't bring up race.
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  6152.  @so-dan-bought-some-land  I had to check this, it's mind boggling. He was 25 when he committed this homicide. How? How could he qualify for retirement?? Had he been shot, it would have been a problem in some departments to collect a retirement of that size, because of his age. The $8 million settlement is poor; the lawyers' fees come out of that. The deceased had a projected work-life of 40 years, then Social Security. On that basis alone you need to project at least $50k per year for 40 years and adjust for inflation. Where is the compensation for the emotional pain of knowing how he died, begging for his life, and the loss of a husband and father of two young girls?
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  6153.  @BondJames-vz5wk  Any tweet that so stated, the proper response was a link to a video where Kyle brings us the news. That's how someone who purports to want to avoid drama actually avoids drama.
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  6154. And those who do not? Too bad? The government has no right to do this to us without OUR permission. That's the law.
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  6155. amen
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  6156. Because they were defrauded but cannot declare bankruptcy.
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  6157. Too easily, especially if you are law enforcement.
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  6158. I think the word is plunderers?
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  6159. Correct. The College Board sets the standard for curriculum and the AP test. The College Board is a private organization. The job of a governor is to ensure truth in advertising, not to censor. These are ELECTIVE courses. If the courses do lead to college credit, and there are teachers who want to teach and students who want to study, that is all that matters.
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  6160. Amen. No pun intended.
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  6161.  Cannabis Dreams  I suggest you look up golden rice -- little to no appreciable difference. Those children need fresh carrots and a vitamin pill every month. Moreover, even the (heavily Gates Foundation funded) WHO issued the following guidance: a GMO must be tested and approved strictly case-by-case, and the Precautionary Principle applies to place the burden on the promoter of GMOs to prove they are safe and "effective," in the sense that they do what they are engineered to do better than existing organisms do (which does include more cheaply, etc.). Europe requires labeling, by the way, while we have to dish out for organic or non-GMO verified.
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  6162.  @layinlow77  Golden rice performed poorly. It did not save the eyesight of millions of children. It is somewhat better than nothing. Well. That is something. /s :/
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  6163. @lanceolot007  Comments are deleted FAR too often generally. Where Brie is concerned, unfair negative ones get amplified a lot.
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  6164.  @johnconnors6412  Appellate courts are different. They set legal precedent. Technically speaking, trial courts do not.
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  6165. NIH website: “Several months ago, our studies showed that natural infection induced a strong response, and this study now shows that the responses last,” Weiskopf says.  Dr. Gupta never saw this? Or he doesn't remember?
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  6166.  @na2cho  They have the sense of touch, don't they? Or did I just go too far? Quick, cover your eyes.
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  6167.  @chad3232132  It is never wrong to ask for an attorney and remain silent. Literally never.
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  6168.  @traceynomatterwhat383  When he told everyone to break a board, what more had to happen to show he was vicious? And a charlatan?
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  6169.  @traceynomatterwhat383  It would be a fascinating report. Just started reading Murakami's Underground, just this weekend, about the cult that gassed people on the Tokyo metro in the 1990s. Some very prominent people were involved in the cult. Have to read it in small excerpts. I've known martial artists, and their sensei would never tell them to do anything he was not absolutely sure they were ready for. Really never.
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  6170.  @karlwhitehead3057  Correct. Absent a statement under oath, or at least to a state actor (like the police), it is up to the target to sue for defamation -- rarely useful or successful in situations like these. These are considered purely civil matters, and presumed to be protected speech until proven otherwise.
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  6171. The deaths at home suggest a measure of inability to obtain health care as a factor among many. Dr. Campbell covers this so well. Gratitude!!
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  6172. Great comment by Greenwald, AS USUAL.
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  6173. False confessions are remarkably common, and this fact is highly counterintuitive. This is one of the first things criminal lawyers learn.
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  6174. I know!! Every time a real issue surfaces, let's turn it into a sex scandal.
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  6175.  @stevezilla68  Except that it doesn't. The 13th Amendment allows federal prisons to extract labor from duly convicted inmates.
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  6176. ChatGPT has started making inexplicable errors in mathematics, including flubbing simple questions such as whether a given 6-digit number is prime. Not only that, but when you ask it to show its steps, it has stopped doing so.
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  6177. Read his bio, and he really was a good guy, and won because he had a lot of good will from his years of standing against corruption. Doing this to him is heartbreaking. Appalling.
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  6178.  @erolegario  Listen more closely. Mate just said Zelensky's life was threatened for trying to find a path to peace, and one of his diplomats was in fact shot to death.
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  6179.  @Username18981  Oops, you're right. I wasn't thinking big.
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  6180.  @jeffreysnyder290  But that isn't at the root of the hesitancy. It's not a matter of demanding perfection, but concern about safety. I am not surprised that people who have taken the risk are belligerent toward those who haven't. That's the mentality you always see in America with majoritarian types who have never had a bad life and don't know what that means. (N. B. It does not mean a reversal you overcome.) Everyone I know who hasn't been vaccinated yet has had at least one serious, life-altering medical mistake in their lives. And no POC ever tries to bully anyone into or out of taking it. I wonder why that is. I have a suggestion. Take a look at vaccination rates in Germany, France, Japan, Russian Federation. Pretty interesting. Japan is about to host the Olympics, though without spectators. Are they all crazy? Hm.
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  6181. 💯
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  6182.  @orawancarlile6192  I am skeptical of Wunderkinder. It's all part of the Great American Narrative of miraculous achievement with very little work, just following one's bliss . . . the apotheosis of the Cult of Profit. But beyond that, a person could be very gifted indeed. Still not clear HOW he gets a job like that, with security clearance, in the post 9/11 world. It's not as though MIT, Cal Tech don't graduate hundreds of people each year . . .
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  6183. As long as she isn't for mandates, or pushing masks hard, just short of outright mandates, I don't care what she does. I don't care what anyone does. It should be up to them.
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  6184. If we did idolize intelligence, it wouldn't be Vivek on top. 😅
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  6185. This! It is incredibly hard to get a good job in nursing without at Bachelor's. The best hospitals were requesting an MS before the pandemic and the nursing shortage. This is the time to look for a new job, and maybe one that would pay for her degree. If she could finish a year in night school, and then go full-time for only one year to complete the degree, it might really be worth it.
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  6186. @J I hope you appreciate how difficult that is, and that most people could not achieve it without others to do it with, including elders to act as very patient teachers. I am the only person I know who has cooked nearly everything I have eaten since mid-2005. Really almost everything. When I propose a 30-day challenge to people, to give it a try, NO ONE will take me up on it. And yet, nearly everyone used to do what you do. It's ultimately inexplicable.
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  6187. Campaign contributions.
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  6188.  @Alsayid  If you don't know what they look like, so much the better. I won't ask you to check them out.
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  6189. The algorithm doesn't like that. Just rant and you'll be fine.
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  6190.  @kevo3985  That would be long covid.
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  6191.  @thehumanity0  Three things. Slowly this time. 1. You may have heard there is a pandemic. It is real. More contagious varieties of coronavirus are turning up. Health insurance is tied to employment and employment is collapsing. The US has proven itself unable to deal with these things already. 2. What was stated in (1) makes it harder to vote against M4A now. It is politically fraught. You cannot go by what would have happened last year. In 2019, it wouldn't have passed. In 2021, it very well could pass. Not that it certainly will, but that it could. That makes it worth fighting for now. 3. Voting no could have serious consequences. It could cause a lot of politicians to be voted out. It could become THE political issue of the 2022 election. This could be true whether or not M4A passes, and especially if it doesn't pass. So, apart from being the right to do, supporting M4A is also a political risk worth taking. It may not turn out to be much of a risk at all.
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  6192.  @thehumanity0  Okay, no pandemic, no recession . . . "Unicorns and fairy dust." Got it. My plan, personally, is to leave the US again. So, this matters much less to me than you think. Vastly less. You're the one who will need to be doing some serious thinking, if the option of leaving is closed to you. It's not a Big Deal to pressure a politician like Nancy Pelosi to serve the people in a crisis. She just gave a chairmanship to Kathleen Rice, who not only withheld her vote for Speaker last time, but started out in politics as a REPUBLICAN. This is Realpolitik. I'm not a big AOC fan, but this gets under my skin. (*This* was divisive. Pelosi, however, is apparently not worried about being divisive.) Also, don't swear at me. Or on second thought, do. It has the opposite effect you intended, for anyone with a brain.
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  6193. 2010, 2017, and 2020 were all like that for me. I had three improbable things happen in a single week.
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  6194.  @SclountDraxxer  Apparently it's not a fallacy, if it happened. How could we go from restricting drag shows to 18 and over, to criminalizing drag altogether?
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  6195.  @brianfaucett989  "to keep us safe" LOL
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  6196. I think you misunderstood them.
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  6197. Are you joking? Do they read other books?
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  6198. ​@timoegan You and OP have absolutely no idea what they do or don't know, or whether they work. Students at state schools often have jobs, and are older than 18 to 21.
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  6199. If someone is a harasser, why would you direct message them, to let them know you plan to expose them?
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  6200. She lies all the time. 😂 I know because I'm a lawyer, so I know she doesn't believe what she claims. She's very smart and is making bank. Her kids will have nice trust funds.
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  6201. ​ @shonuff4323 ​ It is not a "natural" reaction to anything. These kids are being manipulated by the adults around them, who are vicariously working out their own issues on innocent minors. So, you think it's "natural" to pile on? This is what you teach your kids? This is Lord of the Flies in real life. My late father was a really tough guy, WWII veteran, and a natural athlete his whole life. He always defended people against bullies. When he showed up, they backed off so fast it was funny. If someone appears to be abnormal in some way, at least steer clear. This is a minor, and you don't know what's going on with them. You are not qualified to judge. If you cannot be kind, or at least civil, leave them in peace. You think there's something unnatural about that? Beating someone up puts you in a relationship with them. Explain to me what that's about. It's not a "natural" reaction at all.
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  6202. ​ @OrangeySky11 My father was a true tough guy and a gifted athlete. He always defended people against bullies, and they always backed down fast. Of course, he was an ethnic immigrant, so this bullying thing you all worship and set your little hierarchies by seemed ridiculous to him. Take it to the soccer field if you're so great.
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  6203. Where do you think that law applies to negate the First Amendment rights of speech, petition, and assembly for persons who are already here? Does "support" mean pure political speech that is not an incitement to unlawful activity under our First Amendment precedents?
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  6204. So . . . Tell me about bankruptcy. The last president had six of them.
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  6205. ​ @esnips123123  Thank you both for tempering our optimism.
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  6206.  @paulietv2162  It certainly could. Those are crucial years. They do not decide your fate but they make change later in life more challenging. Don't you have challenges from childhood? If not, lucky you. Most of us do.
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  6207. ​@space4099 Bad example. Anyone can still go to work in China teaching English, and keep most of what they make.
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  6208. ​@kyle-ri5mz Right. This isn't theoretically preventing something that might never harm you. This is the government preventing a doctor from treating an actual emergency confronting this mother of two right now, who wants to preserve her life and her health for her family. This is real.
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  6209. ​ @run2cat4run He's okay with the government controlling this woman's body, who is a stranger to him. He thinks he should have more say than she does, than her doctor does, and than her husband does. Someone 'splain this to me.
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  6210. What are your top suggestions? What do you think of intermittent fasting?
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  6211. Yes. He has power because the news keeps saying he does.
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  6212. ​ @wkadalie Years ago . . . Yes. COVID and gender-bender changed a lot of things . . .
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  6213. ​ @gypsyjengypsydogs9320 Good points
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  6214. Do you think most private university admissions are merit based? Half the class is legacy, or "special development," i.e., the parents are huge donors. Why should anyone turn down any opportunity?
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  6215. @LID-lw5cl  Where did you get that? Should I credit you, and disbelieve my lying eyes?
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  6216. McGinnis's testimony appears to have been ignored. Juries do not like to send white boys to prison. We all know why.
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  6217.  @userumbleandgettr4freespee501  Were you able to read what I wrote, and think it through?
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  6218.  @userumbleandgettr4freespee501  I believe in *CHOOSE* life. Both. No question. Emphasis where it belongs.
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  6219. ​ @blue_moon6490 Actually, this is what ownership means. YouTube is an OWNER. They have the gold, so they make the rules.
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  6220. The bill is blatantly unconstitutional. It's not even close. Congress is ignoring its oath to support the Constitution. This law is a shameless fundraising gimmick.
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  6221. Perfect solution, I say go for it.
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  6222.  @SaulKopfenjager  Exactly. Biden is no Democrat.
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  6223.  @sarabrant723  Same thing in Illinois. The monster who murdered Jeanine Nicarico murdered two more while an innocent person sat in death row.
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  6224. 😅😅😅
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  6225.  @JoKo203  "If?" Seriously, "if" Biden doesn't do anything for the American people? I'll give Kulinski credit for saying more than that if you promise me that you just misspoke. This is impossible. Quick, tell me this is impossible.
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  6226. Charlie Kirk brought it up.
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  6227. Talking Heads, bringing you the official narrative since 1941.
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  6228.  @fionamcgrath8982  Now I know why people say G_ill B_ates. 😂
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  6229.  @danimalthebruce2569  No. Because the police would not let anyone near Floyd until he had already been unresponsive for several minutes.
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  6230. A distinguished professor and prolific writer says "agency." It's over. Psychobabble won.
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  6231. You stopped listening right away, huh? Because Brie was good. He wasn't funny. That's the bad part. If you're really funny, you can get away with anything.
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  6232.  @johncale1849  True, but on the American spectrum, he is centrist. America is a quasi-fascist country, and has been through most of its existence.
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  6233. This is a great discussion.
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  6234.  @ricksta5350  Did Trump fire Fauci? Odd, no? A politician with SIX business bankruptcies might not be, um, the person to TRUST to care about you in times of peril.
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  6235. ​ @doreeneclose6295 Funny how the Dems didn't notice. You have to wonder why.
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  6236. On her own show this is what she has been saying for years. Interesting . . . hm.
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  6237. I'm for air purifiers, sure. They may be effective against viruses that actually harm kids.
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  6238. This didn't make sense. Here is the timeline, available in many places including CNN: August 12 -- the videotaped police encounter we saw August 17 -- Brian flies back to Florida to clean out a storage locker and get some supplies, and possibly money August 23 -- Brian returns to Salt Lake City, rejoins Gabby; they were apart for about 5 or 6 days August 27 -- incident in restaurant, last text from Gabby to parents that was clearly from her By August 30, Gabby was dead. This timeline shows interruptions to the buildup of rage described here. It also shows that Gabby had a real opportunity to get away, or at least to talk to someone she trusted, August 17 through 22, a solid five days. So, what happened? If you want to prevent stuff, you need to know what happened.
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  6239.  @P.90.603  They did do a terrible job of explaining our most important right. They should be clear, eloquent, and passionate in their defense of First Amendment freedom of speech, and they should explain the actual law whenever called upon, instead of using lazy buzzwords like "context." (I remember when Amber Heard's expert witness used that word.) They don't care about freedom of speech or the welfare of the students. That's my impression, anyway. The Harvard president was the least bad. Penn was a nightmare. All three surprised me.
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  6240. I hate when victims blame themselves. Please don't.
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  6241. How does someone who checks his facts in real time need a fact checker?
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  6242.  @joankearney4029  The media lied. The consent forms never promised the vaccines would prevent all COVID infections. Funny how that is. :/
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  6243.  @davidchmielecki2967  This is true -- Clinton pulled stunts Reagan would never have dreamed of. Remember the savings and loan crisis? S&Ls were allowed to fail, fraud was prosecuted, and consumer banking, which is government insured, could not mingle investment banking into its operations.
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  6244. Well, I'm sure they did pick the best responses. I can't picture an interview of Americans where they'd have so many to pick, true.
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  6245. This business of "not showing appropriate emotion" is such utter nonsense. That is never evidence. Look harder!
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  6246.  @annaclarafenyo8185  Because we have to support Brand AOC, not the progressive agenda?
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  6247. Every time I hear about this explosion, I think of the British sinking of the French fleet, Mers el Kebir, despite the directive to French captains not to surrender their ships to the Nazi Germans, and just as the sailors on at least one of the largest ships were about to mutiny and join the Resistance on Britain's side. I don't know why that incident keeps coming to mind.
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  6248.  @kkay3784  Thanks. Chomsky quotes him all the time! The modern-day commons is clean air and water for all, and healthcare for all. The insurance companies are a rentier class, standing between us and doctors and getting a cut. If an insurance company CEO gets a multi-million dollar bonus, something is wrong.
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  6249. But yeah, outside the big coastal cities, and a few other chi chi places, you're right. About $30k is median.
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  6250. ​ @zzzbbbooo If only he had not met Megan, you would have had a chance . . . 😂😂😂😂😂
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  6251. She is married. Her first husband was a journalist, and they had two children together. Her current husband is an Army veteran and a private security specialist.
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  6252.  @brianbattaglia2187  This is so false that it's not funny anymore.
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  6253. Trump will be his own running mate? He would be if he could. 😅😅
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  6254.  @johnwright9372  Perfect description . . . Because it was.
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  6255.  @QuantumAscension1  Exactly. And Shapiro could walk the talk, and be a defense attorney for police. He could actually work for a living. How do ALL these grifters and con artists get away with it? I don't get it any more.
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  6256.  @stevek5600  See how we can actually think for ourselves? Get a clue.
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  6257.  @ScotMayo420  ?? Did you actually think I was defending her? WOW, just wow. That's too much.
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  6258. If we have Trump v. Biden again, well . . . That would be perverse.
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  6259. @blockyuniverseproductions6587  Based on my experience on yt, I'd say the problem is the elimination of perfectly accurate, well-founded and well-worded viewpoints.
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  6260.  @tvviewer4500  Answered; hope it's allowed.
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  6261. Speaking of university: All Norman Finkelstein said is perfectly true and right. As a footnote: don't go to university in the US. Learn another language if necessary, and go abroad. $80k per year is absurd. If scholarships don't bring it down to $30k or less per year, on average, no. Just no.
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  6262. @Joe-l6o  The Kids for Cash judge got more, so you're right.
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  6263.  @Curt-Gevert  Was any of it to compensate you for lost wages or benefits from your job? If not, have a talk with the lawyer. In any case, it should have been explained to you in detail. As in, a full accounting.
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  6264. @Happy-uy5wc  Oh good grief, no. How do you think settlement agreements are written?
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  6265. ABSOLUTELY. This went too far.
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  6266. You sound mentally healthy. In fact, go ahead and scream. We've got your back.
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  6267. Looks like anesthesia was going to be limited until . . . Hm. There should be many other ways to bring about change. Full agreement there.
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  6268.  @JillJ-y5f  So she had trauma in her life, froze in fear for hours, and thought nothing of it, it was probably Doordash -- plus she was wasted. Wow I love how people make so much sense.
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  6269.  @user-xg3uy6hq9g  That twerp attacked me personally for something I did NOT say. Get it? Look, either she was paralyzed by fear or she wasn't. Maybe the way the police took down her statement is not exactly how she made it. I frankly don't see the point of rationalizing this, or assimilating it to situations that are not the same. If you want to normalize not calling -- anyone -- where you heard strange noises and then were surprised by a stranger who scared you in your own house, fine. You be that way.
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  6270.  @user-xg3uy6hq9g  Let's make it a wrap. I am NOT saying she did not/could not have a perfectly innocent for not calling. I am saying it was not normal not to call. The normal thing, the expected thing, would have been to call. That does not make failing to call into something immoral, sinister, suspect, etc. (Are fine distinctions, like, over now? Do we just line up and take sides? As fast as possible, then dig in? Brilliant.) Second, DO NOT say someone is drunk unless you know for fact that they are. DO NOT presume they are drunk. People with unusual medical conditions have died that way. Plus, it is rude. ("College kids drink, that 'must be' what she did." Stereotype much?? We'll be sure to return the favor, see how you like it.)
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  6271. Surprise, surprise!
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  6272. 4:45 Now consider that Jimmy grew up on Chicago school yards, South Side. This must drive him crazy.
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  6273. WHO said "white privilege?" Nancy Mace said "white privilege."
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  6274. See Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic. This is the usual pattern: a new drug is actually beneficial to a small, small minority of people -- and even for them, it's that the benefits clearly outweigh the harm (not that there is no harm). But to profit, the drug has to be prescribed to a lot more people.
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  6275.  @bmass0828  About what? That materiel is more important than manpower? That we know for fact that US materiel saved the Red Army? I'm supposed to "acknowledge" those are true??
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  6276.  @tanker335  Well, my late father and uncle were fighting the Nazis LONG before all that . . .
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  6277.  @itsyourenotyour9101  The point is, the next generation cannot afford apartments, nevermind to start saving for a house, because of the debt burden. They stay on their parents' health insurance until age 26, provided they don't get married, which they can't do anyway because of having debt at the start of life. Do you really not see where this is going? No generation in my lifetime was infantilized like this one. When I was a kid, the college students paid for their full year of tuition with a summer job, and their dorm with part-time work study. Then they could move to ANY city, with an ordinary job and one or two roommates. Yes, even San Francisco, even New York. That was opportunity. This isn't. It was over by the time I graduated.
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  6278. The real tragedy is that it does not matter.
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  6279. ​​ @colinfffff  Briahna just told you in what ways RFK Jr is right. Try listening.
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  6280.  @cassiescornerreviews6884  Because the real issue is one of PUBLIC POLICY, and Hotez has voluntarily interjected himself into that debate since the start of this pandemic, AND has presented very preliminary scientific research as absolutely definitive. That's why. If he sticks to real science and science journalism without advocacy and without defaming those who disagree with him, no problem.
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  6281. canon fodder  Joined a few months ago, for this?
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  6282.  @canonfodder6966  Who do you think has the burden of proof for mandating a drug or preventative medical procedure? The people who don't believe they need it?
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  6283.  @tonifitz6831  The law doesn't back up your opinion. Maybe you're right. We have the largest prison population in the world because that's what we do. We like it that way.
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  6284.  @tonifitz6831  Some of us are rather fond of the Constitution. It is unique in the world.
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  6285.  @ConstableRinkels  This is a new talking point. People are taught so little in the schools (except "correct" attitudes?) that this ends up sounding plausible to them.
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  6286. I'm not surprised that we care more and more about who your parents are, rather than who you, an individual, are -- whether it be for citizenship, a career, or admission to Harvard.
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  6287. This sounds about right as an example of the New American Mentality.
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  6288. Way to miss his point.
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  6289. No, he's seeking money now, first and foremost. Truth comes second. (Speaking of the Greeks, see Plato on the Sophists.) That mystical stuff should alert you. He's not a spiritual leader, he's a journalist.
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  6290. So Robby is SO ignorant that he doesn't know it is illegal to defend property with lethal force, regardless of the value of the property. This is the problem. People don't even know that theft of property is never a reason to use lethal force. A person has to put another person at risk of injury to justify use of lethal force.
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  6291.  @jl52l46  The College Board is a private entity.
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  6292. "Listening?" Testing, before he can be released for gym class and sports, more like. Suddenly, the norms of care are gone. I remember when all high school athletes were recommended to get an echocardiogram.
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  6293.  @lamel1781  Look, he will almost certainly recover with time. Please don't scare grandmother. The point is, what should he be doing right now, and for the next 6 to 9 months?? (Basketball? I don't think so.)
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  6294. "We'll elect Joe and push him left!"
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  6295.  @AudioGardenSlave123  Your obsession about "only one side" is absurd. The gesture Gabby demonstrated that Brian used against her is very similar to what would be used to cut off someone's air supply. She did not strangle him. We may never know for certain whether he strangled her, but absolutely ALL the circumstantial evidence points that way. In any case, the timeline in this video skips over the fact that he took a plane to Florida in the middle of all this. Changes the analysis. I also don't understand why your comments went from making good points to ad hominem and misogyny. What happened?
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  6296. One of the most repugnant displays I have ever seen. Watching it again really repulses me. I cannot believe this is in Congress.
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  6297. My father was in the 8th British Army!!!!!! Small world. Uncle in the 2nd, North Africa. My GOD.
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  6298. A billionaire should have a bodyguard.
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  6299.  @poppadan4270  Actually, they do not have immunity for actual fraud. Well, at least not on paper they don't.
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  6300.  @rustynuggets  How separate? Jimmy's denunciation of Ana and Cenk over their smear of Aaron Mate is what provoked this. But yes, Aaron should sue. As for Dore, they can't fire him now. So they have to smear him, too. See how one lie leads to another?
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  6301.  @rustynuggets  What video do you mean? All the videos Jimmy has done on this issue include Aaron or his colleagues at Gray Zone. It's at the center of the controversy.
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  6302.  @rustynuggets  A question for you, just a hypothetical: suppose a woman boss deliberately flashes a male subordinate, in the modern workplace, 2021. We stop the frame right there. Who harassed whom? Just curious.
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  6303.  @rustynuggets  You'll have to ask Ana and Cenk why they quickly pulled down the defamatory video and why Ana tried to threaten Dore to get him to stop talking about their smear. Only Ana can tell you.
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  6304. Did you read the statement? Do that, then make up your mind. Because in a Title VII case, the court takes a close look at whether the speech alleged to be racist is indeed racist. It's not like social media mobs.
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  6305. Brie made it clear that SHE DID NOT VOTE FOR BIDEN IN 2020.
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  6306.  @trond5656  Well said! I'd love some reading recommendations from you, but YT has been [sense or ing] them as suspected commercial promotion.
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  6307.  @musFuzZ  Read The Atlantic article. Murray worked for the OSS, which became the CIA. The research he later did with Kaczynski and the others at Harvard had a similar aim and design as MK ULTRA projects created to study brainwashing. Start there.
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  6308.  @boatguy3800  It is not unfounded speculation, and records were classified, sealed, or destroyed. In 1977, the Harvard Crimson reported as follows: "The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) informed University officials this week that Harvard "was involved in one way or another" in two research projects conducted under the agency's MK-ULTRA human behavior control project, Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said yesterday. Steiner said the University received substantial financial records from the CIA outlining Harvard's involvement in the controversial mind-control program. He refused to release any details about the documents yesterday, but said the two research projects in question did not include any drug experimentation. The CIA secretly operated the MK-ULTRA research project for 12 years beginning in the 1950s to study the effects of alcohol and various narcotics on witting and unwitting human subjects at a number of American universities and colleges. The New York Times reported last month that the CIA had sponsored a separate series of hallucinogenic drug experiments conducted during the 1950s at a Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital. The tests studied the effects of LSD on students from Harvard and other Boston area universities." It was easy to find, bro. I omit links, as YT usually shadows them (they make monitoring for TOS compliance too hard).
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  6309. Concerning all of these stories of horrible side effects and deaths, if you did not make a report, that is where I have no sympathy anymore. I am appalled by the people who jeer at those who followed medical advice in good faith and took the vaccine. They meant to help everyone. They deserve sympathy and respect. But if they were injured and no one reported it -- sorry. If you felt you should take this and you encouraged others to take it, then failed to report a serious injury, you became part of the problem. Step up and make a report. Otherwise, no one should believe you.
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  6310. Batya is a treasure. She allows us to exhale, and stop having to believe fifty impossible things before breakfast.
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  6311. Jimmy did go back to policy discussions.
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  6312. SO funny. 😄😄😄
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  6313. ​@Cole99v He wasn't saying that at all. He was saying no single person can earn what amounts to the net worth of millions of people. No one is that grand, or that competent. No one's day has 24,000,000 hours. Jimmy was right. This is on the level of the pharoahs. And it's ridiculous. No normal person would seek this.
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  6314. ​ @henocksherlock3340  What would you know about it? 😂
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  6315. AMEN
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  6316.  @SomboonCM  Does DHS believe in the COVID pandemic? Does it believe COVID can harm the lungs? Maybe if you tried thinking you might like it. Worth a shot.
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  6317. "We should view X as baseless propaganda but we should look into it, too." 7:45
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  6318.  @VTAcraft  Will the kids learn the Nazis were defeated by the Red Army? Wait. They don't mean the Nazis were victims of Communism, do they?
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  6319. 1. Most of what the Supreme Court rules on are federal statutes that affect your life but you never hear about. 2. Since Marbury v. Madison, the Constitution says what the Supreme Court says it says. The Constitution IS the totality of Supreme Court rulings on the Constitution. That's not saying it SHOULD be. But don't let anyone tell you it's something else.
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  6320. They don't deserve pardons. Robby got this right.
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  6321. Credibility is relevant, and qualifications can be relevant to credibility. The issue was the relative risk, and the perception of risk. People who understand statistics and social psychology have the qualifications to comment. Those who disagree are welcome to explain why, based on statistics and social psychology, without attacking the person.
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  6322. Or "misgendering." God help us.
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  6323. Why don't you forthrightly say that you may one day argue before the Supreme Court, or submit a petition for cert, or a brief, and hence you just can't talk about the intelligence of Justices, for the sake of your (future) clients? Why not just say that lawyers really can't do that, even when they'd love to, because there are real people and their welfare to consider? Sheesh.
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  6324. bell hooks is radical? Good grief.
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  6325. "Americans?" Who's that? Oh . . . oh, I get who you mean. /s
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  6326. For anyone interested in a calm, rational discussion on the clearly pro-vaccine (but not vaccine-centric, or anti-civil liberties) side, watch Lex Fridman's Sept 1st podcast where he interviews a real virologist, professor and researcher from Columbia University. He supports further research into therapeutics, including ivermectin. It is excellent.
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  6327. Reality check -- always appreciated.
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  6328. I am frankly sick of these stories, with no one attempting to obtain legal recourse. Yes, the PHARMACEUTICAL companies are not liable, BUT medical malpractice still exists, as does conflict of interest. Any illness, vaccine-related or not, must be treated in a manner that is consistent with proper medical norms. Hospital administrators and foundations cannot invest in a pharmaceutical company, then hide the harm caused by that company's products. In the US, lots of suits have been filed, beginning in 2021. It is NOT hopeless.
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  6329. And what to call the massive censorship here? 🤔
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  6330. Just read China, India, and Egypt are manufacturing Sputnik V. If the EU approves it, based on the science, not politics, I want it. If we have to suffer from the "free market," then let's have free market choice.
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  6331. AMEN
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  6332. Do you have something about you that's different, and that people might think of as a talent, or skill, or just great luck? Something considered good that is viewed as being lucky and "unearned?" Social media has trained resentment into people, and jealousy like I've never seen. These are the times we live in -- but there is nothing new under the sun. Times like these have happened before. See it clearly but never use it as a crutch. It's not an excuse, it's the opposite: it's a call to do more. YOU have to have more insight, be more private, tend your own garden, find better people, . . . That's harder than just finding a job and doing it, or taking a class and following the teacher's instructions. 🙁
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  6333. Cruz's daughter rocks. What a sweet kid.
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  6334. 💯
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  6335. Appalling. There is no one to vote for.
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  6336. ​ @run2cat4run So why did he get the channel? Should Mike Tyson not touch a penny from his? You do notice the advertising continues during these videos. But the revenue sharing agreement is suspended.
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  6337.  @user-uk8mb7ur6f  Less support in the US. Vilification, like Clapton experienced in the UK. Seems the English-speaking world got the worst of it!
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  6338. ​ @Klonering  Watch some French media -- and they are as libertine about personal choices as you can imagine.
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  6339. There were plenty of times I thought Tucker should be fired, especially in 2020. To think that most of his current commentary on a war (!) is the best on MSM (!!!!!!!) should shame them all to no end.
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  6340. What was wrong with what she said? Open all the files. Call her bluff.
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  6341. Did you listen? Is the information incorrect? Lol
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  6342.  @brianclingenpeel5123  "Attempted murder!" I didn't even see that post. (I hear that kids are debating what to call a male Karen, and . . . "Ken" has the top spot so far?) No one else saw anything that resembled an attempted murder, only you feel that you saw "the attempted murder of the police officer," and in fact, it was "the first thing that [came] to mind." Feelings can be like that. They can intrude on thought and push it aside. But please, do keep it up. The comic relief is needed at this point.
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  6343. 3:17 parfait Bravo!!!
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  6344. OTOH, maybe Kim won't touch such a story precisely because she hasn't seen sufficient evidence for it. A charge of this nature required substantial evidence from credible sources.
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  6345.  @fluidthought42  He's completely incoherent. His very existence depends on other people. The language he uses to speak depends for its very existence on other people. The money that counts as money could not be money were it not for other people.
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  6346.  @carguy1979  When did you speak with her?
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  6347. @danielmacmaster5822  Ayn Rand? Who do you think her followers were? Read up on the 2008 implosion of global finance, from which we never recovered. See who its architects followed, and in some cases actually knew when they were young. (BTW, during the pandemic, we lowered the fractional reserve requirement to zero percent. Where is it now?)
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  6348. He listens to the pina colada song in private.
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  6349. Not the first time in history.
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  6350.  @sdrc92126  How did Crooks manage? That's the issue. If he could not have tolerated it, there would be no discussion (I hope).
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  6351. Freedom was being able to earn in-state tuition OR trade school tuition by working for the minimum wage over the summer, then afford a studio apartment in any city -- New York, San Francisco, Denver, Dallas. And the car and gas to get there. That was freedom. That was how Americans used to live.
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  6352. "Charity" and "law enforcement?" That's what Chase wants more of anyway.
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  6353.  @zilvente  EXACTLY
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  6354. To all gun rights people: you do know you need to stop this, correct? Because you won't keep those rights. If you don't care about kids, unarmed adults, etc., you must care about that. This is chaos.
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  6355.  @metalbrainmextrememetalent6810  The argument for vaccinating children who have not already had COVID is to slow the spread. (Vaccination will not stop the spread.) There is some evidence for that, even with these leaky vaccines. The counterargument is that it is wrong to risk the well being of children to protect adults. Children should only be vaccinated when it is clearly beneficial for THEM. What Max has said about the vaccines has been echoed by actual left-wing parties around the world, starting with the PCF. The CGT organized a demonstration of vaccinated health care workers in support of their unvaccinated colleagues. The video of that is great, with the comments all praising the CGT for their humanity. Kim Iversen has addressed this, as has Russell Brand just today. DNC neolibs always try to smear the left by calling them right wing. People unfamiliar with the trope think it's something all bright shiny and new.
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  6356.  @metalbrainmextrememetalent6810  If the vaccine is so much safer for adults than COVID, it should be no problem to persude people to take it, without coercion. Jimmy, Stef, and their staff all got vaccinated a long time ago, and only Jimmy had debilitating side effects from it, which were treated. Jimmy and Max are against mandates. The demonstrations Russell Brand featured today were against vaccine passports and mandates.
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  6357.  @lal7933  You have got a TON of company.
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  6358. Yes I can imagine. I'm an American.
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  6359.  @michaeledwardhunter  And my response just got censored. Read the CNN message boards praising all the people who jeer at "anti-vaxxers" and are happy when one of them dies because "they deserved it." IOW, you are an optimist. We got here, and over WHAT? For what reason?
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  6360.  @nuancedmilitarism8402  Did Russia make him whisper?
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  6361. They have learned that being brazen works.
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  6362. The "masses" consider no such thing. They revert to the slogans set out for them, as do most people most of the time. And do so due to desperation, mostly.
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  6363.  @rahimn9246  Slang for very well said.
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  6364. There were consequences. Some people died, others got richer.
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  6365. Jail is for little people.
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  6366. Yglesias says, "we are a very rich country." OMG.
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  6367.  @mollynash2597  Apparently the JROTC classes teach yet another Alternate History.
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  6368. Bell is a hero.
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  6369.  @GrahamNickerson  We are paying for the reduction of hospital beds nationwide over decades.
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  6370. They can contact the bankruptcy court and offer their records to the trustee or the judge assigned to examine the documents.
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  6371. @Scruffy Topaz Exactly! This is the point.
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  6372.  @pamcornelius9122  Look, family is family. Every family has its own little ecosystem, and EVERY family has problems. And everyone knows that if someone confides in you about their family problems, that is never an invitation to take sides, or even to give your pointed opinion without being asked. Meghan did pay for her mother's MSW degree after she started making money. Most kids don't do that. (Most parents don't go back to school, either.) You don't know what she went through as a biracial child. It is probably a lot more than any of us could imagine. I wonder how many people with her life would be struggling to pay the bills, much less achieve anything remarkable. And as for Harry, everyone knows he and his grandfather were close. It was obvious. They had more in common than Philip had with a lot of his other descendants. The names of Harry's kids tells you that.
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  6373. I didn't realize Twitter headquarters was these people's home, but I guess I should have from the looks of it.
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  6374.  @jimluebke3869  You know what, sweetie? If after watching this video in its entirety and actually listening to what Wolf says, you don't come away with the notion that she probably likes men a LOT, a lot, then . . . maybe you need to up your game? Maybe you'd have better relationships, too? Someone has trained you to be triggered instead of listening, and you don't realize you've stopped listening. Did you miss where she talked about her husband? He's a veteran. Her eyes lit up.
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  6375. "When the department picked her . . . (thinking) did they know she was a NUT? "
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  6376. Save the teens from school massacres and sex trafficking. Both are in court at the moment. Your thoughts?
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  6377. Did you read the charge? Did you read the ICJ report? Is she "wasting" your time? Or are you?
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  6378. Never allow a stranger to touch your child. Never, ever.
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  6379.  @Tom-cz9op  LOL, I think that's the answer. Follow the money usually is.
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  6380. What I really think about all this is that the elites weally weally miss Jeffrey Epstein. 😢
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  6381. 💰 ??? Just a guess.
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  6382. ​ @soufwesthoustontx There is no such thing. A penalty for an actual crime can be enhanced depending on motive. Hence, targeting a Jewish person or a Muslim person because of their religion can draw a longer sentence, for example. But there is no special antisemitism law in the US. Germany has those.
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  6383.  @marions7423  The phantom flying ace? It was proved false.
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  6384. "They" --- everyone knows the Romans crucified Jesus.
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  6385. Never feel guilty about that. Absolutely never. Don't tell anyone at work that you have this issue, talk to someone else who won't violate your confidentiality.
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  6386.  @gdiwolverinemale2745  I already explained that at least in France, when people retire they usually continue to work, very often by opening a shop related to their favorite hobby (a record store, a book store, a little cafe). Contrary to the caricature popularized in the English-speaking world, the French aren't "lazy" at all. They like to work. When Annie Ernaux won the Nobel Prize, she had her phone off because she was working. When she finally turned on her phone and got the news, her first reaction was, "are you sure?" LOL She is about 80 years old. Zero entitlement, eh?
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  6387.  @gdiwolverinemale2745  Ha, are you ever funny. So, they want to start businesses without going into debt? They are looking to remain productive, and increase their productivity, based on interest, talent and prudence, without debt? Note: No banks need to be involved. "Oh, the horror! The horror!" You are the one trying to make an emotional appeal. That isn't receiving an "early pension," that is maintenance of the status quo. Note: no debt, and that means no control over them by creditors. "Oh, oh, the horror!" 🤣
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  6388. Listen to what she said more carefully and maybe you'll understand. It is true that Rittenhouse had a perfectly solid self-defense claim, and was properly acquitted. It is ALSO true that he should not have been where he was in the first place. He was a minor. He had no security guard license or training. The adults who furnished him with a weapon were nowhere to be found when his own life was in danger in the chaos, and the first gunshots heard were incorrectly identified as coming from him. And the police who actively encouraged vigilantism in that town did not even pick him up when he tried to surrender to them. He should have never had to face trial as an adult. The failure was on the part of the actual adults around him that day. The trial was just a show, no one dealt with the gravity of what really happened. I'm glad he didn't get himself killed, and I'm sorry he had to use deadly force to preserve his own life. That is terrible. What's so tough about this? It's longer than a soundbite?
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  6389.  @joriankell1983  How many corporations spend more on lobbying than they pay in taxes? Remember the first time a handful did that? Funny, that is now a normal strategy. You wrote: "Did you know major corporations are not the majority of the economy?" This is a very vague statement, pretending to be an objective quantification. Please explain what you meant and how you measured that.
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  6390.  @joriankell1983  Oh, okay. It was just something you made up. No problem.
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  6391. That's my question.
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  6392. 😂😂😂
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  6393. Always
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  6394.  @Drew7s  It's not confusing at all. A person can be fired for making the joke Jimmy made. This is a fact. He acknowledged his error and apologized. The person targetted by a joke like this does not usually have a viable lawsuit for sexual harassment on the basis of that single joke. There might be exceptions. In this case in particular, Ana would not have had a lawsuit. People have explained to you why.
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  6395. ​ @mitchellbaker4806  Minority, but not rarity.
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  6396. ​ @MikaChevcko  "You suspect" because you've never lived outside the States and know nothing, hence start with yourself.
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  6397. Nice point. Get this out everywhere!
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  6398. ​ @newworldforward1842 It's a tragedy.
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  6399. ​@alecaleblues Bono? Maybe some distant ancestor. His parents were Protestant (mother) and Catholic (father). I have distant Jewish ancestors, no one my parents ever met. It's not rare. They only knew about it because WWII.
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  6400. There's literally nothing she can do.
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  6401. 9:46 Why Kim is loved.
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  6402. ​ @zenobiaookpik  That part's not anyone's business. I don't think she ever bows to anyone, actually, or fails to say what's on her mind when it's actually necessary to speak up. Is that over your head? 😂
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  6403. @zenobiaookpik  😂😂😂 Like it's not obvious that how couples relate to one another, particularly as conflicts inevitably arise, is nobody's business but theirs.
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  6404. @kafikfishna8806  I took grad-level English at night at a no-name public university that offers only a few doctoral programs, all education-related. It was brilliant. Half the class or more were bilingual, and immigrants or children of recent immigrants -- and I was with the majority. After studying the Henriad, I'll never miss the signs of a double cross. Extremely useful stuff.
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  6405. ​ @Will-fk2dk See Fauci. See Uvalde. See the current president.
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  6406. No she didn't. She knows nothing about the law, and little or nothing about rational responses to mass hysteria.
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  6407. I can. ;)
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  6408.  @doktormabuse4794  You give him too much credit. :D
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  6409.  @iyziejane  Well, if treatment were carefully tailored to the individual child, we wouldn't have this issue. Suppose a little girl is experiencing precocious puberty, but not so young that puberty blockers are generally indicated, and suppose she also has intense gender dysphoria. Let's suppose she's not quite 9 years old. Possibly, for her, a year of puberty blockers PLUS intensive psychotherapy would be beneficial, to figure out what's going on and to give her a break from these physical changes in the meantime. I could see that. Too bad that's not what's happening. Most people with dysphoria grow out of it, and between 60 and 70% of those who do grow out of it grow into being LGB or simply non-binary. What's the big deal? They don't need surgery or hormones. They may become excellent parents someday, or they may choose not to. No one can predict that.
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  6410. @iyziejane  We are talking about minor children. A very powerful, dangerous drug that is almost never necessary was being given to kids.
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  6411. @iyziejane  Okay, listen: it is almost NEVER the right decision. The fact that in some very, VERY rare cases it is, and that that child won't be able to have it, is tragic. But we can all see why. It is obvious. I'm sorry. These are the facts. This is where we are.
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  6412. Zelensky may not be a stateman to any degree, but right now he is trying to stay alive. Period.
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  6413. They are bought and think you are bought. "Everybody is bought."
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  6414. I don't think so, because annexing Ukraine is not in their national interest at all. But if it were, I agree they would. They have no higher principles.
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  6415.  @elizabethkraszewski6603  Something else too, the notion that everything is "your own fault" makes no sense to them. Thinking you have that degree of culpability is hubris. Not believing they control everything makes it easier to act, not harder. Yeah, we have a crazy-making culture.
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  6416. No. You do not report on your father to the FBI. You speak with his doctor. You consult a lawyer. You keep at it. I'm not arguing with his concerns.
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  6417. What did the letter say that created a basis for an investigation of those organizations? Can someone write a letter about me, or about some group I belong to, and because they don't like my opinions, I can be fired from my job or removed from a class? Or, it's enough to trigger an Investigation?
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  6418.  @EgoBrain1  Oh please, the capitalists brag about how much phenomenally richer the top 1% are in capitalist countries, and how bad the socialists were at capital accumulation. But that some ruling elites exist everywhere is true. Do you believe in a philosophy that endorses it, or that considers it inevitable? Or that considers greater equality worse for some reason?
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  6419. You are not alone.
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  6420.  @callmebyyourname8332  If the form exists, they will submit it. So what? That is not the same thing as lobbying for privileges.
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  6421. But I thought Musk was so busy.
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  6422. ​ @bannedfreespeech By whom? The ICJ?
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  6423. @user-ch1bd8hb1l  Exactly. Or, a state could go after him. The Constitution has no option for a referendum. Pardons are final for federal offenses.
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  6424. Trust me, we never think of you, either. Not even good for a laugh now and then.
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  6425.  @taragnor  You can consider being an exponent of a Third Party to be wrong headed, but to say Dore is doing nothing is a flat-out lie. He is consist in advocating for an alternative to Dems. He NEVER advocated not voting. That accusation is false as well. Your M4A argument is worthless. Biden was selected by the DNC. Everyone knows that. If M4A isn't popular, why did AOC run on it???
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  6426. In the US, count on criminals to chop off thumbs.
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  6427. Not to mention Sam Seder, Nomiki, and that whole supercilious crew. They are all awful.
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  6428.  @PresidentDennis  Katie Halper and everyone who regularly goes on Gray Zone or Moderate Rebels are ALL great. GREAT. There are great people out there. Glenn Greenwald has been excellent, too. He's harder to find. He did a great analysis of Pelosi and the DNC in an interview just the other day.
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  6429. So, it is from Ukraine DoD-funded biolabs?
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  6430.  @paulross9287  Great observation. It does.
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  6431.  @BlackhaloZ  Right. Basically told not to do it again, and all would be well, more or less.
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  6432. Too optimistic, unfortunately.
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  6433.  @alejandrasegura432  Not what happened. Ana threatened him, and issued an ultimatum: either Jimmy stop criticizing her and TYT, or she would denounce him as a harasser. Dore was defending himself by providing context.
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  6434.  @alejandrasegura432  You are misrepresenting Title VII. Stop it. Someone who is suffering from sexual harassment in the workplace may believe you, and be demoralized even further.
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  6435.  @74Mezzo  Man is mortal. I guess that depends on your perspective. What is man, after all? What is mortality? It also depends on what the meaning of is is.
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  6436.  @Subher0  This isn't in the cards in any event. And he knows that.
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  6437.  @Subher0  SMH, who tells you this?
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  6438. He is a lawyer. She is a guru.
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  6439. Others may have lied as well. I don't necessarily believe her, but to dismiss her is not realistic. Please.
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  6440. Nursery school in France has required a Master's degree for ages now. "The youngest should have the best" is a basic principle anywhere where you see kids excel in reading, mathematics, piano, gymnastics, theatre, ballet. Private schools in New York are the same, but they cost a fortune. Granted, that is school, not childcare. As for the speech, Meloni resurrected slogans last used during WWII. That's what people in Italy and those who speak Italian are focusing on. It's not proof that she is fascist but it certainly raises the question. In France, the collaborators used to say "work, family, fatherland." Kind-of ironic, since they were betraying France.
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  6441. But after the course ended, would you date an age-appropriate former student? Many people do, and marry them as well.
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  6442. He's SO not a Democrat.
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  6443. 💯
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  6444. Oh no. When the US says "human rights," better check your missile silos.
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  6445.  @ish7957  These are well-documented facts. Most of the story fell apart. It nevertheless made money for those who pushed it the hardest, much like Fox News makes its money.
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  6446. ​ @oceania2385  4:02 Brie called it a straightforward case of her breaking the law and facing the consequences.
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  6447. Provocateurs in both.
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  6448. "Get him back to the United States?" When was Julian Assange ever here? Lie upon lie upon lie. No part of the MSNBC commentary is true.
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  6449. Not Orthodox Easter yet . . . We haven't had Passover, and that always comes around Good Friday for Orthodox Christians.
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  6450.  @ianmedford4855  It is definitive proof that WE HAD BETTER NOT TRUST AI. It will always be subject to gross manipulation by whoever rules, and be a vector for spreading their preferred propaganda.
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  6451. Thanks for this. A tell for sure.
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  6452. We knew Biden was the type to pardon the Cash for Kids judge. We are not stunned.
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  6453.  @jamesdrake2378  Why does everyone think this? You've never seen the Fifth Amendment invoked before Congress? No one can force anyone to testify against their own interest before any agent of government whatsoever when criminal charges are possible. Once the criminal case is over and civil charges are brought, he can either testify, settle, or default. In America, you can't be forced to talk.
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  6454.  @jamesdrake2378  If he chose to invoke the 5th, he would do so for every question. But you're right, we don't know for certain whether he would have invoked the 5th, the way his parents undoubtedly would have begged him to do. He's weird.
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  6455.  @jonathandewberry289  You think gender determines propensity to convict someone wrongly, if they lie or cheat or do other terrible things?
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  6456. @davidwhittington7638  Right. That's why the Red Army inflicted 80% of the casualties suffered by the Werhmacht, while the US fire bombed and atom bombed. And did so well since then . . . Vietnam, Afghanistan . . . Keep whistling in the dark. It may sound like I'm praising them, and in a sense I suppose I am, but I don't like this scene one bit. Wars escalating on the heels of a pandemic? People haven't seen enough death? It's sick. Ukraine and Palestine shocked me to the core. I wish I could believe it couldn't get any worse, but there is a small group in Washington looking to fight China. They consider it inevitable.
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  6457. @PeterMoss54321  How about starting your own property management business, which requires access to credit? How about being admitted to a prestigious college and majoring in education, and having more opportunities for good jobs in education, including teaching in private schools, when most women had to go to a second-tier teachers' colleges, regardless of ability?
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  6458. Well . . . I guess we just need more surveillance of everyone. Funny how the border crisis makes less privacy and more spying on everyone "necessary."
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  6459.  @cawheeler27  "All but?" So, what exactly did she say? We still can't get an answer. From what she said, my understanding was that there had been complaints about some of these nurses in regard to patient care. If that's the case, firing is in order. You don't wait for them to show their true character a third time, not in a maternity ward. I'd chalk this one up to one more time we don't care about kids. That looks more plausible.
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  6460.  @im2tweaked  LA Times reported it. It was a massive case. I still agree these scores are ridiculous.
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  6461. Wow, what a quote! Thank you!!
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  6462.  Music  It IS difficult when you have an elite university-to-position of power pipeline, PLUS a legacy system for admissions. Non-legacies compete for about half of the seats available in these private colleges. (The number is a rough estimate, it could be higher or lower.) I thought the recent admissions scandal laid bare that fact.
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  6463.  @muten861  Where do these wild assumptions come from? People who had COVID and recovered may turn out to be right. I don't have a television, so I don't know what propaganda you're getting.
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  6464. That should work much better than claiming it goes to pay for Balenciaga photo shoots.
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  6465. ​ @wvvwwvwvv No, YOU do if you think any of the candidates of the last two elections are worthy of the US presidency.
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  6466.  @alphasylpheed3861  WHEN did this allegedly happen? It was relevant, in 2021, to their dispute concerning Aaron Mate's journalism -- how?
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  6467.  @patherron3247  A thousand a month was serious money back then. $50,000 a year was a fortune. Gorgeous homes were about that much.
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  6468. It was expected. It's written all over her.
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  6469.  @johnadams1281  I wouldn't let him in my house.
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  6470. Soon it will be a "bombshell" when some careerist didn't plagiarize.
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  6471. I bet Nomiki does the same thing in her writing.
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  6472. STOP calling it "CARE." It's evidence of not caring at all.
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  6473. @Mrs Miggins You beat me to it!
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  6474. @ultravioletiris6241  And don't you think sheer bigotry is possible as well? Or could it just be an algorithm programmed that way, plausible deniability in case the decision turns out to be less than optimal? A lot of things are possible. YOU were the one who said "must've been." Not me. 😂
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  6475. Takes one to know one? Whatever you may think of Bannon, and however odious his politics -- or poor his character -- may be, these observations are true.
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  6476. THIS! Absolutely. In the 1980s, France had the best elective abortion law, limited at 12 weeks, so during the embryonic phase. Counseling was mandatory. They always asked a woman why she wanted to abort. If she so much as mentioned money, she had to go to a second office that gave her information on all the public aid she would be entitled to. The paperwork she got said up front, the French Republic supports natality. She also had to sign an affidavit declaring she was a "mother in distress" in order to proceed. Government paid 70% for elective abortion, 100% for births, including a clothing allowance. After 12 weeks, medically necessary abortions could be approved by a three-doctor panel, and severe psychiatric distress could be a reason, depending. No idea what they do now. It was the best abortion law in the world, by my lights. France had really low infant and maternal mortality.
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  6477.  @gerrykings187  You can't ask a woman to risk her life to give birth, only to be forced to relinquish the child, on account of money. That is barbaric. That is not valuing life. Give her welfare, then, enough to live on. It's only money.
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  6478.  @robmerrill3460  I'm glad you said that. I don't know whether you've noticed, but the man-woman thing has been under assault. Maybe don't be so arrogant as to tell other people how to order the most intimate areas of their lives, under criminal penalty. Just back off for now. You're getting lots and lots abstinence. I don't think that is such a good thing. It's not obvious.
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  6479.  @user-yc9vx3nz5z  Abortion being relitigated, while Ghislaine Maxwell is being tried. I wish they were as committed to stemming school massacres and sex trafficking. That would be . . . interesting to see.
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  6480.  @jman75234  Some DNC deserve to be sh*t on. They are so bad they needed TRUMP as a foil, to cling to power. They only look great next to Trump. Open your eyes. As for TYT, they are rapidly annoying people. Missed that as well? Yeesh.
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  6481.  @jman75234  Yes, it is embarrassing how Jimmy Dore thought the DNC would go to work against Trump, rather than pushing Russiagate for nearly four years. If there had been no pandemic, would Joe Biden have won? Where was the landslide we were promised? Who still controls the Senate? After everything the Republicans did, to hurt people -- during a pandemic? That "Moscow Mitch" label sure took care of that! /s
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  6482.  @jman75234  Well then, let's blame Jimmy. P. S. Susan Sarandon is to blame for Donald Trump.
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  6483.  @jman75234  I do. I blame the DNC for not working to stop Trump's policies. I blame them for wasting time on Russiagate, and focusing on impeachment alone to bring him down. Every time the Democrats, led by Nancy Pelosi, passed a spending bill giving Trump exactly what he wanted, Jimmy Dore put it on his show. GOOD. You call him an "idiot?" He's not the idiot in this picture!
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  6484.  @saulespino2510  I wonder if this will have any bearing on state-mandated vaccination, making IUDs or even certain birth control pills illegal, etc. Somehow I don't think this was a good time to curtail any constitutional rights.
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  6485. ​@jojodancer1743 She committed to testify against any co-defendant when called, or she will go to jail.
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  6486. Do you know what it costs to FedEx a letter overnight, Robbie? In my city, $32.
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  6487.  @randomslomo1875  The problem is to prove that this pattern holds for every positive integer, or to refute that it does by producing a counterexample (a positive integer for which we do not end in the 4 2 1 loop after a finite number of steps). The problem is to prove or refute a theorem about the infinite set of positive integers. (BTW, I was educated in one of those countries with tuition-free university. You were expected to study really, really hard, contrary to what the person who was rude to you implied.)
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  6488.  @randomslomo1875  You're welcome! This problem is cool simply to point out that it sounds so simple, but no one knows the answer yet, and a computer cannot give you the answer.
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  6489.  @Starry_Night_Sky7455  The problem is, that being "more careful" does not work. It seems to me that the truly dangerous things (sexual assault, school shootings, gender issue contagion, and bondage experimentation) are more common in young people's lives, and things that are simply uncomfortable suddenly become the focus, exactly because we can do nothing about the big things.
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  6490.  @havable  Exactly. :/
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  6491. The Harvard Law grads I worked with were brilliant. I found it very soothing to be around people you didn't have to explain things to five times and still not be sure they understood.
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  6492. I WISH everyone could watch this explanation.
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  6493. I can't believe how bad Nomiki is. And this show got rid of a real lawyer, Briahna?
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  6494.  @swatkabombonica4103  They know what brings in money anyway.
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  6495.  @earlmcearl1244  Oh give me a break.
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  6496. When the question concerning excess deaths was raised, and I posted comments on a pro-vaccine doctor's website that so many things had changed at the same time since 2020 that to figure out the contribution of each will require a multivariate analysis -- which is difficult to do, requires making well-justified judgments, and takes a lot of time. Every post where I wrote the word "multivariate" was immediately removed. What is more interesting is that incoherent rants against vaccines were allowed to stay up --- so that people could conclude that only idiots had concerns? Cute how that is, huh?
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  6497. ​@brandonburns5365 Mine was just deleted before it appeared. Made similar point to yours.
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  6498. ​ @tselengbotlhole750  No one can be charged with any crime posthumously. How would they confront their accuser?
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  6499.  @iannaughton9295  These comments show us how many people are desperate for instant karma.
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  6500.  @alicewynne8242  "Scientific peer review" is not a matter of trust, but of method; peer review is one indication that the conclusions drawn can be relied upon. It is not "proof" that the conclusions are correct, obviously, but it is evidence for those conclusions. It does not demand assent. I've found out a lot about the pandemic and other health matters by reading the scientific peer-reviewed literature. If you know of a better method, please share.
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  6501. GREAT point
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  6502. @YoungTang  You are doing well. Believe it. Please do something fun this weekend. Forget this rot! It's too tragic, it could drag anybody down.
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  6503. @petebondurant58  They settled a civil rights case for $41 million against the city and others. Know this: in New York at the time, vacating a conviction was insufficient to maintain a civil rights suit. There had to be evidence of innocence. Otherwise, the suit was dismissed. Cities don't just settle for tens of millions for nothing, and don't believe anyone who tells you they do. It affects property taxes.
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  6504. This time, I agree, except for your very last sentence (which verges on the laughable). The points made by BOTH in this segment were far too important to be treated this way. The audience needs to be able to follow the arguments. Among other things, life and limb, war crimes and genocide, and our First Amendment rights are all at stake. Be serious. Show you grasp the gravity. I mean, what has to happen??
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  6505.  @lmoore6612  Would you trust her on your jury? Who knows what she'd come up with. I thought knowledgeable people knew about false confessions. They are common.
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  6506. You're right to imply a turtle of average or above-average intelligence would have figured this out months ago.
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  6507.  @nevillegoddard4966  Why? I'm doing great. Say, what happened to the diverse microbiome craze?
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  6508. @nevillegoddard4966  It was ironic. ALL of those foods are wholesome and healthy for most people. Plus lentils, apricots, mushrooms -- especially mushrooms. I've lived through enough food fads to spot them half asleep, and they all rely on credulity and a desire for a quick fix. Yet fewer than 30% of Americans are normal weight; possibly as few as 25%. The carnivore diet is another fad, and it will not benefit the scads of people who've embraced it as an ideology. Do some need it? Sure. And some need to eat 100% glutin-free. I don't.
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  6509. ​@TSUNAMI-MAMI True, and you're right --- but also keep in mind that infidelity is more dangerous than people imagine. No one thinks this will happen, but it is not rare.
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  6510. Amen to that!
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  6511. Stef at 1:10 Literally laughed out loud.
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  6512. First honest politician I've heard in many years. Feels weird.
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  6513.  @jon9428  Actually, I disagree. You're talking style more than substance. How often in this clip did Dore concede he could be wrong, and asked Sam for information? Do you see Sam do anything of the kind? Does he have any interest in learning about how actual working class people think? I don't mind Sam, his manner doesn't bother me, but I can grasp why it might bother a lot of people.
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  6514. Minnesota has one of those consent laws that are either archaic or too liberal, or both: 16 of age, and the other partner can be any age. Literally any age: 24, 37, 65, 90, . . . I don't like it, either. :/
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  6515. Best thing I've heard in this decade for sure.
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  6516. My father was the most extroverted, gregarious person I have ever known, and I once complained to him that I could count my real friends on the fingers of one hand. He looked surprised and said, "darling, a person has only one friend." His best friend was a real friend. They self-published a foreign language journal together. P. S. Turned out he was right. I had pseudo-friends.
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  6517. He's keeping Hunter out of jail.
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  6518. I noticed how new their coats were. Be sure they did pick the best, though.
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  6519. Now let's be fair. It's the only way she can.
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  6520. She was talking about hiring Americans, not Taiwanese. That policy, that the manufacturers pursue, deserves the scrutiny. We need computer chips AND medicines to be made here. She mostly agreed with Amber.
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  6521.  @bennyblanco6719  Yup. Fear mongering works. When did government do something clearly good? Not that much since the sixties. So, they're easily scared.
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  6522. What I wonder is why in the West, and especially in the US, our leaders think it is better to sound simple and folksy when they speak, rather than to display intelligence. Simple and folksy is not what non-Western people want to see from their leaders. Anyone can sound like that.
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  6523. A lot of "blue" states have lifted the mandates, but left it up to the individual universities. A lot of employers, including government employers, no longer have mandates.
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  6524. No one should be allowed to leave their property with an AR15-style rifle strapped to them, absent training and licensing as an armed security guard and in no event alone. If that sort of arm is necessary, so is a camera and a backup. But you praise a minor child for doing this. A full generation after Columbine and Wisconsin's legislature was incapable of drafting a reasonable, constitutional gun law with respect to minors. I think there have been mass shootings lately in schools but I'm not sure. I don't bother to take note. I no longer care. ( /s? What do you think?)
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  6525. At worst, Jimmy is mistaken -- at worst. His report is NOT unfounded, much less a lie. Bottom line. The justification allegedly made by the border patrol union official tends to support the story reported by Reuters (UK) that at least one guard used reins as a whip. This faux controversy reminds me of "Chauvin is innocent." Because opioids, because COVID. . . . PFFT!!!!
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  6526.  @Hollylivengood  You drive every day. A child comes out of nowhere and dashes in front of your car, and you are alert and driving below the speed limit. What should the sentence be? Please.
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  6527. ​ @notme989 Is that a serious question? Do you believe what you're implying? I don't give a break to any DNC. Who would?
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  6528. It says he is a newscaster, and not an investigative journalist. This is news. 😂
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  6529. He does need to be held accountable. He can't be allowed to get away with this. It will be everyone else's civil liberties gutted, just watch.
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  6530.  @justinwallace390  Every single resident of East Palestine, Ohio, could be made whole for 1% of the money sent to Ukraine for war. They could all move to Illinois for that sum, literally.
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  6531. ​ @HarmonixHealing  He tagged him as Russian state media. I don't know whether that was all.
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  6532.  @flomccanuck8095  Amen!
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  6533.  @CoachApuma  There is a perfect book on that: Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic.
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  6534.  @ledaswan5990  So they should have the opportunity to get it, and all side effects should be treated for free.
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  6535. I taught community college as a public service, not my main job. I left in 2017. When I started, I expected never to retire. I expected to pick up a class or two indefinitely, as long as I was still good at it, at least another 7 or 8 years. I was threatened by students, including one who posted a picture of himself with a big gun. (He was later arrested for inappropriately touching a woman and a teen, at a Walmart.) The administration investigated ME. See, I was making good money and had first choice of classes. The new adjuncts taught whatever was assigned to them and were far more economical. It was nothing personal. 😃
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  6536.  @kiralevenson1706  If you are able to imagine it, you can be better prepared when someone tries to pull it on you. They can't surprise you so much that you're defenseless.
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  6537. She gave a legal/legalistic analysis.
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  6538. From the standpoint of the Precautionary Principle, he is likely right.
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  6539. True, but when it comes to his resume, Biden is right up there with him, if not worse.
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  6540. ​ @RedFeather36 Look up faked research
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  6541. I confuse Ben Shapiro with that guy on The Big Bang Theory, or whatever it's called.
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  6542. Fall for it? The guest ultimately agreed that Tinker v. Des Moines is the proper First Amendment standard. At this rate, free speech is on its last legs for sure.
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  6543.  @MichaelAronson  That's right. Our job is to give money. Not save it, for the coming recession. Or health care.
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  6544.  @phoenixrising2937  I was checking the ministries of health of other countries during this whole time. I even had someone tell me I was lying. They did not believe that Norway or Iceland or Switzerland HAD websites up! They all did, in several languages, including English.
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  6545. No she did not. Olayemi considers that report unconfirmed, pending an independent investigation. Will she turn out to be wrong? It's a little soon, hon.
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  6546. ​ @enregistreur  Mm, doesn't it? 😂
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  6547. CHANGE the topic? Senator Paul brought up Brandenburg v. Ohio. Over your head?
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  6548.  @petyrbaelish1216  Their fate rests on the shoulders of President Mummy.
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  6549. ​@tiberianexcalibur Some toddlers are very mature for their age.
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  6550. @Moffmanrulz  Did COVID do this to our intellect, or has it been this bad for a while? The population of Gaza contains at least a million children. Or did. That's what he meant. You cannot impute any politics to children.
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  6551.  @mandingogrande9243  LOL
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  6552. Briahna wasn't a Democrat.
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  6553. They think we are meddling in their affairs.
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  6554.  @TheChuckFina  Shapiro is awful, I've listened closely. He is as phony as the squad: he is a Harvard-trained lawyer who talks like a flim-flam man or an auctioneer, rather than take ONE CASE to court, for something he supposedly believes in. ONE case, join a team. Go in pro bono on an important case. Ha. "YouTube Influencer" is easier money.
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  6555. This is how they make their mobey.
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  6556.  @alexandrenawordie3565  None of you know what's true. As if that family isn't one a normal couple would distance themselves from.
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  6557. ​ @gatorbuc99  Exactly
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  6558. ​ @acbower4468  What you could do: start by spelling Israel correctly. Then see what Haaretz has to say. They always offer an array of views.
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  6559. This was George Bush's go-to. When he didn't want to address an issue, he'd grin, purse his lips, and say "thar's a conspiracy theory."
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  6560. ​ @bernardedwards8461  Please explain to me how anyone can be duped into hero worship in 2024.
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  6561. ​ @brianmccloskey2842 It means freedom from PUNITIVE consequences. One more slogan you should consider dropping.
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  6562. @ceciliajones7816  Just the opposite. State universities must be administered in a way that is consistent with all constitutional rights, including the First Amendment. Private universities have some choice in the matter, but any speech or other activity they allow one group they need to allow every other group, or they will lose Title VI funding and get sued for discrimination. They just found that out when they defended affirmative action and lost.
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  6563.  @dmelson7502  I appreciate that, but I was referring specifically to family members like Hunter and James, cashing in on the name. I see your point, though. Numbers matter. And all that money will go to progeny.
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  6564. So nicely said. Just watched a video of Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985. It was ideology-free and immensely polite. He just told the Senators about the science. He briefly acknowledged that certain drastic measures would obviously be economically devastating, then talked about other things that could be done. The comments were about how people listened without interrupting. Wild, huh? :/
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  6565.  @chanelnumba_5  I don't follow American media, or even own a television. My favorite journalist is probably Aude Lancelin. But there are so many greats: Aaron Mate, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, John Pilger . . . If I keep going, I'll feel even more guilty for missing someone. Great journalism is hard. Anyway. Bad guess?
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  6566. Shocked me to see how true this was when I went there. I expected Eastern Europe. Montenegro has a strong Latin vibe.
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  6567. Some 30 years ago? Try to keep up.
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  6568.  @jaymike987  And they make it home okay? That part.
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  6569.  @Horus070  Don't swear at me. We almost reelected Orange Caligula thanks to the DNC. Who did you THINK pulled this latest stunt? I'm to blame? No, honey. I have relatives in one of those places the US bombed with depleted uranium, and Americans can't find in the map. You owe me, if anything. You have problems that elections cannot solve, but can make hugely worse. That much I agree with.
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  6570. ​@MJW238 No, she said IF it turned out to be true. On a more important note, you do see that it's over for the US, correct? The downward spiral since 1980 can no longer be reversed.
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  6571.  @JustinFREAKIN  Where did you get this information? Every source I read said Omicron is literally half as deadly, at most, compared with previous strains.
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  6572. Exactly. This guy isn't qualified.
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  6573. Because talking to people is not an endorsement. Because this is journalism, not advertising.
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  6574.  @Hertz2laugh  That's on their conscience. And why do they owe YOU an accounting? Who are you to them?
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  6575. ​ @victorswiercz8203  Why did he wish Ghislaine well? Why is he wavering on H-1B visas? 🤔
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  6576. Yes, but what if someone whacky like MTG is against it? Don't the Cool Kids have to be for it? 😂
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  6577. I agree those three did an abysmal job, to the point where it shocked and stunned everyone. But if you don't see through Stefanik, lord help us.
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  6578. The assemblyman that Cuomo threatened . . .
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  6579. Next you'll ask for two slices of bread.
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  6580. Ryan, they are getting us ready for an actor to be a wartime president. And most of Asia, Africa, and Latin American know better than to root for either side.
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  6581. What evidence is there that Hunter Biden even knew his new wife before 2019? The young woman you mention died in 2018, and Biden's now-wife had a boyfriend back then, in or near LA. Also, pictures of people together are notorious for being doctored. Anyway, celebrities circulate. They meet a lot of people. You can find real pictures of prominent people with serial killers, if you want to look. The court records that exist on Hunter are real, and bad enough.
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  6582.  K. V.H.  Yeah. Hello! ;)
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  6583. ​ @davidmun1601  No, he's stating that it is no longer unexpected here. He's implying that it was not always this way.
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  6584.  @madashell7224  Graham certainly did not show sympathy here. Reminds me of the warmongers who say, "but what about the children?" And "we have to do something!!" Like falling for the faux feminist crap in support of the endless war in Afghanistan, when in point of fact, we collaborated with tribal leaders there who use young boys as sex slaves. "But not very many young boys." True. And? Imagine. Dr. Graham Elwood is willing to consider medical waivers. How big of him. /s
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  6585. I had a very unusually severe cold in October 2019, followed by two weeks of extreme fatigue. I have not had fever with a cold since before puberty. Then, I had apparent COVID symptoms in March 2020, which were only mild at that time. I have not been sick since, and have not been vaccinated. I have been in very large crowds, in numerous international airports, many times since the summer of 2022. I have been exposed to COVID in other places as well. Never have tested positive for COVID; my white blood cell count almost 4 months after the apparent COVID in 2020 was normal, but unusually high for me -- it deviated significantly from the prior ten years of white blood counts, which are all about the same. I think I must have had COVID, and a coronavirus cold as well, before that. That would explain why I seem to have had such good resistance since then. Too bad public health authorities had so little curiosity about this illness. At a minimum, of course. Maybe something more nefarious was going on?
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  6586. Can you be serious? Hunter claims he passes out in a luxury suite with a Russian escort. How can this possibly be exculpatory? Like, this is the guy's excuse. If true, he's an even bigger security risk. This is too wild.
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  6587. "Look at all the liberal shows that only talked to each other." -- Aaron Mate I laughed out loud. Felt relieved.
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  6588. @utah_koidragon7117  I know about that. Surprised you got to let me know. They often take that down, too.
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  6589. Briahna great here. Perfect.
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  6590. 😂😂😂 but not really
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  6591. ​ @vassar007 Briahna is excellent.
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  6592.  @user-fp2ze9zw3i  Yes, it was.
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  6593. Such a roll, Jimmy, such a roll. Love you!
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  6594.  @mmolchin  Thank you for taking the time to post definitions, too. People have fanciful notions about what those words mean.
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  6595.  @rifleman4005  How is the U.S. doing? Great if you never compare it to any other developed nation anywhere in the world, including the rest of the English-speaking world, to control for differences in culture, especially where tolerance of bizarre and inexplicable inequality is concerned. When you have to point to Zimbabwe, you are really scraping . . .
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  6596. Who gets to lead Harvard was a struggle between two billionaires.
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  6597. @elizabethfindlay5752  Thank you for realism, when all we are ever served is politics. I'm sorry it was like that. You reminded me of what the teenaged years were like for a lot of people -- most of us, really. Politics is always to someone else's advantage.
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  6598.  @what_a_beautiful_noise  Did you know that some conspiracy theories were floated by government agencies (FBI, CIA), as a deflection? That happens as well. By that I mean that there is compelling evidence that it has been attempted a few times. Sometimes the point is simply to experiment, to see where public opinion can be pushed. The real point is, we often don't know. Occam's Razor and not making snap judgments is almost always the best course. And "psychological engineering" is a college subject, especially in Silicon Valley. Let that sink in!
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  6599.  @simpleuser0001  This isn't about Trump. Or just about Trump.
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  6600. The ice cream bunker is real.
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  6601. ​ @L--Z  Exactly. We have got to end math blindness.
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  6602.  @L--Z  Congrats!! :) There is always a path into mathematics for everyone, but not everyone will find it, unfortunately. Math is the strangest subject: if explained properly, it will garner universal agreement, BUT each individual has to understand it in his or her own way. There is no universal way of teaching it.
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  6603. ​​ @megalodon6108  He's a hard worker. I appreciate that.
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  6604. J'adore Aude Lancelin.
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  6605. BS
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  6606. Max Blumenthal rocks. ROCKS!
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  6607. Wait. He even misrepresented Plato. Oh my gawd.
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  6608. 7:28 "They lie to us."
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  6609.  @jonathancooper4914  The American credo is the problem. "Me me me me me me me . . ." Anything else, and you will soon be despised, or at best pitied.
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  6610. ​ @gregthomson2299  LOL, that was good.
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  6611.  @garymorris1856  What part of she is insane right now don't you get? People sentenced to death who cannot be executed because they became psychotic while awaiting execution and were judged to be legally insane have been treated for mental illness in order to execute them. It has been a subject of debate among psychiatrists whether it is ethical to participate in treating such inmates, when executing them is the ultimate goal of the treatment, with doctors on both sides of the issue. You never heard of this? This has NOTHING to do with the conviction. Nothing at all. I'm truly sorry if this reasoning is too tough for you. I simply wonder why.
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  6612.  @peachmelba1000  Just end the embargo. Put them to the test. Embargoes impede free markets. I thought the US was all about demonstrating the superiority of free markets in practice. And ending COVID. Sure it is.
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  6613. 1960s Teacher: "Jimmy, what do you want to be when you grow up?" 2020s Teacher: "Jimmy, what do you want to be when you grow up, a boy or a girl?"
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  6614.  @kerrijill7442  You were some kind of an analyst, and all your playlists are makeup and recipes? No foreign languages? Lord, mine are trilingual. 🤣
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  6615. So in other words, for once they didn't lie. No to restoration of the nation's soul -- check Orange Man Bad -- check Whew. Glad that's over. Now full front lying is back on line.
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  6616. ​ @urekmazino5125 So we learned nothing from 9/11. I wish I were surprised.
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  6617. He just explained to you that is categorically false. Oh! Wait! You couldn't listen. Now I understand, dear. Bless your heart.
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  6618.  @brasshouse-fireball  You mean just like Germans, Norwegians, Swiss . . . ?
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  6619.  @gomahklawm4446  Juries almost always convict. You'd be surprised how biased they are, and on what flimsy evidence they have returned guilty verdicts.
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  6620. This is why I am concerned about unnecessary COVID vaccines for children. How does COVID vaccination combine with necessary vaccines? Kids are skipping vaccines we know to be good, and necessary. (Edited for typo)
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  6621. @Aqua Fyre Well that's a good reason to spread vicious lies about him. By all means smear away for the Greater Good.
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  6622.  @TC-zf1ji  War crimes in response do not stop being war crimes. Terrorism does not suspend the Geneva Conventions.
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  6623. Did they form a union?
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  6624. So dumb.
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  6625. Two Republicans just LOST GEORGIA over a simple, straightforward stimulus issue. But the Dems aren't going to pass $2000 emergency payments? Who will be evicted while they debate an extended moratorium?
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  6626. Well, but talking about MTG is so much more important. I mean, what's an amendment here or there?
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  6627. @erincoco612  The First Amendment certainly does prohibit government from making hate speech illegal:  Brandenburg v. Ohio; Watts v. United States; RAV v. City of St Paul; Virginia v. Black --- those are just a few of the cases that say so. It is absolutely settled law that you cannot criminalize even the most odious speech unless it constitutes a true threat of imminent harm or incites imminent violence. It's not a gray area. It's unconstitutional.
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  6628. @erincoco612  I just cited four Supreme Court cases. In two of them, cross burning could not be prosecuted under local laws prohibiting it, in Virginia and in St. Paul, Minnesota. That's because the law as written or as applied was struck down as unconstitutional.
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  6629. You're right that this won't end well. We are already in serious trouble.
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  6630. ​@blackrifle6736 Teasing and bullying are two different things. Everyone who was teased looks back on it and laughs, and reminisces about it at reunions. It's funny in retrospect, and was no big deal even at the time. Bullying causes suicides every year.
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  6631. Constitutional rights are something that cannot be taken away from you, by ANYONE in the government, without amending the Constitution. You have the right to decline to exercise them. You have the right to try to persuade others not to exercise them. The right to use birth control, including forms of birth control that may prevent a zygote from being implanted, falls under that very same analysis. A lot of religions oppose artificial birth control. Some even frown on rhythm. They have a right to advocate for their view, but not to criminalize those who disagree. Well, now the state gets to run your life in one more way, and state means the richer (and more extreme) lobby.
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  6632. ​@topomusicale5580 It was a great analogy, and a problem that often comes up in medicine, especially psychiatry and psychology. I thought the pandemic taught us all to question studies.
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  6633. @norman_5623  People should have known that well beforehand. It is not easy to think cogently when mobbed, and confronted with relentless fear mongering. The time to learn how to use the NIH library was years ago. I learned that when working with the Daubert standard, and later when caring for my late father.
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  6634. If Pelosi could have been voted out of office, she would have been. :/
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  6635. @akap_987  Anyway, more details are always welcome. It's rare for podcasts to build a case step by step; paper is still the place for that.
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  6636. MGT performative fundraising, just like Elise Stefanik. This is beyond disgusting.
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  6637. You don't go punishing the people at the top. The people at the top are the ones who punish us. 😆
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  6638. And he's a relatively educated one. :/
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  6639.  @sisuguillam5109  This is nonsense. Certain actions are inherently dangerous on several levels. Certain actions make effective withdrawal of consent highly problematic to achieve in the moment when that withdrawal is most needed. Certain actions can become habitual, and can appear less risky than they are with repetition, and can easily lead to serious accidents.
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  6640. Thank you.
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  6641. Why isn't Chomsky's discourse HATE speech?
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  6642. @adamboyd5190  Briahna didn't vote for Hillary or Biden, and was fired for her truthful reporting on Gaza. Don't insult her like this.
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  6643. ​ @absolute.freedom Unless done with a flurry of paperwork and pseudo "choices."
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  6644.  @daasboot81  I truly hope so. No mother should have to do such a thing. We'll look back on this and realize we went crazy.
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  6645. Consult Lev Golinkin's research on the issue of neo-Nazis and Nazi sympathizers in the Ukrainian armed forces, and the influence they wielded, well above their numbers. Golinkin was working on this before the invasion, and is profoundly anti-Putin in general, and against this war in particular. The issue was treated in MSM before it became one more forbidden narrative. If you haven't been interested in the past, I don't know why you imagine you have special insight now that the issue has been completely politicized. This is one journalist. Saying she doesn't know, based on her relatively limited experience and linguistic skills, is a sign of honesty. She did see efforts to hide signs of Nazi sympathies. That doesn't give solid numbers. Too bad so many journalists use such limited information to speculate.
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  6646. He is VERY different here than in previous interviews.
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  6647. So listen to his guest. Wonderful presentation.
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  6648. "Some people are really dedicated to owning the libs." -- Funniest line I've heard in a long time. EDIT: No, wait, the part about urinating (ex-urinating?)
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  6649. The crazy part is that Fox was often less foul than CNN, MSNBC. (How did that happen???)
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  6650. EVERY time I point out that these Israelis exist, some f____g a_____e shouts me down. This woman is a hero and an angel. It's an honor to see this video. Thank you, Katie.
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  6651. ROBBIE, if you release something defective, meaning that it is unsafe or ineffective, can you really foresee how much that will undermine trust, or how long suspicion will last, or how much harm that will cause?
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  6652. He has a form of Tourette's. He speaks four languages fluently; studied, taught, or wrote in all of them, and has the fewest tics in his native Slovenian.
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  6653.  @jonnuanez7183  Good one!
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  6654. Boston marathon terrorist Tsarnaev was treated when he was taken to a hospital.
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  6655.  @margaretwilson8736  I agree. Megan is deep for California. She and her mother were both only children of their parents. When Megan started making money, she paid for her mother's tuition to get an MSW from USC. No one in California does that. They would rather buy their mother an Italian sports car, and their mother would probably rather have one, too. I wish more Americans would respect other cultures, though. They always expect respect for theirs.
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  6656. I admire Amy Goodman the most.
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  6657. I think you're right at this point. We can hardly do without more wars in the 2020s. It would be a hard task to prevent them, and I'm not counting on any politician to do it.
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  6658. Ben is making an easy buck. Unlike Glenn Greenwald, Shapiro never once represented anyone to defend First Amendment rights, not one time. Is this good use of a Harvard Law degree?
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  6659. My mask protects other people more than me. And a vaccinated person can contract COVID. So, people who have been vaccinated would wear a mask around people whose vaccination status is unknown, to protect them.
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  6660. From Counterpunch, with hyperlinks in the original: "On the same day the CDC caved to political pressure (rejecting the advice of 100s of epidemiologists) and relaxed mask guidelines, seven fully-vaccinated members of the New York Yankees tested positive for COVID."
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  6661.  @DustWolphy  I would never say that. There is no evidence to accuse her. One major problem is that few people have the money and the discipline to do what needs to be done -- with no guarantee of success. A mother would have to leave her job and make her child the center of her concern with a comprehensive program. Diet, exercise, activities to develop his talents, proper social life, integration into an extended family, long-term goals and ambitions -- and she would have to have excellent self control. This would not be easy. And then what if it doesn't work? Most people would turn to medication. At least then it would have been a last resort. What do you think should have happened?
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  6662. It is not certain that it was a weapons lab. That is the unconfirmed part. There are biolabs, they are funded by the US Department of Defense, not the NIH. That much we know. Serious questions.
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  6663. Almost!
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  6664. What do you think is wrong about what she pointed out? She's saying Ray Epp's suit is not on its face meritless or frivolous. That's true. If he's not an agent provocateur, then he's not, and it is defamation to say he actually is. But were people just expressing the opinion that Epps acted like one? That's protected free speech.
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  6665. You make having kids sound great. 😂
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  6666.  @ljohnson2181  At the very start of the pandemic, we DIDN'T realize that we depend on India and China for our pharmaceuticals and hospital supplies? (Has COVID, or the prolonged shutdown, had a harmful effect on your memory? I recommend a better diet and more exercise.)
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  6667.  @DirkDingle  😂😂😂 but kind-of horrifying
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  6668. 👏👏👏
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  6669. Something is never right when a stranger offers you a ride.
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  6670. I wonder how that compares to their lobbying budget.
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  6671. @jedw9496  YES 💯
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  6672. If Glenn Greenwald and Max Blumenthal are "left," if Nadine Strossen is "left," if Yanis Varoufakis is "left," then yes. (But that is a BIG qualification these days, innit?) Political branding in the US is bizarre.
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  6673. So the FDA does want THREE generations to produce the documents. I thought this was a "conspiracy theory."
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  6674.  @003Shashank  America was never good for the bottom two quintiles. Now it's not good for the bottom 80%.
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  6675. Several months ago, a comment said beware of anti-Russianism, because anti-Semitism is not far behind. Well here we are.
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  6676. Nearly 30 years ago, an Israeli woman I knew, a lawyer, told me Netanyahu would be a disaster. Well . . .
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  6677. It's starting to become incomprehensible how Elon could manage a corner store. Isn't it?
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  6678. 6:35 OH REALLY???
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  6679.  @cynthiaanne8273  JFK had a President's Council on Physical Fitness. Just what we need today, times TEN. :/
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  6680. Bri muddled this. It is illegal to use deadly force in defense of mere property, everywhere. Lethal force is justified if you put any person at risk of imminent physical harm. It is never legal for defense of mere property. Social ills, etc., are irrelevant. The age of the perpetrator is irrelevant. Whether he put a person in danger of physical harm is the only question that matters. It is a bright line. We have a lot of gun owners in America, and this isn't common knowledge? Wow, just wow. Also, this is exactly why a carjacking, or a home invasion while there are people in the house, can be met with lethal force. It doesn't matter if the assailant turns out to be unarmed, or was just looking to burgle and thought the house was empty. There is no question about this. It's called self-defense for a reason.
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  6681. Copy of my OP in another thread: "Everything is my fault?" LOL, that's the ultimate megalomania. Suppose you are a passenger in a car and out of the blue, you are broadsided by a drunk driver. Broad daylight, your driver is perfectly sober and has never been in a crash. Is it your fault? No, but rehab (and a fat lawsuit to pay for it) --- 100% your responsibility. You think you'll win if you tell the drunk's lawyer that it was your fault? Or that you'll make better progress in your rehab by blaming yourself? So twisted!
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  6682. @mohamedsamy1431  It's a senseless heuristic, for the reasons I gave. I don't believe in "useful fictions" --- in any event, certainly not when FACTS are known. When facts are unclear, presume what is useful and keep an open mind to discover more information. That's what mentally strong people do.
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  6683.  @mohamedsamy1431  "Ownership over your life" is another advertising phrase. Good lord, free us from ad men masquerading as philosophers. That's how we got here. Are my other posts shadowed? LOL, the better the point, the less likely it is to be visible.
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  6684. When I hear this "everything is your own fault" rot, I know I'm in the company of a shameless, master manipulator. Greene has never said this elsewhere --- he has always said that because we control so little, we need to understand what we do control and place our focus and our energy there. He has used the example of his stroke to illustrate that. Had he had the stroke when he was alone, he would have died, but he was with his wife, who saved his life. Because we control so little, it is necessary to work extra hard on those things, not abdicate responsibility. I don't know why he's agreeing with this guy suddenly. He knows better and writes better. "Everything is your fault" is magical thinking. Preschool kids go through a period of believing it.
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  6685.  @Turambar_499  LOL. People should only meet at bars while both drinking Shirley Temples. Or with an online dating app. They must do a conflicts search, like law firms do, before the wrong kind of glance can take place between them. Someone should invent a program for that, and a training seminar.
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  6686. ​@uzul42 Both were time barred, then Carroll's case was resurrected by a new statute.
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  6687.  @chedderburg  Seek out reliable sources that explain it. Yes, unfortunately, NATO is a threat to Russia, because Russia, as one of the BRICS, is challenging the rent-seeking dominance of the US and dollar hegemony, as Max alluded to here. Stephen F Cohen is the single best source. Merscheimer's lecture on the matter is available (not sure I spelled his name correctly, I doubt it). The best sources are from well before this crisis, for obvious reasons. Stuff written between 2014 to 2019 (pre-pandemic) is where I would look first.
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  6688.  @markzuckergecko621  He's a known troll. Block him.
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  6689. Watch George Galloway. Incredible stuff!
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  6690. In fact, if having a blog under a pen name does not make you a "public figure," then NYTimes malice doesn't apply. BUT, if having a blog, real name or no, makes you a public figure -- is blatantly misquoting someone to smear them reckless enough to meet the malice standard? I think so!
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  6691. ​@TrentSLucas Brie qualified it each time by saying it was E Jean Carroll who makes the claim. She never said it took place. This is true. Carroll did and does make this claim. Listen again.
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  6692. She is?? If you release something defective, meaning that it is unsafe or ineffective, can you really foresee how much that will undermine trust, or how long suspicion will last, or how much harm that will cause?
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  6693. @CLCL748  Example of lying that can be criminalized, versus lying that can't: Say you claim to be a veteran to obtain some tangible benefit, hiring preference, etc. That may be fraud. Or, say you claim to be a veteran to impress your date or your neighbors. That cannot be a crime.
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  6694.  @tenmanX  All of his comments are simplistic. He actually drew the analogy of a robber breaking into your house.
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  6695. Nice
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  6696. THIS WAS A CRIME. That simple.
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  6697. You didn't notice the AGE gradient? "But what about the children?" Isn't that the go-to? Why not for this? When they're selling us a war, it's About the Children. This drug was mandated. Just like we get no say in war, or Wall Street.
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  6698. I noticed the very same thing in the first few minutes. He is a sweetheart.
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  6699. Wow, I've been listening for an hour. I love Dr. Palmer.
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  6700. (4) All I can say is, don't get baited. Police violence is real, racism is very real. Of course those most to blame will shift the blame. Shifting blame is how they prosper. They are the pros at avoiding responsibility while lining their pockets, . . . and of course divide and conquer. In the cities I know well, the most devoutly Christian people are black, . . . or sometimes Latin American.
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  6701. Most of our best drugs have a plant origin.
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  6702. Nice one.
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  6703.  @xpsxps1339  My point was they didn't lie. I wasn't arguing that they did the right thing, or that they suffered as well. Invoking the Fifth Amendment is not the same as lying. Everyone has the right to invoke it. Even if it turns out to be the worst thing they ever did.
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  6704. With his law degree, he could be doing something to defend the rights of all kids.
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  6705. Clementine Autin, a far-left Parisian, just said this the other day. She votes with the Communists in their national assembly. How far we have fallen.
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  6706.  @hasan7786  Why? What does this imply to your mind? How does that lead to the conclusion that he is dangerous and must be taken into custody no matter what, as being a threat to the public? Once he was unable to use his car, they could confiscate that and find out who he was, and get a warrant for his arrest. What dangerous instrumentality was he handling that tasing him six times was necessary to protect the public? Also, how would you know he was "high as a kite?" A significant proportion of the public is on the verge of psychosis now. I'm sure you recall the last three years, and it was already bad before that. What they surely didn't protect the public from are lawsuits. Our property taxes are through the roof in large part because of exactly that. If you don't know a human life is worth more than what we saw the police do to this man, I'm sure the money part is important to you.
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  6707. That testimony was just effectively countered.
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  6708.  @Starteller  The definition of right and left dates from the French Revolution.
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  6709. Amen
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  6710. What I want to know is why people like Richard Wolff, and the (real) left in places like France saw through the vaccine mandates and passports, while Naomi Klein did not? The first person I heard object to requiring health care workers to be vaccinated or lose their jobs was a leading member of the French Communist Party. As he correctly pointed out, these were people who risked their lives in 2020 to care for the rest of us, and many contracted COVID and recovered. Why would you force them to vaccinate? Then in early 2022, Clementine Autain pointed out that over the holidays, she contracted mild COVID and could be admitted anywhere with her vaccine passport in hand, while a healthy unvaccinated person would be barred. All of this is obvious. Why is Naomi Klein weaving this story about alternative truths to obscure it? The lady protests too much.
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  6711. ​ @orionspur The private universities have adopted First Amendment rights and have designated free speech fora by contract. They also have shared governance contracts with their faculty. That's why Professor Jeffrey Sachs, to cite one example among many, is so angry.
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  6712. Very well said.
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  6713.  @lechatel  Very well said, that too.
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  6714.  @Tomsfilipsons  Saagar did, if you follow. The virus mutates in hosts. This is true of viruses in general, and is the principle of mass vaccination and herd immunity. You prevent new varieties from energing in human hosts through mass vaccination. But if you are willing to do other things to protect everyone, like undergo strict quarantine if you do get sick, that's fine. The vaccine should not be compulsory.
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  6715. So, an actual lawyer thinks the Speaker (no matter what you -- rightly or wrongly -- think of Pelosi) has to "finagle" to file an AMICUS in this case? That is what the House is supposed to do.
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  6716. ​ @elephantintheroom5678 Me just now!! 😮😂
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  6717. Exactly
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  6718. @criticalhomer  Well, supposing that it is true, as it very well may be, the answer is the same. It's the job of administrators and teachers to protect vulnerable students without singling them out and making them feel conspicuous or self-conscious. Do kids need a trans lesson? NO. No more divisiveness. If a black child is bullied on account of race, do you think melanocyte lessons are in order? Or some kind of insipid discourse on Good Personhood? Neither of us would make that mistake. Either stop the bullying or call in the parents and threaten expulsion.
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  6719. Hell no.
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  6720. Pray for literacy
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  6721. The cop does this to an older woman physician? Grabs her leg to make her fall and hit her head?
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  6722. ​ @STORMY0O I agree with this. Very young kids had too much involvement in the aftermath. It is not age appropriate at all. Eleven is not seventeen.
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  6723.  @Josh-hy3em  Hey, that's an easy sell, especially to Americans, who can't find countries they've bombed on the map. And say, health care would conflict with that, how?
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  6724. He has not been charged with first degree murder. Nor with involuntary manslaughter.
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  6725.  @cheetooreo6636  Peter Thiel, more likely.
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  6726. Basically, it means deftly making someone else appear they are in the wrong in order to deflect attention from your own bad faith or bad acts. You put the focus on the target, and make him account for himself. Meanwhile, while everyone's attention is on the target, you are getting away with murder. Making them appear not just wrong but stupid, crazy, or evil earns bonus points -- so it works as a silencing technique.
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  6727.  @rickhodges4808  "Miranda rights" are a misnomer. I wish they were rights. They are considered a "prophylaxis" to ensure that Fifth Amendment rights are not infringed, but they themselves are not rights. When the Court decided no one could sue for damages for being deprived of the benefit of the Miranda warning, it made that clear. It was not a unanimous decision, by the way. But I bet you knew that! :/
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  6728.  @racerxfiles1111  The simple fact that you can face several weeks of being sick, or not in shape to compete at your usual level, affects their decision. A myocarditis that resolves can end their career all the same.
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  6729. Responsible? They get rich, hon.
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  6730.  @Dragonslairminis  So 14 per million. In the States, the story is that VAERS is inaccurate, but we have no accurate numbers. VAERS has suffered from both severe underreporting and tampering, in the form of false reports. So, it needs to be vetted.
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  6731.  @Dragonslairminis  A new published study shows spikes in cardiac arrest occurring at unexpected rates after mRNA vaccination drives. That study called for urgent investigation to see what is causing it. (The correlation did not establish causation.) It was published in Nature.
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  6732.  @crimsonwanabriderazn  So send that money to UnitedHealth instead. They know what to do with it.
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  6733. Translation: all of these should be banned for anyone under 30 without a good reason, like a serious risk factor.
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  6734. "I understand you're upset . . . " Oh boy.
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  6735. The central reason I never got raped was because my father had a gun. It was known he would use it. The number of people who have confided in me that they were raped is staggering. Literally every beautiful woman I have ever known has been molested or raped, no exceptions, and often in childhood. If you believe that bad things cannot happen to good people, all I can say to you is remember 9/11.
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  6736. ALL mistakes go in one direction.
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  6737. I basically agree, and never knew the detail about passing close to a commercial plane. If that does not scream, "land that thing now," I don't know what does. However, absolutely no one who cannot follow a checklist or think logically could pass law school exams or any bar exam. Today the ultrawealthy get away with everything, but it wasn't the case for his generation, as was obvious by the fact that he did fail the NY Bar twice (which isn't rare, by the way). The Bar told him "no" twice. BTW, I'm not a fan at all, as I hope is clear. Someone with his means, and for this flight, could have easily engaged a co-pilot. He killed two people through gross negligence. There's no excuse. Also, I would never frequent a Kennedy. Their rate of accidental deaths involving unacceptable risks is well documented. But this video is chock full of nonsense, too. I don't see what people get out of it, frankly.
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  6738.  @Melinda8162 His gross negligence killed two women, and you call their parents greedy? Therapy is expensive. Do you think the father, mother, and surviving sister did not need it? You know, some people go into extensive counseling rather than, say, cannabis or beer. Really. There's people like that, I swear.
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  6739. @@user-jj5mp7ib1f Every time she talked during this video.
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  6740. Shhh, we're being watched here! 😂
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  6741.  @tinturtle9168  "Peter Stafford" shows up EVERYWHERE where Tara Reade is the subject. I don't think he is "low information."
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  6742.  @4toes1nose  You may be right that they are using "creative" characterization to the hilt, but I suggest you look into their capital structure. If their insiders, creditors, and boards of directors are fine with these schemes, there is no reason why they can't be billionaires while they claim no profits. Dollar hegemony plays a role as well.
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  6743. Steinem makes me think of the old adage, "once CIA, always CIA."
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  6744.  @rogbrogb5341  Great recommendation. Stephen F. Cohen was also warning about this for years, and he died before Putin invaded. At the 92nd St. Y, only a few years ago, he was asked point blank whether Russia would take the step of invading, and he refused to rule it out, despite the fact that everyone present clearly wanted him to say, "oh no, that won't happen." Loved Cohen, really, really miss him.
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  6745. "So to rectify the situation, the best way isn't through negotiations. The negotiations should come from the blood of the invaders being spilled." Shameful. You should stop talking about ethics until you get some yourself. Speaking of self-defense in criminal law: you don't get to provoke a fight then claim self-defense when you attack or kill the person you provoked. Trying to keep it simple.
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  6746. They got their way, too. :/
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  6747. Cat's paw. We won't know who did this.
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  6748.  @michaelrch  Exactly.
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  6749. Not what it said. It said income tax. You aren't believing it, is the problem.
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  6750. About Pierre Hadot's life: he had some heart problems back in the 1980s when I lived in Paris and he taught at Collège de France. He passed away in 2010. He was 88.
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  6751. Now it's post-truth AND hyper-irony. How much more can we take?
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  6752.  @robhartley7155  With SIX bankruptcies.
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  6753.  @BBBrasil  The anthropologist Marshall Sahlins did extensive work on this question. He titled one of his essays provocatively: The Original Affluent Society.
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  6754. Well thank goodness that in America evidence and not perfect profiles are what count in a court of law.
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  6755.  @AnnyMus-rc2zh  Right. It was Mark Twain.
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  6756.  @Rokaize  You used the term "violator." I then echoed it, with mild irony.
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  6757.  @michaelmccord8469  Did you read his civil rights complaint? Police conceded that driving to the first well-lit area was ordinary.
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  6758.  @kwilloughby  Perfect post.
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  6759. Batya is great, but the absence of Kim is glaring. Batya is outstanding for her level of broadcasting experience, but there's no substitute for experience. Kim had the most. It showed.
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  6760.    I agree with that.
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  6761. Show me where interracial marriage is. Show me where birth control is. Show me where artistic expression is. Show me where AR-15s are. You could read the dissenting opinion in the case.
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  6762. Call castration and sterilization "gender affirming care." Orwell did not foresee this, but Huxley had some hint of what was coming.
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  6763.  @corneliustalmadge6711  oh no . . . I had to laugh . . . It's the least funny thing I've ever read, so it must be my nerves.
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  6764.  @jonritchey8653  I'm sorry! Misunderstood because of the last line. Still a good answer/agreement, then. Goggins didn't want to write anything that required extensive review.
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  6765. @sammiller6631  What? The first part of the test involves the aim and intent of the speech, which is to incite a lawless act, and the second part pertains to the context, which creates a tangible risk that the speech WILL produce a lawless act.
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  6766.  @johnwhite950  Consider all the corporations that spend far more in lobbying than in taxes. Then consider how many of those corporations need the US military to protect global shipping lanes and air space for them to do business. You pay for that. Why don't they pay for their own security? Go protest! It's your money.
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  6767. "Is Western Civilization on the verge of collapse?" Okay, do they want us to cheer for no, or secretly cheer for yes?
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  6768. If a commercial jet is a common carrier, the issue is not so cut and dry. You may well have a constitutional right to board, and the burden is on HER to prove that there is a compelling reason to prohibit you from boarding, and that there is no other way to alleviate any legitimate government concern about letting you on. "Good luck, sweetie."
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  6769.  @taragnor  The Fourteenth Amendment didn't exist back then. And the right to a lawyer at public expense did not exist back then, either.
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  6770. ​@mistressfreezepeach If Tesla stock didn't make you a millionaire, I really can't understand your motive. Do you have any idea what the verified complaints, filed in court against his companies, have to say? Do you know how to find a court document, or do you rely on talking heads who face no downside for lying --- in fact, they make money by lying? Why do people need to be fans of some living person? That's what religion was invented for.
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  6771. Well, the one consolation is that according to the best information we have, you are now highly immune to COVID, and we can hope it's lifelong. Just ignore what these idiots are pushing. Best of luck in feeling great soon. Don't worry, this too shall pass.
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  6772. @syourke3  Correct. It doesn't belong on the shelf at all. See what's banned in Scandinavia, Switzerland, France, Germany, Japan. Investigate, and evaluate, their reasons for not giving this stuff to kids.
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  6773. It's called "hypotheticals." I didn't know that was so tough to understand. I guess I better watch it, too, with those hypotheticals. Funny, that's how they teach law school.
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  6774. Ryan Grim is excellent, and the reporting on prisons, the death penalty, and police violence and corruption are all outstanding. These, plus Scahill, do not make up the majority of the articles, however, and Maass in particular is not a very good journalist. So, I get why you say that. :/
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  6775. For years now, I noticed affluent kids making no eye contact in circumstances where they used to. In the last two years, it has gotten much worse.
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  6776.  @mariaangelicabrunellsolar7086  It is. Capitalism is a religion, money is a sacrament. We not only shun but heap scorn and virtually stone anyone who doesn't have it, and worship anyone who does, regardless of the circumstances. We treat Musk and Gates like oracles. Gates can propose to try to blot out the sun to end global warming. We have fanciful ideas about where profit comes from and how, and above all we pretend the armed forces have nothing to do with it. There are no forms of slavery or servitude in the world any more. Planned collapses of industry and finance that force families from their homes are natural disasters. The most perverse behavior by those who seek profit is natural. If a dating app makes money, then that's how you should meet people. If your parents or spouse hold you back from "success" then get rid of them, they're the devil. If you don't, it's your own fault. Any lack of "success" is your own fault. Of all the "elite" people who consorted with Epstein, did a single one approach him and suggest that he was doing something wrong and needed to stop? When Gates tried to push Allen out of Microsoft while Allen was being treated for lymphoma, did Ballmer refuse to do the dirty work or did he jump right in? Anyone who points this out is very jealous and negative. If they could do these things, they would. But they can't, they're inferior. Take it on faith. No normal thinking process could pervert a person to this point.
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  6777. Please don't worry. We've been here before. :/
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  6778. Sadly, this is probably an urban legend. One was a theoretical physicist, the other an electrical engineer. They are not comparable, and Tesla criticized the new physics all the time. Funny, though, Einstein's only child to survive well into old age became a professor of engineering at Berkeley.
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  6779. So, this was a classic false flag? The American public were supposed to think Muslims did this. I bet some did.
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  6780.  @DunderHead.5000  It's just an expression, when someone does something extraordinary.
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  6781.  Joe Jo  Then how come you see all these weeping husbands who killed their wives?
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  6782. Well that's certainly efficient! 😅
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  6783.  @nacarreira777  You didn't get what I wrote, either, huh? 😂
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  6784.  @Avatar_Brandy  I agree it's nothing new de facto. But putting in place all the paperwork rather than trying to cover it up is concerning all right.
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  6785. Symptoms, not causes. People seek to set themselves apart in some good ways, and some futile ways, when society has nothing to offer them, no unifying vision. Remember Margaret Thatcher? "There is no society, there are only individuals." Well, hope you like it because now you've got it.
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  6786.  @bradleyriles3889  Well, major corporations have been spending vastly more on lobbying than what they pay in taxes, for YEARS. Sounds like someone is relying on the government, hm? Or do all the multinationals who offshored jobs have their own navies and merchant marines to protect shipping containers, shipping lanes, etc.?
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  6787. THANK YOU. I never knew they didn't have this, like, for the entire century if not longer. What a disgrace.
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  6788.  Jack Bradford  How would you know? Oh. Is that what YOU drive?
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  6789. Was he or was he not either violent or imminently violent AT THE TIME he was killed? That is the sole question here. His history is evidence of the failure of the justice system, not evidence that the choke hold was proper here. Calling it vigilante isn't fair, calling it a crime is premature, agreed; let a careful and fair investigation proceed.
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  6790. So, . . . the studies he discusses and links aren't real, or . . . they say something different from what he says they say? I always read studies. We were lied to a lot, as it turns out. Why? Seems unnecessary.
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  6791. Read it. It is well-referenced. The fact that COVID hardly harms anyone under 50 is striking. He has the proper, peer-reviewed studies to prove it.
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  6792.  @atomicstyle7344  No, Dr. Grande is a supervising psychologist, not an MD. This specialty often works in MSW programs to train clinical social workers, and often supervises therapists of various kinds in state agencies. He is amply qualified to practice clinical psychology (better than many who are also state licensed), but not to practice psychiatry. As for what this woman supposedly was, SPOT ON! How people like her get permission to advise anyone on any of this stuff is a mystery. States should review their policies. COVID should motivate them if simple protection of the public didn't so far.
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  6793. ​ @info781 Then why is Hotez all over the media all the time?
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  6794. He made a lot of solid points. He made no one happy, however. That's for sure.
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  6795. We don't have culture. We have advertising. Bravo.
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  6796. And it was a Soviet, Vasili Arkhipov, who prevented a nuclear exchange.
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  6797. ​ @crungefactory  What RFK Jr. said to do in the event of a pandemic was exactly what I wanted to see done.
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  6798.  @bif53  You have absolutely nothing to say to someone who has been raped. Your role is to listen to them. Any suggestion about what they need to do, or what is best for them to do, or what will happen if they don't follow this or that formula, is disguised hostility -- inverted resentment masquerading as wisdom. Shameful, really. Be quiet and listen.
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  6799.  @abrahamalvarez7099  Dyer is presenting well-known lessons in salesmanship disguised as profound wisdom. Read a real book on trauma, if you care to learn. If not, be humble. The one value to this discourse is to learn what to say to mere acquaintances to Sound Smart and keep them off your back. Telling a traumatized person what attitude they need to have, or should "choose" to have, toward what happened to them (them, not you) is abusive. (How do you even know your choices are real choices for them, at this moment?) What you believe "worked for you" may not work for anyone else because they are not you. This is why one-on-one therapy exists, and isn't a simple proposition. It is never "one size fits all."
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  6800. ​ @coloneldarren999 Whoa, is SHE advocating US military involvement?
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  6801. Did all of you report to VAERS?
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  6802.  @sadenbrick  You know this, how?
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  6803. In Illinois, one unvaccinated woman briefly lost custody of her child during a divorce. To his infinite credit, her estranged husband immediately said, "we are NOT arguing custody on any such basis." The judge reversed himself over the weekend, and rescinded his order on Monday.
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  6804. Brought to you by Pfizer
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  6805.  @FemmiFatale  This is not true.
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  6806. Yes. And promise and don't do.
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  6807. 👏👏👏
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  6808. USSR grew incredibly quickly after WWII, not even taking into consideration how severely they suffered in the war and under Stalin. It was strange. Peaked around 1970, about the same time the US minimum wage peaked in purchasing power.
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  6809. ​ @Nackdad Thank you!!! You made my day.
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  6810. It's not a proper legal term, and anyone who suggests so is pandering, but it's perfectly acceptable as colloquial language. This talking point sounds like the wokester grammar police. We have to watch our words . . .
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  6811. Truly sorry.
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  6812. What lawyer shows their hand at a press conference before filing papers in court? First you file, then you state what you've done, and what it means. Then you are entitled to spin, no problem.
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  6813. Look up swatting.
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  6814. His plagiarism is even worse. There was a time when serial plagiarism excluded a person from the office of President. The DNC and Trump got rid of those pesky, annoying standards "that don't really matter anyway."
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  6815.  @callumbush1  Plus hopelessly dumb, yup! Then they uncovered all his other plagiarism! Most people would have had trouble getting a law license.
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  6816.  @TamNguyen-jp8bv  It's not even "doping." That drug is cardioprotective. It cannot make you skate, or dance, or do any activity more artistically. She isn't track and field, dear.
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  6817.  @Lark-jh9gx  There is no such thing as a defense of consent to death. Even euthanasia is illegal in most places.
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  6818. Just watch people line up to vote again if Trump and Biden run.
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  6819. ​@megaxac WORSE THAN THAT: they advocated for barring the unvaccinated from having a hospital bed. We treat serial killers, we treat mass murderers --- and yet they advocated for refusing a hospital bed to someone with the sense to question this.
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  6820. There is another word: patriot.
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  6821. 😂😂😂
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  6822. False. It does not. A carjacking is not the defense of an unoccupied car, but of a person. No state allows the use of lethal force in defense of property where no person's physical safety is at risk.
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  6823. 👏👏👏
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  6824. Medicare For All -- end the AGE DISCRIMINATION
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  6825. Good to know! 😂
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  6826.  @phazemekaniks  Do you seriously imagine other people don't know what peer-reviewed means, or how to read such articles? In the case of myocarditis, demographic characteristics matter. The NYTimes just reported this past week that a number of countries no longer recommend two doses of an mRNA vaccine for men under 25. You are not up to date. (P. S. Expert witness testimony under Daubert was a specialty of mine. Quit thinking you're smarter than everybody else. Even Einstein knew better.)
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  6827. EEOC says employers can require vaccination of employees, absent an ADA-type accomodation. The vaccines are not yet fully FDA approved; one has been authorized for emergency use for only three months, and had to be briefly suspended during that time. I guess this is to keep us safe. /s I expect to be vaccinated by the end of the year. I'm opposed to this added power and violation of privacy by corporations anyway. . . . This is what happens when the boss controls your HEALTHCARE.
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  6828.  @AshutoshK-w4e  He doesn't even know what people study.
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  6829. For pardoning a judge who put kids in juvenile detention for MONEY, and left Peltier in prison to die?
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  6830. Oh my God, look at Biden's eyes.
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  6831. Try this one. Give it a four-day weekend. If it worked for me . . . It will work for anyone. 😂
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  6832. Nope. They are going to get richer.
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  6833. Post-Manson "Family," everyone should have known better. Everyone.
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  6834. ​ @paulsmyth3580 False. They said they were unsure of NYU's specific role in the IDF action.
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  6835. ​​ @rudydesi Only true threats or incitement to imminent violence are prohibited. A rumor that someone felt unsafe is unfortunate, but it is of no legal importance at all.
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  6836. ​ @kalrandom7387  Up voted both, lol.
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  6837.  @marciabradley7660  A certain measure of suffering is a vital part of every life. For a child, having a beloved pet die will cause suffering. Having to miss a party because of a bad cold will as well. OTOH, an ordinary day at school shouldn't, a family dinner shouldn't, a family vacation shouldn't, etc. In those cases, it is rarely the kid who needs to change, and let go of "attachments."
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  6838. ​ @mountainconstructions Yes, except for when we were mandated.
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  6839.  @mountainconstructions  I didn't take it.
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  6840. I can't watch this mummy in chief.
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  6841.  @miikesnow50  He was on the research team that invented the mRNA immunotherapy technology, but played no role whatsoever in developing the COVID mRNA vaccines, or any other vaccines as far as I know.
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  6842. This podcast focused on First Amendment law and its limitations in protecting free speech. Impeachment was a brief side issue, not the main topic. The free speech discussion was one of the best I've heard in a long time. Three of the four people on were distinguised lawyers, so it was on a level. Why does Sam do this? He is smart and cute. I don't get it.
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  6843. ​@sethzwicker3631 Yes they will have a criminal record, though they can get it expunged once they have fulfilled the terms of their plea agreements.
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  6844.  @therobbieunited  Oh. I had no idea the point was to make the economy the highest priority in a the midst of a worldwide health crisis, or that no lockdown was the only means of preserving the economy. Thanks for the candor.
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  6845.  @feydrautha012  They make him look good by comparison. He's a malignant narcissist too.
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  6846.  @cedricrust9953  I don't believe you read Maupin's book. 🤣
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  6847. 💯, every post here!
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  6848. That blond?? A false flag, perhaps??
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  6849. Israel is being honest. They signaled that myocarditis was a significant issue in teen boys. They were first to say so.
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  6850.  @Brentford-zk4ey  Exactly. The new neolibs are to the right of Nixon on many points, if not generally. Definitely to the right of Eisenhower on lots.
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  6851. Everyone I know wanted to be at home until their kids were well-established in grammar school, and then wanted to work after that. Most moms, even of toddlers, liked working part-time. No one I ever knew with children under the age of 5 wanted to work full time, or stay home full time. Literally no one. Necessity drives most people. You focus on the few with choices, and jeer at them.
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  6852. What Dr. Bhattacharya said about Uganda is absolutely heartbreaking. Why isn't he invited to CNN, MSNBC, and Democracy Now! to talk about this??
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  6853. ​ @patriciakimball8150 It's increasing . . . now? Are you all right? Are you sure?
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  6854. The US Constitution guarantees your access to court. Unfortunately, finding a good attorney usually depends on the size of the likely recovery. IOW, $$$
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  6855. Did they PAY her to read it? Well then why should she read it? What, you think she's a patriot or something? /s
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  6856. France passed a law making mandates and vaccine passports illegal for all minors. Did you hear about it in our media?
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  6857.  @sadiyasaleh233  It is normal to investigate all who were present, because they were there. She has the right to decline to speak further, for any reason, but especially to protect her own mental health -- unless she is subpoenaed by a court. Then she will have to testify or prove she cannot. How can this be too tough? And NO, do NOT normalize being petrified, and frozen by fear, but then not calling 911 if/as soon as you are able. No. That is not normal.
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  6858. ​ @ricfax No normal person has sought such power. They are like countries unto themselves. That requires a level of sociopathy that is not found in the vast majority of people.
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  6859. Fauci still has its job.
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  6860. Too bad the US didn't have people like Levy to hold government accountable on September 12, 2001, and after. 😢
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  6861.  @gen-xboomer  The kid who reported him is black?
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  6862.  @gen-xboomer  I wish that were true. It is much more often true today than it has been in 40 years, but now a new divisive bunch is trying hard to reverse that. Or at least that's the effect.
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  6863. Are there philanthropists? Are you sure that's a thing, not a brand?
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  6864. I guess you have to try them out first, to see whether they "weaken" you. In general, thoughts don't weaken anyone. Emotions may, by leading you astray and exhausting you. Believing that thoughts can hurt you is MUCH more likely to do real harm -- which of course is a thought as well, a thought about thoughts.
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  6865.  Teresa Wojsław  Joined last month. :/
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  6866.  @davidwinston338  It's authoritarian to impose fundamental life choices on a minor who is in principle unable to consent. Children are not their parents' property. Where the ability to procreate and the right to try, or not, is concerned, I support choice.
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  6867.  @user-uy6uc5ey5q  Can you be serious? Greenwald is one of the people instrumental in obtaining Lula's release from prison.
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  6868. It struck me that this is possible.
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  6869. Brandon does.
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  6870. "Learning by rote" is what you need to be trained to do to be able to play Shakespeare. (Children who don't learn it will never appear in a play, or produce a great video for that matter.) P. S. You can keep your "entrepreneurs."
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  6871. What I despise the most is seeing MeToo weaponized to deflect valid criticism. You can see what Ana really thinks of women by her backhand comment against Jimmy Dore's wife. That was the worst thing anyone said about a woman in this whole picture.
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  6872.  @seekeroftruth6728  Wait. Are you proud of TWO atom bombs, within four days? That's to BRAG on? Well, you didn't produce an Arkhipov! No surprise there.
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  6873. Thank you for pointing this out! ❤
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  6874. These people will say anything for clicks. They need to mention Glenn and feud with him to get some traction.
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  6875. ​@errolkim1334 We are producing more homeless and dysfunctional, we are not breaking the bank to sustain them.
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  6876. THIS.
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  6877. There is a sweet spot for UBI, shown in several compelling studies. Just enough but not too much UBI raises employment: people are more relaxed and give better interviews, they come across as easier to work with, they dress better, buy new shoes, get their teeth cleaned and their nails done. Their health care costs go down. It also gives them the taste for more -- which means working harder or looking for a better job.
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  6878.  @foxylibrarian1  Yes. Very sinister that it made no difference at all.
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  6879. ​ @wekurtz72 False. She mentioned anti-BDS laws, which are violations of First Amendment freedoms.
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  6880. 😅
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  6881. Mark Zuckerberg
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  6882.  @Combaticus  Yes, Betsy and Peter Maass, tied for WORST with Risen. Scahill was the one who disgraced himself the most. He knew better.
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  6883. What RFK Jr. said to do in the event of a pandemic was exactly what I wanted to see done.
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  6884. Heard the image was doctored. Don't know if that's true. He got better remarkably fast.
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  6885. ​ @afdilemma8785 Not to mention two sisters. I accidentally killed a beetle a few weeks ago. I was sorry. It wasn't harming me or annoying anyone.
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  6886. Thank you Jimmy and Chris Hedges for one of the most important post-attempted insurrection programs.
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  6887. No, she assumes everyone operates from the same knowledge base and she begins with her conclusion rather than beginning with premises we can agree on. I agree that is not good. Some of her points are nevertheless good. It took her forever to get to a very good point here.
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  6888.  @madProgenitorDeity  No, just I meant it's no longer a guarantee. I still try it, too! Thanks 😊
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  6889.  @petermcculloch4933  💯
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  6890.  @Viking7771  I didn't take the vaccine, and felt like a hunted animal. But I wasn't forced from my job. That is coercion.
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  6891. To Jimmy's opponents: Jimmy is doing this because he still thinks he can change AOC et al., OR get better representatives into office. Keep fighting, Jimmy!
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  6892. Just like COVID, huh?
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  6893. I am sick to death of all of these politicians grandstanding. We need real science and real answers, and I no longer expect to see either.
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  6894.  @thehippie3610  The Chinese Embassy in Belgrade was bombed. The Chinese mention it derisively now and then. The US claimed an outdated map was to blame.
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  6895. ​@Satan A carnivore diet could be exactly what he does not need. It's irresponsible to suggest it's good for a cancer patient. You do not know that.
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  6896. ​ @myal7532 Do you think Ukraine can win? His analysis of that war is complete nonsense -- but he never says anything that, when proven wrong, could possibly hurt him. That's his paramount skill.
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  6897. Too bad. You might learn something real about free speech.
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  6898.  @highroller-jq3ix  Tavistock's gender clinic has closed, Swedish clinics and French clinics no longer routinely prescribe puberty blockers for gender dysphoria in minor children, if at all; see The Atlantic article dated April 28, 2023.
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  6899. First two minutes of this video are devastating to AOC.
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  6900. freak show
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  6901.  @wyskass861  WHO takes Putin's word? THIS ISN'T A GAME.
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  6902. He is lying. I am absolutely sure. I helped save an elderly widow whose late husband did this to her. She almost lost her house. This was 30 years ago. Same story.
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  6903. And sterilization of "non-gender-conforming" kids strikes you as progressive? It strikes me as eugenics.
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  6904. Can you be serious? You cannot sue a judge for his rulings. You can appeal. And if the judge was bribed, he can go to prison and you can go to court with a habeas petition, and then sue the state for damages if you meet certain criteria. That's damages from the state, not the court or the judge. Sheesh.
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  6905. Brilliant post
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  6906. This was fundraising, sweetheart. And she sure did.
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  6907. How can he always bend the knee to foreign dictators when he feels like it is commercially advantageous?
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  6908. Insurance companies can decide, based on whether they'll cover for you.
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  6909.  @mmolchin  But do you understand the mentality of the lower-middle class in the white-flight suburbs? Do you understand their image-tending? Why do you think Biden was SO "tough on crime?" As was Harris. The lower-middle class want most of the Trump policies, and insist on a much more suave image. Tweeting matters. Black lives, not so much.
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  6910. They miss Trump. They want to hate.
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  6911.  @Photovintageguy  Oh, Steele dossier? 🤣🤣🤣 Who fell for that? Pathetic.
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  6912. ​@nodi1217 This pertains to FRENCH law. US law has no general prohibition on "hate speech," and no criminal defamation. Defamation is purely a civil matter here.
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  6913. Not even comparable. Have you ever known anyone from Oklahoma? That "Indian princess" family lore is silly, not sinister, and of course she has some Cherokee ancestry. Like I said, Oklahoma. Having said that, I would never vote for her, for more substantial reasons. And she got where she is by first, studying hard, becoming an expert in bankruptcy law, and then making sure she got the credit for it -- by marrying well, among other things. She has a lot in common with the Clintons and Tony Blair, and with Biden, for that matter.
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  6914.  @SK-ut6tw  I knew that. So he did start high school in the 1990s.
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  6915. AMEN
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  6916.  @shintownalley  I think you're right.
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  6917.  @ShellNotSpeak  And it can happen for any number of reasons. For David Goggins, it was race and size.
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  6918. Speaking of free speech, I keep getting accused of violating community standards, without citation. I have no idea what they mean, as I never trash talk or jeer.
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  6919. A public school needs to initiate sex education as part of health education to prepare students for puberty, and then when students attain the age of consent, they need certain information for their own safety. If it is done well, it will delay activity without ruining the experience for them when they become full-fledged adults. Do you imagine that no parents sexualize their children? Lots of evidence that they do.
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  6920.  @samuelvimes943  Can't stop making up those stories about strangers, huh? "Looks like . . . "
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  6921. Not to me. Everyone with such clearance should not be allowed to speak to any foreign leader concerning anything affecting our geopolitical status or policies. Ever.
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  6922.  @radscorpion8  A figment of a poor novelist's imagination.
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  6923. You think he has morals? He has a very good argument here. That does not mean he has morals.
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  6924. @MaryEastBay  Point to me what the Laundries did that is against criminal law. It doesn't have to be precise. Just point to what crime they committed. And . . . Why no prosecution of them? Why no criminal investigation of them? Why only a civil suit that was settled for a confidential sum? (The suit against Brian's estate, which was uncontroversial and well conceived, was settled for a known sum and all his belongings. Hence those weapons and diaries, which were in FBI custody, belong to Gabby's family to do with whatever they believe best.)
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  6925. I understand.
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  6926.  @TJ-so9xo  And I disagree. To be clear, I think your conjecture is right on target, and that she made a serious misjudgment. I find it suspicious, frankly. The attorney in this case will have a book deal, especially if it goes to trial.
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  6927. You're right. They never fell for a fabrication. Remarkable record.
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  6928. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  6929. Then prevent them from entering. That's fair. You put someone in jail, you give them a lawyer. Hello.
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  6930. If medical personnel could approach a patient to administer opioids and benzodiazapines, it is perfectly legitimate to ask why, with proper precautions, a member of the immediate family who was already exposed to that person at home could not be permitted to visit. A LOT of people asked that question, in other countries especially. I recall J-L Melenchon, the French leftist in particular, being appalled by it.
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  6931.  @tpocalypse  It's not that hard to desist. My first reaction was, wow, they GOT HIM! Of course. Then I remembered the last three years and decided to suspend judgment until we had some concrete facts, tested in court. I can wait.
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  6932. In a normal year, possibly . . . You forget the anomalous voting process, mail-in ballots lasting months. And Trump ran a poor campaign. He addressed COVID poorly. He needed to replace Fauci, not lift the moratorium on gain of function research funding at his suggestion.
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  6933.  @shadowwolf7622  There is a difference between suspecting everything you hear of being a lie, and maintaining skepticism. Suspend judgment. That's what I'm doing. I will probably be vaccinated. Not at this time, however. There isn't enough information for me to decide, or enough choices of vaccine. Some countries have from three to FIVE non-mRNA vaccines to choose from. Maybe they are wrong to be suspicious of mRNA. That could turn out to be true as well. MRNA may be a real breakthrough. Right now, though, we don't know -- yet.
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  6934.  @Viktor5644  No. They have to explain that they are not using the ordinary operation of addition. Whether or not pure mathematics is "consistent" with theoretical physics is very lovely, but entirely beside the point. Consistency with theoretical physics is not a means of proving mathematical theorems or justifying operations in pure mathematics. And you know it. Physics can give insights about what to try -- what mathematical theorems might be demonstrable -- and it certainly does for the gifted mathematicians (many of whom have amazing spatial intuition, and just "see" this stuff before they prove it), but physics in no way can prove those theorems.
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  6935. @Сперти за правду Nope. Listen carefully to what he said. He said he would never fit in there because of his journalistic interests. He also conceded that if he were working on an entirely different beat, he would consider writing for them, because some journalists they publish do good work. The Intercept still has some outstanding reporting on prison, police misconduct, and the death penalty. Mate is being sincere and candid -- so of course someone comes along to distort it and attack him. Never fails. Doubtful he would have had a platform at The Nation without Katrina van den Heuvel as editor, frankly. She and her late husband went through some stuff because they don't hate Russians -- the one form of ethnic bigotry that is not only tolerated but encouraged. In fact, it has become a loyalty oath.
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  6936. I pity Sandmann at this point. He has dreadful parents. Before you attack him, try to picture it.
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  6937. Has this been presented to any independent journalist? This sort of gaslighting is usually done without creating a paper trail. (It wouldn't be too quick to believe it unverified, because they rarely leave themselves open to lawsuit when they bully people.) Aaron Mate (Dr. Gabor Mate's son) is Canadian journalist he would care.
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  6938. NO, Bri. This time I disagree. There is a HUGE problem of criminalizing everything we don't like -- of going straight to criminal law to solve everything -- this part is true, and I agree with you about the reflex to criminalize people. It is not just a trans issue, it's across the board. But there is a very important debate about transgender minors that cannot be censored anymore. The censorship has GOT to stop. First concede Charlamagne's point. He is right. First agree that we need to talk. Free discussion comes first.
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  6939.  @Kube_Dog  But emotional drama is EXACTLY how people are persuaded, especially to do unwise things.
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  6940. ​@krenwregget7667 You have no idea how he got rich, do you? Quite a lot of legal documents from suits against him could enlighten you.
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  6941. @williamh4172  Employers are allowed to discriminate against you on many grounds. Religion isn't one of them. That's why.
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  6942.  @katiek.8808  I put up $17,000 for the defense fund of an innocent man out of my savings. Among other things. You?
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  6943. They didn't "release this little clip." You had to "curate" it. The podcast was about the First Amendment, and its limits in the current media landscape as a protection of freedom of speech. It was not about impeachment. Also, for some reason, the color of this clip is way off. How bizarre.
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  6944.  @fortusvictus8297  Adam Smith supported the maintenance of "the commons," and warned against allowing the rentier class to create monopolies and extract wealth without earning it, which Smith considered a concerted subversion of the mechanism of the Invisible Hand, and the only real threat to free markets. IOW, we aren't even up to the standards of Adam Smith, much less . . . Modern day "commons" are clean air, clean water, universal public education and universal health care. Once you have that, and reach the age of adulthood, all the rest is up to you. Like I said, we aren't even up to that level. Pfft.
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  6945. So what if American kids can't read? Lots of other kids read a ton.
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  6946. 💯
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  6947. Fetterman has major depression. Depression after a heart attack or stroke is very serious. Wow, . . . you know? Scary. I hope your brother did better while he was with us and that he never had depression from his stroke.
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  6948. What is the source of this?
    4
  6949. Because meaningless abuse and mass harassment is no big deal, but declaring a political position is "TERRIBLE!!!"
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  6950. A crowd versus one lone person should be shameful for any adult, especially a crowd of men jeering at a woman.
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  6951. @benjaminfranklin8412  I agree with you. How anyone could be duped into supporting the grave risk of sterilization of minors is beyond me. Does a girl have to like pink, wave a pompom, and ask for a pushup bra at 13 to be worthy of having the choice to be a birth mother someday? This is whack.
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  6952.  @jayuhoo4806  Oh yes, everything is possible. And the victims of the Nazis should have learned self-defense.
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  6953. Krystal is our angel: 12:25 mRNA was developed through PUBLIC FUNDING, while the private sector is strategizing to reap the profits Say it loud.
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  6954. I wish. They are not only getting away with it, but laughing all the way to the investment bank.
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  6955. ​ @will7its Because the 2008 crisis was not bipartisan. 😂
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  6956.  @violetad487  No kidding. You must not have read what I wrote. Calm down, take it slow. Think before emoting. P. S. Kids shouldn't eat at McDonald's.
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  6957.  @gratefulila9980  Exactly. Literally try everything else first. Diet, walking, massage, being outdoors and looking up at wide vistas, clouds and so forth, the horizon line of a large body of water, any form of art therapy (music, painting, dance), keeping a journal and writing poetry, yoga. Try several at once, it's synergistic. If you're not opposed to eating an animal, vegan plus occasional fish is worth a try. If you do eat meat, try giving up mammals, and giving up all but fermented dairy (yogurt, kefir, camembert), and eating that only in moderation.
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  6958. As soon as the side effects became known, I decided against the vaccine because I knew that if anything happened to me, I'd be on my own. I've had that experience, where people have shunned me after some tragedy occurred. No thanks. This turned out worse than I had expected. I didn't expect such cowardice.
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  6959. Pertains to defamation.
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  6960. The notion that anyone wrongly identified Rittenhouse as an active shooter because of fear of guns or misunderstanding of guns is laughable. Two people went after him after he shot Rosenbaum. Therefore they were not afraid. Rittenhouse was acquitted because those people all went after him.
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  6961.  @bsmithhammer  Too bad any mention of See Eye Aye results in being unseen. 😂
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  6962. ​@bioschneid8811 Who in the world would ever bother to conspire when bribery combined with debt obtain compliance from practically everyone?
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  6963. She's only counting dollars. Anything else would be beyond her.
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  6964. Same.
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  6965.  @matthewatwood8641  How ridiculous. Precisely what "anti-fragile" means is highly context dependent, and may vary with age, temperament of the child, and the nature of the surrounding community and the larger society. We're not dealing with protons and electrons, or billiard balls. Among other things, I object to referring to ordinary teasing as bullying, OR treating the latter as the former. Everyone laughs when they go to a school reunion and reminisce about the teasing they endured. No one laughs about bullying. It's like the difference between a rude outburst followed by an apology, and a true threat.
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  6966.  @bgoodfella7413  Well, maybe your tweeting will "accomplish" something.
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  6967. @Kellen Pocock I didn't mean to say anything different from what you just said! My point was that when a person starts to get very good at what they do, that is often the moment when the real trouble starts. It is not usually the moment when the skies clear and doors open. In other words, it's a much harder road than people let on, and a much greater success when they do triumph. I don't mean that they shouldn't try. I mean, if you really want it, then be prepared not to give up when the going gets hard on a whole new level. Because once you do get good, the going usually gets harder. That is also why I never criticize those who simply cannot keep pushing. Sometimes it is literally impossible, and not because they "failed."
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  6968.  @jon9428  Did the DNC work to win back the Senate? Or did they work to "prove" that Hillary lost the election "on account of Putin?" I'm just curious who they were working for. They certainly made sure to run a superb candidate in 2020, who won a resounding victory, a virtual landslide. /s
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  6969.  Carl Yelland  The Guardian has no far left. It has pro- and anti-Blair Labourites.
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  6970. Biden has a stutter. Whoa whoa whoa . . .
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  6971.  @utah_koidragon7117  No. The COVID relief funding was not inflationary. That is not the reason for this inflation.
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  6972. Well, we have a result. Looks to me like the jury looked beyond First Amendment law and provable damages to punish wrongdoing, in the proportion they saw fit. If that is what happened, that means we all lost. As usual. This was a shameful spectacle.
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  6973. ​ @mischevious 💯
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  6974. ​ @alansteel THIS 😂😂😂
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  6975.  @oceania2385  Now you're being too kind. 🤣🤣🤣
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  6976.  @oceania2385  🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm dying
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  6977. Dr. Campbell is absolutely right. There must be an inquiry. Multivariate analysis is difficult; they must start now.
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  6978. And he has the time, too. Wow, he must be SOOOOOO talented!!
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  6979. ​@-Thunder Florida is 18. But this is old news. Why now? He was a Congressman who took down a Speaker years ago. So, where was the prosecution then?
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  6980. 4:52 She had immunity.
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  6981. 1. Read their joint statement, issued a few weeks before the invasion. 2. Note that China has never called the invasion an invasion.
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  6982.  @magnaviator  What part of the joint statement issued by Russia and China didn't you read?
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  6983. There are extradition treaties in place. The lawyers claim they do not apply to Assange. He probably must return to Australia if he wins.
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  6984.  @ga8410  I know that. I said the injured. Don't scare them, especially with catastrophic talk. People are recovering, especially those who declined "boosters."
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  6985.  @TheRoxinatoR  Found the Colorado trial court order, over 100 pages . . . Yes, Trump did intervene. It took a bit of time to find. Will now look for Maine.
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  6986.  @TheRoxinatoR  In Maine, the Secretary of State held hearings on challenges to Trump's petition/application to appear on the primary ballot. It was a legal process, but not a court.
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  6987. @dpcwing729  You think legal questions of this gravity are based on "common sense?" Did all your Facebook Friends say so? Thumbs up?
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  6988.  CaliforniaCheez  You are out of your mind. Guns can be regulated. Texas has a gun safety and marksmanship standards for CC licensing, and a person has to be 21 for concealed carry. Where do you get this nonsense that a MINOR has a "constitutional right" to carry an AR-15? Then I guess every school shooter did, too.
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  6989.  CaliforniaCheez  He is a deeply delusional 17-year-old high school dropout who has never held a real full-time job, who confuses the Internet with reality, has been credibly accused of hitting girls, and of course has no father in the picture. And you're egging people like that on. THIS is who should show up with major firepower? "To help?" Newsflash: real security guards are of age, trained, licensed, bonded and insured. If any adults put him up to acting as security, or provided him with that firearm, they should face charges.
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  6990.  @msimon74ify  Apparently, support for lynch mobs has not died out.
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  6991. THIS IS A REASON for children NOT to get vaccinated. No vaccine is fully approved for anyone under 16, even by our cowed FDA! EDIT: Let's go Brandon.
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  6992. Keep an eye on Uvalde.
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  6993.  @harmonys2102  It was, however, unconstitutional.
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  6994. How did this happen? Seriously. How?
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  6995. Even Angela Davis made that point, very early in the lockdowns. (I don't know how she was on the general question.)
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  6996.  @hawkofthenorth4829  I didn't take notes, so I'd have to listen again. I may get back to you, this was good and probably deserves a second listen.
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  6997.  @max420thc  Show us their required reading lists, so that we can judge for ourselves whether they are brainwashed. Please. Let's see some evidence. Or, name some professors, with links to the books they've written. We can see if those books are propaganda. Any solid evidence you like. Bring it on.
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  6998.  @chiphill4856  LOL, thanks, I guess! I think most people are envious of these students and automatically attack them. I like to see what they are actually studying. No book is closed to me. It's just a matter of how hard I'm willing to work to understand it.
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  6999. Oh boy. This is a routine motion. It is almost always brought at the end of the state's case.
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  7000.  @kevinsyd2012  A lot of people need vitamin D. A, B complex, C, E, probably far less so, for most people. Vitamin D is least dependent on diet.
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  7001.  @silkart1  Here's an interesting question: why do you think Depp didn't see Hughes? Why wasn't a reason given? Hint: it is analogous to the Fifth Amendment.
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  7002. Oh good grief
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  7003. Depends on whether Joe's babbling is weakening financial markets. That's all that it depends on. War, as such, does not affect the global financial "elites." Losing Congress is already baked in. That was evident within weeks of the inauguration, and likely desired.
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  7004. You could get 25 dates like these guys.
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  7005. Maybe listen to his interview with Glenn Greenwald, where the real issue of censorship is discussed? Is EVERYTHING about personalities now?
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  7006. Tsk. Psaki will caution you, and call attention to the fact that a woman is starting a new media business.
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  7007. If over 80% of Americans cannot afford to stop working, how does Robbie expect them to retire on their own assets and without Social Security? Does he want to step over 75-year-old beggars on his way to work? Does he think the system really will run out of money? Funny how railway workers, sanitation workers, retail workers, and everyone else Robbie relies on to live are just too much of a burden, while the "entrepreneurs" who figured out a way to combine advertising and mass surveillance are billionaires. I guess Facebook has contributed more to society than grocery stores. /s
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  7008. LOL
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  7009. "Abandonner les pouvoir aux américains" au moment où ils sont en plein chute . . . tiens . . .
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  7010. @ariellaurent5422  Students fear for their lives now?? Oh, I see. You mean those three Palestinian students from Brown who were shot. Yes, I see your point, of course.
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  7011. That rogue states and neo-Nazi militias put the best journalists on kill lists is hardly a surprise, but that the US GOVERNMENT openly supports this is a new low. Anya is a new mother, they put her on a kill list, and the US is fine with that. Feed the war . . . Beyond despicable.
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  7012. PCF (French Communists) and LFI (hard left movement) oppose vaccine mandates and vaccine passports. No one should be surprised. America is exceptional. That's true.
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  7013.  @DamonBrazzellUkesploitation  You had a misprint in your statistics. I hope your tablet lets you fix it.
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  7014.  @lockegodwin9916  Wait. Apart from anything else -- do you think people put kickbacks on their taxes?
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  7015. It is if that's the aim.
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  7016.  @krennels  The US military is the ultimate backstop to dollar hegemony. That's the point. It is evident our currency is diluted and no longer as stable as it was before deregulation and the explosion of exotic derivatives and swaps, shadow banking, etc. If the world didn't know before 2008, it sure does now. You might try to keep up. Or did you think Facebook and Google hold more real value for people than raw materials, food, and basic manufactured goods?
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  7017.  @danmccarron0  💯 Great analysis
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  7018. How many of the people cheering for condemnation of the students have read the statement? You trust media comments instead?
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  7019. Imagine fearing an ordinary Trump voter more than this woman.
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  7020. 6. Win a small lotto. A million and a half net will do.
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  7021. ​ @paulheydarian1281 The reason you see it everywhere is because the software defaults to an apostrophe. Hate that.
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  7022. It's much bigger than that!! It made things WORSE!
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  7023.  @cairn_projections  So sorry! This is an unprecedented time. Very hard to keep focus and above all, pull together. I don't know if you are like this, but I sense magical thinking in myself. I cannot quite believe things are as bad as they are, and expect the pandemic to be over and life to return to normal. I think I listen to shows like this to bring me back to reality. That was a great thing to do. You won't regret it over the long haul.
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  7024. Time to consult an attorney. It will not be easy to find an honest one. Get help from your nearest and dearest. Get your documents together. Good luck.
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  7025. "It identifies as a vaccine." 😅😅😅😅😅
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  7026.  @thecatsupdog  Briahna criticized this law professor.
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  7027. ​@charlesreidy2765 You need to be told what to know? Try, "we don't know." We have to vote CIA or Hamas, Trump or Biden, . . . 😂😂😂
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  7028. What "traditional roles?" When I was born, easily a quarter of the American work force was employed in agriculture. Today, it is less than 2%. I'm wondering what you think is traditional about any role, for any person, today. That women who can stay home with preschool children will stay home has always been the case. The ones who can afford to stay home are, however, afraid that once their children are older and they want to resume their careers, they will never be accepted back in the job market again.
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  7029. HARSH
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  7030. Steven R. Gundry is a well-known cardio-thoracic surgeon who went on to promote unproven diets and supplements for personal gain. A study that commingles people who had COVID with those who had the vaccine without creating four distinct cells (+/-- COVID, +/-- mRNA vaccine) is without value. If Circulation publishes this, I would be surprised. At most, it creates a case for further research. Maybe it was withdrawn?
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  7031. @dt6822  Yeah, well . . . The devices are expressly designed to cause behavioral addiction. There are engineering protocols and psychological protocols they deliberately employ for that reason. The term they use is "stickiness." That doesn't absolve people --- but does everyone know about it? Then how do you expect them to protect themselves against it?
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  7032.  @jtjones4081  Reread the first comment. There is plenty of reason to be suspicious about the Wuhan lab's role, based on evidence. That is correct. It's not a "conspiracy theory." Neither are the other two scenarios mentioned above.
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  7033.  @cerebralm  Not a bad point at all, but we're stuck with the stigmatization I'm afraid. Stigmatizing it was manipulation, true.
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  7034. @daz97  Where did you get that? Strossen is tremendous. Why did you think I disagreed with her? You do know she is one of the great living advocates of First Amendment rights, correct? The subtitle of Hate Speech is "Why we should resist it with free speech, not censorship."
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  7035. @daz97  Oh, so you're an attorney, too? Federal experience? California license? You keep up with all the latest Supreme Court cases on the First Amendment, opinions and dissents? Or, you're more of a video kind of person . . . 🤡🌎
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  7036.  @daz97  "Consume?" Not enough good, cliché-free writing. 🤣🤣🤣
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  7037. ​ @HLysimon False. If they had not been exonerated, then the suit would have been dismissed outright, without discovery and without a trial.
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  7038.  @Kehvan  False.
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  7039. @HLysimon  False. A civil rights suit on these facts will be dismissed outright if the plaintiffs weren't exonerated. It will not settle. Also, a city cannot settle easily, because the taxpayers are ultimately liable. I hope YT lets you see this. Facts are disfavored here.
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  7040. I am telling everyone I know about THIS report. Outstanding. Thank you so much.
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  7041.  @davesears9681  Oh. So we do agree. Though I'm less pessimistic about the last part. I'm old enough to remember a time when this could not have passed. That change in our culture is what worries me the most by far.
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  7042. ​ @maximr6576 Glenn Greenwald just interviewed her. Sounds like this clip could be misleading.
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  7043. Treat this as a real emergency. Get her off of any drug safely. Consult a new doctor. Make a comprehensive plan: someone has got to take time off and do this. Family Medical Leave Act. She should take a shower every morning. Then take her for a long walk in nature (park, beach, forest preserve) every day. Then go shopping together for fresh, unprocessed food, and cook with her. Cut her screen time, turn off screens at 9 pm. Get a reading program and a cinema program together. Reading real books results in thoughts and even eye movements that are good for your brain. Take her to art galleries, plays. Have a new outing per week, or so; two per month as a minimum. Never mention her tatoos and piercings. Encourage any art or music she wants to pursue. Buy her a journal. Don't let anyone else touch it. I'm serious. You can fix this by July if you do it. Or, let it drag on for years, get in shouting matches periodically, not know where she is for a weekend or two, only to get a call from a hospital or the cops. You know. What most people do.
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  7044. You described it perfectly.
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  7045. Anyone remember Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46 (1988)? Parodies, caricatures, and satires (having redeeming artistic merit, or not) which are critical of public figures are First Amendment-protected speech.
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  7046.  @JB-hq9yj  Oh, I thought he might have meant Brie. I asked who he meant. The guest. See? Two words. Easy. You remind me of Brie, lol. I'm a fan, but she often complicates things. I'm being polite. 😂
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  7047.  @j.s.3297  Way better.
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  7048. Not even.
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  7049.  @utah_koidragon7117  What I regret is that Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and the War Machine make decisions for us. If some cat lady slips in, she's not likely to make anything better or worse.
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  7050.  @petyrbaelish1216  The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
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  7051. The CGT (the French hard left labor union) organized a demonstration of vaccinated health care workers in support of the unvaccinated health care workers. The real left everywhere is against mandates. American politics are perverse as usual.
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  7052.  @atanaZion  For real? Then that's the answer. Take it down.
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  7053.  @zeriel9148  The burden of proof should be on the proponent of censorship. I have no problem censoring unprotected speech, like threats. Silencing the speaker forevermore is not evident. Blocking the entire platform itself, even less so. But if it is dedicated to transmitting death threats and such, of course take it down.
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  7054.  @animegirl4209  Well, to me, the burden of proof is always on the one who proposes censorship, to show that it's really warranted. Too bad we don't respect that principle so much anymore! :/
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  7055. They made money.
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  7056. Check out Mattias Desmet on mass formation.
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  7057. You are too kind.
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  7058.  @mtmg3648  I expect worse from them in the next round. Keep in mind Biden, Clinton, Pelosi, Fauci are only multimillionaires, not billionaires.
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  7059. Why doesn't a well-funded independent news source like The Intercept go out and do the investigative journalism needed to find out who these violent fringe groups really are, instead of assuming they are antifa, "allied" with BLM? They could be provocateurs for all we know.
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  7060. The investigative journalist Robert Whitaker, who has studied the approval and use of psychoactive medications for decades, just had an article published in the BMJ describing a new antipsychotic drug for elderly people with cognitive impairment that didn't address their issue but did increase the risk of death.
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  7061.  @wayneantoniazzi2706  The late, great state universities (Michigan, Wisconsin, Texas, Virginia, Illinois, UCLA, Berkeley) certainly did care, and were essentially tuition-free. A summer job paid the tuition bill for a year. The kids who worked their way through were a different people. They also studied. After all, they paid for it.
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  7062. That's not bad. Mine was $7000, then $6000.
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  7063.  @ameobiamicrobiological2366  What is now called "affordable" used to be called "catastrophic" -- and that was under a Republican administration. It just gets weirder every year . . . :/
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  7064. OH. MY. GOD. THANK YOU for this. (BTW, I never wrote a post with one-word sentences before this.)
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  7065. ARE they Scientologists??
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  7066. A transwoman who really likes women. See what that's like? It's like . . . Blaire.
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  7067. ​ @francissellerdude We might be paying these demonstrators. We do so often.
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  7068. I can't watch the news anymore. A hospital hit. No, I have got to rest now. This is too much.
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  7069. People who are deeply afraid of safe things should get therapy and be allowed extra time to complete their course requirements while they get that therapy.
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  7070. Ocasio-Cortez feels unsafe again. Uh oh.
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  7071. This report is CHILLING. 6:48 We are going to a real bad place. Jimmy is right, no problem has ever been solved by censorship. It has never happened.
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  7072.  @devineinspiration  The worst sin of all.
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  7073. Whoa. Look at the negative comments, to you. Antiwar veterans are among the BEST people. Most swipes at them are sheer, poisonous, simplistic envy. That simple.
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  7074.  @toynazi  You stood up for us, with the best motives. A lot of people in our society do not understand tragedy. Such people should be pitied.
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  7075. This was as low as it goes. Reminds me of the neolibs who try to out-Trump Trump.
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  7076.  @beelin6707  If you don't look, you don't see. Besides, when do you read any paper? 😂
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  7077. Anyone who is not talking about the real, legal difference between EUA and full FDA approval is not being candid. Lack of full approval is not a reason to reject all mandates, obviously. It is, however, an issue that must be addressed whenever mandates are being considered. The risk calculus is different for the two categories, the financial risk to anyone harmed not being negligible. Open a real discussion.
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  7078. Since when??
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  7079.  @donnadillard7016  Oh, no worries! NOW I get it (duh). I also said that the people who called the police did the right thing. It wasn't their fault that the police who showed up did the wrong thing. We are good. :)
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  7080. This business about "victim" thinking is so odd. It sounds like one of those "think positive" mantras that are the staple of training in sales techniques. The actual classics of the West, like Plato or the Bible, always hold the victim of injustice as the moral superior of the perpetrator of injustice. In Gorgias, Socrates says being the perpetrator is far worse than being the victim, even though the victim suffers more pain -- because the perpetrator exceeds everyone in evil. The Book of Job agrees. Toni Morrison always said she was taught at an early age that she was the moral superior of anyone who discriminated against her. She never flinched. Her father taught her that. If you worry about not being a "victim," you're still thinking about it.
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  7081.  Dj Luminol  Exactly. Of course corporations want to hire people in other countries, where they do not have to provide benefits. They are automatically less costly to hire. Health insurance is the biggest fear, and economic headwind, for people wanting to start their own business. And the pandemic has just destroyed thousands of small businesses! Please. Insurance pools are there for capital formation, to prop up investment bankers ("rent seekers," in Adam Smith's terms). They are not there for health coverage. This system has become insane.
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  7082.  @rayfiedler9482  Yeah, and in a two-year period we have close to 80,000 gunshot deaths. Families are wiped out in a few minutes.
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  7083. They always assume two breadwinners now. Never just one.
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  7084. That is a good point, as is the notion that free speech should not be chilled in any way, even if it is through a perfectly legal censure. Robby made some good points here, too.
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  7085. @jeremysanders5104  Yes I do know. I'm an attorney. This spiel you are giving me is basically to say that a CENSURE of a Congress member for her speech is not illegal. This is correct. This is what I said. (If it were censorship, then it would be illegal under the First Amendment; but as we know, it is NOT illegal, and thus not the same as censorship.) HOWEVER, the reason it is ill-founded is that it is intended to have a chilling effect on the speech of a duly-elected member of Congress, and is likely to have such an effect. ("Chilling effect" is, by the way, drawn from a Supreme Court opinion on the First Amendment and is a term of art.) Even if Congress can get away with censuring a member for speech, they generally shouldn't. They are stepping into a gray area where they should not tread. Got it? Or is that STILL too tough for you?
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  7086. And here I though Cancel Culture was a woke thing.
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  7087. Try this (might or might not work): go to Grayzone playlists, then add Push Back to your library (not channel subscriptions, which is separate). See if that does it.
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  7088.  @jons4170  Yes, I saw it. Why can't our CDC and other public health admit they are not omniscient? Their bullying is a disgrace.
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  7089.  @Bernacide  I meant I wish I were surprised -- sincerely. At least that much is a good sign. Even hopeful.
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  7090. All we need now is that person giving out mandatory COVID vaccines to teen boys. Let's complete this circle with flair.
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  7091.  @brian4245  Why not? It's a public SERVICE. Should the CEO rake in bonuses?
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  7092.  @brian4245  My response: gone, of course. We know why. So do you.
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  7093.  Cannabis Dreams  Nothing to do with it. You should lay off that stuff.
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  7094.  Cannabis Dreams  Look up "appeal to authority" some time when you're sober. (I hate drugs.)
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  7095.  @concrete7830  Emergency UBI isn't a handout. I think it was immoral to shut down the economy without UBI. If the first was necessary, so was the second. That's where Jimmy is so cool. That was evident to him from Day 1.
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  7096.  @Doobie603  I was laughing but that stopped me. I'm not so sure some people won't shoot Fido.
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  7097. Why do they go to such extremes concerning Christmas? Instead of having some Christmas celebrations and some that are clearly not, their bright idea is to have none at all. Pfft.
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  7098.  @edwardcoit9748  What do you think those test scores measure? A prof once gave a freshman physics class at MIT a series of real-world problems in applied mechanics at the end of the academic year. Most did badly. An auto mechanic would have answered some of them. That is not to say the MIT kids will be lame forever. Of course not. Well, neither will the working class black kids.
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  7099.  @edwardcoit9748  But when you remove discrimination from blacks, they succeed as well: which is why blacks from UK, France, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Kenya, Nigeria, etc., do just fine. Maybe you are unfamiliar with the global black intelligentsia? A lot of prolific writers who happened to be black were finally given a podium since the death of George Floyd. Have you, er, noticed?
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  7100.  @edwardcoit9748  In 1904, guess what g correlated with? Why, school performance in the Classics, of course. That was the highest cultural value in 1904.
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  7101. I agree with all that except the part about fewer perverts. Remains to be seen.
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  7102. Wear a mask to defeat the surveillance cameras. ;)
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  7103. Think about it: he's actually trying to bring troops home. He's actually trying to get more checks in people's hands. He's actually trying to get universal Medicare without age discrimination.
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  7104. ​ @quartertwenty484  Should have
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  7105. ​@hoangling4344 Yeah, switch from something with polyphenols, to an artificial candy. 😂 That's a great idea.
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  7106.  @QuiteTheLady  AMEN. EXACTLY.
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  7107. ​ oddjobbob  LOL, Briahna is a Harvard Law grad who worked in New York City. She has passed at least one bar, New York.
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  7108. The most expensive city to insure a luxury car has always been Paris.
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  7109. I still have a soft spot in my heart for idealists.
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  7110.  @audaciouscitizen.9313  Nice
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  7111. Um, . . . Doesn't ring a bell?
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  7112.  @leftykeys6944  I agree with the last sentence anyway. Obvious. BLM are routinely gassed in broad daylight, during peaceful marches, exactly where they were told they could march. And vigilantes who beat them or shoot at them or try to run them down have fan clubs and GoFundMe.
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  7113. I loved her. She held her ground 100%. That's hard to do with these creeps.
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  7114. Kamala for President? Of the United States? Trump wasn't clown show high tide?
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  7115. Journalism and Advertising were once separate departments. How quaint.
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  7116.  @Malcolm.Y  Now THIS is interesting. There must be some real good books on it.
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  7117.  @wankertanker1813  As it turns out, the OP was right.
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  7118. Nice.
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  7119. I won't order face cream in a heat wave. Yeesh.
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  7120. Exactly. Crying wolf on Russia for things that were untrue plays into their hands.
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  7121. OMG, heard about this from a more recent video. Had a super obscure prof for differential equations, was verging on getting a C in it, and infinite series solutions saved me. I was the best in the class for those. To me, this is the easy part. Never got a limit problem wrong, ever. (But I remember the one I almost got wrong, fixed it at the last minute.) This is actually because I'm not gifted in math at all. I have super high discursive intelligence, and poor spatial intuition to the point where my brain isn't quite normal. I still can't talk about it in real life, really painful. Kept me from becoming a chemist. ;(
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  7122. Please be kind to yourself. MOST people will be all right. The best thing you can do now is eat an anti-inflammatory diet and take long walks in nature. And be kind to yourself. Worrying is not good for you, and you deserve some extra kindness after all of this.
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  7123. Wow. Presidential advisors have trouble with arithmetic.
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  7124. Fifth Amendment, best guess.
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  7125. There was a first literate generation created somehow. How much were the nonliterate parents involved with that? They were busy farming. Farming is a 24-hour job. Living things die if you go off and do other stuff.
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  7126. That is precisely what always happens.
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  7127. WOW. The beginning of the Sullivan interview started out seemingly impressive and I was glad Katie brought him on right away. His story did get stranger and stranger. Glad Katie brought this to light. Of course no "blame," except for Sullivan.
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  7128. ​ @aaronj08ar Do people over 65 here wait 6 months for an MRI?
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  7129. Masks defeat facial recognition technology, no? Excellent.
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  7130. So . . . You read the statement? What does it say? Or do Gutfeld and Co. predigest all reading material for you?
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  7131. What's true? Ana's smear of Aaron Mate, followed by this desperate attempt to deflect attention from what she did, by playing the sexual harassment card, over a crass joke for which she received a prompt written apology? That's the truth of the matter, regardless of Dore's politics or personal flaws. Now Ana needs to apologize.
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  7132. All of this is worse than I ever thought possible.
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  7133. Because then all the people harmed will have access to meaningful compensation under the comprehensive program that has been in place since 1986.
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  7134.  @shahbazshaikh9169  Well then I don't agree. I know plenty of people who married their college teacher, including my first roommate at college. My parents congratulated her warmly. And, it was a biracial marriage. As for strong emotions being suscitated by a romantic encounter, bringing inevitable problems in their wake -- I think that's a good problem to have. I don't mean that flippantly. I mean it for real. Everyone needs to go through that, or at least, they are lucky if they do..
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  7135.  @shahbazshaikh9169  By bare possibility, I mean not reasonably forseeable. It could happen, but there is no reason to think it will.
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  7136. There was no good way for this election to end. This one, or the last one, or the one before that, . . .
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  7137.  @LDiamondz  Obviously totally different laws. The court in my city orders evictions so quickly that no one calls it housing court. They call it eviction court. But there were also many times in the past when the owners were forced into bankruptcy in exactly this way, with the authorities turning their backs on the lawlessness. "Miraculously," developers would scoop up the properties at a bargain price, rehab them, and see the price soar five or tenfold. This is the story of Lincoln Park West in Chicago, around DePaul University, and also of Wicker Park. Wicker Park and Humboldt Park used to be all immigrant communities. It was where rents were really, really low. Culturally, they were once West Side (Studs Terkel, Division Street). Now they are chic North Side. (smh)
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  7138. @Chamu Uemura  OTOH, I know keto is literally a treatment for certain conditions, and getting off of DRUGS for those conditions can reduce all sorts of diseases including cancer.
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  7139. Does that include the Israeli response? There are Israelis who don't agree with the tactics.
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  7140.  @steveleeart  Longer.
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  7141. When the evictions start, who will be the new paying tenants?
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  7142.  @davepugh898  Oh yeah? Good luck with that.
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  7143.  @jalan8446  She's "psychotic" because everybody has to hear their own opinions echoed back to them, or else they may relapse into substance abuse or something. /s Seriously, though, how did people get this weak? I remember when our teachers played devil's advocate and said all kinds of things to us, even in high school, to get us to debate and prove our point without getting flustered.
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  7144. Where are the war correspondents to inform us on this?
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  7145.  @streetteamtony2672  Oh, I see. No problem. You would enjoy Strossen's book. The examples of "hate speech" laws backfiring is worth the time and the price. I don't think most people know how bad they are. They do the opposite of what advocates for them think they do. In a BIG way. The actual fomenting violence/conspiracy/true threats laws we already have are plenty.
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  7146. So, her discourse is waaaaay above your head.
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  7147. Did the Court ever consider lobotomy bans? I don't recall any such case.
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  7148. Oh, while denying the social benefits long promised to working people in France -- this should play well in the streets of Paris. Neoliberal tool!
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  7149. I don't remember that. What I do remember is that Briahna did not vote for Biden.
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  7150. I thought I did not want to hear anything more about Ana or Cenk ever again, but this is comedy gold. I can't blame Jimmy, or Aaron, for this one. When you are handed this much material, you cannot pass it up.
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  7151. You understand his modus operandi perfectly.
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  7152. @edwardsisk-ix8nj  I'm sorry. This is a program featuring a discussion with a psychiatrist, and I had simply presumed that we were using the term as it is used in psychiatry, not as, say, poets might use it. Trauma is not subjective and does have a threshold, and generally involves coming face to face with some existential threat. For example, distress in a woman whose pet rabbit got away and distress in a woman who was assaulted at knifepoint while living in a homeless shelter would very likely not receive the same diagnosis. I'm not making light of anyone's feelings by drawing the distinction. (The woman whose rabbit was lost might have been reminded of the time she was asked to babysit and was too young to do that. That's not trivial by any means --- but I don't call it trauma.) If everybody has it, then call it life. And turn away. You obviously have more important things to do, like abuse strangers on message boards.
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  7153.  @rodiculous9464  That is not the same. You cannot incite a crime or assist after the fact, but preventing it or interrupting it is not a legal duty unless you did incite it. What Trump did shows how immoral Trump is, but in general, a person is not required to stop a crime. Trump was impeached and acquitted for failing to do his duty as President. That is what you're talking about. It's not a crime.
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  7154. ​ @jermainesnyder2375  Exactly
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  7155. ​@konstantinkrastev4478 The only question I have is whether kids from highly conservative homes feel able to tell the truth about how they feel. Many are too repressed to admit they have problems. Then you have the new trend of highly libbed-out parents bragging about how their offspring have all sorts of special needs. There is that confounding variable, too. Still, the basic trend sounds right to me. I just doubt that the difference is large.
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  7156. Actually, that is made somewhat unlikely by the fact that the complaint is verified. That means that there could be criminal liability if any of the allegations are deliberate falsehoods.
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  7157. Robbie never had a First Amendment class in journalism school? He never read Nadine Strossen? "True threats" vs. political speech, anyone? That is how he sounds.
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  7158. ​ @jeffreyblack6611 There was no plea bargain. They settled a civil rights suit for $41 million. You cannot maintain a civil rights suit absent exoneration. A vacated verdict is insufficient. Why are you pretending to be in the know? 😂
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  7159.  @Marta-to1mf  Expecting prominent individuals with doctorates in psychology to be fair where money is concerned is at best naive and at worst so obviously ignorant as to be blameworthy -- is that your point? Actually thinking that someone as prominent as Dr. Phil would choose not be grotesquely unfair at someone's expense for laughs, even though legally he is covered, is not understandable? Okay. Maybe you're right.
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  7160. 💯
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  7161.  @synchronium24  Um, the segments Dore showed from when TYT was competing to gain some of Howard Stern's audience tend to back up his version. I learned from Ana what "camel toe" means. Thanks, Ana, I think(?)
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  7162. Cool little example . . . I love the ones anyone can follow, 30 years after their diff eq class. ;)
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  7163. Washington and his father, and possibly even his grandfather were all born in Virginia, which was a colony at the time, obviously. He had some older half-brothers who lived in England for a time, but I don't think he ever did.
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  7164.  @jimdoe1694  How about them? You think this is a retort? Because someone, somewhere is as bad or worse? So we have a generation at risk. Great, break out the champaign. It's time for a celebration. :/
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  7165. Well, of course. They don't do this for nothing. They get their cut.
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  7166. The languages of the Philippines are closely related to the languages of Hawaii. What does that tell you about navigation skills and raw courage? This racist's own criteria show that the people he despised were "superior" to him. Or maybe we should ditch these foul categories? But first point out the contradictions in the racist position.
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  7167.  @RayLRhodes  Correct. PERMEATED. What do you think permeated, to the point where the conditions of employment are altered for the harassed person, actually means, in real life? If you don't know, read some cases. They give examples. Here's a hint: it does not mean a crass joke from someone you could have disciplined or fired, and who apologizes to you in writing the very next day and gives you a gift. It also does not mean being asked by someone where you got your jeans because that person wants to buy a pair for his wife. That is called a "compliment."
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  7168.  @LC-wv7tz  Yeah, given the kind of Howard Stern-inspired commentary they were doing, and their relative positions, it would make more sense to say Ana harassed Jimmy! Actually, a wardrobe malfunction, a crass joke, and a very nice, formal apology for the joke used to be called . . . Adulthood. Gosh I miss the good old days,
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  7169. That book came at a terrible time in my life and literally caused trauma. He states that half of us will need advanced medical care to stay alive by our sixties because we didn't sleep properly. I read this right after a serious operation. I'm perfectly fine, by the way, much better than expected, but reading that at the wrong moment still affects me. It is sensationalist garbage. I know it, but it still hurts. Despicable on his part.
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  7170.  @rektz2457  Trump's DOJ indicted Assange. Obama wanted to, but understood it could be considered selective prosecution. Joe Biden does not care about that. He may not know stuff anymore, and wouldn't care in any case.
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  7171.  @Baccus93  CORRECT. As usual, the elephant in the room is money.
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  7172. Then why are they willing to spend nearly that long in front of a screen?
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  7173. If this is a "powerful" message, it shows how far we've fallen. Meloni resurrected some slogans last used during WWII. That's what people in Italy and those who speak Italian are focusing on. It's not proof that she is fascist by any stretch, but it certainly raises the question. In France, the collaborators used to say "work, family, fatherland." Kind-of ironic, since they were betraying France. I thought it was even more ironic that commentators here cite her support of Ukraine as evidence of liberalism. Considering how strong the neo-Nazis are there, and how much they influence the military and government, well beyond their numbers, I would hold off on interpreting that as a positive. There are no good guys waging that 8-year-long war, however much Putin is the worst actor in the picture at the moment.
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  7174.  @danieldolce5734  Maybe that authoritarian action deserves the label.
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  7175. Look at all the fun these guys were having just a couple of months before all this rot started: https://youtu.be/cr2SmniV0HY
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  7176. Reuters reported on April 4 that the Pentagon said "obviously" the Bucha deaths were the "responsibility" of the Russians. A second Pentagon source told Reuters the Pentagon had "no independent confirmation" of who committed the atrocity, and no reason to doubt the Ukrainian claims. This was also published April 4. On that basis, you plan to do what, exactly?
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  7177. "Hate speech" isn't a crime. There is no such "crime."
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  7178.  @dublplus  I've noticed that "tribalism" is the new catch phrase. I was accused of it earlier today.
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  7179. God bless you for that comparison with ALL of MUSIC! Perfect.
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  7180. ​ @reneerose2452 Not as angry as the rest of us are.
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  7181.  @MusicLeeSarah  BTW, how do you think lawyers pick juries? Also, how did someone with Hupp's record keep getting hired, for quite good jobs? How did Ted Bundy get into law school . . . twice?
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  7182. You mean, Robby doesn't know each of these jobs in the federal system has a hierarchy of command, and that some of them -- such as the Article III federal courts and the Congress -- are exempt from executive authority?
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  7183. Please don't. Start taking LONG walks, eating better, yoga, and do something artistic. Reading and journaling, at least. Got a guitar in the attic?
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  7184. I really wish that more people would understand hypothetical argumentation and arguments by analogy. Does a person actually have to go to law school to get it? You must have missed that Robby believes "an authoritarian state" should not intervene in parental decisionmaking. Well, I believe that an authoritarian state most certainly should intervene on the side of preventing the sterilization of minors, or anyone incapable of consenting to sterilization.
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  7185.  @meltedsnowman9637  Let him believe what he wants. He joined two months ago to buzz people. Anyone who watched any part of the trial knows why it was considered self-defense -- and also why the second and third victims may well have had viable self-defense claims, had they killed Rittenhouse instead. They could have said they had a reasonable belief they were attempting to stop an active shooter. That's what makes the case odd, and troubling.
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  7186. @oooBASTIooo  Wrong, lol. It's not assumed, it follows necessarily from the axioms of arithmetic.
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  7187.  @jbird-l3u  So, then it is not the usual sum, but a distinct operation. “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
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  7188. What a GOOD college degree does for you is build your mind. The point of this type of education is to ensure that if (when) you are required to change careers once or twice before age 70, you can. That's what a degree is supposed to do, provided you yourself do your part. If the degree doesn't do that for you, then you have a very valid complaint.
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  7189. She supports massive government socio-economic programs, comparable to what the Scandinavians do, and she is for immigration. Please. I do, too, but I got Outsider Left. Related to youth, they say.
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  7190. When I lived in France 35 years ago, abortion counseling was required. They asked one question -- is this abortion due to economic hardship? If she said yes, she had to be given comprehensive information on benefits. An abortion based on not having money was not considered a free choice. I agree.
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  7191.  @snewsom2997  Correct. And they wrote the way they did because they had no fear in them anymore. They don't worry about FOIA. P. S. Wouldn't you love to see the redacted stuff? ;)
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  7192. Is Boris Johnson lying, too?
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  7193. Judith Herman writes about trauma, as does her friend van der Kolk. To read about the treatment of the worst traumas that can happen is very useful, for me at least. Both are so compassionate.
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  7194. Good point, it is exactly that distinction. People are not well. Meaning, in their basic thinking process.
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  7195. 1. Weaponizing the charge of antisemitism for opposing Netanyahu's Gaza action is what is a disgrace. 2. At the same time, a naive college freshman who was raised Jewish and sheltered from any information about Gaza is going to be horrified. If we can worry about pronouns, we can find it in our hearts to have human sympathy for that person. Not to let them decide policy, no. Just don't aggress against them. It's not fair. It can't be defended.
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  7196.  @anthonytwohill9726  This is true, after all. The henchmen were Betsy and Peter Maas.
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  7197. Gaige Grosskreutz, the one who survived, had no criminal record. He admitted under oath that his CC license had expired, so he wasn't supposed to be armed, either. In any event, we don't have outlaws in America that anyone can kill. Rittenhouse acted in self-defense. That is why he was acquitted. Not because those he shot were Baddies.
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  7198. The limit is that you yourself cannot act to provoke an assault, then claim self-defense. That has always been the law. Ryan admits Alba did not provoke the assault.
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  7199.  @ArmageddonAfterparty  I think you are absolutely right. Enough with the inaccuracies. The proponent of a statement has the burden of producing evidence for it. I did think the link I posted added something to the discussion, but it did not contain any such quote.
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  7200.  @brentnevius2849  Wow you must LOVE your job.
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  7201. Can you be serious? What ISN'T engineered to create behavioral addictions? Why do American kids have more obesity, less activity, lower math and reading skills, more behavioral issues including addictions, not to mention the real bad stuff, like abuse and crime and drugs, than the kids in every other developed country? And all of it is monetized. Someone is making a fortune. Robbie says just say no. Well how's that working out for you?
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  7202.  @Baslium  good point
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  7203. The John Abramson interview on Lex's podcast will clear all that up. Much better than RFK Jr. (RFK Jr. is a plaintiff's tort lawyer. He is making a case. Not quite the same as objectivity.)
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  7204.  @lilith3953  Thank you. And thanks for beating me to it.
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  7205.  @mmaximk  Thank you for this report. Why are we ALWAYS being misled about these stories by the media?
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  7206. Naomi Osaka is brilliant.
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  7207. Perfect.
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  7208. ​​ @Augfordpdoggie How did Martha Argerich become a polyglot without formal schooling, when she was staying up late a lot and playing piano all the time?
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  7209. ​ @brianbutler3318 She politicized the issue and deftly shifted the burden of proof.
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  7210.  @strongheartwoman1931  Oh. My. God. Let's hope it's not listed as a drug crime next.
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  7211. There's an element of that all right.
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  7212. 17:39 To the furor in the Muslim world, add the furor against us because of all the innocents the US has bombed, and all the economic sanctions we impose on poor countries.
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  7213.  @HarryF-tz5fo  You think everybody in STEM gets a job? 😂😂😂
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  7214. Stay strong, pull together and love each other. The politicians also want you at each other's throats. "Divide and distract." Your own loved ones are the only ones who matter. Anyone who tells you differently has an agenda.
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  7215.  @larryforbes6718  Why did our civil rights to autonomy, bodily integrity, and health care privacy supersede our duty to others in the ACLU's FIRST editorial about vaccine mandates, when they argued against any such mandates? What happened?
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  7216. ​ @beavis4play  An interim report from Israel to the ICJ is due on Monday, stating whether it has complied with the ICJ's directives to protect Palestinians from genocide. That should be fascinating.
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  7217.  @DeanChavayez  Correct. And the problem would be . . . ? None. There is no problem. DeSantis is grandstanding, and playing to his anti-intellectual base.
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  7218.  @twinkyunouwantmycreamfilli8297  His support of the Proud Boys, and saying he'd rather be a member of Proud Boys than "antifa." Show us any clip where Pool isn't taking a right wing position. Quit with the ad hominem and just post one. It's not hard.
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  7219. Open rescue is not "terrorism." It is classic civil disobedience.
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  7220. ​@jchanmcse Exactly. They came to UT Austin so much faster than to UVALDE.
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  7221. Le premier mandat de Francois Mitterrand était un temps merveilleux. Il y avait de vrais gauchistes à l'époque, et non pas des grands fous comme maintenant.
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  7222.  @richardmulcahy8607  In principle, it should not take as long to heal from the vaccine reaction as from a serious case of COVID, but who knows? Jimmy is finally much better. At least we can trust him to tell us about his illness from the vaccine and his recovery. Like I said, I am sure you'll be fine! All the best!
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  7223.  @richardmulcahy8607  Wow, I recommended some books to you from outstanding doctors, researchers and professors at the Ivies, entirely unobjectionable stuff -- and was censored.
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  7224. ​ @gaarcemail Invite her and demonstrate it.
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  7225. ​ @Yvette5489 People like you scare me. You have lost your moral compass. And you don't have a clue that you have.
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  7226.  @presence5426  Now explain to me why I can listen to a member of the French Communist Party on Radio Sud (in some respects similar to Fox, but you really can't compare), as I am doing right now. And the posts below the video, from people from all political tendencies, are stating that he's correct in his analysis of the rise in utility prices. In the Five Eyes, that's long over. Your problems are deeper than you know, sadly, and I see no reason to expect better in my lifetime.
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  7227.  @Yvette5489  "We need to give these loons less attention." Now you really need to explain the reason why this was not done in this program and in the book. I'm not even debating the premise at the moment; let's assume it's generally correct. It is true often enough to assume it for the sake of argument here. (IOW, where did self-awareness go?)
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  7228.  @allangibson2408  No, deaths are not up because COVID patients are clogging up the hospitals, you ghoul.
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  7229. Cloud gazing. I didn't know about it until the pandemic forced dining outside.
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  7230.  @koukkoufos2000  This is a cut and paste nut. :/
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  7231. Look up the indictment. It charges manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide only. Disgusting.
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  7232. How would you characterize all the frat boys who got drunk from Friday afternoon to Monday morning? I consider that a mental health issue. You didn't know any of those?
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  7233.  @Averageidiot44  I don't use Russian sources. Ever. Suppose 50 liars repeat "x is true." That is no evidence either way. You still understand that, correct? After COVID, I wonder.
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  7234.  @Averageidiot44  You do know Zelensky banned all opposition parties to the left of him, correct? Why would he do that? Not consistent with his pronouncements. By the way. That isn't "Russian propaganda," is it?
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  7235. Perfect. Why isn't this the top post??
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  7236.  @owainkanaway8345  One other thing: when I was a kid, do you know what was still possible? Working full time for minimum wage for an entire summer was enough to earn a full year's worth of tuition and fees at the best state universities in the country, and might even cover books and supplies. This is because tuition was heavily tax subsidized, and minimum wage had a relationship to actual costs of living. Being able to earn your tuition did WONDERS for a teenager's sense of autonomy. Debt may allow greater luxury in the moment, but it sure doesn't make you feel capable. Just the opposite. You know what else young people could do? Take a road trip with a best friend, end up in New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Los Angeles, Austin -- ANYWHERE -- and get a job and an apartment. Minimum wage could cover that, too. You had to be resourceful, sure (and you needed good roommates). But no one back then called it "frugal." By the time I was in my 20s, this world was already gone. This was the world that gave us an explosion of real creativity. Now kids are in front of a screen instead of a piano, or a mirror in a dance studio, or playing in their older brother's garage band, and they are hoping against hope that Wall Street or Silicon Valley will find some use for them and let them live. Someone calls this having it good? Oh wow.
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  7237.  @theONE-mb1wy  Of course you only think of beatings and such, and of course you swear -- but you're afraid to say it straight. So you use the Urban Dictionary. Good job, everyone is impressed.
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  7238. @AR-sz5lm  Oh, I know it doesn't have to be after giving birth. It is known that women at every age except the very old were significantly less likely to be hospitalized or die of COVID, but to have a slower recovery. This was true in every part of the world, and it's not unusual for other viral illnesses to present these differences in men and women. Women are generally disbelieved. This is one more indication that we are back to normal. :(
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  7239.  @TimParker-Chambers  I know one young woman who is in the Air Force who was very seriously injured. Truly a shock.
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  7240.  @iamspartacus7756  I think it's more about the money. The pandemic created new fortunes.
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  7241.  @Flamingtorpedostrike  Oh, you mean, false flags fool you? No!!! 😂😂😂
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  7242. Forgot the /s
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  7243. That's the "creativity of the system." 😅😅😅
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  7244. 4:02 Brie called it a straightforward case of her breaking the law and facing the consequences.
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  7245. What did Neely do exactly? Was it illegal? "Erratic" is just the subway. Making people fear for their lives or property is generally illegal.
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  7246.  rs_  Of course it's a meta-analysis, and these are quantitative economists, not doctors. I don't see your point about that particular study.
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  7247. Breaking: THE HILL RISING has been SUSPENDED from YouTube for a week.
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  7248.  @chplvr1328  Because every individual, man or woman, shy and meek or assertive and adventurous, has a right not to be killed by a deranged stalker. To that end, firearms laws are supposed to be enforced. The release of potentially dangerous people requires letting their victims know in advance.
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  7249. What people clearly don't appreciate is that affairs endanger lives. Look how often affairs lead to someone's death, and how many murders start with infidelity.
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  7250. Nick is right: these guys are so lame they need Trump to do something obscene to get themselves an audience.
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  7251. @mikebryant614  I don't know how you see those things unless you tell me. I would never equate democracy with mob rule in any manner, or see it as a step toward mob rule, for example.
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  7252. If she gets a lawyer, she may get in under the wire. The publicity is getting too hot for them, they want 💰 and don't want trouble.
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  7253. Exactly. This has become banal.
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  7254. That was a legal term for programs to which a person was entitled, meaning they earned them, rather than obtaining them based on need or other, extraneous factors.
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  7255. @Madeleine Grayson  Totally agree. It is so widespread as to be mind-boggling.
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  7256. Well that's funny. She actually went back to school fairly recently and got her doctorate. At Oxford. You know, in England. And speaking of age, in this conversation she and Dr. Peterson discovered they were the same age. Do women, like, pass their prime earlier? (Is that you, Don?) 🤣
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  7257. ​ @johnnyshanksalot8358 Timelines matter.
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  7258. I think everyone has a right to oppose any religious orthodoxy they desire, but especially one which gravely harmed them. It is akin to being molested by clergy and opposing every manifestation of that religion. You have a right to oppose her, she has a right to oppose the Islam that she herself lived under. I don't have to agree with her. I'm sure she IS biased. This is a second-order critique about her right to a voice, not about her wisdom.
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  7259. Sure we can select presidents. Well, you and I can't, but the people that count can.
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  7260.  @checo8187  Yes they do. They are.
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  7261. Leftist thinkers as diverse as Slavoj Žižek and Dr. Gabor Maté have agreed with a version of this. European left, to be clear.
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  7262.  @mihailmihaylov988  Well, he said it seemed that she wanted the incident to be a certain way. Listen again. We presume people are innocent (of behaving in a racist manner toward a black student, and of being insincere when they allege they felt they were targetted on account of their race) absent evidence of guilt.
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  7263.  @BCNeil  I think you're right, but a redhead with a bona fide Polish name adds about 1/10 of a point.
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  7264.  @somename86  You must hate reading then. Reading is fun. Math, too.
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  7265. At-will. They can tell you on Friday not to come Monday and escort you out.
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  7266. They have less stuff. They are also vulnerable to economic downturns whenever there is any issue with their few main exports, because they're an island and lack economic diversity. Most of the Caribbean needs tourism (or tax shelters for millionaires) to live. Cuba is better than that.
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  7267. Nope. Listen to the end. She's playing devil's advocate, and setting up where Robbie points out the unarmed parents were ready to go in themselves.
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  7268.  @cjfishtales2238  Umm . . . Think about how rhetoric works. At the end she said good Samaritan was the correct word.
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  7269.  @capttrips1523  I have never voted for a ticket with Biden on it. Not ever. Even Brie didn't vote for Biden in 2020. She didn't vote for HRC in 2016, either. LOL, what a turnoff he is.
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  7270. People often show tendencies toward xenophobia and tribalism. Racist? Not generally, unless you dilute the meaning of the word. The concept has a history. It did not, for example, exist in ancient Greece or Rome.
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  7271. ​ @nowhere474  💯
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  7272. So, one of his last acts was to make this show diss Kim Iversen. You cannot make this up.
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  7273. Yikes. Nate Silver isn't so great, remember?
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  7274. No she was not. She was asking what a normal reporter is supposed to ask, and allowing the guest to respond to criticisms routinely made of her. You expect ideologues stroking you, careful not to say anything that sounds like it might deviate from your preferred view? So go find some. That's easy.
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  7275. This started with TYT's smear of Aaron Mate. Also, do cagey, dishonest people write their apologies out on paper? They don't. We all know that.
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  7276.  @Sunmoonstars976  I'm so sorry. ;/
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  7277. P. S. I'm no fan of the new trans movement, by the way.
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  7278. Is that why most people disappoint me, and I'm still surprised?
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  7279. Re: Bernie "Cease fire" is a dirty word, apparently; the new "trigger word." How fast these things happen now!
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  7280. And only the ruling class of those countries.
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  7281. ​ @BOZ_11  Did he borrow against vast assets to live? Because as a general strategy, that would work. That is what billionaires do. They also buy Treasury bonds, so we have to pay them interest.
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  7282.  @BOZ_11  Try putting his full name in a search engine, and see some of the tax cases he lost come right up. Light reading? 100 pages on an average day. Paper books and everything.
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  7283. Can you believe how many people are falling for this? A bunch got busted decades ago, and it's still around.
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  7284. ​ @dop1000 Every day I find out that people are nuttier than I had thought the day before. This media is designed to demoralize.
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  7285. ​@Brenzarlo He said it was "still standing," but damaged. He hasn't provided pictures, so just how bad is not clear.
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  7286. Are they still saying the sanctions will topple Putin? Sure destroyed Russia's currency. /s
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  7287. Hegseth is a perfect example of merit. 😂😂😂😂
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  7288.  Aurs 777  Who is doing that?
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  7289.  @htunlin2000  It was a proposal "in countries where record-keeping is difficult." Microchips in vaccines was one idea Gates floated. As far as I know, it never happened anywhere. It just shows something about his mentality.
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  7290. 14 years for me!
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  7291. We had heated discussions on the most controversial issues in class ALL THE TIME. It never crossed anyone's mind to report on anyone else. There was nothing to report. This is not news. A teacher who lowers students' grades in retaliation for their views, or hints that she might, or refuses to call on them in class should be fired. A teacher with unorthodox views is also protected by the First Amendment.
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  7292. They're just auditioning for more American aid.
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  7293. The burden should be on anyone wanting to give a non-FDA approved vaccine to a minor to come up with solid data to show that it is safe, effective, and necessary.
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  7294. Appreciation for the person who recommended The Occupation of the American Mind, a documentary available for free on YouTube. Robby should watch that. It's under 90 minutes. Shorter than any serious book on the subject.
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  7295. I realized the NYTimes was in decline, but this far??? What in the world?
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  7296. So sorry. Don't know what else to say.
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  7297.  @joeb134  The fairytale is don't worry, be happy.
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  7298. If I hadn't already decided to emigrate, this s**t would have sent me out. What is it like to be a parent today? On some days, it must feel like a siege. I couldn't bear it.
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  7299. Why are vastly fewer visible unless you use the Newest tab and scroll?
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  7300.  @migarsormrapophis2755  I don't care what the latest dog's dinner served up by the DNC happens to be. They are beyond disgusting. I don't want to see any politicians running anybody's life, if I can help it.
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  7301.  @blackjackjester  That has been settled. An embryo is definitely not a legal person, no more than a zygote, no more than an ovum. You have every right to disagree, but anyone who suggests the abortion question is about legal personhood (distinct from what religions teach, parents believe, etc., etc.) is not being straight with you. If a zygote or embryo or early fetus WERE a legal person, abortion could not be left up to each state. It would be unconstitutional to make it legal anywhere.
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  7302.  @bsmithhammer  Don't worry, the BRICS+ are on the case.
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  7303. Zelensky is doing his job.
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  7304. I do declare!
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  7305. UK authorities agreed that she was entitled to immunity. That closes the case. The rest is public relations. Did ordinary citizens in the UK know about the fact that CIA agents were granted such privileges? Why was that the agreement? Dr. Grande said the law was changed after this case. No one sane who does not have to go to prison would ever go.
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  7306. Did you listen to Kim's editorial? She is caring for family with COVID now. No one has informed her or anyone about what she should do. That is the duty of Fauci and Collins.
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  7307. @sirtra  It's motor vehicle theft. And the difference between that and carjacking is huge. It's the substance that matters.
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  7308. You are right. Bri muddled this. It is illegal to use deadly force in defense of mere property, everywhere. Lethal force is justified if you put any person at risk of imminent physical harm. It is never legal for defense of mere property. Social ills, etc., are irrelevant. The age of the perpetrator is irrelevant. Whether he put an actual person in danger of physical harm is the only question that matters. It is a bright line. She needed to state the law, and leave out the rest. Also, this is exactly why a carjacking, or a home invasion while there are people in the house, can be met with lethal force. It doesn't matter if the assailant turns out to be unarmed, or was just looking to burgle and thought the house was empty, or was only a kid. There is no question about this. It's called "self-defense" for a reason.
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  7309. Look, if he doesn't poop, we're good.
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  7310. So they did it for money and sex. Oh my goodness, how did this HAPPEN???
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  7311. Put up a monument to celebrate the United States participation . . . in the rat line.
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  7312. What did we all do before "social media??"
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  7313. THANK YOU FOR HIGHLIGHTING this SMALL business owner's story. She created a BEAUTIFUL outdoor patio -- which is not only NOT dangerous, but is HEALTHY for our EMOTIONAL wellbeing. Notice that the movie company would love to have a bite to eat on her new patio. Especially the ordinary workers working as contractors for the movie company.
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  7314.  @elliotjames5172  Okay, now you're making a move like he did.
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  7315. That's not the point, and you know it.
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  7316. Oh come on.
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  7317.  @loadz03  THIS
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  7318.  @CyberBeep_kenshi  Blocked for stupidity even by Youtube standards.
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  7319.  @mikebatl1  Why did this happen? You never noticed Trump was LAZY? Someone he liked told him something, and praised him, so he signed what they put in front of him. You need to wake up.
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  7320. I wonder which billionaire will get to decide this one?
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  7321. Exactly. Which is why Kyle's commentary here is excellent, and necessary.
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  7322. THIS. This is a vital point, sadly.
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  7323. ​ @jodihouts6032 Monopoly capital is antithetical to a free market. But I understand how the demonstrably false equating of the two took hold.
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  7324. ​ @trekporter365 Just the opposite. A free market is indeed conducive to democracy, and we have neither.
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  7325. Brie has always recognized this. This was why she made the point about NASA at 9:28.
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  7326. Don't tell me, let me guess: "the walls are closing in"
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  7327. Why was in-state college tuition once something that kids paid in full, on their own, with a summer job?
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  7328.  @buffhardback7595  If state universities were subsidized through state taxes, like they once were, it would create DOWNWARD pressure on all tuition. On the other hand, loans are just like leverage, and create UPWARD pressure on all tuition. (You know about leverage, correct?)
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  7329. This is like a spreading cult. Be sure it will come to a close soon. It just feels like forever.
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  7330. @criticalcommenter  You make some assumptions here. What is this lust for victim blaming we seem to indulge in with relish? Where does it come from? (Grave insecurity? Cowardice?)
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  7331. ​@WeToddEd-r3g First of all, this is preliminary research. Standing alone, it does not and cannot lead to a clinical recommendation. Perhaps it tells us to hold off on treatment, to respect cognitive diversity? Second, assuming treatment is warranted -- which is, at least, likely -- why the most drastic treatment?
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  7332. I suggest Glenn Greenwald's livestream, available integrally and for free on a different platform. He had the best analysis by far.
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  7333.  @oh.mylanta.  Great point. Deep. (seriously . . . exactly how we feel)
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  7334.  @robertgutierrez939  I just said that. Saagar mentioned the name in passing, talking about transition periods, and it was unclear what he meant. Then Grim talked about what Nixon and Kissinger did pre-election. So, nothing to do with any transition -- and still no prosecution. (Too bad. Treasonous.)
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  7335. @EgoBrain1  I don't like her or watch her or know her history or have any reason to be triggered by her. She said nothing wrong this time. Maybe it's the only time she didn't. It is the only time, for all I know. Follow?
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  7336.  @matthews7069  That is an important point, except that Biden's running mate was a sitting senator, and a member of the senate majority. Still, the administrative branch was not in Biden's hands.
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  7337. Wexner was not only Epstein's mentor, but the single biggest donor to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government (where Samantha Power holds court). His money was green until he decided to pull out a few weeks ago because of the war in Gaza. This was all in plain sight, no sleuthing needed. MSM reported it, official websites said so.
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  7338. ​ @stokastixx762 He never read him.
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  7339. Vietnam has 10 million more people than Germany. As of today, Vietnam has had 35 deaths from COVID. Germany has had over 77,000 -- over 2000 times as many.
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  7340. @Ribcut  Yup. If he did something illegal or actionable, take him to court. Absolutely make people take responsibility for real harms. But go to a magazine about your romantic disappointments? Were you a minor when you met, or barely an adult? Or a college sophomore, first time away from home? Were you engaged? Has he proposed? Has he said he was thinking about marriage? . . . Say, how old is he? LOL
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  7341. ​ @JohnTightlips You have a point. Check actuarial tables for life expectancy at 60, 65, 70, etc. Infant and maternal mortality are relatively high in the US, compared with other affluent countries.
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  7342. A lot of Israelis are opposed to Netanyahu. That's what this is about.
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  7343.  @paulette6900  Careful. This could be a rumor floated to discredit anyone who questions the official story. That happens a lot, the FBI has been using the technique for decades. See Adam Curtis, the BBC documentarian, on that.
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  7344. In 1970, working all summer for the minimum wage covered an entire year of in-state tuition and fees, or trade school. Minimum wage paid the rent on a studio in any coastal city, nevermind Denver or Chicago. That was freedom. No one had college debt they couldn't pay off waiting tables.
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  7345.  @jackgranger6539  You tell me what YOU saw that you think justified using a taser one time.
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  7346. Columbine was 25 years ago. The students who survived are in their 40s. Columbine was not first.
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  7347. That's what I've been asking, too.
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  7348.  @eoinoconnell185  💯 😂
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  7349. No one I know has idolized them for decades.
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  7350. Explain to me why Congress is involved again. That's all I ask. If she were expelling students who demonstrated against Israel, would they focus only on her? If you think so, well . . .
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  7351. Yes you do. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  7352.  @kays0ne  This one is a troll. I'm blocking her. Her MO is to pretend she doesn't know what you said and "you must be crazy."
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  7353.  @desydukuk291  That was not a sentence, that was a phrase.
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  7354. @godessofthemoon67  I suggest you look up the law in America. I just did. In general, they cannot keep you. The real problem is that your insurance could refuse to pay any part of your treatment, and you will be liable absent a lawsuit. It's all about the money. But even that doesn't usually happen. Just know that it's possible all right. Think about it this way: can you change hospitals? Yes, of course. Must you inform the hospital where you do not want to remain? There may be reasons you should document your decision, but you don't technically have to.
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  7355.  @godessofthemoon67  Why would law enforcement keep you in the hospital? They won't do that in my city. You are not in jail.
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  7356.  Icon Futureme35  Not just words. Posture. Dress. Facial expressions.
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  7357. Call the SEC.
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  7358.  @marielux7372  These fast-food restaurant jobs weren't meant to be for self-supporting adults back when MANUFACTURING was still done in America. Have you noticed how many nail salons there are now? You call that a job?
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  7359.  @steves6756  A CEO is set for life after a couple of years. It used to take a commitment of two or more decades to make that money. But as we know, there was something in the water that turned CEOs into geniuses. In fact, Gates was so smart he thought Epstein might have the connections to help him get a Nobel Peace prize.
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  7360. The questions weren't simple or direct. They were designed to propagandize, and it was effective. I'm sure Stefanik's fundraising goals for 2024 will be easily met. It's a disgrace that those academics could not effectively explain and defend the First Amendment, or show concern for students who feel traumatized, for that matter.
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  7361. If the death of a major figure is not a time to calmly explain the harm that the institution has done and continues to do, rather than lashing out at the recently dead in such a crude and hysterical way for attention, then I don't know when we will have rational discourse again.
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  7362.  @morgantaylor517  Exactly.
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  7363. Can you possibly emigrate?
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  7364.  The Ghey Mantis  Are you monolingual? Those tropes you mention that I never use prompt me to ask.
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  7365.  The Ghey Mantis  No man, I have places to go and cool stuff to do, and gorgeous relatives living a short walk from the Mediterranean. . . . You, not so much? A stab in the dark I admit. You sound a little angry.
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  7366. "And now, we're going to make money writing about how baaaad we were!!" 😛
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  7367. Truly insightful philosophical analysis -- thank you so much. Every ideological opposition seems to be some version of Aristotle (Foucault) contra Plato (Marx).
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  7368. No. That's just Keith being Keith.
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  7369.  @antonyhanson4479  Now who do you mean? I was referring to the hate heaped on Greenwald. Truly unwarranted.
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  7370. Matt Walsh is a moron. "Blacks are in prison because they commit more crimes." "And more need to be in prison." When an innocent person gets let out of prison after serving 20 years for a crime he had nothing to do with, what color is he? When a serial killer who has been active for a decade before he's finally caught, what color is he? Does the magic word "woke" paper over the facts? Speaking of "buzz words."
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  7371. All the people attacking Brie don't have the attention span to follow her arguments. Or the memory span to realize this is one retribution after another, depending on who's on top at the moment. I say this even though I agree more with Robby. He's clearly not calling for anyone to be fired. He is calling for a single standard of review. I think he's sincere and correct.
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  7372. @javdestiny  My late dad, an immigrant, used to always say to me, "you think in categories." I wish I didn't know what he meant, but alas . . .
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  7373. There's a very important reason why that is objectively true: your marital partner is your next of kin. If anything happens to you and you can't make decisions for yourself, guess who does? They better love you, or like and respect you, and have ethics.
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  7374. But, look . . . They felt unsafe. Now what makes a person feel safer than money?
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  7375. Don't say that about children.
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  7376. No grocery store near me takes cash anymore.
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  7377. Of all Rising guests, this lady comes the best prepared.
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  7378. Jimmy's first nice house, at age 55, after being a bricklayer for 10 years and suffering a medical bankruptcy. These jerks who needle him for it should be ashamed.
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  7379.  @marshallsweatherhiking1820  thank uou
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  7380. Cuba looks so beautiful.
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  7381. So Oswalt insinuates Dave Chappelle needs to grow and evolve?
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  7382. @Jacob King Compared to no heart condition is it mild, when that was the case prior to vaccination?
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  7383.  @victorcarbino8736  You mean you're a different species from me? That's the best news I've heard this century.
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  7384.  @victorcarbino8736  Are apples and oranges breeds of fruit? 😂 We aren't the same species, I just know it.
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  7385.  @ericaugust1501  What part of Y T won't _____ do you not get?
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  7386.  @PresidentDennis  Yanis Varoufakis said something like this the other day. I was shocked. He acknowledged that the leaders of corporations in the heavy industries, that manufacture real things, have it hard now. Their profit margins dwindle, while the oligopoly operating the virtual world take more and more and more.
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  7387. What parent of an addicted son would want him to have millions in unearned cash? That makes no sense on a personal level. 11:30
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  7388.  @samsadowitz1724  The way Kulinski frames this confuses everyone. Nothing to do with twitter mobbing, arbitrary deplatforming . . . A plaintiff in defamation has a high burden of proof, and should have -- and there are anti-SLAPP laws to prevent nuisance suits. I'm for all that. Also, Snowden isn't a lawyer. ;)
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  7389.  @rickyhyppa7960  Sensible! The standard for civil liability is a little lower, but otherwise amen!! He may come to his senses when he sees how hard that is. He has a right to try, like anyone. Court is, in principle, open to all.
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  7390. One of Jimmy's best.
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  7391. Yes. And most people get it, too.
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  7392. Aaron is so principled! And so well informed! There are no unworthy victims, ever.
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  7393.  @JustineBrownsBookshelf  I think you are so right!
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  7394. Tells you what her job actually was.
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  7395. I saw the video where the head of the CDC cast doubt on VAERS and could not provide accurate data on the rate of severe consequences. How is that acceptable?
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  7396. There's an MSNBC video claiming Tucker Carlson lied in his editorials concerning biolabs in Ukraine, and the comments are full of demands he be tried for treason. They are serious. The MSNBC video itself misrepresents the source it quotes to show Carlson lied. Did I need to tell you?
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  7397. From LGBTQ+ rights to sterilization of minors . . . Wow, that was fast. What happened to reproductive freedom?
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  7398.  @TheNaturalwoman221 People change, but not abruptly and without warning.
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  7399.  @bamboo851  I don't necessarily find her actions innocent, or easily explicable. That does not mean that I'm going to generate the most damning hypothesis possible, when there is no evidence for it -- yet. That is really jumping the gun. Also, what are your sources? Are you sure they are accurate? I've heard a ton of speculation about this case already, that does not line up with the affidavit, which is the only probable cause information we have so far. Suppose you are right. What do you get out of being right first? It's more an accident than a sign of being a good armchair detective. I think this case has a lot of unanswered questions -- which is what they are, unanswered. I think no one wants to believe the story of what happened. That's a factor. People feel a need to embellish it because it hits too close to home, and seems impossible. I feel the same.
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  7400. Really? I thought that was the Snowden talking point. Or Assange, which REALLY makes zero sense . . .
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  7401.  @samuelpancake4084  Congress could have passed a resolution distancing themselves from her words and affirming their support for Israel. Instead, it voted to censure her, which is a finding of wrongdoing for having spoken and a formal reprimand for her words. They did this even though her speech is First Amendment protected. Instead of passing a resolution, they doled out a punishment. And for WHAT? (Did they make us "safer?") You all give up your rights too easily.
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  7402.  @christineexum  Then let Tucker and Glenn explain it to you.
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  7403. Protection from reinfection sure looks like the protective item is an immunotherapy agent, rather than the other thing they sometimes say it is. It doesn't last very long at all. Why would anyone be required to use this?
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  7404. Kerry is describing what politicians do. All of them.
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  7405. France just made vaccine passports illegal for minors.
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  7406. ​ @vaska1999 This channel has a lot of realists. Thank you for allowing us to exhale.
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  7407.  Ernestine  Horrible for her to speak to them that way. If the teachers put them up to it, that makes it all the worse. "You come in here and you say it has to be my way or the highway . . . " Who talks to CHILDREN that way? Yeesh.
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  7408. Who told you that??? She had a few high-profile cases, but she was never anywhere near being "top." She had an above-average career after being a federal prosecutor. I'll give her that. She represented some sleazeballs.
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  7409. ​ @coreyham3753  No one listened to the end. He didn't say. He made it a point not to say. Even the Pope can't get 10 minutes of anyone's time.
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  7410. Sure something will be done: a worse crisis will be cooked up.
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  7411. What was also glaringly obvious is that many black communities feel squeezed out of entry level jobs by new immigrants, who also undercut wages. I don't agree 100% with your framing, but it is rigorous. This segment was sloppy. By the end, I think most people noticed the contradiction in their presentation. Immigration is a major factor in urban politics across the country, and a major reason why blacks are in fact declining as a percentage of the total population in most states.
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  7412. ChatGPT has started making grave mathematics mistakes and they don't know how that happened. There is a journal article on that.
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  7413.  @BlackBinderGames  Except that you're not fighting against "racism." You're fighting against the race-based policies you don't like. (Any such policies, or simple customs, that favor you are just "merit" in operation.) But you're entitled to do that. And Brie is entitled to push back. See how that works?
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  7414.  @leviashanken2506  I apologize, I misunderstood who the author of the reply was. It wasn't highlighted on my screen. I really am sorry.
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  7415.  @leviashanken2506  I made a mistake and was genuinely regretful. No big deal.
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  7416. ​ @Cereal_Killer007 I do agree about the hotel room. But errors in judgment don't give anyone license to assault you. Still, I agree it is extremely bad judgment.
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  7417. HA What do you think these schools are??
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  7418.  @AntonioRivera28  Oh I see. No explanation, no argument, no timestamp. Well I can see why you believe so, couldn't be clearer. /s
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  7419. Movie star's horoscope signs. That's what I use it for.
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  7420. @melissadeloach8503  I don't dispute this. It is true, . . . Simple. Now I have a question: why are my posts about the silencing of Israelis for peace dis . . . Appear-ing? Let's see whether this one can last.
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  7421. I dislike him intensely and distrust him . . . But tampered evidence should sink a case. It prevents finding guilt beyond reasonable doubt. Who did that? Not the defense. It was so stupid to plant that, as well as illegal. Good grief.
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  7422. ​@RogerWittekind This is a new thing. You are not alone. Try the sort by newest tab and scroll. It could be visible there.
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  7423.  @heathermiller3058  A video in this series explains that Van Gogh was in fact successful before taking his life, and the notion that he wasn't is a misconception.
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  7424. Russia is wrong as well. But the US also has bloody hands, and may escape punishment again. US enjoys filthy impunity for filthy crimes against the rest of the world all the time.
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  7425. ❤
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  7426. During the pandemic, we had a choice between two non-neurotypical candidates with different methods and styles of lying. Oh, non-neurotypical in different ways, too. I guess that's okay . . . ?
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  7427.  @nolanarmstrong2458  You mean he's incapable of noticing that tonight he contradicted what he said with complete conviction yesterday morning? And he's incapable of discerning facts from fiction? I believe it.
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  7428.  @garrettolson5516  Off-label compassionate use of medications, particularly in an emergency, is a very well-established practice, and is often the ethical thing to do. Or at least, it was. Ending that is not a good thing. Rethinking it, fine -- but then allow all of the doctors who were featured yesterday testifying before Congress to weigh in. They should be heard from first, because they were right.
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  7429. ​ @LastBref  "Propped up by the right wing." What slur will you trot out next? "Groomer?" You forgot to say "cope." 😅😅😅
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  7430.  @shughy1  How many civil rights cases have you won?
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  7431. If stopping transmission were the true goal, the Johnson & Johnson product would not be considered fully vaccinated.
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  7432. ​@bmass0828 Nowhere did Brie mention race, unless Palestinian is a race.
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  7433. Well, but consider the last couple of presidents.
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  7434.  @graemehook3667  You can't put in a digit "after" Infinitely many digits. That fails to specify its place in the string.
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  7435.  @agaperion  She is on the UATX board. That would make her Glenn's boss, at least technically. After The Intercept, can you see that? "Growth mindset" is a slogan. You like what she says, so you ignore her lack of competence. Thus the last presidential election.
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  7436. It was just made illegal in France for minors. It is a start.
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  7437.  @Kenjiro5775  No one said that.
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  7438. 11:03 and for about 40 seconds thereafter, tells me Jimmy D was raised Catholic, South Side Chicago-style. LOL The best education there is.
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  7439. Third party
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  7440.  @IdrisFashan  No. She is incoherent. WHAT precisely did she say? This is more a report on our media and politics than it is a report on the facts at Wuhan.
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  7441. He stood up to this nonsense better than any Ivy League president did. He was right to refuse to provide details about pending litigation and personnel actions. That's exactly what he was supposed to do.
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  7442.  @direwolf6234  The point is mandates.
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  7443. Two words: Alexander Acosta. HE should testify before Congress.
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  7444. ​@ZiegPrideLike appointing Epstein fixer Acosta to the Cabinet as Secretary of LABOR, and considering Acosta for Attorney General?? Wake up from the nightmare.
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  7445. "Given their common cosmologies . . . " CIA. Clearly.
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  7446. Consider this: some of these incidents were real -- very, very few, in fact. Most by far were a contagion, comparable to what we once called "mass psychosis." I think we will see more and more of exactly this.
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  7447. The interactive nature of the games may be dangerous to some psychologically and neurologically abnormal people. This is known. There is no persuasive evidence they are dangerous to normal people. "Cause" is too strong a word, but certain people with certain disorders need to avoid them because they increase the risk of violence. Look at the whole picture.
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  7448. No one said the games caused the violence, by the way, just like no one said depressed people are dangerous.
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  7449. @theflash10500  I'm not on Facebook, Twitter, etc., and only came here due to the shutdown. Most people I know have advanced degrees. But everyone should know by now that the burden is on them to check for themselves, not listen to what talking heads say. If all you do is trust other sources, you end up believing what you want to believe, and trusting those who tell you what you want to hear.
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  7450. @doreeneclose6295  I know, it's heartbreaking. I haven't gotten over it.
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  7451.  @robland6804  Total troll, joined a few days ago and changes his tune to cause you to engage with him.
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  7452. @xitlallicommentstoday2169  To me, that makes the overreaction of the principal all the more unwise. Send him home to wash his face and call it a day. The less attention placed on him, the better. Doing nothing would have been far preferable to making him famous. And you're right, those who listened to the end know that Jessica said it made no sense to slap a racist label on him. He's too young to be a "racist." He's a kid. Also, I thought principals were supposed to know something about school law. Although courts give school administrators huge deference in their decisions concerning discipline, a suspension can be a violation of his rights, because he does have a right to a public education and he does have a measure of free speech in school, though obviously not what adults in a traditional free speech forum have. The point is, though, to avoid lawsuits. This is dumber than it looks -- it will probably cost the school district money, and to what end? This was really senseless.
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  7453.  @jehovahuponyou  How do you know that's His word?
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  7454. Not too many people "love" any American politician. Here, there, anywhere.
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  7455.  @newbieprepper8451  "Empty threats" are protected speech.
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  7456. ​ @mikesmith542 Why do you ignore that Chauvin pled guilty in federal court? The document takes two seconds to find. It describes exactly what Chauvin himself agrees he did.
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  7457. Well, but dangling new laws in front of people could guilt the rich into bigger political contributions. So there's that.
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  7458. ​ @earthrepair  the PEACE Prize . . . Not for sciences or medicine.
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  7459. Remember, if they make money doing it, then it IS good. There is no other measure, for them.
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  7460. Everyone knew they were lying.
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  7461. Why should they get a summer vacation?
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  7462.  @treead67  Amen to that!
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  7463. Bravo on emigration.
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  7464.  @MirceaKitsune  My post basically agreeing with you just went poof, gone. We were, uh, talking about censorship? Right? 😂 It might reappear. The algorithm needs time to think.
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  7465. @Little_Critch  The position paper of at least one association of doctors has set it as a standard of care. How do you think it's getting prescribed? Just, kinda on the fly?
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  7466.  Jim Arcadipane  It has gone too far, now.
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  7467. These lovely people had their very lives ruined. 😢
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  7468.  @privacyplease1556  Those savings programs (IRA, 401(k), etc.) have existed for some 40 years, and employee stock ownership programs are much older. This period has been the period of greatest stock market growth in history-- and you cannot expect that growth to be repeated going forward. Where are all the millionaires? If you think individuals can have the same power over their fate, on an individual basis, as do those presiding over the vast concentrations of wealth do, then please don't invest. You don't understand what's going on well enough to take the risk.
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  7469. Of course they work. There are actual numbers for that.
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  7470. This was not Fauci's only lie, and TJDS wasn't the only channel to expose it. Fauci repeatedly gave misleading information, or outright lied. Yes, the results were worse than they would have been with a competent president in charge. But we had insane clown/orange Caligula. So we needed public health officials to be pristine about information. They were not. Seems they also misled about the Wuhan lab. This is not trivial.
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  7471.  @brittany3903  Thank you Brittany. I get exactly what you are telling us.
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  7472. @louisnemzer6801  The judge applied the New York Times malice standard to Gino's defamation claims, and there is simply no way she can meet it. His ruling had nothing to do with free debate in science in particular. She could have been working in any field. BTW, this case has more twists than you might think. Harvard suddenly changed some fundamental procedures for faculty retention, without going through the usual process to change material contract terms, then removed all tenure-related rights and privileges from Gino, and then had the temerity to represent to the judge that her tenure was not removed. You can imagine how well the judge appreciated that. 😂 Anyway, that's why the contract case against Harvard survives. It is very worthwhile to read the opinion.
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  7473. The one time he slipped up and told the truth? 😂
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  7474. So, money isn't speech?
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  7475.  @juliemahrer1210  That's not what it looked like.
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  7476.  @tule2955  Who disturbed the public? Did he, or those who got physical?
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  7477.  @jocksharerock7318  I don't disagree, just, do you have examples? I honestly didn't know.
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  7478.  @dylanbutts1628  But did she? One thing Krystal has been consistent in is pointing out that people are being pushed past their limit by the pandemic, lockdowns, and lack of assistance from the government, and that trust has hit a new low. She never minimized that. Trump and his gauleiters minimized the health threat, and DNC (Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, Clinton wing) all turned away from dealing with the economic devastation.
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  7479. @Brett Look at the results here. How many of the people commenting do you think would know how to find the case, published in full and available online of course, or recognize that they really ought to read it for themselves to see what it says? And to see what's at stake? Look, they may truly not have the time to read it. That's not the issue. That's just life. That's not the problem. They don't see why they should read it -- not just before taking a firm position on it, but in light of the very simple fact that we all know, that reading something for yourself is the only way to know what it says, and that you cannot place complete faith in any media to tell it to you straight.
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  7480. How come there is all this technology, and a cult surrounding Technology, didn't prevent the disasters of this century, starting with 9/11 and the Great Recession only 7 years later?
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  7481. "All Canadians," Justin? 😂😂😂😂😂
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  7482. A summer working at minimum wage used to pay for a year of tuition at the late, great state universities. No one had much debt. So weird! /s
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  7483. I expected it to come to this, frankly.
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  7484. One of Jimmy's best.
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  7485. @anotherlover6954  Fine. I'm in the top 10%, then. Everything is a problem here, including eating, and everything is subject to some fad, and massive amounts of money changes hands in the process. Keep it up.
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  7486. ​ @AntoinetteTurkie 💯 A son of Canada plus the son of a true blue Chicagoan. It's great. 😊
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  7487. Then why the efforts to lie about its origins? Your state of knowledge is not the standard, hon.
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  7488.  @DR_1_1  Yup. I've had posts about math dis ap pear. No jeering, trash talking, or misinfo. The math was correct, too, lol.
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  7489. My goodness. Where are all the people who were ready to prosecute Netflix over "Mignonnes" just, like, yesterday?
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  7490. Too kind. Implies he can read, still.
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  7491. She thinks COVID policies didn't violate the Constitution. She concedes this declaration does.
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  7492. @ConspiracyGamesAndPodcastClips  I'm commenting on what she actually says. You are right that she may not believe what she says, or feel what feelings she expresses in words. In fact, that's more astute on your part than on mine.
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  7493. ​ @mrglennreaper  Not this time: 10:43 A billionaire (Prtizker) put her in. A billionaire (Ackman) took her out. Get a clue.
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  7494.  @moniquecole182  That isn't sexual harassment under the law. Look up Title VII. If Ana wasn't too ashamed or embarrassed to do the bizarre "guess whose camel toe" or "guess whose underwear" segments at the time, or to swear repeatedly at Aaron Mate now, or to threaten Jimmy and throw shade on his wife (BTW, did Stef do something wrong?), rather than to simply state her case on the platform she has, then why would you think this was some embarrassed wall flower suddenly cringing in fear, barely able to bring herself to talk about how she suffered? Talk about cheapening real harassment!
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  7495.  @mortisnoctu  How would you know in advance that the sides of every right triangle do have that relationship, or that they have any set relationship, every single time, when there are infinitely many right triangles? Um, it had to be . . . proved. ("LOL," huh?)
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  7496.  @UnconventionalReasoning  Consumer confidence in 2007, first quarter, was spectacular. Too bad it failed to prevent the 2008 financial meltdown.
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  7497.  @tonyg76  See. This is the problem. It appears hopeless, too.
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  7498. Sorry to hear she picked that discredited show to promote her book.
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  7499.  @TheDivayenta  "Some people hate people who support hate speech laws." -- Should that statement be illegal?
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  7500. It is a disgrace when you consider TRUMP fought for overturning the 2020 result, while GORE refused to lift a finger in 2000 -- he even conceded the election prematurely (!!!)
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  7501.  @Masaru_kun  Remember. It's not defamation when it's true.
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  7502. I believe there were insurrectionists present on January 6, as well as FBI provocateurs and plants. If we could have an equivalent of the Church Committee, I'd be for that. What are the chances?
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  7503. Uh oh. That's right. Yeesh.
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  7504. @D.T. Baker Great points.
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  7505. That's common now. Laugh or cry is still an issue, maybe.
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  7506. They are worse than I expected, and I would never have voted for Biden, and didn't.
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  7507. @liberalismisaids9564  Some federal courts certainly did. Did you check before posting?
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  7508.  @liberalismisaids9564  My source is Bloomberg.
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  7509. @liberalismisaids9564  It's pretty simple to check. Well, unless a person is lazy.
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  7510. Agreed
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  7511.  @emmalynne7851  It is a crime that you were put through this ordeal. You are one of our true heros, 2020 and 2021.
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  7512.  @majorpuggington  I am so sorry. The way people were treated was criminal. I don't use the word lightly.
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  7513.  @emmalynne7851  It is simply true. These two years were hell. Looking back, I marvel at the courage of those who continued to work, especially in medicine.
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  7514. She's the ideologue? Really? School closures erased two DECADES of progress in math and reading? Robbie is not focusing on the fact that teachers played a role in this progress. Perhaps he needs to stop flagellating them and demanding vouchers. He's the one who is perennially inconsistent and dismissive. Here's a clue: no one wants to teach. The ideologues who attack teachers incessantly are creating a crisis where your property taxes WILL rise, because you will not be able to attract a workforce under these conditions. You are taking the bait of the corporate looters, just like the ones in the Chicago parking meter fiasco. They don't care what it is; their kids go to elite private schools that cost as much as Harvard. Parking meters, schools, whatever -- they are looking for vulnerabilities to exploit.
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  7515. He's AUTISTIC. You must not have followed this story. He kept saying things like, "I have to ask my mom."
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  7516. @Rob Thompson  Well, my friend's nephews are in public school in a very red state (which in itself is worrying -- I wonder whether they are allowed to have real history classes and a real school library). But guess what? This year, they were required to say their pronouns in front of the class.
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  7517. She gave the FIRST sound legal analysis I've heard. Sorry if titillation is what you need need NEED.
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  7518.  @bmell1252  Wow, just wow.
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  7519.  @bmell1252  Keep reminding me why I'm emigrating. Deadline, 2025. Decided in 2019, proud to say. Still, I was surprised by the hate. Now I know to expect no better.
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  7520.  @kellyfowler6426  Me, too. Also getting tested regularly, now that community penetration of delta is at about a 6% positivity rate.
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  7521. Sounds like. /s
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  7522.  @nedludd7622  So you came here to jeer at people, and call people names, concerning their private decisions and their own health matters, when this COVID issue has you so upset that you can't see who posted what, even after it was signaled to you a day ago. ("I didn't backtrack . . . ") Hmm. Take a deep breath and think this through. Healthier for you. Stress creeps up on people. It's happened to us all.
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  7523. Only a governor can. State charges.
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  7524. @daniellynn8751  Then tell me something: When factual information is presented, it doesn't appear. Why is that? And how does that inability to gain any information about an alternative view, supported by facts, affect your view? Note that jeering is never eliminated unless it is truly awful. Hence we are all led to believe that no one knows better than to jeer and engage in ad hominem. Nice, huh?
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  7525.  HybridandPixie  Who told you so? Musk?
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  7526. 😂😂😂😂😂 out loud for real (And I do not like 💩 jokes in general.)
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  7527. 💯
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  7528.  @potdragon8091  I wish people who immediately swear at others would have their dreck removed.
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  7529.  @86baybay  I really don't see why you bring religion into it. Religion can be twisted to justify absolutely anything, and has been, and its tenets have no place in a debate on political economy.
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  7530.  @em3sis  You have insurance companies deciding what you can and can't have, and you don't have a vote, the majority shareholders do. The majority shareholders will never need to confront what they impose on you. But I guess you have the "freedom" to try and join their cabal. So there's that. But I can relate to your sentiments. I certainly don't want to pay for anything for your kids. This is America. They may shoot me one day.
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  7531.  @em3sis  And health care isn't an elastic demand curve, or something it makes economic sense to skimp on voluntarily until you are comatose and brought to a hospital by first responders. But like I said, I appreciate your feelings. I don't want to pay for your kids. This is America. They could grow up to shoot me one day. Let them be feral. At least it wasn't on my dime.
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  7532.  @paineite  They lie about that all the time. Grifters.
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  7533.  @em3sis  Oh really??? That's FUNNY! Like, any time? Like you switch brands of cough syrup, or blue jeans! You can always get a better deal! And the company that gives these deals, insurer or employer, won't go insolvent! Especially not in the near future. Ha ha ha. You should do stand-up.
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  7534.  @em3sis  Now here me out. If you are not getting paid for this, if you are not getting your cut for these talking points, who is the chump? At least monetize by starting a YouTube channel. Lots of people have, and will. That's the game. Who lies for free?
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  7535.  @Nastyfinger1444  I support the Serpicos. They exist.
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  7536. ​ @johnosborne4404  Exactly. It's fundraising for November. It's working better than any other scheme they ever concocted.
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  7537. My God, this woman crossed paths with two probable serial killers. That is horrid bad luck. Or is it? How many are out there, gravitating toward beautiful women?
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  7538. We owe one of the BRICS a lot of money. Maybe that is not wise? 🤔
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  7539.  @ericpratt9509  And just out of sheer curiosity, what will you say if Biden starts new wars, as would be true to form for him? At that point, he would start to approach equally bad. Since Trump is the worst, and most unsuitable, person ever to occupy the office, I really don't using him as the standard by which to measure all others is particularly astute. The election is over. So, when do you think . . . Ah, nevermind. I have better things to do.
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  7540. THIS!! 100%
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  7541.  @Lstriling6617  That, too!
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  7542.  @ellisdeefoley  OP was not minimizing it. Lots of viral illnesses have a post-viral syndrome, and it comes as no surprise to me that this one is worse.
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  7543.  @neilcooper9508  And people who got the v-xx and have long COVID are screaming up and down that it's not long COVID, it's lingering COVID. (Because the v-xx prevents long COVID, see?) 😂 It's one long bee s fest.
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  7544.  @josephburchanowski4636  Fair point. I think they want to underline that guns are ubiquitous around schools, when they should never be there because of all the school zone laws. But you are right, it is misleading. (I wish we could agree on strict COVID death definitions, too.)
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  7545. Oh I get it. Signalling troubled marriage. Took me a while.
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  7546. Oh yeah? HE JUST SAID : "force her to admit" SORRY, BUB -- we have a Fifth Amendment. Your role isn't to make her talk, it's to vote her down based on her answers. Not one of you believes in the Bill of Rights unless you have a dog in the fight.
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  7547. That people on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean cannot find a way to live together in peace makes me lose all hope.
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  7548. After what Fauci got away with it, what do you expect?
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  7549. This was great.
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  7550. @iansane1928  Yes, that is true, that the totality of the facts and who they point to is what matters --- which is why there is probable cause to try him. But this is not an airtight, "beyond reasonable doubt" case based on what we know so far. This woman is an excellent lawyer.
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  7551. He cleaned his plate today. The White House physician said so.
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  7552.  @lukethibodaux790  Nazis were "socialists?" Okay, you're one of those. Just how twisted can they get people's minds to be? I guess we saw during the pandemic fear-mongering and the vaccine mandates. Russia has been a reactive power under Putin, just as Stephen F. Cohen said. The US has been supporting fascist fringe elements in Ukraine to provoke Russia, and Russia stupidly fell into the trap yet again. Maybe you should study the history leading up to the Second World War: the hope in the West was that Hitler would destroy the Soviets. That's what they were maneuvering to achieve; check and see what Western leaders said of Hitler before he attacked them and their interests, see how wildly he was praised, even by Churchill. (IOW, Hitler got out of hand.) Then consider the history of the ratline after the war. This is what is known as a pattern.
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  7553. ​ @theresearcher253 😂😂😂 Yes, that must be it.
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  7554. The more Pod Save America talks, the less normal people want vaccines. Great job. /s
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  7555. Listen carefully at 1:39.
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  7556. 6:09 THIS (about 1 1/2 minutes) Impartiality is absolutely essential to the federal court system. 7:15, in particular
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  7557. I most admire Glenn for his valiant effort at keeping a straight face during the intro. As soon as you get some distance on this, you see the absurdity.
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  7558. 5:26 You'd have to prove to me that these are actual posts of the official Russian/Putin regime position. This sounds so fake.
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  7559. In Europe, proof of his recovery from COVID now counts as contributing to overall immunity.
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  7560. HA HA HA They sit on each other's board.
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  7561. ​ @corydor4218 First of all, anonymous speech is expressly protected. See, for example, Buckley v. American Constitutional Law Foundation.
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  7562. ​Why is it that when I mention an actual law or Supreme Court case, I am scents erred? What do you think about that?
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  7563. @Jerbert-qn4in  Maybe genetics is the simple answer that gives you comfort. See my comment re: laziness, above. (How much math beyond Calculus III have you had?)
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  7564. @Jerbert-qn4in  I'm so sorry I called you names and indulged in layers of ad hom, imputing motives and arguments to you that are not yours. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  7565.  @0451K  I thought Russell Brand explained that well in his recent segment on the death of the Queen. I recommend it.
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  7566. @lordkuriki5475  So someone tweeted something? Is Twitter/X a lawbook now? Smh
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  7567. ​ @LetholdusKaspyr If she did that, she should have been disciplined by the Bar, and the whole fiasco might have been avoided. No, something circulated on X is evidence in COURT only if you can prove its authenticity and a chain of custody. It requires sworn testimony in its support to be considered evidence. The more AI we have in the world, the stricter the evidence rules are likely to be.
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  7568.  @ssusdorf1  Show me the elements of treason.
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  7569.  @joelbrooks3198  Right, Shock and Awe, American style.
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  7570. This is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen, false flag level.
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  7571. ​@michaeldoran4367 He is an outstanding psychologist. All the rest is grifter nonsense and always has been. The irony is that Canada wants to lift his license to practice what he IS genuinely good at. (But what he became a multi-millionaire doing poses no problem.) So, I agree --- things are bad. 🤡🌎 but no one's laughing . . . :/
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  7572. I knew no good would come of this.
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  7573. They are only 12 or 13? My father didn't give me Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask until I was a high school graduate.
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  7574. GASP! OH NO!!!
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  7575.  @cynthiajohnson9412  Do you really think she would? My God.
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  7576. @googlesucks662  Then why aren't police coming by to arrest you? Oh that's right, no probable cause.
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  7577.  @kevinschmidt2210  Please give us a reference to The History of Evil statute. Seems like something we should know about.
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  7578.  Erica Rona  Good point. Words matter.
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  7579. @hgdrg hfddc Because aerospace engineers are dumb. Make sure your kid doesn't major in that. It's a waste of time.
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  7580. "Hate speech" that doesn't fall into an unprotected category (defamation, intentional infliction of emotional, distress, which are civil causes of action, or true threats, incitement to imminent violence, speech in furtherance of a criminal conspiracy, etc., which are crimes) IS constitutionally protected speech. Look up R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul. That's the law, and has been for decades.
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  7581. A country that has had problems with EUGENICS for generations is now using treatments that sterilize kids simply because they have what is usually a fleeting emotional issue. "What could go wrong?"
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  7582.  @mariss.317  ER, he put his car keys on the shelf above the DASHBOARD, as instructed. Hence the car could not be used as "a weapon." The police thought of this ab initio. But you forgot "somehow."
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  7583. ​@bignumbers Now this is a big problem -- classic, unequivocal First Amendment violation.
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  7584. So this is what you get out of this report? Netherlands? Italy? You haven't been paying attention.
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  7585.  @a.ros12  🤣 Exactly
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  7586.  @norman_5623  Well, we finally have Fauci under oath. It's a start, eh?
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  7587.  @royjacobs1204  Happens every time. Back in the '60s and '70s, the major state universities -- Michigan, Virginia, Berkeley, etc. -- were essentially free. A summer job paid for a year of tuition, fees, and required texts. Well, some of those working class kids actually worked hard and excelled in engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry, pre-med, squeezing out the kids of the rich, who came to college to join the right fraternity and make connections. You know that had to end.
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  7588. No, instead they impeached him . . . over the BIDEN affair. Seems that THAT was his worst offense since taking office?? Well that tells you how much the DNC really cares about "ordinary" people. No one could make this up.
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  7589.  @johnleonatti8573  He made sure to get into Ivy League schools dishonestly. You missed that part? Don't kid yourself, the ability to do exactly that IS a "qualification." The less you do and the more you get in return is called "profit."
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  7590.  @rebeccacorpas-galisa9900  You're choosing to ignore the DNA evidence that turned up at three other crime scenes around the country, and the fact that this prosecutor had her law license suspended for misconduct in several matters. I'm not worried about psychoanalyzing his daughters. I want them to find this man. I live in one of the cities where his DNA placed him. They have you manipulated not to care about your safety but to go on a warpath against strangers who suffered an unspeakable tragedy.
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  7591. Remember Tom Sawyer's sniveling cousin? "Aunt Polly! Aunt Polly!!!"
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  7592. I don't think that's evident.
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  7593. No, not immediately unmistakable. You need to be taught to see.
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  7594. Both lying and private censorship are generally considered First Amendment protected. Only certain lies can give rise to a crime or civil suit, and censorship has to be an individual decision, not influenced by any level of government. (That's why we can be cens___d here.)
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  7595. I don't believe these COVID deaths were purely negligent any more. A "happy" side effect, by some lights.
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  7596. If you've read any of Greenwald's books, you know he is a socialist, broadly speaking, but he has always kept to one principle: if socialism ever collides with First Amendment rights, First Amendment rights win every time. Simple.
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  7597. I noticed only one feature of the riots that resembled a coup: some police appeared to be affiliated with or infiltrated by right-wing militias and other extremists. This calls for an investigation of them, not more monitoring of us. Who is monitoring the monitors? Who ARE the monitors?
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  7598.  @teacup-q3n  Great point
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  7599.  @ab0lishp0liticians67  More truth in this.
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  7600. With criminal charges contemplated, he would have invoked the Fifth.
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  7601. These are like a bunch of religious factions with prescribed liturgy, dogma, and excommunication. Aren't you worried yet? I would be.
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  7602.  @kindnessmatters5635  Whose identity was compromised??
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  7603.  @jordanmc27  Of course not. BUT I can articulate why that is, as a general matter, First Amendment protected speech.
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  7604.  @jordanmc27  I'm not defending their performance. It was lackluster, when it should have been crystal clear on the LAW, and passionate about the PRINCIPLE. So, you don't think college demonstrations, if otherwise lawful, should be First Amendment protected? Better watch your pronouns, then.
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  7605.  @jordanmc27  That's easy. That's not speech. You can't chase people into barricaded libraries even if you say absolutely nothing. Or gaslight them, scream "I love you." LOL
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  7606.  @skysurfer5cva  If they made a commitment to hold their students to First Amendment standards rather than a speech code that is more restrictive, then they do have to honor their commitment.
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  7607.  @thedizzyunicorn  If I'm free to refuse a warrantless search of my house, do I still have to "face consequences" for not letting the police in? If I have a right to remain silent, do I still have to "face consequences" if I refuse to talk to police?
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  7608. Robbie, your intro was shameful.
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  7609. ​ @msjkay16 Sounds to me like Murray is the one conflating legal words and illegal acts.
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  7610.  @Dog-999i  He wants to win.
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  7611. Very often
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  7612. As long as he used preferred pronouns, it's all good.
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  7613. @North Korea Is Best Korea Joined a few weeks ago, did you? 🤣
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  7614. If made to law enforcement, agreed. Otherwise, it is a civil matter.
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  7615.  @abookamongsthemanypj7140  I don't think you're lying. Of course a person can die ftom COVID. And many families have lost several members. Anyone who is against mandates is fine by me. Feel free to exercise your freedom of speech. The jeering and browbeating is making people more suspicious of the vaccines, not less. Obvious why. Those who tell the truth about side effects and accept differences of opinion are far more credible.
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  7616. @claytonhenrickson9326  Assuming you are correct in forcing someone to leave, there are lots of nonviolent ways in this instance to do it. I can think of several. You took all that time to write to endorse force. Why?
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  7617. Finally a witness is holding Stefanik accountable for her performance art.
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  7618.  @fish9905  You are being so duped. All of these performances are for campaign financing.
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  7619. This was fundraising. Pure performance.
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  7620.  @cmb3915  It's about feelings now? How about some concrete action?
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  7621. Robby doesn't understand why a security detail is effective -- it raises the stakes for anyone who would dare . . .
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  7622. You're right, that part is wonderful.
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  7623.    The cut-and-paste brigade strikes yet again.
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  7624. Yes, but no Republican will ever admit to supporting this stuff in any manner.
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  7625. Boomers are two distinct waves: 1946 to 1954; 1955 to 1964, the second having had markedly higher prices and fewer job opportunities (deindustrialization hit the second group early in their work lives, etc.). The youngest could have 81 year old parents, yeah.
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  7626. @Commonsense401  I don't think Brie dealt with well, but what was really behind it was explained by Greenwald, who invited her immediately to discuss it. Also, for a more partisan view, BUT one which is nevertheless well argued, see Sabby Sab's program. She did a long podcast on it, and highlighted some other facts I was not aware of. Brie contributed more to the journalism of Rising than I knew. Also, the email by which she was fired misspelled her name. Ya can't make it up!!
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  7627.  @peteh1792  Is law school for women "excessive education?"
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  7628.  @davidlink2720  I'm not defending it. It's a disgrace.
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  7629. Yes. On these boards, where a cult is taking shape.
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  7630.  @erepsekahs  Well, it is certainly a real trial, but the underlying purpose is not to win $50 million in damages, no. The purpose is more likely to put on a show and to settle scores, and possibly write a book. Very astute comment, by the way. We are seeing a cult or a mob coalesce before our eyes. Too bad Depp didn't just write a memoir. Much more positive than this.
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  7631. The biggest Ponzi scheme is the current stock market.
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  7632.  Laura Lafauve  And as if the rich aren't addicts, too! Where did "faddiegirl" come from?
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  7633. So who is this one, now? Never heard of her.
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  7634. ​ @CHX_37 Because being tortured to death is just like being expelled from school and being handed a viable lawsuit.
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  7635. @rickgee5962  Did she fabricate it, then? I didn't follow the case, and agree wholeheartedly with the lawsuit against the university.
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  7636. 1. I don't like Dylan. 2. This is taking campy too seriously.
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  7637. Remember Eddie Haskell?
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  7638. Rachel was great here.
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  7639. Not the private employers. The manufacturers are immune.
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  7640. ​ @theblindowl2 Yes and no. One person's sworn testimony IS evidence. We can never lose sight of that. I fear we have.
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  7641. @MargaritaMagdalena  A LOT of people felt trapped with abusers, and trapped without a job, and trapped into taking a very poor vaccine they had misgivings about. Even Angela Davis, no less, observed that home is not "safe" for everyone, especially for a lot of women. Being deprived of basic liberties and isolated from other people can traumatize a lot of people --- a wife who was forbidden to go out except to shop, a kid who was locked in their room. Or, those with no families can become very fearful, being forced to face all this fearmongering by themselves. Did you think house arrest was a cakewalk? Ask Donziger about that -- or ASSANGE.
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  7642. The press in the US is partly to blame. It heats up sick minds prone to doing this, and convinces them they can.
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  7643. AND he doesn't know what his babies have and have not received? Disgrace.
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  7644. The only thing anyone could prove on Martha was that she lied to federal agents investigating a possible crime. And she lied to cover up her affair! If she didn't want to tell the whole truth, she had the option of remaining silent. It's one or the other. There is no in-between. Hard to be sympathetic or unsympathetic! 😒
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  7645.  @OHFORPEATSAKES  I did it like that, too.
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  7646.  @waynejohnson1786  Interesting. A father cannot be forced to give a pint of blood to save the life of his 7-year-old. I think we'd all agree that his refusal is immoral, but no LAW will force him to make the moral choice.
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  7647. @user-hg2tk3xj9y  False. If you put ten quarters into the Social Security system, you do qualify for a pension, with offset, even with a teacher's pension. If you are married for ten years, but never paid into Social Security yourself, you do receive your deceased spouse's Social Security, but with a major offset, larger than if you yourself had paid into the system. The woman featured was not a teacher, and did not strike me as terribly cerebral. If she filled out the forms truthfully, the math is the government's problem, not hers. If she lied, then that's different. There is no reason to think she engineered a fraud. Prove it.
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  7648. ​ @skosh6359 You do know that no European country is supporting COVID vaccination of children, adolescents, or healthy young adults, correct? But Hotez supports it. What peer-reviewed studies does Hotez rely on that UK or Sweden or France do not?
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  7649. ​@gauloise6442 At what age?? I can believe a single woman between the ages of 18 and 29 is happy. At 49? 69? It is not evident.
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  7650. The Russians did it. /s Edited to include the sarc alert.
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  7651. Yes, he is very cool.
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  7652.  @pragersmasher5788  Too many negatives to be coherent.
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  7653.  Richard Garcia  I think she has no problem in those areas, i.e., money or men. Odd where your mind went. I don't get it.
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  7654.  @pragersmasher5788  Not at all. She was personally attacked, with innuendo, and straight-up assertions, that she is not all that bright by some, and that she needs money by others. I think you have to agree that a Harvard trained attorney is very unlikely to be lacking in intelligence, or in the ability to generate revenue. (In any case, Briahna's brilliance is obvious, to anyone who reads books and stuff.) But have it your way. Show everyone that the fans of this video are bad faith actors in their posts. Why do you think everyone is stupid? Does that describe the fan base here? I don't know. You tell me.
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  7655.  @kevinoneill2250  Va te faire . . . On ne permet pas que je termine ma phrase comme je veux.
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  7656. Pfft
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  7657. ​ @noneshere That's not what hearsay means. Defamation involves suing for something someone said to a third party in an unprivileged context. Technically, slander; libel is written rather than spoken.
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  7658. You mean to not get rich from this again? Because they all made bank, as well.
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  7659. ​ @BeXEllenttoeachother Why did Trump remove the moratorium on federal funding of gain of function research? Who whispered in his ear and flattered him? Why didn't he fire Fauci?
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  7660. Briahna, brilliant and lovely as usual.
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  7661. They are modeling behavior others will imitate. After all, they are getting paid very well and you can't argue with money.
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  7662. @brigittabalog5226  If you ever read the sick stuff he texted her (and afterwards, she went right back to serving him, instead of straight out of town for a vacation, then a trip to a psychiatrist), you'd see the real picture. I've known troubled women, but no one who would put up with what she did from a boyfriend. He had literally unbearable job pressures and was always on some drugs, not all of which were prescribed. That's what he was trapped by.
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  7663. Exactly. And you can make bank with pablum like this guy serves up, in lieu of real work. Every retail worker is doing a more important job, as we found out during the pandemic.
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  7664. Do you have evidence of this? Because Glenn Greenwald was just on Jimmy's show to promote his newest book.
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  7665. @Ludlow889 Let me see if I understand. According to you, the virus has not been identified, there are many false positives, BUT we can use seropositivity to estimate mortality rates. You know, you can find biologists, real ones, who tout Creation Science. And a member of the Manson family married a Harvard Law grad while she was in prison. As for the policy debates on how best to deal with COVID, the left in most places has insisted we open a conversation. This is true of France Insoumise, this is true of Jimmy Dore. The reason it is getting so little traction in the US is because nothing the political leaders have done so far has been rational. It is not evident where to start. Citing false, misleading, or discredited studies is not the place.
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  7666.  @abe8435  The very carefully constructed discrediting of Biden's accuser Tara Reade was so well done that it immediately raised the question how and why she was ever hired to work for a powerful, prominent Senator in the first place. The story is, she had no qualifications at all.
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  7667.  @waleadeyemi6239  You can't do that. Not if you want to keep your job.
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  7668. I think in this clip Fauci didn't lie. I almost fainted. I'll have to listen again and see. I can't seem to believe it. What made him do differently this time?
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  7669.  @rogerward801  YES HE DID
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  7670. Good that you can.
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  7671. Just give it to him, and to all of his proven baby-mamas. And their current boyfriends or girlfriends. 😂
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  7672.  @rhoell2050  I don't disagree with your assessment of Trump, and having had problems with over-optimism (speaking for myself), I consider your remarks welcome. But this is exactly why I am worried about exaggeration and hysteria over everything that comes out of Trump's White House. If we claim Trump is to blame for things he did not do, we WILL be tuned out. We will normalize the harm he does do. People will remember the accusations that were not true, and disbelieve all the ones that are. So, basically, I agree with you. Finally someone spelled it all out, thanks.
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  7673. I wasn't shocked. Well, I don't have a television . . . 😅
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  7674. Aaron and Glenn together? The day just got better!
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  7675. You know, schools and social service organizations are pushing mental health care for all, but the people who desperately need it, and may even meet criteria for short-term commitment, always seem to fall through the cracks. He even fooled police. How??
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  7676. ​ @Turco949 Ha. If he has a kid.
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  7677. The simplest explanation is usually true. So his death comes as no surprise.
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  7678. Her point was that claiming Biden is the victim of "prejudice" is preposterous. It IS preposterous. It's not ageism, it's not discrimination based on a stutter, or based on his ancestry. It is a matter of basic competence.
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  7679. Not what she said.
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  7680. Maybe she reads Haaretz?
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  7681. No vote for universal health? NOW, during a pandemic? Then don't laugh at anyone who wonders whether COVID is a "hoax."
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  7682.  @jedgrahek1426  The real crime was all the cities with ANTI-Milosevic governments in place that got bombed with depleted uranium. This was widely reported at the time, other NATO countries' peoples were appalled and had anti-war movements, but not the US. All of Montenegro was anti-Milosevic, refugees were fleeing into Montenegro, not away from it. Still got bombed. Sick.
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  7683.  @bobwoww8384  Block this one, lol.
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  7684.  @ficanning6135  Went along? They did it.
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  7685. @TheRotnflesh  Then the agents of the government that institute such illegal repression will be sued and will eventually lose, if they aren't subjected to an injunction in the meantime as well, effectively preventing them from continuing. There is no "general welfare" exception to free speech -- which is not to say no one will attempt to invoke it anyway.
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  7686. Here is the timeline, available in many places including CNN: August 12 -- the videotaped police encounter we saw August 17 -- Brian flies back to Florida to clean out a storage locker and get some supplies, and possibly money August 23 -- Brian returns to Salt Lake City, rejoins Gabby; they were apart for about 5 or 6 days August 27 -- incident in restaurant, last text from Gabby to parents that was clearly from her By August 30, Gabby was dead. This timeline shows interruptions to the buildup of rage described here. It also shows that Gabby had a real opportunity to get away, or at least to talk to someone she trusted, August 17 through 22, a solid five days. So . . . What happened?
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  7687.  @grahammcrae4277  Is the gum stuck to your shoe?
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  7688.  @gdwnet  "Intervention by Russia's central bank . . . " that's how this report starts out! No . . . people need energy to manufacture things, grow crops, transport foodstuffs and other goods, and heat their homes. They do not need Mastercard, iPhones, McDonald's, Google, or Twitter to manufacture things, grow crops, transport foodstuffs and other goods, and heat their homes. I know. It's counterintuitive. /s
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  7689. Is the fact of it more disappointing, or that this was no surprise?
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  7690. Same here. So funny.
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  7691. EXACTLY. The burden of proof of any medical intervention is on the proponent. They need to PROVE the kids themselves will benefit. You never treat minors to benefit adults. Not ever.
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  7692. Of course so much of this stuff is billionaire-backed. It could never make it on its own merits.
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  7693. 💞💗 . . . but you do know that there is a Montenegrin community in Argentina, Gran Chaco? ;)
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  7694.  @MobPenguinstudios  Montenegro in general has an obvious Latin-Europe influence, certainly on the coast.
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  7695.  @teryvoketos2741  If only you were joking.
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  7696. A newscaster can present the facts in the light most favorable OR unfavorable to any politician. He can make moral judgments of a politician's actual conduct, or defend that conduct. What he wasn't supposed to do was make stuff up.
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  7697.  @mattnhormann  I think you'rd right as well. Thanks for the reality check.
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  7698. No excuse. There was no way for that election to end well.
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  7699.  @shne388  That's a know troll. Block it.
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  7700. Tell yourself that.
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  7701. Thank you, Jimmy and Stef, for compiling this file on Biden.
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  7702. On a trivial note, Americans are always harangued about how "stress kills." Here was a man who lost his wife decades ago, knew he was widely reviled, was in poor health, and lived to 91. He's not a mere anecdote. This happens all the time. Why are we systematically lied to, about things great and small? It's not helping.
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  7703.  @moazim1993  It makes him uncomfortable because he's afraid he won't be invited to the right parties. And you know what that means. 💰💰💰
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  7704. Exactly. Thought about this, too.
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  7705.  @anneb889  Staying married while giving your kids video games for Christmas instead of a piano or a book will not make a person academically successful -- though the video game playing kid might fit in better, have more friends, and make more money than the kid who did read. My point was that teen pregnancy and dropping out, and being from a single parent family may all stem from a third cause. Correlation is not evidence of causation. Affluent people have been divorcing and remarrying for years now, or simply living together -- not just for years, but for generations. How are their kids doing?
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  7706. In the US, in rare cases, very young women have been held captive for long periods.
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  7707. The identification is statistical, exactly as you explain. But the odds that it is someone other than the person identified by the DNA analysis are exceedingly low.
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  7708. No one wants to be held individually accountable. That's why we have the corporate structure, including the corporate veil, qualified immunity, and a ton of money paid to whoever can figure out ways to offload risk while reaping rewards. That's Wall Street in a nutshell. But back to little Hunter: agree 💯 +++
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  7709. You couldn't have worked with a considerable amount of people. You must have worked with a considerable number of people. But that's rather vague. How many? And how many should have been fired? Why? I think we have too many contractors. I would rein that in, it's a fad.
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  7710. DNC (thought they) could run absolutely anyone this year, thanks to TRUMP. They don't like him? They imitate him enough.
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  7711. So happy you are fine!! Not surprised, by the way, but . . . (We are all mortal. I know.) (Still, not surprised you're FINE.)
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  7712. Dr. Battacharya was on Lex Fridman's show. He supports targetted vaccines more than most of the so-called dissenters do. MUCH more. The degree of censorship over tiny differences is mind-boggling!
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  7713. Well, I am heartened to see so many good posts here!! I am serious. That is rare now.
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  7714. There were 13 innocent people on death row in Illinois. Not two, not three. Not five. Illinois ended the death penalty right after that.
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  7715. Dr. Grande, please consider doing a video on how to protect yourself from people like Chris. How was his wife to know?
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  7716. Not what she said. I'm not surprised people can't follow legal reasoning. Strikes me as easy but clearly that's unusual.
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  7717.  C Rode  Yeah, the OP was nice. Or was that confusing? Now that's really 😂. Er . . .
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  7718. Is anyone surprised, by ANYTHING, anymore?
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  7719. @Red That doesn't mean I have to believe it. That just means I cannot assert it is false. It's called suspending judgment. Presuming innocence. That sort of thing. You've heard of it I'm sure.
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  7720. Yeah, I can. He pays a lot of attention to people who have lost out over the last several decades, and who no one pays attention to except to make fun of or denounce. He says some true things that everyone should acknowledge but very few people do. And he employs some well-tested techniques of demagoguery only at times -- often, but not too often. He creates scapegoats for the fragile who need some such thing to rid themselves of rage and move on. A 20-year-old kid who is quite average, has certainly done nothing wrong, who would have had a decent union trade 40 years ago, like his father did, and who is literally sleeping on a couch in his parents' basement, is very angry. He needs someone to acknowledge it, lift the blame from his shoulders, and then show him a way OUT. You can be sure he gets zero decent advice, lots of bad advice, and gets yelled at ALL the time. If he sold drugs and got away with it, he'd get more respect. Not good. Enter Jordan Peterson.
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  7721. Just her father. These are not recent immigrants, they're from Pennsylvania. Like Troian Bellisario's father.
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  7722.  @halleffect5439  Ah . . . Someone makes a crass joke, inappropriate at work, in response to a very surprising wardrobe malfunction, then apologizes in writing, promises in writing never to do it again -- you think he is a sex offender of some sort?
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  7723.  @halleffect5439  You're surprised when sensible people think you are insane?
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  7724. you say that like it's a bad thing 😆🤣
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  7725. 2033 headline? Be sure of it.
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  7726.  @Baratheon.  What do you think constitutes "perjury?" I mean, under the law, not on social media. Have you ever read any cases that were prosecuted? No one is ever convicted on the basis of statements that are vague, or lacking in comprehensiveness, or open to more than one reasonable interpretation, or where faulty memory could be a factor -- for example, if she tweeted all the time, and the vast majority of her tweets were about pets or recipes, and she forgot about the handful of offensive ones, or didn't appreciate that they were offensive. Stuff like that isn't a crime, it's a disqualification from having a serious job -- or at least it used to be. What "projection" are you talking about? Where did you pick that up from? Freud was the gaslighter extraordinaire.
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  7727.  @DeanChavayez  In fact, the suit is against a bank he says he hates.
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  7728. Nice
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  7729.  @deadgolfer6345  Yeah, that was a wild non sequitur from that guy. 🤷‍♀️
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  7730.  @sophiejones304  You are very welcome, and thank you for saying so. People will make you feel as though the smallest disruption is lethal, and nothing could be further from the truth. The young are made to feel their lives are over before they've begun. It's vicious. And crazy, just plain crazy. Besides all that, thirty years is plenty in any job. Trust me.
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  7731. That's all? Well no wonder she is desperate. She can't afford a condo in NYC and a condo in San Francisco. She must be crying herself to sleep.
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  7732. So, you knew Scott Peterson? What was your relationship?
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  7733.  @ChariCole-c2t  It was not an appropriate comment at all.
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  7734. Did you want to brag about the handholding? 🤣
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  7735.  @ChariCole-c2t  Stop with the ignorance. You don't get to have your very own facts. She never met Peterson, to do an actual, empirical comparison, even if such vague, impressionistic "feelings" about what he and her one-time date have in common were entirely valid. Maybe you remind someone of a bad person. Is that a basis for judging you? Seriously?
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  7736.  @ChariCole-c2t  Oh, we are creeps now? We don't have the approved biases? Pfft.
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  7737. When did she do that? Oh, that's right, not ever.
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  7738. Gideon Levy was best, as usual.
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  7739.  BxxDxx Hoodoo  So, is Elon Musk going to jail, too? Krystal and Saagar about to lose their jobs, or be "investigated?"
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  7740.  BxxDxx Hoodoo  What I wonder is whether there was illegal naked short selling going on at those hedge funds. If so, THAT will come to light in any prosecution. Ha ha ha ha . . .
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  7741. @FedoraWearinNas  That's what I said. That's a part of the very concept of civil disobedience. The issue is, which consequences?
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  7742. Then why did Trump allow the moratorium to be lifted on Gain of Function research?
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  7743. $600 was under the soon-to-be previous administration.
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  7744. Swiftian
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  7745.  @charlespancamo9771  Bigger point: I HOPE you're right. Just a hope so far, not a conviction.
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  7746. You know what else Pfizer did? In the multi-page fine print statement you were supposed to read before consenting to receive the shot, it attenuated its positive claims. But on the television programs Pfizer sponsored, newscasters made HUGE promises -- safe, effective, conferring full immunity, protecting your family, everything. They also greatly berated anyone skeptical of these claims.
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  7747. Take a look at Clinton v. City of New York, where the Court struck down the line-item veto as unconstitutional. Justice Stevens wrote that opinion, and he was appointed to the Court from the Seventh Circuit, too. The Seventh has this reputation, as being more intellectual overall and less likely to be partisan.
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  7748. Wow, just wow. Does anyone ever confide in you, or is that an idiotic question?
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  7749.  @michaelhalbherr3683  The fact that you are 50 years behind the times.
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  7750.  @michaelhalbherr3683  Following these "rules" no longer makes it likely that "you will do quite well in America," nor does breaking them (any of them, or all) hold a person back -- and we know this now. The cat is out of the bag. It jumped out over a generation ago. Don't get me wrong. I wish it were different. A simple roadmap to a reasonably solid and stable standard of living would be lovely. Alas . . . you are describing an American society and economy that started to fray in the 1970s and was gone by the end of Clinton's two terms.
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  7751.  @michaelhalbherr3683  He didn't give up. No one with that sense of humor ever gives up.
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  7752. Bougie types can easily be duped into turning against a real working class couple, like Jimmy and Stef. It's sad, you know? I have to pity Kyle for that.
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  7753. Oh, batman for president. Now I get it.
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  7754. So they were almost there forty years ago.
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  7755. Have we EVER had a worse political class? Trump has said if he loses, it was rigged. And now this.
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  7756.  @jgalt308  The Ninth Circuit just summarily rejected his latest appeal as meritless.
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  7757. 💯
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  7758.  @jinndoe7068  And it goes hand in hand with the "concern" for committee appointments. We're not past this yet? I guess there haven't been enough deaths, suicides, and evictions. /s
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  7759. 6:34 and 6:53
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  7760. 😂😂😂
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  7761. The Westboro Baptist Church case, where funerals of fallen service members were picketed and it was ruled free speech, established how far away they must stay. If they come any closer, they can be arrested. Your point makes sense to me.
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  7762. ​ @paaklapi How would you correct this?
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  7763.  @paaklapi  Those are slogans, not suggestions. You could say that about anyone you don't agree with.
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  7764. @lachlanbell8390  No, just talking about jurisdiction doesn't make you right. All nine Justices take jurisdiction into account always.
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  7765. @lachlanbell8390  It's based on federal statute, as usual. It's our agency.
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  7766. @DeSmith-o4b  No, start with Court Listener and read the complaint.
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  7767. The ruling was based on an arcane matter of jurisdiction known as standing. Exactly what this means substantively is not evident yet. But yeah, this is bad.
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  7768. In a society that has had countless mass shootings, you support a minor carrying a big weapon? I want to know who gave him the gun and who encouraged him to get involved.
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  7769. Trump expanded the use of drones. This almost never goes down, only up.
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  7770.  @BillMcGirr  Did anyone suggest any prior or current president was scads better?
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  7771. France has been for months. See Aude Lancelin's channel Quartier General.
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  7772. Stand-up comics are themselves a marginalized group, with a "bohemian" lifestyle and years during which they are up all night and asleep during the day. Chappelle had trans friends long before it was a hashtag. This gets under his skin, and it shows.
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  7773. THIS. The man needs money. I don't like his views, but I can't help feeling for him as a person. His family was dealt a bad hand through no fault of their own. Maybe I'm too generous, considering.
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  7774.  Dana Chapin  You're right, but his daughter has had issues from a young age, and one of his neices (or cousins, of that generation) died from something similar. As ssp said, though, a lot of self-dramatizing for sure.
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  7775.  @sspbrazil  Love Gabor Mate.
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  7776.  @amandabeaty1492  Show me where OP said anything about psychosis or mental illness.
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  7777. As if all of the things he describes are not dangerously unsanitary for a patient like him, or anyone for that matter.
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  7778.  @nottobebelieved8608  I guess a trans girl or a trans boy has to be attacked before it counts.
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  7779.  @davidmun1601  The way that people go crazy about some of these gurus blows my mind. Honestly, what are they prepared to believe if he tells them to? Jump if he says jump? Peterson has been putting out the weirdest tweets that don't even sound like him, compared with when he speaks in person, on his show, or in interviews. His show is sometimes very good, when he deigns to be thoughtful. I see that, and I'm far left.
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  7780. @benjaminhundley9093  I'm a lawyer. I think you're mad because you started out by attacking me, and continued with little digs, while I stuck to THE ISSUE, and of course knew about some good things Peterson has said. I even said I consider that his recent tweeting seems out of character (which it does). I think you're mad because I do know my stuff and I clearly DO NOT criticize Peterson when he's right. (Why would I? That would be weird.) Look, you can start showing some class, too. I haven't occupied the field. No one has. Knowledge isn't lost by sharing. P. S. My parents met in a refugee camp and had friends in France, so I lived there as a young adult. I don't care who cares or doesn't. I'm not taking a poll -- or selling Big Macs, or the equivalent, even though people still get rich that way. P. P. S. Blocked from my feed. Tootles.
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  7781. ​ @boomiron 👏👏👏👏👏
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  7782. @Nanno00  I agree that there have been some horrendous reports, not to mention cruel and tasteless jokes, but this report was not one of them. (Nor do I believe the Princess is responsible for the mistake, actually.)
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  7783. People who watch independent media are not surprised, but try telling an ordinary person. They probably won't believe you.
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  7784. You know, Dr. Campbell, I thought I could watch. You're right. I can't. I did give my email to obtain the pdf of this article. Thank you very much for your work. Oh, and P. S. Please take a break. Please.
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  7785. ​ @samscreations4717 I read that they were found by accident in the course of a separate missing person investigation.
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  7786.  @amiesparkle00  They initially had a slow rollout of the vaccine, and there was not a high percentage vaccinated during the Olympics, or for the major part of this epidemic. Once they had an opportunity to get vaccinated, that was done very efficiently, yes.
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  7787.  @ablebaker8664  You aren't a lawyer (yet). I can tell. 😊
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  7788. @ablebaker8664  You saw this, right? A male need not be as bad as Gino. He just has to be someone whose tenure was challenged for a cognizable reason, and who nevertheless got all the procedures to which he was legally entitled. Harvard can't be mesmerized by Badness, no matter how understandable that may be.
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  7789.  @ablebaker8664  That's a great essay by Orwell. I've taught it, too.
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  7790. @ablebaker8664  I understand it completely. I worked in the area. You still haven't read the court docs, have you? I don't have any fantasies or wishes. You're crazed about this case, so you think everyone is? I'm just angry about the censorship here. When it comes to Gino v. Harvard, I see no good guy in this picture. Do you? Then that proves you didn't read what the judge said. The judge sounds like the one good guy here, actually, and he does very careful work . . . unlike this video. The Memorandum Opinion was a pleasure to read. It contains a nice, succinct review of contract law as well.
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  7791. @RIbigDave  Just the opposite. Laws cover everyone equally, from Jeffrey Epstein to Jeffrey Dahmer to this woman. (At this rate, the principle won't last.) What's really puzzling is the apparent assumption that Harvard is blameless. Better yet, read the opinion and tell me whether the judge is "defending the indefensible." Or is something else going on, possibly? Something that might be worthwhile to understand, something a person might need to know about someday, etc.?
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  7792.  @RIbigDave  Yawn. Blocked.
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  7793. ​@loring5784 He was a Westerner, was he not?
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  7794. @katyt7470  I love how I was just censored. We can't even discuss literature. Worry about that. EDIT: testing, to see whether it's still up
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  7795. @katyt7470  When Jane Eyre came out, it was regarded as a profoundly anti-Christian book. If you missed that, read it again. Jane wasn't seen as someone who was simply self-sacrificing but also as impelled by deep eroticism. This isn't the contemporary view. This is what people thought when the book came out. It was published around 1847, roughly, and by 1848, revolutions were springing up all over Europe. Jane Eyre drew more denunciations in the contemporary journals in England as being part of the kind of thinking that resulted in radicalism. The 19th century was the golden age of the novel, and people read books differently. They tried to decipher symbols and implied messages, figure out how much of the author's life or psychology was hinted at in the book, and so forth. People were shocked by the Brontë sisters.
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  7796.  @niconine268  💯 Bizarre.
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  7797. Looks like they will have to crash the economy?
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  7798. ​ @MrFishperson No,they are not next. Pfft.
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  7799. No she didn't.
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  7800. @RavenheartIndustries  No, she pointed to the well-known résumé study, which has been replicated many times, as evidence of discrimination and then asked for alternatives to DEI. Not kinda-sorta. Exactly that.
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  7801. Matt Stoller ROCKS here! Super!
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  7802.  @paulweeldreyer7457  Geno side? It's a way to avoid scents err 🐑 .
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  7803. ​ @digitalzomb That's your answer? Facts don't care about your feelings.
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  7804. Nothing done? Stefanik is fundraising. Fundraising is Job 1.
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  7805. Yup, this could work.
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  7806. ​ @bobsch-gd6ze No one who helps him should be licensed to practice medicine ever again.
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  7807. Starting on the first Wednesday in November 2016 to never let this happen again might have been wise.
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  7808. You're being kind. Someone else beat me to that I see. Maybe you're just naturally kind.
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  7809.  @joeterzio7175  Why? She said she was vaccinated and that she believes we need a "multi-pronged approach." She supports more testing. Do you object to testing? I WANT more testing. Much more.
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  7810. We were given an entirely different timeline when this happened. We were told that they separated for five days when Bryan flew to Florida to clean out a storage locker and raise some funds. Then we were told that there was another incident where Gabby and Bryan were in a restaurant and he was being aggressive and she was crying. This was a very short time before she was killed.
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  7811. Because he can.
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  7812. Always consider the possibility of false flag.
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  7813. 1. Let's see the petition. 2. Let's understand the vaccine-derived polio cases. I don't think those were from vaccines in use in America.
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  7814. He won't.
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  7815. Sums it up perfectly.
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  7816. False. She is the realist here. It's all about the money, all the time. Try facing the fact.
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  7817. Cancel her contract? LOL
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  7818. @alexanderflood1462  Ask for help? Treacherous. I know people who, at their lowest point, were mistreated when they did. I was just thinking of a student I had, Iraq combat veteran, anti-war but rationally so, who had a grave problem at a job where everyone had high-level security clearance and the rules were not being enforced in ways that really matter. When he asked me for advice, obviously I gave it a lot of thought, from several different perspectives, and acknowledged that only he would know what was best. I wasn't competent to tell him. I did write out my thoughts in a long email. You know what other people told him? Absolutely thoughtless, accusatory slogans: "If you quit, the bad guys win." "If you stay, you could end up in trouble with them." Complete rot. No respect, and of course, they came up with these slogans without listening to what he had to say, much less thinking before speaking. If that were the only story . . . I know people who were emotionally abused after a cancer diagnosis. Seven, to be precise -- in two cases, the mothers of pediatric cancer patients suffered emotional abuse. People are at the end of their rope for a reason. On a positive note, Harvard professor of psychiatry Christopher Palmer was once homeless, was once harmed by a poor therapist, and had a mother who suffered from schizophrenia. Well, you can tell by what he is today that he worked his way up. He is so dedicated, and has helped people with intractable mental illness. Finding the RIGHT people is hard, but possible, and worth the struggle. Finding the right book helps. It's a connection to a kindred spirit. It's a start.
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  7819. True, and scary.
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  7820.  @gcoffey223  Plus that's doubtful. Effective taxes in LA County are under 1% of assessed value. Maybe they average around 0.75% or something like that. Anyway, thanks so much for your contribution to the discussion. /s
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  7821. 🤣🤣🤣
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  7822.  @jillyjoan8416  LOL, this!
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  7823.  @pbworld7858  And now we know why this will not end. :/
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  7824.  @nicwelch  How is she "literally lying?" Also, we don't fire people for being "the type" who would commit misdeeds. We fire them for committing misdeeds.
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  7825.  @felixmidas2020  Which is why she was not richly rewarded for her glaring errors . . . "Oh wait." These are all accidents. /s
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  7826. ​ @steveagola9317 Who reads anymore? Are you paid to read? /s
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  7827. @tamdang8346  Exactly. But the worst part is what you see here: these people are SO easily led. Rile them up, and they can't think. Any skilled politician can make them fall for anything, especially with bullying tactics. People love to see someone privileged be bullied. And they'll give up constitutional rights for the thrill. (Speaking of thrills, I thought Stefanik was just a little too enthusiastic about being able to repeat those words.)
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  7828.  @awen777  People who are willing to accept provocateurs played a role in 1/6 will deny that at least some of the George Floyd demonstrations that degenerated into violence had government agents provoking that violence. Even Jimmy Dore presented evidence early on that there were provocateurs in the George Floyd demonstrations. Briahna Joy Gray reported on the fact that BLM started a foundation and then misused funds, cutting off the actual ordinary people who support the basic idea -- including Kyle Rittenhouse's older sister. Including Kyle himself, for that matter. Everything we see is falsified and monetized and looted, and people who could have understanding for one another are driven to hate each other. This is deliberate.
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  7829. All right, let's be candid. Is anyone surprised? What did you all think would happen?
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  7830.  @loslingos1232  I agree he was in the wrong to have a gun. Absolutely. That this is up for discussion at all is catastrophic.
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  7831.  @rusted8157  No one said that. No one thought that, either. Perhaps you can provide some insight as to why doing the very same thing for the better part of four decades, which is what brought us here, should be repeated one more time. C'mon. Give it a go.
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  7832. Nothing that destroys the ability of a child to become a parent one day should be permitted except in the most unusual circumstances and after everything else has been attempted to treat their dysphoria. Why shouldn't a girl who wears combat boots and has a crew cut -- and does it because she feels she should have been a boy -- be able to become a mom one day? This amounts to prepubescent sterilization of people with "non-normative" psychologies.
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  7833. I love Chomsky.
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  7834. @utah_koidragon7117  Well, petition your Congress members and Senators. They have constitutional lawyers on staff, or they have ready access to such lawyers, to assist in drafting the statute. Go for it. That's clearly your right.
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  7835. Never underestimate the risk of false flags. It may be tiny, but it's not zero.
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  7836.  @elijahlees8655  Sure. EUA and full approval are the same thing. I mean, I have to sign pages of release forms for a flu shot every year. /s
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  7837.  @Holipsism  Well, I kinda like Sam. And this was so bad. Okay. I'm being dumb.
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  7838. Remember when the Libertad, a ship in the Argentine navy, was seized in Ghana by a HEDGE FUND? Argentina remembers. It has applied to join the BRICS. Wonder whether Ghana wants to, too? Ethiopia and Egypt, check.
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  7839.  @cranberryeater7459  The mass hysteria a couple of mass hysterias ago, before this one.
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  7840. He was grateful, and supportive, until they turned on him. Why did they?
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  7841. Of course money can make you happy. The cow was not free. Neither is food, shelter, or a bass guitar.
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  7842. ​​ @TheBeefSlayer False. In America, there is no general duty to report crimes. Testimony in court can only be compelled by subpoena and immunity. Otherwise, you must appear but can invoke the Fifth Amendment. Don't get used to not being free. We already aren't free. Don't keep going down that road.
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  7843. 17:28. It's a racist trope to claim a people's children are precociously dangerous.
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  7844. Well, the president who said "grab them by the ****" also made sure "they" lose rights over their bodies.
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  7845. That's why he's rich.
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  7846.  @rdbt292  You'd almost think it's on purpose!
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  7847. Not one excuse was made.
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  7848. Any of us can click the link to the Australian government website and see for ourselves that AZ was discontinued three weeks ago due to a serious side effect directly attributed to the vaccine by Australian health authorities: thrombosis with thrombocytopenia (TTS).
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  7849. Why don't the Smart People and the Cool Kids know this law is unconstitutional? It sounds like I'm kidding, but actually . . .
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  7850. A third of the country has a favorable view of Dems? How?
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  7851. Are you doing something nice for yourself? Just checking in. ❤
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  7852.  @busTedOaS  This video gives an excellent explanation of the logic of Section 230, and of the First Amendment issue. The government CANNOT use a pruvate entity as its cat's paw to effect censorship without anyone suspecting it is really the government behind it. Then there is also the issue of monopolies of means of communication. That's separate, though, and a harder case to make for declaring things like FB, Twitter, YT, etc., First Amendment fora. It is worth your time to listen to the whole thing.
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  7853. @LividCoffee01  Maybe you could end your actual point at word 12? Without adding ad hominem.
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  7854. 💯
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  7855.  @rushshukla4636 Nothing visible to me is clear in the least. I doubt very much that you can see all I wrote. This is the New YouTube.
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  7856.  @rushshukla4636  Where do you see that I started attacking anyone?
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  7857. Actually, the Five Eyes are a much bigger problem in the world, yes, you're right. "Upon further reflection . . . "
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  7858. ​ @pills4bill Tolstoy, actually . . . for his characters. The Russians consider Pushkin the father of their modern literature. Under the law in many US states, Pushkin was 🖤. I'd be more direct, but you know about the cents or 🛳 here.
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  7859. After the first incident, 12:07 why did she say yes again? 12:51
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  7860. False dichotomy. Both have fascist features.
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  7861. Oh, this was pretty bad. But you were right, kudos.
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  7862.  @jwilsonhandmadeknives2760  The Great Land of Personal Responsibility just had over 100,000 drug overdose deaths since the pandemic was declared. And another school shooting. And some of the worst obesity rates in the world. This jazz is not working.
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  7863. What I found: The CARES Act called for a 20% increase in reimbursement when a hospital cared for a patient with COVID-19; the increase applied only to Medicare recipients and the uninsured. The primary diagnosis could be something else. 20% could be much more than $13,000.
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  7864. Germany, with fewer people, has over 77,000 deaths.
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  7865. @hybridblack  Well, the fact that UK media (including conservatives) and German media (including conservatives) saw it that way makes no difference? Look, Europeans may be more capable of recognizing it, OR too prone to see it where it doesn't exist, for obvious reasons, but to act as though this is a stunning take is ridiculous. Niall is European. Maybe you can't do salutes like that over there. They don't have a First Amendment.
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  7866. He's one slippery little lizard, isn't he?
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  7867.  @utah_koidragon7117  YES they do. He lied so much in this interview that I spotted it right away, without any research.
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  7868. Huh. It would be more in Newsom's character to run equivocally.
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  7869. No one is being honest about how uneducated high school graduates are. That's the "elephant in the room," forgive the cliche. The real crime is that much of college is a continuation of the same.
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  7870. @SeiyaSoiya-un4jj  Notice that none of those groups are European. They are not assimilated and no one tries to assimilate them. Americans know they can't destroy these people with the usual treatment they dish out to fellow Americans. By the same token, those groups either know coming in, or learn very quickly, that only money matters here. So, they quite admirably devote themselves to making money, and maintain their roots with their home countries. The rest of their lives are lived elsewhere, at the very least spiritually. Try telling an Indian not to speak Hindi at home. Etc.
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  7871. @murtadha96  I wonder which of my posts was invisible. Another feature of American culture . . .
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  7872. ​ @LetholdusKaspyr Prosecutors usually have immunity from suit for their prosecutorial decisions.
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  7873. ​@richardgallagher4880 You call that a debate? My how standards have fallen through the sub-sub-basement
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  7874. ​@@JetLi-zt5qh Is everyone reporting these events?
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  7875.  @DIVISIONINCISION  What fails to work for most people is a policy failure. Example: if fewer than 10% have enough saved to finance a secure retirement by themselves, then saving for one's own retirement by definition does not work as a policy. Policies are supposed to work for the vast majority who met their basic obligations, as proposed by those policies. When you do A, B, and C, you are supposed to achieve D. Not A, B, and C, plus a lot of luck.
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  7876.  @SuperLKL The court reporter made a typo. Is everyone as high as Depp now?
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  7877. Whew. I'm glad we cleared that up.
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  7878.  @Botie2  Thank you.
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  7879. @user-xn9zj3yd7u  That wasn't my point. She is a law professor. She made a misleading statement about the law concerning the use of character evidence. What does that do but allow those who want to get her fired a foothold? Is everyone going to be overwrought now? Is emotion the watchword? I have to prove my bona fides? You don't trust that I oppose g____cide unless I pretend she made no error in what she said?
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  7880. Don't overreact. Just explain that these are deeply troubled and confused people, and not to say anything to upset them because they are very fragile and may end up in a ward. Don't treat them as if they had a point, much less the power to confuse your son. He knows what he is.
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  7881.  @sh.4409  Whew, am I glad to hear that. Perfect reaction. If any child gets in trouble for laughing, then by all means retain a lawyer.
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  7882.  @lolacookie453  Oh please. If there's money in it for them, they are so on board.
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  7883.  @deanmurphy7307  Everybody whacked out on this case is projecting their own tragedies on these two strangers. I've never seen more mass psychosis than over the last few years.
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  7884. The woman is SUING. Brie supports the lawsuit and explained why. She is right.
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  7885. @lizzieb6311  Do you actually not know that if someone DEFAMES you, you have an interest in seeing them work again? See, that way, you can sue them in defamation and get a meaningful recovery. Because then, they have money to pay you. Weird how that works. 🤷‍♀️
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  7886. @lizzieb6311  On the contrary, I agree. But court also serves as vindication, and money can be judiciously put to use to repair a reputation, and maintain a decent way of life while still suffering from reputational damage. Do you seriously think this woman's whole life was ruined? Do you always catastrophize like that?
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  7887. @lizzieb6311  You just defamed me, lol. Of course, this isn't my real name. (You really can't handle facts anymore, can you? You just tried to do what you pretended you're against.) Kim Iversen just made a good point on her program tonight: even a convicted felon should have an opportunity to earn a living. She developed the point in reference to the demonetizing of Russell Brand's videos on YouTube. If his content does not violate any TOS, then what YouTube censors think of him personally should not matter. He does not represent them. As for Dove (and Ben and Jerry's, etc., also Unilever), boycott them if you want. No one is telling you what to buy.
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  7888. @lizzieb6311  No one wants to be defamed in the first place, but if it happens, should the person who did it be hounded out of jobs? For how long? Forever? Instead of offering some sort of meaningful restitution? That could include a public apology. What is your idea of right and wrong, anyway?
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  7889. Russians are Eurasian, not "pure" European. Look at who the BRICS are, including the new members. Russia is the only predominately European country. There's a reason for that.
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  7890. The rest of the real world has health care.
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  7891. Consider doing something to become more mature. For example, get more sleep, eat well, exercise, and read serious things. You have real writers. Spend some time with them. I'm serious. Bertrand Russell comes instantly to mind, but of course he is one of many.
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  7892. It is illegal to use deadly force in defense of mere property, everywhere. Lethal force is justified if you put any person at risk of imminent physical harm. It is never legal for defense of mere property. Social ills, etc., are irrelevant. The age of the perpetrator is irrelevant. Whether he put a person in danger of physical harm is the only question that matters. It is a bright line. We have a lot of gun owners in America, and this isn't common knowledge? Wow, just wow. Also, this is exactly why a carjacking, or a home invasion while there are people in the house, can be met with lethal force. It doesn't matter if the assailant turns out to be unarmed, or was just looking to burgle and thought the house was empty, or was only a juvenile. There is no question about this. It's called self-defense for a reason.
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  7893. The one time the dude was right . . . wow.
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  7894. She went straight to the issue of criminalization, where she does have a point, instead of dealing with what Charlamagne actually said and acknowledging that he's right.
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  7895. Listen, this turned out to be like the pregnant little ten year old girl, that Fox News claimed didn't exist. I thought the tweet was shocking, until I learned the woman's own family died at the hands of British imperialists. That changes the picture. Your quips don't count. You can try to make them count. They don't.
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  7896. We do have some slavery back, in the prison system.
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  7897. @Michael Sprague The comparison is between May 2019, May 2020, and May 2021 . . . ABC News: "Gas prices hit $3 a gallon for 1st time in nearly 7 years . . . "
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  7898.  @michaelcre8  PERFECT analysis. Make a stand-alone post.
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  7899. Well, but she's a woman. And a mother. No, not that kind of mother . . . (See Katy Halper on "wokewashing.")
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  7900.  @1LSWilliam  Now what do we do? If we just say Nancy is a mother, that's not woke.
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  7901.  @yittmashups  See, there you go being mean again. Putin put you up to it. /s
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  7902.  @amandap9332  I didn't mean it literally, not in the least -- though I appreciate that I was ambiguous, this time.
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  7903. Worth $60 million after you subtract her debts? Are you sure that is net?
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  7904.  @kathiebenson4990  Very few people do at 21, unless they inherited a trust.
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  7905.  @michaelpyro  We all pay property taxes, which fund the schools. They are embedded in rent.
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  7906.  @dejavu9605  I hope you don't inadvertently advocate hush-hush. That is what protects the predators, every time. They're wily. Evil generally is.
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  7907. A man who micro doses and claims he was "tricked" into permitting his son to transition should not be anywhere near government power. I don't want him deciding anything for me, or affecting my life in any way whatsoever.
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  7908. When you put it like that, very believable.
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  7909. ​ @2degucitas  Educated people know how to consult real medical journals and interpret statistics. Looks like kollage is gut 4 smthin'
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  7910. You know this . . . How?
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  7911.  @dloesch  Well, because, unfortunately, what we need now is a multivariate analysis, and those are very hard to do. I'm serious. I do NOT trust the drug companies to do them, because too many judgment calls must be made, and I expect them all to be made in one direction. Too many things have changed: the virus, the lockdowns, the stress, and then the vaccines. It could be that having the virus, then a vaccine is the most dangerous -- and young people were the most likely to be asymptomatic, and there were not enough tests available in early 2020, and the young were forced to be vaccinated to come back to SCHOOL or participate in normal life. So it's obvious more than one factor is involved. This should never have been done in the first place, even for a drug with no known side effects. It was an EUA drug, and most young people had no reason to chose to take it. It should have always been a choice, for everyone. Vaccinating those who had recovered from COVID when it was never tested on that group was particularly unethical.
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  7912.  @mariesaqueton143  Evidence?
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  7913.  @cozytown5540  Your drive-by comments provide no evidence you watched it. Or, maybe watched and couldn't follow?
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  7914.  Harald Blåtand  Not at all. The first student framed a legitimate question. This is diminishing returns for me at this point. It's not even a fun break from the law book I was reading. That was riveting by comparison.
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  7915.  @EffortlessIt  Yes, Bannon certainly has fascist leanings. He doesn't hide them.
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  7916. There has also been a lot of fraud. Notice how every supposed "solution" is more or less dubious for one simple reason: it has no solid historical record of having worked consistently and well anywhere. But one thing the "solutions" all have in common is that someone will make money. True of charter schools, true of DEI "instructors."
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  7917. A Harris/Hunter ticket. Why not?
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  7918.  @nocturnaljoe9543  Or the ones defaming Julian Assange.
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  7919. Well, the West wants that oil. How do you not understand??!
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  7920.  @juliettesthoughts1031  Money can't make up for *this.* This is literally as bad as it gets. His kids hold no blame in this mess.
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  7921. So charge them with that. Sounds easy to me.
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  7922. The idea is always to offload risk to the people least able to manage it. Nothing will be asked of Bill Gates, but YOU might be swarmed, shamed, and canceled if you drive across town for your modest job.
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  7923. ​@heraklit8.170 Benefits of diversity? ALL of the musical forms and dance forms first created in the Americas, that could never have been created anywhere else, and which have swept the entire world, have African roots. All. No blues, no rock; no rock, no Beatles. Etc.
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  7924. Twitter was the only way to reach her parents? GIVE ME A BREAK. What did kids do before anti-social media wormed its way into everyone's brains? Claudia is a minor. Minors shouldn't even have these accounts. They aren't prepared for an instantly global and virtually perpetual record of their YOUNG lives that they can never control or shed. Giving them this platform is abusing them -- for MONEY.
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  7925. When I heard about this, I thought it was a spoof. Then I remembered, Nancy.
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  7926.  @Mister_Durden  GTA? That's the name of a video game. It is illegal to use deadly force in defense of mere property, everywhere. Only if the kids put a person in imminent danger of physical harm would it be legal to shoot them. Inform yourself.
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  7927. What harm, exactly? The US has had cases of incarcerated trans women assaulting the other inmates, and pregnancies have occurred. This is a human rights issue.
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  7928. I thought, "I feel unsafe," trumped every other concern? What happened?
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  7929. Great point.
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  7930.  @tomk2720  Funny, he got his doctorate there. Did they later fire him, maybe? They do that a lot.
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  7931.  @miller-joel  Possibly, but this is ingenious. Worth trying.
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  7932. Unless you can pierce the armor and convert enough locals to your regime. (Division of the locals, standing alone, will work for a while.) Again, impossible in Afghanistan. But most of any foreign power's influence over another country depends on having collaborators.
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  7933. Harris is one of the most deeply cynical climbers of her time. She shows what extreme cynicism can do. PLENTY.
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  7934. Law enforcement should consider every option besides shooting and killing. Police are not an occupying force.
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  7935. Stop criticizing yourself for being furious. If you stop trying so hard to suppress anger, the anger will go away on its own much faster. It is based on a strong desire to be vigilant and protect yourself from another round. That is because you don't trust them. That is wise, you shouldn't trust them. Now allow yourself to slowly find a way to deal with that lack of trust, one that is best for you. Remember: You did not do this. This was done to you.
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  7936. Full indemnity + full patent protection + mandates + lies about seriousness of the illness, origins, safety and effectiveness of vaccines and treatments . . . What has to happen?
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  7937.  @charliekowittmusic  Why did your derogatory post stay up, and my factually accurate one, citing an official government agency position (the same one JD quoted correctly), get removed?
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  7938. IOW, not exactly.
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  7939.  @exjehooberdubexpiobeezleeb6269  Perfect
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  7940.  @daddyaf945  All but your statements are shadowed. We are SO FREE!! It's wonderful. I wanted to see the others. Oh well.
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  7941.  @alostcause4035  You are trying to reason with someone impervious to reason.
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  7942. Not only that, but many, many black people are more beautiful than you or I. Not to mention better musicians.
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  7943.  @sophien5416  Excellent point, hard to contemplate. My GOD.
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  7944. We need to find out whether the numbers from China are accurate. If they are, we MUST find out why. We must demand answers.
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  7945. Mandates make people more mistrusrful, for good reason.
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  7946.  @robinsss  NO lawyer ever cites the Declaration of Independence to a judge. He might to a jury, for its persuasive power. He never will cite it to a court as law, unless he is so clueless as to be objectively incompetent.
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  7947. That was not a question that could be answered yes or no. Amazing how everyone loves bullying and falls for grandstanding. No one in this picture showed principles, character, or intelligence, and these are supposed to be leaders.
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  7948.  @heelercs  A mob has formed. Mobs don't care about truth. The truth is, this is a defamation case. That means that if the article, which alludes to Depp as committing "domestic abuse," is true, then he cannot win. Domestic abuse includes emotional abuse, as long as it is more than trivial or occasional, and not just a brief response to provocation. IOW, as long as it's substantial enough to be traumatic to anyone, it is not a lie. It does not matter if she was abusive as well. It does not matter that she has a bad character. This isn't a criminal case or a divorce.
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  7949.  @heelercs  No worries. The mobs are forming and switching targets too fast for my peace of mind. OTOH, this will blow over. Remember how we were supposed to suspend the 4th an 5th Amendments for Gabby Petito?
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  7950.  @heelercs  Of course there is ample evidence they were both abusing each other, and it was an extremely dysfunctional relationship. This was already developed in one court, in the UK. Of course there are men who are not abusive to every partner, just certain ones. Everyone knows them. A friend I had in high school was like that, and he went into counseling on his own. It turned out that he had been an abused child, and something about that woman brought out a surge of anger. He worked very hard on it, got married much later, and worked hard on his marriage. I acknowledge that, even though years later he was mean to me. (I wouldn't date him in high school. High school was a sad time for him, I found out later.)
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  7951. ​@Georgie16 I do. In the 1980s in France, they slashed the abortion rate by a simple policy: every woman had to sign a declaration that she was a mother in distress, then she had to be asked whether the abortion was for financial reasons. If she said yes, she was sent to a social worker who explained all the state assistance she was entitled to, and sent home with a packet of information to think it over. Of course if she decided to continue, the state paid 70% of the cost of the abortion. (Pregnancy was covered 100%, including a clothing allowance.)
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  7952. ​ @shocktnc Read up on it before you make up your mind.
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  7953. Just think. This is the best we can do.
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  7954. Robert Francis Kennedy Jr
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  7955. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Jimmy, that was great.
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  7956.  @Jcholla  He wasn't just some guy. He was FBI. Come on. WHO was it who made up the story that Hunter's laptop was "straight out of the Russian playbook?"
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  7957. It requires an explanation for sure.
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  7958.  @DICARLOPRODUCTIONS  And I'm not allowed to tell you the reasons, all well-documented.
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  7959. @dimomarkov8937  I see. Well, I taught community college, as a sort of public service, for 17 years, and never once encountered radicalized youth. In the US, the races are separate; you will almost never see an integrated wedding, for example, unless the people are all very rich. Classes are separate, and people at different income levels don't know how those above them or below them actually live. In fact, most think more is just more --- and they all want more, so why wouldn't a billionaire? Romanticizing Soviets? Good luck meeting anyone who knows the Red Army defeated Hitler, or that any Soviet did anything of any value whatever ( Exhibit A: Arkhipov, which would really puzzle them, given that only Americans are "true individuals"). There are more people who vaguely believe in Hitler's racial hierarchy than have the least radical proclivities. The English and Germans just somehow seem better, you know --- cooler --- than, say, Slovenians or Poles. People who don't succeed (and success equals money; my god, truth = money) tend to engage in one form or another of self-flagellation and self-loathing. The latest is cross-sex hormone abuse in older teens who never once before felt like they should have been born the opposite sex. I can't think of anything less radical than risking the ability to be a birth parent someday because you don't fulfill the latest "standard" for masculinity or femininity. The Internet isn't real.
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  7960. He could have served. Oliver Stone did.
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  7961. He says his "team" did. Or something. He's not big on precision, he just likes to push people around and bully them.
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  7962. There is enough accurate information about Microsoft and, especially, Bill Gates that is horrendous. Adding in lies, exaggerations, and conspiracy theories is the perfect cover. George Bush used this as a cover, and a way to evade questions. He'd just produce that smug grin and say "conspiracy theory," and never have to account for his policies. Everyone should read up on Gates from reliable sources. There are sound reasons to mistrust him.
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  7963. ​ @AgxntAqua Right. It looks like they did break the confidentiality laws.
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  7964. @NickyCherado-nv6gg Precisely the point. You are not required to open your door to the police. That is precisely what you need to know.
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  7965.  @imhereforitall9218  That's what I was told was the reason why police came to my door.
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  7966. @imhereforitall9218  The point is, I did not open. I called the police, and found out the people banging on my door WERE the police.
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  7967. @imhereforitall9218  This suggestion has NOTHING to do with "demonizing" the victim. He opened the door because he was trusting. He opened the door because he had only consciousness of innocence on his own part. He opened the door to evil because he was good. I didn't, because I am appropriately jaded.
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  7968. Copyright problem
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  7969. Not so obvious . . .
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  7970. If they paid attention to all the times he changes his tune within hours, they would have an idea by now.
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  7971.  @skylerchase1300  If something is true, it doesn't matter who said it. I don't like Tucker, or any of the rest of them. So what? Then what Tucker says is suddenly false? REALLY? Talk about proving his snow flakery rants correct! No thank you.
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  7972. Marxism was pretty good at defeating Nazism and rising from the ashes in a remarkable and unexpected way. It was pretty good at defeating colonialism, too. It was good at things you might either take for granted, or imagine were easy once they were accomplished.
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  7973. This is a "meeting?"
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  7974.  @southsideschooloffinancial4059  I'm the same. I can't bear lying. My parents had heavy accents, so whenever they opened their mouths, American whites assumed they were lying. Made me allergic to it. But the technique I described has been in use for at least five years. I was genuinely afraid for my safety at my job, but it was before hashtag metoo, so it didn't count yet. Even basic protocol to keep me safe that was in their rules was not followed. Oh well.
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  7975.  @deadgolfer6345  THANK YOU You would think that people who decry lying would not lie themselves. You would think that defenders of democracy would hold free and fair primaries. Okay, okay . . . Insert 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  7976. You mean Elon didn't find this?
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  7977. ​@muzzybeat 💯 And Jimmy explained this. Why don't people understand it?
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  7978. Oh come on, she was right. Who was training for national or international competitions? Or even state championships? Not to mention NBA, NFL, Olympics . . . This is starting to sound like a participation trophy. Get over yourself.
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  7979.  @scratchpenny  The more I think about this, yeah -- the only issue is whether the curriculum is sufficiently rigorous to be approved by the College Board for full AP credit. Why has no one addressed that? Teachers want to teach, students want to take it -- the role of government is truth in advertising, not censorship based on viewpoint. Whether it is really AP credit-worthy is Florida's business, and nothing beyond that. Same for Biden. How does he know the course is solid, and no kid will take it, do well, and still end up with no AP credits? Did he check it out?
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  7980. I wondered who wrote this? A known troll, who else?
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  7981. You mean, not coming back in the next two decades? Whoever tells you this is no friend of yours, and doesn't know what they are talking about. Get some second opinions. People heal.
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  7982. Question: how common is Asymptomatic, Mild, and Moderate COVID for each age group? By mild, I mean fevers under 100.5, feeling better in a few days. By moderate, I mean nothing worse than a bad flu, no fear of complications, you just stay home and sleep. Interesting how we are all told OVER AND OVER about deaths. How common are the clearly nonlethal cases? How common are the mild cases? WHY DON'T WE KNOW?
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  7983. Olayemi: "It's not lazy. It's misinformation."
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  7984. 6:22 "always point out misinformation where you find it"
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  7985.  @anonymousdontbotheraboutit2895  Qualified immunity is not a doctrine of criminal law. You know what a precedential case is, correct? You know where to find some?
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  7986. @Larpy McLarperstein Free markets have always devolved into capitalist concentrations of monopoly power that operate anti-democratically. Look up all the stuff Adam Smith warned us against, because he saw it as potentially undermining the operation of free markets -- the rentier class, for starters. It's a checklist of what we have now. Or, look at what John Locke thought about the privatization of "the commons." Every economic thinker who endorsed democracy posited some form of collective ownership and collective control of certain essential means of production. Today, the only thing not subject to privatization is the air we breathe.
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  7987.  @Cpt.CoffinNails  The only people taking sides are the ones who are reliving their own relationships through projecting them on this spectacle of strangers' lives. This is a defamation case. He already lost a better one. Every defamation case chips away at free speech, and asks the court to set aside free speech. The norm is always the First Amendment, the burden is on a plaintiff to prove it does not apply here. He could have written an autobiography instead, an instant best seller. Instead he did this.
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  7988. Look up the lawsuits that Tesla has faced for how it treats its people. If he has changed, wonderful --- prove it. Talk is cheap.
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  7989. 💯, Jessica. PERFECT.
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  7990. Ha, ha. YEAH
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  7991. That would be quite a panel.
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  7992. It's not evident what Ukrainians themselves want. All opposition parties to the left of Zelensky have been banned. There are credible reports that the ultra-right have threatened Zelensky's life if he were to attempt to negotiate without their approval.
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  7993. My position: Maxwell belongs in jail, and once she is free (if ever), she can be on YouTube, too.
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  7994.  @peterstafford4426  🤪
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  7995.  @gugy68  Tate was not arrested in a Western nation, culturally or politically. You'd be surprised how little weight other countries put on your silliness.
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  7996.  @LoveyK  Er, . . . MSM in its entirety.
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  7997.  @Svdgskjszgjsk  Thank you for writing this. It deserves a wide audience.
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  7998. No, she did not "choke." Biles had a neuro-cognitive issue that made her lose her awareness of where she was in space. This was potentially lethal due to the routines she performs. Here is a VALID criticism: the Olympic Committee that decides on gymnastics scoring was right to discourage some of her signature moves, and planning a less spectacular program just in case she could not go to the limit during a very unusual and fraught year would have been much wiser, and perhaps more sportsmanlike. But she is still the greatest by far. Sorry you don't like it, but you'll have to live with it. Or don't. Your opinion does not matter.
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  7999.  @maxpayne69.  This is almost Dark Web. To think that someone can make money with these rants is mind boggling. I came here by accident; a guy from Canada who generally posts good stuff is a subscriber, just to keep abreast of all UK politics, even the worst. So I got here from there.
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  8000.  @bernie4268  I was just censored in responding. My factual response to your blather was censored. Bravo, you win. If a person drives their car illegally their license is revoked and their car can be impounded. They are not forced to undergo a medical intervention against their will. I can't say the rest about "the children." I'll be censored for stating facts.
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  8001. @user-mq4xf1ix9w  You mean you don't know that you cannot diagnose it so soon, nor by seeing him at a political event that in certain respects mirrors the environment where the shooting took place a mere two days ago, nor from a distance, nor by pure appearance, without some conversation with the person? Scary.
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  8002. Yo Matt. Welcome to the South Side. You've never been by, have you?
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  8003. Scalia was furious when the Court ruled people could not be executed for a crime they committed as a minor. The death penalty for heinous juvenile acts was one of his biggest causes, and he said some ugly things in those opinions/dissents in promoting it. Scalia wasn't smart. I guess Posner's takedown is ignored because Posner himself is considered odd?
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  8004. Good one!
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  8005. Short answer: because the Soviet Union fell. John Lanchester's work during the Great Recession explains it perfectly, and (needless to say, I hope) he is opposed to those types of societies. His LRB articles and books from that time are worth a reread.
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  8006.  @dimitrisgregan553  The market on all the essential minerals needed to make the devices we are using at this moment is nearly cornered by the BRICS. Frightening times. No one is telling the truth, that I can see.
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  8007. In my state, a senior cannot get SSI (supplemental income) if he has more than $2000 in savings -- UNLESS he was disabled before age 26 and continuously since then. Then he can have up to $100,000. OTOH, a minimum wage worker generally qualifies for food stamps. It's a fascinating system.
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  8008.  @persebra  Um, I'm using modal verbs?
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  8009.  @rawrrrz  Her free speech points were right on target. I expected it to raise some idiot eyebrows that she applied the same standard to Alex Jones as to every other person who was subjected to prior restraints on speech, as opposed to moderation of actual speech. If Musk didn't make you rich, don't c-p his b*lls.
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  8010. Reuters:  Sept 20 (Reuters) - The White House on Monday criticized the use of horse reins to threaten Haitian migrants after images circulated of a U.S. border guard on horseback charging at migrants near a riverside camp in Texas . . . Reuters witnesses saw mounted officers wearing cowboy hats blocking the paths of migrants, and one officer unfurling a cord resembling a lariat, which he swung near a migrant's face. The Independent: Sept 22 -- The second-in-command at a union for US Border Patrol has tried to defend the use of horse reins around migrants in Del Rio, Texas, where tens of thousands have arrived from Haiti. . . Recent images from Del Rio have shown migrants fleeing Border Patrol agents on horseback who are wielding their reins like whips, with a Reuters witness catching an agent unfurl and swing one in front of migrants.
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  8011. Inspiring!
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  8012. Then why did Chauvin plead guilty in federal court and sign the plea agreement that says different?
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  8013. Read up on the Hemingway family. I think such families are relatively rare, but they exist.
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  8014. Talking about committee chairmanships sounds like their careers are more important than the people's need for health care in a pandemic, and an economy shedding jobs.
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  8015. @POPCITY901  Law enforcement and the courts will never, ever solve it for you. 😥
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  8016.  @michellperez5592  Read The Jakarta Method. Find out how "great."
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  8017. ​ @willis7404 How could that happen???
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  8018.  @hotrox2112  Even that's a real choice by comparison!
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  8019. ​ @subboid I watched both. Twice.
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  8020. @amazingkris  The only reason I think this is an excessively bad rap is because I am persuaded that her conduct is not born out of a desire to one-up anybody, but is a sincere expression of her concern for what is turning out to be a bloodbath in Gaza. This is not going to be a win for anybody. I think people in the States are too wrapped up in asserting themselves and competing, and have lost the sense of how they come across to the rest of the world. It's as if nothing is real, everything is score keeping and cashing in. 2020 to the present have been the worst years I have lived through, and that is saying a lot. In saying this, I am not absolving her of her communication issues. They are on her. I think you have her motives wrong.
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  8021. Very few singers WRITE their own songs. Did you know Irma sang Piece of My Heart before Janis Joplin did?
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  8022. This is retribution.
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  8023.  @TheTechnocrat78  Well that was something most of humanity didn't know. /s
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  8024.  phoenixkhost  Oh we can count on you for objectivity, obviously. /s
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  8025.  @DaseinClimbs  👏👏👏
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  8026. There were just two in Serbia, which we bombed. Right, not a peer.
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  8027. So true. Has it ever been worse? And why are they paid so much to do this? How is this a job?
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  8028.  @jondeux3682  Yes, exactly.
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  8029. Do these idiots not realize what they're doing? They tell people Joe Rogan is taking a horse medicine. Some people will believe it and TAKE horse medicine. The media are a danger to the public.
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  8030. The more intelligent the comment, the more likely it will disappear without a warning or suspension. Idiotic rants don't stand out, blend in well, and get to stay up. This has the bonus of making us all think everyone is vicious and stupid. "What's not to like?"
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  8031. Watching December 11. More stunning today than on election day. Glenn is tremendous.
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  8032. At least he didn't call them Cat Gentlemen.
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  8033.  @appleblossomxo  Does that mean not for long?
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  8034.  @appleblossomxo  I tend to be pessimistic about the longevity of anyone truly good at their job. I mean, I want to be proved wrong. It just doesn't seem likely.
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  8035. ​@gigi9301 She took her only contact with her away, from a seriously depressed kid. Please. When a kid is punished for an unequivocally victimless crime, and you know they are clinically depressed, take their side. Period. And why would you send them off to work that night? They belong at home that night. Call the job yourself, apologize, and say there was a family emergency. It will be a night off with no pay, obviously, so what's the big deal??
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  8036. ​@djholliday5132 There were US "allies," doing that.
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  8037.  @JG-qt3pn  AGREED
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  8038.  @ronmackinnon9374  They didn't expect Push Back. Pun intended.
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  8039. I am her age, and every beautiful woman I have ever known has been raped, starting with my best friend in high school, who was gang raped. I only found out recently that my best friend in college was raped as well. She only told me after her husband and father had both died. My father was an immigrant from southern Europe, he had a gun and it was known in our neighborhood that he would use it, and would go to jail if necessary. This is what kept me safe. I am keeping it real.
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  8040.  @onegorgeouschick  Do children "act like victims?" Did the Olympic gymnasts "act like victims?"
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  8041.  @brianmeen2158  I see it right here. Be a woman who claims she was sexually assaulted, and that such assaults in her time were committed with impunity, and expose yourself to the kind of despicable psychoanalysis and second-guessing she is being treated to in the comments. Never mind that she married twice and raised two children. Never mind that she was a very successful author. Never mind that she went back to school later in life to fulfill her dream and got her doctorate in Victorian English literature at Oxford, no less. Never mind that her husband is a US Army veteran. Never mind that she resisted the COVID hysteria and the immoral vaccine mandates. None of that matters. Well, the number of women who have confided in me that they were raped is staggering. My father had a gun. I have no doubt that that is what kept me safe in the area where I grew up. I'm not talking suburbs.
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  8042. Technology and living beings from other worlds? Two words: PROVE IT
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  8043. De Santis translation: "He's not our narco-terrorist."
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  8044.  @Panda_J1  Immigrants from WHERE? And WHY? Deluded.
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  8045.  @susanzoeckler4926  Read Robert Greene to see what to avoid! Seriously, it might make you mad, or sad, but it is pretty good. Lets you see through the game.
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  8046.  @susanzoeckler4926  When I first read his book on seduction, I placed it into recycling rather than selling it. That's how much the descriptions of the strategies upset me. But after reading a few other things he wrote, watching his interviews with credible journalists, and looking at it again, I believe him that his main purpose is to arm naive, good-hearted people with the tools to resist the evil charmers. It certainly can blow their cover! Immunization, LOL.
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  8047.  @susanzoeckler4926  This is wonderful. Don't lose the sense of magic. Being open to embrace life BUT quick to see danger when it is present and remove yourself from it is the best way. DeBecker says that the most important thing is NEVER to talk yourself out of intuition. It's not something mystical or "New Age," it is strictly ultra-rapid non-verbal pattern recognition, and everybody has it. I once read that the best preparation for a bad experience is a good one! I totally agree! I'm very happy for anyone who had an idyllic childhood, and wish everyone could have. Bravo! (You might not want to know how dark other people are. Small doses.) Congratulations to your son, hope you are both proud!
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  8048. Did you laugh? I hope you laughed in their face.
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  8049.  @dashx1103  THANK YOU. Emergency UBI and a new WPA, to extend beyond the pandemic, are essential.
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  8050. One mayor in a small town in the south removed Macron's portrait from the City Hall and replaced it with the 1789 Rights of Man and Citizen. A lot of people celebrated.
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  8051. This time we got an eyeful of just how disdainful Robbie's facial expression is toward her, when he does not have 1/2 the education. She certainly had to work a lot harder to get the same job.
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  8052.  @arsavarese85  The odd part is that she is excellent on her own show. For real. She pushes back against neoliberalism all the time. Very strange.
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  8053. 1:18:33 Vaccine mandates and Noam Chomsky
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  8054. Science is using fancy words for a runny nose.
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  8055. This video shows why Musk and Vivek are so useful to Trump. When this implodes, Trump's fans will blame them.
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  8056. ​@benstern310 Obviously I was talking about America. I'm not suggesting Paul McCartney or J. K. Rowling do that. I have no idea what they do, nor were they at Trump's inauguration, nor do they have defense contracts. I seem to recall a Paradise Papers scandal, but I don't remember any details.
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  8057.  @benstern310  Well, that's pretty much your imagination, or the public image you seek to cultivate. The latter is probably wise, obviously. In the US, court papers often shed a lot of light on what each of these people did to attain their positions. Every one of those who were at the inauguration conducted surveillance on the rest of us to an unprecedented degree, and monetized it.
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  8058. @chrish9164  No. I call Martha Argerich successful. I call J. M. Coetzee successful. Etc.
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  8059. @Joshm-j4m  Banks are backed by the government. "It's their risk?" 🤣
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  8060. Look up Switzerland's health ministry advice. It doesn't sound like ours. That's all I'll say.
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  8061. Yes, that's why the paparazzi who took photos of Princess Diana while she was dying were investigated. If they took a picture before summoning for help, they committed a crime, even if they only got there after the accident and had no part in causing it. Non-assistance to a person in danger was often charged when I lived in France, and charges would be reported on the radio. It was taken very seriously.
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  8062.  @AnaLucia-wy2ii  A tax cut for a corporation that spends more on lobbying than it pays in taxes, and offshores jobs -- which usually means they "use" services like the Merchant Marines more than you or I do -- is a handout.
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  8063. ​ @ajr993 False. No communist country had homeless, and their economies were less efficient in most respects.
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  8064. Thanks for the summary. Impeachment YES.
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  8065.  @cyrusparsa1724  If you lie to your girlfriend about where you were last night, can she call the cops? 🤔🤣🤣🤣
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  8066.  @leechgully  Yes, I had heard much of the crowd was manufactured consent. But it did take place. That was my point.
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  8067.  @PhoenixCrown  Okay, but then you have to be careful to state that you do not mean the usual, deceptive, definition. I agree with you, actually.
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  8068.  Nunya Bidness  This is a correct analysis. A person cannot create the conditions that require self-defense and then claim self-defense. It does not work that way. Rittenhouse was in a place where he had no business being, openly carrying an assault-style firearm he had no business possessing. At least two of the people he shot reasonably believed they were disarming a possible mass shooter. Therefore, THEY had a right to claim self-defense or defense of others against lethal bodily harm. That said, I oppose laws that require charging a minor as an adult. We both know why those laws are on the books.
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  8069.  @MikeyDiL  Not his property to defend. Not of age to work as armed security. Anyway, I'm starting to get more insight into the school shooters.
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  8070. Taking the vaccine has basically nothing to do with trusting its manufacturer. Have you seen the data on the other vaccines? The serious side effects in general, from all of the vaccines, are almost exclusively suffered by women. We need comprehensive answers.
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  8071. A true one-in-a-million rate of complications occurs in every single medication and procedure. Aspirin. Circumcision. Peanut allergy is about 1% of the population. So peanuts are 10,000 times more dangerous. OTOH, the people who wonder if the true rate is higher are asking a question that deserves an answer.
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  8072.  @Angelknot8  That's not what I read. I read that they are warning against use in people with any history of severe allergy. They did not stop using it.
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  8073.  @Firenewsdiscussion  Oh please. A contract? They haven't had assets seized and unprecedented sanctions? They needed the revenue from Nord Stream to buy weapons around the world.
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  8074. @debbingo1565  And how would that happen? He already signed for one to transition and then said he was "tricked" into it.
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  8075. The traitors are those who send 💰 to countries that put AMERICANS on hit lists.
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  8076. ^1000
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  8077. EVERYTHING Briahna said was factually accurate and well-founded. And bris is something else, hon.
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  8078. ​ @JimCrowJoe He's known for being fake.
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  8079. 35:59 THIS 36:30 and THIS We are all under constant surveillance. So, how did it happen?
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  8080. EVERY "targetted program" creates "winners" and "losers" BY DESIGN.
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  8081. It wasn't their fault. That doesn't mean it wasn't their task to deal with. If you're a passenger in a car on a sunny afternoon and a drunk driver hits you, it's not your fault. You're still the one who has to do the physical therapy. And if you're emotionally drained and demoralized, you have to work harder.
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  8082.  @orangeblock3792  P. S. Your language is your fault for sure. Shame on you. And (2) when someone laments something their parents or parents' generation did wrong, it is not an invitation to jump in and agree.
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  8083. "Kid" is colloquial, so you are quibbling. She did not say "minor."
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  8084. These comments need more cliches. Of the next twenty below this one right now, only ten are cliche-ridden. (I didn't count "opportunist." I thought that was too original.)
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  8085. No we're not. I was in a formerly communist country this fall, with profoundly anti-communist people, who were close relatives of known dissidents. Even they had no problem stating there were some good things about communism. In their country, the communists solved homelessness. Yes, solved. What are we getting in return? Actually, that's what not being propagandized means. They had no problem saying this. They didn't look over their shoulders first, or fear what reaction I might have. In fact, I have another example: they were vaccinated, with Pfizer, and instead of pushing it, they matter-of-factly stated the vaccines have been a big disappointment, and that they are holding off on boosters. Imagine what it must be like to have internalized free speech! Sweet, huh? I remember those days.
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  8086. You might consider a malpractice lawsuit to finance the medical care she will need to get better. Remember, it will be very hard but she WILL make it. Norman Doidge writes about some remarkable cases of recovery from various central nervous system issues, and his case studies are in no way typical, but I find it inspiring to know just how much IS possible. It's a lot of work. She will need to eat a pristine diet, designed for people with generalized inflammation and anxiety issues, and go for walks, and sleep properly. There are outstanding books on that, too -- eating to beat depression and anxiety, yoga for these issues, and so forth. This is going to be a big project and will take a long time. That's why I mention a lawsuit. We are talking serious costs. Best of luck for as short a recovery period as humanly possible. :)
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  8087. I prefer that they test. We no longer have any idea how likely it is to have an asymptomatic case, and relative to what status (vaccinated or not, prior confirmed case, prior suspected case, relative to age as well). Is this SO onerous and expensive? I thought COVID was a global emergency (!!!!!)
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  8088.  @VampiricBard  Is it the default choice? When all other explanations have been scrutinized and found to be wrong, then you may explore internalized self-loathing.
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  8089.  @vainezaiven6677  I think an implied threat is more likely -- one that targets their social media presence, and of course their livelihood. But I agree about the cult aspect of it, for sure. I would keep the lines of communication open. This stuff is more psychologically dangerous than we want to believe. I mean it. :/ No generation has been spied on like this one, not even in the immediate post-war period Eastern Block. When teachers here used to threaten us about our "permanent record," we used to howl with laughter. Well . . . those were the days.
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  8090. ​ @danielcruz8899  Because . . . She didn't? 4:02
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  8091. @kevinstaggs5048  I don't view this stuff, so my standard is worse, better, or same as Boogie Nights, leaving aside Lars von Trier and other European cinema. We don't know how bad this was. Hugh Hefner became celebrated. I don't care for Playboy, either, but . . . Involvement with that doesn't disqualify anyone for pretty much any job involving adults. In today's rainbow flag days, this might be quaint.
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  8092. Vogue can send money.
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  8093. If after COVID, you still unquestioningly believe all you've been told about Ukraine? Or, what do you think war is?
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  8094.  @breakupgoogle  Of course.
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  8095. Wanting to control other people so badly is sick in itself.
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  8096.  @johnstrawb3521  ​ That's why some parents buy a Mercedes SUV. Personally, I would never. Do I shame or ridicule the parents who do? No. I don't think they're wise, but I understand why they do what they do.
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  8097. Mashup was priceless. 15:21 Three solid minutes. Think about how much these freaks are paid. Most people are struggling now.
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  8098. ​ @onetwo19 💯
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  8099. Tell that to the doctors and the PM.
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  8100. Funny, the Russians never had this problem. Neither did the Soviets.
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  8101. Accountability, absolutely. I am not one that screams for jail, and do not do so now. But, once we have a real investigation, we may see that something more than jail might be necessary.
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  8102.  @EMendonca-mp2mf  Pushing this research knowing it was dangerous.
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  8103. @Ryan Navas Maybe that's a cover story? Consider that. Sort-of like putting Kamala Harris on the ticket. Look up the Financial Engineering major, see what that's about. (Ever heard it mentioned on the mass media? Right, now you're getting the picture.) I think that is what will have even more undue influence than the SJW posing and preening.
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  8104. Someone is pretending to be surprised? How quaint.
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  8105.  @sdilluminatigrandfounder1813  Reported
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  8106.  @sdilluminatigrandfounder1813  A human didn't look at it. This is Fauci's tactic for avoiding FOIA obligations, lol.
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  8107.  @sdilluminatigrandfounder1813  Who are "you people?"
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  8108. @totoroben  But this is exactly what Fauci sought to avoid by doctoring emails in a way that legitimate search terms from a well-founded request for information would not work. FOIA has no analogy to a search warrant. Private actors with a right to certain information generated by public officials, in the course of the activities of those officials that legitimately concern the public, are the ones making the request. Does anyone actually think (I mean this hypothetically) that a public health official could work behind the scenes to impose universal acceptance of a medicine he knows to be flawed, and hide evidence of that knowledge? The minute he starts working to get it approved and to get people to use it, he has an obligation to tell everything he knows about it, good and bad -- assuming that his job didn't require him to share that information in the first place. But if he engages to push it, he absolutely cannot hide information, "for our own good" or anyone else's. No one is pushing wiretaps. We rely on sworn testimony or audio recordings made and kept in the course of business for that information.
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  8109.  @derp8575  Well, you all have convinced me. No one should teach your kids. It's not worth it. You figure it out yourselves.
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  8110.  @DP-sh3nk  It's hard for me to believe anyone could be this duped. The US always bombs before attempting to bring in its troops. We do not know the full extent of civilian casualties in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia -- or Syria, or Yemen. It was never revealed. "Shock and Awe" was precision bombing? No, you do remember. You are lying.
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  8111.  @jbak87  What do you think I mean? One might look it up, for example. I was choosing words carefully.
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  8112. I think I figured them out: Money is central to their lives, they really crave money, and they are willing to compromise a lot of their principles for money. They know how bad they are. So, when they see a working class kid like Dore, they think he has got to be worse. People do the same sort of thing to people of color and disfavored ethnicities, too. I know all about that.
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  8113.  Cheryl Jensen  Paris IV is hyperconservative. That's where I got two of my degrees.
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  8114.  Cheryl Jensen  OH!! You mean that indictment I read, accessed on the DOJ website, was a fake!?? Man, they know how to spoof these days. Was the pardon cosplay too? Did the communists engineer that illusion? I see I should think more critically.
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  8115. Kids who are going to college can save money by taking AP classes. DeSantis is blocking a curriculum that is an elective, not required?
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  8116.  @danintheoutback1  Thank you, you're right. It was a generalization, born of frustration. Out by me, you see those flags only in the millionaire neighborhoods.
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  8117. @@joaniebar I said absolutely nothing that sigmatized anyone whatsoever. If you only knew how little I think about what is in anyone's underwear. No one in their right mind would question medical procedures for an adult who clearly has a lived experience and knows who they are, what they need, and what the risks and benefits of various treatments are likely to be, for them. There is no point in being rude to clearly thoughtful people. This was a respectful discussion.
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  8118. Okay, WHO is surprised?
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  8119. I know, Robby! All of our military vehicles should be made in China if that's better for shareholders! 😂🤪
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  8120.  @MmmMulholland  Don't associate with anyone like that. Just don't. Most people are of the same opinion. You are entitled to hold that opinion. You thought it through first, you did not stereotype anyone or allow bias to shape your views, and this was your conclusion. You have a right to draw it.
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  8121.  @thealternative9580  Does someone think Cubans do this? Vietnamese?
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  8122.  @asherjason46  She didn't sue. He did. She wrote a mild article, vastly milder than what The Sun wrote, no comparison in fact, and he already LOST his case against The Sun. You think she likes this attention? Is everyone suddenly crazed?
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  8123. I wonder if some of these fraudsters could be subjected to class action tort suits, with the institutions that protected them as co-defendants. That would create some incentives. 😂
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  8124.  @karnazacss  Mmm, but Rogan made good points. He did interrupt way too much, though.
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  8125.  Doug Moran  The murderers are acting under color of law and counting on immunity from prosecution. That is why they keep breaking the law and murdering black men.
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  8126.  @caroleboudevin-hamard506  Il ne faut pas exagérer.
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  8127. Yeah, and a judge and jury "were not there," either, yet they are given the much more serious task of determining guilt. How do they do that, hm? You're the one who is being disingenuous. You weren't present at any of these police shootings and lethal chokeholds, either. Have you strictly refrained from commenting on them? Are you as well informed as the reporters here on the various viewpoints presented by witnesses to the events so far?
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  8128.  @mrralleycat  I agree with you about one thing: once evidence is carefully examined and people are placed under oath and questioned in a real court, it is amazing how often the picture changes. Even drastically. You're certainly right. Also, you can take anyone's editorial with a grain of salt, and probably should. But no anchor is required to defer to any guest, just because "they were not there." If Krystal read numerous accounts from reasonably reliable sources, and viewed the available video footage, she has a basis for her opinion. If not, not. She is not being disingenuous by disagreeing with the guest. The Hill Rising PRESENTED the guest, to their credit.
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  8129. She started out all right. What in the world caused her to take an anti-free speech turn?
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  8130. ​ @OlgaRykov 💯
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  8131.  @agentooe33AD  The discussion is about libraries, not curricula. What is required reading should be open to robust discussion, with parents having a right to be heard. But here's a question: is every assigned book an endorsement? Does any teacher, anywhere, assign a book, then say I don't agree with all of this? If not, that is a problem, I think. Do words on paper force "compliance," somehow? Yup, problem.
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  8132. You will. Keep abreast of legitimate research. Eat better than you ever have in your life. Spend time outdoors.
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  8133. Well, some of us had two married parents and were very close to them. Should we diss those who didn't? Should we say they don't really understand family life?
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  8134. @MarkG-nl4oq  There is no problem with defending someone you know to be guilty. There is nothing illegal about it, as long as you do nothing illegal in defending him. You can't offer perjured testimony, or doctored evidence, etc. You can and should put the prosecution to the test. It's their job to prove guilt.
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  8135. Sounds like your wife is very astute.
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  8136. Elite colleges are questionable themselves -- exactly. Why are they the near-exclusive incubators of future politicians, judges, corporate leaders? But given that they are, admissions need to be rethought from top to bottom. Did these "elite" institutions form a James Baldwin, a John Coltrane, a James Jamerson, a David Goggins, or a Simone Biles? Well, why not? (Two of these five were in the Navy, by the way.) Even eminent black academics often went to the traditional black colleges or to the great state universities, rather than to schools like Yale. Toni Morrison went to Cornell, but only for her Master's, after excelling at Howard. "Something is wrong with this picture," as they say.
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  8137.  @akitadog01  She didn't say this was a "report." She said Kim is a "reporter."
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  8138. What the French call une petite bonne femme bien-pensante.
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  8139. The Supreme Court held in Norwood v. Harrison (1973), that the government “may not induce, encourage or promote private persons to accomplish what it is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish.”  This applies to the First Amendment, too.
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  8140.  @tart8228  My mask protects you more than it protects me, and vice versa.
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  8141.  @RyuuRider  Exactly. So well put!
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  8142.  @sabinereynaudsf  It's not a matter of "buying" Tara Reade's story. It was never fully investigated. Instead, Reade was investigated. Reports about Biden were circulating for years, long before he ran on Obama's ticket. Biden made some strange moves around women and girls in public, and you can find authenticated photos. These are not reasons to credit Reade; they are reasons to treat all her claims seriously. You dismiss them instead.
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  8143. You gave no idea how I wish you were right.
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  8144.  @lon4930  Mine did, too. Crows followed him around. He died in 2010.
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  8145.  @wilhathaway1987  Believe me, when you kick the bucket, there will be smirking.
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  8146. @Veepet856  There are already countless peer-reviewed studies on SAEs of special interest. NIH's library provides pdfs for free. I am sure you know that. Looks like some people persist in three year old talking points. For some reason . . . ?
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  8147.  @nicklebuck  Well, don't be a shallow thinker. It's late in the day.
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  8148. Have you ever seen Frontline The Confessions, about the Norfolk Four?
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  8149. This Makes Me SICK I am so, so sorry.
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  8150. There are a lot of things she does not understand.
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  8151. Lawyers, if they are affiliated with Time's Up, may be breaching their ethics code. They will probably get away with it, but that's not the standard.
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  8152. Well . . . You just need to attract abundance. 🫣🤭🤪 Kamala did.
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  8153.  @adolfolerito6744  I also agree that it's likely that the people having severe reactions to the vaccine would probably have had the same reaction to COVID, if they caught it -- the same or worse. I think you are right about that, and I think that's why doctors have downplayed the vaccine issues. I have NEVER seen a vaccine like this one pushed on people before. No other vaccine causes this much reactivity. People who've had COVID and recovered are having the worst reactions, to both shots. This vaccine is no joke, either.
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  8154.  @Roller_Ghoster  No one but American politicians are asserting that not getting vaccinated is putting others at risk. I looked at what other countries' ministries of health had to say on the issue, so I know what I'm talking about. At this point, vaccination is giving too many people a false sense of security, giving them permission not to wear masks, etc.
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  8155. Did I hear you say, "experts?" Oh boy . . .
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  8156.  @SChamberlain1978  A New York psychologist is not a member of the California Bar! 😂😂😂
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  8157.  @justsayin3600  I don't. Her first reflex is to hate on someone else, because a mob has formed. Her first instinct is not to pause and observe, but to judge, as though she could hardly wait for the chance. And to judge solely based on her own lay experience, as if everyone's experience has to be the same.
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  8158. Now you're talking.
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  8159. This is my pandemic experience. I never had this problem before 2020. I had had a lot of serious blows before 2020, and had every reason to believe 2020 would be the best year of my life. December 2019 and January 2020 were so promising. And then . . . I envy anyone who lived 1929-2019. What luck.
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  8160. Exactly
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  8161. I don't like how the adults are involving little kids in this -- taking them to the courthouse to applaud the verdict, naming a Little League field after the victims. Little kids don't need this kind of involvement. They were all having nightmares about it as it is. Nothing is age appropriate anymore. Something so horrific is hard for adults to deal with, nevermind an 11 year old.
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  8162. War psychosis . . . It has been evident for nine months already. What do you think war psychosis is?
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  8163. Chump
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  8164. Comment savez-vous qu'elle n'a pas d'ancêtres français? Colette avait un ancêtre africain. Elle a la culture française.
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  8165. OMG, even this atheist will pray for Canada.
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  8166. @Candycane00000 I agree there was insufficient evidence of intentional homicide. There were recklessness charges brought as well. The jury instructions, the 36-page document, are available online in pdf, and are fascinating. The due process instructions are a civics lesson.
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  8167. Watch, he'll get in.
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  8168.  @GTL5427  That was blocked, finally. Too much buzz around it.
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  8169.  @andrewwells6323  Are you in the UK? Are you sure you understand American tax schemes?
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  8170.  @andrewwells6323  Wow, you start spewing hate real fast. What's up with that?
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  8171.  @MattHabermehl  We don't have definitive answers, and it's obvious why. Inquiry was suppressed. You are correct that circumstantial evidence showing a greater likelihood than not that the virus originated in a lab is sufficient for a lawsuit!
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  8172.  @theoneandonlyroelle  In ADULTHOOD. It is an adult choice. I hope.
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  8173. Why was I censored for agreeing with one of the comments reported here, made by Thomas Massie? I approve of his question, IF it is a genuine question and not an insinuation. We don't know, and should start questioning this.
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  8174. 55:46 There were lawsuits.
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  8175.  @oderblock  So you don't know anything about either?
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  8176.  @oderblock  Wacko post.
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  8177.  @Hunterchuck  Blocked and reported. I can see you worry about "hate" quite generally. /s
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  8178.  @WhyYoutubeWhy  Here is a more recent discrepancy: in this interview, she does not indicate that she met a single American at Columbia, professor, TA, post-doc, or student, who was distraught about the degradation of free speech. Do you believe that? If you do, you need to do some soul-searching. Considering Chemerinsky and Strossen have written books about it, considering Bret Weinstein said that HIS students all stood up for him, how plausible is that? This is Columbia, which has alumni who are astronauts, writers, actors, Nobel Prize winners, Olympic athletes . . . WHERE IS YOUR PRIDE? No, memories for important events are not that weak, and when they are, the people telling a story recognize that, and say so, before they are caught. Are you George Santos's lawyer??
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  8179. We wanted truthful reporting on COVID, on all the news.
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  8180.  @robertomoccia8305  The ancient Greeks in the time of Pericles had heavily settled the region of modern-day Apulia.
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  8181.  @betsybabf748  Who was arrested and charged with assault?
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  8182. Six months of robust immunity . . . This will make us safe?
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  8183. The lid is off. Stanford just had a symposium where all the participants were allowed to speak freely on every controversial issue: viral origins, vaccine safety, mitigation measures, censorship -- everything. This took place October 4. Stanford has a new president, by the way.
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  8184. You probably are. Biden isn't.
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  8185. Well, now we know in part why Africa was spared from a high mortality rate. We also know why staying inside was real bad.
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  8186.  @kathydoty8718  I agree. She is only there, rather than in retirement, as a DNC placeholder. But I am sick of falsehoods that anyone can see are false. Why do that? What is it about this medium that made it all right?
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  8187. LOL, ❤ this post.
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  8188.  @PabloTheThinker  We are finally on the same page about something.
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  8189.  @julianskinner3697  That's the bet those who will be fine either way are making. The Paradise Papers crowd.
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  8190. Nope. Watch the whole thing. It's about the First Amendment.
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  8191.  @TheUntaintedTreble  If you were to watch the actual podcast, Greenwald talks about a case where the NAACP was blamed for the violence of third parties and the Supreme Court overturned the verdict against them on free speech grounds. If this were not the law, BLM activists could have been sued just last summer and ruined.
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  8192. Tsk, tsk. A womxn.
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  8193.  @douglemay7989  Because Europeans live longer, healthier lives. Even countries with higher smoking rates (a bad thing) and higher cancer rates (a really bad thing) have a longer lifespan and healthspan. Ponder how amazing that is.
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  8194. @squatch545  I knew she didn't vote for Biden, but was surprised to learn she avoided Hillary Clinton as well. She clearly stuck to her principles with her votes.
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  8195. Full indemnity + full patent protection + mandates = cannot be honest
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  8196. Are you surprised?
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  8197. This trash? Which one? 🤣
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  8198.  @jsnip6720  Their idea of news is gossip about other media.
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  8199. @rynovisionrl  How do you know? Is net worth a proxy for intelligence? That would make him smarter than Einstein, Feynman, and J. M. Coeztee. Put together, and multiplied.
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  8200. Excellent video exposing how truly weird Peterson is. Having said that, the government should stop trying to censor him. It's persecution at this point.
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  8201. Parents can do that. They can invoke the IDEA, too, if they have an emotionally troubled or fragile child. That gives them extensive rights over the child's individualized education plan. They can also sue school staff for unauthorized practice of psychotherapy, which is what some of this stuff amounts to. They can even get money for private school tuition, though that's harder. But the law (IDEA) says that they can, and people do.
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  8202.  @Sundancer09  That's not what I'm talking about. If you were familiar with real cases, you'd know that. If you really cared, you'd read them.
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  8203. This interview is inundated by ads for violent first-person shooter video games. THIS represents America now. Nothing more to say.
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  8204. ​@dustinbaker8272 I agree -- so, why are they exposing their most private lives to this? My parents would not have dreamed of it. They would not have believed any family would.
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  8205.  @kimberlycarey5104  Rashida Tlaib was born in Detroit, Michigan. She has more guts than your little Gutfeld.
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  8206. Paris is a real education.
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  8207.  @urrywest  But have you ever seen her not look high?
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  8208. Thank you.
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  8209. Okay. If the vaccines are not intended to prevent infection, and cannot prevent infection, but only prevent severe outcomes, and if repeated infection with COVID may have significant long-term ramifications, THEN WHY ARE THEY MANDATING VACCINES?
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  8210.  @fragefuchs  I'd suggest you read the actual cases. That's what I did. My first reply was tossed.
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  8211.  @roxymel9431  I think Medhurst and The Duran are biased, but I watch The Duran, certainly. Lancaster and Anne-Laure Bonnel are outstanding. Abby Martin, Aaron Mate, and Chris Hedges have been honest voices. Stephen F Cohen's presentation at the 92nd Street Y in New York from a couple of years ago is prescient. He was amazing. Years ago he was asked whether a war was likely. He refused to say no. "A strong maybe, and here's how" was his answer.
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  8212. @mns8732  I couldn't tell you where in The Wealth of Nations he said that, I don't remember any more. His point was that a group could conspire to subvert the free market, and he suspected that some wanted to reimpose their old feudal privileges instead of earning by producing wealth under the discipline of free markets. At the time, it was the landowners who had the most power to do that, obviously.
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  8213.  @VegasRT500  Hillary, you're up late. No wonder.
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  8214. Amen. And "Work Requirements" aren't there to help rehabilitate people who are struggling with the perverse labor market. They are punitive. Our state used to employ social workers to assist job applicants five days per week, back when good jobs for those with lower skills were relatively plentiful and when low income people didn't have to struggle with algorithms. Where is the necessary assistance now? Put funds there.
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  8215. A local state college that used to have tons of excellent foreign language courses, and a rich program for Spanish majors and minors, with outstanding profs, has grossly cut back on courses. But now they say "Latinx."
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  8216. @Naylor Broughton Too bad my content response disappeared. This channel may not allow links, as they can be misused and are hard to monitor, and I had a link to back up my point on "influencers" who tell the blatant lie that you have to "accept responsibility" in order to "turn your life around." (There was a fascinating story about one "Jane Buckingham" who made a career spreading that advice, and then got busted in the college admissions scandal when she did the opposite of what she preached.) The other point was investment bankers and corporate C-suite executives and corporate raiders all make their millions by minimizing risk -- which means minimizing the responsibility they would need to assume if their bets, er, I mean their investments, go south. Offloading responsibility is how money is made. It is what the corporate form itself is designed to do, shelter people from having to take personal responsibility for the ramifications of business decisions. (That's why Tony Hayward never had to pay back salary, bonuses, stock options . . . Why Wall Street never had clawbacks, etc. That's also why they keep telling YOU to "take responsibility!")
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  8217. Good for short sellers.
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  8218. Unsuited until she's off the air here. Nothing else we can do to register our objection.
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  8219. Hope they don't tell her to attack Whoopie. Could be awkward.
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  8220.  @kylebutte503  Believe me, we understand. This isn't Europe. We can't have any of that, of course not.
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  8221. If only these actors had any decency. There is nothing decent about them, personally or politically.
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  8222.  @kerwinbrown4180  The Precautionary Principle applies to human medicines, not the standard for criminal convictions. The burden of proof is on the manufacturer to prove safety and efficacy.
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  8223.  @kerwinbrown4180  Well, the documents are in court now. Anyone can claim anything if they do not have to produce all of their data.
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  8224. So do legacy admissions and legacy hires.
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  8225.  @catherinemacaskill1421  There's no "obsession," and tons of evidence. The way you can tell is that Ryan Grim of The Intercept and The New York Times acknowledge as much. He is among those responsible for vaccine hesitancy -- as opposed to outright opposition, which is quite a different matter. When people who have always gotten every other recommended vaccine promptly are leery of this one, there has been a failure of leadership, among other things. The litany of falsehoods uttered by this man was catalogued on The Hill Rising just the other day, with Grim adding a point to Kim's report. Besides all that, he's about to turn 81. Can you be serious? He would need to be clearly without peer not to have retired by now -- which he clearly is not.
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  8226.  @joeterzio7175  Just out of curiosity, what is "dangerous" about the idea that this epidemic was the result of a lab leak? You don't imagine that would argue against vaccination, do you? It is either neutral or favorable to vaccination, if you think it through for a moment.
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  8227. Love her accent.
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  8228.  @cw1738-f4q  Anyway, the burden of proof of AGI is strictly on AGI. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
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  8229. It's really not her party. She said it out loud: She did NOT vote for Biden in 2020. Big statement, for her, you're right from that perspective. But she did make it. She said it twice in one segment, to make sure she was heard.
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  8230. I never follow a video. I read the actual linked study. Yes, every time. Learned my lesson LONG ago.
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  8231. Whose picture did you paste there?
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  8232.  @bidhrohi12  I'm Euro far left. We aren't members of the cult.
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  8233.  @bidhrohi12  I wouldn't let either of them in my house. Or Trump, or a Clinton, for that matter.
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  8234. Bri, there are people into BDSM. They say things we wouldn't say or want to hear. (To be clear, I avoid all such people. I don't worry about whether that makes me "intolerant.")
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  8235. The thing is, every sincere person has been hit by an Ana, and a Kyle, at some point in their lives. That's why you see these comments. We all know.
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  8236. This is preposterous. What do you think is going to happen when millions more lose insurance? The "middle," which is insured, will see premiums and deductibles skyrocket. And more medical debt bankruptcies will force up consumer borrowing costs. This is no longer politics, it is pure economics. TIME TO LEAD.
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  8237.  @aprilk141  Correct. They have the war chest. I know more about it than I wish I did. I represented a first grader with pediatric cancer in a civil rights/public education case, administrative, for free. The first arbitrator who gave us a complete victory (which I found strange) was overruled and soon quit. The public school system discriminated against a child with cancer and his mother. No, not the only such case I know of. It takes serious money to challenge injustice, almost always. The family moved, the child is fine by the way.
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  8238. I think Lex is the best, and when I found him slipping, it cured me of watching too many podcasts, a bad habit I developed during this pandemic. If I could see through him, and I know no one else is better, then this stuff is not worth so much of my time.
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  8239. @georgemetesky5519  Dream on. You won't die trying.
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  8240. Nominate an invincible candidate like our lives depend on it -- not a Biden, like your donors' approval depend on it.
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  8241. Countries with fewer average hours worked per week do have a higher productivity rate per hour worked. That is a direct effect of the reduced hours, obviously.
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  8242. Wanting and extracting are two VERY different things.
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  8243. Ha. Brie gave a good analysis. She opposes Nikki.
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  8244.  @goldilox369  I think everything you say is 100% true, but as far as masks are concerned, I see the point that keeping them on is a symbol of refusal to to return to what is normal for us. But if masks can facilitate in-person instruction, then they serve a purpose now. The parochial schools by us are still in session, with in-person learning from the start of the school year, and reevaluating periodically, based on public health statistics. Everyone must wear masks. I'm not going to be riding public transit without a mask for a good long time. Probably would have been wise all along.
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  8245. And they get it, too.
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  8246. @Sheep #5491 Trump appointed Federalist Society members to the federal courts, JUST LIKE THIS JUDGE.
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  8247. What? Yes, Amber, it is a religion protected by the First Amendment. Laws of general applicability, such as laws against animal sacrifice, are not violations of the Establishment Clause. That said, I feel a visceral repugnance toward anything to do with Satanism or witchcraft or any of that. It doesn't matter if a group is agitating for Satanism for the purpose of mocking other religions. They have a right to mock other religions, though not in every forum. So, the "grab them by the _____" guy is the Defender of the Faith? A regular modern-day Henry VIII. 😂
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  8248.  @unaffiliated0437  Conspiracies do exist. Check who has been prosecuted under RICO, for a start.
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  8249.  @unaffiliated0437  Precisely the opposite.
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  8250.  @unaffiliated0437  What is confusing you? I don't understand.
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  8251. Edited for spelling.
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  8252. You are truly funny!
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  8253. ​ @Ego-Kills perfectly said . . . of course
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  8254. i'm not holding my breath.
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  8255. @quix66hiya22  Nothing to do with Johnny Depp. You missed the point, of course. Everyone knows who the father of Markle's two little redheads is.
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  8256. Generational trauma has been demonstrated. Trauma itself can be overcome, and usually is. Van der Kolk is an example.
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  8257. Suppose it was. Do we punish all involved, especially Trump and the complicit/collabo "police," or do we gut the First Amendment for the rest of us? I want the former to happen, I fear the latter is way more likely.
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  8258.  @TerraPosse  The UK certainly does have a higher vaccination rate, and I didn't suggest otherwise. If Germany does, that is a new development. Japan certainly does not, nor does France. Of the major nations Russia is worst. The point is, hesitancy is not solely due to "anti-vax idiocy." Not here, not anywhere. This is one more podcaster making MONEY by fomenting divisiveness, like FOX, Rachel Maddow, etc. This video is politicizing the issue as well. I thought we had privacy in hospital rooms, by the way. I guess that's over, too.
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  8259.  @TerraPosse  No, my point was that this video contributes to the political divisions which have been a true disaster here. Vaccine hesitancy has other types of sources in other places, as well as among many people in the US. So, there is more than one reason to have reluctance, and not every reason is bad.
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  8260.  @2FadeMusic  Who said any such thing? We were discussing MOTIVATION for being hesitant. The medical mistakes I'm referring to include use of FDA-approved drugs that had terrible side effects for some people, and should not have been used or should have been discontinued. That does NOT mean hesitancy over the vaccine is reasonable. It means that it has zero to do with politics, Trump, anti-vaxxerama, or the people in this video. Your lack of compassion is sure to persuade people to get the shot. /s
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  8261.  @datonepeach  You had some to lose?
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  8262.  @alexusbratva878  The highest proportions of the vaccine hesitant are in minority communities. Do you revile them, too? Do they "owe" society something? Should they take what they believe to be significant risks, to protect you? Are they dumb for not wanting to? More important, does this little video help to persuade them? Or does it alienate them? (I could say "us," based on how my late father was perceived.)
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  8263.  @NickC2001  CDC is counting vaccines administered, not who says what to whom. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/health-equity/vaccine-equity.html
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  8264. Bad guess. Play the lotto instead. It's random.
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  8265. ​ @petesmitt A ton of replies here are being shad___d by a tech giant, including yours and mine.
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  8266.  @righteousindignation8879  No. Completely untrue. Their questions highlighted the fact that none of Bannon's good ideas are adopted. Travel bans? Certainly. Higher taxes for extreme incomes (the kind that make you and your children independently wealthy in a few years), forget about it. Consequences for Wall Street malfeasance and fraud? Ha. And so on . . . In the meantime, he needed a pardon to escape prosecution for federal wire fraud, and may still be in trouble with the state.
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  8267.  @timw8649  Are you kidding? One began by saying he supported freedom of speech (in obvious reference and opposition to the annoying demonstration outside), before asking Bannon anything, and another thanked him for staying over before posing her question. Jealousy of the intelligent is in overdrive today. Good to know.
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  8268. We think of Russians as an alien life form, no?
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  8269. Close, huh? Compared to where we once were, we are there.
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  8270.  @charlescarter3867  People didn't ignore him. He defamed those parents, and his defamation had material consequences. Had I been one of those parents, I would have emigrated. I would have sought refugee status in UK, the EU, Canada. I would have been pro-active.
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  8271.  @hehheh382  I said I thought the question is valid. I don't see that your scenario is likely. If you are a high-flying MSM journalist, you don't think Aaron can touch you. Or you think recording protects you as well. Consent to talk to Aaron at all is what's interesting. Townsend is not bright. He made a mistake. The late Alexander Cockburn always said that if stupidity can explain something, go with stupidity.
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  8272.  @jesuschrist9933  "Self-defense" does not apply to all the charges brought, only the most serious. An investigation will be needed to find out whether he provoked others. You cannot play a role in creating a danger and then claim you acted in self-defense to protect yourself from that danger. So they need to find out exact the time line. Also, they did set bail. I don't see anything political here, except on the part of people who praise Rittenhouse for killing "scumbags."
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  8273.  @Buttlather  I was referring to Briahna's statement at 11:31, about ten seconds of your time. She stated several times that the CDC did not tell the public the truth, and implied that she was misled into getting vaccinated "to save Grandma."
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  8274.  @WaxPaper  Maybe he'll have a tender heart. Some older people are that way.
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  8275. Aaron Mate just risked his own life to bring us real reporting from Syria, and is vastly too modest to say so. Look what Ana and Cenk are capable of, full picture. Lord.
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  8276. It is a language, though, and an ethnicity.
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  8277. It's no surprise that older people without family around them are lonely, but that kids are lonely is mind-boggling. In my generation, no one expected to hear of loneliness before their 60s, if then.
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  8278. Did you read their statement? Does it suggest that? How does it compare with the Haaretz editorial and Gideon Levy's work?
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  8279.  @aminmalik4086  beat me to it Of course worse.
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  8280. @timeames2509  Tolerated? It's constitutionally protected speech. If you want to spend your taxes on relitigating settled law, which can have only one outcome, just to give satisfaction to a bunch of politicians, that's on you. They are fundraising on this. You are paying.
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  8281.  @SuMMeRFLi5  So let me see if I understand . . . any time any child says, "Jimmy has a gun!", police must be called? That is the equivalent of pulling a fire alarm to get out of class.
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  8282. Biden: "Facebook is literally killing people." Me: Biden is literally killing people
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  8283.  @colico14  Isn't that astounding? I don't get it.
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  8284. These two, duping people into ending up as low-wage workers for life, and making bank by doing it. This is the new America.
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  8285.  Tim Kozlowski  He's a minor. Do you imagine that Chicago has social services and mental health services to assist parents in disciplining difficult children? They cut all that during the 2008 crisis. I knew girls who at 14 and 15 hung out with grown men with records. They all live in posh suburbs now. Every last one. And the one who dealt drugs in my college dorm is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I don't mean soft drugs, either. She liked real money.
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  8286. Wow. What was that like?
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  8287. Medvedev must not have had an mRNA vaccine, either, huh? He's Russian.
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  8288. Of course the Nazis followed a Jewish guy who had the temerity to intermarry with an Aryan. Anyone can see that.
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  8289. Conveniently enough, it is the job of Congress to investigate reports of grave side effects. But if you can just shut up the tweets, that's easier.
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  8290. ​​ @andybrice2711 Notice how OP uses slogans ("safe and effective," "conspiracy theorists"), whereas you wrote something fair, well thought out, coherent?
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  8291. ​@texaskippen She LOVES to denounce other women. And her audience loves a good cat fight.
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  8292.  @rainedyani8505  I didn't get that feeling at all, and neither did you.
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  8293.  @patched8789  Yeah, all the uprisings against them have been excellent. But if you go visit, they will keep you feeling safe, so that's good. Say. Why do some places succeed in persuading people to do certain things for the greater good, and others operate on viciousness and coercion?
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  8294. Isn't a college student an adult?
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  8295.  @aileenpi73  Thanks for the sensible take on the whole thing. It's getting harder and harder to exhale. I hope you are a manager in your field, I think your workplace would be pleasant and productive. After 15 months of pandemic, I've had enough drama.
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  8296. ​@scpython1 That is specious. We don't know what her valedictorian speech would consist in, and a private university has every right to review the speech and caution the speaker not to deviate from what she proposed to say. That she said something a lot of people don't like in an entirely different context shouldn't matter. Would you say the same if her tweets called for the end of Syria or Russia, or a call for China to withdraw from Tibet? I wish we were better versed in free speech law. Granted, this is a private university, but I think California requires free speech on all campuses.
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  8297. Ironic that moving a decimal point is a major source of serious hospital error, and . . . Graham moves the decimal point.
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  8298. How is trans even an issue in a typical workplace? Are you a therapist, a social worker, a high school teacher, a personal trainer? Do auto workers or electricians or roofers or construction workers have to worry about this now???
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  8299. @ashleyjohansson230  Oh my goodness are you behind the times. That may have been true back in 2014, though I doubt it. It may even have been true in 2019. Today? Whoa.
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  8300. @petergonzalez1719  I was just sense oared for mentioning three stories banned from social media that turned out to be true. Guess which ones? One of them resulted in Intercept-founder Glenn Greenwald having to quit that journal on principle, when they sense oared him. Another had something to do with 2021 and begins with the letter before w.
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  8301.  @mabaker  Death rates are VERY different all over the world. That could be because a major wave has not reached certain places yet. But the real issue is that we should be sharing information. People don't see that happening, and people are scared (because they have been pushed to panic), so this speculation is the result. Jeering is not a plan.
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  8302. This video is a disgrace. He could present his reasons for opposing RFK Jr without issuing a scurrilous hit piece.
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  8303. File suit then. That's illegal under Title VI and Title VII.
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  8304. No one needs them but most users are addicted.
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  8305. Give Hunter the plea deal, Joey will retire to his ice cream bunker.
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  8306. Not only that, but you know who won the French Open.
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  8307.  @juliaparrott3655  Not evident yet. The lockdowns, lack of screening, prolonged stress, and so forth, are confounding variables. Multivariate analysis is hard and takes time.
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  8308. @Margo5050  "We don't know yet" does not equal "no." It's called multivariate analysis, and I've had posts removed for saying those two words together. In bizarro world, mathematics causes controversy. That we know.
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  8309. @Margo5050  That seems logical. Do you have a source? My sources are reporting in Spring 2023, with data from 2020 through early to mid-2022.
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  8310. The stripes on the American flag include slave states, and the 50 stars include a despicable theft from Mexico.
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  8311.  @jameswarner7435  Beautifully stated. Made my day.
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  8312.  @sopheakko697  All three members of my family worked for companies where, as it turned out, serious crimes were taking place at the very top. Different industries, different decades. The lower level employees suffered. We lost 100s of thousands, were forced into early retirement, etc. Of course I'm talking about people who worked six-day, 50-hour weeks for decades on end, no sick time. Whenever I bring it up, at least one more person present says they experienced the same thing. But NO ONE else will ever tell this story first. I will. You can keep this "opportunity." The opportunity is for legalized crime.
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  8313. @AdolfTrudeau  Oh I see. I'm sorry. That is insane. I am not looking forward to this year. :/
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  8314.  @morgjones13  I love art, yes. Logic isn't boring. Not since Cantor.
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  8315. The pandemic answered that question.
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  8316. That's where the real jealousy is. No joke. All but the very richest have been on their knees all their lives to get to the top 10% or so of affluence.
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  8317. Er . . . um . . . hmm
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  8318. ​ @gaeaw8189 She had a three-month training period, then was assessed based on Thanksgiving through New Year's. 😂
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  8319. Integrity. It's a beautiful thing to see.
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  8320.  @rhys5567  If funerals of service members who were killed in uniform could be picketed, provided there was sufficient distance between the protesters and the ceremony, then I really don't see why this is different. There must be noise ordinances, that apply to everyone, and thus to protesters as well. They have to start clearing out in time to meet the noise deadline. This is simpler than you want it to be.
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  8321.  @mjkittredge  Approximately fifty immigrants arrived there.
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  8322. So well said! This is classic civil disobedience, because it is openly done.
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  8323. No she's not. She is clever at burden shifting. You missed that she presented no real evidence in this interview, apart from the indisputable fact that there are serious vested interests in not reopening the issue and reexamining the evidence. That does not change the fact that she has the burden of proof here, not those who believe Shakespeare was the playwright of those plays, within the meaning of that term at his time. (Modern notions of authorship were not current then.) These other candidates for being "the real Shakespeare" were all more powerful than he was, and England was always a class-ridden society. Why didn't they insist on placing their names on this work? Even if the theatre was considered risque, and we know it was, you would still expect the real writer(s) to whisper about it to someone, especially after a triumph.
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  8324. UBI!? We should have everyone working hard instead, like Bill, Hillary, Hunter, and Nancy.
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  8325. People who disagreed with the official position of the DNC and its minions were drastically marginalized and silenced. Even the example of Sweden, usually a favorite nation to emulate, was decried or simply and systematically ignored. People were bullied into not listening to any alternative view, as if it were the equivalent of supporting Stalin contra Truman.
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  8326. Virtual classes are a disaster for the vast majority of people, and not because of something they did "wrong," or something they "failed" to do. We will see the results soon enough. :/
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  8327.  @gregbraden2519  There are real people with contrasting views. There are also, um, books.
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  8328. I hope so.
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  8329. But, but . . . There was a moooovie
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  8330. Alex Jones may as well be a false flag: he may tell some truths or half-truths, but will turn away more people than he is able to attract. Most people discount everything he says, unfortunately --- even the true things. His hyperbole is harmful for the very same reason.
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  8331. @annettemacdonald9192  She started out by SAYING that this is one policy with which she happens to be generally aligned with Musk's apparent view, but that that wasn't the point.
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  8332. @utah_koidragon7117  As far as accountability over billionaires, there are a number of things that could be done: there could be strict enforcement of antitrust laws, there could be an end to massive tax breaks, where many large corporations spend FAR more on lobbying -- including for tax laws they like -- than they pay in taxes, then lend money to the government via T bonds, and our taxes on our income pays them interest, and closer scrutiny of the grant of corporate charters. Corporations are not natural kinds, but are creatures of the state. It should not be nearly impossible to lose a charter or pierce the corporate veil. On the other hand, it is clearly bad faith to call for "accountability" when it comes to something that Musk had absolutely no obligation to do in the first place, and . . . Brie didn't.
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  8333. 1:53 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Oh thank you Kim. Thank you.
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  8334. ​@CaKo-mq9dv I took early retirement when a student harassed and threatened me, and the school appeared to support him despite the report of an independent witness (not one of my students) that his conduct was frightening. He was later arrested, by the way, in a different incident involving two women. That case was dropped during the COVID shutdown. You all have problems, honey. Face the truth for once. Try it, for something different. See how it feels.
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  8335.  @kevinmalone3210  "Living in fear is no way to live." You just gave yourself away. There is no comparison between a real background check and driving test and an app.
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  8336. Mitterrand was president in the 1980s, and it has been downhill ever since.
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  8337. The man who . . . WILL NEVER go against the WEF, and will NEVER roll back the pension cut. Poison pill for Marine Le Pen, yet she is actually going to swallow it. One must laugh. Alexander: exactly right again. One of his best.
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  8338. It really depends. If the person was living a double life, and duping you all along, would you say, "well, they aren't all bad?"
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  8339. The complaint is verified. That means that there could be criminal liability if any of the allegations are deliberate falsehoods. 1. Nothing has been proved yet, true. 2. The filing of the verified complaint is a fact and is newsworthy. It happened, and it makes these allegations.
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  8340. Yes, especially this report. Because you fall for it and advertisers like it.
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  8341.  @1massboy  I saw the Reuters story just now: 60% of Russians will not accept any vaccine, and suspect COVID was not a naturally occurring illiness. They are not specifically opposed to Sputnik V. They refuse all the vaccines. As many as 3/4 think it is possible that COVID was an illegal bio-weapon that escaped the lab. Reuters just reported the story.
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  8342. Personally, I do not know one single truly beautiful woman who was not raped. Obviously, the number of beautiful women I know well enough to know something so intimate about them and their lives is small -- but the fact remains, literally every last one was raped.
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  8343. He's a libertarian. That's their problem.
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  8344. Read Strossen's book on hate speech. Or find out how many people here lost a job over supporting the boycott of Israel (where the issue is freely debated, and profs who are for it had colleagues stand up for them). Maybe you are just focusing on tweets?
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  8345. 8:47 Too late in the video for you to pay attention?
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  8346. ​ @OptimusPrinceps_Augustus Amy Goodman? No, she's even more brilliant and principled. Well, she's the daughter of a learned rabbi, so . . . Grew up with a large library, and human values.
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  8347.  @wandadelange1322  Cambridge was wrong, and inexplicable. A stain on them, on freedom of speech principles, certainly.
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  8348. If there is a God, these people will survive.
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  8349. Robby, WHAT???!!! 😮
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  8350. I'm curious to see whether the left, such as it is, can keep Biden from flipping Venezuela. I wouldn't bet on it. More leftists are being elected again in South America. Flipping Venezuela is therefore high on their list.
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  8351. When you get censored, go back and say so where your post used to be. This has gotten absurd.
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  8352. That's how we got a Trump.
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  8353. 😂😂😂 No, he's normal. Surprised.
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  8354.  @justingrimm6642  Well, this is terrible because your original post has been shadowed. I can no longer make it reappear. We can agree that should never happen. I agree with your point about having a rational discussion. Looks like we were blocked from that.
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  8355.  @sirtra  So he says. He may be right. Or they may be lying to him.
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  8356. Um, if you get the joke, it is pretty crass. Jimmy did more than enough to make up for it, right away when it happened. He showed real class. And no, the joke was not "sexual harassment." It offends me that anyone would say so.
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  8357. What is a "hostile foreign country?" Anyone we have sanctioned? That's a lot! 😅
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  8358.  @spenserb8082  Oh brilliant. Actually, it is. Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, etc. Look it up.
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  8359. Psst. Yes it IS a private company. They get to spend their advertising (=a species of truth-challenged persuasion) dollars wherever they want. The solution? Ignore advertising. Make it ineffective.
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  8360.  @ubiquitousdiabolus  What is a "useless major?" The most common degree BY FAR over the last 30 years is Business. The next most common are the health related majors, with Nursing at number 1. People who study humanities get an education degree or a communications degree, and also study web applications, audio and video production, photography, etc. The business majors who do not take finance or accounting or calculus are studying mostly fluff. They don't learn math or how to read and write on a level. I agree with points 1, 3, and 4 -- all true.
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  8361.  @diegoharo7943  Dr. Campbell reviewed it recently, and he provided a link. I read it integrally.
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  8362.  @godzilla2k26  Which narrative?
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  8363. No, she was good here.
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  8364. Megyn hates other women.
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  8365. ​@JoseHernandez-ql8vw The CEO agreed with Brittany. He posted a very good comment about this, actually. No one should be fired via video, and it should never be a complete shock if it's performance related, so that you never got a chance to improve.
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  8366. No, he's right on this. You need not listen, that's all.
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  8367.  @davidwilliams6966  Yes. I hope so.
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  8368. ​ @danielch6662 I think the analogy to executioner is quite candid of you. 😊
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  8369. @capttrips1523  I oppose puberty blockers as well. If we had ETHICAL doctors, there would be no question about having to make them illegal. And if they are made illegal, what happens to the one in 2.3 million children who need them? What happens to the 7 year old showing signs of puberty? I still remember when medical care was individualized, not mandated or made illegal. Well that's over, huh?
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  8370. You know why.
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  8371. Depends on how many children have to cross state lines to obtain an abortion. Claiming the poor ten year old girl did not exist, and sending death threats to her doctor, was pretty shocking. It makes you wonder about the mentality of anyone who could bring themselves to do that. Not to mention that it was some of the most repugnant cancel culture we've seen to date.
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  8372. No one wonders whether Sinwar was a double agent? You do know most of these people are. But who knows in this case. I am just incredulous that it never crosses anyone's mind.
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  8373. How? Through extraterritoriality? You didn't hear what he said? On-site maintenance and repair means the inspectors see the process from start to finish. Viewing the same part as it is being repaired cannot be supplanted by an after-the-fact inspection.
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  8374. ​ egatycasi  But collecting evidence WHEN THERE HAS BEEN A CRIME is a different matter. Go read the Fourth Amendment.
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  8375.  @jonmeyer7402  So then why did you say that despicable thing? To imitate the far right that you pretend to oppose?
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  8376. Compare capitalist "shock doctrine" (Naomi Klein) with the collectively planned effort of communist societies -- albeit often inflexible to an irrational, even cruel, degree -- to recover from adversity, to benefit everyone.
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  8377. For sheets and giggles.
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  8378. @cassiescornerreviews6884  It makes so much cents. Trillions.
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  8379. Why would he care? Private jet, privileged information about flights and air traffic controllers on duty. Simple.
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  8380. ​ @projectbirdfeederman5491 I agree with you. When I tell someone and it is evident they do not care, or worse yet, they clearly want to shun me, it reinforces the trauma. Sartre said, "Hell is other people." I would say, "Trauma is other people." For example, do people realize that most cancer sufferers will lose "friends" and even family? The big show of Support for some prominent person or celebrity exists as a cover, and only serves to twist the knife.
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  8381. Orwell was optimistic.
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  8382.  @lesaamoore  No disagreement! The details in the complaint are awful. I think she has very good lawyers, and she is a super sympathetic plaintiff. She has had to work her way through college entirely. The university could not have made a worse call. I think people got too mad at Brie this time for not showing outrage, etc. With a case pending (and given the fact that Reason magazine, where Robby is an editor, claims it broke the story), keeping her comments to the undisputed facts was wise. I think a defamation suit would be fine, too, but Bettinger chose not to pursue that, at least for the time being. I wish her great success.
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  8383. SO happy for you!
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  8384.  @FishareFriendsNotFood972  You could be right. On the other hand, maybe she's just acting for the camera to stoke controversy and gain more attention and . . . make more money. This is the Internet = we can't tell. (I'm an attorney, too.)
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  8385. As mockery, it was much more effective than moralizing about Greta.
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  8386.  @wthiem11  It's a neutral term. I did not say journalist. Political commentator, if you prefer. Pandering political commentator (is there some other kind?) . . . You are welcome to your adjectives.
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  8387.  @warr1973  He stood up to Stefanik and refused to discuss details about pending litigation and personnel actions. That was exactly what he was supposed to do. Funny, the president of Columbia University was unable to stick the landing.
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  8388.  @timayjust  Overton Window is a view of what is acceptable political policy. When it shifts right, all "acceptable" political discourse (the mainstream of the two major parties, here) is necessarily more right leaning, and "left" only means more moderately right (the left edge of a right wing window). By "acceptable," I don't mean in the entire population. I basically mean, regarded as "electable" by the entrenched leadership of the two major parties, under the system as it stands. You are probably right about where the population is going. If we look at those under 30, it sure looks like they are moving left, and fast.
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  8389.  @konakaucoffee1496  Did you listen to he comments up through the point where she talked about all the corporate executives who grabbed a massive payout, THEN filed for bankruptcy -- and it's all perfectly legal? (Well, who bought those laws . . . You get that part, right?)
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  8390. ​ PatJones-jz9rs That is NOT likely.
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  8391.  @Butchsiek  This is not going to happen. Who told you it was? The FBI can conduct surveillance of Hunter if there are real concerns. I can't stand Biden, and never voted for him. That's why I don't want to see bad arguments against him. They make him look good by comparison.
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  8392.  @Butchsiek  I have no doubt that Hunter is dirty. Court documents could tell you as much. That Hunter poses a security risk that would preclude his father from being sworn in as president is what is utterly fanciful. Russiagate redux, with China this time. The real story is that so many people became obsessed with both, and the media purveyors of these falsehoods and half-truths laughed all the way to the bank. If I'm supposed to believe the media is trying to manipulate me into believing Biden won, why don't you wonder whether the media is manipulating you into believing Trump won?
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  8393. Because everywhere you look you yourself can see that people without any obvious virtues, who are not even particularly hard working, have tons of money. Then someone comes along and says, "I'll tell you the secret. "
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  8394. To be honest, most political science majors go on to get a MPA (Master's in Public Administration) or a JD (law degree). A few might go back for psychology at night for a while, then become MSWs, and a few will get MBAs. The mistake is not to minor in math and learn statistics like a fiend. Then you can go and do anything. Everyone needs you for social science research. Or, you can even do your Master's in applied maths. The only problem with poli sci is that it is not a terminal degree; you've got two or three more years to go. :/
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  8395. ​ @jooseppielleese7156 Certainly, and that is how he was identified.
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  8396.  @Banana_Split_Cream_Buns  Beat me to it.
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  8397.  @lucindalaree4666  Absolutely. I knew MeToo had turned into a mob, and was not protecting women, but was hurting men. There is no mystery that Depp v. Heard is doing exactly the opposite: hurting women and not protecting men. I completely agree about the larger meaning.
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  8398. Thank you. We are already at the point where one side is creating "sanctuary" states and the other is passing new criminal laws, and a few parents have already lost custody of their child. I seem to have missed the free and open discussion part that was supposed to happen first.
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  8399. What you saw Gupta do is exactly what people do when a coworker is abused by management. They line up behind management. That's what he endorsed.
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  8400.  @emersonmanning6523  Why do you need to speculate on this? You have no evidence. I really don't understand. This is how you feel smart?
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  8401. Take a moment to laugh anyway. It's good for you.
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  8402. ​ @ThisIsMyHandle333 Try listening again. Or educate yourself on First Amendment principles.
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  8403. Good one.
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  8404.  @krillin876  AP is a program run by the College Board, a private entity. Why don't you look it up? I did, to see what they are offering at the moment. These are electives, and passing the exam should result in receiving college credit from most colleges, especially state schools. The job of a governor is to make sure that the students who do the work, counting on saving money at college by obtaining some credits while still in high school, actually achieve that goal. Instead, we have cheap grandstanding and censorship. Everyone likes censorship by "their side," suddenly.
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  8405. Not what she said. Did you hear her January 6th point? P. S. why are you lying?
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  8406. ​​ @jamesp9226 Good grief, the youngest was 14. So he had four measly years to make do somehow. BIG DEAL. Fourteen years old, not four. He sure did blow a lot of money on lawyers.
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  8407. ​ @Daniel_Capital It's nothing like that. He took a mother from his three girls, and turned one of them into an utter monster.
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  8408.  @stevennurahmed5105  Every economic system could be characterized as "mirroring nature" in that way, long before the Industrial Revolution and the rise of modern social classes. Or, each such system could be characterized as an example of one organized attempt humans have devised to obviate the most brutal features of nature through collective effort. Nature places constraints on every economic system; our primary material needs are not determined by us.
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  8409. "Boutique left" -- thank you Nick Anyone who ever read Stonor Saunders, "The Cultural Cold War," knows to be leery of these people. Don't be so sure they are not doing the Deep State's work, knowingly or unknowingly.
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  8410. Most of Tesla's profits? Come from trading emissions credits. Someone who claims he was "tricked" to sign certain permissions for his child, hmm. 🤔
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  8411.  @SuperJMichael  No problem. What's the point of having the largest military in human history if you can't dictate stupid little things like facts? Right, there's no point. So be my guest.
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  8412.  @JureDoon  Exactly what Godel disagreed with. A priori reality is reality. Empirical reality has no superiority over a priori reality. Mathematics itself is not invented, it is discovered.
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  8413. "Taken over the Internet?" I didn't know what it was. Is it traditional to expose your family life to the press? No, it's a new, illegitimate way to make money. Exposing your minor children to the media when they cannot consent is a disgrace. If the reporter participated in it, he's part of it as well. I don't know whether she is oppressed, but the children are.
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  8414. Should he have to sell that house to pay medical bills? Because it comes to that for people.
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  8415. For a genius herself, somehow she missed the part where she has a right to remain SILENT. Not lie to investigators. No one has the right to lie to them. Shut up, yes. Blabber on, spouting nonsense -- no. Most children understand the difference.
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  8416. Ten million a year is even better: over $1,140 per hour --- 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. Yeah, every hour of every day . . .
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  8417. Brilliant video. Thank you, Kim.
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  8418. If undercutting a person of color puts money in their pockets, people will do it, without missing a beat. If accusing someone of racism puts money in their pockets, then people will do that. Simple. Face it.
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  8419.  @smokerx893  Oh, the Russians. Got it, thanks.
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  8420.  @twatts1523  A woman in childbirth is a "customer" now? Oh, excuse me, a birthing person is a customer, and a (hopefully savvy) consumer of birthing resources. Got it. Please don't report me for that mistake.
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  8421. How is this anyone's business? This is a married couple, very soon expecting their second child. If they do say things in public that make you, personally, cringe, that's fine. You don't have to like anyone. It gives you no license, however, to publicly attack a pregnant woman. Not if you have a shred of decency.
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  8422. "Rapacious oligarchs" is right, Jimmy! Even Adam Smith recognized the danger of the rentier class to economic productivity and individual freedom, and the necessity of having a commons.
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  8423. Well, to be fair, why would a short, white man rob anybody? /s
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  8424. There is nothing extraordinary about this. Most offenders are never prosecuted at all.
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  8425. How would a people who don't study history or foreign languages be able to "learn differently" for themselves? They won't know. They will react to her like they react to everything -- as if it were consumer advertising.
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  8426. Because it makes sense to carry large guns to protect . . . unoccupied, parked cars?
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  8427. SUPERB segment. Briahna was great. Give it up! 👏👏👏👏👏
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  8428. It's unhinged to oppose the mandates? Explain.
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  8429.  @runrafarunthebestintheworld  Where did this come from? Dore is pro-mask and denounced Fauci for constantly flip-flopping on masks. Don't rely on this channel for news that matters to you. Just, watch it for fun.
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  8430. A billion here, a billion there. Pretty soon you're talking about real money.
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  8431. ​ @cosmo43095 Don't tell anyone what to do. Work for comprehensive psychotherapy. No one should have to wait for that. It is not a frill.
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  8432. You're giving them too much credit.
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  8433. ​@jonothandoeser To show that there are blacks who have a generally positive view of Trump. You're slow on the uptake or something? "White men can't jump?"
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  8434.  @jonothandoeser  Shermichael does. Lol.
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  8435. Why didn't TRUMP fire him? Trump went along with him on lifting the moratorium on gain of function research funding. Hold him accountable.
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  8436. 17:32 THIS Just about 1 1/2 minutes.
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  8437. Well, if the vaccine didn't work, obviously we need to do it again. /s 😅😅😅
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  8438. Excellent gallows humor.
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  8439. Which he wouldn't have had to engage in if he hadn't gone there with an AR-15 in the first place. He was a minor. I wouldn't have charged him as an adult, not on these facts. Classic case of someone needing some court supervision to age 21.
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  8440. Or YouTube. Just got _______ .
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  8441. Exactly! But purely personal well wishes don't endorse Peterson's schtick.
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  8442. Neither of these men have been convicted of anything. Mangione hasn't even been arraigned. I love how everyone respects the Constitution, especially when the victim is prominent. /s
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  8443. Thanks for that.
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  8444. This sounds astute to me.
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  8445.  @phileasler5401  Highland Park isn't even Cook County, bro.
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  8446.  @phileasler5401  Metro area, yes. But this is across the county line. It is not close.
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  8447.  peter crane  Not at all. Antibody dependent enhancement. With second boosters being approved, a real risk. And for people who have 50+ years of living ahead of them, who knows? Listen to the vid again, yo.
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  8448. Nice! And thank God.
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  8449.  @badfinger524  I think that's true. But as to her initial feelings, I wouldn't assume she engineered them. She may have felt that way, and believed that her feelings ARE evidence. She did end up benefitting from the whole incident, despite her heartless behavior. Who goes straight to Facebook to accuse people of racism, and post pictures?
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  8450.  @badfinger524  NYTimes did run a followup the other day, saying all the accused were exonerated, but their lives are still destroyed. It was a good piece, and nearly all of the comments agree with you.
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  8451.  @Jadeserphant  Please don't make The Watcher sound like the realist in this thread. What leverage do you imagine we have? No one reads emails sent to dedicated Customer Service bureaus, much less unsolicited complaints from those without recourse. You don't know that yet?
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  8452.  @ewaldbracko1534  Violence against whom? Which essentialized ethnic minority, deemed to be a "race," which is supposedly an immutable characteristic? Ironic that I'm watching Adam Curtis's new documentary, which treats this very subject among many others. I lived in Europe, too, and my parents lived through WWII, in one of the countries the Nazis targetted. I know what happened, very, VERY well. Shame!
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  8453.  @ewaldbracko1534  When did the Jews hold power in prewar Germany? When were they the president and the majority in the Reichstag? When did they riot in the capital, after losing an election they could have won easily, just by doing a halfway competent job? So many parallels indeed. /s
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  8454.  @johniekemp  The new journalistic "standard" is that if it makes money, it's true. Hey, people have mortgages.
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  8455. Oh, I know! Let's go to Mars!
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  8456.  @davidstansbury9309  What should worry everyone is the growing belief that popularity = truth. What makes me feel good = truth. What makes the most money = truth. Stories like what we just heard sometimes exonerate people, and sometimes FALL APART in a real court. And the person telling the story finds himself at risk of a perjury charge -- even that sometimes happens.
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  8457. Not in Europe anymore. I don't think vaccination is being recommended to anyone under 50, or urged under 70.
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  8458. This will be overturned on appeal. It is nonsense.
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  8459.  @Will_Moffett  You would wager. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  8460. ​ @Jo-zw7fw  I think that pressing the idea of blame for events that happened before a person's birth is always wrong, and to foist it on a child is inexcusable. That's the real problem. We don't have a clear idea of responsibility anymore, placing it where it does not belong or avoiding it when we need to accept it. It has become just another game. :/
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  8461.  @tairz2013  Who ever heard of a vaccine that requires two doses, the second of which makes many people sick, not to mention may cause very serious side effects, AND that shows signs of waning after three months, and has to be repeated after six? Right. No one. Never.
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  8462. Let me see if I understand: the US DOD gives away technology to billionaires free and clear, the Treasury Department gives them massive tax breaks, and then when they do what they wish with the property they legally hold and make decisions about (without checking in with Liz Warren, lol), the government weasels have a fit. I can't, I just can't. 😅😅😅😅😅
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  8463.  @discblaster9210  Regular kids at regular schools have to go into serious debt and demonstrate docility to future employers. Rich kids don't. Robert F. Kennedy went to Bates. More recently, Michael Brooks. Need I say more? Listen to Dore more closely.
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  8464. She looks grandma age.
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  8465. Jimmy, you rock.
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  8466.  @brian8507  Oh, I already engaged with you, for no fun nor profit. Oops.
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  8467. Just one more mob, following one more diversion.
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  8468.  @vangustia  Do you actually believe there are no neo-Nazis in Ukraine, or do you want more information about that before we send more weapons?
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  8469. Standards have fallen?
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  8470.  @l_a_u_y8916  You're the one who is nuts.
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  8471. ​ @olliefoxx7165 Or show bravery.
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  8472.  @nataliewalton5118  A man with six business bankruptcies. You could not make this up. Then, it was SO important to the DNC to defeat Trump that they ran . . . Joe Biden! IOW, they relied on COVID as their main strategy.
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  8473. ​ @escandeserge3045 Le chevre, aussi.
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  8474. Is there something in the water? Brie was perfect here.
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  8475. What this litany shows is how phenomenally corrupt everyone is.
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  8476. Not new for her.
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  8477. One of Aaron's best!
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  8478.  @vc6984  I spent over five years of my life outside of this country, and follow news in more than one language. Clearly you don't visit "those" small towns, or "those" neighborhoods. You should put down your smart phone and go outside (paraphrase of a sign carried in a demonstration, not in the US).
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  8479. Robbie, in some places you have a duty to retreat if possible -- but never in your own home.
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  8480. Like? I think you've got it!
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  8481. I still remember when Rogan praised Gates as a philanthropist. The first time, I figured it's a one-off, but then he kept it up.
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  8482. That happened when he bought Tesla, and silenced one of the actual founders.
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  8483. Anyone who falls for Elon and Vivek has just betrayed their gross lack of acumen. A normal high school girl in old Chicago knew who to avoid. 😂
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  8484. Jimmy, those Sunrise Meanies are mistreating an elderly man with memory issues. How could you support them?? /s
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  8485. @Sandy Jones No one said you had to vote for him. But are you trying to prevent others from voting for him? Why would that be?
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  8486. Crime pays. It's why they do it.
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  8487.  @Metal0sopher  Glenn Greenwald just published the whole videotape on his Substack page. The whole thing is even worse than this. The speaker is an offensive creep. His claims may or may not be true, but it is true he made them.
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  8488. No, that would be BG (Bill Gates) 🤣🤣🤣
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  8489. ​ @BobSmith-lb9nc Well said, alas.
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  8490. Charges against Dr. Haim were dropped, with prejudice.
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  8491. He's set for life anyway.
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  8492. ​ @steveconrad8857 Autocorrect has gone rogue. I don't think any of it is innocent. Mine makes ten mistakes to one valuable correction.
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  8493.  @somebodyontheinternet1090  A very poorly educated one. That's what's scary. What do they teach in college? Memes and Attitudes 201?
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  8494.  @matthawthorn3461  In fact, I just did. The resemblance is hardly striking. In any case, it is a painting and is housed in a museum. It is not a religious icon. As for what the ancient Greeks were like, I refer you to Euripides, The Bacchae, to start. The French have a cultural tradition of extreme parody of authority, and of really hitting the mark. Diderot's The Nun dates from about the time of the American revolution. You might want to see what that says. I defended Charlie Hebdo, I defend this.
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  8495. Yeah. AP, an elective for motivated kids who want to save on college tuition.
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  8496. They will get suspended again by YT.
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  8497. It matters that he went before Epstein's indictment or conviction. After, I don't forgive. Nope. Women's rights and children's rights are not a hashtag to me.
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  8498.  @shadracarthur  Is there some reason you mangle people's names?
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  8499.  @therealcirclea762  If no one is paying you for your posts, who's the chump?
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  8500. When the Beatles and Stones properly credited black music for their success, did anyone have a fit?
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  8501. This is closer and closer to what Adam Smith called the rentier class. Rentier 3.0.
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  8502.  @rdub5999  No, a 17-year-old cannot join the military without formal parental consent and without a high school diploma. And you think the military does not impose DISCIPLINE?
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  8503.  @BarredRocks  Thanks! I was wondering . . . /s
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  8504. 19:40 Why would Blinken, ostensibly a diplomat, say he is coming "as a Jew?" Oh, I don't know. Intention to settle?
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  8505. Good point
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  8506. Yeah, but that means working harder for less money. That's weird.
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  8507. A gift to Prince Andrew.
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  8508.  @BlueNorth313  I learned it and I taught it --- but that was a long time before the current insanity.
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  8509. There's a guy who touts stock trading with the same hair! Only he admits trading is dangerous, says not to take his word, and is generally entertaining. (He used to teach high school social studies, and actually broached the subject of economics in class.)
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  8510. Lots of states have 16 as the age of consent, though the partner cannot be more than 5 years older in quite a few of them. But 16 without restrictions is common around the world. I am of two minds: it is too young BUT I don't want more criminalization of private conduct. That is even worse. I've had it.
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  8511.  @strongbad666  I agree. Morals are a personal matter, the law binds everyone -- and can land a person in jail and ruin their life for something that not everyone even agrees is morally wrong, much less wants to see criminalized.
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  8512. When it helped anyone applying as a legacy, no problem?
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  8513. Sorry that happened to you! Night terror, not a small thing.
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  8514.  @jackd1582 Thanks! You know this cannot be hidden, because 💰
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  8515. If the Proud Boys don't beat up a journalist, he is suspect?
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  8516. ​ @kristinab1078  No. She either lied to police, or committed perjury. If she is innocent in the matter, then she must be psychologically unwell. There is no other way for her to escape responsibility for her actions and her failure to protect her children.
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  8517. Listen, that's the picture of a guy who has no idea how to use Twitter. Or other "modern" things.
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  8518. Kim, people who started working on their rresume in 5th grade do want to control the rest of us. They are furious at you, for example. That's where it comes from.
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  8519. It's called making money in the new media.
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  8520.  @conradsieber7883  💯 But they failed to explain the law. They just used buzzwords like "context." Maybe they don't really care about the First Amendment. That was my impression.
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  8521.  @dominiquedoeslife  Irrelevant. They have not been in use for well over a decade, but only since 2021. There was an article in Yale news that research professor Dr. John Rose, one of the developers of Ebola vaccines, stated that a vaccine takes 15 to 20 years to develop. The article came out in February 2017. It pays to look to materials published before 2020 for real information.
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  8522. Blaire White. Wow is she great!
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  8523. Who is this? Some fool like Vance, who is obsessed with what other people do in their personal lives?? And even more obsessed with what someone else might think about them and their most personal choices -- or tragedies for that matter?
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  8524. Please give us keywords to search.
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  8525.  @blizzagasaga8676  His problems include syntax and an unusually small productive vocabulary when speaking without a prompter or notes. But he doesn't seem to get lost or forget the substance of what he was saying.
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  8526.  @Leksa135  Why are so many Americans so infuriated by intelligent, fair-minded people? Why, in other words, do they keep imitating Trump? He's not president any more.
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  8527. It's not about failing to understand what goes on "in the halls of power." It is about having no idea what it is like to face bankruptcy because of illness. Jimmy does know. That's what his allegedly "vulnerable," unwashed "fans" do perceive.
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  8528. ​ @The.Adept.Chamber Step 5 involves a guillotine, I think.
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  8529. ​ @sigsauer7929 Excellent points.
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  8530.  @paulwatson746  Just the opposite.
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  8531. @bearsaremonkeys  The anger was in the fact that he didn't use logic but appeal to authority. That's for religion or politics, not mathematics. If that escapes you, read Frenkel's book for a mathematically knowledgeable lay audience. Mathematics is universal, not authoritarian.
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  8532.  @mikewhocheeseharry5292  Good points. You see them revise the list of banned substances all the time. This tells you a lot by itself. A cardioprotective drug isn't really "doping," but I wonder if the training regime is too harsh. If an athlete needs a medication to protect their heart, then there is something wrong in the sport that creates the danger to their heart in the first place. But the medication isn't making them run faster or jump higher. They are skaters.
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  8533. Well, we aren't laughing. Most of the people you see in this video are heavily armed. And no one in our political class is qualified to lead.
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  8534. Hunter who?
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  8535. May I ask you a few things about that? Is this because narcissists are able to convince you that no one will ever believe you, and that everyone will take their side? Is that how they operate? The reason I ask is because I'm trying to understand; once you do know what they did, and that you were not responsible in any way, what interrupts your recovery apart from the memory of the trauma itself? Do you think it could be repeated, that "there is nothing to stop it," and similar thoughts? I've had experiences like that, though not as severe, and I'm still trying to sort it out. When it's over, why isn't it over for the target? What makes it persist?
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  8536. New York Times malice (a technical term) protects Newsweek.
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  8537. ​ @75greenfish62 Not a standing issue at all. Lol. Fancy pants words.
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  8538. 1. I don't trust that speaker. I nevertheless want to hear what he has to say. 2. I commend Jimmy Dore for having the courage to present the interview and discuss it objectively, after all the smears Jimmy has had hurled at him, accusations that he's "brown red," and all the other puerile, gaslighting nonsense the neolib apologists throw his way. This was a serious risk on many levels. Great work, Jimmy!!!
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  8539.  @nope2873  If you believe that, you should ask why no one has been arrested and no international warrants have issued. All the details point to the CIA and MI6 knowing who did it, correct? They had Navalny under heavy surveillance.
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  8540.  @nope2873  If Russia did poison Navalny, it would have to be a false false-flag. Because ascribing the poisoning to Russia looks too much like a false flag. (Don't get me wrong, false false-flags do happen.) The straight story is implausible. So, what do you conclude from that? Not to mention the expose here of Bellingcat, which shows that Bellingcat is not a credible source for the information. It's not a credible source in general.
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  8541. Well, thanks for proving you have exactly the politicians you deserve. Russia, whether Soviet or post-Soviet, is looking better every day, and from the looks of things (BRICS, etc.), most of the world agrees. The 401k has existed since 1978 -- two generations. Did you know that 90%+ of retirees don't have enough money to retire on their 401k alone? How is that a plan?
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  8542. One probable serious event per 100,000 inoculations is supposed to be noted. We are up to 80? 200? What? They admit at least 20 per 100,000, so by their own measure, it should be taken off the market.
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  8543. The "seems" is entirely in your own eyes. You are just used to echo chambers, rather than to have someone explore all reasonable positions on an issue. Don't worry, you WILL get what you want.
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  8544. All capitalist countries had colonialism. If you've ever studied the 19th century, it's as if mankind lost their minds.
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  8545. TeleSUR was never removed, because Venezuelan oil.
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  8546.  @miller-joel  good point
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  8547. @johnjames4681  Good that you admit your real interests. I would rather work until I were unable --- in fact, I need to.
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  8548. @mwmatthews1  ​Badly! If he is so irrational, how did he ever win a single case against major global corporations, which have teams of outstanding lawyers? Has Caroline ever brought any cases against polluters? Working-class paralegal Erin Brockovich did more. 😒 The right way is to acknowledge the good, then calmly go step by step, showing why he is objectively not qualified for this position. This was lazy and sensational.
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  8549. @mwmatthews1  So, because this isn't a trial, sensationalism is fine, rather than taking the time to bring forward solid evidence? How do you think Trump keeps getting away with it?
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  8550.  @baristaz8834  He was addicted. He might not remember. Or believe what he did drunk and high doesn't count anyway, because he never did it sober. Too bad he was rarely sober.
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  8551.  @dillydilly6073  Who promoted Acosta to a much better job, until the Epstein pressure forced him to resign?
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  8552.  @silurkrita4023  The rich got MASSIVELY richer, faster, and the poor even poorer. Well they won't let that happen again. /s
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  8553.  @antonyjh1234  It's obvious that you don't understand the fundamental nature of the statistics you are invoking. I don't claim to be certain about things that no one yet knows. You do. That's how I know.
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  8554. Look at the number of views per video posted today. There's your answer. Looks like Joe Rogan wins.
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  8555. Great point.
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  8556. She is counting on his winning. Otherwise, she wouldn't have spoken.
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  8557.  @natas12rm  Remember when Bill Gates was God? Yeah, that turned out great.
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  8558.  d bc  So, let's agree the Post story didn't meet "journalistic standards," just for the sake of argument. Suppose someone tweeted, "Look at this bogus story. Who believes October Surprise email capers, or Rudy Giuliani??" And tried to link the article. Twitter would have blocked it. You might suspect that the person tweeting this was simply trying to spread a false story, under the veneer of criticizing it. And you might be right. WHO SHOULD DECIDE? Maybe . . . each of us can think it through, for ourselves? Or no? Tell us what you think.
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  8559. Kamala is an interesting case study in how women actually achieve the highest positions of power in America today. Drop the emotion as soon as you can and analyze.
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  8560.  @johnnyappleseed6960  Yes, sadly. It does make PERFECT sense. Voted La Riva last time, BTW. Leonard Peltier should be freed.
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  8561.  @sevilnatas  Silly boy, my mother isn't gay. She wasn't born in the West. 😂 Oooo, is that a FORBIDDEN joke? Then why did you bring it up? Crass! Thanks for outing yourself.
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  8562.  @sevilnatas  What does "And you mom gay" have to do with anything on earth, except possibly cheap bigotry? Very unimaginative. Watch better podcasts.
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  8563.  @sevilnatas  Of course! A prescribed response! You're clearly right. I should have known. Nothing else is possible, here.
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  8564.  @sevilnatas  I'm thrilled to hear that you are (FINALLY) going to work on your homophobia. I understand it is age-related, boomer, so I have patience with people of your generation. Don't worry, you'll get there! Good luck and peace! (BTW, a small P. S. -- Clever to design a meme as a safety-valve and a cover for homophobia, but I think I should mention that people see through that now. Just a friendly reminder, I know you know.)
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  8565. Thanks for that.
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  8566. @nicofelie  Gosh, you're nice. I hope that you succeed in whatever you may desire. Have a super week-end.
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  8567. I frankly don't get it.
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  8568. Or to concentrations of wealth in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street.
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  8569. Very sorry and reluctant to have to say it, but you're right.
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  8570.  @zenawarrior7442  Right. He also mentioned how unusual it was for one investigator in a case to disagree completely with the state's theory, and how many pieces really don't fit the leading theory. But you already skipped over that and got to personality analysis. Someone else needs to get a life.
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  8571.  @zenawarrior7442  What part of "the alternative theory is not implausible" is such a shock to the system? It's just true.
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  8572.  @zenawarrior7442  Wow. Blocked.
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  8573. Rogan had nothing to do with polio vaccines. Is everything labeled a vaccine the same? Is "vaccine" a magic word?
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  8574.  @Banana_Split_Cream_Buns  Aww. Thank you.
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  8575. @CHRON-GEN There are a lot of cases that treat those issues. Even a peaceful protest cannot be too close to the house of a judge. If he can hear them while inside, it is likely too close. If he has trouble getting into his driveway, it IS too close. But further down the street it is protected speech, most likely.
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  8576. Nope, Biden is in. His job is to flip Venezuela, ensure the midterms go Republican. He'll do his job. He always did.
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  8577. Chris Hedges, Abby Martin, Aaron Mate.
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  8578. Too broad and too cavalier, yes, but when a right-wing conspiracy theorist is found liable for defaming parents of kids killed in a mass shooting, you can no longer compare him to Democracy Now! or Jacobin. (It's hard to win a lawsuit against the press.)
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  8579.  @urAnusFighter1  If someone PROVES IN COURT that a statement is false and defamatory, should social media have to take that statement, and only that statement, down? Well, according to the Supreme Court of California, it doesn't have to. It has no responsibility at all. But proven defamation is not free speech. The First Amendment doesn't protect it. That is not to say the speaker should be silenced. You don't see the difference?
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  8580. @Rick Ramsey Nadine Strossen also believes hate speech laws are too broad and are always twisted into banning speech they were never intended to touch. Nadine Strossen of the ACLU. She just wrote a book on it.
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  8581. @shawnli4746  That's also normal. My aunt had a baby naturally 2 1/2 months before turning 47. Every year in a big country, someone has a baby naturally at 49 or 50.
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  8582.  @lillian9221  That is rare, unless it was assisted reproduction. 50 seems to be the limit; older than that is really rare.
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  8583.  @janetwalk4996  But in short, commerce is WAY older. No comparison.
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  8584.  @utewbd  Try listening to news in UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and in any laguages you speak besides English. Generally a good idea anyway, I grant you.
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  8585. Douglas Murray? Trotting him out means Trump failed badly.
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  8586. ​@Angelface11 Well that horse left the barn decades ago. Put the age at 21, for all kinds of stuff, including adult films and images broadcast or transmitted anywhere, and then use persuasion. Kids at 18 are hard to reach. At 21, they have been adults for three years and have some experience in life. They will be more likely to listen.
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  8587.  @Alarik52  Twitter is an example. Facebook, YouTube, etc.
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  8588.  @ibiufos  Well, unfortunately, YouTube is not in privity with the major pharmaceutical companies, so nothing they do can be construed as false advertising or suppression of vital information about a product that they have a duty to transmit. Plus Section 230 protects them. So . . . They can go ahead and do whatever they want and tough luck for us. They're not rich for nothing. :/
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  8589.  @DJSouthFlorida  The better the comment, the more likely it will be tagged advertising or propaganda. They expect comments to be barely literate. Rants are the easiest to post, as long as they have no links to actual information.
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  8590. Everyone knows moms like them. That's why it is so upsetting.
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  8591. If ANY child is rendered sterile by medicine, that is a fundamental violation of their most basic human RIGHTS. This has nothing to do with freedom of speech, or the right to raise a child without gender stereotypes. Anyone should be welcome to raise a child in a gender neutral way if they consider that in the best interests of their family. Why would that require drugs or surgery??
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  8592. "Do you know what a bounty is?" Kamala will explain.
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  8593.  rs_  Your first point about VAERS is simply factually incorrect. VAERS has always been plagued by underreporting, and this fact has been demonstrated; whether VAERS has persisted in having this issue during COVID remains to be determined, but we have no evidence to presume the reporting is suddenly comprehensive. The head of the CDC just admitted before the Senate that she does not have the numbers of severe adverse events from the vaccine at her disposal. She testified under oath, thus had to concede she does not have that number. A vaccine can reduce the risk of myocarditis from COVID but not eliminate it, while at the same time creating a risk of myocarditis from the vaccine itself, especially where multiple shots are administered. So you can't simply substitute the lower risk for the higher. By comparing the one to three weeks following one injection with the longer time frame we look at to determine all of the ill effects of COVID, including myocarditis, whenever it may be contracted, we obscure this fact. IOW, it would not be additive if this vaccine eliminated (essentially) all risk of COVID, and hence of myocarditis from COVID as well, but it doesn't. It wears off pretty fast, too. And then comes the booster.
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  8594.  @TheAbabab77  Whoosh. In any case, "children" in context means anyone under 18, who therefore needs parental consent. The myocarditis risk appears to be highest in older teenaged males and young adult males. This group is often forced to keep boosting to go to college. We will be ashamed of this one day, I swear. I HOPE.
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  8595.  @TheAbabab77  Hospitals are inundated because we have been reducing beds and staffing for years and years. You're being taught to hate on "the unvaccinated." Myocarditis is hardly the only serious adverse event. It is the most flagrant, because it is a known risk imposed on young men for no benefit to themselves in almost all cases. The very idea nauseates me.
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  8596.  rs_  Kimbo's post wasn't well said at all. This person is exhausted from having to justify what is becoming more and more clearly unjustifiable. You are two are going to have to explain to me why anyone should be forced, or coerced in any way, to undergo a medical intervention when the head of the CDC just admitted before the Senate and under oath that she does not have the numbers of severe adverse events from that intervention. She does not deny that deaths have occurred. She could not state how many. Does she know how many young men can no longer do what they used to do, before the shot? Now the COVID death count of 836,000 has been credibly questioned. I have to say that surprises me. I'm not judging anything. I'm waiting to hear more.
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  8597.  @TheMhannah100  Thanks very much! I hope his vaccination plus illness make him immune to serious COVID for life.
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  8598.  @ryangunwitch-black  Nice going! Good to hear.
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  8599. Notice how Matt works it in that AOC answers his questions on Twitter. Right after that, perceptive Katie says we have to knock him upside the head once in a while. Katie, Honorary Chicagoan. She knows.
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  8600. Think about who his friends must be.
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  8601.  @Nathan-eq3zs  Because I am not afraid to look at information when it is available. You might start with reading the Microsoft antitrust cases, which include a history of how the company became dominant, with evidence tested in federal court. That is a splendid place to start. Just kidding. That takes work to find, and then to read. No one does that for free anymore -- not that I can blame them. I mean, don't get me wrong. I did it at the time; not claiming I would today. "Do your job any old way, and always praise the master." -- the immortal Diderot, Rameau's Nephew, my rough translation . . . :)
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  8602. Rob Smith? Er, yeah. He did. Unfortunately.
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  8603.  @sonsoftexas  Totally untrue.
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  8604.  @karenvickery6070  Because exercising your right to remain silent and your right not to voluntarily subject yourself to police interrogation is not a grounds for arrest. It's not a crime. Being one of the last people to see a missing person is not a crime. What I don't see is why possession of her van was not treated seriously. At best, she was left without her transportantion and her dwelling, far from home in an inherently dangerous area without nearby shelter. Why isn't THAT a crime? Why do you focus on urging police to violate people's rights? You don't see enough of that around?
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  8605.  @karenvickery6070  EXACTLY. He can refuse to speak. They had no WARRANT to arrest him. A person doesn't need a lawyer to say to the police, I'm not coming in for questioning, I am asserting my right to remain silent. If the police made you think otherwise, guess who misled you? If the police show up at your house, and you refuse to come in for questioning, what happens next, do you think? They grab you and make you talk? The law does not prevent law enforcement from establishing a surveillance perimeter outside his residence, or anyone's, as already explained. They do it all the time.
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  8606.  @karenvickery6070  If you're an American, how is it that you don't know the Bill of Rights? The police cannot make anyone talk. The police can't make Ted Bundy talk. You don't need to pay a lawyer to tell them that for you.
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  8607. Good thinking.
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  8608. Do you think she was passed over because of her race? I don't. Read a few biographies of really successful people -- and I don't mean celebrities or billionaires. I mean an Annie Ernaux, a Haruki Murakami, a Kurt Godel, a Martha Argerich. They are, frankly, nothing like your daughter. It's a different mold. She reminds me a little of the disfavored brother in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Murakami and Ernaux (and J. M. Coetzee and Rebecca Goldstein) all have more in common with Einstein or Socrates than they do with your daughter. I hope she learns a different lesson from the one you seem to have in mind.
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  8609.  @anthonytwohill9726  Only someone who feels sure they will not lose a person they love can say this. Are you aware MEN get sicker than women from COVID? This alone concerns me -- as a girl.
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  8610.  @anthonytwohill9726  Wait until you see the numbers for premature heart attacks in men. Excess deaths are showing up already, especially in men under 60. At least eat and exercise to help stem inflammatory response. At least that. Asymptomatic does not necessarily mean unharmed. There is a lot we haven't figured out yet about this virus. It is sinister.
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  8611. This took real courage to post. A tragic fact in itself. :/
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  8612. You just stated what was in my subconscious.
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  8613.  @Stefanie3  That is exactly what they're saying. I decided to emigrate by 2025, nearly two years ago. I didn't know how sorry I'd be that I didn't take the steps in 2019, once I knew. I don't want to grow old and fragile HERE. Heck no. My closest relatives here all died out. I don't have a crew to protect me any more
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  8614.  @Stefanie3  Neighbors? Really?? Yes, my closest relatives live in Bar, known as "Antibari" in ancient times, because of the shipping route between Bar and Bari, Italy.
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  8615. Vaccines always have an extra layer of risk that necessitate caution BECAUSE they are administered to healthy people. First Do No Harm is particularly important for vaccines. Even the word itself is misleading, because vaccines are good or bad case-by-case. They are not all good or all bad. They are not all equally effective. They don't all work in the same way. Their risk is unique to each one. The blanket term "vaccines" should be scuttled.
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  8616. ​ @OldWanderingMillennial  She has no idea what she's talking about. What Musk said might not be acceptable in UK. I don't know the law in UK. Jessica doesn't know the law here. Brandenburg v. Ohio is the law here. "Clear and present danger" is too vague. It is not the standard. But she keeps repeating it. The correct standard is that speech must be "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and likely to incite or produce such action." Short of that, the speech cannot be criminalized. Is Jessica spreading misinformation about the Constitution?
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  8617. Absolutely worst president I have ever seen, and after the last one . . . WOW.
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  8618.  @leecampbell2316  Thanks! I will check that out.
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  8619.  @kevinherd3437  YUP
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  8620. Looks like art will help with the baby.
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  8621. 5:33 Dr. Campbell, welcome to America. Most of us have had this experience.
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  8622.  @fractalign  You mean there's someone for whom it isn't all about the money? They are all like that.
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  8623. You mean like, say, McDonald's? Taco Bell? The Microsoft Start Page and news feed? PFIZER? In all seriousness, I suggest you look into the real history of various corporations, and find out why they dominated a market, rather than having the kind of diversity of providers that Adam Smith envisioned -- and what Smith thought were the possible pitfalls that could prevent that development.
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  8624. So glad you discredited yourself with that ridiculous Hitler talking point. Not only is it preposterous, but it shows that you have to pull out flagrant lies and scare talking points in order to make your case. Just like the DNC Russiagaters (or the Trumpists who claim Chauvin and Rittenhouse are innocent) all do, as a matter of fact. Anyway, I thought I'd have to go the the trouble of making a historical argument. Well, anyone who lived through 9/11, and who realizes the USSR lived through the equivalent of ten thousand 9/11s in WWII, has a clue as to how countries become collectively insane and murder their own citizens. (Explaining US slavery and genocide is a little harder, unless pathological greed is part of the fabric of your personality.) You seem to be channeling that ex-convict D'Sousa. I rely primarily on the eminent late scholar Stephen Cohen.
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  8625. I support an end to sanctions.
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  8626. You still don't know Trump's role in COVID?
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  8627. Biden covered for Clarence Thomas. Why?
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  8628. Well, he did complete a doctorate at Harvard. You could say he was expected to do more with his gifts.
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  8629.  @krismartin1181  It was sarcasm.
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  8630. ​ @floriansailer7887 Even worse -- this timeline is false. They were apart for nearly a week, when he returned to Florida by plane to sell some things from his storage unit and she had the van. She had the golden opportunity to flee, and time to talk it through with friends. Why does the press hide that?
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  8631. ​ @taylorfrink1182 Because this report is misleading. They were apart for almost a week. She did have a chance. The moral of the story: you cannot trust the media. They could have told the truth in this video and actually helped people.
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  8632.  @hiteck007  After winning all of 33% of total votes cast in Round 1 . . . how do you figure? There were 67% who voted against her candidates, and she needed to persuade more of them, district by district. I don't recall anyone adding up all the raw votes by party for our congressional elections, rather than looking to winners by district, and then saying who should be Speaker on that basis.
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  8633.  @karekarenz7683  What knowledge do you have of the French system?
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  8634.  @thekurtcobainfoundation4200  It's unbearable to me how many of these innocent women end up murdered. Most people will imagine they would know better, or that the women should have known better, or something. Whistling in the dark! I want to know.
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  8635.  @AmyCeleste  I feel I need much more insight. I know I am not a great judge of character. Well, actually, my instincts are excellent, but I will talk myself out of them all the time. I don't know why I do that. :/
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  8636.  @AmyCeleste  Also, there were four children in this picture. What happened to them?
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  8637. OSHA has to have a period of public comment for any regulation, much less one this sweeping and potentially damaging. The whole thing is bizarre.
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  8638. The research mentioned near the end is really easy to find. Dare I say more?
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  8639. Naked shorts should be. It is akin to counterfeiting.
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  8640. 23:19 East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Roumania are not the real problem and never were. No, never. They had big problems, they were not the problem.
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  8641. @slappy8941  No, I specifically meant the racial theories for which Hitler and his gauleiters were known and beloved. You've heard of "history," no? Is that still a school subject?
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  8642. ​@squatch545 Yes there are clear definitions. Read Brandenburg v. Ohio and Virginia v. Black. Don't listen to these non-lawyers; especially not Jessica. She has NO idea. Robby is better.
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  8643. @squatch545  Burning a cross is a material action. RAV v. City of St. Paul and Virginia v. Black did not allow prosecution under an unconstitutional law. In both cases, the defendant could have violated OTHER laws. Get it?
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  8644. @LenRenBen  Correct, in general "misinformation" is protected speech. There are specific, very narrow exceptions involving fraud, election interference, etc., all of which require intent.
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  8645. I believe Haaretz. But re: the tweet --- NEVER say "only" one baby
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  8646. Afeni Shakur also defended herself against federal charges pro se and won, in a stunning, history-making case.
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  8647.  @tcorourke2007  Reading? You must mean tik toks.
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  8648.  @elisereynolds945  There is evidence of that. We need to consider every possibility with an open mind. School is supposed to welcome everyone.
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  8649.  @NoOneCaresIckyThump  That is simply not true for the vast, VAST majority. We just had a taste of what closing down schools and going remote does to most people's minds. If you can't see the connection, then you don't have a good education. I say the very same about people who oppose involuntary sterilization and ten minutes later support "gender affirming care" for minors, by the way.
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  8650.  @NoOneCaresIckyThump  Take a look at what most degrees are in. Have you ever? You don't see Gender Studies except at prestigious universities and as preparation for an MSW, MPA, MFA in nonfiction writing, a clinical PhD in psychology, or a JD. The most common major for 30+ years now is Business. Today, that is worthless at the undergrad level without advanced math and finance, or a CPA. An English major who took a bunch of Shakespeare classes and some Communications and Business as minor subjects or electives is in better shape for jobs -- especially if they can design a web page or take great photos, too. You're just falling for a narrative, too. All of these people are sending their kids to college, and none of them will be needing to retire at 58 because of exhaustion.
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  8651. Look, at least some of her questions are obviously devil's advocate. I don't disagree that she does deserve to be called on this one, though.
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  8652. She wasn't. In fact, she lost her dad in a car crash. Her brother was injured but lived. It was the fault of the other driver.
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  8653. @christopherleslie  Well, I find the US post-Reagan and post-Clinton, and especially post-9/11, 2008 financial debacle, and COVID, to be unrecognizable. I see nothing on the horizon to reverse the downward trend. Was WWII in Europe worse? Yes. Was Europe during the bubonic plague worse? Yes. Was 1930s Mississippi worse? Yes. What does that prove to you?
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  8654. You don't know that. But we know that you chose to say it. So that's wholly on you.
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  8655. They are lazy.
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  8656. Piers Morgan grifting again.
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  8657. That's not an easy question. Define "woman."
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  8658. My post was a joke and no one got it. Scary!!
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  8659. Sorry, the COO is the coward. He doesn't believe in free speech. He believes in his paycheck. That is why he can say NOTHING of any importance whatsoever. Did you hear a defense of freedom of speech? Yeah, me neither. It's not clear to me why Davidai was wrong to confront this guy. Free speech for this guy, too. (I saw no intimidation in the video clips, but considering his antics, who knows?) No, "stalking" a top-level university administrator with a videocam in a public place that I assume is a designated free speech forum is FINE BY ME. Not above his paygrade. He's supposed to be able to TALK.
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  8660. Guess what was happening to POC and you ignored it? Well, now it's at your house, too . . . what did you think would happen?
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  8661. Okay. So . . . Chris Smalls was perfect, using his plaform in the best way possible.
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  8662. Good thought. If there are such people, you'll pick up on it without Rachel Maddow's chiming in!
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  8663.  @godofbiscuitssf  What a joke. As if you know who Golinkin is, or even Stephen Cohen. When is the last time you picked up a book?
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  8664. Hair sniff habit
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  8665. Wow. So these stories make bank now.
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  8666. thank you for the recommendation!! :)
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  8667. Total agreement, but not surreptitiously. Foreign agents must register. But beyond that, FREE SPEECH! Yeah!
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  8668. The real problem was that NO ONE she confessed to did a thing. No one. That there are a handful of murdering psychopaths in the human population is no surprise. The fact that others will tiptoe around them, and allow them to continue even after they confess, is more than anyone should be asked to bear. Don't tell me we'd resist Nazism. No we would not.
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  8669. We also haven't investigated what a combination of prior exposure/illness plus vaccination does to people, possibly completely unnecessary by any lights.
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  8670. ​ @karagi101 Exactly. They mean the economy is good for them, and loser OP doesn't count. 😂 We get it.
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  8671. ​ @sweetsue4204  Goat yogurt is the best one, as is goat kefir. But the price!!! 😮
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  8672. Imagine being a grown man and gossiping about other people's private family matters. That passes for smart? I thought that Roger Penrose was smart and stuff like that.
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  8673.  @weejockpoopongmcplop  True, but we got it.
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  8674.  @fritzforsthoefel8031  LOL, Ronald Reagan was the first to explode the deficit. Every president since then has added to the national debt.
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  8675. Racoondog? Pshaw, it was from a jackalope. I have the postcard.
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  8676. False
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  8677.  @notabene7381  Should we have a real discussion of the issue, looking at the risks and benefits of each vaccine for children one by one, and then considering all of the arguments concerning mandates for minor children based on principles as well? Should we also consider the penalties for refusal? Or should we just go with sound bites, slogans, and hashtags?
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  8678. So, you are putting your nose in other people's marriages at your age? Old habits die hard, hm?
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  8679.  @mandicl1937  Don't download those apps. Don't carry just a smart phone. Have a land line and a flip phone, or at least something besides a smart phone.
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  8680.  @shirleykurtz  I had some faith, until this. Of course not enough faith to support mass vaccination, which I thought was a personal decision and reasonable for people over 40 or with risk factors, but I did think the proponents of mass vaccination (not mandates) meant well. Joke's on me.
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  8681. Robbie, the FREE market bestows monoclonal antibodies upon those who can buy them. Isn't that ""freedom?"
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  8682. Consider these message boards. We all know about the bizarre censorship, but when someone complains that their comment was removed, don't we all still think they "must have" said something wrong? It takes a lot to shed that simple prejudice.
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  8683. Or the Republican. You expect Trump or Vance to protect our rights? Please.
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  8684.  @JayHayyy  Well, considering how bad Harris and Walz are, it's dishonest to argue the point.
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  8685.  @paragonexperience  Why would you accuse someone of lying when it is very plausible they made a mistake, and actually (wrongly) thought they were being accurate? Is this how your job treats you? You okay with that?
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  8686.  @paragonexperience  BTW, you are accusing her of "lying" and I would bet a winning lottery ticket that you neither read the article nor examined the data. Therefore you are lying by pretending to know that she must be lying. Can you follow that, or is it too tough for you? Recursion is a thing. 😅
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  8687.  @jameshopkins6168  Here's some: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/andy-ngo-right-wing-troll-antifa-877914/
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  8688. Thanks for this. That's what real people are like. Remember Johnny Cash?
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  8689. "And now, we're going to make money writing about how baaaad we were!!" 😛
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  8690.  @jasonstroon  Excerpt of news I follow: "Following the pause of J&J’s vaccine administration, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has reiterated the verdict issued for AstraZeneca’s offering, such that J&J’s vaccine label will carry a warning, with EU member states to determine use in line with needs, clearing rollout to commence across Europe. In view of a recent agreement with J&J, Dr Andreas Greinacher, a researcher at University Medicine Greifswald in Germany, has indicated plans to study the vaccine components. As well as detailing thorough accounts of patients developing VITT in the New England Journal of Medicine, Greinacher and colleagues have released a report outlining potential mechanisms in which AstraZeneca’s vaccine may trigger these effects. The report is yet to be published in a scientific journal." Let's see what they say.
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  8691. Yes, that is very gratifying.
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  8692.  @joeyboedeker2047  To acknowledge applause and show gratitude for the audience.
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  8693. Imagine. The Democrats might be able to run a decent candidate, if they tried really hard. But no. Not an option.
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  8694. Investigated for what? In the US, the remedy for bad speech is MORE speech. The remedy for defamation is a civil lawsuit, not a criminal trial.
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  8695.  @hizzlemobizzle  Alan Greenspan was one of her ardent followers. You may not know how influentual Ayn Rand was. She even influenced American psychotherapy. Several prominent Republicans and Silicon Valley billionaires follow her today.
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  8696. If it were real love, it would be selfless toward such a young person. They'd at the very least wait for the young person to graduate and turn 18 before approaching them. The relationship would have some idealism about it. I do know people who married their FORMER teachers, quite a few in fact -- but none were minors (or students of that teacher) when the first dated.
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  8697.  @capttrips1523  Yeah, I hate everybody else, too. Most developed countries DO have public housing, and very basic public assistance to avoid actual hunger and homelessness, which can harm an entire population, not just those going hungry and living under bridges, and their young adults start out life with the education they need, and basic health care. Most developed countries DO have excellent public transit, at very low cost, and many have excellent, low cost train systems. The lack of accountability YOU should care about: Wall Street crashes the global financial system, gets even bigger bailouts and bonuses; a Tony Hayward presides over the worst ecological disaster in history (BP's well explodes) and goes on to a MUCH better job and more money right after. Trump has six bankruptcies, no problem. He can be a billionaire and president. HSBC is caught laundering drug money and possible terrorist funds -- oh well. Too Big To Prosecute. What in the world are YOU worrying about? Wake up.
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  8698.  @sheilamacdougal9948  I'll tell you what's crazier: giving investment bankers a virtual license to counterfeit. Notice how that doesn't work so well as a sound bite? Whereas everyone has that relative who sponges off the hard workers of the family . . .
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  8699.  @TheRatsintheWalls  So, are you being sincere, or a pious jerk, too? I can't tell. It was incorrect to impute ad hominem, or some insipid values blather, to my posts. Sorry, Bub. It is too obviously not present. These debates are not all about "values." We can quantify this stuff. I agree irresponsibility is a bad thing, on absolutely every level. When you see it on the smallest scale, however, might it be due to systematic demoralization? When you see it at the very top, is it comparable? No. It isn't.
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  8700.  @TheRatsintheWalls  But I accept his point that responsibility matters. That's simply true. I want him to look at responsibility objectively. When an 18-year-old student could earn an entire year's tuition and money for books at a premier state university with a full-time summer job, that was brilliant at building a sense of real pride and responsibility. You felt effective in this world. When no matter how hard you work, and how careful you are with your money, you find yourself right about where you started, that is a killer. When your kids cannot hope to go to college without serious debt, that is a killer. A lot of people drop responsibility, and a few still hang on to the discourse but pick up resentment.
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  8701.  @TheRatsintheWalls  Speaking of responsibility, I need to shut up and do laundry and cook dinner. I cook everything I eat, since 2005. Long story. :/
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  8702.  KC JONES  This is true, too, but today, with all the competing voices, it is VERY hard to get an education on your own. In fact, it's not even a given if you do go to college. It ought to be. The smartest self-taught people are still very often the best educated. They worked hard for it. And a lot of college grads basically learned advertising, how to pitch an idea, etc., not how to examine it.
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  8703.  @AQuietNight  Except that anywhere from 90 to 96% of humanity has no interest in continued US global dominance. But "you be you." I know the strongest support for the US dollar is the US military. I'm always astounded when people don't know that, or pretend not to.
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  8704.  @Jon-g2d5k  You mean the barely billionaires (if that), as distinct from the really big billionaires in his black book? Or . . . ? Guess I don't follow. LOL
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  8705.  @kinghadu9611  He's been here to participate in posting for 10 years. I only joined during the lockdowns to save videos and subscribe to alternative voices. And I'm not on any other soc med, never have been -- I protect my privacy.
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  8706. Even the most mainstream, establishment CJR sees it.
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  8707. "Sometimes science is wrong." No. Sometimes the scientific consensus is wrong.
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  8708. I think Jimmy asked a real question, and she always gives an honest answer.
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  8709.  @2bRealist  Excuse me, I'm an attorney. No discipline, no matter how small, is ever issued without meticulously observing due process -- nor should it be. Due process requires an investigation and careful deliberation, followed by a complaint, followed by an opportunity to respond. All right. Please explain to me why her actions do not warrant investigation.
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  8710. This RFK Jr interview is SUPERB. Thank you, Jimmy! You always come through! Everything you said was right.
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  8711.  @jeffreyrichard2575  Actually, they are discriminating against Asians in favor of whites. Read the brief.
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  8712. @avibhagan  What's really funny is the extent of scents or ship. That helps everyone grasp the issues.
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  8713.  @TheMansfieldlad  The burden of proof for a proposition is on the one who advances it. If I, who am exceptionally well read, have never come across any evidence for a proposition, I want to know why you find it compelling. Only you can tell me. Even if I do the research, I have no idea what evidence persuaded you. But you do. So tell me.
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  8714. Well, good thing all those prominent people reported on Jeffrey Epstein immediately, and saved those barely-pubescent girls. /s
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  8715. Once Hitchens started blathering about "Islamofascists" and calling for war in Iraq in his overweaning, pompous way, that ended it for me. Being so wrong about a war is not a small thing.
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  8716.  @sheilamacdougal4874  Exactly. The airplane example is not analogous to developing cancer of an unknown etiology, but of actively doing something to put yourself at risk. This is precisely why so many people refuse to accept medical interventions that go against their better judgment. Actively choosing something that you have been warned is risky is entirely different from having something simply happen to you, for which you are not responsible in any apparent way. The vaccine consent forms reflect this fact, by stating that the person can decline the vaccine and their health care will be unaffected. Too bad politicians want to make the public believe something else.
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  8717.  @sheilamacdougal4874  You haven't made a single cogent argument. Instead, you pretended that I didn't. Your pomposity is empty.
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  8718.  @sheilamacdougal4874  My arguments aren't confused at all. I separate variables to look at them individually, before looking at how they operate in the aggregate. If you don't do that, it will seem weird. The fear of COVID has been stoked excessively, leading to terrible consequences for many people whose risk of severe illness or death is likely to be extremely small. Pushing policies that have provoked large numbers of people between the ages of 15 and 25 to contemplate suicide is not my idea of sound public health. Of course you won't touch that.
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  8719.  @Christian___  "Perfect?" 😂😂😂 Don't give yourself away like that.
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  8720. If 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + . . . + n + (n+1) + . . . = (--1/12), then could you just add 1 to each sIde and get 11/12? JUST KIDDING. Or better yet, add (1/12) to both sides and get zero. Yeah, that makes sense.
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  8721. So does Amber. She has NO CLUE about the law or this case. They settled a civil rights suit for $41 million. A civil rights suit will be dismissed if there was no prior exoneration. A vacated verdict is not enough.
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  8722.  @hsmd4533  Try reading the complaint. I found it and read it. I doubt any of these three did. No evidence they bothered. Their job isn't to do real journalism.
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  8723. ​@michaellong9214 I would never trust Amber to make any policy decision that might affect me personally. No way.
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  8724. We know exactly why drug prices are so high.
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  8725. Now, now. It's spelled "mummy."
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  8726. You understand why, correct? Plagiarism is widespread.
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  8727. New hagiography. I remember when Bill Gates was on that pedestal. Tesla and Neuralink have horrendous lawsuits and administrative complaints lodged against them.
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  8728. Um, you don't know about the relationship between the state and federal system, do you? The Supreme Court can't do all that stuff. It's outside of its jurisdiction. The DNC was supposed to win back the Senate. Gee. What happened?
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  8729. Fear. Fear and selfishness.
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  8730. THANK YOU
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  8731. Tainted grand juries during the civil rights era could have made sure no assassination or lynching were ever prosecuted. The process itself, this time, needs to be investigated, most likely by the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ.
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  8732. 💯
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  8733. Unless she was underage, I don't believe his wife cared.
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  8734. They get rich the Nancy way.
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  8735. Listened carefully a second time, from the beginning. Brie is right.
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  8736. @current_interest He had THREE opportunities, THREE. In February, when he knew and he lied about the dangerousness, again in April, when hotspots were overwhelming hospital capacity and even morgue capacity in a few places, like QUEENS, and AGAIN, when Trump contracted it himself. Had he come out of the hospital fighting to make his treatment available to all hospitals, and to pass another stimulus, do or die, and if he had talked about subsidies for essential workers, and promised it -- he would have been reelected. He encouraged resistance to friggin' masks. His niece Mary is right about his pathological narcissism. He cannot focus for an instant on anyone but himself. His whole campaign was whining about how mean the press has been, and about how Biden (Biden!!) is a "socialist." What a sick _____.
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  8737. Robby sure has a cushy job. I can see why he's thrilled to pieces. People once had to work harder. Now, libertarian schtick is enough. It's almost as bad as the televangelists.
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  8738. Both have big baby-eyes.
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  8739. ​ @BE-bk1tb  Briahna's guest on The Hill yesterday talked about that in detail. The OP is only slightly hyperbolic. In her short time at Harvard, she has harmed good people.
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  8740.  @redroseenglishtutors8260  Now what makes you think you know that?
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  8741. No "journalist" who fails to ask Bill Gates about trafficking, vaccine-derived polio, and GMOs is a journalist worthy of the name.
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  8742. Do you think Ukraine can win? His analysis of that war is complete nonsense -- but he never says anything that, when proven wrong, could possibly hurt him. That's his paramount skill. Whatever else anyone may say, and quite apart from any ethical considerations whatsoever, it is simply a fact that America's reputation in the world is now terrible. No one believes anything that America says, because of Gaza. "Humanitarianism" has been exposed as pure opportunism of the most cynical kind. If you are American, it should matter to you, regardless of how you would want that war to turn out. His take on the BRICS+ is whistling in the dark. To mention China's debt and ignore America's is risible.
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  8743. I'm surprised she believed her. I'm serious.
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  8744. ALL three are great. Please.
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  8745. ​ @deanadutcher5877 Musk's "explanation" of the alleged "Ponzi scheme" assumes that the dollar is a rigid yardstick!! 😂😂😂😂😂
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  8746. ​ @RLFinTX He hasn't done an independent audit at all. Show us the team of CPAs and CFAs he has assembled.
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  8747.  @janlampert5688  The people living on American soil whose First and Fourth Amendment rights are being eviscerated, especially Fourth. Anyone who came of age before the September 11th attacks can see the trend and can feel the difference. If you do not live in America, and if you are not at least 40 years old, perhaps you don't notice it.
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  8748. But are either Trump or Joe Biden unacceptable to Wall Street? No. End of story.
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  8749.  @acharris  Exactly.
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  8750. VERY important tells, among others: Glenn watches Joe Rogan. Glenn likes Jimmy. Glenn really supports free speech. Glenn calls his husband his husband, not his "partner." Glenn has picked up working-class expressions, like "so she turns around . . . " Glenn knows what fascism IS. Dude is (close to) perfect.
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  8751. Scoffing at crime waves affecting people she doesn't lunch with did it for me.
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  8752. On the contrary, people like him are never treated with the massive suspicion they deserve, and their schemes don't receive the normal amount of scrutiny that any such venture should. It is a class-cultural bias; "if something went wrong, it's not because he did something bad," oh no. Never that.
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  8753. You are either being ironic or are deeply confused. Trump turned the country over to Fauci. Trump approved Operation Warp Speed. So he made a few of his really mean tweets to confuse matters . . . He's a narcissist, what do you expect? Fauci doesn't run Finland.
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  8754.  @ozdigg9254  Thanks ;)
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  8755. 12:38 can't handle the truth?
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  8756.  @Dez083  I can point to people free and even alive thanks to me. I've taken cases that not only did not earn any money but cost me five figures out of pocket. Maybe you're just not astute?
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  8757.  @stephensuddick1896  Democratic initiatives in improving public education have been SO good, too, for SO long! How could the voters do this to them?? /s
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  8758. Everyone who bought a computer. We just didn't know.
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  8759. THIS is horrific.
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  8760. Not what she said.
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  8761. I love these. They are the funniest threads on YT.
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  8762. @lonepantalones8284  Should have been removed by now. Good posts are all the time. Huh. 🤔
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  8763. She was fine, but quite a few people went into shock upon being vaccinated, and at least one person ended up on a ventilator.
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  8764.  @MrRhetorikill  FALSE. She did not die. That was a rumor.
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  8765.  @iceink  EXACTLY. And who's fault is THAT, "in the richest country in the world?" The cat is out of the bag. COVID is curable, for Boris Johnson, AOC, and Nancy.
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  8766. Y'mean one where there is no global pandemic and no looming depression? Well if you put it that way . . .
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  8767. The way to "help" is to push for negotiations, not to sabotage negotiations and pour arms into the conflict. "Help." That is an Orwellian word in this context.
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  8768. Did you know that the Swiss Ministry of Health told people who had had COVID to take only one dose of the two-dose vaccine regimes? They did this early in 2021, when the hysteria was still high. I followed what other countries were doing from the start. For obvious reasons.
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  8769.  @dqh6429  Constitutional rights are something that cannot be taken away from you, by ANYONE in the government, without amending the Constitution. You have the right to decline to exercise them. You have the right to try to persuade others not to exercise them. The right to use birth control, including forms of birth control that may prevent a zygote from being implanted, falls under that very same analysis. A lot of religions oppose artificial birth control. Some even frown on rhythm. They have a right to advocate for their view, but not to criminalize those who disagree.
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  8770.  @iansanford6544  Under Johnson, which for many good reasons was regarded as a failed administration, everyone qualifying for Medicare was signed up in a matter of months, without computers. People used index cards. There is no comparison to today.
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  8771.  @pausereflect5911  Oh please, NATO has bombed my family, and I frankly would not be surprised if they engineer that again. At this point, I'm expecting it. I know about NATO, the CIA, and all the rest -- well, as much as we can know, given that they operate in the greatest secrecy that has ever obtained in known history. Of course NATO has been the main aggressor all along. I'm still right about these past eleven months. Every war and every escalation of a war that can be avoided must be avoided, and you don't know whether it can be avoided or not until you try.
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  8772.  @brainguy3263  Who was President this year? And he did what, besides tweeting? Did ANY politician make a speech like this lady just did, much less anything else? Don't make me laugh.
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  8773. @Michael James Passed? You mean he proposed it, via a congressman? I'll check that. I did check it, and he did authorize FEMA to use about $8 billion in emergency money for wage assistance. Perhaps that's all he could do himself, but it is only 1% of the current bill being negotiated, which is half of what was proposed before the election. Did anyone in the administration put the pressure on McConnell, or denounce Pelosi for her treachery? Face it, Trump tweets instead of working. Reality television star. Read how Lyndon Johnson used to do it -- Medicare is his legacy.
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  8774.  @artmathias9725  That wasn't her point about the mall at all. The point was, it was open for business, without any precautions enforced. The point was double standards and no equity of enforcement. She worked so much harder to follow the rules in her establishment, but it still "wasn't good enough." I'm sorry that you find it much more important to guess at someone's political identification (in a country where the plurality considers themselves Independent, no less) than to hear what they have to say. She may have family ties to her state. It's the only reason I ended up in America. I hope I can leave, entirely. Jeering at victims and blaming victims during a crisis -- which is exactly what happened 12 years ago, too -- well, I have had my fill of it, thank you. I don't expect to see improvement any more, especially thanks to social media. I've lived elsewhere, so I know what I'm talking about.
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  8775. Never do that. Not ever.
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  8776. Thank you for this. I lived in France during most of the 80s, and plan to emigrate from the US. Everything you said was perfect.
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  8777. Does anyone have the feeling any of these people know what they're doing?
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  8778.  @warren52nz  la droite (et la gauche)
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  8779.  @TK-fi6ds  Who said accepting the money was illegal? Straw man. The very POINT is that what occurred is ordinary. MSM pretended the payments to Hunter, from very dubious Russian actors and Chinese actors, did not happen. This was reprehensible. The press must report the facts -- and I expect them to place the very same focus on Hunter as on little Jared, etc.
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  8780.  @TK-fi6ds  I see. So, you see this as an exercise in simply taking sides, Biden vs. Trump and his little mob? Not a question of principle? If so, demand a cut for your support, or some other tangible favor. Otherwise, no one will respect you.
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  8781.  @TK-fi6ds  Maybe neither Trump nor Biden is likely to be actually compromised. Maybe they are all a bunch of grifters when they deal with countries outside of the core members of NATO or the Five Eyes -- in other words, non-Western countries which of course they do not respect. Maybe they are creating false hope among those who gave them (or their companies or their foundations) money, and general distrust and animosity toward Americans, and . . . one day the chickens will come home to roost? Could that happen? Or is this too many dots for you to connect? Your rationalizations are astounding.
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  8782.  @TK-fi6ds  We tolerate our celebrities, politicians, and hyper-billionaires. Don't imagine everyone else on the planet is cool with it. Don't imagine their views don't count.
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  8783.  @TK-fi6ds  Do you consider it fair reporting to say "the report contains nothing new," when in fact it has been determined that substantial payments were made for no obvious reason to Hunter Biden by dubious Russian and Chinese actors? If this isn't news, then as Krystal pointed out, that very fact is news. The fact that this is how goes in Washington (or in NYC, Trump Towers, for that matter), all just business as usual -- that fact certainly IS news.
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  8784. The "treatment" for this used to be reading Peter Pan.
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  8785. And this is over visas. Suppose someone says something real about agency capture? Government contracts? Monopolies? . . . TAXES?
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  8786.  @utah_koidragon7117  No. But when they do, it is an act of civil disobedience and law enforcement should follow the law in requiring them to disperse or be subject to arrest. I'm assuming firing live rounds is not appropriate, for example.
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  8787. @glennmitchell9107  On what basis? A state cannot limit federally protected rights. That is basic constitutional law. Nothing in the Dobbs decision changes that, because the decision does not declare that full personhood for purposes of abortion law begins before birth.
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  8788.  @Rob_Jacobs  People don't care whether something makes sense. They care whether it's retweeted. Trump said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and still have his supporters behind him. That he said the quiet part out loud was more funny than sinister. What he could do, and did, was say 2 + 2 = 4 before breakfast, 2 + 2 = 10 after lunch, and 2 + 2 = 16 at dinner and it was all "true." That scared me more. Meanwhile, the US Dollar is under attack. By the way. If you think this is bad . . .
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  8789.  @terrific804  Precisely what people did in the era of Roe v. Wade. Great example.
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  8790. @sereksusvictar7888  Who was funny? Mace wasn't funny. Dave Chappelle: "it's always funny, until it happens to you." Chappelle is funny.
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  8791. @sgv3750  People apologize to you because they need to. You may or may not care either way. 😊
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  8792. And if they all say okay? oops
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  8793. You did this in grammar school when you divided 1 by 3 and got 0.3333 . . . and so on to infinity. This means 3/10 + 3/100 + 3/1000 + 3/10,000 + . . . + 3/10^n + 3/10^(n +1) . . . for all N
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  8794.  @KucheKlizma  "Man is mortal." We can consider this universal truth in philosophy, biology, physics, cosmology, etc., many domains besides "church." You're confusing universal with absolute. A truth can be universal and relative.
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  8795. Or highly unusual, anyway.
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  8796.  @SlinkSadaScopi  She asked some questions. You don't like questions?
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  8797. How many virtue hoarders are in Jeffrey Epstein's black book? Gosh, I wonder when they'll (deign to) tell us?
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  8798. I'm shadowed again --- why??
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  8799. Yes, this was a surprise.
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  8800. No one "voted" for this.
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  8801. Eminently sensible. Or by our own politicians, for that matter, and generally for fundraising, not principles.
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  8802.  @kelliintexas3575  Paper books, paper notebooks. Pen and pencil. These will soon be "old-fashioned" art suppies.
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  8803.  @fredschnerbert1238  No reason to think that he meant anything rational. ;)
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  8804. 18:22 Classic feature of a pyramid scheme.
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  8805.  @michaeldreibelbis9529  Well think about the children.
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  8806.  @michaeldreibelbis9529  Well think about those other children.
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  8807.  @morganghetti  People go ape-sh*t whenever they notice that a woman whose husband or father are not WASPs is truly brilliant. She didn't get the permission slip that would protect her. WASPs they simply leave alone, because they know that no amount of trash talking can undermine a WASP's self-confidence. Bri? She might still be vulnerable. You can get to the top by striving to be the best, or by taking out your competition. Guess which is easier in 2022?
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  8808. Jimmy is right. Jerry is image tending. Is he afraid of someone? Who would join a political group where people have to act like they're afraid? More like a religious cult. Real socialism is not a cult. It's this: 43:28
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  8809.  @utah_koidragon7117  Your analysis is sound.
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  8810.  @felliesweetie  And you think you're not racist? You KNOW people will believe that sh't and you know exactly why. Doria Ragland was a licensed social worker. In California, if she had had any record at all, there would be evidence of an inquiry prior to her being licensed. Someone with a record can be licensed, but it's hard, and in any event there would be evidence of an inquiry to make sure she was fit.
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  8811. ??
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  8812. I think this shook her. I expect greater meekness. Call the other progressives.
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  8813. Bri muddled this. It is illegal to use deadly force in defense of mere property, everywhere. Lethal force is justified if you put any person at risk of imminent physical harm. It is never legal for defense of mere property. Social ills, etc., are irrelevant. The age of the perpetrator is irrelevant. Whether he put a person in danger of physical harm is the only question that matters. It is a bright line. We have a lot of gun owners in America, and this isn't common knowledge? Wow, just wow. Also, this is exactly why a carjacking, or a home invasion while there are people in the house, can be met with lethal force. It doesn't matter if the assailant turns out to be unarmed, or was just looking to burgle and thought the house was empty, or was only 13. There is no question about this. It's called "self-defense" for a reason.
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  8814. She lied about the law. She is a lawyer, she knows.
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  8815.  @cole9058  "cope?" What did you used to say before that word became trendy? The only one seething is Peterson.
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  8816.  @jayvdb  Thank you. Serious encroachments on our FOURTH Amendment rights are happening while we sit mesmerized by social media meming. The latter is just more potent advertising. That, we can resist.
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  8817. Yeah, put that on the shoulders of a fourth grader, or a high school freshman for that matter. Or how about this? Let's all take a stand for raising educational standards and fail to read a nationally significant Supreme Court case on First Amendment rights. Let's lead by example. /s
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  8818. True threats are illegal. True incitement to violence is illegal. Theoretical discussion is protected speech. They should have come prepared with copies of Brandenburg v. Ohio, the Supreme Court case that explains it, and later cases like R.A.V. v. St. Paul. And they should know Title VII, Title IX, etc., by heart, and know their relevance. But they don't really care.
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  8819. Socrates, in the Apology: There are two ways to come out on top. The harder one is to make yourself as excellent as possible. The easier one is to destroy everyone else. Which do we encounter the most? Which do your children encounter? They encounter people who want to trounce them, by undermining them -- not by improving themselves. It is this phenomenon, of pernicious competitiveness, that leads to great concern with self-esteem.
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  8820. 👏👏👏
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  8821.  @thekoolaidmaker5103  How many times does this invented story have to be proved wrong? What will it take? And how do you know Putin's public remarks aren't a distraction/reverse psychology/false flag? Are you so sure Russia isn't planning for a confrontation with the US, and welcoming it? Or at least assuming that confrontation is inevitable? You are very naive.
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  8822.  @Aj-uu5is  Threat of being fired is a big deal. I consider that coercive.
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  8823. So people who have never lifted a finger for anyone get to say what people must inject into their bodies. Good to know.
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  8824. 1:06 7:39 JIMMY ON FIRE 🔥🔥🔥
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  8825.  Thanos7575  Someone who joined 4 months ago and follows Sam Seder and Vaush. At least read The Guardian or something.
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  8826. @Arch009  You're right. I was not thinking beyond the human condition as we have known it. I was not thinking of possibilities such as the end of all mankind, which haven't happened yet but are possible.
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  8827.  @ellea3344  Thank you, Stacey.
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  8828.  @AidenMarcelle887  That's what that sounded like to you? I hope you're kidding, you poor, poor thing.
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  8829.  @kellyw8017  Try again, for fun. Beginner's mind and all that.
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  8830. @franwi1722  That wasn't my point. As you well know. Her arguments have premises. You need to think them through, rather than react immediately and emotionally, as Hollywood and Madison Avenue (and Silicon Valley, and hashtag clownworld) have trained you to do.
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  8831.  @beansibub1527  Tlaib was born in Detroit. Looks like she has more guts than your little Gutfeld.
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  8832.  @beachliving3127  Do you mean he was involved in a bizarro conspiracy theory, or do you mean he had concerns about Jeffrey Epstein's relationship with Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, "Prince" Andrew, and others long before MSM gave its permission? Do tell.
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  8833. It's almost as if some people think Aaron Mate should not be attacked and defamed even though he is a heterosexual cis man.
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  8834. ​@Zack Heise 2008 was heaven compared to the current h3ll. Even with the subprime crisis! They are outdoing themselves with outrage upon catastrophe.
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  8835. Timestamp? I see nothing anxious. Social evolution has changed the nature of marriage. Marriage used to be socially and materially essential to childbearing, and people used to seek a marriage partner in order to raise children. I hope you see that is no longer the case, and has not been for a couple of generations in the US and Western Europe.
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  8836. Limit olive oil? What do you eat with your bread and garlic?
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  8837.  @jamesmorrow1646  That made her look very bad.
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  8838. @Asturias14  I will. I would like to know who assembled this list, and the criteria for inclusion. I'm sure if I take the time, I will figure it out myself. (I was reading a book, The Seduction of Unreason, which takes priority at this moment.)
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  8839. There have also been a ton of truly unhinged rumors. I suspect the craziest of them might be false flags.
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  8840.  @user-ro9md9wp3j  By thinking, rather than through your usual, ingrained tropisms. Also, have a physical dictionary handy, possibly.
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  8841. So have his lawyers challenge it.
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  8842.  @theo49476  What Adam Smith described was a free market, not capitalism. Like the difference between a star cluster and a black hole. Some of the things he says about a rentier class controlling enough wealth to control massive numbers of people suggest he would see modern-day billionaires as a return to feudal overlords. He didn't come close to Marx in describing what would actually happen, but some of his insights do show that the capitalists who invoke him today are lying.
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  8843.  @oceania2385  Links are shadowed. The research is not hard.
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  8844.  @cannotbeshaken7889  Exactly. This requires a dispassionate investigation. Everything else is less than justice. Everything else is speculation. For those who are damning her, I would just say that clearly she provided this information of her own volition. We wouldn't know this without her cooperation. So, that's a good start. People have been filling in facts when the truth is, there are too many missing pieces.
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  8845. ​ @liseklerekoper2441 If you did your research, you would know Israelis have expressed that very concern in the pages of Haaretz for years. You would know that Israel has a peace movement. I wish American did.
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  8846. I am sorry for their ideological agenda, because tons of what they are saying is true. Too bad they put it in service of their partisan politics. Does this have to happen, to make money and get attention? No one will listen if they don't push anger or divisiveness? What they're doing proves the critique of society is correct.
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  8847.  @XceptDanger  Obviously correct. You have generations born out of wedlock in Western Europe without seeing families destroyed or mass incarceration. In the Latin countries (e.g., Spain, France, etc.), unmarried fathers are more involved with their children than divorced fathers are here. Now all the weirdos will come after you.
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  8848.  @YoungDirtyMexicanOfficially  Copy artfully from the job post and desired qualifications, but don't just cut and paste -- think it through. At least that part is easy. And feel free to apply repeatedly with new resumes, unless they instruct you not to do that within a certain time frame. So, read those directions carefully. Most companies accept resume updates as long as they contain improved content relevant to their needs. Remember, they need you, too.
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  8849. RE: "Long COVID" My gawd, Robby, you are married and you are not aware that when it comes to significant viral illnesses, the typical pattern for women is to have a less severe illness, but a LONGER period of time to full recovery. Men get sicker, and, at the same level of illness, get well quicker.
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  8850.  @IAintTheDaddyMaury  Did they ever say they support unions?
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  8851. @rt-uh6mt  If it is objectively a threat of imminent unwanted physical contact, that would be assault, but that was not clear-cut from what I saw.
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  8852. Well, but were there? Aren't facts important?
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  8853. ​@KB-sv7fm No, they did not "test it a million times." And solid evidence, published in the top tier medical journals, of significant problems in about 1 in 1000 people is mounting. Anything serious in above one or two per 100,000 is considered noteworthy. You don't read journals? NIH makes them available for free in its library.
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  8854.  @KB-sv7fm  Not true at all. This is fanciful, not scientific. Also, my post was about serious sequelae.
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  8855. I'll never forget how Tucker Carlson defended Kyle Rittenhouse, to the effect that "what's a young man to do" when "rioters" come "to burn your city down?" It was the worst, and it posed no problem at all for Fox.
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  8856. Just wait for the usual crowd to start bleeting, "but if you love your children you'd want to keep them safe!!!"
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  8857. Personally, I suspect a set-up. This is a classic dirty trick. DNC planted someone in his campaign, and it's perfect -- he can't say anything because he is then shown to be a Conspiracy Theorist. Checkmate.
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  8858. 4:02 Brie called it a straightforward case of her breaking the law and facing the consequences.
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  8859.  @78md74  Actually, Brie said that to have any chance of invoking any type of "castle doctrine," the woman would have HAD to remain on her own property and NOT cross its threshold. Try . . . Listening? It might work.
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  8860. Carter!? They had three sons, then their daughter much later.
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  8861. Never. Never sounds good to me.
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  8862.  @DogChowGurl  THIS IS ME, every damn time. ;(
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  8863. 3:26 He looks terrible. Why can't he answer? Let's hear a spirited defense for free speech fora on university campuses.
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  8864. "Particle Fever" . . . A film reviewer said she cried when she watched it. I rolled my eyes a little, then I watched it and cried, too. Of course. What a tremendous man.
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  8865. I hate Walker. My doctor had no respect for him, either.
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  8866. This is more effective as mockery, rather than moralizing about using Greta.
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  8867. PLEASE BECOME A CIVIL LIBERTIES LAWYER. PLEASE.
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  8868. Headline not drafted well; not immediately evident Nuland SOUGHT to meet with the Western puppet. Agent is obscured, passive voice is as well.
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  8869. ​@HeadsorTailors Adults used to have to have at least a full year of psychotherapy prior to undertaking drastic medical measures that can never be undone. Perhaps this was too rigorous, but what is happening now is too lax. Every child has a human right to preserve their future reproductive choices, to the greatest extent possible. This should not be overridden by parents. Government should not be coercing doctors and patients, but ask yourselves why we are here.
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  8870.  @jgenoese  That Tim Pool is moderate tells you everything. Every day I'm more confirmed in my plan to leave the US by mid-decade.
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  8871. Sure. A warning is standard in many fields and has been for decades. They get performance reviews that flag their problems long before they are canned.
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  8872. Of course, Penn never served. That bothers me. RFK Jr is for immediate peace talks, and his own son went to Ukraine to fight without letting him know. RFK Jr said that they do not agree on Ukraine but that he respects his son because he's no "chicken hawk." That phrase brought back some childhood memories. We need more anti-war veterans at all levels of government. They served, they cared, they know.
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  8873. @rpena0899  If that attire was not considered feminine during that period, then you've just contradicted your point. Attire does not make a human adult a man or a woman. Attire has nothing to do with it.
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  8874. Hard question. The standard of review for any such statute would depend on the power invoked, and how compelling the reason was. It could only be prospective. But there is less problem with setting standards for government contracts, such as having to justify layoffs first, in order to bid, with stock buybacks being presumed to be evidence that layoffs are not justified.
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  8875.  @crazyratlady3438  Amen.
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  8876. Anyone in plain clothes in the middle of the night who breaks into your house can say they are police. Anyone can say words. The person who fired is not the person the police killed. Didn't you notice?
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  8877. Correct
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  8878.  @rockyevans1584  The footage I saw has her admitting to police she struck him and blaming her psychological issues. I am so sorry she did that. Parents must teach their kids to state "I feel unsafe." Notice how he knew to remain silent!
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  8879.  @lorrainesheil2890  Of course. The police saw marks on his face, but not on hers -- which does not mean she had no marks, just that they were not visible. Then she made admissions to them. In emotional moments, WE ALL DO. You have got to be trained not to. You also have to be trained to talk to police where you know for certain the other person cannot overhear. I could see myself making the same mistakes at her age, easily.
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  8880. "The doctor looks at the baby and makes a guess . . . " shoot me now
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  8881. They disabled the down vote.
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  8882.  @AnaLucia-wy2ii  Duh. Those people qualify for full Social Security, and they collect the pensions they earned while continuing to work in something they don't find so unpleasant or stressful as their main gig, and without worrying so much, knowing that the basics are taken care of. P. S. You didn't think French people actually stop working at 62, did you? (Who do you think owns and runs all of those charming boutiques and independent bookstores all over Paris?)
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  8883. The transwomen teachers, too?
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  8884. A very rare bone disorder where the phosphorus needed to keep bone alive is suddenly deficient. Sometimes it is due to a benign tumor. He never said why he got it. But it is very rare, anyway, and usually treatable.
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  8885.  @theciakilledjfk5973  Right. You and Matt do not have the same values. Of course he's full of it. I'm using understatement for comic effect. But those ARE his values. He spoke the truth, possibly by accident, wrapped in a fabrication that he's no different from others on the left. (Like, say, you, for example.)
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  8886. I'm agnostic yet never liked this guy. I've found him annoying for years. I don't relish being proved right so flagrantly, with that "snake release" tweet. What a truly despicable man. Notice how he invokes ALTRUISM! He cloaks himself in it, when he is just an old man inordinately afraid of death. These are the manipulators, who try to shame others and to moralize, simply to get others to do what they think is best for themselves. In a global emergency, no one's life is more precious than anyone else's, no matter what they have done in the past. The life of someone in their 80's is certainly not worth one vaccine-induced myocarditis in a 12-year-old child. (I say that being much closer to 80 than 12, and no, I do not have teenaged children, or any young relatives for that matter.) I'm proof that an agnostic can have morals. 😊
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  8887. @UltraMEGAMAGARandy  Oh. I thought Trump appointed his cabinet when he was President. Who did?
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  8888.  @theusher2893  To mention the current slave market in Africa, considering Hillary Clinton's part in bringing it about, is disingenuous in the extreme.
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  8889.  @jeremiahdavis360  I'd love to know how many veterans over the age of 25 they admit. How about the decorated ones, who truly distinguished themselves? That is one way to add real diversity to their class and base it on merit as well. I wonder if they ever thought of that.
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  8890. This wasn't illogical. This time, she followed the money. Yeah, if there is a 5% chance of reducing risk, and millions are at stake, you better believe they will bully you for that 5%. There is probably somewhat more than a 5% chance, too.
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  8891. Oh god this is SO bad. HOW did TYT get their money? Most people have to work.
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  8892. ​ @tnndll4294 Russia is not a member of the EU.
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  8893.  @careyfreeman5056  Well, speaking of sense or ship, my post is gone.
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  8894.  @clintholmes2061  Beautifully said.
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  8895. Wow, to think that Don Lemon was right? So he gets fired the one time he is right. Figures. P. S. See Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, by Douglas A. Blackmon, a Wall Street Journal reporter and bureau chief.
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  8896. If Americans are coerced to take an experimental drug to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed, why isn't it reasonable to keep immigrants at near-zero to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed?
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  8897. I agree with everyone. :/
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  8898.  @johnjames502  Amber
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  8899.  @johnjames502  By not only calling on government to give preference to Christianity, but also to decide what are "real" religions, and remove from public buildings all and only those symbols that belong to entities which are not "real" religions, by her lights. Odd; if a belief is not a "real" religion, how does the presence of its symbols in public buildings amount to a violation of the Establishment Clause? Answer: it is a religion; hence its symbols must go, because they do violate the Establishment Clause. They should be removed by legal means. And along with all the others.
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  8900. This video is so massively inferior to the presentation Dore just did with Cornel West, and the discussion with several people expressing skeptical and opposing views to Dore's position that Katie Halper just presented, that it is hard to believe they are treating the same subject. I don't get why they did this. I hope they go back to being a good station.
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  8901. Yeah, but you are normal and nice.
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  8902. 4:30 THANK YOU Robby. The Musk-Taibbi partnership is what matters, not Don Lemon.
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  8903. This is the first time I have ever seen the National Lawyer's Guild and the American Conservative Union (and others) file a joint amicus brief in support of a petition for certiorari to the Supreme Court. It was denied.
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  8904.  @BigB932  I suggest you read those documents. He left California to disrupt union organizing. Do as you like. I don't understand how this dupery can be floated over and over and over.
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  8905. @user-pq7jj3vs3e  Two weeks? That increase in food prices is unprecedented since the 1970s, which was about 50 YEARS AGO. I've never been responsible for putting food on the table during a period like this in my life. You act like that's a joke to you. Pfft.
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  8906. I thought an intake requires determining next-of-kin and whom to notify in the event of an emergency, and whether anyone has power of attorney for health care. Oh well.
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  8907.  @johnharisson5166  So we agree that is wrong, I hope.
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  8908.  @emilys5024  I know I'll be sense oared if I say more. Yes, even referencing official numbers. This is where we are.
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  8909. 8:42 THANK YOU AMBER
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  8910. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/protests-probably-didnt-lead-to-coronavirus-spikes-but-its-hard-to-know-for-sure/2020/06/30/d8179678-baf5-11ea-8cf5-9c1b8d7f84c6_story.html They were genuinely surprised by the fact that the protests did not lead to a spike of cases. What is true is that public health authorities had no way of predicting that. The science pointed to there being a significant risk, and those who denied the risk did so on partisan political grounds. It turned out that being outdoors and having masks (which many had to cover up identities, too) cut the risk dramatically.
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  8911.  @Horus070  I know to expect your smears. Try a more believable one. Even the gilets jaunes got this one, LOL.
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  8912.  @Horus070  Um, just curious -- why are you missing articles? I ask because you attacked me ad hominem.
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  8913.  @magdelanax2122  Oh my goodness, now we see some real substantive responses. "N" just made a very solid point.
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  8914.  @magdelanax2122  The only country without universal health care is the country with the most COVID deaths. Your spiel was plausible in 2019. This is 2020. The House LOST Democrats, and Krystal Ball demonstrated that the more centrist/corporatist the Democrat, the more likely they were to have lost their seat.
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  8915.  @Mistyfire  I'm no longer sure these are real people we are (supposedly) talking to. The insurance lobby is very strong, the FIRE sector precarious (Finance, Insurance, Real Estate). Anyway, my laundry is done. ;)
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  8916. If these treatments are generally harmful, what is magic about age 18? Maybe it should never, or almost never, be done at all. There are a lot of mental health treatments that we no longer do.
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  8917.  @hardowider5054  Less pointedly cruel, but with more serious ramifications -- and the Russiagaters got nearly everyone to join in their mass psychosis.
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  8918. Kim Iversen's treatment of this issue was better.
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  8919. Nicely put.
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  8920. The words that describe the speech that can be punished cannot appear here! 😂
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  8921. When I saw he was from Louisiana, I had hoped he was good on race. Well, well. That was PERFECT. Justice Amy Coney Barrett doesn't get enough credit, either.
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  8922. @Semi_Successful  I'm not against marksmanship being an activity people pursue. I just don't think that less than several years of training puts you clearly ahead of a potential assailant. That's how much training police in other countries get. I'm being realistic about people and their limitations, and the risk you'd run when those limitations become evident in a highly-charged context.
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  8923.  @olliemck60  Correct. They helped prevent severe or deadly outcomes. But you did contract COVID. Listen again.
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  8924. Or the virus itself? We have legitimate questions, and no answers.
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  8925.  @mercyjohnson6436  If you believe in revealed religion, then perhaps it was god who chose not to reveal himself to some people. Faith may not be a "choice" like any other.
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  8926. Have you ever covered the Rotherdam case? The youngest victims were not yet born when the oldest were accosted. It was explained in a strange way, and the claim was that there was no police corruption. I have never heard of such a crime without police corruption. It would be a first.
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  8927. The shocker for me is that the didn't. They gave no indication of understanding the First Amendment, or being able to articulate it in a hearing before the Congress and forcthe public at large. I had no idea they were that stupid. They must not have cared about free speech enough to learn about it at any point.
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  8928.  @suprabh2108  I watched the whole thing twice. She said unequivocally that she respects other people's choices. "The horror, the horror." Still not good enough. Denounce masks or we torture you.
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  8929. She didn't vote for either --- or for Hillary.
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  8930.  @ttbr7687  Case fatality rate overall is 1.85% to 2.1%? That is a 50-sided die. Just how scared are we supposed to be?
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  8931. That was called "the election."
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  8932. Suddenly, the "plain meaning" of the Constitution has no bearing?
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  8933. Every time
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  8934.  @stoneyrules  Hint: don't "quote" eminent French intellectuals to someone with/using a French name. 🤣🤣🤣 Zap!⚡
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  8935.  @stoneyrules  The consent forms and the official vaccine fact sheets they distributed with the consent forms never overpromised. Rachel Maddow and others like her in the media did. They were the ones who flat-out made stuff up. I don't put that on Pfizer, etc.
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  8936. Agree with Katie. PBS producers wouldn't know this.
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  8937. It could only be an improvement.
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  8938. OMG, when my parents got older, every one of their elderly divorced or widowed friends were robbed by their kids. One had to go to court to get the money back. She was the only one who did. The others just died soon after.
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  8939. Exactly. The coercion here is immense. I'm so glad you brought up this proposal to create "sanctuary states" -- and for what? Did the parents beat the boy who wanted to wear a dress, did they lock him in a closet? Or did they just consider puberty blockers, looked at the side effects, and said absolutely not?
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  8940. You don't know anyone 65 or older?
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  8941.  @janeztomazic5546  Thank you. I don't care for this mudslinging. Whenever someone does something really wrong (like, say, TYT -- or Gov. Cuomo), the playbook is to cook up a workplace "sex scandal." Mate should sue. Then they will all shut up on the advice of counsel.
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  8942. You are all crazy.
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  8943.  @turkeytrailhoneybeefarmgeo6292  Wow are people going laugh behind your back when you suffer a hit and run by a drunk driver, and your insurance doesn't cover the medical care and rehab. And then the stress contributes to heart disease, or even cancer.
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  8944.  @hausner8584  So . . . There is no pandemic, and no recession? Oh. There is? A pandemic, and a recession? Then maybe the chance isn't "ZERO."
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  8945. No lawyer would take that job. Someone with a terminal Master's no doubt.
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  8946. The elephant in the room! It's always about race/ethnicity. That is absolutely always a factor.
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  8947. Now is a great time to read Carl Elliott and Robert Whitaker. Absolutely essential.
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  8948. Wow the sense or ship HERE!!
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  8949. Wow. And I thought TYT's progressive viewers were against holding people at Guantanamo. . . . I'm for giving Guantanamo back to the Cuban people.
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  8950. Bottom line, I don't believe in shaming anyone who hesitates based on real evidence and real concerns. I do believe in fighting vaccine misinformation. Fight hard against that.
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  8951. *YES* AND read up on Cariol Horne!!!
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  8952. He always recognizes his reflection? How about that.
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  8953.  @sabinereynaudsf  Good. Then you explain the geography.
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  8954. Just imagine if it were a German newspaper in 1942.
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  8955. A lawsuit was filed. That means there was some measure of investigation and the family, by their attorney, has witnesses prepared to testify under oath to the facts alleged. But you're right that nothing has been proved yet. Still, it's a better foundation than most of what people hear on the news and believe.
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  8956.  @bjones8470  Listen, I am worried, too. Greenwald and Dore together are powerful. "Uh oh!"
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  8957. You have a lot of company/sympathy.
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  8958. Very good point.
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  8959. This is a bunch of bull. Read a real biography of someone who achieved things you truly admire, and you'll find a jumble of all sorts of emotions, including of course resentment. What you will notice most often is an absence of self-censorship. Of course! It's a waste of time. (By the way, butterflies encircle me all the time.)
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  8960. You could look up Chauvin's federal plea agreement and see what Chauvin pled guilty to in federal court. It describes exactly what Chauvin himself agrees he did. Takes two seconds to find. Or, you could watch Cop Shows. The advertisers thank you.
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  8961. John of God was a huge mistake in a series of bad mistakes. Starts to look like a pattern of poor judgment. . .
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  8962. That would be a possible sign of overreaching. What could be his contribution? Some of these "authors" never read the paper.
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  8963. @Pequod Requiem Cute idea.
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  8964.  @Getoffmyhair  LOL
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  8965.  @mxxmm4365  He told his side. He told his side now because he was threatened now.
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  8966.  @mxxmm4365  If that station had a Howard Stern atmosphere going on, and he showed with clips from that time that it did, is there some other way to say that? Maybe so. Please suggest an alternative.
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  8967.  @mxxmm4365  I wonder if people understand the "joke." It was bad. I wish I weren't surprised that he blurted it out. Why do you think he took great pains to apologize right away, and promise not to repeat anything like it again? Tell me what he's supposed to do now, after Ana vows to threaten his livelihood?
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  8968. Let's see what the Biden administration does about what TRUMP did this week. Then we'll know everything we need to know about Biden.
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  8969.  @privateaccount1366  Thank you so much!
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  8970. She said from the very start that what Walsh said is protected speech. That was the whole point of everything else she said. Namely, that taking ethics seriously might help avoid the extremist call for criminalizing speech. Too many ideas for you?
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  8971.  @noahw5887  He's not countersuing. He sued her.
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  8972. And there is a law that says you can use lethal force to defend your own safety, but not to defend property. It is illegal to use lethal force to defend mere property.
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  8973. To stop Le Pen, "they've created chaos" --- as if Le Pen in the (non-absolute) majority would not have been chaos. The responsible thing would have been "to allow Le Pen to govern?" No one prevented her from persuading the voters to vote for her party. Having said that, great analysis overall. Lots of perceptive observations that no one else makes, yet perfectly true. (What's up with these other analysts? Why don't they know any of this history?)
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  8974.  @AnnusMirabilus  Exactly. Apparently, a lot of people don't care for this journalist. I never saw him before or heard of him. I thought he was great here. When some of the most poignant things come out at the very end, like the story about friends who committed suicide and the Bob Marley quote, you know he got a rapport with her.
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  8975. When have they EVER taken into consideration the unhealthy labor market? That's good for business.
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  8976. Sure, right. If "objective, merit-based qualifications" resulted in a workplace that is 68% Asian men and 26% Jewish men from Eastern Europe, and 6% men and women of British or German ancestry, plus an occasional Norwegian, what would you say then, hmm?
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  8977. 8:23 to end --- too much truth for you? Looks like.
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  8978. @tonyscott1658  Eastern peoples have better reading skills, for which you've just provided evidence.
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  8979.  @KashBeck  There is research to support it. Don't make these monsters famous. If it stops 5% of these shootings, that could be scores of people. The problem with any measure is that if it works, you generally won't know about it.
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  8980. They'll steal more while in office. If you can imagine.
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  8981.  @trufflesrheaven  They decided to assert their right to bodily autonomy and to make decisions about their health care on an individual basis, in light of their own personal circumstances and in line with the Precautionary Principle. The decision to privilege an invasive mandate, namely leaky vaccines that do not prevent transmission, over regular testing, which would also detect BREAKTHROUGH infections, is not a health decision but a financial decision. In France, the CGT organized a demonstration of vaccinated health care workers in support of their unvaccinated colleagues and against mandates. (Look up CGT. Hard left labor union with ties to the PCF.) All the comments below the L'Obs video report are congratulating the demonstrators for their humanity. How far we've fallen.
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  8982. I love how "UFO" has come to mean aliens. It means the pilots who first encountered them could not make a positive identification (cue spooky music . . . sheesh).
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  8983. "What needs to happen?"
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  8984. Well that's lovely. I posted a statistically accurate and reasoned response, pointing out things like relative vacc ination rates, etc., and I guess I better not finish the thought. I caught the attention of the sense oar. This is absurd.
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  8985. ​ @falconquest2068 I don't think she liked the bad boy in him, either. She probably made too much of the tiny good side he showed sometimes. That's a good heart for you! ;(
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  8986. Thank you.
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  8987. Great point. Never.
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  8988.  @venicebeachsportsnetwork6677  America is right wing.
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  8989. Finland is outstanding, but not perfect.
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  8990.  @varnikachandrasekara1478  I like how you said that. Refreshing!
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  8991.  @zawyehtike3089  Small anecdote: we once had a logic puzzle in a linguistics class I took. Only a Finnish student and I could do it. Most of the rest of the class refused to try. That's what negative competition does to you? Maybe.
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  8992.  @zawyehtike3089  I don't think the Finnish system has too much uniformity. Every educational system must have a core. Everyone has to be able to read. We are reading right now. In Finland, they do not have the draconian tracking of Germany. I think everyone should meet the minimum to go to college, so that it remains an option for them. They do not have to go. But when you finish high school, that possibility should be open. It's not fair to close the door on anyone at age 18. Now we know the brain is not even fully developed for another seven years.
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  8993.  @andrewcrowder4958  I read that he got a physics degree and an economics degree from U of Pennsylvania, but how is not exactly clear. He was short some credits to graduate on time with either. Odd. And no, I never knew that.
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  8994. @1monki  Nope. He never had one, nor does he have one, according to any record. It was a story. Exactly how he got his physics and economics degrees two years late on a student visa requiring normal academic progress is murky.
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  8995. We can laugh, but this works very well. They wear you down, so that you'll quit, turn away, and just do what you're told.
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  8996. ​ @wesleyorange8133 Gross negligence and first degree murder are not the same crime. That is not to minimize negligence. Neglected children often die.
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  8997. Did David give Gail a raise? Just curious.
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  8998. David Goggins has an inner voice like Socrates'.
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  8999.  @nolanarmstrong2458  The latest analysis of the "Russian bounties on American troops" story, just posted by Aaron Mate, with Glenn Greenwald, is excellent. These are the TYPES of stories floated, depending on the needs of those deciding whether to go to war and where. Now that the war in Afghanistan is going to be privatized (contractors will remain), the bounty story is being withdrawn. There are tons of examples, from Vietnam to Iraq; Philippines.
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  9000. When I was a kid, a LOT of people feared a nuclear exchange. I'm not surprised that the climate is a concern today.
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  9001. 10000000% I was JUST thinking precisely this. Marx was a child of the Enlightenment, not the early Middle Ages. P. S. I always ask smart people: please recommend several books!
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  9002. @JohnKobaRuddy  I would never start there, lol. On top of everything, his training is in medieval English literature. Real experts are people like the late Stephen F. Cohen. He never accepted received views or anyone's slogans without investigation.
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  9003. AOC couldn't just own it, and say she regrets she didn't show up, like any normal person would if they had the poor judgment to miss something they should have made sure to attend.
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  9004. I certainly would. Those are made under oath and are legally relevant to the issue of custody. If you think people don't misperceive or outright lie in these emotionally fraught situations, then you are sorely lacking in experience. Having said that, a journalist should always find out what the other side has to say, then refer to the actual court record for both parties, to compare that to their interviews. The court record is the least likely to contain false assertions.
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  9005.  @martman123456  I wasn't saying you lacked experience with court records. I was saying that if you think people don't misperceive or outright lie when telling their child custody stories, then you lacked experience. I still remember when a parent wanting full custody would claim the other parent was sexually abusing the child. In some jurisdictions, DAs had to start prosecuting parents for perjury to put an end to it. Since what's relevant in this case is what the court did, and it has to explain why it did what it did, that's the place to look. Is it possible the father is a "better" parent? Suppose he is. I still don't believe in making stuff up to get legal custody.
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  9006. @gewurztramina  And you believe them -- why? It could be true, sure. Or not.
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  9007. Glenn Greenwald just interviewed Gray on his program. Hear the perspective of a real journalist on the issue.
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  9008.  @eemoogee160  true, that
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  9009. The press needs to be held accountable as well --- I had to consult Hindustani Times to find out that Berlin had a huge march to end military aid to Ukraine.
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  9010. Cha-ching
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  9011. Gutting any medical privacy and personal autonomy law during the pandemic -- why does this increase my unease?
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  9012. This is a common pattern. There is no guarantee that this will be the case with COVID 19.
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  9013. Remember Blade Runner?
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  9014. Of course it is illegal. It is fraud. It can also be considered an assault and battery, due to lack of informed consent.
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  9015. 💯
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  9016. If your focus isn't complete, you can be killed doing this stuff.
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  9017. I agree.
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  9018. Reuters reported on April 4 that the Pentagon said "obviously" the Bucha deaths were the "responsibility" of the Russians. Then, a second Pentagon source told Reuters the Pentagon had "no independent confirmation" of who committed the atrocity, and "no reason to doubt" the Ukrainian claims. This was also published April 4. On that basis, Sean thinks we should do what, exactly?
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  9019. I guess a lot of people didn't realize that asking Putin why, if all he said were true, he didn't attempt to stake a claim to Ukraine 20+ years ago, was seen by Putin as hugely aggressive. How does anyone miss this?
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  9020. People under 18 cannot enter into most contracts, much less illegal ones.
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  9021. Rittenhouse was reckless when he fired the first four shots, with McGinnis, an innocent bystander, in the line of fire. With bystanders around, the question whether four were necessary for self-defense is immediately raised. Grosskreutz testified he believed -- rightly or wrongly -- that Rittenhouse was an active shooter. Sworn testimony is evidence. Huber's filthy house is not. Having said that, I always oppose charging minors as adults. This kid was misled and ill-served by many adults around him, and did not finish his junior year of high school. He did not get that weapon on his own. He didn't come up with the idea to be in Kenosha on his own, either.
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  9022.  @michelleerwin3833  More proof they'll do anything.
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  9023. How were they at fault? This happened in another state. They weren't even there. I see him as being at fault.
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  9024. Robby, the CORPORATION is not a natural kind. No one gives birth to it. It is a creature of the state, and its charter provides for LIMITED LIABILITY. That means a CEO can't be held responsible by a court for anything he does in furtherance of his business. No one can touch his pay. That's why BP CEO Tony Hayward never lost a penny of salary, and no clawback on the stocks he sold just before the well blew. YANK THOSE CHARTERS.
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  9025. Had he made money doing this very thing, abusing a wage worker, he would have been proud. He would have been preening, on television, at cocktail parties . . . These people are empty.
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  9026.  @beepbopboop7727  Of course. People are STILL making light of COVID. I want to, too. But then my reasoning mind stops me. :/
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  9027. This was outstanding.
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  9028. @Silence_between_waves Wonderful observation --- sadly!!
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  9029. Which, if their work is selective, isn't wonderful, either. But The Intercept shed no light on that at all. It's not doing the reporting. Why isn't it? That is the ONLY way to show that someone or other is unfairly selective in their reporting.
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  9030.  @goosey235  We're good.
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  9031.  @danalexander2149  You mean you don't know how that spooky dark web platform is spelled? 🤣
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  9032. Malice looks like a classic CIA plant. Remember who turned out to be -- review that list. Well, he resembles them. No idea if he is, that's not my claim.
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  9033. But I thought Fauci was the personification of SCIENCE??
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  9034. It wasn't a very good criminal case. Even The Nation had a series of articles on it.
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  9035.  @HowardoColeBrown  He gave them too much credit.
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  9036. @leadme2thebliss21  Your misleading comment -- misleading when read as a retort to mine -- will not be shadowed. I wonder if my responses, containing actual information from WaPo and the DoJ press release, will remain visible? Social media prefers antisocial exchanges.
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  9037. Ask Hillary. Just for kicks.
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  9038. Back to Howard Stern Hour.
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  9039.  modernaspider3076  I think this is nonsense. I did not get the vaccine, for the simple reason that my concerns were never addressed -- nor could I find out whether what I had in March 2020 was indeed COVID, nor were any vaccines tested on a population that had been exposed to COVID or had recovered from COVID. Nor could I get the healthcare I needed during these three years. SO, I'm unvaccinated. I nevertheless believe the vaccine was probably benign for most people who took it, and that most of those harmed by it can recover. The number of injured is still far too high, and the benefit (if any) is too limited. All these vaccines should be withdrawn. I don't believe in scaring those who simply did what they were told was right. I think humans are resilient, and that most of them will be all right. They would probably have been better off had they never touched it, but that doesn't mean they can't recover now. It will take work.
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  9040. Don't look now, but even our money isn't real.
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  9041.  @allenhart8256  You mean, work? Huh. That's a new one. /s
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  9042.  @TheRealLucifer_Morningstar  Nicely done.
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  9043. Is this the moment to trash anti-war voices? As for Rubin, his latest videos are about self-care and self-help gurus, like Eckhart Tolle. So much for that.
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  9044. This was epic all right.
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  9045.  @neongirluk  He did not make any such claim. He reported that the assertion was made. This is accurate. If one person says something, and another person hears it, the latter can report hearing it as long as they make clear that they aren't endorsing it by reporting it. Another example: students report overhearing a school shooting suspect cry about having been bullied. That doesn't prove he was bullied. It's evidence that he once SAID he was bullied, and that he was crying when he SAID it.
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  9046. Did you read her article? That's what the case is about. Whether the article is First Amendment-protected or whether Heard can be punished for it by having her assets seized and turned over to Depp. Briahna was too quick to look to societal ramifications, rather than the core issue: every defamation case is about speech or writing that is presumed to be First Amendment-protected, and the plaintiff is trying to prove it should not be. He is trying to silence someone else rather than telling his own story. I thought Americans believed "the remedy for bad speech is more speech." I also thought Americans were opposed to show trials. Ha.
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  9047.  @TheZodiacz  Wokes love to censor.
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  9048. Evidence?
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  9049. Brie has always been consistent: when she was co-host on The Hill and she agreed with some narrow point Trump made, she said so.
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  9050.  @darrenhergert8801  Does Australia speak Chinese? No, it's one of the Five Eyes. This isn't to defend China or the CCP. It is to point out that the SAME sorts of conflicts and the same world views that brought us to the current catastrophic state of the planet are still being advocated.
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  9051.  @gordonbrown5901  By spouting sheer nonsense and making it palatable to a certain class of people.
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  9052. "Conservative, sexist, racist?" Wait, they forgot anti-Semite.
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  9053.  @marciasloan534  If you know this person, get away. Do not give him any warning. Be very quiet and very careful not to betray the slightest sign of your plan. Think up some huge flaw (in his eyes). Hint that you have to be tested for breast or colon cancer, for example. He'll drop any friendship with you. I am telling you exactly what I would do. I am not kidding. After a while, change your phone number. Get a post office box. I'm assuming that moving is too difficult. Move if you can. Make sure some close family member who you can trust knows something about it. Be careful what you tell them, too. If they might gossip, then don't tell them anything that could harm you or tip him off, if it ever got back to him. You asked this question for a reason. Respect that inner voice.
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  9054.  @meself349  I know. They love to jeer at others and never see themselves.
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  9055. All right, what will happen now?
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  9056. ​ @luziosalles324 People voted to renegotiate the pension rollback. Le Pen just showed that she has no interest in addressing pensions, either. Looks like Le Nouveau Front Populaire stands with the people after all.
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  9057.  @harrymills2770  What a shame. It was good.
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  9058.  @harrymills2770  Just as factual and cogent as yours, I assure you.
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  9059. Instead, he has a "documentary" with Lady Gaga.
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  9060. Very true and perceptive observation.
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  9061. National Geographic published an article on "leaky vaccines" several years ago, LONG before the issue was politicized. Everyone should look it up and read it carefully.
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  9062. No it's not. That you read it as criminal is based on your lack of knowledge.
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  9063. So far, AI processes immense quantities of data, far beyond what people, assisted with standard computers, could do in several hundred years. The analysis is purely statistical. That's why it has started making serious errors --- in mathematics, ironically enough. In the case of wrongly identifying prime numbers, which ChatGPT often does, it is probably because it is generalizing over millions of opinions about whether a given number is prime. 😂 You've read about this --- right?
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  9064.  @liberalismisaids9564  Speaking of NIH, getting Dr. Bhattacharya confirmed is the FIRST thing to get done. I trust him to streamline if necessary.
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  9065. ​ @MichaelSmith-lr8cp  And this problem started . . . When? Back when one income not far above the minimum wage was enough to start out in life, and a summer job covered a year of in-state tuition, people got married and had kids. Those kids are now in their 40s and 50s. And their kids face a different world.
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  9066. I agree, but I urge you to suspend judgment for real. I have been following other press, including mainstream Indian and mainstream French. None have said this story is Russian misinformation. There was US DOD money pouring into Ukrainian biological laboratories. The risk that bioweapons, or bioweapon technology, would escape was highest in the 1990s, after the fall of the USSR. What is all that money for now? The questions are real because they have a foundation. We do not have answers.
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  9067.  @I-Libertine  Listen to his interview of over one hour where he explains his theories step by step and very carefully, like they still do in Europe.
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  9068. ​@cassiescornerreviews6884 So then why did you smear a MURDER VICTIM and claim she drugged her baby, with zero evidence? Because she can't sue?
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  9069. ​ @markangelorgs.2773 She's a troll. She smeared a murdered mother.
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  9070.  @pariah_carey  Show me a burned down city. A small one is fine.
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  9071.  @margottfon330  Well, s/he accused someone else of precisely that, of "projecting," without any discernable basis for suggesting they were -- someone who apparently removed their comment (probably wise). I simply repeated what s/he said back to her/him, as irony. This was, um, a while back,
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  9072.  @pohakumana  It's called a hypothetical.
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  9073.  @pohakumana  David Beth used that hypothetical first. Missed that?
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  9074. Start at 2:16 and listen for under 60 seconds. You can do it.
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  9075.  @nathanielhoward1498  Yeah, I live in Chicago now, and I remember when the single largest demographic was black. The North Side must be more densely populated now.
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  9076. @imveryhungry112  I'm not saying I do. 1) I have no idea whether it's true; and 2) people lie. People lie a lot. I'm saying it is possible. It is possible in exactly the way I described: freelance contract that almost certainly took more than a year to conclude. Were you in the work world in 1990? In NYC or LA?
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  9077. That is not fair to Saagar. He supported the POLITICAL strategy -- for good or ill. He was not a member of a Bannon personality cult. He is being honest here. He just said this type of grifting is THE worst betrayal. Condemn Saagar for supporting the political strategy if you want. Because he did that. And of course the wall project itself was racist, so there is plenty to criticise.
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  9078. 9:23. So, . . . Putin is right. Hands down. Milošević too, in fact. SMH
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  9079.  @phillawrence5148  Sworn testimony is evidence.
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  9080.  @eze2190  "I love America. I’m a critical thinker." -- was what YOU wrote. Not quite an oxymoron, but when read in conjunction with the logical howler in the OP, well . . . let's just say thinking tout court isn't your strong suit.
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  9081. Yes, this is the usual correlation. It is not a necessary connection, particularly in a virus that is not highly lethal, but you're right, it certainly is what usually happens.
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  9082.  @JordonDev  Exactly. Not to mention we all know there are young athletes who cannot go back to their sport for 6 to 9 MONTHS, due to signs of cardiovascular inflammation. Serious stuff.
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  9083.  @chitvankang3525  The pandemic has put me back to the same, unfortunately. But thank you, you are so kind. There is no substitute for home-cooked Indian food. I am a vegetarian, so I know! It is the best.
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  9084. I'm sorry, you don't know that. She has invited people who disagree with her vehemently to her own show.
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  9085. ​ @freedman3912 No. It literally made me sick. (I caught my very first COVID.) The insanity that soon followed shocked me more. Amy Goodman is a good antedote to your rhetoric.
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  9086.  @ILLYRIANPost  Montenegrins are the least Slavic of the Slavic peoples of former Yugoslavia. The Albanian, Greek, and especially Latin influences are patent. It's unmistakable. The warmth toward Catholics on the part of the Orthodox Christians is striking as well. Some people have some Jewish background as well, although that is not as common as in other areas in the region, and as far as I can tell, it's all Sephardic. Nope, not a typical Slavic people at all. It's the Mediterranean, not the Black Sea or the Baltic.
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  9087. Michigan is lost.
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  9088. @franciking  When a plaintiff survives a motion for summary judgment, a rich defendant settles. Sworn testimony can get you there, you don't need recordings. Sometimes the defendant himself recorded the interview. That can come out during discovery.
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  9089. How could anyone be persuaded that trans is cool?
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  9090. Katie and Aaron are very funny, too.
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  9091. The ones that accused the people who made those videos of being criminals were certainly ideological. They didn't even realize that some of the Tik Toks were spoofs, not real. If children are in actual danger, absolutely investigate, and whenever necessary arrest. Make them accountable in court.
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  9092. Now I seriously worry for them.
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  9093. NICE!!
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  9094. @sisaket33  I agree. But he remembers some negative buzz from somewhere about Spain. He doesn't know why it was said. Maybe something like, "Putin puppet." I could think of other things.
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  9095. I was impressed, yes --- and I don't agree entirely with their position. That's not the point. Law enforcement is supposed to order a demonstration that blocks roads to disperse, and then give the demonstrators a reasonable chance to disperse, especially if they show some movement in complying with the order. You have a problem with that?
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  9096.  @pfjohnson1964  Read the law. Letting immediate family continue to live with you is not illegal in Florida. As long as you don't obstruct police or lie to them or destroy evidence, you've broken no law. Real simple.
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  9097. @kala3019  The misinformation is this video. They were apart for nearly a week, when Brian flew to Florida alone to clean out a storage unit and sell some things to raise money. We need to figure out why she didn't flee. She was alone and had her van. She could have mailed his possessions back to him and gone blank, taken a new route home, gotten a burner phone.
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  9098.  @guymross  I see four of eleven. So foul.
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  9099.  @luvitluvitbaby  Let's assume for the sake of argument that you're right about "illegal means," which is doubtful, but we can assume it. How does "discover[ing]" something "through illegal means" make any part of what was discovered "fake?" It does not follow.
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  9100.  @user_golden  Well, what if someone gets confused and calls on the president of Colombia to resign?
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  9101.  @jman75234  "He said he would." Well then, it's a sure thing! LMAO
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  9102.  @jman75234  This one is having an impact. We demand that the House start working FOR US. They needed a reminder, looks like.
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  9103.  @Lindsey0007  I've also found that you really can't tell people you're on disability. It shouldn't matter, but it's just one more personal fact that you cannot share. I know people who have kept it secret from their closest friends, for a decade. It's ridiculous, because you should be proud to have perservered and earned the benefits you are entitled to. Getting proper benefits is hard. Good for you for sticking with it and getting them.
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  9104.  @retroray58warby98  arg you beat me to it 🤣
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  9105.  @rottierumbles9451  True, you're right.
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  9106. This war should have ended months ago, with Crimea and the Donbass either under the Russian Federation or as independent, Russian-allied regions, and the impoverished Ukrainian people at peace, without their homes and livelihood destroyed. Yes, of course, the US has its paws all over this. But Putin escalated this war. He has clearly fallen into their trap. He is to blame for that. The US does not invade anywhere without an aerial blitzkrieg first. It establishes dominance, and relies on propaganda and "soft" power, and hard power, to cover its tracks and avoid answering for war crimes against civilians. Yet it has not been winning its wars, either. How Putin expected to is a mystery to me. He must be surrounded by sycophants. This war is both immoral and an unmitigated disaster.
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  9107.  @Avatar_Brandy  Not at all. Jimmy pointed out that Young does not echo "the science," so called, whenever it doesn't personally suit him, but wants to deprive others of the choice to question "the science," and coerce them to comply, when he considers it in his interest. IOW, no principles.
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  9108. ​@malumachado4561 thank you
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  9109. ​@BDnevernind Wrong. Due Process applies for a whole host of things in addition to criminal law. You cannot have a judgment entered against you if the person suing you cannot prove they SERVED you with all court papers. You cannot be evicted from your apartment, you cannot be expelled from any public school or public university, you cannot be deprived of any right or benefit by any state or the federal government without due process.
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  9110. @BDnevernind  That's no appeal to authority. That's asserting the basis of my knowledge after it was impugned. You could have the very same knowledge by reading the published cases that deal with Due Process, but it's obvious that you haven't, and won't. Stop misinforming people concerning FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS. That won't cover you in any glory. Becoming a lawyer isn't such a big deal, unless you don't like hard work. Then it can be a problem.
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  9111.  @mrx2062  The dissenting judges on the Colorado Supreme Court also read the Constitution. The US Supreme Court will undoubtedly do so as well.
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  9112. For a long time, I had a tremendous doctor, but he retired. I was always reluctant to "do it myself" when it came to health care, but after being a caregiver for my father and researching his condition, using the NIH Library of Medicine, and then going through the pandemic fiasco, I've changed my mind. Please carefully research the nutrition, exercise, prudent intermittent fasting, yoga, therapeutic massage, reasonable supplements, etc., that may be helpful, think it over, and then try these things. The sad thing is that organic food costs a fortune now. As an example, when I find out that a particular supplement is helpful, I first look to see which foods are highest in that nutrient, and how much they contain. Then I know what a normal intake would be. Then I consult Mayo Clinic, including their online store, I consult Memorial Sloan Kettering, and Linus Pauling Center, etc. I'm conservative, but will not stand still for this! Everyone with these symptoms should get their vitamin D and B12 levels checked, for starters. Also, the quickest way to make a sick person sicker is to tell them you don't believe them. That can "work" in minutes. 🙄
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  9113.  @iyoutubeperson4336  The Big Money (Wall Street, Silicon Valley) is for Biden. I.e., the establishment.
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  9114. It is easy for people to believe there were infiltration and provocateurs on January 6, but dismiss entirely that that is exactly what happened with antifa as well.
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  9115. No one used to have to take out massive debt for in-state tuition. A summer job covered a full year.
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  9116. Nor did he fire Fauci. Just let the moratorium on funding gain of function research expire, just as Fauci wanted. Odd, no? No.
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  9117. I guess you missed the gilets jaunes.
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  9118. Sorry to hear. :/
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  9119.  @retroray58warby98  He is (they are?) a known troll. Just block him/her/them.
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  9120.  @socaljet  Was it Department of Defense funded? Was it in a hotly disputed zone of influence in an unstable country? Well, it was in an unstable country at any rate, full of unstable people.
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  9121.  @Zatzzo  Hint: the topic wasn't impeachment at all.
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  9122.  @rogerout8875  Yes, from sources remaining anonymous. The reason I tend to believe them is that they are consistent with many known facts, including the way recent negotiations suddenly broke down. Could they be false? Sure. I think they are probably true. I just don't believe Zelensky is acting on his own accord in any event. He must rely on US/UK for his safety at this point.
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  9123. Oh, don't worry, you'll find love. These are just rough times.
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  9124. I hate the fact that I laughed. No, really.
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  9125. @derekekoch  That's not unfair. However, I get the feeling that we don't agree on the amount of force that's appropriate, given that lawsuits cannot rectify certain harms. Property is property, and life and health are on a different plane. Property can be fixed, and wages garnished to fix it. No problem. Not so for human bodies. There are better ways to handle these protests, as Northwestern University proved.
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  9126. Any of us can click the link to the Australian government website and see for ourselves that it was discontinued three weeks ago due to a serious side effect attributed to the vaccine: thrombosis with thrombocytopenia (TTS), and is no longer in use there, for anyone.
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  9127. Amen
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  9128. I listened rather than watched and was disgusted. I am more and more convinced there is a vitally important case to be made, but they're not making it. This angers me. So, instead of doing their jobs, they're campaigning??
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  9129.  @giganoob1968  A lack of recursive thinking is not a good sign. I mean for present and future cognitive health.
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  9130. You think he is?
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  9131. Incomprehensible, yup. Beyond belief.
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  9132. Briahna just called out Sotomayor and Jackson. Did your eyes glaze over before that part? Understandable maybe.
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  9133. I've been checking what Switzerland and the Scandinavian countries are recommending from the start. Does anyone do what the CDC tells them to do?
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  9134. The shooter was 18.
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  9135.  @annolsen7494  He wasn't a child.
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  9136. ​ @mxcope She never lost her license. She chose not to pay the renewal dues.
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  9137.  @fatrobdouble  That's up to the company. I don't think being a plus-size spokesmodel for a complexion soap is such a lofty job, but if it means so much to you, and you think she got rewarded for becoming known through her dishonest "activism," then boycott them. I've never been impressed by celebrities, so I don't know what this means to people who are. (I thought Shon Hopwood became a lawyer too easily, but we were supposed to cheer for him, too. Ugh.)
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  9138.  @StevenPenny  Trust me, the complaint is a great read. Really hard-hitting. I'm so glad. I'm sure that just seeing it in black and white made her feel better. It really lays out what they put her through. And I agree, they have no MORALS, either.
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  9139. J-L Melenchon embraced the yellow vests. Members of the French Communist Party and people who vote in the National Assemby embraced the yellow vests. American media doesn't report real news from abroad for a reason.
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  9140.  @michaelmcclure3383  She is talking about what is needed to prove a criminal case. Example: Drugged up son states, "my dad is sitting right here!!!" Is he? That's not adequate evidence of his presence. It is a good reason for an impeachment inquiry, among other things, but that won't convict anyone of anything, and shouldn't.
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  9141.  @michaelmcclure3383  She was critical of the classified documents indictment. It surprised most lawyers.
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  9142. There was an article talking about what a great guy Gates is, and it claimed his schedule was planned in 15-minute increments, every waking hour, every single day.
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  9143. ​ @ChrisCypher Neither one can.
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  9144. I do think that an authoritarian state should generally prevent the sterilization of minor children.
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  9145. Sure wasn't meaningless this time. Look up how short selling works.
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  9146. You're that 🤪
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  9147. Nice.
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  9148.  @Bellathebear777  What made you think I support feeding money and weapons to Azov? (IOW, who brainwashed you lately?)
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  9149. "They" did; or "it happened" . . . After a certain amount of money, nothing is your own responsibility. Not even four or more baby mamas . . .
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  9150.  @trailrunner925  That's not true. Read the actual Colorado opinion and dissent.
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  9151.  @elleaubry3772  Every one of you pontificating on this very serious matter (putting aside the problem of "insane 🤡 president" Trump) should have to spend the weekend reading the actual opinion. You don't know what you're talking about. You don't pull people off a ballot in this country "cuz a bunch of people saw a bunch of videos." You campaign against them for that. You don't eliminate a free election.
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  9152.  @sharlagardner  thank you
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  9153. @TriggaTrey361  The problem is that civil rights advocates and peace demonstrators are also accused of spreading hate. That is a problem. I consider it a very serious problem, and a false accusation.
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  9154. You need a declaration of homicide to pursue a suspect. If he stole her van, they could have gone after him for that immediately. (Was the van in her name alone?) If a person steals another person's car and leaves them in a dangerous area, that is a serious crime.
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  9155. Why? Its purpose is to meet all of a person's basic necessities in old age, so that they can live decently and without worry. Its purpose is not to make them rich.
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  9156.  @stonerubber  Perfect.
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  9157. "Prove" means what Fauci and Collins say it means.
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  9158. 💯
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  9159. Young and uneducated.
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  9160. ​ @jonm9538  In general, sure. But not for this.
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  9161.  @UniqueBreakfastTaco  The First Amendment. You read it with the papers of the Founders, to understand fully what those words meant to them. I mean, people do that and stuff. You could try it? No?
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  9162.  @UniqueBreakfastTaco  The Supreme Court has held that it is.
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  9163. @factmanamerican882  Well, Jesus did not remain Jewish. Nor did all the Founders remain Christian. Jefferson, Franklin, Paine and Unitarians like Adams come to mind . . . You don't get abstract thinking, huh? Then don't try to deprive the rest of us of the pleasure, if you don't mind.
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  9164. @factmanamerican882  How does "what country are YOU from?" add to any discussion?
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  9165. The most common major by far is Business, and has been for 30 years. Most such degrees are a demonstration of docility. In 2001-2002, and 2008-2009, computer science grads were not getting offers. If a corporation will not interview you unless you have a degree, a corporation will not interview you unless you have a degree. I don't believe anyone thinks that is fair. That changes nothing. I don't think people understand the current labor market. BTW, daughter of Vietnamese immigrant Mom Kim Iversen has a degree in Philosophy. She always talks about the value of college, and all the women who did pedicures 55 hours per week to make sure their kids went. Once upon a time not that long ago, a student could pay in-state tuition and fees for a full year at the great state universities (Michigan, Wisconsin, Berkeley, Virginia, Texas, . . . ) with a full-time summer job making the minimum wage. People who did that were a different people.
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  9166. What did she say? She agreed the sentences and the crimes charged were excessive. You want to pretend they did nothing wrong??
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  9167. This is a beautiful post, btw.
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  9168. Texas is going to lose obstetricians. That is what will happen.
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  9169.  @traceynomatterwhat383  I am talking about him.
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  9170. Nadine Strossen analyzed these European laws. They are so bad.
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  9171.  @princessbiker1975  Remember, AI is training on comments just like yours.
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  9172.  @ayandas874  Slander is not a crime if not coupled with a call to violence, other lawbreaking, etc., or unless it becomes part of a false police report, etc.
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  9173. RFK Jr looks better every day.
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  9174. 😂 Nice
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  9175.  @carlscott5447  Oh really? What side is the big money on?
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  9176. I'm afraid VAERS is overstating the danger. I have given up on American sources, and consult the foreign press, as well as peer reviewed journals. Politicization is the death of science.
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  9177.  @woswasdenni1914  Why did you post this? Did it make sense to you?
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  9178. ​ @wandaburns8075  Intentional infliction of emotional distress is a possibility.
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  9179.  @earthtoned  Glenn Greenwald posted a short excerpt of Victoria Nuland testifying on the Ukrainian biolabs -- which, oddly enough, were funded through the US Department of Defense, not the NIH. TeleSUR (Spanish) just reported that China demands the US provide full information and an accounting of all biological laboratories it funds throughout the world. Recall our justification for invading Iraq. There is more here than meets the eye. Sadly.
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  9180.  @emp9413  Great advice! I will do that from now on as well!
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  9181. Columbia was sued by Jewish Voice for Peace in March, Robbie, for discriminating against student organizations that support rights for Palestinians. You can find the complaint and see for yourself.
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  9182.  @jeffreysnyder290  Does any seatbelt cause harm to the wearer, comparable to a crash? I thought this person made some good points. No wonder California reinstituted masks requirements indoors. Everything about COVID has been politicized. This does not build confidence. The only thing that is permitted be said is that the people militating against vaccines "are out of their minds." If you think that constitutes evidence for taking the opposite view, then that illustrates my point.
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  9183.  @jetbtkng  Oh there were Sanders voters in 2016 who opted for Trump. It may seem inexplicable but it happened.
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  9184.  Luis Alejandro  I'm so glad the Vietnamese are doing well, by the way. This government tried to poison them. Now, Vietnam has a larger population than Germany. I hope the victims of depleted uranium do as well as the victims of Agent Orange did.
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  9185.  @samcriisfree4432  I knew about Obama/Biden. These are horrible candidates. Anyone shilling for either one is unaware of the facts. I think there are some arguments for voting for Biden based on what he will do going forward, and there are none for voting for Trump. But the Bidenites have not convinced me. I won't vote for him. Lesser evil voting has brought us to this.
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  9186.  @samcriisfree4432  Do you think a Biden win could end populism on the left? I don't think any one person can stop it. It could be stopped in many ways, including by a reinvigorated populist right, but I don't see a Biden win stopping it. He does not strike me as being anywhere near that powerful. That said, I will not vote for Biden, though I do not see him as being as grave a threat as Trump is. Lesser evil voting itself has become the overriding threat, which is why I won't participate in it. And Biden's record is truly evil -- on that we agree. But look at Trump's. He has done a lot of harm in 3 1/2 years, "fast and furious."
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  9187. It's a new c u l t and if you say it, your post goes away somewhere.
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  9188. Exactly. It can't be funny, because it is about kids. Trying to scare me, fine. Trying to scare parents about their young child, criminal.
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  9189.  @orawancarlile6192  Those three on balance changed the world for the worse. And not one of them applied for a highly sensitive job post-9/11 requiring exceptional security clearance, which is the issue here. I agree that Martha Argerich did not need a college education. Yet Einstein did. You know, maybe this mentality of "well, who gets to SAAAAY what qualifications are, ANYWAY?" is not serving us all that well? Ever think of that?
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  9190. @brandonb5075  Of course. That's why her investment was ruined. The new owner, BP, destroyed the Gulf of Mexico and killed workers, its stock then crashed, and the dividends my parents needed were stopped. Of course. All rightfully so, they had huge clean-up costs and restitution -- and they never made it up to the victims, needless to say. Only the CEO prospered in the end. Somehow. What do you think happens? What always happens.
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  9191. Oh. My. God.
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  9192.  @seanb.4712  Very few Americans can retire at 62. People like police officers, school teachers, etc., often retire to a part-time gig, at least. One I know retired from a police force at 55 or so, after 30 years, went to Iraq for two years with a private contractor, made a ton, and then had no worries. Only then.
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  9193. ​​ @TC-zf1ji That woman had no memory of who attacked her, severe brain damage, and was barely clinging to life.
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  9194.  @jamesmason2228  You are desperate.
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  9195.  @saroyafanniel8932  Visualization is a powerful aid to actual, physical practice in people who have already performed that actual, physical practice.
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  9196. Bravo for you. THIS is real merit!
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  9197. Brie, WHY DOES IT MATTER that "the group is small?" I suppose it also doesn't matter that a very small number have been killed by you-know-what.
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  9198.  @gj1695  Robby is phenomenally ignorant.
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  9199. Several are joining the BRICS, in fact.
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  9200. ​@hisayasae Tell us about your musical compositions, the albums you've recorded, the movies you've directed, the novels you've written, where your paintings are displayed . . . Oh. You haven't? 😂
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  9201.  @Alsayid  No problem. What you all are doing is working out great.
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  9202. We just found our?
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  9203. Try finding a contemporary book or program on creativity that fails to mention Gates, Jobs, and Zuckerberg. (Plenty will fail to mention J. M. Coetzee or Arundhati Roy.) We have Facebook. Europe has CERN.
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  9204. Well, they shouldn't be. I'm hoping they stopped by the end of 2021, when the US surge in COVID cases occurred exactly at the time when "complete vaccination" was at its highest and most recent. I didn't get v-ed, by the way. I see no reason to scare those who did, but prudently stopped by 2022 and have not had any known issues since then. That's 34 months ago, at least. 🙄 Something would have happened by now.
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  9205. Not as long as they 💰 her.
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  9206. Brie mentions Epstein in the Jamie Dimon segment today. OOPS
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  9207.  @jonasp6043  Someone who had COVID and recovered, and who knows of vaccinated people with either severe side effects or serious breakthrough COVID cases. You may not know such people, but you don't work in a hospital. Seeing that might give you pause. Or, just believe the worst about people who worked to take care of the sick last year. All that doesn't count now, ha ha!
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  9208.  @aeromodeller1  Most auctions have a minimum starting bid, but I see your larger point. I think signed copies should start higher. Just my opinion.
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  9209. My experience is that places that never had shootings have them now. Right by me, in fact, and in the "nicest" parts of the city, too.
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  9210.  @dustinavant2003  If that is true, then it is worthless for identification.
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  9211.  @longshot7253  If you're talking about the Sandmann settlement, the amount was undisclosed. Sandmann did not do anything to subject himself to media attention. His life wasn't a matter of public concern. This story most certainly is a matter of public concern because Rittenhouse has been arrested in three shootings, and reporters have a First Amendment right to express their opinions about what happened.
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  9212. @azynkron  Er, . . . A "tin-foil prepper" doesn't live life hour by hour. They think there is a vast conspiracy they should carefully prepare against.
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  9213.  @bboldt2  Well, I wish them the best. That is scary. I hope you have some soulmates to talk to.
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  9214.  @tlt43  We'll have to see. I am so sorry that these young people were so trusting that their door was open to so many people. Too many stories have turned out to be dubious once we took a close look. Remember how "profilers" were saying in the beginning that this was a "personal" crime? Some contended it was not likely to be a first offense. I don't like how we are now being manipulated into rushing to judgment. Once you've decided that someone is guilty, it is psychologically very, very hard to walk it back.
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  9215. What I want to know is, how did people get so credulous? This sets us up for a worse, but more deft, version of TRUMP.
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  9216. Krystal, YES: the mainstream press did foment this, for MONEY. Thank you.
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  9217. Oh God help us. It's like finally getting rid of Trump, and still having to swallow Trump lite.
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  9218.  @ezfist9204  THESE WERE DIFFERENT PEOPLE. And look how many ended up dead.
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  9219.  @GarySpace-m3c  Absolute immunity for judicial acts.
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  9220. Sabby always comes well prepared. She appreciates the invitation.
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  9221. This is a joke . . . Right?
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  9222.  @TK_100  No. The issue is Section 230 immunity. Publishers, including newspapers, are not sheltered. The social media giants, which operate much more like monopolies, are sheltered from having to take responsibility for anything.
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  9223. @TheGAdamstalkshow  Since you're in the business of independent media, I grant you that lying like Megyn will bring in more ad revenues, so I can forgive you for wanting your kids to have at least some of what hers do. So keep it up. Say rude things to the truthful, praise the dishonest. Cha-ching. 💰
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  9224. I hear they are not trans-affirming, either. /s
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  9225. This is investigation-worthy? This?
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  9226. Read the opinion. It comes right up.
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  9227. Knowing what these words mean in UK and the rest of Europe, I have to say I don't know what you mean by them. I sense the American definition is significantly different, given that the entire political spectrum is right-shifted. But you seem to be praising neo-liberalism, which has always been the midwife of economic catastrophe and fascism --- and will be again.
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  9228. The real problem: they want us to take a shot every day.
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  9229. How much lying are people supposed to reward?
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  9230.  @kryan1234567890  Yup.
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  9231.  @jgcelliott1  Right . . . Too bad they have monopolies on mass communication, huh? :/
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  9232. ​ @Kazekoge101 Just like Dems wanted to codify abortion rights.
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  9233. I am SO sorry! Everyone in my family was harmed by medical mistakes, seriously harmed. Those ten years are crucial, but I swear to you that you can overcome them. It may take 1.5 to 2 years for every one of those years, but I know you can overcome it. I do research daily on nutrition, from solid, peer-reviewed studies from major journals, and the knowledge they have today compared to twenty years ago is enormous. You can find a path. Same is true for viral illnesses.
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  9234.  @paulietv2162  Strong people know when to ask for advice or sympathy. They do that whenever they need to, but not every time they think they want to.
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  9235. No one is "targetting" Jewish students, what nonsense.
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  9236. Let's give it a try and see. We did it for Zelensky.
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  9237. Excellent advice.
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  9238. Yeah. It says we are surrounded by cultists.
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  9239. @dannoharlski  The last time they were, I voted third party, LaRiva/Peltier, as a protest --- in person, on election day, paper ballot.
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  9240.  @michaelwallden7261  No need to be rude, Jack.
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  9241.  @marywalters1181  The recipients of the SBF campaign contributions should have their attorneys contact the appointed bankruptcy trustee. This isn't tough, they are just pulling the wool over our eyes yet again.
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  9242. The response to an ungracious, ugly remark is to . . . praise imperialism? Well, if that's the best you can do, then there is nothing to praise here. We should pity instead. Tiny minds indeed.
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  9243. Another set of commentators acting as though there is no pandemic, the US is not on the precipice of a depression, millions of unemployed do not face long-term loss of health insurance . . . Because 2020 is just like any other year. The rest of the world does not have universal health. The US does not have the most deaths of any country. /s The things that usually happen are sure to happen again. The pandemic will have no effect. Neither will mass unemployment. This discussion has been going on since 1985 that I know of, with American doctors adamant that health care must change. Lord.
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  9244. Apologetics. You're probably very nice. Moore isn't.
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  9245. @danavisalli3467  Silly me! I said they will feel free to tell their story after everyone comes home -- as if Israelis can speak freely. Prominent members of their peace and justice movements have been emigrating for years. Their kids received threats. If they could take it themselves, they can't put little kids through that.
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  9246. Oh I like Katie's take on all of this much better.
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  9247.  @poncholarpez6233  Think it through.
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  9248.  @Walmart_Sandal  Thanks!! You're right, Pompeo came as close as you can get to tacit admission.
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  9249. @sthubbins4038  But then how is he a danger to the community? Just his ability to profit from his work seems to be dangerous. I feel safer now.
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  9250.  @fractalign  That was wonderful, too, as was that Acosta guy as Labor Secretary. But nothing tops Ghislaine's aisle seat at Chelsea's wedding. Heart-warming!
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  9251. How many Leslie Wexners, Jeffrey Epsteins, and Bill Gateses do we need before we can ask (GASP!!) questions?
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  9252. Apparently . . .
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  9253. If I take issue with these posts, it's my reply that goes quiet.
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  9254.  @jglammi  I'm somewhat familiar with Ioannidis, and so far, some of his predictions have been totally incorrect. But the effort to silence these scientists, and to parade around pompous, ignorant billionaires instead, as though THEY were proper spokesmen to advise us on what to do when facing a new virus, is chilling. What comes next? What won't they do?
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  9255. Brought to you by anti-social media.
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  9256.  @NewNormalWorldOrder  I'm stunned that show has any viewers. His manner alone is off putting. When you add the content, yeesh.
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  9257. They left it by 1990 and started shifting even sooner. Foucault's last writings and seminars were on Socrates as Truthteller.
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  9258. "Ukraine can become the next Afghanistan" is pretty wild, too.
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  9259. ​@tedmarley4341 Exactly what deserved to happen, in light of a ten-year-old pregnant child having to leave her home state for health care, Republicans screaming "fake news," and her doctor getting death threats. That let us know where our freedoms stood. Biden bad means, what? Republicans good? . . . (Can't handle the truth?)
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  9260. Oprah promoted her.
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  9261. I guess the price is right?
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  9262.  @johneverett6293  Not symmetric. Assuming the woman was sincere in what she claimed to have felt is not the same as assuming she was an insincere attention-seeker looking to advance herself. The problem is, the woman in question didn't accord the university staff the same presumption of innocence and benign intent, and the administration took her side without looking into what actually happened.
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  9263. ​@amoore1505 Great question. Nothing. Well, Shermichael was stunned that so many prominent people associate with actual Nazis, but gosh so was I.
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  9264.  @cremebrulee4759  So did Jeffrey Epstein by that logic.
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  9265. "It's what the Russians say." Oh well then. That can't be true. /s
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  9266. When he pushed and pushed, she finally seemed to get it.
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  9267. It's pending even as we speak.
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  9268.  @thespicypimp423  Exactly. In the Tara Reade segment today, she made sure everyone knew she did not vote for Joe Biden.
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  9269. @hunkgod Why do you think the world supports the US? Why does it buy US debt?
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  9270.  @coffee6783  According to other reports, he was not illegally fired. He tried to rabble rouse a crowd against the principal and a young child with mental heath issues who did not want everyone to know about the problem (so, no gender activism on the child's part, or the school's). He allegedly did this during a school-wide assembly. If we have kids with issues due to social contagion or endocrine disrupters or processed foods, do we shame them? Did you shame anorexic girls?
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  9271.  @gregthomson2299  Why don't you get informed about THIS case? Because THIS case is the issue. He was fired for cause and ordered not to return to the school.
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  9272. She doesn't call the child's home. She calls a man with a gun.
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  9273.  @sonjakozman1699  I know. I was just trying to be more American.
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  9274.  @robertobradford3968  1980 was even longer.
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  9275. Facebook?
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  9276. I know! Amazon!!
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  9277.  @richardbarry04553  I really don't think most do. But I've been optimistic before. :/
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  9278. NO, he has NOT "testified under oath" before Congress, at least not yet. Who told you he did?
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  9279. ​@Mike Scott No he has not testified before Congress. Where did this rumor come from?
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  9280. Only Jewish people sign paychecks? Nah. You expected people to be too lazy to click??
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  9281. Absolutely all of this is illegal. All.
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  9282.  @annaclarafenyo8185  "Minimum wage hike! Try again in 2028!! Public option! 2036 maybe!! Like, we hope!"
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  9283.  @milosstamenkovic465  Any percentage clearly under 1% for case-related mortality is outstanding. As another person pointed out, case-related mortality is always higher than infection-related mortality, because so many infected people are mildly ill or even asymptomatic, and never end up in the denominator.
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  9284.  @Denali1600  I will look it up. My simple point is, she told you where she got her numbers. I personally always look at deaths per million, although at this point we do not really know what they include. I will explain. It took a long time to establish that women who underwent multiple fertility hormone treatments without conceiving were at greater risk of ovarian cancer than those who did conceive. In relation to this issue, of deaths per million, I wonder whether those who had moderate to severe COVID, then were vaccinated with mRNA or other vaccines, in that order or in the reverse order for that matter, now have a higher risk of death. Multivariate analysis, which can give us the answer, is difficult, expensive and takes a long time. You get my drift.
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  9285. That's only $15 an hour. A living wage in NYC is about $22 to $25 an hour.
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  9286. Is calling people "sociopaths" fine, Robby? Did they commit a crime?
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  9287. It's called guns, I think.
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  9288. These aren't liberals. This is a poisoned political environment with deeply corrupt, and, in the case of the Clintons, criminal leaders. OTOH --- Look at who turned up heavily armed at statehouses in 2020. And look at who claimed, in the face of massive evidence, either that it never happened or it doesn't count. Or both. That both part needs 'splaining.
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  9289. Reproductive rights are fundamental human rights.
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  9290.  @benjaminz2523  Naomi Wolf clearly likes men a LOT. Open your eyes. If you aren't reading these signals right, please rethink your approach. That could be why you aren't having the success you should have.
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  9291. "Forced back?" He was never here. You're well informed on this travesty, aren't you?
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  9292.  @Volticymo  A 57% disapproval rating is not bad, for MACRON. It has been well above 70%.
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  9293.  @NeoZeta  All of Europe has Celtic in them. It was discovered fairly recently that the Celts founded Belgrade. Yeah, that far east. They rock.
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  9294. @christopherjahn2044  Why didn't Wray say precisely that, clearly and directly, and offer to share whatever he could in a high security setting, if indeed anything? This is one long repeat of high school. Ugh.
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  9295. Point out to her what Shapiro chooses to do with a Harvard law degree, while his wife has a real job. Beneath pitiful.
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  9296.  @dameongeppetto  LOL
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  9297. This is how I feel when they throw shade on the Israeli peace and justice movement -- though it is small. The people exist.
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  9298. A generation after Columbine and states still have not managed to draft reasonable, constitutional laws to govern firearm use by minors, or anyone. Do YOU want to live in a society where a minor can strap a (I better not call it assault-style) rifle across his chest and strut his stuff?
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  9299.  @sandraersin  This is correct. For OSHA to issue a federal regulation, this would require announcement and a period of public comment.
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  9300. That was all conceded right off the bat. That's not the end of the discussion. A lot of things that are perfectly legal to do are not ethical.
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  9301. 9:40 WHY this equivocation? What "negligible risk?" I would absolutely vaccinate a child, so don't misunderstand the question. It's not a rhetorical question. I assumed there was no evidence of a link at all. This is not like the incredibly tiny risk of brain tumors from overuse of cell phones. This is so small, and cell phones are so new, that it could not be confirmed until we had 20 years of data. We have the data on MMR vaccines.
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  9302. No wonder George Bush has been fully rehabilitated.
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  9303. Uncle Teddy wasn't a "predator?"
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  9304.  @lalibella1  If it's Trump v. Biden, I'll vote third party. My state is locked by DNC, absolutely no possible reason to vote for The Mummy. Not that I ever would. I never did.
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  9305. She was perfectly objective here 10:10 and here 13:43 and, frankly, throughout this segment. That's why claques are after her. For the very reason she said: the war in Gaza.
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  9306. "Emotions" are the last thing that could possibly be a factor in cancer. Caitlin Flanagan wrote a lot about that. It is time to put it to rest already.
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  9307. ​@WeekendsOutsideFL These medications are very powerful, and very expensive to develop. They are a godsend to those who NEED them. Unfortunately, four or five times that many people are prescribed the medications. That's the issue. Insulin saves lives. Would you give insulin to someone who needs fewer cookies and more salads? 😒
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  9308.  @malcolmhouston7932  She made her own money. And when she started making money, the first thing she did with it wasn't to buy a gaudy mansion but to pay her mother's tuition at USC for a Master's degree in social work. You can say what you will, but that is hardly an ordinary American girl, especially one from California.
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  9309.  @penguinvic4188  "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing" is the original quote, and is repeated as irony. You missed it. No, I don't think money is everything. Nor did I say that. You seem to know a whole lot about these people. Have you met them? WOMEN journalists don't like her? When have WOMEN journalists liked any attractive woman, especially if they think she managed to marry "out of her league?"
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  9310. Why would anyone from a nice country come here? Massive greed, maybe?
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  9311. There's an MSNBC video claiming Tucker Carlson lied in his editorials concerning biolabs in Ukraine, and the comments are full of demands he be tried for treason. The MSNBC video itself misrepresents the source it quotes to show Carlson lied. Did I need to tell you?
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  9312. @ashleighsparkle8810  There is no good way for this to end.
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  9313.  @skippylippy547  So do I. And I'm sure the kids do, too. /s
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  9314. An incredible amount of money changed hands. Of course it will happen again.
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  9315. It was irony. Pure irony. I don't like Rogan. It's still irony.
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  9316. Ironic, all the comments against inviting this guy Rod Webber! I think Jimmy has ZERO to apologize for. Both interviews were revealing and worthwhile.
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  9317. Katie was calm and patient in response. Great contrast.
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  9318. On top of everything, a child can't be imaginative without risking grave mutilation. Leave the kids alone.
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  9319.  @JillJ-y5f  Try learning to read before you tell other people what to do.
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  9320.  @saylorgirl799  This happens ALL the time.
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  9321. This is a tremendous segment. Katie and Dr. Halper are a delight. Please make this a regular feature, like every month.
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  9322.  @bernsdums6243  In the workplace? No. We can't do that. We aren't that rich.
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  9323. Absent a very good, very expensive lawyer, it's almost impossible to get administrators to do anything. To think that people with no sense of right and wrong are responsible for educating the next generation is a horror movie.
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  9324. This is a very interesting report. But you make the very same remark to EVERY Democracy Now! video.
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  9325.  @TheGuerillapatriot  How do you know what actual leftists read, as opposed to the affluent neoliberal mob currently represented by Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer, and well-described in Matt Taibbi's book "Hate, Inc." ? America has practically no influential left, and none prominent in the mass media.
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  9326. The joke is on you. They did.
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  9327.  @blast3613  Who are YOU kidding? The most common major, BY FAR, for at least 30 years is Business. Next come the Health Sciences, with Nursing on top. Fewer than one percent of all degrees conferred are in Gender Studies, and if those people can write good copy or take great photos, they will get a job in advertising or fashion merchandising. You think someone will hire a business major for that? Nice job repeating stupid talking points. A business degree without a CPA, or advanced math and finance, IS useless -- its value is in demonstrating docility to employers. An English major is better prepared for an MBA or law school, or for any job that requires writing ability.
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  9328.  @igorszamaszow171  The Telegraph article allegedly described a bare legal possibility, based on its reading of a German article, and portrayed it as factual. There was no evidence it ever happened in reality, but the law was indeed written so that that was a possible interpretation. Here is the Google translation of the beginning of the German article: "A job like any other [Title] Hartz IV makes it possible: The placement of long-term unemployed women in the red light milieu. Legally, there is no lower limit to the reasonableness of job placement. Employment agencies - still - impose self-restraint" I have never seen English language media get a story right about France, so . . .
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  9329.  @igorszamaszow171  A million reasons? Yeah, you only need one: it was a British source. That's why it didn't receive appropriate coverage. It's not about the Anglosphere.
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  9330.  @iamnottodd  First time it appears not to be working. And a line was crossed: in the demonstrations taking place not long before the pandemic shutdown, the firefighters had joined in the strike and had taken the side of the other protestors against the police. They started protecting protestors from the police -- not just once or twice, but systematically, every week. I know no one reported that here. Look up pompiers contre policiers. I had never seen that before. One video, that I never could find again, showed a firefighter place the French flag on the ground in front of an advancing police line. He motioned to the policeman in front of him to go ahead and step on it. Since he was doing it figuratively, he may as well do it literally. And I thought I was radical. I gasped when I saw it.
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  9331.  @kickDustPedestrian  Love how you put that! 🙏
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  9332. Be nicer to that beautiful animal. Don't shove anything at it. Put it down on the ledge.
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  9333. There are many vaccines. Which one(s) are you talking about?
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  9334.  @mikedar8484  A minor? Not ANYONE, but a MINOR? What has possessed you? A generation after Columbine and Wisconsin's legislature was incapable of drafting a reasonable and constitutional gun law with respect to minors, or anybody. How did this happen? What has possessed you? (And gawd I am glad I can leave the States, target date 2023. I'm just sorry my parents ever came. You bonkers.)
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  9335.  @viperrecords3288  I'm reacting to his own words. A smear is, by definition, a falsehood.
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  9336.  @viperrecords3288  I don't care, bro. Just watch your wallet.
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  9337. Let's go Brandon.
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  9338.  @matthewsantos1685  All true. But truth won't get you anywhere with some people.
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  9339.  @nowaskmehow  Any time someone makes a solid point, the conspiracy theorists come out to play. Gosh you'd think there were a troll farm of them somewhere, deliberately glomming on, and muddling every issue . . .
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  9340.  @lamel1781  I don't disagree. I think that if he has heart issues from vaccination, he will very likely recover with time, and the facts support that. BUT will he recover for sure, or recover without treatment while he and his family are subject to classic gaslighting? NO. Kids are generally resilient.
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  9341.  @lamel1781  Standard norms of diagnosis and treatment are suddenly out the window. Remember when all middle school and high school athletes were recommended to get an echocardiogram, or a stress echocardiogram for certain competitive sports? This was long before possible COVID vaccine harm. What happened to the standard of care? "No money?" This sickens me.
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  9342.  @Julie-ub1zi  I know not everyone has been all right. Has every teen in the entire country recovered from COVID itself? No. Is that a reason to freak parents out about COVID? No. I'm still aghast that a doctor would think listening to this kid's heart is sufficient. I don't know what to make of it. Scares me, frankly. That's not enough for a pre-season physical for ordinary school sports, much less for a guy complaining of chest discomfort. What is going on? Anyway, the point of the discussion, including comments from knowledgeable people here, is obvious.
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  9343.  @lamel1781  ^10,000
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  9344. ​ @Sharon-v3f5s Choice means the choice to be a birth parent someday. Some people decide to do that in their 30s and 40s, and had no idea they would want to when they were only 16.
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  9345. @Jeremy Dionisio This has nothing to do with sympathy. It has to do with analysis and prevention. Your suggestion that unstable people should not be in relationships does not sound to me like it is going to save the next young woman. I don't disagree. I think it won't work. Did you see the 60 Minutes Australia interview of Gabby's mother? She had not one bad word to say about Brian. In fact, she said Brian liked to read to Gabby's youngest sibling. Gabby's mother comes across great. Intelligent, aware, and honest. So . . . She spotted nothing? Maybe we need to think this through.
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  9346.  @montybonza879  1. If it was all about control, why did he fly out to Florida in the middle of the trip, then return and rejoin Gabby? She was alone out West for days. 2. Gabby's mother said she saw nothing in Brian that worried her. She gave a lengthy interview to 60 Minutes Australia, and she seemed very aware and intelligent, not like someone pushing her daughter to please males but like a truly nice, intelligent, astute person who was completely blindsided. 3. Who would dare defend Brian now, and face a mob? What would be the point? Clearly he is responsible for some despicable actions that those who knew him did not expect from him. Why weigh in, call negative attention to yourself, and risk hurting Gabby's family and friends who have been wronged and are innocent as lambs in this tragedy? Figuring out what happened might help someone else. Competing to see who can say more bad things about the bad man is not going to help.
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  9347. ​ @onefreepalestine Waffling a bit, but 4:06 is some minor progress.
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  9348.  @a320nick  Who do you think makes your stuff?
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  9349.  @LaurenThompsonIsMyRealName  All the more reason to steer clear, if true.
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  9350.  @Thor-Orion  Well, it's not impossible, but after all the tragedies we have suffered, one more blow was tough. Age becomes a factor as well. Thanks, though. 😊
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  9351. Re: direct US military guidance of missle strikes The real point is, the American people will not be consulted concerning whether the US should enter the war.
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  9352. It was her closest friends in independent journalism who broke the story about mass media suppression, were themselves suppressed, and the phony Russian disinformation story. They were all on her podcast.
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  9353. Not only that, but THIS video is misleading. Gino's contract claims against Harvard weren't dismissed at all. When someone who isn't a lawyer talks about a case, look up the case.
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  9354. THANK YOU AGAIN, JIMMY, for bringing us the news.
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  9355. Amber was wrong. Yes they were exonerated, and they settled a civil rights suit for $41 million. (Watch The Confessions, about four sailors in Norfolk, Virginia, who confessed to a crime they had nothing to do with -- and Hillary's running mate, then the governor, refused to release them. False confessions are common in adults, nevermind kids.) You cannot bring a viable civil rights suit absent exoneration. A vacated verdict is insufficient.
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  9356. I support Riley.
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  9357. Do you mean the misleading excerpts TYT shows? Ha, ha, you're a riot.
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  9358.  @rustynuggets  If Ana needs money, she should auction Jimmy's note.
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  9359.  @rustynuggets  Nothing. It's a diversion from Aaron's reporting of inconvenient truths about Syria. That's exactly why Ana brought it up. As diversion.
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  9360.  @rustynuggets  I understand. You can't find war zones on the map. But a manufactured sex scandal that ended years ago is always fun to get outraged over.
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  9361. Someone anti-Putin, in Russia or from the West, might have a stronger motive?
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  9362.  @Joseph1NJ  Exactly. In a nation of gun owners, they don't know this??
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  9363. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  9364. When I got my new Volvo 20 years ago, it made me happy. It solved my problem of feeling safe in my car. The problem was solved instantly.
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  9365. You're an angel for making this video.
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  9366. I'm waiting to hear Rachel Maddow call Jimmy a Russian agent.
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  9367.  @alfredpeasant5980  It's not all about you, all the time. No, really. I swear.
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  9368.  @jillvalley212416  Actually, Dore did not say that the friendship was over at all.
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  9369. @J. Porter If she is correct, why did she fail to discipline Jimmy? Hm? She was his boss.
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  9370.  @CosmicDreamz139  Can you talk without cliches?
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  9371. It's even simpler. This podcast was an in-depth discussion of the First Amendment and its limitations for protecting free speech in the age of Big Tech. Zephyr Teachout was on as well, and it was great. The program wasn't about Trump or impeachment. This excerpt was pulled out of context.
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  9372. Sigh. What do you think the whole problem has been? Private companies are not restricted from censoring, only government actors are. On the contrary, private companies can censor, and be immune from liability for their decisions, thanks to Section 230. But it's different when private companies are really acting on behalf of government, or one party. It's also different when monopolies arise, and control the new commons.
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  9373.  @Nepthu  OH I GET IT NOW. The signal was, Dump on Briahna. Yup, you're right. I missed it. My bad.
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  9374. It's already with Palantir.
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  9375. Not enough people do. It should be universal.
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  9376.  @brucewayne1777  Israel just confirmed that the link to heart inflammation is real. It is apparently similar but less severe than the heart inflammation caused by COVID itself, and is treatable. They say everyone who had it made a full recovery. Of course, Israel has national health care.
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  9377.  @brucewayne1777  Why are you the one who is uninformed?
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  9378. @Temporary Account As recently as 1975, a year of in-state tuition was something you could earn with a summer job. It was almost free. Biden is a lot older than THAT. You mean you didn't know?
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  9379. She seems very different today than usual, yes. She is usually fine.
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  9380. There may be other explanations than yours, and they may be more likely than yours, that she sensed the tumor. But why can't people accept that YOUR explanation could be true? Of course it could be.
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  9381. ​ @will7its 😂😂😂 If only.
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  9382.  @bashlea  You are 💯 right.
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  9383.  real balance  You could make essentially the same points without lying and name calling. I thought everyone would be sick of that after January 6. The Russian army has been holding back. Listen to any objective reporting on that. Putin seems stupid enough to take Western bait again and widen the conflict.
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  9384. Thank you for this perspective.
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  9385.  Tim Kozlowski  Ah! What a relief! So the poor cop will be fine after all. /s
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  9386.  @Hugh_I  I like that idea.
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  9387. ​@franklin9400 It's harming cognitive development, but maybe we shouldn't care. Your rodeo, your ponies.
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  9388. Fighting for universal civil rights and civil liberties does not require identity politics and is not advanced through identity politics. Identity politics insures that a number of prominent token individuals will be paraded before the mainstream media and achieve prominent political positions --- and nothing more. It teaches people to pit themselves against one another and use whatever they've got to get ahead. That just describes more of the same. It is antithetical to true universal rights.
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  9389. It is a terrible disease, for many, but they are exaggerating. The number of seemingly random deaths, in perfectly healthy people, is smaller than they lead us to believe. The chance that a healthy person will make an excellent recovery and emerge from this illness with years of immunity is very good. When the truth is that they don't know, why do they lie in the direction of traumatizing everyone? Horrible.
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  9390.  @1133saginaw  As I said . . . NSS.
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  9391. A and C do not have nearly the same effect. There are peer-reviewed studies that show D is more useful by far.
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  9392.  @Nick-qj7ym  Jimmy produced her DM, where she stated that she would bring out these "metoo" accusations if he continued to criticize her and Cenk. Look, you don't have to care. If it doesn't interest you, that's sensible on your part; so turn the page. If you insist on participating in this discussion, then get the facts.
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  9393.  @Nick-qj7ym  Why is it that no one knows what hearsay is, but everyone uses the word now? Did some popular person use it recently?
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  9394. No, these are good tweets as far as DNC is concerned. You know they're stupid, I know they're stupid . . .
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  9395. Last night, Glenn Greenwald reported that there is an organized movement to get Brie fired because she isn't taking a strict pro-Netanyahu line. He commented that Israel has more freedom of speech, and gave examples. That has been true for a long time.
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  9396. First of all, how many people do you imagine that is? Perhaps 1 or 2% of households headed by a person age 65 or older -- at best. Do you think that would solve an otherwise "insoluable" problem? The 401k has existed for about two generations now, and at best 10% can fund their own retirement with their 401k -- probably an overestimate. How is that a plan? Moreover, markets are volatile. Someone age 80 could make a grave miscalculation and suddenly not have the means to maintain themselves. Universal programs that recognize the facts about the human condition have the most support for a reason.
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  9397. Yup!!
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  9398. "We're all just chosing this once." Great point from Robbie.
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  9399. Yes, great comment.
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  9400. Just curious: have you ever visited a country with an economic system materially different from our own? We've always been lied to about France -- even Canada -- nevermind the Soviet Union.
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  9401.  @moreofawave  My goodness. To think these are our choices.
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  9402.  @moreofawave  Non sequitur. I don't believe Trump even wants the job, it's too much work and not enough adulation. This is just spleen. He's going to smear feces all over the hotel room and leave without paying the bill.
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  9403. Complete. If you aren't worth eight figures, you may as well not exist in their mind.
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  9404. Of course Whoopie doesn't care if he poops his pants. She didn't need to say so. We knew.
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  9405.  @Learner376  They played a major role, yes.
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  9406. "She knows how to keep her job." Glenn is devastating! 😂😂😂😂😂
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  9407.  @71kimg  Europe is not primarily concerned with "Russian atrocities," nor is it primarily concerned with a cold winter and cooking on gas stoves -- Europe is concerned about a wider war on its territory.
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  9408. The statute has no definition of "near." There have been decades of pro-life rallies held near the Supreme Court, all of which were protected speech and assembly. First Amendment. A lot of people are going after the First Amendment lately. Watch for that move. This looks like a good-cop, bad-cop routine with one goal in mind, and it's not to help you.
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  9409. The reports I saw were Reuters and The Independent. Canadians use those?
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  9410. Reuters:   Sept 20 (Reuters) - The White House on Monday criticized the use of horse reins to threaten Haitian migrants after images circulated of a U.S. border guard on horseback charging at migrants near a riverside camp in Texas . . . Reuters witnesses saw mounted officers wearing cowboy hats blocking the paths of migrants, and one officer unfurling a cord resembling a lariat, which he swung near a migrant's face. The Independent: Sept 22 -- The second-in-command at a union for US Border Patrol has tried to defend the use of horse reins around migrants in Del Rio, Texas, where tens of thousands have arrived from Haiti. . . Recent images from Del Rio have shown migrants fleeing Border Patrol agents on horseback who are wielding their reins like whips, with a Reuters witness catching an agent unfurl and swing one in front of migrants.
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  9411. It often does, sadly.
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  9412. ^10,000
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  9413. I think this is nonsense, and is based on Christian-influenced propaganda. You don't have to "forgive" transgressions to make sure they don't turn into obsessions that hijack your life. Part of accepting your "dark side" is accepting that you may often feel as though you want revenge, rather than to offer forgiveness. You can control that emotion and sublimate it. You don't have to eradicate it, or be a victim of it. Just let it be. Don't be quick to judge; instead, observe.
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  9414. But you don't work as a spy in other countries, either, I'm guessing.
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  9415. Real reason for Jimmy being hate bombed: nothing to do with AOC, etc. Jimmy pointed out the CARES Act was the BIGGEST UPWARD TRANSFER OF WEALTH in human history. It's always about "follow the money."
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  9416. I thought they were both sick.
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  9417. There is also evidence that long-term medication exacerbates some cases, and this risk has been known for a long time. Psychoses are just too complicated. The diagnosis isn't the person.
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  9418.  @nothxgg8324  Better yet, read the actual documents filed with the court. Anyone can.
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  9419. This is what happens when people want 15 minutes of fame. Obviously fake.
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  9420. I wish I was surprised.
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  9421.  @jairkerker2821  To think he means Hunter. Here comes Hunter, there goes the neighborhood.
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  9422.  @gcoffey223  Take your time.
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  9423. Gen Z is not supposed to eat properly. They are supposed eat GMOs, McDo, or bugs. That will make them more productive.
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  9424. @eddyalonsomoramorales6069  Right, it's not always and universally the case that the behaviors that most annoy us are the ones we ourselves have internalized, or that identifying the same tendency within ourselves to behave that way is in some sense therapeutic or authentic or liberating. I think a lot of people are triggered when we are reminded of a moment when we felt defenseless against a person who frightened us. That doesn't mean we have internalized the desire to emulate that.
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  9425. Yes, so true.
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  9426. 😂😂😂
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  9427. ​@S m f It's happening to a few teen girls, who don't count.
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  9428.  @thekentuckyan8088  Be my guest.
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  9429.  @MMAfighter38113  RFK Jr sure didn't, but the others, yes.
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  9430. ​@mateuszminsky5619 RFK Jr is an eminent tort lawyer.
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  9431. @run2cat4run  If any of these people's appearance on YouTube is unsafe for the community, why does it come down to money, instead of concern for protecting us from danger?
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  9432.  @eloisesaizonou324  Exactement, et typique ici. Les anglais . . . 😉🤣🤣🤣
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  9433. No, actually. This is exactly how the system works. Hard work is absolutely essential, but (very close to) never sufficient. The right people also have to notice, and appreciate what you've done, and take pleasure in seeing you advance. Come on, everybody knows this!
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  9434. In listening to Aaron Mate's reports on Syria, two thoughts: Anyone can go full Trump, like the UN ambassador did, and scream "fake news;" The passing of Stephen F. Cohen was an enormous loss. THANK YOU, Aaron.
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  9435.  @Leenkltd  Reading court documents that concern Musk has told me a great deal about his intentions.
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  9436.  @komoriaimi  Why? Epstein found it personally advantageous to give millions to charity. His friend Bill Gates wanted to leverage his charity for a Nobel Peace Prize, and thought Jeff could help out. You may not understand what a billion dollars is.
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  9437. Japanese researchers just published a study concerning can sir rates.
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  9438.  @suprcrzy  This is ridiculous. You are spinning out a scenario about "civilians" that never happened. The officers surrounding this car were all armed and vigilant and trained. This CIVILIAN posed no threat to them, as was explained carefully. Why do you ignore that fact? Amateur eugenics?
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  9439.  @brianclingenpeel5123  Except that that's not what happened. But if you feel like that's what happened, then that's all that matters. An' don't you let anyone say different! Big boy! 🤩😘😘
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  9440.  @DjWellDressedMan  I did. She's horrible now.
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  9441.  @Ranger1PresentsVirtualRealms  WOW. Seriously, it's a good substitute. A stronger flavor, but it's reminiscent of duck or turkey. Ducks are more likely to be free range, and even the non-GMO certified are economical, now. Tomorrow? Don't know. :/
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  9442. @Curt-Gevert  Exactly, ìt is. And laws are bought.
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  9443.  @angie99656  My echoing your point, using mathematics, was shadowed.
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  9444.  @joefilter2923  Yeah. Make up something lousy about Glenn (or anyone, fill in the blank) and then crank up the outrage. It got Rachel Maddow rich. Wait. You aren't doing this for FREE . . . are you??
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  9445.  @kristintheartist  I've never touched a penny of unemployment, disability, Social Security of any kind needless to say, or applied for scholarship money, tuition waiver, any of that. How about YOU?
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  9446. I think calling people "groomers" is not trivial. "Grooming" is illegal -- and should be prosecuted. OTOH, a teacher directly accused of it who is factually innocent is being defamed. Some of those Tik Toks were spoofs, too. I wonder if any were false flags? Always watch for that.
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  9447. @LibertarianGalt I wish you had written that more clearly. I'm getting an impression that it was good. No, I mean it. I wasn't making an argument. I was making an observation about tactics that are roundly condemned on this channel by Dad.
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  9448. @danielmacmaster5822  So in other words, frank criticism didn't cause a rupture. Quite different from what usually happens to, say, "whistleblowers," innit? (See, for example, Carl Elliott.)
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  9449.  @danielmacmaster5822  Oh, following me around now, are you? So, it turns out you don't know history.
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  9450. ​ @jlmoses16 This isn't about his haircut, or whether we like his shoes, OR criticism for something stupid he did as an adult of his own volition. He was eleven. Not 15, not 17. Eleven. And his parents were divorced. Do you know any kids? . . . Maybe better that you don't? 🤔
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  9451. The ten-year-old child that Republicans and Fox News claimed didn't exist scared people. Rightfully so.
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  9452. TRADE/VOCATIONAL schools also require taking out loans, and were slated to be forgiven.
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  9453.  @databoys9877  Why do all the secular countries in Europe have the best social programs and the strongest support for mothers and children, including nursery school, with meals, paid in full for all? Whereas we have clergy scandals galore . . .
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  9454.  @AdmoreMethod  Excellent idea!!
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  9455.  Joe Simon  No AIDS vaccine exists.
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  9456. "Compassionate use" is established as a common exception to FDA approved based on safety and effectiveness, ESPECIALLY for off-label use of drugs that already exist and were approved for something else. It's done all the time.
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  9457. Is Biden surprising anyone? Really?
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  9458. When the shooting at Virginia Tech was reported, TWO administrators knew who was doing it right away.
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  9459. Uhh! You're so mean. /s
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  9460.  @rahn45  The only clearcut issue here is the default judgment. I'm not even sure that wasn't a litigation tactic rather than something imposed on him, and imposed unjustly. I hope it will be well argued on appeal. It's important for everyone's due process rights.
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  9461.  @yoyo762  Who is justifying it? That woman shouldn't fly. She's not well.
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  9462.  @yoyo762  People in this society always defend bullies and mob logic. It's the norm. You never know who the mob will swarm next, with their "based" slogans. You can check out the latest example right now, as a matter of fact: remember when Grande accused him of using horse dewormer?
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  9463. Caitlin Johnstone was perfect on this. 22:22
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  9464. Oh my gawd, you are right.
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  9465. It's exciting that people can do so much to recover from trauma they could not prevent, and they can do it on their own. People can be tremendous.
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  9466.  @aymanzaky3432  They must have signed elaborate release forms. Was that incentivized in some way?
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  9467. BRILLIANT radar, Krystal!
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  9468.  @michaeledwardhunter  You don't understand the power of propaganda. You can make people believe anything now.
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  9469. 5:36 "they would do anything" I guess.
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  9470. Always
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  9471. After this episode, I would never take any medication that is not in use in the Scandinavian countries, Switzerland, France, Germany, or the BRICS, for that matter -- especially one that they do not give to pregnant women or children. I check to see what other countries' ministries of health have to say.
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  9472.  @zachkh  It means you can't come back. But can your home state issue a warrant for your arrest? That has to be honored by other states.
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  9473. Arrest warrant needed. They told her to leave.
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  9474. Ha. Then how will you control them?
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  9475.  @PlutonianPisces  Okay, you're nuts. Show me one place where I did any such thing. I'm a Glenn Greenwald and Nadine Strossen fan. 💯 First Amendment.
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  9476.  @andrewgru7077  Who thinks this report is the last word on what happened? Are people that gullible?
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  9477.  @davidmun1601  No, actually, it was not. This war started in 2014, but Putin changed its character irrevocably by this brutal escalation. It was not Putin who rejected the Minsk accords prior to February 2022. Nor was it Putin who rejected a peace treaty in April 2022.
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  9478. So true! Real criticism is almost impossible to obtain. Either empty praise, or sheer venom, born of jealousy. All self-serving, nothing to do with you. It's all about them. They talk to you to gain something for themselves. Once that's exhausted, they turn away.
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  9479.  @sharondavid-melly1498  You are being lied to. Massively.
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  9480. Sure we can. Give Hunter a sweet plea deal, he will likely retire and Gavin Newsom will step in. 🤪
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  9481. ME TOO!! (By the way, let's all report the "text me" spammers. I hate seeing a good post with one of those clowns as the first reply.)
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  9482. Systematic genocide based on a spurious racial theory has nothing to do with political "demonization" of equally powerful parties and coalitions that regularly trade political power. Gina asked rhetorically "what's the difference . . . ?" That is the difference. It is not as if the Nazis could have picked just any scapegoat. They picked the one they did for a reason. If they wanted her to tweet better, they should have provided her with cheat sheets. She's not a historian and wasn't hired to be one. But apparently she has persuaded a lot of people that her history is solid. That's all that firing her has accomplished. It would have been better to leave her alone on that score.
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  9483.  @bolbyballinger  "From the river to the sea" is not a death threat. This is insane. Literally insane.
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  9484. If ONLY it were unsurprising. :/
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  9485.  @thedeal9526  Except that the investigation found no perjury charges to pursue. You must think no one watched this video to the end, or read Grim's article.
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  9486. Well, I did look it up. I do not support the sentence, and in any event I support suspended sentences, but these guys should do their research. This nurse made no fewer than nine major errors. Warnings were plastered all over the drug. Then, she neglected the patient in obvious distress. Look it up yourself, don't just believe what they tell you. This is media almost like the rest, and these two are smug and lazy. In any case, whenever there is a criminal trial, the state has a high burden of proof, as it should. See what the prosecutors said to persuade the jury. Audi alteram partem.
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  9487. It probably did help some people.
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  9488. He's against Tulsi.
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  9489.  @jimluebke3869  Sure didn't. She said she was grateful to Peterson for inspiring her husband. I remember that clearly, and loved it, even though I am not a huge fan. I can appreciate why many people are. I guess memory is selective.
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  9490.  @jimluebke3869  I'll make a deal. I will listen again with your comment in mind. To me, it sounded like she truly met her match.
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  9491. M4A is more efficient than any other health insurance. Its overhead is many multiples lower. Of course changing its scale to cover everyone requires thought. I guess our representatives are used to scaring up gobs of money and doing what the lobbyists ask.
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  9492.  @Vanderearden  For sure, I understood.
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  9493. ​ @NDJ1978 John Campbell has PhD in Nursing. He taught nursing, and was a consultant on nursing policies and practices all over the world.
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  9494. @luffebassen  You asked. Or at least you implied some curiosity, by knowing something about him but not knowing his name.
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  9495.  @wasdwasdedsf  How would you know the truth-value of a counterfactual conditional? I'm really puzzled. That's a remarkable superpower.
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  9496. @wasdwasdedsf  Well, father and husband would be a neat trick --- I don't think transgenderism has gotten that far yet. But to answer your question directly: no, I would never support a war I would not volunteer to fight in, or would not want my (otherwise militarily capable) child to fight in. It's called being Kantian. Look it up. (Hint: if the rule is one that I wouldn't follow, even if I were perfectly capable of following it, I have NO RIGHT to impose it on someone else.)
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  9497. It didn't used to mean what it used to mean, either. :D
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  9498.  @marktrain9498  The single most common major, by FAR, is Business Administration, and has been for about 30 years. Next, come all the health sciences, with Nursing on top. "Weird" degrees (like Gender Studies) account for less than 1% of degrees conferred in a typical year. This is news to you? A Gender Studies major who knows photography and is a decent copywriter or can do web design will have a career in Fashion Merchandising. The Business major will need to pay him well.
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  9499.  @valeriexoxo  You're right. And Jimmy and Aaron's video just dropped. Poor Kyle. LOL
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  9500. ​​ @gemmster14 Found an Intercept article on it. The case had nothing to do with "hate speech," but alleged voter suppression. It was an obvious gag, and parodies are presumed to be protected speech. Haven't found the actual court docs (supposedly) justifying the charge.
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  9501. @gemmster14  I did find the ruling. Yes, a ludicrous case. I will read it, though, to see how they justify it.
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  9502.  @gemmster14  What he did is actually funny.
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  9503. I remember it, too, and maskless in the hair salon as well. She always knew she could get monoclonal antibodies. It's evident the same therapeutics have not been made available to all.
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  9504. And it won WWII after the Red Army beat Hitler.
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  9505.  @SlickBlackCadillac  People who actually read the opinions in the antitrust case against Microsoft know that. (But since Microsoft went away essentially unpunished, most people imagine it "won.") The cases are fascinating, actually -- the district court case contains a very comprehensive corporate history of Microsoft. It's a good read.
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  9506. Who isn't paid to lie? Truth is never paid well.
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  9507. "Human rights" is the new White Man's Burden. It has worked so well as an excuse for war, beyond expectations, and it may not be easy to find a substitute story that serves as well. Hence the war mongers will do anything to defend it.
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  9508. Not exactly. The "weapons" part is as yet unconfirmed. IOW, the precise nature of the research has not been established. We need the UN to send in independent weapons inspectors.
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  9509. But this isn't hard! It's obvious.
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  9510. Step right up and volunteer, then. That is literally the worst thing I have ever heard. There is nothing more horrifying than the state executing an innocent person.
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  9511.  @gdiwolverinemale2745  Unions are market participants.
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  9512.  @gdiwolverinemale2745  Well, now I can disagree with you while knowing that we both inhabit reality.
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  9513.  @fredschnerbert1238  Who told you that? Faux News? At the close of business for the year, December 2022, the richest man in the world was Bernard Arnault. Source: Forbes. Arnault is the co-founder and CEO of a conglomerate that owns luxury brands in clothing, footwear, other leather goods, champagne, and so forth. Stuff France is known for, and perfected prior to the Industrial Revolution. Then they bought up media (naturally), and other stuff, like companies that build yachts.
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  9514. Follow the money? Always the first question.
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  9515.  @timayjust  Russia has more millionaires and billionaires of Russian descent than America does. Should ethnic Russians emigrate there? Same for China, India, a lot of places.
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  9516.  @americancapitalist9094  She said that was exactly what she uses in a handful of indoor settings. So sorry if the New Snowflakes are triggered.
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  9517. When I explained it in detail, a sudden shadow took over. YouTube keeping you safe. 😂
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  9518.  michael nola  Forcing every politician to go on record -- so that the people they represent know where they stand; simply making them DO THEIR JOBS, the jobs they were elected to do. That is plenty.
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  9519.  @nancymathisen9707  Nancy can simply agree to call for a vote, or she can call their bluff. Make her work for it. For a change.
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  9520. P. S. Love how the DNC is already planning to lose the House and the Senate in 2022 anyway. It's patent. Maybe the individual House members are too busy trying to make sure they aren't the ones picked off in two years to do much of anything now.
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  9521. Took me a while to get it, then LMAO.
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  9522. ​ HunterBiden2032  You joined last week, Hunter. How's tricks? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  9523. The real story here is that a president's grandchild's unoccupied car has Secret Service protection, and they use lethal force to protect it even when she's not around. Since when??
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  9524. He has to live with himself. Punishment enough.
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  9525.  @thrillhouse1980  No. This is about what was done to Aaron Mate, and everything else is smokescreen. It's like arguing about how bad it is for Bill Gates to ask a Microsoft employee on a date and graciously accept no as an answer, when all the while Gates was spending a lot of time with Jeffrey Epstein, and spreading out millions on Epstein's advice. Not to mention a whole lot of other things Gates mucked up.
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  9526.  @thrillhouse1980  Oh REALLY? Perfect. Now we know what credence to place in your comments.
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  9527.  @thrillhouse1980  Well, Ana thought Aaron Mate, an award-winning journalist who worked for The Nation and Democracy Now, was important enough to smear. Then, when Jimmy defended Aaron, Ana thought it was serious enough to throw some years old sexual harassment allegations at Jimmy. We would have to ask Ana why it was that important. I'd love for her to be asked by Aaron's lawyers, at a deposition.
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  9528.  @kbcmighty  Or at least it explains why they didn't fire Jimmy or reprimand him on the spot. Let's say her story is not pristine. 😅
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  9529.  @Drew7s  Um. Jimmy gave her a written apology and a small gift. I think he agrees his joke was inappropriate in the workplace. Why is she bringing it up now? Why didn't she deal with it then? Maybe because of what @kbcmighty said? Possible counterpoint? Can I go to work in a sheer slip and then sue the harassers?
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  9530. Look up the remarkable biography of Israeli professor Neve Gordon. He had to leave Israel due to death threats. He himself didn't put much store by them, but felt he could not expose his young children to the mounting risk.
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  9531. He restated Russia's known nuclear policy. The fact of mentioning it, and stating that he is not bluffing, made news.
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  9532. And for what? Her speech is protected. The First Amendment is dead in people's souls.
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  9533. @@fjbbiden9352 I see no speech that Trump made on January 6 that he can be punished for. Most people who heard him and observed him that day -- noting what he said and what he failed to say -- considered it unpresidential. That includes people in his inner circle as well as Mike Pence. I agree. But that is an opinion; there is no question that LEGALLY, it was protected speech.
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  9534. Does ANY major Anglo-American politician speak SPANISH to compare with this statesman's English? If there is, definitely mention them. Acknowledge the rare accomplishment, by US "standards." Most Anglo-American politicians don't speak English this well, starting with our Orange Caligula.
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  9535. The reporter on the ground is Aaron Mate. Just a little heads up.
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  9536. Maybe you ought to listen to Glenn Greenwald. You might understand how people who care about truth and a free press and civil liberties view this incident. He does not make it about personal drama.
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  9537.  @S2pidMedia  I'm not even sure whether I had it, late March 2020. No testing available to people who had not traveled to Asia. Acute symptoms very brief, feeling lousy for a good six weeks, and just odd. For example, severe chills and night sweats yet little fever, severe fatigue, a little cough, a headache that felt like cicadas were buzzing in my head. Fabric softener mixed with perspiration was the only thing I could smell, and fabric softener made me sick for six months. Could not bear the smell. Whatever it was, I never had that before. Four months out, not enough antibodies to determine what it was. :/
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  9538. @dionejohns761  I didn't like my tax dollars going to bomb where my family is from, or to tip warheads with DU for that matter, or to bomb anybody. Point taken. Obviously reparations are a far better use.
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  9539. Always. That's the whole point.
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  9540. ​ @AngieKawaii01 Also, what people say online and what they say under oath are two different things. If you don't trust this report, why put more store in the online accounts of what happened? They might be true, they might not.
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  9541. Nicest mittens I've ever seen. Love them.
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  9542. I come to the comments for comments like this!
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  9543.  Climate Change will Kill us All !!!  Was he also for banning transwomen from women's sports? Did he eat farmed salmon? Did he fail to buy a kente cloth? Did he ever say anything nice about Trump or Melania? Let's get it all out on the table.
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  9544. You posted facts instead of mindless jeering?! What were you thinking?
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  9545. @kafikfishna8806  I had no plans to write a dissertation here. I didn't major in English, either. Now that English is really getting interesting (we studied the history of criticism in the field, which is the basis for my claim), it just so happens to be under attack. When those who don't know persuade those who know less, consult Plato's Gorgias to find out the usual outcome.
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  9546.  @Geewasright  Way to miss the point. Why not just decide by social media Likes? That's cheaper.
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  9547. @Geewasright  My reply was in-visibled again. The point was that a conviction of a candidate has to be accepted by most people in the US as fair, not just in the locality where it happened.
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  9548.  @Geewasright  False. The alleged crime affected the whole country, and the verdict must be accepted widely as fair, because it affects the whole country.
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  9549.  @Brett_S_420  True. A guy name Petrov, I believe, realized it was purely a technical error. His story was that he reset the equipment and went home and slept well after his shift ended. It was relatively low drama. I think the US has had similar incidents, and the SOP/mechanical backups showed they were false alarms quickly. US military equipment is generally "easier" to use because of its engineering, from what we are told.
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  9550. It's called the bankruptcy trustee. These politicians can have their lawyer contact the court assigned to preside over the bankruptcy proceeding, and formally declare what they got from SBF and when. They try to make it seem obscure.
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  9551. ​ @Psyc1onus YT is perverse. I've never seen it worse.
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  9552. ​ @marcusaurelius9123 Start listening to their channels. Just to see what they have to say. Do you think Ukraine can win? His analysis of that war is complete nonsense -- but he never says anything that, when proven wrong, could possibly hurt him. That's his paramount skill.
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  9553. ​ @jasonusaf6326 Is this about words? Call it a hunting rifle if you want. Chasse aux hommes . . .
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  9554.  jeff jones  If only it were just one party! But yes, great example of exactly what I mean.
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  9555.  @russellbarbee6974  My point was, there is no need to rely on the CDC.
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  9556.  @nelsonmcduff5218  Great to hear that!
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  9557.  @arnoldlueders7500  HE HAD HIS EMPTY HANDS UP and should have kept running, obviously.
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  9558. 3:50 was great, lol.
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  9559. Fasting over 44 hours is excruciating to me. But 36 feels great.
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  9560. Details, details.
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  9561.  @mr.scottlangford2327  The original statement is not a misrepresentation. What "could have happened" is simply a classic counterfactual. I mean, we can't refute it, but that proves nothing beyond bare possibility.
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  9562. People fall for this? Scary. So many falsehoods it's not even funny. For starters, Joe didn't apologize. Nor did he say that positions that were known to be false later turned out to be true -- which, according to Noah, is only because conditions changed. That wasn't Joe's point at all. The point was that holding perfectly legitimate positions during a time of limited scientific certainty could get you censored and banned. The wet market story of COVID origins was pushed, but the hypothesis of a lab accident -- at a lab that accepted AMERICAN funding for research -- was "racist?" So, we refused to seek out the truth, whatever it may be, in a noble attempt to protect Asians! No, it was to protect Americans.
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  9563.  @ericmoore7413  LOL, literally. Thanks.
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  9564.  @stellarhyme3  If she turns out to be a fraud, and is perceived by her constituents as being a fraud, then she will lose. The House will be Republican again in no time, which is not a good thing.
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  9565.  @damiangreen299  Wrong. What they are looking to do is extract a COMMITMENT from Pelosi to call for a vote. They can take the time they need, within reason, to draft the bill properly. Of course, this means real work, and less time to meet with lobbyists.
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  9566.  @damiangreen299  You act as if M4A is some esoteric proposal, cooked up yesterday. AOC RAN ON IT. They should get busy drafting legislation. That's their job. Then Nancy should call for a vote.
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  9567.  @jjreddick377  No, it's not warmongering. You can't handle the truth.
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  9568. @noname8366  "Sad?" I'm a rock star. I made it about France. I set my own agenda, I don't care what yours was. A parent does choose where to raise their children. France is an outstanding choice.
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  9569.  @dyingbreed2221  Funny, I didn't remember that part. I remembered it was a man. As it turns out, the same man.
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  9570. You deciphered that? I didn't understand him well enough to tell.
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  9571.  @privatename3447  They can pick the charity arm of various corporations in their portfolios as the recipients of their foundation's grants. This creates a cascade effect: other billionaires contribute to the same charities AND buy stock in the same corporations. This has been traced by several investigators, in more than one country. If structured properly, perfectly legal. It's not tough. None of these people are as smart as they are made out to be.
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  9572. People who have been paying attention are not surprised . . . :)
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  9573.  @nmk5003  Exactly. Perfectly said. Everyone came across badly in the hearing. The rules are important and should be made clear (the administrators should know them in their sleep -- it's a modified Title VII standard), and the factual premise for invoking the rules in a particular case must be verified. How hard can it be? You know the money these people make and the prestige they wield.
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  9574. @skippy9273  Nope, she was right this time. Read the whole thread, if they let you!
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  9575. @SleepyHiker  I know there's antisemitism on campus. Jewish students traditionally work a lot harder in school, starting well before their teens, and people will take it out on them. That's not new. That's the dirty competition you see everywhere. It's gotten worse as reward based on merit has gotten scarce.
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  9576.  @commodoor6549  First, Brie did not call for hate speech laws. There's no question that she did not. Second, hate speech laws are generally void under the First Amendment. There is no need for them; the jurisprudence of workplace discrimination is well developed and can inform the rules for interaction on campus. See Nadine Strossen, Erwin Chemerinsky.
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  9577. This has become a "problem" because the corporations say it's a problem. Labor has greater power. That alone is a great thing.
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  9578.  @L1LP0E  Prior to Cheatle's resignation: "Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) said he will be filing articles of impeachment against Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle."
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  9579. Give Hunter a sweet deal, Joe won't cause problems. He'll go quietly, you'll see.
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  9580. ​ @ruthokelley5833 Nicely said!
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  9581. "Look at the films from China of people wearing masks . . . " I thought we were downplaying the lab leak hypothesis because it was racist against Asians. That was the story.
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  9582. Yeah, well, read the New Yorker for a more nuanced view. This was an underage kid from an impoverished, troubled background whose older sister participated in BLM protests. (That was why Rittenhouse said he agreed that BLM. In other words, and to sum it up, he's a kid.) These are exactly the kinds of kids that you do not shove into the arms of the far right. I really recommend those articles. Then Glenn Greenwald's analysis will make sense.
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  9583.  @Jefferson.69  Chicago beaches were closed. Police were sent to clear them. There was no lockdown at the time, either.
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  9584. ​ @MrJeffcoley1 Correct.
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  9585. This show's entire brand is gossip about other shows.
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  9586.  @ibeezisi3847  Did he point out that we now know (which we did not, two years ago) that school is not a high-risk environment for COVID transmission? That was what THIS broadcast just criticized him for, specifically. Your post is vague and politicized rather than sticking to the facts.
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  9587. ​ @DriveInFreak Mastectomies have been performed, yes. Other surgeries, not that I have ever seen documented. But that a teenager's breasts would be first to go comes as no surprise to me.
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  9588. @DriveInFreak  Look up IM Gender Clinic, full guidelines statement on top surgery; or look up Chloe Cole.
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  9589.  @mrsleep0000  Exactly, I had said Microsoft, not Gates -- but his holdings at that time would have suffered. I think we all learned this when the BP oil well in the Gulf blew up. The CEO went on to a better job. Not a penny of his salary or stock options could be clawed back. Same for the 2008 debacle. Short of proven fraud, they never have to face any punishment except from their Board, and that's in the form of being asked to leave. (Like, big deal.)
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  9590. In the meantime, Jimmy Dore just had Convo Couch election observers on, who told the truth about Nicaragua, the Sandinistas, and the criminal sanctions against Third World peoples, which are acts of war. "But personal stories are so much more important."
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  9591. I think Jimmy got the point perfectly.
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  9592. ​@iteerrex8166 I don't know what word that is = scents er ship is working as planned.
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  9593. Schwartz closes with "the Russian interference was probably decisive?!!" Okay. Nevermind.
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  9594.  @MichaelAronson  Wow. Did you follow me all around to keep score? This video is more repugnant than Jimmy's worst rant.
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  9595.  @MichaelAronson  OMG, and you are all over each thread! Projecting, like a true blue American. Or like these clowns, saying Dore must be in it for the money because they know how much they LOVE love money.
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  9596. Your feelings get to decide who gets to go to university, or be released from prison?
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  9597. ​@robinsparkles1582 First of all, the rhetoric is misleading; if someone is not good, you don't say they are the best or the most, but the least bad. (See, for example Plato, Gorgias. Seeing through this sophistical move is really old.) Second, before Reagan (and since the Great Depression), all presidents were much more attuned to union concerns. A huge chunk of the labor force was unionized. Of course they paid attention. They did when they had to.
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  9598. I guess poor countries exist as playgrounds, petri dishes, and munitions testing stages for the American imperial elites. Wow are the people who hailed "the end of history" in for a harsh surprise.
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  9599.  @fthurman  She can ask for more. Only pain and suffering/emotional wounds have a limit, although legitimate treatment for diagnosed PTSD has to be compensated, even if she has insurance.
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  9600.  @theBaron0530  Why am I being sense___oared? Why can't I ask whether you can see my comment?
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  9601. She was in therapy -- why? And he went to Russia to detox. The kids need better advocates. Stronger people.
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  9602.  @TheRedWabbit  You are right to ask. Have you followed the news from France, where weekly demonstrations began in November 2018? During and after the (near-)general strikes in late 2019, the firefighters began systematically defending other protesters from the police at numerous demonstrations. That line was crossed. Then came some of the most draconian COVID lockdowns in the West, even though France did not have the worst outbreaks. (It did have some pretty poor public health statistics, that is true, but certainly not comparable to US or UK.) I think Americans actually believe the propaganda. The way they become drug addicts, etc., so easily if they don't "succeed" (i.e., make a lot of money) makes me think that. Jeering is something you can adopt or drop, but that degree of self-hate is evidence the propaganda has made its way deep into their lives.
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  9603. GMO-based experimental immunotherapy
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  9604. ​ @a.ros12  Exactly. Thank you.
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  9605. I'm also sorry. How are you doing these days?
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  9606. ​ @chozen_juan  Never blame yourself. Keep the focus where it belongs. Look what they did to us!
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  9607. The actual facts that the ACLU cited support the proposition that police acted wrongly, not that Rittenhouse did. The facts show to what extent the police were responsible. If it weren't so tragic, I would be laughing.
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  9608. This is how Krystal Ball treats a man whose father was assassinated while running for president, and who was a young teen when he lost his father. A sign of the times, sadly. Not that ANYONE should be treated like RFK Jr. was treated, ever. But even being who he is did not give Krystal a moment of pause. Blech.
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  9609. It only pertains to minors incapable of consent. I HOPE.
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  9610. But women need mental toughness and stoicism as well. They are the ones having to resist the social pressure to vaccinate, to "affirm" the gender notions of an 11-year-old, to deal with the insanity in the modern school and office. So, according to these people, women who can stand up for themselves are displaying "toxic masculinity?" BTW, I'm far left -- from a European left perspective. Not this insanity. This is propaganda, and it is the poison.
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  9611. They got you groomed.
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  9612. What Musk said might not be acceptable in UK. I don't know the law in UK. Jessica doesn't know the law here. Brandenburg v. Ohio is the law here. "Clear and present danger" is too vague. It is not the standard. But she keeps repeating it.
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  9613.  @Cuernavacachica02  P. S. I feel exactly as you do. I'm guardedly interested in this vaccine. I may opt out in the end.
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  9614.  @donnathedead7554  Who is Max? Right thread?
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  9615. In 2022, we have come to the point where Nixon was the good guy. Whoa.
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  9616. Is there appellate authority on this type of jury instruction?
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  9617. She demanded Jimmy "stop running his mouth," i.e., criticizing her and TYT. Or else.
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  9618.  @MichaelAronson  I thought better of Sam Seder.
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  9619.  @ish7957  And most of the MSM reporting was deliberately wrong. I say "deliberately" because when parts of the story fell apart, corrections were either buried or not made at all. Instead, MSM newscasters who pushed it got rich. "Hey? What's not to like?"
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  9620. This podcast hosted by Briahna Joy Gray was a great program on the First Amendment. It wasn't even about impeachment. Do you really not understand how something can be taken out of context? It could be done to you, you know.
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  9621.  @j0j0dartiste21  Produce one indictment that involves some form of combination or cooperation with Putin or other Russian government actors. Just give us a link, or search term.
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  9622.  @j0j0dartiste21  Who is excusing Trump? I want to see him impeached and thoroughly investigated, and his gauleiters from the insurrection prosecuted.
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  9623. ​ @oceania2385  See? Timestamped for you.
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  9624. ​ @מיכאלקליין-ש3ס Random? He's not a member of the Knesset? The people featured by Democracy Now and by Glenn Greenwald are all just "random" as well?
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  9625.  @analcommando1124  Yeah, we've noticed that there are more and more little, veiled insinuations that Jimmy is a bigot. We know what you're up to (you who joined less than a month ago). That pig won't fly.
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  9626.  @CAPS0L  Whose flag??
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  9627.  @reneeg4817  I agree, in general. Marriage and fathering children doesn't prove a person's character. Multiple divorces, cheating scandals, multiple bankruptcies, or frequenting Jeffrey Epstein may say more. A lot of our "leaders" fit one of those descriptions.
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  9628. Congress could have passed a resolution distancing themselves from her words and affirming their support for Israel. Instead, it voted to censure her, which is a finding of wrongdoing for having spoken and a formal reprimand for her words. They did this even though her speech is First Amendment protected. Instead of passing a resolution, they doled out a punishment. And for WHAT? (Did they make us "safer?") They are sworn to protect and defend our Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights. (They forgot already?)
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  9629.  @Nagaz_  Everyone knows how this aid is used and what it's for. You're the one who is under the delusion that you have just come upon some great truth hidden from the rest of us.
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  9630. Cuomo did this for himself, not to "help" anyone else. But motive is irrelevant -- Cuomo said many true things.
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  9631.  @reharl4953  How crazy can someone be? Oh, there is no limit . . .
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  9632. 1:54 Released in critical condition to what hospital??
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  9633. ​@battle619 The kind who needs help desperately. You do not report on family to LE except to prevent an imminent violent crime. You speak to doctors, lawyers, psychotherapists. You seek alternatives.
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  9634. Debunked by whom? I don't rely on American MSM to verify it, but on British sources like Reuters. Reuters is not CNN, MSNBC. Reuters:  Sept 20 (Reuters) - The White House on Monday criticized the use of horse reins to threaten Haitian migrants after images circulated of a U.S. border guard on horseback charging at migrants near a riverside camp in Texas . . . Reuters witnesses saw mounted officers wearing cowboy hats blocking the paths of migrants, and one officer unfurling a cord resembling a lariat, which he swung near a migrant's face. The Independent: Sept 22 -- The second-in-command at a union for US Border Patrol has tried to defend the use of horse reins around migrants in Del Rio, Texas, where tens of thousands have arrived from Haiti. . . Recent images from Del Rio have shown migrants fleeing Border Patrol agents on horseback who are wielding their reins like whips, with a Reuters witness catching an agent unfurl and swing one in front of migrants.
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  9635. ​ @juststop022 No, you are, if this is such a big deal to you. Will kids be confused about real history? AI is raising them? Is that it?? Then that's the problem.
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  9636.  @xrpeacemaker6437  That is capitalism. A free market actually has safeguards to prevent the concentration of wealth and power in the unproductive rentier class. A free market has a commons. Adam Smith was not naive to the risk that people would combine to undermine free markets and grab more for themselves without actually creating wealth.
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  9637. Well, sorry to see a few less than sympathetic replies. Everyone needs a virtual pat on the back or a hug, even a doctor. When I was a caregiver for my late father, I was so impressed by the amount of research on nutrition in this century -- there has been a plethora of new findings, and startling progress. As someone who has followed the advice I gleaned from those years of caregiving and study, 2005 to 2010 and beyond, I am sure there are things you can do now to get better. All the best to you! You'll be yourself again soon. Consider a brief leave of absence to recuperate; no one would dare fire a doctor now. :)
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  9638. Well . . . What will it take? Why don't they remove a president who can't function as president?
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  9639.  @fuckamericanidiot  Exactly! We've always considered the question whether it was cruel, especially to children, and questioned whether the lives of such people were enhanced or destroyed by their societies. Real questions.
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  9640. "Self-identified followers of the Democratic Party" -- best description I have ever heard, and the most accurate. Who the hell are these people??
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  9641. They were fully exonerated and settled a $41 million civil rights suit. A civil rights suit can't be brought unless the plaintiffs were exonerated. It will be dismissed outright.
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  9642.  @khatdubell  The Norfolk Four confessed, too, and they were grown men in the US Navy. None of them had anything to do with the crime.
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  9643.  @khatdubell  You don't know who the Norfolk Four were, do you? Adult men in the Navy. Nor do you understand my point about the ubiquity of false confessions.
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  9644. @khatdubell  You don't know anything about either case. Nor do you understand the point about false confessions. They are common. The Norfolk Four are an a fortiori example.
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  9645. "Why are the people in Europe putting up with this shit?" Classic Jimmy. 😂
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  9646.  @vainezaiven6677  I'm sorry, you don't know that. She certainly has highlighted very heterodox people on her show. I agree with OP by the way, and I am sure Brie watches on Mondays.
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  9647. It's about economic security at this point.
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  9648. This is a civil suit.
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  9649. But who do you institutionalize? The medical professionals, surely.
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  9650. To . . . make the cover of Vogue? Rolling Stone?
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  9651. Why do these administrators fold? What are they afraid of?
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  9652. Anyone can invoke the Fifth Amendment. He could have said nothing on advice of counsel anyway.
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  9653.  @Speakingintothevoid700  Suppose someone else did it. Are you comfortable with the idea of that person escaping punishment?
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  9654. And if he had come before Congress and been placed under oath, he would have talked. He wouldn't have invoked the Fifth Amendment. Just how easy is it to dupe people? How do they always follow the red herring?
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  9655. THIS
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  9656.  @weseeucommies8402  Pasolini was a communist. WWII resistance fighters were communists. Please, let's not smear communists with Fauci.
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  9657. No, wait. Billions love Bill Gates!
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  9658. Translation: AOC is saying the preferred lobbies ("grass roots organizations") haven't asked for a vote. !!!!!!
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  9659. Her breach of contract claims against Harvard were not dismissed. That part of the case can proceed.
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  9660. Identity politics, huh? No one is against it, they just want to benefit from it.
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  9661. I agree in principle, but this walk off is one I have got to support.
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  9662.  @mikemurray2027  I agree.
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  9663. "Believe in science?" Science is primarily a methodology, not a set of static results, and certainly not a religion.
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  9664. Dr. King had too much faith in "people who think they're white." (Baldwin's words)
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  9665.  @ericpalmer3588  Who told you no children have been harmed by vaccines? That is false. And masks have harmed speech development and emotional development in many kids.
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  9666.  @ericpalmer3588 "Conspiracy?" Do you know how to consult a peer-reviewed journal? A study came out in late August 2021, listing the side effects in the young, from myocarditis to appendicitis. This is the most comprehensive to date, and was actually positive. People feared worse.
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  9667.  @nxbis  Oh gawd, this really was the funniest post of all. That is hard to do.
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  9668. Damn skippy.
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  9669. ​ @iamshebeeloloindigenous He. Is. LYING.
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  9670. This clip degenerated into a string of swear words.
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  9671.  @willis7404  None of these people know what AP is, or what the College Board is. We have never reached square one with this, to even frame the issue correctly. These are NOT required classes. They are not part of the high school curriculum at all. They are purely electives.
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  9672. You cannot defend property with lethal force. This was civil disobedience. He did not resist arrest or lie about what he did. He livestreamed it. Get it?
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  9673. Shutdowns without UBI were massively immoral. The real left, in every country, has been questioning restrictions on freedom of movement. You don't just hand that freedom over, and you don't say questioning shutdowns is verboten. As it turns out, all those who demonstrated against police killings here had it right.
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  9674.  @peterstafford4426  Abby Martin has always criticized Putin. I guess you never watch her.
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  9675.  @ultravioletiris6241  Yes. There are only two extreme possibilities. Isn't that always true? What?
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  9676.  @ultravioletiris6241  I think that if you're let go, it might be for cause. LOL
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  9677.  @ultravioletiris6241  When you impute to others what you yourself are doing, feeling, saying . . . Hmm. I guess you're on meds? Okay. Just let me leave quietly. I won't bother you again, I promise.
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  9678. We've never been closer to nuclear war? WWII was a (one-sided) nuclear war.
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  9679. P. S. Your OP is the best by far.
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  9680. @Calm Hiatus The problem is, they made it personal.
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  9681.  @britsareweak  I don't agree that he's unwatchable. He recently did a show with Glenn Greenwald that was superb, he recently compiled a series of documents on Biden showing exactly why we need to beware, and so forth. He does a lot of stuff that no one else does. If you want to expand the very justified critique to a cancel, go ahead, be my guest, and tootles. I won't be joining you.
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  9682. ​ @akoilngas1215 Thanks for a SUPER post.
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  9683. Gates is the arsonist who volunteers as a firefighter.
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  9684.  @theBUSHBLADE  Critical thinking would interfere with their ability to keep a job, and they have debts for everything. Student debt includes trade schools. "True" is what brings in money. That's all. I agree that a draft would change everything.
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  9685. Well, but if they're rich? /s
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  9686. Which is true of EVERY election now. Krystal brought this story. Duh.
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  9687.  @chasingdharmaify  Agreed! But if there were a simple formula: if always going to parties with a friend, if someone in your group of friends agrees always to decline all drinks, if you agree to leave if anyone feels their safety is genuinely threatened , and if by doing all of this, you could at least be sure you would come home in one piece, it might be worth it. But the truth is, you could do all of this -- which comes down to a serious restriction on your personal freedom -- and you STILL could end up assaulted, shot, anything. You could end up pregnant in a state that does not permit an abortion.
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  9688.  @AnaLucia-wy2ii  Prior vaccines having one serious side effect per 100,000 were closely watched, limited, or withdrawn from use. Of course the majority are fine. The majority are supposed to be fine.
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  9689.  @donnazukadley7300  Oh my gawd. I'm so sorry!
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  9690. Luigi
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  9691. Lev Golinkin is certainly an opponent of the invasion and of Putin, and he has provided the most extensive documentation of the fact Azov and other battalions in Ukraine are Nazi-dominated, and that a relatively tiny number of actual Nazis in Ukraine have a HUGE influence over their military and foreign policy.
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  9692.  @bubasmollett8610  IOW, this was not a good time to curtail any constitutional rights. Agreed.
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  9693.  @astucker53  Mm hm. And suppose one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims had found herself pregnant? What options would you suggest?
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  9694.  @ScrappyKitty15  The bullies are loud, and take up the space around us, but please know you have far, far more friends. Not false friends who pity or patronize, but real friends who are proud and honored to stand with you.
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  9695. If he had an actual religion. He had something he thought was religion.
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  9696.  @NOLAjeanieUS  Not enough, LOL! 🌹
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  9697.  @thevarietypacksnaxx405  As long as it's a relatively small number, and they don't inconvenience the elites, their suffering has never been an issue. Many people will jeer at them for not finding better jobs, and suggest they must not deserve better. The U.S. is a friendly kinda place. Just found out about the latest workplace shooting this evening.
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  9698. Thank you for real information. I can exhale now, after all of the other posts, sheesh.
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  9699. This took me a minute. 😂
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  9700.  @richbarrett6380  A lot of Europeans do not identify personally as "white." Obviously, in the US, I always mark "white" because of the political context. But as a Montenegrina, I don't personally think of myself as "white." Nor do my relatives. Occasionally, very rarely, I will use the term "white" when talking with family, and they always understand that as referring to someone other than us.
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  9701.  Star Dust  The whole race discourse has gotten so weird lately. Say, for example, Russians might say matter of factly that they're Eurasian, and don't mean anything by it. It's just a fact that so many people in Russia have Asian ancestry since the Middle Ages. So what? But some right-wing nationalists will assert their Eurasian ancestry like it makes them superior, and flaunt it, like a supremacist trope. It is so weird. "Hybrid vigor," the "decadent West," blah blah. So a simple fact is changed into another ugly discourse, by some people. And you can't tell offhand what a person's intention is.
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  9702. ​@amypoole30 Not to me. Don't be like cancel culture Dems. Actually listen to her.
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  9703.  @divinerevelation.777  I agree he should have a good job, for which he is qualified. I'm sure there are many such jobs that don't have C-suite high profiles. C-suite is the public face of a company -- that is what he was. How did he ever imagine a clerk at a drive through window is as well? It's not a mistake like all of us make. If the video had gone viral and he had gotten lavish praise from everyone, and maybe a stint as an MSNBC commentator on LGBTQ issues in the modern workplace, he would be proud. He would never have given that young woman a second thought, much less an apology! You know, sometimes the harassed person is the one to lose their job, not the harasser.
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  9704.  @paulhildum2309  Oh, okay. Then you do know. Ford relied on the Burdick case to pardon Nixon. But in that case, the Court also said that accepting a pardon does imply acknowledging some level of culpability. It's just that without an indictment, we can't specify exactly what that culpability is. It's not wonderful. 😒
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  9705.  @wednesdayschild3627  My mother knew 50 years ago. But it's true, all sorts of things have been promoted by doctors.
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  9706. They don't need HUAC or COINTELPRO for this. Now they have infiltrated mainstream media and minds to the point where lots of people will take over this part of the job.
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  9707.  @2NE1Dragons  Same. Imagine how entitled some people are, to come on a major outlet with that level of preparation.
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  9708. You raise a vital question, and immediately lapse into specious and sophistical explanations. Maybe that is part of the answer. I mean, the way you immediately lapse . . . Etc.
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  9709.  @zacherysellards4275  Yup! ;)
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  9710. The surprise is that anyone voted for him.
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  9711. Wow. It's 2024, and I agree with every word coming out of Tucker Carson's mouth. Strange times.
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  9712.  @alicewynne8242  Yup, easily. :/
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  9713. Er, that's the point of two or more incomes.
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  9714. THIS
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  9715. She has no memory of this event. You don't realize that?
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  9716.  @petebondurant58  I don't watch Netflix. I know law and stuff.
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  9717. @petebondurant58  That, I'm sure you're right about. By the way, I found the complaint and read it. Always a good idea. This show doesn't hire competent people, either. I bet none of them found it and read it. (And I tend to doubt Nomiki can, lol.) That's not what they're paid to do. They're paid for what you just saw.
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  9718. I'm so sorry. How are you? This is all too much.
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  9719.  @stevealves3059  Did you read the complaint, or just believe Amber? After reading it, I see no reason to think any of these three bothered. The facts are more likely to be found in COURT DOCUMENTS than on CNN or Fox.
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  9720. @stevealves3059  At the time their civil rights case was brought, New York and the Second Circuit required not only a vacated guilty verdict, but also evidence of actual innocence, to avoid dismissal. There is no way the city would have settled had they been factually to blame in the attack. The current Supreme Court relaxed that requirement somewhat just recently -- yeah, the conservative one. But simply vacating a guilty verdict still isn't enough. The case has to be over. The prosecutor can't have the option to retry the person.
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  9721.  @kevinsyd2012  It does show the vaccine is capable of SLOWING the spread of COVID for a period of time in most fully vaccinated people. That is all that it shows. Get your facts straight.
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  9722. And EM is not an engine_er. But try saying more.
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  9723. @nevillegoddard4966  That's exactly why it's a fad, complete with its Fred Flintstone "logic."
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  9724. That's why jokes are good.
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  9725. Thank you. Best in class! 🐕🐕🐕🐶
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  9726. @mikec3971  Most people are not at either extreme, are they? And suppose she were abysmal? This is just one job. So what? That was precisely my point: their approach made it sound as though she had something wrong with her. Vague does not mean neutral or objective: on the contrary, it lends itself to drawing worse implications than a straightforward approach. Sorry, I don't go for Newspeak. Find better scriptwriters.
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  9727. So . . . a person cannot state what happened to them without declaring their support for the vaccine and urging others to do what they themselves should not have done. Got it.
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  9728. She should go into law.
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  9729. ​@Quantum_Whisper_Thread You can breeze through a JD, or, with a year of calculus and accounting, be on top for an MBA or MPA. Or, minor in psychology (or double major) and get an MSW. Philosophy majors can read harder texts.
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  9730.  @anthonytwohill9726  Now that's what I call a good attitude. After 10 months of pandemic, impressive.
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  9731. Some of the language she used ("humanitarian") was drama queen, but the request itself was fine.
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  9732. She expressly said civil disobedience necessarily entails the willingness to be arrested -- which is correct. It does. What part of disproportionate force is a mystery to you? Trespass and damage to property aren't a license for police to beat or maim anyone.
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  9733. @carlsanders7824  Civil disobedience is not necessarily nonviolent. The hallmark of civil disobedience is a willingness to be arrested and to offer no resistance to the arrest. That doesn't mean you can't occupy a building, use furniture to bar the door, etc.
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  9734.  @chriss1672  I hear people say this, but never a link or clip. Krystal has been saying "tinderbox" for a long time, because of the pandemic and the economy, but without elaborating, that I can recall.
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  9735. Whew. Glad that debate is over, thanks.
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  9736.  @nektulosnewbie  Milgram is controversial, but most researchers accept the result as legitimately informative. I don't know about the other two.
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  9737.  @nektulosnewbie  I will! All of this research interests me.
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  9738. She just TOLD you, she and her husband have three children now, and pay $2500 per month in health insurance premiums.
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  9739. This really was about censorship. No one sees that any more. Well, Depp v. Heard was a First Amendment case, but almost no one knows that, and some who do lie. Let's see whether the Fifth gets trashed in another bit of titillation.
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  9740. When you said "federal," at first I read "feral."
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  9741. ​ @craigfrith7024 I tried to but yt didn't agree. The OP is not correct.
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  9742. @nikkygovier3783  If it was intelligent, it will be the first to go. It disrupts the narrative that we are all a bunch of dolts.
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  9743.  @nikkygovier3783  Concerning this proposed law, which did pass the first round in the French National Assembly, I do not agree with it, but it does not say what these posts claim.
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  9744. If he didn't learn how to apply what he learned, then that's his own fault. Anyone who works on applying what they've learned, will. It's not that hard.
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  9745.  @robmorgan1214  No, I do not live in a "safe space." Here is the reality: NO ONE will TEACH these kids, unless they themselves are desperate and unemployable elsewhere. Get that through your head. Because that is where we stand. Why is this kid a dropout? Where is his father? Why is he being charged as an adult? "Safe space," my arse. Lose those stupid memes.
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  9746. Nearly a third of the period since the Civil War, nearly half since women got the right to vote. Essentially the entire period since the end of legalized segregation.
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  9747.  @brandonbath6097  A husband and father cannot be forced to donate a pint of blood to save his pregnant wife's life. We all agree it is monstrous to refuse, no argument. The state STILL cannot force him. That is because the Fourteenth Amendment protects bodily integrity and autonomy. This is implicit in the concept of liberty. Be careful what you wish for. Every right to be free of state control is being eviscerated. Don't think it won't affect you. It already has.
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  9748.  @brandonbath6097  You're the one who needs to think this through. I didn't say some guy. I said the father. If you haven't noticed that all of our rights are being trashed, and that it has already affected you, and that you have every right to try to persuade people never to choose abortion, but not to have state power decide for them, and that stuff like abortion pills can cross state lines, and that your jails are filled, and that school massacres are ubiquitous, as are drug overdoses, as is teenage sex trafficking, as is child homelessness . . . Well, I guess I don't understand anymore. This is your focus? And you think it won't haunt you?
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  9749.  @brandonbath6097 We're not talking about "murdering babies." We're talking about things that a state has no right to intrude upon. How do you expect to protect this life? How will pregnancy be policed? Because you will have to. Who will be punished, and in what way? You're saying it is murder. Does a pregnant woman who attempts suicide have to be incarcerated after she gives birth? Or during the rest of her pregnancy, then be subject to capital punishment afterwards? What about embryos created at fertility clinics? Are they people? What about selling RU 486? What about carrying it across state lines? It's obvious you don't like to think much. Or persuade instead of force, whenever force will get you your way.
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  9750.  @brandonbath6097  This is the Internet. The longest emoji string wins.
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  9751. Bri and Batya on fire. Great to see.
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  9752.  @John-kv7jo  How is that relevant? He was in obvious distress. Why do police in all the affluent suburbs carry Narcan, and administer it so often? I find that bizarre, by the way, but it works.
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  9753. 15:25 MY FAVORITE JIMMY DORE, like, ever. 🔥
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  9754.  @Unfamous_Buddha  How so? Was Helen Keller born blind?
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  9755. No wonder he made it to the top.
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  9756. "Meritocracy"
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  9757. ​ @evan258  This is disingenuous. If you want to know what a judgment is actually based on, you have to read the court documents. I haven't, so I don't know. Have you?
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  9758. Looks like Biden and Trump both have set the standard for intellectual prowess. Good job.
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  9759. Look up the PBS report on the vaccination program in Belgrade, Serbia, heavily subsidized by the Chinese government. At PBS, they were dwelling on the political implications rather than public health. "The Chinese are making headway." This channel is censored, I'm afraid a link will be removed! The total lack of international cooperation by the US shows that this is not about public health.
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  9760.  @justinwallace390  "the train mishap" May you have just such a "mishap" in your back yard, and watch your property values go up in smoke. That alone, without the risk of serious illness, is reason enough to provide immediate federal assistance and go after the train company for restitution. Those are not state functions. States do not issue currency or monitor multistate transportation safety.
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  9761. 😂😂😂
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  9762.  @jstarr7506  How do you know? Prejudging this case already?
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  9763.  @babasheeny3634  😅😅😅 I think we can guess.
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  9764. Follow the money.
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  9765.  @ab8588  There was extensive reporting by people who did real journalism. The MSM knew they were lying when they called him racist.
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  9766. Not even Trump is that crazy.
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  9767. I would never have believed this could happen. More than a miracle is necessary for no terrorists or cartel members to be in the country now. Is 9/11 just an excuse to spy on Americans now? Not a reason to monitor all our borders always?
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  9768. Which is true
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  9769. ​ @markatkinson167 The danger to the average person under 60 was always very small, but serious enough to cause panic.
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  9770. @naijaplayer  Of course, but if you want to see the other side -- namely, the compelling evidence of overprescription of psychoactive medications -- please read Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic. I've taken to reading books that predate the COVID pandemic by years or decades. Very instructive.
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  9771.  @naijaplayer  Whitaker and similar writers make a case that does not cover everyone's experience or show what is best for everyone. This is why medicine has got to be individualized. I loved this book, but by the end, you see that even he has overstated the case against medication. The problem is that far fewer people truly need it than are pushed to take it, and it hurts everyone, . . . so, the information he gives is really useful for resisting the "take the pill" default, when other things usually can and should be tried first. You are very welcome. With so much money at stake, unbiased information is harder and harder to find. :/
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  9772.    Oh please. I hope you can handle the truth. It's not just one election. It's how we live now. And by the way, ask any lawyer how much more common perjury became after Clinton committed it. Support for lying, misleading, obfuscating and all the rest is only growing.
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  9773.  @kiralevenson1706  Yes, THIS!
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  9774.  Olga Martin  It was her cover story. I wonder if she actually read it.
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  9775. Cancel her? You would if you could.
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  9776. Yes, she has heart. She has been a caretaker for family suffering from COVID -- including fully vaccinated and boosted family members. Hm. Some people have tried to shut her down for saying it. I wish I were exaggerating. :/
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  9777. Let's step back from the insanity and look at this from a naive standpoint. Teens have always had whacky fads. So, Sam wants to be called Shirley and Gretchen is Greg. Shirley is going to put on a dress, heels, and black nail polish. Greg is going to get a crewcut and wear combat boots. Does anyone see a reason for serious hormone medication here? Why?
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  9778. He is rare. What was done to him is lost on no one.
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  9779.  @vickicrawford1263  Who, me? Two, including California.
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  9780. But somehow money flows from those who worked for it to this cast.
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  9781. Sabby is stupendous!
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  9782. Allow the Chesterton quote, my goodness!
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  9783. $100 billion is nearly $50 million a year for every year since the birth of Jesus. The lives of Da Vinci, Shakespeare, Descartes, Kant, Dostoevsky, Einstein . . . And every human being of the last two millenia. Who earns that?
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  9784. If 2000 died, etc., same.
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  9785.  @americaisdyingslowly  He's, um, full of it. I'm surprised at how their "narrative" collapses so fast. There IS a case for targetted vaccination. The Great Barrington Declaration doctors all recommend targetted vaccination very strongly, as does the infamous Dr. Malone.
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  9786. Does she censor your news sources? 😂
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  9787.  @haidagwaiiintel7696  "Don't throw me into the briar patch, no no!"
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  9788. Sweet
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  9789. @jasonpickett2448  I could tell the difference on free speech.
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  9790. I don't like it, either, and my name couldn't be more different.
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  9791. Glasses are expensive in America. The French health service still provides that, despite the best efforts of the global investment banks.
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  9792.  @daddyleon  Don't use fancy words when you don't know what they mean. It's embarrassing for everyone.
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  9793.  @frankiedonkeybrains9658  You're wrong, but the algorithm is on your side. Funny, that. Makes you wonder.
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  9794.  @sdrc92126  Odd choice was my point.
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  9795.  @sdrc92126  Happened again.
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  9796. This, too. Absolutely.
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  9797.  @robertjohnson1681  Because the MSM repeated it a whole bunch of times.
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  9798.  @williamdawes7866  "context" "amplified" "puppet" You all sound like you're reading from a script. You forgot "whataboutism" "treason" and "traitor."
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  9799.  @williamdawes7866  Tucker isn't an investigative journo anyway. I would never take his world. Romney, The View, and so forth, MSM in general, have lost their minds, and the US is undermining Zelensky. Establishment types need and want this war to continue for a while, to exploit the crisis.
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  9800.  @williamdawes7866  The only politician I support is J-L Melenchon in France. I voted for LaRiva to register my support for the release of Leonard Peltier. Peltier has one of the finest lawyers representing him, a Navy man who became a federal judge and then resigned in protest of mandatory minimum sentencing for relatively trivial offenses. Now he practices civil rights and civil liberties law in Tennessee. A long interview of his, by Chris Hedges, didn't survive the RT ban, but Democracy Now still has one, though shorter. Was this too much for you to read, or process? I'm sorry.
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  9801. Tiens. Le banquier prend la parole.
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  9802. Robby doesn't even know that each of these jobs in the federal system has a hierarchy of command, and that some of them -- such as the Article III federal courts -- are exempt from executive authority. He's extremely ill-informed, and needn't be well-informed. It's not what his audience wants.
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  9803.  @aidananstey9848  Exactly. Robby doesn't need to know. That was my point. Apparently, Elon Musk doesn't know about the separation of powers doctrine, either. I want his citizenship test results released.
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  9804.  @danwelterweight4137  He got the perfect comeuppance. Not one undiplomatic word.
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  9805.  @LP-dc7fh  BLESS YOU, and very best wishes for the holidays and 2022. You are better than I am, trust me on this. :) No, I mean it.
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  9806. The screenshots of all the cut-and-paste repetitions of this unverified story are appalling.
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  9807. I made a point to read Singal's entire article at The Atlantic. I was surprised at how excellent it was. It is absolutely crucial to get the gender dysphoria diagnosis and treatment right. When clinicians work hard to make that happen, it's transformative. No pun intended, the results are remarkable.
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  9808.  @marcothehammer  One thing they do have that we don't are Internet privacy laws, and laws against severe workplace bullying that results in physical or psychological disorders and stuff like that. You don't have to be a minority, a woman, or be in any protected group to benefit -- the workplace laws are for everyone. In France, it is against the law to ask a minor if they've had the COVID vaccine, or exclude them from anything (school or anything else) if you happened to know they haven't. Those are freedoms I would hold dear.
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  9809.  @robbieceez7052  Yeah, when there are gobs of jobs in factories, from auto and steel to light manufacturing, on every corner. I wonder what those burger flippers are thinking?
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  9810. Clintonesque
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  9811. if any part of campus is treated as a First Amendment forum, then so-called hate speech is protected there. "Hate speech" is a political slogan, not a legal category.
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  9812. You are here to "educate" us? I could have sworn the word was "inform."
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  9813. Is this an excerpt from a longer show? EDIT: Found it.
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  9814.  @jondeux3682  :)
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  9815.  @jdavis7993  Yeah. Biden still knows he's lying. Trump is so way out, he thinks he's dispensing wisdom.
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  9816.  @25Soupy  On the contrary, she was the Business School's leading example of succeeding in The Market. She wrote books that sold extremely well, too.
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  9817.  @coryCuc  Can you be serious? This story made her rich beyond anything she could have hoped. She's taking home the money. There isn't some other measure.
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  9818. @Rowe104  If they were outstanding papers, setting forth novel theories and representing her own work, that would be plenty. Still, a person would expect most Harvard PhDs in the social sciences or humanities to have published a book based on their thesis -- either expanding on it, drawing from it, or simply publishing the thesis itself, without major reworking. A thesis that becomes a book also "benefits" from the publisher's close scrutiny. 😉😊
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  9819. Exactly. Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear. Everything you said is perfect.
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  9820.  @CabbageYe  No. He's literally the youngest of twelve children and a former bricklayer. But thanks for your concern.
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  9821.  @CabbageYe  You changed your "mind?" If you insist.
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  9822.  @ephre  You back because Jimmy has been teaming with Ron Placone and the superb Aaron Mate lately? Streaming now!
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  9823. We need to know how many people under 40 needed to be vaccinated to prevent one hospitalization, AND how many people under 40 needed to be vaccinated to save one life. This is before we even speak of vaccinating minor children. And notice this does not EVEN address the risk of vaccination. Let's first look at what they are constantly pushing on us, namely, the benefit. Let's look at how great it really is in younger people.
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  9824. Maddow gave people a false sense of security. That hurts no one? Really?
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  9825.  @MJW238  Then see my second point. BTW, the age of consent is 16 in most US states. I happen to think it's too young, but it is the law.
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  9826.  @tooitchy  I still remember when the kids who went to college worked all summer and earned enough to pay a full year of in-state tuition, fees, and books. They graduated with very little or no debt -- you were expected to earn scholarships and work part-time. Then, a couple of roommates could go anywhere with their degree -- Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, New York, get a minimum wage job, and afford the rent. It was a modest life, but possible. People were proud to strike out on their own and live modestly. After all, their parents grew up during the Depression. By the time I got to college, this was impossible. But the students I'm describing were different people. I envy them. They had opportunity. They expected to do for themselves. It was shameful not to.
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  9827. That would be conspiracy facts.
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  9828. First Amendment law is very, very highly developed. Read some cases, like Brandenburg v. Ohio and R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul. This case won't be decided on the basis of the oral argument. They got hundreds, if not thousands, of pages of briefs.
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  9829. How lovely of you to invite this gentlemen.
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  9830. It will be nice gift wrapping. There will be new gift wrapping jobs. Are you against jobs?
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  9831. Excellent radar.
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  9832. Thank you.
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  9833.  @1312Mork2  🤣🤣🤣
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  9834. 1:12:09 Aaron is ethically above any other journalist today. Jimmy shouldn't worry, and Aaron shouldn't, either. Jimmy made one inappropriate joke and then gave Ana a WRITTEN apology. That tells you everything. No dishonest, disingenuous, insincere person ever puts it in writing, knowing it could be used against him.
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  9835. Before the pandemic, AOC said M4A was a human right and urgent. During a pandemic, there are MORE important things than health care?
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  9836.  @vc400  "Are you jealous of successful people?" LOL
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  9837. Which is frightening in itself. Still, you never tried to befriend her, for some reason.
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  9838. When girls are beautiful and successful, someone needs to take them aside and have a heart-to-heart: they need to be told, people WILL try to take you down, because they are resentful or just for sport.
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  9839. Alito should not have done that. Has nothing to do with who should be elected in November.
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  9840. Private schools resumed in September 2020, established a routine, closed over the holidays for an extended period that included some online instruction, then returned to the classroom long before kids were being vaccinated.
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  9841. I can tell you what it is: the result of 40+ years of a trade deficit with China. My mom and I pledged to look for American made always.
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  9842. Prison NEVER improved anyone's mental health. I'm sorry his son didn't speak to an attorney and a doctor or some therapists before calling LE. He strikes me as brilliant. If he had had more life experience, he would have handled this better. FBI is not a first resort. Now his mother is digging in her heels, too. A classic tragedy . . .
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  9843. @msk3905  Well, but he was completely honest with them and they DID hire him. Who is the bad guy in this picture? Only the employer. 💯
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  9844. Let's HOPE.
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  9845.  @darrylschultz6479  Oprah made Tolle a millionaire. Just like she did for the charlatan who invented The Secret (and committed negligent homicide), just like she did for Dr. Phil, just like she almost did for the Dugger who is a child molester. Did you think Bill Gates was some gift to humanity until about a week ago? Even though he tried to push Paul Allen out of Microsoft while Allen was undergoing radiation treatment for lymphoma? Or do you think people are jealous of Bill Gates, The Secret dude, Dr. Phil, or Ghislaine Maxwell for that matter, etc., because of their money? (If you think so, consider whether you start with yourself.)
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  9846.  @iannaughton9295  Well, um, does anyone see beyond their minds? Neat trick.
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  9847.  @darrylschultz6479  How do you know? "The only way" . . . How in the world would you know that? Why should obvious nonsense merit a dissertation?
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  9848. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I love laughing at the insanity.
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  9849. That wasn't the point. I have no opinion on her emancipation, and hope that what is best for her will be what is decided. Krystal is right about the media and playing this out in public. You DO know that juvenile family court records are sealed, FOR A REASON?
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  9850. In the US, the NIH - National Library of Medicine includes a medical journal published by the Armed Forces of India. Looks like a trove of science-based medicine approached from the perspective of a non-Western tradition. I'm off to read.
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  9851. 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 Did I mention 💯?
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  9852. Depends on the contents of his wallet.
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  9853.  @ffffnnnnul2125  What makes an argument good or bad? Superficiality and thumbs up votes? Oh that's right. Emojis.
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  9854. The court said it's so obvious, it needs no disclaimer. No one could make this up! 😅
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  9855. I remember that BEFORE any vaccine was developed, top virologists were warning that any vaccine against a corona virus would be difficult to devise, and would likely be highly reactive. What is odd is strong reactivity plus poor immunity.
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  9856. ​ @HardCoverJacket Good points. The parents may be overreacting. Odd to hear it, considering Columbine and everything since. 😢
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  9857. ​@piotrswat169 Gave you an upvote, but after listening to the first few minutes . . . No. Let's never again talk about Shmuley. Never, ever.
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  9858. Lethal force in defense of a person is legal. Lethal force in defense of mere property isn't. That's why you can use lethal force to defend yourself against a carjacking but not if the car is empty and parked on the street.
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  9859.  @avenuePad  WHAT privacy? To confess a crime on FB, instead of keeping entirely quiet and grieving?
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  9860.  @smasher.338  "We" is Americans, and I am in the process of decamping (emigrating). Thanks for your robust sense of reality. Great job.
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  9861.  @thomasdooley1745  EXACTLY. Fauci and Trump played good cop bad cop. Why didn't Trump replace him? Ha. Trump went along with lifting the moratorium on gain of function research. He could have stopped it. Too lazy.
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  9862. This. Dore's been getting 200k views regularly, and just got demonetized. He won't back down. BTW, their next thing is to ridicule Lara Logan, a woman who almost got killed in a mob doing real reporting from the scene. These aren't even issues.
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  9863. In fact, she just said she wouldn't. She called out Justice Sotomayor and Justice Jackson.
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  9864. Let's call it by its real name: these robots are a new class of highly lethal weapons.
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  9865. These are different people.
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  9866.  @mohamedosman5422  True
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  9867. ​ @timwhite5562 Did he do what she said? This was about 💰. You know how people get around 💰.
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  9868. 28:30 Anya sums it up
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  9869. Listen to the whole video again. A friend asked me to suggest that.
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  9870. Which happened.
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  9871.  @joehilner4830  Perfect comeback. Forced labor in prison is constitutional and always has been.
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  9872. Anyone who followed the trial is not surprised. They tried to turn a Title VII case into a crime, because Title VII is so hard to use against real wrongdoers.
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  9873. Well, if you didn't high-volume trade in Tesla furtures in 2020, and now can't afford a bodyguard, whose fault is that? If you don't get to have Secret Service protection, whose fault is that? /s
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  9874. Not enough "introspection" to figure out how to bring the troops home and prevent them from committing suicide.
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  9875. Outstanding research by Batya. You don't hear reporting like this. Why is that?
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  9876. This was a good choice for this topic.
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  9877. Thank you Amy for telling us about every police killing.
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  9878. It's not true. If putting others first is something you yourself want to do, and if it uplifts you, because you feel needed and appreciated rather than exhausted and used, that can extend your life.
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  9879.  @mmolchin  All true.
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  9880. We always ate together, pretty much every meal when we were all at home, and were nearly always home for dinner. How do you eat separately? Isn't that harder?
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  9881.  @elizabethfindlay5752  You're a rock star.
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  9882.  @what_a_beautiful_noise  Conspiracy theories are used to make people with legitimate questions look stupid. I hope you see how that works.
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  9883.  @what_a_beautiful_noise  Everyone I know who is declining to get vaccinated at this time suffered an injury from a drug or medical procedure -- and not a trivial injury, either. Literally everyone. It is perfectly rational to be cautious after such an event. I plan to be vaccinated, but not at this time. And I agree, I refuse to be pushed.
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  9884.  @what_a_beautiful_noise  Being pushed should worry everyone! That is never right. :/
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  9885.  @zeusathena26  Thanks for confirming you're not worth talking to. Just another round of Them and Us, from you. That seems to enhance your self-esteem, pethaps? (You know what people of color who have been vaccinated say? "It's a personal choice." I haven't seen proper manners from anyone else in America in this century, and don't expect to. Not anymore.)
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  9886.  @ginalynn6963  You also misread what I said. You didn't understand my point about Epstein. Other, preposterous stories were floating around, and grabbing attention, when he was highly active in several states and Europe, with no scrutiny. The false, bizarro child trafficking stories gave the real perpetrator cover. You don't know how that works? Float false anti-vax stories, and the legitimate questions are silenced. Easy in a society with this mentality.
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  9887.  @AnthonyKComedy  Well, my response mentioning a certain C I A program I had been studying lately is ________ .
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  9888. Um, 1.9% is closer to the truth, but I get the point. Case fatality rate is at most that.
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  9889. And the standard is LOW.
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  9890. ​ @EhrichColares  Interesting, and not a surprise.
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  9891. @FritzTheCat_1030  Exactly. X is now his property, and Section 230 -- which he never lobbied for, to the best of my knowledge -- gives him protection. The problem is expecting billionaires to protect our civil liberties. I mean, give me a break.
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  9892. Your belief, your problem.
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  9893. Athens is the "West?" I thought it was the Balkan Other.
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  9894. Well, explain this to me: a woman I have known my whole life just told me she was once raped, some 30 years ago, while at college. She waited to tell me until after her father died. Of course her father didn't do it (some cop she dated one single time did), but he always told his daughters that rape is extremely rare, and that most accusations are false. I was so shocked that I still have no words. My father, on the other hand, was an immigrant, very Mediterranean, and known in our community as someone who had a gun and would use it to protect me. He wouldn't have blinked an eye. (You can figure out the rest, I hope. His realism kept me safe.) Literally every beautiful woman I have ever known has been raped -- literally raped, meeting the full legal definition -- and no one punished in a single case. Explain that. I'm boggled by it. (The social context, by the way, is heavily working class with some professional families who worked very, very hard to get where they are, kids who go to college attend a major state university, and there are few private university graduates, parents or kids, apart from the Catholic colleges.) Maybe the cohort seeking psychotherapy is less likely to have a firm grip on reality in the first place, and more susceptible to the latest media-imposed hysteria. Maybe the kids from the social background you served are more naive or in denial about how money is made, through pushing just such hysteria.
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  9895.  @09bamasky  Taking off a condom without consent has been treated seriously since the AIDS epidemic, and is a crime in many countries. Even married women with children sometimes find out their husband is not who they thought he was. Sometimes they pay dearly for that lesson.
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  9896.  @TheJohnnyonthespot1  No, not until FDA approval and access to the 1986 compensation fund.
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  9897. I hope you are fine now. 😊 ❤️‍🩹
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  9898. It is free speech. It is far too vague to be a true threat.
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  9899.  @stefmanpkb  Math is hard, apparently. Even addition and subtraction, and comparing numbers to see which one is bigger. (Of course the left of the Dems had leverage.)
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  9900. It's always fun to hear from someone who talks about small businesses, knows that millions of Obama voters and even some Sanders voters voted for Trump, and generally lives in the real world.
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  9901. The burden is on Trump to PROVE outcome-changing fraud. You get that part? Right?
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  9902. Yeah, but before you get to Sophocles, be sure to read up on the Sophists. The Socratic dialogues, especially Gorgias, will give you a chill.
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  9903.  @jmpXor  Especially the bit about not wanting to get Jimmy fired. She just subtly tried to stir up trouble in Jimmy's marriage, and only brought this incident up after smearing Aaron Mate, who JD defended, of course. All in all, I hate mudslinging, especially based on alleged sexual harassment, when Ana's career was never held back because of it. Aaron Mate should sue TYT. It's calmer and more civilized. It also makes people shut up on the advice of counsel.
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  9904. Well said
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  9905. I agree. So why is BIDEN the nominee, tell me again? Is Biden sure to win? Will he beat Trump, for certain? Wasn't that the first thing the DNC has needed to address, since November 2016? They prioritized their own donor class instead, when they knew how important this election would be.
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  9906. No limit.
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  9907.  @garymorris1856  Specifically, because she is incapable of appreciating the nature of the penalty she is about to face, due to a combination of severe psychosis and neurological deficiencies. She is thus "insane" within the meaning of Ford v. Wainwright. Why? What did you think?
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  9908.  @garymorris1856  You think someone else is stupid? Seriously?
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  9909.  @garymorris1856  You've never known anyone who was brilliant in their young adulthood and suffered from incipient dementia and paranoid delusions sixteen years later? Lucky you.
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  9910.  @garymorris1856  OTOH, based on feelings, I always identify with the victim, never the perpetrator. I can picture this happening to me, I can't picture me doing it. Nothing to do with the law or ethics.
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  9911. Dr. Campbell, in America, no one cares how you are, unless they have a material interest in you. Those with any problem are shunned.
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  9912. "Of course the U.S. cannot prohibit firms from other countries from trading with Cuba," Richard Feinberg, a professor of international political economy at the University of California-San Diego, said in an email. "However, the U.S. has instituted various economic sanctions that make that trade and investment riskier and more costly, creating serious disincentives."
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  9913. "Classified or specialty" --- what percentage of chips used in the military fall into that category?
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  9914.  @joedixon3472  Funny how unusual it is to become that rich any other way. And yes, this is relatively new.
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  9915.  @daniellubowa595  Memento mori
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  9916.  @jpoeng  Are you in for some good times! Perfect for this week, and you know what I mean.
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  9917.  @credalebrown8581  They'll drop that shoe maybe next year. After the election, of course.
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  9918.  @Dwiz26  Thanks.
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  9919. Why are you all talking about re-education camps? It is a professional licensing board. If Peterson goes, he can voice his opinions. If not, he can relinquish his license. It's his choice. He can take the opportunity to tell them what he thinks. Sheesh, all these agony aunts!
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  9920. Wow, and it's not AI time yet. Are we in for fun fun fun!
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  9921. Not necessarily. This rant is transparent.
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  9922. Seriously, though, what happened to these people? They were all babies and toddlers a short time ago. What was done to them? What were they deprived of?
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  9923. If you are over 60 and not born poor, ethnic, or OF COURSE not a person of color, you might have had a pretty good run . . . Maybe. (Statistically speaking . . . Except, we have individual lives, . . . )
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  9924. If they are students, where is the trespass? Would a student with an Israeli flag pin in the very same place be arrested?
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  9925. Yes, excellent point.
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  9926. These are "official acts?" Maybe for Henry VIII.
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  9927. People who are native speakers of a language with explicit gender markers (Spanish, French, Italian, Greek, Russian, to name a tiny few) generally do not appreciate "x," unless it's in a linguistics paper or something. My mother would have been so upset.
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  9928.  @BillMcGirr  My teachers? I was alive during that time, and lived abroad for part of it. (The perspective of distance, as they say.) Reagan was the first clearly incompetent president of the post-WWI era.
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  9929.  @sigma2.093  🤣🤣🤣 👍
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  9930. 1. How much do you take? 2. Please do lose a bit of weight! We want you around for a long, long time. :)
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  9931.  @Rodrifuuu  Excellent idea
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  9932. The average person is living more and more like a colonized subject.
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  9933. At the end, she talks about the benefits to ADULTS. Lord.
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  9934. Please think of ways to take your mind off of it.
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  9935.  @quinnfletcher3906 See the very mild, mainstream NBC Think piece called "Kamala Harris and Bill Clinton touting girls' empowerment together is a bad joke."
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  9936. One death per 100,000 vaccine doses that are determined to be due to the vaccine should alert scientists, and require explanation. How does anyone expect to advance the development of better vaccines without examining the data? What is so different now that the issue is suppressed?
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  9937.  @brasshouse-fireball  First of all, I didn't mention Sweden. Second, you seem to have omitted Germany. Third, and most important, YOUR IMPLICATION was that Native Americans get "all sorts of stuff for free," and that that has kept them poor. Doesn't seem to have made generations of ordinary Europeans poor -- or Wall Street over here, for that matter. When a student attending a premier state university could earn their entire year's tuition and textbook budget by working full time over the summer, you had more mature, diligent, resourceful, and well-read students here. Now you have indebted, immature conformists who are more likely to go home to live with their parents than to try anything new. Well, they're in debt. And they never had the opportunity to earn their own way, for anything. We did this to them. Just keep it up, bro. Double down. Working out great . . . :/
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  9938.  @brasshouse-fireball  Another fun fact: in France, the LEFT is questioning the shutdowns for COVID. Interesting, huh? It's not that they have the mentality of Trump voters. It's that they don't take curtailment of liberty of movement as a small thing. They expect a rational discussion of alternatives. They acknowledge that "essential workers" have HAD to work. Has their well being been considered? A COVID surge is much too hard for medical personnel to deal with. But a massive shutdown with a requirement for groceries, pharmacies, and public transit to remain open is too onerous for those workers.
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  9939.  tasoj  How is that a choice? No one chooses not to work. Something is wrong, every time.
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  9940.  @zachgates7491  Choice. The right to control your reproduction is a fundamental part of liberty.
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  9941.  @gomahklawm4446  Not what I said. Juries find defendants guilty even in flimsy cases, so it's no surprise they convicted in THIS case.
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  9942. The worst are on top.
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  9943.  @utewbd  Um, you don't know that nearly a three-generation experience with Medicare already exists? How could you have missed that?
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  9944. The Guardian reported on a study that showed that myocarditis was more common from the vaccine than from COVID in young men and boys under age 25. An Israeli study (at least one) confirmed this. Why are you obfuscating it? Nothing to do with ivermectin. Zip. It is now an official warning given by the vaccine manufacturers, for that age group, of course.
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  9945. Does Hillary ever say anything that shows humanity? 4:39
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  9946.  @emilysmall2777  You know, when you talk like that, then I start to understand the people I found the most perplexing and infuriating during this whole period: namely, the ones who think COVID isn't real. You talk like there is no pandemic. No recession, no permanent business closures, no evictions, no food insecurity . . . If voting against health care is not politically fraught, well then I guess there must not be a real pandemic . . . Maybe it is a hoax.
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  9947.  @sbz88  And the problem they have is with Jimmy's new house.
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  9948.  Jamarcus Washington  The anti-Carter talk was much greater than the errors he made would justify. He did not want to engineer the recession needed to stem inflation. Reagan's minions had no problem doing that. The truth is, the Ayatollah elected Reagan. That was the one time a foreign power really did interfere with an election. The early 1980s were the FIRST generation to "live in Mom's basement" after college -- but at least they graduated without debt. People forget how horrid that time was, and how many succumbed to drugs and suicide then. We always have millions we shove to the curb. Forgotten, don't count, too bad for them nah nah, losers . . .
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  9949.  @artgurrl  The Soviet system was not designed to sustain huge military spending. It was more successful in the ways that matter than we were led to believe. We are constantly, CONSTANTLY fed anti-Russian agitprop, nonstop. Don't imagine you know anything about them, absent reading at least half of Stephen F. Cohen's works. (You haven't read one, I'm guessing?)
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  9950.  @artgurrl  Yes, certainly the USSR was in decline, but the question is why. Cohen also believed an alternative was possible, and preferable -- namely, reforming the Soviet system itself. He may be unique in that view, which is why he worked exceptionally hard in his books to demonstrate that alternatives were indeed possible. The more socialized a society, the less it can sustain huge military expenditures. It's the old "guns vs butter" graphic I have in my early edition of Samuelson. Anyway, nice talking to you. And remember Arkhipov and Petrov. We were told the Soviet system could never produce real individuals.
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  9951.  @artgurrl  All SO true, sadly!
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  9952.  @artgurrl  The USSR was both much worse and better than what we were told. We were not supposed to believe anything important ever happened there, that was the crucial thing. (As a kid, I used to picture Moscow as a place where the sun never came out.)
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  9953.  @JonathanKJM  How many get their bank accounts and houses seized?
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  9954. I don't know. How rich is daddy?
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  9955. @chuckstable165 This is a tiresome discussion. Grande clearly did not read the jury instructions or understand them. The McGinnis instruction (innocent bystander) had sufficient evidence to convict. As for the speculation about the state of mind of the deceased concerning the good-faith but mistaken belief that he was defending people from an active shooter, there was actual evidence on that point -- the testimony of a living person, Grosskreutz. This is evidence. Huber's filthy house is not. There is no way to know why Huber did what he did. Let me put it this way: if Grande had speculated about whether Rittenhouse shoved his ex-girlfriend, or went to a bar with known gang members, what would you think about that? I would think it has no bearing on the case. It's extraneous. Huber was shot to death. Why is he fair game? The facts brought forward about him have no bearing on anything. And you have testimony from a living person to analyze, if you really think that it's important to determine whether bystanders believed Rittenhouse was an active shooter. The notion that they wrongly identified Rittenhouse as an active shooter because of fear of guns or misunderstanding of guns is laughable. They went after him. Therefore they were not afraid. Rittenhouse was acquitted BECAUSE those three all went after him. Poor performance.
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  9956.  @cglenn1457  Oh. You again.I didn't realize it was you, who bitterly protested that you don't want to converse with me! 😂
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  9957. You can sanction them, which entails a court record and fine. Getting their license yanked is way harder -- but hey, why not try?
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  9958. I wonder if they made her get vaccinated to keep her job, nevermind firing a person for being five minutes late.
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  9959. Nah, now some billionaire will give them more money. Covering this up will require more work.
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  9960. ​@sheris6649 That we have to choose between a president with no self-control, or this vicious, corrupt abuser --- where is our pride??
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  9961. "Some sort of nuclear treaty . . . " Note that people like Fritts, from all political ideologies, think they should run the country. (See, e.g., Betsy DeVoss.)
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  9962. YES
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  9963. ​ @blackrifle6736 Remember the girl who goaded a boy who liked her into killing himself? I forget whether she got convicted. Edit: yes
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  9964. Paul Krugman just chimed in with this rot, too, NYTimes. It's too pitiful to be true evil.
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  9965. During the BRICS+ summit, Lavrov used a version of the slogan "diversity, equity, and inclusion," ironically of course --- while surrounded by a truly diverse group of diplomats. I don't think anyone there was trans, though . . . 😂
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  9966. Keep shoving more and more money upward, which is exactly what pandemic policies did. See how that goes. Should be fun.
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  9967. @akap_987  All true. And by the way, I agree the biggest protests will come from politicians with the most to hide.
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  9968. At best, it gave people and doctors a false sense of security. At best.
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  9969. ​ @josiahmoss3240 Then it's not a "person."
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  9970. @Larpy McLarperstein Just a small question: don't you think it's odd that they have the means to spend so much on a massive advertising effort, when they don't make a profit? When Uber stock went public, they forthrightly declared that they do not make a profit, and they do not foresee that they ever will make a profit under their present business model. Well, the SEC requires honest IPO documents, so . . . P. S. In the classic theory of foreign trade, look up the term "dumping."
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  9971. @Larpy McLarperstein I'm not your comrade. As for the rest of your rant, it's not clear what you mean. Do you know?
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  9972. Odd, given the massive number of pardons issued by Biden and Trump.
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  9973.  @JonathanHernandez-qn1fh  His radar was good today. Finally told the unvarnished truth about Trump.
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  9974.  @floriankrause7203  What has America stopped in this picture? You imagine America has stopped the loss of life?
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  9975. There were a few hot spots in the world where there were insufficient beds. Literally just a few, such as in Queens -- not New York City as a whole, but only Queens. This did happen, and it did not last long. It was not the vaccines that ended it, as the bed shortage had already subsided before the vaccines were released.
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  9976. WHY does she sound like a 6th grader? I though Cenk and Ana were hard to listen to.
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  9977. Show me the petitions here, to stop feeding weapons to Israel and Ukraine.
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  9978.  @therealdeal3672  Yes, I'm horrified by it. I don't mean to suggest it happened here. I don't know. But in any case it has GOT to stop. You hear normal, not drugged or drunken women say "I was afraid to say no," and normal, not drugged or drunken men say, "oh, I'm sorry! I thought I was supposed to." Neither is lying. Let that sink in. Infuriating.
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  9979.  @therealdeal3672  There is a website called "We Can’t Consent To This" in the UK with up-to-date information. That's what people need to know.
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  9980.  @BrotherAlpha  You don't like la France Insoumise? and NUPES? I even like PCF. One of their leaders was the first person I ever heard to come out against mandates for first responders and health care workers in France, and to treat them with dignity after they risked their lives to take care of everyone in 2020. His speech was never translated. You all study French up there, right? /s
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  9981.  @BrotherAlpha  I just research your claim concerning all-cause mortality, which was easy to do. Needless to say, it has been seriously called into question. That may be why the government enthusiasm for coercion has declined so greatly all around the world. So, you are aggressing against others without even bothering to check your information, much less control yourself? Typical for the last few years. Sorry you're so scared about having taken it.
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  9982. If the trucker did, in fact, do something illegal, why not approach him like any other motorist who broke a traffic regulation and speak with him? If he broke a law -- if -- treat him as you would treat any other citizen, even a very rich one.
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  9983.  @stupedcraig  I'm familiar with Mearscheimer, have seen him speak in person, and can't say I care for him generally but he did make some very good calls, and did so years ago, before anyone else. I prefer Stephen F. Cohen. Your answer is on the US Embassy webpage, where the Department of Defense’s "Biological Threat Reduction Program" is referenced.
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  9984. That is actually not the same. If the girlfriend had a history with that particular man, she has evidence of how much danger she is in. If this servicemember had had previous experience with the victim, in which the victim was violent, took out a weapon, etc., that would matter.
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  9985. @christheghostwriter  LOL, are you L1? Haven't gotten to the section on true threats yet?
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  9986. @christheghostwriter  Oh I see. You've never read any cases. 🤣 Of course. We see that. I was kidding about L1.
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  9987.  @christheghostwriter  BTW, blocked.
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  9988. What do you think is the global manufacturing labor force? Just curious. Do you imagine it has not grown as population has grown, even though it has certainly declined as a percentage of population?
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  9989.  @EricLeafericson  Agreed, but a small, small number cannot be rehabilitated; perhaps 10% need to remain isolated from the rest of us. Jon Burge and his crew, Ted Bundy, and those who assassinated Fred Hampton come to mind.
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  9990. I say this as an agnostic. (Full disclosure: I don't believe in atheists.)
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  9991.  @deecha8137  The poop ones, even more? LOL
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  9992. "LARPing . . . .branding . . . " says everything about your mentality.
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  9993.  @mr-peabody  Who said not to ask real questions? I provided the name of who may be the single most credible source in the US. "Is this a nothing burger?" is not a real question. It has no foundation.
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  9994. I am glad Fox is finally showing its true colors. No one can deny it anymore.
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  9995. I agree with your opposition to the death penalty, but I do not judge families of the murdered who see the death penalty as "justice." I don't label it as vengence. Most of us supported the Nuremberg trials, for example, while granting that the death penalty always poses grave problems.
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  9996.  @nicolkirk6396  How not? She said he should get an attorney. She also pointed out the REALITY of living in an at-will employment world. Do you think this guy is somehow entitled to a job? Why? No one in my family EVER got a fair shake in the workplace, not one time. Not since they arrived in 1950. "Undesirable ethnicity." I'm going back to where I'm from. Thanks for the ride.
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  9997.  @Doppe1ganger  It is under oath, and lying to Congress under oath is illegal.
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  9998.  @republitarian484  We didn't, the Red Army did. We provided them with Operation Paperclip.
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  9999. This could happen.
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  10000. ​ @gti500  Exactly. What a creep.
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  10001. ​@gti500 Oh I get it. Destiny is a lesson in how not to be. Good lesson.
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  10002. Save humanity one starvation at a time. They sped it up too fast in Sri Lanka.
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  10003. Yes, we've only recently discovered how close the birds are to their ancestors, the dinosaurs. In fact, an adult bird's resemblance to a dinosaur embryo in the egg is huge.
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  10004.  @EZEonIon  I don't know that she HAD to work harder, I stated that she did, in fact, work harder. Would she have had to? I don't see how we can know that for certain. This was the first time I got a good look at how Robbie condescends to her, in his facial expression. That's why I mentioned it. I didn't know.
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  10005. I just did. Sobering.
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  10006.  @juliettesthoughts1031  Don't let them win. He probably owns stock in the sleeping pills.
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  10007.  @chedderburg  "Mr. Smith, we know you did not take your 4 pm pill."
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  10008. Yes, it is hugely important, from many perspectives.
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  10009. @Mman.  Frankly, I'm fearful. Every aspect of the COVID response made me so, and the fact that our presidential candidates are no longer people of stature truly worries me. We take unacceptable risks with EVERYTHING now. You are supposed to overengineer, to have a cushion in the case of an unforeseeable emergency -- not to push it to the edge. And no matter what happens, money is funneled upward. That's not merit based or free market based; that's rent.
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  10010. ​ @DeanChavayez  Yeah, of Dave Chappelle! 😅
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  10011.  @winstonsmith-ministryoftru1609  We should all have had more information and more options. Look and see how many different COVID vaccines Mexico allowed.
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  10012. 1. I don't trust that speaker. 2. I commend Jimmy Dore for having the courage to present the clip and discuss it objectively, after all the smears Jimmy has had hurled at him, accusations that he's "brown red," and all the other puerile, gaslighting nonsense the neolib apologists throw his way. Great work, Jimmy!!!
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  10013. With vaccines this new, every case is a test case.
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  10014. Shocked that NYTimes ran this before the election. What's up?
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  10015. No, it is NOT "the same thing." That was a very complex case that ended in a psychotic breakdown, murder, attempted murder, and suicide. This case was straightforward, and vindicated in court.
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  10016. You mean in the 30 or so years that Business has become the most common major by far? True, that degree is generally useless.
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  10017.  @susanm4424-w6k  Not if she hit her head. Kids drown in shallower water. That was a large pool. I question why they were allowed to play there unsupervised.
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  10018.  @mariakoszegi  That was speculative.
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  10019.  @margaretr5701  There is no such thing as "going against" the doctors. Doctors don't own us. You choose them, you consult them, then you decide. I don't say this because of the pandemic but because this is how my parents raised me to think.
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  10020.  @margaretr5701  Oh, I see. I'm sorry. Anyway, YOU have the right, always, to decide on a course of treatment. It irks me when people (not you) seem to suggest otherwise. The burden is always on a doctor to obtain consent, not on the patient to justify themselves to the doctor.
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  10021.  @chrisj2502  I support independent weapons inspectors to be sent immediately.
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  10022. Thanks. The news is so grim, I needed a laugh.
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  10023. ​@johnsmith1953x Slander can only lead to civil liability, and is very hard to prove in any case where the person's conduct is a matter of legitimate public concern. Whoever told you that you can go to prison for slander?? Why did you believe it? And over a detail in a basically true story? Nothing short of systematic verbal abuse to persuade a person to harm themselves could possibly lead to prison, and those cases might not, either. It's the Amendment that comes First, remember?
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  10024.  @mateocortes4148  Who is trying to condone Dore's behavior? He wrote an apology. That means he knew at the time it was wrong. People know written apologies can come back to haunt them, and he wrote it anyway. And it only surfaces when ANA and CENK defame Aaron Mate and Jimmy defends Aaron. So not only can a woman boss dress inappropriately, body shame other women for entertainment (and to attract Howard Stern fans), but she can also defame real journalists -- and it will all be defended, on "progressive" grounds? She escapes all accountability. Well. She's a woman.
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  10025. I did not know anyone who died of COVID or had a serious adverse reaction to the vaccine until this year. Now I know of a serious adverse reaction: autoimmune disorder in a young person, and neurosarcoidosis, in part due to failure to spot the reaction and treat it. This person is in the military. They would have never taken the vaccine had they not been forced to. This is what we are doing to our best.
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  10026.  @yanniritsarntyios5744  What do you make of that study? Seems to support other studies that say immunity is short-lived (under a year) in some people.
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  10027.  @grapentine739  Yeah, we're in the midst of hysteria now. It will wear out soon.
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  10028.  @twoshedsjohnson8540  I do not defend her communication skills here.
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  10029. Are you kidding? Do you think dollar hegemony is desired, or enforced?
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  10030.  @theabyssalvault4238  Notice how you were challenged right away, on the "nuisance" phrase? Please. This has become ridiculous.
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  10031. SMH . . . Post-viral syndrome is well known, particularly in women. It's common for women to have a less severe case of any major viral illness than men do, but then a longer and slower recovery. If you think about it for a minute, it's not surprising. More men died of COVID than women at every age under about 80 or so. More women had lingering symptoms.
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  10032.  @WhatEver-gu9pz  Well then I don't disagree. This is on a par with all the deaths counted as "from COVID" which were in fact "with COVID."
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  10033. They're following the money now. Here come the grants for research on side effects.
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  10034.  @darrellchavez7194  I actually have a point to make.
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  10035. ​ @darrellchavez7194  Thread looks waaaay different under the Newest tab sort. Wow. There's a real discussion going on.
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  10036. Too bad my post is gone, poof. 😅
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  10037. Love to hear this. Chicago is not so sanguine, sadly. Worry can harm general health.
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  10038.  @BG-mh6pc  TRAGIC
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  10039.  @bulldawg202  There is VERY little "left" in the US. We label billionaire oligarchs "left," for goodness' sake. (Oh, and ours are "elites." Russia's are oligarchs. ) But there are many more than four, even here, and Yanis isn't American.
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  10040. ​@Tom-jy8rz 3:40 Robby did say "if" there were casualties. Brie said there are casualties. The number is not in dispute to the degree that the responsibility for the hit is in dispute. You can follow? No, huh?
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  10041. Look at the number of viewers per segment, when Seder attacks Jimmy, or anyone, compared with his other segments.
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  10042. TIA most likely.
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  10043.  @roberttelford745  LOL
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  10044. Contact an attorney. The vaccine manufacturer is immune from liability, but failure to diagnose or treat ANY illness from any cause properly could be malpractice. That could mean doctors need to report, seek information, seek guidance, etc., in order to treat.
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  10045.  @24hourjukebox55  True
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  10046. People who watch her own podcast are familiar with her refusal to toe any line.
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  10047.  @auntiez4917  That could be. On the other hand, she made it crystal clear that she did not vote for Biden (and she may be in a solid blue state, which is how many third party people do it, I grant you). She has often said on her show and elsewhere that criticizing Trump for things he didn't do, or for things he was right about, just plays into his hands. That's just true. When you look at all the stuff they made up about him, you would think he's not odious all on his own. But sure, you could be right.
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  10048. The sad part is that none of the emails are racy. Gosh I miss the old days.
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  10049.  @solerso68  🤣
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  10050. HE JUST SAID : "force her to admit" SORRY, BUB -- we have a Fifth Amendment. Your role isn't to make her talk, it's to vote her down based on her answers.
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  10051.  @joeterzio7175  Who do you think needs drugs to walk and talk?
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  10052. How is it that people don't know this? It is illegal to use deadly force in defense of mere property. If the kids did not put person at risk of imminent physical harm, then it was illegal to shoot them. This is a bright-line rule. I thought a nation of gun owners would know the law about using deadly force. Oh well. And to hear them pontificating about crime, when they themselves don't know the law.
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  10053. @mohamedsamy1431  I just explained, with the drunk driver example. You're a passenger in a car with a safe and sober driver, you are broadsided by the drunk, you have zero responsibility for what happened, yet only you can testify in court, only you can rehab your own body --- and only you can have the maturity and clarity of mind to understand and accept the true scope and limits of your responsibility for your life. Or you can be a child, and decide bad things don't happen to good people so you must be bad. You can engage in magical thinking: you secretly wanted to try out being nearly killed. There are 1001 ways to be infantile or crazy.
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  10054.  @fortusvictus8297  You keep throwing in non sequiturs. The laws against, say, shoplifting, do not apply when no shoplifting took place. The laws against drunk driving do not apply when someone had one beer during lunch, then drove home after work six hours later.
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  10055.  @fortusvictus8297  Students MARRY their former teachers. I've known several personally. Lawyers can date a former client once the entire action is over (so, the client hiring a new lawyer in order to date their former lawyer while the case is still pending could be considered ethically unsound). Whether someone could theoretically be a FUTURE student or a FUTURE client of another person is irrelevant, unless it is reasonably foreseeable, and not merely a remote or logical possibility. The world of adult, pragmatic people does not function on the basis of the remotely possible. You cannot even be held liable for negligence if a loss you played some part in causing was unforeseeable by any normal, rational person. Not only that, but any possible awkwardness can be prevented: ask the instructor you dated to recommend a different instructor for the course, when you decide you want to take it. Granted, now you have the benefit of insider information: just as you would if your Mom or Dad (or aunt, or cousin) teach where you go to college.
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  10056.  @magdelanax2122  You really think Katie Halper, Kyle Kulinsky, Krystal Ball, AND Briahna Joy Gray are in it out of an "unhelpful desire for money and attention??" Truly, is this what you think? And I think anyone focusing on Dore instead of the urgent ISSUE at hand has confused substance with a desire for ego gratification, and praise for their reading list. I also think anyone who insinuates he is in it for the money is too concerned with money themselves.
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  10057.  @magdelanax2122  Why is every single one of you so wedded to ad hominem? I can't relate.
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  10058. Yes. And relative to 50 years ago, it is enormous.
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  10059. "More research??"
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  10060. Americans still want to make life-changing decisions for themselves. Shocker.
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  10061. Where will back rent come from?
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  10062. Full agreement. She doesn't look like an "undesirable" ethnic white, either. When something like this happens, they will use anything and everything they can against you.
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  10063. Talk about stupid. I've never heard more stupid in my life, and I thought the limit had been reached a long time ago. Is he functioning like a false flag? Looks like it. He mingles in a few truths, on rare occasion, to make sure no one believes it. Free Assange.
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  10064. Yes. It has been horrifying.
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  10065.  @johnrambo3239  Well, the truth is, we do not know -- yet -- what is going on with these excess deaths. Obviously these vaccines may be a factor.
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  10066. In the 1980s, UK doctors were performing FGM on the theory that it would happen clandestinely anyway. In France it was ILLEGAL. Period.
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  10067.  @jasonj4865  I just found some research from the UK: Some data suggesting smokers are considerably less likely to contract COVID, but more likely to become seriously ill or die if they do contract it. Scientists do not know why. They admit they are speculating. They aren't even sure the data will hold up. Early on, data from China made it look like smokers were much more likely to die. Then it turned out that MEN are much more likely to die from COVID than women, especially in middle age, where there aren't many deaths to begin with, and it just so happens that in China, women are far less likely to smoke. So it has to do with sex, not smoking.
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  10068. No evidence she read the complaint. Maybe she read someone's account of what it says.
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  10069. And how did he manage to slip BLM into this? I agree that something fundamental has changed. Count on demagogues to suggest simplistic answers. You could end up like the tsar's family, embracing the credo of your foes, thinking you were safe.
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  10070. He moves like a marionette.
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  10071.  @demitri2510  Which means it is uninformative. Anyone who listened carefully to the entire video understood that message which is truthful. We don't know whether these vaccines have an effect on fertility. We cannot assume either way.
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  10072.  @CLCL748  ❤️❤️❤️ Strossen on "hate speech" (not a legal category) is second to none! At first, she reads "technical," but this stuff is technical. On the second reading, it all comes together.
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  10073.  @tenderlungs2065  No. Accommodate parents who have drastically different values and interests from your own. That will be an issue in all but the very smallest, most exclusive schools, or home schooling. Didn't your first grade teacher tell you not to decorate when you write? Never mind, it's me who is responding to this nonsense. That says something about me, not you.
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  10074. That's why he calls the truckers Nazis. So he can support the real ones. It's the new ruse, just like the old ruse..
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  10075.  @JohnSpartan-117  You can't offshore trucking. Or construction. Or railroads, or riggers, or plumbers, roofers, electricians. The funny is on you.
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  10076.  @sourceawry4035  Did you ever see any regulatory directive from whatever level of government (State of Indiana or the federal government) funded the School Choice program and then imposed this violation of basic student privacy in order to access a school program? Did you ask to see it? You're telling me you were alone in objecting? Antidepressants have a black box warning for adolescents because they are known to raise the risk of suicide in many adolescents, not lower it. No one can force a parent to give them to their underage child, much less take the child away if they said no. If a child made repeated suicide attempts, ended up in ER, and the parents still declined any treatment, that would probably get DCFS involved. I have never heard of a public school in my life that did anything like this. The general complaint is they fail to intervene, not that they intrude. You are describing a private school that overreacted, if it did, and imputing it to government.
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  10077. Oh, so Robby got Koch money! Now I get it.
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  10078. I used to think Klein was bought, but now I am persuaded that she means well. She doesn't know how detached and contemptuous she has become. I can't understand it, actually. A lot of strong people were brought down by the pandemic, and now we know we cannot count on them when times get truly tough. Chris is nothing like that. He's real.
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  10079. Within the first few minutes, I knew this twit would throw in some denunciations of the French and the Russians. They write better novels. Get over it.
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  10080. You should learn how to appear wealthy on a job interview, for example.
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  10081. 😅😅😅
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  10082. Yes it does. Of course criticizing government policies is core protected speech. That is what the amendment exists to protect.
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  10083. LOL. 😅
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  10084. @Gretchen K. I thought that was sarcasm?
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  10085. No one knows why a black student mentioned that he is a physics and math major and already has his doctoral research funded? REALLY? 🤔 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  10086. The French Ministry of Interior admitted that over a million people went on strike Thursday. "Transport, schools and refinery shipments were disrupted as workers walked off the jobs . . . " EDIT: Close to TWO MILLION --- a general strike
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  10087. Research Sputnik V, a technologically "traditional" vaccine. If it is as safe as mRNA vaccines, then I want that one.
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  10088. Jeremy Scahill is the best at revealing just how the emperors are all naked. Breaks through all the illusions, demolishes them definitively. Respect!! A PHENOMENAL journalist!
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  10089. If he censored Matt Taibbi, then he is a hypocrite. The stuff about Turkey is not a major issue for me.
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  10090. Most hospitals were not "overflowing." There were serious COVID hotspots where that was true, and both hospitals and morgues literally had no room in those localities, but that was very unusual. One part of Queens is the only area in the whole country that comes to mind where that was true, and that lasted for a short time.
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  10091. Jimmy and Aaron are being so gracious. At this point, I pity Kyle. He blew it.
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  10092. Take them to libraries, bookstores, and art and craft supply stores every week, and have one special day each month or so where they get to have any book or art supply they want. (It's pricey, but it will save money in the long run.) Check out some teacher supply stores yourself, and see which books are at the library as well. Later, consider foreign language self-teaching resources. Lots of kids find those fun.
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  10093.  @xpsxps1339  "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." Does that famous Commandment implicate remaining silent, too? Woe is us.
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  10094. We can hope.
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  10095.  @philwalters3579  No. Ukraine has a neo-nazi problem. They are not communists. Some of the separatists in the Donbass claim to be, however. The first person I heard protest the vaccine mandates was a member of the PCF. Well, it was well over a year ago, and in French, so I'm sure you don't know. PCF and other real leftists in France supported the law making vaccine passports for minors illegal. Of course it passed. No one can ask a minor if they were vaccinated for access to any place or event, or, of course, school. I don't think any media here ever carries that sort of thing.
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  10096. I have an idea. Let's not eat animals. Okay, no can do. Then how about let's not eat fellow mammals? Non-starter, too?
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  10097. @Knickertwist Copperby Certainly. Remember the rat line.
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  10098. Nothing. The problem is, she's a Senator.
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  10099. So five shots of a novel drug type for a novel virus in less than 24 months -- 18 months for some.
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  10100.  @heartysteer8752  After what we've been through since March 2020, you are going to have a lot of people around who are like that. Better come to some rational understanding of what to do about it. Six shots from a taser ain't it.
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  10101.  @mysteryjunkie9808  So, add in sadism? Ha ha, that's funny. You get sadism when you turn on the television or walk down the street.
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  10102.  @RicArmstrong  HOW can you believe this? First of all, you don't see that he was totally self-involved, completely undisciplined, and hopelessly LAZY? I mean, just suppose you liked some of the things he said. Did he DO any of them? He admits to Bob Woodward that he KNEW of the danger of COVID, and downplayed it. He is so stupid, he admits this, to one of the journalists who broke the Watergate story, because Woodward is a lifelong Republican who didn't join the Never Trumpers. This is emblematic of how his brain works. We have NEVER had so many drone strikes as under Trump, PLUS he stopped collecting data on civilian deaths. Not only that, but he lifted the moratorium on funding gain of function viral research (did you fall for his Good Cop Bad Cop routine with Fauci? He never did replace Fauci, did he?), and he singlehandedly undermined public health when the pandemic hit. He nominated rank incompetents to the US Supreme Court, because someone else told him who to pick. He doesn't care, his family won't suffer for it. He did a lot of other things -- worse things -- but I'm only listing what a Trump fan might finally acknowledge. I won't bother trying to convince you he attempted to undermine the Constitution by clinging to power in January, to gratify his own ego and avoid looming financial issues. Or to mention his encouragement of racism, of fascist elements, etc., etc., etc. The man has no limits to his narcissism.
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  10103. It is Biden's Katrina.
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  10104. @martincole5222  We are at the precipice. Any improvement in general health would be welcome. If it happens, it will be strictly a matter of luck, true. But maybe it will happen. Trump is chaotic, so it's pointless to count on him for anything . . . But why did the DNC systematically drive Bobby away? We know that happened.
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  10105.  @gnice8765  Nope. He's saying that a bunch of phonies are trying to say he has no history of having been objectively discriminated against, and think they have a right to silence him "because." This is a battle of the discourses, and ultimately about (what else?) Money.
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  10106.  @mediatool9596  They do worse.
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  10107. That's not the ban. The ban is from the network, so it affects what you can see anywhere, at any time, on that network.
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  10108. Because COVID and terrorism are very, very dangerous . . . We must force vaccination and conduct surveillance over everyone all the time. Very dangerous. The border discourse from Biden is like believing the Wizard of Oz after dementia.
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  10109. 😂😂😂 Good idea, but . . . 😂😂😂
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  10110. He has very little time and needs outstanding organization + funding to achieve it. Not impossible, though.
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  10111. Oh please, he is entertaining but he is such a phony.
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  10112.  @kevinschmidt2210  Based on long experience. I've watched his many long interviews, from start to finish, and I can spot it. Watch for yourself -- especially since you find it fun. It's in the subtleties. I can't go back to a 3+ hour Lex Fridman video and time stamp it for you. He reminds me too much of the people who turned out to be CIA, some well known and some I've known personally.
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  10113.  @racerxfiles1111  I know exactly what side I'm on. The side that will be emigrating by 2025, at the latest. I can and I will. As for you, please please stay.
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  10114.  @Tomsfilipsons  Why don't you inform yourself? Don't be at the mercy of media that can't be trusted. Go to the library. Read. Calm, calm.
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  10115. Eisenhower?
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  10116. ​ @buttercuptaylor7135 False, lol.
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  10117. L'affaire à Rotherham a duré 17 ans. Les victimes les plus jeunes n'étaient pas encore nées quand ce crime a commencé.
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  10118. Not if they actually do conflict with constitutional law they don't. This is a state employer, not a private one. The rules are not identical.
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  10119. Neither one acquitted themselves well. He was worse.
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  10120. We KNOW about the dangers of drugs and alcohol. We don't remember Judy Garland, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis, Prince, Michael Jackson, Basquiat, and on and on and on? This should never happen anymore. If a multimillionaire needs a personal aide to be with them at all times, and needs yoga instructors, massage therapists, mental health counselors, and organic chefs to visit them daily, they can afford all that and more. I don't get it. Not anymore.
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  10121. So check their claims. You find out fascinating stuff that way.
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  10122. Wow did you make that up?
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  10123.  @octaviahh8774  Terrible. I'm so sorry.
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  10124. @ednathompson7185  I agree. It's especially important that children feel free to ask. I just think 13 is much too young for a father-daughter discussion that specific. He can say general things like, "purity before marriage makes for the happiest families." Leave it to mom for the rest.
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  10125. Could it get more absurd? Don't answer that.
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  10126.  @sirtoby4939  Because we have not just had and are not having a pandemic, and a depression-era economy for millions. Nothing has changed since the 1990s, 2009, etc., or 2019 for that matter. Why the masks, and the small business shutdowns, tell me again? I thought it was about public health, not to make Amazon stock go up.
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  10127. Vasili Arkhipov had to save the world nearly 60 years ago . . .
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  10128. ​@KS-yc8di False. Something relatively unusual still does happen, to thousands of people. Some university outplacement offices collapsed after COVID. That changed the picture for public college grads. (Do you think everyone dreams of Harvard for the education?)
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  10129. @jrgood6479  Oh, does someone need to be gifted now, to get a job? Are all the people here on visas "gifted?"
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  10130.  @Josh-hy3em  You'll have to tell me why action on climate change precludes action on universal health care. You'll also need to explain why you believe working "on behalf of humanity" is likely to be more popular politically than passing M4A for all Americans in advance of our next financial debacle. Sounds more like a recipe for another Trump.
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  10131. Remember it is only a small percentage who got rich, and most of those were born between 1946 to 1952. By the late 1950s, the best opportunities were over, with a slight bump for people born during the 1970s "birth dearth." The PROBLEM is treating human beings like another object in The Market, with "value" determined by supply and demand.
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  10132.  @myrmaad  Perfect. Love those old movies.
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  10133.  @nolitetebastardescarborund9761  yes
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  10134.  @Skank_and_Gutterboy  The fact that a body of common law determines what the Constitution actually means. Because we are not living under a Napoleonic Code or a descendant of Roman Law. Because we are an Anglo-Saxon common law jurisdiction that places great emphasis on Supreme Court interpretation of what our laws mean and give the Court ultimate authority on the question.
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  10135.  @rickhodges4808  I think you're right about that. And you're right that it doesn't matter. Just sharing my disappointment, but I'm not surprised. Not massively, hopelessly unjust, at least not this time. :/
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  10136. ​ @willshogren1987 I like goldfish. 😮
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  10137. Actually, quite a few have.
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  10138. @G R No, just have it your way. Most comments are not written primarily for the person they were addressed to, anyway, which means they are flawed -- mine included, obviously. (BTW, your description of what Mussolini did in pretending to espouse socialism and adopting many of its symbols and slogans, being that socialism held great prestige as a theory in Italy between the wars and in Europe generally, would qualify as a (figurative) "false flag.") Why did you ignore the rest of what I said? The rest was the important part. If a lot of people here are ignorant, that isn't true of everyone. Look at it this way: you must realise that Dr. Cornel West, Aaron Mate, Max Blumenthal, Glenn Greenwald, Chris Hedges, Richard Wolff, Briahna Joy Gray, Katie Halper, Kyle Kulinski, Krystal Ball, Matt Taibbi, and on and on and on, are all very astute people, tremendously well educated, AND quite aware that Jimmy is flawed. Why do they make allowances for that? What do you think they all see in him? Sleep on it a little. It will come to you. But to make it easier, another little hint: Jimmy knows he's flawed. He never tried to put on like he wasn't.
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  10139.  @ThatDoodPhoenix77  GOOD FOR YOU! That's the spirit that's needed now.
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  10140. Since you think others are naive -- let me clue you in. Anyone talking about FRED HAMPTON the way Jimmy does is taking a big risk. You may not realize how big. I recommend Flint Taylor's memoir. I am stunned that he and other lawyers working on behalf of Hampton and Clark's estates, and the Attica inmates, and the victims of the systematic police torture in Chicago, lived to tell about it. Stunned, literally. Their courage is legendary. I'm not sure Dore was right in his estimation of the guy he interviewed. I nevertheless support his effort, without the least hesitation. Dore is not conflating that one person with the entire group. He's right about that part.
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  10141.  @Winstonclawfinger  Sure. People forget Bernie was third party and caucused with the Democrats.
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  10142.  @ncirel1  ICJ ruling, and subsequent evidence of crimes and systematic suppression of food, water, medical supplies.
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  10143.  @tonifoley2218  Even assuming that made sense, where do you find a declaration of war by the US against Hamas, the Palestinians, etc., or vice versa?
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  10144.  @Dragonslairminis  How do you know this number? Trick question, you don't.
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  10145. The older I get, the more I think Emmanuel Todd has it right.
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  10146. Laws that would impede such abortions are extremely rare, and the AG in that state would probably use prosecutorial discretion, and say that at age 10, this is MEDICALLY NECESSARY. Duh.
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  10147. OH! Congress is going to have ANOTHER hearing on this? So, the first one was great for political FUNDRAISING, huh?
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  10148.  @13dove  Precisely. Carjacking is a violent crime that endangers a person. Of course you have the right to defend yourself with lethal force.
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  10149.  @andren8788  He happens to be not only wrong, but completely ignorant of the law, and is spreading potentially dangerous misinformation.
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  10150.  @lukarancini1630  There was no "genocide." There were war crimes. You throw that word "genocide" around easily. That is not wise.
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  10151.  @australiaprisonisland9156  Tariq Ali put together the definitive book of essays on the bombing of Yugoslavia, and Oskar Lafontaine's speech transcript was probably the best one. But you won't read it. I can tell.
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  10152.  @gMan-kx3zy  Ha. Montenegro is a sweet piece of real estate for the West. Western banks are looking to loot Montenegro exactly like they looted Greece. Two things about Montenegro: it is very Westernized, this is true -- and it's "organic." Montenegrin culture matches Latin Europe (Italy, France south of the Loire, Spain, Portugal) to a remarkable degree, and has for a long time, and yet the ordinary person is pro-Serb and considers himself a "Serb." It's an odd place. In truth, it has its own history and culture. It's almost a Latin country that speaks a Slavic language, even more so than the Dalmatian coast.
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  10153.  @australiaprisonisland9156  Serbia has Catholics, Muslims, and Jews as well. Belgrade is a cosmopolitan city.
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  10154. Liz Wolfe needs money. She lives in two hyperexpensive places.
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  10155. "Intalect?"
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  10156. @josephpanella2726  If you don't get a solid, broad education when you're young, you expect to retool at 55? If you don't believe you don't need to work until your 70s . . . That's nice. There are people who retire before 60, of course. Check to see how many. EDIT: I mean voluntarily, not due to disability.
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  10157.  @RenlangRen  I HOPE so.
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  10158. There are simple blood tests for vitamin D and B12 levels. The tests are certainly recommended for people over 50. That is how you know.
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  10159. There have been studies that showed irascible people with cancer have longer disease-free life than those who are meek and compliant. Self-censorship seems not to be wise. But we can't be sure, really. I remember the myth of the "cancer personality." We find all kinds of exceptionally cruel ways to blame victims for their plight. Maybe get that Vitamin D test?
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  10160. Is that "a bug or a feature?"
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  10161. The contents of the laptop and their implications is the story.
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  10162. Admission: I did not believe anyone in the Trump administration had one iota of competence, and I was surprised that any competent person would want to be part of that administration. Clearly I was wrong, as Aaron's interview proves. At least one such person exists.
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  10163. She was answering a question she assumed would be on people's minds. Certain types if homes can be psychologically distressing to LGBTQ youth. Try to imagine Glenn Greenwald born to a Fundamentalist mother. Don't worry, it didn't happen.
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  10164. 11:39 YUP
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  10165. 4:02 Brie called it a straightforward case of her breaking the law and facing the consequences.
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  10166. Glenn was interested in addressing the larger phenomenon. This isn't about Dore. He wanted to focus on the new and approved use of smears and innuendo to destroy reputations, and the weaponization of metoo for the same purpose, which will very soon result in actual victims having no recourse. Again.
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  10167. I didn't know Megyn Kelly was an idiot.
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  10168.  @robmorgan1214  I am not casting doubt on the substance of her reporting. I WANT to see her interviewed, as well as anyone else who can shed light on Epstein -- and on who has replaced Epstein -- especially by the journalists you mention. Just watched a math video in your feed, BTW, on pi. Awesome stuff. I never had complex analysis, so it is beyond me, but I love that stuff. It's so beautiful, and so removed from this crap.
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  10169.  @tinturtle9168  I don't know. But seeing him show up again in a couple of days with identical talking points, on the same subject, acting like no one has effectively challenged him, and ignoring the very same facts, is peculiar.
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  10170. CEOs who make a lifetime of executive earnings in a couple of years --- mostly from the government.
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  10171. ​@NolanVoid-dr1ch How do you think they train? You think they never make any mistakes on simulations? You think you learn physics or math by never making mistakes?
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  10172. We already do. Billionaires spend more on lobbying than they pay in taxes -- they lobby for lower taxes, of course -- then they buy Treasuries to finance the national debt, and we owe them interest.
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  10173. You mean like a lot of AK-15 owners? That seems to be a thing.
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  10174.  @Kehvan  It was a response to your non sequitur. No self-awareness, huh?
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  10175. Whaaaa . . . ?
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  10176. BREAKING: Glenn Greenwald just posted a very short excerpt of Victoria Nuland testifying on the Ukrainian biolabs, which, oddly enough, were funded through the US DOD, not the NIH.
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  10177. More breaking news:  Glenn Greenwald posted Victoria Nuland testifying on the DOD-funded Ukrainian biolabs. Now, TeleSUR (Spanish edition) reports China has demanded that the US provide full information on all biological laboratories it funds in the world. Familiar trajectory: Biolabs in Ukraine is a conspiracy theory. Biolabs in Ukraine is Russian misinformation. Biolab funding is to make sure dangerous pathogens are destroyed. Biolab funding is in one place only, and is purely peaceful. Biolab funding is by the US Department of Defense, in its threat reduction initiative. Biolab funding is in six labs, at least, for the purpose of comprehensive threat reduction. Biolab funding by DOD exists throughout Ukraine, to reduce the threat. "Putin puppet!!!"
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  10178.  @josephshields2922  See the new video of Nuland on Glenn Greenwald's channel. Chilling.
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  10179. @JohnCrawford1979  I know it's very hard for an ordinary person to find a lawyer. It was never this hard. But there are a few bright-line rules lawyers have got to obey, and not betraying a client is one of them. And if a lawyer does that for money, and you can prove it, they will be disbarred.
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  10180. They ought to have a real filibuster. They don't. They don't have to actually DO anything.
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  10181. She's not very good, either.
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  10182. This has nothing to do with the current push for massive medical interventions for minors who are too young to understand the full ramifications. Did you need hormones or surgery to affirm your religious beliefs?
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  10183. You do realize that they pledge stock to take out loans? When they live on debt, they pay no tax. Other posts explaining more about how they run this are routinely removed.
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  10184.  @imsleeps3648  Briahna is a brilliant woman with great poise. She also has a law degree from Harvard, unlike anyone else in this picture.
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  10185. Boeing moved to Chicago before this happened. Think about that.
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  10186.  @vincevincent6984  I do? LOL
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  10187.  @Stacy-  After he lost weight, still others have gone on record to say that he had a heroin problem. And yes, people with that health history have died while running. His appearance does has clinical relevance as well. I guess the last few years have shown us just how much people view health holistically -- like, maybe, not at all? I hope you don't think any of the things you mentioned are evidence he is a murderer, or inclined to kill, much less that he is guilty of this crime. None of it would be, in a real court. He's not so slight of build that he'd be incapable of physically killing these people, if that's what you mean -- but that takes less physical presence than you might think. If he were short and skinny it wouldn't make me think he was innocent.
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  10188. This time, popcorn.
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  10189.  @rinrinsparkles1986  No, the sarcasm is deserved.
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  10190.  @sarahholland2600  Oh thank you!
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  10191.  @sarahholland2600  I appreciate Dr. Grande's explanation of why Chauvin could have been charged with First Degree murder. Chauvin continued knealing for at least three minutes after being told George Floyd had no pulse, and did not immediately get up as paramedics arrived, or even when they exited the ambulance. You can form the requisite intent in that short length of time. Dr. Grande gave the clearest explanation of the significance of the timeline -- better than any lawyer I've heard. But I don't fault the prosecution for not charging something difficult to prove. I don't agree with overcharging in general, so . . . I don't want to change my mind now. Clarity inspires clarity, one hopes. :) thanks again
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  10192.  @michaelmccord8469  He slowed down. He signaled intent to pull over. It took exactly 1 minute 40 seconds, at the slower speed, to reach the gas station. "The chief himself said that type of stop . . . was justified." And we must believe the chief that two officers drawing deadly weapons was objectively reasonable at the time they were drawn -- at the well-lit gas station -- because . . . ? The chief doesn't have the last word here. The court will. At any rate, he quickly fired one officer for missing the opportunity to de-escalate, I believe was his explanation. Something to that effect. What is wrong with people?
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  10193.  @michaelmccord8469  "Was he readying his "kill the cops" gear? Was he loading up on drugs? Getting his (invisible, motionless) posse organized?" Or maybe he is a Kremlin agent, or Lizardman from the Andromeda galaxy. Anyone who entertains this line of thought needs a new line of work. American roads are not a war zone, and America is not a police state.
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  10194.  @michaelmccord8469  I stated I was a lawyer because the interlocutor claimed I knew nothing about the issue. Pfft. Typical trash talk.
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  10195. ​ @astronomers  You don't appreciate what agoraphobia is. It is very serious. Sarah, the girl, needs therapy. And therapy is not touchy-feely. It is not pleasant at all.
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  10196.  @DavidPereiraLima123  When I needed counseling after a series of tragedies and bereavement, I kept being told I was fine (who is EVER told that?), and then getting referred to gay/lesbian therapists, one of whom was openly contemptuous. This was at a preeminent hospital. I'm fine now, although the pandemic derailed me, but getting better on my own took too long, frankly.
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  10197. Trump DOJ indicted Assange. Fauci's baby, gain of function research, was funded again under Trump. Trump never fired Fauci, did he?
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  10198.  @huepix  Listen closely: Trump Was LAZY. Trump loved Trump. Trump wanted to build more hotels. Everything he did or didn't do was related to wanting to build more hotels.
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  10199.  @Starforge1  I think that's it. If it makes money, it IS true. There is no other measure.
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  10200. 🤣🤣🤣 You win the Internet for today.
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  10201. If that is what becomes necessary or useful to maintaining dollar hegemony, then that is what we'll see.
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  10202.  Michael Neal  If you cannot get a job, then offer to risk killing and dying in a war that makes no sense to you. Got it. Thanks for putting out there so candidly. We need more truth tellers like you.
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  10203.  @DIVISIONINCISION  Doctors and lawyers were being forced out of their professions for decades now. So few people still want to risk going into these fields that admissions standards have been lowered. Get a clue.
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  10204.  @ajwalker4416  The neurosurgeon who invented the lobotomy won the Nobel Prize in medicine. Look it up.
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  10205. It's about bathrooms.
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  10206. This was a solid report.
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  10207. Thank you for bringing this report, Aaron.
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  10208.  @johnwhite950  I don't want you to have anything that I ever paid for. I have no say about what YOU do.
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  10209.  @Drew7s  The sex story is a cover. TYT smeared Aaron Mate. Jimmy defended Mate and denounced TYT. That's how this started.
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  10210. ​ @mistressfreezepeach Okay. So you don't know how to find court documents, you don't know what a verified complaint is, and you don't understand the difference between the incentives to tell the truth in court versus the incentives to bend the truth in media. Got it.
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  10211.  @therealcirclea762  Why the stoning metaphor, when I'm talking about courts of law? Oh, I get it. Displacement: you'd love to stone me. 🤣
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  10212.  @FantaLiteBrav  When does the degree of harm to you, coupled with the limited protection of others, no longer counsel in favor of these immunotherapy vaccines?
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  10213. It's for fun.
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  10214. Performative. They are tending their stock portfolios.
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  10215. We tried that, yo.
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  10216.  @STC987  Ya got the right picture there.
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  10217. They figure the public doesn't know. :/
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  10218.  @sylviam6535  Russia IS going to carry out its plans, more or less as it likes. That is what is going to happen. The goal is to save lives, or should be. We could start by giving Afghanistan its money back, conditioned upon famine relief if at all practicable.
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  10219. ​@willcover6142 Then why are they being withdrawn, openly or quietly, or simply no longer recommended? One incident per 100,000 like the one described by Brianne used to mean a pause in the approval. That was the standard for vaccines. We have anything from 10 to 120 per 100,000, depending on the study and the drug, and the threshold of seriousness, at this point -- at least 120, if you include subclinical myocarditis.
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  10220.  @mariaangelicabrunellsolar7086  Free markets don't exist. What you've described is what capitalism is. But no, it's nothing Adam Smith would approve of. He would see the neofeudal aspects of it and oppose it. The Invisible Hand has been handcuffed by these people.
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  10221. Yeah, I was wondering about that as well.
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  10222. Brie's report was just scents errrrr . . . YOU KNOW
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  10223. You mean his call, literally, for a "bloodbath?"
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  10224. 💰💰💰💰
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  10225.  @therealdeal3672  No, I mean the cryers. I guess you don't have much life experience.
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  10226. I love comic relief.
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  10227. YT just did me.
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  10228.  @Missconduct044  What was explained? And it's not "the" biolab. I saw where the US Embassy in Ukraine website described six such labs, which received Department of Defense funding. Did you listen to the MSNBC show that claims Tucker lied, then misrepresented the text that Tucker supposedly lied about? Did you look up any original sources mentioned by any of these broadcasters? Or haven't you learned yet?
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  10229.  @nottherealxandercrews4742  😂😂😂
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  10230. The point was that in the early years of her reign, she still did.
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  10231. I remember when lawyering was a HARD job.
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  10232. What receipts? She has no information but acts smug. That's a symptom of low standards. Did she get her job because she's a woman?
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  10233.  @gerri577  Not what he said.
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  10234. This interview was tremendous. Best I've heard yet.
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  10235. The issue predates the ehem. But I think it accelerated all of these.
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  10236. Glenn agrees with a lot of socialist principles where the economy is concerned -- as was the United States from Roosevelt through the 1960s, and most of Europe is. What makes Glenn unique is that when there is a conflict between a socialist political economic policy and the First Amendment, or the Fourth Amendment, or the Fifth Amendment, or anything in the Bill of Rights, Glenn will choose the Bill of Rights evey time. This is especially true concerning freedom of speech. He has argued that we should not be so quick to condemn Citizens United without taking a closer, more nuanced look. So, he is unique.
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  10237. The market is way down. "Stimulus?" Maybe we will be paid not to riot.
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  10238. We were lied to about the initial safety trials, and THEN they got us to go after each other.
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  10239. Did a US Intelligence/Security Apparatus agent/double agent/renegade/ whistleblower provide Sy Hersh with the information? I'm not suggesting it's wrong, by the way. I think the US did it.
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  10240. At the rate we're going, will it be Oprah/Heard vs. Jimmy Dore/Depp?
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  10241. What the father said in court is what he said under oath under penalty of perjury. Examining those documents to glean both sides is the best way to go in this case. Trust me on this.
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  10242. Exactly!
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  10243.  @paulagbaku3025  I suggest you listen and read. Or have you mixed him up with someone else?
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  10244. ​ @gnlout LOL We suffer from a dearth of worthy heroes. It's not trivial, either.
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  10245. @gnlout  Read those worthy of your time and you'll do that yourself.
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  10246. @gnlout  You know we can't have real discussions here.
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  10247. For having a backbone? I'm glad someone is pushing back. Vote her down and be done with it.
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  10248. 31:15 Wait, . . . what is a woman?
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  10249. But . . . we are. ;/
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  10250. @fenix6297  You not only identified the allegedly offensive statements as "pro-Hamas," you identified the "grads" as "pro-Hamas," in the adjective position directly before the noun. My question was therefore well-founded, whether you particularly like it or not. You could have responded by saying, "I know no such thing. I'm simply stating what the issue is to those Wall Street firms." In any case, maybe those firms have no basis at all to think those grads ARE pro-Hamas, and you could have said you weren't endorsing (what you assumed to be) their view. It's not that tough. I'm not afraid to ask direct questions. I hope I didn't hurt your feelings or make you feel unsafe. I have no idea what "90%" of people "know" about freedom of speech. That has got to be the biggest assumption of the night. Looks like I didn't make it. Of course you didn't address my other, more important points. It was wonderful to hear Glenn Greenwald tonight. One forgets what an intelligent lawyer and journalist sounds like. All sparring aside, his show was excellent. There are far too many people pushing for a wider war, and he named names and provided direct quotes. Maybe when you settle down, get some sleep, etc., you might deign to watch it. You could also, like, read the allegedly offensive statement and see what it says. I don't agree with it, but I see no support for terror or war crimes in the statement. (The personal views of some of the people who signed it might be worse, however.) Did you get around to that? Reading it, I mean? I know, it's late.
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  10251.  @RIbigDave  Actually, it does, depending on whether the entity, like Harvard for example, has formally adopted the First Amendment as a principle of academic freedom -- not to mention when the government uses private entities (like Facebook, etc.) to censor on its behalf, which is more obvious. But I don't expect you to know that.
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  10252.  @RIbigDave  Besides all that, and pragmatically speaking, why should Americans who, rightly OR wrongly, criticized a foreign government face any deleterious consequences? You seem to think the threat to shut people up is consistent with the values enshrined in our Bill of Rights. Well I don't. We just went through this, with persecuting people during the pandemic.
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  10253. Yes, these are war crimes now. America is feeding it.
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  10254.  @bradleyriles3889  No, in fact, there are not a lot of liberal arts graduates in total, and very, very few outside of those aiming for law school, an MBA, or an MPA. The most common major by far is Business Administration and has been for nearly 30 years. Next come all the health sciences, with Nursing on top. If the STEM fields aren't next, then possibly Education is, but in any case they are again vocationally oriented. Kids who used to major in English now major in Communications or Advertising, and know how to film videos and set up websites. I didn't say that countries don't need armed forces. I said multinational corporations, which are permitted to function like governments in so many ways, as well as capture (what are supposed to be democratic) governments, should provide their own security, too. Why should I pay for it?
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  10255. She's had more time.
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  10256.  @FraudSpotter24  So glad some decent, intelligent people are doing well! Yeah, people in law school have to eat, and they can't live in their van . . . weird how that is.
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  10257. I wonder how many of RFK Jr's "conspiracy theories" will turn out to be spoiler alerts this time?
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  10258. 😂😂😂
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  10259. The problem is that we don't know. They refuse to do the studies that will reveal the various factors at play, and in what proportion they are likely to be responsible. On the other hand, we all know why they don't do the studies. I've been censored for the words "multivariate analysis." I wish I were joking. Even math is controversial.
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  10260. ​@DIVISIONINCISION That has no bearing at all. If he was putting people in fear THIS time, then self-defense and defense of others would be proper even if he were a veritable angel who took a drug this one time, or had a spontaneous psychotic break. We don't judge the "value" of alleged victims. We judge their CONDUCT.
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  10261.  @francesrose444  Are you joking? Are you allergic to critical thinking? This is a brilliant defense analysis.
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  10262. A lieutenant governor with ZERO knowledge of the First Amendment. Was this possible 50 years ago? I can't picture it.
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  10263. We are in full frontal insanity now.
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  10264. The problem with most seed oils is that extracting the oil cleanly is very expensive, and the seeds are GMO. Organic, cold pressed seed oils are good for some people, and some uses, but see what they cost. IF you can find them.
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  10265.  @xavier5297  Her reading is fine.
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  10266. @andrewsteel5271  I have an idea. Read it. Yeah, of course getting to the top by tearing others down is bad. No kidding. When has that stopped anyone? Athens was living in a post-truth society 2400 years ago. Then they lost a big war to Sparta . . .
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  10267. If the sound on your tech is poor, get headphones or watch her lips carefully.
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  10268. Of course you can sue for defamation, but Bettinger chose not to.
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  10269. To him it is.
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  10270. Thank goodness for this thread.
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  10271. John Stewart: Carson said American cities were once the showcases of the world. What happened? Two people working for the minimum wage could get a decent apartment in any city and start out in life. What happened, John? Financialization happened. And, is it possible that cities have to be full of homeless to keep us free to be LGBTQ? I don't think most people think that's a ringing endorsement of freedom. People who feel safe from destitution are more tolerant.
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  10272. Please wake up. You've seriously overslept.
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  10273.  @davidgarland2533  AMEN. Took the words out of my mouth. You take care, too! Find something fun to do every day. Life has sucked for too long.
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  10274.  @147salsa  I can find no such case. He was an environmental lawyer, and extremely successful in that field. He is a critic of using thimerosal as a preservative in any drug, among other things they put in that stuff.
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  10275. I was afraid I would cringe -- but now I see RFK Jr is right again. JFK had a national fitness program. It's no joke, it is essential. Kids are on SSRIs, ADHD medication, puberty blockers . . . They need to be on fresh air and push ups, for real.
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  10276. The comics in the comments are giving Jimmy a run for their money tonight. Inspirational.
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  10277. Did you miss the timeline, provided by the professor who was there?
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  10278.  @HeavyMetal45  How is a professor "trespassing" on the grounds of the school where she teaches, and holds tenure and an administrative position?
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  10279. She's fine with the money and now needs even more. I bet she will get it, too.
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  10280. I shake my head. /s
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  10281. The government is getting crazier by the minute. I started to write "our government" and deleted it.
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  10282.  @burmy1552  If I were at a university that oppressed my freedom of speech so much that it reminded me of my trauma under a Communist regime, I think I'd transfer, rather than shoving $50k per year or more into their pockets for such treatment. Did anyone keep her there against her will? Nor would I have stayed quiet about it until getting my diploma, then leveraging it at the mo$t opportune moment. In contrast, many others took a real risk to speak out. Consider University of Chicago's position, consider Bret Weinstein, as two that quickly come to mind. Or even Chemerinsky, who stood up for free speech on campus. (Read his book? Read Nadine Strossen's? Those are real books, and they recount real cases.)
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  10283.  @michaeloconnor9465  If it has real information, count on it. You aren't supposed to know things. You're supposed to jeer.
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  10284.  @michaeloconnor9465  It must have been informative.
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  10285. @Diaper Don "Elect Joe Biden and push him left . . . ?" Do we need to do a video mash-up of that one, too?
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  10286. OMG, at 14:40 he already has a better theory of the case than the detective does. Seriously, makes no sense.
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  10287.  @kaderathebeekeeper22m3  They sound like false flags and high school cliques.
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  10288. Where do you see that they are supporting the terrorists' massacre of Israelis, and not supporting Palestinian civilians in Gaza? And she quotes the Bible as justification? I'll see your Bible and raise you a Koran?
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  10289.  @Nackdad  I know there are crazies out there, but the sheer variety we have now stops the mind cold.
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  10290. How many shares of Pfizer did the Biden family own?
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  10291.  @foop145  Talking the talk and doing absolutely nothing is the most demoralizing course that anyone can possibly choose, and everyone knows it. It's the strongest possible message of impotence. No one wants to hear that their cause is supposedly hopeless. You don't think it's odd that after four years of Trump's pathological lying, the Democrats are already walking back from campaign promises? Do you defeat massive lies with nice, polite, ambiguous ones? All of the politicians are acting as though there is no urgency.
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  10292. Consider carefully whether modern pollution has made that a less beneficial practice than it once was. In light of how COVID came into the world, scrutinize everything. It's not a wholesome environment anymore. There are no unpolluted fish.
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  10293. Will they try to flip Venezuela?
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  10294. I'm sorry.
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  10295. Ketamine issue? It has got to be drugs.
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  10296. Then how come this concentration of wealth is literally unprecedented?
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  10297. Focus is off Ana, isn't it?
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  10298. Try thinking. Reading can help with that. Social media, not so much.
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  10299. @JavierFernandez01  Every child's future reproductive choices should be protected. The right to have the opportunity to found a family if you choose is a universal human right.
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  10300.  @nottherealxandercrews4742  Too late. 🤣🤣🤣
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  10301. ​@theuglykwan That is a big "if," but you're right that the Judiciary states what the law is. So far, we don't see defiance.
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  10302. @Allison Brum It was the reality for non-whites since forever.
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  10303.  @reasonerenlightened2456  Dore is making suggestions, he is opposed to mandates. Nowhere does he say parents should be prohibited from having their children vaccinated. He believes the science doesn't warrant vaccine mandates. He isn't ordering anyone around. As you know.
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  10304. I fear you are too optimistic. 😢 Way more than a third will stare at you zombie-like and repeat slogans.
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  10305. ​ @dustinbaker8272 CAN YOU BE SERIOUS? What was a drug addict doing siphoning money out of a country that was the poorest in Europe and a super-sensitive geopolitical hot spot? This is not our concern? Then what is?
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  10306. There was a trial. I know the prosecutor. ALL documents were made public, on a website that was updated with pdfs every day. But Candace knows better. I'd like to see Candace's finances. Then I'd know why she's doing this.
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  10307.  @D-Fens_1632  So you do have the presidents you deserve. Huh. How about that.
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  10308. Suggest some must-read texts.
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  10309. At this price? Cost-benefit is also a thing.
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  10310. 💯 @ OP
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  10311.  @nettles6055  Other channels?? It did not belong on twitter! What would you think if your doctor violated your privacy in any manner, for any reason, except if your life or safety or someone else's was immediately threatened?
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  10312.  @phazemekaniks  The risk of myocarditis from COVID, compared with myocarditis from vaccine, is NOT higher in men under 25. I suggest you get up to date.
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  10313.  @phazemekaniks  For the tenth time, your link does not appear. This is because links are routinely shadowed. Links are routinely shadowed because they are far too difficult to monitor for TOS. DEMOGRAPHICS MATTER. Especially for kids. You do know the FDA withheld full approval for Pfizer for those under 16, correct? EUA only, with pages of fact sheets and waivers, plus a statement that declining vaccination will have no bearing on a person's future health care.
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  10314.  @buddyrogers2919  You are right. I was hoping it wasn't so. But. . . . You are right.
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  10315. Thank you, Dr. Campbell, for following up on Japan. You're right, no one is reporting on Japan.
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  10316. ​@michelleerwin3833 I remember when they promised us a pause on this crazy divisiveness. (I knew it was nonsense, voted LaRiva/Peltier --- on election day, in person, paper ballot backup.)
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  10317.  @SeenAndCheese  Commercial real estate is a whole different thing.
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  10318.  @SeenAndCheese  I agree.
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  10319. Maybe check the DOJ website for Bannon's indictment?
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  10320. No, AOC is not right; it's a simple matter of inspecting a piece of paper known as a birth certificate/acto de nacimiento/acte de naissance. Nothing as salty as she said.
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  10321. 11:09 This aged extremely well. Sadly.
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  10322.  @antiChinazi  We don't know the origin of this coronavirus yet. It has not been determined.
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  10323.  @utah_koidragon7117  In fact (re: our earlier discussion), I will be glad to go further, no problem. I would like to know how this woman got her job teaching at Hunter College in the first place. Is this a case of a person with a solid resume having some sort of psychotic break, or were there warnings prior, or is her record some combination of these? I'm interested in why this incident came about. Violent incidents at any school should not only be punished, but if possible prevented. For that, we need to analyze all the facts, including how she got her position.
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  10324.  @utah_koidragon7117  Too many flagrantly incompetent/downright dangerous people in sensitive jobs. I hope to find out more about this one, real soon. This sh*t has got to stop.
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  10325.  @utah_koidragon7117  You may be right. This one was way out there. And here we were assured that schools must be made "Safe Spaces." /s You could not make this up. I swear to pay closer attention, after this one.
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  10326. I like Saagar, but he deserved this one. :)
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  10327. It's called a contract. But for the Richest Man in the World, there are no rules. Ever.
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  10328. 💯
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  10329.  @jss61  I was alive then.
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  10330. ​ @rudydesi False. Brandenburg v. Ohio; Texas v. Johnson; and RAV v. City of St. Paul all made that clear. RAV is a Scalia opinion. Brandenburg is the seminal case. At least find out what rights we had before selling out.
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  10331.  @rudydesi  See the word "legal?" It's an objective standard.
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  10332. Dr. Mate is a saint.
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  10333.  @Qųăñ-_-ßøı-_-420  They are as real as Zelensky's strategic military prowess and his wife's modesty, common touch and good sense.
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  10334. Oh my goodness, how dark, LOL. I think you're right.
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  10335. Watch the facial expressions of these MSM rodents.
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  10336. Great actors work hard. I guess AOC wants to do it the lazy way, via politics.
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  10337.  @thepearlswirl  Driving with a broken taillight is more dangerous than breaking the laws against bioweapons and hiding your tracks. "The rich got richer, what's not to like?"
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  10338. That Republican was mostly right about Fauci, but sucks because he doesn't really mean what he said about our rights, or puppies.
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  10339. @fredgill487  Me too. I came to my decision in the following way: I read the description of mRNA technology on the MIT website and decided against it. A lot of people must have had a similar thought, and there was a brief shortage of Johnson & Johnson/Janssen. I asked everywhere, and no one had it. That was just before it was temporarily withdrawn because of the blood clot issue, which overwhelmingly occurred in women. In the meantime, myocarditis in young men was established, caused by the mRNA vaccines. After that, no normal, free person who wasn't manipulated to be petrified would have taken this drug. (I was bullied mercilessly. I felt like a hunted animal. No big deal, thought I'd mention it.) Yo. Drugs are dangerous. We need to get back to that.
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  10340. There needs to be a study started immediately, pinpointing the frequency of long COVID in those vaccinated who then contracted COVID, followed by long COVID, and covering the main vaccine types, length of time post vaccination that COVID was contracted, and the status of long COVID sufferers. This sounds grave, frankly. Thank you for the reminder: good sleep, excellent diet, daily exercise are not optional now. I know I need to do better. :/
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  10341. Wow, is Lil' Jared ever going to be mad now. Jared was counting on sitting on that energy board. Bigger than Hunter's energy board ha ha.
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  10342. And a genocide denier. BTW, his father survived the Holocaust, barely.
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  10343. Biden's campaign promise was to Hunter, to keep him out of jail, and he kept his promise.
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  10344. The few potheads I know I avoid. Something's wrong with them. Granted, after 25+ years straight of this, basically every day. Yeesh.
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  10345. In the meantime, all the main players may face ICC indictment.
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  10346. Jimmy is on fire. He has never been better.
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  10347.  @ashura3313  I'll watch that video. I generally like Kim Iversen. She just did a good video on calling into question Tulsi Gabbard's position on drones. Others criticized Tulsi, but not well.
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  10348. Watch a bigger excerpt than this tiny clip, maybe?
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  10349.  @misterdemocracy3335  Then Sam should shut up and find a real topic to comment on. Something he actually did watch. What a tool.
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  10350. Perfect simile.
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  10351.  @kimlarso  LOL, I was thinking he's in touch with his grant applications and his stock portfolio.
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  10352. Sweden did worse than most of the rest of Europe, per capita. They did not do well for a relatively sparsely populated country, or relative to the rest of Scandinavia. They only did less badly than feared. But they have a more cooperative population.
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  10353. Just curious: in a world of nearly 200 countries, why is Sweden alone in its approach? What tradeoffs did others choose, and what happened? New Zealand comes to mind for me!
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  10354. Great thought.
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  10355.  @itsallagame7354  Well, now we know what lies are permissible.
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  10356. Important notes!
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  10357. You don't need "stand your ground" when you are in your car. It's presumed your life is being threatened and you are free to use lethal force to protect yourself. When your car is unoccupied, you can't use lethal force to defend it. It's property. It's very important property, but it is just property.
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  10358. She has a subscription podcast, but it does not offer more than her show. She could never attract billionaire financing.
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  10359.  @christofonobrown3659  She criticized Kagan as well, in fact, for drawing a salary from Harvard while there is a discrimination case involving Harvard pending before the Supreme Court right now.
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  10360. "Given their common cosmologies . . . " CIA. Clearly.
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  10361.  @Daniea3  You see the truth. So does Scahill!
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  10362. Love this comment.
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  10363. I know of no lawyer who would tell you that the mere mention of "mental illness" insulates any doctor from a malpractice claim. A misdiagnosis is itself possible malpractice. There are no magic words a doctor can write down that prevent a lawsuit from proceeding. After all, even people actually suffering from psychosis, documented, could be victims of malpractice. Sounds like an intimidation ploy.
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  10364.  @emhu2594  Or better, depending on one's viewpoint, actually.
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  10365.  @SacredFire777  So she was petrified, momentarily frozen by fear ("fight, flight, freeze"), and thought dude was just a hookup. The culture has changed. I don't understand either extreme: blaming her, or finding some reason why this was "normal." It's not working.
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  10366.  @MEMELIFEBABY  We know what we know only because Dylan voluntarily cooperated with law enforcement and provided this information. She had the right to remain silent. Nor can you be sure that police took down her statement exactly as she gave it. She has no obligation to play to the Internet mob, and is probably smart to stay away. If a court subpoenas her, then she will testify, under oath, and we'll all hear what she has to say. As far as the story making sense, I agree that there are pieces missing. I can suspend judgment, and not assume the worst. Why do people feel a need to take sides? I will never understand. We don't have all the facts. As far as the press suddenly making up reasons why it is "understandable" that she failed to call for 8 hours, that does sound like a load of --- ----. I object to anyone trying to normalize "frozen by fear" plus "did not call 911 for eight hours." That is not normal. But a lot of people today are not normal. That doesn't mean they are criminals. This is a good time for parents to have a long talk with their kids about safety and what to do in an emergency.
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  10367.  @nedludd7622  Beans, especially navy beans and lentils. Nuts, seeds, wheat germ if you can eat that. Eat wild-caught fish once or twice a month. Y'know, one can of sardines. You'll be fine.
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  10368.  @kylea1436  Correct. See what a good ratio of lysine to arginine can do for you. ;)
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  10369. Kim Iversen was clear on this: if you have been convicted of a crime, and you served your sentence and paid whatever fines and restitution you owe, you should be allowed to make a living with very few restrictions ---- and the restrictions should only have to do with legitimate safety concerns. Driving a school bus is one thing. A YouTube channel endangers no one.
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  10370. WHY isn't there a single, objective fact-checking organization with ZERO connections to any government? Such a site would frequently admit "we don't know." An objective website treating the Hunter laptop story would have said that prominent journalists with expertise in the area believe the laptop is real, and that several intelligence organizations are hinting that it could be a Russian plant, but that they have released no evidence to prove it, nor have they said definitively that it is. In other words, people can then conclude that the Russia story is misinformation. (And it was.) The important thing is that the whole discussion not be censored.
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  10371. Do something nice for yourself today. And then tomorrow as well.
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  10372. The Rolling Stone cover is gross. Tim Pool is worse. Why are these people rich? Is this work?
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  10373. The cheerleader part is more suspect.
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  10374.  @derekconlin1180  So you know how to find a pdf of the complaint online, and to take a quick look at Black's Law Dictionary, if not the local court rules and state statutes, correct? (That would be a lot of work, and not necessary unless it really intrigues you.)
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  10375.  Steve White  I didn't think anyone was this stupid.
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  10376.  @Face2theScr33n  I didn't delete it. YT is playing games. DUH. The hideous thing you said to me was in my feed, but shadowed on the board. I'm not going to try to fetch it and post it. I'm not a nut.
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  10377. Wow what nonsense. The greatest fortunes were made not by "adding value," but doing harm. Start with something very basic: do some research on what fast food does to the body, and how.
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  10378.  @jupitercyclops6521  And how lucrative this job has become, while journalism itself is in crisis.
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  10379. Si! On ne se laisse pas aller au moins.
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  10380. @Polit_Burro  A lot of truth here --- but know that Europe saw this kind of growth and a solid middle class livelihood as well, plus the Soviets were in competition to provide universal housing, education, and health care, not to mention fantastic public transportation in major cities, which spurred the European social democracy state as an answer. They had it good, despite having been devastated. The French called it "les trente glorieuses" for a reason.
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  10381. @Polit_Burro  I sure hope my reply appears!
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  10382.  @spiritof6663  Anyone who supports a flat tax has no notion of the marginal value of a dollar. Dollars are not rigid yardsticks, yet so many people talk as if they were.
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  10383. @The 6th mass extinction is long overdue No blame. :/
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  10384.  @Fudzbo  This is a brilliant comment. OP and yours. We are raised on advertising, which has displaced education. Everything you've described are dirty sales techniques.
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  10385. Beautiful. The gentleman should receive a brand-new MATH hat.
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  10386.  @luiscrawford1249  Doctors assume you want a quick fix and that you're incapable of following a diet, an exercise plan, and so forth. The real reason they assume that you can't is because they figure you have no one to do it with you. A truly depressed person does need a loving family member to get them started. Who's going to cook for you and with you, and take you out to walk in nature for six weeks? (Well, after what we've just been through, a lot of people!!)
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  10387. ​@Curt-Gevert Wait. You think Amy Goodman is jealous? Is David Sirota, too? How about Sally Rooney? Oliver Stone? Roger Waters? Briahna Joy Gray? Noam Chomsky? Tariq Ali? Tell me who else is. I want to delve into this mindset. How does it form? You can't tell who is avid and obsessed with money lust, and who isn't?
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  10388. ​​ @nanabai329  Do you know math at all? Two billion dollars is roughly a million a year for every year since the birth of Jesus. Now explain how someone can earn that. Next, please multiply by 100. Ruining mathematics education was the single most important thing Reagan did for the ruling class. After that, everything else declines. It's no accident that everyone from Mitterrand to the Soviets stressed mathematics, and no accident that mathematics declined under the neoliberal capitalists. So much for your "logic."
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  10389.  @Curt-Gevert   What do I really think? None of the oligarchs ever had a good love life or artistic talent, and now they've made sure that far fewer of the rest of us will, either.
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  10390. @cliffordmaxwell9802  Too much censorship here. I'm out, and blocking notifs.
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  10391. One would expect LOWER excess deaths, just as Dr. Campbell said. The vulnerable did die of COVID. COVID is a serious disease, for those with comorbidities or who are over 70 to 75. Also, some vaccines actually do reduce death rates overall. The ones that work as promised do.
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  10392.  @jimpollard113  Just timestamp where she makes light of anti-white animosity. I promise to listen twice and really scrutinize it.
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  10393. I suggest you read the cases concerning privacy rights, that see them as the cornerstone of many of our constitutional rights.
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  10394.  @seekeroftruth6728  Actually, I am going to emigrate, and not come back again. So sorry to be here, to see this. It is so ugly.
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  10395.  @AceSpadeThePikachu  You don't understand. The proponent of a medical intervention needs to persuade the patient. The patient has no burden of proof. The burden is entirely on the doctor. A patient can always say no. This is the law. Suddenly Biden, who campaigned on stating there would be no vaccine mandates, is pressuring private employers to institute them regardless of industry. It's not his business to exert pressure in any event. He wants others to do what he himself legally cannot do. What happened to HIPPA? What happened to Americans With Disabilities Act? Excessive phobia concerning medicine is a disability. It's not rare, either. Some people had one severe bout of allergy, say from penicillin, and have to be heavily medicated to go into a doctor's office. Dentist, even worse. This is suddenly unfamiliar to everyone? What happened?
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  10396. @nesne2167  Why is propaganda/advertising/surveillance one of the most rapidly growing sectors in the economy since 1990? What does it offer, to merit that?
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  10397. I think about people like you all the time. Wow are they putting you in a bad, bad position. I am truly sorry. :/
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  10398. Does Bill Maher hire high school graduates? I mean, other than for landscaping or roofing?
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  10399.  @justanoman6497  If you get a job, you are displacing someone who may be better qualified. Do you think the best qualified person gets the job? Can you be serious? If you know you deserve an interview, GET ONE. There's some guilt to be had here? Yeah -- only if you aren't sure you have earned an interview and you push for one anyway, OR if you know you deserve one but you don't do everything you can to get one. That's diffident. Virtuous unemployment isn't a thing. Your guilt mentality is poison to the young and naive. They might take it to heart, and then what?? For my first jobs in life, we applied in person. We talked to someone every step of the way. WOW has the quality of life declined. And then you pop up, afraid someone might attain something, so you slap them down.
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  10400.  @AdaptiveApeHybrid  Thank you! Yes, the brain is precious.
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  10401. Please read Carl Elliott's latest book. This is not the half of it -- not even close.
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  10402.  @tnshanobighost6749  WHO feeds you these talking points? If abortion is neither a right under the Constitution nor prohibited under the Constitution, then Congress and state legislatures can legislate on it as they see fit, anywhere from a complete ban in all cases to legalizing it in all cases -- and federal law preempts state law. Any challenge to a specific law based on the Constitution would have to work its way up through the courts.
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  10403. Jimmy went to Columbia College in Chicago, and ISU before that. Of course it put him on a path to doing what he is doing. He wouldn't have had the breaks he had without that diploma. He always talks about not having a bookshelf when he was a kid. Nice try, but no cigar.
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  10404. Thank you.
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  10405. Oh come off it.
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  10406. This describes my best friend.
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  10407. I no longer believe any of these mistakes were well-intentioned. All the mistakes were in one direction, and persisted.
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  10408.  @fxDELTAx  Does he therefore think we are vastly too stupid to follow an argument on that basis?
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  10409.  @bigwetbutt  Serious issues were noted during Phase 3 trials, but were treated. That is why people must be watched after administration. Yes, people can end up hospitalized after getting the vaccine because of a reaction.
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  10410. @ason4641  I've heard her call for treating these tech companies as utilities. But there is no law in place allowing that, yet. Your phone company can't listen in on your call, monetize it for targeted advertising, then drop it if you say bad words.
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  10411. @Getonwithit204  You got my point. What did you think I meant? John did not invent the story. He presented an article from a newspaper. So how is he misleading vulnerable people?
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  10412. ​ @tomthumb2815 My late father was a natural athlete, and he never saw one of those drugs. He was an immigrant. He didn't need any medication of any kind before his mid-80s. Just how bad off are you all??
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  10413. Musk a silencié ces critiques. 😂 On s'attendait à autre chose? 😂😂😂
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  10414.  @frenzalrhomb6919  Sadly, nothing surprises me anymore, either. ;/
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  10415. Gutfeld isn't usually funny, but when he is funny, he is hysterical. People are hooked on watching for the occasional grand slam. That reinforcement schedule is what social media operates on -- it works.
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  10416. @Axileus You're so negative. 🤣
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  10417. This is my fear.
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  10418. Evidence?
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  10419. @midwestlawyer  Thanks. If I name Supreme Court cases, my post is immediately removed. "Ponder that," as they say.
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  10420.  @Kyarrix  Yes, she is wrong. This is a huge innuendo to toss off as though it requires no evidence, "because Jimmy Dore." Bellingcat claimed without evidence that a lobbyist organization with hidden ties to Assad corrupted Jimmy Dore with $2500. First of all, Dore has made it clear that his price is much higher. /s I think that someone who "wants to be a millionaire" either asks for more than that, or is profoundly math challenged. /s Has this journalist herself verified that the organization was indeed a front, and that Dore either knew, or didn't know and didn't care, before "educating" us? It was styled as a prize for independent journalism, according to Bellingcat itself. (P. S. I could have sworn the word she were looking for was "inform.")
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  10421. CNN was misleading its audience. It was legal for Senators to VOTE to decertify a panel of presidential electors. It was illegal, and arguably attempted insurrection, to riot, occupy the halls of Congress, and threaten our representatives. Why is CNN comparing ISIS recruiters with Senators holding a vote?
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  10422. They are making bank. Thanks to concentrations of wealth known as the advertising industry, which we all feed, even here.
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  10423. I'm glad for any child who got through this well!
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  10424. Clinton always had an ulterior motive for anything that came out of his mouth. I wonder what this one was?
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  10425. Probably not.
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  10426. I like her. She's the only child of an only child. Once she started making money, she put her mother through school, for an MSW. That's not an ordinary girl.
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  10427. When the question concerning excess deaths was raised, and I posted comments on a pro-vaccine doctor's website that so many things had changed at the same time since 2020 that to figure out the contribution of each will require a multivariate analysis -- which is difficult to do, requires making well-justified judgments, and takes a lot of time. Every post where I wrote the word "multivariate" was immediately removed. What is more interesting is that incoherent rants against vaccines were allowed to stay up, so that people could conclude that only idiots had concerns. Cute how that is, huh?
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  10428. @Arturojazz4  I know. Something this important, and you see how it's spun as a gotcha, rather than treated with the gravity it deserves. But imagine real journalism: it would require serious resources to develop a story about the risk that pathogens are being developed, or conceived, to target certain ethnic groups. "Look, look! He said . . . !!" brings in money and is a cinch to do. A ten-minute edit, and voila, a paycheck.
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  10429.  YouTube Thirdchanel  It is higher than that for men over 50 and women over 60, AND some people with mild cases have weird aftereffects. Horrible ones, like blood clots and cognitive issues. I don't think waiting for more information to come in is unreasonable, though. I'm never against any vaccine, and generally ask for them myself. Case by case.
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  10430.  @SlowhandGreg  I eat semi-vegetarian (fish every few months) and organic. I literally never eat anything containing added sugar or sweetener. I read labels. I have ordered possibly a dozen pizzas in this century, maybe not that many.
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  10431.  @toborobo  Oh my gawd.
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  10432. ​ @kendom33 I would only criticize that course if you were independently wealthy. If you are not, well, there is no such thing as virtuous insolvency.
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  10433. ​@howard1beale And if he ended up HOMELESS, you would help, HOW??
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  10434. 😂😂😂😂
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  10435. It's called the police power. They can force him.
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  10436.  @best5345  I can explain mine, too. My father was from southern Europe and knew rape was real. His natural wisdom keep me safe when I was still too young to know.
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  10437. They stated no one else besides Rittenhouse killed or injured anyone. Apparently, guns are ubiquitous in Wisconsin, and carrying them is ordinary. That's where the focus should be, not on an underage kid who should never have been tried as an adult in the first place. Scrutinize the adults around him, starting with the police.
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  10438.  @TheTiayahi  It seems like a stretch, based on preliminary data, but the frustration comes from the fact that in the US, it is clear that media and politicians are not leveling with us, and it is also unbearable to feel as though there is nothing you yourself can do to improve your chances of having good health and freedom again. If eating vegetarian for six weeks can reduce risk, I say do it. If it can. It is a reasonable plan, in that it won't hurt.
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  10439. You should read The Occasional Human Sacrifice. In one case, a researcher was imprisoned, but that was in Sweden.
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  10440. ​ @johnbrown6189  "These things?" Lord.
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  10441. After Afghanistan, Ukraine is afraid of being saved by the US.
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  10442. Glenn, a question. There seems to be a larger pattern that repeats too often to be happening by chance. The DNC keeps creating lose-lose scenarios: "Russiagate," obviously; Sandmann; Brett Cavanaugh; Amy Coney Barrett; Hunter Biden and his laptop; Rittenhouse; hysteria and unwarranted accusations concerning January 6th, as if the reality wasn't bad enough. The deification of Bill Gates; the continuing power of the Clintons; the nomination of Joe and Kamala. Then of course reneging on the public option, the $15 minimum wage, losing the two impeachment trials, and so forth, . . . even misleading voters about the size of the stimulus checks. Why are they doing this? Let's take Justice Barrett. There should have been no nomination, as early voting in the presidential election had already begun. Instead, Judge Barrett was nominated and confirmed, and mercilessly abused and personally maligned during the process to a degree that I don't think anyone before her had ever suffered -- not even Kavanaugh. (At least Kavanaugh had a witness he could confront.) So, IOW, everything that shouldn't have happened, happened. The worst-case scenario was engineered into existence with a lot of help from the DNC -- with them imitating some of Trump's most repugnant traits and topping him. What's up with all that? What do they get out of it?
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  10443.  @Themrcesar53  You are right.
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  10444.  @elginmarble5009  Commentaries like this video scare ordinary people, because they make it appear as though one false move in the workplace could mean the end of their livelihoods -- even years after they thought it was settled. The proposed punishment -- censorship -- is not proportionate to the crime. Not even close. Nobody here is a paid troll. No one rational needs to be paid to see that.
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  10445.  @elginmarble5009  Whatever you need to believe is fine with me. I talk to people from many walks of life, and thus know how they feel. They are above all worried about their JOBS. Sex and sexual harassment are the furthest things from their minds, all they want is not to get embroiled in this new means of score settling. And don't pretend you think I'm male.
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  10446. "TALKING POINTS?" Oh, I get it. His portfolio grew by millions during the pandemic. Of course 10% inflation is nothing to someone with 250%+ returns.
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  10447. Let's suppose the student has caused frequent problems --- all the more reason not to overreact, since that is exactly what a brat wants. Send him home to wash his face. What more do they want? He's a kid.
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  10448. Gabby Petito's parents gave entirely different information on 60 Minutes Australia. Her mother said she never noticed anything abnormal about Brian, and that he would do things like read to one of Gabby's younger siblings. The mother was clearly not worried about him. She was not prepared for this. There are other possibilities here.
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  10449. Everyone should know this.
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  10450.  @nonyab3843  Once a person is qualified to do the job, "merit" usually has no bearing, unless having the right family or other connections is meritorius. That is the de facto norm.
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  10451. The first time Paul Allen had lymphoma, Bill Gates used the occasion to try to squeeze him out of Microsoft. Of course that makes Gates qualified to decide health policy.
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  10452. Cue, or queue up?
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  10453. Mercedes. Now I understand why she's all right.
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  10454. @abunchahooey  "Tech moguls Altman, Bezos and Zuckerberg donate to Trump's inauguration fund" Source: NPR
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  10455. 1. Stocks have not crashed, so still clinging to illusions; 2. Now we really don't know who will be president if Biden is elected.
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  10456. Yes, 8:20 is criminal and a civil rights violation. Both.
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  10457. Brie, a doctor's office or hospital can require a mask.
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  10458. Huh. I remember when Thatcher was telling us there is no such thing as society. Now we have to bear children for its sake, nothing less. 😂 Maybe some of us don't want our children exposed to today's politicians and the world they've created.
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  10459. Apparently, it is.
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  10460. Kim was the only independent thinker here. AGAIN.
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  10461.  @wyskass861  We need people of real stature to find a way to get to a cease-fire as soon as possible. Beating the war drum will get more innocent people killed. It is that simple. There is nothing to be gained from escalation, nothing.
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  10462.  @zeriel9148  The problem is "progressives" think coercion and manipulation is how you govern. In Europe, friggin' Communist Party members organize anti-mandate and anti-passport demonstrations. How far we've fallen.
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  10463. Colonization? How much of an atmosphere does Mars have? It doesn't have a magnetic field. So, what will block cosmic radiation from giving humans cancer by age 40? We evolved here. We better take care of HERE.
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  10464. @nikkidarkangelpnope8400  Judicial immunity for interpretations of law are not qualified; they are absolute. So it is not like police. It is nothing like police. Don't confuse these people.
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  10465.  @ryand4533  I am telling you the truth about the LAW. NO innocent person, wrongly convicted, ever sued the judge and won.
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  10466.  @ryand4533  Is my explanation in the shade? It tells who you CAN sue and recover.
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  10467. @dms555  It is relevant concerning constitutional rights. If a private religious college prohibits abortion rights advocacy, it can fire any professor who supports abortion rights. That's part of free association, also constitutionally protected. A state that outlaws abortion cannot fire a professor who supports abortion rights from a state college.
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  10468. 5:50 THANK YOU for going there, Katie. I didn't turn this on expecting to laugh so hard.
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  10469. We could count on you to find this and post it!! ❤ 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😂
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  10470.  @AgxntAqua  I agree, as did Brie. But that's not some great free speech warrior. That is someone less bad than all the other tech owners.
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  10471. @leoantonio  I'm not clear on what institutions he believes "made this country great." As for all the pseudo-progressive NewSpeak/New Chatter, it serves as some sort of major distraction, to the benefit of the same class. It reminds me of the way "affirmative action" in Ivy League admissions was used as a fig leaf for legacy/special development admissions, which may account for how roughly half of the seats in the freshman class are allocated. We got a glimpse behind the curtain concerning all that, at Harvard, when two billionaires tussled over who would be university president. Ackman won over Pritzker.
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  10472. Okay, tell us your secret. How much?
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  10473.  @cjb2749  She's vastly more qualified, and thorough. How did you get caught up in this mass psychosis? (Is it drugs? Is that it?)
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  10474. ​ @MartinMary-c2n  You know how.
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  10475.  @2FINE4YOUBABYGIRL  In fact, no one who does not have two solid years of living expenses in cash equivalents, in addition to an emergency fund, and a guaranteed base income (T bonds, that sort of thing) can be considered secure. That usually means being really, really resourceful and astute, and lucky -- or having a financial net worth of a million per person in the household, and little or no mortgage on where you actually live. That is what financial advisors tell their rich clients, so that they never have to sell off assets at distressed prices. Because most people, even affluent people, one day will.
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  10476. Some people think a President should be able to handle worse. We know neither one can.
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  10477.  @ianmedford4855  Precisely.
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  10478.  @nukacola3218  Define "gaslighting." It's a slogan, so you repeat it.
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  10479.  @Noumenon4Idolatry  Oh that was brilliant.
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  10480. Yeah, if only they had great leaders like Biden and Trump. Or Candace Owens.
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  10481.  @anthonytwohill9726  Aw, thanks. I had to go back to edit for atrocious grammar. The way people just swallow and regurgitate a media "narrative" is awful. It's gotten scary, over the past three years in particular.
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  10482. They were supposed to buy our complicity in endless wars. Now, they don't think they have to spend so much. Not like they used to.
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  10483. A very short time ago, in fact.
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  10484.  @gwarlow  The fact that people you thought were friends join in, and don't even have to be bribed, is worse. The access to housing is worse. The crime rate is hard to compare, with so many goons in government and law enforcement, on both sides!!
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  10485. He's just telling Mom the truth.
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  10486. Remember how we all said "flu shot," as did doctors? No one said "flu vaccine."
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  10487. ​ @jamesdavid7099 So support a draft. Make it entirely fair for everyone.
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  10488.  @peculiarlittleman5303  🤣 When I heard the report on the radio, my first thought was "snowflake." Well, I was wrong.
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  10489. I was burgled. It wasn't a big deal. The alarm scared the burger off, he rummaged around quickly, apparently looking for money, then left. He committed no vandalism. I had the means to stay in a hotel for a few days while repairs to the door were made. If he had swept everything off the kitchen table or poured my cooking oils all over the carpet, or done anything else to show hatred, I would feel differently. Pure property crimes without threat to life or limb are not to be met with lethal force. The law is clear. I would have wanted to talk to the burglar in my case.
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  10490. A carjacking is with the owner present. That is a violent crime. Auto theft is not.
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  10491. @utah_koidragon7117  The question I have is why presidential grandchildren's cars have Secret Service protection. I thought only their persons merited that. Wow. They really are contemptuous of us, aren't they?
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  10492.  @leevy6753  There are more of us than you might think.
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  10493.  @leevy6753  For me, where a car is concerned, it would be about the money. I can't afford to replace a Volvo S80 AWD. I may never have another.
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  10494.  @peoplenewstoday  Please stop polluting these boards with your special axe to grind. It's graceless. A fine human being is dead. Blocked.
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  10495. We can't prepare.
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  10496. Ask Neve Gordon if AIPAC is a supporter of Israel -- or of Likud.
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  10497. You need a woman to flog. The withdrawal from Amber Heard must have been excruciating.
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  10498. He was remarkably calm.
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  10499. @MaryEastBay  Point to me what the Laundries did that is against criminal law. It doesn't have to be precise. Just point to what crime they committed. What LAW did they break? And . . . Why was there no prosecution of them? Why no criminal investigation of them? Edit: wow it takes the algo forever to decide, lol.
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  10500. Why? There is no good way for this to end.
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  10501. I don't know a soul like that. I do know Jews who believe that working hard is better than slacking, that studying mathematics is better than saying that they aren't good at math, that speaking several languages is better than monolingualism, and that practicing piano is better than playing video games. I agree. Get busy, maybe?
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  10502.  @AnaLucia-wy2ii  Funny how there is always money for wars and for saving banks.
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  10503.  @aichujohnson8444  Why mix protected speech and defamation? You can SUE for defamation, and even in extreme circumstances for intentional infliction of emotional distress, and for harassment if it occurs in a place you can't simply leave, like at your job.
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  10504.  @aichujohnson8444  Most line drawing in law has some degree of arbitrariness, so that frankly proves nothing. For one thing, defamation always purports to be about a factual matter, and truth is a complete defense. What people perceive as hyperbole, trash talk, opinion, or invective can never be the subject of a defamation suit. The outer reaches of free speech are not a simple topic. I really recommend Nadine Strossen's book, where she shows over and over how "hate speech" codes were invariably perverted, and used against those they were intended to protect. I don't agree with absolutely every word, but anyone who is serious about banning hate speech needs to see all the arguments against speech codes first.
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  10505. No. A lawyer is a professional, not an employee. She should have recused herself from any part of this case. It most certainly is surprising. Are you a lawyer?
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  10506. Do you know ANYTHING about addiction?
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  10507. I don't believe he didn't watch it. That clip was not released on their free YouTube channel. The substantial excerpts that were released by Briahna and Virgil were about the central topic: the First Amendment, not the insurrection or the impeachment. It was a great discussion, too. Very nuanced and legally sophisticated.
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  10508. Question: Is ANYTHING we are ever told based on real science or public interest? Or is it all about follow the money all the time? Ha ha ha, just kidding.
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  10509. ​ @F_U23 Thank you for making my day.
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  10510. Lee Fang tweet perfect. He's still at The Intercept? If he is, it can't last.
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  10511. Is this for assessing risk of blackmail, or for eugenics purposes? 😅
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  10512. ​​ @Shalanaya Why are you pretending you could read that post? C'est évident que tu n'en comprend rien. Mais les autres ignorants seront impressionés, c'est sûr.
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  10513. Heh, depends on how much.
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  10514. No other country can claim heroism? Who does he think defeated the Nazi Wehrmacht?
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  10515. I agree with this.
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  10516. So, your really sane, measured, and compassionate post gets these responses? What is that about?? We do not live in a healthy society at the moment, and it has been obviously fraying since September 11, 2001. The last three years were not optimal for anyone's state of mind.
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  10517.  @jesusisalive3227  Exactly. And you would never believe how common false confessions are, too. I was so impressed by the procedural law in Idaho, where they will not release the affidavit or give details about why they have probable cause until the defendant is brought back to the state and faces a judge. Brilliant.
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  10518. ​ @januarysson5633 She never said that. AND she never voted for Biden OR Hillary. Wow, do people hate her because she's beautiful?
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  10519. All right, Trump acolytes: Explain Alexander Acosta. Or is that too tough? Too many things to keep in your head all at once?
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  10520.  @KnutFan  Thanks! Thought that was what you meant. :)
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  10521.  @shadowwolf7622  Well, in this instance, be VERY skeptical of bizarro anti-vax stories. The purpose could be to make all rationally hesitant people appear bonkers. That seems to be what's happening at least sometimes.
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  10522.  @shadowwolf7622  This all makes sense to me. My only point is that there are good reasons and bad reasons to be opposed to taking this vaccine at present. It's not just a matter of declining, or siding with those who decline to be vaccinated. Your reasons are good reasons, in my book. If you receive better information about it down the road, you may reconsider. Of course that's reasonable. I am sick to death of Them and Us reasoning. And I am suspicious of the bizarre anti-vax stories. Using a false flag to manipulate people's emotions is not a rare tactic.
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  10523.  @tulefogger5169  Yeah. Actually, if she doesn't know, she has to admit it under oath. "Cringe," to quote the cliche but wow it fits.
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  10524.  @danielburetti4711  Did you know that other vaccines that have liability waivers also benefit from a special fund for compensation in the event of injury? It was set up in 1986, and has worked fairly well. People who have COVID vaccine injuries don't have access to that fund.
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  10525.  @rayc9960  Who is "she?" Batya? What is she fail to understand, exactly?
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  10526.  @BertoxolusThePuzzled  "Cheap, sustainable SPACE travel" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 No end to dupery, is there?
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  10527. Unsubbed because they suppressed Kim, in violation of her agreement with The Hill.
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  10528. Did all the people who claim side effects report them (Yellow Card, VAERS, etc.)?
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  10529.  @gs4913  My question was not rhetorical. I believe you that some people did, or would, or might lose their jobs if they report. On the other hand, others can report without fear of retaliation. Shouldn't they?
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  10530. Perfect OP, perfect thread. THIS!!
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  10531. Six is so young! And ordinary teasing is very different from bullying -- it isn't a matter of being more sensitive than other children because no child can withstand bullying. No child should ever be subjected to bullying. Teasing and bullying are NOT on a continuum. Bullying and abuse are on a continuum. Bullying is on a continuum with crime. There are countries where workplace bullying can result in prison time. When adults go to a school reunion, they might recall teasing and laugh about it with their old friends, including those who teased them. No one laughs about bullying, EVER. It leaves deep scars.
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  10532. Prediction: if Roe v. Wade is overturned, you'll see a new "disaster capitalism" "opportunity." The states that protect reproductive choice will see a surge in visits for abortions, the prices will go up, and elective abortions, therapeutic abortions, and fertility treatments involving embryos will all soar in price. Hotels and airlines will have greater demand. After that, a new market for the loan industry. Just watch.
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  10533. Isn't that consistent with what she said? I'm misunderstanding you, perhaps.
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  10534. ​@geneenjohnson2656 The EEOC stated years ago that an employer cannot summarily dismiss a sincere religious objection. One woman who was pregnant and was convinced God had entrusted this new life to her to protect, and was fired, got a nice settlement. I'm sad this information is not widely known. I hope YT will permit it.
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  10535. @SourBogBubble  Because that's what the MSM crowd does. They may stir "controversy," but the real goal is to make a buck every time.
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  10536. ​ @Businessentials  Just another word that's lost its meaning. :/
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  10537. 👏👏👏
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  10538.  @joeblow26  This is really upsetting, and it's coming from the people who pretend to be so sensitive. The hypocrisy is terrible. When anything real happens, they are heartless. Fetterman was once a good local politician. He helped revitalize a town and lived modestly while running it. He went to a small Methodist college, then got an MBA. I guess the people who remember that gave him the sympathy vote. I am so sorry for him. I had had no idea what he was like before this.
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  10539. It was about the extent to which the states are able to intrude on a pregnant woman's decisions about carrying the pregnancy, and a doctor's right to give the advice and treatment he sees fit. Roe said back off.
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  10540. @mattnewhouse1781  See, for example, the Westboro Baptist Church case; RAV v. City of St. Paul; and Brandenburg v. Ohio. RAV was a Scalia opinion, and Scalia joined the opinion on the flag-burning case (Texas v. Johnson, I believe). You're confusing the First Amendment with Miss Manners. Better yet, consult Nadine Strossen.
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  10541. @censoredamerican3331  When I saw this report, I couldn't find any, on any campus.
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  10542.  @jb117354  That goes for Bannon, too? (He needed a pardon, remember?)
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  10543. 1:39
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  10544. Oops.
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  10545. @benjaminfranklin8412  Have people not noticed how many obstetricians left the practice, and how many went into plastic surgery? I remember when this was front page news in the major papers.
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  10546.  @aleksandrastockhold2131  Exactly. This is one reason why the great state universities that were under $500 per semester for in-state students fifty years ago cost a fortune now. In the 60s and 70s, the universities were full of the children of steelworkers and auto workers, and small farmers in states like Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota. You better believe they had to throw a monkey wrench into that.
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  10547. Joe was interested in Miss Reade, who was by any objective measure not particularly qualified to work for a prominent senator, when she looked like that picture. He would not have been interested in hiring someone older, with a better education and more experience -- in other words, Tara Reade as she is now.
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  10548. Gallows humor, huh? Kind of not . . . Never mind.
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  10549. Yup, that one.
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  10550. The question about the attacks that Aaron Mate raises is WHO is responsible. He has uncovered that the official story is unsupported by the evidence.
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  10551. MY FAVORITE COMMENT YET. Thank you.
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  10552. Why do the people who do the worst things make the most money
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  10553. ​@MicheleKalina704Let's start with zero surveillance.
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  10554. @David-n3f2z  Have it your way. P. S. What state am I in? 😂😂😂
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  10555. Medea
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  10556.  @NinnaFrank  You clearly don't comprehend my post.
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  10557. Show me how many people ages 50 or older had THIS "gender affirming care" as minors. Show me one study with a sample sufficient to permit some sort of valid generalization. You've never met a woman in her 40s who suddenly decides to have kids, and possibly needs in vitro because she was sterilized at 25? But a CHILD who has never experienced anything can decide? This is the new eugenics. I don't buy that this is innocent at all.
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  10558.  @alexjones7845  Most people in that income range who itemize do so only for their mortgage. If there is medical, that is obvious as well. These are very straightforward deductions. You don't have a number of trusts to hold your assets, some of which are not based in the US, or foreign bank accounts, I'm guessing.
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  10559. This is the true Bill Clinton. This is the essence of who he is.
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  10560.  @jessigreer  How is it retaliation to make their remarks widely known?
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  10561.  @jessigreer  No one should ever have to be concerned about retaliation for speaking their mind about anything, least of all in a forum designed for that purpose. But if you step up and publicly denounce a person, that person has a right to know about it. A criminal has a right to face his accuser. A teacher should have to be kept in the dark? If you see this as targetting, then I have to wonder exactly what these parents are saying. If a teacher is engaging in any unprofessional acts with any student, contact a lawyer, and consult with the lawyer about next steps, including a police report if warranted. This is simpler than you're making it.
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  10562.  @josefbriffa5346  And now Barr will be presiding over this execution. He sees no contradiction.
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  10563. Yes, both were great. So lucid, and complement each other's points well. Everybody liks Rachel.
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  10564. Let's not be too quick. Someone needs to talk to her, heart to heart. I say this even though I never trusted her. I appreciated and supported some of the things she said. Simple.
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  10565.  @TheRKae  Well they better like it, if they don't they are homophobes. /s
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  10566.  @SnowsStorm1  Er . . . The plaintiff has to demonstrate standing, and a viable legal claim. If the plaintiff has no legal ground whatsoever to press their claim, the suit is dismissed and they may even face some sanction, like having to pay the other side's court fees. Laws are not feelings or personal opinions. See, if you actually looked up the case . . . 🤷‍♂️
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  10567. NO BRIE, HER DOG was off the leash.
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  10568. Can you be serious?? They borrow against those securities to fund their lavish lives, and borrowing (unlike selling stocks) is not a taxable event.
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  10569. The 70 year old IS vaccinated, correct?
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  10570. Really? He gives me troubled marriage vibes.
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  10571. By this standard, definitely elect Stephane instead.
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  10572.  @aalvarez2914  Ironic, because most of Fox is horrible. Yet the range of voices, presented on a very few shows, is undeniably greater than on CNN, MSNBC, etc. Simple fact. I wouldn't say any MSM is generally factual, or even that Fox misleads less than the others. Too close a call. They really all do it, all the time.
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  10573. Mark Twain had to go abroad on tour as a satirist. He was out of the country doing standup when his daughter died of encephalitis. MARK TWAIN. Crazy society.
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  10574. Not fair to Rossevelt.
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  10575. ​ @JobVanDam Then there are no Geneva Conventions. That excuse justifies everything. Later, if it turns out to be false, oopsie.
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  10576.  @JohnDoe-pd2lh  Oh no. Please, may we stick to cats?
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  10577.  @brettansley8600  People here agree that there ARE situations where his advice applies, but these principles are not universals by any means.
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  10578. A M E N !!!
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  10579. People hate immigrants. That's the "subtext."
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  10580. ​ @Ghjgdsfh764  Concerning your comparison of the two economies: you don't mention that purchasing power is what matters. For example, is $15 per hour sufficient to pay the rent on a studio apartment and eat wholesome food (even assuming all meals are taken at home, not in restaurants)? No?
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  10581. I will never forget this horror. I am so, so sorry. I have no words. 😢
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  10582.  @lukea977  You worked on your parents' marriage? Did you start at birth, or sooner?
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  10583. Did you read the Microsoft antitrust case in its entirety? Did you forget Gates tried to push Paul Allen out of Microsoft the minute Allen was diagnosed with a highly manageable form of cancer? That's who should decide on MY healthcare, and whether I must consume GMOs in my food, huh?. If I give a thousand, that is vastly more than the millions Gates has supposedly given, but has in fact leveraged so that most of the money goes back to the companies whose stocks are in his portfolios.
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  10584. I know what's bad. When a nine-year-old girl gets her legs blown off, and from her hospital bed, she vows to become a doctor one day to help other children like her. Within two days, the hospital is hit by a bomb and she is decapitated. That's bad. If they let you read this, that's not only good, it's utterly astonishing. It's time to be grownups now. Posts like this do not need to be sanitized for your protection.
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  10585. I speak French, I prefer French, but . . . No, it's not adorable. It's uptight in a real bad way.
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  10586.  @dylaanowen  ". . . capitalism always wins, man, lol" -- this guy thinks it's like football. 🤣🤣🤣 A great example of the level of education you see under capitalism.
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  10587. @Kellen Pocock Do you actually not know how much talented people are spotted, and shot down? You have read Robert Greene's story of his first experience in Hollywood, correct? Do people think someone from the ghetto just has to be brilliant, and doors open? Do they think Weinstein was a one-off? Lord, what do people think the world is like? If they are that naive, they need more preparation, because it is a long and heavy haul.
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  10588.  @RavageStudio  Socrates was put to death. Plato lived to 80, Sophocles to 90, and both of them wrote to the end. Is this misconception about age due to advertising/propaganda? If so, wow.
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  10589.  @jon9428  Who is responsible? A HILLARY presidency would have made for a better 2020 election for Democrats? A sweep of both the House and the Senate? Oh, those hardworking DNC, to think they are being taken apart by a standup comic who broadcasts from his garage. Oh, and Jesus memes. Jesus memes turn elections. Because Putin.
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  10590. General Strike
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  10591.  @altelf3079  She sounds very intelligent and well-spoken.
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  10592.  @chadwickgoddard3090  I have no followed her work, so I don't know. She did not say those things here. (Is she just playing nice, for this crowd? As I admit, I don't know. Her interventions here are excellent.)
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  10593. I found it. 🤷‍♀️
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  10594. Fortunately, you get way more than that. The limit of a human lifespan is roughly 3 billion seconds, hence 50 million minutes. You can say people average 12 to 14 breaths per minute at least. So, say about 700 million breaths, something like that.
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  10595. Pire: comme chez les anglais. 😒
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  10596.  @44043495  Sometimes the opposite -- a strong visualization can make you feel "too good," and sap your drive, because you already have part of the happiness you would have had, had you actually achieved what you are visualizing. (This has been studied.)
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  10597. The controversy was explained by Greenwald. It is about real issues.
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  10598. The 1980 election was our single biggest mistake.
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  10599.  @randyhanson4973  ??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  10600. ​ @Dan-y6l3k  She is a millionaire. She has choices.
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  10601. @PTANV-x2g  Well, I didn't mean only the price tag. I assume a rich person has a consultant and an instructor, etc., and a gun club where they train. It's not a simple purchase. To me, it's like buying a race car. That's just me. Re: Other comments . . . If Kamala doesn't have all of the above, then I don't believe her. No.
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  10602. There is a major problem with vaccine-derived polio. It was known to be an Inferior product. I'm not sure if that was the only thing that happened, or exactly how many children were crippled in that fiasco. He can buy his reputation.
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  10603. I've never seen crazier people than here. I thought this would have to be Dark Web, or something. They are nuts, and get money for it. I can hardly believe it.
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  10604. The measles cases in Chicago were among the migrants placed in overcrowded housing. The Health Department blamed the rest of us anyway, for not getting vaccinated. By the way, I've had numerous measles vaccinations. Luckily, when I was first vaccinated as a kid, it was a stand-alone shot.
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  10605. Pisces is considered the sign of the nonbinary, the sign of maximum fluidity and unending metamorphosis. They say the last sign contains some of the essence of all the preceding signs. So maybe this is the last gasp of the nonbinary, its swansong. In New Age logic, anything can be "true."
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  10606. You're not sad about it. You're glad. It is a cover for you. 😂😂😂
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  10607. It pays, too.
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  10608. ​ @DarkPassenger 2019 was a fabulous year for movies. You know why I remember that year.
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  10609.  @YaoEspirito  Amen, and then some! :)
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  10610. This worked for me when I was burgled. First, to be honest, he tripped the alarm and hence didn't stay very long, and he committed no vandalism, and left no signs of anger. Had any of that happened, I might have reacted differently. Other people were more upset than I was. I was struck by how many said they would be so upset that a stranger was in their house, and would find it hard to be there after that. My response was, it's my house. I'm supposed to be there. He wasn't.
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  10611.  @juicyfruit4378  Then why did the UK court collaborate in this lie by ruling that she did have immunity? I time-stamped that statement. If it is wrong, provide a reference.
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  10612.  @juicyfruit4378  It would not surprise me in the least to find out that she, or any America, was driving drunk, or was a substance abuser generally. Where do you get the idea we are naive?
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  10613.  @juicyfruit4378  But the court so ruled -- that is what was stated in this presentation, and I time stamped it. So, the high court is not independent? That fact is worse than this one crime.
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  10614.  @juicyfruit4378  If you worked as an independent contractor for the CIA or DOD or DHS, you know all of this conversation is being reviewed. Hence you do not work as such. I worked for a federal court. American judges are sometimes quite ideological, but they do not take orders from bureaucrats. As in, never. Anyway, blocked.
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  10615.  @davidtaylor4975  I don't understand why UK tolerates American spies in its country in the first place. British intelligence has an agreement to share all. I mean, let's take this issue all the way. I'm for that, no problem.
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  10616.  @davidtaylor4975  Even though I'm technically American, my father and my mother's only brother were both veterans of the British Army, WWII, and I'll speak up! I totally agree with you. What nonsense, too, when what is SUPPOSED to be a stable, cordial agreement to cooperate, to a good purpose (like, prevent terrorism? Save lives? I seem to recall that), is subject to the whims of the latest travesty to occupy the White House. Enough is enough.
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  10617.  @magnaviator  Russia needs one thing only: for the Western sanctions not to sting too much. It does not need military hardware. Let's see whether it gets what it needs.
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  10618.  @magnaviator  Interesting that China refers to Russia's actions as an incursion.
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  10619.  @magnaviator  What part of the timing of the joint statement eludes you? Did you read the article in the New York Times a few weeks ago that stated that not only did China refuse to dissuade Russia from acting, but also opened a back channel to Putin, to inform him of what the Americans were asking China to do? Look, maybe the article us wrong. But you ought to read it. You seem surprised that in this exchange, a diplomat is being a diplomat. Good grief, ambassadors don't set policy!
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  10620. Only to people who think money represents value, and who believe in the credo that there is no such thing as enough money, and everyone wants more more more. I assure you, there are people who don't believe this at all. Of course we don't really want to live in the US, either. So, you may not run into them much.
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  10621. You need foreign interventions to prop up your economic system and maintain dollar hegemony. Your lifestyle depends on it. It comes out of the barrel of a gun.
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  10622. ​ @Dazbo76 US Congress was.
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  10623.  @waynemorris2342  I can appreciate why you doubt that anyone with a JD would bother with you. I was going to say bother with you without being paid, but that kind of money . . . Never mind.
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  10624.  @msimon74ify  They are all crazy. My cousins in Europe would not believe these conversations. This is hopeless now.
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  10625.  @jayborden4420  Excuse me? First, PROVE IT. Produce their actual criminal records. Second, and more important, do you think that makes them prey? Anyone with an opportunity can just shoot them? Are you that crazy?
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  10626.  CaliforniaCheez  He does not have "Second Amendment rights" to carry an AR-15 because WISCONSIN law says he does not. States can impose reasonable regulations on firearm possession and use, and many have stricter laws than Wisconsin, all of which are constitutional under the Second Amendment -- that is the point. Read McDonald v. City of Chicago. The "popularity" of the firearm has no bearing on any issue in this case. His age does, and he is a juvenile. That made it illegal for him to carry that gun. I wonder who provided him with it?
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  10627.  CaliforniaCheez  The Second Amendment allows states to impose reasonable regulations, you twit. The Supreme Court said so. The only regulation that is never constitutional is one that deprives a person of his right to have a gun on his own property. That "regulation" is always unconstitutional.
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  10628.  CaliforniaCheez  Have you ever heard of the Supreme Court? Do you know what it does? It does things like decide what "infringe" means.
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  10629.  @kwanchan6745  Nor does he have an engineering degree. Nor did he start Tesla.
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  10630.  @CHarris1066  Well, there is also the facial expression that went with it, and the fact that newscasters, including conservatives, in UK and Germany saw it, too, shows that it's not clearly wrong. I mean, they could be wrong of course. But they're not stupid.
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  10631. Robby, WHY are you going to get another booster? At your age?
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  10632.  @hansreichhardtsohn4522  Thank you for giving us the word on who to hate. It's very important to keep these straight. Imaging failing to miss a signal? Praising someone you're supposed to look down on? Your social rating could suffer to the point where you lose serious money.
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  10633.  @kpax45  Yes. He's a monster.
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  10634. Yup.
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  10635.  @jillwklausen  Yes, a point of pride.
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  10636. @arielsavoy7496  Pay a visit to a major law library and ask the librarian how to look up the court records. Then hire a translator and see. Oh. Wait. Were you talking about reality, or something else?
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  10637. ​@Shakedownsss I guess she has to defend drug use?
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  10638. 5:52 End of story.
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  10639. THIS.
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  10640. Interspersing boxing scenes is THE most ridiculous thing . . . Why does everyone do this??
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  10641.  @keithwilliams8342  Prove it up. Let's see a reading list, syllabus, a taped class, etc. EDIT: a breeze to find; I just did. This was interesting -- the suggested reading list for undergraduates in English, to complete before they come to campus: Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre; Villette Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights Charles Dickens, Great Expectations George Eliot, Middlemarch Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South William Thackeray, Vanity Fair Hm. Looks rather classic to me. (In France, they'd be reading Zola in high school, so there's that. The Anglosphere tends to be to the right of most of Europe. Not always, of course, but as a rough generalization.)
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  10642.  @chiphill4856  Sure, and thank you! Also, as soon as you ask them to back up their allegations, they have nothing to offer. Of course not. There's a lot that is wrong with university today, but nearly of it stems from serving the concerns of corporations and imitating the business model. (Big example -- the "competitiveness" and the cost, and the erosion of free speech rights, which are essential nonexistent in a private sector workplace, where you most certainly can be fired for your opinions or for upsetting your coworkers with your views. Another tell -- the costs are going up vastly more than the quality of the education they provide, which they are able to impose based on branding. Classic business model!) Try to get a right-winger to admit any of it! THEY demanded that schools be more "business oriented." Well, the most common major for at least 30 years now has been Business Administration. Next comes all the medical fields, with Nursing on top. And the typical workplace is not a First Amendment forum by any stretch.
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  10643. In actual abuse cases, it is very, very common for the abuser not to be available, or to refuse to come in, which is that person's right. Only a court order can force a person to submit to a psychological evaluation, and those are hard to get, as they should be. So, in this field, researchers and clinicians HAD TO find ways to figure out whether the person who does come in is being truthful or evasive, etc. This psychologist is Board certified in two specialties and she assessed Heard. She never said she assessed Depp. She looked for corroboration or contradiction in the records she did have, for both parties. And Depp had no obligation to see her. Totally his call, proves nothing either way. Just like you have the right to remain silent.
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  10644.  @carlfriedman7127   This is an example of a mob mentality forming. They literally can't hear you now. If they come back to this thread in a few months, then maybe. Still, it's possible they will be more mad at you, not less. They need to play this out, they resent you because you don't have that need.
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  10645.  @raneewether2071  Incorrect. Not how defamation law works. If both are abusers, the article is partial but it is not false. Hence it is First Amendment protected. Sorry. Depp can write his memoir, it would be a best seller.
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  10646.  @silkart1  You can give an opinion about a relationship. You can never diagnose anyone you never met. It is a bright line. If you say this psychologist crossed it, I don't disbelieve you at all. You sound knowledgeable; show me where. One timestamp is plenty, since a psychologist is not supposed to do it even one time, ever. If a real abuse victim comes in, and the perpetrator won't, can you diagnose PTSD in the victim stemming from the relationship that you never saw in action, and never heard about from anyone but the victim? Why or why not? I say of course you can --- as long as you never forget you could be wrong. By your logic, could Heard have stymied the psychologist who testified for Depp? Heard could have prevented the BPD diagnosis by not agreeing to see her, but she couldn't prevent her from giving her opinion based on the rest of the data she had. (Don't you wonder why no other therapist diagnosed BPD in Heard, but this brief assessment revealed it? This is why we all have a right to refuse to see a psychologist, thank GOD. I said from the start, if Depp was asked to and declined, I support him. His business, his choice. Refusing proves nothing either way.)
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  10647.  @silkart1  How do expert witnesses in medical malpractice/wrongful death draw conclusions about a dead person? They never met him. They did not witness the autopsy.
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  10648.  @silkart1  You know the answer yourself. JD's team was counting on producing this outrage, because the other side cannot mention that Heard agreed to be evaluated as counting in her favor. Like the right to remain silent, there is a right to refuse to talk to your opponent's expert, and no one has the right to judge you for it. I support that right. Of course Depp was asked, too. Of course he said no. It was his right to say no. And he was right to say no. 💯 I judge him favorably for that, actually. Good for him.
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  10649. ​ @EzraKramer Pfft. Your post reeks of jealousy.
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  10650. Every time I see Aaron Mate, I exhale. Yes, there is a new generation of world-class journalists, maybe the best ever.
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  10651.  @gigi9301  You're so sweet. I'll modify that to 250 dates with guys better than these. I don't know what to say about the larger issue. We hear too much about the sensationalized horror stories, and yet we also know about a lot of bad relationships in real life. I don't know how to gauge this any more. Take a pause, trust in your instincts, and don't be too quick to believe what anyone tells you, and don't be too eager to spend time alone with anyone you don't know well, are important rules today. On the other hand, go out for a casual dinner in groups of friends, whenever you get the chance. Think of safe ways to meet more people and observe them. I think casual dinners, with three to six people, to be a plan. ;) Lots of outdoor dining around, still, and that improves the mood and the safety factor, not just for COVID. ;)
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  10652. Talk about cooking "in a nonjudgmental way?" No. Judgment is essential.
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  10653. 😮😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  10654. I care about a president being compromised. This story, that a felon son shouldn't matter --- I'm sorry, he shouldn't matter for any ordinary job, but he has to matter for those with political power.
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  10655.  @zakichoudhary507  I disagree less than you seem to think I do. :/ Much less, actually.
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  10656.  @zakichoudhary507  LOL
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  10657. @Lily  Wow. I'm glad you're all right. It's like most things: the vast majority will be all right, but an unlucky few will not, and none of us should have ever been subjected to such risk. Ukrainian children had a high rate of thyroid cancer in the decade following the disaster/malfeasance/crime. I was living in Paris at the time, and the winds shifted, with more of the early fallout hitting the UK. If we had been told to take a therapeutic dose of iodine, it would likely have saved people's health. But there was not enough to go around, so they didn't announce it or attempt to distribute it. :/
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  10658. We have had MASSIVE deficits for decades. Explain what happened now.
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  10659. @343Films  You mean the ADMITTED inflation rate, no? Take a look at the bubbles (housing, medical care, education, stocks come to mind) since Clinton, then get back to me.
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  10660. If you own a business, you better not listen to this scammer.
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  10661. Because Medea Benjamin, Richard Wolff, Max Blumenthal, and Chris Hedges would be regular guests on a MAGA cut-out . . . say, have you tried stand-up comedy? The DNC is responsible for that, not Jimmy, or Susan Sarandon, etc., LOL.
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  10662. Okay, but a male cat. Assigned male at birth.
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  10663. Russians have been driving Westerners crazy forever. A lot of Westerners cannot face that non-Westerners can be just as good as they are, in every respect. Nothing to flip out about. Consult your diversity notes. Breathe.
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  10664. ​ @lesaamoore 🙏
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  10665. 😊 that was cool
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  10666. As well as AARON MATE. This is even more foul than it appears to be. Attacking Jimmy is a distraction.
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  10667. "Traitors?"
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  10668.  @rba5567  LOL, should have known. :)
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  10669. She agrees that it isn't effective. She claims that its critics have to propose alternatives. If you disagree, then attack that. Don't attack what she DID NOT say.
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  10670.  @mikedebruyn  WE engineered a coup in Ukraine in 2014. Biden himself was involved. No one can present a single counterargument to Chomsky, or Chris Hedges, or Abby Martin. You only make exceedingly poor analogies in the hopes of confusing people's minds and engaging their emotions -- fear to disagree, if not passion for a fight.
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  10671.  @mikedebruyn  Another question: when have we banned another country's media to the extent we just have? Why? Some of the best regular programming on YouTube was by RT. What was the point of trashing it, and destroying archives of shows like Chris Hedges? But TeleSUR, which has at times broadcast Russian propaganda segments, is still up. Hint: Venezuelan oil.
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  10672. The bias against Brie, and all the putting words in her mouth she did not say, tends to reinforce her point. Too bad. It would be better if that were not the case.
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  10673. Sure. He walked away from hundreds of thousands a year, guaranteed, plus legal fees, plus a security detail, for . . . Substack and Patreon. Maybe you aren't good with money.
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  10674. And . . . It's working. 😢
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  10675. I was briefly subbed. Ended that.
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  10676. ​ @faustoferrari4303 and ethics
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  10677.  @BertoxolusThePuzzled  I'm assuming that was accidental. Accidents can even kill. No migrants died or were hospitalized in this incident. No one said they were. The claim is that reins were deliberately used as whips. Because apparently they were.
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  10678. Why wouldn't they fall for it? They've fallen for worse, and gone to war over it.
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  10679.  @entium1  So you made money without working for it. I guess that's better than not making money, but that's about all that can be said for it. I'd like to make money how Marguerite Duras or Arundhati Roy did, for example. Or how the great civil rights lawyers did. That would be ecstatic. Some of us think big.
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  10680.  @entium1  None of that is of interest to me. Funny that my factual remark, that "most people lose money in stocks," is the only one that drew your interest. Astounding. News flash: fewer and fewer people are interested in this game. It's a bore, even if you win. The point of winning is to push away from the table forever. Well, . . . maybe not for you, but for the rest of us, absolutely.
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  10681.  @entium1  Well, some of us have bigger aspirations. Say, why are you here, proving something to a stranger and not asleep? You have to be up soon, tomorrow is still a weekday. Proving something to a stranger -- about MONEY!! (laughing, life in this society has become absurd)
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  10682.  @entium1  I'm an attorney. Someone is alive today because I pitched in, putting up 1/2 of the modest income I made in one very tough year. For the sake of JUSTICE. You poor thing.
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  10683. YEAH, WE KNOW YOU'VE "WORKED CLOSELY WITH REGULATORY AGENCIE$$$$$$$$$."
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  10684. I've only heard non-Americans say that the US military supports dollar hegemony. Regardless of what the commentators say, or "whose side" they are on, they all agree it's about military might. This is the FIRST time I've heard it said straight-up by an American.
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  10685.  @KD-cg9iq  It is never discussed in this way in the US. No more than the CIA is.
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  10686.  @gaposina  Anti-Russian racism has always been encouraged. Hitler didn't get the idea from nowhere.
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  10687.  @gaposina  BTW, I noticed what they did to Malofeev. Evident why.
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  10688.  @krennels  We'll find out for sure some year soon, won't we? We live in interesting times.
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  10689.  @cheesypuffs1342  All assets frozen, remember? Hence nothing.
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  10690.  @glitteryroses  A billionaire can't get a script anytime he wants? 🤣 It's a formality.
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  10691. You think he won't get the job anyway?
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  10692. What do you think she said differently? True threats are not constitutionally protected speech. She said that.
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  10693. I remember that story. I wondered how it was that the medical staff had the right to violate patient confidentiality in that particularly brutal way. I frankly didn't believe the story. Sorry to hear it made such an outsized impression on you. What makes you feel so sure the vaccines are both safe and effective, and suitable for everyone? The evidence is not in favor of those beliefs. As for these excess deaths, we don't know what factors are at play. Previous exposure to COVID, recovery from COVID, the many negative effects of the shutdown, which include physical and psychological harm, the vaccines by themselves, the vaccines in combination with COVID or COVID exposure -- all possibilities need to be explored, and multivariate analysis is not a simple process. We may not have answers for a long time, which means it's time to get serious and begin the hard work. Anecdotes don't prove what is likely, but they do indicate what is possible. One relative by marriage, 80 years old with some weight issues, died of COVID. He was fully vaccinated. I know of no one else who had severe COVID.
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  10694.  @teacherguy5084  Oh, I see. We better not ask questions. We better get in line. I still remember when all of Hollywood and all the hippies living on communes believed this stuff. Even Jenny McCarthy promoted her book on Oprah. I didn't swallow that, either. Did you?
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  10695. @teacherguy5084  As a vegetarian, I cannot imagine knowing about this and doing nothing. I adore animals.
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  10696. ​@excrubulent One is a possessive pronoun, and the other is a contraction. Those belong to different grammatical categories.
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  10697. Whoa. Harsh.
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  10698.  @DIVISIONINCISION  WHAT!?? You mean, they are not working for their boss to pay their landlord, with the rest going to student debt?? Say it ain't so!
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  10699. @Number1Camper  You're all laughable. All we need are broader, more arbitrary definitions of crimes, because our incarceration rate is still too low.
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  10700. Andrew Feldman, living breathing advertisement for the RNC.
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  10701. NFP is the only group opposed to the globalist investment bankers. They are the only group unlike any major party in the US, UK.
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  10702. Yes, he is, and Binney is an even greater hero.
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  10703.  @sugadagud3093  If you can relieve tension, do it. This is too horrible -- during a PANDEMIC, for chrissake.
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  10704. BMJ (formerly, British Medical Journal) reported on some suggestive data that vegans, vegetarians, and modified vegetarians who eat fish may be at lower risk of severe COVID and death. DW (German) picked up the story right away. American press will not touch it. Why? This is one study, and is not definitive, and DOES NOT say vegetarianism prevents COVID, or is as effective as vaccines, or anything like that. It's simply information. I've been eating foods high in quercetin like mad (apples, sweet onions, garlic, capers, etc.). I mean come on, we can all do better.
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  10705. Thank you. You are the voice of reason. The pro-vaccine and the con are all exhausting. FTR, I did not get vaccinated for the exact reason you just gave. My concerns were never addressed. I probably had COVID, was not very sick (but it was weird -- unlike any flu I've ever had) and recovered fully in March 2020, but I could not get a definitive diagnosis. (An antibody test with a very high rate of false negatives came up negative 100 days later, but my white blood count was still typical of someone who had had COVID. My insurance declined to pay for better testing.) That was just the beginning. I have lost a lot of my trust.
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  10706. Funny how Serbia turned into an early litmus test: no real leftist, in any country, supported NATO or Milosevic, nor did any eminent intellectuals. Countless Nobel Prize winners came out against both; Jose Saramago and Harold Pinter come to mind. You would think that would be a clue? Well . . . ?
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  10707.  @ditaneous  Since when? Since neoliberalism and Clintonism.
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  10708. @SB-dg8hq Love how you put that.
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  10709. I am glad that the hosts of this program have fans that expose them for exactly who they are, as well as you and others have exposed them. Thanks.
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  10710.  @Nikosi9  Interesting point. Also, shows creative thinking. Thanks, I appreciate that. Everyone should think "outside the box," now please forgive the cliche!
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  10711.  @shanepleasants6280  He needs to take a position on frozen yogurt right now. I am so mad. /s
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  10712. "What kind of adult protection do you use?"
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  10713.  @Kasigi03  💯
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  10714.  @jacobp1189  We know the price was right.
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  10715. Well, at the VERY least --- vaccines and other mitigation matters failed. I am being greatly conservative in this statement. Obviously we need to find out exactly what has happened. Multivariate analysis needs to be carefully and HONESTLY done. (Why am I not . . . hopeful?)
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  10716. Look at the curve of Apple stock price. You'll thank me.
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  10717. We were promised 40 years ago that recidivism of this nature would not happen -- truly dangerous people would remain incarcerated. Another promise unfulfilled.
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  10718. Remember no "public option," after it was promised?
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  10719. He's brilliant. He just has no clue about the working class. It's an abstraction.
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  10720.  @jeremyellismusic  I watched it twice, Kyle most certainly did omit it.
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  10721.  @jeremyellismusic  Kyle literally did not read the part containing the threat, as if it were not there at all. Nor was it possible for viewers to read it for themselves, because the screen resolution was inadequate. That is (forgive the overused term) the epitome of gaslighting. You haven't noticed how often someone will pretend a text or a video that exists online and can be verified by anyone doesn't say what it says? This has become a standard technique.
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  10722.  @wolfgangnz3  Nope. You were right. Putting up the DM and then omitting the key message it conveys, as if it were not even there, is worse. That was a direct threat from Ana, and crudely worded at that. (Jimmy's defense of Aaron is "running his mouth?")
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  10723.  @briannellewellyn6844  Great point, thanks for pointing this out.
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  10724.  @quietobserver5480  I took it to mean that the agricultural revolution occurred 12000 years ago, while the industrial revolution is at most 300 years old, and mass literacy even more recent. There just were more farmers in human history, and so often today you see brilliant people emerge from families that only recently left the land. On the other hand, something happens in urban centers that is unusual, with sudden, immense spurts of creativity, and cities (though not like contemporary cities) certainly predate industrialization by millenia. Anyway, that was what I thought he meant. (?)
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  10725. We were told that in the West, where we have The Rule of Law, bank accounts will never be seized without due process.
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  10726. ​@Marty234 For the record, I support many of the protestors now, and above all the Jewish Voice for Peace lawsuit against Columbia. I supported free speech yesterday and I support it today. Nadine Strossen told us where this was going . . . :/
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  10727.  @chachaguillotine187  This, LOL.
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  10728.  @theotherview1716  And what is the significance of it not yet having been peer reviewed, according to you? It could mean that the results are too important to wait for full peer review. They decided that when they approved vaccines under EUA, and gave people pages of waivers to sign.
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  10729.  @Individual_Lives_Matter  💯
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  10730.  @thehonesttruth415  Watch the video again.
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  10731.  @ericschultz6539  Fabrication. TYT attacked Aaron Mate and Jimmy effectively defended Mate. Then TYT went after Jimmy. The real issue has nothing to do with media infighting, and everything to do with Syria -- which TRUMP bombed, and faux pwogwessives support bombing. Whenever there is a war to divert attention from, a sex scandal shows up.
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  10732.  @amberlance182  READ THE OPINION
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  10733. A civil rights suit requires prior exoneration.
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  10734. What do you think constituted fraud here? Do people only listen to the first two minutes? Every unethical act isn't a crime. Nor does it give rise to a viable lawsuit.
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  10735.  @rsaggar  All on the table, sure. Even intelligent speculation is better than pretending that the questions are not well founded.
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  10736.  @rsaggar  The saddest part for me was how easy this was. People in the US simply went along, or, in some cases, became crazed. But a lucid, measured, and principled opposition? I didn't see much evidence of that.
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  10737.  @rsaggar  So well said. Thanks for this great conversation.
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  10738. This was addressed -- if you actually listened to the entire broadcast. What does "equality of outcome" mean? The person who claims that a segment of the polity embraces this position, and that it is SO dangerous, needs to be clear, no? Or, who needs to define their terms?
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  10739. Sure they will! Things could get much, much worse than they already are.
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  10740. So few people come prepared. Sabby came PREPARED.
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  10741.  @andie_pants  Why do you think only Trump Cult would care? Reproductive freedom isn't a Trump thing.
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  10742.  @RoyalFizzbin  NO, the tsunami of suicidal thoughts among the young during the COVID bull** are NOT "just rebelling."
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  10743.  @chrisrhule1760  Few Americans have a good education. As for health care, you must have noticed only the wealthy can count on getting monoclonal antibodies for COVID. All of this kerfuffle is to make sure we don't notice.
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  10744. Many do, after a waiting period, which can be as short as two years.
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  10745.  @t.3465  Okay. They have been in the news this entire (young) century, even in the press that usually favorable to business, but it is always best to back up a claim with empirical facts, sure.
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  10746. Why did Trump turn the country over to Fauci during the pandemic? Why did he rescind Obama's moratorium on federal funding of gain-of-function research?
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  10747. ​ @davestephen8679  Corporations are people.
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  10748.  @johnbiss306  From being a politician???
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  10749.  @gcoffey223  Gosh, I'm stumped. We could ask Neil deGrasse Tyson, huh?
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  10750. ​ @jkee9760 Who is? Brie did not vote for Biden and is vocal about it.
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  10751. Re: Roy Cohn . . . Be sure to watch Angels in America
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  10752. Well c'mon. That sounds weird. Of course you stand out.
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  10753. Well, the problem behind the scenes was that they have had serious problems with maternal mortality -- and a major teaching and research hospital is exactly where high-risk mothers will go to give birth.
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  10754.  @cs4451  We should ask why dead bodies are handcuffed. Or no? Shouldn't paramedics handle the deceased, for "safety?"
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  10755.  @kc3810  I liked your post, but for those with very, very good reasons to eat vegetarian organic, since Amazon bought up Whole Foods it is not so easy to avoid them entirely. I am so sorry, too. ;(
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  10756.  @sherylF5610  Thanks for letting me know. We have two of those stores nearby, and a third in a nice suburb. I'll keep trying. Also, if I eat more beans, which are cheap, those are non-GMO and you soak them in advance, so that will also work. They don't need to be organic. Some oils I use I might have to buy at Whole Foods, but except for a few things like that, I should use WF less.
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  10757.  @Christian___  So . . . Why is he lashing out? Especially at those so much less fortunate? Happy people don't think to do that. It's not that they're "better," it's just that it doesn't occur to them.
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  10758.  @utah_koidragon7117  Too bad I got scents errr . . . This was getting interesting.
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  10759. I like Lee Fang.
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  10760.  @kkartha  Sounds like you've mixed him up with a couple of other billionaires. Gates' mother helped him start Microsoft.
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  10761.  @alternativedeathstyle6604  Well, as we all know from the Hustler case, parody, and even extreme parody, is usually First Amendment protected. I never passed judgment on Kiwi Farms itself, and I've never used it.
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  10762.  @MaryJohanna  Thank you! I hope you enjoy!
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  10763.  @Nerdiness1985  You're right, that's a hard job.
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  10764. ​​ @markislivingdeliberately  So like Brie said, his lawyers could challenge it it court. Or don't make it easy to serve him, fine. He can do that, too. The tweet was weird.
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  10765.  @bullmoose5574  Neither Ryan nor Emily especially seem to know how to report on a court case accurately.
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  10766. 2:12:44 Look up the Swedish public health recommendations. For 2024, boosters are universally recommended for those over age 80. You read that right. All other groups are told to get a booster only if they have a reason, and for 65 to 79, the reason would be needing home health assistance. A 67-year-old who is healthy and still works could get it, but no one is pushing them. They don't fall under the recommendation. We still give it to toddlers???
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  10767. @donaldfish2316  Yes, I've heard that. Par for 60 Minutes.
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  10768.  @h.mandelene3279  Truth.
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  10769. WHAT did Hannity do to EARN that money?? These are all a bunch of Jim and Tammy Fayes.
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  10770.  @zelda1966  No, Fauci doesn't kill puppies! He sends millions of dollars in grant money to people who build an apparatus to torture puppies to death. For Science.
    2
  10771. Yes, very unusual.
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  10772. I have a flip phone. And I knew him when he was 16.
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  10773. Or plain old ordinary profit maximization? You know, like BP in the Gulf of Mexico? Or Pfizer recently?
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  10774.  @john-ry9tn  AMEN
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  10775. Tell yourself that, Danger.
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  10776. Jumped the shark, fine, but remember to say grift, too. Relying on others won't always work, you know.
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  10777. Now you'll see hegemony in action: come April, when people are hungry or homeless or jobless, some little weasel will pipe up with, "did you get vaccinated?" "Did you have an emergency fund?" "Too much avocado toast, huh?" "Too many lattes?" "GET A JOB!!!"
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  10778. The head of the CDC just admitted before the Senate that she does not have the numbers of severe adverse events from the vaccine. This is unacceptable.
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  10779. The problem is that untenured faculty do not dare disagree -- and check how many untenured people teach.
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  10780. 12:38 you can listen . . . you can try
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  10781. Okay, someone must have the money to buy identical prostheses for all the students in that high school. Can you imagine how funny that would be? Could anyone figure out what side the protesters would be on? We need humor now. We need to laugh these people off the stage.
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  10782. @JuniorA9727  The documentary Do Not Resist describes the kind of militarized policing we have today, which is without comparison to what we saw in the past. The filmmaker is the son of a life-long police officer, and he attended the screening I saw to answer questions.
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  10783. As long as men have overpowering upper body strength, "personal responsibility" will never be sufficient.
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  10784. Too bad my factual post about the ten year old was deep sixed. Maybe it was too upsetting to tender minds?
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  10785. ​ @Insane_dimension  Every beautiful woman I know has been assaulted. Some were deeply opposed to abortion. Thank goodness they didn't end up needing one. You explain it away somehow. Shame!!
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  10786. ​ @Insane_dimension You don't know anything about me. You're making up stuff to fit your preconceived notions. Figures.
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  10787. ​ @Insane_dimension So, a "bad decision" should be the basis for welcoming a baby into the world? That sounds like a good start for that child. I can't believe anyone still thinks this.
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  10788. BTW, I also consider it odd to make abortion the leading issue of a presidential campaign, but not for the "reason" you give --- and I consider the anti-abortion activists who make it their top priority even odder than the pro crowd, who can be bad enough. Mind your own business. Date and marry someone who agrees with you. "Problem solved."
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  10789.  @stevenbaker7894  LOL, well said.
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  10790. What triggered this? French firefighters were fighting police for weeks in defense of demonstrators. I didn't think this event made a real dent, I thought they were marginalized. But now I wonder. Billionaires scare easy.
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  10791.  @lesjohn534  The police observed a mark on his face and asked about it. It's all on the police cam. A person has GOT to be trained in how to respond to officers. In an emotional moment, they will never say the right without training.
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  10792.  @eyebagsandhandbags6493  I could see myself doing the same thing at her age -- maybe even at twice her age. I'm very sorry she said what she said, but people do. We all do. I am not someone who defends police, but watch the video. They did nothing wrong. They had nothing to go on. People make fun of the phrase, "I feel unsafe." After this, I say rehearse it with your kids. Without training, it will not be there when you need it. And tell them their safety is more important than anyone's feelings. It is the most important thing. Everything else can be sorted out later.
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  10793.  @lesjohn534  THANK YOU!! So obvious! (I'm more and more angry, and that helps no one. His facial expressions in that police recording are etched in my mind, and Gabby, by stark contrast, was so sincere and without a trace of guile.)
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  10794.  @eyebagsandhandbags6493  I would have made the same mistake, believe me. At a much older age, too. The police separated them for the evening. They did not have more to go on.
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  10795.  @lesjohn534  Amen to that. Haven't seen that video, can't at the moment. She was on my mind all day.
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  10796.  @eyebagsandhandbags6493  I see your point about that. People do not up and call 911 lightly. They do not get involved in apparently trivial disputes among adults. That is the other side of this. Police saw marks on him, and might have dismissed what the initial 911 caller said, since it didn't conform to their observations. "Look closer!!" I'm sure they wish they had.
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  10797.  @cortexavery1324  No
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  10798. I certainly hope not.
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  10799.  @FLPhotoCatcher  Er . . . And therefore . . . ?
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  10800.  @intricatic  benc wrote a fine post. Jealous much?
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  10801. Sternly worded letter. Uh oh. Will the Parliamentarian cry? Mean letter writers. Mean.
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  10802.  @donnadillard7016  You owe me an apology. I also suggest you look up the timeline. You clearly don't understand what I said.
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  10803.  @judithbradford9130  I wouldn't be surprised if this were an element. This story fell off a cliff so fast that I'm genuinely surprised. I only hope everyone will be completely candid with investigators, to better understand why this happened and to figure out how to prevent it. It is not common for police to have spent this much time with this couple, then for them to have been apart for nearly a week, only to reunite and have this happen. I hope there is a lesson we can use, or law enforcement can use. It really isn't an ordinary story. Your theory would help explain why Brian went back to Florida to empty out their storage locker. He couldn't afford it any more, he couldn't pay to replace the things in it that they needed, and maybe he wanted to try to sell something. Gabby could make money on social media, but no one would pay to read his stuff.
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  10804. Fred Hampton was a Chicagoan, assassinated by "law enforcement."
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  10805.  @utah_koidragon7117  Correct. Most of them made bank, in fact. Their viciousness wasn't just fun . . . it was profitable, too.
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  10806.  @utah_koidragon7117  Worse than that, Biden, Harris, and Pelosi all promised no mandates, and no disclosure -- that HIPPA privacy would remain fully intact -- until they got elected, that is. Not only that, but even the EEOC stated that the declaration of emergency did not permit employers to discriminate against all disabled who could not get vaccinated or had good reason not to, or against those who wanted religious exemptions. The protections for them, and the right to "reasonable accommodation" at work (which actually isn't much) remained the law. When did you hear any of these people concede this point?
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  10807. ​@mattschrader5047 Not sure what you mean. Real world data never matches the bell curve perfectly, and really deviates greatly when mean and median are far apart. Then there are things that are binary, and form a U-shape with extreme rarities in between (if any). Anything that involves higher mammals responds greatly to the environment, because that is what intelligence evolved to respond to. That's what we then build our individual brains to do.
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  10808.  Dj Luminol  Of course. I always got a kick out of it when CHOMSKY would quote Smith "chapter and verse" to people who had no idea what he really said. Thanks for your response, and no, taking the burden of paternalistic medical care off the shoulders of employers and entrepreneurs is not socialism. So now, it's not just the pandemic, but an economy shedding jobs and not creating new ones for new graduates that is a huge problem. At least some of them want to try starting businesses, and are too old to be on Mom's insurance. And maybe Mom doesn't have insurance, either! (A 24-year-old could easily have parents on Medicare, after all. This has become crazy.)
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  10809. This is the only "motivational speaker" who ever told a single truth.
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  10810.  @donnybrooks71  As I said . . . 😂
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  10811. Respect your mind too much to risk it even one time.
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  10812. When were they brainwashed, that they had to escape it??
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  10813.  @caloriebuddy  I guess it was easy for me, then. My parents are from one of those places the West bombed. Being discriminated against is not always all bad. You tend to know a lot more, and knowledge is a precious thing.
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  10814. This is true, too.
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  10815. @tenderlungs2065  Are you kidding? In my high school, I had friends whose parents were on hard drugs. One neighbor was an organized crime enforcer, another a cop and clandestine member of a drug gang.
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  10816.  @nomchompsky3012  There is nothing remarkable about this. In true cases of domestic partner violence, the abuser frequently cannot be located, or cannot be made to come to a psychologist. Nor can anyone make him, short of a court order. It's his right to refuse, and that proves nothing either way. So therapists in the field have to develop methods to assess the person who does come in, and to have some idea of whether they are being truthful, guarded, evasive, etc., about what is going on. This never occurred to you? If Depp declined to talk to this woman, I don't blame him. I have no idea why Heard agreed to talk to that smug celebrity hound with the muffin basket.
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  10817.  @firefighter0585  She said brain dead. A coma is much different.
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  10818. It isn't so much a matter of maximizing profits over the long term, but making an unearned fortune very, very quickly that leads to toxic workplaces. This is the result of financialized capitalism, surely the last stage. When something like social media, a combination of powerful advertising (i.e., propaganda) and mass surveillance (i.e., everyone spying, resenting, and informing on one another), produces overnight billionaires, we must know the jig is up. Profitability over the long term is always based on exploitation, but it does create some measure of market discipline because extreme toxicity will always risk long-term profits. But toxicity can work for a while, just like amphetamines. That's what the capitalists want, now.
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  10819. THIS! Finally, someone asks the astute question.
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  10820. I don't believe magistrates are lifetime appointments.
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  10821.  @aronderksen7739  It worked?
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  10822. ​ @troy5140 Nonsense.
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  10823. Pure political speech is fully protected. That means that if you can praise IDF, then you can praise Hamas. This is simply the law. See Brandenburg.
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  10824. It is a form of immunotherapy, which up until now has been used, in general, as therapy, not as a mass vaccination technology. They did a good job with it as far as it goes -- it was a tough bioengineering problem. It is probably the safest mRNA immunotherapy ever used. It should be up to the individual whether they want it, and risk the side effects.
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  10825. Remember, the AI you train with these comments might come around to define you someday.
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  10826.    My aren't we the elitist scold. I find it is usually very valuable to hear the perspective of a person who was a south side Chicago working class kid. It is often a needed reality check.
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  10827. I want a libertarian to explain to me why I can't auction my passport.
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  10828. Agreed.
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  10829. To hear their position. To hear how it sounds.
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  10830. If you are fine, thank your lucky stars, don't take any more boosters if you're worried and believe more boosters are wrong for you, and don't look back. Don't regret your past choices. If this had harmed you, you would know. Most people will be all right. Before COVID, vaccines were always held to a much higher safety and efficacy standard. In the past, developments like these led to immediate withdrawal. There was never a mass vaccination mandate. That's the scandal.
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  10831. This YouTuber Watson has said he quit school because he was always drunk and high. At that age, Biles was in school and gymnastics, putting in 12-hour days. But he's not the quitter, she is. . . . Her twisties got better, LOL.
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  10832.  @y.a.994  Everyone I know who is hesitant about being vaccinated has had a life-altering medical mistake in their own lives or their immediate family's. They plan to get the first vaccine that is fully approved. In other words, I simply don't know the people in this video. They're not my friends.
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  10833.  @bretbonner  Yeah, and this podcaster jumped right in, to foment hate. I unsubscribed.
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  10834. Why? Envy. Believe it.
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  10835. Rational National has no interest in presenting a rational case. I'm not a Weinstein fan, either, but I have found that you can can generally hear more nuanced views from the foreign press. BMJ has good information. Only in the US has COVID been politicized to this degree, and this video just contributed to that. I unsubscribed.
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  10836. ​ @BrianW.ConleyJr. Please read the post again. You imputed something to what OP said that is not there, not even hinted at.
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  10837. Wow, I had no idea England was once part of the Indian Empire. Well then. You're quite right. /s
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  10838. ​ @CP-nl2zb  EVERY other delivery service costs a fortune. Have you priced this stuff? Have you seen what private postal boxes cost? You're repeating a slogan you heard.
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  10839. I'm so sorry.
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  10840. 😂😂😂
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  10841. But this is the usual in DC.
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  10842. Hi Mr. Brin. How's the weather?
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  10843. I agree with that. Some researchers have been pointing out that the best childhood vaccines, administered at the right time, make children's immune systems stronger overall and resistant to other infections, not only the one against which they were vaccinated. I say research vaccines and be sure to get those. See what other countries are doing. I always check other countries' ministries of health online, like UK, Switzerland, the Scandinavian countries, Germany, France, Netherlands, etc.
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  10844.  Cannabis Dreams  I note the stuff you missed, LOL. You don't count up business success based on the number of businesses someone attempted to open, but on the MONEY lost in the numerous bankruptcies. DUH. I don't read tabloids, have Facebook or Twitter accounts, or watch cable. I have never had cable, and don't have a television now.
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  10845.  Cannabis Dreams  The stuff about Jennifer Hudson is tabloid. Figures!
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  10846.  @concrete7830  Ah, I see. We probably agree, then.
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  10847.  @sorevzla8203  Forgive me, I can't respond in Spanish. Has depleted uranium been used against Venezuela at any point?
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  10848.  MM M  He learned different fast, huh? ;)
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  10849. Just not that way.
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  10850.  @o77eh  Small part, lived there over 5 years, had to learn it. Mother made me. :) It's my third language. Listen online, you'll catch on. I like Thinkerview, news of the weird (just kidding). They just dropped a new video, have got to watch. I like Aude Lancelin, another great journalist who got kicked out of a prestigious mainstream media job. Seriously, listen an hour a day, put it in the background. (Paradis is a translation of my real name, which really does mean paradise. If I were British, maybe I'd go by Eden? Hmm . . . Cela ne me dit rien.)
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  10851. Nice points. I may not be a libertarian, but I appreciate anyone who is consistent and perceptive as well. Adam Smith warned about the rentier class for a reason . . . neo-feudalism is not good for entrepreneurs.
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  10852.  @kennethmcneil3478  I've never heard them called "mandate vaccinations." Kind of an odd twist.
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  10853. ​ @MashaRistova Which is a terrible crime but not first degree murder.
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  10854. Citation? I follow their press, and don't recall that.
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  10855. He made bank very easily.
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  10856. I want to see whether these types of developments end up being used by the globalist neoliberal elites to justify martial law. I take nothing at face any more, and trust the press (or the process) even less.
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  10857. You can study number theory before completing calculus, though how far you can go will be somewhat limited. But number theory existed long before calculus, so you're good.
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  10858. ​​ @pigdeal31 Try reading Brandenburg v. Ohio and R.A.V. v. St. Paul. Even symbolic cross burning and swastikas can't be made illegal on the sole ground that some people will be upset. But that doesn't mean you can wear one to work and not be fired, or use these things to make a death threat and escape prosecution.
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  10859. @MLWATKK Okay, ya got me. Which journos are worse?
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  10860. Professionals have every right to express concern because they observe behavior consistent with a serious disorder that places many others in danger. If they believe they have a duty to warn, I think they have every right to act on that. What they do not have a right to do is actually diagnose him, or anyone else who isn't their patient. Dr. Grande says that crossing that line has no benefit, since the 25th Amendment needs to be invoked, and everyone who can invoke it knows about the difference between concern about mental fitness and an official diagnosis, and knows that only treating mental health professionals can diagnose their patients. Trump can be unfit even without the diagnosis (or fit even with it -- harder to pull off, but possible).
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  10861. Nothing. It will be a privatized war (contractors).
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  10862.  @tadladapate3064  No problem! I am tired of people thinking questions are "questions." 😄
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  10863.  @jaspar5327 I think we know why the MSM did not spotlight her. CRT has turned into pure sloganeering in the service of career advancement for elites, who themselves are predominantly and disproportionately white. CRT has a place in academia, provided there is free and open discussion about it, and robust critique, as well as comparative analysis of other theories and positions. To present it to K-12 as something they are supposed to take on faith is travesty. And that's being too kind. Should college students read The New Jim Crow? And Slavery by Another Name, and Franz Fanon, and Baldwin, and Cornel West, among others? Of COURSE. But I'm presuming they already know some Rawls and some J.S. Mill, and some statistics. And that there is academic freedom in the house. (Oh well.)
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  10864.  @inbox0000  No, it does not. Who told you that?
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  10865.  @edwardcoit9748  "G" that was enlightening.
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  10866.  @edwardcoit9748  That's why Europe has CERN and America has Facebook. And Facebook addicts.
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  10867.  @edwardcoit9748  By the time Toni Morrison minored in Latin, it was less important.
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  10868. ​​ @Br0adCastYourS3lf  I think he does know what happened to him. Do you think one-size-fits-all exists in medicine? That is impossible.
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  10869. So he is senile.
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  10870. The change isn't to therapeutics. The change is to the MONEY aspect of all of this.
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  10871.  @JakeChinatown  Please don't die.
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  10872. A man who micro doses, and claims he was "tricked" into permitting his son to transition should not be anywhere near the power of government, in any form. What happened to real qualifications?
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  10873. @notawinemom8540  As it turns out, the Reason magazine story about this case is consistent with Brie's account here, down to the smallest details. Reason claims that they broke the story in the first place, and they linked to the complaint. Brie supports the suit, which is in federal court over serious money. She's not supposed to call anyone a liar with this case pending. Reason is not left. Check their coverage. If you don't like it, go after them.
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  10874.  @Antitotalitarianrevolutionary  Is Reason magazine cultural Marxism? Lol.
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  10875.  @notawinemom8540  Please provide sources.
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  10876. Not only do I disagree but I'm surprised anyone reacts to her this way.
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  10877. ​ @denisekoltys3019 Do American reporters speak fluent French? Can you rely on headlines about America? UK? Much less Latin Europe . . .
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  10878.  @denisekoltys3019  So who told you what the kid was trying to do? That you see fit to repeat it? 🤣
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  10879. She is about to turn 77. Wow.
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  10880.  @JoeyJoJoJr0  But it has nothing to do with the racial difference between the victims and the majority of the police.
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  10881. There are far more good people than bad, but very few of either. Most people are mediocre. This means the bad will oftentimes prosper. I think Carl Elliott's experience is a better guide than this fluff. He is very much worth reading.
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  10882. This is my question as well.
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  10883. 11:00 Wait, this is a HORSE vaccine? Or a zoo vaccine!!? /s
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  10884. That's not hard, lol.
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  10885. ​ @wesleyorange8133  That's not the same crime.
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  10886. Don't let any of this stuff dupe you. Everyone on the screen either has a college degree or is going for their college degree.
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  10887.  @mariawesthoff7313  I mean everyone in the video. That screen, not the comments section.
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  10888. AOC said M4A was a human right BEFORE the pandemic. HER words.
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  10889. Long COVID is a "pretext??" Long COVID is very real. Long "fill-in-the-blank" after a viral illness of any kind is real. WOMEN (i.e., adult human females) are generally more likely to have a milder viral illness AND a prolonged and bumpy full recovery, for obvious reasons (so they don't get pregnant too soon after, duh). Long COVID is more common in women, as one would expect. I wish more people were biologically literate.
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  10890.  @tonyburzio4107  Touché
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  10891. Her empty glass
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  10892. Yikes. Yes, but isn't that bad news?
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  10893. Well, some of us remember what the Supreme Court once was. This is a pity -- but then, so is Biden, so is Trump, etc.
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  10894.  @reinsmano  There's some of that. Munchausen by proxy.
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  10895. He's trying to end Social Security.
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  10896. THIS
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  10897. And psychosis.
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  10898. ​@unreadlibrarian Don't bring them into the world to do as the corporatists want them to do, and ruin their own lives and then also the lives of others. That was what I heard. Made sense to me.
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  10899.  @LyndaHill  Oops, now I get it. 😅
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  10900.  @wvu05  Great. Now you tell me why, after swallowing Biden, we just HAVE to support Chocolate Bunker Nancy. Why not Ro Khanna for Speaker?
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  10901.  @memsat2001  💯
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  10902. @NMemone  I hope people come armed to every event where free speech matters to you. I mean, why not? Maybe college classrooms should be open carry zones, too. (Good for shareholders in Zoom? LOL) /s
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  10903.  @YungCholo23  /s indicates sarcasm
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  10904. Thanks for the timestamp.
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  10905. Has there ever been a worse time to be poor?? Not in my lifetime.
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  10906.  @enufots4621  Show us where they supported Hamas.
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  10907. @I_Never_Read_Comment_Replies  Well you're as quick to get rid of the First Amendment as a typical wokester or vaccine mandate promoter. And why? Because Americans -- rightly OR wrongly -- criticized a foreign government. When does this ____ stop?
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  10908. In the future, say migraine.
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  10909.  @kdnick8584  No one should need more than $10,000.
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  10910.  @kdnick8584  When all of these politicians went to college, a minimum wage summer job covered a full year of tuition and fees, in-state, at all the great state universities, from Virginia to Michigan to Berkeley, Texas, SUNY, Minnesota, Illinois -- no exceptions. Almost anyone could cobble together enough for room and board, between jobs, grants, and a few hundred a month from parents. Books were cheap.
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  10911. After turning 18, I vowed never to take more than a thousand a month from my parents for all expenses while in school full time, no matter the circumstances. I thought it was shameful to take more, whether they could "afford it" or not -- and I'm an only child. "Afford" is irrelevant. I got through law school in the 1980s that way. What is being done to kids now is a crime, or should be!
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  10912.  @Yogiholic  There are private schools that almost cost that much per week.
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  10913. RFK Jr has got to be the most aligned with Joe Rogan's views of any candidate in our time.
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  10914. 😂😂😂
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  10915. Every rich, prominent person has access we do not. At least he's really from Uvalde. Wouldn't it be self-centered not to use his voice in some legitimate manner, given that he has this privilege? If not like this, then in some comparably potent way?
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  10916. Re: Pod Save America . . . If the DNC believes Trump is a threat, why put up a cognitively impaired frail old corrupt guy to run against Trump? Seems like you'd want to run the strongest candidate to beat back the threat.
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  10917.  @franceslopez3363  Maybe my friends are different, but everyone I know who is hesitant plans to get the first vaccine that IS (really) approved. Everyone I know has had all their other vaccines, including a good friend who served almost 14 years in the Marines. So, these pictures drawn of the hesitant do not sound like anyone I know. The only person who might consider waiting longer was injured in utero by an approved drug her mother took, and she lives in a small town where isolating is easier. But even she plans to get vaccinated eventually. So I don't know these "Conspiracy Theorists."
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  10918. College offers all of those. AP is an elective for college-bound kids who want to save money on tuition.
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  10919. Blade Runner is here.
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  10920. ​ @Bailey-71 I like you, too. Love Goggins, like you. 😊
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  10921. Aren't people's love lives in the toilet already?
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  10922. This was worse than what Kyle said about Jimmy Dore. Hard to outdo Kyle, but she did.
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  10923.  @LDiamondz  I wonder what the appeals procedure was in a case like that. A sheriff can only evict once a court has ordered the eviction, but being forced to go back a second time and a third time should have been reversed on appeal instead of coming before the same judge. It's a shame that the really heavy-duty lawyering is so expensive. He might have needed to apply to the next level appellate court for an emergency order or a writ of mandamus. Very expensive. That would be to order the housing court judge to issue the evictions. Most courts allow for that and have some sort of procedure in place to request it. Otherwise, you could never have a devastating legal error corrected. Funny, but bankruptcy then kicks it over to federal court. Again, the bankruptcy reorganization process and the trustee might have been able to do something, but most people can't afford to go to court for that. By the time they file, it's a regular bankruptcy. It's over.
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  10924.  @presterjohn1697  No idea what you're referring to.
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  10925. Essentially EVERY criminal charge against Julian Assange is utterly bogus.
    2
  10926. The problem is he blames others for his own decisions while his daughter was a minor, and does so on a global stage while attacking her. It's shocking.
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  10927. This! 😅
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  10928. Oh great. This cult is spreading.
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  10929. Why do you imagine that you know better than this doctor/researcher? Do you remember Dr. Dean Ornish? He recommended a diet seriously lacking in fat. As it turned out, the population in which he was actually reversing cardiovascular disease had abnormal fat metabolism, and the diet he suggested was not suitable for general use at all. One subject actually had increased cardiovascular disease markers from extra virgin olive oil. This is weird. This is not you or me. This is someone with familial heart disease beginning at 40 or younger.
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  10930.  @johneubank8543  So . . . The new list of Bad Foods includes . . . Red onions, fresh garlic, ginger, parsley, olive oil, avocados, black olives, capers, kimchi, goat kefir, arugula, broccoli, zucchini, red kale, spinach, beets, tangerines, blueberries, raspberries, cherries . . . Sure, buddy. LOL I eat garlic raw.
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  10931. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Have some Kool-Aid. It's great for longevity.
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  10932. Jimmy. Maybe DNC can't appeal to democrats.
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  10933. Thanks for the time stamp.
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  10934. Jimmy Dore was excoriated for suggesting that so-called progressive Democrats ask Nancy for something in return for their vote. Oh well.
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  10935.  @LadyVioIa  I like how you put that.
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  10936.  @jairkerker2821  You win the Internet for the day.
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  10937.  Muddobber McCrablice  Clearly you have no idea about First Amendment rights in a college setting. She's not "just an employee" who has to follow a script, or else. Do you know what the assignment was? Did you examine the syllabus? Then how do you know she was off topic? What I wonder is how Zoom was breached. As a matter of principle, students have privacy rights (not a right to have their teachers agree with them or never challenge them). A Zoom classroom is supposed to have restricted access. That's the real story here.
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  10938.  @streetteamtony2672  Me, too!! You've got to read Strossen. She lost family in the Holocaust and is a fierce critic of censoring hate speech. She's sublime in the Kantian sense.
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  10939.  @streetteamtony2672  Her book is HATE: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship She is also a past president of the ACLU. If there is any difference between her and Glasser, she is a stronger First Amendment advocate. Actually, a very inspiring person.
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  10940.  @streetteamtony2672  Even Chemerinsky wrote a book about free speech on campus, decrying censorship trends, and describing how he argued with today's students, most of whom could not accept that certain "offensive" speech was protected and could not be disciplined by universities. (I'm into this, too.)
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  10941. I can't decide which is worse. :/
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  10942. Instead, they got rich.
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  10943. 14:57 Barely more than a minute. Try listening.
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  10944. Well, . . . We've finally done it. We've reached full spectrum insanity. HOW could the United States government be involved in this?
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  10945. Germans demonizing RUSSIANS. No one could make this up.
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  10946.  @daniellincoln2693  Irrelevant. It is illegal to use lethal force in defense of property.
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  10947.  @joeymac4302  There are certain accusations that one would expect the accused to refute. Failure to refute them is not proof of wrongdoing, but it usually raises questions, and may even be circumstantial evidence that tends to point to wrongdoing. Trump's taxes are a perfect example. When ALL other candidates release theirs, AND we know Trump is a businessman with many farflung interests, bankruptcies in his past, etc., so we KNOW his taxes would never be pristine, and HE knows no one expects them to be pristine -- well, at that point, you do have to wonder what the heck he's been hiding. Given the concern with misinformation and voter manipulation, you WOULD think that a possible future president would want to declare the emails to be fraudulent as soon as possible, if it were possible -- to make sure the electorate was not left wondering about it. You know, for our sakes, the good of the country, etc. Anyway, tonight Joe decided to lie about Hunter, and avoid the real issue as usual. Trump looked like he was flummoxed that two could play that game! Not to mention, Joe has real experience in that arena. I'd say his lying came across better. He's on a roll.
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  10948.  @sketchartist1964  Psst. People will say anything they get paid to say. Have you noticed? 🤣
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  10949.  @sketchartist1964  SMH. If state schools ignore due process, the taxpayers will be on the hook. Do the math.
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  10950. 🤣🤣🤣
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  10951.  @xunqianbaidu6917  Nah. I think we should impeach Trump a third time. Third time's the charm.
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  10952.  @eternalskeptic  You mean you don't know that in general, people are not legally required to stop a crime? You don't know instigating and preventing are not the same? Maybe they will indict him for instigating. I was responding to the post.
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  10953. Free Israel from America. AIPAC is here.
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  10954. That used to not need a law. It was understood you don't make war only with other people's children.
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  10955. @tonyduong3275  Dr. Gabor Maté co-authored the book Hold On to Your Kids --- the subtitle is something to the effect that in a child's life, parents must be more important than peers for the child to grow up happy and secure. Dr. Maté considers himself to be on the left. Most people in the US and Canada who follow the parenting advice in that book are conservative and religious.
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  10956.  @lanchanoinguyen2914  Mathematics after Cantor and modern measure theory took care of all that, but it did take well over 2000 years.
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  10957.  @AnaLucia-wy2ii  Okay it isn't. You know. It could cost some real money in fines, etc. Fines are a possible criminal penalty, duh.
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  10958. He must be indicted.
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  10959. Where did you hear that? Did you confuse "Most Rs are Ws" with "Most Ws are Rs"? But how could a high-IQ person make that mistake?
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  10960.  @cobracommander8133  Logic mistake. Oooo!
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  10961.  Donald Hariot  And so far, 70 brilliant people voted for a logical error.
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  10962.  @thenightporter  True enough -- but you don't find that deliberately misleading? We can discuss whether it's acceptable anyway (people ought to know by now, they are in on the gag and benefit from it, etc.), but I don't think you can deny it's misleading.
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  10963.  @grim524  Thank you.
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  10964. ​ @rickywinder7730 This helps us all.
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  10965. Well, not beating or kicking or killing, so there is that. Love of power may be comparable.
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  10966.  @Stonefallow  Well, the idea was, either you stop criticizing TYT, or we will ruin your livelihood. So, blackmail is a bit strong, but I think we can call it a serious threat.
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  10967. It is not "self-defense" if the person claiming a right of self-defense created the circumstances that led to his need for self-defense. IOW, this will have to be sorted out in a real court, with witnesses under oath, and not before Judge Jeanine or Facebook Friends.
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  10968. As for the people who do like her, why do they like her?
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  10969.  @willarmendariz7663  I wish I were Russian. Great piano teachers, great ballet teachers, great theatre, no discrimination against Slavic peoples. I don't need the stuff you need. I need performing arts and books. My, but you go livid at the lightest pushback.
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  10970. Of course DNC think schools are not an essential service but police are. You can tell by who they abuse.
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  10971.  @DWMurry  No big deal. I was surprised how long ago Washington's family got here, Virginians all.
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  10972. Thank you for telling us about this horrendous experience. Being a witness seems like nothing compared with being a survivor, but in no way is it easy. It is its own kind of pain.
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  10973. Part of the reason for apathy toward police brutality is the fact that we have a gun-drenched society. It's a vicious circle.
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  10974. And should be.
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  10975. Next, tell them bananas and walnuts and crushed pistachios smothered in plain Greek yogurt (zero sugar) is a new ice cream treat!! Let us know what happens. 🤣
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  10976. I had no idea he was an Army veteran.
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  10977. This is, unfortunately, very likely to be the case. Israel is seeing the same numbers. I agree wholeheartedly.
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  10978. Dore did not advocate censoring anyone. Criticizing someone's content is meeting speech with speech.
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  10979. From 9:53 to the end is actually pretty good . . . including saying straight up that the CDC and other medical professionals lied to the public. This is a start.
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  10980.  @adrianhoraciosantanavaldes1908  THIS. Best comment yet!
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  10981. Chris's job is to make 💰 coming and going.
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  10982.  @DanEMO592  Took the words out of my mouth!
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  10983. Some years, 70% of Chicago homicides are unsolved. Yes, detectives. Damn.
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  10984. Laughed at that. I think he's more effective when he's calm. Of course he should get mad sometimes.
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  10985.  @oldenmarlow339  I'm sorry. Because the first post mentioned the option, I thought you did.
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  10986.  @luckylass5444  Like The Shy Family.
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  10987. LOL, loved that.
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  10988. Well, he was right that those three doctors underestimated the ultimate death toll, but what is important is that we had ZERO discussion about these measures. They were mercilessly imposed, and -- coincidentally -- the rich got vastly richer. "Attracting abundance," I guess. /s
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  10989. She paid hers off.
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  10990.  @blakereeves179  Where you got your degree is only too important, and should not be. They just told you. Anyone in the top half of Harvard's L1 class at the end of the year HAS six figure jobs to choose from upon graduation. SIU's law school? Not so much.
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  10991.  @blakereeves179  And many major firms want a BA and paralegal certificate, and have wanted both for decades. The certificate is superfluous in many states, but the malpractice insurers dictate. So yeah, the gender studies major from a prestigious school who gets a paralegal certificate can make six figures pretty quickly in, say, New York, San Francisco, etc.
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  10992.  @blakereeves179  I don't disagree about the rampant discrimination based on where you went to school. It has become a proxy for family wealth and ties, rather than based on merit.
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  10993.  @blakereeves179  1. Why am I not shocked? Sorry to hear, but hardly surprised. 2. No problem. Of course the great favoritism extended to grads of a handful of private colleges is unwarranted and at this point unfair.
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  10994.  @RayLRhodes  One crass joke about a wardrobe malfunction is inappropriate at work and it could get a person fired, but not sued, because it is NOT sexual harassment under the law. Look up Title VII.
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  10995.  @RayLRhodes  Another problem: the law would see Ana as Jimmy's boss. So she could have taken care of the problem herself, without the assistance of the EEOC and the federal district court. Have you ever, like, had a job?
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  10996. He has. He had her on before she was famous.
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  10997.  @AB-ov1zm  I agree!
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  10998. It's illegal to defend mere property with lethal force, in every state. She muddled this by not stating that simple fact. Clearly, people don't know it anymore. If the kids did not put any person in physical danger by what they were doing, then shooting them was not justified. It is an illegal homicide. What's disturbing is that a nation of gun owners does not know the law.
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  10999. Statements not made under oath are not evidence. But they are good reason to investigate, and ask for evidence.
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  11000.  @levondelite4072  The less common the serious side effects, the more those who have them will be ignored and pushed aside? That's what usually happens.
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  11001.  @coryCuc  Full-time workers for many companies qualify for food stamps and other government benefits. Of course these function as a subsidy. Check how many companies spend more on lobbying than they pay in taxes.
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  11002. Today he revealed himself as a tool. He's not missing the point. He's making a career.
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  11003. @blaiseoneal8564  Look who's talking. P. S. Attention-span pro tip: the original post has two sentences. Count them -- two.
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  11004. Explain TUCKER.
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  11005. Free Julian Assange
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  11006. DNC is using Medicare for All the way disgusting Republicans use anti-abortion rhetoric, to gain support and FUNDRAISE. Neither has any intention of following through.
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  11007.  @MsGarnet77  I could not agree more!!
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  11008. I'd support inviting a better critic. The contrast was too extreme.
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  11009. @Badatallthis Stuff Great. Glenn is the best.
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  11010.  @wolfstar675  How do you figure? Trump was their water boy. The rest -- especially the bluster -- was an act.
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  11011. WHO has the burden of proof? The proponent of the medical intervention does, always. We do not have sufficient information concerning the safety and efficacy of the vaccine. We treat gang bangers, obese people, heavy smokers, alcoholics, drunk drivers, high drivers, opioid addicts, school shooters, terrorists. We treated the Boston Marathon bomber Tsarnaev. But you want to exclude the unvaccinated from care. Who made you like this? What else can they convince you of? Probably just about anything.
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  11012.  @ghwk-phd2784  There were no vaccines available during her first year of long COVID. The original strain was worse than what is going around now. If the protein in the vaccine, which matches the original virus, is worse than the current Omicron wave, I would not be shocked. If five inoculations in 22 months is too many, that would be no surprise, either. The truth is, (a) we don't know, and (b) there is no money in finding out. I've opted not to take it, but I know I may be wrong.
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  11013.  @Gingerblaze  I have heard of that happening in custody disputes, yes.
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  11014. With hate speech? No, CGT still hits the nail on the head. CGT (French hard left union) organized a demonstration of vaccinated health care workers in support of their unvaccinated colleagues and against mandates and passports. Of course. This increasingly has the character of a MORAL PANIC.
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  11015. I doubt that it was deliberate, because of the nature of the crime. But it's not impossible.
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  11016.  @valerie241  I hope the affidavit will clarify a lot of things. The pieces of this puzzle don't quite match yet.
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  11017. I agree with Michael Ratner, Flint Taylor, and Afeni Shakur's views of the FBI.
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  11018.  @Aliiiiiiisssssooooonnnnnnn  No evidence of that, either. In any case, it is not a capital crime if she were.
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  11019.  @Devonellah  Dr. Freud, is that you?
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  11020. @tjh4115  I agree, in that it was first and foremost HIS job to own up, and to tell authorities where he left her remains. His responsibility, no one else's. His actions. Both families were thousands of miles away when he did this. Let's not lose sight of that fact. For all we know, his father or his mother might have been trying to persuade him to turn himself in. If they spoke, wouldn't that mean they were turning him in instead?
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  11021. @kathymcmc  There's a lot of truth in that. We are chided over and over to be "loyal," "optimistic," and give a person a "second chance." Lord, no!!
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  11022.  @jrag1000  So well said. Yes, you're right.
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  11023. On ne lit plus. Donc, on ne lit surtout pas votre texte enorme. Et voila.
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  11024.  F.R. F  No such implication intended. "Fully sincere in this piece," if you prefer.
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  11025. Did you think THIS was her main gig? Yikes.
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  11026. She's an editor at Newsweek. That's her job. How lame are people?
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  11027. ​ @1974Qball Yes and yes. 😂
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  11028. Why should state legislators decide?
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  11029.  @Dashr44  In any event, I did not characterize her emotional state. You did.
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  11030. I laughed! Yes, so true.
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  11031. What is your source for the claim that 96% of doctors have been vaccinated? Is that in the US? (Edited for typo)
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  11032.  @UnderhillKoufax  "PLOS: The BCG World Atlas: A Database of Global BCG Vaccination Policies and Practices" has the information, plus references. There are studies underway (which I did not know about) investigating whether people who had a BCG vaccine against tuberculosis have any resistance to severe COVID. (It appears unlikely, though possible.)
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  11033. Um, can we go quite that far? Uncertain . . . 😂
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  11034. ​@sailnekkid "Censure" by Congress is a technical term. It is a finding of wrongdoing and a formal reprimand for that wrongdoing. It is not merely "strong disapproval or harsh criticism." You don't need to take a roll call vote to express harsh criticism. The dictionary is not always your friend where legal matters are concerned. Try listening to the whole thing.
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  11035. ​ @KingDonvictTheFelon It's not a grammar issue. It's a legal issue.
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  11036.  @sailnekkid  A lot of legal terms look just like ordinary ones we all use, and sometimes they are. Every so often, they aren't. They are terms of art. Sometimes make-work for lawyers, to be honest. :/
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  11037.  @MusicLeeSarah  Did you see the comment I replied to, making this a "gender thing?" Of course she preyed on the vulnerable, and an ethnic male IS likely to be more vulnerable. Don't tell me this is news to anyone. Nor should it be news that women do not always treat other women well, especially women with cancer. Wake up.
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  11038.  @-ABC-  Gates has been around influencing our lives for closing in on four decades now. He will be 66 in a few weeks. Tell us what great strides we have made thanks to him over the past few decades. This happens to coincide with the worst period for completely unjustified wealth disparity, a grotesque attack on civil liberties, pointless, murderous, endless wars, catastrophic climate change, and an obviously corrupted ruling class unlike we have ever seen. Also, a new hopelessness. Check the mass shootings, the gang activity, the opioid crisis, the homelessness crisis, the killings by police . . . The lack of good art and literature in America. Then, this interview is the best one of your whiz kids can do? Only collective intelligence and a spirit of cooperation can solve our problems. Not a handful of Wunderkinder.
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  11039.  @-ABC-  I should have read all of your posts before responding to the main one. If you are not paid for this, you are out of your mind. This isn't even a free market discourse, but a post-medieval hero worship one. Adam Smith and J. S. Mill will tell you straight up that NO ONE does what they do in civil society to "help" you. It is up to you to know what is in your best interest, and to assert that interest in the optimally effective manner, not to rely on the elites. They even warn us about the rentier class, which describes Gates perfectly today.
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  11040. Counterpunch just ran a great article over the weekend -- on 21 fallacies underlying cancel culture.
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  11041. No offense or anything, but no one wants to see her face. We have suffered enough.
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  11042. I can tell you why: Depp already sued The Sun for defamation in the UK on the same material facts, and lost. In the US, defamation suits necessarily implicate the First Amendment, and make speech that would normally be protected, and is presumed to be protected, actionable in court. You may not find that answer satisfactory, which is fine, but Emily seems not to understand what happened. Her time line is totally confused. Depp keeps pursuing these cases to punish Heard's speech. He's getting ALL the process he's due.
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  11043. These are the cases NO ONE can ever accept. I never heard of this case before today, and I cannot accept it. I can only imagine how her mother and father felt . . . No. I can't imagine. I am so, so sorry.
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  11044. Firefighters were protecting demonstrators from police, for weeks before the lockdown. That's how bad it got.
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  11045.  @jessjohnathoncollier2021  What lawsuits have been successful so far? Section 230 protects them.
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  11046.  @michaeldriggers7681  Simpson lost a civil suit. He can't prove defamation on the basis of anything found to be probably true in that case.
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  11047.  @meltedsnowman9637  I agree, and upvoted, BUT Rittenhouse did seek publicity, and made himself a public figure by his own actions. He was even interviewed earlier that day. So there is that, and very unlike the Sandy Hook families. OTOH, he was a minor. That is somewhat in his favor.
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  11048.  @KG9551  Alex Jones lost because he had NO evidence the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre was cosplay! Good grief.
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  11049.  @meltedsnowman9637  Entirely different case. Sandmann was there with his school, to visit Washington and pray for an end to abortion (shocking that schools do this, with underage boys, but anyway). Rittenhouse inserted himself into events, and did a video interview earlier in the day, and failed to leave when violence started, and did not obey the curfew. He put himself into the thick of things. Of course he never thought he would actually shoot anyone.
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  11050. @mrigankamaulichakraborty7088  Correct, it is divergent. That was why I said the set of partial sums; and in this case, every member of the set of partial sums is also a natural number.
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  11051.  @mrigankamaulichakraborty7088  Just read further in the thread.
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  11052. @jfecanin310  So then what I've stated is correct. Blocked for wasting my time.
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  11053. @bradmclean4988  Convergent infinite sequences yield numbers, and you generated them as a child. Dividing 1 by three generates an infinite sequence: 3/10 + 3/100 + 3/1000 + • • • + 3/10^n + 3/10^(n +1) + • • •; so does pi. But if you mean that the set of all natural numbers, under the ordinary operation of addition, cannot possibly yield another natural number, that is absolutely right. Infinity is not a number, it is a description of certain sets.
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  11054.  @noellerebekah9653  ^1000
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  11055. Starting to sound like NYTimes HAD to pretend Russiagate was real. To atone to the DNC. Or else.
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  11056. And?
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  11057. Perfect.
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  11058.  @erikkovacs3097  The point is that money and value are not the same.
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  11059.  @TheJacksnipe  It's not funny. Forgive me, but . . . 😒
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  11060.  @WideAwakeHuman  Did you notice that not one good idea he had has a prayer of being implemented?
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  11061.  @WideAwakeHuman  Of course taxes on massive, overnight fortunes, more banking oversight and strict enforcement, bringing manufacturing back from Asia, and antitrust action against Google, Facebook, etc., were adopted quickly. /s
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  11062. ​ @leviashanken7281 Well, surgeons are just going to have to shake a leg, huh? Faster should work out to be better. /s
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  11063.  @rickeshpatel4025  The difference is enormous.
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  11064.  @rickeshpatel4025  I don't agree. Man's desire for meaning is not the same as obsessively pursuing material objects.
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  11065. @d.tremblay6176  In the US at least, civil rights suits for damages, and of course the ballot box, are the only possible remedies. I'm all for it.
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  11066. 💯
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  11067. She was told about the gun. What is her job here??
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  11068. I wish people could distinguish between when Briahna presents "for the sake of argument/what DOJ may be thinking" stuff, and her own view. She made it clear what she thinks of this prosecution, as a matter of principle. As for Robbie, he doesn't have a quick command of facts. Clearly not a lawyer.
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  11069.  @brentnevius2849  Yeah, I get it. I'd be jealous too.
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  11070.  @brentnevius2849  No one asked you about your 23andMe result.
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  11071. ​ @kurosaki0001000 He didn't. These guys are making an easy buck with this garbage.
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  11072.  @sweetparvardi  As if it is normal for the ruling class to hold the voters accountable (as in, "so what's the problem?").
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  11073. ​ @melissagreye8445 I'm just glad when they are not beaten or killed.
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  11074.  @Feebee0622  I remember when your ilk said that about Schwarzenegger! 🤣🤣🤣
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  11075.  @jonathanmosher72  Who's that? What's that?
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  11076. Wow. You actually think about stuff from other people's perspective. That's . . . different!
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  11077. There is no doubt that they are not good for everyone. The human brain is far too complex, and everyone is unique. For most people, it takes 4 to 6 weeks to see improvement. I feel like, why not try 6 weeks of diet, exercise, massage, better sleep? (Why? No one has the time! I say make the time -- it is too important. It's your mind that is at stake.)
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  11078. I thought it was just an Internet rumor that India was handing out ivermectin as prophylaxis, to prevent COVID. Turns out they did, and that the WHO strongly criticized them for this move. Well, is there any credible data on whether it helped or hurt? There may not be. We haven't heard.
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  11079.  @Dodgerzden  That may be -- which is ironic, considering how much of our medicine is made in India. I want to know if there was any beneficial effect, or harmful effect, or if we simply cannot say. Where is the normal curiosity about these things? Shouldn't we be sharing information, and analyzing it? BTW, are Sputnik V or the two major Chinese-manufactured vaccines safer? (Is it all right to ask?)
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  11080.  @Dodgerzden  Where did you see this? Or is this your guess?
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  11081.  @Dodgerzden  The professor of nursing from the UK, Dr. Campbell, did a video on the COVID kits various regional governments in India distributed, and he stated that there was some evidence of their value. The REAL problem is that we don't actually know. Why don't we know? Why isn't there an openness, curiosity, and a willingness to share information? That's what should concern you.
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  11082. I don't rely on Campbell. When he links to a paper that interests me, then I read the paper. The actual question remains. Do we know the result of India's initiative, if we can tell anything at all? Speculation about the class of drug is not an empirical answer. We know they used it. We know the WHO urged them not to. So, what actually happened? (OR . . . Is it politically suspect to ask? If so, then COVID must not be all that big of a deal. Politics would never override science in a true crisis.)
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  11083.  @Dodgerzden  That's probably true. All such information should be shared honestly, and with everyone, but we all can see it isn't. :/
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  11084. I agree.
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  11085. Even a line-item veto by the President is unconstitutional.
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  11086. Wow. 9/11 used to be compared to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and said to be worse. Now it's demoted to 1/6? Tell that to the NYC Fire Department.
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  11087. Sadly this is true.
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  11088.  @4422bon  Great observation. ;) good lord
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  11089. Here's a thought: lock your doors.
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  11090. Absolutely outstanding subject. Please add a reading list!
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  11091. The moral of the story is do not do not do not take psychoactive substances -- certainly not from a "legitimate" doctor's prescription -- or from anywhere else. Eat right and walk with the wind or the waves in your ears. Do a marathon walk, sleep like a rock, then do it again the next day. See how you feel.
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  11092. What I resent is that rigorous argumentation has been treated as a sign of inferiority. The Important People only have to express the right attitudes, using the right hashtags and memes. People like Glenn Greenwald are obviously one rung lower in the hierarchy. They have to work hard to marshal facts, frame issues and address them, etc. How quaint. How 20th century. 😏
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  11093. ALL of them looked for ways to make bank with him. Look past the party label and watch what they did.
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  11094. ​ @FreedomStrike76 She didn't even vote for Biden in 2020, despite the massive fear mongering and unprecedented threats.
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  11095. They work against other viruses and especially bacteria. A small precaution worth taking, I think.
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  11096. Tsk. Mandates, not MAN dates. Sheesh.
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  11097. They have a right to their opinion. And RFK Jr has a right to his.
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  11098. False. If a story were about you, and you had something pertinent to say about it, would you or would you not want the journalist to contact you? What complicates this story is the fact that we are dealing with a minor child, but in any case, the child is old enough to have a viewpoint. The journalist is then free to discount it, or treat it however she likes. Pretending it doesn't exist is not an option.
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  11099. Trump lies more than DNC? No, he lies differently.
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  11100.  @rogerward801  If the doctors cannot regulate themselves, their insurance companies will!
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  11101.  @EchoJ  Books don't contain tons of slurs against other ethnic groups because no other ethnic group was enslaved! No comparison. This wasn't done to anyone else. I agree with not teaching Twain unless you also teach James Baldwin in the same unit. (CONTEXT!) And don't give credit unless all assignments in that unit are completed.
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  11102.  @kg-ke1fw  Every required book in a public school needs to be justified. Trendy slogans like "trggered" are not arguments for assigning one book over another.
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  11103. I guess you have to identify as post-menstral, objectify yourself, and violate your own privacy to complete strangers who have no need to know.
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  11104.  @cate7777  I was being ironic. I agree with you.
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  11105. THIS segment is excellent.
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  11106. They didn't lose. They won much less than they thought they would . . .
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  11107.  @jamesmonday509  What facts? She said she never wears a mask outdoors. A private business can require a mask on its premises. I once had a doctor who said no perfume in the office. He had a nurse who was hugely allergic to perfume. He can't fire her.
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  11108.  @jamesmonday509  Anyone can check your profile and find the copy paste. Or, make a bunch more comments so that series doesn't show up. You could do that.
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  11109.  @darkwolf4434  Come again?
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  11110.  @chrisking6695  Do you understand that during the past 15 months, YouTube was Jimmy and Stef's livelihood, because COVID prevented them from doing any live shows? Do you also understand that Ana, and now Cenk, tried to deprived them of that livelihood? They were trying to shut Jimmy up, and scare him away from criticizing TYT? So Jimmy told his side, with complete context, and videos, to demonstrate what working at TYT was like, back when this happened. Ana had Jimmy's vulnerabilities pegged all right, but she SURE miscalculated about AARON!
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  11111. ​ @maggiemaloney8599 The fact that she voted against a bill doesn't make it a good law. Even she can't do that.
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  11112.  @maggiemaloney8599  I hope they let you see my reply. Two, actually.
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  11113. Americans pay HUGE insurance premiums, and still we can lose our coverage. Or, insurance can refuse our claims. How do other countries pay less overall, and their people can't lose coverage, and will have their bills paid? If we had better healthcare, and solid guarantees, in return for paying more money, at least there would be some rationale for the system. We pay much more and get much less. And have to worry all the time. This is insane.
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  11114. @louurich9087  The problem with the trades is having to save like crazy, because you might have to retire 10 to 15 years before everyone else, when the reality for most people is having to work until 70, 72. Liberal Arts at least gives you a foundation so that you can retool later. As for what most people study, well . . . the most common degree is in Business, and has been for about 35 years, if not longer. Next come the Health Sciences, with Nursing on top. What did you think people were studying? College is trade school for most people. As for a Bachelor's in Business, unless a person gets a CPA or takes advanced mathematics and finance, that is a useless degree -- apart from signaling docility. An English major with a calculus sequence and a minor in Economics will get into law school or a top MBA program first. Most people in liberal arts are planning to get an advanced degree, of which there are many besides MD, JD, MBA, or PhD: MSW, MFA, MPA, MPH, MLS, DPsy in clinical psychology, school psychology, etc., and a bunch more I can't remember. Still, basically agreeing with you. Of course STEM ebbs and flows, and for exactly the reason you said.
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  11115.  @_m_K_.  Law school plus an LLM in patent law. That's serious money.
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  11116. Remember how rude and condescending Amanpour was toward President da Silva?
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  11117. 17:35 They bring enforcement actions to get the money back. What are you talking about?? "$19.6 billion returned to consumers"
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  11118.  @Joe-pc3hs  Okay, never mind. Blocked
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  11119. In the meantime, the usual bad actors are making sure to line their pockets. I wonder how much money is in offshore trusts now!
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  11120. BTW, does Ben have access to Sputnik V? Nicaragua is supposed to be one of the countries that has it.
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  11121. Veterans of the Marine Corps have the right to be homeless. That's pretty good. No?
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  11122.  @curtrice1264  So . . . You don't know what /s means, nor do you spot bitter irony without needing /s to tell you? Why am I not surprised?
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  11123. ​ @KronoKing I know what the ICJ report says. In fact, a report from Israel to the ICJ is due on Monday, stating whether it has complied with the ICJ's directives to protect Palestinians from genocide.
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  11124. Colbert was shameful here.
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  11125. Depends on what the meaning of is is.
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  11126. Is this a bot?
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  11127.  @mroctober3583  She isn't in any line. Her friend is a volunteer donor.
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  11128.  @LDwestwood1986  The major tech companies are pushing people out who don't display those "virtues." Their HR departments are often behind the push.
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  11129. "The human condition is likely to improve?" Just think of how much it has already improved thanks to Bill Gates and Friends. /s
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  11130. AP classes are electives for motivated kids who want to save money on college tuition. But go ahead and present your grievance.
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  11131.  @twinkyunouwantmycreamfilli8297  Pool is right wing. His latest move is feeding the "Trump can still win" travesty.
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  11132.  @twinkyunouwantmycreamfilli8297  Okay, the ultimate waste of time would be to listen to someone else talk about TIM POOL! I have not descended to that level. You still won't post something that shows Pool is not right wing. So then let it go. What is the point? You had to go ad hominem, and throw in some swearing, too. Okay. What else ya got?
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  11133. Is everything you do based on getting rich and famous? If you say pretty much, I believe you.
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  11134.  @amydo6037  Is there something about the English-speaking peoples that suddenly impels them to join a new mob every five minutes, when that was once entirely out of character? Is this what the end of hegemony looks like?
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  11135. Can you be serious? They are hiding SA of CHILDREN.
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  11136. ​ @tensor_verkampen ​You could look up Chauvin's federal plea agreement and see what Chauvin pled guilty to doing, in federal court where judges are not elected. It describes exactly what Chauvin himself agrees he did. Google brings that up, too. Guess Candace missed that.
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  11137. Are there people who lack a dark side who think that makes them better than everyone else?? The absence of a dark side in someone makes them worthy of pity. I don't have enough of a dark side: if I did, I would have prevented a lot of the trouble that came my way. It lets other people know not to experiment with you, and that they might be sorry if they do.
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  11138. Doctors, nurses, and first responders have been making wills. But "this is a hoax." Countries from UK to Iran, France to North Korea, Brazil to Russia, Italy to New Zealand are experiencing the pandemic. But "this is a hoax." Who knew there were this many complete twits?
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  11139.  Janet Benz  You claim more people die from flu vaccines than from COVID, and you accuse me of "fear-mongering?" I wish I were surprised. I bet you'll get more up-votes, too.
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  11140. It's all the ones who date students that have me concerned.
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  11141. ​ @rodiculous9464  No such thing.
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  11142. Read the case. Comes right up.
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  11143. Testimony is immunized, short of perjury.
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  11144. We better! 😐
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  11145. ​ @brekfastwine 1. How do you know? 2. Even if true, what bearing does that have on Democracy Now, a third party whose role is to present us with impartial journalism?
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  11146. Kim is outstanding today. Bravo!!
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  11147. I'm opposed to the choice they made AND I want them released to America immediately.
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  11148. People here have been driven MAD. Of course other countries are opening up, and are demonstrating against vaccine passports. Mass demonstrations from Italy to Switzerland to France. PS let's go Brandon
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  11149. Running out of weapons? I smell an investment opportunity for someone . . .
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  11150.  @_Y.Not_  I've heard of that. So terrible, really sorry. Good wishes to you.
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  11151. THIS 💯
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  11152. If you come to Chicago, you'll find out. It's a segregated city, and most good jobs go to cronies.
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  11153. Bri talked to Katie about quitting in protest, and discussed it here. She made it clear to producers that they had to let her do that.
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  11154. You don't understand risk at all.
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  11155. ​ @itsallminor6133 I'm shocked by how you got worse. I know my mother changed for the better because of how she talked about it. I remember thinking every mother did. Naivete was nice.
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  11156.  @itsallminor6133  I used to assume that. Why are they so belligerent, then?
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  11157.  @Averageidiot44  In any case, the Russian line has been that "Zelensky is responsible." I think that's sheer rot. I no longer believe Zelensky is an independent actor. The US has more to say than he does.
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  11158. So well said!
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  11159. Wow. 🤔 I think you're right.
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  11160. ​ @RT804 Looked to me like they're impressed with themselves.
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  11161. @Esteban Oviedos I have lived elsewhere, my entire surviving family lives elsewhere, I get my news in several languages, and I don't agree with you. Your are spouting ideology, not objective facts. That people are not trying to leave the US is the "tell." They (we) most certainly are. You also know how to get under people's skin, by telling the people in the most troubled developed country that they have it SOOO good, and that they don't know it, because they are insular and spoiled. You know exactly how to get them to feel inferior and guilty, and you know it will work, thanks to the nature of ("majoritarian") American mentalities. Well, I don't have an American mentality, I don't get all my news in English, and I see through you perfectly. Shame on you, to spout this during a pandemic in the country with the highest number of deaths. Shame!! Take your ideological talking points and make them elsewhere.
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  11162. @Esteban Oviedos Shame and guilt are not the same thing at all, and you certainly did start out by trying to make Americans feel guilty for "having it easy." This was before the other person wrote extensive comments, improving the tone of the discussion. (Question: why did you do that? What's it to you? If a fortunate person has mental problems, all the more reason to feel sorry for them, perhaps even pity them.) As for whether it is so much easier to live in the US than in other countries, I heartily recommend James Baldwin. There is no better essayist of the latter half of the 20th century. He died in the late 1980s, which shows just how prescient he was. Of course he ultimately left. FYI, I'm not from the sort of background you might imagine, my parents met in a refugee camp, they were from an "undesirable" ethnicity, and my father did not come across as "lily white." I could tell you stories about that, and I'm putting it mildly.. Also, remarkably enough, my worst mistake in life was optimism, which is probably the result of too great an assimilation. So save the psychobabble. America is a diverse country, you never can tell who your interlocutor is. :D Or what they've experienced. The instinct to kick someone who is down is ugly however and wherever it manifests itself.
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  11163. @Esteban Oviedos Also FYI, another thing that is psychologically hard on people is the advent of what David Graeber called "bull**** jobs." These are jobs where you don't really do anything, you certainly don't make anything, and there are few, if any, objective criteria for deciding whether your work is good. Well guess what happens then? Whether you stay on becomes dependent on partisan politics, and partisan politics operate much like the law of the jungle. Or like call out/cancel on Twitter. People might go from a modest life to affluence -- but they also might go from affluence to homelessness -- and for no apparent reason. A social media mob (figuratively) decides not to "Like" you. You think that doesn't make people crazy? I haven't even mentioned drugs. Those find their way into the picture, too. Oh! That reminds me! Did you ever think that these "weak" people you've identified were given Ritalin as kids, when it was unsuitable for them? Ritalin instead of playtime, Ritalin instead of more attention from their families. Right. It's a complicated picture.
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  11164. I suspect he is also in very serious danger due to internal elements -- and that he stands to gain by being a US puppet. It is quite a tightrope the man is on.
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  11165. You're kidding, right?
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  11166. 😂😂😂
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  11167. Less creative, not funny. :/
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  11168. ​@robertvazquez2964 Yes, what do you suggest?
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  11169. ​ @Unfamous_Buddha Well said!
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  11170. Red Army. Correct. But at times in spite of Stalin and the Soviet bureaucrats, not thanks to them.
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  11171.  @dancersfrogg  I mean the Red Army is not the same thing as the Soviet Union. Of course they defeated Hitler. Sometimes in spite of Stalin.
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  11172. This channel censors more than most. I wonder how that works.
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  11173.  @utah_koidragon7117  Moreover, this is almost certainly from a lab. It could have left us all handicapped. I think we lucked out.
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  11174. GO VOLUNTEER
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  11175. Exactly, Robbie! WHY is the population least at risk being burdened with the greatest restrictions?
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  11176. State execution (Florida)
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  11177. @barbaratomlinson5404  Maybe he made bank and wants to make sure he's not scrutinized?
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  11178.  @guynew8501  Thank you.
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  11179. $20 million is like $2283 per hour, 24/7/365. Every hour of every day of the year.
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  11180. No one should accept it. We should DEMAND solid evidence. It could turn out to be true, but until someone produces solid, compelling evidence, no one should accept it.
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  11181.  @JohnMoran  Wow, thank you for the information. That must have been hard emotionally, to have known people like that. I read the book review, a long one, on the Manson biography, which was published in the London Review of Books years ago, and then some of the commentary written after Tarantino's film. That was all I knew about them. That was one of the scariest cults in modern times. Repugnant bunch. Apparently, a lot of them could sing well, and horseback ride well. What possesses people like that to do what they did? They were not without opportunities in this world.
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  11182.  @jamesshoup4246  It's not spelled "sewing doubt."
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  11183. ​@MRCAGR1 "Where she's wrong?" That can only be demonstrated case by case, and with reference to peer-reviewed, published studies and in some instances probability theory. This isn't a middle school playground popularity contest. On the other hand --- do you think Dr. Clancy is making serious errors here? Most of his practice involves actual long COVID, from the illness. Then, he found vaccine injuries that were similar to long COVID --- and then, a genetic signature and a cellular signature across many fatigue syndromes. This is brilliant.
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  11184.  @rahn45  Then the person would be fired and the other one hired. Duh.
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  11185. Like he would not have invoked the Fifth Amendment? Nothing he has offered so far in interviews was under oath, although any or all of it could still be used against him.
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  11186.  rs_  I'm looking at it now. It has 61 pages, so I haven't read it yet, but I already see that it classifies a "lockdown" by three different standards of severity, and considers them separately. It does not classify mask wearing as being in the same group as business closures.
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  11187.  @mikerollin4073  Say. I have an idea. Download the actual study and take a look. Do you believe anyone here has already combed through this analysis? I see they haven't.
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  11188.  @mikerollin4073  A good argument has to be sound. He's not overtly playing on emotions or pretending facts are about feewings, that is straight-up true.
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  11189.  rs_  Neither am I. I believe we need a free flow of information from disinterested actors with humility. You still see personal attacks over reported adverse events from vaccines, yet when a Senator politely (for a change) asked the head of the CDC for the numbers, she could not provide them. Nor do we know how the vaccines our "enemies" have developed, with no patent walls, have been working out. I still don't know whether Japan's exceptional success is real, and if so, how did they do it? It's 2022. I expected better.
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  11190. That would be different.
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  11191. Perfectly put.
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  11192. Realistic. Rare these days.
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  11193. That is not a reason to include it as required reading on the curriculum in the primary grades. It is a matter of what is age appropriate for required reading. She is so right.
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  11194.  @laertesindeed  Say. I have an idea. Shut up and read the briefs. Your identification of me? I bet you don't even know whether I'm a man or a woman. You don't strike me as too swift on the uptake. You would also benefit from a good book on writing. Style: Ten Lessons In Clarity and Grace is my favorite. Also, Orwell's essay on Politics and the English Language. A must-read.
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  11195. ​ @azazello1784  Thank God for that.
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  11196. Trust me, that occurred to everyone (who can still think).
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  11197. Here's an idea. There is something to try if this happens to you: practice being unattractive. Think about it. You can put on an act of not being desirable. There are ways. Make it seem like you aren't special. Claim you once had cancer and can't have children. Claim you are torn between liking men and women. Use your imagination. STOP feeling you need to be sincere. Pretend that "now I'm telling you the truth." Then lie. The idea is to fool him into believing he decided to stop seeing you. Ladies, you can do this.
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  11198. ​ @funUrth4all 💯
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  11199.  @dianejohnson6686  She was at work, surrounded by people.
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  11200. We have those alerts. We have sirens, too.
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  11201.  @Rick_Cleland  Yes, some form of psychosis could do it.
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  11202. ​@Eagle90able Sure she is, because the wife was her friend. It's not as though they met under some other, more innocent circumstances, like when the man claims he had separated from his wife and already filed for divorce.
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  11203. He seems to have forgotten Charlie Hebdo. And this was Dionysios. Who knew to be offended until some activists turned it into a "thing?"
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  11204. Nicely said.
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  11205. Her sin is she wasn't funny. It was just a cute mean girl siccing the crowd on the fatties. Big deal.
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  11206. Why indeed, lol!
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  11207. If there is anywhere an authentic case of "guilty but mentally ill," this is it.
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  11208. @Love and Tennessee If you're going to come this late to the party, use a proper name, not a pronoun. No idea who you're talking about -- who "she" was and who these "lefties" are, who are as rare as hen's teeth in the US anyway. Whereas having no soul is becoming the norm.
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  11209. @Love and Tennessee No shame or soul describes everyone running for president on a major party ticket in the last two elections, at a bare minimum.
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  11210.  @MidnightMedia_  All true, sadly.
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  11211. And the Black Panther Party.
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  11212. I don't understand. The professor has just as much right to express her views as do her students. Her speech is First Amendment protected as well. If she lowers the student's grade, or hints that she might, or stops calling on him in class, then she should be fired, not just put on leave. We had heated discussions in class ALL THE TIME. We didn't think it was news. It didn't cross our minds to report on someone -- not the teacher nor, obviously, the student. This is a public community college. All participants' free speech rights are supposed to be protected.
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  11213.  @josephcnry  LOL They do their audience a disservice. Making ordinary America hate teachers more is not a plan.
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  11214.  @bgm769-g2k  Well, I guess I know that is irrelevant, but maybe it explains why she didn't.
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  11215. Why do the mandates say full vaccination OR a recent negative test, then make testing impossible? Hmm . . . .
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  11216.  @bbear1971  Well paid.
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  11217. If I post about taking stronger measures while a safety review is being conducted, like not using this stuff in the meantime, my post goes "poof." Let's see if this circumlocution will last.
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  11218. Shoe On Head and Matt Taibbi??? Oh man, that is FUNNY.
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  11219. I need to figure out how to stop watching videos on YouTube. This started during COVID.
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  11220. You are too kind. They do it for the money.
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  11221. Amazon is cornering the market on how many classes of goods? No one can compete except Walmart, Target, and similar behemoths.
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  11222. You owe it to all of us to spell reparations correctly.
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  11223.  @johnnyshanksalot8358  I think you're right about that. It shows how our ethical standards have slipped. I don't think anyone has sterling qualifications to be president now, tbh.
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  11224.  @johnnyshanksalot8358  Like I said, 5:30 to the end.
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  11225.  @dakkerrins6344  Banning lies is never a positive. A lot of lies are unprotected or outright criminal: defamation, instigation to violence based on false accusations, threats triggered by defamation or otherwise, perjury, etc., so obviously no "ban" is necessary, and no arbiter of truth ("Ministry of Truth?") Is necessary. The amount of trouble you can get into just by blurting out a lie to law enforcement because you were frightened or upset is already mind-boggling, when you are not even under oath when you speak to them. Why don't people THINK before they post?
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  11226. Oh please no comparison
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  11227.  @checo8187  Yes they do. They are.
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  11228.  @melissadeloach8503  Listing the new BRICS+ members? LOL Say. How come non-Westerners always managed to find some modus vivendi with Africans, Asians, and Latin Americans? When we are so much cooler?
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  11229. @melissadeloach8503  Of course. And exactly what do you imagine you know about them? You know what to parrot. You didn't address my question. (And you probably didn't try the Newest tab to find all the posts replying to you in these threads.)
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  11230. @melissadeloach8503  A lot of countries we owe money to. "LOL," but not that funny anymore.
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  11231. That's all well and good, but why should he have such a lucrative job? These jobs ARE public relations jobs. Hence he is objectively unqualified. What else doesn't he know?
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  11232. Just to be clear, of course he should have a job. A good job, commensurate with his education and skills. Just not the jobs he thought he was entitled to.
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  11233. Ironic that the comments to THIS report accuse both of them of saying something they didn't say.
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  11234. He wasn't under arrest. He was as free to leave as any other grown person.
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  11235. @Bradley Harrison No, Sanders knows better. The Republicans don't nominate. The lie that they will exert influence somehow to advance a worse nominee is not just obviously false, but absurd.
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  11236.  @hizzlemobizzle  This is a great article.
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  11237. Does Jerry point to a single empirical fact about the guy Jimmy interviewed, as an individual, that should make us think he is lying about his views? Does Jerry point to something he said or did, or even a "microexpression," that indicates we should mistrust him? Jerry just spouts dogma. He doesn't express caution, which is reasonable. He only condemns. Blanket, categoric condemnation, no discussion permitted. Jimmy is right. Jerry is image tending. Is he afraid of someone? Who would join a political group where people have to act like they're afraid?
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  11238.  @anthonytwohill9726  Yup, she's willing to spin all right!
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  11239. Don't worry so much. The categories of protected speech are very well defined. This will be decided on the briefs. They would have to throw out decades of First Amendment law to allow the government to censor by demanding social media take down protected speech.
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  11240. ​ @bbchester6 Because everyone from Jordan Peterson to Rush Limbaugh did not have a drug problem. 😂
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  11241. ​ richspizzaparty People on drugs are easily controlled, no?
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  11242.  @onepcwhiz  Few people can strategically deploy their charms to advance to US Senator from the most populous state, then Vice President. It indicates a kind of "talent" that many do not possess, or care to.
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  11243. Bovard was outstanding here, her best report.
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  11244. Great analysis from Kyle, generally. The important point is, they are propagandists. Perfect, Kyle! (But Kyle, on damages, look into defamation per se.)
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  11245. It is illegal to defend property with lethal force. You can only defend your own physical safety with lethal force.
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  11246. Did you read the opinion that dismissed Miller's defamation suit? I suggest you do that before judging. Basically, the court left it up to his bosses at NYU to decide how to handle this. That is what a court usually does in an employment dispute. Just to let you know.
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  11247. This was a fair report. Their opinions of him are their business --- they are not looking to coerce or punish anyone absent real due process. Free speech means the freedom to call him creepy, as well as according HIM the freedom to continue his career and to speak freely as well. That's where it should be.
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  11248. YouTube was briefly down tonight.
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  11249. ​ @yurei8 Parents don't have the right to do things to kids that can curtail their fundamental human rights forever.
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  11250. Nonsense. If you believe you are in danger, you get out. If you have children, your life isn't just your own anymore.
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  11251. So, naked shorts are because of Russia? Good to know.
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  11252.  @travis1574  THIS was the dirtiest. Thanks for the reminder.
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  11253.  @belkyhernandez8281  Do you take responsibility for your lack of knowledge and your rudeness toward those who do have knowledge? I'm waiting . . .
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  11254.  @carriecree1789  I didn't for a solid decade. Wow did I eat well and exercise back then. No joke.
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  11255. ​@beverly9 That's ridiculous. It takes great courage to move to a DIFFERENT country. Anyone who can do that is well beyond "normal." I believe in solutions. If I can't thrive and I fail to move when I have the means, then I know that is my fault. I know from experience, even living in France was a huge improvement, and a lot of people in Europe consider France harsh. The pandemic should have alerted everyone to how hard it is to live in the post-imperial English-speaking world. No one else was treated like this, except perhaps in parts of China.
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  11256. @riskyron1416  I loved France. My mother was a small part French, and she and my father had old friends there. After 5 years there, I came back to the States rock solid. Every year since has been worse in some respect.
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  11257.  @MaryJohanna  No.
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  11258. Anita Brookner. I had to look it up. She died a few years ago, in her late 80s. She published her first novel at 53.
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  11259. But he is losing patience.
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  11260.  @mkrake2429  A person can choose not to avail themselves of an exemption to which they are entitled. An analogy would be all the people who have a good case for drawing disability insurance but choose not to before exhausting other options. Regular, non-millionaire people do that all the time.
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  11261. Look up Jane Buckingham, youth marketing consultant and career coach. The New York Times actually had someone report this one
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  11262.  @matu4251  He wasn't kidding. He was unnerved, too.
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  11263.  @fuckamericanidiot  Shapiro has a law degree from HARVARD. If he cared, he could actually defend the constitutional rights of parents against encroachment by the public schools, and parks, and so forth. Gee. I wonder why he does this instead. 🤔
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  11264. In other videos, he states that Brian flew home to Florida to clean out a storage unit with his father between the police encounter and killing Gabby.
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  11265.  @elizabethaleman117  Precisely. He had to mess it up, he just had to.
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  11266.  @j.sarnak1391  I said history, not the current check-the-box politics. You know, history. As in, stuff that actually happened, and we know that it did. Everything isn't 2023 politics. Some things are actually true.
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  11267. Frankly, I bet you are VERY close to qualified. I'd fast-track you. A few concentrated night classes, a semester of student teaching. Boom. Done. The very fact that you don't believe you are qualified this very minute is 90 points in your favor. Trust me on this.
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  11268. Bravo! Best comment here.
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  11269. @ChanceX74  Well, all right. I forget how people Worship at the Altar of the High Tech Billionaire. If AI shows Napoleon as black, the kids will soon think he was black. Or at least they will learn that if they make Napoleon (or George Washington or Leonardo DaVinci) black, they will get money for it. 💰 💰 So I am wrong. Mea culpa.
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  11270.  @Curling12341  The Nubians were pharaohs for a little over a century during the time the Illiad and the Odyssey were composed. Hence, the apparent references to the "Ethiopians," which were not modern-day Ethiopians at all. Nubians are from the Upper Nile (in modern Sudan). Lol, my autocorrect wants to change Nubian to Narnia. 🤣
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  11271.  @Curling12341  Okay, we ought to know these facts of history, but the Egypt we study the most predated the "Golden Age" of Greece, well before Alexander -- well before the Peloponnesian War, for that matter. That is what most people picture when you mention Egypt, though you would hope they also knew something about Cleopatra, if only because Shakespeare wrote a play about her.
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  11272. ​​ @davidmun1601 He admitted it himself, though he claimed it was fully consensual. He admitted he was a womanizer and generally lived without a moral compass. A lot of people like that, men and women both, or at least they pursue it avidly. Later they see they were deeply mistaken.
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  11273.  @calo9210  Masks are that tough for you? How would you survive a war?
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  11274. Best in class
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  11275. ​ @thatn_ggajandro3197 Not this time. You didn't listen.
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  11276. YES, great suggestion. He had contact with mental health professionals.
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  11277. Plus this is like the fifth time.
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  11278.  @ParallaxView111  The data I've seen contradicts both claims.
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  11279.  @Camcolito  True, sadly.
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  11280. The point wasn't that "luck" without hard work can lead to a fulfilled life. It cannot. The point was that the same hard work without luck will lead to fewer of the rewards that society values, and that individuals damn well better have, to put food on the table.
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  11281.  @andersonandrew112  I am already very close to certain that you are a white American. Nowhere else have I found a mass obsession with "competition," so called. It's like a weird religion. Well, if you don't see the effects of this vaunted "competition" yet (which in itself is astounding, but such are the effects of indoctrination), you are about to. If you think growing inequality, the opioid crisis, financial manipulation on a grand scale, youth depression, extremist militias, and mass shootings have been bad so far, well . . . We'll see how "successful" people are if the U.S. embarks on more costly and dangerous wars, and the dollar loses the reserve currency status it now enjoys. But even in the best of times, there is a problem with "competition" that even Socrates saw: there are two ways to come out on top. The first is to make yourself as excellent as possible. The second is to undermine everyone else. Socrates lived in a society where more and more people took the second route, and we all know how that turned out . . . the same way it always does.
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  11282.  @aerodylluk2543  It isn't ignorance of how to get out of poverty that keeps people poor. It is the fact that no matter what they do, they keep getting the same result. They keep getting discounted, disrespected, and dismissed. Look at it this way: if a person works hard, will they be noticed, and rewarded? They may be. Let's say they usually will (not evident, but possible). The result could also be quite different: the hard worker may be viewed as a chump, and people may smirk behind their back. Or the boss may decide, "this person must be after my job. Why else would they work so hard?" I think we all know what happens next. Even a small amount of prejudice can have a massive impact. (Look up "sensitive dependence on initial conditions." It's not just a concept in physics, it applies to all sorts of complex systems.) Working hard is essential, but it will not be rewarded -- it may not even be understood -- outside of the right context. The hard work has to occur where hard work matters, and where other people understand its meaning and are willing to honor it and reward the hard worker. In a lot of places, that does not happen. In a lot of places, politics matter far more.
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  11283.  @andersonandrew112  Most new businesses fail, no matter what their founders do. We're about to see a whole bunch of them fail pretty soon, in fact. Also, no one works 70+ hour per week for years on end, or even for months, without respite. That does not happen, due to diminishing returns based on sheer fatigue. The body and brain can't function, the risk of a car accident goes up, etc. When people exaggerate about how hard they worked, and you sense they are angry (the discourse almost always includes a phrase like "busted my butt," or a swear word, or both), underneath that you very often find deep resentment, because they really weren't enjoying it at all. No one can sacrifice their whole life pursuing money. They end up resenting everyone -- those with more, and those with less. Everyone else is to blame, for something or other. If nothing else, then for "high taxes." How is that better than "blaming the system?"
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  11284. This was before COVID. ;(
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  11285.  @marieharris1230  Sarcasm. Read it again.
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  11286. 💯
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  11287. Too generous of you. A dirty limerick would be more appropriate.
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  11288.  @daniellove162  Okay. Let's not discuss. Let's just label the person with a view that does not align perfectly with your own. It's only people who are "afraid of everything" who disagree with you. Done. Funny, I fear death less than anyone I know personally, so . . . maybe you've just barked up the wrong tree. Actually, I've never been stalked or assaulted, so I guess it's not my problem. /s I've never had a camera case stolen either, so I guess that's your problem. 😂
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  11289.  @daniellove162  Who ignored any of that? The obvious default is to allow them to be sold, and the steep uphill climb is to question them. At some point, we need to pause and reassess. Because at present, there is no such discussion -- as usual, where technology is concerned. People dive lemming-like to embrace an apparent convenience, and don't even consider for a moment what grave effects on privacy it might entail. That is the story of 21st century consumer technology. Any proposal to limit it in any way is met with instant derision. Well, all of these "conveniences" have turned people into howling toddlers, for one thing. Who cares whether I impress or not? That seems to be your obsession, not mine. And ultimately, I don't care. That's the real default, for everything. Make a buck off of the Next Big Thing, or turn the page. P. S. Are you pictures any good?
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  11290. ​@Robert Baldwin The drug cartels employ people, too -- many poor people who would otherwise be impoverished. Jeffrey Epstein employed people. Ghislaine Maxwell employed people. The Gates Foundation, the Clinton Foundation, . . . And several of the above, including especially Musk, have taken advantage of government largesse.
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  11291.  @cydrych  You also are aware that HSBC laundered drug cartel money and money believed to have gone to terrorist organizations, correct? The UK government asked that HSBC not be criminally prosecuted because it was too important to the global financial system. One more good thing billionaires do. /s
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  11292.  @peterpeters2412  Those were rarely given press, much less had movies made about them (see for example Lorenzo's Oil ), unless they were cases of child neglect based on religious fanaticism. Then they were usually prosecuted.
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  11293.  @peterpeters2412  Wait. The children died because the parents "did their own research and then found a therapy that saved the child?" Hm. That was a verbatim quote of what my post said. Strange, you seem not to have read it, or something else went wrong. I hope that's not side effects of something or other?
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  11294. @alex Yes. I plan to read Mattias Desmet's book.
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  11295. Great post, btw.
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  11296.  @peeks7165  Then why do minors have to be vaccinated to protect older people? That was your point.
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  11297.  @peeks7165  "LOL"
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  11298.  @peeks7165  I was responding directly to your comment. If the old are all vaccinated, why should young people be vaccinated to protect older people? Older people are protected already. There may be very good reasons for the young to be vaccinated, but you didn't present one.
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  11299. Well said
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  11300. Wait. What you've just said is that you're honest.
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  11301.  @wrdcreative492  Quite possible.
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  11302. I think that's their subtext.
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  11303. DON'T BE This is not YOUR fault.
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  11304. Or a few younger men.
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  11305.  @SeiferAlmasy8787  Possible I misunderstood. This subject is not one for sound biting.
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  11306. YES. BECAUSE HOW THEY ANNOUNCED THIS ASSASSINATION WAS JUST FINE. I cannot believe you people. I cannot. This is what you're focused on? Your base discomfort with Olayemi, who, incidentally, was not born here? Emily starts this segment by laughing.
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  11307. Too believable, sadly.
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  11308.  @mikusoxlongius  I've heard him be more coherent than this particular mainstream media segment from Gates. Why do you ask? The point of this segment was to show how bad Trump is. Maybe the bigger point is: LOOK WHO IS LEADING US, and HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?
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  11309.  @o77eh  I have an idea. Look up whether noncitizens (including undocumented immigrants) have constitutional rights. You'll get some interesting stuff from that. Start there.
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  11310. Trump is SOOO dangerous that, instead of resolving in November 2016 to find a worthy candidate to beat him decisively in 2020, they deployed the Russian collusion hoax and then put in Biden.
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  11311. Over 75% of university students attend PUBLIC universities. If you read the NYTimes, you'd never guess.
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  11312.  @sullivanl3305  I wish I could push back on that, but it's only slightly harsh. The ignorance is staggering, and the complete misunderstanding of HOW one builds a mind is not to be believed. They simply don't know how to educate a child, and only a handful of people from strong traditions whose roots were elsewhere are able to overcome the headwinds here.
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  11313.  @LKaramazov  I wish. Pay closer attention. They're the ones who say 11 and 12-year-old pregnant girls are a hoax, god doesn't let that happen. They also brought us "Weapons of Mass Destruction." And spread the story that the 2008 debacle and global financial meltdown required "more liberty," and blamed Barney Frank and the blacks for it. And lifted the moratorium on gain of function research and brought us Operation Warp Speed. That's not what I call being left alone to live my life.
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  11314. No, it was teacher-pleaser writing. But I think that should have been overlooked. An essay should only count for you, or be neutral, and never count against you.
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  11315.  @CreativeOne-ll8et  The employer is considering the bottom line. People with greater than average needs for medical or counseling services skew their insurance pool. Their calculation is cold.
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  11316. OF COURSE. There is no distinction between citizen and non-citizen once on American soil with respect to the First Amendment.
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  11317.  @thomism1016  I agree that immunity for someone in her position should not exist. Well, I would scrutinize CIA in general. Maybe her job shouldn't exist, either.
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  11318. All right. We need to ask the obvious question: did race play a factor?
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  11319. This "Asian American outreach" is such an insult. Credit to Saagar and Krystal for being able to report on it.
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  11320. ​ @MrGreglarry  Exactly. There are ways to criticize a candidate without scurrilous and slanderous ad hominem. He sounds like a juvenile delinquent, not a 30 year old lawyer. No one has any shame anymore.
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  11321. @DC, but Tucker's field has serious First Amendment implications AND has literally no trade secrets or similar IP implications. So as long as he gives up the money, the non-compete should be null and void.
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  11322.  @republica7337  I don't think that's fair, given that he was a war correspondent at grave danger to himself for two solid decades. As for Benedict, she deserves it for this performance.
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  11323. Perfect. Yes, you are the best.
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  11324. That he never did anything to your friend is not evidence of anything, except evidence that she says he never did anything to her. That much we know. I thought his statement tacitly admitted that he did engage in inappropriate behavior. On the other hand, her accusation is hardly earth shattering: a boorish male misreads a signal and tries to steal a kiss. Not good, given his role. Disappointing, of course. But let's maintain perspective. Why did you think your friend's comment proves anything?
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  11325. They confirmed it when all the vaccinated got sick, too.
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  11326.  @truegamerking  Thank you!
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  11327. To act as if Rittenhouse is just like any other aspiring freshman applicant is unrealistic. He is innocent of a crime, but does he have the moral fiber to attend college now? Those are the kinds of things that are treated in an application essay and an in-person interview. Other students should NEVER have a say in whether Rittenhouse is admitted. Never.
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  11328.  @bean-spiller  🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  11329.  @maryabu718  Why was he nominated in 2020? That's in the first place.
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  11330. Don't worry. No one you know will.
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  11331.  @1CrazyDudeYo  Oh no. I told you, with asterisks -- and was censored anyway.
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  11332.  @1CrazyDudeYo  Has to do with allegedly being cognitively challenged.
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  11333. She suggested you read an article by Nathan Robinson, which details why he was popular, or purports to. I'll read it and see what I think. Did you ever think he could become President? I am still struggling with that one.
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  11334. Source that, please, even with a book title. It doesn't need to be specific. We know links are shadowed. Odd neither Katy nor this guest know.
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  11335.  @W44F  Okay, but that won't tell me what you found to be a credible source for the information. It's a pretty serious charge -- and, admittedly, a pretty common form of treachery.
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  11336.  @parabolimove  You mean yours?
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  11337. There is no such thing happening, how shameful. You throw words around like they meant nothing.
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  11338.  @CyberBeep_kenshi  Do that. It's still up. Reported for refusing to mouth agitprop.
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  11339. ​ @TheZodiacz 😂😂😂
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  11340.  @karensmithson318  This is true. People have lost their jobs.
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  11341.  @Shzl47  So then we get rid of Pelosi. Win-win.
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  11342. ​@utah_koidragon7117 I don't know about that. In spite of Columbine, Sandy Hook, and Stoneman Douglas, the Wisconsin Legislature was incapable of drafting and passing a constitutional gun law to enable the DA to prosecute Kyle Rittenhouse on the one charge that had a rock-solid basis. 'Splain me that one.
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  11343.  @chrisludolph348  Oh yeah? Why did TRUMP end the moratorium on funding gain-of-function research? 2020 was Trump's baby, too.
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  11344.  @web-angel  THIS is so true!
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  11345.  @mikebatl1  I don't read Mother Jones. Name one such outlet. Or, two independent (not cut and paste) outlets. Out of forty, that should be a cinch.
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  11346.  @mikebatl1  From another article from Nature, January 2020: "In 2014, after a series of accidents involving mishandled pathogens at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the NIH announced that it would stop funding gain-of-function research into certain viruses — including influenza, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) — that have the potential to unleash a pandemic or epidemic if they escaped from the lab. Some researchers said the broad ban threatened necessary flu-surveillance and vaccine research. Surprising news The government reversed course in January 2017 after the NSABB concluded that very few such experiments posed a risk to public safety. The NIH lifted its ban on funding gain-of-function research in December 2017, after the HHS and the White House developed a system for vetting proposed experiments — creating the expert panel in the process."
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  11347.  @sabinereynaudsf  Exactly. What happened to all these people's brains??
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  11348. As you can see in this thread, your post was more true than you thought.
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  11349.  @aaronwebb1548  Court cases with arguments and evidence about specific people mean a lot more than media analysis.
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  11350. Biden will bow out as soon as the fix is in for Hunter.
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  11351. Why don't you read a few First Amendment cases and find out how those work?
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  11352. She mentioned it in connection with wealthy Hollywood types who don't have any medical need for it.
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  11353. Nancy hopes so, too.
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  11354. @reubencarter3004  Oh, now . . . You really think he controls her? She can't control herself.
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  11355.  @caitlinstuart5229  I agree. When Kyle made the first (surprising) video, I thought Jimmy and Aaron did a very nice response, and there was clearly a conciliatory note. Then, Kyle made another (more cringeworthy) video. This caused Dore to overflow. He was really mad, and felt unheard. It's really a shame. People know Dore has flaws. He doesn't deny it. He had real tragedies in his life. Glenn is doing the best analysis here. I don't know whether to exhale or sigh.
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  11356. No surprise. They cashed in.
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  11357.  @awsambdaman  Harsh but astute. OBVIOUSLY people need to hear it! ;/
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  11358. That could be the case, of course, but think for a moment: does Australia speak Chinese?
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  11359.  @nchevrea  I think you're right.
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  11360. How do you know who is Asian or part Asian among these women? I wouldn't know.
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  11361. He went on vacation to Italy. This is breaking news.
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  11362. Huh? The defense?
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  11363.  @LongDefiant  Snails are adorable.
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  11364. I like how you said that. "Don't come for me." :)
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  11365. I can believe that mail-in ballots arriving after midnight election night will not be counted, unless they come from military bases. Just watch. We could have several states like Florida in 2000 . . . Not like it never happened before, and wherever the governor is a Trump supporter, that is how that state is most likely to go. But that won't be enough. I still predict Trump will lose. This is not an election but a COVID referendum.
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  11366.  @TexanIndependence  Then what happens to The World's Largest Employer, i.e., the Department of Defense?
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  11367.  @robertgutierrez939  I see what you mean now. Yes, Saagar mentioned Nixon's name without context, and didn't explain or justify anything, because they had been talking about incoming administrations' setting up diplomatic channels during a transition. It is not clear what Saagar was referring to. Then Grim pointed out that Nixon and Kissinger also contacted the Vietnamese PRE-election, which was "egregious." If there was ever a time to prosecute, that was it. I wish Johnson had. Truly criminal. Countless lives lost, not to mention that that could be considered a stolen election.
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  11368. I don't like her, but she did nothing wrong this time.
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  11369. ​ @piperhurtado4945 There is no left in America. This is bourgeois decadence.
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  11370. Well, blacks were blamed for the 2008 financial meltdown. This is always their go-to. C'est hallucinant.
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  11371.  @SOS-ct9mv  No. I used to think so, too. But no.
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  11372.  @airmark02  Just saw Max's rokfin interview on crowd formation/mass hypnosis. Oh boy. Graham is there.
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  11373. @KH-aug  I'm a huge opponent of that, but allow me to remind you that 15 is the most common age of consent in Europe, and 14 may be more common than 16. If it were up to me, I'd put it at 18 in general, and 16 or 17 only where the age difference between the partners is less than four years. And I'd put it at 21 for creating or transmitting certain images of oneself, and similar activities. In other words, I'd tighten this up a lot. Apparently, based on what the law IS, most people disagree with me -- sadly. Before you defame anyone, however, take that into account.
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  11374. 9:59 What it means is that purveying propaganda creates overnight billionaires. Consider why. Can we eat Facebook or wear it? Does Google heat our house?
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  11375. @jwill540  The implosion of global finance in 2008-2009 and the existence of hidden fortunes held offshore, not to mention DOD-funded biolabs everywhere, is the proof of this. DEI is for the peasants to squabble over. Reminds me of the beginning of the original Blade Runner.
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  11376. What makes you think they think Andrew did something "terribly wrong?" Remember Rotherham?
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  11377. Consider how many religions have the fasts he described. Vegan Lent is not rare, as an example.
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  11378. You are minimizing the achievement of NUPES. The coalition was an achievement AND more important, its current spokesmen are compelling. Who else do you see who has truly well-spoken young people anywhere in the West? The very question makes me 🤣.
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  11379. I do.
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  11380. 💯
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  11381.  @scotttovey  Not just false -- delusional.
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  11382.  @candygustafson8858  There is no category of unprotected speech known as "hate speech." Just like there is no such thing as a "thought crime." All of those people listed by OP were told to "love it or leave it."
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  11383. @scotttovey  Your assertion that protesting US funding of a foreign war --- where the ICJ has found a plausible case of genocide, with the American judge agreeing --- is "treason." No. It's free speech. It's a classic case of free speech. If you want to organize a protest against the ICJ, that's your right. "From the river to the sea, _____ shall be free" is First Amendment protected political speech, no matter whether you put Israel or Palestine (or Likud, IDF, Hamas, etc., etc.) in the blank. See how that works? And Hess v. Indiana is still good law.
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  11384. With this being pushed, it is normal there will be push back.
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  11385.  @brianhillis3701  This is always the story you're told, and it certainly has a grain of truth, but state schools did NOT have to lose tax revenues and force up prices to build football stadiums, luxury dorms, and sports complexes. It was a choice. The VAST majority of students have vocational majors, and have for decades. What do you think the single most common major is? Business, of course -- and it has been, for decades. Then come all the health-related majors, with Nursing at the top. A Business degree, without either enough accounting to pass the CPA, or enough advanced math to understand finance in depth, is USELESS. Those are people who hate to read and can't write, and don't complete a year of calculus. Of course they don't speak a foreign language unless they learned it at home. A Business degree without rigour is a demonstration of docility -- nothing more. It also signals that your parents weren't very imaginative, and worse yet, weren't rich. The oligarchs look down on that. Oh, the irony!
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  11386.  @brianhillis3701  Well then you do know. But you also must know that labor markets change, sometimes rapidly. I remember when the "tech bubble" burst right around the same time as the 9/11 attacks, and Computer Science majors were unemployed. Come 2003, fresh grads with the same degrees were preferred over those who had worked part-time at Staples since their 2001 graduation, selling computers. Graduate into a serious recession, you risk not catching up for a decade. So, what to do? Going back to school, with more debt, sounds completely insane, but . . . Well. What would you tell your son or daughter? I would not want a Computer Science major to settle for Staples, that's for sure. I'd give them as much money as I could, and have them take a night class at some high-prestige, expensive joint! You play it as it lays. :/
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  11387. 1. Alain Badiou, In Praise of Love. Start there. 2. France has the highest fertility rate in the EU, and higher than UK. 3. No, it is not "because of immigrants," and even if it were, what of it? In France, immigrants, and especially second generation immigrant French, and ethnic French intermarry at very high rates, regardless of immigrant origin. 4. France has a better social safety net and a true natality policy embedded in the culture. Pregnant women and people with infants and toddlers are welcomed to the front of every line and have a seat on every metro.
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  11388. 🤣🤣🤣 thanks, needed that . . . real bad
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  11389. That isn't what she said, and in any case the comparison she did make is entirely inapt. My gawd, people don't know this history -- is that the problem?
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  11390.  @d.1.a_mayby18  Of course you'd be safe. People assume you have a concealed carry permit.
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  11391. Cenk compares righting our OWN wrongs, here, with bombing other countries and regime-change?
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  11392. Did they say it was misinformation, or disinformation? LOL
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  11393.  @robertburnett5561  That's normal for a lot of us.
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  11394. Where is the major political figure opposing the funding of the war on Gaza without conditions? No matter what you may think of the current US position, it is without a doubt hurting the standing of America in the world and hurting US readiness in other ways. Brie could have articulated that much more clearly.
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  11395. ​ @nomdeguerre8464 Show me the "shitlibs" opposed to funding these two wars.
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  11396. Krystal Ball weighs in, heavily: https://youtu.be/64A7A8QWDNc She answers the "we are asking for things" PERFECTLY.
    2
  11397. ​ @jaylinn416 50 million is only 5 percent of one billion.
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  11398.  @dingfeldersmurfalot4560  He died while being black.
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  11399.  @poolerboy  You cannot reason with these people. That is hard to accept. I'm trying to, because understanding the truth about what we are confronting requires a different approach at this point. I don't know what approach that should be, but I am going to start thinking hard.
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  11400. This rhetoric screams unhappy marriage.
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  11401. 16:42 "You gotta hold your nose and vote for Chelsea!"
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  11402. Great point.
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  11403. It's about the war in Gaza.
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  11404. Maybe she took it in college.
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  11405.  @itsmayrotta  Except that the new Supreme Court majority does not believe Equal Protection is sufficient to preserve Roe.
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  11406. Kim and Emily hit the ball waaaay out of the park. Outstanding.
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  11407. At worst, Jimmy is mistaken -- at absolute worst. His report is NOT unfounded, much less a lie. Bottom line: The justification allegedly made by the border patrol union official in response to REUTERS tends to support the story that at least one guard used reins as a whip. This faux controversy reminds me of "Chauvin is innocent."
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  11408. Brie, let's focus: WHO has the burden of proof of safety? Yes we ARE there: they cannot meet their burden. That means end gain of function research.
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  11409.  @tonya--7704  At issue is a text, and whether that text is defamation, not who The Bad Guy Really Is.
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  11410.  @wilmameijer437  I don't pretend this system is ideal, but that is the process, and everyone knows that, going in. It's an adversarial system because it is constructed that way. Of course the plaintiff must go first, to make his case. He has the burden of proof.
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  11411.  @RaquelSantos-hj1mq  Correct. When Trump had influence in New York and could promote a false narrative about five kids attacking the Central Park Jogger, he did. Nevermind that the person who raped her, beat her, and left her for dead -- a very dangerous, serial predator -- got to enjoy his freedom while everyone was in a frenzy about young teens and "wilding." Right. They're all alike.
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  11412. I knew not to be. My name sounds Russian.
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  11413. @vickydittfield9822  I always knew not to give permission, or accept one.
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  11414.  @godessofthemoon67  My father signed himself out, AMA; others I know did. It's not jail.
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  11415.  @godessofthemoon67  They might have been gaslighting you.
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  11416. @Forthestate  In the US, it is generally inadmissible at trial. It also creates a Sixth Amendment problem in a criminal trial (the right to confront a witness against you). But that doesn't mean it can't be part of a preliminary investigation, prior to filing suit. You're right, it usually is.
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  11417. Just to add a detail to a beautiful post: look up "welfare for the rich and corporations." For a corporation to spend more on lobbying than it pays in taxes once raised an eyebrow. Now it's quite ordinary. It's considered smart. As for hyperwealthy individuals, first they lobby Congress for tax cuts. Then instead of paying taxes, they park part of their fortunes in Treasury bills, creating a nice safety net for themselves and several generations after them, and the government pays them interest. Some states don't tax that interest income at all. This is one simple strategy; there are much more arcane ones, but you get the picture.
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  11418. Why do you think this is what it is? This attitude is what mirrors the Human Resources Departments of Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon, etc., etc., etc. Those who must be served, or else. Turn college into a business, lose academic freedom. Businesses don't have it. If your (private-sector corporate) boss does not like what you have to say, he can fire you.
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  11419.  @navinvent  I don't understand what you mean. I mean that "making universities more like businesses," which seemed to get support from nearly everyone at one point, resulted in trashing the universities. Now they are like businesses -- where you better not express your views if you want to get ahead. It's not a matter of courtesy, but censorship.
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  11420. Anyone who gets away with it is a profit maximizer who gets rich. Notice how hard it is for Seder to argue against it? That's because this NUT's credo is the American credo.
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  11421.  @souljastation5463  You are VERY KIND, but I think my posts prove I don't deserve the compliment. At least not quite.
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  11422. ​@charliebukowski6652 A pyramid scheme is one where there is no sustainable growth to support those paying into the program. As long as real GDP is growing, and salaries reflect increasing productivity, it is NOT a "pyramid scheme." Of course, you could say money itself is a pyramid scheme . . . that's a higher-order discussion. 401(k)s, etc., don't help you there.
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  11423. THIS
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  11424.  @steves6756  "You and only you are responsible for your plight in life . . . " Those who lost loved ones on 9/11, in Iraq and Afghanistan, to the COVID pandemic, pediatric cancers, mass shooters, medical malpractice, rogue cops, or who were victims of Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein, so-called clergy, etc., etc., etc., not to mention those who lost a chunk of savings thanks to countless frauds like Enron, or because of pension funds that invested in fraudulent CDOs and swaps before 2008, etc., all thank you for that. I can advise you about one thing: don't try to become a real writer.
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  11425. @reekz1568  He's not lying.
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  11426. I was reading Orwell and Mark Twain. Or by 14, Dostoevsky, come to think of it.
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  11427. What is the difference why the parent claims the book should be banned? The book should not be banned.
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  11428. THIS
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  11429. NO A MINOR DOES NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO CARRY THAT FIREARM.
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  11430.  @isaacguzman7564  Oh did you? So the prosecutor is confused, but you know.
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  11431.  @SterileNeutrino  Wrong, first of all. He is in an MD/PhD program. That is a high-level research degree that will allow him to practice medicine, and he has already done clinical rotations for sure. He is probably working in a hospital while on a thesis.
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  11432. Not her problem.
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  11433. Thought of that, too. :/
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  11434. Cuteness?
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  11435.  @jasmino5884  The New York Times just discussed breakthrough cases yesterday. It seems the CDC has proposed not tracking very mild COVID in the fully vaccinated. Many scientists are opposed to that decision.
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  11436.  @BurroGirl  You know, when I heard that in parts of India, ivermectin was being given to all the residents of a particular state as prophylaxis, I thought it was just a typical Internet rumor. Later I found out, from a legitimate news magazine, perhaps Forbes (I forget), that the Indian government most certainly did distribute ivermectin as prophylaxis, and that WHO strongly objected to this decision and cautioned against relying on ivermectin in this way. In MY opinion, the SCIENTIFIC approach would be to attempt to determine whether this course worked. There are undoubtedly confounding variables, and some sort of multiple regression would need to be employed, and a causal relationship might not be established, despite our best efforts. Still and all, if a person is not curious, and rejects these QUESTIONS, then they are not employing a scientific approach. They are deploying propaganda. No thanks.
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  11437.  @BurroGirl  Well-designed studies have their place, as does epidemiology in actual practice. In fact, the latter has to be considered. It should be obvious why. Every fully approved drug has to continually be monitored for its actual effects on actual people, using it in their actual, daily lives. The NIH's official position on ivermectin is that it warrants further study, and that there is not sufficient data to recommend it, or to tell doctors to refrain from prescribing it. Go to the website and see. Or, if you want to hear actual scientists discuss this pandemic, you could listen to Lex Fridman interview Dr. Racaniello, who is a virologist at Columbia University. (Both he and Fridman are, of course, vaccinated.) But maybe I misunderstood you. Do you not want to know whether the use of ivermectin in India made a difference, assuming we can determine that? Surely you can't be saying that you don't want to know. Everyone wants to know.
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  11438.  @BurroGirl  Poorly designed studies prove nothing either way. Given that the proponent of a medicine has the burden of proof, that means the null hypothesis stands. The drug that was used in a poorly designed study is presumed to have no effect, and that needs to be disproved in order to be able to say with any certainty that the drug is safe and effective (with ivermectin, the general safety for approved uses is firmly established). But a poorly designed study offers no information about what a well designed study might show. Literally zero. You know that part? Right?
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  11439. FOUR BILLION are "middle class???" I'll have what he's having. 😂
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  11440. Well, that isn't as ridiculous as the prevailing story in the US.
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  11441.  @drewskij2175  "Revisionist" history is a dog whistle. It is intended to shut down discussion and warn people about what they better say, or else. All political factions pull this stunt.
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  11442.  @nohbuddy1  That Greenwald defended the destruction of the rainforest.
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  11443. Here is Glenn denouncing the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, on his twitter feed. The link might be taken down, as those complicate monitoring for TOS violations, etc.
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  11444.  @variousthings6582  If we exaggerate the threat and pass laws that further trample on civil liberties, we will harm ourselves. We know, in large part thanks to Glenn's work, that we are under constant surveillance. So how did the January 6 marauders get past all of that intelligence? How is it that so many police forces are infiltrated, for that matter? Why do quasi-fascist gangs have allies on the inside?
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  11445.  @variousthings6582  I don't think we disagree all that much. The point was, the January 6 attempt at insurrection is more likely to curtail the freedom of the people at large, and do nothing to prevent future actions of the same kind, if we are not vigilant and very, very careful. We are already under surveillance. So, how did January 6 happen? We know there is right-wing militia infiltration in police departments. Why aren't they being rooted out? All of this stuff is already illegal.
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  11446. ​ @sdzielinski  This federal lawsuit is based on science.
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  11447. Of course it is. Why shouldn't you control your reproduction? Abortion is not and should never be a replacement for contraception? Was that your point? Then I agree with you.
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  11448. ​ @utah_koidragon7117  It is a big deal, but only to be expected at this point.
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  11449. ​ @gazmain All the more reason I'd like to hear her argument. Clearly it's not the usual talking points.
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  11450. If they can flip Venezuela, then Hunter can also have the spot on a energy board that Lil' Jared was counting on.
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  11451. Not in the Constitution.
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  11452. In real cases of abuse and PTSD, when there is a legitimate perpetrator, they often cannot be located or refuse to come in, and (absent court order) it is always their right to refuse to come in. It is not a stigma to refuse and proves nothing either way. Hence these disciplines have to develop ways to determine whether the patient who does come in is being truthful, evasive, guarded, or exaggerating, etc. She explained all that under direct examination. I don't blame Depp if he declined to be evaluated by her, and I don't understand why Heard agreed to talk to the muffin lady.
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  11453.  @barryfrench2534  What I understood is that she made a distinction between cases where she actually testified, which did not include any female perpetrated IPV, and cases that settled, which did. Lawyers decide who to call, and they may be the ones who introduce the bias. I'm serious. They literally specialize, and not just into plaintiffs, defense, and appeals. There are divorce lawyers who only take women clients. Some only take millionaire women clients. I wish I were kidding, but no.
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  11454. ​ @MarcDeBenedetto Our votes matter. Wow, that's rich.
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  11455.  @a.ros12  Perfectly put.
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  11456. ​ @r1bew42  Given that Chauvin pled guilty in federal court, and the document takes two seconds to find, all the false comments should be shadowed. It describes what he himself admits he did.
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  11457.  @random9username  You can't find it, huh?
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  11458. Just found out, his insanity defense went up to the Supreme Court. The issue was Kansas law, which is more strict than in other states. Kansas won. There's a published opinion.
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  11459.  @brasshouse-fireball  Yes!
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  11460.  @pmberkeley  She couldn't immediately corroborate it, which should have been possible. No one put the poor child's interests paramount. I don't say this as apologetics for Emily. I've caught her in mistakes, am not a fan of hers, and agree with you, basically. Unfortunately this time, several of her basic points stand. That is what is truly shocking. I'm very angry. And I haven't forgotten Trump appointed Acosta (of Epstein fame) to be Labor Secretary. Roe v. Wade wasn't a principle of privacy but of self-defense.
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  11461. He's also describing himself.
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  11462. ​ @marcusaurelius9123  Does Australia speech Chinese? No, huh?
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  11463. He has stated that he believed a convicted person was in fact guilty LOTS of times. The average person still thinks it is fine to submit to custodial interrogation "because they have nothing to hide." Sheer folly. There is a great video on that, with a law professor and a police officer sharing the podium. Look it up.
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  11464.  @billyoung5826  So you disagree with him on particular cases. Do you make the distinction between factual guilt and legal guilt? Considering all the factually innocent people who have been in prison for decades or on death row, I support innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt. I suggest you watch the Frontline documentary The Confessions. If they could do this to sailors serving the country, they could do it to anyone.
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  11465.  @billyoung5826  Also, if you didn't read actual court transcripts, it is very unlikely you know who is clearly guilty. The press has been misrepresenting sensational cases for as long as I can remember -- easily 30 years. It's not new, and I have no idea why. By the same token, you have every right to be skeptical of Dr. Grande, too, the only difference being that if there is real doubt, the verdict is supposed to be not guilty.
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  11466.  @Ulysses.S.Grant.For.The.Union.  Why thank you!
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  11467. Some of it is. You need more than the excerpt they present here to judge. Some (not all, and not a lot) of his anger has been both justified and productive, which is frankly the only reason why people like Katie and Briahna forgive him and overlook it. I can bet they speak to him about it privately. And I don't think CORNEL WEST would show up without a little constructive criticism first. Dore and his wife really did lose everything in a medical bankruptcy. They really did live in a little bungalow for 23 years. Dore is the youngest of 12 children. Sam and his crew never had friends like that. I have.
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  11468. Why did anyone ever join Facebook?
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  11469.  @BAsed_AFro  He had symptoms similar to what some people who have long COVID had -- he had severe, prolonged pain in the neck and shoulder, a frozen shoulder, problems with his blood count, extreme fatigue, and symptoms of nerve damage. He went into treatment and improved pretty well, as you can see. He was very happy with his doctor. He talked about it on Joe Rogan, actually.
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  11470. So . . . Only Fans?
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  11471.  @TheMroldtimer  And they should get vaccinated to save themselves (why? they're "uneducated troglogytes"), or to save you? (Because they should love you very much.)
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  11472. @Jacob King The only valid comparison is to the risk of contracting COVID and developing the same or worse complications. I've had mild heart conditions. I could live to 95 with them (my grandmother did), but they were life-altering. But this is America. I don't count. I get that part.
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  11473.  @TheMroldtimer  You know all these people? And they should listen to someone who abuses them? False flag here? Would that be you?
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  11474.  @TheMroldtimer  So, a parent reluctant to vaccinate a minor child with a non-FDA approved vaccine is a "troglodyte" who doesn't care about human life? Even if they themselves were vaccinated, and their kid is up to date on all approved vaccines, and they still use masks indoors? They aren't allowed to wait for more information? Why would that be?
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  11475.  @BluRey100  Wouldn't it be interesting if one of these ingredients isn't good for some people, and that the myocarditis has nothing to do with the mRNA or "spike" proteins in general? Nothing would surprise me.
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  11476.  @Mirv063  Yes, the risk of myocarditis and the severity is greater in COVID than from any vaccine. But what is the risk of contracting COVID? Irony that those opposed to taking the vaccine are often opposed to essential precautions like masks.
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  11477. ​​ @FourLightsOfficial It's also grossly untrue and unfair to ignore the peace and justice movement IN Israel itself.
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  11478. Almost as bad as criticizing Trump for something he never did -- as if there isn't enough to criticize him about that is without a doubt true. Same with Maddow: you have lots of actual misleading statements she made to choose from.
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  11479. I agree that EVERY billionaire who has defense-related contracts with the US government should be closely scrutinized.
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  11480.  @garrettpatten6312  Me too!
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  11481. Yeesh, harsh, LOL. But you're right; such ideologies are not widespread.
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  11482.  @Disconnected554  Southern Italy? Ha ha. Sure.
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  11483. Their grandkids are fine.
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  11484. I didn't think this sounded so bad. Obviously, she sounds like a frail Grandma, not a senator. She does not come across as having incipient dementia, however.
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  11485. Wrong. It is the fact that HE, Rittenhouse, is a public figure, and is responsible for making himself one, that counts. Whoopie or Cenk being public figures makes no difference, except that they can inflict more damage if they spread actual defamation about someone.
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  11486. Malice isn't a feeling, it's a term of art in First Amendment law. Wow, 12 up votes. Poor Kyle, what an audience! 🤣
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  11487.  @samsadowitz1724  I agree with you that he's a public figure. Even though he was 17, he did make the conscious choice to insert himself in that area, with an assault-style weapon, and to remain there after curfew. He was also interviewed earlier that day. He can't say he didn't seek publicity. It's not like Richard Jewell, or the Sandy Hook families, or Sandmann. Let's see if anti-SLAPP laws apply! 🙄
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  11488.  @07Flash11MRC  I accept what the courts decide. My understanding is KR will also be sued by the families of the deceased and the living victim. Why do you seem to have a problem with that?
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  11489.  @07Flash11MRC  Malice is a term of art. The judge will apply the law, not you.
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  11490. The whole debate is even better than these clips. It was wild.
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  11491. We all live under the economic system under which we live. Yes, that is essentially tautological. In a different system, they might have much better jobs.
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  11492.  @CM-sy3to  They are defending the Bill of Rights, which is clearly on its last legs.
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  11493.  @romanthomas2748  Agreed.
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  11494. Glenn, it's summer by you. Take a beautiful vacation. We love you, no joke. What would we do without you?
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  11495. Or is it half a cat? Or, is it a cat whose glass is half full? I mean half empty.
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  11496. Did you read the article? Do people know defamation is a claim that the speaker should be punished for their speech? In other words, Depp is saying Heard doesn't have the First Amendment right to publish the article she did. Not that she's morally wrong, but that she should be silenced by a court of law. Robbie's citation of hearsay concerning Heard's sister was odd. Heard's sister has already testified on her behalf. But this shouldn't even be a trial. Depp lost once, in UK, and had a better case. This is pure payback, and people are falling for it.
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  11497. @Gretchen K. You missed the main point: should a court sanction unethical speech? Or should we meet bad speech with more speech, not attempts at silencing through the power of courts? That used to be the principle. Somehow that's been jettisoned, too. How fast things change.
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  11498. @Gretchen K. I am a lawyer, California Bar, federal clerkship. It's not me who missed the point. This is becoming tragic.
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  11499.  @joeleonard9965  YUP
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  11500.  @realzachfluke1  Ditto, LOL.
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  11501. Reality: the DNC could run whomever they want THANKS TO TRUMP
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  11502. Correct, but I think Brazilian Portuguese is creeping into all of Glenn's pronunciation of a word from a Romance language.
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  11503.  @JagoffCitizen  He's been in Brazil forever, and living as a late-in-life full bilingual, unusual already. At his age (over 40), I'd expect it.
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  11504.  @bmass0828  What "opinion?" He's been tweeting abuse, and it's weird. It doesn't even sound like him. Is jeering at you for your skin color, whatever that color may be, an opinion?
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  11505. Trump could have fired him.
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  11506. ​ @salma_Nella22 As matters stand now, you are probably right.
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  11507.  @bobhope4949  You mean you read the whole sentence to get to that part? You give me hope. (See what I did there?)
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  11508.  @samuelpancake4084 "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Sounds pretty smart to me.
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  11509. Someone should analyze companies like Uber to see what features of MLMs they have.
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  11510. I CLEARLY remember when serious, responsible scientists were expressing concern that any coronavirus vaccine could result in ADE (antibody dependent enhancement). This comes as no surprise. It is consistent with the prior concern during the vaccine development. From what I read in 2020, these vaccines could have been worse.
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  11511. I think it's wild that we are still hearing the story that government is the enemy, when we have turned ad men into the biggest billionaires in history (Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.), once they figured out a way to marry advertising and surveillance, AND induce us to hand over our data voluntarily. I have to admit it's brilliant . . . But that's who you trust? The fact that corporations took over the government is exactly why we're here, and the mantra is to get out of their way so that they can dominate us even more.
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  11512. Well that's a cheery thought. Er, no one is arguing with you . . . get it?
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  11513. ​ @makeupyourway  Just what I was thinking.
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  11514. Now I can exhale. Thank you, Tio Bernie.
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  11515. Tragic. They were scared. It was systematic.
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  11516. Yeah, I'd like a number on that. The picture looks like it is from when she was 13 or 14.
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  11517. Why did any child under 12 ever have to put a mask on, anywhere? I noticed that in Asia, people routinely wore masks on mass transit, years before this hysteria. Adult people. That seems like a good idea, as long as it's a choice.
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  11518. We need a new Madeleine Albright to say it was worth it.
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  11519. She's afraid this is bad for Joe.
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  11520. I wish the blowhard would ADMIT he doesn't know more often. But why was he let off the hook? What is he doing to answer that question? He has no right to recommend mandates unless he can justify it with very strong evidence.
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  11521. Remember when Cokie Roberts and Gerry Spence agreed Ruby Ridge was an outrage? I do. I have a long memory.
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  11522. No idea what you are referring to. They both had good points here, at least.
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  11523. 6:10 THANK YOU BRIE -- it is Biden who is responsible for some of the worst policies ever implemented in this country.
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  11524. A bigger BS artist than Trump. Sounds right to me.
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  11525. Lol, I appreciate gallows humor.
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  11526.  @nealorr5086  I love math. I majored in it. Say, have you ever watched math videos on YouTube? Most of the ones I watch are by Nigerians, Tanzanians, and Kenyans. Prime Newtons is particularly good. Love reviewing limits in calculus, that was a favorite topic.
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  11527. @bropitt  Her parents left the US to work, and to make sure the kids got a good education. See my post about math. It's all connected.
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  11528.  @nealorr5086  I'm against DEI.
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  11529.  @leviashanken2506  Schools in the US tend to be not as good as in other countries. If you had studied in other countries' systems as I have, it would not be a mystery to you. Private/public doesn't matter; the country matters.
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  11530. It is too late for a lot of people.
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  11531. "Mass formation psychosis"
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  11532. Nomiki even got confused about who claimed who made the d-threat against whom. Wow. 😂
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  11533. ​ @margaretames6522  Too late to push him out.
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  11534.  @justinreilly1  Or maybe you don't. Could that be it?
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  11535. Remember that manufacturing consent used to be more subtle. What you see now is complete lack of fear, because the MSM, now concentrated in a handful of companies, know they have impunity. No reason to go to the trouble of hiding their tracks.
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  11536.  @EsmondLyons  Scary, yes.
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  11537.  @melissadeloach8503  djape has a point . . . This also happened. His numbers may be exaggerated, but the basic facts are there.
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  11538. And jailed! /s
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  11539. I thought it was signalling anti-trans. /s
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  11540. Amen. But you won't get up votes for asking real questions.
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  11541.  @samhhaincat2703  People who "like" her are wearing it as a brand. It's a way to signal affluence, and to count as being an enlightened feminist Democrat without giving up dessert, servants, and access to Reagan-level money.
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  11542.  @linguaphile42  No one said that. It is, however, true that the interests of a massive absentee landowner are materially different from those of a modest homeowner in permanent residence, and that the former creates risks to the latter, and that governments abet them hugely. This happens even though there are vastly more modest homeowners around than billionaire absentee landowners. Somehow, though, they never seem to count. Let's watch and see what happens next. Or, will you be duped by the deft dissembling and public relations prowess of a billionaire to look away? Hmm?
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  11543. Max Blumenthal was right. Elwood was mocking her. She said she was disappointed that people showed her zero sympathy. And Elwood went on a classic gaslighting trip. Kiddo, if you support MANDATES, you ARE an absolutist.
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  11544.  @lembergnative7731  What I said, with emphasis supplied: "I'm curious whether in fact an attack on the Donbass region from right-wing Ukrainian forces was imminent. I don't believe the Russian response was anywhere near proportionate, much less justified. But the real point is, we should WANT to suspend judgment until we know. Why should anyone WANT to dehumanize any victims?" Maybe you might answer the last question? Not publicly. To your moi intime.
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  11545. ​ @JL-yt5hy  I know!! Imagine telling a girl that if she gets top surgery, she won't be able to breastfeed. Everyone knows she can get implants. /s
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  11546.  @stevekaylor5606  My parents loved her.
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  11547. Bush had so much more time to destroy other countries, commit war crimes, and create a global refugee crisis. Obama then contributed to that process. Trump poisoned domestic politics much more. And so quickly, too.
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  11548.  @danielmanly4793  I agree with everything you said, and I do mean every word. I'm to the left of every major American politician. (But I'm sort-of Euro left. Cancel culture freaks us out, not to mention the crime of firing unvaccinated workers. Don't get me started.)
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  11549. I agree with that. Reality. We should try it.
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  11550.  @darlenelawson1255  In the US, FDA approved compared with EUA makes a big difference. It's not the same in Canada. But you're right, waiting for full approval means you take on certain obligations, no matter what social safety net you have -- or lack.
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  11551.  @eat_your_cereal  You are wise.
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  11552. Someone will make bank.
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  11553. Why do you imagine you know? Because she is very good at persuading you. That is her skill. That is an extremely important job.
    2
  11554. @RandallStevenson  I gave some numbers. Someone explain to me how MATH is cents erred? Not the first time. And I don't insert trash talk. Simple math.
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  11555. Exactly. He could be a lawyer and do something about the issues he talks about, but that would be hard. Performance is easier.
    2
  11556.  @Krangbot  You're mesmerized by Hollywood, which I agree is vile. I agree they have the more sinister techniques of quasi-brainwashing. They don't promote left-wing ideas; they promote standard DNC, Clintonism, Kamala Harris, and all that rot. But the actual firings are happening to the left. You just don't count those. You don't know those people's names. "We can all see" isn't about what happens, it's about what's visible.
    2
  11557.  @Krangbot  Oh yeah, getting banned from Twitter is SO MUCH WORSE than being fired from a job or denied a job. Just terrible!
    2
  11558. ​ @mademsoisellerhapsody Look, she was not scared of them, clearly. Kerfuffle.
    2
  11559. A judge is immune from any punishment for his decisions as such. If these judges were bribed, for example, they would be prosecuted for that, not for the decision itself.
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  11560. @Jesse Burgen The USSR ended in 1991. Well over a generation ago, going on two. Math is no longer stressed in schools for a reason.
    2
  11561. The fact that discussion is shut down, the Precautionary Principle suddenly disappears, . . . where have we heard this before?
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  11562.  @MonkeyMind69  Thank you for the recommendation. I don't know what else to say.
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  11563. There's an idea. It'll never work. /s
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  11564. "Vaccine" is not a magic word. Every medication that merits the name "vaccine" does not necessarily have all the characteristics of the best vaccines. Some vaccines actually improve immunity to infections overall, not just creating immunity to the microbe the vaccine is aimed at. Seems that others don't. Look up the 1976 swine flu rush to develop a vaccine that ended up causing neurological damage and had to be withdrawn.
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  11565. @pearhams2  If you didn't grasp what this alluded to . . . Peterson was worse than The View at that moment, a rare feat.
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  11566. 😮 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
    2
  11567. The Red Army and Arkhipov saved the world.
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  11568. The justice system doesn't believe young girls don't want to sleep with rich boys.
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  11569. WHO is going to help those injured by vaccines, however rare they may be? They won't just be left alone, they'll be bullied and excluded -- and go broke.
    2
  11570.  @1848revolt  Well, that's idiotic, too. A defamation case, especially about an op-ed, is a First Amendment case. It's not about "metoo," which was another mass hysteria. It's not about who the worse offender in a relationship turned out to be. It's about whether specific speech or writing is First Amendment-protected.
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  11571. Well, two brain operations when he was much younger, for venous malformations. He's doing great, considering. I mean, he has no need of assisted living at all.
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  11572.  @SamFreedom  Gosh. I thought /s was unnecessary. I admit I should have known better.
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  11573. My family was defrauded due to corporate crime. I would like to be where we should have been with our own hard, honest work --- and not a cent more. Just where we should be, no interest paid, either, and I'd be very pleased.
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  11574.  @mmallory22  🤣 Have a good weekend.
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  11575.  @jeepien  Sorry! You SO beat me to it! LOL
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  11576.  @moondust2365  Look at it this way, then: 1/11 = 0.090909 . . . 10/11 = 0.909090 . . . 1/11 + 10/11 = 0.9999 . . . = ((1 + 10)/11) = 11/11 = 1.
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  11577.  @danielturner9832  Yes you are.
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  11578. Not what Kim said.
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  11579.  @burtonsnow845  That, too, absolutely. But keep your eye on the ball.
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  11580. Moolah 💰
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  11581. Since it seems that no one is going to give Wolf the right of rebuttal, I hunted down a few videos of her myself. I don't pretend they were a representative sample -- in fact, in light of the recent censorship, they are likely to be the ones that survived. In any event, from the few I saw, what struck me were all the times she was very careful to state that she was not a medical doctor, that she was not a statistician, and that she did not have the necessary expertise to take a hard look at the data. Then she called upon people who do have that expertise to get involved. She had no trouble saying three little truthful words that would have made all the difference over these past three years: "I don't know." I don't hear that from Klein. I don't hear that from any administration mouthpiece. On the other hand, I also noticed that Wolf sometimes exaggerated the risk of certain side effects that we now know to be common, but that were systematically denied or minimized by the CDC, FDA, NIH, and other bad actors. I don't like or approve of either one, or regard exaggeration to be an antidote to minimization. It isn't. We WERE lied to, by those with an obligation to tell us the truth. The only corrective to lies is scrupulous truth-telling. On balance, I find Wolf much more likable and believe she is sincere. I also find it much easier to check her claims and forgive her errors, but only because she is more humble and concedes her limitations. But as I said, I don't like or endorse exaggeration any more than the poisonous gaslighting we have been subjected to. Exaggeration makes it too easy to dismiss the truth that the problems with the vaccines are serious and are not being given the attention they deserve --- and to write people off with pressing concerns as "conspiracy theorists." That that move still works (still!!) is disappointing. I agree wholeheartedly with your points. Thanks for the Gray Zone recommendation. It sounds great.
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  11582.  @fredgarvinMP  Gosh, you're nice. I'm embarrassed.
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  11583. Or flattered, at first, by the attention? Remember, he had been married and divorced. And he rekindled the relationship briefly. Just how naive could he have been?
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  11584. They showed exactly what they are.
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  11585. 🤣🤣🤣
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  11586. First of all, who knows who is on the plane based on this data? Second, this does not stop the tracking -- whoever could track him before can track him now, and share the information with his nefarious associates. This stops people from posting it on Twitter, is all.
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  11587. I don't know why people can't listen to their point here. Their point is that all of the rest of us are even more vulnerable than he is, but we don't have the $44 billion to do something about it. They made it well. Musk literally promised not to ban that account. No one made him promise. Did he only just realize the possible ramifications? So he's not the boy wonder we are supposed to think he is.
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  11588.  @talkingmudcrab718  The reason it's not is because we have no idea of how typical or atypical any given person's experience is. But a truthful report can tell us what is possible. Not what is likely or unlikely. This is why Dr. Campbell has interviewed those with vaccine injuries. It tells you what could happen, and what doctors could see in their practice. He doesn't imply any one doctor will see such cases. They may be too rare. (OR NOT.)
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  11589. If the US reported death rate from COVID were identical to Japan's, we would have about 50,000 dead, not close to 800,000. Our drug overdose deaths during the pandemic is 100,000. I want answers.
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  11590. I hope this makes it harder to rig the primairies against RFK Jr.
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  11591. How so? I've watched Briahna, and she is harsher with the left, so-called. Why do you impute this to her? BTW, the way you spell her name, you'll never find her channel.
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  11592.  @douginorlando6260  The first result, in one study, is troubling. I see no serious followup. WHY?
    2
  11593.  @awfullyawful  The first appeared in a small study from legitimate researchers. They found broader effects on the immune system, including the TNF issue, and an apparent positive side effect of better immunity against mold.
    2
  11594. Gasp! The vaccine didn't work??????
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  11595. Megyn Kelly is SO jealous of any woman who gets more attention than she does. 😂😂😂 Never fails.
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  11596. Perfect comment
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  11597. He's lying. That simple.
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  11598.  @jonathanarcher6060  I know TC is a POS. That wasn't the point. How did you pass senior English? Wait, don't tell me. I don't want to know.
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  11599. I hope so.
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  11600. Medicare without age discrimination is dumb?
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  11601.  @Androth12  You should think about reading some constitutional law cases. I mean, if you care so much.
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  11602.  @Androth12  The same places that say birth control and interracial marriage are.
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  11603. Humble myself before The Market? It "knows" more than I do? It "knows" that Socrates, Kant, and Mozart combined have less value than a Kardashian. Well, Sowell certainly is humble if he thinks he has less value than a Kardashian, I have to hand him that. No, I wasn't told I was special. I was told that where my parents were from was DU bomb worthy. But I digress.
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  11604.  @Swervee9  You're right.
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  11605. ​@peterstafford4426 which "rune" is that
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  11606.  @low_vibration  Remember those really old economics books, with the graphic depicting a trade-off between guns and butter? The more socialized an economy, the harder it is to pay for both butter and aggressive war -- while capitalists must fight wars of aggression in order to expand. As for Trump, something similar at work: he wants to build luxury apartments and hotels in Russia. Single-minded. What serves that end = good. What doesn't = "bad, very bad."
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  11607.  @hansreichhardtsohn4522  Who are YOU kidding? Did you not just support his incarceration?
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  11608. I'm so sorry.
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  11609. 😂😂😂 Nice
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  11610. The serious side effects are somewhere between 80 and 120 per 100,000 doses. Hence, unless you work in medicine, you are likely never to meet anyone with a serious side effect. Yet that is a huge safety signal for any vaccine. One serious side effect per 100,000 doses is enough to warrant scrutiny, and substantially more than that usually leads to withdrawal. I know of only one case of harm, but that one is horrible. Vaccines are SUPPOSED to be safe.
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  11611. ​@diarmooc2621 That he knows no one is very believable. I hope my previous post is still up. The standard is several very bad effects per 100,000 is plenty to cause serious concern. That means, say, 99,996 people with no grave effects . . . More like only 99,880 for these! IOW, really grim.
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  11612.  @seandewaal7980  It has to be an incitement to imminent violence against an identifiable person or specific group of people to be prohibited. Nadine Strossen wrote a truly great book about it. I don't agree with everything she says, but that book is powerful. She claims hate speech laws always backfire, and she provides a ton of evidence to back it up. I think there may be ways to restrict some hate speech, but anyone who wants to restrict it needs to read her book first. The cure is usually worse than the disease. It makes more sense to counter speech you don't like with more speech, not censorship. Threatening language is not a true threat. You can meet it with more speech.
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  11613.  @peterjv8748  Give us some examples of what should be censored.
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  11614. Robby, the only use of billions of dollars is to control other people -- including by buying influence. There is nothing else these people can buy with that much money.
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  11615. Ivermectin is approved for STUDY, and Jimmy had said he was approved for a study. WHY is his doctor being harassed??
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  11616. ​ @nevrstopdrivin This was the same topic.
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  11617.  @wesbrown340  Well, you see the hysteria the lockdown -- without clear discussion, proper planning, and serious mitigation -- unleashed. Dangerous stuff. We DID deserve better. What was done was not right. Emergency UBI was the least we should have had.
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  11618. You've JUST realized this? Then the act was necessary.
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  11619. @annabellelee4535  Why so hostile? Is she that much prettier than you? 😂😂😂
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  11620. The remedy for speech you don't like is MORE speech. Big Tech is allowed to add a "warning" message on any video they disagree with, for any reason. If they can identify "problematic" videos or other materials that they think should be censored, then they can just add a disclaimer instead. More speech, not censorship. Big Tech can certainly afford it. Bottom line: they are LYING about why they censor.
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  11621.  @joseywales148  I don't care all that much if I die anymore, so I don't see where you got that.
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  11622. They all have immunity.
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  11623. @xejelah  That's the law. The company that made the report to police, the police who arrested her, the judge . . . The company did not lie about her words, the police had reason to visit her, and the judge has absolute immunity for her judicial decisions, absent something like outright bribery.
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  11624. Will they learn the Nazis were defeated by the Red Army? Wait. They don't mean the Nazis were victims of Communism, do they?
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  11625.  @MrRezRising  No. It also has to be intended as a threat.
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  11626.  @christheghostwriter  It will get dismissed. That's what will happen. Unless they can get her to bargain down to a misdemeanor and ding her for $10k. That might work. Has anyone here ever read a First Amendment case? Too bad naming them gets canceled! The irony . . .
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  11627. @christheghostwriter  The Supreme Court has stated that First Amendment law is not a treatise on good manners. No, they really said that, in a trademark case, where a rude trademark (music group name) was illegally rejected.
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  11628. @MadeOfQuestions  You've misstated the law. Statutes against cross burning that did not require the state to establish criminal intent have been struck down as violating our right to free speech and expression. Laws against swearing at police are nonexistent. Obstructing an officer in the performance of his duties is another matter.
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  11629.  @jwill9237  This isn't a true threat.
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  11630. @TheCaptainSlappy  Why don't you look up what a true threat sounds like, and see what convictions have been reversed, on much stronger words, directed even against a President?
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  11631. @TheCaptainSlappy  There is a lovely website maintained by the Library of Congress called Constitution Annotated. You could spend some time looking around the First Amendment pages. See how strong and angry political speech can get, and still be legally protected. I can appreciate why some people disagree with the First Amendment. I support it fully.
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  11632. @MrRezRising  The posters are irrelevant. They cannot make what she said illegal.
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  11633. @jwill9237  No, it's not. Read some cases concerning true threats. (Quoting from them is usually censored. So much for the pragmatics of free speech.) The most natural interpretation of what she said was a warning: don't push this. You're abusing us, and people are angry. "What comes around goes around."
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  11634. @TheCaptainSlappy  "I have already received my draft classification as 1-A, and I have got to report for my physical this Monday . . . I am not going. If they ever make me carry a rifle, the first man I want to get in my sights is L.B.J." Was this a true threat against President Johnson? It was a real case, and the man said it in Washington DC, in front of a small group of people. Guess the outcome.
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  11635. @smirky101  We know you aren't into reading law books, but you could at least skim the thread. Happy Sunday, lol.
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  11636. YOU are right. It's always follow the money.
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  11637.  @johnlennon6790  Can you be serious? The REST of the Western world, at least those in non-English speaking countries, has had tuition-free university for most of their existence. A job following graduation is the minimum. I expect more from universities.
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  11638. It's exhilarating to see Americans take the bait and fight amongst themselves. Maybe the European left and the BRICS and their allies can take some control over their lives after all. Maybe the world is changing.
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  11639.  @johnlennon6790  Property ownership is a matter of convention. Why anyone should believe that universal K through 12 education should be tuition-free, but education for doctors, nurses, lawyers, teachers, accountants, everyone involved in management and logistics and every other essential function in modern society should not only not be free but impossible to afford requires some explaining.
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  11640. Mine was $2.10 an hour. With one roommate, it paid the rent.
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  11641. Supporting "a side" in Ukraine instead of demanding peace and serious moves toward peace is no "holy" alliance.
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  11642. He's nuts. Keeping it simple. No one on the panel wants to hurt LGBTQ kids or deny their individuality. Emily told him straight up.
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  11643. Be happy with who is president. Wall Street threatened to support Trump if the Dems nominated Sanders.
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  11644. You mean the guy who let FAUCI run the country?
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  11645. At this moment, watching morning shows in France, which do not state that Russian tanks have entered the newly recognized provinces in Ukraine. American sources state that yes, Russian tanks have crossed the border into those provinces. No opinion on my part. I just noticed the discrepancy.
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  11646. I think trading and investment is the worst way to live. Find a way to produce something that comes uniquely from you, that no one else can do quite like you, then use every honest strategy you can think of to make sure you are well compensated for it. That's called earning what you have. We don't know what excelling means anymore.
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  11647.  @lisaschuster9187  What do you mean by forgiven? I would have given him a new job immediately. Just not the sort of job he imagined he was entitled to.
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  11648.  @Silence_Duder_Gooder  He's a known troll. Possibly more than one person.
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  11649. Agreed.
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  11650.  @colinfffff  YES, which is why he should.
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  11651. You publish what a US Senator has to say, PLUS a counterpoint, disputing his claims and disagreeing with his conclusions. How about that?
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  11652. The incessant propaganda and fear mongering did affect all of us. Where do we go to get our clarity back? You do this to people for two years and what do you think happens?
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  11653. There are two basic types of vaccines. I read that a German team of researchers believe they know why J & J has had rare blood clot issues, and a paper is pending. I expect to take the J & J vaccine by the end of the year. MRNA may be a brilliant breakthrough, but many countries are not offering this technology, by choice.
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  11654.  @kayb3310  BTW, what makes you think you know the beliefs of the shooter? The 9/11 terrorists believed in "something greater than themselves."
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  11655.  @MrEyegee  I listen very closely, and I look at his record as a litigator. I agree with you.
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  11656. This is good.
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  11657. Let's be honest: in today's atmosphere, and by today's standards, Routh's poster is hardly weird or extreme. The issue is his criminal record.
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  11658. This is almost as bad as the FAUCI coverage.
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  11659. You guys are really nuts. He just made two outstanding videos on the war in Ukraine.
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  11660. Exactly. That is almost impossible to do.
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  11661.  @AmericanNope  Duh.
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  11662. That stuff about being Episcopalian was funny. Remember Loudon Wainwright III?
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  11663.  @SandraMartinez-gv1yf  Busy little copy-paster, aren't we?
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  11664.  @SandraMartinez-gv1yf  Great, instead of making people drop bombs or operate drones, make them go to college. Then it's more like taxes. Everyone has to go.
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  11665.  X Y  You have a point. The dollar is global reserve currency for a reason.
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  11666.  @fakeittothewest  Never heard that. In what context? Does bringing up Wuhan lab get you cancelled now, too?
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  11667.  @nimblebimble  How about this: "We don't have much data yet on how well masks work unless there is universal compliance, such as we have in hospital settings, and we have to save medical-grade masks for our first responders. Our first responders need them and are trained in using them." See. It's not hard to tell the truth. And that way, you laid a foundation: when the directive to wear masks comes down, you already stressed universal compliance. You already told people it was essential. Not that they don't work. I think the only culture warrior in the picture is YOU.
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  11668.  @fakeittothewest  Sorry if you don't have the attention span to read what I can toss off in a few seconds. Maybe you should spend less time online?
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  11669. He has enough money. I'm six months away from not having enough money to eat. Needless to say, no restaurants for me: cook everything I eat.
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  11670. Well, when a pregnant ten-year-old girl is presumed by the right wing and Fox to be fake news, and her doctor gets death threats, then yes. Freedom of choice has been shown to matter after all. No one likes to see their rights ripped from them, even if they think that many women misuse those rights.
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  11671. So I guess a lot of people like The Apprentice show better than the January 6th Committee show.
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  11672. Now is a good time to listen to Max Blumenthal's interview of Mattias Desmet again, and again, and again . . .
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  11673. Black dogs are good luck.
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  11674. No UBI during this pandemic is THE most immoral thing ever done. Not only that people could not work: they could not circulate freely, they could not have a funeral, they could not see loved ones in the hospital, they could not freely look for work, they had to close their own businesses and many lost those businesses. People have been evicted already. People crossing state lines in many places are supposed to quarantine for two weeks. Essential workers have been overwhelmed, with no extra hazard pay. Their pay is not enough. Parents of children going to school remotely need to upgrade their technology. Did everyone else know our government was this dastardly?
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  11675. If the Ukraine war ends, the US needs some other war to keep Biden in office. Poor bet, but they always make it.
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  11676. No, Lindsey. This is up to CONGRESS.
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  11677.  @jebus9303  Yes. That's why I stated "waiver." A person can waive Fourth Amendment protection if they wish, or Fifth Amendment rights, or their right to a trial. So of course they can waive HIPPA (and no, their NOK cannot do it, if they themselves are awake, oriented, and able to speak to the journalist). My question is then, was waiver incentivized? How? Not hard to grasp.
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  11678. The billionaire class will threaten them with blacklisting. See how quickly they go there?
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  11679. Sam Altman just donated $1 million to the Trump inauguration.
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  11680.  @seanwilliams7655  Yeah. Breaks my heart. ;( And I don't have kids.
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  11681.  @seanwilliams7655  I'm so sorry. I know two new moms who are doing well. Worried, but the children are too young to notice anything major is going on, and they like having their parents at home.
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  11682. I think the money they got from SBF should be placed in escrow, and these politicians should have their lawyers contact the bankruptcy court and the bankruptcy trustee, and then sit tight. The right thing to do is crystal clear.
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  11683. When I was in high school and college, everyone I knew who had a significant viral illness needed six months to a year to feel 100% like themselves, as if they had never been sick. This includes mononucleosis, hepatitis, meningitis, pneumonia. They act like this is something new. A flu can make you feel weak for six whole weeks. So what?? HYPOCHONDRIA is bad for you.
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  11684. Three tremendous guys! Thank you.
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  11685. This didn't happen on US soil.
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  11686.  @joelaplante9674  What do you think "nonsectarian" means? If you had the patience, you'd have read further and found out that religious affiliation poses no problem under the law, but using government funds to indoctrinate children into any particular religion (or no religion) was prohibited. The money had to be used for strictly nonsectarian purposes, such as, you know, mathematics, literature, geography, that a child of any religious background could benefit from equally.
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  11687.  @joelaplante9674  I have the case downloaded and read it this afternoon.
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  11688.  @lrg8737  $200 billion is nearly $100 million a year since Year 1. Still not enough . . . Krystal: "This society is not set up to benefit people." What part don't you get?
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  11689.  @SpookyFow  I love math and history.
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  11690.  @carrenpalmer3453  Not quite. The law was so badly drafted that by the rule of lenity, he could not be held responsible for violating it. This is a rule similar to the presumption of innocence. A full generation after Columbine and Wisconsin's legislature was incapable of drafting a reasonable and constitutional gun law with respect to minors. What do we pay them for?
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  11691. Persuades those already persuaded.
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  11692. 16:42 WHO WAS RUDE?
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  11693. ​ @smoochie3331 Vance sounded like he has marital issues.
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  11694.  @TheUAoB  Thank you.
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  11695.  @anotherlover6954  Especially blueberries, kale, and beets. 😂
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  11696. Great point, yeah.
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  11697.  @paulweeldreyer7457  Two million of those humans just went on strike in France. Well, the French are super human, hm? ;)
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  11698.  @taiwanjohn  thanks for this
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  11699. No one thinks we're living in the best time to be alive. Writing from 2022
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  11700. 💖Max💖 Seriously
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  11701. Shame on Dean Phillips.
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  11702. ​ @DR_1_1 Guess what happened to my cogent and fact ual re ply?
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  11703. ​ @DR_1_1  Why can you say this but no one can re ply?
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  11704. Well . . . I stop watching you.
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  11705.  @riverstone1492  You poor thing.
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  11706. "Biden Bathroom Accident Rumors" = BBAR Right up there with Let's Go Brandon.
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  11707. Has Robby ever heard of the Our Lady of Angels school fire?
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  11708.  @Dan-ger82  I know she's not alone. I'm so sorry. How is she now?
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  11709.  @Dan-ger82  A friend of mine got the first shot, after having already contracted COVID without knowing it. Then she developed COVID symptoms. She got better at home after about a week, then a few weeks later was due for her second shot. Her doctor and the department of health told her to get it. She was severely ill for four days, but did not need hospitalization. Turns out most doctors would have told her to wait at least 60 days, and up to 90 after her first shot to take the second. Wow, just wow.
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  11710. Excellent point. Made me think of Charles Manson.
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  11711.  @captain_malaria  Risk? As if you can't replace them if they don't work out? If they are not earning that wage? Pay kids a token wage, they won't work hard. Makes perfect sense. They are rational actors, too, and have no reason to take the job seriously. They aren't wrong. It's playing out right now. In the meantime, the adults who have to keep those jobs and live on them are stressed and frustrated, picking up the slack and suffering age discrimination, afraid of being blamed for anything that goes wrong because they make a dollar an hour more than the new kid. That's how these places are run.
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  11712. He hit the nail on the head. Americans think they can depose Putin.
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  11713. Are you kidding? Gates always sounds like this.
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  11714.  @than217  THIS!
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  11715.  @ronmackinnon9374  EXACTLY. Perfect.
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  11716.  @Azrael_Garou  No implicit suggestion that Dore needs to stop "running his mouth," or else Ana goes public with the apology note he wrote seven years ago? One wonders why a MeToo victim would send such a message to her assailant, then. Do people typically warn their assailants, prior to warning the public about the danger these abusive characters present? Why would they? They would just make the necessary report, wouldn't they? They would want to keep their intentions quiet, generally, before carrying them out.
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  11717. Then placing their symbols on public property is not a violation of the Establishment Clause. Maybe you don't want to go there?
    2
  11718.  @mortisnoctu  You clearly don't know.
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  11719. Of COURSE Michelle Obama is right. So why didn't the DNC nominate an invincible candidate? So the DNC can nominate anyone and we must vote for him?
    2
  11720. ​ @heartonmysleeves4668  Exactly
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  11721.  @charlescritchfield8242  Anyone who thinks Biden's critics support Trump at this point . . . Well, anything I could say about that would be TOS-ed. There was no good way for this election to end. Biden is at best less bad than Trump; at worst, as bad but in a different and more conventional way. Probably the former. I'll give ya that.
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  11722.  @kennycook8691  I've had actually false accusations made against me, LOL. Had to leave a job when I was harassed and the harasser reported me. This is normal in the US.
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  11723. Is a neuro-typical president without longstanding personality issues too much to ask? Apparently.
    2
  11724. @Gucci Dove He said "pay attention to," not that he listens to no one else. I listen to a lot of people, to find out for myself what they said. You can't even trust a report on what someone said. Nowadays you have check it out for yourself. :/
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  11725.  @yarweiss  To me it means listen reasonably closely and take seriously. I will listen to Tucker Carlson, to see what he said. I don't take him seriously, except insofar as noting when something he said can do grave harm (e.g., Kyle Rittenhouse reporting).
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  11726.  @yarweiss  Synonyms are rare. :D
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  11727. ​@sudenims5235 That's not left, that's mental. Poison pill.
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  11728. 1:39
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  11729.  @coolkidrorose7860  Actually, it does. Some former Marines here have posted about it.
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  11730. Strictly speaking, if government actors pressured or simply requested that Twitter censor the Hunter Biden story, then the First Amendment most certainly IS implicated.
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  11731. $50,000 a month for a year = retirement for me.
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  11732. Ryan is astute here, after the James Webb Telescope segment.
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  11733. Americans like to see other Americans die, especially the poor ones.
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  11734. @StarrlaRo  Being an attorney and a bona fide Sorbonne grad in ancient philosophy (no, not junior year abroad), with a decent grounding in mathematics before that, I suspect I can swing it. (Why am I suddenly reminded of Rebecca Solnit? A mini-Solnit moment? Mmm, no. I couldn't, I wouldn't go that far. . . . Except for that phrase, "college research." Hm. Okay. I'll bite: in which language?)
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  11735.  @georgemetesky5519  He just got clemency. No pardon, however.
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  11736.  @jasminelindros8923  If you can't think recursively, take some action to remedy that. It's not a small problem.
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  11737.  @jasminelindros8923  Oh!! NAME-CALLING! Of course! NOW we see. But look, you didn't tell us you were a sensitive, artistic genius. How were we to know? So sorry to have disrupted your creative process. We won't interact with you again.
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  11738.  @jasminelindros8923  OMG. You actually said triggered AND self-victimization! Had I known, I would not have communicated with you. 🤣 Please see Orwell, Politics and the English Language.
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  11739. For years now.
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  11740. ​ @cindygreleski5376 Yup, loved it.
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  11741. ​ @liberalismisaids9564 Kash Patel and Tulsi already told their departments to pause responses. As for the Congress and the Judiciary, they are independent of the Executive branch. They're not supposed to reply at all, based on Separation of Powers.
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  11742.  @jivet3919  If something that the vast majority supports nevertheless loses in Congress, and it so happens to be HEALTH CARE, during a catastrophic pandemic, there . . . won't be hell to pay? Why be a representative? Be a day trader. It's more honest.
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  11743. In 2020 (2020!!!), why did anyone think it wise to elect a cognitively impaired, and morally and politically deeply compromised man for president?
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  11744. IOW, more of the same. Let's start with radical honesty. Then perhaps we can have some progress on this issue.
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  11745. @Diane Schubach A known troll.
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  11746.  @emmalynne7851  "Hero" is not too strong a word, not by any stretch. We all owe you more than we can say.
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  11747. CDC just said 8 months. That would be three boosters every two years.
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  11748. Ana: "So you could buy a pair for your wife so she dresses better" -- a lovely "feminist" dig at Stef, Jimmy's wife. Did you notice??
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  11749. Rob Reiner and Amy Klobuchar are lying. And then acting as if the fact that they are ignorant proves that what (they claim) they are ignorant of doesn't exist. Dirty move.
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  11750. @@manishmims2727 So let's have some more! Weeee!
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  11751. Kind of a funny question, considering.
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  11752. Their paycheck depends on their brand of "smarts." No more, no less.
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  11753. @Rob Thompson  Did this event take place at the White House or did it not? And no, this has nothing to do with racism. It's a diversion from real issues, including racism.
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  11754. You're kidding. . . . Right?
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  11755.  @vafixer8885  Look up The Nation reporting from about five years ago or so, well before the recent crisis, concerning Nazis in Ukraine. They did a series on it. THAT is what Jimmy Dore is primarily relying on.
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  11756.  @vafixer8885  Evidence? Reporting from many years ago, such as The Nation, which did a series on neo-Nazis in Ukraine. Nothing I read from after the invasion can be trusted to be free of exaggeration or minimization.
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  11757.  @vafixer8885  No, he is not basing his entire report on one translated word that you insist does not carry a sinister meaning in English, and hence cannot in Ukrainian.
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  11758.  @belgiumhr3524  You already found several series on the issue in The Nation, by Lev Golinkin most recently (i.e., early 2019), and read them?
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  11759.  @vafixer8885  Fun fact: when you hear Russians bragging about being a "Eurasian" people, they may simply be stating a historical and cultural fact, or . . . They could be ultra-right, neo-Nazi-tinged nationalists like Alexander Dugin or the late Eduard Limonov (whose book, It's Me, Eddie, featured in a recent Adam Curtis documentary, is very much worth a read, though it needs a warning). I bet you would have never guessed, huh?
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  11760. Doesn't matter. It is illegal to use lethal force unless the safety of a PERSON is in danger. Lethal force in defense of property is illegal.
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  11761. ​ @St_Fish Thank you. Has everyone lost their faculties??
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  11762.  @rupertneverton3887  Kim got it. You cannot get anything past Kim. 🤣
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  11763.  @lazypops3117  No. It's all the people who say the unvaccinated deserve to die, good riddance, etc., and all the positive remarks they receive that I call "hate." Disbelief doesn't come close. Who cares about that?
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  11764.  @christian1834  This is what worries me. I was just telling two of my dearest neighbors that they should never allow the jerks who are pushing vaccination to influence them against it. The propaganda should have ZERO influence on you, either way. Propaganda is not information about anything, except the mentality and character of the propagandist.
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  11765.  @kellyfowler6426  That's fine. I don't disagree with you. But concerning mitigation, don't you wonder why the US has handled this pandemic worse than just about any other country? Those in positions of responsibility are using the media to turn people against each other and make COVID into yet another blame-the-individual game. That always happens. Haven't you noticed? An unvaccinated person who tests weekly (like most Germans do) and wears a mask is less of a threat to you than someone who got vaccinated and refuses to take precautions. Their vaccine protects them, not you.
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  11766.  @jip4408  Well what a nice thing to say! Thank you, I will. She won't know whether she'll end up getting a placebo, unless the monoclonal antibodies cause marked side effects. She is a great human being, true.
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  11767. ​ @dsmj7389 And think about what THAT says . . . Says it all. ;/
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  11768.  @germantrainer442  His books are great fun. I think his publisher also promotes high brow astrology books, archetype books, that sort of thing. Didn't you notice the resemblance? This is all pure 21st century Hollywood.
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  11769.  @bratSebastian  You wrote: "The sex drive is about to make people procreate . . . Because of different kinds of pathologies [that] may happen to people, some sexual acts may not lead to reproduction, but still produces neurotransmitters to ensure people of doing something desired. Being conscious about broken mechanism, but still taking part in those acts is like willingly taking a drug just to feel better. Intensionally (sic) preventing the possibility of procreation is not just being unnatural drug addict (sic), but also unreasonably and unjustly selfish." I hope you never say these types of things to young people. Suddenly the mystery of massive celibacy and trans ideology-based requests for gender reassignment and social transitioning that is sweeping high schools becomes clearer. I would not want any child of mine to hear this sheer rot.
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  11770.  @harnessriscallous7466  It's not a who, it's a what. (I'm a California-licensed lawyer.)
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  11771.  @scottmcloughlin4371  You're smart. Don't drink the koolaid. Everything you say could be true. But that's not why this happened. I still remember about 30 or 40 years ago, when custody disputes might feature claims of ritual satanic child abuse.
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  11772.  @dloesch  Good lord you're right.
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  11773. @Reckless Ron I have noticed that well-written comments are much more likely to be disappeared, in one way or another, than are bizarre rants, and this has been true for as long as I remember -- certainly over 20 years. The worst rants stay up, and really vile abuse stays up. One ostensible explanation is that the well-written posts contain factual assertions, and anyone can single out a statement of fact and call it misleading, based only on what it emphasizes. On the other hand, rants are "opinions." Opinions can't be deemed false so easily (even a baseless opinion is someone's opinion). Notice how sinister this is: it makes you think everyone is nuts, that no one can think rationally, and no one out there agrees with you. It makes you think you're really alone. I think it's deliberate. I've seen it too many times, for years, and everywhere. I only joined YouTube when my state shut down in 2020, and YouTube is exactly the same as every other platform. Everyone I know who takes the time to post interesting stuff says the same thing. You mentioned the unusual vaccines you've had. Are you a veteran?
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  11774. Wow is fundraising waaaay too easy for politicians these days.
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  11775.  @erikparent8176  You're kidding, right?
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  11776.  @ctcole77  Has any such information been leakedand suppressed?
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  11777. This was: 7:11
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  11778. Like hell.
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  11779.  @em3sis  Here's another fact for you: previous generations of college students, whose in-state tuition at the great public universities was very low because it was heavily tax subsidized, STUDIED HARDER than students do now. Look it up.
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  11780.  @em3sis  Since we have the most incentives to stay healthy, why obesity? Why opioid addiction? Why infant mortality? Why teen pregnancy? Etc. You haven't addressed that.
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  11781.  @em3sis  Why do college students today, who go into debt for school instead of having tax-subsidized tuition, read less and attain a lower average level in mathematics than previous generations did, who had subsidized tuition and graduated with little debt? All the incentives are in place for them to study harder. They have debts to pay. And IT to master, at least as sophisticated users. Even drinking before age 21 is generally illegal. Still, they don't do it -- they don't study as much. They don't read as much. Odd!!
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  11782.  @brendenshaw1744  Yeah, we should deregulate all medical licencing. They could be like, say, life coaches.
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  11783.  @Jcewazhere  You were right, of course. That guy doesn't know about much stuff.
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  11784. Yes, but he is not a good speaker and should have prepared better. He is a brilliant writer, and the gap between the two is wide in his case.
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  11785. @omohakhirome6954  Acting like 60 is old is propaganda. How many authors wrote their best works at that age, never mind Sophocles writing the Theban cycle in his late 80s? Sophocles was an "outlier." A 60 year old in college is not. Still, good to know what prejudices one will be confronted with. I guess you don't think I can read 200 pages in a day? I couldn't in high school. I can now.
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  11786. Giving people a false sense of security about their ability to spread an illness can put the people around them at added risk.
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  11787. The purpose of all of that surveillance is not to make sure we know when a regime may fall, or whom a drone strike may kill. Its purpose is to know exactly what lie to tell us. It's working.
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  11788. I certainly wasn't, but I would have had no objection not to have been born. I see no problem at all. I didn't miss anything not having been born before I actually was. How would not being born at all be any different?
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  11789. No, it is not "rare." What is crucial is for prosecutors not to offer a motive that flies in the face of any facts that they can establish. If they don't know why, it is not a good idea to try to invent a "why." The law does not require a motive; it is not an essential element of the crime.
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  11790.  @markbrown9765  You're right. It has only gotten worse.
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  11791.  @taylorlibby7642 Good people are leaving teaching. Even the ones not harrassed are being corralled into serving as social worker/therapists. One very young and conscientious teacher I knew had pages-long, overwrought emails to answer every single night. Her personal life was nonexistent. If she tried to push back, she'd be written up and lose the possibility of tenure. Funny, the teachers who were mean right back in just the right way had better results. Reasoning, standing for honesty and sound principles, etc., never worked.
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  11792. That first poll, MTP, tells you who will win.
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  11793.  @paulespinosa5195  Provide a syllabus and reading list from any Harvard class, your choice, however few students actually take it, and tell us how it foists immorality on any of us. OTOH, if your point is that Harvard itself has a foundation invested in all sorts of unethical stuff, and part of going to Harvard is learning to ignore all that, because of the enormous socio-economic advantages that come with it, then say that.
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  11794. Please give a citation that disproves the Newsweek article. If it is wrong, that should be brought to light.
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  11795.  @tserevenad  There are better sources.
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  11796. Or, for popular sources, John Campbell. But I prefer the heavy duty stuff. See whether Sweden vaccinates toddlers. The worst part is that kids are missing the few vaccines that we actually know are of benefit to the vast majority and that most parents want for their children. No one really knows how to schedule the well-established vaccines with this one -- maybe not at all, huh?
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  11797. ​ @lucasmurphy740 That doesn't mean it's good for minors. You can also find very young teens who were sexually active, married their partner, and are happy. That doesn't make it good. That makes it "whew, they dodged a bullet, thank goodness."
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  11798. ​@user-kb2in7qb6z Should a person who says, "we came, we saw, he died" after advocating for precisely that and accomplishing it, be subject to arrest? Say, if Trump is reelected?
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  11799.  @carmengabriel4  Actually, that is common in vaccine research -- but those people are also supposed to have a PhD, in addition to Vet Med, to do the real research. That was back when vaccines were studied for years in animals first.
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  11800. @neilcooper9508  How about this might have been one step in the creation of new weapons?
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  11801. Great comments from Robby. Edit: the big picture view, not excuses for what happened here.
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  11802. This is a spoof, correct?
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  11803. Internet content providers are protected by Section 230 and can remove content at their own discretion, but GOVERNMENT cannot press for censorship of constitutionally protected speech. Government cannot use third parties as a cat's paw to do what it itself cannot do.
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  11804. The Bible told me the Bible was true. Google told me Google doesn't censor. Hunter Biden told me Hunter Biden is a cool guy.
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  11805. Capitalism is not a free market. Whoever equated the two lied to you. Read Adam Smith and see for yourself.
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  11806.  @rishpanjeet7479  You have zero clue what my education is. I don't care to give my identity away! Ha!
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  11807. Super good.
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  11808.  @mikereinhardt1244  He lost a deal when he lost a defamation case -- a better one, in UK. If he can twist the question here into "who was worse," and not whether the article Heard wrote was false, he might win. And the First Amendment principle that we should meet bad speech with more speech, not suppression, will be what suffers. But that's nothing new.
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  11809. I love Amy Goodman so much. She even mentioned Sophie Scholl today.
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  11810.  @westartfromhere7704  Where is this from? Don't link, they'll shadow it.
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  11811. ​ @utah_koidragon7117  I disagree.
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  11812. ​ @utah_koidragon7117 I think it's a big club and we're not in it.
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  11813.  @SDesWriter  I'm glad. The less risk for everyone, the better. The Swiss Ministry of Health website said last year that one dose of an mRNA vaccine plus full recovery from a proven case of COVID was considered full vaccination. I know the Swiss were not alone, many others said the same, but I don't remember which ones.
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  11814.  @nzalog  11:20 Who should, in principle, control US foreign policy? How did you like entrusting Bill Gates with vaccine policy?
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  11815. ​ @Superassassinman15  Don't be jealous.
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  11816. Eloquent! I agree.
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  11817. This is a real pandemic, and a depression is coming. It might pass.
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  11818.  @kevinschmidt2210  That guy joined last year to waste people's time.
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  11819. @RyanKearney0  Fired "for cause" (which basically means underperformance) will not get you on unemployment benefits in any state I know.
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  11820.  @julesk1567  WHAT is? lol
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  11821.  @ProclaimedHERETIC  I don't either, but RyanK wasn't entirely wrong. He did have a point.
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  11822. ​ @JTG96 A carnival barker and an eminent lawyer. Right.
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  11823.  @kurtklingbeil6900  Glenn and Jimmy's fans truly do know that book. Jimmy mentions it all the time. That, and Listen, Liberal! changed his world view.
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  11824. The "winners" must have been thrilled to see her destruction -- if they are anything like you, that is. I still remember the time when the Canadians with America's help tried to destroy the Russian gold medalists in pairs skating. They did that to a woman skater who almost died from a skull fracture and came back. North Americans hate true grit. It shows them up.
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  11825. The people who don't apologize have been coming out better, have you noticed? Trump and Biden come to mind. Or Cuomo, who regrets making anyone "uncomfortable," which is something much less than multiple women claim he did.
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  11826. I agree. I never had any trust in him.
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  11827.  @1977dclinton  No, not wrong --that is right on target.
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  11828. Should any judge, nevermind any federal judge, have a BLM sign in their window??
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  11829.  @Puppetmastersfool  100%
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  11830. @Puert0ricandream  Exactly
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  11831.  @geoffreygreen3521  I have no objection to taking breaks from wearing masks. I think wearing them on crowded public transit could be a good idea and I plan to try it from now on. Do you think COVID mitigation measures didn't result in a very light flu season? I think that is very possible.
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  11832. So . . . What are these people PAID?? WHY?
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  11833. Drugs? Is that it?
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  11834. Anonymous speech has a long history, especially for political speech, and it IS First Amendment protected.
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  11835. ​@corydor4218 So, should a long line of cases protecting the right to speak anonymously be overturned? WHY?
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  11836. ​ @v.l.7656 I'm sad that our MSM and educational system have failed to inform people on something so basic to America as free speech.
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  11837.  @Jerbert-qn4in  😂😂😂😂
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  11838. Less expensive than the private insurance system. Free up that capital, free people to start their own businesses. This isn't even "socialist!"
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  11839. The Canadian story is a canard. I personally know many Canadians with advanced cancer outliving every prognosis, with a good quality of life, and having access to the newest treatments.
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  11840. Because it wasn't Trump who raised the "stolen election" question, and because the laptop issue is real? Could that be it?
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  11841.  @LetholdusKaspyr  False. Look it up.
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  11842. Actually, if Facebook and other social media companies become NEWSPAPERS, with editorial control of their content, they may lose Section 230 immunity for what is published on their platforms. As matters stand, you can prove in court that defamatory material destroying your livelihood, and even leading to your false prosecution, was disseminated on Facebook, yet not only can you get no damages from them, but you cannot even force them to remove the defamatory material. It's up to them. How does that strike you? This is how powerful these companies are.
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  11843.  P-J Proudhom  "I assume you support lowering the age of consent to 13 and repealing the Mann Act by all this discomfort you have when someone brings up the most notorious trafficker of young, barely pubescent girls that ever surfaced." No, I don't assume that. I'm just demonstrating that two can play your dirty game. And play it better than you do. Well, . . . that's easy.
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  11844.  P-J Proudhom  Besides, Trump was friends with Epstein and recently wished Ghislaine Maxwell well.
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  11845.  @PresidentDennis  Business Insider has an apparently well-sourced article, and its main citation is to the NYTimes. The two hung out more than once or twice and had a mutual woman friend. The flight on an Epstein owned-plane was from the NYC area to Palm Beach, not to the island, and Gates might not have known anything about the plane's notoriety. There may be more, but isn't that quite enough already? Gates also lied, leading people to believe he just happened to stop by at Epstein's one time, to discuss philanthropy. Like with Trump, no need to exaggerate, the facts themselves are an utter disgrace.
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  11846. ​ @privatecitizen62 Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard were just confirmed by the Senate. You think the President should ask for their resignations? Or should Musk? 😂😂😂
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  11847. OH, now you're calling eminent toxic torts lawyers "idiots." Do you even know what that work entails, or how such cases are won?
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  11848.  @timogul  Yup. He won huge, important cases against massive corporations.
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  11849.  @timogul  Oxford: "(of a person) famous and respected within a particular sphere or profession"
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  11850. The better the actual news, the more they rely on coercion.
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  11851. YES YES YES.
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  11852. I know. He is such a genius. You or I could never come up with that.
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  11853.  @chaztiz8839  My post needs a sarcasm alert, even after this? ;D
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  11854.  @mrmonay  If politics were rational and fair, and if we had a robust and fair-minded media, both candidates would be better.
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  11855.  @FatBoy42069  She said the two churches managed to agree on slavery, for some obscure reason.
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  11856. ​ @gordonmershe1351 You could look up Chauvin's federal plea agreement and see what Chauvin pled guilty to in federal court. It describes exactly what Chauvin himself agrees he did.
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  11857. ​@ajax2.087 She forgot Chauvin pled guilty in federal court. Takes two seconds to find the actual plea agreement. But I won't make bank pointing that out will I? Candace, on the other hand . . .
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  11858. A mandate, protection against any liability for injuries, AND full patent protection -- does anyone think this was a real health emergency? It is completely inconsistent with a real emergency. It's all about $$$$$$ Jonas Salk never sought a patent for the polio vaccine, AND tested it on himself.
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  11859. ​ @ouknow1446 😂😂😂
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  11860. Why does Trudeau sound like a junior in high school, poor student/rich parents variety?
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  11861. Hysterical, thank you.
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  11862. One of your best, Jimmy. Love you -- and love Aaron.
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  11863. Vogue is right wing. That couple feels at home.
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  11864. Let me see if I understand. Witness A makes fraudulent allegations. Witness B makes true allegations. Investigation over? Sounds like we should look into Witness A, not drop the investigation.
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  11865.  @intricatic  Now he can talk about it without losing his job, etc.
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  11866. Why do you have to? See what Canadians do, for example. UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, etc.
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  11867.  @scottmcloughlin4371  That the first time Paul Allen was treated for lymphoma, Bill Gates used the occasion to try to squeeze him out of Microsoft. That Microsoft was convicted of antitrust violations and went unpunished. The case was on remand to decide a proper punishment when 9/11 happened. After that, no serious punishment was ever on the table.
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  11868.  @beneficent2557  Yes, his father was. The brief against the son is sufficient without speculating. Watch the last Adam Curtis documentary. You won't be disappointed.
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  11869.  @beneficent2557  You're right, but he does buy his reputation. I mean, he has to.
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  11870.  @beneficent2557  I had an alternate browser, not Chrome and not Blade, suggest a bunch of articles to me, and one was from Inc. on how to get better sleep. As an example of what you can do to relax, it said that Bill Gates reads before bed! I wish I were kidding. It's all about the money.
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  11871. The Court did not rule on substance but only on standing.
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  11872.  Keith Johnson  Learn something about the financialized global economy and the global investment banking system. "Deregulation" of money and of instruments that function like money is a licence to counterfeit. You're still thinking of an economy where people perform real services and, above all, make real things. That's not what's happening.
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  11873. Another great source I heard about here: George Galloway. You've got to watch that, he's on 🔥
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  11874.  @zenlensjunk  Was this guy serious? I can't tell. I thought it had to be sarcasm.
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  11875.  @ronmackinnon9374  Great! Thank you.
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  11876. 👏👏👏👏👏 And with all of Robby's education, your post demonstrates you are vastly more qualified to comment on the issue than he is. I mean, does he want us to conclude that higher education was wasted on him? Sorry for being so harsh, I'm a little ashamed after what you wrote, from the true human(e) perspective. He does seem to have a very easy job, though.
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  11877.  @lesaamoore  Another perfect post. Yes, it certainly is.
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  11878.  @lesaamoore  He exposes himself for who he is when absolutely no set of facts or well-reasoned argument will get him to budge an inch from his purely ideologically-driven position. His lack of life experience is glaringly obvious in those moments, to the point where he really should be ashamed of himself. He seems like someone who could do real harm to someone twice his age without lowering his eyes. He doesn't care. (BTW, it's reading season. Feel free to suggest some books. Your writing is striking.)
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  11879. ​ @handysmith-kv1tc Didn't take place yet.
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  11880. @Thomas Hancock Thanks! I needed that.
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  11881. @Thomas Hancock Actually, if I produce a ton of paperwork (revealing everything about my finances), and they like the paperwork well enough, the bill will be reduced or eliminated. Or, 36 months to pay interest-free, and I can pause for up to 90 days without it going to collections. Thus the bill is not real. This is true of every medical bill. They are never real.
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  11882.  @mikewallis2987  You bet, LOL. First things first. /s
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  11883.  @mp1201  Beat me to it. I was about to despair if no one else remembered it. These last 2 1/2 years have taken a toll all right.
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  11884.  @kayzbluegenes  Oh. Okay. There was no /s. And this culture is not exactly diversity friendly. Hence the stringent requirement to pose as such.
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  11885. 8:43 Answer Batya's question
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  11886. ​ @user-nj6lp2mf3u I think you are sorely mistaken.
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  11887.  @maximus012  I would love to see a lawsuit. I doubt Aaron would, though.
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  11888.  @franklinvess5313  Do you ever get the feeling a Vice President has become a poison pill?
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  11889. Dr. Grande's advice on public policy matters is some of the finest I've ever seen.
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  11890. ARG!! You caught me!!! I'm the one taking down your posts!
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  11891. @yigalordbanette8044  There's another factor here, too. Granted, in the homicide case of a woman, especially one having an affair and contemplating divorce, there is always a spotlight on the husband. I don't deny it's a common pattern. Fine. But there is also another pattern that isn't rare, either: woman and man, or woman and friends have a big fight, woman stalks off, then meets with foul play. This is more common in cases of unmarried women than married women, more common at night than during the day, etc., but it is hardly unknown. People fixate on one possibility, and don't even consider whether media is skewing their view.
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  11892. 11:20 WHAT was wrong about this?
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  11893.  @alexhiggins5911  No. Nancy Pelosi and other DNC critters and their megadonors are blocking this. Real reason for Jimmy being hate bombed: nothing to do with AOC, etc. Jimmy pointed out the CARES Act was the BIGGEST UPWARD TRANSFER OF WEALTH in human history. It's always about "follow the money."
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  11894. Has this "journalist" done the research Kennedy has done?
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  11895.  @koukkoufos2000  AMEN! Preach!!
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  11896.  @nosuchthing8  The Wall Street Journal just published an article about a week ago, which could simply be politicized, but it supported the use of ivermectin. WHO has suggested that ivermectin not be used outside of clinical trials. People with "long COVID"- like symptoms from the vaccine have been given ivermectin. These cases are unusual, so we can't draw firm conclusions. The peer-reviewed journals have mixed results, certainly nothing definitive showing that it works. Older drugs are, however, well known with respect to potential side effects, and therapeutics have different ethical considerations than vaccines. Therapeutics are given to sick people, vaccines to the healthy and to minors.
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  11897. Le Monde puts Melenchon slightly on top, with only five outright winners, of which four are with Melenchon. Record abstention.
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  11898. Imagine? A world like that? How?
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  11899. A typical teen would be mortified. I just don't get this anymore.
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  11900. So, is the claim that the hospital is a legitimate target, or that the hospital was not targeted at all? Clarity is needed.
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  11901. Police are NEVER supposed to goad a person into a false confession, especially not in a suspected homicide. They don't get to do it once in a while on the theory that nobody is perfect. You don't get to run over a toddler once in a while, or drive on the sidewalk twice per decade -- do you? Some people still like the Bill of Rights.
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  11902. Did you hear his recent speech in the Senate? Maybe you should.
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  11903.  @darrelljohnson5764  "said child" 🤣🤣🤣 Who brought this stupid phrase back? The halfway decent lawyers finally purged it from their usage. You TEACH a child that NO ONE is allowed to touch them. The importance of THAT lesson overrides any and every behavioral issue. Exclusion from school and from various privileges takes care of every behavioral issue. The people who feel compelled to discipline the child no longer have that choice and that burden placed on them. You seem to be in denial concerning WHY no one should be allowed to touch your child. What would the reason for that denial be? Everyone else knows exactly why.
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  11904.  @BartholomewSmutz  The greatest discrimination is in favor of various children of alumni and "special development." The latter is supposed to exist for people of exceptional talent (a first-time author in high school, an Olympic athlete, a young actress who plays Annie on Broadway), but in fact, the children of rich donors often get in.
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  11905.  @BartholomewSmutz  I do see your point, but I also think admitting someone like a Simone Biles, provided she truly has the courses and grades to do academic work at the college level, is acceptable. Great talents in one realm can bring unique perspectives to many others. But the "talent" turned out to be the "talent" for having rich families. The criteria for medical school are much different from those for being admitted to college, as they should be.
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  11906. ​ @RIVALSANIME Gutfeld said it was a lie, Judge Jeanine said it was a lie. That is good enough for some people. The fact is, the perpetrator is not known with any reasonable degree of certainty.
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  11907. Remember when all this stuff was supposed to be for ferreting out terrorist cells plotting another major attack?
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  11908. Parody is First-Amendment protected from government censorship, provided it is indicated in some way. That was the issue in the Hustler Magazine case.
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  11909.  @xx_HI_xx7  As a general matter, odious speech is protected. Why don't you spend the rest of the evening reading up on the law? It might do you good.
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  11910.  @jordanmc27  We were discussing the speech of students, NOT the performance of university presidents. "Please understand the difference." You've already given up most of the Fourth Amendment, you want to jettison the First?
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  11911.  @skysurfer5cva  No, you're wrong. The reason the First Amendment IS relevant IS because they chose to embrace it, as well as all of the jurisprudence that comes with it. That was a choice that they were not required to make, but they chose to make it. If this was about their code of conduct, then why did Stefanik only ask about speech, and permit no clarification? "Yes or no!!????? YES OR NO!!!?!"
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  11912.  @patrickhenry2845  Then why didn't she pose those questions?
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  11913.  @jordanmc27  I don't agree with the factual predicate. That's how. I'll make it simple: Aaron Mate discussed this very issue on the Monday Mourning program this week, on his and Katie Halper's show, Useful Idiots. If you don't want to read stuff, watch that. Mate was great. His grandfather survived the Holocaust and his father almost died during that time, as an infant, though he wasn't sent to a camp. You're upset about the wrong things. Exaggeration, demands for special treatment, and censorship isn't going to stamp out antisemitism. I am petrified it will backfire. I have the great privilege of watching similar discussions in France, where they have no First Amendment and the pro-Palestinian side is banned. Judith Butler (!) was just canceled. You should hear how calm and rational the discussions are by comparison to this. And they really do face more serious threats there than here. They are not as prone to utter hysteria. It's one hysteria after another. This needs to stop.
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  11914.  @JimBob-jr5up  That was a great post.
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  11915.  @Steve0C  Or transition?
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  11916. In France, CGT (hard-left labor union) organized a demonstration of VACCINATED health care workers in support of their unvaccinated colleagues. Of course. L'Obs has the video report. All the comment congratulate the demonstrators for their humanity. In the US, the only person who had a great take on the issue was . . . Max Blumenthal. You have no idea what would "solve this pandemic." The best virologists in the world don't make that claim.
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  11917.  @utewbd  I don't think she's lying. Whether the vaccines would have prevented those deaths, and whether the victims were properly treated in the hospital, are big questions. But COVID kills. Advanced age and comorbidities are strong factors in favor of vaccination.
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  11918.  @jaytravtulsa1  She is a professor. When you are at work, are you trespassing?
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  11919.  @MJMilano7  The only issue in this homicide case was whether Neely was sufficiently threatening this time to justify the use of potentially lethal force. There is no other question in this case. Whether he was severely mentally ill or a bad guy, or has an outstanding warrant, or any of that is not relevant, either. Did he pose a true threat in that moment, to justify what the Marine chose to do?
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  11920.  Mike Stirner  Unending trash talk, all fact-free. Then being all proud.
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  11921.  John Mateus  Trump was alway like that. Plenty of recordings prove it. And CNN, MSNBC imitated Fox, because Fox was making the most money. None of them have principles.
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  11922.  @scottmcloughlin4371  Thanks for the confirmation.
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  11923. NO ONE should be misled into thinking they are immune. Even people who had COVID in March-May 2020 are catching mild Omicron right now.
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  11924.  @Lauwit  The consequence is always money changing hands.
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  11925.  @Dizzyruptor  That's a tough one, given that he never used drugs. But he did so many other things . . . Both candidates were credibly accused of sexual assault, Trump more so. That's where we are now.
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  11926.  @pranoychow3808  What echo chamber? I get most of my news on French websites. I gave up on this news environment years ago.
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  11927. What you need to know: India asked for one of two things -- either LIFT the patents (it's an emergency, after all), or DO A CLINICAL STUDY in India (who consider their population, for sound reasons, to be relatively genetically unusual). Pfizer refused. Enough reason to ask questions about a novel drug for a novel virus.
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  11928. If this is so rare, full compensation should be easy.
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  11929. @jenxsj3902  Too bad my posts consoling you and letting you know not to take KK seriously keep getting re moved.
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  11930. Don't be so jealous of your sister.
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  11931.  @doriszelaya1230  Don't be so jealous of your sister.
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  11932.  @allie4918  It appears Ryan wasn't part of that clique. Betsy and Peter Maass (who is laughably awful) were the main two from what I've read.
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  11933.  @allie4918  I read Greenwald's report on the incident, on his substack also. I have this weird reading quirk.
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  11934.  @allie4918  I think that he was sincere, not that he was holding back on deserved criticism. But I mean, you're right. That's what there is to go on.
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  11935.  @ebongdivine731  It's not a crime. It's at most a tort, so Trump would have to sue.
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  11936. It's called at-will employment.
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  11937.  @pmberkeley  Well, either you aren't listening to her or the fact that she automatically makes very legal/legalistic distinctions is not clear to people. What is it with people reacting before they hear the WHOLE statement? Wasn't that Liz's point as well? Olayemi isn't rich or elite at all.
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  11938. I feel more and more sorry for them.
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  11939. Long live the BRICS+ 😂😂😂😂 (Irony is still a thing surveillance recognizes, correct? Hope so.)
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  11940.  @Sunshine-n1n  The plaintiff's complaint is online. You could download that, for example.
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  11941.  @ContentMadame His perspective is one you should seriously consider. You want informed people to "humble themselves" before the group. The exact opposite is needed. Just how many more mass hysterias do you want to see? Better to calm down, sit back, and ponder other possible explanations of what is going on. The dominant one on these boards is sheer nonsense.
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  11942.  @erepsekahs  Your take is the best one I've read, and certainly the most original, an example of independent thought. Who brings a claim like this twice? Who takes that idea at face value?
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  11943.  @chrismogard4144  WAIT. Are you saying Putin DIDN'T do anything to Dior? You are risking cancellation.
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  11944. The agenda is to flip Venezuela. Who will stop them? Future generations will thank us for electing The Mummy? Only because the other choice was Orange Caligula. Future generations will ask how we came to this. Sanders will be part of the reason.
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  11945. Bible mentions no church.
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  11946.  Laura Lafauve  You're right.
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  11947. War is always on the menu. Volunteer numbers have depended on a bad economy since the 1990s, except right after September 11th.
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  11948.  @HaveYouTriedGuillotines  N.B. I don't vote for war mongers.
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  11949.  @HaveYouTriedGuillotines  Pfft. More brilliance. My family lives in one of those places your people bombed, with DU.
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  11950.  @HaveYouTriedGuillotines  So, you're a Keyboard Warrior/Hater, like your Drone King leader? Didya like that lil' assassination he pulled off, of someone whose name he couldn't pronounce? "Don't worry, Donny, just push the little button." As it turns out, Soleimani was very likely instrumental in preventing terror in the region.
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  11951.  @HaveYouTriedGuillotines  Trump was a fraud. A make-believe president. The Apprentice was more real. The last president always plays a role in inflicting the next one on us. Trump was no exception, pre or post.
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  11952. She expressly said civil disobedience necessarily entails the willingness to be arrested -- which is correct. It does. What part of disproportionate force is a mystery to you? Trespass and damage to property aren't a license for police to beat or main anyone.
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  11953.  @CHX_37  Then I agree with you. I thought the analogy was misplaced for the reason I said. But I see your point, sure. Solid.
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  11954. Because it is illegal to use deadly force to defend mere property. You have a right to use deadly force to defend your own personal safety, or the safety of others. If the kids did nothing to put any person at risk of physical harm, then the man had no right to shoot them. It's really simple.
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  11955.  @apocalypticoptimist7117  How about finding out what the law is? I thought a nation of gun owners knew the law. Even Robbie doesn't.
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  11956. @LeilaLanthorn  Who's that? Not the person I mentioned.
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  11957. @LeilaLanthorn  I hope that wasn't deliberate misdirection.
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  11958. The news is -- they expected NOT TO GET CAUGHT.
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  11959. Money. Period.
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  11960. Note to self: make soups this winter starting with a base of carrots or sweet potatoes (vitamin A) and red onions (polyphenols, quercetin). Second note to self: time to GET BUSY
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  11961. Well. Why aren't you rich enough to buy your own politicians? Jealous? /s
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  11962. @InnerSanctum77  I am of two minds. There was no recording of the interview, or even comprehensive notes. But her lies were so important that she had to be tried and incarcerated? Then why no recording? But I feel ya. It's a literal obstruction of justice.
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  11963.  @J.Green-Rx  Great point!
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  11964. I wish America had a peace and justice movement like Israel's. How much of Netanyahu's worst policies are enabled by the United States government?
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  11965. Which one directly undermines the Constitution?
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  11966. Becoming Antifragile Nassim Taleb is one.
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  11967. ​@bluesrocker33 See the Adam Curtis documentary that talks about how Trump transformed New York, and who he joined forces with.
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  11968. AOC sees $$$
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  11969. ​ @JayNohh Who's still on Facebook? I don't know anyone. Personally, I never was.
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  11970. My favorite quote, too! Thanks!!
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  11971.  @esteemedmortal5917  Check out the Lex Fridman podcast from Sept. 1 with a real virologist. The segment on ivermectin research is time stamped. Full discussion.
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  11972.  Richard Garcia  I totally disagree about Gray, but I'm not naive about what you mean. Dore does not have power, and women like Gray and Halper and Susan Sarandon are in it based on the principle of the matter. But to take the most extreme example of what you mean, Harvey Weinstein, who was powerful, had so many of the women he oppressed (and worse) not only afraid to speak out (having seen what happened to those who dared to speak out), but also praising him to the skies. These types of dynamics are tragic. They lead to women resenting all men and being mistrustful of all men, which is crazy unfair. Well, you are overgeneralizing, too. Dore is so obviously working class that he turns most bourgeois people off. How can you miss that? That's what's happening with Dore! He has no real power. People support him in spite of his rants, because he is often right.
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  11973.  @dddevchonka  Intended as satire. Everyone but a child knows this.
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  11974. He wrote this. Hence he may have access to a bunker.
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  11975. I agree with this. Best comment on the boards. Never say or do anything that could get an innocent person convicted OR a guilty person freed. It's never worth it, not even idle chatter, and especially irresponsible on the part of mass media.
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  11976. I still have clippings from the Enron debacle. You should have seen how those guys were covered before the bottom fell out -- and they ruined long-term employees' pensions. These were people who started working for Enron when it was a simple pipeline.
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  11977. ​@@dolphinswithigloos1535 He doesn't know what it means. There are hearsay exceptions as well, yes.
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  11978. Yes, but that is valuable information.
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  11979. "Gender affirming care" is an advertising slogan. Consider what the words actually mean. They run from talking therapies, yoga, meditation, acupuncture, to serious lifelong drugs or drastic operations or both. Completely vague.
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  11980. Oh yes he was. It's in court documents that are easy to find. The poor guy needed rehab but was afraid to get help because of his job.
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  11981. @brigittabalog5226  He needed rehab. He wanted to get better but was afraid to get therapy because of his job. It had nothing to do with her. She did all his cooking and cleaning. His guns and ammo were on display everywhere. She needed to shudder at the stuff he was saying to her and run away, not toward. She was truly crazy. It's all public, in court documents. These people want to pretend she's another Jody Arias and punish Jody again. Or Amber Heard. Spinning it that way gets clicks. 💰💰💰
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  11982. @alexlundgren4592  Say what? Gates was from a super rich, well-connected family and graduated from one of the best public high schools in America. They taught elite college-level English the last two years. He chose to leave Harvard (after taking Math 55). You want to compare Gandhi to a YouTube chiropractor? Gandhi always knew exactly what he was talking about.
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  11983. That's the best way to signal your affluent, neoliberal creds.
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  11984.  @quadboy4lyfe  BTW, I agree. Bernie was out no matter what.
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  11985. That is something I have noticed in the corporate world: when the ones that were relatively clean go bad, it's not a little bad, it's a veritable frenzy. Also, they are able to get away with it because they can ride on their prior reputation for a long time.
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  11986. The history of the ethnic Catholic migration to the United States most certainly is a college course, including specific course on the Irish or the Italians. Look at a few college catalogues some time. AP is for college-bound kids to earn credits and SAVE MONEY on tuition.
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  11987.  @MarkoPollo2009  What part of acknowledging openly that that was wrong is the problem here? You didn't know that was the official spiel?
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  11988.  @MarkoPollo2009  She's a very well-respected public defender and a sometime commentator. I don't think she'd claim to be a seasoned journalist. That would be pompous on her part. I like her.
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  11989.  @aufwiedersehen483  Well . . . How many people still push Russiagate? Point being, no one in MSM acknowledges error, or bias. The Russiagaters bear great responsibility for much more harm.
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  11990. The Clintons and Trump normalized a LOT of things we never accepted before. Now Hunter's mental state, and Joe's, are no big deal . . . Lying? It's what you do. Nevermind their corruption. All normal, now. "Everybody does it."
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  11991.  @angelpaige2143  I will definitely take it when it receives full FDA approval. I may take it sooner. I think hesitation on the basis of lack of approval is prudent for most people.
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  11992.  @rosemali3022  I simply want to know about the second generation of the lab rats first used in the testing. How are they doing? We may know in a year or so. Anyway, I'm paying attention.
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  11993. Max, it never occurred to them that Ben Norton lives in Managua. That was so over their heads. They're still tripping that he doesn't need an interpreter. Real head scratcher.
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  11994. @Kimisu AMEN
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  11995.  @stephaniewallace7369  Where did I say Biden isn't a creep? What made you think I'm taking that warmonger's side? You DO NOT, however, have a shred of evidence for your accusations regarding trafficking. The facts as they stand are bad enough.
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  11996. What is being asked is to produce a proof (for all positive integers -- an infinite set), OR a refutation (a counterexample). IF the conjecture is false, a computer could in principle produce a counterexample. IF the conjecture is true, only a person can prove it. No computer can do that. How cool is that?
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  11997. Now you see the effect of Fox News hate on the students.
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  11998. Why did Trump remove the moratorium on federal funding of gain of function research? Who whispered in his ear and flattered him? Jared?
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  11999. You can be sued for child support without ever being married.
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  12000.  @jackklugman107  Sounds exactly like what he would do. A jewel, that guy.
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  12001.  @Jack-mf5lw  (2022 - 1776), result divided by 70, then take the reciprocal. See. I used algebra today.
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  12002. ​ @orca_ball  nope
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  12003. So, murder victims are partly to blame for their own murders because karma? Or because they didn't pay off a liar and a cheat?
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  12004. I wonder how many comments about a censorship radar will be censored? 😂
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  12005. The irony is that one of the early peer-reviewed studies showed that people with good levels of Vitamin D had fewer side effects from the vaccines and better antibody production. STILL we were being censored when we tried to discuss it. My GOD.
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  12006. ​@Lexyvil I strongly dislike that language as well. Whose idea was this, to make an analogy to war, and to do it all the time?
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  12007. 6:26 You see excuses for Biden here? 7:20 She keeps it up.
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  12008.  @CoercedJab  Why did the interviewer pose the question?
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  12009. This is the truth.
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  12010. A lot of hyperrich Oregonians will soon have that second home.
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  12011.  @nickmaliha983  Oh, a lot of people do, actually, and did. Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali come to mind first. Harold Pinter sure did, as did the entire editorial board of Le Monde diplomatique. Oskar Lafontaine, Alain Badiou, Jose Saramago come to mind as well. Danielle Mitterrand had serious qualms about it. The list is long. I think Americans have trouble standing up in these sorts of situations not just because the average affluent person (with a supposedly good education) is not very well educated, but also because the US has a history of savage civil rights abuses and war crimes. Hence Americans are extra afraid of being accused of complicity, every time anything that could possibly smack of complicity in atrocities is concerned. And we do know atrocities were committed in the Balkans, especially by Serb irregulars in Bosnia. Anything that requires nuanced thinking is avoided, for fear of being denounced. So, when affluent Americans get their marching orders, mooing and braying in unison is the norm.
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  12012. Presidents are generally between 50 and 59 at the start of their terms for a reason.
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  12013. How about veterans? Should childless veterans have a say? Just kidding. No one is volunteering these days. The reasons are clear, both sides.
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  12014. I prefer birthing mammal, although I haven't consulted the platypus so I could be wrong.
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  12015.  @darthbrexit  No one wants to get rid of it. And your life expectancy does not indicate you have a poor healthcare system.
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  12016.  Cannabis Dreams  Short attention span, too, I see.
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  12017. This was elitist led, 100%. Ordinary people were never consulted. The Bill Gates crowd decided everything. Likewise for the gender-affirming care for minors madness.
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  12018. IOW, your post is entirely false.
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  12019.  @thomashasty2936  Intense, unrelenting propaganda, fear-mongering, forced isolation, and economic insecurity was imposed from above, followed by a mandate they had promised would never be imposed, thus dividing society in two -- and they hid what they knew, such as the inability of the vaccine to prevent illness and spread. People who noticed contradictions were vilified unrelentingly. This was imposed top down. That isn't what happened during either the Russian Revolution or during the rise of Hitlerism. There was no bottom-up movement at all. It was ordinary, working people who were scared but also baffled -- this seemed to have come upon them like a lightning strike on a sunny day. VERY few ordinary people sought to control strangers. Browbeating came from bourgeois managerial types, including the C-suite, doctors, academics, the best-paid media spokesmodels, etc., and it started in 2020, long before any vaccine. "Essential workers" were abused and manipulated, and ridiculed for being afraid to go to work while being told to be afraid. This used to be called a "mind f***." Funny how many were economically ruined --- but a few became millionaires and billionaires. Ha ha.
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  12020.  @thomashasty2936  You mean you didn't . . . notice? I don't believe anyone missed it! Nope.
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  12021. You mean, we've had so much Russiagate agitprop that irony is impossible? (Why do I think you might be right?)
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  12022.  @Dantianblue  Pub Med article from August 2023: "The pooled hazard ratio (HR) revealed no significant association of COVID-19 vaccination with all-cause mortality (HR = 0.89, 95% CI [0.71, 1.10], p = .28). Regarding cardiac-related mortality, the pooled HR suggests that COVID-19 vaccination is associated with an increased risk of cardiac-related mortality (HR = 1.06, 95% CI [1.02, 1.11], p = .007). Subgroup analysis showed that the male gender is significantly associated with an increased incidence of cardiac-related deaths (HR = 1.09, 95% CI [1.02, 1.15], p = .006). In conclusion, COVID-19 vaccination may be associated with a small increase in cardiac-related mortality, especially among males." That's what they admit so far.
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  12023.  @dearthofdoohickeys4703  The only time to start confessing is after thrashing it out with a lawyer and deciding together to approach the prosecution. That's when it could conceivably be of benefit, to all concerned.
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  12024. False. People have already read the lengthy article in The Guardian on what happened in Samoa, and who was responsible. Kennedy had nothing to do with it.
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  12025.  @Always_Right00  Syrian people are "nothing?" Complexion tone issue? (Could it be anything else, ever?)
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  12026.  @gdwnet  That's not artificial, that's called real.
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  12027.  @zulkanainbaharuddin2185  Or by military means, if all else fails.
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  12028.  @zulkanainbaharuddin2185  If that's what you thought I supported, for real, please talk to someone.
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  12029.  @zulkanainbaharuddin2185  The US dollar relies on its 700 bases in 80 countries to support the dollar. THAT was the point. Military might is the ultimate backstop to dollar hegemony. A close study of every conflict since at least Korea, if not WWII, shows you that. You yourself said so, by citing Iraq and Libya.
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  12030.  @zulkanainbaharuddin2185  DUH
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  12031.  @zulkanainbaharuddin2185  No, we're Number One because Facebook. /s
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  12032. Monetize everything. We get the idea.
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  12033. Just "one in ten?" Oh, one in three. That sounds right.
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  12034. Featured video in everyone's feed who has ever looked at an owl video in their whole damned lives.
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  12035.  @readtherealanthonyfaucibyr6444  Oh I see. I'm sorry!
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  12036. Another segue into a Jimmy Dore smear.
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  12037. Remember when Biden promised to end the divisiveness of the previous president's term? I do. Biggest political lie yet, and that is saying a lot. The government SAVED these auto companies in 2008 - 2009, after the deregulated financial system imploded. Now the CEOs should pull all the benefits to themselves?
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  12038.  @cathjj840  EXACTLY. They know how to do it.
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  12039. ​@StalinLovsMsmZioglowfagz That policy is part of actual history, but we cannot mention it.
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  12040. Sure. A verified complaint is more likely to contain accurate factual allegations. There could be criminal liability if any of the allegations are deliberate falsehoods. The plaintiff can't just wave their hands and say, well, I thought this happened, when it's obvious that either it did or did not, and there is no plausible way to be mistaken. Of course nothing is proved yet. (Did you look it up? That's the first thing I did.)
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  12041. Look on the bright side. Everyone has to skedaddle and this way it won't be hard.
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  12042. @ClassicFIHD  I wonder if my reply will be disallowed?
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  12043. @ClassicFIHD  Well, looks like we are both being sh_dowed. Edit: Nope. Just me.
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  12044.  @DengShabu  That's after a conviction in a court of law.
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  12045. @DengShabu  How can you be getting this so wrong? Accusations, arrests, indictments, and convictions are different things. Criminal history pertains to convictions.
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  12046. @DengShabu  He wasn't before a judge. A man who never saw him before and knew nothing about him subdued him, and in the process killed him. The victim's record is of no relevance.
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  12047. You just don't like her viewpoint, so you want her cancelled.
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  12048. OH REALLY? So being a Biden is a liability??
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  12049.  @kennybachman35  No, a Congress member is immunized from any suit for anything they say in Congress.
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  12050.  @Johnarchiebald  💯 this
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  12051. When that happened to my best friend's niece, it was because they promoted her too quickly and paid her more than they could afford! Literal poor management; their plans for expansion fell through.
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  12052.  @MobPenguinstudios  Directed to me? Three generations of my ancestors lived part of their lives in Argentina. A recent governor, who then joined Fernández de Kirchner's government, was from there: Jorge Capitanich. My great-grandfather is buried there.
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  12053.  @HaveYouTriedGuillotines  There is a lot of truth in this, and with your assessment of how pernicious this systematic lying has become -- and yes, media lying is just as extensive as Trump's compulsive lying. I think there were ways in which Trump was uniquely bad, but nowhere near as many as were pinned on him. It would require a calm, sober, evidence-based analysis to delinate them, something which is not found in contemporary MSM -- nor does anyone on that front want to do it.
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  12054. Good point. You're right.
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  12055. Um, soft skills?
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  12056. THANK YOU. I am dumbfounded. Truly. Everything you said is true and puts you well above these two talking heads in basic journalistic ethics and competence.
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  12057. ​ @Quaker-tc8ue Who do you think got the crime bill through Congress that exploded the federal prison population? Biden considered it his greatest achievement in the Senate. He bragged about it all the time.
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  12058. This did not occur on US soil.
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  12059. Emily did a great job here.
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  12060.  @moazim1993  Kim is a real journalist. That is bound to make Ryan squirm.
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  12061. The five-year ban on romantic relationships was interesting. I thought of five years before Dr. Grande said it. It makes sense in other contexts, such as teacher and former student (five years post graduation as a minimum).
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  12062. Unless they have money to burn?
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  12063.  @anneb889  Assuming that two-parent families bring about greater academic achievement may sound intuitively plausible, but maybe some other factor helps produce both family stability and a drive to excel academically. Statistics can tell you what cannot be a causal factor, but they never tell you what is.
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  12064. The last wave of recruits to the military was after 9/11 --- hence, one generation ago. We all know what happened. Why do you think no one is signing up now?
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  12065. ​ @ArmadilloGodzilla You beat me to it.
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  12066. He was? Now I understand.
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  12067. Robbie is living in a virtual world.
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  12068. I always knew that the biggest intermeddlers obsessed with race and racism were themselves racist.
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  12069. ​ @Brad-pc3bi If you have ANY plausible grounds to sue, SUE. If you are 40 or older, age discrimination? The raise would affect the size of your eventual pension? Think it through.
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  12070.  @janspup6232  Right. Utter insanity. When it was uncovered, people were still not too jaded, so there was shock at there being 13 innocent people. We've had so many mass shootings since then, and so much police brutality, that I sincerely cannot be sure the same shock would be provoked by that today. I wish I weren't exaggerating.
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  12071. People don't. Apparently, it happens to all healthy mammals, all on its own.
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  12072. ​ @mandarinandthetenrings2201 💯 ❤
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  12073.  @shadowwarrior7218  The Greek myths say more to a European, to be honest.
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  12074. @lynnfisher3037  I said nothing about this person's book either way. Nor was it at issue. Tolle, for example, is unqualified to deal with trauma, nor does he pretend to be. Van der Kolk, Levine, and Maté have deep knowledge of this important field, as doctors and firsthand. My posts are helpful. Yours are an example of the free-floating envy I mentioned. Thanks for demonstrating that.
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  12075. An Emmy at a minimum.
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  12076. AMEN
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  12077. No. Which is why I don't believe it.
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  12078.  @modijack  It was not that long ago that tuition at the late, great state universities was so low that one summer of full-time employment was sufficient to cover a full year's worth of tuition, fees, and books. What do you think is going on?
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  12079.  @modijack  If you think that explains all of it, then, well, you've fallen for sheer ideology. Students used to be able to PAY for state universities by WORKING. You think government-backed loans is the sole reason they can't now? Or did right wing culture warriors win the battle to defund the state universities, at the state level, and funnel the money into the carceral state? Are you also someone who wonders whether "Gender Studies" is the problem (less than 1% of all degrees conferred nationwide), when Business Administration has been the most common major by far, for at least 30 years? Look up Financial Engineering. Did you know that was a degree? Those are the people who will change your life, not for the better.
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  12080. I know one person, who stopped speaking to me when I said I'd vote third party.
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  12081. LOL, that was great.
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  12082. ​ @YerushalayimShelZahv Look in the mirror.
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  12083. @charlesmanning3454   What do you think expert witness testimony is for? Who do you think is qualified to present it? If a court case is brought, and a factual matter in dispute rests on, say, immunology, then an immunologist will be qualified and called as a witness, and will present the necessary scientific facts to the jury. I don't see how that bears on this discussion. I'm not sure what you're talking about. You don't know about the 1986 law, the liability shield and the compensation program? Maybe find out, then. As for letting people know that out of x million doses, some small number y received compensation for injury -- yeah. That SHOULD be information that is shared. Or would you hide it?
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  12084. @charlesmanning3454  When you fill a prescription, you get a printout stating side effects, even very rare one.
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  12085. 1. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. She provides essentially none. She claims people told her. (Maybe they did.) 2. The fact that something is extraordinary DOES NOT make it impossible. Not even close. JD is right over the 🎯 about that.
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  12086.  @ouknow1446  "Something" is wrong? That's vague.
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  12087. @ouknow1446  You know we can't. Please. Real discussions? Those are re . . . Moved. But that was vague. "Something" is wrong could be a lot of bad things that don't rise to the level of all of Barr's assertions.
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  12088.  @Crazy_Terryy  Who assassinated Rabin? Who knew about it before it happened?
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  12089.  David Fallaha  Did most people predisposed to diabetes go to the gym before COVID? That they needed daily exercise and a non-sedentary lifestyle, more than most of us do, is obvious.
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  12090. Wow, my mother's father had that ancestry. I had a mild case of probable COVID in March 2020, and nothing since then, in spite of multiple known exposures.
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  12091.  @Baratheon.  Where do you have proof she lied? She failed to answer the question in a substantive way.
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  12092.  @christ-centeredcrypto  There is a big difference between this case, and the guy (th/s/he/y) who turned out to be a serial suitcase thief. God help us. I see no other solution.
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  12093. Dr. Abramson talked about the attempt to suppress the release of data on Lex Fridman's YT program. Hearing a doctor who supports vaccination talk about this, and about big pharma, is eye-opening all right. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark and everywhere else.
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  12094. ​@THX..1138 This couldn't be more wrong. If the journals were not behind steep pay walls for the institutions whose faculty create and review content for free, then there would be no "trade." A scheme to induce work and not to pay for it most certainly is trade. How you could confuse this with employment law is beyond me. In any case, following your flawed analogy: A customer has a choice between using a cashier or self-check-out. If researchers and reviewers could chose to work only for publications that offered some form of compensation, which was set without their backroom agreement, then there would be no antitrust case.
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  12095. ​@klausroxin4437 Have you been "everywhere?" 😂
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  12096. Well, I am shocked shocked.
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  12097. A lot of MSM did not pay attention until Nuland's testimony, who just signaled to them that it's news. You can find all the denunciations against anyone who mentioned the issue, and the multiple "fact-checkers" who declared it was a conspiracy theory.
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  12098. If Putin got ahold of one of "our" boots, all the more reason to ask questions. Deep fake, no pun intended, would make a little sense.
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  12099.  @accrualworld318  Well, thanks for letting us know about your discernment.
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  12100. So where is Glenn Greenwald to get her fired??
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  12101. @jimreilly6933  This black ex-student was a police officer enforcing the law? Or was he a private security guard? Did he try to apprehend the victims and did they resist?
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  12102. The rich like it like that.
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  12103.  @bijayathockchom5652  Last time I checked, voting was not mandatory.
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  12104.  @bijayathockchom5652  "Duh." I have never voted for a ticket with Biden on it and never will. I rarely vote except in the primary. Are you really that dim, or just pretending, to annoy normal people? There are plenty of parties on the ballot besides the two corporatist ones, with the unqualified candidates.
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  12105. I expect it to happen again, now that it has happened once . . .
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  12106. ​@jmsblk1 In a world where everyone on a college campus has a video recording device, why has no one produced a single video of the alleged antisemitic attacks he describes? Glenn Greenwald has repeatedly called for such videos, with the promise that he would air them. No one has taken him up on it. Why has no one been arrested for these supposed assaults that Murray insists are occurring everywhere? We do have laws against "hate crimes" (the crime being, for example, an assault, while the motive leads to enhanced penalties). On the other hand, ICJ and ICC have said that there is an objective risk of geno--de in Gaza, and have documented these concerns.
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  12107.  @sfu4028  Asked and answered.
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  12108. Did you see Kim Iversen's analysis of the video?
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  12109. ​ @wrongspell6619 Love how you explained this. 😊
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  12110.  BxxDxx Hoodoo  We'll see.
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  12111.  @gregc8394  How are we supposed to know what source you relied on, that persuaded you its information was accurate? Only you can tell us that.
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  12112. Grosskreutz testified. McGinnis testified. Huber's dirty house did not.
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  12113. This guy made more sense than any of the Ivy League presidents.
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  12114.  @HaveYouTriedGuillotines  No.
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  12115.  @HaveYouTriedGuillotines  🤣
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  12116.  @HaveYouTriedGuillotines  And no, I don't blame it on Peterson, nor have I joined the Hate Peterson cult.
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  12117. @Raining Clean Of course, and beautifully stated. (You noted my sarcasm in my definition of enough freedom, right?) We live in a dog-eat-dog society that just had record drug overdose deaths last year during the pandemic. Who is surprised? I'm sure you're not.
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  12118. Nah, bring them to the US. They fit in well.
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  12119. Have you discussed this with them?
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  12120.  @Kurgana  Of course. The way Hunter left his laptop with highly sensitive information on it at a repair shop and forgot about it just goes to show that he was exceptionally well qualified to sit on the board of a Ukrainian energy company and siphon money out of that poor country. In the future, I hope they use that as a criterion for hiring the next corrupt lackey, er, board member.
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  12121.  @jackbeagle8458  Perfect. I wish I had seen this before replying. Seriously, thank you. I should follow you.
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  12122. Hm. The steelworkers and riggers I knew did find camaraderie in their union locals, and I have heard the same from autoworkers, but I can believe that was not generally the case for everyone.
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  12123. Six bankruptcies. What more did anyone need to know?
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  12124. Isn't the number 40 itself suspect?
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  12125.  @kwalelalipimile9245  Her husband CONSIDERED applying to work at SpaceX, and WAS ADVISED against it. So . . . What exactly is your issue, and that of the people who 👍 your comment?
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  12126. Please give up. Improve your language skills instead of scattering your pigeon droppings here. Find something more useful to do.
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  12127.  @Craig121000  The fact that William would beat him up, knowing full well Harry must not and would not retaliate, got to me. Use your words, Wills, use your words.
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  12128.  @lavienestpasunlongfleuvetr2559  I don't disagree with you, but you must not know about various revelations concerning US special forces, such as SEAL Team 6, Delta Force, and so forth. Chances are these facts about Harry were already known. I still think you are right, though. It's one thing to have the information (which I am sure the Taliban and others do have), it is another for the actual service member to openly confirm it in print. The less said, the better. It doesn't give any terrorist the high ground. That part I do disagree with.
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  12129.  @vivienwade4378  Find a different topic for your fantasy life.
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  12130.  @kathystefanidis2203  Interesting how any opinions that don't condemn Megan are "offensive" and quickly removed. The algorithm must say that by leaving them up, this channel will make less money.
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  12131.  @savannahsmiles1797  Live however you like. Which one actually served in the military? "The whimp?"
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  12132. Here's another good question: where did Rittenhouse get that firearm? Did an adult provide him with it? Charge that person. Did someone actually ask him to act as a security guard? Him?? Is that idiot also an adult? Charge him, too. Why is a juvenile automatically facing adult charges, which could lock him up for most of the rest of this century? He shouldn't be. Where are the adults in this picture? Oh, they're like Tucker, praising this insanity.
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  12133.  King Amen-Tut-Ankh  It is not the proper activity of a minor to be carrying a firearm and "cleaning up his community." There is no conceivable way any child of mine would ever suffer from the delusions this poor, fatherless, high school dropout had, and that you and Tucker are lunatic enough to encourage. But you're probably a paid false flag. This is about the time they usually show up. The regular commentators have left.
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  12134.  @beyondthemaya3881  I expect minors to obey curfew and finish high school, and then go on to trade school or college. Perhaps you're right, that's too much to expect for Kyle's generation. People like you are "raising" them, to new lows.
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  12135.  @beyondthemaya3881  YOU need to understand something: schools have been conducting shooter drills for a decade now. NO ONE with the least bit of talent is going to teach your kids. Anyone with ability who goes into teaching will want to teach the children of the 1%, or, at most, down to the 10%, in the richest suburbs. Just keep it up. Because any child of Tucker Carlson will be just fine. Yours, not so much. So just keep it up. Encourage lost boys like this, who don't even get a GED, don't have fathers in the home, and pick up various delusions from cynical strangers on the Internet. That's intelligent all right. If 2020 looks bad to you, wait until you see 2040. But maybe you're a paid troll, so you don't care, this conflict was made for you. Cha-ching!
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  12136. I wonder if Kyle can do fractions. I wonder if he has ever read a book cover to cover. And I wonder who put him up to this, and ruined his life.
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  12137. Too much history for you? Can't grapple with it?
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  12138. Read the Haaretz editorial for more insight on how the risk of this attack was missed.
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  12139. There is, but the Supreme Court said accepting it implies acknowledging guilt.
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  12140.  @chachaguillotine187  THIS. Plus, the perfect screen name.
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  12141.  @edsongonzalez7044  Oh please. And Richard Wolff? Chris Hedges?
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  12142. Yes. We do, too.
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  12143.  @akztar  You beat me to it. Thank you.
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  12144. Find out how the number of elective abortions was slashed under Mitterrand. If a woman indicated that money was a motive, she got a packet of information concerning all the benefits she and her future child qualified for, and was asked go home and to think it over. (In any case, there were no same-day abortions.) It was the position of the French Republic that abortion should never be motivated by economic distress.
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  12145. They get rich.
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  12146. @onyisraw2009  Anyone can verify that MD and DO do not follow the same course of study, and that from an academic perspective, DOs leave with an inferior education. That does not mean that they are not as good as MDs as actual practitioners of medicine 10, 15, or 20 years down the road. I have no conflict of interest here. Neither I, nor anyone I am related to, is either.
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  12147. Goats are such dear animals. Please find a different comparison.
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  12148.  @springbloom5940  I also saw dollar signs in Sciutto's eyes, didn't you?
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  12149. 1:25:39 And yet Havel went along with NATO and the DU bombing of Yugoslavia, even the regions with anti-Milosevic governments in place. Harold Pinter didn't. Oh, but Pinter was on the left. Ditto for Chomsky, Cockburn, Pilger, Tariq Ali, etc., . . . Big, brave Havel followed the crowd of the Bigger Bully. Gee. How did that happen?
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  12150. There may not be enough reliable information about it. Clandestine programs are . . . clandestine. But perhaps a video on the ethics of mental health professionals ever getting involved in these activities? There's plenty of solid information there!
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  12151. The null result here is very important. How could it not be?
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  12152.  @Tentaculat  I didn't say Huber's belief was relevant to the self-defense claim. Grande nevertheless discoursed on it at length. (Why?) McGinnis's testimony did NOT undermine self-defense, but only whether that self-defense was executed recklessly, and put third parties in danger. You didn't READ THE JURY INSTRUCTIONS. I can tell because you either misconstrue my point, or deliberately misrepresent what I said. You probably misconstrue. I don't think you understand this case.
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  12153.  @dositless9554  Imagine if they didn't. How is this relevant? Someone's false beliefs about another person's right to self-defense are not relevant. So why the analysis of a dead person's possible beliefs? But if we're going to go there, we have real evidence on that point, in the trial.
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  12154.  @bluefalcon1674  You are persuaded way too easily.
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  12155.  @anonymousperson3023  Grande speculated on Huber's beliefs, when much better evidence as to the beliefs of those who intervened after Rosenbaum was shot is available. It was tendentious, and made no sense, either. McGinnis was relevant to one charge. Read the jury instructions, which state the law the jury was charged to apply. Of course the jury could still conclude Rittenhouse was not guilty of recklessly endangering innocence bystanders. Which is what they concluded. But McGinnis was very relevant. McGinnis is exactly what they had to consider before deciding to acquit.
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  12156.  @Technoid_Mutant  Our sources have admitted to six such labs in Ukraine (Embassy website). It was reported in the Indian press and by TeleSUR that China has officially claimed there are 26, which means about 8% of all such labs in the world. All this, in a country that is divided, has had a civil war smoldering in much of its eastern third, and is supposed to be neutral under the Minsk Accords. You're right, what's the big deal? Well . . . it's a bigger deal now.
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  12157. Try multiplying one of those by billions. Um, guess which one?
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  12158. Oops
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  12159. Exactly what Glenn just said should never be supported. Listen closely. Besides, they have immunity.
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  12160. Um, you can track your friend's commercial flight -- at least my relatives in Europe can track my flight to see where I am. Is that possible in America, or "do they have us for our freedoms?" Freedom of expression includes free sharing public information, just as they were discussing on this video. Can you tweet that so-and-so is currently entering a courthouse, where proceedings are, with rare exceptions, open to the public?
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  12161. I don't have a TV, and never had cable, so when I stay at a hotel I'm struck by how CNN, MSNBC imitate Fox. It's shocking.
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  12162. Not sure the ribbon can't be. But it cannot be done remotely! True, much harder to take control.
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  12163. Agreed. :/
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  12164. In this age group, with comorbidities, of COURSE the mortality rate with COVID is higher, vaccinated or not. The people he is talking about have already reached a normal lifespan.
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  12165. Katie and Briahna are two of the most fair-minded, sincere, and thoughtful people in politics and media. What a breath of fresh air . . . during a real bad time.
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  12166.  @danialhillmann5374  Was that the question? No. It wasn't. Everyone has a right to defend their own life and limb. The adults in the picture could not pass a reasonable and constitutional gun law, in Wisconsin, a full generation after Columbine. I stopped paying attention to shootings. Yawn.
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  12167.  @danialhillmann5374  So, you don't understand what the Supreme Court is? Or what a Constitution is? (Did you think it was a Napoleonic Code?)
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  12168. Robby has his eye on the ball. 💰💰💰💰💲💲💲💲
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  12169. No one was charged with treason.
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  12170. Beautiful family.
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  12171. @Pan-Britannic Traditionalist Conservative Where did you get that from? Not my comment. Those who talk about others being envious have outed . . . themselves.
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  12172. @Pan-Britannic Traditionalist Conservative Your typo makes your comment hard to understand, but I think I do. Didn't the entire country have "financial troubles" due to the actions of Wall Street? Who paid for those mistakes? Not "whataboutism." I simply want to understand how you apply this Broad Principle to many sorts of situations. Y'know, like they do in, say, physics. Also comes back to POINT of the original comment, in case you've failed to notice.
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  12173. @Pan-Britannic Traditionalist Conservative The money they "make" by trashing the economy and needing unending bailouts to prevent a global depression? Funny, though. You jump right into accusing people of "envy," then decribe actions that can only be characterized as GREEDY. But you never say that word. "Greedy." Huh! Most curious.
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  12174. @Pan-Britannic Traditionalist Conservative Notice that I did not mention the Great Recession, by the way. I said UNENDING bailouts. But you changed the subject yet again.
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  12175.  @plotlinevideo3719  LOL . . . He's a case for Freud.
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  12176. @Pan-Britannic Traditionalist Conservative Are all rich people on Wall Street? Are they all members of what Adam Smith warned about, when he said the rentier class will likely try to collude, to subvert free markets? Give it up. It's really futile at this point.
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  12177. @Pan-Britannic Traditionalist Conservative Wait. You don't even know about the REPO market, and the ongoing rescue? Pre-pandemic. Or the latest slap on the wrist for gross market manipulation? This is too stupid now. Time waster. (Little newsflash for you: the BRICS educate their children. But have it your way.)
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  12178. @Pan-Britannic Traditionalist Conservative Of course I do. You think modern day rentier are just landowners? Oh boy. I'm not going to say what I'm thinking. Did you stop reading books in 1900? "Russia and China have no safety net." First, that is either incoherent or untrue; second, a non sequitur. (Are you saying they DON'T educate their children? Are you suggesting they infantilize them, to boot? Well, if they are as intent on building up their militaries as you claim, I think you have your answer right there.) YOU really don't know what anyone is talking about! Listen, I don't have a dog in this fight. My family is in Europe, literally all of them, and if I live long enough, I'll join them. You just keep it up. Makes no difference to me, old chap.
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  12179. @Pan-Britannic Traditionalist Conservative Okay. So then you do see where this might go. Figure out a way to educate your kids. My generation still had outstanding state schools where a year's tuition could be earned by working hard all summer, full time of course, and where most kids took a calculus class. This was character buliding in many ways. And kids didn't sit on Mommy's insurance until age 26, much less in Mommy's basement after achieving their degree. You recognize the problem. You all figure it out.
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  12180. This sex bit is a smokescreen. This began with TYT smearing Aaron Mate and Jimmy defending Mate and denouncing TYT. I agree this is a mudfest. Aaron should send an intent to sue letter. Civilized and on point.
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  12181.  @Gravyskateboarding  Are you really this crazy, or is this Internet Research Agency psy-ops in advance of the election?
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  12182. Compare the clips of the interviews shown right here. How is Meghan's statement defamatory? It's not negative. As for Samantha's, it is both speculative and negative, and because it is speculative, it cannot be factual. Wow, I cannot believe how biased people are just because they find one person sympathetic and the other quite the opposite. That doesn't change facts. Those tests where a researcher gets people to say that two lines of different lengths are really the same length start to be plausible. I could never understand those. After this (and COVID) . . . oh well, yes, up is down, black is white, and we were always at war with East Asia . . . sure . . .
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  12183. Russia is going to win. Oh well.
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  12184. Unless you're broke.
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  12185. Suppose people are afraid. Where is the shame in that? I don't understand.
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  12186.  @sspbrazil  I do see through what he's doing, but they have real medical problems as well. What is more disconcerting is how new media grifting has become normal. You wonder who makes an honest living, and you wonder why any young person would want to.
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  12187. ​ @007kingifrit  More selfless? They aren't ready to lay their lives down for someone else's child, but would do anything, legal or not, moral or not, to advance their own.
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  12188. Dr. Battacharya was on Lex Fridman's show. He supports targetted vaccines more than most of the so-called dissenters do. MUCH more. The degree of censorship over tiny differences is mind-boggling!
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  12189. I'd rather give up the gas stove than Paris. You cannot ask to give up Paris.
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  12190.  @halrox247  Very true. Now they know they don't have to. Experiments, to find out where the limit is.
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  12191. ​@ICUFREE2 But this is well known: it is the phenomenon of double consciousness most notably and eloquently described by Franz Fanon, but also many others as well -- quite a few other writers and scholars originally from the Caribbean. It is the simultaneous construction of an identity, coupled with the full consciousness that that identity is denied and a false identity is imposed upon you by the oppressors. So in the end, you know your mind and their mind, but they only know their own mind in a limited, unreflective way, convinced as they are that their construction of reality is the "true" reality, it is "scientific," "realistic," and all that. In fact, they don't know what's going on at all. I'm just writing out what you've always known.
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  12192. ​ @zasterheffor  Recommend some readings, please. Very important, especially now.
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  12193.  @ryanadams68  How did you manage to misunderstand? I was defending the OP. I was basically agreeing with what you just said.
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  12194. It is a bill for funding two wars.
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  12195.  @hrs2044  It's about the safety of minor persons without penises in both cases. Is it okay to care?
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  12196. YouTube removed the tally from view.
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  12197.  @davidmun1601  P. S. If he's too thoughtful, he won't make as much money! 🤣 or 😪 ?
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  12198.  @benjaminhundley9093  P. S. That was too easy. Maybe your maitre penseur is lacking?
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  12199. @benjaminhundley9093  OH, you mean you think they can't get jobs?? Paris IV?? Aude Lancelin went there! This isn't America, or any of the Five Eyes, friend. 🤣🤣🤣 But I did misinterpret what you said, in the French manner. I didn't think anyone thought Paris IV grads are without work.
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  12200.  @Lurnnnnnn  The best estimates are over $1 million dollars per day. That does not account for exemption from taxes. But I agreed that's no reason to torment this poor woman. This illness at her age is a tragedy and a shock. I don't believe she bears the blame for their odd flubs during this time.
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  12201. @joelbabb4752  My mention of off shore money got the deep six.
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  12202. Over the age of 17, you mean?
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  12203. Censorship never meant strength. On the contrary.
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  12204. ​ @Critical-Thinker895 We might be paying for these spontaneous demonstrations.
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  12205. The House impeached Trump knowing nothing would come of it, and that there would not even be witnesses testifying under oath in the Senate (which would have been useful to the public), because? Whereas during a pandemic and new shutdowns, there is no point in pushing for the healthcare the rest of the world has? Either Republicans vote for M4A, or their vote against M4A will haunt them. Let them vote no this time. That's not a loss, that's a bump in the road. If COVID progresses the way it is progressing in the UK now, with the new strain, the people pushing hard for Medicare without age discrimination will look like the visionaries.
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  12206. I am confused.
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  12207. Just checked Worldometer statistics on COVID in Japan. What are you doing to keep the case fatality rate at about one-half of what the US has been seeing? Do you know?
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  12208. I wish Jack would speak in a more coherent style. After listening to Justin Jackson and Briahna Joy Gray today, this is uh uh uh, like, uh getting, uh, painful, uh, like, y'know what I, like, mean? HA. HA. HA. Detracts from an important point.
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  12209. I'm dying. 😂
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  12210.  @ablebaker8664  Defamation counts were dismissed. "Duh"
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  12211. @ablebaker8664  I don't know what you're talking about. The issue was the nature of the motion, not the substance. In motions to dismiss, courts do not adjudicate the facts alleged in a complaint, but presume them to be true to the extent that they are logically possible. Here's an idea: read the Memorandum Opinion, slowly. That will clarify all matters.
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  12212. @hb1338  The court did not do that. At this stage, the court assumed that the allegations in her complaint are truthful. But if you like to think so, and people like you when you think so, by all means . . .
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  12213. @ablebaker8664  Read the Complaint and the court's Memorandum Opinion. Too long to go into detail. The court said it all. Besides, one of my posts that went into detail disappeared. I'm not about to repeat myself.
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  12214.  @ablebaker8664  Oh, and guess what else? If you sue on a contract, you must attach a copy of the contract. (If I say, "a copy of said contract," will you be more impressed?) But seriously, you could save time by . . . Reading the court's opinion. There. That does it for me. I'm out.
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  12215. @RIbigDave  He sounds pretty good to me. Logic and literacy should be very common. Well . . . Anyway.
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  12216. @PeteJudo1  No, it's not slight. It is a basic principle that when we are pointing out fraud, we should be extra careful to be accurate. Instead, as you can see, you've aroused a crowd, gotten a ton of clicks, and practically no one had the basic intellectual curiosity and integrity to read the case. This is why we are where we are. And you made more money on this video than you would have, had it been scrupulously accurate. Of course. Enjoy the haul. But don't pretend you're above it all. This is transparent, to me at least. (And in the natural world, there's never just one.)
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  12217.  @RIbigDave  Read the case.
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  12218. People are going to die because someone chooses not to take a vaccine? People who ARE vaccinated themselves are going to die? Please explain.
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  12219. This should be an election between Biden and Hawkins. ;/
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  12220.  @blackdog1392  Well that was pellucid.
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  12221.  @katyt7470  I disagree, but YouTube won't allow me to say why. You're making Jane Eyre insipid. She wasn't. But the need to tame her comes as no surprise.
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  12222. @katyt7470  Look, I'll be censored. Sorry, I can't go back into it. In general, contemporary interpretations of classics risk being appropriated purely for contemporary goals -- especially now, when everything is politicized -- and that of course falsifies the meaning of the work. See what people said about Jane Eyre when it came out. That's what I'm basing my opinion on. I remember misunderstanding Jude the Obscure in a similar way, thinking Hardy ultimately approved of the conventional morality he described, or at least that he saw no way to advance beyond it. Wow, what a mistake. These are both radical works.
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  12223. @katyt7470  This was ree moved once. Let's see if it stays up this time. See? Discussing these books is subversive. Oh, it reappeared. LOL, how ridiculous. Some algorithm could not decide!
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  12224. @johnkrstyen7351  Successful people aren't worried about you. They'll say what their consultants suggest that they say, when they do need to appear in public, to garner support for whatever their next scheme is.
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  12225. ​@rob1248996 I think that it's too late for God Help Us.
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  12226. His relationship with Epstein made no difference. The fact that as soon as Paul Allen developed cancer, Gates tried to push him out of Microsoft made no difference.
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  12227.  @remustrading  Don't use any of it. What for?
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  12228.  @adamhinkle5580  Very true. 💯
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  12229. Well, when ten-year-old pregnant children have to cross state lines to get immediate treatment, and are jeered at, and their doctor gets death threats, what do you expect? Someone -- literally anyone -- who pledges to make that inhumanity stop is going to win.
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  12230.  @MrJpmoneypants  Well, French preschool teachers need a Master's degree. The idea that the very best should teach the youngest is common around the world. Most other cultures figure that 15 year olds can do more on their own, and should. First-graders can't. Older kids had better.
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  12231. Disingenuous. The point is, we now have well-founded reasons to ask the question and demand answers. Other countries are, and not just Russia and China.
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  12232. What was misleading was labeling the story misinformation. It is nothing of the kind. And the funding was DOD, not NIH. Have you even bothered to check the US Embassy in Ukraine website?
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  12233. Look, if this were a court case, there is no doubt that the jury would have to view the material to see whether it is "inappropriate," "abhorrent," or "unbecoming for someone in a leadership position." At a state university, the First Amendment does apply. It's hardly certain that the law doesn't favor him until it's put to the test. I simply don't believe anyone about anything until I see for myself. That said, I'm not on his jury and don't plan to scare up the evidence.
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  12234.  @ForAnAngel  Great observation.
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  12235. Sabby on 🔥🔥🔥
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  12236. Alexander Cockburn approached The American Conservative for that very purpose.
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  12237. What's dangerous is expecting the DNC not to be closet Republicans at every opportunity. Anyone who proceeds from that idea will make some serious mistakes for sure.
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  12238. You mean frenzied cost-cutting?
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  12239.  @rivercrossing5152  I tried. I just couldn't last more than a few minutes. I've never seen anything that bad. Kyle is pure poetry by comparison.
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  12240. No, it is not possible that he is correct.
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  12241. Actually, when a reactor like Chernobyl blows, you just need an iodine pill, assuming you are far away from it. I was living in Western Europe, and they didn't have enough for everyone, so only pharmacists and doctors knew. :/
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  12242.  @Phatkillz  Listen again and enjoy: 6:27
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  12243. I still remember AIDS. I sat it out in France. The US was a looney bin, really shameful. In France, parents were rallying to make sure teachers with HIV got to keep their jobs, tenured or not! No wonder France has a much higher life expectancy. Will you ever wake up from your latest round of utter hysteria and disgraceful Schadenfreude and stupid, stupid jeering, and be embarrassed? I highly doubt it. You'll find another enemy to distract you.
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  12244. ​@Lanefasts But I believe in free speech for all, which Davidai, of course, does not. But does the COO? I don't think filming an administrator in a public place in broad daylight, in what appears to be a designated free speech forum, is "harassment." Did you hear the COO give a spirited defense of the First Amendment? Did you hear him offer to meet with Davidai at another time? Did you hear him warn Davidai that if he persisted, it would be considered harassment? Yeah, neither did I. The big millionaire administrator can't speak up for free speech in a free-speech forum.
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  12245. There is absolutely no reason to bring in a deceased person's character and dwell on it like Grande did. It tells us nothing about what his motivations were at the time, just like Rittenhouse's character is not relevant to his self-defense claims. Neither one is evidence of anything. There was actual evidence concerning what people present at the shootings believed about R being an "active shooter," rightly or wrongly, reasonably or not. That's because they testified under oath. I don't think that how the mass media talks about guns or mischaracterizes guns had anything to do with Huber's perceptions, or anyone else's. Ridiculous. These are moments of extreme tension and instinctive action.
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  12246. The American Medical Association says that girls can have XY chromosomes and penises. Well, that's certainly new.
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  12247. I don't. At least not yet, absent more evidence. Krystal has a better sense for class politics. Kyle fell for it. Ana played the social class card right along with the metoo card, and duped Kyle.
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  12248.  @shinershows153  Well, maybe I'm too hopeful.
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  12249. ​ @MundaSquire These other candidates for being "the real Shakespeare" were all more powerful than he was, and England was always a class-ridden society. Why didn't they insist on placing their names on this work? Even if the theatre was considered quite risque, as we know it was, you would still expect the real writer(s) to whisper about it to someone, especially after a triumph. Also, didn't Queen Elizabeth I commission one of the plays? To whom was this commission addressed?
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  12250.  @bazs2855  At this rate, possibly not.
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  12251. "Outreach and engagement"
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  12252. Raising interest rates slows down the velocity of money. Of course it will provoke a recession. It's not a theoretical certainty, but in real life, in 2022, that will happen.
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  12253. 8:08 This is key! Under one minute.
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  12254. They cannot restrict your travel. But can they prosecute you for having an abortion when you return? Can the state where you conceived assert jurisdiction over the "baby" and claim to prosecute on its behalf?
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  12255. I wish it were made clear that trade schools require loans as well, and those would be forgiven on the same basis. The real ton of money is going to colleges, true, but that's because more people borrow more money for college.
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  12256.  @hannahdyson7129  A woman was just hauled off for demonstrating in front of the BBC, holding a blank poster. Brilliant, really.
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  12257. When the Beatles and Stones properly credited black music for their success, did anyone have a fit?
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  12258.  @jimnicholasville8326  You're right. It has already started. I'm the boiling frog and think I'm fine.
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  12259.  @tacitus6384  Right. Your last line about rape in war. No, they don't say, "what do you expect?"
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  12260. A fetus has never had privacy. I don't know why you would think so. How could it be subject to a Fourth Amendment search?
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  12261. If you mention risk to safety, you get sense oared.
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  12262.  @alexsmith2910  What illegal activity are you referring to, or thinking of?
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  12263. Stop misspelling Israel.
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  12264.  @Draxxuzownzu  Then sharing the story was tacky. You've never heard of small, anonymous acts of charity? That was a very strong principle once. The recipient wouldn't even know the name of their benefactor, so as not to cause them embarrassment. Oh how far we've fallen . . .
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  12265. Did someone say "cancel?" What would that even mean??
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  12266. Tanden was briefly on welfare when she was little and the father left the family.
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  12267. Maybe you don't know what that's like, to be a crime victim as a child. I frankly don't see how someone who made it as a best-selling author, really made a fortune, and then returned to school later in life to complete the doctorate she always dreamed of -- at OXFORD, no less -- and in the meantime was married to a New York Times journalist and had two children, was divorced and remarried, to a very successful US Army veteran and security expert, can possibly be "committed to being a victim." Sounds to me like she committed to being a winner, which she is. And to telling her story, no matter how much it exposes her to these insipid analyses. She couldn't be browbeaten into accepting medical interventions that she had reservations about, either. How many people resisted the push to vaccinate? She did. That's no victim. You appear to need to believe there is less rape than there is, and that it's less bad than it is. Is that true? If so, why?
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  12268. Since Olaf Palme.
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  12269. 😂😂😂😂😂
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  12270. @ඞ True, an individual cannot sue a police department because their duty is to the public, not to any one individual member of the public, but two exceptional factors exist here: the police prevented parents and other agencies from acting, and there is a racial issue. A civil rights complaint ought to include both. They can dismiss the second count. Force them to address it.
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  12271. Shows you how seriously they take sexual harassment.
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  12272. Why don't I believe this? Hmm . . .
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  12273. Memo to Joe: Hatchet men and bag men don't get to decide ethics waivers. They have a different role in partisan politics.
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  12274. ​ @SpaciousSelf-gx9hc “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
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  12275.  A.A.G.  It's from a really old situation comedy, with a character who openly shunned work. It was funny.
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  12276. What's your source for this? It sounds like you've mixed him up with someone else, or it's a standard Assange attack from people who don't like his views.
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  12277. Outstanding post
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  12278. Oh I see. You are either in his employ or out of your mind. I don't believe anyone is this naive any more.
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  12279. Read Dostoevsky. You will never be alone.
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  12280. Uber are awful, and known to be. Please find other options.
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  12281. Not this time. Listen again to exactly what she said. Also, why do you think she is "establishment aligned?" She has made it a point to say, more than once, that she did not vote for Biden.
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  12282.  @ghhm2705  If that's true of your state, get that law rescinded. I summarized the Minnesota law. I hope they let you see it. :/
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  12283.  @jillyjoan8416  Is she all right now?
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  12284.  @nicwelch  Were teachers fired for stating Iraq had weapons of mass destruction? No, and yet that was a lie. Journalists who questioned the war were fired.
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  12285.  @UserName92149  You mean the ones that hold our debt?
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  12286. I gained 15 pounds over the COVID madness (and was not skinny but perfectly normal before that). It was excruciating to lose the weight. I literally never eat sugar in any form. There has been no sugar, salt, flour, or butter in my home for 40 years, and no honey in 20. I never eat processed foods. I almost never go to a restaurant -- sometimes not for years. My diet is pristine. I still had to do serious intermittent fasting in addition to dieting. People won't level with you. They make it sound easier than it is. It was excruciating. Believe it.
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  12287.  @steveagola9317  /s stands for sarcasm; I know you know, but someone else might not . . . 🤷
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  12288. This should come as no surprise.
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  12289.  @awen777  Truth
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  12290. ​ egatycasi ​​But collecting evidence WHEN THERE HAS BEEN A CRIME is a different matter. Go read the Fourth Amendment.
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  12291.  @doomguy510  Why are you gaslighting Elizabeth? Not one word she said was emotionally based, much less unreasonable, much less irrational. You comments, of course, tell us about . . . You.
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  12292.  @SaraLuna1993  Women MUST be trained in how to talk to police. In that police cam video, Gabby affirmatively took the blame. This is what nearly everyone does. I would have, at her age, and even much older. You have to be taught that you should not confess to police or acknowledge culpability to police. Police always believe such admissions, and stop focussing on the bigger picture. Gabby was just sweet and naive. But how much did police have to go on?
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  12293.  @SaraLuna1993  I wish someone had sat her down and told her, you have parents who love you. GO HOME NOW.
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  12294. good one . . . we have to laugh not to cry
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  12295. Nine million pounds in MARKETING payments??
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  12296. You can tell Robby would never be a caregiver like Kim is doing now. Libertarian who thinks he'll be young and rich forever.
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  12297. Maybe, just maybe this goofy chick doesn't know what she's talking about.
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  12298.  @loslingos1232  Because he was a KID with poor judgment. This should have been a case where the bona fide left opposes trying juveniles as adults, and demands a thorough investigation of what the police (and various provocateurs?) did that night. A generation after Columbine and Wisconsin's legislature was incapable of drafting a reasonable and constitutional gun law with respect to minors and others. Kyle was born after Columbine, as was his older sister. The adults in this picture are to blame. And still are (CNN, MSNBC, FOX).
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  12299.  BrewCity  They knew what they were doing, and for whom.
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  12300.  @rusted8157  You lose when you "win."
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  12301.  @rusted8157  Why do you give up so easily in your quest to enlighten us? Even many of those advocating a vote for Biden have a plan for the day after that does not include supporting the DNC or going to brunch.
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  12302.  @tsijr915  I should have added /s.
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  12303. Listen and find out.
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  12304. Much, much worse.
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  12305. When an ordinary person is actually harmed, such as getting mobbed with death threats, does the federal government do anything about it?
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  12306. ​@utah_koidragon Okay, true, but consider --- this is Biden we are talking about. Biden and Harris.
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  12307. ​@bigdaddy7729 Agree with this, of course. Only an ideological fanatic would disagree.
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  12308.  @arturferrao7353  HA. Blocked as time waster.
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  12309. ​ @1ronin907 I never voted for a ticket with Biden on it. I usually voted in primaries (Obama, Sanders) and gave up the two parties in the general.
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  12310.  @Uno.Numero  I disagree, and I know that what you propose is unconstitutional. You can't control loyalty by forcing a certain group to renounce their second nationality. No matter what genuflection you require, what makes you think Israel, and they themselves, don't consider themselves Israeli as well as American? You're just trying to control an outward manifestation to no purpose, except maybe to cause some dual nationals to pretend they aren't. Nice work, dude.
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  12311. @utah_koidragon7117  Then what you need to do is get Congress to pass a law concerning whether American citizens can seek a second citizenship without relinquishing all the rights and privileges of being an American citizen, or whether some of those rights and privileges are thereby lost. It's a timeline thing. The fact that a naturalized citizen, upon gaining citizenship, has to swear allegiance to our Constitution doesn't tell us anything about whether an American can seek a second citizenship without losing any rights he has by being an American citizen --- as is obvious, given that both are the law. In any case, you could only pass the law you advocate as governing prospectively. Current dual nationals in government can't be kicked out. That's unconstitutional as well (ex post facto).
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  12312.  @utah_koidragon7117  Also, it's unconstitutional under other provisions as well, like the equal protection clause, etc. Nor did I say that all loyalty oaths are impermissible.
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  12313. @utah_koidragon7117  You know, in light of Cole v. Richardson, 405 US 676 (1972), it might take some doing to draft a constitutional law. I still think you're right that it could be done, and it would be upheld by the current Court. That case is pretty tough on such laws. Rightly so.
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  12314. @utah_koidragon7117  But look at all the reasoning involved, not just the facts of that case. That's the thing about constitutional law --- you have to be super careful. No one in St. Paul, MN, expected R.A.V. to turn out the way it did, least of all the Minnesota Supreme Court.
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  12315.  @elijahlees8655  Blocked. Love cleaning out my notifications feed.
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  12316. Very good thought.
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  12317. Don't do it. Coma the first day.
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  12318.  @KOVIDGOON  Imagine putting on a raincoat.
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  12319.  @KOVIDGOON  Imagine not taking the risk of impregnating someone you consider (perhaps for very good reason) unfit to parent your child. C'mon, you can do it.
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  12320.  @ryleighloughty3307  I wonder if you'll get to see my answer. I cited a couple of brilliant thinkers, which algorithms tend to disfavor.
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  12321. Censored for stating what those bombs did, to people not yet born.
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  12322. "If you're against war, you must be a groomer!"
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  12323.  @dfd1313  You read his mind well. Do you think he got some information out of Epstein? We should start looking for tells.
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  12324. They like 💰. They got 💰.
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  12325.  O'Blivion  On the contrary, she only brought it up after she smeared Aaron Mate and Dore attacked her for it. Then her feelings from seven years ago were hurt. It could happen.
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  12326.  O'Blivion  Dore provided a written apology, that could later be used against him. He admitted that what he did was wrong in the apology. Please let us know what else he should have done. Ana admits she could have fired him (or suspended, etc.) but failed to.
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  12327.  O'Blivion  This is your view. Perfectly legitimate, and you do have some facts to back you up. (Facts can be viewed in the light most favorable to one's own position.) The "abusive relationship" bit is really fanciful -- they didn't have a relationship in that sense, but okay. Let's get back to what actually happened. What actually happened was an actionable defamation of one of the best journalists of our time. Jimmy (who according to you is almost never right, or occasionally right by sheer accident) defended him. Then he was threatened. In the threat, Ana even included an innuendo about his wife. You see a good guy in this picture? I don't. Except for Mate. But here is a lesson: he should have seen a lawyer. See how that's sometimes the right thing to do, ethically? When lawyers are involved, all these other parties would have shut up on the advice of counsel. I would find that preferable.
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  12328. Do all people exposed to COVID die? The element of free will is stronger in choosing to commit crimes, but the other factors predisposing the person also play a role, possibly a crucial one. It's not a matter of shifting blame. He is ultimately to blame in any event.
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  12329. @Hiddencomment007  Well good. At least he is earning what he deserves. One would hope. The content is great.
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  12330.  @jabberjaw4289  Of course. They were paid. They know how much.
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  12331. You know what the actual TOPIC of this program was, that MR chose this excerpt from? The First Amendment and the Tech Giants power over speech. The whole issue of their being private actors which nevertheless have quasi-governmental roles in our lives (not to mention monopoly power) was discussed better than I've heard it discussed anywhere recently. I think it's time to care a little more about free speech. The main topic wasn't impeachment at all. That wasn't the context.
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  12332.  @jenifersantinole  Yes I did listen. I know what you are saying about life in the cities is true as well. I'm living it, too. IN a city. (Never lived in a suburb.) No one is doing anything about it. This is not about feelings.
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  12333. Scary, bro. Scary.
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  12334. ​@Timothy Bogle I would agree with you, except thar RFK Jr has never opposed all vaccines, or all childhood vaccines. Many major countries do not have a vaccine mandate for school, but rely on persuasion.
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  12335. ​ @norman_5623  Brie just gave a summary of research on thimerosal. Please listen to that.
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  12336.  @norman_5623  Anyway, if all that were true, it should be a breeze to debate RFK Jr. Say, you don't think the COVID fiasco unjustifiably undermined support for clearly beneficial vaccines? I do. Public policy demands debates to persuade the public. New babies are being born every day . . .
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  12337. And suicide is rising, and opioid deaths are at record levels, and medical obesity (NOT cosmetic nonsense) is near 42%. No one has mentioned mass shootings, which are underreported in the poorest areas. Robbie, what are those more-guns-than-people for? There were four people shot in a drive-by shooting directly across the street from where I went to high school. It got almost no press coverage at all, even locally.
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  12338. Oh they have, just not the correct lesson.
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  12339. I don't believe for a moment that he is right wing. He craves power, and sees none with the real left, as you would find in Europe but not in the US in any event.
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  12340.  @custos3249  Oh, it's way worse now. "Je pete des plombes." (FWIW I hate that phrase.)
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  12341. Every president since Saint Ronald has exploded the national debt. The financialized economy cannot be stopped. It can only break down.
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  12342. Not what was said. As soon as race is in the picture, do minds stop? Krystal said that we should not imput insincerity to the student. The student might have believed that what she said was true, but she was wrong to make an accusation of racism based on her feelings, not evidence. Zaid seems to think she engineered this incident to her benefit, because she thinks it is prestigious to claim this form of victimhood, and she is in fact rewarded for it. He also said that people familiar with racism do not react the way she did. Remember the Central Park bird watcher? He came out and said he did not want to see his accuser's life destroyed, and he was a real victim of racism. He was in the right, and the woman who accused him called the (real) police on him and said he had made her feel unsafe, when all he did was ask her to follow the rules and put her dog on a leash.
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  12343. SO well said.
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  12344. Who are you kidding? The Democrats made this a wedge issue to no purpose I can discern. I agree about co-ed sports up to age 13. No, AOC is not right; it's a simple matter of inspecting a piece of paper known as a birth certificate/acto de nacimiento/acte de naissance.
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  12345.  @jhallin5185  A hundred rounds? Handcuffed AFTER 60 bullet wounds? Did you hear the list? This isn't one case where there are counterarguments.
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  12346. What RFK Jr. said to do in the event of a pandemic was exactly what I wanted to see done.
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  12347.  @LividCoffee01  So . . . You could have framed a counterargument on why she is grasping at straws here. Okay.
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  12348. What I don't understand is why Melenchon's performance is not seen as an enormous failure. To come that close to Le Pen, to come out on top in Ile de France and Marseilles, and second in Lyon, and still lose to Le Pen, who is there due to nepotism and is STUPID, is a horrible defeat. To be that clearly superior to her in every way, to be clearly the most competent and hardest working, and still lose . . . Oh no. This is terrible. Edit: 11:25 --- voila what it means!
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  12349.  @aprescoup  Try clarity.
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  12350.  @rushshukla4636  WHO is? How so? Comments are being disappeared as we speak.
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  12351. I'm listening intently, and all in all I still cannot understand how the left failed so badly. (Maybe Lenin was right?)
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  12352. I thought balls were supposed to be cancelled during the ten days of mourning.
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  12353.  @daniellincoln2693  False. It is illegal.
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  12354.  @rachelg785  I know that, you know that . . .
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  12355.  @victorcates9330  HATE: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship Nadine Strossen's book. It explains exactly what speech is not First Amendment protected and why, and more important, why the list should not be expanded. Her examples of how "hate speech" laws have backfired, harming those they were intended to protect, are alone worth the price of the book.
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  12356.  @Camcolito  We have got to get to the point where we can laugh at the Clintons and the Kasparians.
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  12357. Look, does anyone have proof? It's not that I doubt it. Not at all. But this claim requires proof.
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  12358. Well, if they don't die, they will be told they don't know their gender soon enough.
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  12359.  @philyoosays  Started many, MANY wars. Yeah. Can you name the places the US bombed since Nagasaki?
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  12360.  @philyoosays  Oh by the way, being authentically very left, I knew Abe was a Bad Guy.
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  12361. And Rotherham
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  12362. The soundbite was ill-chosen, but his point about appeal to authority could have been made, cleanly and with a little gravitas. It applies to the censors even more, as he himself concedes.
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  12363.  @darkthingswithmarkdavis4497  You can even find Fauci contradicting himself in a single interview. Please explain to me the censorship. I thought what we needed was spirited engagement. I, for one, don't like to see two or three people with the same views and a host who makes nice. And then censorship by media entities who don't like what's been said. These people should go on a program with Fauci, and talk science. You won't see it happen.
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  12364.  @BobWidlefish  Exactly. The only honest scientists readily admit the limits of their knowledge. The rest float soundbites, with a eye on future NIH funding.
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  12365.  @darkthingswithmarkdavis4497  I should believe you. Got it.
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  12366. China owns our debt. Someone has an idea how this will work out?
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  12367. No evidence of the infant massacre. Why cite it? Is what we know happened not enough for some reason?
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  12368.  @airmark02  THIS. Haven't the Trump Squad realized how LAZY that man was? At least that much. Incontrovertible.
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  12369. I don't get it, either.
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  12370. Is he smarter than Einstein? He's richer. Is he smarter than Feynman? He's richer. Etc.
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  12371.  @murtadha96  I agree. I also mean the bizarre psychological games, the bullying, the ostracizing, the constant hysteria about one thing or another, the demand that you join in the latest hysteria or panic, "to prove you care."
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  12372. I have to wonder about people like her; she herself is rational, but it's not clear that those who shouted "RACIST" would be capable of independent thought.
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  12373. ​ @Ryan-kc5pl  He agreed in federal court that he did use excessive force.
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  12374.  @Justme-ie5fb  From Science magazine: As of 15 August, 514 Israelis were hospitalized with severe or critical COVID-19, a 31% increase from just 4 days earlier. Of the 514, 59% were fully vaccinated. Of the vaccinated, 87% were 60 or older. “There are so many breakthrough infections that they dominate and most of the hospitalized patients are actually vaccinated,” says Uri Shalit, a bioinformatician at the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) who has consulted on COVID-19 for the government. “One of the big stories from Israel [is]: ‘Vaccines work, but not well enough.’” What is YOUR source? (Edited for typos)
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  12375.  @michaelolofsson8558  It appeared that all the vaccines defeated ADE, in that breakthrough cases were mild, exactly as flu vaccine works. This was a huge advance in coronavirus immunization. The sigh of relief might have been premature. Almost all serious reactions to the vaccine are to the second dose -- essentially all. Will repeated boosters eventually hurt more people? And will breakthrough infections get worse and worse?
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  12376. @phantomcreamer  Hmm. How does that counter what I said? And . . . Why is its current debt unsustainable?
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  12377. Can you be serious? Oh my god.
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  12378.  @richardgallagher4880  WHAT debate? A little gotcha here and there . . . faux gotcha
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  12379. UFOs are literally that -- for the moment unidentified, not "from Planet X."
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  12380. Modern warfare is Shock and Awe. From the air, with no risk.
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  12381. Biden is SO bad people are even ready to vote for a college-dropout spiritual guru instead.
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  12382. What a looney.
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  12383. So, ministers have to be Anglo? Or is French all right, too, provided they weren't born there?
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  12384.  @societylost4344  LOL, loved that.
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  12385. LOVE his voice and his working class Brooklyn accent. I could listen to him all day.
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  12386. DeSantis has found his path to national power, huh?
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  12387. If not worse.
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  12388. Do they owe you?
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  12389. Remember when they said the Internet would make us all more honest? No one would dare do this, it would be so easy to find . . .
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  12390. No. 🤣
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  12391. @N2Dressage001  You think "body language" is real, but DNA isn't. No wonder the crime wave.
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  12392. @tam6650  If juries could be trusted to be impartial before social media mobs, they can't now. If she gets "likes," that makes her right. Yes. It IS that bad.
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  12393. From the Statistica website: the proportion of all COVID deaths that have occurred in children under 17 is 0.0749%. Or, to put it another way, 99.925% of all deaths were in adults 18 and older. Over 94% were in people 50 and over. Go do the math. It's worse than I thought.
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  12394. Didn't everyone know it was about the stock price? Huh. Then what will it take?
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  12395.  @markpaul1383  I was right. Your thinking stopped. Or never started.
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  12396. Now, if I don't like the pictures and say so, I get sense oared. That isn't art.
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  12397. Once placed under oath, he would have shut up.
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  12398. How did people come to believe in utterly baseless things? How?
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  12399.  @outdoorloser4340  That we need to "roll back the state." Every single developed democratic society that is going down this road is convulsive at this point. Not one is viable; every one is fragile, dependent on the global south for its raw materials and basic goods, and in massive, massive debt --- at every level. I wonder what explanation you'll grab when the dollar is dethroned as the single global reserve currency and inflation skyrocks. I wonder who you'll call upon "to do something," and what that something will be.
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  12400. This was great. Literally laughing.
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  12401.  @jjjiljjjj  It better be.
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  12402.  @lymitutit3046  And for what it's worth, I think she'll win.
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  12403. People travel to Europe, eat a ton, and lose weight. We did in 1969, I just did this year. :/
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  12404.  @babylontimes639  Obama beat him to it. :/
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  12405.  @bigmona2741  Ha! I said she WAS accountable, in response to someone who pretended she wasn't. The charge and sentence were fair.
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  12406.  @bigmona2741  Is there something wrong with you? Drugs? What is it? I don't understand how all of a sudden no one can read. What happened?
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  12407.  @Fbglaus  ALWAYS
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  12408.  @bropitt  I agree that they could choose not to be truth challenged. But would it be lucrative?
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  12409.  @nina2222  Anyone who does drugs is someone to run away from, especially if he's 23 years older, has two failed relationships, and two kids.
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  12410.  @himanimalhotra26  You do for real? Say no to drugs.
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  12411.  @dayman0603  Calling everyone who disagrees with you "Brie" is the creative response of the day. You must have thought about that a long time.
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  12412. @brianbenjamin653  Of course that's what she said.
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  12413. The BOgeda worker?
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  12414. I think their first concern is always inflation.
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  12415.  @jupitercyclops6521  P. S. Why do you think there was only one "stimulus" check? It wasn't just the Democrats who feared reelecting Trump by sending out more money. McConnell wanted even less, and all of it for business interests. I love how everything is twisted. You thought I support the inflation risk story = neoliberal ideology has colonized your mind.
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  12416. When I read the MIT website description of the mRNA vaccines, and then found out that the diameter of a nanoparticle is between 1/10 and 1/100 the diameter of a red blood cell, I knew not to get one. EDIT: I think that's a mistake but I'm not sure. It seems nanoparticles may be much smaller than that. We should figure this out.
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  12417. The criticism is the mildest possible. The tweet was essentially AOC speaking FOR HERSELF.
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  12418. Robbie. Libertarians are supposed to be consummate realists. If people are allowed to make up their own currency, WHAT WILL HAPPEN? Do you need help with that question, Robbie?
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  12419. Robby, read ROBERT WHITAKER. The problem of SSRIs in youth is huge. It must be fairly investigated.
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  12420. People will keep to a lie rather than "get in trouble." That's ordinary.
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  12421.  @jairkerker2821  He functions like a false flag. Hearing this rant would scare most people away from the shot.
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  12422.  @lesaamoore  Kim Iversen isn't defending Putin at all. Just this week she stated there is evidence that this invasion was a move against Western hegemony, and not at all to prevent the expansion of NATO, because no such expansion was imminent. Do you trust the New York Times? It reported a few days ago that the US was urging China for three months to influence Putin to practice restraint. Not only did China refuse to do so, it opened a back channel to denounce the US efforts to Putin himself. This supports Kim's view. I have found no evidence that anything Kim has said is unfounded. She may be right, she may be wrong, but her work is solid. Look, this isn't rah rah. If anyone needs to calmly consider other viewpoints, it could be you. As for ivermectin, Kim was caring for family members with COVID for months. (Well, she's not Western!) She did a great radar begging for better public health guidance that was outstanding.
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  12423.  @XLXBX  You said "we have lost our moral compass . . . things will never be the same again." I was surprised to hear. King Charles has several problems the Queen never had, true enough. And the work ethic and stoicism of her generation is gone, so there's that as well. But all of that already happened decades ago.
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  12424.  @NuNugirl  People have had COVID and gotten better very quickly with no medication whatsoever, back in early 2020, when there was none. Mild cases have always existed. We don't know based on one case what worked, or why. But Rogan is older and not in perfect shape. It's likely he needed the medicines he got.
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  12425.  @fazole  Yes, I know. Why call it horse dewormer when it has saved people's eyes? To put it down?
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  12426.  @Geoplanetjane  1. It's not my quote. 2. Links are routinely removed because they are too hard to monitor for TOS violations. 3. This quote happened to be transparent. It was very easy to verify the information it contained, and to find out that the headline was rather sensationalistic (no surprise), but the story is basically true.
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  12427. The entire program explains that it is never a single factor in isolation. What is different about those in Scandinavia who do become seriously depressed and those who do not?
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  12428. Fog? Consult, say, Greenwald on that point.
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  12429. False. A break-in of an occupied home is presumed to be a risk to the safety of the persons in it, not just property. Then it would not matter if the burglar was unarmed, thought no one was home, was only 13, etc. Lethal force in defense of persons is justified. Lethal force in defense of mere property is illegal. This is a bright-line rule, and a nation of gun owners does not know? Wow.
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  12430. You mean Ana? What abuser are you referring to?
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  12431. @Michael Sprague Now raw data is a conspiracy if it contradicts a point you hold dear? Why am I not shocked, shocked?
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  12432. Freedom was being able to earn in-state tuition OR trade school tuition by working for the minimum wage over the summer, then afford a studio apartment in any city -- New York, San Francisco, Denver, Dallas. That was freedom. That was how Americans used to live.
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  12433. Brilliant, thanks!
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  12434. Memento mori.
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  12435.  @C_R_O_M________  Most of my posts are gone. Dad can't handle them? LOL
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  12436.  @gigaman6  Not what she said.
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  12437.  @gigaman6  16 2/3 % is NOT "well below average." She said that was slightly above the known average. The small sample size has an unacceptable margin of error, so we cannot really draw any solid conclusion. That is what she said.
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  12438.  @1LSWilliam  Only God can help us now.
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  12439.  @amandap9332  Actually, he didn't. Sometimes something IS new.
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  12440. So what happened during the pandemic, and why weren't we hearing about it?
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  12441. 4:38 oh Jimmy is back all right . . . :)
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  12442. So, Musk won't save them?
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  12443.  @audreycampbell9483  Just the opposite. This is an example of a person not caught up in America's latest round of complete and utter hysteria and cowardice. I still remember AIDS. I sat it out in France. The US was a looney bin, really shameful. In France, parents were rallying to make sure teachers with HIV got to keep their jobs, tenured or not. No wonder France has a higher life expectancy.
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  12444.  @aliciadishman  What's "communism?" In France, PCF/CGT strongly oppose mandates. There, the vaccinated demonstrate for the unvaccinated to keep their jobs. NO WONDER they have a higher life expectancy. We, on the other hand, had record drug overdose deaths last year. Keep it up, Sweets, keep it up.
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  12445. @Michelle Love I'm so sorry to hear of your illness. Do you have long-term care in place? Shall we pray for you? What is your religious or spiritual preference?
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  12446.  @WitlessSod  When a right wing narcissist and utter incompetent with a substantial cult following was in charge, all the more reason for those who opposed him to maintain calm, stature, and scientific consistency. If you don't trust Jimmy Dore on this point, watch Krystal Ball, or Katie Halper, or Kyle Kulinski. They all demonstrated that the DNC/elitists were misleading and disdainful. And how can you compare an unemployed basement dweller with one of the most popular members of the House? You don't see why you would be kinder to the first, and demanding of the second? What's the point of doing exactly the opposite? Who does that play to?
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  12447. Decency = "I did not hang out with Jeffrey Epstein." Well? Something more is needed? "C'mon, man!"
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  12448. I'd trust him to clean up Wall Street.
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  12449.  @loopy1159  Why? These were minors. A child is a person who has not completed puberty. They were also below every relevant age of consent, state and federal. But most were not children. No, let's not conflate 17 and 7. That is not a good idea.
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  12450. A lie like this one seems harder to pull off in France, because of the strong emphasis on academic credentials and civil service exams. On the other hand, the supposition that if he were a fraud, someone would have exposed him, not to mention that plagiarism is so shameful that people won't be tempted to do it, and in case they are, it will be easy to detect, tends to protect con artists.
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  12451.  @nikobitan7294  Perfect.
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  12452.  @havable  David and Bathsheba --- nevermind the vicious crime, their first child dies as punishment. Good grief. It advocates appeasement magic?? All joking aside, it's not an appropriate story before puberty for most kids. Every child is, however, unique.
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  12453.  @taraburton5940  I am a huge believer in age appropriate. And kids change so fast, what bothered them today may roll off their backs in two weeks. I agree wholeheartedly about teachers, and general oversharing. I wouldn't want my child to learn the "subtext," that sharing your personal life is something you need to do, and everybody has a right to expect from you. Example: I don't think an underage Linda Blair should have been able to sign a contract (or have parental consent, signing it on her behalf) to play the lead in The Exorcist. But if an 18-year-old woman can play the part of a girl of 14, and create a convincing character, then that's art. (People who don't agree have a right to their opinions, and . . . they don't have to watch it!)
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  12454. Well, anesthesia will now be covered.
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  12455. Glen Greenwald, With Liberty and Justice for Some It's all there.
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  12456.  @Chris-zr3to  Strossen and Chemerinsky still are, and recently produced books to push back on the latest anti-free speech craze.
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  12457. That's right. Quit the funny stuff, the BANKS rule.
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  12458. Hey what an idea!
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  12459.  @dloesch  Extremely unethical -- yes, you put it better!
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  12460.  @FrankCastle-tq9bz  This is more accurate, certainly. Let's say US, Likud are symbiotic. A lot of what is really happening came to light when Prime Minister Rabin was assassinated. A lot more stuff got worse since then.
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  12461.  @Labearski44  The students at Oxford will be just fine, if Steve Bannon becomes President of the World someday. Will you?
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  12462.  @canonli  Reviewing this thread, it amazes me how many English-speaking people are deeply disturbed, incapable of saying or doing anything but sputter hate-laced insults. You should be worried. I'm serious. I don't have to be. I have several other languages and cultures I can function in. I don't think you appreciate how far you are being left behind -- or how much you depend on a handful of institutions, like Oxford, for example, to maintain some standards -- but your fury is revealing. It is coming from somewhere, and for an obvious reason.
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  12463. 6:57 Hysterical
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  12464. I don't see why everyone is worried about Biden instead of getting their infant a COVID shot and their teen some puberty blockers. Get with it people, the future is here.
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  12465.  @TheVuduYuDu  I never thought that when lives were at stake, people would still parrot irrational talking points and push magical thinking. Not caring about your own survival shows a high level of dysfunction. I didn't think we were there yet.
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  12466. Amen to all.
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  12467. So Depp isn't your darling anymore.
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  12468. Thanks for reminding me to reread the ancient tragedies. :/
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  12469. One of the Manson Family women married a Harvard Law grad while in prison.
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  12470.  @arjun9298  It was a joke. Western narcissism?
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  12471. I hope your clergy are not weird if you know what I'm getting at.
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  12472. Brianne Dressen had these dire side effects and injuries in the CLINICAL trial. The vaccine should never have been released.
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  12473. Anna Sorokin was pretty good, too.
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  12474. How does someone like DeSantis get into the Ivies? Wild.
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  12475. Fundamental rights aren't supposed to be up to a vote.
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  12476. ​ @snowissj Who's the conspiracy "theorist?" In other news, Fauci and Collins suppressed evidence of their involvement in the origin of the pandemic.
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  12477. Thank you.
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  12478. Worse than that -- his words were that he got "tricked" into signing permission. Well, second opinions, lengthy psychotherapy, and all that are expensive. I can understand.
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  12479. Bono was ALWAYS transparent. Good grief.
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  12480. Thank you for looking this up.
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  12481.  @chococat746  Perfect summary. Thank you.
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  12482.  @bettysteve322716  Worse than that. Your own comments remain visible to you, and you have no way of knowing for sure whether anyone else can see them -- without signing out and going to a different Internet server.
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  12483. Systematic genocide based on a spurious racial theory has nothing to do with political "demonization" of equally powerful parties and coalitions that regularly trade political power. Gina asked rhetorically "what's the difference . . . ?" That is. If they wanted her to tweet better, they should have provided her with cheat sheets. Somehow she didn't get the memo that Twitter is for advertising, not airing dumb political views. She's not a historian and wasn't hired to be one.
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  12484.  @graywalkerjoin3rdparty74  I'm not missing any point. Do you know someone's politics unless they tell you? How is that comparable to the history of anti-Semitism? Look, plenty of leftists (communists, socialists, various Marxists) were targetted and killed by the Nazis. No one, least of all them, claims it was comparable to genocide. LOOK UP THE WORD.
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  12485.  @zacboyles1396  No. Gina did. She drew the comparison between the Nazi genocide and contemporary political animosity and demonization. And I did not say it was a fire-able offense, or an "offense" at all. I said it was historically inaccurate, and wildly so. Unacceptable, in my view. But if she is entitled to her own facts, then I defer to her. Once we go down THAT road, it is hopeless anyway. I'm not being paid for the history lesson. I'm done. One person finally believed me after Ben Shapiro gave a reasonable analysis of the whole matter. Tootles.
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  12486. Now, was John of God in prison by then? I'd have to look it up.
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  12487. Where were you able to get Sinovac?
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  12488. I love Michael Ratner.
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  12489. The fact that this is not the top comment is what is wrong with the 21st century. Or the 21st century in the Five Eyes in any case.
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  12490.  @gerardk51  Ah. I guess in your rush to defend the grifter, you missed that I quoted an Israeli source in the first place. Because people should read Israeli sources first. I said this a year ago, ten years ago, and I still say so today. Klein and Goodman are also Jewish. No one ever made a buck saying what I'm saying, but . . .
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  12491.  @Will-y4z  I agreed with OP. I don't think it has a snowball's chance in h3ll of happening, however.
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  12492. This is only an excerpt, so we don't know what else he said. In any case, he would not comment without examining the documents himself. Glenn Greenwald had the best program on that issue last night. He has his own livestream on a different platform, also free to watch. He was a First Amendment lawyer, so he knows this stuff in his sleep.
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  12493. If the statement is not included, neither should the signatures to it.
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  12494.  @christopher92051  I agree that it's important to get it right, so I will watch it again, no problem. Will you?
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  12495. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤪🌎
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  12496.  @miller-joel  Twitter and Facebook are purely advertising platforms, and should only be used for self-promotion and image-tending. I never registered for either. If I needed to advertise on them, I'd get my own webpage first and hire a consultant to design my web presence/ad package. That is how to use them. To your advantage or not at all.
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  12497.  @miller-joel  I don't. But if I ever did, that's how I would.
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  12498. But data fraud, not so much.
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  12499. ​ @theodorehaskins3756  Not what these guys are about. 😂
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  12500.  @jdallz3676  This discussion was excellent. Is it always, when Brie gets on this subject? No. Was it this time? Yes.
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  12501.  @jdallz3676  If you think Brie sees herself as a VICTIM . . . Sorry, that is laughable. You've memorized a talking point you repeat whenever you feel like a victim?
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  12502. Good question. There is a case called Bivens v Six Unknown Named Agents, decided by the Supreme Court, which first established that right about 50 years ago. It is all explained there. The Complaint and the US Attorney's Motion to Dismiss are online.
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  12503.  @mozfonky  That makes what the CEO did worse. He knows what struggle means. Do you really not know how much envy and disdain for others it takes to choose this as your life's work? And no, Elizabeth Warren did not condone murder.
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  12504.  @LadyArete  My emojis were directed at OP. You were very kind to respond to her so eloquently. I hope it works.
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  12505. That's unlikely on its face. France can enforce French laws against anyone, provided it can obtain jurisdiction over that person --- and jurisdiction is complicated. Whether or not something is a crime, and whether or not you can get jurisdiction over a person to rule on whether they committed any crime, are two different questions.
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  12506. ​ @volatile86 You know the answer to that. To most Americans, war is entertainment.
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  12507. ​ @boo2457 That's funny. All the police in the affluent suburbs around me have been bragging for most of this century that they carry antidote and save lives.
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  12508.  @consul6262  Well then, I can understand that.
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  12509. Repeat offender
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  12510. Maybe he lost his looks?
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  12511. Look for someone to monetize this. That's the only upshot.
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  12512. That tweet about Russians is disordered, and it is racist -- the word "stain" is the giveaway. Jimmy critiqued it PERFECTLY. Every word.
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  12513. Do these "law enforcement" bullies understand what they're doing? The encampments are symbolic of refugee camps in Gaza --- so the police come in and violently maraud them? Just like the IDF at this point?
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  12514.  @DMSProduktions  Oh, okay. And Chris Hedges is pro-Putin, right? (Is that you, Rachel Maddow?) I'm not convinced of her story. Consider A Million Little Pieces. Consider George Santos. Consider Anna Sorokin. (Consider the "babies ripped from incubators". That story was dangerous.) With Santos and Sorokin, sounds like a New York thing.
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  12515.  @charliekowittmusic  Because Katie Halper has said explicitly that she supports vaccine mandates unreservedly. She is on record. That's why.
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  12516. @RalphJBater  First document her exact words.
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  12517. Which is EXACTLY why you can predict a Biden win.
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  12518.  @rtquest22  Say it in plain English. See, e.g., Orwell.
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  12519. All that proves is that it is not impossible for a black person to succeed in a Western society. But haven't we known that since at least Pushkin's family line? Um, wait . . . now that I think about it, that wasn't the West. Okay. Anyway. Sir Trevor Philips proves it is not impossible. Point granted.
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  12520. To distract you from his eyes?
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  12521. They are looking at how much they got paid.
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  12522.  @IIlllIlIllIIlllII  Perfect name for them.
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  12523. Yes. My decision to care for an elderly, handicapped family member, with no government assistance whatsoever, most certainly had huge ramifications. I do not judge anyone who makes a different decision. I know what that sacrifice means in real-world terms, and it has to be up to the individual. (Too bad they judge me, huh?)
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  12524. That's correct. Appliances have to have a lot of plastic parts because it is so expensive to ship solid steel and other metals. Of course you have to get new ones every decade instead of once a generation at most. This has harmed the environment as well.
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  12525. I always knew a pandemic would be a disaster in America, but I would never have expected insanity.
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  12526.  @douginorlando6260  The Route 66 couple! 😉
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  12527. ​ @mrharpable This gives you solace? This?
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  12528. I agree. It's working too well not to ask some questions about its origins.
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  12529. I hope everyone realizes how difficult an analysis this is to conduct, due to all the variables that have changed all at once -- which also means that the analysis is extremely sensitive to bias and falsification. If "only" 20% of the excess deaths are likely due to certain new medicines as a chief or contributing factor, this is an utter disaster. We have never seen the likes of it. Don't let them mess this one up. Much too important.
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  12530.  @davidspiller7977  "whataboutism!!!" Thanks for that. Tell everyone how credible you are, and how strongly you promote the worst hypocrisy. When did Assange owe the US allegiance?
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  12531. Excuse me, but have you vetted this person? This story is not plausible, and needs to be carefully verified.
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  12532. ​@gungagalunga9040 They already have, and will never stop. :/
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  12533. They rushed the development of the COVID vaccine, and they ENDED the placebo arm right away and gave those people the vaccine. So there will be no long-term scientifically sound clinical trial data on vaccine safety. That possibility was closed, and they closed it. That means Kennedy is correct.
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  12534. Except for one glaring problem: Anyone who believes this will never, ever hire a depressed person. Then what happens?
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  12535. Wow, if I had thought Manchin would be president, I might have looked at the election a little differently. Just kidding. Voted LaRiva-Peltier. On election day, in person. Would again.
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  12536. I don't understand why this remark got her so much attention. She should be ignored during the mourning period.
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  12537. When do these people have enough money? (Why would half of what she spent on buying these Tesla calls be enough for me to secure my retirement? I must lack . . . Imagination. LOL)
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  12538. Even the Soviets banned lobotomies long before the US did. About 20 years, in fact.
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  12539.  @cyndara88  Rittenhouse was a minor and should not have been tried as an adult. In a low-key juvenile proceeding, he would have been under court supervision until age 21 and probation at least four more years. As matters stand, he doesn't have to finish high school and can go out on Monday and buy a bigger and better gun.
    2
  12540. Where did you get the information that American youth are radicalized?
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  12541.  @jontomas2271  I was not listing people opposed to TYT. I was listing people Dore consistently supports. Max Blumenthal has written several outstanding books. TYT, not so much. Funny how you twist stuff.
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  12542. ​ @sm7657 Well she should be.
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  12543. ​ @sm7657 And it isn't complex at all.
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  12544. No it's not. We have a Fifth Amendment and a First Amendment. So, she refused to bend. Fine, vote her down. Leave it at that.
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  12545. Erin talks as though those "MAGA" people are some enemy tribe, not her fellow Americans.
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  12546. Karrie was treated as though she were a minor. Absent copious evidence of her being mentally ill to the point of lacking her own free will, this was not appropriate. But I'm not surprised by it.
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  12547. Try listening. And thinking.
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  12548.  @mightyirish  Japan has almost no gun deaths -- a handful per year.
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  12549.  @genericusername3029  No. You have the wrong numbers. Mine are correct. And yes, the rate of gun-related suicides is higher than the rate of gun-related homicides; namely, 7.0 per 100,000, hence 70 per million. Check the Feb 2022 compilation at Pew Research, for example.
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  12550.  @genericusername3029  Your original post spoke of the risk of being shot, fatally or nonfatally. That is easily 1.5 to 2 times the homicide rate, though with the current firepower, probably closer to 1.5. So, we have to go from 6.2 per 100,000 to over 15.5 per 100,000. Everyone I know has crossed paths with someone who was murdered, every city neighborhood I frequent has had a gun-related homicide.
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  12551. A friend of mine who had pretty wild teenagers, but basically good kids, did not permit either one to go out with anyone, friend or otherwise, at age 14 before meeting that person's parents. After the daughter got a bit older, the mom still insisted on meeting at least the mother of anyone she dated, and preferably both the mother and father. She would even say stuff like "no sex!" as they were leaving. So funny! Trust me, that often works. Young kids need to believe their parents have no idea. As soon as the parents show they know, the kids are too mortified to try anything.
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  12552. Classic smear tactic. That will NEVER work to snow Max or Aaron. You must be posting to sway viewers who are new to this and don't know.
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  12553. Briahna did a GREAT JOB here. If you cannot credit her for once, well . . . Shapiro finally stated exactly why he resigned in advance, which was entirely legitimate reasoning as well. If she had not pressed, would he have stated what he did?
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  12554. Good. Now let's address Wall Street and Fauci.
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  12555. Thanks for that.
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  12556.  @vittoriobollo3408  True.
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  12557. This happened? This is insane.
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  12558. Arg, you beat me to it.
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  12559. Important point. /s
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  12560. No. I've been studying it on my own, using the NIH free library.
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  12561.  @southsideschooloffinancial4059  It's usually jealousy. AKA, follow the money, same thing.
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  12562. From another thread: they died, she saw, she came
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  12563. This supports PERSUASION and above all, individualized medical care, exactly as this video points out. How does it support mandates? Maybe listen again. Do you support flu vaccine mandates? On pain of being fired?
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  12564. Look up the lawsuit filed against Tesla by California for severe and pervasive employment discrimination and the administrative complaint against Neuralink for primate torture. It might be instructive. They are both online.
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  12565. I love the vibe of a happy married couple. Way fun, and cosy.
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  12566. Amen to that.
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  12567.  @16MedicRN  I'm an outstanding lawyer. In two states, including California (the hardest bar to pass, especially when I took it).
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  12568.  @vainezaiven6677  AP is an elective designed for motivated kids who want to earn college credits and save money on tuition. That is not good for the banks. End of story.
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  12569.  @scratchpenny  Not at all. There has been a push to decrease access to AP, and funding for these "extras," even while the student demand has been growing, particularly from those who are first-generation college bound or relatively lower income. This isn't surprising, given the current crisis in the schools and the need to make up the lost time in the main curriculum. Where I live, a substitute teacher only needs 60 college credits for an emergency certificate. Anyone with two years of college pursuing their education degree part-time in the evenings can sub. (Needless to say, this poses no issues for the top 10% of income and wealth.)
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  12570. ​ @scratchpenny  So demonstrate that -- by citing curriculum, reading list, etc. The burden is on them, I think. AP courses are approved by the College Board. If they don't get approval, then that is a good reason to decline to offer it -- basically dispositive. No unapproved course should be offered, it will mislead the students. If they do get approval, then the ball is in DeSantis's court. Banning it is censorship.
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  12571.  @scratchpenny  And the government does need to make sure it is a real course, for real credit -- we pay them for that. We know DeSantis has a political opposition to this type of course in public school, but did Biden make sure it is a real AP class for college credit? Ha ha just kidding. :)
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  12572. Yes, it was PERFECT.
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  12573. @dcg4mn  True, and Liked. Of course, not one Democrat put country before money. They're not stupid.
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  12574.  @GillyWhitfootHaysend  Yeah, having her warm a chair during the holidays does smack of a temp job. Good call!
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  12575.  @MikeCrawch  You mean supporting neo-Nazis is taking that stance? I agree.
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  12576. The affluent people's jobs have.
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  12577.  @just_another32  My answer was suppressed.
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  12578. @Larpy McLarperstein Corporations are a form of doing business that absolves principals and agents from ever having to take personal responsibility for decisions they make in the course of doing business. That is why Tony Hayward got no clawback after the BP well exploded. That is why a doctor or a lawyer cannot use the corporate form to avoid having to take personal responsibility for his decisions. Corporations, and the privileges and immunities such entities provide to their principals and agents, are creatures of the state. So, when you juxtapose "individuals" (a natural kind) and "corporations" (dependent for its existence on the state) in your definition, it's kind-of funny.
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  12579. @Larpy McLarperstein No. I went to school at Paris IV. And then law school here. I've never heard of the stuff you mention. Are those real schools?
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  12580. @Larpy McLarperstein P. S. Paris IV was very big on ancient Greek philosophy and language when I went. Don't know about now. James Baldwin was still alive back then. The James Baldwin, who, in an autobiographical work in his moment of most extreme anguish, quoted . . . Socrates. "The unexamined life is not worth living." You don't learn about that stuff, do you?
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  12581. And what is your source? The state court documents were all posted during the trial. As for the federal charges, Chauvin pled guilty.
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  12582. "Entitlement" became a dirty word for some reason. "Entitlement" means you are literally entitled to have it. You met all the conditions -- not only through earning the benefits, but also by attaining the minimum age. You did your part. Most people vest (i.e., have EARNED) these benefits long before being able to use them. Decades before.
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  12583. @nateauld  I oppose in principle people who have had no role in government or public interest litigation -- or even advocacy -- being suddenly granted positions of great political power. This is what we had in Trump. That's not to say politicians are good, but looking outside of all those who have devoted themselves to public service and picking up unknown billionaires for vice president is a non-starter for me. She could easily end up being president. Yes, I oppose that. Let's see whether I'm allowed to.
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  12584. Did they realize what they were doing when they elected Reagan? That is where it all started.
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  12585. This is a normal procedural move at this time and may even be required, depending on Virginia Rules of Civil Procedure.
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  12586. Police perjury must draw prison time.
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  12587. Spend more on NATO, sell more Treasuries . . . to China.
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  12588. Probably considered a First Amendment "right." While WE are censored, of course.
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  12589. Congrats on fomenting more hysteria over free speech here. Nice job. We already know who stands to suffer most: pro-Palestinian protestors, even the reasonable, peaceful ones. We hear an interview from her, but not the actual words used against her or against the Olympic Committee that allowed her to box. So we don't know from this video what was said by these defendants. Harassment, bullying, and defamation are about actual words. With this mentality, our First Amendment won't survive.
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  12590. @Dr.Vas0  Who thinks that? Elon is odious. Oh wait, this is an English language audience. Okay, now I know why you think stuff like that. 😂
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  12591. Max rocks.
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  12592.  @animalsarebeautifulpeople3094  Yes. Basically a given, whenever anyone obsesses about anyone else.
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  12593. ​ @HazemeII Really? Both of my parents and I lost immense wealth due to corporate crime at the top. The last generation to be millionaires were my grandparents, both sides, and Hitler made sure that was gone.
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  12594. ​ @HazemeII My intelligence was resented, not rewarded, and I did my best to be a wallflower. Envy runs riches, first and foremost. That means tearing others down is rewarded as well. Socrates talks about this, so it's hardly new.
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  12595. I am already shaking my head at Vargas.
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  12596. Yes and no. Biden is an unfair comparison, after all.
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  12597. If Hillary had won, would Epstein be alive and Maxwell free? I have to ask.
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  12598.  @shelleydunkle7867  You could count on the substance of most reporting to be true, unless there was an obvious motive for bias -- and then another network or major newspaper would point it out and get the scoop. News was not tailored purely for clicks and ad revenue, or to please certain billionaires, and critics were not silenced in the way they are now. Having to doubt everything that comes out of MSM is new.
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  12599.  @Svdgskjszgjsk  I honestly find this disturbing, because, obviously, you really cannot trust the media to inform you on COVID. Or to properly inform others as well, to be a trustworthy source on a global emergency. This is a contagious disease, and everyone's health depends on everyone else being informed. They are a disgrace to still be playing these games now. I didn't think they were this low.
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  12600. You mean Operation Barbarossa?
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  12601.  @kristofsavels804  Perfectly said!!!!
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  12602. Best one-liner here.
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  12603. This would work, yes. You'd need high level accounting assistance, to be sure. But in general, you could greatly reduce your taxes this way. He is lying big time. This is a disgrace.
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  12604.  @arugulaempire4828  She has the best record in women's gymnastics. The Internet has made you crazy.
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  12605.  @karolinesmith6119  That's terrible. They didn't have time to go numb.
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  12606.  @citizenworld8464  Thanks, and no need to be humble, that's for sure. Remember citizen, you did not see what you saw.
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  12607.  @GotMoxy  💯
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  12608. Where did you hear that Brie defended Pelosi? She criticized Kagan, in fact, for drawing a salary from Harvard while there is a discrimination case involving Harvard pending before the Supreme Court.
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  12609. What is truly mind-boggling is that the proposal is to prevent this film from being shown because there are not enough films by Muslims about Muslims. Of course there are not enough films by Muslims about Muslims. What does that have to do with this film? Can't Al Jazeera talk about America and white Americans? Well, there have been attempts to close them down, too.
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  12610.  @Buttlather  Are you serious? Kyle Rittenhouse is from a "suburb." I suggest you read the in-depth story of his family in The New Yorker. It is quite an eye-opener. What do you think suburbs are like now? You can find tiny pre-fab homes and frame cottages everywhere.
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  12611.  @thereareclouds1721  That ANY community near the Great Lakes has ANY problem with water is utterly perverse. There is no greater natural supply of clean, fresh water anywhere in the world.
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  12612.  @johnsmith1474  Do you understand hell? I think you do. Intimately.
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  12613.  @johnsmith1474  Don't listen to "opponents of the US." See what the VA, EPA, DOD, etc., have to say about depleted uranium. Limit it to that.
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  12614. So . . . Is a President supposed to be able to field attacks greater than this? "Three against one!!" 😲😲😲😲 Please.
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  12615.  @p.w.352  Absolutely
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  12616.  @p.w.352  I agreed, but that was ______
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  12617. THIS. Sadly.
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  12618.  @troy5140  Right. You can be justified in using deadly force to defend a person, but not to defend property. And people turn to property crimes when they have no means of obtaining the basic necessities of life any other way. What is "inconvenient?" Where did you see a contradiction? She put life before property both times. The kids who tried to steal a car were committing a crime. The person who shot them when his personal safety was not at stake, but only to keep them from getting his property, also committed a crime.
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  12619. Don't they inspire confidence? Don't they?
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  12620. THIS. Perfect.
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  12621. My family is in Europe, and we've been discussing my emigration since last fall. I still need to work five years.
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  12622.  @MBarberfan4life  For sure. She does not want poor whites to date her daughter, yeesh.
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  12623. Because it's not defamatory. It's an unlikely but not totally impossible interpretation of what he said. You can defend by saying he is being deliberately ambiguous. That's an opinion protected by the First Amendment. The rest of us can consider it a dumb opinion.
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  12624. ​ @emmettturner9452 He's part Filipino. Either 1/4 or 1/8, not sure.
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  12625. This MSM report -- from NEWSWEEK, no less -- must lead to an investigation. Enough is enough. It is not about personalities. Not anymore.
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  12626.  @eileenmc4746  Honestly, just browse them at the library. They are a wry look at contemporary relationships. She herself just got married. Her husband teaches math in high school. She's so cool it's a big exhale. Like, finally. Someone.
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  12627. ​@og-up4rt Anyone who thinks Venezuela should not have to hand over its oil to the New Global Rentiers is pro-Maduro. That's how. You are welcome.
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  12628.  @og-up4rt  I answered straight, but, well, suppression.
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  12629. Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, wrote in an email to employees that “the F.B.I., through the office of the director, is in charge of all our review processes,” telling workers that they should “for now, please pause any responses.” "How weird! I wonder why??" 🤔
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  12630. ​@SocietyOfOne Apparently some federal courts got the email, too. I thought the citizenship test covered Separation of Powers. 😂
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  12631.  @jasper_of_puppets  Thanks for responding. Now I can easily block you.
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  12632. See Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic. This is the usual pattern: a new drug is actually beneficial to a small, small minority of people -- and even for them, it's that the benefits clearly outweigh the harm (not that there is no harm). But to profit, the drug has to be prescribed to a lot more people.
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  12633.  @rudiklein  No one but the victim pays for hair reconstruction, unless it's part of a recovery in a court case where the other motorist was at fault. But deciding that takes forever. Yeah, this is how it is in America.
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  12634. This very well could be.
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  12635. Do you know what the British mean by "liberal?" It embraces most Thatcher supporters and nearly all Blair supporters. Try multiculturalism. It can be useful.
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  12636.  @zackamania6534  Adam Curtis lives in England. That is who is speaking.
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  12637. No, she said she would call Kamala Harris whatever she wants. That was the uncool thing. Mispronunciation by itself is no big deal. Has Harris deputized these people to correct everyone's pronunciation of her name?
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  12638. ​ @spookrockcity Just an observation. Say. Did you read the opinions?
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  12639. Next month 73, yes.
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  12640. Especially ages 5 to 8. Wooo, I feel SO GOOD now.
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  12641. ​@ManjariIR Few people have the knowledge or the time. Who will take off 10 to 12 weeks from work and do a "DYI rehab?" I mean getting up early every day, going for a walk in nature, having the very best organic food, walking or biking or swimming again, reading, or writing, or painting, or playing music, getting a massage, yoga lessons weekly. And above all, calm talking. No shouting. No blame. At first, the person should never be alone. Yeah. I'm serious. You try this, then if it doesn't work, you get professional help. The issue, obviously, is that you want to avoid prescriptions if possible.
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  12642. EVERYONE who FIRED PEOPLE, EVERYONE who THREATENED PEOPLE that they would not be entitled to a HOSPITAL BED, EVERYONE who LIMITED ACCESS to EDUCATION -- that is who needs to be called to account.
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  12643. Director for the Georgetown Center for the Constitution is first and foremost a Public Relations position. Fair or not, he displayed a lack of public relations skills. If he wants to tweet whatever he wants, that is fine, but then a different position, such as simply Professor of Law, would be a "better fit."
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  12644. @WhatEver-gu9pz  This was a communication problem, and I see that now. Brie should have acknowledged Robby's points and complimented him on his radar, and only then brought up her own, related points. But it was Robby who became objectively rude. Now, if she wants to paint him as some Ben Shapiro hyper-Zionist, and he gets p'd off, at this point I cannot blame him. It misrepresents who he is and what he believes. Takes two to tango . . .
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  12645. THIS is what Congess is spending time on? THIS???
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  12646. I know. There isn't that much money to pay them for that. So they are saying it for FREE! 😂😂😂😂😮
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  12647.  @beachliving3127  Reported you on another thread for hate speech/ethnic slur. You couldn't help yourself, could you? The anti-Rio Tinto protests blocked a highway ("violence") and Djokovic supported the action. A paper based in India, The Bridge, reported in detail on it. Now that you mention smoking, injecting, snorting, etc., that's drugs, right? Isn't that a Western thing?
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  12648.  @nickhanlon9331  That's a troll. Accused Sandgren of being in Qanon! 🤣
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  12649. Good gawd, look who gets into Yale Law, then makes millions in San Fran. Wow.
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  12650.  @frizzto14  Qu'est-ce que cela veut dire, "par surprise," alors? Est-ce que la fille doit etre completement inconsciente? Une jeune fille de onze ans etait bien surprise.
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  12651. Jimmy! You don't support Latinx advancement? /s
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  12652. Have people noticed how low the vaccination rate is in Japan? They are hosting the Olympics. In childhood vaccination, they are known to follow a slower schedule for most vaccines, to complete them by the time children start school but not sooner, on the theory that it's safer and better. Is that their plan for COVID? Or is something else happening?
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  12653. Um, how rich is he now? You think there is some other measure of success, . . . in AMERICA?
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  12654. You probably already know about the Theranos scandal, but in case you may not know about the corporate side and the insiders involved, see Kim Iversen's report today, The Hill Rising.
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  12655.  @calinifintyplusone  I just love how I'm shadowed here, but other people's responses show up in my notifications thread.
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  12656.  @ibramblebush I think you may have topped the first comment.
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  12657.  @ibramblebush Stolen joke: LGBTQ let's get Biden to quit
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  12658. Corporations are set up as limited liability enterprises: the principals and agents cannot be held personally responsible for anything they do in furtherance of the business of the corporation. Only the corporation itself pays. This is by law. Responsibility is for peons, are you kidding? Remember BP? That CEO went on to a better job after the well blew. There was no clawback on the stock he sold a short time before that.
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  12659.  @hlwonka8783 That's what it means to form a corporation -- to limit the liability of those who work for it in any capacity. The alternative is to do away with the corporate structure. I suppose you could "pierce the corporate veil" more easily to go after wrongdoing, but no politician will do any of these things. They get nearly all their money from corporations. Funny that almost no one knows corporations exist so that its CEO, etc., will avoid having to take "personal responsibility." LOL
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  12660.  @twoshedsjohnson8540  If they were advocates of limited government, they wouldn't be deciding the other cases Briahna mentioned the way they did. When all the "mistakes" go in one direction, and curtail individual liberties "just a little bit" each time, then it's time to pay attention.
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  12661.  @dickmonddickelheimer9452  No, it's advocating not to glorify certain people who were technically traitors to the United States by placing their statues in a public space. The statues belong on private property, in museums and the like. Anywhere but on public property. We won't put up a statue of bin Laden, and he made history, too.
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  12662. ​ @Rampart.X  In the case of Columbia, aerial photos show that the tents took up very little space on a huge lawn, and could easily be avoided by anyone who wanted to. There was no interference with Columbia's educational mission. That's why so many professors support the students.
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  12663. @Rampart.X  Terrible. I just commented on a case the Supreme Court is hearing by saying that the petition and briefs may hold the answer as to why it got a hearing, and THAT was removed. Say what?
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  12664. The better your comment, the more likely it will be censored. True for over 20 years. The idea is to make it look like everyone is unhinged and NEEDS TO BE CONTROLLED, by "enlightened" people like Nimmo.
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  12665. ​@theprettyme1743 The State does not have to share the evidence they have before trial, except with the defense. I admire their discipline not to broadcast it.
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  12666.  @m3ke68  Yes it is. A grant to a researcher IS a job. Maybe you didn't know? Hey, it's not Twitter. It's real life.
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  12667.  @m3ke68  How about: "that isn't the logic you would use to solve your math problems, is it, dear?" See the difference? Or are we long past that now? I find that I agree with Mattias Desmet more every day. What interest do YOU have in taking either person's side? Shapiro is a Harvard Law graduate. He could actually be defending parents' constitutional rights and setting precedent in court on what schools, parks, etc., can and cannot do. Look what he's doing instead.
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  12668.  @m3ke68  "Gross attack." I basically missed it. But I'm not tuned in to this nonsense. Isn't that exactly what all the "snowflakes" say, to justify meddling in someone's ability to make their way in a real career?
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  12669.  @kw2080  That's true.
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  12670. Ugh, I get your point, but Brie's father was killed in a car accident before she finished high school. Didn't expect you to know. She is not a "snowflake."
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  12671.  @MeganDelacroix  An analogy can be misplaced. This one was.
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  12672. My god it looks fake.
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  12673. Did you all really not follow? Because that's not what happened. They agreed that Trump's request may have been self-serving, BUT as it turns out, also well-founded.
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  12674.  @writerconsidered  Our personal information is, literally. (See Zuboff on that one.)
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  12675. Everything should be considered, absolutely.
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  12676.  @huwhitecavebeast1972  Actually, the Soviets solved homelessness and built phenomenal public transit. But yeah, in many ways they were like a sick cult. At least they knew they had to work, to fulfill minimum obligations to people. They couldn't, like, trade stock on insider information and stuff like that to get rich.
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  12677.  Dreamboat  How anyone can think politics are relevant here is beyond me.
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  12678.  @SkateSka  It IS petty compared to all the praise Rittenhouse got, I will give you that. Just how many lost kids do there have to be before you all take notice, and say, well, maybe we might approach this whole childhood and adolescence thing differently . . . ?
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  12679.  @SkateSka  https://youtu.be/fAD7xu8pot0 I can guess your true affinity. Anyway, see how other people react to the prospect of rampant americanization. Rather unhappy with the idea, no?
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  12680.  @SkateSka  How quickly ad hominem betrays projection.
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  12681.  @SkateSka  WAIT A SECOND. You think COPS are against drugs?? That tells me e v e r y t h i n g. Okay. Now I get it. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jul/11/hsbc-us-money-laundering-george-osborne-report
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  12682. @jvanek8512   Wow, you called it. This case has more twists than I thought. Harvard suddenly changed some fundamental procedures for faculty retention, without going through the usual process to change material contract terms for tenured faculty, and then removed all tenure-related rights and privileges from Gino. And then Harvard had the temerity to represent to the judge that her tenure was not removed, she was just on "leave." You can imagine how well the judge appreciated that. 😂 The judge sounds like the one good guy in this sorry picture. (This is all from the opinion he filed.) As for defamation, she is a public figure for purposes of the "New York Times malice" standard. There is no way she could meet that. Nothing she could allege would make out "malice" (a term of art, not a feeling).
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  12683.  @Jakeupbandit  The Minsk Accords should have been respected. But that's no fun.
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  12684. And a ten year old girl should have to carry it to term, hm?
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  12685. True, but some did die and some developed frightening circulatory issues, back in 2020. There is no mention of this with the Omicron variants.
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  12686. 8:15 You're fine ❤
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  12687.  @53RJ0  I've lived it.
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  12688. Prove it.
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  12689. Absolutely no one who cannot follow a checklist or think logically could pass law school exams or any bar exam. Today the ultrawealthy get away with everything, but it wasn't the case for his generation, as was obvious by the fact that he did fail the NY Bar twice (which isn't rare, by the way). The Bar told him "no" twice.
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  12690. Of course it is too soon to know long-term effects. Millions of kids who received a contaminated polio vaccine had to be watched for decades, for rare cancers. And some of the people who develop myocarditis, whether from COVID or the vaccines, will need to be followed by a cardiologist, possibly forever. Listen to Dr. John Abramson on the FDA-Pfizer effort in court to keep the original study data confidential for several generations. This is a court case now, not an anonymous opinion thread.
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  12691. Putin's fault.
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  12692. Thank you. We were not even allowed to DISCUSS this.
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  12693. It's guillotine time at this point.
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  12694. 💯
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  12695.  @mrwojna  LOL
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  12696.  @lioneldemun6033  I think Zelensky is a pure figurehead media "personality." The real neo-Nazis of Ukraine might execute him if he veers from the path they are dictating.
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  12697. This is appalling. Roughly speaking, a vaccine protects me more than others, and a mask protects OTHER people more than me. So, with most people still not vaccinated, WHY are we removing masks? Vaccinated people can still develop COVID, they just don't get very sick.
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  12698.  @mushroomsteve  ALWAYS
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  12699. How do people fall for all of these phonies? I don't get it. I saw through him. A Harvard Law degree, and he never took one single case in support of free speech, freedom of worship, parents' rights, or any of the other things he pretends to be for? Exactly what does he do for money? The typical used car salesman talks slower and has more ethics.
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  12700.  @charleshunter7864  The difference is Americans bomb places they can't find on the map. Geography is a thing for a lot of people. I had to memorize African countries and their capitals, much less European. As a kid, my uncle could name the islands of Japan. He'd compete with my mother. Parents from former Yugoslavia.
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  12701. ​ @C_R_O_M________  Boom and bust is inherent in capitalism. No economist will say anything different. Adam Smith's free market would be heaven compared to what we have, but concentrations of capital that proceed to distort that free market are inevitable. That's what Marx demonstrated. He appreciated Smith and Ricardo. They were great economists compared with the lackeys to big business-big government you see today, or the dreamers who think we can return to Smith's time. But yeah, I have nothing against Smith. He would be a vast improvement. You'd have small grocers in every neighborhood selling the freshest, most wholesome food and no inflation, instead of having to hope self-interest keeps Jeff Bezos marginally ethical. Go for it, please.
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  12702. ​ @C_R_O_M________  Why did you think I was a guy?
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  12703.  @chuckcampbell3927  I know what tuition was in the 1970s. A minimum wage summer job covered a full year of in-state tuition at every major state university. This was the case from the end of WWII until about 1980. I don't know where you went to school. No one I knew ever considered private or out of state -- absent, possibly, a full scholarship.
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  12704.  @chuckcampbell3927  Anyone can look this up.
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  12705. The IRA and 401(k) have existed for over a generation. Yet at most 10% can fully fund their own retirement, and if you omit Medicare, they certainly cannot self-insure into old age. Something that fails 90% of the time is not a plan. You cannot blame 90%.
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  12706. No she didn't. You think the issue is fee fees. Musk made you fee good.
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  12707. Silly! Neither! It will tell us later. 😂
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  12708. Not what the case is about.
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  12709. ​ @tam3362 That may be true in general, but that is why justice has got to be case by case. What does it matter what "usually" happens? What matters is what happened in this case to the person involved. Female on male (and female on female) sexual harassment in the workplace has been recognized as a violation of Title VII for decades now. Unfortunately, people find it implausible that men fear women because they are physically stronger. But why should that matter? A woman can destroy a man's livelihood as well.
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  12710. Except for toilet recess.
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  12711. I expected no red wave. Not after the pregnant ten-year-old girl and Uvalde.
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  12712.  @annelid4728  Because I actually want to know. It was a real question. Sheesh.
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  12713. 1:02:15 Disgraceful gaslighting
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  12714.  @charlesriley2717  Zeno's paradoxes are actually highly sophisticated, and were only solved in the 20th century. The brief "resolutions," such as the observation that certain infinite series have finite sums, that you commonly see was not lost on the Greeks. The deeper solution has to do with measure theory.
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  12715. VERY important point made on the Supreme Court case.
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  12716. You sound exceptionally knowledgeable. Could you point us to what to read, etc.?
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  12717. At least there's that. /s
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  12718. 💯 You've got it.
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  12719.  @ronmackinnon9374  Absolutely.
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  12720. So true. South Side Jimmy, Los Angeles Stef, and Max are the tough crowd. ;) Love every minute.
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  12721. When I was a teen, college kids at the state universities could earn their entire year's tuition and fees with a summer job. Their maturity and sense of self was light years beyond what kids have today, and it IS the system that did it to them.
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  12722. Does America have 45% anti-vaxxers? Are 75% of young black people anti-vaxxers? WHO believes this?? Great point about Minaj. Perfect.
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  12723. I'd be shocked if they didn't get vaccinated in order to go to that party, and have access to ultrarapid COVID tests right before. These are privileged people.
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  12724. 🤣🤣🤣 harsh
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  12725.  @paulweeldreyer7457  Actually, it is the only theory that is internally consistent. You confuse value and price. Did the value of a college education rise commensurate with its price? Did the value of my home rise during the pandemic commensurate with its price? Is the value of money the same as its price?
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  12726. This needs a hard look now. Immediately.
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  12727.  @BHarris25  Wow does Kyle Kulinski have a BAD audience! I would have never guessed. 🤣🤣🤣
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  12728.  @bradfordhatch5085  Why? It's an entirely different case, unless you think OJ was a minor and we have video supporting his self-defense claim. Say. When did thinking go out of style?
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  12729. After the Beslan school massacre, ABC News interviewed the terrorist mastermind who claimed responsibility. Russia protested, the US government said we have a First Amendment. Now tell me why RT is suppressed? We can hear from Nazis and from terrorists, apparently. I wish we did have a First Amendment. Let's go back to that.
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  12730.  @shaykayback  Roughly half that many, and equity in one's home must be included to get to that number. The state with the highest proportion of millionaires is New Jersey, and fewer than 10% are millionaires, including equity in real estate. Misleading, since many of these people would be at risk of foreclosure if they were to lose their jobs. We normally think of a millionaire as secure from that calamity. The Federal Reserve Board never defines anyone as a millionaire if they do not have a million dollars net in financial assets, and some sources count only liquid assets (cash equivalents), net, to determine who is a millionaire.
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  12731.  @shaykayback  At any rate, according to your number, 87% of the people own only one fifth of all the assets in the entire country. The other 13% own four-fifths. Sounds like a fun place.
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  12732. Take extra good care of yourself for the next 6 weeks or so! :)
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  12733.  @gc3117  Thanks for making my point. Beware of passive voice, no agent in times of peace, much less now. And what, exactly, is a "projectile?" How does that translate to "was bombed?" That doesn't even support "was shelled."
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  12734.  @didhethough7304  Do you know nothing about Sean Penn?
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  12735.  @geraldm4728  I already decided in 2019 to emigrate. My decision looks better every day.
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  12736.  @tylerspunucious7420  Because I didn't want to use a stronger word. Sad will do.
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  12737.  @JustMe-on7gy  I won't bother. I'm halfway out the door.
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  12738. ​@jcr4runner Soon the homeless will have better tents. Just watch.
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  12739.  @susanzoeckler4926  Uh oh, feel obliged to mention: Greene is for mature audiences only! DeBecker, maybe in junior and senior year high school, with guidance. Not as light reading!!
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  12740.  @susanzoeckler4926  You are so welcome, it is you who sound awesome. You made some sacrifices to help those less fortunate, even if you're too modest to say so.
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  12741.  @cococonlin170  What I eat eats sunlight.
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  12742. He didn't support MORE stimulus payments to you, and HIGHER wages for you? Nevermind, fight amongst yourselves.
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  12743. 35:20 Tremendous Perfect clarity.
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  12744. I feel sorry for police, prosecutors, and (sometimes) jurors who have to view child p___ . 😢
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  12745. Follow the money. It is so much simpler than sincere people make it out to be.
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  12746. I thought that was Dionysios.
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  12747.  @bernicesanders3148  Who knew to be offended until they were told they ought to be? Some thought it was Dionysios. I would criticize that because the Olympic Games were a festival honoring Zeus. Dionysios was honored in different festivals, not the Olympics.
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  12748.  @JustBob-sw4rf  Maybe he was paid to ask the question? At this point I hope so.
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  12749. She is talking about criminalization, skipping right over Charlamagne's central point about freedom of speech, and doing it really badly.
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  12750. You're all nuts.
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  12751. The tech hegemons imposed trans ideology in public schools, and it worked exactly as intended.
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  12752. You know, this time she was probably right. I thought what you did, until I heard her out to the end.
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  12753. @TheZodiacz  💯 And who is he to defame others?
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  12754.  @chrish9164  "Success" 🤣🤣🤣
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  12755. @Joshm-j4m  Yes you did reply to me. Possibly by accident, but it's right in front of you. 🤪 Yes we know what a taxable event is. What did I just explain to you?
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  12756. No. They deliberately misled.
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  12757.  @JD-pp3ml  No he isn't. Greenwald is a civil rights lawyer. Trump is as volatile as Caligula was. If he can be persuaded to pardon Snowden and Assange, good! They could both make a home in a third country.
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  12758. Funnier every time I watch.
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  12759.  @ajr993  Weapons sent to Ukraine, you mean? They are turning up all over the world. What percent? Considering we are talking about a black market AND there is resistance to taking a close look to find out, how can we know? The issue is politicized.
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  12760. ​@archangecamilien1879 Every element in the set that is not a dragon is larger than the number ten. That excludes all non-numbers except dragons (as well as all numbers less than 10). So, you can include any number of dragons you want in the set you specified, including none.
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  12761. You're both right. Wait, that's you. :) Okay, I agree.
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  12762. Wow you're mean.
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  12763.  @Foxx-k1z  I don't fall for that, first of all. Second, remember Sophie Scholl. Her group was even smaller.
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  12764. In libraries, it is purely voluntary and a lot of people like it. Also, in libraries, unlike schools, the parents are there with their children. Some of the drag queens look and act like clowns. It's literally that innocent.
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  12765.  @roushanam  A hill to DIE on?? Better you think I care that much. If you only knew . . . The stuff you get apoplectic about turns this country into a laughstock. You do it to yourselves. Get a perspective. Get a grip.
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  12766.  @roushanam  I wonder which of my comments was subjected to sense or ship. You certainly missed something.
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  12767.  @929mmr  I read Germany was picking up at-home tests for their kids weekly when school started. Your personal story is your personal story. Did you listen to the whole video?
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  12768. ​ @joshb8976 Because you have to win a SEAT in the local election to be member of the National Assembly for that district. How is the House of Representatives elected? No one adds up all the votes by party.
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  12769. 💯🌟🌟🌟
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  12770. Yes, the Grayzone livestream, posted about 5 hours ago. . . . if I said this twice please excuse. Either my computer or the algorithm is not wanting it to appear right away.
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  12771. ​ @leeinwis  Original? Is there some new poster child for aid?
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  12772. Might have been global, which tells you everything. A severe flu kills more children and teens.
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  12773.  @Microtherion  I agree, absolutely.
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  12774.  @289cobra9  Even Jean-Luc Melenchon isn't "far left." No one in the government of a neoliberal Western state is far left.
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  12775. Let them embarrass themselves. Keep it up, Kimmel, keep it up.
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  12776. Jimmy, in every European country, everyone has to say socialist-sounding things. It's why the Nazis called themselves "socialists;" there was no hope for any opposition party that didn't. Everyone from Einstein to Oscar Wilde called themselves a socialist, and this was in contrast to communism, in fact, used not in a technical sense, as a historical moment on the road to communism, but to indicate a more moderate left wing stance. As you can see, this is still true. She is very far right, by European standards. Of course, being in the opposition to the neoliberal elites, she will say many things that the Left also believes. You were right to notice her support for Ukraine.
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  12777.  @frankmarano1118  Agreed. Also, I do not agree with the law that Rittenhouse is being prosecuted for violating. It mandates that minors his age be tried as adults. I am opposed to mandates. Yes, those, too. ;) The people, i.e., ADULTS, who armed him and then disappeared from the scene have a lot to answer for. He was a juvenile who never finished high school and has no father in the picture. I strongly condemn what he did, but let's have some perspective. The laws pertaining to underage people exist for a reason.
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  12778.  @vivianspinarski4846  The ADULTS who brought him there, gave him possession of the firearm, and convinced him he was deputized to assist the police. At 17, with no high school diploma or GED. Those adults. They were MIA as soon as things got hot for this kid. Get a grip.
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  12779.  @thebluescfc3299  Same here. I'm not even saying Rittenhouse should be convicted. He should not be tried as an adult in the first place. The adults who put him up to all this, including giving him the gun, suddenly disappeared just when this kid's life was about to change irrevocably. But these people are invested in "sides." And in misconstruing self-defense laws and firearms laws. This will not end well. I don't care.
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  12780. ​ @winoodlesnoodles1984 Does Amy Goodman support sharia? Do Jewish Voice for Peace?
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  12781. I'd love to give you a hug.
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  12782.  @wishiwassleeping8382  The British website Express, and Euro Weekly (British but based in Spain). The latter appears less reliable.
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  12783.  @leechgully  I found the images. It was allegedly 50 times the size of the anti-Putin demonstrations. Are my posts invisibled? Others are responding. Look at the thread.
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  12784.  @jca9417  What I'm interested in, and need to study dispassionately, is the issue with the so-called "repo market," which showed wide fluctuations again in the fall of 2019. We should have all been paying attention then.
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  12785. No one mentions the destruction of the French navy in the Mediterranean, which Churchill ordered for the purpose of sending a message to Hitler.
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  12786.  @doktork3406  All we had in public school was propaganda, especially anti-Russian propaganda. We had nuclear bomb drills teaching us to hide under our desks. (So much for physics.) We had no real history at all, and little opportunity to read the real classics. (At least we had one or two Shakespeare plays. That was nice. But no one taught us to memorize, and no one told us Shakespeare started out as an actor.) Today, Russia baiting is how CNN and MSNBC make a nice chunk of change. You just want your fairy tales to be dominant. Well, . . .
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  12787. You give them credit. They wanted money and sex.
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  12788.  @TheWanderer656  Who was charged with arson? "The arsonists" are who, exactly? All three of Rittenhouse's actual victims were in the process of committing or attempting to commit arson? Or was somebody else doing that?
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  12789.  @jirky015  I said absolutely nothing about Rittenhouse making threats. You are responding to someone else's post by calling me a liar. Which is ironic. LOL
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  12790.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  Correct. You come upon a man shooting an unarmed man. You know nothing more. If you attempt to disarm the shooter, you can claim self-defense/defense of others. You find that confusing? That's not reassuring.
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  12791.  @stephanerenaud9666  Right. The police egged on the militias (you can research that yourself) rather than checking that kid's ID and telling him to go home. A lot of police departments need to be investigated for infiltration by radicalized militia groups.
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  12792.  @DarkPassengrr  We don't prosecute people en masse, but as individuals, for their actual actions, not for what a group did. YOU endorse egging on a troubled kid who possibly should not be tried as an adult -- something I've said since day one. "Protect his community," get a GRIP. No one wants to teach these kids any more. Bigger problems are awaiting you than this one lost kid, who someone saw fit to arm with an AR 15 (!!!) and you defend (!!!!)
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  12793. I thought the lack of Jen-Arrogance was a relief.
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  12794.  @chrisburnett9905  Her style might have been good for a chief of staff, but her obvious, smug disdain for nearly everyone around her made it impossible to hear her message. I suppose distraction from content, and away from a dottering president, is the idea.
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  12795.  @jonathanbraswell6308  All politics is now identity politics. It has been imposed on us. You just notice some identities more than others, and politicians call attention to some more than others. Any consensus we had on "merit" was brief. I still value studying calculus or Latin in college, and reading for several hours every day. I believe in over-engineering.
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  12796.  @kellygoodman6167  Except that the "news" that UK just stopped using Pfizer is nowhere to be found.
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  12797.  @RKO1035  Be sure to see Buckley v. James Baldwin . . . Baldwin never went to college, btw.
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  12798.  @davemartino5997  I wouldn't want to bet, I need every dollar left to me, lol, but that is more likely than not at this point.
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  12799.  @debbingo1565  So, we are in our polygamy phase of late monopoly capitalism. Figures. 😂😂😂😂
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  12800. ​ @JuanEchevarria-mz2dn  Sadly, you are mostly right.
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  12801. @doreekaplan2589  I never dwell on the things I know. It's the things that affect me but that I do not understand that occupy my mind. Hence, the pandemic. For example. That was on my mind.
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  12802.  @magoo1950  LOL, brilliant and funny.
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  12803. James Baldwin said it best.
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  12804. @LadyBug1967  You didn't understand my post, or consider what I was responding to. They tried to do grievous harm to Dr. Stein, but failed.
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  12805. Is 44,000 the same as millions? No? Hence, someone's data is incorrect by several orders of magnitude.
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  12806. AP is an elective; all of those subjects are among the top choices for an AP class.
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  12807.  @Goodhello369  Wrong about what? That AP is purely an elective, not a required class? That a private non-profit entity, namely the College Board, sets the standard for the course? That no one is ever required to take such a class for high school graduation? That if an AP class does lead to actual college credit, then it is legitimate -- and if it doesn't, then it is misleading the students who elect to take it? Or that a seminal article was written well over a generation ago, before this became the bruhaha and political grift that it now is? No, all that stuff is true. Oh, wait. You're telling me that there are public school teachers who don't know any of this, and haven't read these authors, and are just spouting propaganda they are told to spout, and taking home a paycheck? That such teachers actually exist? In 2023? I'm shocked, I tell you! Shocked, shocked!!
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  12808.  @Goodhello369  A sting, huh? How do you know that PhD wasn't a false flag? That could pay more than most of the jobs he might get. Did anyone question him later? You are too gullible. What do you mean by neo CRT? What is that? And what does that have to do with an AP class, where the curriculum must be published for all parents to see?
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  12809.  @Goodhello369  Just read about it. Bottom line, anything can be relabeled, just like in false advertising or counterfeit goods. Parents have to review the actual materials and ask to see what their child will be given in school in order to know what is actually being taught. However, what Bostic was involved in is elementary school curricula, which is where the laws against CRT are stringent. This has no bearing at all on elective AP classes in senior high school, except insofar as parents should always ask to review the required reading. Texts should be available to them to look over, during board meetings, parent-teacher night, parent-teacher open house, PTA meetings, etc. I'm all for it. None of it should be hidden or mislabeled. And AP should be accepted for actual college credit, as promised, or it's not real. My position from the start. The one good thing about classes from home via Zoom is that more parents found out what was going on.
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  12810.  @Goodhello369  CRT has no place at that age. Anyone who thinks that's a joke should be fired.
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  12811.  @smkh2890  Except that they include record opioid deaths and accidents.
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  12812.  @RobH.  Thank you. I absolutely will look this up. To be scrupulously scientific, I suspect some cases are due to previous COVID infection or exposure, or COVID plus vaccination, or COVID plus vaccination much too soon. If some are due purely to vaccination, that comes as no surprise to me. Tragic. How dare they impose this immunotherapy against a person's will?
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  12813. Where is Bertrand Russell now that we need him? :(
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  12814. 🤣
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  12815. This attitude mirrors the Human Resources Departments of Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon, etc., etc., etc. -- those who must be served, or else. Turn college into a business, lose academic freedom. Businesses don't have it. If your (private-sector corporate) boss does not like what you have to say, he can fire you. This is news?
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  12816. Because he has inordinate power over our lives.
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  12817. @roccocupido5082  By the way, when Gates was The Richest Man(?) in the World, did you line up behind him, too?
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  12818. ​ @OhioVworld  No one can argue with that.
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  12819. They are not ignoring "the warning signs" in the economy. They are getting ready for war.
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  12820.  @amanbatra1501  No she didn't muddle anything. She asked the questions any normal person would ask.
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  12821. The fix is in.
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  12822. The Great Walkback is already starting.
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  12823. Don't kid yourself. No one is asking us, none of us is doing anything. We may as well not exist. You'll never see the people behind AI deployment.
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  12824.  @orangeblock3792  That wasn't a metaphor, that was an analogy. Are you one of those people who blew off learning, too?
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  12825.  @destroytheboxes  Too bad my other post, about how ___ poses dangers, is gone. How ironic. But argue about identity nonsense, no problem.
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  12826.  @camwilliams1  Oh, I know it's an acquired taste. I would not pretend it wasn't.
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  12827. ​ @markg3169 True, but not knowing whose it was tends to make it look like they do know and are covering up. Still, I do agree with you.
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  12828. Thank you
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  12829. More experimentation to find out what we will put up with. Don't think our alphabet agencies, and those of other countries, are not paying close attention.
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  12830. I'll clear this up for Piers: "Piers . . . Piers! Pssst. The billionaires don't want nuclear war. That would disrupt their immortality project."
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  12831. ​ @sgtslaughter21  The history has LITERALLY no bearing on their statement, which is about THEIR young lives and THEIR personal experiences. Nowhere did they say this discrimination was worse than 19th and 20th century lynchings.
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  12832.  @NeverSaySandwich1  Do swimmers risk their lives? Does a slight loss of focus spell risk of paralysis or death? A lot of people do not agree with how gymnastics has evolved, by the way. They have a point.
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  12833. Most rich people will support a social credit system. Do the rest of us count?
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  12834.  @vainezaiven6677  Even more sinister explanations are starting not to sound obviously crazy.
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  12835. ​@blastingcapps4341 So, the truth is that no one should serve, except themselves. I agree.
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  12836. "Going to?" I love optimists.
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  12837. The Seven Sisters grads will have jobs. And the employers they know -- namely, other colleges -- do want those degrees. It's an insular world. They aren't subjected to competition like we are.
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  12838. ​ @legallyregarded No, the OP has made an important point. This could turn out to be a close case. I haven't seen his videos, and I am guessing you have not, either. Don't be quick to judge before you have.
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  12839.  @kevinstaggs5048  State employees enjoy a measure of First Amendment and due process rights that private sector employees do not.
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  12840. Coverup leads to well-placed mistrust, leads to generalized mistrust, leads to more deaths.
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  12841. People intend the predictable consequences of their actions. Therefore DNC wants Barrett.
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  12842. Fewer donations
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  12843. Columbia is a private university.
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  12844.  @nolanwine5062  I'd love to get back what was taken from my family, Enron-level corporate crime.
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  12845. So, feeding this war is being "pro-US?"
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  12846.  @bigollameo  You sound like you're on a witch hunt. Politics has devolved into tribes and cults.
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  12847. Laughed. That was great. WHO would buy that thing??
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  12848. ​@andreadamon2197 You know that? You do not. Something that is possible cannot be ruled out in that way.
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  12849.  @belakthrillby  Tell me the last time you gave your child a vaccine within a year of its initial introduction, that was developed in under a year, that requires two doses, that has very serious side effects in some people, where the protection wanes in 6 to 9 months significantly enough to require additional vaccination, for a disease that is almost never lethal in people under 40, or serious in people under 18, and has an overall case mortality rate of about 2%, with most of those who died over 75? Never? Is never a good guess? I can promise you my parents never did that to me.
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  12850. Now Lady Gaga is rehabilitating BILL GATES. The power of lucre, smh . . .
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  12851. They did fine here, both. 🤷‍♂️
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  12852. Notice how their "passion" has nothing to do with a healthy love life. EDIT: OMG 11:55
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  12853. Remember, AI is training on all of our comments.
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  12854. ​ @nedhill1242  What he gets right is that the AI algorithm will come back to bite YOU one day. 😂
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  12855. @nedhill1242  Anyone with solid information to counter what you just wrote is cents erred. Why is that?
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  12856. ​@noelbrown6771 "public private" is irony Funny you didn't catch that 😂😂😂😂
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  12857. ​@nedhill1242 What else did the video and Ayn Rand tell you? Or was it your uncle from the John Birch Society? Don't lecture me, you dropped DU on where we're from. I think I know. I read in three languages, not watch in just one.
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  12858. ​ @Silence_Duder_Gooder 👏👏👏👏👏
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  12859. @Silence_Duder_Gooder  Agreed
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  12860.  @antonioj123  He has the best chance of being the next president.
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  12861. Duh
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  12862.  @duerandaggi  Now start giving a fair hearing to his left wing views, as well as his civil liberties commitments. He's a unique thinker.
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  12863. Look up the charging document at the US Attorney for Delaware.
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  12864.  @richardbarry04553  You took the words out of my mouth, so to speak.
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  12865. @James Herndon Well, if you ever go back, find the right classes with the right people. You will be very bored and get As easily, but you don't have to be surrounded by fools while making the BA official. It could be a spare-time hobby, LOL.
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  12866. The Constitution is what protects individuals from government overreach. Give it up at your own peril. The pandemic has shown what they can do. So has the new technology. You don't want to give up the First and Fourth Amendments.
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  12867. That's a good thought!
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  12868. SIX years? Everyone SURE sure we'll still have an economy in 6 months?
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  12869. I guess Truss doesn't watch Adam Curtis documentaries on BBC2?
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  12870.  @morgan1213  Understanding why condones nothing.
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  12871. Exactly why Trump is their foil. A symbiotic relationship.
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  12872. ​@mkrake2429 You expect a pandemic replay? Who wants this?
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  12873. ​ @sdilluminatigrandfounder1813  It's all there if you sort by Newest. You saw before you posted.
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  12874.  @sdilluminatigrandfounder1813  Amazing how different this thread looks under the Newest sort. 😁🤡🌎
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  12875.  @nikitaw1982  So that's who has them. 😂😂😂
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  12876.  @totoroben  Cool. Thank you. Agreed across the board.
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  12877. I'm so sorry.
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  12878. Yes, perfectly stated.
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  12879.  @petersepall2590  THANK YOU
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  12880. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I really did lol.
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  12881.  Cheryl Jensen  I don't gave a television. I have a (multilingual) library. You?
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  12882.  @tonyrmathis  "Socialists?" If only! "In 2012, Vietnam participated in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) for the first time. The results demonstrated that education in Vietnam has a strong focus on instilling basic cognitive skills in its students, such as numeracy and literacy. Vietnamese students not only performed with the same success as countries like Austria and Germany, but they also outperformed two-thirds of the other countries who participated in PISA that year, ranking 17th out 65 countries." A country bombed to smithereens and polluted with Agent Orange starts calculus in 11th grade.
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  12883.  @tonyrmathis  All sorts of things are possible. Perhaps the Vietnamese are descendant from aliens who came to earth from another planet. That might explain it. But I'm genuinely puzzled. When did I say more money was the answer? Isn't "more money" what Wall Street always needs? (Seems that Trump, Bannon, the Biden family, Nancy-kins, etc., all do, too.) You also seem to know who is "causing the failure." And "preventing to [sic] who depend on them from seeking alternatives." Who would that be? Who can you pin that one on? The educational system in the US is the most capitalistic of all, since it relies heavily on local taxes for its revenue, guaranteeing vast inequalities AND training its charges to view this as "natural." Moreover, the private school system is so different, and teaches such vastly different things, that it may as well be in a separate country. It is evident that there isn't any commitment to universal public education based on equal opportunity. In fact, a conservative columnist over at The Atlantic writes about it this month. Great article. France once had a system within which anyone who presented themselves for the aggregation civil service exam, the highest rank for educators and a requirement for eventual university teaching, would have to teach the upper grades of lycee for a number of years, wherever they might be sent. Simone de Beauvoir did that. She taught high school. (Not in Paris, either.) No cushy nonsense back then. Today, I don't want to ask. (Though it is interesting that Melenchon wants to see Latin and Greek widely taught in the public schools, so maybe there is hope?)
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  12884. I unsubbed, of course. I only came back for Kim.
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  12885.  @befferluger805  Excuse me? This is your retort? Show me receipts? Detransitioning does not return a person to the state they were in before. You don't belong anywhere near a minor child.
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  12886. His lawyer wrote a memoir recently. Really amazing, but hard to read.
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  12887. Funny how cavorting with a sex trafficker did not hurt Bill Gates' brand on MSM.
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  12888. ​ @panchopistolas730 If you think Praeger is a university, why not? “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ 😂😂😂
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  12889. Every segment is better than the last.
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  12890.  @danintheoutback1  Agreed, 💯
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  12891.  scottmoore37  I'm sorry, but you're late to the party. Our discussion went far beyond this already. It's like barging into a discussion about the latest German study concerning rare heart damage from some recently deployed vaccines and piping in with, "but measles can be dangerous" when no one is disputing that. No, what this is about is suggesting a radical medical treatment that has the grave risk of sterilizing a person and limiting other major life activities, as well as having unknown risks to their cognition and their ability to enjoy intimacy some day, while they are still a minor and cannot know what they might be missing. Is how "society perceives you" more important than that? How perverse is that? I'm still against making such treatments a crime, as is Abigail, but the case for making them a crime turns out to be stronger than I realized. I only hope it never comes to that. We have far too many criminal laws already. On a related note, however, when a teenager, especially an adolescent girl, suddenly displays severe gender dysphoria when she never had the slightest indication of experiencing that before, maybe we need to find out whether she was bullied, molested, or sexually assaulted. Maybe that needs to be the first question. Considering what is happening to kids in our society, it would come as no surprise that to treat some of these kids effectively means to treat the trauma stemming from what what done to them. The backlash against "me too" has not been lost on them; I think a lot of them are more reluctant to tell what happened to them now than they were before -- and they'll be "affirmed" if they just say they don't want to be the gender they were born to be.
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  12892.  scottmoore37  Abigail is not talking about people who have actual gender dysphoria, either, but is very rightly concerned about overdiagnosis and radical treatments that are irreversible applied too quickly. Not her fault you didn't understand her position. When gender dysphoria only emerges at puberty, we need to ask some questions before we bring in the big drugs and surgery. We need to ask the questions at any age, actually, even for an adult, considering how common molestation is and how much harm it can do.
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  12893. I'm thinking something saltier.
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  12894. Relations have never been better!! 😮😊
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  12895. I think that's wonderful.
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  12896. ​ @liberalismisaids9564  So . . . You didn't grow in real expertise in your job? Hiring someone new tomorrow wouldn't hurt the productivity in your position? Wow. Okay.
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  12897.  @liberalismisaids9564  The idea that you first cause chaos, then you can fix it later, is why we are where we are. It's senseless. That sums up how the financial crisis and COVID came about.
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  12898. Hillary Clinton had a good chuckle about Gaddafi.
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  12899.  @williamsharp2532  and both are
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  12900. @evanadamson8576  The research you cite concerning treatment of early-onset puberty is in children age 6 or younger, who then proceed to have puberty at the usual age. Is it controversial that puberty is necessary to reach biological maturity, and biological maturity is necessary to have a choice to birth children? Really? "We need more research."
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  12901. I have never met a single woman who wants to be "at home with the kids" who are 12 and 15 years old. With preschoolers, everyone did.
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  12902.  Galen Joyce  Exactly. But the people who killed them were.
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  12903. What democracy? Donors rule both parties.
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  12904. ABSOLUTELY. And if we recognize that certain means of communication are utilities, then we cannot ban people from them any more than Al Capone could be banned from having a telephone.
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  12905. No it isn't.
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  12906. You started paying attention when the media told you to. Say? What happened to COVID? Weren't we supposed to deny jobs and medical care to the unvaxxed?
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  12907. False. First of all, I also oppose the proposed French law. But these reports (all of them in English) are false. 1. The law has only passed one chamber, and is not yet a part of the Code Pénal. 2. The aim of the law is not to protect big pharma, but to protect vulnerable individuals from charlatans who urge them to avoid medical care. 3. The cultural context is that the many French do not support anything that smacks of assisted s or even encouragement to give up on promising treatment. It's an ongoing debate. 4. The law requires a victim. Anyone can oppose ANY treatment, in principle. The crime would be to approach a particular sick person and tell THEM to avoid accepted medical care. That VICTIM would then have to testify against the purveyor of harmful advice. Do you not see the difference?? I oppose the law because I think it is too broad and chills speech. The laws against practicing medicine without having the credentials are sufficient.
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  12908. ​ @jadefr7518 Source?? This isn't what passed any chamber.
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  12909.  @carolilseanne2175  It's not true.
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  12910.  @richardmckim1313  The defamation rules for reporting and commenting on people and matters in the public eye are not what you seem to think they are. Look up "New York Times malice." Rittenhouse voluntarily exposed himself to public scrutiny around a matter of intense public interest. No one forced him to do that.
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  12911.  @hrs2044  I agree with Briahna.
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  12912.  @cspdx11  As in, she made the choice prior to all that. Her family is there, and her neighborhood isn't rich, either.
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  12913. If we do adopt a standard for granting asylum, at least some Fifth Amendment due process requirements are triggered. That's the only right they have.
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  12914. @RJL612  Welfare systems in plenty of countries essentially eliminated poverty. . . . Oh look, a squirrel!
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  12915. ​​ @MarkG-nl4oq  A person can distrust a lawyer who took on the clients Dershowitz has. Actually, I don't agree with OP, but it's not ad hom. It's also an acceptable standard. OP is entitled to distrust the lawyers who take such clients.
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  12916. @MarkG-nl4oq  Are you kidding? Absolutely everyone is entitled to judge a lawyer on whatever criteria they like, sound or not. A lot of people do not trust criminal defense lawyers who take clients accused of certain types of crimes. That may not always be fair, but it's not ad hom.
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  12917. YEAH
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  12918. ​@kingade2931 BIDEN PUSHED THE MANDATES, and imposed them wherever he could (such as the federal workplace).
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  12919. Should be a bumper sticker!
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  12920. It was false, or you chose not to believe it? Did you read the article?
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  12921.  @StandUp6710  Certainly not. Have you read the complaint? A defamation case is about one thing only, whether speech or writing is false. Every defamation case chips away at First Amendment freedom of speech. Every speech or written expression is assumed to be First Amendment protected and must be proved to be otherwise. A defamation case is not about who was worse. It's not about persons, but only about texts. If you thought something else was at issue, then Depp's ruse is working.
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  12922. Good thought. Wishing you the very best . . . You're probably WAAAAY better than whoever played a role in creating these circumstances.
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  12923. ​@pyramidion5911 Nothing will fix willful reading incomprehension. Nothing ever has, nothing ever will.
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  12924. "What, are you crazy?? We're not that effective at infecting people!"
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  12925. How do you figure? He'll get the job, sure, but you expect a conversion?
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  12926. "The virus is not as dangerous as the media reports." You must have a source for your data. We can rationally discuss whether the mitigation measures being pushed make sense, without making conspirators out of those who have a different view. That is not pushing conspiracy.
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  12927.  @richardbarry04553  "We need to do things on our own?" And "work around the government?" The US Department of Defense is the largest employer in the world, and were it not, the US Dollar might very well not remain the global reserve currency. If you live to see the dollar lose that status, you will also see how dependent you are on "government." More and more people have totally fanciful ideas of how the world works, and that fact alone means an ominous future.
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  12928. LOL, where we are.
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  12929. Just barely
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  12930. Always verify. Obviously. I thought Russian social media was banned?
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  12931.  @iang7244  It's a public utility at this point. But no, I don't use it.
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  12932.  @Devon6024  The US has no "left" to speak of.
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  12933. I figured out early on to look at what other countries are doing. Now, I wouldn't go near any drug civilized countries don't use. Yes I'm angry.
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  12934. Who said "give up?" What does that even mean?
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  12935.  @blardymunggas6884  Will look for that. Wow, just wow. This all turned real bad fast.
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  12936.  @sabinereynaudsf  Brown was instrumental in advancing Harris's career, and was separated but still legally married at the time.
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  12937. This is one of the finest art history videos I have ever seen.
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  12938. There is a report that his mother called the school about 20 minutes before the attack to alert them of an emergency. We'll have to see whether that's what happened. Don't be so quick.
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  12939. It happened in a handful of hotspots in the world in 2020. That's all.
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  12940.  @thundershirt1  Yes, it certainly did happen in a few hotspots. Perfect question.
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  12941. Go to Substack Glenn Greenwald and see what happened to him for trying to report on Hunter Biden. He is on the left.
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  12942. Mercouris is Greek and Orthodox. I would not say that is Western. Yanis Varoufakis calls himself beige. 😂
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  12943.  James Rosenbum  I agree. :)
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  12944. Same here! I catch a phrase here or there, as can any Romance-language speaker. I had to check out Glenn's accent. ;) His nasals sound great, too bad some diphthongs à l'amerloque creep in. ;) Romance vowels are pure.
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  12945. A majority approve of the "job" Biden is doing as President-elect? A majority call this a "job?" A majority think he's "doing" one? If they just liked him "as a person," I'd be less scared.
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  12946. ​ @mitru98 Well, replies to that are dis ap peared in this "free country."
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  12947. ​ @redskyatnight123 The better they are, the faster they go.
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  12948. I was just watching and thinking how ugly they've made New York. Then saw that the first post said the same think, with 8.5k+ votes. :)
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  12949.  @donnafrflorida56  That worked so well for Brandon, Kamala, and Chocolate Bunker Nancy that I can appreciate Donald's fears.
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  12950. This interview is not an endorsement. It is JOURNALISM, not advertising. You cannot be blamed for your confusion.
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  12951. If my money is not going to go to universal, PUBLIC education, then I don't want to pay taxes to support it. I have no idea why my money should go to any private or privatized scheme of education where I have no way to exert democratic control, and no voice. Nor should I have one. The local Catholic and other private schools don't have to ask me what I think. And I don't have to pay their bills.
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  12952. Trump and Hillary were SO much alike. Stop the steal for one, Russia Russia Russia for the other.
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  12953. We'll see how the lawsuit turns out.
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  12954.  @Nobody-qh7hk  🤣🤣🤣 Excellent
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  12955.  @richardavery4692  True
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  12956.  @hejasolar  Oh. No.
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  12957.  @chinogambino9375  Actually, they aren't required to "keep content legal" because it is impossible to do so with the necessary rapidity. No one can do that, because no one can keep up. What they have to do is obey court orders. The usual procedure is to get a court order to reveal all that the platform knows of the identity of someone who posted illegal content, and then the platform must comply, essentially as soon as humanly possible, and turn over everything they know about whoever (or whatever bot) that was.
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  12958. Thank you for that. It is the best comment I have ever seen on YouTube. I mean it.
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  12959.  @theoriginaltommysteward  Silver medal for you. :/
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  12960.  @soundseeker63  LOLOL
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  12961.  @cockyrooster361  They shouldn't have anything we don't. They're supposed to be there for us.
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  12962. Because in any event you will need a ton of contracts to secure the family life you want to be acknowledged by the rest of society: wills, powers of attorney for health care, life insurance, health insurance, joint ownership of various kinds of property . . . Plus in some places marriage gives you property rights that are stronger than exist under any other contract, so you are are harder target. It's not about the relationship that the two of you have, it's the two of you against the world. You're both likely to make more money if married. Simple facts. (P. S. I'm not a fan of these facts, either.)
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  12963. So was Briahna. Give it up for Brie.
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  12964. They got something for that.
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  12965. 🤣
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  12966.  @catherineshaw1122  Nope. He's South Side.
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  12967. 25:40 AMEN (Exhale) I wish the US had politicians like this.
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  12968.  @SteveM-gj2vy  What an admission.
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  12969. I'm almost a commie and I agree with every word. Wow. 😮 Borrowing from one of the BRICS to kill off members of another is not a plan, maybe? Hello?
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  12970. ​@SlottingFloppies Most whack-job multiple joy killings are YWM, not BM over 30. Don't go to superhero movies in Colorado, or political rallies in Pennsylvania.
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  12971.  @utah_koidragon7117  You just related them. Neither is doing anything remotely like what they were elected to do and sworn to do.
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  12972. Why? Because Trump? Or is he a Russian agent? No, wait, Assad apologist!
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  12973.  @jackiewhite1574  Sounds like you need a woman to flog. For some reason.
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  12974.  @gmw3083  He's providing the Hollywood view. If they make a movie, this will be the backbone of the script. As long as you know it's just a story, the kind certain Americans like to tell themselves, it's not a problem. It's good to know. If you think it's real international relations, that's different.
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  12975.  @gmw3083  I think so, too.
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  12976. He praised Bill Gates the very same way. I have a memory . . . No shots, no pot, no ketamine . . .😊
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  12977. @fuckyoutube581  Yes I do know, but that's not how "and" was actually used here. Read up on how lists are interpreted in the real world. Let's say, in a federal statute.
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  12978.  @videoplaylist686  You mean for thinking you could read or something else?
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  12979. I'm starting to go there at this point. 😅
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  12980.  @ジェームズ-d8r  Not so. EVERYONE has HIPPA rights that they themselves must waive, and be competent to waive. No one can invade anyone's medical privacy for a "public service message."
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  12981.  @Roller_Ghoster  So, if nothing works as well as vaccines, then we should have vaccines or nothing? Even doctors who urge vaccination above all disagree with that obviously illogical and unethical position.
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  12982.  @adolfolerito6744  I like having the actual information laid out like this. But notice, for example, in my state, 11% of the total population had a confirmed case of COVID that came to the attention of state health authorities. By now, it could be higher, so let's say 12%. (The true number could be much higher, 20 to 30%, but that is not known, and most of those cases were undoubtedly mild.) Of those 12%, under 2% died (roughly 1.85%, but let's go with 2%, which mirrors the US as a whole). So, 0.24% of the people in my state have died of COVID since the very start of the pandemic. This is a huge number; after all, 0.1% of one million is 1000. But that puts a different spin on it. The fact that so many people who had moderate COVID had organ damage and other problems, including major depression, is a better argument to take the risk of vaccination -- if it works. But that's starting to look questionable as well. More and more fully vaccinated ARE contracting moderate COVID. It is only fair to ask: is vaccination giving people a false sense of security? Maybe we better be less "vaccine-centric." Maybe other avenues, like better prevention and treatment, need to be found, in addition to vaccines.
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  12983.  @margokerby1533  A person has to ask whether they got paid for their stories. I frankly hope so. Giving up such important privacy rights for free is a scary thought.
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  12984.  @Roller_Ghoster  That's not what I questioned. I questioned whether it plays a central role in protecting OTHER people, not the vaccinated person themselves. But go on, why don't you? Now everyone is as illogical as Americans. Don't you teach Bertrand RUSSELL any more?
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  12985.  @Roller_Ghoster  My mask protects you more than me, your mask protects me more than you. With vaccines, it is very much the opposite. And with vaccinated people getting breakthrough infections, they will probably be fine but they are contagious. They may unknowingly spread COVID to someone else, believing they can't because they're vaccinated.
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  12986.  @Roller_Ghoster  Do you get high? Is that it?
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  12987.  @Roller_Ghoster  Your thumbnail is a specimen at any rate. You answered my question on Russell, BTW. 😃 Blocked.
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  12988.  @miketaylor4993  Yes, Dr. Topol is very pro-vaccine, entirely open about it, yet he was not comfortable with the idea of mandating vaccines, especially those without full FDA approval -- and, obviously, even with full approval, we still need options such as weekly testing. You can't just exclude everyone who declines vaccines from society. I appreciated his take on the risks of an "overly vaccine-centric" approach.
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  12989.  @SChamberlain1978  So you paid such close attention you missed that she's from New York? 🤣🤣🤣
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  12990. In cases of various forms of abuse, PTSD, and so forth, when there is a legitimate perpetrator, either they cannot be located or refuse to come in, and (absent court order) it is always their right to refuse to come in. It is not a stigma to refuse and proves nothing either way. Hence these disciplines have to develop ways to determine whether the patient is being truthful. She explained that under direct examination. I guess you missed that part?
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  12991. Um, Noam. Like, call a lawyer? You know. A lawyer.
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  12992. The real left, from Corbyn to Melenchon to Richard Wolff, all oppose mandates.
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  12993. @@TOM-TOM-TOM I know how to do research and read the studies. I used to work with the Daubert standard for expert witness testimony, so I know what advocacy looks like, and how it differs from unbiased presentation on the one hand, and misrepresentation on the other. It is certainly not the latter, and usually not the former, either. What I'm having trouble with is why you imagine everyone here is too stupid to understand what you, in your serene wisdom, would know in your sleep. Why would that be? Inexperience on your part? Too many teachers who graded you too easily?
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  12994. @@TOM-TOM-TOM This video is about the suspension of inquiry into the origins of the virus that caused this pandemic. What did you find false or misleading in this video, relative to the documentation? Origins, may I remind you, are a separate question from any other. If indeed there was any form of "engineering" applied to this virus, the truth of the matter is, we may have to make peace with flawed vaccines to stop it. That's just a (sad) fact. So far, though, that does not seem to be possible -- stopping it, I mean. Or accepting what we've been offered so far. Research the vaccines that have already been disfavored by countries with sound public health policies. I am being careful here to avoid sense or ship. So much for free inquiry.
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  12995.  @cogit8able  Brilliant point. Exactly what should happen here, given that the source of COVID is still unknown, and we are no closer to identifying it -- only now, there are strange outbreaks of early childhood hepatitis and clusters of monkeypox. If there's an experiment going on, it's to see what we'll tolerate.
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  12996. Yes, there are Israelis who support a real peace and justice movement, and consider Israel as devolving into apartheid, if it isn't there already. Israel has more people in that movement than the US does, and they are more genuine, trustworthy, and ready to take real risks for justice, and are not on the take, from anybody. Or did you miss that part? In fact, one was a prime minister who was assassinated. Huh. And Katie barely scratched the surface. These comments, from Americans, are meaningless. Let those people -- those Israelis -- be heard. They live there.
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  12997. She said she was kidding.
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  12998. Question: An uninsured person gets a severe reaction from the COVID vaccine and goes to the emergency room. Now what happens?
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  12999.  @asiatmpo1  You think anyone is going to read this?
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  13000.  @asiatmpo1  Every "comrade" should be answered with your fav, "*ieg ****." It "must be" your fav -- strictly by your logic, of course. By the way, only the latter is censored. You can drop comrades all you want.
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  13001. In America. Simple: learn Spanish, French, Swahili, Chinese, etc. Problem solved.
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  13002. ​@@blackjock953Who told you that? Someone who stands to profit from AI? The PANDEMIC didn't teach you?
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  13003.  @PreciousBoxer  Most masks protect others far more than they protect the wearer. That's why they are so controversial among "individualistic, competitive" Americans.
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  13004. 😅😅😅
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  13005.  @blablup1214  For most people, a Social Security pension in the US is poor before age 70. "Full retirement age" there means only one thing: you can work as much as you like, and earn as much as you are able, with no loss of pension benefits, while being able to increase your benefits in subsequent years based on earnings. Draw Social Security benefits before that, and you will be penalized for working at the same time. Draw a teachers' pension (or a firefighter's pension, etc.) in addition to Social Security, and you will be penalized for life.
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  13006. This man is lying.
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  13007.  @HouseofReason78  Cite your sources, post-August 2021, and not from a single country and not from the press but from scientific studies. If breakthrough infections are so unusual, please explain the need for boosters.
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  13008. I've only heard non-Americans say that the US military supports dollar hegemony. Regardless of what the commentators say, or "whose side" they are on, they all agree it's about military might. This is the FIRST time I've heard it said straight-up by an American.
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  13009. He's not ignorant at all.
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  13010.  @derangedhermit7981  You cannot use lethal force to defend inanimate property. Your firearm is to protect yourself and others. In your own house, you can have a gun, everywhere in the US, with a few exceptions made for convicted felons and so forth. If you come to your empty home to find a kid fleeing your property with your new television set, computer, or your child's favorite toy in hand, you will understandably feel like shooting him, but as long as he is fleeing you, you cannot. If you are at home when someone breaks down your door, you can.
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  13011.  @randolphtimm6031  Felt? "Inappropriate?" Is that even a question? To paraphrase Zizek, who does not want to live in a society where we debate whether rape is wrong, torture is wrong, etc., I don't want to live in a society where we debate whether a minor should strap an AR-15 style rifle across his chest and run the streets. You don't have a liveable country. Is that a tragedy, or richly earned? That's the hard question. Take the last word, I don't plan to have anything more to do with this channel. It's appalling.
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  13012. There's always one . . .
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  13013.  @ozjohn8657  You cannot label the event a "barricade" and wait the better part of an hour. I just explained to you how police should have distracted him, with two five-person teams. What you are describing is not an option during a mass shooting of minor children. Maybe you think it should be. Take it up with your congressman.
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  13014. All legislation has been "anti-trans?" Yes, any states criminalizing a medical procedure should draw condemnation. No one has shown that there is any need for new criminal laws; they have weaponized another moral panic. But it is not the case that all of the legislation is anti-trans. California passed a "sanctuary" law to protect trans minors from their parents, a law which may even be unconstitutional under the Full Faith and Credit clause (and so might just be a performance by the California Dems). Let's not be so casual with the facts. This is first of all about money, in my opinion. Doctors and lawyers are going to clean up. Trans youth will be as forlorn as they have always been. (Did the 2020 demonstrations stop the police from killing black youth?) What did Glenn Greenwald say this time? That "coming out as trans" has given a person status in a few small circles? That's true, too. What else are you assailing him for? You didn't specify.
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  13015. The surprise for me is that "anti-vaxx" wasn't blamed on "Russian bots."
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  13016.  @caboose3903  You are human beings who need it. And if you suggest you bear some responsibility, your children certainly do not. People create jobs for other people by buying what others have on offer, whether those be goods or services.
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  13017.  @TDH_1962  And this is tragic. I oppose such laws because of that one in 2.5 million who actually needs radical treatment and who will be deprived of it. But if no laws are passed, the more likely outcome is that the one in 2.5 million will probably not get treated anyway, while 100,000 who don't need treatment will be crippled in the meantime. Totally tragic. If people were to act morally, we would not have to confront any of this.
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  13018. You can spin the most preposterous Russia collusion theories, however.
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  13019. Of course it's over. It's the Illinois Supreme Court, and they have the final word. Read the opinion. It comes up right away.
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  13020. @jamesgarvey8402  The technical reason Social Security is not a "Ponzi scheme" is that the new dollars coming in are from payroll taxes on salaries that generally keep pace with the overall economy (and when they don't, younger people still in the labor force usually have options), whereas the payouts do not keep pace with real inflation. Social Security benefits are never raised to account for the full impact of inflation. Hence, the benefits depend on the salary you earned pre-inflation, for the rest of your life, and the only sure way to rectify that is to return to work -- which means you contribute to the system again. That's not a Ponzi scheme. What Social Security is dependent on is adequate revenues -- just like police, fire, public education, DOD, DHS, and well-maintained bridges and highways. And what you need to worry about is whether the continued growth of the stock market is dependent on privatizing Social Security and Medicare.
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  13021. I knew this channel was sick, but I had no idea.
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  13022. Nicely said.
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  13023.  Ronnie Ronderson  Nope, your turn.
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  13024. @ivetagashparova9805  Garbage. These days, people who have never used hormones, much less blocked their puberty, and never had an STD nevertheless have fertility problems. And more and more kids have ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, etc. Just how much do you plan to techno-medicalize vulnerable KIDS?? How big of a risk with their future are you willing to take? And by the way, suppose Eric wants to wear dresses and be called Elise, and Brittney wants to get a crewcut and wear combat boots and be called Bret. Do you see a reason to start hormones? Why? What's the big deal? I don't see a problem. Let everyone do what they want, without a new wave of adult hysteria and dangerous drugging.
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  13025.  @noellerebekah9653  We are SO on the same page. I was always taught that it was easier to tell the truth.
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  13026. ​ @jamesmorrow1646 Also, Blackrock will help out. They already are!!
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  13027. ​ @CashMoolah00 Oh is that the choice now?
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  13028. No evidence of that, either.
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  13029.  @dorcaskerr6384  Total agreement. A lot of nonsense in this video. Grande doesn't know law or publishing.
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  13030.  @oderblock  You're the white boy, I'm the ethnic bilingual non-Western female.
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  13031.  @oderblock  And to think, I'm the lawyer. 🤣🤣🤣
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  13032.  @oderblock  FYI: Absolutely no one who cannot follow a checklist or think logically could pass law school exams or any bar exam. Today the ultrawealthy get away with absolutely everything, but it wasn't the case for his generation, as was obvious by the fact that he did fail the NY Bar twice -- which isn't rare, by the way. Outstanding lawyers have failed NY and California, and when people fail by a hair, they think the second time will be a cinch. (Wrong.) In any case, the Bar told him "no" twice. And magazine publishing is incredibly difficult. So, according to you, advertisers told him no? That has nothing to do with any lack of brains on his part, but it does show yet again that he got no for an answer when warranted.
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  13033.  @oderblock  Lawyers are exceptionally good at seeing through the fluff, tuning out the buzz, and focusing entirely on facts. People who cannot do that, and cannot follow a decision tree, do not graduate from NYU Law School.
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  13034.  @oderblock  "He wasn't that smart!!!" "No one told him no!!!" These are also excuses, aren't they? Easy to paint them as such. The grave error he made was his responsibility alone. He was plenty smart enough, he was not particularily spoiled, he knew what work is, and he heard "no" plenty of times.
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  13035. @kristinalillieneke7859  True, but in Scandinavian countries, they make a big point of going outdoors whenever there's any sun, to raise their vitamin D stores. They get their kids used to being out in colder weather than is the custom in a lot of other places. I'm quite hardy against the cold but not like they are.
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  13036. It's called parody, and it is protected from censorship by the government, at least.
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  13037. Failed actress.
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  13038.  @junevandermark952  I agree.
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  13039. Lucie Castets is a very good choice, too. "Moderate," relative to the NFP and to French society, and very poised and competent.
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  13040.  @saiyjin98  Exactly. How are these people missing it?? Power of propaganda.
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  13041. Just now.
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  13042.  @martell203  Any time is a good time. :)
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  13043. Funny how Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and the biotech labs don't need to give up anything to Save the Planet. How did they manage that?
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  13044.  @ajs41  I still have a flip phone. I only upgrade when forced. I've never been on Facebook or Twitter, and only came here during the lockdown. My quality of life has declined, I admit that.
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  13045. Actually, no. Lightfoot was a brand; she had no political experience whatsoever, and there was no reason to assume she would be competent as a mayor. It was a shame that Preckwinkle lost.
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  13046. @karen-qm7og  How is it that all of a sudden, no one has common sense? And only extreme positions are heard, or tolerated?
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  13047. @jsamadams  Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic
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  13048.  @karen-qm7og  Beautifully stated, btw
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  13049. It's certain. We had it confirmed by our own government that it funds biolabs in Ukraine through the Department of Defense. We only the other day had Joe Biden sign something that supposedly put the moratorium on funding gain of function back in place.
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  13050.  @colossalsquidward1737  My parents met in a refugee camp and their relatives all lived under communism. Maybe I should shout "racist" or "Putin puppet," like the Democrats do? They are hurting you, not me. But you're right, that's no big deal.
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  13051.  @hoonaignachowaneha  Agreed. The outcome is very likely not contrary to the actual vote fairly counted, but the election was such an anomaly that it is difficult to pin down in any case and the issue deserves a free and full airing without accusations or hyperbole.
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  13052. This sounds familiar, and tragic. Hoping the best for you.
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  13053. Always the Other, never the one in the mirror . . .
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  13054. That does it. I give up. It's over.
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  13055. Sounds like someone is getting ready for a BIG war.
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  13056.  @MrGeorgewf  Apparently he is. He has the job, doesn't he? MSM asks him, WHO asks him, presidents ask him . . . seems like everyone important agrees. If the qualification is net worth, then he's "qualified." If it's education, then he's not. I take it back. You're right. What is "book learning" compared to being a billionaire? I'm just jealous.
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  13057. @ca8944  Columbia chose to shut down. There was plenty of room to walk around the students, as aerial photos proved. At UT Austin, police started beating students who were attempting to cooperate by clearing the quad. Where did you see students actually interfering with classes?
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  13058.  @betsybabf748  "Preferred narrative" 🤣🤣🤣
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  13059. @mohammedhaque4829  An interim report from Israel to the ICJ is due on Monday, stating whether it has complied with the ICJ's directives to protect Palestinians from genocide. Everyone should read the findings. It's really worth the time.
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  13060.  @jasonolinger7585  I could have sworn that the issue was the American constitution.
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  13061.  @jasonolinger7585  You missed the point of the person who replied to you.
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  13062. @jimlahey8312  Actually, that doesn't matter. You hear Congress advocate for infringing speech, you hear politicians advocate for outlawing First Amendment protected protest. They have the right to advocate for those things. Yes, they swore to uphold the Constitution. If they fail to uphold it, vote them out.
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  13063.  @betsybabf748  Guess what? Y___t is apparently protecting you from the "violence" of free discourse. Lol
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  13064. John Money had Janet Frame committed after misdiagnosing her as psychotic. Frame was within days of being lobotomized when she won a literary award for her short stories, and the lobotomy was cancelled. How is it that no one remembers the fantastic film about Janet Frame's life? Well, that was John Money, too.
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  13065. @Scott Covert The point was to make the university more like a business, rather than the unique institution it once was, taking its inspiration from Plato and Aristotle. Well, now we're there. The most common major BY FAR is Business Administration, and has been for at least 30 years. The next most common is, broadly, the Health Sciences, with Nursing in first place. Students graduate with serious debt, so of course most treat university primarily as a trade school. Academic freedom has been dumped in favor of Tone Policing, and the new Advertising/Marketing landscape of Facebook/Twitter. To get a job, students learn to massage their image and stay on the good side of HR departments. So, the schools are giving the kids what they need to make money. A lot of people wanted university to be a business. Well, what's wrong now? There's no free speech at a business.
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  13066.  @RebornLegacy  Academia does not demand trust for particular conclusions. It needs to earn trust for methods, IRB ethics in research, honesty in reporting actual, empirical findings, modesty in drawing broad conclusions, etc. It never just says, "this is true. Trust us."
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  13067. I think you can consult a psychiatrist twice. Maybe three times.
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  13068.  @Amybnunny  $600 is enough for pretty good boots, in most places. Not too great of a purse, though. /s
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  13069. Anyone who can make money putting out stuff like this has got to love the system. Most people in the world work. It's starting to show, too.
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  13070. "Hey, science and innovation is a great thing." "You know. Big things you wanna do that are big." "Robert Kennedy Jr. was advising him that vaccines were causing bad things." "I told him that was a bad thing, don't do that." These are quotes from Bill Gates. Sounds like he has what Brandon has.
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  13071. It's easy to find as well.
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  13072. 35:50 Why Katie is much loved.
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  13073. Well, at this point I don't know why anyone would have a baby -- except with Musk? 😂
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  13074.  @CharlieTWilbury  So perfectly analyzed. I could borrow your brain for a day, I'd love that!
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  13075.  @michellekincaid5499  If a school shooter is brought to the ER, he is treated. Ponder that. Boston marathon terrorist Tsarnaev was treated.
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  13076. A divorce settlement is usually NOT taxable by the IRS.
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  13077. This convoluted nonsense shows how biased people are. You'd never think this up if you liked the person.
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  13078.  @TheUntaintedTreble  Have you ever opened a law book? Or listened to an oral argument? Most of the recent recordings of Supreme Court arguments are available for free online. Hypotheticals is exactly how the Justices pose their questions. Better revise your grading scheme.
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  13079. @VanessaSchmithorst  It means anything deemed "medically necessary" that has a psychological basis deserves the very highest scrutiny, and should almost always be avoided.
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  13080.  @VanessaSchmithorst  You see this happening in large numbers in the African American community? Or among Palestinians? 🤔 SMH
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  13081. For real? Good thing I unsubscribed, though I did before seeing this. They must be kidding.
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  13082. She always has. She didn't vote for Biden, or Hillary for that matter.
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  13083.  @denniscarsner  I think it probably did come from a lab accident. I oppose silencing Alex Jones. Censorship and civil suits for defamation are two different animals. The first violates his rights, and our right to hear all views. The second does not.
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  13084. Yeah, hospitals are being overwhelmed now by the bleach drinkers. /s
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  13085. Not unless you can frame it as ineffective assistance of counsel -- which you probably can. The jury can make their judgment on any honest basis they choose, which is anything short of improper contact outside of court, threats, bribes, and things like that. The attorney is supposed to make it clear that they should decide based only on the evidence.
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  13086. @jamesreed9013  Oh I'm sorry, it was in an article about his firm, Johnson & Bell, Chicago office. It wasn't a book.
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  13087. @jamesreed9013  I think you're right. Insufficient evidence may be better. All of this is hard. He carries the presumption of guilt now. Insufficient evidence, ineffective assistance of counsel are constitutional claims, not "technicalities." Really hard to prove today.
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  13088. That requires keeping more than one thought in your head at a time, and that doesn't seem to be Ryan's strong suit when COVID is the issue.
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  13089. ​@montalineberger4743 Having it be your own private garden made it more fun. Who wants a teacher to get involved in your game, much less endorse it?
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  13090. Utilities are not nationalized but are regulated. The erection of the electrical grid ended any plausible case for believing in an Adam Smith-style "free market," though Marx saw why it could not subsist much sooner.
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  13091. Well, to be fair, we don't know his parents. Imagine if they are anything like him . . . I wouldn't want to life a finger, either. 😄
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  13092. You just described who makes money.
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  13093. Two domestic issues we needed to be informed about this year: 1. COVID in the U.S. 2. The events of January 6 Does anyone feel they know what they need to know about these issues?
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  13094.  @sonnyjs15  yes it was
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  13095. ​ @bernardotabaranzajr3262 Yes you can state that you support terrorism. That is protected speech. Glenn Greenwald has been going to great lengths to explain this clearly. Since the pandemic, the mandates, the "Russian collusion" nonsense, cancel culture, and everything else, core principles have been muddled. Congress could have passed a resolution distancing themselves from her words and reasserting support for Israel. Instead, they voted to censure her --- and a censure is a finding of wrongdoing for having spoken, and a formal reprimand for her words. You all give up rights too easily. And for what?
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  13096. That's been around for generations. What just happened recently?
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  13097.  @bobbunni8722  No, that's what happened when states withdrew tax support from their state university systems, and then government-backed LOANS to individual students, not actual support for schools, came in to occupy the space. IOW, another money-making scheme for FIRE (Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate) was born. Now, a student whose parents are not already rich dare not study what he has a real flare for. He has to study what will be instantly marketable upon graduation, so he can pay off his loans. Any other course is a risk. But studying in an area where you might turn out to be outstanding, and actually create new things, is better for you and for society in the long run. Dare you try? No, you must live in debt peonage. FIRE will see to it.
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  13098. I agree wholeheartedly. I am opposed to the death penalty but can comprehend those who disagree. It's up to me to persuade them, not hector them. The only thing we can say to ANY victim is, "I am so, so sorry."
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  13099. Appreciation for Rich, for working so hard and caring so hard to be a great dad to his kids.
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  13100. Exactly. It was completely tendentious. We had the sworn testimony of Grosskreutz that HE believed Rittenhouse was an active shooter -- rightly or wrongly. Was HIS belief reasonable? This testimony was evidence in the trial. The garbage at Huber's house was not.
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  13101.  @phoenixrising1675  It is true that Rittenhouse was smeared by the MSM, and that is unconscionable. But is it serving to make you take HIS side? Why? The smearing would be evidence in a civil defamation suit, which I support Rittenhouse if he decides to bring one. But it is not evidence in this trial. He was reckless when he fired the first four shots, with McGinnis, an innocent bystander, in the line of fire.
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  13102.  @darknes5inside  True
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  13103. What do you think of Gabor Mate? Have you read his book?
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  13104. "To improve mental health" . . . Just like they did with trans ideology.
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  13105. First of all, Justice Barrett was examining the argument that they should be held guilty in violation of a specific subpart of a specific federal statute, contrary to what this lawyer is arguing. He's trying to get the case overturned. Justice Barrett seems skeptical of his argument. Second, there is no word salad, from anyone. Look at the opening brief if you actually care about what's going on. The first page will tell you.
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  13106.  @anthonytwohill9726  Difficult to contemplate if true.
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  13107. I bet you did! It is a known anti-inflammatory. So are foods high in quercetin, and foods with a high lysine to arginine ratio. They never bothered to tell us. ;/
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  13108.  @dedetudor.  💯
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  13109. Tesla is being sued. Good grief, how is this not reported? The complaint is online, of course.
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  13110. Wow. Where to start? Gender nonsense is a classic false flag. What do you think Liu opposes?
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  13111. You think they've only just realized this?
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  13112. If you live on either coast, you're barely middle class. If you have a coastal mortgage, not even. Elsewhere, that is good money. You know this, right? But yeah, to pay more in taxes than Amazon does -- or Goldman Sachs does -- is obscene. That money belongs in an EMERGENCY FUND.
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  13113. A generation after Columbine and Wisconsin's legislature was incapable of drafting a reasonable and constitutional gun law with respect to minors, or anyone. In Wisconsin, open carry is not considered a provocation. That's simply how their law works. Rifles belong only on private property or in areas zoned for hunting during hunting season. Or disassembled in a trunk. The laws are lunacy.
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  13114.  @justinbailey1756  Chores? Or for money? Not before 16 they shouldn't be, unless it's only to help out, low-key, in a family business. At 16, sure. Why not? Part-time.
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  13115. Will payment on any of Musk's government contracts be interrupted? Between Musk's government contracts, his Treasury bonds, and the lobbying he does to reduce his taxes, our taxes end up going to him.
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  13116. TYT welcomed Jimmy's endorsement of Cenk for Congress. That's all that was. Now that he is denouncing their trash reporting, things are different.
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  13117.  @Buttlather  Yes. And have you ever lived in Europe? How long ago did you live on minimum wage with roommates? Before the massive financialization of the economy, or after? Before the 2008 debacle, or after? How much shooting was there in your neighborhood?
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  13118. The rich neighborhoods are flying Ukrainian flags. Showing off their millionaire status.
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  13119. So. You're stone-cold crazy. Thanks for letting us know.
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  13120. @MyPoptART  Makes perfect sense. Whether it be DEI or charter schools, the key is for money to flow upward. And it does. Cute how that works.
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  13121. Shutdowns at this point can only be justified when hospitals and morgues are overwhelmed. There is no other reason.
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  13122. Why didn't Trump replace him?
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  13123. Oxford, Cambridge, or even Paris, Frankfort, etc., are the way to go now. I am serious. But sure, MIT.
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  13124.  @EmilySC23  They are less expensive if they are in your own state. There was a time when an ordinary summer job covered a full year of in-state tuition at the premier university of one's state. Reagan was the beginning of the end of that.
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  13125. @Naylor Broughton Last line you wrote: THIS
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  13126.  @kyleolin3566  I think the whole question of "responsibility" is very complex, and has been thoroughly poisoned. When Victor Frankl talks about responsibility, or Albert Camus talks about responsibility, it is not the same concept as you see bandied around to dupe people and get them to behave in ways that are good for the money hoarders but not so good for anyone else, and especially not for the people they are preaching to. By "responsibility," Frankl and Camus mean something that is unrelated to getting money -- and unrelated to blame.
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  13127.  @kyleolin3566  The corporate form itself is designed to limit liability. That is its purpose, to allow people to do business without exposing themselves to personal liability. This is why no one could go after Tony Hayward's assets, only the corporate assets of BP, for example. That is the corporate form working as intended. In England, they forthrightly call it "Limited," for "limited liability." (In French and Spanish, "S.A." always had a negative connotation. In America, "incorporated" sounds so formidable. Have to concede, the English are straight up empirical, no spin either way on that one.)
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  13128. Have you heard the latest? Paxlovid is essentially worthless.
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  13129. Remember the 9/11 widows? Remember all the mate poaching?
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  13130. One of Jimmy's most important videos.
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  13131.  @bsn1009  Anti-bullying is part of the curriculum. And in my opinion, before age 16 or 17, that is all that needs to be said. And it DOES need to be said.
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  13132. @jonathan4831  Well, that is possible, you're right. If he lies to these women, he is not exactly averse to lying for gain in general. I've seen no sign of it, but I listen to all health advice skeptically anyway and verify it. If other people see him as another guru, that's a problem. But again, that is always true. Personally, I do draw the line at legal codes and ethics codes. I don't want my private life scrutinized that way. OTOH, if he ever gave any relationship advice, he has egg on his face.
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  13133. @sweetlikechocothai  Yes, it's their business, certainly. They need major news stories to be published and crowd support?
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  13134. I have.
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  13135. @troywalkertheprogressivean8433  Why was my agreeing with you shadowed? Weird. It was a one- liner.
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  13136. Let me see if I understand . . . This study suggests that there may be a way to make this particular vaccine much safer than it is. Explain how this is "bad" from any viewpoint. I mean any legitimate viewpoint whatsoever. Wow, just wow.
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  13137.  @joe.oneill  So why didn't he do it?
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  13138. ​@omsmada Well, thank God for timestamps. Now can we trust reporters to read them, not alter them, . . . 😮
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  13139.  @joeterzio7175  So why don't we know the origin of this one, given that previous coronaviruses did not defy tracing?
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  13140.  @joeterzio7175  Repeating what you clearly don't know very much about may be an effective means of persuasion, but it has no bearing on reality.
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  13141.  @joeterzio7175  YOU think someone else is politicized? Let the facts fall where they may. There has been a lack of transparency for some reason.
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  13142.  @zando5108  No it doesn't. The models are statistical. It is simply the volume of data that it can process extremely quickly to recognize patterns and create generalizations that is immense and unprecedented. This works beautifully, until it doesn't. It cannot understand the real number line the way people can because it cannot understand infinity the way people can. It cannot be mathematically creative absent humans to verify the result of its processes. This is the linchpin, and shows that it cannot match the human mind. If anyone told you differently, they told you wrong. Now I won't say investors won't make huge bucks on the story. Sure they might.
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  13143. @cameronwian1738  Ha! Did I say that? Way not to deal with the point. Did you look up why this happens? It appears to be aggregating billions of opinions concerning whether a number is prime. 🤣
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  13144. A lot of people are trying very hard to get her fired because of her stand on Palestine. This is why she refuses to bow.
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  13145. @user-zu5do6ri6r  This is monopoly capital. If what you have in mind is Adam Smith and free markets and free commons, well, that would be heaven compared to this. Idyllic.
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  13146. @avibhagan  False. You are confusing free markets with capitalism. You are supposed to confuse free markets with capitalism. Good job!
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  13147. Yes.
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  13148.  @philsdon8932  I though the second line reminder was well put. A virtue signal, or a reality check?
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  13149. She would cut Medicare, which is already poor.
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  13150. We need a multivariate analysis to unravel the contribution of each of these factors to the excess deaths. This is a costly study, and very hard to do. I can guess what will happen . . . :/
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  13151. So he's at it again. /s
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  13152.  @williamcondon7729  WHAT changes? More neoliberal economic destruction? More wars? More cynicism about the rights we still have, encroached upon by corporate power, which then captures government power and dictates the laws and their enforcement? To the point where we have to deal with monopolies that violate our rights, and they become tantamount to the government -- but you cannot sue them, because they are not technically violating the Fourth Amendment, etc. Only state actors can do that. I like how you assume I "must be" some sort of boho white, by the way, and speak to me on that assumption.
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  13153. I'll tell you how that happens for real: you have to look within, to find what you truly loved to do, and that felt natural to you, when you were a preteen and young teen. Pursue something that is strongly related to that love. That is where you will meet people. Don't think this is just a story. I swear it is not. Also, have no-screen-time days. Have reading or music or art days. Let me know in 6 months how it goes. I mean it.
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  13154. He helped free Lula.
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  13155. Debt for an education you need --> you have to sign a noncompetition agreement as a condition of getting a decent-paying job, to service that debt. You've signed a noncompetition agreement --> you have a serious problem getting a better job, or starting your own business, or simply negotiating for a raise.
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  13156.  @peoplenewstoday  Wrong. Retaliating against anyone who reports Title VII violations using proper channels is, at least in principle, fully protected by federal law. The problem is money. You need serious money to enforce your rights.
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  13157.  @drewc771  Memento mori. Fact.
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  13158. You must have an exit plan. I'm traveling to visit relatives in Europe this fall. I worry it is later than I think. It always has been.
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  13159.  @i8am8kemraj84  Not being nice, but honest. Simple honesty --- unfortunately, as you said!
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  13160.  @alinkakabaeva  To lift a dictionary? Not for me.
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  13161. I guess we'll find out. 🤣🤣🤣
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  13162. The monied elites have abandoned Trump. Krystal Ball just outlined that in detail. There is no danger for AOC to denounce Trump now. No downside, all up up up. She is where she is for a reason.
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  13163. Well, you were lied to. The vast majority of elderly depend on these programs -- literally. Fewer than 10% have enough invested to fund their own retirement. Hence, they have to be shored up. The IRA and 401(k) have existed for well over a generation. If they failed to work for 20% of retirees, it would make sense to ask whether those 20% did something wrong, and why. When they fail for 90% or more, then you have to ask what's wrong with that system. Something that fails the vast majority is not a plan.
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  13164. ​ @ryansreaction 😂😂😂 Right
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  13165. Money
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  13166.  @lbdeuce  Does "great" mean "very large and powerful?" Then it does fit.
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  13167.  @iamjurell  Pilger has a current channel.
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  13168. ​ @DFSLJC Have you ever considered that it's not?
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  13169.  @MGB36913  Thank you.
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  13170.  @sevena.channel  My reply: went poof. Not visible.
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  13171.  @freeunderratedmusic4273  People who show up in a 100+ response thread and call the person who initiated it "deluded" have the best mental health, the most money, and beautiful bodies. They are also artists.
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  13172.  @freeunderratedmusic4273  Oh good grief. WHOOSH.
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  13173. Some have been bullied or m○lested and can't bear to say so. But trans discourse has appeared, which gives them the intense positive regard they crave.
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  13174. To be fair, non-GMO corn for people still exists. Hard to find, costs a bunch.
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  13175. And what about the (very few) vaccinations that are likely necessary or beneficial for most college students, such as the one against meningitis? How does that combine with COVID mRNA vaccines? Trick question: we have no idea. This is unconscionable, Brie. Come ON.
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  13176.  @Bimby-b  I saw her describe that incident of shoving him against the refrigerator as a big mistake she regretted. I thought it might have been just the opposite. It might have been the first time she showed an authentic emotion. It seemed to me that Dylan's parents wanted life to be one big Just So story, "picture perfect." If she felt so guilty for doing that, then what should Dylan have felt?
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  13177.  @danielturner9832  You beat me to it. Respect!
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  13178.  @jeffreyblack6611  True. Works for them, too. $$$
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  13179. Advertising/propaganda/surveillance has made overnight fortunes.
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  13180. ​ SpyderNL  They don't look like meth addicts. Just an observation.
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  13181.  @ihategoogleplus5308  Exactly.
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  13182.  @lydialutz  My goodness. Where to begin? No. It's futile. You're unaware of the history of the term and its recent use, or what the central characteristic of a baseless, often conspiratorial, explanation is: it grossly violates Occam's Razor, and new iterations of it are typically grosser violations. In other words, in response to contrary evidence, it gets more and more complex. I still remember when George Bush didn't want to answer an inconvenient question and his eyes lit up, a smirk formed on his face, he pursed his lips, and said, " that's a conspiracy theory." Magic words. No further thought needed. Your government thanks you for continuing to push this "narrative." Narrative!! 🤣
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  13183. I was afraid I would cringe -- but now I see RFK Jr is right again. JFK had a national fitness program. It's no joke, it is essential. Kids are on SSRIs, ADHD medication, puberty blockers . . . They need to be on fresh air and push ups, for real.
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  13184. Wow, I didn't know SHE didn't have enough money.
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  13185. "Less Than Zero" I defy anyone to watch that mess in one sitting.
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  13186.  @_baller  Give me a break. People get paid big money to trot out this pablum, then to create a faux controversy over it, and write the same old editorial over and over again, zero originality, zero thought, no solutions. No wonder kids won't study. They want to be day traders, youtubers, influencers, or rock stars. Welcome to the world former Hari Krishna couch surfer Steve Jobs helped create. You didn't notice his little smirk on this video?
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  13187. At baller: oh stop 🤣🤣🤣
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  13188. "Very rare" Where have I heard this before?
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  13189. Great job on Briahna's part.
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  13190.  @TheGbelcher  Not only that, but at 42, what would be worse? A serious, life-altering medical issue, or marital problems? I hope it's marital problems. They'll find a way to live with that.
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  13191. @ladyj7085  Is the world divided into "fans" and "haters?" Maybe your world?
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  13192. He frankly doesn't know more than I do. I've seen this combination of Nietzsche and Jung recycled before, and it always draws in young men. This is not new. His use of the new media is new. He also knows how to manipulate people into believing they are not sufficiently intelligent to criticize him. Always beware of that move. I saw his website a few years ago, and he recommended a number of original texts. I had read them all -- apart from his own book. It's not that tough. Your intuition is correct -- he is often illogical. He can make people believe he has supported his point with evidence and sound argument, when he hasn't. He said a bunch of smart but unrelated stuff.
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  13193. ​@centralfloridagmrs No he didn't. He's not living off of his family -- they reported him missing. These ridiculous talking points aren't working. The lid is off.
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  13194.  @TerraPosse  Every person I know who is hesitant has experienced a life-altering medical mistake. I suppose that is unusual. But I don't know those other people. I don't personally know anyone who refuses vaccinations.
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  13195.  @datonepeach  Very funny. The channels you subscribe to show your neurological endowment.
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  13196.  @alexusbratva878  Convinced? (Or are the three links shadowed?)
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  13197.  @alexusbratva878  Who did you expect me to quote, some YouTuber or FOX News?
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  13198.  @2FadeMusic  Vaccine hesitancy is higher in minority communities than in white. Who has substandard medical care more often?
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  13199.  @2DRonaldo  I have some more ideas: Fast-track full FDA approval, so that the miniscule number of those seriously injured are told they are entitled to meaningful compensation under the 1986 law, rather than being told they don't count. Medicare for ALL, and universal disability insurance not tied to a job. Other countries do that. Builds confidence in institutions. Just some ideas to knock around.
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  13200.  @tonywilson4713  Thank you. Perfect, really. And have you noticed how bereft we have been of reasonable, calm argument? You just see people wishing death on one another and heaping hate on one another. I knew that if we were to have a pandemic, we'd have a hard time, but I never expected . . . Make this an independent post as well.
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  13201.  @SpellboundTutor  Not what happened. Fauci admits he lied. Easy to see the politicians facing the voters did as well. It's what they do. Sorry about your struggles, you deserve a worry-free life when confronting any health challenges, with the security of universal health and disability, no hoops, no questions, no jeering. Lots of countries have no vaccine mandate. It's working fine.
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  13202.  @SpellboundTutor  There is proof Fauci lied about masks and herd immunity and several other things. The truth about the lab leak theory is that if this virus was enhanced in some way, chances are that fact makes for a stronger case for vaccination, not weaker. Sounds like "natural" immunity is not so likely, and predictability of the course of the illness, or future mutations, is less likely. Those are reasons TO vaccinate. But that's just it, lying makes people more scared. It makes people believe something really big is happening, like when parents will lie to children to hide the truth. I had a minor operation two weeks ago. When they told me that major emergency surgery could be needed, and a blood transfusion could as well, THAT is when I calmed down. The worst case scenario, presented to me honestly, is what made me exhale. That's how I knew I was being told the truth.
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  13203.  @StoveToTheFace  Fauci also said no vaccine mandates on principle. Before the election, I mean. The videos are there.
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  13204.  @heathfairbairn2460  "I'd imagine you suffer from some form of substance abuse." Not really. I do, however, imagine that a taste of your own medicine is the only thing you *might* understand. Was that a good guess?
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  13205.  @heathfairbairn2460  Like I said about jealousy. You better start paying attention to the way India and China educate their youth and respect their professors, rather than demeaning the few serious students left, and the few universities still worthy of the name. IOW, you need to get a clue.
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  13206.  @righteousindignation8879  That was very, very poorly overwritten. I recommend George Orwell's most famous essay, Politics and the English Language.
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  13207.  @heathfairbairn2460  You're the one who has offered nothing except your "feewings." And a few good nouns and adjectives. (I haven't heard "vitriol" in a long time. That was enjoyable. I like that word.) I analyzed every student's comment and question. It's easy when you know how. Everybody has feelings. It's nice to add in some thoughts.
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  13208.  @heathfairbairn2460  Emojis don't help your discourse. I almost said argument, then realized, "what argument?"
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  13209.  @knightsonofjack  Rice, who got the committee chair, did threaten withhold her vote the last time. Rice also started out as a Republican. I won't pretend to be an AOC fan, but this is dirty. Hard to believe Pelosi would stoop this low. If it were clearly a merit pick, fine, but it isn't.
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  13210.  @jessicajensen1976  I think you're right.
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  13211. Perfect.
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  13212.  @hehheh382  The question about recording is valid, but the conclusion that it must be a stunt is a real howler. Would this Mark Townsend guy have to lodge a formal complaint? Well, talk about egg on his face then. If he wants to make a bigger fool of himself . . . Obviously he has left himself and The Guardian open to a defamation suit. N. B. I cannot speak to Aaron, who is exceptionally scrupulous, but in general, the big boys don't worry about legality all that much. And in some US states, you can record conversations as long as one of the parties knows. IOW, a third party cannot do it without consent. A party to the conversation simply has the right to protect themselves and thus to record, even without the other person's consent.
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  13213.  @hehheh382  So, if Townsend said he's willing to go on the record, you think it must be staged? Maybe it means Townsend is arrogant. These people think the independent media are a bunch of nobodies who can't hurt them.
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  13214.  @hehheh382  What makes you think The Guardian does not record all calls itself, for security purposes? Most corporations, etc., do. Then their journalists can't very well object to being recorded by the other party. It (i.e., the fact that they record all calls) may even function as implied consent for both parties to record. I think that's most likely, actually.
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  13215.  @hehheh382  Aaron is Canadian by birth and based in Brooklyn. He has been in Brooklyn for ages. Extraterritoriality died with empire.
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  13216. @D-Rock K Or better yet, emigrate to a developed country.
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  13217. @D-Rock K There are that many? The population of Italy . . . LOL
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  13218. Oh, I get it now. You are deluded. American bombs are magic bombs, they never hurt children. Depleted uranium has no effect on pregnant women, either.
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  13219.  @jesuschrist9933  I don't know that this KID had any "politics." He was a loser kid. Crazy, maybe.
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  13220. We were TOLD that they did. We WERE.
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  13221.  @Buttlather  She literally said the CDC lied to the public.
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  13222. How much money did Gino make before she got exposed? Does she still collect royalties on any books?
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  13223. Hepburn was still pretty.
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  13224. Are you kidding? Brie was SO on point.
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  13225. I can't believe my post concerning Supreme Court precedent on this very issue got thrown shade, only visible if you sort by Newest and scroll, and scroll.
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  13226. 😂😂
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  13227. ​ @imaginedmountains2311  They have been.
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  13228. To make it impossible for non-millionaires to eat a healthful meal.
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  13229.  @tamaraspencer4024  This has gotten scary, hasn't it?
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  13230. They all had colonialism. Monarchies survived the feudal age. But I agree about precision in history. Can't say it's so obvious Robbie appreciates it. Brie pointed out how capitalism made money from slavery without qualms. As did German industry from supplying the death camps. As did the Swiss banks of that period, serving the Nazis.
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  13231.  @joshuamylesgibson  Capitalism cares about one thing only, and it is amoral. If an ad man for fast food becomes a millionaire and history profs struggle, the former is a success, the latter needed to go into something else.
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  13232. What happened to the four children in this picture?
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  13233. No, she is really rich, actually.
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  13234. Excellent, LOL.
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  13235. Why is Biden pretending Ukraine will join NATO? Hunter doesn't work there anymore.
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  13236.  @crewchief5144  You mean the one where people read a text before denouncing it on command? That's an echo chamber? I thought that was every free country. Well, I thought so before COVID. Speaking of free speech, Glenn Greenwald is talking about this very subject tonight. I am going to check it out.
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  13237.  @Asisya18  Thank you. Well, your memory is like a bear trap! :)
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  13238.  @michaelseebach4166  AMEN 👏👏👏
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  13239. I didn't know that many people donate. /s
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  13240. Nor is it funny.
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  13241. The diversion away from the issue of Syria is horrible.
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  13242.  @SuMMeRFLi5  You clearly do not know how to read the Code, or have the training to understand what it means. I did not report your previous posts that were removed, nor did I think they needed to be removed. This one I will.
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  13243.  @j-me6317  Somehow they always manage to get it, too. I wonder how that happens.
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  13244. Guess why? 😂
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  13245. Yes!
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  13246. HOW DID YOU MISS THE REAL STORY? Does Naomi Biden's unoccupied vehicle merit Secret Service protection?
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  13247. Brilliant idea.
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  13248.  @TurdF3rguson  Trump supporters as a totality are not a "cult," but plenty of them certainly are. People who will insist against all evidence that he won, and will explain away anything and everything that shows that he did not win, are in a cult. The OP was ambiguous about that, so I basically agree with you.
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  13249. Check out Vijay Prashad's interview today on Democracy Now. Yes, they dared.
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  13250. Are the kids allowed to bust out laughing? Sounds like the perfect opportunity to roll on the floor, literally.
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  13251. No he didn't. When Microsoft was sued in the 1990s for antitrust violations, the full history of the company was revealed in court. It's hundreds of pages; you could actually read it rather than repeat ad copy.
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  13252. The only things we can be sure Joe got deeply involved in were ramming through the Clarence Thomas nomination, and hair sniffing.
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  13253. You thought this sick tirade was "truth?" How does someone get like you?
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  13254. I hope so.
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  13255. No, the Nazis weren't socialists. They adopted the name because of its immense prestige in the early 20th century. Any worker in 1920s Germany would tune out a politician who claimed to oppose socialism. No socialist is a nationalist. Ever. Socialism is a universalist movement. Anyone can call themselves anything. The Clintons claim to be "democrats."
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  13256. The only real issue is the TYT defamation of Aaron Mate. The rest is diversion. Notice how often real issues are morphed into cheap sex scandals. Why is that?
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  13257. "What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, . . . " -- Neil Postman
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  13258.  @ericaugust1501  I will remember that. "Woke identity theatre," divisiveness to replace solidarity. Clintonian at its core.
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  13259. Well it shouldn't amaze you. I don't understand why it would.
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  13260.  @TechnoEstate  Then we agree, at least on that point.
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  13261. ​ @kenduffy5397 Not the same at all, lol. Maybe you aren't into music?
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  13262. ???
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  13263. Trump had better be impeached and convicted.
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  13264.  @scroopynooperz9051  He did? Wow.
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  13265.  @MasterBlasterSr  I think you're too kind. They knew they were lying.
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  13266. False. This was correct.
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  13267. We should know everything about everyone who was on every one of those four planes. Do we? If we do, his remarks were very misplaced. If not, why not? Brie is perfect here.
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  13268. "What's not to like?"
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  13269. Let's start by proving this in court.
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  13270. The first reports I saw were years ago, on French websites. You have strong headwinds in English.
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  13271. Appreciated this interview. Anyone who trash talks this vet is nuts. How often do you see two people disagree like this and reach the real issue? How about almost never? This is exactly the conversation that needs to take place. It is a small start but a good one.
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  13272. Oh, of course! Why, look at all those "far-right" assembling against that nice young man Macron. A banker, wasn't he?
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  13273. 2:49 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  13274.  @ricker024  I don't agree with Briahna's views on the pandemic, and I was severely damaged by the whole experience of lockdowns, mandates, and engineered financial gyrations. I see no retirement in my future. I am still recovering from the ordeal they put us through. Still, I honestly do not understand what you're saying. I disagree with Brie, I don't hate on her or put words in her mouth.
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  13275.  @josearaujo8616  Okay, even assuming that's true, that wasn't the question. You said tangible things and material resources. The US may not be making tangible things, but . . . How many phones and computers have you pitched in the last 25 years?
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  13276. @josearaujo8616  Anyway, I don't agree that we have new forms of value creation. I think we are creating more behavioral addictions, more hidden means of risk shifting and, above all, more efficient means of rent extraction, while the traditional rents (housing and the like, which are literal necessities) are spinning out of control, to the point where more and more people can no longer afford them. If we shared equally in the growing productivity of labor, we would all have shorter work weeks and work lives in the manufacturing and distribution sectors. At that point, more ambitious people could change careers between 40 and 50, and work another 20 years at a more reasonable pace. If they entered management, they would actually know something. Those who wanted to retire and live modestly could, but that would not mean having luxuries. It would mean no wolf at the door. And no billionaires setting up their own pseudo-countries, either. As matters stand, we are on the precipice.
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  13277. Because those videos were real. I saw them myself.
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  13278. @zerocool5395  What did you all see in this? It's not a bunch of silliness?
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  13279. @ashleyjohansson230  It also happens all the time that solid information or reasoned (and reasonable) opinion is tossed. In fact, ranting and raving are more likely to stay up than well-reasoned arguments. Ranting usually can't be deemed factually false, but well-supported positions can.
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  13280. She said that alcohol cannot be used as an excuse for the lack of consequences that was the norm for acts of sexual aggression at that time. "Alcohol was involved" means what, exactly? That wine was served with dinner, as was the custom there? What I find interesting is that this time, it was Naomi Wolf who demanded accountability and consequences for bad acts, and somehow she is getting dismissed. That seems to be the thrust of nearly every post on the topic that I see here. When Dr. Peterson points out how important accountability is, and brushes aside excuses, or anything that sounds like an excuse, everyone praises him. Why is that? P. S. Is cleaning your room more important that keeping your hands off of people who depend on your good graces and objective evaluations for their very careers?
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  13281.  @petegiant  Taking a drink is not implicit consent, if that's what you're thinking. That's not the law.
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  13282. This isn't the "left." Nowhere is this happening but in the US, and on a much smaller scale in the UK. The left in the rest of the world sounds like Krystal or like Roger Fisk, here. They succeeded in smearing Jeremy Corbin as an "anti-Semite." They tried to do the same thing to J-L Melenchon and he smashed them.
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  13283. Sleepy? Y'mean The Mummy?
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  13284. @djinghiskhan9199  I posted the official CDC numbers and it got tossed.
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  13285.  @robertdownes793  Notice also the fundamental bad faith here: we "have to" "pick a side," RIGHT now. We cannot say the truth has not been established yet. That would be justifying a war crime(!)
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  13286.  @snuffeldjuret  Just like Hunter's fake laptop.
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  13287. The more I listen to anyone from the Five Eyes, the better I like France.
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  13288. Welcome to Amerika.
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  13289. I expected her to be bad, and frankly I thought a good 80% of what she said was exactly right. This silly fad of "identifying" as a cat has nothing to do with LGBTQ. Douglas was rude and sounded crazy. He looks unwell, too. Eva looks great, by contrast.
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  13290.  @Margo5050  See Patrick Heuveline of UCLA on excess deaths in the US.
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  13291. ​ @imtryinghere1 The First Amendment does apply here, though it may not protect his job in this case. People who work for the state have more rights than those who work for private concerns.
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  13292.  @thesquadequalstraitors2273  She is resentful of people who went away to college. It's understandable. The opportunity should not depend on having rich, coddling parents. Everyone who is qualified should have the opportunity. I went to school tuition-free abroad, where I was not a citizen.
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  13293.  @blackphillip564  People don't do that (community college plus state school) because they have a reasonable fear that they will never be able to compete with the private school and premier state university (California, Virginia, Wisconsin, Michigan, Texas) kids, and will end up un- or underemployed. Sadly, they have a point. Your idea about what they could do is nice. Too bad it doesn't work. (It should work, but oh well.) I've known CPAs who are baristas. When that happens, does the blame machine go into overdrive yet again?
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  13294.  @keithhogan7836  When I was born, plenty of grandchildren of slaves were still alive. They had someone who could tell them about it. Not to mention Douglas Backmon's evidence that de facto slavery ended during WWII. This argument against reparations won't wash. There may be reasons, but this ain't it.
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  13295. It's risking war. And that has a lot in common with the Bidens.
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  13296. Do you believe all the politicians actually took this? The Royals, perhaps.
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  13297. ​ @Savssmiles You are free to protest against Hamas.
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  13298. YOU FOUND HOW THEY ANNOUNCED THIS ASSASSINATION REFRESHING?? Sick society.
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  13299.  @chaosking911  Actually, I didn't have to think. Etiquette comes to me automatically. It was ingrained in me early. ;)
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  13300. When I said remember Phil_ando Castile, I got sense oared.
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  13301. EXCELLENT insight. No matter what a person's politics are, how can anyone miss Trump is LAZY and completely, pathologically self-involved? Why did he execute that Iranian general via (not very precise) drone strike? Trump had no idea who that man was. Someone flattered him, he signed off on it. The story of Trump.
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  13302. The way the reported kept looking at his phone was something between obnoxious and pathetic. Memorize your questions or use paper, and don't look down while your interviewee is speaking.
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  13303. @North Korea Is Best Korea I disagree. I draw a distinction between the handful of countries that voted with Russia in the UN, and those that quite pointedly abstained.
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  13304. @North Korea Is Best Korea You stated that the global South wants to blame war crimes only on the US, refusing to acknowledge the war crimes of others, and thus is simply a mirror image of those who ritualistically blame America's enemies alone. That was obviously wrong, and I could cite an example to prove it. Now is a good time to consider Mattias Desmet.
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  13305.  @Ricolas_Cage  I'm against these drugs. I don't know what you're asking.
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  13306. @AdolfTrudeau  It was about the tee shirt, and the legality of wearing it in a public school in light of Supreme Court precedent. You must not have listened. Or, you got emotional about the drugs and tuned out everything else.
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  13307. 13:37 I'd be starting to get real worried right about here.
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  13308.  @morgjones13  Numberphile is an elitist and a big, fat liar. Mathematical truths are universals. They are accessible to all, not just special initiates.
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  13309.  @ivanorozco4274  A classic isolating discourse: "Things aren't going well for you? They're going SUPER for me, tee hee!!!" Compare: "Things aren't going well for you? I'm really sorry to hear that. I remember a few years ago when ____ happened to me. It was hard for a while, then what I did was _____ . It took time, but it helped, and a few people came through for me, . . . things turned around, finally . . . Yeah. Doing pretty good. . . .Want to go out for a coffee sometime?" Yeah, you never hear that. Well, I do, but my friends are diverse.
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  13310. Why? The astrological chart for peak eclipse in Chicago was excellent. 😊
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  13311. All of this is constitutionally protected speech, and it's a disgrace to see it attacked from all sides now. If you want to spend your taxes on relitigating firmly settled law, which can have only one outcome, just to give publicity to a bunch of politicians, that's on you. They are fundraising on this. You are paying. I hope the thrill makes it worth it for you.
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  13312. Yes. Many are.
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  13313.  @jeansullivan3869  Me too.
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  13314.  @baredinkum  I said no such thing. I said his information was important, and needed to be conveyed in a clear manner, and that he talks as if he is minimizing the importance of his own research and investigative work -- as if everyone already knows all this stuff. I said I have no problem with commentary, AFTER clearly laying out the facts. Where did I call him names?
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  13315.  @baredinkum  Oh, I see. You addressed a comment to me that was supposed to be addressed to someone else. Amazing how precision in communication can be useful.
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  13316.  @serpico1616  It was repugnant and weird.
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  13317. Lee Fang is SO right -- there has been a very strange coalition of right-libertarians of the Reaganite stripe and certain self-styled leftists to end the necessary mental health treatments we must have for the vulnerable. In Chicago, the biggest mental health unit is the county jail.
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  13318. NO MORE undeclared war. NO MORE war without a universal draft.
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  13319. @Obso Erver Thank you. You are right in noticing that I have a tendancy to engage when nobody should. [Insert sheepish emoji]
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  13320.  @brentb5303  Their current unemployment is beyond their control, and they may not qualify for unemployment benefits if they just graduated.
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  13321.  @DisappointedBuddha  Guess who never went to college? And believes those goofy fraternity house movies, LOL.
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  13322. Nor do his children ever need to work like most people.
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  13323. This shows a deep mastery of the Hollywood War Movie genre.
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  13324. Obama didn't fire him. Trump didn't fire him. Biden won't fire him. Fascinating.
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  13325. The research mentioned near the end of this video is easy to find -- very easy. Must not say more.
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  13326. 😂😂😂
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  13327. Languages that have gender never put an "x" in place of a gender marker. This was imposed by English, which only rarely marks any gender (in third-person singular pronouns, where it can colloquially use gender-neutral "them" as singular).
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  13328.  Young Kekistani  Well, they replaced ample opportunities to study Spanish at our local open-enrollment state college with some of this rhetoric, as a cost-saving measure.
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  13329.  @RetroQueenGamer  Amen
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  13330. 14:20 Jimmy is right. 15:52 Absolutely.
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  13331. But honey, they are getting PAID for that. If it were only a bunch of dumb tweets . . . :/
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  13332. If he cannot imagine himself as a target, it isn't real. Good luck finding people of his generation who are markedly different and have the communications skills to host.
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  13333. Max is too much. "In a couple of weeks, there'll be another one," i.e., a faux outrage. So funny.
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  13334. The College Board sets the standard for curriculum and the AP test. The College Board is a private organization. The job of a governor is to ensure truth in advertising, not to censor. These are ELECTIVE courses. If the courses do lead to college credit, and there are teachers who want to teach and students who want to study, that is all that matters.
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  13335. "You feel." That is the key.
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  13336. @ryant115  It most certainly does. Creating a "hostile environment" in certain contexts, like in the workplace OR the classroom (which is a very high standard to meet, by the way, as it should be) does make the speech unprotected. One student or group of students cannot do this to another. I can appreciate that you don't know, but it's these well-paid administrators' job to know. They are supposed to come prepared. This was thrashed out during the Obama administration, when Title IX rules were at issue. I don't agree with the Obama Department of Education standards of proof, but the substantive rules adopting a modified Title VII standard for harassment are fine. In fact, this is what university administrators lobbied for! They can't articulate them now? Pfft.
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  13337. @norman_5623  No one denies this. Patient/therapist is a confidential relationship, for one thing, and you'd be right even if it weren't.
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  13338. @sankaratrucking5255  The issue wasn't demonstrations, it was personal attacks.
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  13339.  @subhadramahanta452  Because the first prime number is 2. The proof requires multiplying all the prime numbers up to P, the "greatest" prime number, by hypothesis. This leads to a contradiction, because ((2 x 3 x 5 x 7 x 11 x . . . x P) + 1) is greater than P and cannot be the product of any of the primes up to and including P.
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  13340.  @subhadramahanta452  It just takes getting used to doing proofs like this. There are better books on that today than there were when I studied mathematics.
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  13341.  @subhadramahanta452  excellent . . . you are welcome
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  13342. 💯
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  13343.  @tedmaloof234  Excuse me. Middle school.
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  13344. Can you be serious? At least Oprah finished college. This is getting absurd. No, not everybody can have a turn being president. A Secretary of Health and Human Services, or another cabinet position, okay, but even that is a bit of a stretch.
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  13345. 11:20 See? Under 30 seconds.
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  13346. ​ @utah_koidragon7117 Well, Musk has been one of their contractors. Could they decide not to continue to contract with him if he proves to be sufficiently unreliable in his agreements --- which he freely enters into, of course? She did mention support for NASA.
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  13347. ​ @polarxta2833 "She basically said," except she didn't. I wonder how many Musk fans used to praise Bill Gates. I'd laugh but it's tragic.
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  13348.  @utah_koidragon7117  Re: your most recent post 💯 I certainly do not disagree with a word. I mean, seriously, how?
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  13349.  @trybunt  Any subject that is tested using a timed, multiple-choice test runs the risk of being assessed the way OP said. And then . . . the teacher is obligated to teach to the test. OTOH, I hope you're right.
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  13350. ​ @kyle-ri5mz I gave a lot of details. Learn to read? Reading is fun.
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  13351. La Riva, because of Leonard Peltier.
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  13352. Exactly. No one did this guy a favor by letting him out, by the way.
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  13353. This is why teachers have unions. I suppose the first year is still unprotected.
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  13354. I love Cornel West.
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  13355. Of course a military officer knows MMT, pushed to its logical extreme, is absurd. That is because one part of the reason the US Dollar is the global reserve currency is the fact we have 800 bases in 70 countries. People who think that the global military presence plays zero part in dollar hegemony are naive.
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  13356. YES. This is what I've been asking. Were they selling naked shorts? Naked shorts are counterfeiting, PERIOD.
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  13357. Some of the language she used ("humanitarian") was drama queen, but the request itself was fine.
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  13358.  @huguesdepayen1  Well, your point that the economy is fragile is certainly right. The problem is, low wages are more likely to impede the recovery due to lack of effective demand. Low wages aren't just "an incentive" to hire. Workers who are broke and owe back rent are not going to be able to drive consumption. So businesses will have to close again. A fine line . . .
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  13359. Wow, almost as great as Qaddafi's torture killing, huh, Hillary? That's what this display reminded me of. Despicable woman.
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  13360. This was a crucial election. Good thing the DNC put forth outstanding candidates, or else we would've ended up Trump.
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  13361. Does anyone say true stuff on Twitter?
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  13362.  @nunyabusiness9056  Can you be serious? His extradition was just approved the other day.
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  13363.  @denniss3980  Great idea.
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  13364.  @franklin9400  Great! Then they won't mind! Making us pay their salary is obscene.
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  13365.  @franklin9400  How do you propose not giving them power? Do we have much to do with it? And what can Angela Marsden do? If she reopens, they WILL fine her and yank her liquor license -- which is hard to get back. She has done the most anyone could. Brilliant interview.
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  13366. It seems only against the variant they had. That's how it appears. :/
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  13367. Ironic. You were the sane one.
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  13368. Hm, we should look into it, but in general ADE causes a more severe case, rather than more rampant spread. So, it's doubtful. But real science looks into all the possibilities, absolutely.
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  13369. Agreed. Let's keep an open mind and study this.
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  13370.  @juliamihasastrology4427  Thought about this post again, when I was watching Dr. Didier Raoult last night. You were absolutely right to raise the question. No sign of ADE yet, but with Omicron, the protection provided by vaccination is so much less, and interminable boosters have not been shown to be safe. One booster doesn't provoke ADE. What would three do? No one knows. It was not tested.
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  13371.  @juliamihasastrology4427  Or, it could. If they just assume it can't . . . Yeesh.
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  13372. Yeah, I mean you raised the question. The answer has been no so far, but the question is important. I wish researchers were more transparent. They seem to be convinced that telling us to shut up and do as we're told is the only way. We'll have to watch for these discussions from top virologists.
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  13373. Some truth here, too. American exceptionalism strikes again.
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  13374. Now you know what Cenk is really like. But I admire your gratitude here. It's not "lying," it's acknowledgement. It was fine at the time.
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  13375. I was mad that people destroyed guitars, obviously.
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  13376. No she isn't.
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  13377. @TheDrewSaga I actually know a lawyer who lived with his parents until he was 40, then got married and had a new mansion built, in a relatively less expensive area. Retired at 55. (Italian immigrants, in case you were wondering. Relatively normal for his culture.)
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  13378.  @LKaramazov  My goodness yes.
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  13379. ​ @truthbearer7891 You can look up Chauvin's federal plea agreement and see what Chauvin pled guilty to. Federal court requires allocution, so Chauvin had to describe exactly what he himself agrees he did. I guess Candace missed that part? 😂 But she won't miss 💰 with this story.
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  13380. @utah_koidragon7117  That doesn't strike me as such a good example. It has been pressed over and over and OVER that "the risk of myocarditis from COVID is higher (and/or worse) than from the vaccine." My own doctor said it to me. (This is a young doctor. My doctor of nearly 40 years retired just before this fiasco.) As long as so many people still believe it, a newscaster has to bring it up. There is no other way to put it to rest. You can be sure MSM is still promoting it, full-throated. I wish this lying binge were over, but there is still money on the table, apparently. Anyway, back to reality. As for me, my (BIG) problem is that I REALLY need a new doctor. Nothing is easy to do anymore.
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  13381. What poor treatment do you refer to? The Canadian government didn't do anything to him, and he was a full professor at University of Toronto for as long as he wanted to be. Cambridge rescinded a fellowship, which was bogus, but that's in the UK. It had nothing to do with Canada.
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  13382.  @glendawarn6927  At least one politician opposed that bill after speaking with Dr. Peterson. The press is, well, the press. :(
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  13383. They did foresee it. It's not a big deal. Her party has moderated a lot, but its roots are pro-collaborationist. That's still a sensitive issue in France.
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  13384. Thank you!! Exactly.
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  13385.  @AnaLucia-wy2ii  No. If the Supreme Court holds that something is a constitutional right, then it is. We are not talking about intuiting Platonic forms. This is an empirical fact of how our constitutional system operates. Also, it does not mean the right cannot be cabined. Read some cases and see how that actually works.
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  13386. The doctors are monsters.
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  13387.  @kerwinbrown4180  What strikes me is how it shapes the personality almost every time. I wouldn't have believed it, either, ab initio.
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  13388.  @nemosays6337  LOL
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  13389.  @justingrimm6642  Sane people never joined either one. I'm here with a pseudonym (based on my real name) only to save videos, and only since the pandemic nonsense.
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  13390. Wait a second. Massive advertising on social media platforms must be defended? Why is loss of advertising a bad thing? Advertising is always manipulation.
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  13391. That does it. He gets my vote.
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  13392.  @norman_5623  Thank you. I am so surprised that no one seems to be clear on this. Even in Texas, the conditions you have to meet, such as attempting to use something less than lethal force, or proving that lethal force was necessary without trying other means first, ends up enriching criminal defense lawyers. (The offender won't get your property, but the lawyer will get a chunk.) Various Castle Doctrine laws have to do with occupied structures. In lots of states, you have no obligation to wait and see who is breaking into your house while you are at home, much less waiting to see whether that intruder is armed. You are presumed to be defending your life and limb, and you can use deadly force. It will not matter that the person turned out to be unarmed or under 18. :/ When a drunken kid tries to break into a house he thinks he has a right to enter, and he gets killed that way, people act surprised, but the truth is, the person inside the home is presumed to be defending himself and had a legal right to shoot. I know one kid in Colorado died right in the doorway, but the homeowner was with an infant and was not legally in the wrong (we can talk about ethics separately). The kid broke in. That is a tragedy. A nation full of gun owners doesn't know the rules. I'm shocked every day. Shoot me now, put me out of my misery. ;(
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  13393. Cenk. Why does someone send a DM to someone who harassed them, to let him know that he was about to be denounced for that harassment? Why don't they just denounce the harassment? Isn't that simpler?
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  13394. The irony of having him talk about "merit hiring" is well beyond any surrealism I've ever seen.
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  13395. The degree of censorship does make it appear we are moving toward world war.
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  13396. A Glenn Greenwald podcast is the only place where I can exhale.
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  13397. He's not. He's a left libertarian. That is very different. Well, you saw for yourself.
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  13398. Glenn Greenwald just posted a very short excerpt of Victoria Nuland testifying on the Ukrainian biolabs, which, oddly enough, were funded through the US DOD, not the NIH. Familiar trajectory: Biolabs in Ukraine is a conspiracy theory. Biolabs in Ukraine is Russian misinformation. Biolab funding is to make sure dangerous pathogens are destroyed. Biolab funding is in one place only, and is purely peaceful. Biolab funding is by the US Department of Defense, in its threat reduction initiative. Biolab funding is in six labs, at least, for the purpose of comprehensive threat reduction. Biolab funding by DOD exists throughout Ukraine, to reduce the threat. "Putin puppet!!!"
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  13399.  @Iris-hx6ox  Yes remote education is bad. Not only bad; a disaster.
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  13400. Is the r-word "rich sociopath?" It will be soon. 8:20 10:54
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  13401. Sometimes a ferret is just a ferret.
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  13402. ​ @oboogie2 There is nobe. It's about feelings.
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  13403. Every engineer I know uses a flip phone. I am serious.
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  13404. At least the politicians who brought us here will not be rewarded with reelection. At least that much.
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  13405. The response outside of the West was quite varied.
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  13406.  @kundalini1953  To force escalation, in which case the US has the upper hand over all others. You don't think they care about the people? They care about who wins purely based on the effect it will have on its own ability to control the natural resources in the region.
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  13407. Fauci and Trump were the most obvious good cop bad cop routine I have ever seen.
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  13408.  @MrToontuber  oh trust me
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  13409.  @lyndakorner2383  A truly thinking person can resist the temptation to lean.
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  13410. He's not blocking the tracking. He's blocking the posting. Whoever tracked him before still can, and text it to their nefarious associates. Think about, like, technology and stuff.
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  13411.  @drichards4426  I think we should debate that. I don't have a position because I haven't given it the thought it obviously merits. It strikes me as problematic.
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  13412.  @drichards4426  My cousins in Europe can track my commercial flight, with software anyone there can have. They live in a NATO member country.
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  13413.  @brendansherry8737  The baker won his case on narrower grounds: they didn't reach the First Amendment issue because he was never accorded his due process rights to challenge the rule applied against him by the Colorado commission. So, in a certain way, that case was a lot worse -- when someone challenges a rule on First Amendment grounds, they should receive the process that is due to them, for an issue of that importance.
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  13414. @zachstone6717  💯
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  13415.  @marieroxylox1456  1. "Gender Studies" (the new name for Women's Studies) degrees are rarities, accounting for about 0.5 to 2% of all degrees. The others you mention are relatively uncommon degrees as well, compared to Business, and they lead most often to Law School. "Gender Studies" may be a pre-law degree as well, or the person may go on to an MFA, MPL, etc. Or, doctorates, of course, and then writing books (there is little point to a PhD if you aren't going to write actual books, plural, although some historians and political scientists do work as civil servants for the State Department). Gender Studies is not usually a terminal degree that can lead to a job, true enough, the way an EE degree pretty well always will. In short, the degrees you mention have nothing to do with the prohibitive cost of higher education, or make much difference concerning anyone's inability to pay back their loan. Sorry for knowing stuff. You're right, it is useless. And worse than futile. Why did I even write this? I clearly had the wrong major.
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  13416.  @ubiquitousdiabolus  Well, people with those degrees typically go on to get an MSW, an MFA, a Master's in Education, a JD, or even an MPA or MBA (if they took enough math). Or they go to college primarily for social reasons, then get a paralegal certificate, or they train in one of the med/tech fields, and get hired before those without the BA. Yes, I know people like that. Yes, a major hospital will hire a person with any BA plus certification to operate the MRI machine or to give mammograms before they will hire someone from community college. Fair or not, it's simply true. A friend who was a Marine and then got an art degree from one of the best schools in the world now sets up communications infrastructure (anything and everything to do with connecting to the Internet, etc.) and they fly him out all around the country to do the work spectacularly well, and make it LOOK NICE, too. Hectoring kids into majoring in Business or Nursing when they don't want to is the mistake. You have to like what you're doing to do it well.
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  13417. Biden is heavy competition.
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  13418. Authenticity is always an issue. Gaslighting is a well-known tactic, planting a fake document to make it appear that those who believe what it proports to prove are the crazies. Emily's take is real good. So is Ryan's, after a whole lot of bumbling, if you listen to the end.
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  13419. @paulgibbon5991  I hope they let you see my answer. It has the name of a Real Case in it, that could be consulted. Our free speech monitor algos aren't too keen on stuff like that.
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  13420. You certainly need to put your noses in another marriage.
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  13421. Are you kidding? That would be an improvement from this new low!
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  13422.  @edward_3ps4  Robby did not have facts this time. But the real problem is that the people at the hearing, whose job it was to be meticulously prepared, didn't either.
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  13423. NFP is the only group that is nothing like Republicans or Democrats. Le Pen got 33% in the first round, and about 37 or 38% in the second, this Sunday. So, 60%+ do not vote for her.
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  13424.  @Rob_Jacobs  When you consider that Bill Clinton wasn't even deterred from pursuing a close relationship with JEFFREY EPSTEIN, I think we can deduce who was the cynical, manipulative snake in this picture. This does not absolve Lewinsky by any stretch. But it puts stuff into perspective, hm? Title VII, by the way, is written the way it is for a reason.
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  13425. Worse than that. Liz Magill is considered an eminent legal scholar. She clerked for Justice Ginsberg. I was stunned. She did a poor job, let's be honest.
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  13426. ​ @jakes658 😅😅😅 no
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  13427.  @JustXavier  It was a great post. I actually don't think it was just for show. It rang sincere.
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  13428.  @colinebied-charreton1343  Megyn went to court? Major whining. EXPENSIVE whining.
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  13429. @jamad-y7m  Sure she has standards, spelled M O N E Y.
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  13430. @junior-corradosoprano9435  Oh, so taking up expensive government resources by going to court is praiseworthy, but self-help is "whining?" I remember hearing the opposite.
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  13431.  @SeminarioMAE  Right. Turning to the power of the government for help is fine now. DIY is blameworthy.
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  13432.  @geoffy8245  She took action that cost every American money.
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  13433. @foropt  Megyn Kelly cannot stand any woman younger than her. 😂😂😂
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  13434. ​ @gagibakija4825 Yes, this is what deserves applause! This OP.
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  13435. They're all like that. In fact, they smear every working-class ethnic. When all else fails, they whisper you're fascist. That annoys me so much. At least call me a commie. Get closer to the truth.
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  13436. Gee. I wonder why? Oh! Maybe you can make billions by doing the wrong thing! And go bankrupt by doing the right thing. 😢 Could that be it?
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  13437.  @ICDeadPeeps  I strongly suspect no one has unbiased, uncurated reporting on this. I do not believe it is possible. We don't know the truth about Wuhan, remember??
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  13438. Thank you for that.
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  13439.  @elizabethsmusicandarts1590  So sorry to hear. Hope you are taking great care of yourself now.
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  13440.  @real-patriot-b9j  I agree with that 100%. I couldn't read that from your first post. Anyway, your point is scientifically sound. The new "no mask needed" business is more politics, not public health.
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  13441. @pau8727  Of course it's not impossible! It's an issue of money -- a lawyer may not take it for a small recovery.
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  13442. His Secret Service protection is on our tab.
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  13443.  @bobmex5362  Innocent people are thrown in jail all the time. That's the real reason Brie isn't all gung-ho on these mass prosecutions.
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  13444. Videos
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  13445. I have a friend who is from Ukraine. I told him from day one that my door is open to his family, absolutely any time. If they have nowhere to go, they can always come live with me. So tell me, did you do that, too? Or is your "moral compass" pointing toward more war?
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  13446.  @parallax9281  Well said.
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  13447. She said that was wrong, and distinct from the economics of the movie set. Listen next time.
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  13448. Any of us can click the link to the Australian government website and see for ourselves that it was discontinued three weeks ago due to a serious side effect attributed to the vaccine: thrombosis with thrombocytopenia (TTS), and is no longer in use there, for anyone.
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  13449.  @sliceoflife5812  None of this is relevant to the legal analysis. You're as bad as the people you are chiding.
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  13450.  @thomasm1964  I hope you can see my reply.
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  13451.  @robertwalker7010  Jimmy's doctor strongly urged him to get vaccinated. Honest mistake. Clapton is the age where it makes sense, AND he did not take an mRNA vaccine. Also an honest mistake. They were both reasonable in what they chose.
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  13452. Does Newsweek lose money or make money on this one?
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  13453.  @ZachMorris2035  I agree. I'm not paid to teach you.
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  13454.  @4foxsake571  Your rebuttal of Findland is specious. Would that New York City public schools were as good as Finland's worst!
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  13455.  @4foxsake571  Yes, there is already ample data on charter schools. I grant you, I know of no large-scale attempt to introduce vouchers in an urban school district. At most, different foundations have tried funding enriched educational programs for a small group (small relative to a typical urban school district), and it often does work. Making kids "feel special" is sometimes all you need to excite them and motivate them.
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  13456.  @4foxsake571  You know, we've already got vastly unequal educational opportunities and huge differences among communities in how much they value education. I don't know what to do about it. The people who believe that the single worst problem is the failure to identify and develop talent have a good reason to support vouchers and charter schools. They would probably serve most talented students better than the current system does, but that wouldn't serve all of them, would undoubtedly harm a handful beyond what they're already suffering, and would do nothing to stem inequality of opportunity or raise general standards. I don't pretend to know. How did the New York public schools of Harlem educate a James Baldwin? Today, Harlem is gentrified and the schools aren't as good as they were in his day.
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  13457. ​ @irinab7524 Sounds like someone who deals in defamatory labels rather than thinking for themselves.
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  13458. Maybe the point is NOT to accomplish anything of substance?
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  13459. ​ @BonRain8734 Oh yeah? Read any of it? America is into fat pay for soft skills. 😂
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  13460. ​ @williamsmith8271  Why did my standardized test scores soar when I moved to France and studied philosophy and Ancient Greek in French? 🤔
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  13461. I cannot believe this is constitutional.
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  13462.  @oceania2385  And I repeat that I believe it will be struck down as unconstitutional. That this insanity was passed in the first place should be shocking but isn't. :/
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  13463. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  13464. ​ @SN00PICUS No it is not better quality food than most people in the world have access to. Don't confuse poor nutrition and malnutrition/starvation.
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  13465. What makes you think this decision will affect you? I agree with the decision. But I have no illusions about it. It will do nothing to improve my life one iota in any way whatsoever.
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  13466. Someone might have planted it to _____ up RFK Jr. That sounds most likely to me. You cannot use 1488 as a license plate in my state. I agree with Briahna and her insights about campaign staffers, as well as her remarks on Israel and antisemitism. Very insightful.
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  13467. I have two questions: Is selling naked shorts still illegal? Do the hedge funds do it anyway? Some way they can structure it to avoid detection, penalties, etc.? Because that stuff is very dangerous. The shortsellers end up shorting "hypothetical" shares they didn't really borrow, and that no one could loan them. It's a way of counterfeiting shares, functionally.
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  13468.  @TheZodiacz  🤣🤣🤣 Think of the inflation.
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  13469.  @sdrc92126  Yes I do know what Nixon did in 1971. You have a point. The ramifications weren't, of course, felt immediately.
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  13470. "It's all about the Mean Tweets!!"
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  13471. BTW, Court Listener has all the key documents posted online, available in pdf.
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  13472. Anyone who signs bombs has nothing to say about Trump's rudeness.
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  13473. Fictional, of course. I think of the people they assassinated. That's why I respect this lady -- it's obvious no one could get her to do such a thing.
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  13474. P. S. Obviously, the idea is to have enough written in your planner that you DO NOT NEED your phone/tablet/laptop. If I don't write things down, I will need my tech.
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  13475.  @jonmeyer7402  Matt Walsh isn't here. You attacked some private person. If you hate being labeled that way, why wouldn't they? Blocked.
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  13476. I consider Trump despicable, and TDS is usually even worse.
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  13477. The worst is that Chris had to admit guilt! Unbelievable!!
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  13478. Rogan's point is that there are many things that you were banned for saying, that turned out to be perfectly valid positions. You have to be open to real debate and discussion, and to have the sincerity and humility to admit when you do not know, rather than to browbeat and bully people who don't accept your current take.
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  13479. @Abu Mohandes The reason they would respect is is the only reason anyone does: they want their diplomats to have the very same privileges abroad.
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  13480. So it is systems, not individuals, huh? 😅
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  13481.  @timw8649  Where do you get your crazy talking points? Whoever told you this stuff lied to you, and very likely made money doing it. The Trump DOJ indicted Bannon. Or, who did you think was in charge when the indictment was handed down? William Barr.
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  13482.  @highpriestofgavinalmightyh1304  I guess you don't understand the concept of default then. I hope the issue will be thrashed out on appeal. If you're referring to his defense attorney's release of confidential material to the plaintiffs, he can be held liable for that. It is gross malpractice.
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  13483. Ironic that moving a decimal point is a major source of serious hospital error, and . . . Graham moves the decimal point.
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  13484. Mine, too. I walked to school four times a day, morning, for lunch break, and at the end of the day. Not only that, my parents took me to Los Angeles on Route 66 in the back seat of a used Chevy with a rebuilt engine and no AC. We had an open umbrella in the back to keep the sun out of my eyes. No seat belts. Chicago girl, Jimmy's generation.
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  13485. Because Americans have a constitutional right to dictate Russia's military funding. Er . . . I think there is only one government they can petition in the (vain?) hope of influencing. As a matter of fact, Chris Hedges has been unequivocal in condemning Putin's escalation of these hostilities to the point of all-out war against Ukraine.
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  13486.  @johnsmith1474  Are you kidding? I'd go a lot of places for free housing.
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  13487. 9:10 Dude is brilliant.
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  13488.  @Varun-vv9mi  Why did they wrongly report on the murder of Samuel Paty, as I already noted? It was a comment to the story from a reader in France that corrected their glaring omissions. You didn't answer that, before condescending. How quaint of you.
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  13489.  @Varun-vv9mi  You said I still "don't get it." You said that if I don't accept your misleading statements about the Mueller investigation as fact, then I "don't accept reality." Now you're flailing. That was too easy.
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  13490. Now you know why there are still troops in the streets of Washington DC.
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  13491. "What the railroad felt should be done." Railroads have feelings. Children growing up in this town? Not so much?
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  13492. There is also a lot of random scents or ship. It increases engagement. I'm serious. It's a well-known fact of behaviorist psychology.
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  13493. I wonder what it's like to have had opportunities. Maybe not having them leads to a different form of inner strength. To me, it is always a matter of a problem that I have got to solve, and a matter of being cautious not to sabotage myself by accepting the same view of my value as the people who denied me opportunities had of me. The hardest part is perceiving accurately whether you deserved the opportunity or not. It's possible I didn't. It's more likely someone else saw me as competition. I see that happen to others all the time. But in truth, I usually don't know. It could be they simply favored a friend, which had nothing at all to do with me. Nothing sinister going on.
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  13494. Is stating that the Donbass has been attacked for 8 years by Azov Battalion dominated militias "blaming the victim?" Because Azov Battalion are the victims?
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  13495.  @wmn682  Let's hope.
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  13496. Wow. I didn't think there was any way to make Ana look less bad. But there is. NOW we know why all neolibs secretly love Trump.
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  13497. "Truth" is what you are paid to say. More money, more truth.
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  13498.  @peterstafford4426  I agree Trump hates the US, especially now that he lost. He defaults to hate pretty easily.
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  13499. That cover is jarring but I have to admire it.
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  13500.  @johnandersen6752  Cofactors are always present in human illness and health. Paralytic polio is primarily a disease of those living in overly sanitized conditions. But that describes every kid that didn't go out and play in the dirt. The history of how this was established is fascinating.
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  13501.  @youtubesucks1499  What I said, bro.
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  13502.  @brucepierson9941  I read it. Your point?
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  13503. Whatever tiny advantage Trump had in getting sick himself was instantly jettisoned. Face it, he IS Caligula. He's even more impaired than Biden.
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  13504. I can't fathom why someone would broadcast this, or permit a reporter to come into their home.
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  13505.  @Hank-ch5qr  "Mr. Walker had one traffic ticket and no criminal record. He graduated from Buchtel High School in Akron, where he was on the wrestling team. He was working as a driver for DoorDash and dreamed of one day opening his own business, Mr. DiCello said. About a month ago, his girlfriend died in a car accident." The attorney, DiCello, reported this to the press.
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  13506.  @chasca23  Yeah, that's pretty significant. 😉
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  13507. Did anyone actually call Tucker himself or his show "fringe" in the first place? He has given voice to some people who espouse fringe views, and who didn't used to be seen on major networks. But that had already changed, and you see more of that stuff everywhere now.
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  13508. Tremendous scoop. Admire you, Aaron!
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  13509. I love how you put this. Thanks.
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  13510. Dr. Grande, please do a personality analysis of people who trust someone like Celeste and marry such people, making them their next-of-kin.
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  13511. Are we financing them, too?
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  13512. The question was genuine. We did finance bin Laden.
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  13513.  @ASheepNoMore  I suggest you look more closely. The survival rate is much higher in people under 40, but in men 50 and over it is already worse. Did you know that? In women who are normal weight with no underlying issues, the virus becomes dangerous after 70. Then there are aftereffects from having COVID. My friend's brother developed blood clots from COVID, including in his lungs, and he was in excellent health. Women get less sick, but are sick longer, with greater risk of depression and cognitive problems. This is true. It's not their imagination, there is a BIG sex difference in response to COVID and to COVID vaccines across the board. I have questions, I do hesitate pending full FDA approval, and am paying attention, but I am not opposed to vaccination. We get flu shots, and we KNOW that COVID is at least ten times more dangerous, easily.
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  13514. You know, literally lying about what someone said -- literally bearing false witness -- has become a much bigger social problem at this point than any of this other stuff. What goes around comes around. Be sure of it.
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  13515.  @colinfffff  I agree. The specific charge made against Aaron, and the fact that he's a journalist by profession, which means tangible damages are presumed (not to mention what Glenn said about this type of charge having the potential to put a war correspondent in danger), should be sufficient to give rise to a lawsuit. Enough is enough.
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  13516. So that's what happened.
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  13517. Oh of course, take revenge. Lawfare. We need more. Because it can never be turned against the people you support . . . /s
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  13518. @pastandcurrent I can't tell you how happy that would make me . . . If it were true.
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  13519. Hm. Now that's a tough one.
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  13520. This is 2022. I'm not laughing any more.
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  13521. They shut down my state in mid-MARCH, and did not reopen until JUNE. A gush of money to big pharma and big tech, unseen in history. Had they tried a hard shutdown for two or three weeks in late January, like some smaller Asian countries did, it might have had some benefit, or at least logic. There was no rational reason to do it in MARCH. No one can possibly account for this . . . unless it's about 💰.
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  13522. That is not an unusual claim, by a psychopath.
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  13523.  @cheatednomore6430  I think you're right.
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  13524.  @emersonmanning6523  Found it. Independent investigation of the Moab Police response to them, the day they were pulled over. Thanks, will read.
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  13525.  @cheatednomore6430  Whoa. What do you imagine I said? It's all there. Nothing was censored. I questioned the evidence for certain claims, and it was clearly pointed out to me where to find that evidence. Do rational discussions upset you? If so, download this thread and take it to a trusted counselor.
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  13526.  @emersonmanning6523  I see there's a dispute as to whether either one was on medication, or prescribed any medication they refused to take. I wish this were more clearly reported, in all cases of violence by teens and young adults. I realize it may be misinterpreted and stigmatizing, but . . . There are too many cases. They have questions to answer. There has to be some way to address the issue without violating privacy. So many kids are given medication, and so many are noncompliant, that more studies need to be done. They finally admitted SSRIs in teens, especially younger teens, can trigger suicide. Oh great. /s A lot of mass shootings by young men were clearly murder-suicide, by the way. Does that mean something? (Does anyone know?) Should anyone be on these drugs without seeing a psychiatrist at least twice a month -- especially someone under 25?? Or a MINOR? (Does insurance decide?) SMH
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  13527.  @cheatednomore6430  Okay. I finally realized that, too.
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  13528. Stop with obfuscating the marginal value of a dollar. A dollar is not a rigid yardstick. $1000 to someone in the bottom two quintiles (of earnings or net worth) has an entirely different value than it does to someone in the top 10%. A multimillionaire cannot usually tell you their net worth in financial assets to the nearest $1000, or even the nearest $10,000. These fluctuations make no difference to the richest, yet can force the poorest into bankruptcy. Anyone who doesn't spell this out is not telling you the truth.
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  13529. Other segment
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  13530. There you go, being logical and thoughtful.
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  13531. David Pakman is David Pakman's friend.
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  13532. Ew, great image!
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  13533. Knowing is not illegal. Lying is.
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  13534.  @TheWutangclan1995  Knowing and remaining silent is NOT illegal. Everything immoral is not illegal.
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  13535. Entirely true -- and this guy provides no corrective. He just wants different dogma. And he is cashing in on denouncing DEI in the meantime, of course. Get that buck. Oops, he mispronounced "pablum." 😂
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  13536.  @krillin876  You "guarantee?" You have a solid record for checking your claims.
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  13537. If this occurred while Hegseth was in active service, AND under a military law that made infidelity illegal, then it is relevant.
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  13538. Rather than celebrating that this horrible virus does not hurt most children, adolescents, and young adults, we ruined their lives and treated them like disease vectors.
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  13539. Like father, like daughter.
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  13540.  @Daniel_Capital  I'm not justifying impossible court orders -- of course they do nothing but create incentives like this. But there are two other facts here: he spent a lot on relitigating the divorce and child support: did it occur to him to consult a bankruptcy attorney? Would that have stymied him in his career? Second, the youngest was 14. Four years was light at the end of a tunnel. Four years is a lot, but a lot can happen in four years, too. You don't deprive three girls of their mom over it.
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  13541.  @Daniel_Capital  A purse snatching is like murdering the mother of your girls? No. It's nothing like that.
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  13542.  @stevennurahmed5105  You know, that provokes a visceral reaction (fear, for one), but once that dissipates, I cannot say that you "must be" wrong. Contrary to some popular interpretations, Marx never believed that what you've said is strictly impossible. And if he did, he was very likely wrong. Yup. That could happen all right. :/
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  13543. 23:37 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  13544.  @AliceMcDonagh  People who actually know what defamation is are not sane?
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  13545.  @donnybrooks71  People whose flex is to call someone else a "loser" are very, very touchy about something or other themselves. 😂 I wonder what it might be?
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  13546. @wisemanofsorts6068  1. They make up MUCH more than that, and make a sizable contribution to profit margins (which were nonexistent until recently). 2. They are a creation of the regulatory state. We all pay for said regulatory state. But I'm not complaining. Musk is, laughably enough.
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  13547. She is highly qualified. Biden is the unqualified one.
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  13548.  @SuperJMichael  Speaking of slavery, America just brought it back to Libya, but anyway . . . The American "left" did that -- which is (still) the "right" everywhere else.
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  13549. He's 55. He had horrible problems with medical bills in his life, up until relatively recently. He's the youngest of 12 kids, from Chicago. South Side. What do you think houses cost in LA? It sounds like he made a good deal. He has also lived in a modest bungalow up until now.
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  13550. She's a snugglie. Isn't that like a furry?
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  13551.  @josephclements2145  That's not funny.
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  13552.  @josephclements2145  Anyone who thinks this is not Epstein's joint, still, is overly optimistic.
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  13553. Her excellent judgment. /s
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  13554.  @nosmoking5262  I have no problem with calling him to account. Was his perfidy in the context of a legal claim, rather than a political one, for which at least in principle he is accountable to voters? (This may make a difference, hm?) But back to the real point, I have no problem whatsoever calling him to account for his hatemongering and Slavophobia. None at all.
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  13555. Twitter was always criticized. Now it is known how bad it really was.
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  13556.  @danielv.5988  I give them credit for not feeling homicidal.
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  13557. ​ @Davinia77 Which vaccines are mandated for school in California?
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  13558.  @jodihouts6032  Well, the problem is that we do not know -- nor can we count on accurate information. John Campbell just did a video on excess non-COVID mortality in the UK, where demands for official investigation have been made through all the "proper" channels. If we do find out, I expect a different country to take the lead.
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  13559. ​ @JayJay5244  this
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  13560. Sabby comes well-prepared EVERY time.
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  13561. Did anyone -- anyone -- SEE THIS COMING??
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  13562.  @jazzypoo7960  "BlackRock owns the meme."
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  13563. So the voters (= rich lobbies?) should decide for individual women? They should decide for the 10 year old child who turned out to be real, or for Epstein's victims?
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  13564.  @Johnbg-e5l  At 8 weeks, it is an embryo. Pregnancy can be detected very early now, and RU486 is safe, effective, and private.
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  13565.  @emiliavenka  Should anyone vote on whether you must take a vaccine, with no way to opt out unless you are independently wealthy and can live in your own compound without working? Other people are reasonable. They will decide for you.
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  13566.  Professional Fangster  Because he was . . . black?
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  13567. Job requirement.
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  13568. Hannah Arendt on fascism. Read a book. Try. Take it real slow.
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  13569. She never heard of Munchausen by proxy?
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  13570. Are you sure none of those are spoofs or false flags? All vetted?
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  13571. Wake up to? Can you be serious? You do every day.
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  13572. Martial. "Marshall" is usually a name.
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  13573.  @gerryobrien2696  There, their. ;)
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  13574. What a president/ex-president says, true or not, is NEWS. Similarly for a former Secretary of State. Hence, Hillary Clinton's claims about Putin having influenced the election in favor of Trump is news.
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  13575. Your post made me reflect on my excess book buying lately. I wrote separately about it.
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  13576.  @Teremei  Watch when he has Max Blumenthal on. Which is often lately.
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  13577.  @thomas2082  I've never seen a channel where people communicate so much in slogans. It's like a parody of a struggle session.
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  13578. I guess the New Asexuals can think nothing else.
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  13579.  @OutragedPufferfish  Then no one can ever say those words to anyone, at any time, for any reason, and escape self-contradiction. Are you sure you've thought this through? Russell solved the problem with the Theory of Types. Check it out.
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  13580. I saw Matt Kennard's Twitter feed. Now I understand the push to censor.
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  13581. No, she said she didn't. The rest of what she said was nonsense, but she never was competitive for sports scholarships.
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  13582.  @MjFars  Mais ils ont raison, eux.
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  13583. 💯 false
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  13584.  @burntupretardporn  Or maybe last decade?
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  13585.  @terryw6601  OH GIVE ME A BREAK. Like there wasn't enough thrown at him? He was a narcissist and an incompetent. He never once tried to make a case. The only thing he ever did was "say the quiet part out loud." Remember when he said he wanted all Americans to have access to the COVID treatment he had, which may have actually saved his life and certainly saved his health? Right. We STILL don't.
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  13586.  @rumples2698  Monoclonal antibodies
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  13587.  @awaynow  I'm opposed to any treatment of a minor, especially a prepubescent child, that could deprive them of the choice to become birth parents someday. That opportunity is a fundamental right, and needs to be preserved unless every other possible therapy except gender reassignment was tried and failed to work -- and by then, they may be old enough to decide for themselves. I think the idea that trans people can be deprived of their reproductive rights while still minors, and that it is being couched as some sort of great advance in "freedom" or "privacy," is very sinister. How do you not see through this?
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  13588. FBI should debrief Gates, Prince Andrew should come to an agreement to speak with UK's intelligence services. SIMPLE
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  13589. Or, say, five.
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  13590. Why don't these people learn to write novels? No, I mean it.
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  13591. That's what she said.
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  13592. Artists engrossed in a project will tune out everyone and be narcissistic for a period of time. They often have to rebuild relationships when the project is completed. I don't think that type of narcissism is "bad." It is a problem, but consider the big picture.
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  13593. No, exactly the opposite.
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  13594. I honestly didn't think this was mocking. If it was, then I agree. His story of how that happened is not entirely clear and seems to contradict a lot of his own message. But when someone cannot live by their own credo and they admit it honestly and without shame, then yes, a real hug is in order.
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  13595.  @mejdirr276  Nice points
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  13596.  @silasbishop3055  Thanks for replying, now I can block you.
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  13597.  @DannoOMG  LOL, good one . . .
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  13598. Brilliant point.
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  13599. In a more literary-minded generation, the CIA secretly started various journals and published some prominent writers, as psy-ops against the USSR. See Stonor Saunders. Phenomenal work!
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  13600. 1. Gates first visited Africa in the 1990s. 2. The Gates Foundation gives the biggest gifts to corporations in the Foundation's stock portfolio. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bill-gates-foundation-philanthropy/ 3. He has so much money he can influence global health care, without oversight. Same for education. Funny, they were pushing online education for years . . . And here it is. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/04/16/um-who-are-melinda-bill-gates-trying-kid/ https://www.politico.eu/article/bill-gates-who-most-powerful-doctor/ https://www.devex.com/news/big-concerns-over-gates-foundation-s-potential-to-become-largest-who-donor-97377
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  13601. Well but he WANTED to.
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  13602. All of the final pool from which they draw the students they will admit are eminently qualified. That's what this fight is really about -- there are far, far fewer seats than there are truly qualified applicants, of any race. Also, you might not be aware of this, but at Harvard, "blacks" are often children of African immigrants or are actually Africans themselves. Children of prominent Africans are often admitted to Harvard, another Ivy, or Oxford, or Cambridge. Congrats on your college career. That's a perfect strategy.
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  13603. 💯 THIS is key. The lack of informed consent was unconscionable. The coercion was unconscionable.
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  13604. Right. She said it was flat-out misinformation.
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  13605. Complete with federal provocateurs
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  13606. Mattias Desmet is proved right again, sadly.
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  13607. Or forces you to talk. Congress cannot suspend the RIGHT to remain silent.
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  13608. Con$equence$? Well, the u$ual one$.
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  13609. The only question I have is, how surprised should we be?
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  13610.  @cupiduspacis4209  Thanks for mentioning this. I heard that broadcast but had forgotten.
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  13611.  @eddycurrents8073  Sure, Bub.
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  13612.  @eddycurrents8073  Like I said, ad hom. You proved my point.
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  13613.  @eddycurrents8073  Thanks for responding directly. Now I can mute you.
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  13614. What if she looks like Brie?
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  13615.  @stud6414  You must be part of the latest mob, and don't know it.
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  13616.  @philyoosays  If these facts about Depp were developed in a court, in a free country with a solid judicial system, then Heard isn't like Smollett, who did no such thing. We have a mob forming again. It just finds new targets, without much rhyme or reason. Your country, your problem.
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  13617.  @infernodtw2423  If Depp was emotionally abusive, more than trivially, and more than in response to provocation, the article is not defamatory. It's free speech.
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  13618. Thank you.
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  13619. Ye is being exploited, but he seems not to know by whom or how to fight back. He is very intelligent and talented, which is obscured by a very serious mental illness he suffers from, and he is being treated like a carnival freak. His life is in danger because of his bipolar disorder, and people are more fixated on parsing this outrageous statement or that outrageous statement. The man is not well. Someone should care.
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  13620. She never suggested that. She has not and will not vote for Biden.
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  13621.  @mayoite160  Of course not. Gabbard just targetted some of our staunchest allies, all right-wing governments, of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey (a NATO member). That was the real shock.
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  13622. He's not winning, LOL.
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  13623. Not getting vaccinated worked for me. Female vegetarians of healthy weight have milder COVID, as a rule.
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  13624. ​ @keithparker1346 Up until recently I would have agreed wholeheartedly. Now I think the DNC and their ilk, especially in the Five Eyes, are most responsible for the rise of fascism.
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  13625. So, a whole thread is going to accuse Krystal of something she did not say? Hey, great response to THIS story.
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  13626.  @adosjustice3242  Who is talking about racism against whites? There is no such thing. There is classism, however. It usually affects blacks much more than whites. This time, it happened to be whites.
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  13627. Then they don't have far to go.
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  13628. What conclusion do you mean?
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  13629. He can do that, and idiots can stop worshiping him as well. That could happen.
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  13630.  @franklin9400  Frame WHAT?
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  13631.  @BrianelSuperMacho  I did, and someone had it removed. Why should I bother to speak to you? You, in your great wisdom and tolerance for all viewpoints, pronounced me in need of medical care.
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  13632.  @BrianelSuperMacho  I already said enough in any event. Go back and read slowly. Anti-Semitism was a form of racism. It has zero to do with, for example, the way YOU "dehumanized" me when you suggested medical treatment, and said that nothing I wrote was worth responding to. Strike a blow against dehumanization, why don't you? What a laugh.
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  13633.  @BrianelSuperMacho  Not only do you all confirm my worst suspicions, you confirm suspicions I haven't had yet. "No matter how cynical you get, you just can't keep up." -- Lilly Tomlin (possibly paraphrased )
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  13634.  @ewaldbracko1534  It's "the left" that shot up a synagogue? "The left" targetted a black church, and killed all the people who said to the gunman, "sit down with us and let's pray together?" Who is saying "good riddance" every time someone like George Zimmerman or Kyle Rittenhouse picks up a gun and shoots it? (For that matter, who started the rumor that the Sandy Hook school massacre was faked?) Neolibs are playing a lame and mindless game with advertising memes, and they need to be stopped from trying to ruin careers over such nonsense, I'll agree with you there. Zero comparison with the Nazis.
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  13635.  @ewaldbracko1534  Because political violence is not comparable to racially-motivated genocide.
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  13636.  @ewaldbracko1534  I don't "lean into" anything. (Where did you get that slogan? LOL) I don't care about American "ideological camps," and literally none of them reflect my beliefs. My family is not in America, and I need to join them as soon as I am financially able. You've invented a story in your head.
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  13637.  @ewaldbracko1534  Oh, and if you are against "demonization," you have a funny way of showing it. WHO in this thread was subjected to ad hominem -- bizarre ad hominem at that? I was. So brave of you to criticize it. /s And WHO was it who labelled "the left" as being to blame for the polarization? You did. Now, it's suddenly both sides -- but my fault more than yours(!) The truly sad thing is that people will agree with you, because your way of demonizing one side for the supposed sin of demonizing the other will appeal to people's emotions. They won't see that you're doing precisely what you claim to stand against. All effective agitprop has this feature. It's quite perfect. DNC uses it all the time, as does RNC.
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  13638.  @ewaldbracko1534  Systematic genocide based on a spurious racial theory has nothing to do with political "demonization" of equally powerful parties and coalitions that regularly trade political power. Gina asked rhetorically "what's the difference . . . ?" That is the difference. It is not as if the Nazis could have picked just any scapegoat. They picked the one they did for a reason. They don't teach that any more in German schools?
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  13639.  @BrianelSuperMacho  I wouldn't have fired her for this, either. How funny. All the firing did was amplify her historically inaccurate tweet. She wasn't hired to be a historian. If major media organizations want people to tweet better, let them know. Twitter is an ad platform. Maybe she didn't know. Give them the memo, and a cheat sheet. She might have actually meant well this time.
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  13640.  @ewaldbracko1534  Look up "genocide." In the dictionary, and at the UN website. It expressly excludes political affiliation as a basis for genocide. I think you're just trolling. This has devolved into sheer idiocy, like most things do these days.
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  13641.  @ewaldbracko1534  It can also be ethnic or religious. Read something. Read the UN's definition.
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  13642.  @texmexican3654  "white nationalist grifter" = seven syllables (!) Nope. Won't catch on. Try harder.
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  13643. ​ @camskea I see him for the fraud he is.
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  13644.  @KonigGustavAdolph  Sure, Bub. I suggest you look into why it emerged in London before NYC. The mainstream press did report what happened. As to who is vulnerable to the v-derived virus, of course anyone unvaccinated.
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  13645. They were gone before the 20th century ended!
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  13646. You have GOT to find new friends, to add to the old, not replace them. Please take it from someone who didn't . . . Well, I made a real start just in 2018 and 2019. You know what happened next. :/ Trust me on this. It is essential.
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  13647. Striking how the Russians never have a problem getting along with "the global South." On the other hand, certain Westerners considered Russians "Untermensch." Seems that some still miss those days. 😅
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  13648. The entire story remains to be tested in court. This interview didn't prejudice my mind about what happened. I know we don't know yet.
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  13649. 💯 EVERY billionaire who has defense-related contracts with the US government should be closely scrutinized. No exceptions.
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  13650. I'm so glad I'm not Western. Most of us aren't.
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  13651. You don't. You have to add personal disparagement, which Trump seems to do a lot. No filters?
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  13652. Carroll claims Trump stated her allegations were a "con job," and she only trotted them out to increase sales of her book. Seems close to an opinion, yet it also could be defamation per se, because it attacks her as a writer and that is her profession. I'd have to see the jury instructions to find out what the plaintiff and defense agreed to.
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  13653. He was fine here. I've never watched him before. This was great. I don't care about his politics. Not now.
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  13654. And brave!
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  13655.  @dingfeldersmurfalot4560  Especially since Adam Smith used it all the time. He saw it as a way that an unproductive neo-feudal class could derail the new entrepreneurs who were creating real wealth.
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  13656. That would be a grave insult to Norman Finkelstein.
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  13657. I have one concern about MMR vaccines: well conducted studies in Europe have shown that the current measles vaccine stand alone is very beneficial to children. If stand-alone is optimal, why the combination? I don't get that. Let's start life out right.
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  13658. This book is a classic grift. Look at the smirk on his face.
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  13659. I'm going to enjoy seeing America's claim to global cultural hegemony further eroded. Most people will enjoy that. Most people in the world, I mean.
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  13660.  @jwill9237  There is no law against expressing your emotions in an immature way. "She let her emotions get the best of her" is an admission that what she said was NOT a threat.
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  13661.  @alephnull6457  This is true. They seem like people who do the bare minimum -- just enough to get the money they want and no more. We've all worked with those people. They look nice. I'll grant them that.
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  13662.  @Will_Moffett  Too bad my link to Matt Orfelea's video on Hotez is immediately . . . You know.
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  13663.  @sirius1696  Little kids know they don't want to have kids, ever? Little kids can be made to understand the possible risks to fertility of these drugs, and make an informed choice? Of course not.
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  13664.  @amiaswolfgang  "Most" doesn't cut it. How can every child be sure? And a 16-year-old is past puberty, so that's not who we are talking about at all. Some are already having top surgery, and hence are permanently deprived of the ability to breast feed. Also, adoption wasn't the question. The right to be a birth parent someday, to have the opportunity open to them, so that they can CHOOSE, can never be denigrated. You don't deprive a child of that unless there is absolutely no option. Your faith in technology is tragic.
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  13665.  @TheBandit7613  Preposterous. This will prolong the agony.
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  13666. If it were me, I'd improve ALL of my health habits and not worry.
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  13667.  @frankensplean  Greenwald just dropped a great video.
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  13668.  @discblaster9210  Really? Bates is a relatively elite school. They can study what they want. In most colleges, Business and Nursing are the top two majors by far. Business has been in first place for decades.
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  13669.  @sononi4798  Nah. They have been trained to display the usual tropisms to the standard stereotypes.
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  13670.  @Rowsy91  You got your cases mixed up bro lol.
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  13671.  @gnlout7403  I don't think so. I do not consider that a true threat, assuming those were his words. BTW, he himself said for her to lose a job over the incident was crazy. Maybe you scare hard or really easily. For example, COVID didn't scare me, and no one can browbeat me into a vaccine I have serious reservations about. You?
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  13672.  @thesammyjenkinsexperience4996  So, do people in Central Park minding their own business happen to be carrying poisoned dog treats? Now if you have evidence he offered dark chocolate, please provide it.
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  13673.  @gnlout7403  No, actually, most reasonable people (and thus also the law) would not treat those words, in that context, as a genuine threat. The fact that she calmly called in a 911 report rather than FIRST seeking safety, by removing herself from the area proves she did not, either. Please don't go into law enforcement. Should I really believe you? One of my closest friends was a Marine, enlisted right after 9/11, put in 13 years, and I cannot imagine him agreeing that was a genuine threat. He would have thought the guy was rude and abrasive, but threatening? I'll have to ask him, I'm curious now.
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  13674. THIS is key.
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  13675. Social Darwinism is rampant in the US.
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  13676.  @cutekitten9856  Wrong. About 70% of Americans are NOT in the top 10% globally.
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  13677. Yup, I saw through it too. He's whining that this was the worst day of his life? Is he a grown up? He looks old for 17.
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  13678.  @EroticOnion23  Russia, Canada, China
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  13679.  @EroticOnion23  Maybe you should take a second look at the BRICS' metrics, without their new allies. As for the stuff you mentioned, look where the hardware for it is made. I thought your list was sarcastic. Like, we don't need non-GMO fresh food, we need Gucci and mass surveillance. Ironic that the very people critical of US policy toward Ukraine are the ones who see that the West's idiotic pandemic response has strengthened the BRICS. (Maybe we should to listen to Max Blumenthal? Yeah, maybe.)
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  13680.  @EroticOnion23  Keep telling yourself whatever you need to believe, and keeps you away from the "deaths of despair" phenomenon. Remember, you are right, I am wrong, and We're Number One! Rah Rah.
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  13681. @paaklapi  So all those massive sanctions against Cuba, Venezuela, etc., that have turned off would-be partners of the US are completely unnecessary. Good to know.
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  13682.  @PatrickOMulligan  Never saw it. I like gallows humor. I engage in it myself (laugh hard at being struck by a misfortune, etc.). That does seem to get people mad, when it's real.
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  13683. Russia is not even using air power the way the US does ("Shock and Awe"). What makes anyone think they will use tactical nuclear weapons?
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  13684.  @dlodge4966  Oh, I'm sorry. Didn't realize. Anyway, same point but directed at the person who stated that "the 1% want socialism and communism." Monopoly capitalism is working out great for them. They run this joint, and they are nuts.
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  13685. We all suspected this. Truly, truly shocking.
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  13686. Actually, he looked to cheat his late brother's descendants out of their share of the inheritance, including one special-needs infant. Look it up. Textbook example of who gets ahead.
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  13687.  @shamsheerg7519  I said precisely the opposite.
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  13688.  @shamsheerg7519  Choice means the choice to be a birth parent someday. Some people decide to do that in their 30s and 40s, and had no idea they would want to when they were only 16. I don't think it's ethical for doctors to agree to do major surgery of this nature on people under 23 to 25, actually, but at 18 we are legal adults. What did you think I said? Is "choice" a dirty word in your world? LOL
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  13689. THIS
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  13690. Trivializes, and instrumentalizes.
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  13691. I admire anyone who finds the comic value. 🤣
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  13692.  @laowai769  LOL. 👏👏👏
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  13693. Which ones?
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  13694. Either dude didn't make enough money in the NFL, or he doesn't remember.
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  13695.  @rachelles.9657  Thanks for this information. I had the impression few doctors would prescribe it.
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  13696. Give Hunter the plea deal already. That will cause Joe to drop out.
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  13697. To a million kids, yeah. To do that to civilians, especially minors, is a war crime.
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  13698. It's working here. That's what is so, so sad.
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  13699. Did you see NYTimes on GameStop? The question wasn't what happened, or how, or why. It was about how the politics are confusing. They are looking for a signal on what position to take. Fact-free.
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  13700. @justoguillermomontoya3821  Well, it's ordinary enough that I do believe it. On the other hand, that the threats were credible is unlikely. People just do that nowadays.
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  13701. What? You can look up the complaint, which is how regular people approach the court and invoke its power. Then you can read the opinion, which is an official statement of exactly what the court is doing and why, based on existing law as the court found it. All of this is published. Inform yourself.
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  13702.  @bezllama3325  Oops, beat me to it.
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  13703. Her?? Oh brother are we in a downward spiral . . .
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  13704. If the drive had been planned in advance, I'm not surprised that he did everything the same, as though nothing had happened.
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  13705.  @lurice0  Oops. There was only one reason she got a written apology she tried to weaponize now. Cutty pasty much? Thinky? No . . . no.
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  13706. Too big a job.
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  13707. Why don't you look up the cases he lost? Court docs come right up. He owes a lot of money. He lost on appeal as well.
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  13708. @johncalvo1743  Clearly she did not.
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  13709.  @johncalvo1743  You can't look it up yourself? You can't recognize an actual court document?
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  13710. Read the paper. See if you think it's a fair presentation. In 1976, the swine flu vaccine was withdrawn due to one case of Guillain Barre Syndrome per 100,000 innoculations. It was treated as scandalous. I never met a soul who had any reaction to any flu shot. Why would I have? I am not in the health care field.
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  13711.  @43evolver15  Two years? It's you who's late to the party, thinking it just started.
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  13712. Sounds like Obama was an experiment in what public relations can do.
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  13713. 7:23 SO glad Bri brought this up.
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  13714. Thanks for this quote. Great stuff.
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  13715. It isn't just Trump. The assassination of Charlie Hebdo, and the way those comics were portrayed, was a watershed event for comic parody. Don't doubt it.
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  13716. 6:04 7:32 8:07 Highlights in an all-around genius presentation. Glenn Greenwald outdoes himself every time. Sheer brilliance.
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  13717. He wants to execute her because she is a white woman, as a cover for all the people he really wants to kill. Everyone else is "easier" to execute politically.
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  13718.  @TimUnknown-h5q  I agree with you about the comment swarm. It is not appropriate. But if there is a trial, this woman will very likely be subpoenaed and cross examined. A 15-minute shock is plausible. An 8-hour shock is not. Something here needs explaining, also for the sake of others who may have too lax of a lifestyle and not realize the dangers. The more innocent the mind, the less prepared to act in case of emergency. Too many young adults are childish now, and seem to want to stay that way. That does have to be addressed, no?
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  13719. I'm close to thinking Anyone But Biden.
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  13720.  @robertspencer6320  Are you a doctor?
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  13721. Utilities can't do what they want. Nor can "natural" monopolies.
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  13722. 💯
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  13723. In THIS situation? WHO is she supposed to be thinking about while going through this??
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  13724. He's lying. These scams have existed for decades. You are right. He has lost plenty of cases.
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  13725.  @Joel_Aleman  The "funny" part is that our society is massively lawless, and not improving. As in, don't look now, but . . .
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  13726.  @Joel_Aleman  By the way, her point was that the laws in place are toothless. OP was joking that that's pretty much across the board now.
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  13727. I wish that were a brazen exaggeration. We do not make enough things that human beings need. A simple, ten-word sentence.
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  13728. My first question is the one about whether other countries hold such wreckage.
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  13729.  James Conway  All true, but consider: they have no "skin in the game."
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  13730.  @alex_roivas333  I can see you haven't read Nadine Strossen on hate speech. Those laws are used against the left. She is hardly alone to point that out.
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  13731.  @raindogs451  Says someone who just wrote "are you a Trumpanzee?" Edit: oops, I misspelled "Trumpanzee."
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  13732.  @raindogs451  The first comment is right on target. Every member of the public should pay their fair share of taxes and have no special influence over public policy that affects hundreds of millions of people. The system we have has veered away from essential equality, one man one vote, to a tiny bunch of oligarchs being able to determine what happens to everyone else, and to influence their most private and intimate decisions, no less. Gates has unparalleled resources to vet anyone he comes in contact with, and in puff pieces he bragged about how his daily calendar is planned in 15 minute time segments. He chose to frequent Epstein and Maxwell. I didn't suggest it to him. He is also objectively unqualified to set educational policy, public health policy, and a slew of other things he is determined to dictate on a global scale, and he has in fact made messes wherever he has tried to exceed the scope of his very limited expertise.
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  13733.  @raindogs451  Laughable. Gates does not have the influence he does because he is "a functional expert," but precisely because he is a billionaire and for no other reason. Had he a doctorate in virology and worked in the field his whole life, he would have no more influence than anyone else does absent his money. But with the money, he would have it. As for the lame politicians you quote, they are an example of people with money behind them, every last one. That's what money does to a system.
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  13734. No one would say that. That's why the families of victims don't get to dictate privacy laws. If it were me, who knows, I might want to overturn the entire Bill of Rights. Let's hope no one would listen to me.
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  13735. Parody is First-Amendment protected from government censorship, provided it is labeled as parody in some way. That was the issue in the Hustler Magazine case.
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  13736. 💯
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  13737. 😂😂😂😂😂 Perfect
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  13738.  @AQuietNight  Everyone thinks Americans "must be" better than they actually are.
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  13739. Perfect analysis. This is why I subscribe.
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  13740.  @ssuwandi3240  No, fetuses don't have the same rights as people existing outside of any human body.
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  13741. What disturbs me is that we don't know the number, and we should.
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  13742. "Disputes between students in parking lots" led to gunfire, no one died . . . Do you hear yourself?
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  13743.  @gcnstudio  None. I changed my mind.
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  13744. Because JIMMY is not advocating for any form of censorship, of any outlet, including CNN. The remedy for speech we disagree with is MORE SPEECH. That is, the remedy is criticism of speech we disagree with.
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  13745.  @garycollins2  They've already turned on lefties who aren't moderate enough. Jimmy just put up a video on it.
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  13746.  @Yondainc  Can you be serious?
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  13747. @nicholarasdale79  The offensive part is, as always, in suggesting that "they're all alike." Some are like that. Of course it's "true." It's true because you'll find some of everything.
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  13748. ​ @fredgarvinMP 💯 Precisely.
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  13749. ​​@briondalion3696 Some of them want all kids in online classes.
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  13750.  @BlueNorth313  You're right, I was. There was a shift around 2015. Each year since then feels worse to me.
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  13751.  @zachariahyager3115  I'm pretty sure it is. Sarcastic.
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  13752. Eschew obfuscation.
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  13753.  @jamirimaj6880  I hate them.
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  13754. Only if we are all infantile, and incapable of finding and reading legitimate news and peer-reviewed journal articles. IOW, only if we are truly incapable of having a rational discussion. Maybe we are. This entire century has been disastrous.
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  13755. I adore her style. I can exhale, finally.
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  13756. 😅
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  13757. If Cuba is so bad, lift ALL sanctions, return Guantanamo, and let them fail all by themselves. As you indicated, it should happen quick.
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  13758. "Chic and safe to fight?" Jealousy, absolutely right Jimmy. You didn't go to Harvard. WTF?
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  13759. She's doing a comparison of the Democrats and the Republicans. It's relevant at the moment.
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  13760. Are you okay?
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  13761.  @tookie36  And it won't be relevant tomorrow, or the day after, or ever. That's how ideology works. Yeah, I knew that, thanks anyway.
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  13762.  @markusmuller6173  Erm, I don't see that others are much interested in narrative, tone, dialogue writing, and stuff. Just my impression.
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  13763. Being super smart with money is essential now. There isn't some other option.
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  13764. He sounds like your doddering grievance-collecting great uncle. Everybody had one.
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  13765. Every communist country ended homelessness. They had other problems with distribution of economic necessities, but not that one.
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  13766. So, 39% is on ketamine, too? 😅
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  13767. ​@paigeellen3762 Not what he said. He was arguing for doing an objective risk assessment. The truth is, being bold leads to both extremes -- great success and bankruptcy.
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  13768. Edison was middle class, perhaps upper middle. He had a well-educated mother, and went to work at a young age. He wasn't born rich, but he had good luck making money starting in his teens.
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  13769.  @ToTheStardom  What? You're opposed to cautious, sustainable activity? That can't hurt you.
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  13770.  @paigeellen3762  Well, both of my grandfathers were self-made millionaires when that was truly rare --- and both lost everything in WWII. Where does that put them? Europeans still understand tragedy.
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  13771.  @ToTheStardom  "Free 30 minutes?" Don't you value your time? "16 minutes free this month only!" 16 sounds like more than 15; sounds more generous.
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  13772. Well, you can always starve. It's an individual choice. /s
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  13773. If IQ is an individual assessment, why would you measure the IQ of groups? Suppose it is the case that cystic fibrosis is more common in people of northwestern European descent than in people of Mediterranean descent. Do you presume the Irish child sitting in front of you should be treated for cystic fibrosis? Do you presume the Spanish child doesn't need to be tested for cystic fibrosis? Tell me exactly what the purpose of the dubious group score is, and how it should be used.
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  13774. I thought it was Stefanik who got a little thrill repeating the question.
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  13775.  @hynsum  This is the question.
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  13776. ​ @twatts1523 THANK YOU
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  13777. A country armed to the teeth, kids raised by social media and first-person shooter video games. Might we call it reality challenged?
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  13778. 5:51 Anyone who reads Israeli press knows Labour decries the influence of AIPAC over their politics --- in Israel --- as well.
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  13779. Don't believe it. Pause, observe.
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  13780. Perfect word for it.
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  13781. Pompous grifter.
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  13782. They didn't in my state. I drive past public and private schools every day. The private schools reopened in the fall of 2020, and had a long holiday break (almost two months) with remote learning. This is wise generally, because kids get very sick from flu and other diseases as well during that time.
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  13783.  @jacqueliner5361  Yes, a ridiculous policy.
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  13784. I left teaching community college in 2017, and plan to leave the country. Coincidence!
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  13785.  @TheThriftShopSampler  I think Dr. Topol has been by far the most honest pro-vaccination person. His more recent interviews are MUCH better. Here, he says there is enough evidence to do more trials of ivermectin, but not yet enough to recommend it broadly (true); then also this: 1:17:27 Dr. Topol recently called the American approach excessively "vaccine-centric." THANK YOU.
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  13786.  @jakecorenthose2901  Well, then you will have to account for all the solid arguments advanced by Krystal Ball and Briahna Joy Gray, among others, for pursuing this strategy at this time. You'll also have to concede that the pandemic is real, has killed more people here than anywhere, has thrown millions out of work, and that a needed change that has been on the table for two generations has yet to be enacted using the old tactics. If you know a better way, absolutely suggest it now. No problem.
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  13787. I actually have hope that people's immune systems are finally recovering. Not everyone will. We know that. 😢
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  13788. Well, what would be the point of destroying a country's democracy if not to rob them? Sheesh. /s
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  13789.  @candidlens  How about qualified candidates for President? Real primaries, that count? A world not run by a handful of billionaires?
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  13790. Because everyone needs to attain a certain level in a whole slew of subjects and activities, so that when many don't, we need to know why in order to change it.
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  13791. Kim is going to make a lot of enemies with this -- and is totally right.
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  13792. Exactly. With all the evidence of waning vaccine efficacy, everyone, vaccinated or not, should have routine testing.
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  13793. Bri says "be specific" and hints at the truth: Pete did not do the work. He never does.
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  13794. The best person on this issue is Briahna Joy Gray.
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  13795. And the politicians in Canada and Australia are still posturing and preening as if they are MORAL. The b****rds!!!!
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  13796. ​​​ @miles6910 The social science of restrooms? Would the expressed preferences of birth women and girls count as empirical evidence? Or no?
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  13797. Well, Fauci is still a generation older than you. 🤣
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  13798.  @elizabethkraszewski6603  👏👏👏
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  13799.  @eddievangundy4510  That's right. On top of everything, WE pay him, and we have no choice.
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  13800.  @-Amiya-  It's not that funny anymore, I think. :/
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  13801. Beautifully said.
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  13802.  @НаташаВасильева-е1о  The US is full of haters now. People only talk about money, they never, ever mention love. When they say "success," they never mean real achievement, they mean money. A crypto currency trader is above a doctor, an artist without an advertising deal is a joke, a "successful" marriage is to someone rich. However bad you think it is, it's worse.
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  13803.  Sam Morris  "What does it matter?" How many shootings have we had? Do you hear how these people sound? Would you want to be in their vicinity when the news they don't want to hear reaches them? Your theory couldn't possibility be true, since we have one of the most profoundly rude societies in the developed world. https://www.newsweek.com/gun-sales-rise-amid-election-2020-mass-shootings-track-rival-2019-1546188 https://theconversation.com/mass-shootings-in-the-us-have-risen-sharply-in-2020-why-150981
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  13804. How large of a risk should a minor be FORCED to take for six to nine months of immunity to something that will rarely be serious for someone this young? More to the point, should we be permitted to discuss this, or do the oligarchs and their political lackeys decide, and we better shut up and do what we're told, to minors?
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  13805.  @markferguson3745  A very praiseworthy and noble aim, and I think I might have done that better than you did, and for an obvious reason. People get accused of victim blaming far more often then they are actually victim blaming, but that is for a reason as well: this society does it too much, and it doesn't work to anyone's advantage except sometimes to the advantage of the one who pulls rank by doing the blaming. (You know nothing about me. I read in three languages, two alphabets, and have a degree from a university in Europe that shall remain nameless. Pop psychology is your thing, not mine. But I digress.)
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  13806.  @michellemooresings  I know. I don't want another "trend" to start. So far, I am hopeful that it won't. I fear it, though. Post-pandemic, too many people are in a vulnerable state, too many are more desperate for attention -- some of them prefer to be hated than ignored. You see it everywhere. Yeah it scares me. I can't come to grips with the fact that these four kids were murdered. I can't imagine what it is like to wake up as their parents. I have no words. Sad does not begin to describe what I feel. ;/
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  13807.  @michellemooresings  That's kind of you to say that, you're probably better than I am in that area. I'm numb a lot lately. I hope 2023 is a great year for you and your loved ones.
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  13808. She outdid herself this time. Didn't think it was possible.
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  13809. THANK YOU. Not to mention that it is huge in surveillance.
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  13810. ​ @Aireck174  Did 60-year-old Lisa Edwards die in a "blue state?" Those (Tennessee) cops weren't even fired.
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  13811.  @See_thru_it_all  I stick to facts.
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  13812.  @sgt4204  No, they picked their name. It never would have occurred to me to call anyone that.
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  13813. Have you read about the long distance swimmer Sarah Thomas? She had that.
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  13814. In other words, you've already "learned" what Desantis wants to teach.
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  13815. Robby: "The train company should make good." Er, Robby, they don't have time to wait for lawsuits to be settled. The train company can make up for it later.
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  13816. Yes!!!
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  13817. ​ @chucklindenberg1093 Then you have no right to impose your bare opinions on the lives of others. Brie got this one 💯, right off the bat.
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  13818. Candace is a man. 😂
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  13819. Robbie, we want to talk about these mass shootings because they have indicia of domestic terrorism --- which is now an overused term and a politicized term, and that part has got to stop.
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  13820.  @rahn45  Yes, if something different occurred, then a different analysis may indeed apply. Also, is asking a woman where she buys her clothes "sexual harassment," too? What if you want to get your wife something cute and don't know much about shopping?
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  13821.  @damer651  That, too.
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  13822. I stuck around, Kim.
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  13823. He did the math wrong by a factor of ten. And assumed no one has acquired immunity through natural exposure, or simply resistance to the virus ab initio. It seems that at least a few people do have that. Some scientists suspect having had coronavirus colds in the past could be a factor.
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  13824. @hjm5885  Did she say that anyone put a stop to it? Or that they discussed it as a family? Or that anyone said falconing might be inappropriate for unsupervised teenagers? Or that these poor baby animals went into a blender alive? This is sensationalism.
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  13825.  @sujanaryal833  Of COURSE there's proof. But are you so deep into your cult you won't acknowledge it? You'll smear whoever brings forward the proof? Why did he lose a lawsuit where he had a better case, and is redoing it anyway? Pure vindictiveness.
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  13826.  @agustinsp1  Okay, this is mass formation psychosis.
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  13827.  @kieranlee9610  In a court case, plaintiffs go first. They have to prove their case. That means all we have heard so far is his side.
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  13828.  @sujanaryal833  Well, the plaintiff just rested and the defense is presenting its case. The Sun case, which was a better defamation case, also had these core facts. Of course, an American jury might decide to hate on Heard. You can see that in action here.
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  13829. 33:08 Yeah, Congress WILL intervene to save the hedge funds before they get around to figuring out whether the rest of us should get $2000 - 600, some time before April. WOW
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  13830.  @joeterzio7175  Tell us what naked shorting is, which is what these hedge funds do. Whoever attacks the practice has my support. Because naked shorting is the functional equivalent of counterfeiting stock. Any other story is obfuscation.
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  13831.  @josephweeks3815  THANK YOU
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  13832. There is one thing to try if this happens to you: practice being unattractive. Think about it. You can put on an act of not being desirable. There are ways. Make it seem like you aren't special. Claim you once had cancer and can't have children. Claim you are torn between liking men and women. Use your imagination. STOP feeling you need to be sincere. Pretend that "now I'm telling you the truth." Then lie. Make him think he decided to leave you. Ladies, you can do this.
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  13833. I wonder whose false flag all of this is.
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  13834. I agree. I include Trump and Hillary as well, mutatis mutandis.
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  13835.  @JG-id5vi  What if it's a head fake? They did well under him.
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  13836.  @John_Redcorn_  What I mean is that Bill Gates and Elon Musk and Paul Pelosi all got very much richer under Trump. Of course. Anthony Fauci, as well. Under Biden, Tony and Bill did better still.
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  13837. Exactly. Thanks to these idiots, someone just might take horse dewormer. After all, they claim a multimillionaire used it, and we know he recovered fast.
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  13838. ​@tms4638 Well, he's not demented, nor is he a mummy. Okay. You're right.
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  13839. Wait. Robbie is unaware that Slavs were considered an inferior "race?" What do people study in school?
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  13840. @scratchpenny  Most of these "cultural" issues (I'm tempted to call them dystopian cultural issues) are generated deliberately to create mass distraction. Most people do not know enough about the financial system to hold a strong opinion, but it should be obvious to most that the minimum wage was once a meaningful contribution to a household budget. There was a time when two people earning minimum wage could rent an apartment anywhere in the country, and a summer job paid for in-state tuition at every state university. There was a time when medical care was affordable. My parents didn't have insurance, so they saved up to have me. I don't think anyone wants the bulk of our productive capacity offshore. I don't think anyone wants to be manipulated to take experimental vaccines or to be spied on.
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  13841. ​ @joeblow1942  That's not why. See my explanation. People alive today had parents or grandparents who lived through the war and the collaboration.
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  13842. THIS is what matters. 💯 You have to wonder what he learned in constitutional law class, if anything.
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  13843. Depends on what he wants now.
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  13844. Inactivated and live attenuated are two different things. Developed countries stopped using live attenuated.
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  13845.  @Kanaka-Haole  Polio long predates DDT. That chemical exposure can make an illness worse, especially in children, is hardly a surprise. It makes lots of things worse.
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  13846. These are women who had the courage to give birth during the pandemic, after being subjected to DNC fearmongering. Well . . .
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  13847.  @empanada223  So brave!
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  13848.  @empanada223  Any time.
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  13849.  @afterthefox  Good for you. I didn't even think of it. 2022, still naive.
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  13850. Oh come on. He knew not to, on stage.
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  13851. I expected no red wave. Not after the persecution of the pregnant ten-year-old girl and her doctor, and Uvalde.
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  13852. The problem is the failure to block all insider trading.
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  13853. It is just one factor. But yes, we need an honest and comprehensive view. A lot of interests exist to quash that discussion.
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  13854. ​ @Heatherly3102  I suspect he's being set up as a fall guy.
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  13855. ​ @heidibrower LOL
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  13856. It also gave her an escape route, very far away.
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  13857. He answered the question.
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  13858. The thing that impresses me is that Trump just risked support by saying this. There are people who will call his statement "weak." Part of Russia"gate" was to stoke hatred for war. Trump stoked hatred toward China and Iran.
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  13859. "Oh lord, this guy is more senile than we thought. We might have to find a different tool, how annoying."
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  13860. ​@notoftentold4076 Eew, HARSH
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  13861. ​ @thewintergardener2873 Are you sure? 😂😂😂
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  13862. Yes, correct. The fact remains that a full generation after Columbine, the Wisconsin legislature was incapable of drafting a reasonable, constitutional statute governing firearm use by minors. (Question: why do we pay them? Tell me slowly.) The adults in this picture were the most to blame, by far, and I said so from day one.
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  13863.  @laureldevine  I feel like you do. ;/
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  13864. ​ @goodsous  This FINALLY dawned on me! 😊 😢
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  13865. ​ @sentotalkacili7407 No, it's a sign of perceptiveness.
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  13866. Maybe it's too bad that the content is being misrepresented here, and instead the minions are given their usual marching orders. Vaccine mandates, as opposed to persuasion, are an issue worldwide.
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  13867. Notice how you felt you could not make a valid point without ending the post by criticizing Dore. (Were you afraid Sam would have your post removed?)
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  13868. The latter.
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  13869. Great, I'll borrow that! ❤
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  13870. Support the Sioux!!
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  13871. Or, you can look up Chauvin's federal plea agreement and see what Chauvin pled guilty to. That's the real stuff. The stuff that counts.
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  13872. Oops
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  13873.  @kellymcgowan3547  America has no Marxists. In France, LFI and PCF (hard left and Communists) oppose vaccine mandates, vaccine passports. In Ireland, Normal People author Sally Rooney is a Marxist. She just married her boyfriend, who teaches high school. You see something like that here?
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  13874. ​ @merlepatterson  Exactly.
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  13875. There are more than we are allowed to hear from. Remember why The Hill fired Katie.
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  13876.  @jomangeee  I don't deny the DNC have made statements in that direction, certainly. Hillary was explicit. The DNC don't have as much power, however.
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  13877.  @zenawarrior7442  Listen carefully to Dr. Grande. The alternative theory is not implausible.
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  13878.  @zenawarrior7442  You call people "cold psychotic narcissist," and someone else is obviously unhappy and needs to leave the discussion. Okay. I mean, it's your right to think anything. Bill Clutter has a different view of this case. I'm not persuaded by him, either, but no theory is without problems. That is simply true.
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  13879.  @zenawarrior7442  Some people can write cogently, without interjecting intense emotions into every sentence. That doesn't mean they're bad people, although you are not alone in having that reflex.
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  13880. The economy of the USSR grew during the 1960s, to reach 60% of the US economy in 1970, a very rapid growth from the devastation of WWII. They created a model that other countries were interested in learning from. The old economics textbooks used to have a representation of trading off guns for butter; that is what essentially happened. A socialist economy cannot compete in capital formation with a behemoth like the US, and hence cannot match them in an arms race. Trying to maintain military strength against the US is what bankrupted them. You even see that in the more social democratic countries of Europe. To say they rely on the US for their defense, and can afford social programs for that reason, isn't a lie; that they have no choice but to create a world where it is necessary to rely on anyone's army to that extent raises more complex questions. Indians clearly see through that game, by the way.
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  13881.  @dustinavant2003  There is. You cannot impede anyone's ability to enter or leave, either, or protest once the local noise ordinances go into effect.
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  13882. Because some other group wrote a letter? I thought we were against cancel culture.
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  13883. She should have been fired and disgraced for outing a sexual harassment victim. What happened to MeToo? Hashtag morality?
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  13884. I think a blond woman is more likely to be bullied at work, because the bullies see her as "having too much." Blond hair and brilliant? Those were the biggest targets at work that I've seen.
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  13885. Certainly one possibility. Not yet known. But all the more reason to oppose mandates.
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  13886. The IDF are clearly losing their minds and must stop. Those who support Israel and Likud must know.
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  13887. 💯
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  13888. Well, I just shared some information that The Guardian reported, and my comment failed to post. It was about polio.
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  13889.  @MuantanamoMobile  We are SO on the same page for most of this.
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  13890.  @MuantanamoMobile  You know, the more I think about this . . . Rittenhouse is a free man. He can go out and buy an AK-15 tomorrow. This really should have been a low-key juvenile proceeding, with a lengthy period of supervision as the barest minimum. What are people thinking? Help me with this.
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  13891.  @lachlanbell8390  As an outstanding lawyer myself, I find your observations in this post interesting, and worth researching to understand better. Too bad you tried to pull rank rather than admit I had pinpointed what was wrong with your previous post. If you are a lawyer, you knew damn well that I am, too. :)
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  13892.  @MuantanamoMobile  I have to copy that down. If you don't blog, you should. In 2021, everyone has or needs a side gig they can do from home during lockdowns. (I felt like being dark, too. 😀)
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  13893. @Suze,  @thegoodsmaster  Exactly! And I am serious when I say so many new "jobs" involve propaganda production: all MSM, all social media, advertising, marketing, public relations, think tanks, NGOs, foundations, PACs and other lobbying organizations, all political party jobs . . . I am sure I am forgetting something big.
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  13894. They got their money. They get to keep their money.
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  13895. @payleryder45  That is exactly what fillibuster once meant. They are all welcome to lobby their colleagues to join the majority in voting, or in rising to speak.
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  13896. Being a veteran is a qualification. It is one qualification among many, and could be outweighed by other qualifications, but having served one's country IS a qualification. End of story.
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  13897. Demand real evidence.
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  13898. At least dock their pay for that day. Why should Canadians pay taxes for this, or allow their Treasury to borrow money to pay?
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  13899. Neither one acquitted themselves well here.
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  13900.  @antonkarlsson7664  It's based on NAKED short selling. How is that legal? If a publicly traded company were to hold a secondary offering, which dilutes its shares, it has to file papers and follow a bunch of SEC regs. Of COURSE. Well, naked shorts are doing the same -- the aggregate shares shorted are more than the total number of all shares! Where are the economists preventing naked shorting? This practice is a danger to us all, as well as phenomenally unethical during a pandemic. I think it should be considered counterfeiting.
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  13901.  @aesop8694  This is SO right! This is what I never understood, Australia abandoning Assange.
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  13902. The very weakest Democratic candidate ever was "discriminated against" by the voters. No, DNC discriminated by nominating a candidate by an illegitimate process who just happened to be a woman of color. Why did they do that to Harris? She deserved better.
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  13903. Not the first time. :/
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  13904. I never thought I'd live to see this. The cowardice staggers me. I never thought Americans could be manipulated like this with fear, and by a disease with at most a 2% case fatality rate -- meaning at most 2% of the people who get really sick and know it. A cancer diagnosis, or silent heart attack, with a 98%++ cure rate is a reason to celebrate. And unlike cancer, this hardly ever affects children.
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  13905. Diagnosis is unethical. Expert opinion based on records evaluation is done all the time. His point about that's how insurance companies deny care is true. It is. It's the loophole. $$$
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  13906. Agreed, 100% -- and I'm a Paris Commune type of person.
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  13907. There is still no consensus among the top virologists on a number of issues: how long immunity lasts; how well transmission to others is prevented by vaccination; whether children under 16 should get it; whether young men under 25 (or under 30) should get two doses of mRNA vaccines; whether women under 50 should take either Johnson & Johnson or Astra-Zeneca; whether the reported catastrophic illnesses following vaccination are purely coincidental or causally related to vaccination; whether those who recovered from COVID need just one dose, or need to be vaccinated at all. This is a smattering of what the leading virologists disagree about. This is still early in the pandemic. Sorry poor Keith is so SCARED of uncertainty. Looks like we need to learn to live with uncertainty. It's going to stick around.
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  13908. 😂😂😂😂😂
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  13909. To think we used to have Einstein.
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  13910. ​ @michaelh878  IF Good luck with that.
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  13911. We usually say "minors." The age of consent in Florida is 18. The federal age for crossing state lines is 18. The federal legal age for producing pictures is 18. So, it's clear.
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  13912. Actually, she can't refuse to serve a client based on their status. When she opens for business, she has to serve whoever shows up. The issue is, if they can't agree on the website design based on her religious beliefs, the client should not be able to sue her. She doesn't have to design a pro-marriage equity website anymore than she should have to design a pro-jihad website or a satanic website. That's her argument. This case never came to that. There is no client she couldn't satisfy, who then sued her for discrimination. It's a little odd that way. Tenuous standing.
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  13913.  @nuclearcatbaby1131  Nope, nowhere near that number of possible deaths, and even fewer confirmed -- maybe a handful, if that. And they are thinking allergy to PEG is the reason, not the mRNA.
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  13914.  @LBenn302  what not 😂
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  13915. ABC News gave a platform to the man who claimed credit for organizing the Beslan school massacre. This is not new. Sad that Western memories are so short, but that's not new, either.
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  13916.  @jonsingleton203  Links are shadowed, being "too hard" to monitor for TOS violations.
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  13917. Right now we have a perfect storm: police departments that greatly need far more professional forces, not bigger badder ones, cannot attract recruits. (So, for instance, the spectacle of the Colorado Spring club shooting hero, Rich Fierro, sat handcuffed in the back of a squad car. This has got to stop.)
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  13918. He didn't get where he is by being stupid.
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  13919. Trump is sooo dangerous that the DNC keeps running Biden against him.
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  13920. No one being allowed to attend part-time, under any circumstances, is bizarre. Suppose a student was injured in a car crash due to a drunk driver, in which their mother was killed? A year of part-time studies is the right thing to do; dropping out, or attempting a full load are both unwise. You should always avoid dropping out -- you have to have a foot in the world. But you cannot ask yourself to do what you literally cannot.
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  13921.  @thomaszonkowski2115  You are not alone, my friend.
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  13922.  @factotums  This was real bad. Verging on shameful.
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  13923. ​ @ghenulo  Wait, is this a new thing??
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  13924. JD isn't uniting with them, obviously. He said so.
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  13925. Katrina vanden Heuvel is transcendent. This program is so moving. The world contains some very good people.
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  13926. If COVID played any role, all the MORE reason to find out who (if anyone) is responsible for this virus. There must be truth and accountability. NOW ADD IN THE V.
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  13927. ​ @michellescholz3016 Good thought.
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  13928. Well, they have set out to make us all morbidly depressed so that we all have to get vaccinated and boosted.
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  13929. Absolutely brilliant. These days, when I encounter a LOGICAL argument, I exhale. We can never take it for granted.
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  13930.  rs_  Just to be clear -- no one is being stupid here. Could a self-reporting system be inundated with false reports from anti-vaxxer activists? Of course. The point is, it has not been audited. We do not have the in vivo numbers. I'm not all right with that. It is not acceptable by any stretch. There have been credible reports of people with severe side effects being dismissed and sent home from the hospital without treatment. I know this for certain because lawsuits against doctors (not the manufacturers) for malpractice have already been filed, and I've seen the verified complaints. They still have to prove up their case, but legal filings are not rumors.
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  13931.  @TheAbabab77  I'm not sure what you mean by "anti-vaxx." Do you mean opposition to prudent vaccination, or to universal mandates? The global community of doctors don't have to have an agenda of harm to make grave mistakes. (Here's an example: the Soviets banned lobotomies a full generation before Americans did. Ponder that.) If you have been looking up the websites of the ministries of health of other countries, you would see they don't all take the same approach as the US does. I have yet to hear one credible doctor state that people over 50 and some other categories among those younger should not be vaccinated. As for people under 18, I don't see why they should accept an unknown risk for no appreciable benefit to themselves. Don't you see that the universal-vaccination proponents are constantly shifting THEIR position? Of course you are exhausted. You will be asked to offer yet another new argument for what cannot be justified very soon. If universal vaccination were necessary, for our well being, and if vaccination were able to end the pandemic, you would see very different conduct: patents would be lifted. Information would be shared freely, not stifled or shouted down. We would know more about Sputnik V and the Chinese vaccines and the Cuban ones. We would have rapid analysis of adverse events. We would have a spirit of sharing. I mean, you know how people sober up and pull together in an emergency? Right. Not happening.
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  13932.  rs_  Mathematical models are based on logic, and then tested against the actual data. When you have confounding variables in the actual, real-world data, you have to use some form of multivariate analysis. "Multivariate analysis" is the general term for a number of statistical techniques for dealing with multiple variables. Are you trying to suggest/insinuate it's only one? And it isn't only used to make predictions. It's used to analyze data, i.e., what happened. It cannot guarantee the future will be conformable to the past. Don't pretend you don't know about the studies of VAERS conducted prior to the pandemic that indicated underreporting of adverse events by a factor of ten. I don't pretend they apply now, as COVID has undoubtedly altered the picture.
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  13933.  rs_ I don't disagree about anti-vaccine sentiment. I always start by taking a positive view of vaccination, and go from there. Limiting information or failing to provide it feeds anti-vaccine sentiment, coercion feeds anti-vaccine sentiment. Censorship, even more so. (YouTube will delete posts with live links because they are hard to monitor for TOS violations . . . sorry to hear it affected your post. If you can tell me the title of the publication, I'll find it.) You are incorrect about clinical trials being the sole source of data bearing on this issue. Sometimes it is not even ethical to conduct such a trial. (I know you know that.) Recent in vivo example: a rheumatoid arthritis drug that was approved nearly a decade ago just got a black box warning that it causes serious heart issues and should not be a first line treatment. This happens all the time. How does a doctor decide whether to prescribe such a drug? He looks at the clinical response in his patient when prescribing safer alternatives. If that is clearly inadequate, he will consider cofactors in the cases where the "black box" drug was used and had serious side effects, if that information has been analyzed and shows a pattern. Among other things. (Notice, also, how this involves an individual assessment?) I know how predictions are made. I was simply pointing out that no correlation standing alone can ever prove causation. Predictions based on research having a 95% confidence level for its result turn out to be wrong -- and not rarely, either -- and sometimes those with a lower confidence level turn out to be right. Sometimes it's the best we've got. Sometimes we need to demand better. I see more and more dissent from the current paradigm. It's obvious why. How many contradictions do we have to accept before breakfast?
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  13934.  rs_  Well, this is regrettable. Key words for a real study, censored. Hard to believe, isn't it? :/ (One more unacceptable thing we accept?) Have a good weekend.
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  13935.  @stormevans6897  I care. No one intelligent took the 1/6 hearings seriously -- and yet they should have been serious.
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  13936. A person genuinely in shock says strange things.
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  13937. Please see George Galloway. Forget the rest.
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  13938.  @humushumus2219  Force Biden to do it.
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  13939.  Deborah Hennessey  People are much crazier than we think they are. Sobering.
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  13940. Wishing you great luck. A wave will come, waves always come. "Catch the wave."
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  13941.  @rorycallaghan5719  I learned of COLIs from you! A/k/a, dead peasant insurance. I believe this is still legal. Companies claim they use the money to pay benefits (!!)
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  13942.  @rorycallaghan5719  Anyway, thank you. And you're right, there is no bottom.
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  13943.  @jedahn  Well they have to keep us safe.
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  13944.  @jedahn  Big /s
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  13945.  @johns9969  Too vague. First, the sample was too small to draw a conclusion, but large enough to signal a need for more study. 11 miscarriages out of 66 presumably healthy pregnancies up to that time, and thus 16.66%, is above the accepted baseline of 15%. And it's not a 1.66% increase, it's an 11% increase. ((16.66 - 15) ÷ 15) is how you figure that out.
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  13946. Of course. The US will never stop.
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  13947. 💯
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  13948. Research the Unabomber.
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  13949. perfect
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  13950. Now I know why people with gallows humor will joke about nuclear war.
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  13951.  @ryanthomas4069  The stated purpose of that study was to determine the incidence of myocarditis and pericarditis following mRNA vaccination against COVID. Here is the conclusion: "In this cohort study of 23.1 million Nordic residents aged 12 years or older, the risk of myocarditis was higher within 28 days of vaccination with both BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 compared with being unvaccinated, and higher after the second dose of vaccine than the first dose. The risk was more pronounced after the second dose of mRNA-1273 than after the second dose of BNT162b2, and the risk was highest among males aged 16 to 24 years." WHO ARE YOU TRYING TO SNOW?
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  13952.  @miles6910  This quote, which you provide, strikes me as either speculative, or unnecessarily opaque. This appears to imply that it is the spike protein (introduced into the body by the mRNA vaccine) that causes myocarditis, at the same time as it has stimulated the body to generate the antibodies the vaccine is designed to generate. WHY would anyone assume that the spike protein is evading antibody recognition? Perhaps it is the presence of the spike protein circulating within organs of the body where it does not belong that is causing the (perfectly competent) antibodies to attack those very areas of the body. But that, again, is speculative. Campbell says that the study did not demonstrate that it is the spike protein that causes the myocarditis. In any event, the import of the sentence is not clear, and should be absolutely clear.
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  13953.  @ryanthomas4069  Table 1: This table follows the clinical outcome of 530 patients with myocarditis following vaccination and 109 patients with myocarditis following COVID, hence nearly five times as many following vaccination. Why is that?
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  13954.  @ryanthomas4069  You are just writing slogans and insults at this point. If something is extremely rare, then the clinical outcome is less important than for something that is significantly more common. It will literally affect fewer people. Insults don't change the math, or the risk assessment. And we haven't even addressed the ethical issue of iatrogenic illness. We can leave that aside for the purpose of the point made. Blocked as a time waster.
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  13955.  @ryanthomas4069  What vastly different conclusion? If you are not more likely to come down with myocarditis following infection than you are following vaccination, but far less likely, then the (supposedly) more severe myocarditis from infection is NOT "more likely to harm you" than is the myocarditis from vaccination. (N.B. Infection with what variant?) This is why pancreatic cancer is not more likely to cause a person's death than is cardiovascular disease, despite the very large difference in clinical outcomes. Bayesian probability. Look it up. Why are you persisting? This is sad.
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  13956.  @peetky8645  Right. You were coerced into signing. You didn't want to. It's not in YOUR best interest. Did you ever consult an employment lawyer, plaintiff's side, about it? A lot are unenforceable. Basically what you can't do is quit for a better offer after gaining access to sensitive materials, trade secrets, and other stuff not protected by copyrights, patents, etc.
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  13957.  @peetky8645  Good for you for getting out!
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  13958. The suit has been filed and is easy to find.
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  13959. "Digital?" Love the double entendre. 😂
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  13960.  @kinglinus3708  EVERYONE has Fifth Amendment rights. Ted Bundy, John Gacy, the Boston Marathon bomber.
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  13961.  @karenvickery6070  You simply do not understand the law. Don't let this case dupe you.
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  13962. I wish Gabby had been taught not to make statements that could be construed as inculpatory to the police. She might still be with us.
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  13963.  @faulltw  Oh yeah? That's what police always try to tell attorneys. No one owes you a confession, ever. They can remain silent and wait to see what the prosecutor (an attorney) proposes. The one thing they cannot do and must not do is lie to you, which is all the more reason to remain silent. That way nothing they say can be construed as false or misleading. Who trained you? Take some night classes,
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  13964.  @karenvickery6070  A criminal is someone who has been duly convicted. Once convicted, a criminal loses a whole host of rights. The fact that you seem to think you know who is and is not a criminal before it has been proven in court, and that you are not alone, is all the more reason to insist on following the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment. If we didn't have so many innocent people in prison (while the actual perpetrator is free, and no one is looking for him), there might be less of a reason to worry about civil rights. Alas . . . In my state, two women were murdered by an actual perpetrator while two innocent men sat on death row for his crime. That doesn't worry you? It worries me. A lot. We don't solve enough murders.
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  13965.  @karenvickery6070  No law stopped police from arresting him for theft of Gabby's van, and no law stopped police from instituting surveillance of his home. None whatsoever. Exclamation point!!!!
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  13966.  @karenvickery6070  They could try. He could decline. That is correct. We don't force people to submit to interrogation. Fifth Amendment. Why no arrest for taking the van? Why no surveillance? What's the big deal about questioning him? He could say "I don't know/remember" to every question of substance. What's so magical about questioning? Or do you endorse deprivation of water, sleep; application of a little torture here and there, too?
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  13967.  @Chaoitcme  Having the van for several days in his possession, without its owner. It was also the owner's home. If that isn't sufficient, I think it should be. This turns on probable cause/reasonable suspicion. There IS reasonable suspicion. Fine lines. Certainly reasonable suspicion is reason enough to set up surveillance at his residence. Easily enough. The federal indictment did come much later, true.
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  13968.  @Chaoitcme  Police have PLENTY of authority to investigate, in ways that don't trash constitutional rights. How do you think they build a case for an arrest?
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  13969.  @Chaoitcme  They had reasonable suspicion to set up surveillance at his residence, from a public street. Surveillance doesn't involve encroaching on private property or privacy rights, because it is done from a place open to the public. That option existed. You may or may not like it . . . He had possession of Petito's property -- and not just any property, but arguably property that was essential to her personal safety -- under suspicious circumstances. That is enough for surveillance. I'm sorry this is a problem for you. It would have been nice had there been no evidence of crime emerging later, when her remains were found.
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  13970.  @Chaoitcme  Look up grand larceny. Look up reasonable suspicion. Don't rely on cop shows or YouTubers.
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  13971.  @karenvickery6070  The police can attempt to question anyone. That person cannot be coerced into answering. If that person is not under arrest, then they are free to go. If police have no warrant, they can be refused entry into a house, and can be invited to go back out after they've been invited in. If they obtain any evidence during this time (the person misspeaks, there is something suspicious looking in their house, etc.), then police can get a warrant. Arrest warrant, search warrant. You've just never seen anyone assert their rights before, or you're used to seeing them violated against POC.
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  13972. "How is this possible for the European Union?" This is what the EU was designed to do.
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  13973. Thank you for alerting people to LOOK at DATA, and THINK critically at all times, and especially when times are tough.
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  13974. Criminal
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  13975. That puts a great picture in my mind. 😊
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  13976. Best parents imaginable! I mean the human ones.
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  13977. There were several studies that indicated vegetarians were less likely to die. All the carnivore fanatics refused to believe it.
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  13978.  McconnellsTRUMPUTINinc  In WWII, was anyone in America working at cross purposes with your family?
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  13979.  @Stefanie3  I have to move, my family is in Montenegro now, on the coast. (Poor me, huh? LOL)
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  13980.  @Stefanie3  Unfortunately, the gun issue is bad. I hate to admit that if we are in a relatively safe area, we get used to it. There is no part of my city that I frequent that does not have an annual shooting. This is what we consider safe. I wish I were exaggerating. But to be candid, you do get a sixth sense about it, to some extent. It's not an illusion, you really do get street smart -- to an extent. I'd rather not know!
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  13981.  @Stefanie3  You are really kind. I appreciate that a lot. Yes, my family in the States simply died out. These things happen. (They were all WWII refugees.) Being alone doesn't suit me, frankly. These have been hard times.
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  13982.  @Stefanie3  Yes, I do. Sardinia! How wonderful! I'm happy for you. Isn't it strange how different the US looks from the outside? As for Montenegro, it's sheer luck. I haven't had too much luck in life, but when you consider that maybe one million human beings are Montenegrin, I guess it's special to be one! :)
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  13983.  @Stefanie3  Thank you so much. At a time like this, I want you to know that means a lot.
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  13984. She does.
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  13985. @matthew7458  There are categories of speech that are not First Amendment protected, and "hate speech" and "violent speech" are NOT categories of unprotected speech. Incitement to imminent lawlessness is generally unprotected speech. Could incitement to imminent lawlessness also be hateful and violent? Or could it be calmly conspiratorial? Yes to both. It's not the "hate" that makes it illegal.
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  13986. You give her credit she may not deserve.
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  13987. Every year, every day I find out that other people are vastly sicker than I ever imagined. I'm referring to your comment.
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  13988.  @Augfordpdoggie  He might. Did you expect how bad it would look so far?
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  13989.  @dellingson4833  General Flynn's case should have proceeded for an important reason: to EXPOSE the FBI entrapment, or attempted entrapment, of a US general, for partisan political reasons. Exactly what they did would have been exposed -- heaven forbid! /s
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  13990. @brodieobrien-pickering2202  I answered you, in a normal fashion, that of course Harvard is private. I was shadowed.
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  13991. @scratchpenny  I hope so. At least an algorithm glitch is somewhat less nefarious --- although, intermittent reinforcement schedules are generally more addictive.
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  13992.  @leecampbell2316  Watching now, WOW!!!
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  13993. I unsubbed and will come back when Liz leaves the room.
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  13994. But, but . . . The Market.
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  13995. ​ @JorgeRzezak  Whatever anyone may say, and quite apart from any ethical considerations, America's reputation is now trashed because of the war on Gaza. No one believes anything that America says. "Humanitarianism" has been exposed as an opportunistic lie. I don't understand why any American would fail to recognize this, given that it is in their vital self-interest to recognize it. In the meantime, this guy will do fine.
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  13996. ​ @gifi11 They are pigs.
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  13997. It's deliberate. Wanna hear something funny? My real name sounds Russian. Wanna hear something funnier? The US bombed where my family was from. I could go on. So, being the far left person that I am, nothing can surprise me. It's the level of stupid that has me puzzled. The level of evil is just the usual, as expected.
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  13998. PERFECT
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  13999.  @big.sweetheart.energy  It's the Taco Bell of apps.
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  14000.  @T.D.111  Both sides. 🤣
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  14001.  @BlunderCity  I never heard that Macron had any physical relationship with his future wife Brigitte before graduation, but the emotional tie was known. After graduation and attaining age 18, it is purely a personal and a family matter. They waited a long time to marry, to make sure it was real. I had forgotten he married his teacher. In France it is a nonstory.
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  14002. You just don't like the accurate REAGAN quotes. Maybe you can't handle the truth? Could that be it? Well, there was a LOT lot wrong with Reagan. HE started the 1986 fund and law that indemnifies vaccine manufacturers and incentivizes the explosion of vaccines for infants and preschoolers. HE started taxing Social Security benefits. This doesn't even touch Iran, or Iran-Contra, or financial deregulation, or the first big post-war expansion of the national debt. Reagan undermined the economy and the working class, and privileged FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate -- Adam Smith's rentiers). BTW, I despise Biden and everything he has done, and agree with Lee Fang as well. More than one causal mechanism at work.
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  14003.  @a.ros12  💯 Perfectly said.
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  14004. The day we no longer hear from the Clintons, the rest of these fluffers might go, too.
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  14005.  @andrewptob  YES. Matt a Bond villain, Katie a Bond girl. She could do that with makeup and her hair.
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  14006.  @p5rsona  Plus, they aren't French. (If this degree of ignorance is all right, then anything is: a daft president, an impaired president, a malignant narcissist president, etc.)
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  14007. For a decade, I see parents with very young children staring into phones, not looking at the child.
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  14008.  @AmyCeleste  That's great, good for you! This has been my worst problem by far. My parents stressed too much getting along with everyone in the context of work, but they were immigrants and had a bright line between work and other facets of life. They did not grasp that the line is quite blurred in American culture. I talk myself out of my intuition all the time, and that is never the right answer. May I ask what type of counseling you got?
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  14009.  @AmyCeleste  Thank you so much, I will take that to heart!
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  14010. I guess a good candidate, tested in the primaries, in 2016 and 2024, might have been a good idea. Apparently someone didn't realize the level of danger.
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  14011. Because she is not telling the truth and has been caught. That's how. Not that it matters.
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  14012. You've read it? Maybe you haven't.
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  14013. It's all ships and giggles until the DJIA drops 2000 points. 😂😂😂
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  14014. Reuters reported on April 4 that the Pentagon said "obviously" the Bucha deaths were the "responsibility" of the Russians. A second Pentagon source told Reuters the Pentagon had "no independent confirmation" of who committed the atrocity, and "no reason to doubt" the Ukrainian claims, also published April 4. This is what FOX is treating like confirmation.
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  14015. Try birthing mammal. Works for me. :D
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  14016. ​ @SeeTheTravisty If that's true, then the protesters are playing their role in the drama, huh?
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  14017. "The political juice is going out of this one." -- BJG THAT IS THE PROBLEM, BRIE. Look, prosecuting a wheel chair-bound serial killer won't save lives or bring his victims back to life. It must be done ANYWAY.
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  14018. Wait. Who is "she?"
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  14019.  @Spotted_sheep  Thank you.
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  14020. Hear, hear.
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  14021. I agree generally with Robby, but the gun dealer analogy is inapt. No one can sell guns to kids, and no one designs guns for kids. These corporations do high-level research on creating behavioral addiction to their products, especially in young, developing people. This makes it different.
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  14022. Did I miss something? Is Ivanka suggesting that the global emergency is a normal time, and permanent? A twenty-year-old has almost 50 years of work in front of them. Are they supposed to let the current emergency determine the next 50 years?
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  14023. Vance's comments are poorly disguised bitterness, resulting from his disappointments or frustrations with his own life. Of course he doesn't see it. He thinks The Other is causing all of his problems. I don't judge people who've made different fundamental choices about their lives. I'm glad I don't have to weigh in. I had an intact family. Do I make offhand remarks about the validity of Vance rising to the position of VP because he had a troubled childhood? Obviously not. In fact, I almost forgot to mention it, because it doesn't matter. It doesn't taint a person. This has nothing to do with Kamala's qualifications. I agree she is not qualified. (We haven't had a qualified person run for a long time.)
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  14024.  @TheJohnnyonthespot1  Yes 1% is massive, I agree. My state has had almost 12% of its residents with confirmed cases of COVID, and over 1.8% of those people died. The true number of cases is likely much higher, because mild cases were not identified, and the number of severely ill and injured but not killed is certainly higher. Yet that means up until now, about 0.23% of the residents have died of COVID. The extent of disability might be important, however. COVID really does cause clinical depression and cognitive issues for an extended period. Full recovery can take 9 to 12 months. Not a joke, no. But the vaccine push has not been honest, either. "If you have to shame people, . . . something just doesn't seem right." This is simply true.
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  14025.  @bperez8656  Look up the cases he lost. You don't even have to spell the name right.
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  14026. ​ @lorraineclark2307 It's blatant fundraising.
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  14027. Who knew to be offended until they were told they ought to be? Some thought it was Dionysios. I would criticize that because the Olympic Games were a festival honoring Zeus. Dionysios was honored in different festivals, not the Olympics.
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  14028.  @tech10k14  What delusion?
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  14029. I think Samantha's facial expressions -- and belief in her own psychoanalytic and geopolitical prowess -- suggest she needs some counseling. "Marquis de Sade's playbook?" Does she know what that is?
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  14030.  @Rose-jz6ix  Because I read? So, a woman who was twice divorced, once bankrupt, and whose two older children were raised by their father's parents is so "intelligent," she must be the object of jealousy by her younger sister? Really, now? And who brings up de Sade. Yeesh, that wouldn't occur to a normal person. I remember how each of Paul McCartney's wives got hate bombed. Old story. blocked, btw
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  14031. ​ @heatherweeks7944 Me too
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  14032.  @Viewable11  Good point.
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  14033. Aaron is the best journalist covering international affairs today.
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  14034. Don't be so sure. They maintain their privacy, which means we don't know for sure.
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  14035. 3:04 Robby's remark is just as ridiculous. Okay, maybe slightly less. This is great for the BRICS. Keep it up. Billions of people will thank you.
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  14036. Wow. Max is my favorite.
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  14037. @km-vm9yl  Well, but she wasn't. And yeah, losing half your family's income usually means a serious hit for all but the independently wealthy. You are too fixated on the billionaire class.
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  14038. They must have taken out huge mortgages and luxury car loans . . .
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  14039.  @joelhenry5489  Prove that up.
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  14040.  @joelhenry5489  SPLC is a great source for information, so I will look it up. The timeline matters; when did he do these things? Before or after Greenwald represented him? I still remember Mitterrand being attacked for commuting the sentence of a woman who later was involved in far-left terrorist acts. He said "at the time she wasn't what she would later become." He was quite indignant, too. Pre-computer days. The last happy ones.
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  14041.  @joelhenry5489  Look up who represented Hale in his federal criminal trial for soliciting the murder of a federal judge. I'll post the link separately. Check his biography, too.
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  14042. She's making bank. She doesn't expect to be elected.
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  14043. I usually disagree with you. ^1000 this time.
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  14044. Or learn the laws. He was spreading real misinformation -- shooting someone over mere property is illegal. You can defend a person's life and limb with lethal force, but not property without imminent threat of harm to a person.
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  14045.  @kristinchamberlain531  I think a lot of the Russian interference is experimentation. They try to float something, then wait to see whether there will be a reaction. It's one of the things they do to collect intelligence. I believe they do it all the time.
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  14046.  @hildolfrdraugadrottin7279  I love your perspective and hope it's on target.
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  14047. Dr. Grande looks so sad in this video.
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  14048. ​ @chadwalrod795 😂😂😂
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  14049.  @proppergander5529  No surprise. Mine mentioned the s wine that flew in ___, as in, "___ trombones in the big parade . . . "
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  14050. Babies have an important vaccine schedule already. How does this vaccine fit in with others?
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  14051. While you're at it, check out the video of the BRICS+ summit, held in Moscow to welcome the new members. A little light bulb might go off.
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  14052.  @jackflack4253  LOL we know who voted that up
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  14053. I have to give Robbie's libertarianism credit this time. Fire every last person from the mayor on down. Every last one. Someone still pays taxes for these guys??
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  14054. I think that's a good sign.
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  14055. ​ @Haxerous OBVIOUSLY Wait. You all don't see that he is nuts? Really???
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  14056. No matter what you do, someone can say it's faked.
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  14057. I believe you.
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  14058. Agreed. Shadowing is particularly sinister. The idea is for you not to know whether anyone else can see your post. We accept SO much manipulation!
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  14059. 52:19 "What about the people dying in hospital beds denying they have COVID?" What about them, Graham? That is a reason to choose vaccination, for sure. Why is that an argument for mandates, even for minors? Say. Why are there television cameras in hospitals? Remember when family was banned?
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  14060.  @debrat5236  What CLINTON did was let the investment bankers pick your pocket while making it look like it was merely a matter of "personal responsibility." So much better than taxes! The idea is to hide the theft and create stratagems to force you to participate. As matters stand, their operations are more invisible that Bernie Madoff's or Jeffrey Epstein's. Rarely do we get a glimpse, like we did in 2008 - 2009 (and will again).
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  14061.  @brandonflood5850  A lot of the charter schools are even worse -- they are a truly mixed bag, some clearly much better and some clearly worse, and most not particularly different -- not even necessarily safer. It's a mess, actually. I agree with most of your other points. Schools must prioritize education; even universities don't anymore. Fraternity/sorority "life" was a top priority, along with football for so long, which is simply entertainment, and now that "safe spaces" have emerged to cater to a different college crowd, the right wing has suddenly noticed that the priorities are skewed -- nevermind that Business has been the most popular degree for several decades now. Most such degrees are worth less than an English degree from an academic standpoint, but they do show future employers the requisite docility.
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  14062. ​ @ML-my8qq  Look, did people really miss her point? First of all, campaign staffers write these tweets. It is highly unlikely that Kennedy did -- practically impossible. Briahna knows how this works, because she was the press secretary on a major campaign -- Bernie's. Now, if someone else did it, think about what THAT would mean. Go through the possibilities. Bad hiring -- possible. A plant -- possible. Hmm . . . Are people getting the picture?
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  14063. "Western civilization" 🤣🤣🤣
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  14064. Exactly. We will VOTE THEM OUT. Primary every last phony.
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  14065. He's a very funny guy.
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  14066.  William Webber  Wait, do you imagine the Red Army "needed" America to enter WWII? What do you think the timeline of WWII was?? You do believe in dates, right? Like, June 1941 came before June 1944? Dates are not a conspiracy.
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  14067.  William Webber  Or is it possible that Hedges actually worked for his money, and that several books, where he actually said what he firmly, and with complete honesty, believed to be true, became best sellers? Where is the hypocrisy?
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  14068.  William Webber  I addressed your "arguments" and positions. Nowhere did I call you anything. But I'm an "infant," and I'm advancing ad hominem. And you aren't projecting. Why is EVERY right winger that way? You really think you deserve more rights than other people do, and you see things that are not there. Very odd. But you can make money that way, simply a fact. Go for it! Le champs est libre.
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  14069.  William Webber  I guess some people just don't accept the notion that "success" can mean something other than accumulating money. It can have other definitions. Thus for me, no one was ever more successful than the man who stood up to two other people and prevented nuclear war, all while believing they would soon be dead. That was the original point -- "success" does have more than one definition. I don't know Hedges personally, much less do I "see into his soul." If writing things he knows about and things he actually believes in brings him book royalties, I don't see the purported "hypocrisy." I know he teaches in prisons for for very little money or possibly none. I know Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash played hundreds of prison shows for free. But if you just want to count money, no problem. You have more company, no doubt.
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  14070.  @percybedford6266  Are you kidding? You mean you missed Russia Russia Russia? Not to mention that it grew in the end into an ethnic smear against a non-Western people. False accusations against someone like Trump benefit him. He can point to it forever to discredit true reports about the harm he has done. Very dangerous game.
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  14071. If only! At least that sounds like it might be fun.
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  14072. Which is likewise the basis of a number of other rights, including the right to birth control.
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  14073. Oh I get it. You don't know stuff.
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  14074. @Hippie Farmer Can you be serious? He admitted to Bob Woodward that he knew that COVID represented a danger to the US and HID it. He politicized the whole issue. Fauci and Trump played good cop bad cop. Trump went along with Fauci when Fauci pushed the funding of gain of function research at Wuhan, and did nothing to look into it. Trump was the laziest and most disordered person to be president.
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  14075. I'm almost there with you. ;/
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  14076. Perfect. So funny. Have you heard "sado-altruism?" A good one!
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  14077.  @gfarrell80  I thought those went together. Don't serviceable yachts have chopper pads?
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  14078.  @romaretaylor9953  Explain to me why any progressive would obediently vote for Pelosi, especially with no demands.
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  14079.  @HotBoxnChevys  Um, that was irony. Seriously, . . .
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  14080.  @HotBoxnChevys  The remark you were responding to was written in jest. I guess that needs to be spelled out in careful detail now. But . . . Doesn't that ruin the joke? Or, tell a joke yourself, and laugh at it yourself. That works.
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  14081.  @tracieday8661  If I were Ruler of the World, I'd give Depp $1, and make the lawyer whose speech was found to be defamatory (and pinned on Depp!) refund his entire legal fee to Depp. With interest. 😂 Actually, I don't believe any of this was defamation under the law, but if rough justice were my goal . . .
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  14082. How about a haircut and suit? Why make them look more serious than you?
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  14083. Thank you.
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  14084. 💯 Finally! Someone besides me sees this for what it is!!! THANK YOU.
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  14085.  @utah_koidragon7117  The policies that ensured the working class were fairly compensated for their labor --- the policies that ensured the financial sector was closely regulated (because deregulation becomes functionally equivalent to counterfeiting), offshoring jobs was not incentivized and subsidized, and the minimum wage had real purchasing power. Why do you think a 1967 college student could work their own way through school, and a 2020 grad is in debt until their 50s?
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  14086.  @utah_koidragon7117  Getting individual health insurance was no big thing in 1960. Anyone who wanted it could have it. And those who didn't, saved up for a baby and paid for it themselves. My parents did that.
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  14087.  @fritzforsthoefel8031  That's not what happened, lol. How do they get you to believe that? What used to be affordable with hard work now requires massive debt, or getting hugely lucky in the stock market. Every major politician has contributed to these developments. This is what happens when FIRE takes over an economy (finance, insurance, real estate). These are all less productive or unproductive parts of the economy.
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  14088.  @fritzforsthoefel8031  Safe public transit is sufficient, where it exists. Fresh food, not fast food.
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  14089.  @boostinggtirtime  You're right that full review is still pending. I should have said that so far, the immune enhancement issue looks very, very good, really great, based on peer-reviewed studies, not comments on newscasts made by one person.
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  14090. Amen.
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  14091. He died in prison.
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  14092. It's ubiquitous.
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  14093.  @hehheh382  I didn't hear that. I'll watch again. They discussed a hospitalization rate of 1 to 3%, and Jimmy made clear the entire range was too high. Who thinks less than 1% of 120 million could be ten million?
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  14094.  @notabene7381  A problem you always have with mandates is that they inherently place the burden on the individual who legitimately needs an exemption to prove they should get an exemption. Someone else decides. Another problem is that they breed mistrust. Would you allow Graham to make any medical decision for you? Would you allow me? This is why mandates have to be handled very carefully. Up until this pandemic, many developed countries did not have vaccination mandates for school children. (Did you know? Look it up.) Encouragement was considered to work better, and encouragement was strong.
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  14095.  @OMGAnotherday Nice discussion, thanks. I'm also becoming very concerned about the effects political measures to alleviate spread have been having. Constant focus on health, pitting people and groups against one another, and stoking abnormal fear of disease and death has been going on for so long that it is starting to kill and cripple people, too. I saw a video from Switzerland about people who have declined vaccination, and it was very interesting. It was obvious that some people's reasons were nonsensical, and some expressed normal, human concerns. The side effects are bad enough that everyone knows someone who had an inordinately bad experience that they probably should not have exposed themselves to, since they were too young to be at serious risk from the disease. And to be fair, it may not just be vaccines; the constant din about health may have added to their stress, slowing down what would have been a faster recovery from the side effects. This can happen, too. I bet it has. I still remember when "wholistic" was taken seriously.
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  14096. The New Popular Front has the plurality of seats in the National Assembly. This means they got the necessary votes in the most electoral districts, which gave them the plurality of seats. The overall number of votes was for Le Pen's candidates because the places where they won, they won by large margins. The same type of thing happens here when a candidate for president wins a bunch of states by a slim margin, and the other candidate wins a big state, like California, by a landslide. The one who wins the most electoral votes wins.
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  14097. Some charters do great, but in general, they have not met the expectations people had for them. Lots have just funneled money into corrupt adminustrators' pockets. For the very few parents who found them a godsend, I appreciate their feelings about the issue. But that's just the point -- they are not a solution for improving universal education.
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  14098. Tucker is taking some risks.
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  14099. No, not fair. He is a Republican, but his position was not blame shifting this time. Krystal was far better, but Saagar was not bad.
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  14100. 8:15. Brie states she doesn't think Harvard should exist. She gets the irony of all of this. Do you?
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  14101. She lied to federal investigators instead of either telling the truth or declining to be interviewed. It was a dubious case, as they did not record the interview or take close notes.
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  14102. ​ @danielvalleduarte  I would, for the resale value.
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  14103. It doesn't matter. The mob is forming. This will be their last gasp, as their COVID control is starting to break down. They always have these paroxyms of mindless drive to destroy others, right before they themselves collapse. But they are determined to bring Joe down.
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  14104. GLENN!!! wow❤
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  14105. 💯
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  14106. I'm shocked, shocked.
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  14107. Glenn Greenwald had THE best take.
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  14108. Thank you guys!! Happy New Year.
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  14109. So, the president of the TEACHER'S UNION has no idea of the history of American bombing worldwide. Why am I not shocked in the least??
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  14110.  @kingjoe3rd  We used to have constitutional protections against all of the above. USED to. Now, ten-year-old rape victims have to cross state lines to get an abortion, and essential workers who served us bravely in 2020, and recovered from COVID, are fired for not getting the vax.
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  14111.  @kingjoe3rd  No one who ever frequented Epstein's Manhattan digs or set foot on Epstein's island is a "good guy." Period.
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  14112.  @nickcharles1284  What do you think "hearsay" means? In any case, OP said the world should demand answers. You're putting the cart before the horse.
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  14113. “A mother who is really a mother is never free.” -- Balzac
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  14114. The politicians should never influence you either for or against vaccination. Tune them out. They will never give you sound health advice.
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  14115. I believe everything.
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  14116.  @sharonharris9782  By thinking it through.
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  14117. Aaron Mate is amazing. They come no better, and very rarely equal.
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  14118.  @gigaman6  Evidence?
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  14119.  @adrianconnell7143  No idea. I only heard about it here.
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  14120.  @paragonexperience  No one deflected. But you misrepresent what I said.
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  14121.  @paragonexperience  Why can't you distinguish lying from making a mistake? Most people's mistakes are somewhat tendentious. Yours, for example.
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  14122. Amen. ^1000000
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  14123. ​ @JANNICULOUS  Empathy is perfectly fine and proper. But fitness to be a parent means protecting your children's lives. No exceptions, no excuses.
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  14124.  @dallenv  I know Trump was in a high risk group, as was Chris Christie, and both came through fine. Trump even refused to be cooped up in the hospital once he felt better. Pelosi, Newsom, AOC, etc., kept getting caught flounting social distancing and mask mandates. Remember how right after getting well, Trump blurted out that he wanted all Americans to have access to the treatments he had? I suspect they are more expensive than ivermectin, actually.
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  14125. That we are even talking about this is a tragedy. An incomprehensible tragedy.
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  14126. Remember the Dalai Lama's relationship with NXIVM cult. Look that one up.
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  14127. 1. Oh really? 2. Then they all are? Just call any one of 'em a conspiracy theorist, I mean why not?
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  14128.  @chegadesuade  NYTimes, The Upshot column: "Hundreds of Epidemiologists Expected Mask-Wearing in Public for at Least a Year The C.D.C. said Thursday that vaccinated Americans no longer needed masks in most places. Other disease experts recently had a different message: that masks were necessary in public." So much for CDC advice; it bowed to marketing research. I always consult European sources. (That's how I knew to get Prevnar 13, and not wait to age 60.) A German researcher just reported that he believes he knows why the J&J vaccine causes very rare but serious blood clots. Did you miss it? These vaccines all cause more serious side effects in women than men. Tell us when the CDC allows feminism again. When Girls are Allowed to Ask Questions (gasp!!!!)
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  14129.  @Nimbereth  They do. They major in "Business." Maybe they can manage at Staples? Nah, computer science majors will squeeze them out!
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  14130. All irrelevant. Look up the actual court documents.
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  14131.  @joeyboedeker2047  Depends on the custom. There are hands I would not shake.
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  14132.  @joeyboedeker2047  Just what I was thinking. Biden, Trump, the Clintons, not to mention Hunter. The list is much longer, but that's a representative sample. Say. I have an idea. Etiquette also means not noticing when others fail to observe it. Some say that's the first rule of etiquette. Then there's always the principle of staying out of other people's married lives, absent a compelling reason to be involved, usually meaning your advice was sought or something like that. Those are rules, too. Well, in Paris they are anyway.
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  14133.  @island4603  Please quote the part that you read as incestuous.
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  14134.  @27Zangle  So, do you get to hasten the death of a fragile person, or a dying person?
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  14135. These universities are concentrations of capital. A handful of billionaires can dictate, and expect rapid compliance.
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  14136.  @anafaela  The term has been weaponized. And people who do not understand evidence-based reasoning or Bayesian probability, even on a bare, intuitive level, and spin a more elaborate conspiracy when a simpler story is revealed to be baseless, are giving real conspirators the perfect cover. RICO was designed to address something. And extensive research into clandestine operations has revealed astounding conspiracies by the FBI and the CIA to dupe, use honest artists and writers as fronts, experiment on people with psy-ops protocols, and assassinate dissidents. Read Frances Stonor Saunders, read Flint Taylor. Or look up their books.
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  14137. Quaint, that.
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  14138.  @anyascelticcreations  Thanks so much, you are sweet to say so. The best part is, it's true. Seriously.
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  14139.  Real Progressives Allowed  How is it helpful to make up bogus, unhinged nonsense? The "elites" use it to undermine ALL critics. It's an effective move, too. It makes people suspicious and turns them away from all critics. Psy-ops do this ALL the time. QAnon was a gift to Epstein. January 6 was a gift to Biden/Harris. Get a clue.
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  14140.  @spaceycaveco.698  THANK YOU. To call out fake news requires scrupulous honesty. To call out innuendo and defamation requires sound ethics and good manners. It's called not imitating what you pretend to oppose.
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  14141.  @sarcastic_sam9059  So well put. It isn't just about age differences.
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  14142.  @TheRatsintheWalls  That guy blows my mind. If he also saw the massive theft at the top, then of course, I could accept a dialogue. But no.
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  14143.  @capttrips1523  More on that theme, with an example that might resonate: Hunter Biden has great jobs. Drug abuse? We should have sympathy. Breonna Taylor, dead due to a no knock warrant, issued to look for drugs that did not exist (her EX-boyfriend was under suspicion). Oh well. Them's the breaks. What do you THINK is happening?
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  14144.  @TheRatsintheWalls  BUT that is NOT what I'm doing. Did you read my whole comment? My point is, he ignores the people who are not only getting basics taken care of despite their irresponsibility, but are vacuuming up billions, even trillions, while causing clear, identifiable harm, to everyone, that we can document. It's not impressions, opinions, etc. HSBC really did get away with major money laundering. Major Wall Street bankers and others did manipulate markets, LIBOR, etc. The BP well did explode, and leaving BP made Tony Hayward vastly richer. Vastly. I can have a real discussion with anybody who sees that, too. I don't care how conservative they are, culturally or otherwise. Thus guy punches down, knowingly or not! Time to WAKE UP.
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  14145.  KC JONES  The real problem is, as usual, the money. It is simply not true that college is only a vocational school. I know part-time firefighters who also teach full time, and are better able to prepare their kids for life because they have a degree. Intellectual development at ages 17 to 26 lasts a lifetime, and changes most people for the better. If that weren't true, I wonder why we don't end education at 9th grade? What's so important about high school, after all?
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  14146.  @TheRatsintheWalls  No I didn't, but have it your way. State universities used to be very close to free. A student could earn their tuition for the year with a minimum wage summer job. What happened? Health care used to be affordable. Individual policies with low premiums were ubiquitous. That ended. But why? Read up on the financialization of the economy. ALL of these developments are directly linked to the growing global power of the financial sector, which even Adam Smith warned against. He considered it one of the threats to a free market. (Say, I hope your holier-than-thou nonsense isn't due to jealousy? You didn't think to point out these facts, and I did. That mentality is rampant in the English-speaking world. Competition does NOT lead to overall excellence in a society. One more myth.)
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  14147.  KC JONES  Like I said, it's really about the money. State universities used to be so cheap, almost anyone qualified could go. Kids earned tuition money for the year in one summer. (Good for building responsibility, not incidentally. Very important!) One other nonsense that has been broadcast far and wide is that your intelligence is "genetically determined." We now know that is nonsense. It took a long time, but we proved that it is. The rising cost and the degradation of the quality of college is the real problem, two things going in exactly the opposite direction from what individuals and societies really need. Learning how to put what you learn to use, instead of just following instructions, is a lifelong project.
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  14148.  KC JONES  OMG, yes!!
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  14149.  @iamjurell  That's the state, I knew about the state.
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  14150.  @jakeroper1096  Which jury? The Court of YouTube? At least monetize it. Brie did.
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  14151.  @carlosc2731   Of course the ultimate blame rests with Russia. There is no question. People looking forward to a respite from COVID, and a peaceful spring, are now refugees and being killed, their homes shelled. But wars have multiple causes. Of course I know about Nuland. And frankly, after the 2020 economic collapse, I expected war somewhere. The causes for this one are looking worse for the US government by the day. Follow Glenn Greenwald!
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  14152.  @kcorphan308  Brilliant insight. Thank you.
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  14153. Speaking of parents, these two have awesome, angel parents.
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  14154. This used to draw AT LEAST a reprimand from the bar. At LEAST.
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  14155.  @2bRealist  Keep looking, Bub. Thirty-five prominent attorneys signed a letter demanding Powell be investigated for ethics violations, and laid out an argument as to WHY. Pfft. Who is ignorant?
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  14156. He can appear on a whole bunch of shows -- at news organizations he donated to.
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  14157.  @Tiasung  Oh, so it's about the person, not the facts?
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  14158.  @Tiasung  Watch Amy Goodman, then.
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  14159. I've noticed that intelligent posts disappear immediately, while rants stay up. The idea is, if you disagree, you must be an idiot.
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  14160. 💯 In the meantime, Eric has his doctorate from Harvard and works with Peter Thiel.
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  14161. Batya is great. "Give it up" 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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  14162.  @GSPDUKE  It's obvious you took pleasure in eliminating this candidate because of your native anti-intellectualism, born of envy. This undercurrent in American society has always been present, and only its sway changes from time to time. You feel culturally inferior and you're not wrong. These students all asked excellent questions. You just don't know it.
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  14163.  @heffe4257  Have you ever opened a copy? 😂
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  14164.  @jameslong4565  Too bad the rest of my post is ________________.
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  14165. I'm sure that is in the court record, and NO she should not try her case in the press.
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  14166. @angeladibble  Dr. Campbell isn't an attorney or a witness. I'm on her side and want her to win, and be compensated. Be serious.
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  14167.  @TheMansfieldlad  Also, the person said the fact they advanced concerning the law was "likely." What is their basis for that? Legal requirements are not opinions.
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  14168. @BrokenGlass2024  Out of curiosity, do you know of any cases where you are sure CPS removed a child for this reason? I know of a custody dispute where the judge was going to take custody from the mother and give it to the father, but even the father's attorney said that they were not suing her on that basis. It caused quite a stir. The judge reversed himself over the weekend.
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  14169. Except for helping to free the former socialist president of Brazil, quite recently. That was a dangerous investigation.
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  14170. The ducks are breathing a sigh of relief.
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  14171.  @sheilamacdougal4874  BTW, I might board that plane if the alternative was to stay in a war zone. It all depends, doesn't it? To me, an illness with at most a 1 to 2% case fatality rate and well under a 1% infection fatality rate does not warrant measures that we see have destroyed a whole host of other important things.
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  14172.  @sheilamacdougal4874 I'm blocking you from further discussion. You are in bad faith, and offensive. I suspect some of my posts are being shadowed, when yours should be instead.
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  14173.  @georgewagner7787  Just one friend who became an attorney?
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  14174. It is illegal in every state to defend mere property with lethal force. You can defend your physical safety with lethal force. It's really a bright line. She muddled it, actually. She could have just stated the law.
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  14175.  @ManiacMayhem7256  Just saw that guy, an ex-jewel thief? When Jimmy Dore invited criminal justice professor Garland Nixon, that was worthwhile.
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  14176.  @jmtluimem6427  I think you're right -- but keeping down real grassroots is always a factor.
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  14177. Robby focused on the fact that our definition of "incitement to violence" sets a very high standard. We allow a lot of speech that other countries would define as incitement, or as intentional infliction of emotional distress that can give rise to a lawsuit. I like keeping our laws exactly where they are, but that area of law is one that merits discussion. (Remember Westboro Baptist church picketing funerals? Or the cross burning cases?) The stuff in that 60 Minutes clip is a nightmare.
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  14178. ​@katiedonnelly862 No, because he is a shameless grifter. This hand wringing and hate mongering is an easy buck. You work for your money, don't you?
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  14179.  @alexxx4434  Intuition is ultra-rapid non-discursive pattern recognition, and it is a gift. Among the most precious we have.
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  14180. Jimmy's is the most censored channel I know.
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  14181. Exactly. Air travel is safe for a reason.
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  14182.  @loristrode9556  The question is how it got there.
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  14183.  @mkhud50n  They are almost certainly hiding the origins of the virus. They did hide the initial outbreak. I'm more interested in what else they are not telling the rest of the world, that they have an obligation to tell. I was opposed to the lockdowns, by the way. Early (by Feb 1), short, and really hard may have made a difference. Mid-March to June 1 was just torment and economic ruin for millions, with very limited benefit, if any, and side effects we are still suffering from, including poor mental health, irrational fear, and the willingness to do anything they tell us to do to avoid another lockdown. The unethical and probably illegal vaccine mandates were a product of the irrational fear of COVID and of new lockdowns.
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  14184.  @Christian___  Vance is bitter about his family life and you are bitter about your paycheck. 😂😂😂
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  14185.  @Christian___  When you said "perfect." 😂😂😂 Need for putting very ordinary people on a pedestal and worshipping them, need for magical thinking, denial of ordinary material reality that everyone (every adult, anyway) must confront, etc. I won't continue, it's cruel.
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  14186. Does Trump always lie deliberately, or does he sometimes forget what he said a few minutes ago? I see evidence of both . . .
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  14187. BTW, Rittenhouse is not who people thought he was. He is close to his mother and sisters, and his older sister participated in demonstrations supporting George Floyd/Black Lives Matter. Rittenhouse's first lawyers were far right ideologues who screwed him. Throwing this confused and underprivileged MINOR to the wolves was not right, or astute. Jimmy got this one right again. Surprised me, TBH.
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  14188. THIS Perfect
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  14189.  @alostcause4035  because someone taught him that slogan and he feels compelled to repeat it
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  14190. Which isn't unfair.
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  14191. Some do. You hear Levy wonder if he can stay.
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  14192. Or? You sound like it didn't happen in 2016. A process that started in 1980 . . .
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  14193. Waiting 65 years for health care . . .
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  14194. These two didn't read the court documents. It's perfectly obvious. Reporting on lawsuits is generally pretty poor, but this was exceptional.
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  14195.  @steveclapper5424  Yes, true.
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  14196. Is Moore having trouble with debt? It's usually the creditors who control this discourse. (P. S. His net worth does not mean he doesn't have creditors breathing down his neck. Even billion-dollar corporations file for bankruptcy reorganization. To wit: Trump!)
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  14197. Yeah, okay, but is anybody stunned?
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  14198.  @SunlightOfTheSpirit  LOL okay, why?
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  14199.  @marieroxylox1456  I admit it, I could not listen to her, I spontaneously tuned out. I didn't know.
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  14200. 😂😂😂
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  14201.  @abcxyz-bu4bq  Of course not. Watch some videos of Malofeev playing piano. Consider the last Olympics as well. It's perfectly obvious. Fear of Slavic peoples, especially those who are perceived as Eurasian, has existed since ancient times. See what minor Roman historians had to say. People don't like "different." Not exactly news.
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  14202.  @johnbauernfeind8116  We have had two years now to observe mobs forming. It is something surprisingly easy. I thought people had more resistance to it.
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  14203. If BIDEN is the only candidate who can beat Trump, then by all means, give it up.
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  14204.  @adamheath1102  You are SO over their heads.
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  14205. Fauci and Trump was a classic good cop-bad cop routine.
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  14206. I found out. She apparently/allegedly brought up the texts and lied about their content. Wow.
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  14207. Who says that?
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  14208.  @josephlongo3109  No one trashed you. I'm asking why you think this is working. During very perilous times, look who the candidates were. What we are doing has led to the proverbial race to the bottom. Find some old videos, and find out how Eisenhower talked, how the Kennedys talked, how Martin Luther King Jr. talked, etc. See what was once expected of leaders, as a bare minimum.
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  14209. Loved Emily here.
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  14210. Well, Jimmy, we all know those pot smokers are responsible for Hunter's problems. /s
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  14211. Look up Dick Cheney's series of DRAFT DEFERMENTS during the Viet Nam War. He nevertheless became Secretary of Defense. Fakery did not start with Trump.
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  14212. He has a scar from an attack.
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  14213. Look up The Guardian article that just reported teen boys who get an mRNA vaccine are at higher risk of hospitalization than are teen boys who contract COVID. This is because of myocarditis.
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  14214.  @tonyz4292  Moreover, there are times when randomized, double blind studies are impossible or unethical. How would you design a randomized double blind study for MASKS, and who would you recruit and how, even if you could give them highly permeable masks that look effective, or something like that? Gawd . . .
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  14215.  @nedrane297  Well, true enough, but don't you find it odd that it is before Congress? With such an undeveloped record? Why? (Was this just for show?) When it comes to that, then it is fair to ask about the violence against Muslims -- not violence to their feelings, but to their bodies. I remember after 9/11 when George Bush said that's not who we are. I mean, he even used it as a pretext for invading Iraq, but he refused to tolerate anti-Muslim violence on our own territory. This society is more and more unprincipled every darn day.
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  14216. This was fine. I thought the pandemic taught us all to question studies -- not to mention all the psychological studies that are never replicated. You should always question them. In any case, leftist thinkers as diverse as Slavoj Žižek and Dr. Gabor Maté have agreed with a version of this, and endorsed what might be labeled "conservative" parenting. European left, to be clear; not contemporary libs.
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  14217. All of this is irrelevant anyway. I don't know why they are confusing the issue. It's purely an obfuscation technique. You cannot shorten the life of a fragile person, or a suicidal person, or a clearly DYING person. That is a homicide. It doesn't matter if he would have been dead later that night. The defense tactic to push this line is wanton, and misleading. They are doing the whole body politic a disservice. Someone needs to speak up against it.
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  14218.  @brandonmiodowski5949  At age 12, when a child is entering puberty, no legal system should take their wishes as dispositive. They are entering the most tumultuous period of their lives of which they are fully conscious. They cannot make these decisions. That's not bad. That's how human beings develop. They are not supposed to have adult judgment yet. If they did, THAT would be abnormal, and a sign that they've been subjected to excessive responsibility too early in life.
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  14219. Ton of shadowed replies. :/
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  14220. Hate this crap. Can't sit through the trailer, much less . . .
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  14221.  @stefaniamoore4641  Well, they sure do have an advanced degree to work in les ecoles maternelles in France. The younger the child, the better the adult teaching them should be educated.
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  14222. Even the armed forces do not have a COVID vaccine mandate. That should tell you something. (EUA and full approval are two different things, maybe? Looks like.)
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  14223.  @Cissy2cute  I heard the VA hospitals do, but not the service members. I know it is under review, you're right about that.
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  14224. Maybe the idea of government excluding and segregating the unvaccinated, and preventing them from engaging in normal life, when vaccines do present risks and give incomplete immunity that wanes so quickly, and when we are talking about an illness with a less than 2% case fatality rate, rubs some people the wrong way? Especially considering we all grocery shopped last year, before any vaccines. Plus the swearing and name calling, from someone who said he got the Johnson and Johnson vaccine, which does not do as much as mRNA to stop spread. Hm. That might be it. Well, maybe.
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  14225. No '60s hippie documentary is complete without the Manson Family.
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  14226. Not at all. He's a good attorney.
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  14227. Take it easy and be good to yourself. Do something extra special for yourself this weekend. And next weekend. And every weekend for a few months. Then let us know how you are doing.
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  14228. Could be 100× worse? Just "could" be? I guess they are working hard on this one.
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  14229. Brilliant, thank you.
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  14230. Not a good quote. Everyone in this country has a right to remain silent. It implicates exactly nothing.
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  14231.  @rjb7569  Silence may be cowardice, it may at times be abhorrent, but it is never a lie. Don't be a dupe for slogans. Listen to the words.
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  14232. ​ @RustyStator  I had to think a while about what that meant. How sad, lol.
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  14233. @kreativeforce532  Oh I see. My last post didn't have neon sarcasm flags attached.
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  14234. Even her friends told her to just "be nice" to him. Gawd.
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  14235. Finally someone brought up race. YES IT IS RELEVANT. Face it.
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  14236. @matthewkopp2391  💯 I am SO sorry this happened to you, but the rest of your post cheered me up to no end. Someone sees through this, finally. A few of us, actually. Thank you.
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  14237. ​@Cold4ged Tell me how that happened. Because I didn't see it. I saw her make an important point about pro-Israeli propaganda, and Senator Paul make an important point about the ridiculous gender policing on "elite" campuses.
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  14238. @Cold4ged  I think these points are all well taken. I see missed opportunities all the time, and reflecting on what Senator Paul said, the point I find that I remember most strongly was the one about who Brandenburg's lawyers were. (And by the way, what the ___ happened?? Where did that spirit go?) The points you make are right back at him --- effective points, rather than coming across as special interest pleading. Great post, everyone should read it.
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  14239. Be sure to eat vitamin K rich foods every day.
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  14240.  @Dez083  "Just because?" There's no record here. 🤣 Nah, you aren't going to waste my time. Go find a new target.
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  14241.  @stephensuddick1896  You blame them because you reflexively punch down. Cheap thrills.
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  14242. @brucemarmy8500  I am paraphrasing James Baldwin (his centennial was August 2), because I cannot seem to find the exact quote: "And anyway, since it will end one day, why not try it -- life -- one more time?"
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  14243. When DNC and MSM made Trump the standard, this is how low it goes.
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  14244. Certainly. It's one more way to hide this vicious crime.
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  14245. This is f**king tragic.
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  14246. ​ @peterbenko9395  And someone fired over THIS doesn't deserve it?
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  14247. 💯 And giving Fauci huge authority, then a commendation.
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  14248. And for knowing in late 2019, and failing to warn or take any steps. He is lazy. But his buddies rearranged their portfolios.
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  14249.  @joanndavid3406  The people here have formed a mob. Her real-world qualifications make them hate her more. It always works that way, like when the smartest kid in class will be bullied and hazed, no matter how nice they are at heart.
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  14250.  @supercarsandlifestyle  She works for free a lot. That's what pro bono means.
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  14251.  @OutragedPufferfish  Some people read a lot.
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  14252.  @OutragedPufferfish  Blocked
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  14253.  @redarmysoja  Looks like it, yeah. Time to listen to Max Blumenthal's interview of Mattias Desmet again, on mass formation.
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  14254. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 or, ditto
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  14255.  @OnimenoJason  Except that when the story surfaced, the AG had no corroborating information AND an Ohio Congressman called the whole thing a hoax. In that atmosphere, would you have preferred to wait a week to see what happens, or to take your daughter to another state and have the procedure completed according to the timetable you had already set?
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  14256.  @pmberkeley  THANK YOU
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  14257. You've met her, have you?
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  14258. Love this
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  14259.  @StephenGrover-zc4hp  No, I think he's rotten in other ways. He set Hunter up, then left him alone as long as "10% for the Big Guy."
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  14260.  @lowcarbsgood7847  You do have a point. Two things: I would never advise anyone to submit to FBI or CIA questioning voluntarily, without a subpoena, especially not in this case. But Andrew could have agreed to be debriefed by his own intelligence services, with no harm possible to him. For all we know, maybe he was.
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  14261. I suspect all of these "sensations" of being set ups.
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  14262. Beyond crisis. No words.
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  14263. I didn't think of that, but absolutely, that is the right way to think, to protect innocent lives. Thanks for the reality check.
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  14264. They cannot be censored in their practice.
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  14265.  @ln5425  Nonsense. Accelerating wealth concentration was deliberately engineered, and is relatively new. Is Goldman Sachs a pediatric neurosurgery group? No? Well then, they must be aeronautical engineers. Hm, not that, either. Wait, I know! Nobel Prize-winning chemists and physicists! What?? I struck out??? Then explain how they got this rich.
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  14266. Aaron Mate's Push Back interviewed Stephen F Cohen over 2 years ago. The title of the segment is Why Are We Arming Ukraine?
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  14267. I WISH every American could hear these ten minutes, starting here: 1:00:17 He talks about France and UK, but the story applies to Biden and Trump. Biden needed Trump like Macron needs Le Pen. UK revolted and voted Brexit for good reason. Their jobs and unions were deliberately destroyed, then they got a few lousy handouts from supercilious Tony Blair, who was supposedly Labour. Brexit was a vote against this system. He said Hillary would prefer to see Trump, or even Satan, become president before she could tolerate a Bernie Sanders.
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  14268. New bubble? YA THINK?
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  14269. No. Jimmy is helping him get on MSM.
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  14270. You know what? That THIS diverted you is the problem. Whistling in the dark.
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  14271. Yeah, it is pretty bad, but somebody had to do it. Some people don't understand sweetsy.
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  14272. You don't know why? Ever talk to someone who has been crushed by this society? Repeatedly suffered from medical malpractice? Systematically lied to? Told a procedure would be free, then presented with a $10,000 bill? Pushed to vaccinate, then presented with the 8-page release form, and no access to meaningful compensation in case of injury? Abused, denigrated, and bullied for simply asking questions? And who never received the kind of science and philosophy education needed to cope with these assaults properly, and resist the pull of crazy conspiracy theories and rumors? I can figure it out.
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  14273. Yes, because they crave being irradiated. They watched that Star Trek episode where it makes people stronger.
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  14274. Report on VAERS. It's hard. Have someone with you for support.
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  14275. ​@gavintrades3425 Easy: fifty years ago, minimum wage jobs covered rent, medical care, and in-state tuition literally everywhere in the country. This gave people opportunities to become educated, live where they want, and try out different jobs without being petrified of ending up on the street. The top four quintiles in income had a chance. Now, only the top quintile does; in fact, only the top 10% is truly secure. No, Silicon Valley and Wall Street have not provided us with a better life. They have provided us with a financialized service economy and mass surveillance, plus advertising we can no longer spot and defend ourselves against. When people are always watched and don't make real things, count on lying to be a major job description. No, it's not good. Also, if you've ever lived in different cities with different levels of inequality, you know from experience that less inequality is better. Some inequality is normal; San Francisco level makes no sense.
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  14276. @joshbobst1629  Gosh. Thanks. It's clear from how much people 13 to 30 are suffering. If I let myself think about it, I get so mad.
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  14277. No, it shouldn't. It's the IOC's mistake. Their responsibility.
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  14278. Bizarre. The Soviets had outstanding physical science and mathematics education. Their engineering didn't match American, but math education surpassed it.
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  14279.  @lumailisa  You forgot the riots?
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  14280. sadly
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  14281.  @LVArturs  This is a good summary -- sadly. You did omit the fact that Ukraine has been making war on the Donbass since 2014, but overall, what you've said is on target. The US does not "act" like a bully. Their covert bullying tactics are much more sophisticated, and much less tied to peoples, lands, physical territories, and so forth. They want to control human behavior to its very depth, but without all the muss and fuss, and they are getting better at it in every round, like a self-teaching robot.
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  14282.  @KrystalessR  Your question at the end is great. What IS going on? I support the presumption of innocence; a person who has not been charged or convicted of a crime is presumed innocent. We don't know yet who was responsible for Gabby's death. But you already see people trying to find some way to blame her. WHY? If there is insufficient evidence at present to blame Brian for a homicide, how could there possibly be any reason at all to blame the homicide victim? It's senseless. Worse than senseless. Another part I'm having trouble with is that I've heard the white van Brian drove back to Florida being described as belonging only to Gabby. Why couldn't Brian have been detained on suspicion of auto theft, which apparently also left the rightful owner at an unfamiliar campgrounds at risk of danger? That isn't borrowing a car. This has never been explained.
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  14283.  @gayebowles9352  Did she say who she voted for?
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  14284.  @judybrown1810  LOL. I didn't even think of that. Dear God save us.
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  14285. An MSNBC talking head just did a video claiming Tucker Carlson lied about what one of the sources for his biolabs editorial says. The MSNBC video then lies about what the source TC allegedly misrepresented actually says. There are literally thousands of people calling TC a traitor, an agent of Russia, and calling for his arrest, based on this MSNBC report. NO ONE looked up the disputed text. If you try to, you will be mobbed. Mass formation psychosis all right.
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  14286. I plan to try to find her and listen to her. I read her book on the tree house, which had some very eloquent parts. She has always been strange, but in a good way. The last place I saw her was in a video at Oxford, filmed years ago. She comes across as extremely warm.
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  14287. Casey and Calley Means were just on X with Tucker Carlson. That's who RFK Jr mentioned.
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  14288.  @JiveDadson  I agree! It's the type of girl that was being discussed. But it is always good to clarify. Anyway, Shakespeare is, in part, formulaic, in order to orient the audience quickly, especially in his comedies (think of Twelfth Night). It's not necessarily a flaw.
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  14289.  @peterstafford4426  << ALWAYS block ("mute") this one. >>
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  14290. Of course the ultimate blame for the invasion rests with Russia. People looking forward to a respite from COVID, and a peaceful spring, are now refugees, being killed, their homes shelled. But wars have multiple causes. The causes for this one are looking worse for the US government and NATO by the day. They do, however, expect impunity, again. I wonder if they can pull it off -- again? The Indian press and TeleSUR are reporting China has demanded an accounting of the biolabs the US Department of Defense funds all over the world. P. S. Started well before 2014! Look at Clinton. Look there.
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  14291. "But look, Trump!!" Trump was a gift to the DNC.
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  14292. Competing cults
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  14293. They were acting alone, or as part of "well-trained militias?" No one can join the armed forces before age 18 without parental consent. No one was drafted during WWII unless they were 18 and already had a high school diploma, or had attained age 19 -- or, lied about their age to go.
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  14294.  @kevinschmidt2210  Full agreement. The ADULTS in this picture have a lot to answer for.
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  14295. ​ @liz-iy6zm I've never watched CNN. I don't bother with cable.
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  14296. ​ @liz-iy6zm Wait, you mean you think those gummies are good for your arteries? 😂
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  14297. I'm reminded of the possible breast cancer cluster in the San Francisco area, which took a LONG time to analyze. It turned out that the number of cases, though higher than what may have been expected, was within the norms of the demographic affected, and the "cluster" was not statistically significant. Yet it was important to let women know to be vigilant, and do what little we could determine might lower risk (such as exercise, occasional fasting, more plant-based foods, vegan days, etc., and of course regular mammography). Similarly, we DO have a problem with vaccine injury, and we DO need to get to the bottom of it. Screaming at the victims is vile. Multivariate analysis is not easy, and takes a long time to complete because there are unavoidable judgment calls to be made. The report from Germany that Dr. Campbell highlighted in his previous video is a basis for starting a serious inquiry, never mind all of these other studies. I don't prejudge how it will end, but there is too much signal amidst the noise. Dismissing it is bad faith, and does nothing to reassure the public concerning the integrity of the medical system.
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  14298. Who are these nearly 2 out of 5 who approve? Unreal.
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  14299.  @_this  Read the actual antitrust case. It gives the history of Microsoft. It's a fascinating read, and a lesson to anyone who thinks dominance in the market is purely a matter of "merit." (Well, the software isn't very good, everyone must know that much by now, and the annual subscription fees for Word, etc., are appalling.)
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  14300.  @johnjacob3175  He doesn't have a high school diploma or a GED. No, recruiters are not looking at him. Can you be serious? I can't believe how people are "taking sides." He is a messed-up KID who had no business being there, and should not have been tried as an adult in the first place, if tried at all.
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  14301. @garrettgutierrez2677  Why would they use their HOME as collateral? That has got to be one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. I have yet to meet anyone who has done that, and even bankruptcies did not place their home at risk. The corporate form is designed to shield you from liability and to prevent your own property from being at risk in case of corporate insolvency -- and that includes no clawback on your salary. If you are going to start your own business, spend the money you need to spend for competent consulting.
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  14302. I knew the vaccine mandates were softening up the people for this. It was excruciatingly obvious.
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  14303. ​ @tansywelsh1636  Maybe you should reconsider whether that is the best thing for you? Maybe there are better things out there?
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  14304. Bless her! I'm not surprised, though.
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  14305. I hope you're right. 💯
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  14306. This is the USA. Private property is king. Used to own people . . . Remember?
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  14307. J-L Melenchon seems to be making a serious run.
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  14308. See New York Magazine, August 2019, for a discussion of Marianne Williamson's position on vaccines --- far from unequivocally in support. Someone should ask Krystal for comment.
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  14309. Could you let us know what you believed helped you? I understand that your experience is not a recommendation for anyone else. It's just information, so that people can approach their doctors with intelligent questions.
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  14310.  @greenbay123100  A lot of French people agreed with that. I don't.
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  14311.  @beatekreuzer5025  Get us to accept a first strike against Russia?
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  14312. Confirms everything we knew.
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  14313. ​ @reason34343  Good point about ignorance. Same for rudeness. It's too common to mean much.
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  14314. @bengacosta2700  Insipid moralizing to victims. It is up to her now. She will figure it out, and she does not need one-size-fits-all pablum, or hectoring under the guise of virtue. She already got that type of thing from her fiancé.
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  14315. I agree generally with Robby, but the gun dealer analogy is inapt. No one can sell guns to kids, and no one designs guns for kids. These corporations do high-level research on creating behavioral addiction to their products, especially in young, developing people. This makes it different.
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  14316. ​ @deadgolfer6345  YES. There are even courses at the university level in applied psychology. They usually are euphemistically called making products "sticky." This has been true for a long time. Fast food does it, too. This should be common knowledge, frankly.
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  14317. The Soviets succumbed only after losing 27 million in WWII. 1917 was no more mad than any other revolution. No more, nor less. Supporting slavery for the sake of independence while mouthing all men are created equal is comparable.
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  14318.  @stischer47  Not one but TWO atom bombs.
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  14319. We need not imagine. We can just watch.
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  14320. I agree about psyops, btw. 👍
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  14321.  @za-ir5ni  Considering all the lies we were told, it's not stark raving mad to doubt those numbers as well.
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  14322. No, the mind is not a computer. See, e.g., Roger Penrose.
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  14323. ​ @nelsonx5326  This!
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  14324. @dwbkmj  Oh!! Sorry, lol. Timestamp? Funny how we correct stuff mentally. Zero in proofreading for me!
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  14325. How do you know it wasn't Dionysios?
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  14326. Our Department of Defense openly stated that it funded many such facilities in Ukraine like it was a good thing. The posts were still up on government websites even after Nuland testified. I don't think her testimony was a surprise to anyone. It was a test balloon. The test was successful.
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  14327. Or how about this, guys? Look up what other countries are doing. That might tell you something.
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  14328. Non-Five Eyes cities are better than Five Eyes.
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  14329.  clot shots  How could you tell she had two masks?
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  14330. Journalistic equivalent of insider trading.
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  14331. What did essential workers make during COVID?
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  14332. 6:56 is good, too . . .
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  14333. The only people who don't find it are the ones who give up. That's all.
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  14334.  @olaspaz3079  Agreed
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  14335. 5:07 About 50 seconds And . . . 43:28 About 2 minutes or so (to the end) All ya need.
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  14336.  @MittyNuke1  I know. Weird.
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  14337. ​ @clee4971  😂
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  14338. She's trying to make an argument about criminalization, where she certainly has a case -- but that's not what Charlamagne was talking about. The issue is free speech. She didn't acknowledge his point.
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  14339. One of the best segments ever done on Rising.
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  14340. So, in the Internet Age of greater feedom, the noble tradition of raising STRIKE FUNDS is forbidden. Got it.
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  14341. You beat me to it.
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  14342.  @fvc233  Just downloaded the actual indictment. Should be an interesting read. The whole thing appears to be based on his fake "build a wall" charity. But it's 24 pages, I'll have to delve into the details.
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  14343. He was disabled in New York, then moved to live more cheaply. He qualified while here. This clip didn't make it clear.
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  14344.  @Dee_Leoni  To be fair, autocorrect is hideous and does strange things.
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  14345. BTW, I edit as a test of whether I'm being censored or shadowed.
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  14346. And I am. Too bad.
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  14347. 6:30 THANK YOU ROBBIE
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  14348. People who make justice impossible make Luigi inevitable. Well, I hope not, but . . . I would not risk this. 😒
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  14349. While the British are in mourning, and the US observes September 11th, the French are celebrating La Fête de l'Humanité. Strange to note that.
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  14350. Russia did this? I forgot.
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  14351. Anyone with the market power to demand more, will.
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  14352. Oh yes it is. These are not normal times, dear.
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  14353. ​ @georgemetesky5519 That would come as no surprise, either.
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  14354. The Red Army defeated Hitler's Wehrmacht. But the United States won the war. :/
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  14355. They figure the gutting of education will take care of that.
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  14356. Um, that was Kim's point.
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  14357.  @reddwood4971  That was not well said. When you lose count how many times a person says "THEY" in a short text, you need to pause. There is something going on that is not sensible or sound.
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  14358.  @contentofficial2129  No, it's about Cuomo's exposed megalomania and excuse-making, and he expects the excuse to fly. "Someone else was even worse" is an answer? Well, who isn't outraged by Trump at this point? Lots of personality cults emerging left and right.
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  14359. He came across as working class. Rich people never put apologies in writing. They know to be cagey.
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  14360.  @xaco5050  Don't know anyone who defends this. But it IS happening, I guess someone must be.
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  14361.  @barryscott8041  They did a horrendous job. Did you get the impression they know or love the First Amendment? Me, neither.
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  14362.  @lynnees9828  Mine did, to the end. "Wishful thinking" was his phrase.
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  14363. Luck is no sudden Category 1 storm. Luck is not having a father who set sail with you when the weather was "a little choppy," and jeered at you for crying. Am I lucky to have imagination? It's not evident.
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  14364.  @davemwangi05  You beat me to it.
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  14365. ​@Taxationistheft928 Why do you assume that? No evidence either way.
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  14366. So, we are risking war for Paulie's paycheck.
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  14367. Finally, do you seriously think HRC lost because of Kremlin interference? That is deluded.
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  14368.  @Bluebelle51  This guy might be a bot?
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  14369.  @brentshowers741  I read the link. It does not say anything about Tulsi. I read it three times.
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  14370. Cell phone data put her too far away. Her story about what she was doing that night checked out. His story did not; there was evidence that he was present. Enough to create reasonable suspicion concerning her guilt.
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  14371. Then you never heard the late Stephen F. Cohen, who cautioned that exactly this invasion was a grave risk.
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  14372. Because her job is to be a good image tender on social media. It's an advertising platform.
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  14373. He isn't very bright, frankly. I've heard these persuaders before.
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  14374. The statute has no definition of "near." There have been decades of pro-life rallies held near the Supreme Court, all of which were protected speech and assembly. First Amendment. A lot of people are going after the First Amendment lately. Watch for that move. This one looks like a good-cop, bad-cop routine with one goal in mind, and it's not to help you.
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  14375. It never has been. Ever heard of Eminent Domain? It's in the Constitution.
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  14376.  @robertchiarizia9463  I just answered. I sure hope it won't disappear. That seems to be a thing lately.
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  14377. Her musical theatre career collapsed? She likes the money?
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  14378. Why do the people who do the worst things make the most money
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  14379. Oh no, I laughed. Not that it's funny, actually. Great image, I guess. :/
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  14380. Suppose we don't mind dying? I figure that anything that happens to everybody just can't be that bad.
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  14381.  @Max-rw8nc  It's not just that. Most French people don't stop working. They find another job that they really like, something part-time of course, or they open their own shop. Or if they were a professional, they retain the clients they really liked. When they retire is when they get to do what they've always wanted. They're not unproductive. It's not a custom to just veg out.
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  14382.  @rodrigosimoes9284  Then I don't care about your opinions, either. No worries.
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  14383. This is such nonsense. You don't have to close off your creativity to make grades. Once you get a clear picture of what is going on, earning As is easy. With the rest of your time, you move on to other things. You come to realize that your projects matter more than any teacher's, AND you know which teachers to avoid. That's good training, as everyone will have to answer to someone at least some of the time. Figure it out in school, where the stakes are lower.
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  14384. @goodtalk985  All OP made were condescending remarks. Why should I bother to go to the trouble of timestamping and commenting? My condescending remarks must have one-upped theirs for you to be flailing.
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  14385. @danboehm9088  Oh, you're the one who made the "Gold Medal" remark. See above, re: arguments as compared with advertising slogans.
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  14386.  @franwi1722  If that's the case, it's a fair criticism. I will check.
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  14387.  @masterchief9291  Disagree. The stark contrast tells you something very important about how we've been groomed to think and react, and what we're supposed to think is important (or else?). The perspective of distance is irreplaceable.
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  14388. ​ @tiziacaia9090  Dr. Campbell had a spike in his blood pressure right after his booster dose, and is now on medication for life. He does not know whether his case is mostly/partly due to the vaccine, and will never know, but that is now an identified side effect. The sad part is that he did not need the booster.
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  14389. That was her point.
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  14390. Amber was wrong. Yes they were exonerated, and yes they settled a civil rights suit for $41 million. In New York, a civil rights suit would be dismissed outright unless there was evidence of actual innocence. A vacated verdict was not enough. Try reading the complaint. I bet these three didn't. I heard nothing from any of them to make me think they did.
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  14391. @4637jvb  You don't have the complete record of the trial, or any other material from it. You can't even find the complaint.
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  14392.  @akb811  Thank you so much for doing that. You helped us all in your time of sorrow. Very, very hard to do, even if the system were better. RESPECT!
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  14393. Yeah. I mean, that never happens.
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  14394.  @christophereverett2353  Who are you talking about? Jack Phillips, the Christian baker in Colorado? There was a ruling against him recently, for refusing to create a birthday cake for a transgender woman celebrating her "rebirth" after her transition. It is currently on appeal, I believe.
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  14395.  @GlennGreenwald  This was tremendous. Please post whenever it does not take away attention from more important work.
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  14396.  @airix10  Fox is real bad. Different money behind it.
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  14397. Then why was in-state tuition something a minimum wage summer job used to cover easily? Why could two roommates working for a bookstore afford Manhattan rents? (Why were those kids more resourceful and mature?)
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  14398. @iansansburn4619  Well, starting work at 16 and paying your own way through, and being expected to, teaches you things that parental support and taking on debt cannot. Yes, I agree they had more purchasing power per dollar they earned --- and that is GOOD for building character. Work is supposed to get you somewhere. You're not supposed to work hard and yet not afford necessities. Most people I know who made serious money made it in stock trading, not through earning it.
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  14399. @Jayremy89  I agree with the point implicit in your question. I hope every sensible person sees that. Having said that, more kids are having emotional problems than they did a generation ago, and I think "either side" making political hay out of it is terrible. We need serious people to get to the bottom of it. I am not an RFK Jr fan in general, but when it comes to kids, he raises a lot of good questions. Just because I disagree with a lot of what he says does not change that. Time for serious answers.
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  14400. @mark-147  On the other hand, who knows how much of what I've posted is in__visible? Or maybe you give up on reading too soon. You prefer to jump to your very first, most emotionally-laden conclusion. That's common now. I wonder how much the health issues RFK Jr. brings up are responsible. Anyway, something is harming cognition.
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  14401. @carolineoates5964  Wonderful takedown by none other than Greenwald just appeared today. Really fun to watch, too.
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  14402.  @LawSavant  I didn't suggest that. Social evolution has made seeking a partner for procreation only one goal among others, when it used to be the central motivation, outstripping other reasons to marry by far.
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  14403.  @LawSavant  As for unmarried parents, across the EU slightly more than 40% of parents have children together without marrying. France is an outlier at about 60%, but there are cultural reasons for that. Child abandonment by the father is traditionally very low in France; I can only hope that has not changed. The imperative to marry is lower when education and healthcare are a fundamental right, and fathers do not cut out and fail to support their kids. Anyway, France is not typical.
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  14404.  @LawSavant  You could also look at the data on second marriages, which are significantly less likely to have childbearing as the motive.
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  14405.  @LawSavant  No kidding. I'm an attorney as well, former law clerk, federal, and I have a Master's from a European university. Of course I did not write an airtight argument; I didn't even write an essay. You asked for the empirical basis for my assertions, and I sketched that out pretty summarily. Could the facts I cited admit of other explanations? Sure. It is also the case that procreation is not the central driver of marriage the way it once was; people do marry for many other reasons. Also, people raise families without getting married. As for your point about emotional connection, I assume you noticed that I said that in France, fathers stay involved with their children, married or not. And that that is not new. "Merely citing the statistics" . . . Er, not exactly.
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  14406.  @LawSavant  No. That was in a separate comment. It has no bearing on the question. (But see Orwell's Politics and the English Language, today if possible.) You seemed to believe I was ignorant. Hence, I provided evidence that, you know, possibly, I am not.
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  14407.  @LawSavant  P. S. Er, you aren't good at playing the Spot Informal Fallacies game, either. N. B. Identifying a trend does not imply any judgment about it at all, much less that it's a good thing. Or, as you might put it, "approbation."
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  14408.  @LawSavant  Re: alleged ad hom -- Joseph Williams, Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace You're welcome. Re: alleged appeal to authority: Is MY screen name "Law Savant?"
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  14409.  @LawSavant  You raised the issue by suggesting I didn't know what I was talking about, or, to be precise, that I didn't know what constitutes a good argument. Oh but I do. The issue was not whether the cultural evolution we are discussing is GOOD, but whether it exists and is marked (it does, and it is -- and part of the reason to suspect so may be your own reaction). Those are matters of fact. (See, e.g., Hume on "is" versus "ought") Good luck with your studies. I gave you great suggestions on stuff to read. You gave me lip. No surprise. You should go far . . . in most circles.
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  14410. @Quinta Perfeita  Marriage without children or children outside of marriage? I think whether a couple should have children is entirely their personal choice, and recognizing it as such, and respecting it, is unequivocally good. I think that having children outside of marriage is generally a very bad idea in the United States and may not be a problem at all in other Western countries, and having it as an option could even be a good thing. You'd have to live elsewhere for substantial periods of time to see for yourself.
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  14411. That is specious. This was a settled right that was turned back. I've never not had this right. If you disagree with abortion, you have a right to persuade women not to get one.
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  14412.  @sarahg2653  The next Congress can repeal it.
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  14413.  @sandman_says_runrunner4701  "These do not exist anymore?" How deluded is that??
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  14414.  @fiveleavesleft6521  The people here clearly did not understand what she said. But did feel threatened by it, as if by tropism. I guess real communication is hopeless now. That's one effect of the Internet, now we know it is hopeless.
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  14415.  @grannyannie2948  Sounds to me like you want to make sure everyone makes the mistakes you did. I see that a lot in older women. My mom became a mom at 35, and her sister at 46. Well, we age slower than most people, but that's not the whole story clearly. Most young women today don't have enough life experience to marry at a very young age. Sounds like someone is elevating Jeffrey Epstein's paraphilias into a quasi-norm. After all, he was fabulously rich, and all he really needed to do differently was to wait a few years to _ them.
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  14416.  @dobleclanger  They were discussing cultural evolution, which is unique to human beings. I agree with everything else you said. Actually, human evolution was relatively rapid during and after the beginning of language, but we have not changed biologically very much since the rise of farming. Rich people in the Mediterranean lived to their 90s, too. :)
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  14417. This is ******* pathetic.
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  14418. Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, wrote in an email to employees that “the F.B.I., through the office of the director, is in charge of all our review processes,” telling workers that they should “for now, please pause any responses.” You don't understand why? A review is fine, and should be a regular thing anyway. The Ketamine Kid is not the one with the authority to do it.
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  14419. ​ @acetate909 💯 He is contemptuous of us.
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  14420.  @Asturias14  And the source? So that I can look it up for myself. I appreciate that links are taken down by our YT Masters, but keywords or authors or both will work. Thanks.
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  14421.  @leonardmccannon3136  All he has to do is equate the "Palestinian problem" with the "immigrant problem" or the "black problem," and he has an adoring audience.
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  14422.  @TylerDurdan241  My goodness, thank you so much. This is how I sound when I rant.
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  14423.  @gerryvandepol7630  Then look up the video of ordained minister and former war correspondent Chris Hedges having his microphone shut off. Or don't.
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  14424.  @user-ro9md9wp3j  Not at all. Bad arguments and abuse ostensibly in favor of a given position are actually designed to turn people away from that position. Similarly, bad arguments and abuse ostensibly against a given position are actually designed to cause people to support that position. Typical stuff, for, like, EVER.
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  14425.  @kerriealison6545  Anyone can make a report to VAERS. The data needs to be audited carefully, and verified.
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  14426.  @user-ro9md9wp3j  I am not describing a narrow issue. I am describing how false flags function on any contentious issue. "Bad faith" is a different matter. An argument may be offered in bad faith, and be for the position it purports to support. It generally is. There is no obvious ploy designed to instigate opposition to the position it claims to support. Bad faith usually tries to humiliate a person into compliance, not provoke opposition.
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  14427.  @user-ro9md9wp3j  Anyway, it's clearly you who doesn't understand the strategy, which is ubiquitous. "LMFAO" and "you make a fool of yourself." That didn't age well, did it?
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  14428.  @doryfishie2  Incidentally, you also sound hostile toward children. Not that that is relevant here, but it creates a rather odd impression.
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  14429. You are literally in your prime. Literally.
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  14430.  @Xda13ombX  Exactly. Calling capitalism a free market is sheer propaganda and sleight of hand.
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  14431. In Polish, it's pronounced. Jimmy's mother was Polish.
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  14432. When the Beatles and Stones properly credited black music for their success, did anyone have a fit? I guess that is the measure of real success -- when people accept and respect what you have to say.
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  14433.  @alexandereckert5939  OH, Cancel Culture! Especially when someone knows something and you don't like it. That's just maddening.
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  14434.  @naasking  Of course. And BJG was invited to share her legal opinion. Where do people see that she was rude?
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  14435. Nice. Exactly right.
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  14436.  @dr.g3860  That's a good point. They are private, so they could ban all demonstrations pro Israel or pro Palestine on campus, as "too disruptive to the educational process," but if they banned one and not the other, they would be sued under Title VI. Yup, excellent point. (I wonder if she knows, lol.)
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  14437. Oh yes he does.
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  14438. Is he as rich as Macron, or richer? If he isn't, then I don't get what he's thinking.
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  14439.  @yolandabrinkman2653  There is no general "hate crimes" law. Who told you there was?
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  14440.  @noka5730  Exactly. All the politicos do is lie.
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  14441.  @Ryan88881  I mean over 30 years of near-daily use, clearly impaired reasoning and memory, and brief episodes that appear to others as being psychotic breaks. If we can define abuse and distinguish it from proper use, I'm with you. I don't agree with making any of it illegal. I am leery of all psychoactive medications, most of them more than of marijuana. But that means persuasion, not coercion.
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  14442. ​​@donnavorce8856 Yes. Only his wife can speak to him, and perhaps his children, too.
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  14443. It's all about COVID. It is a referendum on COVID. If the public does not care about whether Biden is compromised, and if the corporate oligarchs are heavily invested in China and want smooth relations with China, Biden can't be "blackmailed." Nor will anyone need to blackmail him. Easier to have someone as figurehead who wants what you want.
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  14444. Both Rogan and Greenwald think Biden is cognitively impaired. So, I wonder who will really be the President? Not Biden.
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  14445. But she ran out to buy an Oculus or however it's spelled. Wow, what a deflation.
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  14446. ​ @Silence_Duder_Gooder He's a liar. Look up his court record.
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  14447. Tesla is facing a huge discrimination suit, and Neuralink is being investigated for primate torture.
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  14448. Whoa, I . . . I can't listen. I have a strong, strong stomach and I am feeling sick and dizzy. I'll try again later. :/
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  14449.  @DeadPresidents408  False. Every intelligent person does.
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  14450. True. He's a whack with a lot of baby mamas. If he made you rich, cool.
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  14451. Well that's easy.
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  14452. Rich people go to private schools with exceptional security.
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  14453. ​ @randyrenner7643 😂😂😂 oh I don't know
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  14454.  @spinafex5729  Everything isn't about the individual anymore. It's about the individual investor and his portfolio. When our senators heard about the coming pandemic, they rearranged theirs. You know who the very first person I heard point out that firing medical workers for not getting the new vaccine was unfair and perverse, when they had worked to save our lives throughout the pandemic and often got sick themselves, and recovered? A French Senator, Communist Party. (His speech was not broadcast in English.) If this had been the emergency they claimed it was, patent protection would not have obtained. Information would have been shared with all countries. That's what Jonas Salk did. There is where you should focus, not on hating your neighbor.
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  14455. @Spinafex  Believe what you want. Some didn't get vaccinated for good reasons, and some did out of fear.
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  14456. @Spinafex  Actually, I have a more important question -- an actual one, no prejudging. What do you think about deliberately misleading people to appeal to their altruism? With or without making money off of them in the process? I think that using people's best qualities against them to gain advantage over them is one of the lowest things anyone can do.
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  14457.  @digitalbookworm5678  I know it is a majority in some departments.
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  14458. ​ @AnaLucia-wy2ii Pfft. He's not that important.
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  14459.  @MissAstorDancer  Seriously.
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  14460. 12:51 Jimmy, that's because TYT types are not journalists and never ask real questions. They only ask leading questions they think they know the answer to.
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  14461. ​ @KB-sv7fm You're not supposed to have so many and such serious problems.
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  14462.  @KB-sv7fm  Who told you this? Mutation is constant.
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  14463.  @KB-sv7fm  And how much of humanity never got the ___?
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  14464.  @lw1zfog  In the space of less than 3 years.
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  14465.  @dnbjedi  Well, read the critiques of Jung. The notion of archetypes is too strong a hypothesis. There is ZERO reason to think you need to believe in such things to obtain ethical guidance in any sense: either because they embody ethical truths in some way, or because they are a useful fiction, to help you set up a worthy goal for yourself, a North Star to orient your life. If you read the Socratic dialogues of Plato and Kant's work on ethics, this stuff would not impress you. Kant was very deeply Christian, AND saw the need to put ethics on an entirely nonreligious foundation. If you like archetypes, read Robert Greene for your entertainment instead. And anyway, which archetypes have staying power? This stuff doesn't speak to me and never did. I don't come from the same folk tradition as Peterson. The ethical truths we actually have in common, as people, are far less "fancy."
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  14466.  @dnbjedi  Wow, really? Yeah, come to think of it, I don't have that many friends who have ever read this stuff. After this insane pandemic social isolation, I really feel a need to meet more people who I have more in common with. :)
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  14467.  @dnbjedi  Start with Apology and Gorgias. Really eye-opening. It can be hard to get into Plato's dialogues, but once you do, super rewarding and entertaining. Gorgias is so contemporary it will give you chills.
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  14468. Blah blah blah
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  14469.  @Camcolito  Let's agree you're right. There's no reason to dispute it. So, why lie about China at all? It's like lying about Trump. There is no need. The truth is horrifying enough. What is the purpose of using a dubious source that leads to discrediting the whole story? We have no reason to believe the "journalist" who reported it. 18:35 "You can't believe anything you ever hear from the government and especially the intelligence community, unless there is evidence and you can verify it." (About 2 minutes long) Do you find anything wrong with this statement?
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  14470.  @Camcolito  Makes perfect sense. I think that they have pointed out that the Chinese government cannot be trusted, either, though a person has to listen closely for that message. It was de-emphasized for sure.
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  14471. Agree with your first point, but literally every country with universal public education and a stricter -- even "rigid" -- curriculum, and stricter standards than our own, has a better outcome. This is true even of the underdeveloped countries. Maybe start asking why, just as you do for public health.
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  14472. AMEN
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  14473. Do you actually know nothing about free speech?
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  14474. This was a good speech. Where is a real left to say these things? Other countries have them.
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  14475. 4:39. So, Bill Krystal wants to tear up the Constitution.
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  14476. It's often more dangerous.
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  14477. I laughed because so true.
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  14478. And Aaron Mate. F Aaron Mate. Thanks, TYT, for keeping the focus where it belongs. Like a laser.
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  14479. That's a conspiracy theory.
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  14480.  @protonx80  Why fewer? ( --1/12 ) is less than zero, not fewer than zero.
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  14481.  @protonx80  Well, mathematics is humanity's universal language. When explained correctly, everyone will come to agreement on it -- meaning that yes, if we agree to adopt these starting points, and agree as well to these rules of inference, then we will agree on the answer. So, you don't get your own mathematics and your own mathematical truths, no matter how strongly you may feel. Math, like every language for that matter, is a collective product. You may be used to dictating elsewhere, but you don't have that privilege here.
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  14482.  @protonx80  Mathematics are not based on points of view. Neither popularity, nor voting, nor coolness, nor mightiness, nor likeability, nor likes and tweets have one iota of influence in determining mathematical truths. No form of might makes right. Mathematics is not a subset of advertising and public relations. This is what's important. Numberphile did not express a "point of view." It sought to mislead people about how mathematics works, and did so deliberately. It basically made fools of its viewers. If you think we should nevertheless be kind to them, maybe you're right. I thought this video was perfect, given what Numberphile tried to do.
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  14483.  @protonx80  Of course mathematics is only one small part of the world. I think a person who would dupe others deliberately about mathematics is the arrogant one -- very deeply arrogant and elitist, because he is trying to make others believe he is superior to them. Do you know how many people saw that video and felt despair, thinking they could never learn mathematics, that they simply could never be "smart" enough? Which is, of course, nonsense. I'm glad he got his comeuppance, and that it was humorously done.
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  14484.  @protonx80  Mathematics deals in theorems. If you mean hypothesis as in science, that is an empirical question. Mathematics does not rely on empirical truths in its proofs, and can't, since its theorems are about infinite sets. These videos do not deal in conjectures that have not yet been proven. The proofs are all known. Some present the theorems honestly, others take delight in tricking you. I know what I support.
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  14485.  @protonx80  In short, it is not because of math that Numberphile bothers me, but because of people. People who insinuate that there is no such thing as a common truth accessible to everyone, which we can all discover, and who play games to make other people feel stupid, deserve to have their smug little butts put right in their place.
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  14486. 15:57 She did not say that. That was obvious anyway. "Suppression explains . . . a very, very small percentage of it . . ." IOW, people did not fail to vote because of voter suppression; they decided not to vote because they lacked interest in voting, and that lack of interest was due to the uninspiring candidates. DUH
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  14487. It's going back to the tyranny it was, as far as non-Western Europeans were concerned. This is a "free" country only if a lot of people do not count as people!
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  14488.  @samuelwallace2782  How do we know he is transgender? Maybe transvestite. I'm serious. A lot more people are transvestite than are transgender. If they feel more free to express it publicly now, good.
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  14489.  @factmanamerican882  Should be easy enough to do by legal means, eh?
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  14490. As someone who has faced real illnesses, I still cannot believe HOW scared people were. It's normal to be afraid, of course, but this was clearly excessive. Made no sense.
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  14491. 13:47 happens to be factually accurate, or at least for about 20 seconds or so, starting there. She probably lost most of the audience long before that.
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  14492.  @VictorHarrys  Of course. No family left here. More room for you, hon.
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  14493.  @VictorHarrys  Anyone who can leave any fascist country should consider it very seriously. It is not a neutral act to stay. Sometimes there are good reasons to stay. A heroic person, like a Michael Ratner, for example, certainly did everyone in the world much good by staying.
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  14494.  @jgenoese  Tim POOL? Then you didn't listen to him during the past 6 months. He actually pushed the story that the electoral votes from a number of states might not be counted, and that something akin to a "do-over" was possible. All right. Now, whatever you may think of the last election, show me where the Constitution provides for any such proceeding. This was a typical report, not a one-off. I can't say I've seen Pool this year. Boring, and a waste of time. He is just making stuff up, without the literary chops to produce science fiction.
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  14495.  @jgenoese  Bad guess. I get my news in three languages, and read 40 to 50 books a year. But like I said, emigration . . . It's what's on the agenda now.
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  14496.  @jocksharerock7318  Well, I see you are entirely unfamiliar with Aaron Mate. If you actually are depressed by this past year (which is almost like saying, if you have a pulse), then I recommend reading Gabor Mate's books (Aaron's father). None of these people are extremists.
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  14497. Then see Glenn Greenwald's take, and see whether it still seems that way.
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  14498. He's a great actor. That doesn't make him an oracle or a sage or even sane.
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  14499. Remember the video of that swim meet with the biological male beating all the women swimmers, and a woman in the audience said he was a man? Someone asked her if she was a biologist and she replied, "I don't have to be a veterinarian to know what a dog is."
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  14500.  @rpena0899  "In March 2022, Thomas became the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I national championship in any sport after winning the women's 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4: 33. 24;" perhaps it was the video from that event. I have an exceptionally good memory. There are ways to work on that.
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  14501. Most of them belong in prison. And a lot of the people in belong out.
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  14502.  @JadeoftheGlade  I'm so sorry. I wish you did not have company, and it hardly helps you that you do -- but you do. Also, people with "long COVID" become depressed as well. :/
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  14503.  @SoniaGonzalez-cs2yl  Yes, this is exactly how the flu vaccine works. You might catch the flu, but it will feel like a cold. Unfortunately, you can spread it to others, who might get very sick. All the approved vaccines in the world prevent serious COVID, and prevent hospitalization. That's all we know with high certainty. We don't even know how long our resistance lasts. Not great.
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  14504. ​@Jennifer Kellow Also see Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic: the overuse of psychoactive drugs on the young could have a bearing on violent outbursts, and that the issue needs to be openly investigated. It's not a crazy conjecture. Shame on the NYTimes.
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  14505. I think it's worse. I think she really doesn't know. She didn't expect to have to know.
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  14506.  @CapriciousBlackBox  Only because OP misstated the rule. There is no argument that it applies to this pseudowitness.
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  14507.  @CapriciousBlackBox  Right. OP defined hearsay incorrectly BUT using the correct definition, it applies to Hutchinson's testimony. Hearsay is wrongly explained all the time.
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  14508. AMEN! THIS!
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  14509.  @akokyayo2025  I think he's reflecting on having a new policy that will improve the value of his show. If it doesn't work out, I hope he will drop it.
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  14510. Not supporting the Ukraine war and not supporting pharmaceutical companies covers most corporate sponsors of Fox, or any network. "Free speech has consequences" --- for profits. 😂😂😂
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  14511. Perfect
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  14512.  @chibaby  How do you know? She married well. Might be harder for a man?
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  14513.  @chibaby  Because she sounds culturally illiterate in this speech.
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  14514.  @chibaby  People with doctorates in education are supposed to know things about the cultures of the various school-age populations in America. They have to study this and stuff. Cultural anthropology, cultural geography, urban and rural sociology . . . Those are real things.
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  14515.  Phil Deal  Can you be serious? A no-knock warrant executed in the middle of the night by agents in plain clothes? ANYONE CAN CLAIM TO BE THE POLICE. Anyone can say words. These warrants are dangerous. If someone breaks into your home, the normal thing to do is to react quickly. The person who fired shots is alive, by the way. The person who was sleeping is dead.
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  14516.  @derrickcobb8547  Thank you.
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  14517. No normal prepubescent child could possibly think like this.
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  14518. I've handled much worse, with no fanfare. His obsession with Russia and Eastern Europe is also a tell, and I'm EE. I know the type.
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  14519. Ha, the opposite. Dickens is dated.
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  14520.  @CanoeToNewOrleans  Do you know what happened? Sullivan is a law professor, and continues to be. After there was serious police misconduct in the Harvey Weinstein case, with a detective coaching a witness and hiding exculpatory evidence -- both of which have constitutional implications -- Sullivan briefly joined the defense team. The hue and cry was deafening. They hounded him out from the position of Dean because they no longer felt he was on the side of protecting women. So Harvard, in a magnificent show of feminist solidarity, fired him and HIS WIFE. Don't take my word for it. Look it up. (In my opinion, and although I would never have had anything to do with Weinstein personally, I think the case did become interesting after the police misconduct came to light. I support anyone who wanted to join the defense for that reason, and college students are supposed to be mature enough to understand why a lawyer would. They are adults. I admire Sullivan, actually, for daring to take a hugely unpopular case.) If universities are among the most inclusive places, then we are in a bad, bad way. Every larger office I've been in is more diverse than any school -- authentically diverse. I think many schools are looking to groom a certain type of alumnus, and that they tolerate differences of opinion among majority-background students that they would see as "threatening" among minorities. The diversity is superficial. Anyway, a possibility to consider.
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  14521.  @202One  Now that I think about it more, I see your point as well. Just don't say I didn't have one -- as well.
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  14522.  @fuckingSickOfCreepyG  I think that the fact that a film so profound about social classes actually won is a pretty big deal, not for the film but for the Oscars. They had some sort of nervous breakdown that year.
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  14523.  @waynechapman9823  Fascinating post
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  14524. How will history look upon this? Depends on who the ruling class is.
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  14525. The dialogue is printed in big letters at the bottom of the screen. I mean, the version he watches.
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  14526. Which must be why most of the largest corporations spend more on lobbying than they pay in taxes. Then, instead of paying taxes, they buy Treasury bonds, and we pay taxes to pay them interest. In the meantime, our troops protect the shipping lanes, the skies, etc. Makes it easier to offshore production, huh? GET. A. CLUE.
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  14527. Outstanding post
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  14528.  @annarichardson8284  They don't know either way. We are way past post-truth, well into entitlement to have every fantasy affirmed.
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  14529. I don't think you listened to the whole program.
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  14530. Really? This didn't surprise you? The lid is off.
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  14531. I didn't think this until seeing the last Lex Fridman podcast, with Chris Blattman. And now this. Chicago and Princeton??
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  14532.  @HH-ru4bj  I guess that helps with reducing Medicare expenditures, too.
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  14533. I never joined. Only the pandemic drove me to this, to save videos.
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  14534. The content of some of these channels is ridiculous -- TYT, Majority Report are the worst. Rational National is almost as bad most of the time. I may not always agree with Breaking Points, but they produce relevant content.
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  14535.  @danchatka8613  As if being president is a good thing.
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  14536.  @chaoticonchaoticon7676  We're joking but not really.
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  14537. Who "needed" to be locked in a library? So this mob action was not reported, and resulted in no arrests? Because actual incitement to violence is illegal and always has been. True threats are illegal and always have been. They should always be dealt with. Chanting "from the river to the sea" is protected speech. It's not just "debates" that are protected speech. All the actual violence in the US resulting from October 7 has been against Muslims. Two stabbings, one little boy dead, his mother stabbed and had to watch him die while she was helpless; three students shot, one is in critical condition.
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  14538. P. S. I don't have a smart phone.
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  14539. That is a hard one.
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  14540.  @rustygrunert5316  And then he himself did appoint Epstein fixer Acosta. Okay.
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  14541.  @anon_y_mousse  You think billionaires are leftists? You must be the product of an American education.
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  14542.  @anon_y_mousse  Oh, I know! I bet you can do arithmetic! See the number of Replies listed up there, at the top? See where they do that? THEN counts all the replies you actually see, under the very First post. That way, you'll know if it's the Same Number. If that's not too complicated. Sorry if confusing.
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  14543.  @pardonsway1667  Was Sophie Scholl a Nazi?
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  14544. They have more manufacturing. That's why they have these good features in their economy. We once did, too.
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  14545.  @Zodroo_Tint  What does? Printing money?
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  14546.  @aavbh403  Of course. I never assumed ordinary people were in favor of any of it. It was never to their long-term benefit; it might marginally benefit some, for a period of time, and this, at times, made collaborating with the corrupted elites seductive.
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  14547. Agreed. These are all loyalty tests, too, or at least function as such. The crazier the belief, the more a person's assent proves they are "really" loyal, really "one with the group." Any of these groups could become very dangerous if (when) Trump loses.
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  14548. I think Putin is responsible for the escalation of the war, and that the escalation changed the nature of the war. Having said that, US paws are all over this one. US blame dates from the beginning of the millennium at least, and they drastically escalated in 2014, starting this war.
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  14549. ​@ffffnnnnul2125 Keep it up. I want to see other countries develop the intellectual level of their people and finally shake off the post-war American hegemony.
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  14550. @rl8571  Whenever someone makes a sound proposal, a half dozen pipe up with some objection. It makes no difference what the proposal is. Do you seriously want everyone in the military? Is everyone qualified to join, or will they possibly slow you down in an emergency? Or suppose someone has a mild handicap, such as a heart murmur? If they are rejected, then what? No other avenue to pay for college? Work-study won't cover but a fraction?
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  14551. Depends on whether they are organic and how they are extracted. I think you know which is which.
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  14552. This is the Democratic landslide we counted on, sure. DNC is a disgrace. This should have been decisive, they should have taken the Senate -- which confirms Supreme Court Justices, among others, remember?
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  14553.  @kylehunt26  Assault weapons is a journalistic phrase, to describe a larger firearm like the AR-15 that has been used in warfare, mainly guerrilla, rather than hunting. The term has no place in law.
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  14554.  @kylehunt26  Very new numbers. Wasn't true before the pandemic, if I recall correctly. Np.
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  14555. The analysis of Rachel was excellent. She may have believed Sam was innocent at first. Had she been married to him, she would never have been required to testify at all. What a trauma to discover the truth! At worst, a suspended sentence and probation was another possibility. Had Rachel gone to a lawyer before telling detectives about the backpack, she might have been able to strike a deal. It's the innocent mind that never thinks to do that.
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  14556. Trump has said he would crack down even harder on the university demonstrators. Shame on the whole lot of you.
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  14557. With Sputnik V?
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  14558. ​@jaeboston9228 Consider only Bob Woodward's report. If that doesn't motivate you to look more deeply, well . . .
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  14559. Palestinian Islamic Jihad is a third group, more radical than Hamas.
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  14560. Considering Zizek was in the house, I suspect they did understand very well. But neither of us knows, really. I'm not sure I want to know. I'm still nurturing the hope that people who care about these things read.
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  14561. ​@robertrogers5084 Even less reason to censor.
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  14562. @careyfreeman5056  Is talking about whistle-blowers forbidden?
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  14563.  @rikgto9351  👏👏👏😂
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  14564. Notice how she makes NO MENTION of kids separated from parents at the border, and what she plans to do. The interviewer gave her open-ended questions. I guess it's not on her mind.
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  14565. Trump isn't a fascist. True, he has adopted some classic fascist tropes and fascist aesthetics, and has signaled to (the still few) actual fascists that as long as they support him, he will cover for them. He has their back. That is more than just "flirting with fascism," but it is senseless to call it fascism.
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  14566. Incremental? Capital controls.
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  14567. Thank you so much for reminding us and please accept my deepest condolences. I am shocked by how this assassination in Japan was reported here, almost as an afterthought, et avec insouciance. Ils ne sont pas bien dans la tete. Je ne peux plus avec eux. Je l'aurais jamais cru si je ne l'avais pas vu et entendu moi-meme.
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  14568.  @floydblandston108  Because my memory isn't shot, like yours? Or because now you can't figure out where I line up based on what I've just said?
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  14569. Don't hold your breath.
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  14570. Who are the war profiteers? I smell a rat, too.
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  14571. A PhD in EDUCATION. This is terrible, seriously.
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  14572. 💯
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  14573.  @johnjames502  If you are going to say words mean exactly what you want them to mean and not anything else, then we are in Alice in Wonderland. Or, as Aristotle said in the Metaphysics, a horse is then the same as a non-horse, and all communication becomes impossible. If you weally, weally NEED to have it your way, you just go right ahead, dear.
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  14574.  @juanwononeyuan  I can sympathize with that, sadly. I think every independent person has thought it.
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  14575. Nicely done!
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  14576. @kirst.  You projected that I was projecting. I don't know why. Pop culture shouldn't be important.
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  14577.  @kirst.  Not you. A kid who, from the ages of 12 to 15, is obsessed with attacking some moderately talented pop star as "evil." Moderately talented at best, but we can recognize that much. What were you doing from 12 to 15? (Right, me neither.)
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  14578. "Running out of bombs" . . . No, Jimmy, did not see that one coming . . .
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  14579. @ethanbrandon195  He's not proposing to take money from me and do it in my name. I thought we knew Putin was a fraudulent Christian for political gain. "But our Christians are real," lol.
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  14580. ​ @madeinuk77 Wonderful. Now we know certain people not only cannot speak but cannot listen.
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  14581. Wow, no one was ever so jealous of you they went after you? Happened to me tons, saw others get it even worse.
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  14582. Yikes
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  14583. Most people had nothing to hide until the vaccine mandates.
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  14584. He is a babbling baboon. He can't even produce decent hyperbole.
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  14585. OH REALLY? Tesla has the worst discrimination suit pending against it that I've seen in this century, and Neuralink has a complaint against it for primate torture with 700 pages of exhibits. Musk himself has been repeatedly cited for securities manipulation. What is it with this hero worship? Remember the last humanitarian benefactor who could do no wrong, and got to manage a chunk of Warren Buffett's charity? None other than good ole' BILL. 🤣
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  14586.  @HonesteBroker  Not true at all. Our labor force participation rate has not recovered since the 2008 crash. Unemployment numbers in the US are the least honest of any developed country for a reason. Unemployment kills, literally. People are incentivized to become addicted to various substances and collect disability. That's one "strategy."
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  14587. Exactly!! These people are public relations operatives and advertising agents, not journalists.
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  14588. No! You are kidding, right?? /s
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  14589. Trump let Fauci destroy the world.
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  14590. COVID lockdowns destroyed the economy.
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  14591. @JohnHunterPlayerr  Do you seriously think we can't look up the data and the peer-reviewed studies ourselves? Readers (who are also mathematically literate) are not extinct.
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  14592. Was anyone reprimanded?
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  14593. My thoughts exactly. So, was Bernie at an Epstein dinner, or in a Hunter video?
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  14594. Exactly what he told you he would do. Whatever anyone may think of Sam Seder, he is not lying, nor is he faking. He told you who he is.
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  14595. I have an idea. You could read the class action complaint and actually see what it is they are asking. If you had any idea of what those years are like, you would know that anyone with any sort of setback that affects their mental health should not be excluded from their previous activities and their friends and their life. Throwing them out of school, and prohibiting them from visiting campus, for no reason apart from their major depressive disorder, is astounding. If you had cancer, you would not withdraw. You would undergo treatment, and then return to your life -- your job, your friends, your social activities, and you would be advised by your doctors not to isolate yourself. So, is "old school America" a place that excludes the less-than-perfect? Is that part of its "tradition" of Social Darwinism and eugenics? I wouldn't doubt it. Maybe "old school" is exactly what got us to this place. It's also remarkable how many future political leaders and prominent jurists spent an inordinate amount of time at Yale getting drunk. That wasn't a "community disruption" somehow. But it certainly was "old school."
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  14596. Horrifying, actually. Utter agitprop. Soviets knew not to believe their apparatchiks' song and dance. I'm surprised we were fooled.
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  14597.  @johnharisson5166  Agreed
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  14598.  @Phil-gc2qh  👍
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  14599. @czarcastic1458  A medically necessary abortion of a nonviable fetus, when miscarriage is inevitable.
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  14600. He's anticipating a Kamala Harris administration in 2024? Well then, he takes for granted that the system is fixed. And takes for granted that we're fine with it.
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  14601. Emily and Rachel Bovard are very much appreciated. I cannot believe Batya got so high up in MSM. She must have worked crazy hard, to where no one could credibly block her. BTW, I'm far left, but Euro left. The woksters are baffling, or scary. Clintonian divide-and-conquer identity theatre, politics of personal destruction.
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  14602.  @AshGreen359  Exactly!
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  14603.  @kishiyomo993  Actually, abuse victims will say over and over that they love their abusers. As for jealousy among brothers, it has been noticed: I refer you to Cain and Abel.
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  14604. See what European news reported. (That's a good idea in any case, for most stuff.) They saw it that way. Maybe they are more familiar with it.
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  14605. Russia could conclude this war rapidly using decisive force. The West could conclude this war by withdrawing all but purely defensive, interim military support and setting up the structure for peace negotiations. Why aren't they? What's really going on?
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  14606. This was great. He does not get embroiled in the side issues at all. Does not mention Kyle.
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  14607. The rest of the world has. Putin escalated a brutal war, which better diplomacy could still have avoided, and it doesn't matter to anyone but the alphabet-identity decadent West -- you still have Argentina, Ethiopia, Egypt, et al., clamoring to join the BRICS. People hate us more today than on September 10, 2001. 😢
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  14608. I thought she was more intelligent. I don't remember why.
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  14609. Because no one in their right mind takes medical advice from Trump in the first place. The FDA approves vaccines. Does Trump have undue influence over the FDA? If so, that's a real question. But she didn't address that. She made a bleach quip. I watched this segment several times. I think it is fundamentally sound. I think the anti-vaxxers are misrepresenting it.
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  14610.  @Horus070  Where did I criticize Katie Halper? Krystal? Briahna? Etc. Why do you keep lying? It's weird.
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  14611. ​ @astronautical1082 Everyone. We all benefit from plentiful food. Or no? You don't eat?
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  14612. @billsmith9737  As a matter of fact, Brie doesn't like Harris or the DNC, and didn't vote for Biden OR Hillary.
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  14613. No one will admit that the vaccines approved in the West are a disappointment at best. We do not even know how Chinese, Russian, Cuban, etc., vaccines compare. Why isn't this simple data, such as it is, and so early after vaccine development, available? We should have all the available information. I read some suggestive data on Sputnik V being just as reactogenic as other vaccines using adenovirus as the vector, but not causing fatal blood clots. Well? What happened? Was that true or not? It was being tested in South America, and it was available in Mexico. What have they found out, if anything?
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  14614. She's not a politician, she's a demi-goddess.
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  14615. ​ @domenicpiscitelli2629 Source, please. Not that I don't believe you. I like to see for myself.
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  14616. These are the rentier policies even Adam Smith warned about. I don't own Apple anything, never did.
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  14617. Please do. I prefer to call it eugenics, but that's just me. Seriously though, since we are all supposed to be for protecting the future reproductive choices of all children, how can this be allowed to pass so easily?
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  14618. Timestamp?
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  14619. You wish. The next lab leak is closer than we think.
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  14620.  @kyle-ri5mz  Really? I despise cancel culture.
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  14621.  @kyle-ri5mz  The difference is, I mean it. Shapiro's reflex startled me. I'd never go there.
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  14622.  @fuckamericanidiot  "I would suggest that whatever institution gave you the award revoke it immediately." Is this little genius going to save your women and children from the wokster mob? Hey, maybe he's your last best hope. 🤣
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  14623.  @fuckamericanidiot  I don't understand what you're doing. I despise wokeism and the cancel culture that comes along with it. You're arguing with a phantom.
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  14624.  @maxspringfield  Well, but he went there. So the kid got his goat. Maybe he would revoke it if he could. BTW, no one knows why a black kid said he was a physics and math major, and already had his doctoral research funded? REALLY? 🤣🤣🤣🤔
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  14625. If she is going to work that hard, she has GOT to take vacations. Please believe it. She cannot maintain her resilience without breaks -- real breaks. Unreachable for weeks, let the rest of them get used to it!
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  14626. Lift the sanctions. That would be in line with "free market principles," no?
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  14627. ChatGPT has started making inexplicable errors in mathematics, including flubbing simple questions such as whether a given 6-digit number is prime. Not only that, but when you ask it to show its steps, it has stopped doing so.
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  14628. Now when Briahna is superb . . . crickets? Yo, critics . . . Eh? Give it up for Brie.
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  14629. More than that: lethal blood clots
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  14630. No, this is nonsense. Is it or is it not the duty of adults to keep pushers and predators away from minors? It is. If we all sprang from Zeus's head as full-fledged adults as Athena did, then I would agree. I'm saying this as someone who never joined any social media whatsoever, and only joined YouTube to save videos during the pandemic last year. It has already drawn me in too much.
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  14631. I'm not laughing.
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  14632. Standing ovation, huh?
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  14633. Not that part.
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  14634. LOL
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  14635. Of course he depends on the dollar being the global reserve currency for his "lifestyle," and the status of the dollar ultimately comes out of the barrel of a gun. But let's not quibble.
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  14636. @Robert Porter, in France, university admission is always always always based on achievement, and never on "aptitude" tests. The SAT is an adult IQ test, and it is not normed on women, working classes, bilingual ethnic groups of any race, etc. In France, you earn the right to advance at university based on what you have achieved so far -- which is based on hard work.
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  14637. Well this story is changing. I remember when they said Chauvin pled guilty to federal charges because he wanted to be in federal prison. He stays in state prison because all appeals were exhausted and the Supreme Court denied relief.
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  14638. ​ @utah_koidragon7117 ​ Great. The 401(k) has existed for two generations, yet fewer than 5% of Americans can fully fund their own retirement with their 401(k) and their IRAs and all of their other savings and investments. A plan that does not work for 95% is not a plan. You can find a way to blame the bottom 20%, although that is usually specious, but at least it's plausible, and you may have a point. Once it fails to work for 80%+, it's a scam.
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  14639. Fauci and Trump were playing Good Cop, Bad Cop. They both played a role in allowing gain of function research to be federally funded again.
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  14640. Thank you for that.
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  14641.  @bobroberts2371  False
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  14642. @carolynforge8586  The car was not moving. Nahel was threatened by one of the police officers with "a bullet to the head." It is perfectly clear on the recording. ONLY THEN did he take off. Wasn't this translated into l'anglais?
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  14643. Will someone mention how the "Russia Russia Russia" meme has become socially acceptable xenophobia and a low-grade racism? I think Jimmy once did. This needs to be pointed out.
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  14644. Maybe they don't. This is all fodder for the masses.
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  14645. So . . . He admits trying and failing? That's the problem part. 🤣🤣🤣
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  14646.  @lackerman3975  SHHHH 😉 Actually, there is a certain kind of sincerity and intelligence that is not welcome from women in general . . . Whereas a Trump can be caught joking about how you can grab them, they like it, and Clinton can suggest Obama could never be elected "because, you know" while his wife pretends to be opposed to racism, and they all get away with it and worse. No pattern, no.
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  14647.  @ttbr7687  I already had COVID. I don't know whether I have natural immunity, my case was so mild. The studies on natural immunity have all been done on people who had moderate COVID or worse. There is a lot we don't know yet. "First do no harm." Just how much risk should a person take to acquire 6 to 9 months of immunity from a very new type of vaccine?
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  14648. Most places have a Good Samaritan law that protect people who give aid to the best of their ability, even if that doesn't save the person's life or health. In fact, just about every state has such a law.
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  14649.  @sdriza  EXACTLY. In any case, do not marry this guy.
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  14650. Neither do I.
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  14651. Blinken? And here I thought that was a reindeer.
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  14652.  @MeneerHerculePoirot  Yeah. Pretty decent instincts overall. A little hotheaded, but he won't deny it. Good dude.
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  14653.  @aquato33  Well, if the issue concerns taking up space in hospitals, how was the second surge in 2020 managed, which was far larger than the first? Lockdowns to slow spread where medical resources actually are taxed to the breaking point could become necessary, but that isn't an entire economy. There are other, more effective measures possible -- finally, at-home testing kits will be covered by insurance. They have been in Germany for a long time. The POINT is, massive lockdowns did not end the pandemic, but did serious harm. And Sweden, which had no lockdowns, has a lower case fatality and per capita fatality rate than we do. Japan's rate is phenomenally low, despite hosting the Olympics and having a relatively slow vaccine rollout. We need to share information. We also had record drug overdose deaths in the US . . . BTW. :/
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  14654.  @rougebaba3887  Of course. It's an absurd goalpost.
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  14655. The one great achievement of the vaccines was that they overcame ADE, which was a serious concern during development. For most people, full vaccination means you will have a very mild infection if you do get infected at all, which is just what should happen. Could multiple boosters reverse that, and lead to problems? Er, YEAH. Let's see whether this accurate post stays up. :/
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  14656. Angela Marsden's employees lost their health care.
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  14657.  @antonioj123  Of course. At this point, learn French or German or Swedish and go abroad.
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  14658.  @antonioj123  You can have it, if you work hard for it -- and go abroad. I'm guessing even UK, Canada, Australia are less expensive? It is worth the research.
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  14659.  @antonioj123  The most common major by far is "Business," and has been for 30 years. Most such degrees are demonstration of docility. Where has that gotten anyone?? Either that, or the "Business" major takes enough advanced math, finance, and accounting to get an MBA and CPA, and maybe even a CFA. Or a second degree in IT. Once upon a time not that long ago, a student could pay in-state tuition and fees for a full year at the great state universities (Michigan, Wisconsin, Berkeley, Virginia, Texas, . . . ) with a full-time summer job making the minimum wage. People who did that were a different people.
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  14660. What I wonder is why everyone doesn't see that you're absolutely right?
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  14661.  @antonioj123  Wow, that's an advanced trade. Did you take EE in college, then?
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  14662.  @TobeornottooB  More and more are blocked, and in odd ways.
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  14663.  @justinukere9848  Who did J D Vance marry? And where did they meet? Now, multipy.
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  14664. BREAKING:  Glenn Greenwald just posted a short excerpt of Victoria Nuland testifying on the Ukrainian biolabs -- which, oddly enough, were funded through the US DOD, not the NIH. TeleSUR (Spanish) reported China demands the US provide full information on all biological laboratories it funds in the world. Here we go, down the chute . . .
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  14665. Peter Kuznick is a well-known historian. He began his career as a historian of science, so his analyses have real rigor.
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  14666. Can we at least own the bugs we get to eat please please?
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  14667.  @leevy6753  A thin reed, I grant you.
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  14668. But discourse like NF's becomes even more lucrative. What's not to like?
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  14669.  @nicolassanchez8445  And turn it into a sex scandal. Of course.
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  14670. Robby doesn't even know that each of these jobs in the federal system has a hierarchy of command, and that some of them -- such as the Article III federal courts -- are exempt from executive authority? The suggestion that every worker keep a diary of his accomplishments for his immediate supervisor is fine. The Ketamine Kid isn't that supervisor.
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  14671. Real leftists read.
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  14672. He TAUGHT at Harvard. Looks like you missed a whole lot of what was said, huh?
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  14673.  @billlong1903  Right. That must be why. What else could be at work here? You're as bad as the wokester mob. I must be dense not to join you Enlightened Ones.
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  14674.  @MikeInDubai  You think Briahna is a "loser?" It's kind of pointless to be so transparently envious of her, or anyone, and end up labeling yourself in the process.
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  14675.  @sebastianholzl4668  Then tell me something useful: is the chance zero that stocks will crash in 2021? LOL Because these are normal times. No one would about worry going on the record in a roll call vote against health care now!
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  14676. Speaking of which . . . Where is Samantha Power to protest ethnic cleansing?
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  14677. @KB-sv7fm Tabulating total cases has ended. Hence, how would you know?
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  14678. @KB-sv7fm  There was a map keeping track of that, state by state, posted daily in the NYTimes. Seems that the pattern broke down quickly, and boosters were deployed. Then, those stopped working quickly, too. You forgot? I did't.
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  14679. Thanks for letting us know. I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you.
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  14680. What is scary is how close the description of cult is to every major religion.
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  14681. The hyperrich believe they can do anything. Gosh I wonder why. Before you pile on, consider that others could have been killed trying to rescue them. I am sorry for the young man, who was optimistic, enthusiastic, and adventurous -- wonderful qualities the world has lost. The other people on board knew better.
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  14682. The OP is totally and unequivocally false.
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  14683. Lequel?
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  14684. Rittenhouse was allowed to leave the scene and go back to Illinois. We do need to know why, ESPECIALLY because earlier, police interacted in a friendly way with heavily armed males who appeared to be acting as vigilantes. Rittenhouse was also charged as an adult. It has been stated that bringing adult charges against a 17-year-old in a homicide case is "automatic" in Wisconsin. I'm opposed to such laws.
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  14685. No no no she needs to own it.
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  14686. If she lacks complete focus, she could be killed doing this stuff. A lot of people are opposed to the style of gymnastics we practice today, by the way.
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  14687. During Lincoln? The first Republican President? Just kidding. Don't know.
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  14688. This is about people who are pretend progressives and have shown their true colors recently. This is important going forward. In this case, Dore started out at TYT and supported Cenk for office. Then, TYT did a "mysterious" about face on Pelosi's speakership and M4A. The central issues at this moment are Assange and the progressive agenda over the next few months. There's not going to be much time. Trump's gauleiters and his organized crime approach to playing reality-show President just gave Biden and Harris a ton of cover. Whatever they do will look great by comparison.
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  14689.  @Leo-ty2nl  In the US, the First Amendment places limits on defamation. It's actually a complicated area. The assumption is, in general, that speech is protected, and the burden of proof is on the person asserting it should not be. There isn't even a solid consensus on how the issue should be analyzed, if you can believe it. Frankly, Europe has more civilized defamation laws.
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  14690.  @mushroom13cfh  If you have insurance, for anything, you pay for other people's health care, car accidents, burglaries, and fires, plus enough for overhead and to make administrators multimillionaires. But I digress.
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  14691. The Memorandum Opinion I just read states that several breach of contract claims against Harvard were not dismissed. It is dated Sept. 11, 2024. Have they since been dismissed? Obviously she has no defamation case. She defamed these researchers, not vice versa.
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  14692. Yet, I mean. So far.
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  14693. Not sure what you mean. He was assassinated in 1979.
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  14694. If you are a passenger in a car on a beautiful, sunny afternoon, with a perfectly sober, competent, responsible driver, and a drunk driver hits you, passenger side -- who is responsible? Laughable, bro. You like to blame the obvious victim.
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  14695. I respect your choice. Thank you.
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  14696. What part of at-will employment is lost on you?
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  14697. Brand doesn't defend what he did back then, either.
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  14698. Who but India will be well-poised to broker peace?
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  14699. She said that.
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  14700. So now we know Florida does not want its students to know that there are brilliant black writers. I am shocked, shocked. Seriously, the list of authors removed from the curriculum are the best.
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  14701. 6:42 AMEN, STEF! Stef Zamorano has been on a roll! So happy.
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  14702.  @ZoidbergMustache  Brilliant. Thank you.
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  14703. This woman is pushing BOOSTERS for young kids! My God.
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  14704. I realized this. But I'd never vote for her anyway.
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  14705.  @RCx44  You didn't know about his plea, huh? That's okay, don't feel bad. Anyway, Candace needs the money.
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  14706. I hope she gets a long hug every day from everyone in her family.
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  14707.  @iggle6448  Can't disagree.
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  14708.  @martell203  Because it is a criterion impossible to fulfill, except trivially. By that logic, you cannot say slavery was wrong, because we don't know what would have happened had it ended in 1776, you can't say dropping either or both atomic bombs was wrong, you can't say the WWII Japanese internment camps were wrong, etc. Or that toppling Libya was wrong. You can't say Trump's tweets on and right before January 6th were wrong, either.
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  14709.  @10003159  And YOU want to make absolutely sure that men never give formal apologies and gifts when they blurt out a crass joke. Thanks a bunch. P. S. Who's the lunatic?
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  14710.  @nope5657  See, relations between the sexes aren't bad enough. We still have a ways to go.
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  14711.  @nope5657  They are still working on it.
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  14712. It's a branding exercise. They say what they say for donations.
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  14713. After seeing the remaining segments, either the reporting was somewhat unfair to detectives, or they took too long to grasp what was going on. The documentary may have been exaggerated, to create suspense. I hope so. Too many clues to overlook.
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  14714. The UK stations I listened to, including conservative ones, saw it the way Niall did. Some Germans writing comments did, too. Might be cultural. You'll give Musk a break. It's your right to do so. But not Niall? That's odd. Why not?
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  14715.  @jamiedee36  10:41 says so
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  14716. ​ @jamiedee36 Took two seconds. Is it a bigger job for you? What's that like?
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  14717.  Butch Coolidge  China did shut down the region where COVID surfaced, and imposed martial law. They shut down hard and early. They even went door to door, to remove anyone with symptoms and quarantine them, and then forced everyone else to stay in. They had drones watching their own population.
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  14718.  @verityveracity6704  If that's true, OMG. More money changed hands?
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  14719. @jimosborne2  Actually, we do have a problem with "no," since it is a ritual for many people. It doesn't mean what it would mean when I say it. But I'm petrified of pointing out even more "diversity" that every adult knows about but seems to send you off on a tirade. I've never been a fan of any of it, so don't come for me. It's a question of who we jail, who we ostracize, who we banish from a job or career, isn't it? And on what evidence? If you don't ever want to watch Brand again, and you want to tell everyone else not to, based on this report or on far less, that's no problem. Go ahead. I find him almost unwatchable anyway. He sounds crazy half the time, and his style of comedy only rarely lands with me. But that's just my view. We live with people who are very different from you or I, and I don't plan to jail them all, or force them to cower in their homes, based on some anonymous accusations made to the press about things that happened years ago. That's not moral, that's madness.
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  14720.  @mckernan603  That's the point. The selection pressure guarantees we'll have more politicians who are as bad as Gaetz. Only a person of great ambition and small character goes into politics as it is. Why didn't people see through this creep in the first place, before it came to this? How the h€ll was he elected??
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  14721. Censorship is out of control. Pertinent questions (not statements, not tendentious questions) disappear instantly. It also creates the impression that everyone is dim.
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  14722. 2:05:42 The Stars Bear Witness is the book
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  14723. Olbermann sounds like those people who used to be taken away in straight jackets and now get paid. For the record, I do not support the straight jackets. Or the millions, for that matter.
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  14724. You missed France --- where firefighters joined protestors to protect them against the police. Yes that line was crossed, many weeks in a row, until the COVID lockdowns.
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  14725. Yes, I hope so!!!
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  14726. If she had any taste or a sex drive, I'd believe it. But as matters stand . . .
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  14727. The way that financial assets at that level are held, as well as the marginal value of a dollar, are entirely different from how they are held and deployed by those who use their money to buy necessities, and increase their purchasing in quality and quantity commensurate with an increase in their wealth. The billionaires can decide what happens to billions of others; we tolerated it as long as those billions of people were in the global South. Well, the chickens sure are coming home to roost. I sort-of think a Harvard Law grad knows this. We need to start illustrating what this sort of money means, and then go on to more sophisticated analyses. I can no longer avoid Amazon. They have bought up too much of retail for me to avoid them now. They were allowed to do that. I can do nothing about that, either. Even the pandemic shutdowns catered to them: they were often the only business where you could buy certain things, and their warehouses were never shut down. Small stores were.
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  14728. ​ @portlandhasbecometrash8437  Robby's main gig is Koch-financed. No problem, just so you realize . . .
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  14729.  @lorrilewis2178  This I agree with. I think her soul was on the shelf.
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  14730. No, it's not. Eastern Europe has a few advantages over West, but that's the most that can be said.
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  14731.  @aman-qj5sx  It's not idiotic to question whether there was an intentional leak. It's idiotic to think so without evidence.
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  14732.  @benc2972  The point is, you have to prove intent. Also, an intentional leak would require quite compelling evidence, because the hypothesis is, after all, rather extreme.
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  14733.  @typearce1823  Where did I say to take anyone's word, especially anyone from the political class, of any country? I never did, because I never do. Intentional vs. accidental or negligent release requires meeting a greater burden of proof. That's just a general rule. Not specially made for the current fiasco, which I agree seems to have been very convenient for certain people.
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  14734. AND those who did this grew massively richer. Not just not punished. They have no reason not to do it again.
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  14735. ​@E Tow Or much worse yet, they get drunk or drugged.
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  14736.  @lisa_squared  I'm sorry, you will have to back that up with data. As for puberty blockers, what are the risks of permanent sterility? Or don't you agree with the right to choose whether or not to try to become a birth parent someday? I consider that a fundamental human right, regardless of LGBTQ+ status. I am pro-choice all the way.
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  14737.  @costaet  It's called statistical analysis. Dr. Campbell mentioned background rate, which is very, very tiny but more than zero.
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  14738.  @richardberman6694  Yes, and about 95% of nonlegacies are rejected. And in any case, Harvard admits about 1/3 of legacies, not 1/5. What you call "assumptions" are what Admissions treats as facts.
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  14739. Look, there is good evidence that masks do help prevent transmission of COVID. The evidence is not incontrovertible. But it is much better than a lot of people keep saying. It is NOT true that there was no good reason to wear a mask. There STILL is good reason to wear one indoors.
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  14740.  @trufflesrheaven  Are you seriously asking me? Not only is elective abortion legal in the best medical system I ever lived under, it is paid for (at 70% of true cost) by the state. On the other hand, counseling is necessary beforehand to make sure no one has an abortion for financial reasons. Anyone who says they're doing it because they can't afford a baby goes straight to a social worker to get all the assistance they could possibly qualify for. If they still want the abortion, that's fine, but doing it because they are strapped for money is not considered true freedom of choice. The French Republic has what is known as a natality policy. Or at least had. This was in the 1980s.
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  14741.  @trufflesrheaven  Did you know the US had record drug overdose deaths last year during the pandemic? 93,300+ deaths, a 32% increase over 2019. You should be quiet for a while, drop your jeering ("no unemployment for you!"), and contemplate that. I would consider anyone who JEERS to be unfit for nursing, particularly during a true national crisis. I don't want them anywhere near me. Clearly there is no vaccine against jeering.
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  14742. I truly sympathize. I felt like a hunted animal. I never felt that way before in my life.
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  14743. So . . . Biden is in Putin's pocket, too? Get Maddow on the case.
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  14744. Subtext: he was trying to lower his alimony payments. That's about how serious this was. Medically. LOL
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  14745.  @vee__7  He qualified it as likely. That is a correct statement of where we stand with this government.
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  14746. Can you be serious? Private universities have entirely different standards for legacies, children of donors, and "special development," which includes people like Hunter Biden. I despair at how little people know about what is really going on. Did you miss the college admissions scandal?
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  14747. @falconquest2068  What part of she was a crime victim and no one wants to see such a thing happen, EVER, to anyone, is lost here? The suggestion was that a woman cannot leave a psychopath. That isn't always the case. That they fear leaving, and that their fear is well-founded, is undoubtedly true. This case, and the one in Idaho, I will never accept. They are cases that, once you hear about, you will never forget.
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  14748. If his parents had had him institutionalized, you can imagine the scorn. There would be no way to know that lives would have been saved.
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  14749. Wow a whole lot of people must have had a whole lot of "bad karma" all together on September 11, 2001. /s Guess what? There is no such thing as karma.
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  14750.  @Ace-ns9co  The story of what happened. It was that amazing. Weird, too.
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  14751. Russia gets along with peoples of color, somehow. So weird, when we're the cool ones. 😂
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  14752. Legal standard for what? Civil liability is never higher than "clear and convincing evidence," which is lower than for any crime, and would apply to negligent or grossly negligent accidents, reckless conduct, failing to report an accident or error out of fear or humiliation short of committing a deliberate crime. This other stuff about smoking guns is journalistic blah blah.
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  14753.  @kerwinbrown4180  You are probably thinking in the right direction.
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  14754. How would you know that she speaks with insight? She speaks persuasively.
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  14755. Your medications are too weak. Only the strong stuff can get you there.
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  14756.  @timc333  You got that right.
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  14757. She sounds like she's auditioning for a softcore porn role.
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  14758. DU tipped warheads = not all that white to them (remember Hitler's hierarchy of "races")
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  14759. Traded the gutter for the swamp.
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  14760.    Exactly.
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  14761.  @MadRiverReggie  Even the heterodox doctors like Dr. Malone and the signers of the Great Barrington Declaration all stated that people over 50 should consider the vaccine, and people over 70 should get it. Were they wrong? Of course it's possible. But this was their recommendation. Doctors arguing against taking any COVID vaccine, regardless of type, are rarities. Of course the doctors I mentioned are all strongly opposed to mandates, as is Dr. Campbell. None of them told you to go get vaccinated. Dr. Campbell shared his own decision with us, as was right.
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  14762. Well, I eat raw garlic so I didn't mind the social aspects so much. Have you tried it? Great stuff. Tastes wondeful. Clears up your skin.
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  14763. The purpose of the deficit is to juice the stock market.
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  14764.  @danielzielke9997  He's just making the point that in murders of this nature, that is one almost incontrovertible way of identifying the perpetrator. He stated it as a hypothetical. Read it again.
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  14765.  @machtnichtsseimann  You have no friends from the neighborhoods Joe is talking about. And never did.
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  14766. The case isn't about her, it's about the article. Even liars have First Amendment rights. Even murderers do.
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  14767.  @peachbun  It's one hysteria after another, one designated Enemy after another. This is what scares me. You never know which way a mob may turn. People have the illusion of strength from being part of a mob, and the illusion of being exempt from the wrath of the mob. But no one is exempt, ever. No one can ever be sure.
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  14768. This is how you collect likes? 🤣
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  14769.  @jennie271982  By saying things that are untrue. Yeah. We get that part.
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  14770. Depends on what the definition of competency is. 😅
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  14771. Note that neither the State Department nor Victoria Nuland has issued a clarification. It has been a while, huh?
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  14772.  @Farvadude  Exactly. Especially when they become the cat's paw for government.
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  14773.  @cedricwilford  LOL
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  14774. Lying is worse than remaining silent. I would need to know the logic of refusing to appear instead of invoking the Fifth? Theatrics?
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  14775. I think repeating the latest slogan (or slur) like that is stupid.
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  14776. I certainly did not appreciate Trump blurting out whatever disordered garbage flitted through his sick mind, only to contradict himself within 12 to 36 hours, and act as if nothing happened. BUT MSM nevertheless told lies about Trump, and invented conspiracies. As if they needed to. You have to wonder why, hm?
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  14777.  @Silence_Duder_Gooder  Excellent!
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  14778. GOOD GUESS
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  14779.  @DoctorCataclysm  They may self-censor, and almost certainly will. You must think public employees are more courageous than they are. Socrates was controversial in community college; what he had to say was too stirring, and went beyond color by numbers. What the administration wanted was insipid textbooks and multiple-choice tests. IOW, punch the ticket and move on. I should know, I used to teach community college part time, back when I was more public spirited than I am today. Socrates' sexuality didn't usually come up, but if we read Protagoras or Symposium it did. The Apology, no, Gorgias, no, Republic, no. I did not bring up extraneous matters, NOR did I censor anything.
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  14780. So at best, these drugs only helped stockholders. Of course, it's quite likely worse than that.
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  14781. "You could consider . . . " "That used to happen to me all the time. What helped me was . . . " "_____ is worth trying . . . "
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  14782. Shut up and get your booster.
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  14783. Kim was the only independent thinker here, AGAIN. Don't be so jealous. Emulate her. Try. Leave the latest cult.
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  14784. I wouldn't say "stop trying to understand." I would say don't stop just because you don't understand. NEVER stop just because there is something you don't understand. If you are working on challenging problems, there will *always* be a ton of stuff you do not understand.
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  14785.  @darensweeney5925  THIS! I was just thinking she reminds me of Trump.
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  14786.  @sharonminsuk  You both have a point, though yours has more empirical evidence for sure. Consider also that a certain well-tended wokster vocabulary is what many new media/tech corporations and their HR departments want to hear. Consider the student debt crisis. Of course students do not have the same free speech rights they had when a summer job covered a year of in-state tuition, and a couple of roommates with minimum wage jobs could pay the rent in the Mission District or Brooklyn. People used to have real freedom. And were less scared to speak their minds, for tangible reasons.
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  14787. Dr. Cohen is describing one case, where the patient was by no means in serious or critical condition (unlike many who have been). He is giving an accurate summary of a single case.
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  14788. Well Jimmy, how do you expect people with no talent and no work ethic to become multimillionaires? I mean come on.
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  14789. Agree wholeheartedly, but the MSM has contributed to the problem. Putting money above all else is at the root of it.
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  14790.  @tellmemoreplease9231  When I said something similar, it was sense oared.
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  14791.  @JD-mz1rl  Oh man! I had said this as well, and got dis appear ed.
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  14792. In that event, the protesters like Jimmy are playing their role perfectly. Get it?
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  14793.  @jooka24  Actually, even the HIV in current circulation is less deadly, even if left untreated, than the variety in circulation in the early 1980s.
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  14794.  @chrism7969  The report does not state that Delta is more lethal than Alpha was. It suggests there is some evidence that it is, but not that it's sufficient to draw that conclusion.
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  14795.  @hendrikbotha665  Mutations may possibly arise in both vaccinated and unvaccinated people. It's not exactly the same as antibiotic overuse, where the antibiotic itself can create the selection pressure for the bacteria it fails to kill, which then may overgrow and overwhelm the host. If vaccinated people fail to monitor their symptoms, get tested promptly, and quarantine if positive ("because I'm already vaccinated!!!"), they could cause new variants to spread, sure. Or spread the ones we've got.
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  14796. THANK YOU We have got to get real.
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  14797. You are fine with how they announced the assassination? Are you serious? Can you possibly mean it? Emily begins this segment by laughing. Olayemi was not born here. I kind of doubt she would be this dim. Only a real merkin . . .
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  14798.  @brandonwilson4740  That's their gamble -- with our well being, not theirs. It won't hurt the politicians. They rearranged their portfolios in advance. Sean Penn will increase his fortune.
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  14799.  @DinDooIt  you posted this while I was watching a video on digital distraction 🤣😉
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  14800. Interesting. When atheists and agnostics objected to Christian symbolism erected on public property, they went to court.
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  14801. And Derek Chauvin made BOND.
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  14802. Apart from the dubiousness of the content, how, exactly, do you imagine this discourse will aid people in finding love? You're missing the poetry, which is **essential.** Alain Badiou writes better about love, for goodness' sake.
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  14803. Well this ended on a looney note.
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  14804. 15:04 I admit it, I never saw THIS coming.
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  14805. The only personal advice I do trust, other than from a doctor, is from those who got the shot AND expressed reasonable reservations, like Chris Hedges.
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  14806. What makes you think federal employees don't have set, periodic goals and regular assessments? This is sheer clowning. Why do you think Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard told their departments not to respond?
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  14807. Actually, growing marijuana was legalized here, but it requires strict licensing requirements that no minor could meet. It's not a job they are allowed to participate in, anymore than they could sell alcohol.
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  14808.  @clarissa8477  Absolutely horrible thing to do. I would not want my kid to hang around a kid from a family like that. That kind of force begets force.
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  14809. ​ @joeterzio7175 Wow, almost as great as Qaddafi's torture killing, huh, Hillary? --- that's what she reminds me of.
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  14810. He has a prestigious post at a private university. I kid you not.
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  14811. Is there a solution?
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  14812. The vaccine bullies had their brains broken by Trump, hence they imitate Trump. I never thought I'd see anyone publicly and openly celebrate the death of an unvaccinated person, and sign their name to it, but here we are. You can find it all over YouTube message boards, and on the CNN channel in particular. This is a hate cult. It is never censored.
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  14813.  @deedaagenie  Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; genetics plays an important role, but so do other factors. Genes alone do not cause it.
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  14814. She is facing some major tuition bills over the next 10 to 15 years.
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  14815.  @danalexander2149  You should realize by now that facts don't matter at all. But thanks for the solid information on the UN Security Council, much appreciated. Look up some interviews of Mattias Desmet. His book will be out in English soon.
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  14816. @catalin ignat No, Russia was not kicked out of the UN. My gawd, can't you read?
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  14817. At three or four percent, like in the primaries.
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  14818.  @casualfoodenjoyer7951  If he admits to emotional abuse, then the article is not defamatory as a matter of law. Did you read the article? Depp already lost a defamation lawsuit in UK against a tabloid which was a much stronger case. His reputation from that, and his reputation in general before Heard published anything, was so bad that he can't prove SHE caused his damages by writing THAT article. See, before a court can order the sheriff to seize someone's bank accounts, car, house, etc., you have to prove that you're entitled to it, for real. Feelings are not enough. Unless you want to vote on Facebook instead. 🤣
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  14819. ​​@portlandhasbecometrash8437 If they fail to testify for the prosecution as promised, they go to prison. We won't know what that testimony will be until the trial.
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  14820. This is true.
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  14821. ​ @jayp_thenumberofthebeast Precisely
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  14822.  Steve White  "Self-defense" does not exist as a defense against all the charges brought so far. After they investigate, they may drop some charges. Or they may not. If you think you already know, well . . .
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  14823. I think you're right, but most people have made up their minds one way or the other. It was obvious for a long time that the "Russian bot" story was floated to discredit actual humans and their views.
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  14824. I know. Let's nominate someone who says Derek Chauvin is innocent. Go full monty.
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  14825.  @deanog2577  Never jeer at an injured person, no matter what they did to you personally. There is always a small risk that the psychological stress could make them sicker. It's not poison.
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  14826. Jobs emotionally abused his daughter his whole life, and stole from all of friends. Not ordinary "jerk" stuff.
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  14827.  @robws007  All true, 💯
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  14828.  Dotard Trump  A videotape made outside of court can be introduced into evidence if properly authenticated by in-court testimony, and can be used to prove Person A said what is heard and seen in the video. It cannot be used to prove Person A was being truthful at the time. It might be excluded anyway, as being more prejudicial than probative, etc., but in principle it can be evidence. How do you think we have evidence that certain victims of police brutality who died pleaded for their lives? It's on video. It has to be authenticated before it's played to a jury.
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  14829.  @feelthejoy  You must have meant to tag someone else. There was a "hearsay" duscussion related to when this abuse was reported, etc. My point was that a prior consistent statement can be introduced into evidence for a limited purpose, and is not hearsay for that purpose. That would mean that if someone without a mark on them were, for example, to state to a friend that they were just molested right after it happened, and they are later accused of making the story up, there are ways to introduce their prior consistent statement to show they always said so. It cannot substitute for their own testimony. The point is, their story then and their story now are consistent. (And even if it weren't, it could be true, but that's a separate issue.)
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  14830. Deadly force is legal in defense of persons. It is illegal in defense of property. A nation of gun owners is supposed to know the bright line rule.
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  14831. ​ @bradleyboyer9979 💯
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  14832. Do you believe in the cosplay conflict among billionaires? "WEF contra Elon" looks mostly fake to me. One more diversion.
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  14833. Obvious there would be no more stimulus because DNC doesn't want to do anything that might possibly benefit Trump.
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  14834.  @newtonia-uo4889  Oh!! And here I thought Trump was the Big, Tough President! So, Fauci and Rachel Maddow are bigger. Thanks for telling us. He was impeached twice. He chickened out on pardoning Snowdon or Assange. WAKE UP. You're as nuts as the DNC. EDIT: Okay, no one is as nuts as the DNC. Sorry for the hyperbole.
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  14835.  @aditis8669  I like her. She is more genuine and tremendously sharp on her own show. Rising is poor without Kim.
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  14836.  @don7117  This segment was way funny, especially toward the end.
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  14837.  @gustavofinklstein9730  Right. So he gave her a written apology. AND just demonstrated that TYT was imitating Howard Stern in their broadcasting and office banter at the time. This all came out because Ana defamed Aaron Mate. Aaron could bring suit. Did you realize that? Vaush won't inform you.
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  14838.  @gustavofinklstein9730  So if a guy asks someone where she got her jeans because he'd like to buy a pair as a gift for his wife, he is implying his wife needs to dress better? That's a good one. It means he's a guy. He doesn't know about shopping.
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  14839. ​ @erickborling1302  You think toxic tort cases are easy to bring, and win? Just how low is the average level of education now?
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  14840. ​ @erickborling1302 Wait. Do you actually not know that RFK Jr has spent his entire career proving toxic torts by reading the scientific literature and presenting expert witness testimony from scientists, against some of the most powerful corporations?
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  14841. Of course! People say "art therapy" as if that were a bad thing! Great post.
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  14842.  @katvtay  As long as someone like Bob Ross never suggests that he is an art therapist, I don't see why a colloquial use of the term "art therapy" is problematic.
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  14843.  @marinakoujman7665  Whose responsibility is it if people are mentally ill or homeless? Try thinking it through.
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  14844.  @ragingmouse5547  Heard's article nowhere calls him physically violent. An article in The Sun did, and labeled him a "wife-beater." He sued in the UK and lost. Losing that case damaged his earning ability. (I don't know why that case turned out so badly for him, but anyway. British tabloids are horrid.)
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  14845.  @markdouglas1601  This is correct as well. Pre-adolescents and young people who have passed through adolescence are not the same. At 17, many kids are five years past puberty. They are still minors, and their teachers have no business approaching them, "age of consent" or not. But it is wrong to call it pedophilia. It's kind of ridiculous.
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  14846. Wait, what? /s
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  14847.  @joskojansa1235  Hon, do other people make a fat salary in NYC by doing it? Not the same.
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  14848.  @amandamorgan3317  Oh gosh please don't tell anyone! :)
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  14849. I've heard that it is incredibly hard to get into college as an education major there. I know an American who retired from a law career and had top recommendations and grades, and was refused.
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  14850. Yes. Suspending judgment in this conflict is more needed than usual.
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  14851. If it is meaningful to say that you love someone you've never met, then I love her. A true hero.
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  14852.  @sexyitalian891  Very nicely stated, and best of luck this year! Of course that man escalated the situation. He had no business chiding a stranger, or speaking to anyone without wearing his mask. So he broke a rule, too -- an important rule, supposely. He doesn't know her ethnicity, or the ethnicity of her immediate family, either. Anyone who thinks they do will be surprised one day.
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  14853. ​@revkallisto It would be expected that he comment. He isn't obligated to, but then it would be normal to ask why.
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  14854.  @coachwhitford7315  Yes, but see, your comments are empty noise as far as I'm concerned.
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  14855.  @chrisludolph348  Jimmy? TDS?? Um, no.
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  14856. Never let politicians influence your decisions about your health, either way. Really. Peace & love. :)
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  14857. I can no longer pick ONE trauma.
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  14858. Another ship that has sailed.
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  14859. I'm glad you're fine. Sounds like a PITA, nothing more.
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  14860.  @michaelrfitzgerald3982  So, it's bad enough! I hope we've all learned to give ourselves full permission to relax and get well. That speeds up the process, I've found.
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  14861.  @FelixRoseAs  So, you're going to tag me when I can't reply. Figures.
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  14862.  @peterszczepanski6903  He has been fully transparent about his vaccine status and possible side effects. After the booster, his blood pressure went up, never returned to earlier baseline, and he is now on blood pressure medication. He reported it to the yellow card system as a possible side effect. Sophisticated statistical analyses need to be made on tons of data to find out if the vaccine was a likely cause, and he will never know for certain.
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  14863.  @garthdryland  First, these numbers are prelimiary -- I have read research papers with the opposite conclusion. Second, there is at least one glaring flaw in your reasoning: you are comparing known cases of COVID where young men were suspected of having myocarditis and tested for it (when we know that in young people, COVID can pass unnoticed), with reported cases following a vaccination. You know whether someone was vaccinated, and you know to watch for the side effect -- it was first reported two years ago. You may not know if a young person had COVID, because it is so often very mild. So that denominator in the COVID group could be much larger, and the myocarditis rate smaller, than you think it is. Then there is the problem that we don't always know who had COVID before being vaccinated. Vaccinating those people could turn out to have been unwise, especially if they are young and have robust immune responses. But just parrot one study. Whenever I finish a post like this, I pause to wonder why I care.
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  14864.  @magnump.i.7700  Too much information. (We know you always start with yourself.)
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  14865.  @barbaraculy121  Oh, mob justice? Your favorite flavor. Too bad your mobs are soooo old.
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  14866.  @skynate3882  You need to explain what that will accomplish.
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  14867. ​​ @drewdrewson1384 OH PLEASE, no comparison. Do you know that countries that have proportionately more cancer (and even more smokers) also have longer life expectancy? France, Netherlands, and Denmark are all examples. Of course the difference is their comprehensive, universal health care.
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  14868.  @angelshalo06  Guess what happens to accurate information? 🤔 Yeah, I can't see it, either.
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  14869. You understand. Love this post. ^10000
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  14870. Wait. That's a cartoon. Right?
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  14871. Sick
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  14872.  @annierocks8620  Are you joking? The COVID vaccines do not prevent COVID. Wait, you're joking.
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  14873.  @americangirlx4  "Life's tough?" Okay. My parents met in a refugee camp and I was their sole caregiver. My family died out. That's not fun when wartime PTSD resurfaces. Never even crossed my mind to take a drink, lol . . .
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  14874.  @americangirlx4  YOU are a "creative and logical thinker?" 🤣 🤡🌎
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  14875.  @americangirlx4  Oh, now I get it. You didn't have the attention span to read my posts and actually think about what I said, so you made stuff up. Of course. (Or, they were subjected to YT sense or ship. But I doubt that.)
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  14876. @scifyry  Overdiagnosis and underdiagnosis and improper treatment do no one ANY good. "Say! I have an idea! Blame the victim! Denounce them, that'll show 'em!" --- especially if they are under 18 and cannot take responsibility for their lives. Even the law won't allow it yet. That's always a good move. Go with that.
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  14877.  @pariah_carey  I genuinely don't understand. I've lived in other countries. Here, the big difference is race relations. I simply don't get it. Actually, I'm wrong. The other BIG difference is the influence of media on people's psychology. It is huge and goes deep. Parents have less influence over their kids here than they do in Europe. Family ties are frayed, peer groups are everything. This is beyond politics. I thought the people encouraging Claudia Conway to put everything out on twitter against her mom were wrong, too, so, . . . label me why don't you?
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  14878.  @pariah_carey  I never suggest you hated millions of people, or thought it. I think a lot of the remarks here are irrational and venomous because they are fear-driven. I think a lot of whites fear blacks. Simple.
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  14879.  @margottfon330  Well, what do you know? Baptized in the same faith as you. The original post decried hypocrisy. This was not an attack on sincere believers but on the hypocrites. The Gospels would agree, seems to me. Hypocrites can be exceptionally destructive, because they become so closely identified in other people's minds with the roles they play when they put on a big display of their religiosity, but they don't really believe any of it. They use it for their own ends.
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  14880.  @margottfon330  Well, that is true, and I say that as someone who is quite agnostic. In fact, if hypocrites do make headway in churches or other religious institutions, it is so often because MOST of the people who attend are very sincere, genuine, deeply devout, and therefore have a lot of trouble believing that others, who appear to profess the same faith, are actually . . . Fakes. I think people often fail to appreciate how emotionally devastating that experience can be. Happens all the time, though. There are reasons hypocrites target churches, schools, etc., places we expect to find more trust and tenderness, etc.
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  14881. Good thing intermittent fasting is healthy.
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  14882. @johnnysalt  I'm fine with that. And concerning Owens, as an entertainer, I might not care much for her style of comedy, but in principle I have no objections. But she claims to be a documentarian.
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  14883.  @jjrockjaw  No. It's when a person fails to seek medical care because they have only vague symptoms or no symptoms. Or, worse, when the doctor makes a very superficial exam, says that everything "looks" normal, and sends them home with antidepressants or tranquilizers. But I see what you did there. Ditch the tarot, stick with I Ching.
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  14884. I'm so sorry. Tell her to LOVE HERSELF.
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  14885. Many do. Thanks to Amy Goodman, we have heard from them.
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  14886. ​​ @JTG96  "Don't go getting your political supporters killed by Biden's FBI" sounds like common sense to me. Set me straight. Is there some other side to that one?
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  14887.  @JTG96  The deceased elderly man had said he was.
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  14888. Good question
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  14889. 2:16
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  14890. Look up what he did to Paul Allen -- tried to push him out of Microsoft while he was undergoing treatment for lymphoma. Look up his antitrust conviction, which ended up with no meaningful punishment.
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  14891. Kim Iversen strongly denounced Gabbard's position here, but first asked her to come on her program and reiterated the invitation. I liked how she approached it.
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  14892. Excellent, lol. But somehow, "up" sounds a little too positive or something?
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  14893.  @googultrollacct7784  correct
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  14894.  @phillawrence5148  Correct, it is.
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  14895. The reason I didn't support a ban is because of that one child in 2.2 million who genuinely needs them --- and I believe in INDIVIDUAL medicine (which we did not have during vaccine mandates). But so many doctors have been so irresponsible. Maybe we have to criminalize one more thing.
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  14896. I am shocked, shocked!!
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  14897. @robert9ish  This was produced by TJDS in its entirety, not Chris.
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  14898. ​ @rickcleveland310 It's a cult.
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  14899. @Ananth Nagarajan Up until now, you are correct that the Hunter case was deeply immoral, but not illegal -- after all, the 1% buy the justice they want, Trump included. But now there is reason to ASK (not conclude) whether Biden himself was involved in his son's schemes. Keep in mind WHERE these took place: in CHINA, and on Russia's border, in an international hotspot where the US certainly interfered on the side of regime change it favored. ARE THESE SMALL MATTERS? To Americans, they seem to be. To anyone else on earth? P. S. RIP Stephen J. Cohen ;/
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  14900.  @cv-cq9ry  I would have liked to see what she has to say. I am tired of "social media" pronouncing what someone "would have said." No one even listens anymore.
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  14901. They got paid.
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  14902. It wasn't her.
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  14903. Cashing in is the only thing. Winning is secondary; it usually does enhance cash haul, which is very important.
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  14904. Huh?? WHY? If there is an election, everyone has a right to run.
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  14905. I have an idea: read the case? Nah. Never mind.
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  14906. Is it general opinion, or borne out by evidence.?
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  14907. @sisaket33  Of course. That is a shocking mistake.
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  14908. They're too busy scrolling.
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  14909.  @sparks8087  Pandora Papers. You're right. Just found a report at The Guardian.
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  14910. Every word true.
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  14911. ​ @Liberty-fi7mg You people always have an ad hoc excuse at the ready.
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  14912.  @danielsheill6752  Where did I contradict that? Please point it out. The right of LE to order demonstrators to disperse is precisely what I implied. Which was what happened. And those who deliberately refuse to obey are subject to arrest.
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  14913. ​@jjandb1 The timeline is wrong. They were apart for nearly a week, when he returned to Florida by plane and she had the van. She had the golden opportunity to flee.
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  14914. @kitcat901  Please cite the statute and elements of the crime.
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  14915. @RachMonPhoebs  I can see a lot of this story is being whitewashed, which makes it less effective as a lesson for others, but there is no way someone can claim to know that Gabby played a major role in mutual abuse. That's at most a wild guess, and it says something about the person doing the guessing. There is no basis to think so.
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  14916.  @kitcat901  If you care so much, you might take ten seconds to read the law. You'll be fine. I promise.
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  14917.  @oceanechevalier7194  P. S. English speakers who study Latin do not get this result. They would have to be really gifted.
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  14918.  @rosalindr4975  I enjoyed it, but all the studies show it's not safe. They studied low-level smoking in Scandinavia. The custom there is roll your own, organic tobacco, 3 to 5 cigarettes a day (except at parties, when it's more), with no smoking before lunch. That was not so dangerous, but still turned out to be dangerous. They were surprised. A cig or pipe after dinner is a tradition there. People don't want to stop. I get that.
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  14919.  @jennyk6360  When the errors in the reporting all go in one direction, suspicion or at least heightened scrutiny is warranted. The public needs to support true answers, such as, " we have not established a firm time line yet, and we ask for your patience." Having the wrong story circulating first muddles all subsequent efforts to find out what really happened.
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  14920.  @jennyk6360  I agree that no one should be attacking anyone now. The shooter did it. Question is, how?
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  14921. You must never have seen her own show. This is what she always does.
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  14922. I'm not satisfied. I want all gynecology records sent straight to Musky
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  14923. ​@user-ym1mk5mx9l Do you know anything about that case? He admitted wrongdoing in a sworn deposition in a civil suit, and STILL was not criminally prosecuted. When he was finally prosecuted years later, then yes, I agree the prosecutor introduced evidence that was prejudicial and should not have been introduced. Messy case. If you knew anything about that case, you'd know the real question is why is it SO hard to get a conviction? Or even a trial?
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  14924.  @robinsss  It's a pandemic, or no? Make them all go on the record. Say. Is there ANY advantage in waiting?
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  14925.  Ill President  And I think you are acting as a tool of the insurance lobby. Make them all go on the record during a pandemic. We are the only major country in the world WITHOUT health care for all. And the one with the most COVID deaths. Maybe you are afraid for the financial markets, when a more significant issue in the long run is American influence, dollar hegemony, etc.
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  14926.  Ill President  Yeah. In this country, our representatives are supposed to vote for laws people want. That's what it takes. Votes in Congress. Not martial law, not secession from the Union, etc. You get people on the real record. They see their actions have consequences. They see they may not win reelection to be our representatives, if they refuse to do their jobs. Stuff like that.
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  14927.  @jimberkt  The major country in the world without universal health care, that relies on employer-sponsored private health insurance while the economy is shedding jobs, and that has the most COVID deaths in the world, is coincidentally the one without the "political capital" to change this. Well I'm speechless.
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  14928. SSDD ;)
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  14929.  @roberthudson3386  In the meantime, people should lie. Take it from someone who didn't and wishes she had. I'm not being facitious. Depression becomes a migraine, anxiety is a stomach flu. You have no duty to provide intimate personal information to people willing and eager to violate the FMLA or ADA and abuse you (as if you were the problem), and to take the bread off your table. Finding a better job is fine, working to form a union, even better, but in the meantime there is no such thing as Virtuous Unemployment.
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  14930.  @fullmetalpleb  You are a rock star. Imagine people thinking you have to spend your waking hours with such a group. Only someone who really has to would ever do it. One of the biggest mistakes people make in life is to spend time with the wrong people -- even if they are paid to do it. Anyway, bravo!!
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  14931.  @Lindsey0007  I'm so sorry, and I know how it is. Truly, I do. I know of seven cases, confirmed, where people suffering from cancer were emotionally abused or excluded -- five were women, mostly with breast or ovarian cancers, and two were children, both boys. Yes, even pediatric cancer -- it's staggering. A person has to look for ways to find emotional sustenance and reinforcement. I can also tell you from experience that American culture is the worst where obsession with money is concerned, and bullying is rampant. It is VERY hard to maintain perspective. I spent five years outside the States, which was a revelation, and even I've been worn down. I have found reading helps much more than any more modern media, because the process gives you more control. Journaling is rewarding. I have found that I can lose myself in the arts. But it is still very hard. I also regret saying this, but giving others a "second chance" has almost never been a good policy -- which is hard, since I am only doing what I would hope others would do for me. Sometimes you can't. When you know who someone is, don't talk yourself out of believing it just to have company. These are not good times. It is very, very hard to maintain perspective and know that it is not you. Societies in decline are not fun, and we are always taught to self-blame. That is nonsense. This society is not doing well. Do all the things that could help you. Don't skimp on good food, exercise. Take breaks from news. Do the thing you liked most when you were 16 or 14, or 22. Reach back. Be kind to yourself.
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  14932.  @melissamcnaughton5215  They are only considering the bottom line. You are entitled to medical and counseling services, which medical insurance must pay, so they see you as someone who skewed their insurance pool. Yes, the calculation is THAT cold. That is why they do what they do. Follow the money. Employer-based health care is absurd, and guarantees that a violation of your right to privacy will happen at some point, when you least can afford it.
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  14933.  @Lindsey0007  Look forward to finding out if you can go to Canada! This too shall pass. You may look upon this time as your personal turning point!
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  14934.  @rottierumbles9451  Dogs are resilient.
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  14935. ​​ @jared_r Suggesting that conservatorship would have ANY effect on how the monies collected by the US Treasury are spent is worse than senile. Conservatorship means control over the person's own assets, not the US government's, and each of the men mentioned have wives. You knew this was a stunt, correct? That said, I don't mind it. They deserve the embarrassment. The Libertarian Party's lawyers might get fined, though. You can't bring a frivolous suit or a nuisance suit.
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  14936. Well, a "mere" $10 million annual bonus is well over $1100 per hour: 24/7/365, waking, sleeping, Christmas . . .
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  14937. P. S. Not only is the Donbass not safe, but CRIMEA has been destroyed and assassinations abound. No one can say Putin has done anything right, or that he's playing chess or some other absurdity. It's too late in the day to keep blaming the US, however much that may have been true leading up to the current disaster.
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  14938.  @Asma-ep9bx  Well, I maintain that the US had a huge role in causing this conflict -- but why did he play into their hands? No excuses! He is wasting blood and treasure, and destroying the lives and livelihood and housing stock of some of Europe's poorest people.
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  14939. No, he is anti-GMO. He is pointing out Neil Young's rank hypocrisy. He considers himself worthy to choose what technologies he supports and puts into his body, and to advocate on matters where he has no scientific expertise whatsoever, but also thinks he should police other people's choice of interview guest, even where that guest is heavily credentialed. Malone and McCullough may be wrong, but those who talk to them should not be bullied to shut them out of the public arena. Jimmy is just demonstrating the old adage, "what goes around comes around." An article just attacked Young for laying the "anti-vaxx" groundwork, by opposing GMOs! You can't make this up.
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  14940. ​ @BDnevernind Where did you come up with this, anyway? It couldn't be more wrong.
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  14941.  @BDnevernind  I am a lawyer. I plan to read the entire 200+ page opinion. I was just reviewing due process in Chemerinsky and some US Court App 7th Cir. You don't know what you're talking about.
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  14942. @BDnevernind  In any event, the factual predicate for Trump being guilty of "insurrection" has never been tested and confirmed in any court or other proceeding, just as Brie said. That is the process that is due in the event of a criminal charge (or anything like it) being levied against anybody. If Trump had been impeached and convicted, then the clause would (very likely) apply. But so far, he has been acquitted. That may not last.
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  14943. @jasminelindros8923  Please define "administrative insurrection."
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  14944.  @iyoutubeperson4336  CMNN, MSNBC are not the left, they are the establishment.
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  14945. @chris avi Exactly.
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  14946.  @iyoutubeperson4336  Look who's talking about ignoring reality.
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  14947.  @kinghenry238  Storming the Capitol on the day a presidential election was to be certified? Well, I guess we do know what voting is worth since Bush v. Gore. Psst. You're supposed to pay lip service.
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  14948.  @kinghenry238  Let's say it is not close to the standard of the fair count we once believed in.
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  14949. If you saw a dog being tortured and had an opportunity to save it by stealing it, but couldn't save it in any legal way -- what would you do?
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  14950. Pfizer is Colbert's friend.
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  14951. Exactly. I used to carefully copy each example and try to understand exactly why the example was there. Then I got Schaum's and did all of those problems, too. A lot of times, the examples really tell you more than meets the eye.
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  14952. ​@tonygeckler76 If you ever have a child with any serious cognitive issues that affects every aspect of their lives and stands in their way of achieving what you have, then come back and tell us. No one is talking about mucking with anyone's personality and style.
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  14953. In the meantime, none of their stock portfolios suffer. They all got briefed on the pandemic in 2019, under Trump, so they could prepare. And they will all get briefed on the next big thing again, whatever that turns out to be.
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  14954. Couldn't handle law school, huh?
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  14955. Why? If you want to get to the truth, he is the best equipped to tell it.
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  14956.  @slambo6  The prosecution has the burden of proof. If everyone were to go to a real trial, instead of plea bargain, the system would literally collapse. As long as they arrive at a true picture of what happened and who is responsible, that is a rare win. I'm more interested in the ADULTS who provided the weapon and put Rittenhouse up to this. Their charges are getting little press attention.
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  14957. The UK stations I listened to, including conservatives, saw it the same as Niall did. Maybe they are more familiar with it? Or maybe they are too quick to see it? Not illogical. Not derangement.
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  14958. "Why do people hate the DNC? Are they fascists? Are they jealous? Huh."
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  14959. IF it is true, then it is true of all positive integers. Of course that's an infinite set. You don't have to check a number ever again; if the number is a positive integer, then the conjecture holds. Not a limit problem.
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  14960. Need you ask? 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰
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  14961. In France, medical professionals were reluctant to take the vaccine for the simple reason that they understood immunology and so many had already had COVID and recovered. MANY such people around the world were reluctant. The novel vaccine was never tested on such people, and in most cases a vaccine is not administered after infection. Some countries, notably Switzerland, administered only one dose of a two-dose regimen to those who had had proven COVID and full recovery.
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  14962. Robert Wolff just interviewed Chris Hedges! This is not to be missed!!
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  14963. This is appalling. Roughly speaking, a vaccine protects me more than others, and a mask protects OTHER people more than me. So, with most people still not vaccinated, WHY are we removing masks? Vaccinated people can still develop COVID, they just don't get very sick. I know this from flu as well. I've been vaccinated and had very mild flu. I was a danger to others. My flu was trivial. An unvaccinated person's might not be. All the information we have so far says COVID vaccination is the same. Vaccinated people have developed mild COVID, especially if they opted for Johnson & Johnson, but so have others (health care workers, first responders who took the mRNA versions and come in contact with lots of people).
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  14964. Dr. Campbell's dry humor in all its glory.
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  14965.  @Zatzzo  I guess you'll have to watch a substantial portion, if not all, of the program to find out.
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  14966.  @MsTMarie83  That's a big help, yes.
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  14967.  @bozodeathgod  Actually, the Anita Hill hearing occurred while I was in law school. We followed it closely.
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  14968.  @JayBee-cr8jm  It is known, without dispute, that Biden held back corroborating witnesses, who were present and ready to testify. Sorry, facts are facts.
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  14969. Welcome to 1984 + 38.
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  14970. Dore's livelihood was threatened, as well as his ability to broadcast the stories he does. But basically, you are right. The less of all this, the better, ultimately. They did this video to end it. They had thought it was over.
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  14971.  @nwagner643  Yes. This.
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  14972. I would look, too. Is it real? That's what would attract my curiosity.
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  14973. More more more Are we all morticians?
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  14974. Now we're getting to the truth.
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  14975. Well, Trump could have fired him instead of lifting the moratorium on gain of function research funding.
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  14976. Get your money back, damn.
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  14977. "What's not to like?"
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  14978. ​ @RobinHood-pf2bf NO At least not as I read it.
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  14979.  @BrazilResearcher  Kindly explain what you mean. COVID drivebys are not acceptable. This pandemic has been terrible.
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  14980. @AA-cg3gd  ​The one who says, "Don't go getting your political supporters killed by Biden's FBI," is the only sensible person in this picture. There is no "other side."
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  14981.  @snuffeldjuret  "Both sides?" There is only one. That guy should not have been killed.
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  14982.  @giganoob1968  Fundraising for these Congressional clowns has become too easy. You'll have more show trials, less governance, while they up the ante on surveillance and support for war.
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  14983. The Jeffrey Epstein story sounded a lot like a conspiracy theory. Someone like him had influence over everyone from Prince Andrew to Bill Gates, picking up several presidents along the way? The point is what Glenn and Aaron keep saying, EVIDENCE. Demand evidence, and go where it takes you.
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  14984.  @birchsongsltd.6831  The US worked hard to scuttle the peace talks in April, after working even harder to incite violence since 2014, and to loot the country. Having said that, Putin was wrong to escalate. If he knew all this, what did he expect to happen to Ukraine and his own people? He fell into the trap. It's on him now.
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  14985. A federal pardon, after he himself pleaded guilty, has zero effect on his conviction in state court.
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  14986.  @BusyBodyVisa  And how do you think that happened? Start with Biden's term, then Trump's first term, etc., and see how it grew.
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  14987. Also, Dr. Campbell is examining a whole host of reasons why COVID in Japan has not caused the disease and death it has elsewhere, including viral mutation. He's not here claiming ivermectin prevented and cured COVID in Japan. No one responsible has said any such thing.
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  14988. Who? Dennis Kucinich, Roger Waters, Chris Hedges, Ron Paul?
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  14989. The real irony is that everyone knows the material can be redacted. P. S. No wonder they are after Assange.
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  14990. Ten million? Poor Graham moved the decimal point. He goofs up math every time I've watched him. Universal simultaneous COVID in all of the unvaccinated would mean ONE million hospitalized, not ten million. Poor Graham.
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  14991.  @travisbickle1689  Nope. You always are. Not renewing your license does not mean you cannot be disbarred for such things as fraud, etc. If you don't pay the fees, you cannot practice. That's the difference.
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  14992.  @mxcope  Okay. I believe you. It was open to interpretation.
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  14993.  @mookiestewart3776  Exactly.
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  14994.  @StarScreamReee  Mookie answered whether it could be criminal. If a false report is made to the police, then yes, it could.
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  14995.  @ValisJnr  Let me see if I understand: Zayhna should be barred from a job which would allow her to make enough money to pay damages in defamation. Why would that be good? Some of what Zayhna said is probably defamation, but some of it is immunized: if you testify before a school tribunal, you cannot be held liable by the person you testify against, even if you don't tell the truth. Court has perjury rules, but universities might not have anything like that. They don't have hearsay rules, obviously, since this was all second-hand: Zayhna just repeated what another activist told her Bettinger said. She heard nothing herself. This is why everyone is so angry about how universities are handling these sorts of complaints now. It's a disgrace. The university violated Bettinger's civil rights rights. That's why Brie said from the start that they should have to answer for it. Did you even listen to this video? I don't know why you're pushing for outrage. I'm hoping for a real vindication in court. If Bettinger had to eat this injustice, then I'd be angry.
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  14996. @fatrobdouble  Cool. I dislike most of what advertising does nearly all the time, and it's only getting worse. I see no issue with boycotts. Forgive me if I'm done with anger. Attacking Z in the press cannot aid Bettinger at all. It does nothing for her. If anything, it might hurt her, but probably will have no effect. I consider her case very important and wish her a resounding success.
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  14997.  @revolutionfrommahbed4246  Thank you. I have decided not to have any faith in someone who refuses to say these three little word when they are true: "We don't know." "We don't know yet," a bit optimistic but fine, certainly "We don't know but we believe ______, because ______." I'm good with that, sure. It really is not that tough. Or, it shouldn't be. Huh.
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  14998.  @revolutionfrommahbed4246  I have looked into what vaccines are available where, and outside of a small number of Western countries, almost all others offer only non-mRNA vaccines, or one mRNA "vaccine" (just for shorthand; it's a form of preventative immunotherapy, I know) and two or three non-mRNA vaccines. If it is SO important for everyone to be vaccinated, why do we have a lack of choices in the US? Why is one of those, J&J, known to be flawed? IS it true that China and Russia have produced effective vaccines that are safer? A genuine question - I don't blindly believe them, I want to know. This whole picture is very disconcerting.
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  14999.  @revolutionfrommahbed4246  For an mRNA coronavirus vaccine, the worry among immunologists was immune enhancement. That does not appear to be a problem, which is a huge relief. Chances are that we would have seen it already, although that is still somewhat conjectural. I think overcoming the issue of immune enhancement -- or apparently doing so, so far -- has led to a false euphoria about these medications among scientists. Considering all the people who have been vaccinated, I only hope the vaccines turn out to be safe in all other respects.
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  15000.  @threepac  Was this article written after the UK trial? BTW, did you read the article?
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  15001. People who live like this, and don't have the sheer luck to succeed in entertainment, end up homeless. Real turnoff. Hope they'll both be okay, but don't want their "influence" over others.
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  15002. The "funny" part is that none other than Adam Smith warned of this. :/
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  15003. Please forgive us for not doing better by you. We are ashamed that our disabled veterans aren't treated as they should be and that we didn't protest until this was fixed. :/
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  15004. How many things can you misrepresent before breakfast? What Bri said was devastating to our government: it knows, or at least has an excellent idea, and it won't tell us. What conclusion do you draw? The worst possible, as far as I'm concerned.
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  15005. These aren't really life-changing, they are typically academic. I can give you a better list: Pere Goriot, Balzac Nana, Zola Jude the Obscure, Hardy The Apology, Plato Shakespeare's Henriad; Hamlet; Othello That's ten works in all. For contemporary works, The God of Small Things ANYTHING by Coetzee For more classics, obviously Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, starting with The Death of Ivan Ilych. No one can read these and ever be the same again.
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  15006. Oh my goodness. I said in another post that the relationship between France and Russia is more complex than that between England or Germany and Russia -- and that goes double or triple for the relationship between Russians and East European Jews. You hear its echoes everywhere. I think that for every Nuland, there are two Norman Finkelsteins, but the latter will never have power, so the former are able to create the illusion of being in the majority. The German Romantic notion of the Volk partially reborn in modern Russia reminds me of Marx's dictum: first as tragedy, then as farce. There are some ways in which Russia is more cosmopolitan than the West and always has been. The saner people in Russia embrace it as a strength. Emmanuel Todd has a lot of insightful things to say about all that.
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  15007.  @michaelmcclure3383  False, lol. A journalist is allowed to give you real facts about criminal procedure, rather than an emotional rush.
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  15008. False. If the kids did not put any person in danger of physical harm, then using lethal force is against the law. This should have been made clear. It is always the risk to a person that counts. A parked car with no one in it does not count, except in some very unusual circumstances where the car is needed by its owner to preserve his life (in a snow storm, evacuation during a bombing raid or because of a chemical release, etc.).
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  15009.  @thealternative9580  It has to work. It does not work on the very young, you are right, but at some point it has to work. That is the goal to be met.
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  15010.  @astrogoodwin  Thank you for your posts. Almost none are insightful like yours.
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  15011. "Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War" by Frances Stonor Saunders REDUX, Max! And then some. Congratulations.
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  15012. By the way, I don't buy that thesis without copious evidence. We know Vitamin D deficiency is very common in the US. My doctor, who is not into anything trendy, began testing for it years ago. Taking D improved my levels. It is a vital nutrient for many cellular processes. But give us the key words. I know links are taken down at this channel by YT.
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  15013. Reagan started this. Instead of being the apotheosis of celebrity nonsense, it was only the beginning.
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  15014.  @chrisludolph348  How can anyone be this duped? He hid what he knew about COVID, in January 2020, then admitted it to Bob Woodward. He was too lazy to get proper emergency UBI. He was too lazy and weak to do a proper shutdown early on, and instead we had half-measures for months and months on end. He repeatedly encouraged lawlessness on the part of the most dangerous right-wing militias in the country, many of which have infiltrated law enforcement. He executed an Iranian general via drone because someone told him to. He moved the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem because someone told him to. He tried to flip Venezuela because someone told him to. He cut taxes for the richest of the rich because someone told him to. He wears orange fake tanner because someone told him to. He spewed hate on a daily basis, mostly on his own initiative.
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  15015.  @PretenderCS  Well look at all the flavors Icecream Bunker Nancy has to choose from.
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  15016. @kevinkent6351  You're right.
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  15017.    Withdrawal of state tax support for PUBLIC colleges and universities is the problem. Let the privates do whatever the hell they want -- they do, anyway, including letting in "special development" students whose parents buy them a spot -- oops, I mean make charitable philanthropic humanitarian donations. Government-backed loans need to be capped, and dischargeable in bankruptcy after a certain time period. A public university used to cost per year no more than a student could earn by working full time all summer. THAT built pride and responsibility. No one can do that anymore -- plus the kids sit on their parents' health insurance through their 26th birthday. This generation is being crippled. It is a crime.
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  15018.  @dm0065  The real problem is that the private schools are the feeders into all levels of government. Who is the last president who went to a public university? The last Supreme Court justice? Congress, ditto -- most are products of private schools. Worse than that; add in: major corporate executives and boards, investment banks, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, all of MSM, print and broadcast, Hollywood. It is insane. Show me another country like it. There are none.
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  15019.  @dm0065  I think you're right.
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  15020. He signed for "gender affirming care" for his son himself. I guess second opinions are expensive.
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  15021. ​ @pjj9491 You're in a cult. Again?
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  15022. I think scents or ship should end.
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  15023. @jackflack4253  Please be paid for this. No one should do it for free, it's so demeaning.
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  15024. "The two stupidest things" Listen, that was good. When someone tells you who they are . . .
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  15025. Yeah, they produced Sputnik V, the first vaccine.
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  15026. They have a detailed platform. If you listened to their voters, you'd know that many voted for Stein for her position on war, but were not in agreement with her environmental positions.
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  15027. 😅😅😅
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  15028. Sure you will, you angel.
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  15029. @TriggaTrey361  "Accountable" in what way? And to whom? Your freedom of association gives you the right to avoid anyone whose speech you find reprehensible. I know I do. Do you think passing highly divisive laws will solve divisiveness? We're in need of new crimes, we don't have the largest prison population in the world already?
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  15030. That was then, this is now.
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  15031.  @coachduke9323  If the proportion of Asians at Harvard, relative to their population in Massachusetts or in the US as a whole, demonstrated that they are not being discriminated against as a matter of law, then this case would never have been granted certiorari by the Supreme Court. I was responding to the first post, which claims that the proportion of Asians at Harvard by itself shows they aren't being discriminated against.
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  15032. Doctors, not pundits, advocating for not treating the unvaccinated? Yeah, that's shocking. If a school shooter or a child molester comes to an ER, he is treated.
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  15033.  @007kingifrit  Yeah, look how they have ruined UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Scandinavia, . . . sheer misery for the youth there, not having to be in debt for school or stay on Mommy and Daddy's health insurance until age 26. Ruined lives. How can they stand it? /s
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  15034.  @bhoxified8932  Angelhead: A Memoir and Hurry Down Sunshine are harrowing. The brother of the author of Angelhead did not get help until after he burned down the family home. His family tried everything.
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  15035.  @utbigpapa  And stay for, say, five years? As long as needed? Of course there is, NOW.
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  15036. You mean like a degree in Business? That's the most common major, and without a CPA, it is pretty useless.
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  15037.  @robobrain10000  I agree that the loan industry is a big factor in accelerating the rise in tuition. But do you realize what a state school used to cost? A student could earn a full year of in-state tuition with an ordinary summer job.
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  15038. The US used to call for peace summits. Now it's just an arms merchant.
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  15039. 💯 ❤❤❤ THIS!
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  15040. He knows what he has to do, to secure his kids' future. This is what every affluent person is doing, if they can. They are not talking to tell the truth anymore. They are talking to get paid.
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  15041. Just remember, a $10 million bonus is over $1140 dollars an hour --- 365/24/7. Yes, for every single hour of every day. Some people are such great "earners."
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  15042. A society that has the history of eugenics that this one has now decides to risk the future reproductive choices of any child who deviates from Barbie and Ken. Shocked, I tell you, shocked! SHOCKED!
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  15043. ​ @DM-sy4hg Please. Not even Brie voted for that evil mummy.
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  15044.  @robertmarshall2502  YOU should write a book. This is PERFECT.
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  15045.  @UniqueBreakfastTaco  Why doesn't it simply say free exercise and leave it there, without adding disestablishment? Whoever taught you, demand a refund of any tuition you or your family paid.
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  15046.  @factmanamerican882  Okay then. Unitarians and Deists seem to come out on top.
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  15047.  @factmanamerican882  Chicago. North Side. I'm proud to be from a real place.
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  15048. If this is their last, best hope, that is sinister and tragic.
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  15049. Shakespeare and Sophocles
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  15050. ​ @Johnjohn-rr5dn You believe it?
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  15051. ​ @Danzo1212 Keep it up. You make the rioters look good by comparison. No, I mean it.
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  15052. @lauren2421  Working under the table is entrenched in France. Doesn't make it all right, but it's just a fact. Same for renting without a lease. Avoids taxes and bureaucracy, etc. It's not racial or political; left, right do it, etc. We probably don't know the details yet.
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  15053. Private schools reopened, including Catholic schools whose students are working class. They opened in the fall, established a solid routine, then closed for a long time over Christmas break and had online classes for a time. Schools were cleaned in the meantime. Then they reopened.
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  15054. Seize their yachts, give them to Hunter. And Jared. That way, you can get away with Hunter. You know, the thing.
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  15055. So the journalism story of our time is whether this guy still talks to some other guy? Not, say, the persecution of Julian Assange, the discussion concerning whether to assassinate him, etc. American High School.
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  15056. 1. Did they make money? 2. Do they get to keep it? Well?
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  15057. Musk's Five Accomplishments: 1. Blew up another rocket, better than a fireworks show. 2. Appeared on Joe Rogan. 3. Appeared at President Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress. 4. Cleaned up the wall of receipts proclaiming DOGE savings, to make sure it's accurate. 5. Fired and rehired the appropriate federal agency staff to get their attention and make them more efficient.
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  15058. @jamesgarvey8402  Oh let's get all emotional, "you are spouting hate speech, hate team, sniffle sneeze whine whine." These are not facts? But they are facts. This is what Elon Musk did this week.
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  15059. Timestamp where she did?
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  15060.  @Lindsey0007  You are absolutely right. Negligent on my part not to see that right away.
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  15061. Is this a form of mental illness? What could explain it, really?
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  15062. Well THAT proves it. I bet a lot of people would say no to you.
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  15063.  @sphereron  Not true. Where do you all get this?? Ordinary defamation is a CIVIL matter. It has to involve incitement to imminent violence, or some other actual threat, or be said directly to a state actor or government agent, or under oath, etc., to be a crime. Just plain defamation is NEVER a crime. Never, ever.
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  15064.  @kjlahti782  She is not that bad. That is a rare level of bad.
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  15065. I like a leftist lawyer dressed to the nines and representing the indigent for free. That's my favorite look. 😉
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  15066. Yeah, Trump sure brought the troops home and didn't try to flip Venezuela. /s
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  15067. @laceym6687  A lot of replies shad ow ed here. Glad to see you made it through! 😂
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  15068. Yes he did. You didn't listen long enough. Of course that the way China treats its labor force is part of the reason the cost of goods from China is lower despite the long transit, and despite how expensive oil has been during almost all of this 40-year period. But their macroeconomic policies definitely work to protect their manufacturing.
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  15069. "They really seem to be on the roll with this stuff." Oh man, thank you Briahna. 2:08
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  15070. @beautifully_scarred_lea  Prove it. Due process.
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  15071. THANK YOU
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  15072. Can't you find a billionaire to do it?
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  15073.  @chuckhooks6621  Wait for the Russian UFO hoax. Unless that might make them look good. "High Technology!!! Weeeeee!"
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  15074. @JohnM-sw4sc  But that is who gets in. The vast majority of qualified applicants do not, regardless of anything else. They could have an Olympic medal and perfect grades. A legacy will get in first.
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  15075.  @SunTingWong  With comments like that, you prove her point. Do you actually believe you're smarter than her? (Do you think you speak better than Naledi Pandor?)
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  15076. @TruthShallSetYouFree74  Brie is smarter than anyone trashing her here, and they are intimidated by that. And they think that if she says something they don't like, that makes her "dumb." I disagree with her on COVID, and 90% of the time on trans issues. I also think her communication skills need some improvement. That doesn't mean I don't recognize her intellect, which is top-notch. Brie is brilliant.
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  15077.  @JohnM-sw4sc  I wonder if you will be allowed to see my reply. The algorithm does not like references.
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  15078.  @dazey856  Right. Proofs are about infinite sets, in this case, the set of all positive integers. Even a huge sample where the conjecture works won't be enough to prove it. There's always infinitely more integers.
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  15079.  @keithkinkelaar3334  You need to ask? It's terrible. It's not for the purpose of rehabilitation and fails to serve rehabilitation.
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  15080. @aidananstey9848  Not what I said. The primary purpose of prison work for the incarcerated is rehabilitation. Taking responsibility for your own maintenance to the greatest extent possible is supposed to be rehabilitative, not remunerative. I see that occurred to you, finally. Exploitation only breeds resentment. The Thirteenth Amendment leaves the door open to exploitation. It says so itself.
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  15081. PBD: those two students you mocked simply said they did not know exactly what NYU's involvement with the current IDF action was. They knew very well why they were there. So, what suddenly happened to the First Amendment? The free speech standard is not based on anyone's subjective feelings or safety delusions. Only true threats and incitement to imminent violence are unprotected speech. Protesting American funding of a war that has been deemed to represent a plausible case of genocide by the ICJ, with the American judge agreeing, is fully protected political speech. Sources: the Westboro Baptist Church case RAV v. City of St. Paul, opinion by Justice Scalia Brandenburg v. Ohio. Scalia also joined the opinion on the flag-burning case, Texas v. Johnson. One could start with those four cases, or any one of them, and find out what freedom of speech IS.
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  15082. Doubtful. The people who can defeat you are those who can make many mistakes with impunity. This is usually the case with an ordinary supervisor at your job, much less those above him.
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  15083. The way Tucker elevated Kyle Rittenhouse into a hero --- and I don't mean his interviews with him after the trial, which were very good journalism --- I mean praising Rittenhouse's decision, at age 17, to go to Kenosha with an AR-15 in the first place, was appalling. (This was not with Rittenhouse's mother's permission, contrary to initial reports.)
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  15084.  @a.s.2426  Elon, is that you?
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  15085. Perfect analogy.
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  15086. You give too much credit to the average voter. Face the truth. Don't think they aren't cheering. Don't underestimate greed and ressentment.
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  15087. There is one way the USSR was better: Fauci would have been under arrest and interrogation right now. (Yes. I am FURIOUS.)
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  15088.  @stenyethanmathews945  Well, what do you expect from gut feelings, and romance/ bodice ripper novels perhaps?
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  15089. Try reading any one of his books. Like a Thief in Broad Daylight, for example. (Or are you not much into books and stuff?)
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  15090. ​@Adrian-mq5ld He's not a liberal at all. You're supposed to say totalitarian, if that's not too many syllables for hash tagging.
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  15091. For a SAG union position?
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  15092. @Roa "Nothing happened to me, so the vaccine's okay." Precisely why people should be cautious. If they end up being among the very few who are harmed, they may see society turn its back.
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  15093. The state has no legitimate interest in actively suppressing so-called "social justice warriors."
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  15094. What the courts decided, no?
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  15095.  @samcriisfree4432  Rescinding DACA punishes the innocent. So does separating children from asylum-seeking parents. When the least among us bear the brunt of a policy, it can't be the right one. But you are right about the real reason illegal immigration was allowed -- to drive down wages. It is never because of humanitarian concerns. You can tell by what they do to people when they decide they don't need more immigrants. Then you can see how they feel about immigrants.
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  15096.  @Shivpi3141592654  These are good points, and logical to the end.
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  15097.  @samcriisfree4432  I agree about drone warfare. Is there some way to surrender to a drone? Drones should be banned.
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  15098.  @KathleenMcCormickLCSWMPH  NOT impossible, and thank you for your posts and good wishes. Trump foments a kind of irrational hatred that is exceptionally poisonous and engages in race baiting, which makes him an impossible protest vote in my opinion. BTW, I like your channel!
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  15099.  Luis Alejandro  Silly me, thinking you could be a false flag, when your jeering is straight out of the DNC playbook. Who the h*** do I think I am, when no one gave me PERMISSION to complain about anything? I am not a "victim-du-jour," duly designated by the Clinton wing of the DNC and baptised by Twitter. No one else may count. The DNC will let me know if and when stuff like drones or depleted uranium may be mentioned. Until then, I have "nowhere to go."
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  15100. It doesn't surprise me. People have been taught that history is "just propaganda" anyway. They will literally say right is left, up is down. What matters are the Likes. We both know it. ;/
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  15101. He's awful, too.
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  15102.  @culbinator  I don't disagree one iota. I still want to know.
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  15103.  @orawancarlile6192  Also, those three did not go to ordinary high schools like most people do (Gates's high school English program is like two or three years of an excellent college), and all three had some college -- and not ordinary colleges, either. But concerning Snowden, the security clearance, coupled with lack of oversight, is still a question. Few want to bring this up, because it starts to sound like opposition to what Snowden did. I am not only glad he revealed what he did, I also wonder why everyone else went along with hiding the rampant spying. It is chilling. Where are the people who support the Constitution? He should get a hero's welcome.
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  15104. But they all keep getting richer. Must be merit.
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  15105. @rebekah0207  Excellent point. Yesterday's "terrorism" is today's "conspiracy theory. "
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  15106.  @88wildcat  Uh oh, personal responsibility. /s
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  15107.  @TCt83067695  Hedges is on fire right now.
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  15108. ​@cidquakenbush302 This is the one true thing about Trump that is unequivocally good, and about the freak-show reaction of DNC types to that plain fact.
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  15109.  @Lorne.Mccuaig  And we think you are literally out of your mind. McCarthy at his worst sounded saner.
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  15110. ​ @GM-db4bv Every segment in which she spoke today was outstanding.
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  15111.  @thewestfaceofdhaulagiri6697  What "left?" Non-POC America is Trump enthusiasts, and Trump enthusiasts with better manners usually.
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  15112. Impossible. They were by far the quickest and most nimble in finding ways to benefit from trade and tax policies before anyone else realized what was happening. That is how they found a niche, then gained the power to influence policies to favor them further. The new boss is much like the old boss. At this point, repatriating manufacturing would certainly be inflationary, you are absolutely right, although the cost of oil should incentivize that by cutting down on supply chain costs, and pollution for that matter. An analysis of why it does not make enough of a difference would be . . . fascinating.
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  15113. How did we get here?
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  15114.  @dougwigginton3983  Ultra-rapid, non-discursive pattern recognition, for both cognitive and motor patterns.
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  15115.  @Charlotte_Martel  Yes, and it is so unfair. I only hope she is not discriminated against, even now, for not having gone to college, especially since it is so much like medicine, where your real education begins in the hospital after you graduate.
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  15116.  @picklethepepper  Please provide a link or, if that might be shadowed, search terms.
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  15117. They were trying to emulate Howard Stern back then. The producer$ at the time mu$t have liked that. Times change?
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  15118. Is this a contest to see who can come up with the stupidest explanation?
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  15119. Now this struck an unusual note of realism.
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  15120. If you haven't seen it, how do you know that? I'm serious. I'm done taking someone else's word.
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  15121.  @rodster811  I didn't defend it. Why do you think I did? Because I declined to attack it without specific evidence?
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  15122. Krystal's grin is a Christmas present.
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  15123. Lev is the best.
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  15124. @clevelandplonsey7480  "Inappropriate scrutiny," I love how you put that. I'll remember that one! Toned down, yet says it all.
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  15125. When you see unsophisticated people, who are insular, etc., suspect that COVID is "a hoax," can you really blame them? At first I was furious with them. As time goes on, I have more and more compassion. The politicians are NOT acting like this is an emergency.
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  15126. We are raised on advertising, and that seems normal and true to us. Our "folk wisdom" isn't drawn from any religion, but from well-known sales techniques. Our religious preaching is drawn from well-known sales techniques.
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  15127. Leave it to Megyn Kelly to aggress against other women. Candace Owens and Megan Markle are mothers but that doesn't save them.
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  15128.  @deadgolfer6345  From Kelly's venom. Cat Fight Kelly.
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  15129. "Miss Porter, may we have permission to live life again? Thank you, Miss Porter."
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  15130.  @miguelvigoa7271  Everything that comes out of his mouth makes me think that. He couldn't be more clueless, and smug about it.
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  15131. Take away her 💰💰💰 and she will notice. I predict.
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  15132. The groceries around me don't accept cash.
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  15133. Too bad they didn't walk off the job last year, during the pandemic. Really too bad. Now they know.
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  15134. ​ @thesleepstate That's why he bases his views on medical research studies, which he (among many others) is fully qualified to present.
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  15135. My DNA isn't in any database. How did yours get there?
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  15136.  @dustinavant2003  My relatives are either very distant cousins or not in the US. Their DNA isn't mine in any case, it simply shows a high degree of probability that we are related.
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  15137.  @wallacethomas9844  I understand that it was genealogical data, but exactly how close was not revealed. Just how many 4th cousins does an average person have? At that level, Europeans display Neanderthal DNA, do they not? By that I mean, as if we had great-great-great parents who were primarily Neanderthal; one great-great-great grandparent contributed a little over 3% of your DNA.
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  15138. @GrimSower  Yes, there is a video about that case as well. Based on what a law student who was there said about it, it is beyond absurd. Strossen and Chemerinsky have both written about free speech on campus and in general. Great, great books.
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  15139. Remember when they told us how wonderful the Internet would be?
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  15140. You can't claim self-defense if you provoked the circumstances that led to your need to defend yourself. This will have to be sorted out with witnesses testifying under oath.
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  15141.  @C4customs420  "Self-defense" isn't a defense to all the charges that were brought against Rittenhouse. It doesn't apply to the firearm offense, or to the recklessness offenses. Don't you ever look anything up?
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  15142.  @thehumanity0  I don't care what you do, either. I have health insurance. So, "I've got mine." That's "the American way." Keep it. I wonder why you think fighting is either/or. How has that been working out? You yourself said not so great. And if Medicare for SOME is constitutional, you will have to explain why Medicare for ALL would fail a court challenge. I also wonder what all the small businesses that are having to close permanently will do. Having to provide medical benefits to employees once they grow, not to mention the challenges of paying for health insurance for the people who start them, has prevented a lot of people from going into business. It's only going to get worse. You all have a sad country. I hope the DC power structure can be prevented from going on new bombing sprees. Since you're so knowledgeable about US politics, what do you think the chances are of that? I'm not too hopeful. I expect more war.
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  15143.  @thehumanity0  As I've said countless times, the chance of passing M4A is slim but not zero, and a "no" vote will haunt many of those who vote no. Not that some of them won't succeed in the usual spin ("I voted against socialism!!"). Some will succeed, sure. But people are waking up. You seem to be terribly sanguine about the 2021 economy. I'm not.
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  15144.  @JustMe-hk7xn  Everyone knows how MEDICARE works.
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  15145.  @thehumanity0  All right. At this point, you will need to concede that the people who have doubts about there really being a pandemic, which has made our economy phenomenally fragile and caused millions to lose health insurance they were depending on, are not stone-cold crazy or evil. Because you aren't talking as though you've taken the reality of the pandemic into account at all. You haven't from the start. Of course you didn't mention it here. You think talking about politicians and infighting is more important. I thought the pandemic deniers were crazy or evil. That was back in May. Now I simply disagree, but understand, to some extent, why they think the way they do.
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  15146.  @thehumanity0  Let's get specific. Why should someone who has never been outside the country, who has never had a passport, who never listens to the BBC, much less news in another language, who of course is monolingual, who has never been to college, and who hasn't gone to a library since high school, believe there is a pandemic? Do you see lots of evidence all around that the politicians YOU want to protect from "infighting" are taking it seriously, and appreciate the urgency? Who and what do you think needs to be protected now? Nancy Pelosi, with her infamous trip to Chinatown and the hairdresser, and who thought eating luxury ice cream and chocolate was a strategy to keep one's chin up during shutdowns? Really? Then she needs to pay you.
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  15147.  @thehumanity0  P. S. If the "performative" meme had not been supplied to you, how would you express the idea behind it? What words would you use? Wouldn't you have to explain why a no vote on M4A during a pandemic would not dog a politician? Wouldn't you also have to argue that by voting no at such a time, that politician would have to go to work on proposing and passing an alternative? Doesn't "no" on M4A make a "no" on a robust public option that much more difficult to pull off, for a lot of politicians protecting the FIRE sector?
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  15148.  @thehumanity0  Don't swear at me. It's not my fault that you can't follow a carefully laid out argument. Actually, you did follow. Swearing is what you do when you know you've been exposed. The fact of the matter is, while there may be plenty of reasons to be tolerant of Sanders, there are no such reasons to refrain from challenging Pelosi. I'm not going to repeat my argument to someone who swears. You're tedious. Justin Jackson said it well. So did Katie Halper, Max Blumenthal, Briahna, Dr. West. Where are the progressives in the Biden cabinet? Who did Pelosi appoint to a committee chair instead of AOC? A woman who DID withhold her vote in 2018, and who started out her political career as a Republican. That was low, BTW. You DON'T talk as if there is a pandemic and a looming recession, or worse. You failed to acknowledge it as a factor in making M4A urgent, and voting against M4A risky. So I can no longer despise the people who really wonder whether the pandemic is a "hoax." They are simple people, and don't understand how the jaded operate. All they know is that their jobs are disappearing. But I'm supposed to care about the political class because . . . Help me with this, LOL.
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  15149.  @thehumanity0  Jimmy isn't talking to them personally, which makes a difference, even in law much less ethics (i.e., whether something is a true threat, whether it might amount to intentional infliction of emotional distress, etc.). You're completely dishonest, and you failed to answer a single argument. "Hope God will bless you and yours next year," LOL. Let's be sure to end on a passive aggressive pseudo-superior note, too. Figures. Your complete repertoire on display!
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  15150. Oops, forgot 2005.
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  15151. Well, some people have read the original texts he relies on, and are not as impressed. I liked one of his interviews on creativity at a major Canadian art museum. That was the best before this one.
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  15152. In my state, even adjunct college faculty cannot collect unemployment benefits. There are many categories of workers made ineligible by state statute. And the unemployment rate is an undercount: if you have not applied for a job in four weeks, you drop out of the count. It is not enough to look for places to apply, or to be eligible for rehire and expecting a callback from your previous job. But if you apply for jobs for which you lack qualifications, then you are counted.
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  15153. The suicide/necrophilia/philanthropia organ donation retribution segment is starting to grow on me?
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  15154. Fast forward. It is worth it.
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  15155. Even I wouldn't go that far . . . But give it time.
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  15156. Jimmy, they are treating all of us like we were 94 years old because after two years of lockdowns, mandates, abuse, and insanity, we are like 94 year olds.
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  15157. I swear those hand motions alone should get her primaried.
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  15158.  @mariemurray5281  Anyone who voted for Biden wasted more than their vote. I registered my desire to see Leonard Peltier freed. What did you do? Vote for corruption, mandates, surveillance, and WAR?
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  15159.  @ShirleeKnott  If you are being paid, this is more evidence of how low standards have fallen. If not, even more evidence of how low standards have fallen.
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  15160.  @ShirleeKnott  What court is Epstein a defendant in?
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  15161.  @conniedean3787  An arrest is not a conviction, except in the minds of YT true crime addicts. Ready to chuck the entire Bill of Rights "because Trump," are we? No.
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  15162.  @Yunitoony1107  They called it an atrocity. How is that sympathizing? Putting sole blame on Israel is evidence of idiocy, not of support for what they correctly called an atrocity.
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  15163. ​ @twinborn3850 Except it's false. They have a constitutional duty to pass a budget.
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  15164.  @mickwayne3398  True, that. OP might not know. Sabby is my favorite guest on Rising. She is so sincere.
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  15165. Realism is refreshing. Free speech, and promotion of the speaker's words are two different things.
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  15166.  @heinzbaron9129  He did.
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  15167.  @danmosher8885  nicely stated
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  15168. Omg
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  15169.  @ianbattles7290  Yes. How can these warrants even be legal?
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  15170.  @ianbattles7290  EXACTLY. There is no "hard part." It is a flat-out contradiction, and dangerous. A child can see it.
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  15171. ​@marcoalessandro2034 You call that a response? Yeah, forget brilliant authors. Consult a televangelist or a personal development coach. Remember, if you agree to blame yourself, then it's your fault. 😂
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  15172. I wish I could! ;(
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  15173.  @adanactnomew7085  NO ONE said they cannot moderate. We ARE saying that their moderation is inconsistent with their phenomenal privilege of enjoying immunity for all EDITORIAL decisions, that no other EDITORS in this world enjoy. They do not even have to take down proven defamation if they don't wanna, even if a trial court orders them to, and they answer to no one for that decision. Look it up, if you know how. I gave you the information.
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  15174. ​ @noot-noot-pingu-noot-noot Wow, thanks!!
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  15175. There is an undercurrent of such beliefs, still. Tell people to take a look at which countries are in the BRICS+. Who is it who gets along with Asia, Africa, and South America? And why?
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  15176. Look, he was fined previously for it. At best he lacks awareness. In principle, though, I want to presume innocence and agree that one ought to presume innocence. It's a bit of a stretch here, but okay.
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  15177.  @adrichapoy6525  I don't have to get used to it. I speak three languages. I'll be gone by 2025.
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  15178. It was for 50 years. Guns aren't in the Constitution by that logic. It says "arms." Guns did not exist then.
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  15179. Frustrated actress
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  15180.  @OrangeySky11  Who assumed anything about you? Whoa. What does my post have to do with pronouns? It has to do with cultures that do not worship bullies. Bullies are weak.
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  15181.  @OrangeySky11  Women play soccer, too. Where have you been?
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  15182. Assassinating Iranian official(s) cannot be called nonintervention. Attempts to flip Venezuela cannot be called nonintervention. The continued action in Yemen cannot be called nonintervention. Then there are the hot spots we don't hear about until an American service member is killed. Our bases are everywhere, and how "hot" the region around each one, is at each moment is something we do not know.
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  15183. A bonus for anyone who can.
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  15184. If he persuaded you that science can answer moral questions, then you've just demonstrated the pressing need for philosophy and history. This is mostly a nonsense lecture. It genuinely surprised me.
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  15185. The most common degree by far is Business. Next come the various health sciences, with Nursing on top. This has been the case for decades.
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  15186. ​​@maciedixon3983 And do you know what HSBC did to Americans, with the intervention of the UK political leadership? The Guardian reported it, in detail. Happy reading.
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  15187. Israelis themselves who support an immediate cease fire are silenced, smeared, depersoned. Same for Jewish peace groups in the US. Tells you everything. The biggest censorship is aimed at Jewish peace and justice advocates. They lose their journalism jobs immediately.
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  15188.  @hammervproductions  The First Amendment allows you to call for all kinds of things, short of actual incitement to unlawful activity. That's why all the people carrying "free Luigi" signs have not faced arrest. I suspect some of them are dangerous. But that's just my gut feeling.
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  15189. What's with all the grown women with Minnie Mouse voices? Serious question. What caused this?
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  15190. Don't worry, it's not.
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  15191. We were in Iraq to help the people.
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  15192. Nothing like an open border to Fight Terrorism. 😂😂😂😂
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  15193. News over the weekend: the Rio Tinto project in Serbia officially cancelled.
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  15194. @Rick Vis Few people thrive on "a ton of whole milk." It can even increase risk of various serious illnesses. Please be careful in handing out advice.
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  15195. Never did
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  15196. You are so right.
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  15197.  @isaacortiz4617  Not at all. He knows exactly what is in his checkbook at this moment, and why. ;)
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  15198. ​ @RiannaScipio Gurus don't need medical facts, silly. That's for the unenlightened.
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  15199. Yes.
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  15200. Sam Harris is hugely afraid. I pity him. Whether I should or shouldn't, I do.
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  15201. Jimmy is right in his media analysis and in his principled and consistent criticism of RFK Jr. Listen again.
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  15202.  @reidfmorthel5597 We have a firm principle of consent for medical treatment. Mandatory vaccines imposed on people in order to function in society, when the head of the CDC admitted under oath before the Senate that she cannot provide accurate figures on severe adverse events, she admitted they do not stop all infection and spread, is far too grave an imposition. We've had flu outbreaks where children died. I always got a shot and was careful not to spread it to someone vulnerable. I know people who never got flu shots and went to work sick. I think they're crazy, but imposing mandates on them never occurred to me.
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  15203. He has not depolarized self-driving vehicles. Newsflash: all of America is less than 5% of the world.
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  15204.  @kevinsyd2012  You weren't paying attention. The 1 in 5000 were the number that had serious to grave side effects, necessitating medical treatment. ALL side effects was a much larger number. Go read the study. The 1 in 5000 are the cases that could never be hidden. They are what did come to the attention of doctors. That comes to 20 per 100,000, or about 10 to 20 times greater than other vaccines, or worse. You know, you would do well not to think you are smarter than everyone else. Even if this number were what you think it is, side effects are known to be underreported. So you can conclude nothing about the other 4,999 with any certainty. You have to do long-term studies.
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  15205.  @kevinsyd2012  To follow up, by comparison, in one study, the MMR vaccine caused one death in nearly 3 million doses. The rate of probable adverse events, all types, was about 3 per 100,000 vaccinated (not doses, but people). That is a vaccine known to have significant benefits, lowering deaths from infection in general in children, not just deaths from measles, mumps, and rubella.
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  15206. If only she hadn't met Harry, maybe you would have had a chance . . . 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤪
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  15207. This. Why should we want to live, remind me again?
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  15208.  @patriciaedwards-he8tn  Don't insult Fidel Castro like that.
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  15209. I'm suspicious of any spike protein from any source, whether from COVID infection from the original virus and variants, or ANY vaccine, but especially mRNA. I'm persuaded the virus did not mutate naturally to do this.
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  15210.  @aliciadaley7764  I think it was GoFundMe, but it was a year ago and I don't have it bookmarked. The case was not very well known until recently.
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  15211.  @bigvalley4987  Aww, thank you. How kind of you! I have family abroad, so I can always leave. You are really, really kind. I once paid for the defense of a police brutality victim. Police claimed he hit them -- found out that's the usual song and dance when they beat you. It was half my income that year. Would do it again in a heartbeat. I knew this person since age 4, this happened to him when he was 21. He had two jobs at the time. The best guy. People still DO NOT KNOW what is going on. I believe your good wishes will influence my life. I mean it. I'll be all right. ;)
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  15212.  @darylhenry9595  You have your lawyer contact the bankruptcy trustee, or the judge assigned to examine the documents.
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  15213. @RickZackExploreOffroad  Mia Shem's interview was enlightening. She feared r-pe, for good reason. The threat was communicated to her nonverbally, to control her. However, it didn't happen. Something quite different happened. The more I learn, the more I'm convinced that this is a region that could have found peace. A small number of very powerful people do not want that. They have other plans.
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  15214. Democrats go to big parties just like Trump. Democrats won't vote on Medicare For All just like Trump. I guess Democrats think COVID is a hoax, just like Trump. They have that masks cosplay going, though. /s
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  15215.  @jfangm  Right. McDonald's and Walmart and Facebook are "innovations." CERN not so much? I guess it can't be. Governments created it. All of your language is coded; by innovation, you just mean money. But we went through all that.
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  15216.  @jfangm  The quality of life in the West has been going DOWN since the 1980s. The trajectory prior to that was interrupted by these little things called world wars and depressions, starting with the 1890s. You make it sound like progress was more or less consistent. Ha. You can only make that pass to someone whose parents weren't in Europe at the time, and lived the reality. Capitalism also created the Nazi movement, and is stoking nationalism now. Capitalism did best when it had real competition. "Les trente glorieuses," from 1946 through 1975. Competition does improve a lot of things: you reduce it to competition for money(!) What a joke. How laughably limited, good gawd.
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  15217.  @jfangm  Thanks for letting the world know that either (1) "innovation" is an essentially meaningless marketing concept, or (2) you're nuts. P. S. According to CERN's website, "The World Wide Web, invented at CERN in 1989 by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee, has grown to revolutionise communications worldwide."
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  15218.  @jfangm  No one can create anything independently of government. First, the limited liability corporation itself is a creature of the state, and has certain rights as an entity independent of its principals, agents, governing board, and owners. Second, governments confer patents and aggressively protect intellectual property. Third, they provide courts within which to litigate contract disputes. Fourth, they protect global air space and shipping lanes. And fifth, they favor large corporations by allowing them to externalize these and myriad other costs. That's just a start. We could get down in the weeds as well and find several dozen other ways corporations depend directly on government, over and above basic research and the five items already mentioned.
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  15219. @JohnnieWalkerDread  It has nothing to do with whether he was found guilty of breaking any law. Rittenhouse had to shoot three people to save his own life, at age 17. You think he doesn't wish he had stayed home, or at least gone home after nightfall and after the serious unrest began? He was sorry he killed those people.
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  15220. @johnybalohny  I don't provide someone like that with a writing sample. Yes. I am serious.
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  15221. @johnybalohny  Did you ever see the Nicole Kidman film Dogville? 😂
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  15222. @johnybalohny  I think you'd like it. Quentin Tarantino did, a lot. But that also serves as a warning. There are days you might not want to watch it. Not light fare.
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  15223. Appears that he did, yes.
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  15224. ​ @Splodnik A person would have to take a close look at the contract he has with YouTube to determine whether it was possibly breached. The discussion Robby and Brie just had was top notch. This may bear some analogy with debanking.
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  15225.  @marcusverschollen9634  No. I hate it, actually.
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  15226. Great post
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  15227. Bravo, Haaretz. Haaretz is not saying Israel is "entirely" to blame. Its editorial is not saying the same thing as the Harvard student organization statement.
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  15228. False. The Castle Doctrine states that you may defend yourself or any other person in your home if someone breaks into your home. You can presume they intend to do harm to you. That is not defense of property, that is defense of the person's life and health. It doesn't apply to an empty house or an unoccupied car. Wow, a nation of gun owners, huh? I thought people had some idea of what the laws are around use of deadly force. You all surprise me every day.
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  15229. Kurt is ridiculous.
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  15230. ​@Fifi La Fleur A person has a right to refrain from interacting with anyone they choose except their minor child, or someone whose welfare is directly dependent on them without first finding a suitable replacement.
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  15231.  @DukeGMOLOL  You jump to too many conclusions and imagine you know more than you do. Well, that won't hurt your bottom line.
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  15232. Tell that to the kids in Gaza.
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  15233. ​@PazLeBon Sometimes it's bomb inflicted.
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  15234. She didn't support Maine.
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  15235. ​ @Justachillguy2442 BRIE DID NOT SUPPORT MAINE. Do you write denunciations before listening?
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  15236. ​ @explorenaked  This MESS started with Reagan. You keep wanting more of it. Education, for one, was undermined in California by Reagan, then everywhere else by Reagan. The excuse then was that schools were full of rads and hippies; today, the wokesters play that role. (BTW, Reagan's own kids were in the rad/hippie group.)
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  15237. After puberty, absolutely. That is exactly the effect.
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  15238. We're almost there. Nobody's working.
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  15239. Just nine?
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  15240.  @TheLazyLiberal  I can't argue with that. It took forever to get to the main point, too.
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  15241. Well let's be fair here. San Fran tends to be low tech.
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  15242. Accuse him of what she did. (Psst, get paid for that. See how much these middlemen are raking in?)
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  15243.  @biff408  This is simply more EU abuse. They abuse Greece because they can. And Benedict reminds me of those missionaries during imperialism who helped a handful of people, but instead of remaining modest about the nature and extent of their contribution, used it as a license to pontificate.
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  15244.  @nancyk7954  Bless you and I hope you are doing well. And if you are, I don't think most people in the US can begin to appreciate how unbelievably hard that was. They cannot fathom it, and of course it goes contrary to all of their mythology -- which they will never abandon, no matter what they are faced with. (My parents were refugees, too, and by comparison had it good, because most of their families survived, a sheer miracle.)
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  15245. ​ @wtice4632  Who's crying? You hear real leftists in this video saying what they really think.
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  15246.  @titanstown2452  Are you also seething about the fact that Bri is smarter and better looking? Does that get your goat, too?
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  15247. You just told us why he was taken off the air.
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  15248.  @dedetudor.  Yup. Gill, too.
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  15249.  @Digger-Nick  Your opinion is irrelevant.
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  15250.  @olorin1710  I know. I mean, what kind of a country are we if Nice Policemen can't even kneel on a druggie's neck for nearly ten minutes now and then? Sheesh. A guy can't do anything anymore! This reminds me of all the whites in South Africa who were angry to be called to account by the Truth and Reconciliation movement, which was an amnesty project aimed at forgiving the past, not punishing. That's how low all of this "Chauvin is innocent" rhetoric is.
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  15251.  @honorafox4709  So, you believe an autopsy can contradict video footage authenticated in court my multiple witnesses under oath and accepted into evidence? Interesting. Is this the new, post-Trump reality? Truth is whatever I feel like it should be, in this tweet. I have the right to change my mind in the next tweet. "Court?? Is that a real judge? He doesn't look like a real judge to me."
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  15252.  @jimwheeler6094  Oh my goodness, you are questioning "Her Truth."
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  15253. Thank you for mentioning that.
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  15254. The American Congress doesn't really do any work. They campaign, and they receive lobbyists. No other parliament in the developed world gets away with this.
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  15255. How much organized crime is ignored in Russia, due to partisan politics and corruption? Not a sign of consolidated power -- nevermind the possibility of false flags. Or, actual Kremlin operations made to look like false flags? Truth is, we don't know who is behind this; we can speculate on who has the real motive. Who takes Germany's word, or UK's? Please.
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  15256. Can you say Alexander Costa? LOOK IT UP
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  15257. Aaron summed it up perfectly.
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  15258. I am so sorry for your loss. Thank you for speaking to us today.
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  15259.  @jayxavier6930  The NYTimes story has a link to the official report, where two of the targetted staff said that they are instructed to call campus police if they see anyone in a closed off area or who otherwise appears "out of place," but from the wording of the report, it seems they did have some discretion. Other reports, including The Hill Rising, underlined that because the area was being used for a children's summer camp, security was tighter and usual, and they understood that they had to call security rather than try to handle it themselves. Personally, I consider these types of instructions/actions to be too often an overreaction. Links are sometimes shadowed, so I'll post below.
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  15260. By the mid-90s, it was compromised. 9/11 ended it. Sad.
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  15261. Brilliant
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  15262. The worst is they're enthusiastic about it. Censorship is the most exciting thing in their lives after msking money on Wall Street.
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  15263. I'm not convinced of her story. Consider A Million Little Pieces. Consider George Santos. Consider Anna Sorokin. Consider the "babies ripped from incubators". That story was dangerous.
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  15264. @J mitchell Not at all. I commend Aaron for inviting this commentator, because it IS people like him who have vastly more influence on foreign affairs than they should. This is how conversations in the State Department go.
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  15265. Nothing can compare with dry humor to bring people gently back to reality.
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  15266. If consciousness has its origins in the fully-functioning brains of living things, and if living things come to exist through the process of evolution, then any purported consciousness that does not arise through evolution should be presumed not to be a consciousness like the one we experience. Don't confuse our direct experience of consciousness with the way we deduce that beings other than ourselves possess consciousness.
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  15267. I hear you.
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  15268. Who might be more qualified than she is . . .
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  15269. Who thought that releasing him was doing HIM a favor?
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  15270.  @professorwiggins3290  They CLAIM to embrace the full panoply of First Amendment freedoms. It's rather sad that their president could not articulate what those are. Well, I already said why I think they can't --- they stopped caring about free speech a long time ago.
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  15271.  @stevenma2010  Did not notice a single instance.
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  15272. ​ @MichaelYoung-kc4nh An investigative journalist could easily verify this -- and she gave the name: Carl Nelson. Amazon sued them, and it went to discovery. Therefore, there is an extensive court record, and those are public.
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  15273. Sadly.
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  15274.  @kwg5044  Say what?? You wrote: "Jordan's wife had nothing to do with this except for your personal censorious defensiveness." Where do you see that I did any such thing? Can you be serious? Then you conclude with, "The real question right now is why you are reacting emotionally to something I didn't say." Is everybody Hillary Clinton now? Er, um, you . . . just did what you accused me of doing. I didn't. First of all, Wolf did not make a career out of her trauma. And in fact, if she was able to produce books, and obtain a doctorate from Oxford, and meet and marry an Army man, all as the result of trauma, that is called heroism. That kind of creativity in the face of pain is among the highest achievements a human being can aspire to. (See, e.g., Dostoevsky.) That is exactly what you do with trauma. I don't know whether she did, but she certainly did not let it stop her. My strong style of writing does not mean I'm "emotional." It means I can write.
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  15275.  @ideaman6961  Source? All the information I've read says it was under Trump. (But Trump signed what was put in front of him.)
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  15276. Did he have a reasonable belief that he was defending himself or others from an active shooter? If one of those shot by Rittenhouse had instead shot Rittenhouse, believing they just saved the crowd from an active shooter, would they have been able to claim self-defense? We don't know that Rittenhouse was right in believing the people he shot were a threat to his life. At most we can be persuaded Rittenhouse had a very reasonable belief his life was in danger, and that he was justified in using deadly force. The same goes for his victims. You have to ask the same question, not a different one.
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  15277. You know how many elderly people I know who were briefly on disability, and had Medicare associated with that, and then they didn't switch in time to standard Medicare, or the paperwork was somehow mishandled, and now, for the rest of their lives, they will pay extra for Part B? This is a playground for the hyperrich, and it was obvious since the '90s that it would be.
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  15278. Proves there is pressure to say it.
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  15279. I was always surprised that Jordan Turpin was believed. She had pictures on an old smart phone. And a good cop was sent to investigate.
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  15280.  @troy3456789  Her murder exoneration is a record of past violence in the home, even assuming innocence. No one spied on her because of it, no one denied her her rights because of it, her daughter reported her. That's why it's not a police state.
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  15281. Yes. She had her antenna up, as did I. I knew nothing good could come of this.
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  15282. Love Aaron and Max.
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  15283.  @user-pampam70634  Love your humor. We can laugh about this, . . . sometimes.
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  15284. ​ @snuffeldjuret  Yes. But that's okay. Billionaires get to have their own truth. After all, what is money for?
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  15285. The fact that the United States had its origins as a slave society keeps coming back to haunt it. The path to fixing it is not clear and won't be easy. But sure, possible. Harder things have been accomplished by human beings.
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  15286. So beautifully stated.
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  15287. What Fauci should have said: "We need to save masks for health care workers and first responders. We know they work in hospital settings, where there is training and universal compliance. We don't know how well they work in other circumstances." 1. A truthful statement; 2. Primes people for universal compliance and a more sober attitude toward masking, once it can be organized.
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  15288. Granted, they won't send goons to anyone's door, though they are itching to . . .
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  15289. People with Type 1 diabetes who can do what she does take excellent care of themselves. It's a deadly disease.
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  15290. Who funded this guy to come to New York City? How many Americans could afford that trip??
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  15291.  @annaclarafenyo8185  Wow that landed. /s
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  15292.  @annaclarafenyo8185  Right. She won't stop claiming she supports progressive policies, ever. That would ruin her brand.
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  15293.  @BigDouwg  I agreed, and just extended it, concerning why I believe he's naive. He starts with his own motivations to determine those of others, LOL.
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  15294. Misinformation
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  15295.  @franwi1722  💯 But Brie said the same.
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  15296. @sirtra  And does me, too mean sa? I said I don't agree with guilt by association in any form. Don't waste my time. This top was exhausted on other threads.
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  15297. All true
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  15298.  @bromack3  If you know all about Billy Bob, then you must be familiar with bankruptcy, lol.
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  15299. @Jacqueline L  Hillary is even worse, agreed . . . If that's possible . . . Yup, it is possible.
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  15300. @Mike Holmed  I remember 2001-2002 and 2008-2009, when all the Computer Science majors were not finding jobs. That's what they get for causing the tech bubble, 9/11, and the Wall Street subprime mortgage debacle. And look at them now! Unleashing COVID on the world, and complaining about myocarditis from the wonder drugs the pharmaceutical companies have bestowed on us. Of course they "failed reality." Obvious.
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  15301. This is how it will work: there will be intense economic pressure to do something "with your consent and of your own free will." Failure to do it will become more and more untenable, the ability to quickly prove that you did do it will be essential. You will download the app, of course, or accept a miniscule microchip, which you don't have to present. People will be hurt, only a few at a time, and the rest will whisper to themselves, "whew, that won't happen to me." This is how the perverse becomes normal. Just look around.
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  15302.  @DadsCigaretteRun  Depends on where the Starbucks is. (You've heard of Chicago?)
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  15303. There were a lot of charlatans back then, sadly --- but today, the very finest doctor ALWAYS looks for a non-pharmaceutical treatment first. Drugs are often needed, but as a last resort. (Where do people think antibiotic resistance came from?)
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  15304. Which batches went to billionaires?
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  15305. @MasteroMatter What was your view of Depp v. Heard, and the party outside? I knew that was a First Amendment case and hope both side's liability is overturned. But the point is, demonstrations outside the courthouse are ordinary. The content in one case is frivolous and in the other serious -- but we don't censor based on content.
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  15306.  @jasonhenry8067  These demonstrations are legal, and perfectly normal, as long as they remain outside of the perimeter that ensures free access to the Court. Same is true for abortion clinics, and for private homes. The demonstrations may be ill-advised, but they are legal. (Remember Westboro Baptist Church?)
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  15307.  @3dmaster205  Where do you get that "her claims blacken all of society and all men?" A demand that certain powerful men be held accountable by everyone for their despicable acts rides on the expectation that men are capable of conforming their conduct to the law and to basic tenets of morality. If you think that is too much to ask of men, then you have a very dim view of society and of men. You, not her. I think men can be real gents. Naomi's husband sounds like a peach, just as an example. I get no vibe that she doesn't like Peterson, for that matter. I get the vibe that she does.
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  15308. If they can find a way to get it to us, I suspect they will. Luckily, that would be tough to pull off.
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  15309. I'm going to write in Felix the Cat.
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  15310. Ryan, too, actually. Robbie sounds like he needs a lollypop.
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  15311.  @qfbaby22  Not a rah rah event I don't think.
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  15312. 😅
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  15313.  @Volticymo  I said 57% *disapproval*, which represents a large improvement for Macron. Trump has generally had lower disapproval ratings. Macron has been a lackey of the banks, he has dubious associates (you've forgotten Alexandre Benalla?), and has been a disappointment since before the end of his first year in office. The show of authoritarianism is relatively recent and appears as though it might be half-hearted. But Macron's disdain for ordinary people was on display from the start. He puts his heart into condescension all right. France has been having weekly demonstrations for two years now, the Gilets Jaunes having begun in late fall 2018, with a break only during the COVID lockdown. Everyone except diehard partisans are disillusioned with Macron. At this rate, France will end up in a depression.
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  15314.  @IosuamacaMhadaidh  Wow, had no idea that was them. Thanks. Yes, like most Indo-Europeans, they migrated westward from regions not considered to be part of Europe. The origins of European peoples are stranger than we know, complete with Neanderthal DNA.
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  15315. ​ @occif2023 liar
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  15316.  duncansmith7562  Not what happened.
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  15317. Hm. This is a tough call. I couldn't make it. Let's not overstate the case. We are all liared out, in part thanks to Trump as well.
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  15318.  @ribanbiangsuchiang1193  In the US, all the better schools offer only the MSW (Master's). You can become a licensed therapist in just about every state in the US with an MSW and appropriate clinicals. That takes some time to make money, but money you will make, and it is not a job you'll need to retire from in your 50s. You can do it part-time through 70 and beyond, which is now the realistic age for Social Security benefits.
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  15319. The look on Katie's face during the clip. 😅 Perfect.
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  15320. The history of the ethnic Catholic migration to the United States most certainly is a college course, and yes, even a specific course on the Irish or the Italians. Robby should look at a few college catalogues some time.
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  15321. How did you say you were SURE this is directed at you? "WTF your name is??" The MF bombs were hysterical. Maybe this was directed to "M*th*r F*ck*r?" Whoever that is. I mean, you're not married for one thing.
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  15322. Are you British?
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  15323.  @ScotMayo420  To some people, they are . . . 🫤
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  15324.  @noellerebekah9653  I do not believe convicted pedophiles who present a danger to children should be released from prison, and I worked to keep one in prison. (In Wisconsin, as "luck" would have it.)
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  15325.  @SunnyIlha  By her logic, she is more of a risk to everyone because she interacts regularly with unvaccinated family members.
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  15326. @blockyuniverseproductions6587  Odd that you would say the problem is yellow journalism, when this website carefully documents what it does, and how people get away with it for decades, and even win the Nobel or get tenure at Harvard. When I used clearer language, that didn't stay up.
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  15327. There have been pockets of hospitals being overwhelmed. Making it seem like it is ubiquitous, or happening over and over, is a fabrication.
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  15328.  @hollyprice4351  And I am saying that is wrong. That very practice was addressed in another segment just today.
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  15329.  @hollyprice4351  Oh. Wait. You mean bad things happen? And these days, they happen all the time? Wow. /s
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  15330.  @sabrinatscha2554  Agreed.
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  15331.  @JP-zo7qz  This is interesting. Thanks to you both.
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  15332. @trafficjon400  Twain never went to collage or college. He went to the public library.
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  15333. Watching a third time: too generous to Graham. Nowhere did she say people should not be vaccinated. She said many of the left, so-called, turn their backs on the injured. Turning your back on those injured by vaccines is anti-vaxx. Guarantees mistrust, of all vaccines. If you want universal vaccination, you have to accept full responsibility for the injured.
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  15334. I wonder about that sometimes.
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  15335.  @sigmax92  I didn't vote at all in 2012 or 2008 -- only in the '08 primary, for Obama. When he picked Biden, I was done. Poison pill. I knew.
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  15336.  @sigmax92  Voted for La Riva this time, to register my protest that Leonard Peltier is still in prison. Not that it did any good. It did less harm.
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  15337.  @JorgeAlbertoJerez  What is the case? Citadel, Yellen's benefactor, owns RobinHood, which prevented BUYING of GME, but NOT selling. It put its thumb on the scale in favor of Wall Street hedge funds, which themselves are creating systemic risk AND getting fabulously rich off of that risk. Where is their "market discipline?" RobinHood could have recommended a suspension of ALL trading in these stocks to the exchange. Or, also neutral, it could have raised margin requirements on those involved in such (unwise) trading -- i.e., trading in speculative, momentum plays on borrowed money. That's fair and reasonable. But no. IOW, any investigation for market manipulation of those using RobinHood to trade is beyond her purview now. You are being disingenuous. I don't know what is in it for you to pretend this is all above board, when it clearly is not. I'm not dumping on Yellen, I tend to like her, as these sorts of people go. (Nor did I suggest she should step down. No such hint.) That is a red herring. I'm not going to waste any more of my time, thanks but no thanks.
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  15338. @travisbaggett2813  No it doesn't. It guarantees non-dischargeable loans. Tuition was low when state taxes covered almost all of in-state tuition costs, and a hands-off federal policy didn't fuel the proliferation of administrators. That was why a minimum wage job covered it, and part-time work-study and scholarships covered most of the rest.
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  15339.  @travisbaggett2813  These are sheer transfers of wealth, not actual subsidies of higher education.
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  15340. @travisbaggett2813  "Grants to universities" includes things like NIH grants, with Johns Hopkins getting the most. Does that have any bearing on tuition either way? No, lol. But it sure does train scientists not to contradict Fauci or Collins . . . EDIT: University of California System got the most last year from NIH: over $2.7 billion. (Did Cato mention that, or does it just encourage you to cut off your nose to spite your face?)
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  15341. This is worth it. Wait a day or two and try again?
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  15342. Oh, Trump wanted to flip Venezuela! Real bad! Lil' Jared might have been jealous of Sweet Hunter's energy board gig.
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  15343.  Hayden Lassalle  Not for that reason, LOL. But if your point is that Biden is a bigger warmonger, yes, of course. He's had more time and it comes SO much more naturally. But don't forget the Soleimani assassination. From the look on Trump's face when he announced the US was responsible, I'd say he had no idea who the man he had just ordered killed was.
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  15344. It's almost like a very strong Democratic candidate who swept the primaries should have run in 2024.
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  15345. Never a good idea. Trust me.
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  15346. This is usually legal. Even a minor must ask for an attorney and family member. Kids need to be told this explicitly.
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  15347. ​ @jeffreyramires5642  That's for sure!
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  15348. Yes. These are wonderful people.
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  15349. I heard people denouncing her from day one, for being divorced. Rather funny, but there you are.
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  15350.  @emmasanders6226  That's because you are normal and sensible and not consumed by cupidity.
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  15351.  @penguinvic4188  Money isn't everything, it's the only thing.
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  15352.  @katiemiaana  For me, it is the kind of laughter that is purely innocent, designed to release tension. I need the release. Criminals make me feel powerless. We laugh to get back a sense of power over our fate. I will admit I am exceptionally afraid of diabolical or disordered criminals. I have laughed to release tension even after an operation, when the norm is to cry. I don't claim that's good, it's just different. The nurses appreciated it, though.
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  15353.  @paiiininthebuttt2477  Heartbreaking.
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  15354.  @thiagom8478  Director for the Georgetown Center for the Constitution is first and foremost a Public Relations position, with heavy fundraising responsibilities. Fair or not, he displayed a lack of public relations skills. If he wants to tweet whatever he wants, that is fine, but then a different position, such as simply Professor of Law, would be more OBJECTIVELY suitable. See what I did there? 🤣
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  15355.  @theprinceofcrows8691  Thank you.
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  15356.  @davruck1  They're seething with envy. It was never like this. College used to be earned. Now everyone knows it is bought. Just to be honest about where the rage comes from.
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  15357.  @slewone4905  Anyone who thinks a child living in a shelter in America is not poor is a POS. They are not only poor, but in danger of sexual assault or exploitation and school failure. A kid in America needs a COMPUTER to go to SCHOOL. Where have you been??
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  15358. @LadyUpstart  I made an argument. You can guess what y__ t___ did with it . . .
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  15359. It was entirely factual, including the math.
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  15360. Perfect.
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  15361. All of this was brought up during his life. He was never elected, but appointed to his positions. The real question is WHY. Who were those puppetmasters?
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  15362.  @lukefredsall  🤣
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  15363.  @TheGiantRobot  🤣🤣😂
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  15364. ​ @zachforbes3901 Well, all of Trump's nominees to head government agencies were just confirmed by the Senate. Might it be a good idea to consult them on how to proceed, even though they didn't contribute hundreds of millions to the campaign? Who imagines Musk is going to "save" America from "going under?" How can you not understand what's going on at all?
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  15365. ​ @deniseamundson5617 Yeah, poor thing.
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  15366. (IOW, some of them are neo-Nazis. Graham didn't suggest they all were, by any stretch. And he did not spare Joe Biden or Bill Clinton one bit, thank goodness.)
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  15367. 7:09 THANK YOU Jimmy!!!
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  15368. Er . . . today, they expect you to do an internship, usually at no pay but sometimes with a stipend to cover lunch and transportation. IOW, less than minimum wage.
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  15369.  @barneyleseven2854  It can't come close to meeting its recruiting targets. But its willingness to bomb is certainly a point in its "favor." BTW, I knew that was the real source of dollar hegemony. I love when it's confirmed, please continue.
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  15370.  @barneyleseven2854  Are you hearing war sounds in your head? Consider talking to a trauma specialist.
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  15371. This is not irrational, it is sensible, but be willing to change your mind and get vaccinated sooner.
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  15372.  @charmaineespeut4627  This post will almost certainly be taken down fast, but something I noticed since the start, EVERY single white person is trying to scare, shame or bully others into getting the vaccine OR refusing the vaccine. Every Black person wants to have a respectful, rational dialogue. I have found no exceptions. Never seen anything like it.
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  15373.  @charmaineespeut4627  I agree. Well, they love you, so . . . Family is different. My hope is that FDA approval will come quickly. Doing the approval more quickly is justified, because they have the data, they just need to do the in-depth analysis which can be done fast. That way, too, any possible injury will be compensated through the fund set up in 1986. Right now, compensation for any injury is trivial. Of course people don't trust it. It's perfectly reasonable.
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  15374.  @JillJ-y5f  I didn't say it was her fault. Who isn't "leaving her alone?" Don't say she was probably wasted. That is rude.
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  15375.  @JillJ-y5f  And she was frozen in fear and it was Doordash and she has had trauma in her life and . . . Any more words of wisdom? I stated I do not blame her. I know it's a huge shock and tragedy for the survivors as well; and for all we know, the police may have not taken down her statement accurately in the first place. This happens a lot. But I refuse to go along with this conduct being normalized. I'm not saying it's inexcusable or inexplicable -- I'm saying it is NOT normal not to call, and you don't know why she failed to call. You're just making stuff up.
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  15376.  @user-xg3uy6hq9g  Not consistent with being frozen by fear. What could be the case is that the police did not take her statement down exactly as she made it. That could be. That is common, especially when everyone is under grave stress. Don't try to make sense of inconsistent things. It's not good for you.
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  15377.  @user-xg3uy6hq9g  Why spin out a story? You all act like if a person emphatically states that they DO NOT blame her but refuses to spin out a ton of excuses, then they are secretly blaming her. Cut it out, will you? Adults can support ambiguity and suspend judgment until they see more facts, or simply suspend judgment because it is NOT their place to judge.
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  15378.  @user-xg3uy6hq9g  I can use logic: if a person is in shock and paralyzed by fear, then they are not in a normal state, capable of doing normal things. If x, then y. "How many people come face to face with someone like that under those circumstances?" Who was "someone like that," at the moment she came "face to face" with him? What were "those circumstances?" Based on what we know now, or based, obviously, on what she perceived then? We know what is "normal" through case histories of other crimes. We also know based on the fact that other countries mandate calling for assistance if you are able to do so and do it safely, and failing to do so is considered a crime. This is called "nonassistance a personne en danger." Such lack of assistance in those societies requires an explanation, and such societies generally include civil law/Roman law countries (common in Latin American, Latin Europe, Russia, and elsewhere). We, I admit, have no such general obligation. So I guess it is normal not to call in that sense. In my opinion, I don't like to see it normalized from an ethical point of view, but, as you can see . . . well. We are on our way. Good luck to you.
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  15379. ​@dondavis5633 Oh really? Then you're lucky if your kids don't resent you.
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  15380. ​ @harvey1954 OMG, you too?
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  15381. ​@juliejarmer5849 Oh, "paid." And that failed to buy her, huh?
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  15382.  @soulfireonfire6423  And I think this is a very good time for you to read King Lear.
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  15383.  @carybird24  Oh my goodness, I agree that it's important, but I find it bizarre how much the new media has become an enclosed world -- YouTube videos talk about other YouTube videos, tweets tweet about tweets -- it has become insane. It's worse than a dysfunctional high school, Columbine the week before.
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  15384. This was brilliant. Who thought Buddhism could be perfectly practical?
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  15385. This is the subject of the story contacting the journalist disputing material facts. The journalist should report that. She does not have to agree with what the child says, she just has an obligation not to pretend the child doesn't have a viewpoint.
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  15386. He never lied about it. He declined to state whether he was, until forced to.
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  15387.  @aone2476  Guns for Fetuses! Nowhere does the Constitution say no.
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  15388. ​@Emeny Considering Sula and The God of Small Things are by women, I do.
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  15389. When a biography came out, London Review of Books provided a review that was so well written and comprehensive that it changed my view of how horrifying Manson and his cult were, and how successful at duping many people. He did dupe a member of the Beach Boys, Dennis Wilson, and cheated him out of money. He convinced Spahn to let the "family" stay at his ranch.
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  15390. A crass joke, inappropriate at work, for which she received a written apology and a small gift? "She was asking for it" is a trope people use to justify RAPE and similar grievous assaults. This crass joke reminds you of that? In spontaneous response to the shock of seeing a wardrobe malfunction? Recalibrate.
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  15391. Intense warmongering at this convention -- which was fine(!!) The hate-fix is essential. "We" need an enemy.
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  15392. In a big way, yes.
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  15393. ​ @Chayliss yup 💯
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  15394.  @Nocturnal2010  True. If only it were that easy. :/
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  15395. Tell me what her net worth is, a year ago versus now, and I'll tell you what she "thinks."
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  15396. This looks faked to me.
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  15397. So who told you to be under 50? Just get a grip and think positive.
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  15398. Tremedous Briahna here!
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  15399. ​ @Oldmusician1357 I think people who have real information are having their replies go poof.
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  15400.  @jdawg1712  I'm so sorry.
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  15401. What I can't figure out is why pointing out someone is "Russian" isn't ethnic discrimination? Hitler called them a lower race. You know, the real Hitler.
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  15402. When I looked up "spider goats" and found out, from The Guardian, no less, that it was based in fact, I have to say I changed somehow.
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  15403. Not listening. Refusing to listen. Taking a position completely arbitrarily. Having absolutely no clue. Condemning reflexively. Having absolutely no principles or discipline. Being proud of that. This is what Glenn Greenwald will always fight against.
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  15404. Whew! Thanks for the edit.
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  15405. Briahna did a GREAT JOB here. If you cannot credit her for once, well . . . Shapiro finally stated exactly why he resigned in advance, which was entirely legitimate reasoning as well. If she had not pressed, would he have stated what he did?
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  15406.  @SandraMartinez-gv1yf  So make state schools as cheap as they used to be -- say, about $4000 a year. Then at $10/hr over the summer, you can save that up yourself. Kids working for $2.10 used to save up the $800 to $1600 per year that schools like University of Michigan used to cost.
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  15407.  @gcoffey223  That's not how I'm measuring it. I'm looking at what an ordinary job, minimum wage or slightly above, could earn. It could pay for your in-state tuition at university. Three months of full-time work paid for the full year. Now, almost everyone has enormous loans. Aren't you interested in the evolution of these prices?
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  15408.  @Independent365  How do you know he's not a debtor? LOL
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  15409.  @DC-bp8sx  Which country? Some ref, not a link. This could be spurious.
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  15410.  @igorszamaszow171  Exactly what I did. Found a Der Spiegel article as well. The article asserts that it was not enforced in the way the English article suggested. That is because brothels became legal, the people who work in them became fully covered by all of the benefits that any other worker had, and a law was later passed (or possibly was on the books already -- I forgot, and it's not relevant) that those receiving unemployment benefits would need to accept a suitable job if offered, or lose their unemployment benefits. Did the new law legalizing and regularizing all brothel workers mean that it became a suitable job, so that a cocktail waitress laid off from a luxury hotel should accept a barmaid position in an exceptionally classy brothel? Seems that no one was actually pushed to do so, but the suggestion was made. The unemployed person asked to be advised of similar jobs, and was. What's so tough about it? No one was actually kicked off of unemployment for saying no to brothels. A few were furious at the proposal. That was what the German press I consulted said. But believe the English if you want. (According to them, the gilets jaunes are neo-fascists and Corbyn is an anti-Semite -- and the yellow vest is worn in protest for having to buy one!)
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  15411. That's like saying the solution to hospital errors is to close all the hospitals.
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  15412. So, that book affected policy exactly a generation later. "Cause and effect."
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  15413.  @TaddiestMason  THIS
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  15414. Speaking of scents er ship. I've had pure mathematics taken down. No, I'm not kidding. No, there wasn't an opinion or snide remark added. Just math. No links, no caps.
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  15415.  @chrisr1226  LOL, I would not let any member of that family into my house. Not anymore than I would Bill, Hill, Hunter, Ghislaine, or Jeffrey Epstein.
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  15416.  @chrisr1226  Wake up, dear. It's late in the century.
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  15417.  @davidhall9273  Not as glad as I am.
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  15418.  @davidhall9273  You comment because you're sorry you don't have choices. Huck Finn made that choice, too. The quintessential American boy could not stand it.
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  15419. ​ @NoOneCaresIckyThump I see you never read The Gorgias. Amber can persuade you precisely because she has no knowledge of UK politics or German politics.
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  15420. ​ @NoOneCaresIckyThump In France, the head of ancient philosophy at ENS was none other than Alain Badiou. 😅
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  15421. @NoOneCaresIckyThump  He didn't want to embarrass her. She was obviously clueless. But she's a woman, she's pretty, and Niall does not speak to her the way he speaks to Robby. You must have caught that.
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  15422. ​ @Bella-ht5jb9he3z  There is no probable cause to charge them. None. I wish to God people understood civics.
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  15423.  @benkleschinsky  Thanks for saying this!
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  15424.  @swanlake8827  No, it just tells me the level of intelligence that I've encountered. But I should have known.
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  15425. We SHOULD have political leaders we can trust and who respect our intelligence. But, well . . .
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  15426. ​ @Somegirl811 This is the television version. This isn't court.
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  15427.  @lamel1781  We don't disagree.
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  15428.  @lamel1781  Thank you so much, really nice of you to say that. (And by the way, what DID happen to the standard of care?? :/ )
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  15429.  @Julie-ub1zi  Read it again.
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  15430.  @ESkog  Why? Is the producer married to someone I'm in love with?
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  15431.  @bean8933  Intro
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  15432.  @evelynwaugh4053  Conviction of the innocent is also made much more likely.
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  15433. ​ @letsomethingshine Correct, I don't care how I "look" to you. You understood me perfectly.
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  15434.  @AudioGardenSlave123  I think your comments do go beyond the facts we know, but they make much more sense than the simplistic, overwrought stuff we are being fed.
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  15435. @Jeremy Dionisio Look, she was murdered. We know that. First, preserve life. To preserve life, we look at what happened, why, and what could have been done differently to save her. I don't see simple answers. According to other videos Dr. Grande made, Brian did leave the trip, and went to Florida by airplane to clean out a storage locker, then returned and rejoined Gabby. What happened exactly? I'm not even convinced Brian deliberately and intentionally killed Gabby. He appeared to be too surprised and disoriented right after her death. Perhaps he had been trying to intimidate her. There is more than one possibility here. The lessons to draw from the tragedy depend on what happened.
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  15436.  @AudioGardenSlave123  She demonstrated how he grabbed her by the face and squeezed hard, and was reluctant to say so. Think on it.
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  15437.  @brendakauffman2222  Gabby's own mother had a good impression of Brian, and she comes across very, very well. No pushover. The part of the timeline when he flew back to Florida and Gabby was alone for a few days needs to be explained. That has been ignored.
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  15438.  @AudioGardenSlave123  There is nothing one-sided about identifying the agent in this homicide. It wasn't, like, mutual. A lot of the rest of the stuff said about Brian is tendentious. If he was so weird, why did Gabby's mother notice nothing at all, as she said on 60 Minutes Australia, very persuasively? And he killed himself only because he didn't want to go to jail? I think he killed himself because he was distraught. Could the homicide have been unintentional? A pure accident, hell no, but what about highly reckless? While trying to intimidate her, for example? I think that's possible. He came across as very confused and disoriented right after her death. That tells me he might not have meant to kill her. Objective enough? I don't see a better scenario for him. Do you? Really?
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  15439.  @AudioGardenSlave123 Great. Because that is THE best light in which I could possibly see Brian's actions. A stretch, but plausible. I also don't think jumping to the conclusion that he was a monster his entire life (and that Gabby was "groomed") is likely to be true, and is certainly not helpful.
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  15440. Gavin De Becker? Sounds like autocorrect edited you.
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  15441. How so? This wasn't personal until he made it personal. Have his lawyers challenge it in court, then tweet.
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  15442. And we're hearing from geniuses that he's a communist. Lord.
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  15443. HSBC!! Read The Guardian series on how they laundered drug money for the major cartels. British politicians asked the US not to prosecute . . . TBTJ.
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  15444. Hashtag morality.
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  15445. Oh really? I don't like Hasan, either, but Robby endorses that tweet because he despises Hasan? Better behavior was expected of high school seniors in my big city urban school.
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  15446.  @takethesquid  Exactly. Both lost, and the audience there got more amusement at the expense of thought. I was startled when Shapiro called for the kid's award to be . . . ohmygod, cancelled!
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  15447.  @roboatnick6178  AMEN
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  15448. Great thought. It's insurance rates soaring for those who want to drive their own cars that I'm worried about being Next Big Thing.
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  15449. Some conventional doctors did recommend Vitamin D and zinc, especially after there was some evidence that the vaccines worked better (that is, less badly) in people with good vitamin D levels. They saved some lives.
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  15450.  @rebekahmcAlister  Yes it was. Great post.
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  15451.  @jackrichardson2626  And expanded drone warfare, which as Hale said puts us in danger. More terrorism is guaranteed.
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  15452.  @andrethorpe6183 Links are removed from most channels, and were even before this war. They claim, and not without foundation, that links are too hard to monitor for TOS. But even references are removed. I've only seen an "innocuous" search term stay up.
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  15453. "These numbers [of American casualties] are likely to increase . . . " --- and Biden is doing WHAT??? Notice these sentences without an AGENT.
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  15454. See, you are supposed to know who your baby's dad is. That's kinda a rule for a reason.
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  15455. Pfft, what pandering. When will we stop glorifying profoundly disturbed, drug-addicted people? Trick question, it won't happen.
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  15456.  @dtsh4451  Mine was just doubled. I posted once.
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  15457. This is true.
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  15458. 16:05 that's how they address concerns about the vaccines, too . . . It's not working.
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  15459.  @rustynuggets  Notice how what should have been an honest look at Syria, one of the most tragic stories of war and destruction -- and war crimes -- of our time, has devolved into a debate over who showed whose female private parts to whom and who giggled about them. For some, life and death, terror from the sky, or a slow death by starvation. For others, what (not) to do when haute designer wardrobes malfunction. (Gee. Do they "hate us for our freedoms?")
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  15460. ​ @montrelouisebohon-harris7023  In the biggest American cities, this is now $3000 a month or more. I don't mean San Francisco, I mean Chicago.
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  15461. ​The absence of homeless is disturbing. How will they scare the workers to make them work?
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  15462. Beautifully stated.
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  15463.  @thegrazingapprentice  Why does it matter that he was misrepresented as having praised Tucker? Or, why does it matter that Tucker has an unusually large viewership? Both have at least some bearing on our poisoned politics: people are CONSTANTLY being lied about, in ways that anyone can verify for themselves, yet it does not matter; and viewers of the mass media are bereft of newscasters who will at least once in a while tell the truth or present a controversial view or candidate, and so come to rely on someone like Tucker.
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  15464. @rareblues78daddy  No, actually, I did not. I said we lack newscasters, so someone like Tucker, who will at least intreview people maligned by MSM, ends up with a large audience, the implication being that he normally wouldn't. He would not have beaten out Walter Cronkite, for example. But you just proved my point by putting words in my mouth. Thanks, sweetie. 🙂
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  15465. No, wait. You need teeth as a weapon.
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  15466. Exactly. People complain to get money. It's understandable.
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  15467. @marinaton  I agree with that. Brie asked for suggestions to solve the problem that would be legal. Affirmative Action originally meant information-sharing and recruiting. Just like everyone knows that legacy applicants to Harvard are privileged, everyone also knows the boss's nephew will get the job. The idea was to eradicate the effects of that discrimination through intensive mentoring. But . . . That's hard. Corporations want a plug and push algorithm, cheap. 😂
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  15468. It didn't "happen" to Aaron. It was done to.
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  15469.  @jaketrons4376  This is the basic logic of traditional live attenuated vaccination. Using any potentially dangerous new technology to generate such viruses needs to be amply justified. After what just happened, I think it cannot be justified, at least until we find out where COVID 19 came from. If at all!
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  15470. @anon69_q  Well, I take it from a legal standpoint -- proximate cause, admissibility of expert witness testimony under the Daubert standard, and so forth. So I study this, too.
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  15471.  @troy5140  How about her argument should start with what the law says, not what some of us would prefer, or what Robbie thinks is fair? Why take his lead and talk about feelings?
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  15472. Charlie Kirk is AWFUL, but a Nazi? 🤣
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  15473. 1. She is a public defender in New York City. 2. She is not crazy. Not in the least.
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  15474. She's right, you were duped.
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  15475. Elite is too kind, really
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  15476.  syeuwa  Tell us how the world works. You can start by summarizing Kwak and Johnson's "13 Bankers," HSBC money laundering, and what we know so far about the Epstein affair.
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  15477. I am so sorry. Take this as a time to turn things around. You will be thrilled with your energy!
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  15478. In Paris, firefighters were defending gilets jaunes and strikers against the police. This went on for weeks in late 2019. No one called the firefighters "terrorists." (Hardly anyone reported on it, here. Huge story in Europe.)
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  15479. Looks like for Sirota, this was all about career moves. Then he woke up. Good.
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  15480. Clinton was so bad she lost to Trump. Trump is so bad he may well lose to Biden. I see a pattern.
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  15481. FIRST DO NO HARM
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  15482.  @Alexander-Kurtz  They'll call you racist.
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  15483. Speeding it up sounds like Ben Shapiro.
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  15484. Is it my imagination, or are Bill Gates and Hillary Clinton starting to look alike?
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  15485. If it is mutilation, why do it at any age?
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  15486. Is this a serious question? That is what they signed up for.
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  15487.  @cherryapplebottom5006  Who PICKED his advisors? Trump picked them.
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  15488. @cherryapplebottom5006  False. Trump picked him as his counsel for the campaign, then promoted him to White House Counsel after he won. They do not come with the furniture. A lawyer to advise you is something you pick unless you are indigent and charged with a crime.
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  15489.  @Nepthu  Unlike Lil' You. 🤣
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  15490.  @Nepthu  The fact that we have a First Amendment has zero bearing on what Twitter can do. The First Amendment can even be used to defend private censorship. For example, if I start a business, I can impose an office speech code. If the government goes after me for that, I can say they are violating my First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and association. Bet that's news to you . . . 😞
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  15491. Dylan eloquent here.
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  15492.  @garysgreat1  On some level, Athena intrigues me, frankly.
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  15493.  @lynnwood7205  Wow. Just wow.
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  15494. Galois comes to mind.
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  15495.  @babblingalong7689  It does in modern societies. It's not clear that it did in underdeveloped countries, then or now, for that matter.
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  15496.  @yaweno9555  So well said, every word!
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  15497.  @lukebilby4409  There is no privilege here. He needed to be advised of what he would encounter in Australia before boarding a plane. Anyone who thinks this treatment and this scrutiny is privilege needs to talk to someone about their problems. Barring him on the basis of being a threat to public order rather than a health threat is chilling. And for refusing a medical intervention he demonstrably does not need makes it worse. I thought he should have left immediately and boycotted Australia. I thought he made a mistake in trying to stay. The American Sandgren is doing the right thing.
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  15498.  @LD86  You will look back on this and be ashamed.
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  15499.  @stevencaseymiller8376  The head of the CDC just admitted before the Senate that she does not have the numbers of severe adverse events from the vaccine, and that VAERS is not reliable. I believe her that VAERS contains false reports of severe adverse events, but she cannot provide accurate reports. Therefore the question is not settled.
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  15500. @BertoxolusThePuzzled  Oh you are? So you know that Mars has very little atmosphere and no magnetic field -- hence, the cosmic rays would end that project in a matter of weeks? Evolution is also part of the big picture. You understand about that, right? You get that we evolved here, and we are not thriving here. The man who may sometimes be wrong but is clearly not crazy is RFK Jr.
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  15501.  @BertoxolusThePuzzled  I wonder whether we are allowed to post scientific facts. We'll find out.
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  15502. He is unwell. He occasionally says something right, and it's the sort of thing that matters and that everyone should get right. It's unconscionable not to. If you are looking for heart plus mind, you should read Gabor Mate, Aaron's father.
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  15503. ​@Viviorkogaming Why do you have to say such a thing? A LOT of jerks think only whites mourned Nicole and Ron, which is false.
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  15504. Suits over this have already been filed in the US. The manufacturer has no liability, but doctors are responsible for their own malpractice. One woman with GBS was sent home three times with anxiety medication. GBS is not an expected reaction, by the way. It is rare, but they should have thought of it before the fourth time she got to the emergency room.
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  15505.  @elpatron9116  "Are you saying" Hunter should get his job back?
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  15506.  @drumlessons833  Perfect. Thank you.
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  15507.  @elpatron9116  Anyway, should have blocked you. I will now.
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  15508. Wrong. He was favorable to giving humanitarian AID, like food, etc.
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  15509. Olayemi made good points.
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  15510. @MrGuardianofhades  I have, and I nevertheless agree. I was taking great gobs of antibiotics for chronic tonsillitis when absolutely no one would operate (and when I finally got them removed, my doctor was stunned by how infected they were). These antibiotics destroyed my normal microbiome. Only today do we know that can trigger a serious depression. I know this is just one possibility among many, but it is real. Look to what you're doing or not doing. Look to what terrible environment you are subjecting yourself to. Depressed people tend to blame themselves for everything, which means that this suggestion sounds like an attack. It isn't. I bore zero blame for the medical mistreatment I suffered. I bore zero blame for the horrible workplaces I was subjected to. In one case, a boss was later convicted of a felony. (I actually prevented a theft there, then quit. The big blowup happened after I left.) In another case, someone who had harassed me was later arrested.
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  15511. People on Medicare are miserable all right. They wish they could be paying four-figure premiums each month and $2500 deductibles. That would prove how tough they are.
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  15512. Wrong gummies.
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  15513. They like easy jobs with big money. They think they are underpaid and making a huge sacrifice for the Acadamy.
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  15514. @lovemacheeen1777  If the speech and assembly wouldn't be a crime or misdemeanor when an American citizen does it, how can it be illegal when a permanent resident does? When was he arrested? What was he charged with? Show me an arrest, a conviction, a witness affidavit.
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  15515. Yes. Sadly. You said that perfectly. Hits me where it hurts. Our lives will never be the same.
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  15516. @bobm9509  We have a Constitution in an English-speaking common law country, not a Civil Code like the French or something. The Constitution provides for the power to legislate to promote the General Welfare; no need to have an amendment providing for "a retirement fund." We don't spell out all our laws in advance like that, and then have to scrap the Constitution and start over every 50 years.
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  15517. Ron explained it: accuse others of what you do, and accuse first.
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  15518.  @junglesuperstar9270  Should not be a "requirement" until all events for that sport are over.
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  15519. @briannerk3373  He's trying to get other people not to listen, or to fear agreeing. That's the strategy now.
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  15520.  @leilam-k9569  Thank you for sanity. We need so much more of it.
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  15521. ​ @JeremiahKoozer I read it. Did you? What crime?
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  15522.  @Lifewithpmdd  Take care and Happy New Year!!!
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  15523.  @1133saginaw  2008 was a depression. Now you'll tell me it wasn't the GREAT Depression. No s Sherlock.
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  15524. You are SO ahead of everyone else. I admit I thought the first six weeks made sense, because hospitals were overwhelmed in a few places. I also thought that ANY shutdown without universal emergency UBI was immoral. I thought medical care for COVID would be paid for. Wrong again. I was uneasy about Sweden's course, but willing to listen, and even more uneasy about left-wing Swedes vilified in our MSM, even on Democracy Now! I had no idea how far we had fallen. Now I have to plan to leave the States in order to be able to retire, and am so lucky I can. Probably. I never count on anything any more.
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  15525.  @demonic.lionfish  I suspect the treatments they recommend are not the very best available. What cured Trump does not come cheap, but it clearly works.
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  15526.  @demonic.lionfish  Also, when you start researching the peer-reviewed research available, even through NIH, it is disheartening to see how little is shared -- even the information that is VERY helpful and could be shared, and would not cause anyone to overdose on supplements or ignore their doctor's advice. Likewise, what other countries are doing is being suppressed here, instead of being openly reported and discussed.
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  15527. You can look up Chauvin's federal plea agreement and see what Chauvin pled guilty to. It describes exactly what Chauvin himself agrees he did. I guess Candace missed that? 😂
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  15528.  @VTAcraft  In working class high schools? I found out in my 30s, from an interview on PBS with a military historian from Oxford. That got me reading . . .
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  15529.  @VTAcraft  I learned about the defeat of the Wehrmacht by the Red Army from an Oxford historian, correct. That historical fact is uncontested.
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  15530.  @gerafinali4384  I know, but at least a meaningful revolt took place, and all the non-Macronists joined forces.
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  15531. I suggest you watch more than these few minutes/seconds. The TOPIC was the First Amendment and the Tech Giants power over speech. The whole issue of their being private actors which nevertheless have quasi-governmental roles in our lives (not to mention monopoly power) was discussed better than I've heard it discussed anywhere.
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  15532. Commercialization If your sister wants to have a child for you, and allows you to raise it, that's adoption. No problem.
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  15533. ​ @aliciai.9150 Adoption is not against Catholicism, even with living parents.
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  15534. 13:20 He isn't winning this case. The facial expressions, yikes.
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  15535. 😂🤣🤣 That was great.
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  15536. Well, this is high comedy, anyway.
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  15537.  @Nick-qj7ym  He said "nice news skirt." He then apologized with a written note and gift the next day.
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  15538.  @Nick-qj7ym  No, that's not what hearsay means. Jimmy is perfectly competent to tell you himself what he said. You can choose to disbelieve him, if you like. Why you choose to ignore Kyle's obvious contradiction is not evident. He didn't stay above the fray. He cancelled an interview with JD without notice or discussion, and misrepresented why Jimmy said what he said, namely, to head off Ana's threats.
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  15539.  @rin-m2j  This is true.
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  15540.  @jonm9538  Someone who was defamed has got to sue to do that.
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  15541. ​ @serjarmen  Whoever didn't debate shouldn't get anyone's vote. Simple.
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  15542. ​@springbloom5940 Drugs, and depositions in a civil case brought soon after the victim alleged she was drugged and assaulted.
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  15543. Who do you think has the burden of proof on that? And who are these people, and what are their interests? "Countries" is remarkably lofty and vague. Who is that, really? What do they need the secrecy for? Secrecy is never an end in itself, hence never self-justifying. They kept secret that they were spying on all of us. They kept secret what they knew about the danger of COVID. They keep drone attacks secret, where and who. They keep secret their psy-ops and false flag/provocateur activities. Just to name a few things.
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  15544. https://youtu.be/TS2a_XUikLU -- why the Obama DOJ did not prosecute Assange, or any other journalists who published this material.
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  15545. PLEASE read White Coat Black Hat. This is by an MD who decided to go into philosophy and is currently a professor of philosophy. Pristine credentials. You will not believe what you'll read about the pharmaceutical industry. They own everyone. The book dates from 2010. The only defense is to go back to pre-pandemic sources, and to read. They count on us not doing that. They count on mass distraction whenever it's convenient.
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  15546. ​ @chriskoschik391 Pessimism causes wrinkles.
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  15547. I miss Batya.
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  15548. In America, money protects you.
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  15549. I didn't.
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  15550. ​ @sc100ott  Thank you so much.
    2
  15551. ​ @russellnewton6660 How many is that? Sincere question, not sure how many were offered.
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  15552. He gets paid way good money for this. C'mon, what a sweet deal. He could afford to get married.
    2
  15553. Also, in people under 70 or so, men are getting sicker than women. In the very old, it's more equal. The first thought was that it's smoking, because in China women rarely do -- but it's men, smokers or not.
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  15554. Did you read the opinion that dismissed Miller's defamation suit? I suggest you do that before judging. Basically, the court left it up to his bosses at NYU to decide how to handle this. That is what a court usually does in an employment dispute. Just to let you know.
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  15555.  @Berkhoi  How do you know he's a victim? Did you read the court documents?
    2
  15556. @gdm1979  I did. It wasn't easy. I'll try to see whether I can give you some key words; links will be shadowed by YT to protect the vulnerable. /s
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  15557. @gdm1979   Miller v. Appadurai, 2022 NY Slip Op 30368 - NY: Supreme Court 2022 gives the main reasoning, but the court that affirmed was very curt and obviously looking for any reason to get rid of the case --- that's the opinion Miller talks about in the video. What jumped out at me was how bad all the lawyers were and how poorly the letter denouncing him was written --- the one he sued them on for defamation, that a whole bunch of professors signed. The writing is abysmal. (This is NYU??) The link to the slip opinion was from an article in Reason magazine. These are unpublished opinions and don't set new precedent, I don't think; I'm not sure. If you read very carefully, you'll realize that the lawyers on both sides made big mistakes. Also look at his substack and see how bizarre his writing is. Then look up the tuition at NYU.
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  15558. A conservatorship would constrain his power to spend HIS OWN money. He would still be able to spend ours!! It is a stunt, but let it happen.
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  15559. ​ @nateauld Is anyone that ignorant? Can Bill Gates get a conservatorship and make politicians spend where he wants tax dollars spent? That said, I don't mind stunts. Just know what this is.
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  15560. Well, the VERY worst rule us. The very worst are on top. Every supposed solution has been pure head fake.
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  15561. Oh . . . I've known much nicer jerks than that . . . 😅
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  15562. Exactly why do these protestors have to be "cleared out?" The billionaire donors insist? At Columbia, look at where the encampment was. There was a huge amount of space around it for people to circulate or avoid it entirely. Look at some aerial photos. You'll be surprised. This is why it's spreading.
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  15563. Why, exactly? If they could track the plane before, they can still track it. They just can't post it on his platform.
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  15564. According to the Washington Post, from late last month, "more than 15 studies have demonstrated the power of immunity acquired by previously having the virus." Link in original.
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  15565.  @theotherview1716  That Gupta should have know of these studies, and had a response -- if indeed there is one. The fact that a study has been submitted for peer review, but not yet accepted for publication -- if indeed that were the case -- means what, exactly? Two of the three vaccines are EUA, as is Pfizer for anyone under 16 years of age. That means their safety and efficacy is "still unclear," as you put it -- so much so that boosters after 6 months are now being urged, and use in kids is being suspended the world over. IOW, we are still in a fluid situation, AND the Precautionary Principle always applies to human medicine.
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  15566.  @bean-spiller  I plan to read the article. I would never say it's wrong without reading it. I don't think Trump should ever have been president, but Bill and Hillary had other plans.
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  15567. Supplements are concentrates without the oversight of actual drugs. Have organic foods and beverages with these, rather than supplements.
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  15568. Also, vitamin D tends to be beneficial for the liver in moderate amounts.
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  15569. One more question: what does the futures market on this tournament look like?
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  15570.  @jaromebutler2687  Billions $$$ were just a coincidence I AM SURE
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  15571.  @irchristo  He spent a decade at Boeing and was an inventor as well as an engineer.
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  15572.  @irchristo  Let's assume you're right. What of it? His science brain melted?
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  15573. We're post irony. It can get you cancelled.
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  15574. Government money, but private profits?
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  15575.  @MrIkesimba  "A vaccine is administered so that a host isn't infected in the first place." And that is NOT what's happening.
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  15576.  @MrIkesimba  You did not describe antibiotic resistance properly. That is not how evolutionary biology works. Mutations in bacteria and in viruses arise spontaneously, and in general are more likely to arise the greater the rate of replication. (Yet the four major variants of COVID, including Delta, did not arise in the United States, even though the US has the most COVID cases in the world. There's an element of unpredictability due to randomness at work here. We could of course find that the next variant starts here.) A mutant bacterium or virus is not "stronger" because it is exposed to an antibiotic or an antibody that doesn't kill it, nor does it become "stronger" because it wasn't killed. The mutant organism does not have the genetic features that make it highly susceptible to the existing antibiotics or antibodies, purely due to chance. It survives, and thus may replicate, and thus also may pass on the genetic features that made it resistant to the next microbe generation. When you have infected but asymptomatic or barely symptomatic vaccinated people circulating with a false sense of security, that spells trouble. Time to admit it.
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  15577.  @MrIkesimba  Where did you study biology? I still remember E. Peter Volpe. Great little book.
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  15578.  @MrIkesimba  Plenty of antibiotics are used as prophylaxis, and it is one proper use of them. (Ever had surgery?) For someone so emphatic and insistant that everyone take a vaccine using a technology that has never been used en masse before, you are not sufficiently careful with the facts. But that's nothing new. The Guardian just reported that teen boys have a higher risk of hospitalization for myocarditis from the mRNA vaccines than they do from a COVID infection. The bad news keeps trickling in . . .
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  15579.  @MrIkesimba  My CORRECT conclusion, which you are quick to ignore: When you have infected but asymptomatic or barely symptomatic vaccinated people circulating with a false sense of security, that spells trouble. Time to admit it. Not to mention the rapidity with which immunity, incomplete as it is, appears to wane, to the point where boosters at 8 months are seriously proposed and implemented, with no real testing.
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  15580.  @MrIkesimba  Your "inherently stronger organisms" rhetoric makes me think you studied Social Darwinism. That is NOT biology. Nor did I "inadvertently apply Mendelian inheritance," LOL! Now you're being ridiculous. No more gish gallop. Have the last word. You've been exposed.
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  15581.  @ricksimon9867  If you have to lash out at people and call them killers, and minimize the nature of the risk-benefit analysis, you have already lost. I doubt that you are a false flag, but you function as such, turning people off from your supposed position. I also noted a great, pro-vaccine podcast to watch, not the incessant PROPAGANDA that has made you hysterical. Lex Fridman, check it out.
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  15582.  @ricksimon9867  Oh, I see. You joined this year just to jeer. Oops, maybe you function as a false flag because this time you are?
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  15583.  @ricksimon9867  Blocked, BTW, from my notifications threads.
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  15584.  @mortyshallman  Wow. Are you a writer?
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  15585.  @techbubble7609  A very pro-vaccine doctor, Eric Topol, was talking about all the things countries like Germany and Netherlands have been doing: for example, they can go to the pharmacy and pick up home testing kits for free. They administer them to their kids at least weekly, and take them themselves, vaccinated or not. It's routine, no drama, and no fear if they have to miss work or school. Even Dr. Topol called our approach overly "vaccine-centric." It's obvious what is going on. Also see Greenwald on substack about the complete about-face of the ACLU. They had put out a working paper in 2008 warning of government overreach in case there were a pandemic, arguing for persuasion and against any mandates or arbitrary shutdowns. Pretty shocking stuff.
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  15586. The recipients of the SBF campaign contributions should have their attorneys contact the appointed bankruptcy trustee. This isn't tough, they are just pulling the wool over our eyes yet again.
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  15587. I don't believe the reporting out of Bucha. Not from either "side."
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  15588.  @София-д3р7д  Every great artist used anger and resentment and a desire to see others get their just deserts to fuel his art. Anyone who tells you differently either doesn't know, or is trying to manipulate you into docility for their own convenience. No one really wants to deal with creativity. It's too scary.
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  15589. According to Megyn Kelly, he was taken off the air.
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  15590. Oh MY GOD.
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  15591. Is this part of Jeffrey Epstein's network?
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  15592.  @gerhardvaneeden5615  Great point.
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  15593.  @mpemberton7760  It's even more terrible that it WORKS.
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  15594. She never suggested that.
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  15595.  @DogTrekker  You have no way of knowing that, but no problem. Suppose it's true. So? I'm sick of the outrage Olympics.
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  15596.  @vikinglife6316  The Fox News article says, "The students must take the original Hippocratic Oath and have the opportunity to participate in the student-led initiative. In the future, each class will have the chance to create its own oath." As long as it is truly voluntary, that is called freedom of speech. If it is imposed on those who do not wish to join in, then that is a big problem. As for the Yahoo News story, I thought it was well-written. I don't know that I necessarily agree, but it provided a serious discussion of the problem and I appreciated the writer's point. She made it carefully, she did not demonize anyone, she mostly avoided slogans, and she considered other viewpoints as well. See? This isn't that hard.
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  15597.  @carlolapadula3953  Someone else
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  15598. For the same reason numerous women did not take down Cuomo.
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  15599. Israel is full of people fighting for justice and peace. We just hear from AIPAC.
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  15600. Dylann Roof did so, five years ago.
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  15601.  @willbeard4835  Biden might manage to make things worse. That would be quite an achievement. /s
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  15602.  @samarisamaru7542  It was established that he knew in January how serious this was going to be, and systematically downplayed it. He let Fauci lie to us about masks being useless, then demeaned him when he did tell the truth. He hosted superspreader events himself. He tweeted antiscience gibberish. He did nothing about the stalling in Congress over a second stimulus payment, even though Pelosi did it expressly to ruin his electoral chances, and everyone could see through it. The last one is the most bizarre. Who was he listening to? Jared?
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  15603.  @samarisamaru7542  You think a pandemic can be dealt with effectively by states? States do not print money, and viruses do not obey state borders.
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  15604.  @rickducharme7429  THIS!
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  15605. Goggins is the only one I believe. Words like passion and motivation are exactly what Goggins says they are.
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  15606. This was simplistic. She's usually much better.
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  15607. France outlawed vaccine mandates and passports for minors (under 18). It's a start. The "far" left coalition led the fight to outlaw the mandates.
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  15608. Oh you said toxic now everyone is so scared. Better not vote third party, like, ever. What if the surveillance state were to find out, then what?
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  15609. AOC is making an argument FOR M4A. Let the Senate Republicans kill it. Let's see if they dare.
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  15610. He's lying to you. You believe, you react. He collects. Cha-ching.
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  15611. 38:40 Science predates Christianity.
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  15612. This too.
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  15613. @j.sumner6999  Correct, but "as President" pertains to presidential acts, in furtherance of his role. It does not pertain to Trump or Biden as person. It's the office that counts, not who occupies it.
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  15614. ​ @Vivianamarie01 Why all these ad hoc rationalizations? If there is a trial, rather than a plea deal, then all relevant witnesses will be placed under oath and they will testify. Then we'll know, or at least we'll be vastly more likely to have a complete picture of what happened. Right now, we have legitimate questions. There is no reason to suspect anyone other than Kohlberger, and no reason to shut down reasonable questions.
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  15615. Will payment on any of Musk's government contracts be interrupted?
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  15616. No, he definitely looked at his three children's college savings and their trust funds.
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  15617.  @mf5779  No she didn't. She called it a litmus test stance, essentially. That's a derisive description. That is not an explanation, nor is it an argument.
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  15618.  @blackjackjester  THIS!
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  15619.  @eyeswideopenpod  I believe that children who are molested didn't attract it. I believe the people who perished on 9/11 didn't attract it. How about you? What do you believe?
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  15620. I guess he fails to see the need for metal detectors in all schools here, in the US. Among other things.
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  15621. Why would the number of all doses of vaccine distributed be redacted from this document?
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  15622. Biden: "Do I get to keep the money?" 🤪
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  15623. I watched for that, honestly doubt it, but it is always possible.
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  15624. No she didn't. Free speech doesn't mean individuals cannot critize what was said.
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  15625.  @occamsrazor1285  That was all Brie did here, criticize what Tate has in fact said. She didn't endorse the prosecution. I don't know you, I don't care. Discussion on anonymous message boards is impersonal, at least to me, and I assume to you as well. "Winning" doesn't cross my mind.
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  15626.  @occamsrazor1285  Nor did she call for censorship. She said the opposite -- she said that she disagrees with people who say Tucker shouldn't interview Tate.
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  15627. Thank you. The theatre is a collective art form.
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  15628. Where is the shame? Did you watch what they've made public? I refuse to judge ANYONE without investigating.
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  15629. You can't handle more than one view? Even from someone who made it clear that she did not vote for Biden? She resisted that pressure?
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  15630. ​ @markislivingdeliberately  She said the opposite. She said to either comply with the subpoena or have his lawyers challenge it. It is not personal and he's making it high school girl gang personal.
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  15631.  Cali Meldron  My point is that their "charity" is always in exchange for something that these billionaires want to control, including their images and reputations. Their "charity" is not like yours or mine. When you give, you feel it. How is this a mystery?
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  15632. The longer I live, the more I appreciate Adam Curtis. Not to mention certain Ray Bradbury stories.
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  15633. As an immigrant, she might even have known better. It's possible.
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  15634.  @rottierumbles9451  No argument from me. 😉
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  15635. To determine what is happening, honest and careful researchers will need to do a multivariate analysis. This is neither easy to do, nor likely to be completed anytime soon. The timelines we have concerning vaccination followed by health issues are producing a safety signal. This is not conclusive, of course, but given the Precautionary Principle, it needs to be heeded. It's a moral imperative to investigate. At least you admit you are guessing. This is true. You are. Why you are is anyone's guess, but I won't venture . . .
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  15636. 1. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. She provides essentially none. She claims people told her. (Maybe they did.) 2. The fact that something is extraordinary DOES NOT make it impossible. Not even close. JD is right over the 🎯 about that.
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  15637. I think it's a matter of training. This officer was returned to duty because what he did was sufficiently consistent with what he was trained to do that it posed no problem to return him to the force. It's odd. Police and politicians seem to be able to use any excuse at all and return to power.
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  15638.  @brianclingenpeel5123  Except that that is not what happened. Dr. Grande was careful to explain that.
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  15639.  @brianclingenpeel5123  What is your definition of bias? What law was enforced in this instance?
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  15640. ​​ @pwilliam255  So . . . A comedian can never be right about the most serious topics? Nowadays? 😅
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  15641. They will make money pushing LGBTQ, and then make money on the backlash against LGBTQ. Just like Rachel Maddow, CNN, and Trump.
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  15642.  @Ranger1PresentsVirtualRealms  Er, I don't like where this is going. (okay, we have to laugh . . . )
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  15643. Are you kidding? He never shilled for Biden or vote blue. Just the opposite. Evil smear, Bub.
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  15644.  @BestResuMS  I'm not able to figure out who this is. Criminal!
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  15645. ​ @abc33155 I wonder how many of our comments will remain. YT doesn't like this stuff.
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  15646.  @Curt-Gevert  My detailed answer was removed. Mentioning certain writers is removed.
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  15647. @francislenetti5016  Bitter? Ad hom that doesn't land.
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  15648.  @stephaniewilson3955  Apartment dwellers on upper floors?
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  15649. It's striking Egypt and Ethiopia joined BRICS+.
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  15650.  @natejones8508  Breathe, then reread.
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  15651. The dollar is the point.
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  15652. ​ @DonaldJoeKennedy  You've got that wrong again. He is certainly entitled to his First Amendment rights. He may not be entitled to represent ICE as their advocate before the court. Attorneys have special rules of professionalism that are designed to protect their clients, and to prevent the opposing party from being able to leverage their personal conduct against their clients. The client -- in this case ICE -- is not supposed to be forced to run that risk. Also, anyone can fire their lawyer for any reason. If you don't like that they voted for Kamala, you can fire them. If you object to their web page design or their tweets, ditto.
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  15653. ​ @Blurb777 ❤❤❤
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  15654.  Jack Vance  Tell us about the Balkans. Where people who demonstrated against Milosevic for months and months, every day, throughout a winter, and finally threw his party out of their local governments -- and still got bombed with Depleted Uranium by US bombers. So, . . . tell us about them. And don't forget to tell us about who you are allowed to be racist against. You know, your safety valve target. Discrimination has got to come out somewhere. It's a simmering volcano.
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  15655.  @mrright5817  My first thought. I'm not convinced of her story. Consider A Million Little Pieces. Consider George Santos. Consider Anna Sorokin. Consider the "babies ripped from incubators". That story was dangerous.
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  15656. The look on Batya's face, even before she comments, is so satisfying to watch.
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  15657. America was the victim of Bill Clinton.
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  15658. What part of AOC's craven hypocrisy is still unclear?
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  15659. By threatening people's livelihoods?
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  15660.  @VioletVal529  That provides absolutely no guidance. You've also never died. Nor is the premise true: vaccines have been reformulated or withdrawn, for cause, not just to improve them.
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  15661.  @notamericandoe7679  THIS
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  15662. Bodies for WEEKS? Are we not supposed to understand decomposition?
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  15663.  @Citizen7777  We must continue to vote for those we hate.
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  15664. For civil policing? No, he's telling you the truth for a change. He's a war veteran, by the way.
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  15665. Well that's jealousy, and Amber Heard withdrawal.
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  15666. Right. Because health care is hardly important during a pandemic. Yes, raise minimum wage, while the economy sheds jobs and millions lose health care when their job disappears. /s
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  15667.  @claudiap.6838  How terrible. He is a very deranged person to do that to you. If you had married, he would be your legal next-of-kin. Cherish your freedom. You will be fine. He will be . . . him. He can't escape himself.
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  15668. @Brian H Is there evidence sufficient to assert that the massacre was staged? Errors are contemplated by the NYTimes malice standard, which only excludes deliberate, knowing lies, or reckless disregard for the evidence, as opposed to mistakes made in the heat of the moment and promptly corrected. Besides, who was defamed by that mistake? I don't know that Lanza's mother was a productive person anymore. I think she was retired or semi-retired. You don't have to believe anything.
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  15669. I don't think the average person understands money anymore. The marginal value of a dollar to a multimillionaire is nil. The value of a million dollars to a billionaire is of no consequence at all. While markets are open somewhere in the world, he cannot tell you his net worth to the nearest million. They do not live in the same world as we do, nevermind the same society. What you are describing will have no effect on these people. One billion dollars at age 30 is like accumulating over $90,000 a day since birth. Who "earns" that? And isn't it good to have earned what you have? I actually think so.
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  15670.  @douggwyn9656  The objections are based on the fact that the video is wrong. Or, it's political mathematics: whatever gets the most clicks and retweets is right, and you had better agree.
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  15671. The same society that won't allow teachers to select the books they will teach from proposes to arm them -- Vijay Prashad. I will never forget that.
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  15672. Please play the entire Jonathan Isaac news conference.
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  15673. ​ @carlmassengale1027 oh okay . . . You do get it.
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  15674. "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."
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  15675. How does silencing those who have been injured by vaccines create trust in vaccines?
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  15676. Take a look at Epstein's black book. NONE of these people had any problem with what Epstein did. Some lives don't count. Not to the hyperrich. And this one, Gates, in particular was heavily involved, and lied about it, and keeps lying.
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  15677. RFK Jr. won a massive toxic tort case against Monsanto in 2018. Even NPR reported on it (had to).
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  15678. And she didn't vote for Biden.
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  15679.  @threecards333  great point
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  15680.  @ImRicWooo  Sheer nonsense. You should be asking how a minor without supervision got his hands on that gun. Who gave it to him? Why? You don't have enough school shootings yet?
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  15681. NYTimes map just said as much. Just checked it. I have yet to resolve the discrepancies I see in multiple sources, including non-English language. :/ Age of Information . . . 😕
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  15682. I don't get the impression anyone cares about the people pictured in this ad, frankly.
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  15683. Yeah, that was Pfizer's job. 😂
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  15684. Respect to these gentlemen for maintaining their demeanor rather than laughing their heads off. How many people could keep a straight face?
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  15685. Yes, that was a disgrace. Finally she was discredited by it, at least in some people's eyes.
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  15686. If it is clearly factually based, what is the problem?
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  15687. And next he appears to call for the overthrow of Putin. For an encore, I guess. WHO put this guy in?
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  15688.  @artkirakosyan2633  IOW, Biden didn't say it? Or, is repeating what he himself said, verbatim, "Treason?" Please, do tell . . . don't keep us in suspense.
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  15689.  @PlutonianPisces  Are you joking? The First Amendment applies to EVERYONE. It's not like a gun. A violent felon can't have a gun. He can fly (or burn) any flag he wants.
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  15690. How funny. Tucker has been talking about free speech all week. I wonder why they fired him. 🤔
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  15691.  @johnbaker7322  So has IVF.
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  15692. The guys in the video are asking that question.
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  15693. As if you didn't know. 😂
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  15694. Let me see if I understand: Israel allows reporters from Russian Federation to enter the country and practice journalism. GOOD TO KNOW
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  15695. That was probably the idea.
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  15696. PRIVATE SCHOOLS reopened in the fall of 2020. Were there fewer viruses circulating among rich people?
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  15697.  @randomfools808  You have no idea, yet.
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  15698.  @deborahvretis3195  At that age, it makes some sense.
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  15699.  @mollynash2597  Yeah, and I don't think it gives you the Danny Sjursen perspective.
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  15700. We suddenly live in a world where Bill Clinton and Bill Gates are "left," and sex and sexuality are unmoored from material reality. It almost makes one miss Mao.
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  15701. Well, who did her eyebrows? That info is worth something.
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  15702. True, lol.
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  15703. This is so bad that I had to turn it off. :/
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  15704. I wonder who Bill and Hillary will pick for us this time.
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  15705. Wait. MARS doesn't have a magnetic field, but genius Elon Musk wants to start colonies there? So, what protects humans from cosmic radiation?
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  15706. I hope so! I hope she lives to 100!
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  15707.  @PBAdventures146  This, too.
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  15708. Her husband's parents were hugely wealthy and politically connected.
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  15709.  @thedeal9526  Why did Biden cover for Clarence Thomas? Why did he call no witnesses to corroborate Anita Hill's testimony?
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  15710.  @thedeal9526  THAT is precisely what is NOT true. She did NOT lie about having a degree from Antioch. Explain why Antioch lied, falsely claiming that they didn't hire her as an adjunct, to be part of a committee that evaluates alternative degree program proposals. She has the records to prove it. Explain how she got into a law school that requires a Bachelor's degree for admission. Two FACTS that corroborate her assertion that she had a ("nontraditional") degree from Antioch.
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  15711. There is one simple precaution everyone must take: when you are sick, stay home. Pressure all jobs to pay sick leave. Make firing anyone with a proven contagious illness illegal.
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  15712. She is highly qualified, and took the most conventional path to this position that there is. Too bad Biden isn't qualified.
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  15713. The Marseillaise is something different. They know the Internationale, too. 😂
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  15714. What's your source? I don't disbelieve it, just that a story like this would need to be sourced. Taxes are confidential.
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  15715. THANK YOU
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  15716.  @maaduufan5140  She didn't grow up with her father. Her mother never remarried. Unusually small family. She said she didn't research Harry because she knew he would tell her all she needed to know.
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  15717.  @maaduufan5140  Do you have brothers or sisters? Do your parents have them, too?
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  15718.  @gabriellazordan  Thank you! Happy weekend!
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  15719. As long as you concede that it is too soon to be sure that this strategy would work, and that it could be very dangerous to certain demographic segments, I think it's fine. Too bad Fauci et al refuse to admit as much about forced vaccination and all the other measures they push. Too bad the politicians have suspended scientific discourse and upended basic democratic principles, huh?
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  15720.  @JD-yz4kr  Why do we still have flu with us? Because people don't get vaccinated? Is that it? Let's think this through.
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  15721.  @JD-yz4kr There is an article in the National Geographic on leaky vaccines from 2015, and hence untainted by current culture wars. It pertains to a disease in chickens, but discusses implications for humans. Take a look at that. BTW, if everyone were a vegetarian, there would also be fewer pathogens in the world. I recommend considering vegetarianism.
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  15722.  @jimluebke3869  "LESSER men?" That's your impression of what she said about her husband? (Or is that what you think of veterans? No, that I won't allow myself to suspect.) Wow, it did not take long to get you to give up the goods.
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  15723.  @jimluebke3869  So . . . You know this about her, but none other than Dr. Jordan Peterson was fooled and invited her on, and expressed an interest to talk with her again. Well, that is a first for him, I'll say.
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  15724.  @jimluebke3869  I think her husband sounds great.
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  15725.  @mrjohnnyk  Yes they do. The more sensible you are, the more crazed the mob becomes, and the more determined to destroy your life.
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  15726. So he must really mean it.
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  15727.  @JamesReedy  And this is why I always end up watching math videos . . .
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  15728. More replies visible under Newest sorting tab.
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  15729. GOOD
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  15730.  @lonelypinebeefarm4297  A teacher certainly IS a stranger to your family. What do you know of your child's teacher's upbringing, values, and private life? You think you know. You don't. You've never been to their home for an afternoon tea, much less anything else. The "solutions" people are grasping for are tragic. Do you permit your child's aunts and uncles to spank your child for misbehaving? I hope not. A swat if they do something dangerous is one thing. That's normal. A spanking as discipline is quite another. I'm sure the parents whose children's teacher ran off to marry a high school kid were all quite surprised. And I don't believe that if you had not been spanked, then you would have ended up living a dishonest life. That's a real stretch there.
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  15731.  @fuckamericanidiot  Or were you being ironic? ;)
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  15732. Hate speech is generally legal. There is no such category that removes speech from the protection of the First Amendment. Have you forgotten RAV v. City of St. Paul? That was an opinion by Justice Scalia.
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  15733. Jeffrey Epstein did.
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  15734.  @MisterHowzat  Are these untrained keyboard warriors in any position to affect global and national health policy? And did they all make a killing in the market? No pun intended. The second question is a joke nevertheless. If they were rich, they would have a seat at the global policy table.
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  15735. Opt out? Wow are you naive. DNA can always be handed over to law enforcement because that is an extraordinary circumstance and is not done for commercial purposes. It can also be subpoenaed, and for that very reason, the companies will forego being subpoenaed, and hand it over in cases where they know they can and will be, to avoid any possible expense. So, you handed over your DNA, huh? LOL
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  15736. I understand why Robbie thinks college isn't worth much. He is extremely poorly educated. People who never went to college know what an ADHESION CONTRACT is. Or at least they used to. Now they know how to tend a Twitter persona. Progress!
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  15737. Let's think this through: A number of national guard were just pulled from protecting Biden at the inauguration -- because of things they POSTED. I want these posts out in the open. Better than hidden.
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  15738.  @likhithravi2797  Who said anything about money? It's very unlucky to live in a society where people always and only think in terms of money.
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  15739.  @joecater894  The odd part is that Wuhan had NIH funding, possibly in violation of the moratorium on GoF research. The Ukraine labs were funded by the US Department of Defense.
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  15740. Thanks to Katie for bringing together the best voices on this topic now. Outstanding.
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  15741.  @RonaldABG  Cool, thank you. This one has me going back and forth. The original one was easy, I thought.
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  15742. He noticed epigenetic phenomenon but had absolutely no idea what he was seeing or why, and set back genetics in the USSR for at least a generation. That's not Mengele level at all. He did observe something real that we finally understand now, but we understand it only because we pursued real genetics.
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  15743. They don't look horrified.
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  15744. You are talking so fast because you can never introduce CERTAINTY and compare it with probabilities, and you're hoping people miss that. For most people, the certainty of receiving a million dollars is comparable with a probability of receiving five million dollars only at very, very high levels, which you didn't posit here. The psychologically established fact of loss aversion is not irrational, unless the marginal value of a million dollars is inconsequential to you. (Dollars are not a rigid yardstick. It is therefore rational for a billionaire to answer this question differently from a person who is unemployed with six months' of savings left.) The upshot: for most people, picking certainty (C) has no bearing on whether they picked A or B in the first instance, because it is always rational (for non-millionaires) to pick C. B and C are just as "right" as are A and C. Picking B doesn't commit them to D. Only a rich person would ever pick D.
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  15745. When it comes to First Amendment rights, the standard IS stronger than that. It is enough for a school official's conduct to raise a reasonable concern of discrimination if you do not engage in a religious observance -- you don't have to wait until you are actually denied playing time on the basis of your resistance to proselytizing. Yeah, Brie went to law school, as did I.
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  15746.  @lowercase_ash  Perfect. Thank you, and Happy New Year!!!
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  15747.  @frankjvon  Amen. :)
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  15748.  @thomashovgaard3134  No it's not.
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  15749.  @jairkerker2821  I thought about it, too, and I think you're 100% right. I had remembered he said "scared" three times. He didn't say "opposed to," but "scared of." Anyway, he got his answer. He didn't expect to hear about the Precautionary Principle, I am sure. LOL.
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  15750.  @KevinUchihaOG  Nice evasion of the central point -- the Precautionary Principle, which puts the burden of proof of safety EXACTLY where it belongs, on the proponent of a GMO. It does not say safety cannot be demonstrated, so forget about erecting that strawman. In the meantime, awaiting evidence, it is eminently rational to avoid GMOs. As for your theory about "chemicals," it has been called into serious question by none other than modern nutritional research. Vitamin C in nature is better for you than synthesized, though the reason why is unclear. Perhaps it could be synthesized better. (That notion has not been excluded.) Beta carotene in pill form is dangerous to smokers and possibly others, yet in the very same amount from carrots, it appears to prevent cancer in people who don't already have precancerous changes in their cells (and possibly in some who do). Why? I don't think we know. We cannot ethically conduct every possible experiment on humans that could give us a definitive answer real quick. Just give it up. Please.
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  15751.  @KevinUchihaOG  Also, are you suggesting GMOs are the only way, or the best way, to increase crop yields? Evidence? A hypothetical doesn't help us make a decision. "A implies B" does not mean "Only A implies B." (You didn't count on meeting up with scientifically-minded, logical people, huh? That's why you make overwrought emotional appeals, now raising the spectre of mass famine or genocide. As if the billionaires will save us!)
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  15752.  @jairkerker2821  You and I are "killing the children," LOL. Okay, I exaggerate. A little.
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  15753. Let's take a moment to remember Kalief Browder, who committed suicide. "Kalief Browder was sent to Rikers Island when he was 16 years old, accused of stealing a backpack. Though he never stood trial or was found guilty of any crime, he spent three years at the New York City jail complex, nearly two of them in solitary confinement." (NYTimes report)
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  15754. I am my menstrual period. I feel so good about myself now.
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  15755. I mean, seriously. Do these clowns think toxic tort cases against major corporations are easy to win?? Yeah sure, sweetheart. They must think we live in Twitter World.
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  15756. NO, kids do not have to try any psychoactive drugs. YES they are really dangerous before, say, the mid-twenties. Read some contemporary neurology. Don't even eat additives and preservatives, much less GMOs, before the twenties -- if ever. Don't give in to peer pressure at 16. Watch, you may not care about trying it at 26.
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  15757. ​@jeffreyblack6611 That depends on whether government coerces private actors to censor. It's not a simple inquiry.
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  15758. Ryan, we can't be clear-eyed. We need the cover story. The truth is too grim, no pun intended.
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  15759.  @Frip36  You're right.
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  15760.  @stargazerh112  Okay. I don't think we disagree about the most important thing. He was innocent; it was self-defense.
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  15761.  @leokaloper4132  You're right.
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  15762. Fear that she won't die soon enough, and no longer be in a position to cause their campaign funding to dry up for 2022. Elections every 24 months do that.
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  15763.  michael nola  Are you so sure it would fail? It might depend on how many are dead, bankrupt, homeless, and how many have taken it to the streets.
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  15764.  michael nola  I'm so sorry that you imagine you have deeper insights of the underlying logic of federal legislation than others do. I submit that you cannot predict what would happen if M4A were put to a vote, anymore than the result of the last election could be predicted. (Did you expect the Democrats to lose seats in the House, and fail to take the Senate outright? Did you expect Trump(!) to take Iowa, Ohio, and Florida? I didn't.) It's one thing to posture about M4A, and quite another to be called upon to vote on it in a formal roll call. What you're describing is what usually happens. But that's not what always happens. This could turn out to be one of those times when the usual doesn't happen. I mean, they do keep telling us COVID is an emergency. Isn't it? One (additional?) "small" problem: millions have lost their health insurance, and millions more will. Do you expect them to line up meekly to take a vaccine that has been approved on an accelerated timetable, if it turns that the side effects are significant, for most people? You do, huh? And are they also supposed to believe they should trust a government that has done next to nothing for them, and that holds them in contempt? If they're on their own in this, well, they have no reason to feel obligated to comply. You think most people don't know that every other country has universal health care? You think they're all so stupid they don't know the care is generally better? Let's have our legislators take a Brave Stand. Let's see how that shakes out.
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  15765.  @bradleysmith681  AMEN! Thank you for the essential reminder, back to what's important.
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  15766.  @MrRjsnowden  The rhetoric Putin Man Bad is for domestic consumption, not for Ukraine's benefit, not that our ghouls actually care. We need to approach China, and do so with utmost respect. This UN vote was ill-timed -- oh, and take a look at the map to see where the 35 countries are that abstained. It's not a pretty picture. Diplomacy means toning down the rhetoric, first of all. The country that has dropped the most bombs on the rest of humanity, including the only two atomic bombs ever detonated, and that tips its weapons with DU, provokes Russia then humiliates Russia. Well, it still has ideological hegemony and is making sure everyone knows. No one in this picture cares about Ukraine.
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  15767.  @franciscomap75  And Afghanistan and Iraq are WHAT? Do you even know the (brown-eyed) civilian death toll?
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  15768.  @franciscomap75  Sloganeering
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  15769.  @virtuosa69  Actually, I even have a quick example at hand. Actually, two: The Soviet Union under Stalin (Ugh) banned lobotomies, a full generation before the US did. America dropped two atom bombs on civilians. Soviet citizens stopped a nuclear exchange twice. Arkhipov and Petrov. Look it up. Or don't. Be right. You gotta be.
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  15770. Yeah, because what would Europeans do?
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  15771.  @myquest666420  Within about a month. :/
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  15772. ​ @oceandrop7666 No one gets a cockatiel due to misery. It . . . just doesn't happen.
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  15773.  @terrymckenzie8786  Yes, everyone matters. But you do not sacrifice the lives and the health of the young to preserve the old. The old had their chance to be young. Part of the reason the old matter is because of everything they can impart to the young.
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  15774.  @danielcaldwell1110  Agree 100% And we should never engineer policies that pit the old against the young. We are all in this together. Don't create a lifeboat dilemma where it's simple to have enough lifeboats for everyone. Part of the reason we value the elderly is because they have so much to offer to everyone younger.
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  15775. EVERYBODY in France or UK "looks the same," Robbie? Seriously?
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  15776.  @roberttinsley8960  I never joined Facebook. I waste enough time on YouTube now, and I only joined recently because of the pandemic and the shutdowns. Seems like a mistake. :/
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  15777. Of course. And F Aaron Mate, and anyone who defends his journalism is right there with him, under a Russian blanket. So there.
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  15778.  @Drew7s  Not at all. A person can be fired for one crass joke. But a joke would almost never give rise to a viable sexual harassment claim. A grope always would.
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  15779.  @Drew7s  Maybe you could tell us why Ana only brings this up after she smeared Aaron Mate, and after Jimmy and many, many others came to Mate's defense. I'm curious. Does noticing time lines mean a person didn't get hugs?
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  15780. She is not a rarity.
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  15781. This thread has a lot of shadows . . . Very different if you sort by Newest.
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  15782. ​@ghostoflazlo Exactly. Narcissist or no, either the DATA is real or it is not. She might be a saint in a dozen ways, however unlikely that may be.
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  15783.  @jumpinjohnnyruss  I took from it that people are reluctant to extend themselves in favor of elderly nursing home inmates.
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  15784.  Yongo Bazuk  That was his own knee?
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  15785. Cariol Horne wasn't made whole under tort law. That was a very important part of the story that I was waiting to hear. She was only given the back pay and pension she had earned in the first place. She is entitled to compensation for pain and suffering. Have you ever waited 15 years for money owed you? And the people who owe it to you are insisting that YOU are wrong and they are right? And every door is slammed in your face for 15 years? Damages for systematic deprivation should be punitive: trlple her salary is one formula generally used. But "reparations" is not usually the word used in legal cases, that is true. "Damages" is the usual term (for being harmed over and above the usual harm most black people have to face).
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  15786. Chris Hedges has been warning about "black block" and "antifa" for years now. I have remained relatively neutral for the simple reason that antifa is too amorphous, and people claiming to be part of antifa have indeed, on occasion, done some good things (i.e., protected people from other violent protestors). But antifa are all the more susceptible to infiltration by provocateurs because they are amorphous. READ AFENI SHAKUR'S BIO.
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  15787. OOOOH we can't be suspicious of childhood castration and lifelong medicalization and sexual dysfunction (and stealth eugenics) if we are "progressive" like you.
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  15788.  @reinsmano  Everyone spoke in this segment.
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  15789. Another question: why has the US so quickly moved from administering unsuitable vaccines to the young, to recommending highly invasive treatments for gender dysphoria to the young?
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  15790.  @prooveditt4839  LOL, true.
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  15791.  @Whataworld134  A lot of patriotic Americans generally agree with her concerning Palestine. Some are even Jewish.
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  15792. I don't even believe the elites and politicians who claim to have been vaccinated. They know their risk of death from COVID is miniscule.
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  15793.  @silenciothequiet3471  Me too 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  15794. ​@msstern3056 How is a lawsuit fake if it was filed and the plaintiff prevails?
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  15795.  @msstern3056  A fine is worse. The victim is presumed to have been harmed. Society is presumed to have been harmed.
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  15796. Yes, of course we all wish you well! Hope your holidays are nice. You sound good. :)
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  15797.  @diomedes7971  True, but the obese can't fix that overnight. I know some obese people who legitimately have metabolic issues -- one who was injured in utero by DES, in fact (and she volunteered for a monoclonal antibody, double blind study to help other people). I do wish the obese had been counseled to try to lose weight prudently in March 2020, and to check their vitamin D levels and address them right away. I never knew how bad our health care system was. I was not prepared for this. (Were you?)
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  15798.  @Acediscoface  You'll be fine, with excellent immunity in 2022. :)
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  15799.  @peterstafford4426  If we had Japan's rate of death, we'd have only 50,000 dead. Why? First, are all the numbers accurate, and are we all counting the same things as true cause-of-death? (P. S. I know you're a notorious troll, hence cannot/will not answer.)
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  15800. Is there some reason MSM is priming its audience to disregard and disrespect the First Amendment?
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  15801.  Invert Your Cross  Let's see whether we can keep Biden from flipping Venezuela. You must know he wants to. Trump did, too, for that matter.
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  15802. Why don't billionaires educate their children properly? I'm being serious here. He should be fluent in several languages. He should have had tutors, speech therapists, debating coaches, and drama classes. You see middle class people work two jobs to educate a child with minor challenges.
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  15803. Macron was a disaster, by the way. And it was utterly obvious he would be.
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  15804. So, the US economy depends on its fulfilling the role of the world's banker, and that, in turn, depends on its being regarded as credible by all other countries. Seizing assets sounds like a great idea, huh?
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  15805. To think that compassionate use of ivermectin caused doctors to lose their hospital privileges. To think that simple vitamin D would have increased many of these people's chances of recovery.
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  15806. ​ @charlesscholton5252 I tried to use the other word and got sense oared. This has been common for a long time, doing this as a response to bullying. Otherwise normal but sensitive kids have felt driven to it, especially since "social" media started ruling their lives. Everyone suddenly forgot?
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  15807. ​ @AngieKawaii01 Well, to be fair, they cannot comment during an ongoing investigation, especially where liability is quite likely. Not that I disagree with you. It could turn out that they violated everyone's rights in the way they chose to handle this. It would not be the first time.
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  15808. Great quote.
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  15809. Not everyone declines throughout life. I guess most do, with the fast food diet . . .
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  15810. Besides, she was talking about federal judges --- you must have no idea of judicial history. Start with Chief Justice Earl Warren.
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  15811. People with PhDs in nursing know how to read peer-reviewed studies.
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  15812.  @Takobella  He doesn't understand her points. He might not be used to the law applying to people of his color persuasion. At-will employment is a reality. I'm always surprised when someone explains the law to people and they get apoplectic. You mean you were counting on it not to apply to you? You're used to that?
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  15813. She is qualified. She is a lawyer. She doesn't need a second credential. You must not understand what a legal education consists in.
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  15814.  @Bigballz1993-k2c  Oh my god, you don't even know anything about the bar exam system! 🤣🤣🤣
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  15815. @DungareeDong  If you know one who practices environmental law, by all means, ask that person for a recommendation for an immigration lawyer. All of these specialties requiring a knowledge of federal administrative agencies are more highly specialized than other areas of the law, and they confront similar problems. An environmental lawyer is more likely to know or know of a good immigration lawyer than a medical malpractice lawyer would. People specialize to get really good and really efficient at their jobs, and to build relationships and be more confident in predicting likely outcomes. It's not their education that is wanting. Also, law school is not that hard. It's voluminous. Anyone could pass --- which is only right. Law is supposed to be something everyone could understand, not a secret society.
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  15816.  @davidscott5903  Well, first off, thank you. But this is so normal, I'm not being good. We are all being duped into thinking something normal is extraordinary. Trust me I'm not trying to sound modest. I had have my moments of genuine fear lately. I do not like this picture at all. BTW, my suggestion probably wouldn't work to make victims whole, but it is the right thing to do. If you got funds that were almost certainly the proceeds of a fraud, and the person has declared bankruptcy, as someone sworn to uphold the Constitution you have your attorney contact the bankruptcy court. It's not possible that I know and they don't. It doesn't take being "good."
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  15817. She might marry a rich man and we have to put a stop to her now.
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  15818. How do you explain the other victims of this perpetrator? What do you make of the fact that he is genuinely bizarre: a former Marine, graduated from Harvard Law, and was disbarred for taking a trivial amount of money from a client account? He was sentenced to forty years in prison. Strange things do happen.
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  15819.  @nebraskafrankcourtny  It also makes you realize that people who think you "must be" lying won't change their minds. They would rather persist than acknowledge that you're not lying. Facts don't matter.
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  15820.  @aylio3745  Well, if someone is asserting selective prosecution, it is up to them to make an argument for it, I agree. Nor is failing to hold one politician accountable while nailing the other always selective prosecution. But raising the question properly isn't "whataboutism." What I want to know is why the DOJ is not releasing the warrant and affidavit. They work for us, don't they? It's not up to Trump.
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  15821. Did they require her to be vaccinated?
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  15822. ​@larryjones9773 Liberal arts majors are not prohibited from taking mathematics, you know. They may be short on lab sciences and applied sciences, but the best ones take calculus and advanced statistics, and a programming class or a CAD class. You must not know a lot of high achievers. Ever heard of Stanford's Symbolic Systems major? Very lib arts heavy.
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  15823. ​ @saynotocensorship LOL, it's a craft. Try working hard, see what happens.
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  15824. @nyetzdyec3391  No it's not. But have it your way. Moot point. Are you sure you aren't confusing this case with Johnny Depp? 😂
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  15825.  @lloydtancred  LOL
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  15826. You're phenomemal!
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  15827.  @ouknow1446  Outstanding point. But the corruption is so important -- because what was done to us with these vaccines is not known, and what was done with our basic notions of personal freedom, exactly as you said.
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  15828. If people were willing to call the fire department LAST YEAR, when no one was vaccinated, how can it be imperative to fire these people now? This is irrational. Worse yet, it is fear mongering.
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  15829. ​ @benschlotte8242  Wasn't that the school shooter in Georgia? I honestly don't know, I'm asking.
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  15830. How about voting in person?
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  15831. Elon is not an engineer. He has no engineering degree. He bought Tesla and shut out the real engineers who started it, with financial "engineering" he made with Peter Thiel.
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  15832. ​​ The future reproductive choices of every child must be protected. Less drastic treatments exist for dysphoria. The more irreversible a treatment, the longer you need to wait to perform it. This is like giving a treatment for Stage 4 cancer to someone with an emotional problem.
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  15833.  @rolandwoltman7835  I have been looking for this and cannot find it. I know drug overdoses are at record levels, auto accidents are up, suicide and homicide, etc.
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  15834. 44:03 I'm thinking this is how people who got vaccinated and are now scared they made a mistake are going to act. Jimmy got vaccinated, as did Stef. Stef was sore and tired for a short time and then felt better. Jimmy got long COVID symptoms. He tells us the truth about what happened to him. In short: Jimmy has a very good heart.
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  15835. I listened to both guests. I thought both had very good points. What part of CPS social workers are quitting is so tough for you? Just how important is this jazz?
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  15836.  @nalejbank  Oh I would LOVE to know what website, YouTube channel, cable station, etc., has started circulating THESE talking points (i.e., "Nazis and fascists are socialists"). Or is it the drugs? More and more, I think it's drugs.
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  15837.  @chadwi12  I gave reasons why the questions were excellent. Were you able to read that far? Or is that a really silly question? My post had no emojis.
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  15838. Welcome to the Modern Stupid.
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  15839. ​ @thesean3194 to get even richer
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  15840. @jasmina5566  Not me. I never was afraid to drive again, and I love it. If I knew I would never be destitute in retirement, that would make me intensely happy. I don't have high-class problems. My life doesn't lack for meaning. It sometimes has too much meaning.
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  15841.  @nemesiszer0708  I knew they were nuts. I didn't know how nuts.
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  15842. @benettinger5910  Thank you for letting us know you are an ideologue. We thought so, but you confirmed it. The bigger question is, how did we come to this? Irrationality and jeering are the norm. A broader, dispassionate, objective view has become impossible. Consider only this principle, from elementary economics: if a large number of people emulated you, your costs would go up. You know that, correct? Just kidding. You clearly do not.
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  15843. @noname8366  Whining? My parents met in a refugee camp, and I cared for them in old age single-handedly, as our family had died out besides me. When I got sick, people were stunned that I didn't bat an eye. Meaning, not a tear was shed. (I'm fine now, of course.) Home was an English-free zone, in a real tough city. I don't know what your drugs look like, much less . . . So, how's it going in the 'burbs? Aren't you late for 12 steps?
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  15844. @noname8366  You feel sorry for kids growing up in France? 😂😂😂😂😂
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  15845. @noname8366  Oops, forgot to block.
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  15846. Wow someone is extremely resentful and thinks they are being very clever. Academic excellence is not a World Wrestling Entertainment event. Anyone who could get into Yale on merit could teach a lot of the community college courses.
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  15847. You are evil 🤣🤣🤣😆😆
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  15848. If this were true, back in the day Seymour Hersh would have done the work to prove it. That's what well-funded journalists should do. Of course these violent fringe groups could all be provocateurs.
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  15849.  @32brookse  He has been the BEST at uncovering government corruption, infiltration of movements, and all kinds of similar bad acts.
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  15850. To your good health! :)
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  15851. One story that is true is that he was friends with Mark Twain. Twain had lots of close friends, of course, but Tesla considered Twain his only real friend.
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  15852. Think about why.
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  15853.  @KA-uv8gq  You're being too kind. See how the new narrative is, "if he would have died anyway . . . "
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  15854. ​ @aroseprince If the call is a true emergency, it is NEVER a misdemeanor to call police.
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  15855.  @GrumpyStoic  You're right. Let me clarify: this is a perfectly normal cross-examination of an opposing witness in a case where the plaintiff is suing the defendant for $50 million. Before a court orders someone to pay money, and seizes their bank account and other assets, grabs their house, and so forth, the plaintiff has to PROVE they really lost $50 million on account of the defendant, and for no other reason. If the plaintiff cannot demonstrate that, maybe filing suit (due to bitterness? just to get even?) wasn't nice.
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  15856.  @GrumpyStoic  Wow, you're a kind person. Thanks very much. I'm kind of embarrassed now.
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  15857.  @Jana-wx3lp  OMG, you are normal. What are you doing here? 🤣
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  15858. ​ @sadiestoltzfus9798  For dinner? Think about how to rephrase that.
    2
  15859. There is never "paygo" for Wall Street. Wall Street's well being is always an emergency.
    2
  15860. ​@nottherealxandercrews4742 Actually, they will face a lawsuit. They should.
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  15861. @nmk5003  I do. They should have stated the standard, and denied the factual predicate on their own campuses. They could then decline to engage in gotcha hypotheticals and restate that they have a standard and a procedure. If a student were credibly accused of saying what the Congresswoman said, in class or in other contexts where it is possible harassment, they would then face that process. It would be taken seriously and investigated. That's all they needed to do. It's similar to the Title VII hostile environment standard, which was well developed 30 years ago AND which is not trivial. It's not an easy standard to meet. What are they paid for, tell me again?
    2
  15862.  @SleepyHiker  You won't get any argument from me. Glenn Greenwald has been the most principled voice on this issue. It's become tragic.
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  15863. @karen-qm7og  AMEN Literally perfect
    2
  15864.  @EricaBassi99  There's room for two. Brainpower does not take up space.
    2
  15865. Just watched this again. Loved it.
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  15866.  @Bike_Lion  Superb comment. Thank you.
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  15867. Trump was unfit to be president. Where are the people to state that Joe Biden is even less fit to be president? And that another CLINTON is morally unfit to be president?
    2
  15868. My pronouns are syringe and mask. 🤣
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  15869. Why am I not surprised?
    2
  15870. A lot of Israelis have opposed Netanyahu for a very long time.
    2
  15871. No, "lived experience" is not stupid. "My truth" is stupid. I started using "lived experience" to indicate the proper source of my beliefs about ten years ago, to push back against "my truth."
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  15872.  @glenndells3481  The media I listen to certainly are covering the boarder crisis. But then, I don't even have cable. I would not pay for CNN, etc.
    2
  15873. ​ @sils583  Kids fantasize, and they do combine the events of several days.
    2
  15874. ​ @LoRdeShellz-ff4vi How did he fail to recognize his mother in court?
    2
  15875. ​ @maher.itorer Remember the satanic daycare stories?
    2
  15876. ​ @annfashaw9270 That was speculation and should have been excluded. It's a well-know prosecutor's trick.
    2
  15877.  @777Maranatha  Yes, and according to numerous reports, he did change his core story.
    2
  15878. @InspektoraDeFrutas  I was citing other sources, beyond this video. Do you generally consider just one source? This case isn't important? Please see Justice Jackson's concurring opinion where she refused to apply a law obviously not intended to criminalize all January 6th protesters, even though she found their actions abhorrent. You might learn something about principles. Then again . . .
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  15879. Beautiful
    2
  15880. Besides all that, Vance sounds like he has marital issues.
    2
  15881. I also resent talking about the pasts of the deceased. It is irrelevant.
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  15882.  @chasca23  Good for you! Stay strong!
    2
  15883.  @nickcharles1284  K the beaches weren't closed and weren't needed anyway and so on and so on.
    2
  15884. LOL, this is a hoot.
    2
  15885.  @EricBerger-p3x  Jimmy fell for ALL the lies this time. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
    2
  15886.  @PresidentDennis  Hey, no worries. Max, Aaron and Ben are savage. Especially Max. His dry humor. And none other than Marianne Williamson (!!) just came through on Katie's show. Real surprise. Things really are bad. Most of us are whistling in the dark . . . :/
    2
  15887.  @PresidentDennis  Yeah, I didn't watch the livestream, expecting to hear that love blah blah. But no, she was great. Happy to give credit.
    2
  15888. Consult Title VII
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  15889. @DriveInFreak  Next question, why did you spread misinformation?
    2
  15890.  @christiansoldier77  When is a child inside his father's body?
    2
  15891. Seriously? I hope so, but it strikes me as odd.
    2
  15892.  DimebagVision  Because it was debates that sealed the deal for Biden, Trump, Clinton . . . ?
    2
  15893. That the President said false and crazy things, if he did, IS news. A presidential speech is ALWAYS news.
    2
  15894.  @pro-choicemom  Dore didn't tell truths or falsehoods. He invited Convo Couch to talk. Is this too tough for you? Hardly an endorsement of this channel, if it influenced your thinking.
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  15895. I unsubbed for good this time. He's been saying all over that Gaige Grosskreutz was a criminal. He was NOT. In any event, we don't have outlaws in the US that anyone can shoot. Rittenhouse was acquitted because he acted in self-defense. Not because the victims were Bad People. Grosskreutz even had to change his name because he could not move on with his life after the trial. I believe he has a lawsuit against the police pending, for actively encouraging vigilantes that night. Good thought. Rittenhouse was a minor, and a victim of the adults around him as well.
    2
  15896. ​ @CaptainCataractss  She did an extremely poor job of articulating First Amendment freedoms, or really seeming to know a thing about them. I thought that was a disgrace. As a university president, she should know First Amendment law in her sleep, and be ready to defend it. The problem is, she gave that up a long time ago it seems. A private university can have a speech code instead of free speech, as long as it is enforced fairly. But if they CHOSE to embrace the full panoply of First Amendment freedoms, why can't they say so proudly and defend them?
    2
  15897. As soon as I saw the COVID hysteria, I knew that animal torture for "Science" would not be far behind. I saw it coming.
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  15898. THIS
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  15899. "Isn't that all that matters?"
    2
  15900.  @shadracarthur  Why? For growing up in a house without a bookshelf, something that bothers him to this day?
    2
  15901. Good thing the resistance fighters in WWII would have thought you were out of your mind. Language itself is a collective social product as well, and if humanity were to die out, so would language. Not only that, but it undergoes change through time. Does that make it less "real?"
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  15902. @Nicholas Olesen I know that. I'm sorry for the ambiguity. The point was, we are surrounded by it. We are led to believe anyone who disagrees is special pleading. But in fact, it is a grossly inadequate view that few people outside of US/UK hold.
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  15903. Who is repressing its citizens? The governments that are censoring their speech.
    2
  15904. Or maybe admired?
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  15905.  @MrJest2  Nothing to do with "imprecision." The problem is precisely stated. The issue is to prove or refute that the defined function always gives rise to a string that is finite until reaching the 4 2 1 loop (that it therefore has a finite stopping time).
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  15906. In 2021, the CDC website stated that the COVID vaccines saved over 300,000 lives.
    2
  15907. I hope lifetime salary, plus punitive damages.
    2
  15908. 👏👏👏👏👏
    2
  15909. ​ @lynt4890 😂😂😂
    2
  15910.  @LTPottenger  Thanks so much. The link to the article on regeneration of the immune system via intermittent fasting was no longer up, but the article is very easy to find using the information you provided.
    2
  15911.  @LTPottenger  It's just one, that I know of, and I found the article really quickly. :)
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  15912.  @davidmun1601  If the rate is one per 1000 or even fewer, chances are you never will. The swine flu vaccine was stopped completely in 1976 for one case of GBS per 100,000 doses. The fact that this affected younger people makes it even worse. I don't know anyone who died of COVID, either, or developed myocarditis from COVID. Apparently that happens as well.
    2
  15913.  @davidmun1601  And none of these samples are representative. The German study of autopsies after unexpected deaths at home following vaccination demonstrated a possible mechanism, making a causal connection likely. It's not just a correlation any more. You know "many people" who died from COVID? Are you in a medical field? My one friend with comorbities galore was sick for one day from it. She is unvaccinated but did volunteer for a monoclonal antibody study, and had those in 2021. She contracted COVID last September. It was less than an ordinary flu for her. A cold with a one-day fever, basically.
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  15914.  @TheRedWabbit  Did anyone ask us? Some form of coercion is always involved.
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  15915.  @TheRedWabbit  But I don't think that's the whole answer.
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  15916.  @TheRedWabbit  For me, the self-loathing is the real tipoff. That just makes no sense, unless the propaganda has been internalized. I wonder how many people are actually subject to it, and how many see through it. It's not everybody who believes it, . . . :/
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  15917.  @singularitysquaredllc.895  What am I implying? I didn't "imply" anything. Cosby GOT immunity from criminal prosecution in return for his testimony, in other words, in return for waiving his 5th Amendment protections. The published case is lengthy and recounts all the salient facts.
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  15918. Greenwald demonstrated that Lula was wrongly accused. Good job keeping up. /s
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  15919. Even odder, he has a major, lifelong Russia obsession which he passed down to his daughter. When Westerners are Eastern-curious . . . Very peculiar, never a good sign. But hugs? Definitely. He needs a long one daily.
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  15920.  @noralally6449  Really? After Uvalde, what can shock anyone?
    2
  15921.  @wikingagresor  Well, I remember when newly independent Croatia resurrected that symbolism, and so far it appears to have meant little or nothing. I don't know what will happen in this case. Do you know anything about the history of these movements? Europe still has history.
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  15922.  @thomas45081  So terrible. I was thinking about you just now, while making dinner -- having done everything in your power. I am so sorry. People forget the the fully vaccinated have passed away, too. Glad you have love around you. Please take care.
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  15923.  @thomas45081  You are very kind to come back and chat with us. We really appreciate it.
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  15924. @cassiescornerreviews6884  You need to stop lying --- including about crime victims. That seems to be your main flex.
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  15925. This is actually tragic.
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  15926. SUPER points.
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  15927. A person kept in a wheelchair can lose the use of their legs permanently.
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  15928. LOL, that was good.
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  15929. Ms. Marsden -- go to law school!!! I mean it.
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  15930. Perfect. Thank you.
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  15931. There is one way to hold her accountable: a defamation suit. Is there something else you'd prefer? I ask sincerely. What should happen?
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  15932. @fatrobdouble  I agree. The facts spell out defamation. The suit against the University of Virginia has already been filed, in federal court. It's super hard-hitting, too. Bettinger is an exceptionally sympathetic plaintiff, the case is exceptionally extreme.
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  15933. Try collecting information about what other countries' ministries of health are doing. You may have more support than you think.
    2
  15934. Well, do we know they told the truth about their numbers? More to the point, is it TOO LATE for countries with endemic COVID to try this method? If we had Japan's per capita rate of death from COVID, there would be 50,000 lives lost, not 800,000, and Japan had a surge during the Olympics. China is about to host the next Olympics. What has Japan been doing? And first of all, are all the numbers accurate, and counted the same way? Looks like (1) we don't share information and ideas; (2) we don't have the spirit of free inquiry needed to make real progress.
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  15935. I can't figure out why that many people vote. How can 60% still be duped? Maybe one in one-hundred of them gain something for it.
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  15936. Depends on where. Hm?
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  15937. It's the American way. /s
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  15938. "Another 9/11 every two days."
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  15939. Serbia is a traditional ally of Russia. That's why.
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  15940.  @Cuernavacachica02  That is possible as well. We are given very little good information.
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  15941. Which state supreme court was that? Justice Jackson is about 54 or 55.
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  15942.  @donnathedead7554  Your point is of no value whatsoever.
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  15943. So did Depp. You still don't get it, huh?
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  15944. Yes. It speaks to the fact that she comes from a traditional, collectivist south-east Asian culture and never assimilated. You'll note the judge made a point of stating in court that our society does not hold his parents responsible. It holds him responsible.
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  15945.  @MichaelAronson  Expecting to see progress. My mistake.
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  15946. Love how Joe tells people to get a trainer and dietitian. Rich people should make that their priority. They can afford it, so go for it.
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  15947.  @robsan5410  YES!
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  15948.  @ish7957  Numerous stories fell apart. You must not have followed that fiasco. Getting people used to lying, trash talking, and making money off of such a risible performance seems to be what you advocate. No wonder Alex Jones (who lost a major defamation suit, thank God) comes to YOUR mind. You may be on the verge of losing your country. You might want to pause and think about it.
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  15949.  @jocksharerock7318  Poisoned our minds into watching Gray Zone and Moderate Rebels? Instead of this? You're funny.
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  15950. @Badatallthis Stuff That is the whole point -- to divert attention from a real issue, and a defamatory video that TYT has since taken down, and pretend the real issue is a sex scandal. Notice that it works, every time. That's why people do it.
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  15951.  @oceania2385  So your spouse kicked you out -- AGAIN??
    2
  15952. ​@user-dq9yf9bq5f He wasn't kicked out, he was suspended, and he is unbowed.
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  15953. @CAPS0L  I've never seen cr ac k, or anything like it. What made you think of it? 😊
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  15954.  @CAPS0L  reported
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  15955. This is not an exception. We created bin Laden.
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  15956. ❤
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  15957. Sounds very americanized, frankly.
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  15958.  @Parawingdelta2  Social Darwinism
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  15959. She's hysterical. You know everyone believes it for a split second every time.
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  15960.  @1antoniov1  I know!! She repeats official MSM talking points, like, NEVER! She must not be very smart. /s
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  15961.  Gordon Fornow  Unfortunately, open carry is legal in many places. Yes, this is shocking.
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  15962. Too bad Elon didn't assemble a team of auditors, huh?
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  15963. 👏👏👏
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  15964.  @slimmdawg2152  WHO "worked for it?"
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  15965.  @FrantiC119  That was what I said. If most people think it is ambiguous, then it is. That's basically definitional in communications theory, sociolinguistics, and all that stuff.
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  15966. It is traditional to name Native American children after a spirit animal, and traditional to have white fish during certain Jewish holidays and other observances.
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  15967. "Think of the children."
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  15968. @Jackie-il4hv  Were they indicted? Is there a police or FBI report saying so?
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  15969. @Jackie-il4hv  Anyone can withhold information: they must invoke their right to remain silent, and then remain silent. What they cannot do is lie. Or, we can give up the First Amendment for Johnny, and the Fifth Amendment for Gabby. That's a plan.
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  15970.  @robertsteele474  🤣
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  15971. Cha-ching! At least I HOPE so. Otherwise, I have no respect for this dude.
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  15972.  @shellymichalski154  And he said it more than once. LOLOLOL
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  15973. Two words: Alexander Acosta
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  15974. ​ @unboxedcharacter  Alexander Acosta
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  15975.  @seanthomas7327  🤣
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  15976. @ericthomas917  No, they are both so intelligent. Paragons of self-mastery, too.
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  15977. Love it.
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  15978. It was irony. The Intercept invokes id pol whenever convenient, drops it in a flash when convenient as well.
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  15979.  @vainezaiven6677  I would have loved to see it.
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  15980. Jail. He belongs in jail.
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  15981. In short, the USSR was both vastly better and vastly worse than we were told. That anyone else besides the United States could be the center of fascination for humanity, and that anything truly important was happening anywhere else, is what the American haute bourgeoisie were determined to conceal.
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  15982. You couldn't pay me to live in Florida. Well, okay, $80k per year for life, sure.
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  15983.  @bluelanterns2982  The NEJM, Nov 13, 1997, has an article on the Nuremberg Code, 50 year anniversary. It pertains to experimentation on human subjects. It is very worthwhile to read it, and to keep an open mind about how various mandates constitute an encroachment on basic human rights. There is NO WAY an EUA can possibly support mandates. In any case, who can force you to go to a doctor for any treatment, ever? That is your choice. You have to consent. People can be quarantined for public health reasons, or obligated to wear masks, or any number of things, but they cannot be forced to accept any intrusion on their body. You have to PERSUADE them to give consent. It isn't "a thing," my arse.
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  15984.  @bluelanterns2982  Fifty Years Later: The Significance of the Nuremberg Code List of authors.Evelyne Shuster, Ph.D. November 13, 1997 N Engl J Med 1997; 337:1436-1440 DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199711133372006
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  15985. Please have more videos of Stella! Show her eating her favorite food. Carrots, for example. 😊
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  15986.  @jasmadams  Andy Griffith, all right. :)
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  15987. @nukehead849  The actual presence of actual Nazis. Wouldn't have occurred to me to say it, had you not asked so pointedly.
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  15988. Realism.
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  15989. I'm finding myself feeling real warmth for this economist. He does not seem to have any inclination to tell politically motivated lies. It's disconcerting, actually. I don't have to correct for what I'm hearing. I may not agree with him, but it would be an objective, intellectual disagreement. It would be such fun to talk to him and do that.
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  15990. You're right about the cost of living being more important, but there are problems with food and clean water.
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  15991. @limitisillusion7  Interesting perspective . . . A functioning government would research this, for everyone's well being, especially the youngest. If this turned out to be true, "don't color me shocked!"
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  15992. The quote from Justice Jackson is exactly how law school teaches you to fashion hypotheticals. Why is one categorical classification valid and another a constitutional violation? A lawyer is supposed to be able to explain why to the Court.
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  15993. AGREED Same for creating adult images and films, 21. This stuff is much worse than drinking.
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  15994. @cujokila  Do you have some interest in perpetuating the erroneous belief that you "have to" open the door to cops? Or that you "should?" Or that it's "the right thing to do?" Or that "only guilty people" refuse to open the door? When cops banged on my door like they wanted to break it down, I called the cops. That's how I found out it was the cops who were banging. I never did open. They left. The excuse was "report of domestic disturbance." This happened after 1 a.m. --- when I just happened to be working on a sensitive civil rights case. Coincidence? Possibly. Or maybe not. I'll never know.
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  15995.  @walden6272  No you don't. No one does. But we will.
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  15996.  @walden6272  You will see a lot of Kyle Rittenhouses on the streets. (BTW, I oppose laws that automatically treat juveniles as adults, especially when the juveniles are mentally slow, and had the cops encouraging them to do what he did.)
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  15997. ​@anonymoususer4376 YES IT IS. Literally every member of my family was harmed by Enron-level corporate crime, in different industries. Where do you think the money comes from? Why could a summer job pay for college? Why could two people working minimum wage cover Manhatten rent?
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  15998.  @jmsblk1  Oh I see. You are an insincere actor and an ideologue. Good for you. Make sure you get paid.
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  15999. ​ @1981lashlarue She asked for numbers. If you saw her whole video, she was misled: her supervisor was telling her she was doing great. That's a problem.
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  16000. @toniannbarandon-o1j  Sure, but he really did sound sincere. It's hard for real j_rks to sound spontaneous and authentic. When your supervisor tells you that you are doing great, everything is dandy, and you're close to being fired, there's a problem.
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  16001. @toniannbarandon-o1j  Kelly needs to lay off the Ozempic and quit harassing younger women. That's her flex now. That guy nodding knows he could never date Brittany. That's what I see. The CEO strikes me as a good guy here. I mean, keeping it real.
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  16002. Myocarditis actually caused by vaccination in healthy young people at a rate over 1 per 100,000 vaccinations is high.
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  16003.  @d.r.4453  I agree. It's a valid question. Suddenly, real questions are "questions," wink wink (unfounded, innuendo, blah blah), when they deserve honest answers. Suddenly, valid questions Verboten.
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  16004. I have a sneaking suspicion that virtually all of the unfounded and inaccurate criticism of these students was from Americans, who are reacting not to this video, but to the things happening on American campuses. Or, maybe everyone is just jealous.
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  16005.  Music  The reduction of seats, and the fact that legacies are disproportionately white, creates a problem. They want to keep legacies.
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  16006. Why is it that such haters prosper in the Anglo world?
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  16007. Too bad they risked their own lives last year to work in healthcare during the pandemic. That will teach them.
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  16008.  @kenhiett5266  These folks are a waste of your time. Trust me. Too bad they are so fascistic. They don't see it. They never do. Just stay informed, be willing to change your mind in the face of compelling evidence, should it emerge. Have a good weekend!
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  16009. Same.
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  16010.  @DeanChavayez  So, being a billionaire, he can take a stand for privacy by sending in his lawyers to challenge the subpoena as overreach. No problem. I said that, as did Briahna. This tweet made no sense: if he hates Chase (who doesn't?), well, maybe he has evidence that will help hold them responsible in this case. The case is targetting Chase. Kim Iversen explained this well last night. But in any case, challenge the subpoena. No problem.
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  16011. This ploy isn't working. "I used to think. . . . , but then I realized . . . ." Late-night infomercial sales pitch. Clear where it comes from.
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  16012. A van . . . down by the river?
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  16013. I know how you feel. I voted in the primary, then sat it out. I'm glad I can say I've never voted for Biden.
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  16014. The lack of analysis on everyone's part is deeply troubling. Why was a minor tried as an adult in the first place? Is anyone asking this question? As for the acquittal, it needs to be discussed count by count, using the jury instructions as the basis. There was evidence of recklessness with respect to the McGinnis count. But I disagree with trying juveniles as adults. We all know why that practice exists.
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  16015. 0:08 ME TOO
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  16016.  @egle4652  Exactly. Sophocles was 90 when he died, and he was not a rarity.
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  16017. @jeffme6891  He has never misrepresented his credentials or failed to post the actual paper, which you are welcome to read or see reviewed elsewhere. Dr. Mobeen Syed often presents the same research, in a more in-depth way. He is an MD with an engineering background. I've seem Campbell make an occasional error; Dr. Syed, never.
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  16018. What child hasn't fantasized about being a boy, if they're a girl, or a girl, if they're a boy? How dare they invade the imaginative lives of children with drugs, judgments, and sinister manipulation!
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  16019. It is MUCH too soon to affirm that the vaccinated are "FAR less likely" to spread COVID. After 6 months, and given the absence of precautions by many of the vaccinated, the opposite may turn out to be true.
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  16020.  @ellenstonehill678  Why? Pearl clutching will not help me understand the argument, since there isn't one.
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  16021. @MetalNick  Doesn't say anything good about the sanity of the first bunch, or the ethics of the second.
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  16022.  @tonyrmathis  Okay.
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  16023. Even the pro-vaccine mandate crowd admitted there was scientific evidence that having healthy levels of Vitamin D made you more resistant to severe COVID, and seemed to improve response to the vaccines (fewer side effects, and more antibodies they were trying to bring about and asserting were helpful). Even they admitted it. So you have to ask why the facts were censored.
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  16024. What do you mean? He's rich.
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  16025. Arkhipov saved our lives. See The Guardian account.
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  16026. He did not say he felt their reporting was balanced, he said he took great care to BE balanced, and to sound balanced as well, and examples of what he meant were mentioned. That's not an ad slogan.
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  16027. I think that was the idea.
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  16028.  @c.c.1070  You can do whatever you want, but defense of property, as distinguished from life and limb, with lethal force is a crime everywhere.
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  16029. I'd support inviting a better critic. The contrast was too extreme.
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  16030. Biden, and before him Trump, plus candidate Clinton, makes that a hard statement to be certain about. This is nearly a decade-long catastrophe at this point. Not one of them is remotely worthy of the office.
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  16031. I knew a lot of people were crazy, but this was truly sobering.
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  16032. I did all that and I'm close to losing a house that has had no mortgage since 1999. We weathered 2001, 2008, countless family tragedies for which we were in no way responsible (when things go wrong, no one even thinks to take a drink, much less anything worse . . . we also eat an excellent diet, home cooked, every day). COVID is what done it. We could not take one more blow.
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  16033.  @moniqueloomis9772  Great observation. People who write this stuff are petrified of being poor again. They know why they are so scared.
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  16034.  @ultravioletiris6241  Seems like you're pulling a Hillary. I touched a sensitive spot, ergo . . . It wasn't on purpose. I was talking logic.
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  16035. Yeah, but what American remembers six months ago, nevermind stuff like that?
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  16036.  @bodhisattva3774  You're right. Clearly the person who wrote the response above mine is completely clueless.
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  16037.  @saulespino2510  There is no developed, Western country where some form of elective abortion isn't a protected right, if only of embryos and not fetuses. In fact, a lot of countries' laws draw that distinction.
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  16038.  @saulespino2510  It makes it not criminal. It makes it up to each woman's conscience to decide if it is right.
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  16039.  @saulespino2510  The First Amendment protects your right to try to persuade others of your views. Why is police power necessary, to make them do what you consider obviously right?
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  16040. ​@Dusty2455433 Why are you defending a DIY death penalty for alleged drug dealing? You got drug problems?
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  16041. Except for the ones that have two, eh? 😂
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  16042. No, they admit it.
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  16043. At what point in a pregnancy? Before most women are aware they are expecting? Or later? Or overall? In what proportion by week of gestation? You claim to be a doctor and don't know the relevance of timeframe? That's scarier than your statement.
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  16044. THIS
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  16045. Honey. WHY are you still going on about Jimmy Dore? A lot of people on the left listen to Jimmy Dore. A lot of people saw the entire show you are referring to. He didn't say what you say he said. But let's let all that go. Who cares? What is your positive program? It's not to vote Biden/Harris and call it a day, is it?
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  16046.  @lskdfoIS  There is no series of numbers generated by this procedure that does not contain even integers, no matter what positive integer you choose as your starting point n. This is obvious, and easy to prove. Until the conjecture is proved, it's obvious you can't say whether the next number tested won't be the one that escapes the 4 2 1 loop. We only know a counterexample has never been found. A proof would settle it, for the infinite set of positive integers. You wouldn't need to test a single one after that. You know they all do.
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  16047.  @JustPotBro  You're joking. Right??
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  16048. @AnaLucia-wy2ii  I think that's likely, and I certainly hope so. In prior vaccine clinical trials and subsequent distribution, one serious side effect per 100,000 fully immunized person was considered significant, and vaccines were sometimes withdrawn given such numbers. These vaccines, regardless of type, have caused far more side effects than that, possibly as many as one per 800. That means most of us won't meet anyone who had a serious side effect. The stories that it will come back to affect everyone is just more fear mongering.
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  16049. Well, a lot of people in UK and Germany agreed.
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  16050. They had a relationship? Or what?
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  16051.  @TheShadowMan.  OP: "How can this attorney even take this case??" Shadow: "She's a lawyer." Okay, so deadpan humor. I see that.
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  16052. ​ @AD-bb9np  Huh? Burdick v. US
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  16053.  @seva4411  Crimes are not primarily solved using eyewitnesses, and never were. Crimes in progress may be interrupted by eyewitnesses calling police immediately.
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  16054.  @pinstripesuitandheels  Who threatened whom? Someone wished me "peace and safety." I echo that very same sentiment. Of course. Are you okay? Please don't accuse people on the Internet of horrible conduct, and illegal conduct, or insinuate as much. That may be considered defamatory. I am not being facetious. Your admonition shocked me.
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  16055.  @Dragonflylane77  Thank you! That's very kind of you.
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  16056.  @mmoarchives2542  Do their employees go to a Time Out box with Wellness apps?
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  16057. Except that we didn't fight a civil war to eliminate racial discrimination.
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  16058.  @Hollyucinogen  That's certainly true. I wasn't supporting jail, actually.
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  16059.  @PollyAlice2000  And why am I sorry to hear that? Well, . . . In my state, the county jail is the largest mental hospital.
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  16060.  @Hollyucinogen  I was cents erred, or don't you get it?
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  16061. @Hollyucinogen  Law enforcement? I made no such claim, or allusion. 😂 Or have you confused me with someone else? (I'm not into "doxxing" myself.)
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  16062. Was it required viewing in 8th grade? I bet it wasn't in any film studies (public school) curriculum prior to college.
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  16063.  @WitchidWitchid  Well, the one from the 20th century who pops into my mind is Bertrand Russell.
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  16064. @Mrs.Deanna_Ember  No. The state has to prove guilt. Every accused person is presumed innocent. "Acting guilty" is not evidence in court.
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  16065. @Mrs.Deanna_Ember  So, if you were on that jury, you'd ignore the instruction that tells you the prosecution has the entire burden of proof, and instead of weighing evidence you'd go by something the media said his mom said, but you never heard her say, much less testify to? Great. Next time you're called for jury duty, be sure to let the court know during voir dire.
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  16066. @drewjaques7437  False. You just didn't like her opinions. She knew free speech law, and was generally well informed.
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  16067. ​ @Person-mh6xq  The point was lack of desired effect. 😅
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  16068. I had to think too long.
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  16069. Maybe it was personal health information they choose not to repeat? I'm speculating, but that happens a lot.
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  16070.  @cognitivedissident4615  You do have to wonder . . .
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  16071.  @djjorge87  I think that's very insightful, sadly.
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  16072. ​ @porridge57  no
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  16073. My, aren't we all critical thinkers here. Yes, she did it again. She advanced an argument with multiple parts. Bad Briahna, baaah baaah . . .
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  16074. Or . . . Maybe you don't know the law? Could that be it?
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  16075. If a person contributes to the circumstances leading to their need to use deadly force, they cannot claim perfect self-defense. Big "if."
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  16076.  @johnbecker9242  I'm not saying he did or didn't, because I don't know. I'm not biased in advance, nor do I have any desire to influence an ongoing trial. But I'm the problem? Right, we need more vigilantes on juries, absolutely. Not rational people.
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  16077.  @johnbecker9242  Do you know what "if" means?
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  16078.  @jamestoney6599  Okay. So . . . You don't know how laws are formulated or interpreted. Why am I not surprised?
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  16079.  @jamestoney6599  Who said anything about "Antifa" being "right?"
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  16080. ​ @txdmsk Yeah, except that those with degrees can choose to work to age 70 and beyond. What does a roofer do at 55, when 65 is already too young to retire for most people? Look up the Federal Reserve Board survey of household finances and take a hard look at the numbers. Few below the top 10% are truly secure, and almost no one below the top 20% is. Yes, some live in smaller towns and are resourcefull, but that's not a plan for 80% of 335 million people.
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  16081. I'm not sure what the purpose of this was.
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  16082.  @januarysson5633  Way to evade my point. It is NOT possible to pass all of those costs on to the consumer. It is NOT a linear relationship, unaffected by other market forces, AT ALL. Also, you seem not to be distinguishing PROFITS and REVENUES. But what does it matter? Every American gets their Own Truth, huh? Own the 'net. Get those "likes."
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  16083. @middleburg11  Yes, but a restraining order of this kind cannot be entered except by a court and with notice to the person restrained and an opportunity to be heard. Look, he has an order restraining his freedom of movement, which is a constitutional right, too, without being convicted of anything. There may be TROs that are entered with the chance to be heard, but THIS statute doesn't apply to those. No one takes your firearm under this law without having a hearing first.
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  16084. ​​ @FlyEaglesFly2025 The significance of this would be precisely what? In context, of course?
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  16085. ​ @skyzoffbloo630 Not according to constitutional law, no.
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  16086. The report states that this woman's daughter is already managing her financial and legal affairs. Read a power of attorney. It states that it can only be invoked when the person is unable to manage their affairs themselves. For someone so rich, it IS a very big deal. If it were only a matter of needing a personal assistant to help her get to a meeting or an office or bank, she can snap her fingers and have that. That's not the problem here. FDR needed leg braces and a wheelchair. That is not this.
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  16087. ​@Deploracle If someone is wrongly fired, and the termination is a crime or a tort, the person fired is entitled to be made whole. Your logic would work only if the person fired were responsible for creating a defective vaccine or causing the pandemic. Then they could not be heard to say they deserved compensation.
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  16088. Part of it is that well-written, reasoned comments are flagged as AI.
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  16089. So, using cliches means you are an "extremist?" I thought not speaking in cliches online was suspicious. /s
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  16090. Suddenly, "state lines." Dovetails nicely with the COVID restrictions, and the fabrications about Kyle Rittenhouse.
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  16091. Je ne l'aurais jamais cru. Jamais. Impossible.
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  16092. Oh no. Are you okay?
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  16093.  @vilmacabanbabilonia8214  Keep it up. Working like a charm.
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  16094. ​ @JayBee-cr8jm What do you call the Fourth Amendment? What do you think protects your right to birth control, and your right to a peaceful love life as a competent adult?
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  16095. ​ @JayBee-cr8jm No. It also applies to birth control, married life, the illegality of anti-miscegenation laws, etc.
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  16096. 😂😂😂😂😂
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  16097.  @pkpypumi3493  True
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  16098.  @digijoe750  BTW, one of my "neutral" posts was removed. Simply stated a number of observations without judging.
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  16099. Oh boy is George Galloway going to be funny on Sunday.
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  16100. Next, read The Occasional Human Sacrifice, Carl Elliott. The last chapter is traumatic. Have a friend near. (The good news is, the person who did this went to prison.)
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  16101.  @ashleytheisen6693  I agree about Lorenz. I had thought she was done as a credible source. She isn't one.
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  16102. @DonJohnson-rd5yd  No, in America it isn't treason at all. It's protected speech and symbolic expression. That very question, on that content, was decided by the Supreme Court a long time ago.
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  16103. @Sleightofhand-m2e  There's nothing automatic about it. The totality of facts and circumstances determine whether a course of conduct is "interference" under the laws of those countries. Opinions alone are not interference. The ball is in their court. As for here, it's possible that Musk will have to choose: be part of the new administration, or continue saying and doing things our allies define as interference under their laws, but not both. That's the only consequence that I can think of based on everything he has done so far.
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  16104.  @ScytheNoire  Too bad I was just censored.
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  16105. @vasilyfamilienko4318  It's not illegal here. People with money have big megaphones. Besides, I was disagreeing with the person who suggested that it can't be more than the expression of an opinion. It could very well be illegal in UK or Germany, key allies. So it's up to Trump to tell him to chose -- work for the government or keep up his antics.
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  16106.  @raxxtv1998  You are most welcome. Enjoy.
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  16107. Perfectly stated!
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  16108. Olayemi is very down to earth. I would like to hear her point of view out of her own mouth, and not caricatures of her, memes, or slogans. The number of dangerous people is not vastly higher in the US than everywhere else on Earth, yet we have the most incarcerated in absolute numbers and as a percent.
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  16109. ​ @AfricanUSA-th9ov 💯
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  16110. ​ @AfricanUSA-th9ov  Exactly.
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  16111. Yes. Her father is a physicist.
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  16112.  @ThomasFromTN  Agreed re: Mace, but "Latinx" is Anglo posturing with an odd back story. Can't use Latina or Latino, or simply Latin, as appropriate?
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  16113. ​ @ispeakmucho  On ne dit pas "avec la lang[ue]." On dit, par exemple, "le dire en français," ou bien, "parlez français."
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  16114. @Sam j What cherry-picking? That was her life. What have you done for your mother? Furthermore, she is a married woman expecting a child. Where is your respect for that? (Just can't hold your tongue?) Her father won a lottery and put aside the money so that all three of his children would have college funds and no need for loans. Very commendable, I agree. A very cool thing to do. It doesn't, however, buy the right to profit from his relationship with her. (In my own life, I always cut my parents a lot of slack, so personally, I could never hold it against a father, but family relationships, especially divorced family relationships, are complicated. I won't judge others. Anyway, parents SHOULD educate their children whenever they can. It is their job.) People think Meghan Markle "got more than she deserved," somehow, hence the hatred. You focus on her because you find her very attractive. That is an opportunity to practice feeling attraction without having to lash out at the object of your attraction because you can't possess that object. It's a good discipline to learn. It is a skill that is less rare in other societies, I can vouch for that.
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  16115. Whete did you get the idea Dr. Grande is not spiritual?
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  16116.  @bl7240  You think THAT message was a "courtesy?" Thank you for revealing that. Now we can all assess your acumen. As for the rest, Greenwald did the only real political analysis of the episode that I've seen, placing it in a larger context. And I agree, Ana got a lot of what she was looking for. Not nearly as much as she expected to get, but considering no one should listen to her at all, she's in a great spot.
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  16117. I've seen Maddie de Garay's case referred to by mainstream media as "misinformation." Is she a real person? If so, then do her alleged medical problems have a causal connection to vaccination? I haven't seen MSM answer these simple questions anywhere.
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  16118. Conveniently, hm? Please forgive the gallows humor.
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  16119. Billionaires live beyond humanity's means.
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  16120.  @thenerdgirl1  LOL, perfect point.
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  16121. Well, I do think that some of those reporters were baiting her, BUT this was entirely predictable, and she came across as so smug and condescending that it was a disaster. It was obvious from the start that she is no kind of leader. Her advisors could have developed responses for her, instead of letting her come across as a smug, narcissistic, brainless celebrity.
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  16122.  Ian G  What they'll actually lose? The overwhelming terror that their job will go away, for one reason or another, at just the wrong moment. Gosh you're funny.
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  16123.  @hrs2044  Because no one interacts with friends and family who are over 65. We shun those oldsters and put them out to die. We have no idea how their health care works. We also have no democratic leverage over universal programs. We have far more control over our fate when we contract with mega corporations.
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  16124.  @Evenst3vn  THIS
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  16125.  @bullmoosemedia  Never that.
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  16126.  @angelac6405  EXACTLY!
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  16127.  @S2pidMedia  Look up Cornel Law School LII (Legal Info Institute) for a nuanced discussion. I don't actually disagree with you on principle.
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  16128.  @S2pidMedia  "First Degree Murder -- Primary tabs Definition  The intentional killing of another person by someone who has acted willfully, deliberately, or with planning. [my comment: notice that is somewhat vague, especially for the most serious crime; notice the "or"] Overview First-degree murder is a crime that is defined in a state's statute. However, the exact definition will vary by jurisdiction. Pre-Meditation Component Some states will include the murder to be premeditated; others, however, have no such requirement. Many states disagree over the definition of premeditation, and as such, many states no longer include premeditation as a requirement of first-degree murder."
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  16129. No one sane believes that.
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  16130. The whisper is disgusting, even without the pantomime. I can't laugh any more.
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  16131.  @pickj76  As many times as it is followed by cha-ching.
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  16132.  @Nan-59  I'm so sorry. If you can get away for the weekend, in some way that's safe, please try. We all muscle through these things, and, having done that too many times, honestly it is not always the best idea.
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  16133.  @DragoonBoom  I'm talking about her work in general. She interviews leading thinkers on key issues in contemporary politics. She graduated from Harvard Law and was Bernie Sander's press secretary during the primaries. She has so many good videos lately that I can't pick just one.
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  16134.  @kevinsyd2012  Well, if the overall case fatality rate of COVID is said to be 2%, how can this make sense? No one is 2% dead. You are either 100% dead or 0% dead. Clearly. This is your reasoning.
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  16135.  @kevinsyd2012  I've never had a Facebook account, or Twitter, or Instagram, Snap Chat, Linked In, whatever.
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  16136.  @kevinsyd2012  The October 23 article you cited states that the data they used only went up to March 24, 2021, well before the Delta variant came on the scene -- and long before they could determine the effect of gradually waning vaccine efficacy. Since that time, boosters have been recommended. In any case, a vaccine that prevents, say, 75% of the vaccinated from transmitting a virus for a period of 6 to 9 months can only slow the spread of that virus. And no particular individual will know when their own immunity will wane, or whether one day they have mild COVID that feels like a little cold, they plan to test but somehow don't, and they transmit the virus to someone else. Not to belabor it, but when you go ad hom, well . . .
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  16137.  @jinndoe7068  The data in the article he relies on does not go beyond late MARCH. Careful reading is our friend. ;)
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  16138. 13:01 "the only pandemic is among the unvaccinated" Er, check the White House staff?
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  16139.  @nevillegoddard4966  That's exactly why it's dubious. If you actually knew anything about evolution, you'd know how rapidly all higher organisms, and especially people, evolve in response to a changing environment. A diet from a million years ago is vastly less likely to be wholesome than a diet comparable to what the ancient Greeks ate, or the Vikings ate, or the people on the Mayflower ate.
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  16140. The ancient Greeks spoke a language which, of all European languages, is closest to Sanskrit and Persian. The Greeks were a bridge between East and West. Read Parmenides and see what it sounds like to you.
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  16141. ​ @adyg5402  The debate is about mandates, though compared to vaccine mandates, this one is mild.
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  16142. The ones who get along despite their genuine diversity?
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  16143. ​ @sbffsbrarbrr No. She strongly supports a lawsuit against the university.
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  16144. @beautifully_scarred_lea  Correct, it was hearsay. Someone told her that that was what Bettinger had said, and that report was false. She believed it at the time and took action without verifying it. If Bettinger decides to pursue her for defamation, she has every right. Her complaint against the University of Virginia in federal court is posted on the Reason website, and it's really hard-hitting. She should do well. Brie's account of what happened IS consistent with what Reason magazine said had happened. Robby is senior editor there. Funny plot twist, that. With a case pending, these two aren't supposed to be denouncing anyone as malicious and deliberate. It doesn't help anyone get justice.
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  16145.  @zwijn  I love your pronouns.
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  16146. Either you push a politician, or you pay a politician, or you do not exist for that politician.
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  16147. 💯 perfect
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  16148. @mikec3971  Shouldn't people be more candid? Even these HR people are following the feewees script, which is demeaning in the extreme, and makes it appear as though there is something wrong with her as a person. This is really low. "We have expectation X. Your performance < X." See how much more respectful that is? But they had no numbers. So they talked about how she feels, how she's frustrated, and so forth. Odious.
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  16149.  @JBuer  She may or may not have had a quota during her three-month probationary period. She asked for numbers. HR talked about feelings. (Makes me think she didn't have a quota, huh? Possibly?)
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  16150.  @mikec3971  Then they can SAY that. "I'm sorry, but it is not our policy to go into details because that could amount to divulging confidential matters about other people's performance. You can appreciate why we shouldn't broach that subject."
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  16151. Let's see the petition. There have been vaccine-derived polio outbreaks, according to The Guardian. I know nothing more beyond what was in those articles. Do you?
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  16152. Maybe destroying the pipeline was not such a great idea, Joe.
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  16153.  @johnhamel4662  Completely the opposite. I still expect people to be able to think. When will I stop that? When? Why do I still think you . . . never mind.
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  16154.  @mrg0th1er83  Okay, ya got nothin'. Thanks.
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  16155. 14:21 FREE ASSANGE!!
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  16156. 43:20 Don't dare defend the wrongly accused; you yourself will be accused.
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  16157.  @obediahpolkinghorniii564  Look up the articles, which predate the controversy and the pandemic. It will be up to independent experts to decide on the scope and limits of the term "gain-of-function" within the meaning of the regulation, and then determine whether it applies to the facts. Or, you could just let the government office that is under scrutiny swear they didn't violate any regulations. I don't care anymore. I'm emigrating by 2025 at the latest. I don't understand your wager. I only know the attacks on me have been nonstop. So. Who cares?
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  16158. As a general matter, the First Amendment protects that speech. The standard for true threats or incitement to violence, both of which are crimes, is very high. See Brandenburg v Ohio, and RAV v St. Paul, or the Westboro Baptist Church case. The problem with campuses is that most of the campus is not a true free speech forum. No one should have to hear that kind of rhetoric in their dorm or directed at them personally anywhere. When there is a march in a big city, you can just avoid it.
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  16159. Just found out, his insanity defense went up to the Supreme Court. The issue was Kansas law, which is more strict than other states. Kansas won.
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  16160. Her analysis was correct, because it analyzed the article correctly. This was a First Amendment case. Heard's lawyers were horrible.
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  16161. Where did you hear that?
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  16162. @17Clovers  Oh I see. You comment about other videos under this one. Sure, I can see that.
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  16163.  @_LightOfRa_  LOL
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  16164. Stef is SO FUNNY lately, lord.
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  16165. Well put.
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  16166. @TerryTerryTerry  Just today I roundly criticized her for her trans views!
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  16167.  @TerryTerryTerry  Well, I'm not being allowed to answer. The main point dis appear_ed.
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  16168. @mikelivingood7797  That word is often ______. Congress just passed the most blatantly unconstitutional law that actually affects your life and your liberty, but you're here to denounce some students who are actually trying to do something about a war gone mad -- a war that is not in your interest, either. Far from it. Fifty years of American diplomacy and coalition building against terrorism down the drain. The students committed acts for which arrest is warranted. We know that. Where is your evidence that they then resisted arrest? (Bare claim?) That's the standard, and the timeline. Resisting being beaten or taken to the ground, as Jill Stein did, is not "resisting arrest" -- unless that law changed, too.
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  16169. If people wonder how Anna could get away with this, first ask how Jeffrey Epstein could have everyone from Prince Andrew to Bill Gates coming up to his apartment. Then ask how Trump became president. I'm not being political -- look at his banking relationships and his SIX bankruptcies. It doesn't "add up."
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  16170. Krystal, the POLICIES are popular; the people's faith that the Democrats can deliver, instead of doing what they USUALLY do -- make things worse -- is the problem. What they usually do is adopt a few tricked up slogans based on the policy, and then pass legislation that makes the problem much bigger. (Just coincidentally, that legislation benefits the DNC's political friends. Ordinary people pay for it, and are shamed and smeared for not liking it.)
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  16171. In any other country, a person with an advanced degree would have a real job, rather than teaching community college as an adjunct. Maybe then she would calm down, too.
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  16172. Millions of people with Hunter's record are barred from voting. If they are out of prison at all.
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  16173.  @elmersbalm5219  AMEN
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  16174.  @BOZ_11  Actually, Congress could invoke the Fourteenth Amendment to pass a law outlawing all abortions, or legalizing some abortions, for that matter, and it would preempt all state laws to the contrary. That course is not excluded -- now that a constitutional privacy right has been struck down.
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  16175. There is no good way for this to end.
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  16176. What's Postmates?
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  16177.  @MrBungle4u  What can't I "admit?" Wow, you have weird ideas about other people's concerns. Maybe that's why you take DNC types too seriously? Normal people don't care that much.
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  16178. Tom Cotton got the point, LOL.
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  16179. What was also normal was for teachers to get away with abuse of all sorts, because the children were too petrified to speak up.
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  16180. At what age?
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  16181. Absolutely right. During lulls in the pandemic, we didn't have the beginning of a discussion on how we should approach this. We were manipulated and lied to the entire time. That anyone agreed to join the mob and shout down anyone who simply wanted a discussion and to be consulted about drastic measures such as lockdowns, is mind-boggling. Even people from Sweden who advocated the Swedish approach were excoriated. I've never seen people mobbed and smeared like that.
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  16182. My explanation of the law just went poof into the aether. Dis__ appeared.
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  16183.  @nikkygovier3783  I do know, but YT won't let me tell you. I finished university in France.
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  16184. Affirmative Action originally meant information-sharing and recruiting. Just like everyone knows that legacy applicants to Harvard are privileged, everyone also knows the boss's nephew will get the job. The idea was to eradicate the effects of that discrimination through intensive mentoring. But . . . That's hard. Corporations want a plug and push algorithm, cheap. 😂
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  16185. I wonder if all trans discourse is banned?
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  16186.  @robtheaveragewhiteamerican4403  Great post.
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  16187. In ecology, and especially in food crops, you must strictly follow the Precautionary Principle. A specific GMO is presumed unsafe until proved safe, not vice versa. Even the WHO agrees, despite Bill Gates money. The golden rice story is false. Those kids need real vitamins. Golden rice didn't help for major vitamin deficiencies.
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  16188. Look, Tom Cruise is heavily into Scientology. Could he have been thinking of that? Some people have had issues with that group.
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  16189. Um, listen to Glenn Greenwald and find out how a real attorney and journalist sticks to the real issues raised.
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  16190. Major law firms? They have their own proprietary templates. You knew which firm a letter was from, and lawyers were so hyper about style and firm identity that they debated whether to use "Yours truly" or "Sincerely" as a general closing, and who should get "Very best regards" instead. Don't get me started about pagination and mastheads. There is no way ChatGPT could be better at writing contracts than a major firm with a decades-long archive. A smaller one, sure, but not a major firm. The point of a contract is to write it to foreclose litigation. You need to know a lot of law to do that.
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  16191.  @babyamyxo-o6c  Not at all. There was never an issue about w___ lives. No one ever regarded them as less valuable. Ever.
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  16192.  @brandonbath6097  Okay. So tell me about your pregnancy policing plan. And what happens to a pregnant woman who attempts suicide and lives, but loses the pregnancy. Capital offense? Is deciding to abandon an embryo at a fertility clinic punishable as well? The parents did create it.
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  16193.  @brandonbath6097  Something else you should consider: regular, old Boy Meets Girl and they fall in love has gotten massively problematic. In the meantime, school massacres and sex trafficking of 14-year-olds is in the news again. Not to mention overdose deaths. Not to mention intense encroachment on the right to decline medical intervention, like a vaccine. Maybe just back off on this one, calm down a little, and ponder. Maybe you don't have all the answers; maybe less encroachment on personal liberty is the way to go.
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  16194.  @brandonbath6097  Ad hominem and name calling elects presidents and creates millionaires. You have much bigger things to worry about than a stranger's pregnancy. And you don't see it.
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  16195.  @brandonbath6097  Let's see you fix one thing that cries out for fixing, without ruining ten other things in the process. Let's hear you make several rational points in a coherent sequence, without jeering or ad hominem. You can't, can you? But you should order other people around. You should be consulted on devising a plan for pregnancy policing. I see you're qualified all right.
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  16196.  @brandonbath6097  You even refuse to read "a long paragraph." So, you are deeply committed to saving lives? Just not so much to reading, or refraining from name calling. Shows what Trump did to this country.
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  16197.  @brandonbath6097  How do you propose to police pregnancy? You'll have to. Have bounty hunters, like Texas? An inquiry in cases of miscarriage? Manslaughter charges against a bar that unknowingly serves a pregnant woman, who then miscarries? And what do you do with the embryos created at fertility clinics? What happens if a pregnant woman attempts suicide? Incarcerate her? Capital punishment if she survives but the baby doesn't? What happens if someone carries RU 486 into a state where abortion is illegal? Suppose they are just driving through? Can a woman with an IUD travel through a state where a fertilized ovum is a legal person? Answer some questions. Prove you're fit to govern, and to tell others how to live.
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  16198.  @brandonbath6097  If abortion is murder, how can it be left up to the states? Doesn't it have to be illegal everywhere?
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  16199.  @John-kv7jo  How do they do it for the passed out suburbanites? You tell me. Of course you still have nine and a half minutes to account for, unless you find that acceptable, too.
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  16200. THREE weeks? What is the rate of decomposition at those temperatures?
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  16201.  @MustacheVerra  As of a few minutes ago, Reuters deemed this report, of direct Russian responsibility, still unconfirmed.
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  16202. @Calaxt01  Well, I was once discriminated against so severely that the EEOC under CLARENCE THOMAS brought a class action lawsuit on our behalf. Yes keep all applications. They are electronic anyway, where's the impediment?
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  16203. Jimmy on a ROLL.
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  16204. Exactly. In UK a politician is being asked to step down for knowingly breaking COVID rules and putting others at risk.
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  16205. He's a friend of The Two Bills, i.e., Clinton and Gates? Well then, . . .
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  16206. Nadine Strossen is the last word on "hate" speech. She is the best. First Amendment all the way.
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  16207. What is SHOCKING is how many Israelis are vastly more honest than Biden is about what is happening in Israel. They believe the US is interfering on the side of the Israeli ultra-right. Israel has a peace and justice movement bigger than America's. :/
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  16208.  @G360LIVE  The initial uprising was entirely spontaneous and heartfelt. Floyd's past was of no consequence, and in any event did not prevent him from reform, relocation, and gainful employment. We do not torture serial killers to death in the middle of the street, much less reformed robbers. To see it happen during a pandemic, when reverence for human life should be greater and everyone should be less callous, caused mass revulsion and a revolt. That a real movement might later be co-opted is nothing new. $$$
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  16209. This motion is basically always brought.
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  16210.  @scottmcloughlin4371  You're right. I don't worry about it at all, except insofar as all of this tech will eventually be used for surveillance and control at home, and military action abroad. But that's just more more more . . . of the same.
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  16211. It's an all-purpose slur now.
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  16212. Kim, this is a disgrace. Do your research and retract this nonsense. You have discredited yourself with this.
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  16213. Of course you're right. Don't be inhibited about saying what you know is right.
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  16214.  @RaquelSantos-hj1mq  He was the owner of the gas station, or car dealershop? He was the owner of the Kenosha streets that night? So he was just on his own property, not on the public way? Huh. Interesting. I did not know. Rich parents, I guess.
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  16215.  @RaquelSantos-hj1mq  So, he was dropped there by helicopter, or he walked the streets like that? He was a licensed armed guard at all these locations, under contract? Or the owners just got on Facebook or something?
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  16216.  @benc2972  Yeah. To be guarding a structure you do not own with that kind of firearm strapped to you. Right. You should be a licensed guard, and not solo. You should have a body cam. What do you think police do? They have a partner. What do you think SWAT does? You want to act in their place as a private guard, you get a background check, training, and licensing, a body cam, and you don't get separated from your partner. That's extreme? Or, rifles of the tyoe used by militaries and national guard around the world should just be something anyone can pick up and strap on, and walk around whetever they want? No license for security guards? No training? No rules for safe transport of weaponry? That sounds about right to you?
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  16217.  @Hollylivengood  But that is much worse than negligent. Driving drunk is a serious crime. It's extremely selfish and reckless, and not killing anyone is pure luck.
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  16218.  @Hollylivengood  My point is that no one should go to prison in a pure accident. Recklessness is no accident, or leaving the scene of the accident is no accident.
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  16219.  @ish7957  The mark on what? The podcast was lengthy, and it was about the First Amendment. Did you watch it, or just this "curated" version -- which was not generally released, by the way? Sam had to dig for this tiny, off topic excerpt. Check it yourself.
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  16220. Plus, he did not air it!
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  16221. I watch math videos for fun. Most of the profs are Nigerian. I hope the white kids feel all right about that.
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  16222. ​ @BrownDaddy007 No, most people do not have such serious ailments by 40.
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  16223.  @justinwallace390  I just explained it to you. (Who said anything about frustration? I don't live in Ohio.)
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  16224. Living in a solid Dem state, I cannot bring myself to vote for a lifelong warmonger. If it were a contest here, I suppose I would have to.
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  16225.  @jstarr7506  He will be subject to direct and cross examination.
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  16226. Eew, you're dark. I like that.
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  16227. Or, you could close this app and read real books, in more languages than just English. Then you might know stuff
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  16228. And nothing nice comes out.
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  16229. What does that even mean?
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  16230.  @gmw3083  LOL 🤣
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  16231. 😂😂😂😂😂
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  16232. Finding proofs IS the mathematical problem. Every real mathematical problem.
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  16233.  @acidbath3226  A computer cannot prove this conjecture, no matter how advanced it is. It can aid the mathematician in finding a proof. People prove theorems.
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  16234.    How about Trump's false, misleading, and erratic comments about COVID? Care about that? Because it is evident the voters do. This election is not really about Biden, though we will likely get stuck with him. It is a referendum on Trump. That's the reality.
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  16235.    Who said the word "plan?" Or "inject bleach?" Or any of that other jazz? Not me. Have you memorized talking points that you trot out regardless of what your interlocutor has said? The Internet exists now. We can find out what he said, verbatim, and those of us who watch The Hill know that Trump's comments are often taken out of context, and we can find his entire discourse (or his entire press conference, etc.) outside of MSM.
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  16236.  @mjkittredge  I think I'm in lxve.
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  16237.  @ledaswan5990  More white Americans does not equal more people.
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  16238. James Baldwin asked the same question of American racists: why do they need the figure of the n----- ? The need is theirs. There is no "Negro problem." It's a pure creation of the racist.
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  16239.  @kiralevenson1706  The person who wrote what you just responded to isn't well. :/
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  16240. So well put.
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  16241.  @jimmyr9468  Yes, better The Mummy than Orange Caligula.
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  16242.  @korysstone  5:15 Olayemi states he is entitled to bring an employment law claim, and acknowledges he moved to New York in reliance on this job 8:50 Olayemi states she would not have fired him.
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  16243. Few people are friends, to anyone.
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  16244. I watched this part twice. It was a normal reporter's question, allowing her to answer a criticism that has been leveled at her. Sheesh. Maybe we all need a basic journalism/new media class? Bri was doing her job.
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  16245. ​ @jimshelley8831 And what has every other politician done? Trump changed the location of the Embassy, recognized Jerusalem as the capital, for pete's sake.
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  16246. Is acTVism Munich right wing?
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  16247.  @wachowski9525  I still have mine for small pox. I don't mind carrying papers, either. It's the mandate to take an EUA drug that I don't agree with.
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  16248.  @jaromor8808  I meant that I answered him at least twice.
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  16249. Brilliant
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  16250. Not this time.
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  16251. Kyle, THIS TOO SHALL PASS. Be kind to yourself now and every day. Take this time. Stop worrying about being productive right now.
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  16252. ​ @arthurleible7139 Is this true? Where can we read more??
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  16253. YES, there is evidence masks help prevent transmission. Put ANY of the following in any search engine: 1. Face masks effectively limit the probability of SARS-CoV-2 transmission 2. Face masks: what the data say The science supports that face coverings are saving lives during the coronavirus pandemic, and yet the debate trundles on. How much evidence is enough? 3. Still Confused About Masks? Here’s the Science Behind How Face Masks Prevent Coronavirus 4. An evidence review of face masks against COVID-19 5. Prior to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the efficacy of community mask wearing to reduce the spread of respiratory infections was controversial because there were no solid relevant data to support their use. During the pandemic, the scientific evidence has increased. Compelling data now demonstrate that community mask wearing is an effective nonpharmacologic intervention to reduce the spread of this infection, especially as source control to prevent spread from infected persons, but also as protection to reduce wearers’ exposure to infection.
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  16254. 1000%
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  16255. Every single one of these Congress members who say they are not seeking to punish Rashida Tlaib for First Amendment protected speech is flat-out lying. Congress could have passed a resolution distancing themselves from Tlaib's statements and affirming their support for Israel, if they were so hot to. Instead, it voted to censure her, which is a finding of wrongdoing for having spoken and a formal reprimand for her words. This is a punishment, which they doled out to chill protected speech. They swore to protect and defend the Constitution, so I guess they betrayed their oath.
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  16256. An actual 🤣🤣🤣
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  16257. If it disappeared for a disease with a 1 to 2% case fatality rate at most, and well less than that for most groups, then the principle wasn't strong to begin with.
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  16258. No. She quit. Go see her CLASSY statement.
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  16259.  @mochithepooh5368  Of course you won't answer my post. I know it wasn't shadowed. It has Likes and everything. You dismiss the data rather than demand an accounting. That is not empirical, scientific public health information, that is a talking point. Unconscionable. If the people harmed don't matter, and are just dismissed, why should rational people take the risk? They don't even know what it is. I had a very minor outpatient operation last fall that went great. The consent form required agreeing to a blood transfusion if necessary, and to more extensive surgery if necessary. When my doctor told me all of this was when I stopped being nervous. I knew she would be looking out for the risks, and that I'd be taken care of. Went in in the morning, was home by 2 pm, it was as though nothing had happened. That's how you do medicine.
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  16260.  @mochithepooh5368  Knowing about the military by being from a military family is sheer anecdote, worse than the reporting system you scoff at.
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  16261.  @Corrupted-file  The real irony is, we all support anyone who CHOOSES to be vaccinated. Of course. Being truly anti-vaxx is nuts. I've asked for vaccines they didn't give me because there was no need, they said.
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  16262. How do you know he didn't speak out against Hamas? Is this not urgent? Did the ICJ -- American judge included -- not rule on the potential for this military action to be a literal genocide, in real time?
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  16263. Trump's morons just gave a GIFT to Biden and the corporate overlords.
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  16264. You give him far too much credit.
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  16265.  @BenDover-nl8qk  Maybe you should Ben Dover. Oh, wait. You already do. Right.
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  16266. Let's assume this IQ story is true. Why not? We can assume anything that's not logically impossible, for the sake of argument. What, exactly, does that prove about you, yourself? I'm really curious to hear your answer.
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  16267.  @DogTrekker  Huh? Senator Paul brought it up, and his question was highly pertinent: Brandenburg's lawyers were Jewish and black. Contemplate that.
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  16268. @Stephen W An assault weapon is one that is fully automatic or semi-automatic and of a certain size, certainly much too big to conceal and comparable in size to a rifle -- but a law must be more specific. No problem, we can do that.
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  16269. ​ @trylliumt5441 THANK YOU
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  16270.  @Lucia-sy7le  I hope he will.
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  16271.  @petyrbaelish1216  Keep telling yourself that. No winners in this picture except a handful of billionaires . . . and that cannot last.
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  16272. You've got that right.
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  16273. @Tony X True about most of them, yes. You're right.
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  16274. I expected a bigger margin. The crazed anti-abortion crowd got 40%+? Lord.
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  16275. How much? Did they pay him, I mean?
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  16276.  @Endeavr_  WHOOSH
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  16277. When the third strike is shoplifting and the sentence is life in prison, YEAH. It was supposed to keep violent recidivists, like serial SA perpetrators, in prison. Even a simple burglary of an unoccupied structure should not qualify.
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  16278. Ordinary people are full of resentment. They have been trained well.
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  16279.  @augis888  Oh. So you can afford an eye doctor. Huh. 🤔
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  16280. @paulzoom489  Why do you assume that people have done nothing? Did you ever give more than half of a paltry income to defend an innocent man? Well, some people have. Perhaps not you. (As for billionaires, Whitney Webb has got their number.)
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  16281. Slimey character.
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  16282. Bad example, lol.
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  16283. I would never release anyone, let alone a violent offender, from prison to society. We need halfway houses and intense monitoring. It takes two years on the outside to have any idea whether the person is rehabilitated and has made the adjustment -- and you could still be wrong.
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  16284.  @Momusinterra  I thought that, until becoming a lawyer and finding out how many actually innocent human beings have spent years on death row. The state is not able to exercise such power. It is too powerful as it is. Anyway, I truly appreciate the thought. I will never criticize a victim's family for wanting the death penalty.
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  16285.  @frankiedonkeybrains9658  Two words: Prime Newtons
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  16286. @sdrc92126  I can't mention where m a t h vids are from . . . Often. 🌍 Why would that go? Who made that decision?
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  16287.  @crazyralph6386  Germanwings 9525 doesn't count, huh?
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  16288.  @crazyralph6386  BAL Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937
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  16289.  @crazyralph6386  That was due to SWISS air traffic control . . .
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  16290.  @dukedematteo1995  I've read more blatant lies about Aaron's position on Ukraine lately -- including the exact opposite story from the one you spin. Makes you think.
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  16291. Because the rapid tests available for at-home and on-site use s_ck, that's why. They are very poor and have a high false negative rate. Sorry to have to tell you there is a real reason, but I doubt that the reason comes as any surprise to you.
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  16292.  @bsymissy  What is your source for that, i.e., that there are a "1000" such labs in the US? That is an extremely vague assertion. Why was the strain of anthrax used in the October 2001 attacks so easily identified, and traced to a particular lab?
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  16293.  @judsontims570  I would never believe Fox, or any network. Seek out primary sources and journalists who do the real investigative work.
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  16294.  @viaceslavmikhailovich9825  Greenwald has been best on this, others have contributed as well. I agree not to trust the mass media editorials. I look at the original sources whenever I can.
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  16295.  @williamdawes7866  Everyone watches CNN and MSNBC sometimes, in order to see what they are presenting. Is there another way to know? I consult the NYTimes every day.
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  16296.  @williamdawes7866  How would you know what Kremlin talking points are? Their media is now banned in the "Free West" (TM).
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  16297.  @parisg3758  Well, do we know what's in them now? Do we know these pathogens are secure? A calm, nonpartisan, dispassionate analysis of two clips without commentary, Nuland, followed by Gabbard, shows you exactly what needs to happen. But we live in a virtual world now, where screaming "Putin PUPPET!!" prevents the release of microbes.
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  16298.  @peaceandlove2617  And you've lost your mind. What is it? Drugs? I don't get it anymore.
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  16299. Dr. Ezike told the truth. This has happened more than once. You better believe she has been in trouble for it.
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  16300.  @BRAZEN_Muse  That as well! Good call.
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  16301.  @terseandtiny1746  Um, they use all that pious concern to cover up something . . . You follow?
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  16302. The left in Europe is raising EXACTLY this point: we need a conversation about lockdowns.
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  16303.  @tpowell3776  Aw, thanks. Dore and Mate did a very good job on this. I hope the video of their livestream from yesterday gets posted soon. They both really want to bring it to a close. Ana had Jimmy's number, but miscalculated very badly on Aaron. Oops, LOL. This will be very funny very soon.
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  16304.  @tpowell3776  Yes. Truly terrible. Hard to believe. And these champagne "leftists" are puzzled that ordinary, working people won't flock to their banner.
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  16305.  @tpowell3776  I confess, I could not watch the entire thing a second time. It is hard to believe anyone could be this bad -- and then pretend to be the choir boy turned defender of women like Kyle did. I can't believe his self-serving delusion hasn't been shaken by now.
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  16306. ​ @slwleyland  Beat me to it!
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  16307.  @Lanefasts  They don't care. Their right to speculate is more important than a human life.
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  16308.  @cpi3267  In fact, in the Rittenhouse case two people intervened who believed -- wrongly -- that they were stopping an active shooter. You know, like the one that neither the school nor the parents stopped, over in Michigan? Maybe if guns for kids were neither legal nor part of the culture, these tragedies for everyone involved, including the underage shooters, could be avoided? (Crazy idea, huh?)
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  16309.  @cpi3267  Bad talking point. Defense of property with lethal force is a crime. You can only defend life and limb with lethal force, not property.
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  16310.  @cpi3267  No. One psycho. One psycho showed up and tried to take his gun, while his friend fired the first shot. But have it your way. And be sure to arm those minors, especially for Christmas.
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  16311. Oh my goodness, that was funny.
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  16312. They are the two conservatives I can listen to.
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  16313. But will he pay you?
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  16314. Wait, let's hope the boy will not be. Let's hope the perpetrator will be traumatized.
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  16315.  @fabiofernandes9122  Tyre Nichols died in the hospital, too. Well, he had Crohn's disease. /s
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  16316. Funny she missed Chauvin's federal guilty plea. The plea agreement takes two seconds to find. Federal court requires allocution: he had to say what he did, to support the guilty plea.​ It's a short document. Even Kurt could cope with it.
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  16317. ​ @rjc_2001  Too bad she missed the federal guilty plea. But that would interrupt her new career.
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  16318.  @numbersix8919  Exactly. Find something to object to that you know they will then proceed to lie about, and that can be the basis for requesting that they leave. Remember they are always trying to position you as being in the wrong, and in need of their enlightenment. Fortunately you can think circles around them.
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  16319.  @energyscholar  Not the natural result at all. The extremist anti-abortion right wingers are upholding vaccine mandates, even imposed on state college students, some of whom are still minors. Open your eyes.
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  16320.  @energyscholar  You're following the MSM instead of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court upheld state university vaccine mandates by refusing to issue an injunction or hear the case. Who is on that Court? Who appointed those Justices? I don't follow "Team Blue" or any other dog's dinner.
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  16321.  @energyscholar  You yourself just articulated perfectly why there is nothing "natural' about the DNC betrayal of "my body, my choice." Even leading DNC politicians claimed to be opposed to vaccine mandates during the campaign. Every last one -- Biden, Pelosi, Harris, even Fauci -- are all on record and on videos all over YouTube assuring us that an actual mandate is not possible. A bunch of hypocrits and bullies. That does seem to come naturally, true.
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  16322. Nice!
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  16323. Nineteen states brought suit in a court of competent jurisdiction, and the order was issued keeping matters in place pending a hearing, and a new hearing date was set for February 14. You don't believe in State's Rights? Or, you never look at court papers and just Believe? 😅
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  16324.  @musicallyassureddestruction  ​It was a clerical error. The clarification was not strictly necessary, but was to cure a possible ambiguity. The duly-confirmed Treasury Secretary was at no time in danger of being held in contempt of court. THAT would be judicial overreach. Learn to read the actual court papers, or suffer the talking heads. AI should REALLY be fun.
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  16325.  @slewone4905  They will be sued for those, wherever they constitute unprotected speech, such as defamation, as was explained in this segment. Good. That's what should happen. Alex Jones is open to major liability. You're advocating a blanket prior restraint.
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  16326. I would never buy from them anyway. Places like Mayo Clinic now offer such things. I better not say more, huh?
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  16327. 😂😂😂
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  16328.  @03stmlax  I don't disagree. This was not a Perry Mason moment -- the Committee knew in advance exactly what her testimony would be, and what YouTubers like Rational National would say about it. It is, in short, a reality show. And they say they don't like Trump. We know what is the sincerest form of flattery . . .
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  16329.  @MrSoonerCal  In the room. With the agents. Who were just with Trump. Who told her. What happened. Yes. That is correct.
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  16330. Did they learn planned obsolescence from Silicon Valley?
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  16331. Rahm Emanuel is being considered for a post, and his brother, a doctor who said there is no real life after about age 75 for most people, is on the COVID TASKFORCE. Could anyone make this up? Appoint Hunter to investigate big bank money laundering. ("Why not? Who says he isn't qualified?")
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  16332. 7:21 This was perfect. Kim rocks!
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  16333.  @joseribeiro9564  Actually, blood clots to the brain are a side effect as well.
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  16334. ​ @chippsdubbo89 A prominent abolitionist once said of the Nate Turner rebellion that it was horrifying, but what did you expect? I think both "horrifying" and "what did you expect" apply here. Hard to say which applies more. :/
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  16335. Has become? 😅
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  16336. Biden is the worst president in all of US history, and that took some doing.
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  16337. "Mandates work" --- to get normal people to emigrate faster.
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  16338.  @ouknow1446  Exactly! What a miserable man. And he has a daughter.
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  16339. ​@georgebates7862 LOL, you've identified the real problem. It's not free speech that's the problem, it's the lack of free speech that is.
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  16340. Would be 🤣 except it's not!
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  16341. Elle l'a bien dit.
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  16342. Can Biden do much more until January? Okay, he can. But I agree with Jimmy. Who is threatening to make it worse? Biden is mostly done with his part in making it worse.
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  16343. Good move. It takes up your precious time to recover, and it is never worth your time.
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  16344. I find him to be the opposite. He is also doing what he denounces, whereas he never did before. He really was independent. His work on Wall Street, back in the day, was absolutely outstanding. This is less so. (But he's getting more money, somehow.)
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  16345. Gavin DeBecker describes this type of intuition. Read up on it, never ignore it.
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  16346. I hate all the fear mongering, and it has not stopped. But this mania to flagellate teachers is really backfiring. The younger teachers I know hated online school. One day we hear about how they aren't teaching students anything, they are a bunch of LGBTQ activist groomers, next I hear that the experiment in home schooling and online learning failed a generation. "But who needs college? You can learn online." And then no one will even listen to Bri before slamming her. Someone is being irrational here.
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  16347. I thought gender reveal parties were for people who have come through a gender reassignment operation and fully recovered, and want to celebrate, declare their new name, and have a party for their friends. These parties are for a fetus ultrasound?? (No wonder?)
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  16348. Exactly. Finally, someone who gets it.
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  16349. GREAT segment, from both anchors. Superb.
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  16350. Most people (meaning at least 90%) suffer net losses in the market. Then there is the issue of not having earned your money. You may not care, but when literally no one cares, the various perversions appear.
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  16351. A comment like this brings on the commercial spammers every time.
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  16352. @swatkabombonica4103  Those Romans were really something. No one marked the world more.
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  16353. Unless there's money under the table for another fumble?
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  16354.  @krissykriss328  No, I think he got it. Remember how that rich man in Richmond or some such was the best song ever?
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  16355.  @RichPortQueen  If someone does me wrong I wish love and kindness to their next VICTIM, or better yet, I wish that there be no next victim. But in America we tend to glorify bullies and look down on victims so, okay, wish your abuser love and kindness. Whatever.
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  16356. Ha ha, you're cute.
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  16357.  @coryCuc  Hey, here's another idea: money does not equal truth. Okay, that's too controversial. Sorry. I take it back.
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  16358. @chuckbecker4983  Simple: she did not earn her MIT doctorate. That should be rectified. Ordinary people have their degrees revoked for precisely this. The appropriate consequences should be determined the way they usually are, after an investigation. What does anyone's position on Israel have to do with their scholarship and scholarly integrity? Should the accusation that Neri Oxman "supports the genocide of Gazans" have any bearing whatsoever? Should the identity of her second husband matter? Should his money matter? Really?
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  16359.  @chuckbecker4983  Have you ever read Brandenburg v. Ohio? RAV v City of St. Paul? Maybe you should.
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  16360. No one just shows up and wins.
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  16361.  @Midwit_Madness  Absolutely, go for it. I mean it. Too many bad actors out there -- not to suggest you should let them stop you. Just be a hard target. It should be fine. A lot of people not in politics would do a better job than a lot of politicians.
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  16362. I don't think so but it would not be a surprise if it were. Don't underestimate greed and stupidity as drivers, especially when both point in exactly the same direction.
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  16363.  @f58534  How so? She quit. That's what's been said so far. We'll see what she says.
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  16364.    The pressure is on for M4A, huh? :)
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  16365.  @jordan2170  Show me where Sam Seder has invited a working class person on his show and listened respectfully. I can wait. Personally, I do not care for Joe Rogan, but I sure do understand why he has a following. A little more than 70% of American adults over age 25 do not have a college degree. You see people interested in their perspective much? And Jimmy managed to go, despite growing up without a bookshelf. (He mentions that a lot.) How come he saw through Russiagate? From a conservative Catholic background? You know he was encouraged to hate on Russia.
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  16366.  @ellenstonehill678  Oh? You're following ME, now? Unless someone is paying you, don't waste your time. My "framing" is right on target, BTW, whereas your gaslighting should be compensated. No self-respecting person should lie for free. Get good at it, and maybe you can have a nice house by age 55, too! (At least Jimmy laid a few bricks in his younger years. I know you never did that type of real work.)
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  16367.  @ellenstonehill678  Um, I commented six months ago. You taught school, huh? Cringe.
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  16368.  @ellenstonehill678  Quote three statements I made that are demonstrably false, at any time, on a regular basis or sporadically.
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  16369.  @ephre  No, Sam is lousy at comedy, so called. You're even worse at tone policing. Maybe you should make commercials for CIA recruitment, too.
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  16370.  @ephre  Dore is always first to invite people like Christian Smalls on his show. I noticed you didn't name a soul.
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  16371.  @ephre  Okay, I'll spell it out: you and this nonsense don't interest me. I'm writing to let others know to watch, because Aaron is tremendous.
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  16372.  @ephre  Jimmy and Ron have wonderful wives. Aaron is happy right now, too. That's what they have.
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  16373.  @ephre  Wait. You think a comedy career, or something, is more important? Why, you must be an (Anglo) American!!
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  16374.  @crotchy7667  I cringe at teachers who baselessly call someone a liar, nothing less. Education is supposed to teach reflection based on evidence, in a dispassionate manner and tethered to a real world. It's not supposed to hone advertising/marketing/surveillance/propaganda/jeering skills, even if those are the ones that pay the most. You get that, or no? Not enough four letter words for you to grasp the argument? ("Thank a teacher?") You all remind me of Trump, when I want to forget.
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  16375.  @ephre  Time to block whatever this one is.
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  16376.  @jackeagleeye3453  I agree. I am completely baffled by his supporters, who ignore all the things he did wrong during COVID, and that he even admitted to in his interview with Bob Woodward. Their eyes still glaze over as though they were in a cult.
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  16377.  @garglemuh2813  We are unlucky in the comments this great video seems to have attracted.
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  16378. The chair of the philosophy department, too?
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  16379. I appreciated Dr. Grande's sensitivity in treating this case, and I really appreciated how he pointed out that the world IS a dangerous place -- without excessive drama. I'm annoyed when that simple fact of life is exaggerated, OR buried.
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  16380.  @peteroz7332  Thanks. I can't believe what they did to the kids during the pandemic. I truly can't. Sometimes I have to let it go, I am so angry and distressed by it, and what can WE do? :/
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  16381. Jimmy, you're from CHICAGO. You're never scared until after.
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  16382. That's because the level of general education IS abysmal. He has no trouble duping anyone. He has a lot in common with politicians from both major parties in that respect.
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  16383.  @hintzod  Not only that, but the Foundation routinely "discovers" that the best recipient for its grant just happens to be a corporation whose stock they own in their portfolio. There are ways to structure this. You should also read about fiascos they have financed, and how influential a grant from them can be, in causing a ton of money to flow to projects they first tapped for sponsorship. When they make a mistake, it snowballs.
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  16384. Bill isn't misrepresenting himself.
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  16385.  @rundmc555  Yeah, he thought he should get a Nobel Peace Prize. You couldn't make this up.
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  16386. Well, the UN considers this serious enough to invoke Article 99, a measure allowing for the Secretary General to call for the Security Council to meet in emergency session at any time, day or night. I guess it's important.
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  16387. Please don't put it that way.
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  16388. 💯
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  16389.  @JustinFREAKIN  The Lancet article is dated April 2, 2022. It states categorically that Omicron produces overall milder illness in unvaccinated persons than Delta did. One possible reason is that the population may be building up a degree of immunity due to prior exposure.
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  16390.  @JustinFREAKIN  But that's not accurate. If the case fatality rate is 40 to 45% lower, then it is not just as deadly.
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  16391.  @JustinFREAKIN  Not what The Lancet said a month and a half ago.
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  16392. Nice observation! I exhaled. :)
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  16393. ​@mattheww797 My late father looked like that. He was an immigrant. He didn't know what those drugs are, much less . . .
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  16394. Lots of stories were covered up in advance of the voting.
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  16395. True, but Brandon is in there now, so all bets are off.
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  16396. Pithy. Perfectly said.
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  16397. 16:47 ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL THIS is what happened. THIS.
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  16398. One of the first things I read during the COVID shutdowns in 2020 was Goggins' book. I love David Goggins.
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  16399. My father named my blond cocker spanial Cerberus as a joke. He wasn't educated in the US.
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  16400.  @andymullarx6365  How they run their household is entirely their business -- their house, their 💰. HOWEVER, if they did anything to facilitate his gun purchase, knowing what they knew, there are many ways to hold them responsible for the actions they took.
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  16401.  @impossiblewhopper539  This is true.
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  16402. 4:14 "just start from scratch" 😄😄😄 Jimmy, that was perfect.
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  16403.  @professorpancakes6545  Jimmy compiled an outstanding array of opinions here, truly excellent. He is being a JOURNALIST here, and doing a great job in this video.
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  16404.  @professorpancakes6545  Nothing will ensure Trump will not have a second term. Voting for Biden will not, either. DNC chose to run a weak candidate, and not to effectively oppose Trump and Republicans in voter suppression. They don't even have a plan to oppose Trump if he loses in November and tries to stay in office. They had Clinton urge Biden not to concede, using rhetoric so ill-conceived that it made her sound almost as appalling as Trump. The public cannot fix that. The DNC does not serve us. You can't attack Dore for supporting a new third party, when that new party includes members who urge people to vote for Biden. He argues with them, but doesn't suppress them, threaten to pull out, etc.
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  16405.  @professorpancakes6545  Also, if the third party effort Dore joined were not only criticizing people who have said they will reluctantly vote Biden/Harris, but were purging them from the party, I would not be defending him. I'd say you're right. But Dore is consistent. He does not do that. Principles matter.
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  16406. Stunning report.
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  16407. Yes, this is true as well. You have to find separate studies that show this. The Israeli study that came out in late August is the most comprehensive study on vaccine risk.
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  16408.  @chriswatchingponies9877  Wicked but funny.
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  16409. Glenn Greenwald just did a great job of analyzing the important aspects of this incident, and avoiding the personal imbroglio. He basically focused on those two things, and agrees with you.
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  16410.  thomas oconnor  You would like Greenwald's video analyzing this incident. He even has a tictok of a trans woman weaponizing pronoun mistakes. Glenn has got GUTS.
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  16411. Thank you.
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  16412. Money = Truth
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  16413. Ah! A movie analogy! Care to try for a sports analogy, too?
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  16414. Since Ana needs money, she could auction Jimmy's note.
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  16415. He is worth only $12 million? He must feel poor among his friends.
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  16416.  @cybervigilante  Amen!! Keep mentioning it!!!
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  16417.  @stayfly68  I never once borrowed a cent for school. It used to be affordable. You didn't understand my first comment, or V C's for that matter. It's something called "sarcasm."
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  16418.  @stayfly68  State schools used to be under a thousand a year. Kids earned that with a minimum wage summer job. Gee. What happened? Is college less important today? Is the current generation less deserving? "Must be."
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  16419.  @sparkythomas6354  The first part is true, about the availability of loans -- we saw that in the housing market! The second part is not. Pick up a catalogue from the 1970s from the state universities of California, Michigan, Wisconsin, Virginia, Texas, Illinois, and see. Check the enrollment data as well. And see how much higher the attainment once was in English and (easier to compare) MATHEMATICS for incoming freshman. Levels down, costs up. "What's not to like?" People don't study as hard, nor are they able to WORK their way through school (literally impossible); they just go into debt and then return home to live. Presenting them with this scenario at age 18 as the typical path to a degree is unconscionable. This generation has a right to be LIVID.
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  16420.  @stayfly68  No school is affordable, including trade school. People go into debt for BEAUTY school, for goodness' sake, and I'm being polite. Pell Grant? Oh those are ubiquitous /s. You all must not know any young people.
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  16421.  @stayfly68  What do you mean by indoctrination? The most common major by far is Business, and has been for decades and decades. "Financial Engineering" is now a major. LOOK IT UP. Or do you think the less than 1% "gender studies" people are the big issue? (You think there are, like, NO jobs in fashion merchandising?) LOL talking points. Look who's being indoctrinated. I bet you never bothered to look up a thing. BTW, what do you think the Financial Engineering graduates will have in store for you? Very likely nothing good. At least a casino has entertainment and really cheap food.
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  16422. ​@MarissaNye It is already legal to use lethal force in defense of life and limb. It has NEVER been legal to use lethal force in defense of property. If a homeless person pitches a tent on your property, call the police.
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  16423. ​ @jupitercyclops6521 Not deadly force. Deadly force is to defend life and limb. Trespassing is a police issue, not DIY.
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  16424. Agreed. Also, Trump has to shore up his fundamentalist Christian base, especially after moderating his position on a abortion AND alienating Pence. Mike Johnson has support among Christians.
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  16425. You could believe the woman, backed up by her husband. You could try that.
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  16426.  @peetky8645  The fact that people like you think you have a right to interpose your ignorant opinion strengthens the pro-choice case in normal people's minds.
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  16427. True. Keeping it real.
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  16428. If doctors are reluctant to mention vitamin D, how are they so brazen in telling everyone, including young children, to get vaccinated?
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  16429.  @stringX90  Which to his mind IS smart.
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  16430. We already did, during the COVID shutdown.
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  16431.  @CursedCommentaries  I did not endorse that. I explained how it worked.
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  16432.  @ArtisChronicles  Since the vaccine rollout, yes. But there were concerns even before that, in late 2020 and January 2021. They knew they needed to watch for this. I still remember. :/
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  16433. The money he got for nothing was all I needed to know. Now propaganda production is worth many orders of magnitude more than, say, pediatric neurosurgery. The results are all around us.
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  16434. ​@icevariable9600 You must have missed the strong-arm tactics by Fauci and Collins, preventing an open discussion of COVID origins, and the EchoHealth Alliance funding of dangerous research. Start by listening to this interview more carefully.
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  16435. Please let us know where to read more.
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  16436. Does being Friend-of-Epstein affect a person's social credit score? People hooked up with Epstein because Epstein had food. Obvious.
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  16437.  @MicheleDBorland  Why would that make anyone qualified to be President of the United States? It might be great for a key Cabinet position, yes. Or to be an ambassador to a country that manufactures our chips, etc.
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  16438. So, will Kim be suppressed now?
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  16439. Is now threatening to have him impeached, not just let him slither away.
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  16440.  @chrisyorke6175  It's an adjunct teacher at community college. Look it up.
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  16441. I like my ego.
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  16442.  @darrylschultz6479  I thought we were talking about attachment. Funny, I don't know of a single heart surgeon or neurosurgeon, or pediatric oncologist, or psychiatrist specializing in suicide prevention who has anything close to that kind of money. You would agree they save lives.
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  16443.  @darrylschultz6479  Tolle has zero expertise compared to a pediatric neurosurgeon, or even compared to me. He knows how to persuade. I refer you to Plato's early dialogues for an analysis of how that works. Gorgias in particular comes to mind.
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  16444.  @darrylschultz6479  People say the same about The Secret. How does that make it true?
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  16445.  @darrylschultz6479  I don't like gurus. Having read real philosophy, I don't like him. I really don't care.
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  16446.  @darrylschultz6479  I don't think anybody needs to listen to him.
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  16447.  @josevigil4233  I have listened, at length, and I admit I've only read excerpts. I think it's a huge pity he gave up pursuing philosophy seriously. I have no doubt that he is talented. I'm not trying to censor him. I'm giving my opinion, which is at least as valuable as anyone else's. I think there is an essential dishonesty in all of these gurus, and their primary concern is not in making you happier, but more docile, so that you'll be less of a "problem" for your family, friends, job, the medical system, the nursing home. I went back to an old writer lately, none other than the compulsively irreverent, spunky and brash Eric Jong, in her earliest works. It's making me happy. It's making me want to do stuff. I'll worry about "spirituality" later.
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  16448.  @Alfieruben-j1l  If you're so egoless, why are you so hostile? Maybe you need to accept that the ego is one part of the human psychology. Maybe going through contortions to deny a normal part of self is not a super duper great idea for most people, after all.
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  16449. Thank you for the note of realism. The problem isn't college, it's college standards.
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  16450.  @techmantra4521  You're right.
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  16451. I love this comedy. We need to unwind!
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  16452. ​@zaks7306 Get them a piano or a cute pet or involved in a sport. Drama, dance, photography . . . Get them involved in something else.
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  16453.  @americancitizen36  Exactly! The public record we know to be accurate is horrible.
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  16454. @rezrunnercl  Both chants are permitted. You should read the Supreme Court cases that give a lot of leeway to cross burning as symbolic speech. It isn't automatically classified as a threat, if you can believe it, though of course it may be and often is, depending on all the facts of the case. Still, First Amendment, yes!! Keep it strong, because the alternative is grim.
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  16455. When you out it that way, I am glad they bombed.
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  16456.  @dinaibrahim4022  Who doesn't? In this interview, she says she has children, and they make her very happy.
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  16457.  @Melbodi  Je vous ai compri! I agree!
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  16458. She makes money for nothing. That's pretty impressive.
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  16459. Pasta at his best! Yes, Musk increased divisiveness, exactly, repositioning Twitter as Republican, not liberating it.
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  16460. The Guardian, which is mainstream UK, has covered the story. We don't know whether what the whistle blower saw was what they told him it was, obviously, but this is a real story.
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  16461. They all imitate Trump.
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  16462. Your smears need to be more plausible, sweetiekins.
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  16463.  @dylan-5287  Not even that! She primarily asked for compassion for the injured.
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  16464.  @andyfletcher3561  Thank you for this. It seems to be very similar to an immunotherapy vaccine. The schedule of "boosters" is not reassuring.
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  16465.  @kensaint3474  We're not having a discussion at all. You may or may not be right about your immunity post-COVID, but the idea that you HAVE A RIGHT to know seems to elude these authoritarians. Why?? How dare someone try to force you to take an injection you may not need at all, acting as though the most reasonable questions should be verboten.
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  16466.  @obadiaoracle5573  Brilliant points!
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  16467.  @BcroG11  Where did you get your number? At no point was it that high. I don't know that it exceeded 5% in any region, at any point -- not even Queens in 2020.
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  16468.  @wstavis3135  In the US, the constitution provides that you have to violate a law in order to be criminally prosecuted. There has to be some law which was violated, and the prosecutor has to prove beyond reasonable doubt that each and every element of the law was violated. Dropping names isn't cognizable.
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  16469. Reading "White Coat Black Hat," about contemporary medical fraud.
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  16470. ​ @TrumpistheGOAT-h8e That protein is unique to the COVID virus. He probably said the mRNA technology.
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  16471.  @mariocroatia9321  WHAT did you think I said? Cities and regions with anti-Milosevic governments in place, put in place at grave risk to themselves -- in some cities, the people demonstrating daily for weeks all winter for free and fair elections -- were BOMBED ANYWAY. Montenegro, whose government opposed Milosevic and was receiving refugees, not creating them, was BOMBED ANYWAY. The New York Times reported this. We read it cover to cover in the 1990s. The editorial policy was pro-NATO but the reporting on the war was quite fair. It was a different time. You're the one who plays fast and loose with facts, as it turns out. Now, when a person calls for securing the hazardous biological agents Victoria Nuland warned us about under oath, there are calls for that person's arrest for treason. Only someone with something to hide screams "treason!"
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  16472. ​ @efflux89 It may depend on whether obstruction of justice was involved. If any crime was deliberately hidden, that may matter.
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  16473. Incarceration for nonpayment?? There has got to be some action apart from simple nonpayment.
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  16474. I know how to end the personal crap: Bring Back the Draft That'll get people to focus.
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  16475. It was never common.
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  16476.  xannyphantom  How do you know what someone else has done? There is at least one person alive thanks to me, that I know for sure. Ridiculous diatribe. If you met Gates, it tends to show Gates still keeps unsavory company.
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  16477.  @Puleczech  You have NO idea what anyone else did, so you have absolutely no warrant to say to anyone that they haven't done much good in the world. You also seem unfamiliar with the principle, "first do no harm." You're just jeering. The evidence is there. If you don't want to read it, that's your prerogative. You can't make facts disappear by peek-a-boo.
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  16478.  @Puleczech  The article at the Grayzone is well sourced. Max mentions it.
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  16479. ​@lacindizzle No we didn't. That's like saying we have parasitic insurance because we have bad vibes.
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  16480. ​ @MsDani899 The pending insider trading suit is online. It was filed last spring. He's a defendant.
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  16481.  @mattwilson982  Whatever "side" you're on, it was immoral to shut businesses down and restrict our constitutional right to circulate freely, without just compensation. GOVERNMENT pulled that stunt, both "sides." Mitch and Nancy.
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  16482.  @mattwilson982  So you're posting during lunch break? Or is business slow?
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  16483.  @markislivingdeliberately  She took a lot of science in college. I grant you, it's not obvious.
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  16484. ​@lisetteunk4961 And . . . Another decent comment goes poof. Dis appears. Just like that. EDIT: actually, it does reappear if you hit the sort by Newest tab and scroll to the OP, then click for replies. But plenty of comments are totally gone.
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  16485. The main issues in Rittenhouse were the same: utterly, mind-bogglingly insane gun laws, and trying juveniles as adults.
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  16486. He doesn't believe in God.
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  16487. ​@lesliestenta3084 Agreed. My post is shadowed, but visible under the Newest tab.
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  16488. I think you are right that this is one of those cases that requires deeper digging. I can't form an opinion either way. I am often disappointed when it appears detectives did not investigate other possible theories. But with her luggage and other items missing, why wasn't she concerned about a burglary? Is it possible she was too scared to tell what she knew? Where did the money for the new house come from? Follow the money.
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  16489.  @thereal4113  I tend to think she's guilty -- unless there is someone out there who really, really wants us to think she is. "Tend to think" certainly leaves plenty of room for reasonable doubt. The money issue needs to be scrutinized. Something is not clear here. One thing IS sure: there are people in the world who show no mercy toward those who owe them massive debt. And they see her as expendable as him. She presents a weird combination of competent and stupid. Not impossible, but . . . hmm.
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  16490. Well, terrorism is an asymmetrical form of warfare. It has features of war and of crime and of war crime. Where the territory is already occupied, a normal procedure would have been to issue an ultimatum: demand that the perpetrators be turned over, or else --- and then specify the "or else." Notice all the comments that imply Israel is justified in doing absolutely anything in response. How can that be true?
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  16491.  Dusty Nickels  Shows what you know.
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  16492.  @jskyler7  A lot of younger pro-life people realize that persuasion works best. Good luck forcing a woman to carry a pregnancy she does not want. You'll need a new category of law enforcement.
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  16493.  @jskyler7  It is literally impossible. You would have to have someone monitor her activities around the clock. You would have to have a monitor with her in the bathroom and shower.
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  16494. @chrisfung1607  How? You cannot even tell if conception has occurred. And what do you plan to do with in vitro fertilization? Make it illegal?
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  16495. Well, Ted Bundy was on a civilian crime commission, and got hefty recommendations for law school twice.
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  16496. She was head of Illinois' public health department. She had to leave. At the beginning of the vaccination push, she was asked about the effects of the vaccines on fertility. She said, "We don't know. We don't know because clinical trials did not include pregnant women or women planning to become pregnant." She said it so calmly and matter-of-factly. I was stunned. I had to sit down. It was the first true thing I heard come out of anyone's mouth since all this began. (She even said "women." How quaint is that, lol?)
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  16497. Precisely what we need to know. How many full vaccinations are needed to save one life? We always had those numbers quite early on, for all sorts of vaccines and other medical interventions. I found the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut safety report, English language version. You might want to take a peek, to verify. It is always a good idea to go to primary sources to verify anything a politician says.
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  16498.  @negrildoc  Exactly. It is long past time to depoliticize the issue and do a careful, systematic inquiry. That safety report provides ample reason to open a serious risk-benefit analysis, by demographic. Neither this politician nor anyone else really knows yet, at least not for younger people -- which is exactly the problem. We know pretty well to recommend it to men over 50 and women over 60, and probably a lot of other people as well. But now I wonder. I don't think it was fair to push it on adolescent boys, or on most people under 30. It does not halt disease or spread, and we know it was never promised to.
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  16499. In NYC, the police union has been systematically denouncing the mayor and resisting the principle of civilian control -- and getting away with it. The union leadership has intimidated De Blasio. He is afraid of them. They breached privacy rules to reveal De Blasio's own daughter's arrest. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/22/nyregion/a-widening-rift-between-de-blasio-and-the-police-is-savagely-ripped-open.html https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2020/05/31/longtime-supporters-dismayed-at-de-blasios-shift-from-police-reformer-to-defender-1289640 https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/nypd-union-war-de-blasio.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/nyregion/chiara-de-blasio-arrest.html
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  16500. 2019 seems like heaven in retrospect.
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  16501. @patricknoble3090  Nor is it illogical. I'm so glad you mentioned mathematics. Math is logical.
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  16502. 18:36 Talking to a trans person and hanging out with them raised questions for me, including whether people who opportunistically claim to be trans but are not are creating a harmful atmosphere for people who are trans. How do we know someone is?
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  16503.  @ytfeelslikenorthkorea  🤣🤣🤣 Now I can sleep.
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  16504. In the US, as long as it's a theoretical assertion, it is legal under Brandenburg v. Ohio. Rubin is mixing scenarios that are considered entirely distinct in America.
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  16505. THIS
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  16506. I love when someone takes the time to really say thanks! :)
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  16507. I think that's right. Moreover, any socialist state (including the Western social democracies) simply cannot keep up with the pace of the arms race set by the US. They do not and cannot achieve the capital formation needed, which then feeds the MIC, obviously. They can only prosecute defensive wars -- and even win against the US, but only in defense.
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  16508. Free Julian Assange
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  16509. The reason we "can print money" is because we have a military that imposes dollar hegemony on the world. We are taught to believe the military sucks value out of the economy. No it doesn't. It's the only reason the dollar is the global reserve currency, which is the only reason we do not have devastating inflation.
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  16510. This is a classic Trump story, isn't it?
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  16511.  @ghettotrippin9498  If they have pertinent evidence, they have a duty to speak up through the proper channels and otherwise, yes, shut up. They swore to uphold the Constitution and laws.
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  16512. This was well done.
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  16513.  @SteveJonesOwnsDSP  The report could not be corroborated. But more important, MUCH more important, the welfare of this CHILD should have been paramount, and no one made it paramount. Brie was right that the White House did not reach out first to the family, before USING the story. See, this why curtailing RIGHTS to personal autonomy is bad. You don't want politicians deciding. You don't want media weighing in.
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  16514.  @Oignion  Ah! You beat me to it. Power still comes from the barrel of a gun. Nothing ineffable going on.
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  16515. Breaking: THE HILL RISING has been SUSPENDED from YouTube for a week.
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  16516. No idea how to "handle" the result of a presidential election? Then they are unqualified as newscasters and commentators.
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  16517.  @elizabethfindlay5752  👏👏👏👏👏👏 Which should be obvious (meaning, the applause) without having to say it. ❤️
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  16518.  @zeusathena26  Oh my goodness. I'm sorry. Watch out for her that no one robs her blind! There are cruel people ready to pounce on anyone innocent, naive, very young or older, etc. etc. etc. . . . :/
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  16519.  @zeusathena26  On the contrary, there is as much hesitancy in Germany as in the US, and more hesitancy in France and Russia than in the US. But it is less politicized in most of the rest of the world, that is true. Do you seriously think telling someone they were not injured by a previous vaccine when their doctors told them they were, and then trying to provoke guilt in them, is persuasive? Persuasive to what purpose? Anyone who succumbs to disrespect and takes a medicine they do not believe is good for them based on sound reasoning (and that has not yet received full approval from the FDA) is not functioning as a responsible adult. They are just bowing to pressure. Look up CDC information, or any other official source, and see what it tells you about vaccine efficacy. We hope and believe immunity lasts longer than six months but we do not know. We believe immunized people with mild "brealthrough" infections are not highly contagious BUT we do not know. We think booster shots will be needed, and that people may choose different types of shot from their initial vaccination, but we do not know. IOW, no scientific basis for your pontificating.
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  16520.  @zeusathena26  Um, what does the insurrection have to do with vaccines? Are you sure only the Trumpers are politicizing vaccines? I think everyone is.
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  16521.  @zeusathena26  You sound more like you claim your mother-in-law sounds than you realize.
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  16522.  @ginalynn6963  Gina, you are spreading outright lies. If what you say were true, why does every country have a vaccine program, including those outside the US sphere of influence?Also, some, like Pakistan, are offering many choices, none of which are mRNA. They may be right, they may be wrong. But they are clearly not "under the thumb of Big Pharma." China has vaccines, as does Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba . . . This is why I question whether the wildest anti-vaxxer stories aren't planted to make everyone hesitant look STUPID.
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  16523.  @zeusathena26  There is more vaccine hesitancy in France and Russia than in the US. Does no one know how to do research??
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  16524.  @zeusathena26  Yup, you'd smear me if you could. But we knew that.
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  16525.  @ginalynn6963  Animal trials were NOT skipped. It is not the case that any animals died from a COVID vaccine subsequently approved under EUA. Your data on how other countries vaccinate should be checked. I know that not everyone follows the American schedule, and that multiple vaccinations at one visit is often insurance driven. But all of these countries do vaccinate their young children. A slower pace for a child not in daycare or preschool may be reasonable. We're not debating that.
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  16526. ​ @urbansetter1 Not reading actual books is a big mistake. It does sharpen the mind in ways that other media does not. It's even beneficial cognitively. YOU provide the "motion," not some narrator, etc.
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  16527. ​ @urbansetter1 P. S. Not evident that Ivy types read anything but what increases their money hoard, with bullet points preferred. That's not the reading I'm talking about.
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  16528. @urbansetter1   Oh brother! "You don't have to work for it, you just are." Listen to you, lol! No. You build a brain. The process is remarkably similar to building a body. That's why other countries teach their students calculus, and we say, "there, there, dear, you don't have to be a Math Person." The guy you know? No, he wasn't just born that way. And where did I mention "intelligence?" Why did you bring it up?
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  16529. @urbansetter1  Great thinkers may indeed watch CNN. Why? Because that is how you find out for yourself what CNN is saying. There is no other way. You cannot rely on others to tell you and consider yourself a great thinker, or even a halfway decent one -- not these days. For a contemporary example, consider this: how can you determine whether CNN has been defaming RFK Jr? You watch CNN, and then you compare what CNN reports with a video that shows what he actually said. My opinion is that they have misrepresented him and defamed him. That's how I formed my opinion: by watching carefully.
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  16530. The CDC is assuming everyone should, or must, be vaccinated. Then the relative risk they discuss makes sense. But that assumption needs to be questioned. ;)
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  16531. ​ @vivianaguindis5274 Then why wasn't that reported correctly? It should have been, no?
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  16532. There are lawsuits pending against employers who required vaccination and refused testing as an alternative, and against hospitals which failed to treat people with vaccine injuries properly. Why would you want your daughter to go public with her illness? Don't violate her privacy -- find professionals (lawyers representing these cases, and doctors treating them) to HELP her, and DON'T tell people about her issues.
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  16533. So why does anyone sign up?
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  16534. ​@Dr.Spatula As someone who wants to emigrate and is multilingual and has lived abroad, I assure you it is quite complicated. But I appreciate your point.
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  16535.  @kayty6673  I don't, either. OP and others are still right.
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  16536.  @richardkohn4153  The gun advice is not bad either. Wonder how much lessons cost?
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  16537. I would never use a drug that France, Scandinavia, Switzerland, etc., refused. I learned my lesson. :/
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  16538.  @DeezScotts2023  I have an idea. Please look up the legal definition of assault. I mean that sincerely -- look it up. Hypothetical scenario: you are alone in a room with a person who has huge authority over your career. The encounter started as a social event, but no one else is around now. You think you are there to have a friendly discussion, perhaps even an intellectual one, and he places he hand on your inner thigh. You make clear you do not welcome the gesture. He then moves his hand up, closer to your crotch, "just to make sure" you won't be persuaded. Is this an assault? Yes it is. You don't get to tell the victim it's no big deal.
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  16539.  @DeezScotts2023  She told her story years ago, long before Bloom died.
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  16540. What is "coercion leading to permissiveness?" Please explain this.
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  16541.  @09bamasky  "Our justice system" accepts sworn testimony in a court of law as "actual evidence."
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  16542.  @09bamasky  My best friend only told me shortly after her father died, and we've been best friends for over 40 years. Did you think this was a confidence women would share with YOU? The women I know are from many walks of life, from Harvard to community college. I'm an attorney, with a California license among others. As for the women who made accusations in response to media, I would suggest some may have withdrawn accusations also in response to the counter narrative that "it's your own fault." That appears to be a tendency you might have -- or at least, that is precisely what you just did here. In fact, you doubled it by insinuating that something must be wrong with them, and also with me because I know them. Maybe you cannot explain because you cannot explain -- not just to me, personally, but simpliciter.
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  16543.  @09bamasky  Let's move on to "coercion leading to permissiveness." What's that? Whose is the agent, who is the patient, what is being done to whom? (Law is not one of the soft social sciences.)
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  16544.  @09bamasky  Only you know what you meant by "coercion leading to permissiveness." You know, buried in your essay that started this thread.
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  16545. ​@117Ender But how is that "speech," exactly? It does carry more information than a scream. If we therefore consider it to be speech (probably the better view), we then consider whether it falls under one of the very few, narrow exceptions to constitutionally protected speech --- namely, incitement to imminent disorder. Take a look at US v. Alvarez: no general ban on lying. It may come as a surprise to a lot of people.
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  16546. There is no such thing as a "free speech absolutist." There never was. It's a concocted phrase.
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  16547. Counterpunch just ran an anti-cancel culture article over the weekend. It was really interesting.
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  16548. I always knew Weiss was an utter hypocrite and I could never understand why anyone found her particularly talented, or why she ever had or has the lofty jobs she got at a very early age -- but in this segment, she's correct.
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  16549. @OscarLangleySoryu  I don't care to read your nonsense on my thread. You are perfectly welcome to post it. And repost it, all over the place. Be my guest.
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  16550. ​@Ixaglet That's funny. All the rich suburbs northwest of me have been bragging they had opioid antidote for years. Over a decade. You know you can't smother a dying person and hurry it up, right?
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  16551. Robby, the VAST majority of malpractice cases are never brought. My family was typical: we were destroyed by repeated malpractice, and we never sued. You don't believe me, do you? If we had sued and gotten the money, then you would believe it.
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  16552.  @annfrost3323  Dear Ann, the question is not if, the question is where.
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  16553.  @michaelmcclure3383  No. This has nothing at all to do with Aristotlian virtue ethics. Woke has become a manifestation of sophistry: since truth is either nonexistent or unattainable, concentrate on winning, and making money, finding allies, and doing whatever else is needed to get ahead in society. That's what the Sophists believed, and said straight up.
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  16554.  @SlackKeyPaddy  Disagree. Aaron Mate is great. Those others you mentioned are a different breed, but even they are talking down the war psychosis resolutely.
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  16555. Me, too! Thanks for writing this.
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  16556.  @acruzro95  Okay. Never mind. We all see how well full spectrum narcissism is working. I'm sure it will get even better. /s
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  16557.  @tosaye  I only disagree that Biden was the least objectionable, but who can disagree with the rest? You're right. This is exactly why I fault the DNC. They had three years to come up with an invincible candidate.
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  16558.  @leevy6753  Higher education based on objective qualifications is a right in every other developed country and quite a few developing ones. I will grant you that it involves a strong consensus about qualifications, which we do not have.
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  16559. On what basis? He has no warrants in Florida.
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  16560. Sorry, had.
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  16561.  @joeperkins4309  What did they "aid and abet" him in doing? When they last saw him, he wasn't under arrest and had no warrants. He was free to go. Why he was not held for having Gabby's property (her van) is what I don't understand, but some intrepid reporter needs to ask law enforcement or the DA.
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  16562.  @joeperkins4309  If they committed no crimes, they should "get away scot-free."
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  16563. Will this ever stop? Do we have a chance?
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  16564. I don't think any of this is real. The neoliberal globalists know the next few years are fraught. I think they want to "lose" --- they want their opponents to be the ones holding the bag.
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  16565. Nurse Ratchet in Mary Poppins disguise. 🤡
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  16566.  @shostako1284  Except that whoever had the capacity to track him still does, and can share that public information. They just can't broadcast it on Twitter.
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  16567.  @garymorris1856  The fact is that it is unconstitutional to execute an insane person, even if they were sane when they committed a capital crime, and were sane when they stood trial for that crime, and were sane when the conviction and sentence were pronounced.
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  16568.  @garymorris1856  I guess to some people timelines don't exist, and Supreme Court precedent doesn't exist, and principled stands don't matter. Have it your way. "Liking it" has nothing to do with it. Kant, not Hume. American politics and its primitivism leave me indifferent very quickly.
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  16569. A lawyer's son doesn't know he should remain silent and ask for a lawyer. He doesn't know they must charge him or release him in 72 hours, which is why they want the confession -- to be sure they can put him in jail. Every interrogation of a suspect is designed to jail them, not to "get to the truth."
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  16570.  @sotirmilivojevic6233  Americans have no sense. Just heard from a journalist active over the years in Venezuela, and even those people have sympathy for Americans, because they know Americans are deliberately misled and abused.
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  16571. If they are "ordered" to shoot them all, will they?
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  16572. 46:41 There certainly was discussion on the French left concerning the COVID measures. The first person I heard push back on firing medical personnel who worked throughout the pandemic, were exposed and recovered, and now declined vaccination was Fabien Gay, the Communist Party leader. Clémentine Autain questioned certain measures, such as vaccine passports. In the end, the left in the National Assembly made it illegal to ask a minor their vaccine status, and after that, no one confronted anyone. The victory of the New Popular Front came as less of a surprise to me than most to people. Had they not taken this stand, they would not have won.
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  16573.  @dip.2271  Pelosi lost seats in 2020. Now there is real leverage. Sorry you overlooked that fact.
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  16574. Well, you know, "what everyone else is doing" is making money in some grift or other --- railing about trans, pronouns, "Russian interference," etc. Do these sound like real jobs to you? On the other hand, if you watch math videos, you'll find that many were produced in Africa. The world is changing.
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  16575. In Manolo Blahniks?
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  16576.  @peachmelba1000  My statement is intended to point out the rank hypocrisy of imposing sanctions against Cuba, at any time, but especially during a pandemic and state of emergency.
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  16577. Yes, and there are easily 1000 students who did exactly that for every one seat at an Ivy League school. What do you think this debate is about? I'd love to know how many veterans over the age of 25 they admit. How about the decorated ones, who really distinguished themselves? That would increase black and Latino enrollment right there, as well as contribute to diversity.
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  16578. ​@londahobbs9612 "Entitlement" means you are indeed entitled to it under the existing law . . . But Congress can take it away.
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  16579.  @mariovidmar7  LOL
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  16580.  @Deno2100  Good for you. That gives me hope, and I need it.
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  16581.  @catherinedart4777  Yup 😢
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  16582. Your post is one of a few that allowed me to exhale. Very measured and factual. Thank you.
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  16583. ​@AGAINST MY ODDS Be sure to read Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic. Your story is right there. It will confirm everything you've said. Ignore the ignorant. They have no clue they are spouting propaganda. But getting well on your own is a hard road as well, requires super good discipline with diet, sleep, exercise, everything. It is SO worth it.
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  16584.  @Against_my_odds  It was in reference to Y T sense or ship. :)
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  16585. Read Carlson's comments section. Pay particular attention to responses to comments that don't toe his line perfectly.
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  16586.  @CheesyChez421  No, I'm saying that if you're not, then who's the chump?
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  16587. Who cared about Jeffrey Epstein? Who cared about the bacha bazi? We are all babes in the woods, my friend.
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  16588.  @SteadyRolling  Yup. Which has nothing to do with Kamala.
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  16589. Please don't die over this thing.
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  16590.  @firstladyshine  Thought so. :)
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  16591. No one ever taxed their way to prosperity? Oh REALLY? What do you think paid for the great land grant universities and the GI Bill, that brought the greatest period of solid economic prosperity in US history? Why do people repeat these slogans? Taxes today don't bring prosperity tomorrow, no. Even building the nation's airports and highways didn't result in overnight prosperity.
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  16592. No brainer, what a pun 😅
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  16593. Both of these guests had great points to make. You'd never know from the comment board.
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  16594.  @blitva1  Yes. Isn't it great to have some people around who are real people?
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  16595.  @willschrimpe8550  👏👏👏👏👏👏
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  16596.  @benisjamin6583  This was a superb video.
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  16597.  @benisjamin6583  Oh come off it. He did contract himself, flagrantly, and Rogan argued the point very well. It couldn't be more obvious. It all came down to a matter of whose ox is being gored -- for Peterson, just as it is for most people who haven't thought through their partisan political positions. The oldest story in the book! I personally have sympathy for Peterson's health issues, and those that his family has had to struggle with, but of course when confronted with severe problems, he was no better than anyone else at solving them. Frankly, I've done far better in life with bigger challenges.
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  16598.  @benisjamin6583  YouTube followers? And it's spelled "ad hominen" -- but pointing out hypocrisy is not ad hominem. His recent health issues are just another example of being incapable of walking the walk, and of being a human being who displays himself as being wise but is no wiser than anyone else. My personal life remains personal, and I'm not going to risk compromising my privacy to prove something to some stranger, but yes, I have done far better than Peterson -- with refugee parents. Of course I have three degrees. How about you? If he's a hero for you, ask yourself why you need him to be your hero. Not only have I listened to him, but I've read all the major works he recommends on his website. A combination of Nietzsche and Jung gets recycled pretty regularly, and is known to appeal to the youth, especially young men. (Did you know that? Well.) Peterson needed the money, for real (his family has long-standing health issues, sheer bad luck, not self-generated), and he found a way to monetize it again. I'm surprised. I also read a few chapters of his book, the ones that looked most promising, and felt sorry for him. Worse than I thought, much worse. At least he speaks to people most of the insipid chattering classes ignore. I'm not sure that most of what he tells them is so good, however. Very few gurus ever have anything good to say; pick your flavor of self-serving, because that is what they are. "YouTube followers!!!" The new desert of the unreal.
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  16599. Look, if any product is illegal to sell to people under 21, and in fact contains a drug, I'd say don't actively market it to minors. Is that SO oppressive? Really?
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  16600. ​@VogtTD I don't pretend to have examined the issue, and I don't trust Schumer's "expertise." But he did call for agencies with that expertise to look into the matter, and SEE whether there is such evidence. I support that. I'm assuming you don't disagree that targeting minors to induce them into other illegal stuff is bad.
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  16601.  @deadgolfer6345  I actually don't know. I do agree that where an ambiguity of THIS nature is possible, the word should be avoided. Or better yet, clarified: "martyred civilians," using the word as an adjective, not a noun.
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  16602. @deadgolfer6345  Of course it's possible. I have no problem with calling them in for questioning. I do have a problem with demands for discipline without a hearing. The First Amendment matters. The school can ban all projections on their buildings and avoid content discrimination that way. It may seem cowardly to do that, but it may also be the best option at the moment.
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  16603. @BDnevernind  Also, obviously, putting a picture of the Palestinian flag on your notebook, versus running the flag up a flagpole belonging to the school, are two different things. The first is your right. There's really no debate. There's nothing to discuss.
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  16604. @deadgolfer6345  Gee, thanks very much, but . . . it should be normal. This was cool, but there are moments when I get praised for being normal and it scares me. Well, you can imagine.
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  16605.  @deadgolfer6345  You do, too.
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  16606. You're right. It was.
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  16607. Letter to a Young Muslim, by Tariq Ali (excerpt) "The people of Indo-China suffered more than any Muslim country at the hands of the US government. They were bombed for 15 whole years and lost millions of their people. Did they even think of bombing America? Nor did the Cubans or the Chileans or the Brazilians. The last two fought against the US-imposed military regimes at home and finally triumphed."
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  16608. ​ @gr33dyglutton Robby is a nice guy? Robby??
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  16609. I always believed Reagan that he had no idea. The look in his eyes spoke volumes.
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  16610.  @BillMcGirr  No one mentioned Obama. Oh, except you. I've never voted for a ticket with warmonger Biden on it.
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  16611.  @BillMcGirr  Amazon Prime has higher margins than Reagan. So do Facebook and Twitter. McDonald's, Walmart . . . James Stewart had higher margins than Reagan. Brad Pitt.
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  16612.  @BillMcGirr  He wasn't really President, except as a figurehead and spokesmodel. Volcker and the elder Bush, with others, were running the country. Reagan supplied all the necessary tropes, deflecting the scrutiny away from the real players. When Reagan said he knew nothing about the Iran-Contra scheme, which was wildly illegal, I never understood why people didn't believe him. I believed him.
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  16613.  @BillMcGirr  Or do you mean The Bankruptcy King? The guy who "owed" Twitter? That one?
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  16614. @El Topo You know this how? (Joined in late October, to jeer at people? Especially people who post something both smart and touching?) A lot of non-scientists recognize science. All teachers do. All nurses and other medical personnel with degrees in their field. Lawyers, especially those who call expert witnesses. Psychologists. Properly-trained PhDs in any field whatsoever.
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  16615.  @amoghbarakol4723  Global, and predictable.
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  16616.  @RedXlV  A major motivating factor, definitely; a reason why they believe they are entitled to more than they have, and can count on impunity for what they did. After all, it's "their" country. /s
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  16617. ​I listed seven. But will anyone see them? EDIT: nope
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  16618. ​​​ @katieandnick4113  They don't count to the people who do! I just saw that attitude directed toward a noble member of the US Air Force who was vaccine injured. And she is only 23. You would think people would be nice to her at least . . . Think again. And this time, follow the money . . .
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  16619.  @subz424  Or, a nuclear exchange might take place. Were it not for the atheist Vasily Arkhipov, it would have. But you be you. LOL
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  16620. "A gay guy wouldn't be a tool of Wall Street. The policies 'must be' necessary. He must cry when he has to implement them." ;/
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  16621.  @globes179  It's $1200 in my city. This is when you call 911. The fire department ambulance takes you to the closest emergency department. If that is not where your doctor is, you have to arrange to be transferred.
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  16622.  @ariellemainez7752  My closest relative is a cousin, living in a less developed country. She is in her early 70s. Before her first dose of Pfizer vaccine, she got a blood count. Before her second dose, she got a blood count again, and was interviewed by a doctor concerning her side effects from the first dose. The doctor then approved the second dose. Just let that sink in. :/
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  16623.  @ariellemainez7752  Also, my cousin was told by her doctor that within 7 to 10 days of a dose, she could be more vulnerable to COVID, and to be extra careful. At the end of that period following her second dose, she would be fully vaccinated. Head shaker, huh?
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  16624.  @lamesamelame  Exactly!
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  16625.  @lamesamelame  If no other country except the US approved these vaccines, I would not consider taking them. Tragic to be at that point. The FDA was the best in the world, once upon a time.
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  16626.  @enshrinehd  I agree, which is why I say check all of his footnotes. But don't think he isn't biased. He sure is. If you had a suit against a pharmaceutical company, or a toxic tort case, you would want zealous representation. He would be like having a pit bull on your side.
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  16627. You have every right to do that for your own child. Just consider whether hush-hush inadvertently enables the real abusers to get away with what they do.
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  16628. Not only that, but you can buy your own truth. What's the matter? Aren't you successful? 😂😂😂
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  16629.  @mikemelina7395  And in other news, lots of great math videos are made by Africans or are from Africa . . . "Who knew?"
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  16630. Is Amy Goodman pro-sharia?
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  16631. LOL, thank you.
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  16632.  @gugurupurasudaikirai7620  Oops, you beat me to it, with a better answer.
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  16633.  @gomahklawm4446  So, marijuana is legal in your state, I'm guessing.
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  16634.  @gomahklawm4446  I didn't say this case was flimsy. I don't know why you keep implying I did. I said juries almost always convict, whether or not the defendant is factually guilty. You seem to be up on the "celebrity" cases, they come to mind easily for you. I wasn't referring to any of those, nor did I have them in mind. Those oddities are not relevant. The fact that a jury convicted someone does not mean that person was guilty. It simply means they were found guilty. I'm relieved to hear you will never be on a jury, but then I don't understand your concern that I might be. You brought it up. I don't know how minds such as yours are formed. Hence the question about marijuana legalization over by you.
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  16635.  @gomahklawm4446  You came to jeer at a convicted murderer in a case where the evidence is persuasive but not ironclad, and you think someone else should get a life. Interesting. How does that happen?
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  16636. They even imitate Trump fashion. This is becoming like a dystopian movie. Can you expect people to believe it's real?
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  16637.  @Asgard2208  All decent people have to contemplate leaving the US at this point, to remove themselves from its imperialist project and the propaganda that goes with it. Thanks for the reminder.
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  16638. She doesn't think it's a bad thing. "Mission accomplished. "
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  16639.  @norman7527  🤣
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  16640. I never thought I'd live to see this. The cowardice staggers me. I never thought Americans could be manipulated like this with fear, and by a disease with at most a 2% case fatality rate -- meaning at most 2% of the people who get really sick and know it. A cancer diagnosis, or silent heart attack, with a 98%++ cure rate is a reason to party.
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  16641. Meticulous preparation, whenever she is invited. :)
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  16642.  @galvanaut7119  Ha, ha. No. YOU got it backwards. Look at the recent article, from this fall. But in any case, the Israeli study is by far the most comprehensive and reliable, and is not a pre-print.
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  16643.  @galvanaut7119 There are a slew Israeli studies, including a recent one in NEJM. The best ones are coming out of Israel now, as they have near-universal vaccination. The one I referenced came out in late August, but there have been more since then. Hospitalization for COVID from all causes includes myocarditis. Basic Venn diagram.
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  16644.  @galvanaut7119 My tablet doesn't have enough power to hunt, cut and paste now. I gave you the information. Have it your way.
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  16645. No, her point was that you cannot rely on what this Court will do. Robbie said he thought some of the laws are unconstitutional, and Brie suggested that after overturning Roe, we don't know, and can't predict what the Court will do next.
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  16646. 32:19 Versailles, circa 1780.
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  16647. You're undoubtedly right. Neera Tanden and Rahm Emanuel both have jobs.
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  16648. You could swear the pandemic isn't real. That's how the elites act, anyway. Like it was a stock buying opportunity or something.
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  16649.  @sirius1696  Were they waiting during those ten years? Being very, very careful not to ask for too much, and above all not to "offend?"
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  16650. Vaccines (immunotherapy, actually) prevent severe or lethal COVID for 6 to 9 months. This is true. Whether the cost-benefit analysis weighs in favor of vaccines for most people (i.e., under 70 and no comorbidities), given the short time they provide protection, is the next question.
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  16651. THANK YOU. It is simple.
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  16652. ​@somatotrophin1535 The study does not differentiate between COVID mortality and non-COVID mortality. If the vaccines reduce overall COVID mortality, without literally killing a lot of people, then of course they will also reduce all-cause mortality, since the latter includes COVID mortality. No one claims vaccines undermine health MORE THAN they prevent COVID death overall. I think they might in some groups, like people under 25. Why has Europe stopped pushing these vaccines for anyone under 50, for that matter? Only multivariate analysis can figure out what is really happening, and that takes time and money. And honesty. But lying pays better.
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  16653. Take care!
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  16654.  @signoresantinoburnett1169  So glad to hear. Happy New Year to you, too!
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  16655. Dark
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  16656.  @ashkebora7262  Except that lots of people were saying Chappelle ought to be next. How did school shootings spread?
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  16657.  @ashkebora7262  That's just the point. Those who assault comedians just got the world's highest platform for thr performing arts. They used to be immediately banned from dive bars. P. S. Chicago in the house. I once broke up a bar fight. And I'm a girl.
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  16658. @Vann Siggi Is an intense hatred based on race "valid?" Or how about fear based on race? What if you are really, really scared? What if you feel like you can't help it?
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  16659. @Vann Siggi Hence neither valid nor invalid. They simply are. Acting on certain feelings, in certain ways, however, may be good or bad.
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  16660. The way to get away from a dangerous man is to make him think breaking up is his idea. Be unattractive. Drone on and on about the most boring things. Say you can't have children due to some serious medical condition, vary between acting like you're worried about it and being utterly negligent about your health. Do something disgusting, make a disgusting noise and then laugh loudly. When he acts like he wants to get rid of you, look sad and truly surprised, and then suddenly morose. This will work.
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  16661.  @grumpyjohnny6982  Based on reading the article, verifying credibility to the extent possible, finding the original article and listening to an interview of Jacques Baud on French media. Also considering whether it is consistent with what was known by leading scholars BEFORE the invasion. (Cohen, Mearsheimer, Golinkin, the latter being very anti-Putin). Why? How do you decide?
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  16662. There are categories of speech that are not protected, but "hate speech" isn't one of them. Lying, without more, isn't one of them, either.
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  16663. Jimmy. Let's be fair. How could Brandon tell she's a lunatic?
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  16664.  @dertythegrower  Let me see if I understand. People have rights, to do as they like. But the rest of us have to like it. We have no choice.
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  16665.  @cglenn1457  I'm glad you think so. If you knew what I really thought . . .
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  16666.  @anonymousperson3023  Are we forbidden to critique Todd "Joe Rogan took horse dewormer" Grande? His take was ridiculous. And gun laws are ridiculous.
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  16667.  @VoteBlue450  Of course.
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  16668. Your inability to follow an argument with more than one premise is not just sad.
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  16669. EXACTLY, and you are being very generous.
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  16670.  @00Murkglider  No such animal. That's true.
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  16671. Seriously? Every time I'm around white people, they bring up "the blacks."
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  16672.  @Redbird1504  Ha, good one. She didn't defend him, either.
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  16673.  @Redbird1504  She said that of course it is fair to prosecute him. Then she observed that this sort of thing used to be handled privately. I would agree that those days are LONG gone, for a lot of reasons. We also didn't have school shootings. Outbursts are more emotionally taxing and disruptive to those present than they once were. One more thing that s_cks these days.
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  16674.  @erincoco612  Hate speech is very much protected. Brandenburg v. Ohio is chock full of it. Counterman v. Colorado has plenty, too.
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  16675.  @BeWater.MyFriend  President Mummy
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  16676. The people who doubled their money in the market believe Newsweek, and they are the Better People.
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  16677.  @Matt-vo1ge  Look up the lawsuit filed against Tesla by California for severe and pervasive employment discrimination and the administrative complaint against Neuralink for primate torture.
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  16678. AND TI smears him on the way out. I wish I could say I expect better. :/ ;/
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  16679. ​ @MetalSanta7766 It's all chaos and a disgrace. It's chaos all the way down.
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  16680.  @darkeimp555  You better stop "running your mouth," or else it's MeToo time for you, was Ana's DM to Dore. She threatened him because he denounced her shameful smear of Aaron Mate, who has been doing on the ground reporting on a vital foreign policy issue. Her smear was so bad, Roger Waters was talking about it. Even Kyle talks about it here. We just bombed Syria again. Jimmy reported on it. Missed it?
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  16681.  @darkeimp555  So . . . Seven years ago, a guy who worked under her complimented her clothes and SHE'S NOT GOING TO REMAIN SILENT ANYMORE!!!! Imagine, having to be silent all those years, the poor woman. Of course she has a right to speak. Instead of writing insults to a complete stranger and bragging about your maturity, you might want to, say, look up "blackmail," or look up "OPCW," or look up United Nations and Aaron Mate. I mean, it's an idea. You'll need to look up stuff for your writing class.
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  16682.  @darkeimp555  Wait a second. When did JIMMY DORE say he was pure?? Whoa.
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  16683.  @darkeimp555  Guaranteed no matter how old you are, you LOOK old enough to be my mother.
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  16684.  @dorianoeser1529  Certainly. She was demanding to be placated, or else she was going to expose Dore, and she had his note to prove her case, since that apology was an obvious admission of wrongdoing. Whether there was any promise or concession he could make at this point, such as a firm commitment to stop "running his mouth," to the benefit of Ana, was left ambiguous, though of course Ana's intent was clear. IOW, she got her message across, yet obviously without risk of prosecution. You'd think she practiced this stuff, or something.
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  16685.  @dorianoeser1529  Do you realize how powerful a MeToo attack can be? Do you realize a senator had to leave over a swarming? She thought Dore was hugely vulnerable. She expected to win. You haven't told me why she messaged at all. She could simply have exposed what she knew about Dore's past.
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  16686.  @yuuka926  I have to say that I didn't play the game -- but that is nothing to brag about, because it stems from my alienation from American society. It's not the result of anything "noble," it's a fluke.
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  16687. He's in the pocket of a handful of billionaires, too.
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  16688. I think there was a similar study in California, with similar results.
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  16689. She did great.
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  16690. The two on the right are smearing her, misrepresenting her views, and saying her brain is broken. She didn't engage in similar ad hominem. I would swear at them and leave.
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  16691. 1. Access to such sensitive information requires training, security clearance, and above all no conflict of interest or divided loyalities. (I don't know about you, but I don't think Palantir, for example, has the best interests of Americans at heart.) 2. Who do you think has the capacity to conduct this audit? Do you think an ordinary CPA is qualified? Do you have any idea what sorts of teams conduct forensic audits of the largest corporations? You think it's tech bro hacker "geniuses?"
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  16692. @akap_987  All right. I appreciate that. But I did not hear drama and hyperbole. Musk's Palantir ties are enough to concern every person on earth, because that data is used to un-alive. Since at least 9/11, I've noticed that every warning we've had concerning threats to our privacy and freedom has turned out to be overly optimistic. Did you expect the last five years to be what they were? Did you expect 2008-2009, for that matter?
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  16693.  @Viamii  Since you watched the trial, you didn't notice Depp smirking? Or the psychologist on his team smirking? Or Camille smirking? Really? And you also didn't notice the times Depp obviously lied, or acted as though he was impaired?
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  16694. @damienalvarez2957  The strange part is that she did not vote for Hillary (no surprise), OR Biden (some surprise). So, where is the benefit? She is only hurting her credibility. I could see saying "don't boo a minor." I accept that. But that's my limit.
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  16695. @oceania2385   That was precisely Fauci's job -- to build a consensus around terms like gain of function, so that we could always deny we were doing research we had signed conventions against. You know, the sorts of things Iraq was about.
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  16696. Ooo, that was sharp.
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  16697.  @kennethmcneil3478  Perfect. Truth.
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  16698. Billionaires will make sure you aren't hired.
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  16699.  @secondshooterweddingfilmmaker  please don't say that . . . :D
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  16700. The presidency of Harvard was a struggle between two billionaires. The surprise was that it came to the surface. But it didn't matter.
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  16701. 💯
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  16702. As long as there were alternatives, resort to war was wrong. That does not negate multiple causes.
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  16703.  @floriankrause7203  That's you parroting your media. Psychobabble. See the Andrew Cockburn interview on Democracy Now. The West still has the ideological hegemony to create "unworthy" victims. Russia does not have that -- nor should it. So this is not cost-free to Putin. War should be very costly, to the point where Putin could be deposed. That's something the US war machine need not worry about. No one knows how many civilians the US killed across the Middle East and in Africa. We literally don't have the numbers. This is a rude reminder to their survivors.
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  16704. ​ @bropitt  Why? Nubians were Pharaoh for over a century, and Homer confirms they had relations with ancient Greece. Granted, she's not East Mediterranean. Probably.
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  16705. Back when a summer job easily covered in-state tuition, what was so bad about that?
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  16706. You see no problem with how they reported the assassination? REALLY?
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  16707. You've got over a hundred people agreeing that Olayemi doesn't practice law! 🤣🤣🤣 I guess that does it, her New York license is about to be cancelled.
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  16708.  @sisuguillam5109  Your condescending tone speaks volumes. About you, I mean.
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  16709. So then it would be easy to raise it by 2025, which is what the bill called for. The period of adjustment should be just right. And if not, the last raise could be postponed 6 to 9 months, etc.
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  16710. ​ @ericholdsworth6611 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  16711. ​ @BrotherAlpha  P. S. Does Novak Djokovic count?🤣 Wanted to get that in, in case the rational stuff is shadow banned, as usual.
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  16712.  @darylhudson777  I am a lawyer who worked for the federal courts. I am not tempted. My closest relatives were in Europe for most of my life. My surprise was how much better they lived than we did. Shock doesn't begin to describe. I have a foreign diploma, too. But I would never qualify for Canada, even being a small part French and educated in France. I knew that. They closed a long time ago. They did not want American retirees in particular, or anyone who could not work for a decade. It galls me, my father and mother's only brother were both British Army veterans, WWII. You would think I could live in Canada if I qualified otherwise. Well . . . Wow, your last DWI a generation ago, you naughty naughty boy. So, people born that day could legally drink during most of the pandemic. (I'm assuming you aren't getting away with it better. It is a bad idea for all concerned.) Here, that is a trivial record. You could probably get it expunged. $$
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  16713.  @rollitup419  I've lived here most of my life. I think I know. Every member of my family worked for someone who committed Enron-style crimes. Once you open the conversation, a lot of people will admit that. But no one will go first. People are forced to lie too much to live.
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  16714. Robbie, opposition to the USSR had nothing to do with opposition to communism. We have seen since the 1990s, and especially over the last decade, that it was based on hatred of Russians. We incentivized dependence on the Chinese labor market, and we subsidize it by protecting the global shipping lanes. We have no principles other than grabbing what others have and do and making it ours, in the most deft way we know how.
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  16715. You know, the NYTimes claims this move against him by people like Neil Young is growing. They aren't giving up so easily.
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  16716. Did you miss the latest? The biolab issue isn't propaganda. Nuland just addressed it, an excerpt of her sworn testimony is on Greenwald's channel. TeleSUR just reported (in Spanish) that China has demanded the US account for all the money it is pouring into biological laboratories around the world. The Indian press and even AFP have been raising questions about the DOD funding of biolabs in Ukraine and George Galloway was denounced over the weekend for reporting on this. Stay tuned.
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  16717.  @stupedcraig  You poor thing. What won't YOU swallow? You have all the information here to find authoritative sources. You ask for what you know will be excised, and that is deliberate.
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  16718.  @stupedcraig  The US Department of Defense funds these, and the US Embassy admits to six such labs. DOD, not NIH. "So what," huh? Recall our excuse for invading Iraq, or has a steady diet of propaganda and abuse ruined your memory?
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  16719.  @stupedcraig  A familiar trajectory, so far: Biolabs in Ukraine is a conspiracy theory. Biolabs in Ukraine is Russian misinformation. Biolab funding is to make sure dangerous pathogens are destroyed. Biolab funding is in one place only, and is purely peaceful. Biolab funding is by the US Department of Defense, in its threat reduction initiative. Biolab funding is in six labs, at least, for the purpose of comprehensive threat reduction. Biolab funding by DOD exists throughout Ukraine, to reduce the threat. . . . "Putin puppet!!! Putin puppet!!!" That's how they sell it to you. The entire pandemic followed the boiling frog paradigm.
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  16720.  @JoeBidenHatesU  Did the man who took him down have that specific information? Think this through.
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  16721. Right. Obviously they knew all along.
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  16722. You've carefully read the ICJ ruling, I take it?
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  16723. A study just showed that spikes in cardiac arrest in young adults occur after mRNA vaccine drives and urged further scrutiny immediately to see if the vaccines are causing it.
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  16724. Nice point. It is different, but exactly how different? Does Apple expect such a photo to be removed? Websites like Yelp have used Section 230 to refuse to remove defamation of individuals. But corporation$ are different. 😒
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  16725. Stefanik's performance is fundraising at its finest. The cleavage was an inspired touch.
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  16726. Because . . . Russia? /s It's their go-to, all purpose reason.
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  16727. It's not happening. 😢
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  16728. Please don't be sick. See the . . . humor? Er, . . .
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  16729. ​ @roybatty8366  Yes, tell people to do what the highest bidder thinks they should do. I mean come on. Look what Hillary gets for a speech.
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  16730. Hillary was in the news when she went to Ireland, and when DOJ indicted one of her former lawyers. Just happened. It was in the New York Times.
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  16731. They are for MINORS.
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  16732.  @blindliberty4478  Crossing state lines is irrelevant to the charge. This is just another talking point. He's not facing federal charges, so whether he crossed state lines or not means nothing. Nor does the exception for rifles apply here. LOOK at the criminal complaint. It's available. You are being mislead by grievance pimps. Or you enjoy the anger rush.
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  16733.  @nicolkirk6396  I like Olayemi more and more. Learn to spell names.
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  16734. Arg, you beat me to it.
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  16735.  @NinaEye  Thank you.
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  16736.  @ruthx3346  I agree about mistaken, no question. Or misleading, or not exactly as remembered or reported. Of course human error is not illegal. Why do you think "deliberately false" cannot be sanctioned? That IS lying under oath.
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  16737. I like how you put that. 🌟
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  16738. No, actually. It just goes one way. Lethal force in defense of property, where there is no imminent danger to anyone's personal safety, is illegal. If someone tells you otherwise, and you are inclined to believe them, I suggest you take the time to read carefully and inform yourself.
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  16739.  @seventhcompactor1505  blocked
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  16740.  @rolandoledesma7548  His point is that people voted against Trump, not for Biden. I think that's true.
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  16741. Truth is truth. At least once in a while.
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  16742. Or are multimillionaires (except in entertainment) and their kid wins the football game for her kids' high school. See? Proves she's not racist. /s
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  16743. Hillary, the Uniter. I needed a good laugh.
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  16744.  @scottmcloughlin4371  Amen
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  16745.  @EZEonIon  Education most certainly is necessary for journalism, though not necessarily degrees. But when I think of good independent journalists, I do think of people who went to school: Greenwald, Poitras,Taibbi, Iversen, etc., come to mind quickly.
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  16746.  @EZEonIon  All true. It is much harder to do than people realize, too. The Internet is a two-edged sword. I know it has caused me to waste too much time by far, but also let me know about books, music, movies that I might not have found out about, or had such ready access to.
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  16747. Thank you so much for this, Glenn. Is there anything sweeter than a baby beagle? 😢
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  16748. The DNA is too strange. If it belonged to ANYONE but an unknown assailant, it would not be significant. But it is there, and has appeared in other unsolved cases. The DA did the right thing to move for dismissal without prejudice.
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  16749. What a thing to say about your teacher.
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  16750. The risks are with very young people, barely past puberty and a few years beyond. Look up the warnings. There is no reason to think the warnings apply to every demographic, although a responsible doctor will monitor for signs in everyone, of course.
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  16751. Look up the deaths per million on Worldometer. NO developed country has our death rate from COVID. No, not Italy. Not Sweden, which rejected a lockdown. Not UK. No one. Just like no developed country had a wave of drug overdose deaths during this pandemic like the US did. None.
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  16752. I hope people understand the full gravity of what happened. Trump and the Deep State either have no regard for fundamental constitutional principles, in the former case and the latter, or are actively engaged in undermining the Constitution and what's left of democracy, to some degree in the former case and much more in the latter. Trump was a threat, the Deep State upped the ante massively.
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  16753.  @shotgunkawaii116  False. The relative risk profiles of the various vaccine types are not the same. This was made clear in 2021, when Johnson & Johnson was briefly suspended and the others were not. It was further made clear when we found out that age and sex had a bearing on risk for the mRNA vaccines -- the two mRNA vaccines not having the same risk profile, either. This is why a lot of European countries are not using Moderna before age 50, and not recommending vaccination before age 16 at all -- and not pushing it on people under 30, and not pushing boosters on those who have already had COVID and recovered. Why do you think we're all ignorant? Counting on something to have destroyed our memories?
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  16754.  @energeticgorilla  I was amplifying it, dweeb.
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  16755. This program is dishonest. This is not what happened. Oh well. No wonder dishonesty is rampant. 💰
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  16756. @Mman.  Well, a rare bit of wonderful news: NRA v. Vullo, a victory for the First Amendment. Sotomayor for a unanimous Court. So, good things can still happen. I hope the commentary points out why this isn't about the NRA but about free speech. Really important.
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  16757. The war is being privatized (the contractors will remain). But you're right, if the story pops back up, we will know why.
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  16758.  @tinasmith1391  Exactly. The reason (excuse?) is that they are too difficult to monitor for TOS violations.
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  16759. THIS. He is shameless. When he was caught, he cried. Not for what he did, for being exposed.
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  16760. If proportionality of punishment is the issue, then making comparisons is the point.
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  16761. We always accept what "our side" does. We have been supporting the Nazis in Ukraine since 2014. This isn't new. Look at some analyses of the Azov Battalion that long predate this war, especially from people who strongly oppose the Russian invasion and see no justification for it, like Lev Golinkin. It is not the case that we didn't know who we were arming.
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  16762.  @nosuchthing8  No, chances are very few had suffered from a prior COVID infection and fully recovered.
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  16763. If Trump is so dangerous, why are they running Biden against him? And supporting Biden's policy in Palestine? Is that a triviality for AOC?
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  16764.  @hudsonstraight8628  Good for you. Don't be surprised if you enjoy the best health of your life in a year or so. It's a lot of work to eat right, exercise, . . . But SO worth it!
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  16765.  @Barneyrubble241  I don't disagree. :/
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  16766. The joke about the horse is the best one yet.
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  16767. Remember when babies taken out of incubators mattered? Back when it didn't happen.
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  16768. Were there children at this venu? No. The dad, Rich Fierro, who was the hero at the event, is in his 60s and his children are adults. His daughter was there with her boyfriend, and her boyfriend was killed in the attack. Read the Military Times account of who Richard Fierro is.
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  16769. I agree this guest is horrible.
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  16770.  @musakphil0305  People on these boards are assuming so, and are making comments based on that assumption. Some are further assuming that he brought minor children to the event. People are strange now. I don't like seeing anything bad said about Fierro. His daughter's boyfriend is one of those killed. He is a hero and is devastated by the loss.
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  16771.  @universalsoldier2293  Yes. Also Briahna Joy Gray. Max and Ben. Katie Halper. Not many, but they exist.
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  16772. Video can be admitted in court only if there is a way to verify its authenticity. If Rittenhouse created the circumstances that led to his need to defend himself, he probably cannot claim self-defense. Basically that means this will need to be sorted out in a real court, with witnesses under oath and real world stuff like that.
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  16773. Norm, tell us what you really think. 😂
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  16774. @DMAN590  Sure. We need funding solutions, just like we do for police, firefighters, national defense, and so forth. You're right, you didn't call it a Ponzi scheme. I was just clarifying why it isn't, since that was what the video was about.
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  16775. @vajukal  After the 9/11 attacks, the implosion of the financial sector in 2008-2009, and COVID, anyone who thinks that "doing the right thing" will guarantee your material necessities is whistling in the dark. I know someone who always says that "if you're a good person, bad things won't happen to you." Turns out, three family members are suffering from devastating illnesses at young ages. Major transplants, cancers that are terminal, etc., -- that level of serious.
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  16776.  @alphaforce6998  You think people with cancer don't believe in Jesus??
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  16777. Or, she could go into law or journalism. Or she should cower. She should quietly slink away, because some Big People won't Like It if she Asks Questions.
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  16778. Yes!!! What do we want? CENSORSHIP! When do we want it? NOW.
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  16779. Vaccine hesitancy is higher in minority communities than in white, and you are focusing on this guy instead, who repels most people. And you push hate at everyone not yet vaccinated. Nice going. You thought this through. /s
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  16780.  @mikey92362  🤣🤣🤣 There is no such thing as a billionaire who is a "hard-core leftist." How did this nonsense ever invade the discourse?
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  16781. Brilliant. 🔥
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  16782. That's not cheating. Do you seriously not understand what a quorum is? Do you think Senators don't know? 😂
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  16783. They mentioned the defunding of fire fighters in the first place.
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  16784. ​ @PeteMD  Is it moral to be absent from work without excuse? Or vote by party line rather than by merit? That's moral? 😮
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  16785. ​ @PeteMD That's your best shot? But someone else . . . 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  16786. We don't support other genocides. As in, with lawyers, guns, and money.
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  16787.  @shamus248  1. You are almost certainly right. 2. Let's leave them alone anyway, as long as they extend the same courtesy to us. The people who did this to us made bank. Never forget that.
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  16788. ​@RAWSND You need better books. Not meant to be snide at all; you obviously care about those things or you would not have liked him.
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  16789. Their amorality comes as no surprise to me, but their absence of conceit does. She really doesn't think her own writing is The Best in the World, and that she's so much Smarter Than Everybody Else? 😅
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  16790. @anna-tn8mg  You believe this? No, the President and Congress are approving money and weapons sales to a party in a conflict where the ICJ found a plausible case that genocide was being committed or was at imminent risk of occurring. That is who is arguably "supporting" genocide. (The American judge concurred in the ICJ ruling.) Do you grasp the meaning of RESEARCH FRAUD? That is more than copying someone's text.
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  16791. There have been issues with that, too. With all the carrots, red bell peppers, and varieties of sweet potatoes we have now, we should get vitamin A from foods.
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  16792. I agree with this. Someone must become sane. No one seems to want to be first.
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  16793. I actually appreciate this analysis of discourse, and how little it reflects reality, or even tries to. We lose the tether to what is true. The word "survivor," for people who had Stage 0 cancer or something, is equally absurd.
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  16794. The car was not moving. Nahel was threatened by one of the police officers with "a bullet to the head." It is perfectly clear on the recording. ONLY THEN did he take off. Wasn't this translated into l'anglais?
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  16795.  @ljohnson2181  Pfft. You try again. I didn't say INDIA was shipping vaccine out of the country.
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  16796.  @inavejin1894  My mother was from there. It was why I asked. :)
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  16797.  @inavejin1894  You, me, and Tesla LOL!
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  16798. Fair point for sure.
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  16799.  @googlesucks7954  Some of its leadership is PCF, not its rank and file. Shocking, innit? How far we have fallen -- a hard left union in France demonstrates against mandates(!) while our late-night comics "joke" about denying medical care to unvaccinated.
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  16800. This is what we need to watch. "Keep your eye on the ball."
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  16801. You mean that's why Ana could defame Aaron Mate and cover it up with the "misogyny" smokescreen? Higher standards?
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  16802. Brie critics: Answer her point about how Matt Taibbi was targeted by the IRS, the motive being to shut him up. Just do that part first, before you come for her.
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  16803.  @danielguntermann2669  I miss Cohen so much. ;/
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  16804. ​@Cloudchopper-x1r Which is funny, since that's not a religion.
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  16805.  @anthonytwohill9726  All true. If only it weren't.
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  16806.  @anthonytwohill9726  The debates involving arithmetic are the ones that really slay me.
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  16807. @Gee Vee He reportedly said it himself, and recorded it.
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  16808. @Gee Vee If false it's bad, if true it's bad.
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  16809. This is who Madeleine Albright grants interviews to. She shouldn't have a job.
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  16810. Mattias Desmet and Anne-Laure Bonnel are right.
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  16811. I love and respect Amy Goodman more than ANY other journalist in the world. Thank you Amy. You are the best.
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  16812. It is when government actors pressure a private entity to censor -- yes, it is a First Amendment violation.
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  16813. @A_Boogeyperson  It has devolved into cultish score-settling, done for personal advantage posing as justice. Yup, pretty bad.
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  16814.  @jonasion  Quand on parle plusieurs langues, ca arrive toujours.
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  16815. The first student brought up a contradiction in Bannon's rhetoric, and his response was a little too rambling and defensive. The second student did the same, highlighting actual contradictions. This is classically Socratic. The answer was very interesting, because Bannon's best ideas are NOT the ones that were implemented. Travel bans, sure. Accountability for the destruction wrought by Big Money? HA. Trump depends on Deutsche Bank. Bannon also used a slogan in his answer, "triggered." Not a good sign. The third student gave him an opportunity to comment on the demonstrators, who were the real deplorables. No problem. Bannon again gave an answer that shows that his best ideas are NOT the ones that are implemented. The student then pointed out that those who have attained political power are publicly distancing themselves from him, and asked him to comment. Again, interesting. Bannon did not mind the question. The fourth student began by taking a stand for freedom of speech, then asked an excellent question about Bannon's view of election prospects in 2020. The fifth student first thanked him for staying over, to talk to them. Then she asked a very astute question about about political trust. Bannon appreciated the question, and was enthusiastic about answering, because it gave him a chance to talk about the things he is most passionate about. She made a counterpoint, and he tried to play folksy. He used another trope that she did not, "sorry for mansplaining." The sixth student said that the economic progess was not thanks to Trump, and that Trump did not, in general, solve the problems Bannon correctly highlights. AGAIN, Bannon's best ideas were NOT not not implemented. And Bannon DOES have lots of good ideas. The seventh student asked a very open-ended question on immigration, allowing Bannon to express himself on a matter he is passionate about, and show off some more of his good ideas. Which go nowhere. (The bad ones get implemented immediately.) Starting to see a pattern? So, who was so disappointing? The students were fine. You are biased against them.
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  16816. "Independent?" Great, then it can be removed from . . . oh wait.
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  16817.  @chinothepony  If you call them the pseudo-left, I could agree.
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  16818. Total realism. I was thinking this, but could never have expressed it as well as you did. The idea was to punish the activity, as an example to others; the person has been neutralized for sure.
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  16819.  @joncarr1200  Read the post again.
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  16820. Why is someone who is as poorly informed as Nomiki have this job? She is not qualified. At all. I'm stunned.
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  16821. Dore was vaccine injured. Save "anti-vaxx" for the anti-vaxxers.
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  16822. He was part of the team that developed mRNA technology for immunotherapy vaccines at Salk, then at a small biotech. A lot of people worked on it.
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  16823.  @canadianrepublican1185  Be careful with that.
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  16824.  @apoorvat4245  Yeah, too bad about Linda. Smh.
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  16825.  @shelbybilicki  I agree with you -- I was thinking the same thing.
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  16826.  @hazmat5118  Well, I agree that early variants, including the original virus, were clearly more dangerous to older people than current variants are. It now appears that even early on, young people were often asymptomatic, so the vaccines were probably not as helpful to them as to those over 40, and especially over 70. I think at this point we know a lot of people were injured by the vaccines, but now the discourse is shifting, so that those people are being scared they they will never get better. This is unbelievably cruel, and appears not to be the case. Jennifer Sharp, who just wrote, directed, and appeared in the documentary Anecdotals, said that she herself is almost back to normal, and most of her side effects ended within several months of taking the vaccine. They were not trivial, but her life was not at risk and she is much better. For her, the real story was the silencing and shunning she was subjected to after she had a reaction -- which may have made her symptoms worse. That ticks me off hugely.
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  16827.  @andrew1717xx  More proof that every thing isn't good for every body. (smh, this is news now?) Penicillin has killed those with allergies, as has aspirin.
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  16828.  @hazmat5118  Please take care and don't be scared. Throughout life I've been struck by how often a scary prognosis (nevermind scary speculation based on practically no data) has turned out to be wrong. My late mom loved that famous book by Norman Cousins. That is a great, short book to reread now. In fact, I think I will.
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  16829. These exaggerations puzzle me, as if what happened wasn't bad enough and needs to be misrepresented to matter. Anyway, what happened to "stiff upper lip?" Remember Walter Cronkite fighting to maintain composure when JFK was assassinated? And RFK, announcing that King had been shot dead?
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  16830. Those who don't know, read The Torture Machine, by Fred Hampton's lawyer Flint Taylor.
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  16831.  @utah_koidragon7117  The one I'm not allowed to say.
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  16832. Je vous admire beaucoup!!
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  16833. Cirrhosis? Dr. Campbell, they drove us to drink.
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  16834.  @DSan-kl2yc  Exactly. And the disability this causes in many people has been lasting for months.
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  16835.  @jogiff  I think it's official. MR has the worst comments.
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  16836.  @jogiff  You don't know what you're talking about, and you are engaged in the most rank defamation. Why are Americans so prone to shameless lying all of a sudden? (Can economic, political, and social implosion be far behind? Students of history have reason to be concerned.)
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  16837.  @jogiff  You keep lying for some reason. All the key communications on that resignation were immediately published.
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  16838.  @jogiff  And Greenwald's article turned out to be right.
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  16839.  @jogiff  Why are you imitating Trump's communication style if you oppose him? Including the compulsive lying . . .
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  16840. ​ @utah_koidragon7117 Great question.
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  16841. WHAT is "white culture?" The Ethiopians had writing before the Russians did.
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  16842. Are type A sociopaths hugely likely to get rich in Canada? Well, then, you don't reward them.
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  16843. Director for the Georgetown Center for the Constitution is first and foremost a Public Relations position. Fair or not, he displayed a lack of public relations skills. If he wants to tweet whatever he wants, that is fine, but then a different position, such as simply Professor of Law, would be a "better fit."
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  16844. ​ @maluribeiro68  It's because she isn't American.
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  16845. @a How is that related? I don't follow.
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  16846. They are much too immature to grasp Ecclesiastes (chapter 9 verse11).
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  16847. I wish you were not 💯correct.
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  16848. Trump did whatever the last person who flattered him best asked him to do. Trump was very lazy. It was simple to get him to do what other people wanted. Did he know who the Iranian general was, who he ordered assassinated by drone? Someone put the paper in front of him, it was easier to sign than ask questions.
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  16849.  @_blank-_  I love French, but agree with you. Actually, Mexican Spanish is great. Very clear, consistent pronunciation of all consonants and vowels.
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  16850. Saw some videos of Elian Gonzalez all grown up. He has only the kindest things to say about America and wants to visit. His relatives in Florida denounce him, and talk about how his father never paid them back the money they spent on him, when it was a miracle he survived the shipwreck alive.
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  16851.  @shameiti  So much death around, and yet we are hell-bent on directly causing more more more, and with cold deliberation. That was what I meant. I thought the George Floyd murder was all the more shocking, at a time when I would have expected people say to themselves memento mori. But oh well.
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  16852. ​ @LTPottenger I fasted 46 hours over a two-day period, then 18 to 20 hours per day for four more days. Based on your research, will this have immune system benefits?
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  16853. THIS. It is medicine that is letting us down. That any of this proceeded, anywhere, without huge discussion and strict guidelines, is a profound shock. I thought medical ethicists were a thing.
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  16854. The term "conspiracy theory" has been weaponized. People who do not understand evidence-based reasoning or Bayesian probability, even on a bare, intuitive level, and spin a more elaborate conspiracy when a simpler story is revealed to be baseless, are giving real conspirators the perfect cover. RICO was designed to address something. Extensive research into clandestine operations has revealed astounding conspiracies by the FBI and the CIA to dupe, use honest artists and writers as fronts, experiment on people with psy-ops protocols, and assassinate dissidents. Read Frances Stonor Saunders, read Flint Taylor. Or read The Atlantic on Ted Kaczynski, the "Unabomber." Or watch a BBC doc by Adam Curtis, take notes, then do your own verification of the claims. The real strangeness of the world, and of what people will do to one another, feeds these theories and the anguish of the people who believe them.
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  16855.  @bullmoose5574  WHAT recessions? The 1981-82 recession was the worst since the Great Depression, and was only beat in 2008, over a generation later. It was deliberately created. What's even worse is that Reagan got us to think that's normal, and to sneer at those dislocated. Reagan made Rust Belt destruction of manufacturing inevitable, and accelerated it. How did Germany and Sweden escape that fate? After 1982, we did not have another official recession in the 1980s, but local conditions were recessionary in much of the country, like in the Midwest. He started us on the divisive path.
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  16856.  @capttrips1523  Tell yourself any story you want. It's your birthright to command facts. "Everyone knows" fact aren't objective. Bowing to so-called facts is for wimps.
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  16857.  @tracybarhite1764  You're entitled to your own facts. I know better than to try to get in your way.
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  16858. What this does is remind everyone who would be president if Biden were to be elected and die in office. There's no evidence the DNC really wants this. They are doing nothing to win.
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  16859. I disagree. They can vote as they like, every time. They have her posts, so they know. I admire her refusal to answer these questions BECAUSE it is a First Amendment issue. So let them vote her down. I like backbone. So, vote her down. Why do you want her to bend as well??
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  16860. Interesting. I would tend to agree. Police protection as a right degrades the notion of rights. Fire protection as a right degrades the notion of rights. A military force to protect our borders isn't anyone's right. It's enslavement of our young adults to do something we want done but refuse to do for ourselves, and it degrades the notion of rights. I'm starting to like this.
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  16861. ​@utah_koidragon7117 I think it's obvious she likes Bobby. I mean come on.
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  16862.  @sharlagardner  Try listening? I mean, she talks quickly and presents complex arguments and comparisons, so it is good practice.
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  16863. ​@johnstrawb3521 That would be rare but not impossible: someone with a photographic memory, and exceptional visual pattern recognition and fine motor skills could be outstanding. But that's not primarily "due to education." It is due in large part to talent. Discursive ability is rewarded at university, but it has less bearing on success as a heart surgeon than these talents do, by far.
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  16864.  @ianhesford  It's strange, but in France, all that rote memorization leads to rebellion. I can't figure that one out, either.
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  16865.  @iller3  Same
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  16866. The consequences of lying are more controversy, clicks, and MONEY. Any more questions? 😂
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  16867. You are totally right. Greene is agreeing with the host here. No idea why.
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  16868.  @mohamedsamy1431  I suppose that in my example, you could decide never to take a car again. That would make it hard to get to physical therapy, though.
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  16869.  @mohamedsamy1431  There must be a lot of shadow banning here, or illiteracy.
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  16870.  @mohamedsamy1431  "Power" 😂😂😂 You just gave this Tom guy power over your rational faculties. Why? That's something you can control.
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  16871. @mohamedsamy1431  Haha do you take responsibility for failing to grasp the one post that was ironic, and then acting all passive-aggressive in response to your own failure, and blaming that on "my deeper issues?" That's for you to decide. Clearly you cannot sustain reasoned discourse. My best guess is that you need to work on that. You chose to attack OP's solid point without any basis, other than what you claim to be your own unanalyzed experience, to put it politely. That's your responsibility, too.
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  16872. Are you serious? If your boss was worth the equivalent of 50 million dollars per year for every year since the birth of Jesus, you'd take $50k? Get a job you don't hate. Go for it.
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  16873.  @magdelanax2122  I think it may be your turn to offer some solutions REAL QUICK. Hm?
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  16874.  @magdelanax2122  That's not the issue. P. S. Ya got a mirror handy?
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  16875. Right. This is not the first such case. Look up the case of the dentist who poisoned his wife. It was not his first such act.
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  16876. Since you support critical thinking, I'm assuming you read the statement they signed. How does it compare with the Haaretz editorial and Gideon Levy's articles? Full disclosure: I myself have not read the students' statement, but I do follow Haaretz. To be frank, I care about Israeli views, meaning all Israeli views. American college students' views are not of interest to me.
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  16877. There was a story about a CEO the other day whose compensation package is $38 million per year. Do you know what that is? Over $4300 per hour -- for every single hour of every day of the year, waking, sleeping, holidays. Or, assume a 65 hour week, 52 weeks a year; that comes to about $11,240 per hour. Kindly explain who "earns" that. And it is dwarfed by that of the owners.
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  16878. Other occasions don't count in this case, except to show how bad the justice system is and how bad mental health care is. But those are not on trial.
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  16879. He's very good.
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  16880. Well duh. What would be the point of letting it burn? I am so glad for deregulation. Developers will fix this up in no time.
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  16881. Well, Biden's serial plagiarism and flagrant lying didn't hurt him. And Trump? 😂😂😂
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  16882.  @chedderburg  No. Most humans want the reputation of seeking good, because that reputation is rentable. You can monetize it. Saying that most people seek good is failing to appreciate goodness. Goodness is not common. I can personally give you, off the top of my head, seven examples of people who were emotionally abused after contracting cancer. Two were pediatric cases. I represented one of them in education rights, for free. We lost in the end. The one person on our side quit. In another case, the company payroll clerk tried hard to get a woman fired for it, because health insurance premiums would go up. Do I need to tell you she was very vocal in support of charities? She read her Bible at lunch. Very few people are good, even fewer are evil. Most are mediocre. The mediocre are more likely to do what the evil want them to do, or at least what won't attract the attention of the evil. It's safer. Frankly, you come across as someone who never tried to stop evil. If you had, you'd know. (BTW, I already offered my home to Ukrainian refugees if needed, through a Ukrainian friend. You?)
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  16883. He was right to defend Aaron. He was right on Russiagate. He was right on Force the Vote. He was right about Biden so far, but that's tragic.
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  16884. CNN spread dangerous misinformation, during a pandemic. There were a few people who believed CNN, and tried actual horse dewormer. This is a disgrace.
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  16885. Cha-ching
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  16886. @anonone8954  Glenn Greenwald did an interesting report on that. This sort of self-help is not new to the NYC subway, apparently.
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  16887.  @phifedawg8684  Yeah, teach them how to use cocaine, etc., "safely." The global financial system is depending on you. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jul/11/hsbc-us-money-laundering-george-osborne-report
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  16888. Well that's a good thing. 😂
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  16889. Very well said
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  16890. See Glenn Greenwald's piece on this. He sticks to the priniples, does not mention Kyle or any of these side arguments. I exhaled. You may as well.
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  16891.  @johnrambo3239  My very first question was whether these vaccines should be used on people who had had COVID. It was never tested on that population. New vaccine + new type of vaccine, it stands to reason that more testing, not less, is imperative.
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  16892.  @randydoak6638  Please see my post. There was at least one study where it appeared that smokers are less likely to contract COVID but more likely to die from it if they do. Reported in a British publication . . . I tend to say away from purely American research now. JAMA, NEJM, NIH are fine as long as the RESEARCHERS are international, and have no conflicts of interest. Yes it has come to that.
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  16893. THIS YOU GOT IT
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  16894. For a second, I thought of the president, lol.
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  16895. "Was selling?" He had these docs for nearly 20 months. A spy could have photographed them and sold them countless times. Well, Trump is lazy but he loves money, so . . .
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  16896. ​ @ferngrows6740 If you don't know, then don't speculate. It is true that state employees enjoy some First Amendment protections that private employees do not. These are limited, for obvious reasons, but they exist.
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  16897. ​@sthubbins4038 You're right, I would have to see that. But nothing would surprise me. (Exhibit A, Epstein and Maxwell and their circle . . . The days of surprise are over.)
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  16898.  @michaelneufeld4515  Incorrect. But if I explain why, based on the numbers discussed and showing the algebra explicitly, this signals a possible 11% increase above baseline, it is removed.
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  16899. @CLCL748  Just to be clear: no general rule against presenting untrue statements as true would be consistent with the First Amendment. Even lying isn't, as a general matter, illegal or actionable. It could be protected speech. See US v. Alvarez.
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  16900. @CLCL748  Yes, defamation is an exception to First Amendment protected speech, but it involves more than stating a factual falsehood about someone. In fact, if the person is well-known, the falsehood would generally need to be either deliberate (uttered with knowledge that it was a lie), or stated with reckless disregard as to whether it was false. That's known as "New York Times malice." There are some great books on the First Amendment, intended for a general audience. Nadine Strossen is great. I am truly afraid we are close to losing these rights. Billionaires can buy up the commons -- and that includes free speech fora. Let's face it -- private universities always maintained designated free speech fora. They can curtail that, bowing to donor pressure, and that's only the beginning.
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  16901.  @CLCL748  I also answered, but guess what? I know you know. :)
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  16902.  @daniellincoln2693  No, that is exactly what you cannot do. It is not legal to defend mere property with deadly force. You can defend YOURSELF and your personal safety with deadly force. It is a bright line.
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  16903.  @kommisar.  Read what I said again, and try using your imagination a little. Do you remember what used to be major issues? Here is one example: there was a time when during parent-teacher night/open house, every child's mother and father were expected to come. Well, some mothers worked nights, and some fathers wouldn't come without the mother. Then also, some fathers were handicapped or absent, and some mothers had died. Do you think these "deviations" from the teacher's notion of "norms" were always treated sensitively, or that they are treated with sensitivity now? Do you think a little kid should have had to announce that "my dad left," or "I don't have a father," or "my mom is in a wheelchair?" (Why?) Do you think there are no children now whose parents are LGBTQ+? Do you imagine they aren't vulnerable to bullying or exclusion? Do you expect instant universal agreement on how that should be addressed? Well then, accommodating a diverse population will ALWAYS raise issues.
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  16904.  @kommisar.  Some parents might think that anti-bullying programs are a political ideology, and that bullying is no different than "teasing," and that teasing is good for you. Only "weak" kids who can't tolerate "healthy competition" need protection from "teasing." I had a cousin who confronted this, and he and the other targets of bullying had to take a class on becoming tougher. This was a public school, in a posh suburb. Then one day my father (a strong, dark, handsome, Mediterranean-type male) picked up my cousin from school in a muscle car. He was never bullied again. So. Tell me more about your "culture and ideology" . . . 🤣
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  16905. The result of the financialized economy . . .
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  16906. Happened with Epstein (and Maxwell), and Weinstein, and on and on, until the signal made it through to them to clutch their pearls again.
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  16907. No, she said she would call Kamala Harris whatever she wants. That was the uncool thing. Mispronunciation is no big deal in itself.
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  16908. Look up the dementia study, linking MCI to the mRNA vaccines.
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  16909.  @richardandrews9017  I agree. No comparison at all. It does not destroy reproductive freedom and may have important health benefits. But I don't agree with sidestepping questions. LOL
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  16910. My experience, too.
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  16911.  @moniquesmaak7613  There are a handful of very good vaccines. It is best to do very careful research, look to see what other countries give their children (Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, Japan), and see what the outcomes in those places are. It is best to check peer-reviewed research from BEFORE 2019.
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  16912. Thanks for the update! You've made a lot of people happy.
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  16913.  @katiek.8808  Chip's claims have little to do with that. School sports are as competitive as they ever were. Introducing some ways not to exclude everyone who doesn't excel in sports, like acknowledgement for participating, is necessary to help stem a sedentary childhood and obesity. The zero tolerance for fighting, and then ruining a kid's future because of one fight, I agree is stupid. They have to punish fighting in school, but they should make the penalty fair and reasonable, and something that is removed from the kid's record. You know that even girls have been arrested (by police) for less, right?
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  16914. @wotiluv  Sounds good to me.
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  16915. I thought both guests had good points. I guess this discussion is impossible.
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  16916. Yes, this is the bigger picture, I agree But then, why fall into the trap of promoting privilege for a tiny group, instead of taking a clear stand in favor of universal human rights? Of course LGBTQ should have all the same rights as everyone else does. Biological males playing sports with biological females is not a right, and has absolutely nothing to do with racism. There is no analogy.
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  16917. She knows how to make money. Does anyone need to know anything else now? :/
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  16918. She began as independent and built herself up from the ground. (Who says you can't do anything with a philosophy major? The problem is, you have to work harder!)
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  16919. She EXPRESSLY said she has NO disagreement about the regulation. It's about who foots the bill. It's about 💰. This is too tough for you? Still? 😂😂😂
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  16920. So . . . The fisherfolk have to pay for an ineffective regulation AND make it so that only billionaires can afford fresh fish. Nice. That's a plan.
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  16921. Jimmy Dore -- the South Side of Chicago is legendary. So funny. It's not pure disadvantage, it's also an education. Katie and Aaron are my favs. Rare integrity and intelligence.
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  16922. @GaryTugan  Better hope so. No Red Army to take your chestnuts out of the fire this time.
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  16923.  @yuppers1  I wish I were surprised.
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  16924. Why are set-theoretic replies hidden from view?
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  16925. Rogan supported Bernie Sanders. You don't like his politics, or you don't acknowledge his politics? Or his image not something you can relate to? Rogan never had a problem saying what he believes.
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  16926. All of these are policy decisions, made to look like the operation of physical laws. The "virtual" economy, that spawns ad agency/spy agency multibillionaires, is very fragile and runs on massive government support combined with irresponsible deregulation. How did they make you think it was more real than a refrigerator, or indoor plumbing?
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  16927. 💯
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  16928. She's spreading her arrested emotional development, which is a shame. The years ahead will require more than schoolyard logic and pandering. Just "taking sides" won't cut it.
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  16929.  @Blissfulkitty-Seattle  The argument that he will allow speech to the full extent of a country's laws is not a bad one, but when he removes some accounts at any government's bidding, I agree that we are all deprived from seeing the content.
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  16930. Those are two different things. Having a case means it was not about to be dismissed outright. Digging into the motives of a news outlet which edits the content it produces is a non-starter, but this case most likely would have required being willing to carry it through to summary judgment and appeal. (That is why all the carrying on about "hate speech" is nonsense: there is no way to ban "hate speech," in general, under the First Amendment. There is no general ban on lying, either: only some lies are criminal or can be subject to civil suit.)
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  16931. The notion that the national debt has no bearing at all on inflation is puzzling. Or, maybe bubbles aren't "inflation?"
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  16932. Everyone is French. :)
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  16933. Notice how much Briahna and Rachel agree on. Gawd. We are so screwed.
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  16934. "They've decided to burn it all down with us inside." What a sick F.
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  16935.  @xpsxps1339  Fine. You get to say what words mean. You brought up moral right and wrong, hence YOU brought up the notion of "should." (Hume: there is no logically necessary connection between is and ought that permits a deduction from what is the case to what ought to be.) But YOU get to say what words mean. It's your birthright. I know this discussion is futile. I realize who I'm talking to.
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  16936. BEST VIDEO EVER. JD tops himself every time.
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  16937. You can't impose this choice on everyone. Can you be serious? This society keeps offloading the risk on those who are least capable of shouldering it -- in this case, the newborn.
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  16938. 6:20 DUH
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  16939. @SteeleHand  Harris?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Here is a perfect example why the best course is to leave! I used to think no one could be that dumb. Well . . . 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  16940.  @SteeleHand  No, I wrote in Joe Biden. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  16941.  @josephclements2145  He'd be more effective doing that as a real lawyer! Here's an idea: he's trying to make an easy buck. For his daughter. Yours isn't on his mind.
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  16942.  @josephclements2145 Think about what I said. Shapiro could be setting precedent in court, prohibiting schools, parks, and other publicly funded entities from doing exactly that. But what is he doing instead?
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  16943.  @josephclements2145 Okay. I don't agree about Rittenhouse, not after the gun charge was dropped, but you could be right. Is Shapiro such a compelling spokesmodel for pushing the culture in a saner direction? I don't see that. People watch shows like his to get angry or scared, and to take sides. That benefits the showman. These are advertising/marketing gimmicks; real change is happening elsewhere.
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  16944.  @josephclements2145  People already know about the issue. It's affecting their kids.
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  16945. You did? 😂😂😂😂
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  16946. They should post the whole thing 4 to 6 weeks later, or possibly longer. I appreciate why it cannot be done regularly, but special interviews like Norman Finkelstein should be posted eventually. Norm had money troubles at one time, too. He refused to be bought.
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  16947. Beautiful tribute. Yes, Dannielynn is adorable in every way. Breathtaking.
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  16948. I don't care what race the cop was.
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  16949.  @missf4681  I'm so sorry. What a profound trauma for everyone who saw it, all of her family and loved ones, those who hear about it, knowing that one day we will be old, too . . . this hurts everyone.
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  16950.  @missf4681  I took care of my dad at home, and now the rest of my family is abroad. Looking to meet up with them next month! Scary time.
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  16951. ​@damienalvarez2957 These are outstanding legal arguments. They are not effective strategies of communication to wide audiences. Everything Brie said was accurate, literally everything. Robby failed to meet the arguments. If you didn't see that, it is due at least in part to her unsuitable communication style.
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  16952.  @Theonetruegod-hw2ei  Wow. You mean being smart and speaking several languages is like possessing a mythical creature, according to you? I knew standards were low here, especially for what you call "the left" -- which is the RIGHT everywhere else.
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  16953.  @Clubistetk  Who on this video supported Biden? I mean other than AOC. Who buried the Hunter Biden story? Jimmy and Max brought it to you.
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  16954.  @RicArmstrong  False.
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  16955.  @GingerPeacenik  EXACTLY. Trump was different only insofar as he was a less reliable exponent of the neoliberal agenda. The oligarchs expect to see more deft control of the masses, and a more pacified and predictable global stage for their operations. But they LOVED loved Trump's tax policy and deregulation.
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  16956.  @ericko777  Who lifted the moratorium on federal funding of gain of function research? Trump signed anything that sounded like deregulation that was placed in front of him.
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  16957. Found an article from Yale, several years before the pandemic, where one of their top research doctors, Dr. Rose, stated that a vaccine takes 15 to 20 years to develop. He is one of the key researchers in the world working on the development of an Ebola vaccine.
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  16958.  @Station_AI  I wish. Where do you think Trump's base came from? And why do they control a major party, one that began with LINCOLN?
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  16959. Spokesmodel. Mouthpiece. Commissar of Propaganda. Official Hall Monitor.
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  16960.  @gnice8765  Mmm . . . Maybe he wouldn't bristle were it not for the concerted attempt to silence? He has always hated that. See, e.g., "Russiagate." But I think this whole LGBTQ debate has taken up too much time and energy. Fight back against fraudulent discrediting and silencing in all its varieties. They will keep making up new stuff, so . . . Try a more global, one-fell-swoop approach.
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  16961.  @MAC_ABC  That's true, but who would consent to being vaccinated based on Trump's bloviating?
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  16962. You can say anything you want about Judith Butler, because you know no one has read her. https://books.google.com/books/about/Frames_of_War.html?id=KnBHCgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button
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  16963. Unless he's a sheep herder.
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  16964.  @jaanaiasbjrn7929  Probably has a desk job. Those paper cuts can kill.
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  16965. Because it is so close to self-defense in light of the extraordinary circumstances.
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  16966. Why didn't anyone help her?
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  16967.  @ananse77  I agree. As some have pointed out, this is how she is going to make a living now. A lot of people don't make an honest living anymore. In her case, it is not evident what else she could do, and she will need money for therapy, dental work, medical care, and rehabilitation. Ask why a modest, contrite person in her circumstances could never afford what she can afford. That seems to be a big question now.
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  16968. You seem to discount the power of Western/Anglosphere propaganda. Think back when the USSR collapsed. (I agree with SFC that it did not have to, by the way.) The Soviets were not so weak relative to Reagan and Thatcher that they had no hope of reforming and continuing. American society, in particular, is much weaker than it seems -- and every crisis proves it. (E.g., COVID followed by waves of riots, drug overdoses, shootings and mass murders) The typical American college grad knows less mathematics and science than a European 17-year-old, or a Russian 14-year-old, and is more likely to need (really need, not feel like they need) psychotherapy. The Soviets folded anyway, because they believed they needed to spend their treasure on useless armaments. Nor did they believe the 1990s would be as devastating as they were. They were too optimistic, actually. The same thing could happen now. Look, Greece is in the state it is for a reason. It blinked. It was persuaded that it had to. Hmm . . . No it didn't. A deft combination of smoke and mirrors, plus the will to be without principles or mercy when embarking on war, keeps the dollar where it is. It's still working.
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  16969.  @aprescoup  😂
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  16970.  @aprescoup  good one I must say
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  16971. How is it we still don't know who was on the list? We all know where Julian Assange is.
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  16972. In 2018, NPR gave a history of the ArmaLite rifle: "A Brief History Of The AR-15," February 28, 2018, and where it has been used and how.
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  16973. He's describing exactly what these politicians want.
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  16974. If you do catch COVID, chances are you'll be fine. Are you willing to quarantine for two weeks to protect everyone else? Also, did you catch what Saagar said about mutations? Rapid spread increases the likelihood of new strains developing. If you are willing to be tested if you fall ill, and go under strict quarantine if you are positive for COVID, then you and people like you can do what you want about your own healthcare. It's your business. (Um, why am I skeptical?)
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  16975.  @racerxfiles1111  No I'm not. I support your choice, as long as you put no one else in danger. That's the condition. If you meet it, the rest is up to you. I'm an Angela Marsden fan, and am skeptical of all of the closings that have been forced upon us throughout this ordeal, especially of small businesses and primary grades in school. What did you see in my comment that set you off, to the point of swearing at me? Also, I'm not a prk, I'm a cnt. I can already figure out what you are. Far worse than I thought. But that's the usual, these days.
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  16976.  @Tomsfilipsons  You also, please stay in America. Give me hope.
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  16977.  @gregsmith7828  By filing an amicus brief, they are relying on constitutional law. Have you ever seen an amicus? Take a peek, it's public information.
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  16978. You've just summarized it perfectly.
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  16979.  @TheBigGetEven  I AGREE 100% EXACTLY!
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  16980.  @TheBigGetEven  Even very pro-vaccine doctors, like Dr. Eric Topol, agree that a "vaccine-centric" approach (his words) is insufficient.
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  16981.  @natureboy915  I didn't say they can't. On the contrary, they can force a lot of people to say and do exactly what they want, or else.
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  16982. ​ @arlosmith9504 The information is censored. That's something you don't know.
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  16983. ​​ @arlosmith9504 My two accurate comments went poof. Why is that? I repeated CDC facts.
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  16984. ​@arlosmith9504 If something has sufficient characteristics to be deemed to belong a certain class of substances, does that mean it has all the good characteristics of the best substances from that class? Decipherable? Or too abstract?
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  16985.  @xxxstar90dustxxxr  I can't believe I wrote this months ago and just happened upon it again. Yes, Peterson presents the amalgam of Nietzsche and Jung that is recycled every two or three decades, and I'm not impressed at all. He routinely misrepresents views he disagrees with, in the most tendentious way. I feel more for him as a person, because I've come to feel more and more sorry for him. I don't see him as a chronic complainer but as a person who has genuinely suffered. As for his videos, there is only one I have ever seen that is valuable, and it was where he did an interview on creativity at a major art museum in Canada. It was genuinely good. It was also one where he somehow managed to refrain from inserting his political opinions, except to say that educators need to be more sensitive -- not indulgent, but sensitive -- to creative children's needs. I was shocked. Laughing!
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  16986. @Heathernd  Excellent. After all, we don't know why they are troubled about whether they are a boy or a girl, and whether anyone is really helping them. All the more reason to be kind to them.
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  16987. I would love to be friends with you.
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  16988.  @kellharris2491  Not explicitly at 13, in my opinion, no. That is a very tender age, AND the attitude in their home is by no means light and easy but quite controlling and judgmental. A family that was always open and taught morals but acknowledged and respected choices and a freer attitude --- well, that might be different. This isn't that. I'm glad my father didn't talk to ME about virginity at 13, my gawd. But the summer before college, he told me not to believe that men had no ideals and "only wanted one thing." He also gave me a copy of Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask. Er, can you say different value system?
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  16989. Photogenic in Teen Vogue?
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  16990. Same here. I've never heard it said better!
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  16991. Wait. Ryan Grim is suggesting that Democrats work? Why? That's not how they make their money.
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  16992. Read the original research and fact sheets the three vaccine manufacturers themselves put out. They never said the vaccines would stop all illness and spread -- especially not Johnson & Johnson. Their purpose was to ensure a mild illness and prevent hospitalization and death. But the media pushed a different line for some reason.
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  16993.  @msqway11  Oh wow, I admit I didn't read all of it. I will now, to see whether it is funny.
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  16994.  @msqway11  Yeah. I stand by what I wrote. Yeesh.
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  16995.  @GlobalTransformationProject  I don't want to make this about personalities. I do not want to resemble Sam Seder in any way whatsoever right now. :D
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  16996.  @sirtoby4939  Excellent. Perfect! It is a win-win in that respect.
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  16997.  @Critical-Thinker895  Exactly. An eccentric will be right occasionally. It proves nothing. The US genuflects toward anyone who is "the richest man." Gates got this hagiography for years and years.
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  16998. They did a terrible job and were unprepared. They did not defend the First Amendment or the welfare of their students. They don't believe in either. What is wrong with them? How could people in this position be this poor?
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  16999. But when this came out, both underlined the censorship as being the big story here. It is. We know it's selective. Question of nuance.
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  17000. ALWAYS look up what countries with better results and better public health are doing. Their ministries of health are all online. Do some digging. Hint: they are not doing what we are. See Scandinavia, see Switzerland, etc. No mandates, needless to say. Even Sweden had better results than the US, and they never locked down! Worldometer. Look it up.
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  17001.  @LordOfLight  Just out of curiosity, when is the last time you opened a book? I mean other than Bible, Koran, art of seduction, that sort of thing?
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  17002. That's always the case. I'm serious. People who are deeply happy are very quiet about it. I still remember how Alec Baldwin talked about Kim Basinger's childbirth in detail on some late-night show. I knew that marriage was over.
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  17003.  @hulamei3117  Nah, it's the ones who post.
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  17004. @BetaBuxDelux  If he is working for Geek Squad, obviously he is more than happy to come into an office.
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  17005. @BryanMcRoberts1970  He wasn't passed over because of DEI. Easily half of every top private university entering class is legacy or "special development." Some special development is legit: an Olympic ice skater, an actress nominated for a Golden Globe. Most of it, however, is based on being family of major donors. Think $1m and up. The children of the hugely famous as well. There is always room for a kid from Pelosi's family, or Musk's. DEI is a distraction. It works, too.
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  17006.  @MrDertien  Superb post.
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  17007. You probably had a super mild case. :) It is often mild.
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  17008.  @AlexandriaTheGreat  Me, too.
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  17009.  @Banelion001  Um, Title VII, Medicare, the Great Society . . . You see a legislative agenda there, or no?
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  17010. More to the real point: this person is, of course, entitled to live by his own lights. But WHY should he have any effect on MY life? Please get back to me on that, k?
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  17011. A lot of countries don't vaccinate routinely any more, especially for those under 50 without major risk factors.
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  17012. Are the Ukrainian flags Made in China? China is supporting the Russians, no?
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  17013. ​ @GuyFromTheSouth And you believe Musk? The Ketamine Kid. 😂😂😂
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  17014. @RUAChristian  OH WELL THEN If Ketamine Kid can dupe you this easily, then imagine how much fun AI will be!
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  17015. The hurricane story is telling you that our hospital system cannot handle ordinary, well-known weather emergencies. I think that could be true.
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  17016. Too bad you don't know enough about First Amendment law to appreciate how important this is, and to appreciate that the guest agreed with Jessica and gave an excellent, pro-free-speech response.
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  17017. It's not just the Justice Department that says acceptance of a pardon is admission of guilt. The Supreme Court said so in Burdick v United States. Ford relied on it when he pardoned Nixon.
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  17018. I found the tweet from this organization, noticed that its posted graphic presentation was incomplete, tried to fact check it quickly, and could not. I gave up early, I admit, without heavy sleuthing. Where is the confirmation of this data? Is fentanyl killing more young adults than these other causes combined, or comparing one by one?
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  17019. Which means the DNC plan is for Republicans to win.
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  17020. WHY DOESN'T THE BAR REPRIMAND HER? This is something lawyers would get FORMALLY reprimanded for, even on an issue that has nothing to do with ELECTIONS. So . . . What's the standard now??
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  17021. No, it was in FBI possession.
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  17022. No, no. Bad People no pony. Good people, yes. Pony. Gaga.
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  17023. They make millions because . . . ? Remind me again?
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  17024. That's because being told that the US Supreme Court is the final arbiter concerning what things like "cruel and unusual punishment," "unreasonable searches and seizures," "witness against himself," " privileges or immunities of citizens," "due process of law," and "equal protection of the laws," among other things, mean in real life is something people apparently don't know and refuse to grasp. (Hmm, look in the mirror?)
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  17025. @dominiqpowell37  You missed the point. That apology was a confession. Now you can apologize to me.
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  17026. @onrabbarno  They shoot kids during traffic stops there, too? It's spreading faster than rock and roll or iphones.
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  17027. @puffpuffbunny1920  None of that has any bearing. There is no death penalty in France, or for 17 year old kids anywhere but possibly a failed state with child soldiers. I thought you said you wanted to preserve "Western values."
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  17028.  @optimistx4187  Well, he went to Catholic high school and was an admiral in the Navy. The last name is often Irish, so I don't know why you asked that.
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  17029. Exactly. It made no sense. So, were those protesting for Ukraine favoring discrimination against Russian speakers? For matters this important, they could be more careful.
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  17030. The reason private corporations removed alleged harassers from their jobs was because after an internal INVESTIGATION, they determined that the corporation could be held legally liable for not removing a perpetrator once they knew other employees were in fact harassed by that person in the workplace. In other words, the victim would be the one who would ultimately be unable to earn a living in that job unless the corporation took action, and failure to act would not be fair or legal under Title VII. THIS has NOTHING to do with that. NOTHING. Not one point applies: no investigation, none of these accusers have to work with Russell Brand, none of these accusers are even known, and Russell Brand does not work for YouTube. NOTHING!!!
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  17031. Candace Owens? She's not very smart, and is often petty.
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  17032. Michael Malice has some serious acting talent, among other things.
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  17033. @G R TBF, you have gotten a few pretty dumb comments. But those people were trying to joke with you, mostly. Probably to relieve tension, something like that.
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  17034.  @Winstonclawfinger  Good point. Jeez. What WILL it take?
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  17035.  Establishment Shill-Troll  Oh gosh. Maybe. Blue collar Chicago, West Side/North Side version in the house. ;)
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  17036. @G R "Sam Seder, is that you? I always feel smarter after reading your posts." Look, you asked me.
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  17037. Okay, look. We do know how fascists do it. So what is your solution to stop them? What do you propose? Considering there is no General Zhukov to count on this time. You insist Dore normalized a right-wing militia. We say he reached out to talk to one self-proclaimed member, a rather sad one at that, to recuperate him. You think Dore is doing this for clicks and money. Honey. There are easier ways to make money.
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  17038.  Establishment Shill-Troll  So we have to agree with him or else he leaves? You know . . . Social media has done some real harm overall. This lockdown has really brought that out.
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  17039. Props!! Thank you.
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  17040. This is exactly how questions are examined in law. The lawyer's job is to show how these cases are different.
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  17041. @Jeffski82  Figures. And I don't support "gender affirming care," by the way. The phrase itself is advertising. Ugh.
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  17042. @Jeffski82  The latest is, they let us see our own, so we have no idea whether anyone else can see what we replied. Also, some replies appear if you sort by the Newest tab, then scroll forever. 🙄
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  17043.  @Dragonslairminis  If it is 1 per 714 people, that is NOT fewer than 1 per 100,000. That is roughly 140 per 100,000. Is mathematics going to be an argument on YouTube?
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  17044.  @Dragonslairminis  Medicine With Dr. Moran has the Nature link.
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  17045.  @Dragonslairminis  "the people that know about these things . . . " 🤣🤣🤣 When people meekly obey, they later get very angry at those who never do. I wonder why that is? Never happens to me.
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  17046.  @Dragonslairminis  I see in another comment you claimed that "science says natural immunity is pretty useless." No, it doesn't. 🤣
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  17047. Shocked when I agree 100% with Robbie. Brie, it is simpler than you are making it.
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  17048. Joe rocks. I was not the biggest fan, either.
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  17049. I am now.
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  17050. Damn skippy.
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  17051. And why does anyone think older people aren't wiser? They are.
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  17052. "Biden White House WON'T REVEAL Who Visited DE Home Where Classified Docs Were Found" Why? How old was she?
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  17053.  @raincadeify  That is who pops up if a person does not keep close tabs on autocorrect. Please excuse. (You were right to ask.) :/
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  17054.  @jeffreywolf5235  I'm so sorry. I truly am. I would have helped you. I can say that because I have. What you said at first sounded politically motivated rather than something fundamental. Well, you're a rock star. You know people these days have their first paying job around age 22.
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  17055. The Section 230 premise is that Internet platforms are like bookstores or telephones, not editors or publishers, or writers, or speakers. They cannot be held liable. Yet they DO ACT as editors. Kim just pointed this out.
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  17056. Goat yogurt, goat brie, kimchi, other fermented foods, and sweet onions on your salad, garlic with your broccoli --- try those, for real. Goat is much better than ordinary dairy from cows. Costs a fortune, though. :/
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  17057.  @PepperRascal  Very true.
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  17058.  @GiftSparks  Oh Lord, the times I ask for advice, I almost never get it! The advice I have gotten, from supposedly disinterested professionals, has impaired my net worth by more than I'm about to say. It always depends on who you are.
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  17059.  @imsmoking_au  You and OP are so right. Yes, beautifully said.
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  17060. THIS
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  17061. The real irony is that these two geniuses don't know that you have a right to remain silent, but that you do not have any right to lie to law enforcement, ever.
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  17062. Put them to some use.
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  17063.  @theresathompson9123  At his level, absolutely.
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  17064. Not the main point of the story at all. 11:55 As Greenwald has also said, the alleged emails contain no "bombshells." We knew Hunter trades on his father's name.
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  17065. Four legs good, two legs better.
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  17066.  @jacquelinemca6614  It's not true that the vaccines failed all animal trials. See, this is what is annoying: just like Trump supporters can point to Russiagate and use it to assert that the MSM only tells lies about Trump to smear him, the people trying to coerce everyone into prematurely taking one of the COVID vaccines will point to all the misinformation floating around about them and paint everyone who has legitimate concerns as being irrational and subject to lies. I am so sick of all lies, exaggerations, misleading statements, equivocation, and bold assertions made by a person who has no idea what they are talking about, and is just repeating something they saw on Facebook.
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  17067.  @therealpaincake  I agree that the burden us on him to explain an assertion like that clearly. By any measure I know of, it is a vaccine using a novel technology that has never been used in millions of people before, and there is much we don't know about it because it is so new, and because it has been politicized. I do see one point: vaccines such as against polio or small pox are capable of eradicating those diseases. This is like the annual flu shot. It confers very strong resistance and eliminates severe disease, or comes close. Not the same. It is the word "vaccine" that has been broadened to include all of these now. (People who are familiar with a Romance language know where the word came from.)
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  17068.  @australiaprisonisland9156  "Funny" how bombing Serbian cities with DU (depleted uranium), including at least a dozen that had anti-Milosevic governments in place, and put in place at real danger to themselves, will tend to make people not want to be particularly cooperative, and to ignore the wrongdoing on their own side, which they certainly should not ignore.
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  17069. This is on the IOC and their mind-boggling politics, which have endangered women. Rowling has no right to attack the athlete. Ignore the athlete. She could only apply to compete. She could not accept her own application. Nor is she "trans." She has a tragic medical condition. Leave her alone.
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  17070. @@user-jj5mp7ib1f Her points are inane in any case. If this isn't a religion, then it has more rights in the public square than if it is. It then has a claim to being free speech, not establishment of religion. In short, NO religious symbols belong in a state capitol. And laws of general applicability, such as laws against animal sacrifice, are not anti-religion. The law against animal sacrifice does not take into account the motive, nor should it.
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  17071. Have the actual warrant and affidavits supporting it been made public? If not, then you know.
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  17072. He probably rearranged the stocks in his portfolio. First things first. /s
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  17073. @josephpanella2726  My point was that almost no one can be a plumber at 70.
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  17074.  @sovereignD  What are you talking about? This is a contagious disease. You HAVE TO rely on others to protect you. I will grant, in THIS society, that is exceptionally problematic. Trump had three opportunities to change this trajectory: in February, when he knew this was airborn. A hard shutdown, over by March, followed by prudent measures to keep the little fires from spreading. A second chance, after COVID already took root, to take scientific recommendations on mitigation seriously. Even a third chance, after he and his family got sick! He could have showed compassion for others, and pushed hard for stimulus. He blew that, too. People don't like to be reviled, jeered at, and blamed, for falling ill. Just keep it up.
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  17075. Poor Aaron. He's a trooper.
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  17076. About what? Sandy Hook?
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  17077. @Nathan-jh1ho  I'm sorry. I meant Lichtman was straight-up false. No subjectivity, no nuance. Just false.
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  17078. Wait. A Kia is a better car than a Lincoln?
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  17079. If the dollar is dropped as global reserve currency, then we'll have the inflation to go there.
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  17080. Webb is definitely worth reading and watching, but her resources for vetting are not on the level they need to be for this show to quote her with approval. This isn't a criticism of her, or an attempt to reduce her credibility. She used to be interviewed more on independent media than she has been lately, and I would like to see her on again. Many people who are considered credible, and who have a platform, are certainly not up to her level on the subject of Epstein. But to call Rising ignorant because you've been persuaded by Webb's reporting isn't warranted.
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  17081.  @tinturtle9168  I know DNC has paid for them, too. But you'd be surprised by the number of independent PACs that run them. Deniability. :D
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  17082. Shhhhh, quiet!
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  17083. You and Ash Sarkar, LOL. (She was great, btw.)
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  17084. Perfect presentation. Perfect.
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  17085. Most victims of trauma find themselves incapable of telling anyone everything that happened to them, least of all strangers or an anonymous public.
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  17086.  @integrallens6045  I will grant you, it is not intuitive, and at the extremes, there are judgment calls. But in these college cases, the line is drawn when harassment is directed at a particular student, just as it would be in the workplace under Title VII hostile environment discrimination -- which, by the way, is a hard standard to meet. (Justice O'Connor wrote a lot of those opinions for a conservative Court.) Students are considered personally more vulnerable and in need of protection because they are young, but are also expected to be able to listen to ALL sorts of opinions and be exposed to ideas they find abhorrent without going to pieces. If they feel threatened by an opinion and don't want to engage the speaker in a discussion, they are supposed to learn to walk away, not run to Mommy. They are supposed to organize their own demonstration, or write for the school paper about it, etc. Yeah, well . . . After the COVID disaster, I don't know how anyone is willing to give the government more power to encroach on any Amendment, including the Second. Personally, I regret having to acknowledge that, but facts are facts. A free society means taking personal responsibility. My best friend hated guns, then married a veteran who had them. He asked her to join his gun club and give it a chance. If she couldn't do it, he'd get rid of them on the principle that all the adults in the home should be trained. Well, she ended up practicing marksmanship and winning matches. :)
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  17087.  @jaredgreathouse3672  I agree they were wrong to invade. I disagree as to why they did.
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  17088. Tells you everything. I.e., there are no progressives in power here.
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  17089.  @gannibalof21st  Sanity. Finally.
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  17090.  @sweetpie7919  Never trust completely. Simple fact of life. :/
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  17091.  @ImGoingSupersonic  A rare but horrendous event is a serious risk. This is a principle even tort law recognizes.
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  17092.  @melodywalls4693  It's over 2000 daily, but most of these are abductions by a noncustodial parent or close relative. Still, the number is staggering.
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  17093. It's even more stupid to tell people that if they have been victimized, then they either have to believe it's their own fault, or else they can't overcome it. That's a cult.
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  17094. The real kicker in this story was that they questioned discrepancies in Reade's academic record when we know for a fact that Biden flatly lied about his own, AND if all the aspersions cast on Reade were true, then we have to ask Joe why he hired her. What, exactly, were her qualifications to work for a prominent senator? Those are highly coveted jobs, no?
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  17095. @Tom Somhairle Not anymore.
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  17096. Puppies and children . . . Next, babies and kittens? Great comments on this, Max! Let's go Brandon.
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  17097. If I were you, I'd stop talking about it this very minute.
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  17098. Parfois
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  17099.  @ielee1765  Agreed!
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  17100. 732???
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  17101. @CaptPeon  You're repeating talking points. At 16, a person is supposed to have 65+ years ahead of them. Show me the data that mastectomies, nevermind more serious interventions that can cause life-long complications, come with fewer regrets over a lifetime than a knee surgery. Where is the evidence? Counselors? They've messed up at least as many people as parents have. Only parents, at least, don't get paid for it. Who suffers the consequences of being wrong?
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  17102. @CaptPeon  Puberty blockers are not without grave side effects. They are not in all cases "completely reversible." The body is a sensitive system, not a machine. Puberty blockers can even produce psychological symptoms and cognitive decline.
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  17103. @tessa63627  I didn't see this until now. First, there is no data whatsoever on the AGE at which surgery was performed on the people in this meta analysis. Second, here is a line from the study: "Overall, follow-up time from surgery to the time of regret assessment ranged from 0.8 to 9 years." Say WHAT? How can you even mix such disparate time frames, much less generalize over a reproductive lifespan? Even nine years is not a long time, and does not respond to my point. Third, a 1% regret rate is equal to 1000 per 100,000 cases. Were this a side effect of a life-altering, irreversible drug or other treatment, it would require warnings. Fourth, I saw no mention of puberty blockers, perhaps because young teens were not in the samples? You go and read it and show me if that treatment is included. No one is trying to curtail adults in pursuing their happiness.
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  17104. Study the biography of Afeni Shakur. Someone needs to write this.
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  17105.  @imsleeps3648  He didn't "disavow" her. He disagreed with her stance not to commit to voting for Biden, which was correct. Why commit? Especially in a blue state.
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  17106. Whaddya mean? The lockdowns worked perfectly. The money flowed to the 0.01% faster than ever . . .
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  17107. Look on the world map to see where the highest transmission exists. Then look on the map to see where the highest vaccination rates are. Someone needs to explain this, pronto. And more to the point: how can forced immunotherapy vaccination be justified, when at best it lessens the risk of spread for three to six months, probably?
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  17108. Never be mad at yourself. You believed him first of all because you yourself would never lie like THAT.
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  17109. 15:30 in particular . . . Missed that part?
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  17110. Well. All the people promoting Kyle Rittenhouse are vastly worse, so there's that. What do you all do to your kids?
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  17111.  @_SPREZZATURA_McGEE_  Thank you. So ridiculous. No one has heard of the normal curve? No one know Plato was 80, Sophocles 90?
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  17112.  @wowno5763  You might want to hear the careful legal and ethical analysis a real journalist and attorney just gave, while steering away from all personal side issues: Glenn Greenwald. He did not even mention Kyle, since these side disputes were not relevant to the analysis of what happened.
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  17113.  @sarahg2653  Yes, Fox News tried that angle. Unfortunately, the chilling effect of Ohio laws, the obvious need for certainty, and the fact that time was of the essence did drive this family to cross state lines. No, there is no lie about that; I'm a lawyer, I know.
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  17114. Perfect
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  17115. @greglarson6293  There is a substantive due process right to raise your own children, and the burden of proof that you are unfit to do so is on the state. This has NOTHING to do with genuine emergency removal of a child from a dangerous situation pending review. The acts you describe are unconstitutional. The laws that let them do it should be struck down.
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  17116. @J. C. That's not what the notion of "chosen people" means, and the belief is part of Christianity as well.
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  17117. Murray went on so long about gender this, gender that, gay, trans, gender fluid, that I finally cracked up. The gentleman protests too much. And then refers to the killing of George Floyd as "what happened in Minnesota?" Oh brother. He knows it will never happen to him, and that is all that he cares about. https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/08/14/902539820/body-camera-video-of-george-floyd-and-police-offers-new-details-of-deadly-encoun https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/details-of-george-floyds-death-revealed-in-police-body-camera-footage/2020/08/10/6eedf752-db3c-11ea-809e-b8be57ba616e_story.html
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  17118.  @julienv5755  C'est amerloque, "LOL."
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  17119.  @pinebarrenpatriot8289  He should be arrested immediately.
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  17120.  @vincevincent6984  Wow, you think someone else has something wrong with them. Blocked. Regular running does not mean a person is in great shape. Many former drug addicts or formerly obese people have had cardiac arrest while running. By the way, your picture . . . wow. (Mine? Da Vinci's house.)
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  17121. @@californiadreaming118 Look how aggressive this guy had to get right away, browbeating you for making a good point and giving dubious suggestions on what a person should do. (BTW, when replying to him, I thought I was replying to different people.)
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  17122.  @Stacy-  Do you think not approaching police if you have a white Elantra (of the right year) is evidence of guilt?
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  17123.  @somethingyouhave  You may be right. IOW, things are that bad.
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  17124. @christopheredwards7846  What effective treatments have been offered? It appears that some, including ventilators, caused greater harm. It also appears that some died of a bacterial pneumonia that they became susceptible to, because of their weakened state.
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  17125. @christopheredwards7846  Well, that we can agree on, 💯.
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  17126. @christopheredwards7846  Ivermectin is perfectly legal in the US to use off label. Most doctors will not prescribe it, but many will.
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  17127.  @katiesnudden829  Because you're grandfather is a great guy. I thank him for serving.
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  17128. Agreed. France even let out the submissive partner of a serial killer team after he reached his sixties, and he will be under intense supervision in a halfway house for life. (The dominant partner died of AIDS in prison, back in the 1980s.) There were questions at the time, but literally no outrage. Most people felt proud of their system, as though it proved their superiority. France incarcerates more than most of Western Europe, by the way. No one did this criminal a favor by letting him out, obviously.
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  17129. That is too refined. These people never studied ancient history or theatre.
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  17130. When a Latin American man got fired from his job because someone believed the OK sign he inadvertently "flashed" was a white supremacist symbol, and they posted his picture online, I think it is time to be concerned.
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  17131. "As long as I'm all right . . . " I am calling you out for that.
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  17132. ​@upstairs1307 He wasn't in the camps, but was hidden away as an infant by his mother, to prevent him from being sent, and he became very ill and almost died. Dysentery, I believe. I have never heard Dr. Maté himself refer to himself as a "Holocaust survivor." His father was interred at the time. His mother expected to be captured and sent to the camps, but I don't think she ever was. She suffered from severe depression during and right after the war. I'm not sure she ever recovered fully. The father survived as well, and the whole family was ultimately reunited. When as a young man Dr. Maté began questioning Zionism, his father threw him out of the house.
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  17133. Depp has a RIGHT to refuse to be evaluated, by anybody, and certainly not by this guy. What this doctor is doing is drawing out the logical consequences of people having that right.
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  17134. @johnpeers6540  We can compare 2020 to 2021 and 2022, overall, and then by separating out those who were vaccinated in 2021-2022 from those who were not. That's not foolproof, however. It's just like when there is a study showing that women who take vitamin C are slightly less likely to die of breast cancer. You cannot be sure it's the vitamin; it could be that vitamin takers eat better, sleep better, and exercise more. So, if those agreeing to be vaccinated are less likely to be obese or less likely to have already had COVID, that might matter. You'll think the vaccine protected them, when it's BMI and the ability (good luck) to have escaped getting the worst strain before vaccination.
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  17135. The real kicker in this story was that they questioned discrepancies in Reade's academic record when we know for a fact that Biden flatly lied about his own, AND if all the aspersions cast on Reade were true, then we have to ask Joe why he hired her. What, exactly, were her qualifications to work for a prominent senator? Those are highly coveted jobs, no?
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  17136. too optimistic
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  17137.  @peterbulloch4328  You call that decency? The decency of a Joe McCarthy.
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  17138.  @peterbulloch4328  We already knew you don't read. That's okay. Everyone has a right to drink, inhale, or swallow all the insipid platitudes they need to be comfortable, and not to enrich the oxycontin (spelling? wouldn't know) manufacturers even further. First things first.
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  17139. No one got an absolute majority in Round 1. Le Pen's party's candidates got about 34%, which was the single largest plurality. In some regions, two candidates got enough votes to advance to Round 2. In some regions, three, or even four, were entitled to advance. In most of those elections, the third and fourth candidates chose to withdraw rather than dilute the anti-Le Pen vote, which represents over 2/3 of the votes cast in Round 1. I used to live there. Wish I still did.
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  17140.  @infamousacidrain  This is ridiculous. He IS ASKING HER cogent questions. As in, why did she vote present and how can that be reconciled with her previous positions? Not rhetorical questions but real ones. He can't make accusations without a foundation.
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  17141.  @infamousacidrain  Yes, I saw it, finally. You are right.
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  17142. People will do anything for money.
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  17143. Title IX early in its implementation really did help students. It really did reward hard-working athletes, and helped minorities and women have a less stressful environment at school, just like Title VII did in the workforce. The idea was opportunity open to talent.
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  17144. The first student brought up a contradiction in Bannon's rhetoric, and his response was a little too rambling and defensive. The second student did the same, highlighting actual contradictions. This is classically Socratic. The answer was very interesting, because Bannon's best ideas are NOT the ones that were implemented. Travel bans, sure. Accountability for the destruction wrought by Big Money? HA. Trump depends on Deutsche Bank. Bannon also used a slogan in his answer, "triggered." Not a good sign. The third student gave him an opportunity to comment on the demonstrators, who were the real deplorables. No problem. Bannon again gave an answer that shows that his best ideas are NOT the ones that are implemented. The student then pointed out that those who have attained political power are publicly distancing themselves from him, and asked him to comment. Again, interesting. Bannon did not mind the question. The fourth student began by taking a stand for freedom of speech, then asked an excellent question about Bannon's view of election prospects in 2020. The fifth student first thanked him for staying over, to talk to them. Then she asked a very astute question about about political trust. Bannon appreciated the question, and was enthusiastic about answering, because it gave him a chance to talk about the things he is most passionate about. She made a counterpoint, and he tried to play folksy. He used another trope that she did not, "sorry for mansplaining." The sixth student said that the economic progess was not thanks to Trump, and that Trump did not, in general, solve the problems Bannon correctly highlights. AGAIN, Bannon's best ideas were NOT not not implemented. And Bannon DOES have lots of good ideas. The seventh student asked a very open-ended question on immigration, allowing Bannon to express himself on a matter he is passionate about, and show off some more of his good ideas. Which go nowhere. So, who was so disappointing?
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  17145. Nope, bullseye.
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  17146. Megan Markle's mother really is African American, and super sweet. When Markle made money, she put her mom through grad school for an MSW. No comparison.
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  17147.  Michael Neal  That's why I said risk. The recruiter who suggests you are not running that risk -- if such a recruiter exists -- is lying. Most of my newest friends are veterans, interestingly enough. Great people, the best. Anti-war to a man.
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  17148. 25:46 Pfizer . . . Misleading physicians and the public concerning efficacy . . . This video is from the prior decade.
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  17149.  @hunger4wonder  The poor boy just can't be himself. Trolls are stopping him.
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  17150. @ajwalker4416  Minors cannot give informed consent. What part of that is too tough?
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  17151. She got paid anyway, didn't she?
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  17152. Everything Trump and Musk are doing is retaliatory. Trump is settling scores with might.
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  17153.  @edgarallanpoe8917  Goggins has said so in interviews. How else would I possibly arrive at that notion? As for accusations that he never saw combat, I note he was decorated many times. Interesting how you're entirely credulous where critics of Goggins are concerned, but you easily deny facts that are favorable to him. I wonder why. Also, not like it's hard to look it up! Give that a try.
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  17154. Scarborough calling those who ally with the US DOD "collaborators" was a remarkable slip.
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  17155.  @sammiller6631  Fail
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  17156. Why are we alone on Earth?
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  17157. Yoo hoo. Matt. We are in the middle of a pandemic, no? Or is that part "fake," too? Well then.
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  17158. Exactly. They are conflating two very different things, and confusing the substance of the issue with this odd and anti-democratic move against an elected representative who was just doing her job to the best of her ability and conscience. In general, I don't want laws that make medical procedures illegal, but I am totally flummoxed by the embrace of these highly invasive therapies that can render children sterile for life, long before they can comprehend what that means, in a society that has had a very long and ugly history of eugenics. That so few seemingly enlightened people don't see the need to pause and examine this has me worried. The blindness analogy was perfect -- brilliant!
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  17159.  @Drew7s  So, you do not know the difference between a joke and unwanted physical contact? The first is not generally serious enough to be harassment, though it could get someone fired nevertheless; the second is assault and could be reported to police as well as be the subject of a civil suit.
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  17160.  @taragnor  P. S. Who duped you? And did you pay them?
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  17161.  @taragnor  Okay. The other comment sounds like someone else wrote it. Federal appellate courts have found a right to travel by plane when no other means exist (such as international travel), but I haven't read the cases, so I don't know on what basis. Entering and leaving a state from any other state is a constitutional right for sure. What's maddening is that everyone suddenly forgot who has the burden to prove a restriction is necessary. It is always the government that has to prove it is necessary. Of course there are times when it can, because there is a compelling reason for it, and that's fine. But it has to prove it. It's not on some *******'s say so.
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  17162. JOINED THREE MONTHS AGO. Welcome! 😉
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  17163.  @therealcirclea762  I don't care about anyone's flaws until they propose to destroy other people's lives under the guise of "helping." Same for Biden, same for Fauci. Bad take, Bub.
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  17164.  @mistressfreezepeach  In other words, I was right. Reading real stuff isn't your thing.
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  17165.  @TheOlzee  Younger sis more potent. 🤣 or at least I hope we are kidding
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  17166. It wasn't even an agreement. The two sides did not agree on what each promised to do.
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  17167. Certain foods are literally formulated to make it extremely hard to stop eating them. Corporations literally research how to do this.
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  17168. I know this story: this man was living in NYC, became disabled there, then changed his residency. NYC is expensive.
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  17169.  @bigraviolees  1:50
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  17170. @syourke3  We really don't care about minors. We really don't protect them. 😒
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  17171. This is what happens when people think they are owed a paycheck.
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  17172.  @dbesson  The Church Report explained it, yes.
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  17173.  @elynum  Why did Ana pick now, seven years post, and several years since MeToo, where women had to go to court under the most humiliating circumstances imaginable, to stop predators? Ana brings it up only after she defamed Aaron Mate, and Dore rightly denounced her for it. She wasn't happy with the written apology card and gift at the time? She was above him at TYT, she didn't have to put up with his unmitigated evil.
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  17174.  @elynum  How can you possibly compare a JOKE for which a woman immediately received a formal written apology at the time (seven years ago) with WEINSTEIN? You just outed yourself. You're not ashamed?
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  17175.  @elynum  "Your comment makes me think . . . " Son, nothing can make you think.
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  17176.  @elynum  So, "nice news skirt" is just like felony aggravated assault and rape? Blocked.
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  17177. Anyone who has read Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic, knows that overuse of psychoactive drugs on the young could have a bearing on violent outbursts, and that the issue needs to be openly investigated. It's not a crazy conjecture any more!
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  17178. Robby just agreed with Brie's main point here.
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  17179. No. Hate is legal. Hate based on race, creed, color, etc., as a motive for an actual crime increases the sentence, and could make you guilty of both state and federal offenses --- just like __ your spouse for insurance money or to hide fraud is worse than out of jealousy. The press never explains this well. America doesn't have thought crimes.
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  17180. 16:30 The MSM literally never talk to anyone who supported Trump. My God. Even some Fox newscasters invite real leftists to speak on their programs -- more than once or twice.
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  17181. That's what I wondered. How did he pay for a trip to New York City? Most Americans will never see their most populous city. They couldn't afford to stay there.
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  17182. ​ @willcover6142  BTW, you don't count to us, either. Have a nice day. 😊
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  17183.  @Mdiddydoesit  Health insurance is part of FIRE -- Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate, and is essential to capital formation. We won't end for-profit health insurance fir the same reason leading politicians intervened to prevent HSBC from being prosecuted for laundering the money of major drug cartels and suspected terrorist cells. Remember, this is "natural." Human nature and natural selection produced this. Plato wrote about it in Gorgias. /s
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  17184.  @RJL612  Cuba has developed a COVID vaccine. We, who should have a free press, never hear about the risks and benefits of the vaccines developed there, or in China or Russia. We should know whether there is evidence of their safety and efficacy. If we're going to be mandated to take a vaccine, shouldn't we have more choices? Last I heard, Mexico has licensed six.
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  17185.  @RJL612  Oops, you really stepped into that. We have a situation now where most of the vaccinated who come down with COVID are contracting a very mild, cold-like illness from the Omicron variant, and need to be tested to know to quarantine or take precautions around the vulnerable, because they aren't very sick. BUT . . . We don't have enough tests. Nearly two years in, and after all the promises made.
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  17186.  @Mdiddydoesit  Notice these people aren't presenting facts and arguments. They're jeering. Part of the priesthood. You can never win. Goddollar is on their side, end of discussion.
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  17187.  @lunarvision  Oh is that so? When where my remaining family now lives was bombed with depleted uranium, I had to hear all about how wonderful that was, except that it was too bad a few beautiful buildings were damaged.
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  17188.  @lunarvision It is relevant as an example of what a person is supposed to put up with in the American workplace. A lot of this stuff is illegal in many EU countries. Bosses can get away with experimenting with you, essentially, here in the US.
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  17189. Some of us actually read his article, in full. Singal does no such thing. You know you can count on practically everyone not to read. So Trumpian of you.
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  17190. Well, some of the jokes posted are enlivening.
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  17191.  @alimar0604  I think this is a great question. According to this video, the law has since changed.
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  17192.  @firekind1980  Yup. The outrage needs to be directed at the UK. Apparently going forward people like her won't have immunity. Excellent.
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  17193. ​ @OhSoddit  Not unless you know the source.
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  17194. I'm happy to hear that the U.S. did not destroy them.
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  17195. Exactly what happened
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  17196. I could survive on a quarter of that. Not easily in some places, but one person? Sure.
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  17197. In fact, if I made that much, I'd be retired in no time.
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  17198. I thought the pandemic proved it was.
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  17199. Now they need to be trained never to lie about what happened, and the public needs to see "we don't know at this time" as an honest, forthright answer.
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  17200. 13:38 Talk begins
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  17201.  @DunderHead.5000  You're a rock star!
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  17202.  @DunderHead.5000  LOL
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  17203. This is a disgrace. He is lying.
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  17204. ​ @iTeerRex This level of stupid I cannot feel sorry for. And yes I did check. It took two seconds to pull up cases he LOST.
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  17205. ​ @iTeerRex ​ Try putting his full name in a search engine, and see the cases he lost come right up.
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  17206.  @barbaraann6229  Which show? Do you have the date or search term? I'm open to hearing it. Let's see whether you can supply it.
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  17207.  @tinacraven2782  No it isn't. Nor did I so much as mention "government help." Why did you hear it? (It's the major corporations that have "government help," by the way. They need the 700 bases in 80 countries, they need the US military to prop up the dollar and secure global shipping lanes. They spend more on lobbying than they pay in taxes -- and they buy up T bonds and get interest from the federal government thanks to the deficit spending needed to obtain all that "government help." Late to the party?) I have to wonder what it is about the psychology of people who need to believe nonsense, and for whom actual facts leave them livid and prone to hurdle senseless insults. I had a friend whose mother used to throw it up to her that "I used to change your diapers!!" My friend would respond, "that's only because I was unable to." What comment can be made to such an exchange? Where does one start?
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  17208.  @elizabethaleman117  The fact remains that there are Good victims and Bad victims, and that it is based on flimsy fashion.
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  17209. Apparently it is not enough that you got vaccinated and boosted, and suggested that others do as well. You must also spread sheer propaganda. Or else. What a disgrace.
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  17210. Some men can murder their partners. It is rare for a man to have this privilege, but it never goes away, does it?
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  17211. @captsorghum  I agree, the latter seems more likely. That is exactly why I actually read the linked medical research journal articles, like the one from Cleveland Clinic (multiply boosted were getting more infections, but not more severe ones thank God). I'm tired of needing information and getting advertising.
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  17212. Thirteenth Amendment
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  17213. It is not. Thank you.
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  17214.  @Corporations8MyBaby  I like Saagar, but I have my doubts that "right-wing" populism can resist devolving into fascism, especially in a country with our history of racism. I think he is sincerely trying. I could be wrong.
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  17215. The mRNA dose for Moderna is higher, hence the presumption would be that it's the same or worse. But strictly speaking, we don't know.
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  17216. ​ @whitneyanders5945 Well, the Queen Mother had two forms of cancer, recovered, and lived beyond 100. So, there is precedent among wives of kings.
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  17217. False. You haven't noticed that people who have been in jail for 20 or 30 years are being exonerated only now? What if they had been executed?
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  17218.  @lowboyyy  But how can it be that there are, today, still innocent people in jail, only now being released? No, the technology isn't that new. DNA was releasing the innocent and convicting the guilty 30 years ago.
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  17219. Walter Cronkite? Elite schools? He was a dropout of the University of Texas.
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  17220. Of course he could.
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  17221.  @willcurley3607  Don't tell me about games. My family does not live in one of the FIve Eyes, and I won't for very long. You're right that your views are a luxury. We got bombed by you, and it shortened my mother's life, frankly.
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  17222. Krystal said that we should not imput insincerity in the student. The student might have believed that what she said was true, but she was wrong to make an accusation of racism based on her feelings, not evidence, and destroy other people's lives. Zaid seems to think she engineered the incident for her own benefit, because she thinks it is prestigious to claim this form of victimhood, and she is in fact rewarded for doing it. He also said that people familiar with racism do not react the way she did. I don't see how Krystal was out of line.
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  17223. 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
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  17224.  @liuj88  Very beautifully said. 🙏
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  17225. @liuj88  In one segment, when they were discussing the civil rights case brought by the "Central Park Five," Amber cited completely discredited evidence, and it was evident that no one on the panel had read court documents that were easy to find -- I certainly had no trouble. In New York state at that time, to maintain a civil rights case on that basis required not just dismissal of charges but exoneration, which meant actual evidence of innocence. (Only recently has that requirement been very slightly relaxed -- by the current, conservative Supreme Court, opinion by Kavanaugh, of all people.) This media is like any other: whenever I know about something independently, I find gaps in their reporting. In a more astute age, we called it talking heads.
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  17226.  @HamishDuh2nd  This is a country where scads of people think it is perfectly fine to demonstrate at state capitols while openly carrying great big guns, because they want business to reopen. Demonstrating with great big guns is a great way to get customers to patronize your reopened business. Everyone knows that.
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  17227. Wait, this isn't predictable? 🤣
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  17228.  @Natalie-earth  Literally no other country I've heard of recommends vaccinating infants. I'm, like, if Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, etc., don't do this, it is automatically off the table. If they do, I may consider it. But if they don't, I won't. That's where I'm at now. ;/ Different countries' ministries of health have English-language websites now, and I check. Someone actually told me I was lying, and that that is not possible (!!) Er, yes. Yes it is.
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  17229. I love this point.
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  17230. Most Russians are Eurasian. And??
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  17231.  @RedBlackDish  Sure, I was just adding to your observation.
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  17232. Wow. My post actually showing the algebra was censored.
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  17233. Send this to someone who supports mandates. See whether they refuse to watch.
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  17234. A very small number of Asian rhesus macaques received at least one of the COVID vaccines. That's for sure. The usual protocol for extensive animal testing and observation of subsequent lifecycle, including reproduction, is nowhere to be found. You guys are the reporters -- tell us.
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  17235. Who will stop them? WHO?
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  17236. No great feat.
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  17237. @gnlout  He's not that, either. Not even close. What is it that people read, that they can come to such conclusions? Spend a year with Shakespeare and Plato, as a detox. I'm serious.
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  17238. @gnlout  Well, I replied in more detail, and YT had better ideas, unless it shows up later. 😂
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  17239.  @gnlout  Who dropped not one but two atomic bombs on civilians? But as long as they have money and talk pretty . . .
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  17240. Another question: why has the US so quickly moved from administering unsuitable vaccines to the young, to recommending highly invasive treatments for gender dysphoria to the young?
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  17241. @digitalaether  Investigation!! Investigation over rumor. I'm sick of botched Investigations, gross impunity, and pseudojustice by innuendo.
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  17242. @digitalaether  I. Am. Calling. For. An. Investigation. Of course. It's obviously imperative. Do you think your post replaces one, in any way? I'm calling your post a rumor, unless you have solid sources you did not mention. What witnesses or victims tell about what they saw or experienced is never a "rumor."
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  17243.  @digitalaether  Great, we agree. (What I had said was, "Investigation!! Investigation over rumor. I'm sick of botched Investigations, gross impunity, and pseudojustice by innuendo." So, we never disagreed.)
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  17244. Everyone has lost their minds, agreed.
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  17245. @fenix6297  1) How do you know the statement was pro-Hamas? Did you read it? 2) Ah! So you DO know that it depends on the consequences we are considering! Nice. Good. OP did not appear to understand. He was just repeating slogans. 3) Speaking of free speech, Glenn Greenwald is discussing this very issue tonight. I'm going to see what he has to say.
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  17246. Yes she will.
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  17247. ​@shilpajain2276 Also, helps to start on vacation.
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  17248. Hillary friend-of-Ghislaine Clinton
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  17249.  @cliffordrobinson3907  MSM caused that. They falsely reported Joe Rogan used horse paste. Pathetic, and dangerous.
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  17250.  @BK201DarkerThanBlack  Great. He never did these things. He never endorsed Trump. He said he would not stop associating with FAMILY members on account of their misguided vote for Trump because of the abortion issue. This may come as a shock to your sensibilities, but working class people know actual humans who are against abortion. Quietly, not loudly. Not like the Republican fraudsters who use it, Matt Gaetz-style, for fundraising. It is cultural. If some DNC types know any working class people, they condescend to them, and are impressed only by other political operatives who condescend. (Just out of curiosity, what do you think of Krystal Ball?)
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  17251. Robby is nice? He said he didn't care about the tweet because he despises Hasan. I can't stand the guy either, but I'm not going to direct drunken tweets at him about his coloring.
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  17252.  @francesrose444  Are intelligent women still a problem? In 2024?
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  17253. @observer8736  Well . . . One could read the Westboro Baptist Church case, for example, as well as RAV v. City of St. Paul and the seminal case of Brandenburg v. Ohio. RAV was a Scalia opinion, and Scalia joined the opinion on the flag-burning case, Texas v. Johnson. One could start with those four cases, or any one of them, and find out.
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  17254.  @observer8736  What happened to everyone? How could you not know she is wrong?
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  17255. They need to go back to bashing Jimmy Dore. Those videos get more clicks.
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  17256.  @bistromathcommander8950  Anybody can. Why not? Some get paid. There is that.
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  17257. There's truth to this.
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  17258.  @CortexNewsService  Sure. Free speech!
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  17259.  @kiwitrainguy  They vote rationally: for whatever they suppose will bring them more money. When that is all that matters, you have ultimate alienation -- and ultimate instability. Be ready for a wild ride.
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  17260. "just like him!!" 😂😂😂😂😂
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  17261. Well, which one can be dangerous? And which one pays better?
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  17262. In The Apology, Plato explains, through Socrates, the potential for destruction inherent in competition. In short, there are two routes to the top: Making yourself as excellent as possible, or . . . sabotaging the competition. Either way, the top spot is yours. Which route do people follow?
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  17263. 💯
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  17264. "Absolutely nothing was GAINED." 3:24
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  17265. No, you can't sue Dove for a business decision, lol.
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  17266. Actually, if Dove hires her, then she will have the means to satisfy any legal judgment obtained against her. Get how that works?
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  17267. Most people don't have an inkling of what these numbers mean. I have never stood in front of a college class, including one with IT majors in it, where anyone estimated 1 trillion seconds to be longer than a few centuries. It's about 316 centuries, in fact. Some people have even thought that their heart will beat a trillion times in a lifetime -- I guess if they practice Positive Thinking and live to 95. I mean, we are in some serious trouble right there.
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  17268.  @polly6336  See 4:52
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  17269.  @joed1950  US aren't all CIA! (With Facebook, etc., why would they need to be?)
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  17270.  @chrism7969  Granting such immunity in the first place was obviously wrong, and apparently the rules were changed. Calling for actual incarceration on these facts puzzles me. Why? If she did not flee an injured person, or fail to report the accident and obtain aid as soon as she could, I see no crime meriting actual prison time. Maybe I am unclear on the details. Wanton, self-centered actions after an accident draw prison sentences; prison for pure negligence is vindictive.
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  17271.  @chrism7969  I appreciate your first point and wholeheartedly agree. The terrible incident you describe in your second point was the result of a deliberate act. That is not an accident. I'm so sorry for your brother. No one can know what that is like if they never lived it.
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  17272. Who told you this? Why did you believe them?
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  17273.  @justinianthe1st790  Some people believe in exterminating "the weak." One of them used to have a birthday today.
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  17274. Five inoculations within less than 24 months. Somebody explain just that much.
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  17275. ​ @blizz2795  I'm sorry. That is false.
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  17276. ​ @sonnylambert4893 There are viruses in the running.
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  17277. The existence of unhinged conspiracy theories does not prove there are no conspiracies. One has no bearing on the other. Unhinged conspiracy theories show that strong emotions are not a guide to objective truth. RICO exists for some reason.
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  17278. Weeks? Does that sound plausible? Ask a forensic pathologist about decomposition in various temperatures.
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  17279. @okigi-wo5zm  Take a look at all the Jewish people who left Israel in this century, especially in the last ten years, and cinsider how much emigration has accelerated since October 7, 2023.
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  17280. This has nothing to do with high nose or elitist eye-rolling, George. This woman is flat-out misrepresenting this case. Sheer demagoguery, and a great example of American woman-on-woman hate.
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  17281.  @marshalljulie3676  When people snap out of it, they'll be embarrassed they fell for the latest moral panic/Official Enemy/ritual stoning. Well, some will be.
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  17282.  @147salsa  If you read that somewhere but never saw the case, don't believe them. Cases of that nature are published, always.
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  17283.  @ilikelichens  It is no different from the pictures of the cosmos from the Webb telescope that are color enhanced.
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  17284. We didn't need border security, but we do need mandated EUA mRNA vaccines and a record of where I spend every cent. Got it.
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  17285.  @michaellowe3665  Amen. Major corporations spend more on lobbying than taxes, and it's money well spent. They write our tax code, then buy up Treasury bonds instead of paying taxes. Guess what? Then we owe them money, in the form of interest on those T bonds. Instead of paying taxes, they get interest. And we pay for it.
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  17286.  @DJ_Has_Thoughts  The 2020 election cost over $14 billion. So, who spent that money and what did they get for it?
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  17287. They got a traumatic injury from being led to believe in Havana Syndrome for so long. PTSD from being manipulated like that is an injury. You don't just wake up and feel better after finding out how you were deluded. Severe PTSD can show up on sensitive brain scans, by the way.
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  17288.  @bobtail7871  No, actually. I just thought of it now, and couldn't have posted it before I thought of it. So everything you said is counterfactual. Pretty good! I can't do that.
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  17289.  @savsmiles3042   Has a video surfaced? This is new. The initial claim was that if any sort of whipping had taken place, even a sole incident, we would have verified video footage, but we don't. How do I locate this video? A link could be shadowed, so provide a couple of search terms.
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  17290. No.
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  17291.  @HeavyMetal45  What if she literally had a legal right to be there? I mean, you could just say listen to the guy with the bigger gun. Okay. That's pragmatic. It has nothing to do with rights, but . . . I can see your point.
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  17292.  @HeavyMetal45  If she is a professor there, she has a right to be there - certainly more than the police do, if it's private property and her job gives her a stake in it.
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  17293.  @thedelapo1606  How is Putin "100%" to blame? Simply not true. Any war or escalation that can be avoided, must be avoided, so Putin is entirely responsible from that standpoint, but that takes a very narrow view of the conflict. See Vijay Prashad's interview today on Democracy Now for a clear-eyed alternative view. (Yes, they dared.)
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  17294. There is such a huge teacher shortage at the moment that you might actually advance quickly, get the school districts you want, and generally be treated better than if you had started teaching five years ago. Take it more lightly and give it a whirl.
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  17295. Meanwhile in Israel, Haaretz has denounced Netanyahu, and this weekend there are calls -- in Israel -- for him to resign.
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  17296. Wrong. His mental state will change.
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  17297. Not surprising at all. If you listed to mainstream media, then you are very surprised. If you didn't, you're not. You forgot to mention record turnout.
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  17298. The top 5% have all of that. Usually.
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  17299.  @Verysimpleinvesting  Of course. We are always at war and feeding war. Wars are us.
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  17300. @Verysimpleinvesting  I looked at your picture. All I need to know. 😂 It's interesting that my substantive, informative reply is gone, but this ill-advised one is fine. Maybe that's why people don't know stuff? 🤔
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  17301.  @quantumfineartsandfossils2152  Yes, agreed!
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  17302. Did anyone expect BRICS to expand before the war in Ukraine was settled? I frankly did not. I am surprised a lot. Shows you what the world thinks of American leadership (hegemony).
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  17303. What was the point of that? Most lies have some point.
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  17304. At first, I was duped. But it did sound strange very fast. He sounded both rehearsed AND like two different people.
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  17305.  @the3js842  Um . . . you've heard the news, right?
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  17306. People are far less jealous of rich people than you imagine. The question is, why is that the first thing you think of? Musk is not normal.
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  17307. Yup. And colloquially, flu shot. I don't know a soul who called it a vaccine.
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  17308. 4:39 and 4:56 Inspiration unlike any I've ever seen.
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  17309. Yes, thank GOD that everybody and everything isn't following them, to MAKE A PERMANENT RECORD(!!!) Use of prescription drugs in school that were not prescribed to that student already mandates a report and call to the parents for a conference, as do signs of actual mental or emotional illness, suicidal gestures, and so forth. In the meantime, forget about the pronouns. Address a child or adolescent by the name with which their parents registered them. Don't even honor middle names. Just stop the insanity. And leave them alone to play with their pronouns and their fashions, as long as they are decently covered. What I want to know is, does these children learn? LOL
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  17310.  TheMrCaptainStfu  I've been struck by how much he knows for a lay person. His analysis of the Derek Chauvin case was very good.
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  17311. He should go to law school. At age 50, a lawyer can have 20 years of practice, depending on the area of law he specializes in, so Dr. Grande is clearly young enough.
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  17312. EXCELLENT POINT
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  17313. Because he was. He just wasn't their favorite son.
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  17314. @knyckname3295  Most meats are low in Vitamin A. And the ones that are high, like liver, are often toxic. You need to know your source for those meats.
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  17315.  @davidpearson6346  What thing is that? I seriously do not know.
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  17316. Oh now I get it. The letter was from a group with MORE MONEY than the groups that then got investigated and banned. Silly me. That took way too long.
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  17317.  @kasiphia  Queen Elizabeth II was never "in power."
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  17318. Jimmy really will talk to anybody, so I wouldn't place a lot of meaning on this. But spread what you believe is the better view, certainly. If you hadn't said this guy is not well-respected, I would not know there was any controversy.
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  17319. THANK YOU
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  17320.  @Nellieolsen25  Well said.
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  17321. I'm glad the rest of the world educates their kids and America doesn't. American kids are brats. /s Working well for you. Keep it up.
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  17322. The Jewish kids do better as well. What is the real difference? Not necessarily stable homes. The difference is that extra two hours of studying every single day, for fifteen years. Add that up and see what you get.
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  17323.  @redkatana7450  I don't think stepping away from the video game and the obsession with celebrities and picking up a book by J. M. Coetzee or Balzac is all that tough. It can be made to be tough, I guess.
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  17324. I wonder how big his dealer's house is.
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  17325.  @BiologyalwaysWins  You can find these studies from about nine months to one year ago; further studies have shown that the immunity wanes, so that today, most people in the hospital are vaccinated -- though proportionately, it still looks like the "vaccines" reduce the risk of hospitalization, but less and less through time. I've found them. I have been following the ministries of health of other countries, to be honest, not the CDC. The NIH will publish studies from abroad, and I look carefully to see where the journal and the researchers are based. It takes some research to find them, but they are there, and the benefits are not particularly impressive except for the oldest patients. On balance, it appears men over 50 and women over 60 benefited, and in general people over 70 benefited the most, but they were almost certainly not informed about the risks, to obtain their consent in the first place.
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  17326. Apparently there was a fan for health purposes. Otherwise I'd agree. But there was no harm at all. Just the opposite.
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  17327. It is Easter Week. Does that matter?
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  17328. What is your source?
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  17329.  @JimBeary  Truth. No question. Thanks for the list, good to be reminded. Reagan was the beginning of the end.
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  17330.  @rosarosa8593  They do this every time there is a real star who emerges from a non-Five Eyes, non-NATO country. But then, consider the gymnastics sex abuse scandal. They eat their own, too.
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  17331. Genuinely funny.
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  17332.  @srslee5966  Yes, "themselves" is key. The key is the moment a person appears not to be conscious, a normal partner will immediately call for help and begin resuscitation. As rare as it is, someone could have a heart arrhythmia or stroke during ordinary sex. Wouldn't a real partner be desperate to help them? The partner will insist on calling paramedics, the striken person will be saying, "no, no, I'm fine."
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  17333. ​@ronniepace8778 Why? What will you do "next time?"
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  17334. Look, she said it was ridiculous to focus on any fan, much less a KID. If there is a problem, the problem is with the chosen name or mascot of the team, not the fans.
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  17335. Tremendous scoop, guys! Outstanding.
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  17336.  @1massboy  Honey, NOBODY is "pretty much like most Americans," least of all non-Western peoples. The differences are staggering. (I speak on my own behalf.)
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  17337.  @AlbertCloete  I support using the money for metal detectors in schools, instead of sending military hardware to Ukraine. Wake up.
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  17338. Shocking how right you are.
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  17339. So, this person, whose oldest son transitioned with his permission, by the way, is the best qualified person for this very serious job? Maybe. It's a lame country.
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  17340. Trump lifted the moratorium on funding gain-of-function research, which was exactly what Fauci wanted. He should have fired Fauci for violating the moratorium while it was in place.
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  17341.  @ioidt  Do you think this is the way to get that test done? Via twitter? Everyone is crazy now. A lot of people need testing.
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  17342.  @fuzzypanda1684  I can see them, but they might have been shadowed for everyone else. The sense or ship is horrible. (I wrote it that way for a reason.)
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  17343. Brilliant!
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  17344. Schools reopen with a gender agenda, instead of mathematics and classics. Cornel West has vastly better ideas on what to do about our schools.
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  17345. 🤣
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  17346. ​ @raresexyasian It's more than a feeling.
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  17347. And we thought the parliamentarian was a problem. The FBI needs to step in and arrest this man.
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  17348. It's not controversial. It is illegal to use lethal force in defense of mere property. If these perpetrators did not put any person in danger of physical injury, then it was illegal to shoot them. It's called SELF-defense for a reason.
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  17349. 1. No sympathy lost for Dershowitz. I truly dislike him. 2. All of his points are very well taken. 💯
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  17350. @Bri Grant I guess you don't get it. They have to prove Depp was slated to star in another Pirates movie, which he lost out on only because of Heard's opinion piece, and they are failing to prove that.
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  17351.  @lowerclassbrats77  AMEN
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  17352.  @phazemekaniks  You're wrong. Consult The Guardian, and the study it cited. Your information for young men and teens is WRONG. That simple.
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  17353.  @phazemekaniks  Because the Guardian cited a peer-reviewed article and I looked up the article myself. Have it your way.
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  17354.  @phazemekaniks  Links are shadowed. How old is your article? The growing consensus I am relying on is new, and I am sure you know subsequent studies on any medical issue may come up with yet another conclusion. In this pandemic, we heard that Type A blood was a probable risk factor for severe COVID, as was being male. The former has turned out to be highly unlikely, while the latter shows a modest trend in sufferers under age 50, but is much less of a factor over age 65. So far as we know. :)
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  17355.  @phazemekaniks  Are you a male under 25 years of age? Are you a minor child?
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  17356.  @phazemekaniks  Why? Then you aren't up on the latest recommendations.
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  17357.  @phazemekaniks  Forget about "grifters" or JOE ROGAN. LOOK at the report in the NYTimes from last week concerning the recommendations for children and for very young men in OTHER countries. It's there. Then verify it, by going to the official websites of ministries of health in other countries. Your homespun story about scientists in your family persuades you. It carries no weight with anybody else, nor should it.
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  17358.  @phazemekaniks  You still haven't cited, by name, the peer-reviewed journal you claim to rely on. Names, unlike links, will not be shadowed. "My Brother and His Wife" is not a journal. Is that your actual source?
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  17359.  @phazemekaniks  I make all of my medical decisions on evidence-based, scientifically well-founded medicine, plus things like the Precautionary Principle. (Example: if I read a certain mineral is good for preventing an illness, I do not buy a supplement, or if on rare occasion I do, I do not use it daily, megadose, or anything of that nature. I look up journal articles on which FOODS contain that mineral, and eat those.) You still have provided no source, other than family.
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  17360.  @khernandez46  Looks like this guy has been exposed. No journal article titles provided, and he dove straight into ad hominen and posturing about how accomplished his family is, a/k/a improper appeal to authority. Disappointing. I thought he was for real.
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  17361.  @khernandez46  What has been done to kids in the US during this pandemic is going from a disgrace to a travesty, and soon could become a crime. I thought Sweden was wrong. Turns out, LESS WRONG than I thought.
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  17362.  @phazemekaniks  Not a journal
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  17363.  @phazemekaniks  Myocarditis appears within about a week of vaccination, generally. Where did I say, "long term?" Look up Racaniello's interview with Lex Fridman if you want a brief look at wider issues. He's a real virologist, Columbia University, and he is for vaccination. But he won't make predictions that have no foundation at present. Looks like YOU didn't do the homework. Tootles, time waster!
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  17364.  @phazemekaniks  Look up where? We weren't discussing long term effects.
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  17365.  @phazemekaniks  NEJM: Myocarditis after Covid-19 Vaccination in a Large Health Care Organization That's the title of one article. See what I mean?
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  17366.  @phazemekaniks  Of course. Ad hom. You are the troll!
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  17367.  @phazemekaniks  I know. Anyone who reads the NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE must be "brainwashed."
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  17368.  @phazemekaniks  "A systematic review and meta-analysis of published research data on COVID-19 infection-fatality rates" Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, Lea Merone "Key messages – COVID-19 infection-fatality rate (IFR) is an important statistic for policy about the disease . . . Systematically reviewing the literature and meta-analyzing the results shows an IFR of 0.68% (0.53-0.82%)" That's Gideon M-K, who you recommended. I think he underestimated fatality. I think the CFR, of close to 2%, is a better snapshot. But again, demographics matter.
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  17369.  @phazemekaniks  "The Logic of Science" is a blog by someone who signs his name "Fallacy Man" and declines to provide his real name. Peer-reviewed journals do not permit such moves.
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  17370.  @khernandez46  Yup, got this guy. I'm disappointed. I thought he actually knew what he was talking about but happened to be mistaken on the issue of risk for young males and kids. He could not name a single real article. Wow. Jimmy Dore did better with his sourcing, and he's a comic!
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  17371.  @phazemekaniks  I gave you a reference. You don't know what those are? Say, are you sure this drug you think everyone should take didn't do you cognitive harm? You were talking about peer-reviewed journals just a minute ago.
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  17372.  @phazemekaniks  Wow, now you have to pile on the ad hom! Bill Gates isn't interested in your thoughts, unless you have access to Epstein's black book.
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  17373.  @phazemekaniks  What am I getting at? The fact that mandates for everyone are known to be ill-advised. That is the evidence. Who is telling YOU, or people like you, not to get vaccinated? You're not a teenaged boy, are you? You haven't had a case of COVID and a serious reaction to the first shot? I'm not a doctor. I'm not judging your personal medical decisions. We aren't debating medicine here, but social policy. Keith Olbermann isn't a doctor, either, or a psychologist. Or persuasive. Or sane. He'll turn people away from a vaccine that could benefit them with his bizarre rant. But you think, what? That Joe Rogan or Russell Brand, or Jimmy are the problem? How? Russell and Jimmy got vaccinated, Rogan had an appointment to get the J&J vaccine when it was pulled. He stated his parents were vaccinated, and he was happy they were. I think his wife is as well. Cut the crap, sheesh.
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  17374.  @phazemekaniks  You read bloggers. I quoted scientific journals.
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  17375.  @phazemekaniks  You cited someone who probably underestimates overall fatality, by a factor of two or more. But blogs. Oh brother! Pfft. Tootles for good, another time waster.
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  17376.  @dudemcgee256  My explanation is _________. The ____ doesn't like it, huh?
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  17377.  @dudemcgee256  If I say, then guess what happens. Gee, what a surprise!! 😂
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  17378.  @Robert-bk1dm  I'm licensed in two states, including California, which has the hardest bar.
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  17379. @evetsegap  Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Say. What makes you think you can see all of my posts? 😂😂😂
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  17380.  @Leslie-jm3yn  Only? How much choice does a debtor have? Not zero, true, but . . . Limited? How about limited?
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  17381. Could you tell us where to confirm that? Don't post a link, it may be shadowed (hard to monitor for TOS). Tell us the source.
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  17382. They really should cut it out.
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  17383. So perceptive!
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  17384. Trump gave us Biden. Obama gave us Trump.
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  17385.  @pumpkinheadghoul  "Because Trump handled the pandemic so well!" That's why we're number one -- in deaths. Obviously, even The Mummy could beat him after that.
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  17386. So Rogan was correct in saying that some people wished him harm?
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  17387. "Les États-Unis produit le dollar." C'est parfait. Comme on dit aux É-U, "il faut que quelqu'un le dise."
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  17388.  @tauwan0  If her focus is not complete, she can be killed doing this stuff. You don't know that? Then you don't know what gymnastics is.
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  17389.  @biffski01  Interesting, thank you!
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  17390. Of course it is not video games, especially not in the Crumbley case. But Grand Theft Auto, as opposed to guitar or keyboards, is part of the culture, and it's alienating. The time you spend on video games you don't spend on garage bands.
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  17391. A book about the Gates Foundation self-dealing and highly dubious projects came out in French before I heard anyone mention it in the Anglosphere. I don't know whether we ever get news anymore if we don't have access to other languages. Jimmy has great instincts. Max is brilliant. One of your best, Jimmy!
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  17392.  @scottpowell6145  Best comment here yet.
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  17393.  @patmax9005  WHY DON'T YOU LOOK IT UP?? Trump and Barr. Good grief.
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  17394. 1. Why is this video public? 2. WHO needed to see this to know Crowder was whack??
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  17395. THERE WERE NO CHILDREN IN THAT CLUB. Put the focus where it belongs, on Rich Fierro, the hero who stopped the attacker and was later handcuffed and prevented by the police from giving his (adult) daughter and wife comfort?
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  17396.  @helencheung2537  Yes. Scary!! I hadn't realized that.
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  17397.  @rumfordc  Did you ever read about how he made his money? In a tiny room, with his pen. In Paris, not here. (His essays predict your comment, yo.)
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  17398.  @utah_koidragon7117  She brought up a controversial point in a disingenuous way. But her main takeaway was that this woman needed to be arrested, charged, and fired -- and was. If she had examples in mind of similarly egregious conduct that has been defended by the firearms zealots, she should have produced some, instead of making weak analogies and speaking in generalities. "A picture is worth a thousand words." Still, 4:02. Too bad it doesn't always happen the way it did this time. We've all heard the excuses when "people we like" do something similar to people we don't.
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  17399.  @utah_koidragon7117  No, the only reason was not to draw a false equivalency (not the same as a relatively weak analogy). Brie wanted to point out that a FAR too typical response to unjustifiable violence is to find out the political identities of the people involved and then pile on based on that, and to assume facts not in evidence in order to justify taking the preferred side. She was saying that is wrong. She is consistent in separating herself from identity politics of that stripe (which is not the same as acknowledging that certain human experiences living and moving around in society will usually be highly correlated with one's perceived race).
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  17400. @lophiz1945  I don't care whether you care about this story. The world does not revolve around you. 🤣
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  17401. He said they were both talented and hard working. Maybe he's a good dad? Ever think of that? Or do you expect stuff to be handed to you on the basis of a multiple choice test?
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  17402.  @OrangeCat1992  Cite the Florida statute.
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  17403. No one's.
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  17404.  @elrti319  No, Tesla requested a 4-month delay in proceedings. That was in April. Tesla's website has a statement about the suit with no note that it was subsequently concluded. Maybe you just don't know? Or, need to have bought some puts? 🤣
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  17405.  @elrti319  "Obviously?" Then you must have seen Tesla's own website address it. I mean, if you only want one side, as is usual now, you could have found the long, well-written statement/press release that they themselves posted.
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  17406. ​ @TheJoelef  You forgot Romans.
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  17407. @icestationzebraassociates2460  Is a 6 foot distance enough?
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  17408. Brie is trying to make the crucial point that self-defense has a specific definition and specific standards, especially where potentially lethal force is used. "He was a bad guy" doesn't cut it; only the facts of the case matter. I wish she were clearer in making that point. Lee Fang is right about the larger issue and he agrees with Brie's point -- but her point is narrow, and fails to address the larger issue Lee is trying -- very hard -- to address. He was better for sure. Oh well. :/
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  17409.  @handlzus7018  If they both stay alive, I'm happy. Things could turn harsh.
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  17410. SAME PEOPLE . . . you took the words out of my mouth. This is what the ruling class has become. Will someone go to war for them? Ever again?
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  17411.  @JohnDoe-sd7un  That's precisely what the lawsuit is about.
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  17412.  @janeybusiness6601  Articulate.
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  17413. We should avoid spending money on a trial and just listen to you. Sounds like a plan.
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  17414.  @bryson8918  Exactly. Enough with spying and reporting! Leave the kids alone. There are still some First Amendment rights of self-expression in a public school, even for kids. Call everyone by their given name, one and done. The kids can call each other whatever they want, like kids have always done. So what?
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  17415. I felt like a hunted animal.
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  17416. They'll be in power again soon. We'll see.
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  17417.  @chuckfrazier2007  Oh, I'm sorry! I was being ironic. I think they will be as bad or worse, if that's possible.
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  17418. ​ @louisetaylor2131  It's a cult.
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  17419. This censorship was all in one direction, so it is sinister for sure. But in general, facts are censored because they are harder to monitor for possible TOS violations, while really vicious trash talking is considered "opinion," so it is allowed to stand. Social media has a built-in bias to dumb everyone down. This has ALWAYS been a huge problem.
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  17420. I loved Loomis for Intro Calculus. It educated my intuition in such a good way, for me at least. I never once flubbed a limit problem . . . Well, only one time, but I caught it and corrected it at the last minute. I still remember that, lol. I got them right the first time, except for that time. I used to seek them out and do all of them from other books. Crazy. 😅
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  17421. The monied interests will decide, i.e., insurance. If medical insurance says you won't get reimbursed unless you use this, then you will. If insurance says you have to pay an enormous amount to drive your own car, and not buy a self-driving one, then you'll get the self-driving one.
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  17422. @martindenham2207  That's true, but "the system" does breed them, doesn't it? I know that's vague. We don't know what aspects of the cultural context is doing this. All we know is that contemporary capitalism isn't curbing it, obviously -- though knowledge of Adam Smith and John Locke should, actually!
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  17423. @martindenham2207  Yes there is. There is a system of rewards and punishments that is in no way simply "natural" or "spontaneous."
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  17424.  @mountainconstructions  And I better find a job by October.
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  17425. @PeterLutzTEN95  NO. Everyone makes their own decisions about their health, first of all. Anyone harmed deserves our sympathy. At THIS point, those with serious reactions who are able to report but are choosing to tell stories online anonymously instead, and never get around to reporting, are trying my patience. (I had no side effects because I didn't take the jab.)
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  17426. Are you a dude?
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  17427. Not if they read Plato, Kant, Hume, and Mill.
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  17428. This was on NPR years ago -- well before the pandemic. I was surprised they alerted people, actually.
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  17429. Max Blumenthal interviewed the actual professor of psychology from Belgium, and it emerged that the conditions that give rise to mass or crowd formation were present PRIOR to the pandemic.
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  17430. Look to Nadine Strossen's book on the First Amendment. Look there.
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  17431.  @michaelkeegan9260  I agree.
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  17432.  @misterdemocracy3335  I'm not mad. I don't like injustice. Are you all right with it?
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  17433.  @misterdemocracy3335  "It feels like" (Huh?) It's not about feelings. It's about facts -- which are no longer popular in America, for some reason. These are like a bunch of religious factions with prescribed liturgy, dogma, and excommunication. Aren't you worried yet? I would be.
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  17434.  @misterdemocracy3335  Why did you bother asking the question in your first post, then, if you had no interest in a variety of answers?
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  17435.  @misterdemocracy3335  Not very logical: Sam got to pick the clip in which he speaks. Glenn didn't.
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  17436.  @misterdemocracy3335  Damn, are all Americans alike? I haven't made a white friend in this century. LOL
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  17437.  @drewfleming5584  c'est toi qui es FOU
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  17438. @Countess Fenring Why do you lie? And who said a word about "owning Chomsky"? Posting on the wrong thread again, are we?
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  17439.  @mr_rgp  That was insightful.
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  17440. People mention "Gender Studies," a very rare major (Business is the most common major by far), as the example of a pernicious course of study. Maybe. But did you know? "Financial Engineering" is a major now. I wonder what those people are studying. /s
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  17441. You must not know anything about Fred Hampton.
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  17442. Please do consider vegetarianism. It seems it was helpful during COVID as well.
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  17443. Do you know how ironic it is for you to say "tard?"
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  17444. ​ @albertchurchill4845  In fact, this guy and countless others on YouTube are profiting, too. It's a symbiotic relationship. If you look at videos from Africa or the BRICS, a lot of them are about stuff like piano or mathematics. Get a clue, will you?
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  17445.  @trueknowledge8334  I still like Krystal and Saagar. They are making this story their headline.
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  17446. If they forced them to maintain residential properties the way that homeowners are required to, they would find their profit margin to be less attractive. If they JUST enforced the laws that exist, including all the tenant protections, which they could do NOW, we'd have a smaller problem. But corporations don't have to follow the rules the rest of us do. They are super people.
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  17447. As did his father.
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  17448. @Felixgaha  What do people imagine is a good preparation for law school or an MBA/MPA? Take any humanities major, literally any, add a year of introductory calculus, a year of accounting, a few courses in economics, a semester of finance, and a semester of computer science: THAT is what the top programs want. (Seven or eight solid electives is a breeze. Just don't waste them on gender studies.) The most common college major is Business, and has been since Reagan. Without a CPA or advanced finance (think, sitting for the CFA exam or a becoming a licensed broker), that is a joke.
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  17449.  @springbloom5940  More celebrity mongering. Gabbard actually served.
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  17450. @Domino In that event, the further from your own country you deploy troops, or drop bombs, the less it matters to anyone. It's a no-cost policy.
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  17451. You're too kind.
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  17452.  @goji059  You just put your finger on why monopoly is sinister.
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  17453. @Johnny Mill She was convicted. She has a right to appeal.
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  17454. @christofonobrown3659  She did mention Kagan, and her apparent conflict in the Harvard discrimination case. I'm sorry, but I hope Kennedy wins. We need an overhaul of the FDA, CDC, nutrition, exercise, everything.
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  17455. She did mention Kagan, and her apparent conflict in the Harvard discrimination case. I'm sorry, but I hope Kennedy wins. We need an overhaul of the FDA, CDC, nutrition, exercise, everything.
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  17456. Don't worry, guys. When the first criminal chops off a thumb, chipping will be over.
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  17457. ​ @DeborahRoyer You don't have millions coming here from all over the earth. Open your eyes.
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  17458.  @steliana26  THIS
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  17459.  @alfrancis8  Exactly. I was agreeing with you!
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  17460. LOL But, um, add a zero to that. Unless you're over 70, maybe. :D
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  17461. The judge had no business making this statement at all. I say that, even though I think Trump (and Biden and Hillary) have no business being in the White House.
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  17462. Exactly. We need Glenn Greenwald to explain this, apparently.
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  17463. Beautiful, brilliant . . . She's top!
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  17464. I'm demoralized, too. And I only had the tiniest taste of discrimination from my parents' refugee status. Too trivial, too embarrassing to mention -- BY AMERICAN STANDARDS of hate.
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  17465. I'm demoralized, too. And I only had the tiniest taste of discrimination from my parents' refugee status. Too trivial, too embarrassing to mention -- BY AMERICAN STANDARDS of hate.
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  17466. What few Americans know is that cities throughout Serbia that had anti-Milosevic governments in place were bombed anyway, with depleted uranium.
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  17467.  @GordanaStetin  What is sinister is that I can still see it, and won't know unless I sign out. That's the new new thing. :/
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  17468. How often do older people say, "I have nothing to hide?"
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  17469. Sure. That's why he hired Bolton, Pompeo, and let Fauci run the country while playing good cop bad cop with him.
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  17470. The affidavit in support of the arrest warrant has not yet been made public, because Idaho law does not allow that. So, we don't yet know the nature of the DNA evidence they have, much less that they have a match with this particular person. Reports have mentioned genealogical DNA, which would usually mean that of a close relative. No reason to overstate it, especially since genealogical DNA is more interesting.
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  17471.  @_GhostFox_  I'm very sorry. I know it's strictly about money, not rights. But all good med mal lawyers know about the DARVO game (deny, accuse, reverse victim and offender) aimed at their clients. That always happens, regardless of the facts.
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  17472. I honestly have NO PLACE to put that.
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  17473.  @sadiyasaleh233  According to the affidavit, she was petrified and froze. You can't have it both ways.
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  17474.  @rahannneon  I hope that parents everywhere have a real heart-to-heart with their kids.
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  17475. Figures.
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  17476.  @emblemedfate4270  Only to people who don't know the Red Army's successes were in spite of Stalin, not because of him. The only possible excuse is that it took a LOT of adversity to bring a Stalin on the scene, and render him irredeemably criminally insane. We had one 9/11, the Soviets had the equivalent of 10,000 before they went stark raving mad. Perspective.
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  17477.  @nedludd7622  Do you intend to imply that a person needs to become an MD in order to understand nutrition? If that were true, then how would our prehistoric ancestors have survived, much less developed the brains we now have?
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  17478. Excellent questions.
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  17479. Because bioweapons have been banned. This is a work-around.
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  17480. ​@ScottCampbell-xp5nx. thank you
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  17481. You're jealous of rich people. 😂😂😂😮
    2
  17482.  @leehaelters6182  Well, to the best of my knowledge, the brave little boy who reported that he was threatened by the kid who ended up shooting his wonderful, lovely, and brave teacher is also black. But I was not "keeping score" in that regard, for either child. I find it odd to point out the race of the shooter without acknowledging one of the early victims who at a very tender age tried to prevent a school shooting. WHERE WERE THE ADULTS???
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  17483. Nicely put.
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  17484. So, a multi-millionaire is taking HORSE DEWORMER? These people are in a CULT.
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  17485. The complaint is verified. That means that there could be criminal liability if any of the allegations are deliberate falsehoods. 1. Nothing is proved yet. 2. No, you don't know that it's bunk.
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  17486.  @alphagt62  The complaint is verified. That means that there could be criminal liability if any of the allegations are deliberate falsehoods.
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  17487.  @derekconlin1180  I used to work as a lawyer in the federal court system.
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  17488.  @RaquelSantos-hj1mq  Find the complaint and read it. It states "VERIFIED" right up on top.
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  17489.  @RaquelSantos-hj1mq  The short answer is that a verified complaint, in most places including New York state, has the legal force comparable to a sworn affidavit for most purposes. In some states, it also means the defendant is required to respond with a verified answer. (Don't know NY law on that point.) Ten seconds on a search engine -- don't have the attention span?
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  17490.  @janwilson3898  He makes sense for sure: Depp has a right to decline to be evaluated by this guy, or by anybody, especially anybody associated with Heard, and Depp did the right thing by having nothing to do with him. The logical consequence of the lawyer's point is that no expert witness can ever testify to anything in a person who refuses to see them.
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  17491.  @anthonytwohill9726  I've been anti-mandate as well. Of course.
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  17492. Horrible, isn't it? Imagine being worse than Trump.
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  17493. Put a period at "everything" and we're good.
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  17494. Yeah. Something like that. /s
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  17495. Not what happened here. BTW, I don't agree with Gray on the substance of this issue at all. I basically agree with you. If a story were about you, and you had something pertinent to say about it, would you or would you not want the journalist to contact you? What complicates this story is the fact that we are dealing with a minor child, but in any case, the child is old enough to have a viewpoint. The journalist is then free to discount it, or treat it however she likes. Pretending it doesn't exist is not an option.
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  17496.  @davidwinston338  What is your position on lobotomies?
    2
  17497.  @Critical-Thinker895  Please give us the scientific reference that states that once a puberty blocker is stopped, the child will proceed with a normal puberty -- even at, say, 22. Or at any point. Please do educate us. That would be welcome news.
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  17498. I thought the right knew their classics.
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  17499. That's not what's happening. First of all, taxes are not only cut for the rich, they are paid TO the rich. Instead of paying taxes, the rich buy Treasury bonds to finance the national debt, which means the US pays them interest. Second, all of the billionaires head corporations that have huge government contracts.
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  17500. @1965Grit  You've been lowering taxes and regulation for two solid generations now, and you see where that got us.
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  17501. This article is SCARY. Once we acknowledge who was right, we have to move on, to doing something about it now and preventing this insanity from ever happening again.
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  17502. So, TYT are also smearing the whistleblowers who are likely endangering themselves to make sure the truth is uncovered.
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  17503.  @Myxril  Oops, you guys are right.
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  17504. A lot of people qualify for benefits but don't apply. They need to. They owe it to all the people depending on them to fulfill their obligations to them. Enough of this criticism of "welfare." We have no social safety net compared to every other country. If you owe rent, or utilities, or anything, you need to get the money you are entitled to and pay your bills while you look for work.
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  17505. ​ @Curt-Gevert My posts that give an inkling of how this works are routinely shadowed. Same for posts critical of G a t e s and M u s k. Nice, huh?
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  17506. ​ @Curt-Gevert  Even posts about mathematics are routinely s h a d o w e d. How pathetic is that?
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  17507. @Curt-Gevert  Oh wow, you had to stoop to that. I would never vote for that _____, nor have I ever voted for a ticket with Biden on it. When you have no arguments, what can say? 😂😂😂
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  17508.  @Curt-Gevert  You call that good?
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  17509.  @気にしない-o8q  Foxx is much better than Lightfoot. The press was able to say "sic 'em" easily and effectively against Foxx.
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  17510. This is something AI will never do.
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  17511. When all water is privatized, we'll see how you like it. Who do you think has made an unholy mess of this society? Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Redmond. Bill Gates has more to say about your health care than your doctor does.
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  17512.  @sirius1696  Yeah, because he doesn't know. Sam knows. /s
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  17513.  @lorree1  A higher court agreed later that she was entitled to immunity. Since then, the law has changed. THANK GOODNESS.
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  17514.  @j0fiz986  Yes. You're right. 😕
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  17515.  @kayrutledge1970  I'm see your emotional immaturity and raise you an aversion for rational thought.
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  17516. Joe "you know the thing" Biden does too.
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  17517.  @paternos123  That Jimmy sought her (Ana's) clothing advice so that his wife would dress better.
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  17518.  @seekeroftruth6728  At least you admit you have no answer. Trust the vaccine to protect you, and leave other people alone.
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  17519.  @gregbrogan9061  Seems you like to jeer at strangers. What kind of a choice would that be?
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  17520.  @littlebrownbird8020  He doesn't owe an explanation. Anyone can refuse medical care.
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  17521.  @morganrowell1373  80% of all casualties inflicted on the Nazis occurred before any Americans showed up. Conservative estimate. Teeth kicked in, by Nazis? You say that like it titillates you. No wonder Sputnik was such a surprise.
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  17522.  @raymondblake5765  There is no consensus on a number of issues: how long immunity lasts; how well transmission to others is prevented by vaccination, and whether that varies by vairant; whether children under 16 should get vaccinated; whether young men under 25 (or under 30) should get two doses of mRNA vaccines or just one; whether women under 50 should either take Johnson & Johnson or Astra-Zeneca; whether the reported catastrophic illnesses following vaccination are purely coincidental or causally related to vaccination; whether those who recovered from COVID need just one dose, or need to be vaccinated at all. This is what the leading virologists still respectfully disagree about. Even some ministries of health are giving different recommendations (see Switzerland ). This is still early in the pandemic. We need to celebrate the fact that someone, somewhere is doing basic biomedical research without any agenda except to learn as much as possible and give the best possible advice. Instead, the vaccines are being politicized, for no good reason. What a shame. Medical care is supposed to be individualized.
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  17523.  @polarbear4612  You cite YOUR sources. I hope you don't mean the 1905 Supreme Court case, where the penalty for not being vaccinated was a modest fine. Or did you imagine the law on the current round of mandates is settled? That's plain naive.
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  17524.  @morganrowell1373  I did that. I told you, links are shadowed. Are you really that scared of considering something not familiar to you?
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  17525.  @morganrowell1373  Sources are removed, and I told you why, but you blame me? Right.
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  17526.  @morganrowell1373  And don't swear at me, or suggest I'm a liar.
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  17527. I think you're right. Add in the good food, shared convivially, and I think all of those things are more important than adding weightlifting to the to-do list. "Daddy, are we having fun yet??"
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  17528. When will we admit they are crazy? Let's . . . let's just do that.
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  17529. The indictment is for manslaughter.
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  17530. Not EVEN murder.
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  17531. Not so sure that's happening. Biden is saying what the new warmongers want to hear. The ambiguity is too convenient to be an accident.
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  17532. OMG Yes. I'm talking to cousins outside the US regularly.
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  17533. I have literally never heard "class reductionism" that ignores issues of race and oppression, in the way Fritts describes it and decries it. Where did he hear it?
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  17534. Thank you for the reading suggestions. So valuable!
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  17535.  @garciacontracting  I honestly meant I would not go to US media for this story anyway. I heard about what happened only this morning, from a Colombian friend.
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  17536. I need the tension release, and the sense of having some power over my fate. These types of criminals haunt me. I know it could happen to anyone. Knowledge gives us some power. Laughing breaks up the shiver going down my spine.
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  17537.  @davidjftooley  You don't understand that case.
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  17538.  @jacobzindel987  The case leaves it up to the legislative branch. Nowhere does it say Congress has no power to legislate. Who told you it did?
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  17539.  @johnnybooker  Of COURSE there is a path to a national ban. GOOD GRIEF.
    2
  17540.  @ffffnnnnul2125  Huh? Did you read it, or copy pastey? That section limits state powers.
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  17541.  @ffffnnnnul2125  Can people tell you absolutely anything, and you don't check?
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  17542. ​ @moneypennystopguy Montenegro is a NATO member.
    2
  17543. ​ @ouknow1446 They condemned the people who think excluding a child is wrong.
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  17544. Dr. Peterson is a tremendous psychologist. I couldn't disagree more with his political views. The fact that the Canadian state is going after his psychotherapy license because they don't like his politics (!!!) and how he expresses his political views is one of the most perverse things I have ever heard. It just figures for our times. The people who want to yank Dr. Peterson's license should go into therapy with Dr. Peterson. If they can be helped at all, Dr. Peterson can help them.
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  17545. This is the problem. People don't even know that as a matter of law, theft of property is never a reason to use lethal force. A person has to put another person at risk of injury to justify use of lethal force.
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  17546. La Fête de l'Humanité in France this weekend . . . remarkable juxtaposition.
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  17547. If she has the guts to address the issue, like being deprived not only of an advertising contract (which is fine), but also of your bank account (which is not), then good. Let's actually address this.
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  17548. Because . . . This is pocket change for a billionaire?
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  17549.  @MaryJohanna  This is so true. The sole problem in Germany is early tracking. We have GOT to make sure that a high school graduate has a path to college -- not that he should take it. But it has to be his choice. The possibility cannot be closed off forever at age 12, or 16, or 26. That flexibility is the one good thing in the US. Every major city has some true college-level open enrollment option, as it should.
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  17550. That has nothing to do with positively identifying these unknown objects.
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  17551. OH RANTING AND NAME CALLING. I'm so scared now. When will you get your booster, d#%&#* b#@!!
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  17552.  @ason4641  She never said that. If she was raising a point of law and it went over your head, well . . .
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  17553.  @mikebigbeard3156  Yes, true. Or just remove the incentives to go abroad. Let them hire their own security for the high seas. They don't pay their fair share for the one that has their back.
    2
  17554. Maybe his parents are holding it for him. He has that demeanor in any case.
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  17555.  @reecegeorgens1755  Explain.
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  17556. Batya was outstanding again.
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  17557. Not even. They don't know the law by any stretch. They are making baseless claims.
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  17558. What a relief to hear someone who actually understands Adam Smith.
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  17559. And here I thought we were sick of cancel culture.
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  17560. 😂😂😂
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  17561. Pro-Kyle posts are only cliches.
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  17562. They will eat GMOs and they will eat bugs . . . And so will you! 😮 See how that works? Super!!
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  17563. Don't look now, this thread is sense oared.
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  17564. Shows what you know.
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  17565. She just said the letter is designed to coerce Taibbi: 4:57
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  17566. It is.
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  17567.  @topologyrob  Why was the explanation of this very form of false flag propaganda, as appears in this clip, made invisible? I wonder. Who is so afraid of open discussion? Why?
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  17568.  @topologyrob  Ha. It was REMOVED. TWICE. Get it? You expect me to waste more of my time? Actually, you could resort by Newest and scroll. That might reveal a whole bunch of posts that answer your question.
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  17569. ​ @topologyrob Actually, a simple sort using the Newest tab, and a modest amount of scrolling, and chances are good you'll find out.
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  17570. Because she has a law license. Even Clinton's was suspended. (GOOD!)
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  17571. Leave the house to pick your own groceries and to walk in nature. Then, try stopping for a coffee or tea and observe others. It takes the focus off of you.
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  17572. ​@zachrivers1078 They can't come near my house, much less in it.
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  17573. 13:47 About 30 seconds or so, and it took nearly 14 minutes to get there. Lord. Exhale.
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  17574. Everyone in these people's circles is vetted.
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  17575. Very infrequent, sporadic cases. American schoolchildren are at much graver risk.
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  17576. The most important thing was not to investigate Reade's claims, but to make it look like they did.
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  17577. ​@carlmassengale1027 Oh come on. You seriously think ANY lawyer "missed it?" What has happened to basic education?
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  17578. ​ @highplainsgrifter600 You mean to confuse the issue, right? 😅
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  17579. @FoucaultsPendulum610  He's correct in the most vital to grasp way: research on pathogens to target certain groups based on alleles present in great number in certain ethnic groups is supposed to be banned but it is being done. I hold it against him for muddling the essential point by adding speculation about COVID.
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  17580. @FoucaultsPendulum610  A tort lawyer is an advocate. He explained at length how that goes: each side is able to marshal experts who must testify based on scientifically sound published research under the Daubert standard. So he can't just put anyone on the witness stand. Think of it this way: out of the billions who use cell phones, do you think no one has ever developed cancer? That's not likely. The same is true of vaccines and various life-altering side effects, to a point where there are pediatricians in the US and in other countries who look to modify the schedule for childhood vaccines. OTOH, I know of no responsible person who doesn't get any. When they started giving high school freshmen COVID vaccines, my first thought was, what about their first meningitis shot? I know what my 14 year old would have gotten. Meningitis is very dangerous to kids. A lot of kids are behind on that vaccine. I think it's interesting that the law that shields the vaccine makers from liability and sets up a separate compensation system for injuries was passed under Reagan.
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  17581. Since when is it "traditional" to talk about your intimate family life on the new global media, and expose your young children to this level of scrutiny without their consent? I had traditional parents. They didn't even speak English to me.
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  17582.  @peterzotti6430  Hi Genghis.
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  17583.  @aaronmarks4327  Is there some reason you don't want this topic of free discourse, and deliberate distortion, to be mentioned?
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  17584. She does? 😂😂😂😂😂
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  17585.  @AtlantaBill  I've lived in Chicago. Not even NYC is slimier.
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  17586. The only thing we know with complete certainty is that massive amounts of money flowed upward. Again.
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  17587. Well, explain this to me: a woman I have known my whole life just told me she was once raped, some 30 years ago. She waited to tell me until after her father died. Of course her father didn't do it (some cop she dated literally one single time did), but he always told his daughters that rape is extremely rare, and that most accusations are false. I was so shocked that I still have no words. My father, on the other hand, was known in our community as someone who had a gun and would use it to protect me. You can figure out the rest, I hope. His realism kept me safe. Literally every beautiful woman I have ever known has been raped, and no one punished in a single case. Explain that. I'm boggled by it.
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  17588.  @best5345  She never said she was raped by him. There was no such completed act, and she never stated there was.
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  17589. ​@kakip7700 Well, just a few days ago, I was remembering the ceaseless suicide bombings in Israel the summer before the 9/11 attacks, and how after the attacks, everyone forgot how tense the whole year had been. So don't accuse me of being oblivious. That something happened does not surprise me. That this happened today, on October 7, 2023, at daybreak, certainly does, yes. The entire world has bad leaders now. I knew that, too.
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  17590. This one looked fake to me. That, or mentally unhealthy.
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  17591. Cosplay. Consider where stocks are. That's all they look at.
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  17592. ​@RobertPenner No, that confirms it was a clerical error. The clarification was not strictly necessary, but was to cure a possible ambiguity. The Treasury Secretary was at no time in danger of being held in contempt of court. THAT would be overreach. Learn to read court papers, or suffer the talking heads. AI should REALLY be fun.
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  17593. Suppose a student is caught with a copy of "Our Bodies, Ourselves?"
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  17594.  @intersanctum  He's arguing against patent waivers, and the other day an editorial by Krystal Ball showed he was lying to do it. You know what's in his investment portfolios?
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  17595. ​ @ColeNasrallah 😂😂😂 It could be well-neigh impossible to get it from anyone else, in Brazil. But going straight to the publisher probably would have resulted in the book being promised in three months, AND delivered in 2 1/2.
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  17596.  @elginmarble5009  Certainly that's what it sounds like to an ordinary person who isn't privileged. To me, it sounds crass and unacceptable. And an apology, in writing, and a promise to never repeat that type of remark, was perfectly appropriate and apparently settled the matter then. Or do you think this should spring up again at any time?
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  17597.  @elginmarble5009  I mean every word I wrote. You must not know any working class big city people.
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  17598.  @davidaponte3600  Plus he swears at me. Well, I'm a girl, so maybe he's a masher.
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  17599.  @elginmarble5009  And yes, there IS supposed to be an end-point to fallout from a crass remark at a previous job from years ago, for which the person apologized. Harassment suits have a very short window, and you cannot bring a lawsuit on a contract in California more than four years post breach. Why do you think that is? Take a stab at it.
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  17600.  @elginmarble5009  How can one present arguments for how people feel? You can make observations, in various ways, and report what you've observed. You can read people's accounts, from a variety of solid sources. You can synthesize. There isn't something I have to "argue" for here. I reported what they feel, and why. The other post was right -- these are explanations, not arguments. You were wrong.
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  17601.  @elginmarble5009  "Intersubjective consensus." Was that supposed to scare me? Boo! LOL Well, when calling me a paid troll fell flat.
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  17602.  @davidaponte3600  I was speaking of a case where the offensive individual apologized in writing and promised to never repeat the conduct, and the apology was by all appearances accepted. That's why I mentioned a contract. When this has happened, what do you think about repose for the perpetrator? The b u ll sh-t we see here on this particular video is bad for victims and bad for women. Moreover, if your daughter is saying that purely verbal harassment should be treated the same as homicide, rape, and similar offenses, then I do not agree. But as far as anyone having the right to speak of their own experience and feelings, at any time, that's obvious. Ana can try to use this incident to silence people, and the women on MR are free to join in. THEY are arguing for censorship. I'm not. I agree with everything you said at the end, and I think it follows perfectly well even if a person has no patience for Jimmy's style and politics. You just DO NOT use sexual harassment allegations in this way. I'm writing in part just in case our buddy, The Feminist, who swore at me and called me a liar, considers coming back, LOL.
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  17603. Police ask a drug addict embezzler, "Where you at location A tonight?" Drug addict embezzler immediately blurts out, "NO NO I wasn't at location A!!" I'm not saying I believe him. I'm saying the Nancy Grace gotcha is weak.
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  17604. I have never and will never vote for a warmonger.
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  17605. Rather than testing your levels? I know the feeling. I had a great doctor, who tested mine years ago, but he retired. I need a new doctor now.
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  17606.  @TanukiDigital  It is possible, but unlikely. You can find reliable information from solid sources on that.
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  17607.  @hughmac13  Well, Glenn and Zephyr, who were both on the program, are lawyers specializing in the First Amendment. Your remarks show gaps in knowledge. The US Constitution is not a Napoleonic code. You can't read the Bill of Rights and know what you can count on being able to say or do. (Example: 1st Amend. says "Congress shall make no law . . . " So, can governors issue declarations that limit speech? Can a president? Or how about the 4th Amend.? Can police seize your cell phone without your permission? What if it's on the floor of your car and they heard you planning an apparently illegal act before you dropped it? There were no cell phones or cars in the 18th century.) You might want to rethink your position.
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  17608.  @jp3103  It won't until it does.
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  17609. Watched the documentary series The Vow, about the cult NXIVM. The similarities between them and how "normal" corporations control people with money (rather than money and sex) was chilling.
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  17610. This didn't take place in UK You heard of 1776? Or at least Hamilton? It was a musical and made a bunch of money.
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  17611. On the other hand, if government threatens Apple if it doesn't remove Twitter from their store, even in some subtle, indirect way, that would be a major constitutional issue.
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  17612. ​ @AdamHansen95  Bad luck would be when a company you work for has a C-suite that commits crimes and you lose $250k in salary and investments. It happened to both of my parents. Enron wasn't the only Enron. There were many.
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  17613.  @highroller-jq3ix  Then explain why these clinics have CLOSED all over Europe.
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  17614.  @ParalyzedPower  Be really kind and tell them that there are a lot of children who are troubled now, and we should be careful not to make them feel unwelcome at school, or to scare them or subject them to teasing, because they are not well. All we can do is understand that they have emotional problems and we can try not to hurt their feelings. But most important, tell the kids in your family: Don't listen to those kids. They are troubled, they are lonely because of how they are, and sometimes they wish everyone else were like them, but YOU are YOU, you are fine just the way you are, and we love you. Keep it simple and clear. Loud and clear. Don't do anything to start a tug of war; that's what provokes an adolescent to side with their "friends," to "prove" they are brave and loyal.
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  17615.  @highroller-jq3ix  Now address the point about a 1% failure rate (your claim; I don't believe it is that low) being absolutely catastrophic. You don't risk chemical sterilization where 100 per 100,000 will not even have the benefit you claim to be seeking.
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  17616.  @Anu4343  One percent is an enormously huge number, given the nature of the harm. And that is if it is "only" one percent. We never had so many children and adolescents demanding this particular intervention, so we don't know what is driving these new patients.
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  17617. Are you sure? This is America. /s
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  17618. Good journalists would have thought to raise that question --- perhaps even answer it.
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  17619.  @hrs2044  Why is anyone proposing it? It is unconstitutional. They swore to uphold that thing, 'member?
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  17620.  @hrs2044  I agree the First Amendment prevents this. Gaslighting by those who denounce it is a common move. Like hypocrisy from hypocrites. Racial and ethnic stereotyping by those who denounce racism, etc. Accuse others first of what you want to do. Accuse others of "misinformation" while doing what CUOMO did.
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  17621. He looked to subvert the moratorium on gain of function research under Obama as well. Fauci has got something on somebody. This can't be "just politics."
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  17622.  @newtonia-uo4889  Trump admitted to Bob Woodward that he knew that COVID represented a danger back in late January 2020. Trump failed to fire Fauci. Trump allowed the moratorium on gain of function research to expire, though that hardly mattered, true. What does Fauci have on these people??
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  17623. Did anyone else get shot that night? Not that it matters for purposes of the trial. Do you think it should be legal for a minor to strap a large rifle across his chest and enter a public way at night during civil unrest? It's your country, you decide.
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  17624. Negative patterns in how others treat you are usually due to something outside of you. The worst thing an introspective person can do is overthink it. Turn the page, and go do something.
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  17625. Perfect 💯
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  17626. @abunchahooey  I did not use AI. I provided the title of the NPR article. You didn't check. You need to learn not to trust so easily. And that goes for trusting politicians who accept funds so readily from bad actors, as well.
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  17627. I love this! Happy New Year!
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  17628.  @vgames6792  LOL, good one!
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  17629. I disagree. I learned more about writing in one year, taking one class per semester at a highly prestigious, private art school as a student-at-large, than in three years of law school at a very good state university. It was eye-opening all right. I had no idea what money buys. There are truly outstanding professors everywhere, and high school teachers as well, but in some places, it's hit or miss --- and online reviews are often worthless or misleading.
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  17630. @janetdenton6674  Because he's loaded. Can you afford Russia, just for a vacation?
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  17631.  @silveravnt  And do you think that results in a secure retirement?
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  17632. I wish people would ask these questions! No information on how to protect ourselves!
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  17633. Those who made a lot of money are happy, those who did not are mad.
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  17634.  @SupaSupaDave1955  The ones I've met look nothing like that.
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  17635. I've been surprised by how many places a couple both working full time at minimum wage can afford a one-bedroom apartment. Forget about getting a dog, though, much less having one child. (Pro tip: A parakeet is cheaper than a cockatiel. Canaries are expensive and more fragile, however.)
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  17636. Yeah, the posh faux British accent . . . Funny.
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  17637. Amazon mostly ships through USPS to its facilities. As for UPS, it's astronomical in cost and not better at all. SpaceX is government subsidized and not superior to NASA.
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  17638. You say that like it's a bad thing. I wish babysitting were his only job.
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  17639. 4:17 Wow, think of all the qualified people who can't find a job.
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  17640. Re: Trump's response to COVID. I consider it poor, BUT not at all for the reasons Nomiki said. She's factually wrong.
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  17641. I wonder how many aren't.
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  17642.  @cagneybillingsley2165  Worse.
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  17643.  @wyskass861  Supporting a no-fly zone even if it risks a nuclear war? That was what he said. That is for the benefit of others? Ask the Japanese what they think.
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  17644.  @wyskass861  I was not quoting Putin, or crediting him, or discrediting him. I was quoting Sean Penn based on what he said in this video. Which was unhinged. No one seems to think they need to be responsible and sober, or to tone down their rhetoric. They are bloviating for their own perceived benefit and nothing more.
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  17645. You are too kind. Most kids that age have charm.
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  17646. Try putting his full name in a search engine, and see a few of the tax cases he lost come right up.
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  17647. In the US, sometimes they can finagle a book deal.
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  17648. Take good care! Be very kind to yourself!!
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  17649.  bubbaburdle4693  If you could sue a judge, who wouldn't? That would be open to anyone who lost a ruling.
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  17650. ​@Shanelle3 Taking certain things seriously is worse. It's right or wrong not in principle, and not for everyone, but in the moment. Too much nonsense is treated with grave expressions, furrowed brows . . . Please.
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  17651. ​@umhi9778 Most people scream at each other sometimes -- especially teens going through puberty, who often scream at parents and siblings. That's why so many are suddenly close to grandparents. The screaming between a teen and his or her grandma is rare. This is not a prelude to mental illness or crime. It is part of everyday life.
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  17652. It's a private university.
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  17653.  @yoholmes273  To people with the authority to hire you at $175k to start.
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  17654.  @yoholmes273  That's what people go to college for, isn't it?
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  17655.  @yoholmes273  Sadly, yes. I think I agree with the spirit of your comment. :/
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  17656. A lawyer doesn't comprehend that upon marriage, a spouse becomes their next of kin? His life was in her hands.
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  17657. Seriously? This is common.
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  17658.  @Chewy_GarageBandDad  People don't need to go to college? High school has been an inferior education for over 50 years. What do you think the major businesses in the US are, now that manufacturing has been transplanted to Asia?
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  17659.  @Chewy_GarageBandDad  How do you think state colleges used to be financed? A minimum-wage summer job covered a full year of in-state tuition. Why do you think that was? Where do you think the money came from? Taxes.
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  17660. Weiss made her name by attacking pro-Palestinian profs as anti-Semitic.
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  17661. ​@davesgreatescapes In one study, they tested unvaccinated children and teens who had not had a known case of COVID for antibodies to it. Well over 90% had antibodies, indicating they had had it.
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  17662. Oh now I get it. Impotent activism.
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  17663. Yes.
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  17664.  @ericheick7044  Found it. There was never a criminal complaint or arrest warrant against Duante Wright for this crime, but a civil suit for money damages against his estate is pending.
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  17665. No. She said that in all of these cases, it is only in retrospect that we understand what was at stake, AND she said the punishment of the January 6th protesters is too harsh as well.
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  17666. @scratchpenny  Yup. The fact that he heads a company that makes a real thing -- electric cars -- sets him apart right there. Setting up mechanisms that combine advertising and mass surveillance, and draw people into compulsive self-disclosure, is going to be worse. Some of his workers have had shockingly bad experiences, though.
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  17667. Well, some people have a 10 year old, and didn't do that a second time. They have a big stake in what Hedges is talking about.
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  17668. @Private Banks Do you actually believe that? Or just joking around?
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  17669.  @ProsperousHobo  They don't have the burden of proof.
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  17670.  @MTknitter22  Do you think either this US president or the last one encouraged THOUGHT? The message we are getting is that thinking is for chumps.
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  17671.  @stephanies6770  He's the decision maker.
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  17672. @MJLOVEnow  She has got the best public relations in the world. And where Weinstein is concerned, she is nowhere near the worst offender. Everyone who saw benefit in their relation to Weinstein turned a blind eye. She probably knew a lot less than, say, George Clooney did --- or any actor, for that matter.
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  17673. I always thought having a child did transform people. Then I started getting to know more young parents.
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  17674. Dangerous? There, there you poor dear.
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  17675. Kim Iversen played the actual tape from the oral argument before the US Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, where the FDA conceded that it is perfectly legal for a licensed physician to prescribe these medicines for COVID. Learn about court. It's never reported well, but you can always find the facts because it's a public record.
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  17676. Let's be clear, however much the US is responsible for the last 8 years leading up to this escalation, Putin was wrong, first, to escalate when he chose. There were still alternative courses. Second, the Russian allies should have secured the Donbass months ago. The current fighting is sheer brutality. I don't minimize America's role. But we all know the non-NATO world has to deal with them, knowing full well who they are and what they do . . . Sorry. No apologetics for Putin. He, too, is presiding over a catastrophe. He made grave choices too, gravely wrong. At least from the look on his face, he realizes it. As for Biden, Pelosi, and the rest of that motley crew, well . . .
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  17677.  @Lunatic4Bizcas  Why? I guess my point was unclear?
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  17678.  @Photovintageguy  Certainly I knew the laptop was very likely real, and the censorship of the story was an outrage. Certainly I saw through Russiagate. (Come on. That one was easy.) Glenn Greenwald, Max B, Aaron M, M Taibbi, Abby Martin, etc., fan in the house. I judge a person's credibility based on fair excerpts of their own words. You can't trust the reporting on anyone outside the clique.
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  17679.  @nukacola3218  Wow. You sound like Hillary.
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  17680.  @nukacola3218 So . . . The person who says magic words, like "gaslighting," becomes immune from criticism? Sounds about right. That is a Hillary moment. Her magic word was "Russia!!!"
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  17681. There is nothing "progressive," much less "left," about trans ideology or any of this other divisive, self-involved nonsense.
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  17682. Afford a stay-at-home spouse? Please elaborate.
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  17683.  @anthonytwohill9726  Come to think of it, I've never met anyone from Oklahoma without a Cherokee Princess in their family tree. Not kidding. :D
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  17684.  @Roma-SRyan  With symbolic hints that the marriage is in trouble. Why do that?
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  17685. ​​ @amarissimus29  Excellent post. I still see it, too. (Mine, not so much.)
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  17686.  @Rugelacharugula  Not believing that stalking victims secretly enjoy being spied on and followed, never being at peace to live their lives, makes me terrible? Huh?
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  17687. Just the opposite. You either won't or can't follow. In fact, she brought up Sam Bankman-Fried, which is an great example of what is important. He bought cover, and the focus is off suddenly.
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  17688. ​ @faefae2260 Do we now?
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  17689.  @hotsauce1646  Tens of thousands. It wasn't a big deal for grown people. A three-year-old? A puppy? Yes it was a big deal.
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  17690. @alostcause4035  And since when does the empty vehicle of a president's grandkid have a Secret Service detail? Almost funny.
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  17691.  @utah_koidragon7117  💯 SO well said!!
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  17692. @jadesea562  Violent crime actually has a precise legal definition. In most jurisdictions, if not all, motor vehicle theft when there are no people present is a serious felony but not a violent one.
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  17693. @leevy6753  It was my house that was broken into. If it were my car, it would be about the money. I wouldn't take it personally. As I said, I was not vandalized. Had I been, I am sure it would have upset me much more. But as matters stood, dealing with my insurance was much worse than the burglary. That's where a person confronts banal, routinized heartlessness and immorality. That always disturbs me because it WILL repeat. You can count on that forever. It's set up that way, and treated as being fine and good. At least we all agree theft is wrong.
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  17694. @jadesea562  I'm saying that dealing with the insurance company was the traumatic part, not the burglary itself. I would have wanted to speak to the burglar. There was no getting through to the insurer. There never will be. I hope the day when we regard any property as equivalent in value to any life will never come. The fact that fear has nearly brought it here already is what I lament.
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  17695. You mean that thing that keeps sending Ukrainian Brides ads to you? That thing?
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  17696. No she didn't. She blames it for being a strategy for undermining every sound idea Bernie Sanders had.
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  17697. They are not going to stop anything. They are corrupt to the core.
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  17698.  @earlydetective  That's your religion. You are certainly entitled to it.
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  17699. The proliferation of ads for brokers on this comment board are hysterical.
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  17700.  @sandman1688  I can't argue with reasonable limits. Every democracy has them. No one wants to deal with the fact that a human embryo and fetus are unique stages of human development. You hear people referring to zygotes as "babies" and 25-week fetuses as "clumps of cells," or "parasites." (How did we get here?)
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  17701.  @diemitrimoran2963  The Trial in particular. The Castle is a dreamscape, it's incredible.
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  17702.  @Uprising771  Sheesh, I was agreeing. "It's a big club, and you ain't in it."
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  17703.  @DonaldJoeKennedy  Thanks
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  17704. Biden wants to flip Venezuela, and will. Just watch. If we have an economic breakdown, KNOW Biden will start new wars.
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  17705.  @alexanderplatypus3664  Doesn't count. The people here are trying to cancel her, for chissake.
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  17706. It isn't any more. The Wall Street Journal wrote about it over the last few days and the NYTimes updated its story. Gates's association with Epstein was extensive. He lied about it. It is sobering.
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  17707. @Grandma jane  You have to learn about your period and stuff. Hygiene. Fertility. I won't talk about guys. It embarrasses them too much. Today, kids do need to know about the risks of Internet porn, not to believe the stuff about choking games, etc., and other risks, from adults online.
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  17708. I agree with you.
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  17709. AP is elective. The course is supposed to lead to real college credits, based on exams administered by the College Board. The College Board is private.
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  17710.  @sdrc92126  Thank you. Sanity lives!
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  17711.  @radscorpion8  Have you ever read anything else? Start with The Apology. Then try The Gorgias. In the meantime, Sophocles and Euripides. Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud all started there for a reason. James Baldwin, too.
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  17712. Meta . . . Mega . . . MAGA! Zuckerberg should sell hats.
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  17713. Wow, just wow. Law is all about revenge now. Do you know anything about the Crumbly case? Or about the Bill of Rights, for that matter?
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  17714.  @sleepinglioness5754  These sheer perfidity of the neoliberal ruling class, and what they are capable of doing to the rest of mankind, has been revealed OVER and OVER and OVER. It can no longer be denied except by the deeply propagandized, who seem to have an increasing, and distressing, detachment from reality. (Check out Hillary's latest pronouncements, for example. C'est hallucinant.)
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  17715.  @davidforbes2557  The way that you reach for vicious ad hominem right away (you suspect someone is an "anti-vaxxer" and willing to risk other people's lives) shows us exactly how seriously we should take your posts. Thanks for the heads up.
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  17716.  @davidforbes2557  Why do you believe that those who recovered from a proven case of COVID must be vaccinated? Couldn't that be a waste of vaccine on someone who does not need it, depriving someone else who truly does need it? Shouldn't recovered COVID people be last in line for a vaccine, if they should get it at all? "I suspect you're a pro-vaxxer intent on making money on your Big Pharma stock while putting others at risk." See how that sounds?
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  17717.  @davidforbes2557  How is it ever a moral obligation to take a drug you very likely do not need? Just following orders, are we?
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  17718.  @nchevrea  Yeah, well, in France the PCF came out strongly against vaccine mandates and passports months ago, and made the points Max Blumenthal has been making that medical personnel risked their lives last year to treat us, so how can anyone fire them now? How far we've fallen . . .
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  17719. Greenwald wasn't fired. He left. All he had to do was withdraw the Hunter Biden story and hold it back, from any publication, until after the election. He refused. It violated his contract and his principles to do that. So, he quit.
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  17720. You're entirely right. The Inspectors General were all fired, and no auditors hired. So, what is happening here? Chaos for its own sake, and Musk's.
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  17721.  @rhys5567  False.
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  17722.  @shawnsdrumcave  These various private retirement savings vehicles have existed for over 40 years, hence roughly two generations. Where are all the people who can retire on those investments? At most 10% can, with no other income stream. When 90% cannot do something, then that is not a plan. That is a gamble.
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  17723. Moreover, a case with this profile will very likely have a prominent lawyer take it pro bono or nearly so, before it's underway. I don't believe a public defender will try it, frankly. But an accused must have legal representation at every step.
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  17724.  @TJ-so9xo  Strange. First of all, I asked the OP. Is that you by a different name? If this PD ever represented the MOTHER of a victim, even in an unrelated case, she cannot now represent the alleged murderer. The woman wants to write a book and become rich. That's what she's considering.
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  17725.  @gailhall6283  Who said it was all right? 18 U.S. Code § 798 - Disclosure of classified information governs what you are talking about. Treason falls under an entirely different section of Title 18, with different criteria. Or, we could go full Alice in Wonderland: "words mean exactly what I want them to mean."
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  17726. He could have been fired, but a lawsuit would have been unlikely to succeed. You should know how bad it has to get for women with no recourse, who have to keep their jobs, before they can win a lawsuit. Funny how iit all comes out only after the Aaron Mate smear. Jimmy stood up for Aaron, and Aaron (being the tremendous man that he is) actually apologized to Jimmy, saying he felt like he was responsible. That is one apology that was not owed, unlike the gracious WRITTEN apology Jimmy gave to Ana.
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  17727. 😂😂😂 👏
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  17728.  @Fortaz107  If you could listen to the left in any other country, they question Gates's initiatives, they are unimpressed by billionaires and "startups," they are generally opposed to GMOs, they want discussion of alternatives before further COVID restrictions and lockdowns, they support freedom of speech, especially at university, and they support local farming. I know, I'm ready to faint.
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  17729. ​ @alex09aries Try irony. Irony is good.
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  17730. The minor child took off only after one of the police threatened him that he was about to get a bullet to the head. The recording in French is crystal clear. It wasn't translated? Huh.
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  17731.  @Leyna178  they can no longer accept the truth
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  17732.  @Leyna178  they can no longer face the SIMPLEST facts
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  17733. “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
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  17734. @SpaciousSelf-gx9hc  I don't even like him. His comedy is too hyper/hippie-ish for me. "Period." 😂🤪
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  17735.  Joey Diaz  Sandy Hook.
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  17736.  @kevinbillington9773  Sandy Hook? I'd say you better check on that. I frankly don't know how those parents can stay in the United States. There is no way I would, especially if I had surviving children. (Ever heard of the movie Dogville? I recommend it.)
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  17737. Yes. There was an audiotape. I suggest you research it, rather than follow a reflex and believe it's true.
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  17738. For one thing, the cops claimed they could not tell that an Asian male is a minor, not an adult.
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  17739.  @jennie271982  How would YOU know what my knowledge base is? I am an attorney from the general area. You? True crime aficionado, perhaps?
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  17740. @AgxntOrange  You haven't noticed true crime to give misleading information that conflicts with court records? I have. Viewership drives content, and meticulous attention to detail does not attract viewers.
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  17741. @AgxntOrange  Because they know how to look up court records and ancillary investigations. The police involved were, of course, investigated.
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  17742. Nice
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  17743. Please someone take him back to Delaware. Jill. Jill, you do it.
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  17744. The Paul-Ehrlich-Institut safety report, English language version, is what was cited here. You might want to take a peek. It is always a good idea to go to primary sources to verify anything a politician says. No one is suggesting that this vaccine will hurt most people. That's obviously not the case by any stretch. We expect it not to, correct? We don't take drugs with poor risk-benefit ratios. Or at least we didn't.
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  17745. But he just made an unforced error, didn't he? You have to wonder how he got into Yale, and what he learned there about constitutional rights.
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  17746. In addition, it was proposed that those who had recovered from COVID could assist medical personnel in caring for those who had it. Seems to me like a lot of things that would have been normal to do were somehow quashed.
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  17747. ​ @margaretgreaves7246  That's your view. "We were at war" -- I object to war metaphors in this context. Immediate family was already exposed. So were medical personnel allowed to "take it back to the community?" Could they see their families? At least in the case of patients, we knew their closest relative in the same household, who probably brought them in, was already exposed. I love the lack of logic and the violent metaphors. We can trust your judgment. /s You have no business attacking anyone.
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  17748. @visconti8236  Saying they can make a choice about their future reproductive health and their future romantic lives before they have grown up physically and psychologically is an example. How could they know what they may be giving up? They are not supposed to know.
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  17749. When you realize you cannot agree the facts, attack the person . . . Which is less bad than putting out fake facts, actually.
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  17750.  shroomingnewman 3 So the courts are all in cahoots, too. Elaborate reality show. /s
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  17751.  @Nightriser271828  Obviously. A great point. It is so annoying when you hear bougie types unable to come up with any lucid argument, and instead say, "well that's not very nice." He likes not being nice.
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  17752.  @amandap9332  Thank you. Very well said.
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  17753.  @barefootprofessor3455  There is plenty of latent racism simmering everywhere, but when do they pass from fuming to acting? In the case of fascist and fascist-type movements, the pattern is always the same. The very poorest people never join, as they know it is futile. Those of the lower middle class who took for granted that they would have much better lives and are now seeing basic security slip away are the ones who are easily enraged. BTW, If you think "no one controls the economy" like no one controls sun spots, you've got some reading to do. What do you think happened in 2008-2011, and why? Or just now, for that matter.
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  17754.  @KnutFan  I never went on Facebook or Twitter because MySpace caused so much trouble for people. I never went on MySpace, so wasn't tempted by FB, etc., when those came out. Is that okay?
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  17755.  @shadowwolf7622  All of my friends who are veterans think just like you do. I'm so grateful to have them.
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  17756. I think that all we see now are cults.
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  17757.  @Viktor5644  "They did say that?" I mean, that's precise! It doesn't really respond to my comment in the first place. "In physics there is no infinity." That was your comment. Well, mathematical proofs are not empirical but deductive, precisely because they ARE about infinite sets. So, even 10^(10^100) examples, even if you had the computing power to find them, don't help you prove that something is true. They just clue you in on what you could try to prove. (See, e.g., Goldbach's conjecture).
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  17758. Enabling them.
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  17759. When you've read books, rather than followed Jordan Peterson.
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  17760. So do you.
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  17761. YIKES
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  17762. Thank you for making this video.
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  17763.  @hogwartz6360  How was his brother's life in danger, where what Cuomo did was necessary to save it? Did you hear from his wife about the parade of doctors and other health care providers and nutrition consultants, etc., that made house visits? She did a whole lifestyle story about it in some high-end magazine. Newsflash: the newscaster brother is not poor, alone, bereft, etc., nor was he very sick. No one would begrudge Cuomo saving his own brother's life. Funny, your post reminds me of the excuses made for the people who bribed and cheated to get their kids into college.
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  17764. The New York Times has an article on who survives COVID despite risk factors and the laboratory that studies these people. One person they are studying recovered from a relatively mild case. I believe she is 112? I'd have to double check. Over 110 for sure. :)
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  17765. @Сперти за правду Ha! You didn't address my points.
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  17766.  @inquisitive.lurker  Oh yeah? https://youtu.be/64A7A8QWDNc Keep pretending . . .
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  17767. Then we need (to rely on them) to end shutdowns. No compensation for impairing our liberty? Then quit impairing our liberty.
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  17768. Read my lips . . .
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  17769.  @msi8311  What Gates did to Paul Allen, by trying to squeeze him out of Microsoft while Paul was undergoing radiation treatment for lymphoma, is enough information. Microsoft was convicted of antitrust violations and received no punishment. By the way, Gates was the son of Seattle's top corporate lawyer. He knew no one with real money has to listen to anyone.
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  17770. The DOJ under Trump indicted Assange. The NIH under Trump started funding gain of function research again, after a pause. Nor did Trump fire Fauci. He played good cop bad cop with him.
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  17771. YES
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  17772.  @mendonesiac  Bad people exist at all levels, with an unheard-of super concentration of bad people at the top, so called. For all I knew about scofflaw Bill Gates, and his essentially unpunished antitrust violations, that he cavorted with Epstein was a minor surprise. I also remember when it was verboten to ask what Bill would be doing in a Hillary administration. Well, well, what an interesting question that turned out to be.
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  17773.  @vainezaiven6677  Thank you. How plain could it be? How could anyone miss it?
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  17774. Talk to someone on Medicare. See what they think.
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  17775. 1. Government controls it now, but you pay for it all by your lonesome. 2. Only the ultrarich have excellent care in America. That's true regardless. 3. Medical bills are still the top cause of bankruptcy.
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  17776. Well, then don't replace him with anyone from the UK. Many people there, including conservatives, were none too happy. They saw it.
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  17777. @DreamDiaryOfTrap  In the future, look up what the public health/ministries of health of other countries are recommending. It takes digging, sure, but it's all online, in English. For example, in Sweden, for 2024, they recommend universal boosters for those over 80. Yes. Eighty. You read that right. People who need home health assistance and are 65 or over are also recommended to get it. Not universal. Healthy 76 year old? Don't need it. Eye-opening, huh? Smh.
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  17778.  @DreamDiaryOfTrap  hope you are allowed to read what I just wrote 🫣
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  17779. A HUGE union win, Smalls vindicated, and AOC exposed. Perfect.
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  17780. Get a lawyer on to analyze this. It sounds unconstitutional.
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  17781. That's no grounds for an investigation, unless he's funneling money to friends or something.
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  17782. Oh lord that cracked me up. The image!
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  17783.  @jairkerker2821  YIKES
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  17784.  @katiek.8808  That will never be you, will it?
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  17785.  @katiek.8808  YT does not want to undermine money worship.
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  17786. I hope you are not holding your breath.
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  17787. "So I guess COVID has been exaggerated after all, Joe?" /s
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  17788. Everyone is mentioning this, but listening to it a couple of times, I think he probably misspoke. He made parallel comparisons between the US and France on two subjects, and in the second one he said Macron is imitating our neoliberal class on matters of police state. I think he just accidentally reversed the order in the first comparison. 4:15
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  17789. And then every so often, Tucker comes out with stuff like his support of Kyle Rittenhouse, along the lines of "what's a young man to do when his city is being burned down?" Good gawd, now we want underage high school dropouts as heavily armed vigilantees? Really? This will "keep us safe?" Tucker is as misleading, divisive, and disingenuous as Maddow.
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  17790. ​ @americafirst9144 Reading Glenn Greenwald, With Liberty and Justice for Some. Oh. My. GOD. Read that. Seriously.
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  17791.  @nuclearcatbaby1131  Because one single study, a small one, released in preprint suggested we should RESEARCH this issue further -- not that it is true. Got that? Quit fearmongering for the other side.
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  17792. You are so right. The mandates make people mistrust the vaccines. Of COURSE. They jeopardize trust in all institutions. This is nothing to joke about.
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  17793.  @sagathehardworker2190  I agree. A dispassionate analysis of what Sweden did and what the results were is necessary. By "results," I include immunity acquired from COVID exposure or illness, if any. Totally neutral and apolitical -- there is an entire developed country with exceptionally great public health to study. "Crickets?"
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  17794. We treat school shooters. We treat terrorists. We treated Tsarnaev. Did anyone object?
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  17795.  Steve White  People who think that a country with SCHOOL SHOOTINGS, WORKPLACE SHOOTINGS, MALL SHOOTINGS, etc., and a pandemic, should have minor kids running around with serious firepower and crossing state lines to insert themselves in civil unrest, clearly hate that country and wish it the worst. If things are so dangerous, he should have been home looking out for his mother.
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  17796.  @andreeaalexandru7811  You sound like the nut. What hasn't she understood? What has she failed to accomplish? She even went back to school to get her doctorate -- at Oxford, no less. And she did not give in to the COVID hysteria or the vaccine push. Considering the extreme pressure and fear mongering we were all subjected to, that shows strength of character. Comes as no surprise to me that her husband is a veteran, by the way.
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  17797. During the vaccine mandates, Biden made me feel like a hunted animal. Now he wants to "bring us together." Now.
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  17798.  @dyingalive  She talked about creating more goods, not more dollars. We have a deregulated financial sector in which money makes more money. Even Adam Smith warned about this. A rentier class creates nothing. They are middlemen. Objective criteria for assessing their contribution to the real economy have become nonexistent. It's turtles (i.e., propaganda) all the way down.
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  17799.  @SandraMartinez-gv1yf  Consider all the corporations that spend more in lobbying than in taxes. Then consider how many of those corporations need the US military to protect global shipping lanes and air space for them. We pay for that. They should pay for their own security. I don't see why I should. It just lets them offshore more jobs. Then most of the jobs that are left either pay practically nothing or require . . . um, er . . . a college degree.
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  17800. If the US were the only country distributing vaccines, there is no way I would consider it!
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  17801. Amen. This was obvious from the start.
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  17802.  @ddot9566  Agreed. If you lose your focus in gymnastics, you could be killed. Easily. It's just how it is.
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  17803. ​​ @legalbeagle295 Harvard Law, and a lot of science as an undergrad, so . . . much higher science literacy than most. In other words, no excuse.
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  17804. That "art" was ugly.
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  17805. Notice how ALL the pseudo-progressive centrists act like there is no COVID, except when small businesses have to close?
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  17806.  @ryanrex297  💯
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  17807. @Lady Kuntsparian The trickle down is pee.
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  17808. ​ @Casandratoo Aristotle? No, Athens was not a republic.
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  17809. ​ @Casandratoo Great to raise this question. I will go back to reread it today.
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  17810.  @flyjet8718  So true, that.
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  17811.  @paulholland4908  You are very welcome. No worries.
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  17812. At this point, questions are called for.
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  17813. Because it is a cover, and it works. Other people -- normal people -- let their guard down. When would the parents of a pretty 14-year-old daughter let a 28-year-old stranger live with them? Only with religion as the cover story. No other way.
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  17814.  @kevinobrien1897  Your empirical claims have nothing to do with "logic." What an empirical claim requires in order to be substantiated is adequate evidence, not speculation about bare possibilities. "Logic" isn't the magic word you seem to think it is. No one suggested that allies of Trump could not possibly have been set up by the Trump DOJ. I suggest that a set up is highly, highly unlikely here. Trump was just a different kind of corrupt.
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  17815. THIS.
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  17816. 5:15 --- this case could go up to the Supreme Court, "and from there, it's up to Pfizer"
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  17817. NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder)
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  17818. I think he remembers watching these other humanlike creatures working there, not that he can read the photo. But he did know they spent a lot of time there for some reason. I think it's a testament to memory and pattern recognition.
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  17819. This is how it actually goes: The hyperrich get government contracts and tax breaks, because they are "job creators." They use their earnings to lobby for more preferential treatment from government, including the ability to offshore jobs. Then instead of paying taxes, they buy T bonds. Then, tax revenues go straight to them to pay them interest on those T bonds. Neat, huh? 🤗
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  17820.  @bestdjaf7499  Drug companies are never liable for malpractice injuries. No special deals needed.
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  17821. Every war zone is more complex than the Hollywood version.
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  17822. Animal Farm
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  17823.  @DynamicDolphin  False
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  17824. They were taking notes.
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  17825. How so? Nowhere did she fail to say the teacher was wrong.
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  17826.  @barrydworak  GOOD POINT
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  17827. @karinburt8168  I said too much on that score, my reply is shadowed now.
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  17828. Have you verified that? I would never take anyone's work concerning any book ban, in any place.
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  17829.  @hizzlemobizzle  This could be a very good experience. He needs to think it through carefully. It used to be that anyone who qualified could go to university in most European countries tuition-free, so that is huge. I lived in France for five years in the 1980s, and can tell you, two or three years to perfect the language is essential, and much more valuable than just one year (it takes a year to get your bearings), but more than three becomes a real problem UNLESS you get a job with an American company. My family had strong ties to France, a lot of family friends lived there, my parents were born in Europe as well, and all in all, I lost my assimilation to American society in that length of time. That was a mixed bag, to say the least. In short, I wouldn't change it for the world, but I advise people not to stay more than two or three years without reconnecting to the US in a meaningful way. It gets hard if you stay a long time and then try to come back. You change too much. I have to retire in Europe. I cannot make it here as an elderly person anymore. I'm a foreigner where I was born.
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  17830. hysterical
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  17831. The DNC elite are making serious money. Big difference.
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  17832. True, but how frequently, how severe, and how long?
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  17833. Wishing you the best, truly.
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  17834. Budweiser's unabashed aim is to get people to drink.
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  17835. True
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  17836. ​ @The_Ballo  They pay him. He has no problem with that. Money = Truth in his world, for real.
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  17837. Why does this show up on my notifications thread, but MY reply is _______ ?
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  17838. @johngalardi  Why the massive cents or sheep here??
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  17839.  @hrs2044  Surprised you got to post that.
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  17840.  @hrs2044  Of course!! I know.
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  17841. More to the real point: this person is, of course, entitled to live by his own lights. But WHY should he have any effect on MY life?
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  17842.  @IAintTheDaddyMaury  Yes, but you're normal.
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  17843.  Maitre Mark  APPARENTLY
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  17844.  @midimoog  Other mathematical objects are not in the set we are hypothesizing about.
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  17845. ​ @slappy8941 AI now defaults to "you're," "it's," etc. I can't stand it, either. No one resists that cra.p
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  17846. ​ @evanpatterson3424 No, that's allowing Bill Gates, et al, to default to bad grammar and going along with them.
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  17847. Begin with the legal status of the corporation, as an entity separate from its board, c-suite, and other agents: corporations are designed to LIMIT LIABILITY. That's why Tony Hayward didn't lose a cent of salary already paid to him, or stock profits he took earlier in the year, when the BP well blew in the Gulf, nevermind that people were killed and permanent harm was done to the ecology of that region. (A short time later, he and a Rothchild started a hedge fund trading oil and other such basic materials. Made way more money, of course. The blowout was a win for him.)
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  17848. @jgalt308  It most certainly does. That is why the British say "Limited" -- that is, "Limited Liability." Truth in advertising. Say. Where did you go to law school? 🤣
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  17849.  @jgalt308  Where did I say "immunity?" This was not a discourse about certain drugs.
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  17850.  @jgalt308  JUST THE OPPOSITE. Agents and principals of a corporation are not held personally liable when pursuing the legitimate business interests of the corporation. If there is a legitimate tort case against the corporation, then it may only be satisfied with CORPORATE ASSETS.
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  17851.  @jgalt308  Nor am I British.
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  17852.  @jgalt308  Some "civil infractions" (sometimes called TORTS) certainly are included in the limited liability rule. Listen, I have no problem with someone calling themselves JGALT making an utter fool of themselves. Blocked as time waster.
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  17853. Have you ever read With Liberty and Justice for Some? Greenwald is authentic left, and refuses to sneer at the ordinary working people, but when it comes to certain civil liberties, those override any other considerations. If there were ever a clash between a genuine left-wing policy and the First Amendment -- though it's not easy to see how there would be -- the First Amendment wins.
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  17854. Let's see what Libs of Tik Tok has actually done: On the one hand, collecting videos actually, voluntarily posted on social media by various people, particularly those teaching young children and minors in general, is a public service. People have a right to know who is forming the young, and whether they have sound judgment. No argument! On the other hand, Libs of Tik Tok didn't just "curate" these videos. She made extremely inflammatory comments, accusing the makers of the videos of some of the most heinous crimes against children. Not hyperbole; she really did call for arrests for what is essentially free speech. You see a good guy in this picture? Lorenz, by the way, is the last person to expose Libs of Tik Tok, if anyone should. Big "if." Sure Libs of Tik Tok is a public figure. Don't go down the "power differential" rabbit hole. Anyone can destroy anyone now. We all know that.
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  17855.  @Mat-fw1ky  No worries! I am hypersensitive to anti-free speech tropes from anybody, at this point. But yeah, I don't call for censoring her, either, I just denounce the call for arresting these sad clowns. Lorenz is the bad guy in this picture, and I know she has 💲💲💲💰💰💰 behind her.
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  17856. How many parents know to warn their children? How many have any idea how to teach their children to do research? How many know themselves?
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  17857.  @profe3330  The French have a word for it: ressentiment I don't think it has ever been more poisonous.
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  17858.  @elizabethsmusicandarts1590  Eloquent and heart-wrenching. None of it surprises me.
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  17859. As for the OP, if a person makes a public comment in a public forum, in 2022 they should expect it to become widely known. Suppose a parent lies about a teacher at a school board meeting. That is undoubtedly privileged in some way, meaning that even if it were flat-out defamation, the teacher would either have a very hard time suing them (many procedural hurdles, need to exhaust all other remedies), or might not be able to obtain recourse at all. Why shouldn't she be informed about it? You expect as much at your job.
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  17860.  @jessigreer  No one said that. I just said the opposite. Sounds like you have a sketchy relationship with the truth. I wonder if someone publicly denounced you whether you would think you'd have a right to be informed and to seek redress if necessary. NEWSFLASH: no one wants to teach your children any more. Teaching is still a respected profession in just about every other country in the world. Go back and watch some newscasts about the Beslan school seige and massacre. See what their first day of school is like (everyone dressed up, all parents present, a parade, and giant bouquets of flowers for all the teachers). It's a great, big world out there. You really do not grasp what you're doing.
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  17861.  @stopwritingthatreplyjohnat6638  That stupid naturally? Could it be weird drugs?
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  17862.  @stopwritingthatreplyjohnat6638  Just speculating. I'm not accusing anyone. :)
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  17863. All the hate mongering is bad for people, too.
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  17864.  @lurchpop  How did everyone not see through it? Mystifies me.
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  17865.  @letthetruthbetoldofficial  Look up the rat line.
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  17866.  @alzer6467  Maybe we are concerned because we are arming them? Could that be it?
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  17867.  @alzer6467  Here's an idea: find an anti-Putin scholar or journalist who documented the presence of the Azov Battalion and other neo-Nazis in Ukraine prior to the present war. Lev Golinkin comes to mind. Consider also that Putin's actions strengthened the influence of neo-Nazis, rather than reducing it. Think it through a bit. You never know, you might like thinking. You don't have to tell anyone you did.
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  17868. @utah_koidragon7117  They really don't want us talking! In the end, we agree too much for their comfort. Looks like something got through. Hmm. Not sure whether we can both see the same? SMH
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  17869. I admit I laughed.
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  17870.  @mattdavis7876  You should see all the Ob-Gyn clinics that say "pregnant people."
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  17871. Is Briahna a sweetheart OR WHAT? Brilliant here. Katie = brilliant, goes without saying.
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  17872.  @luizsouto4019  Yup. Mathematical truths aren't universal and accessible to everyone when explained properly, they depend on how cool you are. Everything is a subset of advertising, so why not mathematics?
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  17873.  @Skooms89  I thought Epstein was supposed to be dead.
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  17874. I suppose this whistle blower could be deliberately acting in a way that makes him seem like he lacks credibility. That might be the false flag --- the crafts exist, and his demeanor makes it seem like he's lying about all of it. Because he does seem like he's lying.
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  17875. So in the end, Ana got a lot of what she wanted after all.
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  17876. It's "just on paper," but it's paper the banks accept as collateral for loans. (Or what did you think was happening?) In the meantime, they buy up T bonds, and we owe them interest from the US Treasury.
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  17877. @cryptarisprotocol1872  Shows what you know. They spend more on lobbying than on taxes for a reason. Then our taxes go to them, as interest. You really don't understand this stuff, do you?
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  17878. Maybe you should see the statements of people who did lose family members that day, including one who lost his mother. He stated that he remains steadfast for peace among all people. It is actually a video that shakes a person, showing what heights of goodness are possible for mankind.
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  17879. OMG. So, deeply disordered = MASCULINE? That is too much male bashing for anybody.
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  17880.  @Res1wolf  So in the case of minors, you do not create an unacceptable risk to them with no appreciable benefit to them. They are unable to choose for themselves. Basic ethics.
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  17881.  @Res1wolf  How much risk must be imposed on a child to help reduce the risk for adults? You sound as if the answer were obvious.
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  17882. YES Thank you.
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  17883.  @naura-in9de  Okay, he gives me the impression that all is not well chez la famille Vance.
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  17884. There must be something you missed? Yeah, trusting a billionaire. 😂
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  17885.  @paperpatdown  Given that the material was subject to subpoena, it was newsworthy.
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  17886. You would do it, if you could?
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  17887. Let me see if I understand . . . This study suggests that there may be a way to make this particular vaccine much safer than it is. Someone please explain how this could be "bad" from any viewpoint. I mean any legitimate viewpoint whatsoever. The fact that anyone is opposed to this research tells you EVERYTHING.
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  17888.  @seadoogti9288  What does a goldfish remember? just kidding
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  17889.  @Jay-cp9kd  That's the plan. 😉
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  17890. When I looked at Oxford's risk calculator, it placed my risk of death from COVID at roughly 1%. A comparable American source? 3.5% Edited for typo, ugh, I hate them.
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  17891. Excellent point.
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  17892.  @Flamingtorpedostrike  The reporting was vague, and Robby in particular seemed not to be sure of what he was talking about. They needed to mention that, obviously. Who is an Elon fanboy?
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  17893.  @PWNINSWAGMASTER  I do not like vague financial reporting. That is my point here. This channel and others have already shown how touchy-feely the stories about Bankman-Fried have been -- why? This isn't about feewings.
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  17894. YES to all of the above. :)
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  17895. "You know the thing."
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  17896. "We are not joining with the extreme right . . . " JERRY, Jimmy Dore never said to join with the extreme right. This isn't politics, Jerry. This is religious dogma, and I am sick to death of it.
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  17897. Act as soon as she was told hours earlier about the gun? Could that have worked?
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  17898. Thank you. 💯
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  17899.  @matthewatwood8641  Actually, my own issue has been taking too much responsibility for the actions of others, and that is obvious to anyone who is astute. I don't care how I come across to you. You're not doing too well in meeting your basic reading and thinking skills responsibilities. No one can do that for you. Blocked.
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  17900. @Abe Tsenoh Oh goodness, LOL . . . Was this deserved? Hm. I have to agree it was . . .
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  17901. ​ @Ghjgdsfh764 I can tell you one thing -- I wouldn't be caught dead in your vision of a functioning society. I can tell that much already.
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  17902. @askaneconomist8265  Purchasing power can account for ANY difference. In 1968, a couple both working full time, minimum wage, could afford an apartment in Manhattan, never mind Queens. Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Seattle, . . . theirs for the choosing. A minimum wage summer job covered a year of in-state tuition, fees, books, and supplies in every state.
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  17903. The fact remains that if a country as bad as Russia can accomplish this, it should be a breeze for New York and Chicago. Moreover, everyone is skirting the key point: American cities WERE showcases for the world. What happened? Making this about Tucker (or Russia, for that matter) is a diversion that everyone should be able to recognize by now. He's hardly important. The fact that something fundamental changed is important.
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  17904.  @Andarovin  "Left and right?" We have two types of corporations and what they deal in (material goods or mass persuasion, creating wealth or rent extraction); there is no "left." The last semblance of a left in the West was Mitterrand in the early 1980s, and he was barely so.
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  17905. THANK YOU
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  17906. I missed hearing the fact that most of the world believes we are arming a genocide. Are they wrong? Well, you'd need to acknowledge that the view exists, and to present the basis for it, before demonstrating that it is wrong. But all of those facts were skirted. One could make a case that they are among the most important facts on the table at the moment, and confronting them doesn't favor either candidate.
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  17907.  @bgoodfella7413  Yeah, remember the Viet Nam War and civil rights? /s
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  17908.  @bgoodfella7413  Well, if I pretended I was far less demoralized than you are, I would be lying, but there is a difference between seeing some possibility and none at all. A very large difference, in fact.
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  17909.  @AndrewDavidBoyd  I didn't mean to say it was "enough." I meant no one planned for these sorts of events, or prepared for them. Most of the most important things in life, good and bad, simply happen. Having parents who loved each other, stayed married, and lived until you turned 50 or older, is another example. Having a sister you get along with is known to be a bulwark against clinical depression.
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  17910. "Slight increase" in damage to slightly important organs.
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  17911.  Frank Masuzzo  WHO is "left" in this picture? Not even Bernie, by ordinary British standards, much less any other.
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  17912. OMG, you are soooooo normal. That's . . . different.
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  17913.  @nathanielhibay6319  reported for hate speech
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  17914. The previous post has some good thoughts. I wonder if other people have convinced you to feel self-loathing? You do know that literal heroes, who have saved lives while under fire, have had anxiety issues -- plus PTSD, plus phobias. I'll never forget the anonymous memoir of one man who said that if he had not been decorated for bravery, he too would think he must be a weakling and a coward. But he knew he wasn't. Part of your brain is not sending the correct signals, and other parts know it. That's why you suffer. If you felt no blame for simply following your impulse to avoid what your brain is telling you to avoid, you wouldn't be suffering. It's your knowledge that avoidance is objectively unnecessary that makes you suffer. Well, ignore the negative voices. Don't try to stop them or argue with them. Just note they are there, note that they are not unfamiliar, because you've had them before, and then give yourself permission to go about your day without heaping criticism on yourself. Always do as much as you can, plus try to do just a little more. Have you ever read any memoirs of people who lived through WWII? I remember a video of Jacqueline de Romilly, in which she said that the clarity of the years of the Resistance to Nazism had made that time easier to bear in some ways than the subsequent decades of peace, relative safety, and much greater confusion. You don't know who has it objectively harder in every respect.
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  17915. Great insight.
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  17916. ​@nerd7432 No, he means A leads to B, not All B must be A. Of course there are real illnesses, including psychiatric ones, that are in no way enhancements to one's repertoire of human capacities and experience.
    1
  17917. If someone else is doing it, you should try it. You don't know until you try. A bunch of times, a bunch of ways.
    1
  17918. Mental hoops? They paid her. Would anything else matter to her?
    1
  17919. @Ronald Reagan None of you even know on whose backs you're living. Did you know until a few months ago that the world literally needs Russian raw materials and Russian wheat? Don't bother talking to me, I won't bother. You sound like someone who is one pink slip or bankruptcy away from opioids. You've strung together cliches that someone who impressed you or enticed you has fed to you, and you have no idea how the people who made all the things you've surrounded yourself with must live. When this thing pops, I wonder who you'll blame, and what you'll do to them. I won't be in the US, I'll watch from a safe distance.
    1
  17920.  @MrCoconutcat  Who is "they?" You include yourself?
    1
  17921. Of course. Look up ancient Greece.
    1
  17922. Ockrent? She is a known neoliberal cold warrior, on (what is considered) the right in the French context. Yes, a life-long manipulator.
    1
  17923. IN WHAT CITY? Sorry, I have got to know.
    1
  17924.  @jon9428  Why all this attacking? You all imitate Trump and Fox News. No one knows when they're dealing with a false flag anymore. If you really are against Trump, and Trumpism, calm down and rethink your approach. Trump has been a disaster in every way, including his effect on discourse.
    1
  17925.    Sigh. Here we go. This is all about M4A.
    1
  17926.    You're also LYING about what I wrote, and now seem to be following me around on multiple threads. Whoa, scared, are we?
    1
  17927.  @Horus070  You, too.
    1
  17928.  @Horus070  Why am I not a citizen? Because I'm not monocultural, monolingual, and monochromatic, IOW hopelessly lame? America is changing. :D
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  17929.    Of M4A and the growing groundswell.
    1
  17930.    I see no comments from you here, before about an hour ago, Dec. 17. LOL.
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  17931.    You've got some reason to swear? What might that be?
    1
  17932.  @wvu05  How could someone (so tempted to say "something") like Trump win in the first place? Has ANYONE ever been this incompetent, and indifferent to the point of criminal negligence? And that is putting the best possible face on it. Was there some . . . lesson here?
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  17933.  @wvu05  A lot of truth to that -- but does it explain the victory?
    1
  17934.  @wvu05  So, how did Obama manage to win twice? Was his platform, plus the fact that people believed and expected that he would deliver, what made the difference? Obama won under the same system and Clinton, a more experienced politician, couldn't pull it out. Did people vote Obama expecting Moderate Lite?
    1
  17935. Why is a comment like this, to a video in memorium, where the person JUST DIED, permitted to stand? Why?
    1
  17936. I love how she looks but her singing is only so so.
    1
  17937.  @vasilcvetkovski7249  You can't say that -- though I wonder who would have been president in 2021 if Clinton had won in 2016. Someone worse than any of the candidates in 2016, or 2020? We cannot exclude that.
    1
  17938.    Um, you talking to me? What does this have to do with anything I said?
    1
  17939.    Ha ha ha ha ha. Thanks, that was great. P. S. It's nice to "feel."
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  17940.  @wvu05  They didn't win the Senate outright. It's arithmetic. What's to admit, or argue about?
    1
  17941.  @ajs41  Because he can't write, dance, or play piano!
    1
  17942. Agree!! I see you beat me to it.
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  17943. Ockrent is a known neoliberal globalist and has never failed to be horrible, on any platform where I've seen her. Elif Shafak is not of the same stripe at all. Don't you listen to women on an individual basis? And here I thought Western Values were all about respecting The Individual!
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  17944.  @stevierheeno7162  Perhaps if you read Technofeudalism, or With Liberty and Justice for Some, you might possibly have more insight? As for the major source of Tesla's profits, it's not from making anything. It's from trading emissions credits! 🤣
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  17945. UK, you fool.
    1
  17946. The accumulating evidence against Fauci is devastating.
    1
  17947. She makes her bread with this narrative. You can't blame her. Healthcare for three kids is expensive.
    1
  17948. ​ @jerryrip A lot of people leave the US, and have been leaving for a generation. Highly skilled leave, while the border is flooded with unskilled. Wake up.
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  17949.  @davidbuchberger2695  Immediate reason, the price of oil and gas, and other energy products; long-term reason, the coordinated challenge to dollar hegemony . . . Why? What did YOU think was going on? This has essentially nothing to do with the fiscal policy of one single year. No stimulus, no inflation? You think? Now that is funny. If only it were that simple.
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  17950.  @LPAFilm  thank you
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  17951. C'mon man, money = truth.
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  17952.  @unboxedcharacter  I used to want to end idiocy. Now I just want a good price for my house so that I can emigrate. Tootles, you lover of dystopia, you.
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  17953.  @unboxedcharacter  There is no state where you can defend mere property with lethal force, with a small exception in Texas, but the rules are so complicated, and the requirement that you attempt non-lethal force first in almost all cases is such a gray area, that the Texas law basically means that you get your liberty but a defense attorney gets your property. $$$ The basic rule is that where depriving a person of property can put the person himself in danger (such stealing someone's car in a flood, snow storm, or during an evacuation order, or stealing someone's hunting rifle), then the person can use lethal force. See how that works?
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  17954.  @unboxedcharacter  The man who shot the kid will be charged with some form of homicide, unless he was defending his own personal safety. But you are only against certain crimes and not others. And that is not "ideology." Ideology, maybe. Idiocy, sure.
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  17955. Still a leap. In any case, it was DOD money. The people who sent it there have to answer to USA.
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  17956. So you can say pissoir, hangry, viva la huelga.
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  17957. I'm sorry for your stress. A radiologist born in India saved my life.
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  17958. The two on the right are smearing her, misrepresenting her views, and saying her brain is broken. She didn't engage in similar ad hominem. I would swear at them and leave.
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  17959. This is all too convoluted. Some of what Trump said may have been reprehensible, but it is First Amendment protected free speech. It's up to the voters to decide how much it matters. Pressuring state officials to dig up some votes, IF HE DID, is a different matter. That is tampering with the vote count. I don't understand why there are any other charges. No US Attorney should ever charge free speech. They swore to uphold the Bill of Rights.
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  17960. 4:12 What Trump is communicating to the Russians is some hidden weakness.
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  17961. Selective prosecution: what the Trump DOJ did to Assange
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  17962. Remember when Wall Street said that if the Democrats run Bernie, they will line up behind TRUMP? I do. And I expect the DNC to pull the same stunt on Kennedy, for the same reason.
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  17963. ​ @JH-zn9tc  Trump handed over the country to FAUCI to run. Who did he lock up?
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  17964. ​ @johns7530 💯
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  17965. At one hour and twenty-eight minutes, not ONCE have I heard the word "love." Let's see about the rest.
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  17966. @wakkablockablow6025  Oh you poor thing. All we hear in this video are words. We hear claims about actions. We see no actions, apart from a very pleasant handholding. I thought that was good.
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  17967.  @wakkablockablaw6025  ALL YOU ARE HEARING ARE WORDS. That's what this is, an interview.
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  17968. @wakkablockablow6025  In this context, where they spoke for nearly two hours about their struggles, and their loss, yes. I expect to hear the word love. What? You think I endorse this gender cr@p? I think it's sheer madness, and in some cases criminal. You edited YOUR post to add "love." You got it right the first time, it was missing. They couldn't hire a private attorney, and then go to FACEBOOK? A brick short of a load.
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  17969. @wakkablockablow6025  I see you edited your post to add "love." It was missing before. You had it right the first time. After nearly two hours of talking about struggles and loss, yes. I expect to hear "love." The stepmother stated their family is irreparably broken now and that they are going public for the sake of other kids. That struck me as rather odd.
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  17970. @wakkablockablow6025  What do you imagine I think? That the gender nonsense is acceptable? I think it's lunacy.
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  17971. @wakkablockablow6025  What people? Do you think I endorse gender ideology? Why?? When I say what I think of it, my post gets tossed.
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  17972. @wakkablockablow6025  When someone says "you people . . ." I should just block them. I wasn't condescending, but you were contemptuous. I don't assume they don't love their daughter. I see evidence that they lack the skill to communicate love to her. If her birth mother did reject her, it could be important to say they love her, loud and clear.
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  17973. @wakkablockablow6025  Why is it irreparable? Even Jordan Peterson pushed back on that one. The question wasn't about step-parenting at all, and you know it. If my child is on the cusp of destroying her entire future, she comes first. And second, and third . . . Other children come in at around 15th.
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  17974. @wakkablockablow6025  Oops forgot to block.
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  17975. So?
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  17976. ​@carltonlee5445 So, you think age of consent is a year sooner? No.
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  17977.  @Алексей545-т6б  Not my point.
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  17978. @user-fp3in2kf3b  OP adds a year to people's ages to account for life in the womb. That means the 17 year old at Jeffrey's place is 18, the 17 year old who wants puberty blockers is 18, etc. Nah.
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  17979.  @oceania2385  Okay, then that's a reason. I guess they are more common in the home than for CC? That's another reason.
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  17980.  @oceania2385  🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 omg
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  17981. @oceania2385  If she were to say that, the next morning, everyone on The View would reminisce about all the Christmas evenings they watched it.
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  17982. That $300 a year for auto maintenance, not to mention planned obsolescence of your car, adds to the GDP.
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  17983. He's clearly making bank. To make that much for doing so little, or even doing harm, intrigues a lot of people. Nice work if you can get it . . .
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  17984. Dr. Campbell will not say categorically, but what would you conclude for prepubescent children based on what he has said? Each child is an individual, however. There could be a reason to have it done.
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  17985.  @joebloggs3551  You heard no insults in this video? The entire thing is garbage. This is so bad that I bet most pornography is more worthwhile.
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  17986. Of COURSE.
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  17987. I have never seen more jealousy displayed toward a woman. It is amusing to watch. N.B., if I dislike someone, I act like they do not exist. They don't become my central obsession -- or my meal ticket. Sweetie. Get a real job.
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  17988. Seth Waxman is very likely the best lawyer for Supreme Court arguments that America has. He was Solicitor General and is friends with all the Justices.
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  17989. @alyceclover  Who said anything about supporting "the war on drugs?" What does that have to do with anything? Does prison improve mental health?
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  17990. There was a study -- possibly reliable, possibly not -- that having a good level of vitamin D reduced serious side effects from the COVID vaccines. The point is, Fauci & Co. suppressed the study. They never told anyone to improve their nutrition. What if vitamin D could have saved some kids from myocarditis?? Since we say "if even one child could have been saved by MMR," well, what if one child's heart could have been protected by vitamin D? By the way, I oppose giving this vaccine to kids in any event, but wow, how unethical not to investigate this and let parents know!!
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  17991. I hope everyone supports you in your CHOICE.
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  17992.  @Slowbro01323  The loved one is more than welcome to get vaccinated. I support masks.
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  17993. BTW, the statistic is wrong.
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  17994.  @Slowbro01323  It is not consistent with ANY other country's data. Hence it is wrong. A pandemic is a global phenomenon, we need to share information with an open mind and no agenda. But let's suppose the statistic IS correct. Then your VACCINATED loved ones are in no danger from the unvaccinated.
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  17995. You just don't have the patience to listen to her entire argument. I'm with Lee here, but Brie's contribution is valuable. Maybe you are just unfair.
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  17996.  @musakphil0305  Brie is trying to make the point that self-defense has a specific definition and specific standards, especially where potentially lethal force is used. "He was a bad guy" doesn't cut it; only the facts of the case matter. I wish she were clearer in making that point. Lee Fang is right about the larger issue and he agrees with Brie's point -- but her point fails to address the larger issue Lee is trying very hard to address here. I'm with him, certainly. Robby was good toward the end, too. Oh well. :/
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  17997. Was that ever proved? To any level, nevermind beyond reasonable doubt?
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  17998. And if you do research, you will find that defendants are sentenced on the basis of conduct that was never tested, much less proved, in court. You read that right. It only needs to be "related" to the offenses proved beyond reasonable doubt.
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  17999. Peter Thiel and two others founded the Paypal precurser, which then merged with the platform Musk had developed.
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  18000.  @deadgolfer6345  Then you are not familiar with the production costs involved, not to mention the size of the insurance component. It is a great rarity for anyone to be able to live between freelance jobs. Just look at prices, to keep you in food and shelter. You don't need to know about the industry.
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  18001.  @deadgolfer6345  Okay. No. You don't know. Never mind.
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  18002.  @deadgolfer6345  I do agree with you about the independents, though. I got into Cassavetes during the shutdown and was stunned. I can't believe I didn't know how great he was. I don't think most people appreciate what has happened to the cost of living. A person born in the late 1940s could pay for a college degree working for minimum wage, then get one or at most two roommates and move anywhere, find a job making no more than minimum wage, and pursue art. This was New York, San Francisco, and of course Los Angeles in 1965 --- in fact, even ten years later. Today is like a different planet, not just a different time.
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  18003.  @squiggs928  I was just sense oar-d for mentioning/recommend ing an other chan nel! Wow, just wow. These platforms should be ashamed. Someone makes bank for this??
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  18004. @squiggs928  Was I allowed to mention Greene, Didion, Fanta? And generally, make a thoughtful reply to your point? Will the algae rhythm be trigg-ed again?
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  18005. 8:17 now this was funny
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  18006. I have a question. Where do people study mathematics, as a major or a (full) minor? Or do they, in the US and UK? Where can someone who is solid but not gifted learn calculus, differential equations, advanced statistics, abstract and linear algebra, real analysis, etc., except at university? They can't teach themselves, or go on YouTube. Well, maybe one in 10,000 actually can.
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  18007. LOL Ron! "Yes I could imagine someone tone policing me while I was being evicted out of my home."
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  18008. 10:32 start listening there
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  18009.  @juicyfruit4378  Sorry, try Tinder, or whatever it is you people do for laughs.
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  18010.  @juicyfruit4378  I'm in perfect shape. Organic semi-vegetarian (fish a few times a year, eggs even less), intermittent fasting. Coffee addict. Keeps you sharp.
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  18011.  @juicyfruit4378 So you don't mind that all of this is going straight to your file? FISA is not an Article 3 court. And wow, you're old.
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  18012. I've been keeping up with actual studies, which are available everywhere now, and doctors on YouTube who carefully review a major study (such as one published in NEJM), and provide a link. I've also listened to proponents of vaccination who are not authoritarian, such as Dr. Racaniello on Lex Fridman, and dispassionate commentators like Kim Iversen. Jimmy's video was very easy to follow, and I recognize the information as being based on what we have an evidentiary basis to believe at present.
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  18013. Risk reduction is not risk elimination, even for the worst outcomes. Protection seems to wane quickly in some people.
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  18014. Here are British sources on the issue. Reuters:   Sept 20 (Reuters) - The White House on Monday criticized the use of horse reins to threaten Haitian migrants after images circulated of a U.S. border guard on horseback charging at migrants near a riverside camp in Texas . . . Reuters witnesses saw mounted officers wearing cowboy hats blocking the paths of migrants, and one officer unfurling a cord resembling a lariat, which he swung near a migrant's face. The Independent: Sept 22 -- The second-in-command at a union for US Border Patrol has tried to defend the use of horse reins around migrants in Del Rio, Texas, where tens of thousands have arrived from Haiti. . . Recent images from Del Rio have shown migrants fleeing Border Patrol agents on horseback who are wielding their reins like whips, with a Reuters witness catching an agent unfurl and swing one in front of migrants.
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  18015.  @savsmiles3042  Has a video surfaced? The initial claim was that if any sort of whipping had taken place, even a sole incident, we would have verified footage, but we don't. How do I locate this video? A link could be shadowed, so provide a couple of search terms.
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  18016.  @savsmiles3042  No need for insults, unless you have a personal investment in making them. Nothing lazy about my comments.
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  18017.  @savsmiles3042  Two articles, BTW, the second tacitly admitting use of reins against migrants. Were you lazily neglecting to hit the continuation tab and read excerpts from both?
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  18018. What a president/ex-president says, true or not, is NEWS. Similarly for a former Secretary of State. Hence, Hillary Clinton's false claims about Putin having influenced the election in favor of Trump is news. (See, for example, the Columbia Journalism Review on the merits of that story.)
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  18019. I saw a version of that rumor, and was unable to verify it.
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  18020.  @zukewashere1539  Whose economy??
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  18021. It can be First Amendment protected --- this happens to be true --- but they clearly have no idea how or when, or why, because they don't really care about the First Amendment. It was plain as day. I was stunned.
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  18022. Wait. There are starving people eating dogs and cats. Trump OF COURSE pretended it's "the Haitians." He sounds like Archie Bunker.
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  18023. What's the big deal about inflation? Get a side gig, pose for Vogue.
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  18024. Where did you get that? If race-based admissions are unconstitutional, that does not mean schools cannot continue to advocate for "diversity, equity, and inclusion." That advocacy is protected by the First Amendment. On the other hand, preventing students from arguing against DEI violates THEIR rights.
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  18025. ​@markangelorgs.2773 Now that is not likely. Many vaccine-injured are getting better now, in spite of the lack of treatment.
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  18026. How do you know that "negative thoughts" should be eliminated? How do you know they are not in any way protective of you? Why do they exist, then? Because we are "broken" and need fixing? Not likely.
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  18027. ​ @jeepinfriend4958  Keep racing to the bottom. It's fun!! 😮😂😂😂
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  18028. ​ @goodwill3649 💯
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  18029. ​ @TheRoxinatoR  Which cases are you referring to?
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  18030. @MattSlash-di4oy  Did you read the Colorado Supreme Court opinion, and the one US Supreme Court case on the subject?
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  18031.  @MattSlash-di4oy  Most of it, yeah. Not all of it yet. It is quite complex, actually. I'm a lawyer. It's what I do.
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  18032.  @AdrianneJH  Which opinion are you referencing?
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  18033. @roxinator69  I didn't say you did. I know he has not been. Did he make an appearance as intervenor in either trial court?
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  18034.  @TheRoxinatoR  No, you don't know. That's clear.
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  18035.  @TheRoxinatoR  The case in Maine was not before a court.
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  18036. @roxinator69  Reality is not legal documents. Reality is your parroting of talking heads. Although you do have a point: the talking heads are richly paid. Court documents and other legal papers are available for free download, but then, on top of everything, they must be read. Okay . . . That's decisive. I withdraw my objection.
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  18037. @roxinator69  If Trump is so dangerous, why didn't the DNC decide after the November 2016 election to get serious and beat him decisively? They are not even sure they can do it this year. This doesn't worry you? It should. As the world gets more dangerous and the dollar is under threat, we have no one marginally competent, much less statesmanlike, to assume the presidency.
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  18038.  @TheRoxinatoR  THE CASE IN MAINE WAS NOT BEFORE A COURT. Go look it up.
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  18039. @roxinator69  The reality is this: we have a Supreme Court full of right-wing ideologues. If the Supreme Court is called upon to rule, it could decide the US President is NOT an officer of the state, so that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment never applies to the presidency, no matter what a president may do. This would not be good, OBVIOUSLY. It is what the Colorado trial court deduced, so it is not farfetched at all. Other possibilities are less bad, but some are quite bad. The risk isn't worth it. I hope that if they rule, it will be on narrow grounds, without foreclosing future suits against a president on Section 3 grounds. We might need Section 3 again soon.
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  18040. The POINT was supposed to be about NSA surveillance. Everyone got led down the garden path? Tucker's own fault, but that's not relevant. I guess Snowden did what he did for . . . absolutely nothing.
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  18041.  @MsNickie1001  This was a ridiculous take on the incident, a mere side issue to laugh about, not to focus on. It's not even enough to discredit Carlson's claim of being illegally unmasked. That's what matters. Even convicted criminals are supposed to have civil rights. THAT is the real story.
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  18042.  @scottmyers10  Thank you for informing us of the scope and limits of your objectivity.
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  18043.  @scottmyers10  I have no interest in reading this. If it were up to me, I would have removed Tucker when he praised an underage vigilante with a high-powered weapon. Tucker is not entitled to a show or an audience. Tucker is entitled to constitutional rights. Your name-calling is puerile.
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  18044.  @scottmyers10  Even convicted criminals are entitled to constitutional rights. That is a FACT.
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  18045.  @scottmyers10  Blocked, of course. Time waster.
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  18046. American encounter each other at the workplace, in school, at airports and train stations and subways and on highways and city streets. They don't need the media to tell them.
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  18047. Those looking ahead to 50 years rather than 3 to 5.
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  18048. @kwanchan6745  Nor did he ever earn an engineering degree. Nor did he found Tesla. He bought it, and shoved out a founder. He made his money with Peter Thiel.
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  18049. Oh jeez, President Mummy.
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  18050. Why didn't COVID teach parents not to trust doctors?
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  18051. Because they lied to the voters. Because you don't wait to correct such an immoral act. You pounce on it. Or, do you think there is no hope of fixing it?
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  18052. Not only that, but once they grab on to something, it's worse than a dog with a bone. They will never, ever backtrack. They remind me of bad cops.
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  18053. @jefft5152  Why would I? I would never vote for a Republican. You think it's news that they are vile, and have been thoroughly vile since the Southern Strategy?
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  18054.  @jefft5152  This isn't the only video of his testimony before Congress that I've watched.
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  18055. @jefft5152  Yes, other videos that compare what Hotez had to say in 2020 about the danger in rushing a vaccine, especially against a coronavirus, with what he had to say when the "mot d'ordre" became vaccine mandates. You well know that posts with live links are removed from these boards, unless the person posting knows a way to hide such links from the algorithm (which I don't). The idea is that live links are too difficult to monitor for TOS violations. But you knew that. Your strategy is to ask anyway, for obvious reasons. Blocked for wasting my precious time. If your memory is poor, I hope it's not from some medical intervention. 🤣
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  18056. I'm laughing, I love this. Every lawyer is wondering how this one got into Yale law. But then, so did the Clintons. What's in the water? 😅
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  18057. Uh huh. Now explain to me why this is the time for senile candidates and drag queen story hours. Right, it isn't. Get serious, will you?
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  18058. No, they are not. That was established back when Ford pardoned Nixon.
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  18059.  @S.G.N.713  The daughter of one.
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  18060. "What about . . . ???"
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  18061. A serial killer, a presidential assassin, a brand of shampoo?
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  18062. We know huge gaps in wealth, on no basis anyone can figure out, correlates with violent crime. It's true throughout the world. No one will change that.
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  18063. People love animal videos because they are full of wonderful PEOPLE!
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  18064. If people can believe January 6 had at least some provocateurs and infiltrators, then realize that the riots after the George Floyd protests had even more. WAKE UP.
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  18065. ​ @brandiclark7117 Then do the research. Go to a major law school library and ask for assistance.
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  18066. @brandiclark7117  Pay a visit to a major law library and find out. Citizen journalism.
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  18067. Gallows humor
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  18068. @naijaplayer  "AOC? Dispositive!" yikes, 🤣🤣🤣
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  18069. Your family, your business.
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  18070. No. Why?
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  18071. DUH
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  18072. As long as Kim remains against the cancel b*llsh*t, she is entitled to question the nature of comedy as much as anyone else.
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  18073. The "Jimmy bought a house" meme isn't working anymore. Late to the party.
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  18074.  @fubartotale3389  There is even more money in "Trump is a Putin puppet" and "Trump will declare MARTIAL LAW . . . !!!!" but you endorse that delirium anyway. Maybe Dore really is angry. Plenty of his videos are not rants, but provide solid information you don't see everywhere. His wife helps with research. The "martial law" meme, on the other hand, is sheer falsification, and irresponsible. "Biden, because TRUMP" "Nancy, because martial law" (???) What comes next? War with [fill in the blank], because [Russia] [China] [WMDs] ["gassing his own people"] ["humanitarian intervention"] ["think of the children"] (pick one or more, quick).
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  18075.  @fubartotale3389  Un huh. Plus slogans and cliches, instead of thinking. And this YouTuber has monetized moving his lips in an exaggerated fashion. Marvelous. (BTW, how are Trump's unhinged tweets and delirious musings relevant to M4A? Or to keeping Pelosi as Speaker?) You're all spoiled. Other people in this world work for their money.
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  18076.  @fubartotale3389  Name one credible source. Trump tweets don't count.
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  18077.  @fubartotale3389  I apologize for saying "you," especially because it was meant in a more generic sense and it did not come across that way at all. What I had in mind were the people one or two generations behind you, making fortunes as social media "influencers," and in other advertising-related and "infotainment" (i.e., propaganda) fields. The Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In, etc., fortunes are essentially that. Even Dore (55 years old) was a bricklayer. People like you, who were born right after WWII and the Great Depression, had entirely different lives, and I know that. Anyway, I do apologize.
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  18078. Because he's a pudge too. 😜😉
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  18079. You can't do that at home, huh?
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  18080. Everyone should read Gavin de Becker's books.
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  18081. Thanks for reminding me of what I need to do. COVID isolation has gotten to me, to be honest.
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  18082. The expansion of the BRICS tells you what they're thinking.
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  18083. Of course Biden is going to win, and the Biden State Department will flip Venezuela. That's Job 1.
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  18084. 14:21 it was terrorism
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  18085.  @jlondon158  How old do you think I am?
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  18086.  Vlad the Inhaler  One certainly can be. I'M not.
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  18087. ​​ @2genders-tk2ue  Having people who are supposed to uphold the First Amendment (at university, no less) incapable of articulating the law or caring about free speech very much is a far bigger problem. How is it possible that almost no one knows what free speech is?
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  18088. Oh shut up. Or make up more creative, entertaining lies.
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  18089.  @TheChrisJones  Ah! . . . . How do you know what a Russian ASSET would do, Uncle Boris?
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  18090. You mean you don't love music? If Harvard admissions doesn't value it, you wasted your time? 😂
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  18091. @franhansing5656  Well then I hope that someone who grew to love piano makes it in instead. I don't even believe your post.
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  18092.  @franhansing5656  Not asking you to
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  18093.  @franhansing5656  If you're going to edit your post so my reply looks senseless, well . . . 😂
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  18094.  @waynemangan9925  Not to mention how horrifying the ads are on YouTube. We supposedly have to be protected from misinformation, and here we are inundated with ads for ridiculous miracle cures and Ukrainian brides.
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  18095. @Resist Globalism People thought this could still be a country, not a business. Give them a break. They know now.
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  18096. It's called AT-WILL EMPLOYMENT. Duh.
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  18097.  @shin0bili  A very thin Title VII stands in the way, just barely. But it used to be perfectly fine, yeah.
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  18098. She is the ONLY person who gave the ONLY legal reason he may have a complaint: he moved to New York in reliance on this job. Missed that part?
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  18099.  @SandorDaroci  I know. My family is from Lika and Montenegro, and went to school in Beograd. My cousin's husband works there now.
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  18100.  @SandorDaroci  Nadam se da amerikanci nemogu da upropaste Serbiju, i da sve poskupi. Bojim se, bogami.
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  18101.  @silkart1  If that were true, then any litigant who declined to talk to your expert witness could derail your case. Obviously not true. (1) Depp has no duty to talk to her, totally his call. His side only had to produce records. (2) That doesn't undermine her assessment, based on the facts she has gleened. If it did, then Heard could have declined to talk to Miss Muffins and undermined his expert. Nope. The fact that no one is seeing this, is evidence that mob thinking is taking over.
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  18102.  @HaryBallsagna  So, you can diagnose/assess all this, but a person with two Board certifications and experience since the 1970s cannot? Listen to yourself, if you still can. Mobs do not care about right and wrong, they turn on a dime.
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  18103.  @silkart1  Depp's psychologist is less qualified than Heard's by far, and reached a "pop" diagnosis (a favorite subject of bloggers and youtubers) that literally NO other therapist ever reached. Not one time. And she had a smug, duping delight grin on her face while she did. 🤣 Question: how can you tell a mob is forming? When absolutely no FACTS that might possibly disrupt the narrative ever so slightly are permitted, and cause a huge rush of denunciations. That's how. This degree of irrationality (and over what?) taking form so quickly is astonishing. This episode won't help anyone, male victims or female ones. That part will be forgotten. But the propensity to respond when a group stokes mass hysteria will be greater than it was. That's what always happens. I wonder what the next new thing will be? If the economy really tanks, it will be something worse.
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  18104.  @TheDr.Umbreon  When anyone who says anything rational and measured and fair is going to be attacked and insulted, especially using a trendy label that no one heard of a year ago and you suddenly see everywhere, then you should ask yourself some questions. A mob can turn on a dime. You can't predict the next Enemy.
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  18105.  @boliusabol822  Everything you said was true. The most important thing is not to allow any "expert" to substitute their opinion on the veracity of a witness. Only the jury gets to decide who is telling the truth about what.
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  18106.  @minz456  That could be true, but who was worse isn't an issue in defamation. If both were abusers, both have the free speech right to tell their story in print. That used to be the law, but the First Amendment has taken a hit lately. What happens this time is up for grabs.
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  18107.  @silkart1  Don't you see that what you're saying doesn't make sense? If it were true, Heard could have declined to talk to Depp's expert. What then? Then she can't make any assessment of their relationship whatsoever, based on examining him and the records they both had to produce? Or would you have found some way around that?
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  18108.  @boliusabol822  Absolutely
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  18109.  @rocky13m  That would be what you would think. And when this hysteria dies down, there will be a new hysteria for you to be titillated by. You won't remember all the ridiculous things you believed this time. You'll be primed to believe even more ridiculous things next time.
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  18110.  @rocky13m  blocked
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  18111.  @rocky13m  So which were you? Team Russiagate or Team QAnon? Team Vaxx or Team Antivaxx? Team Gabby Petito or Team Brian Laundrie? Team Wills/Kate or Team Harry/Megan? I left out at least ten, I know. Sorry if I missed one that was extremely important to you. It was unintentional.
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  18112. Usually less obvious . . .
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  18113. Sexual abuse was "an unspoken norm" in the Boy Scouts? Norm?? We need to understand what impels such abuse. We have got to. What we've done so far is piecemeal, we have solved nothing.
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  18114. Where were you?? We KNEW about Rotherham. If I say more, guess what?
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  18115.  @jacobdavis3876  This is very true.
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  18116.  @gopstore8222  Especially salutary for drug lords. Drug lords are people too.
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  18117.  @gopstore8222  No, I'll stick to Plato and Shakespeare, thanks.
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  18118.  @gopstore8222  Yeah, Plato reads phenomenally well in French. Sophocles, too. My Greek is poor, I have to use translations. :( But everyone should read Shakespeare's Henriad. Be immunized forever against the ubiquitous Double Cross.
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  18119. Makes me too angry to watch to the end in one sitting.
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  18120. Instead of representing a family in education rights, this is what Shapiro does with his Harvard Law degree.
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  18121. Wait. Is Krystal paying alimony?
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  18122. In Europe these were slogans the Axis and their collaborators used. Like "Arbeit macht Frei." Work does set one free. Even Freud would agree -- especially Freud, who was a workaholic. You can find out yourself what it really meant.
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  18123. "Marxists?" The groups you mention are in it for the money. This kid pushed this dialogue almost certainly because he had a money bet. And he won. You know Marxists as well as this kid knows Glenn.
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  18124. Anyone with serious money is . . .
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  18125. A lot like day trading . . .
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  18126. It isn't an equation. It's a function.
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  18127. 1:00:20 "Marxist???" 😂😂😂
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  18128. I think she's a woman, a mother, and a Catholic. Therefore, you guys are bigots!! /s
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  18129.  @unitedstatesirie7431  The Bible is not part of the Bill of Rights. But anyway, "Thou Shalt Not Kill" is a good principle. Notice, no footnotes.
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  18130.  William Wertz  The issue is whether a person who is legally insane right now can be executed while she is insane. The Supreme Court said no, it violates the Eighth Amendment. No one is saying not to punish her, or to give her a new trial. That's off the table now.
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  18131.  @kealakennelly1872  I'm not holding him responsible. If you knew that an attorney had a son like Hunter, would you make him your handicapped child's trustee in the event you can't serve? No, huh?
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  18132. @Joe And the FBI had no business interrogating him. Gen. Flynn could have declined to answer such questions. There is evidence he did lie, including his original guilty plea. Please. Ending that case hushed up FBI misconduct as well. Naturally! Funny how that worked out. Nothing got tested in court with all actors under oath.
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  18133. @Joe And there is some evidence of Russian involvement in the Podesta email leak/hack. Again, not overwhelming, and of course never tested in court. (Nothing goes to court. Especially not Wall Street.)
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  18134. @Joe That all may be exactly right. Funny how we won't know for sure. Yeah, I don't believe in things that go conveniently missing.
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  18135.  @zakichoudhary507  You clearly care. Laws are not enforced, you mean? We noticed.
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  18136.  @zakichoudhary507  I'm not doing their propaganda. I would have liked this case to proceed, however, just like I'd like plenty of people on Wall Street to have been indicted. I know people lie under oath, but at least technically there are penalties. Lying to reporters and to voters is not only legal, it can be lucrative.
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  18137.  @tompiper9276  Not strong on logic, are we? Point out the obvious logical fallacy that a child could spot, then speculate about why someone not only failed to spot it but turned hostile and aggressive toward a normal person stating normal things. LOL
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  18138. @glenmason1876  Oh my goodness, many years ago, the New York Times used to write articles about medical errors causing as many as 100,000 deaths per year in the US. I don't expect to see that point made again in my lifetime.
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  18139. @zakglove6536  He was tried and convicted. The burden shifts to him to prove actual innocence, because his appeals (concerning whether he received a fair trial, whether the evidence was legally sufficient, etc.) were exhausted. He lost every time. If the DNA on the duct tape were from someone else, someone whose DNA is in the criminal database, then they would have to start retesting a lot of the evidence. Only then could they move for a new trial. What they mentioned about chain of custody being a problem is true, but it really shouldn't be. They know to preserve all evidence in a major case, and they know technology advances. I think it is fair to test this. It's a long way from establishing innocence, though. Consider something else: this is sad, but true. Don't imagine that everyone who comes across remains immediately calls the police. Yeah. They don't, and we all know why. It is not rare for remains to be contaminated by a third party, or even a negligent evidence technician. :/
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  18140. Might be about the drugs?
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  18141. Now someone tell me what's in it for what's-her-name? EDIT: Amy Goodman. Sorry.
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  18142. Gorgeous woman!
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  18143. He's quoting the Times. Look closely. How much risk should be imposed on children in order to protect adults?
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  18144. Is it illegal to carry that firearm? Was he a registered, qualified owner?
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  18145. Was it legal to carry that firearm? Was he a qualified, registered owner?
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  18146. Why? Lying is illegal. Silence is never illegal.
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  18147.  Creative Renewal  Social media has been the death of the Bill of Rights. No one who hasn't been subpoenaed to testify in court has to say anything to anybody. On the witness stand, they can invoke the Fifth Amendment. What they can't do is not show up to court, or lie under oath, or misrepresent anything, or be misleading. Those are crimes. Silence isn't.
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  18148. Every Left party in Europe is anti-mandate and anti-vaccine passport. No Scandinavian country has mandates.
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  18149. The indictment has not been withdrawn, pal.
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  18150.  @OldManVercetti  Oh, that video at night? That's how you "know?" Is that how you think actual court cases go? You don't think you need any context, such as whether anything of legal significance happened before the filming started? You don't think you need authentication of every piece of evidence? A good filmmaker can make you "know" anything they want you to "know," apparently.
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  18151. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  18152. 1:10 Jimmy's face 😂😂😂 ❤
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  18153.  @art-gx7qp  A ten-year-old girl had to travel to get an abortion. A woman with a grievously deformed fetus (no skull) had to travel to get an abortion. I think normal people know what harm means.
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  18154.  @obamavariant9128  Not necessarily. It depends on what is safe to do under the circumstances, from the standpoint of the least possible burden on the woman's health.
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  18155. Do you know what I've seen all over MSM? This "can't be" true because some unbalanced people have repeated it. It's like saying Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking never happened because Q Anon believed it. This has been the extent of the denial. People are saying this with a straight face.
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  18156. Here's a thought. If these particular symptoms emerge, consider whether you have had a moderately severe illness over the last 3 to 6 months -- either a virus, or an infection for which you took antibiotics for more than 7 days. It could be post-viral syndrome or your microbiome. Be sure to treat that. See whether that helps.
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  18157. ​@utah_koidragon7117 The only solid discussion I've heard -- a bona fide debate, actually -- was on Useful Idiots, Aug 11. The case for bringing the indictment and the case against bringing it were presented by two competent commentators, and the two hosts were divided on the question as well. It felt like going back in time.
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  18158. @tinachristensen8484  They're getting more people to sign up for "Medicare Advantage" every year. Find out what that really is. It's not Medicare, and it might be an Advantage as long as you stay healthy.
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  18159. Bri's point was that Robbie's comment went beyond what she was talking about: every school, private or public, has got to accommodate more than one family. That was what she said. She wasn't talking pro or con about privatization this time.
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  18160.  @yn5568  My computer tends to delete text that I never told it to delete. I edited the comment. Now go back and read.
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  18161.  @yn5568  Still don't get it? Is it too tough for you?
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  18162.  @yn5568  But they were not discussing school choice at all. Bri was putting that issue to the side, to point out that nearly every school -- public, private, semi-privatized/charter -- will face the same issues of accommodating competing interests, UNLESS all of the parents have some say concerning who will be admitted. If you can run a school like a condo association, or like a commune, then you can be certain that every child will come from a home with values generally in line with your own. I'm not clear why either that, or school choice, have a bearing on this case. There was a CRIME. Crimes happen in schools. Students commit them, teachers commit them, support staff commit them, people from the outside barging in shoot up the place, etc. I think the focus in this story must be on safety.
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  18163. Jeffrey Epstein taught in one of the most exclusive private schools in NYC without a degree, and during a time when the current insanity did not reign. Be more of a realist and less of a partisan, maybe?
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  18164.  @yn5568  You actually think it would work that way? What evidence do you have? What, exactly, do you mean by "better?" Say, what's the problem? Do you imagine that if your property taxes were lower, then you could find a better private school for your child? Why don't you just make the money and go find that school? It's the tax man who's preventing you? LOL you put your foot in it. "School choice" is another scam to get your votes. I remember when the elder Bush was advocating "school choice" -- he became president right after Ronald Reagan, who "supported" it, too. Sure they did. In any case, you are still missing the point I see.
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  18165.  @yn5568  School choice as you've just defined it exists in most major cities, and started decades ago. And it is not the child who chooses, but the parents submit applications on the child's behalf. Your entire post is a non sequitur -- unless some of mine have been shadowed and so you can't follow the argument and grasp what's going on.
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  18166.  @yn5568  Oh I get it now. You feel bad. I know why, never mind.
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  18167. Don't you ever get sick of yourself? You chose the mind you have because you are too much of a coward to think rigorously, and to read, and to stand out from your crowd. Bri scares you, so you hate on her. I make it all too obvious that you're wrong, so you hate me, too. What a nice little life you lead. Blech, and blocked.
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  18168. Oh, this billionaire has a platform at his full disposal, and STILL needs the courts to help him. Turning to Daddy Government so quickly? Why not start with opposing unfair speech with more speech, not threats of lawsuits? Defamation suits are always anti-free speech. See R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul.
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  18169. "Access to great vaccines . . . " -- brought to you by Trump's Operation Warp Speed? Oops, have you checked that you can say that, honey?
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  18170. I am curious about one thing: do Americans understand how much they are hated by most people in the world, and do they know why? Naive questions, like the beginner's mind, are best.
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  18171. Do you not know who Neve Gordon is? An IDF war hero. Inform yourself.
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  18172.  @ariellaurent5422  A true threat to safety requires police, not bureaucracy. I thought we decided that during the flood of accusations of SA. We revisit that, now? Why?
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  18173. @ariellaurent5422  I don't mean that as a talking point. Real danger requires police response and community meetings with police, to deal with the matter and to coordinate campus and city police. You don't agree?
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  18174. I started to feel that way but pulled back.
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  18175. Does Robby think he "works hard?" The Federal Reserve Board surveys of household finances confirms Brie. Those are the most authoritative.
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  18176. Too late. AMY GOODMAN reported on that news today as well.
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  18177. Too soon. But keeping an eye on it for sure.
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  18178. Absolute nonsense. Even the SOVIETS banned it a generation before the West did.
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  18179. Sputnik V is adenovirus vector vaccine. Hence, the US is prejudiced against them.
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  18180. 3:09 Perfect, Krystal. That's how everything from ordinary biased reporting to intelligence agency psy-ops work.
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  18181. Driving the van home alone is odd -- this is a great distance. If he could afford a lawyer, he could afford a plane ticket. It will be interesting to find out why he did that.
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  18182. No, no, the Science. Show some respect.
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  18183. ​ @jcfra420 That was a correct observation. What was your problem with it?
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  18184. ​ @sorbabaric1 The OP was a blanket statement that is literally incorrect as a matter of law. As an example, if laws benefiting veterans happen to exclude more women than men, they are nevertheless constitutional. If minimum wage laws protect immigrants more than all others (even much more), they are nevertheless constitutional. If women live longer and draw more Social Security benefits overall than men do, that is nevertheless constitutional. See? That's why there are law schools, and they should protect free speech fora on campus. It's not so simple.
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  18185. ​ @sorbabaric1  That is not the only reason for Title IX. Look it up and read it.
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  18186. Lesser evil got us here, to where they had no compunction about nominating BIDEN. This is too serious for lesser evil.
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  18187. In all seriousness, his house would probably not be the first to be attacked. No joke. People will attack a home with one dog -- but four or five? Think about it.
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  18188. I LOVE YOUR POST. Why don't people see through this? At this point I can't fathom it.
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  18189. Are you serious?
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  18190.  @Viewable11  Holy sh . . .
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  18191. Sure. Because it is.
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  18192. We were told our sanctions would destroy the Russian economy and topple Putin. Blowing up Nordstream didn't accomplish that. Instead, the BRICS expanded. I didn't see that happening while Russia was still at war against Ukraine, did you? But "independent" media brings you "news" about other "independent" media, and you encourage them.
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  18193. ​@userpwjakqbajsm The West does want to loot other countries' resources and has been finding ways to do that for several centuries. That's not propaganda, that's a fact about the flow of raw materials and basic commodities in the world. Those pieces of paper known as contracts, not to mention the special kind of contract known as legal tender, are currently backed up by 800 bases in 70 countries.
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  18194. Why has the sense or ship gone into overdrive? We can't mention sank shuns not working, we have to talk about the tuck instead.
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  18195. ​ @Revelwoodie I thought Emma just said he's irrelevant and keeps getting fired. You say he's fabulously rich. I'm confused now. /s
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  18196. ​ @andrew_owens7680 You mean, he's not the loser who keeps getting fired? But Emma said he was!
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  18197. Anyone killing Russians in the Aleutian Islands? We got Minsk accords going up there? Yeesh, what has Sarah Palin been up to? OTOH, FREE PELTIER!! (Speaking of whose land this was.) Free Assange!
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  18198.  @jackcslewis2009  It's hard for them, apparently.
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  18199. @lanceolot007  Controlled? Brie did not vote for Biden OR for Hillary Clinton, and makes sure everyone knows it.
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  18200.  @lanceolot007  You two want to be seriously triggered? Go watch Prime Newtons. Or listen to Naledi Pandor's comments to the press after the ICJ verdict.
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  18201. @lanceolot007  The number of Likes determines truth? That's so wh ite.
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  18202.  @lanceolot007  Yawn
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  18203.  @lanceolot007  Oh, you're upset all right. Twice you tell me you're not. 🤣🤣🤣
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  18204. @whisper2284  Of course. People who have never seen all the math channels on YT hosted by people from Africa, people who have never watched Naledi Pandor speak without notes, people who aren't following the BRICS+ summit, people who have never seen a picture of a major Latin American bookstore, and people who have never been outside the country in any global capital. They will all say "IQ!!! IQ!!!" like clapping seals. At least the seals get a fish.
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  18205.  @lanceolot007  You still don't grasp irony. Like, did you ever read literature? L i t e r a t u r e
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  18206.  @lanceolot007  The world has moved on without you.
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  18207. @lanceolot007  Nah, there are millions like you, concentrated in North America. Nothing new to me. Look who your leaders are. You should care about standards, . . . though it may be too late.
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  18208. So . . . Tens of millions of people without health insurance, who have been made to feel that their lives don't count, over and over, and over, are going to line up to take a vaccine that was rushed through development? Of course, they are Bad People if they hesitate.
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  18209. Jimmy, are you sure the rich don't want climate change?
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  18210. Ukraine has been shelling Russian separatists, on its own territory, for years and years. No dispute about the fact, the dispute is about whether it can possibly be justified. The US supports it.
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  18211. So Biden thought the Russians saw him as a formidable threat?
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  18212. Not to mention the definition of definition.
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  18213.  @deanok306  No, BRITISH sources. That was where the report came from. Well, the credible report anyway. I don't follow CNN, etc., for anything important, or really anything. Reuters:  Sept 20 (Reuters) - The White House on Monday criticized the use of horse reins to threaten Haitian migrants after images circulated of a U.S. border guard on horseback charging at migrants near a riverside camp in Texas . . . Reuters witnesses saw mounted officers wearing cowboy hats blocking the paths of migrants, and one officer unfurling a cord resembling a lariat, which he swung near a migrant's face. The Independent: Sept 22 -- The second-in-command at a union for US Border Patrol has tried to defend the use of horse reins around migrants in Del Rio, Texas, where tens of thousands have arrived from Haiti. . . Recent images from Del Rio have shown migrants fleeing Border Patrol agents on horseback who are wielding their reins like whips, with a Reuters witness catching an agent unfurl and swing one in front of migrants.
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  18214.  @thedigitallabrat  Reuters reported it. See above.
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  18215. I quoted Reuters and The Independent, and the articles are easy to find. Scroll a bit if you aren't too tired.
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  18216.  @throeawae2130  Perfect.
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  18217.  @BertoxolusThePuzzled  It is also physically impossible to use a belt as a whip while the person is wearing it, and it may be used as a whip without leaving any marks.
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  18218.  @markzuckergecko621  Who is "they?" What I saw were a bunch of druggies with various gender-based dysphorias and cult-like delusions, along with another group of kids who were slow in school, and now wear backward baseball caps, carry assault rifles, and wear "white supremacy" symbols -- and who are at least as cult-like and deluded as the first group, assuming that is possible. IOW, I saw an array of incredible dysfunction.
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  18219.  @BertoxolusThePuzzled  Can an actual whip be used as a whip, to, say, threaten physical harm? Or are threats of bodily harm with an implement without actual bodily harm not classified as use of that implement? Say someone wants to carjack you, and shows you a P Beretta? Say it's not even loaded?
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  18220.  @BertoxolusThePuzzled  I'll ignore Reuters and The Independent, which carried a response from the border patrol's union that tacitly admitted the story was true as stated. I'll believe you, whoever you are, because now I Feel Bad About Myself As A Person.
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  18221.  @markzuckergecko621  Who are these people you've asked? This is some representative sample? And what does the array of opinions prove, exactly? What I see proves dysfunction. When have the CHAZ, CHOP, LGBTQ + BDSM had a president? The January 6 rioters certainly did, and will. Though their opioid addiction and paranoia may be even greater than that of the CHAZers, but don't hold me on that. I would not bet money either way. Oh, I can think of a fun contest: which group has more undercover FBI infiltrators, instigators, and provocateurs? I'm afraid to bet. Should be fun to watch.
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  18222.  @markzuckergecko621  Um, no. LOL
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  18223. They also reported reins were undone and used as a whip. Same article. How could you have missed it?
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  18224.  @BertoxolusThePuzzled  No, read both excerpted articles in their entirety. This channel shadows links.
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  18225.  @BertoxolusThePuzzled  they've started censoring me here again
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  18226.  @BertoxolusThePuzzled  Read the articles, both, in their entirety.
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  18227.  @BertoxolusThePuzzled  At worst, Jimmy is mistaken -- at worst. His report is NOT unfounded, much less a lie. Bottom line. The justification allegedly made by the border patrol union official tends to support the story that at least one guard used reins as a whip. This faux controversy reminds me of "Chauvin is innocent."
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  18228. Why does this sound like pandering to Trump's core support? When it may be objectively warranted. Krystal made a good case, actually.
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  18229. You are correct about relative poverty rates, but that's precisely why most people don't realize how widespread poverty is among whites. People in the big cities, especially the ones that have a large college-educated population and a small working class, think these people are either druggies or mentally ill. They have no idea. Someone needs to tell them. Chris Hedges has been good at this. East Palestine is a great example. Most PMC types don't know these people exist. Absolute numbers are important, too.
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  18230. Dear, those Che tee shirts are way more communist than this. This one is home grown.
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  18231. He did.
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  18232. Of course Biden is making people follow COVID protocols. He knows the v a cc does not prevent la mort.
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  18233. That comes as no surprise.
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  18234. Michelle, or the Donald again. Wow start researching emigration.
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  18235. Re: Dems "fumbling" It was ON PURPOSE
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  18236. Wow what a SHOCK . . . /s
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  18237.  @DamonBrazzellUkesploitation  That was what I noticed when I lived in France. Parents were frequently unmarried, but the dads were more involved than in the States, married or not. It was funny to see guys in a leather jacket, chain bracelet, and smoking, with a baby carriage. When we saw one with an infant in a snuggly, a child by each hand, and a child car seat strapped to his back, my mom and I just looked at each other. There, the idea of not being a dad because you aren't married or you don't get along with the mother was anathema. It was incomprehensibly unethical. There was no one, man or woman, who didn't want to raise their kids.
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  18238. Avoid the whole thing by addressing a child by the name with which the parents registered him or her, and ditch the pronouns. Let them play with pronouns in their own secret sandbox and they'll grow out of it faster. This has become a new moral panic. Actual problems in school, including suicidal gestures or the use of drugs that were not prescribed, or being the victim of bullying or bullying others, not to mention failing classes, already require either an immediate report or calling the parents in for a conference. Of course we are going to talk about pronouns on a day when there has been another school shooting.
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  18239.  @es8059  Give me a break. NO, leave the kid alone. And call them by the name their PARENTS gave them, when they presented their birth certificates to register. Teachers are not SPIES.
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  18240.  @es8059  So, we live under competing autoritarianisms now. Got it. Did you even read my whole post? There are already mandated reporter standards in place for things that actually matter, not for stamping out the latest thing the kids want to needle their parents with. Tell me, if a boy and girl steal a kiss, do you call Mommy? Or better yet, Daddy. Daddy definitely needs to know. One of my friends used to make out (literally) with her boyfriend just outside the door of our sophomore English class, and one day the teacher (who was lesbian) went up to them and said, "don't kiss boys where teachers can see you!!" Those were the days.
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  18241. Of course. Who can stay up all night, and work 60 hours a week for weeks on end, for some abstract "mastery?"
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  18242.  @cybervigilante  LOL
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  18243.  @entium1  Why is it that people who advocate what you do alway make every discussion about the basest of motives? "Wasamadda, you can't make money on the ponies?" Sure, that's it. You know how greedy, envious, and supercilious you are, so of course everyone else must be worse. Logical. My goal is to never have anything to do with stocks, or mutual funds in retirement accounts and all that rot. If I won a lotto, I'd put it in a few currencies and never waste my time thinking about it again. Most people lose money in the stock market. I was not raised to prosper from anyone else's loss.
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  18244.  @entium1  My father also raised me never to buy a foreclosed property, either, because you never look to prosper from another's tragedy. I had real parents.
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  18245.  @entium1  Your parents were both doctors, and you're here online insulting people and trying to make them jealous (about money!) and throwing little fits with two-bit swear words when they don't co-operate? How far we have fallen. If everyone were like my family, 2009 would never have happened.
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  18246.  @entium1  Since you know tech, does this platform have a way to hide certain people permanently? Let me know in the comment below.
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  18247.  @entium1  Why would I bother doing a risk analysis on something I would never consider doing as a matter of principle? Suboptimal use of one's time, no? I though you prided yourself on logic. And no, you don't get up at 5 am.
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  18248.  @entium1  After the savings and loan crisis, the Reagan administration (Republican) PROSECUTED at least some of the wrongdoing. After the 2008-2009 debacle, the Obama administration (Democrat) FAILED to prosecute a soul. Not ONE person. No clawback of bonuses, either. You mean you forgot?? (Or, you think it is partisan to give credit to a Republican administration for doing something, however small, about enforcing laws pertaining to finance? Huh. Surprised.) In any event, the POINT is, the person who started this thread with the first comment was exactly right, and you are a trash talking __ who has been neutralized. You can stay up to keep bloviating if that's how you do "self-improvement." No one believes you, if they ever did.
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  18249. Well, another perfectly legitimate issue -- who should get prime space in the media and on what basis -- has just been hijacked. So, it's one more legitimate issue that we cannot discuss without extreme divisiveness taking over and inhibiting free speech. Great, perfect. /s
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  18250.  @dnawaterbag449  We have been attacking other countries. You know that can't last.
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  18251.  @davidr.5749  WHO do you think is responsible? Not the warmongers, adventurers, and brutes, or the Wall Street speculators creating a fragile financial system, or the West Coast elites creating more and better ways to produce propaganda and surveillance. You think it's some collegiate wokester? Or you think the DNC is Marxist? They look to overthrow any left-wing regime they possibly can.
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  18252.  @dnawaterbag449  A drive to destroy our democracies and freedoms isn't their issue. We've been trashing those all by ourselves come to think of it.
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  18253. The Market needs more name calling. This does not begin to fill the current demand.
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  18254. WHY have you stopped posting???? This is superb.
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  18255. Europe. NBD
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  18256.  @emekakhamun7005  They can't do math, and there's a reason. They don't know what a billion is, much less a trillion. A billion dollars is equal to the lifetime earnings of 400 highly qualified professionals. Two billion is like winning a million dollar lotto per year, every year since the birth of Jesus. There are people with 10 to 100 times that net worth. No one can "earn" that. Nevermind that the marginal value of $100,000 to such people is literally negligible. They could never state their net worth to the nearest hundred thousand. One of them had a secretary who embezzled $2 million from him and he never noticed. Gutting mathematical reasoning was Reagan's greatest "achievement," by his lights.
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  18257.  @gaposina  I don't think the reckoning is that close, but I didn't expect the challenge so soon, either.
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  18258.  @Nostradevus1  True.
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  18259.  @trippmiller6199  I highly doubt that, but you're right to ask who is trying. Who is discussing it candidly? Not even that!
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  18260.  @sarahbrown5073  Either that was a brilliant but cryptic observation, or it's daft. In any case it has nothing obvious to do with anything I said, or anyone said. A person can't eat gold, no. Nor can they eat Facebook, Google, or Twitter. Nor can we wear them. They don't heat our house.
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  18261. @R Because he's a twit. A classic twit. "Then Minnesota happened." That is how he describes the killing of George Floyd? How can anyone fall for this? That's what I can't understand.
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  18262.  @shananika  He's not a nut job? His intro on gays and trans and so forth was so long and ridiculous that he finally had me in stitches -- the gentleman protests too much.
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  18263. @eunicemwicigi8104  It's mind-boggling to believe that if he takes it, it must be beneficial.
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  18264. Like corporations who find it cheaper to pay fines and fund lobbyists, rather than follow laws and pay taxes.
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  18265. I knew you'd be happy, Kim!
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  18266. He censored other accounts as well.
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  18267. @dr.g3860  Wait, are you KIDDING? And she cannot clearly articulate First Amendment law and ardently defend free speech? She never read Nadine Strossen? I read her last book twice. I noticed she was utterly incompetent but my GOD. This beats everything. I have got to look that up.
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  18268. @dr.g3860  OH MY GOD. She is supposedly an eminent lawyer. She clerked for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg!!! And she could not coherently explain and defend freedom of speech. Blew my mind. This is serious, but not for the reasons we're being told.
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  18269. @dianadelcastillo1896  Your factual premises do not withstand scrutiny. You've just listed a whole bunch without evidence, and concluded "antisemitism." If that's true, then nearly every nation in the UN except for the United States has openly declared itself to be "antisemitic." In fact, everyone who does not support Likud is "antisemitic." That's not what the word means. First of all, where is the evidence that anyone on campus called for the "genocide" of any group? As for the young man who testified, did he make a report? Universities spend millions on administrators to ensure Title VI and Title IX are followed. These are Ivy League schools. The student managed to get admitted; he is supposed to know how to find the office and file a complaint to begin an INVESTIGATION, which he has a right and an obligation to demand. One would think. Tara Reade had more evidence. Crying wolf isn't a good idea, because there is real antisemitism in the world and it's always a sinister sign.
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  18270. @mw5556  Because there is no evidence. Crazy how that is. Someone should just scream and grandstand, or write a letter (and ahem, make a campaign donation), and that should be enough to have someone else prosecuted for terrorism.
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  18271.  @JayChoi1118  They are paying attention. It's you who is falling for demagoguery yet again.
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  18272. Remember Afeni Shakur. And the miracle she performed in court, when she exposed the provocateur.
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  18273. Don't self-censor. This guy is a known manipulator and general fake.
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  18274. @williammorris3815  It can mean a lesser charge, yes --- because the perpetrator cannot form the requisite mens rea for the more serious charge. It's never a complete defense.
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  18275. I'm jealous of anyone who was divorced because of his relationship with Jeffrey and Ghislaine. Who wouldn't be? Goes without saying.
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  18276. In who? Those with ongoing side effects, or those without side effects? If 1 in 800 had a serious side effect, this is considered very serious in a vaccine intended for universal use. But that means hundreds did not have serious side effects.
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  18277.  @np1324  One that requires hospitalization and results in serious impairment of some organ or functionality for at least some period of time -- or worse.
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  18278. @np1324  There are studies that drew that conclusion, yes. One was mentioned several times on this channel. I will give you a reference as soon as I find it. Hope it remains up.
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  18279. @np1324  See the interview of Dr. Joseph Fraiman, the "Vaccine Reanalysis" video and related study, linked in the description. Dr. Fraiman got a ton of criticism for his measured approach and refusal to condemn doctors who were sincerely doing their best at the time. He is a specialist in urgent care and hence has treated these injuries.
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  18280. @np1324  I responded; it might require a search to find. You know the drill.
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  18281. @np1324  Anyway, people whose bodies stopped producing spike protein within a month might also be the ones who had no serious side effects -- and that would, after all, be most people. That's not good enough. See Carl Elliott, The Occasional Human Sacrifice.
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  18282. Um, you know, the simple fact that it's plausible . . . Hmm . . .
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  18283. Try arguing with anyone who believes any of this prosperity rot. They will swarm you, denounce you, even tell you your "pessimism" could cause cancer. His message does not deviate so much from the common-variety abundance attraction stories.
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  18284. If everyone had Medicare and in-state college/university tuition was under $4000 per year, $15 an hour would be enough -- today.
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  18285. If you believe the emails are real, you love Putin. Got that? Good.
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  18286.  @excrubulent  I don't plan to let computers or their programmers decide what should be written. I get to decide that, with my steady diet of reading great writing, etc., every day of my life.
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  18287. Jimmy's so good here I think I must be dreaming.
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  18288. Yes, where did you study?
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  18289. In some countries they require a Master's. And the childcare is free, like school.
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  18290. Note that neither the State Department nor Victoria Nuland issued a clarification. Amazing, really.
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  18291.  @travisjohnson1225  Look up her father. That's why she was invited.
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  18292.  @odinata  Why hasn't Victoria Nuland issued a clarification? Lifelong foreign policymaker, she must have done it tons of times.
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  18293.  @johnn2920  Carlson never said bioweapons either. But is the difference real or primarily semantic?
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  18294.  @Josh-ky2oc  Why? I'm interested in knowing who is coming, why, and when. I'm not interested in an altercation.
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  18295. He did, a little bit: 15:19
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  18296. Was the real reason for Trump to get us to . . . lower expectations? Was the real reason for Russiagate to make us believe that all superficially similar stories are just as dubious or irrelevant? The boiling frog metaphor comes to mind . . . What won't we accept? IS there a bottom?
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  18297. All of you are fine with how they announced the assassination. Right. This was no problem. How off are you?
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  18298. The registries (Megan's Law) don't protect anyone. People who present a danger to children must be kept away from children.
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  18299. This, too. Thank you.
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  18300.  @uio890138  Replied above
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  18301.  @uio890138  Where did you see me do that? I never have.
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  18302.  @uio890138  Who made you think this way? Be mad at them.
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  18303. The first step to finding out the truth is to admit that we don't know, and to start asking real questions that don't presume the answer. I would be very surprised if less than 10% of the excess cancer cases (above prior norms) were vaccine related, and even more surprised if 50% of them were. I'd be surprised if COVID itself played no role. It's not about personalities, dear. It's about real science. Real science is not happening.
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  18304. Wait. Whoopee thinks she's helping Joe?
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  18305. Typo there
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  18306. Rachel Maddow thinks that if she says the American people will rebel against peace in Ukraine, then she will be paid. Rachel got that right. 💰💰💰💰
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  18307. See Lev Golinkin in The Nation, circa 2019. That has the advantage of having been written before the pandemic. If you think Ukraine having a Jewish president who is a former entertainer makes it "impossible" for neo-Nazis to have been given free rein in the eastern breakaway regions, then you have a lot of reading and studying to do. When it comes to making serious decisions for your own life, don't make them like this.
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  18308. The demand to stop NATO expansion is reasonable. And Aaron is no mouthpiece for Putin! Pfft.
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  18309.  @adityaprakash1080  What state would that be?
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  18310. THANK YOU.
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  18311. Brought to you by Pfizer?
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  18312. ​@joshuagonzalez3249 For crossing state lines or transmitting images, it is 18 under federal law. That's too young for images, in my opinion! Too young to act in pornographic films. Should be 21, like drinking.
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  18313. I'm so sorry. Do you have savant traits at all? Know that such traits, even in mild form, often make some people jealous.
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  18314.  @kittenmitten2948  Take care, and know that a lot of people appreciate dark humor! I hope you find soulmates soon.
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  18315. I have a crazy idea. Take a real stand for education and lead by example: READ THE CASE. I bet you won't. I have 💰 riding on this.
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  18316.  @scottmcloughlin4371  Asian parents, who are generally Buddhists and Hindus, and Jewish parents do even better. Just send money to those parents and call it a day.
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  18317.  @ditaneous  I agree with that entirely. I know what the word means.
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  18318.  @ditaneous  Yes, neoliberals want to push the privatization of all public goods. Reagan pushed that, Clinton pushed that. The Chicago parking meter fiasco is the usual outcome, looting the public sector and rendering it less able to do what it must do.
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  18319.  @Etatdesiege1979  I suggest you look at relative achievement. Of course I was being ironic, in part, but my point stands: your claim is highly selective, and dubious overall. Actually, non-Christians and non-Western youth have the very highest test scores that you tout so much and apparently place so much importance on. It was one of the alleged bases for the lawsuit of a group of Asians who filed a complaint against the Ivies for discrimination in admissions. You must not read. Reading is good for your mind and stuff.
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  18320.  @riledmouse4677  No, not solely because they are religious.
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  18321.  @riledmouse4677  Of course it is discriminatory to fund private schools for the purpose of providing an academic curriculum, but then to withhold that funding from schools, or from a teaching corps, that adheres to a particular religion. When the schools' avowed mission is to inculcate students into a particular faith, however, that is where the Establishment Clause issue arises.
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  18322. What will happen to all the children on puberty blockers? After being vaccinated against COVID and medicated for ADHD?
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  18323. Briahna, you are simply not factually accurate.
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  18324. All those Ukrainian flags said more than the neolibs had intended to say.
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  18325. Funny, Chauvin pled guilty in federal court. That agreement is easy to find.
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  18326. This tech keeps autocorrecting and preventing edits. I wrote mitigation MEASURES. Oh well.
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  18327. She's not advising clients or seeking clients. Nor did she misrepresent anything. You're just mad because you feel that world is closed to you, when in fact anyone willing to work hard can be a lawyer.
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  18328. ​ @jadex0x0 That I agree with. Same for Ben Shapiro. He should take a First Amendment case every so often.
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  18329.  @Nerdiness1985  This time, adults drew you into it. It didn't arise spontaneously from you. They did it for the money.
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  18330. Bend over instead. Oh! You still holding the stock? Yikes.
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  18331. Complete agreement with Aaron on all points. Every last one.
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  18332. Or how about don't do it? At least not before age 30?
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  18333.  @thivan233  Oh yeah? Are minors responsible, or do the adults around them bear some responsibility for the well-being of the next generation? Here comes the neoliberal "individual choice" crap! There must be some reason why advanced forms of new media advertising have spawned the youngest multi-billionaires of our time. Why do you think that is, hm?
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  18334.  @thivan233  Okay, I believe that. But if a person is underage, their resistance to peer influence is very poor. It's just a fact. No one has to impose overt pressure.
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  18335.  @thivan233  I didn't mean to suggest you did. I'm sorry for the misunderstanding. In this video, both Cyrus and Rogan suggest there are "safe" ways to use hard drugs, and suggest telling minors about that. Such nonsense. I am against criminalization for adults, by the way, so a debate about interdiction does not apply to my point. But then persuasion becomes all the more important, as does failing to counter misinformation about drugs by pop icons.
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  18336.  @thivan233  I'm not anyone's fool. But I am not a minor. Get it? I also know how to do research. Do most teenagers, or very young adults? Do most teenagers read several languages, and have a real idea of diversity, on a larger scale? Please. I ask again: why has the ADVERTISING industry spawned the youngest billionaires in human history? (What is advertising, anyway? Can you eat it, wear it? Does it heat your house?) Let's take a big-picture look at this. And if you can show me the health benefits of anything you mentioned comparable with the benefits -- and lack of risk -- of coffee for most people, I'll grant you the point. Although organic green tea may be better and safer.
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  18337.  @thivan233  What's the problem? With propaganda being the source of the new great fortunes? See Adam Curtis on that (The Century of the Self, BBC2 documentary series). You can still make gobs of money in the new media. Depends on what you are willing to do. To me, these kids, who got rich starting their own troll farms, are less harmful than the pseudo-celebrities telling money-worshipping, gullible American kids that there are safe ways to try hard drugs: https://www.wired.com/2017/02/veles-macedonia-fake-news/
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  18338.  @thivan233  A person can overdose on water. Moderate amounts of coffee are beneficial for most people. Of course not all. Strawberries are highly nutritious, but in my family many of us are allergic to them.
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  18339.  @thivan233  America: https://youtu.be/UonclNOzAGo The Non-Western "Other": https://youtu.be/3K0xjMzTc4E Sometimes life is SO fair!!! More and more often. Be more careful. ;)
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  18340.  @thivan233  And you didn't know your video link contains an ugly racial stereotype? Sure you didn't. You were high? I believe it.
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  18341.  @thivan233  What are YOU talking about? Yeesh. You can't stop with insults. Did drugs do this to you? You see "threats?" Where?? Is that what the slang use of the term "paranoia," for what happens during drug use, refers to? What did you say before the "Karen" slur became fashionable? Have you ever said anything that isn't fashionable? I'm glad you're "at peace," the US is at war, as usual. If you're so prone to tossing off insults when you are "at peace," I'd hate to see you agitated. I hope no one wishes to be anyone but who they are. I hadn't really thought about it. YOU brought it up. Why would that be?
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  18342.  @thivan233  You should take down that video, with the ugly racial stereotype, by the way. Do you know anything about the Opium Wars? Shame.
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  18343. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  18344.  @jessewest2109  True, it really is a great book. But . . . Well, . . . Like you said. :)
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  18345. Every defamation case chips away at free speech rights. Maybe you should read up on that.
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  18346. What does Robby create? He's had a cushy life.
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  18347.  @fisherman1353  Whose money is whose, in a world where Fauci is rich and Hunter Biden gets paid millions by a Ukrainian energy company, and Congress is permitted to do insider trading? Where people can make billions in financial speculation or inventing new tech companies that degrade the quality of everyone's lives? Let's get real. Investors in Pfizer got rich, while restaurant workers lost everything. Bankers got their bonuses in 2009. The BP CEO got richer after the well blew in the Gulf. This is not good. Maybe we need to look into this big picture a little more closely. (And by the way, why did minimum wage cover a modest apartment and in-state college tuition back in 1970? Why could two people earning minimum wage afford to get married back then? How did we manage THAT, during the Cold War -- with higher taxes, to boot?)
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  18348.  @fisherman1353  Too bad they just sense errd me again. I just listed all those who got rich over the last few years, and how they did, starting with Fauci but not ending there by any stretch.
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  18349.  @fisherman1353  They've prohibited me from saying what I had to say. That means I leave.
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  18350. Um, try another view, from someone who knows about risk: https://medium.com/incerto/the-masks-masquerade-7de897b517b7 The Black Swan author himself.
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  18351.  @aarongorton1984  So sorry that you have to meet reasoned debate with invective. Was this always a problem for you? Why?
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  18352.  @aarongorton1984  Sure, Bub. I'm not brainwashed by anyone. I get news in four languages. You?
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  18353.  @aarongorton1984  Did you bother reading the article? Did you ever read The Black Swan? Or Fooled By Randomness? Taleb got one of his degrees in Paris.
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  18354.  @jtjones4081  Example: Jeffrey Epstein. No one could make THAT up. Example: Sussman, who claimed to have direct, independent, and nonpartisan evidence of Russian collusion in the 2016 election, was working for Clinton. No one could make that up, either. Well, I didn't see it coming anyway.
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  18355. They are making you think censorship is necessary "to protect the public." The FTC already has the power to prosecute false advertising, especially false medical advertising, and pandemic profiteers, which is what some of them are. But that's not what was proposed. Nope, these MSM journalists want to be on panels that silence the new journalists on the Internet.
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  18356. OMG, "technology doesn't work in war." Ponder that.
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  18357. Isaac is not speaking about those who have not had COVID, or about anyone but himself. He supports those who choose vaccination. Does anyone LISTEN to anyone any more?
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  18358. How sick are you?
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  18359. Sure. There were so many farmers, and for millennia.
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  18360. You mean you watch? Gasp.
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  18361.  @daz97  You have no idea what Strossen is about. 🤣🤣🤣
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  18362.  @kyactivetm  True
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  18363.  @thehonesttruth415  The occupied territories have a president?
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  18364. Listening to this after watching the David Goggins interview on Huberman's program helped me identify a fundamental misconception I've suffered from, and it's so stupid: I came to believe that any pain was "harmful." I identified pain with harmful stress or depression. I'm lucky I have no affinity for substances. (I'm big on eating properly, and super clean.) Wow, I could have been in much bigger trouble if I had had a different addiction issue. Procrastination has an easy solution by comparison.
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  18365. Jimmy gives new meaning to savage.
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  18366. Why are you teaching whites not to understand statistics? 🤣
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  18367.  @TheJawRaw  There is a lot of money "thrown at" schools in affluent suburbs, and no one seems to see a problem. This is because local property taxes fund local schools. That is unique in the developed world. And it is structural, obviously. It is set up that way.
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  18368. I think it's a hoot when these people advocate for good parenting, and in the next breath for "school choice." Since 7-year-old moppets cannot choose their own schools, having a good school is one more thing that will depend on having good, and knowledgeable, PARENTS. So the kids without "good parents" really cannot win. You have to wonder how we ever created the first literate generation. It had to happen at some point -- parents who couldn't even read, and children who could. Apparently we must have had some idea of how to foster a good education, for everyone.
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  18369.  @brandondrake4609  When our teachers pushed right-wing ideology on us, we took it as an opportunity to read books that said the opposite. Of course, we didn't have video games or Facebook yet, so there's that. We had more time to read on our own, and we had more bookstores, too.
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  18370. Do you truly have NO idea of how inexpensive state university used to be -- for people like Joe and Nancy? A summer job paid for a full year of tuition.
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  18371. Do you truly have NO idea of how inexpensive state university used to be -- for people like Joe and Nancy? A summer job paid for a full year of tuition.
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  18372. So, the sank __ shuns did not have the intended? Effect. This point has a hard time not getting dis. Appear Ed.
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  18373.  @Coromi1  You missed my point completely, didn't you? People in America respect German culture more than they do any Slavic people. Czech is closer culturally. Or tell people you have a Swedish mother. Even Lenin was part Swedish.
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  18374.  @biggusdickus881  How much did that plastic surgery cost?
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  18375.  @WinstonSmithGPT  It's not worse than what Muslims went through, no.
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  18376.  @shaunshaikh8617  Half Montenegrin. Tiny ethnicity, predominantly Slavic but mixed.
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  18377. @Hh Kk No.
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  18378. @Hh Kk America is a right-wing country.
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  18379.  @user-id7mx6fh3n  Just Russian para-olympic athletes, Russian literature, and Russian cats. Shame on you, you apologist for racism and xenophobia.
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  18380. And maybe hiding the actual issues, like abuse.
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  18381. Ghouls.
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  18382. ​ @lelarson9916 Why don't you two go read the dissent? Make this a different kind of day.
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  18383. ​@lelarson9916 A restraining order cannot be entered except by a court and with notice to the person restrained and an opportunity to be heard.
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  18384.  @amberlance182  THIS federal statutes DOES require notice and opportunity to be heard. Sheesh.
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  18385. ​ @LaResistance123  They can't handle the truth.
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  18386. @Kehvan  False. A civil rights suit on these facts will be dismissed if the plaintiffs were not exonerated. It will not go to trial. Cities cannot settle multi-million dollar cases for political reasons, because the property tax payers are on the hook.
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  18387. @Kehvan  Maybe you might read para. 16 through 40 of the Complaint for the actual facts? Or would that hurt your feelings?
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  18388.  @atomicwedgie8709  Another person who failed to read actual documents pertaining to the case.
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  18389. @atomicwedgie8709  Complete nonsense. What do you get out of spreading utter lies? At least get your cut, like the Big Guy.
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  18390. @atomicwedgie8709  I state what the court papers state. Which you can't seem to locate? (In New York, moreover, no Section 1983 case could avoid dismissal, with prejudice, absent exoneration. That rule was relaxed by THIS Supreme Court only recently.)
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  18391. @atomicwedgie8709  Oh I get it. You didn't get your cut. Yeah, I'd be mad, too. You might still . . .
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  18392. The more we talk about reform, the more the profiteers gouge. Any hint this cash cow might end causes them to grab more.
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  18393. Defending them? She asked an excellent, very pointed question: do the Chinese know something about this virus that they are not sharing? Because we have very good reason to believe there is at least one thing they knew and didn't share, namely how the virus originated. Notice how in your rush to call out Briahna, you missed the question and the fact that we don't know the answer. Robbie was the one blathering, rather than acknowledging that China is an authoritarian country and that COVID's origins -- time, place, and manner -- may not be all they are covering up, still.
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  18394.  @giamhecl  She isn't defending them. She asked a very good question. What do they know that they are not sharing? Is there something important that they are still hiding, and that they need to be telling the rest of the world about? Does it seem to you like the answer is no?
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  18395.  @davesears9681  Timestamp that. So, we rely on CHINA to tell us the truth? I thought we had superior intelligence capabilities, technology and all that. Wow, a suspicious husband knows to hire a private detective, but we need China to answer our questions.
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  18396.  @davesears9681  I think most of us who are deeply suspicious of the origins of the virus, and the wisdom of the response in literally every country (why did Sweden and China represent extremes, and what can we learn from each), and the fact that certain vaccines were licensed only in certain countries and not others (for this huge, epic emergency where people were coerced and "every minute counted") have a lot of common ground.
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  18397.  @davesears9681  Anyway, I still have a lot of questions, as you can tell. Not that I'm holding my breath, either, but . . . well.
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  18398.  @davesears9681  I don't know, and don't think so, but I don't like this whole picture. Unacceptable risks, likely undertaken because of corruption, an accident, and very serious incentives to hide the accident and then to find ways to use the event as an opportunity -- sure. It would hardly be a new phenomenon. This kind of the game plan. FTX and the 2008 financial crisis both worked a lot like that, and they had nothing to do with viruses. It's a very generic pattern, isn't it? FTX likely had more intent behind it than a legitimate accident would, but 2008 definitely has these features. The BP GoM spill, too, had a few of these features. Tony Hayward became a commodities trader after that and made vastly more money. Perverse incentives are structured that way. But anyway, an actual grand conspiracy, instead of mini-conspiracies to cover up misdeeds along the way, is not impossible. I don't think there was anything like that going on, but I would never say you're wrong. I keep questions open until I'm really satisfied that I have a true answer, or that I'll never have an answer. :/
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  18399.  @davesears9681  The Fauci-Collins emails are exactly what I mean. They had a huge incentive to cover up any inquiry concerning Wuhan once people raised the question. I mean, you can consider this type of research itself as "conspiratorial" in one sense, because ordinary people are never consulted or even informed, and yet Fauci et al. know full well they are making decisions with asymmetric risks and benefits -- more risk for us, more benefit for them. As soon as Obama paused funding of gain of function research, the busy bees looked for ways to define what they were doing as being outside the moratorium, and they all agreed it was (moratorium on funding is the weakest control anyway, if you can call it control). A lot of people made money from this tragedy. Follow the money. They were poised to take advantage of it from the start.
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  18400.  @davesears9681  I also want to know why China has rejected mRNA vaccines. Are they alone in this decision? I don't assume they had a good scientific reason, I wouldn't know that and wouldn't want to speculate. I just want to know the reason. Some reports have said that the Chinese vaccines are almost as effective and considerably safer than the ones used in the US and EU. Some have said the same about Sputnik V. I don't have an opinion. I'd like some facts; it could be interesting to have some. Why is a global emergency so politicized?
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  18401.  @davesears9681  See what happens when you start asking questions. They multiply like rabbits.
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  18402.  @rsaggar  Irony: I saw your post while listening to Alina Chan being interviewed by Russell Brand. She is a molecular biologist at Harvard and MIT, and received a number of death threats for stating the obvious about where the virus may have originated. There was a concerted campaign by some affiliated with the Chinese government to discredit her as well. A lot of what has happened here has the flavor of an experiment, to see how far they can push us. :/ As far as Briahna's commentary on this video goes, my focus went straight for the important stuff: do they know more about the virus that they need to be sharing, even if it is something we can find out anyway, through our own research or our intelligence services? Do they have some non-political reason for not approving mRNA for use in their country? I can believe that the answers are no and no -- if indeed they are.
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  18403.  @rsaggar  Agreed completely about origins; not as sure about vaccines, as I have family in an area that offered a variety of vaccines, including Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Sputnik V, and Sinovac, and many chose Sinovac. My family got Pfizer as soon as they could, had no hesitancy at all about getting vaccinated, and now acknowledge the vaccines were a disappointment. Doctors in their region do not recommend boosters for the time being except for those with comorbidities or, of course, for those age 70 and older. They live in a non-ideological society in southern Europe, where saying stuff like this is not a cause for controversy, much less "cancellation." This is all "matter-of-fact" for them. The safety/efficacy profile of each of the major vaccines is still something we don't have enough solid information about. You have got to wonder why. Great talking to you, and it is heartening to hear that people still remember that brave Chinese doctor who went public, then died.
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  18404.  @H3kler  They didn't listen that far.
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  18405. How do you know? Trump strongly supports Israel.
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  18406. When was she into Id Pol? She didn't even vote for Hillary(2016) or Joe(2020).
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  18407. Oh, you wouldn't want that.
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  18408. Autocorrect betrays us again. :/
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  18409. Robby, how about enforcing a contract not to get pregnant?
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  18410. NY can't ban concealed carry.
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  18411. No one has ever won more medals than her in women's gymnastics.
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  18412. @Gil I haven't.
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  18413. These fetishists are potentially dangerous to the living.
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  18414.  @seattledreamer9901  "Totalitarian regimes always attack the free world." Who dropped more bombs on humanity than all other countries put together? Who turned WWII nuclear? P. S. Look up Vasili Arhkipov. The Guardian has a nice article.
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  18415.  @seattledreamer9901  Total lie, and shocking anyone still repeats it. Good, discredit yourself. No problem.
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  18416.  @seattledreamer9901  Explain August 9. We'll let August 6 go, for now, just for the sake of argument.
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  18417.  @justify798  Having arrived at a brand new continent, a true fresh start unlike any before, only to exterminate one people and enslave another. And the latter creates new musical forms that swept the world and changed music forever (no blues, no Beatles), and some of these people, like, doubt their INTELLIGENCE? You could not make this up. Too crazy.
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  18418.  @dameongeppetto  But it isn't a "biological fact." If someone wants to say it is, I certainly would not silence them or censor them in any way, but I have no idea why they are so invested in believing it.
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  18419. ​ @Eagle7-tn2wg Maybe you should appreciate the Constitution more. That would be good. Looks like we may really need it in this century.
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  18420. I hope your roulette table guesses are better.
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  18421.  @ReasonerHeracles  Shut up.
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  18422.  @theresearcher253  Very true.
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  18423. Saw some of your playlists. I hope my other comment is visible to you, the one with concrete advice; the censorship on YT has gone wild. Anyway, I can see you know what to do.
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  18424.  @chrisrhule1760  Who decided to lock down the country, not for weeks but years, and to go on a wild campaign of denunciation against anyone who refused to comply? When did we have a CALM, reasoned discussion about COVID, in a united spirit? All we had was the worst divisiveness I have ever lived through, the impoverishment of MILLIONS, a mental health crisis, and vituperation from ALL politicians, regardless of party -- who themselves got richer, "somehow." Wow, just wow. Mattias Desmet. Remember that name.
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  18425.  @chrisrhule1760  No, education is not a "both sides" issue by any stretch, and attainment is lower in certain parts of the country that are less affluent and more under the control of self-styled Christian conservatives (Chris Hedges has their number). That doesn't negate the fact that children are being manipulated and made to feel uncomfortable and even afraid of school, when school is really in crisis now.
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  18426.  @chrisrhule1760  We didn't lock down? Ask all the small bars and restaurants and movie houses how they're doing. Why were so many impoverished? Why are anxiety, depression, addiction, and drug overdoses at record levels? It is both sides for this. All the major politicians let the people down.
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  18427.  @ReasonerHeracles  MOST people go to public schools and universities --- by FAR.
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  18428.  @HazeOfWhearyWater  I know you don't care about young people, unless their parents are rich and can do you harm or good. I paragraph properly. Maybe your attention span isn't what it used to be? Or was it always bad? 🤣
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  18429.  @HazeOfWhearyWater  YOU talk about "personal responsibility," but as soon as someone makes concrete suggestions about WHAT to DO, of course you mock them. Your sole interest is to abuse people, and use anyone who is hurting as an example, to "score points." You only "score" in your own mind. Thanks for revealing yourself. Now we all know.
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  18430.  @mboiko  Of course. Total agreement. That's why parents have got to make up their minds to take this hand themselves and intervene massively. There was a time when you could just muddle through and trust that everything would turn out all right. Not anymore. The part about therapists making it worse struck me. This is a huge risk now. You cannot leave it to them and trust it will work out. It may, or it may not. This time it is different.
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  18431.  @HazeOfWhearyWater  1. Liar 2. Liar
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  18432.  @HazeOfWhearyWater  Oh wait. Have I gotten you mixed up with someone else? Are you the Blame The Democrats guy? Either I Blame The Democrats, or I "advocate" for going to the zoo. P. S. I never mentioned a zoo.
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  18433.  @HazeOfWhearyWater  Blocked.
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  18434.  @HazeOfWhearyWater  What "leftist?" You just made my point -- while doing what you accuse others of doing, of course. Youth depression isn't left or right, though it will be exploited by both. 💰💰💰
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  18435. Oh come on. Who would want to be called that? Death threats come next.
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  18436. Yes. They are protesting hate. This is correct.
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  18437. You wanted rah rah? Is that what war is to you, a team sport?
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  18438. Perfect, thank you. It is wrong to condemn this poor woman, and it is also wrong to normalize not calling 911. Clearly, the roommate did cooperate with the investigation, and we would not know what she had done that night without her providing that information.
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  18439. Here's another thought: we could all be rational, too, and suspend judgment while awaiting more evidence. That could work. smh
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  18440.  @Jason_The_Man  LOL
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  18441. Dimmy Jore? Oh you poor thing.
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  18442.  @WhyNotTruth  High school sophomore comedy.
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  18443.  @WhyNotTruth  I meant the "Dimmy Jore" bit. Calling Dore that. It's sophomoric. Right up there with the ageist title to this video. Classy, classy. We know we are among intellectuals.
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  18444. This is nonsense. We have had waves of mass hysteria since colonial times. It has nothing to do with BLM, etc.
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  18445. You mean you don't? 😂😂😂😂😂
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  18446. Notice they can never show a Hamas supporter who is not a false flag/provocateur. They try to focus on one, and in less than a day, he's exposed. Amy Goodman has been giving the best reporting.
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  18447. Yes, you're right, if the time line is correct. Why didn't the Senators lay the foundation for making the point, rather than just grandstanding?
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  18448. When has the US practiced a hands-off policy toward any socialist society in this hemisphere? Where's the model? The cults you mention are essentially right-wing phenomena. Were Fred Hampton and Mark Clark left alone? Was Afeni Shakur, who resisted a provocateur and wanted nothing to do with violence?
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  18449. The comparisons are absurd, but self-control, like KATIE showed, would be better huh.
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  18450. What is your relationship with France?
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  18451. That's a boy.
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  18452. LOL, good one!
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  18453.  @gcoffey223  Sigh! I'm sorry. May I take a stab at it? Math is not racist. Please don't hold me to that. I really don't know. /s
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  18454. Yes, I did. You're right. Congress got rich. The global shutdown spawned new millionaires. Count on a new crisis soon.
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  18455.  @Leti264  I can't even make posts that stay up.
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  18456. It is a tactic to elicit confession. They never come back and tell you that you passed, regardless of the result. Yes, they can do that.
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  18457. THANK YOU FOR THIS, Dr. Grande.
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  18458. That doctrinaire libertarians have lucrative jobs tells you everything. Robby has not earned what he has.
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  18459.  @JB-hq9yj  I replied to someone else, not OP. Was his post shadowed?
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  18460.  @JB-hq9yj  I didn't.
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  18461.  @JB-hq9yj  I asked who he meant.
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  18462.  @JB-hq9yj  I'm not into pronouns.
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  18463.  @liuj88  Show me where.
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  18464.  @liuj88  I thought you meant I was rude. This was different. 😊
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  18465. Everything Brie said this time was right. Robby even agreed with her main response to his radar. Did you all post before listening?
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  18466. Is 34% a majority? That's what Le Pen got in Round 1. That leaves 66%. She needs to persuade some of those, or else no dice. Edit: she needs almost 1/4 of those who voted for a different party in Round 1. And to keep the 34%, at least a few of whom were a protest vote (but will probably stay with her nevertheless).
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  18467. She was told about the gun. All she had to do was her job.
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  18468. Maybe you don't know ancient history. Egyptian pharaohs were from the Upper Nile or, more often, Lower Nile at different times in their history. The people of those regions resemble modern Sudanese or Egyptians, respectively. As for the rest of the ethnic stuff, it's a bunch of silliness. The fake images that involve real people and create obscenity IS serious.
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  18469. You want to be in the lowest level of a major hospital. Otherwise you need your favorite religious text.
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  18470. DARVO
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  18471. France made demanding a vaccine passport from a minor illegal a while ago, and the Left in the National Assembly led the effort, of course. I don't know why suddenly this is a right-wing issue. Max Blumenthal saw through this, Richard Wolff saw through this . . . of course Jimmy and Stef . . . what happened to everyone else?
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  18472. Isn't it romantic? Now you know why people aren't marrying.
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  18473. He sounds like a used car salesman.
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  18474. MTG did vote for McCarthy. Get your facts straight. The principled Nancy Mace did not --- and HER seat is not safe.
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  18475. You can't follow longer, more complex points. Try. It's good for cognitive health. I mean, what if you can't retire at 65?
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  18476. School closures erased two DECADES of PROGRESS in math and reading? Robbie is not focusing on the fact that teachers played a role in this progress. Perhaps Robbie needs to stop flagellating them and demanding vouchers.
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  18477. ​@bsmithhammer The "left?" In the 1980s, Mitterrand had a great natality policy. In his first term, PCF was part of the government (and France was flooded with CIA assets as a result). That policy prevented tens of thousands of abortions, while preserving choice and paying most of the cost of elective abortion (but ALL the cost of childbearing, for all women, including clothing). But no one ever talks about that. Hmm. America has no idea what a real left is.
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  18478.  @utah_koidragon7117  The statement wasn't about Chelsea Handler. I don't actually know who she is. Some personality or other.
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  18479. ​@utah_koidragon7117 It's disguised bitterness, resulting from Vance's disappointments or frustrations with his own life. Of course he doesn't see it. He thinks The Other is causing all of his problems. I don't judge people who've made different fundamental choices about their lives. I'm glad I don't have to weigh in. I had an intact family. Do I make offhand remarks about the validity of Vance rising to the position of VP because he had a troubled childhood? Obviously not. In fact, I almost forgot to mention it.
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  18480.  @utah_koidragon7117  Of course projection doesn't explain every hostile comment. This time, however, it does. As I said, it didn't cross my mind to say that someone with a very troubled early family life should be excluded from the political process, or even from a position of such power as Vance already has. Why didn't it cross my mind? Hm? 🤔
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  18481.  @utah_koidragon7117  There are also people who have had many children or outstanding professional success, or both, who are deeply unhappy AND seek political power and other forms of control over the lives of others. You've missed that? They are everywhere. Look who forced vaccination on us, for example, and interminable shutdowns. Make a mental list.
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  18482.  @utah_koidragon7117  A lot of people are making life worse, including those with children and those with great gobs of money and political power. My other comment is shadowed because I mentioned a certain mandated _______. Keep your eye on the ball.
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  18483.  @utah_koidragon7117  Vance didn't question whether a particular person's seriously deprived childhood might affect them and their decision-making ability. He spoke derisively of an entire class of people and stated they should have less to say because they have no real stake in the future. (Where did he study constitutional law, tell me again?) By the way, I still don't question whether a bad childhood has tainted a person until I see actual evidence of it. Labeling my view "silly" is not getting you anywhere. I was surprised to see your OP, I consider you smart and level-headed.
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  18484.  @patricia859-p7n  False flaggin' it much?
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  18485. @medhue  It isn't. One involves questioning a particular person's fitness for power, while the other condemns a whole class of people on entirely specious grounds. Do you know why someone doesn't have children? (Can their gender and income and choice of pets tell you? Really?) And why is that dubious in any case? Having children and mistreating them or raising them badly is dubious. Hence, we are right to question Joe Biden and Hunter. Or Elon Musk. And anyway, I'm a dog and bird person, big time. (Spaniels. Nothing can beat a spaniel. Cockatiels? Don't get me started.)
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  18486.  @medhue  It isn't. One involves questioning a particular person's fitness for power, while the other condemns a whole class of people on entirely specious grounds. Do you know why someone doesn't have children? (Can their gender and income and choice of pets tell you? Really?) And why is that dubious in any case? Having children and mistreating them or raising them badly is dubious. Hence, we are right to question Joe Biden and Hunter. Or Elon Musk. And anyway, I'm a dog and bird person, big time.
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  18487. @medhue  I took care of an elderly WWII veteran for many years; he was extremely traumatized, with no other family, and all of this was at my expense. Most of my sentences started with "I have to," or "I can't." My weekends were like house arrest. You lost no tax dollars. I lost my retirement. You bet I don't care about you, given that you don't care about me.
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  18488. @medhue  You imagine people without children only think of themselves and have an easy life because you resent your obligations. It's obvious. Your Boy Wonder made an unforced error and fomented greater divisiveness. And for what? To no purpose at all. Is he going to make childless women ineligible for office? Is he going to yank their rights? What is he going to do about them?
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  18489. @medhue  You betrayed yourself. If childless people don't care what happens after they die, it's because Americans don't care about other Americans. There is no common weal -- which doesn't bode well for anyone, including your family. But you're so self-centered you think it's all about these terrible sacrifices you had to make. You need to hope he's wrong.
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  18490.  @medhue  Sure it does. That's why we have parents like Hunter B.
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  18491. @medhue  Then I'll speak for myself. You stated that my alleged lack of comprehension showed that I must not have children. Hence I don't care about you. Hardly anyone cares about Americans. You're always bickering, but the differences between Clinton, Pelosi, Vance, or Trump are almost entirely stylistic. Who will you overthrow, who will you bomb, how will you steal? Not whether. Blech. And tragedy is not a human condition but a laughable personal failure.
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  18492. @medhue  Too bad my real answer is _________. It's really a shame this time. Someone needs to tell you the truth about how you come across.
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  18493. @medhue  Oh I get it. You just realized you have an online business that could be affected by your behavior toward me. 💰 Uh oh. Damage control. 😂
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  18494. @medhue  Talk about lack of self-awareness. Oh, he's the only bad parent? 😂
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  18495.  @medhue  I know you don't care. It's all performance and business to you.
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  18496.  @medhue  I was censored. Hence, you are blocked from my notifications.
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  18497.  @medhue  And this is why I usually end up watching math videos . . .
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  18498.  @medhue  "The truth" 😂😂😂😂 That isn't found around here, dear. Something loftier is necessary. Try set theory. Try Kant.
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  18499.  @medhue  If parenthood improves people, never complain about welfare again. Deal? I would accept that.
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  18500. @medhue  So . . . You and OP don't know why Americans are so hey Ted, all around the world, do you? No clue, huh? 😂😂😂 And you think that's not a problem. Do I 😂 or 😢 about that one? Oh, that's right! I don't have kids, so I can laugh. Silly me to worry.
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  18501. We have 62 gun-related homicides per million people in the US; 6.2 per 100,000, in other words.
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  18502. Which ones?
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  18503. UH OH
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  18504. This is serious.
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  18505. Robbie. Why did c*** rocketman buy the Washington Post? This is your field.
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  18506. Not what she said. "Don't go getting your political supporters killed by Biden's FBI" sounds like common sense to me. Is there some other side to that one? Is it censorship to suggest it, not as a law, obviously, but a good idea?
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  18507. As are Republicans, obviously.
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  18508. Robby can't really mean this. He's here as a confederate, to create controversy for click$.
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  18509. This is true. I'd say the same for the 2016 candidates, but for different reasons, obviously.
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  18510. Please don't go there . . . I know you mean well, but . . .
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  18511. ​ @Aroncare Brought to you by Pfizer.
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  18512. It's generally false. If you had nothing to do with the crime, then in general you can only be prosecuted for disobeying a court sub poena to testify truthfully. You have to testify, and tell the truth, if called. There is no general law requiring anyone to report crimes they had no part in. Hence Epstein.
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  18513. ​@user-qf1zg4zz8j Oh really? Mass surveillance, mass manipulation, invisible censorship, false flags, suppression of dissent, government propaganda disguised as news, intelligence agency infiltration, corporate control . . . Reasonable people can tell? You misunderstood my post!
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  18514. Watch and see. 😂😂😂
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  18515. I'm getting used to her. She seems to represent the essence of Joe perfectly.
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  18516. I think both use "he" as their pronoun.
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  18517. @brian782  On programs where the focus isn't on personalities and their supposed rectitude or lack thereof, and where Finkelstein is given ample opportunity to speak, he makes his case step by step. What's most remarkable is that he has marshaled a comprehensive collection of direct quotes from Israeli heads of state and from very mainstream human rights organizations to make his case. He has demonstrated that you do not need to consult a single Palestinian activist to make a case. That is astonishing. I disagree with Finkelstein on October 7. I've also come to realize how profoundly pro-Israel my biases have been, because I never expected Israel to do what it is clearly doing. I'm still having trouble. Could they really be engaged in genocide? Is it possible? Even Naomi Wolf has stated that their current actions meet the legal definition. (Not Klein. Wolf.) I'm still waiting to wake up and hear it didn't happen. I didn't know I was biased. And I'm not Jewish, though there is more to the story. (Some Jewish ancestry in parents' paternal lines, which mattered when WWII started --- though compared to others, they had it easy.)
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  18518.  @quintessenceSL  You're right. A lot of police departments set the age limit at 21 to become a police officer. LAPD, NYPD, among others.
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  18519. False. Everyone in the US has First Amendment protection, for everything enumerated in that Amendment. But if you don't love the Bill of Rights, and love money or anger more . . .
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  18520. Superb analogy.
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  18521. Sure he did. Ben's reflex was to call for the guy's award to be cancelled. You didn't pick up on that, huh? Lost his cool, and over WHAT? Shapiro is making these people out to be more important than they are, because that way, he will get everyone angry and . . . MAKE MORE MONEY. You call this a proper job for a graduate of Harvard Law?
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  18522. I thought that tweet was a parody.
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  18523. No, be proud that you know. Not everyone does, trust me.
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  18524. How do you know "the unvaccinated" are to blame for an overburdened health system? Does that include people working from home, observing public health guidance in all other ways? Does that include people under 40? Under 30? Under 14? Does that include normal-weight vegetarians? And by the way, why have we been cutting ER and ICU beds, and budgets, for years? Whenever anti-M4A people talked about how America has the best health care system, it was pointed out that other countries have more UCU per capita. Then the story was, well, other countries count wrong. Please.
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  18525. Exactly. People who pay attention know that.
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  18526. If that's what the West needs to tell its public to pacify them, what's the problem?
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  18527. Antioch is, um, not telling the truth. 3:55 4:22
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  18528.  @GrayEagle101  Do you know why this happened? I'm incensed just simply as an adult old enough to have a 15 year old grandchild! Fifteen is SO young, people forget how tender they were at that age. She herself is a minor, so cannot be responsible. That fact alone should cause them to be perfectly ethical and cautious. She is too young to handle this.
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  18529.  @vjs4539  There has already been evidence of provocateurs, and Jimmy Dore presented the video himself last year, showing a probable provocateur in action in Minneapolis, and Jimmy thus proved that the question of who the h*ll these people are is well-founded. Chris Hedges has written extensively on the issue. In other countries that have had demonstrations, "black block" showed up and engaged in vandalism. The main groups participating in the demonstrations said they wanted no part in the black block violence, and considered it a threat to their safety. (It is always interesting when something like that happens in another country, too.) You think you know. That's always wonderful. /s
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  18530. "Gain of function" can be EASILY weaponized, to create a WMD. This is a big reason why people oppose it. An end-run around the prohibitions on WMD research.
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  18531. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 No, they are not that stupid yet.
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  18532. So, you've read them? Or you take Savior Dad's word? 😂
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  18533. ​ @daveouterspace "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." Hey, pretty good writing.
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  18534.  @sdrc92126  In the meantime, we have debt and the threat of foreclosure and ruin. But someone will pocket that change.
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  18535.  @sdrc92126  I'm not, personally. Most Americans are. The country as a whole is.
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  18536.  @sdrc92126  I don't live an American lifestyle. I have a flip phone, no television, a 20-year-old Volvo S80 (my much loved Fjord . . . Ford had to sell it, now I don't want a new one 😢), mortgage paid in the last century, new roof and furnace/AC but all remodeling delayed (bad idea), eat out no more than a few times per year, because friends want to, cook from scratch (too bad inflation is ruining that plan). Who knows what's next, though?
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  18537. Who is "anti-vaxx?" Rand Paul was just on Fox talking about promising new vaccines that are being held back. He is not against vaccination. He opposes mandates. The actual left in Europe is the same, from Syriza to PCF.
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  18538. ESPECIALLY moral instincts, came back to underline. Yup. That's Jimmy and Stef.
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  18539. All of the people responsible for all of this are ADULTS.
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  18540. Or Musk. But it won't get to that point. Not with this kind of money at stake.
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  18541. Right. Every school, no matter whether it's public or private, is required to accommodate more than one family's kids. It's just worse when the public schools fail, obviously.
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  18542. Don't worry about it. That is a LONG time ago. Eat clean, stay away from screens, find various physical exercises you enjoy, dance more, and be outside every nice day.
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  18543. A defamation case isn't about who was worse. It is about whether speech or writing, which is presumed to be First Amendment-protected, is false and defamatory, and should give rise to damages. Making it about "who was worse" is a shell game. It's not about that at all. Emily misrepresents this case. Depp isn't being deprived of "due process." No one has to check with a court before writing their story.
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  18544.  @bullmoose5574  How so, exactly? "Due process" is an issue in Title IX, and a huge one. I don't think the ACLU should have gotten involved in helping Heard write an article, nor do I think they should be doing much of what they have been doing since Nadine Strossen left the helm. But her analysis concerning why is entirely off. This is a First Amendment issue.
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  18545.  @bullmoose5574 Why did she keep repeating that the ACLU put their thumb on the scale, and some blather about "due process?" The thumb on what scale?
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  18546.  @bullmoose5574  Public opinion and due process would be related, how? Nice trick, trying to identify me with Ryan. His response was poor.
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  18547.  @bullmoose5574  I already said I disagreed with what the ACLU did, but that has nothing to do with Emily's nonsense and misrepresentation of basic civil liberties.
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  18548. @juhanleemet  The law of incorporation treats all principals and agents the same. People incorporate in order to have this liability shield. As for entrepreneurs, if their creditors agree that they merit a large salary, and no clawback, of course, in the event of insolvency, then that's exactly what they keep.
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  18549.  @juhanleemet  I hope a certain corporation allows my response.
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  18550. @juhanleemet  Maybe you just don't know what's really going on? Hm. Could be.
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  18551. I remember decades of anti-Roe v. Wade, pro-life protests before the Supreme Court. You don't?
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  18552. He proved nothing at all. The key to the law is the word "near." It is nowhere defined by either of them.
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  18553.  @KJWEBMEDIA  The First Amendment preempts any law to the contrary. The perimeter around a home -- anyone's home -- is larger, and should be, than around the Supreme Court, but it does not extend to infinity. Nor is it based on intent. All the pro-life demonstrators intended to make their views known to the Justices, and had every right to. Too bad we can't handle rights any more.
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  18554.  @KJWEBMEDIA  The statute he quoted on the poster board says "a building housing a court of the United States." Pause the video and read the whole thing.
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  18555.  @KJWEBMEDIA  Why is everyone stupid, suddenly? What a luxury.
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  18556. Did you read Hold On to Your Kids? I think it advocates a style of parenting that is only slightly too conservative. I wish all parents would read it, to feel supported in resisting the crowd.
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  18557. How could you possibly know that? You know Einstein's theories are now studied by seniors and grad students in physics, don't you? As are Kant's theories by philosophy students, etc., and Cantor's by mathematics students. I think you have a skewed picture of "intelligence." It is something you can build, if you work hard.
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  18558. Thus IP lawyers have a ton of work. No, it shouldn't be like this.
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  18559. ​@kimberlyearly8918 I feel you should all get real and quit creating heroes out of ordinary flawed human beings. I'm not a fan of Candace, either, but she is right this time. Her comments are right on target concerning October 7. Why can't you face it?
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  18560. ​ @ryanjamesc9996 JUST the opposite.
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  18561. ​@amylynnhunt55 Any more excuses? Think some up.
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  18562. The word Macron uses is much stronger. When I say it, I get censored.
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  18563. 😂😂😂
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  18564. Thank GOD.
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  18565. Copyright problem
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  18566.  @kevinwetsch5209  So this was really an advanced class then.
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  18567.  @seanwarren9357  On top of everything. :)
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  18568. You give him credit?
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  18569. A was assaulted. That's true for A, but her assailants might have a different truth. Hashtag me too.
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  18570. DNC types believe blue-collar white men voted for Meme Joey. Never underestimate the DNC contempt for blue-collar white men.
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  18571. There are 13 federal circuits; there should be 11 Justices. Simple.
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  18572.  @peterstafford4426  "Fauci brand?" So you admit it.
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  18573.  @RockPile_  That was why Brie kept insisting on suggestions concerning what to do. DEI is off the table for lots of reasons.
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  18574.  @Detwhat  How about it? It doesn't exist. Or, hardly.
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  18575. @Detwhat  Once a person is objectively qualified for a job, the person who is actually hired is hired for a whole host of reasons: family connections; other personal connections; presentation, including attractiveness; lack of attractiveness (depending on who gets to do the hiring); ambition or lack of ambition, depending; and pretty much anything else you can think of that is extraneous to merit. Jobs that are open to merit are SO sought-after that they get hundreds of hopeful applicants for one opening. In other words, I agree that a lot of good people want to be subject to merit hiring. So they flock to it. They know it's unusual. Get it?
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  18576. @she_uno  I don't agree with that. I think it's a fig leaf, and a cheap one at that. Pelosi kneeling, draped in her kente cloth . . . Who did she help, other than herself and Biden?
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  18577. Nicely said.
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  18578. I suspect as much sometimes. I no longer take anything at face value. At the same time, it is very difficult to assemble evidence for what you are talking about. I tend to withhold judgment a lot. This is a real good time to step back concerning who is really behind these wars and what their aim is. The immensely of the suffering is uncontrovertable.
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  18579.  @WillyBluefield  I have, but not recently. I'm almost Norman's generation. I read 100 pages some days.
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  18580. So . . . No one noticed how they announced the assassination. That was fine. Starting out the segment by laughing . . . Reporting on a slew of nonsense, including culture nonsense, first . . . Well, I only hope non-Americans tune in to see you in the wild, as it were.
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  18581.  @lisa-ul4vi  Please keep it up. I should point non-Americans here. Object lesson: don't get involved with this crowd. They don't value you. Their comfort is more important than your lives. They are making a mess AGAIN.
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  18582. I am shadowed because I dared to mention other companies with profit motives, one of which recently promoted something that begins with the letter after "you." 😉 🤡🌎
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  18583. The way you eat your own tail is perfect. You richly deserve to.
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  18584. The world as a whole is going to LOSE a billion people in the lifetime of the youngest people living today. We are on track for a catastrophe.
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  18585.  @cozyslor  Take a look at the lawsuit Jewish Voice for Peace filed last month against Columbia. Find out exactly where your theory stands.
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  18586.  @sannywicca7504  Explain the Westboro Baptist Church case, RAV v. City of St. Paul, Brandenburg v. Ohio. RAV was a Scalia opinion, and Scalia joined the opinion on the flag-burning case (Texas v. Johnson, I believe). You're confusing the First Amendment with Miss Manners.
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  18587.  @sannywicca7504  You also misspelled "speech." Fix it.
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  18588. It's sterilization of anyone who does not conform.
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  18589.  @kevinh3979  Wow, you are obsessed with me. And have lined up behind a 60-year-old child with a big drug problem. Congrats. A great mob to join.
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  18590.  @hugomaritz692  Depp isn't on trial. Enough has already been brought forward in his case, from his side, to show he did abuse her. Even horrid people have First Amendment rights. Even people with a criminal record should not be mistreated, much less killed, by police. See? Consistent.
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  18591.  @hugomaritz692  Or maybe you don't know that every defamation case chips away at free speech rights. Or maybe you don't recognize that a mob has formed. Mobs will believe anything and go after anyone.
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  18592. Here is the actual First Amendment issue: Let's put this case aside. Let's try a pure hypothetical. A man abused his former wife. She, however, abused him as well, and engaged in truly odd psychological behavior intended to goad him, rather than making honest attempts to get his abuse to end. Does he have a right to tell his story? Can he publish it? Suppose he tells the truth about her abuse of him, but fails to acknowledge his abuse of her? That may be a pretty seedy discourse, even an infuriating one, and partial, and misleading -- but it is not defamation. It is First Amendment-protected. Or at least it used to be. "Be careful what you wish for." As for Depp, he has never faced charges. He has only sued, in two countries now. The crowd has you believing he's the victim.
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  18593.  @hugomaritz692  That's not the standard in defamation. He needs to turn this into a "who was worse" trial. He cannot win a defamation case if they follow the law. See my hypothetical, if it's vi si ble.
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  18594.  @hugomaritz692  She said "domestic abuse." Did he abuse her? If so, then it is at most misleading, not false. First Amendment applies, in principle.
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  18595.  @hugomaritz692  Okay, you're just ignorant. Fine.
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  18596.  @hugomaritz692  George Floyd was really murdered, and he was one among thousands who have been. No one had to believe twenty impossible things before breakfast to join in the protests, like you do, claiming defamation isn't about speech (!!!) and not even bothering to look it up.
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  18597.  @hugomaritz692  Police have killed thousands of people. You do know that, right? The Guardian kept a count. To compare that to this brawl between two millionaire druggies to a public homicide by police . . . That is an example of what I mean.
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  18598. Robby. Non-Western nations in general do not have rampant homelessness, regardless of economic system. You cannot average that in. Learn about normal curves; mean, median, and mode.
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  18599. Just happened upon a film review by an NYU grad student in film who went to Paris in the 1970s with barely broken French and wrote to ROBERT BRESSON, asking to meet him. He said sure. But Phetasy or however you spell it is above her old high school buddies. Ponder that. I'd never pay to see her.
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  18600. I don't like the new policy of having a single guest propagating a single view, or a major network propagating a single view. That's usual everywhere.
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  18601. New York public schools --- educated James Baldwin.
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  18602.  @MrGameadd1ct  Look. Their performance was abysmal, but the issue was, in light of the FACT that these private universities have CHOSEN to embrace First Amendment freedoms, under what facts and circumstances would their STUDENTS face discipline for speech? Can you, um, . . . follow? You know, your rights might be at stake one day, or your kid's. Or something. But I'm sure you never say anything wrong ever.
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  18603. So . . . the Veles kids aren't making money this year? What happened?
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  18604.  @Disaletteritis  Dore didn't get permission to talk about vaccine side effects, though he said his wife and staff got over theirs really fast, while he needed treatment. No one said he could say that. Permission slips are important.
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  18605. Insightful.
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  18606. Amen
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  18607.  @justsmiless203  What's worse than the VERY close relationship between the Clintons, Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell? I would not venture to make comparisons. It's all bad.
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  18608. You say that like it's a bad thing.
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  18609. You really don't want Oprah or Johnny Depp somewhere in the mix?
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  18610. ​@MymusicW630 Well, this way they inherit more.
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  18611. The decent part starts at 1:17:37.
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  18612. Long wait, granted.
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  18613. Why do you believe this? It's obviously a flat-out lie.
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  18614. You should read the résumé studies and Michelle Alexander.
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  18615.  @JKH-uu9uq  Those were?
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  18616. @stevejames9261  Labour is no concern of mine. They are just another neolib globalist pro-banker party. I'm glad Corbyn won.
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  18617. @stevejames9261  Oh my goodness, my reply that criticized Labour disappeared really fast. 😂
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  18618. @williamcarrington61  Now, why are you able to post such a thing, but I can't state in normal, non-inflammatory language any criticism of La b**r?
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  18619. Greenwald just came out with "Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro's Brazil." You're going to ignore that? BRICS lives matter, too.
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  18620. Or better yet kill it off.
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  18621. It's the only reason the Senate stayed Democrat and the Republicans barely won the House. The ten-year-old pregnant child who had to leave Ohio to get immediate care, and whose plight was denounced by the radical right as fake news, sent a SHUDDER through everyone. And her brave doctor got death threats. Americans do not want to live like that.
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  18622.  @kevinho8616  Adam Curtis. BBC2 documentarian who releases all of his work for free. His latest is a must-see. In short, Five Eyes intelligence services, among others, will float conspiracy theories as experiments, to measure penetration and to pull scrutiny away from actual conspiracies, like the Epstein network. But do watch.
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  18623. ​ @JuniorA9727 I have an idea. Shut up.
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  18624. The pregnant ten-year-old girl who had to travel to obtain an abortion, her doctor who got death threats, the way Biden apparently used her to make a political point, and the extreme right that claimed she didn't exist opened some eyes.
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  18625. Did you forget about the ten year old who needed an abortion, and had to leave her state because the procedure was urgently needed and the law in her home state was unclear? Remember how some right wingers claimed this was a fake story? Remember how her doctor got threats against her life? If you don't remember, ask yourself why. P. S. I thought everyone had heard of Epstein.
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  18626. ​@Insane_dimension What do those (bogus?) percentages have to do with ANYTHING? You sound like the trans activists who claim "only" a tiny number ever regret their decision. Every young woman lives in fear of this, for at least part of her life, and at least in some places --- a college campus being at the top of the list. This affects all of her decisions concerning that part of her life, to one degree or another.
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  18627. If you are going to report on Samuel Paty, you need to say why he showed those cartoons of Mohammed, and that he gave anyone who did not want to participate an opportunity to leave. Turns out, his beheading was orchestrated, and had nothing to do with any student actually in class that day. Source: FI, the French left.
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  18628. So odd how they go about things . . . recruiting among prison inmates should be considered a crime. On the other hand, anyone under 22 must have a paper from their family stating they are unopposed. I can't imagine the US saying this. They let 17 year olds join with a parent or guardian signing, without having any idea whether they will be sent to a war zone; at 18, no one but the recruit need sign.
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  18629. We just had another mass shooting today . . .
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  18630.  @timsteinkamp2245  He didn't "just claim" to be a veteran. Read it again. Read what I wrote again.
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  18631. Sweden does NOT have one of the lowest death rates from COVID in Europe. Germany, Denmark, and Norway all have much lower rates. Even France's is a little lower, or maybe about the same.
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  18632. I like this a lot, but bro, who are you talking to? Have you been outside lately? 60% of the country is precarious. Homelessness is skyrocketing. Anyone who has all they need and is still chasing a dollar is making a big mistake, but most of those people are incorrigible.
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  18633. This is what happens when countries are turned over to WEF and Davos control.
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  18634. Can you be serious? This isn't a mailroom clerk, it is the attorney representing the government before the court. Besides, anyone can fire their attorney for just about any reason.
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  18635.  @timogul  ​Those who forced vaccines, insisted on no liability with full patent protection for the pharmaceutical companies, and deprived anyone who disagreed of things like liberty, property, jobs, and good reputation, and even undermined young people's physical and mental health. Those are tyrants.
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  18636.  @erickborling1302  Yeah, like the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis being deemed "racist," rather than very viable and very inconvenient to Fauci. That was a lie that cost us all.
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  18637. @@phillipwareham7761 I don't need authority for that. Do you?
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  18638. @@phillipwareham7761 So . . . Do YOU think that full protection against liability for injury, full patent protection, and trying to hide data from court-ordered disclosure as intellectual property, in the case of an experimental drug urged upon everyone age 6 months and older are consistent positions? HOW SO?? That's funny. Jonas Salk tested the polio vaccine on himself and declined to pursue patent protection. Those were the days I guess.
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  18639.  @jc.nonotthatone3465  What did police have to go on? They observed marks on him, but not on her (which does not mean there were none -- if there were, they were not visible to the officers at that time). She admitted to police that she struck him. A person is not required to make any admissions to police. We have a Bill of Rights.
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  18640. Valley girl?
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  18641. At least Nikki didn't ask him his gender identity.
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  18642.  @cortexavery1324  Ben was beyond repugnant. If he thinks Dore is so bad, he certainly tries hard to outdo him. The real issue is that people can tell if you rant because you care, about people and about the issues that matter to them, however astute or misguided you might be in how you pursue that aim -- or if you rant purely for your own gratification, and your own ego, because you are seething, and you crave seeing another person bite the dust. The people on this show DO NOT CARE about universal, comprehensive health care for everyone. They have a ten-year plan. Maybe. Sort-of. They showed that. And then they focused all their ire on Jimmy Dore! (God, you'd swear there was no pandemic.) Sorry, that's ridiculous.
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  18643. Or, he's a whistle-blower. A new Snowden. You do believe in innocent until proven guilty, correct?
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  18644. This is some kind of a perverse diversion. What else could it be?
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  18645. Wrong. He talked about a letter. What did the letter say? Did it contain evidence that student organizations were fronts for terrorist cells or were terrorist sympathizers? Or is a letter all you need, with the right accusations? I thought we were against cancel culture.
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  18646. Simplement bizarres, et un peu laches.
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  18647. If it means making an extra buck, it doesn't escape them. Not ever.
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  18648. @beelin6707   You know what this is really about? It's the New Popular Front trying to further erode support for Macron. The leftist LFI leader Jean-Luc Melenchon criticized this display. I like him, and support NFP, but I understand why he's grabbing on to this. Just like the far left was more critical of Charlie Hebdo, and very critical of recent v mandates, than were the neoliberals. (In fact, a prominent PCF denounced mandates for health care workers.) In France, the memes are different.
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  18649.  @thekentuckyan8088  The real winner in France was Melenchon against Macron. Good.
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  18650. This time it is. The ones with the bigger lobby win. Wait, that's every time.
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  18651.  @maluminse6013  Who is assuming anything? We know that the railroads do not have the stringent regulations governing the transport of hazardous materials they once had. That we know, because the last two administrations softened them.
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  18652.  @maluminse6013  Fascinating also how real reporters get tackled to the ground, by the way.
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  18653.  @maluminse6013  Then inform yourself. One just was, at the Ohio governor's press conference concerning this accident. The NYTimes reported that charges were subsequently dropped.
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  18654.  @maluminse6013  We also don't know whether COVID was accidentally released from a lab that does extensive gain of function research on similar viruses. We do know that lifting the moratorium on funding that type of research, rather than strengthening it, was a big mistake.
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  18655.  @maryhalverson5713  What she described is literally impossible. How could ANYONE believe any single human being, let alone the Vice-President, has this "plenary power?" (Didn't your high school explain "checks and balances?") Vice presidents don't even face election alone, but as running mates. And the Constitution is so lame, that this is how it guts the democratic republic and ensures the will of the voters can be completely overturned? Why can't people tell when something is implausible?
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  18656.  @maryhalverson5713  However true that may be, it is completely false to imagine Pence can overturn the election. He will entertain challenges properly brought, and then the entire Congress will vote on whether to accept a slate of electoral votes from each of the states where the results have been questioned. No reason to think they won't accept them. Having said that, this election contains statistical anomalies due to the fact of early and mail-in voting, and due to the pandemic. So what? You would expect it not to be as predictable as previous years, and to differ from previous years. Even without COVID, I have never in my life seen an election where most votes were cast not FOR someone, but against the other ticket. In a Presidential election, that is strange. This worries me more. I still remember when people used to love the President. That's over.
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  18657. The college presidents who were ousted were women, and the cat's paw was a white ethnic woman. Get it?
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  18658. Adam Smith (!!!!!) warned about the rentier class. You don't even need Marx. Yeesh!
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  18659. This is a speech for Americans. They enjoy this entertainment. They believe every word.
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  18660. Einstein considered himself a socialist, too.
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  18661.  @Christian___  And we can tell the difference . . . How? Must everyone share their fertility status, preferably on Twitter/X? 😂
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  18662. Depp already lost a defamation case in UK, and lost one movie deal after that.
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  18663. Hunter Biden was on a BOARD of directors of a company in the most politically sensitive (and corrupt) country in Europe, in the most economically most important sector.
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  18664. "Horse Dewormer-gate" good one!
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  18665.  @donnadillard7016  WHERE in the world did you see that I (of all people) said one word in defense of the police?? I am critiquing the analysis, which fails to account for the five whole days the two of them were apart. Gabby must have spoken with someone, after the ordeal Brian and the cops put her through. I shouldn't comment anywhere, ever. Hysteria reigns supreme. Forget it. I give up.
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  18666.  @rocketmip9382  I SAID that in reference to the BYSTANDERS who saw Laundrie strike Abby Petito and called the police. I said they did nothing wrong BY CALLING the police, even though the police were ineffective. Tell me if this is too tough for anyone. After Crumbley, I'm thinking I vastly overestimate people.
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  18667.  @rocketmip9382  Tell me, how do you function? A called B to help C. B arrived, and B was supposed to help C. B failed to do their job to help C. Who did what to whom?
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  18668. Gaza, anyone?
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  18669. ​ @hamitcampos4989 Jones was sued and lost. As for the rest, get to work. That's what the New Popular Front in France is doing.
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  18670.  @JohnDavis-ed5sg  True, that.
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  18671. ​ @lorenzobarducci8353  💯
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  18672. The minute he said "unicorn," I knew it would be downhill from there.
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  18673. They always throw people out of work to wring out inflation.
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  18674. You don't know the story. He started as an ultra athlete to raise money for the families of fallen Seals.
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  18675.  @annpeerkat2020  Something is kin ky anyway.
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  18676. Actually, if the Petito family wins, this will end up being decided at the appellate level because it depends on whether the trial judge was correct on Fifth Amendment law. The jury will probably decide based on feelings, and the appeals court will take a hard look at whether the law allowed for having a trial at all or should have been dismissed.
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  18677. DNC is fine. 💰💰💰💰
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  18678.  @LOSTONITALL  Everyone under an American bomb, or under an American boot . . . or knee.
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  18679. Media needs to stop lying.
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  18680. The only "punishment" Trump's going to get is suspension from FACEBOOK? This show is over.
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  18681. I was an only child with two refugee parents both working overtime every week for at least a decade. If I could choose not to have been born, I'd need to sleep on it. I could not turn it down immediately. Of course, the US ended up bombing where my parents were from with DU (depleted uranium). The last years were hard for my late mom.
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  18682. "Funding? Go get your own funding. That way you won't be so interested in other people's funding." 🤣
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  18683. Timestamp
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  18684. That's exactly Brie's point.
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  18685.  @victorwilson4138  I like your attitude!
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  18686. If you know about them, it does.
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  18687. A $15 minimum wage -- for all the people without JOBS, and without healthcare BECAUSE they have NO JOBS.
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  18688. Joyful!! 😂😂😂
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  18689.  Christian Soldier  Well, if it is separate and apart from its mother, abortion would never be necessary.
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  18690.  Christian Soldier  Then don't have one.
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  18691.  Christian Soldier  In a world where presidents, billionaires, and British royals consort with Epstein and Maxwell, abortion certainly is necessary.
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  18692.  Christian Soldier  Ha ha, good one. Abortion becomes self-defense in a literal sense.
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  18693. I won't be emigration soon enough. Already too late.
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  18694. Same to MTG?
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  18695. Every REAL European Left is anti-mandate and anti-vaccine papers. Every last one. No Scandinavian country has a mandate.
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  18696.  @warmlycalculated390  And yet they don't mandate vaccination. They rely on telling people the truth, and then having people follow their ministries of health recommendations, all on their own.
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  18697.  @warmlycalculated390  Professor Wolff has ties to France, where the CGT organized a demonstration of vaccinated health care workers in support of their unvaccinated colleagues and against mandates and passports. The FI as well as the PCF are resolutely anti-mandate. PCF members pointed out months ago that relying on workers all last year to provide essential services at risk to themselves, and then to threaten them with firing this year, is perverse. Plenty of them had COVID already.
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  18698.  @warmlycalculated390  Maybe you could get on an Incognito browser or tab and then hear what Wolff said on TJDS. I understand you don't want it to be known that you went over there, but there must be some confidential way to hear for yourself what Wolff said. Radical, I know. But think about it. It isn't very long, at most 20 minutes, and the main part is stated near the beginning. Do something different. No one needs to know.
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  18699.  @warmlycalculated390  What was that about? "Operation Car Wash" was exposed by Greenwald's investigative journalism, and helped get LULA released from prison. It's anti-Bolsonaro. You sound confused or something.
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  18700. @johnkesich8696  Whether it was or not, or in any event, how it happened is a legitimate question all right. Take nothing at face value.
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  18701. Seems to me that NATO is the guilty party in that regard.
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  18702. Oh wait. She might make him look smart. You're right, it's possible.
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  18703.  @highestqualitypigiron  You think it was news to anyone? Both sides are aware of everything. This is the show for the jury.
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  18704. Panic disorder doesn't do that to pulse and blood pressure and troponins. Nor does it make you lose weight. And exercise does not make panic vastly worse. If you can stiffen your upper lip and swim during a panic attack, it will almost always subside in 15 to 20 minutes, if not sooner.
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  18705. GOOD
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  18706. Or she could go to law school.
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  18707.  @oldasrocks9121  But if others made it up to cause him to lose, is that illegal? I agree with OP, voters ought to know either way, now that the subject has been broached and however it turns out. If it is true, people may not want to vote for him. If not, it may be election interference.
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  18708. Well, Jimmy, journalism is a serious crime now. C'mon.
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  18709. Always ask that question.
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  18710. Lots of countries invented vaccines, including the UK. If global vaccination were so important, we would have rapidly investigated and shared all vaccines. Funny how no one even asks whether Chinese, Russian, and Cuban vaccines are safer or more effective, better, or worse than the ones imposed here.
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  18711. She has learned how to make bank with minimum effort. That's a lot.
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  18712. "Leave that up to your imagination." 😂
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  18713. Get someone to translate word for word. What Charles Gave has to say about global finance is even more interesting. If it's correct, then the US has undermined the status of the dollar as global reserve currency. Know that that means inflation.
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  18714.  @jeremysanders5104  Most people who take an oath to support the Constitution believe that as public servants, they should avoid any actions having the predictable effect of chilling speech, even if such actions are, strictly speaking, legal. Would you support a censure of those who voted to censure? Why not?
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  18715.  @adamh4594  I said that. "Censure" means Congress considers her speech to have been significant wrongdoing. I consider it free speech. A censure is not necessary for the purpose of indicating disagreement. That would be called a resolution condemning the view they disagree with, not a censure. There's a third thing they could do.
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  18716.  @adamh4594  Show me where I said they "censored" her. Point it out. Okay. Is everyone on drugs?
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  18717.  @adamh4594  No, the problem is that you have not read thousands of pages of Supreme Court cases or Nadine Strossen. Then add in a good helping of Dunning-Kruger, which goes without saying.
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  18718. @adamh4594  Another problem could be shadow banning, as I explained why censure chills constitutionally protected speech. Whose Constitution did these clowns swear to protect and defend?
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  18719. What part of FOOD and SHELTER is a mystery to the rich politicians?
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  18720. Probably an unconstitutional law Check US v Alvarez (the Stolen Valor Act held unconstitutional; only deliberate fraud for tangible gain can be criminalized)
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  18721. Too bad my post on why it's unconstitutional is shadowed. More First Amendment irony.
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  18722.  @ritmo2k  Is my post visible? I'm curious, lol.
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  18723. @ritmo2k  Yup. The one I wrote just before that, which cites a famous case where the Supreme Court held that general lying, without more (fraud, defamation, etc.) was constitutionally protected is the one that's missing. Thanks!
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  18724.  @ritmo2k  The one before those went poof. :) Thanks!!
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  18725. This is already, technically, a contaminated scene. Obviously.
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  18726. Copyright issue; I guess you have to view what CBS chooses to make available on its own channel.
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  18727.  @nox5555  I was under the impression there were demands she be fired. I'm glad you corrected that. You don't want her fired. No problem then, of course.
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  18728. 5:09 was outstanding . . . about 2 1/2 minutes. I wonder what happened to attention spans.
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  18729. THANK YOU. People should read the Military Times account of who Richard Fierro is. His daughter and her boyfriend were with their group and the boyfriend was one of the five who were killed.
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  18730. @troy5140  The last election was Biden vs. Trump. Sanders endorsed Biden and still goes on about how "dangerous" Trump is. Brie voted third party anyway. Trump is so dangerous to Democracy and The American Way of Life that the DNC ran a senile corruptionist against him. That'll show 'em.
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  18731.  @joshbobst1629  Yeah, exactly.
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  18732.  @TheScreamingMime  Why won't you get arrested if you press that point?
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  18733.  @Knight_of_NI  I was just in a former communist country, with people who were profoundly anti-communist. All agreed that communism ended homelessness. They were opposed to the lack of freedom, the suppression of religion, and the crazy mania to punish the "politically incorrect," but they weren't liars: they told me about the good in addition to the bad. Ordinary people had beautiful condos and still do. Housing was rebuilt in a matter of a few months after an earthquake. It's all still there, all still solid. Homelessness can be solved where there is a will. Our problems are a disgrace.
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  18734. Can most Serbs read Italian?
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  18735. I know, right?
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  18736. Oh they get it all right. Their $$ was with the hedge funds.
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  18737.  @fbaxter8551  Of course that's the game. In UK, everything is "anti-Semitism." They know how to kneecap people. But they are wearing out that meme, it might not work this time.
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  18738. The check made her feel great. 😊
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  18739.  @blaclabel4762  THIS
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  18740. They'll see through it. Only the top 10% are doing well. Yes they tend to be older, but it's the other 90% that are the issue, and PLENTY of us are older as well.
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  18741. @thelastvbuck  The point of the video is to undermine Social Security. No other suggestion has a snowball's chance in ___ of being implemented. Much of it was on Bernie Sanders' platform, and you know all about how far that got.
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  18742.  @thelastvbuck  Wonder if you can see my reply.
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  18743.  @thelastvbuck  Nope. It's gone.
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  18744. @thelastvbuck  The point of the video is to undermine Social Security. None of the other suggestions have any chance of being implemented. Much of Senator Sanders' platform suggested these reforms, and you know how far that got.
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  18745. Also, how humorless this all is!
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  18746.  @GuerillaBunny  Now THIS is interesting information. No surprise.
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  18747. Are any of these accusers, including those who accused Clinton, lying for personal gain? If not, why shouldn't character matter? Susceptibility to blackmail matters.
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  18748. And YouTube does this during a war.
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  18749. Did anything in this video point to that?
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  18750.  @Qwertycritical  Well, American politics have very few viable leftists, and I certainly don't consider Biden, Harris, or Moore in that group. It is not a leftist country. I see your point, though. (Our "leftists" start wars in the Third World, drop DU on civilians, and fill our prisons to the rafters, including our private prisons. They advocate cutting Social Security. At what point are they no longer left? There has to be a line somewhere. European conservatives don't do this.)
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  18751.  @Qwertycritical  13:55 This is the guy who will "save us from Trump's lies?" Etc. Uh huh.
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  18752. JFK had a President's Council on Physical Fitness. Remember??
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  18753. The pictures are awful.
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  18754. Why the lack of curiosity? Why don't we all share information --- AND lift all patents?
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  18755. I was just sense oar d for posting genuine questions about what India did, not conclusions, and asking why we didn't have genuine sharing of all information among countries with different strategies. Wow, the irony.
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  18756. Great point
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  18757. And every slimebag finds a way to make MILLIONS.
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  18758. DEMOCRATS are arguing for REAGAN'S position? Democrats!!? I'm shocked shocked.
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  18759. This is true.
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  18760.  @BrianW.ConleyJr.  Makes sense. "Intimate" was a little weird. Creative, but different. I liked how OP put that.
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  18761. I really want what I want. Try me.
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  18762. Correct. The fact that it will not happily censor what the DNC wants censored is the big story.
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  18763. Since Reagan-Thatcher, but ESPECIALLY since Clinton.
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  18764. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  18765. That was cute, loved it.
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  18766.  @tothelighthouse9843  💯
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  18767. The diamond . . . ghoul.
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  18768.  Janet Baker  It reminds me of the most tender-hearted black people who would LOVE any white person who wasn't racist, when no one is supposed to be racist. Politicians are SUPPOSED to care about the people.
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  18769.  Cannabis Dreams  Well then you have every right to support him. But don't let that close your mind to who Trump was.
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  18770.  Cannabis Dreams  Who declared bankruptcy SIX times? Who stiffed a special-needs nephew because of problems with the infant's parents? Who told the governor of Georgia to find some votes? Who tried to manipulate the parents of a young British man killed due to the negligent driving of an undercover CIA spy into "forgiving" her? Who engaged in more drone strikes than Obama (not easy to do)? Who lost track of children separated from parents at the border? Who knew COVID would be dangerous by the end of Jan 2020 and hid the fact? Who encouraged armed protests against restrictions in several state capitols with his tweets ("liberate Michigan!")? Who congratulated law enforcement for an extra-judicial killing? Who basically did not know the law, or care whether he did, to the point where it was obvious to everyone? Who contradicted himself on important matters by tweeting(!), sometimes within 48 hours, sometimes within 12? Who jeered as often as he spoke with seriousness, gravitas? Just because Biden is bad, Trump isn't therefore good.
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  18771.  Cannabis Dreams  Bankruptcy always hurts MANY other people. I said you have a right to support whoever helped you. That doesn't mean he was good in any larger sense.
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  18772.  Cannabis Dreams  Oh good grief. Yes, I know of businesses that were driven to bankruptcy due to the bankruptcies of other businesses. I was a federal lawyer. A personal bankruptcy is usually nowhere near as damaging, though of course there are exceptions. Why am I talking to someone with your screenname? The shutdown last year brought me to this level. I reported your swearing at me, BTW. I'm sure it's considered fine, these days.
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  18773.  @Vlog-hu8gb  I hate drugs. And I'm no liberal, I'm more of a "fellow traveler." ;D
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  18774.  @dudemcgee256  No one can make me look stupid to anyone who is not afflicted with Dunning-Kruger. Wow, look at all the people who took it upon themselves to chime in, in defense of dope! That I did not expect. There are always more doped up people than I would ever think. What's so bad about your life that you do that? My family has had real tragedies, so I don't get it.
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  18775.  @BB-ed4om  You're absolutely right that no one should do this gratis. Thanks for reminding me. It is a bad habit I only acquired last year during the hard shutdown in our state. (I've never had Facebook, Twitter, or any of that. Still don't.)
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  18776.  @BB-ed4om  Why is "Barcrafty" watching Jimmy Dore?? Some people actually watch commentators they don't agree with 100%. Everyone should watch Jimmy Dore, at least sometimes!
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  18777.  @jackspleen79  Janet Baker made a good comment. Had to scroll WAY up to see what got to you.
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  18778.  @Vlog-hu8gb  You're going to "China," in response to their "Russia, Russia, Russia?" Wow I love where this is going. /s
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  18779.  @dudemcgee256  Correct. A person could make me look all kinds of ways that I might not appreciate, or that are morally far worse than stupid, but stupid is definitely not on the menu. Sorry you don't get creative, nonliteral use of language. Of course Dunning-Kruger is not a disease! LOL
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  18780.  @dudemcgee256  If you need to misrepresent what I said, that tells it all. Your metaphors and insults are poor. With all of your practice, that's the best you can do?
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  18781.  @dudemcgee256  You can't even tell that I'm a girl. Epic fail!
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  18782.  @dudemcgee256  I'm not going to bother to read this tome. Where does any of it show that I said that I'm the smartest person in the room, the town, on the block, on the planet? No such implication, insinuation, hint, anything. A LOT of people are smart. This is because smart is a choice. Try reading the hard stuff 3 to 4 hours a day for ten years, see what happens. There is no doubt what will happen. Unlike in many other areas, the outcome is entirely within your control.
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  18783.  @dudemcgee256  You're so humorless you really need to worry about you, not me. This is the worst I've seen in a long time. Touchy!! Yeah, I missed your example of recursive thinking there, underpinning the irony. Went right over my head, LOL.
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  18784. A card or an app.
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  18785.  @dustinavant2003  The word is moot, and no it doesn't.
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  18786.  @aries8910  So, women get special dispensation to be phony? Because we can't help it?
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  18787. I wish that were certain.
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  18788.  @sorevzla8203  Muchas gracias. No puedo exprimarme bien, pero lo comprendo. Tres generaciones de mi familia vivien en Argentina por una parte de su vida, i yo puedo leer frances, i traducirlo, a veces. I don't know how many mistakes I just made. Please forgive me, and thank you for the information. I understood everything you wrote. Thank you and "bon courage." (P. S. Mi padre era montenegrino.)
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  18789. Look up the conditions placed on the very valuable and coveted Section 230 immunity Facebook has.
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  18790.  @Maltechr  Social media platforms cannot exercise all of the rights and privileges of being editor/publishers, while enjoying special immunities that editor/publishers do not have. It's not about free speech, it's about IMMUNITY from any legal ramifications for your editorial decisions. They want to act like editors whenever they want, then claim to be "platforms" whenever it's convenient. Cute chameleon act.
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  18791. I remember that. Love it.
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  18792. ​ @mandyo9690 Disagree. The protein itself is a toxin, possibly engineered to be. It can cause harm however it enters your cells. Long COVID is not necessarily from vaccines.
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  18793. I am so sick of all of these irresponsible people who failed to buy Apple stock in 2002, failed to attract abundance when Oprah graciously told them how, and failed to install their own generators and sea walls and private dams and helicopter pads. It's their own fault, obviously. Now they want MY money! Go get your own money!!! 🤪🤡🌎
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  18794. There is evidence for that. It does not mean there is no other means of reducing the risk of severe COVID. Vaccination is one way, to reduce the risk of severe COVID. Not prevent. Reduce risk.
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  18795.  @o77eh  Yes there has been ample evidence, of substantial, short-term (6 to 9 months) protection from severe or life-threatening COVID. I do not own a television, but I do read medical journals. But have it your way. I oppose mandates. Therefore, you go make your health decisions on whatever discourse you find persusive. It is your right to decide.
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  18796.  @o77eh No, phrases repeated over and over do not impress me. I make sure not to listen to English for part of every day. How about you?
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  18797. So, the Kremlin keeps 1970s typewriters around to make it look like real documents are dubious, and has linguists doctor them to make it look like non-fluent speakers wrote them? And then real spies seize them and leak them, to . . . LUKE HARDING? Sure. That must be it.
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  18798. That's what you think??
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  18799. When there is money to be made? 😅
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  18800. Careerism . . . Just a new, and vastly more insidious, way to take out the worthy competition. Socrates talked about it.
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  18801.  @tatbaz1  They don't believe the evidence is sufficient to convict her. That's not an excuse. She was a negligent or reckless parent for allowing her children to play near a pool like that. That doesn't amount to first degree murder.
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  18802. "Whatabout?" How many equivalents of 9/11 did that system suffer before going berserk -- as of course it did, and that's putting it mildly? How many did the US, before unprecedented mass surveillance, repeated efforts to foment tribalism and hysteria, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, allegances with Afghan tribesmen who own boys as sex slaves, and now the drive to kill Assange? Yet the Soviets somehow inflicted nearly 80% of the casualties suffered by the Nazis in WWII, then somehow a Soviet had the individual fortitude to prevent WWIII (Arkhipov). (I will never forgive any of the politicians or the billionaire class for how they have handled COVID. By the way.) Something else is going on in the world, other than the little stories you have memorized.
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  18803.  @mauibill7233  Yes he does. He does not shy away from talking about the former USSR, Cuba, etc., the good and the terrible. Why would he?
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  18804.  @krillin876  Is that the RT affiliate in Berlin?
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  18805. Removing a post that may not be First Amendment-protected, because it may fall into one of the categories that are not usually protected, but without waiting for adjudication, is fine. It's a judgment call, but platforms have a right to make it. Banning the speaker entirely is different because it is a prior restraint. Musk is wrong to ban people without using the separate prior restraint standard, which is much harder to meet, as it should be.
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  18806. We don't know for sure. The studies that need to be done haven't been. Some doctors in Europe no longer recommend boosters because they suspect the repeated exposure, from both contracting COVID and having shots, is harmful. The fact that the vaccines do not prevent infection is a huge disappointment.
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  18807. And the bigger issue is that kids can no longer pay their own way through college like they used to -- not even CUNY, assuming they live at home the entire time with parents in NYC.
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  18808. In a case like this, is there some way to emigrate? Can a large law firm attorney advise you about where to go, and then get your child out on some pretext and leave the country? I'm thinking of Serpico. How did he do it?
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  18809. OJ still had to prove the reporting was false. He couldn't, because he LOST a civil suit for Wrongful Death. Anti-SLAPP laws and Supreme Court precedent protect the press and other media. This is much ado about nothing. People should be more cautious about what they say about a minor. If you actually care, the New Yorker magazine reported on this family, and it's genuinely sad. Rittenhouse was a perfect case for rehabilitation.
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  18810. Just say it, Tucker. We are being ruled by our Lizard Overlords. 😮 😂😂😂😂
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  18811. So report on it. Then investigate WHO these people are. Don't say, "Fox has conflated them with Black Lives Matter protesters, therefore we must support them." That is lazy. Self-styled "antifa" could be the false flag in this picture. They could be the provocateurs.
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  18812.  @haroldrichardson5919  Don't feel bad. We are being manipulated. By whom, to what end, etc., I don't care to guess. Because that is all I would be doing. :/
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  18813. ​ @rfinnegan7106 Exactly. This!
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  18814.  @cindyrusher7964  Not what he said. Listen to some of his other videos on Trump. There's one with a burglar analogy and a rattlesnake analogy that is so funny.
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  18815. Well then pay all of them a salary.
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  18816. They are playing on your envy, and it's working.
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  18817.  @golden-63  And Elise Stefanik.
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  18818.  @tadladapate3064  To be super clear: You asked a question. Questions are okay. :) No apologies needed.
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  18819.  @retroray58warby98  LOLOL Thanks for that. Laughter is welcome.
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  18820. It's being systematically undermined regardless.
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  18821. Best news I've heard in a long time! Seriously.
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  18822. The media didn't report any of what Matt is presenting. It's not a good soundbite.
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  18823.  @edwardcoit9748  We can tell you are knowledgeable. Comes through in every post. G!!
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  18824.  @YoureDoingItPeter  No, the lawyer can either do his job properly, or refuse to take the case. The lawyer has done nothing wrong. Legally, Laundrie (or whatever his name is) is presumed innocent.
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  18825. I doubt that they would agree. They probably think they are being too kind.
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  18826.  @londonuntergunther252  If that's what "works," then that's what's right, according to the Benthamites, exactly as Hedges concludes in that excerpt. Remember, if Oprah is richer than Einstein, then she's smarter, too.
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  18827. No.
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  18828. Bill Maher doesn't believe Russiagate. He believes in money.
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  18829. Because of Big Pharma propaganda and money, the normal concerns have been demonized.
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  18830. I agree that the two categories should be listed separately, but not discounted or removed from the central data base. Why should the gang turf shootings in MY city be ignored? We also have a lot of murders taking place everywhere.
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  18831.  @daysjours  I think it was a compliment?
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  18832. $23 billion is like over $11 million a year, every year since the birth of Jesus. Curious how anyone "earns" that. They must work hard.
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  18833. Oh, "Red Brown rabbit hole!" So here it is, unveiled, the brand spankin' new, and vastly more effective, talking point! . . . I'm so scared! It was easier to undermine Sanders (with "Bernie Bros") and even Jeremy Corbin (with alleged ANTI-SEMITISM), than it is to neutralize Gray Zone and even Jimmy Dore. You need bigger guns, more indirection, to take down the tough crowd.
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  18834.  @climatecrisisdragon3628  I simply adore calomny, especially when presented with zero facts and zero arguments. Because that's not dangerous. Obviously. /s Double down, double down. I'll have to hurry over and find more. Because we don't do thought, we do advertising.
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  18835. I should hope so.
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  18836. Buy a car.
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  18837.  @arnoldrajib6700  I had no idea I was dealing with a lunatic. I wouldn't want to encounter you on the subway.
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  18838. Think about THIS: Breonna Taylor died because a no-knock warrant was issued -- To search FOR DRUGS. Unbelievable.
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  18839.  @notawinemom8540  Did you consult print sources, court records, or mass media? (You do know how mass media makes its money, correct?)
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  18840.  @notawinemom8540  I want to know what persuaded YOU to say what you did. Only YOU know that. I told you what I read. Tell me what you read. If you accuse a person of laziness, bad faith, or deliberate misrepresentation, offer some evidence. Or do we just presume that every accusation is true?
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  18841.  @notawinemom8540  Nate the Lawyer is a poor lawyer generally, so I don't watch him. He must be right sometimes, I guess. Reason has the actual complaint on its website, free download. Bettinger has excellent lawyers. GOOD.
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  18842.  @notawinemom8540  They consulted Reason, where Robby is an editor. Reason claims it broke the case.
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  18843. New York Times gives Jimmy and Stef some of their best comic material.
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  18844.  @paaklapi  The ruble rose in value too quickly. It now (i.e., at this moment) has features of a hard currency that even the dollar and Euro lack, though of course no one can objectively predict a trend on that basis.
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  18845.  @spartacusrex1144  That case has something to do with this one? How?
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  18846.  @denisekoltys3019  You don't know that he tried to run over a cop. You just repeat that.
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  18847.  @denisekoltys3019  Fix your spelling.
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  18848.  @denisekoltys3019  The officer already apologized, i.e., confessed.
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  18849. ​@edthebumblingfool Did you know that the US bombed a dozen cities that had anti-Milosevic governments in place? They bombed them with depleted uranium anyway. Why did you do that? About 25% of the Serbian population at that time were farmers. You poisoned their land. Why do you think most of the world sympathizes with Serbia?
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  18850. These two didn't read the court documents, and what little Nomiki looked at clearly confused her. Legal reporting is usually bad, but this is off the charts. No way to know who is telling the truth.
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  18851.  @JoeyJoJoJr0  On the contrary, the contemporary racist is in complete denial.
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  18852. OMG, she wanted to be an actress so, so bad. I feel for her now. I mean it.
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  18853. This is usual now.
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  18854. And he wants to control my healthcare decisions. Yeesh. (P. S. Alain Badiou can do math.)
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  18855. Why? Did they stop playing?
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  18856. With Secret Service protecting it? Wow, just wow. The establishment lives in another world.
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  18857.  @leftykeys6944  Some were, most were not. The one who planted two pipe bombs was. Treating others as individuals is a two-way street.
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  18858. Talking about them instead of ignoring them entirely during these ten days is how you make bank.
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  18859. Rubbish. Gaza shows what the West thinks of Islam.
    1
  18860. ​ @Acesinz Exactly
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  18861. Call his bluff. Stare him down.
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  18862. How did anyone come to the conclusion that corporations would support civil liberties? What did you think they would do?
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  18863. ​​ @joseplaza9442 How would we know his personal medical history? I say that even though I strongly dislike him, but fair is fair.
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  18864. ​ @theywouldnthavetocensormei9231  There's not much risk from catching COVID. Were you for mandates?
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  18865. ​ @TheVice_President_Vance Your choice.
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  18866. Find out why the state chose to prosecute. I would never sentence her to jail, but this was not an ordinary negligence case at all. This report was feeble. They clearly didn't do their homework. I found out the facts in a few minutes. Media does this all the time.
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  18867. Remember the movie Chinatown?
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  18868. Not 40 minutes worth of different.
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  18869. This is the diversion everyone is going to laugh about, while ignoring the surveillance state encroachment? That was the issue.
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  18870. It's not evident what they want. All opposition parties to the left of Zelensky have been banned. There are credible reports that the ultra-right have threatened Zelensky's life if he were to attempt to negotiate without their approval.
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  18871. With a detour against the unvaxxed.
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  18872. The tape shown uses a word beginning with m and ending in -tion that cannot be written in a post.
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  18873. Why was in-state college tuition once something that kids paid in full every year, on their own, with an ordinary summer job? Why were there affordable rents in every city, for anyone who worked full-time? A minimum wage worker needed a roommate, not a trust fund, to live on Manhattan. You are no dolt, so tell us.
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  18874. This is super-bad news.
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  18875. It's entirely correct that pushing people to shut up and obey where their health is concerned is fundamentally unscientific and undemocratic. There is zero virtue in pushing unquestioning obedience. There is something very wrong with this picture.
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  18876.  @dibari22  Do you think the kids of the newscasters at Fox won't go to college? Do you think Trump's kids didn't, or that Barron won't? Think this through.
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  18877.  @mikeedwards1978  When all the top newscasters on Fox start sending their kids to trade school, get back to me. Sheesh, you don't see through it, do you?
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  18878.  @dibari22  I have more respect for the plumbers and electricians I know than for most college grads, BY FAR, but all I can say is be cautious in believing these stories, or trusting the messengers. See through them. Their kids are going to law school, or for MBAs, or journalism, or film school, or pharmacy, or clinical psychology. The trades are very hard work and often require people to retire earlier than they'd like. There is little to prevent a lawyer or a psychologist from practicing into his 70s if he wants to. The next generation may need to count on working into their late 60s, whether they want to or not.
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  18879.  @dibari22  Suspect every report of this nature to be a competitive move, not a sincere statement of viewpoint. I wish I had done that more often.
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  18880. Their main goal is not to die, like, ever.
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  18881. With their own words? All they have to do is KEEP THEIR PROMISES.
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  18882. SO happy that Jimmy points out that Hillary's RUNNING MATE was anti-abortion.
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  18883.  @wankertanker1813  You still don't know the vaccine protects the person vaccinated, not anyone else?
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  18884.  @wankertanker1813  I thought this was relative to the vaccines, not the masks. Masks can be taken off; there is no going back from an inoculation. I agree that masks are reasonable. They don't work brilliantly well, but reducing risk by at least 10 to 20% by a simple procedure you can undo any time seems reasonable to me.
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  18885.  @wankertanker1813  I agree with that. Not only that, but if I have an ordinary cold, why scare the people around me? I've had this problem this past year. I might sound like I have COVID, but I tested regularly and tested negative. I don't want to sneeze and have the person next to me think I am running around with COVID.
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  18886.  @edward3190  Er, read the OP again.
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  18887. So if he was not held accountable for real crimes, let's just arrest him for something else, something that should not be illegal, using goons paid for by American dollars.
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  18888.  @jenblankenship5350  Obvious what this spiel is about. Of course that's his plan.
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  18889. Why believe women who run to the national press to deal with their romantic disappointments? Have their claims been tested in court?
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  18890. ​​ @jasmincampbell8105  The only evidence you have are their bare claims.
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  18891. ​ @tiryaclearsong421  Now this really matters! Thank you.
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  18892. ​ @Bronte866 Try spelling. Good that you know how tenure works.
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  18893. "Talk about no filter." TOO funny. It's not fair.
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  18894. Bill Gates has been the single most influential private individual on government vaccine policy in the US and possibly the world. That's what. And because of his access, he knew what was going on behind the scenes, by the way.
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  18895.  Kevin James Begley  That is a total smear. Krystal went to a "bad taste" but nothing worse Christmas party with her first husband, wearing a sexy Santa suit, etc. Absolutely not a shred of illegality. It wasn't even with a boyfriend, but her husband at the time. Very funny, and quite unwise for someone who wanted to serve in Congress. Big deal. Even the Christians I know laugh when they hear about it and see those pictures. I appreciate that some people would be offended, understandably, and it isn't something I could see myself doing. But that's no reason to exaggerate. But more important, when false rumors of something worse were swirling around, she stood up forthrightly and said: That is not true . . . But what if it were? Should my entire life be ruined? She stood up for people who have had their privacy trashed. She stood up for the right to start over. She was a class act that time. I did not even think of it, because there is no comparison. Hunter's pictures that have been posted look horrible. No picture of Krystal looks horrible.
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  18896.  @spellmadam2947  It's a smear.
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  18897. ​ @winstonsmith6607  😂😂😂 beat me to it
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  18898. Ask anyone on Medicare and see.
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  18899. Was this commentary incorrect?
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  18900.  @superbide  There is no sample of people over 60 who transitioned before puberty and can tell us they are as happy as you claim. Just wait until trans stops being fashionable and people introduce themselves, "I'm a Mom," and giggle again. "First do no harm."
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  18901.  @BigBadJerryRogers  Thank you. When my state was shut down for all of May, after we expected to come out of the harshest restrictions on May 1, I doubled down on precautions. Of course. This has become impossible.
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  18902. Bravo STEF! Summed it up.
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  18903. Astute point. America's economy is so fragile, it can leave no stone unturned to grab a buck.
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  18904. How not-okay is Biden now? That's a way of putting it.
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  18905. Astounding. WEF has never been so overt. When they can no longer be subtle, then they are losing their touch, clearly.
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  18906. Gallows humor, rings very true.
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  18907. Our new national hero. She belongs on Rushmore.
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  18908. P. S. Tremendos earrings.
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  18909. Nicely said.
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  18910. She is NOT asking for a donor from the list. Her friend is a volunteer. I wonder how Steve Jobs, who refused medical treatment for a rare, curable form of cancer originating on his pancreas, for philosophical reasons, later got a LIVER transplant.
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  18911. Does someone with a rare pancreatic cancer have the BEST chance of survival, I mean the BE$T chance of $urvival?
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  18912.  @snetside  Excuse me, WHO is "whining?" I heard no whining on anyone's part. I saw two brave and rational women, neither of whom was frowning, or shouting, or being emotional in any way, much less whining or turning on the tears. Your choice of words just betrayed you. You also ignored my pertinent question concerning Steve Jobs. The vaccine release forms state categorically that if you refuse the vaccine your medical care will not be affected in any way. You sign to certify you read the form. So, you must have seen that part. If you got vaccinated, I mean.
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  18913.  @snetside  You don't know Steve Jobs, but you don't know these women, either. But you do know that the proposed kidney recipient is still alive, and would like to continue to live, and you must know kidney transplants are among the most successful of all.
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  18914.  @snetside  A person better not ask for an exception, in exceptional circumstances? You are not doing yourself any favors with your discourse. You love to be the decision maker for what others may or may not do.
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  18915.  @snetside  This is a classic example of women being other women's worst enemies. Good lesson for anyone not bored to tears by this vapid and sadly predictable series of comments.
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  18916.  @snetside  Everything about medicine in 2020-2021 has been exceptional. Or so I continue to hope.
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  18917. Killing a goat. Unbelievable.
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  18918. Thank you for giving terrorist death cults a blueprint for starting global wars. Now they know exactly what to do for maximum death.
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  18919. 8:30. THIS IS TRUE
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  18920. Thank you Russell. This is on the IOC, not the athletes. The very idea that someone with a serious medical issue is being bullied and endangered is utterly repulsive. What is wrong with the people who would do such a thing to a young person, or to anyone?
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  18921.  @scathachmuirisc7149  This was explained in the video. The IOC is in the wrong. It should answer for this ruling.
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  18922.  @scathachmuirisc7149  Did Khelif qualify herself? No, the IOC did that.
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  18923.  @LyndaHill  No, he actually does. He used to do those nightclubs all the time.
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  18924. ​@aaronj08ar Oh, so WE have the best health care in the world, and in all those places the people are falling apart!! 😊
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  18925. We think about Facebook, Twitter, and Google. You can eat them, wear them, and they can heat and cool your house.
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  18926. Why did we need to politicize this? Musk claimed he was "tricked" into signing for his son to transition. I guess second opinions are expensive? This is what Marxists called "bourgeois decadence." That is what it is.
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  18927.  @wvu05  How do you know it is "Assad money?" You know the organization was an Assad front, and the Jimmy knew, too? Pfft. Did you ever read "Who Paid the Piper -- The CIA and the Cultural Cold War," by Frances Stonor Saunders? Some of the greatest writers of the 20th century unknowingly did the CIA's work and were subsidized by the CIA.
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  18928.  @mysticonthehill  You believe some anonymous person on the Internet that easily?
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  18929.  @rbm6184  I don't know what you're referring to. It's shadowed? I never stated the quoted words, anyway.
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  18930. I believe the Nobel Prize story, actually. Sounds like a Gates stunt. He was used to easy, straight to the top Day 1. Zero moral core. Read how he treated Paul Allen while Allen was undergoing radiation treatment for lymphoma.
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  18931. Did Robbie read the case?
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  18932.  @LThomas1701  I don't understand the question. Please explain.
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  18933. @enufots4621  Well, first read their statement and compare it to the Haaretz editorial. The students' statement blames Israel for the attack, whereas the Haaretz editorial states that Netanyahu bears most of the blame. I don't agree with the students' statement, and I do not know whether any of them privately support Hamas, but I see no way to read their statement as supporting Hamas. Literally not at all. Glenn Greenwald analyzed the logic as being "either you are for us, or you are against us," comparing it to the rhetoric that got us into Afghanistan and Iraq for a generation. His programs this week were tremendous.
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  18934. How many people denouncing the students have read the statement?
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  18935.  @BillyColeII-dr6dk  So, don't bother to read it. I told another poster, they were doxxed and got threats.
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  18936.  @BillyColeII-dr6dk  Maybe the next time there is a vaccine mandate, you should be threatened if you object?
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  18937.  @BillyColeII-dr6dk  I already answered this for you in another thread. Do you have the memory of Hunter, or Joe? 😂
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  18938. Great news!! The major donor to the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Leslie Wexner, has severed all ties!! You remember Wexner? Jeffrey Epstein was his protégé.
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  18939. Briahna paid off her debts. Increase your attention span. Three-hour grad classes in night school might help?
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  18940.  @ctV837reZ  HAS had. Correct.
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  18941.  @brianbattaglia2187  I have several, and pay them off in full, plus collect rebates. The topic is student debt.
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  18942. Adult time out? LOL
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  18943. That seems likely. After all, the vaccines never promised more than six months of immunity, and we know antibodies begin to decline quite quickly from the vaccines.
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  18944. DNC war pigs? I dunno.
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  18945. 1972. It was one year of tuition, fees, and books at state schools back then.
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  18946. COVID worked well. Follow the money.
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  18947. 5:04 For a moment, I thought Stef was parodying Jen Psaki.
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  18948. UH OH Botox Shortage! 🤣🤣🤣 No wonder they're furious.
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  18949.  @bhbluebird  No, it's a proposed AP class. There is no problem with offering other AP classes; but most of the ones I mentioned are usually upper level classes in college, and AP is a survey class. African American Studies is usually a survey class because it is broad. Now, if this proposed class were actually watered-down content unworthy of the credit, and the curriculum were basically free credits for consuming propaganda and regurgitating it, THEN you would have an argument. But we have no evidence at all that it is. There is no reason to oppose the proposed class "because we don't have some other class, too."
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  18950. 6:00. THIS is key.
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  18951.  @shahbazshaikh9169  Your math is wrong. A student who dated a teacher is bound to turn up in some teacher's class, but not necessarily in the class of the teacher they dated. Understanding feelings is not a basis for determining policies. Plenty of people don't want their child to date interracially, or to date anyone more than 5 years older or younger, or of a different social class, and they feel very strongly. Their feelings can have no bearing on policy. They are free to teach their own children to date strategically, always ask what someone does, and so forth. They are also free to vote against someone who behaves outside of these "norms," or who disagrees with these "norms." They are not free to slander someone who does. That's why we call it a private life.
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  18952.  @shahbazshaikh9169  No, your math is wrong. It depends on combinatorics, i.e., how many ways are there to select 20 students from 1000 students, where order is unimportant and repetition is not allowed. But of course that omits the fact that several students who previously dated Teacher A could all take Teacher B's class, etc. You're not accounting for a lot of possibilities. All people come with feelings, and feelings always matter, but limiting how much one person's feelings should influence policies that deprive others of opportunities is not feelings-driven. I have NO problem with you or anyone else thinking this controversy is enough to turn you away from voting for Morse, just like some people decided not to vote for Krystal. It is the systematic smear job that should worry you. Every single student "victim" of an adjunct lecturer could one day be smeared in the same way, for one thing or another. If you don't see that, I frankly envy you. I was once optimistic that way, too. If you want to lobby for a rule that no faculty of any rank can ever date a student at the school where they are on the faculty, you are free to do that as well. The reason there is no such rule is partly because of the math.
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  18953. February 1st, a few hours away . . . 😮 😊
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  18954.  @mikeh6700  I'm sorry Krystal took Kyle from you, but I don't think he is into guys?
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  18955.  @mikeh6700  LOL, I don't plan to live in the US. You have the stupidest memes. Blocked.
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  18956.  @mikeh6700  He is right about the COVID vaccines.
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  18957. Okay, Peterson, why did you have to go to Russia to solve a drug reaction issue?? You know what the true maverick journalist Whitney Webb always says? Don't listen to what people say. Watch what they do.
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  18958. Oh my goodness. Look at the federal court docket sometime.
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  18959. Consider how odd it is, given that we do not smoke as much as before, and no one smokes around kids.
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  18960.  @arthurbrumagem3844  How would you know? Fox told you? CNN? MSNBC? Who patted you on the head for repeating it rather than realizing you don't know?
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  18961. @kevind1650  A lot of people claim that is exactly what Palestinians face. A lot of those people are Jewish and live in Israel.
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  18962.  @arthurbrumagem3844  What knowledge do you imagine you have? Remember that documentary from the Vietnam War, where some Secretary of Defense is intoning, "they don't value life like we do," while an elderly Vietnamese woman is wracked with sobs and trying to get into the grave with her deceased family member? I just remembered that image, I wonder why.
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  18963. @arthurbrumagem3844  You don't even have evidence, apart from your fee fees about what's "most likely."
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  18964. That's fine, but Shapiro made his career in large part by denouncing exactly what Daily Wire did in this case. Now he "see the light" and defends management.
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  18965. Oh right, let's now s*** his **** until we either tire of him or find out he has a Bill Gates side (which anyone paying attention already knows, and the worst litigation brought against him gets the least press). Maybe you should ask yourself what this need for hero worship says about you -- and the hero is never a Danny Sjursen, a Chris Hedges, a Vasili Arkhipov, or a real artist for that matter.
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  18966.  @udontexist47  I think it could be?
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  18967.  @lashlarue59  Interesting insight. She must hate feeling left out. Easy to fix, thank goodness. /s
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  18968.  @sidneybales9062  First of all Kyrsten campaigned on a substantial increase in the minimum wage, and a more rapid one than proposed in this bill. If circumstances have changed, she owes her constituents an explanation. Second, Krystal does have an economics degree from Virginia, and she is a CPA. What about Sinema? I don't know, it's a sincere question. She is a lawyer and she did teach business law. She might be more astute than her demeanor suggests. Evidence?
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  18969.  @sidneybales9062  There are strategies in place in literally every other developed nation that ensure a better wage (based on PPP) and comprehensive, universal benefits. It is time to examine what is possible here in an honest way. Working full-time over a summer used to pay for one year of state school tuition. Two or three roommates working full-time for minimum wage could afford an apartment anywhere -- San Francisco and Manhattan included -- and try their luck at advancing their careers where they found the most opportunities for their talents. What happened? We can't go on like this.
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  18970.  @mazg4707  They should give you a medal. 🤣 Actually, it ought to be a hashtag.
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  18971. The Guardian just did an article on how many of Forbes' 30 under 30 have been arraigned or convicted on fraud charges.
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  18972. When I mention that, somehow it doesn't show up. 😂
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  18973.  @DUB-sential  😂😂😂
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  18974.  @nosferatut9084  Oh, I like goat cheese. Wait. This isn't about that.
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  18975.  @zebo11  Same!!
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  18976.  @johnsmith1474  Well, he's in London. He's not a war correspondent, we know that. I like Anne Laure Bonnel in France, btw. I've seen many others promoted but she seems more trustworthy than they. I don't know. If they don't have sinister entities behind them, that's already outstanding, "nowadays."
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  18977. Worse yet, young people are missing their needed vaccinations, like for meningitis.
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  18978. You're in skool? 😂😂😂😂
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  18979. @markasbury1084  Show me where in the United States that happened. You think you're Elizabeth Eckford of Little Rock?
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  18980.  @stevenschuyler9527  A joke.
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  18981.  @stevenschuyler9527  I think it suits the grammatical structure of the OP.
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  18982.  @johneubank8543  HA HA HA HA . . . I even remember Dr. Ornish! And where he went wrong, despite overall impressive work. Say, whatever happened to the diverse microbiome craze? They squeezed all the 💰 they could out of that one, so on to The Next Big Thing?
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  18983. So . . . you didn't listen to what she said (starting at 5:09). You just had a reflex. That happens a lot.
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  18984. Wait. You think he knows history? In NYC, he might have picked up some buzz. Montenegrins are known to brag that they resisted the Ottomans.
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  18985. ​ @chanalAnims 💯
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  18986.  @xbox360blows  🤣
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  18987. Exactly. The media have their own, more sophisticated, lies, disinformation, and hate to put out there.
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  18988. Well, as it turns out, we still don't know who was responsible for the hospital bombing. Do you think any of these will apologize for their commentary?
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  18989. @floydholder597  This is so convoluted; the MSM certainly did not properly verify the story before reporting it. This is true. Nor does Gutfeld know who is responsible for the strike in the hospital courtyard because NO ONE KNOWS -- MSM, this crowd, etc. -- except the actual perpetrators. So Gutfeld is claiming to know what he doesn't know, and people who prefer his story, for whatever reason, are basking in it. We have better evidence of the lab leak hypothesis for the pandemic origin. Much better.
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  18990.  @floydholder597  And who bombed the Orthodox church?
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  18991. People take out loans to pay for state schools. You know, the schools you used to be able to work your way through, easily?
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  18992.  @matthewgoodman7588  You are so right. How awful. You noticed, cool!!
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  18993. Subtext: "yeah but Ukrainians are white." This is how modern-day "progressives" really think.
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  18994. NO ONE else talks like this, absolutely no one else. Only Kim. Highest respect!!
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  18995.  @stevenrichards3699  She never claimed to be anything but on the left. Every veteran I know agrees with most of what Gabbard says. Reagan, on the other hand, never saw combat in a uniform, except on a movie set. Does that impress you?
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  18996.  @Joseph-ro6wq  You think a test is more probative than examining the person's reasoning and discourse? Whether or not a person is "working in the field of their degrees" proves nothing either way. If they are, they are probably deepening their knowledge and expertise. If they are not, they are demonstrating flexibility, broad pattern recognition, and abstract thinking.
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  18997.  @zealanddublin9047  Ha ha. Then explain the Trump voters.
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  18998.  @stevenrichards3699  I'm not a conservative. I'm a Parisian Maoist.
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  18999.  @stevenrichards3699  Who said I agreed with everything she says? I don't even agree with everything Yanis Varoufakis says. Or J-L Melenchon.
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  19000. Or worse
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  19001. Why are Westerners so obsessed with Slavs? Leave us alone. (And where is Dr. Freud now that we need him? Sheesh.)
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  19002. It's in court right now.
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  19003.  @IPeeInPoolz  But Trump appointed Acosta, who agreed to fix the first case against Epstein, to his cabinet. Wake up. This is ONE social group.
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  19004. What could go wrong?
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  19005.  @keymaster430  And half the posts here are as "psycho" as she was. If she retaliates against students in any manner who disagree with her, with lowered grades or in any other way, or if she did something to violate any student's privacy rights on Zoom, then we have a case for firing her. That is misconduct. Voicing her own views is not. The First Amendment protects speech we don't like. Popular speech needs no protection. Popular speech lines the speaker's pockets.
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  19006. The killing of that little boy is repugnant and unbearable.
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  19007.  @apersonwhoknows  Exactly. Biden and Trump both.
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  19008. Hunter and Dad did well, I hear.
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  19009. Haitians have enough problems.
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  19010.  @streetteamtony2672  Yes, exactly. Nadine Strossen explains this in her book on hate speech. It's not long, it is a must-read. It doesn't take a long book to explain it. 😐
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  19011.  @streetteamtony2672  Maybe you should just copy that post and delete it as directed to me, then repost where appropriate?
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  19012.  @streetteamtony2672  YT sometimes does that --- switches message boards on you.
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  19013.  @streetteamtony2672  I never had any social media other than this (with a pseudonym but based directly on my real name), and only joined during the COVID lockdown. I still remember when people got seriously burned by joining MySpace, and I was lucky it didn't appeal to me so I didn't jump in. I was leery of social media since then.
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  19014. @StaryWkurwiony  I don't know whether you know, but lawyers can get disciplined for lying about something so momentous. They risk a black mark on their license. Now, you could say he has connections, and so forth, so he is hardly vulnerable, but he practices law not only in the US, where the current government is on his side, but also in the UK, where lying about stuff the government ardently supports is not protected speech and can lead to serious trouble. In short, it's not very likely that he would risk it. But you didn't consider that, huh?
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  19015.  @StaryWkurwiony  Videos posted in public places ARE NOT EVIDENCE IN COURT.
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  19016.  @StaryWkurwiony  In the last five minutes, I found it.
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  19017.  @StaryWkurwiony  How come I located the videos so easily? 🤔
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  19018. Eugenics, transhumanism, neofeudalism: does getting out of the West help you at all, or no?
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  19019. Well, good thing we can still manufacture jets! Um . . . hmm. Er. Yikes.
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  19020. I do not support the sentence, and in any event I support suspended sentences, but these guys should do their research. This nurse made no fewer than nine major errors. Warnings were plastered all over the drug. Then, she neglected the patient in obvious distress. Look it up yourself, don't just believe what they tell you. In any case, whenever there is a criminal trial, the state has a high burden of proof. See what the prosecutors said to persuade the jury. Audi alteram partem.
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  19021.  @apollyon7x  I don't blame you. It was the journalists' job, full stop. They went straight for the "societal ramifications" spin instead.
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  19022. More sense or ship HERE.
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  19023. The governor of my state went to the mass vaccination site at the state fair grounds to get the non-mRNA vaccine with everyone else. I believe that was real. But this??
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  19024.  @pod8234  So, that wasn't her in the segment I timestamped? Her body double?
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  19025. @gothgammy666  As Ash Sarkar said to Piers Morgan when he tried his best to bait her, "I'm a communist, you idiot. No, I'm literally a communist." Or better yet, in the immortal words of the late Françoise Dorleac, "Nobody asked your opinion."
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  19026. @elyg I'm pretty sure you never read Brandenburg v. Ohio, RAV v. St. Paul, the Westboro Baptist Church case, or any harassment case, or any book on propaganda, or free speech, or antisemitism, or anything, probably. Or listened to a single Glenn Greenwald talk on any of these issues, like, ever.
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  19027. @mariahewitt9787  The tide is turning, and more people are seeing through Stefanik --- and Ackman, for that matter.
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  19028. @gothgammy666  The tide is turning, but that's not any thanks to insipid smear merchants like you. Unless this is some more false flag? It has that flavor all right.
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  19029. He closed the mental hospitals and destroyed the best public education in the country.
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  19030. I did not get the vaccine, and if I had gotten it over 18 months ago with no side effects to date, I would cease worrying. There is no credible evidence that you are at risk at this point. But DO research ways to reduce inflammation, improve your general health, and so forth. Find reliable sources, not charlatans who try to sell you something.
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  19031. The only function any government agency should have is to identify "deep fakes." We all know why we can't expect a comprehensive list.
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  19032. The "liberals," so-called, are elitist haters and money hoarders. They have the power they do because Silicon Valley and Wall Street/Redmond.
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  19033. Trump wished Ghislaine Maxwell well.
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  19034.  @MrRight1000  I meant it sarcastically, but your take on it is way more perceptive.
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  19035.  @ruffcuts00  Really appreciate your comment. So well said, deserves a larger audience. Some of Karen's videos that I've seen are exaggerated (she isn't a lawyer), but another viewpoint on the relations between the sexes needs a platform. There is far too much dishonesty and manipulation. Bad for everyone.
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  19036. Not to mention that no one questioned the wisdom of vaccinating people who already had COVID. Perhaps this cytotoxic protein was overwhelming people's systems' ability to clear it.
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  19037.  @sw6088  You didn't see the report in The Independent, too? What is trusted? Your Facebook flock?
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  19038.  @the_sidewinder  British reporters cannot be trusted to know anything about HORSES, or how they are controlled? I'm guessing they may. I could be wrong. I wasn't there. Nor were you.
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  19039.  @sw6088  Uh, no, Jussie Smollett this is not. Your view is plausible, unfortunately, because no press is entirely trustworthy, and it is becoming less so now, because of the smaller revenue margins and the incentives to exaggerate. Plausible is far from definitive, however. I tend to believe the reporter because the justification later offered isn't a denial at all. Unless The Independent is lying about that, too.
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  19040.  @Chimp_6  How does someone manage to confuse the Senator from MBNA, architect of the crime bill, with a Marxist? Even Bernie isn't a Marxist.
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  19041. @koppsr  He very clearly stated that he was advised by counsel not to comment on pending matters. This isn't Facebook Gossip Hour, this is real. And Stefanik knows it.
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  19042.  @sketchartist1964  They are asking for fundraising purposes. Of course they know that his answer is true. This is a performance, for 💰, to finance the upcoming election. How does anyone STILL get taken in?? Wow, just wow. Check on how much they've pulled in since they started these pointless hearings.
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  19043. @sketchartist1964  My clear, cogent, and unequivocal reply is nowhere to be found now. I wonder why that is? Of course he's telling the truth and of course they know he is.
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  19044.  @sketchartist1964  Don't you find it funny that clear statements of fact or law get disappeared, but trash talk is amplified? Huh. Odd.
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  19045. @sketchartist1964  No he is not. He stood up to Congress better than any of the Ivy League presidents did. He is not supposed to comment on pending matters, whether they be pending in administrative hearings or in litigation. Because he represents state schools, he is bound by Due Process. Blabbing could end up costing the public tax money.
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  19046.  @sketchartist1964  I hope you can see the above.
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  19047.  @sketchartist1964  It's not a matter of how it sounds. Harvard has a private foundation to cover all costs of lawsuits. Public schools have property taxes. You know that! Look at your bill.
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  19048. Seven polygraphs??
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  19049. ​ @hapablap2088 Because First Amendment protected speech, expression, and peaceful assembly apply to everyone on U.S. soil.
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  19050. Niger joins BRICS+ by 2026 . . . You heard it here first.
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  19051. The money is great. Any questions?
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  19052. Either you're kidding, or . . . Wait. You're not kidding, are you?
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  19053. Right, or prove that every positive integer does.
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  19054.  @13squier  THIS
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  19055. @edwardsisk-ix8nj  Well, if you redefine it as a universal experience, then of course you're right. We would have to agree on what trauma is, before talking about what it does. Nor did I say "meaningful" relationships were foreclosed. That didn't cross my mind.
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  19056.  @edwardTisk-ix8nj  Well, then we need a new word.
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  19057.  @edwardTisk-ix8nj  You joined 4 months ago?
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  19058. Don't call people "cancer." There are people out there who've suffered from cancer. Ever heard of breast cancer, you sexist?
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  19059. Shhhh . . . You're not getting the idea yet. You don't say this stuff in front of your boss, do you??? /s 😂😂😂
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  19060.  @eternalskeptic  Blocked as time waster.
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  19061. MSM keeps trying. It's not working.
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  19062.  @soggykid5580  Were there also no drugs? LOL
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  19063.  @kianna270  I think you're right.
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  19064. He actually invited Alex Jones to comment. He did look at him incredulously a few times. 🤡🌎
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  19065. Leftist thinkers as diverse as Slavoj Žižek and Dr. Gabor Maté have agreed with a version of this. European left, to be clear.
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  19066. ​@konstantinkrastev4478 Leftist thinkers as diverse as Slavoj Žižek and Dr. Gabor Maté have agreed with a version of this. European left, to be clear.
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  19067.  @tonyduong3275  Great points.
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  19068. ​ @jonnyhan  Evidence? Anyone who claims to support MW is a false flag.
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  19069. I always what to hear what Israeli dissidents, of all backgrounds, have to say about their government. Why are they silenced? Why indeed.
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  19070. Are symptoms driving all of the flooding of hospitals, or is panic over mild symptoms and the prolonged isolation we've endured driving a lot of this? Not sure that it matters, practically speaking -- we opted for panicking people, and now they panic. Not good.
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  19071.  @Stormer13  SO WELL SAID!
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  19072.  @Stormer13  It has been shocking to me how much is known and not shared -- and how much is censored as well. Dr. Campbell has spread the word on Vitamin D in particular, and zinc is of some help as well -- plus, there is evidence that these vaccines may work better in those with ample vitamin D levels. (Or maybe it's just the D!) When I write about something I've read in a peer-reviewed journal, in a measured way and with references, it is almost always taken down. Look up lysine-arginine ratios, for example, and what the good ones do for viral illnesses, including this one. The least expensive foods have excellent ratios. Look at which foods are high in vitamin K and quercetin. Similar result. When it dawned on me, I felt so dispirited. Of course these are not "cures," or sure-fire prevention. No one said they were. But failing to tell us what we could DO is unconscionable. I'm being careful here in what I say, not to attract censorship. :/
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  19073.  @Stormer13  So glad to hear! So sorry for this disruption in the lives of young people. :/ Lots of the least expensive foods have these nutrients, and as you mentioned, we all need D in the winter, and zinc when sick. It's as though they think everyone is stupid, and will overdose and believe they're invincible as a result.
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  19074.  @tizzolicious  If people who do not need emergency care by any rational metric are nevertheless rushing to emergency rooms, during a pandemic, then math it is not. Maybe they have no doctor to consult about their symptoms? Nowhere else to get advice? Insurance pays ER for suspected COVID more readily than a telephone consultation that creates a limited record? Lots of possibilities, huh? If I were sick but not very, I would not want to risk spreading what I had or catching something else. I'm funny that way. /s
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  19075.  @TheJazzDane  You don't know who sabotaged the Nord Stream pipeline any more than any talking head does. Could it be Russia? Not impossible, strictly speaking. What Greenwald says is logical. It may not turn out to be a fact. But logic itself is never wrong. Follow the logic. It's always the right place to start. Logic is non-journalistic? Ironically true. Logic and meme production don't mesh well.
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  19076.  @TheJazzDane  So Russia needs money for its war, it is under massive sanctions, it uses Nord Stream as leverage to coerce Europe, AND it bombed that very pipeline. Okay. It's not impossible. Maybe al Qaeda did it. It's only slightly less possible than Russia. Maybe Serbia did it, maybe Syria did it. Maybe it's a natural occurrence after all. I mean, none of these are strictly impossible. You can find lots of explanations even less possible than the story that Russia did it.
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  19077.  @KMLR2012  Wow. Notice also, we never know who is responsible. It could be Fox, it could be someone else's algorithm. It could even be a human, working on behalf of someone in the sequence.
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  19078.  @KMLR2012  Oh, okay. Bizarro world.
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  19079. To sum up: 1. We do not know who did this. 2. We are being asked to believe the most illogical explanation, as a loyalty oath/litmus test. Not good. Not good at all.
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  19080.  @KMLR2012  Joe Rogan really did provide a remarkable clip on this subject either early today or yesterday. I recommend it.
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  19081. OF COURSE they are going to threaten during the time supplemental unemployment compensation is available; their workers are essential at the same time, for the same reason. For this brief time, workers have a tiny bit of leverage. So Amazon will scream: "Get in line!! Get in line!!!" They have to gaslight to the max.
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  19082. Briahna did a GREAT JOB here. If you cannot credit her for once, well . . . Shapiro finally stated exactly why he resigned in advance, which was entirely legitimate reasoning as well. If she had not pressed, would he have stated what he did?
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  19083. No they didn't.
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  19084. False confessions are common.
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  19085.  @mark7s980  False, you poor thing. Are you campaigning for Kamala?
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  19086. @mark7s980  Try reading the actual complaint. I did. In stories about the law, you basically have to. No reason to think any of these three did. They each consulted their favorite "news source." 😂
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  19087. 1. This is disgusting. 2. I wish I were surprised.
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  19088. First do no harm.
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  19089.  @ridesharegold6659  No, it's a logic mistake. I . . . don't know anyone who gets emotional about those. (??) What you said about US poverty statistics is true, though.
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  19090.  @SC-mq5fh  Are Krystal's kids "white?" Is her husband considered "white?" This identity stuff is getting confusing. I seriously do not know.
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  19091. Lack of contempt is the minimum, and the fact it needs to be pointed out is horrible. Krystal is right. Pretty much every other politician is either contemptuous, or, like Trump, lacks basic human fellow feeling.
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  19092. The rich have always had bodyguards.
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  19093. One of the VERY best reports on Tucker. Glenn Greenwald did a good job, but this was more fair. Thanks, guys.
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  19094. The only issue in this case was whether Neely was sufficiently threatening this time to justify the use of potentially lethal force. There is no other question in this case. Whether he was severely mentally ill or a bad guy, or has an outstanding warrant, or any of that is not relevant, either. Did he pose a true threat in that moment, to justify what the Marine chose to do? If he did, the Marine will be acquitted. Self-defense law is pretty simple.
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  19095. Did AOC make a lot of money to go Full Nixon in 30 days? If not, Nancy won't respect her. Does she know?
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  19096.  @brye6690  You begrudge a former bricklayer who had a medical bankruptcy for buying his first nice house at age 55? Why? Because he is working class?
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  19097.  @huh4233  There are a lot of movies I would not watch in a theatre. Elle comes to mind.
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  19098. @ivand013  In many cases, you do have a lawsuit. This is because in many PUBLIC sector jobs you can only be removed for cause, and you generally have a hearing of some sort, however limited it may be, prior to termination. You didn't know?
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  19099.  @sandrad9695  Robbie and Bri both praised Rich Fierro, and said he could give Uvalde police some lessons. You missed that, too?
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  19100. Time squandered -- thank you for pointing this out at the very top. It is what is most heartbreaking. At that point, no one can say "we did not know" anymore.
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  19101.  @C4customs420  We're all independent investigators now? This will be a complex case, and it will require detectives taking statements, examining video, and so forth. It's illegal to lie to investigators. You can say whatever you feel like to reporters.
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  19102. And they acted like Milli Vanilli was a massive scandal.
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  19103. Which "rulings" do you speak of? The Supreme Court never ruled that abortion should be illegal, nor did it do so now.
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  19104.  @gregjames9875  Can you be serious? Abortion was legal in several states, notably New York, long before Roe. Women were going to New York to have abortions. Ginsburg believed abortion rights should have a different constitutional basis, not that there was none.
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  19105.  @gregjames9875  Take a few weeks and study logic. Let A mean "x is a constitutional right." Now negate A. ("It is not the case that x is a constitutional right") Does x become a criminal offense? BTW, what happened before the 1860s? Curious timing, over 80 years after the founding of the Republic. I'll have to go back and check Roe. It does have a lengthy historical section.
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  19106. The experiments virologists were running at Wuhan and elsewhere don't put lives at risk. Tweets put lives at risk.
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  19107. Except that Epstein SERVED empire.
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  19108. No, they just think people like Jordan Peterson are sages. The sheer ignorance is unfathomable. The last time they opened a book was 11th grade Cliff Notes. Somehow they are still entitled to run the world.
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  19109. They agree, lol.
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  19110. No she doesn't. But AOC and Ben Shapiro do.
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  19111. 3:52 THANK YOU JIMMY
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  19112. Also, how surprising that an applied math/engineering math book lacks comprehensive solutions. Wow. :)
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  19113. I once found an actual error in one of her columns, involving The Bookworm Problem. Let's say a book has 100 pages. If a bookworm eats through the last page of a book, it necessarily eats through the next to the last page as well; similarly for the first page. (She thought mathematically, and forgot physics.) I wrote to a journalist who had written an article about her. He said I was right, but failed to mention any correction. Figures. She's famous.
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  19114. 1. Columbia is private, and those paying upwards of $90k in tuition, fees, room and board are stakeholders. 2. Investing in arms IS a political stance.
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  19115. Finally: a scientific reason for hope.
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  19116. Anyone can dupe you.
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  19117. Look at that cute little grin . . . DUPING DELIGHT.
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  19118. That there are so many people who think a money calculation should apply here tells me that this society is hopeless. Part and parcel of allowing the extremely wealthy to buy their own laws. After all, they "do so much good." Utlilitarianism isn't an ethical system, by the way. Pseudo ethics. It could justify scapegoating, if the "benefit" to the majority is great enough and the scapegoated is only one person. It could also justify racism if the racial minority is small enough, and not too grossly discriminated against, provided the vast majority "benefits." You just "add up the numbers." Pfft!
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  19119. The coldness of it, the mechanical aspect of it . . . No. It isn't less bad, just different. Do you think that Americans today would not submit bids to build gas chambers? Maybe 100 years ago, or 50 years ago, they would not have. But today?
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  19120.  @johnsmith1474  Wait. You think I don't know that? Why?
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  19121.  @NotableSavage2  That, too. 😂
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  19122. "Hey, science and innovation is a great thing." "You know. Big things you wanna do that are big." "Robert Kennedy Jr. was advising him that vaccines were causing bad things." "I told him that was a bad thing, don't do that." These are quotes from Bill Gates. Sounds like he has what Biden has. Lately Biden sounds better.
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  19123. Billionaires have nothing to do with working the way you describe. That is not how money that sets up many generations for life is made. Think about this: a mere two billion dollars is like accumulating almost a million a year since the birth of Jesus. Or, two billion at age 50 is like $110,000 a day since birth. Do you think someone "earned" that? How?
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  19124.  @HealingLifeKwikly  Exactly. In its IPO, Uber openly said that its "business model" had never turned a profit, and that it could not be reasonably anticipated that it would turn a profit in the forseeable future(!) We all know it is a remarkably poorly managed company, and has been in court over flagrant abuses. It has still spawned billionaires. How does that happen? If it were up to "the market," Uber's unprofitability would be decisive. Somehow, it isn't.
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  19125. This is true, but NO ONE can censor at the behest of the government and have it not be a First Amendment violation. The government cannot use Twitter as its cat's paw.
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  19126.  @TheLastKentuckyIrregular9524  Just saw this. You beat me to it!
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  19127. Only a FOOL would do anything but divorce. Attacking someone guarantees they remain part of your future, one way or another.
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  19128. Who knew to be offended until they were told they ought to be?
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  19129. This defamation case is not about whether Depp was also abused. It is about whether a specific article that that Heard signed and the Washington Post published is defamatory. If Depp also abused her, more than trivially, and more than in self-defense, then the article is NOT defamatory. That's the law. If he wants his story to be heard, he should write an autobiography and it would be the best seller of the decade. 🙄
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  19130. Oh please. She's from Brooklyn. Robbie is matching her, it's an engaging speech style. It's how everyone wants to talk, with feeling.
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  19131. THE KIDS TOO?
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  19132. No it isn't.
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  19133. Not the issue. The ISSUE was safety in a case where the objective safety concerns were arguably greater.
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  19134. A body is soft and a car is hard. Yes, it could happen that a motorist swerving to avoid him could hurt himself or some other innocent motorist. But that was not likely in this case, as anyone could see.
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  19135.  @deadgolfer6345  If they have no probable cause to arrest you, then they don't. Exactly. If this "sounds strange" to you, maybe you should wonder why. It is, in fact, normal. You do not have to engage with the police at all. That is the law. Why don't you know that?
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  19136.  @bradspringer2372  Oh brother. What part of stating a principle (as opposed to whether or how it applies in a given case) is SO lost on you? Every part. Never mind. I give up. BTW, "not complying" is generally not a crime. You don't have to do what police tell you to do. It may be wise to comply, but it is not always legally required. If you didn't hear "you are under arrest" then in principle, a person is free to go. If there is any ambiguity, then the person should ask in a direct but polite way, "am I under arrest?" My immigrant father knew this. What's your problem?
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  19137.  @dominickarisman9  How? By emigrating. More and more of these peopled killed during police encounters will look like Christian Glass. YOU decide whether that's fine with you. I don't care anymore. Got it? I'm going to join the global 96%.
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  19138. It could be based on what the diplomat is doing. It could be absolute on embassy grounds. It could be qualified when performing any diplomatic duties, in or outside of the embassy. It could be limited in all other cases.
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  19139.  @juicyfruit4378  Why did the UK court agree that she had immunity, then? Can you point us to the text of the decision? What was the reasoning?
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  19140. 🤣🤣🤣
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  19141. Truth
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  19142. Everyone who invested in this 25 years ago is a millionaire today. Well?
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  19143. I did, in the non-US press: Here are British sources on the issue. Reuters:   Sept 20 (Reuters) - The White House on Monday criticized the use of horse reins to threaten Haitian migrants after images circulated of a U.S. border guard on horseback charging at migrants near a riverside camp in Texas . . . Reuters witnesses saw mounted officers wearing cowboy hats blocking the paths of migrants, and one officer unfurling a cord resembling a lariat, which he swung near a migrant's face. The Independent: Sept 22 -- The second-in-command at a union for US Border Patrol has tried to defend the use of horse reins around migrants in Del Rio, Texas, where tens of thousands have arrived from Haiti. . . Recent images from Del Rio have shown migrants fleeing Border Patrol agents on horseback who are wielding their reins like whips, with a Reuters witness catching an agent unfurl and swing one in front of migrants.
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  19144.  @NathanLee225  Don't take anyone's word for anything, dear.
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  19145.  @emko333  This is a fact.
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  19146. Well, it's official. The difference between bona fide news and The Onion has been obliterated.
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  19147. This Is DEVASTATING.
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  19148. Stop misinformation
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  19149. Wow. How rich is his dealer?
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  19150. ​@Henry-i5h Not at all. I support her. Who decided those would be her choices in the first place? But her politics have nothing to do with it in any event. Even j_erks have rights. BTW, the video is right: Americans harm Americans.
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  19151. ​@Henry-i5h I don't think it's funny. Injustice is injustice.
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  19152. You put that well. Yeah, she knows she was duped, and it hurts her pride. I like how Tim Robbins handled it. She should take a deep breath and show contrition. She'll sleep better.
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  19153. Rotherham. I remember.
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  19154. I can't anymore.
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  19155. No it is not. (If I spell out three essential reasons why it is not, guess what happens to the post?) ​Musk's "explanation" of the alleged "Ponzi scheme" assumes that the dollar is a rigid yardstick!! 😂😂😂😂 University of Pennsylvania should confiscate his BA in economics.
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  19156. Vivek has the manner of a used car pitchman, but these two women did a great analysis.
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  19157. He sees everything as "their problem." He is certainly no more compassionate toward Americans. That's how libertarians are. If someone is a victim of a vicious, random street crime, that's a shame, of course, but why should their disability be our problem? They should have bought disability insurance, or hired a bodyguard, or . . . They should meekly ask for charity and hope they get it. Stuff like that.
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  19158. Stef laughs two seconds in. 🤣🤣🤣
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  19159. The latest smear is to say Jimmy is the conspiracy theorist. Rachel Maddow will never get that label, no matter how much Russia she serves up.
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  19160. "Fighting back for us?" Excuse me? Isn't that the job of law enforcement, including national guard if local police or sheriff's deputies are overwhelmed?
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  19161.  @silentpatriot3337  Whose hands are tied? And the "solution" is some new vigilante group that you know nothing about, but that has good branding in your eyes? You like their polo shirts? I mean, the polo shirts are fine, but . . . ?? That's how "patriots" run a country? Okay. Your circus.
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  19162. ​ @Jerseyboondocks Where do you get the idea these are immigrants, anyway??
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  19163. ​ @lifeisimportantkate You're right, the Five Eyes s uc k.
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  19164. WE PAID FOR THIS Okay??
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  19165. "You can't do that, folks." Um, you mean, someone got reprimanded? Fired?
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  19166. After then Beslan school massacre, ABC News interviewed the terrorist mastermind who claimed responsibility. Russia protested, the US government said we have a First Amendment. I agree with that. Now tell me why RT is suppressed? We can hear from Nazis and from terrorists, apparently.
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  19167. Lots of ___ know the lay of the land.
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  19168.  @giedrebey5444  Well, Vasili Arkhipov prevented a nuclear exchange anyway, provoked by the Americans.
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  19169.  @janecadousteau3370  France was very lucky. The wind patterns sent fallout to UK before Paris region. It was shocking, actually. All most of us needed was iodine, especially the children. :/
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  19170. Who's delusional? 😂
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  19171. Yes. And for most people, it's substantial at AGE 70.
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  19172. Joined two months ago to spread defamation. Got it.
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  19173.  @Mac-ih7rb  You took the bait. Of course Rogan criticises both. The comment started with a false premise on purpose. He just joined, in order to do this.
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  19174. We are talking about whether a person will run for reelection when he should not have run for election in the first place.
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  19175. Because the streets are safe.
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  19176.  @mrlukeisspeaking4391  True, but MSNBC has been imitating them. Chilling.
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  19177. The VERY SAME THING happened to me. Scheduled to get Johnson & Johnson, looked for it at all my local pharmacies -- then it got pulled. Wow.
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  19178. ​ @cruisemissileUSA  Sure. Turning the country over to Fauci was a blast, I loved it. Then whining about how unfair everyone is to the Pwesident.
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  19179. Psychedelics are an Elon Musk issue. That will work as well as painkillers have, meaning not at all. I don't believe Elon is just microdosing, for that matter.
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  19180. Exactly. No good guts in this picture!
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  19181. ​ @rshoe1023 And they are so stupid they lie for free. The CEOs would never do that. 😂
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  19182.  @superturkle  YES
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  19183.  @superturkle  I'm pro-BRICS, so it's easy for me to laugh at this. You didn't even grasp my comment. OP: "Boys need to be active, . . ." Keep it up. Who cares?
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  19184.  @gonnacry4513  This. Is. All. A. Lot. Of. Nonsense. The US needs to get serious about education. All of these nonsensical platitudes are not going to fix it. Everyone cares more about their pet theory than they do about understanding what went wrong and fixing it. Bad actors profit from culture wars and do nothing for you. When you go down that road, you become easy to ignore. The BRICS aren't sitting around.
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  19185.  @gonnacry4513  I answered you. You can imagine what happened. 😂
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  19186. @gonnacry4513  Of course I wrote a reply to your perfectly good Q. It was cents erred.
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  19187.  @gonnacry4513  No. I'm sick of the censorship.
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  19188. @gonnacry4513  In essence, I pointed out exactly what I was replying to. "School is bad for boys, forcing them to sit still when they need to move, etc." So explain why, when given the choice, they sit still even longer. Etc. "Screens are addictive." Er, . . . Yeah. We have a problem that senseless devotion to pet theories and online come-backs isn't going to solve. In the meantime, the world is moving on, faster than we realize. (BTW, did you ever notice how many math video channels are from Africa?)
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  19189.  @gonnacry4513  What "shaming language?"
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  19190.  @danoco6385  He was not supposed to be there with a firearm. The arms violations and reckless conduct violations cannot be countered by claiming "self-defense."
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  19191. That's a thought.
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  19192.  @danoco6385  I do not watch CNN, and the only person I know who does, and believes everything they say, has stopped speaking to me. LOL
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  19193.  @danoco6385  This will not be an easy case. I don't imagine I know the outcome of the investigation that has to take place. I do not envy the detectives. The people already taking his side are frightening. Now we support kids with guns? Who haven't finished high school, who cannot sign most contracts, who never held down a real, full-time job? Please. Let the serious investigators proceed.
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  19194.  @coryCuc  There are no jobs with literally no skills.
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  19195.  @coryCuc  Of course it is. You think you can flip burgers as a job, where you must meet production targets every day? You think operating a cash register during a huge sale is something you can pick up and do tomorrow? Pushing a broom in a space large enough and doing it quickly and well certainly is a skill. Plus each job requires appropriate communication with coworkers, customers, bosses. Those were once jobs that paid the tuition at major state universities.
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  19196.  @coryCuc  Wow. We know who hates their job. Or their own business. Or pretty much most of the human race. "The only people on government assistance are the people who WANT to be." 🤣🤣🤣 At this point, most of the people living in America are the ones who don't have choices.
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  19197.  @coryCuc  Who is more "skilled," based on what many people, or very few people, can be taught to do well? Simone Biles or Kim Kardashian? Alexandra Dovgan or Hunter Biden? Who makes more money?
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  19198.  @coryCuc  I'm not. I'm calling into question the notion that the level of wage/salary/compensation has any direct relationship with the rarity of a skill (rarity coupled, of course, with its demand in the market), much less its value.
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  19199.  @coryCuc  Sure, put your head in the sand. That may have been how money used to be earned, generally. It has no bearing on the current landscape.
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  19200.  @coryCuc  k u r rite
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  19201. @Brett The lines must be way shorter than the ones I worked as a student.
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  19202. ​ @seanp8220 You beat me to it.
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  19203. ​ @antonijobakija6553 It's of a stripe, isn't it? Love that racial supremacy, I mean white man's burden.
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  19204. I was incredulous at first that they were falsifying the numbers. But now, every country that had no incentives to ascribe a death to COVID shows half the COVID deaths per case than do those which incentivized listing COVID as the cause of death. I just saw the statistics for where my family lives, and only 0.44% of identified COVID cases resulted in death. We've been hearing 2%+ or, at best, 1%.
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  19205. His doctor advised it. He didn't get herded into a mass vaccination. He consulted his doctor.
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  19206. Um, try Chomsky. Trump supported every media lie that he thought was helpful to him.
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  19207. 4:17
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  19208. 😂
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  19209.  @evanburrows1697  I don't care what "modern progressives" think or say or do. I'm not Western. Don't point that thing at me.
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  19210.  @evanburrows1697  I just reread the comment you pretend to be responding to. Maybe you need to read it for a first time.
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  19211. Yet Sweden made the fewest mistakes in dealing with the pandemic. So what happened? I am asking sincerely, I don't understand.
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  19212.  @daseapickleofjustice7231  The Worldometer statistics did not show Sweden's per capita death rate as higher than in other countries, but having said that, COVID statistics are not as reliable as they should have been. The US was conflating actual COVID deaths with deaths where COVID was not the chief cause but at most a contributing factor. If Sweden (or Japan) had an undercount, I would not be shocked. New York state also had a lot of deaths in nursing homes that in retrospect look like gross negligence, recklessness, or intentional.
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  19213.  @daseapickleofjustice7231  "American Israelite bio weapon?" O . . . kay. Never mind.
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  19214. ​ @curtrice1264  lol
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  19215. ​ @Winterascent Well said.
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  19216. ​ @tjallingdalheuvel126  😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  19217.  @ruready2learn1  Well, the worst part is that if a person provides facts, they may be censored. A small misstatement or difference in emphasis could be considered misinformation. But if you just jeer at a person and say stuff like, "that's a LIE!!", because that can be construed as an opinion it will not be flagged or censored. That's how we get so much trash talk on media like this, and it starts to appear as though that's all that anyone ever does -- because the facts are long gone before anyone sees them. I know a LOT of people who try their best to state the facts and not descend into ad hominem will be censored the most. But anyway, you're kind. Thank you.
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  19218.  @MsGarnet77  Either my posts are shadowed or you haven't read them.
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  19219.  @MsGarnet77  That I don't know how to assess my sources. Laughable.
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  19220.  @firstname2072  "Due to the benefit of the mRNA vaccines?" Most of the world's population, even excluding China, as is necessary to make the point, has not partaken of the mRNA vaccines. No one continues to claim that they stop infection or contagion, and their ability to stop serious disease is limited. Why do you assume everyone is stupid?
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  19221.  @MsGarnet77  I read it, and I wasn't impressed that it was solid. To his credit, he gave a summary of all the reasons his numbers could not be compared to a carefully controlled study, a true audit of VAERS, and so forth. Saying that, I don't want to suggest that deaths due wholly or in part to the vaccine aren't happening, or that he didn't detect a signal that necessitates immediate attention. The people who should be racing to study this are failing us. At this point, they will need to do a multivariate analysis, because so many things have changed, or been imposed on us, all at once. This is not going to be easy, and the fact that they are not urgently looking into the question of vaccine safety is one of the most shocking and disillusioning things I have ever experienced.
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  19222. Not the time for comedy.
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  19223. Most US states have 16 as the age of consent.
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  19224. The worst part is, MSM has you convinced you're smart. Really, anything is possible. Any story can be sold. Don't be surprised at the Q-anon crowd. Look in the mirror.
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  19225. ​​ @neubianx  It was that bad for you? I'm sorry.
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  19226. ​ @Serids-z1c Who cares what OP thinks? Maybe her family ages quickly. My mother was still in her prime at 42, 43. I guess not everyone is?
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  19227. @user-wp3bd8xg3d  Some fights are better ignored. Her real reason for posting was to denigrate other women. Maybe that's how she protects what she's got. Or thinks she does. Desperation, maybe?
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  19228. He was guilty on some counts, but the flamboyant ones ("selling Obama's Senate seat") were a complete lie. Corruption at his level was a way of life in Chicago. Plenty were worse and never indicted. Plenty who went after him did way worse, and attacking him was their cover for their own misdeads. Nevertheless, it is not true that he was innocent.
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  19229. It's called high irony.
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  19230. Ours didn't do this when I was in public school.
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  19231.  @anonygent  Had Harris won, would you think the assignment was fine?
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  19232.  @anonygent  Timeline challenged? Plus, kids don't vote. Leave them out of this.
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  19233.  @Rexident97  Dunning-Kruger strikes again. Or is it news when it doesn't?
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  19234.  @pkmcburroughs  Too bad THIS was sha dow ed, it was very funny.
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  19235. Hasn't it been funneling fast enough?? Gosh!
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  19236. Whose script, though?
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  19237. ​ @s.n.9485 Every time
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  19238. Her analysis is correct.
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  19239.  @GM-db4bv  That this was a First Amendment case. Depp's own testimony was sufficient to show that the article was not defamatory, and therefore First Amendment-protected. But if you shift the issue away from that, to who was worse in the marriage, then it makes sense that Depp should win. But that's not the issue in defamation. In America, even louses have First Amendment rights. Even murderers do. Did you read the article, by the way?
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  19240.  @GM-db4bv  I just watched again. Brie was exactly on point.
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  19241.  @GM-db4bv  Nope. It is saying that articles are presumed to be First Amendment-protected, and that defamation cases are about specific articles, not about general conduct that caused tortious harm to people in all kinds of ways, including hurting their ability to make a living in their profession. Because that's actually the law. Defamation is about speech, not about all the lousy things the speaker did.
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  19242.  @GM-db4bv  You never read the article, huh?
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  19243.  @GM-db4bv  You notice KIM got it. She never succumbs to crowd think. Really never. :)
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  19244.  @GM-db4bv  Because the trial became about who was worse, something Heard of course could not win, and the jury decided to mete out proportional punishment. Do you think it makes sense that Depp was held liable for something his lawyer blurted out? No one should ever be held liable for that, unless they entered into some kind of criminal or quasi-criminal conspiracy. This was not a coherent verdict. It was based on feelings, not law. "Feewings" again. So sick of it.
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  19245.  @GM-db4bv  I once debriefed a juror who convicted a factually innocent man of a mass homicide, after the man was finally proved to be innocent and freed. It would shake you to hear about what can happen in a jury room.
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  19246. This is a cult almost as big as trans.
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  19247. No. Let China and India and South Africa and Brazil take the lead in finding a diplomatic solution. See a pattern?
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  19248. The complaint is verified. That means that there could be criminal liability if any of the allegations are deliberate falsehoods. OTOH, nothing is proved yet. But it is not likely to be nothing but another hit job.
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  19249. @mothersgauri4137  I have to say that on some level, I acknowledge their discipline. They stood fast on their right to remain silent -- even their attorney couldn't do it. And they remained silent even under the most extreme vilification and the threats they were subjected to by people camped out in front of their house. Not everybody can do that. BRIAN should have led the authorities to her remains. That was up to him, not mumsy.
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  19250.  @Dojustdoandbe  That's also possible. I am always gratified when people think of more than one possibility!
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  19251. @irene_f.  Arrested for what crime, precisely?
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  19252. @irene_f.  The general rule is that you are not required to report a crime. There are exceptions, of course. That's why they made laws to mandate reporting when children are victims. Without those laws, you wouldn't have mandated reporting.
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  19253. So Ross's life sentence is for exercising his First and Sixth Amendment rights. I'm shocked I tell you, shocked SHOCKED.
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  19254. I know. I really like her, too. I'm usually on the same page with her, politically.
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  19255. Non-GMO is half that in some places. Then try no added sugar, add a buck or two.
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  19256. Yes. I'm sick of seeing someone unpersuasive having the floor on this issue. Nearly everyone I know has been assaulted. Is she doing something real to enhance my safety, or selling a book? It's cameo time.
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  19257. The only issue in this homicide case was whether Neely was sufficiently threatening this time to justify the use of potentially lethal force. There is no other question in this case. Whether he was severely mentally ill or a bad guy, or had an outstanding warrant, or any of that is not relevant, either. Did he pose a true threat in that moment, to justify what the Marine chose to do? If he did, the Marine will be acquitted. If not, not. The victim's priors are irrelevant.
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  19258. She said he should not be a journalist but that these were the crimes that the public tends to forgive the fastest. There should be greater scrutiny of Hunter and Joe. Why isn't there, do you think?
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  19259. ​ @truth1013  LOL
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  19260.  @brianfaucett989  "Pretty sure," lol. I'm even more sure her main job is with Newsweek.
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  19261.  @brianfaucett989  That her job here is not her main gig. Her appearances on The Hill remotely don't mean she works from home in pajama bottoms.
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  19262.  @brianfaucett989  Because of the OP, to be honest; standing alone, your comment was neutral/informative. Sorry if I misunderstood.
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  19263.  @ashishtrehan1  Question 1: If you didn't know anything about her, then why did you say she "works remotely as well?" Question 2: This is hopeless, isn't it? I mean, those of us who think this society isn't over are whistling in the dark, correct?
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  19264.  @ashishtrehan1  Maybe listen to her editorial and see what it's actually about? Nah. Never mind.
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  19265. Then exactly WHAT is the college classroom for? Glorified job training? Carefully curated donor-pleasing discourse? Wait. Don't answer that.
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  19266. This sounds plausible.
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  19267. Stefane rocks, AS USUAL.
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  19268. Exactly my fear. 😢
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  19269. "Digital?" Love the double entendre.
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  19270. You're right.
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  19271. @patrickrudiger8762  Exactly. As far as I know, if the demonstration takes place in a traditional free-speech forum (a public park or public square being typical examples), and is not too close to the actual home, so that it presents no risk of impeding anyone's movements to or from the home, it's legal. There's no general prohibition on demonstrations "near" a judge's home. Why would there be?
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  19272.  @rvrmn2682  Why not just admit you don't know the law? No, you do not seek out a judge to speak to him in person.
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  19273. @caledoniawarrior  "that?" What? lol
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  19274. We ALL need to tell the truth, and embrace all who do.
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  19275. Vaccination has evidentiary support. Mandates do not.
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  19276.  @UnderhillKoufax  There are no "mandatory" vaccines. There are public school districts that require them (in the US, not in the UK, Canada, the Scandinavian countries, or Japan -- but obviously, nearly all children in other countries get them without any mandate). The option of private school and home school exists. The 1986 law covers all childhood vaccines, and provides compensation for any significant adverse effects.
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  19277.  @UnderhillKoufax  Didn't you know that more people vaccinate their kids in developed countries that do not force them to do so? This should not be shocking news. (Universal health care and comprehensive benefits for disability don't hurt, either.)
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  19278.  @UnderhillKoufax  There is no "mandate" for vaccinating children in the countries I listed.
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  19279. I'm curious, since you appear to be knowledgeable. Most of Europe, and Japan, has a tuberculosis vaccine at infancy. Why doesn't the US? Is there a reason?
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  19280.  @UnderhillKoufax  Correct. They WANT the vaccine. Precisely my sole point.
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  19281.  @UnderhillKoufax  Also Chris Hedges' point. He AND his family all got vaccinated.
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  19282. I still have my old WHO card, when I needed a smallpox vaccine to travel to Italy and France with my parents. They did as well. We could have stayed home.
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  19283.  @UnderhillKoufax  I checked. The US has no federal vaccine mandate, until now, sort-of. Vaccination requirements for school are a state matter. All but 48 allow "religious exemptions," thus granting greater autonomy to the religious than to agnostics, etc.
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  19284.  @UnderhillKoufax  Not a good look.
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  19285. That's funny. My grandparents lost everything they had in WWII. They don't think that stuff.
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  19286. Dunning Kruger is the rule now.
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  19287. ​ @sues3218 Your phone won't tell you, as is evident from this thread.
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  19288.  @Rarediel  You're both right. :/
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  19289. Shows what you know. He risked his life reporting on how Lula was set up, and got Lula freed. Is it possible Americans are this stupid? Unfathomable. This is what happens in a society that allows you to become very rich for doing nothing of any value. Meanwhile, you pretend 800 bases the world over aren't securing that privilege for you.
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  19290. You must be a math-nazi. /s
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  19291. That's who you picked to repro with?
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  19292. False. See, for example, the Westboro Baptist Church case, or RAV v. City of St Paul, or Texas v. Johnson. RAV was a Scalia opinion. I'd expect you to know it. 😅
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  19293. 9:51 "Within our own borders" -- stop right there I think this gentleman just hit the target.
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  19294. Which generation of Americans should be condemned? Can an Israeli fight for justice and full equal rights, or does he have to emigrate? What if he is the third generation born there? 75 years is a long time.
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  19295. Perfect.
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  19296. Wow all these gender people, "antifa," and so forth, sure have given y'all an easy job. Are you sure there will be people who want to do real jobs after they see what you do and how much you get for it?
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  19297.  @Utubo88  I wonder what Nadine Strossen thinks about what the ACLU did, and is doing.
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  19298.  @chococat746  I agree with you about the ACLU. Depp never sued on the NDA itself, and I don't know why that is. (I wonder if the ACLU advised her it was unenforceable, and why that would be?) The standard for proving defamation is entirely different from the standard for breach of contract. That this was a relitigation of their divorce, not a defamation case, should be obvious, and the result is absurd. If she was abused at all, even if she was the worse one of the pair, she had the right to publish that article. It was substantively true. Abusers have First Amendment rights. Even murderers do. As for Depp, being liable for his lawyer's speech for one cent, much less throw in a couple of million, is mind-boggling. Did Heard prove Depp and the lawyer conspired to float a phony story? And even then. If Depp told him the story, it's confidential. If the lawyer floated it himself after finding out it was weak and could not be presented in court, then he should be personally liable, not Depp. Depp has the right to share anything with his lawyer, anything he thought was true, or suspected, or believed, or even felt, or his pure speculation without proof, etc., and expect his interests to be protected.
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  19299. He's over your bosses, hon. This video is genius.
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  19300. Silicon Valley and Redmond techies aren't well rounded. I once recommended a foreign film to a Microsoft quality control manager and he said he couldn't follow the movie and the subtitles at the same time. I'm not surprised YouTube didn't realize it's (literally) not a legal broadcast in Germany.
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  19301. Well said
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  19302.  @watzbeats9104  Do you think that the claim you see in Haaretz from left-wing Labour that the US, and especially AIPAC, has too much influence over Israeli politics has merit? Because I think so. Well, I want more discussion on that.
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  19303.  @raymondyudain7507  They cannot hold these platforms liable in any event. Ever heard of Section 230?
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  19304.  @franklin9400  You don't understand my point. If you understand that Section 230 blocks liability, then don't talk about the proposed law, to limit young minors' use of social media, as being an impediment to lawsuits, like Robby seems to have alluded to, and that some posts here imply. There already is no liability. Section 230 does more than that -- it allows platforms to remove posts without liability, too. Just because they remove some does not mean they assume risk, have to be consistent, etc. In other words, they have editorial control without editorial responsibility. Maybe that's necessary, but in any case you clearly don't know that law if that's all you think it's about.
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  19305.  @franklin9400  You did understand. You just want to deflect. lol
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  19306. None
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  19307.  @bdfgdfghdfhgfitdfyutdtydry  The Sandmann settlement amount was never reported. Find out what happened to the Richard Jewell case in the end. It wasn't so great. Jewell had already died.
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  19308.  @RandyF4996  See the New Yorker magazine article on him and his family from June 2021 for a more nuanced view. His older sister marched in the George Floyd demonstrations. Rittenhouse was a minor who could have been rehabilitated. His first lawyer was a right wing zealot who put him up to some of the nonsense you saw, and MSM lapped it right up. Minors who were in gangs for years have been rehabilitated, much less this brat. The pseudo-left is more interested in twitter mobbing for the power and money than in doing anything real.
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  19309.  @DjangoThunders  The fact that the public mistrusts the media is a good defense argument for getting away with crazy exaggerations that might be defamation if everyone believed they were true.
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  19310.  @Mostdefinitelynotabot  I support defamation laws. The bar is high, as it should be, there is a disincentive to sue, which is good, and I support anti-SLAPP to punish the frivolous suits. All good. Court isn't a twitter mob. Kulinski does it again, with a bad take. I should have expected to be wasting my time here, yeesh.
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  19311.  @sushd2775  This is nonsense. The burden of proof to demonstrate defamation in a court is heavy, as it should be. If KR loses one case, anti-SLAPP will be invoked in other cases for sure. Proven defamation, meaning in a real court, is not First Amendment protected. In fact, it has been proven not to be. Nothing to do with snowflakes, deplatforming -- free speech advocates say ONLY speech that is unprotected can be censored in any way, and not the speaker, only the speech.
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  19312.  @sushd2775  You don't recognize fundamental legal principles? You think it's word salad? No, Snowden doesn't know what he's talking about. Anti-SLAPP exists to protect defendants against frivolous lawsuits brought to shut them up. Speech once proven to be defamation is not First Amendment protected. Simple fact. You say word salad because you've got nothing. You oppose the Sandy Hook families? Richard Jewell? 🤣
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  19313.  @sushd2775  Media can't say whatever it wants and make bank. Hence the Sandy Hook families sued. Hence Richard Jewell sued. Media has no special status. Why should it? Are they above the rest of us?
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  19314.  @meltedsnowman9637  Wrong, LOL. Self-defense includes defense of others, and includes reasonable but mistaken beliefs. You strap a gun to yourself in Columbine Nation, and what others reasonably but wrongly believe can become your problem. There were many shots fired that night, not by KR. In the chaos, some people mistakenly thought KR was the source.
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  19315.  @meltedsnowman9637  You go to a lot of trouble for nothing. 🤣
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  19316.  @meltedsnowman9637  NEVER said the first.
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  19317.  @meltedsnowman9637  Sure. Someone with a gun shoots your kid and runs without dropping the gun.
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  19318.  @meltedsnowman9637  You can stop an armed and dangerous person who has done grave bodily harm or caused a death. You cannot shoot a fleeing burglar. Defense of property never justifies potentially lethal force. But you think you cannot try to stop an active shooter just because he stops shooting, turns and runs? I.e., someone you and anyone else in your position would reasonably believe to be an active shooter is key. You're not thinking, for some reason.
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  19319.  @meltedsnowman9637  Try reading some law. That might help. I'm outta here, wasting my time. You're simply biased.
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  19320.  @sushd2775  I refer you to the brilliant Ash Sarkar's immortal words to the ever insipid Piers Morgan: "I'm a communist you idiot. I'm literally a communist." 🤣 When truth is aligned with courage, spirit, and most of all humor, it can't be beat!
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  19321.  @meltedsnowman9637  HOW WOULD YOU KNOW THIS? Not every active shooter stayed on the scene, emptying his gun. A few fled, and were apprehended. Certainly not most, but some. Someone shoots a bunch of shots, and bystanders are supposed to know he's done shooting now. He doesn't drop the gun, however. I've got one of you morons saying I'm a conservative, and the other with their panties in a wedgie because I have pointed out the obvious: that someone who acted exactly as KR did could have ended up dead, AND that the person who killed him could have had a viable self-defense claim. This couldn't be plainer. Intent is what a reasonable person believes it is, given all the facts such a person would know. Your argument is like saying KR didn't know the people chasing him or beating him were trying to kill him.
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  19322.  @meltedsnowman9637  The upshot is, none of you want people to have rights. If KR had been killed, you'd want the killer convicted, even if he had a viable self-defense claim, as is obvious. In fact, KR is alive and well and has a viable defamation claim, but that other twit says he should just eat it "because Tucker," or something. What happened to "a nation of laws, not of men?" Just kidding, this country still has obvious remnants of a slave society, where it's all about who you are. Blech. Proud to say I'm emigrating.
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  19323.  @meltedsnowman9637  Oh wait, this is Kulinski's joint, I lost track. Well that explains everything. 'Bye.
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  19324.  @sushd2775  Of course. You're uninformed. Hence, I'm wrong. Your Facebook friends all agree. Oh, sorry I forgot to block you. Drop this dumb show with the dumb emoting and read a real book. Google Maps can help you find a library. A librarian can show you a book on civil rights and civil liberties. They have those still. If I had grown up speaking just one language, I wonder if I would have ended up this . . . limited? Hm. I hate to think about it. Perish the thought.
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  19325.  @sushd2775  There is nothing to settle without a viable legal claim/intent to sue letter.
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  19326.  @sergeikhripun  Exactly on Aaron Mate! 👍 That I can support without reservation.
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  19327.  @someAholeComment  Yeah, although it's a civil action in all cases. Nothing short of provoking a fight by slander is punishable by law, and that is archaic. It literally never happens anymore. The target who was defamed has got to sue for money damages. And yeah, that is nothing new. That's why Kulinski makes no sense. An injunction to silence a slanderer ("prior restraint") is never ordered. Anti-SLAPP prevents frivolous suits. I don't get what got him so excited. No one has explained it to me yet. 🤔
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  19328. @amigalemming  "Does not naturally follow?" Well, that's pellucid.
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  19329.  @amigalemming  I have a better idea. Watch this video a couple of times.
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  19330.  @theunholybanana4745  No, that's proved, not assumed. Just like it is proved closed under multiplication but not subtraction or division. A successor function is postulated, not closure under addition. See the Peano postulates.
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  19331. Yes, and entirely different cost-benefit analysis would have come up with an entirely different cost-benefit analysis. Amazing. Have to hand it to Sam Harris.
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  19332. "What people?" EDIT: Dash X just said it.
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  19333.  @OroborusFMA  Yes. Astounding how right.
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  19334. When I saw Speaker Johnson was from Louisiana, I had hoped he was good on race. Well, well. That was PERFECT. Justice Amy Coney Barrett doesn't get enough credit, either. Maybe you can't handle the truth.
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  19335. What is wrong with Hillary?
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  19336. Wow, AOC will be upset at that bad photo.
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  19337. 29:38 They're not? What do you call gender affirming care, or even the COVID vaccine for otherwise normal and healthy children?
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  19338.  @MoCa5545  Like Chanel?
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  19339. 😂😂😂😂
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  19340. Well, 50 years ago, a minimum wage job paid for a modest apartment and in-state college tuition. Two people working full time for the minimum wage could afford to get married and start real life. Maybe it IS up to the government not to permit the degradation of the currency to the point where a full-time worker can end up homeless. Hmm, there's a thought. 🤔
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  19341. Besides, vastly more money can be made in the stock market than by actually working. Funny you don't rail about that. 😂
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  19342. Because it's not true.
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  19343.  @archstantonainthere4526  A loan that can never be discharged in bankruptcy should accrue no interest, or no interest for the first ten years -- something like that. Interest constantly accruing and no bankruptcy protection is a crime.
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  19344.  @archstantonainthere4526  Look, some contracts are adhesion contracts. A student loan is not exactly that, but it's in a gray area for sure. What do you say to someone who got a job after high school, and at 21 they see no future for themselves above $18/hour without a degree? Not every girl can be a plumber or an electrician, much less a truck driver, or a foreign car mechanic. People in retail see promotions blocked. RETAIL. It is evident that, right or wrong, college is increasingly necessary. Back when it wasn't, like, FIFTY years ago, all of the great state schools had such low tuition that a minimum wage summer job paid a full year of in-state tuition and fees, and you could cobble together scholarships, work-study, and a hundred bucks a month from home to cover the rest. Or, you could work minimum wage for a year, live at home, get about 5% interest on a savings account, and pay for four years of tuition yourself, and use summer jobs for room and board. Now, when college is far more necessary, the money isn't there and kids have to borrow. What happened? On top of it, loans cannot be discharged in bankruptcy BUT accrue extreme amounts of interest. You don't see how unfair this is?
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  19345.  @archstantonainthere4526  How is it fair that Biden sets the rules, when he paid next-to-nothing for HIS education? Do you also realize that as tuition has gone up, luxurious amenities have increased but the quality of the education has declined? Schemes like this are never good. College should be very hard and very, very cheap. See Chris Hedges on what a profound scam has been taking place at many schools. Some of his prison inmate students, whom he teaches through Rutgers Extention, are more diligent than people he taught at Ivies. This is a pity. Don't imagine that he's exaggerating, either. I wish!
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  19346.  @archstantonainthere4526  How would my getting stuck with a $5000 medical bill for something that should have been free, and I was told would be free, mean that everyone else should pay as much as I do? What do you plan to do about that? What's your remedy? Sorry, this is ridiculous. School is no more a "deal," much less a "bad deal," than is medical care. These are necessities.
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  19347. Mr. Bean had a quirky charm.
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  19348. @Blistering Sun Much Work To Be Done It's about the money.
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  19349. Ana, did you sling sh*t at Aaron, and Michael Brooks then patted you on the head?
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  19350. The jeering mob is causing more vaccine hesitancy than Clapton ever did. If people had been kind to him, that would have been an advertisement for the vaccine. That would say: bad reactions are rare, and if it happens to you, we'll be there for you.
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  19351. Actually, that is not true, either. Vaccinated people have "died of COVID" using the same definition as they do when they state that unvaccinated people died of COVID. Thus, for example, Colin Powell died of COVID. Now that is misleading. But then so is the death toll of the unvaccinated with grave comorbidities.
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  19352. From the NBC affiliate in Boston, August 10: "One hundred and six people who had been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus died from the disease in Massachusetts by the end of July, according to the state Department of Public Health."
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  19353. How nice it is to die and not count. /s
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  19354.  @jimywealth4628  Um, WHO are you referring to, exactly? Didn't you just claim to know what is optimal for people you've never met?
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  19355.  @jimywealth4628  You THINK I reiterated your point? I have no idea who the people were who died in Massachusetts alone, by mid-summer, or what their state of health was at the time. All we know is that they were fully vaccinated and were determined by the state public health department to have been COVID mortalities. You said ZERO such people died. This is misinformation. Anyone who corrects THIS misinformation will be treated to direct or veiled ad hominem.
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  19356.  @jimywealth4628  Now I get it. You don't understand the point. You don't see what I'm comparing. (The two cells "vaccinated died of COVID" and "unvaccinated died of COVID" must use identical definitions for "died of COVID," or the comparison cannot be sound.) Never mind.
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  19357.  @jimywealth4628  Spent the rest of the evening on logic and math videos. Thanks for the inspiration.
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  19358. Yes
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  19359. Brie wasn't upset. She just had a problem not being interrupted by that looney toward the end.
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  19360. The documentary Do Not Resist was made by a police officer's son. The facts about current use of SWAT shocked his father. He admitted thst this is a different country.
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  19361. It is rare for any link not to be shadowed here.
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  19362. I'm censored here more than anywhere, and always for scrupulously accurate posts. :/
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  19363.  @Top_Weeb  How do you know? And Seder's father was a prominent lawyer.
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  19364.  @rcmrcm3370  WHO SAID they were afraid?
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  19365.  @comingviking  The Soviets? Um, for math, physics, and ice skating, sure. Piano. Other stuff? Not so much.
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  19366.  @misterpibb108  Ah, but that predates the USSR, mostly!
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  19367.  @misterpibb108  I don't disagree, exactly. The older I get, the more I regret I didn't grow up there. I mean it.
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  19368. True threats and actual fomenting of violence are already illegal. We don't need new restrictions --- nor did Brie say we did.
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  19369. They have held they cannot be sued for failure to uphold their duty to serve and protect, with a few very rare exceptions that basically never apply.
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  19370.  @mikeb5372  It's not quite right. But close. :/
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  19371.  @Coats2112  Right, but the issue is really who can sue when they fail to serve and protect. The remedy is not in court; their duty to protect us exists, but it does not create a cause of action in any individual person who they failed. We have to take it up with our local politicians.
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  19372.  @Coats2112  And what really seems to surprise people is when they first find out that the police can lie to you, with only a few statements that are off limits, but you can't lie to them. The Constitution protects your right to remain silent.
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  19373.  @bm421  He cannot achieve the good policies he promotes, AND HE KNOWS IT. That's classic -- the DNC does exactly the same. They talk big and know they won't do anything to achieve what they promise. As for Bannon's legal problems, which cast doubt on his sincerity even if you presume he is innocent of any crime (as we should), read the indictment. He got a pardon, of course.
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  19374. The (new) Intercept and its ilk would do the same thing to Glenn, and to any negative story about a DNC candidate, all over again. Would and will. The excuse? "We only now have some verification of its truth."
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  19375. The pudding part slays me every time.
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  19376. State and federal guidelines for expert witness testimony differ. Daubert recognizes current scientific research as a sound basis for an expert opinion, and Frye has a "current consensus" standard.
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  19377. The Guardian, which is mainstream UK, has covered the story. We don't know whether what the whistle-blower saw was what they told him it was, or what he now claims it was, obviously, but this is a real story. I tend to doubt this, somehow. I tend to think it's a distraction of some sort.
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  19378. Yes: Khaled Kabub
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  19379. The Israeli Supreme Court website, plus verifying the biography.
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  19380. ​ @Sparky_007 But he is the only one I could find, so . . . not plural, as far as I could tell.
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  19381. First World problems
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  19382. How do you know? This video does not tell us what they said. That's what a court will look at. Or how did you think it should work?
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  19383.  @resourcedragon  If they said anything actionable, I certainly wish her luck in her suit. The fact that this video makes light of American free speech rights is what has me concerned. When someone is accused of defamation, IIEM, etc., people should ask to hear the actual words.
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  19384. What does massive wealth mean anymore? Do you have a forensic accounting of exactly where his money came from? I don't assume he is "good," and certainly don't assume he is "bad." It's hardly evident what good and bad mean anymore, or where they apply. You could just define "good" as "more," and leave it at that. But then just say most, or richest, etc. "Good" doesn't figure, pro or con.
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  19385. Everyone knows Macron is abnormal. Is he this crazy?
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  19386. Think about what else the Clintonites want you to believe: that our technological forensics cannot detect a hack by a hostile foreign power. It isn't advanced enough. No, we should just believe the Clintons and their crew. They are trustworthy.
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  19387.  @papasquat355  I don't know why my response was dis app eared. Had to do with civil rights suits, and elections. Huh. Weird algae rhythm.
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  19388. Disclosure of financial interest in every piece of research published in a peer-reviewed journal is a strict requirement, especially where health and medicine are concerned.
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  19389. Um, YEAH.
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  19390.  @jayroxy9040  I agree. They assume we know the story. And it is horrible.
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  19391. Take a close look at the January 6 tapes. Trump has a free speech defense (and if you don't think so, then you don't know how much speech the First Amendment protects). Not so for the case in Georgia. Trying to find nonexistent votes or get officials to certify fake electors is illegal and a conspiracy. That is not "speech," needless to say.
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  19392. Well, this is a first. YT shadowed banned my opinion that ________, but still directs me here to see replies to other replies to other posts.
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  19393. ​ @Curt-Gevert So, he has been charged with . . . ?
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  19394. ​@Curt-Gevert Yeah, good thing he was taken into custody . . . Oh wait. He was not.
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  19395. Look, she did a terrible job of standing up for free speech. She accepted Stefanik's false framing and demagoguery, and did not even attempt to explain First Amendment law --- and she is a legal scholar(!!!)
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  19396. @mr.e1026  No, you are not right. Every university, public and private, maintains First Amendment fora on campus, and the rules in force consist of the full panoply of First Amendment rights as developed in a long series of cases: Brandenburg, RAV v. City of St. Paul (be sure to read that one), Phelps (the Westboro Baptist Church case), and many others. The rules that govern such a forum are NOT the rules that govern the dormitories, classrooms, dining halls, amphitheaters, libraries, and other places where students study and live, and where a code of conduct is in full force -- or supposed to be. The rules that allow some students to chant pro-Palestinian slogans on the quad (whose meaning, by the way, is a matter of legitimate controversy) are THE VERY SAME RULES that allow students to fly an Israeli flag and support Likud. The very same. That neither one can do it in a dining hall, or when targeting individuals in a confrontational manner, doesn't mean they are subject to discipline for a lawful demonstration taking place on a designated First Amendment forum. You could consult PEN America for an excellent explanation, which these university presidents were utterly incapable of articulating. Or, you could just join the anti-free speech crowd. The First Amendment protects you as well, in your rush to embrace that position. The Fourth Amendment has been trashed for safety-ism, why not the First? BY THE WAY, I was working in a government office when the US was on one of its bombing activities, against where my immigrant parents were from. A coworker praised the bombing in front of me, but expressed concern about the architecture being destroyed. Did I have a "discrimination" claim? Oh please. Don't be absurd.
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  19397.  @mr.e1026  I see my reply was not highlighted. I wonder if it has been sense oared as well? That would fit perfectly.
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  19398. I see they are "fed up" about the Bill of Rights, and are encroaching on it daily. When agnostics and atheists objected to religious symbols on public property, they went to a court of law with their complaint. They didn't think they could get "really fed up" and resort to removing the symbols themselves. This man could have gone to the governor, legislature, and press. I hate witchy nonsense, too.
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  19399. To avoid being manipulated, never go to Austria.
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  19400. ​ @deontaytrillwebb It doesn't matter. Whites have no standards. They get to have their own truth. If they get upset enough, watch out.
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  19401. ​@AnAmerican-fm3xk 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  19402. Actually, that would be the Texas governor. Robby was fine this time.
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  19403. Well? /s
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  19404. Of course, there's another possibility. Americans are just the worst people. Sorry, I forgot that could be it. /s
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  19405. @jonathanmosher72  I have Martha Argerich albums, and Claudio Arrau, too. Those Argentinians are wild.
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  19406.  @shersunn  I pay attention to Naledi Pandor.
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  19407. @stevenvox6549  No disagreement about Trump. If Swift told people to ignore the ICJ ruling, or if she met with Zelensky the way that poor girl Greta did, then would her fans listen to her? Isn't the fact that someone like Trump is so popular evidence that it's time to get serious now? What will it take? What needs to happen?
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  19408. @stevenvox6549  No one is talking about rights. Of course she has a right to tell people how to vote, and people have a right to listen.
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  19409. @AngelB, are you KIDDING? NO, there is not help. NO, you can't get in. I'm an attorney and I can't get my clients who need comprehensive assistance to a competent person, never-ending what lay people can do. There are outright dangerous "therapists" out there, in active practice, no less than incompetent lawyers, etc.
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  19410. This ridiculous tablet I just got defaults to senseless words, and prevents editing. That is how most things work, lol.
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  19411. NEVERMIND, not "never-ending."
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  19412.  Haeuptling Aberja  You just proved my point. And so quickly, too.
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  19413. 6:20 Why would they be concerned? All is proceeding exactly as planned.
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  19414. YOU are no more responsible for this than Sophie Scholl was responsible for the Holocaust. Believe it.
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  19415.  @JumboCod91  Are you assuming the desire for a large family has a genetic substrate? I can't tell. In any case, there is no evidence for any such gene driving desire and behavior.
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  19416.  @youtubehatesfreespeech2555  People who never read think Jordan Peterson is a great intellectual. I feel more and more sorry for him, and hope he regains his health. Having read what he relies on for his ideas (although some he just makes up), let's say I'm not impressed. I see him less as a danger, however. We have far bigger problems.
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  19417.  @Thaco69  Exactly!
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  19418.  @katinthecorner  Pinker? OMG. No. Read, please read. I can't keep going like this. I can't explain it yet again.
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  19419.  @renafarted9075  Have you ever read any of the people Peterson relies on, like Jung? I suspect not.
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  19420. This is Europe. They don't watch your cable news, yo.
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  19421. I wasn't allowed to mention that word.
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  19422. Bill Gates's medical and public health qualifications: 1. When Paul Allen developed a highly treatable cancer, Gates immediately tried to push him out of Microsoft; 2. When Jeffrey Epstein got released from his supervised release for molesting young teens, and made it back to his Manhattan mansion, Bill became his very good buddy; 3. He recommended vaccines no longer in use in the West to be used on Third World children. I think we should definitely follow his advice, on avoiding prison.
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  19423. She took money from ordinary people. In 2024. Wow.
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  19424. We all know why they are trying to eliminate New Hampshire as the first primary.
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  19425. Do any of these administrators understand Title IX? I bet most of them don't. It's a different office.
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  19426. He gave him the Miranda -- you are supposed to know to invoke it, and not to believe his insinuation that it's a formality. They had zero evidence at that point to hold him.
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  19427. Aaron: "it's unbelievable . . . " Aaron, you are a fine person. You can't start with yourself. I'm from Chicago. I'm not even surprised. Without modern electronics, it would have been covered up.
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  19428. Berletic is well-known to people who tune in to The Duran now and then, though they aren't a favorite. But like anything independent and relatively objective about the BRICS, worth watching sometimes.
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  19429. @tjallingdalheuvel126  These are public information. And Musk and Thiel are among the largest federal contractors in the world.
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  19430. DID TRUMP'S LAWYERS MAKE THIS ARGUMENT? I mean, is it true or is it false that they made this broad immunity argument? (I'm not saying which --- I don't know.) *If* it is true, you should care. It's your country, correct? Or is it just a crime wave with a business front office as a cover?
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  19431. ​ @chaosinfusion8127 How do you know? Did you read the court transcript?
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  19432. I think my childhood dreams are the best thing for me to pursue. It is the purest, most sincere expression of my essence.
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  19433. ​@user-tx4wj7qk4t 😂😂😂 Bullied? And "it's your fault?" In AMERICA? 😂😂😂😂
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  19434. Their brains were broken by Trump. That's why they are trying to out-bully him. It's a known phenomenon: mass formation psychosis.
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  19435. "IT" rights. My pronoun is "it" today.
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  19436. Well Penn can't say they treat wrinkles now can he?
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  19437. So then you agree the legacy and "$pecial development" pools are fundamentally wrong?
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  19438.  @anonymous_5016  Where did I defend "affirmative action?" Where did we define it? Show me.
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  19439. Neely is the dead one. Please try to follow.
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  19440. ​@P.90.603 She didn't tell that bully Stefanik that no student is allowed to speak to any other student in the tone of voice Stefanik used to badger her. More seriously, she didn't exhibit devotion to protecting students or free speech. But her legalistic/bureaucratic response was accurate as far as it went.
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  19441. Not done with cancel culture? Yet?
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  19442. Common sense? A conservatorship over Joe Biden can control how funds held by the US Treasury are disbursed?
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  19443. This was the most sober and rational intervention I've heard. At the height of the hysteria, the words "multivariate analysis" were being removed from platforms. When mathematics becomes controversial . . .
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  19444. @guillermoazul220  I'm just happy this post isn't censored. Nevermind kids, we can't even communicate, about anything we care about. Someone will go after us.
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  19445. Think about what you just said.
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  19446. Jimmy, if you're not nice, the Wall Street pyramid scheme falls apart!!!!!!! And then what?
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  19447. They didn't expect to shoot rich white kids.
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  19448.  @thegooobley1993  It's not glaringly obvious here?
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  19449. Or, maybe she's a crime victim. She didn't take offense. She refused to accept the excuse of alcohol as a "reason" for the rampant sexual assault that Yale was known for in that period. It's interesting, in France, where people treat wine as a part of the regular diet, if a person commits a rape while drunk, that is an aggravating factor. Their prison sentence can be increased up to five years for committing such an act while drunk. "Petersen [sic] has an intellectual balanced view of most subjects and approaches evidence and current thinking in a straightforward way." Evidence? He wasn't at Yale in the 1980s. She was. Who has the direct evidence? "He also realizes her constant theme of rape and molestation can be questioned." Constant? How so? I didn't hear that. "Her predominant complete evils against women is completely women's lib based." This makes no sense. "She lays blame on men when women were also involved in fashion as one example." Not sure what you are referring to . . . "when women were also involved in fashion?" Huh? You need to do a rewrite. P. S. I don't treat Tara Reade this way. By the way.
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  19450.  @mvies77  Wow. My work here is done!
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  19451.  @mvies77  Opinions? What I said about the law in France is a fact. What I find interesting is that this time, it was Naomi Wolf who demanded accountability and consequences for bad acts, and somehow she is getting dismissed, or worse. When Dr. Peterson points out how important accountability is, and brushes aside excuses, everyone jumps to their feet and praises him. Why is that?
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  19452.  @mvies77  My aren't we mature and well-balanced. You can't help yourself, can you? You were just calling someone else "severely affected?" DNC/Hillary move, to claim loudly that others are doing what you yourself do. Maybe listen to Peterson. He's an exponent of self-control.
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  19453.  @lemurforlife  Not to mention supporting Osama Bin Laden. Small detail. /s
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  19454. What "heritage" do you mean? As an example, if you are Irish, is there any impediment to learning Gaelic, Irish folk dances, going to church every Sunday, reading Joyce or Sally Rooney? If you are English, you can't trace your ancestry, study Beowulf and The Faerie Queen, act in Shakespeare plays, become a Russellian agnostic, support the royals? Who is holding you back? Le champ est libre.
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  19455. Not what she said. People who don't have the resources and education that Peterson has WILL have this issue. Anyone pretending to tell others how to live and then gets a dependency is, well . . . Consider other sources of inspiration? Hm?
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  19456.  @mauibill7233  Thank you. Also, hugs. Hugs are important.
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  19457.  @David35687  Exactly! And it will not be state-dependent (only accessible, or only easily accessible, when you're on the same drug). It will be YOUR OWN PATH, always a better path, because YOU found it. Don't let anyone tell ya different!
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  19458. Something more sinister is going on.
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  19459.  @petergilkes7082  Well that's easy, then. You don't have to be competent at anything, ever. You don't even have to avoid logical or material contradictions. Just get some Trumpers to mob you with mean tweets. If enough of them mean tweet you, you're set. P. S. That's called science. /s P. P. S. A lot of people are happy about the decline of the US. "Don't look now . . . "
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  19460.  @petergilkes7082  I looked at several of OP's posts at this channel. All were good. Um, you are not much of a reader? Is that it?
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  19461.  @jimthompson9370  You mean like Einstein? In some respects, he was better than other people.
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  19462. The corruptionists can afford organic food.
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  19463. Listen more closely. If these degrees, from the "elite" private universities, get you a job at the premier media outlets in the US, then those are not a "useless" degree. What people actually do (evil?) in exchange for that (humongous?) money is the issue. Propaganda/surveillance is a huge industry now, one that spawned overnight billionaires, with Facebook as Exhibit A. Fewer and fewer people do real work, or want to.
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  19464. @DukeNukem421 Do young people without degrees get hired by you? For your pay grade?
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  19465. 37:05 Jelani Cobb, straight talk
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  19466. Exactly.
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  19467.  @Kiyoone  There is no other way to figure out what they're saying. It's not as if you can find their fabrications in other places.
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  19468. And it's not the usual operation of addition over the real field, either.
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  19469.  stealthballer  Yes.
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  19470. Given that the effectiveness of the vaccine wanes rapidly, what evidence do you have that those who have had vaccination and COVID are less likely to have this inflammatory response? We would need a careful, honest multivariate analysis to determine that, correct? And we have had NO SUCH THING yet, correct? The burden of proof is always on the proponent of the vaccine or any drug or treatment. Correct? Yes, it is.
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  19471. When he said The West, he got it right. Tragically right.
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  19472.  @arcguardian  😂😂😂
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  19473.  @januarysson5633  At no point. If a pregnant woman is shot, the doctors try to save her.
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  19474. Pfft. I remember Johnny Cash.
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  19475. ​@katrinaisalwayscorrect3463 Oh brother, when Americans get hot for a cult. Forget it, it's pointless. I don't know what a fudge round is, by the way. What mcfood would that be?
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  19476.  @Oscabellai-pd1oh  This, lol.
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  19477. Brie actually covered it properly.
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  19478. Then why is it a defamation trial? Defamation is about whether speech or writing is First Amendment-protected or can be punished by silencing the speaker and turning their assets over to the aggrieved party. In other words, it's about what Heard wrote, not whether she was worse. (Did you read the article?) Marital disputes are brought to family court, or sometimes criminal court.
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  19479. Depp sued a second time. He already lost a better defamation case in UK. Why do you think he's doing this again?
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  19480. You don't know that, ha.
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  19481. Love how these women on The View put children first.
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  19482. Love his French dialect, so pretty.
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  19483. Two things: first, this is a very harsh, very competitive society, and it's hard to know how to build real character strength in a child, especially a teenage girl. Second, when people give parenting advice, whether it be to employ more gentleness or tougher discipline, it might not be well intentioned. They might want their kid to outdo yours. They are not interested in giving you good advice.
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  19484. Complete, utter nonsense about Michael Ratner. He was a lawyer. He used what he knew to gain habeas corpus for Guantanamo prisoners, a near-miracle achievement. He was always an activist. He protested all of these wars, every last one, when Moyn was interning in the CLINTON White House.
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  19485.  @Zangreten  Right. The richest people in America regularly get poor medical care and advice during a pandemic.
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  19486. 11:44 NO Aaron, do NOT be embarrassed. My gawd.
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  19487.  @elenabob4953  That's why journalists do the research. Well, they used to. I've been reading Janet Malcolm lately, and cannot begin to imagine her doing such a poor job.
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  19488. STRAIGHT out of Manufacturing Consent. Why does it work?
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  19489. Think about this: in America, a reality show carnival barker who had six business bankruptcies (hence five too many) and could not control his mouth is your idea of a great president. How did we get here? You're not concerned about it? You just think Trump should have won again. That makes sense to you?
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  19490. @Sky-Soldier  You know it's administrations that propose such bills, guide them to passage, and sign them? Oops, "chess." Sorry.
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  19491. @Sky-Soldier  Greenspan Commission, appointed by the administration, was authorized to make recommendations, in 1981. And he did. Greenspan was "a life-long libertarian Republican," according to Greenspan himself.
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  19492. Awful stuff.
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  19493. I read a French report recently that found that it was a risk factor. These studies cannot prove a direct link.
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  19494. So! It's NOT Russia after all.
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  19495. How do you refute 15:12 to end?
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  19496. @Froward_Thinker  The police broke federal law. They have no evidence, and had no evidence, that the newspaper did anything unethical, much less illegal.
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  19497. No pdf of the Complaint is available for free, unless it's on a website that Google buries.
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  19498. Perfect
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  19499. It is that basic.
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  19500. Old math: a majority = 50% + 1 New math: 37% is a majority!!! 🤠🤠🤠🤪
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  19501. ​ @thedirtprincess3293  You're all crazy. All.
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  19502. 11:59 THIS Debt, and more debt, and more debt . . . for everything . . . loaning people the money they earned and should have been paid in WAGES.
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  19503.  @robertduley7658  Er, wrong. Very possible.
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  19504.  @mattb6646  I agree with that logic. Whenever they have scrutinized ballot counting, they've always found irregularities. I have no objection to closer scrutiny. No more than I did in 2000, when Gore probably won.
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  19505.  @Midg-td3ty  Exactly.
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  19506.  @Sheckyize  Civil war? Can you be serious? Someone, somewhere is crazy enough to go to war for either Joe Biden or Donald Trump? That person needs to see a neurologist more desperately than Joe does.
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  19507.  WILLIAM F  Oh great. More "civil war" nonsense.
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  19508.  @Sheckyize  I think anyone who would take up arms for any election is crazy. Anyone who thinks our electoral system itself is worth killing for or dying for is crazy. Did you think it was fair, in any sense, before now?
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  19509.  @Sheckyize  Russia? I'd vote for health care, housing, tuition-free university, and great piano lessons. Not to mention ice skating, drama, and ballet. You thought PUTIN/Russkie talking points would motivate me? To "see the wisdom" of taking up arms? To defend "rights" we obviously do not have. You need more Jimmy Dore. I strongly recommend more Jimmy Dore.
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  19510.  @timn5008  I believe it. I just looked at the county totals of a couple of heavily blue states. The number of majority Republican counties astounded me.
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  19511. Yeah. Buy only Made in America. Oops, too late.
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  19512. 5:09 et seq. was outstanding. You didn't have to listen for that long to hear what she has to say.
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  19513. His life guard job ended in March, when everything closed. This is August.
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  19514.  @music_mana7993  Prove it. No evidence he worked as a life guard anywhere except at the Lindenhurst YMCA, a part-time job that ended in March due to COVID. The rest is rumor, to justify his presence in Kenosha. He is a crazy kid with terrible parents, should be charged as a juvenile.
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  19515. Um, they did.
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  19516. The studies that say happiness returns to baseline after a major life-changing success have been shown to be flawed. The sheer relief of not having to worry about money decreases everyone's distress. That creates a new minimum of well-being. Obviously, that does not necessarily increase positive affect, but it rids you of many negative emotions forever. The rest is up to you.
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  19517. The complaint against U of Virginia is on the Reason magazine website. A lot more happened to Bettinger, and the suit is not against Bryant. Bettinger's father died and her mother was crippled.
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  19518.  @EchoJ  Have you read Huckleberry Finn? Jim is the only full human person in the book, and the only one who knows that Huck is an orphan. Jim raises Huck to manhood, and saves Tom Sawyer's life. At the end of the book, Jim tells Huck his father is dead. Huck then decides to leave the United States because he can't stand so-called "civilisation." He's had it. It's a radical book. The Russian revolutionaries liked it. Slave owners who separated African American families did not talk pretty, except when they invoked Jesus on Sunday to justify their crimes against humanity.
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  19519.  @EchoJ  Too bad Huckleberry Finn is so badly taught. I am not shocked. LOL Who points out that Huck, the quintessential American boy and "rapscallion" hero, can't bear to stay in the US because he can't stand the hypocrisy? It is not worth it. THAT teacher would be fired for sure.
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  19520.  @Top_Weeb  Shhh! Don't ask, don't tell.
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  19521. You actually thought that? That if they have PhDs, maybe they're right? Mathematics is the opposite of appeal to authority. Those guys were wrong -- and they are jerks. It's real simple.
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  19522. Do you not understand what an agency like CFPB is for? Ordinary people who lose relatively small sums -- but big for them -- don't have the time to press prosecutors to enforce the law, or the money to hire a private attorney to chase down the money, and then share 35% from the recovery. If you can't get punitive damages, or added recovery under a whistle-blower statute, it is often not worth it to sue.
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  19523.  @skiman863  How so? How was it that the Ohio AG had no immediate corroboration, and an Ohio congressman called the whole thing a hoax? EVERYONE should have known, from Biden on down, precisely WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CHILD.
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  19524.  @skiman863  So . . . The child's family only "felt" they needed to leave Ohio. Is that your central point? Who knows why they "felt" that way? Perhaps they are "snowflakes?" /s
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  19525. Lockdowns without making people whole, and compensating them for the loss of liberty, was completely immoral. Real leftists saw through it. The Big Moralizers pushed this through with no meaningful "stimulus." The Big Moralizers were the most immoral. EMERGENCY UBI -- before people are pushed out of their homes again.
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  19526. Mitt or the dog?
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  19527. Not what she said.
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  19528.  @jamesmonday509  Are conjectures The New Facts?
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  19529.  @jamesmonday509  You copy paste the same Briahna slur how many times per day on this channel? 🤣🤣🤣
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  19530. HSBC laundered the money of drug cartels, and the UK government intervened to prevent prosecution. There was even evidence that HSBC laundered terrorist money. See The Guardian on that.
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  19531. They were duped by Ana's deft use of social class (as well as MeToo) against Jimmy and Stef. What she (and they) miscalculated about was Aaron. When the video of their livestream from yesterday is posted, all will finally see through Ana's dirty little game. I hope!
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  19532. One of the guys sent to execute Hamlet more like.
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  19533. Uh oh. That settles it!!!
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  19534. MSM did not just suppress the story. They reported it was Russian propaganda. A "no comment," but no censorship of dissenters would have been one thing. But Big Tech suppressed dissenters. And MSM lied.
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  19535. It costs $200 million to build a large, state-of-the-art hospital in a major city. Million. Not billion. Running it for a year is about the same.
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  19536. Wrong thread.
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  19537. The bill is blatantly unconstitutional. The First Amendment protects stupid speech and stupid religious beliefs. No, I'm not kidding.
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  19538. @user-tw3kr9if1f  It means whatever the lobbyist with the most money says it means --- just like "reasonable gun law," which even Sandyhook and Uvalde can't get us to come to an agreement about.
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  19539. And to think they're not vaccinated, or under surveillance for terrorism. Aren't we?
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  19540. Nee - zhair. That's how they pronounce it. Therefore that is correct.
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  19541. No one is against therapeutics. What is the risk of vaccination? Why do many countries' ministries of health counsel caution, in the case of healthy children?
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  19542. It makes me think of Masson's book on Freud.
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  19543. There you go, being a Mensch. 😊
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  19544. ​ @alexdevcamp If a black person wants a website that uses the n-word, which is their right, and might be creative and funny (Chris Rock, Dave Chappell), but can someone decline the job to set it up? A white person might not want to do that. Can they be forced??
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  19545. It depends on the motive and the aftermath. Some fraud has involved serious material gain, and some has even led to deaths. It shouldn't be an automatic criminal offense.
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  19546. Karma in Highland Park? Buffalo? Uvalde?
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  19547. That's right.
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  19548. OMG, they are trying to blame climate change!!!
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  19549. Not worth five plus minutes of Kyle's time and intelligence.
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  19550. ​ @mikeottersole  Just a communist fellow traveler . . .
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  19551. If I got $30,000 a day, by May 1 I retire. Last until Christmas, I retire with a mansion.
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  19552. What Kennedy is saying now is what Hollywood A-listers were saying for years. What happened? 🤔😉
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  19553. ​ @pepelemoko01 My mother used to say that.
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  19554. ​ @pepelemoko01 In Italian.
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  19555.  @larryforbes6718  No one is arguing for the right to spread disease --- EXCEPT those pretending that the vaccinated cannot spread disease, and thus do not need to wear masks or take other precautions. Those people seem to think the vaccinated have a right to cause the unvaccinated to get sick. Some of them even seem to like the idea. But thanks for your concern.
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  19556. Silly Jimmy. Handouts are for Hunter. /s
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  19557.  @curtrice1264  /s is the Sarcasm indicator
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  19558.  @Marss13z  Like Biden?
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  19559. No, the joke goes "yeah yeah."
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  19560. ​ @almightyrizzob8682  "I ain't got nobody That I can depend on . . . " 🎶
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  19561. ​​ @patriciakimball8150  This has not been the case since at least Mark Twain.
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  19562. ​ @esecallum See Robert Whitaker on that issue re: psychoactive medications. Tremendous analysis.
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  19563. It's all false flag. Follow the money.
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  19564.  @dustinavant2003  😂
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  19565. @cryptbeast3222  HOW OLD WERE THEY when they transitioned? The debate has to do with minors, and drugs that prevent maturation.
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  19566. Jimmy! Invite Max Blumenthal to discuss mass formation.
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  19567. Some people don't know the difference between suspending judgment (reasonable) and going on the attack (absurd at best). Or don't want to know.
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  19568. Can anyone be this stupid?
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  19569. ​ @krillin876 Ha. No way would Robby have a job based on merit.
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  19570. @krillin876  I think this because HE is actually more ideological than Briahna, and is obviously poorly read. He actually supports less regulation of airlines and drugs. Talk about someone whose policy prescriptions could REALLY harm us! Why he comes across as basically harmless is anyone's guess.
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  19571.  @krillin876  I would say listen more closely. Deregulation -- and the capture of what little regulation exists by big money -- has undermined the security of literally every facet of our ever-more complex lives. Also, his online magazine gets Koch money. On top of everything, lol.
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  19572.  @krillin876  Who promotes that? You impute insanity to far more people than suffer from it.
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  19573.  @krillin876  Oops, the sensor is at work again. Can't be allowed to reply. (Misspelling deliberate)
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  19574.  @krillin876  Yt won't allow me . . . :/ I can't even say what is disallowed. That's disallowed.
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  19575. ​ @shebanoel This is about money. Donors have it, they can withhold it. Say what they tell you to say, or else.
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  19576. Well, do some research into why none other than Alexander Cockburn joined forces with The American Conservative on one vital issue, for one sole reason: WE need to END THE WARS. It's June 30, not even six months into the Biden presidency, and we've been on two bombing sprees already.
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  19577. ​ @squatch545 They are talking about the New York Times article.
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  19578. America is a right-wing country. You've never seen a country with an actual left wing. For example, actual leftists in Europe opposed vaccine mandates. Actual Communist Party members denounced them. The NYT doesn't translate this into English, by the way! 😂
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  19579. Not Charlottesville. Or Kenosha. Got it.
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  19580. False. American talking points by people who don't read French. The offender is committed to a mental hospital for the criminally culpable forever. He's not walking anywhere except hospital grounds.
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  19581. BTW, did you believe this because we're so used to perverse logic? Other places usually have less of that. Not always, but often enough to raise skepticism when you read something like this. You actually thought this guy was walking around? Huh. Consider whether anti-French bias is a factor.
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  19582.  @kanicman  No, that isn't why. But keep it up. I'm not sorry to see saner societies succeed in educating their youth where this sheer nonsense fails.
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  19583. Two cheeks of the same a . . . .
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  19584. Believe it.
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  19585. I agree that we do not know who did this, that strictly speaking and as a bare possibility, any major actor could be responsible, including Russia, but one thing that is never wrong is logic. Follow the logic. Always start there.
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  19586. 10:22 that word again, "weird"
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  19587. Notice how what should have been an honest look at Syria, one of the most tragic stories of war and destruction -- and war crimes -- of our time, has devolved into a debate over who showed whose female private parts to whom and who giggled about them, and a mudfest. For some, life and death, terror from the sky, or a slow death by starvation. For others, what (not) to do when haute designer wardrobes malfunction. Don't you love how that happens? Let's keep our eye on what matters.
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  19588. Speaking of latent racialized thinking, someone took a swipe at Kim Iversen by referring to the "eastern internet." They claim it was a swipe at Russia.
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  19589. No, there are actual studies that support his position. What is your opinion based on? Do you know what other countries are doing? Moreover, do you support mandates at this time? Based on what? We don't have the data to support it.
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  19590. 14:50
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  19591. ​@Conon the Binarian⚧Cuz it's a thing. 😊
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  19592. People who label views that were considered left wing just yesterday, but somehow metamorphosized in their minds to right wing today (and no one remembers exactly how or when that happened) are not fascinating. I'd call them Orwellian. Why is it that in France, it was the real leftists who opposed vaccine mandates and passports? I include members of the French Communist Party and France Insoumise in that group of real leftists. Maybe you need to pause and think this through . . .
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  19593. ​​ @lonelycubicle Better yet, find the real video and see how this excerpt grossly misrepresented what Kennedy said.
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  19594.  @a-dawghunchback6927  Honestly, they are just trying to bring Dore down. He ruffles feathers. He's really not ambiguous. Anything anyone says can be twisted. (Example: If all else fails, people opposed to Neera Tanden will be accused of discrimination. Or discrimination will be insinuated.)
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  19595.  @twinkyunouwantmycreamfilli8297  I posted links to two of his videos. Do you recognize video hyperlinks? They look like strings of letters with a few numbers, and are in blue.
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  19596.  @twinkyunouwantmycreamfilli8297  I posted two. Maybe they were shadowed, because they are actual Tim Pool videos, from his show?
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  19597.  @twinkyunouwantmycreamfilli8297  I'll try again right below, but if they were shadowed the first time, they probably will be again.
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  19598.  @twinkyunouwantmycreamfilli8297  So . . . You haven't heard of shadowing, either? Didn't cross your mind? Ooookay. Uh. Bye.
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  19599. His wife is the writer/director of "The Love Witch," the best and funniest spoof of soft core ever made.
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  19600. Krystal, the way this works is the way it's $upposed to work.
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  19601. Just think about what some people are paid to do.
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  19602. What do they look like? 😂
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  19603.  @Brien84  Musk's father just had another kid with his girlfriend.
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  19604. Arkhipov was even more impressive. He was in a disabled nuclear submarine near Cuba, and he thought his own death was likely. Discharging a nuclear warhead needed three votes, and had two. Arkhipov voted no. No, no irony. We were not told the truth about them. We were told they couldn't think, and that it was doubtful whether they could feel. False.
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  19605.  @jokers7890  thank you
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  19606. I think they leveraged the fact Sarah is Jewish to make this complete nonsense plausible. It should be obvious what stereotype they are riffing on.
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  19607.  @amydo6037  Well then it must be right. Just ask Plato.
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  19608. @Peacelily Where royals are concerned, that would be France. 😉
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  19609. @Peacelily Seriously, though, try to picture the England of, say, Bertrand Russell. That's what I mean. A man can boo like a cow can moo. Who suggested it should be illegal? Or even immoral?
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  19610. No solid evidence for that. Evidence that Azov was imposed on Zelensky. Too serious to say just like that, without clear proof. This is the worst thing a person could be.
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  19611. Including at least one where Putin has had a dirty hand.
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  19612. Prolong their agony, sure.
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  19613. If something makes more money, it will be broadcast. If it makes less, it won't. Questions?
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  19614. ​ @GP-yc2it Not what his federal plea deal says.
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  19615. "Sometimes science is wrong." No. Sometimes the scientific consensus is wrong.
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  19616. Five to six months after full vaccination, people need boosters. It's plain as day: this is an immunotherapy vaccine, not an immunizing one.
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  19617. 0:23 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  19618. Okay . . . So, this society is so disordered that multibillionaires, who made their money on advertising (which is all the social media), are "the left?"
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  19619.  @tylerdurden4032  Okay . . . So, this country is so far right that Silicon Valley millionaires and billionaires, whose impact on the region has rendered tens of thousands homeless, and who have absolutely no problem with that, and consider it their right to dominate the neoliberal establishment in Washington, are "lefties." Sure. I believe it. This is one disordered society . . .
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  19620.  Janet Benz  I wish YouTube would suppress false medical information . . . I'll try reporting it.
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  19621.  Janet Benz  Did you write a book? Congratulations!
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  19622. Someone won't go to Georgetown now, because of this? I wouldn't have gone because of Shon Hopwood.
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  19623. That happened years ago. Remember the rat line?
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  19624. In 2016, I knew Trump peaked two weeks before the election, and he was starting to decline. That is why I was sure he would lose. But no.
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  19625. Oh good. One more place we can be banned from.
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  19626. Neoliberals of the Clinton/Blair, DNC stripe who support Brussels are considered right of center in Europe, and Macron fits in perfectly. He is more true to type than a lot of DNC people.
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  19627. Let's not forget how often gender is no longer obvious. 😮
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  19628. 2:58. This is 💯
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  19629. No, you don't want to attempt to pass any change to the Constitution for this. Look up how that's done, and you'll know why. Congress could try to craft a federal statute, pursuant to the 14th Amendment. A Texas plaintiff could attempt to sue under the 14th and the 13th Amendments. Roe v. Wade came out of Texas.
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  19630.  @ponokealii  That's not the issue. You can make the argument, you can't amend the Constitution. Not the same thing. We never got an Equal Rights Amendment through, remember?
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  19631.  @ponokealii  Yes, you could, and argue that involuntary pregnancy is servitude, since it makes use of your very body against your will (though no one can force anyone to raise the child once it's born). But would that argument prove too much? Wouldn't it allow abortion at any time, even in the 9th month of pregnancy? At that point, of course, no doctor would perform one.
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  19632.  @ponokealii  Involuntary pregnancy could very well result from a loving relationship, and does. Anyway, muting you from my notifications. I don't know what the problem is, but I bet it's hard to pronounce. You're right about everything. Leave it at that, then.
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  19633.  @ponokealii  No one HAS to raise an unwanted child. They can relinquish custody to the other parent, to theit family or to the family of the other parent, or put the child up for adoption. So that argument in favor of abortion will not work. It is totally counterfactual. But you're right. Muted.
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  19634.  @ponokealii  To compare caring for an unwanted child who you can hand over to the care of others any time you want to American chattel slavery has got to be a new low. (But if I continued to listen, I bet I'd hear worse.)
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  19635.  @-b-sharp  I agree. It was horrifying. I still haven't gotten over the coercion and hate mongering.
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  19636.  @-b-sharp  Reread this. I agree even more. I wasn't being nonchalant. Just making an observation about mob "logic."
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  19637.  @-b-sharp  I don't know why I'm not getting through. But anyway.
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  19638.  @-b-sharp  That said, the hysteria is dying down. At some point it will be over. Maybe you forget how insane 2021 was.
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  19639.  @-b-sharp  Again, I do not disagree. But hysterias do have a natural history, and they do run their course most of the time. We are more on the SAME PAGE than you give me credit for, trust me. I see hope because there has been enough pushback allowed to come to the surface. Too many people are speaking their minds, too much suppression is visible. But the damage that has already been done is huge, and it still exists. It will affect us for a long time as it is, even without another round.
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  19640.  @-b-sharp  Let's see what happens after the election in November. Fear is a b****.
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  19641. Echoing points Kim made just got me censored.
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  19642. @alexschutz7283  Not sure what you mean. I said nothing about the George Floyd protests in my post, unless they hid it. Does not ring a bell, though.
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  19643. Religious parody is a tradition in France. Remember Charlie Hebo?
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  19644. Finally, someone with a fair critique. Dore was placing too much faith in neoliberal Democrats.
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  19645.  @ka3097  Yeah, but Americans are generally not too bright? You've noticed?
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  19646.  michael828  LOL, he deserved that.
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  19647.  @justinburch  Precisely why legal advice would be a good idea. Are his hands bound? As soon as that is a real question, the chances we know the answer with certitude are slim.
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  19648.  @allangibson2408 Explain why Pfizer has joined the FDA in keeping the original test data secret. Explain why the head of the CDC admitted under oath, in cordial, not adversarial questioning by a very polite Senator (and properly so, for a change), that she does not know the number or rate of severe adverse events. There is no question that for anyone over 30 and healthy, not getting vaccinated is a crap shoot. They are taking a risk. COVID is rarely serious under 30, but by 50 it is a big deal. What they don't know is the risk on the other side, because Pfizer, the FDA, and the CDC refuse to tell. It is also obvious that COVID is generally curable, and the very wealthy have no problem getting treated. Open your eyes. Trump, Chris Christie, Nancy P maskless getting her roots done, Gavin at the French restaurant, AOC at the Met. They are furious with Joe Rogan for letting the cat out of the bag.
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  19649. This sounds like a GOOD thing to me. The labor force needs the power. Of course their increase in power is going to be denounced and they will be smeared.
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  19650. I think some teenager/high school movies would be perfect. They can do that with makeup now.
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  19651. Real reason for Jimmy being hate bombed: nothing to do with AOC, etc. Everyone knows M4A is essential right now. Everyone knows his strategy is right. Jimmy pointed out the CARES Act was the BIGGEST UPWARD TRANSFER OF WEALTH in human history. That's what's behind the hate. It's always about "follow the money."
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  19652. If Turner was a religious fanatic, it may well have been seen as a sign by him. Typical of certain psychoses.
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  19653. Exactly. Perfect.
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  19654. Exactly. These are life-time appointments. Avoiding the appearance of impropriety is thus absolutely essential.
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  19655. This is a bloody shame.
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  19656. @goldenwarrior5664  See Michelle Alexander (on the difference between categorical and statistical, in The New Jim Crow); then come to Chicago. BTW, it was conservative University of Chicago that did the résumé study. Natch.
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  19657. ​ @anuragchakraborty8766  . . . that would be thanks to whom?
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  19658.  @anuragchakraborty8766  Gaza, thanks to whom? Biden's policies.
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  19659.  @alanfairbrother890  Oh boy. Where to start?
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  19660. I like your vibe. :)
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  19661. Who? The Lizard People?
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  19662. Well, it makes perfect sense. You need to stay in, or stay home more than you ever did, and your access to the outside world via the Internet will be monitored to keep you safe. Of course thanks to their efforts, you can debate and discuss freely! See! It's all very simple.
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  19663. Like, by being good in physics?
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  19664. If society were to come to grips with it, Warren Buffet would be under interrogation.
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  19665. ​ @clairebrown1361 Women should ditch those useless males. Just kidding.
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  19666.  @oasean  Yes, this was my point.
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  19667.  @RarebitFiends  The teen's alleged position was never presented at all, so how could it be questioned?
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  19668.  @RarebitFiends  BTW, I am generally against medical transitioning for most minors because of the issue of informed consent and the risks of treatment -- and I am generally against aggressive medical procedures where probable disability or death are not at issue. That's not the point. The point is about silencing "inconvenient" voices. The journalist does not have to credit the teen's perspective. The journalist has an ethical obligation not to pretend the teen's perspective does not exist, just to push her preferred politics and play to her crowd. The latter bothers me a LOT. It is everywhere, too. People just take sides instead of standing up against it.
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  19669.  @RarebitFiends  I was just making sure you didn't stereotype me . . . as well?
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  19670.  @RarebitFiends  I agree that you have good points, but what is important in this case is that the teen's view appears to have been ignored, as though she didn't attempt to make it known. Well, we actually do not know what the teen's view is, or whether her purported tweet was in fact made by her; she was not contacted by the journalist for comment. It appears that she wanted to participate and was shut down. It appears. Good journalists follow up. May I recommend Janet Malcolm's books? A master class in how it's done.
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  19671.  @RarebitFiends  I didn't say you did. I wanted to be sure you knew that my observations have nothing to do with unequivocal support, or even special sympathy, for "gender affirming care," since one's position on that hot-button issue seems to be influencing views on the separate question of journalistic practices raised here. Although the overarching question of ETHICS, in all sorts of fields, is at the forefront again. What a surprise. /s
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  19672.  @RarebitFiends  I didn't say you did. I just wanted to be sure that you did not assume that I unequivocally support, or even have special sympathy for, "gender-affirming care," because that is an entirely separate question from the question of journalistic practices in this case. Although come to think of it, both are part of the overarching question of professional ethics (in law, medicine, journalism, etc., etc.), which seems to be coming to the forefront these days more often than I can ever remember before. It's exhausting.
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  19673.  @RarebitFiends  Sorry for the double reply. I live near an airport and my Internet connection does weird stuff when the flights are right over my house. Evidence I'm not AI . . . ? 🤨
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  19674.  @RarebitFiends  However you like. I made no knowledge claims. I have no evidence that you are not an AI -- the fact that you brought it up could be a ploy, no? On the other hand, petulance seems to be human, all too human.
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  19675.  @RarebitFiends  We can come to a fact-based conclusion with ease. Your OP stated: "Why does Brie think a teenager is unquestionably trustworthy?" Please time stamp where Brie showed any sign of thinking that a teenager is unquestionably trustworthy. See. Easy.
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  19676. Not if she was of age at the time. Notice how Elon and his father come across as trans. It's interesting.
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  19677. I voted for him for Vice President. I knew why.
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  19678. He talks as if Israel has no agency. They are not even responsible for the killing of the aid workers, much less children in their beds.
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  19679.  @itsallminor6133  True
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  19680. ​ @LadyBug1967  Well, Princess Diana and her oldest sister both had eating disorders, and Diana contemplated suicide. George W. Bush certainly drank to excess in college on the weekends. Justice Kavanaugh did as well. Then of course there is also the Unabomber, who was a child prodigy in mathematics and a PhD and professor long before he became a psychotic killer and recluse. Maybe they all knew they had to hide their problems, and had support to help them cover it up. Are all of these people younger than you? I think these women were naive to admit anything to anyone. You don't tell your school about your mental health issues anymore than you would tell your boss. Discrimination is almost a certainty, and in any case, you are now dependent on their mercy. Federal law protects the privacy of medical records for a reason. Of course everyone needs to confide in others, but you have to choose carefully. Bill Gates tried to get Paul Allen to quit Microsoft when Allen was diagnosed with cancer. Allen lived over three decades after his diagnosis -- that is over 30 productive years he might have squandered. People need to take a lesson from this. Of course there were depressed students in your class, students who thought about killing themselves, and students with odd combinations of learning disabilities and talents. They confided in the art students, musicians, theatre and literature majors, not the sorority sisters, and they certainly never told a professor. They were smarter about life.
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  19681. @adams2841  Why? She was wrong. She didn't read the Complaint, nor does she know that in New York at the time, evidence of innocence was needed to maintain a civil rights suit. A vacated conviction was not enough. Try reading actual court documents. This Complaint is easy to find. I don't think Nomiki or Robbie bothered, either.
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  19682. I think the neo-Nazis are calling the shots. I tend to believe the reports that Azov Battalion-dominated militias are threatening Zelensky's life, and might harm him if he negotiates without their approval. The question is our role. Are we helping them do this?
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  19683.  @Averageidiot44  There is evidence to back these reports. That isn't proof. It's a viable possibility, and it explains a lot. The business about replacing an entire population on a territory of that size is obviously impossible and unhinged. Does anyone say unhinged things? Lots of people do. Welcome to the 21st century, sadly.
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  19684.  @Averageidiot44  I look to reports by scholars from before the invasion for basic background, to judge the plausibility of current claims. Mearsheimer, Golinkin, Stephen F Cohen. Golinkin in particular is very much anti-Putin. Do you do that, too? 😉
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  19685.  @nottodisushttoagen1309  Genius post
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  19686. Some people hate mass graves. It's true.
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  19687. @Esteban Oviedos I can see the tenor of the discussion improved, because the person talking to you was very kind and patient, and wanted to have a real exchange, rather than a "p*ss*ng match." I don't take anything back from what I said to you, however.
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  19688.  @owainkanaway8345  You are so right, in all of these points. As well as patient, well-reasoned, and kind.
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  19689. @Esteban Oviedos Toni Morrison edited a volume in the Library of America series, containing Baldwin's most important nonfiction works.
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  19690. @Esteban Oviedos What do statistics matter to Americans on the verge of homelessness? Statistically, Seattle homeless live in one of the richest cities on the planet, because Bill Gates and all (or most) of the Microsoft Board and C-suite live there. Obviously, the concentrations of wealth make poverty worse, not easier to bear. Always so bizarre to hear about "Daddy Government" on the one hand, and then the Soviets on the other! Daddy Government describes the sweet spot of the Western European mixed economies, which were market based but had extensive social safety nets, to make sure that everyone had the basics, and could count on a decent wage as long as they did their job. Actual socialism is rugged and demanding, and it produced a Gagarin, and a Zhukov, and an Arkhipov (who saved the world when he thought he was about to die). If you say it wasn't worth it, who can argue? But that has zero to do with Daddy Government. Not to mention that the spoiled people in America today -- are the "elites!" (Jeff Bezos, who sent porn selfies to his girlfriend while married; Bill Gates, who stopped by Jeff Epstein's digs more than once. LOLOL Or my personal favorite, youth marketing maven Jane Buckingham, who gave young people a good talking to, for being too spoiled, while committing fraud to get her own son into college! Read up on her.) Really, retire the talking points. They are old.
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  19691. Could the federal government buy Starlink using Eminent Domain?
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  19692. Clearly in someone's pocket, pun intended.
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  19693.  @za-ir5ni  I can tell you specifically that no vaccine that was mandated had undergone the usual approval process, that no vaccine was tested to demonstrate that it halted transmission, that patents were not lifted, immunity from suit for injury was complete, data that should have been shared was instead guarded, and that initial safety signals that in all previous drugs had been taken seriously and investigated were brushed off in this case. That's for starters. Private schools reopened for the wealthy in the fall of 2020. Do they have superior hygiene or genetics? All of that points to something other than the emergency we were told this virus was. Now it's turning out that treatments were defective (early use of ventilators, failure to treat bacterial pneumonia, etc.). Remember how Trump and Chris Christie bounced right back, as did Joe Rogan? You know they got monoclonal antibodies that were not available to most people. Vaccination of kids and teens who had had COVID and recovered easily was mandated for school or college. Pregnant women were given vaccines based on very little study, and it took a while for doctors to concede that the mRNA travels throughout the body and is excreted in breast milk for days. Harris also forgets that the J & J vaccine had to be stopped due to several deaths from unusual strokes. Republican states tend to be poorer and have more chronic illness than Democratic ones. Poor people in the Democratic states died more often, too. Still, no Medicare for all.
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  19694.  @za-ir5ni  It's also objectively true that many who declined vaccination and lost their jobs sued and got them back. Notably, unionized work forces could not be treated that way and those with religious objections could not be summarily brushed off. OSHA probably exceeded its authority ; I don't recall at the moment. Doctors and hospitals that misdiagnosed vaccine injuries and failed to treat them have been sued. They are liable even if pharmaceutical companies are not.
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  19695. She supported having debate. Come on.
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  19696. 😂
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  19697. @Galen052  Get a transcript and read it in the morning.
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  19698.  @Galen052  My suggestion that you obtain a tran_script is missing for some reason. If I ask you repeatedly whether you support the husband and other men on trial in Mazan, I wonder what what will happen?
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  19699.  @Galen052  You do support them, don't you? Mazan.
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  19700. He always was a Democrat. Why should he accept the Clinton cabal takeover of one of the two major parties? That is the point.
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  19701. Scaramucci certainly avoids the question . . . :D He answers the question he wanted to be asked -- which is tactically "good," but doesn't accomplish anything really good at all.
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  19702. They are making you think censorship is necessary "to protect the public." The FTC already has the power to prosecute false advertising, especially false medical advertising, and pandemic profiteers, which is what some of them are. But that's not what was proposed. Panels of MSM journalists are proposed.
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  19703. Alexander Cockburn was willing to write for The American Conservative for the specific purpose of ending war and bringing troops home. Those were the days.
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  19704. The sciences use an entirely different committee.
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  19705. I think that most of those who have had no issues during the first 6 to 12 months, and who do not go near these vaccines again, will be all right. Research on what to do now is imperative. We underestimate what diet and exercise can do to reverse illness. Some won't be all right. I concede that.
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  19706.  @fridgerator3786  Oh, now everyone has to have a video? If the kid did not attempt to cross the threshold of the door to the home without permission, then there is NO ground for using force, much less deadly force. NO stand your ground law permits you to shoot in response to a doorbell ring, much less to shoot a second time when the man is already down.
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  19707. I'm sure it must be. He's 55, and lived very modestly his whole life. South Side, youngest of 12? Probably got his first job about four decades ago.
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  19708.  No Name  And if he didn't have a nice home, he'd be "a loser" and "jealous." Or better yet, "why does Bernie care? He already has Medicare." LOL, trash talking not working!
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  19709. The Soviets under Stalin banned lobotomies about 20 years before the United States did. You underestimate the power of money to coerce.
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  19710. True.
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  19711. They are lying to you here. The real issue is, why don't you see through it?
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  19712. ​ @secretsquirrel6718  No degree when he's 50 years old and needs to work 20 more years . . . How will that work out? Just great I am sure. /s
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  19713. ​ @billTO Except that at 75, you could work part-time easily. A person in the trades better not need to.
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  19714. @secretsquirrel6718  So, you're not going to educate your child. Got it. No problem. Count on the BRICS+ to educate theirs. Count on these two talking heads' kids, nieces, and nephews to go to the best schools. Yours can be arthritic plumbers at 60. You can hope theirs will hire yours. "Please please please"
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  19715.  @tunemaking  LOL, show me an actual socialist country that did not create 99% literacy in one generation, and that did not come out on top at the mathematics olympiads every year, for generations. Do you think Cuba and Venezuela have drag queen story hour? For all that is wrong with them, the one thing you can't accuse them of is that form of decadence. That is Western neoliberal, through and through.
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  19716. Carl Tharp-Porter: WOW!!!
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  19717. We are reaching pitch insanity. The fever has to break soon.
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  19718. One in ten women with long COVID after giving birth is not a high number at all. Post-viral syndrome is well known, particularly in women. It's common for women (btw, women, not "pregnant people") to have a less severe case of any major viral illness, but then a longer and slower recovery than men do. Telling someone who is ill that they are just imagining it is the quickest way to make them sicker. Guaranteed. On the other hand, when I felt unusually tired after a severe cold in the fall of 2019, my doctor gave me a thorough check up, then urged me not to baby myself and to take long walks. I started that very day. He predicted the post-viral syndrome would be gone in about two weeks. That is exactly what happened. That's how supportive care and encouragement work. Wowie zowie.
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  19719. @utah_koidragon7117  I have no idea what you mean by that. What I stated was accurate. If someone, somewhere is trying to milk this (just as big pharma has), how does that affect what I said? And who is suggesting any particular therapy for long COVID that has any resemblance whatsoever to trans? It's exactly the opposite: better nutrition, better sleep, more fresh air and exercise, fasting protocols, certain vitamins --- those are the interventions that doctors are suggesting. I had unusual fatigue after an unusually severe cold in 2019. I got a complete checkup, and a recommendation not to baby myself and to take long walks, which I started doing that very evening. My doctor predicted I'd be fine in 2 to 3 weeks. That's exactly what happened. I've had post-viral syndromes that lasted much longer. I've known people who had had viral meningitis, viral pneumonia, mononucleosis, etc., who took nearly a year to get back to feeling 100% like they did before getting sick.
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  19720. Of course it is. Depp says Heard's article is defamatory and is responsible for costing him $50,000,000. Depp has to prove that, before the sheriff starts seizing Heard's assets, her bank accounts, her house, etc. The defense gets to show that Depp can't prove $50,000,000 in damages due to Heard's article. Seems like a good idea to me.
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  19721.  @evewaddington6225  oh my goodness 🤣🤣🤣
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  19722. So let me see if I understand. Gain-of-function research produced something less than the flu. Then why hide where it came from? Who would care? Just admit there was an accident. Big deal.
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  19723. What are the medical reasons why someone cannot take an mRNA vaccine?
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  19724.  @pfinniganallen  Not relevant. Not a federal prosecution.
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  19725. ​ @mkodyglobalsouthsoldier  "You heard" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  19726. ​​ @lixicbre The scandal of their relationship is well known. Her daughter was in the same class as Macron when she was his teacher. Are you suggesting she was really the father?
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  19727. ​ @lixicbre "independent investigations" What else did they turn up? A Kenyan birth certificate for Obama? An Ethiopian one for Trump?
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  19728. @lixicbre  Have you ever watched an Adam Curtis documentary? It reminds me of one segment where a wacky story was floated by the CIA to test its penetration, and to discredit solid criticism. If Macron can paint his opponents as being prey to bizarre nonsense, that only serves him.
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  19729. @SeraphimLeo Who do you think has the burden of proof? Prove to me you are or not trans.
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  19730. @SeraphimLeo  WHAT evidence? By the way, my substantive post was censored, but you're allowed to spread this. Why do you think that is?
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  19731. @SeraphimLeo  By the way, I was censored. You cannot see what I stated about this.
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  19732.  @lixicbre  My refutation was censored. LOL
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  19733. @SeraphimLeo  I was censored. So you don't know what I'm asserting. Is that too tough for you? Blocked for bad faith.
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  19734. @SeraphimLeo Blocked for bad faith.
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  19735. ​@SeraphimLeo you are fa
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  19736. Why a thug? Did he hit her or threaten to hit her?
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  19737. "Babies cut out of wombs" --- see The Brothers Karamazov for the origin of that accusation.
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  19738. 13:19 LOL No one would believe it without a record.
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  19739. Not what he said. And I'm no fan.
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  19740. You know what was most infuriating? 1. There was evidence that people who took Vitamin D had a better response to the vaccines: better immune response, fewer side effects. 2. It was known that living at a high latitude made people of color more susceptible to severe COVID. WHY was the information about Vitamin D suppressed? This shows that it was because of ideology, not medicine. Shame!!
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  19741. Um, who??
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  19742. Bleep reminds me of George Carlin's seven words.
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  19743.  @Danni.D  A month ago, Omicron was the only COVID in the US. It pushed out all others.
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  19744. Your comment is pretty great, too. :) Thanks!!
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  19745. Doors flying off of aircraft are fine, too. Massive toxic spills, ditto. Water quality is fine, GMOs in food are fine, prove they're not. Bill Gates shoved Paul Allen out of Microsoft because he was concerned that Allen might have developed cancer due to overwork. So Gates pursued a relationship with Epstein? He wanted to advance Science. "Dual-use technology" doesn't exist, it's just a talking point. Big Pharma never lies. Just read White Coat Black Hat and Anatomy of an Epidemic, you'll see. We are lucky to have their Science helping us all. People who refuse EUA drugs should lose their jobs.
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  19746.  @scottdorsey8220  But then, that makes them "losers." That's the elite narrative. Every time.
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  19747. Were ethnic Germans in the Sudetenland (correct spelling) being killed by the thousands for eight years during a smoldering civil war in the region, prior to the annexation? If not, then it's not "just like Hitler." (The Red Army was fighting The Real Hitler long before Americans showed up.)
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  19748. They WILL go on general strike. And the firefighters already protect demonstrators from police.
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  19749.  @andrevaudrin3164  For much longer than that. But this scheme won't succeed.
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  19750. 8:14 Voilà . . . Les masses "théoriquement mobilizables" ne le sont pas.
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  19751. Olberman not only can say it about the 2016 election, he got PAID to say it.
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  19752. Good god, thank you for making this point. I never realized it.
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  19753. No, lol. The "sound" refers to the sound waves it uses to bounce off of the structures it is probing, in order to form a picture. "Also called sonography, [it] is an imaging method that uses sound waves to produce images of structures within the body." You're really off. Say, I have an idea: people who don't know stuff should not control the lives of others. They should not rely on criminal law to force others to do what they want. They should rely on First Amendment rights and persuasion.
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  19754.  @christopher92051  No it doesn't. Ultrasound uses sound waves to create an image. It does not detect sound or amplify sound. It uses the waves it itself generates to create images. You need some science education, and not to be too lazy to open up a reliable reference online or to go to the library. This technology has nothing to do with pregnancy as such; it was used for imaging other organs before it came into use to image embryos and fetuses.
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  19755.  @christopher92051  Where did I say you lied? You made a mistake. You think you know what you do not know. People who do that shouldn't be able to force others to do what they want. You can't even quote back to me what I said accurately, but you support new criminal laws? I don't think you're in a position to foist some more of those on the rest of us, . . . but since when do qualifications matter? I guess the joke is on me, huh?
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  19756.  @christopher92051  A lie is deliberate.
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  19757. Nope. All theorems are about infinite sets of mathematical objects.
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  19758. What official act did they attempt to prevent?
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  19759. We hope.
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  19760. Absolutely.
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  19761. He lost work after he lost a previous defamation case in UK, where he had a much better case. He is also hard to insure in Hollywood because he has substance abuse issues. Did you read her article? That's what the case is about. Whether the article is First Amendment-protected or whether she can be punushed for it by having her assets seized and turned over to Depp.
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  19762. Ever heard of "New York Times malice?" Ever heard of Alexander Acosta? Acosta should testify before Congress.
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  19763.  @JohnMoran  Where do you get that idea? They were right-wing pseudo-hippies. Anyway, the post doesn't speak to that.
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  19764.  @jamesshoup4246  Dore himself is taking ivermectin as part of a study of those who developed long COVID symptoms as a result of vaccination, which is rare, compared with long COVID following a natural infection frim COVID. See Lex Fridman's Sept 1st podcast where he interviews a real virologist from Columbia University and they discuss ivermectin. Rationally.
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  19765. Only Glenn Greenwald took an analytical approach. No personality crap.
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  19766. Now you know: never get high again. It's not worth it.
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  19767. She is so bad she is unwatchable.
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  19768.  @headkicked  That doesn't work very often.
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  19769. He never had a First Amendment class? He never read Nadine Strossen? The Hustler case? That is how he sounds.
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  19770. Nice!
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  19771. Not the case. It's a multi-pronged standard.
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  19772. The existence of a treatment, plus the fact that fully vaccinated people do still contract and spread COVID, undercuts vaccine mandates.
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  19773. The Supreme Court struck down a certain OSHA mandate, thank GOD.
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  19774. The human embryo and fetus are unique stages of development. Human embryos are created and destroyed in modern fertility treatments all the time.
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  19775. ???
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  19776. Ever since Katie Halper said, "woke washing," it keeps coming up.
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  19777. If not, they are being deliberately misleading.
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  19778. Do you know anyone on Medicare? Do you know anyone who contracted cancer before Medicare? Do you know any workers who don't have a shred of health insurance?
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  19779.  rs_  I don't see why that study you cite in particular should have been excluded from those qualifying to enter the meta-analysis pool. I do see the point that this type of meta-analysis runs a serious risk of cherry-picking. This type of study does not use random sampling, it uses selection criteria to choose studies that are supposed to be scientifically sound, and meet uniform criteria for inclusion and exclusion. Meta-analysis generally has this problem, especially when social policy interventions are being analyzed. A meta-analysis of studies that are double blind, and randomly assign participants to those receiving the medication being investigated, and those receiving a placebo, are a lot more solid. Vastly. Okay? Or something else is at issue?
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  19780.  rs_  Studies that looked at mask wearing and also looked at "lockdown" type mitigation were included; purely mask wearing studies were not. The major criticism of your OP was cherry-picking. I agree that is always a problem. The accusation that these guys started with the conclusion they wanted, then looked for studies to massage, could be true (no kidding), but it was asserted mainly based on an appeal to authority. Who and where did one of them say the lockdown measures were "fascist?"
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  19781.  rs_  I understood that "only mask wearing" was excluded. But let's try a different tack: do I believe Jimmy read this whole study, or read more of it than you did? I don't know, of course, but I think not.
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  19782.  rs_  Found his account, he is hyper-political. The only place I saw him use the term "fascist" was in reference to laws that make it a crime to decline vaccination, which he claims Austria is contemplating. (I tend to agree with that.) Most of his tweets are wildly juvenile, he has a Venezuela obsession, etc. Inflation is purely a money supply phenomenon (groan), etc. LOL
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  19783.  rs_  I found his reference to Italy, for introducing fines for not being vaccinated, thus making it a misdemeanor/minor infraction. Did you see where he said lockdowns alone are fascist? Some of the tactics being used, such as where police beat or teargassed anti-mandate protesters, were ridiculous, and yeah, I see a tinge of fascism in that. The fever pitch hysteria over any questions about these top-down directives, and hyperbole from people like McCullough, who has a few ostensibly good points to make, really angered me. There are no "sides" in honest, empirical investigation. Reminds me of Adam Curtis documentaries, where he shows the false flags to be false flags. Or are they? Yeesh.
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  19784. Big state, big army, tiny state, no real army.
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  19785. La folie américaine néoliberale, . . . . Tôt ou tard, elle arrive partout. On ne peut pas s'en garder.
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  19786. Of course. That was obvious.
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  19787.  @lorainejones41  There were many times, especially in 2020, when I thought Tucker should have been suspended or fired. In all honesty, his coverage of Ukraine is among the least tendentious. I'm surprised. If he says something true, that doesn't make it suddenly false.
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  19788. That, too.
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  19789. It's often like that, huh?
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  19790. No wonder the Anglosphere is a bunch of subjects, not citizens with real rights.
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  19791. ​ @viperking6573 What part of shoot out his tires is lost on you? Oh, police don't have good aim except for a torso right in front of them? Could that be it?
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  19792. Don't scare people. Things are sufficiently grim without exaggerating. You have no knowledge about all that, at all.
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  19793. Weight lifting for sure. Organic kimchi, a killer.
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  19794. PANDEMIC PANDEMIC PANDEMIC!! But, but PANDEMIC!!!!
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  19795. Why? The only thing that will be accomplished is to end Social Security. None of the other things will. You don't see that? 😂
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  19796. During Ramadan.
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  19797. Wrong. The global top 10% excludes 70% of Americans in terms of wealth. "Income?" You have to convert that into purchasing parity, because that is what determines lifestyle. E.g., the wealthiest quintile in income takes 2/3 to 3/4 of all airline trips, etc., in most Western countries. Try looking stuff up.
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  19798. Ask the ten year old assault victim and her doctor. The right claimed she was a myth, and the doctor got threats. That shook people up. Find out the number of pregnancies in girls under 17. People want clarity in the law. They want guaranteed rights, not "maybes."
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  19799. I'm glad I did not watch.
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  19800. That's the kind of thinking I like to see. We should reserve judgment until we have some facts, and not fear any plausible hypothesis.
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  19801.  @Malcolm5252  You have very little evidence for that, either. A few places on the planet had hospitals and morgues overwhelmed. Literally just a handful. The US pre-vaccine and post-vaccine statistics are not compelling. It is clear that people over 50 were FAR less likely to suffer serious illness with the vaccines, and that the cost-benefit analysis for them weighed heavily in favor of taking the risk of vaccination. That much is true. That much, but not more.
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  19802.  @freeweights101  That's right. The consent forms painted a very different picture than the MSM, but "brought to you by Pfizer." They counted on people not reading them. The media had me believing no one was going into debt for medical care surrounding COVID or vaccine injuries. HA.
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  19803. This was so funny.
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  19804.  @markishbasedgod5251  You imagine that many of us haven't worked very hard, yet reaped little reward? What world do YOU live in?
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  19805.  @nerdify3780  You better believe I've never so much as thought to do something like that. I know I'd be on the curb in a heartbeat.
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  19806.  @divinerevelation.777  There are degrees.
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  19807.  @CherryBlossomBlyue  First of all, yes. Even the CFO is the public face of the company. But if you sense something additional may be going on, always trust that little voice. You are more likely right than wrong. :)
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  19808. Sorry, that television exit does not bother me. That one I am for, even from him.
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  19809. are you sure kombucha isn't DANGEROUS???
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  19810. No it isn't. A resolution distancing themselves from her words is "more speech." A censure is a finding of wrongdoing for having spoken, and a formal reprimand for her words. They could have passed a resolution stating they disagreed with her and affirming their support for Israel. They didn't. They doled out a punishment instead. You all give up rights too easily.
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  19811. Aaron: "Who goes to orgies any more?" 🤣🤣🤣
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  19812. Listen to that clip of Fauci again. Fauci wants this to be about Fauci. Making it about Fauci is a classic deliberate diversion and a fraud. Why are we not discussing the nature of this research, where it's taking place, and how risky it is? Why don't we all know exactly what OUR part in Wuhan was, and the major evidence for the virus's origins being there? Why were the biolabs in Ukraine funded by the Dept of Defense mentioned, then dropped? All of these questions are well founded, and based on (bits and pieces of) information straight from the mouths of government officials and agencies. Turn this into another Depp v. Heard, instead. That'll work. There's a reason Fauci gets the money he does. His protests are an act he's paid to put on. Brie finally makes the central point around 10:28. It always takes her too long to get there.
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  19813. Constitutionality isn't an issue. Harvard is a private university, and its admissions are protected by First Amendment freedom of association. Their problem is that they accept a ton of federal funding, which means their admissions can be scrutinized. A limited use of race in admissions has been legal up until now, based on a long line of Supreme Court cases. The other side wants that precedent overruled and to have all use of race declared illegal for any university accepting government funds. The briefs are really interesting. The Court always publishes them.
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  19814. In prison, huh? Did anyone go to jail for banning Henry Miller, or Hustler magazine, or the musical Hair? How about for refusing to register the marriage of an interracial couple? Or running a segregated pizza parlor? 🤣🤣🤣
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  19815.  @laertesindeed  All right, so you will try to string together words you may not understand to console yourself. Please do. Your feelings about criminal law have nothing to do with reality, but they are your feelings. No argument there.
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  19816.  @laertesindeed  The issue in this case concerning whether Harvard's admissions policy discriminates based on race has nothing to do with the Constitution. The case is based on federal statutes, and the fact that Harvard takes federal money every year.
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  19817.  @laertesindeed  You really have something wrong with you -- the only question is how much. In any case, enough that I wouldn't want you prowling around my house or garage. Blocked. Get a good book on writing. You want to write well, but can't yet. Study, and you will improve. Make that your resolution.
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  19818. ^1000
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  19819. See the congressional report on the 251 military interventions just since the Clinton administration.
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  19820. Y'know, SA doesn't exist any more. Not since Jeffrey Epstein "killed himself." These are just a bunch of Karens. /s
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  19821. ​ @barryfleming8488 Oh that's right. You didn't wonder about the Odyssey. My bad.
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  19822. @georgiawhite8470  Martial arts? Against a gun? Are you serious? See my suggestion about making him think he's dropping you. Act unattractive. Drone on and on in a nasal voice. Tell him you need annual biopsies, and that you can't have kids because of cancer. When he's staring at you, pick your nose and pretend you're hiding it from him. Tell him you once liked girls, too. Tell him you sometimes throw up with men. Be creative. Above all, do not be sincere, do not be genuine, and do not say no. "No" is a challenge. It's virtue signaling for the spectators or the police. It's not going to save your life.
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  19823. @georgiawhite8470  Martial arts? Against a firearm in the hands of a former soldier? Are you serious? This is from the 007 movies. See my suggestion about making him think he's dropping you. Act unattractive. Drone on and on in a nasal voice. Tell him you need annual biopsies and you're sick of it. Tell him that you can't have kids because of childhood cancer. When you know he's staring at you, pick your nose and pretend you're hiding it from him. Tell him you once liked women, too. Tell him you sometimes throw up with men but not with women. Be creative. Above all, do not be sincere, do not be genuine, and do not say no. "No" is a challenge. It's virtue signaling for the spectators or the police. It's not going to save you. The breakup will be "his idea."
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  19824.  @knowsmebyname  Yes, I thought the same. But see my suggestion.
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  19825.  @SiViC74  Three dates? You're right. Just say no. Always say no. Don't date at all.
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  19826. @nicholasschoonbeck6866  Look, it isn't all men. It is FAR too many men, true, but they are pathological. In a free society, you cannot stop them all before they act. Look at my suggestions. I'm assuming they are visible. Sincerity is overrated. No means no to normal people. Picking your nose, eating it, and throwing up means "no was my own idea, I'm done here" to a predator.
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  19827. ​@nicholasschoonbeck6866 Too bad my reply to you just got the deep six, except if you sort by the Newest tab.
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  19828.  @brl0522  And real suggestions here are shadowed, too.
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  19829.  @nicholasschoonbeck6866  Too bad my reply is missing here, and my alerting you to that, ditto. Of course.
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  19830. The irony is that this approach will cause more people to seek out vaccination on their own. Of COURSE.
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  19831. This is too convoluted. Most of what Trump said may be reprehensible, but it is First Amendment-protected speech. Pressuring state officials to dig up some votes, IF HE DID, is a different matter. That is tampering with the vote count. Of course it's illegal. Pressuring Pence the way Trump did may have been illegal as well.
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  19832. My understanding is that LFI is willing to threaten exit, and make good on the threat.
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  19833. 💯 you got it
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  19834. Musk literally called it a Ponzi scheme. That means the entire Social Security system is a fraud. The reason why it is not a "Ponzi scheme" is that that characterization assumes the dollar to be a rigid yardstick, when we all know it is not. In simple terms, everyone paid in with stronger dollars, but the payout does not fully keep pace with inflation. In the meantime, the dollars are invested in US Treasuries, which pay significant interest when large sums such as these are involved.
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  19835. But COVID symptoms PLUS a PCR test, properly conducted, do lead to a correct diagnosis in the vast majority of cases. Bayesian probability. Look it up.
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  19836. "TSA officers confiscated a record number of guns at airport checkpoints in 2022, agency officials announced Tuesday. The Transportation Security Administration said they discovered 6,542 firearms over the course of the year, 570 more than was found in 2021, which previously held the record. The agency reported that 88% of the guns they confiscated were loaded at the time. All those guns can be a costly mistake for travelers. In December, TSA raised the fines for carrying a gun through airport security because of the increase through 2022. Previously, an unloaded gun carried a fine between $1,500 and $2,475 and a criminal referral, while a loaded gun found at airport security could lead to a fine between $3,000 and $10,000. For the 241 guns found in the last two weeks of the year, the maximum fine for a loaded gun could be as much as $14,950. Repeat offenders could rack up fines for even more, according to the agency's website." Yeah. We take this stuff very, very seriously.
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  19837.  @humanbeing2420  But Cornel West supports this endeavor.
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  19838. ​ @jasondoolin6476  love life
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  19839. Who cares if someone, somewhere thinks you should suffer to lose weight? Find a good doctor (hard enough), then keep your medical history PRIVATE. This is a non-issue extraordinaire.
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  19840. He can be, through a court process, affording him full constitutional rights. Impeachment would have worked, but he was never convicted.
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  19841. @mariesmith8454 Not based on mere popular opinion about what "insurrection" means. I have a crazy idea: run a good candidate against him. Stuff like that used to work.
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  19842. @mariesmith8454 Anyone who should be charged and convicted SHOULD be charged and convicted. I have no problem with that.
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  19843. @mariesmith8454  Due Process is, however, a constitutional right. That's what we're talking about. You cannot deprive anyone of running for office and taking office if he wins, without affording him due process. There is one clear way to stop Trump: Beat him. You know what? After the Dems, to the shock of everyone, lost in November 2016, they could have vowed to reorganize and develop a candidate who would decisively beat Trump. They have had seven years. If they think Trump is so dangerous, why are they running a corrupt, senile old man against him? I think Trump has been an unmitigated disaster. The Dems don't seem to agree. Neither do the Republicans. Now why would that be? (Follow the money?) Don't get hung up on what people say. Watch what they do.
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  19844. @mariesmith8454  People like you scare me. You think trading barbs and likes on Facebook is more important than the Bill of Rights. You really do. And you're sure you're enlightened.
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  19845. @mariesmith8454  I've never subscribed to any such thing. I came here during the 2020 shutdown, and couldn't save videos without an account. This is a wasteland all right. Blocked.
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  19846. @mariesmith8454  Yes I do.
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  19847. @mariesmith8454  Who do you think gets to decide whether Section 3 of the Fourteen Amendment applies to bar a person from office, and how is that determination made?
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  19848. @mariesmith8454 Oh . . . So CONGRESS has to do it. Has Congress gotten around to making that determination?
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  19849. @mariesmith8454 You know this will be before the US Supreme Court, correct? Unless Colorado, Maine, and others moot the cases by staying their decisions and allowing him to appear on the ballot despite their serious misgivings. They may do exactly that. Then you have to wonder about the reason for the exercise in the first place. Isn't it seem like a good idea to beat him at the ballot box instead? One would think.
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  19850. @mariesmith8454  You edited out Congress!! 🤣🤣🤣 That paste and cut didn't prove what you wanted it to prove, huh? 🤡🌎 This seems to mean a lot to you, but I don't care, frankly. Every president has harmed our family, including one who bombed where my family is from with depleted uranium. Toodles, I'm turning off notifications.
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  19851. Google? That tells you stuff "ha ha?" No libraries out by you?
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  19852.  @phoenixmistertwo8815  Show me where I did.
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  19853. What I'm thinking . . . 😢
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  19854. My question: What is wrong with the West? Have you noticed how every member of the BRICS has been a center of Western obsession, fascination, and a source of mysterious or glamorous symbolic power? What's up with that? 😂
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  19855. Plus there is a teacher shortage!
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  19856. "Left" moved hard right under Clinton.
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  19857. Why? She said her electric takes too long to heat up, and that it should be a choice. How crazy are people to seize on this remark?
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  19858.  @robertfailla293  You mean I'm supposed to know that it's because she's black?
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  19859.  @robertfailla293  Funny, Glenn Greenwald just had Briahna as his guest on his new Rumble show. I guess a lot of people, of varying political opinions, who can follow her discourse like her.
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  19860.  @WyoSavage1976  Time stamp? Also, are you sure you didn't switch that around somehow? Reread.
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  19861.  @robertfailla293  Lost what? (The opportunity to join YOUR crowd? 🤣)
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  19862. It's funny to me that they don't begin by describing exactly what they are talking about, and without distinguishing pornography from erotica. There is a difference, and erotica can be found in some R-rated films. It's not necessarily oriented away from passionate love.
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  19863. ​ @Shibby27ify Great question
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  19864. Is abuse the weapon of choice of most men?
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  19865. Who did? Not Dore.
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  19866.  @garryloper7170  One of the third party candidates. Dore is opposed to Biden, and blames him for endless wars and mass incarceration.
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  19867.  @garryloper7170  Those with property have always sought to capture government. At present you can't get "less government." We will get exactly the government Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg, et al., want us to have.
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  19868. Yeah, the pseudo progressives have been saying that. See Max Blumenthal on workers being fired over mandates, just the other day on TJDS.
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  19869. 3:25 I still remember a medical malpractice story I heard from a PhD student decades ago, who was misdiagnosed, sent to a psychiatrist, and could have died from pneumonia. She said, "before this happened to me, if someone had told me that it happened to them, I would not have believed it." Also, the fact that she recovered and moved on was impressive. People with nothing to prove are relieved to turn the page.
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  19870. ​ @Guy-d2e U of Michigan Law School took this case in their innocence project. This isn't news at all.
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  19871. ​ @MidnightMedia_ Only a president from the same party could influence a governor. That's one thing. The Frontline documentary The Confessions shows how Hillary's future running mate refused four innocent service members. This is how these things go.
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  19872. The only left America has had in recent times were the people marched in front of HUAC who declined to testify against their friends.
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  19873. Ce n'était pas évident pendant la pandemie.
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  19874.  @Davi-jx9de  Je parlais de Trump. Ce que Trump a fait en 2019 et 2020 n'était pas à l'intérêt des américains.
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  19875. ​ @chigal0926  Do you realize how clearly uneducated and childish you sound, next to OP and those supporting them? You're exemplifying the shallowness they talk about.
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  19876. 10:12. House Republicans are there to fundraise big time.
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  19877. You actually know African history?
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  19878. For the elites, it is all about personalities, fashion, food, and money. Lots of real estate, of course. They really don't care. At all.
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  19879. If this had been a true emergency, data would have been shared widely and urgently. So, what was this?
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  19880. Nice to listen to such a sweet guy today.
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  19881. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 What to do with you? If I say Hess v. Indiana, could you possibly find your way to a wikipedia-type entry? At least that much?
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  19882. You're all crazy. Thanks for proving it by mentioning Ball.
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  19883. ​ @m.b.ortega544 So did you research this man's Tax Court and 9th Circuit Court of Appeals record? Did you research the 16th Amendment? (And do you know that scammers can stay out of jail by turning government witness?)
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  19884. 😂😂😂😂 With a sense of humor like that, I bet it's huge.
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  19885. Nick and Max are the best.
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  19886. 💯
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  19887. These are all fake priests who put on the act solely for access to boys. I say that as an atheist never-Catholic. It works like a charm, doesn't it?
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  19888. @Boze Joe the Clown  Their parents did, too. Jimmy Dore's brothers and sisters were Boomers.
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  19889.  @Fuzzycat16  I've never seen 4chan. Do you like it? Do you need a special Dark Web browser or does it come up on Google? Help us to see the light. Full confession: I think Robert Greene is funny, too.
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  19890.  @Fuzzycat16  Ha ha ha . . . But you apparently are familiar with "4CHAN!"
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  19891.  @Fuzzycat16  Heard of him, yes. Seen any sign of him, no.
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  19892.  @Fuzzycat16  More to the point, don't miss out on Robert Greene. His writing is better than his video interviews.
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  19893. Exactly. Why unleash Internet memes? We got drones, we got bombs, we got the CIA.
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  19894. We don't need this politicization of vaccines from anybody. Did you ever think people would bring large firearms to statehouses to protest public health measures? Did you ever think wearing a mask would be politicized? Did you think anyone was that crazy?
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  19895. So, no one is going to consider withdrawing approval of the vaccines, pending review? It's going to be a 💰 calculation instead. How about that.
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  19896. So, they will not even consider withdrawing approval of the vaccines, pending an in-depth review. How come doing the right thing costs money, and doing the wrong thing makes money? ("Personal circumstances," huh?)
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  19897. Not since 9/11!
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  19898. We need a *WPA*!!!
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  19899. Mr. Musk is an incredibly prolific con man who was charged with securities fraud by the SEC in 2018.
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  19900.  @cisium1184  You say this about someone who has been repeatedly in hot water with the SEC, and has a major lawsuit in California over Tesla, and a major administrative complaint against Neuralink? Well, maybe you're right. People who keep getting away with things and leaving muddy water behind them must be very good at something. That's not the life most people live.
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  19901.  @cisium1184  I agree with that. Of course you're right. Contracts, like everything, are case by case, and better be.
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  19902. Northern California sunless due to the fires? But . . . but, how could this happen, to the greatest entepreneurs in human history???
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  19903. Don't worry. You will be.
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  19904. There is a new brazeness.
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  19905. I agree with 5:30 even more. That's the heart of it. The whole story in 90 seconds. Actually 5:30 to the end is the important part.
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  19906. Glad to hear you're fine!
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  19907. 3:43 😂😂😂😂😂
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  19908. Social Darwinism in action again . . .
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  19909. How did anyone think she could be elected??
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  19910.  @Torthrodhel  Of course it's completely incorrect.
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  19911.  @dakkerrins6344  Your comment is extra-ironic. You didn't give truth much thought, obviously.
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  19912.  @Bruintjebeer6  We agree.
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  19913. He should not vote pro or con.
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  19914. Deep Fakes are not always . . . funny.
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  19915. In this clip, he couldn't even talk.
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  19916. I'd love to know how many veterans over the age of 25 they admit. How about the decorated ones, who truly distinguished themselves in uniform? That is one way to increase black enrollment.
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  19917. His doctor advised him to get it. He didn't bop over to CVS.
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  19918.  @SoCal-Piper  That shows that he did not make a dumb decision. He has a rare bone disorder, so he consulted his doctor. Sorry, not dumb. Tragic, maybe, but he is now feeling much better.
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  19919.  @SoCal-Piper  It must always be an individual decision, based on informed consent.
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  19920.  @SoCal-Piper  I support anyone who made the choice to the best of their ability. The burden of proof is always on the proponent of a medical intervention. The default answer is "no." Or, "persuade me." The default answer is not "yes." No one has to justify refusal.
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  19921.  @SoCal-Piper  BTW, Kim Iversen had a great report on global protests against mandates and passports. Excellent footage, on the Hill Rising this morning.
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  19922.  @SoCal-Piper  Come to think of it, in this context, if anyone weighs in on the vaccine policy debates, they should tell the truth about their vaccination status. Making an audience believe you oppose vaccination while being vaccinated, or worse yet, pushing a vaccine you or your younger family members have no intention of taking, is vile. I suspect a lot of "anti-vaxxers" are vaccinated, especially if they are over 50. I also suspect a lot of pro-vaxx people are not giving it to their minor children and grandchildren. What you think? I think we are lied to a LOT.
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  19923. If you feel sick from technology, there is an app for that.
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  19924. Ghislaine Maxwell at Chelsea Clinton's wedding . . .
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  19925. Sounds like Scientology. Too much like.
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  19926. Dore, Mate, Blumenthal, Taibbi, Halper, Hedges, and above all Glenn Greenwald all cared. Not to mention luminaries like the ACLU under Nadine Strossen, who just came out with a great book on why we should not give in to the call to censor "hate speech." Granted, they are relatively marginalized by the MSM/DNC types, but that's to their credit.
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  19927.  @daysjours  Yes, even better.
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  19928. If Ana had played this dirty, dirty game against Jimmy just a few weeks prior, she might have gotten away with it. Her miscalculation was in underestimating Aaron. BIG mistake. This will be very funny . . . Not yet. Soon. LOL
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  19929.  @johnlennon6790  You are an example of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing, to your assessment of what you actually know. There are no perfectly elastic demand curves, and no workforce that is not a market participant as consumers. Hence there is no corporation that can pass all of its tax burden onto the consumer.
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  19930.  @johnlennon6790  And when someone disagrees with you, you go ad hom: "you will forever remain poor," etc. Just saw the old documentary about NXIVM, it struck me how much of Raniere's propaganda matched the Zeitgeist. His "professional success" training seminars are eerily reminiscent of your schtick.
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  19931.  @johnlennon6790  Uh huh. Okay, dear.
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  19932.  @johnlennon6790  Directed at an individual you do not know is ad hom.
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  19933. Wow. Junior year drama class dropout.
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  19934. ​ @utah_koidragon7117 💯
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  19935. She did support the NASA model, actually. 9:28
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  19936. Yes, and the law treats property and life/safety/health of persons differently. Lethal force in defense of persons is legal. In defense of mere property, it is not.
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  19937. ​ @nikolassodiant2595  Actually, not. It is international. Americans, among others, have been presidents of the jury many times. They also give opportunities to young filmmakers in student films. My friend's cousin was in a student film shown at Cannes one year.
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  19938. @The Propaganda Machine Yeah. It could have started out as a sincere misunderstanding in that moment, where she did feel discriminated against, and then it took on a life of its own based on the overreaction of administrators. We do look to other people's reactions to gauge the validity of our own.
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  19939.  @Farvadude  I don't have an agenda except to stand up for the underdog, and emigrate by 2025. I am not attached to this stuff at all, and NO, English was not my first language, thank you very much. Go accuse someone else of dishonesty, someone susceptible to your SCHTICK. No traction here!
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  19940. Yes I will. My entire family is abroad now. I heard people call my parents liars all my life because of their accents, and they never lied at all. That's your specialty. What you have to say means nothing to me. I want to make sure you know how idiotic your insults were. I'm not going to play your one-liner games, pfft. Again, I'm not of your mentality. That's what you would do.
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  19941.  @Farvadude  Whatever anyone says to me in English can't land, so don't waste your time. Don't you get it? My mother didn't speak to me in that language. So I can see through it in a way you can't.
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  19942.  @Farvadude  My parents were systematically discriminated against as immigrants, and we're all supposed to believe an African woman hasn't experienced racism? That's a good one. The bitterness of your comment, and the ridiculous story you spin about my "lying" to further some "agenda" tells me exactly how YOU treat people. Of course I don't care. About YOU.
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  19943.  @mihailmihaylov988  All I can say is listen again. It's just like any text -- it's the second reading that deepens your understanding. I think what he said is closer to my characterization of it, and I'm fine with this journalist. I just don't agree with him this time.
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  19944.  @amyjoyce2301  Of course.
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  19945.  @amyjoyce2301  In this case, the staff especially, and the student as well, are being accused of terrible things they didn't do (staff), and some pretty horrible attitudes and motivations they probably do not have (student and staff).
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  19946.  @fernandofranco6391  Women hate other women and love to tell men all about it. It's a compliment, actually. They might welcome a flirtation.
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  19947.  @BastardOfTheNorth  False.
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  19948. Wow, Dr. Sax plagiarizing Hold On to Your Kids, of which Dr. Gabor Maté is a coauthor. 😂😂😂
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  19949. If Musk himself has alienated advertisers, and if he really supports free speech, then he may have to eat the financial loss that comes with it. These are the facts. Musk owns a platform and he can start by opposing unfair speech with more speech, not threats of lawsuits. Defamation suits are always anti-free speech. Anyone who threatens a suit is claiming the person or group they are suing has no free speech right in the matter. That would be Musk in this case, turning to Daddy Government and its courts. This is about the money for Musk, not free speech.
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  19950. Oh lord she is high. I thought people were kidding.
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  19951. No, certainly not.
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  19952. And what do they have to say about Naledi Pandor?
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  19953.  @musicwelikemang  DNC needs a new story line.
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  19954. @Bradley Harrison And BIDEN is doing this because . . . ? It does not make sense to speak of one group influencing another, when the latter can choose not to permit itself to be influenced. Did the Republicans allow themselves to be influenced by pleas to not nominate anyone to fill Justice Ginsburg's seat on the Supreme Court, even though early voting had begun? (Besides all that, has anyone in Washington seriously asserted that Tanden is too progressive? Ha ha.) What is the rea$on to tout biparti$an$hip now? Who in the world i$ pu$hing it??
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  19955. I suspected this all along.
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  19956. @counselthyself It's nuanced. Read the article. It's excellent. The PROBLEM is, we are not being properly informed about breakthrough cases. They are not trivial.
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  19957. @counselthyself This was valuable as well. Thanks for the link.
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  19958.  @skosh6359  No wonder they resisted the lawsuit to make them divulge their data.
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  19959.  @JJwest118  Enough to make him susceptible to mild COVID, lol. Possibly mild myocarditis, too. Less funny.
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  19960. BREAKING News:  Glenn Greenwald just posted a short excerpt of Victoria Nuland testifying on the Ukrainian biolabs -- which, oddly enough, were funded through the US DOD, not the NIH. TeleSUR (Spanish) just reported China demands the US provide full information on all biological laboratories it funds in the world. The Indian press and even AFP have been raising questions about the DOD funding of biolabs in Ukraine, and George Galloway was denounced over the weekend for reporting on this.
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  19961. Note the whole message: she said what she wishes for. This is the kind of Republican party she wants, the direction she wants to see.
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  19962. (I'm way far left, and I like her. If only "conservatives" were like this . . . won't hold my breath.)
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  19963. Of course they let him go. This was World Wrestling.
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  19964. You've all lost your minds.
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  19965. @Charles Brainard Just heard about a friend's grandson who got stabbed, and two people whose adult children died of overdoses.
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  19966.  @gherieg.1091  Cuba is going to expand to conquer the Americas? No, it's capital that cannot rest, that must exploit every conceivable market, and find new markets (reverse mortgages, private parking meters, private jails and prisons, private police and private armies). It cannot stop or slow its growth without dying. Look who thinks this is a video game -- the person who brought it up.
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  19967. @Charles Brainard Also, the United States made a slew of those countries unlivable with its military adventures.
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  19968.  @gherieg.1091  Um. Blocked. I guess. What else? Yeesh.
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  19969. The timing is odd, the explanation is not evident at all.
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  19970. The more impaired Joe gets, the more voyeuristic heads will turn in his direction.
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  19971. ​ @thinkhector 💯
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  19972. You don't get paid to tell the truth. You get paid to lie. Natch.
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  19973. He's not a math person. /s
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  19974. This is true. In light of all the facts known at the time and those not yet known, however, the vaccines mandates were both unethical and unconscionable. What was done to us must never be repeated.
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  19975. 12:38 can't handle the truth?
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  19976.  @Really-ej8jt  If we base it on serious substance abuse, particularly in those who were not traumatized as children, you definitely see more right wingers succumb. It may have no political implications, however. It may be related to culture, geography, education, or some other third thing.
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  19977.  @rupertpupkin7514  🤣🤣🤣 Yeah all those serial killers, school shooters, and pedophiles act all right. Think is not clear.
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  19978. Sure. Few people can do that. /s
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  19979.  @onepcwhiz  I agree.
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  19980.  @mendonesiac  Why? Y'mean men don't do that? Or worse? Ha.
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  19981. The richest New Yorkers are part-time residents of Manhattan. Does anyone else count?
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  19982.  @cjfishtales2238  But by taking him out, you usually (not always) draw his attention to you, when perhaps you could hide and save yourself.
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  19983.  @ganggang3788  You don't realize it's being censored? Really? Swept clean. Money can do that . . .
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  19984. @ganggang3788  They did too good of a job -- when people tag me but my posts are all gone, then everyone knows what happened.
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  19985.  @cjnv48  I named six things. I bet you did see them. All were well known and easily verified.
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  19986.  @cjnv48  Already blocked you, lol.
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  19987. Don't blame yourselves. Open mindedness (in advance of the evidence) is cool.
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  19988. Incorrect all the way down.
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  19989. WOW, when Williamson criticizes anyone, for any reason, she truly weighs her words. Huh. On top of all that, she's right.
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  19990. And we thought The Emperor With No Clothes was a fairytale.
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  19991. Apparently, this is one more subject no one may address, or they will be accused of abject cowardice. Listen, give us the Short List of Permitted Subjects. Save us the time.
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  19992. If it can make you rich, why not President? /s
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  19993. They are incapable of dealing with anyone as an individual human being (disgusting), and worse yet, are utterly humorless (unpardonable). I bet you had a blast at those bars. That was then. 😑
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  19994. So, how identical are women identical twins? When does twinning occur? Are we (reasonably) sure?
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  19995.  @michaelsieger9133  It's also illegal to defend mere property with lethal force, in every state. She muddled this by not stating that simple fact. Clearly, people don't know it anymore. If the kids did not put any person in physical danger, then shooting them was not justified. It is an illegal homicide, probably reckless, grossly negligent, or something like that.
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  19996.  @M0N0K0I  No. It is not a scientific decision. Scientists are not ordering lockdowns. This is a public policy decision that must be made collectively.
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  19997. What do you know about it? Have you read anything by Kimberle Crenshaw?
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  19998. Rebecca Bitton was BRILLIANT here. Perfect. 2:53
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  19999. A pro-vaccine post contended that "only" 0.3% of injections had a significant adverse effect. I guess he didn't know that one event per 100,000 is considered an important safety signal that shouldn't be ignored. 0.3% is 300 times one per 100,000.
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  20000. The DNC allegations were completely baseless. Trump's were based on a statistical anomaly that his supporters refused to accept was easily explained by the pandemic and Trump's poor performance, and believed "it must be" because of a "steal." Separate from the Jan 6 sedition.
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  20001.  @tony_solar  Yeah, she feeds them pronouns. Kente cloth. Identity politics. Etc.
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  20002.  @sayuas4293  And you think that was due to their "racism?" Okay. Never mind.
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  20003.  @alioshax7797  Clearly you are unfamiliar with ancient history and literature, or modern European history for that matter. Or, more likely, EVERY distinction sounds like a racial distinction to you.
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  20004. Targetting FAMILY MEMBERS is proof that we are not a country, or a business -- we are an organized crime outfit.
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  20005. ​@rahmanjoki9938 True. Anyone who can make money like she does is one of life's winners all right. Billions have to work to live. Not her.
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  20006. What was the reason for firing the Inspectors General? The President's nominees were all just confirmed by the Senate to head the various agencies and departments. Perhaps it would make sense to seek out their views on how to improve efficiency and cut costs? Why do you think Patel and Gabbard immediately told their employees not to respond? Because they want to hide fraud?
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  20007. I'm so sorry.
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  20008. Actually, are you sure you want to know? ;)
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  20009. How much real education have you had, that these two impressed you? Hanson is an inveterate warmonger, no less than Samantha Power. BTW, Elizabeth Warren never got a Harvard appointment based on her heritage. She was very good in her area of law, but much more important, MARRIED a Harvard law professor. So, she made it on terms these two would accept. (Look up "spousal hire.")
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  20010. Great job on this!! Uplifting.
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  20011. @yurei8  The POINT is that the CHOICE to found a family is a fundamental human right. Read the Declaration.
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  20012.  @yurei8  I know plenty of people for whom their kids are their life. Not for you to tell anyone there is a higher purpose.
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  20013. @yurei8  I'm saying everyone has a right to decide for themselves, and that you cannot put that at risk where minors are concerned. What they eventually decide to do as adults is THEIR business.
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  20014.  @yurei8  Shame on you.
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  20015. @cryptbeast3222  That's because most trans people by far made their decision to transition as ADULTS. They went through puberty. That proves puberty is not insurmountable for a trans person. Of course people who had a normal maturation have choices as adults. THAT is the POINT. Choice is their right as adults.
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  20016.  @cryptbeast3222  It's a human right. See the Declaration of Human Rights. Medical ethicists are supposed to read it.
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  20017. @cryptbeast3222  Right, human health is improving. /s All the sitting in front of screens has greatly enhanced mental health, and the weird drugs and pollution help build strong and healthy bodies. And no one ever decided at 42 that they suddenly met the right person to have a baby with, when they never thought they would. But on a deeper level, you're right and I know that. A person can not give a toss about kids' actual welfare, not have to lift a finger to keep opportunities open to them, and come out as looking progressive. That is very tempting, after all. In America, concern for anything but your own business (which mainly means your own $$$) comes across as dubious or weird. Why bother? It's not hard for you to make a case in this climate. That's why lobotomies existed here long after the Soviets banned them.
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  20018. But, but . . . If WaPo supports Kamala, it's all okay!
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  20019. What a huge difference since 2018. I suspect that engineered virus caused wholesale decline. No one over 50 has the health they would have had, had there not been a pandemic.
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  20020. The son of a lawyer doesn't know anything about the law. He doesn't know that police can lie to him. He doesn't know that he doesn't have to talk to them. He doesn't know that the time for a full and truthful confession (the whole truth and nothing but the truth) is after he has spoken to a lawyer and his lawyer has approached the prosecutor. He doesn't know to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights as soon as they start accusing him, if not before. Literally does not know anything. (He was a "good student?") The police at this point cannot be absolutely sure this was not a murder suicide. Even if there seems to be a much likelier explanation, even if neither of the deceased adults has a gun near their bodies. No autopsy has been completed yet, no gunpowder residue tests have been performed. The truth is sometimes very strange, and confessions are often false. If they had sufficient evidence against him, they could hold him without a confession. A confession at this point is to ensure he can be placed in jail immediately and kept there.
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  20021. Drones create terrorists. You cannot surrender to a drone. Nor does the drone operator risk retaliation during the engagement. He isn't there. Daniel Hale is right. He literally did this to save lives. Our lives.
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  20022. I hope he is not in a psychologically unwholesome environment encouraging him to believe he is unwell. Children are excessively vulnerable to such suggestion. When that happened to me due to an unusually severe cold, my doctor carefully checked me out, then told me to take brisk walks. He said it would be better in two weeks. It was.
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  20023.  @mdl8210  Who said on purpose, or even consciously? It's only years later that people get a perspective -- if ever!
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  20024. Instead of worrying about a YouTube channel that started in a stand-up comic's garage, take charge. Take your child to a cardiologist, a hematologist, a neurologist, see what they say, start eating organic vegetables, cut out all unhealthy snacks or added sugar, take walks with him in pretty scenery, around forest preserves with geese or deer, or beautiful fall colors, and insist that your child WILL get better, matter-of-factly. Don't model depression, don't model excessive concern. Have after-school art projects out for him, if he likes that. New books, new paints. See how that works. Instead you think a YouTuber is an issue? Because he doesn't support vaccine mandates for children? You've got to be kidding. Tune him out. He doesn't matter, he's not in your life.
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  20025.  @mdl8210  Don't worry about what other people believe.
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  20026. I truly pity the people who trusted that they would be taken care of if they suffered serious side effects. I knew. I've known for a LONG time.
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  20027.  @gdc6614  Okay it has to be your way. No worries.
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  20028.  @gdc6614  Wow, I guess a lot of speech is really DANGEROUS, huh? I'm worried for the First Amendment, for good reason.
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  20029. Biden being Biden.
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  20030.  @travis1574  This is keeping it relevant.
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  20031. If the price is right they would.
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  20032.  @nigredoooalgown6245  You support mandates for minor children? The Guardian recently reported that teen boys are more likely to be hospitalized for vaccine side effects such as myocarditis than for a case of COVID even without the attenuating benefit of vaccination. But they should be mandated nevertheless? Why? Isn't this a little too new for children, most of whom are not at serious risk from COVID, to be forced to take the vaccines? Even the FDA gave Pfizer full approval for ages 16 and up, not for prepubescent or barely pubescent kids. You know they had a reason!
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  20033.  @samanthalyons5055  Dear, Russia is NOT forcing vaccination on minors.
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  20034.  @nigredoooalgown6245  Guardian was quoting a scientific study that anyone can verify. They were not making it up. Risking known harm to minors for the sake of CONJECTURAL "herd immunity" is treating human beings as instruments rather than as intrinsically valuable. Don't look now, but you can be sure it will be your turn one day to be turned into an instrument for someone else's goals, if it hasn't happened already. Actually, coercive people almost always have been coerced themselves, and never overcame it and integrated it.
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  20035.  @nigredoooalgown6245  It's rather laughable to dismiss a reliable source that gives information anyone can independently verify, and to call them names, because it does not support you in your quest to mandate vaccination of minors. As if you would lift a finger for anyone whose child was harmed. They would become an inconvenience. That has already happened -- of course. People being treated as objects, as having only instrumental value, always has the same outcome. That's what mandates are. Try persuasion.
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  20036.  @nigredoooalgown6245  Then why bother? Let them do what they want. I see you have zero knowledge of Kant, by the way. Do you recognize the name . . . Wait, why am I asking? What difference could it possibly make? Watch Dogville some time. First watch Dancer in the Dark.
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  20037.  @nigredoooalgown6245  And they, in turn, determine you don't have value.
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  20038.  @nigredoooalgown6245  "The assessment by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is that the health benefits from vaccination are marginally greater than the potential known harms. However, the margin of benefit is considered too small to support universal vaccination of healthy 12 to 15 year olds at this time. It is not within the JCVI’s remit to consider the wider societal impacts of vaccination, including educational benefits. The government may wish to seek further views on the wider societal and educational impacts from the Chief Medical Officers of the UK 4 nations. For the vast majority of children, SARS-CoV-2 infection is asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic and will resolve without treatment. Of the very few children aged 12 to 15 years who require hospitalisation, the majority have underlying health conditions. The committee has recommended the expansion of the list of conditions to which the offer applies for at-risk 12 to 15 year olds. There is evidence of an association between mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and myocarditis. This is an extremely rare adverse event. The medium- to long-term effects are unknown and long-term follow-up is being conducted. Given the very low risk of serious COVID-19 disease in otherwise healthy 12 to 15 year olds, considerations on the potential harms and benefits of vaccination are very finely balanced and a precautionary approach was agreed."
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  20039.  @nigredoooalgown6245  Is UK's official public health authority on vaccination good 'nuf? Note they have greater vaccine compliance than the US. Important point.
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  20040.  @belkyhernandez8281  Advertisers are overnight billionaires for some reason. Care to explain?
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  20041.  @belkyhernandez8281  How funny, given that you speak as though you discovered this "adulthood" thing you brag about very, very recently. Well, you'll never have trouble fitting in . . .
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  20042.  @belkyhernandez8281  You use a slogan like "triggered," and you think you have an independent mind?
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  20043.  @belkyhernandez8281  Your first comment to me started out with, "Because people like you . . . " Then, you got real mad about my "assumptions." Not sure which assumptions. You were vague, LOL. All I had said was that advertisers are phenomenally rich for some reason, the implication being that advertising must be at least somewhat effective. (It got you to say "personal responsibility," and "triggered." It did a good job here.)
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  20044.  @belkyhernandez8281  Look at the excellent news from Texas! All of those rugged individuals now have the opportunity to rise to the challenge by taking personal responsibility. For example, having no heat and no water is a huge opportunity to test the limits of your ingenuity and individual initiative, not to mention your health and your physical conditioning -- for which all adults are, of course, ultimately responsible. I'm only half joking. I wouldn't lift a finger for anyone who spoke this way before a tragedy happened to them. They need to live by their principles. It will do them good. I mean, supposing they survive. And if not . . . oh well. Stuff happens.
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  20045.  @belkyhernandez8281  Sorry, that would be YOU who blames people for tragedies that befall them. That would be YOU who is infantile. That would also be you who doesn't appreciate the nature and power of irony and other literary tropes. Go get some real books and read. No one else can read for you. It's up to you to do it.
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  20046.  @belkyhernandez8281  Your fake outrage and grammar school-level insults are absurd. If you were here I'd laugh in your face.
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  20047.  @belkyhernandez8281  No, my agency tells me a lot of things -- in fact, it tells me to emigrate to a non-English-speaking country, which is exactly my plan over the next two years. You're the hopeless crowd. These sorts of conversations literally never take place except in English. It would be heartbreaking if it weren't simply annoying. You have more to learn than anyone could teach you. First you have to be persuaded that you need to learn, and that can't happen.
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  20048.  @belkyhernandez8281  I'm not communicating further with obvious illiterates who say things like "stick up your ***" and "triggered," and imagine someone else is immature and lacking in autonomy and self-mastery. "Did Jonathan Swift really advocate eating babies??? Why wasn't he prosecuted???!!"
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  20049.  @belkyhernandez8281  Actually, in this society mutual aid is not a moral imperative, as it should be, but purely a "contract." Sometimes assistance is just left to chance, like charity. Hence I am under no obligation to help anyone who would withhold the same help from me. It's therefore solely up to me to say yes or no. You can be disgusted all you want. That's your problem. You are responsible for your own disgust, no puppetmaster is making you feel disgusted. See how that works? Nonsense from beginning to end. Impressed you, though . . . for some reason. (Ayn Rand instead of Kant? LOL)
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  20050.  @belkyhernandez8281  I changed adult diapers for five years. And I would do it again in a heartbeat. I also defended a person framed for a crime they didn't commit, and put in thousands of my own money to do it. And I would do it again tomorrow, with pride. You have problems. They're your problems, not my problems.
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  20051.  @belkyhernandez8281  No one said that. Literally no one, including the first post. But how would a hysterical illiterate be able to tell? Newsflash: Your discourse is the reason we have the vicious society we do. You and others like you who repeat that pure nonsense are a major reason. You don't even know it's an empty talking point. Off on Block you go . . .
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  20052. The good cop-bad cop routine provokes outrage and increases viewers. It works every time.
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  20053. ​@riskyron1416 Check out Montenegro. A typical professional salary is $1000 to $1200 per month. If you have that, you can afford Montenegro. And if you have $200,000 to spare from the sale of your home, you can buy a stunning condo near the Adriactic with two large balconies. We are talking about something that costs 5 to 15 times more in the US. No, I am not kidding. Eggplant and arugula are staples; ginger is as thick as your wrist. People buy garlic in those garland-like things.
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  20054. ​ @Moralmediachannel 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  20055. ​ @littleone1656  Give me a break. What do you have to compare it with?
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  20056. @riskyron1416  Preaching to the choir. My one attachment is to my multilingual library, and papers. It is an intense attachment.
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  20057. A lot of stuff has that flavor, doesn't it?
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  20058. 9:00 "RUSSIA"??? How to get ahead: No shame Proof: the Clintons, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden, and everybody associated with any of them
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  20059. No one discussing this lawsuit is black. Are you okay? Do you have someone you could call?
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  20060. There you go again . . . I bet you are a Math Person. 😂
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  20061. But this is something you always consider. Some variants of flu are very dangerous to children, but less so to adults in their 40s and 50s. That's something that matters.
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  20062. It's unconstitutional. But it's never simple to get a Supreme Court case to say so. But it will.
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  20063. Too bad Epstein couldn't find a way to blame his reputation and arrest on the Russians. He might have had a few more years to ply his trade.
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  20064.  @destinyrose2012  The people who do withhold their vote, to demand something in return for it, are paid to do that. This is why their donors give them money, and why lobbyists court them.
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  20065.  @ravenswood118  Should we report you for "you people are disgusting, I hope you rot in hell?" Your posts read like parodies.
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  20066. If I could be 1/10 as self-righteous for just one day . . . to try it out.
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  20067.  @matu4251 How about: "that isn't the logic you would use to solve your math problems, is it?" See the difference? Or are we long past that now? I find that I agree with Mattias Desmet more every day.
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  20068.  @matu4251  That's how he jokes? Wow. Um, why do you listen to his show?
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  20069.  @fuckamericanidiot  "Paranoia?" 🤣 Look who's talking. Who said Shapiro actually could get anyone cancelled? He can't do much of anything concrete, except line his pockets by fooling gullible people. Mark Twain described it well! 🤣
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  20070.  @tbug50  He showed how mean and touchy he is, too. Open your eyes. Context: Shapiro is a Harvard-trained lawyer. He could be taking actual cases to defend the civil liberties of real people, including very conservative people. Instead, this is what he does. Think it through.
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  20071.  @tripvic7629  📚📚📚🌎🌏🌍
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  20072. Not given their power.
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  20073.  @warrencurtis7442  EXACTLY. Consult reliable sources from years before 2022, and preferably pre-pandemic. In February 2019, Lev Golinkin, who wholeheartedly opposes Putin and the Russian invasion, did an in-depth report on neo-Nazis in Ukraine. BBC is fine, too. The influence of the Azov Battalion on Ukrainian armed forces is well established.
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  20074. @Dan barb For your information, there are credible reports the neo-Nazis have threatened Zelensky's life if he were to attempt to negotiate a ceasefire on terms they oppose. Some analysts believe Putin's invasion has strengthened the most extremist elements of the Ukrainian nationalists, the neo-Nazis most of all, rather than weakening them. Interesting perspective. I'm interested in hearing more. Denying facts seems to be the MSM/DNC go-to. Brilliant. And Biden sounded like he was calling for the overthrow of Putin (!!!) You could not make this up. The West acts as if it's still the boss, and does not need raw materials -- from Russia and Venezuela -- or manufactured goods of all sorts -- from China, India, and Vietnam. Small detail! Maybe thinking instead of repeating slogans might be wise?
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  20075. @Dan barb Believe nonsense if you want. I can tell you have read nothing about this conflict, but have memorized talking points. Biden should not have run for president. His family is too compromised, as is he, to deal with Ukraine. You're carrying water for Hunter. Have some pride. Fewer than two thousand people run America.
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  20076. Destroying reproductive choice for minors curtails rights.
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  20077. Jimmy and Max -- nobody does it better!
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  20078. What is Qs for G__cide like?
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  20079. ​ @quackk4605 Vegetarians supporting McDonald's workers? That sounds wonderful. Plus higher pay means lower profits. Anyone having to touch that stuff should get better pay, yuck.
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  20080. ​ @AzulApe You missed his point.
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  20081. ​​ @laryjohnson5736  Not hating enough for a grown person?
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  20082.  @laryjohnson5736  LOL, non-Western here. I don't even need pain meds after major surgery.
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  20083.  @laryjohnson5736  Why didn't Palestine become a country? You could read Norman Finkelstein and find out. Copious documentation, whether you like his current views or not.
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  20084.  @laryjohnson5736  That's like saying, why didn't the Jews fight Hitler? (Actually, they did. Lots of Red Army heroes were Jewish, just to give one example.)
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  20085.  @laryjohnson5736  I didn't even see these. Sound crazy, yeesh. Blocked.
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  20086. He is also a genuinely nice guy.
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  20087. No, it doesn't. Don't be so easily led. By the way, did you know this was a public community college? (Was I the only person who checked?)
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  20088. Oh really? I have a Russian-sounding name, and companies just go to the next résumé.
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  20089. I sure did in Anglo-America, and not at all in France.
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  20090. Whenever I happened to have solid, independent knowledge of something Emily talked about, she was wrong. But to be fair, that is almost always the case, for all media, and the "legacy" newspapers most of all.
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  20091.  @patricksmith4148  LOW BAR
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  20092.  @patricksmith4148  I don't think she's deceptive, either. She has a fairly decent fund of knowledge for her generation, but the general level is not high. Techniques of persuasion have replaced rigor. This phenomenon is so common and has such a long history it is literally one reason Athens lost the Peloponnesian War. I wish I were kidding.
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  20093. So true.
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  20094. They want to make sure nothing like Parasite that actually addresses social class will ever win again. Being Korean won't save it.
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  20095. Insane to get themselves into this unholy mess. Then again, they are insane.
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  20096. It certainly makes a difference whether the pardon is for crimes that have aready resulted in a conviction, or crimes that are still being investigated -- or were.
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  20097. "Dating app"
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  20098.  @LogicalMuzikmixer  Which clothes? The burka?
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  20099.  @MichaelWilson-ee8zx  That is true as well. The study looked at the effectiveness of mandates, not the effectiveness of certain types of masks, worn by those who know what they are doing. Doctors and nurses probably did benefit from their mask-wearing, and helped protect their patients.
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  20100.  @jamesgraham5470  This!!
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  20101.  @stigandrmyrardalur5208  Just block anyone who says "cope." This one's easy.
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  20102.  @jaemate21  Better develop "alternative" energy by breakfast.
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  20103.  @jaemate21  Fine, go right ahead. It's not Russia and its supporters saying this. It's anti-vaxxers. /s 😂
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  20104. If we have a war, who cashes in? Follow the moola.
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  20105. Stupid, or "$tupid?"
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  20106.  @ChanceX74  This should be a bunch of silliness. That history is unknown by the average college grad, never mind high school grads, is the real problem. All they learn now is advertising and marketing (= propaganda). Whatever pleases the elites at the moment is "truth(y)" . . .
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  20107.  @pale_saint  Who is "she?"
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  20108. The principle itself even applies to the unprincipled.
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  20109. Reasonable union position.
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  20110. You compare that to WPA? When is the last time you opened a history book? No, not the one with the comics.
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  20111.  @calo9210  Er, that's not what I said.
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  20112. Is creative spelling DEI or white privilege? 😂
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  20113.  @steverose3019  You mean for beauty? Or because she is black but did *not* vote for Biden OR for Hillary Clinton?
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  20114. 3:55 PERFECT 6:16 EVEN BETTER
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  20115. A billionaire who didn't have dinner with Jeffrey Epstein. Well?
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  20116. You mean because so many of the comments contain trendy clichés?
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  20117. Um, Justice Barrett has two adopted children, and her youngest birth child has special needs. I wish she were still a law professor, not a judge. I also wish she had never been mistreated or maligned in the media. My politics are the polar opposite of hers, yet the rudeness she suffered still made me physically sick.
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  20118. When I lived in France, universal health insurance paid 100% for pregnancies (they sent every woman a check for maternity clothes, nevermind medical care), but only 70% for elective abortion. The discrepancy was considered harsh by some. The limit was 12 weeks, but a three-doctor panel would grant abortion for medical reason for all kinds of humane reasons -- mental health right at the top of the list. No one made a psychotic woman carry a pregnancy if it was harming her. They weren't freaking ghouls.
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  20119. ​ @jdn42y11 YES THERE IS.
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  20120. ​ @jdn42y11 Yes there IS.
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  20121. ​ @retrorama3355  Try putting his full name in a search engine, and see the cases he lost come right up.
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  20122. Let's not be counterfactual.
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  20123. Because those parents lack the resources to be able to find good nonpublic schools for their children in the first place.
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  20124. I am glad he talked at length about stabilization. The risk that the implosion of capitalism will be a catastrophe beyond compare is great. It will benefit no one.
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  20125. She mentions Kagan as well, which is great.
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  20126. Shows that the conspiracy theories are a great cover for the real harm these people do.
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  20127. It wasn't normal in Chicago. I never heard of this before.
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  20128. @ThisdivinelifewithBrenda  Watching an inauguration in school? What does that have to do with learning the basics of the Constitution, which was a graduation requirement? Watching the inauguration is like baiting kids into revealing their parents' politics. That's how it would have been viewed in Chicago. Chicagoans keep it real.
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  20129.  @Dana-ie2bh  How did you manage to join 6 months ago and get that screenname? Blocked, btw.
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  20130. Thank GOD I have a weird imperviousness to pain. I got nothing for my last operation. What if I did need it? What happens when the time comes that I do?
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  20131. 13:13 Dersh isn't winning this case.
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  20132.  @meafoaki  Anyone who thinks Hiroshima and Nagasaki were justified suffers from some inner disturbance that makes them want to hide from truth.
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  20133.  @htunlin2000  Agreed!
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  20134.  @andersonandrew112  LOL, that was a good answer. Pragmatic. My dad used to say, "first we live, then philosophize."
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  20135.  @romominiki1694  Read a book. Read many books.
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  20136.  @romominiki1694  "Bestest" and "gonna" are not words, except in colloquial dialogue. You are not writing a play here I am guessing.
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  20137. Briahna, read the discrimination complaint filed against Tesla by California. Follow that case.
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  20138.  @Black_Caucus  Is he correct, or not, in what he said about this incident? Suppose someone you like were to have delivered the very same message. Picture a different talking head delivering the very same analysis, using identical words. Well. What do you think of it?
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  20139. ​@Cyberrjey001 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  20140. She didn't defend advertisers or the ADL, for that matter. She said Musk himself has alienated advertisers, and if he really supports free speech, he may have to eat the financial loss that comes with it. That's reality.
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  20141.  @TheCuriousConservative  But audits were done. Trump asked for the outcome of the audits to be changed -- he explicitly asked for that from Georgia.
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  20142.  @TheCuriousConservative  YES THEY WERE, at least in Georgia. Or, be entitled to your own facts. Be my guest.
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  20143. I agree that censorship is not the answer. I support "maximalist" (so-called) views on First Amendment freedoms. I only want to highlight one thing: we haven't yet grappled with the environment created by the new media. Part of the reason is that it is much too new. We are going to have to examine these issues sometime --- and the irony is that the new media seems to be undermining our ability to discuss them calmly and rationally. But the new media does seem good at addicting people and spawning new billionaires. That's no problem.
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  20144. I knew vaccine mandates were softening up the people for this. It was too obvious.
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  20145. ​@Sithwolf I found the third study. Both of the patients were men who had had three doses of an mRNA vaccine. I am not suggesting that caused their response to the Omicron variant. We do not know that. Only a careful multivariate analysis can lead us to sound scientific conclusions. (Those cost a lot.) The third study demonstrates that a fully vaccinated person could die of Omicron, as one of the two patients had a ventricular tachycardia and needed electroconversion, which worked immediately. So much for your research skills.
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  20146. ​ @christopheredwards7846  You must not have read any of the studies.
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  20147. ​ @christopheredwards7846  ​I read the third study. Both of the patients were men who had had three doses of an mRNA vaccine. I am not suggesting that caused their response to the Omicron variant. We do not know that. Only a careful multivariate analysis can lead us to sound scientific conclusions. (Those cost a lot. Who will pay? Just kidding. ) The third study demonstrates that a fully vaccinated person could die of Omicron, as one of the two patients had a ventricular tachycardia and needed electroconversion, which worked immediately. So much for reading and research. You didn't.
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  20148. You need a very wise, compassionate exercise partner.
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  20149. In my family, everyone looks and lives as though they are 12 to 15 years younger than they are, and . . . exactly as experienced clinicians have remarked about young-looking people, we have essentially no cardiovascular disease (and none at all before age 80), but cancer all over the place. Most people lived through that as well, most with surgery alone, but trust me, it's not desirable in the least.
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  20150. Yes, we need to retake the discourse. We also need to laugh, right in their faces. Don't let them know they have the upper hand in any respect. They are bullies.
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  20151. Marines here have explained it. Impressive, actually.
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  20152. ​ @jamiemcknight8598 Why? Who groomed you?
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  20153. People were shamed into vaccination "to save grandma," when it mostly gave them a false sense of security. You still had to be prudent around grandma --- and wasn't that always true?
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  20154. He killed a bird as a child? Who doesn't love birds?
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  20155. ​ @richardparker1338 Bosses hate it when unemployment falls below 5%. Workers have some power then.
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  20156. No. Marijuana's legal now.
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  20157. I would like more in-depth reporting on this. If people were deluded into believing they had neurological injuries, that is a TRAUMA. This kind of misdiagnosis is not funny at all. It could cause very real disability for years. You don't just get better as soon as you find out the truth. Usually, the opposite.
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  20158.  @RyanRamboer-sv3pm  How do you know?
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  20159.  @RyanRamboer-sv3pm  Well that's funny. I took my first Shakespeare class of my life, at night, grad level, at a "no-name" state school well known for high actual diversity and leftist activism. We studied Richard II, Henry IV, parts I and 2, and Henry V, plus the history of the Plantagenet kings of England, and Holinshed's Chronicles, which Shakespeare used as source material for his histories, among other things. Some brilliant commentary as well. No. I'm not kidding. It was phenom, one of the best classes I have ever had.
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  20160.  @RyanRamboer-sv3pm  So, you know based on one class, I take it. Well, I'll see your class and raise you.
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  20161.  @GregorRenkoMusic  Why? He had a right to say what he said (though I think he's milking it now). When Fox invites you to take sides, you oblige? This is not high school, and he is not a minor child. They both have free speech rights . . . though maybe not for long, from the looks of it.
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  20162.  @RyanRamboer-sv3pm  How do you know? That is basically saying that my Shakespeare class was a gross anomaly. Do you check out syllabi and reading lists, at other schools, to get the flavor of what's going on? When I was in college, back in the age of electric typewriters with memory cards (undergrads rarely had computers of their own, though grad students did, and one of my friends built his own computer a few years later), we knew what was going on. We read syllabi and browsed bookstores before taking a class. When a prof graded unfairly (which usually meant you had to follow a conservative Republican line, or get a C or D), the whole campus knew. And very few conservatives ever did that. They were generally honorable. Leftists accepted that they would have to read what was assigned on the syllabus, then go out on their own to read the leftist view independently. They didn't expect to have profs who agreed with them. My point is that we got the lay of the land by doing the work to discover it ourselves. Now, with everything at people's fingertips, they don't bother to point, or click. If you want me to believe that "literally all the big schools" are virtue signaling instead of doing any rigorous scholarship, you need to produce some evidence. I simply don't believe education has become degraded to that extent, and at every major school. (Or, am I an optimist? Again? LOL)
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  20163.  @RyanRamboer-sv3pm  I believe you. And if this development is so recent, taking place over the last two years, which includes the shutdowns due to the pandemic, then I'm not familiar with it.
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  20164.  @RyanRamboer-sv3pm  P. S. I guess that teacher never heard of Cariol Horne? How unwoke on her part. /s
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  20165.  @RyanRamboer-sv3pm  Coming back to this particular clip of this particular teacher, if she doesn't retaliate against students who reject her views when she grades them, and if she doesn't call on them less, or treat them differently in any way, obvious or subtle, on account of their political positions, then she does have a First Amendment right to say what she said. It's that simple. And obviously, the student does as well. Her demeanor was poor, but even I know that's nothing new. Most people who think this through will disagree with her. Again, that is no big deal. Seriously, so what? Two things: if students feel too intimidated to argue the point, if they feel her presentation, in substance or style, is chilling their free speech, then that is a problem. If everyone has free speech, then there is no problem, but if the students believe they do not, then there is. I think that's relatively easy to solve. Second, I'd like to know how the Zoom classroom was breached. Students don't have a right to great teachers, much less to have teachers agree with them on controversial issues, but they do have a right to privacy on Zoom. A class via Zoom is supposed to be a strictly controlled-access platform, live or recorded. Did the teacher do anything to cause the breach, or was she negligent in preventing it? If she did, I think that's a bigger deal.
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  20166.  @RyanRamboer-sv3pm  She's an adjunct at a community college, and according to one story I read, she already gave notice that this was her last semester before this happened. Community college adjuncts are disposable. If the New York Times began proceedings to terminate Chris Hedges, who was their war correspondent for a generation, on account of some students hating on his anti-war message at graduation, then this is nothing.
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  20167.  @RyanRamboer-sv3pm  That she would grade unfairly, too, is of course possible, but it's a lot like jury service. People have an opinion about a case, but when they take an oath, see the entire trial, and begin deliberations, they usually put aside their feelings and take their duty seriously. So, when she sits down to grade, she probably does something similar. Of course, she might also think she's on a mission to stop white male supremacist fascism. Then all bets are off. LOL
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  20168. What would happen if they flew over Hunter Biden's house? 😮
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  20169. Which is why rocket launchers are protected by the Second Amendment. My point with that hyperbole is that there is nothing a priori foolish about it. At some point, making spy devices (that, admittedly, have other uses) and selling them to the general public should be challenged. This one really is perfect for all sorts of criminal enterprises. But I think most people will agree with you, so I don't hold out hope.
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  20170.  @BobSmith-lb9nc  DUH Wow am I sorry I engaged. I didn't think that anyone . . . never mind.
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  20171.  @daniellove162  Wow, that was impressive . . . you win the Internet. How foolish of me to engage. I'll know better next time.
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  20172. This dude looks like the incomparable Emily Bear's cousin. :)
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  20173. Cenk is not worth too much of JIMMY'S time.
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  20174.  @peterpeters2412  Read where? The autism link was proved to be spurious, but research as to the vaccines schedules of other developed countries is reasonable to do, and is now hard to find. Naturopaths are not real doctors. Why are they licensed in half the American states? Who gave them that imprimatur? Whose fault is that? Is it unreasonable to decline a COVID vaccine for your 14-year-old, and to insist they get their first meningitis shot instead? And to point out that we do NOT have data on how these two vaccinations might be combined, if at all? No, it is not unreasonable. There isn't clinical research on the question. In a young adolescent, the Precautionary Principle should rule.
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  20175.  @peterpeters2412  You miss the point. "Doing your own research" was once universally lauded. Now it is universally denounced. That is what is called propaganda. That is what we are being subjected to. You're stating there is a sound argument for caution when advocating doing your own research. You're right. No question. But no one is making any argument. Instead, people with legitimate concerns have been subjected to jeering, defamation, vilification, being fired from their jobs, and every other abuse you can think of short of beatings or prisons. And it's all been based on lies, half-truths, and assertions that no one could make because we simply didn't know certain things about the vaccines in January 2021. I had a doctor lie to me. He told me categorically that no one had died of any COVID vaccine, at a time when it was already established that one of the vaccines was the probable cause of lethal strokes, and it was paused for that reason. Why did he do that? If I were not an avid reader, I would not have known. He lied to me, and I have a Master's in ancient philosophy and philosophy of science, and a JD. How free does he feel to lie to "ordinary" people? Now we know the mRNA vaccines have been implicated as well. Clearly they are not suitable for everyone, yet given the way they have been politicized, doctors are afraid to make the appropriate risk/benefit analysis when counseling their patients. (The real disgrace is that any doctor can look at the websites of the ministries of health of other nations, like France, Germany, Switzerland, and the Scandinavian countries, and see what they are recommending, and compare it to our CDC. That alone should open some eyes.) What a sh*t show of shameful manipulation this has been.
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  20176.  @peterpeters2412  We both know how badly this pandemic was managed. You can't lie to people -- no matter how ignorant you think they are, and no matter how ignorant they actually are. You can't browbeat them, while declining to provide universal health care, or even take a vote on universal healthcare. It's still their life. You can't coerce vaccination, then jeer at those injured by it or minimize what they're going through. The malpractice lawsuits, not against the manufacturers but the doctors who minimized serious side effects -- some of which were truly rare and unexpected, granted -- are unlike any I've seen before. When a woman comes to an ER with symptoms and she is sent home with tranquilizers three times, and only when she comes back a fourth time is it established that she has Guillen Barre syndrome (probably more unusual from a COVID vaccine than the flu vaccine some years, and very rare from those), that is unacceptable. I have met well-educated people who have declined a flu vaccine ever since the swine flu debacle in 1976, which was not a catastrophe and was rectified quickly. No one tried to bury the truth -- once a problem was detected, of course the information was shared. I don't understand why over 40 years later they mistrust a flu shot, but that should tell you what happens once you lose trust. While Trump was still in office, the main players in the DNC (Biden, Harris, Pelosi) assured us that there would be no vaccine mandates, and that medical privacy would not be suspended. We all know where that went. And when you add in the rampant censorship and the obvious effort to cover up the origins of the virus, what do you expect people to think? People have a right to be disgusted. Comics help diffuse that. It's poor solace in my book.
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  20177. Sad how this thread got censored, both of us. That's why people don't have confidence. They feel manipulated.
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  20178.  @malumachado4561  I mentioned it. Looks like that post was shadowed.
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  20179. Imagine, or consider part of WWII.
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  20180. The $40 billion? That was a gun lobby all right.
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  20181. ​ @capistrano99 Wait. What?
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  20182.  @Jason47D  BEST question
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  20183.  @peeks7165  The older person should get vaccinated before minors are.
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  20184.  @ludastout2852  Well, many flu strains kill children and young people disproportionately. COVID doesn't, thank goodness.
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  20185. From the CDC official website: "A growing body of evidence indicates that people fully vaccinated with an mRNA vaccine (Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna) are less likely to have asymptomatic infection or to transmit SARS-CoV-2 to others." So for this purpose (reducing transmission), we need a cost/benefit analysis as well, based on available evidence of probabilities, which is still limited. Not surprising for a new virus and new vaccine. I think an indoor mask mandate should have been maintained, for the most part. Delta variant is said to be spreading, but . . . Well. Let's sit on our hands again.
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  20186.  @peeks7165  The questions posed here (first two comments) are excellent. Right on point.
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  20187. Another question: what will people who had reactions to the vaccine like myocarditis do in the future, when boosters will probably be needed?
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  20188.  @Jason47D  This is important if true. Unless young people get COVID at vastly lower rates, the vaccine is much less of a risk than the disease.
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  20189. @ElementaryWatson-123  Somewhere in that whittle brain you think Russia needs our help. That's quaint.
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  20190. That's the one.
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  20191.  @BoloTheOriginal  Well, that's fine. Pay for the lawsuits.
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  20192. @BoloTheOriginal  "Manipulated?" Paying for speech has been expressly given full First Amendment protection. There is no distinction between speaking on your own accord for free, or being hired to speak. What do you think public relations agents, advertising agents, newscasters, think tanks, lawyers, political campaign operatives, etc., etc., do? Do you think DeSantis and Stefanik are not responding to donors' concerns?
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  20193.  @BoloTheOriginal  Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010) Ring a bell?
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  20194.  @BoloTheOriginal  Did I say money isn't changing hands? Whatever happens anywhere, money is changing hands. From donors to DeSantis, Abbott, Stefanik is a river at the moment . . . But all swore to uphold the Constitution. See that happening?
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  20195. This is the Robert Malone who graduated with an MD from Northwestern and then worked at the Salk Institute back in the 1980s. What did you think? Did Mr. Ed overdose on ivermectin and start whispering to you?
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  20196. And the conservatives, so-called, aren't ethically degraded? Good grief.
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  20197. What do you think about reports that the neo-Nazi elements in the armed forces are putting huge pressure on Zelensky, and that that is actually why the US is not opposing Azov Battalion et al?
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  20198.  @sk3371-l8z  Either Alex or Alexander. Thanks for responding!
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  20199.  @sk3371-l8z  The logic being that the West (read: the US MIC) wants Zelensky to take a hard line not only publicly but especially in any private negotiations. If Nazis can push him in that direction, the US certainly has no problem with that.
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  20200. No, Joe, drugs are not like sex at all. Sex is normal.
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  20201. That's how they got this way.
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  20202. This was rank nonsense. Easy to please his customers, I see.
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  20203. Where did you see this? No one else has said anything of the kind.
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  20204. ​ @justkelly6992 Great point, but competency can be framed as not being a medical exam in the same sense as physicals, etc.
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  20205. Barnes is so poor he didn't even know noncitizens have the same Bill of Rights as citizens.
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  20206.  @TacRifle  That's incorrect. Who told you that? Congress can most certainly vote to ban abortion in the United States, or to codify some version of the Roe/Casey scheme, and federal law preempts state law to the contrary. WHO is suddenly spreading this talking point that Congress is powerless to legislate? More charlatans by the minute.
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  20207.  @TacRifle  Wait, did BARNES say this? I knew he was poor, but this wouldn't pass a bar exam anywhere in the country. This is practically demented. Why do you follow that clown? That wasn't even an issue in the case. The issue was not whether Congress can pass a law codifying Roe, or banning abortion for that matter. The only issue before the Court was whether a state legislature could pass a law inconsistent with Roe. Roe overturned means the answer is yes it can. The Supreme Court cannot decide issues not brought before it. I knew Barnes was ignorant, but this breaks his previous record.
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  20208.  @TacRifle  I explained the law to you. I have heard Barnes misstate the most basic constitutional law myself. It would come as no complete surprise if he said exactly what you cited here, though this is worse than anything I ever heard from him before. He is not an authority on the Constitution.
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  20209.  @TacRifle  This was correct: "Congress can most certainly vote to ban abortion in the United States, or to codify some version of the Roe/Casey scheme, and federal law preempts state law to the contrary. WHO is suddenly spreading this talking point that Congress is powerless to legislate?"
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  20210.  @TacRifle  This is also correct: " That wasn't even an issue in the case. The issue was not whether Congress can pass a law codifying Roe, or banning abortion for that matter. The only issue before the Court was whether a state legislature could pass a law inconsistent with Roe. Roe overturned means the answer is yes it can. The Supreme Court cannot decide issues not brought before it."
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  20211.  @TacRifle  If anyone said that, they don't grasp the Fourteenth Amendment is part of the Constitution.
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  20212.  @TacRifle  Then read these documents for yourself, including the case itself. Everything I stated was accurate.
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  20213.  @TacRifle  Nothing I've posted has been removed. Congress can act to ban abortion, or legalize it. Embryos and fetuses were not just recognized by the Supreme Court as having personhood or rights.
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  20214.  @TacRifle  I'm not concerned. You, however, are incorrect about the law and ineffectual here. I'm saying Pence is right as well when he asserts Congress could legislate to ban abortions -- and it could also make them legal. It could do either, or neither. Federal law preempts state law to the contrary. That's in the, er, CONSTITUTION.
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  20215.  @TacRifle  Barnes is not a civil rights lawyer. I am.
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  20216.  @TacRifle  If you knew any law, you'd be able to tell. Don't let people lie to you. Nolo has websites for lay people as well as lawyers. Cornell does, too. I'm serious. We've been losing rights since 9/11, and it has speeded up since COVID, in a big way.
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  20217.  @TacRifle  Agree 💯%
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  20218.  @TacRifle  Remember Angela Marsden of the Pineapple Hill Saloon and Grill? The small business owner who got shut down for OUTDOOR dining and had to lay people off who were already sleeping on couches? The original video went viral, and the interviews after that were amazing. Fox Business had one. Just watched again. We forget too soon.
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  20219. @elisedemerveilles3065  It was not a true threat. It was protected political speech. Blue Cross Blue Shield is at fault, for not dropping charges after she was investigated and determined to be totally innocuous. Health insurers costing us money yet again. What a surprise. They just can't get enough.
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  20220.  @Mantose262  Because the surveillance state has existed under every administration since 9/11?
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  20221.  @Mantose262  Okay. So let me see if I understand. Creepy liars and various partisan hacks shouldn't have constitutional rights. You feel safe if that becomes the principle? I'd have no problem yanking Tucker's show or boycotting his principal sponsors, because he isn't entitled to have those things, but I draw the line at spying, unmasking, etc. Laws apply to everyone. Supposedly.
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  20222.  @Mantose262  The American citizens who foreign nationals talk to can be placed under surveillance, of course. They are not supposed to be unmasked. Are you living in the States? Are you old enough to remember pre-9/11?
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  20223.  @Mantose262  "Unmasked" and going public are not the same thing. To me, this is simple: Suppose Tucker is simply lying. Then that's the story. I, for one, would not be sorry to see him go. Nor would I be shocked that Tucker is lying. But suppose he is telling the truth: he was unjustifiably unmasked, and communucations that should not have been read by certain parties were being read and leaked -- all of which was unjustified, or unauthorized, or both. Is this fine, because Tucker?
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  20224. Rina Shah, we have the greatest innovation? Only if social media and Amazon are greater than CERN.
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  20225. How deep is your denial?
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  20226.  @alphonsustheleast1537  Oh yeah? Ask Glenn Greenwald about that.
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  20227. One would think that if Trump were an "existential threat," the DNC would have gotten serious in mid-November 2016. But they ran a mummy in 2020, and Hillary is still a force in the party -- even post-Epstein.
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  20228. However, if it is true that she didn't get the immediate help she needed, that makes it more painful. It's a lot like Bill Clinton doing a presentation with Vice President Harris on empowering women and girls.
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  20229. France does not have the same relationship with Russia as do the Anglo-Saxons and the Germans. France has always had a more complex and generally better relationship with Slavic peoples, and this dates back to their ancestral tribes in ancient times, when the continental Celts and the first Slavic tribes to enter central Europe lived side by side in relative harmony.
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  20230. "George Bush believed very passionately . . . " is there some way for Bush apologists to finish this sentence that won't make you gag?
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  20231. Brie supports the NASA model at 9:28. No one heard it?
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  20232. IF a person contributes to creating the conditions that made it necessary for him to use deadly force to defend his own life, then at least in MOST states, he cannot claim perfect self-defense. This is the law.
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  20233.  Copsbetterthan BLM  Did I say that? I stated the law, which no one appears capable of stating or analyzing. "Mere presence" is never an "invitation" to be attacked. No one said it was.
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  20234.  Copsbetterthan BLM  Joined three weeks ago to make these scintillating contributions, did you?
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  20235.  Copsbetterthan BLM  No one suggested that, either.
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  20236.  Copsbetterthan BLM  Oh, I see your other comments now. Blocked from my thread.
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  20237. Moscow is in Europe.
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  20238.  @HEAVY_IS_THE_METAL  You can visit certain places without a WHO electronic permission slip. That's my point.
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  20239.  @HEAVY_IS_THE_METAL  You a grave robber now?
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  20240. The test was to see who would bow down. It was an experiment.
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  20241. If only.
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  20242. ​ @scottyjohnson3120 Chavin pled guilty to federal charges.
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  20243. ​ @scottyjohnson3120  Chauvin pled guilty to federal charges.
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  20244. It's not opposite at all. You are obviously making your own choice. I'm sure it's the right one for you, your entire post is clear-eyed.
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  20245.  @SeiferAlmasy8787  I don't get the impression you read it.
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  20246.  @kumada84  No. I consider the treatment of the assassination when it was breaking news as something that Americans would never stand for from the foreign press if their own ex-president were to be assassinated while campaigning for his party, and too important to present almost as an afterthought, even after fluff news. But I speak other languages, lived in Europe, am not Western, had a Mom who greatly valued manners, especially toward other cultures . . . Need I go on? I don't find Emily particularly good at anything. I would be pleased if she were. Is good performance upsetting? Since when?
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  20247. I read this late at night and thought you had said "Biden," not "Bernie." I've already mixed them up.
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  20248. Left? I'm thinking false flag. Who looks to sterilize children, just because they feel distress about their bodies during puberty, or have some cognitive issue? That's not left by any stretch. Something very funny going on. "Follow the money" sounds right to me. Good for this newscaster.
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  20249.  @demitri2510  That requires two steps, which is un-American.
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  20250.  @JamesTLangford  If inflation becomes that bad, AND they lose pricing power, then yes. It could happen.
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  20251. Chauvin pled guilty to TWO separate charges in TWO distinct cases for which he was charged in the federal indictment.
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  20252. People in hospitals are often killed by negligence. So, close all the hospitals?
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  20253. No. She focused on the argument TRUMP'S LAWYERS are alleged to have made in court. If they did, you should care. You should care enough to want to find out. Or do you just live and feed your mind on video clips?
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  20254. 1:17:00 So . . . Tell us more about the differences between those who tell the truth and those who lie. 😊
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  20255. Listen carefully to Bill Gate's discourse. Don't watch, listen -- and try to forget who is talking. He sounds less educated than Trump. Actually, he is, too.
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  20256. ​ @paulrankin8578  People were coerced. I declined, mostly by sheer luck.
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  20257. Cool people do.
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  20258. Actually, the vaccination release form that every person who goes in to be vaccinated is given tells you that after reading it, you can refuse vaccination and there will be no change in the healthcare you are entitled to. It says so on the form. Look it up. Or, if you are vaccinated, you must have the form.
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  20259.  @gsherlock  Once the vaccines are fully approved, we can discuss this. You can't mandate an EUA drug!
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  20260.  @gsherlock  This podcaster is egging you on. Start seeing through the game.
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  20261. ​@paulweeldreyer7457 Really? The leaders are devolving into chaos. Regardless of party, that's for sure.
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  20262. ​ @nateauld I wouldn't let Amber set policy for me. I wouldn't trust her. But she is sometimes good on commentary.
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  20263.  @o77eh  That argument proves too much. What do you mean by "the fetus has no rights until it is born?" Do you mean that the week before birth, it has no legal protections? I'm not arguing that at all. It has no Fourteenth Amendment liberty interest (just like it owns no property, cannot enter into a contract for any purpose, and does not have a right to free speech) but that's an entirely different point. It is always the woman's liberty interests and privacy interests that are in question. Some people seem to think they are close to nil with respect to how she deals with her pregnancy at any stage.
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  20264.  @Jimi_Lee  That was funny. You sound like a cool guy.
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  20265.  @o77eh  We have all kinds of protections for sentient beings, even nonhuman ones, and rights and protections for persons who are not citizens. But you're right in that the courts focus on the woman where pregnancy is concerned. She's the target.
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  20266.  @johnjames5459  Legal personhood does not apply to embryos and nonviable fetuses. If it did, no state could allow the destruction of embryos at fertility clinics or abortion at any stage. An IUD might be illegal birth control. Plan B and RU 486 would be illegal. What faiths teach about the presence of a soul is not the law. You have a First Amendment right to campaign to make it the law. You might not like the result, though.
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  20267.  @o77eh  Actually, that does not define "person." It talks about how a "person" attains citizenship.
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  20268.  @johnjames5459  I'm more concerned about the kids in the Crumbley cases and in the Ghislaine Maxwell case, but thanks.
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  20269.  @o77eh  Not so. The First Amendment applies to noncitizens, the Fourth Amendment applies to noncitizens, the Fifth Amendment applies to noncitizens, etc. "FFS" Cornell has good information. I bet all the wikis do, too.
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  20270.  @o77eh  Plyler v. Doe, 1984 or thereabouts, Supreme Court case . . . Children of undocumented immigrants are "people" under the Fourteenth Amendment. The Bill of Rights never mentions "citizens" at all.
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  20271.  @o77eh  Look it up. I'm not wasting any more time. LOOK IT UP. Really, really easy research. EDIT: Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202, 1982, where the Supreme Court "struck down . . . a state statute denying funding for [public] education to undocumented immigrant children" based on the Fourteenth Amendment use of the term "person." Emphasis mine.
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  20272.  @o77eh  Done with this thread.
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  20273.  @o77eh  So, you refuse to look. No prob. Welcome to 21st century life.
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  20274.  @o77eh  The quote said the kids were undocumented immigrants.
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  20275.  @o77eh  You DO NOT NEED to be a CITIZEN to BE PROTECTED by the U S Constitution.
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  20276.  @o77eh  A text defines "citizen," for obvious reasons (a Civil War amendment, hello) and you think the rest of what it states is therefore limited to citizens, even where it says "persons" -- and you refuse to look it up. But you think someone else is daft. Hey, if it works for you. That's all that matters.
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  20277.  @o77eh  Why? Lack of citizenship cannot deprive anyone of legal personhood, or the liberties the Fourteenth Amendment protects, but if you are not (yet) a person, you're not a citizen anywhere. So what? You don't have to be a citizen to have your liberty protected. You have to be a person. If embryos and fetuses were legal persons, the question would not be up to the states to protect them or not, and to what extent. The Constitution would protect them, setting some minimum standard. "Let the states decide" means they aren't legal persons, and applies because they aren't. Overturning Roe v. Wade (and its progeny) would take us exactly there: the states get to decide how to regulate abortion. In fact, if any state choses not to regulate abortion, offhand I know of no federal law that would step in to do it. There might be one (a federal ban on "partial birth" abortions, based on a federal statute, obviously, not the Constitution). It's obvious Cavanaugh and Barrett want the law to go there. This case won't let them. If you have another argument in mind, let's see it.
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  20278.  @o77eh  Undocumented immigrants have constitutional rights. For some reason, you've fallen in love with your discourse to the point where you decline to research and read and rethink. You have interesting ideas. Don't stand guard over them by refusing to consider other ideas. But in any case, your prerogative.
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  20279.  @o77eh So, where did you study law?
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  20280.  @o77eh  Like Michael Ratner and Flint Taylor? (I knew you weren't. Rhetorical question.)
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  20281. Thank you for this, Jimmy.
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  20282. The first 45 seconds are already infuriating.
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  20283. All of humanity has these events in their family tree. ALL.
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  20284. Adam Smith opposed this: 16:25 Even Adam Smith. So, Smith is to the LEFT of the American "left?"
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  20285. How did they take Crimo in without firing a shot?
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  20286.  @bsmithhammer  Worry about syntax and semantics.
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  20287. It is evidence of what the tabloids SAID, not evidence that what they said is the truth. It is evidence of "reputation." It can't be introduced, unless reputation bears directly on an issue the plaintiff himself raised, like how to calculate the damages, who caused how much of the damages, etc. How do you think you decide "reputation?" Yeah, the goofy reviews some jerk wrote about you online could count one day. It's possible.
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  20288. Do you know how The New York Post reported this? That Petro "buckled" under Trump's demands and even offered his plane to transport Colombians.
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  20289.  @tanya41277  One of my best friends lives there now.
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  20290.  @TheYashakami  Why are half the posts here shadowed?
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  20291. @tanya41277  Who suggested that? I've lived abroad before, always en situation régulière. I know the procedures.
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  20292. @tanya41277  How much do you weigh? Just curious. Strange picture.
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  20293.  @youareliedtobythemedia  Good parrot . . . Nice parrot . . . So I guess the people being killed by Azov Battalion in the Donbass all these years don't count as Ukrainian. Let them join RF, then. Problem solved.
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  20294.  @LKaramazov  And who ended the moratorium on gain of function research? And who funded Operation Warp Speed? And who did nothing to prevent the illegal shutdown of the economy, other than, say, tweet? And who ordered the assassination by drone of the Iranian general who almost no one in his administration knew anything about, including him, yet whom many people in the world considered a bulwark against certain terrorist cells? For that matter, who sent out more drone strikes than even Obama did? (That was not easy.) Who appointed religious fanatics to the Supreme Court and to various sensitive positions in his administration? (Have you ever had to work under one?) I grant you he is not related to Hunter Biden, or benefiting from Hunter's various scams and grifts. I grant you that. In any case, you said there was one party that leaves you alone. Which one might that be? They were both in favor of bombing where my family lives.
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  20295.  @LKaramazov  😅😅😅 Trump under "tremendous pressure to survive?" You must have him mixed up with Julian Assange. All true believers believe some awfully strange things . . . America has no communists. It skipped the revolution part and went straight to terror.
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  20296.  @LKaramazov  You forgot the part about banning abortion for pre-teen girls. That seems to have played a role in the midterm election after all. Apparently, not everyone is deranged or willing to tolerate the deranged running/ruining the lives of the rest of us.
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  20297.  @LKaramazov  Well . . . now you know why there wasn't a "red wave" yesterday. So now a minor who cannot consent, which includes girls who are 11 or 12, should be forbidden an abortion? Read a biology book. Then, get help for the other problems. To think that YOU believe you should run other people's lives . . . mind boggling. Of course you started out by talking about FREEDOM!! The irony is so deep it's verging on the psychotic.
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  20298. Amber shares a birthday with Marilyn Monroe.
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  20299. Wait, let's stay with the point. Let's say a person commits a serious crime and is not made accountable in any way for that crime. Later, he is arrested for political speech. Two injustices.
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  20300. I was truly puzzled. I thought that kids were learning nothing in school, except Gender Bender Studies, and they were much better off home schooled and online. Y'mean teachers teach math and reading?! Even the union members?
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  20301. Oh is he? School closures erased two DECADES of PROGRESS in math and reading? Robbie is not focusing on the fact that teachers played a role in this progress. Perhaps he needs to stop flagellating them and demanding vouchers. He's the one who is perennially inconsistent and dismissive.
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  20302. According to Joy Behar, the water is fine for Trump voters.
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  20303. The US media is awful. Who hasn't noticed? Just compare France 24 and TeleSUR English versions, live reports, on Ukraine. I'm not suggesting they are unbiased, but the sheer relief of getting away from the puerile MSM will amaze you.
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  20304.  @gjament  You would know. He's not being sense erred, but I am.
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  20305. @IFYOUWANTITGOGETIT  😂😂😂😂 At least he makes sense.
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  20306. There's no money in it, silly.
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  20307. ABC News interviewed the mastermind of the terrorist cell that committed the Beslan school seige and massacre.
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  20308. ​ @markhockman1368 What has Assange been convicted of?
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  20309. Now you're talking.
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  20310. Predictable. He is semi-literate, at best.
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  20311. This society does not care whether there are mass shootings. Just start with that premise, then think hard about what you should do, yourself, in light of that crucial FACT. What "we" should do comes later.
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  20312. "He shouldn't have caffeine, so I poured some decaf." I am in love.
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  20313. @johnskelton5683  You mean you actually occupy yourself with this? I have never heard one word pro or con Harry. The one thing I heard about Markel was that when she started making money, she put her mother through school for a Master's degree from USC. People were surprised. Both her and her mother were only children of their parents, so they were close and less dazzled by bling. Other than that, Harry and Megan are mostly ignored. They are 1. Considered a little off; and 2. It figures, considering what they both went through. So what if they are? Big deal. 😏
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  20314. ​ @pcprinciple3774  LOL 😂
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  20315.  @mmondrag25  A lot of people are calling for jail time. I do not agree with the law that allowed her to assert immunity. I was surprised she could assert immunity. At the same time, no sane person who can avoid prison through legal means would fail to use those means to avoid prison. It's that simple. I stand by that. Americans commenting here should learn about what prison is, given that the US has the world's largest carceral state by far.
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  20316. Any of us can click the link to the Australian government website and see for ourselves that AZ was discontinued three weeks ago due to a serious side effect attributed to the vaccine: thrombosis with thrombocytopenia (TTS), and that particular vaccine is no longer in use there, for anyone. Campbell never said that his sudden onset of high blood pressure was a side effect of the vaccine, merely that he never had an issue before and suddenly he did. Of course events correlated with vaccination, occurring a short time after, are SUPPOSED to be reported, because they may turn out to be due to the vaccination. Only a careful analysis of DATA can distinguish correlation and probable causation. That is exactly how Israel was first to find out that myocarditis and pericarditis were a risk of the mRNA vaccines for adolescent boys and young men. Or should people just shut up about it, hm? Is that your plan? Why? It's against the principle of the yellow card system, which depends on honest reporting.
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  20317. Who told you that, Jordan Peterson? And you believed him? Show me all the poor POC kids lining up for this. 😅
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  20318.  @sirtra  Who said "grand theft auto?"
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  20319.  @Marty234  Amen
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  20320.  @dangerousdylan6262  Where is that? I've seen a few places where a car can be defended with deadly force during certain hours of the night, but when you read the statute, you see there are so many pitfalls that there's no guarantee you wouldn't end up paying a lawyer several times more than the value of the car. Better be sure before you try it.
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  20321. @robg5717  HA. Who cares whether life or limb is in danger? How much does the car cost? Is the owner an Important Person? /s
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  20322. Look up Scott Galloway.
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  20323. @Don Solo  That's optimistic. There are various ways a hangover will not come about, such as death of the patient.
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  20324. Look up the Le Monde map of the results. Vast areas to the south and east of France had Melenchon, Le Pen, or the old center-right on top, with no real support for Macron. Astonishing.
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  20325. @utah, so as long as he foregoes that money, GAME OVER.
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  20326.  @DC-rd6oq  Public policy overrides contracts, and is informed by the First Amendment. No court will enforce terms that encroach on fundamental rights. Then anyone with gobs of $$ could have anyone silenced. Specific performance in general is disfavored anyway. But given the power of money today, your argument could prevail -- right or wrong.
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  20327.  @DC-rd6oq  Actually, they often are not. Are you a lawyer?
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  20328.  @DC-rd6oq  Certainly public policy can override contract terms. No court will issue a ruling to enforce a contract term that is against public policy. Why do you think contracts contain severability clauses? The main reason IS because one or more of their terms may prove to be unenforceable. If a contract term places a court in the position of curtailing press freedom, it will not enforce that term, regardless of jurisdiction. The Constitution preempts any and all laws to the contrary. Cool. It let me correct it.
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  20329.  @DC-rd6oq  Look, never mind. I just got a new tablet that autocorrects and rejects edits. You needn't "feel sorry" for the clients of anyone who actually knows how to argue the First Amendment, apparently a lost art. Non-compete clauses are enforced when an employee can take with them knowledge, construed in a broad sense, that they obtained on the job and could not have obtained in some other way. In the first place, a lot of courts won't enforce a clause once an employee is fired. So, did Fox think it could do an end-run on that rule by sidelining him but not firing him? This deserves a laugh-out-loud all right. They can't structure something to prevent him from exercising free speech. He could call their bluff: start his own broadcast and refuse to monetize it. The ball would then be in their court. You think they would sue? They would perhaps stop paying on the contract. Cool; constructive discharge. You're worrying about terminology when you seem not to grasp preemption, or the degree to which courts will avoid encroaching on the First Amendment. Private people cannot bind other people to the degree you seem to think they can; even specific performance is disfavored wherever money damages will do, and they generally will, much less where stifling freedom of speech and of the press are at issue. Try thinking creatively. I'm sure Tucker's lawyers will.
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  20330.  @DC-rd6oq  "If structured properly" -- you mean so that they don't inhibit free speech, or otherwise contravene federal laws or public policy? Yeah, that could work.
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  20331.  @DC-rd6oq  That's all ya got? Why am I not surprised? BTW, in California, where I'm licensed, non-compete clauses are heavily disfavored, and are presumed to be unreasonable -- granted, that is a rebuttable presumption. Not easily so, but sure. It could happen. (Tucker's lawyer is based there I see.)
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  20332.  @DC-rd6oq  I am still right about the First Amendment issue in THIS specific case. This will be about money.
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  20333.  @DC-rd6oq  you were hung up on a typo, and rude I clerked for a federal appellate court. And no jurisdiction is particularly fond of non-competes. Their heyday is over. This tech just changed clerked to clerk's. LOL, ruining all of our minds.
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  20334.  @DC-rd6oq  Huh? I thought it was tiring to push something that's not true. Isn't that why it pays well?
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  20335.  @DC-rd6oq  :)
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  20336.  @DC-rd6oq  You mean I'm supposed to want the last word?? No, no, it's yours.
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  20337. Of course the man escalated the situation. He had no business chiding a stranger, or speaking to anyone without wearing his mask. So he broke a rule, too. He doesn't know her ethnicity, or the ethnicity of her immediate family, either. You'd be surprised if you always think you do.
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  20338. Yeah, it was brave to pardon Assange and Snowden. /s
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  20339. THIS
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  20340. ​@shaneoberdier They did a terrible job, because they don't really care about the First Amendment, or the welfare of students on campus. They don't care, and didn't think they needed to know. No one like this should be admitted to Harvard, much less "lead" it. They don't stand for anything except their own paychecks. That, they are interested in.
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  20341.  @Unpainted_Huffhines  So was mine. So was yours.
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  20342. Huh. Matters to Hunter.
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  20343. That's funny. The Miami Herald did one of the greatest exposes in journalistic history. Prince Andrew was among the people close to Epstein who lost his status in the royal family when he was found out. Epstein mentor Wexner is a major donor to Harvard, their Kennedy School in fact, a think-tank for government policy that affects us all. Missed all that, huh?
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  20344.  @slydog7131  The point is that the news was amazingly hard to miss. But I guess if you say you managed, we have to take your word. Only you would know. There's a bigger point: as soon as it's off the front page, there is a mysterious full-court press to hush it up. I wonder why that always seems to happen. I'm sure no one replaced Epstein. The exploitation ended with him. And there is no black book. Those are myths. /s
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  20345. ​@ChesterSm-ge1hb And my retirement was ruined. I can never retire. Thanks for reminding us exactly who the DNC are. I voted LaRiva/Peltier in 2020, no one this time.
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  20346. ​ @MysticMary-g9s Typical Clintonite, are we? Oh that's right, Hunter did great. Okay, never mind. Obviously anyone with ambition can.
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  20347. You think a VIDEO shows he is a "fraud??" That's evidence for you? It would be funny. None of this is funny any more. Did YOU review Framingham and subsequent research on the issue of cholesterol? The first document this video shows to "prove" that Dr. Malhotra is wrong is a SUMMARY by the American Heart Association of their assessment of risk, not DATA.
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  20348.  @esthervolkan6946  Notice how his best ideas (he does have some) go absolutely nowhere. Illuminating! And risible.
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  20349.  @elsajones6325  That was lame. Some of us never had cable. We have books instead.
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  20350. Of all the crimes I've heard Dr. Grande describe, this one makes me want to vomit the most.
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  20351. No one should volunteer. Ef it.
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  20352. We could read the paper he reviewed. Could you give more details on the Cornell paper? I want to read it.
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  20353. You know the public at large never has access to the most sophisticated tests, anymore than they have access to the best treatments.
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  20354. ​ @natetravels5156 There is no question any more --- she is against the Democrat party. You must not be paying attention.
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  20355. Should the BRICS sanction NATO countries over Assange's human rights?
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  20356. The consent and release from liability form you sign to get vaccinated states that you have a right to refuse vaccination and there will be no change in the care you receive. You're vaccinated, so you must have that form.
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  20357.  @john-hunterdailey9487  He said he never flew with them. Another person flew once with someone of this mentality. EDIT: More than one person! Sounds like no one did it twice.
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  20358. 💯
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  20359. I was worried after my COVID last fall, so I took up memorizing pi. I have 50 decimal place firm, and looking to go up to 57 this week. Hope it helps me!
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  20360.  @Deploracle  It's easier than it sounds, but gosh! Thanks!! 😊🥀
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  20361. Umm . . .
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  20362. Very reasonable on your part.
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  20363. See what Europeans are doing. I know certain vaccines are not advisable for people with previous allergic reactions, according to the UK's national health service. That could be one of theirs, not approved here. Always good to know, though, what other countries' citizens are choosing. We get inundated with propaganda.
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  20364. Ha ha, you still want to make it make sense.
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  20365. A day, for the frugal ones.
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  20366. "There's an entire industry now, built up around this bullshit." Monetize anything.
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  20367. @Amazing_Mark  Is that a joke? You do know most of Western Europe no longer generally recommends vaccination for anyone under 50, and some countries decline to vaccinate people under 30 unless there is a compelling medical reason? But you say everyone. . . . Wow.
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  20368. @bean-spiller  I'm a civil rights attorney. I've read tens of thousands of pages of case law, trial transcripts, etc. I've also written screenplays. And detailed hypotheticals for ethics classes, come to think of it. You know what they say . . . When your surmise turns out so wrong, you must have started with yourself. 🤣
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  20369.  @bean-spiller  What would you know about it? How many briefs have you read? Do you know how to find one?
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  20370. @bean-spiller  That wasn't my "story." That was what one of the leaders of the PCF, an editor of L'Humanité, pointed out very early on concerning health care workers in France -- of course long before it occurred to any American to stand up for workers. Although I must say, it struck me quite early on as well, being into multiculturalism and all. Yes, I also speak French. Now I've really upset you.
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  20371. @maryabu718  No such law. Johnson was challenged, then he stepped down.
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  20372.  @maryabu718  A criminal organization . . . If they had won in 2016, would Epstein be alive today?
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  20373. He did. And they are all on board. Jimmy never backtracked.
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  20374. I know. Having to ask is a sign of good character.
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  20375. Max is THE best.
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  20376. ​ @adaml7349 OH STOP. Who brought us Warp Speed and made Fauci the COVID czar? Who admitted to Bob Woodward that he knew this pandemic would be serious, and did nothing except let some Congressman readjust their stock portfolios in advance? Whose deficients grew, and grew faster, like under every administration? That's just the beginning.
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  20377. Oh no. Please.
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  20378. In California, a lawyer tried to remove proven defamation from Yelp. She had a judgment in hand, and only what was specifically adjudicated as defamatory could be removed. Yelp said no anyway. The California Supreme Court agreed with Yelp. So, even if you are defamed and prove it, tough luck. The Internet does not work this way in Europe.
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  20379. You think you take care of black people?
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  20380.  @-Thunder  A lot of what you say is true. As for Trump, I think he's self-involved and a con man and always has been. The real question is why our political class and our deep state are as evil as you rightly described.
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  20381. It's got to be Kamala? Well then. We know it will be Joe.
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  20382. First of all, Isaac was smeared by Rolling Stone. If their goal was to promote vaccination, they certainly made a mistake. Second, he just told you his team has said nothing to him about getting vaccinated. Moreover, there are limitations in what an employer can mandate. Do you think it could require women to use birth control? That would reduce health care costs for everyone, which is no trivial matter. Could it refuse to employ HIV positive people? If routine, regular testing is as good or better than vaccination, should an employer accept that in lieu of vaccination, or should it be allowed to require vaccination? In any event, the players' union will have something to say. And don't be naive: NBA bosses may not want to take the myocarditis risk with their stars, even though it is very small, but they are keeping quiet about it.
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  20383. I think that is perceptive.
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  20384. If I want to stay safe, I think I need to know where the shootin' might commence.
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  20385. First Amendment applies to all levels of government, federal, state, and local, and their agents (hence, private companies censoring FOR the government).
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  20386. A lot of European countries voted for the Resolution.
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  20387. Jimmy Dore just had Convo Couch election observers on, who told the truth about Nicaragua, the Sandinistas, and the criminal sanctions against Third World peoples, which are acts of war. You guys planning to comment on that?
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  20388.  @ChiChi-jg1ch  Many very ill people were treated, and possibly saved, by monoclonal antibodies, including Trump.
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  20389. Trump and Fauci played good cop, bad cop. I don't believe any of it. It was Obama who signed a moratorium on gain-of-function research, and Fauci and company immediately took to figuring out ways to subvert it. Then Trump just rescinded it. Still no clear explanation.
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  20390. Reading Sally Rooney over the past couple of years kept me sane.
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  20391. Hunter's judgment is good enough for Burisma in Ukraine.
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  20392. Some of this reminds me of the NXIVM cult.
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  20393. @UnsencoredTube  I don't know whether the CEO was simply engaging in astute PR or whether he was sincere -- or a combination of the two. I noted what he said. And I thought it was good, i.e., sounded good. It did.
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  20394. True. YT will delete it.
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  20395. Who? What? No one in this incident is black.
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  20396. How did you think of asking poor people what to think, I mean what they think?
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  20397. The breakthroughs in research are coming from other countries anyway.
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  20398. Au Hasard Balthazar
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  20399.  @PositivelyBrainwashed  Offer your home as shelter for Ukrainian refugees. I did that LAST month. Then read a book on genocide. Do that for yourself.
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  20400.  @PositivelyBrainwashed  You haven't, I'm guessing? Speaking of genocide, over 3 million children are seriously malnourished in Afghanistan, and a million are likely to die this year. Thousands already have. A mere stroke of a pen can change that. See whether Afghanistan qualifies as a genocide. I don't know. Read about it. Think it through for yourself.
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  20401.  @PositivelyBrainwashed  Just saw your channel! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  20402. This is heartbreaking, frankly.
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  20403.  @ticler  Because it's incorrect? Um . . . No, actually. It's true.
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  20404. I wish. I fear you are an optimist.
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  20405.  @DiabloBlanquecino  In your opinion, and given that they are for real, at least in their own minds, what do you think they'll do next?
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  20406. Can you be serious? The current president bragged about expanding the death penalty for FEDERAL offenses when he was a senator.
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  20407. Is anyone surprised?
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  20408.  @Skooms89  We don't know that yet. Sheer speculation.
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  20409.  @Skooms89  I agree with that, mostly. Seems a little overstated, but yes, people who have had COVID and then got vaccinated have a much higher immune response.
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  20410.  @Skooms89  And more vaccination side effects, for sure.
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  20411.  @TheAnalyticalFailure  You sound like you know nothing about it. But I can appreciate your impassioned rejection of bourgeois Anglo-American self-loathing. That should have no place in anyone's life.
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  20412.  @utah_koidragon7117  No, the law exists but was badly drafted. It is a due process requirement that ambiguity must be resolved in favor of the defense. So it was.
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  20413. @RationalGaze216  Rittenhouse was a minor brandishing a weapon without an adult supervising him, not in a hunting area but in an urban area, and during a curfew. When minors participate in hunting, it's not like that. I don't disagree about the rest. I don't think he should have been charged as an adult in any case.
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  20414.  @RationalGaze216  The gun charge WAS thrown out. If you are allowed to read the whole thread, that is explained. The law was badly drafted.
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  20415. 5:00 ABSOLUTELY RIGHT In one flat minute, says it ALL. What will it take?
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  20416. Can you be serious? Common law exists in very few states. You most certainly do need a license to marry. In some states, it's wise to have a civil ceremony first, in fact, then a religious celebration. Illinois, for one, where it is impossible to establish a common law marriage and hard to prove one if you have established it in another state.
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  20417. The lawyer has a duty of zealous representation of his client first. His duty to the court is not to offer perjured testimony or faked evidence. Did you go through a bad divorce?
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  20418.  @rubenrojas8118  Are you a lawyer?
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  20419.  @rubenrojas8118  Sidebar is for points of law that are not within the province of the jury. The jury is the factfinder.
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  20420.  @rubenrojas8118  And waste more time?
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  20421.  @rubenrojas8118  FALSE
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  20422. If he censored Matt Taibbi, then he is a hypocrite.
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  20423. ​ @kass8036  The stuff about Turkey is not a major issue, to my mind. I think proven defamation, etc. (actually proven in court) should have to be removed here, but Section 230 has been held not to require it. The plarforms protected by that section can do what they want.
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  20424. Her party came in third. That was wonderful. I was hoping the 60 Minutes profile was the kiss of death.
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  20425. Medical care for millionaires, natch.
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  20426. 😊
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  20427.  @HoodrichShinobi  Your spouse is your next of kin who decides what happens to you if you are unable to speak for yourself. If you cannot trust that person to love and protect you, then that is a plenty good enough reason to divorce them.
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  20428.  @HoodrichShinobi  Oh good grief. Well, if you want to live in Never, Neverland . . . Do you actually not know what goes on in other people's homes? It's based on television or movies?
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  20429.  @HoodrichShinobi  Clean your room.
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  20430.  @HoodrichShinobi  reported and blocked
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  20431.  @RunninUpThatHillh  It's good to own the place you will die in.
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  20432. This is incredible. No one can push back on these people anymore. And the supposed liberals only distract the public with identity politics nonsesnse, then follow the same economic policies and curtail civil liberties as does the right.
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  20433. Upvoted you, BTW. You're right, but . . .
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  20434. @zenster1097  They are called "time, place, manner" restrictions, and they do not violate the First Amendment. That is why you can go to certain nightclubs and see people dressed in less than what OP described.
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  20435. @zenster1097  IOW, it is not "regardless" at all; this was challenged in court and carefully thought through. But more to the point: why do we live in a time when not only ignorance is rewarded, but knowledge reviled? We see it everywhere, starting from the top (see, e.g., the White House, etc.).
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  20436. Then try this: https://youtu.be/64A7A8QWDNc
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  20437. Question: did you used to worship Bill Gates, too?
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  20438.  @wil68799  No. I always knew he was a louse. I am very familiar with the Microsoft antitrust case, the way he behaved in the workplace from early on, with his top managers, and how he immediately tried to fire Paul Allen as soon as Allen was diagnosed with cancer. Does that sound like someone who should direct global public HEALTH? I know better than to admire people below an Albert Einstein or a Martha Argerich or a J. M. Coetzee. Takes a lot to impress me.
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  20439.  Little Monk  Besides, if a self-driving car kills someone, that human unit probably needed to be retired. /s
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  20440.  Ryan Wiley  True of Biden, true of Trump, true of everyone on the Federal Reserve Board . . . Probably true of everyone the SEC has investigated or reprimanded.
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  20441.  @johnarnold893  Of course. There is nothing to those stories of market manipulation, defamation, ridiculous government subsidies, defective products that have killed people, or that Tesla's profitability (after years in the red) comes from selling emissions credits, not cars. Of course people are jealous of money. Erotic love is dead. If you made money on his stock, absolutely praise him. The story behind a stock matters, so by all means protect it.
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  20442.  @johnarnold893  Where do you see people hating him? An ironic laugh, sure.
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  20443.  @johnarnold893  This series cured me of watching too much YouTube. I think Lex is the best, and when I found him slipping -- especially here -- it cured me of watching too many podcasts, a bad habit I developed during this pandemic. If I could see through him, and I know no one else is better, then this stuff is not worth my time. I'm thrilled, frankly.
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  20444.  @johnarnold893  Still looks great, no botox.
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  20445.  @johnarnold893  You have a limited repertoire. But Musk is actually making useful things, a huge advantage over, say, Facebook, and all the other corporations whose main product is propaganda -- or surveillance. That much must be acknowledged. If you have a need for heroes, you could do worse.
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  20446.  @johnarnold893  You can read the business pages for yourself, or SEC press releases, or court cases. You understand mathematics, no? Or do you accept things on authority?
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  20447.  @johnarnold893  It life one vast personality cult for you?
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  20448.  @johnarnold893  I cite facts, you go full ad hom. In America, that apparently works. That's why we have the mess we do. I don't bother with hate. Emotion has nothing to do with the topic at hand. Hate seems to be on YOUR mind a lot, though. Ad hominem + DARVO? Isn't that getting old for you? Still has legs?
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  20449.  @johnarnold893  BTW, ask Joshua Brown about results. Just kidding, you can't.
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  20450. And why is that right?
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  20451. Take it up with the Supreme Court, which also ruled that banning cross burning, WWII symbols, and Klan symbols is unconstitutional, and that demonstrators from the Westboro Baptist Church cannot be sued for intentional infliction of emotional distress by the parents of a fallen soldier. Hate speech is a POLITICAL concept. Not to worry, your politics are sweeping the country. People will start self-censoring like the Soviets all did, only we won't get great math classes, piano, ballet, or an end to medical bankruptcy and homelessness along with it. We'll just get the self-censorship. 🙁
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  20452. ​@arand4125 The problem is that every so often, a surveillance agency will float a fake story, for obvious reasons.
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  20453. ​ @arand4125 BBC2 documentarian Adam Curtis is great on this.
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  20454. Oh great. Jimmy is prejudiced against corpses. Well some of my best friends are corpses, bro.
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  20455. 💯 truth
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  20456. ​ @Blank-ds5ox  Take a couple of long rides on big-city buses. Make an afternoon of it. Then tell us what you think.
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  20457. ​ @tonyc58027  He has growing daughters and is feeling it. Not to justify anything, but to explain. Money does strange things to people. All the brave street urchins I knew who made it (most often through marriage) became petrified later. Now I'm the brave one. 😲😒
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  20458. Huh? Matt Taibbi???
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  20459. Not at all. People tend to be tribal and xenophobic -- not always, but you see that tendency in all ethnic groups. This is not racism. Racism has a history. It did not always exist, and will not always exist.
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  20460. Ask anyone who America DU'ed.
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  20461. ​ @jodihouts6032 Capitalism and the free market are two different things. The rise of debt peonage from the very beginning of one's adult life, for basic necessities like education and health care, should have altered people to the fact that the structure we have been taught is a lie. People have less and less freedom, and it is objectively measurable.
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  20462. EXACTLY
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  20463. This is the propaganda equivalent of using women and girls as human shields.
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  20464. 🤣
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  20465.  @ffffnnnnul2125  I hope they let you see my explanation.
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  20466. Read it more carefully. Insofar as these vaccines are experimental, imposing them in this way is a violation. Last year, Biden, Pelosi, Fauci, and others all agreed mandates were wrong and could not be imposed. Why, I wonder?
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  20467. The headline says "in Israel?" How about "on Gaza?"
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  20468. Well Piers' position certainly did not age particularly well.
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  20469. ​@RicArmstrong He did end the moratorium on funding gain of function research --- granted, it was being avoided anyway. Now explain why Trump let FAUCI run the country in 2020.
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  20470. That's what it means to say it's not a right.
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  20471. @MyGTV2000  He is really confused. This has nothing to do with Marx or Marxism; their sin was to support the very opposite, and to look down on what we today call LGBTQ. They wrote it off to "bourgeois decadence." They were decidedly unsympathetic and illiberal.
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  20472. When have you seen merit hiring? Show me where, so I can apply.
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  20473.  @andrewjohnson8507  Do you know how lucky that is? Being punished for merit is more common than being hired based on merit. Other people bristle at it, especially immediate supervisors who are convinced you want their job. Being left alone to do your job to the best of your ability in a drama-free setting has become a luxury.
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  20474.  @andrewjohnson8507  Just how many tens of thousands of pages of federal appellate and Supreme Court opinions, and trial transcripts, of employment law cases have YOU read? That's what I thought. (Would you know how to find one? Just kidding.)
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  20475. @andrewjohnson8507  A manager who does that usually gets promoted. Exceptional performance at low levels is generally viewed as disruptive, as it upsets coworkers and generally undermines morale and predictability. Hard work is not sought, outstanding work even less. Getting along and always being on task and on time is sought. I have never met a real person who has not had the experience of being a target or a witness of a manager running an outstanding employee into the ground. The last one I know of was a woman around the age of 50 who left GE, got a Master's in one year, then got an offer from Microsoft. (Really shabby, huh? She must be prone to making excuses!) As for me, I once prevented a major theft of funds by someone above me. How about you? 😂
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  20476. Do you know the words to God Save the King? They are servile, actually.
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  20477. It's called school shootings. You've heard of them, I assume.
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  20478. Is everyone on drugs?
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  20479. How many pearls are we supposed to clutch?
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  20480. Huh?? Let n=2. 3n, 3n+1, 3n+2 partition the positive integers. An integer having any one of these three forms can be even or odd, depending on whether n is even or odd. 0, 3, 6, 9, . . . , 3n, . . . 1, 4, 7, 10, . . . 3n+1, . . . 2, 5, 8, 11, . . . 3n+2, . . .
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  20481. @Leigh Parr  Just reread most of the thread. It's beyond scary now. :/
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  20482. Have the speakers addressed the killings of blacks by police, and the demonstrations? I don't know, I'm not watching.
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  20483. ​ @bobnas What does 401k have to do with it? 🤔
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  20484. @aj.j5833  Sounds like it . . . 😐
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  20485. If he wasn't a doormat, no one would be telling you to listen to him. :)
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  20486. This is OLD news. From my childhood. No, before. WAY before.
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  20487. None of this has any bearing on the issue at hand, which is whether a rather mild article is defamatory and caused him $50,000,000 in damages. He already lost a defamation lawsuit in the UK against a tabloid which said much worse things about him. He is the one using the court to settle a score rather than vindicate his rights. He is the one who sued, he is the one who orchestrated this circus. Everything you said about her probably applies to him, too, but you can't see it. Moral panic. Did you read the article? By the way.
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  20488.  @cerriberry6835  This is another case of mass hysteria. I don't know that an adversarial witness made a correct diagnosis in the first place, and frankly I doubt it. Her assertion that Amber Heard does not have post-traumatic stress, when she had an assault in her past, before meeting Depp, struck me as dubious. Hiring an expert to make it appear as though a key witness is untrustworthy is considered a dirty trick in litigation. Hillary Clinton once tried to do that when she was appointed by a court to represent a rapist of a young teen, maybe younger.
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  20489.  @cerriberry6835  This is crazy, it really is. Every new episode still surprises me.
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  20490. First, much smaller populations make comparison more difficult (statistical fact); second, median is a better measure than mean; and third, most important, Asians refuse to assimilate away from their own values. Any group whose kids play piano rather than video games and don't care whether they are considered cool will have better lives. In their case, living apart is an advantage.
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  20491. Wow, talked about the math, got thrown in shade. This happens all the time.
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  20492.  @LongDefiant  Who? Don't keep us guessing.
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  20493.  @louispouliot4102  "Both?"
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  20494.  C M  Keep telling yourself what you want to hear, just like CNN, MSNBC. At least Moore doesn't make that mistake. Had Trump sounded the alarm the first WEEK of February (okay, too much to ask, of him), OR if he has not systematically undermined and flouted public health measures (still too much to ask), OR if he had come out of his own COVID case with some humanity, and MADE SURE we'd have stimulus and access to quality treatments, he would have won. As it is, you sound like a liberal excuse-maker: "I'm not responsible!!! My hands were tied by The Bad People!!!!!! Why did they DO this, to MEEEEE?"
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  20495.  C M  Who pays hospitals to neglect COVID patients so that they die? Because that is what you just said: the hospitals get $10k for every COVID death, thus incentivizing neglect, according to you. And you claim someone else is nuts.
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  20496. How could you hear what wasn't said? Grim brought it up, and then said, clearly other laws were violated by Nixon and Kissinger when they advised the Vietnamese to scuttle peace talks. In any event, no one brought up the Logan Act in that case, the one time it should have applied. Proves that the Logan Act is treated as a dead letter, and assumed to be unconstitutional by all sides. That was the logic. Grim was right.
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  20497.  di C  So let me see if I understand. Three people heard something that wasn't said, and were positively gobsmacked by it. Gosh we're in good shape in the truth department.
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  20498.  @havable  I didn't say A, because B. The Logan Act was not invoked the one time it clearly and unequivocally should have been. It is therefore de facto a dead letter, about as much as those weird local laws requiring women to wear a hat on Sundays. It is, in addition, assumed to be unconstitutional. So that fact (B) may be why (A). The fact that it's widely assumed to be unconstitutional is probably why it is never invoked.
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  20499.  di C  How you could be THIS wrong, I do not understand. Good gawd is this a dangerous society. A new surprise daily. 4:59, folks
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  20500.  @dashx1103  No, that wasn't the point. Grim said, literally, the most egregious arguable violation of the Logan Act was by Nixon, even before an election, and the Act still wasn't invoked. 4:59 Grim gave a very perceptive a fortiori argument -- from a progressive standpoint. Not to provide false cover to ANYBODY.
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  20501.  di C  You know this how? If he did refer to Nixon's pre-election actions, and tried to pass them off as a normal transition activity that all incoming administrations do and have always done, then he was just caught in some of the worst journalistic malpractice on record. I don't see it, but maybe you're more perceptive than I am? Hey, maybe he did. Then that's really bad. Major misrepresentation.
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  20502.  di C  Okay. But if Saagar's mere mention of a previous transition in administrations was in fact referring to the very same thing as what RYAN GRIM described (i.e., pre-election contacts with a country where the US was at war), not only was I totally wrong, and am shamefaced, absolutely, but what Saagar just did was not a small thing. It was a very big thing. I'm sincere here. That's no joke. I saw the whole exchange differently, and I saw the initial post in this thread as factually incorrect, and maybe I am so wrong.
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  20503.  di C  Well, you're being kind. I readily admit I did not grasp that Saagar's mention of the Nixon transition (or so I thought, yikes) and Ryan Grim's explication of what Nixon actually did before the election referred to the same event. All I can say now is wow. Timelines matter -- for me, in missing it, but even moreso for the analysis. "Transition" and "prior to an election" are two very different animals. I'm not saying it's a big deal because by all appearances I was duped, but because it really is. No wonder our politics are what they are. I was looking forward to the Flynn hearings, I thought the district judge was brilliant. Enough of lying! Under oath no less, during a plea hearing. And if this was an FBI setup, all the more reason to expose it. Let all chips fall where they may. Because the FBI does this to people without Flynn's resources, and routinely gets away with it. No wonder Flynn got pardoned. The whole scenario was about to be played out in open court, can't have that!
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  20504.  @dashx1103  It seems I misunderstood the deal here. Not totally sure, but it looks like it. So maybe we agree? Anyway, sorry for any confusion.
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  20505.  @dashx1103  It's interesting, actually. I'm serious. Microcosm of the media.
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  20506. Communists supported mathematics education, and believed in material reality.
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  20507. He was bankrupted by medical bills. He is 55 now. He lived in a tiny bungalow for 23 years. Anyone who saw his videos on Thursday, including with Briahna Joy Gray (a true joy) knows he cares.
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  20508.  @cmbsoldja  Apparently this is your story. You'll have to substantiate it.
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  20509. See the Glenn Greenwald video of Victoria Nuland testifying on the Ukrainian biolabs, funded by the US DOD. There is more to this story that we do not yet know. The Indian press, TeleSUR, even AFP are reporting on the issue, and asking questions for which we do not have answers. Yet.
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  20510. No, capitalism is the power of monopoly. It is NOT a free market. Now I know why she pushed ordinary people to go to lawyers to set up trusts.
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  20511. How could Biden even be president, in light of HUNTER'S corrupt "job" bleeding money out of Ukraine? Nevermind his cognitive issues! Trump is their secret pleasure --- he demolished every objective standard or qualification for the office. Trump normalized every travesty. I never thought we would end up with even worse people than Trump, but here we are.
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  20512. Exactly. And now he's an investor with Peter Thiel.
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  20513.  @SOS-ct9mv  I did, too, for the longest time.
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  20514.  @beyamoth  It's not so much a set of fables than it is a book of poetry. Poetry does not consist of statements that are true or false, nor is it intended to be. Literal belief in the Bible as though it were a history book makes no sense at all.
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  20515.  @fbbbbbbbbasa  If you'd like a soundbite, we don't have proof that Elon Is Our Last Best Hope, and reason to doubt it.
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  20516.  @Jimmy-jy5ol  He seems like a nice enough guy. Being so fixated on the "un-vaxxed" taking up hospital beds, rather than being concerned that they are risking their lives -- in the first place -- shows you what agit-prop can do. The period since the 2016 presidential election has destroyed a lot of minds and morals. Face it. We're past the five-year mark. We have to step back from this, pause, and THINK.
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  20517.  @airmark02  Cannot disagree. Sad to see, and not surprising. :/
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  20518. HA
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  20519. But it's not at all on her behalf. The point is that you only have the reputation you can afford to buy, and the ability to bring suit is part of that cost. It's a common libertarian position that every moral wrong isn't a crime or a civil wrong that should give rise to a lawsuit. Moreover, the only reason a newspaper settles a lawsuit they could win is because the person suing them has the money to outlast them and drain them of attorney's fees. Williamson's point was the same as Robby's: they should have apologized and issued either a retraction or published the unedited interview or all of the above, before the election. By the way, where are the principled First Amendment advocates willing to defend a news program for a nominal fee plus costs? Lots of law professors are independently wealthy and could do it.
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  20520. ​ @VoxMachina8 No, you are. If my comment is allowed, it explains the economics. Of course, YT is no fan of reasoned argument.
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  20521.  @SophieRutter  Nope. That's not it. She got as much new support as she lost, because she got a sincere apology (!) from Rush Limbaugh (!!!!!) after he ran inaccurate information on her age, etc., at the time. The pictures were poor taste, not salacious.
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  20522. @nateauld  You don't remove your mask in your own home? Or on a beach, or on a forest hiking trail? There are a lot of places where you don't have to wear clothes, either. The shutdown was unconstitutional and unethical, the vaccine mandates were unconstitutional and unethical. Masks do not compare to those, they compare to ordinances regarding shoes and clothing in public spaces. But all of this is beside the point. Focus on Fauci and anyone else who supported or supports gain of function research.
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  20523. Brilliant post. Everyone should read this.
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  20524. Seriously, spread this one around.
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  20525. "The exact cause . . . hasn't been confirmed yet." So in the meantime, we should not take a simple precaution that may reduce, or possibly even eliminate, the risk of a serious/deadly side effect? Do they really want everyone vaccinated, or cowed? Is cowed the real priority here?
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  20526. Thank you. I wonder how many people are threatened by your refusal to kill off your intellect.
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  20527. I think he's working for the feds, lol. Jeffrey Epstein sure stayed out of jail a really long time . . . huh?
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  20528. Does Biden know what fracking is? Ask him.
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  20529. Kat ❤❤❤❤❤❤ This is it, no doubt.
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  20530. Any of us can click the link to the Australian government website and see for ourselves that the AZ vaccine was discontinued three weeks ago due to a serious side effect attributed to the vaccine: thrombosis with thrombocytopenia (TTS), and is no longer in use in Australia, for anyone, for precisely that reason.
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  20531.  @beewithab6122  cell phone?
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  20532. Was he or was he not either violent or imminently violent AT THE TIME he was killed? That is the sole question here. His history is evidence of the failure of the justice system, not evidence that the choke hold was proper here. Calling it vigilante isn't fair, calling it a crime is premature at this point: let a careful and fair investigation proceed.
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  20533. Listen to you . . .
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  20534. If she's being truthful, shouldn't she be saying the same things about the same subjects?
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  20535.  @masewindo3902  Okay, now I see what you mean.
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  20536. Because once under oath, it would not have occurred to the son of two Stanford Law professors to invoke his right to remain silent.
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  20537. Brie did a great parody not that long ago.
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  20538. This.
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  20539. I AM SHOCKED. SHOCKED THAT GAMBLING IS GOING ON IN THIS ESTABLISHMENT
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  20540.  @republicansthatdidntvotefo1605  I am chagrined that people are this quick to give up rights -- one obviously grandstanding congresswoman making her career with outrage p**n is enough. I'm starting to wonder how we ever got them in the first place. Look up RAV v. City of St. Paul. RAV is a case where a St. Paul ordinance banning cross burning, swastikas and similar symbols was struck down as unconstitutional. A liberal decision? No, a Scalia opinion, with concurrences coming to the same conclusion for different reasons, from Justices who didn't like his approach but agreed the ban was unconstitutional.
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  20541. LOL
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  20542. Subtext: Cuomo's tail was in the air, he was contemplating running for president. Clearly a lot of people wanted to quash that quick.
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  20543. Always helpful.
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  20544. ​@justaname999 I truly hope that by now, people know to check research in the actual journals, and never to rely on videos. The NIH maintains a free library. I knew about vaccine issues, from actual studies, before my doctor did.
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  20545. ​ @Ribcut Someone claims he did.
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  20546.  @kaushy  It is promoted to anyone who has listened to Hubmerman or this channel. You know that.
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  20547. Leave the Five Eyes for a sentimental education.
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  20548. 😂😂😂
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  20549. Remember how any discussion of Epstein was stigmatized? People wondered why anyone would focus on it, "hm?" Never mind the Bidens, Clintons, etc. Verboten.
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  20550. Did their families commit SA on them as kids? (I wonder how many trans kids had that happen, too.)
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  20551. Social Security is not meaningful for most people before age 70. They take it if they absolutely have to. :/
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  20552. No -- 99.9%
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  20553. It's a possibility. We can't say it's true.
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  20554. @relaxitsonlyart  I had my suspicions since that very day. I am very slow and deliberate to draw firm conclusions. I'm not changing. It worked during the vaccine fiasco.
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  20555.  @relaxitsonlyart  I hope you can 👀 my reply.
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  20556. Wait. MARS doesn't have a magnetic field, but genius Elon Musk wants to start colonies there?
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  20557. COVID policies included violations of the First Amendment.
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  20558. 5:34 -- You need to consider that AOC might have different goals now. She knows how the system works all right, and she is using it now to further her own personal goals? Possible.
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  20559. Exactly. There is no analysis here, either. There were recklessness counts as well as homicide counts in the indictment, not to mention the fact that the gun charge was dropped. Take the jury instructions count by count. Ask why a generation after Columbine Wisconsin's legislature was incapable of drafting a reasonable and constitutional gun law with respect to minors and others. But they bemoan the lack of analysis.
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  20560.  @JUDALATION  Local police, or campus security? If the janitor was instructed to call local police, whoever told him that should be fired.
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  20561. Then why was a pardon necessary? I'm not familiar with the case.
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  20562. Truth: what they pay me serious money to say. Any questions?
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  20563. If you wonder how wolves evolved to dogs . . .
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  20564.  @durango8882  LOL, excellent
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  20565. @charlesmrader  Huh? No one ever said you had no right to speak? Then you didn't go to those protests. Some protesters were even shot, and not just in Ohio. People were petrified of the civil rights movement, and were silent and looked the other way when protesters were beaten or shot because the protests scared them so much.
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  20566. @scotttovey  I answered you in detail. Seems to have disappeared. Amazing. Demonstrating against funding a foreign war that we have no part in, and where one participant is being cited for possible genocide, is free speech, not treason.
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  20567.  @scotttovey  Well, unless you can find it by using the Newest tab to sort, I guess someone would rather that we not communicate.
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  20568.  @scotttovey  Replied twice, went "poof!"
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  20569. Well, for a nation of druggies, may as well voter for a sh___ter.
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  20570. So, they will not even CONSIDER withdrawing approval of the vaccines pending an in-depth review? How come doing the right thing costs money, and doing the wrong thing makes money? "Personal circumstances," huh? EDIT: Why is this being shadowed??
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  20571.  @brianhillis3701  I agree with you 100% about the hypocrisy. Looking at the whole picture, though, I think you are putting most of the blame in the wrong place. I've met baristas with Business degrees. Plenty. You must not talk to the people who serve your coffee.
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  20572. SO many talking points about "Gender Studies" and so forth, when Business is the top major, and has been for a couple of generations, and "trendy" majors are extremely rare. A student with trendy major who can take great photographs and design a web page will get hired to do fashion merchandising long before a Business major will. Say, did you know "Financial Engineering" is a major? Look it up. Wow. I sure do wonder what those people have in store for us. Like the IT people who are looking forward to robotics, and a post-human world? At least read up on what they say. I don't believe their nonsense, but getting a perspective on THEIR lack of human feelings and values is sobering, as is the fact that they do not want for good jobs. IOW, wake up.
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  20573.  @brianhillis3701  A luxury, like a beach house, is comparable to a necessity, like an education? Because both are pleasant? Does a beach house greatly enhance your productivity, for life? This is why I want to emigrate. The prevailing culture is incompatible with a humane existence, and will be for as long as I'm likely to be around. No one outside of the English-speaking world ever says these things, and most of the English-speaking world has evolved. Your stoking of endless envy will ruin you. Don't look now, but the BRICS educate their children. They don't first say "yours and mine." They start from "our."
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  20574.  @brianhillis3701  Asia just signed a massive trade deal, you know. In Europe, they are talking about it and analyzing it. Maybe you missed the import of it. Y'know, the big picture.
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  20575.  @brianhillis3701  How about no education if you or your parents can't pay for it? Why give anyone's kids something for nothing? It's not my job to feed and clothe your kids. Well, I don't want to send them to school, either. They're your kids, not mine. Same for health care, including for your elderly. If your kids want lobster tail, should I pay for lobster tail? Same for calculus. If you don't like it, buy a farm.
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  20576.  @brianhillis3701  Yup, starting with kindergarten. No more Mr. Nice Guy.
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  20577.  @michigandersea3485  Your post stayed on my mind for several days because it is brilliant. Your daughter is very lucky to have you as a father and she is going to be one very happy young lady someday. What really strikes me about your plan is that high school was supposed to prepare everyone for a good job. That's what it was supposed to do -- and it once did. Bravo for not being passive in the face of deteriorating education. Once she has that solidly in place, why not major in art history, if it's truly her passion? Exactly! One other thing that struck me, living outside the US for five years, and later teaching as a community college adjunct (not my main job), is that people really underestimate what good decisionmaking, planning, and most of all hard work can do. Too many people believe in some sort of inborn talent, and think things should be easy, or the person must not be "good" at them. This is so wrong. They completely underestimate what an extra 30 or 40 minutes a day can do, when practiced over a period of many years. That's the difference between not understanding math and breezing through introductory calculus. I'm serious, it really is.
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  20578.  @igvc1876  Are you kidding? She's an AWESOME English teacher, and just a little bit shy. Her mom is very religious, and probably stressed humility.
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  20579. "Sell?" Vastly worse than that . . .
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  20580. NEVER ONCE did Brie bring race into this segment. Very much to the contrary. You know, literally lying about what someone said -- literally bearing false witness -- has become a much bigger social problem at this point than any of this other stuff.
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  20581. I bought my first new car in my 40s. So?
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  20582.  @dadongp8154  Minimum wage DID keep people housed and clothed and fed. Public transport got them to work. Minimum wage summer jobs paid trade school or in state college tuition. Explain to me how you start out without that. Oh, that's right. A trust fund.
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  20583.  @patricksmith4118  You mean, you bought brand new cars, from a dealer, as a kid? Didn't you have anyone to tell you how to pick used? (P. S. Chicago in the house.)
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  20584.  @gnarlin4964  Weird how that happens.
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  20585. Just turned on the video. Uh oh, I am not going to like this.
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  20586. What people? The French?
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  20587. ​@generallyuninterested4956 Is there such a thing as a gay child? Don't you have to pass through puberty to know for sure whether you are gay? And be above the age of consent? Don't you get to have time to find yourself and form a personality, and to decide whether to have kids of your own someday? It seems a shame to interrupt the natural process or rush it.
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  20588. Does he need lifelong hormones and serious surgery to be gay? Does he have to forego the opportunity of being a birth father one day? I hope not. The right to found one's own family is part of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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  20589.  @kataluna22167  Yeah, right. Everyone reporting gross malpractice is lying, just like everyone with myocarditis from the . . . is just nervous.
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  20590. @selah181  You are confusing gay and lesbian and bisexual adults with barely pubescent children suffering from gender dysphoria. Being gay in and of itself requires no treatment, the people who are are generally happy they are, or at peace with who they are, and every state of being is entitled to acceptance. Whether to medicalize a dysphoria early in a person's physical and cognitive development (like at 14 or 16 or even 18) is the issue. What is best for people with various psychological conditions is the issue. Too bad we veered from indoctrination and massive medicalization to repressive laws. I oppose both. All the professionals are letting us down across the board, and that's becoming common. LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE.
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  20591. @dougkenny6548  A child with gender dysphoria needs talk therapy from a responsible therapist. It's not a designer bag, it's a need.
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  20592.  @dougkenny6548  DUH. Who raised you not to read? You don't discipline away an emotional problem. If you're the adult, you deal with it. If you're the parent, you help your child, whatever their age.
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  20593.  @dougkenny6548  Look, if I want crazy, I'll read the NYTimes comments. Blocked
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  20594. Violate Occam's Razor more flagrantly, please. This isn't extravagant enough to get you the attention you need.
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  20595. A person does get that impression from her affect.
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  20596.  @heartysteer8752  The "officers" who beat Tyre Nichols were black, too.
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  20597.  @lingoistj1956  No. You let me know what you see that made subduing him a necessity, to the point of risking his death by tasing him six times. They would have had no problem getting an arrest warrant -- they knew who he was, and he was no longer operating a motor vehicle, and they knew he was unarmed, having held him down once. Hence they knew he was no danger to others. He was obviously very afraid of the police -- and for no reason?? It didn't take long for another case to come to light, that of Tyre Nichols. Do you know how many have been killed by the police at this point? No one can remember them all. We need a written list. Just like we don't know how many countries we have bombed over the past twenty-five years. No one does. Nor do we know how many mass shootings so far this year. What has to happen?
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  20598.  @lingoistj1956  I'm an attorney who speaks three languages and went to university in two of them -- and read Plato in two of them, as well as studying Ancient Greek I think you need to start looking at the bigger picture, which is one of unremitting violence and worship of force. I have no "new-found political identity." My family lives in one of the places the US bombed. You FOOL. Once you've done all the close examination of facts, and documents, and texts, -- which is certainly necessary, as far as it goes -- it becomes equally necessary to step back and see the horizon. I've heard the refrain that this is "just one case" enough times to know that there is a lot more going on. You were right to feel threatened, and to suggest I shut up. I cannot fault you for that. I know why you did, if you don't. (The edit is a test to see whether I'm sha dow-ban ned. It sometimes works. Outright sense or ship is generally revealed that way.)
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  20599.  @lingoistj1956  Of course you also failed to answer my question. Instead you went straight for ad hom and the Identity-Guessing Game. That's how it always devolves. (Are you happy with your society? Can you leave if you need to go? You're sure it will all be all right, huh? Good to be sure. "Optimists live longer, and make more money.")
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  20600.  @frankvonfrauner  I didn't make that argument. What I stated would follow for someone who turned out to be a gangbanger, or a billionaire. That's how justice and the rule of LAW work.
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  20601.  @frankvonfrauner  "Give us your wallet or we'll shoot you."
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  20602.  @lingoistj1956  I'm not sure what you're referring to on a thread this long. Sounds to me like you either are not familiar with the legal system in the States, or you have me confused with someone . . . never mind. Blocked.
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  20603. You say that like it's a bad thing. 😂
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  20604.  Honk the honk  First of all, you are lying. Second, suppose all of it were true, as in some cases it may be. Grounds for execution-style slaying? Are these police or organized crime? Thank you for jeering, and confirming to all the world what this mentality is, in case anyone was confused about it. It also so happens that the most recent George Floyd video released shows the police being worse than we thought. That got shown once or twice, then buried.
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  20605. He's not facing federal charges. Whether or not the gun crossed state lines is a talking point. It is not legally relevant.
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  20606.  undesirable truth  I'm a Trump supporter? I know nearly everyone in America is crazy now, and the lid has really been off since 2016. Here's a clue for you : people are trying to JUSTIFY Rittenhouse's underaged possession of an AR-15 on the ground that the firearm never crossed state lines. But that doesn't matter. He is underage and cannot possess it. It does not have to cross state lines to be a crime. I know you can't play chess, but checkers? Dominoes maybe? Calm down and try thinking. Also, I don't identify as "white," except where a neolib might try to use me for fake diversity purposes. See James Baldwin on that issue. There's a nice reading program for you.
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  20607.  undesirable truth  The KID should not be tried as an adult. You do know how those laws that permit prosecutors to charge KIDS as adults came about, right? You know why they were passed, hm? Remember "superpredators?" Who, as it turns out, never existed.
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  20608.  @vinlago  And we wonder why there are school shootings? Well, thank you for clearing that up. Good thing schools didn't reopen. One less thing for the responsible parents to worry about, especially this year with all the lunatics coming out of the woodwork and demanding their 15 minutes of fame.
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  20609.  undesirable truth  How both? Parents are not held responsible for the actions of children whom the law treats as adults. You are really irrational. There is evidence the police encouraged him, by giving the group he was with water and expressing appreciation -- instead of checking IDs. They should have to answer for that. You think this KID should spend most of this century in prison? Why? He's an exceptionally immature minor. He is also innocent until proven guilty.
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  20610.  undesirable truth  Nice deflection, BTW. You accused me of "white supremacy" a minute ago. You really don't know where this business of trying KIDS as adults first came from, many, many years ago? Here's a clue, see if you can solve the puzzle: w _ i t _ s_p r_ _ _c _ Look, I even gave you a vowel.
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  20611.  undesirable truth  "shows intent of some sort" Yes, transporting oneself from Point A to Point B certainly show intent of some sort. So glad to have cleared that up. It is true that a person cannot create a danger to himself and then rely on "self-defense" to fully exonerate him for a homicide. But that element has to be something he did closer to the time of the shooting. If we had a functioning DOJ, they might be investigating the group he was with and what they've been up to. That would be good.
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  20612.  undesirable truth  You were rude to me. If you had any class, you'd say you're sorry and leave it there. You also would not want to see a minor KID sent to prison forever, especially one lacking an education and parental guidance. You would grasp how really wrong that idea is. But I digress.
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  20613.  undesirable truth  OF COURSE they do it to minorities. That's why these laws were passed. Yup.
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  20614. I see an interesting comment in my notifications thread from less than 10 minutes ago, and it is nowhere to be found. They have really got to let up on the mind less sense or ship.
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  20615. ​@realolivertwisted Actually, that's legal, too. It's just absurd on its face.
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  20616. 13:35
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  20617. Source?
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  20618. He's the most ordinary rabble rouser.
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  20619. This is one of the best things I've ever seen. Dr. Martinez is changing lives by living hers. She reminds me of the only person to swim the English Channel four times without stopping: Sarah Thomas. She did it after rehab after an arduous breast cancer treatment.
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  20620. Another grift.
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  20621. Depends on what their goal is. Don't assume it's noble.
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  20622.  @MFK1967  Check out the Congressional Research Service report on US interventions around the world since 1991. Try to guess how many first.
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  20623. Nope. You missed 90% of this, lol.
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  20624. ​ @carlosdonestevez7532 False.
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  20625.  @MaaikeM4  It makes perfect sense. No number of examples that work will prove that it is true for all positive integers.
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  20626.  @ao513  No evidence he did that. You didn't read the UK press, which is generally more credible on these stories.
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  20627.  @ao513  Not only that, but Jimmy is condemning the establishment -- that's his point! Suddenly, kids in cages don't count, "because Biden." Do a rethink, bro.
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  20628. I am REALLY big on age appropriate, and am consistent: I don't agree juveniles should be tried for crimes as adults, ever. A book about Harvey Milk could be fine in 6th grade. Depends on what it says, doesn't it?
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  20629. ​ @jackcslewis2009 Amen. That's the right focus.
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  20630. @jonathancarr4998  Then why did she say Harvard and places like it shouldn't exist?
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  20631.  @LoneWolf_Cub_Ogami_Itto  Read the complaint and see what the students' legal basis is for asking a court for INJUNCTIVE relief (not money damages). A Republican president signed the ADA. Or, have someone read the complaint to you. You could do that, too.
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  20632. Of course after WWII we helped Germany rebuild. Um, where's the contradiction? There is none.
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  20633. Does Feldman not understand the difference between adults and minor children, especially well before puberty?
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  20634. Not what they said.
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  20635. @negativeionz  They didn't say a confidential source would go to them. They called for general transparency, because the government owes us that. At the end, Robby JOKED about being ready to go inspect these Secret Sites right now.
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  20636.  @macthomas8899  The question was what they said. Whether you find what they said to be childish, maddening, ridiculous, etc., is a separate matter.
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  20637.  @macthomas8899  🤣🤣🤣 good one 🤪
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  20638.  @macthomas8899  And no, it's not like joking about the Holocaust.
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  20639. Jimmy, what a great service you are performing!
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  20640. Depp is suing Heard for $50 million. Guess what? Before a court orders someone to pay money, and seizes their bank account and other assets, grabs their house, and so forth, the plaintiff has to PROVE they really lost $50 million on account of the defendant, and for no other reason. If other magazines like The Sun wrote derogatory things about Depp, he sued for defamation, and lost, then maybe just maybe he lost movie deals on account of THOSE articles.
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  20641. Sure. Goes to WHO damaged Depp.
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  20642.  @bonniehowell9206  What do you think is the issue? It's whether Heard's mild article is responsible for $50 million in Depp's losses. If Depp had a terrible reputation already, then how is that Heard's fault? Before a court orders someone to pay money, and seizes their bank account and other assets, grabs their house, and so forth, the plaintiff has to PROVE they really lost $50 million on account of the defendant, and for no other reason. Is that too tough to grasp? Why?
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  20643.  @MrJamberee  How did the media dupe you all?
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  20644.  @bonniehowell9206  It's relying on these tabloids to show that it's laughable to think that Heard's mild article ruined Depp's reputation to the tune of causing $50 million in losses.
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  20645.  @Jezebel066  Correct!!!! Ding ding dung ding ding. That was perfect.
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  20646.  @js1241  He's suing her.
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  20647.  @squishyushi  Wrong.
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  20648.  @tonya--7704  Whether she was abusive as well is not an issue. If he wants the court to order the sheriff to start seizing Heard's assets -- her house, her car, her bank accounts, her jewelry, etc., etc., he has to prove that the article she wrote was false and that it was responsible for costing him $50 million in film deals. This testimony bears on whether his reputation was already damaged, by far worse allegations, in many news outlets. This is relevant. Whether Heard is a worse person than he is may be true, but it's not relevant. I kind of doubt it, though. He had 23 more years and two more relationships to do whatever it is he does.
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  20649.  @tonya--7704  The point of the line of questioning in this video is to show that any claim that she ruined his career makes no sense. His lost film deals cannot be traced back to her article. The only way you can show what people are saying about you is to quote them. It's not hearsay to show what was said, to prove it was said. It could all be false, but it is still factual that it was said. It goes to "reputation." Reputation is often unfair. Rich people spend millions on public relations for a reason.
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  20650.  @wilmameijer437  That's because direct examination of the witnesses for your side is different from cross examination of opposing witnesses.
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  20651.  @wilmameijer437  Much of Europe has laws against severe harassment in the workplace, and it can be prosecuted as a crime if it's bad enough, like if it makes people sick. Do you have that? Remember the Orange case in France, the privatized telephone company that used to be part of the PTT? That CEO was sentenced to prison. I like that system. :)
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  20652.  @wilmameijer437  It was shocking. There were suicides, I think even one in the company parking lot. It was considered the worst company to work for in France.
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  20653.  @wilmameijer437  I just found an article,"Telecom Giant Orange on Trial." There were 19 suicides, twelve more attempts.😢
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  20654.  @RaquelSantos-hj1mq  Do you know about that case? Sounds like you don't.
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  20655. I agree with you.
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  20656. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 We are here thanks to Vasily Arkhipov and before that, the Red Army, and yet you oppose communism. (Which is your right, by the way.) Academia long predates capitalism and the Industrial Revolution.
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  20657. Anya is a Marxist. We have no socialist politicians. Totalitarians, sure. Not the same thing.
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  20658. ​ @therealcirclea762 Oh wow. Do you lie for free? Psst. No one does.
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  20659. It is no longer available in my area. I don't believe it was withdrawn, but it is "disfavored."
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  20660. So suddenly the CIA has gone anti-Fauci, and this is how they are signaling it?
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  20661. But it was soooo easy to get him to assassinate the Iranian general . . .
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  20662. Perfect analysis, thank you.
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  20663. It is VERY simple: It is news to report, accurately, what Trump, Pelosi, either Clinton, Fauci, Jeffrey Epstein have to say -- it is news if they are stating falsehoods, and it is bigger news if they are deliberately stating things they know to be false. It is news THAT they said what they said. Endorsing what any of these people said is a separate issue.
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  20664. No, the most robust cooperation is not based on genetics at all, but on the marital pair.
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  20665.  @burntupretardporn  Which comes as no surprise, either, does it?
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  20666. @jeffs3818  And a new stripper on the side for late-night binges. We could start a GoFundMe. That's how funny YOUR jokes are.
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  20667. TMI, from Weiss? Who posts this on social media? Poor kid.
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  20668.  @joebaird5874  I'm not surprised.
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  20669. At home, Mom's way is fine.
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  20670. A lot of truth to this observation. In the case of Tesla, look up the lawsuit filed against Tesla by California for severe and pervasive employment discrimination and the administrative complaint against Neuralink for primate torture. They are quite . . . eye-opening, let's say. "There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob." --- G. K. Chesterton (a conservative, as luck would have it)
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  20671. The Miami Herald series talked about this. The parents usually didn't know. With people THIS rich, and connected, everyone felt extremely intimidated. Sounds like right and wrong don't exist? Yup, sounds like.
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  20672.  @Nagle1234  What statute are you talking about? Where do you see the elements of criminal fraud? Hey, if a prosecutor sees it, I'm fine with going after them.
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  20673. There is a law for that, actually. A federal law.
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  20674.  @mattercreator1  The exact opposite always happened to me. No one in Europe ever thought I was American, not even other Americans. Telling! Rare, I know.
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  20675.  @oldfrog17  Gosh you have a great attitude all around. I still remember when a lot of people were like you.
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  20676.  @next20yrs  The story isn't even true. The store really was closed for an unannounced event, and since Oprah considers her time objectively very valuable, she expected they would make an exception. It seems the clerk, being typically French, had no clue who she was. A hoity toity designer store would always make an exception for a billionaire these days. But there was a time when French people were more likely than Anglo-Saxons to apply the very same rule to everyone. More in their tradition. I liked living there.
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  20677.  @oldfrog17  LOL Actually, no. Those were better times. :/
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  20678. Ambiguous is not good enough. Any child impregnated needs an abortion. It should be crystal clear.
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  20679.  @JohnTightlips  The post I replied to is no longer. Need I say more? I'll end up where it went.
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  20680.  @JohnTightlips  Take a closer look and see. You'll know what happened. Scents _ _ sheep
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  20681. @JohnTightlips  P. S. If you try to say stuff like "scents, er . . . " That's usually no more, either. We can't talk about what we can't talk about.
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  20682. @charliebukowski6652  Wow. I'm impressed you know that word! Nice job. Keep at it, you're good.
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  20683. @JohnTightlips  So no apology, huh? 😂😂😂
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  20684. A hate group? They are making money, no? It's not about hate, it's about love of money. Easy money.
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  20685. This time, Robby condescended toward her. Robby: why was in-state college tuition once something that kids paid in full, all on their own, with an ordinary summer job? Why was rent affordable for anyone working full time? If state universities were subsidized through state taxes, like they once were, it would create DOWNWARD pressure on all tuition. On the other hand, loans are just like leverage, and create UPWARD pressure on all tuition. Get it?
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  20686. ​ @DeckKnight But it wasn't loans at all. That's just the point. All of this is leveraged now.
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  20687. French law. Nothing to do with us/US.
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  20688.  @PearComputingDevices  For your information, two full-time breadwinners making the equivalent of $15/hr each is what families of four LIVE ON in this country.
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  20689.  @SuperSpikejack  If an employer cannot pay a living wage in a particular area, they can only employ family and friends with a stake in the business (i.e., salaried employees who are legitimately exempt), or they can close up shop. McDonald's is a major global employer. You think some free online class will help a person develop a marketable skill? If it's a class on image-tending, maybe. Or a class on how to start a new religion.
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  20690.  @marielux7372  Oh brother. You think "lobbying" is the way? How do you think these jobs ended up offshore?
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  20691.  @PearComputingDevices  This is what people live on. Tens of millions of hard-working Americans make anywhere from lower-middle-class wages to qualification for poverty programs.
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  20692.  The Ghey Mantis  When did CEO start making 200 to 400 times the lowest paid worker, versus about 25 to 70 times? Around the time they all became Geniuses? That must be it. Or, maybe American CEOs are just SO much smarter than practically anywhere else in the world. I'll bet.
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  20693.  @jonboll-LGM  People who get $10 million in bonuses apparently need $1141 for every single hour of every day, waking, sleeping . . . Actually, anyone with a billion just needs to make 1% a year on their stash to have that.
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  20694.  The Ghey Mantis  You're the one who is propagandized. "This pizzeria, that pizzeria." Please. After this latest travesty, i.e., how COVID was handled, I'm not planning to stay here past 2025. More pizza for you, you're welcome to it.
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  20695.  The Ghey Mantis  (Why do I get the feeling you're math challenged?)
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  20696.  The Ghey Mantis  I'm not American. I can hardly wait to go back home. I had no choice (family obligations) for a long time. ;( 2020 did not help matters.
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  20697.  The Ghey Mantis  Why do I think you are not only math-challenged, but monolingual? I wonder where I got that idea.
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  20698.  @steves6756  Who said I needed to be? Or is that just what you always figure, for some reason? Nothing to do with the issue.
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  20699.  @steves6756  Well, let's see. No one has ever been wrongly squeezed out of a job. People who work hard just advance in their careers, they never face layoffs through no fault of their own. (In fact, that didn't happen to anyone in 2000-2001, 2008-2009, or 2020.) Or, keep certain people poor and hector them, and fill people's heads with the notion that only the richest should dare to have families. No heavy-handed population control needed. Sounds like a plan. /s
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  20700.  @steves6756  That's what you're hearing? That's not what anyone's saying.
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  20701.  @steves6756  Not at all. I'm doing fine. I don't have to work for anyone.
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  20702.  @steves6756  Are you an attorney? Do attorneys "suck at life?"
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  20703.  @steves6756  Ha ha ha you bundle of uncomprehending self-interest, you.
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  20704.  The Ghey Mantis  et al   More realistically: "How to Actually Prosecute the Financial Crimes of the Very Rich I quit the DOJ because I no longer wanted to participate in a system this permissive. MAY 19, 2021 Paul E. Pelletier Former federal financial-crimes prosecutor" You can look that one up, for a very mainstream view.
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  20705.  @steves6756  Why didn't Jonas Salk look to become a billionaire? Because he married Françoise Gilot 😁 Get it? Sleep on it. It might come to you in the morning.
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  20706.  @steves6756  Oh my goodness, you didn't get the first ironic remark. You sure won't get the second!
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  20707.  @steves6756  Françoise Gilot If you could marry someone like that, you would. Or maybe you wouldn't. LOLOL
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  20708.  @PearComputingDevices  Or, you could become an influencer.
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  20709.  @PearComputingDevices  I was always intrigued by phone sex but never looked into it. I'm not sure it's harmless, though. How would you verify the person is of age to listen to adult content? The idea that some high school kids were on the other end, or that some 19-year-old creep had it on speakerphone for his kid brother to overhear is so yuck. (Ever see Short Cuts?)
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  20710.  @steves6756  We are talking about minimum wage??! And here I could have sworn you had changed the subject to who wants to be a m/billionaire but can't ha ha.
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  20711.  The Ghey Mantis  I was trying to be hilarious, thanks. Because you surely are.
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  20712.  The Ghey Mantis  Oh no, wait. With you I was being serious. I was being hilarious with the other guy. Did my post go over your head? Does a person have to be smart to remember 9/11? Nope, this isn't funny at all.
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  20713.  The Ghey Mantis  "No thanks, government; we got slaves for that." Real do-it-yourself bunch.
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  20714.  @steves6756  OH!! You mean truth is measured by Likes? . . . Well. What else? No, all the actually smart people who engaged with you earlier are long gone. You and the other member of the tag team can talk amongst yourselves.
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  20715.  @steves6756  I hope these long threads of posts help TJDS monetize. Maybe not if it's the same people, though.
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  20716.  @steves6756  How many languages do you speak that you know "the general consensus" is opposed to the obvious proposition, to anyone who doesn't have the mentality of a cult member, that "the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all?" That stuff is pretty old, and pretty much everyone in the world, cross-culturally, in various traditions and including the full-blown agnostics, have noticed it long ago.
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  20717.  The Ghey Mantis  So, let me see if I understand. You watch Jimmy Dore, but you don't know Jimmy Dore, and in general his guests, all agree with me? I think if I am capable if talking to more people than you are, in their native language, I have a better idea of what they believe. (Some stuff concerning people who hold your views I would not want to repeat.) Say, look up the poem Timothy McVeigh recited before his execution. He agreed with you. Apotheosis of the cult. You got this nonsense from some movie.
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  20718.  I only use this account when I get put in time out  Oh. I see you were a bad boy. And someone deleted the pages and pages of jeering to the effect that no one on the planet agrees with me. This thread got mighty purged, looks like. So you adopted a new identity, to continue. When do you have the time to make all this money you claim you're worth?
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  20719.  @steves6756  You said I was wrong because you disagree with me, and some blather about supply and demand, which presumes a free market -- which exists exactly nowhere. Adam Smith discussed in detail how a free market can be distorted (wrongly undermined, according to him, and here I agree) by the rentier class (think, feudal privileges sans titles). Adam Smith saw that issue long before the age of monopoly came along, which rendered his free market model as obsolete as the notion that the sun revolves around the earth. The basic features of modern life are all dependent on monopolies. Or, how do YOU think you get electricity, natural gas, running water, etc.? In a free market, you could NOT impose wages low enough that full-time workers are unable to eat or find a place to live without public assistance. Your profits would be driven down by competitors who could offer workers better pay, consumers a product of indistinguishable if not better quality (it's called innovation) at roughly the same price (again, innovation), and people would then patronize those businesses (the ones with the smiling employees), and never eat at McDonald's. But there is no free market. That's why this sequence did not happen.
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  20720.  @careyfreeman5056  We set the trap Putin stepped right into. We are reckless as a matter of policy. Study the role of Vasili Arkhipov in the Cuban Missile Crisis (the Guardian gives a good summary). Or consider Congressional Research Service: Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2022.
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  20721. Nah, stick with blow em.
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  20722. Why is the vaccine mandatory? The vaccine isn't mandatory in most of the world, starting with Scandinavia. Is this disease highly lethal? Does vaccination stop infection? Does vaccination stop transmission? Since the answer to all three questions is now known to be clearly "no," why is there a mandate? A bigger question: how did they persuade you to support this? It never occurred to me to mandate any medical treatment, of any kind, including vaccines.
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  20723. EDIT: Only a handful of countries in the entire world mandate universal vaccination. Austria is the only country in Europe which does. Why? How did they persuade you that it's the fascists who oppose mandates? In France, the hard left opposes them. The CGT organized a demonstration of vaccinated health care workers in support of their unvaccinated colleagues and against mandates and passports. PCF, LFI, CGT all spoke out against mandates months ago.
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  20724. Sure, because you can always argue for an exception. Or, from another perspective, to get away with ignoring the law.
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  20725.  @scobeyrowley5115  I'm a lawyer, too. This feature of common law also makes it easier to hide bribery.
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  20726.  @acloserlook5823  Absolutely it is. But if you see how those cases were written, then you can figure out why they turned out the way they did at the time they were decided. The briefs in this case are actually fascinating and are worth the time to read. I was surprised that the petitioners, representing Asian students, were so direct in their request that those cases be overturned. This isn't an easy case, and everyone called in their top guns for a reason. (EDIT: "at" changed to "that")
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  20727. True. Tolstoy even wrote about this in his autobiography. Why did you do it?
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  20728. Agreed
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  20729. ​@garyandtricia1 Of course. If any video contains any objectionable content, the ENTIRE video will be removed by YT. YT itself counts on content creators to self-edit, to prevent their entire video from going away.
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  20730. Don't believe Putin. Look for stories published in the ten years prior to the Russian invasion. There's plenty of objective information about the neo-Nazis in Ukraine.
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  20731. ​ @charlie63-p2u If you are going to cut and paste, at least make it make sense.
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  20732. @georgemetesky5519  They did a terrible job. It's inexplicable. They should know First Amendment law, and how it applies to a private university, in their sleep. They should be passionate about free speech. And they should know that in general, civility and respect encourage free speech. And that at times, very upsetting words, uttered in a First Amendment forum (like during a demonstration on the quad, but not screamed in someone's face in a dining hall or dorm) are fully protected by the Constitution. How come I know? I bet you do, too. What gives??
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  20733. The first student brought up a contradiction in Bannon's rhetoric, and his response was a little too rambling and defensive. The second student did the same, highlighting actual contradictions. This is classically Socratic. The answer was very interesting, because Bannon's best ideas are NOT the ones that were implemented. Travel bans, sure. Accountability for the destruction wrought by Big Money? HA. Trump depends on Deutsche Bank. Bannon also used a slogan in his answer, "triggered." Not a good sign. The third student gave him an opportunity to comment on the demonstrators, who were the real deplorables. No problem. Bannon again gave an answer that shows that his best ideas are NOT the ones that are implemented. The student then pointed out that those who have attained political power are publicly distancing themselves from him, and asked him to comment. Again, interesting. Bannon did not mind the question. The fourth student began by taking a stand for freedom of speech, then asked an excellent question about Bannon's view of election prospects in 2020. The fifth student first thanked him for staying over, to talk to them. Then she asked a very astute question about about political trust. Bannon appreciated the question, and was enthusiastic about answering, because it gave him a chance to talk about the things he is most passionate about. She made a counterpoint, and he tried to play folksy. He used another trope that she did not, "sorry for mansplaining." The sixth student said that the economic progess was not thanks to Trump, and that Trump did not, in general, solve the problems Bannon correctly highlights. AGAIN, Bannon's best ideas were NOT not not implemented. And Bannon DOES have lots of good ideas. The seventh student asked a very open-ended question on immigration, allowing Bannon to express himself on a matter he is passionate about, and show off some more of his good ideas. Which go nowhere. So, who was so disappointing?
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  20734.  Cheryl Jensen  Sorry for upsetting you with facts and such.
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  20735.  @Jg09098  Thanks for the opportunity to block.
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  20736.  @chrismcintyre1836  I think you are right. If we did not care about DRONING innocent civilians all over the world, that a politician is dirty and greedy, especially "at the expense of Putin," is hardly going to cause a ripple -- even assuming it could be proved beyond doubt.
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  20737.  @chrismcintyre1836  Of course they should. I understood you.
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  20738.  @leomessifans  We have not had a low level of corruption since the early 1980s, and especially since deregulation and the financial crisis it spawned. Low corruption is SO over.
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  20739.  @leomessifans  What did I say? What do you think I said? You can think. Try.
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  20740.  @leomessifans  I'm thinking I have to spell it out: I think ALL of this is a disaster. I think anyone who has become inured to accepting it -- as MANY have -- is fooling themselves in ways they cannot foresee at the moment, because most people have no idea what is going on in the big, wide world, or how much it can and will affect us. Case in point: read The Jakarta Method. Then do some serious study of how much we supported Islamic fundamentalist extremists to oppose leftists, even democratic, Euro-style leftists, all over the world -- leftists we have long accepted in the governments of our closest allies. Then think about how much money we owe everyone else at this moment (trade deficit, national debt in foreign hands), and then count up our military bases all over the planet, and think about what they are there for. Does all this look good to you? Or, do you prefer to take sides over two candidates who are both a disgrace, and unqualified to be small town mayors? Go for it. You may not have the luxury forever. Enjoy while it lasts. :/
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  20741. I'm shocked, SHOCKED!
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  20742.  @TaraConti  I was about to say this.
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  20743.  @badmanskill1112  Precisely. And the times he was wrong, he was horrendous. Who attacks the grieving parents whose first graders died in a school massacre? Although ABC interviewed the mastermind of Beslan, so there is a mainstream precedent, of sorts.
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  20744.  @PresidentDennis  Adam Curtis documented this strategy; BBC2, and made available for free after it airs.
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  20745. I thought it was impossible to insult Obama too harshly. Hm. Not sure I could go this far.
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  20746. Kennedy is counting innoculations birth to age 18.
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  20747. Nowhere does it say that interracial marriage is a right, either. Or any marriage, at all.
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  20748. Is freedom achieved when the most powerful nation in history decides to press on your country, a small country, and their primary interest is the oil? The US has over two million incarcerated, and countless are innocence of what they were accused of or convicted of. Should another country intervene to give us freedom?
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  20749. I know. I'm so sorry.
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  20750. Or Musk sent an intermediary or . . .
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  20751. That was great.
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  20752. Let's not go too far.
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  20753.  @impliedlines711  You clearly know nothing about Victor Hugo!
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  20754.  @impliedlines711  Why would I bother? I have better things to read. The preface to Murakami's Wind/Pinball is great.
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  20755.  @impliedlines711  You read it and don't know? The free spirit that he was, the dreamlike coincidences, the intense intuition, the way he chose to live.
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  20756.  @impliedlines711  Oh. That's personal.
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  20757.  @impliedlines711  You implicitly asked why I didn't read the entire thread before commenting. I answered that question. Tell me why in this instance that was wrong of me.
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  20758.  @impliedlines711  The thread begins with the concept of life-changing literature.
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  20759.  @impliedlines711  Not at all. I commented on your very first post about Victor Hugo, which was wrong. That simple.
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  20760.  @impliedlines711  Interesting. I found Paint It Black unreadable. Had to put it down. Well. Now you know why I didn't read the thread before posting.
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  20761.  @impliedlines711  Rand isn't even a real writer as far as I can see. She could shape up a screenplay. Maybe. Well, she certainly was hired to do so enough times.
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  20762.  @impliedlines711  My motivations were to defend Hugo from the anhistorical and anachronistic charge of "conservatism," toward someone who risked his life to gain a grant of asylum in Belgium for fleeing Communards who had escaped massacre. Hugo was the most prominent opponent of the death penalty of his time, or any time. We still have a death penalty. If only we had "conservatives" like that.
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  20763.  @impliedlines711  BTW, your replies are delayed from appearing, at least to me. Gotta love tech. We never know where the glitch, or the surveillance, might be. Sort of like the panopticon principle.
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  20764.  @impliedlines711  Oh yeah, Fitch. I had to put down White Oleander, too. Overwritten to the point of parody. I was dumbfounded. Is she a friend of yours?
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  20765.  @impliedlines711  Okay. To keep it basic: someone who defended the Communards, even if he wasn't a supporter of the Commune from its inception, is not conservative. Imagine a person who has very serious misgivings about the BPP but provides safehouses and legal representation for them after Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are assassinated. That's anachronistic as well, but the analogy is sound. Suppose, also, that person blurted out something racially insensitive sometimes. Or, suppose someone who hid Jews from Nazis and forged papers for them once said "y*d." Not a good look on twitter, true.
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  20766.  @impliedlines711  I remember a talk I heard in Minnesota from a retired judge, quite elderly, who was one of the staunchest advocates of a woman's right to choose, and who actually played a major role in abortion becoming legalized. He still used the word "gal."
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  20767.  @impliedlines711  I didn't say you said he was a monster, nor that I think he should be lionized. Oh well, we're both tired I guess.
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  20768.  @impliedlines711  I agree that anthropology was essentially nonexistent at the time. I'd have to see a sample of Hugo's writings, not just a comment here or there, in the original, to judge. For example, an attorney will argue by conceding a point he knows he cannot win. So, even a death penalty opponent may argue that if we believe death should only apply to the worst of the worst (typical trope in such cases), that precludes people who committed their crimes as minors, or who were mentally disabled at the time of the crime, or psychotic at the time of execution, etc. You concede what you think you can't win. The lawyer doesn't dare bring up blanket opposition to the death penalty, or he risks limiting its application in the here and now.
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  20769.  @impliedlines711  "People grow and improve." He wasn't on a self-actualization quest or journey. He risked his life.
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  20770.  @impliedlines711  Actually, you'd be a good person to ask: I'm trying to decide whether to read DeLillo's Underworld. What did you think of it?
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  20771.  @impliedlines711  I got a kick out of Cosmopolis. Short, a fast read. Offended a lot of people, LOL. It didn't get good reviews but I loved it. More appreciated abroad, I think.
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  20772. The answer to that has been politicized. I'd be surprised if vaccines were the primary cause in more than 60% of cases, or less than 15%. But the politicians insist that it's 0% or 95%. The strategy is to obfuscate, and make us fight amongst ourselves while they continue doing whatever they want to do.
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  20773. The sense or sheep is maddening. I mean it, regardless. It seems as though the more intelligent the post, the less likely anyone is to see it. (BTW, which guy?)
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  20774. ​ @cjlaity1 The sort by Newest doesn't work, either, but at least I can see that you told me about the further cents err . . .
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  20775. ​ @cjlaity1 They really do __ intelligent, informative posts. Rant and misspell. It could work.
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  20776.  @cjlaity1  💯
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  20777. Who cares about Dore? This is about M4A during a pandemic and coming depression.
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  20778.  @isaacguzman7564  How young is too young? Sixth graders? Toddlers? Fetuses, with new technologies? Or should the decision be made by each individual, in the sanctity of the home?
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  20779. Now you know why I don't do Linked In. 😅
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  20780. With social media, about 95% want to spy and be informants on their neighbors. Plus the people who started those companies were overnight billionaires. = capitalism Face it.
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  20781. Please keep it up. No one should join the military. Not to defend THIS society. Keep telling them who you are until they catch on.
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  20782. @davidstemmler1836  Well then you're the perfect person to dissuade the young from making that mistake. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts . . . I read that, because I was compassion challenged where drug use is concerned, given that drugs have zero attraction for me. It did me good, I can see. It's really wonderful.
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  20783.  @bidulou0417  🤣
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  20784. Jimmy can't understand how cowards get girlfriends because he is from the South Side of Chicago. LOL Jimmy.
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  20785.  @discblaster9210  Oh god, ha ha ha ha . . . .
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  20786. Every developed country with socialized medicine has a longer life expectancy and better health span. Socialist medicine creates the financial incentive for prevention. Capitalist medicine creates the incentive to loot, and abandon as soon as the money runs out.
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  20787. 💯
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  20788. Johnson called on BRITISH press, which has not been entirely bought by American interests, yet, so they need to get clearance in advance. Well??
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  20789. A carnival barker con man who threw his last vice president under the bus and a preeminent toxic torts lawyer who has saved kids from cancer with his victories. Yeah, RFK Jr should definitely bend over for Trump.
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  20790.  @WeToddEd-r3g  You don't have an argument, you have labels and blame. It's true that this is the stuff we've all been fed since childhood, and it's not working. This was a fascinating exchange. I don't remember the last time someone actually proposed a realistic analysis that could lead to putting a stop to these vicious crimes.
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  20791. Because of the other candidate. Common pattern, no?
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  20792.  @majdavojnikovic  I was talking about emigrating to Montenegro or Belgrade with relatives for years, and was considering it seriously in 2019. After this past year, I'm sure I'm emigrating. BTW, if it is true Sputnik V does not cause the blood clot issue Astra-Zeneca and J & J do (I am a skeptic, but of course open to the evidence), then it's the one I want. I could get it in Mexico.
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  20793.  @gamophyte  I'm skeptical of emotional appeals like the one in this video. I listened twice. It's quite foul. No one should be coerced into taking a vaccine that is not fully FDA approved, and everyone should be skeptical about the failure to lift patent protection from these vaccines, which would allow more access for scientific study. People should also be skeptical of the refusal to consider making vaccines from China and Russia available. This IS an international emergency, correct? Then why so cagey?
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  20794. This is the leftist platform in Europe. I mean, among the sane, pro-working people leftists. Clean food and peace are important. JD is right, they are to the left of DNC.
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  20795. Who told you THIS?
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  20796.  @jaxel45  I will absolutely research this.
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  20797.  @jaxel45  This is a medication used to prevent acidosis. It is not a heart attack medication. That viral video lied. Do you see why these stupid viral videos do not help matters? Ask WHY we need to prevent acidosis in those taking vaccines. Same issue with the lie that there was "no animal testing." Instead ask if the tested animals completed a normal life cycle and had normal pups. With mice, it has been long enough to know. These rumors could be false flags. Don't repeat them.
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  20798.  @jaxel45  Er . . . Yeah. Stuff can cause acidosis.
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  20799.  @jaxel45  Penicillin can treat tetanus and penicillin can treat strep throat. Tetanus and strep throat, "I see a connection."
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  20800.  @jaxel45  Not even. Cardiac arrest can cause acidosis, which needs to be treated. A, B, C, D, X, Y, and Z can cause acidosis, which needs to be treated. Questions: do these vaccines promote acidosis? How? Why? What does that do to people? To children? Science isn't just a word among many words abused by Fauci. It is real.
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  20801.  @garmtpug  Because he developed an illness that can kill 53-year-old men and he is a millionaire. Do you really not know how the 1% live?
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  20802.  @garmtpug  You speculated that a multimillionaire (Joe Rogan) did not even talk to a doctor. Buddy, get a grip. This is absurd.
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  20803.  @garmtpug  In case you haven't noticed, even older -- even seriously unhealthy -- rich people are surviving and making full recoveries, all prior to vaccines being available. Trump, Chris Christie, Chris Cuomo, etc. "We don't even know if Rogan saw a doctor" my arse. If I knew I could have the treatment they all had, I would not give COVID another thought. This has been a killer in the poor, institutionalized, and underserved communities. Open your eyes.
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  20804.  @BurroGirl  He may have had the same outcome had he been vaccinated.
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  20805.  @garmtpug  Can you be serious? Trump was President. His condition and his treatment were widely reported. Look, there are too many crazy people on the Internet. I give up. Rogan took horsey paste. Have it your way.
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  20806.  @BurroGirl  Came back to wonder, how does someone get like you? What propaganda has done, and so quickly, is incomprehensible.
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  20807. "Far left?" What nonsense. The only candidate who was left of center -- Bernie Sanders -- did great. Neoliberal globalists robbed him. They are freaky and repugnant. No country with a real left is fooled.
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  20808. Agree, impressive!
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  20809.  @candyharding8361  Nice!! Really well said.
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  20810.  @cyberft  Did you listen to the entire video?
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  20811.  @VajrahahaShunyata  Misspelled
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  20812.  @drewskij2175  Except that we revise our views of history as new information comes to light, just as we revise our views of current events as new information comes to light. There's nothing pseudo about it. That is what historians do. The word "revisionist" is used as a signal to oppose whatever it is that is labeled that way, and to silence people -- no different from the way a whole host of words are used now: fascist, racist, anti-Semite, homophobe, transphobe, communist, Putin puppet, Assad apologist, tankie, anti-vaxxer, wow I've barely scratched the surface.
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  20813.  @drewskij2175  I don't know because I didn't study it.
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  20814.  @drewskij2175  The commentary in this video, for what it's worth, critiqued it -- pointing out flaws and strengths. Good pedagogy for grades K-12 means sorting those out before making it part of the standard curriculum. A college class, where people already know the history of the period, and know something about historiography, can delve into contemporary materials like this at the same time as they come out. You can't do that in 6th grade. The teachers themselves don't have the time to go to a seminar to discuss its merits, or how best to present it. So, what about senior year high school? Should different viewpoints be presented and compared? In the best schools they are. If I were teaching 12th grade history, I would.
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  20815.  @antonyhanson4479  EXCELLENT! ;D
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  20816.  @nohbuddy1  Prove it up.
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  20817. LOL
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  20818. Do you know that countries that have proportionately more cancer (and even more smokers) also have longer life expectancy? France, Netherlands, and Denmark are all examples. Of course the difference is their comprehensive, universal health care. Not-for-profit universal health doesn't incentivize denying claims in search of profit. That's the math. You didn't set up the word problem correctly.
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  20819. Imposing trans ideology on public schools was part of that assault, and it worked like a charm.
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  20820.  @javdestiny  You say that like it's a bad thing? Nah.
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  20821. @javdestiny  You actually believe an eminent toxic torts/class action lawyer who had to meet the Daubert standard in all his federal court cases is an anti-science conspiracy theorist, because you heard some rich person say so on some insipid MSM outlet. And you'll get in line to vote for BIDEN? Only in America.
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  20822. Researching how to make a fake ID and leaving to start a new life are consistent. Very weak, circumstantial link, but not zero.
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  20823. The case isn't over. The Court is saying it must proceed on this legal theory, because the legal theory the NRA is presenting is correct First Amendment law, and the court of appeals was wrong to dismiss the case.
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  20824. Are you kidding?
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  20825. The irony is that what is really wrong with public education is being obscured by this flashy nonsense that is relatively unusual by comparison to the real problems, which are endemic now. Schools have been more or less deficit for at least three generations, and the supposed "cure" has been worse than the disease, every time. Every round of reforms has made things worse.
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  20826. Yeah. Maybe there is no Biden family. Have you ever met any of them?
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  20827.  @jonjonmacapugay8177  That you don't understand sarcasm? Was that your "point?" Just where does "belief" come into the picture? Do we need to place undue confidence in Tucker to acknowledge the basic facts of the story?
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  20828. Because harassing the parents of first graders killed just before the holidays in a school massacre, and stating they were actors, IS a bridge too far. Don't worry. At the rate we're going, it will be all right very soon. /s
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  20829.  @thejimmydoreshow  You're right. Removing actual defamation proven to be defamation at trial, and removing a person from access to media are two different things. Way different.
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  20830.  @HairOnScreen  They'll try. After all, they meme better.
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  20831.  @AllYouHaveToDoIsBeHonest  That isn't why, pal.
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  20832. @Gretchen K. Exactly.
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  20833.  @barryfrench2534  That wasn't what she said. She said most cases settle. Therefore she will not be called to testify.
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  20834.  @Ohioblues  Actually, no one has to agree to be evaluated. I'm sorry Heard agreed, although to be slapped with a diagnosis no one ever gave her before by her ex's shrink is kind of funny.
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  20835. @photag216 Heard did agree to talk to Ms. Muffins. I wonder why.
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  20836. It's true that in vitro is distinct from in vivo, and you cannot assume what is true in vitro is also the case in vivo. BUT this is exactly where burdens of proof come in, such as the Precautionary Principle. This tells us the burden is on those who tout these vaccines to prove they do not alter DNA permanently. They have not done that. They have no right to assert anything. They don't know yet. They can at most say they don't think so, but there is one in vitro study using mouse cell lines that raises the question.
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  20837. ​@bashmusic023 How so? The right to found one's own family someday is considered a fundamental human right. It's part of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The opportunity is supposed to be preserved for all people, so that they can decide for themselves when the time comes. Trying to say there is something perverse about human rights is a deflection, to scare people away from the issue. I remember when people looked askance at mentions of Jeffrey Epstein. The people who talked about him were accused of voyeurism, until he was finally arrested in New York.
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  20838. You can look up Chauvin's federal plea agreement and see what Chauvin pled guilty to in federal court. It describes exactly what Chauvin himself agrees he did. Somehow, that was . . . Missed?
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  20839.  @random9username  But why did Chauvin plead guilty to federal charges, after fighting his state court case? What did he have to gain? Nothing. It can only hurt his appeals and his habeas corpus chances.
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  20840.  @random9username  So . . . What he himself said under oath isn't important. A "documentary" by a woman who says Macron's wife is a man, when Macron was once classmates with her oldest daughter, is Truth. Only in America.
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  20841.  @thenoobassassin  So, you can't find actual documents, but you believe a twit who says Macron's wife is a man? Sounds about right for 2024.
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  20842.  @oceania2385  Keith Ellison is the Minnesota AG. The federal case is entirely separate.
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  20843. @thenoobassassin  Since my reply was erased for no reason, I reported you. Stop trying to censor me.
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  20844. Makes you think he knows something. How did Epstein stay out of jail to cavort with billionaires and princes for so long?
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  20845.  @HM-eg9hv  You mean in rape? No, that's not the same.
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  20846. How will they know what was in the video if they don't watch it? Everyone knows you can't trust rumors about what was in it.
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  20847. Well? (Just kidding.)
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  20848. So . . . The TEAMSTERS undermined their workers? Huh.
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  20849. So true, except for the last dig. What was that about? Take a real Shakespeare class, where they compare Hollinshed with his history plays of the English kings, then come back here and tell us about it.
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  20850. Did you report him?
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  20851. Everything DNC has done has been to imitate Trump's bullying and persistent lying. Only they add a thick layer of derision. They expect to be praised for this, and to become millionaires, proving yet again how much better they are.
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  20852. 👏👏👏👏👏
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  20853.  @pmberkeley  All in all, I have to say Emily did a very good job on this, and Briahna even more so. Which is a BIG story in itself. I'm so disgusted.
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  20854. ​ @utah_koidragon7117 And if you think about it from the standpoint of evolution (and reproduction), it's obvious why women get less sick than men but recover more slowly.
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  20855. @donnazukadley7300  THANK YOU for this information!! Refreshing to see some, too.
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  20856. You know, 70 is too old to win a Fields Medal. If your goal is a very high quality Master's in mathematics or physics -- or just about anything short of physical education with a specialty in gymnastics -- I promise you, you can do it. It's not even a question. It's a YES. In fact, it won't take you seven years. Six, TOPS. I bet five. In five years, you'll be five years older, whether you study math or not. Of course, if you do study math, you will be cognitively younger than you would have been if you hadn't studied math. But I digress. 😊
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  20857. P. S. A PhD is certainly possible, too, but a little luck in choosing the right area of research, and the right thesis advisor, will affect your progress. The part that doesn't require luck, no problem. You can do all of that. A PhD in mathematics education is a sure thing.
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  20858. That was exactly what he said. Can you be serious?
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  20859. ​ @Sandleo  My state allows certain tasers (not the same ones as LE carries) with a FOID card. That's something that the sweetest little old lady should feel fine about using.
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  20860. ​@meFatuations My state permits tasers with a FOID.
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  20861.  @catwoman7462  That describes policymaking.
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  20862.  @RabJ208  Is that the case in Europe? In the US, it wasn't the norm to have every thesis published, it was a scramble to get a book contract out of it, for tenure. (You have heard of adjunct faculty?) In France when I lived there, every science doctorate had to publish a paper with the results of their thesis research in a major peer-reviewed journal to demonstrate independently that the work was original. Otherwise, they would not be awarded the doctorate. Americans were amazed at the time. Don't recall discussions with Brits. Anyway, sounds like a good practice.
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  20863.  @RabJ208  His latest post links to the two textbooks he wrote. One could consult those for a brief bio.
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  20864.  @RabJ208  I'm talking about the fact that they usually have blurbs concerning an author's academic qualifications to write said textbook, verified by the publisher. A quick way to check, usually.
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  20865.  @RabJ208  You've never noticed?
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  20866.  @RabJ208  🤣🤣🤣
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  20867.  @RabJ208 Do you know what bio means? LOL
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  20868.  @RabJ208  Well, if his thesis is not published, we don't know.
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  20869.  @RabJ208  And his you cannot confirm?
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  20870. Justin Jackson and Briahna Joy Gray are both tremendous. These are the young people who give me hope. And I don't see much hope.
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  20871. I'm glad that at least Mike Gravel was with us for so long. Miss him. ;(
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  20872. Has a single new variant emerged in the US? They keep lying about why we are evil if we don't comply. The head of the CDC admitted to the Senate that she does not know the number of severe adverse events from vaccines. She could not provide the number.
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  20873.  @tonyabresee7944  No proof of that. It's something people just keep saying, when righteous anger is often very good for you. Read up on "authenticity."
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  20874.  @heinzdoof1575  LOL
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  20875.  @jerroldbates355  Exactly. The principled people lost their jobs, the liars got promotions --- for smearing the principled people.
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  20876.  @rohyo5387  I don't think anyone did anything to Joe Rogan that compares with what former friends did to Jimmy Dore. Jimmy was vaccinated and injured. Joe Rogan never got vaccinated -- he had a appointment for J&J, and it was pulled that very day, and suspended from EUA, due to stroke risk.
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  20877. Good comments in response are being deleted like crazy.
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  20878.  @The_Ballo  thank you
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  20879.  @danielgeistzer513  I haven't forgiven anyone who tried to muck with my life to the point of literally jeopardizing it, and I feel no burden at all. Struggling to excuse the inexcusable, on the other hand, would be a burden. That would sap my energy to no good purpose. I don't worry about that stuff. On the other hand, whenever anyone who has harmed me has been identified and punished, I immediately feel sympathy for them. But while they have a little mob of lackeys around them, praising them? Nope, lol. I think this "forgiveness" business is gaslighting. We hurt you, and we got you to hurt you, too, unless you come kiss our hand.
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  20880. Why you're supposed to know the father of your child . . .
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  20881. Please read Chris Hedges on antifa. Antifa is so amorpous that it is vulnerable to infiltration. People who call themselves antifa have done good things, and people who call themselves antifa have engaged in mindless property destruction. BLM is NOT allied with them.
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  20882.  @EarthStudent7  Well exactly. People vaccinated with live attenuated do shed.
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  20883. For the self-defense portion, yes. It upsets me so much that kids are so socialized that they do not automatically SCREAM at the top of their lungs.
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  20884. Have them prove it. Or just amplify the story, because no one will ever do that to your reputation. /s
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  20885. 13:22 Wisdom. Everyone should take this to heart.
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  20886. 3:26 Who believes this?? 😂😂😂😂😂
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  20887.  @TheDescendingChaos  How likely is it that someone under 18 will contract COVID and develop myocarditis?
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  20888. Difference in reported numbers: https://youtu.be/mR4_-eyt_TI
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  20889.  @TheMroldtimer  Are you okay?
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  20890.  @TheMroldtimer  Why did you call people with legitimate concerns ugly names? Does that encourage trust in vaccination? They will have to hurry up and get vaccinated to prove to you that they are not the "troglodytes" you claim they are, hm? Let's politicize this further. Brilliant idea.
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  20891.  @openmind2464  Anyone with a history of arrhythmias in their family should think twice before giving any mRNA vaccine to a minor child. I mean come on! Why are we breaking all the rules of prudence for this? Not EUA prior to puberty anyway, and 12-17 authorization for Pfizer is very recent.
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  20892.  @openmind2464  Plenty of vaccinated people object to the idea of mandating it on kids. I know them personally. Since when do we mandate prior to full approval? Remember when "miracle" antidepressants provoked suicide in teens? I remember.
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  20893.  @openmind2464  SO cavalier!
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  20894.  @matthewxd5063  TRUMP was president when the moratorium on US funding of this viral research was lifted. He could have stopped it. Looks like Fauci and Trump played good cop bad cop.
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  20895.  @jenalatz3589  I agree children do not need this. Teens are recommended to have it, but they are minors. I would not vaccinate a teen at this time.
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  20896.  @mfam2371  So what is the still huge and insurmountable problem with masks and prudence?
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  20897.  @hollenfeuer1  I already got this spam from you once, thanks. FDA approval is a rigorous process involving advanced statistical analyses such as multivariate regression. We've only just learned of the remote myocarditis and endocarditis risk. Once the full analysis is completed, the risk could turn out to be smaller than we think, or, if not, we may find that there is an easy way to determine who might get it, and everyone else can rest assured that it won't happen to them as a result of the vaccine. What do you think full approval means? News reports don't substitute for this analysis. Right now, people who know someone who apparently got severe side effects from the vaccine are reluctant to take it, when those side effects could be rare, or related to some other medical condition -- or, they may turn out not to be side effects at all, but coincidental. Or the result of catching a bad cold right after getting vaccinated (my European relatives were told to take extra care not to get sick for 72 hours post vaccine; no one here has been told that, that I know of). In short, everyone I know reluctant to take this vaccine has experienced at least one life-altering medical mistake, has all their other vaccines, and wears a mask. IOW, I don't know the nut cases whose stories we've been regaled with. As for what millions of Americans have taken, that includes a whole lot of stuff that no one should.
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  20898.  @C_A_I_N_N  Let's see how many insurance companies won't PAY for treatment for vaccine-induced myocarditis. Let's see who gets the bill. Then you'll know who is taking an EUA drug at their own risk. Let's see how fast the federal government comes in to compensate them. Will the collection agency jump in first? Reality.
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  20899.  @C_A_I_N_N  Other channels are reporting 1200 cases. Israel made the link first, and said it was not coincidental. It is too soon to have a peer-reviewed study published. Look up Bayesian probability. The real issue is minors. At 18, they can get their own vaccine. Not stopping them.
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  20900.  @C_A_I_N_N  Precautionary Principle. Some people follow it.
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  20901.  @C_A_I_N_N  The same was true of antidepressants. Millions got them. They went through a very stringent FDA approval process. Only later were they linked to severe suicidal ideation and actual suicide in those under 30, and especially in teens, and especially in males. I already explained in another post what FDA approval means. They will generate and analyze tons and tons of data before full approval. We will know a LOT more then. Most of what you hear now, pro and of course con, is very preliminary. A lot of the "con" is nonsense. That is true, but that fact by itself fails to make the pro case.
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  20902.  @hollenfeuer1  You're assuming what the FDA still has to investigate prior to full approval. You are likely to be right. You cannot, however, claim to know at this point. I had one other thought -- about the accidental lab leak hypothesis. Suppose that was ultimately found to be what happened? For some reason, some people apparently think that makes the vaccine more dubious. It strikes me that a vaccine may be all the more necessary if this virus was manipulated in some manner and released by accident. Keeping it real. :/
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  20903. Certain people needed to pick up some money. Hey a guy's gotta live.
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  20904. Wrong Useful Idiots segment.
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  20905. He said "alt-right." The rest was mirroring the rhetoric Chelsea Manning now uses. Her hyperbole.
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  20906. This author appears ignorant of basic facts of social psychology. For example, you will never get at the truth concerning whether a person is happy; what you will find out is whether their social group values the assertion that they are happy, or considers claiming to be discontented a signal of greater depth, intelligence, higher ethical standards, and so forth. It also depends on whether a group considers candor imperative -- whether you owe it to everyone to answer a survey truthfully, or whether you can build yourself up a little -- and whether it is considered immoral, or even sinful, not to express happiness, which is a sign of gratitude toward God. So . . . A researcher has to use various indirect methods to find out who is truly happy. Do any of the people on Fox look happy to you? They are railing against someone or something at least as much as the clown show that is The View. Both are fact-challenged for some reason. The View may be worse, but the difference is small. That's the current media market.
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  20907. ​ @alostcause4035 💯
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  20908. No, not everyone.
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  20909. What does Rittenhouse have to do with this? Yikes.
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  20910. There is a study of very old people who had mild-to-moderate COVID, and made full recoveries without hospitalization, before vaccination was available. It was reported in the New York Times. Of course someone out there wants to know.
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  20911. 1:04 Jimmy, are you channeling the Pulp Fiction dance scene?
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  20912. This is all trivial.
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  20913. ​@S.Wally. You mean like, are Americans stupid because they don't have an impetus to develop their minds? I see that's often true.
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  20914. ​ @victorcarbino8736 Apples and oranges are different species. I rest my case concerning stupid.
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  20915. She is right: NEVER sign your name to something you do not believe to be true. No public school should be teaching a student that signing a letter of apology -- or anything else -- they do not agree with is the right thing to do, much less to be coercing them into "confessions."
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  20916. Nice! Great post.
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  20917. I know exactly what I'd say to that person, because it is what I actually do say: I'd say, "I'm so sorry . . . Is there anything I can do to help? No, I mean it. Let's really think about it. I'm sure there's something we could do." This won't work, me to me. :(
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  20918. ​​ @Krill_all_health_insuranceCEOs  You still don't get it? Why do you think people sound out that particular word? How often is it scents erred? No, the First Amendment must be defended. It didn't take long before the woke codicil to free speech and assembly was used against college students protesting the ____ in Gaza.
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  20919. You are a very wonderful person.
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  20920. PERFECTLY put! No good guys in this picture. No Vasili Akhipov to be found.
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  20921. Well, Amber, then why does each round of deregulation make life worse? You must know there is a business incentive to engineer obsolescence, correct? For example, a vaccine that requires boosters every 6 to 12 months makes more money than "one and done." A LOT more 💰 😂 but not really
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  20922.  @lukebruce5234  Never crossed my mind. Read Tonio Kröger as a self-test. If the two "Aryan" types Tonio longs after do nothing for you, and just seem kind of nice but dumb, then you don't wish you were German. (I passed the test easily.)
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  20923. Billionaires spend more on lobbying and on elections than they spend on taxes. They get the laws they want. Then they get government contracts and buy US Treasuries, and WE owe THEM our taxes, on the contracts and in interest on the national debt. Keep repeating it until it sinks in.
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  20924.  @1974Qball  Billionaires spend more on lobbying and on elections than they spend on taxes. They get the laws they want. Then they get government contracts and buy US Treasuries, and WE owe THEM our taxes, on the contracts and in interest on the national debt. Keep repeating it until it sinks in.
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  20925. @ericaugust1501  Sure honey. And you can also see ______ posts.
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  20926.  @Hands2HealNow  They are disallowed, as was my actual substantive reply.
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  20927. @ericaugust1501  This is the real fake news, making absolutely certain no one understands anyone or can come to agreement. This isn't even accomplished through AI yet. We're at the lowest rung, and it's working.
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  20928. Er, guys. You don't seem to understand. China does not believe Ukraine is a sovereign country. They OBVIOUSLY believe it is a US puppet. With Department of Defense funded biolabs. I don't agree, you don't agree. Try to put yourself in other people's places.
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  20929. 7:07. Why is this constitutional? I mean, don't they have to hide this? I know they do it, but openly?
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  20930.  @marjon888  Mom's dog.
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  20931.  Shaun Welch  Pretty much all the land is divided up and owned by somebody. Locke (the favorite philosopher of Jefferson, Franklin, et al) literally warned about this.
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  20932. So he's correct, that people wished him ill? I don't like Rogan either, and I think his carnivore diet is nuts, but why lie about him? How important is he, to need to lie? I think it's easy to see where he is right and where he is wrong. To jeer at him and wish him ill after he got COVID was repugnant. Well, he got better fast.
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  20933.  @omnibus5359  Rogan demonstrated on his podcast, the one where he interviewed Dr. Gupta, that he was misrepresented during his illness. I think interviewing people who support vaccination is essential, which he did. Some of Rogan's general health advice is obviously nonsense.
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  20934.  @omnibus5359  Well, then you didn't see the full JRE program I'm referring to, which Rogan made after he recovered. Not Instagram. Obviously Dr. Gupta was not his source concerning MSM production techniques. He is a doctor, he was there to discuss COVID. On that note, the current NIH website states, "There is insufficient evidence for the COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel (the Panel) to recommend either for or against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19." (emphasis added) It recommends further trials, and discusses the rationale for studying it. The Indian government distributed it, en mass, and against WHO advice, as prophylaxis. I've never seen definitive information on the outcome, assuming we can avoid a post hoc fallacy. Are you sure you're up to date? :)
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  20935.  @omnibus5359  I'm telling you which JRE podcast treated this subject. LOL. It is the one where Dr. Gupta appeared. I don't understand your confusion. NIH no longer recommends for or against ivermectin use. I quoted it above. Look it up, it's interesting. Obviously some doctors are using it off label, which is legal. (I don't think I'd want it. I don't like off label use, in general.) What is a "narrative," by the way? One of those annoying trendy words . . . Reminds me of Orwell, "Politics and the English Language."
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  20936.  @omnibus5359  Sloganeering. I practically know the essay by heart. I taught it frequently. Who's pretending some sort of "culture clash?" Posturing has a long and (ig)noble cultural tradition here. And who brought up conspiracy? Well, other than you! If you mean story, say story. If you mean claim, say claim. If you mean subject, say subject. If a word with an Anglo-Saxon root has greater specificity, then ditch the more general and fuzzy but pretentious Latin root. Bad enough you have to say "narrative." Now I'm treated to "SPIN a narrative!" And "the narrative being changed is that . . . " Wow, I've heard of passive voice/agentless sentences, but this one is in a class by itself. I'll have to write this down, it rocks. I don't know what those insider acronyms mean. (Orwell mentions that, too.) I gave you the information. Look it up yourself, or don't. I've also demonstrated that your comments on ivermectin are somewhat misleading, in light of what NIH says -- not that any celebrity testimonial should ever be given weight, either. What a zoo. LOL . . .
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  20937. So . . . They cannot find qualified black women? Harvard?? I know several, including federal appellate judges.
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  20938.  @07Flash11MRC  There's no law against calling anyone a murderer. If you are on a major network and have deep pockets, you might get sued.
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  20939. This story has no traction, bro.
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  20940. If you can't prevent them from taking more of the vaccine, then leave them alone.
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  20941. Do you REALLY not know that the most common major is Business, and has been for decades and decades? And the next largest group of majors relate to biology and health sciences? Less than a fraction of a percent of degrees are in Gender Studies and the like. Business is a phony degree unless it includes advanced mathematics and finance, or sufficient accounting to qualify for the CPA. An English major who studies Shakespeare has a more challenging program, and can read and write.
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  20942. The very best American cinema is second to none. That's not a lot of films, but so what?
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  20943. Anyone who saw the two videos he posted on Dec 17 knows he is sincere. He had to file for bankruptcy due to health care costs. He is 55, he lived in a small bungalow fir 23 years, since his early 30s.
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  20944. In the tradition of the Killer American, see D. H. Lawrence. This society was too far right for *him*(!!)
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  20945.  @8ofwands300  Thank you for thinking of that -- and for reminding us of the importance of having a strong MEMORY! :)
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  20946. It's an attack on society??? Hey I'm all in.
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  20947. I decided in 2019 to emigrate, then, well, COVID. I wonder, how did I know? One American hysteria too many. Or maybe ten too many by now.
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  20948. You sound French. Seriously, that's what Paris was like. Just like that.
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  20949. It never made sense for men to automatically lose work over abuse allegations. Suppose they owed temporary alimony, health insurance payments for their ex-spouse, or child support? This whole episode of MeToo is bizarre. But how Depp became anyone's poster boy I'll never understand.
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  20950. Can't say I "like" it, but ultimately, people have a right to the truth. You're right.
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  20951. 27:20 I prefer the Jewish tradition -- in some communities at any rate -- to argue with G-d. That's the only thing that makes sense to me. I think that what Peterson is saying is whack. I don't believe he understands the Bible.
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  20952. Lula da Silva . . . Know who that is? Not Western, not blond, not "like us" . . . Nah. Why would you know?
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  20953. Where white supremacists have infiltrated local police, they are a threat. But that's small compared to police infiltration by drug smugglers in the big cities --- not to mention stuff like the Jeffrey Epstein network, which operated on a much higher level.
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  20954.  @YoungSandyGray  No, I actually know the law. And I state it correctly. I saw through Russiagate and MeToo. Why don't you see through this? I know mobs when I see them. The frequency with which new ones are cropping up is disturbing.
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  20955. @Gretchen K. So, you're going to quote dictum from a case that has been overruled, and that does not apply here in any event. The New York Times malice standard applies here -- and even I agree that it creates too high a barrier for plaintiffs in defamation in the contemporary world. (But the First Amendment is under a lot of attack lately, so it may just be best to leave New York Times malice alone. C.f. recent dissents from denial of certiorari by Thomas and Gorsuch, however.) Speech and writing, like the allegedly defamatory article, is presumed to be First Amendment-protected, and it must be proved by clear and convincing evidence that it is not. (I.e., Depp in this case must prove it.) The old chestnut that "you can't evade the consequences of your speech" is true, and vague, and illuminates nothing. WHO should mete out the consequences? And WHAT should those consequences be? You must not have ever practiced in this area. Don't get so angry. Pick up Nadine Strossen, or Chemerinsky.
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  20956. @Gretchen K. Ad hominem, and so quickly?
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  20957. @Gretchen K. "Guess what? Another little mob has formed! Get out of its way." Speaking of censorship, who knows which of my posts were shadowed? The al go rythm probably presumes that all real discussion of the law is mis/dis/mal inform a tion. Trash talk is never eliminated, somehow.
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  20958.  @cookiemonster208  Where did I say that? Nowhere. I simply explained the law. What is at issue in defamation is whether . . . Oh never mind. You can't follow more than a meme. What? Are they shadowing everything besides hashtags and trash talk?
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  20959. @Gretchen K. Besides, Depp is suing for defamation per se. If proved, damages are automatic. The amount is the only issue.
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  20960.  @cookiemonster208  Remember Rush Limbaugh? "ArE yOu SAyinG??!" Don't do that for free. Make millions.
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  20961.  @macthomas8899  Did you read the article? If the article is not false, it is not defamation. If his career was shot for other reasons, the article cannot give rise to the damages he wants. This is true even if the speaker/writer is immoral.
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  20962.  @skontheroad  "Malice" is purely a term of art in defamation law, and has nothing to do discerning anyone's mental state. Look up "New York Times malice standard." Juries have sent innocent men to death. This one should really make you pause before you praise it. There is NO WAY the concomitant $2 million verdict against Depp makes any sense whatsoever; it looks like they were punishing people according to their notion of relative "badness." That should make everyone worry -- barely above the logic of a twitter mob. You never know when they'll turn on you.
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  20963.  @skontheroad  I.e., if an article is true, it cannot meet the malice standard.
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  20964.  @skontheroad  Okay, you didn't look up New York Times malice standard. Your choice. Every defamation case implicates the First Amendment BECAUSE it invokes the power of the court to seize assets in retribution for speech.
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  20965.  @skontheroad  I know what happened in that case. It's one of the worst examples of lawyering I've ever seen, starting with not fighting the jurisdiction and venue. It's useless to try to discuss this. Once Depp planted the defecation image in the jury's minds, the case was almost certainly lost. If that was false, he succeeded in smearing Heard and can never be held to account for it (it's not perjury if he, in his inebriated state, believed it, and she cannot sue him for defamation because sworn testimony is immune from suit). He did vow to destroy her, in an electronic communication made years ago. The real pity for the public is that they were misled, yet again, about what was going on: they were losing First Amendment rights, and for what? A relitigation of a sick divorce case? For the pleasure of stoning a disturbed woman who married a drugged up man? The multimillionaires and billionaires will be fine. Money will always be speech.
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  20966.  @skontheroad  "The jury felt . . . " Absolutely on target. It was not about thinking, it was all about feelings.
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  20967.  @skontheroad  Here again, you are missing the point. Whether she was abusive to him as well, and whether she was in fact the primary abuser, has no relevance to the truth of the article. Did you read the article? You know, if you really don't care about your rights, and if any abused husband believes the aftermath of Depp v. Heard will help him in any way whatsoever, I do not know what to tell you. Any case where a stereotype is disrupted should matter, one would think, stereotypes being that men abuse women but not vice versa (in the case of physical abuse, it appears to be three to one men abusing women, but that's still a substantial number of women abusing men; in the case of severe emotional abuse, it's definitely not that high, and could even tip toward women, though we don't have firm data). But I can tell you, that will not happen. Some men may threaten women with defamation, but they are likely to be bluffing, or very rich -- and if the latter, the estranged wife already knew what the guy could do to her. In short, this case will have no bearing in family court, where these issues are considered for the rest of us non-hundred-millionaires. Refusing to wake up with the clock striking noon is really unattractive.
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  20968.  @skontheroad  NEW YORK TIMES MALICE is a US SUPREME COURT First Amendment standard. That's why you should look it up. Delaware?? It was tried in Virginia. Okay, now I get it. You're wasting my time. Why are you wedded to writing this nonsense, without checking a single fact. I block all time wasters. You had your chance, you're on your own now. You know, if you act this way in life when you need a lawyer, a lot of them will size you up and figure out that they lie to you to get rid of you. ("You don't have a case," etc., when you do, it's just small potatoes; stuff like that.)
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  20969. Bad habit, not character issue . . . Bad habit = Bad enough.
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  20970.  @NovaReason  Too bad you can't accept what's in front of you.
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  20971. It was Shapiro who got so flustered he called for the guy's award to be cancelled. All the people who didn't notice are as prey to crowd think as any of the woksters.
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  20972.  @SweetCatBro  I'm not. The criteria for a science grant have to do with the project proposal. Shapiro has a law degree from Harvard, as he never tires of saying. He could be representing parents and setting precedent. Well, if he felt like working he could.
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  20973. 19:36 All true, but how often do Greeks think of Slavs as ersatz Orthodox? 😉
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  20974. There are many times in history and places in the world where a Pelosi would be in fear. Not here, not now.
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  20975. She spoke to Lil' Jamie like that? OF COURSE she was cancelled.
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  20976. What a president/ex-president says, true or not, is NEWS. Similarly for a former Secretary of State. Hence, Hillary Clinton's bogus claims about Putin having influenced the 2016 election in favor of Trump is news.
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  20977.  sherlock256  Great. Thanks for proving my point. Losing a license for refusing to participate in a class where you will have the opportunity to voice your opinions is JUST LIKE GAS CHAMBERS.
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  20978.  @Robodog69  He has the means to challenge this. He should. His lawyer can start by demanding the education be videotaped. If they say no, then audiotape. If they decline again, then taped, transcribed, and edited to protect privacy. Let's see what's going on. He has the means to make it happen.
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  20979.  @Mi_Mono  We got a typical one right here.
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  20980.  @Mi_Mono  The tweet they broadcast here.
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  20981. You'll be fine, don't worry. Go on a massive health kick, you'll feel better than you did before your ordeal, just watch!
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  20982.  @biancawilloughby9980  Not sure what you're responding to. You know what happened to one of my comments. 🙄
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  20983.  @manaash4316  You're right. I didn't think Dionysios was an Olympic god for some reason; according to some scholars, I think he might not be.
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  20984. @manaash4316  I thought Walter F. Otto may have, but obviously I may be wrong. I don't remember why he chose to treat Dionysios separately. Is it clear from all the texts that Dionysios is a child of Zeus? Obviously, I could be wrong here.
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  20985.  @manaash4316  I hope my answer appears. 🫣🙄
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  20986.  @scottrusinko  Because they were not frankly crazy already. Please. Encourage 1/6 but not fire Fauci. Gee what a stand-up guy. And this, after waging a poor campaign.
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  20987. ​@@ArtimusPressWe were supposed to believe our sanctions put an end to that over in Russia. You forgot already? This show has to remind you of what to say, huh?
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  20988. ​@leed963 In the meantime, the BRICS grew. I didn't think that would happen, or could, before a peace agreement was reached. And on a more general note, you think toppling foreign leaders is our job? Or a good policy? Maybe you're reading the wrong books.
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  20989. ​ @ghengis423 That wasn't his only video. The subway was the one that got the most traction, actually.
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  20990. ​ @darrellrees4371 Tucker claims he never took the vaccine. For what that's worth.
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  20991. ​ @momojojokoko  American news: What Someone tweeted. What Someone Else tweeted. Fired News Personality Posts Video, aspires to become Influencer. Video Influencer tries to stay relevant. Other Video Influencers make fun of that Video Influencer. Viewers comment obediently. "Ha ha, this is fun!"
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  20992.  @leaf16nut  Nor do we know whether those were her exact words. A probable cause affidavit is technically hearsay, and the police take down material facts, not exact quotations unless they are material to securing the arrest and no bail for the suspect. That is their goal.
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  20993.  @bobhope4949  Thank you for replying, it gives me an easy way to block another person who needs to look in the mirror. Yawn.
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  20994.  @bamboo851  The story of the unconscious person changed several times. I also heard that one of the roommates fainted, and was thus the unconscious person. And no, I didn't buy into that explanation, either. We don't have an explanation yet. I expect some unpleasant surprises. :/
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  20995.  @bamboo851  I don't have an opinion at all. I suspend judgment very easily. If it turns out, based on evidence tested in a court, that you're right, I will not be shocked at all. I even refuse to jump the gun and assume Kohberger is guilty. No, I am not a dupe of YT, and I don't own a television. I can maintain the presumption of innocence for everyone accused or suspected. It's not an opinion for me, it's a principle. I didn't believe anyone fainted either; nor did I deny it, actually. I don't know either way. I'm curious, do you have knowledge that is not available to the public? I don't expect you to answer, but you seem to be speaking as though you did. I'm sure there are people who do.
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  20996.  @leaf16nut  Then you have no understanding of what a probable cause affidavit is. Sorry to burst your bubble. No, there is no reason to believe it contains an exact quote. Police aren't biographers. Not their goal.
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  20997.  @leaf16nut  Actually, it's you who's not worth my time, but that's the new Low Self-Awareness gig.
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  20998. This creep?
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  20999. ​ @danielgillespie7899 What kind of funding? In return for research, most of which ends up benefitting the Department of DEFENSE no matter where it came from? BTW, you do know why Fauci had so much power, correct? I mean, you do get that part? 🔫 🔫 🔫
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  21000. ​ @ronaldmilner8932 China gets taxpayer dollars --- interest on their Treasuries. They own a bunch.
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  21001. Poor analogies at the end.
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  21002. Do the math: had Trump won Arizona and Georgia in 2020, he still would have lost. Thus one more toss-up state is needed.
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  21003. Read the complaint first. Then you'll have an informed opinion. A lawsuit is not election interference. It is a constitutional right. That was established during Clinton's serial misbehavior with women.
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  21004. Well, civil authorities do not control our cities. In some cases, the gangs do.
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  21005.  @ddavis3599  How can someone who was never an American be a traitor? Neat trick. I guess "we" rule the world.
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  21006.  @ddavis3599  So he's a traitor to which country, according to this American? Under which law is he betraying which country? Someone else looking to extradite him now?
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  21007.  @ddavis3599  So, are you with the January 6th insurrectionist wannabees, or are you part of the lunatic fringe that is forming in the opposite camp? That you would shoot all three of them and me as well, if you could, is no longer something I doubt. Nice job.
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  21008. Every time I trusted anyone, they made sure to stab me in the back and twist the knife. I'm emigrating, away from the West. Problem solved.
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  21009. @Muppet Patrol Utterly shocking.
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  21010. No, she's making bank.
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  21011. ​ @danielhamilton351 Look on the bright side. Pretty soon, no volunteers for the military. That will be good.
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  21012. Of course it's Russian disinformation! They got those pictures while Hunter was working for Bourisma in Ukraine!
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  21013. I wonder how much he has in untouchable retirement assets snd income. Will he be a millionaire? If he lives in his house in Florida full time, I believe he may be able to declare bankruptcy and keep that house. He'll lose his other properties. This should be interesting.
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  21014.  @balshb4064  I'm looking at it coldly, as in, what do the laws provide. That sort of thing doesn't interest you?
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  21015.  @anthony13299  The Cleveland Clinic study (published in April 2023) does show that the vaccinated and boosted were also more likely to become infected with COVID, and recommended further study to determine what was going on. No one in that paper suggested vaccination does in fact increase the risk of COVID; we don't know that. The problem is that vaccination FAILS to prevent COVID, big time, and might possibly increase risk of contraction, especially after more boosters. Because it might, we need to figure this out. The CDC blurb is ambiguous, not scientifically or rigorously worded, and your interpretation seems to me to be more likely than Campbell's. But that is not certain, sadly. It should be crystal clear. Also, sorry: we are not stupid. Grasp that.
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  21016.  @SheilaTitchener  I heard of one person in another state who died, and two people who were hospitalized with serious cases, one of whom was on the infamous cruise ship (a former travel agent knew his wife).
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  21017. 5:20 In the US, that would slash the marriage rate. Believe it.
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  21018. People do what they have to do. Not a surprise who ends up being lazy or compromised or both.
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  21019. ​@daveess698 But when they march out the Dallas Cowboys, and the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, then you'll see!!!
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  21020. ​@bryanhawkins9418 At some point, you notice that the worst things happen to the best people, invariably. Then you start to read history with new understanding. Then you reread the Gospels. That was the effect WWII had on many, as but one example.
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  21021. Not evident. If Roe v. Wade is overturned, many states will retain very liberal abortion laws and in-vitro fertilization regulations. That will drive more "business" to those states and force up prices. The same process is at work in other areas of health care, and in other necessities, like education.
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  21022. I bet it's even scarier when a cop kneels on your neck or SWAT shows up at your house. Those are not First Amendment--protected speech or expression.
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  21023. What do people who were abused and exploited as children do when they hear about this, or about Jeffrey Epstein's black book, and all the people who have no problem frequenting pedophiles? How do they handle it? We need Medicare for All just for the psychiatry bills. Why should these people have to pay for therapy? Take some money out of the CIA budget.
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  21024. 6:00 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  21025. Let's be politically incorrect and mention how sad it is that at one time, women did throw themselves at him because of how he looked, without caring about what his morals and other inner qualities were at the time. That never justifies crimes, if he committed them. That's not the point.
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  21026. Truth
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  21027. The Red Army defeated Hitler's Wehrmacht, but the US clearly won the war. Last man standing. The Red Army was multiethnic and multireligious. Some of its greatest heroes were Jewish.
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  21028. Describes 70% of each, easily.
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  21029. Was "justice served" in the first Emmett Till murder trial? Shapiro has a law degree from HARVARD and you see how he is putting it to use. That tells you everything.
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  21030. I looked up the case. You are correct. According to the Memorandum Opinion, several of her breach of contract claims against Harvard were not dismissed. The opinion is dated Sept. 11, 2024. She has until mid-October to file an amended complaint against Harvard alone. So, this video is misleading as well. When someone who isn't a lawyer talks about a case, look up the case. Wikipedia happened to be correct this time.
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  21031.  @bikerfirefarter7280  I disagree. If I had had a living elderly parent or grandparent, it would have tipped the balance. As it was, MY concerns were never addressed, -- instead I was jeered at, bullied, and made to feel like a hunted animal, AND my finances (which withstood every other catastrophe of the last 25 years) were ruined, so of course I did not get the jab. But as I said, having an elderly parent would have tipped the balance. We were LIED TO. We were told we were doing it to protect those we love. This was evil.
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  21032.  @Veraciousness  I just found the Parker Crutchfield -- Alexander Zambrano debate on that very issue ("bioenhancement") in a journal published by none other than Wiley (Wiley Online Library). Wow, just wow. Saving it to read. Let people know where this stuff is, lest they think you are exaggerating. Er, no. No you are not. BTW, the Crutchfield -- Zambrano exchange is from April 2019. Huh.
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  21033.  @Veraciousness  Everyone should know about this debate. Lately have been reading a recent book on American Bioethics, by George Annas. The first chapter, which explains how coercion in public health is fundamentally wrong, has been violated over and over since 2020.
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  21034.  @Veraciousness  Er, maybe a new icon might help? Just a thought, don't come for me.
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  21035.  @bikerfirefarter7280  That stupidity and willful ignorance were the reason so many took these "vaccines." They were coerced, either directly or psychologically. Many did it out of guilt they could not overcome -- and the guilt was imposed on them. If my grandma were alive, and lived with me, I would have taken it as well. As it was, I did not take it. And now I know I was more responsible than the vast majority of those who did. BUT I DIDN'T KNOW IT AT THE TIME.
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  21036. Oh yeah? Let a 14 year old work in a dangerous job, and transition? I wonder if the toxins in the workplace are destroying some young minds? Combine that with social media . . . Voilà. Poisoning complete.
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  21037. What Bill of Rights?
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  21038.  @htunlin2000  A violation of rights demands some remedy. Or is the concept too tough for you? So, what do you propose? Nah. Too tough for you. Your comment only contains slogans. Never mind.
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  21039.  @htunlin2000  I don't disagree with your first post (of your last two) one iota, i.e., the one not directed to me. Why would I? It is factually accurate and ethically sound.
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  21040.  @htunlin2000  BTW, congrats on advancing beyond slogans. The issue remains: some 40 to 45% of people eligible to be vaccinated against COVID are unlikely to do so. What are their reasons? What should be their punishment? Or in any case, the consequences for them?
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  21041. At least France has a bona fide left who will take to the streets.
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  21042.  @yiaxiong7864  I know her record. She got her jobs for political reasons.
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  21043. @yiaxiong7864  I never watch CNN, MSNBC and never have. I have never had cable at all, and if I ever do, I'd want an international package.
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  21044. Hope so.
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  21045. Humankind is insane. There is nothing else to be said.
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  21046. This
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  21047.  @kathrynmcmorrow7170  I agree with you. But he said what he said, not something else in any event.
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  21048. Why would you take this personally? She's not right in her head. In case you're wondering, yes, cancer has gravely affected my family. I won't elaborate further.
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  21049. She said she wouldn't have fired him.
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  21050. ​ @rubengutierrez-w5s The Biden family pardons are rather interesting as well.
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  21051. LOL
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  21052.  @quantumfairing2216  You lost your credibility when you praised The Gates Foundation. As for the conspiracy theories surrounding it, those could be false flags, to make Gates appear beyond rational criticism. How he has been running his foundation and what serious mistakes he has made have already been exposed by The Nation and moreso in the foreign press. That the foundation is not held responsible for self-dealing shows how billionaires can buy their own laws. The American press has mostly agreed to ignore his extensive relationship with Jeffrey Epstein because it appears not to have involved human trafficking or benefitting in any way from the young teens Epstein held and abused. It appears Gates thought Epstein could help him get a Nobel peace prize. Which proves his genius! What a sad joke.
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  21053.  @quantumfairing2216  Not at all. I caught Kennedy in quite a few mistakes, and certainly don't consider him an authority on any medical topic. But have at it. Makes no difference to me.
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  21054.  @quantumfairing2216  Make some more bets. You are hasty to get your back up, aren't you? I only wish I could collect.
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  21055.  @quantumfairing2216  Epstein appears to have been acquainted with one person who has served on that Nobel committee. But his black book is something to behold. The question is, who didn't he know?
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  21056.  @quantumfairing2216  Of all the people who have spoken out publically in the US concerning the pandemic, I like Dr. Eric Topol the best. He is more "pro" COVID vaccines than I am, but he has pointed out certain crucial facts: among them, first, the US has taken a highly "vaccine-centric" route which he does not agree with; and second, EUA and full FDA approval really are different, and the difference does matter. I agree wholeheartedly. Also, this is how a logical, consistent, HONEST doctor sounds. He was among the first if not first to signal a problem with Vioxx, the arthritis drug that turned out to harm the cardiovascular system. I think he was first, in fact. He's great. I trust him.
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  21057.  @quantumfairing2216  BTW, did I sound stupid to you? You sound stupid with your quick anger and compulsive swearing. Yeesh.
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  21058.  @quantumfairing2216  I don't have any conspiracy theories. Sounds like you are beset by them even when you don't talk to anyone. Your internal monologue is enough.
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  21059.  @quantumfairing2216  Move to America. You would find soulmates galore.
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  21060.  @quantumfairing2216  The post you directed at me doesn't even appear here! I'll make sure to block you from my notifications thread as well. No one has to talk to anyone they don't want to talk to. Of course not. So, DON'T "waste your time." Easy! Tootles.
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  21061. It was a shocker.
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  21062. Besides, they should just Attract Abundance like all the cool girls do.
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  21063. You can see how out of touch they both are. People need to work into their 60s and 70s. You think you can do that with a trade school diploma? Even Social Security is poor before age 70.
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  21064. @Bolshibhoy  Joined two months ago? And so disciplined, too. Ready to resist.
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  21065. @susanmercurio1060 Thank you for this recommendation.
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  21066. We used to have the best FDA in the world. This was once true.
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  21067. People who are racists are the most worried about appearing racist, or being called racist, for that matter.
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  21068.  @jennahopkins8189  Not in the US there aren't.
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  21069. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  21070. From what distance is the James Webb making this observation? Is it possible to explain briefly how? Is it possible to tell whether the planet has a magnetic field?
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  21071. Dore outdoes himself EVERY TIME. This would be completely amazing -- but remember: South Side of Chicago is in the house. There is no better education.
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  21072. Gabbard looks worried and like she didn't sleep. I'm serious, it causes me concern. How bad is this going to get?
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  21073. You need to inform yourself for your own health and well being at this point. Remember 9/11? After the first tower was hit and people started evacuating the second tower, they were instructed to return to their offices. Most people did. NYTimes reported this. I'll never forget it, because I was a fire marshall in the 1990s, in another large city, and I probably would have complied.
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  21074.  @gerrygeko9712  Trump Denial Syndrome, an affliction of those who can't handle the truth. Whoever wins, the next president will not be "neuro-typical."
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  21075. She is clueless. In New York, you couldn't maintain a civil rights suit absent exoneration. It would have been dismissed. Read the complaint. These three obviously didn't. 😂
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  21076. And lied about contacting him prior to airing the smear piece against him.
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  21077. AI?? You think JIMMY is overreliant on AI? The AI you train with these comments might come around to define you someday. That's what's happening. (And NO ONE should join the military to defend Gutfeld. Disgusting. ONE homeless veteran shames us all.)
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  21078.  @zanshikaijin2709  Every single one.
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  21079.  @zanshikaijin2709  Every single one.
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  21080.  @zanshikaijin2709  Every single one.
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  21081.  @zanshikaijin2709  Every veteran, every time.
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  21082. Well, when I studied in France and the telephone company was publicly owned, all the rich Americans would rig the pay phones to let them talk long distance for hours -- and exchange tips on how to do it. They never kept their residency permits in order.
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  21083. Lolol 😂😂😂
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  21084. "God Save the Queen"
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  21085.  @nealorr5086  I don't know? Seriously?
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  21086.  @moloney55  You missed the part where she pointed out --- correctly --- that Title VII has had so little effect because the lawsuits are prohibitively difficult to prove, or even to bring (meaning, to survive a motion to dismiss), regardless of merit. (If you had any notion of the EEOC procedural hurdles involved, not to mention the need for having a good $30k on hand to start, you would know this.) Employers know, and act accordingly. And if they spend a little money on counterproductive DEI nonsense, they have added a layer of protection. As for the set theory "proof" you propose, that requires believing that the distribution of genuine merit in the two groups you've designated as sample pools is different. If it is THE SAME, then merit hiring is not undermined at all. (E.g., set up two sample pools of numbers containing an identical frequency of prime numbers and draw from each; you have the same chance of ending up with prime numbers as you did before.) But if people just substitute one criterion for another, then yeah. The one substituted out, or put in second place, WILL suffer. No kidding. That was an unwarranted assumption on your part, huh?
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  21087.  @moloney55  You should have believed me that I know math. Now I just have to hope I'm not sense errrr . . . Again. EDIT: WELL I WAS sense errrd. Set theory is controversial? Is that where we are? Does it make people Feel Bad?
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  21088.  @moloney55  There was no statistical "analysis" in that post. There were just unwarranted generalizations to the total population, using the cut-and-paste technique. There is no job that draws from the entire set of all adult residents of the US. Candidate pools for any job exist as select subsets of that population, just as in the analogy I gave. They can exclude those without a high school diploma or 10th grade reading and 8th grade math ab initio --- even for a warehouse job, much less . . . And that leaves a LOT of people who don't look like you. (That was the point about Prime Newtons, lol.)
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  21089.  @nealorr5086  My posts are not here any more -- posts on SET THEORY. (And the example I gave involved prime numbers. Wow, just wow.) Hence I will pass on that. This has become utterly untenable and absurd.
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  21090.  @nealorr5086  You think the teachers sent overseas to teach diplomatic staff are the same as, say, who you will encounter teaching in the Chicago Public Schools? NO YOU CANNOT GET A GOOD EDUCATION EVERWHERE. What complete rot! How many impossible things do you believe before breakfast?
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  21091. @BlackBinderGames  No I don't. I hate DEI. I think it's a fig leaf for corporations.
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  21092. @BlackBinderGames  No I don't. I oppose DEI. It's a cover for corporations. If I say what I really feel about DEI, it won't stay up.
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  21093.  @nealorr5086  If I say what I really think about DEI, guess what happens? Yup, over and over and over. Anyway, I oppose it.
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  21094.  @nealorr5086  Nice free speech culture ya got here. As robust as the anti-racist culture, if not more so.
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  21095.  @nealorr5086  🤣🤣🤣
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  21096.  @moloney55  I did no such thing. I posted abstract reasoning. I guess that is offensive?
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  21097.  @nealorr5086  Culture is not created by Google. We all continue to comment, hence tolerate loss of free speech culture. Yes, me included. Obviously. Now explain how an analogy based on SET THEORY can be "offensive."
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  21098. @nealorr5086  Still mad about Prime Newtons? 🤣
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  21099.  @moloney55  Thank you. :) No, I mean it.
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  21100. The reason why it is not a "Ponzi scheme" is that that characterization assumes the dollar to be a rigid yardstick, when we all know it is not. In simple terms, everyone paid in with stronger dollars, but the payout does not fully keep pace with inflation. In the meantime, the dollars are invested in US Treasuries -- which, as Elon well knows, pay significant interest when large sums such as these are involved.
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  21101.  @taylorlibby7642  Of course. Lots of people go to psychiatrists who take cash.
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  21102. No, you showed that you can't follow a reasoned discourse. Why? That's for you to try to figure out.
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  21103. Opinions are always protected speech. Defamation can never be found when what is expressed is an opinion. A defense to calling an innocent person "a murderer" is that you didn't mean it literally, and that, generally speaking, everyone who heard you knew you didn't mean it literally. First Amendment lawyers know how to argue this. It's a high bar, as it should be. Then there are anti-SLAPP laws to prevent nuisance suits designed to silence free speech. Kyle doesn't have a good take. I support the Sandy Hook familiies. I remember Richard Jewell. That was ugly. He was an actual hero, and was smeared.
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  21104. Why do you think "who owns the twitterverse" is the point? Surveillance is the point. Even criminals are supposed to have civil rights.
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  21105.  @Laurencita  That hasn't been established. That's assuming he's doing what he usually does. But suppose he is lying. Then THAT is the story, not that he jeered at someone for what he himself is guilty of. Way to miss the point.
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  21106. If an American journalist seeks to interview Putin, or any foreign leader like Putin, it is perfectly normal to listen to those communications, as long as a noncitizen is on one end of them. It is NOT normal to unmask the American journalist. Aren't you curious whether this happened? Tucker saying something ridiculous is not news. (Tucker actually trying to get a scoop is news, but I digress.) Even convicted criminals (are supposed to) have rights.
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  21107. It was placed in the US Constitution as the Second Amendment soon after 1776. The expectation was that states could regulate it strictly, but that honest people could not be deprived of self-defense at home. Everything changed after the Supreme Court started applying 14th Amendment logic just recently to the Second Amendment, and prevented the states from passing a lot of gun laws that they could before that. But having a gun in your own home and on your own property if you had no criminal record was never illegal.
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  21108. Oh. He's an expert on First Amendment law now. And here I thought he was a virologist and an agricultural expert.
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  21109. Too bad my other post, pointing out that these newscasters clearly did not read the court documents, and how bad their reporting on this case is, is . . . Guess! I did read the court documents, and they have no idea what they're talking about. None.
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  21110. Made to sound that way, for clicks.
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  21111. @Cereal_Killer007  Have you read the complaint? That doesn't contain evidence, but it has to allege the elements of every claim she's making. It's an assertion that they can and will bring forward the evidence necessary to support each claim.
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  21112. @JamesJones-sf3du  No one has yet to explain what she got wrong from a legal perspective. Speech K through 12 is not prescribed, for teachers or students. There are constant curriculum wars, but that's beside the point: exactly what instruction will be offered on what subjects is not in itself a restriction of First Amendment freedoms.
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  21113.  @JamesJones-sf3du  Public Administration degree
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  21114.  @JamesJones-sf3du  Fetterman
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  21115. @JamesJones-sf3du  You think that limits her freedom of speech? Even assuming a teacher represents the government, the government itself has freedom of speech. It is not muzzled. That was the distinction made during COVID: censorship, vs. adding its own message to the "marketplace of ideas."
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  21116. @JamesJones-sf3du  Government employees have First Amendment protections when speaking on matters of public concern in their workplace that employees in the private sector lack. A private sector boss can fire you for praising RFK Jr. If he doesn't, it's primarily because it would look bad. He'd try to come up with some cover story.
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  21117.  @JamesJones-sf3du  Yeah, he got his MPP there.
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  21118. At least know that 93% do not develop sequelae.
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  21119. I didn't vote for Obama in the general election after he picked Biden as vice president. I knew then. (Didn't vote at all.)
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  21120. A descendant of Joan of Arc.
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  21121. Well, Chappelle smokes. /s
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  21122. So, just one of their trades would allow five couples to be secure in retirement? The Pelosis are a real success story. /s
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  21123.  @brighteyes6559  On all matters of law, it is correct that the Supreme Court defers to no other court. On matters of creating a factual record, the district court's findings of fact are presumed to be accurate, though not beyond scrutiny, obviously.
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  21124.  @pensiveintrovert4318  I literally laughed out loud, very loud. Now I can go to bed happy. That was wonderful.
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  21125.  @bubbagump6625  Have you seen a recent copy of that "standardized test?" It makes me wonder who the test makers are, and how they determine what the test should consist in.
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  21126.  @donaldkasper8346  You are telling me they CAUGHT all the burglars?? In my city, they don't catch the murderers.
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  21127. No, not honest. Proven to be a liar about Sandy Hook in court, and intentionally inflicting the worst emotional distress upon vulnerable people that words can create. That said, HE should not be cancelled. HE retains his First Amendment rights. The (unprotected) defamation and abuse he dished out THIS time, he will pay for and is paying for.
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  21128. THIS! Ask for a consulting fee.
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  21129. These doctors believe older people should be vaccinated. They believe that for real. They appear to think everyone over 70 in the whole world should get vaccinated. They will not force you, however, regardless of age.
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  21130. You are a true genius. You /t/ is a little too clean to be American. 😅
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  21131. Pipelines are at the crossroads of "diplomacy, foreign policy, capital, regulatory approval . . . " Clearly a job for a guy with a drug problem, what.
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  21132.  @jobhiojkp  Who let the dogs out?
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  21133. ​ @andre8860 Look how the Israeli peace and justice movement has been systematically silenced! Those who silenced it should be more than ashamed.
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  21134.  @defenderofwisdom  Claiming to worship strength and BEING strong are usually opposites. Are serial killers strong? Are people incapable of dissenting, and instead allow themselves to be led by degenerates, strong?
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  21135. Ce n'est pas evident. Mais ce qui est sur, c'est qu'un nouveau medicament, et surtout un vaccin, ne doit pas etre impose a personne!! Et de l'imposer aux jeunes est affreux.
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  21136. Yes
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  21137. 1. WHAT is wrong with these teachers? 2. I thought schools were supposed to stop bullying, not encourage it. 3. Minors should not have social media accounts. They create the proverbial "permanent record" that can be accessed from anywhere on earth, in perpetuity, and social media use can lead to behavioral addiction and depression. Kids are too vulnerable to engage with these social media monsters.
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  21138. This is the same tactic used to discredit Thomas Jefferson. 😂😂😂
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  21139.  @Individual_Lives_Matter  ​Well, this truncated "biography" just happens to use the same tactics as those denouncing Thomas Jefferson (he owned slaves, had children with a slave who were not recognized, put together his own Deist Bible by literally cutting up the Bible and pasting it into a commonplace book, etc.). Does any of that have a direct bearing on his role in founding the United States or the Constitution? These are not easy questions, actually. In fact, Marx, like Jefferson, read Latin and Greek --- only Marx went further by completing a doctorate in ancient Greek philosophy, and a thesis on several presocratic philosophers. That wasn't included, was it? Raoul Peck did a nice film on it, if reading is not your thing.
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  21140. Ana's assertion that Aaron is an apologist for gassing children is the worst thing she said. Much more horrible smear. But yeah, "Russian agent!!" is normalized.
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  21141. Glenn Greenwald has actually faced death threats in Brazil, where his husband is a (real) socialist representative, and where close friends have been assassinated, by (real) fascists. That is why he sees the ABSURDITY of all of this.
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  21142. ABC News gave a platform to the man who claimed credit for organizing the Beslan school massacre. Russia protested, the US government responded that we have a First Amendment.
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  21143. I love you. No, I mean it. :)
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  21144. If someone claims nonhuman or off-world craft have been present on earth, THEY have the burden to prove it happened. I can simply disbelieve them unless they present evidence. I don't have to prove any testimony is false. I can simply choose not to credit the testimony.
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  21145. ​ @annafedorova_sf  So . . . If he was able to dupe at scale as a tech "entrepreneur" and become a billionaire, it's not a dark road? When I heard crypto, oh brother. If he was widely loved, you have to wonder what those people are like.
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  21146. ​ @annafedorova_sf  Yes, it is illegal to murder the very worst people, much less mere hedonists. Not suggesting anything else.
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  21147.  Barb Richardson  Non-Anglo-Saxons are always smeared, by all sides, here. The further you are from a Protestant germanic heritage, the greater the chance that you'll either be labeled a fascist or patronized. (As in, Biden telling a crowd in Iowa that “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.")
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  21148. The demonstrations started in the late fall of 2018, and there was a general strike late last year, with firefighters taking the side of demonstrators and protecting them. This went on for weeks. Follow the French press. So what if you don't understand everything they're saying? There is so much shouting that a lot of people don't. You'll get the idea. :)
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  21149.  Barb Richardson  Did "the right" show pictures of firefighters siding with demonstrators against the police during the general strike last year? I didn't think so.
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  21150.  @shanwyn  It does? Are you sure?
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  21151. What percentage of Wall Street is?
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  21152. "Nicholas" thinks advocating drastic surgery for masculine-seeming lesbians is the "progressive" position? What in the world???
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  21153.  @JAMESBOND-ox3se  No, we should either line up behind Orange Caligula or The Mummy, like the post above yours assumes. Because everything's going to be fine. We don't need to do anything about the race to the bottom. We don't need marginally competent people to lead the U.S. "We're number 1! We're number 1!" No fantasy there.
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  21154.  @tallking7777  Nothing is going to change until the dollar is threatened as the world's reserve currency. Then things will change rapidly. All of our deficits and our dwindling manufacturing base don't matter (I mean for real, they don't), until they do.
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  21155.  @tallking7777  I would never want any part of it. Anyone who can emigrate should start planning to. I'm being frank here. Violence in any form isn't the last thing on the list I'd envision -- it is not on the list at all. With all the mass shootings this country has had, weird, heavily armed cults, and now militias, not to mention the endemic level of crime and the fact that there are more guns than people, I don't know how anyone could think in such terms. I hope you're a plant, testing people, and not serious.
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  21156. There is such a thing as "hate speech," and hate speech, standing alone, is far too vague to be regulated without violating the First Amendment. The motive for a crime can be a factor that determines the degree of the offense or be relevant to sentencing. The Supreme Court said that, too.
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  21157.  @darleneullah8201  Why would I care?
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  21158. The Complaint alleges that. "New York Times malice" is a term of art: reckless disregard for the truth is sufficient for "malice." That just means more than negligence or gross negligence, which is fair. I think that any substantial damages in a defamation case should always require that. But on the other hand, why should minors be held to that? They never did anything to become famous. It was foisted on them. The same thing happened to Atlanta Olympics hero Richard Jewell, RIP. He did the right thing and was wronged by everyone, especially the press.
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  21159. @jmlubecky  I know the law. I clerked at the federal appellate level. Have you read New York Times v. Sullivan? Have you read the complaint in this case? No, and no?
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  21160. @jmlubecky  It does not matter how old they are now. They did not put themselves in the public eye as adults. It was not their choice to become notorious. As for the actual malice standard, it states that in order to win a defamation lawsuit against a public official or candidate, the plaintiffs must prove that the defendant acted with "actual malice." This is a TERM OF ART; the definition of "actual malice" is that the defendant either knew the statement was false, or recklessly disregarded whether it was false. LOOK IT UP. Despite the name, it has nothing to do with emotions or ill will. I hope you're not too disappointed about that.
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  21161. @jmlubecky  Why do you bother, when you clearly have no idea what you're talking about?
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  21162. Very nicely said. In the meantime, trash media is convincing ordinary people that this represents "cultural Marxism." This misinformation probably cannot be undone.
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  21163.  @lynneryczek9089  They are to someone who is purely emotional and has lost their rational abilities.
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  21164. Grosskreutz testified. McGinnis testified. Huber's dirty house did not.
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  21165. ​ @elliebelly456 True!
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  21166. Boehner does this all the time. It's all right, so what?
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  21167.  @lembergnative7731  No. What I mean is thanks for letting us know to block you. 😊
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  21168.  @lembergnative7731  I never used the word "invade" with reference to Ukrainian troops (or militias) allegedly poised to attack Donbass. Poor you.
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  21169.  @Dana-ie2bh  You don't believe in freedom of association? 🤣🤣🤣🤣, you 🤡
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  21170. @javonjamayal  Until yesterday, we knew that many, many healthy people who have never touched a hormone may have fertility issues, and that fertility can be problematic for many perfectly healthy people. Until yesterday, we knew that hormone replacement therapy in adult women can cause cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke, and cognitive issues. Suddenly, transitioned kids will have no problem being birth parents, and no problem taking hormones. Sure, buddy.
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  21171. If Roe v. Wade is overturned, the individual states will pass their own abortion laws. Does this mean there will ultimately be more money in performing abortions? Will there be special "family planning" loans for procedures insurance doesn't cover? Will in-vitro fertilization and similar procedures, and embryo storage, go up in price? Don't be so sure DNC is against overturning Roe v. Wade.
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  21172. When Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen was diagnosed with a very treatable form of cancer, Bill Gates immediately moved to throw him out of Microsoft. What more did we need to know? He had to hang out with Epstein, too? Well, at least something woke people up, although MSM still acts like he's an Expert.
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  21173. More censorship. There are certain facts about Bill that we cannot mention.
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  21174. Really?
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  21175. False, but have it your way. Magical thinking.
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  21176. She got a written apology at the time. Which she was about to weaponize, seven years later. Nice.
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  21177. Oh you've got to be kidding. Bullying, hazing, and deaths started when LGBTQ started?? It is centuries old.
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  21178.  @jvtherrien  Depending on how complete the monopoly, and how much they carry out policies that government actors request, they may indeed be violating the First Amendment. But you are right, you stated the general rule. I'm citing possible exceptions to the rule.
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  21179. Jimmy, you said "military industrial complex." Exactly! So, then you know why they're saying all this rot, and why the lips are pursed.
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  21180. Ro IS doing the sleaziest thing a public servant could do.
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  21181. His style of presentation is self-negating most of the time. Billionaires have nothing to worry about from Brand.
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  21182.  @bitphr3ak  I know. Excellent news.
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  21183.  @darlenelawson1255  Unfortunately, fully vaccinated people can spread the Delta variant. The risk for other variants appears much smaller.
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  21184.  @bitphr3ak  Well, based on the pause in requiring all military to have the vaccine "until one is approved, but by September 15" sounds like approval is coming in September, huh? :)
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  21185. If Hillary had won, would Jeffrey Epstein have been arrested? One of his very good buddies would have been married to the President.
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  21186.  @sleazypolar  Okay. That is exactly right, and nicely stated. I voted on election day, in person, for LaRiva/Peltier. A protest vote, of course, which is not generally my favorite way to do things, but this time I did. After seeing Leonard Peltier's wonderful lawyer on Democracy Now, Chris Hedges, etc., I was plenty proud.
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  21187.  @Elijah-Bravo  Unless a school shooter kills your kid. Then there is only one way to look at it.
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  21188. Only public school (=poor) kids were harmed. Private schools reopened for the kids that matter, the ones whose parents have real money. So, what's the problem? /s
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  21189. He became a citizen a long time ago, in 2002, but he probably worked here illegally before that. 😅
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  21190. How do you know?
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  21191.  @mrg0th1er83  How do you know that the mother had not noticed the child was doing no better, and was concerned that she was doing worse? Is a person allowed to read up on possible side effects of a serious medication and to decide that it is not worth the risk, relative to its purported benefits? Or, once on drugs, always on drugs? You are very light on facts.
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  21192.  @mrg0th1er83  You don't know all that. Brie herself doesn't claim that was the real story. She supports hearing from the minor child, as do I. Of course.
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  21193.  @mrg0th1er83  Oh. Twitter. Well that settles it. We should definitely make medical judgments and legal judgments based on (purported) tweets. What could go wrong?
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  21194.  @anonymous_5016  Did you ever read Middlesex?
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  21195. "Gender-affirming care" is an advertising/public relations slogan. It has no meaning in science or medicine.
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  21196. Le wokisme aux Etats-Unis vient d'une fausse gauche. C'est une nouvelle maniere d'acceder au pouvoir et de gagner de l'argent sans le meriter. L'argent est au-dessous de tout.
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  21197.  @tanteizzelz7991  This isn't true at all. You most certainly can increase your IQ, and the latest cognitive and neurological research can explain how to do it and account for why it is possible. You will have the mind you build. There is a small in-born factor, however: certain people (often described as "intelligent") somehow know how to seek out the experiences that will enhance intelligence. That part is true. It's like a kind of instinct to think about thinking without having to be reminded. Yet it's something anyone can be taught. I think most people give up. This talk of "inborn IQ" validates their error.
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  21198. ❤David Lynch❤ 😢 for us
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  21199. ​ @MadnessMotorcycle  Better take Naledi Pandor seriously.
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  21200. ​ @JIMDEZWAV Assange agrees.
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  21201. ​ @puesbien This explains why they want Assange dead.
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  21202. US paws are all over this, as usual -- it is the world's second most corrupt country after Ukraine. But make no mistake, Putin bears responsibility as well. He should have secured the Donbass after 6 weeks, not still be fighting after six months. Terribly tragic all around.
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  21203. "What's not to like?"
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  21204. You can write an article with assistance and claim credit. It's done all the time. I object to the press never admitting it. See Jimmy Dore lately, on some really important examples.
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  21205.  @TesterAnimal1  Who would that be? Honey, I don't know your husband.
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  21206. @tophercabba  Kamala's thing, baby they.
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  21207.  @petersoerent2554  😂😂😂 But sad
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  21208. Trump ended the moratorium on funding gain-of-function research that Obama put in place --- which was very weak to begin with, true enough.
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  21209. Newsflash: Tucker is dumb.
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  21210. Did you read the Microsoft antitrust case in its entirety? Did you forget Gates tried to push Paul Allen out of Microsoft the minute Allen was diagnosed with a highly manageable form of cancer? That's who should decide on MY healthcare, and whether I must consume GMOs in my food.
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  21211. They are seeing a disappearance of antibodies 90 days post, BUT do not know what it means. You may still have immunity. Most doctors say that if you had COVID, wait 90 to 120 days to get your vaccine. Ask your doctor to be sure.
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  21212.  @donmunson4802  I know about that. That is why I said that even if you lack detectable antibodies, you may nevertheless be immune.
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  21213.  @donmunson4802  The media has been criminal. The latest is to have performers, rappers, etc., telling people to get vaccinated.
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  21214.  @engineergaming4453  I think jeering at people about their personal medical decisions is just brilliant. /s
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  21215. If Biden doesn't swing his balls, he won't win the election. So swing his balls he will.
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  21216. The fact that people with medical bills (and friends whose collective net worth is in the billions) need to start a GoFundMe page -- and hence give up their right to PRIVACY of the gist of their medical treatment -- is not a story in your book? Or is it the math that's challenging? BTW, if you or your loved ones needed brain surgery, would you prefer that the whole story not be circulated on the Internet -- assuming, of course, you could afford having the choice to keep it to yourselves? Thought so.
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  21217. @larryhatfield7372  lol, yeah . . . even in 2024
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  21218. 5:09 you can't handle the truth, huh? Why is that?
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  21219. You attacked her in exactly the way you claim you oppose. And it wasn't true! She didn't do what you said she did. This is the Internet standard now. How this happens, I will never understand. Anyone listening to the whole segment knows that this did not happen. Not this time.
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  21220.  @Krangbot  BDS was considered illegal discrimination in several states, and Abby Martin sued. Supporting BDS could get you fired from a state job, such as a public school or a state university. You can look up Abby Martin's suit.
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  21221. Oops, these women look lovely. Bezos not so much. In principle, it shouldn't matter, but this time the appearances don't lie one bit.
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  21222. Because it's not about feelings.
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  21223. Sheer luck no one in this picture was shot to death. No one in Chicago would dare try this, absent a death wish.
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  21224. First Amendment Victims of defamation and similar torts can sue if they choose.
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  21225. Liar.
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  21226. Katie and Brie discussed this on Katie's show.
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  21227. Jimmy, they still have bridges good enough to jump from.
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  21228. You would.
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  21229.  Wild Weasel  If everyone decided to procreate as many times as possible, and give birth to anywhere from 8 to 15 children, that would also be the end of the human race.
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  21230. GLENN: Next step is to find out where the money from Burisma went. Take a look at the HSNC money laundering story. UK intervened, stating HSBC was too big to jail for laundering drug lords' money and possibly also terrorist cell money. Needs to be traced. Don't presume it's impossible.
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  21231. ​ @jasminebarratt1809 Have you read about Dr. Chris Palmer? You'd enjoy his interviews and book.
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  21232. It would be for the actual Representatives. They would have to work, and it would be obvious when they weren't working.
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  21233.  @Haffa14  Not deserve, no. BJG made good points. Of course Kim, too. Even Robbie. :)
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  21234.  @Haffa14  What proof? We have had proof for eight years. "The rest of the world?" That would be funny were it not pathetic. Most of the NON-Western world openly or tacitly supports Russia.
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  21235. We've been saying you can't make this stuff up for a couple of generations now.
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  21236. 3:49 Wow. This isn't the new normal, is it?
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  21237. Or Epstein? Or Hunter's dealer? Or a still unknown bag man? Or . . . ?
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  21238. @Jesse Burgen "Butt hurt," huh? Smoked you out, and wasn't even trying. Why is it so easy? 🤣 Get busy cleaning up those labs, a three-decades-long project.
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  21239.  @cjlb49  No, you certainly do not have to tell students how to feel, nor should you -- but values are not about feelings. Or at least not for most ethicists. Some radical empiricists claim there is no other basis for values. I disagree. Even J. S.. Mill saw the flaw in that position. Concerning slavery, it seems that quite a few Americans were willing to die for the right to secede from the Union for the express purpose of deciding for themselves whether slavery should end or continue. I suppose it would be difficult to teach the history of the Civil War and omit that fact?
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  21240.  @cjlb49  Fair enough.
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  21241.  @cjlb49  How much should what parents want weigh in the teaching of history? As for making a child feel bad about anything that happened before they were born -- I consider that emotional abuse and possibly even dangerous to certain children (I know of suicides provoked that way). There is nothing that a minor is responsible for in our current politics, though I believe that as they mature, taking an interest in civics is a very good thing -- but they are not responsible until they attain the age of majority. This is also a fact.
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  21242.  @cjlb49  I am serious when I say that if any child is made to feel responsible by any teacher or other authority figure for ANYTHING that they themselves did not do, and especially for historical events that took place before they were even born, then that is emotional abuse of a child. No mincing words. It is also miseducation. It's using "education" as an excuse to bully and abuse a child, which makes it even more wrong. There are few things a teacher can do that are worse, without unwanted physical contact.
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  21243. A member of the Manson family -- a woman -- was married in prison. Her husband graduated from Harvard.
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  21244. So I guess everyone has to vote Republican to get to the bottom of this. Really, now. What are the DNC? They function as if their sole aim were to collect money, whether that means winning on policy and elections, or losing. What's the difference? Whatever gets more 💰💰💰💰 in their coffers is right.
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  21245. I also wonder why China instituted actual, complete lockdowns, as you see done in prisons. Do they know something about the virus that they are not sharing? I mean, apart from its origins (which they probably knew all along). I love how no one can ask questions. All questions are "questions." All questions have to be probed for their "subtext," so that we can categorize the speaker and call them out.
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  21246. ​ @robertj8610 What peasants?
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  21247.  @Nick-nm8om  LOLOL
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  21248.  @OnlyObserving-c6b  Research grants are awarded on an entirely different basis. Look up a typical application.
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  21249. @AdamMcLean  What policy? Not interfering with First Amendment rights?
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  21250. @mikegalvin9801  No he's not. I have studied with some, so I know. This is his side grift.
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  21251. ALL of this is tragic.
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  21252.  @EbluestarE  When she is good, she's magnificent. She seems to be a lot better on her own show, actually. Hmm . . . supports the OP to some degree.
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  21253.  @garrettolson5516  That's fine. I've downloaded the first and plan to read them all. Notice that several of them date from just the other day. MY point still stands, but you call me the idiot. Are you a false flag? You act like one because . . . ?
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  21254.  @garrettolson5516  The second one is an JAMA editors' note, by the way, not a study. Did you look at it, genius?
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  21255.  @garrettolson5516  "Off-label compassionate use of medications, particularly in an emergency, is a very well-established practice, and is often the ethical thing to do. Or at least, it was. Ending that is not a good thing. Rethinking it, fine -- but then allow all of the doctors who were featured yesterday testifying before Congress to weigh in. They should be heard from first, because they were right." They WERE right about the origins of the pandemic, the prudence of forcing vaccinations, particularly on the young, the effectiveness of the vaccines to stop transmission, the harms associated with locking down the world, the CENSORSHIP, and the need to study other approaches, which these studies prove was necessary, because you had no idea ab initio what would work and what would harm more than it helped. Rethinking it, fine. Name calling is not thinking.
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  21256.  @garrettolson5516  The first "study" is a press release about a study that used ivermectin for three days.
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  21257.  @EbluestarE  Original post (that starts the thread)
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  21258. Precisely. Thanks for helping us exhale!
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  21259. Working great now! Well, at least this undermines the military readiness. That's something the rest of mankind will appreciate.
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  21260.  @konstantinkrastev4478  What is "it?" Tell us what "it" is, and what the consequences for not following guidance on "it" are, and then we can answer your question.
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  21261.  @Alarik52  Just what I said. I oppose criminalization. What made you think I wanted yet another reason to incarcerate? I never said anything of the kind. On the other hand, advocating (wrongly) for more criminal laws is still a First Amendment right. Discussion and persuasion is how we fix that -- not censorship or other coercive tactics.
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  21262.  @konstantinkrastev4478  All you had to say was "Title IX" before using the pronoun. Most of the video was about criminalization, a wholly different matter. I agree with you wholeheartedly concerning Title IX.
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  21263.  @konstantinkrastev4478  People who don't agree with whatever the prevailing position is: in California, they are proposing laws to make it a "sanctuary" for trans youth who run away from home, depriving their parents of the right to bring them home and punishing them if they try; in Florida, the are proposing laws to jail anyone who wants to treat that one teenage minor in a million (or two million, or three) who truly needs medical intervention beyond talk therapy. In the meantime, I think Charlamagne is right. Serious discussion, without coercion, has to come first. First Amendment for speech, and "first do no harm" for medicine. How is this not obvious? (How did we get this crazy?)
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  21264.  @konstantinkrastev4478  Neither do I. The definition of "abuse" is the issue.
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  21265.  @konstantinkrastev4478  I don't have kids. I was lucky.
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  21266.  @konstantinkrastev4478  I do care about freedom of speech, however. Funny how that issue gets skirted more and more, and always in order to "help" people. Cute. But the freedom of speech problem can be solved in various creative ways, such as by becoming multilingual, moving from the Five Eyes to a more sane part of the modern world, etc.
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  21267.  @konstantinkrastev4478  It isn't. I can just block you and I'm done.
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  21268.  @konstantinkrastev4478  I speak three languages like they were my mother tongue. I can always find a way to say what I want.
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  21269. No. Don't.
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  21270. I don't agree. There are things you cannot have done to your child, such as sterilization for example. Castration would be another. Giving them LSD or marijuana "under medical supervision." When did we lose our minds?
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  21271.  @Daniea3  That was hysterical. Needs to be amplified.
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  21272.  @TheNancypoo  Not worldwide, no.
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  21273.  @utah_koidragon7117  Amen
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  21274.  @lauriesamuelson5  Check out the countries refusing to denounce Russia. The affluent West isn't the world.
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  21275.  @darkwingduck4793  Yup.
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  21276.  @darkwingduck4793  First of all, most of humanity is Asian. Add in Africa, and that is over 70%, close to 75% of all people. We haven't mentioned Latin America yet, or acknowledged that Eastern Europe is often culturally non-Western. Those are regions that have Western and non-Western affinities. You can't count them as "Western."
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  21277.  @darkwingduck4793  Why do you think the attitude exists?
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  21278.  @darkwingduck4793  Thanks for answering, very important to think about for sure.
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  21279. He would have been caught and knew it.
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  21280. @grimus  That, too. What goes around comes around -- although this might have other, more sinister, roots. I only hope the investigation is honest.
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  21281.  @LastBref  RFK Jr has appeared wherever he has been invited, including most recently on The Hill. Is Briahna Joy Gray right wing now? Or is she hereby "right adjacent" according to you? Kim Iversen as well? Does circular reasoning suddenly sound right to you? (On matters of free speech, consult Strossen, Chemerinsky, and Justin Driver.) But more important, why shouldn't a bona fide Democrat address the working class that has been migrating to the right for two generations now, which has proven to be a true catastrophe, for them and for everyone? There was a series of articles in The New Yorker by Paige Williams taking an in-depth look at the Kyle Rittenhouse family, including his drug-addicted father (divorced from his mother) and his activist older sister, who participated in BLM demonstrations after George Floyd was murdered, and including the fact the Rittenhouse has worked full time while going to high school because they are that poor. A "left" that cannot recuperate and rehabilitate someone like that is unworthy of the name. Every European leftist knows that, intellectually and instinctively. America has no left.
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  21282. @LastBref  As for the possibility that endocrine disruptors are having a harmful effect on children -- and Kennedy correctly stated that the issue is complex, and NOT susceptible to any simplistic explanation or single cause-and-effect logic -- WHY ARE YOU OPPOSED to studying that? That makes no sense. Show me a non-empirical leftist. No such animal. As for allowing trans women to compete with women, we always considered that an unfair advantage. I don't care if so-called conservatives have emerged from their denial of reproductive rights and "rape accusations are usually false" narrative to notice this, suddenly speaking up for women for the first time in their sorry lives. I don't allow them to influence me in any respect, pro or con. Five progressive shows? It's early in the campaign. Do you consider Rogan right wing? Jimmy Dore? Why? (But the Clintons are not? LOL -- Any friend of Jeffrey Epstein is right wing.) Has he been invited by these so-called progressives, or have they been smearing him and misrepresenting him instead of calling him to come on? I hope you're posting drivel for money. If not, that's too tragic to contemplate. Money, I understand. We all need more now.
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  21283.  @MonkeyMind69  I think that is an impermissible alteration in the meaning of the word "education." You can be trained to spout propaganda, or mindless advertising. You can be trained in the art of effective lying, maximum persuasion with minimum risk of getting caught. I don't call that an education.
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  21284. 11:35 "What does that get us?"
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  21285. They get paid.
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  21286. I'll tell you who is against vaccine mandates and passports in other countries: LFI and PCF, the French hard left and the Communists. Ponder that. And that is in a society WITH universal health care, tuition-free college, universal pensions, and generous disability benefits -- not one where all risk is offloaded to the individual, and if you're harmed, you're on your own.
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  21287. GOOD NEWS: That freak Sanna Marin is OUT in Finland.
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  21288. All of these young people with very poor memories. I bet they remembered to buy Pfizer stock and Amazon stock and . . .
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  21289. ​@veilofreality He is a druggie. What in the world? How easy is it to sway people??
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  21290. @jameswcollett  You must not read.
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  21291.  @wiseheadwise-head5331  His Twitter rages are already legendary. 😄
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  21292. @jameswcollett  but you don't Sing it with me.
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  21293. @atlehman69  Who knows for what reason the Superior Man has 12 to 13 children with 3 to 4 women, via unknown surrogates in several cases? (Besides, what's money for?)
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  21294.  @atlehman69  Who knows for what reason the Superior Man has 12 to 13 children with 3 to 4 women, via unknown surrogates in several cases? Besides, what's money for?
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  21295. @theDuctapeUnion  Actually, yes I am.
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  21296. @Canadian_Psycho  He was addicted. No NewSpeak here. No New Words for well-known concepts, to curry favor with Leaders.
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  21297.  @ShaferHart  There are dolts everywhere.
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  21298. @theDuctapeUnion  I wonder why I'm not allowed to mention a few facts about the reproductive life of certain transhumans? 😂
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  21299. @janinemaldonado9900  Oh boy where to start?
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  21300. @theDuctapeUnion  At least Candace was allowed to speak to his paternity ventures, given that we cannot.
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  21301. @shaz30867  All of these people are making bank. "Few and far between?" They appear unlimited to me, and I understand their extreme popularity. When people like Justice Brennan, a WWII veteran who stood up for our rights, was around, we didn't have this political landscape (or goofy discourse) at all.
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  21302. @benchum1707  Planets without magnetic fields are uninhabitable due to cosmic radiation, unless your IQ is really high. 🤪
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  21303. @benchum1707  Planets without magnetic fields are uninhabitable, unless your IQ is high. /s
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  21304. Where is it? Has it been replicated?
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  21305. @robd3470  I found it later, but no longer remember the details. I know they ran the study four times (attempting to replicate their own work from the start -- how's that for excellent ethics?), and came up with this result only twice. Twice it didn't make a difference.
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  21306. Yes. Higher risk of myocarditis than the elderly have. And a longer time to live with any ramifications.
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  21307. Check his retirement stock portfolio.
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  21308. Watching Fox, CNN, MSNBC doesn't give you news, exactly. It tells you what reports, and styles of reporting, make money.
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  21309. Sarcasm?
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  21310. Oh yeah. That, and bombing Syria were the only things they hurried up to do.
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  21311. Fred Hampton
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  21312. That wasn't an issue in the case. Depp was able to make it the issue. The only issue was whether a particular writing was defamatory.
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  21313.  @livingroomcomputer7148  What do you believe the main issue was?
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  21314.  @livingroomcomputer7148  🤣 they sure made it seem that way
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  21315.  @beefstorm914  Blocked. I don't have to tolerate platitudes and ad hom. (The case with that "fire" blather was overturned ages ago, BTW. That dicta tells you nothing.)
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  21316. NPR is where I found out just how risky it was to send your DNA to some company to tell you your supposed ancestry. An astrological chart is more fun. Granted, NPR is not generally that good.
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  21317. Maybe . . . Listen to the argument?
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  21318.  @Zodroo_Tint  Er, . . . . no.
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  21319. Well then someone needs to tell you unequivocally that if a person does not put YOU in imminent danger of harm, then you can't used lethal force to defend your property. It is illegal to use lethal force to defend mere property, where no one's safety is threatened. It's called SELF-defense for a reason.
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  21320.  @S1eww  OH I SEE I disagreed with her there. Nice you admit she didn't __ up here.
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  21321. The DNC considers Trump SO dangerous that they are sending BIDEN out to beat him. What is a rational person supposed to conclude??
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  21322. Um, he's married.
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  21323. He does all his shows with his wife.
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  21324. This Hasan editorial is appalling. I didn't know this nonsense was being pushed. It's hyper-emotionalism for money. People like Greenwald and Max Blumenthal are right. This woman is the same. Musk is far from a savior. The lawsuits and other complaints against Tesla and Neuralink are the worst I've seen in many, many decades.
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  21325. I knew she was an absurdity, but I hoped and expected she wouldn't go this low.
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  21326. Scary
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  21327. ​ @billcollins6894 😂😂😂😂 Thanks for letting us know your bias. Carry on.
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  21328.  @billcollins6894  It depends on how they got that money. I admire gifted artists and writers, and they don't pay me to admire them. They simply create, and we benefit from their creations.
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  21329. @billcollins6894     What do I really think? None of the oligarchs ever had a good love life or artistic talent, and now they've made sure that far fewer of the rest of us ever will, either.
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  21330. This is exactly the election misinformation we need to worry about, not the stuff they are censoring.
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  21331. HSBC!! Read The Guardian series on how they laundered drug money for the major cartels. British politicians asked the US not to prosecute . . . TBTJ.
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  21332. I've decided that the only honest thing to do is to state what you yourself have decided to do and why you made that choice. And that's if someone asks. I'm so sad, too. The assault on sanity is worse than any COVID variant so far.
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  21333. I think Kim is the only one making sense . . . much more so than Ritter. MSM is just agitprop to make us think the coming winter is "worth it."
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  21334. People weighing in on family matters, and making comments about Harry, are also crossing a line. He is in mourning, too. I have no opinion, except to say that American cultural and ethical norms and family relationships are substantially different from European ones, as I know from experience. They have their own rules. P. S. My Father and my mother's only brother were veterans of the British Army, WWII. P. P. S. I plan to go back, to Europe. That's the most I'd ever say about all that.
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  21335. How much has fear mongering and isolation created serious mental health problems, including death?
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  21336. Life with a possibility of parole.
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  21337. Sure. It is a conjecture about integers. Numbers like 2.7 and 13.3 are not partitioned into even and odd, so you cannot apply the formula.
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  21338. In California, a lawyer tried to remove proven defamation from Yelp. She had a judgment in hand, and only what was specifically adjudicated as defamatory could be removed. Yelp said no anyway. The California Supreme Court agreed with Yelp because of Section 230. No one was asking for damages, just removal of the defamation. So, even if you are defamed and prove it in court, tough luck. The platforms can do what they want. The Internet does not work this way in Europe.
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  21339.  @garypotter5569  Read the rest of the thread, if they let you!
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  21340. In other news, people from other countries are posting videos on algebra, calculus, and similar topics. Africans, notably. A lot of people in Africa are producing math videos.
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  21341. Thank you for the spotlight.
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  21342. Um, you want to reconsider a bit? https://youtu.be/64A7A8QWDNc
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  21343. ​john lewis That's quite tendentious and exaggerated. He is a civil liberties advocate, always was, and a liberal in the 20th century sense -- and he has remained one. He just said the other day that he never voted for Trump and does not expect to have to.
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  21344.  @johnlewis9158  Evergreen State College . . . And how do you know? He resisted heavy pressure there to go along with a supposedly anti-racism performative event that he thought was misguided. He put his safety on the line.
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  21345.  @johnlewis9158  More important, Bret Weinstein always said ALL of his actual students took his side. If they all had the guts, how was he a bad teacher? How was Evergreen State a bad school? Heather was always more conservative and she always liked it, too. They believe in reasonable pro-choice laws, which moderate Republicans once believed in, too.
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  21346.  @ciciKoenig  Thank you very much. It's much appreciated, especially today. Well, concerning Klein's husband, I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked, shocked. :/ Have a great Thanksgiving weekend. We all need one.
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  21347. "DARVO": Deny, Accuse, Reverse Victim, Offender Do they run any other scheme? This won't work forever.
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  21348. If people like Lucy get job offers over others, then people will get this digital passport. Sure people are cheering it on.
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  21349. In Illinois, over 42,000 votes were withheld; all mail-in had not yet been counted when I read this on Wednesday. Williamson and Phillips got about votes 26,000 each.
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  21350. The man had to be pardonned and is still facing fraud charges at the state level. He was indicted by the Trump DOJ on federal wire fraud. No, time has not been kind.
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  21351. Show me an actual Communist who isn't macho. There's a reason for these new, anti-reality talking points, almost as insane as the gender ideology nonsense, except that nothing is more insane than gender ideology.
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  21352. Ha. Shapiro is Harvard Law grad who never took one First Amendment case -- not ONE. Contrast, for example, Glenn Greenwald. The real question is, how did he dupe so many?
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  21353. I don't have a TV. Haven't since about 2013.
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  21354.  @XP-nt9iy  Oh! Lol 🤣🤣🤣
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  21355. I expected no red wave. Not after the pregnant ten-year-old girl and Uvalde. Just curious whether either of those qualify as "all the craziness."
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  21356.  @dorianleakey  Great observation. Sadly.
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  21357. Classic
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  21358.  @Uhlbsorry  You think Sandman got his full ad damnam? All that he asked for? Where do you get these ideas?
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  21359.  @RUTHLESSambition5  He certainly does have protection. These days everyone needs it.
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  21360.  @Uhlbsorry  He didn't get the amount he asked for. Can you be serious?
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  21361.  @Uhlbsorry  Look, you can get the facts anywhere. Look it up on Fox News if you like. Anywhere. He asked for $250 million, and settled for an undisclosed amount. Facebook is not your friend.
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  21362.  @Uhlbsorry  But have it your way. This mangled story about him was worth nearly a billion, and he got a quarter of a billion. I needn't ask whether it's the drugs, but what drugs -- if I cared to know. What I do wonder is how crazy people can be and still function. Looks like we are finding out in slo mo.
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  21363.  @djddm8760  Read some real biographies of truly great people. I don't mean some rich guy, I mean a Martha Argerich, or a J. M. Coetzee, or a Picasso, or a Bette Davis, or Miles Davis. Find out that they had broke absolutely every "rule" you could imagine, and that a good many years of their lives were, by conventional measures, a mess. Well, I'm inspired, anyway. "Make no small plans" is about the only cliche I like. You haven't noticed that the self-help genre, especially on the subject of making money, is propaganda? It's telling you what the current elite wants you to do. I mean, that's useful to know. :D
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  21364. How come billionaires are so ugly and need money?
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  21365. She said she is frustrated with poor arguments for a position that has some merit. She opposes that on her show all the time. Is she supposed to join in, in hurling at this guy with the crowd? Shapiro sure jumped quick to "cancel his award!" Pfft.
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  21366.  @Aj-uu5is  Actually, it seems that significant vaccine injuries from earlier vaccines have been rare by order(s) of magnitude compared to the COVID vaccines.
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  21367.  @Aj-uu5is  But I mostly agree, actually.
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  21368.  @drichards4426  My cousins in Europe can track the commercial jet I'm on to watch how close I am.
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  21369. Why? He's a hate spitting twerp. Not very long ago, his lifestyle was a crime in UK. What sort of bigotry is he determined to unleash, that he's SO sure it won't come back to harm him or the people he cares about?
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  21370. Briahna Joy Gray is a phenomenal journalist.
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  21371. Is it true? Or just truthy?
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  21372.  @jdspeck614    Just checked. The Reason magazine story is consistent with Brie's account here, down to the smallest details. Reason claims that they broke the story in the first place. Go look, then take it up with them.
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  21373.  @mckenzie.latham91  Yes he was.
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  21374. Classic Russian disinformation, just like the Steele dossier . . . um. Uh oh.
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  21375.  @whycomes9562  How is it that I didn't even catch this "joke?" So, why did Shapiro keep talking to the guy? Look, we had a president who imitated a crippled reporter and made a face at him. Why is anyone participating? During the election, I distinctly remember the promise of a "return to decency." Instead, we get Hunter.
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  21376. Stefanik was the one wearing blue. Good call.
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  21377.  @alexandriaocasio-smollett5078  Stefanik is doing it for fundraising.
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  21378. Where do you think that money went? And why did deficit spending sharply rise after the 2008 Financial Crisis? It wasn't on track to be a serious problem before that. Even the costly and wasteful War on Terror didn't accelerate the national debt the way measures taken in 2008- 09 did.
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  21379. 1. I don't care what other people do, as long as they don't dare try to make me do what they are doing. 2. Some people wear a mask when THEY have a cold, like in Asia. 3. Thanks to masks, I got to eat raw garlic for a long time. I love raw garlic. Apparently some people dislike its aroma? Don't ask me, it's fragrant and yummy. 4. No, I did not get the vaccine. No, I don't mask now. Is all that all right, or do I need to adjust my attitude further? /s
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  21380.  @luvyatubers  Exactly.
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  21381. Yup, I remember.
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  21382. Then why weren't the labs shut down, at least pending review? Just kidding.
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  21383.  @dustinavant2003  It never stopped the spread, and the vaccine manufacturers' fact sheet and release forms, which were lengthy, never made this claim. I guess no one read them. They were a lot more careful and measured, compared with what MSM was telling you.
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  21384.  @lmlmlmlm7627  The manufacturers never claimed it would. Politicians did, CNN, MSNBC did. You know, "the Science."
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  21385.  @dustinavant2003  I appreciate your contributions. I watched the studies carefully and never saw one that claimed the vaccine was effectively doing more than slowing the spread for the initial form of COVID and the variants prior to Omicron. The effect was known to last six months, and how long thereafter was unknown. This is different from stopping spread, for a whole host of reasons. Not to suggest at all that slowing the spread of the more dangerous types was unimportant (obviously some lives were saved, and medical care workers got to catch a breath), but it does have ramifications for predicting the course of the pandemic.
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  21386. Did Obama appoint him magistrate? Source?
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  21387. It's not just a question of ethics. He seems not to know that it's illegal to use deadly force in defense of property. If the kids did not endanger the physical safety of any person, then it was illegal to shoot them. You'd expect a nation of gun owners to know the law.
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  21388. If only I could still be living in that "decline." Vive la France.
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  21389. This is designed to turn people against universal Medicare.
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  21390. She has made it clear she did not vote for Biden. She has said so more than one time, to make sure we know. :)
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  21391. I agree the Church is not a force for good in the world, but the result surprised me all the same. The Church needs to deal with its problems, quite simply. There is no reason it should fail to deal with them.
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  21392. ​ @Old-biker Maybe America is getting the presidents it deserves. Not one was decent since Jimmy Carter.
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  21393. Robert Whitaker. EVERYONE should read his book.
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  21394. Mentioning Whitaker can get you tossed, and yet he is a major journalist. I think he even taught at Harvard at some point. Long ago.
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  21395. If you need a road bad enough, you'll find a way to build one.
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  21396. Yes Trump did incite the protests on January 6, with built-in winks and deniability. Belongs in a real court or other investigative body to be closely scrutinized, not in the "court" of Facebook.
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  21397. Insurance lobby is powerful. Financial system is more fragile than they want the hoi polloi to know.
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  21398. I love Aaron. Edit: You made me laugh anyway. But I love Aaron. Reliable truth-teller.
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  21399. What did the letter say that created a basis for an investigation of those organizations? Can someone write a letter about me, or about some group I belong to, and because they don't like my opinions, I can be fired from my job or removed from a class? Or, it's enough to trigger an Investigation? Just a letter, calling me a racist, etc.? I thought we were against cancel culture.
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  21400. THANK you.
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  21401.  @Heywoodthepeckerwood  This is an interesting thought. Please give some examples. I want to believe this.
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  21402. Most of the "dozen" purveyors of gross medical misinformation could have been prosecuted by the FTC for false advertising a long time ago. Instead, they propose censorship again.
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  21403. It would give average people a real chance to start their own businesses.
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  21404.  @Mel-tw6qv  1. Most people know how Medicare works. 2. Most people on Medicare buy supplemental insurance, but in any case, it actually is affordable.
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  21405.  @Mel-tw6qv  Medicare supplemental premiums cannot be set based on the person's health, provided they sign up upon reaching eligibility of course. There is always a catch.
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  21406.  @Mel-tw6qv  I've never had "good insurance." I was billed $5000 for an MRI I had in 2019 and was promised would be no cost to me. In 2021, I get the surprise bill. You tell me where this "good insurance" is.
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  21407.  @Mel-tw6qv  This wasn't Medicare that did this to me.
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  21408.  @Mel-tw6qv  So . . . We shall age discriminate. The younger shall be billed for far more than they should be, to make up for the old. Well then, everyone should demand Medicare and stop the insanity.
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  21409.  Dave Kunkle  No, but those who oppose a nomination now, after absentee voting has already started, can use legal means to oppose that nomination. That is in the Constitution.
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  21410. He's asking the Dems to do their job for a change.
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  21411.  Dave Kunkle  But there are legal strategies to delay a vote. Actually, I don't mind so much if it takes place. You're claiming it has to. That is incorrect.
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  21412. Stone should apologize. Post haste. And I say that preferring Ash Sarkar to Piers. 😂
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  21413. Trump's gauleiters just gave Joe, Nancy, Chuck, and Kamala the biggest gift they could have ever gotten.
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  21414. Thank you for placing some focus where it belongs.
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  21415. This has become part of the curriculum, and parents should be consulted about that type of curricular material, because it does not require specialized knowledge the way calculus or physics do.
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  21416. I have a flip phone. Every electrical engineer I know has a flip phone.
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  21417.  @jonathanarcher6060  The DNC has become so corporatist and Wall Street/Silicon Valley elitist that even a few of Tucker Carlson's views are closer to socialism. It's a lot like Hillary blaming Putin for America preferring a con man to her, and refusing to look in the mirror.
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  21418.  @jonathanarcher6060  Listen to a tape of what Greenwald actually said. Then reread what I wrote. And catch Carlson's monologue of November 30th. OF COURSE Carlson is not a socialist. When someone like him is often closer to defending the working class than any Pelosi or Biden ever will be, maybe there is something seriously wrong with this picture. The biggest irony is that Tucker Carlson falsely and cynically calls Biden, Pelosi, and their crew "socialists." It's Glenn Greenwald who is rehabilitating the word. He lives under a socialist president.
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  21419.  @jonathanarcher6060  No sheet, Sherlock. No one on MSM supports the working class.
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  21420. Everyone should look at Tyre's web page with his photography. It's remarkable. He was very gifted.
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  21421. Everyone who invested in this 25 years ago is a millionaire now. End of story.
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  21422. ​ @bugrist If you can't resist the pull, then technology uses you.
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  21423. The elites HATE these types of demonstrations. More Republicans should be quitting Trump. He has retained a lot of support, considering.
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  21424. Acosta should have to testify before Congress.
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  21425. This story makes me glad kids are living at home longer. I'm sorry about the reasons why they do, but glad it's a choice. There are worse things.
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  21426.  @nostromo2112  Yes.
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  21427. They're pretending terrorist conspiracies (already illegal) should be a reason to censor everyone. "To keep us safe."
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  21428. I remember pitying royal children because they couldn't decide for themselves what they wanted to be when they grew up.
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  21429. He won't be speaker. This was explained in the video.
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  21430. ??? No evidence
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  21431. Chauvin pled guilty to federal charges. Read what he pled guilty to.
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  21432. This is "the" issue while we have more than one mass shooting a day.
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  21433. "Why are you so jealous of Bill Gates?"
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  21434. I support conscientious objectors.
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  21435. Great idea, to compare it to war. I agree.
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  21436. Too big to jail.
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  21437. 8:17 too far over your head? Read more. Books on tape don't count.
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  21438.  @janeleecc  Then it's logic that you didn't study.
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  21439. @janeleecc  I've never read a book that sounds like you, and I read 100 pages a day. Social media and social media parodies, yes ("coz," "weird," "snow flake," no commas). But not books.
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  21440. @janeleecc  What does "smart" have to do with it? How about "not lazy?"
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  21441. Thank you for this.
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  21442. Pfizer never took money from the government in the post-truth era. Couldn't be clearer.
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  21443.  @mcgritty8842  Logic not your strong suit?
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  21444. How many times have the people who took down a shooter been injured or killed by law enforcement?
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  21445.  @barbershopboy05  No, Alex Jones was found liable. That does make a difference. Spotify's lawyers will now want to comb through any content where he gets to speak, to make sure Spotify is in the clear. I don't think Jones should be censored in the future for protected speech, just because he once engaged in defamation in the past. But what he did should make your stomach turn.
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  21446.  @seandewaal7980  Oh my goodness, thank you so much! Jones was found liable, for very good reason. Incitement to violence, true threats, and so forth, are, after all, pragmatic standards. It's not so much a matter of broadening the standards than of taking real care to apply them to the facts, and not shirk away from protecting real people from real dangers if we can do that, and remain principled.
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  21447.  @de4531  Who are "those people?" Qui sont "ces gens-la?"
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  21448.  @de4531  Vous pensez que tous ces manifestants sont a la droite?? Qui est-ce qui vous a convaincu de cela? La presse amerloque? Vous ne connaissez pas QG, d'Aude Lancelin, et leurs reportages sur les manifestations, par exemple?
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  21449. 38:00 The coverup was never addressed by any major media.
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  21450. 38:44 It is an ongoing story at the UN right now.
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  21451.  @Tartersauce101  Well, it does come at the end, so I hear you. Jimmy's fans really don't want to watch Cenk. Maybe Jimmy feels he still has to lay the groundwork? I think he should move on after today.
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  21452. Jimmy, consider the subtext: The political parties are hostages of the financial elites. IOW, the economy is THAT fragile. We really can't do these things now, we'll implode. This took decades to accomplish, by the way.
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  21453. Excellent presentation. It is a great case.
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  21454. I agree. The few self-made millionaires I know were into shoplifting or selling drugs when they were young. Not one was ever arrested.
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  21455.  @Paul_Oz  Of those I knew? None.
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  21456. What IS true is that troops were told to look the other way when certain groups practiced systematic pedophilia. Some troops who pushed back were reprimanded, and one was killed by a so-called ally. To be fair, The NYTimes did report it, all of it, in detail.
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  21457. At first blush, the shooter appears to present as non-binary. How do they know s/he/they aren't?
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  21458. Why should rich people pay taxes? We can run deficits, and rich people can buy Treasury bonds, and then we can owe them interest payments on those bonds -- from our taxes. Sounds like a plan all right.
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  21459. If everything that was presented is true, the eviction is illegal. She was never served with process, her whereabouts were known, she never attempted to avoid service. This alone makes eviction illegal. There are more reasons why it's illegal, but this alone is enough.
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  21460. It is deeply immoral to deprive people of their right to circulate freely and then fail to compensate them for the loss. I can't believe they are getting away with it. Emergency UBI was necessary.
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  21461. @filipsichrovsky  This has been going on for at least two generations, and accelerating since 2008.
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  21462. @filipsichrovsky  This video is from THIS year. Not last year, not ten years ago. Where were they when a viable candidate who pledged universal health was running for president?
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  21463. ​@joebloe1401 The CEO agreed with her that the firing was done badly.
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  21464. @annabellelee4535  Not evident. But it's fun for you to say that, huh? 😂😂😂
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  21465.  @annabellelee4535  That's just saying the same thing twice. 😂
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  21466. @kreed82  She landed a bad job. She needs to be less naive about all the users out there, I'm guessing.
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  21467. @ParDiss-e4i  Which state? That is awesome!!
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  21468. @thomaslastname3070  Except that her immediate supervisor kept giving her lavish praise.
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  21469. @navsofour2892  What's their usual "training" (read: probationary) period? Is closed sales the sole metric? What's a beginner's usual closed sales tally between Thanksgiving and January 15? And . . . Why did her immediate supervisor mislead her by not giving her a single criticism? That's the big one right there. The people who fired her couldn't answer those questions and didn't come to her office in person, either. 🤣🤣🤣
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  21470. I only wish one thing: that I were surprised.
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  21471. ​@garrettd.6215 Yes, they always use your best characteristics against you. This is the usual. Perhaps it is less common in UK. I was born in Chicago, so I don't remember not knowing.
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  21472.  @Rowieee777  How do you know? Why are you jeering?
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  21473. Wow I envy you.
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  21474.  @DarkPassenger  Then you lack imagination?
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  21475. If our DEMOCRACY is at risk, our Way of Life is at risk, and our COUNTRY is at risk --- why is Joe Biden the nominee?
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  21476. Oh, is ad hominen "an argument" now?
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  21477.  @kkay3784  Are you too kind? ;)
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  21478. Examples? Did Joe "change his mind" on student debt relief or vaccine mandates? Or did he betray his supporters?
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  21479.  @nateauld  I explained why she was correct, and got shade for my trouble from the algo rithm. AND my examples were of Biden.
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  21480.  @utah_koidragon7117  Look, if I am going to be ________, it is not a level playing field. Sorry.
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  21481. This stuff is nauseating, actually.
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  21482. If the Biden DOJ takes no action THIS time, well . . .
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  21483. Apocryphal
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  21484.  @marinaclarasanchezsuarez2905  Tesla had no descendants.
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  21485. Not one thing he said was accurate.
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  21486. They are making it sound like you have to.
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  21487. @xejelah  I hope they let you see my answer, but not holding my breath.
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  21488. 38:40 Brilliant, Jimmy! Great job.
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  21489. I see him as you do. But his fans think all polls are fraudulent and manipulative (anything that doesn't flatter them is fraudulent and manipulative). So it's fair to manipulate right back.
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  21490. There is no category of "hate speech" that is illegal. True threats, incitement to riot are illegal.
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  21491. Who knew to be offended until they were told they ought to be? Some thought it was Dionysios. I would criticize that because the Olympic Games were a festival honoring Zeus. Dionysios was honored in different festivals, not the Olympics.
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  21492. Oh I see. I'm talking to a nut. Who could even get us killed. Respond so that I can block you.
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  21493.  @AE-bm4no  No. That's all the more reason for DNC to maintain party discipline. If they win more often, as they will with a larger electorate, they have to be extra careful to serve their real masters, and will be.
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  21494.  @DANISEVIL  Can your telephone company censor your speech and texts? Why not? They are not the government.
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  21495. Many of them were asymptomatic. That is not rare, either.
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  21496. How do you know that the person who gave away his last piece of bread wasn't also the person who wailed and complained and was revolted by the injustice of his fate? I suspect they are often the same. I've seen a smaller version of it too often.
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  21497. Certainly makes sense at 55. At 15, which is a minor child? Not so much.
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  21498. This little sh*t Psaki does not mention the First Amendment, as if it doesn't exist. But on the other hand, she didn't expressly threaten anyone.
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  21499. "Pre-crime??" Oh this should be fun.
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  21500. ​ @newbieprepper8451 Not a true threat. Brandenburg v. Ohio. RAV v. City of St Paul. If we don't defend our rights, we will lose them.
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  21501. ​ @newbieprepper8451 No she won't.
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  21502.  @MrRezRising  No Supreme Court case name has swear words in it that I know of.
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  21503.  @MrRezRising  Blocked for lying.
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  21504. @christheghostwriter  Yes I do. I'm a civil rights lawyer. The First Amendment is one of my specialties. The judge I worked for is quoted for her First Amendment opinions in the very finest legal literature. Have. You. Ever. Read. A. Case? Or a book? How about a book? Let' go for book.
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  21505. @christheghostwriter  If I do name cases that are on point, the post will not appear. You don't find THAT dusturbing?
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  21506. @markruhland3035  The person you are addressing (1) does not know First Amendment law; and (2) is remarkably persuasive. I admit I'm impressed.
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  21507. @christheghostwriter  And how do YOU think these cases got to the Supreme Court? Everyone along the line signed off on prosecuting them. You are outstanding at sounding like you know something. I'm sure you could persuade many people that you're the expert, not I. This is nothing new. Plato's Gorgias comes to mind.
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  21508.  @newbieprepper8451  This is what the snowflakes did to us. I knew this nonsense could only go south.
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  21509.  @MadeOfQuestions  Wikipedia is not a treatise on contemporary First Amendment law. 🤣
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  21510. So this is how they hide hideous crimes. I suspected as much.
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  21511. ​@thewirah1 What are your sources? Please, not just English language sources.
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  21512. What?? We can't just keep printing money??
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  21513. 13:08 The train has left the station. The government shut down the economy (for anyone not hyperrich) in 2020. It has not come back, except in the narrative of propagandists. We have a new job category: that of shill.
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  21514. @XcGJamesFFXIII  Complete non sequitur, from start to finish. Figures.
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  21515.  @A_Simple_Neurose  Blocked and reported.
    1
  21516. I guess he forgot to look up Chauvin's federal plea agreement, and see what Chauvin himself pled guilty to doing.
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  21517. BMJ just published Robert Whitaker on how a risky antipsychotic medication was nevertheless approved. Whitaker is an investigative journalist specializing in the field of psychoactive medication. This is BIG!
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  21518. Don't have any one attitude at all times. Unless you are a mullosk.
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  21519. ​ @billiamc1969 He didn't say he doesn't WORK.
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  21520. ​ @Aga-Meme-Non False
    1
  21521. ​ @Aga-Meme-Non Two bombs in four days. Why not three? Four?
    1
  21522. Trump did whatever the person who flattered him the most and the best asked him to do in the moment. That's what Trump did. He was a carnival barker CON MAN. That's why Trump lifted the moratorium on gain of function research when they asked him -- which was already being ignored, and which was already the lowest level of prohibition and inadequate.
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  21523.  @ralphpal  Life has been on a downhill path for decades. In 1945 through 1975, two people working for the minimum wage could afford a decent apartment in every major city, and their kids could work their way through state college on the same sorts of jobs. People had freedom and opportunity once, and a private life. Every president since then has accelerated the downward trend. You have low standards. You don't care that Trump may have allowed this pandemic to take place through inattention? You don't care that he ordered an assassination because someone told him to? You don't care that he supported secret drone strikes all over the world, even more than Obama did? You don't care that the DOJ under his administration indicted Assange and his appointees discussed assassinating Assange?
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  21524. When Stef is funny . . . She tops the charts! 🤣💖🔥
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  21525. Most of his videos have poor viewership.
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  21526. Only an illiterate can think that. This is a gross misreading of Nietzsche.
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  21527. Yeah, well . . . 😐
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  21528. You will never be a lawyer . . . But you will need one, or someone with that kind of spirit.
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  21529.  @dwaynecoy1871  Beat me to it.
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  21530. This.
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  21531.  @wilsonandrew7264  I believe I said I did not want to. Or let's put it this way. Suppose I won a lotto. I would not invest a cent.
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  21532.  @wilsonandrew7264  I want to excel, not just make a bunch of money for nothing I can be proud of, and might in fact need to hide.
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  21533.  @rebeccanoah8119  Anything to do with the robot Sophia quasi-scam?
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  21534.  @rebeccanoah8119  Google works in this case.
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  21535. This was the first thing Briahna pointed out. She didn't approve of this prof at all.
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  21536. A peaceful protest sufficiently far from anyone's residence, and not blocking access to anyone's residence, is First Amendment-protected. It might not be wise, but it's not illegal.
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  21537. When you look at all the things the student did, I think a person could make a defamation case. She took to Facebook immediately, and posted pictures.
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  21538.  @cyd3174  What makes you think she has CHOICES about where she works at every moment of her life? Be honest.
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  21539. 7:30 No, it's the money.
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  21540. As a rough estimate, a nanoparticle is, in general, 1/10 to 1/100 the diameter of a red blood vessel. If these are even smaller, let us know.
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  21541. Briahna made some excellent points. A lot of people don't know that the simple edit of removing some posts and not others that are fundamentally similar, is expressly protected conduct under Section 230. But Google et al. are doing more: they are pushing certain items to certain people using opaque algorithms. This is an activity that should not be protected. No one has an interest in making sure terrorists or drug lords get in touch easily with other terrorists and drug lords. Nor should they get to form secret profiles of us to sell to us better. It can't be the case that any and every algorithm is acceptable.
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  21542. Yeah, I listened to it again. There is nothing there. She didn't say anything we haven't all heard before. These are adults, not minor children, and she has just as much First Amendment protection for her views as he does. Freedom of speech is not based on content; it is content neutral. I wonder how the video escaped the Zoom platform, though. Classes on Zoom are supposed to have strictly controlled access, to protect student privacy. Students have a right to that.
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  21543. All major network news are like this now. CNN, MSNBC, etc., never give dissenters a fair hearing. They smear free speech advocates like Glenn Greenwald for appearing on Fox.
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  21544. Good call. Their risk of heart problems from COVID is even lower, and other vaccines are clearly less risky for that age group.
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  21545. What do you think Dore, Zamorano, Greenwald, Fang, and Bevins are? Or any of the other people whose texts Dore is quoting here, for substantive criticism?
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  21546. Oh, I fear we have further to go, down that road . . .
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  21547. Sure there is. De men tia.
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  21548. ​ @abarrett4260 I don't know what you mean. Please timestamp.
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  21549. Nope, not what he said. And did you notice both the guest and Bri agreed with his point?
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  21550.  @hrs2044  What report? The one that was nearly 80 pages and said some of Santos' stories about his background appear to be false, and mentioned it only toward the end.
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  21551.  @Sol_Invictus510  You mean a mass shooter who isn't wh***? That's different.
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  21552.  @Sol_Invictus510  I was expecting to hear Russia. Still do.
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  21553. Which Lenin biography is on Grim's shelf?
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  21554. 35:07 and 37:50 MUST WATCH and re-watch.
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  21555. @MirceaKitsune  Actually, with the sole exception of offering carefully selected age-appropriate books IN school libraries, I agree. Public libraries, agree 100% with you. Major booksellers, agree 100% with you. The insanity is what I described, which was what we had (have). Long live Nadine Strossen.
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  21556.  @loricataldi2016  Remember what Ash Sarkar said to Piers Morgan, a video that went massively viral? Be sure to look that up. It applies to you, in light of your remark to me.
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  21557. ​ @jveebklyn1644 You're really crazy, you know?
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  21558.  @ethlbolton5163  I will see what the research says. My plan is to be vaccinated, but I'll change that if I don't like what I see. I'm staying flexible. COVID also causes tiny blood clots. I am close to someone who got very sick, but recovered, then got the clots, and was successfully treated. This person is on vacation now, in fact.
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  21559.  @ethlbolton5163  "All the animals died from the vaccine" is (1) a rumor; and (2) WHICH vaccine, anyway? I love how everyone, including the government, is saying "the" vaccine. There are three approved here, another four, at least, in wide use around the world.
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  21560.  @ethlbolton5163  And I want it to stay a choice.
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  21561.  @kayb3310  Do tell.
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  21562.  @kayb3310  Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
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  21563.  @kayb3310  I'm so much smarter today than I was on Monday.
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  21564.  @kayb3310 blocked
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  21565.  @Klako-ls6yt  Oh brother. What is your evidence for that? Life was not truth neutral and evidence free for one thing.
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  21566. What do you mean? Le Pen got less than 35%. Hence, over 65% did NOT vote for Le Pen's party in Round 1. Had she won 50% +1, there would not BE a second round. How is it democratic to have someone with barely 1/3 of the votes cast govern? If no party can form a government, that reflects what the voters think of the whole lot of them.
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  21567. I'm not comfortable, I'll say that.
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  21568. 1:41 PERFECT one is an investor in the other's hedge fund
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  21569. Here we go . . .
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  21570. Hospitalization due to vaccination complications compared with hospitalization due to COVID in minors has been compared, and is discussed in this video. The first group, hospitalization due to the vaccine, is greater by several factors. Ask yourself why countries with superior public health are not vaccinating CHILDREN. Just how much do you need to push this?
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  21571. Well, there is also Serpico -- but maybe he isn't a good example, come to think of it.
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  21572. So they are giving up the opportunity to use individual effort to meet the challenge?? I can't believe it!
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  21573. I hope Trump supporters are prepared for him to lose. It is going in that direction. I would never vote for either, so don't shoot the messenger. Trump's tack on COVID and the Republican anti-stimulus stance did it.
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  21574. I oppose laws that require charging a minor as an adult. Does that make me a Rittenhouse "supporter?"
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  21575. Suspended or revoked, yes.
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  21576. I feel that. So sorry. Do something nice for YOU today. I mean it.
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  21577. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
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  21578. Cenk wrote this tweet? Whoa. How far how fast?
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  21579. Well, but who decided to move its productive forces off shore, and to give foreign countries a major interest in our Treasury bonds? They can also buy stock in American companies for their sovereign wealth funds. Of course those countries (fill in the blank) now have leverage. I don't mean this as rhetorical. I'm interested in your views.
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  21580. Both of these guys are left.
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  21581. It's not engineered by other countries. It's 100% home-grown bourgeois decadence.
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  21582. HSBC. Find out what the US did when it uncovered the laundering of drug cartel money. The British press wrote about it.
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  21583. They switched from forcing COVID vaccines on healthy kids who had already had it and recovered, to pushing this. Isn't that . . . STRANGE??
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  21584. Likud, not Israel. Israel has a bigger peace movement than we do. You can watch the US + AIPAC undermine it in real time. Decorated pro-peace Israeli veterans have had to emigrate.
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  21585. No.
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  21586. People whose parents were in WWII in Europe fighting Nazism are a different people than those whose did not. That's what The Duran has showed me yet again.
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  21587. That's why he called the invasion a "war crime." Maybe you have a point: RT grants more freedom to its journalists than American MSM does.
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  21588.  @Sneakyboson  On March 3, 2022, Abby Martin tweeted that closing down RT America was "devastating news." She also said RT America "gave unmatched platforms to consistent anti-war voices like Lee Camp, Chris Hedges & myself," free of American "corporate domination." GO LOOK.
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  21589.  @Sneakyboson  What makes you think people don't know stuff? Well, I can imagine. Anyway, you're wrong.
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  21590. This is hearsay. She witnessed none of this. She claims she was told every one of these "bombshells." The rebuttal to characterizing this as hearsay is nonsense. This is information about WHO has firsthand knowledge, and THUS should be subpoenaed to testify.
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  21591. BMJ reported that vegans, vegetarians, and modified vegetarians (who eat fish) may be at lower risk of severe COVID. DW (Germany) picked up the story. American media: silent.
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  21592.  @tuseroni6085  Yup. The Sophists started saying whatever brought them more money. They maintained that truth was an illusion, and success in the marketplace was the only measure of the value one's words. Huh. Why does this sound familiar?
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  21593.  @imacarrot6570  Nope, not true.
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  21594.  @imacarrot6570  Your posts containing links do not appear. DUH. You didn't know links are usually shadowed, as a general policy? I was happy that links to peer-reviewed medical journals have been permitted here. Those are often shadowed as well, being too hard to monitor (links will contain links, etc., it can go on and on for a long time).
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  21595. Who the heck is "Shaun?" (Pronoun?)
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  21596. This is who runs our lives. This is why things are the way they are.
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  21597. Sublime Jimmy: 18:01
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  21598. Other countries might need leaders to do that. :/
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  21599. He doesn't know Pfizer is a major advertiser, and that they had an influence on COVID censorship?
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  21600. And I so wanted my very own bomb. It's not fair. It never will be.
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  21601. No.
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  21602. ​ @zodkip3147 She may not need to improve her performance. She may need to improve her job hunting skills.
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  21603. Er, no. Listen to the Fauci clip again. HE wants to make this about himself, rather than about the real issues. He's paid for that (diversion, decoy, red herring, fraud). He protests too much for a reason. Brie takes too long to make her point, and then includes caveats, which is confusing. But here she is finally over the target: 10:28 Turn this into another Depp v. Heard rather than the real issues surrounding these labs. That'll work.
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  21604. Risen and Mackey are like the boy who cried wolf. A clear picture of what was truly horrid and potentially dangerous about Trump is difficult or impossible to have, thanks to people like them.
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  21605.  @periechontology  Summers is the fraud. West's knowledge of the WESTERN philosophical and literary canon is without compare (no pun intended). As for economics, you must not understand what a pseudoscience that has become, to the point where plainly contradictory propositions can both be "proved." I choose my words carefully, hence "become," and exposed as pseudoscience for all to see by 2009.
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  21606.  @periechontology  BTW, check Summers' ties to Epstein. Check his phenomenal increase in net worth from 1999 to 2010. Check his involvement with Bilderberg Group -- its "steering committee," to be precise. A scholar would want his praise because . . . ? Because 💰💰💰? Sure, the latter, as no one could deny.
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  21607.  @JayBee-cr8jm  I didn't suggest she supported the legal reasoning of Roe v. Wade, now did I?
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  21608. @JayBee-cr8jm  Oh, I guess YOU didn't know. A judge can agree with the OUTCOME of a case and reject the legal basis or reasoning offered by the majority. That's where concurring opinions come from. (Ever seen one? RAV v. City of St. Paul would be a splendid place to start, especially because it's a pro-First Amendment case.)
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  21609.  @JayBee-cr8jm  "Bad law" means the ruling was wrong.
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  21610. A Caribbean lunch?
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  21611. Yes it does. Educate yourself about the First Amendment. The standard for defamation is high, and never applies to opinions, no matter how ridiculous they are.
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  21612. 17:11 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  21613.  @chillingongreens  I'm sorry, but a lot of people don't. No reason to jeer at those who do, however.
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  21614.  @chillingongreens  15:19 Try listening to the segment beginning there.
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  21615. Okay, but not soon.
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  21616. Where did she say different? She said we need to get rid of the stranglehold these people have on media and government.
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  21617. Very astute
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  21618. Of course most jabs do not nick a blood vessel. Aspiration each time and noting the result each time could give us the data.
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  21619. Not in France.
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  21620. Krystal: You are a CPA, so you know all about this. Are the hedgers involved in illegal naked short selling? COULD GAMESTOP BRING IT TO LIGHT?? If so, you better believe they are panicking. This could be the end.
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  21621.  @jvanek8512  Exactly.
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  21622.  @shadowflash8519  How do you know whether it's suspect? Did you read the case?
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  21623. Six-week embryos do not have hearts. Many states allow the elective abortion of early fetuses, which most certainly do have hearts. Basic biology.
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  21624. Now that it is crystal clear that the mother in Florida was merely rude, and not threatening anyone, why doesn't BCBS ask that charges be dropped? Not only do they corrupt the politicians, they also waste our tax dollars -- on this. I cannot blame them for wanting the police to investigate, but now that it's obvious that she did not make a true threat under the First Amendment exception, why are they pressing it?? On our dime, as usual.
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  21625. Normal people don't.
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  21626. I think that's a great point, but read Section 230. It contains a loophole of sorts: if they chose to remove some posts and not others, they are still protected. It's not quite as simple as Ryan and Emily are making it. I wish it were. If they censor at government request, it should be a First Amendment violation.
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  21627.  @googlecommitscrimesagainst7761  Oops, you beat me to it. Yup. Rich people decide the laws.
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  21628. The entire crop of candidates present a danger to (the illusion of) American democracy. Also, this monologue isn't funny. None of this is funny. No one is talented enough to make it funny. EDIT: Okay, the van joke was funny. My bad.
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  21629. Cuomo isn't "against Trump." Cuomo wants to BE Trump.
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  21630. There isn't actually. In her book, Nadine Strossen analyzes countries similar to ours but which do have hate speech laws, and demonstrates that such laws never accomplish what they set out to.
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  21631. @soleknight3212  Were American billions being sent to feed any other war the ICJ has formally called a "plausible case of genocide," with the American judge agreeing with that determination? Do you actually think the young IDF members being put up to this by Netanyahu and his ilk aren't being traumatized? Have you bothered to hear what Israeli dissidents are saying? Amy Goodman has them on every day.
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  21632. @shlomtzi84  FALSE, lol. You think it's that easy? 🤣
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  21633. @shlomtzi84  In fact, an interim report from Israel to the ICJ is due on Monday, stating whether it has complied with the ICJ's directives to protect Palestinians from genocide. Everyone should read the findings. It's really worth the time.
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  21634. In fact, an interim report from Israel to the ICJ is due on Monday, stating whether it has complied with the ICJ's directives to protect Palestinians from genocide. Everyone should read the findings. It's really worth the time.
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  21635. Aaron Mate is the best, he really is.
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  21636. I certainly have, complete with an inventory of all the constitutional rights that depend on the very same privacy rights as described in Roe v. Wade, starting with birth control. State decisis is important in itself for a reason: it is like a contract with the government and the states not to intrude on the activities they promised to permit you to engage in, and you ordered your own life relying on that expectation.
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  21637. Kudlow looks inebriated all the time now. Not meant to be funny, either. :/
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  21638. Everyone knows this.
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  21639. I wouldn't trust this woman to judge a dog bite case, much less anything more serious.
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  21640. ​​ @januarysson5633  Because if you believe the danger is real, it supercedes all other issues. First you have to prevent a world war and a nuclear attack. Then you can live to "rescue the republic," and "rescue the West."
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  21641. What she asked was, what is the point of electing progressives if they fail to hold Biden to his promises? 😂😂😂 If no one paid you, hang your head in shame.
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  21642. DID THE INTERCEPT DEMONSTRATE THIS? That would be very important news. But that is not what The Intercept report said. If it is the case, why didn't they do some investigative journalism to establish it? It would be similar to what Stonor Saunders did, reporting on the history of CIA infiltration of cultural institutions and literary journals. It would be at least that important. More important, I think.
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  21643. THANK YOU
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  21644. "Maskless, unruly toddlers" -- sums it up. "Keep us safe! Keep us safe!"
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  21645. At THIS point in history, THIS is the President of the United States? Only people who really hate America could want that.
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  21646. Every billionaire is dependent on them.
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  21647. When? She is Welsh. She may have some distant Greek ancestry. She always said she was Welsh.
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  21648. EXACTLY
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  21649.  @Supernautiloid  This, too. Ever read Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare?
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  21650. I'm amazed he's a man.
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  21651.  @tinamiller9599  Supporting a no-fly zone even if it risks a nuclear war? That was what he said. No, he is not more upstanding than the rest of us, or doing anything "for humanity" with his rhetoric. What is needed is a cease-fire, not an escalation. My GOD. When did everyone lose their minds?
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  21652.  @ryanmorikawa9898  There just isn't evidence that Trump won. Granted, lack of evidence did not matter to MSM when they all pushed Russiagate, but it should have mattered.
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  21653. It is deliberate.
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  21654. They will? They will if they think it is in their interest to do so. If not, not.
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  21655. Oh please, all this stuff about "socialist indoctrination!" In the US? Business administration has been the Number 1 major in college for over a generation, and business administration is often less rigorous than an English degree. It simply shows docility, that you WILL do whatever your boss tells you to do. The next most popular class of majors are in the health sciences, excluding psychology and biology. Psychology itself is very popular, and can qualify a person for a clinical MSW and beyond. So is biology, and it can also lead to a job related to health care, from laboratory technician, to pharmacist, to doctor, to director of research. I've just described close to half of what college students actually major in, as in real life. Do people not know this? Seriously?
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  21656. Come to think of it, even if your take on the matter is entirely true (doubt it, but anyway), maybe she was teaching you something very valuable: how to talk in front of HR to avoid problems at work. That's not socialist indoctrination, that's late capitalist image tending.
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  21657. ​ @lauralee2641 💯 from a Montenegrin. Don't raise your child in the West, and if your child is grown, give them a choice to get out.
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  21658. ​​ @lauralee2641  Too bad my support for you is _____ . YT won't let you see it.
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  21659.  @bourbonstansell8823  Very true. I still stand by what I said, though, concerning what the right thing to do is right now. There is no debate. Pretending to give money to "charity" is furthering SBF's basic "narrative." They all know it, too.
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  21660. You can look up Chauvin's federal plea agreement and see what Chauvin pled guilty to. It describes exactly what Chauvin himself agrees he did. I guess Candace missed that? 😂
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  21661. Thank you for reading Thucydides to us.
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  21662. Sounds like fear of bringing COVID home to grandma was the issue.
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  21663.  @marcuslinton310  I don't disagree. This shows what fear can do.
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  21664.  @jamesmarhen  Pelosi's district is one of the richest in the world, so of course she has a lock on it. She managed to lose seats, a LOT of seats, during an election when the other ticket was headed by Trump. She just appointed Kathleen Rice to chair a committee that AOC wanted to chair, and Rice not only started out in politics as a Republican, but also withheld her vote for Pelosi last time. What does all that tell you? Maybe playing hardball in the health care fight during a pandemic is the right way to go?
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  21665. ​ @TheLastOutlaw-KTS You're kidding, right?
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  21666. ​ @TheLastOutlaw-KTS  These are all recursive processes.
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  21667. ​ @Veritas.Studios.Channel Mathematical proofs are written as well. In fact, the joke is that in grad school, you will never see a number.
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  21668. The problem is to prove it or find a counterexample.
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  21669.  @benjamineyoungop5535  The statement that a given mathematical theorem is not provable has to be proved. You can't just say it. That would be called a guess. Every "pattern" can be stated as a theorem, then proved or refuted. Once proved, it is true of an infinite set. This pattern hasn't been proved to be true of ALL positive integers.
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  21670.  @benjamineyoungop5535  I guess you didn't watch the video, huh?
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  21671. 5:50. Why, for example, divorce adds to GDP.
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  21672. Under what criminal statute? Violating someone's First Amendment rights, without more, is not a crime. Every case of government overreach does not result in criminal charges.
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  21673. @nealorr5086  If the plaintiffs-respondents win this case, they will certainly have injunctive relief. A tort claim for damages seems farfetched, but an expert on current law would need to take a hard look and see whether any such case could be brought, against anyone. For most of those who wronged the plaintiffs, they probably can't be held liable at all, or, if their actions do rise to that level, they would be granted immunity in this case. If the Supreme Court entertains the government's argument, that means they didn't deliberately violate their oath. They had a good-faith belief they were upholding their oath, and happened to be wrong. That means immunity. Have you ever heard of anyone going to jail for violating someone's First Amendment rights? No, huh?
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  21674.  @nealorr5086  They might let you see my reply, lol. As we discuss scents er ship. 😂
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  21675. @nealorr5086  Where fid you find the dough to twist that pretzel?
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  21676.  @proudtobeme1ashkente  This time, I think it's Bernie.
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  21677. Try reading the case? In matters of education, lead by example. Okay, a crazy idea. Go back to whatever you were doing. It's working great.
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  21678.  @leechowning2712  Not what THE CASE says. But I digress. 🤣
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  21679. @Brett I certainly have.
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  21680.  @nottherealxandercrews4742  That's funny. Those words do not appear in the opinion or dissent.
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  21681.  @javiervonsydow  Not what the Maine law said. But if you 👍ed it, what else matters? We are a nation of ad men, but we're having less fun.
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  21682.  @javiervonsydow  So, I take it you read their opinion and the dissent? Great! 😉
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  21683. @Prey R I have no objection to parents being fully informed about the curriculum and having an opportunity to be heard, and to be welcomed at school board meetings. They are not "terrorists."
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  21684.  @joelaplante9674  No, what I'm saying is not false. The term Brie used was "secular," the term the Court used was "nonsectarian." Religious affiliation is not dispositive. Why didn't you read the opinion and dissent? If you care about education, you must have a desire to know.
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  21685.  @joelaplante9674  You don't even understand what I said. Never mind.
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  21686. Well, it was the USSR that banned lobotomies about twenty years before the US did. The West gave a Nobel Prize in Medicine to th surgeon who invented the lobotomy. So leave out the political message, ma'am. It's not factual. It's more outrage p0rn.
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  21687. Not the first time.
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  21688. I can tell you what the problem is in the US: Title VII fails bona fide victims.
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  21689. This.
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  21690.  @SpookyFow  I never vote. Really never. I'm from one of those places the US bombed and Americans can't find on the map. There are more and more of us around . . .
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  21691.  @SpookyFow  Wow I got you. That was too easy.
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  21692.  @SpookyFow  Oh, now I get it. You can't do calculus. Don't be mad. Study harder.
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  21693.  @SpookyFow  Post your email and I'll send you my full coordinates right away. ROFLLLL
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  21694.  @SpookyFow  I didn't report your post. Was there something there to care about?
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  21695.  @SpookyFow  Duh. When you report, my interface deletes the comment, so it wouldn't be possible to respond. For other people's info.
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  21696.  @carrenpalmer3453  In the meantime, those who provided Rittenhouse with the gun are facing charges.
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  21697. How can it be controversial to support every child's future reproductive choices? They have a right to these choices, LGBTQ or not, and a right to decide once they're grown. Should only the neurotypical, gender conformists be parents someday??
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  21698. @Aarenby  Breast reduction does not prevent breast feeding. In any case, diet and exercise should be tried first. You can't compare reduction to mastectomy.
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  21699.  @117Ender  And state legislatures started systematically withdrawing gobs and gobs of money from state universities, to lower taxes. There are LOTS of private actors in the student lending business. Look it up.
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  21700.  @117Ender  "Sallie Mae is one of the largest private student loan lenders in the industry . . . " and has been private since 2014. For example. In 2015, people were still taking out those loans thinking they were federal!
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  21701.  @117Ender  Maybe the testimony was . . . false or misleading?
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  21702.  @117Ender  Look it up.
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  21703.  @117Ender  Federal application requirements exist to make sure OTHER avenues of financing are exhausted before private loans are obtained, since no student loan is dischargeable in bankruptcy and private lenders have more onerous terms. Private loans are a major source of student loans, especially after a bachelor's degree. Sallie friggin' MAE was privatized. LOOK IT UP.
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  21704.  @117Ender  BUT THAT WAS THE POINT. Sallie Mae has been privatized. "Government adjacent?" Is this a legal term? You could say every bank chartered in the US is government adjacent, and you could make an argument to support it.
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  21705.  @117Ender  And people need loans when summer jobs used to cover a year of tuition because . . . ?
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  21706.  @117Ender  What changed was close to total withdrawal of state funding from state schools.
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  21707. Bankman-Fried could have invoked the Fifth Amendment in any event.
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  21708. Eew, that was kinky.
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  21709. Childless cat women: Marilyn Monroe, Kim Novak, Ann-Margret. (Is that what you meant?) What's new, pussycat?
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  21710. Childless cat women: Marilyn Monroe, Kim Novak, Ann-Margret. Is that what you meant? (What's new, pussycat?)
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  21711.  @triggerpod  I remember when the problem was "Soccer Moms." Now it's "Cat Ladies."
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  21712.  @AnnabelleJARankin  I hesitate to agree. You sound much more sane than nearly anyone else.
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  21713.  @AnnabelleJARankin  Annabelle. No one is kidding.
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  21714. Cars have been computerized for generations. Yeah, it sucks.
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  21715. He clearly isn't. BTW, I agree. A distraction like this will preoccupy parents so much that they will ignore nearly everything else.
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  21716. At least Trump mentioned the money laundering, albeit obliquely. Tanden didn't even acknowledge that much. Otherwise, a perfect match. Congrats on this, Jimmy!
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  21717. I didn't.
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  21718. Have you ever lived anywhere else? It's the most right-wing modern, developed country in the world.
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  21719. Agreed, but don't imagine anyone is independent. See Adam Curtis on that. :/
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  21720. You might try Stephen F Cohen instead.
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  21721. The work camps, not the extermination camps, Bub.
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  21722.  @warrenklein7817  It's the doctors and scientists I was thinking of. Don't they want to know?
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  21723. Everyone knew it was wrong to behead Sophie Scholl, and just went ahead robotically.
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  21724. Gosh, that hurt. Not much can, anymore.
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  21725. The experiments virologists were running at Wuhan and elsewhere don't put lives at risk. Tweets put lives at risk.
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  21726. MSNBC is going to use the assassination, for this?
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  21727. We had heard the week of March 15. Really curious now, to see.
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  21728. If any channel transmits practically all of the content of a channel that was properly banned for cause, what is the argument against banning that channel, too? So the content can stay up if someone on it pretends to "disapprove?" Oh brother! Think this through.
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  21729. Monopolies that provide essential communucations should not have the power of prior restraint. Removing material that violates terms of service is fine. Removing people is a different matter. There has to be a compelling reason. For example, if just about everything they ever post is a TOS violation, to the point where monitoring is futile, that may be compelling. See Nadine Strossen on hate speech.
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  21730. If it were up to me, I'd ban first-person shooter video games for minors, and put warnings on it for everyone else. It's not up to me.
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  21731. The reason why it is not a "Ponzi scheme" is that that characterization assumes the dollar to be a rigid yardstick, when we all know it is not. In simple terms, everyone paid in with stronger dollars, but the payout does not fully keep pace with inflation. In the meantime, the dollars are invested in US Treasuries -- which, as Elon well knows, pay significant interest when large sums such as these are involved.
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  21732. The really funny part is that smart phone and McFood addicts think drug addicts have choices. 😂 Those 40%+ obese got that way for some reason . . . maybe their choice? Funny, no one chose that after the depression and WWII, when the temptation to overeat was great.
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  21733. Actually, the simple edit of removing some posts and not others that are fundamentally similar, is expressly protected conduct under Section 230. They are doing more: they are pushing certain items to certain people using opaque algorithms. This is an activity that should not be protected. No one has an interest in making sure terrorists or drug lords get in touch easily with other terrorists and drug lords. Nor should they get to form secret profiles of us to sell to us better.
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  21734. A boom for the top 5-10%, I am sure of it. A very brief boom, for them.
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  21735. Amen!
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  21736.  @deadreckoning6288  Well, considering it's wrong, he doesn't.
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  21737. There is no plausible case for calling the war in Ukraine a genocide. It appears, however, that if there were a genocide in Ukraine, the US would use it to political advantage rather than try to end it.
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  21738. Now we know why he said that the other day.
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  21739. She must have debts.
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  21740.  @D-Fens_1632  🌟🌟🌟Shocking news!! Madame Macron is a MAN!!!🌟🌟🌟🚀
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  21741.  @sheeplebeware9511  I know. Links are useful, but the story is they are too hard to monitor for TOS violations or copyright. I think you can link to other YouTube videos, though. I rarely see other links stay up anywhere.
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  21742.  @sheeplebeware9511  I think you're right, actually. TOS is the reason they give. Some of my innocuous posts disappear so fast, it's either an algorithm or someone is watching me. But I never, ever get a peep of a warning. Probably programmed in. I don't like it, just know that's what they do. :/
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  21743. Where is the FBI? Arrest this man.
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  21744. Why did anyone join Facebook? This started out as a slam book against women.
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  21745. You know what I just found out. Man is mortal. My Mom just told me. I'm 32.
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  21746. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  21747.  @OfftoShambala  🤣🤣🤣
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  21748. Next?
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  21749.  @uggligr  I'm sorry. I appreciate that now. It is assumed that everyone knows about it by now, because of all of the coverage it got as "Russian misinformation." Glenn Greenwald left The Intercept over being censored on this issue. His substack tells the whole story. In short, Hunter Biden was suffering from drug problems, and he took his laptop in for repairs and forgot it. After a period of time, it allegedly became property of the repair shop, who shared it with Biden opponents. The contents of its hard drive became public, and includes horrible pictures and other material concerning Hunter, and also some cryptic emails and similar texts that seem to discuss kickbacks and include Joe. Its contents are being investigated. In the meantime, Hunter is suing. I'm not sure where these investigations, suits, etc., are going; I have not been following those There is also a serious allegation that it was BIDEN who planted the story that the laptop was fake and that the Russians planted it, and that BIDEN asked the surveillance agencies to assert that it was "typical of Russian disinformation." An open letter to that effect was signed by about 50 or so such people (CIA, FBI, and so forth). This may have been illegal for Biden to do. Biden almost certainly knew it was real. In essence, it was Biden who asked the surveillance state to interfere in the election to prevent this material from being treated as real. The major networks all listened to the surveillance state and reported that the Russians planted it, probably. Hunter never categorically denied it was real, and is now suing, which means he has to admit the laptop was his. He could still claim the data on it was compromised, I suppose (and I suppose it could have been, once he lost control of it); however, no evidence of tampering with the hard drive data has emerged so far.
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  21750.  @uggligr  The apology was for real.
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  21751. Kim spoke to that. Missed it?
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  21752. 10:37 smoke alarm needs to be changed??
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  21753. Kids, don't microdose.
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  21754. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Maybe it's a psychological issue? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  21755.  @benwoods5616  🤣🤣🤣
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  21756.  @tonyclayton6975  Brilliant. We've seen this strategy before.
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  21757. ​@DR_1_1 There should be a very basic floor for food and housing. But talking about health care with for-profit parasites feeding off of something that does not have an elastic demand curve, and that is literally a matter of life and death, with victims confronted exactly when they can do nothing about it, is uniquely sinister. Most people who need food or housing have some choices in obtaining those. They are not helpless. How about a person who has a heart attack? Or is hit by a drunk driver? Or who has a surprise allergic reaction to a medication? You act like they're to blame.
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  21758. ​ @DR_1_1 Look at hospital administrators.
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  21759.  @genericsomething  Or the court system, or first responders (police, fire, paramedics, public ambulances), or water and sewers, or highways. Most of the most important things in our lives!
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  21760. If this had been the only thing Glenn ever did, he would have already been a huge force for good.
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  21761. 🤣🤣🤣 Excellent
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  21762. ​ @SpaciousSelf-gx9hc Cutty pastey
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  21763. She apparently reported it spontaneously when she got home from the trip, when Roger was her driver. She wrote it down voluntarily.
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  21764. He's also tacitly right that no one should join the military.
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  21765. Mm. You don't like to read articles, huh?
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  21766. After what Gates did to Paul Allen, his relationship to Epstein, his recklessness in pushing vaccines with poor safety records, and his drive to accumulate agricultural land, why does anyone believe Gates could not be trying to kill Africans? I suspect he is.
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  21767. No he isn't. Hint: when you have to exaggerate to the point of lying, maybe there is something wrong with your take. Just an idea to mull over.
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  21768.  @duffydope The part of their military that has neo-Nazis in it is dominated by them, has been murdering people in the Donbass for eight years, and, credible reports have it, is constraining Zelensky in his attempt to begin serious peace negotiations. There may be much worse things they are doing, including war crimes. THAT'S who we're arming.
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  21769. And hot hands -- hot for lucre.
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  21770. ​@livingitup9647 Maddow gave people a false sense of security. That hurt many people.
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  21771. Let us know how she is. It is supposed to be no more than a flu-like illness for vaccinated people.
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  21772.  @bq856  Proof of what?
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  21773.  @bq856  That my best friend was probably misinformed? That what she said happened, in fact happened? I am quite confident, having known her for nearly 50 years.
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  21774.  @bq856  Not of the virus itself, no. Because none of the vaccines contain the virus at all. That part is actual knowledge that they have deigned to share with us.
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  21775. False. The Guardian reported on this. Easy to find, in a mainstream UK paper.
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  21776. How would this help him? At some point, people will vote for perceived stability.
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  21777. ​@gpop7911 OH!! Of COURSE! Stefanik: smart. Raking in donations. The students protesting: dumb. They won't make money.
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  21778.  @whammofammo7346  2:16 not what she said
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  21779. WHY do people keep mentioning Williamson as a serious candidate?? This is ABSURD.
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  21780. Evidence? (And, were they consenting adults?)
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  21781. Bellingcat claimed without evidence that a lobbyist organization with hidden ties to Assad corrupted Jimmy Dore with $2500. First of all, Dore has made it clear that his price is much higher. I think that someone who "wants to be a millionaire" either asks for more than that, or is profoundly math challenged. /s Have you yourselves verified that the organization was a front, and that Dore didn't care, before "educating" us?
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  21782. People in a lot of Asian countries use masks on mass transit. That always seemed reasonable to me -- meaning, before COVID. I have more faith in before-COVID practices, for which there was before-COVID evidence. :/
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  21783. This gives unhappy marriage worse than I suspected.
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  21784. LOL, that was great.
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  21785. ​ @Eye8apie Exactly. It's all you see. Race was not mentioned once in this segment.
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  21786.  @FreshLyte  NEITHER of THESE hosts mentioned it. Someone else somewhere did. Yeah. A lot of stuff is misrepresented now.
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  21787. @FreshLyte  What I saw is misrepresentation as soon as (gasp!) someone thinks race is the issue. People go berserk. Funny what you thought I meant. Says something about you, huh? 🤣
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  21788.  @brothersandsistersofvalhalla  Jeffrey and Ghislaine are from upper class, proper backgrounds. It's such a shame we are all so jealous of them. And of the Clintons, Prince Andrew, etc.
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  21789.  @wighensakgr  That is a perfectly good response to the ad hom that immediately assumed jealousy, as the post implied that all who criticise the money horders are just envy driven, and that he knows that first hand (!) Jealousy! Can you be that blind? When this bubble bursts . . . Whoa. Have a plan, bro. An exit plan.
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  21790.  Robert C. Christian  So . . . A hyper-billionaire spends a lot of time with someone he really doesn't know, in the hopes of getting more money from him, for philanthropy. Hyper-billionaires do this routinely. After all, they need to raise money for charity, and they should leave no stone unturned in their quest to help the poor. It's a sacrifice they make. Sure, a rich guy like Gates really should vet anyone he spends a lot of time with, especially before aaking that person for marital advice, but vetting is, after all, expensive and time consuming, and Bill's razor-sharp instincts told him it would be fine. Got it.
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  21791.  @sandcastledx  She consulted the country's top divorce lawyers for advice almost immediately. They had crafted a petition they could both agree on before filing it, and it was granted immediately. Two years is nothing to come up with that agreement. Do you think the Gates were ordinary people?
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  21792.  @VaasMontenegro12  ALL of Gates' interactions with Epstein were AFTER his Florida conviction, which was known to be a sweetheart deal. Look up Andrew Acosta.
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  21793.  @sandcastledx  One report from a credible source claimed that Epstein had ties to a person with influence on the Nobel Peace Prize committee, which Gates coveted. I tend to believe his interest in frequenting Epstein had nothing to do with sex, but only with gaining an advantage. He also apparently saw Epstein as highly attractive to women and sought his opinions. Gates knew but did not care that Epstein trafficked in underage girls for the hyperrich. Why would he? Why would that matter? Pfft.
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  21794.  @sandcastledx  This is known.
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  21795.  @sandcastledx  Known, except by you.
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  21796.  @sandcastledx  You conflate a fact (no evidence at all of interest in the girls, though a callous disregard for what Epstein was doing to them), with this ridiculous hagiography. Gates needed Epstein to raise money? GATES? You're the same as the conspiracy crowd, but in the opposite direction. The fact that Epstein could lure absolutely ANYBODY into his orbit is quite interesting. Clearly he knew how to play Bill Gates, generally known as a tough cookie. A man like Epstein should have had a hard time making new friends after his conviction.
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  21797. Smaller homes and fewer cars . . . And NEARLY FREE COLLEGE and VERY affordable HEALTH CARE, not to mention better FOOD.
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  21798. 🤣 except not so funny anymore
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  21799. No. We should have had a hard lockdown by February 1, for two to four weeks. It did work in various Asian countries. A partial lockdown slows down the spread, and helps keep the intensive care units and the morgue from being above capacity. Trump was totally wrong -- he knew what was happening.
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  21800. The end of Five Eyes imperialism in not so slow motion . . .
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  21801.  @Eerielai  Yeah. Any sort of "equality" where erotic love is concerned is senseless and bizarre. When it comes to the very basics of sustaining life and ensuring equal opportunity to develop one's talents, for oneself and for the good of all, that is quite a different matter.
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  21802.  @michaeltadrous9234  He was caught in a flagrant and self-serving, but very human, contradiction. Just like any ordinary guy might be. Rogan spotted it right away, and didn't lord over him for it. It was't bad, it was funny.
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  21803. ​ @mr.f716 I lived in France and that was my impression as well.
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  21804. @UnconventionalReasoning  No it did not change in a year and a half. Maybe you need to read one of the myriad books about the subject. Thirteen Bankers comes to mind, although there are many others.
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  21805.  @UnconventionalReasoning  "Unstable equilibrium" 😂😂😂 Who graced your mind with that one? Rachel Maddow? Don Lemon? Gutfeld's crowd?
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  21806. I think RFL Jr would listen to her.
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  21807. You're missing the point because you don't listen to arguments. You want to take sides as fast as possible. She never said ADL was credible. She said Musk himself has alienated advertisers, and if he really supports free speech, he may have to eat the financial loss that comes with it. Facts.
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  21808. In the US it is, only because the vaccines are not yet FDA approved. We have a horrible, for-profit medical system, no comprehensive disability system, etc. If you are one of the rare people who are harmed, you are on your own. You'll be shunned as inconvenient, or worse. Look up the EUA consent forms. That is all you need to know! I don't think this is the case anywhere else, especially not UK, Australia, etc. You aren't this way. :/
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  21809.  @kennycook8691  The rapid substitution of one moral panic/scapegoat for another is the story here. The US can't seem to stop itself anymore.
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  21810. Look up goat yogurt and goat kefir. The NIH library has the research, available for free. (Yes, even NIH.) It is much better than cow's milk. It has an amino acid profile closer to human milk. Any food higher in taurine and lower in leucine and isoleucine is better for you.
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  21811. @garymccray7822  No one knows what that means? It means within normal cognitive limits. Plenty of cognitively normal people may have other issues, including significant personality disorders. Yes, a lot of them do attain positions of power. Could we just start with normal cognition and go from there?
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  21812. Of course you're right. You can look up Chauvin's federal plea agreement and see what Chauvin pled guilty to in federal court. It describes exactly what Chauvin himself agrees he did. I guess Candace missed that? 😂
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  21813. Of course you're right. You can look up Chauvin's federal plea agreement and see what Chauvin pled guilty to in federal court. It describes exactly what Chauvin himself agrees he did. I guess Candace missed that? 😂
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  21814. Great observation. So . . . Why is this family exposing their lives and their little children's lives to Internet scrutiny? Did the kids consent? Trick question, they can't. I say the same about gender mania. By the way.
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  21815. It is evidence of what The Sun SAID, not evidence that any of what it said is the truth. It is evidence of "reputation." How else do you prove what The Sun said? You have to produce an authentic copy. You cannot introduce it at all unless reputation bears directly on an issue in the case that the plaintiff himself brought up, like calculating damages. If it doesn't, it cannot be introduced.
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  21816.  @Freigeist2008  How do Europeans prove that something was written in a newspaper? Don't they have to produce the newspaper? Do newspaper articles bear on "reputation?" Reputation is an issue in the case because the causation of damage to reputation (and how much damage) is an issue. These boards have devolved into cult behavior and mob mentality. Anyone who can still think for themselves knows this. They explained what they were doing in the video.
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  21817.  @Freigeist2008  Then how do you assess damage to reputation from an article, if another paper printed something derogatory first, you sued them, and they won? It's a question of pricing it. Your reputation was damaged and you lost work already.
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  21818. A complaint is a series of allegations that the plaintiff claims he or she can prove in court. It does not constitute proof at all. These two don't seem to have read the complaints, and what little Nomiki skimmed in the less-developed complaint, she got very confused. Who does she think alleged threats against whom? 😂
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  21819. ​@sudenims5235 That wouldn't be George Galloway!
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  21820. Yeah, that is how much he was disliked. Speaks volumes.
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  21821. The only issue is whether Neely was sufficiently threatening this time to justify the use of potentially lethal force in the moment. There is no other question in this case. Whether Neely was severely mentally ill or a bad guy, scary, annoying, or had an outstanding warrant, is not relevant, either. Did he pose a true threat in that moment, to justify what the Marine chose to do? If he did, the Marine will be acquitted. The system failed, that's for sure.
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  21822.  @coolkidrorose7860  I don't say he's guilty, either. Evidence is what is presented under oath in court. We will see.
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  21823.  @coolkidrorose7860  And now I have got to wonder whether our friendly conversation has been shadowed. 😂
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  21824. Let's be fact-careful so that no one can stomp on the main point. "Hipgnosis Songs Fund" is owned by Blackstone Group, and it bought a 50% share in Neil Young’s entire catalog for an estimated $150 million. Massive sellout.
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  21825. During this pandemic we came to realize how much we depend on China and India for our pharmaceuticals and hospital supplies. So we're going stymie them now, on VACCINE manufacturing, during a pandemic? Looks like Gates isn't that smart, huh.
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  21826.  @seanking1775  And?
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  21827. People aspire to Be Like Jared.
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  21828. I don't watch anyone talk and believe what they say. I read the studies carefully, all by myself. I learned how in law school, and majoring in mathematics and in philosophy of science prior to that.
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  21829. So, will our creditor and major holder of US Treasuries China allow us to lower our interest rates? I wonder.
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  21830. "Revelations?" You're all nuts. Pursue the Prince Andrew revelations, if you have the guts.
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  21831. Comedy is dead.
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  21832. Grosskreutz testified. McGinnis testified. Huber's dirty house did not. Did you miss that?
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  21833. DOMESTIC TERRORISM. Treat it as such. No excuses.
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  21834. That's not "cancel culture." What you're doing is what people should do, as a minimum. Everyone should follow your lead.
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  21835.  @brwi1  Because lovemaking is neither fungible, nor absolutely necessary for life. But Marxism frees you so that you can actually pursue a pure relationship, instead of, say, marrying for money. And frees you from not having enough time to have a real relationship at all.
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  21836.  @darrengillesdarrengilles8336  That's not what happened in this segment. Peterson was caught in a flagrant contradiction. I will say, society is in a sorry state when thousands of people need someone like Peterson to help them. I will also say that at least he is not some meritless charlatan, like so many others clearly are. The basic "prosperity gospel" huckster comes to mind as an example of the latter. Peterson is without a doubt a cut above that.
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  21837.  @brwi1  I mean, you won't die without it. That's all I meant. But okay.
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  21838.  @brwi1  I guess you already forgot the post before the post you're responding to. Hope it's the eggnog.
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  21839.  @brwi1  Who suggested it did? No hint in my posts.
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  21840.  @brwi1  Asked and answered.
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  21841. How much did they pay? It wasn't enough, by the way.
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  21842. ​ @StarrlaRo I'll go see what she has to say.
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  21843.  @StarrlaRo  People whose parents met in a refugee camp, who have no relatives left in the US, and are broke due to the pandemic simply do not have that luxury. As for affluent Westerners? Wouldn't know.
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  21844. @StarrlaRo  So it is officially a Rebecca Solnit moment. No one could make this up. Or maybe Dunning Kruger rings a bell? You may not be familiar with Solnit. She was the woman who wrote a book on a subject in the arts, and a man who didn't know she wrote it kept explaining the book's thesis to her in a simplistic, condescending manner. Her friend had to state three times that Solnit wrote it before he heard it. That was the original mansplaining incident.
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  21845. It's the anti-selective prosecution show. Easy to remedy: hold all bad actors accountable.
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  21846.  @anacc3257  Whoever can track that plane still can, they just can't post it. If the information is public, sharing it is First Amendment protected speech and expression. Question the tracking itself being public. That would be a fruitful discussion, no?
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  21847.  @anacc3257  Share information "with the intentions to ruin the person?" I think you just described social media. What do you think Twitter mobs and other social media mobs have been doing?
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  21848. Leslie Wexner was the largest contributor to the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, until Harvard students started demonstrating against Israel's action in Gaza. As far as Harvard was concerned, his money was green.
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  21849. @georgemetesky5519  He just got clemency. He remains convicted, but at least he gets to go home in peace. Biden could have done that four years ago. It was done for many elderly during the pandemic.
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  21850.  @sphengolly  These protests are a joke compared to what is ordinary for France. How do they do it without a "First Amendment?"
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  21851.  @lawrence8146  Posts with links are routinely removed, as being too difficult to monitor for TOS violations, and because this is a common way to introduce malware or spam.
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  21852. Was she suspended WITH pay? Hmm . . .
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  21853. I read reliable reports that part of the reason for excess deaths during the pandemic is substance abuse.We have record opioid deaths, for one thing.
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  21854. Macron will tear France apart.
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  21855. AOC believes in being like Evita without a true life story or charm.
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  21856. Notice that the article came out two days after the 2016 presidential election; it was very likely written before the election and not revised in light of the outcome. It would be interesting to find out.
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  21857. ​@Raydensheraj No it wasn't. The New Atheists are ridiculous, and it's no accident that they are military interventionists as well. I say this as an agnostic.
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  21858. Thank you. I finally exhaled tonight. Whew, that felt good. This was good, too: https://youtu.be/64A7A8QWDNc
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  21859.  @stroshow5  Because a vaccine protects me more than others, and a mask protects OTHER people more than me. So, with most people still not vaccinated, why are we removing masks? Vaccinated people can still develop COVID, they just don't get very sick. Don't you get flu shots? When you've had the shot and develop mild flu, you have to be careful not to infect someone who is unvaccinated. That has happened to me. I had a tiny flu, but my doctor told me to stay home because I could get an unvaccinated person sick.
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  21860. Marianne and Cenk are JOKES. Stop it already.
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  21861. "Far left?" What nonsense. The only candidate who was left of center -- Bernie Sanders -- did great. Neoliberal globalists robbed him.
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  21862.  @paulw.woodring7304  Plus you're not in jail because of who your old man is -- the old man had no trouble at all locking up other people's children for the same offense -- who made his career doing it. Who is likely to be president in January. Is this a country or a crime wave?
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  21863. If people feel entitled to let their emotions run wild, and consider self-control an unfair imposition and self-denial, then that's what happens. But I think this can change. I think it changes all the time, in fact.
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  21864.  @tpowell3776  The only person they could not say died due to COVID was George Floyd.
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  21865. The best part is Kim imitating DNC apparatchiks.
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  21866.  @magnusmauritz8191  The first modern one: the French.
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  21867.  @OliverFFM90  I don't dispute that at all.
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  21868. I would think one significant paper per year as lead author, or several related ones as lead author, is the maximum.
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  21869.  @theresa78201  This is how faux feminists treat other women.
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  21870. ​ @fabsmaster5309 And had it been up to me, I would have never been born. Thanks for asking.
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  21871.  @joshbobst1629  Makes sense.
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  21872. Only a short time later, "doctors" were persuading parents that puberty blockers were needed to keep their 12 year old from committing suicide. Marriages were breaking up, with one parent pushing for this and the other trying to save their child. They are emboldened now. They know what they can do to get us to do what they want.
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  21873. ​@Tomiply What do you mean by "she got hit bad?" What were her symptoms? Was she hospitalized? COVID is usually like a flu, only longer lasting. And the CDC guidance is deficient -- most people are contagious for at least 8 days. After 16 days, they have better immunity than the vaccinated, and pose less danger to others than you do. I just got over it. I'm fine.
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  21874. How anyone fell for this gender nonsense psy-op is a mystery to me. I thought Marx was a philosophical materialist. (He was.)
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  21875. RE: Your last sentence Everyone has to. 😒
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  21876. So well said, and funny, too.
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  21877. Are bathroom wars what these fools think is LEFT?
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  21878.  @scytaleghola5969  They are lying NOW. Didn't you hear Maher say that the NYTimes already reported this, after verifying it? This segment was not filmed in the fall of 2020. Everyone has already reported on it. No need to listen to dubious sad sacks like Giuliani.
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  21879.  @scytaleghola5969  ONE of his emails? You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. Or you're getting paid. I hope the latter. At least that makes sense.
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  21880. From MSN, no paywall: The New York Times has finally admitted to the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop and the data contained within the device. In an article discussing Hunter Biden’s tax liability and potential criminal charges, The New York Times reporters noted that they and prosecutors gathered evidence from “a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop.”
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  21881.  @scytaleghola5969  Make up some more stuff. This doesn't work. There is now some evidence, from a whistleblower, and which must still be probed, that the FBI deliberately suppressed the laptop investigation to influence the election. No, I don't expect them to confirm anything about an ongoing investigation. They are not supposed to. DUH
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  21882.  @scytaleghola5969  As of this spring, there is not a major news source that has not conceded the existence of the laptop. Time waster, blocked.
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  21883. What took her so long? Showing her age.
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  21884. ​ @bobbobby7536 ??
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  21885. 💯
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  21886. You do not know the first thing you are talking about. Fortunately, most people upon seeing tombstone paragraphs containing obvioys cut-and-paste "word salads" realize that.
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  21887. I thought the intro was spot on. Every word.
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  21888.  @cherokeecharlie4016  No. This was not advertising and marketing. It was journalism. I appreciate the confusion.
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  21889. I suggest you listen to or read some Steven F. Cohen. You might be very surprised. He was asked several years ago, at an event at the 92nd St. Y, whether Putin would invade Ukraine. Everyone expected him to say "no." He did not say no. A lot of people were at odds with Katrina after she and her late husband refused to join the Russia conspiracy theorists.
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  21890. One example: Gates could give every single homeless American $12,000 with 5% of his fortune -- in other words, he wouldn't feel it. And we praise the billionaires? Let's have a real giving pledge.
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  21891. If you advocate banning speech, you have to be more specific.
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  21892.  @NumeroSystem  That's not specific enough. Read Strossen on hate speech. Read Chemerinsky. I don't agree with every word, but no one who doesn't read them will have a fully informed view of the subject. Your little formulation could end up banning Richard Wolff. It's not like that didn't happen -- during McCarthy.
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  21893.  @NumeroSystem  Absolutely: anyone who advocates an overthrow of the capitalist system, by whatever means prove to be necessary. Of course, it is names of assassinated people who come to mind first.
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  21894.  @NumeroSystem  If you actually care, read Nadine Strossen and Erwin Chemerinsky. Very fast, entertaining reads. Do that before advocating for gutting the First Amendment.
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  21895.  @NumeroSystem  Let me ask you instead: should works by and about Malcolm X be banned? Fred Hampton? Angela Davis? Lenin, Mao, Castro, Che?
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  21896.  @NumeroSystem  So, what would you do with it? Denounce it and articulate reasons for that, or remove it from a university campus, and expel any students and fire faculty who smuggle it back in? By what right the latter?
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  21897.  @NumeroSystem  That's no longer a university. The unrepentant maoist Alain Badiou was head of the philosophy department at ENS, one of the most prestigious chairs in philosophy in the world. He didn't get along with his boss. His work merited it, so he got the chair. I've known for a long time that free speech means multilingualism. I'm not joking, either. What if works of the past inspire people of the present? (Or has debt and the threat of homelessness taken care of that risk?)
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  21898.  @NumeroSystem  Then we're good.
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  21899. This is a talking point. The most common college major by far is Business Administration, and has been for well over a generation. (Without a lot of accounting to qualify for a CPA, or finance and the math to go with that, it just exists to prove docility to employers.) The next three or four most popular majors are related to health care in some way. All together, that accounts for about half of all college students. We haven't even mentioned engineering, computer science, or pre-law. So someone somewhere majors in Women's Studies and goes on to journalism or film school. Big deal.
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  21900.  @imccc  Gender Studies majors are extremely rare, and account for less than 1% of all degrees conferred. But combine it a full minor or second major in photography and you'll go farther in fashion merchandising than any Business major ever could. Or, go to law school, specialize later in Title IX. IOW, These are just stupid talking points, intended to shift blame (like most things). Of course you're right -- it depends. The only true rags to riches story I know was an art major, who went on to make iconic commercials. And later was sorry he never made a "real" movie.
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  21901. If there's no evidence that they are guilty, why should they be held?
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  21902.  @huejay5388  A person of interest must be charged or released within 72 hours. If there isn't sufficient evidence to support a charge, he must be released.
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  21903.  @huejay5388  Of course these videos shouldn't be posted. They violate the privacy of three innocent minors.
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  21904. The Harris vote is party apparatchiks plus the anti-Trump vote. There is no pro-Harris groundswell.
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  21905. Show me where.
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  21906. ​@utah_koidragon7117 Jackson is excellent, and no comparison with Kamala. Have you read her opinions? Her concurrences and dissents are even better.
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  21907. We need to know what caused THIS crash. It may or may not have involved DEI (or nepotism); it may or may not have been vaccine mandates and demoralization. Let the chips fall where they may. Why prejudge? To what end? How is that a meritorious approach to the issue?
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  21908.  @utah_koidragon7117  Why would DEI be a priori to blame OR blameless? A lot of things have deteriorated over the last few decades. A solid education has gone from being an aspiration for everyone to a niche. Cheating scandals at the top universities have proliferated, regardless of "identity." Massive bonuses for mediocre performance are common. What has remained untouched? What quick fix do you imagine is possible? Even Vivek had a point about studious kids being looked down on, although he stated it badly. (But right there is part of the problem: why couldn't he make a solid point without alienating people and talking about identities, as if only Asian immigrants are studious??) Wow, just wow.
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  21909. @utah_koidragon7117  Besides, Niall was honest. Amber doesn't know why minority test scores on air traffic controller tests are overall higher, either. She assumes someone put their thumb on the scale. Could it be self-selection, so that only the best even try? Could it be that a small group is likely to have skewed results, regardless? Could it be that people with solid military careers score higher, and that means relatively more minorities will? (And is that a flaw in the test, or a good thing? How did David Goggins become David Goggins?)
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  21910. @utah_koidragon7117  You don't know whether the tests were somehow designed to favor minorities. The fact that you can assert that with zero evidence IS an example of declining standards. I don't claim to know what I don't know -- but you do. On what basis? Love for your own biases? I don't think DEI has lowered any standards, OR raised them. I think it helped to insure that mediocre people from every pressure group could get jobs, and that lots of other things have had even more of an influence in that direction, nepotism being first on the list because it is the single most powerful force designed to override merit and mete out jobs to the "right" people. Of course qualified Americans have been displaced from jobs they were performing very well by cheap H-1B visa holders. Everyone must know that. Thank the tech billionaires for that. They were all arrayed right behind Trump's immediate family at the inauguration.
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  21911. @utah_koidragon7117   You don't know whether the tests were somehow designed to favor minorities. The fact that you can assert that with zero evidence IS an example of declining standards. I don't claim to know what I don't know -- but you do. On what basis? I don't think DEI has lowered any standards, OR raised them. I think it helped to insure that mediocre people from every pressure group could get jobs, and that lots of other things have had even more of an influence in that direction, nepotism being first on the list because it is the single most powerful force designed to override merit and mete out jobs to the "right" people. Of course qualified Americans have been displaced from jobs they were performing very well by cheap H-1B visa holders. Everyone must know that. Thank the tech billionaires for that. They were all arrayed right behind Trump's immediate family at the inauguration.
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  21912.  @utah_koidragon7117  Let's see if the meritorious censors will let you see my reply. I bet not. It was __ once, and the edit was tiny.
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  21913.  @utah_koidragon7117  Well, logic goes straight to the shadows yet again. I'm referring to cents or ship.
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  21914. So . . . The facial recognition software isn't working? Time to go into overdrive.
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  21915. Can you imagine the looks on the faces of the Chinese who paid this bakshish, listening to these reports? "We don't know . . . " 🤣
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  21916. What you're doing is fomenting hate toward Americans. Stop it.
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  21917. I kinda think Hillary Clinton already did that.
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  21918.  @oneeyedrob  LOL, I guess we are required to believe that's up in the air. Also, puberty blockers are safe and mRNA COVID vaccines are perfect for teen boys. Anyone who doesn't agree should be canceled.
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  21919. The insurance case is not analogous. Actually, the Laundrie parents had no legal duty to speak, as immoral as that is. Maintaining silence is a legal right; insurance is a binding contract. The statement their lawyer made was an off the cuff remark he inadvisedly made to the press. No evidence that the Laundries instructed him to make it. I agree the case is not frivolous, though. I was surprised Dr. Grande took that strong of a view.
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  21920. That's not why it's like that. Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair and that whole cabal are why.
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  21921. I just heard Bernie Sanders' speech against funding the war against Palestine. The US has truly lost any right to world leadership. It should be seeking a path to peace in Ukraine and Palestine. It only feeds war.
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  21922. Why? Because he is sane.
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  21923. 🤣
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  21924. The videos where Hotez FLATLY contradicts HIMSELF repeatedly and acts as a political shill instead of a doctor seal the deal for me. Hotez wanted to deprive everyone with perfectly legitimately concerns about the COVID vaccines of their civil rights and civil liberties. If the discussions with RFK Jr would be so unproductive, have one and show us.
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  21925.  @PikachooUpYou  He actually said "agency." I guess your comment is one explanation.
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  21926.  @the_monkeypox_commander6603  No, he's not right. The context will be different in each culture and language.
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  21927. A real journalist, Glenn Greenwald, just interviewed Briahna Joy Gray on his program tonight.
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  21928. You don't actually wish that. 😊
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  21929. ​ @kp6215 You, too!! 😊
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  21930. Excellent 😂😂😂
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  21931. HOW do people get duped by anyone like this? "Because they want to be" doesn't explain it. Can't they pick a better cult?
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  21932. Hey Robby, trade in private police for no qualified immunity. Sue their corporation, go after them.
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  21933. Public policy is everyone's business. The politicians are supposed to be public servants. Did you tell Trump critics to run for office?
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  21934. WOW. A Harvard Law grad who knows NOTHING about SSA law. WOW
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  21935.  @livingroomcomputer7148  That wasn't obvious in the least. The trial succeeded in shifting the issue away from the allegedly defamatory article to who was worse in the marriage. That belongs in divorce court, or in this case probably a criminal trial. It doesn't belong in a defamation case that turned into a show trial. And now, people who point that out have to be concerned about their jobs -- and what else? Their safety? You think the First Amendment isn't under attack? Oh brother.
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  21936.  @rupertneverton3887  Depp's own testimony brought out enough "domestic abuse" to support the assertion BJG is making. What was established while he was on the stand was enough under the law. The split verdict is incoherent, also. I bet it was a compromise, to go home.
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  21937.  @TeflonAlexander Well, what statements do you cite that she made? The only one in the article that clearly refers to Depp is indeed the phrase "domestic abuse." If you paid attention, you know that the texts were not the only evidence of domestic abuse, and what people say to others most certainly was given probative value for both Depp and Heard.
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  21938.  @rupertneverton3887  But that's just it. The trial became about the marriage, rather than the article. Defamation is about specific instances of speech or writing, for which First Amendment protection is presumed, and you are supposed to have a hefty burden to remove that protection.
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  21939.  @rupertneverton3887  Where in the world did you see me say anything about "beyond reasonable doubt?" "Most likely false" is not the New York Times malice standard, either. The speculation that the split verdict reflects a compromise strikes me as pretty astute.
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  21940.  @rupertneverton3887  If she didn't write the article, then why did he sue her? Sue the writer and publisher. Depp lost roles before this article came out, and also as the result of losing a defamation case in the UK. He has substance abuse issues, which I can believe Heard made worse. But that's for divorce court. He basically recoups what he gave her there, plus a little more, interestingly enough.
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  21941.  @livingroomcomputer7148  Actually, the guest got the New York Times malice standard wrong, so she never looked at the jury instructions. Pop culture is never about jury instructions.
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  21942. @livingRoom Computer: I know the trial turned away from whether the article was false and became a fight about who was worse. Heard could never win that, no. Although the jury decided to punish both to some extent -- which makes no sense. I don't even think a person like Depp should ever be held liable for a lawyer's statement. Really never, unless they joined in a criminal conspiracy or something.
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  21943.  @Flamingtorpedostrike  🤣 A "/s " is needed for, like, everything now.
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  21944. Briahna just had a guest on her show discussing the ravages of anti-male bias and the harms it is causing, among other things, streamed a few hours ago.
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  21945.  @streamylc  What does Whoopie know, compared with BJG? Whoopie did not know Jill Biden isn't an MD, for cripe's sake. When Whoopie misspoke about the Holocaust, showing her ignorance, Brie was on an excellent panel that talked openly about race in ways you never hear. Man, do smart women get the street swept with them! Stop punishing her for READING.
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  21946.  @thomas730813  "Malice" is an unfortunate term of art in defamation law, and only applies to very well known people who are in the spotlight, and whose activities are a legitimate matter of public interest.
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  21947.  @streamylc  Project much? Maybe you can't stand it when somebody knows something. I think that informed people are too nice to the bloviators who think their uninformed opinions are as important or better than the opinions of people who took the time to study. Robbie sounds like he never read the article or any court documents, which are online everywhere. If you crave a race to the bottom, just keep it up. If you think style is that much more important than substance, just keep it up. You're really reaching. My family isn't American, and I won't be staying. You think about you. It won't be my problem. Someone needs to say it.
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  21948.  @streamylc  She was right, about the law and the facts. She can't be? Why? Where does she get her permission slip?
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  21949.  @streamylc  You disrespected me by going to ad hom. Ironic. Nothing I said was a personal dig, everything I said had to do with the issues.
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  21950.  @beefstorm914  I find Briahna's intelligence on her own podcast rare, and a breath of fresh air.
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  21951.  @streamylc  Well, this was more cordial.
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  21952.  @streamylc  If Brie is the first to point out these facts, give her props. Why not? She earned them, unlike a certain Amber.
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  21953. @Mega Pint & Muffins The attack on the intelligent remains unabated. You can see where that has got you.
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  21954. @Mega Pint & Muffins The First Amendment, on the other hand, needs defending real bad.
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  21955.  @Panda_J1  Oh now I'm skerd.
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  21956.  @Bash70  And have long-term unemployment turn into permanent unemployment? That sounds like a plan. Maybe their plan.
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  21957.  @Bash70  Well, UBI combined with universal Medicare, yes. People would be free to start their own businesses or pursue employment in a field they really care about. Let's see what happens to those who are 12-18 months without a job -- or UBI, or insurance. What do you predict?
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  21958.  @Bash70  I never suggested they'd be lazy. I suggested employers would discriminate against them and refuse to hire them. That's what employers do, usually.
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  21959.  @Bash70  AMEN
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  21960.  @Bash70  Well, that's another "plan" that takes no account of merit. Do you seriously believe that young people are generally well prepared for the workforce? That they're not is, of course, MOSTLY due to the actions (and inaction) of the prior generation, so I'm not defending older workers by any means. Reintroducing employment discrimination based on age isn't the solution. As for teaching, it has become a dangerous and emotionally exhausting job. Some form of protection is necessary, or else no teacher will be giving honest grades to anyone. I can't believe people don't realize that already. What do you think dissatisfied students do? Send threats online, defame online, make false reports to administrators, etc. As a start.
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  21961.  @Bash70  The generation older than my own is starting to die out and I will be forlorn without them.
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  21962.  @Bash70  Yes, you should be able to "hold on" to any job where you are doing an excellent job for as long as you are doing an excellent job. Every truly outstanding federal judge I know is older, and could have retired. The fact that they haven't is why you still have rights. (BTW, these judges were the appointees of both parties.) The best teacher I ever had in high school retired, got her Master's, and then taught English at community college well into her seventies. She was a gift to this world. Her influence on young people was indescribable.
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  21963.  @Bash70  "Purge" . . . speaks volumes. Thanks.
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  21964. The fight against autocorrect never ends. What my tablet thinks is correct is amazing.
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  21965. THIS!
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  21966. How about Musk? Tesla finally turned an annual profit for the first time, in large part because Musk is one of the most aggressive anti-union bosses, his company is a fad (check the PE ratio, now that it finally has one -- it has broken FOUR digits), and he knows how to seek out tax breaks, equally aggressively. The business pages that praise him will concede all this.
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  21967.  @simoncase6312  Well, we'll see, won't we? For example, we'll see during the next boom and bust cycle. "PE isn't relevant," when it's over 1,100! And a recession is looming. Ha ha ha. I admire your humor. Your trendy, jargon-laden talking points, not so much.
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  21968.  @simoncase6312  Walmart and McDonald's are the world's largest employers after the US Department of Defense and its Chinese counterpart. I guess those must be good places to work, since so many people choose to. I mean, taking a Darwinian perspective on the whole thing. Plus you can count actual heads, you needn't rely on survey data.
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  21969.  @simoncase6312  We'll see. If you're right, it will be proven. We'll see how companies with PEs north of 100 do in the next crash. You mention growth, but you won't waste another line on providing a PEG ratio. Give us that. (P. S. NASDAQ lists it as above 20, but there seems to be a lack of consensus on the number, for some odd reason, hmm. At any rate, no one puts it at or below 1, where it ought to be.) I can tell you right now, the autonomous cars he aims to make are nonsense unless insurance companies (which represent concentrations of capital and can force us to make choices we would not want on our own) force it. "The market" will not choose autonomous cars on its own.
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  21970. Your mask, your choice. I see no problem. And do tell your story; it's not "mere anecdote."
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  21971. Money; an ideological, committed, but unhappy marriage; money. Sums it up.
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  21972. I had a very unusual cold in the fall of 2019, quite severe, with a mild fever and followed by two weeks of exhaustion. Then I had mild COVID symptoms in March 2020, when no tests were available. It took six weeks to feel like myself again. Four months later, a not very sensitive antibody test indicated no antibodies, but my doctor said we could conclude nothing from that test. So, I don't know what I had either time. It could have been a coronavirus cold, followed by COVID -- extreme good luck? Wish I knew. :/
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  21973.  @bmell1252  BTW, blocked. Blech.
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  21974.  @lazypops3117  Okay you're right.
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  21975.  @kellyfowler6426  I asked a question. I assume, now, that your answer is no. Great. Thanks.
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  21976. They aren't even infotainment.
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  21977. Because Epstein wasn't one of the most deeply connected people in history. Don't listen to the report. Just jump in with your inexplicable feewings.
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  21978. Bri is asking a question. I also wonder why China instituted actual, complete lockdowns, as is done in prisons. Do they know something about the virus that they are not sharing? I mean, apart from its origins. Is that possible? Americans can't ask questions anymore, apparently. Separate the question from the person and what you think of her.
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  21979. ABC News interviewed the mastermind of the terrorist cell that committed the Beslan school seige and massacre.
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  21980. This is the stupidest, anhistorical remark. How did they live before any Europeans showed up? Less morally enlightened than the imperialists who killed them to dominate them and loot their resources? What did that little island need to roam the world for lucre, anyway? How incredibly needy.
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  21981. What, precisely, did Musk post that was both unequivocally false AND had the potential to incite riots or support the current UK riots? Did you catch that? Seems to me that if this was SOOOOO important, it would be crystal clear exactly what he (allegedly) did.
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  21982. Ana said "Jeff" voted for JFK? So . . . "Jeff" is in his early 80s?
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  21983.  @dogegamer3288  Does anyone have to be commanded to fall in love, sit on a tropical beach, or drink champagne?
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  21984.  @bratSebastian  It's not the truth. Do you think my parents ever told me such joyless nonsense? How does your discourse relate to young, impressionable people not caring whether a treatment may lead them to sterility and no sexual pleasures or desires? How indeed. "Destructive ideologies?" That has got to be the most massive act of projection I have yet to witness, and in 2023 that took some doing. Why is it that people who think this way never get therapy, but only seek to make everyone else sick?
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  21985.  @bratSebastian  P. S. Kids grow up. You want to plant this in their heads, why? To stunt them emotionally? To make sure they suffer? It doesn't magically disappear at 23, or 28, or 37. Why are so many people determined to destroy this generation?
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  21986. SO DID AMBER HEARD.
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  21987.  @araceliescobar1807  Where were you in Depp v. Heard? Did you even read the article alleged to be defamation? What did you think of Depp being held liable for his lawyer's speech, to the tune of $2 million? Absurd verdicts, mob justice and sheer titilation.
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  21988.  @harnessriscallous7466  She placed her name on the article. Did you ever read it? Depp's case-in-chief already showed that he was an abuser. The article didn't say more than that. Most of it was about being assaulted long before meeting Depp. As for Depp paying his lawyer for a specific statement, PROVE it. Lawyers are not press agents. You can't pay them to be a mouthpiece, not if they are doing their job as lawyers. (The jury reacted emotionally to the word "hoax." I guess add it to George Carlin's list.)
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  21989.  @harnessriscallous7466  What Sun article? 🤣🤣🤣 You guarantee? More 🤣🤣🤣
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  21990.  @harnessriscallous7466  That was an entirely separate case in a different legal system than our own.
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  21991.  @harnessriscallous7466  Maybe you need to learn some legal terminology? It could be you who doesn't understand plain English. So of course you have to pretend-insult those who obviously do. Criminal law in both countries has entirely different procedures than civil law. Absent a complaint lodged in the proper way, or other evidence amounting to probable cause of a crime, why would the state in either case pursue criminal charges against anyone?
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  21992.  @harnessriscallous7466  Case-in-chief means that all the evidence the plaintiff presents before the defense is heard. It's what the plaintiff must do, to prove they have a case at all. Oh well. Never mind.
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  21993.  @GM-db4bv  How in the world does that reflect on the child? Photos are available EVERYWHERE. So, if neo-Nazis demonstrate at a Trump rally, does that reflect on Trump? If they demonstrate outside a venue where Kamala Harris is speaking, do you impute their views to her? "Gee, why are false flags so easy to pull off??"
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  21994. We are forced to chase the wrong things. No one can afford the basics any other way.
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  21995.  @nedludd7622  BTW, forgot to mute your screenname.
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  21996. @Reckless Ron It sure didn't! 🤣🤣🤣
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  21997. @Reckless Ron Remember Maynard G. Krebs? "Work!?" "Think!!?"
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  21998. @Reckless Ron Ha! I thought that was a possibility. PCF and CGT have been strongly against vaccine mandates and passports in France. Do people not even know the left is anti-mandate in Europe? Communists opposing mandates, how far we've fallen.
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  21999.  @robconvole  You just made my day.
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  22000. @Reckless Ron But to be fair, even the Soviets banned lobotomies a full generation before America did.
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  22001. How did they miss the real story? Does Naomi Biden's unoccupied vehicle merit Secret Service protection?
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  22002. If you don't know yet, pay attention. You'll figure it out soon, unfortunately.
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  22003. I recently found out he did not start Tesla. He bought it with PayPal money and pushed out one of the actual founders. I admit I was surprised. Musk didn't even name Tesla.
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  22004. @daniellynn8751  The United States is "falling to pieces" because people worship con artists and showmen, and have no respect for real accomplishments.
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  22005. I don't believe this. They may deny general access, and I can believe they do, but in extraordinary cases they can be subpoenaed anyway. They may simply forego the subpoena and hand it over to avoid the possible expense. Also, this is a policy (edit: meaning, their privacy policy) that can be changed at any time. No, you did not know "exactly what you were doing." If in the future the information is misused in any way, contrary to your contract or your reasonable reliance, do you have the money to sue them? Then how do you expect to enforce your rights?
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  22006.  @dawnclabaugh3598  Er, no. Not at all.
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  22007. You're right, Kim. NO ONE ELSE will report this. Anne-Laure Bonnel and Patrick Lancaster are being systematically vilified.
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  22008. Nothing matches what Harvard did to Ted Kaczynski. They experimented with him when he was still a minor. The Atlantic wrote about it when it was still a real journal.
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  22009. Oh my goodness. And you just reaffirmed the Dunning-Kruger effect. Seth Waxman was Solicitor General and has argued more cases before the Supreme Court than any other living person. You have no clue what he was talking about -- or that he is friends with all of these Justices, for that matter. But if you get 300+ Likes, well then, you must be right.
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  22010.  @lukedaniell  You beat me to it. Thank GOD. This was scary.
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  22011.  @Lucy-q1b  Try looking up the briefs and at least skim those. You might have an idea of what the argument is about if you were to take the time to step away from the YouTube and finding something real to look at.
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  22012.  @Lucy-q1b  No, he was referring to the trial record in the case, to demonstrate that Harvard is in full compliance with the line of Supreme Court cases that permit considering race in admissions. The other side is asking the Court to overturn those precedents, straight up. That is the only issue stated in their petition for certiorari. Quite remarkable, actually.
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  22013. ​ @andrewsaint6581  I don't hear smug. I hear exasperated. People who did the research were demonized. Remember?
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  22014. @thebrassgoblin5454  It was a test to see who had three to four years of living expenses stashed in their emergency fund. I did, and had no elderly family. Hence I could decline. Now, however, I can never retire.
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  22015. ​ @iwonaiwona1362 Source? I can't find it.
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  22016. ​@user-jj4br9cf1h Me too, hit by sense or ship. Factual post, mentioned the need for multivariate analysis in light of all the mistakes made by the mistake makers. 😊
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  22017. Chris Rock echoed ADAM SMITH. Smith warned of the rentier class, over and over.
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  22018. And you think someone else is confused . . .
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  22019. Compensated to the tune of 10 million smackers a year, $1141 per hour 24/7/365. Yes, every hour of every day.
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  22020. Come off it.
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  22021. How can attorney-client confidential and privileged communications be authenticated? The lawyers cannot acknowledge the material. They would be disbarred for doing so. PV won't because that is a waiver of attorney-client privilege.
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  22022.  @yw9686  Were they authenticated? How? By whom? How were they retrieved? Did an arm of the US security state take custody of them subsequent to a raid on her servers? Were confidential and privileged emails published, or only those pertaining to matters of legitimate public concern? Honest questions because I don't know. I don't know the nature of the breach, the content, or the dissemination. I don't know whether the breach was possibly a crime, a civil tort she could sue for, both, or neither. I didn't follow the story.
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  22023.  @yw9686  No they don't. They publish materials they are able to authenticate. Otherwise, they would be subject to any and every false flag operation, and even be liable for defamation under New York Times malice ("reckless disregard for the truth"). Nor would they knowingly risk being accused of acting as the surveillance state's cat's paw, helping it to spy or intimidate other journalists.
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  22024.  @yw9686  IOW, you would see set-ups galore if this were true.
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  22025.  @yw9686  The FBI is legally prohibited from doing that.
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  22026.  @yw9686  Do you think any agents of the government can scoop up confidential materials from you, or anyone, and freely share them with the media?
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  22027.  @yw9686  Right. Media can publish materials that have been stolen, or leaked, or mailed anonymously in a plain brown wrapper. How do they authenticate materials protected by attorney-client privilege? Material obtained by law enforcement during a search is protected. It is a criminal offense for anyone to pass it along to the media, or to anyone. Well, people do commit crimes, true. Being part of the FBI and sworn to protect investigations and the material collected during investigationd doesn't mean someone won't commit a crime. The history of double agents proves that.
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  22028.  @MyLilTony93  Food and shelter without modern (early 20th century) technology do not "scale," either. If forcing people to limit family size "scales" better, should that be adopted as well? If not by law, then should there be social pressure to limit the number of children you have?
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  22029.  @MyLilTony93  And I fail to see how everyone procreating to the maximum their biology allows would "scale." I don't think you appreciate the history of technology, which includes the farming equipment that became common in the 18th and 19th centuries. I didn't mean computers, or atom bombs.
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  22030.  @MyLilTony93  Neither is "scalable," and the standard itself is arbitrary. Neither is even possible: people intent on having children don't, and those who planned never to have them do. Read a book on demographics that covers why human populations suddenly ballooned. History is not "a chicken and egg argument." What do they teach in school now? This is scary.
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  22031.  @MyLilTony93  I never said tech vs. food. And I reject scalability as a standard of goodness. You could make an argument for polygamy on that basis. That sounds like a modern meme, not a well-thought-out ethical position. This is tiresome. 'Bye.
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  22032.  @Radblur  You give him vastly too much credit. Scalability isn't Kantian at all; the categorical imperative would seek to create a maxim by asking something like, would you will for all human beings to have been wanted by their parents at birth, or would you will that everyone have children, wanted or not? How could the latter be a moral imperative?
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  22033.  @MyLilTony93  You're the one who posited "scalability" as some sort of normative principle, with no justification whatsoever. You simply contributed slogans which we've all had our fill of. Time waster. Blocked.
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  22034.  @Radblur  I didn't think you were, actually. It seems to me that scalability is inherently a utilitarian principle; Kant's point is that if a principle of conduct is in fact an ethical one, and not just a matter of what is more pleasurable, agreeable, or useful, then it must exist as a universal imperative: it must impose a duty upon all moral agents. I think you're right. Having children can be no more a universal moral imperative than becoming a surgeon, a concert pianist, or an electrical engineer -- or being a foster parent, or an adoptive parent. I think Kant would approach the question from the standpoint of whether we can frame a universal moral imperative to develop one's (God-given, in Kant's eyes) talents to the best of one's ability. It's inconceivable that he would urge those without any inclination to parenting to have children "because they should."
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  22035.  @Radblur  Just checked: Kant never married or had children. He had a very strict religious upbringing, and severe migraines as an adult, both of which may have inhibited him socially. I didn't think he ever married.
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  22036. ​ @odem1947 What party? UK votes very much by party in parliamentary elections.
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  22037.  @lmlmlmlm7627  And? When did Trump bow to MSM?
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  22038. Switzerland never routinely recommended more than one dose to anyone who recovered from a proven case of COVID. I looked at other countries' ministries of health websites all through this.
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  22039. Sputnik V is a probably safer version of the Astra Zeneca (British) vaccine, and as effective. The Chinese vaccines are slightly less effective but likely a lot safer. But don't say that. Verboten.
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  22040. The Larry Flynt case established that political parody is First Amendment-protected speech.
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  22041.  @therealcirclea762  Is public education a means of enslavement of teachers? Are first responders slaves, too? The US Department of Defense is the single largest employer in the world. Are all the people working in that system slaves? (There you may have a case.)
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  22042.  @therealcirclea762  All the Terrible Places you mention, where no one has "freedom," have higher higher life expectancy than the US. And of course less obesity, addiction, random, crazy violence, and general dysfunction. But if you can set up an enclave, go near-hermit, you certainly have a better "opportunity" to do that in the US. I mean, look at the Manson family, or the Unabomber. If they had just left other people alone, no problem.
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  22043.  @em3sis  Have some pride.
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  22044.  @em3sis  Well as it turns out, your communication skills are outstanding, and you have persuaded me to adopt your point of view. You shouldn't benefit from so much as FAA air traffic control, you should have to hire your own -- or remain earthbound.
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  22045.  @melanies.6030  Since he can do better on his own, by all means, he should have every opportunity.
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  22046.  @therealcirclea762  But then why would universal Medicare be enslavement? What, did you think we forgot your initial assertion? Though it looks like you might have.
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  22047.  @therealcirclea762  Mandatory registration for Selective Service most certainly is a "thing," and a draft could be reinstituted any time. In fact, all male citizens AND residents of the US ages 18 to 26 are required to register. Look it up.
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  22048.  @therealcirclea762  Selective Service registration is legally required RIGHT NOW, today. But you try to evade the issue. If TEACHERS are not slaves for teaching in the public schools, why are doctors in danger of enslavement from universal health care?
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  22049.  @therealcirclea762  Are doctors who treat Medicare and Medicaid patients slaves?
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  22050.  @therealcirclea762  I "love" how you evaded the fact that you forgot about mandatory Selective Service registration. (Not) Are doctors who treat Medicare and Medicaid patients slaves, according to you? Are taxes that go to pay for these programs creating enslavement?
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  22051.  @jeffberndt8699  These people have persuaded me. I don't want them to benefit from anything I pay for. :D Of course not. I never agreed to it. In fact, they should have to invent their own private language. By what right do they benefit from a collective product?
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  22052.  @therealcirclea762  No, the court can appoint a lawyer to a case, usually from a panel of lawyers who agree to be available, but in principle any lawyer who is a member of the bar. If the lawyer does not want to take the case for any reason other than one recognized as presenting an ethical problem, he must petition the court for permission, and possibly even face reprimand. Not that reprimands usually happen, but that they could. There are even crucial moments in a case where a lawyer cannot withdraw, either formally or simply by quitting, unless he is desperately ill or something, without risking his license to practice. This is true even in civil cases, even where the lawyer took the client himself and later wants to withdraw. This is true even when the client has stopped paying. The lawyer needs the judge's permission, which must be requested by motion and becomes part of the public record of the case. A client can always fire a lawyer. A lawyer cannot always quit a case. Even a fired lawyer has to submit a motion to withdraw, to the court, so it becomes part of the public record that the client fired him. Look it up. You did not understand the post. So why are YOU talking about someone else's IQ points?
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  22053.  @cld7411  Do you know what a "ponzi scheme" is?
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  22054.  @therealcirclea762  Still fact-free? Is it . . . fun?
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  22055.  @cld7411  Right. That has nothing to do with Medicare.
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  22056.  @lunarmodule6419  Yes. Going on two years.
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  22057. ​ @zacboyles1396 This has nothing to do with the left. Taibbi's reporting on Wall Street and the 2008 financial implosion is paradigmatically left.
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  22058. THANK YOU, you beat me to it!! And CONGRATS! People in their 80s who still work part-time are my heroes. It's so inspiring and exciting to see.
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  22059. ​ @RobbeyT1 Thank you.
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  22060. ​ @JnTmarie AMEN, will be thinking of you. I mean it.
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  22061. ​@placidengoma6730 Any career you start by age 40, you will do for the better part of three decades, and possibly longer on a part-time basis. That is plenty long enough for any career, lol.
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  22062. ​ @thevcountdown9824 At 50, lots of Americans have to work 20 more years. It better be a desk job, huh?
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  22063. @qualichor1222  Not always. A case study, even of a single person if carefully done, points in the direction of what is possible --- maybe broadly possible, for far more people than you think. See the work of Anders Ericsson.
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  22064.  @qualichor1222  But who cares about that? It's a party trick, not a life plan.
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  22065.  @userunknown1578  No one else did.
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  22066. 6:12 They have no shame.
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  22067. When he's older, absolutely!
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  22068. Maybe, um, don't drop out of college?
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  22069. In America, there is little stomach for foreign aid unless it can be cast as a "win-win proposition." The idea of sacrifice to help another is said to create "dependency" and "victims."
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  22070. Every competent person who needs a job should have one. Full employment!!
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  22071.  @pretary1845  Nope, not a generation -- a social class did that.
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  22072.  @deborahvretis3195  His very much trusted doctor told him he needed it. He might not be as sick had he taken another vaccine. Really tragic.
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  22073. How do we elect Congress? By districts, correct?
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  22074. LOL😅
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  22075. Oh this video gives me confidence that it's accurate.
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  22076.  @brookeceron8091  I grant you I hadn't thought of that. If there is a connection between being compromised and he has performed, that would be important. Biden generally makes all his decisions to benefit those he considers to be "his own," and always has. I don't expect anything else from him. I consider Hunter's activities an issue, yes -- I just don't think anyone was elected to investigate Hunter, any more than anyone was elected to investigate "Russian collusion." So far, the only promise Biden has kept was to keep his son out of jail. That was the only one I was sure he would keep. (I voted LaRiva/Peltier as a protest against Peltier's continued incarceration, and I voted on election day in person.)
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  22077.  @markbrown9765  They have been doing exactly that at least since 2008, and that only accounts for the period of great acceleration in creative ways to print money; in fact, they have been printing money in earnest for decades now. It did not start in 2020-2021. Did you forget to check the graphs?
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  22078.  @Buckwheat-48  I agree there is something highly suspicious about how Biden was foisted on us. If the Dems were so intent on winning in 2020 after what happened in 2016, they would have gotten serious and picked a solid candidate. Instead, they needed the pandemic to win. We've been in serious financial trouble for decades, and the truth became apparent in 2008-09. This is not the work of a single party or administration; it is a cabal. If it didn't affect you before 2021, consider yourself extremely lucky. All but those in the top 10% in financial asset net worth are insecure. One major illness can send most families into bankruptcy.
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  22079.  @Kharmatos13  Nope.
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  22080. There is a sweet spot for UBI, shown in several compelling studies. Just enough but not too much UBI raises employment: people are more relaxed and give better interviews, they come across as easier to work with, they dress better, get new shoes, get their teeth cleaned and their nails done. Their health care costs go down. Is there such a thing as too much UBI? Yes, the data supports that, of course, but nowhere near as strongly. Just enough yields greater productivity overall, not less.
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  22081. And in 2024 . . .
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  22082. THANK YOU Best post of the day.
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  22083. Do they have a declaration of homicide? I hope they will be able to determine the cause and manner of death quickly.
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  22084.  @MikeBDaniels-bv8io  No such official declaration has been made. Was the van registered in her name only? The police could have held him on stealing her van and leaving her in a dangerous area. Police often act as though they know more than they actually know. This can't be news to anyone.
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  22085. Mattias Desmet. Remember that name.
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  22086.  @snakemongoosepanther  Do you have some sort of reading challenge that you cannot understand irony?
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  22087.  @snakemongoosepanther  You more than anyone need to listen very closely, not to Dore, Ana, etc., etc., but to THIS video by Glenn Greenwald.
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  22088. Between this, Uvalde, and the fact that there were so many mass shootings already this year . . . and some people are just looking for ways to monetize everything. Joy Behar insinuated that the water is fine -- for Trump voters. And she gets paid for saying that.
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  22089.  randyp070129  NO HE DOES NOT "WORK THERE." His part-time life guard job ended in March, when the COVID shutdown began, and he was not recalled.
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  22090. Trump just picked J D Vance as his running mate. IOW, he just won the election.
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  22091.  Dewane Hale  Zero to do with it. The people who push that may be much more polite but are just as simplistic as the cancel crowd. You're suggesting compelled speech, plus hitting a minor who doesn't comply. (By the way, I left community college teaching because of this little mob as well. One kid who harrassed me thought I was a Trumper, and two others thought I was a Progressive. The former was scary, and was later arrested for touching two women at a Walmart. In all cases, they harassed me, then reported me. That's their MO.)
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  22092. I'm so sorry. I wish I were surprised.
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  22093. When Jimmy started to remind me of Dave Chappell at his finest . . .
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  22094. Maybe the CEO of Moderna thinks $400m is chump change. He thinks in terms of billions.
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  22095. Love speech could be violent speech. An incitement to imminent violence could be framed in terms of patriotism and love of country, and pity for the target, "but we must do what we must do," to "save" our homes and families. See? Has Jessice ever seen a Venn diagram?
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  22096. Yes, my books are everywhere. I'm ashamed of it.
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  22097. This is a lesson in how to resist propaganda.
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  22098. It's not a true threat. Inform yourself about your free speech rights, before they become nothing more than the plot of a cute period piece.
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  22099. https://youtu.be/gxCZTfA3HBQ
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  22100. One of the best selections of commentary Jimmy has ever presented. GREAT JOB, Jimmy! Thank you!
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  22101.  @selohcin  This has been extensively discussed in connection with Epstein's first trial, and the reluctance of both the state and the federal government to charge him and punish him appropriately. It is true that we don't know for sure, and that these facts are well hidden by the bad actors involved. These are the real conspiracies. Of course we don't know the whole story.
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  22102. Perfect guest. Very, very warmest thanks, I swear!
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  22103.  @jgalt308  You have absolutely NO idea what a corporation is, or what its history is.
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  22104.  @juniorgod321  Cornel West has always been open to dialogue with just about everyone, including the Black Panthers -- but he was candid with them about why he would never join. He considered it against his Christian faith. BTW, West previously HAD tenure at Harvard.
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  22105.  @jgalt308  Well, if you're content with just making up stuff, far be it from me, or anyone, to stifle your creative voice.
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  22106.  @jgalt308  What "source?"
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  22107.  @jgalt308  Not visible to me. Sign out and check.
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  22108.  @jgalt308  Inapposite. Corporations are creatures OF the state. The Darthmouth case didn't survive the post-Depression era. It was never overturned, but was effectively weakened by numerous subsequent decisions. To suggest that it was the first step in finding full "personhood" for corporations is fanciful at best. But that the current Court could see it that way and resurrect it would surprise no one. BTW, could a private landowner avoid Eminent Domain by incorporating? Might be fun to try it! You think the 1819 Court would have thought the state could seize private property, and turn it over to other private interests to develop? These are all POLITICAL decisions.
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  22109.  @jgalt308  More realistically: "How to Actually Prosecute the Financial Crimes of the Very Rich I quit the DOJ because I no longer wanted to participate in a system this permissive. MAY 19, 2021 Paul E. Pelletier Former federal financial-crimes prosecutor"
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  22110.  @jgalt308  No, I'm not the author.
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  22111. That was a joke. Correct?
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  22112.  @dr.fawzikatranji4908  Anyone can say anything.
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  22113.  @BNJ24  I am not clear on what you're saying. Which "they?" There are so many, LOL.
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  22114. In general I agree! If they don't get an intent-to-sue letter from Aaron's attorney, this might be giving them attention they should not have. But to be fair, TYT are going scorched earth here. It's not their usual trivial trash.
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  22115.  @Willowy13  People have been scared by the mainstream media. Have some mercy. I feel sorry for them. This horror of a vaccine could turn out all right in some cases, but raising a child not to question, and to respond to fear mongering by doing very unwise things, especially with their health, will NOT turn out all right.
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  22116.  @consciousobserver629  Well, there is exceptionally good research on the benefits of measles vaccines, for example. On the other hand, kids getting the COVID vaccines have also been delaying their meningitis shots. I know which one I'd make my priority and which one I would not give to a kid at all.
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  22117. Signed Fred Hampton
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  22118.  @gnomechomsky2524  The Fifth Amendment is one of our most important.
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  22119.  @gnomechomsky2524  Except that that's nonsense. Remaining silent is literally the only way to be certain that you will not face prosecution for perjury or lying to an agent of the government. The smallest misstep, memory lapse, and so forth could be couched as a lie and prosecuted (though a jury might not convict, but that's a different story . . . your defense will not be reimbur$ed). You really have no experience in this area, do you?
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  22120.  @bobbykiefer4306  He just demanded that it be.
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  22121.  @gnomechomsky2524  🤣🤣🤣 This is your country, 🤡 I don't have to live here!
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  22122.  @gnomechomsky2524  You give up rights because somebody you saw on some screen had a bad relationship! And you're proud. 🤣🤣🤣 No one feels sorry.
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  22123.  @gnomechomsky2524  What? Zero creativity? I'm shocked I tell you, shocked, SHOCKED.
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  22124.  @gnomechomsky2524  your circus your 🤡🤡🤡
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  22125.  @gnomechomsky2524  This is all the respect Trump gets 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Sweet.
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  22126.  @gnomechomsky2524  My guy is J-L Melenchon. I'm to his left, but all in all, I like him. Some other members of LFI are better. Adrien Quatennens is pretty interesting. Let's see where he goes.
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  22127.  @gnomechomsky2524  France just made vaccine mandates and passports illegal for minors, thanks to the Left coalition. You still jabbing the kids?
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  22128. Someone tell Saagar that proposed law is unconstitutional. 5:31
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  22129. There wasn't a major surge of COVID during the demonstrations over the summer. A surge was expected, they watched for it, it didn't happen.
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  22130.  @deadgolfer6345  Whose stuff? The system of property as we know it is a creature of the state. If you want "freedom," abolish all patent, trademark, and copyright protection, and police protection, and protection of the global shipping lanes and other logistics. Get your own security forces, set up your own tribunals to settle disputes. Why should I pay for your goons? I don't need all the war you seem to need to support the dollar and keep up your standard of living. Why should I pay for it?
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  22131.  @deadgolfer6345  Then I must compliment you on your consistency, at least. Your realism? Not so sure, but staying true to principles counts for a lot.
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  22132. I always asked whether ANY animal trial, including of course mice having a relatively short life cycle, observed the test animals through reproduction and natural death. Did they have normal pups? When no one could answer that question, it gave me pause. How can they recommend it to anyone of reproductive age?
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  22133. None of them should endorse anyone this early.
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  22134. ​ @deadgolfer6345 Even this wouldn't do it. Sadly.
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  22135. 20:05 This is a common misconception. The First Amendment protects every person within the jurisdiction of the United States. There is no distinction between citizens and noncitizens with respect to freedom of speech. Foreign agents have a registration requirement. But they can say what they want on the same basis as any American citizen.
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  22136. ​@user-kb2in7qb6z That means you think Brandenburg was wrongly decided. Hence, it isn't Glenn who is wrong according to you. The Supreme Court is wrong.
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  22137. ​ @KeyboardWarrior-r9b There is no such thing as "free speech absolutism." That is a political phrase, like "hate speech," or "cancel culture." If you are passionate about the issue, I recommend reading the incomparable Nadine Strossen, and Erwin Chemerinsky as well. You don't have to agree with Strossen, but anyone who wants to advocate for curtailing free speech needs to read her first.
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  22138. ​ @KeyboardWarrior-r9b I'm sorry they sense oared you. Anyone who tries to argue anything sensibly gets the sense or ship demon on their backs.
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  22139. ​ @KeyboardWarrior-r9b  What would amount to criminal conspiracy to commit some violent act is clearly also incitement to violence. Something less than criminal conspiracy may also be, but abstract support for a current war or of revolution is protected speech.
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  22140. ​​ @KeyboardWarrior-r9b The analogy with the rifle is nonsense. The First Amendment protects speech. Shooting isn't speech. If a person is far away from whomever it was their bullet killed, the prosecutor can take that into account when determining the nature of the homicide to charge. The jury can take it into account as well, to determine whether intent to kill was present, or gross recklessness. You are grasping at straws. Read Strossen. Do yourself a big favor. I'm serious.🎉
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  22141. I know from experience that there is little worse than being the "rare case." You are really alone. Be kind to yourselves. Never forget to be kind to yourselves.
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  22142. ​@@mermaidsmonsters1017Where there is no protection against cosmic radiation. Brilliant.
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  22143. ​ @v4skunk739  Immune systems self-repair in most people most of the time. This is new, so we don't know.
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  22144. They can't get away with chipping us? Oh yes they can. AI: I agree that General Intelligence is not attainable via technology. GI is necessarily embodied in a living organism. Mammals and birds show more general Intelligence than any machine.
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  22145.  @goodbook122  It looks like this story was floated as a false flag -- there is no relation, and it's being put out to make people who distrust Gates look bad.
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  22146. Makes me think of the Greek myth of Hercules.
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  22147. Briahna Joy Gray is very obviously the most intelligent podcaster active today. She is also a lot prettier than just about everybody else. Here's a clue: women who look that good are not "bitter."
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  22148. Thanks for outing yourself with that remark. When you went on the attack against other people with backbones who will not meekly vote LOTE, I had to check whether my suspicion was correct. Wow was it ever.
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  22149. Does anyone have principles?
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  22150. Sorry this ended.
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  22151. Why it does not make sense to vote early.
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  22152. What's wrong with giving every child under the age of 10 or 11 a trophy for the things they do well? They do need to be told they are special at that age, and noticed for all the wonderful things they do. Is it appropriate for middle school, high school, or college? No. So what? Should a 7-year-old pick a career? Should an eighth-grade graduation party offer martinis and champagne?
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  22153. They certainly did locally.
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  22154.  @marty3015  You are correct, they were not mass shootings in addition to being shootings on or in the immediate vicinity of school property, in school zones.
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  22155.  @brennam954  It's not "textbook sexual harassment." I suggest you look up Title VII. A crass, inappropriate joke from an employee to someone above them, for which they apologized and promised never to repeat, all in writing, is NOT "sexual harassment" under the law. Stop scaring people with nonsense. Stop pushing the false narrative that we have crazy sex discrimination laws. We don't.
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  22156.  @brennam954  You didn't look up Title VII. Your choice.
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  22157.  @brennam954  Not surprised you didn't. "Soft skills?"
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  22158.  @brennam954  Miss F-bomb will now give us morality lessons and legal lessons. Manners, too, apparently.
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  22159.  @rishpanjeet7479  A free market places the means of production in private hands, and allows free competition to allocate optimally all resources that can be allocated using a market mechanism, while recognizing that some cannot. Smith was for allowing the Invisible Hand to operate not in every area of human endeavor, but in any area of endeavor where it could operate to allocate resources optimally. Hence his warnings about unproductive concentrations of wealth in the hands of a rentier class (read, a new, oisive, uncreative and unproductive aristocracy . . . how right he was). Monopoly capitalism is what free markets devolved into, with the capitalists capturing most of government power in various ways, hiding their tracks whenever necessary, and bragging openly whenever useful. What we have is the reign of monopoly capital. Free markets were a nice idea. Free markets are not capitalism, and were never intended to give rise to black-hole-like concentrations of wealth whose pull cannot be opposed. But believe what you want.
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  22160. "Due process" is the new buzz word. This case has nothing to do with due process. Defamation is about whether speech or writing is First Amendment-protected, or can be punished. Why isn't Depp writing his own article? He is suing instead, because his testimony is immunized. He can't be sued for defamation for his testimony, and there is no way perjury could be proved.
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  22161.  @mikereinhardt1244  These are just his claims. There's no proof at all. He was becoming uninsurable in Hollywood due to his drug use, and he already lost a defamation case in UK, where he had a much better case. He lost a movie deal after that. I just can't believe that people don't see through this --- with Depp openly smirking the whole way.
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  22162. Anyone who is not trying to win their case is abusing the court and the system. I'm glad I don't pay taxes in Virginia.
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  22163.  @mikereinhardt1244  Wrong again. Look up the "New York Times malice" standard. See what that is. EVERY defamation case implicates the First Amendment, every time. If you want to involve the government to seize someone's assets for something they wrote, you have to prove their speech should not be protected. Of course Depp can win if he makes it about Heard's reliability and not the article.
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  22164.  @mikereinhardt1244  Entirely wrong. And you won't take a moment to look up "New York Times malice." Why are you doing this to yourself? (The irony is that the press benefits from that standard the most, but you rarely hear it mentioned by them. Wonder why, huh?) Even I think the standard is too high a bar against defamation in the modern world. But it is the standard. And defamation isn't purely state-by-state; it is first of all subject to US Supreme Court First Amendment jurisprudence, which takes precedence over any state law. You may need the rights you are so willing to give up. I saw through MeToo, and realized it had turned into a mob. Why is it so hard to see that Depp v. Heard is exactly the same? MeToo hurt men and did not help women; this case does the opposite. And this mob is more vicious as far as I can see.
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  22165.  @mikereinhardt1244  I am a constitutional l*****. By the way. (The algorithm doesn't like it when I say so.) If that video told you that the First Amendment does not apply, it was quite simply wrong. You could look up "New York Times malice" and read for yourself.
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  22166.  @remyschrader9286  Look up "New York Times malice." It does not apply just to newspapers or journalists, but to all speakers. There is no specially protected class of speakers under the First Amendment. I despair . . . then I don't care.
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  22167.  @remyschrader9286  Sounds like you are confusing this with Section 230 protections? Some aspect of them? Nah. You just plain don't know. I never engaged, before the COVID lockdown fiasco. I was better off when I didn't.
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  22168.  @remyschrader9286  Even the Wikipedia article gives a decent summary, including how the Sullivan case, which set the standard, was a unanimous Supreme Court decision, and was extended to cover all public figures only a few years later, not just government officials. If you just bothered to look at that, and read the entire first section, a few paragraphs . . . But no. That's how we know this is a new hysteria.
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  22169.  @mikereinhardt1244  It was extended only a few years later to all public figures, in Curtis Publishing v. Butts. You only had to read about FOUR paragraphs to find that out. That was unbearable? Wow. The legal standard applicable here, in Depp v. Heard, is named after the seminal case. But you're right. I just need to get out of the way of this mob. I wish I knew what was coming next. Or maybe ignorance is bliss? Predicting trends can fatten your wallet.
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  22170.  @mikereinhardt1244  I already signaled that the case was extended, in the response directly above yours. (With the cen s or ship going on, it might be shadowed?)
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  22171.  @mikereinhardt1244  Blocked.
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  22172.  @mikereinhardt1244  Thanks. I think I'm cured of commenting ever again. This isn't pearls before swine, it's the Hope diamond before a toad.
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  22173.  @remyschrader9286  The debate was whether the First Amendment applies here, to set the standard the plaintiff must meet (fair or not). I'm glad you agree that it does.
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  22174.  @remyschrader9286  I didn't say those cases stamped out defamation. I said all defamation claims involving plaintiffs (like Depp) who are public figures must meet the First Amendment standard those cases set. (And even I agree it's probably too high! The irony!) Only you know what compelled you to chide me, before finding out I was right. If it wasn't the influence of the latest little mob to form, or some other source of passion or prejudice, wonderful. That's a win-win. Small point: used to be we did not look kindly at people who pursue lawsuits they cannot win, for the sake of proving something other than their case. We were also disturbed by anything that smacked of a show trial. Oh well. Times change.
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  22175.  @72spawndn  The First Amendment cases concerning defamation set the presumption of protected speech, and established the standard of proof needed to rebut that presumption, making it very difficult to prove defamation (too difficult, imo . . . it has become controversial lately). If you are able to find the Wikipedia page for "New York Times malice," and then read at least four paragraphs, preferably more, you'll see what the problem is.
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  22176.  @trumpforever6706  SMH
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  22177. France just made it illegal to demand vaccine passports of any minor, by anyone, not just school. It's a start.
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  22178. 6:30. 😅😅😅
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  22179. Why do the step mom and daughter look alike?
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  22180. Everyone is incompetent now.
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  22181.  @zidneya  Yup. That's what they're trying to tell you.
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  22182. Autocorrect ruined your post. Come back and edit! :)
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  22183. Also, you know zero about law. The headlines are introduced to establish reputation, when the claim is that Heard's allegedly defamatory article is responsible for destroying Depp's reputation.
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  22184. What intrigues me is whether Trump can flip any of the close-call states. Point being, we know elections aren't clean. Is the biggest narcissist who ever held the office going to reveal the truth about elections, purely on a self-serving whim? That would be ironic. Reminds me of how he invited the Clintons to his wedding.
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  22185.  @ThanosDidTheRightThing  I know he lost. But did he lose every one of the close elections? Were any of them much closer than we thought? Do you believe Gore lost in 2000, by the way?
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  22186. Except today we don't have an Arkhipov.
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  22187. The news is that NYTimes wrote about it, this time. All news is news about media; self-referential.
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  22188. This is a Georgetown professor? Oh My God
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  22189.  @dogloversmith7139  Check various Western European ministries of health.
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  22190.  @utah_koidragon7117  They're not vaccinating anyone under 30 with any COVID vaccine now. You're right, Moderna was the very first to be discontinued for young adults. Isn't it hard to believe there are still people who don't know? This happened a long time ago.
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  22191. You have to pay a premium for non-GMO verified. Just like rich people get monoclonal antibodies.
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  22192. Well?
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  22193. ​​ @utah_koidragon7117 Agreed. But let's see 9:28, and then 11:20.
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  22194. It's funny how people's eyes glaze over and they become incapable of listening to what a person is actually saying the minute someone rich is mentioned. Why is that?
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  22195. So well said!
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  22196. Wow, Dr. Sax plagiarizing Hold On to Your Kids, of which Dr. Gabor Maté is a coauthor. 😂😂😂
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  22197.  @pistolen87  Thanks! Very unlikely to happen, too, and won't happen nationwide. This isn't that tough.
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  22198.  @westartfromhere7704  Google is not giving it to me.
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  22199.  @Cakebattered  YES, that as well.
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  22200. If a person is at home during a burglary, then they are justified in using lethal force, because that is considered self-defense. It is illegal to use lethal force to defend property.
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  22201.  @SlowPeace25  The law is what it is. You cannot use deadly force to defend property. You can use deadly force to defend persons -- their lives and their physical safety, if it is imminently threatened. That's the difference between carjackings and empty parked cars on the street.
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  22202.  @SlowPeace25  So, the fact that Robbie doesn't even know the law doesn't bother you? I'm just curious. He didn't state the law, then say homicide charges are not warranted. He made it sound like this is all about feelings or something, or the cost of replacement.
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  22203.  @SlowPeace25  I'm bothered by all law breaking, especially the younger the law breaker and the younger the victim. I don't pick and choose which laws. Maybe read up on normalcy.
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  22204.  @SlowPeace25  Of course you can. You can be the perpetrator of Crime A, and the victim of Crime B. An example might be a con artist who tries to trick a drug lord (unbeknownst to him) out of money and gets killed in the process. Lots of examples from organized crime, vice of various sorts, etc., I can't believe you never saw those mooovies. I'm sorry to hear that so few people have basic logic skills. I remember when we were told Computers (and of course Common Core) would solve all that. How come "technology advances" but life keeps getting worse?
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  22205.  @SlowPeace25  So then the owner of the car is a victim of karma, too. He's suspended from his job, he's being investigated for a homicide, and he may be prosecuted. And having a mere child interfere with his car is obviously karma. If he were a Good Person, no one would have touched his car, least of all a Child, because as we all know, Children are messengers from Higher Dimensions, revealing to us the Universal Essence, and teaching us about Who We Really Are. I'm sorry you are on such a low Spiritual Plane, but I trust that your interaction with me will improve you. I mean, your interaction with Me will improve [you]. That's what I meant to say. You're welcome! I love helping. :)
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  22206.  @SlowPeace25  He succeeded in stealing a car? His friends were riding in one, allegedly.
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  22207.  @SlowPeace25  Okay, the owner's Karma caused a Child Spirit to appear and Feloniously Steal something Precious from him, as a Soul Test. He failed. Let us pray.
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  22208. And 9:22 What Biden said about getting rid of the Burisma prosecutor WAS shady on its face, yet nothing happened. What's the delay?
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  22209. No. I don't remember things that did not happen.
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  22210. Ukraine is united? They have been in a simmering civil war in the Donbass since 2014.
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  22211. He has also gotten hate like I have never seen before. Even Justin Jackson is being mobbed on antisocial media.
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  22212. I'm so eff**g sorry this editorial is well-founded. I hope I can sleep tonight. :/
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  22213. Moderna was also a two-dose regiment, but many countries considered a person fully vaccinated if they had one dose of Moderna plus a case of COVID. Many had that protocol for Pfizer as well.
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  22214. Has Le Monde diplomatique reported on this story?
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  22215. EXACTLY
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  22216. This is what I think: this story is not getting the coverage it deserves because there are still people around who are "uncomfortable" when a black man speaks so extremely well -- intelligently, calmly, backed by the best scientific evidence available now, and with true eloquence . . . and he is an ATHLETE on top of it, not a Harvard Law grad.
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  22217. How do thumbnails and headines/content keep getting confused? Makes no sense.
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  22218. If you mean materially poor . . . They are not poor.
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  22219.  @nzalog  Pro tip: People who read regularly have no trouble with parsing embedded clauses. Really. It's a thing.
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  22220. He always was a hypocrite. A Harvard Law degree, and this is what he does with it? How about taking ONE case, just one, on behalf of free speech, or parents' rights, or freedom of worship, or any of the other things he pretends to "support" with lip service? Talk about needing to get off his *ss and work for a living . . .
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  22221. @Jonathan_Y9898  I am not sure, but this happened in the late 1970s, if that helps. It was a stand-alone trigonometry book, and for me, it was as intuitive as Loomis for calculus was during that period. I will try to find it. If I owned it, I'm sure I have it still.
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  22222. The popular vote was about 34% for Le Pen in round 1. Had her candidates won 50% + 1, there would be no Round 2. How is someone who got 34% "the popular vote?" 66% disagree.
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  22223. ​@holdingplace Well, I would never take his word on anything, and what he did to the Sandy Hook victims is unconscionable. But when he reported on goat-spider chimera, I looked it up and found a report in The Guardian. Look it up. Since then, I sometimes do look up something he first said, and, well . . . Prepared to be shocked.
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  22224. Have got to thank Ron for this one.
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  22225. Oh let's not be ahistorical now.
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  22226. "But we should McCarthy smear more people." Sure, if there is MONEY in it. That's the whole point. Maddow wants her cut, too.
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  22227. Look to the real medical journals. Any serious side effect above 1 in 100,000 is noteworthy. These are well above that threshold.
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  22228. ​​​ @duncanbananatyne3890 Yes it is. Very. And it is an underestimate.
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  22229. I've never been MORE glad that all of my relatives are in Europe now.
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  22230.  @user-xd4rs6vr4n  And who would you be, to say who belongs where? You sound like an American.
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  22231.  @Petal4822  France has the highest marriage rate of any country in Europe between immigrants and "native"/"ethnic" French, and has for generations.
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  22232. @Petal4822  Yes it is, lol.
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  22233. I'm laughing, but it's not funny. Their fear mongering WILL harm some young teens, who have a right to grow up without this anxiety imposed on them. The message is that being resilient is being immoral. This WILL affect some teens, and already has.
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  22234. @iansane1928  Great observations. I worked on appeals for a court -- and you've batted a thousand. Very rare for a non-lawyer. If you're under 45 and want to work until 70 (for meaningful Social Security, lol but not funny), consider law school.
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  22235. State universities in America were free or nearly so not that long ago. A full-time student at a major state university paid a thousand or so in tuition in the 1970s, sometimes more but often less. Dorm fees and dorm food, and housing in general, were the real problem.
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  22236. @Sandier Ramirez When I was a kid, college students could work full time for minimum wage over the summer and easily make enough to cover their state-school tuition for the entire year. This built AUTONOMY. It was good for more than a college education. It was education for self-reliance and responsibility and pride. Having to go into debt for a necessity is always detrimental. A summer job that lets you pay for more than one or two classes cannot happen any more. It doesn't exist.
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  22237.  ɮᴇᴄφᴍɪnɢ - WR  On the contrary, no tuition, fees-only is the rule. It's a tradition dating from Socrates contra the Sophists, the latter being the first teachers for pay in Europe.
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  22238.  Brian Abisdid  The late, great public land-grant universities had tuition and fees so low that a full-time summer job covered it, and usually covered books as well. Oddly enough, students studied on average more hours than they do now, and they didn't even have much in the way of computers to help them.
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  22239. Great point.
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  22240.  @lukethibodaux790  Yeah, right, I knew you were going to say that. The WORD "socialism" had such great prestige at that time that the Nazis could not count on working class support without it. Everyone from Einstein to Helen Keller referred to themselves as "socialists." It's a lot like calling something, say, "democratic" (or calling something "racist") in order to attract support or divert criticism, or cause fear in order to squelch debate. Sounds like that ruse would work on you?
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  22241.  @lukethibodaux790  Have you ever read a real book? I'd love to see your library.
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  22242.  @lukethibodaux790  They executed anyone who had any tinge of Marxism -- they were the first to die. They didn't take control of the means of production -- you mean you've NEVER seen those utterly chilling bids submitted by various German corporations for building the concentration camps, complete with facilities to gas people, not to mention the gas? I wonder who taught you this rot. At one time there were literally no anti-communists who made this mistake. "The two were related." Yes, well, anything that has come out of the industrial revolution and the rise of modern social classes is related; anything that has its roots in 19th century imperialism is related; any living mammals that arose after the extinction of the dinosaurs are related. You can tell this stuff to Americans, who don't go to Europe, or if they go, it is in the same spirit as they would go to Disney World, but you can't tell this stuff to me. Don't waste my time, I have a Murakami novel to read. Yes, we all have our petit bourgeois pleasures. (If you prefer overtly anti-totalitarian stuff, The Land of Big Numbers is excellent, especially the first story, "Lulu.")
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  22243.  @lukethibodaux790  What do I think about the USSR? What I know: it was both much better and much worse than we were told in the US-dominated West. What was most important was for us to believe that nothing important was happening there. Nothing could be more false. There is no question the Soviets went bonkers. What they achieved after what they were subjected to is actually quite astounding. They were repelling invasions and other acts of war during almost their entire existence. When I consider what the US has become just since September 11th, not to mention the fact that the whole country poured its heart out to New York City and a mere seven years later, Wall Street "returned the favor" by causing global financial markets to implode. And since those years 2001-2009, nothing has been the same. It isn't getting better. I would have never believed the last two and one-half years would have unfolded as they did. For the Soviets, WWII was like 10,000 9/11s. It took a lot more to make them crazy, and crazed they certainly were. But look at the US, after just one. Look up Vasili Arhkipov. Find out who saved all of our lives. Find out who risked them.
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  22244.  @kevinschmidt2210  LOL, cool! ;)
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  22245.  @lukethibodaux790  And why are Russians being blacklisted as such? What a disgrace. If you don't see the ideology of Hitler creeping around the edges, it's because you aren't looking -- and you have no real friends among black people. It has always been there, like a virus that loses its virulence but becomes endemic. The ratline was prologue. Actually, I can believe that young people are relieved that the Party is not all up in their business and leaves them alone. But do they want to go into debt for school, pay $1000 a month in health care premiums, and risk homelessness when they find themselves fired from a job due to "downsizing?" And depend on a trust fund to live in any major city? Not to mention be exposed to shooting, stabbings, rape, and so forth, and to see their friends assaulted as well. I think not. Are we left alone? Were we left alone during the last three years? What will be the next subject that can cause a normal person to lose their livelihood? Vaccines? Pronouns? The absence of a Ukrainian flag bumper sticker?
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  22246.  @lukethibodaux790  Whose making it a RACE debate? My obvious point was that a person (including you, and after all why not? you're a person) could fails to notice the inherent Aryanism of anti-Slavic sentiment in America only if they were oblivious. I wasn't delving into anyone's identity or identity politics. My point has nothing to do with any such thing. I had no idea what you were talking about, I had to go back and reread everything. I'm not going to do that again. In fact, this unproductive discussion is over.
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  22247. @RyanKearney0  On the other hand, she could argue that she was actively misled into believing her work was satisfactory. A hearing officer could side with her, so you are right about that. There is also constructive discharge. If your boss is abusive, you don't have to stay and take it in order to obtain unemployment compensation. These are fine points. The general rule is that if you are fired for cause, that means no benefits. Then there is the problem of short tenure. If she has not worked, say, 10 of the last 12 months, or 12 of the last 15, etc., (depends on the state), she can't qualify for unemployment benefits anyway.
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  22248.  @ProclaimedHERETIC  What I said.
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  22249. Why doesn't he explain free speech fora on campus to her? Educate her. Why is he afraid to say a word? This is freedom? This??
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  22250. Adam Smith warned about rents: i.e., unearned income. (!!!) (How did we fall so far?) (Never mind.)
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  22251. Understand that these "scientists" are mad scientists.
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  22252. American culture ruins everything, everywhere.
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  22253. I am shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you.
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  22254. It doesn't negate the history of slavery here. But if you feel angry about it, then we need to honor your feelings.
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  22255. Every major capitalist country had colonies. It didn't drag the enslaved to its shores, no.
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  22256. I don't believe her. France changed this much? Under Mitterrand, when I lived there, pedicures were provided by the health service, and pregnant women got a clothing allowance, regardless of income.
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  22257. 10:30 is a good point as well, however. Fauci wants this to be about Fauci. His entire appearance in that clip was a deliberate diversion and fraud. That's what gets people focused on the wrong things. The labs that do this research should be one major focus.
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  22258.  @anthonytwohill9726  You are right. The corrected definition is correct, and clearer than the original one. A six-week embryo does not have a heart. Many states allow the elective abortion of early fetuses, which do have hearts. Those are the biological facts.
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  22259. Who rules the world? Who can order everyone to get a vaccine in order to earn a living?
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  22260.  @PersonalPariah  You were there, seven years ago when it actually happened? Do you put your apologies in writing, so that they can be used against you years later?
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  22261.  @PersonalPariah  Y'mean trying to defend himself against people who want to deprive him of his current livelihood, while he can't book live performances? That is usually not pretty.
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  22262.  @PersonalPariah  And?
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  22263.  @PersonalPariah  Okay. Let's suppose he's wrong. We can: 1. Tell people not to watch his show; or 2. Remove his show from YouTube. What did this crowd suggest? Banning his show, based on the fact that, he claims, people laughed at the joke at the time, which he also admits made it worse for Ana. So, what is it you want? You don't want to talk about Syria and Ana's smear of Aaron Mate, that I can see. Mate just reported from there. Can you find it on a map?
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  22264. Perfect tweet from Nick . . .
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  22265. No one has more medals than her. Are you this crazy? How? How can that happen?
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  22266.  @jeanettetrahan9911  No, you have. You follow this ranting idiot? How low can you sink? NO ONE has more medals than Simone Biles in women's gymnastics. No one, ever.
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  22267.  @jeanettetrahan9911  No, I came here from a Canadian site. There is no shame whatsoever in having a neuro-cognitive issue that made it impossible for her to know how her spinning body was oriented in space. It was too risky to her and to the team for her to continue, and she still defended her bronze on the balance beam -- and smiled as though it were her first gold. If you look at life this way, it must be tougher for you than it has to be. This clown who puts out these fact-free hate rants brags about leaving high school because he was drunk and high all the time, and you think HE is praiseworthy? America is in trouble all right, but not due to people like BILES! You support a guy who has done NOTHING with his life, and it shows. His envy is pure poison, like the young Hitler when he was rejected for art school.
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  22268. It is never ignorant to ask a pointed question. I also wonder why China instituted actual, complete lockdowns, like you see in prisons. Do they know something about the virus that they are not sharing? I mean, apart from its origins, which they probably knew all along. I love how no one can ask questions. All questions are "questions." All questions have to be probed for their "subtext," so that we can label the speaker and call them out. In the meantime, funny how we missed the fact that we don't know the answer. Robbie was the one blathering, rather than acknowledging that China is an authoritarian country, that they have very likely covered up the virus origins, and that COVID origins may not be all they are covering up.
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  22269. ​ @PerceivedREALITY999  That's because most of the casualties inflicted on Nazi Germany were by the Red Army, which fought the Wehrmacht.
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  22270. Interesting Cotton thinks that the worst form of slavery known to mankind was "necessary" to forming the United States. Doesn't that mean the whole project, as conceived, was doomed?
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  22271. You are describing a crime against the person, not a property crime. Robbery endangers people. It is not like having someone pick your pocket without your knowing it.
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  22272. Please do not ever play music over this man's words.
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  22273. @75Prelives  Exactly. This is the flag. It's not just a poster with the cool pop Message du Jour on it.
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  22274. Is Zelensky actually Jewish? Serious question. Somehow I don't believe it.
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  22275.  @markmarshall5234  What does cut and paste prove? A lot of people have Jews among their ancestors, especially in Russia and Ukraine. That doesn't mean they themselves are Jewish. Lenin's mother had some German Jewish ancestors on her father's side, and her maternal ancestry was Swedish. She was Russian Orthodox. This is from two centuries ago. If your maternal line is not Jewish and you do not convert to Judaism, you are not Jewish. Your father and your mother's father may be, but you are not, unless you convert. If your maternal line is Jewish and you convert away from Judaism, then you are not Jewish. There are a lot of ways not to be Jewish. Both of my parents had some Jewish ancestry on their fathers' sides, but it occurred to no one to consider them Jewish until Hitler showed up.
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  22276.  @markmarshall5234  I only mean that the fact that it is repeated over and over does not persuade me that it's true. You must have seen the string of talking heads that said -- over and over -- that neo-Nazis could not be a major presence in Ukrainian militias because Zelensky is Jewish. It's ridiculous as a premise, but all right, I'll bite: show me he really is Jewish. The more it is repeated, the more skeptical I am. I'm not suggesting he's not. I'm saying I won't believe it absent more substantial evidence --- especially after the Canadian parliament fiasco. But that's just me, a born skeptic. 🤨
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  22277. I think what Brandon said was true.
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  22278.  @KonigGustavAdolph  I think it's more superficial. You can never measure directly whether someone is happy. You can only find out whether their social group approves of saying you are happy, or has higher regard for someone who says he is not happy. (Remember John Stuart Mill? "I would rather be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.") Sometimes devout people consider it sinful to express unhappiness as it is a sign of ingratitude toward God. Then there's all the pop psychology that says you have to pretend to be happy or else you'll die sooner or look older or something. Or not get hired. 🤣
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  22279.  @ottofrinta7115  "Conspiracy" isn't a magic word that undoes facts. It's a tell. It's to scare people into treading where you don't want them to go. Hm. Why can't we go there?
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  22280.  @dnickaroo3574  THIS
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  22281.  @DeadKraken  We shall see. Your scenario isn't impossible by any stretch. OTOH, you have not made a million in the stock market since it crashed a couple of years ago I'm guessing. So you're not rad at predicting the future.
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  22282.  @chrisdstard5644  If only you were as interested in ending the US-engineered famine in Afghanistan, which is on track to kill a million children this year. Since you bring up good and evil. As for underdogs, in this case it was the minorities in the Donbass region, whom the neo-Nazis were oppressing -- which does not, however, justify the disproportionate force Putin deployed. But there's no way the neo-Nazis are the underdogs in this picture. Zelensky is an underdog, yes, and there are credible reports the Azov Battalion leaders had threatened him as well. We haven't been much of an ally to him. See Mearshimer on that point.
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  22283.  @NotOfThisWorld567  Perfect post. I didn't need to say anything more. Could've gone back to reading. 🤣
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  22284.  @stephaniewallis981  They structure it differently. It is a cultural difference, which has no bearing on physics. You know different peoples view the brute fact of human mortality differently, correct?
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  22285.  @stephaniewallis981  What words will Cin Peace have to eat?
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  22286.  @stephaniewallis981  Paragraph if you want readers.
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  22287.  @stephaniewallis981  Maybe America shouldn't do so much bombing and droning, and more people might sign-up for "democracy." My family is from one of the places you've bombed (and can't find on the map), and we were destroyed by American health care -- meaning we literally died out here. Sorry, your boogey men don't get a rise out of me. If you feel threatened, I respect that. You know what's good for you, sure, no problem. Advocate for it, absolutely. But Hollywood can't make it into a Universal Good. Not anymore.
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  22288. Countries like Japan where mask wearing is common have a longer life expectancy. Could it be in spite of masks, because of them, or without any relationship to them? Sure, any of the above. But your assertion is not plausible.
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  22289.  @geoffreygreen3521  My mask protects others more than me. It prevents my tiny droplets, which carry the tinier virus, from reaching others.
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  22290.  @geoffreygreen3521  You may be right about what prevented flu. My mind is open, I do not appreciate the push to accept a new vaccine technology for a new virus, and in principle do not agree with mandating any non-FDA approved drug. But in general, I like vaccines. I ask for the established ones every year. I also think masks appear to be useful.
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  22291.  @geoffreygreen3521  Indeed -- another open question. What would long-term, annual use of these vaccines mean? The only true answer is that we don't know. Anyone who trusts Gates, or any of them, either by placing faith in their judgment, or in their good will should know better by now.
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  22292.  @geoffreygreen3521  What vaccine was that? 1976 . . . Was that the swine flu debacle? I know people who decline flu shots, which today are safe, because of swine flu. I like most vaccines. Most vaccines take three to ten years of development before they are given to masses of people.
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  22293. American major party politics has no Marxists. This isn't France.
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  22294. I laughed. I'm ashamed of myself.
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  22295. He lost I court. Super easy to find.
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  22296. Until someone spreads the rumor on election day that one of the candidates was assassinated, and creates a deep fake to "prove" it. Then what do we do?? Unfortunately, the censors have been playing with fire shamelessly. They will have no tools left if something real happens. You have to wonder about their motivation.
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  22297. The Supreme Court gave Biden the out he wanted.
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  22298.  @fugley100  And will continue to be, regardless of any election. Now it's sure.
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  22299.  @whysocurious7366  If you have a risk of this, you need high-tech surveillance cameras that save automatically to a secure server outside of your home. You can always be overcome by firepower.
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  22300. Club Orlov, LOL
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  22301. The people at issue right here really are neo-Nazis. Zelensky banned all opposition parties to the left of him. Credible reports that Azov Battalion-dominated militias are threatening Zelensky if he negotiates without their approval. I don't believe these were "free choices" on Zelensky's part.
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  22302. Antigone
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  22303. Age of consent laws are set state by state, not by the US Supreme Court. Prove up or shut up.
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  22304. Except that the vaccine doesn't prevent infection. It simply does not. You don't know whether these issues are "dose dependent," whether the "dose" comes from transmission of the illness or repeated exposure to the vaccine or both. You don't know because no one does.
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  22305. Have any of the wars we are prosecuting been declared? Is any war taking place on our territory? If not, I don't support execution for treason. I generally don't support the death penalty.
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  22306.  @johnwhite2412  Now define "treason." That's what you said merited the death penalty.
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  22307.  @johnwhite2412  Well, that's not evident.
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  22308.  @johnwhite2412  And you omitted the rest of the statute: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2381 Different spin, huh?
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  22309.  @johnwhite2412  Good luck proving all that beyond reasonable doubt, for "all those involved." How many had any firearms or other weapons on their person? How many knew, and coordinated with, those few who did?
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  22310.  @johnwhite2412  Here's the rest of that statute, BTW: Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
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  22311.  @johnwhite2412  What centrists said when Trump was baselessly accusing everyone inconvenient to his narcissism of "treason": https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-treason-clause-seldom-invoked-despite-threats
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  22312. How do you know they were all due to irresponsibility? I lived in a country with a perfect abortion law: elective only for the embryonic stage (seem to remember 10 weeks), with an affidavit to begin the process ("I, Marie DuPont, hereby declare that I am a mother in distress, . . . "), mandatory counseling, no same-day abortions, and if money was a factor in the woman's decision, she had to be sent home with a packet of information about welfare benefits to think it over some more. Medically necessary abortions were decided by three-doctor panels, and they were humane. No way would anyone deny Mrs. Cox, and the state paid 100%. They cut abortions by between a quarter to a third. It was great. France under a Socialist. Believe it. Of course, they later liberalized the law and ruined it. Figures.
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  22313. 4:29 So anyone who doesn't agree with the neoliberal elitist establishment is a "hater??"
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  22314. I wanted clear, reliable, HONEST statistics on whether the average age of death from COVID (not with, FROM) is in fact approximately the same as the average life expectancy.
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  22315. Sarcasm? Must be.
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  22316. 💯
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  22317. Great line.
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  22318. Disagree. People have to be told why he has this issue. That will take care of it. Only a tiny percent will be turned off -- and if that is an issue for them, how can they vote for Biden or Trump? Both flagrantly neurologically/ psychologically abnormal.
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  22319. "I represent Science" = "Disagreeing is Racist"
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  22320. We have had MASSIVE deficits for decades. Explain what happened now.
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  22321.  @ryanblanks6092  I agree with this.
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  22322. GREAT idea.
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  22323. Yes
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  22324. ​@loganb9697 He wasn't poor as a child. He wasn't living on his parents' dime now. They even reported him missing. And medical bills can bankrupt most millionaires today. Short of 10m, you ain't got nothin.
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  22325. ​ @loganb9697 He was rich as a child. He's not living off of his parents' dime now. They reported him missing.
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  22326.  @stupidchannel5438  💯
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  22327.  @stupidchannel5438  💯
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  22328. @loganb9697  Sure he was, on his own. His rich family reported him missing.
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  22329. 🤣🤣🤣
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  22330. Justin Jackson, a beautiful, calm soul.
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  22331. I support "CHOOSE life." What's the problem? I love both. Oh, . . . the problem is with CHOOSE?
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  22332. (P. S. Please don't tell me "life" is the problem. I don't associate with those people.)
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  22333.  @ssusdorf1  Show me where anyone involved met the elements of treason.
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  22334. @Featherfinder  As you well know, that's disallowed here. You mean you can't look up malicious prosecution and immunity and figure it out? Say, for example, you see a recent article in a specialized legal publication or on an attorney's website that says something like, "absolute immunity for prosecutors needs to end;" would we then realize that it must be a thing? And a controversial one, at that? Try it. Test yourself.
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  22335. @Featherfinder  Conservative judges are not doing the weaponizing? You must have missed all the qualified immunity cases for extreme misconduct by government officials at all levels, in violation of all sorts of rights, even free speech. Deterence against engaging in anything short of a violent crime or a criminal conspiracy has been significantly undermined.
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  22336. @Featherfinder  See whether you can find Price v. Montgomery County. That's another possibility, lol. That was the case that was supposed to limit immunity. Oh well.
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  22337. @bruce9648  Not at all. Nothing about her surprises me. I explained what counts as evidence in court and why. Read it again. For all we know, she has done worse. But I'm not clear on what criminal law she broke with that statement. Remember when Trump said, "Lock her up?" That was not a crime. It was free speech. Granted, for a prosecutor to do it is actually worse. The bar undoubtedly has a rule against that type of campaigning. But that means a reprimand and a mark against her law license. Anyway, real court isn't like social media court.
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  22338.  @Hemiboybr549  Sorry you're mad that I know stuff.
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  22339. @bruce9648  Not at all. Nothing about this surprises me. I explained what counts as evidence in court and why. Read it again. But I'm not clear on what criminal law she broke with that statement. Remember when Trump said, "Lock her up?" That was no crime, it was free speech. Granted, for a prosecutor to do it is actually worse. The bar undoubtedly has a rule against that type of campaigning. But that means a reprimand and a mark against her law license. That is a public record, too.
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  22340. ​@LordZombieZanetta I wasn't gifted in math, but I suddenly fell in love with it (after studying Plato, and having a great math TA in college). I LOVED a text not used as often now, by Loomis. It trained my intuition so perfectly, I can't tell you. I have a very algebraic and logical mind, but decidedly poor spatial intuition, so Loomis was a godsend. I never once got a limit problem wrong, and I used to buy other books for more practice and do all those problems, too. Thanks to Loomis, I understood a lot of the three dimensional applications I would never have gotten otherwise. If Thomas had been our sole textbook, I'm not sure I would have succeeded. (I got all As.) 😊
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  22341.  @vanarothorn6975  👏👏👏👏👏
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  22342. The people on top are those who avoided serving in any war, or in any other capacity. How did Bill Gates avoid the draft? He dropped out, so he didn't qualify for college deferment.
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  22343. If there is no metadata, how do you know it's Russian disinformation? What are the indicia that you see "written all over it?"
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  22344.  @RossJacobs  I didn't say the emails were authentic, and the story about how they were supposedly discovered is a hoot. Nor, as Glenn Greenwald pointed out, do the emails contain any "bombshells." (Does anyone doubt Hunter drops his dad's name for personal gain? Hardly evidence his father is involved, or even knows about any specific instance. In fact, it's a reasonable conjecture that Hunter hides a lot from dad.) So "Russia" is your go-to? I thought you actually might have a reason to cite Russia, other than that the story worked well before, and it's a nice safety valve for American bigotry, which is about to explode. The more stories about the "Foreign Enemies" among us, the better. The hate has got to be deflected somewhere. Censorship, and Section 230 immunity is the big story here. How do they all get to do whatever they like, and have blanket immunity all the same? Even newspapers have to be mindful of the "NYTimes malice" standard. Krystal is correct in objecting to the disgusting hypocrisy -- though that is not news, either.
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  22345. Briahna and West for sure.
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  22346. ​ @wackywarrior001 Perfect.
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  22347.  @theaviationist.5719  Thank you.
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  22348.  @theaviationist.5719  The ten-year-old pregnant child who had to leave Ohio to get immediate care, and whose plight was denounced by the radical right as fake news, sent a SHUDDER through everyone. And her brave doctor got many death threats. Americans do not want to live like that. This has affected every election since it happened.
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  22349.  @theaviationist.5719  Where was He to prevent a ten-year-old from conceiving?
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  22350. There are psychopaths everywhere. Ted Bundy got into law school on a Republican politician's recommendation. No reason to know at the time.
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  22351.  @nickd8238  Exactly. The NYT has never run with any negative reporting on saintly and bountiful Bill Gates without pushing it through a sieve.
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  22352. A long time ago, yes!
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  22353. ​ @annaf3915 Ha. Nobody would do that.
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  22354. 13:18 First Amendment violation (13:18 to end)
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  22355.  @timogul  Blocked. LOL
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  22356.  @timogul  You could have at least consulted a dictionary, and you call other people names.
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  22357. @timogul  He most certainly is respected in toxic tort litigation against major multinational corporations, which have BIG BUCKS to wear down opponents. EDIT: Changed "who" to "which." Corporations are not natural persons.
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  22358.  @timogul  I didn't need to look it up to use it. I did that for you.
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  22359.  @timogul  He most certainly is respected in toxic tort litigation against major multinational corporations, which have BIG BUCKS to wear down opponents. EDIT: Changed "who" to "which." Corporations are not natural persons.
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  22360.  @timogul  If Koch Industries is not paying you, you're getting cheated.
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  22361.  @timogul  So they're not paying you.
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  22362.  @timogul  Don't be so jealous of lawyers. Some people go to law school later in life.
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  22363. @timogul  Your audition for a job with Koch Industries? Or your desire to do something important with your life? You know who is an idiot. You know what big words mean. You can joke using computer terms like reboot. You are eminently qualified. I assumed that was your "big picture" concern. Or were you Worried For America?
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  22364. Too bad. Court documents show she is wrong. If you just read the Complaint, you'd know better, and if you knew New York law, you'd know evidence of actual innocence was necessary to maintain a civil rights case. A vacated verdict was not sufficient, and still isn't. I don't think any of these three read anything. They are there to create drama for clicks.
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  22365. Bull's eye. Exactly.
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  22366.  @mattboyer3385  Well, just to be clear, a war or major economic disruption could be caused by Country A, and migrants come to Country B for reasons that have to do with ease of access, which includes geography. Country B need not bear any responsibility for the war, etc.
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  22367. 3:50 She looks petrified and thoroughly dominated.
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  22368. I thought this was quite honest.
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  22369. My cockatiel died. 😢
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  22370. This is true.
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  22371. Great point. Why is this even the focus? There were no children present at this event. Why so little said about the hero, Rich Fierro, who stopped the attack? There are reports that his daughter's boyfriend was one of the five people who were killed. The shooter seems to present as non-binary, but . . . WHY WOULD IT MATTER ANYWAY?? MSM is beyond bogus at this point.
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  22372.  @wrongthinker843  How about waiting for confirmation?
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  22373. Referendum on COVID -- a Trump loss is very possible, even with incumbent advantage, and even against Biden. I hope you are prepared.
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  22374.  @ER-ru6qp  Not to this extent, no. But this year is probably less predictable, due to mail-in and early voting.
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  22375. @prague7706  Yup, false flag level bad. Who in their right mind could be impressed? (And how did they find a French woman who doesn't tend her hair for the camera? Unless it's stunningly Bardot messy?)
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  22376. @pisceananarchyvortex7223  The judge still has to rule based on the law and the facts. Removing a child not just from their parental home but from their home state is remarkable. Can a lawyer win every case? No. But there is no reason presented here that would make me think they would have lost this one. Do you seriously believe a rich family would have lost? The more you act like rich people do (by hiring a high-powered lawyer, getting a consultant for social media rather than embarking on it on your own, especially where the well being of a minor child is concerned), the better the result. I'm not saying it's fair. Obviously it isn't. I'm saying it is clearly doable.
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  22377.  @trauma50disaster1  What research? Did he miss Chauvin's federal plea deal?
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  22378. 25:55 Why we love Jimmy.
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  22379.  @marcelbey-el1947  No, no. Not pregnant men. Pregnant dudes. ROFL meow
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  22380.  @kevinmcallister1897  If your birthing person said so, too, when that person birthed you, you may have to keep it under wraps.
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  22381.  @kevinmcallister1897  It was intended as irony, in support of your comment. That you didn't catch that is extremely worrying. . . . So, do people call their MOTHER a "birthing person," and do so with a straight face? Don't tell me. I can't take any more.
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  22382.  @kevinmcallister1897  Not at all, you're fine. I don't even mind, I hope people get mad. Orwell himself couldn't make THIS up. ;/
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  22383. Flu vaccine is often not a perfect match, but almost always makes the flu into a mild disease. That happened to me, but had to stay home anyway so that I wouldn't infect all the unvaccinated people.
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  22384. She sure did.
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  22385. Why don't you inform yourself? Do you know nothing about her work?
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  22386.  @angelozachos8777  Of course I knew they were married, and lived in Russia for extended periods.
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  22387.  @angelozachos8777  Where do you see evidence of hawkishness?
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  22388. She just said she experienced that at law school herself, and that if any faculty member said what was alleged (can't repeat it, will be censored), he should be fired.
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  22389. I knew Adam Curtis used authentic footage in his documentaries, but I didn't think his commentary could predict the future.
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  22390. Why? He makes bank this way. The easy way. That's called profit maximization. The joke is on us, no?
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  22391. She was nominated to give conflict of interest ethics waivers to the likes of Biden's son and brother.
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  22392. ​@janicebillington1640 Oh come on. All of these people have medication issues. I sympathize, but look at it this way: don't use these medications. If this could happen to them, it could happen to anyone. But particularly strong or solid they are not. I've dealt with more.
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  22393. I don't know about Trump running again. He's kinda young.
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  22394. Private college, so it actually can. That literally could tip the balance one time in 15 years, or something.
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  22395. Funny how absolutely no major religion says it is acceptable to eat meat in any quantity at any time in combination with any other food. Russian Lent is vegan plus occasional fish. The really devout fast for Christmas and the Virgin, as well as every Friday. Too many demands on these two, huh?
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  22396. The video said nothing different. She knew it was coming in just enough time to record it. The fact that a CEO would even acknowledge it is funny, and no credit to him.
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  22397. A tragedy? People turn away from tragedy.
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  22398.  @khenderson6689  I don't agree with that approach. People have to really love each other, then if children come into their lives, wonderful. A LOT of people find out for one reason or another that children are not in their future. If you plan to treat a woman like a mandated breeder, then expect to be interviewed and scrutinized. That's where that comes from. What else do you expect?
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  22399. Here's a woman's perspective: the last guy seriously interested in me made sure to flash his money (talked about his stock portfolio), said weird racist stuff about the people who were moving into the city, not realizing the same things could have been said about my own parents, then put words in my mouth that were of the same tone, which was scary, and THEN acted like he needed to "let me down gently," when I couldn't stand him. It was ridiculous. It was also clear that he felt sex was "dirty." He's divorced, in case you haven't guessed. This is creepy stuff. I hope no guy here would consider a woman with these traits. Yuck.
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  22400.  @dahliafiend  That's FUNNY. She was a nut.
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  22401. @BigSnipp  Yes women are dying in childbirth. Check the stats. They went up a little in 2020, then soared in 2021. CDC numbers. Go look.
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  22402.  @billjameson1254  Oh shut up.
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  22403. @billjameson1254  1. You're right, you don't understand. 2. He wasn't rich. Nor do I care. It's crass to talk about money. That's the last thing I ever cared about. A capacity to deal with the world such as it is is essential, certainly. Money hoarding and money worship are not; it's a turn-off. 3. If you READ carefully, you'd have gleaned that he said racist things that could apply to my own family. That's an ugly discourse. Who delves into that? On a date?? 4. Then the stuff about sex -- at best, he has no ideals, and at worst he has issues, to put it euphemistically. 5. People of all different ages are here, including divorced people. Are you a gatekeeper? 6. I'm well past the age where a new life partner is important to me, and I'm culturally non-Western. I could never get along with the type of person I just described. 7. Not all women care about money. You think I should have played up to a lout? Why? 8. This one never got a kiss. 😅 As I said, no man should feel they have to put up with a woman who has the same traits as this guy. I hadn't thought of him in years. I do remember his first name, though. It took a moment.
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  22404. "IT'S NOT TRUE IT'S NOT TRUE IT'S NOT TRUE!!!" Yeah well okay it happened big deal you still care about that? lol, loser . . .
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  22405. @HazeOfWhearyWater  We can expect a lot of people losing their jobs. Whether they should or not, and especially if they shouldn't. Those people are in the way.
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  22406. That's the lesson.
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  22407. Fear about keeping their jobs preventing people from supporting Bernie? I believe that. Wall Street threatened to support Trump over Sanders.
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  22408.  @beneficent2557  That hasn't been proved. Enough has been proved that adding in rumored connections is unnecessary. The first time Paul Allen had lymphoma, Bill Gates tried to squeeze him out of Microsoft, and used Ballmer to do it. Microsoft was convicted of antitrust violations and was never punished. Then there's Epstein. Do we need rumors, too? I don't think so.
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  22409. It should disqualify anyone from office.
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  22410. You're right. Don't believe it.
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  22411. Biden is NEVER going to accept a nice, clean waiver. "Negotiations." Wall Street will weigh in. And Fauci lies all the time.
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  22412. Not common at all.
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  22413. Do I respect him less if he isn't getting paid, or if he is? Dilemma.
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  22414. Dr. West was just on. Did your uncle like him? I love Dr. West.
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  22415.  Keith Johnson  You have no idea how to do that.
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  22416.  Keith Johnson  You have no idea what I'm talking about.
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  22417.  Keith Johnson  Vastly more than you do. "Deregulation!" By all means. And WHAT prevents all major corporations from shipping all manufacturing and a big chunk of service to other countries? They have the "freedom" to do it. "Deregulation!!" In fact, anyone who can print a better dollar should be given clear sailing. They almost are already.
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  22418.  Keith Johnson  "Suppy and demand." Uh huh. I see. Let me just ask you this: you've heard of Uber. Went it went public, not that long ago, it stated in its IPO materials that it has never turned a profit, and that under its present business model, it cannot reasonably project a future time when it will turn a profit. But it has already spawned millionaires and billionaires. With no profit, and no prospect of profit anytime soon. Not to mention some very unhappy workers. Gee. Can you explain it?
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  22419. ​ @babitapandhare1889  Why do other Western countries without a death penalty have so much less homicide? There must be some ways to prevent this crime other than the death penalty. Maybe we could look into it?
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  22420. Someone has the nerve to call themselves Sophie Scholl's Ghost?
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  22421. Okay. Was this /s?
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  22422. This is all too convoluted. Most of what Trump said on January 6 may be reprehensible, but it is FIRST AMENDMENT protected. Pressuring state officials to dig up some votes, IF HE DID, is a different matter. That is tampering with the vote count.
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  22423.  @jgarza9809  They have Trump on video admitting he shouldn't have one of the documents at issue, and that he can no longer declassify it. Whether there is sufficient evidence to prove all other the counts is unlikely. One is all they need.
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  22424. Robby. Take a look at INSURANCE costs. I just paid my auto insurance for one month. I was stunned at how much it had increased.
    1
  22425. @drater679  Oh give me a break. Only liability insurance is mandated, and the price is controlled. They can charge what they want for comprehensive coverage. Do you think you're talking to a kid?
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  22426.  @drater679  And what if you don't have it, get in an accident, and lose everything?
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  22427. Masks protect others from infection much more than the wearer. Vaccines protect the vaccinated person from serious disease much more than they protect others.
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  22428.  Erica Rona  Or even health sector! It's not care, it's a sector of the economy.
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  22429. Maybe what a number of military analysts have said, that the Russians are attempting to avoid massive civilian casualties, is actually true? No Shock and Awe, huh? No bunker busters?
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  22430. Perfect. You deserve a wider audience. I'm serious, you do.
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  22431. Few people would have done what Dr. Jensen did.
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  22432. Oh, but Krystal, those white suburbanite voters need and expect you to cater to them. Aesthetics are everything. Tweets matter.
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  22433. It happened a lot sooner than that.
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  22434.  @JustinKrux  Thanks for echoing my point. I mentioned Tesla as an engineer without a doctorate. (The side comment after that was sarcasm. :) Of course someone without a doctorate could be a science guy, a scientist, etc.! And someone without a PhD could be a full professor and have a prestigious chair. Toni Morrison comes to mind, among others.
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  22435.  @JustinKrux  Wow!!!
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  22436. Because of all the people being fired over supporting BDS, and states that passed actual hate crime laws against it.
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  22437. Also, read Nadine Strossen or Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: the neolibs and their allies keep trying to pass hate speech laws, and as soon as they do, it's the left that suffers. You won't see the stories on social media much. You have to check out library books.
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  22438. How many songs have you played on guitar?
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  22439. To me, J&J seemed like a lower risk. The virus is new, hence we cannot mitigate that risk. Now, for mRNA vaccines, the technology is new for mass use as well. J&J and Sputnik V have a traditional technology. So, that's one less issue. Also, I'm thinking this could become an annual shot, like the flu. Another reason I didn't want mRNA technology. I am not sure that I want to adopt that technology for annual use. I could be wrong, you know? The description of the mRNA vaccine tech is pretty interesting and could be a huge breakthrough. They need to be more candid with us. It's about trust.
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  22440. See Adam Curtis on this propaganda technique. The irony is, were Russians actually involved in disinformation, their strategy worked perfectly. Think about how the Panopticon works. :/
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  22441.  @davidlewis2668  Right. There was no need. You must be familiar with Curtis? If not, you'd like him. He's strange, and wry.
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  22442. This motion is almost always brought at the end of the state's case. Normal.
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  22443. No one's defending it. An invasion during a pandemic is a new kind of hideous. The responsibility for it is not solely with Moscow, however. Maybe consider what the other BRICs have said, it's eye-opening -- not that I agree. It's just good to be aware of how widespread alternative views are. Then you won't reflexively think "Putin apologist."
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  22444.  @annemeredith6037  I don't like most people. 🤣
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  22445. @abusufiansiddik567  AIPAC has been a threat to Israel's Labour's Party many times.
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  22446. Something about this strikes me as off. "Fight amongst yourselves."
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  22447. How could anyone believe Bill Gates cares about the global poor, when he had no problem frequenting pedophiles, even after his own wife warned him? What does it take? Being caught with a new Jeffrey Dahmer? (Then, maybe?)
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  22448. The first ten minutes are deadly.
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  22449.  @amarissimus29  And authoritarianism is not a way of knowing science, unless the empirical question is the purely instrumental one, of learning how to coerce people into doing what you want them to do. Then you might want to study authoritarianism scientifically.
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  22450.  @TheDren42  Funny, no response.
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  22451.  @GC-pq6vm  Personally, I have no family in the US. So, you can forget the emotional manipulation. Of course my family abroad got vaccinated. They live under a system that WILL compensate them in the rare event of harm. Someone really does have their back.
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  22452.  @GC-pq6vm  So, let me see if I understand: as a nurse practitioner, you show scorn toward those who disagree with you concerning whether they should consent to an EUA drug. Well, that's reassuring. Why do you think people have a lack of faith in the medical establishment?
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  22453.  @GC-pq6vm  "Last in their class . . . " That sounds like a "fact" to you? Scary.
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  22454. No. He's explaining exactly what led up to the misunderstanding. Sirota's playing BOTH SIDES OF THE FENCE led up to that. Why is AOC using Sirota-generated talking points now? "Who's being naive, Kate?"
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  22455. ​ @exodus_from_babylon If love is the answer, open all jail doors. Don't create more crimes (for "hate speech").
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  22456. Lethal force was only legal to defend life and limb.
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  22457. Right. Biden is FINE. /s
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  22458. No majority means paralysis, which is what globalists want. Then they can manufacture a new panic.
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  22459. @handysmith-kv1tc  Two-round elections make that hard to predict. No majority in the Assembly is a win for Macron.
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  22460. @handysmith-kv1tc  Have you followed her in French? She's a cow. She supports raising the retirement age.
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  22461.  @handysmith-kv1tc  I hope someday Americans will be allowed to express themselves on these platforms without scents or sheep.
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  22462. What designer is AOC's sweater? Is it Italian cashmere? Where did she get it? Are there other colors?
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  22463. If COVID played some role, all the MORE reason to find out who (if anyone) is responsible for this virus. There must be truth and accountability.
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  22464. She always looks like she is auditioning for a sit-com destined to fail.
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  22465. ​ @Starforge1 Eww, too mean.
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  22466. It's not diversity. It's plain old ordinary partisanship. Look who is President. Is that disability hiring?
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  22467.  @andrewholmes6735  Musk??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Kim should sue for defamation.
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  22468. He ditched the first and embraced the second.
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  22469.  @TH3M0L3CUL3M4N  I think all mainstream American politicians have fascist tendencies. Joe is a lifelong warmonger and toady for financial interests. His nationalism is subtle; he has said things like "poor kids can learn just as well as white kids," again and again; it's too common to be a slip of the tongue. Certain ethnic groups are systematically downgraded, and that is never an issue. It's accepted. Biologism is rampant, and people really believe intelligence is "inborn," and that anyone with money is inherently superior. If you insist on comparing Biden to TRUMP, then yes, he comes across great. But who doesn't?
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  22470.  @albertjackinson  Is that supposed to be a joke?
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  22471.  @WBFbySteefen  I am sure. ;)
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  22472. A person cannot create the conditions that require self-defense and then claim self-defense. It does not work that way. Rittenhouse was in a place where he had no business being, openly carrying an assault-style firearm he had no business possessing. At least two of the people he shot reasonably believed they were disarming a possible mass shooter, and of course they were unarmed. Therefore, THEY had a right to claim self-defense or defense of others against lethal bodily harm.
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  22473. False. The pause (moratorium) on funding was signed by Obama, and Trump LIFTED the moratorium.
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  22474. Moreover, the moratorium explicitly stated that ONLY an agency head, after due diligence, could make an exception to the moratorium for essential research. This wasn't something some lower-level bureaucrat could do. This was about money.
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  22475. Paris IV as well; since then, it was all reorganized. The most recent plan is impressive, I have to say.
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  22476. The timeline and the allegations made in court and in court papers are evidence which may be used to make informed conjectures.
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  22477. Musk has a history of SEC problems, including a pending case.
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  22478.  @ninefire6330  No knowledge claim was made. Of course not. Well. Anyway.
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  22479.  @ninefire6330  Neuralink has been cited for primate torture. You are correct, no zebras were involved.
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  22480.  @ninefire6330  People can use patterns of behavior in the past for which there is solid evidence to make conjectures about present intentions. Musk HAS BEEN (and IS -- i.e., he has a case pending) at odds with the SEC concerning stock price manipulation. You believe this speculation is too farfetched -- it's too different from prior conduct. Okay. That's not "zero evidence." If you can't follow logic, you think it's a "word salad?" You have other problems than to defend billionaires. Get busy and read.
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  22481.  @ninefire6330  Another American who needs help. I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked, SHOCKED!
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  22482.  @ninefire6330  Oh I see. You've never read a court case! You don't know how to find a complaint or a court document, and you are confused by them when you see them. Goodness . . . You should have said so. It's no big deal. Your friends online can teach you. Everyone has a first time.
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  22483. When college was nearly free, students studied more. How come?
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  22484. Wow, I bet you learned math. :)
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  22485. Qualified immunity applies in civil rights cases, not criminal cases. The police are supposed to know not to commit homicides. It's not obscure.
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  22486.  @gracelynne3918  🤣🤣🤣 Excellent!
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  22487.  @melissadeloach8503  Sometimes that happened, yes. Now "the other side" is using the same logic to suppress dissent. Only they have the police and the politicians and of course the billionaire donor class on their side. If they can't get their way, they will blacklist. They will make sure people who don't support their positions are frozen out of jobs. Are you all right with that? McCarthy II? If you actually care, Nadine Strossen will tell you about it. Or Erwin Chemerinsky. These are very fragile rights. I don't know that they'll survive, frankly.
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  22488.  @melissadeloach8503  Interesting that my response is hidden. That's fine, too? You sure?
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  22489.  @melissadeloach8503  History books? Reading Is Fun
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  22490.  @melissadeloach8503  Blocked Forgot to do that . . .
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  22491.  N L  He wasn't convicted. They frankly did not make a good case before the Senate, but the truth is, the vote was strictly party line. Shameful.
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  22492. When I had a minor operation last fall, a very short outpatient procedure, I had to sign a consent form for blood transfusion and for more extensive surgery if needed. These were complications my doctor had never seen. When she told me about them, I exhaled. It meant she would be careful to avoid these complications. Of course doctors must watch for issues with repeated vaccination. If they don't, then don't trust their judgment.
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  22493. Jimmy was the youngest of 12, his entire family except him were boomers. He missed boomer by a couple of years.
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  22494. Do we imagine they would never resort to force to prevent loss of power? There are circumstances where they would, and not just against people in another country.
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  22495. All the way to the bank, huh?
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  22496.  @RarebitFiends  LOL
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  22497. I don't see how a pardon prevents investigation. Clearly they no longer have a need to invoke the Fifth Amendment, nor to prevaricate. They can now tell the truth. The pardon doesn't cover future perjury.
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  22498. No she isn't. She said the opposite.
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  22499. Maybe they like it.
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  22500. Then look into the case. Masterson is insisting the victims consented and that he did nothing wrong. Look into other things he said. There's a bigger picture here.
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  22501. Meta owns Instagram, yeah.
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  22502.  @MinhVu-fl4nn  Notice how your very sane and measured post sounds a little strange and out of place?
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  22503. This would never surprise me. False flags is our world.
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  22504. If we get to the point where we accept crashes because the planes are filled anyway . . .
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  22505. It doesn't cover the future.
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  22506. Well? Just kidding.
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  22507. Not when they find out the facts. Most of the proposals are one more way of telling the ordinary person that they don't count, and if they are harmed, they have to eat it. The other side of low regulation and low government interference is allowing those few who are harmed to seek specific, provable damages.
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  22508. It's purely your opinion that those opposing arms to Israel are "for terrorists." That's not the law. Explain the Westboro Baptist Church case, . . . RAV v. City of St. Paul, . . . Brandenburg v. Ohio. . . . RAV was a Scalia opinion, and Scalia joined the opinion on the flag-burning case (Texas v. Johnson, I believe). You're confusing the First Amendment with Miss Manners.
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  22509. Here's an idea: don't fund a war against one of the BRICS. Stopping all that might be wise? 🤔
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  22510.  @utah_koidragon7117  No she didn't. She said this corporate overreach has opposite its apparent intended effect. I wonder about that view, but that was what she said, and Robbie agreed for some reason. Classic libertarian stance from him: private companies do have a right to do whatever they want, the simultaneity is suspect (ya think?), and the Invisible Hand will even things out by making the outcast group more popular. Bri's featuring of Glenn Greenwald's tweet kinda undermines your view.
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  22511.  @utah_koidragon7117  I agree that clarity on an issue like this should be expected -- as you said in the last paragraph. The other commentary is a wry aside that took over the main part of the story. "They should not do this because it is wrong, and . . . it usually doesn't work anyway. It backfires" I can't argue with that. I just don't see her as nefarious as you seemed to.
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  22512. Actually, this is worse. It's illegal to use deadly force to defend unoccupied property sitting parked on the street. Lethal force is for defending persons and their physical safety.
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  22513.  @twatts1523  You may be right. The jury believed he may have circled back and jumped Zimmerman, but I'm not clear on why they believed that. There could have been a linguistic problem and poor preparation; his witness with whom he was on the phone at the time was not a native English-speaker.
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  22514.  @twatts1523  I don't disagree with you.
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  22515. People lost jobs for suggesting this was possible -- not actual, but possible. We also cannot keep punishing people for being competent.
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  22516. Er, yeah!!
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  22517. Ana could have had him reprimanded or fired at the time. Instead, she only brings it up after she and Cenk smeared Aaron Mate, and Dore defended him. And takes a swipe at Jimmy's wife. You missed that part?
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  22518.  @janeryan2709  I certainly do. Do you?
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  22519.  @janeryan2709  By the way, that tasteless joke, standing alone, and asking where someone got their jeans so that he could buy a pair as a gift for his wife, do not meet the legal definition of sexual harassment. But Ana could have fired him or reprimanded him. Employers can do that. They don't have to wait for matters to escalate, or for actionable harassment under the law to occur. SHE had the upper hand.
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  22520. Cross your fingers and fold your arms. Be nice.
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  22521. ​@Gretchen K. Yup. Bivens allows it, too.
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  22522. No you can't. You actually have to consult FBI statistics. You believe the talking heads on television? Whoa.
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  22523. Not Jews as such. Wealthy donors. Norman Finkelstein was also fired from DePaul, and they settled his lawsuit.
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  22524.  @socalledchaosaus  True!
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  22525.  N C  Oh please. Stay in context.
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  22526. He does that all the time.
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  22527. If she wrote it herself, and she strove to be accurate and truthful, then she is actually earning her money. Is that something to jeer at, now? I'm starting to think so.
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  22528. ​ @Disneydreamgirl33 Well, insurance companies can, and with the right pieces of paper make billions for doing it.
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  22529. Our "allies" in the endless wars had child soldiers and child sex slaves. One of our servicemen who tried to stop the abuse happening right in front of him was assassinated. This is not new.
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  22530. People are having a hard time accepting how normal the parents of the two psychotically criminal girls seem. There is nothing remarkable about these mothers. That is hard to accept. Law enforcement and everyone at the hospital must have suffered trauma as well. This was really hard on them.
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  22531. Aww fudge!
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  22532. Something wonderful just happened: NRA v. Vullo, a victory for the First Amendment. Sotomayor for a unanimous Court.
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  22533.  @nosuchthing8  Links are often shadowed. I gave you all the information you need to find the materials. We don't know whether vaccines "work." We are only 18 months into this pandemic. I suggest you pay attention. But have it your way.
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  22534.  @nosuchthing8  Your reply is a non sequitur. You point out to me where I affirmatively advocated ivermectin. You'd have to blank out half of every sentence to make it say that, and probably still couldn't. The accurate conclusion certainly appears to be that the jury is out, and that it may be promising but that we don't know. Is there some reason to suppress that message? Or shout it down?
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  22535.  @nosuchthing8  Links are typically shadowed.
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  22536.  @nosuchthing8  You're just an abuser. Thanks for letting me know. Blocked. My notifications feed gets cleaner.
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  22537.  @skinksinthecity  Well, not sure what you replied to as I was censored.
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  22538. Robbie: they get ahold of drugs in prison. He makes a solid point.
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  22539. So glad not shadowed, lol.
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  22540. "Top 'em off," like toddlers in a bar.
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  22541. How can a person support vaccine mandates while knowing from experience that medicine is NEVER "one-size-fits-all?" Especially in a system where PEOPLE DON'T HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE?
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  22542. Remember that scene when Woody Allen threatens to write a letter to the New York Times?
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  22543. LOL, good rule, . . . except for stocks?
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  22544. And that took some doing.
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  22545.  @Veyron1967  You need help. You really do. Who do you think lifted the moratorium on gain of function research? Trump let Fauci run the country. Trump risked war with Iran by executing a general who was a force against terrorists in the region. Well . . . If you tell me he's the best 2023 America has got . . . Okay. Maybe.
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  22546.  @teacup-q3n  You're a rock star! 😉😊
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  22547. Outstanding video. One suggestion: rather than recommending apps, recommend books and audio recordings. All of this tech is designed to be addictive. The euphemism is "sticky."
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  22548. That is not an argument, that is a label: what is "imperial peace," exactly? Of course you "find it disturbing." Slogans, labels, and the like, are designed to evoke strong feelings, and to bypass thought. In this case, NO ONE suggested an imposed peace on a weaker nation.
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  22549.  @carycunningham9510  It is the US that has directed Ukraine's political class to reject negotiation. Look it up, sweetheart.
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  22550. There is no argument here, either -- just a number of unfounded or poorly founded (and hence probably rhetorical) questions.
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  22551.  @carycunningham9510  Oh, that's why there should not be peace negotiations? Because "Ukraine is winning?" Or to avenge "a lot of destruction and bloodshed?" Okay, end of discussion and blocked from my thread. The US/UK did torpedo negotiations. That is a fact. Wasting time with you is not on my list of priorities.
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  22552.  @carycunningham9510  So those things with the question marks were not actual questions? I believe you.
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  22553.  @carycunningham9510  Oh, I get it now. Parroting Jamie Raskin. Nice job. /s
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  22554. Why is all your focus on the risk of nuclear exchange? Assume it cannot happen, no problem. That is a reasonable belief. Then listen again, to what is already happening.
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  22555. All the warmongers are looking to line their pockets, too. The president's family cleaned up in Ukraine.
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  22556.  @joemayne2265  Look At Our Economy BIG picture
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  22557. I love a nice, warm fall, pretty skies and leaves, migrating flocks, and no snow before the first day of winter. Plus an early spring.
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  22558. Loved her. It's hard to hold your ground with these grifters.
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  22559. Russians are not Western at all. They are not even entirely European.
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  22560. Oh shut up Robbie.
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  22561. Are you kidding? Berletic is a regular on The Duran.
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  22562. John F. Kennedy addressed this with clarity. LOOK IT UP.
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  22563.  @mustangracer5124  This one is tougher: he's a lot younger and his parents both Stanford Law. Also, no evidence he is a human trafficker, blackmailer, or double agent. Madoff lived, and you know he funneled dark money.
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  22564. @MarkJones-gt2qd  I know a guy who sounded like you. He always had the most conservative Republican candidates' signs on his lawn . . . Until his six-figure earning wife went on disability. Now he votes straight DNC, even for monsters like Hillary and mummies like Biden. Funny how that is.
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  22565.  @erikaliebenberg9317  NEVER allow anyone to touch your child. Not EVER. Now I don't feel so stupid for watching true crime videos. You think anyone can touch Stephanie Harlowe's or Derrick Levasseur's children?
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  22566.  @darrelljohnson5764  Jeff?? Jeff EPSTEIN? What in the world are you doing here?
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  22567.  @darrelljohnson5764  No, actually. Higher math is.
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  22568.  @darrelljohnson5764  Huh? You mean you never studied topology? Wondered whether there are infinitely many Fibonacci primes?
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  22569. Love/hate . . . And clear how both were engendered.
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  22570. Remember it was called the TRUTH and Reconciliation Commission . . . but Jimmy is right insofar as there is no point in personalizing it, unless a particular person actively sought power to coerce others and lied to them. Rogan is talking about the ones who were duped. I certainly felt sorry they were duped, from the start.
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  22571. The foreign policy "elites" are not spreading misinformation. The US economy and the economies of its allies are fragile, and need all of the natural resources controlled by Russia and its allies to be far less well defended, so that the West can exploit them while maintaining dollar hegemony. The West has always needed to control these resources, and has never needed that control more than it does today.
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  22572.  @jamilifunk6199  LOL
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  22573. True
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  22574. So all the doctors who treat patients on Medicare are slaves? Uh oh. The Thirteenth Amendment just took away seniors' healthcare.
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  22575. You are the crazy one.
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  22576. Replicate that study. In fact, first post the link. "Weaponized empathy?" Anyone who makes ANY claim of having been harmed is ridiculed and denounced in real life -- as a lot of vaccine injured found out. Your observations are about screen life.
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  22577. ​ @stevechance150 That's no longer approved by the IRBs.
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  22578. ​@vvwalker7261 I finally found the abstract, from 1980. They ran the study four times, and this positive result, that is, the one described here, was true in two of the four trials. Looks like (1) research standards were higher 45 years ago, as this team replicated their own research; and (2) we have a real crisis in standards today, as you can see by how Kisin reported the study. Athenians believed that truth was what pleased the most people in the agora, . . . until they lost a big war.
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  22579. Is this report by one of the reporters whose funding for a permanent position was frozen by GoFundMe?
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  22580. Sponsor was being sued by the Federal Trade Commission for deceptive practices, has class action against it now. Look it up.
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  22581. Why are attorney/client communications admissible?
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  22582. I found out. She opened the door, allegedly, by lying about their content. Wow, just wow.
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  22583. If you want to see what a passionate advocate sounds like, watch Mangione's lawyer. If I have to depend on this person for my safety, I'm lost.
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  22584. She has gotten her notice? For real?
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  22585. ​ @RickMcCormack-k2m Don't worry. It's in court.
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  22586.  @French-Dutch-English-blooded  Most of this nonsense is tied up in court.
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  22587. I see no difference between this and Wall Street, except that Wall Street is vastly worse, works on a global level, and has complete impunity -- AND knows that it has complete impunity. As long as no one is hurt, this doesn't bother me at all.
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  22588. It's up to an impaired person to decide whether he is impaired.
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  22589. Planned obsolescence is a thing.
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  22590. I can't fathom why anyone would vote for either Biden or Trump. I never have, for any office.
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  22591. Well, to be fair, if you read books, you are elite. Just look around.
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  22592. Can you imagine the greed, if billionaires look for ways to evade taxes? And pay accountants and lawyers to structure it? A mere one billion dollars at age 50 is like accumulating $20 million a year since birth. Over $2,280 an hour, for every hour since birth. Not nearly enough, huh?
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  22593.  @janeryan2709  The joke Ana cited, and the question about where she gets her jeans, do not rise to the level of workplace sexual harassment. Not legally. But Ana could have had him fired anyway, or stopped praising him after he left to do his own show. She was his boss. She had the upper hand. So, what happened?
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  22594. Do Asians generally believe in the God of the Bible?
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  22595. How you have six with an e.
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  22596. There's an anti-science flavor all right -- spelled F-A-U-C-I.
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  22597. Oh yeah. Thousands of us, apparently.
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  22598.  @gicir19  Since a LOT of things.
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  22599.  @steve1711  If the data emerges, he will. Not soon, I grant you. But it takes time to see this, to be honest.
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  22600.  @ericgreen154  Congrats. You've found the cover story that DNC/MSM will endorse.
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  22601.  @Dez083  Dr. Campbell gave a video on the increase of non-COVID related deaths in UK above baseline, and their health authorities are investigating a slew of possibilities. In the US, we KNOW opioid deaths and shootings are a factor for sure. Whether cardiovascular deaths are higher in those under 50 than they were in 2018-2019 needs to be looked at. Whether obesity is higher does as well. LDL levels rise under prolonged stress in many people. Quit being a smart @$$, a lot of people are informed.
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  22602.  @Dez083  Could it be that three sudden deaths among your acquaintances who were men under 35 in a short time frame raises questions?
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  22603. She is doing an outstanding job today.
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  22604. ​ @bropitt Where are you licensed to practice law?
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  22605.  @thedizzyunicorn  They chose to embrace the full panoply of First Amendment freedoms. They did not have to, though in some states, they may be required to. But in general, they did not have to. Do you believe universities, private or public, should be bastions of First Amendment freedoms? "Yes or no?" 🤣🤣
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  22606.  @jordanmc27  You're the one who lost the plot.
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  22607.  @jordanmc27  "Feel[ing] safe is priority #1 over anything else?" Okay, I admire you for that admission. Wow, has the world changed.
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  22608.  @jordanmc27  You cannot have a demonstration that takes over a classroom, or a dormitory, or an administration building, or a library, no matter how lovely your words may be. Those are restrictions on the time, place, and manner of the manifestation, not on the political viewpoint it advances.
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  22609.  @jordanmc27  The laws governing free speech in the compulsory education setting are in any case somewhat different than at college. If you truly care, Nadine Strossen and Ewin Chemerinsky wrote absolutely beautiful books on campus freedom of speech. Both are Jewish, by the way. A lot of great writers are.
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  22610.  @thedizzyunicorn  Hold me accountable how? Spell it out. People have a First Amendment freedom not to associate with me, but if a university has pledged not to punish protected speech, I get to graduate. Do you think anyone who uses the N word with its usual meaning, or the C word, should be expelled? That would leave a lot of fraternity houses half empty.
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  22611.  @jordanmc27  No, those were examples of supposed "consequences."
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  22612. @jordanmc27  Exactly. If you say things people consider abhorrent, they can decline to interact with you. They can consider you unhinged, unreliable, morally repugnant --- but they probably cannot break their contracts with you, especially the contracts that promised no punitive consequences for political speech.
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  22613. @jordanmc27  Do you drink to excess? Or is it generally too hard for you to gleen abstract principles from examples? You can only think at a very low level of abstraction, rather than consider how we treat other constitutional rights?
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  22614. @jordanmc27  The contract is between the students and the universities when they matriculated. No, they can't have disappearing and reappearing constitutional rights like the smile on a Cheshire cat.
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  22615. @jordanmc27  Why would that mean the university has to punish its students for protected speech? To make the atmosphere more congenial to the children of the mega donors? Is that their condition for donations -- that they can dictate the content of the student body's speech? That they can demand surveillance recordings, names, and addresses of students who are attending demonstrations they don't agree with? What if they donate hundreds of millions? Shouldn't they get a say in what goes on? Is THIS what you believe?
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  22616.  @thedizzyunicorn  That's because your emotions override your logic, and . . . Wait. Dizzy unicorn. Okay. Never mind.
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  22617.  @jordanmc27  That's not how ridiculous is spelled.
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  22618. @jordanmc27  Your discomfort with my speech isn't accorded a global veto, but it is true that some people can coerce a veto. Massive concentrations of wealth can do that. If you seriously think the Harvard brand has been damaged, that is a JOKE. They did lose one huge donor: Leslie Wexner. That's right, that Leslie Wexner. Jeffrey Epstein was his dear friend and protégé. So, we started with principles, and in the end it all came down to 💰. I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked, shocked!
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  22619. @thedizzyunicorn  I'm a trilingual civil rights lawyer who attended a major university in Europe 30 years ago. Yes, their system is generally better somehow, but I can't quite understand why they are so inspiring. Maybe money isn't their godhead quite yet. I'm sure they'll get there. On their own, or pushed.
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  22620.  @thedizzyunicorn  💰 = 💩
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  22621. @tanyagitman5926  To paraphrase Norman Finkelstein, teaching students to love to think is their first priority. Everything else flows from that. Discrimination is itself thoughtless and impedes thinking, and tolerating discrimination is a violation of Title VI. But Title VI exists to support free and equal opportunities for education. Education is teaching students to love to think. See how that works?
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  22622.  @tanyagitman5926  What a grim view of life you have. Maybe you're right. It's all about comfort and safety, like a giant nursing home.
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  22623. @JimBob-jr5up  My mind was just blown. Liz Magill is an eminent lawyer. Her father was a federal appellate judge. She went to Yale and University of Virginia and she clerked for Justice Ginsberg. That's creme de la creme. And she is incapable of coherently stating and defending First Amendment freedoms. Now I've heard everything. This is serious, but not for the made-up reasons we're supposed to think. There is grave incompetence across the board, starting at the top. We're not going to have peace anytime soon. Who are the peacemakers? (I thought she was a sociologist.)
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  22624.  @tanyagitman5926  James Baldwin called American a giant kindergarten, lol. He couldn't live here.
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  22625. @patrickhenry2845  The goal of that congressional hearing was simpler still. 💰 (fund raising) I'm sure it was successful. Articulation of First Amendment principles, not so much. But that doesn't pay, does it? You don't even get Likes for that.
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  22626. @JimBob-jr5up  This Unicorn fellow points out that this is really all about money, like he just revealed a hidden truth about the world to us. "Money?! Gosh, that never once crossed my mind!!" 🤣🤣🤣 It's about money and safety. And comfort. We want the highest paying customers to feel comfortable. 🤣🤣🤣🤪 I'm pretending to joke but this is serious. Money is at stake here.
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  22627.  @kevinho8616  Your effort at making the first post look bad fell terribly flat.
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  22628. Wait? Is Biden about to be outed as . . . ? Is that it?
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  22629. Two things: no one is entitled to represent ICE as their advocate before the court. Attorneys have special rules of professionalism that are designed to protect their clients, and to prevent the opposing party from being able to leverage the lawyer's personal conduct against the client. Second, and more broadly, anyone can fire their lawyer for any reason. You don't like his social media posts? You can fire him. The government is not to be placed in an inferior position to ordinary individuals with respect to choice of counsel. That is the First Amendment law in the government workplace in general. There is more protection than in the private sector, obviously, but it can't be so much that it puts the government at a disadvantage.
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  22630. Can you say "post-truth?" (Or will you be suspended?)
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  22631. ​ @erikhendrickson59  And in homeless news . . .
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  22632. Lol
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  22633. SO happy for you! If this can do it, you have basic good health all right!
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  22634. Did you hear a bang? :)
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  22635. We are not helping the Ukrainians.
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  22636. No shame? None at all?
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  22637. We have the worst health care for the highest price, and the most chronically ill population of any developed country, and the least wholesome food. Yet all of these things have happened under the freest market in the world for food, drugs, and medical care. Well, Robby? How did that happen? On the other hand, when seeming to forget basic facts like this all the time, how does Robby keep his job? He's not that good at it, really. Could it be the hair?
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  22638. ​@Shaggy-8392 I still can't believe Reagan duped them. My immigrant grandmother would exclaim, " an ACTOR!!!" and laugh.
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  22639. Biden has had enough humiliation.
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  22640.  @praetentious2925  Toujours. Mais pour l'instant, il faut demontrer l'humanite. (Double entendre!)
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  22641.  @praetentious2925  L'Obs isn't even left, it's neolib. They brought the report anyway. Different culture. America has no tolerance for real diversity, they are all Social Darwinians and Benthamites.
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  22642.  @praetentious2925  Yes it did.
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  22643.  @praetentious2925  Are non-English posts shadowed?
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  22644.  @utewbd  Absolutely a personal choice. Medicine must always be individualized, and every adult has a right to refuse any treatment.
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  22645.  @utewbd  The lady said she was against mandates. Fine by me.
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  22646.  @MJMilano7  I practiced in federal court, lol. You don't know enough to recognize when someone is giving you real information? The Marine might not be guilty. I am telling you the standard. I have not seen the evidence.
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  22647. Since they are all so anti-Trump, WHY do they insist on imitating him?
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  22648.  @ringbearer1420  Stump Freud with that one.
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  22649. ​ @fish9905  You believe this? How is that critical thinking? I want to see some evidence.
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  22650.  @fish9905  Oh I see. You just believe what the performance-for-fundraising Congress members spout.
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  22651.  @Lauwit  Stefanik made money, at your expense. You don't see through it.
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  22652. Yeah, Amber, and people didn't call me for a job because their ignorant __ couldn't pronounce my name. No big deal, to you. Dave Chappelle: it's always funny until it happens to you.
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  22653. Clearly not a lawyer, or particularly well-versed in justice. Anyone who counts on a mob to rectify the injustice of a mob is worse than a fool.
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  22654. Yes Collins knows --- the NIH diagnosed and treated her, and continues to treat her.
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  22655. Emily starts out this segment by laughing. You are all fine with how they announced the assassination. You focus instead on trashing Olayemi. That's important. Wow, just wow. Well, the mastermind of the Beslan school massacre was given a platform on ABC Nightline, back in the day. This should not surprise me.
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  22656. Depends on what it is evidence of. If the issue is whether a person screamed "help," and I heard them myself, I can testify to that. It does not, however, prove the person screaming really needed help. It could be a ruse, for example.
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  22657. Most people don't know what hearsay is.
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  22658. He can submit to regular testing to protect everyone. Vaccinated people should too, since it appears immunity is not long lasting.
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  22659. But he'll only shoot a dealer in the leg. Not the heart, my God.
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  22660. I'd love to see where she has lived, since babyhood.
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  22661. 💯
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  22662. ​ @dashphonemail Of course they do.
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  22663. Glenn Greenwald is on tonight, talking about the First Amendment.
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  22664. Billionaires control America. Plenty of Jewish people who support Israel do not support this.
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  22665. 9:40 To think that freaks like these can prevent a pregnant 14 year old from having an abortion at 6 weeks.
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  22666. "Sensitive dependence on initial conditions" --- something can be perfectly determined and entirely unpredictable.
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  22667. ​ @ОльгаЮрс They sounded like Bobby Kennedy Jr. Good! This movement needs to go global.
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  22668. Even fewer. This did not count the completely uninsured.
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  22669. Exactly. If he could be tracked before, he can still be tracked now. The difference is, the posts won't appear on Twitter.
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  22670. Just read Pfizer plans to apply for full FDA approval very soon. Being reluctant to take an EUA vaccine is not crazy. Being anti-vaccines is crazy, frankly. We will have a lot more guidance soon. Also, follow the news in other countries and see what they're doing.
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  22671. Counting their money.
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  22672. When he talked about spider goats and I found out about the genetic engineering that actually was done, my attitude did shift.
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  22673. The resume studies are well known and have been replicated. U of Chicago participated in one, and they are nobody's fools.
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  22674. Why don't you know about them? I do. A recent one even detected bias against Russian names.
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  22675.  @TheDiaryOfACEO  David Goggins is the only person I want to hear from about overcoming adversity.
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  22676.  @jenxsj3902  He's a well-known jerk who knows and likes easy money.
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  22677. @jenxsj3902  He's a well-known j____k who knows and likes easy money. Nothing to take seriously or get upset over.
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  22678. @stefankleeberger  They mentioned Candace Owens, whose claim to fame is getting fired and pushing the story that some 70 year old French lady is a man. This is not a bunch of geniuses we have here.
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  22679. She never voted for Biden or Hillary Clinton. You don't know that?
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  22680. You think they care that four are dead? Four? Plus 361,000 and counting. And how many will be suicides or homeless by this time next year? The stock market is making new records, yo. Face the new reality.
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  22681. This was an unusually complete report. Not unusual for Kim. :)
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  22682. Money. Love of money is the root of all evil.
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  22683.  @BillyColeII-dr6dk  Hypocrite? That sounds right.
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  22684.  @BillyColeII-dr6dk  I always look to read stuff for myself.
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  22685. ​@Tati8796 Not all Israelis believe the existence of Israel means Palestinians must be occupied and cannot be free. Are you suggesting the slogan is literally always a dog whistle? In other words, coded speech made to sound nice but always hiding a criminal, malevolent intent? Not everyone agrees, but . . . Can you prove they are naive in that?
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  22686.  @Tati8796  You did not answer my question. Perhaps you are responding to a different post. I asked a First Amendment question, not a geopolitics/Third World development question. Did you recognize that? Or no?
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  22687. ​ @doriszelaya1230 That's better. I'd rather you stick to little pictures. Awww . . . Why did you take the emojis down??
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  22688.  @bumblebootwiddletoes5185  And it won't. I have no family in the US.
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  22689. Ireland is exceptional. They lived for so long under the Anglo-Saxon propaganda that they are not easily duped by it. They know what the Five Eyes all said about them.
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  22690.  @tonz928  Me too. I mean colloquially, not hashtag.
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  22691. 1:35. 😂😂😂😂
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  22692. The father taking a job making vastly less money with a family of five to raise is circumstantial evidence for the alternate theory. What was the time line of the four shootings? This tells you who heard gunshots before being killed, which allows some theory concerning the placement of the bodies at the time of death. If the three bodies in the basement were far apart from the father's, the police needed to consider the possibility of two assailants, not just one. Someone could have herded them down there.
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  22693. Remember the aftermath of the 2008 crisis? Wall Street called Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain the PIGS -- and not ironically. No one could make this up.
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  22694. ​ @paulweeldreyer7457 I suggest watching Glenn Greenwald on that. I didn't see through it at first, either.
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  22695.  @Commonsense401  Yes.
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  22696.  @Commonsense401  I hope you can see my reply.
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  22697.  @Commonsense401  Agreed 💯
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  22698. Seeing insanity play out in front of me has lost all its charm.
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  22699. You have a legal right not to speak or interact with whomever you choose, with only a few exceptions that do not apply here. The problem is that their lawyer spoke, while they maintained silence. You also have a right to consult a lawyer.
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  22700. To protest Jewish Voices for Peace?
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  22701. Totally, unequivocally false. Do the clowns smearing him think that toxic tort cases against major corporations are easy to win?? Or that they do not involve learning how to marshall and judge scientific evidence? They must think we live in Twitter World. Yes, a lawyer makes a case. That does not mean he is unbiased. He is a zealous advocate for his side, and brings to bear FACTS that support his position. We are in dire need of exactly that challenge to the Fauci-infused and infested atrocity that is the current NIH. Kennedy is our corrective. Let the real debate begin!
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  22702. Well, but we have so many opportunities. Some of our seniors have several jobs. I mean, can a Ukrainian hope to become a Walmart greeter?
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  22703.  @peteh1792  IF what she says is based on her actual knowledge and experience AS A PRACTICING ATTORNEY, that is legitimate. If she uses that fact to support her opinions, as if they were inherently more valuable than yours or mine simply because she has a certain expertise in a highly specialized field, then that is elitist nonsense. Fallacy of appeal to authority . . .
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  22704.  @pmberkeley  Olayemi stated twice that he has a right to pursue an employment law claim, and added toward the end that she would not have fired him. 8:50
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  22705. Adorable! Of course, at HOME, Mom's way is perfect.
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  22706. $$$$$ It's not what we thought it would be.
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  22707. Why I voted for La Riva. Peltier's name was still on the ballot.
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  22708. 1:01:21 I think I'm in love.
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  22709. ​ @Crawling-Chaos-2024 true
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  22710. 1. Those parents don't have the resources to find schools for their children and take them there every day. 2. I refuse to pay taxes for anything but universal, public education. I refuse to finance privatized schemes where I have no voice (nor should I).
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  22711. It was easy, for them.
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  22712. The wealthy get different treatments, like tailored monoclonal antibodies. They saved Trump, they saved Chris Christie. Both are fine. That's what must be silenced. FOLLOW THE 💰💰💰💰
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  22713. No. His Stage 4 cancer caused them to pause on firing him.
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  22714. Not just no morals, no ethics: no laws, no society. No humor, no art. But a push for war, sure.
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  22715. The Reason magazine story is consistent with Brie's account here, down to the smallest details. Reason claims that they broke the story in the first place, and they linked to the complaint. Brie supports the suit, which is in federal court over serious money. That will help more than your bloviating.
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  22716. Cha-ching? Also, he is not happily married is my guess. Ideological marriages may be committed, but rarely happy. Cha-ching becomes even more important.
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  22717.  @katiemilku  Imagining you think you know a stranger . . .
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  22718.  @erepsekahs  Had Depp never lost, I would probably fall for it. If I didn't know the law (i.e., if he abused her, he cannot win in defamation even if she was horrid as well; if his reputation was toast, if his drug use made him an insurance risk, and if he was fired after losing the first case, he cannot collect meaningful damages), I would probably fall for it. But this? No, this is not a real case first of all. This is a performance first of all.
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  22719.  @chrismogard4144  He lost a defamation suit in UK and is an insurance risk due to drugs. It's Putin's fault, I mean Heather's, no wait this one is named Amber.
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  22720.  @chrismogard4144  Oh, I thought Putin did something to Dior. My bad.
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  22721.  @annamineer2521  A lot of people do that. They still have to have means. They don't live in anything close to a "hut." Only money buys security. The lovely small towns in my state were ravaged by methamphetamine over a generation ago. It spread like wildfire. I will never forget the map as labs were uncovered and marked in red. Within a decade, most of the state was red. One farmer was falsely convicted of murdering his parents, and sat on death row for over a year before being exonerated. A motorcycle gang selling meth did it, and he found them. There used to be choices. How is a person to know that what is quiet today won't succumb to drugs or gangs of some sort tomorrow? I still remember when old friends from high school were urging me to move to Portland, Oregon. They swore I'd like it. OMG.
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  22722. What I would like is for the in-state tuition of the late, great public universities to be something a kid could pay by working all summer. Up until the 1980s, a minimum wage summer job covered a full year of in-state tuition and fees, and oftentimes books and supplies as well, at nearly all of the public universities. Work-study covered most of the rest. The kids who worked their own way through school were a different people. Nor do I want qualified kids to be held back by being shoved into community colleges. This almost always holds back the most talented. They belong on the campus of a real university, with doctoral students around to interact with from Day 1. They need that rush of enthusiasm and motivation. They shouldn't have to wait two more years. Enough of this waiting! That goes for unpaid summer "internships," too. Every internship should have, at minimum, a stipend equal to $15.00 per hour, 35-hour week. Anything else is bull****.
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  22723. For anyone who doubts the extent of neo-Nazi actions in the eastern breakaway regions, see Lev Golinkin in The Nation, circa 2019. That has the added advantage of having been written before the pandemic.
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  22724. What court has recognized hate speech as a category? That is not a legal term but a political one. RAV v. City of St. Paul was never overturned.
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  22725. ​ @KeyboardWarrior-r9b Stop with this. It's stupid.
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  22726.  @otakusenpai3737  The issue of what should happen has been superseded by the question of what IS happening. Did you even read this report?
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  22727.  @otakusenpai3737  Sounds like a parody.
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  22728.  @HaveYouTriedGuillotines  Trump? Who committed countless war crimes? Who was the Drone King? Who separated children from parents at the border as strategy? Who bungled the COVID response, despite having ample opportunity to get it right? Who was too LAZY to get Congress to pass $2000 checks last year, which he had the leverage to do, or at least be seen trying real hard? And who gave tacit approval to Charlottesville and January 6th. The man is, at the very least, stupid and lazy, to put a too nice face on it.
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  22729.  @HaveYouTriedGuillotines  Of course I didn't vote for Biden. Never once voted for Biden. The only time I voted for Obama was in the primary. When he picked Joe to join the ticket, I knew where this was going. YOU are "predictably pathetic," as it turns out. You think there was a good way for this election to end? That is pathetic.
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  22730.  @austintrousdale2397  LOL
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  22731.  @HaveYouTriedGuillotines  LOOK AT YOUR CHOICES for the nation's highest office. Does that tell you anything? It tells you people like me are the problem? (Then 95% of humanity is the problem, i.e., the number not living in the US.) Where do we find a bottom? Every time I thought we had found one, all of the major political players in both parties took us lower. Trump accelerated that process like no one before him. He very nearly started a much more serious conflict with Iran, and didn't end any of our other wars with anyone else. Hillary, we know, was far more thirsty for war. What lunatic Hillary would have done is anyone's guess.
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  22732. Anyone who has had a semester of law school knows you need to own your dwelling mortgage free, and pay those taxes first. You have no other security. You can eat bean soup. You can wear a jacket indoors.
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  22733. I agree. Perfectly said. It seems as though certain economic "elites" can not only get away with absolutely anything, but manage to enrich themselves by every devastating event the rest of us must suffer through.
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  22734.  @paaklapi  Learning loss is almost never permanent in young people -- essentially never. There were great writers who first learned to read in their early teens. Unfortunately, we don't have the kind of culture or society to nurture learning in such people. I agree that a simple policy response by itself won't be enough.
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  22735.  @LisaKnappster  COMPLETE agreement. Thanks for posting, and for caring about this. It's not an answer, but it's the essential starting point.
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  22736. Piers Morgan walked off the set. This isn't a free speech issue. He is entirely welcome to express any opinion he likes. Who has stopped him? He . . . doesn't have enough money yet? Lots of people are paid nothing for their views -- the vast majority, in fact . So he can join the majority. It may enhance his perspective. Consider it a challenge, Piers.
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  22737. A long time ago, yeah. It's online. Everyone has seen it. I think it was well before Biden upped the ante on autocracy, lol.
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  22738. And should they be vaccinated and twice boosted, too?
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  22739. Fascinating --- I can only eat goat cheese. Now I know why.
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  22740.  @fortusvictus8297  Actually, it tells us nothing. The actual court record would tell us something. Your conjecture is poor. In any case, suspended sentences are the norm in Europe. A person with a legitimate six-year sentence for a reckless but unintentional act, might serve 6 months, not six years, with the rest of the time suspended.
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  22741. Wild, because the official information sheet that Pfizer hands out never said any such thing. They put up shills to spread misinformation, so that they can't be held responsible. Perfect ruse.
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  22742. ​ @archigoel He gave himself that title. He can.
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  22743. Lord is he boring.
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  22744. 2:50 -- a 70% demographic majority? Interesting number. Roughly the proportion of whites in the U.S., slightly less.
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  22745. I think this is mostly nonsense. I started thinking this (that Jung is good for creating fictional characters, but not so good for understanding real humans; and that no, we are not "really" our "shadow side," etc.), but I thought I could be wrong, and that I should give it more consideration. That's when your guest started talking about his "psychedelic journey." 😂😂😂😂🤭 Well, it looks like I was mostly right. But I'll consider this story further. There is probably some value in it, if only because a lot of people believe it.
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  22746. ​@numbernine3436 Chase is "intelligent?" Someone who takes a psychedelic at 35 is not a person I'd rush to pronounce intelligent. He might be. He might not.
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  22747. 57:50 Anyone who would fall for this is a complete dolt. ASK FOR A LAWYER. Confessions are for the plea bargaining stage, not something you make alone with law enforcement. And guilty pleas are for the judge. Please.
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  22748. Just the opposite. N, R, P(R), . . . are all already complete. All the numbers are already there. "Infinity of time would prevent anything from moving" makes no sense. Were you thinking of one of Zeno's paradoxes?
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  22749.  HMSBlackPrince  Are we "good" at war, or "good" at bombing?
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  22750. ​​ @Kissmysixnow France under Mitterrand was great. It got flooded with CIA assets, of course. Look where it is now . . .
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  22751. ​ @black_hand78  you are way over his head
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  22752. I still remember when the question what Bill Clinton's role would be in a Hillary administration was shouted down as indecent and misogynistic. You weren't allowed to ask. Then we learned about Bill and Jeffrey (Epstein).
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  22753. Oh no, I hope not. And I'm not a fan. Sinister stuff.
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  22754. Oh no. This is a glimpse of how DNC will spin this. Oh no.
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  22755. He's multilingual. He refuses to get vaccinated.
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  22756. You will not have ANYTHING but GMOs, unless you are very, very wealthy.
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  22757. If we did not have foreign sources to inform us about COVID, we would have no solid information.
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  22758. ​@awesam2399 Stealth attack on Social Security, a series of divisive slogans intended to get the peons to fight among themselves. No one not in the top 10% is doing well. That is 90% of us. Yes, the top 10% is generally older than the bottom 90%, but is that what's important?
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  22759. Thanks!
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  22760. Every time I watch this, I suspect the careful tabulation of all the Israelis who have said the same thing, that Israel has devolved into an apartheid state, are what got Katie fired. That's the forbidden discourse right there. :/ She wasn't supposed to let anyone know.
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  22761.  @CharanPagan  Exactly. And Biden is the same, ruining everything he touches. People are living in an illusion and think that taking sides will help them somehow. We have to face up to the fact that incompetents are president now. This has got to stop,
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  22762. ​ @MZBS639 Did they attack the athlete or the Olympic Committee that authorized the match? Attacks on the Olympic Committee should be free speech everywhere. We hear an interview from her, but not the actual words used against her or against allowing her to box by Rowling or Musk. So we don't know from this video what was said by these defendants. Doesn't that bother you? With this mentality, our First Amendment won't survive. It's already being attacked by partisans of Netanyahu, and university presidents are having to resign over it. It didn't take long for the actual left to be denied freedom of speech.
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  22763.  @peterschaeffer  So, this is on the IOC. The athlete didn't choose to have this disorder.
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  22764. @peterschaeffer  Well, I disagree. And in any event, a person with a medical condition should not be coddled, or given special privileges over others, agreed -- but nor should they suffer any abuse, ever. If you cannot be kind, then leave them alone. She applied like everyone else. She did not rule on her own application. There is nothing more to add to that.
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  22765. @peterschaeffer  Would you stop? And how could that possibly justify harassing Khelif? On the contrary, any medical condition is a reason to take care not to say anything unkind, especially to a young athlete, but really not to anyone. The IOC should not allow biological males to compete with females. The general rule. Applying it is THEIR job. There ya go.
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  22766. @peterschaeffer  I've made it clear that I disagree. Eligibility is determined not by the athlete but strictly by the IOC and its divisions. When do highly paid authorities have to work? By the way? Blocked.
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  22767. Yeah. Most of humanity is non-Western. This is a totally Western thing, yo.
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  22768. I'd give anything to have friends like this. He is not so lazy and distracted to get into it with anyone. He would either improve you or leave you alone.
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  22769. ​ @zoyadulzura7490 💯 perfect
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  22770. Her contract claims against Harvard weren't even dismissed.
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  22771. Her breach of contract claims against Harvard weren't even dismissed.
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  22772. Leave the poor senile man alone. We all know why he did this. He doesn't know it's Easter.
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  22773.  @garicrewsen1128  She made the decision.
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  22774. ​ @christopherjennings1462  Just like Biden, sure: 10:05 😂😂😂
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  22775. Imagine being afraid of Sam Seder.
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  22776. A doctor says "game changer."
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  22777. This government story punks itself.
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  22778. The billionaires will pay them MORE. Cenk knows how to negotiate.
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  22779. Cenk loves this. He can do his anti-Dore, anti-Greenwald, anti-Mate cosplay and get paid more for it, since it requires more work. TYT could retire tomorrow, and will squeeze the most money out of the oligarchs in the meantime.
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  22780.  @midas1929  The US continued to press for the extradition of Julian Assange during Trump's term, and he had more control over DOJ and more federal court appointments than most presidents.
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  22781.  @TheAnalyticalFailure  I'm afraid not. There has been a recent rise in violent crime overall, in most major urban areas, by those on either side of a badge. There have also been more signs of infiltration of the police by various militia types and white supremacists. There was always a problem of infiltration by all sorts of organized crime types, including the gangs that deal drugs. The issue with the militias, etc., has now eclipsed it. But yes, police use of excessive force has been an ongoing problem as well. Anyway, be prudent. This is a more dangerous country right now. Don't get caught up in tirades and taking sides. It's not in your best interest.
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  22782.  @TheAnalyticalFailure  Look up the documentary Do No Resist. (Links might be taken down, since they are so hard to monitor for TOS violations.) It treats the issue of militarization of the police. An excerpt from the director's statement: "My father was an officer for 29 years in a city bordering Detroit and became a member of SWAT when his city formed a team in 1989. What I wasn't familiar with, since my father's retirement from the force in 2002, was the effect the War on Terror had on police work." The director's father came to agree with the film's message.
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  22783. The New Popular Front is as anti-Macron as Marine Le Pen is, if not more.
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  22784. WEF? A lot of Popular Front people are pro-BRICS, pro-Venezuela, pro-Palestine. This isn't America we're talking about, where fascists like the Clintons, Bill Gates, and their buddy Jeffrey Epstein are/were "the left." 😂
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  22785. Yes, Ben IS a legend. Ben, Emmanuel Todd just spoke for the first time publicly, at a seminar sponsored by Gavroche. He states that it was his first time speaking in person on the issue in France proper. You can find it easily, and watching it led me to this video. Congrats on a great report.
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  22786. No, Jimmy, this isn't all that police do. They also give water to the heavily armed, like Kyle Rittenhouse.
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  22787. Many abortions were the result of birth control failures. You didn't know that every form of birth control short of sterilization has a failure rate? Even two used together can fail.
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  22788.  @waynejohnson1786  No one ever said anyone has a right to kill babies.
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  22789.  @iviekicklighte673  Nearly every woman I know has been raped. I'm not kidding. Some reveal it only many decades later. Ask Nancy Mace, Republican of South Carolina. And her father was in the military. Someone I've known since the 1970s just revealed it to me. Her parents told her that rape was just a cover story, and very rare. She waited for both of them to die before telling anyone.
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  22790.  @iviekicklighte673  Who told you that an abortion would keep any rapist out of jail, or any parent who committed incest? Where in the world do you get this? You've never heard of forensic DNA, or mandated reporting of minor abuse?
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  22791.  @iviekicklighte673  What real world? The one where vicious crimes are ignored? I know about that world. Was the alleged rapist of the ten-year-old who had to cross state lines to obtain immediate care arrested or not? He certainly was. An abortion on a child of 13 MANDATES a report to Child Protective Services.
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  22792.  @iviekicklighte673  If you think someone would risk their medical license to protect a pedophile, you need to stop ingesting whatever it is you are ingesting.
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  22793.  @iviekicklighte673  By the way, the nurse is not supposed to give out any personal information about any patient whatsoever, least of all about a minor child. The details of the case almost certainly identify the girl, which make her actions even worse. So she also broke the law by gossiping with your mother, allegedly, without consequences. News flash: YOU are not competent to make extremely personal decisions about other people's medical care. You should not have a vote on that. Mind your own business. That should keep you occupied.
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  22794.  @iviekicklighte673  They MUST report, whether or not the victim, who is MINOR CHILD, cooperates. Doctors and nurses are without a doubt "mandated reporters." No child ever is, and how could they be?? LOOK IT UP. You have real problems. Blocked.
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  22795. If you don't get paid, complain somewhere.
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  22796. Why claim something you do not know yet?
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  22797. Because I would feel duped and betrayed? Because I don't want a Bill Cosby or an R Kelly as a coworker? This is not the same as welcoming back someone who has taken responsibility for his crimes and been rehabilitated. This pertains to cagey guys who got away with it.
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  22798. I have a feeling (1) you are unfamiliar with how homelessness has arisen, especially in this century, and how other countries have dealt with it, more successfully than we have; and (2) you never read Picketty. In 1965, the minimum wage paid the rent in most major cities. Where does it now? Housing costs have soared due to financial speculation. What's love got to do with that? What can love do against it? Have you ever watched a documentary on the 2008 crash?
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  22799. Why didn't Trump replace him? Genuine question, is this beyond the authority of a president? Who can fire him, or pressure him to retire?
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  22800.  @connielyn7982  And truly heartbreaking.
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  22801. Brock Turner got six months for raping an unconscious Asian woman. People did ask, but already knew the answer. In truth, she was punished harder by coming forward and revealing her identity.
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  22802.  @-Thunder  We certainly need halfway houses and intense monitoring. No one can transition from prison to society after a crime like that. That is the rarity. Recidivism is what usually happens.
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  22803. He's European. Nothing to do with your squabbles.
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  22804.  @GaryTugan  You're "quite sure," etc.? Do you watch their news? I do every day.
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  22805. MSM cut these clips to make it look like Fauci was right. Criminal.
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  22806. No one in comedy turns me off more.
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  22807. LOL
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  22808. Here goes Brie again, praising Biden's honesty and integrity. /s I'm expecting the usual crowd to say something like this. 😒
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  22809. @user-hg2tk3xj9y  Innocent until proven guilty. And she was not a teacher. I know a lot of people her age who never had a demanding education and are remarkably uninformed. I even know some with an education who will believe the lady at the bakery (or the thrift store) before they believe me. Also, where I live, a LOT of teachers also worked other jobs and paid into the SSA system for 40 quarters. You expect a teacher to last 40 years in an urban school system? To vest a pension is already a feat. I wish it were not so. :/
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  22810. @user-hg2tk3xj9y  I even know someone who put in 120 quarters toward Social Security, then taught long enough to vest a teacher's pension, then took that at age 65 and took Social Security at 70. Full benefits, zero offset. She is a rare case, but she did it. Working summers as a student helped complete those quarters, then never being unemployed. (Luck was obviously a factor, as one small company she worked for closed due to embezzlement by an owner's son. It had no real effect on her. She found a new job immediately.)
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  22811. Congress might find out about COVID origins unless someone pulls a fire alarm . . .
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  22812. They will? They have.
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  22813. ​ @colleenmahony8803 Look, absent mental illness that could amount to "diminished capacity" under the law, it does not matter. She is responsible for her actions.
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  22814. Well said. In the 1980s, Mitterrand had a great natality policy. In his first term, PCF was part of the government (and France was flooded with CIA assets as a result). That policy prevented tens of thousands of abortions, while preserving choice and paying most of the cost of elective abortion (but ALL the cost of childbearing, for all women, including a clothing allowance). But no one ever talks about that. Hmm. (BTW, Only in America is the neoliberal globalist millionaire class considered "left.")
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  22815. Are you joking? I wait for evidence for a very important reason: I remember all the times we were misled.
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  22816. ​​@bobbyd5167 In matters where your own survival interests are at stake, your gut instincts can save your life. We are too removed from this situation to have gut feelings that are "100% accurate."
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  22817. ​ @skosh6359   Let me see if I understand. RFK Jr. will debate people who smear him, but scientists are too big and important to debate him. They won't perform the public service of showing new parents that RFK Jr is wrong, after this pandemic fiasco. And Kennedy's father and uncle were both assassinated, so smearing him is no big deal. Okay, got it.
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  22818. ​ @skosh6359  Except that the real issue here is one of PUBLIC POLICY, and Hotez has voluntarily interjected himself into that debate since the start of this pandemic, pushed mandatory multiple doses of the Pfizer vaccine AND has presented very preliminary scientific research as absolutely definitive. If he sticks to real science and science journalism without advocacy and without defaming those who disagree with him, no problem. But that is not how Hotez got rich. A toxic tort lawyer with expertise in civil rights and civil liberties should have something to say about medical ethics and public policy. He knows more than Hotez about those subjects.
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  22819.  @CaliMeatWagon  In which language? I know what you meant. And I know you have no answer to my question, hence insults are a ready substitute. Do you even know the difference any more?
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  22820.  @CaliMeatWagon  I don't believe that's the cause at all, it's just convenient cover for what would have happened in any case. The summer protests may have swelled the ranks of this mob somewhat, but its core decided a long time ago to consider the election fraudulent if Biden won. They didn't seek permission to do what they did. Biden and Harris have always been exponents of the carceral state. Forcing small businesses shut with no solid, meaningful plan for keeping them afloat was the dirtiest and most immoral thing this government ever did. Literally no other country treated its citizens this way. This show and a few others, and Angela Marsden, can tell you what underlies these events.
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  22821.  @CaliMeatWagon  You know what? Then you are right. I don't understand.
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  22822. US support? Or a pop quiz on what MSM is paid to tell Americans? How many people who follow Amy Goodman support Netanyahu? They support neither Hamas nor Likud. They support all the people suffering in the region.
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  22823. Do you support genocide as a valid response?
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  22824. ​ @aaronfudge3742 Is Amy Goodman also a terrorist supporter?
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  22825. THANK YOU.
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  22826. ​ @idahoviking Well, are you going to obey, finally? 😂
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  22827. ​ @bluecigars That doesn't sound good, lol.
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  22828. ​ @havabrownkittycat7107 Thank you. I love your comment. It's the best one.
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  22829. ​@TheMrVersetti Being married to the wrong person is not just miserable, it is soul-crushing and dangerous. The decline of happy marriages is the real tragedy. Ending a horrible marriage is better than forcing yourself to stay.
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  22830. @sambalbudanny2235  Sometimes it seems as though people give the advice they themselves most need to hear, huh? 😊
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  22831.  @ilikehiking  The diversity is in the societal environment.
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  22832. @sambalbudanny2235  Who did what to me? I've never been married! 🤣 The happiest I've ever been were the five years I lived in Paris. Needless to say, Parisians are never fooled by that "it's your own fault-ism" that seems to afflict the Five 👀.
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  22833.  @debracisneroshhp2827  Tell that to Gaza.
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  22834.  @sambalbudanny2235  Yes. I did mean you. But you meant someone other than me, though you were addressing me. Advice: gaslight better 🤣
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  22835.  @steveschilling5966  This was a series of solid questions. A critique of reasoning for logical soundness is neither opinion nor fact, under the usual meaning of those words.
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  22836. @nirorit  Yup, we shouldn't rely on what we've studied. Watch videos made with commercial motives in mind. That's the best way to progress forward. I mean, just look around. Have we ever been smarter? Have we ever had it better?
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  22837. Correct. The Capitol belongs to everyone, hence this is even worse.
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  22838.  @martell203  This website.
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  22839. Do you know why? Brie's job was threatened because of her support for the Palestinians. People on The Hill (not Robby) tried to get her fired. GOOD FOR HER.
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  22840.  @pragersmasher5788  If I wrote in proper English? Is that what you mean?
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  22841.  @pragersmasher5788  When did I attack him personally, as distinct from his ideas? Or the ideas he claims to have. I'd love to see Aaron Mate, Max Blumenthal, etc., etc., etc., in positions to influence US policy, especially foreign policy in this hemisphere. Jimmy is the working class person in this picture, as is his wife. And you know exactly zero about me.
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  22842.  @pragersmasher5788  Isn't Biden president now? When do we get to start asking him for things? When do we "push left?" Still not a good time? And Nancy? We better be nice to Nancy? I don't get the rest of your innuendo, insider slang, etc. Tedious.
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  22843.  @pragersmasher5788  I think this pandemic could be worse than we think, and I think that events on that scale are life changing for hundreds of millions. You're the sheltered one if you don't perceive that possibility. But I have no interest in substantive discussions with people who malign others, rather than oppose their positions and arguments. The only thing I'm wondering about was why your previous post suggested someone here is anti-Semitic. What made you think of that? Why would your mind go there? Couldn't have anything to do with me. One of my distant ancestors perished in the Holocaust (though I'm not Jewish -- but she was identified as such). My mother did consider converting, briefly, because of her war experience. So . . . it couldn't have anything to do with me. Or could it? Or is it simply that it worked against Corbyn? KISS principle? LOL Keep telling us who you are. Please.
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  22844.  @pragersmasher5788  Taking a larger view, I guess that's not so bad. Either we end the age discrimination in Medicare, like every civilized society, or US global prestige and hegemony take another hit. What's not to like? /s
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  22845.  @pragersmasher5788  That wasn't "the first thing I said," and screaming it doesn't truthify it. Who was I responding to? (Was that post removed?) Why do you think I said that? I explained precisely why. And how does Jewish figure in? I still don't see why it crossed your mind. What would it matter? EDIT: Richard Garcia. Still there. And you responded to it, too, as if it were normal to make a personal, and racial, attack. You're as truth-free as Trump. I guess he set the standard for you.
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  22846.  @pragersmasher5788  I'm not a product of any private schools, here or abroad, and most people didn't consider my father white. Keep telling the world who you are. I just noticed "fabricated anecdote!" Wow. T'es une ordure, une vraie. On rigole. Personne ne l'aurait cru, si tu ne l'avais pas ecrit. Aux EEUU, l'impossible est vrai. No one else on the planet acts like you do, that I can tell you. It's not an acquired taste, shall we say. Also, any idiot could see you act as a provocateur to get competent commentators to overreact and be banned.
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  22847.  @pragersmasher5788  Also, any idiot could see you are acting as a provocateur to get the competent commentators to overreact, and be banned. This is the latest thing around these comment boards.
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  22848.  @pragersmasher5788  I made no such accusation. You're just a liar. But it is STILL unclear why you brought up someone's Jewishness. It wasn't part of the discussion. So there is some reason you brought it up. I still don't know what that might be. Total non sequitur. But close to the surface of your thoughts. And I am not going to repeat what the post I responded to said, to point out that BJG does not have the "issues" that post maligned her with, because that post was racist. I don't amplify such discourse.
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  22849.  @pragersmasher5788  You don't think women lawyers from Harvard are generally smart, and don't need a man to make money for them, because they can do just fine? Really?
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  22850.  @pragersmasher5788  Any more cliches for us? Those are so 2014.
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  22851.  @pragersmasher5788  Great-grandmother. Distant. Oh, now I get it. No, my mother was profoundly gifted, as was her father. I wasn't claiming that. Didn't reach me. You need to temper your envy, bro.
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  22852.  @pragersmasher5788  Now you bring up drugs. I've never seen a sleeping pill.
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  22853.  Richard Garcia  You know what? At least I can appreciate that you are sincere. You had an actual event in life, something real, and maybe more than one, that made you feel as you do. I can respect that. But don't imagine that it's everyone and everywhere, or that certain "signs" are universal indicators of that kind of mind in a woman. It just isn't true.Thanks for participating again. Most people don't have a good love life these days. I do not know what happened. I know social media and the electronic landscape in general are not helping. I'm reading a book on PTSD by Francine Shapiro and I expected it to deal with combat veterans, or major accidents and health challenges, or serious crimes -- that sort of thing. Well, so far it talks about romance a lot, and how trauma can derail it. More interesting, actually. Also, and she's no wimp, she says that many so-called "ordinary" traumatic events in life can give rise to PTSD, and that such issues are simple and can be treated in a couple of sessions. She herself had cancer a long time ago, while in graduate school, apparently cured. I don't know if anything else traumatic happened to her. They told her at the time that her prognosis was "we don't know" and "good luck." (!!) I have to laugh, gallows humor. EDIT: Just found out she died last year at 71, and that during her childhood her sister died.
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  22854.  @pragersmasher5788  I edit for spelling and stylistics. Do you know what that is? When you lie, do you ever try to count how many? Might be amusing.
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  22855.  @pragersmasher5788  It's already over, silly.
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  22856. ​​ @jonb3196 We are saying that someone who got rich on government contracts and will scrutinize other government expenditures -- from which he does not profit -- should have no say. This is a conflict of interest. You didn't listen? No. It was too long for you.
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  22857. The DNC is knee-deep in these stocks, and will never do anything that endangers their investments.
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  22858. @jonb3196  Right. He got rich with Peter Thiel, not by building anything.
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  22859. @jonb3196  When I state where he got his seed money, guess what? Looks like the scents errs are on your side this time.
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  22860.  @jonb3196  Should a judge with a conflict of interest preside over your case?
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  22861. @jonb3196  Should a judge with a conflict of interest preside over your case, or should we see how he rules first, then maybe fix it? Or not? If I'm on the other side, I say go for it! Whadda you 'fraid of? 🤣🤣🤣
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  22862.  @jonb3196  Until something you need gets cut. It won't be something Musk wants.
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  22863.  @jonb3196  I'm not afraid of anything. I can emigrate if need be.
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  22864. @jonb3196  I'm not afraid of anything. I'm multilingual, I can emigrate if necessary. "Sauve qui peut la vie."
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  22865.  @jonb3196  We've already lost freedom of speech, lol. Get it? 🤣
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  22866. Don't worry, and keep up the great work! You'll be fine. Clean eating is SO important. Also, a lot of people seem to resist this, but there now substantial evidence that vegetarians have less severe COVID. A vegetarian diet may help you as well. I'm so sorry that there's a carnivore craze now, it seems that an all-meat diet is a risk factor for severe COVID. These correlations have been reported in several major journals now.
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  22867.  @drmodestoesq  He's risking his life. The interviews he just posted today are compelling. There are no indicia of falsehood.
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  22868. It is not a university. It is an adjunct instructor at a community college. And no one violated his First Amendment rights. You sure have an easy job yourself.
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  22869. Why do people keep distorting what Saagar says?
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  22870.  @kevinoneill2250  Thanks for responding. Now I can block you from my notifs.
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  22871.  @kevinoneill2250  They find room in undisclosed locations for "journalists" like this Guardian twit. I can't afford America, nevermind a bunker. Good thing I speak languages and stuff.
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  22872.  @kevinoneill2250  en + c*l + er C'est simple.
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  22873. ​ @andybrice2711 Scalia pointed this out in RAV v. City of St. Paul.
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  22874. There are entire countries that don't recommend vaccines under age 16 and certainly don't require them. Look at ministry of health websites from the places with GOOD child health: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France, Switzerland . . .
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  22875. Not with the harmful distractions we have. There is more and more actual evidence that screens from a young age impairs cognitive development.
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  22876. Did you make a report to VAERS?
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  22877. There is a lot you can do, supported by major studies in peer reviewed journals, NIH website. You are not wholly helpless. If I say more, it triggers censorship.
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  22878. Zelensky sounds like a stand-up comic impersonating Zelensky.
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  22879. Yeah, but are facts a hill to die on? /s
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  22880. There is this thing called the Precautionary Principle. You don't impose certain risks on others. The burden of proof is NEVER on the opponent of imposing risk. When we don't know, we can't impose the risk.
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  22881.  @ITALJUTE  "the side you clearly support" --- listen to yourself! This is how "normal" Americans mostly sound, since 2008, and especially since 2015, when Insane Clown President first emerged on the scene. It's understandable. First we found out there was something very wrong with our money. Next, we got an inkling of just how important the pro forma occupant of the White House is. I don't expect it to get better.
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  22882.  @alanclw6024  Fear. He's afraid. Obvious.
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  22883.  @emdude1784  Where did I say that?
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  22884. To this day, we don't know whether FBI/CIA or some other federal agency floated the Illuminati story as an experiment to see how it would spread and what people would believe. See Adam Curtis, for example.
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  22885. Stephanie Harlowe's reporting on Jeffrey Epstein and Friends just documented this phenomenon: the rich pay for the coverage they want.
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  22886. Shame them for asking.
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  22887.  @deathmagneto-soy  Oh, so you have gaydar? I don't.
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  22888. What do you recommend?
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  22889. ​ @feeltheillinois  agreed
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  22890. Ooo, good one.
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  22891. @alexlundgren4592  Gandhi went to law school in London, by the way. I'm not sure if he completed the course, or if one needed a diploma from Inns of Court in order to be admitted; it might have been much like when Lincoln studied law privately and then qualified to practice.
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  22892. ​ @Don-Chi-7 Watching this and lapping it up uncritically = VICTIM who is participating in fooling themselves.
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  22893.  @ultimaacademy  Then I suggest doing some research and see whether you think his network of "student facilitators" sounds legit or like an Amway style scheme, if not a cult.
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  22894. @alexlundgren4592  If you don't have to be a neurologist to decide to trust this chiropractor, then I certainly don't have to be to mistrust him. Trust, in this case, is taking a bigger risk than not trusting; that is nothing remarkable. It is often the case under the Precautionary Principle.
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  22895. More like a softball question.
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  22896. Watch for someone to claim the other side used nuclear weapons. We came close to an exchange and there is no Vasili Arkhipov around anymore.
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  22897. sans parenthèses . . . ?
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  22898.  @blackalien6873  Thank you. It was a war of independence.
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  22899.  @gigagogo3147  Have you ever lived in France? I'd give anything to go back.
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  22900. @ludlow 889 Where did I say I support shutdowns? Much less shutdowns with no discussion of alternatives? I said the opposite. A handful of hotspots had hospitals and morgues overwhelmed, and drastic measures had to be taken -- but it would have made more sense to do a hard, brief shutdown of those areas, rather than a nation-wide soft shutdown. Dore himself asked why small businesses had to close, but Amazon warehouses stayed open. I couldn't find most of the data you cite, and you didn't answer my question about the LOGIC. If it's true these tests are generating huge numbers of false positive results, then it is USELESS to look at death rates by seropositivity, since the seropositive might not even have been exposed to the virus, much less sick from it. You have to look at case mortality -- how many confirmed COVID sufferers, who actually got sick, died of their disease. Personally, I'm more upset by the shutdowns, and consider them a danger to my health and wellbeing, than I am about COVID. I'm not afraid of COVID. But my personal feelings about the thing don't matter. Medical science matters.
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  22901. @ludlow 889 So try posting the links again. I'm good at research, and have not found your studies, except the one that a researcher at MIT debunked.
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  22902. @ludlow 889 Non sequitur. I did not suggest counting people who were sick with something else and died of that illness, but tested positive for COVID, as true cases. Back to the false positive problem. You aren't answering my objections. Tootles.
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  22903. @ludlow 889 Oh! Your ad hominem is so persuasive! You must be trying hard to persuade. This is why the entire planet has had its fill of you. Which brings us back to the original post, and Jimmy's video: France is in the streets, and has been for two years, because it does not want Reaganism-Thatcherism, and the bullying culture and mindset it represents, to destroy its country. That is a bigger pestilence than any virus.
    1
  22904.  @gigagogo3147  Well, I had just the opposite experience, personally. I was there for five years and left for family reasons. Misguided, very likely. You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone. Of course, America changed in the meantime, too. I didn't come back to the place I left.
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  22905.  @gigagogo3147  I can relate to that. I don't mind it (the smaller spaces), but if you've lived in Canada or Australia, I can really see how you'd prefer it.
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  22906. Mexican kids? What Mexican kids? /s
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  22907. He could always invoke the Fifth under advice of counsel.
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  22908.  @user-ch1bd8hb1l  He can't be "forced to talk" to any law enforcement, government agent, or legal proceeding as long as he faces criminal charges. He'll either testify or default when he faces civil lawsuits.
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  22909.  @eddievangundy4510  They are not comparing CEO earnings with foreign labor, because that is not comparable. The value of a dollar is not the same in different economies.
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  22910.  @frankvonfrauner  In the context of the OP as written, this wasn't a mistake at all. That was so ridiculously pedantic on your part, which means you probably don't have a main squeeze or you don't like them all that much.
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  22911.  @radupopa6642  Diagnosis, perfect. The treatment is not simple, though. It would cause a 2008-style implosion and possibly destroy the preferred status of the dollar. The economy was rendered more and more fragile each decade since 1980. A move away from the dollar as the global reserve currency would likely lead to massive inflation, which would then lead to all-out war.
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  22912. ​ @p.w.352 It was never considered normal to expose your family and kids and intimate life to the Internet and global scrutiny, until very, very recently.
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  22913. There is research showing that people who had COVID then take the vaccine have the best immunity by far. This is all still tentative, but it's interesting to keep up with what they're uncovering.
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  22914. @Richard DeCoste Why plant these fears? Chances are, any serious issues, if they happen, will be obvious in a matter of months. True of COVID, true of vaccines as well. Of course there are other possibilities. Remote possibilities.
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  22915.  @TheMylittletony  Your first point is true, but Phase 3 is considered completed. FDA approved Pfizer, but only for 16 and older, a sign they resisted pressure. Just saw a real scientific podcast -- Lex Fridman podcast on September 1, interviewed an actual virologist, a researcher from Columbia University. Let's just say he does not sound anything like Fauci.
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  22916.  @TheMylittletony  Kids 12 to 14 who have ultra low risk from COVID are being pressured to take this vaccine, and falling behind on the meningitis vaccine they are supposed to get. It is a zoo, believe me I agree.
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  22917. I HOPE.
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  22918. Briahna and Kim were a great team together. Didn't you notice?
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  22919.  @quadboy4lyfe  That was a legal analysis, not a political one. If that's your biggest worry, I envy you big time. BTW, Brie had none other than Glenn Greenwald on her show yesterday.
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  22920.  @quadboy4lyfe  Kim agrees with a lot of the Bernie Sanders program. She acknowledges that race plays a role in how people are treated --- how could she not? Why do you think she has a concern about our arming neo-Nazis in Ukraine? She appreciates what that means.
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  22921.  @quadboy4lyfe  She's not averse to a third party by any means.
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  22922. This is VERY important report. Listen to the whole thing carefully. Listen twice. This is no soundbite. The most important coverage on COVID and Trump that I've heard.
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  22923. If she did, she's right.
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  22924. Wow, almost as great as Qaddafi's torture killing, huh, Hillary?
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  22925. Of course not. They were not under oath, or being questioned by law enforcement or government agents.
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  22926. I'd welcome a return of the dinosaurs, sure.
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  22927.  Arka Deb  Thank you.
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  22928. This was hysterical.
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  22929. For me it's the leaves.
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  22930. Why wouldn't we WANT to know what propaganda Russia, or any opponent, is spreading? We aren't going to believe them. We want to know first-hand what they're spouting.
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  22931. ​ @Andrew-h8p  Just the opposite. We have no viable opposition to the current Republicans.
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  22932. If a professor gave this assignment as mandatory, then downgraded papers which took issue with the terminology and the basic premise of the assignment while addressing, in general, the impact of war on a densely populated area (which in the present case could also include Israel proper), THAT would be a reason not to renew her contract. But this?? Seriously??
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  22933. This comment is worse than a parody. It reflects only your own thoughts, it says nothing good or bad, right or wrong, about Robert Greene. You could have posted it anywhere, in response to any serious talk you could find.
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  22934. Sure we can prove you wrong: he argues against making premature decisions, very explicitly. He talks about the necessity to reevaluate, reassess, step back and contemplate new facts, about the need for an open mind and patience, and to be fearless in facing facts. His analysis of the most popular conspiracy theories is exactly right: consider that if certain elites have been either lying to us, or acting against our interests, like they often do, the conspiracy theories are their perfect cover. They can blame all criticism of them on the influence of the most unhinged conspiracy theorists. Then they don't need to worry about confronting the real criticism.
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  22935.  @ronweber4508  Um, I'm not sure who his followers are. I'm not. I know he has neoliberal tendencies, and that he has made the wrong call many times. I find some things he writes to be among the best high-brow entertainment found anywhere, and he definitely has one thing right: don't get mired in self-help pablum, ever. It is neither realistic nor good for you. Read actual biographies of actual brilliant, accomplished people, and see what a hot mess their lives were. But see what they did, and how they did it, in spite of everything. Anyway, when I open a standard book on "creativity," and it puts Jobs or Gates in the same chapter (sometimes in the same sentence) as Shakespeare or Einstein, I already know I'm reading a POS. This video tells us Greene's thoughts on the New Irrationality. He's right, as far as it goes. I don't see him trying to snow people, or close off very necessary and legitimate debate. I have a LOT of questions about every aspect of the pandemic, and I am not so naive not to realize that I need to be careful how I word them and to whom I pose them. BTW, an interesting aside: I follow news in French, too, and in France, it is the (far) leftists who are raising questions and insisting on open debates; they are raising very questions and objections that will get you smeared as a "fascist conspiracy theorist" here. F I G U R E S.
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  22936. Yeah, maybe Trump can __ more people by drone, or indict more people like Assange, or give us more gain-of-function research, or Operation Warp Speed drugs. We need new choices.
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  22937. 💯
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  22938. Look up the lawsuit filed against Tesla by California for severe and pervasive employment discrimination and the administrative complaint against Neuralink for primate torture.
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  22939. So . . . Kennedy was under oath when he testified concerning this clip. Was this CNN Talking Head under oath? LOL
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  22940.  @harmonys2102  My reply was just censored. It was entirely factual, too.
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  22941.  @robmccurdy4171  Yeah, thanks for your stand in opposition to cancel culture. /s
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  22942. Here we go, down the chute again.
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  22943.  @allydea  We have evidence WWI did. For example.
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  22944. "Tighten the noose" made me think of the lynch mobs in the South. And these were Obama staffers?
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  22945.  @vitaliydvorkin1342  Yes it does. He has been appalling.
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  22946.  @vainezaiven6677  Astute observation.
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  22947. Why won't Hillary take responsibility? Because Hillary is a hater.
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  22948. Did you look up the peer-reviewed article and read it? How do you expect to do double blind now? That ended in 2020. You think we have memory impairment from lockdowns . . . COVID . . . vaccination? 🤣
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  22949. There is an Israeli study on various commonly used medications, including over the counter, and supplements that lower the risk of severe COVID. It is peer-reviewed, and quite fascinating. I wonder if some of these are helpful for long COVID. Certainly worth a read.
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  22950.  @goofinhiemer1153  There was no "Aryan."
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  22951.  @goofinhiemer1153  Every cognitively normal human being has the necessary genetic endowment to acquire any human language. That apparently includes you, but you tell me.
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  22952.  @itsokaytobeclownpilled5937  There used to be, some 2000 years ago. It's what little kids in Rome spoke.
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  22953.  @itsokaytobeclownpilled5937  REALLY?? Like, no kidding -- it is used to this day, as a written language. All of my profs in Europe read it.
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  22954.  @weirdlanguageguy  Oh, now I see. I had said a version of this earlier -- 2000 years ago, Romans spoke "conversational" Latin. Kids start every language by speaking it, not reading it. Your point is that it is even attested, in the ancient texts, such as in plays, which contain conversations. Seriously! :/
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  22955. Positive integers are infinite. Theorems about infinite sets have to be proved. Examples are never enough.
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  22956. See 10:33
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  22957.  @dules812  Try it out and see what happens. Then you'll figure it out.
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  22958. ​ @jamesparry1547 Just one message above the question.
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  22959.  @jamesparry1547  My reply to your Q ended up in a shady forest.
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  22960.  @LisaTh-3-d  I hope that what I just posted is up. EDIT: NOPE not permitted.
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  22961. @user-id3xd1nx1m  I did a huge edit, might be all right now. SMH Of course I had to eliminate the really hard questions. Nope. Still . . . We can't say what anymore, either.
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  22962.  @briandingle665  YT is protecting you from real questions of ethics. What do you think of that?
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  22963. @jamesparry1547  I can't. My previous post telling you . . . Well, . . .
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  22964.  @briandingle665  Quite the contrary.
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  22965.  @briandingle665  Reported for hate speech, blocked.
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  22966.  @ChrisDoherty-df7qv  "shake my head"
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  22967. This leftist said that from Day 1.
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  22968. The View put people in danger by giving them a false sense of security. People thought they were safe from contraction and transmission. People thought they were really protecting grandma. Some vaccinated people have died. The risk of death may be lower, but it is not zero.
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  22969.  @rogerward801  It was not a ban, and Trump did not reinstate it.
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  22970.  @okgroomer1966  Wolf is the one who came from a poorer background. Trump is the one who failed to act when he first knew about the pandemic, he is the one who lifted the moratorium on the funding of gain of function research in places like Wuhan in the first place, he is the one who pushed Operation Warp Speed, he let Fauci run the country instead of firing him, and he assassinated an Iranian general who many people believed was a bulwark against rag-tag terrorists groups all over the Middle East. Trump had him droned without figuring out who he was, or whether he had any value to US security interests. Trump was a narcissist who signed whatever piece of paper the biggest flatterer put in front of him. He only looks good next to Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden.
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  22971. And his parenrs are everybody's dream parents! See, e.g., Discordia (the documentary).
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  22972. ​@tf5pZ9H5vcAdBp You think I wasn't mistaken identity? I think it is, as reported.
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  22973.  @Jack-mf5lw  Oh I get it. You were talking about her age, not her reign as queen. When she was born, it was not even known that she would be queen.
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  22974.  @Jack-mf5lw  The original post was about her 70-year reign as queen, not her age.
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  22975. So you have zero idea of his position, or what he is saying in the one phrase you did hear. Below zero, actually.
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  22976. The tragedy is that we can no longer say, "they would never do such a thing!" We need a hard look, but not gullibility. Ryan Grim thinks we feel BETTER imagining someone planned this? No. No, Ryan. No. The issue is burdens of proof. The burden of proof that a conspiracy to any extent occurred is very large.
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  22977. See Aaron Mate on that. And consider the bigger picture: why are the other BRICs siding with Russia to a greater or lesser extent? More than meets the eye.
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  22978.  @aboveandbeyond3.14  Where do you get the idea I did?
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  22979.  @aboveandbeyond3.14  You have no clue what I'm talking about -- okay. You can stop there.
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  22980.  @hereforthecomments258  Gee. I wonder how many were traumatized by SA as kids. Or traumatized as service members by combat. Or were harmed by psychiatry. I'd like to add all of those groups up and see the percentage then. Then we can discuss it.
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  22981.  @nedhill1242  Oh, and they even have a political party? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 You're a 🤪
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  22982.  @TheInternetIsGay  Blocked
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  22983. What if I'm not on Facebook? That's just dumb.
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  22984. ​ @tylerdurden8378 OH BROTHER what a rewrite of history. Where did you get this utter nonsense?
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  22985. Not alone, even today. The BRICS are expanding.
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  22986.  @lynnebarnes3840  I honestly do not think that is the case any more. Dollar hegemony relies more and more on military might, not on the productivity of the real economy making settling accounts in dollars desirable. Even Adam Smith would condemn the power of the rentier class in power today as antithetical to real economic growth. I find it striking that the escalation of the war has not hurt Russia's standing outside the West. Really not at all. I am not Western, either, but I'm not so pleased by this. It's just not true that Putin has managed this correctly; the fact that the US and NATO are worse doesn't make him right. I hope the other BRICS members and their allies are approaching the US behind the scenes to implore them to end this proxy war. After all, China owns a good chunk of our debt. They don't want to pay for our Nazis.
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  22987. I would never go to any of these demonstrations because I am not convinced that there are no antisemites present. The cause of maintaining the rules of war under the Geneva Conventions in every conflict, no matter how it started, is worth fighting for. The cause of peace with justice is worth fighting for. I also agree there is zero evidence that most of those demonstrating for those things are antisemitic. There are, however, antisemites taking advantage of the protests and using the honest protestors as a cover. That's why I wouldn't go. Everyone knows or should know that Zionism is not Judaism. Anyone who uses Zionism as an excuse to be antisemitic is sinister.
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  22988. Seriously? If he had been put under oath before Congress, he wouldn't have invoked the 5th Amendment -- charged or not (yet)? WHY are you deliberately duping the American people?
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  22989.  @CelticKnight2004  It was nothing like a war for me, or for my father whom I cared for single-handedly, and who was an actual combat veteran. No remote comparison.
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  22990. Wow. Clinical depression following a heart attack or stroke is very serious. This is sad.
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  22991.  @charlymalaga4275  True, when their job is to make sure it does not happen!
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  22992. I like timelines.
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  22993. "Free enterprise" at its finest.
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  22994. ​ @Selvarin  Remember, you are REALLY FAST at what you do.
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  22995. Who's "they?"
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  22996. You can download the 241 page verified complaint for yourself. I just did.
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  22997. Well sorry to disappoint again.
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  22998.  @mischevious  That sounds worse than anyone I know. Most people need to remember, say, food.
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  22999. What is the problem, talking while black?
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  23000.  @johnnywong5695  Well, for months now, people keep misrepresenting Brie. She didn't say what you said she said. You tell us why you can't hear her. I simply asked a question. Are questions banned, like they were by Fauci's minions?
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  23001.  @johnnywong5695  She didn't even endorse global mandates at all, but explained that some private entities have them. I know of no hospital that doesn't mandate a mask, for example. They have the right to control their space.
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  23002.  @johnnywong5695  OH WONDERFUL. 7:44 You were incapable of listening past the 30-second mark to come to the central point: a business that is deciding to mandate masks in his establishment MAY HAVE A VALID REASON. Wow just wow. You still haven't answered my question.
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  23003.  @johnnywong5695  8:24 I'm glad we have "those individual choices." Lord, that means you have to keep listening, for a few more minutes!!! I appreciate your frustration. I wonder what happens when you are presented with a (gasp) book.
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  23004.  @johnnywong5695  OH NO, 10:42! It continues! She respects other people's choices!! Why would anyone even think to listen this far? They must be wusses.
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  23005. ​​ @cMARVEL360 What?? No, the bully is the Alpha ape. The victim "must have done something," to "deserve" it.
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  23006.  @Imperial_Guard777  Thank you.
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  23007. Coupled with a drive to profit by one side which is not one bit lazy. Look for convergence of interests = no need to whisper and come to secret agreements.
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  23008. He did not pull it off.
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  23009. ​ @jessd4048  Exactly. Here: "Tucker, Tucker! You've told us yourself. It's the price of FREEDOM!" if you watch that Moscow subway segment Carlson produced, he seems to hope people have forgotten his past rhetoric. Taken at face, it does not lend itself to your view of Stewart's ridicule at all. It comes across exactly as Katie and Aaron heard it.
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  23010.  @jessd4048  Unless Carlson has actually been changing some of his views lately. He sure is making it look like he is.
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  23011. BLOCKBUSTER NEWS Nothing short of.
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  23012. Did Hamas do this, or is it a fabrication? Nothing would surprise me now. 😢
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  23013. Too bad they worked all last year, risking their lives for us during the pandemic. Big mistake. $10,000 on Tesla stock, and they could go back to school for a safer job.
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  23014. Big demonstrations in Europe.
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  23015. Clearly not their last hurrah, if they can foist a cognitively impaired PRESIDENT on us. This would be bizarre during a peaceful time.
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  23016. @utah_koidragon7117  No standardized test reveals great mathematical ability. (You didn't look up Grothendieck. Okay, try Galois.) That is not what those tests are for. Hey, I'm fine with Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia, and in particular the BRICS uncovering the profoundly gifted. We can stick to entertainment and derivatives trading.
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  23017. @StinkFingerr  Do people not know why affirmative action in college admissions was legal until yesterday? The legacy and donor pools are disproportionately whiter. Actually, what Kennedy hinted at in his tweet about affirmative action is legally accurate: affirmative action can be legal ONLY to correct past discrimination by the very actor who is now implementing affirmative action to make up for the harm they themselves did. (Not society, blah blah, but they themselves.) The universities never argued that. (They argued the Bakke standard and so forth.) They never admitted that the affirmative action was to make up for discrimination. That's because they don't want to admit where the discrimination comes from: it comes from the legacy pool and donor pool, which they will NEVER give up. Not yesterday, not now, and not tomorrow. Instead of giving an opportunity to a deserving minority kid, they deployed the policy against Asians, and limited Asian enrollment. I think the real problem is that the leaders of the country are drawn so disproportionately from these schools. After the college admissions scandal (and Jeffrey Epstein, the icing on the cake), you would think there would be some way to reduce their influence. It's not as though Michigan, Texas, Berkeley, Cal Tech, and U of Chicago cannot educate people. Quite the contrary.
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  23018.  @utah_koidragon7117  So would a lot of people.
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  23019. @utah_koidragon7117  Spotting real talent happens organically, which is far from fool-proof. Adults around the child notice something different: a prodigious ability, or at least an unusual one, and a passion, where you can't seem to get the kid to let go of a problem (or an activity, like a sport or an instrument). Coming to the attention of the right adults is the key, and having them not be envious. This is why "gifted programs" often don't work. Anything that can be gamed, will be gamed. Good intentions will be asserted, lol.
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  23020. @utah_koidragon7117  You haven't read the cases. This opinion and concurrence explain strict scrutiny. I am not saying that past (or present) discrimination was ever admitted. I am explaining why otherwise conservative justices were going along with affirmative action all this time, until yesterday. That pablum about having Harvard "reflect the nation" was always a ruse. They aren't being honest, lol shocker.
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  23021. @utah_koidragon7117  Lots of people who apply to Ivies get a perfect score on their SAT Math. It's not rare. The tests are easier than when you took them?
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  23022.  @utah_koidragon7117  Well, this is just an anecdote, but it is true: when I went to a country where standardized testing cannot be used for school selection (it isn't legal), and that had super hard achievement testing for everything -- advancing in school, teaching, civil service, you name it -- I took the GRE under the worst conditions I have ever seen and made the top 99.9%, the best I ever did. Anyone who works hard can get a perfect score in math, or close to it. The work it may take, and the time, is why people don't do it. Granted, it would take a couple of months for some, and a couple of years for someone else, I get it. But these are not tests to determine genius. The Asian kids get the scores by working for them.
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  23023. @utah_koidragon7117  I've said I don't think this is a wrong decision. I think it will likely worsen the problem of invidious discrimination, however, but that is inherent in how Harvard runs its shop. Courts can only do so much. It's not their role to manage Harvard. The blame in no way lies with blacks, or with any (paltry) benefit they ever received. These are systemic issues.
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  23024. For some reason, I see part of your response to me in my feed, then when I open the comments in this thread, yours is shadowed.
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  23025. Ana got what she wanted.
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  23026.  @danielwilliams173  No. That's not what he said.
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  23027.  @meanwhileinsooke  Assad funds people in the US "to divide the left?" Then who is still standing to oppose regime change wars? What interests do you imagine any country in the world has in supporting Empire and its endless interventions?
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  23028.  @RunForPeace-hk1cu  What's the big deal?
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  23029.  @meanwhileinsooke  Why are so many of Dore's enemies addicted to spreading innuendo?
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  23030. The Republican victory Dore and Hedges predict for 2022 and 2024 will increase the wealth of liberal Democrats yet again -- or so they believe.
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  23031. Speaking of mainstream sources, Nature wrote an article on the history of mRNA, Sept 2021, and it cites Dr Robert Malone. People kept making fun of Jimmy for inviting Dr. Malone. Dr. Malone expected this technology to be used as a cancer therapy, primarily. If for vaccines , then for extremely dangerous illnesses, comparable to cancer.
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  23032. @aidananstey9848  Well, prison is for little people. (Just rereading With Liberty and Justice for Some . . . Mind boggling.)
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  23033.  @seanm7553  He seems to be toying with it lately. He seems bored.
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  23034. Bad idea.
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  23035. YES, they can be removed, absolutely -- however, since the Civil War/Reconstruction Era, congressmembers have only been expelled after conviction. There is always a risk that charges may be partisan. The presumption of innocence needs to be respected in every way. But can they remove him? OF COURSE. He is a proven pathological liar. Sure they can remove him for that.
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  23036.  @davids.2703  Yes, you are 💯 right.
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  23037. Capitalism will monetize anything.
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  23038. Women can take their tops off now anywhere, at any time? Men, too?
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  23039. They are a private university. I wouldn't expect them to base admissions on those criteria.
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  23040. Sam Harris may know how to please, but if you listen closely, you'll realize he's not very bright.
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  23041. @ham burges I like Dr. Topol much better than Bret Weinstein, BUT I find nothing lower in rhetoric than well-crafted innuendo, not to mention all the other logical flaws in this presentation.
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  23042. @ham burges Here is one that pops right out. When Harris pointed out that something like 5% of Democrats, but over 20% of Republicans were "vaccine hesitant," he made not one but at least three obvious mistakes: first, the "vaccine hesitant" include those adamantly against any vaccine, those with grave doubts about THESE vaccines, those who believe their legitimate concerns have not been properly addressed, and those who want the vaccines to be fully approved before giving them to kids or to most people under 40. Pretty diverse bunch. Second, is everyone a Republican or a Democrat? Maybe most seniors are, but most young people are Independents. Left those out, I see. Finally, you can't presume correlation means causation. At least there, they were able to identify some rotten actors on Fox that flatter their viewers with antivax garbage, while they themselves enjoy concierge service for all their immunizations, including especially these. The innuendo about the alleged insanity of any scientist or research physician with doubts about mRNA vaccines was egregious. The point could have been made without calumny. But getting people emotional is how he makes his money now, too. In that, he's not so different from Ingraham et al. It's too sweet not to pick up. These are all well-known fallacies of informal logic.
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  23043. @ham burges More to the point, you didn't notice?
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  23044. @ham burges Blocked. And your "arguments" are pure Trumpian. That's what passes for argument, now. And why not? It's what makes money.
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  23045. @ham burges P. S. SO glad I'm also multi-lingual, and emigrating by mid-decade. You need to care about your society.
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  23046. ​@janeleray132 Kim handled this SO well on her Rumble show: even convicted felons need to work. Brand does not work for YouTube or Google or Alphabet. He only represents himself on the media, he is no reflection on anyone else.
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  23047. Since Marbury v. Madison, it is the federal courts who state what the law is. They can preserve the status quo on all sorts of things pending a hearing, and this one was set for February 14. Nineteen states brought suit in a court of competent jurisdiction. What happened to state's rights?
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  23048.  @crimony3054  Where did you go to law school?
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  23049. You know, if you say quite directly that G@tz is not so easy on the 👀, the algorithm erases it immediately. They must have programmed it that way for a reason.
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  23050. France has more smoking and more cancer and a significantly longer life expectancy. Several European countries have higher cancer rates than the US, longer life expectancies and a better quality of life. There's nothing remarkable about that.
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  23051. Surprised this was not taken down.
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  23052. Exactly the opposite.
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  23053.  @FrightNight47  She said what you can't face.
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  23054.  @FrightNight47  Try 6:30 Try starting there.
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  23055.  @FrightNight47  Whoa look who is talking. You know, you have no idea how the rest of the world lives.
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  23056.  @FrightNight47  I agree with all that, except that crazy people and teenagers shouldn't have guns.
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  23057. I just got sense oar d.
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  23058. Posted: No one is "conflating" the two. Dr. Campbell has called for two things: FIRST, suspend general use of mRNA vaccines pending further studies, and SECOND, we need to find out what is causing these deaths. We don't know. Among things we don't know is whether these vaccines are particularly dangerous to those who already had COVID. A lot of young people had COVID and don't know because they were expecting to be very sick and just had a cold. This was taken down as an independent post. What is wrong with it?
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  23059. Oh, that was satire! They were laughing.
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  23060. Your marriage is bad, too? 😂😂😂
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  23061. If they pose a national security threat, why are we lining their pockets? Once they have money, guess what? In a free economy, they can spend it as they please short of bribery.
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  23062.  @libertreee1  Please elaborate. Jewish people certainly are not the only "diaspora people," assuming that is a valid category label in the first place.
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  23063.  @quesocoatl21  Which group would that be? I haven't a clue what you mean. Evidence?
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  23064. Complete liars and engaging in ad hominem, which no one even notices any more.
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  23065. Shhhhh!
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  23066.  @DNOTE831  Who pays for it in Norway? For example.
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  23067.  @chosen_ones777  Thank you. This is European thinking. (In the U.S., "European" is turning into a vile white supremacist slogan. Yup, things are bad here.)
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  23068.  @chosen_ones777  Thank you again. Wish it weren't so. :/
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  23069.  @danishdude6750  Okay. And then U.K., France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Portugal, . . . ? And, um, don't we have oil?
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  23070.  @danishdude6750  This is true. But it's not a significant difference.
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  23071.  Cannabis Dreams  You call yourself Cannabis Dreams and you think someone, somewhere is a clown and is oppressing you. Actually, since you push it, I think it's less than laudible when someone with children realizes they are trans, but no one asked me. The crucial thing is to respect those children and not create some big trauma through condemning their parent, etc. They have enough to grapple with. It's not my business to butt in and judge anyone.
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  23072.  @benjaminselassie  Okay. Please go away. There are times when the Miss Grundy/Nurse Ratchet routine is not desired. The current pandemic and policing crisis is one of them. You really think this person doesn't know that all things considered, what they did did not turn out to be terribly prudent? You really think the school's response was reasonable and proportionate? Whatever happened to detention -- with someone like you as the monitor? A couple of weekends like that and you can be sure a kid's behavior would be perfect from then on.
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  23073.  @benjaminselassie  Um, where did I say it was NOT a problem? I suggested the punishment did not nearly fit the crime. If you can sound like Nurse Ratchet, I can say you sound like Nurse Ratchet.
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  23074.  @benjaminselassie  I have written screenplays. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was a novel before it was a movie. You never read it??
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  23075.  @benjaminselassie  It was a book first. I read three languages. But I digress.
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  23076.  @benjaminselassie  The book was better. Greater intensity.
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  23077. Kim, anti-Semitism has nothing to do with religion, or political beliefs, or any viewpoint -- or any mutable characteristic. It didn't matter if a person with Jewish ancestors was a Christian or married to a Christian, or had ordinary, patriotic German views. The Nazis defined being Jewish as a "race." She asked "how is that different from dehumanizing conservatives?" That's how it's different. I'm not advocating for firing anyone, or for comparisons of Trump and Hitler. I hope that's evident. It's nonsense all the way around.
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  23078.  @thomashasty2936  Undoubtedly at least one of my posts was shadowed. There is more sense or ship imposed on Dore than on most podcasters.
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  23079. I never liked Bono.
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  23080. This video is misleading. Her contract claims against Harvard were not dismissed.
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  23081. Nah, just whites.
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  23082. I cite incontrovertible facts and keep experiencing sense or sheep.
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  23083.  @Dantianblue  I found the study you referred to in JAMA. You misunderstood what it said.
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  23084.  @still_in_hue  That's long gone. If we ever could.
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  23085.  @still_in_hue  True
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  23086. 2:48 Bri and Batya's faces . . . 😅 Edit: watch for the blinks, too, omg
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  23087. Extreme trauma causes temporary depersonalization. This is normal. Not a disorder. Normal. Ever been in a car crash?
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  23088. ​​ @TheRotnflesh If it's First Amendment protected speech, then there can be NO legal consequences. Othe people can dislike you, some jobs can even fire you, but those are the only consequences. You can't even be sued and found liable for inflicting emotional distress. (You never heard of the Westboro Baptist Church case? Or RAV v. City of St. Paul?)
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  23089.  @dearthofdoohickeys4703  They should never argue. No one should. Just remain silent. It's the one thing you are allowed to do. They had no evidence at this point, so early in the investigation. That's why they had to press: they have to charge or release within 72 hours.
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  23090.  @dearthofdoohickeys4703  Preaching to the choir.
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  23091. This!
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  23092. ​ @tracieday8661 That is one way to avoid sense or ship.
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  23093.  @mikeoz4803  The Mummy
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  23094. So what if anyone (stupidly) decided to accept or reject a medical intervention based on politics? The burden of proof is always on the proponent of any treatment. It is always always always a matter of individual choice.
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  23095.  @MetalNick  Do you think a single one of these commentators ever read a book cover to cover, unless it was some sort of abject propaganda, including New Age rot and classic sales techniques masquerading as spirituality? Of course they don't know what they're talking about.
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  23096. You sound like a very positive person. ;D
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  23097. 17:35 Trump brought us to the world where the strong do whatever they like and the weak submit as they must? Trump??
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  23098. Truth = money.
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  23099.  @RaquelSantos-hj1mq  He's copy-pasting this in a bunch of places, complete with misspelling Max's name. No facts, no arguments, just innuendo and guilt by association. Fauci has accomplished his goal of making science partisan politics.
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  23100.  @michaelkulman7095  Nicely put! I'll borrow that one!
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  23101. So . . . The neoliberal globalist wants to make the National Assembly incapable of ruling, and you think that's a Lose? That's what the globalists want.
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  23102. No one ever taxed their way to prosperity? Oh REALLY? What do you think paid for the great land grant universities and the GI Bill, that brought the greatest period of solid economic prosperity in US history? Why do people repeat these slogans? Taxes today don't bring prosperity tomorrow, no. Even building the nation's airports and highways didn't result in overnight prosperity.
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  23103. Excerpt from Counterpunch, containing hyperlinks to sources in the original: "On the same day the CDC caved to political pressure (rejecting the advice of 100s of epidemiologists) and relaxed mask guidelines, seven fully-vaccinated members of the New York Yankees tested positive for COVID."
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  23104. Seriously. :)
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  23105. Correct. Singal wrote an outstanding article. He interviewed some of the best doctors treating trans youth and showed how it is absolutely crucial to get the gender dysphoria diagnosis and treatment right. When clinicians work together and work hard to make that happen, the results are remarkable. The goal is not pills and surgery, the goal is a happy and fulfilled human being. Sometimes that requires surgical intervention and hormone support -- and sometimes not. Sometimes the surgery is like a miracle, the person emerging from it happy for the first time in their lives, and other times there is a need for more therapy. That's what I got from Singal's article. Does everyone have to be the same? I hate to disappoint you, but . . .
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  23106.  @nohbuddy1  The article was not transphobic.
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  23107.  @nohbuddy1  Does everyone have to be the same? You answer a real question with a bogus one. Of course women shouldn't be banned from women's sports. Trans women are women.
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  23108.  @user-mz6zn1od9h  Comical, isn't it? I should have noticed what advertising was attached, but I don't remember! ;D
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  23109. Well, toilet paper, sure, I would.
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  23110. 😅😅😅
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  23111. Saagar, why put Biden on the spot to have to respond to an "invitation" from Trump??
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  23112. It was for fifty years.
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  23113. P. O. Box is often wise for many reasons.
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  23114.  @anderseckstrand7033  Humanitarian crisis --- WELL PUT
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  23115. ​ @mjc42701  I got the translation with one click. 😂
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  23116. So the US found poor Laika.
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  23117. @hughshepherd6596  At least take a look at the study, will you? Man, will AI run circles around you -- you won't read now. You won't even look at printed matter.
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  23118. The existence of neo-Nazis in the rebel provinces is well documented. No one is trying to deny that. Whether they have meaningful influence in the rest of Ukraine is questionable, but free rein in the rebel regions, yes. This isn't news. Sorry if you're not up to date.
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  23119.  @rankoorovic7904  Not known that they have tentacles in that deep, and I tend to doubt that. But what Aaron says about what neo-Nazis did in the eastern provinces is accurate. The US often has monsters offshore, and wants them there. Ukraine may like to keep them in the east. Similar pattern.
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  23120. This country has such an ugly history of euthanasia. ANYTHING that could sterilize anyone should be suspect --- especially if they don't conform to gender stereotypes, or are on the autism spectrum, or are "different" in any way whatsoever.
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  23121. ​ @thegreatpotenza3034 I got subjected to sense or ship, too.
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  23122. In the US, we have record drug overdose deaths and an increase in murder.
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  23123. 5:08 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  23124. Brittany Spears is good at her job.
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  23125. HUAC 2 . . . "First as tragedy, then as farce."
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  23126. No it does not. The NIH library has tons of open access, peer-reviewed articles.
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  23127. Butt chugging? So this is where they got the ideas for the torture methods used in Iraq and Guantanamo?
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  23128. @ClassicFIHD  That isn't the standard, and you must know it. (Or do I give too much credit?) I once hit the bumper of a car driven by an immigrant who probably should not have been here. I was mad, but the minor fender-bender was MY fault.
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  23129. @ClassicFIHD  False. That is wrong. And they were from E Europe, not Mexico. A woman, not a man.
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  23130. @DengShabu  What does it include? Nothing of relevance to the facts of this encounter.
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  23131.  @DengShabu  Blocked for wasting my time.
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  23132. @ClassicFIHD  Blocked as time waster.
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  23133.  @chaseviking5096  And you can't even spell trial, much less think your way out of a paper bag.
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  23134. @sean2015  Of course records matter, to officers of the COURT. This wasn't court, lol.
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  23135.  @sean2015  I always thought everyone could go to law school, but I guess you do have to have the basic capacity to distinguish locations, what is known and unknown to those on the scene at the time, and oh yes, time lines. Sounds easy enough to me, but, um, . . . 😂
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  23136. You misconstrued what she said.
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  23137. ​ @Truth_or_Jer Ah, half smart. Yes, as a private university, it has no obligation to embrace the full panoply of First Amendment freedoms, but it has chosen to embrace them. Supposedly. It could have chosen speech codes over free speech --- but it didn't. Speech codes can be tricky, too; no Palestinian flags means no Israeli ones, either. No Palestinian scarves? So, no Star of David, either. Maybe. (One's political, the other religious? Hmm.) That's when Title VI of the Civil Rights Act comes in. That's how Harvard, a private university, got in trouble discriminating against Asian students in admissions.
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  23138.  @kennybachman35  I wonder if my good posted was canceled, lol.
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  23139.  @Truth_or_Jer  Was my post in_vi_si_bled? I wonder? Answered your objection. They CHOSE to embrace the First Amendment. Now they have to be consistent and coherent.
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  23140.  @skysurfer5cva  Oh, this cut and paste. These private universities CHOSE to embrace the First Amendment and all of the jurisprudence that comes with it. It's true they did not have to, but they made that choice. Do you believe students at all universities should enjoy the full breadth of the protections accorded by the First Amendment? "YES or NO???"
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  23141.  @skysurfer5cva  But these private universities have made the policy choice not to be more restrictive than what the Constitution provides. That is their commitment to their students. PEN America has an article on campus free speech. Why don't you shift gears and go read that? It explains everything.
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  23142.  @skysurfer5cva  Because you already know you're wrong? That's why?
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  23143.  @skysurfer5cva  Oh, I get it. More money is at stake at the private universities. Of course!! More tuition, more mega donors, more better salaries upon graduation . . . Silly me. They should all just shut up and count their money. They're so stupid to get involved in politics anyway, they'll lose out on working on Wall Street.
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  23144. ​ @maqclark  Exactly
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  23145. Nothing abusive whatsoever. Depp is claiming Amber Heard owes him $50 million. Depp must then PROVE that he lost $50 million because Amber Heard defamed him. No less than $50 million, and for no other reason but Heard's allegedly defamatory opinion piece.
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  23146.  @dalnim4294  Because he sued her, and because she is 23 years younger, and thus has a longer work life ahead of her, or did. She countersued, correct. She did not initiate these proceedings.
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  23147. It might crumble into the ocean.
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  23148.  @Juan-os4hs  The biggest individual landowner (not some entity like the government or a conglomerate) is indeed Gates. Why??
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  23149. If Africa is not a hotspot of spread, then spread and the appearance of new variants may not be correlated. Logically they should be. But empirically is what matters.
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  23150. ​@AJohnSmith Do they usually have a better attention span than you do? Because he told you why that's no guarantee.
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  23151. BRAVO KRYSTAL. 1:46 Just said it all, in less than 60 seconds flat.
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  23152. ​ @willpaint  Gates is a "philanthropist" who, the minute he found out his business partner Paul Allen had cancer, tried to push Allen out of Microsoft. Why doesn't this matter? Why isn't it known? He is the same man who gave up his marriage to hang out with Epstein, and expected Epstein to leverage a Nobel Peace Prize for him. I'm actually surprised it didn't work. Perhaps under a different US president, it would have.
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  23153. Just another race to the bottom . . .
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  23154. To see such mediocre people be contemptuous is too much to swallow.
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  23155. Yes, I hate to admit it. This is the very cruelest thing any president has done to all Americans, and he has had SOME competition all right. A lot of the rest came close.
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  23156. With a /w/ phoneme? You're kidding, . . . right? Not where I live.
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  23157.  @TheHolyMongolEmpire  Learn a foreign language. There is news in French, Spanish . . . I don't have another answer, frankly.
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  23158.  @jumpinjohnnyruss  You're right. This person should drop that forum. Time waster.
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  23159.  @ZenAndPsychedelicHealingCenter  Even someone with a cursory knowledge of politics knows better. She got smeared for opposing "regime-change" wars.
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  23160. People make money by attacking values = more attacks.
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  23161.  @petyrbaelish1216  Better parties? Better drugs?
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  23162. Her dad is a physicist. It was his idea.
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  23163. Alleged by whom?
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  23164. ​@Stephen 🍻 Don't smear Fidel Castro like that. He escaped countless CIA assassination attempts. I am praying for Canada. And I don't even believe.
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  23165. Well, maybe you should look up the complaint, which is available online, and read it. It states what the law says about the rights (not "privileges") of those with various handicaps. If federal law says you do not have to accept a "brutal" world, then maybe you don't. If federal law says you have a RIGHT to REASONABLE accommodations, provided you are able to meet the REASONABLE demands of a school (or employer, etc.), then guess what? Looks like you do. By the way, they are not suing for money. They are suing for injunctive relief, to make Yale obey the law. Cheeky of them, what?
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  23166. ​ @jaroldtromp2235 What statute of limitations? None for murder.
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  23167.  @nillyk5671  Oh my God. Thank you for that information.
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  23168. No police report, no report to an attorney (who is an officer of the court), no sworn affidavit, no testimony under oath in a court or tribunal --- an anonymous report to mainstream media, followed by a "documentary" using actors in the shadows, not the actual accusers. This is enough to destroy a person's career? This?? It's not enough for an arrest.
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  23169. "Gain of Function?" No, biological WEAPONS by another name. All of this research is designed to bypass the treaties banning WMDs.
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  23170.  @davidtangitau3771  The dollar has an army and navy and 700 bases globally.
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  23171.  @bencobin1422  Well, it's been engaging in risky behavior. LOL
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  23172.  @davidtangitau3771  I think you're right. Multiple factors for sure, and confidence is right on top. Military might is one as well, and is the one most often overlooked.
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  23173. ❤
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  23174.  @anneb889  What is Andrew Yang's source?
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  23175. GENIUS
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  23176. Know her record. She lost this for him.
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  23177. The ICJ broached the topic and used the term. Others who are scholars in the field agree. What would have been worthwhile would have been to frame the use of the term as a question, rather than a statement of consensus, given that no consensus at present exists. Pretending that "genocide" cannot possibly apply to the war on Gaza because it is nowhere near the worst example of genocide in recent history is not persuasive at all.
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  23178.  @noahghost4476  Well then, what do you think of Mearshimer's argument that intent can indeed be inferred in this instance? Or the ICJ's findings, for that matter, which considered evidence of intent? If you are trying to say genocide has not been proved, that's fine. That's true. If you think there is no evidence that it could be taking place, you're wrong.
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  23179.  @noahghost4476  Also, if she had downgraded any paper that questioned the basic premise of there being a genocide, then she would have deserved to be fired. Critical thinking means scrutinizing every word, not letting it go because Teacher Said, or something.
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  23180. @noahghost4476  Both my parents had Jewish ancestry on their paternal side. My mother lost one grandmother in the Holocaust. Both families of course lost everything they had. Five days after the October 7 attack, I came down with COVID for the first time. I know it was from the emotional jolt; passing through crowded international airports on no sleep ten times during the previous year had no effect on me. I didn't get so much as a cold. I recommend listening to Amy Goodman. She has made a point of condemning terrorism AND giving voice to Israelis for peace and justice. Sometimes it's unbearable to watch, it's SO sad. Some have devoted decades to the issue. Some, like Neve Gordon, were once war heroes (he was injured defending a kibbutz). (Tell me, do you even know who that is??)
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  23181.  @nicbentulan  Listen to Amy. Listen to Bernie. You ought to.
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  23182. Did you expect indictments? I didn't think so.
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  23183. 30:56
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  23184.  @jimmyeatsword6421  So . . . You didn't listen. But then why complain? Plus you're swearing. Baffling.
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  23185.  @jimmyeatsword6421  Indictments are news. Hey. Are you okay?
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  23186.  @jimmyeatsword6421  Blocked from my feed. So, I won't see more from you, or ever comment on your comments again. You're happy, I'm happy.
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  23187. Exactly. Our cities are not a mess? They are not covered with human waste? Tent cities are not growing? Every crisis doesn't result in more money flowing upward? Or, rather, gushing upward? Do you think labels like "woke" and slogans like "individual freedom" solve anything? This is STILL your strategy? If someone as horrible as Putin and his cronies can solve these problems, shouldn't it be easy for the superior West? Yes. It really should. Inventing memes may line these people's pockets, and that may be their first priority. It doesn't take a single person off the streets.
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  23188. ​ @paulwally9007 You were an adult during Stalin?
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  23189.  @alexkat8297  You have no idea what the lived reality is of Americans below the top 20%. That is obvious. Those people are invisible.
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  23190.  @paulwally9007  You speak as though you know from first-hand experience that Stalin used slave labor to build the Moscow metro.
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  23191.  @igorshapiro5607  The fact remains that if a country as bad as Russia can accomplish this, it should be a breeze for New York and Chicago. Moreover, everyone is skirting the key point: American cities WERE showcases for the world. What happened? Making this about Tucker is a diversion everyone should be able to recognize by now. He's hardly the important thing.
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  23192.  @alexkat8297  Everything we say is subject to surveillance, as well as censored and stored.
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  23193.  @paulwally9007  I'm very well read in two languages and have a doctorate. You are propagandized.
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  23194.  @paulwally9007  You wrote AS IF you had primary sources for this allegation.
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  23195.  @paulwally9007  Law, with an advanced degree in another field, from Paris.
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  23196.  @paulwally9007  Believe what you want. This is just YouTube. Real life goes on without us at this point.
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  23197.  @mikhailkh8560  You mean in the 1990s, after the Soviet Union collapsed and Boris Yeltsin was the darling of the US-dominated West? Did you have to obscure the point due to YT sense or sheep? Between the mistakes of autocorrect and the YT destruction of communication, it's near impossible to exchange information here.
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  23198.  @mikhailkh8560  My post asking you to clarify just dis . . . Appeared. Man I love freedom.
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  23199. @paulwally9007  Why do you ask? Long enough ago that I knew better than to join any "social media," ever, and it was only COVID isolation that brought me here, under a (transparent) pseudonym. It was a mistake.
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  23200. @paulwally9007  I would have preferred to have had a Russian childhood. I value mathematics, poetry, theatre, dance, and piano. Young adulthood would likely have been a different matter.
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  23201.  @paulwally9007  What's your education? What are the last ten books you've read? All in English?
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  23202. 1. I don't think anyone who committed SA should be Attorney General. 2. I don't believe this is a first. Don't make me laugh bitterly. 3. This is a Congressman who brought down a Speaker . . . In other words, he was exceptionally powerful. Why do they suddenly realize he's unfit to wield such power, which was no less than the power to bring down a man who was in the chain of ascension to the presidency? The timing is suspicious.
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  23203. @amarreder6241  1. I didn't say he was charged. 2. Right. I don't. 3. They knew he was powerful then (I'm not questioning the whys, I'm stating the obvious). Why are they after him only now?
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  23204. Thank you.
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  23205. Anne Laure Bonnel from France is my favorite. I trust that she does not support Putin one iota.
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  23206.  @johnbarron986  Congrats to you for being among the first to join a mob. That's how money is made on Wall Street, I hear. How can the vote of dollars be wrong?
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  23207. Well, it's hard for Silicon Valley billionaires to get a fair hearing.
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  23208.  @ForgedinFreedom  You worked in an "ecosystem?" Definitely reduce the number of contractors. 😂😂😂
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  23209. @ForgedinFreedom  No, it is NOT speculation. We have just had Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. duly vetted and confirmed by the Senate, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya's confirmation is pending. We need to let them evaluate their agencies and report to the President, and then he can set goals.
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  23210. @ForgedinFreedom  If that's who taught you to write, definitely.
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  23211. @ForgedinFreedom  No tangent. Musk had no authority to demand an accounting from individual employees of the federal government, under pain of being deemed to have voluntarily resigned if they don't comply. That was the subject of this video. If Musk has assembled a team of independent auditors, who have outstanding records of achievement themselves, he has yet to advise us of it, or even to tweet about it. And he certainly spends a lot of time tweeting and playing with large toys. And if he has assembled a team, I assume they will confer with Patel, Gabbard, Kennedy, etc. Well then lovely.
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  23212. What standard is it that elite, hyperrich white American males have to meet? If they get addicted, not to a legal drug, but cocaine, they are having "struggles." Fine. But just tell me, what do they have to do? I agree, legalize and treat, absolutely. Everyone deserves a chance. No, PLURAL chances. Everyone deserves many chances, no question. But once you have chances, is there some standard?
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  23213. Oh, Jimmy, c'mon. If you spent a million a day, you'd run out of a billion in under three years. Obvious why they need at least 30 billion. Oprah is still poor.
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  23214. Odd how much access he has to special terms, to borrow against those shares, and not from speculative entities but from banks that the government stands behind.
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  23215. These "cultural progressives" haved presided over the creation of the world's largest penal colony, perjury and plea bargaining as the norm, debt for college that exceeds the downpayment on a nice house, a broken health care system, and the gap between rich and poor growing to the largest it has ever been. I have an idea. Let's cancel people over pronouns.
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  23216. University in Nietzsche's time was difficult to attain and certainly tuition-free. Some sort of tutoring or other academic work in exchange for a stipend was the norm. Socrates believed there is no true education in exchange for money. If you pay over $50k a year to be somewhere, of course you expect comfort and "safe spaces." It's a normal demand, when you're paying that kind of the money. It is no longer school. It's a place you go to advance your fortunes. Nice sleight of hand into an anti-state rant. Huge tuition is thanks to the end of tax subsidies combined with the availability of loans.
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  23217.  @42Mrgreenman  This, too.
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  23218.  @bluehand9631  All of those terms have a different scope today than they did in prior centuries, or in contemporary British English for that matter. In any event, I was referring to the standard DNC economic positions, which are in essence indistinguishable from mainstream Republican ones endorsed by a Romney type, for example.
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  23219.  @bluehand9631  Please, no worries. (??) You weren't, like, so wrong, or something.
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  23220. At the VERY least, he and Biden and Harris, etc., gave people a phenomenally false sense of security. Of course, they did more harm than that. Much more.
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  23221. Responsibility comes when you have real opportunity. When someone does all they can to find ways to manipulate other people, are they responsible for doing that? Or is all the blame offloaded on those who succumb to manipulation?
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  23222. There is a way to recover from being labelled a racist. Leave the States. Think of the side benefits.
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  23223.  @daryleheard9011  I know. Good thing those people in Highland Park went to heaven. I'm not going to worry. /s
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  23224. ​ @Jmfj1995  The DNC clearly does not take Donald Trump seriously as a threat to democracy. They've had since the first Wednesday in November 2016 to find outstanding people to defeat him once and for all.
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  23225.  @skunkworks9-3  I can't believe I'm shadowed again.
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  23226.  @Jmfj1995  The DNC clearly does not take Donald Trump seriously as a threat to anything. They've had since the first Wednesday in November 2016 to find outstanding people to defeat him clean.
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  23227. One word: HURRAH!!!!!!!!
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  23228. State universities should not charge more in tuition and fees than an average student can earn in that state with a full-time, three month summer job. That's what my generation usually had, still. Why was state tax support withdrawn? Why hasn't minimum wage KEPT PACE?
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  23229. He is the second coming of Fauci. That was good, thanks.
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  23230. All things considered, I wish I were a Londoner. Father and mother's only brother were both veterans of the British Army, WWII. Sigh! America was a mistake.
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  23231.  @aikibaby  🤣
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  23232. No one is blaming her kids.
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  23233.  @dannyturnovers5405  I thought he laughed. Huh.
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  23234.  @dannyturnovers5405  True.
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  23235. Wait, did this happen??
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  23236.  @tobe2btobe  WHERE DO YOU GET THIS NONSENSE? Malone got his MD at Northwestern, then did research at the Salk Institute. Did you confuse this Malone with some Malone you found on Facebook or PeopleFinder?
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  23237.  @tobe2btobe  He was at Salk in the 1980s.
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  23238.  @tobe2btobe  Says the man who claimed, "I don't think he's even a doctor."
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  23239.  @tobe2btobe  Oh perfect! So now the PhDs are doctors and the MDs are not? That is perfect. Please don't stop. This is bitter comedy now.
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  23240.  @tobe2btobe  If he is patently wrong and dangerous, then there is hardly any reason to LIE about him, is there? Or is logic lost on you? Never mind, please go back to comedy.
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  23241.  @tobe2btobe  So much of MSM lied incessantly about Orange Caligula, that I would have to think carefully and do meticulous research to compile a solid list of ten or twelve atrocious things he actually did. This is a shame. Don't you see that? The evidence in favor of vaccination is grossly insufficient to mandate it, much less to treat it as a panacea, and even the most ardent proponents of vaccination are becoming concerned (see, e.g., Dr. Eric Topol, who has reservations about America's overly "vaccine-centric" approach). I'll tell you who is against mandates in other countries: LFI and PCF, the French hard left and the Communists. Ponder that. And that is in a society WITH universal health care, tuition-free college, universal pensions, and generous disability benefits -- not one where all risk is offloaded to the individual, and if you're harmed you're on your own. You don't know what you're shilling for. At least get paid well. Have something to show for it.
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  23242.  @tobe2btobe  Oh I see you fixed it! "Not even a doctor" Risible!
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  23243. But it does. And if I say more, guess what happens?
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  23244.  thedalillama  Yeah, and I'd be completely happy with my life pre-COVID, but . . . Guess what?
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  23245.  thedalillama  I have no idea what your problem is, but it's gotta be hard to pronounce.
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  23246. @thedalillama  OMG, an INTELLECTUAL
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  23247.  thedalillama  You "gave" me . . . Stop right there. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  23248. @thedalillama  btw, blocked
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  23249. In Illinois where he lives, you do. FOID. You have to be 21, or 18 with parental consent.
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  23250. A full generation after Columbine and Wisconsin's legislature was incapable of passing a coherent, constitutional gun law that covers minors. The adults are to blame.
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  23251. What's your basis for saying that? Give us some time stamps.
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  23252.  @user-gj7tc6gt2p  Whoever wins, we get a "non-neurotypical president" for four more years. Some of the best-known pictures of kids in cages are from the Obama/Biden administration. I thought everyone knew that by now. If the DNC regarded Trump as an existential threat (and I agree he is) why didn't they start working in November 2016 to be absolutely certain to defeat him now? Both parties are acting as though this were an experiment to see just how far they can push us. I've never seen anything like it. If Biden wins, someone else will actually be president, like during a large part of Reagan's two terms. I wonder who it will be? Whoever it is, he is unlikely to be worse than Trump, but I support anyone, like Joe Rogan, who speaks out again this whole picture. It is nonsense.
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  23253. Tucker didn't look thrilled. He was playing to his audience. Rittenhouse's older sister marched in the George Floyd demonstrations. This isn't a socioeconomic group Tucker has crossed paths with much. 🤣
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  23254.  @ghostpiratelechuck2259  The reference is because actual links are shadowed. This way, you can look it up. The defamation lawsuit against Tucker was dismissed for that reason.
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  23255.  @ghostpiratelechuck2259 The material in quotes is the title. The website name is Find Law. It's not written with the public in mind so much as for people involved in the justice system or media.
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  23256.  @mattdillon4398  I don't think you understand. This was his own lawyer's argument in court. His attorneys are the ones who cannot lie to a judge in a proceeding, they could get severely sanctioned, and it could cost millions. His own position is that he is primarily dealing in opinions and entertainment, AND his audience knows. In another thread, I got accused of being right wing because I agree Rittenhouse is entitled to try to prove his defamation case. It's a high bar, and anti-SLAPP statutes protect the media. I doubt he can win (or settle well), but he has every right to try. As for Tucker, I think he has said many atrocious things, including egging Rittenhouse on, as if minors should cosplay security guard/paramedic while toting an AR-15 during a riot. But so far, he is being more truthful on Ukraine than most people, sorry to say. Yeah, I admit that -- I am VERY sorry to have to say it. What a shame it's true.
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  23257.  @mattdillon4398  Of course they did the same thing for Maddow. She's the richest liar on MSM.
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  23258. "Human shields"
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  23259. ​@supreme8113 Usually you aren't permitted to ask. 😂😂😂
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  23260. ​ @supreme8113 🤡🌎
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  23261. ​ @877swissmiss No, it's also random. That makes it more effective. I am serious. Look up intermittent reinforcement.
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  23262. ​ @WeighedWilson 💯
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  23263. A motion to dismiss is a normal procedural move at this time. It mirrors a motion for summary judgment, and may be necessary to preserve all issues for an eventual appeal.
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  23264. Evil.
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  23265. He quit. He didn't have to. All the documents leading up to his decision to resign were made public. I have never seen so much lying.
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  23266. @frankdank7439  Usually it IS service relayed, though it shouldn't matter. They served. Why should anyone? The one vaccine injured person I know is a young woman in the Air Force.
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  23267. "Conspiracy theories as a coping mechanism" -- so, people need to cope with the defeat of insane clown president? We've fallen to this?
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  23268. THIS.
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  23269. Chauvin pled guilty to federal charges. The President cannot pardon Chauvin on state charges.
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  23270. You don't pick guys well. I'd have nothing to do with this one.
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  23271. The owner is. But I know what you mean.
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  23272.  @RobertHDaGod  Look it up. The owner of The Hill is a major Trump supporter, meaning, with donations.
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  23273.  @RobertHDaGod  I will say one thing in favor of The Hill: they will carry an entire press conference of the President, no editing whatsoever. Few outlets do. If Biden wins, let's see whether they continue. There should be places, plural, where everyone can watch ANY presidential statement in its entirety, no cuts whatsoever, because it is the President speaking. Simple. And I don't think Trump is qualified. (Nor do I think Biden is, nor were the Clintons, either one, for that matter. My opinion of the President has got nothing to do with it.)
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  23274. It will be used until it stops working. I think we're there. ;)
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  23275. What was that FBI or CIA memo that described how to systematically stall progress, by starting committees, getting mired in meaningless details, etc.? PLEASE someone give us the reference! Too good.
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  23276. He asked to have Gershkovich released immediately, as a sign of decency.
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  23277.  @arkoutarkout3654  I'm expecting that, tbh.
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  23278. Two guys, one white one black, to make sure we know it's two. 😮
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  23279. Yeah, you could pay the rent with that.
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  23280. You must not have listened.
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  23281. Not Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud? I didn't think any Anglo-American Protestants trashed Darwin in the same breath as these "foreigners." LOL
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  23282. Well said! I never had a problem with CHOOSE Life, putting the emphasis squarely on "choice." Persuasion, not coercion, and not unless the pregnant woman asks you what you think.
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  23283. @rhitaakhardid5792  It's much easier if responsibility is shared. You and a family member, you and your best friend, you and your doctor, you and your physical therapist, you and your counselor, employer, teachers, coaches, . . . You get the idea.
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  23284. Think about this: KHive is a JOB.
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  23285. Their kids, too.
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  23286. People who want to be millionaires and billionaires from doing nothing, or doing harm, envy this economy. That's a lot of people.
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  23287. Enough of the public is paid off. The top 20% either got ahead during COVID, or blamed themselves if they did not. That is not negligible. Yes, they know how much richer the very richest got, but they have plenty to defend. Don't think this has not been calculated.
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  23288. But they padded their wallets, somehow.
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  23289. Thanks for this.
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  23290. You're right that tragically, they cannot make it blanket right now, due to what they did to small business.
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  23291. Bezos literally can end homelessness, and instead took selfies of his "ahem" and sent them to a girlfriend, no better than a juvenile delinquent. You can't make this up.
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  23292. You mean it's not a parody?
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  23293. Well, Saagar, sororities aren't what they used to be.
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  23294. Did you believe in John of God, too?
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  23295. Yes.
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  23296.  @amandap9332  The Financial Engineers (yes, a real major) are on the case, so they are the ones getting a cut. Thanks for your post. This is beyond insane.
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  23297. ​@intimatedesign Halper was fired for producing a radar on radical peace and justice activists who were all Israelis and Jewish. Big no no.
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  23298. Bill Gates treated everywhere like a little prince, including a fawning article in the Guardian just the other day. (His foundation gives them money.)
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  23299.  @maxpower8429  HIPAA says so, but after this COVID nonsense, well . . . I am not holding my breath over it.
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  23300.  @maxpower8429  Wow, I didn't know that about blood donation. Thank you for the information. Things are worse than I thought, frankly.
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  23301.  @maxpower8429  I will definitely look to inform myself on this. Feel free to recommend a book, article, etc.
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  23302. ​ @bn_mediorcty I am glad that the hosts of this program have fans that expose them for exactly who they are, as well as you and others have exposed them. Thanks.
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  23303. @charlesmanning3454  So you would state that as a hypothetical: "if there were some as-yet undetected risk, it is negligible and we know it couldn't outweigh the proven benefits."
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  23304. @charlesmanning3454  Also, you'd be surprised how many procedures performed on children have a risk of close to 1 per million. That's usually considered acceptable. A risk of 1 per 500 million could be a statistical artifact, not real. There are fewer than 150 million babies born per year in the whole world. No one should accept a 1 per million risk for kids without a very generous compensation system in place.
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  23305. @mitsync  Well, measles can also cause severe cognitive impairment, and we knew kids who suffered it. That isn't how you calculate risk-benefit for vaccines, and if you think about it for a moment, you'll figure out why. But I support MMR vaccines. I said that loud and clear.
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  23306.  @mitsync  You may not be able to SEE where I suggested a hypothetical statement of possible risk. I know about the difference between the empirical sciences and pure mathematics.
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  23307.  @mitsync  I didn't say 1 in a million was the standard.
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  23308. @charlesmanning3454  That may be exactly right. 9:40 was a stronger statement, though, and surprised me. If there are a handful of cases, among the tens of millions vaccinated, which received compensation from the 1986 fund, they should make that information available. That doesn't mean the vaccine did cause the injury, just that they met the legal burden of proof to get funds. I don't say broadcast the numbers as "Breaking News," just state them somewhere in the literature. To be honest, I also think individual shots for each illness should be available. I understand why they're not, and I understand that it's for good reasons, but I still believe it should be a matter of choice.
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  23309. @charlesmanning3454  You know, all this could be a red herring. Autism appears to be increasing, and it's not just a matter of better detection. We could be running around worrying about MMR or whatnot when we should be looking at something entirely different. Or we should just be open minded and try to figure out why, starting with a blank slate! Crazy times. :/
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  23310. Do you know what the Department of Education does, Robby? Among other things, it supervises the funding of public education for disabled children under the IDEA, which local property taxpayers cannot afford.
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  23311. @OvercomeEverythingJosh  Really? In my state, they provided almost 37% of the necessary funding for IDEA in 2020, under the first Trump administration, and my state did not vote for Trump.
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  23312.  @OvercomeEverythingJosh  "8% total funding" was not the issue. I see what you slipped in, lol.
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  23313. @OvercomeEverythingJosh  Just about every state gets about 30 to 40% of its funding to educate disabled kids from the federal government. I guess you didn't know. My state pays more to the federal government than it gets back.
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  23314.  @OvercomeEverythingJosh  That's the problem with not knowing what you're talking about. 😂
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  23315. Ha ha ha, good one.
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  23316.  @katiejohnson2600  The insurance companies, whose material interest is either in taking money from the healthy or in having the sick die quickly, are your friend! Besides, I bet their boards of directors need your vote, too.
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  23317.  @meegz149  You follow 4chan? I've yet to see it. Tell me more.
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  23318. 25:51 Chris was wise to ask how these private equity bankers are able to "load [a company] up with debt." Exactly how leverage allows the bankers to double and triple their profits practically overnight is not clear. It needs to be explained, so that your listeners could explain it in turn. Without this level of understanding, ordinary people will just revert to "personal responsibility," or worse, "positivity" mantras --- or, they will believe Tucker or Elon or Donald Trump will save us. Look, this is more serious than you're making it, not less.
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  23319. Rich people are for sweet embassy posts. London, Paris . . .
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  23320. 26:48 to the end is TREMENDOUS. Brilliant.
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  23321.  @ouknow1446  "Hey ma, Junior is missing!" "On no! Did someone chow down???" I mean, come on.
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  23322.  @halleffect5439  Based on worrying about whether he would say something inappropriate to her, of a sexual nature? That would worry you? Not me. Frankly, I don't think most men unrelated by blood or marriage are a wise first choice for babysitter, but that's a separate issue, no? I mean, why not ask if I would date Jimmy Dore if he were single? I don't know.
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  23323.  @halleffect5439  Does suitability as babysitter determine whether or not a person should have a YouTube channel? Please, do tell us. These are rules I could never fathom without tutoring.
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  23324.  @halleffect5439  No, it isn't. You asked whether I'd allow Dore to watch my child, as if my answer would be determined by whether I believe he has a propensity to harass women. Well, no one's answer to your question would be based on that. I never knew how dim people are. It has scared me more than I can tell you. I guess the Internet should have prepared me for Trump . . . Fair warning, eh?
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  23325.  @halleffect5439  This video calls for Dore's permanent removal from YouTube. Missed that part?
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  23326.  @halleffect5439  Certainly. The remedy for speech you abhor is more speech, not censorship. Nadine Strossen would concur.
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  23327. Ha ha ha ha We all need comic relief, thanks.
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  23328. Columbine was 1999. So a generation and no set protocol.
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  23329. Thank you. More and more people see.
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  23330. I guess that's true of Israel as well, then.
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  23331. Dark Triads make the most money. Look there.
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  23332. More like a coward and compulsive conformist, easily lead.
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  23333.  @prime-time3367  Being a lawyer is not that big of a deal, hon.
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  23334.  @basicattentionwoman5787  In the predisposed, these environmental factors do matter.
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  23335.  @basicattentionwoman5787  True.
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  23336.  David Fallaha  I don't dispute that. Epigenetics is (very) real, and it cannot be emphasized enough. But there are other ways to exercise. I know families, from blue collar to affluent, who exercised as a family one hour per day, every single day -- by going outside.
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  23337.  David Fallaha  MY lockdowns?? I'm still not clear on why they were essential (though hospitals and morgues in a few hotspots were overwhelmed -- a few; that's a reason), or why they were imposed without any discussion. To this day, we have poor information and propaganda as the rule rather than the exception.
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  23338.  David Fallaha  All jeering, bullying, flat untruths and bad arguments are presumed to come from false flags until proven otherwise. You missed the memo.
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  23339.  David Fallaha  Blocked.
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  23340.  David Fallaha  No, it's your moronic Favorite Videos list, not to mention imputing ideas to me that I have no use for. Suppose Queens had no choice but to lock down? All right. Why would that affect the rest of New York state, or California? Wuhan locked down, hard and sjort. The rest of China did not. Etc. Go back to your sick videos. Logic isn't your strong suit.
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  23341. I was very tempted to vote this up. 😉
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  23342. Do we know this?
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  23343. Well, chances are they could not have developed enough evidence within 72 hours to charge him, so they needed to press for a confession. If he had remained silent, there is some chance they would have had to release him. That's why they go for the interrogation right away. A case like this could have been a murder suicide, even without a gun near any of the bodies. They had no autopsies, and no evidence about which gun killed them, or even if it was just one gun. No one mentions blood splatter or gunpowder residue. If my child, at 15, had been one of the other three, I am not sure I would have wanted him to be interrogated. Everyone has the right to remain silent. No one has a right to lie to investigators, and each of these kids could be considered less than truthful. That's normal at their age, after such a trauma. But it's on their juvenile record now, video and all.
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  23344. 1. Do not condemn her. Agreed. We don't know the facts. 2. DO NOT NORMALIZE NOT CALLING 911. Just . . . don't. 3. Write short stories and enter contests. Or write for recorded books.
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  23345.  @olgagiles5773  A probable cause affidavit is just that -- and what it contains is technically hearsay. Sometimes police do not take down a statement exactly as the person gave it. If she is required to be a witness at trial, then we may find out what happened. Right now, we don't know. But what we do know is that she offered information to police to help catch the murderer.
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  23346. Israeli researchers were first to report a vaccine-myocarditis link in late August 2021. Yes, significantly higher than background rates. This is the reason for the warnings on the official vaccine fact sheets. Your source?
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  23347. I'd rather laugh than throw up, so . . .
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  23348. No he doesn't. But he knows how to persuade you!
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  23349. ​ @RealEuropeanPatriot Yeah, 2020 was a banner year. Turning the country over to Fauci instead of investigating him was pure genius. Stable genius.
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  23350. I find every TED talk is a disappointment. They have to be geared toward a general audience that usually has little in common with the person seeking out the advice years later.
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  23351. ​@RobertCaesar-f5p Nope. More like Unabomber, for what it's worth.
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  23352.  @Allenrobinson9  Except that that is nonsense.
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  23353.  @joeladams2540  No, she was unresponsive. There is no proof that she mischaracterized her public social media accounts. What she said she usually posts about may indeed be what she posts about.
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  23354.  @kaelynn4744  No, she was unresponsive. There is no proof that she mischaracterized her public social media accounts. What she said she usually posts about may indeed be what she posts about.
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  23355.  @Baratheon.  There is no proof that she mischaracterized her public social media accounts. What she said previously that she usually posts about may indeed be what she usually posts about, and some of the posts he asked her about are unimportant enough for her to have forgotten about them. In this hearing, she was substantively unresponsive. That is not the same thing as committing perjury. I don't understand where you all think you saw or heard "perjury on live television." How do you think US Attorneys go about bringing federal charges? Based on Facebook polls? YouTube impressions? The Senate's job is to vote, not "make her talk." I'm assuming she won't be confirmed.
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  23356.  @Baratheon.  I'm not lying for her. Prove up your claims. I'm not supporting her for confirmation. I think most people in government are objectively unqualified by any standard. That's not the same thing as calling her a criminal because of this. If you believe she is, then you have the burden of proof -- especially if there are Bill of Rights implications. Feel free to leave keywords; I know actual links are likely to be shadowed. I am genuinely interested. If you show me it's true, I'll believe it. BTW, I had the good sense never to open FB or Twitter accounts. I only joined this when the snakes shut down the economy -- and I did so under a pen name that is a version of my real name. So, what would they do to me?
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  23357.  @heavenlysonshine  Reported and blocked 🤣
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  23358.  @kiyosenl.3889  No it wasn't a "blatant lie." What she said previously that she usually posts about may indeed be what she usually posts about, and some of the posts he asked her about are unimportant enough for her to have forgotten about them. In this hearing, she was substantively unresponsive. That is not the same thing as committing perjury. I don't understand where you all think you saw or heard "perjury on live television." How do you think US Attorneys go about bringing federal charges? Based on Facebook polls? YouTube impressions? The Senate's job is to vote, not "make her talk." I'm assuming she won't be confirmed. I have no problem with that. It's the screeching for criminal charges that astounds me. Man are you dim.
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  23359.  @stevenwebster3286  Huh?
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  23360.  @sueblood7793  I see you cleaned up the original post. Maybe you should watch for the indictment come down, LOL. Blocked.
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  23361.  @MK-mj9gx  In my private life? First, I wouldn't be asked that question because I do not have a FB or a Twit account. Second, that is none of your business.
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  23362.  @sueblood7793  I am a lawyer. If you had read all of my posts (and I wonder which are shadowed?), you might have picked up on that. Reading Is Fun.
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  23363. A 31 year old woman journalist with a good MSM reputation usually has more power than a 70 year old man who is generally ridiculed by MSM.
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  23364. 12:20 So that's it. Pushed to rehabilitate us after Gaza. I was trying to figure this one out.
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  23365. School is an overly binary, feminized environment. I'm serious.
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  23366.  @sadieblanchard1120  Learning is wonderful. If school can make you mad enough to become independent of school, if it can provoke you into rebelling against it, and if you become determined to figure out how to learn in the ways that are best for you, school has done its job.
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  23367. His wife is the writer/director of "The Love Witch," the best and funniest spoof of soft core ever made.
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  23368.  @davidnco1  I don't even have a television and I can't stand Colbert. I have never voted for a ticket with Biden on it, and I speak three languages, English not being the first. One of my degrees is from Paris. (Not Paris, Texas.) Any more wild guesses today? Please keep it up.
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  23369.  @davidnco1  In fact, just today I started the day with logic puzzles. Raymond Smullyan -- heard of him? 😅
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  23370.  @davidnco1  Neither I nor OP nor anyone else mentioned "danger." Except you. You mentioned danger. I fail to see why.
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  23371. Bruh, even saying "Free Luigi" is free speech.
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  23372. ​ @henrytuttle Reread the OP, this time slowly and with an open mind.
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  23373. I see no reason to believe Sabine read the complaint. The first four double-spaced pages, eleven numbered paragraphs, set forth the heart of the case.
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  23374.  @henrytuttle  Don't give me that ignorant ______, it's evident you haven't a clue. Did you read the complaint in this case? It's so intellectually honest to "know" all about what's right or wrong in a case where you've read nothing.
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  23375. @henrytuttle  If science channels are like this, what are soft core comments like?
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  23376. @henrytuttle  If you read the complaint, you would know this is not some new case aggressive lawyers dreamed up. It is a long-standing controversy scientists have tried to rectify for years, without engaging the legal process.
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  23377. ​@henrytuttle This simply articulates a blanket statement against bringing disputes to court in general. It has no bearing on this case. It has no predictive value. The next time a drunk driver hits a family member, don't sue? Let karma take care of it. This video is a prime example of the crisis in intellectual honesty. Sabine takes a position and it generates clicks, controversy, and money for her. Did she READ the complaint? I see no reason to believe so. Based on what she said, it strongly appears otherwise. In any case, do you see her reading from it or quoting from it? Does what she have to say justify a number of publishers colluding with one another to obtain free work -- that some other entity/employer actually pays for -- and then profitting from it? (In the meantime, let students go into debt. They don't graduate with enough. The way money flows through this system is dishonest at every turn.) Anyone who is commenting without at least reading the first four pages of the complaint is part of the intellectual dishonesty problem.
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  23378.  @henrytuttle  You don't know that.
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  23379.  @henrytuttle  Try reading some cases where a law that violates the First Amendment was struck down. Then tell me what you think.
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  23380. @henrytuttle  No I do not -- but I don't know from which of his writings the quote was taken, and whether the context alters its apparent meaning.
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  23381.  @henrytuttle  I generally disagreed with Scalia on most things he wrote about that I investigated myself. He supported sentencing minors to d--th for capital crimes.
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  23382. Yes, it certainly is. As is Marianne WIlliamson. Okay, worse than Marianne.
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  23383. Stop for a moment and feel it --- you're here.she doesn't matter.
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  23384. TIAs are not rare and often resolve quickly. That is one possibility.
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  23385. If a member of my family were killed, I may want to suspend the entire Bill of Rights, especially the 4th, 5th, and 8th Amendments. That is why we don't let victims dictate the laws.
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  23386.  @Population11  I don't have skeletons in my closet. Only people who have skeletons in their closets think other people must have skeletons in their closets, too.
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  23387. Well, it shows us how scared they got him, and how lacking in real concern for everyone's welfare.
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  23388. THANK YOU JIMMY
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  23389. These DNC Democrats need Donald Trump.
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  23390. 😂😂😂
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  23391.  @snoopster000  I didn't cry when a doctor made a mistake and told me I was close to death.
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  23392.  @snoopster000  Math is a communist plot.
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  23393. Yes, good to know she is crazy.
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  23394. PERFECT!!!
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  23395. A writer who cannot break up text into paragraphs. At least try not to look bot-like.
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  23396. NICE questions from Joe Rogan. So happy for him as well. This is a scoop!
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  23397. No, no, that's his stutter.
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  23398. Monoclonal antibodies are there for the rich. They live a different life than the rest of us. This pandemic was very lucrative for them.
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  23399. You're right. It's absolutely perfect. The apotheosis of profit: you do absolutely nothing for (what used to be considered) the highest position in the world
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  23400. Assuming that is 100% true . . . Why did they fire her now? Odd to consider sympathy for the children of Gaza to be the bridge too far. She did not even make any overarching policy recommendations. She just said all innocent lives are precious.
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  23401. They are. They needed to be actually innocent to bring the civil rights suit they settled for $41 million. That was the law in New York.
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  23402. @godismyhero247_  I can see you real actual court documents. /s
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  23403.  @godismyhero247_  I can see you know how to find public court documents and read them.
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  23404. @godismyhero247_   At the time their civil rights case was brought, New York and the Second Circuit required not only a vacated guilty verdict, but also evidence of actual innocence, to avoid dismissal. There is no way the city would have settled had they been factually to blame in the attack. The current Supreme Court relaxed that requirement somewhat just recently -- yeah, the conservative one, in an opinion by Kavanaugh. But simply vacating a guilty verdict still isn't enough, of course. The case has to be over. The prosecutor can't have the option to retry the person, and just decide not to. The option has to be off the table.
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  23405.  @AB-ov1zm  Agree with you both.
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  23406.  @susanmercurio1060  Yeah, this sure does go against the official "narrative," doesn't it? CGT just organized a demonstration of vaccinated health care workers in support of their unvaccinated colleagues and against mandates. L'Obs, which is about as radical as The NYTimes, did a great video reporting on it, and all the comments below it that I saw (and I scrolled down a lot) congratulate the CGT. P. S. Always edit qwerty typos. Make a ton of them.
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  23407.  @accrualworld318  What is a "passive question?" P. S. blocked for wasting my valuable time
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  23408. Reid is pushing HATE when we need compassion and cooperation. Jimmy has it exactly right -- only candor and the freedom to speak openly about our experiences will lead to improved vaccines and treatments. "Sit down shut up" is not a plan.
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  23409.  @Francloy1  Well, now we know why over 1000 people are shot to death by police in America every year, and the Brits bend to their Prince Andrew. It all makes sense.
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  23410.  @supertrendymoneymaker0722  Your "basic" $10 million bonus is more.
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  23411.  @MsAppassionata  The vaccines (immunotherapy, actually) do reduce the risk of severe COVID and hospitalization or death for those at high risk, and do so quite reliably, for about 6 to 9 months . The cost-benefit analysis for most people (under 70, zero or one comorbidities) is the next question. Kim Iversen is the journalist doing the most objective reporting for a lay audience. It is not true that vaccines confer no benefit to any risk group. Whether or when it is prudent to rely on vaccines is a separate issue.
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  23412. Sputnik V is available. India will make 800m doses, South Korea, over a billion.
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  23413. To be fair, we don't know his drug history. He may indeed be functioning at this level, now.
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  23414. @user-ro2vb8by7u  No. She claimed without evidence that some poor schmuck who can't get a date on his own was "just like" one of the worst murderers in US history. Do you see where our "culture" is going with this errant nonsense? This helps no one.
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  23415. @user-ro2vb8by7u   No. She claimed without evidence that some poor guy who couldn't get a date on his own was "just like" one of the worst criminals in US history. Do you see where our "culture" is going with this nonsense? This helps no one. You're the one who called us names. What angers you so much about rational people?
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  23416. Why don't you listen? Is it that you can't understand her points? It's way over your head? Or is it that Brie cannot talk about race in your world? She does not have your permission?
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  23417. 10:13 10:48
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  23418. "Teenagers can get around anything parents put in their way . . . " says Kim. Robbie looks like he isn't familiar with the concept.
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  23419. @UmadBro88  Artificial coloring is one of the five basic food groups. 🤪 Psst. Accurate case studies form a basis for generating testable hypotheses. Huh? Google has a dictionary you could use.
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  23420. @liggerstuxin1  Robert Whitaker and Carl Elliott have some interesting insights on overdiagnosis and overly aggressive treatment. Great writers . . .
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  23421. A sadomasochistic psychopath leading a class . . .
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  23422. It does so every few years, lately two or three times a year. Hence opioids.
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  23423. Of course there are a lot of unanswered questions here, but there is no law mandating that she help the victims. Other countries have those laws, the US does not. Only if you caused the harm, created risk of harm, or if you have a special relationship with a victim (parent, spouse) do you have any obligation to do anything. IOW, if she left a door unlocked or something like that, then she could be in trouble.
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  23424. FISA weaponized for the WEF and WHO.
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  23425. Good luck to you. Very best wishes, for real.
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  23426.  @modelcitizen394  THIS.
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  23427. Nah. He's fine. He's not Jimmy.
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  23428. AMEN. A generation after Columbine and Wisconsin STILL doesn't have reasonable gun laws? But juveniles are tried as adults, and no one says a word about it.
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  23429. We need a serious conference on experimentation with viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens.
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  23430. Well Oprah believes in the Power of positive thinking.
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  23431. I worked with a lot of Harvard lawyers. Every one was brilliant, and extremely productive.
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  23432. Say, why did they ever pass a filibuster rule where no one has to actually speak? How come they can just virtually discuss without making a sound, until 60 vote to close "debate?"
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  23433. But she has to mention Mao. Mentioning Germany doesn't sizzle in quite the same way.
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  23434. Is that why they're so angry, about stuff like Gender Studies majors?
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  23435.  @GavinMichaels  I think that's true, because we live in society with people who tout religion and spirituality. Live somewhere where the majority is secular, like London, or most of France, especially Paris, and the religious person is the one who is unhappy, and even less physically healthy. (Look it up. It's pretty stark.) We need to feel we have something deeper in common with the people around us.
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  23436.  @vladimir0700  You're swifter than me! Props!
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  23437. THRILLED!!
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  23438.  BxxDxx Hoodoo  Why would anyone who made spectacular money need to put it in the market again and again and again? Isn't that like being incapable of leaving a roulette wheel? Oh. Wait. That bottomless greed is what Wall Street is all about. They "know what they're doing" all right.
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  23439.  BxxDxx Hoodoo  Who do you think is a kid? You can't spell "revolutionaries" and you tell other people to grab a dictionary? Oh. Is a dictionary where they list the United States Statutes and the SEC regs?
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  23440.  BxxDxx Hoodoo  Who cares, as long as some underemployed graduates just paid off their student loans? They are having PLENTY of fun for a change, first time in a long time. They don't have to hope for "stimulus" now!
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  23441.  @mr.dalerobinson  I don't disagree. The issue is what the federal government will do to the Reddit crowd and those joining them, or do FOR the hedgers that went bust, more likely. Greenwald just said Congress may vote assistance to hedge funds hit by this, before they get around to the $2000 - 600 "stimulus," LOL.
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  23442. Everyone should read Dr. Gabor Mate's book.
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  23443. In a society where universities have an explicit policy of spousal hire . . .
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  23444. Good for her.
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  23445. @carlsanders7824  I never said anyone was -- that was some other post. But now we come to find that an officer did discharge a firearm by accident at Hamilton Hall, and Ohio State U and U of Indiana had snipers poised on rooftops.
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  23446.  @gregc8394  Nope. The President could prevent lifting the moratorium with a stroke of the pen. Trump was too lazy to look into it. All someone had to do was mumble "money, money, something, China ahead, something, something, biotechs want this, money" into Trump's ear and it was off to the races. (Maybe little Jared?)
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  23447.  @Dowlphin  THIS!
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  23448.  @samcoates8944  No one cares anymore. That's the tragedy. How do you fix that?
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  23449. This is about as fair as his "Joe Rogan took horse dewormer" video.
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  23450. Makes you wonder about those Epstein client lists, huh?
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  23451. This example was of an elderly man in New York, who got disabled in New York, and moved to Puerto Rico where he could afford to live on SSI. He did the right thing. This is what the BIDEN administration does, to him??
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  23452. He is running for the nomination. The DNC is changing the rules to make sure his hopes are dashed.
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  23453. 17:00 . . . As long as they don't let him near a sperm bank.
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  23454. Now that we know Bill Gates was a Friend of Jeffrey/Lolita Express Traveler, how can we withdraw from using the things he's invested in?
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  23455. Which is saying a lot.
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  23456.  @HaveYouTriedGuillotines  YES, this I do agree with. Did Lobsterism lead them to this nonsense? Then it was bad for them.
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  23457.  @HaveYouTriedGuillotines  Brilliantly stated. If you don't blog or vlog under your name, you ought to.
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  23458.  @HaveYouTriedGuillotines  I guess I'm older than I sound, and I have family in one of those many places US bombers have toasted with depleted uranium, so I know. (My late father didn't come across as lily white, either, come to think of it, so you know I know.)
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  23459. Firearms used in mass killings are legal. Pictures of firearms make YouTube an unsafe space.
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  23460. @Raining Clean Taking the numbers shown on Worldometer, our case fatality rate is now clearly below 2%, and this number scales (so that the U.S. matches my state almost perfectly). Earlier in the pandemic, it was about 2% or 2.1%. Infection fatality rate is known to be lower, but estimates range. (There is a pro-vaccine researcher who put it at less than half. But I believe the CFR is a more solid statistic.) I've seen no commentary concerning the substantial plunge in the CFR. Literally zero, though a decrease of, say, 20% would seem to merit attention. Then, in some countries, CFR is clearly below 1%. Do we hear about what they're doing? Never. Instead, we hear hate speech and bizarre rants about "anti-vaxxers," when it is known that vaccination rates among people who have a real risk from COVID are lowest in underserved communities. Just a moment of reflection brings all of this to mind. Just a moment of tuning out the din. I've lived through previous rounds of hysteria, but of course this one is the worst. They have to get bigger each time.
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  23461. Everyone who makes it in this medium is manipulative.
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  23462. Honest, competent people are resigning all over the place. George Santos is what's left.
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  23463. "Deese guys better be nicer to me, or there's gonna be a lotta sh-t happening." -- Old Chicago Jimmy
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  23464. When I mentioned Phil __Lando Castile it was re- Moved immediately.
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  23465. Information/sharing information is becoming a myth, with the sense or ship we are now subjected 2.
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  23466. People praise that freak because he pays them to. Simple.
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  23467. Freedom of speech, even for those who want to curtail others' freedom.
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  23468. P. S. The women on that court are legends.
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  23469. Why does she think it's not bad? Come on man. It's not bad for her. Or Brandon. It's not even bad for Hunter.
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  23470.  @Kurgana  Typical imperialist discourse. I care because it has FOREIGN POLICY implications, and because it involved looting a poor country. I don't care if he paints and sells his paintings to private individuals, who then don't get special treatment from the White House, other than to get invited to a social event. Actually, his art isn't that bad. If he were 17 or 18, he'd get into Rhode Island for sure, on merit.
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  23471.  @ArnoldFlibble  Yeah, I know. Not only that, but didn't the other one say we were also killers? That previous president. Of course Hunter didn't hold a government post in Ukraine. That doesn't pay $50-80k per month. Private is the way to go.
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  23472.  @thechessclub8527  E X A C T L Y We need more testing. We need rational strategies. We need coherence.
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  23473.  @thomasmangine7564  Total agreement.
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  23474.  @michaelhalbherr3683  Oh good grief no. Self-awareness entails an understanding of the true scope and limits of our ability to influence what happens to us, which is a very complex issue. A true understanding of "self-determination" involves some highly technical arguments about free will, among other things. Imagining that "the vast majority of [your] difficulties are self-inflicted" could itself be a symptom of a psychological issue -- or lead to one, at the first serious reversal you face in life. In fact, not seeing a reversal as something you yourself caused can be key to overcoming it more quickly, instead of wallowing in self-loathing. (Anyone who tells you differently is unfamiliar with the research, and not very wise about how people actually function.)
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  23475.  @michaelhalbherr3683  BTW, in a society awash in the gun crime, white collar crime and corruption that this one is, it is really gallows humor to hear someone say we generally cause our own misfortune. Darkly funny, that. Well, the news is not easy to listen to, and if you need to ignore it for you own well-being, I won't begrudge you that.
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  23476.  @michaelhalbherr3683  And my point is that you can do all those things, and more, and all it takes is one drunk driver, or an environmentally caused cancer, to take you out. Or working your whole life for a corporation rife with crime (think Enron, BP), or be mercilessly harassed or threatened at work while trying desperately to overcome a family tragedy, or be arrested for something you didn't do and played no role in, or be present in the building during a school shooting -- some kids have gone through two of those, now. It seems to me that anyone who is mature must understand just how little we do control, starting with who our family is, whether we have older or younger parents, or brothers and sisters, how long each of those people live, and what they need from us before they die. As for getting pregnant while still in school, a lot of people would end up having no children had they made "goodness" their priority. Kids fall in love, after a fashion. So? Perhaps it is immature and irresponsible, but it's not all negative. It has a poignant side. For some, it's a reason to get up in the morning and work at two deadening jobs. You don't know anyone like that? I know lots of people like that. Maybe you're just ungrateful and take random lucky breaks for granted, and instead of working on that (something you can control fairly well -- ironically enough), you prefer to jeer at people you've been taught to label "victims." That's not very smart.
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  23477.  @michaelhalbherr3683  "I am suggesting that if what you say about our "limited" control is true, then why not, to the best of our ability, exercise positive agency over that which we CAN directly control?" I wholeheartedly agree with this. Now you're talking. Now we are in the realm of reality. Whew, that's a relief.
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  23478. The training sounds like too little for a security guard.
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  23479. This wasn't about a law. It was about behind-the-scenes arm twisting.
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  23480. I wonder what percentage of people who wrote comments like yours are obese.
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  23481.  @emilianosintarias7337  This is very perceptive.
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  23482. @Sh Au Refusing to work for a given corporation by quitting or not applying is exerting control over something you do own -- your labor. Oops.
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  23483.  @kwalelalipimile9245  Her business. She may have had his consent.
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  23484.  @jebalitabb8228  It shows another moral panic.
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  23485.  @NorbiGaming  He already lost one defamation suit, a much better one. He's doing this exactly to get this rise out of you.
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  23486.  @RebeccaPerry-Piper-u8x  Money for nothing . . . Isn't that every investment banker's dream?
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  23487. Ask about infamous wedding guest Ghislaine Maxwell. She is alive, still.
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  23488.  @xq8152  "Well, what if I WANT a rocket launcher?" 🤣
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  23489.  @johnarose3305  Right. Rag on the homeless, get your priorities straight.
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  23490. If we got away with them the first time . . .
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  23491. CGT is French. You could have researched it.
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  23492. Um, it's called technology.
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  23493. Not to mention China and India, among others, have united in de facto support of Russia.
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  23494.  Grant Birżebbuġa Sfax  Do the math, hon. Do themath.
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  23495. TYT defenders are now saying Ana's DM to Dore was not a threat or an implied blackmail, it was a "professional courtesy."
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  23496. <<Joe Biden will be THE NEXT ROOSEVELT!!!>>
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  23497. The technical reason it is not a Ponzi scheme is that the new dollars coming in are taxes from salaries that generally keep pace with the overall economy (and when they don't, people in the labor force have options to rectify that), whereas the payouts do not. Social Security benefits are never raised to account for the full impact of inflation. Hence, the benefits depend on the salary you earned pre-inflation, for the rest of your life, and the only sure way to rectify that is to return to work. That's not a Ponzi scheme. You're welcome. Please clap.
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  23498. Wants? DOES!
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  23499.  @savannahsmiles1797  "This is what brothers do . . ." are you fabricating this story?
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  23500. Sure we have a caste system. Ask Bill Gates. Ask Hillary. They won't tell you, but watch their faces when you ask.
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  23501. When they agree . . .
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  23502. No. COVID came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, in a joint project with EchoHealth Alliance, funded by NIH at Fauci's direction. Signed: a vegetarian animal-lover who eats vegan for weeks on end. (I would not eat a mammal to save my life.)
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  23503.  King Amen-Tut-Ankh  What part of lynch mobs are illegal don't you get? So, if someone shoots me, do people who don't like me get to say good riddance? Do we take a vote on YouTube to figure out whether it's okay?
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  23504.  @beyondthemaya3881  I was trying to give you some credit. If it's a mistake, I believe you. In any event, I said "maybe."
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  23505.  @beyondthemaya3881  NICE TRY. I'm not the one who wants him locked up as an adult, because he ISN'T an adult. He should not be charged as an adult and run any risk of prison for most of his life. But you keep it up. You think people don't see through you?
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  23506.  David Miorgan  Let's have AK-47s in 6th grade. Let's have an adolescent arms race. Why not? After all, school is a dangerous place. Everyone has a right to protect themselves. Put those Karens in their place.
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  23507.  David Miorgan  I wasn't commenting on his guilt. He is presumed innocent.
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  23508.  David Miorgan  Can you do fractions? Cut once, measure twice?
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  23509.  David Miorgan  Because there was no reason to subscribe before the pandemic, and I'm not sure I like it. I don't do social media.
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  23510.  David Miorgan  Is mathematics a communist plot? We know literature and piano are.
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  23511.  David Miorgan  It's spelled "phony." Spelling is communist, too. Plus they use mysterious alphabets to confuse red-blooded American patriots.
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  23512.  David Miorgan  People who oppose children having guns are communist trolls. Got it.
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  23513.  @The_Ballo  Love to see a history buff. Facts do matter.
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  23514. I think he just misspoke -- right after that, he said our moves to install a police state were being copied by Macron. IOW, he made parallel comparisons.
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  23515. Lovely family, inspiring from the start.
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  23516. When I lived in France under a socialist, they had a program for reducing abortions that worked phenomenally well.
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  23517. ​ @henrylicious No it wasn't.
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  23518. @JohnM-sw4sc  In the late 1970s, no one finished college, then moved back in with their parents, with no savings and a pile of student loan debt. No one. It did not happen, barring serious illness -- and even then, it was unusual. Occasionally, brothers, sisters, or first cousins would team up to split the rent. That's as "bad" as it got. College was hard, in-state tuition was nearly free, and graduation meant something. People worked summers to pay for their full year of tuition, fees, books, and supplies. And were very proud of themselves, rightly so. Nor did you need college for most jobs. Not even trade school was always essential -- companies trained you, paid apprenticeships trained you. Now, college + internships, with barely a stipend?? That you spend on commuting, lunch, and a new computer, if that? (And trade school loans are even more likely to default than college loans, last I heard. At least they are smaller.)
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  23519. @JohnM-sw4sc  You know what? I even forgot that the Reagan administration gave birth to Osama bin Laden and the mujahideen -- but I forgot for a reason. I don't think Reagan had much control there, either. I think other actors, including the CIA, were more important. But that may not be the case. Reagan may have been responsible as well. A lot of what is wrong today was born during the '80s.
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  23520.  @JohnM-sw4sc  Can you see my replies? To extend the conversation . . . :)
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  23521.  @henrylicious  See my bin Laden post as well.
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  23522. @JohnM-sw4sc  Well, I am looking forward to reading Technofeudalism. I think a tiny group is deciding what happens to everyone else, and made-up discord is sapping the energy of people who could have some influence over our society if they only had the opportunity. I hope Varoufakis will have some insights about the structural changes imposed on us.
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  23523.  @bhoovis  You believed these guys. Look up the state's position. See what they said.
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  23524. Please wake up. This is a referendum on COVID.
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  23525. She's unrecognizable as a leftist -- and tenfold for this Tik Tok influencer. Angela Davis was at Fête de l'Humanité this year, and the video is mostly in English. Look that up.
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  23526. As someone pointed out, the impeachment didn't have the Senate votes, either. I guess it was "performative."
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  23527.  @zima3181  🤣
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  23528. Defamation suits are not intended to stifle free speech or deplatform anyone. A plaintiff in California with a judgment in hand couldn't get defamatory reviews on Yelp removed -- no demand for deplatforming, just the proven defamation itself. Defamation suits are designed to prevent falsehoods published maliciously, that can ruin a person's life, from making money for the liar who broadcast them. They are very hard to prove, and should be.
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  23529.  @asnark7115  I don't have to agree with every facet of Batya's analysis to recognize that she holds a principled position. I can easily say that much.
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  23530.  @bigdap100  I would not go that far -- any war that could be avoided must be avoided -- but we can say that there is a LOT more going on in Ukraine that is sinister, and occurring under the auspices of this government, and this president, than we were ever aware. It's like, any rock you pick up, you find an infestation.
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  23531. The reason for this would be . . .
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  23532. 13:33 It is important to know that the Pfizer lobby is continuing to recommend the vaccine even though they DO NOT KNOW how myocarditis is caused by the vaccine when it is.
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  23533. Of course Greta is a psy-op. It was as plain as day from the start. Poor girl.
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  23534. This level of lying is appalling. No, really. Too far beyond The Usual.
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  23535. Most Westerners appear unaware or in denial. If they close their eyes, poof! Asia disappears.
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  23536. @Individual_Lives_Matter  Oh really? Most of the riskiest trading in exotic derivatives and swaps is completely unregulated. It's like granting a license to counterfeit, given that the central banks can and will tap into the money supply in the event of a crisis large enough to cause the entire system to implode. In the meantime, BRICS+ don't seem to be worried about "government intervention." It's how they intend to de-dollarize the world.
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  23537.  @taubevictor8989  "Conservatives usually side with the individual rights of a person?" Wow, where to begin? Have you forgotten that "corporations are people, too?"
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  23538.  @Tentaculat  If you want to hear a real lawyer comment, look up Glenn Greenwald's video. He is very pro-defense, so he won't upset you. I don't agree with every word, but he's great.
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  23539.  @anonymousperson3023  So the jury got wrong instructions, and Todd Sees Dead People. LOL
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  23540.  @dositless9554  I didn't say he should have been convicted. I would not have brought this case. I would never have tried Rittenhouse as a adult, if I had tried him at all. My comments pertain to Grande, of "ivermectin is horse dewormer" fame.
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  23541.  @cglenn1457  Wow, I see why you brought up meds. Reported.
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  23542.  @dositless9554  He shouldn't have been running around with a gun. One of the first lessons in gun safety is to know any firearm may be used against you. So, e.g., be sure a burgler can't get it.
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  23543. Why would there suddenly be a plethora of them in (of all places) Ukraine? Why would the Department of Defense be funding them? The labs and technologies that were arguably a threat date from the time the Soviets fell, and were (supposedly) taken care of in the 90s.
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  23544.  @Technoid_Mutant  Watch the video again, and check the sources yourself for when the American funding for building them was approved. I did.
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  23545. The usual object that would come to mind would be d_ld_. Get it?
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  23546. Smears are backfiring . . . So . . . Are you a false flag?
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  23547.  @lazarusmartinez  Dumb slogans aren't working any more. So you reflexively repeat them anyway? Cool. Your problem, not Isaac's
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  23548. What shocks me is that NYTimes reported this, and mainstream liberal media is burying it. I'm sorry, I didn't expect this.
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  23549.  @pranteranaud3617  Nonsense
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  23550.  @pranteranaud3617  That has nothing to do with the speech of individuals who do not make policy.
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  23551. Right. The breach of contract claims against Harvard were not dismissed.
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  23552. So . . . In an environment where many people don't get necessary care, she demands major, elective surgery. Great job. 😒
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  23553. The wet market and the Magic Instant Vaccine were a test.
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  23554. If a news organization wants to report what US (or UK, etc.) Intelligence has to say, they can write "according to CIA Director ____ , etc." Why endorse what he said? That's not part of the story. It makes more sense to report a denial by someone targetted by the CIA report. That is part of the story.
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  23555. This has literally zero to do with Marxism. This is late-stage finance capitalism run amok. Don't get your political theories from Jordan Peterson and his ilk, lol.
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  23556. Like Uri Avnery was? Like Neve Gordon?
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  23557. This is true. Not only that, but when it comes to significant viral illnesses, the typical pattern for women is to have a less severe illness, but a LONGER period of time to full recovery. Men get sicker, and, at the same level of illness, get well quicker. This is true of flu, of meningitis, of pneumonia, of mononucleosis, of hepatitis . . . and it is NOT NEW. You are absolutely correct. When you combine the biological facts with all the mental stress, gaslighting, forcing vaccines on people who do not need them because they are young and have recovered from a case of COVID, etc., yeah, I'm not surprised that women are having a worse time. Feeling "socially unacceptable" is generally a bigger problem for women, sad to say.
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  23558. ​ @arcaneiconoclast319 😂😂😂😂😂
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  23559. Did they PAY her to read it? Well then why should she read it? What, you think she's a patriot or something? /s
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  23560. It finally dawned on the DNC that all of their crimes and their concentration of power in the presidency have led the country to a precarious place. Where did they think their crimes would lead? Of course to a Trump. Next time, someone worse.
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  23561. What part of ending the COVID Emergency means that people who need money won't get the money? I think it was about money in the first place, and it's about money now, first and foremost.
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  23562. Did you already forget that weapons were passed out to all adult men? I remember how the American press lauded it. Hence, what civilians? Wow, our Western media knows how to play us. The pandemic was Exhibit A. Turns out to have been the appetizer.
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  23563. This is too convoluted. Most of what Trump said was reprehensible, but it is First Amendment protected. Pressuring state officials to dig up some votes, IF HE DID, is a different matter. That is tampering with the vote count. Of course it's illegal. The way he pressured Pence might be illegal.
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  23564. Even the biggest grifter can make a particular argument in good faith. A racist cop doesn't chokehold every black person
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  23565.  @glynemartin  Yes!! Thank you.
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  23566.  @jgalt308  How do you know how he stayed out of jail? How do you think people manage that, hmm? (Gee, couldn't someone from Iran be an in form . . . 🐜 ?)
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  23567.  @eddielee41  "Looks like it," huh? Looks more like he's a provocateur, informant, or grand jury witness. That's what it looks like.
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  23568.  @eddielee41  Or, he could be broke. 🤣🤣🤣
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  23569. ​@adriant240 You missed the irony? Who is president? What is HIS plagiarism record, lol?
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  23570. Ahhhh . . . what to say to this? Are people doing this now??
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  23571. He was devoid of conscience and never ruminated about what he was doing, and didn't see other people as people, but he was aware that they had minds and wills, and spontaneously decided to shun him.
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  23572. There is no problem: the remedy for "bad" protected speech is MORE speech. You cannot censor protected speech. Clearer than they're making it.
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  23573. Go back to Krystal's Radar today, for the reason why no one will solve real problems. Crash 4.0.
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  23574. The dinosaur demonstration was creative. I didn't see that they disrupted anyone's passage, and if not, it was NOTHING like the other examples, especially the last travesty. Anyone who helps him get a uterus for purposes of getting an abortion should face justice. I hope their medical license would be permanently revoked.
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  23575.    Trump never acts like that. The fact that Trump is completely narcissistic and incapable of extending himself for anyone but himself oozes from every pore. When did he ever get mad on anyone else's behalf?
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  23576. I can't believe I laughed.
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  23577. Exactly what Glenn just said should never be supported. Listen closely. Besides, they have immunity.
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  23578.  @thewingedringer  My relatives in Europe can track my commercial flight and see where it is, with software anyone can buy. Is that prohibited here?
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  23579. Your other post was "garbage." Is that what you mean?
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  23580.  @stevenlovett8436  So nicely said.
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  23581. This is exactly what is not known. There is conflicting data on the issue, with frequent updates. It appears that some breakthrough cases are highly contagious. It also appears that a relatively small number of people are highly contagious, i.e., "super spreaders." Vaccination does not eliminate that risk. Exactly how much it lessens it is not clear. Look at the material you get when you go for the vaccine: they tell you you cannot be sure of having strong immunity for more than six months.
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  23582.  Phil Leotardo  The story is that she does care. Is that unbelievable?
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  23583. He agrees with that.
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  23584.  @DeSmith-o4b  Those have nothing to do with this.
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  23585.  @DeSmith-o4b  Have they discussed why 28 U.S.C. § 1361 (Action to compel an officer of the United States to perform his duty) does not apply? That's the basis of jurisdiction.
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  23586. Ha, ha. That Mummy!
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  23587.  @clintonflynn815  LOL
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  23588. SEE Pete Judo on studies with fabricated data. You'll find it.
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  23589. Exactly. It has that Environmental Warriors With Private Jets and Yachts vibe.
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  23590.  @kevinschmidt2210  The richest people here do have the best care in the world.
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  23591. The other 95-98% are dying younger and younger. In my city, the richest people have attained a life expectancy near 90. For the poorest, it is about 62.
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  23592.  @kevinschmidt2210  You may be right.
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  23593. Irrelevant. You cannot use deadly force against someone unless they put an actual person at risk of physical harm. It is illegal to use deadly force in defense of property. If these kids did nothing to put this man at risk of harm to himself, or reasonable fear of harm (not conjecture), then it was illegal for him to shoot them. It's called self-defense for a reason.
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  23594. President Harris? Oh NO.
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  23595.  @tinfoilhomer909  I do. They are taking their minor children in to be vaccinated, and skipping the vaccines known to be beneficial for young people, that have been around for generations.
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  23596. No it doesn't. Civil suits do not have to be based on state statutes.
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  23597. School a Harvard-trained lawyer. You know, she doesn't. 🤣
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  23598. Show us the evidence that it is safe. If it turns out not to be effective, that's not a problem. We should try it anyway, if it's safe, and if there is a decent chance that it will be effective.
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  23599. ​@cabney7726 No, it won't. 90 to 95% of people depend on it. That is why it won't. I agree they'd like to get rid of it. They can't.
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  23600. When a public sector employee speaks on a matter of public concern, their job is usually safe on that score. Is NPR public sector? It does receive public funding. Was he speaking on a matter of public concern? Was his speech disruptive of the workplace? No, even if he wrote a biased article with a cavalier attitude toward accuracy, his speech -- and his job -- are very likely to be First Amendment protected.
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  23601. See Hess v. Indiana for an actual definition.
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  23602. "Russian disinformation" is the biggest lie. Chris Hedges' interview with Leonard Peltier's fantastic lawyer, the best interview done with him, was permanently taken down. TeleSUR, which does broadcast the official Kremlin view, is left alone. Hint: Venezuelan oil. BTW, I support leaving TeleSUR alone. I WANT all views.
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  23603. ​ @horizonsglobalmedia  Not by the feds.
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  23604.  @vforwombat9915  They did not reach that issue.
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  23605.  @vforwombat9915  agreed
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  23606. Two died. You don't even have the numbers straight.
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  23607.  @wiserbud3404 Uh huh. So if someone shoots me, and enough people think I'm a budding criminal, well, good riddance? That sounds about like what I expect.
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  23608.  @wiserbud3404 Two died. Thus, there is a living witness.
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  23609.  @wiserbud3404  I agree. I would never try to stop anyone I believed was an active shooter. First of all, I could be wrong. Second, and more important, it is not my problem. "Sauve qui peut la vie. "
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  23610.  @craigjames4258  They need the money from the pipeline for their war. They are under massive sanctions, which has stymied their weapons purchase, and they don't have to pay those billions in fines if they cannot access the funds because they have already been seized. What do you think contracts are? Magical devices that everyone performs? They are exactly the opposite. The moment one is signed, everyone looks for an advantage. A contract would neither prevent them nor induce them to sabotage the pipeline. They are making an entirely separate calculation. Being half-smart is twice as bad as not smart at all. Greenwald is making sense. Who did this? Only time will tell, let us hope. What Greenwald is presenting is logical based on what is known now. Follow the logic.
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  23611.  @federalreservebrown2507  An Army of One
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  23612.  @danialhillmann5374 If you're talking about Rittenhouse, his home was in Illinois, and he is close to his mother and sisters. So, no, he was not defending his own property or family. But . . . Make stuff up. No worries. It's true if you want it to be.
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  23613.  @danialhillmann5374  Who suggested not? I thought it was a given.
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  23614.  @BillMcGirr  Did anyone inform me you were human?
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  23615.  @idrathergetaidsthangetwoke9145  How do you surrender to a drone? The same way you do to a terrorist -- or is it even harder?
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  23616. @Dog-Faced Pony Soldier Um, YEAH.
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  23617. ​ @dancroitoru364 There are not 7 billion vaccinated people.
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  23618. America is unsafe for anyone with financial assets under $2m and a mortgage.
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  23619. He was credibly accused of having lied about the death toll in nursing homes as a cover. If you tell me New York does not have better politicians than people like Andrew Cuomo, Hillary Clinton, Bloomberg, and Trump, it still seems to me that we are unable to judge whether that is true. If it is, maybe we need to ask what the **** happened?
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  23620. The virtue-signalers always tried to get rid of me the moment they realized that I actually do things. For example, they needed to believe I represented people pro bono in civil rights cases due to "liberal guilt." If I am willing to work for free, I must be a bad person.
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  23621. You could go to the actual websites and see the press releases from that time, or even find pdfs of court documents.
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  23622. @Pan-Britannic Traditionalist Conservative No. Those subject to payroll tax and Medicare tax pay based on what they EARN. Everyone else, not so much.
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  23623. @Pan-Britannic Traditionalist Conservative Absolutely. The major investment banks were being offered annual bonuses sufficient to set their principals and their principals' children up for life, and were screaming, "no, NO!!" but government forced them to take the money. It even forced banks in Germany, Iceland, and lots of other places to trade in exotic derivatives and swaps. They all screamed no, but, alas . . . Same thing happened with LIBOR, the repo market, HSBC money laundering, recent market manipulation, etc., etc. They all keep saying no, the government keeps forcing them.
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  23624. @Pan-Britannic Traditionalist Conservative I don't envy anyone who doesn't speak French. Oh brother, you are so funny.
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  23625. @Pan-Britannic Traditionalist Conservative Only the envious ever bring up envy. Or think the rest of the world looks longingly at money, when what we are really thinking about is . . .
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  23626. @Pan-Britannic Traditionalist Conservative Wanting someone else "to pay for your own mistakes" is "envy," not "greed?" Someone sure has envy on their mind a lot.
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  23627. @Pan-Britannic Traditionalist Conservative HA HA HA Never mind!
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  23628. Good point there.
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  23629.  @SuanLuang  That's true, too. Which of Miller's works is that from?
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  23630. 5:24 Check out Colonel MacGregor's microexpressions. Loved it. 😅
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  23631. The biggest problem is that most people believe that if they were in his position, they would want to do the same, and more. Capitalism corrupts.
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  23632. Glenn Greenwald's brilliant take pointed this out. It may hearten you to hear it. It's up on his YouTube channel.
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  23633. Yes. Four life terms, but with possibility of parole.
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  23634. ​ @josephmathes Yes, please!!! The Continuum Hypothesis!
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  23635. I don't know why I'm having so much trouble with this intuitively. Is this set in one-one correspondence with the power set of N, hence uncountable? At first I thought it would have to be countable, until this occurred to me. Please help!! 😊
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  23636. Bravo for the judge.
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  23637. DON'T
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  23638. I will go out on a limb and say Einstein did NOT have autism.
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  23639.  @daikucoffee5316  Y'mean at your job, where you have to? At your daughter's private school? Wait. Don't tell me. A dancer.
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  23640.  @luckyjordan8139  So . . . 17-year-olds with major firepower need to insert themselves in the unrest? You are crazy.
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  23641. Social Security is not welfare. It is what 90% of people depend on in old age to live. Look at the figures for truly self-funded retirement and health care. The ability to do that is rare.
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  23642. I guess Kamala needs to send them some recipes.
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  23643.  @angelofamillionyears4599  The Supreme Court already has addressed the pardon power. The Constitution is crystal clear on the matter.
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  23644. @angelofamillionyears4599  The Supreme Court doesn't "go after" anybody. It doesn't have any sort of prosecutorial role.
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  23645.  @OGRE_HATES_NERDS  Blocked. Life is better without ogres.
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  23646. 💯
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  23647.  @saaramohamed8921  Wow. Thanks for sharing this. ;/
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  23648. 21:50 This is true, sadly. A new Putin would very likely be as bad as a new Trump --- in other words, worse than the original. There is no reasonable leader who could be a partner in peace waiting in the wings. I do not understand why anyone in the West thinks so. Well, the real players know better.
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  23649.  @CedrickObama  Worthwhile: https://youtu.be/64A7A8QWDNc
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  23650. To any American who is willing to be honest, and who had the usual level of insularity but is open-minded now, it must be a surprise that the non-Western peoples are not on Ukmerica's side. (To be surprised by something, one must first acknowledge it. Honest people have to acknowledge it now.)
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  23651.  @asajayunknown6290  I think U of Chicago is moving ahead of that group, but it requires a higher level of maturity. That's where to go after the Air Force, for example.
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  23652.  @sspbrazil  I can't disagree, TBH. You may have called it perfectly.
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  23653. Oh. So that's who gave the West Hitler.
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  23654. Prove they said that.
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  23655. Immunotherapy, which has always been known to be highly reactive. Many people have a massive remission in metastatic cancer. A few die. But everyone had a poor prognosis, or else would not have been treated with . . . a highly reactive immunotherapy.
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  23656. Well, as it turns out, we still don't know who was responsible for the hospital bombing. Do you think any of these will apologize for their commentary?
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  23657. Do they need to?
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  23658. I didn't think that was sooo bad, but I see your point. I am struck by the fact that so many deeply troubled or neurologically challenged people are emerging as Leaders. The 2020 US presidential election featured two of them, and nearly everyone in the public eye today is as well. What is going on?
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  23659. We need a 9/11 Commission to find out what happened to our checks.
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  23660. 46:41 There certainly was discussion on the French left concerning the COVID measures. The first person I heard push back on firing medical personnel who worked throughout the pandemic, were exposed and recovered, and then declined vaccination was Fabien Gay, the Communist Party leader. Clémentine Autain questioned certain measures, such as vaccine passports, and she usually votes with the PCF. In the end, the left in the National Assembly made it illegal to ask a minor their vaccine status, and after that, no one confronted anyone. The victory of the New Popular Front came as less of a surprise to me than most to people. Had they not taken this stand, they would not have won, I think.
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  23661.  @ryanadams68  Did you confuse me with amanda? 😂 Please don't do that.
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  23662. Japan is about to host the Olympics, but without the public as spectators. Why is their vaccination rate among the lowest in the developed world? It is almost as low as Russia's, though lately they have increased their rate of vaccination.
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  23663. How does Grim know how I live? I put no one at risk.
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  23664. No. They meet with a local police officer, an FBI agent, and a reporter at the entrance of the preserve, then they go into the preserve together.
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  23665.  @gregzimmerman1175  If that is the main path in, and they simply take that path, why not? IF it is.
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  23666.  @gregzimmerman1175  They do now?
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  23667.  @DP-ym4dg  It's shocking to read this, isn't it. Collective guilt? Are those newcomers who put down roots in California usurpers of Mexican land? Are all Europeans in America guilty of mass incarceration? Are all Americans guilty for Guantanamo? Even Michael Ratner? We forget how disturbed some people are, and how they are praised for it in the US (as are drug users, and gurus, and followers of gurus, etc.). No wonder "they" have dropped the most bombs on the rest of humanity, and cannot name the places they've bombed. (But who is "they?" Not a simple question, is it? The ardent bombers and those ignorant of the bombs are not the same.)
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  23668. If you are denouncing your family members, who are not here to defend themselves, under your true name, on this medium, then you are correct that you do need psychological treatment. You'd have to threaten my life to get me to do that. No one could persuade me to do it for cheap approval. Or, say, dirty money.
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  23669.  @jamesbirchfield2195  You mean Jordan Peterson followers approve of denouncing one's deceased family members? I would have thought not, I mean that sincerely. I don't see that in his work. P. S. Go clean your room. Sometimes it fits.
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  23670.  @JordanBPeterson  Honesty? You don't denounce your father or mother or grandparents. Pfft.
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  23671.  @ElenaRoche  You still don't get it. I categorically reject the concept of "collective guilt." This is vague, poorly analyzed, and, for something so serious, completely unacceptable. Moreover, if everyone is guilty, no one is, and the very concept is then wielded like a weapon, with the first to accuse very often in a position of unmerited dominance. That's a stupid game. On second thought, maybe you do get it. You will collect the praise. David Riesman was right. (I always edit for spelling and such. Writing is editing. )
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  23672.  @DP-ym4dg  She was caught in an obvious lie, and was praised. Shows you a lot about the trajectory America is on. This is the rule now.
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  23673.  @ElenaRoche  For example, "Miss Arendt referred to the post-war climate in Germany -- where those personally innocent during the Nazi period all admitted to their "collective guilt" while the real criminals showed no remorse as "the quintessence of moral confusion." The concept of collective guilt, as opposed to individual guilt, is "senseless," Miss Arendt said, and only serves as an effective "whitewash" for guilty individuals to hide behind." (1964) Precisely.
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  23674.  @DP-ym4dg  You're probably right. BTW, I'd like to know your reading list. Not kidding.
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  23675.  @DP-ym4dg  I am so turned off by people who come to America and denounce their families. James Baldwin wrote about that demand, which American society places on immigrants who want to "succeed" (i.e., make money for not doing much). The demand is repugnant, and acceding to it is base. But Americans lap it up. It's part of the culture. No wonder so many people are lost.
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  23676.  @ElenaRoche  You posted it here. People "face painful truths" all the time without posting. I expected you to take it down, frankly, but the up votes of complete strangers who don't wish you well -- not really -- might be more important to you. That's not called facing truth, that's called assimilating for perceived advantage.
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  23677.  @DP-ym4dg  No. ;( Speak French, though.
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  23678.  @ElenaRoche  You could not get me to describe my grandfather as "muttering to himself," and do it online no less, without threatening me with a weapon. For example.
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  23679.  @DP-ym4dg  If you can follow French, Emmanuel Todd recently gave a great conference at Dialogue Franco-Russe. It was an excellent summary of what most Europeans know, and is not generally known in the US.
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  23680.  @ElenaRoche  So, this didn't happen; it's not factual, but an opinion. That would explain the impossible date. But then it's not about "facing painful truths," it's about expressing popular opinions, for pandering purposes perhaps. I believe you. It does sound like opinion styled as fact, like all the phony memoirs that became best sellers. I can't blame anyone for that. I think it's kind-of humorous.
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  23681.  @DP-ym4dg  Baldwin was best in analyzing it, how I miss him! I was living in France when he died there. Have you read, "It's Me, Eddie?" The incomparable BBC documentarian Adam Curtis turned me on to that book, and to the story of Afeni Shakur as well. "It's Me, Eddie," is about as profane as Henry Miller, so it requires a warning, but it's great.
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  23682.  @DP-ym4dg  Oh well! ;( I tried.
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  23683.  @ElenaRoche  I see you put in a little edit. Same nonsense, but by changing a key word it avoids confronting the seminal texts and thinkers on the subject, or proposing real solutions to real problems. Your posts are perfect examples of gish gallops -- where does someone start? By sheer accident, though, they happen to pander to the worst prejudices of the target audience. The irony is rich -- it's you who is deftly avoiding "painful truths." I wonder if any of the people who posted in this thread praising you were called to their senses, and resolved not to be duped in the future, or to denounce deceased family members in public. I hope so, and I bet some did. That's what matters. (You do recognize Hannah Arendt, correct?)
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  23684.  @DP-ym4dg  Find someone to translate Emmanuel Todd for you. Most of what he says you already know, but it's wonderful to hear his theoretical framework, which is unique, and it's nice to know that others are clued in. He did his doctorate at Cambridge, though he is French, and he integrates insights from anthropology and archeology into his analysis.
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  23685.  @ElenaRoche  It's an opinion. No problem. You claim terrible things about your family. No problem. Le champs vous est libre. There was no USSR in 1997, as several posts already pointed out. 1997 was during Clinton's second term, when Russia was being subjected to neoliberal looting. But we can opine about anything we like. No one asked about age. (I'm the one who disapproves of oversharing confidential matters online, remember?)
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  23686.  @ElenaRoche  Anyway, I have better things to do. So long.
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  23687.  @DP-ym4dg  The conference is great, though, at Dialogue Franco-Russe, with current demographic data on the US and Russia. All in one hour. His books are dense. (Well, academic, you know?)
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  23688.  @ElenaRoche  If you need to believe I'm the fantasist (and you need to let everyone know, in this group of strangers), well then you will. You can't pass it up. Rereading your first post, your denunciations of your own family are uglier than I had remembered. That fires up the masses here. Perhaps you should consider speaking to a real person about your issues, rather than relying on a YouTube personality.
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  23689.  @ElenaRoche  You thought I questioned the date not because it is an obvious historical falsehood, but because you look young, and you think someone else has fantasies? I didn't look at you.
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  23690. Russiagate made money. Boom. Done. The media "hated" Trump? They gave him billions in free advertising. In turn, he made them rich.
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  23691. I agree.
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  23692. @drockopotamus1  "Yeah well, I could p*ss in your mother's mouth, if I could stand to be that close to $uch a heavily experienced wh*re. Just the facts, ped0." Do you see any facts or arguments --- or thoughts, or opinions --- in the above-mentioned text? No. There are none. I hope it's reported and removed. I'll be sorry if it's not, despite the legitimate use-mention distinction I've made.
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  23693. @drockopotamus1  Then Peterson can go to the training and expose them.  He has the means to challenge this. He should. Peterson's lawyer can start by demanding that the education he is required to attend be videotaped. If they say no, then audiotape. If they decline again, then taped, transcribed, and edited to protect whatever privacy concerns they claim to have. Let's see what's going on. He has the means to make it happen. Instead of exposing what is going on, and taking a brave free speech stand to help all psychologists, including those who are not millionaires, he's going to whine about being targeted. They can't even affect his income. So what's stopping him from exposing them? You are SOOOO easily DUPED.
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  23694.  @Moraud5386  Try . . . Art. Literature. And candor about the human condition. (Not just money, not just sex. Everything.)
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  23695.  @Moraud5386  Also check LIFE EXPECTANCY.
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  23696.  @Moraud5386  Apparently having to lie all the time and watch your back in order to make a living isn't good for life expectancy.
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  23697. This is worse: RobinHood blocked purchase, not sale -- when only a recommendation that the stock exchange suspend all trading in a stock is the most they can do. To block only purchase is outright fraud. There will be a class-action civil suit no doubt. Let's see what happens.
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  23698. New York is a vastly safer city than Memphis, or Chicago, or Baltimore, St. Louis, . . .
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  23699. Who do you think defeated Hitler? The Red Army, that's who.
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  23700. This kind of labeling can be used to justify any war. When your audience has the knowledge base of an eighth grader and the good sense of a kindergartener, then what you've said makes sense. You don't realize Putin could say the same thing? The US promised not to advance NATO beyond the borders of former East Germany. Putin should have acted sooner. Ukraine would not be suffering now.
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  23701.  @acornflake5074  I saw only Nick being read his rights. As for the other three, I would have told my child not to agree to talk to police at all.
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  23702.  @acornflake5074  Well . . . there is this video out now, with all three of them filmed while they were minors. Did they give permission for this posting? Not something I would advise anyone to do. I'm talking about the innocent ones, of course!
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  23703. Politicians have been playing celebrities for years. And celebrities think they should be crowned President. They have NEVER been more useless. Parasites!!
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  23704. Most people get well from COVID in about four or five days, even at Rogan's age, with no medication.
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  23705. Rogan had about a 5% chance, at most, of death. I'm assuming his age and weight are comorbidities, which could be wrong, in which case his chance of dying was at most 2%. His chance of long COVID, and so forth, was more substantial, but still only a minority develop this.
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  23706.  @johnnyshanksalot8358  Where did I say that? I think Epstein's client lists should be made public, Fauci and Collins should be investigated for federal crimes, and the Clintons as well, for that matter. Say, remember when certain people pretended to be clergy and ended up either stealing money or hurting little kids, and everyone covered for them for a long time, "because Jesus?" Maybe you need to be more objective about standards.
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  23707.  @johnnyshanksalot8358  Also agree about war mongers, btw.
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  23708.  @benjaminhundley9093  I didn't say it was a private company. Nor did I say I didn't like Jordan Peterson. I know I've said those tweets don't even sound like him, and he's doing it constantly now. Suppose this: suppose a prominent doctor starts tweeting slurs and other abuse against the unvaccinated. Have doctors gotten away with it? Yes, and I don't like it. I wouldn't yank their licenses, but would I admonish them publicly and formally? ABSOLUTELY. They should have to answer for it from their board.
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  23709.  @benjaminhundley9093  He has the means to challenge this. He should. His lawyer can start by demanding the education be videotaped. If they say no, then audiotape. If they decline again, then taped, transcribed, and edited to protect privacy. Let's see what's going on. He has the means to make it happen. Is he going to cry instead? I don't think Trudeau has anything to do with this. Don't let that color your view.
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  23710.  @benjaminhundley9093  Vote Trudeau out. Get rid of this WEF creature.
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  23711.  @benjaminhundley9093  You know where Peterson is good? He's said some great stuff about the workplace. When a person is having significant problems at work, it is crucial to identify who bears the responsibility for it. Are you doing less than what people have a right to expect of you, OR are you resented for working harder and better than others (including possibly your boss)? As someone who has done some employment law, I can tell you that this is the absolutely crucial question. You'd be surprised how often people are punished for doing a good job. Or maybe you wouldn't, lol. Not in 2023. He has said some good stuff. BTW, as a rough generalization, in the first case, you can usually deal with it by improving. In the second case, get a new job. It can destroy you if you don't.
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  23712.  @benjaminhundley9093  Then he should go in there fighting. He'll have more support than he thinks. To be honest with you, though, I would not say he's said a lot of good things. Some, for sure. I'll leave it there.
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  23713.  @benjaminhundley9093  J'ai une maitrise de philosophie ancienne de la Sorbonne. Peut-etre que je sais evaluer les philosophes, moi. C'est bien possible . . . Le MacDo est populaire aussi . . . 🤷🤷‍♀️
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  23714. @benjaminhundley9093  Oui, je disais bonjours a tout le monde, comme toute la gauche francaise, c'est-a-dire, la vraie. Non pas comme les gens ici. J'ai du respect pour le travail.
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  23715. @aalvarez2914  All I can say is look at the tweets. This is on a global platform. I know of no professional licensing entity that would be indifferent. I also have no objection to appropriate push back: you do that by attempting to change the rules governing professional ethics. He should go to the training, possibly with his attorney, and ask to record it in some way. If they refuse to videotape it, then audiotape it and provide a redacted transcript, to protect anyone's privacy who wants it protected. Then we can all see what is going on, and those affected by this board can demand changes if they believe it is being unfair. He's rich. He can do this.
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  23716. Anti-BDS laws are most certainly anti-free speech laws.
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  23717. I missed hearing the fact that most of the world believes we are arming a genocide. Are they wrong? Well, you'd need to acknowledge that the view exists, and to present the basis for it, before demonstrating that it is wrong. Wouldn't you?
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  23718. I never knew what camel toe meant. Gee Ana. Thanks.
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  23719. ​@Genie Genie The rate is much higher in young men, a group least likely to need the vaccine. Swine flu vaccine was withdrawn for ONE case of Guillain Barre per 100,000. Myocarditis in young men from this drug is more than five times that rate. How is this all right, when it does not prevent transmission?? What is the reason for it? You are not protecting others. Hence it should be up to you.
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  23720. ​​​ @geniegenie2453  What do you mean by "severe issues?" There is no such thing as "mild" myocarditis. One of the reasons they pushed young people to get vaccinated was to prevent myocarditis. I would not necessarily rush to be vaccinated against a virus with a 1% case fatality rate -- which never materialized over all demographic groups anyway -- especially if I had had it already and recovered. At this point, I live with a 1% risk of death from several things and I never think about it.
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  23721. THAT'S how you judge???
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  23722. ​ @bogdanpopescu1401  Not even close. Yanis Varoufakis explains it best. Technofeudalism Read that, and find out what's really going on.
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  23723. Now that Ana Kasparian has taught us what that word means, please don't use it.
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  23724. We borrow from one of the BRICS to pay for war against another. Let's think this through? 🤔
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  23725. See, e.g., the IDF report. Or Amy Goodman's coverage. Try.
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  23726. @Nanno00  Your power is as soft as your math.
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  23727. @joelbabb4752  Not to mention that they hide money offshore, just like the rest of 'em. The kinds of places that Epstein liked to use as hideaways.
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  23728. Buth militant Orthodox is a weird, nationalistic movement. Culturally, we are just supposed to be good, like Jewish people, and eat vegan for most of Lent. At least that was all that I was told.
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  23729.  @Nickaliiam  Nah. But the three of them have a good dynamic. Better than two.
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  23730. Guess
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  23731. Obviously false. Infant lives matter more than any other, and they don't even know about others' lives. Adults who do not respect the lives of others may still repent. Predatory animals' lives may have value that people with diverse value systems can nevertheless agree on. There's three examples right there.
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  23732. As long as there is a death penalty, factually innocent will be put to death. No system of justice is perfect enough to always get this one right. None.
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  23733.  @mandywhorwal642  Putting an innocent person to death is a mistake that can NEVER be allowed. No one can support it unless they firmly believe it could never happen to them or to someone they love, which is proof that it is radically unethical. (See, e.g., Rawls)
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  23734.  @mandywhorwal642  Not just possible. It has happened.
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  23735.  @mandywhorwal642  Not at all. Death is definitive, permitting no exoneration of a living being, and no opportunity ever to live free. I'm not minimizing prison, but to say the same argument applies to imprisonment is specious. Or, let's agree there isn't a real difference, contrary to my position. Then why have a death penalty at all? Why not err on the side of caution?
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  23736.  @mandywhorwal642  DNA evidence in forensics has existed for nearly 40 YEARS, and has been in common use since the late '90s. We have had wrongful convictions since then, and recently overturned convictions as well. Did you ever see the Frontline documentary The Confessions, involving four innocent U.S. sailors? I suggest you watch that. A convicted person can be factually innocent, and the Supreme Court has said so. The burden of proof has changed (and shifted to him to prove innocence), not the reality. Being pronounced "guilty" is not a magic word that alters the reality of past events.
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  23737.  @mandywhorwal642  I didn't say that was the standard. The standard for conviction is beyond reasonable doubt. That is not an impossible standard. We were talking about punishment, definitive versus giving hope to the factually innocent. Watch that documentary.
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  23738.  @mandywhorwal642  Let's say someone who has committed a murder "deserves to die." How does that give the state the right to execute them? I'm serious. They are singularly inept at determining who is a murderer, and at executing murderers, and have proven themselves inept in both not just sporadically, but systematically. Your question is theoretical. Even if you're right, that has nothing to do with the issue. Why do you think all other developed countries have ended capital punishment? Not because they think someone who, say, tortured a baby to death, or shot some 70 young people in cold blood, should get a "second chance." Nor are they wimps, nor are they stupid. U.K. ended the death penalty after executing the husband of a woman murdered by a serial killer, after that serial killer testified against the husband. That did it for U.K. Watch that documentary on the four sailors, the "Norfolk Four." Then come back.
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  23739.  @mandywhorwal642  Ah. An animal comparison! I see. The only question left is, why did I bother?
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  23740.  @thehumanity0  This was the worst, most vicious ad hominem I've yet to hear. Jimmy needs "a swimming pool?" Well, he was a bricklayer for ten years, then did tuck pointing, and his wife was an English teacher for twenty years. And then they had a medical bankruptcy because their insurance would not pay to treat his rare bone disorder. Katie Halper is right, the viciousness is all about Jimmy's social class. The people who support this venom are afraid not to look rich and successful. They are too insecure to embrace a working class dude's idea, it's not a brand they want to be seen with. That's the game. (You'll notice it doesn't bother the smartest people.)
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  23741. More evidence there is no education at universities. My god.
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  23742. And he asked excellent questions.
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  23743.  @daveblackman816  LOL
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  23744. ​ @wendyingram23 The DNA is in a crime database, linked to three other unsolved cases. They better find that guy, eh? He is a danger to us. Whether he's involved in this case is unknown. Whether her husband killed her is unknown.
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  23745.  @gregpettis1113  Feelings don't care about facts.
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  23746. @butterflysflowers5119 You can read the statement by his attorneys and you can read about the judge in the case seeking to have the prosecutor disbarred. Her license is already suspended. You expect a video admitting previous videos were biased? Lol.
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  23747. Great points! I'm not sure, though, where Wolff gets his historical timeline wrong, because he did not talk very much about WWII. I may have missed it. (Timestamp?) BTW, after watching Adam Curtis's latest documentary, I read Limonov, "It's Me, Eddie." Limonov was a very disturbed and disordered man, but the story of Russian emigres in 1970s and '80s New York, many of whom wanted back in to the Soviet Union but could not go back, is really fascinating. The book is hard to find except in libraries. It is out of print. (Also, a warning: If Henry Miller is not something you can stand to read, this is probably worse.)
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  23748. A philanthropist who, the minute he found out his business partner Paul Allen had cancer, tried to push Allen out of Microsoft. Why doesn't this matter? Why isn't it known? He is the same man who gave up his marriage to hang out with Epstein, and expected Epstein to leverage a Nobel Peace Prize for him. I'm actually surprised it didn't work.
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  23749. Thank you for that.
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  23750. Thank you for the report. Take care and all the best.
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  23751.  @aquarocket8165  Where did you read that? Who are you quoting?
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  23752.  @amiesparkle00  It doesn't prove a thing. It raises a question -- a perfectly rational one.
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  23753.  @amiesparkle00 Well there are lots of questions concerning the integrity of the data. If the data is true, the US has 15 times the death rate Japan has, relative to population. Japan has fewer than 19,000 deaths. In the US, that would be equivalent to 50,000 deaths, not 750,000. I want to know what's going on. That is 700,000 people we are talking about. Why should anyone listen to a government that keeps changing its story? And that has failed spectacularly.
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  23754.  @amiesparkle00  Having the Olympics, even without spectators, was not "severe" border control.
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  23755.  @amiesparkle00  And how do know that's the reason for 700,000 excess deaths? Gosh you're quick with answers. Science deals in questions.
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  23756.  @amiesparkle00  No it has not. Give me a single study, pre-print if not yet peer-reviewed, that scientifically examines these differences and gives an account of them -- not necessarily US and Japan, but one that includes any two larger countries with disparate death rates by orders of magnitude. We are EARLY in the process of understanding this pandemic and how this virus behaves.
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  23757.  @amiesparkle00  Yeah, multivariate regression; and combing the data in the first instance to make sure it's correct before analyzing it, LOL.
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  23758.  @amiesparkle00  Politically-approved talking points don't require math. LOL
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  23759. The purpose of federal spending is to juice the market, and reward friends in general. If that wasn't obvious before the Great Recession, it should have been obvious since.
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  23760. Tesla's hallucinations were very likely due to the atypical migraines that ran in his family, rather than psychosis. Oliver Sacks described how extreme these can be.
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  23761. Briahna did a report on this on her show.
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  23762. Does anyone stay here who doesn't have to stay here? The uberrich all have real estate in other countries and most of their money off shore.
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  23763.  Ricardo Perez  Lie
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  23764. @be12  But why would contractually-protected tenure and Title IX be "bad policies?" That's like saying the Fourth Amendment is "bad policy" because Jeffrey Epstein. It doesn't follow at all. On the contrary, it is pandering.
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  23765.  @bjorntorlarsson  There won't be any.
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  23766.  @ablebaker8664  The indications are that this will be settled.
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  23767. @ablebaker8664  The comparison need not be perfectly congruent. She can make her argument, then Harvard can state it had an independent reason, other than her being female, to act as it did. Harvard's problem is that in the case of procedure, rather than substance, that's hard to do. Substantively, they don't have a problem, imo.
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  23768. @commontater1785  If you read the case, you'll see that so far, Harvard's position has been pretty bad. They tried to claim she has not had tenure removed, she's just on leave with her pay suspended. The judge would have none of it.
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  23769. @IdonttrustyouIreallyreallydont  That is never treated at the motion to dismiss stage. That could be resolved by summary judgment. If it is not, I predict they will settle. There is a simple, intellectually honest course to take here, that involves giving no credence whatsoever to strangers: Read the case. I cannot do it for you.
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  23770. @IdonttrustyouIreallyreallydont  BTW, this case has more twists than you might think. Harvard suddenly changed some fundamental procedures for faculty retention, without going through the usual process to change material contract terms, then removed all tenure-related rights and privileges from Gino, and then had the temerity to represent to the judge that her tenure was not removed. You can imagine how well the judge appreciated that. 😂
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  23771. @RIbigDave  Just the opposite. But you don't see that, because you're not supposed to. Good job. Laws cover everyone equally, from Jeffrey Epstein to Jeffrey Dahmer to this woman. At this rate, the principle won't last. What's really puzzling is your assumption that Harvard is blameless. Or better yet, read the opinion and tell me whether the judge is "defending the indefensible." Or is something else going on, possibly? Something that might be worth your while to understand, something you might need to know about someday, etc.?
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  23772. @Headhunter_212  I'm not sure why you're mentioning this to me, but anyway. It's basically right. In fact, Harvard drastically changed its procedures in midstream. The opinion is fascinating. People should read it to get a feel for how convoluted the "upper echelons" really are. To be fair to the people commenting, many come from a place of simpler morals. That's not what's going on here.
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  23773. Now when there really are babies deprived of incubators, "it doesn't count."
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  23774. ​ @unboxedcharacter Clearly
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  23775. The women aren't. That makes four.
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  23776.  @the3rdMan8  You got me.
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  23777. @loring5784  The theme of Weinstein's entire intervention was to extol "the West." Adolf Hitler was no less a product of Western culture than was Emil Zola. On the other hand, Vasili Arkhipov was not, except in a very broad sense (certainly far broader than Weinstein would allow), and yet he saved the world from a nuclear exchange. The Americans trying to force his submarine to the surface had no problem risking it. They didn't pause for a moment. I think it's time to look at all cultures more dispassionately and quit flattering ourselves.
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  23778.  @ritualcloset  I wasn't trolling you. Go back and read. This guy is just name calling. He has no facts, no argument. They never do.
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  23779.  @brenttesterman3171  Right. The people who call other people names do that because they don't have anything else. They never do --- and so, they substitute invective as a scare tactic.
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  23780. 10:14 Nuland mispronounces Ukrainians
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  23781.  @debbylou5729  Did either of you read it? I'm reading it now.
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  23782.  @katyt7470  So consider: I am not allowed to develop an argument, but tossing off a word like "insipid" without justifying it is fine. What do you think about that? I think we couldn't be in a worse way as far as communication is concerned.
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  23783. @katyt7470   Look, I'm being scents er . . . d again! I can't say names of books. In general, contemporary interpretations of classics risk being appropriated purely for contemporary goals -- especially now, when everything is politicized -- and that of course falsifies the meaning of the work. See what people said about Jane Eyre when it came out. That's what I'm basing my opinion on. I remember misunderstanding Jude the Obscure in a similar way, thinking Hardy ultimately approved of the conventional morality he described, or at least that he saw no way to advance beyond it. Wow, what a mistake. These are both radical works.
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  23784. @katyt7470  I think that's a great interpretation. Very eloquent as well. The notion of a "church of one," and God in direct communication with one's own conscience, is very much an American notion, and is highly anachronistic for England. The God you describe could also be the God of Judaism, Islam, and to a great extent Plato as well, not to mention Antigone. In other words, it is a very abstract idea, and just happens to be Christian (or seem to be Christian) because Jane happened to have been born where she was. You're exactly right, the established church of that time thought it was scandalous, which is a totally different issue. America had no such thing as an established church even then. So in some ways, we can see more in Jane Eyre because of that, not less.
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  23785. On neo-Nazis in eastern Ukraine, see Lev Golinkin in The Nation, circa 2019. That has the advantage of having been written before the pandemic. Articles written before 2020 are usually better sources, for obvious reasons. Stephen F. Cohen, ditto.
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  23786. PCF stood up against vaccine mandates and passports a LONG time ago.
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  23787. 4:07 finally
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  23788. Sworn testimony as to what a person themselves witnessed is not hearsay. If the lawyer is not reporting what his clients are prepared to state under oath before a court or other official proceeding, it may be ignored.
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  23789. Well, I still know pi to 57 decimal places . . . Unvaccinated, of course.
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  23790. "Severe cases" of what? How do you know?
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  23791.  @AndersPuschel  Of course. Her assertion is not absurd because no environmental factors can ever cause retardation. It is absurd because it is completely unfounded.
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  23792.  @entropyvortex2484  All right. If that is a known mechanism, then I am absolutely for a study -- even if that were to mean a study of one, because everyone matters and every child matters. Thanks for the information.
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  23793. My favorite mathematician.
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  23794.  @jellybean6778  It shouldn't be in the product in the first place.
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  23795.  @jellybean6778  This was your logical gotcha? This? Didn't you claim to be a scientist somewhere? Uh oh.
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  23796. Trump is deliberately dealing in ambiguities. Of course it's more likely he meant another wholesale destruction of jobs. That's how this game is played.
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  23797. ​@Probabilityislife Just curious --- why don't you think any earthly government created what you saw, perhaps as an optical illusion? Read up on the history of FBI, CIA psyops, the Church Committee, the Unabomber, and see some documentaries like those the BBC producer Adam Curtis has made.
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  23798. But that has to be proven, not merely alleged. I think that it does apply, if proven.
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  23799. Dr. Campbell, if roughly half of the world's population was infected with an Omicron variant as of June 2022, what are the chances that as of today, end of February 2021, fewer than 90%+ have been exposed to this virus? It seems to me that it will soon be like all the viruses we have all, or nearly all, been exposed to.
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  23800.  @seanm.1813  JUST what I was thinking. You said it better. Make it an independeny post!
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  23801. The Supreme Court is not a trial court.
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  23802.  @builderpj  NO
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  23803. The surprising part is that Mark Townsend took the call. 🤣
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  23804.  @ariel-y-e-m  Greenwald rejected cowriters. That was his contract.
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  23805.  @ariel-y-e-m  Okay, thanks. Glad to know not everyone at that outfit is like Betsy, or Peter Maas!
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  23806. This motion is always brought at the end of the case-in-chief, because the state has the burden of proof on pretty much everything.
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  23807. I think it's wild that we are still hearing the story that government is the enemy, when we have turned ad men into the biggest billionaires in history (Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.), once they figured out a way to marry advertising and surveillance, AND induce us to hand over our data voluntarily. I have to admit it's brilliant . . . But that's who they trust? The fact that corporations took over the government is exactly why we're here, and the mantra is to get out of their way so that they can dominate us even more. Make it make sense indeed.
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  23808. This censorship was all in one direction, so it is sinister for sure. But in general, facts are censored because they are harder to monitor for possible TOS violations, while really vicious trash talking is considered "opinion," so it is allowed to stand. Social media has a built-in bias to dumb everyone down.
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  23809. Know better? Can you be serious?? Who?
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  23810. The three of them is a great dynamic. Without Jimmy, it is dull. But I like to see Jimmy "guesting," rather than hosting.
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  23811. Brilliant research, again, Jimmy!!!
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  23812. 5:09 well, but Sam is not one of the little people
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  23813. I agree with Glenn.
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  23814. Nobody halfway sane has a crush on Micro-Doser. 😂
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  23815. @jeffjwatts  When I had $500k, a house, and no debts whatsoever, I thought that was fine. I didn't grow up in your culture. Not everyone is like that.
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  23816. ​@bigherm70068 Most liver has toxins. Be careful of the origin of the beef liver you eat, and what that animal ate.
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  23817. ​ @planetstarshine6867  Any time before 7 pm is fine, to be done by 7 at the latest. Listen to your body.
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  23818. OF COURSE. Perfect. It also fails to acknowledge that dollars are not a rigid yardstick. It is rational to pick D over C only for someone for whom the marginal value of a million dollars is not extremely large -- a multimillionaire, for example. No one rational who is not already quite rich would ever pick D. (Has no one ever had economics?)
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  23819. I was shown a video that "proves" Putin was a Klaus Schwab protégé. The grainy video cuts away from Schwab's face when his voice makes that assertion. People saw no issue with it. I think you are failing to account for the nature of modern minds.
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  23820. The remarkable fact is that the great fortunes of the past were industrial fortunes. Today, note how many are based on entertainment and the new advertising/surveillance paradigms. In other words, propaganda in its many forms.
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  23821. France was nothing like this under Mitterrand. I find it hard to believe it changed to this degree. VERY hard.
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  23822. Rich people do live in reality: 1. Lobby for lower taxes. 2. US runs deficits, so buy T bonds to finance the deficit. 3. T bonds pay YOU interest, which comes from (other people's) taxes. That's pretty real, huh?
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  23823. ​ @user-pq7jj3vs3e shoot, I hope the good guys won (You do know who that is, right?)
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  23824. Oh boy, try to dissemble the jealousy. That was too blatant.
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  23825. Oh I get it. Whoopie knows this is bad for Joe.
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  23826.  @to8860  The study he cites as being the strongest to date is a meta analysis. By definition, it reviews all the other studies and draws solid conclusions. By definition, that means that people were looking at the issue and getting results, but there weren't enough studies to draw a conclusion.
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  23827.  @Balthorium  It means you can't trust him in general. But it doesn't mean he was wrong about this. Case by case.
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  23828.  @danielch6662  True. And in this excerpt, he's right.
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  23829.  @ivand0007  1. No, I didn't. 2. He may have a lawsuit. Public sector job, friend.
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  23830.  @ivand0007  The employer will need to go to court if he sues them.
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  23831. If she didn't make a false police report, then it is a purely civil matter. Defamation does not result in JAIL in a normal country with free speech.
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  23832.  @annahannah5617   If you're right, the Court sure spilled a lot of ink to no point in its New York Times v. Sullivan opinion, huh?
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  23833.  @annahannah5617  Try reading slowly. Very, very slowly.
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  23834. Either that, or major neglect.
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  23835.  @michelleryan6002  I don't know. It was a long time ago. I learned the details of what happened from her show. People who made contributions to the organization by that name were very likely confused. What you should ask is whether this was turned over to a prosecutor for a careful investigation. Briahna is not a prosecutor, who might arguably be derelict in this case.
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  23836. @spiritunbound9414 Exactly. It should be evident to anyone who can think for themselves that there were provocateurs and false flags at both. How come the manipulation to create divisiveness works so well???
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  23837.  @generalzod7959  Standing alone, it should usually be disregarded as credible evidence. But if an inmate makes such an accusation, it would be negligent of the jail not to secretly record the guy to collect real evidence, considering how inexpensive recording is and how important to capture anything he might say that could harm anyone else.
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  23838.  @danjbundrick  No. Do not listen to Numberphile. Really. Do not.
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  23839. Gosh those politicians have easy jobs, huh?
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  23840. Aaron Mate's comments are genius, right out of the gate.
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  23841. Forcing it on anyone, but ESPECIALLY on CHILDREN, was a crime.
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  23842. Spoken like someone who was paid, or is hoping to be paid.
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  23843. "If you feel like it's likely to be monkey pox . . . "
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  23844.  @sniperjared  You were supposed to say "unicorns" . . . are you prejudiced against unicorns?!
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  23845.  @chrisheist652  Which was perfect.
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  23846.  @michaellowe3665  I have credible knowledge that sentient beings arose through a process of evolution, and that sentience arises in no other way except biologically. Read What Computers Can't Do. This story sounds like some sort of a ruse.
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  23847.  @naasking  No it isn't. All sorts of living things display various characteristics of sentience, not just speech, and that includes pre-linguistic infants. There is no reason to believe that anything like it can exist outside of living things or that non-living things can do more than mimic sentience, as they have been programmed to do.
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  23848.  @michaellowe3665  So we're all biological illiterates, too. Great, just great.
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  23849.  @naasking  Whether there could be such a non-living machine that symbolically represents all of my internal states has nothing to do with sentience. The burden of proof is on you.
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  23850.  @naasking  Is information information about something? Or is there no "something" that the information is about?
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  23851.  @naasking  Is the scroll people once thought God kept, that records every single thought and feeling I ever had, sentient?
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  23852.  @michaellowe3665  I'm saying neither is sentient. My god. This cannot be real, that you cannot put together two clauses of a single sentence, or use basic logic.
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  23853.  @michaellowe3665  I wonder if they are censoring some posts, so that you cannot follow the line of thought? Is that it?
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  23854.  @naasking Well, if you could reproduce literally every biological, biochemical, or biophysical process occurring in me, rather than simply encode it in symbols and embed it in an entirely different physical system, then you would also presumably reproduce sentience as well. No one is arguing that. All the information in a star is not the star. Wishing cannot make it so.
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  23855.  @michaellowe3665  "Where is that nonsense coming from?" The phone call is from within the house. 🤣
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  23856.  @naasking  You're equivocating now. No one said information is not physical. Words are things. They aren't the things they stand for.
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  23857.  @naasking  You're pretending to answer my last post when you have not.
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  23858.  @naasking  Nice job pretending to be the spokesman of Science, with a capital S. A cursory reading of Nature magazine can tell any reasonably scientifically educated lay person that your assertions about quantum teleportation are not at all the object of any scientific consensus. I wouldn't have guessed how great the disagreements about the foundations of information theory actually are. But it was easy to find out. Well, new cool stuff to read.
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  23859.  @naasking  To suggest symbols are not the things of which they are symbols? Er . . . That's a basic scientific contention. Who introduces symbols into the world? They are no more discovered than are human languages. To pretend that a computation and the thing which is the object of that computation are one and the same in the physical realm is so farfetched that it barely merits consideration --- and you announce this as though it were uncontroversial, and in a smug tone. There IS no single, uncontroversial theory of consciousness, but you've somehow mastered it. This is risible. "If you want to truly understand . . . " because obviously I don't want to understand things . . . Just come off it.
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  23860.  @naasking  "The brain as information processor," which in turn is posited as explaining the whole of consciousness, is not uncontroversial, to say the least. I find it interesting that in order to examine consciousness, Penrose starts with the experimental observation that under anesthesia, we become unconscious, and then as we are brought out of anesthesia, our consciousness is restored to us. Any of this other stuff that talks about consciousness being reducible to observable behaviors that include claims about have consciousness, or "uploading" our disembodied consciousness, reminds me of a new version of Skinner, and we all know how that was demolished.
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  23861.  @naasking  "This is magic" isn't an argument. It's a talking point which simply deploys a standard informal fallacy. You cannot come out and call me crazy, that would be too obvious, so just go through some handwaving motions and then say, "this is magic." Worthless comment.
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  23862.  @naasking  What voodoo do I believe in? "Perhaps you should work on you [sic] English" is what you just wrote. 🤣
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  23863.  @naasking  "god of the gaps," "vitalism," "voodoo" . . . Your cliches aren't landing. Reread your advertising class textbook.
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  23864.  @naasking  The way this propaganda works to create a "controversy" and make careers is brilliantly explained in Pierre Vidal-Naquet's Assassins of Memory. It's an all-purpose template, not just for use in the social sciences. I cite Roger Penrose, mathematician and Nobel Prize winner in physics, and you start babbling about voodoo. 🤣
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  23865. 6:27 Penn so deserved this . . .
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  23866.  @danihesslinger7968  People in America thought there were ALL sorts of ways to get AIDS, including mosquitoes, which were referred to as "flying syringes." I sat out the American hysteria. It was great. You get out of this atmosphere, and so many problems go away.
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  23867.  @danihesslinger7968  You tell me why people in America were getting fired from jobs, and children with hemophilia were kicked out of school and lost their friends. For that matter, tell me why people with cancer lose their friends or their spouse now. Or is that something that "never happens?" Or is it "their own fault?"
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  23868.  @danihesslinger7968  Children with hemophilia used to develop AIDS. It was common in the early '80s, so they were discriminated against.
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  23869.  @danihesslinger7968  As a biologist, you must know we have never had a vaccine mandate with a new class of immunotherapy vaccines that have already caused significant problems in certain populations, and appear to give such limited immunity. Should anyone be forced to take a vaccine with significant side effects that may not even provide more than six to nine months of protection? What then? The NYTimes reported today that various countries are rethinking their approach to vaccinating people under 25 or under 30, and certainly teens, who may not benefit sufficiently to take the risk. It is not even evident that all of those who had COVID and made a full recovery need the vaccine, or need both doses. See what the Swiss ministry of health has recommended. Mandates under these conditions (not the 1700s, not troops, not during a war) are unconscionable. Americans never show any flexibility or willingness to consider alternatives. They just go berserk.
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  23870.  @danihesslinger7968  I have all my standard vaccines. I like them. I asked for one they told me I had nearly aged out of, for meningitis. I could have pressed for it. Oh well. Prevnar 13 has some benefit against some forms.
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  23871.  @danihesslinger7968  Germany is doing well. You make good points, but they also prove that we are still in a fluid situation. In the US, guessing wrong either way has high stakes. No one will help you. This must be clear to you from these posts. A society with universal health care and a real safety net for the injuried has it great compared to this.
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  23872. This makes all the difference. There are already lawsuits filed here for medical negligence following an alleged vaccine injury, the propaganda being so thick that people do not want to admit injuries happen. In one complaint, a woman alleged she was sent home from the emergency room three times with a diagnosis of "generalized anxiety." The fourth time she was rushed to the hospital and diagnosed with Guillain-Barre. I will grant you, that side effect is very unusual but not unknown. It is rarer than blood clots or myocarditis. But doctors are supposed to know it can happen. Anyway, the problem was the lack of care. She consented to the vaccine, knowing no drug is perfect. The typical person, non-millionaire, when they need to go to the doctor, will first debate with themselves whether it is necessary and what it will cost. This past May, I got a $4600 bill for an MRI from August 2019 that I was assured would be free. Don't think this is unusual. It is ordinary. The hospital fought the insurer and the final decision came so late because of the pandemic. I have no way to fix this. I can apply for assistance. I'm a lawyer. I worked for a federal court. This is how we live. Too bad so many people lie online. I can appreciate if you are skeptical. All of my living relatives are in Europe now, and they all got vaccinated -- later than here, but without drama or mandates. One older cousin's doctor did a blood count before each shot, and administered it himself. They treated a new technology as ""of course" requiring more caution.
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  23873.  @danihesslinger7968  I haven't been working, but I only want to do civil rights. Federal court was very low pay, but it was one of those rare low-paying "prestigious" jobs. Becoming a lawyer here is easy. It's just a lot of work, really a LOT, but not conceptually or emotionally difficult like medicine, or like the more challenging PhDs. Anyone who wants to can do it, and any Bachelor's degree can serve as pre-law. There is no required program. A music student can go to law school, an elementary school teacher can go to law school. Nurses with Bachelor of Science degrees are highly sought after. They can also take the patent bar once they finish and pass the standard bar. Also, going back to school for law in one's 30s is common. Early 40s as well. People still have time for a 25-year career, i.e., plenty. I wouldn't even recommend longer for most people unless they become a judge. Just heard from a judge I used to work for. Really wonderful person.
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  23874.  @danihesslinger7968  CONGRATULATIONS on your victories! I love these stories!! Yes, we first get a Bachelor's, in any field, which is usually 4 years but can be obtained in anywhere from 3 to 5, or even 6, if people change universities or majors. Then you must take the LSAT -- Law School Admissions Test, which is really an "aptitude" test and surrogate adult IQ test (Americans really believe in IQ). After that, almost everyone who can afford to go to a law school, be it private or public, can find one to admit them. Only the very best schools are hugely selective, and reject many brilliant applicants. Law school is three years, followed by the bar exam, and once you pass the bar, there is no internship requirement. You are a lawyer. Two summer internships are expected but not required. Not doing them usually means serious trouble getting a job later, but has no bearing on licensure. It is also possible to go to summer school both summers and finish in 2 1/2 years, or work after the first year, take night classes, and finish in four years rather than three. Very flexible. (And, quite a few lawyers are not very competent. I bet you guessed that part!) Medicine is much, much tougher.
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  23875.  @danihesslinger7968  By the way, the $4600 bill was in addition to the nearly $900 I had already paid for the radiologist and incidentals.
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  23876.  @danihesslinger7968  No, you were clear! I understood. Interesting that lawyers in the US specialize only after they finish law school. They may concentrate in one area or another, but their subsequent career is what leads to actual specialization. Then, some state bars are very strict about how you label yourself. If you claim "specialization," it could be regarded as overstating your qualifications. Sounds like lawyers start working in their field at a younger age in Germany. That appeals to me. A typical law school graduate here is close to 30 years old and in debt.
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  23877.  @danihesslinger7968  I know it is wonderful, and I'm glad for you. I benefited from this in France as well, for a maitrise, when I wasn't sure about law school yet. This is how it ought to be. I like to hear that someone on this planet is sane. When I was a kid, the college students at the best state universities like Michigan, UC Berkeley, Virginia, Texas, Illinois, Wisconsin could work all summer for minimum wage and afford a full year of tuition and fees. They were different people! Resourceful and full of "proper pride."
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  23878.  @danihesslinger7968  Oh please get some sleep! Thank goodness it's the weekend! If you go back to sleep, you might have a good dream. The best ones come around now.
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  23879.  @danihesslinger7968  Just after midnight here.
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  23880.  @danihesslinger7968  Very cool. I wish I were European, and plan to retire there! I miss it so much.
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  23881.  @danihesslinger7968  All of my closest relatives are in Europe now. I made SUCH a mistake. ;/
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  23882. Except never for drugs or alcohol.
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  23883. Real reason for Jimmy being hate bombed: nothing to do with AOC, etc. Jimmy pointed out the CARES Act was the BIGGEST UPWARD TRANSFER OF WEALTH in human history. It's always about "follow the money."
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  23884. Is it true his mother alerted the school? That was reported. Is it true?
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  23885. La dette aux Etats-Unis est 10 à 11 fois plus grande. Or, les E-U ne sont pas 10 à 11 fois plus grands, et n'ont pas le même système sociale.
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  23886. Oh this was genuinely funny! He's an old _ and wants to see everyone vaccinated as soon as possible so that he doesn't croak. This man used to be president of Harvard.
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  23887. I'm surprised they are serving him highly processed foods that are made to imitate the taste of meat. Have oatmeal with berries and walnuts (and pure cinnamon if you can find it). Lunch is a hummus sandwich with vegetables, and dinner a mushroom lentil soup and a big salad. And find something interesting to do so that you stop thinking about food.
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  23888. ​@billb.7346 And yank his license and fine him and 30 days in prison, too.
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  23889. ​ @eliyahuskoczylas4973 He can say it, but if he tries to do it, I can think of a whole bunch of things that could be done . . .
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  23890.  @williams7576  When there is testimonial evidence in a trial on this issue, from the living? If so, a good reason not to listen to him.
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  23891.  @noellerebekah21  He could have done that with real evidence. But he didn't. You just like his conclusion. Question: If someone says, "let's look at this calmly and logically," does that mean that the rest of what they say is calm and logical? Must be. 😅
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  23892. Okay, I'm doing this in my head real quick: three sheep, two goats, one horse?
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  23893. The issue is who to hold liable. Is it defamation to report on Trump's lawyer's false claims about Dominion voting machines? No. On the other hand, would it be defamation to endorse those false claims? Maybe. (Look up "New York Times malice." It is a term of art, having nothing to do with the colloquial definition of "malice.")
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  23894. Rogan's point is that there are things that you were recently banned for saying, that turned out to be perfectly valid positions. You have to be open to real debate and discussion, and to have the sincerity and humility to admit when you do not know, rather than to browbeat others into submission. The wet market story of COVID origins was pushed, but saying COVID originated in a lab that accepts AMERICAN funding for research was "racist?" And we banned dissent to protect Asians? No, the wet market story disrespected their customs. The lab accident hypothesis was censored to protect Americans.
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  23895. Not what he said. Figures.
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  23896. Ha
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  23897. @MundaSquire  I know about that. I don't dispute that it's possible. As for this author's interview, all I heard was clever burden shifting. She presented no real evidence in this interview, apart from the indisputable fact that there are serious vested interests in not reopening the issue and reexamining the evidence. But that is merely a political point (who's on whose side, and so forth). That does not change the fact that she has the burden of proof here, not those who believe Shakespeare was the playwright of those plays, within the meaning of that term at his time. Modern notions of authorship, copyright, and plagiarism were not current back then. I heard little above the level of gossip here, and as far as her personal "quest for the truth" is concerned, let's say she is no Janet Malcolm.
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  23898. "Participating in society" gives gaslighting a whole new meaning. EDIT: WRONG. Samantha Power topped him with the "Blinken is a Daddy" tweet.
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  23899. Vegetarian gyros over here.
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  23900. I did.
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  23901.  @BarneyBrimlowe  So . . . having a wrought iron door or gate, and a camera, are not options? Subscribing to an alarm monitoring company? Not answering the door to anyone who does not call or text you first? Not answering when you don't expect anyone?
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  23902. His parents named him "Gavin." Whereas Aaron's . . . 😂
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  23903. Not a stunning admission, for anyone paying attention since Clinton.
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  23904. @Michael-qx6fr  Actually, Krystal Ball featured a series of comments from a Columbia student that were elucidating: if a video shows city streets, shops, a subway, and similar scenes, it is OFF campus. The aerial photos of the student demonstrations confirm that.
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  23905. @Techlax43  Did you miss the seder that Jewish students held on the Columbia lawn, which was without a doubt on campus and part of the demonstration?
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  23906. Of course. They pretend to be priests to get access.
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  23907.  @AE-bm4no  So pragmatically, which one will that be for most people?
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  23908. Not his name
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  23909. Ha, ha, ha. Computers can't prove mathematical theorems.
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  23910.  @MelonMafia1  Because there is no infinite time. When WE prove a theorem, it is true of well-defined infinite sets of mathematical objects, in this case, the entire set of positive integers. You don't have to test a single one ever again. You know.
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  23911. What is "severe hospitalization?" A . . . slogan?
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  23912. One word: WATER Of course all the Great Lakes cities will come back (and some small group will cash in big).
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  23913. They keep making statements without empirical evidence whatsoever.
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  23914. The opinion and three dissents run well over 200 pages. Does anyone think Maddow read it? I accept just skimmed. Does anyone think she skimmed all 200+ pages??
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  23915. US domestic manufacturing went up, then back down -- during Trump, and all before COVID, so within three years! Someone analyze what actually happened. Someone better tell the truth for a change.
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  23916. Unless they are French.
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  23917. This case is being misrepresented here and giving rise to a new moral panic. The rapid substitution of one moral panic for another is the story here. The US can't seem to stop itself anymore. Mob mentalities are normal, thinking for yourself is deviant.
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  23918.  @terrencealexander6811  The Mann Act is federal.
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  23919. Not even that! If you learn how to memorize, you can be in cool plays. :/
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  23920. If the world depended on you people to persuade the recalcitrant, your bullying and your ignorance would scare them away from condoms, much less vaccines. You sound mad that you got vaccinated, not like you think it's a good thing. This channel seems to attract people who imitate Trump and Trump's style, but with slightly less putrid politics.
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  23921. That's it. You think you're so great because you're slightly less idiotic than Trump! But who isn't? Low bar. Too funny.
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  23922.  @crcurran  I'm so sorry to hear you're not okay. Maybe there are online support groups available. Also, a lot of free writing courses are available as well, I think. I prefer Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace, an old classic, but it works best for advanced users.
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  23923.  @crcurran  Now that you mention it, I hope by "weed out" you simply meant "fire." You weren't alluding to anything more sinister. Were you?
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  23924.  @crcurran  I didn't assume anything of the sort. My initial assumption was you meant "fired," and nothing more. My second look made me wonder if that assumption was correct. When some people say "weed out," they also mean something akin to "culling the herd."
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  23925.  @crcurran  Questions that have a foundation (and are not merely rhetorical) are not straw man fallicies.
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  23926.  @crcurran  Anyway, if you're not OK, I hope you feel better soon. You do write like you're basically OK, but just a tad overwrought and quick to jump to conclusions about other people. The pandemic has gotten to everyone.
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  23927.  @crcurran  Quoting from above: When some people say "weed out," they also mean something akin to "culling the herd."
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  23928.  @crcurran  It was a question You answered no. Okay. Was it their choice to risk their lives all last year? Was it their choice to contract COVID from their patients? Now they know, that doesn't count. They got paid, what more do they want.
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  23929.  @crcurran  The moment you talk of forcing someone to do something to their bodies under threat of loss of livelihood, during a true global emergency when they worked to help us all, then you better know you're right. But you don't know. You repeat what you hear, from people who you find appealing, which is what you consider most convenient, for you. Who is unintelligent?
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  23930.  @crcurran  I realize that I'm still unclear. The goal is to get everyone vaccinated, correct? Not to weed anyone out? Or . . . ?
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  23931. Wow, what a garden. Respect.
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  23932. What are "arms?" Do they include bullets? All types of bullets? The Second Amendment doesn't mention bullets. Does the Constitution say we can decline vaccination? Does it mention any medical procedures? Can we decline anything a doctor tells us to do, or do what they forbid? Can a state pass a law to incarcerate those who decline vaccinations or ignore doctors' orders in general, or hold them in mental hospitals, "for observation?" Does the Constitution mention cell phones? Are they in the Fourth Amendment or not? How about the trunks and glove compartments of cars? Mentioned anywhere? Birth control? Interracial marriage? The right of a fit, competent, and engaged father to block his child from being given up for adoption if he wants to raise it on his own? Show me where the Constitution mentions that stuff.
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  23933. ​ @Curubita6503 You have never seen discrimination in the workplace? I've seen it in every workplace. Fortunately, many quit and found better jobs. One who was exceptionally skilled did it during a recession. 😊
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  23934. @63HeyNow  Talking to me? I'm supposed to fall into line? Forget last week, nevermind the 20th century? 🤣
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  23935. AOC couldn't just own it, and say she regrets she didn't show up, like any normal person would if they had the poor judgment to miss something they should have made sure to attend.
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  23936. One of your best, Jimmy.
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  23937. In the Arctic?
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  23938. In every other country, the "left" is saying exactly this -- we need alternatives to shutdown, we need to sit down together, we need a plan. Shutdowns are senseless. Here, the DNC destroys small business, throws people out of their homes, and jeers at them. Wow.
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  23939. So true!
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  23940. He'll leave once the fix is in for Hunter.
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  23941. Rotherham took quite long to expose, no?
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  23942. This is the first time I have ever seen the National Lawyer's Guild and the American Conservative Union (and others) file a joint amicus brief in support of a petition for certiorari to the Supreme Court. It was denied.
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  23943.  @sirfranklloyd  Exactly. This result should have served as a clue to study the issue rigorously. If they don't even care about pregnant women, they have no business in healthcare at all. And that they did this with a leaky vaccine that does NOT protect those around you is mind boggling.
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  23944. Prove it.
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  23945. Race is a social construct. According to the Nazis (and a lot of other people of the time), the Jews were a "race." So were Slavs.
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  23946.  @GaryVolts  Exacto
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  23947. Well, The Hill fired the only real lawyer. Amber was wrong as well. The CPF settled a civil rights suit for $41 million. A civil rights suit on these facts will be dismissed outright, UNLESS there was an exoneration.
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  23948.  @cleanup8984  Wanna bet? I'd put money on that. Read the complaint. 😂
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  23949.  @cleanup8984  How is it that you are allowed to post this, amplifying a libel, but when I cite actual court documents showing you are wrong, it goes straight under the shade tree?
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  23950. @cleanup8984  What side? There's someone you think I support, like, for president or something? How quaint.
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  23951. @cleanup8984  So, in your world, a post based on court documents is "misinformation" but a right-wing video based on feelings is truth. Glenn Greenwald just took down the woke right.
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  23952.  AstralDruid  LOL literally, I did
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  23953. This was an outstanding interview, with the focus where it belongs: on ENDING this research.
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  23954. Love Batya. But Kim was the strength and the sizzle of the show. Her dynamic was essential.
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  23955. I appreciate Judith Butler's interventions the most because she always gives voice to the Israeli peace and justice movement as well. Many people do not even know they exist.
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  23956. You expect life to be good, like that quintessential German, Nietzsche?
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  23957. Saying they engage in apologetics for war crimes is shameful. You should be ashamed. BTW, read Ingmar Bergman's autobiography some time. He recounts what happened to some Russian soldiers in WWII who violated his friends. While you're at it, find out what happened to our servicemen who opposed ritual child sex abuse in Afghanistan, by our tribal "allies" there.
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  23958.  @tacitus6384  I didn't call you names. Blocked.
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  23959.  @tacitus6384  So Tacitus doesn't know what "apologist" means. (Or that HE called ME a name, whereas I did no such thing, i.e., engage in base ad hominem.) I'm not shocked, I'm "shocked, shocked!" 🤣
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  23960.  @wokejoke2675  Yup.
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  23961. Plenty. You can see them here.
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  23962. ​ @miketomlin6040 I'm still waiting for Epstein/Maxwell friends to stop directing global vaccine policy and cheering on forever wars.
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  23963. LOL
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  23964. Kim Iversen analyzed the tunnel video and showed why it was senseless to take it as evidence of anything.
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  23965. Except that the Assange story is anti-Trump. I don't agree with a lot of Greenwald's choices, but . . . Why is THIS story being buried by MSM? Pompeo was floating the idea of assassination.
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  23966. Actually, there probably isn't, at least not via the courts.
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  23967. ​ @thewatchfuleye8401  When someone commits treasonous acts against the United States of America.
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  23968.  @heatherweeks7944  because it's beyond absurd
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  23969. Great summary. This "journalist" is clearly not capable of writing what you just tossed off in your spare time.
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  23970. B-word . . . Unmarried parents?
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  23971.  @Draxxuzownzu  I did, too.
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  23972.  @Draxxuzownzu  Okay. You're right about the "culture" part, or lack thereof.
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  23973.  @Draxxuzownzu  I think it was tacky to share the information about the GoFundMe campaign, then. Exactly. Though of course his family would rather have more money. You don't get the picture? Reread my post, past the first line if possible.
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  23974. So . . . Do you know anyone on Medicare? No one can force you to do anything you don't want. You can go to ANY doctor you want, unlike private insurance.
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  23975.  @carleighamazing8294  They don't force vaccinations on people who have Medicare.
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  23976. Amen. I thought this only existed on the Dark Web. This dude makes a living doing this. Insanity.
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  23977. @Little Rhody And that relates to this . . . How?
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  23978. Anyone who campaigned on the platform of M4A should withhold their vote now that Pelosi managed to lose seats. It's called politics.
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  23979. The AP program is purely elective, and designed for earning college credits while still in high school. It is never a required subject for a diploma. It isn't the job of a governor to censor such a program, offered by the College Board, which is a private entity. A governor should just make sure that there really are colleges that accept the AP class, so that the kids who take it and pass it actually get the college credits, as promised. If few or no colleges accept the AP class for credit, then get rid of it. It's bogus. Too bad this is never explained. Hmm . . . I wonder how come? 🤨
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  23980.  @Matt-fl8uy  I agree with this. I also know that until I am vaccinated, I have to get tested more often, AND quarantine pending the result.
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  23981.  @pig5267  He told you why. People who cannot be vaccinated (due to allergies, recent cancer treatment, severe reaction to the first dose, etc.) should not be exposed to you. I accept restrictions until I get the vaccine. I've had COVID tests recently, and quarantined pending results. No other option, I think.
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  23982. Maddow also got $250k in court costs, etc. For not being the news.
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  23983. Speaking of "action" . . . What did you have in mind?
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  23984. The big banks are depending on us. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jul/11/hsbc-us-money-laundering-george-osborne-report
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  23985.  @fe2513  Qualified immunity won't apply -- what officer doesn't know it is wrong to fail to act and to prevent others from acting to save lives?
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  23986. 5.2 trillion seconds is over 161,000 years.
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  23987. When I see this, I am truly furious. And I do not get furious easily. Let's go Brandon for sure.
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  23988.  @GotAbductedOnce  Vaccine hesitancy is higher in Germany, France, Japan, and Russia, listed from lowest hesitancy (about like ours, and possibly turning around due to Delta variant) to highest hesitancy (Russia and Japan have shockingly low rates of vaccination). What's that about? I unsubscribed. I'm not going to contribute to anyone who makes his living like this guy does, by fomenting more divisiveness during a PANDEMIC. This was vile.
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  23989.  @GotAbductedOnce  That is never strictly true for any non-FDA approved medicine. It is only when the in-depth multivariate statistical analysis is complete -- which can and should be fast tracked -- will we have a clear picture of risks and benefits to each demographic. You would not be hesitant to vaccinate a 17-year-old son with an mRNA vaccine, or a daughter with J&J? Then you don't have the facts as they appear at present.
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  23990.  @GotAbductedOnce  Every hesitant person I know has been the victim of a life-altering medical mistake. But then, I don't know the people in this video, or anyone like them. Still, I won't follow the suggestion to hate on them.
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  23991.  @GotAbductedOnce  The way he heaped scorn on these people, then threw in the emotional pull about his kid, was deliberately calculated to get this effect, not to persuade anyone.
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  23992.  @GotAbductedOnce  Compensation for the injured, under the comprehensive program in place for FDA approved vaccines since 1986. It may not matter to you. Full approval sheds much more light on costs and benefits by demographic, and it scrutinizes closely the data you just accept from MSM. (It was Israel that alerted us to myocarditis and endocarditis in young men. Our media reported it as a fluke.) Who do you think the disproportionately unvaccinated are? People like this guy? No. Minorities.
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  23993.  @GotAbductedOnce  https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/health-equity/vaccine-equity.html
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  23994.  @GotAbductedOnce  I support fast track approval. We have the data, we have to do the multivariate analysis. That doesn't have to take six months.
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  23995. Looks like it's Trump all the way down.
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  23996. Goud geob!!!
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  23997.  @tourist1313  Do the math.
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  23998.  @tourist1313  For the record, I see the Bible as poetry, but the people who want to ban all abortions seem to think it's a history book written by God.
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  23999.  @tourist1313  Significant overlap, but no, not a single group.
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  24000.  @nycionx8328  You're right. Thanks.
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  24001.  @orca_radical  Yes, thank you. You're right.
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  24002.  Janet Baker  Just let me say, first, you're right. But I meant, ALL presidents are bellicose. This one did not stand out as being moreso by any stretch, essentially due to laziness. "Average" war mongering, experimenting with new weapons, etc., however, is already a lot. We have the largest military, and the US Department of Defense is the world's largest employer, with bases all over the world.
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  24003. How is this related? This happened only because he defended Aaron Mate. He was right to defend Mate.
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  24004. So one crass joke, for which a person apologizes in writing, is enough to label him a creeper? Psst. No one would ever want to work for you. They would do it because they had no choice.
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  24005. You bet the US and UK are failing, when "wokeness expert" becomes a JOB. 😂
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  24006. Precisely.
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  24007. Parents have a "right" to impair a child's future fertility? This is . . . new.
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  24008.  @juanceron8155  don't torment me
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  24009.  @ZakarieThomas  Yeah, it is!
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  24010. COBRA is more insurance company life support, just like "Affordable" Care Act. Funnel more money into capital markets.
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  24011. They just won't leave the kids alone.
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  24012.  @leonhardtkristensen4093  Not only that, but Biden cleaned his plate today and the cow jumped over the moon. Honest.
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  24013.  @leonhardtkristensen4093  I do! I'm lucky for your brilliance and besides it was my cow.
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  24014.  @leonhardtkristensen4093  Oh my goodness. So it's drugs. Maybe you could call someone? To pick you up?
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  24015. Thanks for that link! Very important point.
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  24016. Get some sober people to drop the nonsense and negotiate an immediate cease-fire. "Fight . . . Whatever happens" means only one thing, more death. Chris Hedges was a war correspondent, listen to him. "Plummeting up a cliff?" "I don't know if no-fly zones will cause a nuclear war?" Insanity.
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  24017.  @snigs5T5  Wrong poster! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Of course I never said any such thing.
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  24018.  @saintsone7877  He's just another sad troll. Don't let them waste your time.
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  24019.  @saintsone7877  I believe Forbes just put a video out on that. Sorry, I am not good at brands, and I know links are shadowed (to be fair, hard to monitor for TOS). The Rasmussen-Heartland poll on attitudes about restrictions on the unvaccinated is eye opening. You know we are close to the endgame now, when people become unhinged. Something like 45% of self-identified Democrats believe the unvaccinated should be in detention facilities or at least house arrest, and over 25% want them to lose custody of their children. Their brains are broken. I thought people were stronger. Notice how no one is asking, "what can we do to persuade people to be vaccinated? What have we been doing wrong?" Much less, "these vaccines become ineffective too quickly. What can we do to find better vaccines?" We don't even know about the risk/benefit profiles of other vaccines, like Sputnik V and the Chinese vaccines, which have no patent protection. Why? Shouldn't we be sharing information? "This is a pandemic!!"
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  24020. ​ @bobbyd6040 Great point.
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  24021. This isn't working.
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  24022. You're right concerning how the DNC is "managing" his reputation now, all of a sudden, when he's not convenient for them, but those who were thinking for themselves before this were not fans at all. None of these guys are "fairly normal tech nerds." Musk has some of the worst racial discrimination lawsuits pending against Tesla, is in serious regulatory trouble over primate torture at Neuralink, is selling utter nonsense by talking about colonies on other planets, and has some strange eugenics beliefs that he is putting into practice. Besides all that, he's creepy. If you got rich during the pandemic on Tesla stock, I understand. If not, then I don't. Don't be a lackey.
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  24023.  @Appleblade  No one called him a racist, or insinuated any such thing. Why do you think so? As long as you look to Heroes to fix what's wrong, you'll get more of the same. Maybe Trump's trading cards aren't as stupid as they seem -- they're just more blatant about what scheme you're buying into, as is that particular carnival barker's usual style. Say. I have an idea. Look up the actual complaints lodged against Tesla and other Musk endeavors. All the documents are published. Read a few, see what you think.
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  24024.  @sn5806  Except that the piece also involves Hunter being friends and business associates with this guy, namely, the guy who was allegedly involved in corrupt arms dealings.
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  24025.  @Trickboy36  You're right. :)
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  24026.  @WestLightz  What? You mean insisting on fairness is a Peterson move? No, guilt by analogy like you just did is Peterson all the way.
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  24027.  @youtubeisawebsite7484  That the program was an in-depth examination of the First Amendment and free speech in general, not simply as a legal matter but also culturally. Impeachment was not the issue they were addressing. It was a sidebar.
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  24028. ​ @hammervproductions You have not read the statute. You're just repeating something someone told you to say.
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  24029. Why does Hillary have to keep reminding us what a sociopathic reprobate she is? I want to scream "WE KNOW!!!"
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  24030. Amber was wrong. Yes they were exonerated, and they settled a civil rights suit for $41 million. You could not bring a civil rights suit in New York without being exonerated first. A vacated verdict was insufficient. Read the Complaint. All the salient facts are there. No reason to believe any of these three read it. They're just commenting to stir controversy, and you're supposed to take sides in their fact-free drama.
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  24031.  @netviz8673  Exactly. At 24, you have about two decades to be young, and another two to be middle-aged. This show will close soon enough. Why push it?
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  24032. @netviz8673  And any career you achieve by age 40, count on doing for three decades. For real.
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  24033.  @LH74  Humble himself? What if they abused him? And to do that for money and a room?? I've never heard worse advice.
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  24034. 💯
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  24035. @lauraschroeder8177  Exactly
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  24036. Yet Havel supported the indefensible bombing of former Yugoslavia with depleted uranium. Even cities and regions with anti-Milosevic governments in place -- and put in place by people who took a real risk. When push comes to shove, you find out that every politician is just a politician .
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  24037. Why was I censored? Twice? Only one view of Havel allowed by our Monitors?
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  24038. Yet Havel supported the indefensible bombing of former Yugoslavia with depleted uranium. Even cities and regions with anti-Milosevic governments in place -- and put in place by people who took a real risk. When push comes to shove, you find out that every politician is just a politician .
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  24039.  @MrNiaman  Are you allowed to see it?
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  24040.  @MrNiaman  Scents erred . . . despicable
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  24041.  @MrNiaman  And you sound like AI
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  24042. @MrNiaman  Oh I see. Censorship is fine if it serves you. Your text does appear AI-assisted, certainly. It is quite typical of such texts. If, however, it is not, then there's no need to lash out. Is there? 😉 This is our brave new world . . . (a line from Shakespeare, borrowed by Huxley. I read. How crazy is that?)
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  24043. @MrNiaman  Who suggested it was your video? I never thought that, much less suggested it. (Nor do I imagine that you are participating in censorship. It just happens to be convenient for you this time. You'll see how you'll like it sometime when it isn't.) And you need to hone your crazy-recognition skills. They're really, really poor.
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  24044.  @MrNiaman  Now you really sound like AI. 😂😂😂
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  24045. @MrNiaman  That's just it. YOU do, so you think someone else "must be" worse.
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  24046.  @MrNiaman  Blocked from my feed, btw.
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  24047.  @Trying858  I agree with this. MSM is obviously not telling the truth. It never reported Iraq truthfully, much less this war. Yet I don't find Ritter highly credible, either. Simply because MSM is worthless does not mean Ritter is a reliable authority. The one thing about Ritter is that he does not have any economic incentive to lie or prevaricate, which is not a small thing.
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  24048.  @babaluto  Agreed
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  24049. Where did you hear her support taking away guns? She just said she has one.
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  24050. Never accept that on its face. That claim has the burden of proof.
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  24051. You know, Auckland home prices are about comparable to Los Angeles, adjusting for the value of a New Zealand dollar. I don't know what its PPP is, so that's what really matters. LA food prices are not bad at all.
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  24052. No kidding. You think that makes Musk good? As for the Dems, they are knee-deep in these stocks . . .
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  24053. The central "hate speech" case, RAV v. City of St. Paul, took place in Minnesota, and invalidated a "hate speech" ordinance. You would think the governor of Minnesota would have heard of it.
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  24054.  @rayman9983  Because this was not disculpatory in the least -- if true. It's Hunter Biden's claim that he was passed out in a room with a Russian escort. Whichever way you cut it, it's bad. Just how big of a risk to national security is this man? Does he have access to sway policy?? This is staring you in the face. Lord.
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  24055.  @rayman9983  It warrants a real investigation. I still don't get why anyone would think that passing out in hotels in the presence of potential spies is somehow less bad than not passing out in hotels in the presence of potential spies. I'm baffled, I admit it. Maybe I haven't kept up with falling standards?
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  24056. The investor class cleaned up. Some fortunes tripled.
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  24057. I don't think this has been proven, but it does make more sense as a hypothesis than to believe the pandemic has an innocent explanation. The official narrative is clearly false, and deliberately so.
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  24058.  @antonioj123  Her point is that they can't know, and she explains why. It's a lot like the panopticon: of course you are not being watched all the time, but you don't know when you are and aren't. That they tried and failed to prefilter documents once does not mean they won't try again harder. It might mean they will -- it shows they are willing to try, or at least that some with access are willing.
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  24059.  @antonioj123  Well, as far as his being in the weeds, you're right, but the buck does stop with him.
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  24060. Don't worry. She lied about the law -- thank goodness.
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  24061. @ghhm2705  I do know about the Minnesota law. These are cases where either there is extreme abuse, such as child abandonment, OR where parents divorce and are at odds about what to do about their child. It's almost always the latter. It's almost always a parent who demands this. I agree that in such cases, either parent should have veto power over puberty blockers, and other powerful drugs for that matter. It is true that the Minnesota law will support the parent "seeking treatment." That's no surprise. The laws usually have. I agree this is different.
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  24062. In some people, it seems to decrease the risk, and in others, it appears to cause cognitive issues. Guess what? They can't predict who will be in each group. See Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic. This is the usual pattern: a new drug is actually beneficial to a small, small minority of people -- and even for them, it's that the benefits clearly outweigh the harm (not that there is no harm). But to profit, the drug has to be prescribed to a lot more people. And here we are. :/
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  24063.  @jillyjoan8416  I am so sorry. I hate to hear this at any time, but especially when there is a nasty upper respiratory virus going around. I hope she is going to get some fresh air, good food, and rest on Sunday. This is not good. And at 19, people think they are immortal.
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  24064. So, three generations of sanctions has still not defeated the revolution?
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  24065. I have no problem saying I'm cis, if it's relevant. I can't imagine how it might come up, that it should be necessary, but if it ever does, I'll specify that I'm cis. What I don't like is PRESCRIBED speech. I'll say cis if and when it is appropriate, no problem. No one can impose it on me.
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  24066. @egobrain6826  Never say always. Just kidding. I'm not dead yet, so I guess it could happen.
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  24067.  @tropicalpalmtree  So, these kids are so fragile and so maleable that one teacher can do this to them? Okay. Tell me the truth. Is everyone on drugs?
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  24068.  @tropicalpalmtree  Have you ever read a book on free speech? I recommend Nadine Strossen's. The premise of her book is that "hate" speech should be met with free speech, not censorship.
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  24069.  @tropicalpalmtree  The different situation is the fragility you describe. If that is true, then I am serious when I say you need to figure out how that came about and how to cure it. Firing this teacher is a drop in the bucket, then.
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  24070.  @mordrid7904  Where did you find the information that the teacher recorded the student, and posted it? That wasn't stated in this video. That sounds like it would violate FERPA, and certainly violates the spirit of FERPA.
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  24071.  @quentinfairchild2263  He doesn't say she posted it. It says "on our Zoom." That is supposed to be a controlled access platform, only for students with the credentials/link and password to enter that class. Supposed to be. If his privacy was violated, I consider that a much bigger deal.
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  24072.  @mordrid7904  Correct. It does not say how it escaped the Zoom platform. Only people with credentials are supposed to be able to watch. If she released it, that's a bigger deal.
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  24073.  @johnporkthe3rd51  Not yet, though I will as more real information becomes available about the benefits and possible risks. Why?
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  24074.  @jimmyvila4443  If she doesn't get hired to teach, she will probably get a better paying and safer job. Best for all concerned.
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  24075. Go through all the possibilities, yes!
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  24076.  @loiskopf6162  True, but this is all political fakery and image tending. If he can make people think he is doing something . . . And make it look like DNC is to blame . . . That is the game. No one has been saving the day at any point.
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  24077. There are no stores like that in Chicago.
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  24078. The real points: Sanctions did not destroy the economy and topple Putin. (In fact, the BRICS expanded, a surprise to me, and not in a good way.) American media reports on other American media. What someone tweeted is more important than geopolitics and world events. (What did it take to put together this segment?) Americans interject race everywhere. Emma claims Tucker praises Moscow because of its "homogeneity." Russia has not been homogeneous since the 12th century. (NATO is homogeneous in that respect. By comparison, look who the BRICS+ are.)
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  24079. ​ @neil2444  In America, I am sense oared if I point out that the sank shuns did not work, and that media now reports on other media and calls it journalism. I had a nice reply for you that went poof.
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  24080. ​ P0wFish  Eurasian
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  24081. ​ @neil2444  My post about sank [I need to space this out] shuns not having the intended effect Keeps dis . . . appearing. That's the story, not shopping carts.
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  24082.  P0wFish  It is a cultural blend. Most Russians have Asian ancestry.
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  24083.  P0wFish  Pakistan is in Asia.
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  24084.  @shade38211  More.
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  24085.  @KAT-dg6el  I ate super, super well during COVID, for obvious reasons. (What else do you do during a pandemic?) Stress, isolation, inactivity, and altered sleep will do that. I don't use food to comfort myself, but if I did, how would I have resisted?
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  24086.  @jamesroberts-manning2444  Slavery didn't happen in just one high school district.
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  24087. I remember that the NYTimes reported that after the first plane hit the first Twin Tower, someone in the second building announced that everyone should remain in their offices, and that everything was fine. How did Tucker slip BLM into this observation? Or the latest mass hysteria, akin to various Great Awakenings that are endemic here?
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  24088.  @victorseger6044  Yup. "Context" reminded me of Amber Heard's expert witness psychologist. Stupid buzzwords in the place of thought.
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  24089. @Ndisikasewe  What I found disgusting and shocking was that a woman who is supposed to be an eminent legal scholar --- who clerked for Justice Ginsberg --- cannot explain the First Amendment. Or distinguish between what is a full First Amendment forum on campus and what isn't. Or show concern for the rights of ALL students. At a state school, at a demonstration on the quad, students have a right to chant "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free." What they can't do is target Jewish students and show up with that stuff at their dorm or cafeteria. That's harassment. That could get them expelled. This was crystal clear when I was in school. Why are you so quick to give up more rights? You know the Fourth Amendment has been trashed, correct? You fell for that little Stefanik's act, who was fundraising? You think she's all worried about Jewish kids? You think Jewish kids aren't demonstrating for a cease fire, too, and chanting, too? Wow, are you easy to manipulate. I wish I were evil, it's clearly the way to make bank.
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  24090. @F_YT2023  You're 💯 right --- but that applies to you, too.
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  24091. @yolandabrinkman2653  Where has anyone been inciting affluent, pampered students of the world's most expensive, selective universities to commit genocide? Show me one such incident. Does any place around Harvard look like Gaza to you? You must know this is the tactic they used to lie to you about a recent pan demic, I dare not say more. You still don't spot it? Just change the outrage p**n and it all looks new to you?
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  24092.  @F_YT2023  This thread must be sense oared. Because I explained it adequately already.
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  24093.  @yolandabrinkman2653  Show me where anyone condoned incitement to commit genocide on any college campus. One example. Greenwald has been calling for examples. No one has managed to give him one so far.
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  24094. Yup, sense er sheep. All over the place. Bravo, I guess words are violence, especially when overly logical and not bowing to the cause/hysteria du jour.
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  24095.  @F_YT2023  Advertising has groomed you.
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  24096. But you, um, work.
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  24097. Trump himself tweeted "Free Michigan!" etc., while openly armed people were inside Michigan's capitol. At the same time, the FBI under HIS watch was provoking a serious crime. But Trump's fans don't notice. Explain.
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  24098. That's why Assange is still in prison, though there is literally no case against him except for jumping bail in a case that evaporated.
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  24099. ​​ @andrewblue146  Yes, thank you. And the federal Mann Act for crossing state lines for this purpose is 18. The most common age of consent is 16, but some surprising places, like Florida and California, set it at 18. New York and Illinois are 17. Do some states set it at 15? I'm too lazy to look. I think 15 is common in Europe (the logic being, two full years after average age of puberty).
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  24100. 2024? Are you kidding? Kamala Harris will be in, if the Clintons are still in control.
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  24101. That's not how laws work. Cyberbullying (and worse) the peaceful pro-Palestinian students: a lot of people consider that to be just dandy.
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  24102. Doesn't this sound like dystopian fiction? That wouldn't be popular as dystopian fiction, too weird?
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  24103. Just watched Max's interview of Mattias Desmet again, on Rokfin. I plan to watch it again every few weeks to remind myself.
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  24104. That's the message that makes money. Money is truth, haven't you heard?
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  24105. In police encounters involving domestic abuse, teach your daughters to say, "I feel unsafe." First, get safe. Right or wrong can be sorted out later.
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  24106.  @doomguy510  You (regardless of gender) DO NOT make confessions to the police. Brian Laundrie certainly knew how to assert his right to remain silent. Didn't he?
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  24107.  @doomguy510  Exactly, she was sincere, naive, and without a trace of guile. Since when do you tell armed officers that you have OCD, that you slapped someone (which neither the officers, nor the 911 CALLER, witnessed), and so forth? That is naive. Consult any lessons you like, produced by attorneys, including some who have been police prior to taking up a legal career, on what to do during a police encounter.
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  24108.  @doomguy510  My advice is not gendered at all.
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  24109.  @doomguy510  You suggested Elizabeth take her medication, or some such, when you are blowing a fuse. DARVO
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  24110.  @doomguy510  "Women are strong and don't need no man yadda yadda." Who said that? I didn't. If you keep hearing voices and cannot determine their source, please consult a physician. Doctors, like police officers, can be men or women. You're aware of this, correct?
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  24111.  @doomguy510  Exactly. They are more likely to be docile and apologetic when confronted with authority figures. Watch the police cam, compare Gabby and Brian.
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  24112.  @doomguy510  I read what you wrote in response to Elizabeth. I read words. I have no idea whether you are people.
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  24113.  @SaraLuna1993  I know that. That's why I defend her. My advice still stands. Brian was cagey in his interactions with law enforcement, Gabby was completely without guile. But if you affirmatively take the "blame," you WILL have a problem. The police are less likely to do what needs to be done to keep you safe. They separated the couple for the night. That's what usually happens. They didn't have enough to go on to take him into custody, or to take her in for questioning by an officer trained in social work.
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  24114.  @SaraLuna1993  After she took the blame, and police observed marks on him but not on her, they may have jumped to the conclusion that the witness who called was mistaken. This is why you must be trained to say to police, "I feel unsafe." No admissions, no long, drawn out explanations, no stories where you are sure to leave out details because you are upset. "I feel unsafe." Then you will get help.
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  24115.  @doomguy510  Let me see if I understand: There are cases of domestic violence -- many, in fact -- in which women abuse and injure men, or their own children. Therefore, Gabby isn't dead. Most important of all, fail to see Gabby as an individual. See her as a symbol of something you don't like. BTW, was that Gabby's van? So, . . . how does the Boy get to keep the Girl's car? (Um, stereotyping, maybe?)
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  24116.  @doomguy510  What facts? That Gabby isn't a homicide victim?
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  24117.  @renaehenderson9625  In the meantime, women should not cover up for them. "I feel unsafe." Everything else can be sorted out later.
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  24118.  @doomguy510  So she wasn't missing? She wasn't the owner of the van Laundrie drove home? At the very least, she wasn't left without her transportantion and living quarters far from home in an unfamiliar area? All before we find out, surprise, she was killed? In the US, a spouse is legally next of kin and can make medical decisions for an incapacitated person. You should never have that role for anyone.
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  24119.  @renaehenderson9625  FIRST GET YOURSELF SAFE. And NEVER confess wrongdoing to a police officer. When necessary, you make your well-thought-out admissions in a court, under oath, with legal counsel present. We don't need new funding or lengthy therapy to get this message out. We just need a little more common sense than you see in America these days.
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  24120.  @renaehenderson9625  What are the chances that either Brian Laundrie's parents, or teachers, or both, conveyed that lesson to him, more than once? Note that he is in his early twenties. The chances are essentially 100%. But anyway, I give up. There is a reason why this keeps happening, and I know I'M not part of the problem.
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  24121.  @renaehenderson9625  Suppose one of them rejected the lesson, and you find yourself through no fault of your own in physical or psychological danger from him. What should you do then? What's the very top priority here?
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  24122.  @renaehenderson9625  It sounds like they are willing to cover for their son now, and law enforcement took no steps to prevent him from leaving, when the fact that he had the property (the van) of a missing owner was enough to call him in for questioning and to set up surveillance at the house if he declined. You think that means he wasn't taught that abusing anyone can land a person in jail, or that they hinted in advance that they would back him up if he ever abused his girlfriend? Because everyone wants to be infamous and take out a second mortgage to pay lawyers.
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  24123.  @renaehenderson9625  What I don't understand is why you think I don't agree. Given that we know males have a propensity to behave in this way, and we've been unsuccessful at stopping them up until now (look how many times THIS story repeats itself), the FIRST priority is to get to safety. Always. You have to be alive to be an agent for social change. I think you're just mad that I pointed it out before you did. NEVER make inculpatory statements to police. TELL them you feel unsafe. Get THAT on the police cam.
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  24124. "White voters," Ryan? The first person who brought this up to me was black. They are worried about their little girl!
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  24125. Let's say the kid has a behavioral problem --- and by the way, Jessica said he was too young to be a "racist," he's a just a kid. Isn't getting a rise out of the school exactly what a bratty kid would want? Go lowkey and send him home to wash his face. Say nothing more about it. Overreacting is the worst thing the school could do. Ignoring him would have been less bad. This is ridiculous.
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  24126.  @kurtisgibbs6698  Of course.
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  24127. Police had no probable cause to arrest him for the murders at that point. That was why they pressed for a confession. If he had remained silent, either they would have had to develop enough evidence to arrest him, or they would have had to let him go.
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  24128. Vous n'êtes pas d'accord, c'est tout.
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  24129. Wow, just wow.
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  24130. Guys, don't amplify TYT obscenity. We know what they are. Their victims do not deserve this. It should all be buried. You do not have to show what pigs they are. Everyone knows, by now.
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  24131. It better.
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  24132.  @rusted8157  LOOK WHO'S TALKING. Are you all alike? This was entirely nonresponsive to my post. Could you be a reverse-psychology Trump supporter? Because you sound enough like one, with your drive-by taunts, to be one.
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  24133.  @rusted8157  A whole hour, and you've only called me a loser. Weren't you supposed to bring up Russian bots by now?
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  24134. But this NYT policy makes it impossible to report international news accurately. The ICJ ruling and its reception is news.
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  24135. Won't take 80 years.
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  24136.  @-Thunder  Yeah, because people on Medicare have the government controling their doctors. But younger people have nothing to fear from insurance companies and employers.
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  24137. In other interviews she said she spoke with the FBI and they asked her not to address certain issues.
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  24138. Sarkar was born in London. Why were your ancestors in her country?
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  24139. ​ @InfoForYou8  She thinks it can make her rich. Keep it simple.
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  24140. Teach your own kid. What gives you the right to a free education for your kid, on your terms? Don't tell me "taxes," you oppose taxes, don't you?
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  24141. What makes me the most sick is what happened to the kids, teens, and young adults.
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  24142. That's because no one teaches objective laws and why they were passed. Anyone can inflict invidious racism on anyone else -- blacks on whites, Asians on blacks, any combination you can imagine. Structural racism is a different matter. This country has a history of structural racism, which has been stamped out in the legal system but persists in some places as a custom or practice. Sometimes you do see it pop up, such as in the Stanford r_pe case, and you saw the predictable outcome -- outrage. But know that many cases that are never in the public eye do come up and people get away with it. I don't think a person who isn't trained in history and law can teach this well. The high school teacher who can is very unusual. Glenn Greenwald, With Liberty and Justice for Some is a great read. So is Carl Elliott, The Occasional Human Sacrifice. (Did you know that one of the main whistle blowers in the Tuskegee experiment was a conservative Republican?)
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  24143. @duke3346  Did you see the study that showed ChatGPT was starting to make serious errors in relatively simple math problems, and refusing to show its work? Not a joke, this happened.
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  24144.  @yvetteverwey2283  Harvard Law roughly 15 to 20 years ago, when they still had free speech. I'd take her word over a programmer's who has never read a case or a trial transcript.
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  24145.  @duke3346  Did you understand my comment about AI errors in basic stuff? Know why it happens? Hint: if most Americans think 0 ÷ 0 = 1, then so does Chat G P T.
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  24146.  @duke3346  If everyone keeps attacking her concerning race, what will AI "learn?" Too bad most of Eric Sadin's work isn't translated.
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  24147. @duke3346  Where did YOU find evidence AI wrote literature theses indistinguishable from those by written people? Everywhere I looked claims it's an urban legend.
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  24148.  @SmallSpoonBrigade  This is true. A lot of people from the southern rim of Europe and the East Mediterranean still don't come across as "lily white" to a lot of Americans. I still remember my friend's neighbor fuming that a Greek family had just moved into the neighborhood. This was not just "ethnic" animosity. People seize upon strange things and see them as racial differences.
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  24149.  @charlespeterson348  THIS, LOL. I used to say beige, but that has no humor in it whatsoever.
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  24150. False. Grossman is board certified. She could not maintain her certification if she supported such a thing.
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  24151. ​@TheMarsCydonia LIAR. You are conflating "conversion therapy" involving the attempt to force a person to change their sexual orientation, with therapy aimed at encouraging children and adolescents to accept the body into which they were born, whether that be male, female, or, in rare instances, intersex. If a person hates their body, supporting them in loving their body is not conversion therapy. They aren't trying to convert them from something they naturally are (such as gay, lesbian, bisexual), but looking for ways to help them accept their biological body. When that proves impossible, then you consider more invasive therapies. I'm so glad trans is mostly an affluent white problem. One less thing foisted on people of color, whew!​
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  24152.  @88wildcat  Good observation. I must have been optimistic to have forgotten that part.
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  24153. The suit was concluded.
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  24154. That is what Ana tried to do to Jimmy: get him to shut up, or get him to lose his platform or audience. IOW, stop being the commentator he is, or not be one with a show.
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  24155.  @mp5249  South Side in the house! LOL Yeah, Dore is a pussycat by comparison.
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  24156.  @professorpancakes6545  We can tell you never watch.
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  24157. Why not a spiritualist dingbat rather than an eminent environmental lawyer? Of course. The US is a joke, FBI, CIA, DHS, DOD, Silicon Valley and Wall Street run it, anyway.
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  24158.  @isabeljimenez6067  This is a defamation case. It's about whether the article Heard wrote is First Amendment-protected or whether Heard can be punished for it by having her assets seized and turned over to Depp. Defamation is about free speech, not about who was worse. Domestic abuse cases belong in family court or criminal court, or some other venue. The bigger issue is that one mob after another is being unleashed, and few people seem to see it. That's the larger issue, not just "MeToo," but what all of this, including "MeToo," is a part of. There's no rhyme or reason to who is being pulled down next.
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  24159.  @isabeljimenez6067  That's the point. They are both subject to the New York TImes malice standard, which means it will be nearly impossible for Depp to prevail on his claim. Same for Heard on her counterclaim, but she didn't initiate proceedings, he did.
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  24160. It's not the perfidy that surprises me --- I know they are closet Nazis. It's the stupidity. They don't have to know anything except how to get the moneybag out of the range of the camera.
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  24161. Humane???? No, strategic. Only that.
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  24162. ​ @arturferrao7353  Seriously? We've all seen it. And links result in shadowed posts.
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  24163.  @arturferrao7353  You mean you didn't see it on infinite loop on the legacy media last October? My, my. You are losing your touch. You're supposed to complain that it was played too often.
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  24164.  @arturferrao7353  That Israel has killed their own? Where did I deny that? We know that has occurred as well, without a doubt. In some cases, it's not clear it was an accident.
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  24165. @arturferrao7353  Just saw the kidnapping again. She was taken away by Hamas on October 7 on a motorcycle, as she was reaching out and shouting to her boyfriend.
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  24166. @arturferrao7353  Your problem with me is that I am refusing to take sides the way you want me to, and hence you have no traction for any honest, even-handed observer. Israeli atrocities justify October 7? In what universe? No. The far worse treatment of Palestinians in Israeli custody, and even crimes against them, justify October 7? No.
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  24167. @gerardkelsh1011  At this point, it looks like journalists trying to cover the war and aid workers trying to feed children are in greater danger than the hostages held by Hamas.
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  24168.  @Uno.Numero  Glad to know so few people support civil liberties anymore . . . NOT. Lack of realism about forcing people underground is cool as well . . . NOT.
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  24169. @kalijasin  That's the Treason statute. Give me a break. If it were treason, NO ONE could be a dual national.
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  24170. @utah_koidragon7117  I actually don't think you can single out office holding as the one thing a person gives up, or at least not very easily. There has to be something that anyone who embarks upon gaining a second nationality has to give up, and has to know in advance before they apply for a second country's citizenship, that isn't ad hoc. The reason is that it's not automatically evident what level of scrutiny (strict scrutiny or lower) the Supreme Court would apply to the law if it were challenged. I'm not saying it can't be done. It's harder than it looks. The strong presumption is against such laws. As for a president having to be a natural born citizen, that is an express constitutional requirement, and has been interpreted not to exclude people like John McCain (good call, imo). My point is that not even that law is crystal clear on its face. Is someone who was born in Alaska or Hawaii in 1958 excluded? (There may be some statute on that, I don't know.) In any case, the Constitution says nothing about a president not being allowed to have two nationalities. (I bet the Founders assumed we would not vote for such a person --- or miscreant, in their eyes.)
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  24171. Sure it is. It's about wallet health, the most important of all. 🤣
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  24172.  @colemcduff52  Thanks for keeping it real.
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  24173. I have never met a soul who thought the vaccines would kill you after five years, render you sterile, or contained any chip. Not one.
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  24174. This is Megyn going after other women yet again. Yawn.
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  24175. Is she a false flag, or are you?
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  24176.  @droughdough  They are suggesting vaccine hesitancy is a sign of serious mental illness that needs urgent treatment.
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  24177.  @Catlily5  NO KIDDING. Some vaccinated people are mentally ill as well.
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  24178. When I was in high-school and college, with people in their late teens and twenties, a serious viral illness -- mononucleosis, food-borne hepatitis, pneumonia, meningitis -- took from 6 months to a full year for the patient to be back to 100% normal, as though they had never been sick. These were people in their prime, not middle-aged people with chronic conditions. Why would COVID be any different? It's a bad virus.
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  24179. Wow, the people who signed him for the book deal are furious at their capital loss. They would have made more on GameStop!!!
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  24180. Remember the ten-year-old pregnant child? She had to leave Ohio to get immediate care, and her plight was denounced by the radical right as fake news. This sent a SHUDDER through everyone. And her brave doctor got death threats. Americans do not want to live like that. Get a clue.
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  24181. I didn't know the Parlementarian was purely a fig leaf.
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  24182. Martha Stewart was convicted of lying to the government during an official investigation of insider trading. She was never charged with insider trading. Her lawyers put her in this position. She should have told the truth or remained silent.
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  24183. I was shocked by it. I shouldn't have been, I guess. Memento mori
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  24184. ​​ @ryleighloughty3307  Unbridled greed as an ideal, no.
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  24185. @ryleighloughty3307  Not at all. It is either valued, by being concretely rewarded, or it is not. There are societies where people would be ashamed to display wealth the way Westerners do. Most people in the world, in fact. Emmanuel Todd is interesting on this point, relating it to whether an early society adopted primogeniture or not in its pre-literate past. Most did not. Disinheriting all but the oldest male is not conducive to democracy. John Rawls is interesting on that point as well: if you didn't know your status in a family, or in society, what rule would you make? See, the mistake you make is to assume general ignorance. Not on Amy's channel. 😂
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  24186. Corporations are people, too. /s
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  24187. Everyone is mentioning this, but listening to it a couple of times, I think he just misspoke. He made parallel comparisons between the US and France on two subjects, and in the second one he said Macron is imitating our neoliberal class on matters of police state. I think he just accidentally reversed the order in the first comparison. 4:15
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  24188. He's not the owner, and the owner hired the editors.
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  24189. They all are, actually.
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  24190. 27:47 This is the guest's position. The vaccines have significant risks, and protection against severe COVID wanes quickly -- apparently in under a year. Did we watch the same show?
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  24191.  @mikemorrison270  Wrong thread.
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  24192. He said Sirota did. Keep watching. Sheesh.
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  24193. Truth is, Sirota IS playing both sides of the fence. Because HE doesn't know what this is like: 18:01
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  24194.  @jessicascoullar3737  LOL
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  24195.  @rzc0624  In some cases, I wish. I don't think so.
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  24196. Demonization is her game.
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  24197. Recent article on long COVID in children, direct quote: Danilo Buonsenso, a paediatric infectious-disease specialist at the Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, says that the study design was “rigorous” but points out that it defined long COVID as the persistence of symptoms after one month, whereas the World Health Organization describes long COVID as symptoms that last for at least two months. This isn't going to be easy.
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  24198. Don't worry, guys, straight white men can just wear lipstick and they're in.
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  24199. Frank Zappa was almost right: "life is high school with money," except now it's 7th grade.
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  24200. To empower women.
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  24201.  @imthecaptainnow6446  Then check out the video where Dore talks about leaving TYT, or one of the videos where he supported Cenk's candidacy for the House. BTW, Cenk is another former Republican. He was in his early 30s when he switched. Just to give you some context.
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  24202. ​ @andrewyoung-n8ary  No, she's not a mandated reporter. There is no general duty to report crimes.
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  24203. ​ @chasthanhburns123 You are correct. But you knew that.
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  24204. @TheBeefSlayer  Misprision of a felony involves the active concealment of some act known to be a felony at the time a person witnessed it. In the example here, if the witness did not know whether her friend had crossed state lines, or did not know that being induced to cross state lines for this purpose is a federal crime, she cannot be convicted of misprision. Practically speaking, if she wasn't offered something of value to remain silent, at least with that tacit understanding, no US Attorney would bring charges. The Ninth Circuit ruled on this recently. This is not going to be interpreted to conflict with the Fifth Amendment. Google is not an education.
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  24205. @TheBeefSlayer  If you have a right to remain silent, then there will be no consequences for doing so. Or at least, no legal consequences. Your friends might not respect you anymore.
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  24206.  @TheBeefSlayer  "Most notably, a recent decision by a panel of the Ninth Circuit in United States v. Olson (2017) explained that the mere failure to report a felony does not constitute "concealment" and is not sufficient for a charge of misprision." See?
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  24207.  @chasthanhburns123  wow is right
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  24208. @TheBeefSlayer  😂😂😂😂😂
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  24209. @TheBeefSlayer  No you didn't. Lol.
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  24210.  @TheBeefSlayer  Actively concealing a federal felony offense is a crime. But everyone knows that.
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  24211. Every time. :/
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  24212.  @jimwhittaker4137  Did you have my accurate response removed? Just curious.
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  24213.  @jimwhittaker4137  My response was factual, contained no swearing.
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  24214.  @jimwhittaker4137  It also suggested a suicide hotline, in case you're serious, however tiny the risk might be. But you did bring it up.
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  24215. The first time Paul Allen had lymphoma, Bill Gates used the occasion to try to squeeze him out of Microsoft. Of course that makes Gates qualified to decide 21st century health policy. Good thing he told Jeff (Epstein) to stop disempowering women and girls. That set Jeff straight.
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  24216.  @Dwafiz  No one forces anyone to go through puberty, no more than anyone forces anyone else to eat, or breath, or walk. We are confusing the substance of the issue with this odd and anti-democratic move against an elected representative. In general, I don't want laws that make medical procedures illegal, but I am totally flummoxed by the embrace of these highly invasive therapies that can render children sterile for life, long before they can comprehend what that means, in a society that has had a very long and ugly history of eugenics. You don't see a reason to pause? Wow.
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  24217.  @g.christelbecker6349   I wonder if this will have any bearing on state-mandated vaccination, making IUDs or even certain birth control pills illegal, such as the ones that can prevent implantation, etc. Somehow I don't think this was a good time to curtail any constitutional rights.
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  24218. Madison is known.
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  24219.  O'Blivion  It is unprofessional to dress that way to work, that exposes that part of the body, and it is unacceptable as well to tell a joke about it in front of people, instead of letting the person know privately that they, um . . . .
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  24220.  @icorrectly  This was really good. BUT just to be fair, the fact that we do have it so good in America has led to a victim-blaming mentality as well. Bad things don't happen to Good People, you "must have done something wrong," you don't Think Positive, that stuff never happens to me, etc. Attract Abundance! You would think the Holocaust never happened, or Operation Barbarossa, and that no innocents died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Agent Orange is all in people's heads, it must be. I can assure you, no one literate thinks like this except Americans. Scapegoating and victim-blaming was denounced some 2400 years ago in Plato and the Bible. Some news travels slow.
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  24221.  @icorrectly  I don't disagree at all. I've lived in other countries. My parents met as refugees. I appreciate your points about language as well. You might enjoy Toni Morrison on the notion of "victimhood;" a short clip from an interview of her by Charlie Rose. I find the attitudes I mentioned rare among literate people anywhere outside the U.S.
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  24222.  O'Blivion  I agree it is unacceptable to joke about a wardrobe malfunction. A person could be fired for that, of course. Um, asking someone where they got their cool looking jeans because you would like to get a pair for your wife as a gift isn't abuse. Any more examples she cited? Or her complaint is that he blended in to the Howard Stern inspired ambience too enthusiastically? 3:33 is not a good look. I think Dore had to pay money to quit? Contract or IP or something?
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  24223.  O'Blivion  Notice how what should have been an honest look at Syria, one of the most tragic stories of war and destruction -- and war crimes -- of our time, has devolved into a debate over who showed whose female private parts to whom and who giggled about them. For some, life and death, terror from the sky, or a slow death by starvation. For others, what (not) to do when haute designer wardrobes malfunction.
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  24224.  O'Blivion  But you "don't care why Ana brought it up." I agree. You don't.
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  24225.  O'Blivion  The concrete incidents she mentioned 1. Don't rise to the level of sexual harassment under the legal meaning of the term (though she sure could have fired him, not praised him afterwards, not promoted his content -- or are you insinuating he had her groomed, or something?); and 2. What do you suggest now? That he be kicked off of YouTube, while these two keep their privileged perches? I don't know what you want now, seven years after the fact. TYT had no problem praising Dore when he supported Cenk for Congress. No issue. You must see through this now. And look up Title VII while you're at it.
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  24226.  O'Blivion  I have an idea. If you want people to stop watching Dore, criticize Dore for the things he deserves to be criticized for. Don't go into contortions to turn a crass joke into a sex scandal. Cenk never noticed the pervasive harassment of Ana, that Ana suddenly realized she had been subjected to -- a revelation that came to her only after she was rightly denounced for the Aaron Mate smear? Do you think this weaponization of MeToo is good for women? Or is it highly counterproductive?
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  24227.  O'Blivion  It might be actionable to say "I don't like you because you're Chinese," if an employer says it to an employee.
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  24228.  O'Blivion  Back to the straw man -- no one, not even DORE, said it was "okay." And WHAT, exactly, is the demand now, post written apology and written promise never to repeat that sort of remark, seven years later? Why is this an issue NOW? As for your blather about the (nonexistent American) "left," I refer you to the inimitable Ash Sarkar. ("I'm a communist, you idiot. No, I'm literally a communist.") No one should miss that romp; do be sure to look it up. And if you don't laugh, ask yourself why.
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  24229.  O'Blivion  Please correct me, please. I need the discipline.
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  24230.  O'Blivion  So you don't understand? Well, I'm a communist, you idiot. I'm literally a communist. :D
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  24231.  O'Blivion  No point in wasting energy on me. My deadline ro emigrate is 2025. Thanks.
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  24232.  O'Blivion  And I'm not anyone's audience. I was about to say I don't "belong" to anyone in that way. Then I realized I was Michael Ratner's audience, but he died. He left great books.
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  24233.  O'Blivion  And this viewership pseudo-issue was addressed just today: https://youtu.be/3eKBDa93MvI
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  24234. What's in that tea?
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  24235. That's the point. All of these are two sides of the same devalued coin. Well, it's good for the BRICS+. I guess I should be happy about that much.
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  24236. We thought Clinton saying it depended on what the meaning of is is was the high tide of this nonsense.
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  24237. 1:04 keeps getting FUNNIER
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  24238. Being exploited in your moment of weakness is pretty much what usually happens.
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  24239. Saagar. They cannot HELP lying.
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  24240. I don't think any of this is real. The neoliberal globalists know the next few years will be fraught. I think they want to "lose" --- they want their opponents to be the ones holding the bag. Every crisis makes them richer.
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  24241. That's what Dore said.
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  24242.  @naijaplayer  By diverting attention from the real issues, and using guilt and shame to manipulate the working-class voters, as if their protest votes for Trump were votes for treason, and the only proper and holy vote they can hope to cast is for anything the DNC coughs up, including the spouse of a Friend of Jeff (as in Epstein). Clear now?
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  24243. I didn't know Columbia had a joint program with a University in Israel. I believe in cultural exchange. That's how people like Dr. Gabor Maté turned against the zealots --- they went to Israel and saw for themselves.
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  24244. I think that the fact that "one side" is grossly exaggerating January 6th, and "the other side" is minimizing it is what is the most troubling. I see that there were undercover agents provocateurs on January 6th AND during the summer of George Floyd protests. Why doesn't everyone? It happens to be TRUE.
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  24245. Perfect. But that's not new from Batya.
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  24246. The First Amendment is a "bad take" now? Wow, that changed fast.
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  24247. I think that the fact that "one side" is exaggerating January 6th, and "the other side" is minimizing it is what is the most troubling. I see that there were undercover agents provocateurs on January 6th AND during the summer of George Floyd protests. Why doesn't everyone? It happens to be TRUE.
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  24248. In the global insurance market. Does it otherwise?
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  24249. @deadgolfer6345  Are you kidding? In Europe, those schools all get PUBLIC funding. I know most countries have national Ministries of Education that set standards for what a diploma has to mean.
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  24250. It is illegal to use lethal force in defense of mere property. Lethal force is justified if you actually put any person at risk of imminent physical harm. It is never legal for defense of mere property. Social ills, etc., are irrelevant. Whether the kids actually put anyone in danger of physical harm, before or after they were confronted, is the only question that matters. It's a bright line. It's called self-defense for a reason.
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  24251. No, you've just revealed who that is.
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  24252. The condition itself, a psychosomatic illness, IS serious. Using these people as pawns to tell the rest of us that "Russia did it" endangers their mental health. Don't be surprised if you see suicides.
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  24253. I remember when even Katrina van den Heuvel remarked on it, and she profoundly opposed Trump (the actual one, not the one looney Sam Harris has made up).
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  24254. You believe her over an entire university, with a sterling reputation? Really? No need to check it out, huh? That's critical thinking. I'm not convinced of her story. It's very easy to find serious critiques of it, from years ago. Consider A Million Little Pieces, or Three Cups of Tea. Consider George Santos. Consider Anna Sorokin. (Consider the "babies ripped from incubators". That story was dangerous.) Every one of those people got something they wanted.
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  24255. That story was misleading. She was an intern for none other than Ted Kennedy (Mary Jo Kopechne had already been dead for roughly three decades).
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  24256. They expect to get their way, or start bombing. Why do you ask?
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  24257. One billion dollars at 30 is like $3800 an hour for every hour of life. A little more, actually. Or, consider $2 billion: that's a million a year for every year since the Crucifixion. This cannot be "earned" by anyone.
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  24258. I refuse to say pregnant people.
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  24259. Well, girls who like pink and Barbies will be allowed to choose to have kids someday.
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  24260.  @MicTheOni  If you're not getting paid to post that, you're the c h u m p. Who just took TIk Tok to court? The Biden Administration did.
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  24261. @JupiterCyclops-l5x   MDS: Musk Devotion Syndrome A prior infection with GDS (Bill Gates Devotion Syndrome) makes you more susceptible, and impairs your memory so that you don't recall your prior illness, regardless of how severe it was.
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  24262. @JupiterCyclops-l5x  MDS Musk Devotion Syndrome A previous case of GDS (G a t e s) makes you more susceptible, and can harm your memory of having a prior infection, regardless of how bad it was.
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  24263. @JupiterCyclops-l5x     MDS Musk Devotion Syndrome A previous case of GDS (G a t e s, as in BILL) makes you more susceptible, and can harm your memory of having had a prior infection, regardless of how bad it was.
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  24264. @JupiterCyclops-l5x  Try naming too Bill ionaires in l post. 🤣
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  24265. Just like our growing deficit means an immediate cut to funding wars in Ukraine and Gaza. Boom, just like that. Say, I just heard a story about a homeless veteran, age 80, who passed the day before construction on a deluxe tent for him was supposed to begin. Lovely.
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  24266.  @jimperdue6166  What is clear is that a free inquiry concerning the origins of COVID were actively suppressed. What isn't clear is exactly why.
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  24267. OH NOOOOO! The bot is BAAAAACK!
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  24268. @I.M. Shirley Rongh Never has, LOL. Not even one measly timestamp.
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  24269. SMASH the anti-democratic Super Delegates! Enough!!!!
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  24270. Ask Biden if he will replace crook Mnuchin with bigger crook Dimon.
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  24271.  @jolseywales  Why not let people know?
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  24272.  @jolseywales  Ask her that. Do we only display reflexes that result in instant cash in our pockets? Is that it?
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  24273.  @bromack3  What?? That made no sense. There are careful accounts of contemporary "blowback" beginning in the 1950s. That's where to start. As for Tariq Ali, his letter is absolutely brutal toward US policy --- but it places the blame for terrorism and every other atrocious, immoral, or dysfunctional response squarely on the shoulders of the Muslims who choose to do those things, and to dwell in fanaticism instead of resisting the policies they oppose in some rational, strategic manner. Quite a document.
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  24274.  @Heart2HeartBooks  This is Seth Waxman, who was Solicitor General and has probably argued more cases in front of the Supreme Court than any other living lawyer. Chief Justice Roberts went to Harvard, too. They know each other well.
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  24275. There's an interesting Whitney Webb video on manufactured crises.
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  24276.  Im a Train Fanatic is back  Is this comment back to "Russia something something?" If you say no, I believe you. Had to ask. Calling it Russia or Siberia is rather . . . Anachronistic!
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  24277.  Im a Train Fanatic is back  During the time of the land bridge when peoples crossed over from the Asian continent to the North American continent, there was no "Siberia." And no Russian language yet, or slavic tribes, but some proto-Indo-European of some sort.
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  24278.  @user-kk4zw5jo4t  Tu crois?
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  24279. @Bobby Rubarb You know how long it took me to get this joke? Many hours. Funny how I don't know the stereotypes.
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  24280.  @nolitetebastardescarborund9761  Well, I don't have a French keyboard, and the other mistakes are what I thought I heard. But yeah, French dictees have to be perfect perfect. Anyway, that image! Leave it to the French. BTW, lucky you. Small part French, lived there for five years, went to school there (not as an "exchange student"), and j'ai mal du pays ever since. :(
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  24281.  @stephaniecarrow4898  I'm not sure I can translate without being censored. I'll try.
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  24282.  @stephaniecarrow4898  It literally means "I'm farting lead," and "lead" in French can be slang for "bullets," just like in English. Like I said, real bad. It's euphemistically translated as "a pain in the butt." Oh man . . . I get it. Toning it down, yup.
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  24283.  @nolitetebastardescarborund9761  Yeah, well, French swearing is saltier, and more concrete, shall we say? I know it's toned down in translation. The literal translation is what I said, and people use that verb in other expressions. They know its literal meaning. French has a register of strong language that is just shy of swearing, and it's quite colorful. There's a substantial vocabulary in French consisting of expressions comparable to the British "bloody mess." Americans don't have too much like it. What we did have was highly gendered, homophobic, etc., and can no longer be used, for good reason.
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  24284. Criminal gangs run this joint.
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  24285. You got it. :/
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  24286. Yeah, culture war solves economic problems. Works like magic. It's almost an Invisible Hand.
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  24287. If the US were not interfering, there would have been no war in Ukraine. If the US were not interfering, there would be no war in Gaza. Anyone who reads Haaretz and listens to the truly outstanding voices like Neve Gordon knows who the real instigator is.
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  24288. I heard the children's screams were scrubbed. I've only begun watching. Is that correct?
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  24289. Or maybe what we are attracted to has changed?
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  24290. But that is NOT what he said. Thanks for the master lesson in how words will be twisted by slanderers. It's useful to be reminded.
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  24291. It's a classic game of chicken.
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  24292. Can they take Kiev without an American-style bombing campaign, which they will not do, assuming they could do it without retaliation? I do not think so. I keep remembering how Churchill ordered the destruction of the French Navy in the Mediterranean, and killed all those sailors who had pledged to join the Resistance, and mutiny to do it if necessary, only a day after they hosted the British aboard their ships. Churchill never lost a moment of sleep over that. He tuned out everyone who felt he had miscalculated, and in the end might made right, as usual. Can the Russians do the equivalent? I can't see it. They were not ready for this.
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  24293.  @MarkLewis-qe4pj  YES IT IS See Brandenburg v. Ohio Watts v. United States Virginia v. Black RAV v. City of St. Paul Start there
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  24294. Posted a comment on a problem with chat Gpt, one that has published research about it, made mainstream news Here? Subjected to sense or ship
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  24295. @andylewis7360  Several things I wrote about a well-known AI have been subjected to sensor sheep. Get it? It is correct in formation, already appearing in at least one peer rev'd publication. But taken down all the time. Chat*** is making rithme tique errors. THAT'S how bad it is. See if this survives.
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  24296. @andylewis7360  Basically I'm saying we can't even discuss it.
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  24297.  @truthstarved  He has what he wants. Too bad the Bobby Crimos are acting up. Otherwise, things would be perfect. /s
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  24298. Trump's moronic followers just gave Biden, Pelosi, and the entire DNC a big fat gift. Nice going, insurrectionists. No one will challenge them for a good long while. But the billionaires will tell them what to do. They're set with their program.
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  24299. @marlonjormungand7845  Have you ever lived for an extended period of time in a non-English-speaking country? Did you notice how they shape their children, and what they did differently?
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  24300. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  24301. You should never lie to law enforcement investigating a murder, for anyone. That is why you have the right to remain silent.
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  24302. Not only that, but the 3rd and 7th of a 7th chord determine its quality.
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  24303. @Star17Platinum17  No it doesn't. The calculator display is finite.
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  24304. Oops
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  24305. Read Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic -- from 2010. It's about the epidemic of mental illness, brought to you in part by the big pharmaceutical corporations. SAME PLAYBOOK.
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  24306. Does pardoning the Blackwater private militia put actual American service members at risk? Did anyone think to ask Caligula about that?
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  24307. Robby playing to greed and resentment as usual. It works, as usual.
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  24308. You don't get it, do you? Kennedy didn't write this himself. So . . . Could it be a staffer whose real loyalty is to the DNC? Hmm . . . 🤔 Maybe keep an open mind?
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  24309. Monopoly capitalism is not a free market, good grief.
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  24310. From the NIH website, direct quote: "There is insufficient evidence for the COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel (the Panel) to recommend either for or against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19. Results from adequately powered, well-designed, and well-conducted clinical trials are needed to provide more specific, evidence-based guidance on the role of ivermectin in the treatment of COVID-19." Emphasis supplied.
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  24311.  @kimanimzalendo367  Gasp, REALLY??? I was referring to Republicans here, who oppose marriage equity. Churches have a right not to recognize any marriage they do not want to recognize, including between divorced people. Their business, not the state's. And no right to impose their views on the rest of us by law.
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  24312. @Kimani Mzalendo  Of course. And a lot of people want Julian Assange dead. They may get their way. You might even get a lynch mob together for Amber Heard. Supposing it had the support of 90% of the electorate. Should we consider their "views?" The Bill of Rights is not a utilitarian-inspired document. Its logic is more akin to Kantian ethics. Some things should not be done, no matter who would like it.
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  24313.  @kimanimzalendo367  No, it's called marriage equity, not equality. You must not be very familiar with the US yet.
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  24314. @Kimani Mzalendo  None of the major DNC politicians came out for marriage equity until it was safe. They all proposed domestic partnership laws, at best. Clintons, Obama, Biden, all.
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  24315. @HF Trust Well, I knew Depp v. Heard was a First Amendment case, not a case about who was a worse marital partner (er, that doesn't take a lengthy trial to figure out). I know the Gabby Petito family v. the Laundries is a Fifth Amendment case. Let's see if we'll manage to whittle away those rights, too, because grown people entered bad relationships. I cannot think of a better reason. /s
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  24316. @claytonjenningsjr7723  You mean the people who are standing up for free speech now?
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  24317. 1. The border crossings are completely unacceptable. 2. Biden's Executive Order is likely to exclude the very few who should get asylum. The cynical will find a way around it.
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  24318.  @gruust1  "Both sides" is an insipid slogan. Russian prisoners are being tortured with impunity, and the West is nevertheless winning a blatant propaganda war. You call that "protecting?" I call that a poor performance from any standpoint, and all the while millions of innocent civilians who were looking forward to a spring without pandemic woes have instead been driven from their homes. At least for the time being, the Nazis in Ukraine are stronger than they were! So, who, exactly, is suffering?
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  24319. Take a look at how long those have been around, and how few people can self-fund retirement. No more than 10% can do so, and literally need Social Security. (How did that happen? How indeed.)
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  24320.  @mathurex211  The original IRA has been in existence for nearly five decades, and the Roth for more than two. Show me the millionaires who can self-fund retirement and medical care. Or don't you know how much money you would need to self-fund, or what the risk would be when individualized and dependent on a single stream of income? A retirement plan is supposed to work for the vast majority. That's the standard. Or do you want elderly in tent cities next?
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  24321.  @mathurex211  Your edit did not improve your discourse. It has nothing to do with autonomy and very much to do with risk. Do individuals have the ability to manage risks of things like the 2008 financial meltdown, or the pandemic? They must be multi-millionaires to do so. These are facts, not feelings about "autonomy" and whatnot. Retirement has got to work for everyone who reaches an age when they cannot work effectively, if at all. Self-funding does not work for anywhere near everyone; at most 10% are able to do it without risking a catastrophe at some point. You must not understand the marginal value of a dollar. The greater the marginal value, the greater the risk.
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  24322.  @mathurex211  That's all right. You'll find out -- I hope. Given that dying young is the alternative.
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  24323.  @mathurex211  Thanks for answering, makes it easier to block you. Cleaned up my thread today.
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  24324.  @mystic1160  Exactly. And preserving choices include preserving the opportunity to become a birth parent, if the child wants to one day.
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  24325.  @mercyferal  Isn't the push for trans medicine implying there is a stereotypical male or female? Why should all the various gender fluid people undergo extensive treatments while minors that will prevent them from having reproductive choice as adults, or that may require lifelong medical monitoring, beyond what simply being trans would necessitate? So what if a trans woman has non-conforming genitalia and bone structure? Better that she have osteoporosis and a higher breast cancer risk? Why? Because someone is put out by seeing a slightly "masculine" trans woman? They should get over it. She's fine how she is.
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  24326.  @mystic1160  Far too young. Do people at 15 know for sure if they want to be birth parents?
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  24327.  @mystic1160  Lots of people don't feel comfortable in their bodies, for all sorts of reasons. Attack that, and support them. Drastic, permanently life-altering surgery for minors is not the answer. Gawd, I'm just stunned that no one remembers when there was a huge push to deprive LGBTQ adults of marriage equity and parenthood.
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  24328.  @mystic1160  And we know early driving will render them sterile in almost every case? Also, create lifelong health risks of various kinds for many, requiring a highly medicalized life? Huh. I didn't know early driving did that.
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  24329.  @mystic1160  You've convinced me. No one wants kids anyway.
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  24330.  @mystic1160  "Who really gets to decide?" Gee, I hope the pro-drastic surgery in high school crowd gets first dibs. Less isn't more, and more is never enough.
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  24331.  @mercyferal  None of what you say surprises me, frankly. We live in a sh!t society. The cruelty that people think is funny staggers the mind. Don't think they don't make fun of women breast cancer victims, or shun children disfigured in a fire. (FWIW, the only close white friend I've made in this century is a trans woman. I'm not laughing. I don't know if others will, but I'm not. It's not funny.)
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  24332. But Jimmy, remember how AOC got us an Easter Egg? If there is ever any forgiveness of student debt, the IRS won't go after it as though it were earned income.
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  24333. Funny how Jimmy Dore gets this better than Robby does.
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  24334. Tucker is being consistent. He speaks to what he sees as the welfare of Americans. Why would he care about the Donbass? Check out George Galloway, if you like.
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  24335. I agree in part. This is another reason why Aaron should have sued TYT for defamation: then counsel advises everyone to stop commenting. :) But Kyle is being disingenuous. No one dragged him into anything. And if anyone tried to weaponize MeToo to get him deplatformed and deprived of his livelihood today, during a pandemic shutdown of live shows, he would be plenty angry. You better believe he'd defend himself and present the full context.
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  24336.  @cromag_jetlag9079  In response to false tweets saying that Kyle doesn't report real news, Kyle could have posted links to all the videos where he did report real news. Simple. Actually, I watched the livestream with Dore and Mate today -- well, part of it. Yes, their views on this attempt at deplatforming are worth listening to. But the best part was the end, where Dore demonstrated how long he has been arguing against war, and how much flak he got for that. Substantive. Of course that was the best part.
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  24337.  @cromag_jetlag9079  She threatened Dore. Either he had to stop criticizing TYT, or she would go public with the apology note he wrote seven years ago and denounce him. The aim was to shut him up, or cause damage to his livelihood. Sorry, but that was the deal.
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  24338. "Bernie is telling the truth." UH OH
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  24339. Did you see the Rolling Stone cover? It is awful. But more to the point, why is any of this "news?" None of them do real work. Not one. Why do they have so much money?
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  24340. Great humor is a sign of good mental health.
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  24341. Look how much fun they were having just a couple of months before this rot started: https://youtu.be/cr2SmniV0HY
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  24342.  @Camcolito  I know. :/
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  24343. So far, Putin's only clear success has been with the currency -- he proved, without any doubt, that Western financial interests cannot destroy the Russian economy using decrees and papers written in poisoned ink. Thank God for everyone on Earth that he did succeed in that (Greece, take note! China and India certainly have). Even that success was ultimately undermined by the criminal sabotage of the Nordstream pipeline. Why don't we all admit that overall, this WAR has been a disaster, for all concerned? Putin was wrong not to try to avoid this, first by calling an emergency session of the UNSC, with proof -- which he had -- of Ukrainian troops planning another, more massive offensive against the people of the Donbass. That was the only ethical course, the only place to start. He DIDN'T start there. No free pass on that, sorry. Never. How can anyone excuse not doing everything possible to avoid this WAR (not "special intervention," my GOD). Every war that can be avoided, MUST be avoided, paraphrasing Chris Hedges and many others. The sane ones, the ones with hearts, minds. To fail to do everything to avoid a war during a pandemic, just when people were looking forward to a more normal spring, was unconscionable.
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  24344. That was the law in France when I lived there. Mandatory counseling to find out why you wanted an abortion. If you gave any financial reasons, mandatory session with a social worker to inform you of all the benefits you qualify for. It had a socialist government then. P. S.: First trimester abortions were paid 70% by the national health service. Pregnancy was paid 100%. Wealthy women got their third-trimester clothing subsidy check. The government said straight up, we have a natality policy. We support births.
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  24345.  @justinowens2465  This is the real crime.
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  24346.  @frankrosemeck9898  I believe in CHOOSE life. Both words, stress on the first.
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  24347. This is exactly how these fake ideologies work. Try a few Adam Curtis documentaries, but don't believe him. Take notes, do the research. See what you find.
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  24348. He failed to ask for one.
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  24349. What do you mean?
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  24350. You must never have seen her live, you poor thing.
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  24351. "Common sense" told you the major news outlets in late-stage capitalist America are "communist?"
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  24352. I know. Zero personal responsibility. /s There were even rumors green energy was the reason this happened.
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  24353. When you are too weak and greedy to defend yourselves against WEF and Davos control, then blame some scapegoat. Beige immigrants will do nicely.
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  24354. LOL best in class!
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  24355. So Shapiro's reflex is to call for canceling his award. Thanks for showing your bias, Robbie.
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  24356.  @HelenaMikas  So sorry to hear. But relative to most of the rest of Europe, Germany has done well. I hope your good fortune continues! BTW, our public television station in America (PBS) just did a report saying that Serbia has the best vaccination program in Europe(!), and that it was organized with substantial help from China. Instead of looking at what they may be doing right, that is worth emulating, most of the program was about the dangers creeping Chinese influence on the periphery of Europe. I WISH I were kidding.
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  24357.  @HelenaMikas  Oh, and this is what Dr. Fauci said about vaccine reluctance: we need to get the message out, using trusted spokespeople, like athletes, entertainers, clergy, "even your family doctor." No one could make this up.
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  24358. See what European news reported. (That's a good idea in any case.) They saw it that way.
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  24359.  @genius1a  Oops you beat me to it. Outstanding answer, thank you.
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  24360.  @patrixjude1  Great point.
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  24361.  @richvid9814  That is exactly why the conclusion was to do larger studies. Could the vaccine be riskier for people with certain liver problems? People with comorbidities were urged to get vaccinated and boosted. Please provide some keywords to identify the studies. We know links are generally shadowed, being too hard to monitor for TOS issues.
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  24362.  @richvid9814  Okay, honey. I studied philosophy of science at the Paris IV, among other things, and I really don't have time for this unserious video. What does one case prove? One case, accurately reported, tells us what is POSSIBLE. It does not tell us what is usual. In biology, one single case is very unlikely to be limited to that one single person and true of no one else, but that, too, may be turn out to be true. That, too, is not impossible. The clinical studies for these vaccines were inadequate. THIS is why, or at least one major reason why, there are so many questions remaining, and there are so many confounding variables present at this point that it becomes very hard to figure out what is going on, what the real risks are, what the risk/benefit calculus should be, by demographic, etc., and various forms of multivariate analysis will have to be done. This will take time and money. We won't have anything very solid to rely on for a while. What I think people should do is consult the ministries of health of more civilized countries and see what they are recommending. It's all online. What was the point of your post, other than to flaunt your assumption that everyone besides you is stupid? Looks like you provided evidence for the opposite.
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  24363. LOVE this proposal!
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  24364. You were fine with how they announced the assassination? And reported it? I knew Americans had problems, but WOW WOW WOW.
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  24365. Are you kidding? Do you seriously believe that?
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  24366.  @presidentresident  THIS Thank you.
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  24367.  @darkthingswithmarkdavis4497  I would welcome a long-format discussion. The point is, that is what is necessary. You don't know who is right. I find contradictions in every discourse that has been served up so far, including theirs, which does not make for confidence.
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  24368.  @darkthingswithmarkdavis4497  "Get owned," huh? Check the Thirteenth Amendment. Your soundbites are brilliant. /s You don't even know whose slogans have wormed their way into your mind, you just repeat them.
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  24369. When you have two serious forms of cancer, you had better think about yourself. It's time. If she was too self-focused in the past, there is no way she is now.
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  24370. So let him fail on merit. Sort-of like the sanctions on Cuba. Let it fail on its merits, if it's set up to fail.
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  24371.  @lifreu To stop the war? $40 billions' worth of Good Wishes? No, this is a stress test of sorts.
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  24372.  @mamacryright5740  We don't know what will happen. It is a game of chicken. Whatever does happen, the global elites will come out richer and with more power. That we do know.
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  24373. 25:50 It is not illegal to urge people to take political action that "may" result in violence. The NAACP was accused of doing exactly that, and the Supreme Court held that their speech was clearly First Amendment protected. They could not be held responsible for the violence that occurred close in time and place to their peaceful protests. Any other rule invites some pretty big setups.
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  24374. Mandatory vaccination without universal health care + mandatory lockdowns without universal income and assistance to reintegrate into the workforce = the sick and homeless you see today.
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  24375. Tell yourself psychosis doesn't exist. If we all think hard together we can make it true. Anyone who doesn't agree is a Baby Killer. It's obvious. Maybe they belong in jail, too.
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  24376.  @taylorlibby7642  To me that sounds like an excellent plan.
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  24377. It took me too long, lol. 😂
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  24378. I recommend all three read the Complaint they are supposedly commenting on and getting paid really.
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  24379. Amen to that.
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  24380. @SeiyaSoiya-un4jj  See who that would be --- not by choice. By sheer desperation.
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  24381.  @SeiyaSoiya-un4jj  Many are desperate to leave.
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  24382.  @SeiyaSoiya-un4jj  Right. They know to tune American culture out.
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  24383. @acbower4468  Well then she must be good.
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  24384.  @acbower4468  Bill Gates is even richer. 🤣
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  24385.  @ShiggyMiyamo  Never worked for my immigrant parents. But you be you.
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  24386.  @ewqdsacxz765  Yikes. Harsh. Deserved. :)
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  24387. They almost certainly have immunity. Think for a minute.
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  24388. @AntonioRivera28  Well it's nice to think . . . YES THEY DO They do not have immunity from criminal charges, were they to commit any crime, but their judicial acts are absolutely immune from any liability. LOOK IT UP
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  24389. @AntonioRivera28  Well, you're entirely wrong. You're not even going to try to look it up, are you? You're just going to guess. I hope you won't be too disappointed by the absence of any lawsuits or criminal charges against him, because there will be none. He could, of course, lose his job. That could always happen.
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  24390.  @AntonioRivera28  You think there's an Eighth Amendment violation?? 🤣🤣🤣
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  24391. @AntonioRivera28  In the US, capital punishment for 16 and 17-year-olds was finally struck down as too harsh in 2005.
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  24392.  @AntonioRivera28  I know it isn't. That's never an 8th Amendment violation. Can you be serious? Capital punishment for juveniles, or profoundly retarded, or very sick and unlikely to live long are 8th Amendment violations. No, a fine under 1/2 billion for a billionaire doesn't qualify.
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  24393. @AntonioRivera28  Look up Price v. Montgomery County, Kentucky. The prosecutor deliberately told a witness to destroy evidence that the court ordered the witness to turn over to the defense. An innocent man spent two years in jail while suffering from cancer and later died. The prosecutor was immune from a civil rights suit for damages. Hmm 🤔
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  24394.  @Scramble4r  It is still not an 8th Amendment violation by any stretch.
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  24395. She makes everyone on Fox and The View look brilliant. I didn't think anyone on God's green earth could do that.
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  24396. The lawsuits against the school district will force discovery. Likewise a criminal trial or plea deal for that matter. Sharing all pertinent information is a constitutional requirement.
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  24397. Every European at some point or other is baffled by how stupid every American turns out to be. Their grandparents were not bombed by the Third Reich. That is the crucial difference.
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  24398. Y'mean, this is a surprise?
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  24399. ​ @bdpage2023  Who? The latest shooter?
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  24400. ​ @Kittypaws90  Let me ask you something. Why are posts that explain this routinely _______ ? I'll try again right below.
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  24401. Billionaires spend more on lobbying and on elections than they spend on taxes. They get the laws they want. We don't. Then they get government contracts and buy US Treasury bonds, and WE owe THEM our taxes, on the contracts and in interest on the national debt. Keep repeating it until it sinks in.
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  24402. He pled guilty in federal court. The document is posted. See what he agrees he did.
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  24403. Do you know how Medicare works?
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  24404. Well, for whatever the reason may be, including the need for ultracold storage, most of the world is not getting an mRNA vaccine.
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  24405. You're right.
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  24406. ​ @phantomcreamer ​ The major corporations have found it profitable to pay vastly more in campaign donations and lobbying than they will ever pay in taxes, while relying on the armed forces far more than any of us do to protect their global interests -- not to mention reaping our taxes in the form of government contracts and interest on Treasury bonds. They arrange not to pay taxes, and make sure taxes flow to them. How is that "efficient?" They buy the politicians, and the politicians make us pay. They do because they can afford it. It's no accident that tax rates were so high after WWII, when the difference between the value of the common man who fought when called upon and the parasitic class was stark and unmistakable. You couldn't get away with this back then.
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  24407. ​ @phantomcreamer Capitalism could not have come about in a society of scarce food, or even scarcity of anything needed for survival itself for the vast majority. That's not the history of how markets formed and grew. You make capitalism sound like the coming of Jesus, mana from heaven, instant karma.
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  24408. @phantomcreamer  I did not say scarce resources. I said scarcity of the necessities of life. Nor is Japan one of the places where capitalism first arose. Nor did capitalism take root and grow rapidly prior to the exploration of the globe and the exploitation of resources from around the world. There is something called economic history you might want to read up on, rather than memorizing podcast talking points. It reminds me of people who say we should all live like the Amish, and similar silliness.
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  24409. @phantomcreamer  I wonder if that post will be visible. Here's the gist:  I did not say scarce resources. I said scarcity of the necessities for life. Nor is Japan one of the places where capitalism first arose. Nor did capitalism take root and grow rapidly prior to the exploration of the globe and the exploitation of raw materials from the entire world. Economic history -- you might want to read up on it.
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  24410. I might be shadowed. Can't tell yet.
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  24411. Have you seen his webpage with his photographs? You have to see it.
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  24412. So right
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  24413.  @MartinParsons-tr6wi  That's not Socrates.
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  24414.  @richardgallagher4880  Proof of what?
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  24415.  @richardgallagher4880  You don't seem to understand. I don't wish this society well. The coping part is your problem. I can just sit back and watch.
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  24416. @MartinParsons-tr6wi  1. No way to know what others can see, actually. 2. No.
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  24417. @MartinParsons-tr6wi  How do you know those are not all cuts and pastes? Just like the quote about "kids today," falsely attributed to Socrates? Not to mention the false or misleading attributions to Einstein, Twain, etc. I studied at L'Institut des Etudes Greques. You need more than Google (and your testimony about what it said) to persuade me. I practically know The Apology by heart.
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  24418.  @MartinParsons-tr6wi  Are the references all amérloques? 🤔🤣
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  24419.  @MartinParsons-tr6wi  Socrates' style was never to make such pronouncements. Why do you think the Dialogues are classics? They don't read like middle-brow greeting cards at Whole Foods.
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  24420. @MartinParsons-tr6wi  According to your saying, that you think must be from Socrates "because google," where do you rank?
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  24421. @MartinParsons-tr6wi  Oh, more homespun wisdom! That always tops EVIDENCE. Just ask anyone wrongly convicted. Oh yeah. That actually happened, to SOCRATES.
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  24422. WOW did I get censored here!! You deserve google.
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  24423.  @MartinParsons-tr6wi  I got sense oared so much it's not funny.
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  24424.  @MartinParsons-tr6wi  It may be interdit
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  24425.  @MartinParsons-tr6wi  To mention Eric
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  24426.  @MartinParsons-tr6wi  Sadin, or the problem with
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  24427.  @MartinParsons-tr6wi  Wrong math
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  24428.  @MartinParsons-tr6wi  GPT
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  24429.  @MartinParsons-tr6wi  Google U "educating" you, sense or ring me
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  24430. @MartinParsons-tr6wi  Why were you permitted to ridicule me in French, but my factual response (also in French) was sense oared? I'm reporting you, then. Is belligerent ignorance open minded? How about sensor sheep? Open minded, too?
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  24431. ​ @KeyboardWarrior-r9b  Some people are clearly confused. You, for example. "Free speech absolutism" does not exist, nor is Glenn or anyone else advocating for it. It's a political phrase, not a legal category. It's on a par with other popular buzzwords like nuance and context.
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  24432. Cook thoroughly, like for parasites. 😊
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  24433.  @TheRWE12  Okay. Logically, that is correct. Until identified, anything logically possible is possible. But that includes optical illusions, holograms, secret experiments by our own government or a hostile power, etc. Anything.
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  24434. I had to think about this for ten whole minutes before it dawned on me that a trans man might still be able to get pregnant. This new language is more sinister than it looks: they are pretending these gender dysphoria treatments can't render girls sterile. Yes they can.
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  24435.  @id0069  This!
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  24436. Well, if George Santos can be a member of the House of Representatives . . . anything can happen.
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  24437. No, we know it's a lie.
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  24438. Unless you think the two candidates for president are the most meritorious? Or that anyone who has hoarded around $50 million a year for every year since the birth of Jesus "earned" their stash? Slavery was painted as "meritocracy," too.
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  24439.  @2012escapee1  YES
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  24440.  @2012escapee1  When I say sigh up Guess what happens? 😂
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  24441.  @yoniem9835  It's not a need anyone has.
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  24442. Then you should read the complaint.
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  24443.  @rh81454  There are contractual obligations you freely enter into, and ways to block specific performance when you don't want to perform the contract. And sometimes those ways don't apply, and you're kept to your promise.
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  24444.  @khamkham7134  Did you read the verified complaint? It's all available to download.
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  24445. Have you ever heard of contempt of court? People go to jail for deliberately disobeying court orders.
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  24446.  @rh81454  "Promise" is used as a term of art in contract law. Sorry, forgot my audience.
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  24447.  @khamkham7134  The verified complaint has a copy of the actual contract attached, which is, of course, required. It's all available online, in less than a minute to download.
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  24448.  @khamkham7134  Re: if the 5% claim is in other materials Your latest post, unlike your previous one, tends to show, pace Musk, that a trial is needed to establish material facts.
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  24449.  @khamkham7134  How would that be determined, except in court? There are all kinds of ways you can withdraw from a contract, and good reasons for declining to be bound by it, one of which involves proving up that you were actively misled when you agreed to it. In court.
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  24450.  @khamkham7134  Look up the complaint. Delaware.
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  24451. The US doesn't exist to take care of its people.
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  24452. Nope. She asked for alternatives. I heard it. Where were you?
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  24453. Wait. How does someone not know about the speech Martin Luther King Jr. made the night before he was assassinated? How?
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  24454.  @ChrisCypher  That's the script. The reality is more complex. Far too many children were harmed in the process. "FIRST do no harm."
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  24455.  @ChrisCypher  Look up "vaccine-derived polio."
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  24456.  @ChrisCypher  All right. Those vaccine-derived polio cases were NOT isolated by any stretch, they were outbreaks, and we are talking about young children, who are entitled to a heightened standard of care in vaccination. Thank you for telling us where you stand. Or inadvertently revealing it. Gates did this for self-aggrandizement, the fruits of which he enjoys now. His money and his photo-ops do not make him an expert on a complex area of human and pediatric medicine.
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  24457.  @ChrisCypher  Fair enough. What I don't like (and I do not suggest you do) is the erosion of ethical standards in pediatric medicine -- and that goes both ways. Children depend on us, and there are plenty of times when irrational adults will deny a truly necessary vaccine to a child. So it isn't that I'm arguing for inaction. The thing about Gates is that I wonder how involved he really was in these efforts, where he is now treated as having expertise. We don't know that. We know he provided funding, set the goals, and hired people who hired and managed other people. I'm not saying that's not hard work, or easy to do well. I'm saying that it does not make a person an expert on vaccine distribution. What he appears to have great expertise in is arguing for profit maximization. :)
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  24458. Criminal
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  24459. Glenn invited him.
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  24460. Not before full approval.
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  24461. Um, does that mean the humanitarian bombing narrative isn't working any more?
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  24462.  @willthomson8863  Sign out and see. That is the new trick: while signed in, you see them. When you sign out, you see what others see. Or, better yet, go to a library computer or some other computer that does not have the same signature as the one you use to sign in from and post.
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  24463.  @kammonkam4905  true . . . I guess that's the idea . . . do it side by side with a friend?
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  24464. ​ @barbaramoore4028 Because she relies on material evidence rather than bowing to your leadership in the social media sleuth brigade?
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  24465. In the meantime, the DA who prosecuted him had her law license suspended for ethical violations, plural.
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  24466. ​@N2Dressage001 You were there, you should have stepped in. 😂
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  24467. @olaakinlade4362  Look, the male DNA found in her car that has also turned up at THREE other crime scenes needs to be explained. I'm not saying it can't be explained. I'm not saying it belongs to the perpetrator. I am saying it needs to be explained. That's what the presumption of innocence and the burden of proof mean. That's simply good police work. There is someone out there whose DNA has been found at a total of four crime scenes, this person has never been identified, and all the concern swirls around the husband? I want whoever that man is to be identified and arrested if the evidence is sufficient to make an arrest. He may be very dangerous. That should be the focus. That isn't psychobabble, that's real. :/
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  24468. @N2Dressage001  Not what I read. (Did you know the prosecutor had her law license suspended? Did you do that "homework?") I didn't say the person whose DNA was found is the perpetrator. I said he needs to be identified and questioned. As many as three unsolved crimes hang in the balance, if not this one. I don't know what you mean by "match." There has been no identification, and hence, strictly speaking, no "match." I find it odd to go on and on about his daughters' psychology and be unconcerned about this physical evidence. I come from a state where an innocent man sat on death row while the actual murderer killed another victim, a young woman. It's not pretty. I don't know how her parents lived through it. I couldn't have, and I mean that literally.
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  24469. @N2Dressage001  Have you read the statement by his attorneys in reference to the discovery of the remains? They were found during a search for another missing woman. In fact, there are several missing women law enforcement is trying to find, and all of them are likely to be dead. Have you read that the judge in this case is seeking to have the prosecutor disbarred? I don't understand why people get wound up about this man, and not the bigger picture: women are not safe.
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  24470. @@JetLi-zt5qh Who is "they?" Instead of anonymous posts, REPORT. European Medicines Agency is investigating credible reports of deaths. They've identified 12,000.
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  24471. @philosothink  Oh please. You have no idea what he was doing behind closed doors. What a thing to say.
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  24472. And so quickly, too.
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  24473. Visit in October, still a summery month but off season. Luxury hotels are $55 a night. Latin ambience is remarkably strong, even in Podgorica. On the coast, of course.
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  24474. You expect a candidate to signal to Russia exactly what they would do if elected?
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  24475. Most famous clip from the movie Lenny, starring Dustin Hoffman, has been MUTED by YouTube.
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  24476. So, the government is going to issue smartphones? I won't carry one.
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  24477. "Common sense censorship" LOLOL
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  24478. Oh please. The South African foreign minister spoke the truth. Not these guys.
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  24479.  @denysecoop7356  Because she was censored, and so she quit.
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  24480. He is opposed to ALL vaccines. I'm not against taking a critical look at vaccines, strictly case-by-case, or acknowledging that their use has had a sorry history in the Third World, but blanket denunciations of vaccination has always been sheer nonsense, and continues to be nonsense. I have asked for more vaccines than the minimum recommended, based on my own research, and to be able travel freely without worry. Vaccination in general is a great thing. Has information about risk ever been suppressed? Has misuse of vaccines in the global South ever been hushed up? Yes and yes. I'd still take a flu shot, pneumonia shot, tenanus booster, or meningitis shot this minute.
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  24481.  @techloidtech2051  I'm not saying there's no truth in your comments. I think there clearly is. I'm saying that you are claiming a blanket certitude that does not exist.
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  24482.  @techloidtech2051  There are viral infections that are almost impossible to prevent without vaccination. Everyone who encounters them for the first time will get them. The invasion of the Americas by Europeans proved that. So did polio, a crippling disease that at times was associated with excess hygiene early in life. Shocking but true. The idea that Virtuous Diets or Healthful Outdoor Exercise can prevent all illness is social Darwinian claptrap.
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  24483.  @techloidtech2051  I have not endorsed any of the COVID vaccines, or denounced them. I am not qualified to do either. As for making my own personal decision, right now I am reading peer-reviewed journal articles on mRNA published before 2019, for example. My mind is open. And in general, I support vaccination very strongly. In general. And I do not eat GMOs.
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  24484.  @techloidtech2051  I think your point about new technology + new virus is a sound point. This is what we always need to take into account, in every type of risk analysis. But it is not determinative. Sometimes the risk of NOT adopting the new technology is greater. I don't know whether it is this time.
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  24485. That $650 billion is needed to prop up the banks and the stock market. Remember, they could not prosecute HSBC for money laundering -- drug money, terrorists' money. Look up what Osborne did, and why.
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  24486. They could be fined and reprimanded, and demoted or fired. They almost certainly cannot lose their licenses. But some sort of punishment, sure.
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  24487. @markpaul1383  What the specific argument presented is.
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  24488. @dlxmarks  The title is "It's Over - Gino v. Harvard. Yes, I saw the correction to the misleading impression this title and the video obviously gave. (When non-lawyers talk about a case, look up the case. And no, she cannot be held criminally liable.) What is merely procedural? We accord due process to the Manson Family, much less to corrupt academics . . . .
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  24489. Of course they are not evil, but do not have the intelligence not to hurt a child by accident, without intending harm.
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  24490. 14:35 How OLD are the people dying of COVID-triggered myocarditis, and how old are those developing it after vaccination?
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  24491. The neighbor calls the police, i.e., a man with a gun.
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  24492. American teachers pretend they are your friend, play favorites, and insinuate themselves into your sense of self (le moi intime). In France, when teachers and adults in general act distant and tear you down, it is to provoke rebellion. You are not supposed to believe it, but revolt against it. It is a rite of passage. Many Europeans do this.
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  24493. LOL
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  24494. ​ @MirceaKitsune Except that young, impressionable, developing minor children do not have free will in that sense yet, any more than they have full physical development.
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  24495. ​ @daveisbrill You must know nothing about the Amish. Drug problems and inc*st are a problem in the young. Rare in adults, not at all rare in the young.
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  24496.  @burnthrust  Okay. But who is making money in this picture, and who is having to fight a tidalwave? You are right, but this is harder than you're making it sound.
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  24497.  @burnthrust  Fine. Lovely. I don't have kids. Your problem. Say and do whatever you want.
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  24498.  @burnthrust  Well then of course you're going to blame parents excessively. I should have known.
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  24499.  @burnthrust  No wonder, blaming parents unduly. Should have guessed.
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  24500.  @burnthrust  And imagining that if you say certain things, then I'll be "happy." 🤣
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  24501.  @burnthrust  Wow, I was censored then uncensored. That is rare!
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  24502.  @MirceaKitsune  My culture? Oh really? My culture is the one where I don't presume I know everything about strangers. Or would that be simple sanity?
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  24503. @MirceaKitsune  Last time I checked, Europeans are a lot more liberal about cartoons, images, television, and films. Or reading material -- Zola is an author taught in high school. Adult freedom carries with it the responsibility to shelter minors. That's how adults preserve the freedom to watch any Isabelle Huppert film or Lars von Trier film they want without everyone having a cow about it.
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  24504. Any of us can click the link to the Australian government website and see for ourselves that the AZ vaccine in particular was discontinued three weeks ago due to a serious side effect attributed to the vaccine: thrombosis with thrombocytopenia (TTS), and is no longer in use there, for anyone, for precisely that reason. Why are you spreading misinformation? What's in it for you?
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  24505.  @daveblackman816  And they very quietly lifted the mandate.
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  24506.  @EK-ev3pt  Have you been everywhere?
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  24507.  @EK-ev3pt  LOL, that was good.
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  24508. Now I see what may have happened. They knew all along the laptop was real and implicated Joe. This is how they get Obama/the Clintons back in de facto control of the Oval Office.
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  24509. @RedClaw8605  You didn't spot that I was talking about improper use of character evidence, which is a fundamental principle of evidence law? Lawyers are supposed to scrutinize language closely when they state the law. I'm not shocked that they're after her on a tiny misstep. Nothing to do with how I feel about it. Columbia is a disgrace. There. Is that better?
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  24510.  @user-xn9zj3yd7u  I hope my reply is visible.
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  24511.  @anmolt3840051  Under the law concerning character evidence it is.
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  24512.  @TeeceeMoody  I don't think you understood my post or listened closely to her comments. Her choice of words without a doubt left her open to the charge, which in the present atmosphere was unwise and unnecessary.
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  24513.  @TeeceeMoody  We all know what Elise Stefanik is up to, I hope. I'll get censored if I say more. Stefanik can't get fired. In fact, she filled up her campaign coffers nicely.
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  24514.  @lymitutit3046  You just don't understand my point. No surprise. It takes some brain power, which contemporary discourse despises.
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  24515. That was not what her mother said.
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  24516.  @AnaLucia-wy2ii  I did, to prove had it. Now I'm resistant to all known Omicron variants.
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  24517.  @omeyehead7436  LOL, true.
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  24518.  @canaldofred2366  That's right! That costs money!! /s
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  24519.  @canuck21  Yes, Cuba is one of those places that has a very long tradition of excellent medical care, and the Communists did not undermine it, but built on it, if anything.
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  24520. Why don't we elect the best to be president?
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  24521. Why are serial killers so much more common in English-speaking countries than anywhere else? US, UK, Canada, Australia, and South Africa have the highest rates. Eastern Europe, lower than Western, and developing countries lower than Eastern Europe.
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  24522. In the US, if sheer ignorance can fully explain a political phenomenon, go with sheer ignorance.
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  24523. Gave you a Like anyway. Fraud should always be considered.
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  24524. She comes across like Madame Mao.
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  24525. "I'd be, like, . . . "
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  24526. She really needs to follow the latest fad.
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  24527. Yes. Sedition with winners. Sedition with money.
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  24528. ​ @Mark0003260 Just the opposite.
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  24529. @lizzieb6311  oops forgot to mute you
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  24530. Just checked. The Reason magazine story is fully consistent with Brie's account here, down to the smallest detail. Reason claims that they broke the story in the first place. Go look. Then take it up with Reason. They also linked to the actual lawsuit. I plan to read it now. That's where facts usually are -- where lying could mean trouble.
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  24531.  @lizzieb6311  You said I wasn't decent and only cared about money. I didn't realize that was a compliment coming from you.
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  24532.  @lizzieb6311  Reason claims they broke this story, and Robby is a senior editor there. Looks like it's their facts you are mad at. Lol, what a plot twist. It's the other host's rag that provided the facts you don't like.
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  24533. Do you seriously think Macron's wife is trans? How gone are you? "Produce a picture!" French people don't play that game. You don't remember the funeral of Princess Diana's driver? No one had a problem being seen there. France is not England, other people don't rule them like that.
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  24534. Trick question. The right question is, how many boosters are we going to mandate?
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  24535. ​ @lidopina4334 Now you know how they think. Not what happened; what they think happened. 😅
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  24536. Great idea! Before puberty, I totally agree. After puberty, depends on the sport. Purely case by case. If contact sports might present a risk, why would tennis? Vollyball? I mean come on.
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  24537.  @austinhernandez2716  In some sports, there might be a greater risk of injury, or a practical impossibility, for cis girls to compete with trans girls. But that is a purely empirical question. There is no reason to make a blanket rule against it. Just following your proposed rule all through school would probably take care of it. Anyway, I'm not a fan of most contact sports. High school football for developing brains never made any sense to me, for anybody.
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  24538. Not sure I follow. Should minors get any medical intervention they very likely do not need?
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  24539. ​ @patienceobongo FALSE
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  24540. ​ @ladybug591 False. The Vietcong were native to South Vietnam, not coming in from the North. Most of Vietnam wanted communism. Fun fact: today, Vietnam has 10 million more people than all of Germany, even after all the Agent Orange dropped on them.
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  24541. Why are false statements staying up but true ones gone?
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  24542. ​ @patienceobongo Not true
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  24543. ​ @ladybug591 Not true
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  24544. And beer.
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  24545.  @JavierBonillaC  So then does my lousy quality of life come from the free market as well -- or do we chalk that up to being all my own fault? 🤣 Ideologues, spare us! The OP was outstanding, and very Aristotelian, actually. It thus predates any such debate about Mao or Marx, or Jesus, for that matter. (Were you . . . jealous?) Here's a thought: If The Market has decided that McDonald's and reality television are worth more than Barenboim, Einstein, Mozart, and Zizek put together, is that proof that they are? The opening discussion of ascent of the rentier class, which Adam Smith warned us about, and for good reason, is excellent. Adam Smith predates Marx -- of course. Don't pretend this is so tough by diverting the conversation to the usual nonsense.
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  24546.  @mavrospanayiotis  Nicely said.
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  24547.  @maxheadrom3088  Smith considered the free market one where the "invisible hand" was fully operational -- which the rentier class always tries to impede, to gain advantage for preexisting fortunes at the expense of productive and creative people. He would never call what you see in the US -- finance capitalism and no commons (with the possible exception of the air we breath, but there are those who pollute that, so . . . ) -- a "free market."
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  24548. Nice take! These guys on TJDS are the greasers.
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  24549. The divorce rate for couples who marry young (18 to 25) is much higher than for those who just wait a few more years. Huh. I wonder why.
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  24550. Yeah. The real fact is that it's illegal to use deadly force in defense of property. Deadly force for self-defense is for the safety of persons, not things.
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  24551. ​​ @Egill2011 Simply ask whether you are under arrest. If so, they must provide Miranda warnings. Invoke your right to an attorney, and the questioning must stop.
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  24552. College is free or nearly so in most places.
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  24553. @AtticusEmerson  Actually, there is a GOOD reason why we should pay: regulatory capture. The regulated SHOULD NOT pay the regulator. The regulator must be independent. He is there representing the public. His very day-to-day presence on the boats is motivation enough to be sympathetic to the fisherman and overlook infractions. If they also pay him, he WILL look to placate them. There is a second good reason: a sudden and complete withdrawal of subsidy will be a shock to the industry, and smaller fisheries will go out of business. Big ones will grow bigger, then lobby to get the regulations they want. They will invariably have greater power to make the rules and bend them when it suits them, whereas the small fry can't. Pun intended.
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  24554.  @jupitercyclops6521  EXACTLY MY POINT. So sorry you missed it. The last time they "worried" about inflation, they created one of the worst recessions up to that time, during REAGAN'S first term. Because people will always be sacrificed to keep the oligarchs fat, and the oligarchs never have enough. I wonder why you misunderstood, eh? Yeah, I sure do. Is 1981 ancient history for you? Anything since Reagan/Thatcher is part of the same hypercapitalist sequence. We live in the dystopia they made. Don't shoot the messanger.
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  24555.  @oswarz  AMEN What else?
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  24556. Sounds like this one will be confirmed.
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  24557. Neither Hunter Biden nor Donald Trump were expecting this. Because after all, . . . what's money for??
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  24558. All objective people know the US is a declining empire.
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  24559. ​@dandylandpuffplaysminecraf8744 This is exactly the play book that was followed to force an inferior vaccine on everyone, including toddlers, in a country with no universal health care or universal disability safety net. And the manufacturers got full immunity from suit and full patent protection. Jonas Salk never asked for that. Here's an idea: see who other people vaccinate. Sweden for example, or Switzerland. See what their recommendations are. That might aid you in your quest for critical thinking.
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  24560. LOL
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  24561. His parents and school sent him to Washington DC to demonstrate against women's reproductive rights. He was a teenager in high school, too young to consent to sex much less tell grown women what to do, about anything. Did you know any family or school did that? It came as news to me. They are almost as far gone as QAnon.
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  24562.  @chrisfarley510  Utter insanity. That was why they were on the school trip to DC. I was shocked. I did not know there was a mainstream religion that did that to kids. Some of them were as young as 14. I still have no place to put it. Sounds like Amy's QAnon report from the other day.
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  24563. No. Immunity covers them. CVS competition.
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  24564.  @darvinmilevic7418  "the eastern section of the internet" The minute these people get excited, which is whenever they get the least pushback, just look how they lash out. Look at where they go. If only they would learn. I have to listen to contrary viewpoints every day. But I'm not a "superior race," so I guess I had to learn to take it gracefully.
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  24565.  @lesaamoore  More sloganeering. So WHAT if Russians are a Eurasian people? East is relative. Keep going east and you reach LA. If you don't know that you discourse consists of stringing together slogans, then yes, try bibliotherapy.
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  24566.  @lesaamoore  Yeah, I did think name calling would end with Trump. My bad for "going there."
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  24567.  @boo2457  Don't one-up her rhetoric. It's infantile.
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  24568. @LA Seriously no self-reflection. I consider it beneath childish to attack people rather than deal with their ideas. You have, in black and white, precisely what I think of her views, and either you don't read, or you don't understand what I wrote, for reasons I that are opaque to me. Refusing to denounce her is not cheering her. Maybe you should find the article in the NYTimes that I mentioned, it might be a reality check. You're seeing everything in terms of personalities. I don't understand how this happened. Do you not see how this approach is not working? Glenn Greenwald just posted two videos on Ukraine that are not policy positions but methodology positions -- they are a plea for cooler heads, and for understanding and resisting emotionalism. I just said Iverson recently made a video where she said Putin has larger, more sinister long range aims that include undermining the West. SHE said that. Thus, you see that possibility, too. You agree on that point. I don't understand why you don't see that this is not a time for name calling, that this is serious now. I think you do, or you wouldn't bother talking to me!
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  24569.  @Thatcntwiththecivic  My first reaction as well. But we need to be compassionate.
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  24570.  @ceegabe1555  Try reading. Reading is good.
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  24571.  @ceegabe1555  Robot? Poseur? Merry pranks?
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  24572.  @nadating  No need to go that far at this time.
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  24573.  @nadating  Nor yours, that's for sure.
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  24574.  @nadating  That would be hard.
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  24575.  @nadating  Oh, I get it. I could stop answering you. You're right.
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  24576. I'm not conservative, and I certainly suspected provocateurs and false flags on January 6th. Did you realize the same was true of some so-called "antifa?"
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  24577. Gloria Steinem was CIA. Not a rumor, she was proud of it. She said it was full of idealists at the time.
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  24578. Now you know how people of modest means got property in California: they inherited it. Megan Markle's mother did, and lived there for a long time. Imagine being 90, and living in the same house for 75 years.
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  24579. And who will oppose it? The Democrats are knee-deep in Tesla stock, Nvidia stock, etc. You see this, correct?
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  24580. 12:25 -- what got Katie fired, I think. Too many facts for some tender ears.
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  24581. How? I need Happy Talk. I mean it.
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  24582. No it hasn't. Everyone knows what $ide the bread is buttered on. Everyone knows what to $ay and why.
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  24583.  @richardpatrick2852  Bad talking point.
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  24584.  @yankee2666  Because Ginsburg strongly supported choice and always made that clear.
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  24585. Oh please. JD, MBA, CPA, MD, DPharm, MPA, MLS, MFA, MSW, Bachelors and Masters in Nursing, Physical therapy. . . how many jobs am I up to? I didn't mention pure science or mathematics.
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  24586.  @FilmScoutingEnthusiast  No they're not. In any event, do you know what the most common major is by far, and has been for decades? Business. Next are the various medical fields. By your logic, law can be STEM. Plenty of patent attorneys have an engineering degree. Pre-med need not be a science major. It requires science courses each year, but not a full major, and a lot of people in pre-med don't major in the sciences. Same for pharmacy. Accounting does not even require calculus. European high school used to require it. Have it your way.
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  24587.  @FilmScoutingEnthusiast  You doubt that pre-meds don't major in science? They practically need perfect grades, and they usually need genetics and a lot of biochemistry. Now think through the strategy to get straight As each semester. Hmm. It's not by taking four science classes per semester, or three. You're not going to take partial differential equations or tensor analysis. LOL
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  24588.  @FilmScoutingEnthusiast  I was straight academic: philosophy, mathematics, a degree from a European university where I took a year of ancient Greek, then a JD. (You can't tell?) You really don't know anything. Maybe you need some . . . College?
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  24589. @TheRBReaper  I stated that pre-meds often don't major in science. Try again. My point was that a ton of various jobs DO require college, and this includes many that are NOT STEM. I've known pre-meds majoring in philosophy, anthropology, and of course psychology. Pre-med requires a lot of science, but not a major. In fact, a concentration in, say, chemistry or physics is less valuable to a doctor than a well-chosen array of classes from several sciences, plus perfect grades. Statistics is more valuable to a doctor than advanced calculus. I had enough math to be a physics major, but that's deceptive: the minimum required is nowhere near enough to really do anything with it. Do you know any pre-med students? Or any smart people, in any field? You should meet some. Also, a logic class might be helpful.
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  24590.  @FilmScoutingEnthusiast  Correct. You have no idea what that is. You wouldn't know Kant from . . .
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  24591. @TheRBReaper  If you get in trouble, do you go to an engineer, or a lawyer? If you insist that doctors are STEM, all right. They aren't unless they go into research, but that hardly changes the basic point. Given that I have more math than the physics or engineering majors at my university needed to graduate, should I claim I'm in a STEM field? (BTW, Do you know anything about the Symbolic Systems major at Stanford? Philosophy is a required subject. Anyway, you obviously don't know anything about the Symbolic Systems major, etc.) I don't believe you're an engineer. In my advanced math classes, I never met an engineer whose logic was as poor as yours, asking me what my point was when it was obvious. You also seem to know nothing about what people study at university, or what sorts of jobs a college degree leads to. Looking at your posts as a whole, an attorney would make sure to examine your transcript and contact the registrar to verify it.
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  24592.  @Diggnuts  Um, barefoot wasn't rare back then.
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  24593. Absolutely jump on the latest fad, and follow that drug addicts advice.
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  24594. Absolutely jump on the latest fad, and follow a guru.
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  24595. Much worse.
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  24596.  @JosephE-yd6ks  I bet he doesn't. I bet he also doesn't hang out with sex traffickers of 14 year old girls. I guess not everyone is lucky?
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  24597.  @JT-pt5tl  In fact, when Paul Allen was in treatment for cancer, Bill Gates tried to push him out of Microsoft. I think he's the perfect person to advise us on health, even without his friendship with former science impresario Jeffrey Epstein.
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  24598.  @calmerthanyou6180  Most people have a doctor, and most people know their doctor well. Bill the dropout Gates knows more than a doctor? So medical education is in the toilet now? Good to know, thanks.
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  24599.  @asuraphreak  Expert opinion: "well, he's dead, so you have to be careful." You know we won't be impressed with your money, so you trot out one of these psychopaths as though they were a primitive fetish, hoping to goad someone into feeling the envy you feel. 🤣
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  24600. In two years, this sure did not age well.
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  24601.  @pbworld7858  They think they had better hold the line now, and they are right.
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  24602. MSM (other than Democracy Now!) are generally ignoring the story. Assange's father and brother are here asking for charges to be dropped. AND today is Assange's birthday; he turned 50. It is news.
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  24603.  @sandibrockway7959  I have one friend who has rejected vaccination. She just volunteered for a monoclonal antibody study and devoted four hours of her time during the Friday before Labor Day to be prescreened.
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  24604. Remember "the walls are closing in?"
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  24605.  @theviking2877  No, the Nobel prize is for a RIVER BLINDNESS drug.
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  24606. Police have a right to lie to persons of interest or to potential witnesses. We have the right to remain silent.
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  24607.  @KaraKubed  Our state had an innocent man on death row in that exact position. He came home to find his parents murdered. He was on death row for nearly two years before it was uncovered that a motorcycle gang of meth dealers did it. He and his parents were farmers. He was an adult, by the way.
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  24608. So there is zero chance the president of MIT will be fired. Penn already went, Harvard's Gay probably won't but they are still trying. MIT's has nothing to worry about. Got it.
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  24609. Was he legally carrying? Did he do anything illegal with his firearm?
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  24610. She's selling trusts to ordinary people? BEWARE. It might be beneficial for a few people, it probably won't be for most. But the lawyers will make bank.
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  24611. I've only seen that it may be effective, not that it is, on the NIH website.
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  24612. She deserves lifetime earnings, adjusted for ordinary raises and expected inflation, plus punitive damages.
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  24613. LOL
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  24614. And I would guess that witnesses who refuse to come forward are unarmed in their homes and afraid for their lives. I think that's a pretty good guess. Then of course there are the police who are in cahoots with drug lords. One lived right on my block. The other side from the mob enforcer.
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  24615. ​@dustinbaker8272 Notice how the little drips and drabs that are coming out . . . Remember how Bill Gates had only one dinner with Epstein and donated only one million dollars to a science lab at Epstein's suggestion? Then it was two dinners, and two million bucks, then . . . Yeah, well, . . . The question is, how can it keep working?
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  24616.  @elvinotero3877  So then the hypothetical is, if someone broke into your home while it was unoccupied. Someone burgled me. I would have been happy just to talk to them, I wouldn't even pursue them to send them to prison. That's me, personally. My family was robbed by the system (Enron-style malfeasance at the top cost us nearly all retirement savings, and this was at two major corporations, not one.) The burglar didn't find any money and left, without committing vandalism or even disturbing computers and small change on the kitchen table. If he had vandalized my home, in anger at not finding what he was looking for, then I'd have wanted his arse in prison for sure. This stuff is so obvious to me, personally.
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  24617.  @elvinotero3877  Yes, that is just a fact -- committing crimes is dangerous. People who do it could end up killed. Other people who encounter them at 4 am may not know their intentions, or be inclined to be generous toward them, and at that hour, they are more likely to be frightened or behave irrationally due to being woken up. It's also true that if the man was not in any danger himself, personally, then his use of deadly force was against the law. People who own and use firearms should know that fact. Gun owners are "among the most responsible citizens," isn't that the story? I'm not trying to be cute. I actually thought they had some basics explained to them at some point. My friends who use firearms know.
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  24618.  @elvinotero3877  Wow, more details: the man is a DC government employee. Yeah, one would expect he would know the law.
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  24619. If I try to look up "Pandor" (the SA minister, whose eloquence is unique), I get sent to Pandora Jewelry. Tell me how to change this. 🤔
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  24620. Just got censored for stating that information is available on the NIH website. Can't say more. I don't know what triggered the algorithm.
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  24621. Perfectly put.
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  24622. During this pandemic we came to realize how much we depend on China and India for our pharmaceuticals and hospital supplies. So we're going stymie them now, on VACCINES, during a pandemic? Looks like Gates isn't that smart, huh.
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  24623. ???
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  24624. He's no more responsible for that than Trump was for a handful of January 6th protesters who broke in and damaged the Capitol. You must have never read an actual Supreme Court case.
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  24625.  @Vastness2646  When I said something like that, here is what happened ____________. Right. I don't see it either. 🤣
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  24626. @chrishawkins5852  Good thing no one Trump pardoned was a trespasser. Whew.
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  24627. I doubt that.
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  24628.  @zugdarr  They shouldn't be if they get jobs in the most politically sensitive areas of the world thanks to being related to Biden.
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  24629. @Michael Sprague That doesn't sound seasonal to me.
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  24630. @Michael Sprague Aww. Don't be sad. Reading issues does not mean you are a bad person.
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  24631. "Parasite" and "Mother" -- Artists are prescient.
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  24632. Nicely stated!
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  24633.  @steve_m2473  The kids who worked their way through school 40 years ago and the ones today who don't are different people. The play-date kids are infantile forever. Economic policies have broad consequences for real life. Be careful how you define "efficiency." It really means benefits for a few and hardship for all others. IOW, all economics is political economics.
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  24634.  @steve_m2473  It was implicit in your reply to Josh Bobst, and in free market arguments in general. So, let's drop all of the labels, no problem. Were people who could pay for school and get a small apartment anywhere in the country by working 35 to 50 hours per week at minimum wage a freer people? (Did they enjoy more "liberty?")
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  24635.  @steve_m2473  Do you understand that $3.10 per hour could cover all that? That was the purchasing power of a dollar. Multiply 3.10 × 35 × 10 and you get . . . a year of in-state tuition and fees or trade school in 1980. Were people "enslaved?"
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  24636.  @steve_m2473  No one denies that. (BTW, I have a flip phone.) If you contend that the freedom to earn your own tuition, rather than taking on massive debt OR having to join the military and then benefit from the GI Bill, is enslaving others, you're going to have to explain that. Since school became something you must take on massive debt to complete, more and more people have gotten Business degrees, hardly the path of liberation for the shoe and smart phone makers. The Business majors will be fighting to get jobs managing those people. They won't be thinking about enslavement. Huh. Who took a larger view, tell me again?
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  24637. Hope so! Consider if there were a different reason.
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  24638. @C_R_O_M______  First, you've misstated the theory: the worker himself and society must value the task. Mere activity is not labor any more than passing gas is art. Second, is any audio or video of your debate available? Have you read Technofeudalism? Have you sat in on his classes? Third, I'm being scents oared too much, including from saying so. I wasn't planning to engage this much. I guess the much-vaunted market values scents or ship; if intermittent reinforcement schedules draw us in, cha-ching. Thus, a measure of s or s has greater value than free speech -- but only is money = value. It should be obvious that you can't refute anything I said with ad hominem against Varoufakis. You also conflated my theoretical point with my examples. And I just gave you one more. Private entities that are allowed to assert ownership over what operates like a commons (like a modern-day public square) will make more money without free speech than with it, by operation of intermittent reinforcement, which creates much stronger habits. This leads to cents err sheep, astutely applied, having the greater value by far.
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  24639. @C_R_O_M______  Well, I'm glad you could see it. I can't anymore. I suppose that means others can't, either. My example of speech occasionally curtailed bringing in more money made PERFECT sense. (The euphemism is that intermittent reinforcement makes apps and platforms "sticky." See, if every post appeared, then the platform would have less "value" because people would not strive to use it quite as much. Similar to engineered scarcity.) I think you do know exactly what I mean. Based on everything else you've said, you certainly do. You can read and you can think. You just prefer to retreat from that for the moment, and you might even have good reasons of your own. I'm really done here now.
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  24640. Read the actual vaccine consent forms and attached fact sheet. Nevermind any other facts that have been uncovered since then. The forms themselves acknowledge that after reading them, the person may decide to decline, and THEIR HEALTHCARE WILL NOT BE AFFECTED.
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  24641. I see that Biden has done it, too, and I actually expected better. The day Trump left office, it felt like someone had been beating me and suddenly, the beating stopped. That feeling didn't last long.
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  24642. Wait. What does Baltimore have to do with Nancy, Jen, and Alexandria's stock portfolios?
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  24643. Except he predicted the last election when no one like him thought that.
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  24644.  @caseman434  So then they are [insert r word], literally.
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  24645. Did people really miss her point? First of all, campaign staffers write these tweets. It is highly unlikely that Kennedy did -- basically impossible. Briahna knows how this works, because she was the press secretary on a major campaign -- Bernie's. Now, if someone else did it, think about what THAT would mean. Go through the possibilities. Bad hiring -- possible. A plant -- possible. Hmm . . . Getting the picture? Personally, I suspect a set-up. This is a classic dirty trick. DNC planted someone in his campaign, and it's perfect -- he can't say anything because he is then shown to be a Conspiracy Theorist. Checkmate.
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  24646. That's FUNNY??
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  24647. ​@Flowersandtrees And force them to take . . . You know. Forget it.
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  24648. AND MAUI???
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  24649. What do you mean by blew the whistle? Asked him to resign? Or had him arrested, ruined his record, etc.? I would never arrest anyone for food theft. Never, ever. (Remember Les Miserables?) But obviously he can't stay at that job, either.
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  24650.  @sleepfighter  Say what? You mean he reported this to the authorities? What does race or gay have to do with stealing a loaf of bread, or a bunch of grapes? Was this grape trafficking, in quantities, for profit??
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  24651.  @sleepfighter  I'm sorry, this is an internal matter. You ask him to resign. You NEVER, and I mean NEVER, report someone for stealing food for personal consumption. It's like, a thing you don't do, since the French Revolution, since Victor Hugo wrote. What happened to moral values? Someone is getting 15 minutes of fame and a twitter storm, over this?
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  24652.  @sleepfighter  blocked
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  24653. I thought all along that (1) Trump wanted to build in Moscow; and (2) Trump never drew a bright line between being president and making money. Trump is a complete cynic. The "smoke" led to that fire, and that's it.
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  24654. How do you know? He said so?
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  24655. You were in Belgrade, George. Do you include Belgrade in your observations of general decay?
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  24656. What language did you read it in? 😂
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  24657. So well said.
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  24658.  @aliciadishman  Were you here during AIDS? People were in full hysteria mode, kicking others out of jobs, and kicking kids with hemophilia out of school. (The hysterical story then was that mosquitoes might transmit it, and the cause of certain cases was not clear.) If you are vaccinated and a nurse or doctor tests regularly, what exactly do you think you have to fear from them? I know exactly one person who refuses to be vaccinated, and cannot be persuaded to reconsider -- well, she is now a volunteer in a double-blind monoclonal antibody study. She spent Labor Day weekend getting screened. This is to help others. Smear her, why don't you?
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  24659.  @aliciadishman  The majority loves bombing other countries. Can you list them all, since the atom bombs? Droning is big now, too. Techy and everything.
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  24660.  @neilfox9854  Just how scared are you, of something with a 1.85 to 2.1% case fatality rate? Who hasn't faced something worse? We don't even know how long immunity lasts, all we know is that it wanes faster than for other vaccines. Could you and your nurse have declining immunity at the same time, and could you, who are presumably less healthy, being in the hospital, catch it from her? Yes. BOO!!!! People were all paranoid about AIDS, too, and wanted to make people divulge their HIV status, etc. It was pathetic.
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  24661. I think that was the idea. I'll believe the DNC were against Trump only after I see their stock portfolios before and after. All of this looks more like false flag every day. We're supposed to be diverted from real concerns for some reason, and I think Eisenhower had it right 💯.
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  24662.  @WitlessSod  If it turns out that you're right, and Dore does not admit it when the truth comes to light, then I'll be among the first to denounce "Magnus" and Dore. Of course.
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  24663.  @infinitefantasy5277  What in the world are you on about? What arguments against WHAT?
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  24664.  @infinitefantasy5277  BTW, I don't have a television, and have never had cable. So. Enjoying Fox News, are we? Do you have to pay to listen to that rot?
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  24665.  @infinitefantasy5277  I support Dore. Missed that part?
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  24666.  @vinnys7514  Therefore we cannot have bold journalism. In America. Got it.
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  24667.  @vinnys7514  Here is precisely what I wrote: "JIMMY DID NOT ENDORSE THIS GUY. He is standing for the PRINCIPLE of being willing to speak to people like him. We don't know whether Magnus is genuine, false flag, confused, a plant. Possibly non-neurotypical. SO WHAT? You must have the intelligence and discernment to listen to all types of people without being drawn into their orbit." You seized upon one fragment of the last line. Well, I guess you're consistent at least. You proved your own point.
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  24668.  @WitlessSod  I didn't say I didn't hold him responsible. If he is a fraud, then he's a fraud, and he is to blame for being a fraud. And if he turns out to be a fraud and Jimmy fails to admit that he is, then, AND ONLY THEN, will I denounce Jimmy. No problem. You're so quick to judge and categorize and reject the slightest nuance because that stance has served you. Goody for you. People like Magnus are not going anywhere. You can't shun them all, relegate them to perpetual basement dwelling, or line them up and shoot them. Some people take more risks than others. The former are generally more creative by nature. They make more mistakes, get into more trouble -- and discover more good things and new ways of approaching this poor life. That's how it is. You are SO cramped. You can't demand that everyone be like you, or condemn them as Nazis, or something, if they deviate from YOUR lead. SHEESH.
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  24669.  @WitlessSod  I do pity Magnus. I don't deny it. That's not infantilizing him. That's recognizing what's in front of me. If this society cannot withstand the "pressure" exerted by this guy, our problems are vastly deeper than you or I can fathom, and "not platforming" is not going to do anything about solving them. It's not even a start. All the more reason to give Jimmy's approach a try.
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  24670.  @WitlessSod  No one here supports the Boogaloo Boys, or however you spell it. JD made sure to make that clear. He said he had no reason to think Magnus is representative of them, or typical in any way.
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  24671.  @WitlessSod  Well, frankly, I can't claim compassion for someone I don't relate to at all. I feel pity, and I admit it. I nevertheless treat him as an individual, not a fungible member of any group, and wholeheartedly support what Dore did this time. If Magnus came on and lied, and we know with reasonable certainty that he lied, and Jimmy fails to acknowledge as much, that will be a different story.
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  24672.  @WitlessSod  Thank you. You know what you've made me realize? I actually don't give a shit. Glad Jimmy and Stef are doing well.
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  24673. OH REALLY? I would trade places in a heartbeat. In 1970, two minimum wage workers sharing an apartment could meet the rent in just about every major city. That was freedom to travel. A summer job paid for a year of in-state tuition at a public university, every last one, Michigan, Virginia, Texas, UC-Berkeley, you name it . . . In 1990, places like Minneapolis were still affordable. Took them longer to deteriorate.
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  24674.  @LordLewsTheDragon  All but the part about racial disparities is false or tendentious. And you're cooking the books, too. The total number of people who go to college today, which includes community college, is 40%. You also seem to assume that they want to go, as opposed to having to go because there are no good jobs for them. (You think there is a sudden passion for majoring in business, the top major for three decades now? Or is it demonstration of docility?) Jim Crow ended in the 1960s, and in 1970, the mass incarceration had not yet begun (or, in some cases, resumed). You seem to think the size of an apartment indicates more freedom than the ability to leave school debt-free, join with a friend, or get married, and take off to live wherever you wanted -- New York, Seattle, San Francisco, Denver, it didn't matter. It was up to you. Why is that a fair tradeoff? I don't see what's so great about having a space that's bigger, but you're stuck there, with fewer people than ever before. You also seem to think that technology has not contributed to a dystopia where you yourself can't move very freely unless you are very wealthy, but a mob can follow you around the globe and destroy your reputation and your prospects, in perpetuity, and the state and private conglomerates can find out anything they want about you, without a warrant -- or worse yet, use a computer program to profile you and manipulate you without your knowledge or consent, so that it is not even you who anyone is interacting with, it is their two-dimensional construct of you, providing them with just enough information to get you to do what they want. I'm omitting the ease with which a person receives death threats now, and the number of guns per person. Those have too many causes to unravel, but the trend is not wonderful. Also, look into the use of militarized SWAT teams. Those used to be used rarely. I would like to compare our infant mortality and maternal mortality of today with that of Sweden or France 30 to 50 years ago, and to compare trend lines as well, and then to see what it is by race and class. That would be instructive. Is the huge increase in autism, ADHD, and even childhood bipolar disorder real? Gender dysphoria, too? The increase in diagnosis certainly is, but that could be part of the medicalization of childhood -- many psychiatrists sincerely believe so. Then there is also the issue of healthy lifespan; end of life has become a nightmare for far too many. The bare numbers hide more than they inform.
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  24675.  @LordLewsTheDragon  It's not about "feelings," or "dark places." My numbers were correct. You are wasting my time. Blocked. BTW, it's not hard to go back to a 1970s style of life, without giving up all of the advantages of modern tech and medicine. All you have to do is speak languages and move. I'm multilingual. I even know more than one alphabet (three, to be precise). And I can move. :) You? Not so much? :D
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  24676.  @LordLewsTheDragon  My family were immigrants. Each generation here did worse. But that's not the narrative monolingual monocultural anglophones ever (want to) hear. :D The world is changing.
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  24677. The indictment doesn't even mention murder; they are charged with manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, etc. IOW, nothing.
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  24678. @yellowhibiscus-ll2gx  We usually say "minors." Children are youngsters who have not completed puberty. They are usually 10th grade or younger. The age of consent in Florida is 18. The federal age for crossing state lines is 18. The federal legal age for producing pictures is 18. So, it's clear. No need to call them "children."
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  24679.  @citytrees1752  The laws do make a distinction based on reality. 17 is not 7.
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  24680. @wilmamanzanillo6968  ??? These are bright-line rules. Even the states that have exceptions (17 age of consent, but people 15 or over and very close in age are not criminally prosecuted), the rule is spelled out. A month off, and it's a felony.
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  24681. Amen.
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  24682.  @christiansmith8529  Five generations ago? Oh, well then.
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  24683. That was a healthy response! See how alone you are? Just kidding, sort of.
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  24684. Just so you know, problems with setting up a Rumble account. Google won't let me get to the gmail account that has the Welcome email. It keeps defaulting to a work email that I keep trying to bypass.
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  24685.  @Dwilird  In the States, in any region where fewer people pulled such stunts, it was clearly easier to do. I lived most of my adult life in Chicago, and when I lived in a smaller city, I was astounded by what the con artists could pull off, with no one suspecting a thing. My late mother never got used to it. She always imagined "someone" was controlling such things to prevent lies and frauds from taking hold. Even the concept that one school could be vastly better than another one, just down the street, or that private education was generally far above public -- or that someone could simply call what they were doing a "school," and that it was up to the public to check accredidation -- made no sense to her. She could not assimilate.
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  24686. Well, if he can pay for it, why can't he have it? Whatsa matter? Jealous? /s
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  24687. Trump's sheer horror gives Biden and other DNC types, and MSM manipulation and outright lying provides excuses to the Q-Anon people, white supremacists, neo-Nazis, etc. This is a dangerous game. Enough with get rich quick. Be honest, work for your damn money, like most people do.
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  24688. ​ @kendog0731  😂😂👏👏👏
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  24689. Something ugly is emerging here: kids who develop myocarditis are being treated like they are inferior, Social Darwinian-style. So is anyone who has been seriously sickened by the vaccine. It is EASY to marginalize these people because they are a small number. So they don't count, and can be silenced and despised.
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  24690. Five Eyes have generally been the craziest during this pandemic. No surprise.
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  24691. Liz calls him a "nutjob" (!!!), clearly knowing absolutely nothing about the man, or the history behind his family. He is a preeminent toxic tort lawyer, among other things. She has no idea of the history of phrases she uses, like "conspiracy theorist." She belongs on CNN, MSNBC.
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  24692. Wow. I speak three languages and could leave. One of them is a language spoken in a country the US bombed, so . . . 😊
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  24693. OH YES IT IS.
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  24694. I don't pay attention to school shootings any more. Have we had any lately?
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  24695. This is true. But wait, there is more. Censorship of pro-Palestinian views has been greater. Look at Abby Martin's lawsuit. States have been demanding what amounts to a loyalty oath to the Netanyahu government, which many Israelis don't support.
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  24696.  @alexanderh3924  The ER bill could be more.
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  24697.  @negiushegratte982  Which is generally inadmissible.
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  24698. Don't talk to police at all. Guilty pleas and admissions are for the judge.
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  24699. ​ @EinSofQuester Do you think everybody you are told not to like is Hitler?
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  24700. ​@Bronco-1776 What did you expect to do? It's not your country, and only the lowest of the low of that country would collaborate with the West to set up some sort of puppet regime.
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  24701. So true.
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  24702. Safe, clean streets . . .
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  24703. ​ @BidenWearsTrumpsCrappyDiapers Do you understand irony? If not, that's to be expected now.
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  24704. The really funny part is that smart phone addicts think drug addicts have choices. 😂 Those 40%+ obese got that way for some reason, too . . . maybe their choice? Funny, no one chose that after the depression and WWII, when the temptation to overeat was great.
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  24705. @peterbelanger4094  Weinstein has a PhD from Harvard.
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  24706.  @DollyPartonFarts  Well, anyone who spells it as one just shouldn't have a home.
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  24707.  @cleanearth6238  Were you homeless in the East Bay area? A little different, if you need $10k just to sign a lease on a STUDIO.
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  24708. Michael Parenti recommendation is excellent.
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  24709. DUH, exactly her point: resume studies show this discrimination is rampant, but it is impossible to prove in any particular case, EVEN WHEN TRUE. My friend's boss asked his secretary to throw out resumes from people of Indian descent. My friend retrieved them and put them on his desk. Let him throw them out himself.
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  24710.  @Insane_dimension  Call them for an interview and take a close look.
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  24711.  @Insane_dimension  I'm not responsible for your racism. Even my dreams are integrated.
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  24712.  @Insane_dimension  It's easier for you to repeat "victim" and "responsibility" slogans blah blah than to think for once in your whole life, just for fun. Check it out. See what it feels like.
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  24713. Really nice to watch this again after several years. Points up how social media mobs have poisoned our lives: now, it's not true that "no matter what, I'll be okay." That's because you may be removed from a position you earned, because something misleading went viral.
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  24714. Anyone who doesn't have sympathy for Melinda, seeing the look on her face, it very hard-hearted. A moderate lotto win is worth more than any money having anything to do with Gates.
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  24715.  @indoororchidsandtropicals358  I'm like that. I think of strong men as having an instant reaction in response to weaker creatures, and will want to protect them from mortal danger. That's why "bad boys," money grubbers, submissive males, and brutal males turn me off. A guy who instantly protect women, children, very old people, disabled people, and small, defenseless animals are my type. I'd almost call them the "ideal soldier." Deeply committed anti-war combat veterans are an example.
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  24716. 2:45 The look on Jimmy's face
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  24717.  Harald Blåtand  He knows full well his good ideas are nonstarters.
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  24718.  Adam Rampichini  Why, you individual thinker, you! So hot in a man.
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  24719.  @DerpDahFlerp  Abernathy, Civil Rights and Constitutional Litigation, or an intellectual property book, not sure now. OR something by Michael Ratner.
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  24720.  @canonli  Oh of course. "As everyone knows." As the mass MEDIA has trained you to think. If you're this in tune with "the truth," or the Zeitgeist (same thing, in the Five Eyes at least), I urge you to go into advertising or day trading, then take the money and run.
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  24721.  @realityobservationalist7290  I'm not part of any problem you have.
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  24722.  @scottryals3191  Maddow was fine with them when they were censoring in favor of her agenda. They'll flip again, but not to our side.
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  24723. How is a city where you have to be a millionaire to live a "progressive" city? How is a K-12 school where tuition is over $65,000 a year (hence $845,000, unadjusted, for the full 13 years), where fewer than 25% get any financial aid, a "progressive" school? Where do these words come from?
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  24724. Funny that people don't understand the main feature of our legal culture -- that we DO NOT rely solely on texts and codification. That is not what the English-speaking countries usually do. In a certain sense, the Constitution is the starting point for a common law based on the interpretation of the Constitution by the Supreme Court. It is not a Napoleonic Code, nor is it a descendant of any code. Anyone who says anything different is misleading you. Britain's constitution isn't even written, yet it exists.
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  24725. Millionaire life, yes, like a page out of Animal Farm.
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  24726. ​ @merlingeikie  Does everyone come up with a language on their own? As "individuals?"
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  24727. Shows you how lack of knowledge of modern technologies by the wider community has doomed us. They can spread any story they want.
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  24728. @callak_9974  Why is it that the very best school systems in history did no such thing?
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  24729. @emilymiller1792  Notice how every supposed "solution" is more or less dubious for one simple reason: it has no solid historical record of having worked consistently and well anywhere. But one thing the "solutions" all have in common is that someone will make money. True of charter schools, true of DEI "instructors."
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  24730.  @callak_9974  Show me where this has worked. Is McDonald's going under? Pfizer? Facebook? A mantra does not make it so.
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  24731.  @emilymiller1792  Too bad about the scents or sheep here.
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  24732. @emilymiller1792  No, not usually. They are hired by private businesses or by school systems to teach employees how to "interrupt racism." (Before the recent war in Gaza, Norman Finkelstein wrote some pretty funny commentary on that.)
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  24733. @emilymiller1792  Answered your question but it's _______ .
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  24734. @emilymiller1792  Exactly! I shall not say more. (This is sad.)
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  24735.  @TheVuduYuDu  This is scary. In the face of an illness like this, I expected people to pull together and sober up, figuratively and literally. Things are always worse than I suspect.
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  24736. ​@jeffhicks8428 U of Michigan took this case a long time ago, in their law school's innocence project.
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  24737. Oh boy . . . And what have you achieved? These rants betray you.
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  24738. AMEN
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  24739. Biden made the US look weak.
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  24740.  @shap7866  I guess that when you fail to honor your promises not to expand NATO, you deliberately throw a monkey wrench into vital peace negotiations, and you seize assets and the means of payment of vital obligations, suddenly it starts to look like various conditions precedent were not met. I don't know, maybe Poots is just a tad touchy about stuff like that for some reason. He's weird.
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  24741.  @shap7866  Sure, Bub, absolutely. Anything you say. Good luck with making that stick in this century.
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  24742.  @shap7866  BTW . . . You sound like you have the mentality of a high school sophomore, in an affluent suburb of, say, Denver. Do you know that this is a luxury?
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  24743.  @jimtalbott2095  Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, former Yugoslavia: "now he says so . . ."
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  24744.  @jimtalbott2095  But sanction countries you depend on to be full participants in global energy and grain markets. Sounds like a plan.
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  24745. Shocking? Who's shocked? This is Hunter we are talking about.
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  24746. Bravo Brie and Robbie!! (Well, Briahna critics, what do you have to say now?)
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  24747. That's got to be the worst book I ever read, LOL.
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  24748. Max in RARE FORM!!
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  24749. There is a difference between harm to person and harm to property. She ALSO acknowledged the current acts are CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE. That means you must be willing to accept jail, as did Dr. King.
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  24750. Watch the documentary Do Not Resist. The son of a lifelong police officer made it. By the end, his father supported him. He never did the things his son documented in that film. He didn't know any police did.
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  24751. Yes the First Amendment applies to everyone on American soil.
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  24752. Ben Shapiro has a Harvard law degree, and this is what he does with it. Doesn't this say it all? There used to be standards for leaders. There used to be professional pride in Ivy League law grads. But now, it's all about the money. The more you get for the less you do, the better a profit maximizer you are. OF COURSE Shapiro supports Cruz's self-indulgence. Right up his alley.
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  24753. $38 million is over $4,430 per hour --- for every hour of every day in the entire year, waking, sleeping, holidays, vacations, 24/7/365. He must work hard, huh? Most people have to work the entire month to make that. Or, compare it with the minimum wage, which is closer to what Chipotle workers make . . .
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  24754.  @Cyanidal187  Yeah. And for what?
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  24755. Why have there been more deaths this year than last, when we've had vaccines this year? To say the deaths are among the unvaccinated is no answer. Last year, no one was vaccinated.
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  24756.  @mightiestm  Think about what that says about bioweapons in Ukraine.
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  24757.  @davruck1  I wonder whether the blind computer shop owner was debriefed by the FBI. Do you happen to know? I do not think for a moment he lied, or that we will be privy to the evidence uncovered "in an ongoing investigation."
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  24758.  @davruck1  I found it to be unlikely as well. Should be obvious from my posts. I, unlike you, don't claim to know how it got there. I do have a basis for believing that no one debriefed by the FBI is going to lie and be subject to federal prosecution. The truth is, it is Hunter's computer data and we don't know for certain what happened to bring it to where it ended up. Where did the receipt come from? Is it forged?
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  24759.  @davruck1  Plausible is not the same as evidence-based. And hacked, or leaked, by Russians is not fabricated and planted by Russians.
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  24760.  @davruck1  You see massive gaffes at the highest levels now, nevermind Hunter's gaffes during his period of substance abuse. I agree that your scenario is nevertheless more plausible, but it remains unproven.
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  24761. Dave Rubin is over a decade younger, bourgeois, and gay. He grew up on the Upper West Side. Can you be serious?? If you are so intent on doing politics, at least know the players. Have you ever met anyone from Chicago? Did you ever read early Royko?
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  24762.  @robertsmith-cj6gl  You are an optimist.
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  24763. ​ @silentmajority8365 Don't worry, the rat line fixed that for you. /s
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  24764. @gopinggop  Um, John Coltrane? The great modern European composers in the classical tradition were profoundly influenced by jazz, starting with Debussy. Why are you so jealous of black people? I don't want to try to imagine, I don't want to go there, . . . But you kind of did.
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  24765. Who do you mean? Osama bin Laden?
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  24766. No, because the Royal Family. Before that, probably.
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  24767.  @chloebelle4923  Actually, ending a life, human or otherwise, is a right in many circumstances.
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  24768.  @chloebelle4923  That's your opinion. Or it used to be. Now you can try to force others to bend to your view, and to unleash the power of the state to put them in prison if they don't agree. Nice going.
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  24769.  @chloebelle4923  BTW, you didn't answer my question. And giving birth is always more dangerous than RU 486 during the first 6 weeks.
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  24770.  @chloebelle4923  I don't care about Sanger. I have always found anything that flirts with eugenics to be an abomination.
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  24771. They voted based on "common hatred?" Hatred of the global bankers running their lives, yes. Hatred of the fact that their pension system was destroyed.
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  24772. Ever heard of SWATTING? (It happened to David Hogg.)
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  24773. Where I am, they usually are at half staff already. I think you're 100% right.
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  24774. Great example. Shooting is shocking and horrifically insane. In principle, pure property crimes in which no one is injured are not shocking during a collapsing economy. Assault is shocking, sexual harassment is shocking. Later regret over a fully consensual encounter between full-fledged adults of the same generation is not. I've been burgled, and there was no vandalism whatsoever. Loose change on the kitchen table was left undisturbed. Therefore, I was not shocked, except by how little my insurance company paid.
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  24775. Yeah, Germany is really doing badly . . .
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  24776. 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂
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  24777. @renoirrandy7241  Dislike her? I'm one of her biggest fans. I never said she advocated for cancelation. She obviously does not, but the point she's making, while true as far as it goes, misses a more important aspect of the bigger picture. Maybe what is legal to do is not ethical, and should be discouraged rather than applauded. Is there something about this medium that makes people line up pro and con, rather than exchange ideas? 🤔
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  24778. @bebel1934  Boy did you get this wrong. Brie is probably my favorite independent journalist.
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  24779. @bebel1934  You two spun out a fantasy from one faulty premise. Do you always do this, or just on comment boards?
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  24780. Is it true? She says Brigitte Macron is a man. 😂
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  24781. @broca246  vas te faire . . .
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  24782. Yikes. I love Shakespeare.
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  24783. Hater in a Red Dress
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  24784. Did anyone ever think we'd be hearing this?
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  24785.  @jupitercyclops6521  See whether you can see my comment right about this one.
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  24786. He's not representative of anyone marginally sane. Amy Goodman invites pro-peace and pro-justice Israelis to her show all the time. Their voices should be heard.
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  24787.  @d.1.a_mayby18  And . . . They're idiots? I rather think so.
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  24788.  @firefighter0585  They have guns to defend themselves. Their armored trucks are not what they are defending. The fact that they are transporting money is why they need SELF-defense. If their Brinks truck were sitting empty, and then was grabbed and driven away while they were in the bank or the store, they cannot shoot the driver. Are you really a firefighter and you don't know this?
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  24789.  @seventhcompactor1505  No evidence of that so far. It was hypothetical in any event. I said over and over that if he (or, a person) was not defending himself, then deadly force is illegal. That's not one case. That's the law.
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  24790.  @seventhcompactor1505  I quote myself: "Only if the kids put a person in imminent danger of physical harm would it be legal to shoot them." That is true. In fact, it's too strong: if the kids put someone in danger, then it may be legal to use deadly force. It's not legal if that degree of force was clearly not necessary.
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  24791.  @mobilusinmobili8321  No, it's not wrong. Where did you go to law school? When did you pass the California bar (i.e., the hardest one, though New York and Delaware are quite the challenge, will accept either)?
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  24792.  @seventhcompactor1505  Oh, now I get it. Blocked.
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  24793. Now I know how people fell for the Nigerian Prince scam.
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  24794. To keep us safe.
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  24795.  @pv25  Ha. They aren't that stupid.
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  24796.  @pv25  I stand corrected.
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  24797. A lot of what we were put through has been engendering suicidal thoughts in people who never had them before. I'm sure knowing that they took Pfizer or Moderna did not help their mental state, even if they had no serious physical side effects.
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  24798.  @selenacordeiro1458  Everything is SO politicized at the moment, so I had the good luck to find an article about vaccines long before COVID, and COVID propaganda, turned up. In February 2017, Yale has a fascinating article about flu vaccines and subsequent new diagnosis with mental disorders. Wow, just wow.
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  24799. "[Yale professor of pathology, John] Rose, who developed a vaccine template that was used for the development of the current Ebola vaccine, said he trusts the current process of drug development to establish safety measures for vaccines. On average, a vaccine takes 15–20 years to be fully approved, Rose said." Huh. Whaddya know.
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  24800.  @nathandwyer7273  This is persuasive. I will watch for it from now on.
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  24801. Has anyone had to disgorge profits? No, huh?
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  24802. Not the point. No one disputes that.
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  24803.  @TeflonAlexander But did you actually read it? Do you know what it said? This verdict has nothing to do with the article. The trial turned into who was worse in the marriage, and the jury returned a split verdict as proportionate punishment. That's not what a defamation case is supposed to be about. Briahna and Kim got it. The guest was mostly good, too.
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  24804.  @Takobella  Of course I didn't. Who has that kind of time to waste? Reading the article and even the NYTimes v. Sullivan case is more efficient. I watched enough to see how the trial morphed into something that had no bearing on the real issue. Of course Amber could not win a trial based on who treated the other person worse. She was very likely a lot worse. But that's not a defamation case, that is a divorce redux -- and Depp got back the money he paid her then, and a little bit more. (Or how do you explain the ridiculous $2m award for defamation that she got, based on something Depp did not even say himself? Do the math.)
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  24805.  @coady4577  No one says nothing in the article is about him. That was not an issue. PARTS of the article are certainly not about him, because she talks about her life long before she met him and clearly distinguishes that. But it is true she got the platform because of having been married to Depp.
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  24806.  @coady4577  He did abuse her. It was shown by his own testimony. She almost certainly abused him worse. That's an issue in other types of cases, including criminal cases, not in defamation.
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  24807. 7:24 THIS is the problem. You see, this young man's grandparent was almost killed because of a policy Churchill pursued. You can never assume anything about the person in front of you. I look white (and am, I guess), but where my family is from was bombed by the US with depleted uranium, and a third of people we encountered did not perceive my father as white.
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  24808.  @Dave_of_Mordor  You are sure too easily.
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  24809. He signed off on trans for his minor son. Listen, I get it. Good psychotherapy, second opinions, massive nutritional interventions -- who can afford all that?
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  24810.  @Lord_technofascist_nepobaby  Serious or sarcastic?
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  24811. Harris is not the clear reassurance people wanted, given Biden is physically fragile.
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  24812. Serious question: does anyone believe that the genocide of Jewish Israelis is the only way for Palestinians to be free? The freedom of one means the genocide of the other? That's wild. Who could believe this? How?
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  24813.  idklmao4646  These baseless accusations are a disgrace. More people should SUE for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
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  24814. It's First Amendment protected.
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  24815. Smarty pants!
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  24816. Here techique worries me. She has only two points of contact instead of the standard three (two legs one arm or two arms one leg, while moving only one limb) too often and for too long.
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  24817. Do you just hear part of a sentence?
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  24818. They all expect impunity, and will get it, too.
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  24819. So, dementia is rampant. It starts out with difficulty in hearing and outbursts like this.
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  24820. I guess what they are not okay with are the persecution of pregnant ten-year-olds and their doctors, and Uvalde. What a relief.
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  24821. ​ @SpencerBurns-jq8lj There is no correlation. It's an analogy.
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  24822.  @anthonytwohill9726  I don't know. What is her economic class? My rule of thumb is to mistrust libertarians who think a zygote is a person.
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  24823.  @anthonytwohill9726  Thanks. Figures. I wonder if she pays for any of her glowing reviews. She could.
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  24824. Huh? Listen again.
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  24825.  @christopher92051  Wrong. She was giving a counterfactual hypothetical that got muddled.
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  24826.  @christopher92051  Counterfactual hypotheticals ("if it were the other side, and what would so-and-so say then . . . ") are generally a bad idea. They involve multiple negations or implicit negations. Anyway.
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  24827. If it was asymptomatic, let's hope it will be inconsequential until very late in life.
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  24828.  @loganmiller4863  Well, people who have suffered heart attacks at 45 are still alive at 65. I didn't get this vaccine, but I hope for the best for those who were unwise enough to impose it on kids. Nothing Dr. McCullough said here is so hopeless. That statistic sounds like a rumor.
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  24829. High school graduates. Adults, usually. Or supposedly. Holloway was 18 1/2.
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  24830. Laughable. No majority in the National Assembly = impotence = what the globalists WANT.
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  24831. I'm going to reread The Origins of Totalitarianism starting TONIGHT. 😢
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  24832. ​ @mardbalasy6671 🤣
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  24833. As Col. Douglas MacGregor said, this anti-Russian campaign is a grave sign of weakness. It makes people in the West look crazed and desperate.
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  24834. Probably. Prices are higher here.
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  24835. 9:55 Where is the SEC to investigate??
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  24836. 1. There were no clinical tests of vaccines on people who had already had COVID. They had no idea what the result would be. 2. It is well-known that many vaccines produce a temporary decline in the vigor of the immune system. This is nothing new --- except that the mRNA vaccines appear to be the worst yet.
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  24837. But, . . . but, he's RICH.
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  24838. But we all need comic relief.
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  24839. @jodiegalloway3614  I do not believe this to be victim shaming. People are too trusting because they start with themselves. They assume others would not do what THEY would never do. (In other words, your own good character can get you in trouble, too.) They need to be altered to the fact that that is not true. Not even close.
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  24840. @jodiegalloway3614  Sobriety is no guarantee of safety. Lack of sobriety inherently increases your risk. It's not fair. It is true. Lack of sobriety means you can't even jump into your own car and GO, on your own power.
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  24841. The Eighth Amendment permits life imprisonment, even for a juvenile. This was up to Tennessee. They released him, and did him no favors, either.
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  24842. Look who is engaging in sheer speculation again.
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  24843. During this video, I got an ad for Slavic Ladies, that sounded like they were describing a dog breed. They even said gentle temper.
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  24844. @rickgee5962   Well, it turns out that the Reason magazine story is consistent with Brie's account here, down to the smallest details. Reason claims that they broke the story in the first place. Take it up with them. With a case in federal court pending, Brie is not supposed to call anyone a liar. Doesn't Robby work for Reason? I forget. In any case. Reason is not the left.
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  24845.  @threepac  Show me where she proposed that.
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  24846. In short, government actors have certain immunities, depending on the exact issue. BUT, at least in principle, they cannot get away with anything they want. Lately, they sure do.
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  24847. ​ @TheHungrymonks  They are sometimes. A judge or juror who takes a bribe for an outcome can go to prison for a long time. Civil rights cases can be hard to bring, though. Shouldn't be, agreed. :/
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  24848. How much risk should be imposed on children in order to protect adults?
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  24849.  @rodfatherfishing9223  That is precisely what the articles have been addressing. For teens and younger, the risk of hospitalization for vaccine-related myocarditis alone is significantly higher than the risk of hospitalization for COVID itself. Are there other considerations? Does having COVID in childhood have long-term ramifications? Does the vaccine? Well, how can we answer that, for a virus only identified in 2019? We can try to learn something based on SARS in Canada some years ago, or by studying COVID in rats or mice, since they have a shorter life cycle. Watch to see what countries like Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark do. That will tell you more. Look at their ministries of health, for what they recommend. They have longer life expectancies and very healthy kids in general. I gave up on our media a long time ago.
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  24850. My vote: "More than a decade after he first transplanted a synthetic trachea into a patient, the Italian surgeon and researcher Paolo Macchiarini, 64, has been sentenced to two years and a half in prison by a Swedish court. On 21 June the Court of Appeal in Stockholm concluded that Macchiarini’s interventions on three patients who later died amounted to serious assault." Macchiarini is the worst scientist. Of course he had retractions, too.
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  24851. In six years, after inflation followed by massive collapse, that will look good. /s
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  24852.  @DownFallingThatsSnow  It is for Wall Streeters who bankrupt investment banks. No, wait, that's their bonus in a very lean year.
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  24853.  @norman_5623  That is precisely the article they wrote as a result of strong persuasion from Fauci and Collins. We know this now. But by all means, people ought to read it. Its genesis does not disprove its facts or arguments. It just means you can't rely on the authors' credibility for anything that can't be independently verified, without relying on their "expertise."
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  24854.  @norman_5623  A person might also want to read what the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic has made public so far, concerning that paper and the lab accident hypothesis in general. By the way, the Cell paper has two of the same authors as the Nature Medicine "proximal origin" paper, and is more speculative.
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  24855. I looked up the case. According to the Memorandum Opinion, several of her breach of contract claims against Harvard were not dismissed. The opinion is dated Sept. 11, 2024. She has until mid-October to file an amended complaint. So, this video is misleading as well.
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  24856. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  24857. Great question. Also, are any of these numbers for myocarditis due to COVID infection relevant to the Omicron variants? They appear to make people less sick than the prior variants.
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  24858. @edwinarnold4865  No, there are no "hate crimes." If an actual crime has racial, religious, ethnic hatred, etc., as its motive, the sentence can be enhanced, and usually is.
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  24859. @JohnSmith-xu7ev  I'm not surprised you don't know. It's not explained well. I hope yt allows it.
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  24860.  @JoshSmithDeeps  Exceptions for anyone who can force them . . . That's where things stand. :/
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  24861.  @edwinarnold4865  Give me one example of a "hate crime" that isn't a crime except for the hate.
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  24862. @edwinarnold4865  There is no such category of speech under the Constitution. None.
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  24863.  @edwinarnold4865  There is no such category of speech under the First Amendment.
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  24864.  @edwinarnold4865  There is no crime or tort of "hate speech." None.
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  24865. @edwinarnold4865  If you actually cared to know, you could read the Westboro Baptist Church case, for example, as well as RAV v. City of St. Paul, and the seminal case of Brandenburg v. Ohio. RAV was a Scalia opinion, and Scalia joined the opinion on the flag-burning case, Texas v. Johnson. You could start with those four cases, or any one of them, and find out what the law is, and go from there. That's a distinct possibility.
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  24866.  @edwinarnold4865  I wonder if 'tube lets me cite cases. Well, I did, above.
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  24867. @SmokeNGunsBBQ  I don't like them at all, and that case was hard for me to swallow, BUT I accept it. I support First Amendment rights.
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  24868. Eggs offered at the store for human consumption are almost never fertilized. Were you kidding? Er, no one is a cannibal, not even the paleo diet crowd. Though that would be, in certain cases, quite consistent with the paleolithic period.
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  24869. Let's watch and see whether it increases TRN views. That will tell you why it's here.
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  24870. To voice a legitimate concern and give him a opportunity to respond. She's being a journalist.
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  24871. @ProclaimedHERETIC  That's not misinformation, that's true. I taught college in those very suburbs. The first time I heard about it on the radio, I was surprised. Now, even the libraries have antidote, and a sign on the door letting people know it's there.
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  24872. It was wrong. Desperately wrong. Worse yet, trying to make YOU feel stupid.
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  24873.  @kacperxt371  Excellent.
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  24874. 😂😂😂😂
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  24875. Oh wow, this "genius" of the history of warfare cannot pronounce the name of the general who defeated the Nazis in Operation Barbarosa. He doesn't come close.
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  24876. Of all the unconscionable things Trump has done, and continues to do, he was impeached for "trying to dig up dirt" on . . . the BIDENS. We know the "elites" are debilitated. But how far how fast . . . ??
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  24877. Yes, actually. We need to be better than Big Pharma.
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  24878. This is a new cult. This is not a universally suitable diet.
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  24879. Thank you, Robbie. Americans don't have a choice. They HAVE TO get married.
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  24880. U of Chicago was involved in one, and they have been replicated many times. A recent one detected bias against Russian names as well.
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  24881. ​@NoalFarstrider U of Chicago is nobody's fool. Marquette replicated it, for one. Many have.
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  24882. How long can Le Pen's supporters pretend she has their economic interests at heart? RN has revealed that it supports austerity, pension cuts, and EU membership . . . Can all of Le Pen's deputies face their voters after all that?
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  24883.  @soapdispens3r  It is illegal to use deadly force in defense of mere property, everywhere. Lethal force is justified if you put any person at risk of imminent physical harm. It is never legal for defense of mere property. Social ills, etc., are irrelevant. The age of the perpetrator is irrelevant. Whether he put a person in danger of physical harm is the only question that matters. It is a bright line. We have a lot of gun owners in America, and this isn't common knowledge? Wow, just wow. Also, this is exactly why a carjacking, or a home invasion while there are people in the house, can be met with lethal force. It doesn't matter if the assailant turns out to be unarmed, or was just looking to burgle and thought the house was empty, or was in middle school. There is no question about this. It's called self-defense for a reason.
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  24884. There were several dissents from this opinion by justices of the Colorado Supreme Court. Did you see it? Planning to?
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  24885. Question: how long does it take Hunter to go through $700 worth of cocaine?
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  24886. 1. We do not know who did this. 2. We are being asked to believe the most illogical explanation, as a loyalty oath/litmus test. Not good. Not good at all.
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  24887. I think it encourages the ones who abuse alcohol and drugs, and live in infantile fantasy and disassociation to believe that you can shoot someone and they will be back to their old selves by the morning.
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  24888. NYT David Barstow was right.
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  24889. Too bad they worked all last year, risking their lives for us during the pandemic. Big mistake. $10,000 on Tesla stock, and they could go back to school for a safer job. Maybe your job . . . Say, did you get to work from home? Moral of the story: never sacrifice for anyone. It is never worth it. (See, e.g., 9/11 first responders, war on terror veterans, etc., etc.)
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  24890. Jeffrey Sachs. All you need to say.
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  24891. Well, I could never go that far, but I will say that there is no country in Europe where a 15 year old child could possible get a sentence of life in prison. Adult serial killers with severe mental illnesses have been freed to a halfway house after 30 years. It depends on whether they can be rehabilitated and monitored. At sentencing, it was revealed that Nick had a severe alcohol abuse problem, much worse than what he confesses here (surprised?), and that he has severe dissociative disorder, like you see in trauma victims. That is why his relatives begged for leniency, not because they are perverse. Killing his brothers was the part that was the most depraved. How can anyone explain that by parental abuse? A family where one child is abused and another is favored is harming all the kids. Nick was old enough to realize that.
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  24892.  @amoeboidtendencies5137  Yeah, but she usually isn't like that, though.
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  24893. New COVID variant identified: BS 24-7
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  24894. So, we are this crazy now, are we?
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  24895. Third party, fella.
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  24896.  @sekulrtsnfnugg6126  Yeah! Nicely put.
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  24897. My life was destroyed in 2020.
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  24898. AND it only got worse under President Mummy.
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  24899. They are also accosting them with strange LGBTQ+ propaganda, not to stop bullying (which is a very grave problem in the schools) but to confuse them.
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  24900.  @RalphJBater  I see your point, yes.
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  24901. @kenzaifun  On the basis of race? Or for some other reason? In general, I'm for allowing anyone to speak provided there are people who want to hear from that person. The general problem we have is one of qualifications: we no longer have a consensus concerning what those are. If it is possible for a problem to be even larger than the problem of encroachment of the freedom of speech, then it is this one. One look at recent presidential elections, all candidates, would tell you that. Same goes for university presidents. I mean, come on. Get serious.
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  24902. @kenzaifun  Show me one instance of anyone, literally, screaming "death to the Jews" -- even a possible false flag or provocateur. Cameras and video recorders are everywhere. Recording is ubiquitous. So, where is the evidence? Fevered imaginations do not count. Glenn Greenwald has called for making public just one such recording. He promised to show it on System Update. So far, none have been forthcoming.
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  24903. @kenzaifun  Show me one instance of anyone literally screaming those words (which I can't even repeat, though you got to post them) -- even a possible false flag or provocateur. Cameras and video recorders are everywhere. Recording is ubiquitous. So, where is the evidence? Fevered imaginations do not count. Glenn Greenwald has called for making public just one such recording. He promised to show it on System Update. So far, none have been forthcoming.
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  24904.  @davidnguyen7891  Exactly!
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  24905. @user-sk3me6qq1k  "From the river to the sea, ____ shall be free" is First-Amendment protected political speech, regardless of whether you put Palestine or Israel in the blank. No, Brandenburg v. Ohio was not overturned while I was dozing, lol.
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  24906.  @Cakebattered  A beautiful women's business suit -- jacket, slacks, skirt, and matching blouse -- has been over $1000 for years where I live -- for at least a decade. And it is probably made in Eastern Europe, by a Western European designer. Shoes that are beautiful and comfortable, $500. Let's not talk about purses. No one who cannot produce that outfit gets a $75k/year job. It does not happen.
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  24907.  @dashx1103  I always admire Mate.
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  24908.  @jgalt308  There are all kinds of ways for a person to stay out of jail, even after losing all the cases this guy did. He might be sharing or cooperating with an alphabet agency, for example.
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  24909. ​ @jgalt308 You can find the cases yourself. As for not being in jail, that's not hard. Grand jury proceedings are usually secret . . . Just offer evidence. An Iranian national should have some sweet morsels.
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  24910. I have on very rare occasion heard her say Trump was right about something. She didn't vote for Biden, either.
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  24911. Except that is incorrect. It is simply a battle cry, of an army or other group. "Battle cry of the dead" is illogical.
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  24912. Also, it's Scottish. (Remember Braveheart? Wasn't it a movie?)
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  24913. "Victim shaming?" Trendy psychobabble and pseudo-moral appeals have no place in geopolitical discourse. Your next move of course hints at cancellation. ("Glenn can't claim to be a journalist!!!" Pathetic.) Greenwald has condemned this invasion many times, and his position is comparable to Chris Hedges' or Abby Martin's. Any war that can be avoided must be avoided, and the same is true of any escalation. The US is in the escalation phase now. Why? How does this help anyone, except arms merchants?
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  24914. Step back for the bigger picture: Russia's aggression was disproportionate by any measure that we know of. Yet outside of the West, most of the world is neutral, sympathetic, or actively supports the invasion. No one wants to pause and find out why? Maybe instead of mouthing the usual slogans, you should?
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  24915.  @daddyaf945  But . . . I should? 🤣 You have no reason to care one whit what I think. You might at some point want to find out what most of humanity thinks, if only to refute them, etc.
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  24916.  @daddyaf945  Yeah, what else could it be but Russian bots?
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  24917.  @daddyaf945  I said any war or escalation that can be avoided must be avoided. You disagree? Or is my lack of psychobabble and cancel culture reflexes offensive?
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  24918.  @daddyaf945  Desperation sounds like this. And projection! You're the one with the prescribed slogans, cancellation discourse, disrespect for non-Western views, and tunnel vision.
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  24919.  @daddyaf945  blocked
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  24920.  @rtquest22  I love to see you eat your own tail. Please keep it up.
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  24921.  @rtquest22  What shortcomings?
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  24922.  @rtquest22  Personal, or otherwise? 😂
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  24923.  @rtquest22  "Narratives?" I don't talk to people who use that word. blocked
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  24924.  @rtquest22  "narrative" and "triggered" are Karen words, if anything is . . . "Karen" is a Karen-word, actually 😂
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  24925.  @alostcause4035  Well, the rest of us will read a good post, so it's not a loss.
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  24926.  @alostcause4035  . . . um, yours? I thought it was obvious.
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  24927.  @alostcause4035  all of yours, actually
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  24928.  @alostcause4035  LOL no worries
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  24929.  @rogueporpoise5119  Correct. Not impossible.
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  24930.  @rogueporpoise5119  Isn't that what everyone hopes for their children -- "not impossible?"
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  24931.  @oleggorky906  Given that his great-grandfather married into nobility, in the 1700s, that would not shock me.
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  24932.  @oleggorky906  I'm glad I just found this post again! You would know this: I had read that the Russian Czar was embarrassed about Pushkin's great-grandfather's (i.e., Gannibal's) origins as a kidnapped slave, and made up a cover story that he was an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian orphan that he had adopted, which of course made the czar sound noble, and integrated Gannibal more easily into the royal household, given that he was, of course, Orthodox, and from an ancient civilization. Is there any truth to that? Fun fact: there are British nobles who are descended from both Gannibal and Queen Victoria. I think they're distantly related to Philip, or were. Not to the Queen.
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  24933.  @oleggorky906  P. S. I knew he was a polyglot, but only recently learned he was an engineer.
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  24934.  @oleggorky906  Lenin's parents were considered to be a "fine Russian family" -- despite having no, or almost no, Russian ancestry. His parents' marriage might have been illegal in a few states here at that time. It wasn't evident whether or not it was interracial! LOL Drawing racial lines is perforce racist, every time. But directly experiencing the fact that the lines are drawn in different places by different peoples destroys the whole idea that it could be "objective" in any sense, rather than arbitrary and wholly socially constructed and imposed. After living in France long enough, the American lines got blurred for me. For a while I wasn't always sure who was considered black. I think I know now. My parents never did catch on completely. Anyway, a long story in order to justify the observation that saying someone is Ethiopian and Orthodox when they are West African might not be so innocent. It might not just be based on a proper sense of shame for accepting a slave as a gift (gawd, even saying that makes a person nauseous, doesn't it?). A lot of non-Western Europeans would never consider Ethiopians, Sudanese of the upper Nile ("Nubians"), etc., "black." They do draw a line (with "better" on "their" side, as usual), just not in the same place. But maybe I'm being a little too cynical. I don't know. Just something to think about.
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  24935. This isn't a true threat. Learn First Amendment rights, before we lose them. I appreciate why BCBS reported her, and why they wanted police to check it out. That's reasonable. But now that they KNOW she isn't a threat, why are they still pressing charges? It's a civil matter: maybe they can drop her from coverage, sue her for intentional infliction of emotional distress of their customer service rep, and leave the criminal justice aparratus out of it. Our taxes are paying for this. Not BCBS. We are paying. AS USUAL.
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  24936. @litac5433  Because it's far too vague. She stated nothing that indicates that she intends to do anything. And what is coming "next?" Being denied health care just like she was, when they themselves need it most? That's not a threat, it's a solid prediction. Also, when she said something about "karma," what do you think that implied? First Amendment law on true threats is clear. If you had bothered to look up the law, you might have saved yourself the time wasted to post this.
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  24937.  @litac5433  Not mad, lazy. You have a magnificent First Amendment, but you can't be bothered to look it up.
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  24938.  @litac5433  Still don't care to read about the meaning of "true threats" under the First Amendment, huh? Then I guess you won't know. Give me a break. People have said and done far worse to me. I handled it just fine.
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  24939.  @litac5433  Bad behavior isn't always a crime. Justice Jackson just explained that, when she agreed with the Supreme Court's conservatives that certain federal statutes could not be used against the January 6th protesters, even though much of what they did was wrong, obviously. More fun reading.
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  24940. Was the idea to make all school "DISTANCE learning?" More and more of this looks sinister.
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  24941. See Kim on Glenn Beck's show. Note what YT removed.
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  24942. ​@betsybabf748 Clearly, you do not know what the First Amendment entails. "From the river to the sea, ____ shall be free" is fully protected political speech, no matter whether you put Israel or Palestine (or some third thing) in the blank. See how that works? Apparently lots of Jewish students felt safe enough to join in the protests.
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  24943. ​ @assafelron1 If someone commits an actual crime, arrest them. Speech you don't like isn't a crime, no matter how you hyperbolize it. Thought crimes aren't real.
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  24944. Oh my goodness, you are a profound animal lover, too. Please take care!
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  24945. Tony Blair looks horrible.
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  24946. The question of ivermectin as prophylaxis was raised by the data from Africa. It is a perfectly legitimate conjecture. There are probably other reasons as well for Africa's excellent performance. Where is the sincere curiosity, the desire to know? Another great editorial by Kim.
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  24947.  @scottmcloughlin4371  Ah! Now I understand why not Hustler.
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  24948. Should Black Lives Matter have its rights curtailed because the world contains violent anarchists who invade the demonstration and go on arson sprees? Then anyone can stop anyone from demonstrating, just by inflitrating the demonstration and committing violent acts.
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  24949. No it can't. Columbine was in the last century, and it was not the first mass shooting. This is as "good" as it gets.
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  24950.  @elgatofelix8917  Wait. Is the idea to development facial recognition software for eyes only? So, wear sunglasses. Sorry, but Big Brother is not all on board with the face coverings. Just how slow on the uptake are people?
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  24951.  @docsoulman9352  The people we hear from, and you apparently believe, are all looking to do less work for more money. How does Kim resist? That's so weird of course you impute some sinister motive. Nothing else would make sense to you.
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  24952. "I like your policies" AND I believe you can implement them?? You??
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  24953. 💯 . . . And add Hillary to that!
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  24954.  @Ethercloud  After they have been hampered in every way. I remember when a minimum-wage summer job paid for a full year of tuition at the best state schools. (I remember when two or three roommates working for minimum wage could afford an apartment anywhere, even in New York City -- though that was the generation before mine. I was too young to get a job then.) Those who paid their own way, instead of borrowing and then living with parents, were a different people. Too bad that opportunity was destroyed, too. Maybe society has a role here?
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  24955.  @Ethercloud  Speaking of retirement, the 401(k) and the IRA are well over a generation old. Why do no more than 10%, at most, have enough to fully fund their own retirement? How come that didn't work, when we have had some of the best market conditions in history, unlikely to repeat? If 90% made "bad choices," maybe it wasn't a matter of choices? That could be.
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  24956. The police action, you mean?
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  24957. @davidjohnson8218  Oh. Well, Glenn Greenwald is on the case tonight, coming up in about ten minutes. That should be interesting. He's one of many Jewish people who support the First Amendment with their whole hearts.
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  24958.  @davidjohnson8218  Hope they let you see my post about Glenn Greenwald.
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  24959. California is a "progressive" blue state. So why is it exploiting the Thirteenth Amendment loophole and using slave labor to fight the fires? Why is it treating the migrant farmers like slaves as well? Is its "progressivism" much like corporate window dressing? As it kills off any real challenge from the left . . .
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  24960. Um, did you understand this report?
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  24961. What are the British saying about this??
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  24962. Cenk must be running through money like crazy. I wonder why?
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  24963.  @nerowolfe736  Global investment banking interests quashed that possibility. No politics in the US is ever local, for that reason. Greece should be an object lesson.
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  24964.  @philosophicalcounselor-m6c  The Constitution mentions no Creator. Nor did the Bill of Rights originally apply to any state.
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  24965.  @Snavels  Well, the rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights originally could be infringed BY THE SEVERAL STATES. Only the federal government was prohibited from infringing them. (Did you know that?) So, how were they "God given?" Obviously, a state could disagree. The abolition of slavery curtailed the "right" to own slaves. So, was that the curtailment of an inalienable "God given" right? Or a property right? A contractual right? A right to engage in freedom of commerce? Please tell us about that.
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  24966.  @emmittmatthews8636  Originally, the Bill of Rights did not apply to the states, but only stated what the federal government could not do. When it was extended to the states, did that confer rights? This becomes an empty argument very fast. Property is conferred by state law. Once ownership is vested, laws protect that ownership, but there is no "divine right" or "natural right" of property beyond your own body, and the latter might be questionable. When someone has a net worth of a billion and is bankrupt the next day, you should think about what that actually means. Nothing natural about it.
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  24967.  @emmittmatthews8636  Then read it again, and put aside your gotcha mind when you do. What I believe or don't believe was hardly the point. Nor do I have an "angle." Some things are facts. Fact-things are not determined by our heartfelt beliefs about them, but exist independently of those beliefs.
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  24968.  @emmittmatthews8636  No. You just don't understand the basics of our constitutional system. That's fine. You aren't supposed to. If you did lyao, could it be the drugs?
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  24969.  @emmittmatthews8636  Let me ask you a math question. Is there some "natural" way to accumulate $4.5 million dollars a day, literally every day, from birth to age 55? Explain your answer.
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  24970.  @emmittmatthews8636  More pearls before . . . ? No. No one is paying me for this, and I have a great book to get back to. Yawn. Blocked.
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  24971.  @MMGJ10  Did you lose Waldo? blocked Keep it up, I love to clean out my threads.
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  24972.  @timothycarey3883  What do you mean "held accountable for their words?" If you mean that any speech that is First Amendment protected can nevertheless be subject to a successful lawsuit for damages, that is flat-out wrong. No branch of government can impose penalties of any sort, even civil penalties, on First Amendment protected speech. Nor can any branch of government collude with private actors to censor speech the government itself cannot censor because the censorship would violate the First Amendment. Government cannot use new media as its cat's paw, to do what it cannot do directly. Well, not legally anyway. Consequences for bad speech are generally more speech, not government censorship. When MSM stated that the Hunter Biden laptop story was probably Russian misinformation, and they turned out to be wrong, do you think they should face "consequences?" Not legal consequences imposed by the government, no -- they have a right to be wrong. Major embarrassment and a commitment not to repeat the error, I hope so, but no one can force that on them for their (factually wrong but nevertheless protected) speech, either.
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  24973.  @slypperyfox  Great. Someone explain to me how the Second Amendment is natural or God-given or in any way fails to presuppose a social order and a level of technology that did not exist in all times and places where humans lived in groups. Or the due process rights embodied in the Fifth Amendment. Or even the right to remain silent. We frequently see people consider the exercise of the right to remain silent to be hugely immoral. Please explain how God gave us that right.
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  24974.  @emmittmatthews8636  He who mentions "meds" must be thinking of them for some reason. They never cross my mind.
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  24975.  @professorronin9648  How is the right to remain silent "God-given, natural, or universal?" Its exercise is obviously unethical under many circumstances -- yet it remains one of the most precious we have. It exist as long as we are willing to defend it. How is the Fourth Amendment right to be free of "unreasonable searches and seizures" God-given, natural, or universal? The meaning of "unreasonable" is relative. That's why today, the government can put cameras in any public place, totally blanketing any such area with 24/7 surveillance. That wasn't always considered "reasonable." A lot of people don't consider it reasonable now, me included.
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  24976.  @slypperyfox  Miranda is not a "code" but a prophylactic rule to ensure that 5th Amendment rights are respected. You cannot sue for a violation of rights only on the basis of a failure to administer Miranda warnings. In any case, you miss my point: people consider maintaining silence by pleading the 5th to be MORALLY wrong. Hence it is not generally thought to be a God-given or natural right, but something we have decided to grant. The Supreme Court recently spoke on that, just a few months ago. If weapons have existed since the dawn of man, then why are AR-15 constitutionally protected now? Go back to something more natural. There is nothing natural about an AR-15, a Beretta, a luger, a Colt, etc. I don't see how cutsie slogans help your argument, caps or not.
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  24977.  @slypperyfox  What is an "unreasonable" search? Do we ask God? Is there a natural, universal meaning to "unreasonable search and seizure?" Maybe not, huh?
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  24978.  @slypperyfox  The Second Amendment does not mention the individual right to self-defense. Even if we did not have the Second Amendment, even if they managed to repeal it somehow, that would not eliminate the individual right to self-defense. Before the Second Amendment was interpreted as giving individual people a right to carry a firearm outside and away from their own property or dwelling, people still had a right to self-defense.
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  24979.  @slypperyfox  Read Second Amendment Supreme Court jurisprudence. Read the seminal cases in order. That's where you find the law. What in particular do you think is in the Federalist Papers that supports a "natural law" theory, especially regarding the Second Amendment? Up until quite recently, few lawyers and judges thought it meant that ordinary individuals had a right to concealed carry outside their homes. So, which version is God-given or natural? I see you have nothing to say about the Fourth and Fifth Amendments (one relies on a very human definition of reasonableness, not a divine, immutable one, and the other enshrines a right to remain silent that many, if not most, think is immoral to exercise . . . hmm). You have not thought this through.
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  24980.  @timothycarey3883  In general, you're right, a private entity is under no obligation to provide anyone with a platform, that's the general rule. But could the telephone company use that rule to deny service to Trumpers, Communists, or supporters of BDS? No, they can't. A monopoly or near-monopoly of an essential service can't do that. Nor can government muscle social media companies to indirectly censor the accounts the government itself cannot censor directly. That is also illegal. Who is the "they" who should shut it all down? Odd statement. The government can't. These companies have features of both monopolies and common carriers. They are a new kind of creature and already have benefited from very favorable regulation. (BTW: I never joined Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, etc., and only joined this during the lockdowns to save videos.)
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  24981.  @timothycarey3883  Trumpers are generally insane on the topic of DJT; I would expect massive inconsistencies and zero self-reflection.
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  24982.  @timothycarey3883  Actually, they are under no legal obligation to stop misinformation. WHO should provide "oversight?" The government can only provide MORE speech, and better speech; it cannot censor existing speech as long as it falls under First Amendment protection. I compared the telephone company to social media in ONE respect only: its right to refuse telephone service to individuals because of their political opinions. The telephone company cannot do that. I don't think any essential communications service should have that right. Banning a person, as opposed to removing specific materials, functions as a prior restraint on that person. I don't support that. Well, a bunch of my post just got erased. This is futile anyway. Do whatever you want, no one cares anymore.
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  24983.  @timothycarey3883  If the New York Times persists in spreading misinformation about WMDs in places they don't exist, and hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of human lives are lost and entire countries are destroyed as a result, should the New York Times be banned? Do you realize how many legitimate stories they have suppressed, and how much misinformation they knowingly spread? BTW, how do you think the social media company founders became overnight billionaires? It was not by helping families share photos. Families could already do that. It was by stirring controversy -- the same reason Trump got massive amounts of news coverage in 2015 and 2016 in the mainstream press. They helped to create him, then blamed Russia. Did the Russians make the mainstream media give him a couple of billions of dollars worth of coverage? No, it was the ad revenues that did it. Go back and research that. You know how Facebook started, right? It was an electronic slam book aimed at Harvard women. You make it to Harvard, and that's what you get. I never joined.
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  24984.  @timothycarey3883  Hear what on what? You don't sound well. One great-grandparent died in the Holocaust. You should think to watch it with that rhetoric, buddy.
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  24985.  @timothycarey3883  You have no right to strike someone because you don't like what they said. That is an assault. Social media is in your house because you invited it in. I can turn off my computer now. The First Amendment never said people had to like what you have to say. On the contrary, it also enshrines freedom of association. If people speak freely, you will find out who you might like and who you might want to avoid a lot faster. For example, you. I'm blocking you from my thread as a person who has wasted my time.
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  24986.  @nerowolfe736  Originalism is nonsense in a common law culture. It's reading the Constitution as though it were code law, which it is not. The Civil War ended the fiction that the States had great latitude in how they ordered their societies, and the Supremacy Clause was part of the Constitution from the start. (Art. VI, clause 2) Did you miss that part?
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  24987.  @bobbysmela3942  SIXTEENTH AMENDMENT you fool. We have had a federal income tax as part of the Constitution for over a century.
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  24988.  @MangoHillCommunityFarm  👏
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  24989. Easy job.
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  24990.  @Kinkle_Z  I guess my point is, this time, even THEY are not claiming that the Russian troops at the border have already crossed it. Only Biden said "invasion." Joe, I mean. Not Hunter.
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  24991. Why did we make billionaire deviants into Gods?
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  24992.  @ladyzuzu7  You're the one who joined the latest mob.
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  24993.  @ladyzuzu7  Did you read the article? It's the whole basis of the case. Did you bother to find it and read it? Well, "I feel sorry for you, you will be really embarrassed when . . . " blah blah. Why are you projecting your life onto a couple of drugged up millionaires who think $10 million is spare change?
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  24994.  @heelercs  I just remembered, Petito ended up dead in small part because in their police encounter, the police decided she was the primary abuser. Suddenly, that never happened. That's not part of our store of knowledge about human relationships.
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  24995.  @paulinamreno  When you decided you know people you don't know, you understand laws you don't understand, and picked a side (the one that lost one defamation suit already), how did you do that? Some of us are not prone to that sort of thing.
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  24996.  @TotalDbag24  So, defamation law demands a plaintiff prove the unproveable.
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  24997.  @paulinamreno  My father was quite agnostic, but there was one precept from the Bible he always quoted to me: "He who is without sin, let him cast the first stone." It stuck.
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  24998.  @paulinamreno  It's a call to deeper and truer conscience.
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  24999.  @paulinamreno  Well, I guess it was wasted on you. Such is crowd psychology. Lots of people agree with me, and we have longer exchanges. You're right, I am wasting my time on those with a thirst to identify Enemies, and will say anything to satisfy their thirst. Blocked.
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  25000. Always be skeptical; never dismiss the possibility of false flags or provocateurs. They were certainly present in the US, pushing the George Floyd/Black Lives Matter demonstrations to violence.
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  25001. ​​ @blackjackjester What are you talking about? Federal funds are not available to pay for abortion.
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  25002. @Georgie16  It was perfect. You saw the number of abortions drop by tens of thousands per year. The limit for elective abortion was short, like barely past a larger embryo (about 10 or 12 weeks, I forget), but a medically necessary abortion was available for a lot of reasons, including serious emotional/psychological problems, for longer than that. No woman being beaten by the baby's father was expected to tough it out. Like I said, perfect.
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  25003. Exactly. His looks will save him.
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  25004.  @Honeymoon1988  I'm sorry, didn't mean to suggest that was your focus. This was really my own point, not yours. Looks do matter. A LOT.
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  25005.  @Honeymoon1988  No, not at all!
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  25006.  @Honeymoon1988  We are on the same page! :)
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  25007. He's crazy. Seriously. The man scares me. Some of what Trump said may have been reprehensible, but it is free speech. It's up to the voters to decide what they think about it. Pressuring state officials to dig up some votes, IF HE DID, is a different matter. That is tampering with the vote count. I do not understand why he was charged with anything else. The US Attorney is sworn to uphold the First Amendment, and not engage in selective prosecution. One more fail . . .
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  25008.  @davidspiller7977  The US didn't imprison Assange? Peltier? Two million others?
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  25009.  Mitrovic FFC  McCarthyism had the same basis: the USSR was growing far faster than expected following WWII. Consider who they are censoring --- the most competitive. Malofeev, the greatest pianist of his generation, has denounced the invasion of Ukraine and was fired anyway. There are great American and Canadian prodigies, but Malofeev puts their best to shame. He is so good it is shocking. That is always the real story.
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  25010.  @Murderbot2000  Where did Dore say Putin's actions are popular? If something is unpopular, does that make it reasonable to force everyone to denounce it? I don't follow.
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  25011.  @davidspiller7977  Putin?? I am not defending Putin. His actions have strengthened the most extremist neo-Nazis in Ukraine, at least temporarily, and may not end up rooting them out at all. So far, he gave them a bigger boost than the US has. So, Putin is killing innocent people for what? Nothing at all. Obvious to anyone with a clear mind.
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  25012.  @davidspiller7977  If you fall for "whataboutism," right after you falsely claim the US has no political prisoners, then you are beyond reasoning with. You are a slogan repeating machine.
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  25013.  @davidspiller7977 "Treason does not apply to foreign nationals, who DO NOT owe any allegiance to the United States. It does apply to American citizens holding dual citizenship, and to aliens domiciled in the United States, who owe a temporary allegiance to the US while domiciled there." Words matter. Countries without a death penalty for ANY other offense have one for treason in time of war.
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  25014.  @davidspiller7977  Do you get your definition of treason from Whoopie Goldberg? 🤡😆😆
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  25015.  @Murderbot2000  I already forgot whatever this was about. I'm not going to scroll, no.
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  25016.  @Murderbot2000  Oh I see. You didn't understand my point. I said Putin is to blame for strengthening the neo-Nazis in Ukraine, at least temporarily, at LEAST. Too subtle for you. No wonder Whoosh. And the main point was about ASSANGE. Moreover, I want to see that speech available in full on Western media. I want RT back. No one banned ABC News after they interviewed the terrorist mastermind of Beslan.
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  25017. If they post for free, big head scratch.
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  25018. The "we" is not intended to be broad. 😊
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  25019. So how did they get stuck with Macron, a Clinton-Blair figure, in 2022? The rest of the world is moving on.
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  25020. Jimmy, you're being naive if you don't realize how many GRIFTERS support Russiagate. It's not just the obvious few. "Russiagate" is like a secret password. Why not pronounce it, get some free money?
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  25021. No idea whether it was. Conflicts with Gabby's mother's account. Gabby's mother never noticed anything that gave her pause. Brian seemed normal to her, and she comes across as a very nice, intelligent woman who would not have missed a warning sign.
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  25022.  @lira276  I remember the "satanic panic." Thousands of kids made up stuff.
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  25023. Found the complaint . . . can hardly wait to read!
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  25024. Good thing Bill Gates told Epstein to stop disempowering women and girls. That set Epstein straight.
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  25025. One would hope. But, you know, people like the money.
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  25026.  @dashriprock8596  It isn't Fitzgerald
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  25027.  @npgibson69  This is true.
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  25028. @bismarck9  So, we have to keep records on this now??
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  25029. @SentinalSlice  It's clear that you haven't studied the legal issue. "Hate speech" is not a category of unprotected speech under the First Amendment by any stretch. A business office or other private or restricted speech forum can ban it, but that's different. It's still free speech. You might be confusing it with "hate crime," which requires a predicate crime, and then looks to motive -- not unlike the difference between killing a spouse for insurance money, as opposed to having been battered weekly for two decades and then one day you snap.
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  25030.  @tylerhibbs7086  mRNA has been studied for much longer than that, and the issue of triggering an overresponse in the immune system was something they knew about all along. THIS vaccine is emergency use authorization only; find out what that means. No, it is not "anti-science" to hesitate. It is anti-science to oppose the vaccine, to oppose its EUA, and to speculate about dire long-term effects which we have no reason to suspect.
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  25031.  Last Man Standing  No reason to think that it causes fertility issues. Not one iota.
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  25032.  Last Man Standing  I read the abstracts of articles in peer-reviewed journals. I find the strong pushing, pro- and (even worse) anti-vaccine to be dubious. It doesn't make me want to get one prior to FDA approval, though I may. (I got Prevnar 13 as soon as it was recommended for everyone, not just seniors, based on studies done in Europe.) I also want to know more about the effects of the probable repeated boosters that it's starting to look like we'll need. This whole emergency was politicized.
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  25033.  @GodWeenSatan  I'm more glad to hear that than I can put in words. :/
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  25034. 11:50 This is SO important, and perfectly said. The most important message, in 30 seconds. (But keep listening to the end.)
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  25035. Thank you, Batya. I don't even agree with you in every respect concerning the conflict, but you are 100% RIGHT ABOUT THIS. The mind virus is EXACTLY what prevents rational discussion about any issue, including most of all where human lives are at stake. I'm still shaken by October 7, and by the depraved response of some. I can't accept it. I can't accept a world devoid of ethics, and it's in our faces all the time.
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  25036. What I heard, too.
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  25037.  @Maureen_Schilder  🤣
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  25038.  @09BiGDylan  Why couldn't the Democrats block Trump? Why the ineptitude? Why didn't they retake the Senate in 2020? Nevermind 2018! Something wrong with this picture, ya think?
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  25039. Only a tiny fraction of cases ever reach the Supreme Court. Its makeup now is terrible, but it does not have to have a huge impact on our lives. Example: overturn Row v. Wade, and most of the states continue with very liberal elective abortion laws, prenatal testing, fertility clinics that destroy embryos, and all the rest. Providers will likely make more money, and poor women will be deprived or have to borrow money to get the care they need. Not so different from NOW. Or didn't you know? Maybe you hadn't noticed.
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  25040.  @Horus070  The Supreme Court cannot end abortion. The Supreme Court cannot end marriage equity. No state can criminalize acts that are legally engaged in outside of its jurisdiction.
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  25041.  @Horus070  I'm not a sheltered person. I just know how laws work. And I know what run$ thi$ $ociety. Calm down and think. You know it, too.
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  25042.  @wvu05  No, actually. Only the individual states, or Congress at the federal level, can make abortion a crime, unless the Court were to give fertilized eggs 5th and 14th Amendment protection as "persons." And even that would not create criminal penalties; only the legislative branch can do any such thing. Anyway, we both know why fertilized eggs will not be granted personhood. Don't we?
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  25043.  @joeydrummer7929  Several individual STATES made gay marriage legal and equal. The Supreme Court then held that no state could continue to ban gay marriage. So no, the Supreme Court did not make gay marriage legal, and cannot make it illegal. It made DISCRIMINATION illegal, which is something each state legislature could have done on its own for its own state, and could continue to do, no matter how the Court rules.
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  25044.  @joeydrummer7929  OMG, I just realized what your screen name is. Okay. Never mind.
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  25045. Nope --- you think Glenn is not treating the war in Palestine? You think Glenn is not all over the Ben Shapiro hypocrites of the moment?
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  25046. Is anyone listening to Ergodan? To think that HE is right, the Western leaders wrong. Clearly, and with no ambiguity.
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  25047. Jimmy, Jimmy. You assume she does real work, like collecting data. I don't see any evidence of it.
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  25048. Nicely said.
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  25049.  @TheCaptainSlappy  The KGB was dismantled by the time Snowden was in third grade. Now of course he is a computer prodigy and GENIUS. (BTW, who hired Snowden? Why?)
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  25050.  @TheCaptainSlappy  I guess if you say so, it must be true. All Americans are like that now.
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  25051.  @TheCaptainSlappy  Everything you say is always true. I mean, why else have the richest economy and the largest armed forces in human history? Stands to reason. /s
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  25052.  @TheCaptainSlappy  blocked
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  25053.  @TheCaptainSlappy  Dates don't matter. You have powerful insults.
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  25054. ​ @norman_5623 Actually, coming down with the flu and surviving it means that you are immune to that particular strain A doctor will not know in advance whether you are immune to the current strain, or whether the quadrivalient vaccine offered that year will give good protection against the circulating strains, absent extensive and unnecessary testing. In any case, you're not a doctor and you claim to know about the flu, and you claim to know that doctors know about these things. Dunning-Kruger strikes again?
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  25055. Sounds more sanitary. :/
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  25056. I thought it was a fair question.
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  25057.  @jazzypoo7960  I had enough before COVID, more than enough before certain acts of corporate crime. We had savings and no mortgage when the housing crisis hit. The dotcom implosion, likewise. Serious illness in the family? Weathered that, too. But it keeps piling on.
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  25058.  @jazzypoo7960  Not since COVID, no. That was the last straw. But things could be worse.
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  25059. Much smaller fish were thrown out by the thousands, literally. He wasn't obvious?
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  25060.  @Thinkforyourself6969  She's not a Dem.
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  25061.  IT4U.CANADA  The FBI was implicated. Can you think, or is it all just tropisms for you?
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  25062.  @shade38211  Bernie certainly is. Bri is not.
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  25063.  @shade38211  No kidding. WAS. She never endorsed voting for Biden, Pelosi, et al., without setting conditions, and supports in principle third parties now.
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  25064.  @shade38211  Today (Thursday) on the segment concerning Tara Reade, Briahna made it clear that she DID NOT VOTE for Joe Biden. It was an excellent segment, by the way.
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  25065.  @punchcat0736  "Communists fall in line with corporations . . . " the things you learn. If I told my friends in Europe, they'd think I was making it up to make you look bad.
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  25066. Do you also revel in The Secret?
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  25067.  @cyndara88  He will probably get the counseling because he suffers from trauma.
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  25068. You're still acting like that wasn't a violation of First Amendment rights and a show trial/ giant distraction.
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  25069.  @riselikethephoenix1  OH PLEASE. Dupery.
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  25070.  @riselikethephoenix1  Try learning something, someday. Put down the screen. Visit a library.
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  25071.  @riselikethephoenix1  I don't have the time. If you want to repeat insipid, inapplicable, or meaningless talking points, go for it. Your friends will 👍 you more, and that's what matters.
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  25072.  @riselikethephoenix1  Here's the short version: if Heard believed what she was saying, the New York Times malice standard, which protects First Amendment rights, cannot be met. As for Depp, it wasn't even his speech, but his lawyer's. That should never be imputed to the client in a defamation case. Not ever. I bet you never even read the article. Nobody should be taken to court for that article, much less held liable for it.
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  25073. ​ @MikeJones1995-z6q 💯
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  25074. @DICARLOPRODUCTIONS  "For some reason?" Did you know . . . Musk made his money on PayPal and similar financial schemes, then took over Tesla and pushed out a founder, suing for all sorts of nonsense in the process; Smeared the man who was instrumental in saving the kids trapped underwater in a cave; Has had more lawsuits against his companies for serious misconduct and serious violations of federal laws than anyone I have ever seen; Makes most of his money from dubious government contracts, including the trade in emissions credits; It's not clear whether he knows all of his children, and he claims he was "tricked" into signing off on gender reassignment; Uses drugs (but only by "microdosing") . . . Okay. What's to like? Just another cult figure.
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  25075. @dimomarkov8937  That is youth by modern American standards; in community college, that's a sizable number of students. You found a strange group. That, in itself, is interesting. Tell me, are they all white?
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  25076.  @dimomarkov8937  I wonder how many are medicated.
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  25077. 🤣
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  25078. They can do that by seizing his car and impounding it. If he offers no resistance to losing the car, there is no reason to so much as touch him. Plus he can't come back and pick it up later, after the police leave. Problem solved.
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  25079.  @stupidchannelbs  Not to mention an end to regime-change.
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  25080.  @stupidchannelbs  Directed your post to the wrong person.
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  25081.  @stupidchannelbs  And I will be leaving the West by 2025. "Thanks for the memories."
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  25082.  @stupidchannelbs  I was agreeing with you, LOL.
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  25083.  @jontomas2271  They took down the video but you can find copies on other channels. They accused Mate of denying Syrian children had been killed in a gas attack, and insinuated that he is a paid apologist for Assad and other war criminals, and that he gets money from Putin. But you knew that.
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  25084.  @jontomas2271  Blocked.
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  25085. Do you have examples? Because habeas corpus has been drastically curtailed since the 1990s. The timeline you assert simply does not happen for the factually innocent without immense effort, and even fails despite that effort -- much less for the unequivocally guilty.
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  25086. Also, a trial can be full of errors, most of which will be deemed harmless. It is very unusual for errors to have constitutional implications. Verdicts have been upheld where a defense attorney failed to do obvious research, debriefing of eye witnesses, etc., or where he briefly dozed off during a "routine" part of the trial.
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  25087. "Handouts" are for Hunter.
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  25088. She is highly qualified, in fact. Too bad Biden isn't.
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  25089.  @Dodgers-sw2uk  So by definition Biden is the idiot in this picture. That is not news.
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  25090.  @ospee2004  Which decisions? Who floats these talking points?
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  25091.  @jondunmore4268  Except that she's not a miffed customer over some trivial nonsense that no normal person notices.
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  25092.  @jondunmore4268  And what's the origin of ben dover?
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  25093.  @jondunmore4268  🤣🤣🤣
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  25094.  @jondunmore4268  🤡🌎
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  25095. "Robust" Don't trust anyone who says robust. Or nuance or toxic or . . .
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  25096. Sounds like Boris has much bigger problems with the Epstein crowd. Remember how the truth about Bill Gates trickled out?
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  25097. This is sick.
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  25098. ​ @Elgatos_world69  Under 15, not responsible. 15 to 17, they did bear a measure of responsibility, but not full responsibility. I pity anyone with such disgusting parents. I'd rather never be born than have a Nazi parent --- much rather. Question for you: what is your opinion of child soldiers?
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  25099. Neoliberal globalist ruling class.
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  25100. Oh, so my post about the vast difference between what "left" means in France and in Anglo-Saxon countries, and about the ne_o_liber_al gl_obal_ist_s, is only visible to ME.
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  25101. When UK had Thatcher, France had Mitterrand.
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  25102.  @IMissBH  Where else have you lived?
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  25103. Where I live, standing in a restaurant requires a mask. Talking to servers requires a mask. Between courses requires a mask. And seating is required to be spaced better. But I have no idea how elite restaurants do it.
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  25104. Also, not sure about the public health policy of dresses with trains. Could you look that up?
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  25105. 12:25 Newsom's directive is so unsanitary!!
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  25106. Finally the lawsuits are coming.
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  25107.  @eleanmendoza  Exactly. The Clintons were close to Epstein and Maxwell.
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  25108. Psaki. This is who needs to get fired.
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  25109. The Court rejects TOO MANY petitions for cert as it is. "Packing" is a misnomer. We need to expand the Court. It settled at nine Justices when there were only nine circuits, and what? Some 100 million fewer Americans?
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  25110.  @RaymondPeckIII  It's called multivariate analysis. The pharmaceutical companies have to do it. Did they?
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  25111. @kesivan  Well, when I heard all the accusations about George Soros funding these protests, I investigated on my own and found one grant, not given in this decade, amounting to $200,000 for Jewish Voice for Peace. The burden of proof is on the proponent. The fact that Laura Ingraham says so is not evidence.
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  25112.  @M.J.80  That's great! There's every reason to be hopeful. I'm so sorry this happened. I was born with a trivial heart murmur and developed arrhythmias due to medical error, so I cringe when I hear any young person has to deal with these problems at all! My heart murmur improved on its own and is insignificant now. This is what usually happens, at least to some degree. I wish I had been told that. Well, you can imagine. All the best. :)
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  25113. I lived in socialist France under Mitterrand. I was vastly happier than here. It was safe, sane, and 6th graders could study ancient Greek to boot. Lycée gave high school students the opportunity to study the first two years of university mathematics. Their free preschool was considered the best in the world. Gourmet lunches were included.
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  25114. @RonaldSkancke  VAT (value added tax) was significant, and everyone supported it because it benefitted everyone. Education tends to florish under real socialism. France and USSR both created tons of top mathematicians, and literacy (ability to read AND reading as a pastime) was high. Mélenchon supports bringing Latin and Greek back to the official lycée program. Just saw a report on an Indian news channel yesterday that the French aren't even romantic (ahem) anymore. It's a lot like America now. No guns, so mass stabbings instead, sometimes even preceded by social media declarations.
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  25115. By the way, they still had obligatory universal military service back then, though you could choose certain social service alternatives once you completed the basics. You could be a medic, teach French in Africa, work at an embassy, stuff like that. I think it was 18 months. I forget. Of course university was tuition-free for everyone, even for non-French.
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  25116. 7:52 Brie asked a question. Now, no one can ask questions, excuse me, "questions."
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  25117.  @genericusername3029  No, the actual homicide rate per annum from guns alone (which means shot dead) is nearly twice that number. That doesn't include those shot who survive.
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  25118.  @mightyirish  Wrong again. There are almost no gun-related suicides in Japan. What's up with you? This isn't even hard to verify. Why is it even relevant? It has nothing to do with teens or kids, who make up a miniscule number of suicides in Japan. Exhausted, disappointed mid-career men are the typical victim.
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  25119.  @genericusername3029  Hence, gun-related deaths, combining suicide and homicide, are 13.2 per 100,000 (132 per million), per year.
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  25120.  @genericusername3029  Just in case you were looking at composite figures pre-pandemic, guess what? Woefully outdated. Tragic but true. The period after the economy recovered, more or less, from the Great Recession (2012-13 or so), through 2019 was Shangri-La by comparison.
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  25121.  @genericusername3029  A woman directly across the street from me shot her husband accidentally, killed him. A pizza delivery man at the nearest high rise, shot dead, around midnight. A lady coming home from work didn't immediately relinquish her purse, shot and wounded, around 10 pm. Just what comes to mind.
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  25122.  @genericusername3029  7 per 100,000 was suicides; 6.2 per 100,000 homicides. Nonfatal shootings are not presumed to be self-inflicted, but inflicted by someone else.
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  25123.  @genericusername3029  Right now, homicide is the leading cause of death for children ages one to seventeen in Illinois. Also according to the CDC.
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  25124.  @genericusername3029  No, you read it wrong. If you're not going to take the time, and accuse me of changing numbers on top of it (6.2 is the gun homicide rate per 100,000, and 7 is the gun suicide rate --- exactly what I said all along), then I'm not going to waste my time. I'm leaving the States permanently within the next few years, possibly as soon as next year. Not my problem.
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  25125.  @genericusername3029  Is everyone high?
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  25126.  @genericusername3029  Auto accidents, other accidents (suffocation, drowning), pediatric cancers, congenital abnormalities, and, far less commonly, infectious diseases.
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  25127.  Subjugated Gold God Worshipping  blocked
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  25128.  @genericusername3029  Ad hom. Pfft! Auto accidents and other accidents used to be how kids died. Now, hundreds of thousands are living with the consequences of having been present in a school during a shooting.
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  25129.  @genericusername3029  "Children don't drive." Lol, they are driven.
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  25130.  @matthewmencel5978  Yes, exactly. I've seen this brought up many times, through the years. School rampage shootings are hard to predict, but adolescent suicide is not hard. We have some knowledge about that. What has been done about it?
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  25131.  @matthewmencel5978  Jonathan Fast wrote a book on school shootings, took a decade to write it, and in a chapter devoted to prevention, only about five pages at the end address guns at all -- and in that section, he first traces the history of the increase in firepower available to people over the past century, and touches on the history of gun control attempts before giving an opinion on it. It is not just about guns. It's about a lot of other things, and then add guns.
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  25132. Explain?
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  25133.  @peetky8645  Explain. These days, one must specify.
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  25134. I don't believe she wanted to win unless you show me she made less money by losing than she would have by winning. If she would have made more by being president, then all right. Then she did try to win.
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  25135.  @Water-7814  Clinton is the single person most responsible for the chaos we see around us today.
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  25136.  @paulmahoney6313  Where did you find them?
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  25137. Eric Harris turned on a former friend, and that former friend and the friend's mother pressed police to search Harris's house. Police had an unexecuted warrant that "disappeared" after Colombine. The kid was later ostracized because he dressed "grunge." The cheerleader type who bought the guns was never charged with anything.
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  25138. Imagine having so much money that you can do anything, and you pick this.
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  25139. What we can find out about this person's health status raises the question whether his own doctors considered a vaccine advisable. But let's not forget this information is supposed to be private. (🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣)
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  25140.  @davidlink2720  LOL, they don't want a letter from a lawyer. So they play it super safe with the behemoth. Pragmatism.
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  25141. Next up, settling MARS!! 😂😂😂
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  25142. Extreme rarity. At age 50 is an extreme rarity.
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  25143. Good thinking.
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  25144. Bribed. Plus they know the economy is about to implode.
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  25145. Not that many, but it was shocking how US government websites were bragging about funding Ukrainian biolabs. Department of Defense funded most of them. After Nuland's testimony, they did not even take it down.
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  25146. Everyone knows there have been no conspiracies since the death of Al Capone. 😅
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  25147. Your opinion doesn't determine law. The government does not administer religious tests.
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  25148.  @letssamplethis7641  You don't have a heckler's veto on the matter.
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  25149.  @letssamplethis7641  Nonsequitur in any case: agnosticism isn't a religion, and is First Amendment protected anyway. Moreover, if Satanism is a religion, all the more reason to keep its symbols and other religious paraphernalia OUT of a capitol building.
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  25150. If it makes money, it makes money. /s
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  25151.  @rummyraisin  The point is to say it here and say it well. He did, toward the end.
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  25152.  @tuxedobob2  oh well ;/
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  25153. I thought the timeline was that Brian flew home to Florida for several days, between the police encounter and Gabby's death. It is not mentioned here. EDIT: they were apart for five days; this matters
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  25154. I think you are making sense . . . perhaps not in the details, exactly, but certainly grosso modo. What the Russians are doing now is wasting lives and treasure, and that is inexcusable. No one seems to appreciate what the US can and will do, without an afterthought. If they could fake a nuclear attack coming from Moscow and destroy Russia on that account, I have no doubt they would.
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  25155. They are consistent in their support for the radical right. No surprise.
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  25156. "Men are victims, too!" -- Brian Laundrie "It was my fault." -- Gabby Petito, said to police
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  25157. @juniorgod321  Try borrowing to start a business and not paying it back? Well, it depends on how your business was structured. You may have no liability in the event of a corporate bankruptcy, and of course no clawback of salary previously vested and paid. The bank also assumed the risk in writing the loan. This isn't like a mortgage.
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  25158.  @abrahamparker3065  You clearly don't understand corporate law or bankruptcy law.
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  25159. @brianbelgard5988  You're talking about a very small business and exceptional circumstances. Also, I have never heard of a small business owner taking close to no salary for more than a few years, nevermind a decade. That means he paid hardly anything into Social Security for a decade, in addition to all the other troubles he had. Did anything stop him from closing shop and getting a job? Some businesses won't hire a person who had their own business, and others love to have them as employees. Once you are past your 20s, your experience will be valued differently by different employers, a problem we all face if born before the mid-90s.
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  25160. @jtlachappelle  I have no idea what Wolff did, and neither do you. A lot of people in his generation did light factory over the summer, or dropped out for a year and worked. The legendary attorney Michael Ratner did that, and he graduated number 1 in his class at Columbia.
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  25161. He is constantly saying what he desperately needs to hear. Poor guy.
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  25162.  @das6109  Look up Vasili Arkhipov. You may owe your life to him.
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  25163. No, you absolutely should listen. The stupid comments are because she is saying something different.
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  25164.  @lord6617  Exactly. Major corporations spend more on LOBBYING than they pay in taxes, and there is a reason for that. And rather than paying taxes, and reducing the federal deficit, they buy Treasuries and get paid INTEREST, from the federal government and those very same tax revenues. In the meantime, it is they who need the court system to protect their intellectual property and thrash out their contract claims, it is they who need 700 bases in 80 countries to police the global shipping lanes and prop up the dollar as global reserve currency . . . Robby thinks the world can function without that? Not the world as we know it. He would be out of a job fast, and wouldn't be able to grow his own food.
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  25165. Who is going to determine which stocks are about to soar, or crash? 😂😂 😂
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  25166.  @gabriellag8621  If they cannot be regulated, and refuse to reform, organize a boycott.
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  25167. ​ @ThomasT-l8p Is RFK Jr denouncing his sister? I oppose Trump. I blame the DNC for Trump. When have they made a viable counterproposal? Biden? Harris? Hillary?
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  25168. Neither of them read the court documents. They don't know what they're talking about either way.
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  25169. And if I spell out exactly what is wrong in their reporting, and why, guess what happens? That part is easy.
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  25170. That part makes me wonder.
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  25171. Where are the adults who don't misuse social media? 😂😂😂😂😂 Just kidding.
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  25172. Push me, and I won't get vaccinated. It's not your job to push me. It is not "science" to push me. I am waiting for more research on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine issues. I expect to be vaccinated this year.
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  25173. So, Dimon is thinking about entering politics post-Epstein, rather than pre-Epstein like all the others.
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  25174. So . . . Someone targetted cannot raise a legal defense fund, or access their own money?
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  25175. Ah. You don't know the game yet. Accuse her first. Title IX has turned into something like a gold rush to the county recorder's office. That worked when my harasser accused me, and I even had a witness. The guy was later arrested in a Walmart for "inappropriate touching." I had left my job by then.
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  25176. How about trying nutritional mushrooms first, and other good foods, and spending time in the forest with a book, and see whether you like your natural mind?
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  25177. Mattias Desmet. Remember that name.
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  25178. People born on third think their genes are superior.
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  25179. Freedom used to exist for most people. Now it is very expensive.
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  25180. Which is interesting, given that he wrote some of the best, most well-documented articles in The Nation on the far-right and neo-Nazis in eastern Ukraine.
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  25181. The separatists in the Donbass are not right-wing but a pocket of leftists.
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  25182.  @ryanhead2004  Actually, that is not the case. By high school, between academics and their rigorous training schedule, they had no time at all for high school sports. You must have no idea how champions are made.
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  25183.  @ryanhead2004  They were all high school age at some point. That's all that you got right.
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  25184. @adamguerrero5293  You're right about that, but they no longer rely on high school to develop them, or at least not usually. There is a whole industry of clubs, camps, coaches for that. A lot of money is on the table.
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  25185.  @patchandy  That's one way they get visibility, true, but that's no longer where they develop, or at least not in general. That has changed. I suggest you do some research. EVERYTHING is privatized now.
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  25186. @adamguerrero5293  Oh yes I do. LOL
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  25187.  @patchandy  Okay. Never mind. You think today's NFL relied on whoever happened to be the coach at their neighborhood high school, and allowed that random person to have a huge influence on their chances for a career. Okay. And Ivy League students and their parents don't have application consultants, sometimes starting in 6th grade. Or earlier. Prep school. Cool. Like I said, never mind.
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  25188. @erikblah  Apparently it's not, if nobody knows today's competitive kids' sports are now businesses. No, an obscure kid from Nebraska out of a Frank Capra movie will not suddenly turn up and be the next great quarterback. Okay, maybe ONE might. It's not strictly impossible. But that's not how it happens. A lot of cool stuff changed.
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  25189. During the pandemic, they joked about denying a hospital bed to the unvaccinated. But it's not new. You must have seen newsreels of the cheering when the first atomic bomb was dropped. Before Oppenheimer and everything.
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  25190. ​ @BenjaminGolden-c5u  The US is arming and funding what most of the world, fairly or not, regards as a genocide. If you are a humanitarian OR a believer in Realpolitik who cares only about US power and influence, you should care about this. Or do you believe it won't affect the US? People around the world had no idea what to make of President Mummy and his dissolute son before this.
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  25191.  @patricklyons7683  Look at the title of the video. Whose unhinged, authoritarian rant do you think we're talking about? You'll find only one, and it's gross.
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  25192.  @patricklyons7683  You joined 6 weeks ago, for this? Get a job writing for Olbermann.
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  25193. @Goldenhawk583  Try . . . Reading. Then when you have that down, think. Practice thinking. This show can often help with that, but you will want to branch out.
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  25194.  @Goldenhawk583  Isn't the list long? You put words in my mouth. I never like that.
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  25195.  @Goldenhawk583  Yawn Bye
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  25196. @Goldenhawk583  We are both exercising it here. You got a problem with that? Why? Blocked from my feed.
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  25197. You mean like Biden, Hunter Biden, Trump, Jared Kushner, Hillary Clinton, Chelsea . . . ? Yeah, I see that. Better yet, you got an example of merit hiring? Let me know, I want to apply.
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  25198.  @scratchpenny  Actually, the colleges can "take care of that" by not accepting the AP classes for full credit. Amazing how common that is, too.
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  25199. ​ @Rew123 The garage was left open with a sentient being in it. Anyone would have the right to quickly check on a dog in those circumstances, then quickly leave. Sometimes you can find out an elderly person is in distress that way. Sheesh! Think, people. Use your real-life experience.
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  25200. @Rew123  That's ridiculous. It is perfectly obvious that the child knows he is on someone else's property, AND it is illegal to use possibly lethal force to protect property. Yes, there are idiots who don't know that, but most people do know. In this case, the child left "property" (the dog) in a better condition than he found it.
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  25201.  @Rew123  Stay in front of screens your entire childhood and be fearful of everyone, and you may have a heart attack at 25.
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  25202. @f-86zoomer37  Probably, but not certainly. Let's be fair.
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  25203.  @nicolemalick2166  Exactly.
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  25204. 🤔
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  25205. ​ @daidesign121 So don't watch, and urge others not to. That's the remedy.
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  25206. Yeah, get rid of the lawyers and have more white people.
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  25207.  @larryparr2799  Oh no. HR? Please, not HR. Is that the world we've made? I agree about all the personal stuff: Ana's goal was to push it in that direction, and she was successful. Greenwald did a great analysis, sticking to real principles and avoiding side issues and personal drama. It was refreshing.
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  25208. Good for them for it.
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  25209. You're looking in the mirror, Kid. Where in the world did you study economics?
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  25210.  @dcg4mn  Joe will never pardon Hunter.
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  25211. @dcg4mn  We are on the topic of honesty in politics. Please laugh.
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  25212. @dcg4mn  I don't see how demanding full disclosure can be a "dodge." Please explain it to me slowly.
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  25213.  @rlorendean  No argument from me! Lol
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  25214. Reminds me of "Anna Anderson," who almost got away with impersonating Anastasia Romanov.
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  25215.  @concrete7830  I never joined that, or any of the others. Here with a pseudonym only since the COVID shutdown.
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  25216.  @yoholmes273  If government does it, directly or by using the tech giants as its cat's paw.
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  25217. Wrong talking point during COVID. Incel is not so good right now, either. "Nazi" might land, and Cenk endorses it . . . except that Aaon's father survived the Holocaust. Yeesh, this is getting hard for the insult producers.
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  25218.  @moniquemonicat  I suspect Zelensky wanted it at the time.
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  25219. The Remains of the Day
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  25220.  @khernandez46  I would love to know how many people over 65 were mildly ill or barely symptomatic. I would love to see the numbers. You can find the deaths cited everywhere, by age, sex, and comorbidity. I want the success stories. They are more common at every age short of, say, 88.
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  25221.  @khernandez46  Not only that, but how many older people with mild COVID didn't even get tested, thinking it couldn't be COVID because it was just a weird, little cold? So they inadvertently spread it to someone who might end up hospitalized. This lack of candor has been criminal.
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  25222. And? "Socialist" is a talking point. Does he know what it means? And more important, people can't change? Didn't we all once think America was a Force For Good? I did, in 7th grade.
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  25223. King had a serious accident. I'd leave him alone. (P. S. Never liked his writing.)
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  25224. Just because.
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  25225. ​ @just_another32  Oprah hosted one of these interviews. Jenny McCarthy. A book that endorsed a much slower schedule came out. Critics were told, free speech.
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  25226. @just_another32  My answer is _________. My fill in the blank, too, letting you know that.
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  25227. Someone needs to look up the local rules, and ask whether they were followed. Some districts supposedly don't let DOJ pick the judge. Supposedly. ;)
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  25228. @Larpy McLarperstein Looked up "larp." I've never played a video game, much less . . . Is this what happens to you after you have to give up "recreational" drugs?
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  25229. Odd. No one is talking about Spunik V, are they?
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  25230. Reagan made everyone change their language --- AND was first to tax Social Security benefits.
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  25231. If only! There are far worse, even at The Intercept.
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  25232. So let me see if I understand: if a perfectly fine and noble person is attacked on social media by Bad Actors, the DNC abandons them? Yup, sounds about right.
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  25233. Her paycheck has always depended on not telling the truth.
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  25234. ​@gugy68 Briahna did not vote for Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton and has made it known many times. Don't think she hasn't gotten serious flak for it. They expected her to fall in line.
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  25235. Nice ad ya did there, but no thanks.
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  25236.  @changingworld7467  What do you find compelling here?
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  25237.  @jaelancaster5506  Wow this lady really is rich!
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  25238.  @changingworld7467  Well, maybe my substantive reply to another post, which explains my position, is in the shadow. Yours run no such risk.
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  25239.  @changingworld7467  A bunch of this sounds Chat generated.
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  25240. @misssadied193  Reagan supported legalizing immigrants who arrived illegally, he was the first to tax Social Security benefits, he ended income averaging for federal tax purposes, which had helped new graduates get started, he broke unions, he started the massive deficit spending and he began the financialization of the economy, with real manufacturing sent offshore, homeless populations started appearing, his CIA created and supported Osama bin Laden, he propped up Saddam Hussein, weapons were secretly sold to Iran to funnel money to Central American guerrillas who executed "leftist" nuns. There's more, but I'm tired. The fact-free life must be fun. Why shouldn't you get to have your own facts? What's the point of money, then?
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  25241.  @misssadied193  I don't support Biden. I never voted for a ticket with Biden on it.
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  25242. The comments to this case show how many bad relationships are out there.
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  25243. Jimmy trying to get kicked off of YT, 🤣
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  25244. 39:33 I'm not a liar. If I don't want to tell the truth in front of particular people, I don't answer the question.
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  25245. Contact a real innocence project first and ask them. U of Michigan accepted this case.
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  25246. Absolutely, so well said.
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  25247. Gates is a "philanthropist" who, the minute he found out his business partner Paul Allen had cancer, tried to push Allen out of Microsoft. Why doesn't this matter? Why isn't it known? He is the same man who gave up his marriage to hang out with Epstein, and expected Epstein to leverage a Nobel Peace Prize for him. I'm actually surprised it didn't work.
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  25248. Yes!
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  25249. Gates has aged faster than a president.
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  25250. Well, when our agents killed him in the name of the law, YEAH.
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  25251. At least he's honest about it.
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  25252. Another reason why he should never have been charged or tried as an adult.
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  25253. @Alex-gh8iu  Who said what to whom? What was said to her? Did you hear it here? Well, then what are we discussing? Harassment and defamation are certainly actionable, and are about the actual words a person was subjected to. They are not about feelings alone.
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  25254.  @Alex-gh8iu  Actually, I'll give you a better answer: if that's the price of freedom to protest Israel's actions in Gaza, then yes. I would grin and bear it.
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  25255.  @Alex-gh8iu  In any case, if there is some legitimate issue about anyone's eligibility, only the IOC merits scrutiny, not the athlete. She didn't declare herself eligible. She's just living her life. But the real issue in the US is free speech. Keep your eye on the ball.
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  25256. This is true.
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  25257. So . . . The people who think a president should be able to talk is living in Fantasy Land.
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  25258. I have no problem saying I am a cis woman if it is relevant. It is very rarely relevant. But when it is, no problem. I'm cis. And het.
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  25259. I'm starting to think that the command, "bend over," has become their motto.
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  25260. ASTUTE
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  25261. Why wouldn't someone like him have a bodyguard, if it is so dangerous in that area? He could certainly afford one, and needed one for obvious reasons.
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  25262. ​@scottcincinnatikid9804 None of the people I know with real money worked hard for it. The stock market was their main source. Sometimes an unusual special talent in sudden high demand created seed money.
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  25263. ​Zuckerberg had 10,000,000 times that at 29. What did he produce?
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  25264. ​ @Mr1159pm That is an excellent point.
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  25265. Joe is being Joe. Of course he has to make up new crimes. I wonder if Hunter ever smokes this stuff?
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  25266. @shamanahaboolist  A place where our choices for president are what you see, and school shootings are a thing.
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  25267.  @BradDoggett  Yeah, but this has an Assange flavor to it. Plus you are talking about what happened during the first wave of hysteria, which the DNC could not yet control.
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  25268.  @jillzy1182  I agree with that.
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  25269.  @roxannebarton9740  I don't know where that came from. Are you okay?
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  25270.  @roxannebarton9740  As a matter of fact, I think COVID might have been prevented to a large degree with credible and timely information. Not downplaying, followed by exaggerating, followed by a bourgeois politico-cultural war, with lots of lies from all sides interspersed along the way. And there shouldn't have been "sides."
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  25271.  @roxannebarton9740  WOW. Michael Lewis just said what I said about COVID. Did not know.
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  25272.  @roxannebarton9740  Who said PELOSI (that's how you spell it) wasn't to blame, along with all the rest of 'em? I remember her little cosplay.
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  25273.  @SirLeDoux  My point was we went from many lies, primarily politically driven, to zero trustworthiness on all subjects, all fronts. I used to be able to tell, more or less. I remember when Paris was crawling with CIA, when under Mitterrand there were a handful of PCF ministers in non-sensitive positions. :/
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  25274.  @seangordon1905  Told to me in which language? I've always been skeptical of anything stated in a language in which "money is speech." I guess that means you. Too.
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  25275. If she was abused, she has a First Amendment right to speak or write about it --- even if she was worse than he was. Even bad people have First Amendment rights. Even criminals do. Ask yourself: why is he pursuing this defamation case, after losing a stronger defamation case in the UK on the same basic facts? Why doesn't he write his own essay? "The remedy for bad speech is more speech." I wonder how many people know this is really a First Amendment case, and not an abuse case? I bet hardly anyone.
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  25276.  @timwhite5562  I suggest you look up defamation, and something called "New York Times malice." EVERY defamation case implicates the First Amendment. If you lose, the state sends the sheriff to your house to seize your assets, because of your speech. I'm licensed in California. I do know what I'm talking about, and I lament the complete absence of civics education.
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  25277.  @timwhite5562  When you have the good fortune to run across someone who actually knows something, and won't abuse your intelligence the way the media does, why don't you investigate what they've said? Why do you imagine they're wrong? I have never once done that. If I were in your place, I'd have checked out Nolo or Cornell's website.
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  25278.  @timwhite5562  What do you think happens if you are judged liable for, say, a million dollars? Let's say seizure of your bank accounts is insufficient. Let's say you own fine art and jewelry. The point is, the STATE enforces the judgment, by TAKING your property, which it cannot do if your speech is protected by the First Amendment. Learn something. Get your head out of bad movies. I won't respond again.
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  25279.  @timwhite5562  Yes. Speech or writing is PRESUMED to be protected under the First Amendment, and must be PROVED not to be, and the burden of proof is always on the plaintiff, never on the defendant, and it is weighty. You have to read Supreme Court cases or legitimate summaries of law, not stray soundbites. "Exception" is incorrect terminology. No one who practices in the area ever uses it.
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  25280.  @timwhite5562  You're right to doubt my credentials. I'm talking to you. Whose fault is that?
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  25281.  @timwhite5562  Whoosh
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  25282.  @timwhite5562  A real lawyer shouldn't talk to you, absolutely right.
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  25283.  @timwhite5562  Blocked, btw. Should have done that after your first whiney, envious retort.
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  25284.  @brantkim  I don't agree with this analysis. The court is an arm of the state, and the court will not find someone liable and seize their assets on account of their speech unless the plaintiff meets a heavy burden of proof. Speech is presumed to be First Amendment-protected and must be proved otherwise. There are a number of elements in that tort, and all of them are strict. Among other things, the speech must be false. Not just incomplete, not just misleading, and not an opinion but an assertion of fact. That's why this whole argument about "who was worse" that you see being played out is a total diversion. If he abused her, the article isn't false. That's true even if the public thinks she was worse. That's true even if she was worse. That's true even if she isn't generally a credible person, or a nice person, or a good person. I don't misunderstand it. Your cliche about yelling fire suggests you haven't read much on the subject. In any case, New York Times malice may play a role in the standard given to the jury. The instructions will be interesting.
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  25285.  @brantkim  The case that phrase about yelling fire in a crowded theatre came from was overturned a long time ago, by the way. A notorious case.
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  25286.  @brantkim  I didn't realize what thread this was. I'm not interested in engaging. Did Emily so much as mention the First Amendment? No, huh? Lord are you all easily led.
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  25287.  @brantkim  1. You are quoting from the same case that was overturned in the last century. "Clear and present danger." Ironic. 2. The burden of proof is on Depp at all times. He has to prove by a preponderance of the evidence (which means "more likely than not") that Heard's article was false. She does not have to prove truth. If the jury is unsure, she wins. 3. I'm not engaging further. Try reading. It's fun. Educational, too.
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  25288.  @brantkim  IOW, blocking you, too.
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  25289.  @timwhite5562  blocked and reported
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  25290.  @marctully228  I report people for personal bullying, which is against TOS. But I should stay off, it's not worth my time.
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  25291.  @marctully228  How many facts do you get wrong before breakfast? Why have the biggest military in human history if you can't even have your own facts? 🤔
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  25292. Oo, that landed!
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  25293. ​ @jgalt308 How do you know how he stayed out? Informant? Federal grand jury witness?
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  25294. Emma makes bank. Why should she quit? She doesn't have to get it right.
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  25295. ​@Dr.Vas0 Oh, but if that's the case, all the more reason to listen to them -- not for insight on politics but to see what they're saying, and to see what propaganda they want you to believe. How do you get everything backwards?
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  25296. ​You're British? So, you had Thatcher when France had Mitterrand? 😂
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  25297. @Dr.Vas0  🤣🤣🤣
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  25298. @Dr.Vas0  ". . . that's who they are." Back to identities? Let's see what those alleged Russian propagandists have to say. (You know how you find out what someone said? By listening to an undoctored video they put out. That will work.) If The Grayzone is pushing Kremlin views, all the more reason to listen. That's basic. You can't go straight to RT anymore. Grayzone hands you a workaround for free, and you balk? Afraid you'll convert?
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  25299. @Dr.Vas0 Now I know why the New Popular Front can still advance, whereas politics in the Five Eyes . . . well. I've learned more from you than anyone. This is the whole story, in a capsule.
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  25300. @Dr.Vas0  🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 oh my gawd . . . Please get a job as a Republican consultant. That might help them lose next time. Do us a favor, be useful, etc.
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  25301. @Dr.Vas0  Oops, forgot to block. 😂
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  25302.  @gucciadjective7745  So she has a really easy job and a big payday.
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  25303. @gucciadjective7745  Her?? I cannot stand her. The women commentators I follow are not American. (Aude Lancelin, Clémentine Autain, etc.) So much for your theory. 🤣🤣🤣
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  25304. @gucciadjective7745  Wait. You'd didn't realize I was condemning it? Oh wow. 🤣
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  25305. Most of these guys voted for some Dem at some point. You meant well.
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  25306.  @thewirah1  So he is better than even I had thought.
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  25307. Well, we've had several now. So, what did happen?
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  25308. Well. NOW you know why we couldn't talk about the Lab Leak Theory.
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  25309. I'm so sorry. Somehow, though, I still have more faith in the British Army than in, say, the FBI.
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  25310. No, Robbie. The civil war was heating up only DAYS before the Russian invasion. It's not hard to find a starting point. It's not centuries' old.
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  25311. So, maybe a candid performance review after 3 months should have been done? I didn't hear that she got no contracts. I heard that one fell through.
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  25312. God help me. No, not even God can help me.
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  25313.  @citizenworld8464  Note that neither the State Department nor Victoria Nuland has issued a clarification yet. It has been a while, huh?
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  25314.    um, paragraphs?
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  25315.    I don't believe there will be any such attack, unless it is a false flag. Only the desperate ever do any such thing, hence it is suicidal terrorists who pose the gravest risk by far. See Col. Douglas MacGregor on that. See The Hill.
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  25316. Worked last time.
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  25317. Really lousy acting coach, sweets.
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  25318. ​ @jnagarya519 During JFK's time, it didn't apply to the US, and that it ever could was unimaginable.
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  25319. ​ @jnagarya519 The First Amendment does not prohibit political violence. It permits Congress to pass laws to prohibit political violence. To pass Fifth Amendment muster, those laws have to clearly define the crime. One law they tried to apply against the January 6th protesters was just ruled inapplicable to them by the Supreme Court. Justice Jackson agreed with that.
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  25320. ​​ @jnagarya519 At the time, President Kennedy's observation didn't apply to the US, and back then no one imagined it could. Takes some getting used to, huh?
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  25321. ​ @jnagarya519 Too bad my correction to your misstatement of the law is ________.
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  25322. ​ @taylort8674 Or, maybe those who've explained it contextually are cents err . . . ? We must make the public appear ignorant.
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  25323. I disagree with the idea of billionaires.
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  25324.  @nomopms1  PTSD is a "disorder." There's no evidence of any disorder.
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  25325. @fleatactical7390  What does the last letter of PTSD stand for? Yeah, well, I don't see that, and at this point neither does anyone else.
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  25326.  @fleatactical7390  Are you a Big Pharma rep? Okay, pill pusher . . . 😂
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  25327.  @fleatactical7390  Am I the one medicalizing healthy, normal reactions?
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  25328.  @fleatactical7390  Please, no worries!! Have a good week . . . Summer! Year. Decade? Let's not get too crazy.
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  25329. Pretty much like that. I like your comparison.
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  25330. Wow. Now being vaccinated and boosted won't save you . . . From Taylor Lorenz.
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  25331. "Misinformation" is spreading a rumor that a candidate is dead during the voting. Of the Davos crowd, who do you trust not to do that?
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  25332. The Guardian is reporting that France has decided not to pause the J&J vaccine.
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  25333. And the moral of the story is . . . In 21st century America, do not go to a psychotherapist unless your very life is at stake.
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  25334. "His," who?
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  25335. Bezos bought the Washington Post for a reason.
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  25336. So . . . Was Sam Bankman-Fried a false flag to distract us and undermine crypto? When it comes to currency, we must have a system we can trust. Now I don't trust any of them. Mission accomplished?
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  25337. 1. The French made it illegal to ask a minor their COVID vaccination status. The left spearheaded the effort. 2. Children are behind on their standard vaccines, such as those given around ages 13 to 15, such as the meningitis vaccine. Horrible! 3. Some elderly should get a flu shot. Now they don't. They don't know who to trust.
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  25338. @BlessedTruly, my friend's nephews live in a conservative Republican state and still were asked their pronouns. They live in a nice suburb.
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  25339.  @BlessedTruly2014  I was surprised, too. :/
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  25340. Who's lying? If I report that Trump states X and X is a lie, or that Trump's lawyers say X and X is a lie, did I just lie? If I report that the White House asserts that the Nordstream pipeline was destroyed by Russian agents, and that turns out to be false, did I lie? If I report that leaders of the DNC believe Trump was elected in 2016 because of Russian state interference in our election, and that turns out to be false, did I lie? Or did I accurately report what members of the DNC stated? Your final paragraph is just a new anti-free-speech slogan. Congrats, please do destroy the last good thing left. The Fourth Amendment is gone, the Fifth, almost gone, the Eighth . . . well, at least we don't execute people for what they did as minors. I guess that's something. Kalief Browder is not here to tell his side, however.
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  25341. 7:17 Now The Intercept is accusing Greenwald of "attacking" them? Attacking them. Huh. Whatever one may think (and however justifiably) about CHARLIE HEBDO, what happened to them is an "attack."
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  25342.  @pax6833  Show us one US sanctions regime that stopped any country from doing what they believed they ought to do, or caused any country to change its policies or government. Start with, say, Cuba.
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  25343. @deadgolfer6345  I thought we all knew Harris was inauthentic and incompetent. There is no good way for this election to end.
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  25344. @deadgolfer6345  Too bad my replies never get to be here for very long. (I said something bad about Mamala.)
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  25345. Hate speech does not exist as a category of unprotected speech under the First Amendment. If I were a billionaire, I'd send a copy of Nadine Strossen's book to every household. The real disgrace is that a university president does not know the First Amendment, much less really care about free speech. Short of fighting words, true threats, and incitement to imminent violence (or speech in furtherance of a crime, such as in criminal conspiracy), speech would have to be harassment directed at some individual in a personal way to be subject to discipline. Chants praising Hamas generally don't qualify, unless they are targeting a particular person. Laws against cross burning have been repeatedly struck down. In America, you can fly any flag, or burn it.
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  25346. Wait. MARS doesn't have a magnetic field, but genius Elon Musk wants to start colonies there?
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  25347. ​@kmacintosh1448 So then don't date him. Don't invite him to parties. No coffee breaks with this dude. No days at the beach.
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  25348. It's not a free market, but it is late capitalism. Even Adam Smith was better than what we got. Way better.
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  25349. Wall Street did that.
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  25350. Russians might talk to us, and pretend they're not Russians!!!!
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  25351. "Near" the court or residence is the key to the statute. Do you see a definition here? The Supreme Court has seen legal protests of all kinds, including many huge protests against Roe v. Wade, for years. Are memories that short? These are two political animals duping you. They have their own interest$ at heart.
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  25352. Yeah, but that's not something people can do anything about. /s
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  25353.  @paulheydarian1281  Was kidding . . . I know you know. :)
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  25354. Nadine Strossen on hate speech. Must-read.
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  25355. Why is he conflating words with physical attacks? Is the United States the only country that understands the principles that underlie its First Amendment? Needless to say, the US is losing its once-remarkable clarity on that.
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  25356. Prove it. Give us the search terms from the study (live links are generally shadowed).
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  25357. I think Jimmy's chances of staying on through the next few years are about 50-50. I have no trust in YouTube.
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  25358. ​ @josephmurphy1459 Of course it's all for $how. Please.
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  25359. Hierarchical struggle as the motor of history is "absolutely true," and characterizes all human societies as part of our biology, according to Peterson? Marshall Sahlins addressed this. NEVER did Marx suggest that the bourgeoisie was the repository of all "evil" -- MUCH to the contrary. He considered it a great revolutionary force that embodied progress. He did not think history began with capitalism. My God. Peterson is misrepresenting the Communist Manifesto so much by minute 10, and in favor of the unscientific mysticism of a Jung? This is sad. Only people who have already made up their minds are impressed. More proof no one reads, and votes up self-serving discourses. Actually, communists were never as corrupt as capitalists. Communists prevented at least two nuclear exchanges, capitalists dropped two bombs as a demonstration of power, not to end the war.
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  25360. Let's not exaggerate.
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  25361.  @snoopster000  The cost of benefits is already taken into consideration before record profits are calculated. (The individual employee may never realize the benefit, but the insurance industry will get the money for sure.) In that respect, the demand for higher wages isn't so different from a household budget: $3700 rent is absurd if you make $65k, and reasonable if you make $165k and your apartment puts you within walking distance to your office. The UAW is asking for a reasonable raise. The Fox News talking head is just trying to make it sound unreasonable, and stoke envy with an "eye popping" number, nevermind that a CEO making close to $30 million is getting well over $3,300 per hour, 24/7/365, NOT counting benefits. What employee earns that?
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  25362. At one time Trump wanted to build a hotel/luxury condo complex in Moscow. No secret, no evidence there was more to it, and all of them knew.
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  25363. 12:32 Check out AOC's microexpression. Oh. My. Goodness. She keeps going, too . . . Jimmy nailed it.
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  25364. Language weaponized? So that's why that weird writing looks like gang tags.
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  25365. Except neither that, nor "MeToo" were issues in the case. The issue was one article. Did you read it?
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  25366.  @darcyschneider8525  Reading not your thing huh. (She even stated she never saw herself as a victim.)
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  25367.  @darcyschneider8525  "Criminally slandered?" -- yikes, where to start. Briahna and Kim got this. The guest had good points as well, not legally as strong but good insights.
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  25368.  @darcyschneider8525  It was not a criminal case. How do you know the jury got it right? If you don't know defamation cases are about whether a particular writing is defamation or protected by the First Amendment, as it is presumed to be, and not about whether the writer or speaker is a vile creep, then maybe you should listen more closely to Brie and Kim, especially Kim. She never succumbs to crowd think, really never. Impressive woman.
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  25369.  @garyr4211  That was funny.
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  25370.  @garyr4211  What sound does a cow make? Dare you ask? 1 point: mooo 2 points: moooooo moooooo 3 points: I'm not a biologist. 4 points: I refuse to answer on the grounds of species-ism. And able-ism. 5 points: We defer to Dr. Fauci for Science.
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  25371. Biden administration did this as payback for China's support of Putin. China opened a back door and told Putinwhat the US was saying to them concerning Ukraine. The entire two-step was planned. Of course it was performance.
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  25372. Why is Biden president, of something pretty big?
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  25373. A what? When?
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  25374. So now EVERYBODY has a doppelganger. I thought only Naomi Klein did. She was first, right? Respect.
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  25375. We all love you, you know. 😊 ❤❤❤
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  25376. She got less than 35%. Hence, over 65% did NOT vote for Le Pen's party in Round 1. Had her party won 50% +1, there would not BE a second round. How is it democratic to have someone with barely 1/3 of the votes cast form a government? If no party can get enough votes to elect their representatives and form a government, that reflects what the voters think of the whole lot of them. Which is probably what they all deserve.
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  25377. Hasan called learning loss a MYTH!
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  25378. Lemon laws apply to auto dealers, not private sellers. Too dumb.
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  25379.  @Urfavoritefascist  Exactly! Plus if I point out that removing a particular post is not the same as banning a person, that goes right over their heads. Seriously? Could a post be offensive, and not be First Amendment protected? Sure, happens all the time. So remove it. Is that a reason to silence a person? No it's not.
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  25380.  @BoringTroublemaker Ana's smear of Aaron Mate, followed by this desperate attempt to deflect attention from what she did, by playing the sexual harassment card, over a crass joke for which she received a prompt written apology, is what prompted this. Didn't you know? Now Ana needs to apologize. And she clearly does not care if she harms other women.
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  25381. Her parents are dead. Reported for c word.
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  25382. This is my favorite thread so far.
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  25383. ​ @lissaw4  I read it as ironic.
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  25384. ​ @lissaw4 Otherwise I agree.
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  25385. She never voted for Biden.
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  25386. Exactly. If you pick something you have no affinity for, you will be competing with people who love what they do, when you can barely tolerate it, and expect to be successful and happy. It won't happen.
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  25387.  @crhu319  Exactly, they are lawyers. For better or worse --- or both. Notice who has to get a law degree to have a platform. Emily has spouted nonsense about the law and it will never come back to haunt her.
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  25388.  @clydelouis5956  Briahna Joy Gray is opposed to the DNC. She was Bernie Sanders' press secretary and refused to endorse Hillary or Joe Biden without extracting certain important policy assurances from them in return. She supported Force the Vote against Nancy Pelosi as well, and has expressed interest in a third party. Olayemi is an immigrant and I believe she said she did not vote in the last election. I may have misunderstood. She is a public defender in New York City.
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  25389. I wasn't allowed to use a pronoun to refer to my mom. My mom was "Mom." So, if someone asks your son Jimmy what his pronoun is, he should say, "please call me Jimmy . . . Jimmy is cool."
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  25390. Please. Let's not look. Let's, just, not.
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  25391. To think that there are Americans who tell other Americans to vote for people killing their countrymen. (And Whoop is for "DEI," huh?)
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  25392. @HolySpicoli  Yup, the one who reads, unlike Biden, Trump, Pelosi, AOC, Mitch McConnell, Elise Stefanik, etc. Oh, and you.
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  25393. @HolySpicoli  Well, Chauvin did plead guilty to federal charges, in federal court, which requires a detailed allocution. Guilty pleas are not simply routine or strategic; nor is there any reason to think he couldn't secure competent counsel (though of course he has a right to raise that -- but the burden is his). When serious doubts were first raised about Chauvin's guilt, I was puzzled as to why the Supreme Court denied cert, even allowing for the fact they almost always do. Well, . . . If you haven't read the plea agreement, you should.
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  25394. White House on alert is a funny way of putting it.
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  25395. No it isn't. It exists in all sorts of charters and conventions.
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  25396. If you consider the UN leftist, then there is also West Point, the International Committee of the Red Cross, etc. They use that "leftist made-up phrase."
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  25397. He lost a better defamation case in UK, and lost one movie deal after that. His substance abuse issues have created an insurance risk, and that is always a factor.
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  25398. Did you read her article? That's what the case is about. Whether the article is First Amendment-protected or whether Heard can be punished for it by having her assets seized and turned over to Depp. The article makes no specific allegations at all, talks more about her life before she met Depp, and says she never saw herself as a "victim." I bet you didn't read it.
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  25399.  @theelmagoo  He lost a defamation case already, and he poses an insurance risk due to substance abuse (which it sounds like Heard didn't help). This isn't a "guilty until proven innocent" scenario. Did you know he lost a better case, in UK? Yeah, that can hurt you.
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  25400.  @theelmagoo  Where did you get this? It's not the legal standard at all. Look up New York Times malice.
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  25401.  @theelmagoo  I'm mentioning insurance because of causation. If some other thing caused him to lose a deal, then the article cannot be blamed.
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  25402.  @theelmagoo  i knew MeToo was a mob. I saw through that. Why don't you see through this? Just another mob -- and you're repeating false legal points that are either fabricated or date from around the time of the Civil War.
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  25403.  @theelmagoo  Most of the law that applies is US Supreme Court FIrst Amendment jurisprudence. Even I think the New York Times malice standard protects too much speech from being considered defamatory -- but it's the law.
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  25404.  @theelmagoo  Not what I said. Look up "New York Times malice." A weird term of art that even I think is too high a bar against proving defamation. In case of conflict, the Constitution rules. That's not my opinion. It's the law.
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  25405.  @theelmagoo  The jury does not decide which law applies. The judge does. The jury is the finder of fact, the court instructs the jury as to the law. If the jury should fail to follow the law, the case will be overturned on appeal.
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  25406.  @theelmagoo  The link was shadowed, by the way. That usually happens. :/ Annoying. ( . . . You really don't know that the Constitution is the preeminent law of the land? Juries can decide something different? Like, if in their opinion it shouldn't be? You're just kidding. I can tell.)
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  25407.  @theelmagoo  You just did. 🤣 (i.e., we disagree as to the legal standard and "we'll find out what the jury thinks . . .") Nor is it a matter of opinion which law applies. The Constitution always preempts all other laws, state and federal. (Did you look up "New York Times malice?" Did you read the article alleged to be defamatory, by any chance?)
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  25408. 13:03 No real leftist would say any such nonsensical, scurrilous thing. Ask, say, Clementine Autain.
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  25409. @AppalachianPatriot  Well clearly she cannot, and be president.
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  25410.  @imbilta  thank you
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  25411. So true.
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  25412. God is this sinister.
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  25413. The FTC has the power already to prosecute false advertising, especially false medical advertising, and pandemic profiteers, which many of these dozen misinformation merchants are. So file suit. I'm good with that. The faster the better. But listen closely. That's not what was proposed.
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  25414.  @LeeWaitesDe-Alabama  So have panels of MSM journalists censor non-members of the club. Don't have the Federal Trade Commission prosecute, as is THEIR JOB. Got it. /s Most of the Dirty Dozen should have been prosecuted a LONG time ago for false advertising. The hyper tiny fine print disclaimer (" this is not medical advice") is an ugly joke. No, the Executive Branch does not have the power to circumvent the First Amendment by using private actors as its cat's paw. Shows what you know about constitutional law. Funny, the real bad actors will always defend their dubious interpretation of the SECOND Amendment. But you will ad hom me with accusations ("troll") every time. Nice going.
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  25415.  @LeeWaitesDe-Alabama  Read Nadine Strossen on hate speech.
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  25416.  @LeeWaitesDe-Alabama  If you still read.
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  25417. Insured people in America can have a bill that large. A deductible of, say, $5000, plus roughly 80% of all physicians' fees, and 80 to 90% of hospital expenses, with only the ER covered at 100% once the deductible is met -- a million dollar bill can mean over $60,000 out of pocket. (Chances are, he has good insurance.) You didn't know? Insured people go bankrupt on account of extraordinary medical bills all the time. In the meantime, damage claims (which cover much more than just the costs of therapy and disability) are tied up in court for years.
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  25418. Did you think his whole bill for BRAIN surgery was in the tens of thousands? A simple mastectomy, no reconstruction, is vastly more. How did you think Americans live? LOL
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  25419.  @rudiklein  No. The surgeon's fee for brain surgery is a remarkably small percentage of the total cost. Everything else is separate, including emergency room, operating room, intensive care, imaging, in-patient physical therapy and rehabilitation, etc. There is no insurance that covers absolutely everything. If his total bill is between half a million and a million, $60k out of pocket is not extraordinary. And if he was earning a lot before the accident, he cannot qualify for assistance or even a 0% interest payment plan (moderate income and pediatric cases get 0% plans routinely). In the future, if he is unable to work and earn what he once did, he will qualify for some sort of assistance (reduced or waived copay and 0% payment plans).
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  25420.  @rudiklein  FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate) must be served. Capital formation, yo. :)
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  25421. Trust your healthcare to people who think men get pregnant.
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  25422. If Assange refused a pardon from Trump because he would not reveal his source, is that sufficient for Cusack to apologize?
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  25423. She is the product of the mainstream news, of which Psaki is emblematic. It is where she gets this nonsense. I do agree that this video needs to be updated. It wouldn't be hard. Post-Trump, post-pandemic is worse.
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  25424. There is a problem with the fact that initially, we were misinformed. Brie briefly made the general point you just made, but added, correctly, that the flawed information was all in one direction. This is a problem. Note that we were not initially told that there were discrepancies in the timeline they were attempting to put together, and that they could not give us solid information until a preliminary debriefing took place, and that they had already reached out to FBI to assist. You know. Something like that.
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  25425. Yeah, God bless.
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  25426.  @mikeb5372  This was ridiculous. We are post-incident. Which means there are only two acceptable responses: the truth, or, we have not determined that yet, we just don't know. Not, "said individual was engaged . . . "
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  25427.  @mikeb5372  What I said. It is unacceptable, however, for public officials to be anything but ultra careful and scrupulously honest. I agree the public and media need to welcome candor, such as, "this is an ongoing investigation . . . we simply don't know at this time." I didn't think this report was overly emotional, but everyone calming down a little more is a good suggestion, absolutely.
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  25428.  @mikeb5372  Well. NOW we know.
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  25429. How do you know? As a public sector employee, he enjoys a measure of First Amendment protection. Have you seen what he produced, to judge for yourself? Should a filmmaker involved in the production of Boogie Nights or Elle not be a university professor? An administrator? You just jump when a MSM show says jump. This isn't evident until we consider all the facts.
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  25430. ​ @trainmusic5388  ❤
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  25431.  @BicMann  True, nonstop.
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  25432. I might not agree with everything she says, but she got kids to read and love long books, and is sincere in defending women now. Bravo!! Brava, actually. 😊
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  25433. Um, proving or disproving the conjecture is the problem.
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  25434.  @RustyShackleford66  Mathematics is about proving theorems that are true of infinite sets. It's actually near-miraculous. Within the realm of mathematics, such theorems are universal truths. If you explain them correctly to any other person, so that they understand every step, that person will either agree, or pinpoint exactly where they don't agree (you invoked an axiom they reject, for example). Is anything else like that?
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  25435.  @RustyShackleford66  Mathematics has nothing in common with sensory experience.
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  25436. This history showed me again how much harm Reagan was able to do -- he duped ordinary people into being "anti-government," while the new billionaires captured the government, knowing full well how useful the government could be, to them. They even have the armed forces protecting their interests as they offshore jobs and the wealth they've hoarded. The world (and its shipping lanes, air traffic lanes, etc.) is their playground now.
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  25437. LET'S HOPE NOT
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  25438. False
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  25439.  @KonigGustavAdolph  Over eight out of every ten murders in the US in 2021 – 20,958 out of 26,031, or 81% – involved a firearm.
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  25440. @KonigGustavAdolph  Oh, you're singling out "assault-style" rifles, correct? The problem with those is how quickly they can inflict mortal injuries on a crowd of people, before anyone with a handgun -- including the police -- can stop the person. Or doesn't that matter? How many will die within minutes from one person fighting barehanded? And if there is a different psychology in carrying what gives the impression of being a weapon of war? If people carry handguns for defense and AR-15s for offense? That doesn't count, either?
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  25441. Why is everyone here so smug?
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  25442. This is an outstanding ruling.
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  25443. The discussion was about another school mandate. In a world where an experimental vaccine was mandated on school children, a mandatory anthem may be wrong-headed but quite mild by comparison.
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  25444. Just so you know, the vaccine manufacturers are protected from liability, but when a person gets sick for any reason, being misdiagnosed and poorly treated is malpractice. Doctors still have to diagnose and treat you.
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  25445.  @tinamelton6491  The Biden administration was able to force all healthcare workers to take it. Biden's drive to create an OSHA rule to cover all workers was struck down by the Supreme Court.
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  25446. @joshswade8590  If a person is not independently wealthy, exactly what does the threat of job loss amount to? Should they apply for welfare instead?
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  25447.  @cassiescornerreviews6884  No, I don't believe that an employer should be able to dictate health care decisions, nor should it be up to a vote. Read some biomedical ethics and straighten out your thinking. American Bioethics is a good start. Your vaccine protected no one except you, by making you less likely to contract a severe case of COVID. It did not keep you from contracting or spreading COVID. And this was not an established drug; it was an EUA. NO ONE should ever be forced to take an EUA drug in order to earn a living, absent some truly compelling reason, such as an Ebola breakout and a drug that actually prevents its contraction and spread. Nothing like that happened during this pandemic.
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  25448. Learn another language. Spanish, French, Portuguese have gender all over the place. You will need to learn cursive, though. And get used to hard leftists denouncing vaccine mandates and passports. But I digress.
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  25449.  @daa589  See Jeffrey Epstein's black book.
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  25450.  @mikecorbeil  Abortions are hard to come by, haven't you heard?
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  25451.  @robertspain3742  Wow. Shopping carts are expensive. /s
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  25452.  @robertspain3742  Like to house children?
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  25453. Agreed. Anything less, and it is unlikely they have any legal obligation (such as based on contract) to treat contributors fairly. They can treat larger entities better.
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  25454. It's working for him.
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  25455. None of these countries can believe how fast the US is falling apart. Of course they are puzzled, and hesitant. No one foresaw this.
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  25456. SO false, lol. 10:03 really means it.
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  25457.  @caskade1  I don't know what you mean. Le Pen is the one who won't leave the EU, either -- no more than that bankster they have as president. The left just might. It will not give up its economic policies. I know who runs the world. The question is, is their power unlimited? Can they make everyone bend, every time?
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  25458. @caskade1  My response is no_where 2 b scene. 🤣🤡🌎
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  25459. No wonder you'd vote for a cartoon character for president.
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  25460. How do you marry someone without knowing THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER??? That alone. Nothing more necessary.
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  25461.  @AndyMilonakis-j5p  I agree with this, too. Substantively, it was the right question to ask in December 2023. Let's get real.
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  25462.  @amandalindquist2262  Before Congress? Please give exactly two of these many examples. And if it were common, would that make it right?
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  25463. @amandalindquist2262  Baseless accusations of racism are a Bad Thing, correct? They are unfair to the accused, they are defamatory, they undermine trust and belief in the genuine cases. Like MeToo abuse, correct?
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  25464. So . . . You all didn't notice that the PLEA BARGAINING system had already made a complete mockery of "justice?" Now that it affects you . . . Hm.
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  25465. ​ @davidbgooch9587 That was a perfectly reasonable comment. It takes nothing away from yours. No one can control replies to their comment.
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  25466. ​Oh my god, Owens is crazy.
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  25467.  @davidbgooch9587  The first reply to your OP.
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  25468. @coachduke9323  Oh, I can think of a few things: the precarious economy, the pandemic origins and government overreach in depriving people of their rights, peace in Ukraine, growing tensions over Taiwan, CDC and FDA capture by major pharmaceutical corporations, social media acting as censors for the FBI, . . . Just off the top of my head.
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  25469. When you hear about the billionaire owners of sports teams, do people understand what that is? Two billion dollars is about a million a year since the birth of Jesus. A 5 million dollar contract is 1/2 of one percent of one billion, an amount that will show up as ordinary fluctuation for the billionaire on a quiet day when the markets are open.
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  25470. 7:55 Thank you Jimmy!!
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  25471. Nah, it's not something you could do.
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  25472. Surprise, surprise, surprise. . . 😂
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  25473.  @sgtpepperz25  LOL
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  25474. Great! Whoever doesn't want to get the vaccine should get hired as a cop.
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  25475. 😂😂😂😂 get paid for that
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  25476. Excellent example: EVERYONE will assume gaps in a résumé represent personal failures. What if they are sometimes due to discrimination? AND it could have been any form of discrimination, in a particular case: anti-black, anti-Asian, anti-woman, anti-white, anti-white ethnic. Any of the above. How likely one form or another may be says nothing about what happened to the particular individual.
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  25477. Jimmy, you interfered with tee shirt sales. Big no no.
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  25478. ​ @pinciata2  He isn't a Christian at all.
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  25479. @matttorrence2900  No she won't. Especially not after all this.
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  25480. Remember, the AI you train with these comments might come around to define you someday.
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  25481.  @stephenmelton2532   P. S. No one should volunteer their life and livelihood to serve in the military. They will have to crash the economy and produce a spectacular false flag to meet their recruiting goals. ONE homeless veteran shames us ALL. Homeless veterans and rich crypto traders . . . Gee. What could go wrong?
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  25482. The categories of unprotected speech are clear. The government is supposed to meet First Amendment-protected speech it does not like with MORE speech, not censorship in any form. Why would the government go via a back door to tell social media this or that statement is a danger or a lie? The government can announce it loud and clear, publicly. They can tell FB, Twitter/X, etc., that x, y, or z is false or dangerous, at the same time that they tell ALL of us that x, y, or z is false or dangerous. Kim, it won't be oral argument that decides THIS case, it will be the briefs.
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  25483.  @jamesmarhen  In a lot of countries, it is as hard to become a "master teacher" as it is to become an engineer. The highest civil service exam for high school teachers is the very same one as for university teachers. I can't see teachers becoming a high prestige status in America. Women who used to become teachers now go to law school, or strive to become professors at private universities. I mention women, because I can't see more men going into the field, either.
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  25484.  @jamesmarhen  Well of course, or who would go through all that?
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  25485. @universeturtle  But the investigation of Twitter emails fell apart. I'm still not clear why. Government cannot use tech companies to censor. That's making a private business do what government cannot do --- basically hiding its tracks.
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  25486. I won't take ride sharing, either. Cab drivers are heavily vetted where I live.
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  25487.  @sparky6086  I won't use Uber or Lyft. Much riskier than a cab.
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  25488. All the time
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  25489. You mean Putin didn't?
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  25490. Good. More pressure.
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  25491.  @aldegn  Um, arithmetic?
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  25492.  @aldegn  All Pelosi has to do is make the commitment to bring M4A to a floor vote, rather than letting it die in committee. All she has to do is her job. Her call. She promises, they all vote for her. She doesn't, she faces a true risk after all. Perfect.
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  25493. This convention is worse than the Dem one. For those who thought that was impossible.
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  25494. How the h*ll would she know WHO was responsible for the accident? She could not possibly know.
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  25495. She should be charged with lying to Congress under oath.
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  25496. Nineteen states brought this suit. Didn't you see the order? Don't you believe in states' rights?
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  25497.  @samuelblackthorne9122  You're an example of someone I WISH I knew.
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  25498. Affluent American lily white? That's a new one.
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  25499. Even speculation is one thing. Speculation is an expression of opinion, and opinions are free speech. Saying he has been charged is a flat-out lie.
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  25500.  @MegaSsloan  Do you know the difference between factually-supported opinions and flat-out lies?
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  25501.  @MegaSsloan  Russiagate is not only damaging because it trains people to believe fabrications unquestioningly, and makes news a matter of clicks rather than a means of conveying important information, but also because it has allowed the MOST corrupt members of the DNC to cover up their failures and consolidate power, and further, because it fomented a xenophobia against Russians that comes close to what a certain German dictator used to say about them.
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  25502.  @MegaSsloan  Any real leftist knows how to recognize propaganda, and demonization based on creed, color, or national origin. They also know how to take down a nasty little tool like Gaetz without stooping to possible defamation -- based on sex, of all things. Like with Trump, the truth is horrendous enough.
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  25503.  @VladislavZhirnov  True, but this is odd because they are hosting the Olympics. Masks in the US were politicized. Insanity! Suddenly we don't need them if we are vaccinated -- so, it's a manipulation to single out the unvaccinated. It is evident that masks are necessary indoors where there are too many people to social distance, or where people breath stale air for hours. California brought them back for indoor use.
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  25504.  @VladislavZhirnov  If they weren't hosting the Olympics, I would not be questioning their choice.
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  25505.  @VladislavZhirnov  Well. The Olympics will have no live spectators. Now I understand!
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  25506. The latter.
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  25507. They are defending the First Amendment. So far, only the Second appears to be on secure footing.
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  25508. This was the best report I've seen so far. No one here defended her. That was entirely not the point.
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  25509.  @liquidocelot4885  I was making a joke. Irony? You've heard of it?
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  25510.  @liquidocelot4885  A defamation case is about a specific instance of SPEECH or writing, and whether it has First Amendment protection, as we start by presuming it does. It is not about whether the speaker is a louse.
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  25511.  @liquidocelot4885  She was not found guilty. She was found liable.
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  25512. Closer to lobotomies.
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  25513.  Federico T-1000  Exactly. And that's just a start!
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  25514. @calinifintyplusone  No "left" outside of the Five Eyes goes in for this. I heard French communists oppose vaccine mandates for nurses in 2021 with my own ears. Why is this insanity here? Seems sinister.
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  25515.  @calinifintyplusone  You're not allowed to know what's happening in other countries. I think I'm allowed to tell you it's not this.
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  25516. Trump had wanted to build a luxury hotel in Moscow, where MANY other Western hotel companies had already built hotels. That's all that happened. Everyone knew that. Stephen F. Cohen mentioned it long before he died. That explains all the allegedly nefarious contacts between Trump and various Russians.
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  25517. I disagree with this. She shouldn't be a Justice, or even a federal judge, but I don't see that there is anything wrong with her eyes.
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  25518. By the way, did you realize Depp v. Heard was a First Amendment case? The Petito family against the Laundries is a Fifth Amendment case. I know when not to cheer.
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  25519. So glad you're fine. Do something fun this weekend.
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  25520. THAT IS NOT WHAT HAPPENED. Risible.
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  25521. @bacontator6855  The US had aimed nuclear warheads straight at Moscow from Turkey prior to any reaction on the part of the Soviets, who attempted to call the US to reason through diplomacy. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the incredibly -- shockingly -- reckless actions of the US created a grave risk of nuclear exchange, which the Soviet submarine commander Vasili Arkhipov prevented, despite believing his own death to be imminent. You can find an account in the BBC. This is not some "minority," or "revisionist" view. This is what happened. "To be fair (!!!) . . . The US blew those ships out of the water," indeed. The US has always put the rest of humanity at risk, and takes pride in it. No normal human can grasp this.
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  25522. @bacontator6855  Let's see if it's permitt3d.
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  25523.  @bacontator6855  Let's see whether u 🥫 read it. Verboten??
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  25524.  @bacontator6855  If they l e t me (?)
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  25525.  @bacontator6855  When you leave out that much, it's not history, friend. There are videos that discuss history books. You might mosey on over to see what's in those.
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  25526. Oh! I thought these were adults! They're just kids, little snowflakes! Teacher said a Bad Word.
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  25527.  @ericheick7044  No, YOU don't. A dollar is not a rigid yardstick. You clearly think it is. You've memorized a handful of talking points that you don't even understand, so you resort to emojis.
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  25528.  @ericheick7044  The MAIN reason tuition went up is because states stopped funding state universities. This is the main factor. Then the lid was off. Government loans certainly did nothing to help, they only accelerated the inevitable, once the subsidy for higher education was withdrawn --- and issuing bonds for massive campus BUILDING PROJECTS was prioritized over education.
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  25529.  @ericheick7044  No, what's happening is cents err ship. Or is that a mystery to you as well?
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  25530.  @ericheick7044  Your tender eyes won't see my reply. SMH (I thought everyone knew that by now. I may not see yours, for all I know!)
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  25531.  @ericheick7044  There is absolutely no ad hom in my posts. I suggest you reread yours, "genius."
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  25532.  @ericheick7044  You mean your "knowledge base" extends barely to two one-term administrations? No inquiry into the 2008-09 crisis? The series of bubbles in various sectors, that have occurred to some degree since Reagan, but especially since Clinton? And you trust FRB inflation statistics? Okay. Never mind. Sorry I got involved. Good luck to you.
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  25533.  @ericheick7044  None of my posts contain ad hom. But thanks for calling me a genius! :)
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  25534.  @luodeligesi7238  💯 The point about fractional reserve banking does, however, bear scrutiny. It is uncharted territory, and creates fragility in the system. It's as if you were on a massive ship and a bunch of little leaks suddenly appeared . . . no iceberg yet, . . . however . . . .
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  25535.  @ericheick7044  My point is that 2009 set the stage for greater volatility going into the future, and created greater systemic risk. We just as easily could have gone into another recession, with less means of mitigating it, short of risking inflationary pressures on essential goods -- which comes pretty close to describing what is happening now. It's not a series of snapshots, it's one beast. Okay, I'm tired now. Read up on that period.
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  25536.  phoenixkhost  More objective?
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  25537. Force the vote tore up the Dems. If you can believe it.
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  25538. Now that he was pardonned for wire fraud, I guess he can.
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  25539. That is not yet known. Did you read the paper? 🤔
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  25540. Even hypocrites are supposed to have civil rights. Even criminals are. Or were. The money isn't the point.
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  25541. And you believed it? 😂😂😂😂😂
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  25542. No kidding. Instead they went after this minor, and tried him as an adult, when it was the ADULTS in this picture who were responsible.
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  25543. You did all this? Or the father did?
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  25544.  @captaintorch1238  25:21 listen for a while . . .
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  25545.  @MikeYurbasovich  Nah, Jimmy really is a leftist. He's to the left of Sanders.
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  25546. Carlson asked to bring Gershkovich home with him.
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  25547. No, evil.
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  25548. SIX BILLION dollars is like collecting almost three million a year every year since the birth of Jesus. Keep multiplyin'. I mean, if we're going to talk about spirituality . . .
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  25549. ​@jamiehoover9348 That's ridiculous. We know there is good reason to bring him to trial. We do not know whether he is guilty.
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  25550. General Strike
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  25551.  @jonb3196  Time to up the ante then.
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  25552.  @m3ke68  No I'm not. You're drifting into another cult mentality.
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  25553.  @jebstuart1323  You take the time to survey who posts where? Wowser.
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  25554.  @jebstuart1323  Oh wait, that's right. I can block you from my thread. See? That's whatcha do.
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  25555. On this issue, yeah.
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  25556.  @stephenclements5451  You're sick.
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  25557. @alyssahostetter8654  If you are going to attack her as clueless about what real suffering means (like, in particular, losing a parent in her youth), then yeah. You might check that she never did. Not that you have to. I said, "didn't expect you to know." Then, when I tell people, someone makes a dumb joke about it. Only people who are really funny should try that stunt. I know, I know. These little niceties are passe.
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  25558.  @MeganDelacroix  She suffered the death of her father.
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  25559. I just have a question: do these employees have the right to start their own YouTube channel and express themselves? Or are they bound by nondisclosure and noncompetition agreements? I think they're wrong -- but can they express THEIR views elsewhere, or will they be fired from their jobs? Trying to censor rather than add your own voice is (almost) always wrong -- wrong when it's speech the First Amendment would protect, even if you aren't the government. Don't like something that someone said? Add your voice, don't try to limit theirs.
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  25560. Should Amanpour be in jail for attempted treason?
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  25561. Ryan has been good lately. This segment was ridiculous. He might be scared?
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  25562. One great mystery of COVID: Why did Africa do as well as it did, when people of African descent in the US died disproportionately?
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  25563. I thought it was as hilarious as Gates did, but for a different reason.
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  25564.  @KidLu5h  That's how philanthropists ("lovers of mankind") are. You must not be a philanthropist.
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  25565. Take a vacation to Europe, get vaccinated against monkeypox there.
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  25566.  @SkateSka  Let's see. Over in one corner, we have grown people supporting AR-15 for underage youth. In the other corner, we have lavish praise for young "celebrities" who as children experimented with psychedelics and still tout some of them, as a gateway to spiritual insight, supposedly. Hmm. Could there be something wrong with this picture? Nah. All good.
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  25567.  @SkateSka  Drugs for developing brains are not petty. Do you have any clue how other peoples in the world raise their children? https://youtu.be/52sA5djJKZM Stupid ad hominem ya got there. Reflexive. Try thinking.
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  25568.  @SkateSka  Who is hating whom? Who is and isn't admirable, and what would you know about it? Not much, I see. You go straight to ad hominem. I am not reacting to a young person's prior music videos from years and years ago, but to the suggestion HERE that there is a safe way to use hard drugs. That is what they said in this video. I'm not even for criminalizing any of them -- let them be legal, so that black and brown kids don't end up in jail servicing the rich whites. But I am going to call out lies: that hard drugs can be used "safely," especially by the very young, adolescent or young adult, is a flat-out LIE. But have it your way.
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  25569.  @SkateSka  my actual response was in salty french, apparently interdit
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  25570. I am so sorry.
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  25571. Medical issues ruined our finances. We were hard targets for everything else. We were BIG savers, no mortgage, no debt. Didn't matter.
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  25572. They'll get in just as much trouble as Hunter Biden . . . oh.
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  25573. Oh come on, Biden doesn't call it that. /s
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  25574.  @jvanek8512  😂 good point
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  25575.  @hb1338  It's all outlined in the Memorandum Opinion. Turns out he's exactly over the 🎯 Read it and find out what Harvard did. It's really funny.
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  25576. TOO IMPORTANT not to fix the sound.
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  25577. Why does Section 8 create winners and losers? Comprehensive low-income housing assistance works in every other country.
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  25578. Literally millions of families with children are now homeless.
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  25579. Ha! I thought I'd already heard the stupidest remark, but no.
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  25580. Correct, yes. But the question can easily be eliminated. Is NATO a military alliance expressly designed to counter the threat of Mexico? Is the entire United States formerly a part of Mexico? Did the US promise neutrality to Mexico in exchange for retaining the states Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona? Do any of those states have a civil war, with combattants that have the aim of joining Mexico? Are one of the factions in those disputed regions fighting to execute Mexicans and the pro-Mexican people living there? We could continue. Aaron Mate just did a good interview on Push Back that treats these questions fairly and condemns the Russian invasion. I think you'd be relieved to hear a lot of it.
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  25581. OTOH, The Real News Network has an interview with a journalist who insists this invasion has nothing to do with NATO. Interesting stuff.
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  25582. I oppose mandates. Every legitimate left-wing party in Europe does as well. In the US, all you see are "Team Blue" bullies, for some reason. They also have a record of supporting lots of bombs and drones.
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  25583. Why did he scare her about having to repeat 2nd grade?? Surprised, frankly.
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  25584. It is in the non-NATO world.
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  25585. When the Marseillaise plays, people stand -- and lots raise a fist! That's an anthem.
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  25586. Ha ha ha.
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  25587. Remember: at age 40, you have the better part of three decades of work ahead of you. That's plenty in any job. Most people's pension won't be great before 68 to 70. Reality.
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  25588. Who gets the $64 billion from the feds? How does it benefit all children?
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  25589. You have no idea who posts comments here or why.
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  25590.  @tellmemoreplease9231  You can find this story, with some effort. Hard to hide a regular (not FISA) court. 🤣 MSM is sheer propaganda. The only COVID news they report is when a known unvaccinated person dies. Ghouls.
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  25591.  @tellmemoreplease9231  Actually, that has had a mediocre record overall because it does not prevent the virus from attaching to cells in the lungs. It prevents the virus from attaching to cells of other major organs, so it has some use and helps some people. Heard about this on Lex Fridman as well. When actual scientists get on and talk freely, you get a different picture from all the MSM propaganda. They know a lot less about vaccine safety and have a lot more worries than they let on.
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  25592. One more example of how the West benefitted from the existence of the Soviet Union. Back then, you HAD to invite scientists with differing views on a given topic to engage in spirited debate, on all the major networks. Everyone was held to a standard. Now the only $tandard i$, well, you know.
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  25593. Sheer negligence, with a brand-new drug -- and a vaccine on top of it, which is given to the perfectly well.
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  25594. Not a future filmmaker, that's for sure.
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  25595. Meanwhile, the New York Times online edition for today, April 13, reports that polls show Biden is closing in on Trump.
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  25596. So, all the crazy things he said are irrelevant, BUT he insulted the new major shareholder, and that's a good reason to lose a media job. Great. Just great.
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  25597. MAN does Rogan age well!!
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  25598. Wonderful, wonderful woman.
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  25599. ​@knvsy First, the report focused primarily on illicit drugs and self-prescribed medication. Second, a CEO or other very affluent person can get any prescription he wants.
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  25600. ​@knvsy Of course not. That doesn't mean the rest of us need to be naive as to how they got their prescriptions. You weren't confused in the cases of Elvis, Michael Jackson, Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, and countless others. Why are you pretending not to understand? Why are you trying to twist my words?
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  25601. ​ @knvsy Hope you're allowed to see my reply.
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  25602. @knvsy  My only point is never to take these people as an example for our own health. The fact that Famous Person A or Billionaire B has a doctor who prescribes for him tells us nothing about the wisdom of taking the drug. It could be good, bad, lethal, or useless. That Musk takes it under a doctor's supervision means nothing at all.
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  25603.  @knvsy  Too bad my reply disap . . . .
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  25604. Looks like the Dems will have to run a real candidate in 2024, ugh.
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  25605. Hiltzik . . . Remember the name.
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  25606. Not even close, sadly.
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  25607. Does Trump have the self-control of a typical wild animal? Shall we . . . take bets?
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  25608. What you are describing is the free market. We don't have that. Concentrations of rentier wealth always try to escape free market discipline and extract wealth from the entrepreneurs who create and produce the wealth, as Adam Smith knew a century before Marx. Then Marx showed how the process itself inevitably devolves into monopoly capitalism, which destroys any possibility free market. But nevermind that. Adam Smith would be bliss compared to this. When you hear economists talking about "techno-feudalism," they are referring to Smith's analysis of how a free market, despite being so attractive and naturally robust, can be undermined.
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  25609. Can you cite evidence for raising the question of false flags? Is that permitted? Claiming to know the answer, or hinting that you do, is being untruthful, or worse. Ritter has brought up some points that are not being aired. He can't draw conclusions, as he admits, but then he does go beyond the facts. He has proved the hypothesis is well founded enough to investigate. I'm not a fan of Ritter's, but we see our government raising the spectre of false flags every day, and that poses a danger to us, the citizens. It is psychologically disorienting, and that makes us less likely to resist the bad policies they may foist on us.
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  25610. "We're going to have a war for democracy that nobody wanted for," and nobody but a narrow sliver of the ruling class wants.
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  25611. You mean like for the White House? That horse has left ze barn.
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  25612.  @MrMoon36O  I wasn't scared in the first place. And I'm not telling anyone to take any non-FDA approved medication. I was arguing in favor of protecting those who choose not to take a vaccine now. My mask protects them.
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  25613.  @MrMoon36O  What is this thing with no one being logical anymore? (So many illogical people are rich, therefore it must be a good thing?)
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  25614.  @MrMoon36O  Look up Nassim Taleb's analysis of mask wearing. He teaches the mathematics of risk analysis at NYU. He is not just the black swan guru. Congress's little cosplay was disgusting. Like a mob of high schoolers. No calm discussion, explanation, or gravitas, where over 500,000 have died. That was sheer propaganda. Masks are real, and have real utility. They do not have to be perfect to be useful.
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  25615. They say it's based on "metrics" (oooo, big word, very math-y), but can give her no numbers. That is illogical.
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  25616. ​ @mushroomsteve  They immediately r-mov- the names of Supreme Court cases. Not links, names. That's the world we live in!
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  25617. ​ @mushroomsteve You at least got to point that out.
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  25618. ​ @mushroomsteve  Names of SCOTUS cases re A1 are __________. Yeah. THAT bad.
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  25619. ​ @mushroomsteve I can't even s a y t. Ha t m u ch.
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  25620.  @mushroomsteve  Try naming a case. Just try.
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  25621.  @alisonschmitt9533  WOW HAVE YOU ALL LIVED IN A PRIVILEGED WORLD. Here's a clue: it's called at-will employment. A second clue! This is how the nonprivileged have always lived. What do you think? Two clues for free. I'm being too generous.
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  25622. If abortion is "murder," of a legal person, how can it be left up to the states? It has to be a crime everywhere.
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  25623. Ana taught me what "camel toe" means. Could Krystal and Kyle please define "pocket pussy?" 18:30
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  25624. I suppose after the last five years, no insanity coming out of the Five Eyes should surprise me, yet it does.
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  25625.  @charleshunter7864  Well, I did mean it as a generalization, which will have exceptions for sure. But if a country bombs somewhere, pretty much everyone should know where that is. Not to endorse "collective responsibility." I know most people aren't consulted. :/
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  25626.  @charleshunter7864  All true. 😂, albeit a bitter 😂
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  25627. ​@C_R_O_M______ In a global scheme in which countless governments were involved, bonuses of tens upon tens of millions were shoved into the pockets of investment bankers who were screaming, "NO, NO, we don't WANT bonuses," but those governments FORCED THEM to take the money. The bankers were so sad to be set up for life after a year or two of "work," and several generations after them in a few more years of running the scheme, I mean working so hard. I saw one crying. They got their wish in 2008-2009, when some of those bonuses were temporarily cut. Alas, that didn't last.
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  25628. ​ @C_R_O_M________  The true risk profile of certain mortgaged-backed securities and the exotic derivatives based on them proved to be very, very bad, and paper that was deemed to be worth billions (perhaps trillions?) suddenly became worthless in the market (that is, literally no one would buy it). Think of it as very sophisticated, complex counterfeiting, and what happens when the veil is suddenly lifted from many eyes at once. Game over. In the meantime, vast fortunes were made, and kept. Principals and agents of corporations are not personally liable, and if they all did the same thing, they can cover for one another, find experts to testify on their behalf that these were business decisions, etc. No way to make them disgorge.
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  25629. ​​​ @C_R_O_M________  My careful answer to your question went the way of the smile on the Cheshire cat. Might still be there if you sort under the Newest tab. EDIT: it is.
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  25630.  @Individual_Lives_Matter  There is no free market. If you actually read Adam Smith, you'd know that. (Smith would be bliss compared to the rent extraction we live under, with an ever diminishing arena for actual freedom of choice.) In fact, Yanis Varoufakis just wrote about it in Technofeudalism. He explains the difference between profits and rents very well, and shows how rentiers are increasing in power and act as parasites on productive activity. They literally make vast fortunes while they sleep.
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  25631.  @Individual_Lives_Matter  First, I hope you can see my real answer. This is an aside: how come the videos from Africa or the BRICS are so often about mathematics or piano, and stuff like that, while "natural selection" operates to give us this? Yikes.
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  25632.  @Individual_Lives_Matter  I'll take Adam Smith over monopoly capital any day. The minute they have you believing free markets and monopoly capital are the same, know that you've been lied to. Adam Smith would mean fresh, wholesome, organic food from green grocers in every neighborhood and near-zero inflation, and a robust, sacrosanct commons (clean air, water, grazing land where possible). Please let's advance to Smith. I'll sign up right now.
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  25633. I remember last year when people were indignant at the suggestion ivermectin be studied. One person said that if it ever is, they won't read the study. Grooming for war psychosis? Seems like it now.
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  25634.  @chuckcampbell3927  Back when that was said, college was within reach for anyone who studied hard and worked full time over the summer, which covered in-state tuition.
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  25635.  @chuckcampbell3927  Yeah, the bankers who brought us 2008-09 were really asking what they could do for their country.
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  25636.  @chuckcampbell3927  Only in America would colleges have a huge side business in a sport that causes concussions in the brains of its students. You could not make this up. It sounds like Soviet agitprop.
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  25637. I wish everyone would listen to this segment again, especially Krystal's comments.
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  25638. This is true.
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  25639. She was a spousal hire. Funny how you don't know that she got her job the old-fashioned way: first, she was very good in her field. Then, she made sure that was noticed, by the right people. She married one of those people.
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  25640.  @ccchhhrrriiisss100  She certainly was. She became an expert on bankruptcy law and the laws that pertain to personal finance, and she met her future husband at a prestigious conference.
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  25641.  @indonesiaamerica7050  Chief Justice Roberts went to that school.
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  25642.  @ccchhhrrriiisss100  Maybe she was very good, and she was an opportunist, too. She is a lawyer, after all. The best ones are both. (She was really very good. BTW. But as we all know, that's never enough.)
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  25643.  @ccchhhrrriiisss100  You're making my case for me. She practiced law and was "dishonest." Okay. Now, this is a problem? How? She was a lawyer. It is (considered) a skill to present your case in the very best light possible, without technically committing fraud or deceit. Harvard law profs also practice law, or they become high ranking government advisors and officials. None of them are just "teachers." They argue Supreme Court and appellate court cases. They write books that influence the Supreme Court. Warren is a Senator. I guess you don't know any Harvard-trained lawyers? I'm not understanding your point.
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  25644.  @ccchhhrrriiisss100  She is a leading expert on bankruptcy law, and she'll stop at nothing to promote herself. That was my original point. She has a lot in common with Hillary, only she is a much better lawyer than Hillary. Wait. Do you think hard working, highly accomplished lawyers are all virtuous, TOO?? Yeesh.
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  25645.  @indonesiaamerica7050  Then read some of her technical articles, not her partisan stuff.
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  25646.  @indonesiaamerica7050  Okay, honey. Whatever you say.
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  25647.  @indonesiaamerica7050  Michigan Law Review would qualify as technical. Stuff she wrote speaking as a politician, partisan.
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  25648.  @indonesiaamerica7050  Chill. Seriously. None of these politicos is worth this much of your precious time. We all know what the prevailing criteria are for being a "good" lawyer. Warren did meet them, amply. I told you where to look to verify that statement. No one suggested lawyers compare with being an astrophysicist, or even a good novelist. Although, the lawyer representing Asian students in their discrimination suit actually did study to become an astrophysicist. Now that is interesting. Of course he is smarter than Warren. But that wasn't the issue.
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  25649. Chris Hedges didn't vote for Hillary or Joe. He is not their tool. Also, he speaks out about neoliberal globalism all the time. 😂😂😂😂😂 your fantasy post
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  25650.  @BruhWhyDidTheyChangeThis  Thanks, I had forgotten! He sure did.
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  25651.  @ashkebora7262  Oh! Did your little phone or tablet fail to display the entire message? Bad phone!! BAD tablet! Or . . . You didn't understand the last sentence. No, that's not possible. You're a genius. Maybe even a stable genius.
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  25652.  @ashkebora7262  Is there some reason you are following me around after the election, suddenly, and for the purpose of swearing at me? Do you think anyone believes Sam Seder wants "fans" like you? He seems like a very nice guy. I've never seen him drop his courteous demeanor, whatever I may think of some of his political positions. You do know the election is over, right? Only Trump and his most deluded minions, plus the usual handful of grifters, think it isn't. Or perhaps you're a Neera Tanden partisan (in stark contrast to the people on this show)? You know what they say about imitation . . .
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  25653. @Seatown Fan Well I hope you're right. The numbers don't seem to bear it out, but it still may be true. In any event, voting for a lesser evil, even this time, has to be part of a larger strategy.
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  25654. Jimmy was a bricklayer and his wife taught school. Ever been to the South Side of Chicago?
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  25655.  @pbeston73  I don't "worship" anyone either -- especially not in America. Dore said he wants to persuade people who are not on the left. This is sensible.
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  25656. WHY WAS THE HOMEOWNER RELEASED? No, Brie, they can hold him for 72 hours before charges must be filed or the person must be released. NO, he did NOT have the right to use deadly force, or any force, in response to a doorbell ring. Not unless the person crossed the threshold without permission. NO "stand your ground" law says that you can.
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  25657. This is funny?
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  25658.  @cindyliao2250  Well said
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  25659. Her free speech and content moderation points are correct.
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  25660.  @tam3362  No problem. I just wanted to respond, because people who are justifying this action against Brand are pointing out women's unique vulnerability. All that is true.
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  25661. "Everything is my fault?" LOL, that's the ultimate megalomania. Suppose you are a passenger in a car and out of the blue, you are broadsided by a drunk driver. Broad daylight, your driver is perfectly sober and has never been in a crash. Is it your fault? No, but rehab (and a fat lawsuit to pay for it) --- 100% your responsibility. You think you'll win if you tell the drunk's lawyer that it was your fault? Or that you'll make better progress in your rehab by blaming yourself? So twisted!
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  25662.  @mnemonija  Likely
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  25663. Israel was first to signal myocarditis due to the vaccines, too.
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  25664. THIS
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  25665. Severe mental illness -- probably psychotic.
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  25666. News agencies and Internet platforms are two different things. If Twitter, Facebook, Google are going to exert editorial control, why should they have full Section 230 immunity? Section 230 says an Internet platform is like the telephone company -- no one from the phone company listens in or censors your calls, and AT&T and Verizon are never responsible for a user's wire fraud or conspiracy. What Glenn is talking about is news agencies being able to lie, and Internet platforms censoring anyone pointing out the lies.
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  25667.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  I've never been on Facebook, or Twitter, or MySpace before that. I can't believe people use that. I only came here during the shutdown.
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  25668.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  The issue is Section 230 immunity.
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  25669.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  Glenn quit The Intercept, which he founded, because THEY BREACHED HIS CONTRACT. They thought they could, because they paid him so much. They thought he'd fold. They not only refused, contrary to his contract, to print the substance of what he wrote, they also attempted to prevent him from publishing the article elsewhere. So, he quit. When someone violates your contract, and you can't persuade them to respect it, you walk away. This was about a contract. He's a lawyer, he knows he can't tell editors out in the world how to edit -- and as a First Amendment advocate, it wouldn't cross his mind to try.
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  25670.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  The local shop analogy is worthless because the Internet is global, with near-instant access almost anywhere in the world, and has immense, virtually limitless capacity for data. The local shop bulletin board is small, under the shopkeeper's easy access and control, and doesn't enjoy broad federal immunities from lawsuit, either. In a recent case, Yelp did not have to remove proven defamation. By proven, I mean in court, a final judgment. The victim had to find the long-gone defendant and get a court order to make her take it down, and couldn't. Yelp is immune, and refused to take it down by its own volition. How would you like your business smeared?
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  25671. I see you're spreading this lie all over. No one from Jimmy Dore Show is censoring you, just as they promised not to.
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  25672.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  Nah, have it your way. If you have a contract that specifies no censorship, you have a right to no censorship. Glenn's not crying, he's starting a new venture!
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  25673.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  A website is like a shop . . . Tell that to all the small businesses that had to close in March! Does this Facebook outfit you shill for have a physical address, where I can see the bulletin board? If you can get Dore to sign a contract with you, by all means, hold the man to it.
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  25674.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  Why do you keep pretending I use Facebook? I told you I don't, and never have. Why do you keep pretending contracts aren't contracts? Is all of this too tough for you? I know Section 230 immunity is. It may as well be the Napoleonic Code for all you know.
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  25675.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  Is Walmart the government? Why else did you bring it up?
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  25676.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  I didn't know Facebook called for shutdowns of businesses in March 2020. Source?
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  25677. @Hassan Akhtar Suppose each pause is one-half the length of the previous pause?
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  25678. Did you used to worship Bill Gates, too? 😂😂😂
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  25679. Does Vargas think Johnson doesn't represent the defeat of the incumbent?
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  25680. Twenty million bucks: $54,800 lotto win per day, for a year.
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  25681. What makes more money? That's what goes out. It's not that hard. Arab speakers don't have a powerful PAC.
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  25682. Amber was wrong this time. Yes they were exonerated, and they settled a civil rights suit for $41 million. (Watch The Confessions, about four sailors in Norfolk, Virginia, who confessed to a crime they had nothing to do with -- and Hillary's running mate, then the governor of Virginia, refused to release them.) You cannot bring a civil rights suit absent exoneration. A vacated verdict is insufficient. The real lawyer was Briahna. No wonder she was fired.
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  25683. Amber was wrong this time. Yes they were exonerated, and they settled a civil rights suit for $41 million. You cannot bring a civil rights suit absent exoneration. A vacated verdict is insufficient. Too bad a real lawyer was fired.
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  25684. @joedirt6222  Maybe you should read paragraphs 16 to 40 of the Complaint and find out the FACTS. But that wouldn't be fun, huh?
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  25685. GOOD NEWS: That freak Sanna Marin is OUT in Finland.
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  25686. Mattias Desmet's book is coming out soon.
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  25687. THANK YOU Jimmy for pointing out that a lot of the violence that happened after the George Floyd protests was due to provocateurs. Everyone should know to be suspicious.
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  25688. Harvard Law grad. Think of what Shapiro could be doing. Maybe better that he isn't, but that also speaks volumes.
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  25689.  @TheBigJord  You think she is wrong about the 1980s? Why?
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  25690.  @blakebunch4485  You were there. Interesting.
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  25691.  @larryc5361  She is married to an Army veteran who is a private security analyst.
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  25692.  @blakebunch4485  Oh really? That leading professors who were lauded everywhere and who had control over MANY other people's careers were in fact using their positions to demand sexual favors with impunity is just another "me too" story? First of all, Wolf came out with her accusations YEARS ago, long before it was fashionable, and many have corroborated her account concerning the atmosphere of impunity at Yale during those years. You just haven't been paying attention. No, this has more in common with the Jeffrey Epstein story, as far as I'm concerned. Just add three to five years to the ages of the victims. I think people are just jealous of anyone who went to an Ivy. Maybe she earned it. She recently went back for a doctorate, later in life, to fulfill her dream despite not needing it in any material sense. She went to Oxford for that. She likes to work hard, clearly. Her current husband (only her second, nothing strange there) is a US Army veteran, by the way.
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  25693. What I find interesting is that it was Naomi Wolf who demanded accountability and consequences for bad acts, and somehow she is getting dismissed. When Dr. Peterson points out how important accountability is, and brushes aside excuses, everyone praises him. Why is that? If you didn't hear that, listen again. Start from the top.
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  25694.  @TheBigJord  "Blind rage?" So, all Americans are unhinged now. I should have figured that out by 2021 if I didn't know in 2008. Her point was about personal responsibility, something that liberals are always accused of forgetting. I never have. Neither did she, as was clear when she refused to follow the crowd and shut off her own thinking processes and her own questions concerning the COVID vaccines. I can write. That doesn't mean I'm "emotional." That means . . . I can write. :)
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  25695.  @TheBigJord  This was all I said to you directly: "You think she is wrong about the 1980s? Why?" I also made the general statement about holding people accountable for their actions. And you found "blind rage." You know, in France, where wine is a part of the diet, if a rape is committed while drunk, the perpetrator can receive up to five more years in prison. Drunkenness is an aggravating factor. I find that interesting. They are puzzled why anyone would consider it exculpatory in any way.
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  25696.  @TheBigJord  All I said was, why do you think the 1980s at Yale were not as she describes them? (And why would alcohol be an explanation instead?) As Naomi Wolf said, when people at a place like Yale know there will be serious consequences for bad acts, then they don't risk those consequences. These are Yale people. They calculate. They have $omthing to lo$e. Simpler than you're making it. Don't confuse her remarks with contemporary "hook up" culture, binge drinking, frat parties where strippers, spiked drinks, and alcohol poisoning are not rarities, and the bizarre and horrible Title IX abuses of today. Those did not exist back then. The lady will be 60 this year. She could be the grandmother of a college student.
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  25697.  @TheBigJord  "The blind rage to me comes in with you assuming that I’m against her on every point when I never said that. You want to create a bogey-man out of me so bad when there isn’t any need for it. " Huh? Are you sure you meant to direct this to me? Honey, talk to someone nice tonight.
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  25698.  @TheBigJord  ". . . frat parties where strippers, spiked drinks, and alcohol poisoning are not rarities" -- which certainly were very rare in 1982, in absolute terms and by comparison with now. Though conduct that gross is still relatively unusual, thank god. Yeah, she did know the ambience at Yale back then. She is smart. She was there. Look, you have a problem. Blocked.
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  25699. Tell the truth: are you sorry you did?
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  25700. I quoted a Guardian article on teens and side effects. It was censored.
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  25701. Far more secular countries have no mass shootings except for terrorist incidents --- and those are often by religious fanatics, not secular people.
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  25702. Pelosi brought her SON?
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  25703.  @jonathanalpart7812  Thank you.
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  25704.  @JCDenton-area51  Clearly you lack something more than just knowledge.
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  25705.  @JCDenton-area51  There should be NO embargoes, on ANY country, apart from armaments, during a global pandemic. That does not make me a supporter of communism, Putinism, Islamic republics, etc., etc. It makes me a normal human being.
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  25706. If vaccine-caused hospitalizations for myocarditis are higher than all COVID-caused hospitalizations in children, then a fortiori vaccine-caused hospitalizations for all vaccine complications are higher than all COVID-caused hospitalizations, in children. The second point of comparison of total vaccine hospitalizations is necessarily greater than or equal to the first. Basic Venn diagram, your first or second day studying them. Not only does Gupta know this in his sleep, he deliberately tried to confuse Joe, thinking Joe is dumb. Martial artists are not dumb. Martial arts train the mind as well as the body.
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  25707.  @crabtrap  I have only seen such correction occur in France, never in the United States. Not ONE time.
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  25708. It's a dreadful federal law. Many workers with state pensions, such as police officers, firefighters, other first responders, teachers, and other school personnel have an offset on their Social Security pension. If she vested Social Security by working 40 quarters, her offset will be small, and if she waits to age 70 to draw on it, the effect is small. If she inherited her husband's Social Security, the offset is enormous. Looks like Social Security made a mistake. As long as she filled out all the forms correctly, they shouldn't be able to claw back so much money for their own mistake. :/
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  25709. ​ @ceptember. And carnivore isn't a new c u l t? 😅
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  25710. ​@malvolio01 Dershowitz organized a campaign to get Finkelstein fired. There's no question about that. It was not a whisper campaign, or behind the scenes influence peddling --- it was out in the open.
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  25711. 0:49 Median age at death Look at that.
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  25712. The people who get rich are the ones who figure out how to offload risk on others while retaining rewards for themselves. This guy must never have heard of financial engineering. That is a major now.
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  25713. He wouldn't vote.
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  25714. She says the real issue is the coordination between the spy agencies and the mass media, and the pressure placed by the FBI, etc., on the media. They can express any opinion they want, just like anyone else, but their opinion should not result in suppression of important news. Good analysis. Do you see why "their letter was a deliberate lie" could pose problems? Telling the truth or spouting lies, how could they be permitted censor the press and social media regardless? They have one opinion alongside everyone else's. That should be all they get to have.
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  25715. @calgakispict3652  Oh no, please . . . Yes he is sometimes right, certainly, but he is also clearly disturbed. And when he's wrong, it's someone else's fault? He's a victim? Don't fall for all that. I do feel sorry for him, though. I wonder what happened?
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  25716. @user-vs7cw2rg7r  What fake moral superiority? What did you read into what I wrote? You need to check yourself out. And where did I suggest anything in curtailment of the First Amendment? I added speech to speech. I didn't look to take any away.
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  25717. @user-vs7cw2rg7r  I agree that he is sometimes right --- sometimes startlingly so. I have looked up some of his more bizarre claims (for example, spider goats). They were true. You see me wanting to shut him up? Or promote MSM?? They are the glib liars. They don't try to be truthful.
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  25718. When you put it that way . . .
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  25719. It enriched them. What's their downside?
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  25720. But Karma took a vacation in Highland Park, huh? Gosh, too bad.
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  25721. I'd love to see the entire video. What did the Senator's colleague say to him, among other things?
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  25722. You're surprised because you still think people are paid to work. That's not what's happening.
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  25723. But ALL products are made to become obsolete faster and faster. Hmm . . .
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  25724. Much less frisky.
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  25725.  @jackastor5265  Who WASN'T a Friend of Jeffrey? Gates is the bigger surprise, no? Did you even listen to this?
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  25726. "AI cartel" Perfect
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  25727. How the pandemic began and how the virus originated are TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.
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  25728. You can look up Chauvin's federal plea agreement and see what Chauvin pled guilty to doing, before a federal judge. It describes exactly what Chauvin himself agrees he did.
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  25729. YOU are the only person I've ever heard of in the English-speaking world who knows Pierre Hadot . . . Thought of him not that long ago. OMG
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  25730. Tucker is a reprehensible newscaster whom I would have fired when he endorsed teenaged vigilantism. That alone. But this time, on this issue, he's right. Do you not see that? Or do you not know the background? What he said was that surveillance state overreach should be the focus. This is true, this time.
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  25731. It's comedy. Do you ever watch his show? I like it.
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  25732.  @holyworrier  Some of it is entertaining.
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  25733. The Soviet Union ended. See John Lanchester on that. He is an Englishman grew up in Hong Kong and saw it all. This story is from someone whose parents very likely were not in the war. Mine were, and we didn't end up in a "white suburb." Nor were city kids spoiled. Take a wider perspective.
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  25734. ​@JoshuaTraffanstedt You blame women?? 😂😂😂 Sorry. You wouldn't be in dire straits In any other developed country just because of health issues.
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  25735. The list is a SHOCK. Face it.
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  25736. "How did it work out for progressives?" It went wonderfully. They had over a BILLION dollars to spread around to their friends.
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  25737. Yup. I caught that, too. :)
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  25738. ​ @Timewave-Zer0 We need the hard data. Now. We don't have it.
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  25739. ​ @Tallorian Well said.
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  25740. OJ was found liable for wrongful death in a civil suit. He can't sue for anything proved to be probably true in that suit. In defamation, the burden to prove it is on the plaintiff, and there is no Fifth Amendment right not to take the stand.
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  25741.  @JoshuaWillis89  I was so shocked when the gun charge was dropped. Then, people like Tucker began to lionize him -- a misguided minor with a gun strapped to him! That made me furious and sad. In 2020, Wisconsin did not have decent gun laws yet. I didn't know. :(
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  25742.  @thehumanity0  Something isn't defamation if the facts can be proved on tape.
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  25743.  @thehumanity0  Nowhere did I suggest ANY such thing. Kulinski has a very uneducated audience and just turns on the emotion. I learned my lesson. I won't bother to come here.
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  25744.  @thehumanity0  Or did you respond to the wrong person? I didn't mention anyone's use of that language, much less say it deserves a death penalty. I wonder if anyone is that unhinged -- or is this your spin?
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  25745.  @thehumanity0  Just checked the thread. You are confused. SMH
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  25746.  @BHarris25  That coffee story was propaganda. The plaintiff deserved her award. McDonald's has the money for top law firms and publicity -- but it sold objectively dangerous coffee to thousands, AND knew it. She wasn't the only one burned, and she was disabled from the burns. This was proved in court. Corporations can make you believe anything. It's over. They rule.
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  25747.  @BHarris25  McDonald's was responsible for that media. And where is the evidence that SHE sparked an avalanche of frivolous suits? More spin. This show is over, the concentrations of wealth won.
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  25748.  @BHarris25  The coffee was literally too hot, and literally over 1000 people had had burns, but it took a lawsuit to get them to change it. That's weird.
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  25749.  @BHarris25  So was I. I'm a lawyer. I have always had enough money, by my lights, and never represented a tort plaintiff. People who have integrity don't need gobs of money for publicity.
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  25750.  @BHarris25  You bought the spin! And they got you to think that those who saw through it must be the poors! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  25751.  @bradfordhatch5085  Oh wait that's right. A Kyle Kulinski audience. Never mind.
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  25752.  @BHarris25  Not as hot as it used to be. 🤣
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  25753. Why does anyone bring up OJ? It's an entirely different case -- unless you think OJ was a minor and had video supporting his self-defense claim. Not to mention OJ lost a civil wrongful death suit.
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  25754.  @zacg_  My assertion is that a tort plaintiff has the burden of proving that the alleged defamatory statements made against him are indeed defamation -- which means they must be false. That's what the plaintiff must prove. OJ couldn't meet that burden. It's not just a matter of being found not guilty of the charge. In OJ's case, the state didn't prove its case to the satisfaction of the jury, so he was found not guilty. He did not have to prove factual innocence. In Rittenhouse, there is no question he shot three people, so he himself had to demonstrate self-defense. No comparison. And yes, in principle, when making statements about minors, a somewhat greater duty of care is usually required, because minors have fewer ways to defend themselves. That may not matter for statements made about Rittenhouse once he turned 18, even if he was 17 when he did the things that were denounced. If you can calmly apply those rules to this case, you can figure out the rest yourself. Easily.
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  25755.  @zacg_  Anyway, thanks for letting me know to block you. Wearisome.
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  25756.  @patchwurk6652  Totally wrong. To prove defamation, you have to prove the defamatory statements are factually false. You have to take the stand on your own behalf, and you don't get to invoke the Fifth Amendment. The person SUING for defamation has the burden of proof that the statements ARE defamation. You can't just point to a "not guilty" verdict. "Not guilty" just means the state failed to prove its case when it was the plaintiff. See the other posts at the end of this thread, unless they've been shadowed or something.
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  25757.  @wlh52  "From your mouth to God's ears"
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  25758. Well, to be fair, Biden is not known for keeping his promises . . . except to, say, Hunter.
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  25759. I agree, even though I'm for vaccination. Moreover, there is no access to meaningful compensation for vaccination injury prior to full FDA approval. I unsubscribed because this podcaster is egging on the haters. His irrational appeal concerning his child really took the cake -- after heaping scorn on others, as if that could encourage more vaccination.
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  25760. She's right. Her discourse is just too complex for you to follow. That's partly on her, too.
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  25761. Oh brother. Where do we begin?
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  25762. So Fauci isn't a liar, he's a Symbol. What does this guy have on them?
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  25763. I think obstruction of an official proceeding, when the proceeding is to declare the winner of a major election, is a serious matter. That charge is not necessarily violent, but it can be. The issue is whether they are actually prosecuting First Amendment-protected protesters.
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  25764. Trump pushed the culture wars and the lies for his own ends. Now, Dems act like there isn't a pandemic: they go to parties, too, they resist enacting M4A.
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  25765. Case fatality rates are 1 to 2%, based on known cases (which are almost never mild but worse). Case fatality may in fact be lower.
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  25766. The number of false confessions is so jarring to all of us that we can't accept it. I understand that. But we need to face it. We need to do something about it.
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  25767. Emanuel does not fit in with the Biden Woke-Washing theme. Phrase thanks to Katie Halper.
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  25768. He meets the requirements of the US Open. He doesn't meet the requirements of the State Department.
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  25769. 3:28 . . . Listen closely for under a minute.
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  25770.  @seamusryan9980  Nor is he demanding that anything be changed just for him. So, what's your problem?
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  25771.  @seamusryan9980  But you can't face the fact, explained here, that the requirements have nothing to do with public health.
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  25772. It is VERY simple: It is news to report, accurately, what Trump, Pelosi, either Clinton, Fauci, Jeffrey Epstein have to say -- it is news if they are stating falsehoods, and it is bigger news if they are deliberately stating things they know to be false. It is news THAT they said what they said.
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  25773.  @ChrisSmith-bh2hg  American
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  25774.  @ChrisSmith-bh2hg  Look up the BBC article on it (written, not video).
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  25775.  @ChrisSmith-bh2hg  The July 29, 2005 BBC article describes the interview, which was on a premier night time news program, and the Russian reaction --- and I just had trouble finding it again, even though I have it bookmarked on my tablet.
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  25776. Oh, WIKIPEDIA! Well, then. Who needs, like, Stephen F. Cohen, etc.?
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  25777. His lower lip tells me he has problems of a certain sort.
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  25778.  @kodithebear  read and find out click the little Read more link
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  25779. If Donald Trump or his minions are publicly stating "blah blah blah," reporting this is news. If Trump or his minions are lying, that is also newsworthy. Is the problem that ordinary people believe whatever they hear? Solid journalism means asking Trump et al. what their evidence is for their crazy claims. But no one does this now. I still don't see how it is defamation on the part of the television network; it is defamation on the part of those who said it.
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  25780. Oh my goodness, where to start? She gave some real insights, starting with the observation that staffers almost always write this stuff, not Kennedy. Personally, I suspect a classic dirty trick. DNC planted someone in his campaign, and it's perfect -- he can't call them on it because he is then shown to be a "conspiracy theorist." He'll have to quietly investigate and fire some people. After the Clintons hired Steele to assemble the infamous dossier, everyone should be more suspicious.
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  25781.  @gc3117  I don't know that it's even true. Reports of flares causing that fire may or may not be accurate. They call it the fog of war for a reason.
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  25782. If Hillary had won, would Jeffrey Epstein have been arrested? One of his very good buddies would have been married to the President in 2019.
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  25783. If we are going to unfund PUBLIC education, then I want my cut back for me. I'll spend it on night school. I'm not going to fund charters, private, and all that, where there is no possibility of democratic control --- where as a matter of principle, I have no voice, nor should I. But then you can't have my money, honey.
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  25784. @ssuwandi3240  That's not the inflation rate in Russia, not even according to Western sources. They put it at close to 9%, while downplaying the West's.
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  25785. ​ @Loungesugar  Tell us about Vasili Arkhipov's mindset.
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  25786. ​@maitreyakanitkar8742 These are just memorized talking points. You don't think you need to set foot in China (or Russia or Vietnam or Cuba) to tell them who they are and what they should do, or explain to them why they are doing what they're doing. But one reversal and all that braggadocio is instantly gone, and substance abuse is not far behind.
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  25787. ​@Dude0000 Trump is "needed?" Sanity is needed. The two major parties have both imploded. We don't even know who is president. It's not Joe, or Kamala. The country took the wrong turn with Reagan. I know that's not the popular view, but it's true. Clinton accelerated financialization, and September 11 (brought to you by Reagan-era protege Osama bin Laden) ended the US as we knew it. The pandemic shocked me but shouldn't have. 😢
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  25788. ​ @stickman1742 "Robotic?" Can you all be serious? Soviets in gymnastics and figure skating were known for their artistry and communication of emotion. Some of their ice dancers were too emotional and flowery for my taste. Their music, dance, and theatre informed their sport. It was the Americans who were often more athletic and less artistic, and uninclined to communicate complex emotions. Open your eyes.
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  25789.  @Rev_Danielle  Yeah, with real 💰
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  25790. Yes, I think that's it, but it will not impress any normal, mature woman past her early 20s. You often see that attraction in high school, you see it far less in college, and even less in full-fledged adults.
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  25791. Right. In the end, they had to replace BJG with two women.
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  25792. @HuanLE21  Because he has to say, "THEY are reducing our country to a laughing stock," not "WE are a laughing stock," . . . Political Rhetoric 101
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  25793. Exactly right.
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  25794. There isn't enough money in the world.
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  25795. ​ @x00p3 What bugs? Remember when they were everywhere?
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  25796.  @cococonlin170  True, that.
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  25797. ​​ @phasespace4700  If Trump is so dangerous, why didn't the DNC start strategizing on the first Wednesday in November 2016 to find an outstanding candidate to beat him? But Blame Norman.
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  25798. Feed your mind and body. Don't worry about your weight, the cost of really good food and natural gas for heat will take care of that. Read 50 pages a day. Do something in the arts, it does not matter what. You'll be fine.
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  25799. Edit: What does Wall Street want this time?
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  25800. Not after they purged former segregationists from their party and the Republicans' Southern strategy embraced them. History is a thing.
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  25801. I would have voted for Biden had I been **absolutely sure** the kids at the border would all be reunited with their parents, and that proper lodging, not cages, would be provided in the meantime, for all. Needless to say, voted for La Riva.
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  25802. ​ @chrisdoc8431  Drop the Rooskie nonsense.
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  25803. ​@oreiono7453 Can oligarchs like Bill Gates still force us to follow WHO guidelines? Gates is a major WHO donor. What if major employers coerce their employees into taking experimental drugs under threat of being fired if they refuse? Can Gates still do that? The libertarians can't help us -- no one has a right to keep their job.
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  25804. @OswaldJames-x2t  My posts about a certain "Bates" with the 7th letter instead of the 2nd is in the dark shade. How lovely!
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  25805. The Russians keep saying Biden has a vaccine injury: DON'T BELIEVE IT!!! 😂😂😂 🤪🌎
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  25806. Yes, you're right.
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  25807.  @tommyanomaly6193  That's all right. It may not necessarily mean . . . I still don't want to ingest it.
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  25808. Speak out to whom? If you go to a psychiatrist, a counselor, or a lawyer, all of those are sworn to secrecy. Those are confidential relationships. Not friggin' TWITTER.
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  25809.  @AriBelleDean  Moreover, no one is "shaming" Claudia. But a lot of people are misrepresenting what Williamson said. Go watch it again. Just the first minute of the video is all that is necessary. See what she actually said. Twitter is exploiting kids. Kids are seduced into creating a global "permanent record" they can never escape, with strangers all over the place judging them, who have no business weighing in. This has already caused teenage depression rates to soar.
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  25810.  @AriBelleDean  Nobody should feel comfortable speaking out on social media! This is treacherous stuff. Using it well is hard. It is easy to be misunderstood, then smeared and shunned.
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  25811. He was on the team at Salk Institute, then at a biotech company. Yes, he was one of the inventors of the technology. He had nothing to do with the development of COVID vaccines. No one said he did.
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  25812. Is there some other Robert Malone around, or something?
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  25813.  @TheBitterPill  The number at his level in the process is a handful. He was one of the inventors.
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  25814.  @justmeandi8256  Okay then.
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  25815. I don't want my money going to finance any private scheme where I have no voice, and should have no voice. If we are going to unfund universal, PUBLIC education, then I want my cut back, to use it for me. I'll spend it on night school. I'm not going to fund charters, private, and all that, for only some, and where there is no possibility of democratic control. As I said, as a matter of principle, I have nothing to say about what happens in these schools, nor should I. But then you can't have my money.
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  25816.  @marksaulnier2222  I will not pay for private schools. The average taxpayer has no say in what is taught there, who is admitted, or what their policies are -- nor should they. Your competition story does not impress me. "We've all seen this movie."
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  25817.  @marksaulnier2222  Education gravely deteriorated the day it become "a business." (What do you think Title IX procedures are, for example, but modeled after the private workplace, which has no First Amendment rights, and does have at-will employment?)
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  25818. No, Tucker, Musk is mentally ill and aberrant. How many baby mamas -- four? And is it 12, 13, or 14 kids? How much ketamine? Cut it out, Tucker. Just . . . cut it out.
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  25819. ​ @hrs2044  We do not sterilize children, just like we do not perform electroconvulsive therapy on them. Adults are free to choose to undergo such treatments, of course, once they are fully informed of the risks and benefits. On the other hand, you're right. No one cares about other people's kids. We raise kids to be competitors. It isn't hard to drop it, especially considering that in the long run it throttles potential competition but good.
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  25820.  @MargaretWankowicz  In your imagination, anything can happen. Is Harry lying that his stupid brother beat him up? Aren't we told to leave when someone beats you?
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  25821.  @mummylove5  Breathe
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  25822. Ryan, take a lesson from David Goggins. He actually had a stutter. IMPROVE your delivery. Work on it.
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  25823. As a young person, I thought the couple in Nighthawks were tight. I was young.
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  25824. Le Pen's party started as pro-Vichy. That's its history. She did moderate it.
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  25825. Not everyone, apparently. Plus you can see it is VOLUNTARY.
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  25826. Follow the money?
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  25827.  @cassidyrabold293  Just a little aside, but relevant: have you ever noticed how many outstanding, decorated soldiers have a soft spot for animals, and rescue wildlife? I've noticed. Tenderness toward the small or weak is a very fine trait, can tell a lot about a person. Often makes for a good dad. Just noticing stuff, is all.
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  25828.  @badmofaux  Well, the day she starts telling people to vote DNC no matter who, I will agree.
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  25829. GOOD FOR YOU! Absolutely right.
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  25830. Ukraine must concentrate on peace talks, five full minutes after 40 billion dollars . . .
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  25831. No. This is normal now. No one trusts any of them. People vote for whoever will share the corruption, I mean money, with them.
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  25832. @Have a heart and a brain Can you be serious?
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  25833. The scrutiny has increased, yes. But it is a relatively minor factor.
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  25834. A child? He makes easy money.
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  25835. You can't handle the truth.
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  25836.  @MrZerosphere  Right. Our culture. Our society.
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  25837. @auntiec6294  Let's smear all the homeless. Let's make sure they never get a chance. And we can use Tim Pool to do it. He worked hard to get where he is. /s
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  25838. Remember, the AI you train with these comments might come around to define you someday. You can thank Gutfeld and Pool.
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  25839.  @MattMatusiak  I housed some of these people. My experience matches Jimmy's.
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  25840.  @ruanniemann1678  Gee. I wonder if SA from a rich relative they have to be nice to is a factor, maybe? Nah. That's a rarity, especially today.
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  25841. 😂😂😂
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  25842. I love it. Had to check whether you were a woman. (Well, I am as well . . . but I speak French. ;)
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  25843.  @cyberft  What you just said is a logical fallacy: tu quoque
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  25844. @terry4137  Correct. They must hire me and pay me VERY well for me to defend them. In fact, I still may not do it.
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  25845.  @cyberft  I see what you mean now. But how does that refute OP? "You're doing it, too" is not a refutation. It may be relevant to the credibility of the person speaking, but *if* the merit of what he's saying isn't dependent on his credibility, then it doesn't matter.
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  25846.  @terry4137  Too bad my reply is _________.
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  25847.  @cyberft  No it isn't. It's not reasoning, so it doesn't have to "follow." You disagree with the value statement. That's fine. But that doesn't refute it. How about "People who defend ____ are morally bankrupt," and try substituting: Jeffrey Epstein, the Manson Family, etc. Now you might agree.
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  25848. ​@cyberft  I'm trying to edit to get past the c__. No it isn't. It's not reasoning, so it doesn't have to "follow." You disagree with the value statement. That's fine. But that doesn't refute it. How about "People who defend ____ are morally bankrupt," and try substituting: the Manson Family, etc. Now you might agree.
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  25849. @cyberft  I explained the logic very carefully, but guess who is opposed to logic? (Sometimes it appears if you sort by Newest and scroll, but who wants to do that?) Sometimes you get to see it posted on your feed, but no one else can. Fun with billionaires, lol.
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  25850. Most doctors, meaning the "heterodox" ones who are critical of these v, do not think so.
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  25851. The real truth is that no one can be sure --- but we all knew that. 😢
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  25852. ​ @benstern310 Of course. What do you think that is? Do the math.
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  25853.  @Joshm-j4m  Oh, I thought you said we had no idea about all this. You must not have read the thread.
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  25854. @nearsightedfromthefarside6534  Adam Smith's free market would be bliss compared to monopoly capital. Today's oligarchs are no less dangerous than yesterday's feudal lords to freedom and entrepreneurship. These billionaires operate toll booths,
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  25855.  @TheMighty84  By the way, Musk didn't start Tesla. 🤣🤣🤣
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  25856.  @TheMighty84  Shows what you know.
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  25857. Whatever anyone may say, and quite apart from any ethical considerations, America's reputation is now terrible. No one believes anything that America says. "Humanitarianism" has been exposed as pure opportunism. If you are an American, you should care, out of pure self-interest. The BRICS expanded during the Russian escalation of the conflict in the Donbas, which fundamentally changed its character and turned it into a war. I didn't think that could happen before peace was concluded. But it did. Draw a lesson there? Maybe?
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  25858. Don't tell yourself your "days are numbered." Make the commitment to live an ultra-clean life from now on. Be good to yourself.
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  25859. ​@uffe2063 You might read this study. You might read more serious literature about cancer.
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  25860. ​@thas6322 After what they did to force people to lock down, then take an experimental vaccine, I would not be quick to dismiss concerns. Did you see that coming? The DNC promised there would be no mandates.
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  25861. In whose material interest is it to go after doctors, now that we've done a number on nurses? Will undermining existing doctors and causing them to leave the profession, then importing foreign-trained doctors to replace them, lower costs? It has that flavor, don't it?
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  25862. ​​ @cherylknight6080  Were there gender clinics in the USSR? Are their gender clinics in Cuba or Venezuela? This is Western bourgeois decadence. Capitalism through and through. Cha-ching. 💰
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  25863.  @orionsghost9511  The live podcast ended with Jimmy presenting videos of when he made cogent arguments for peace, and for finding alternatives to bombing. I was sorry not to see that segment. It was great.
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  25864.  @exnihilonihilfit6316  Oh really? So, if you come upon someone dying, take a picture and sell it? But don't call 911. Or, shoot a dead person. The picture will sell for more. Weeee!!!!
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  25865.  @exnihilonihilfit6316  Moral? Who reported on Jeffrey Epstein? Or on Clinton? Or Gates? Who stands up to stop illegal harassment at work, even of minors? I have never once heard anyone say a word. I have seen people join in, however.
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  25866.  @exnihilonihilfit6316  Please keep it up, you are perfect. There is no need whatsoever to reply.
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  25867.  @exnihilonihilfit6316  Your screenname says you're based in Bulgaria.
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  25868. I knew this was dating from the Mountbatten assassination.
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  25869. Latest evidence: study 30 - 45 minutes, then do something physical (brisk walk, other workout) for 10 to 5 minutes. This will consolidate the knowledge you've acquired even better. He's right about training yourself to slowly increase your time. But don't increase it to more than two hours without a break. A brisk walk or bike ride home from the library was good, as it turns out.
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  25870. College history never had anything to do with the slop they present to you in high school.
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  25871. ​ @LetsAllDrinkToTheDeathOfAClown  Liar. Learn to speak French. Then maybe you can follow their reporters, rather than making up your preferred narrative (= story).
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  25872. Canada's crackdown is an experiment for the next major demonstration in the US. We need to pay attention.
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  25873. Are you that crazy?
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  25874. NFP is completely opposed to Macron. Who told you differently?
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  25875.  @inteldebrief  Do you read French? Did you ever live there? Ever have family friends there? Even American media has reported that the NFP is more likely to reject the EU or subservience to NATO than Le Pen is. As for who really runs things, I know. Adam Curtis and Yanis Varoufakis both spelled it out nicely, whether you prefer documentaries, lectures, or books.
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  25876. ​ @granand Trump will not be allowed to win. If he even does get the votes, which is hardly evident.
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  25877. Actually, you do have to have a heart to have a heartbeat. A six-week embryo does not have a heart. On the other hand, many states permit the elective abortion of fetuses which do have hearts. Suddenly everyone gets to have their own biology. I thought we saw where that went during the pandemic.
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  25878. I bet Max will do great in his standup. Break a leg, tremendous, beautiful MAX! 🏵
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  25879. THICK AS THIEVES
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  25880.  @irocksup123  You all missed his point.
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  25881. Well, that first virus they accidentally released didn't work like they thought, so . . . .
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  25882. "What's not to like?"
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  25883. ​ @ajr993 The stuff is sold on the black market anyway, so . . .
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  25884. @ajr993  Do you trust The Hill as a source? Cohen and Allen have an article there, about 8 months old. (Will you say every source is a Putinista?)
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  25885.  @ajr993  Go read the article. Was the pandemic a substantial event? Do you know what percent of humanity died?
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  25886. @ajr993  The post suggesting the article was not shadowed. I suspect you don't care about the truth.
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  25887. No, he didn't. But how he got two women to marry him is a mystery.
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  25888. Is an impossible burger like a nothing burger, only toxic?
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  25889. Entering the world economic order is to the advantage of 10 to 20% of the population, often among the worst 10 to 20%.
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  25890. He father has some African ancestry, yes.
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  25891.  @roushanam  Watch some videos. The story hour is packed, and because it is not school, it is voluntary and the parents are present with their kids. News flash: the First Amendment prevents the viewpoint discrimination you say conservatives want. The library is a traditional First Amendment forum. School is not.
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  25892.  @roushanam  Cheerleaders and football aren't innocent, either -- the latter can cause neurological harm to developing brains. (Possibly the former can as well?) How ironic that boys are encouraged to practice a sport that can damage their brains --- by their school. No other country does that.
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  25893.  @steveillz8655  Most libraries have the librarian reading to the kids.
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  25894.  @roushanam  You cannot open the library to some but not others based on viewpoint.
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  25895.  @roushanam  I wouldn't be one of those who is embroiled in American politics because I'm non-Western, highly gender-specific for cultural reasons, multilingual, and plan to go back to where my parents came from -- which of course America bombed. I'm one of those. P. S. I didn't vote in 2016, and voted third party, in person, on election day in 2020. La Riva Peltier, as a protest of Peltier's continued illegal imprisonment.
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  25896.  @roushanam  Can you name all the countries America has bombed since 1945? But all this stuff circling around le cul is at the tip of your lips always, huh?
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  25897. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  25898. It would cut the kill budget.
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  25899. Well, with the latest variant, mild breakthrough infections are possible. You may find you need to go into a crowded area. I picked up a couple of test kits, containing four tests in all -- and was out over $50 dollars with the tax. I recently had cold symptoms, no fever, went to the CDC website and based on the advice I got there, I stayed in for three days then took one of my at-home tests, to be safe. Not to infect others, basically. I would have preferred not to feel as though I were under house arrest for three days for a mild cold. I cannot afford three tests. If I could have tested more times, I would have stayed in one day, not three.
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  25900. Tsk. Your virtual pee pee. Weirdo! 🤣
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  25901. @mt_gox  Because they could not spare the resources to provide the intensive care the elderly need living near the Arctic Circle. You're right. America is de facto broke. I get your point.
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  25902.  @oooBASTIooo  Starting NOW and not looking at a watch, guess when the time is up. (Except for this comment, I'm blocking this lout.)
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  25903. I wonder how much you weigh. I don't know, the question just popped into my mind.
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  25904. ​ @angelrojo6466 And therefore . . . ?
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  25905. ​ @angelrojo6466 So don't watch him, and urge others not to. That is what is known as free speech principles, not just law.
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  25906.  @coreyleath4662  I don't know if they had to prepare for this first. Believe me, if it turns out you're right, I agree 100%. Let's see all the facts.
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  25907. AP is an elective designed for motivated kids who want to earn college credits and save money on tuition. That is not good for the banks. End of story. As for the Confederacy, the real story happens after the end of Reconstruction, when aspects of slavery were reintroduced. The North never fought to liberate anyone, but to impose modernization on the entire US labor force.
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  25908.  @davidschlageter5962  I'm sorry to hear that. Did he learn additional material in those classes in college that made it worthwhile? Math was a class that was well known to admit students based on placement, because the placement exams were objective. Making a person repeat material is holding them back, obviously. (But it doesn't hurt the colleges' bottom line, or the banks, now does it?)
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  25909. Katie and her dad will cause a baby boom, LOL. Adorable parent-child relationship.
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  25910. Think about THIS: Breonna Taylor died because a no-knock warrant was issued -- To search FOR DRUGS.
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  25911. He's horrible. He belonged with Trump, willing to say and do absolutely ANYTHING to advance himself one millimeter. He would never leave a millimeter on the table.
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  25912. 3:24 THIS 5:34 and 6:30 as well
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  25913. Saw that.
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  25914. If there were a real investigation, maybe.
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  25915. I don't think anyone did anything to Joe Rogan that compares with what former friends did to Jimmy Dore. Jimmy was vaccinated and injured. Joe Rogan never got vaccinated -- he had a appointment for J&J, and it was pulled that very day, and suspended from EUA, due to stroke risk.
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  25916. 3:18 No. God. NO.
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  25917. This should be something they fear!
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  25918. If you know how to do research, you will find it. From peer-reviewed journals and other highly reliable medical sources.
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  25919.  @G360LIVE  I know you're nuts. No need for you to follow me around to prove it.
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  25920.  @Miso_Hornie  YES, there is evidence masks help prevent transmission. YouTube shadows links routinely on this channel, because they are hard to monitor. Put ANY of the following, or a segment of any of the following, into any search engine: 1. Face masks effectively limit the probability of SARS-CoV-2 transmission 2. Face masks: what the data say The science supports that face coverings are saving lives during the coronavirus pandemic, and yet the debate trundles on. How much evidence is enough? 3. Still Confused About Masks? Here’s the Science Behind How Face Masks Prevent Coronavirus 4. An evidence review of face masks against COVID-19 5. Prior to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the efficacy of community mask wearing to reduce the spread of respiratory infections was controversial because there were no solid relevant data to support their use. During the pandemic, the scientific evidence has increased. Compelling data now demonstrate that community mask wearing is an effective nonpharmacologic intervention to reduce the spread of this infection, especially as source control to prevent spread from infected persons, but also as protection to reduce wearers’ exposure to infection.
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  25921.  @Miso_Hornie  Just to be clear, you do what you want to do. When immunity from nature or vaccines begins to decline, whether in the late fall or some time next year, you'll see for yourself. As for the logic of risk assessment, Nassim Taleb explained it best.
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  25922.  @Miso_Hornie  "Leffler et al. (29) used a multiple regression approach, including a range of policy interventions and country and population characteristics, to infer the relationship between mask use and SARS-CoV-2 transmission. They found that transmission was 7.5 times higher in countries that did not have a mask mandate or universal mask use, a result similar to that found in an analogous study of fewer countries (30). Another study looked at the difference between US states with mask mandates and those without, and found that the daily growth rate was 2.0 percentage points lower in states with mask mandates, estimating that the mandates had prevented 230,000 to 450,000 COVID-19 cases by May 22, 2020 (31)."
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  25923.  @Miso_Hornie  All of those were taken from peer-reviewed RESEARCH studies. Claiming they are not research is not only false, but also means you are counting on absolutely no one copying a title of a research paper or source for papers or summary of papers and pasting it into a search engine. I've been around long enough to know that you are right about that. You won't. No one will.
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  25924.  @Miso_Hornie  Links are shadowed. Hence your usual pointy clicky or pointy touchy won't work.
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  25925. I found the (German) Paul-Ehrlich-Institut safety report, English language version, this politician claims to quote. You might want to take a peek, to verify. It is always a good idea to go to primary sources to verify anything a politician says. Or, you could just type in capital letters. Please make sure to get paid for this. Doing it for free is shameful. Get your cut.
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  25926. No she didn't. She just gave more ammunition to the DNC.
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  25927. A "new parent," who is researching vaccines for their child? First, a parent needs to have a good pediatrician and discuss all medical interventions for their infant. Second, children that young don't get COVID vaccines. Pfizer has full approval age 16 and older.
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  25928.  @289cobra9  Exactly. AOC is right wing + window dressing, no different from Nancy at that point in her "career."
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  25929. Aww, too cruel to Bernie, even after everything.
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  25930. Let's all take a stand for educational standards and fail to read a nationally significant Supreme Court case on First Amendment rights.
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  25931. Too much bad news about vaccines. "Kremlin" still works.
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  25932. ​ @bsquared4604 There is no general law against lying.
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  25933. ​ @bsquared4604 A lot of unethical things are not criminal for all that. And some unethical things will get you fired from your job or excluded from the classroom, but they cannot be prosecuted or censored.
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  25934. Liar No one should join the military to save your ****
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  25935. Yes! This did cross my mind while she was talking. "Genuine imitation . . . "
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  25936. Great, I never wanted to be an American. Finally.
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  25937. They will protect Wall Street, no worries.
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  25938. She never voted for Biden or Hillary Clinton.
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  25939. Where did she study acting? This is a monolgue exercise I've seen.
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  25940. So cheat. 😂
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  25941. ​​ @almathwasmywowusername9529  She said both.
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  25942. @spencerantoniomarlen-starr3069  What do you consider "self-made?" Would you count Bill Gates in that group? Would you look into how they got their financing, and at what point in their trajectory they did? Because having investment banks decide to tip the balance in your favor can be viewed as being "self-made" -- or not. And for those who were the founders of major publicly-traded corporations, who sits on their boards of directors? Who comprises their C-suite? How did they get there? Forbes, etc., are not news magazines. They are purveyors of high-level advertising aimed at shaping one's world view. Dig deeper.
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  25943. Well then it is pointless to tell people to arm themselves against active shooters, isn't it? I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm asking you to think this through. This victim had every reason to believe Rittenhouse was an active shooter, and in return for his heroism, he loses most of the muscle in his arm. If Rittenhouse contributed to the circumstances that confused this victim about Rittenhouse's true intent, then Rittenhouse cannot claim complete self defense. You cannot contribute to creating the need to defend yourself, then say that you were just defending yourself. This case is close. Rittenhouse had no business having that weapon. He was carrying illegally. That is a fact.
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  25944.  @unicorntrooper226  He told the truth. That is what he is supposed to do.
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  25945.  @alexscarboro6786  It's not irrelevant because Rittenhouse was carrying illegally. But for that I blame the adults who put him in this position.
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  25946.  @AsteriaRiselta  Are you all this crazy? Good to know. Don't be shocked at the next mass shooting, or the one after that, or the one after that . . . .
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  25947.  @rec-reation9620  Irrelevant. Rittenhouse was underage and should not have been armed.
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  25948.  @AsteriaRiselta  You are praising an underage, high school dropout shooter who came to the Kenosha riots carrying an enormous weapon. Can you be serious? You aren't just saying he shouldn't be convicted. You're saying he saved lives. Yes. Crazy.
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  25949.  @rec-reation9620  That concerns law enforcement. That concerns the National Guard. That doesn't concern underaged kids being armed and groomed by vigilantes, and then abandonned as soon as something (very predictably) goes wrong.
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  25950.  @rec-reation9620  I don't agree with the law that Rittenhouse is being charged with violating. It MANDATES treating juveniles as adults. I oppose these laws. He was a minor. He never finished junior year in high school. This case will not change MY mind.
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  25951.  @vivianspinarski4846  There was a reasonable suspicion at the time that it was about to become a mass shooting. But never mind. Who cares? If you don't, I don't.
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  25952.  @rec-reation9620 Law enforcement is the job of law enforcement. Self-defense is an imperfect defense if the person himself contributed to the circumstances that led to his need to use deadly force. Big "if." Not just the law, but obvious. Common sense. I have no opinion on how this case should turn out, other than being opposed to trying this kid as as adult. I know what I'd do to the adults that put him up to it!
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  25953.  @rec-reation9620  NO ONE can claim complete self-defense IF they helped create the conditions that made their use of deadly force necessary TO defend themselves. You forgot that little causal connection. You don't know how to read a statute. Of course if a person is shoplifting a loaf of bread they do not have to let the store security guard stomp them, choke them, or shoot them. DUH.
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  25954.  @frankmarano1118  AMEN.
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  25955.  @AsteriaRiselta  Like I said. Crazy.
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  25956.  @AsteriaRiselta  They have got you taking sides in this! Wow! 🤣🤣🤣
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  25957.  @vivianspinarski4846  Whoosh Okay. No worries.
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  25958.  @vivianspinarski4846  I'll be honest with you all right: decided in 2019 to emigrate by 2025. Will be moving that date up. There, that's honest. I didn't need 2020 to convince me. I already knew.
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  25959.  @vivianspinarski4846  Who is? Weirdos one and all.
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  25960.  @vivianspinarski4846 You think your relatives defended MY rights? Nope. My father and my uncle were fighting the actual Hitler before Americans showed up, and yet the US bombed what little is left of my family with depleted uranium. I owe you nothing. So much for mindless emotional appeals. I didn't support the endless regime-change wars. I didn't vote to support them, ever.
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  25961.  @vivianspinarski4846 You bomb a LOT of people. People tend not to like that. Putting down your arms, and your glorification of armed violence, might be a new idea to try out. Just to see how it goes. For fun.
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  25962.  @vivianspinarski4846  BTW, Rittenhouse dropped out before COVID, and school continued online. So his poor interpersonal skills at school would have made no difference. Same goes for GED. He just needed to apply himself.
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  25963.  @AsteriaRiselta  WHO IS DEFENDING THEM? Furthermore, NO media has pointed out that the law mandating that juveniles be tried as adults is fundamentally unjust. But I'm saying it. That's because I can still think for myself. You're just fooled into "taking sides."
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  25964.  @divawendy  Was it also "self-defense" against Richard McGinnis, the video producer from the conservative new outlet who just missed getting shot, when Rittenhouse, being the KID that he is, fired recklessly? Was that "self-defense," too? McGinnis had already done a neutral/mildly favorable report on Rittenhouse earlier that day, and was in the vicinity because he sensed trouble.
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  25965. You just reminded me of when these monsters used to say "breeder." The ugliness is not new.
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  25966. Great!
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  25967.  @winoodlesnoodles1984  They oppose the IDF action, as does Bernie Sanders. As do the students, including all the Jewish students demonstrating.
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  25968. Well, if an attack happens only once in a while, we could just blame the victim like we generally do.
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  25969. For most, yes. A few will, and the others will then be blamed for not catching up, too. Watch for suicide rates to soar.
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  25970. You think that's bad? I listen to foreign broadcasts sometimes, and you hear French communists denounce vaccine mandates and passports, and support teaching critical thinking and Latin in school. No, I mean it.
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  25971. There is that, also. When a teenage girl has sudden onset dysphoria, a qualified therapist needs to gently probe. She may have been bullied, or . . . Much worse.
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  25972. An Englishman and a Canadian are going to rescue the republic. Man, it really is over, innit?
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  25973. Now tell us the truth: is there any practical way to strengthen the immune system against this? (I don't call mega doses of supplements natural, BTW. I mean food, exercise, etc.) ARE masks useful? The risk analysis I've read says yes.
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  25974.  @gregjames9875  Wait a second, that isn't the case. In the workplace, your boss has a lot to say about your communications. It's not as simple as you make it out to be. You can say what you want, and your boss can say, "you're fired." Some of the same standards of discrimination based on hostile environment have migrated to the university, the more university is being run "like a business."
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  25975.  @gregjames9875  But that is part of the legal theory. Certain classes of speech aren't protected. If they were, government could not make laws against workplace harassment, set up an EEOC to consider evidence, allow defamation suits and intentional infliction of emotional distress suits to proceed, etc. Every time they pass a law that creates a possible penalty for speech, especially speech that is not criminal (conspiracy to commit crime, incitement, etc.), they have to think about how it squares with the First Amendment.
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  25976. That doesn't tell you where the virus actually originated, it simply tells you its first identified mass spread event. Its structure has been a question from the start, with many virologists saying it is unlikely to happen naturally. In any case, it's not a seafood virus.
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  25977. She's flat-out misrepresenting this case. I can see through it, because I'm a lawyer. This is more titillation, and a new focus for the ever-growing mob mentalities in the US. Worry about that.
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  25978. He's sad, but all right. I'm glad he's fine.
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  25979.  @burntupretardporn  It had no impact. Looks like the joke is on you. This was an experiment. They were floating nonsense to see what traction it would get. The FBI/CIA have done this for, well, as long as I've been alive.
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  25980. Bri never said this. She didn't even vote for Biden, and made sure everyone knew. Bernie Sanders was accused of being a Russian bot favorite. She worked for him. You must not pay attention, like, really at all.
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  25981.  @christopherwalch6291  When? She herself was hit by these accusations, as is anyone who did not toe the DNC Clintonite line, even before she started supporting a third party. Maybe she meant that it was theoretically possible, given the mathematics of 2016. She does that a lot. I can see the difference between acknowledging that bare possibility and believing The Bots stole Hillary's win.
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  25982. OF COURSE we need property tax credits, mortgage moratoriums, and so forth, to prevent smaller landlords from being forced to sell. We need emergency UBI. Of course an eviction moratorium could backfire. But homelessness now is a disaster.
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  25983.  @manners7483  Like Venezuela? Which our government is sanctioning, whose assets it's freezing, and trying to overthrow? Well, if the BRICS can come up with a new global reserve currency and overthrow the privileged status of the dollar, then you'll see "Venezuela." But that would take undermining US military might as well. An eviction moratorium could hurt small landlords who can replace the tenants they evict, but by itself it doesn't hurt the landlords who would end up with empty apartments. If not enough people can afford to replace the evicted tenants, here come the real estate conglomerates in any event. Where will the endless supply of tenants come from? Homeless people can't dress well enough for a job interview. With enough empty housing, those with landlords will see tax assessments soar. "They can pay."
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  25984.  @manners7483  Ha! That's a great argument!
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  25985.  @manners7483  I see you know your history, too. /s
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  25986.  @tonywilson4713  Both. Absolutely. I wonder who will . . . :/
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  25987. AOC for President? I don't remember hearing any reports on her footwear, or her go-to playlist. If we are going to go by Vogue alone, then elect Zelensky's wife.
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  25988. Need clicks
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  25989.  @leechgully  Yes there are, you haven't looked for them. It has been reported that Putin's faction organized the pro-war demonstrations.
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  25990.  @wishiwassleeping8382  If you don't look for them, you won't see them.
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  25991.  @wishiwassleeping8382  I found them in the British press right away. The claim is that Putin himself organized the event, which I have no way of confirming or disputing. But there is no question it took place.
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  25992.  @wishiwassleeping8382  You have to be careful, because some people are recirculating photos from the March demonstrations in favor of the military action and pretending they were in response to the current mobilization. The ones I found were current.
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  25993. By the way, let's all report the "text me" spammers. I hate seeing a good post with one of those clowns as the first reply.
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  25994. So an honest performance in December or prior would have been wise, huh? Seems like it. 🤔
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  25995. 1. Hugs. Lots of hugs. 2. Anti-inflammatory diet. Lots of information on it. 3. More hugs. 4. Tell her to be really, really good to herself. Zero self-criticism. This too shall pass.
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  25996. Sure 10:05
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  25997. They are not advocating keeping schools closed. The point is that the precautions taken are inadequate. Precautions haven't even been thought through. What happened to "science?" BTW, I know of no state that has designated teachers as needing priority vaccination, the way medical personnel and first responders do.
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  25998. Keeping schools closed isn't a plan, either, I agree with you there.
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  25999.  @PhoenixCrown  This was a period when we went from two or three roommates being able to get an apartment together in NYC or San Francisco, to the point where young newlyweds who both finished college or have a skilled trade and work 40 to 50 hours per week cannot buy a modest house and struggle to afford a condo.
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  26000. ​ @MikeSmithers  She doesn't know how to take an animal to the vet to be euthanized? She doesn't know about taking an unmanageable dog to a shelter?
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  26001. She looks MUCH worse than only 4 or 5 years ago.
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  26002. She asked the guest for suggestions.
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  26003.  @ryananthony3104  No. Suggestions to resolve the issue.
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  26004. You were able to hear what he said? Great tech you've got.
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  26005. By reading the whole letter, noticing things he said in it that are false, misleading, or exaggerated, asking to review a sample lesson on race from that school first, and wanting to see what their curriculum is, and whether they follow it, or throw in stuff they don't tell parents about That's how. "Audi alteram partem."
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  26006. ​ @SomeKindOfDracula  That is odd.
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  26007. He's a child. He spends time on Twitter, not with great art, literature, etc.
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  26008.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  It matters because he was a minor. Open carry by minors is illegal. Concealed carry is as well. Hiring minors as armed security guards is illegal.
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  26009.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  If you see someone shooting an unarmed person, knowing nothing more, and you try to disarm him, HOW ARE YOU THE AGGRESSOR? You haven't had enough minors roaming the streets with guns, huh? America needs more minors roaming the streets with very formidable looking weapons, especially at night, in demonstrations and riots.
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  26010.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  The very same thing happened in Illinois, involving the police. They arrived at a night club where some violence of some sort had taken place, and they shot and killed the licensed security guard, thinking he was the instigator, rather than the one trying to restore order. The police were held blameless, of course. Here we're talking about trained grownups, authorized to use force, and familiar with these scenarios. Even they made a mistake, but there was no liability, for obvious reasons.
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  26011.  @lykos89  These people are nuts. I taught part-time in community college, as a public service of sorts. This is why I will never teach again. I had students tell me they should have a right to bring their guns to class, and when I pointed out that most teachers would refuse to teach under those conditions, I was told the teachers are welcome to find other jobs. The advice was good. No argument from me. But worse than that, a very eloquent young woman who spoke out against guns in school was smeared, and painted as crazy. The story weaved its way back to me, if you can believe it.
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  26012.  @joelellis7035  OH COME ON. Then no one should try to disarm a shooter, ever. Actually, they probably shouldn't. Not worth it. See how that works, as a way of living in society with others? Or not. "Sauve qui peut la vie."
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  26013.  @heavydny86  Openly carrying a large, assault-style weapon, of the type insurgents often use in battle, when you know you are too young to have the right to possess such a firearm, is evidence of what, exactly? Of being a "stand up young man?" He never made it through junior year in high school. He has already beaten up a girl. And he is not following the terms of his bail, which include not drinking alcohol or frequenting known militia members. The kid is slow.
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  26014.  @heavydny86  He was cleaning graffiti with, what was it? An AR 15? He was a lifeguard, where? During COVID, he was a lifeguard? No, he was a very confused high school dropout with no father in the picture, an overwrought mother who had just declared bankruptcy in 2018 or something, and past problems involving hitting girlfriends. Oh, he also said he wanted to be famous. He got caught up with the wrong people. Adult people. Not enough in the news about them, I've noticed.
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  26015.  @kraar2619  Those pictures on Google maps are not to scale.
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  26016. @Abasisten It Was A JOKE. Duh.
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  26017. @Abasisten I know the area, I lived in Chicago.
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  26018.  @DarkPassengrr  The Columbine shooters are laughing somewhere. They're the ones who won, culturally. People turn on victims now: of the Sandy Hook shooting, of the Las Vegas shooting, of vigilantes . . . Keep it up. Expect to have a civil society and an economy in ten years.
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  26019.  @bjones8470  This is a nuanced view I can relate to. I oppose laws that require charging and trying juveniles as adults, and have said so since the start. As for the video, shot at night, don't be so sure it proves self-defense. For one thing, you don't know whether anything legally significant happened before the camera started recording. This is one reason why his lawyers are poring over all the videos shot with him in them, frame by frame, and interviewing him about every significant frame. As for Rittenhouse, he has already violated conditions of his bond by drinking. Lost kid. He once said his goal in life was to be famous.
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  26020.  @jamesandayladodge4815  Oh really? Huh.
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  26021.  @rayfish007  The issue is, can you chase an individual who is bearing a deadly weapon on the good faith belief that he constitutes a mortal danger to others, and claim self defense/defense of others? (Hmm. Waddya think?) I'm not coming back to this issue again, so let me just tell you once: the REAL issue in this thread is the persistent insinuation, or outright contention, that the people Rittenhouse killed "had it coming." THAT is what I object to. Self-defense is a concept neutral to identity politics. Got that? As far as the legal process is concerned, (1) I do not support laws that AUTOMATICALLY treat juveniles as adults, such as invoked against Rittenhouse in this case; and (2) I will be perfectly willing to accept a Not Guilty verdict (on the homicide-related charges, not the gun charge) if it is the result of a scrupulously fair process. I also wonder whether various militias are preparing to intimidate the court, and trying to sway potential jurors already -- if not with political persuasion, then with something more "physical." I'll be paying attention. Because that's what it already looks like to me. You need to care more about your country. I'm being serious. No other country has had the mass shootings, even by kids, that this one has. You need to think about why that is, and not worry so much about defending Rittenhouse. He was not supposed to have a gun.
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  26022.  @rayfish007  Notice how your scenario, assuming it's correct, doesn't deal with the other two shootings. People who act on a good-faith belief that they are disarming a dangerous aggressor also have the right to claim self-defense/defense of others, even if they are mistaken (and, as it turns out, the person they are trying to disarm was not the aggressor, but engaged in legitimate self-defense himself). Anyone who thinks this case is simple is . . . A simpleton.
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  26023.  @jamesandayladodge4815  What do you know about "the world?" America in toto is less than 5% of the world. Do you think anyone else promotes heavily armed minors? The rest of the world denounces it as "child soldiers." Study a foreign language. Expand your vision.
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  26024.  @tiffanyblack7856  His lawyers can petition the court to accept an update to his address under seal, and impose a gag order. He doesn't get to hide from the court while on bail -- even if he is innocent. (He's not innocent of the gun charge, in any event.)
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  26025.  @TheSaltyGranny  Is it legal to hire a minor as an armed security guard? You are all nuts. The next school shooter will be trained by his parents??
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  26026.  @jamesandayladodge4815  You need to care more about your country. I'm being serious. No other country has had the mass shootings, even by kids, that this one has. You need to think about why that is, and not worry so much about defending Rittenhouse. He was a minor. He was not supposed to have a gun.
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  26027.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  I'm not a liberal. Is anyone that stupid, to think that I am? Wow. Well, people who think minors should openly carry guns like AR 15s if they want, no problem . . . Or be hired as armed guards of property during civil unrest. So bright. The old saying was "consider the source."
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  26028.  @MC-wh3xm  I was trained to protect young adult students in the event of a mass shooting, even if it posed a danger to me to protect them. (I was also trained as a fire marshall in a skyscraper, but I digress.) The day I knew I would no longer put a student's life above my own, I resigned. Reality check: the teachers still teaching wouldn't put their students' lives first, either -- despite the fact that they signed up for it. The joke's on you and it's not funny.
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  26029.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  Precisely. That degree of casualness about threats to human life lead to where we are. Out of sheer curiosity -- and you don't need to respond to me, answer it in your own mind -- why do you think Rittenhouse was indicted? "Because BLM?" "Because Nancy Pelosi" and her cabal? "Because liberals?" No. I suggest you find out when self-defense legally applies. It may be useful to you to know. BTW, the full video of the preliminary hearing is online, as is the indictment, as well as his initial interview with police (and he was a minor, so it shouldn't be online in my opinion, but it's up there). The prosecution's theory of the case is what I'm telling you it is. You better hope the process is fair, because there are already attempts to intimidate the court. This poor kid was groomed by lunatics. That sums it up. Get a grip.
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  26030.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  Not the point. In the first altercation, R used his firearm recklessly. After that, he cannot assert self-defense when others who saw what he did attempted to disarm him. They can assert defense of others. THAT is the theory of the case. You don't have to agree. The jury doesn't have to agree. But the prosecution's legal theory is solid. If they are right, he could/should be convicted. Have it your way. So long.
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  26031.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  Obvious you did no research.
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  26032.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  . . . hello Dunning-Kruger
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  26033.  Nunya Bidness  Wow. You're competing with the Rittenhouse fans for crazy. You can't beat them, so . . . why try? I don't get the attraction.
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  26034.  @jamesandayladodge4815  But I'm not lying. I read the indictment, which anyone can, and I watched the preliminary hearing twice, also posted, AND I oppose laws that mandate treating minors as adults in criminal matters. So, how or where did I lie? What I stated is the prosecution's theory of the case IS its theory of the case. I didn't say it's a sure-fire win. Actually, it should never be "sure-fire" -- we are supposed to presume innocence. They have to prove guilt. But it IS a solid theory. If they can prove their theory, they can get a conviction. So . . . ? How do we have a problem?
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  26035.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  That's not a loophole. I'm sorry you don't know the law. I mean that literally. People who own guns and carry them are supposed to know the law of self-defense.
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  26036.  @rayfish007  You're wrong. So, are the prosecutors bringing charges "because Trump?" Or what? What do you think is the probable cause that was held, at preliminary hearing, to support all the counts of the indictment? Rittenhouse's lawyer did not EVEN move to dismiss the entire indictment. Get a CLUE.
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  26037.  @jamesandayladodge4815  And it is illegal for a 17-year-old to carry a weapon in Wisconsin. That count was briefed, then upheld at preliminary hearing as well. A jury may be allowed to consider whether any exception to the general rule applies in this case. The adults around this kid are seriously derelict. All of this is online. You could look before running your mouth about "empirical realities" you didn't bother to verify, and accusing others of lying.
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  26038.  Nunya Bidness  His lawyers are doing him no favors. They are nuts in how defiant they have been, when the obvious route is to garner sympathy for a minor with serious problems.
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  26039.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  You tell me why Rittenhouse's lawyers failed to move to dismiss the entire indictment. Find the documents and watch the preliminary hearing, and then come and talk to me about "arguments." All you can manage is kindergarten name calling.
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  26040. I'm starting to get the impression that a lot of people use drugs. It's not about sides, it's about drugs/no drugs.
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  26041.  @jamesandayladodge4815  I said no such thing, and you know it. You are deliberately conflating MY statements with statements made by others who support this prosecution, while demanding the right to be treated as an individual for yourselves -- and for someone who did kill two people. Guess what hapoens when you do that? Nobody cares when it's done to you.
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  26042.  @rayfish007  So why isn't the defense moving to dismiss the entire indictment? I mean, there's no basis for it, except for misguided public outcry, after all -- by your lights. Everyone is wrong but you. You know more about what happened than the detectives and the prosecutors -- and the defense, for that matter. You know more "facts." And law. LOL
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  26043.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  Okay, this is sad now. I feel sorry for you. A theory of the case is not "law" but it must be based on the law. This one is. Otherwise, it cannot proceed, because it lacks probable cause to proceed. It would have already been dismissed. If the theory of the case is not based on LAW, and reason to believe that the FACTS show the law(s) was (were) violated by the accused, there is nothing to go to trial about. At this point, you are a time waster. Say whatever you want next. This is just sad.
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  26044.  @jamesandayladodge4815  I don't support some of the laws he was charged under, which mandate that minors be charged as adults in all such cases. I disagreed with that from Day One, and even inane comments "in support" of Rittenhouse that I see proliferating will not sway me. Jimmy Dore brings opposing viewpoints to his show. I respect his choice of guests here, and when he invited a "Boogaloo Boy" or however you spell it. Rittenhouse wasn't hunting, nor was he properly supervised by an adult parent, guardian, or adult acting in loco parentis, nor are the adults around him doing him any favors now. Instead of arguing that he had a right to have an AR 15 (!!), maybe you should open your eyes and see what a disordered KID this is, and how the adults in this picture have deliberately led him astray, and continue to lead him astray, when it's his entire future that's on the line. What I've said implies zero approval of any riot. Zero. If you can't see that, you have the vision problem. YOU have "politicized" this incident. Of COURSE you accuse others of doing precisely what you are doing. Every time.
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  26045.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  Charges not being dismissed means probable cause. "Not guilty" means guilt was not proved at trial. That's what I said. Over and over. Good luck with your reading program.
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  26046.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  N. B. A "not guilty" verdict doesn't mean the prosecutor was "wrong." It means he failed to prove his case. If there were no way to prove the case, then it shouldn't be brought. (Still haven't figured out why the defense did not move to dismiss the whole indictment, instead of trying to dismiss only two counts? Are they in cahoots with the prosecutor? Ha ha.)
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  26047.  @Xxairbear23xX  Who was unarmed and had not shot the gun he didn't have. Heaven forbid anyone tries to disarm any shooter, ever. They are violating his Second Amendment rights.
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  26048.  @Xxairbear23xX  Why didn't the lawyer move to drop all charges? Hint: possibly certain matters are questions for a jury, not Court YouTube.
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  26049.  @Xxairbear23xX  No, I'm not. I'm telling you why he's being prosecuted. I would not want to prosecute this case. I don't believe in laws that require treating minors as adults, and I don't believe this justice system is likely to rehabilitate this kid. I don't see a good outcome, frankly. You people cheering him on are nuts. The adults around him are the main reason why this cognitively challenged kid is where he is. Go find a sports team to cheer. Double jeopardy applies to a sovereign. It has no bearing on this discussion.
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  26050.  @Xxairbear23xX  How do you know he will be acquitted? He is being charged as an adult under a law that mandates charging juveniles his age as adults, even though he wasn't one at the time of the shootings. You didn't know? I bet that's what threw you.
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  26051.  @Xxairbear23xX  Okay, okay. He will be acquitted, I mean he was already acquitted, I mean they suspended the trial, dismissed all charges, and jailed the prosecutor. And the judge. And the detectives and the bailiff. All are begging Rittenhouse for mercy. Whatever has to be true, is. I promise.
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  26052.  @Xxairbear23xX  He was acquitted. The judge has been jailed. Anything that needs to happen will happen. Just remain calm. Who needs courts when we have YouTube? It's all on YouTube.
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  26053.  @Xxairbear23xX  How can anything possibly change your facts? You have a God-given right as an American to any facts you desire. Rittenhouse will be President someday! You heard it here first. I hope the prison warden shows some mercy toward the judge and the prosecutor. If Rittenhouse pardons them one day, it would make for a cool movie.
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  26054.  @Xxairbear23xX  So his lawyer moved to dismiss the entire indictment and the court agreed? Wait. That didn't happen. Hmm . . . Might there be a jury question here?
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  26055.  @Xxairbear23xX  I never said he can't be acquitted. You want me to say he MUST be acquitted, which is not true. Trial courts don't set precedents, only higher courts do. But you're the smart one. (The preliminary hearing is on YouTube, the indictment and defense motions are posted online. You can already regale yourself with those.) If a defendant must be acquitted, then there is nothing to drag him in front of a jury for. He shouldn't be tried at all.
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  26056.  @Xxairbear23xX  No, trial courts do not set precedent. Look it up at a law school website, one that gives actual definitions of legal terms. Or have it your way. We don't want you to be upset.
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  26057.  @Angelknot8  The only serious "vaccine" debate in UK right now is around Brexit and relations with the EU.
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  26058.  @dionysianapollomarx  Thanks for your post! Love it.
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  26059.  @floriancrazzi1018  Is anyone forcing you to get vaccinated? Between 20 and 40% of adults said they won't. Is anyone visiting their house with storm troopers?
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  26060. @Gralin James Pritchard From this video, among other sources.
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  26061. That idiot?
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  26062. If this is what passes for smart, then Trump and Biden are eminently presidential.
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  26063. @ToddBouwkamp  Agree about mainstream, certainly, but if you trust this guy . . . We see where we landed with "lesser-evil" in politics.
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  26064. There is no proof of this. There is evidence that the official report was not accurate, but that doesn't prove a more radical hypothesis. Most kids don't know enough science to judge; ask an engineering student in his 3rd or 4th year of college.
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  26065. You think minor children should be taught stuff like this??? Wow.
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  26066.  @StratusBlue  YOU think children should be lied to -- and told they know more than they know. I would not pretend the actual facts about 9/11 are all known and publicly available, any more than I would tell them (or anyone) that the Kennedy files have all been declassified.
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  26067.  @StratusBlue  Correct. I would not tell children obvious falsehoods. This is my reply to the baseless assertion that I would. Threads got ya down?
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  26068.  @StratusBlue  What is it with people who can't accept they do not know everything? You have a compelling need to take a position on something you actually know little or nothing about? That's dupery just as much as accepting one story rather than another. We don't know everything about 9/11 that we should know. Same for the Kennedy assassination.
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  26069.  @StratusBlue  You don't know that. Did you forget my fundamental POINT? (Notice that I am not denying your claims. It's a lot like saying "I don't know whether God exists," compared with "I know that God does not exist." Please try to focus. It might be generally helpful for you, in life.)
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  26070.  @StratusBlue  blocked better late than never
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  26071.  Helen Scarcella  This isn't the moment for a sales pitch.
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  26072.  Helen Scarcella  I'm suggesting that you start by ditching the standard sales memes, replete with magical thinking. It's too late in the day. You may not like Chris Hedges, for all sorts of reasons, but when he says, "I oppose fascists not because I count on prevailing over them, but because they are fascists," he is on to something.
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  26073.  Goran Vukovic  My thought exactly.
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  26074. School = reverse psychology Better tell them not to mention it.
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  26075. Melissa Lantsman is GREAT. Love her.
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  26076.  @tommyodonovan3883  No, Kamala Harris came back to the States for college, at Howard. Forgive me, I had asked if her mother remained in Canada. Actually, she died over a decade ago, at 70.
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  26077. V-derived p. Check The Guardian. As mainstream as it gets. This turned up in London before NYC.
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  26078.  @jeffscott9311  Yeah, really. Make them cough it up. They expect free massages? "Epstein, is that you?"
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  26079.  @halcyonacoustic7366  And that's being kind.
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  26080. Who made this up for you? An interview produced for broadcast is no more a "document" in that sense than is a newspaper or a video on YouTube. It preserves in writing or other medium no legal obligation or agreement.
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  26081. The settlements were confidential.
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  26082. Nice image
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  26083. Nah. Do do is what he said.
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  26084.  @starloszelson4541  A movement to force Congress to deal with it would be very difficult to launch, even assuming you could inform and organize people. They just trade insider stock tips and investigate each other.
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  26085. @xqt39a  Fractional reserve banking, where the reserve requirement is zero: even assuming FRB works, how could it possibly work when the reserve requirement is set at zero? 🤡🌎 at this point???
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  26086.  @GregFessia  Jimmy grew up in CHICAGO. South Side. Sheesh, he's no liberal.
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  26087.  @maryhalverson5713  Well, we have to ask whether every magistrate judge would have approved this warrant. Also, how the local rules in this district work. Are matters assigned to magistrates randomly? Were they this time? Lots of questions. Watch and see whether anyone asks them or answers them.
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  26088. He's so tough. He has a Chicago connection -- his father, who grew up in the city, not the 'burbs.
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  26089. Astounding. Thanks!
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  26090. ​ @jveebklyn1644  They failed to get her to fall and hit her head. Her face looked a little scratched right after the encounter.
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  26091. ​ @jveebklyn1644 No, Stein was not trespassing anywhere.
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  26092. @jveebklyn1644  It is not lawful to make someone who is observing police leave. Do police have something to hide? If that were true, then the press is trespassing every time they actually do their job. In fact, your factual premise is incorrect as well. No one asked Dr. Stein to leave. Police assaulted her. I guess that sends a message, but it's not verbal.
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  26093. @LadyBug1967  Too bad I'm censored here. Also made the point that observing LE is not "trespassing." Then every effective journalist doing their job is.
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  26094.  @jveebklyn1644  How do you know it was a "lawful instruction?" People no longer can observe the actions of LE in plain view?
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  26095. They lied about the safety trials, then they got us to go after each other.
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  26096. Tax opponents ignore the marginal value of a dollar. It is huge at $24k, essentially nothing at $24m. Dollars are not rigid yardsticks.
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  26097. Try putting his full name in a search engine, and see some of the tax cases he lost come right up.
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  26098. Why did NIH send funds to Wuhan? Why did DOD funding of biolabs in Ukraine?
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  26099.  @Goodhello369  I mentioned the seminal article. If you didn't recognize that, then you don't have the knowledge about CRT that you claim to have. It wasn't name-dropping! I honestly thought you were less ignorant than you are. ("Infusing a Harvard mention?" Infusing? Is that how you try to Sound Smart?)
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  26100.  @Goodhello369  Thanks. I'll be sure to look this up. You could have made an informative post in the first place, frankly. Now I actually want to know what happened and what he said. I'll search it now, in fact.
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  26101. Look, whoever the messenger is, the substance of this news is ominous. It is that simple. We (are supposed to) have CIVILIAN control of military operations.
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  26102. Take a look at the deficit, which the rich lobby for. Instead of paying taxes, they buy Treasury bonds, and we pay them interest. From our taxes. And they can afford the ad men to convince you that's better. 😂
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  26103. Any time you call an ambulance, the person who appears to be asleep and impossible to revive may startle, jump up, and start shooting -- car or no car. It is a dangerous time to have diabetes, epilepsy, sleeping disorders, etc. People think law enforcement with deadly weapons needs to be summoned, "just in case."
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  26104. To think they (FBI and Trump) could not possibly be in cahoots strikes me as naive.
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  26105. Katie's face . . . 😂 it is PERFECT.
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  26106. If consciousness has its origins in the fully-functioning brains of living things, and if living things come to exist through the process of evolution, then any purported consciousness that does not arise through evolution should be presumed not to be a consciousness like the one we experience. Don't confuse our direct experience of consciousness with the way we deduce that beings other than ourselves possess consciousness.
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  26107. I think a person might have to read this book first. I'm suspending judgment.
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  26108. Oh my goodness. And the moonwalk took place in Hollywood. And there are jackrabbits with antlers. I saw pictures. They live among cactus.
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  26109. Except that this time, Jimmy stood up for Aaron. That's how this started.
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  26110. Vacation
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  26111. If you made money on Tesla stock, good for you. Maybe you should have gotten out while you were 12x your principal?
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  26112.  @JoshPeterson  Where do you get this, I wonder?
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  26113. Well, here we are, in the middle of a moral panic. ACLU's about-face proves it.
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  26114. The overturn of Roe v. Wade (and the scandal of the heartless treatment of the 10-year-old pregnant child) led to a shift to the Democrats. If the Republicans now renege on their pledge to care more about the American economy than about the war in Ukraine, they are done.
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  26115. Canadian born
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  26116. Sure. It's a lot like the birthday paradox in probability. We knew that.
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  26117. I'm more inspired by the people who didn't have good teachers but made a great life anyway. David Goggins comes to mind. You know what kind of shape school left him in. Had he stayed obese and working for a pest extermination company with toxic chemicals around him every day, he might not be here.
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  26118. ​ @PrisonBubba-bp7bh 😂😂😂
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  26119. ​ @Bat_Boy THANK YOU. This is a bunch of guilt-inducing, manipulative nonsense. The fact that it snows anyone is not a good thing.
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  26120. ​ @wkrp01 NO THEY DIDN'T "speak in favor of that." Health care wasn't an issue until this happened. Ponder it. It's obscene.
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  26121. What does Fauci have on these people that no one dares fire him?
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  26122.  @Urban_Paradise  So . . . His "strength" is all bluster and pose. None of it is real. In an emergency, we can't count on him. He was just cosplaying. That's like all politicians, then.
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  26123.  @Urban_Paradise  Yeah, Biden was even worse on COVID. Race to the bottom continues . . . .
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  26124. @m4c4c0  And ending the moratorium on funding GoF research? Why did Trump do that? Not reining in Fauci? Letting Fauci run the country? Not showing any real leadership? That's the best we can hope for? Maybe.
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  26125.  @m4c4c0  You know what happened to my re ply . . . It might pop up again later. You get what's going on, correct?
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  26126. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  26127. Yeah, listening to it a couple of times, I think he just misspoke. He made parallel comparisons between the US and France on two subjects, and in the second one he said Macron is imitating our neoliberal class on matters of police state. I think he just accidentally reversed the order in the first comparison. 4:15
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  26128. Olayemi agreed.
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  26129. Please look into "mirror bacteria."
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  26130. Sanctions affect all of their trade relations. Do you know nothing about economics, or the value to us of dollar hegemony? Drop the sanctions, let them fail all by themselves. 😅
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  26131. @bmass0828  WHEN?? What "side?" (I've been suspicious of that one since the 1990s.) Right now, I'm listening to Aude Lancelin, live. I'm on her side.
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  26132.  @bmass0828  The US bombed where my family is from. I'm "one of those."
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  26133.  @roccocupido5082  You should have heard how Regis Le Sommier just slammed the Democrats. He called them an engine of exclusion, but it sounds way worse in French. 🤣🤣🤣 It was great, lol.
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  26134. @bmass0828  Of course I was. I even read the Microsoft antitrust case opinions, which were hundreds of pages long. Those debunked a ton of hagiography. I know the history of Steve Jobs' lifelong dishonesty as well. You're the one who's mad because you've been shown to be nonsensical in your baseless assumptions. "Sides," my derriere. 😂
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  26135. This is abuse of an older person. I'm not mad at him. Not this time.
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  26136. 😂😂😂 great point
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  26137. To all believers in the free market: How is anyone able to start a business on their own, given the current health care system, and the debt they have to take on for their education -- including trade school and community college job-oriented certificates, not just college? Sounds like you need rich parents to start a business . . .
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  26138.  @RAJOHN-ke7mc  Me, too. I thought the mandates were softening up the people for exactly this.
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  26139. I know. Trump apologizes in writing and promises never to do it again all the time. NO, DON'T TRIVIALIZE TRUMP. His remarks about grabbing women are more like the TYT segments about guessing whose body, etc.
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  26140.  @InsekiJisatsu  I defend Jimmy's apology, and his denunciation of Ana's smear. To defend comments he himself apologized for, in writing, really makes no sense.
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  26141.  @InsekiJisatsu  The written apology took place seven years ago, was accepted then, and is being used against him to threaten his livelihood now -- because she kept the note he wrote. So, you don't get it? Really?
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  26142.  @InsekiJisatsu  A LOT of people attacked Ana for her smear of Aaron Mate, including Roger Waters, and Kyle right here. She thought Mate was weaker than he is. She should have looked up his CV.
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  26143.  @InsekiJisatsu  Of course she did. She said to him that either he lay off criticizing her and TYT, or she'll go public with his seven-year-old note. And this was in response to Dore's criticism of the clip of Ana that Kyle gave you right here. There's no point in lying.
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  26144.  @InsekiJisatsu  Ana miscalculated. She didn't realize who Mate is. That's what happened. LOL
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  26145.  @InsekiJisatsu  IOW, be an adult.
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  26146.  @BondJames-vz5wk  Jimmy and Aaron live right now.
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  26147.  @InsekiJisatsu  LOL
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  26148.  @InsekiJisatsu  Vaush??
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  26149.  @InsekiJisatsu  Well . . . Kyle just said the opposite. So . . . Kyle "doesn't care about the truth?" Gish gallop. No thanks. Blocked.
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  26150.  @InsekiJisatsu  I suggest you watch Glenn Greenwald's video, which deals strictly with the principles involved, and does not delve into personal issues AT ALL. He is the only one to have done that. Greenwald,makes no mention of Kulinski, by the way. These side issues are not relevant to the larger point.
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  26151. Kim is awesome and stands tall on many topics. Why she periodically invites kooks to her show like that tax evader -- who literally lied with no pushback from her -- I will never understand. Yes, literally lied. I looked up court documents. If he himself doesn't serve time for his convictions, there might be an alphabet agency reason. But people who follow his advice will. I've seen it happen.
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  26152. What was the reason for firing the Inspectors General? The President's nominees were all just confirmed by the Senate to head the various agencies and departments. Perhaps it would make sense to seek out their views on how to improve efficiency and cut costs? Why do you think Patel and Gabbard immediately told their employees not to respond? Because they want to hide fraud? 😂
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  26153.  @jonny5143  Is it? Have you noticed how often the main topic on social media/"influencers" is other social media/"influencers," and what people are saying about it on social media? I'm not going to follow that nonsense. If an important issue involving arbitrary censorship and prior restraints on individual people's speech comes up, I don't mind having it treated by someone who was busy paying attention to something else and has a lot of basic questions.
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  26154.  @jonny5143  I didn't know, and would have to see it to believe it.
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  26155. ​ @absolute.freedom "Dumbo" doesn't sound godly to me, but what do I know ?
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  26156. ​ @personnenestici  And spelling . . .
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  26157. A great choice of topic to give us a perspective on entrapment! It is in the news.
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  26158. Reap what they sow? They made easy money at a time tens of millions are struggling.
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  26159. Robert Greene says never, ever underestimate how malicious people are toward the intelligent.
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  26160. In a society that is already so detached, it could mean the non-neurotypical person, for whatever reason, will be alone.
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  26161. What happens to the people who are seriously harmed by this vaccine? The rare, rare cases? That's right. They can go f!@# themselves. We know that part.
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  26162. I love what he said about the Kaddish. He did not want to know what it said, in some translation, he wanted to take in the sound.
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  26163. I tend to believe it. Biden was always lazy and not too sharp. As long as the money was flowing, why would he be paying attention? Now, if the money had stopped . . .
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  26164. I was truly puzzled. I thought that kids were learning nothing in school, except Gender Bender Studies, and they were better off home schooled and online. Y'mean teachers teach math and reading?! Even the union members?
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  26165. Why are such freaks on top? Consider the Supreme Court. Consider Congress. Consider the last two Presidents and their appointees, and the last three candidates for President and Vice President, respectively. Consider the WEF and Davos. Not just Musk but Bezos, Gates, Jobs in his time, and their, ahem, social circles. Consider the mainstream press. This isn't just one overlord; would that it were.
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  26166. Walter Kirn tweet: bravo!!
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  26167. It's fine in an academic setting, actually.
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  26168.  @SignalCorps1  I'm glad you agree! If you ever do, then you are entitled to that.
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  26169. When someone tells you you're to blame for something you did not do, leave as quietly and unobtrusively as possible and never look back. That person could cause you grave harm one day.
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  26170.  @oldcat1790  THIS
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  26171. See how we will win against Russia + all the other BRICS?
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  26172. No, cancel culture is a sick subculture. BUT a close look at what any political operative actually did is long overdo. Both sides.
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  26173.  @destroytheboxes  That's what I didn't see.
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  26174.  @destroytheboxes  If AI shows Napoleon as black, will the kids soon think he was black? Or will they learn that if they make Napoleon (or George Washington or Leonardo DaVinci) black, they will get money for it? Then that IS the real problem. Whoever controls these algorithms will be able to spread whatever propaganda they prefer. This will change based primarily on cha-ching, or the whims of the billionaires.
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  26175. That's not evident either way. Speaking of COVID death rates, why is Japan's 15 times lower than that of the US? If the US had the same rate as Japan does, there would have been fewer than 50,000 COVID deaths in the US, not over 750,000. Why? I can think of many reasons, starting with how deaths and their causes are recorded.
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  26176.  @Michael-s2p3p  We should know how countries with better results got those better results. We're close to two years into this pandemic.
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  26177.  @Michael-s2p3p  Trump was a travesty. Don't even mention that thing.
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  26178.  @eaglerider1826  Lock up people who give minors weapons like that.
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  26179.  @eaglerider1826  So, that compares with civilian life? In any event, during WWII in the United States (in stark contrast to the Axis or the USSR), anyone under 17 had to lie to get into the Army, and no one under 18 was supposed to be drafted. If you had no high school diploma yet, you were supposed to turn 19 before you would be drafted.
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  26180.  @eaglerider1826  Did the Republic of Kenosha declare war and emergency conscription?
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  26181.  @eaglerider1826  Don't be surprised at the next mass shooting, or the one after that or the one after that . . . I'm not.
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  26182.  @eaglerider1826 Right. It is illegal and should be. Weapons used to hunt humans are not hunting rifles. Whoever put him up to this and obtained the gun for him and was nowhere to be found when things got hot for him and his life changed forever, is who I consider the most to blame in this picture, by far. Look. I'm leaving by 2024. You all do whatever you want.
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  26183.  @eaglerider1826  And I don't support the government giving 17 year olds guns, or trying them as the adults they are not.
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  26184.  @eaglerider1826  The individual states can have reasonable requirements for gun ownership and carrying, open or concealed. The Supreme Court cases that say so are available online. That's why some states, like Texas, have a stringent test for CC permits. That's why a 12-year-old can't buy a gun. That's not an infringement. They can't sign most contracts, either. That's not an infringement. They don't have the exact same First Amendment free speech rights in public school as their principal does. Still no infringement. It's not that tough, buddy.
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  26185.  @eaglerider1826  I don't agree with 17 being old enough for the armed forces, though it requires parental consent. I still don't agree. I don't care who does it. You certainly don't see civilian police that age, anywhere. Some places are averse to hiring police before age 23 or 25. They probably have good reasons.
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  26186.  @eaglerider1826  At any rate, the Army currently requires a high school diploma or a GED. "I wonder why." /s
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  26187.  @eaglerider1826  And what do you THINK that means? Find out what the Supreme Court says it means. That's who gets to interpret it definitively, setting a standard the states cannot go below.
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  26188.  @boo2457  The virus will mutate spontaneously, but a leaky vaccine makes it more likely that the mutated viruses (new "variants") will overwhelm the others and become dominant. If you combine a leaky vaccine with people who have a false sense of security, they will be out circulating and spreading the new variant. I wonder if this will be shadowed. You were not allowed to say this before.
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  26189.  @michaelneufeld4515  That's true. But as far as deciding what to do, I believe in "first do no harm" and the Precautionary Principle (the burden of proof is on vaccine advocates; those who decline vaccination have no burden of proof at all, although I agree they are in no position to advise others on what to do).
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  26190.  @zeppelinrich6431  They said she was filling in for exactly one week, and she did. Could it have been an audition? Sure, but that was never indicated in any way. Speculative. I envy people who never have to contend with friction on the job. I've had to handle serious threats at several. So. What's it like?
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  26191. You never hear one of these hysterics suggest calmly that we need to rethink a few legal concepts, namely things like true threats and intentional infliction of emotional distress, in light of the changes in communication that the new media have brought about. Why don't you hear that?
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  26192. All of these rampant exaggerations puzzle me, as if what happened wasn't bad enough and needs to be misrepresented to matter. Anyway, whatever happened to "stiff upper lip?" Remember Walter Cronkite fighting to maintain composure when JFK was assassinated? And RFK, announcing that Dr. King had been shot dead? I want stiff upper lip. There, I said it.
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  26193. We had that with the vaccines. Zero liability, government paid for it.
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  26194. Okay. Now let's narrow this down: WHAT DOES MATTER?
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  26195.  @talyahr3302  As the tent cities proliferate. When even a supreme narcissist like Trump notices and says something about solving it, and this kid doesn't get it, you have got to shake your head in disbelief. He's still telling people not to go to college if their parents are not rich. He's making it sound like a moral failure if you borrow for it and graduate into a recession. What a tool.
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  26196. Elizabeth Wurtzel's memoir, Prozac Nation, gives a very different account of her experience at Harvard, but it did precede the period of major school shootings. The irony is that her very candid and at times brilliant book was panned by critics. Harvard treated her fairly, but many of her readers with soapboxes didn't. I only found out about it and read it when Ms. Wurtzel died of a relatively rare form of cancer.
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  26197. They have a poor vocabulary. "Those claims are wrong." "Those assertions are wrong." "Those purported facts are wrong" "They made claims that aren't true." All sorts of stuff to say instead. But no. :/ :)
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  26198.  @tamedshrew235  People who have studied actual acts of heroism report that the person acts automatically. They literally do not think, they do -- at least that's their inner perception. It does not matter whether they are Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindu, Jewish, or agnostic. When people do have time to reflect and act heroically, that is remarkable. Like Vasili Arkhipov, who literally saved the world.
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  26199.  @tamedshrew235  My main point was that this is not how heroic acts are undertaken. Actually, the best journalistic description of heroism that I've read were by Chris Hedges, who is an ordained minister. EDIT: I mention that as an interesting coincidence, but also to make the point that a divinity school graduate analyzed this differently, after having spent decades as a war correspondent.
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  26200. Didn't she get a major Vogue spread? Well?
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  26201. Si, il est dangereux aux hommes.
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  26202. You need to work on attention span.
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  26203. Because it so happens he actually grew up in Uvalde and made good.
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  26204. I have never particularly liked Stephen King, but the man had a very serious accident and is old now. No one should take him seriously on this, to praise or blame. He's not the same now, and hasn't been since that accident. No one should prank anyone, especially not an older person, or a person who had a head injury because he got hit in traffic, and HE had right of way. C'mon, have a heart.
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  26205. Vaccine hesitancy is higher in Germany, France, Japan, and Russia, listed from lowest hesitancy to highest. What's that about? You're lining the pockets of people who want to turn you against other people in your own country. That's showing your superior brainpower. /s I unsubscribed. I'm not going to contribute to anyone who makes his living like this guy does. This was vile.
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  26206. Yes. Strug was wrong.
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  26207. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center story is worse. See Carl Elliott on that.
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  26208.  @Sethsters  Was Biden "in office?" Do you mean, was he Vice President? Or Senator? I guess we need to check a history book, be sure to get the timeline right . . .
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  26209. The COVID censorship WAS driven by the major advertisers, like PFIZER. Robby failed to see that, for some reason . . . 🤔
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  26210. Master list: nearly all the places my ancestors are from are on the list
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  26211. I had a post office box number 88 about ten years ago. It was assigned to me, of course. I knew I needed a new one. It could be someone planting it on purpose to **** up RFK Jr.
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  26212. 8:10 OH MY GOD
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  26213. Haley is scary.
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  26214. She voluntarily went on Joe Rogan. But Saager calling attention to an article is "violence."
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  26215. It's obvious Trump is talking about what the DNC is doing to him. I mean, it is obvious.
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  26216. 6:42 truth
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  26217. HSBC laundered money, and was too big to jail. Why not Hunter?
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  26218. But the whole country is under surveillance. This post will be stored somewhere.
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  26219. Small-c communist, and I'm with you.
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  26220. Better masks? Well, it's an idea.
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  26221. Finally, a great comment and on point. How do ALL of these bad actors manage to shirk the anti-corruption laws? And how do they manage to avoid taxes? The rich BUY the laws.
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  26222. Don't take his word. Use a search engine and find out whether these chemicals really are banned in Europe. Start there.
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  26223. Neil Young and Joni Mitchell should be angry that monoclonal antibodies to treat COVID are not freely available to everyone. Of course rich people like Young and Mitchell can get them.
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  26224. THAT was really funny! Congrats.
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  26225. I actually don't agree with this. When you get out into the world and see how good the passionate people are, in every field, you soon find that either you cannot compete with them on productivity and quality, and other objective measures, or you have to band with others to stab them in the back and get them out of your way that way. That's the real world in a nutshell.
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  26226. This is us. We are.
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  26227.  @jaron-craighunter4485  Well, if it was not censored by YouTube, how bad is it? I don't view this stuff, so I don't know.
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  26228.  @kevinstaggs5048  Exactly. We don't know the salient facts.
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  26229. For fun. Isn't it clear?
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  26230. You never read the studies. They DID send identical résumés out with names and zip codes changed. U of Chicago was one of the research institutions that did this, and they are nobody's fools.
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  26231. @melstiller8561  Personne n'a révoqué le doctorat de Neri Oxman -- ce qui n'est pas injuste pour le moment, d'ailleurs. On verra ce qui se passera après une enquette. S'il y en aura une.
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  26232. Anyone who doesn't watch the entire broadcast after this excerpt and judges Greenwald is in bad faith. For the record, I think Trump and his gauleiters cannot be allowed to get away with what they did.
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  26233. ​ @choronos  Who wouldn't? 😅
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  26234. ​ @Katz_Chaos  See where lack of education has gotten us?
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  26235. ​ @elizabethh-j2gfurmom  Great thought.
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  26236. Follow the money honey
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  26237. Money is not a rigid yardstick. Or, to put it another way, in America, people who are among the 1% wealthiest on Earth, cannot afford an apartment in most cities and towns, and cannot afford decent health care or public university. So America isn't the land of opportunity after all, eh?
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  26238.  @Lawliet734  You're right.
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  26239. In cases of various forms of abuse, PTSD, and so forth, when there is a legitimate perpetrator, they often cannot be located or refuse to come in, and (absent court order) it is always their right to refuse. Anyone can refuse to see a psychologist, and it proves nothing either way. Hence these disciplines have to develop ways to determine whether the patient is being truthful. She explained that under direct examination. But this doesn't cross your mind? REALLY?
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  26240.  @americals7256  In most abuse cases, the abuser will never agree to come in. Duh. I don't blame Depp for not talking to her, and I don't see why Heard talked to the muffin lady, either.
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  26241.  @lucylu2927  I agree. Of course. But that does not change the fact that a person has a right to refuse. You can't assume it means guilt, nor can you say, well, the psychologist can't assess the relationship. They do in this field all the time. They had to develop methods to do it well.
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  26242.  @itsjustmaddisen  She had 30 hours over four sessions. How long did your diagnosis take? Would that be 3 hours? Six?
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  26243.  @itsjustmaddisen  She did not assess HIM, she assessed HER. So, why have you joined the latest mob? Don't tell us, tell yourself.
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  26244. MORE Nazis in the US military? In raw numbers, much less proportionately? Is this guy KIDDING? Then what are we doing about it??
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  26245. Liz Magill is not only considered a leading legal scholar, but is a former Ginsberg clerk and the daughter of a federal judge. It's enough to make you weep.
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  26246. @zephyrus001  The "context" (lord how I hate that word --- remember how it came out of the mouth of Amber Heard's "expert witness?") is a narrow one: its utterance during otherwise lawful assemblies in designated First Amendment fora like the quad. That is where Brandenburg v Ohio, RAV v City of St. Paul, etc., etc., apply --- and make no mistake, they do. They are not relevant in the dorms, dining halls, classrooms, amphitheaters, libraries, or pretty much anywhere else, and do not apply in the First Amendment fora, either, the moment one student or group singles out another for targeted harassment. This is also a great example of First Amendment jurisprudence in another respect: plenty of legitimate Middle Eastern scholars will tell you calls for intifada are calls for resistance, not genocide. It's not up to government to censor them, absent a "compelling interest," a standard the government cannot meet in light of the cases mentioned, where laws against actual cross burning and Nazi symbols were struck down as unconstitutional. Kind of sad when university presidents can't explain it. Isn't it? :/
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  26247.  @zephyrus001  Anyway, we basically agree. Obviously. Was my main post, directly above, placed in shade? It has big words in it.
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  26248.  @jamessilver6429  I'm a lawyer. Can you see my posts? How do I sound?
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  26249.  @jamessilver6429  Amy Goodman has been wonderful since the terrorist attacks of October 7.
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  26250. @zephyrus001  Where is the factual predicate here? There is no question that targeting and confronting a Jewish student individually and using words that can reasonably be construed as advocacy of genocide IS Title VI harassment. Who did that, at Harvard, MIT, or Pennsylvania? I'd expel them myself, and I'm sure they can find a lawyer to bring a civil suit for intentional infliction of emotional distress. As for the rest, I support free speech in traditional or designated First Amendment fora. These standards of review are a long discussion, and I'm reading Chemerinsky again (his constitutional law textbook) even as we speak. His short book on campus speech, and Nadine Strossen's, are both must-read. If you don't agree with Strossen, she has nevertheless set the mark. Anyone who wants to say anything coherent about free speech, especially at university, has to grapple with her analysis. Yes, she is that good. She explains exactly why odious speech is better left alone than suppressed, however counterintuitive that may be, with many examples.
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  26251. ​@av2245 LOL, if a private university adopts First Amendment rights, then their students and faculty do. And in California, all universities have free speech under ITS state law and constitution.
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  26252. No one is asking you to. Sorry you've broadened your resentment.
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  26253. "What is this about?" Um . . . Nudging?
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  26254.  @nolanwine5062  Not to mention that both sets of grandparents lost everything in WWII, and they were millionaires. Americans hate to hear that, lol.
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  26255. No, you just can't follow her. 8:17 . . . By the way.
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  26256. Thank you so much. Saw this at the moment I needed it most.
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  26257. ​@VolkovVelikan There was a brief time after Nixon and before Reagan. The rise of high tech surveillance, which is unprecedented, changed everything.
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  26258. @VolkovVelikan  No, but it was perceptibly different then, especially when two people working for minimum wage could afford an apartment in any city they wanted, and an honest adult who didn't want to be traced would not be. That happens to coincide with the time when the largest number of Americans (in terms of raw numbers) worked in manufacturing. Possibly coincidental, but it feels somehow connected, at least to me.
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  26259.  @VolkovVelikan  Er, I rest my case.
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  26260. He may be right. Also, I no longer believe that either the violence following behind the BLM demonstrators all last year, or the January 6th mob, were without false flag provocateurs. I think that is sadly naive.
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  26261. Oh I get it. He watched the Adam Curtis documentary, too, so that's the evidence. Except he showed how the States does this, too, CIA in particular.
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  26262. ​ @rebecca_stone Who cares what she says? Sounds ditzy.
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  26263. ​ @emultra759 dizzy. Her business. Also, every large family I knew included kids born when Mom was around 20 or so, and one or two at age 38 to 42.
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  26264. ​@ronmoore6598 Today I see young parents whose children have autism. When I was a kid, all of my friends from large families had several brothers or sisters born after the mother was 38. In two cases, after 45. All were normal. We need some careful historical studies and transnational studies. There is something wrong with this picture.
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  26265. ​ @grozava3465 Wow. That's a long post. 😂
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  26266. ​ @Itsstuff7328 Someone has to foot the bill. If dad fails, I support society as a whole doing it. You, too?
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  26267. Pecorino 😊
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  26268. Of course the virus has been isolated. Some virologists have come to the conclusion that it could be engineered exactly on that basis, by examining the isolated virus -- and if not engineered, then created in a lab by some other means that hastens the evolutionary process.
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  26269. I am just so sorry, because this is so unfair, but the MINUTE you blow a whistle, you MUST get a lawyer. It shouldn't cost money to do the right thing. But it does.
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  26270. ​ @johnstrawb3521  That's why some parents buy a Mercedes SUV. Personally, I would never. Do I shame or ridicule the parents who do? No. I don't think they're wise, but I understand why they do what they do.
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  26271. @andreadamon2197  Of course not. I thought that was obvious. It doesn't appear they presented all of their evidence. It's possible a doctor informed them that their son had had a rare side effect. Based on what they said, I would assume their son was diagnosed and treated, although he might not have been. The whole story could be made up, for that matter, and the whole discussion is moot.
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  26272. @lawrenceleske3470  I don't understand combined vaccines for kids that young, either, particularly given that solid research from Denmark, I believe, shows that the measles vaccine alone, given at the right age, has exceptional benefits: the overall immunity to viruses other than measles itself is enhanced in most kids. That's ideal. So, why not administer it that way?
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  26273.  @jimmiefatel774  Yup, you're right. Most of it was. But the mashup at the end was the funniest. 17:50
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  26274. YouTube assigns Social Credit scores.
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  26275. Wow, with all this twitter mobbing of the mildest criticism, I guess Biden can't withstand the smallest demand from the people who voted for him. Good To Know.
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  26276. They are not suing for money, but for injunctive relief, which I assume would include removing any negative marks on their academic record.
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  26277.  @belakthrillby  From the Statistica website: the proportion of all COVID deaths that have occurred inchildren under 17 is 0.0749%. Or, to put it another way, 99.925% of all deaths were in adults 18 and older. Over 94% of all deaths were in people 50 and over. And this is in America, that has poor public health and an obesity problem. Go do the math. It's worse than I thought.
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  26278. Thank you 🙏 But do watch it. That's the only way to know what it says, and the only way to enjoy this excellent video.
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  26279. Really? I remember reading somewhere, "I wish no man harm, but there are obituaries I would not mind seeing." 😂😂😂
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  26280. Honestly do not think this is wise. A snake could unintentionally harm a child because its brain is not sufficiently advanced to comprehend what it's doing. There are safer ways for a child to interact with a python.
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  26281. WHO are the 40% They approve, for free?
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  26282.  @mb-kh2nb  I've known plenty, and never met one who wasn't petrified of homelessness.
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  26283.  @kevinduprey9326  Let's smear them. Let's make sure a homeless person never gets the chance to get a home. (This is Shon Hopwood's joint. He got a second chance.)
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  26284. ​ @mb-kh2nb We gave shelter to an addict, the sister of my roommate. She was petrified of being homeless, and her therapist said that living with her mother and stepfather was not psychologically wise in her case.
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  26285.  @nedhill1242   P. S. No one should volunteer their life and livelihood to serve in the military. They will have to crash the economy and produce a spectacular false flag to meet their recruiting goals. ONE homeless veteran shames us ALL. Homeless veterans and rich crypto traders . . . What could go wrong?
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  26286. @hereforthecomments258  NO ONE should join the military. By the way . . . They forced you know what on healthy young people.
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  26287. @hereforthecomments258  And should anyone join the military, to protect GUTFELD? I think not. Let him and others like him buy mercenaries.
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  26288. @hereforthecomments258  WHAT ideals? What "nation" merits such a sacrifice? I think you did get my point.
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  26289. But Jimmy, that was the trans man!!!! ??? 🫣🫣🤔
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  26290. He's close to 40 years old now.
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  26291.  @Sajadela  Didn't find any. (?)
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  26292.  @Sajadela  Most people have the most tenderness at 17 or so. He's not that different from most people. Who reported Jeffrey Epstein? Who gave him a sweetheart deal on a plea? Epstein did some things that could have killed someone, and certainly could have provoked suicide. When Bill Gates' own wife told him to drop Epstein, he scoffed. "It's just dinner."
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  26293. I'm worried there will be misinformation everywhere. Look what we were told about vaccines and abandonned laptops.
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  26294.  @alaskahelo  Agreed.
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  26295.  @CatholicKierkegaard  Bill Gates said the very same thing about GMOs. It was treated as great wisdom, before, um, that Epstein stuff. (As an aside: The WHO could not be bribed to go along, and said a GMO in food must be proved safe for humans case by case, properly invoking the Precautionary Principle. This is an example of evidence-based human nutrition, actually.)
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  26296.  @FinneySP  Thanks! Most people want me to shut up.
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  26297. Japan's management of the pandemic interests me the most.
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  26298. I used to think that. Please look it up.
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  26299. Well then, we just better shut him up quick.
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  26300. 14:28 THIS 💯 💯 💯
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  26301. Excellent idea! That way, more people can drop dead before qualifying for Medicare! Sounds like a plan. /s
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  26302. Both have campaigned as if they do not want to win. It makes no sense anymore.
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  26303. My closest friend voted for Trump and got vaccinated. I voted LaRiva/Peltier and did not. She tried to persuade me to get it. She has vaccine-related harm. That is all I will say.
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  26304. ​​ @shefalichow7917 Who do you think is a "leftist?" The mainstream media in the English-speaking world? The first person I heard condemn vaccine mandates overall, and mandates for health care workers in particular, was Fabien Gay, a French Communist and Senator. Remarks never translated, needless to say. We on the real left KNEW that if we were injured, no one would care. We would be laughed and reviled. This was plain as day. Of course I never accepted this experimental drug.
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  26305. ​ @shefalichow7917  Why was I just censored here? Twice. You are not allowed to hear from anyone from the actual left. I'm un vac . . . Of course.
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  26306.  @searose6192  People go to work because they are forced to. I don't disagree.
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  26307.  @Ozma337  Yes, often the case.
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  26308.  @leinad2934  Agreed, disinformation has been horrible. Sheer insanity.
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  26309.  @gertrudewest4535  Agreed.
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  26310. The quote from Justice Jackson is exactly how law school teaches you to fashion hypotheticals. Why is one categorical classification valid and another a constitutional violation? A lawyer is supposed to be able to explain why to the Court.
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  26311. I'm so sorry.
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  26312. It's terrible. My God.
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  26313.  @glenjo0  I know. But to add such stress on top of illness is criminal. When do you most need to save your money, and feel secure, but when you're sick?
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  26314. So . . . having a wrought iron door or gate, and a camera, are not options? Subscribing to an alarm monitoring company? Not answering the door to anyone who does not call or text you first? People think they should bring a gun and shoot? SICK
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  26315. I can't figure out how some people become a cause celebre. Had she not committed her crimes, would she be a YouTube star, a motivational speaker, or an influencer today?
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  26316. THANK YOU KIM AND BRIAHNA. Finally. We have to come here for sanity, of COURSE.
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  26317. Read the opinion. It comes right up.
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  26318. Perfect. Yes, brilliant.
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  26319. @James Herndon Well, I took some night classes in graduate-level English at a no-name state school -- the cheapest in our region, not incidentally -- and had outstanding classes. We read Shakespeare's histories, and Holinshed's Chronicles, which Shakespeare used as a basis for those plays. Absolutely brilliant stuff. No one who has read the Henriad will miss a double cross in business, or life, ever again! It sounds like you suffered with some real idiots around you. I'm sorry that happened. Find better classes. They exist.
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  26320. @James Herndon Wow. You sound like a University of Chicago person. I don't know what night school options, or special certification, or alternatve education stuff they offer right now, but I can't imagine your liking anything below that level. I mean, if you ever need the piece of paper to make it official. Chicago (the city) is the best kept secret for higher education. Everyone knows about either coast, when SAIC is where the single most influential dean of the Yale art school got his MFA. "What can a person do with an ART degree?" Well, the only real rags to riches story I know was an art major, who went into advertising but later was sorry to have spent his whole life in that field. I know someone who graduated from SAIC this year, a former (nearly lifelong) Marine before that. Started his own business and has a new job right now, plans to open his own gallery some day. And has made art during the pandemic shutdowns. Also knows how to set up cable and Internet, weld, and make furniture by hand. He's a good actor, too. He's a doer. Some of the schools in Chicago are world-class, and the ambiance is generally more sensible and serious. Maybe NYC has as many options. I doubt that anywhere else in the States is comparable. A lot of schools have become a four-year camp for the immature, true enough, and they don't even teach free discussion. BUT there are ways around that. Lots!
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  26321. Wrong video, I think.
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  26322.  @DanShowandTell  This video was disgraceful. A sequel to "Dore was corrupted by Assad." This is how far the petulant will go.
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  26323.  @DanShowandTell  You don't know anything. You don't know right from wrong or truth from lies, for starters. Say. You must be American.
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  26324.  @DanShowandTell  Quick. Report it. Do your duty. What was your first question? It wasn't rhetorical? What was the first comment, which initiated the thread? Lamenting the dissension, especially the form and tenor it took here. I support the initial comment. These are not just "differing opinions." Katie Halper presented differing opinions tonight on her show. They discussed issues, and only issues, not repugnant personal destruction. But you know, why should anyone care? I feel for the impoverished here, but that's all. That curmudgeon Morris Berman got it mostly right, sadly. I keep expecting to be convinced otherwise. Fat chance.
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  26325.  @DanShowandTell  Well, it's your duty to report. Maybe copy the FBI on it.
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  26326.  @DanShowandTell  If someone said, "no, I do not expect all politicians to hold hands and sing kumbaya," in response, that would be a bot.
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  26327.  @DanShowandTell  See how I'm trying to fool you? Better make that FBI report.
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  26328.  @DanShowandTell  Don't you know how to find the FBI? Wait. Are YOU the bot?? Gasp! I'm outta here!
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  26329. Reuters reported on April 4 that the Pentagon said "obviously" the Bucha deaths were the "responsibility" of the Russians, though they didn't give an opinion on which regiment. A second Pentagon source told Reuters the Pentagon had "no independent confirmation" of who committed the atrocity, and no reason to doubt the Ukrainian claims. This was published the same day. The plot thickens.
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  26330. It's not a liberal-conservative issue. Protected speech must be met with more speech, not by asking private entities to censor it.
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  26331. Does someone here believe Russia would lose a war to America in six hours?
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  26332. Because of the COVID pandemic, what is wrong with you??
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  26333. I used to dislike Peterson. After his recent bout with drug reactions and habituation, etc., I feel for him more than I did. This audience reaction for the most part reflects the fact that people do not read, and that they greatly reward self-serving discourses. The fact that they do more and more is a bad sign, not a sign of healthy self-criticism or resilience. That a Peterson can make millions on this spiel is a bad sign. I think that Peterson himself realizes it, and even worries about it at times. He is one odd dude. Some combination of Jung and Nietzsche gets recycled every few decades in right-leaning Western societies, and Peterson caught the wave and really rode it this time. He also has had a lifelong obsession with Russia, another tell. Westerners get obsessed with various "mysterious, enigmatic" non-Western peoples on a regular basis, with Russia being a favorite of those who cannot relate as much to people of color. (So, Tibetan Buddhism won't work.) It's all so predictable. He did do one good video, on creativity, at a major Canadian art museum. It wasn't political, and he was so much more honest and spontaneous in that one. It's the only one of his I've ever seen that I like.
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  26334.  @diegom6085  I think you're right.
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  26335. Bullying is not a "criminal act." It is sometimes (not usually) intentional infliction of emotional distress or even a civil rights violation (depriving a minor of the right to an education), but that means you need to remove yourself from the situation and hire a lawyer to advise you on whether to sue. PERIOD. That's the sole recourse. You can get counseling and try to make the school pay for it, for example.
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  26336.  @AJ-hz3tx  THANK YOU for the second sentence. Even if they were bullied, they became the monstrous uber-bullies.
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  26337. "True information will not appear in this space." You know this, correct?
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  26338.  @DumasMoran  Scents or sheep
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  26339.  @DumasMoran  lots and lots of cents err . . . Zzz
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  26340. @tubewatch5931 Pfft, how can you be duped by someone who was that out of control? Was lifting the moratorium on gain-of-function research honest? We Operation Warp Speed honest? Was the assassination of the Iranian general honest? Was moving the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem honest? Was claiming he'd make Mexico pay for a wall honest? Was promising to pursue the Clintons (who deserve to be investigated for real) honest? Was putting John Bolton and Mike Pompeo in charge of foreign and domestic policy honest? Was running a lousy campaign full of personal grievances, then not accepting he lost because he deserved to lose honest? Was letting Fauci run the country into the ground and lie about virus origin, and playing good cop bad cop with him honest? Need I go on?
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  26341. @tubewatch5931 my response to you may be shadowed
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  26342. @tubewatch5931  Oh, and I forgot: Trump's DoJ indicted Assange, and Trump didn't pardon him as he promised he would. That adds to my seven or so major examples, already listed above.
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  26343. @paaao  You might pay closer attention to his role in circumventing the Obama-era ban on funding gain of function research, and hiding his tracks when COVID escaped from the experiments he funded.
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  26344.  @sdilluminatigrandfounder1813  Did you notice that jeers and name calling are no problem, but a cogent post is? They want us to look stupid and be stupid.
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  26345.  @sdilluminatigrandfounder1813  Who are "you people?" It's in the emails. Did an alien write them? Did AI doctor them? I expect to be dealing with the latter soon, and you should, too. In order to be ready, stop being so rigid. Mindless ideology.
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  26346.  @misanthrope4483  I thought they meant not caring about January 6. Or the latest acts of war. (You know. Ho hum.)
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  26347. I tHiNK yOu ArE JeAloUs 🤪🤪🤪 (Just kidding)
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  26348. Trump was right to fire this guy. /s
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  26349.  @BertoxolusThePuzzled  Teachers are paid very much like police. Low to start, and serious money later on. Most jobs that start as low as teachers do not have the potential to reach the pay that teachers can attain, with tenure and years of service. That might be what confused you. Teachers are among the very lowest starting salaries with comparable credentials (BA plus certifications, often 5 years to complete instead of 4 due to student teaching, reading specialist modules, bilingual modules, passing all the tests, etc.). They work so hard during the year that even with summer off, it is comparable hours per year to people with less vacation.
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  26350.  @derp8575  Money for a higher degree is one of the few generous benefits for teachers -- but going to school while working is grueling. I've been in night classes with them. Seeing people under 30 that exhausted is not pretty.
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  26351.  @derp8575  Do you have any idea how much teachers work since the advent of email? They literally work all their waking hours. I can see you don't believe it. Do you have any grasp of how many emails they are expected to answer, absolutely every day without fail? This is in addition to lesson planning and grading papers, which literally takes up all of their waking time their first few years. Emails have been added to that. Notice that we have not touched upon school shooter drills. They have to get used to all of this while making poor pay. The average tenure of a teacher in my state is 5 years. They bail.
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  26352.  @ajbunches825  Social Security is an enormous benefit! If teachers vest it some other way, with another job, their benefit will be subject to some clawback. No one with a defined benefit pension anywhere in the private sector is subject to this. State pension systems can go bankrupt. The Social Security system cannot. Or maybe they lied to you that it can. Ha.
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  26353.  @derp8575  I'm not a teacher. I'm a lawyer. I was also a math major. We tend to enjoy thinking. I did teach community college, as a public service of sorts. I would never touch it again, at least not for this generation.
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  26354.  @ajbunches825  I SAID from another source. You imagine I don't know this?
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  26355.  @ajbunches825  Neither you nor I know how much teachers contribute to their own pension systems without investigation since it is determined state by state, and in many cases by district within the state. I know it is not zero where I live. It is usually comparable to police and firefighter pensions, but again, that is a generalization without seeing actual numbers. The reality is: good people will no longer take that job. You need to give this some serious thought. That's your issue. If only the wealthiest quintile educates its children, then yes, they will be objectively more qualified, and the other 80% will have fewer opportunities because they are not qualified. But you just keep it up, and expect some politician to give you "vouchers."
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  26356.  @ajbunches825  "Working for them?" I decided to emigrate in 2019, and COVID set me back. Get a clue. You do not have one. The culture warriors have entranced you and captured your mind. You're repeating their memes. Wake up. Look at it this way: WHO makes money from the lunacy on the pseudo left? Why, Fox News does! Symbiotic relationship. Who loses out? Hmmm . . . Tough one.
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  26357.  @ajbunches825  You can't even hear what I'm telling you. You already made up a story about who I'm "working for." This is why I am telling you, you have problems you need to address. Stop focusing on these manipulators and figure out your OWN best interests. The real problem now is that no one who is truly qualified wants to teach your children. In fact, the interest in doing any real job is at an all-time low.
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  26358. He made it by reporting from actual war zones for 20 years, then writing best sellers. Don't buy his books if you think making money in this way (among the most honest ways possible, in my opinion) is somehow wrong or unfair.
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  26359. I HOPE you're right.
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  26360. Vaccine mandates are over and done. LET IT GO
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  26361. I know people know, but just for the record: proof by contradiction. If rearranging the terms of a given infinite series leads to a contradiction, then rearranging the terms of that series is forbidden. Simple, but not satisfying. So, you study these series in depth and find that they either converge to a finite sum at the limit, or they do not. Etc. Everyone has known about the existence of convergent infinite series since 5th grade, if not before, perhaps without being aware of it: 1 ÷ 3 = 0.3333 . . . 0.3333 . . . = 3/10 + 3/100 + 3/1000 + 3/10,000 . . . . (Notice that wherever you stop, you have a partial sum that is less than 1/3. But the infinite decimal expansion does not have to be calculated in some sense: it already exists as complete.)
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  26362. David Riesman described this about 70 years ago, give or take. Consider exactly what we conform to.
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  26363. Peer pressure is even greater at work. If you excel in your job, your risk of being abused by a swarm of coworkers and even your (less competent?) boss is probably just as high as your chance of being recognized or promoted. Be more realistic about why this is happening, and where it leads to.
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  26364. ​ @ayonibrahim9985 Good thought. I wonder what the truth is?
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  26365. Several differences with television: this device and these apps are expressly designed to create behavioral addiction; you carry the phone with you at all times; you can be surveilled and traced by unknown people, corporations, and government when you use it, as well as stalked; these are younger minors who have showed particularized harms because they are using these sites while they are still developing. The proposed ban is not based on content or viewpoint suppression, but only on age, so it does not violate the most important free speech principles. This is not so obviously wrong.
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  26366. ​ @vincentblea4285 30 year, give or take.
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  26367.  @toomuchcaffeine3806  Right now a lot more than that is happening. Glenn Greenwald just posted a short excerpt of Victoria Nuland testifying on the Ukrainian biolabs -- which, oddly enough, were funded through the US DOD, not the NIH. TeleSUR (Spanish) has just reported that China demands the US provide full information on all biological laboratories it funds throughout the world. The Indian press and even AFP have been raising questions about the DOD funding of biolabs, without pretending we know the true answers. George Galloway was denounced over the weekend for reporting on this. No, there is no one simple narrative, I'm afraid.
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  26368.  @anthonydilugi4672  Events are moving faster than you, my friend.
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  26369.  @anthonydilugi4672  The Greenwald excerpt of Victoria Nuland testifying on the Ukrainian biolabs funded by the US Department of Defense, for example. That was just posted. The TeleSUR (Spanish edition) report that China has demanded the US provide full information on all biological laboratories it funds in the world. More here than meets the eye.
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  26370.  @anthonydilugi4672  I don't worry about a nuclear war at all. Why did you bring it up? Is it on your mind? Memento mori, not a surprise to me.
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  26371.  @anthonydilugi4672  If you didn't hear about it, it can't be true. This belief is why America rules the world. /s
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  26372.  @anthonydilugi4672  Who is Fore?
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  26373.  @anthonydilugi4672  Sorry, I didn't catch it. You're right, it was just a QWERTY error.
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  26374.  @anthonydilugi4672   Then we agree. Of course the ultimate blame for the invasion rests with Russia. There is no question. People looking forward to a respite from COVID, and a peaceful spring, are now refugees and being killed, their homes shelled. But wars have multiple causes. (Frankly, after the 2020 economic collapse, I expected one somewhere.) The causes for this one are looking worse for the US government by the day. They do, however, expect impunity. I wonder if they can pull it off?
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  26375. "Appropriate consequences, including discipline"? Wow, they might actually discipline someone. How radical. Are we ready for that? /sarcasm
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  26376. Rachel was right. This is how people make money now. Why is this a job?
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  26377. ​@windfall No police report, no report to an attorney (who is an officer of the court), no sworn affidavit, no testimony under oath in a court or any other tribunal --- an anonymous report to mainstream media, and actresses in the shadows portraying victims. That is not sufficient for an arrest, at least not yet. It is enough for an investigation; is it enough to rip someone's livelihood from them? Kim Iversen made this point: even a convicted felon will one day be released and should be permitted to earn a living. How does his position today put anyone in danger? OTOH, if you think he's a poor broadcaster, do not watch him. That's your prerogative.
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  26378.  @octopusarmresler  In Cosby's case there was evidence of wrongdoing in Cosby's own sworn deposition in a civil case, and Cosby was not investigated until years later.
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  26379.  @windfall  Which was Biden, which was Epstein/Maxwell associates like Clinton and Gates and plenty of others, . . . And no, nobody is saying the Republicans are better.
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  26380.  @dustinbaker8272  Oh give us a break.
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  26381. Judge Jeanine says the teachers are "lazy." So, send your kids to teach them? She is illogical for a judge.
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  26382.  @treborkroy5280  Education has soared in price and declined in quality. This can be objectively measured. We know what average levels in mathematics, science, and literature (with vocabulary as a solid proxy for how much a college student reads) used to be, and all have declined.
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  26383. That's a good point. I wish we were less concerned with appearances, but after seeing how far that can go, I think accepting that dress communicates a great deal is the way to go. It's simply a fact. Still, Brie said let the voters decide. That seems to be more sensible than getting all upset about Fetterman.
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  26384. Hmm. Trump lost, in any case. Sounded like a worn out Archie Bunker.
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  26385. ​ @jefferydraper4019  💯 And how . . . 😢
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  26386. Actually, based on Martin Seligman's research, believing you are in complete control of your destiny could backfire. It's often advantageous to see setbacks as weird bad luck that happened at random, but that you can now analyze dispassionately for information, almost as if it had little to do with you.
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  26387. Sounds nice. (Full disclosure: I'm agnostic, but have to admit I have a problem with some atheists.)
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  26388. Juvenile family court records are sealed for a reason.
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  26389. I've really bought too many books and stationary since the pandemic, though I always had that problem. This video (mostly) put my mind at rest. When books are due at the library, I make a point to return them. If someone else has placed a hold on the book, even if I have a right to keep it, I return it. I always feel glad to do that. I never have trouble finding a book, I always know where it is. Getting rid of things that have outlived their purpose also gives me satisfaction, especially if I can recycle or donate, but throwing them out is fine. I wonder whether buying too many books may be related to stress during the pandemic. (The description of the clutter is not applicable.)
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  26390. Why? You mean her stocks took a hit?? 😂
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  26391.  @tonyrmathis  Bannon says a LOT of excellent things, and has some great policy proposals. Ever notice how none of those are ever implemented? Most notably his proposals for taxing massive overnight fortunes, antitrust scrutiny of Google, etc., etc., and of course regulation to protect us from Wall Street predation like we saw in 2008-09. Besides, I responded to the comment, which did NOT praise the message, but explicitly praised the messenger. I suggest you know very little about the messenger.
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  26392.  @tonyrmathis  Chomsky is opposed to increased government power. His sympathies are with left-wing libertarianism and anarchism, and he will always join with people (supposedly) on the right (whatever that means -- not always clear) to support the First Amendment.
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  26393.  @gaylecoleman8567  Trump DOJ, headed by Barr. You don't know how to look it up? Well, why bother, just add the right emoji. You remind me of AOC.
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  26394.  @forzatuner3916  . . . um, relevance? Wrong thread, possibly?
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  26395. Is there evidence for the rape story? Many such events occur, and many such fabricated stories are circulated during wars as propaganda. It's important to know the truth, and to acknowledge when the truth cannot be ascertained, without disrespecting anyone who claims this happened to them.
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  26396. You're sure he can work again?
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  26397.  @eetdarichmarx7423  I don't either. But if he needed brain surgery, anything from full recovery to lifelong disability are possible. :/ It's not unusual not to know for a solid year how well you'll recover. Some people are in bad shape, and then make progress for years, to the point where only their neurologists can detect their issues. He's really young, so . . . We can hope.
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  26398. 52:39 Nouriel Roubini has stated that Marx's general description of how capitalism evolves and generates crises is correct, but that Marx's prescriptions are all wrong. She has Roubini wrong and she knows it.
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  26399. Was Naledi Pandor a diversity hire, too? How about Biden and Trump? Neither one can talk too good. Add Pelosi, Harris, etc., etc., etc.
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  26400. Makes sense. The current world population is 7.9 billion. Please do the math. Of course, I assume that 7 million is not an exaggeration.
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  26401. That has happened too.
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  26402. Look at all the shows that have to feature Mate and Dore to get views. TYT. The Hill. Majority Report. . . .
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  26403. A country that has had problems with EUGENICS for generations is now using treatments that sterilize kids simply because they have what is usually a fleeting emotional issue. "What could go wrong?" Here's question for you: Should a girl who wears short blue hair, combat boots, and is into camping and fishing have the opportunity -- the CHOICE -- to try to become a birth parent someday? Okay. How about a boy who plays flute, wants to be a fashion designer, and sometimes dresses up in his mom's clothes for fun? Should he have that choice? I say absolutely yes, yes, YES.
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  26404.  @Rev_Danielle  So therefore you went through puberty and had proper advice once you knew the dysphoria would not resolve and would require serious medication to optimize your life. I presume you were a full-fledged adult. Don't you understand that no one argues with that? That is what is known as a success story.
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  26405.  @Rev_Danielle  Or to be more realistic, anyone who does argue with that is fundamentally wrong, and all normal people can see through their obsession with controlling the lives of other adults. They may try hard to make it your problem, but the truth is that it is their problem entirely.
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  26406. Notice how the little drips and drabs that are coming out . . . Remember how Bill Gates had only one dinner with Epstein and donated only one million dollars to a science lab at Epstein's suggestion? Then it was two dinners, and two million bucks, then . . . Yeah, well, . . . The question is, how can it keep working?
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  26407. He's not that good looking. Too cutsie to be really attractive.
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  26408. Not since the pandemic they're not. :/
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  26409. "I take care of the globe," plus shifting the glasses! Jimmy has lost none of his comic genius.
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  26410. More and more of the world's people, through their governments, are clearly siding with Russia. How are the US and other NATO countries reading this? What message are they getting?? I can't fathom it. The fact that Putin should not have invaded when he did, as long as alternatives to escalating the war were still available, argues more strongly for the West having become anathema to many people. No one will consider giving the West support, or any benefit of doubt, even when they did have a point in their favor, such as it was, when this escalation began. What will happen when the US embarks on their next big adventure?
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  26411. Did you read the opinion that dismissed Miller's defamation suit? I suggest you do that before judging. Basically, the court left it up to his bosses at NYU to decide how to handle this. That is what a court usually does in an employment dispute. Just to let you know. Of course he wasn't fired. He has tenure.
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  26412.  @Colenelnelson  what is a woman? 🤣
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  26413. I'll tell you something: a person who was making $165k and living on that in the anticipation that their fat salary would continue (big mistake), and then lost most of it in 2020, is in BIG trouble today. They better qualify for unemployment.
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  26414. ​ @panchopistolas730 Oh, PRAGER. Excuse me. LOL They anglicized the spelling.
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  26415.  @panchopistolas730  Nope, in Paris. Not in the Five Eyes . . . 👀 LOL
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  26416.  @panchopistolas730  Can you find it on a paper map?
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  26417.  @panchopistolas730  Blocked
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  26418. Okay. If a teacher with a gun asks you out for a date, what do you do? We need some guidance. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  26419. Afraid? Are you kidding? Rittenhouse is being lauded as a hero. He never finished junior year high school and a Congressman is talking about giving him a job in DC. Find out what his GoFundMe stash amounted to.
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  26420.  @Kavewolf1989  I see. Oh Lord, to paraphrase Dave Chappell, YouTube is not a real place! 😂
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  26421.  @Kavewolf1989  You said you saw YouTubers afraid to say they agreed with the verdict. I said YouTube is not a real place. Grande's "analysis" is poor. A living person testified he believed, rightly or wrongly, that Rittenhouse was an active shooter. Another living person testified he was an innocent bystander in the line of fire when Rittenhouse first opened fire, before anyone had touched him. In fact, that person, McGinnis, was a journalist from a conservative publication that had a generally positive view of people like Rittenhouse. Huber's filthy house was not in evidence. But Grande discoursed on that, to no purpose. Well, no legitimate purpose.
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  26422.  @Kavewolf1989  You never heard Dave Chappell say "Twitter is not a real place?" He's so funny.
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  26423.  @Kavewolf1989  Yes he did, against Rosenbaum. Rosenbaum did not make contact with him. After Rittenhouse fired those four shots, a number of people attacked him, including Huber, and injured him. He was attacked before Grosskreutz accosted him.
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  26424.  @Kavewolf1989  The point is that there is absolutely no reason to bring in a deceased person's character and dwell on it like Grande did. There was actual evidence concerning what people present at the shootings believed, reasonably or not. And I don't think that how mass media talks about guns had anything to do with Huber's perceptions or anyone else's. Ridiculous.
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  26425. @zorrodm  Are you serious? In a sense, yes -- as has Israel in Gaza. Both belligerants always do. The BRICS just expanded. I did not expect that to be possible before peace was concluded. And it's not a good thing, either. At first I was shocked. Then I figured out the lay of the land. Have Russian operations in Ukraine been flagged as possible genocide by the ICJ? Mearsheimer; Jeffrey Sachs; Amy Goodman -- and Bernie Sanders -- for that matter. Wake up.
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  26426.  @zorrodm  Well, they might let you see my reply if you sort under Newest. This is a designated free speech forum, after all. 🤣🤣🤣
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  26427. ​@zorrodm Yes, visible under Newest tab, not otherwise. That's the new de-emphasis; no one dare call it sense or sheep. 😊
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  26428. This is also TARA READE'S story. If she is not credible, fabricated her college degree decades ago, etc., plus all the other terrible things MSM imputed to her, how did she get the job?
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  26429. @terryjohnson3479  "Side?" I side with La France Insoumise, if you press me. I've never voted for any ticket with a Biden on it, and for a Clinton only once, over three decades ago -- what a mistake!
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  26430.  @bewareofchild2462  👏👏👏
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  26431. Keep listening. She said that the CDC was lying to the public.
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  26432. @@joaniebar Why don't you just shut up? That might be good. Blocked.
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  26433. @@joaniebar And you're not a majority. (Go see what you wrote.) How is "behavior" an issue? Since when can't girls wear combat boots and play sports, and boys dress up in feather boas? Who the h*** cares? I kind of think it's cute, actually, but my opinion should not matter one whit. It shouldn't be up to me. Or you, even less.
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  26434.  scottmoore37  Just out of curiosity, why do you think Abigail is opposed to criminalizing these treatments, as am I? I acknowledge that gender dysphoria exists and is real. I don't want to deprive the literal 2 or 3 per million (or possibly fewer) who need the radical medical treatment at an early age from receiving it by placing any roadblocks in their way. Everyone should be treated as an individual. Finding out what sudden onset of severe dysphoria at 13 or 14 is about may be prudent, don't you agree? Or no, we should just "affirm?"
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  26435.  scottmoore37  THEN HOW DO YOU KNOW HER MESSAGE IS DECEPTIVE? Of COURSE parents should take more than SIX MONTHS to allow any such radical medical (as opposed to psychiatric) treatment to be performed on a minor child. How is a child supposed to know whether they will want to be a birth parent someday? Or whether sexual pleasure is something they are willing to forego? They are not supposed to know what that feels like. We don't even know whether these treatments harm cognitive functioning or can raise the risk of cancer later in life. I've seen the legitimate documentaries, such as the one on Frontline, which show that the consent forms state exactly that -- whether some of these treatments may raise the risk of cancer is not presently known. The honest doctors and therapists are not the problem.
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  26436. @@joaniebar I can top you, sweetie. My family was bombed with depleted uranium, for nothing. For show.
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  26437. @@joaniebar So, you married, had children, and only around retirement age (which is also close to Medicare age) decided to transition. Who would think to restrain you? No one. That's not a topic up for discussion. No one could possibly think you didn't have the requisite information, or worse yet, that you needed protection, the way a minor child does.
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  26438.  @k.hendrickson8735  Excuse me? I've been saying exactly the same thing -- and I do mean exactly. I simply do not believe that at this point, criminal laws should be passed. I could be persuaded that they have to be, but if they have to be, that is one more tragedy. I mean that, too, wholeheartedly. Are we at the point where we have to criminalize everything that is likely unethical in the vast, vast majority of cases in order to control it? Maybe we are. I find that sad.
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  26439.  @k.hendrickson8735  Nothing to do with Marxism. Marxists in France just passed the law against vaccine mandates and passports for minors. Dr. Gabor Mate, who advocates for strong families and says that allowing children to be raised by their peers is literally dangerous to their well being, has Marxist sympathies. Don't be so generous with your assent to this propaganda about "the Marxists;" the people pushing it are looking to monetize this gender phenomenon, too. (That's what most people are looking for in most cases anyway, and that's called rabid capitali$m. They don't care about any kids but their own.)
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  26440.  @amandavieira2543  How are the questions raised "wrong and prejudiced?" Assuming they must have only one answer is prejudiced, by definition, when we know that in some people, gender dysphoria resolves during puberty, and in others it does not, but becomes more acute.
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  26441.  @amandavieira2543  You didn't know at 11 that you would still have it at 21; if you had it from your earliest sense of self until well into full-fledged adulthood, then it makes sense to believe you would have it all your life. At 11, that would not make sense, because we know that people change a great deal between 11 and 21. Human development imposes that on everyone, cis or trans. But when it comes to trans, I have to wonder how much of social presentation is imposed anyway, just as it is on cis people, and how much is more fundamental and may require invasive medical treatment, beyond what an individual can simply adopt as a mode of presentation and lifestyle on their own, and to h*ll with what anyone else thinks about it. Do girls really like pink? All of them? (Do they all want to be cheerleaders?) Seriously, that's weird. No one would come up with that rot on their own.
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  26442. ​ @sixxsniperstvunhackable7864 Beat me to it.
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  26443. Does anyone actually think anyone else will be President? Seriously?
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  26444. Sure they did. He tried to bring about coups that failed. Failure is never an option. Bolton must be kicking himself for that slip.
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  26445.  @fortheloveofking  Except the "try" part. There is no try.
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  26446. PTSD can do that.
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  26447. @PuntYourJunk  Cut the cable. They're lying to you and you're paying them.
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  26448.  @mutmasterj  They make nice subways. And defeat real Nazis, not all the made-up ones. And stopped nuclear war twice. Churchill was right. Russia is mysterious.
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  26449. The number of commenters that are not only in disagreement, but are lashing out and calling for Krystal or Saagar to be fired, tells you where we are.
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  26450. He just did criticize it.
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  26451. They only care about cha-ching 💰
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  26452. ​ @slappyabromowitz It's flat out false. 😅
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  26453. Briahna was the best by far of all of these newscasters. These two get facts provably wrong, especially Nomiki.
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  26454. ​@brantkim Robbie often has no idea what he's talking about, but next to Nomiki, he is a veritable sage.
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  26455. @E So, basically, you're all crazy. Good to know.
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  26456. This channel, Chris Hedges, Abby Martin, Aaron Mate have gotten the word out.
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  26457. Side issue: how did Vance get into Yale?
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  26458. The top quintile is nearly 70 million people --- a good-sized country. That leaves 80% in serious decline. And as for the top quintile, about half are not secure in that position. One serious illness can upend everything.
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  26459. Good thing Aaron is based in Canada. He can go whenever he needs to.
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  26460.  @SueP-D  I wish I could remember the exact wording of a comment I read over a decade ago on a British website: "all right, what is this new thing we are all supposed to accept?" 😅
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  26461. It's that they're all trying to dupe you. The best way for them to get an advantage for themselves and their own family after they've graduated is to dupe others into not getting a degree.
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  26462.  @ladycatfish2896  Who do you think gets into top law schools and MPA programs? And how common do you think something like Chicano Studies is? How common is someone who becomes fluent in Spanish from studying really hard in college? These types of degrees are rare, and often lead to careers for that very reason. Laura Ingraham/Rush Limbaugh talking points have colonized brains all over the country. If only education could do something about that.
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  26463. Exactly. BTW . . . What do the Clintons have on Obama??
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  26464. Yeah, it's about the donors.
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  26465. Nursing home residents are expensive. Follow the money.
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  26466. HE SUED HER. Depp initiated all of this. What are you in about? Or should I ask, what are you on?
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  26467.  @00veronique00  If he can prove defamation, and if he can prove such losses, yes. His burden to prove. Have you read the article? Only a biased jury that follows a red herring could find for him. He lost a case already where he had a much better claim -- and lost jobs when he lost that case.
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  26468.  @00veronique00  One phrase in the article made obvious reference to Depp, though she never named him. She said "domestic abuse." If he abused her emotionally while they lived together as a couple, and it was more than rare or trivial, then as a matter of defamation law, she did not lie. That's the law. It protects free speech. He was free to write his own biography, and tell his side at length, and had the money to hire an assistant to help him. Instead, he's using legal process to create this spectacle and settle a score he should have settled in his divorce.
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  26469.  @emmsy9295  It's futile to explain. I'm not defending her. I have no use for either of these self-involved, hypermillionaire drug abusers. You seem to think this case is about who the worse abuser is. No. It's about whether a published article is defamatory. That is the sole issue. All the rest is sheer diversion and celebrity porn. If he abused her, then "domestic abuse" is not false -- even if she was far worse. Even bad people have First Amendment rights. Even murderers do. We are pressed into becoming hysterical over things that have no bearing on our lives, joining crowds to mete out mob justice, and finding new Enemies.
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  26470.  @emmsy9295  Depp had a better case against The Sun. What they wrote about him was scurrilous. Did you read the article at issue here? Did you read his complaint? I know you didn't.
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  26471.  @emmsy9295  This is what I really think: If Charlie was a 10 in the Manson scale, then Amber is a 7 at least, and Johnny about a 5. That tells you what I think of them as people. What I think about defamation is that it is terrible, but so are weak claims of defamation. Every defamation case chips away at free speech rights, and the First Amendment is already in a bad way. If Depp wants to retaliate, he can use his freedom of speech and write a memoir. Instant best seller. Earn that $50 million. Do something creative instead of destructive.
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  26472. There will never be a financial clause inserted in the Nuremberg Code, at least not if the Western world has anything to say.
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  26473. The complications exist to COVER UP CAUSAL CHAINS. Nothing "natural" about how they arose. The corporate form is a way for people to escape direct liability. That's what it was designed for.
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  26474. I'd like to see data from Sweden as well --- where they did have a robust vaccination program but no lockdowns, no hysteria. I'd like to see US data on deaths of despair. Those tend to go up in every crisis. It's that kind of place.
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  26475. He didn't answer at all. He evaded the question.
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  26476. @EpicVideoMaster11  Fertility issues are common as it is. Passing through puberty is necessary for sexual maturation, and sexual maturation is necessary for reproduction, and for sexual pleasure as well. This is news? Really?? I suspect more and more that this is the new, hypertechnological version of Puritanism, if not eugenics. Eugenics by the back door in a few people's minds, undoubtedly. (Plus they get credit for being "progressive.")
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  26477.  @BadgerMcblasty  THANK YOU
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  26478. @badgermcblasty3334  Thanks, I guess I didn't realize that. The last culture war excess of this nature that I remember was the attack against First Amendment- protected erotic speech by Dworkin and MacKinnon. These come in waves, and this one is mind-boggling. D & M were simply too extreme, not stone-cold crazy.
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  26479. The only sympatica person in this picture is Jill Biden. From either party.
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  26480. Why do you think he wrote it? There's a market for it. 💰
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  26481. Five! 😊
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  26482. Free Julian Assange
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  26483. A ton of sheep herding . . . "SO many problems . . . But San Francisco is coming back! The really brilliant people! Elon! AI!! They will saaaaave us aaaaall!!!!"
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  26484.  @karnazacss  BTW, I have never even seen these drugs. I don't know what pot looks like today. I didn't need pain pills for a root canal.
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  26485. Is he?
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  26486. Joe Rogan: "These are the best times." Now we know who made bank during the pandemic, Joe. Nice work.
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  26487. Okay, Batya, confess: Have you ever had anything except deep red wine, or champagne and martinis on New Year's. I have money riding on this one.
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  26488. Gloating is unattractive.
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  26489. Everyone is mentioning this, but listening to it a couple of times, I think he just misspoke. He made parallel comparisons between the US and France on two subjects, and in the second one he said Macron is imitating our neoliberal class on matters of police state. I think he just accidentally reversed the order in the first comparison. 4:15
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  26490.  @Aritul  Thank you, Aritul.
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  26491.  @Aritul  And I thought the obvious solution was to call for an ambulance immediately.
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  26492.  @Captain_Birdy  I like your example way better than mine. (Mine is a more "systems" example, though.) 👏👏👏
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  26493. "I interact with people on the actual left . . . " Why you must love Saagar after all. "Republicans should pack it up, folks." See. Told you.
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  26494.  @McJerkins  That's why the media elites "hate" Trump? Can you be serious? He is their meal ticket. He has done more to increase the wealth of those very elites than any current politician. The reference was to Saagar being systematically attacked for being a Republican sycophant. Except that he isn't. For the most part I take Krystal and Saagar at their word, and the accusation that Krystal is a closet Trump supporter or that Saagar is a secret socialist are nonsense. This was an honest report. Let the chips fall where they may.
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  26495.  @HOBARTUS1  Precisely what did he say? He disagreed they were deliberately doctored.
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  26496. Amanpour is being disingenuous, perhaps? Has she sought to interview Putin since he escalated the war in Ukraine?
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  26497. Amanpour is being disingenuous, perhaps? Has she sought to interview Putin since he escalated the war in Ukraine? Every day, huh? Evidence?
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  26498. Or maybe the aliens will come and save us.
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  26499. There are four lawyers listed on the complaint, with lead counsel being Kasey Considine, based in Connecticut, and several from Washington, D.C. These are always public records.
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  26500.  @PabloTheThinker  The Last Supper is a painting in a museum, not an icon in a church. And ancient Greek rites celebrating Dionysios could be raucous and dangerous. I refer you to Euripides.
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  26501. @PabloTheThinker  Charlie Hebdo didn't? Oh brother.
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  26502. @PabloTheThinker  Funny how you forgot Charlie Hebdo.
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  26503.  @DarwinsDunce  Charlie Hebdo still exists.
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  26504. @garyware1261  Sept 2020: "French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is at it, again: it has chosen to republish the derogatory cartoons of Prophet Muhammad which provoked a violent attack against it in 2015. The editors say it is “essential” to reprint these on the eve of the trial of the perpetrators of that violence."
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  26505.  @DarwinsDunce  I wasn't allowed to link or quote. Look it up. They republished some of the very cartoons in question a few years ago.
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  26506.  @DarwinsDunce  Shows what you know.
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  26507.  @Mr.SlipNSlide  It's. The. Olympics. Look up Olympus.
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  26508.  @Mr.SlipNSlide  There are French Gods? The original Olympic Games were festivals in their honor? The Ninth Symphony and the Mona Lisa aren't parodied? Charlie Hebdo wasn't savage toward all religions/ideologies? Such parodies were not controversial in France as well? Funny world view. I don't get it.
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  26509. The pianist Martha Argerich survived Stage 4 melanoma with a immunotherapy protocol.
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  26510. I'm not sure what you're saying. Depp did sue for defamation in the UK, where there is no First Amendment, and lost. In the US, defamation suits necessarily implicate the First Amendment. Defamation takes what would normally be protected speech and makes it actionable. So, at least for that reason, the ACLU has an interest. You may not find that answer satisfactory, but Emily seems not to understand what happened.
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  26511.  @willcurley9140  You missed the point. A defamation case is not about who was worse. It is about whether what was said was false and defamatory. It is about speech or writing, not about persons. No one has to have the prior approval of a court in order to tell their story. Not even a murderer. Never mind. I already knew we don't have a First Amendment. Um, that (and not "due process," whatever that is supposed to mean) is what is at stake in defamation.
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  26512.  @willcurley9140  Your emotions got the better of you, and Depp has duped people into seeing him as The Victim. He is the one bringing these suits, and orchestrating this very expensive show. This won't help poor people, I can assure you. Not one iota.
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  26513.  @willcurley9140  Whose guilt? No one is adjudicated as "guilty" in a civil suit. I'm not following because you're not logical or responsive.
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  26514.  @willcurley9140  Are you suggesting a person must be found guilty of some crime involving abuse before anyone is allowed to say, and publish, that they were abused by that person? The First Amendment gives everyone the right to tell their story. There's nowhere you need to go for prior approval.
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  26515. Many drugs are processed through the liver. No way did I want to take nanoparticles into my body, nevermind containing the mRNA template for the coronavirus spike protein.
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  26516. "Le projet de loi de lutte contre les dérives sectaires est présenté en deuxième lecture à l’Assemblée nationale, mardi 13 février. Les délits de « sujétion psychologique ou physique » et de « provocation à l’abandon d’un traitement médical » ont été réintroduits après leur suppression par le Sénat." "Après une nouvelle délibération demandée par le camp présidentiel, cette nouvelle infraction a finalement remporté, ce mercredi 14 février, une majorité de votes, et punira la «provocation au moyen de pressions ou de manœuvres réitérées» à l’abandon de soins, exposant à des «conséquences graves» pour la santé."
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  26517. ​ @wrooted  Do you speak French yet? I hope my explanation won't draw scents or sheep, lol. I hope you can see it.
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  26518. @carinegevaert3775  LFI voted against it. It's a Macronist project, obviously. Has his fingerprints all over it.
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  26519. Never disappeared.
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  26520. Monopolies that provide essential communications should not have the power of prior restraint. Removing material that clearly violates terms of service is fine. Removing people is a different matter. There has to be a compelling reason. If any channel transmits practically all of the content of a channel that was properly banned for cause, what is the argument against banning that channel, too? So the content can stay up if someone on it pretends to "disapprove" of it? Oh brother! Think this through.
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  26521. How do you know?
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  26522. She was born in London.
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  26523.  @LKESBO  She's already in London. I assume her mom got pregnant there, too.
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  26524. @LKESBO  Because she doesn't want God Save the King to be mandated for minors in school? Do you know all the words? Maybe you should look that up.
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  26525.  @dustinbaker8272  I agree with Brie.
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  26526.  @hrs2044  Agreed
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  26527.  @hrs2044  Agreed
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  26528.  @dustinbaker8272  Republicans pretend transgender people don't exist? On the contrary, they seem utterly obsessed with them. That is disturbing, yes, but I see no incipient genocide. They aren't the ones supporting gender reassignment prior to adulthood, which could impair their right to try to have birth children someday.
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  26529. Most psychiatrists don't accept Medicare, by the way. If everyone had Medicare, they may have to? Or go to concierge care.
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  26530. I think we all redo our lives. I actually believe in reincarnation, and no, it is not self-serving. Hardly. I want off the merry-go-round when the time comes. When I've earned it.
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  26531.  @ToThoseWhoVanished  I don't know what you're talking about, but it sounds like a mood. Get some more sleep, and talk to yourself before you fall asleep to tell yourself that you will have a real good dream. I'm not saying that will change the facts, because nothing can, but it might change what happens to you in the future. You might not see what new chances you still have. These past few years have been hell.
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  26532.  @ToThoseWhoVanished  I was just trying to be nice to you. My mistake. You had a secret way to avoid the pandemic hysteria? Cool. Do tell. Just kidding. Your views are not of interest. Blocked.
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  26533. ​ @volatile86 What is that, anyway?
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  26534.  @kanyenism7528  You misunderstood me. I agree with Kim.
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  26535.  @kanyenism7528  Maybe you meant to reply to someone else? I think it's GOOD to read books together and say, "I don't agree with everything, but I endorse reading and discussion."
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  26536. Weimar Germany did not have 700 bases around the world, and the country with the world's largest labor force was not buying Weimar's debt. Weimar was paying reparations. Those are some differences.
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  26537. I wonder what that means, since this pathogen originated in a laboratory.
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  26538.  @SpaceManAus  Oh, so we have to call the pathogen some other word. This is about Words again.
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  26539. The Guardian reported on the truth about what happened. Nothing to do with RFK Jr.
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  26540. Their questions were great, because they highlighted the fact that none of Bannon's good ideas are ever adopted. Travel bans? Certainly. Higher taxes for extreme incomes (the kind that make you and your children independently wealthy in a few years), forget about it. Consequences for Wall Street malfeasance and fraud? Ha. And so on . . . In the meantime, he needed a pardon to escape prosecution for federal wire fraud, and may still be in trouble with the state. This was the DOJ under Trump that indicted him, by the way.
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  26541. I got my data voids removed with my tonsils I think.
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  26542. WAIT. Does someone believe the United States entered WWII to end the Holocaust?? Emily's remark was highly ambiguous on that point.
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  26543. Of course there was no record, psychiatric or criminal, immediately available for this guy. He just turned 18.
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  26544. Of course. It was before the election.
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  26545.  @avus-kw2f213  Very succinctly put.
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  26546. If there are such networks, spinning preposterous conspiracy theories about them only aids them in hiding. A preposterous conspiracy theory is likelier to be a false flag than anything else, and often functions as such.
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  26547. This is accurate.
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  26548. This was an ordinary election. The inflation hit food prices and housing -- tech and luxuries, not so much. Kamala was a bad candidate. The White House lied about Biden's health. Trump's assassination attempt showed that he's brave, unlike most billionaires.
    1
  26549. But it is FUNNY.
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  26550.  @commandingsteel  You're supposed to kneel on his neck until he stops breathing, I mean talking. Obviously. I mean, what would you do, after all? /s Next thing you know, people will be passing fake $20 bills all over town. /s IOW, is there a limit to perversity? There must be. Just a hint. Where do you think it is?
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  26551. Why do you want a transplant? I would never.
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  26552. Huh. Happened to my friend as well.
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  26553. That is never for third parties to decree. The rules of war and various agreements and conventions set a standard for war. That is the only objective starting point for discussion, no more no less.
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  26554.  @8aNda1d  That's not what's happening, bro. Is all the money that flowed to Bill Gates, Clinton, Pelosi, etc., since the pandemic money they earned? Look closer. You are missing a lot.
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  26555. @8aNda1d  Nah, the people who line up to do that are long gone. They have to figure it out on their own I guess.
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  26556. @jordandthornburg  Well, when you've built a society where more and more people are becoming rich either through entirely passive means, or by doing active harm to others, you can expect the question to be raised. Should an adjunct faculty math teacher who does an outstanding job really make that much less than Hunter Biden? Or Anthony Fauci? To the point where she might need assistance? If you don't like those examples, consider addictive apps, social media, corporate looters, any derivatives trader, any politician whatsoever. The list goes on.
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  26557. @RJL612  "Tossing money" is just a phase from 40 years ago. Update your propaganda. A raise benefits you, no? Did you ever think to ask whether you "earned" it?
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  26558. @jordandthornburg  Ah, is that so? Well, who decides what things cost, particularly things you must buy, such as food and shelter? That's a market as well. Somehow you think prices are something you have a right to complain about to high heaven, but if a brilliant math teacher is shortchanged, while a YouTube "influencer" rakes in millions, that's freedom of choice, or something.
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  26559.  @jordandthornburg  So . . . Teachers better marry for money?
    1
  26560. @jordandthornburg  How is it possible that this absence of reward for real work is impossible almost anywhere else in the world except the US? You see this turning out well? Really? No one who is competent to teach kids anything real is signing up for the job anymore. (A substitute public school teacher in my town only needs two years of college, not a diploma.) Maybe instead of mouthing slogans, you should think this through. It's already late in the day.
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  26561.  @jordandthornburg  Nothing. I support the BRICS+. You do you, see how you like it. /s
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  26562. @jordandthornburg  I knew you would say that. Given that education is generally public, who decides the value of that, quite directly? We've had massive deficit spending since the 1980s, with periods of very low, near-zero inflation for food, though real estate soared. How do you account for that? In any case, if inflation doesn't bother you, then at least you are being consistent. Wages are no less a market than goods, and no less affected by . . . the money supply. They do not exist in different realms.
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  26563.  @jordandthornburg  Money doesn't come into existence through printing. That's a metaphor. Okay, so you don't follow this stuff. Thanks for admitting it.
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  26564. @jordandthornburg  Debt creates money. Deficit spending, financed through issuing Treasury bonds, and the Federal Reserve setting interest rates and reserve requirements for banks, literally determines the size of the money supply.
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  26565. @jordandthornburg  Not exactly. No single entity has complete control. All those holding a substantial stake in US T bonds have some influence -- hence, China has influence. In any case, if you agree that labor is a market that operates as it should, then so does the housing market, the commodities market, etc. All operate in the same environment with the very same money supply. They don't have separate ones.
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  26566.  @jordandthornburg  I wonder if my last reply was in . . . visibled.
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  26567.  @MarkG-nl4oq  I think you don't know what it is, lol.
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  26568. @MarkG-nl4oq  Of course I believe in innocent until proven guilty. That does not mean every criminal defense lawyer has a duty to take on any and every defedant, OR that every member of the public must put mistrust aside when they see certain lawyers always taking certain types of cases (at least two where a wife or ex-wife ended up dead, one where young adolescent girls were trafficked, etc.).
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  26569. @MarkG-nl4oq  Yes you can. I'm an attorney. Who told you otherwise? Not all lawyers tell their clients that. They usually tell their clients the exact opposite: "tell me EVERYTHING, because I have to know what the prosecution could uncover."
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  26570.  @MarkG-nl4oq  You have a ton of misconceptions. Are these from movies?
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  26571. There was a trial. I know the prosecutor. ALL documents were made public, on a website that was updated with pdfs every day. The Supreme Court denied cert. But Candace knows better. She should go back to claiming Madame Macron is a man. That brought her some attention, didn't it? Too esoteric for American audiences? Credit card bills too high?
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  26572. NO ONE should join the military. The only severely injured person I know from the v was forced to take it, by the Air Force. And now Gutfeld. Blech.
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  26573. They should be.
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  26574. Russia isn't white. And its BRICS+ allies are not, either.
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  26575. ​ @I_like_Plants130 Russians are Eurasian.
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  26576. The bigger picture is Mob Psychology, Episode 23.
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  26577.  @StandUp6710  Slogans can really get you to divert your attention, huh? The victimhood sweepstakes are legit? There is a Good Guy and a Bad Guy in this movie? And if we could only beat down the Bad Guy, society could purify itself and get back on the correct path . . . The bad guy is the one who keeps suing.
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  26578. An ordinary person can end up bankrupt and without a job if they develop cancer, unrelated to smoking or any other choices on their part. Think about THAT.
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  26579. How did we ever get private prisons, with for-profit workshops? Why isn't that considered a violation of the Thirteenth Amendment outlawing slavery? Why do private prisons fall under the Thirteenth Amendment loophole? The language in the Amendment was never intended to allow private exploitation of prison labor. Bad enough that there is any loophole, but you can drive a fleet of trucks through this one.
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  26580. Keep trying.
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  26581.  @wekurtz72  HA. It is not that simple.
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  26582. Evidence?
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  26583.  @jackiecooper9439  I will look for that. If you have the exact title, and don't mind taking the time, please post.
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  26584.  @jackiecooper9439  Understood! Thank you!!
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  26585.  @jackiecooper9439  Thanks again for this. Watching it twice. And staying home a lot more this winter than planned, except for hiking outdoors and basic errands, because I can. Time to rethink this whole pandemic and prepare myself for the less hopeful scenarios, in case that is what we must live with over the next 6 to 12 months. It's hard. I hope I'm pleasantly surprised.
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  26586. AOC has an answer.
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  26587. So, that Bugaloo Boy was fascist, but Azov Battalion are the good guys??
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  26588. If this account is accurate, this professor did not fully understand the weight of the symbols found in a film that he himself was teaching, and the students demanded the film NOT BE TAUGHT AT ALL, because those symbols "made them feel unsafe." The prof made a error -- which, even if you see it as serious, could be corrected. The students wanted to stop education from taking place at a university. You could not make this up.
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  26589. Why can't you? Do you speak any foreign languages?
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  26590.  @S.A.U.1489  Well, a secure base is one you can move from more easily, if it ever becomes necessary. A move from the Midwest to Florida or Arizona at age 75 is not easier than US to, say, Switzerland at 62, but people do it all the time.
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  26591.  @S.A.U.1489  Exactly!
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  26592. That is possible. The truth is that we don't know yet. The worse truth is that there are now institutional barriers to finding out.
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  26593. ​I've never heard a more selective presentation of basic facts, sprinkled with some sort of delusion of entitlement on the part of US/UK to rule the world. WHAT "rehearsal for a second Holocaust?" An astute historian would ask exactly why the terrorist attack was launched in the first place -- and by whom, exactly? (You imagine we know? You imagine that Holocaust comment is analysis?) Do you think Ukraine can win? His analysis of that war is complete nonsense -- but he never says anything that, when proven wrong, could possibly hurt him. That's his paramount skill.
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  26594. Cancel her. Show how you oppose cancel culture.
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  26595.  @privacyplease1556  ?? 🤣🤣🤣 but not for the reason you think
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  26596. What are these people thinking? Migrants belong in towns like Uvalde and stuff like that. /s
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  26597.  @jupitercyclops6521  yes 😢
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  26598. I know. It is pathetic. I hope they persuade no one to skip college who wants to go.
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  26599. Matt, we had Afghan "allies" who owned boys for sex, and our troops who protested were told to shut up. One service member who refused to shut up was assassinated. New York Times reported it. So it was in plain sight in every sense of the word, as much as any news story could possibly be. Did anything happen? The parents got a dead body.
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  26600. And refused admission to another school and stuck with a student loan. These people are haters.
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  26601.  @tangreen7267  It's how people without merit and hard work can nevertheless get ahead. The only avenue open to them is to destroy others. Of course they take it.
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  26602. If he censored Matt Taibbi, then he is a hypocrite.
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  26603.  @rsaggar  I didn't say he removed his twitter account. You haven't been keeping up? But you think you know? Nevermind.
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  26604. Your questions are perceptive, we don't know the answers.
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  26605.  @richardbarry04553  How do you know you are making yourself "immune?" I haven't had a mortgage in this century, or a car note in over 12 years. Among other things.
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  26606. How could this be illegal? How?
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  26607. Who is flourishing? The homeless and the refugees are everywhere now. The post-Enlightement period has been the most murderous in human history, and I say that as a fan of the Enlightenment.
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  26608. Does Hamas have infant and toddler members? Ten year old kids? Aid workers bringing in food to kids? Older Christian women? Just how widespread is this theoretical "Hamas?"
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  26609. ​ @Cassie-x8b  Sympathy
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  26610. ​ @maryrand-ok9mx  The dead don't matter. MIC stocks on a tear.
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  26611. Did anyone see the huskie and snow owl video? The cuddling! So cool.
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  26612. The study cautioned that the higher reinfection rate might not be directly due to the vaccine, but a difference in behavior -- such as not being as careful with hygiene due to being less worried about COVID, or due to the very brief period of lower immunity right after vaccination (this is known now).
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  26613. "You want to make kids with gender dysphoria **** themselves." "You want to **** grandma." /s
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  26614. The actual word is sense oared.
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  26615. ​ @danbauer3669 Y'mean that needed quotations and a /s to denote it was sarcastic, supporting your point? Or you mean "you" in the general sense? Okay, will edit.
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  26616.  @danbauer3669  It sometimes does -- as in, if you try to protest that being applied to something you posted. It's easy enough to figure out. And I was shadowed, obviously. This is really sinister stuff, and we all accept it. Me included, creating content for them.
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  26617. I agree with you, with two caveats: one section of the law seems to proscribe psychotherapy, which may have First Amendment implications, and . . . There is always that one rare case, one in 2.3 million, who needs this treatment, and it will be considered a crime to treat that one child. But with what has been going on, a ban on the medications and surgery represents a HUGE improvement over what we're seeing. I can't believe no one has wondered whether eugenics is behind this. No one is suspicious, even after COVID??
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  26618. I urge everyone to suspend judgment for real. I have been following other press, including mainstream Indian and mainstream French. None have said this story is "Russian misinformation." There has been US DOD money pouring into Ukrainian biological laboratories. The risk that bioweapons, or bioweapon technology, would escape was highest in the 1990s, after the fall of the USSR. What is the money for now? The questions are real because they have a real foundation. We do not have answers.
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  26619. 👏👏👏
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  26620. Greenwald protested the deliberate censorship of the lost laptop story. You don't see the distinction? Greenwald nowhere suggests the news about the investigation of Gaetz should be surpressed. Gaetz is a public figure and a public servant. The facts should be reported, as such. Has anyone called Hunter a pedophile? Or said the charges against him are sickening? (There are no charges.)
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  26621. but . . . what are those cool boots she wears . . .
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  26622.  @jameshoney2506  They are all millionaires. I think they can afford the retainer. The rest is contingent on victory or settlement.
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  26623. Clearly he is fit to deal with the leaders of the BRICS.
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  26624.  @tynao2029  The very first person I heard say that it was perverse to fire health care workers who heroically took care of us during the pandemic, recovered from COVID, and were now hesitant to take an experimental vaccine was a member of the French Communist Party (!!!!!) That might take the prize for weirdest pandemic story. How far have we fallen? :/
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  26625. A wake-up call, all right. Like, what has to happen?
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  26626. What's the cliche? It's not a flaw, it's a feature.
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  26627.  @umiluv  Yup, celebrating it, and harassing anyone who dissents.
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  26628. ALL oligarchs are most afraid of "inflation," where "inflation" means proportionately less concentration of wealth in their hands, and easier repayment of debts.
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  26629. "Don't choke people" is still controversial.
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  26630. Pelosi got something for this. Find out what.
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  26631. Is the unnamed researcher reporting from an undisclosed location? Just kidding.
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  26632. Far more people choose Pfizer over Moderna. That is one reason.
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  26633. @Logical Perspective The person you addressed never used the term tribalism or defended it. Funny how that no longer matters, you made his point, etc.
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  26634.  @blardymunggas6884  Wow. That requires some sourcing. Worse than criminal.
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  26635. Tell me what nose job ever caused infertility issues.
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  26636. Nothing new.
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  26637.  @nuclearwessels2078  Sure. Look it up.
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  26638.  @thedeal9526  Your spelling does you no favors.
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  26639. ​ @thebeatcreeper 😅😅😅
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  26640. Where are these images from? This did not occur at night.
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  26641. It was an Israeli think tank that connected the dots. The point is, Netanyahu has opponents. DUH
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  26642. If he weren't so old and becoming decrepit, there would be a real danger of that.
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  26643. So a POC judge appointed by the POC president recognized the Precautionary Principle. Try to push back on that.
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  26644. Then he would have been Russiagating.
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  26645.  @mr.sarcasm106  Your stringing together of those particular cliches would make for a funny Slavoj Zizek anecdote. Here, not so much.
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  26646.  @mr.sarcasm106  I love Zizek.
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  26647.  @mr.sarcasm106  Zizek has the best pop culture anecdotes.
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  26648.  @mr.sarcasm106  "You're just a grifter . . . " has a point? Maybe for you.
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  26649. I don't think anyone is trying to win this one. They know something we don't.
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  26650. @thatguy7085  Well in that case, we shouldn't condemn his mother until all the facts are clear.
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  26651.  @thatguy7085  That might turn out to be the real story. Too soon to tell, but I get it.
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  26652.  @thatguy7085  Wow. Why isn't it being acknowledged??
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  26653. @aprilwycherley  "Assault rifle" is a purely journalistic term, not a legal or technical one, and it indicates that a particular firearm is a rifle generally intended to be used against other people, either in combat or for self-defense, and is not commonly intended for use in hunting or other sports. Obviously, it could be used in hunting as well. What do you think your ubiquitous talking point proves? An AR-15 IS an assault rifle, if this is what is meant. No law can be drafted to "ban assault rilfes." It would have to be much more specific, and that's putting aside whether it would be effective in doing what we want it to do, anyway.
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  26654.  @thatguy7085  Thanks.
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  26655.  @smilo_don  EXACTLY
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  26656.  @tomwaitsmencse  Are intravenous overdoses contagious? If you get one, can you pass it to me?
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  26657.  @tomwaitsmencse  Does wearing masks and social distancing help overdoses?
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  26658. Lord, these comments are great. This show has some brilliant viewers.
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  26659. I simply cannot listen to someone who is not in danger of, say, ending up homeless at some point spouting this stuff. I'd have more respect if she regretted spending money on the tattoo instead of giving it to the local homeless shelter, or putting it away for her retirement.
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  26660. That would put government in the position of deciding who promotes free speech and who doesn't. That's exactly what the government is prohibited from doing by the First Amendment.
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  26661.  @Hardwaregeekx  What crime do you imagine Google has committed?
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  26662.  @Hardwaregeekx  If the government used any social media platform as its cat's paw, then the government violated the First Amendment. Platforms are permitted to censor posts if they so choose. They are protected by Section 230. The government is not permitted to impose on them and push them to do the censoring. It cannot push others to do what it itself cannot legally do. I'm afraid you don't understand this area of law very well. I say that even though I agree substantively with what you have to say about the abysmal COVID response and the violation of our civil rights and civil liberties.
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  26663.  @Hardwaregeekx  I'm explaining to you why the government cannot decide which private entity is engaged in "suppression of free speech." That would be violating their freedom of speech and expression (and possibly freedom of association) to decide for themselves. This is distinct from the government USING other entities to censor speech. That is a violation of the First Amendment.
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  26664. @Tunesquad Nice!!
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  26665. Plenty of Europeans agree, including conservatives.
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  26666. GOOD FOR HER. Brava!!!
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  26667. Where? How? At least in New York, a big part of those protesting are Jewish, in some cases, most.
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  26668. But that white guy has weird dyed hair so doesn't that count for something . . . edgey?
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  26669. I agree, and Wisconsin gun laws are an outrage. The adults in this picture, all of them, have a lot to answer for.
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  26670. ​ @mitru98 Tell yourself that. It took tens of millions killed in two world wars for them to lose their minds. The West does at the drop of a hat. The Soviets banned lobotomies 20 years before the US did. The inventor got a Nobel Prize in medicine.
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  26671. @babskaz74 To the nth power.
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  26672. Consider what Harvard did to Ted Kaczynski when he was still a minor.
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  26673. @@2or3chances He didn't say suburbs, hon.
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  26674.  @ErLeuchten  I thought they were awful. Have you ever lived in Paris?
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  26675. 3:19 They were willing to do this -- to children -- for money.
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  26676. Wait a second. Did Trump fire Fauci? No he did not.
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  26677. What I'm having trouble with is why people say Shakespeare was poorly educated. My understanding was that he attended a Latin school, where by the 8th grade, if pupils were caught speaking English on the premises, they were thrashed. Then he was an actor, which further trained his memory. Have people lost the sense of the immense value of an education like that? I know that even today, people in France (who I grant you speak a Romance language) tell me that if they study Latin while young, they can pick up Spanish or Italian by living in Spain or Italy for the summer. These are not linguistically talented people, just regular good students. Moreover, I don't think a recluse could have written the plays, like some of the people posting appear to believe. That an actor-director did strikes me as far more plausible.
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  26678. @alkhemiegypt  I've read that it's known that he did, not that it's presumed. I don't know how that could be confirmed or disproved, so I don't know why to believe your sources rather than mine. I wonder exactly what you were taught, frankly, if Latin didn't change you. Many prominent writers to this day began with a serious study of classical languages and literatures -- Latin in particular. Toni Morrison minored in it.
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  26679.  @alkhemiegypt  Where is this quotation from?
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  26680. @niemann3942  I have no way of independently evaluating those assertions. Scholars from Oxford and Cambridge assert that he went to a Latin school. What evidence they rely on is something I've never independently examined. You could provide your sources, for example. I have never said that it is categorically impossible that Shakespeare is not the true author of the plays. I agree it IS possible he didn't write the plays. I have said that those who deny that he is their author need to bear the burden of proving it. I still say that. This interview didn't come close to doing it; all she said was that Powerful Interests are opposed to reexamining the evidence. Okay. That's not impossible, either. Then what?
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  26681.  @niemann3942  Okay. I never read it, obviously.
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  26682. Cut and paste, cut and paste.
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  26683.  @ajbluesh377  You have zero evidence for your ugly accusation. Do you have a platform to give? I don't trust "Magnus." I nevertheless support hearing what he has to say, and I wholeheartedly support the journalism Jimmy has been engaged in this week. What do you plan to DO with people like Magnus? Our jails are already bursting. Plus you cannot be incarcerated for an idea. I think we could discuss recouperating him.
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  26684.  @alanlee67  What reality is that? That I should pay taxes for someone else's private education? I agree all tuition, at every level, should be fully tax deductible, but that's as far as I'll go. No one is taking money directly from me to give to a private school, where admission is not a right, universal education is not a goal, and I have no voice at all.
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  26685.  @snowbunny783  If you can afford private, or home school, you have the power. So . . . you want the money. Er, no. I support all tuition being tax deductible, and all scholarships tax free. That's it.
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  26686. No, Robby, they have confidentiality rules -- their staff should NOT break the rules, and they should resign.
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  26687. I agree, though I think going to the actual court record for both parties is the best way to determine the facts, on both sides. The facts that matter, and that both are willing to state under oath, won't be found elsewhere.
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  26688. I never thought BRICS would expand before a peace was concluded in Ukraine. Well, guess what??
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  26689. 🎯
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  26690. Most of the mass shooters are prepared to commit suicide or be killed by police. Prosecution is a pipe dream. For the record, I think there are underlying causes as well, apart from guns, and are more importantthantheguns themselves. Who has access to this firepower, when clearly they should not, and what can be done about it?
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  26691.  @hejasolar  Well that explains a lot.
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  26692. Some of what Trump said may be reprehensible, but it is free speech. It's up to the voters to decide what they think about it. Pressuring state officials to dig up some votes, IF HE DID, is a different matter. That is tampering with the vote count. I do not understand why he was charged with anything else. The US Attorney is sworn to uphold the First Amendment, and not engage in selective prosecution.
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  26693.  @OnimenoJason  Did you ever read her seminal article, or just get a bullet text with the talking points? You'd be surprised by her article.
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  26694.  @antonioj123  It's a virtue not to know things. Repeating advertising/propaganda is what gets you ahead. What is history for, anyway? Hashtags and memes make money.
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  26695.  @OnimenoJason  There is no such thing as "Race Marxism." Anyone who knows anything about Marx is baffled by wokesters. Just another example of being able to twist anything into a meme and get traction, in a world where people are steeped in advertising and marketing from infancy.
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  26696. Does he know the closest place to get guns and ammo? He reads well enough for that, I'll bet.
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  26697. "Do you know whether you are controlling your bladder and bowels?" "Do you understand the question?"
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  26698. Wait. We're at the point where TWITTER is the central platform of IDEAS in the world? Oh. My. God.
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  26699. They get paid for their work.
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  26700. Is taking "too long" to get your license out "resisting?" Do you know what words mean? "You are threatening people." According to MY definition, you are. 😂
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  26701. Any of us can click the link to the Australian government website and see for ourselves that AZ was discontinued three weeks ago due to a serious side effect attributed to the vaccine: thrombosis with thrombocytopenia (TTS).
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  26702. If AOC and MTG could do all this, they would have to work harder. Please.
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  26703.  @kiddada3  This time, Amber was worse. (A first?) If Amber were on your jury, who knows how many years you'd serve?
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  26704.  @kiddada3  Rising lost audience for firing anyone who didn't toe the billionaire line on Gaza, an actual lawyer being the most recent.
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  26705. @hsmd4533  Did you look up the complaint? Or any court documents? That's where the facts are. Not here.
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  26706.  @terryschoenith5249  Agreed.
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  26707. ​​ @usnclark Is this another December 21 on the Mayan calendar type of thing?
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  26708.  @Nazman06  Well. What is your opinion of what he said?
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  26709.  @brushstroke3733  I heard that Lex Fridman podcast with Michael Malice, too. About the buffet.
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  26710.  @brushstroke3733  I didn't delete anything. Was I censored? Not that I know. Not sure who that is, Karen S. (Can't see it to spell it.) I still see everything I posted.
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  26711.  @brushstroke3733  Deny? No, I'm proud of it. Also mentions Helen Reddy and her hit song, "You and Me Against the World," among other things. I guess someone thinks it's not suitable. Welcome to the real world. This is common.
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  26712.  @brushstroke3733  I got no notice of the deletion. I guess this has to be made a safe space.
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  26713.  @brushstroke3733  Second para: "You and me against the world" was a romantic trope, and later a hit song by Helen Reddy in the 1970s. The song was usually interpreted as a single mother singing to her daughter about feminine empowerment, but that's not the only way to understand it. It's not morose or embattled, it's spunky and beautiful. Like, "we're so strong together that we can take on anything! We'll be fine." Misconstruing this is baffling, at least to me. If you took it so negatively, perhaps you might ask "the universe" -- or yourself -- why.
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  26714. It was ALWAYS a fundamental principle that you NEVER give a drug to a perfectly healthy person that might harm them more than contracting the disease it is supposed to prevent. That was a fundamental MORAL principle.
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  26715. Do you have other relatives you could reach out to, and build a relationship? Suppose you were the last person alive in your immediate family. (Not to be morbid, but this happens to people -- after all, someone will be last.) Who would you want to spend your golden years with?
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  26716. Davos, Bilderberg, Jackson Hole
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  26717. She's collecting royalties. If something real happened to her, you think she'd be all right? I don't see that in her.
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  26718. First of all, generally everyone who works hard can master an AP curriculum, which is only 100-level college. Second, it IS an elective; no one is ever required to take AP classes as a condition of attaining a high school diploma. Kids who are going to college can save money by taking AP classes.
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  26719.  @scratchpenny  I guess Asians have greater intellectual capacity, then? Forgive me, but a brain is something you build. It's in the nature of brains to change in response to the demands placed on them. I found that out when I studied Ancient Greek in France (French is my third language). Wow were the various graduate college, law school, etc., admissions tests a breeze after that.
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  26720.  @NNAPOLEONN  We are the society that believes in "IQ" above any other. Hm, I wonder why we have some of the worst results. It's such a mystery. /s I lived in France when every high school student had calculus, and only achievement testing (the baccalauréat, a national exam) was required for university admission. "Aptitude" testing in the public sector was not permitted as a criterion for progressing in school or for civil service jobs. It was considered bogus. "Show us what you can do" was the rule. So, people did. Crazy I know.
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  26721. Public universities are covered by the First Amendment. They can restrict time, place, and manner, but that makes sense. You can't take it to a pro-Israeli student's dorm room.
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  26722. ​@RedWing88 It originated in England as a movement, and found adherents throughout the English-speaking world.
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  26723. @a.wadderphiltyr1559  Of course. All that is fine. I just happened to be reading a biography of Marguerite Duras which recounts the Stalinist purges in the PCF over aesthetic values, if you can believe it. The totalitarian mind is a horror. You see it here, when people defend Trump's handling of the Assange matter. It is a mindless "mind."
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  26724. @a.wadderphiltyr1559  The historian Peter Kuznick is excellent on the destruction of the biological sciences under Stalin. But note the difference between that and the Nazis: the Stalinists insisted you could pass down characteristics you acquired. It was not a matter of "breeding." Turns out that some of what they saw was epigenetic, but they had no idea of the mechanism at play. Their analysis was entirely wrong and dogmatically held.
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  26725.  @a.wadderphiltyr1559  One that mentioned historian Peter Kuznick is gone, lol.
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  26726.  @GoodwinGlassworks  Well, I invite you to consult the published, peer-reviewed studies. This is simply a relative risk factor that has emerged, not a causal mechanism.
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  26727. He would have done things differently? He would have gone to The French Laundry more often?
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  26728. Are you kidding me? Look up this man's CV. He has you scared, and that comes as no surprise. No one should have exhaled since 2008. The other shoe will drop. I didn't think it would be this soon, and still don't . . . But I know I may be wrong.
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  26729. THIS!
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  26730. She really missed this one, which is rare for her. I agree with her about criminalization -- we rely on criminal laws to make people do what we want them to do far too much, but that was not the point. Charlamagne was right that we are losing a culture of free speech and open debate. The freedom to talk about this has got to come first.
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  26731.  @LokiTricksterG  This is a good observation. The push to "treat" children with "gender dysphoria" is horrifying every publuc school parent I know.
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  26732. I wonder whether Trump will ever come to the realization that HE, more than anyone else before him, made lying acceptable. Well, now he reaps what he sowed.
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  26733. You know, I may have to walk that back. We should never forget Clinton's perjury, and loss of his law license. I think he got reinstated eventually, in Arkansas. I don't think he is allowed to argue before the Supreme Court - and he was president. Gawd.
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  26734. I love Dr. Campbell.
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  26735. You believe a podcaster?? 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  26736. ​ @Tartersauce101 I didn't believe her. I went straight to a search engine and believed U of Michigan.
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  26737. Eat organic meat or a plant-based diet 4 or 5 days per week, or both. At least we still have some control. 🚫Bugs
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  26738. At this point I can't see it hurting.
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  26739. American weapons seem to be implicated in the deaths of many non-Western children around the world, the president appears senile, and its ruling class thinks everything's fine, stocks are up for the year, etc. Sure, buddy. Good thinking. Everything's coming up roses. /s
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  26740. 20:25 and 23:08 THIS is why "the West" is in decline. Of course they "think" you "must be" on someone's payroll.
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  26741. Thank you for this. That woman has a doctorate in education.
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  26742.  @ar71498  Er, and where were you during "Russiagate?" Trump simply upped the ante, which he always does. He's not deft like the Clintons are.
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  26743.  @utah_koidragon7117  I just told you exactly how they are related. Granted, it is broader than she made it, not more narrow -- just as you said.
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  26744.  @utah_koidragon7117  What you yourself choose to do as a politician and office holder and what class of animal you belong to are usually considered vastly different things, but I'll take your word for it.
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  26745.  @utah_koidragon7117  Not giving a sh** for the people you are sworn to represent is not merely "inappropriate," but all right, fine. Whatever. Did you ever study how wars and genocides begin with demonization? No?
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  26746. 😂😂😂
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  26747. ​ @lisamcneilly2637 Kennedy won't be confirmed.
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  26748. @wildanimus2559  💯
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  26749. "Dangerous" misinformation versus what? "Safe" misinformation, like Russiagate? Like weapons of mass destruction? Are the opinions expressed in, for example, the Great Barrington Declaration, "misinformation?"
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  26750.  @jackiewhite1574  oh I'll bet
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  26751.  @linrob1312  Is hysteria healthy? Heard it wasn't.
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  26752.  @linrob1312  No. Westerners need to get help. Big help.
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  26753.  @ellenlyons4090  I'm the one suspending judgment, remember? I think getting embroiled in these cat fights is for the mentally challenged. Since you wanted to know how I really feel . . . You took the time to track this down? Wow. No further comment.
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  26754.  @ellenlyons4090  Did your inquiring mind track down the truth about ANDREW? I'm sure you did. So much more important than a meaningless cat fight.
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  26755. So her cut was tiny. Wow 😂😂😂
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  26756.  @NordicQueen65  Why do you think they "don't believe in vaccines?"
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  26757.  @steveor4659  Declining one vaccine means they "don't believe in vaccines?"
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  26758. Um, never. One misrepresentation that will not fly.
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  26759.  @LORDNAG1  Why isn't she talking about drones and Venezuela on a program about M4A? Gosh. No clue.
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  26760. Murray is lying through his teeth. Norman Finkelstein's parents themselves supported full equal rights for all Palestinians.
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  26761. But do they make money? /s
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  26762.  @gmw3083  Greene's books are about the best, most original, creative, and well-written entertainment I've ever seen in book form. His editor also does high-end astrology, archetypes, that sort of thing. See the resemblance? 😉
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  26763.  @gmw3083  No, I am serious. But his work is an acquired taste, and is mostly aimed at warning the unsuspecting. It could be used for ill, of course. He's a great writer. I think you're right, though. If everyone used 48 Laws as a serious template, and emulated the ruthless, we might have only the very worst rise to the top.
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  26764. @waltergrace565  Rogan did, repeatedly, as being a great philanthropist. The first time, I dismissed it, one-off, no big deal. Then he did it again.
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  26765.  @waltergrace565  Like I said, I have a great memory.
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  26766. ​ @zdubzz1280 Targetted harassment, not to mention vandalism, can and should lead to expulsion, but no college demonstration I've seen consisted of anything other than First Amendment-protected speech. The fact that she cannot explain what I could explain in my sleep was mind-boggling. Like, maybe she doesn't know First Amendment law, or believe in free speech? ("Ya think?")
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  26767. ​ @zdubzz1280 In the US, the following are First Amendment protected when they are engaged in as a demonstration of political or social positions or beliefs: cross burning; swastikas; Israeli flags (flown, or shredded); Palestinian flags (flown, or shredded); American flags, ditto; protests against "anti-Christian moral decay" at the funerals of fallen soldiers (if not so close as to disrupt the ceremony and mourners); and calls for violent revolution. ALL of that is free speech. First, there is no evidence anyone called for the genocide of Jews. Second, if it happened during a demonstration, I think it should trigger an investigation, but not automatic punishment. It's not clear on its face whether it is outside the limits of free speech, and it very likely isn't. Third, private universities don't have to embrace the First Amendment. If they claim they do, then they should do so proudly.
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  26768. @tactless8671  Upholding free speech if you have chosen to embrace it should be a very high priority. That confused and lukewarm defense of fundamental civil liberties, by people who are supposed to ardently believe in them, should worry you, not the "gotcha" performance of that careerist congresswoman. You still fall for manufactured hysteria? You don't ask for evidence? If you don't, then that should worry you. Don't jump when you're told to jump. There might be a cliff nearby.
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  26769.  @stucktrick5757  If not, the college is at risk of losing Title VI funding.
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  26770. Interesting how someone with two divorces, a bankruptcy, and who left her children to their paternal grandparents to raise can sound good to you, if you both hate the same person. Grifters is what America is made of now -- grifters and tribes. It's a lesson, of sorts, I suppose.
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  26771.  @videoplaylist686  "Parents and children" "Apples and oranges" Now define "and"
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  26772. Pfft. Both are zero in matters of law. The real lawyer got fired for opposing the war on Palestine.
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  26773.  @dudeonyoutube  Yes, Briahna.
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  26774.  @dudeonyoutube  BTW, the facts of this case are recited in the Complaint, paragraphs 16 - 40. I see no reason to believe any of these three read it.
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  26775. In France, it's much more acceptable to be a Marxist than to be an Identitarian. I've never heard of someone being fired over it. I've never even heard of a PCF member being discriminated against.
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  26776. "Have you people gone mad?" YES
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  26777.  @snakejunt  Yes, and it is heartbreaking. Parents have GOT to say no until their child graduates from high school, and warn warn warn after that. Offers of admission to Harvard have been withdrawn over tweets and such.
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  26778. There isn't a 14 year old on earth who never did anything they would want to put behind them. Not one.
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  26779. Except no one did.
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  26780. ABC News gave a platform to the man who claimed credit for organizing the Beslan school massacre. Russia protested, the US government responded that we have a First Amendment. So, this is hardly new. What is new is the amount of censorship being inflicted on us now.
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  26781.  @BORN753  Ad hom. Trump was the master of that. You cannot compete, give it up.
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  26782. @GigiGhiba-bd4ox  That's not bad if they are not robbed by their kids first. I remember when this was happening to my mother's friends, 30 years ago. One got the money back after going to a lawyer. When my mother died, she cried her eyes out. People not only are exploited, they are also ashamed to talk about it. They will get jeered at and judged, instead of supported.
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  26783. THANK YOU
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  26784. No, actually. You've never lived in Europe, I take it?
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  26785. Amusing to listen to people talking about "capitalism" who either do not know what capital is, or deliberately lie about what it is.
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  26786. "Soros funded?" Who started this meme? State school kids didn't used to need loans for tuition. A summer job was enough to cover the year.
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  26787. Wait. If Soros gives them money, they can pay their loans back! Be honest. If they are demonstrating for free, now THAT would make you mad.
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  26788. A minor who shouldn't have been there in the first place deserves sympathy for the mess he got himself in, yeah. He became a symbol, whereas anyone who took the time to learn anything about him and his family would have realized that he wasn't a bad kid. Nor was he some kind of hero. He wasn't a symbol, he was a symptom.
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  26789.  @waynemorgan6153  The adults he was with earlier that day didn't even stay with him. And no, I do not believe in informally deputizing anyone. We have national guard for that reason. No one else killed anyone that night -- not that I suggest that it was not self-defense. Self-defense is judged in the immediate circumstances, and at that time, he was attempting to disengage. Romanticizing self-appointed law enforcement is bonkers. Kyle's life may be ruined now, and he was not a bad kid. I also agree that others were primarily responsible for what happened -- obviously.
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  26790. She got less than 35%. Hence, over 65% did NOT vote for Le Pen's party in Round 1. Had she won 50% +1, there would not BE a second round. How is it democratic to have someone with barely 1/3 of the votes cast govern? If no party can form a government, that reflects what the voters think of the whole lot of them. Sounds about right, frankly.
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  26791. Glenn, the hysteria is due to the fact that Russia can inflict serious economic harm on the West. FOLLOW THE MONEY. Always the first place to look.
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  26792. ​ @vincewhirlwind1778 I did. It's not vi si ble.
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  26793. @jellybean6778  You must not have heard about the crisis in falsified data, which reaches well into the biological sciences. You must not have read Carl Elliott. For a forensic analysis of some of these dubious studies, a statistician with a law degree and expertise in applying the federal Daubert standard for expert witness evidence could do a much better job of verifying these data sets. But do read Carl Elliott. It's time.
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  26794. Too bad the corporate-dominated DNC didn't have a robust primary and nominate a strong candidate. Wasn't it important enough?
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  26795. The commission will be to figure out the optimal propaganda design. They're having trouble with this one.
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  26796. So you missed The Intercept's article concerning the documents released in their FOIA request.
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  26797. Why are we trying to take Ukraine, after installing our puppet in 2014, and collaborating with Neo-Nazis in the process? I think Russia should take Mexico. Then we can bargain. Just kidding.
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  26798. ​ @jam9297 Lol
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  26799. Wow. The only one who paid anything is the one whose business makes something. Not defending any of them, just marveling at the irony.
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  26800.  @earvetta  Everyone has HIPPA rights. The EUA vaccine release forms all say that if, after reading them, you decline the vaccine, YOUR MEDICAL CARE WILL BE UNAFFECTED.
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  26801.  @shidfard  Never let these people influence you for or against vaccination. Tune them out. They deserve none of your precious time. If you are against taking these vaccines for now, remain ready to change your mind.
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  26802. @Plodding Dream Do people really not know that you have a federally protected right to privacy in the hospital? There are pages of permissions, waivers, hold harmless forms that must be signed. Did you think a camera crew can just show up, "in the public interest?" It's not in everyone's interest to be on television like this. They might lose a job, or not get hired, etc. This is not a favorable report!
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  26803. @Plodding Dream Okay you're right.
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  26804. @Plodding Dream Law offers protections, including privacy protections, for everyone. Supposedly. Well, it used to. Okay. Never mind.
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  26805. ​ @permiek A single case, IF accurately examined and reported, shows what is possible. It cannot be generalized to the population level. But it does provide data.
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  26806. @permiek  It is called a case study. You've never read a medical journal? You've never signed a privacy waiver at a teaching hospital for your case to be analyzed after stripping all identifying information? You've never had a group of interns at your bed? One solid case study shows what is possible. Not at all what is usual, ordinary, etc. Possible. You've never heard of modal logic?
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  26807.  @permiek  Oh wait. You're a "Science" and "Boomer" person. Never mind.
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  26808. @permiek  False. Case studies appear in peer-reviewed medical journals to alert doctors and scientists to what is POSSIBLE, and they often lead to generating testable hypotheses for further research. Moreover, do medical schools teach wrong things? That's taking skepticism way too far.
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  26809. @permiek  Great. One more person who does not understand scientific reasoning and thinks himself an expert. An anonymous testimonial online is NOT a case study by any stretch. Try that. That way, you'll be correct.
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  26810. @permiek  What I already wrote, with helpful highlighting: ​ "A single case, IF accurately examined and reported, shows what is possible. It cannot be generalized to the population level. But it does provide data."
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  26811. @oldmanemptyhouse7659  Where did I say it was true? "She claims a trainer . . . made that assertion." Show me where I got confused on that point. That she made such a claim is correct. She did. I didn't say it was true.
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  26812. I can hardly wait for this INSANITY to be over.
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  26813.  @irene9263  She has practiced since the 70s. She treated veterans at the VA and child abuse survivors for free. She has two Board certifications and teaches at Cornell. Her resume sounds like two illustrious careers, not one. How do YOU know what Amber's demeanor was during those private sessions? Shame on you for joining a mob so easily.
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  26814. Place? Thought those were PRONOUNS.
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  26815. Consider all the corporations that spend far more in lobbying than in taxes. Then consider how many of those corporations need the US military to protect global shipping lanes and air space for them. We pay for that. They should pay for their own security.
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  26816. In short, the editors were NOT talking about facts. They were claiming to be talking about facts, but were not.
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  26817.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  If you do not read the material Greenwald released -- his original draft, and the response it elicited -- then you won't know. That's how it works. If you don't read a text, you won't know what it says. But I mean, it's up to you.
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  26818.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  Maybe you don't realize that "censorship" is a much broader concept than government violation of First Amendment freedoms? (Thus, we have "self-censorship," and so forth, and censorship in violation of private contractual agreements, such as Glenn experienced.) Again, I recommend reading. Hashtags, sound bites, and tweets do not suffice.
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  26819.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  Did you read the contract? In America, we have very broad rights to enter into all kinds of contracts, with all kinds of terms. You don't know what a contract says when . . . you haven't read it. You also seem to forget Greenwald was a founding member of The Intercept, which is not (supposed to be) a storefront or a restaurant but a journalistic endeavor. Hence Greenwald had a lot of leverage to obtain contract terms that most people might not. See, . . . that's how stuff like that works. The debate wasn't about writing "whatever the hell he wants" and having The Intercept run it, but about a specific article -- which he demonstrates they tried to censor, and you decline to read. So, why double down? It's just dumb at this point. I mean, you don't have to read stuff you don't want to read, BUT THEN you don't know what it says.
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  26820.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  If a contract says it is, it is. Remember "trespass on the case?" Mixed questions of law and fact? You never read about all that, either? Your fact-freedom reminds me of a certain president . . Naw, won't go there. That's the province of others.
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  26821.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  Nowhere did I say, or imply, censorship is so broad as to be meaningless, much less that it is a good thing. Why are you lying about what I wrote? Isn't that a "tell?" Oh, I get it. You figure everyone is like you. They won't read it. Especially if they have to go to ALL THE TROUBLE of clicking "Read more."
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  26822.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  The contract for painting the mural didn't contain any clause that deals with "censorship," I'm supposing?
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  26823.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  If you don't understand the role of a free and independent press in the contemporary world, or why certain stories should not be censored from (what purports to be) a free and independent press in order to smooth the path to the U.S. presidency for one candidate or another, I certainly am not sufficiently gifted to teach you. Again, I see you don't read. No one can make you. And if you think a free press is the same as "I like one decorative painting on my WALL, and not another," all the more reason to leave you be.
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  26824.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  You don't seem to understand. I simply don't have the talent or the acumen to pursue this further. I'm not very smart. I'm not even a comedian with a podcast in my garage. I'm vastly out of my depth. If this were water, I'd have been dead by drowning hours ago. Yesterday, in fact. Why are you being so cruel?
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  26825.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  Wow. You said "cry" instead of "whine." I'm impressed. I would try a synonym for "meanie," however. Try the thesaurus online. EDIT: Oh no, wait. You did say "whining." Sigh. Oh well . . .
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  26826.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  No point, you've already gone the "whining" route. We are all waiting for "snowflake." The Intercept has already kindly provided us with "tantrum."
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  26827.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  Who . . . said you were? A limited vocabulary is not proof of one's politics. Not these days.
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  26828. The part about hard work is interesting, but the conversation takes an odd turn. Musk has five children with his ex-wife and one with his new wife, to whom he didn't give a real name. It's much too soon to say he's a good father, and it's biased to suggest divorced dads aren't great dads. They might be. How about we don't know? That sounds right. Hagiography is not your friend.
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  26829. The USSR banned lobotomies in 1950, a full generation before the US did.
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  26830. I wonder what the censorship trigger is? Operation Warp Speed?
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  26831. Did you listen to the whole presentation? First, Dr. Malone said all elderly people and all people with comorbidities SHOULD get vaccinated. Second, Jimmy DID get vaccinated, and is now in a study, due to the vaccine side effects he has experienced.
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  26832. You were vaccinated. So, how did you get COVID? See the problem?
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  26833. She writes well.
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  26834. It's not just drug addicts, Tucker. But that it turned into a disgusting grift, no surprise.
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  26835. Of course! He's speaking to right-wing Americans and they love this stuff.
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  26836. I found a draft copy of the WHO Treaty itself. First, at the very start, the WHO Treaty reaffirms individual state "sovereignty." This is its first clause. But this raises two questions: what does the mean legally, and what does it mean in practice? We would need an international legal expert to answer the first question. In the US, treaties generally have the force of federal law, which preempts state law. We need to know the scope of "sovereignty" in this document. As for the second question, would powerful governments and private NGOs and their foundations have the ability to tell WHO what to recommend, and then would politicians use that as a cover? This time, their recommendations may or may not have saved lives, but trillions in wealth certainly changed pockets.
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  26837. IS ANYONE SURPRISED?
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  26838. Who in the world told you this? Do not buy a used car from that man.
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  26839.  @martinlong8739  Wikipedia standing alone is not a reliable source unless you yourself hunt down all of the footnotes and verify them. I have not, so I am not taking issue with the substance of your comment -- IF you did do the legwork. If you didn't, then do. Get back to us.
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  26840. @@TOM-TOM-TOM " If you disagree with the study author's conclusions, you can't really use the info from the study, if their conclusion is wrong, then everything about their study is most likely to be wrong." This is not the case at all. This is the very reason for peer review, and generally represents the scope of peer review. Barring evidence to the contrary, reviewers will generally assume the integrity of the data presented, and then see whether the conclusions follow rigorously from that data. That's all that peer review generally is. If someone presents the study data without stating that its conclusion differs from their own and why, that may be misleading. Or it may be advocacy. If they elect to present the study, what matters is to be meticulous about reviewing the data and taking care to draw sound conclusions from it. I just saw a study the other day concerning magnesium that looked to me to be too sanguine about the risks of having too much magnesium in the bloodstream, and advocating too strongly for increasing magnesium intake, especially among those who are suffering from COVID. True, the data indicated that low levels of magnesium were a much more common problem -- widespread, in fact -- and that having too much magnesium is really unusual. Still, I didn't think the conclusions were solid. I believed the data -- I had to, to come to this view. You do see that, right?
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  26841.  @_5_675  Not only that, but pronouns. /s
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  26842. Does Naomi Biden's unoccupied vehicle merit Secret Service protection?
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  26843. Um, you're thinking of the Party of Lincoln? Or more recently, Goldwater in his later years, in retirement? I feel it. :/
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  26844.  @kwadon  LOL, some people do say it, every time. It's not some obscure principle, it's the US Constitution.
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  26845. To everyone who brings up George Carlin in this thread: thank you I love you.
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  26846. "That's Washington's fear??" Er, YEAH.
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  26847. Have they admitted the sanctions didn't destroy the ruble?
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  26848. ​ @greatmahatmagandhi4713 Thank you. A note of realism for once.
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  26849. Court Facebook
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  26850.  @ravenswood118  Um, it's called a timeline. You're welcome.
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  26851. Community college.
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  26852. "The enemy is us."
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  26853. We do know there is a concerted campaign to get Brie fired, for being too sympathetic to Palestinians. Glenn Greenwald reported on it yesterday. That's what we do know.
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  26854. I am just so sorry about all of this.
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  26855. AMEN beautifully stated (except for too much swearing -- unnecessary, too mean, and could cause the great points to be taken down along with the naughty words). Not to mention how important these sort of activities are to the global shadow banking system; can we live our lifestyle without it? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/business/fincen-banks-suspicious-activity-reports-buzzfeed.html
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  26856. Nope, more than that. Collecting videos that various people actually, voluntarily posted on social media, particularly those teaching young children and minors in general, is a public service in my view. People, especially parents, have a right to know. But Libs of Tik Tok didn't just "curate" these videos. She accused the makers of the videos of some of the most heinous crimes against children. Not hyperbole; she really did call for arrests for what is essentially free speech. You see a good guy in this picture? Lorenz, by the way, is the last person to expose Libs of Tik Tok, if anyone should. She is one of the worst hypocrites I have ever seen. And she's incompetent. Also, I disagree with power differential arguments, in principle. (We can distinguish governmental actors, including their major contractors vs. all others -- that makes sense.) But anyone can destroy anyone, now. We all know it, too.
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  26857. Maybe they are mountains because you are allowing the aggression of others to undermine you. There are a lot of very aggressive people around now. I know I try to make ant hills out of actual mountains. That won't work.
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  26858. People with legitimate questions about Bill Clinton's role in a Hillary Clinton administration were treated as indecent. That was before we found out about their buddies Jeffrey and Ghislaine.
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  26859.  @vtwright139  This happened on land.
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  26860.  @leevy6753  See who I replied to. Ask them.
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  26861.  @harrymills2770  Yes, and don't stop talking about it. Don't allow the message to be silenced!
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  26862.  @vmtz2001  Did the English colonize Scotland, or vice versa? Russia has no colonies, and never had.
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  26863.  @asiatmpo1  I'm waiting for the condemnation of the US-engineered famine in Afghanistan, and the exposure of all the Department of Defense funding of biological laboratories all over the world -- odd that DOD does, isn't it, and not NIH? -- and a full accounting of exactly what sort of research they are pursuing in these facilities, and what risk it poses to the rest of humanity. This iceberg is deeper than the Epstein affair.
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  26864.  @cleanearth6238  In one breath, he talks about human rights abuses, and in the next he brags about the superior Western "kill ratio." I'm planning to leave the States, so I hope he is an American and that he stays put. A prime example of their inconceivable prepotence.
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  26865.  @asiatmpo1  Is Kosovo a colony of Albania?
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  26866.  @asiatmpo1  Reported and blocked.
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  26867.  @asiatmpo1  I didn't read it, it has odd grammar and no paragraphs. I just saw a bunch of "Comrades."
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  26868. THIS
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  26869. The neoliberal globalists do not have as much of a problem with a Meloni as they do with, say, a Jeremy Corbyn, much less a Syriza that does what it promises to do.
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  26870. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jul/11/hsbc-us-money-laundering-george-osborne-report The major banks are anti-drug, too. 😅
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  26871. I'm getting more and more insight into why being likeable is literally worthless, here, now.
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  26872. I'm not sure what the death rate is, but disability from complications was not rare. We knew someone who became intellectually disabled due to complications. The stand-alone measles vaccine has been tested in Denmark, and it's one of the best ever devised. It seems to condition a child's overall immunity, not just to measles, when given at the right time and by itself. We should look into that.
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  26873.  @jreeder6168  🙏
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  26874.  @jreeder6168  🙏
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  26875. You sound mathematically illiterate. A "mere" $10 million per year, a common bonus, is over $1140 per hour, for every hour of every day, 365 days a year. Is anyone's time worth ten times that? Does anyone have an IQ of 500? Is anyone's day worth 300 or 400 times anyone else's? Did the taxes of the Eisenhower years prevent us from having a growing economy? Did a minimum wage that allowed two people to find an apartment anywhere in the country, or college students to earn their in-state tuition with a summer job, cut anyone's opportunities? We had that through the 1970s. Well, it did make trillionaires impossible.
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  26876.  @peytonlucy5947  Is it or is it not the case that the people mentioned use arcane tax shelters to pay no income tax? Understand that however they diversify their financial assets, and that whenever their portfolios are traded, they will generate huge current income. (E.g., 1% of one billion is ten million) I don't know what your point is. Do you imagine they don't have enormous income-generating investments, even in the case of those whose primary purpose is not to generate income? Even Apple has a 2/3 of a percent yield.
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  26877.  @peytonlucy5947  Give me a specific reference. I looked at ProPublica. I know that an increase in portfolio value is not taxable without a triggering event. When we are talking about multi-billionaires, all of them have tens of millions in taxable income. One tenth of one percent of a hundred billion is a hundred million.
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  26878.  @peytonlucy5947  You haven't addressed any facts. You've just insulted people or said they were wrong without saying how.
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  26879.  I only use this account when I get put in time out  Well that was illuminating.
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  26880. That scared me.
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  26881. Read the opinion. No, huh?
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  26882. No, he really is not. He may not want to serve the interests of anyone but ordinary, working Americans, but you need to make peace with that.
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  26883. Are boomers big defenders of children and teens? Evidence?
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  26884.  @HouseofReason78  And if a vaccinated person with waning immunity (and a false sense of security) passes COVID to someone, what will be your excuse for mandates? Issac's chance of dying of COVID is currently under 1%. Why should he take a vaccine that an older person somewhere in the world ought to have, based on real need?
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  26885.  @HouseofReason78  Of course you start off with a derogatory comment. Yes I do understand how vaccines work. Do you? (Psst, white American? How did I guess?)
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  26886.  @HouseofReason78  Oh, someone is an idiot now! Of course! Blocked.
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  26887.  @HouseofReason78  I see you still use military metaphors for the human immune system. Oh I have confidence now. Do you take out plastic toy soldiers, or Space Invaders?
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  26888. First fair assessment.
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  26889.  @Chromewarrior  He lost that lifeguard job in MARCH. Furloughed indefinitely. DUH.
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  26890. This is likely to be the case. Or, if not yet, soon.
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  26891.  @derangedhermit7981  Parts of your comment are quoting someone else.
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  26892.  @LordMephilis  I'm not Canadian. You are confused.
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  26893.  @derangedhermit7981  Speculation about suicide-by-vigilante, now? You think that had a place in this trial? Your attempt at finding a contradiction in what I stated was even more misplaced. And then you mixed in another comment -- a very good one, but not one I can take credit for. I decided in 2019 to emigrate by 2025, to where the rest of my family lives. Needless to say, the pandemic affected my progress, but also provided a reason to push that date up. I am not alone by any stretch. Open your eyes.
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  26894.  @LordMephilis  I stated the law correctly.
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  26895.  @LordMephilis  Are you a lawyer?
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  26896.  @joeshmoe7967  That's NOT what THIS thread is about. Gee whiz . . . We had a side discussion when one person early on endorsed defense of property, not life or limb, with lethal force. That is not legal.
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  26897.  @joeshmoe7967  You can find some commentator to say anything, including Rittenhouse For President, 2048.
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  26898.  @randolphtimm6031  Duh
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  26899.  @randolphtimm6031  Now I really don't know what you mean.
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  26900.  @randolphtimm6031  Read more. It gets better.
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  26901.  @randolphtimm6031  I said nothing about weapons making anyone feel anything. I said armed and licensed security guards carry them to protect life, not property. I said no one can legally shoot in defense of property and not life or limb. Yeah. Read more. Ditch the video life.
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  26902. I wish I had grown up in Russia. Zero discrimination against my ethnic group. Being discriminated against is never worth it. Also, the greatest math and piano teachers; ballet classes; serious literature and drama; AWESOME public transit. Maybe you like lots and lots of second-class stuff and self-congratulatory propaganda better. I don't.
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  26903.  @Anon-xd3cf  Or, . . . they could, like, be indicted. They could be convicted, incarcerated, and force to disgorge all their profits. Once this becomes impossible, we are looking at a very different world. No justice, no peace. Your post is just another way of saying we better leave them alone. What we've got is as good as it gets? No.
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  26904.  @ozjohn8657  Of course.
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  26905.  @ozjohn8657  They do know the standard protocol, because it is public information, as it was widely debated prior to its adoption. They can also read and think, and spot contradictions in a discourse (such as the patently false insinuation that there were no living children left in the classroom to save). The protocol is that once they can form a unit of two to five officers (number is discretionary), they are obligated to go in, if not through the door then through the window, while the gunman is still at door and distracted. Or, those at the window distract the gunman from the door. So, they needed ten officers, five per unit. Those pesky public disclosure laws! They've ruined America!
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  26906.  @ozjohn8657  Such a relief to know there is no point in opening a DOJ investigation and spending money we don't have. You could just write a report.
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  26907.  @ozjohn8657  I'm an attorney. What are your qualifications?
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  26908. The aftermath of WWII, and the self-immolation of all potential competitors, is what made the United States rich.
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  26909. A man who micro doses, and claims he was "tricked" into permitting his son to transition, should not be anywhere near the power of government. That's an example of whom to avoid.
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  26910. Be leery of false-flag frauds. If financial markets tank, expect fraudulant anti-vaccine articles, to make it appear that there are no solid, scientifically sound critiques of the vaccines. The CIA was famous for this, and the Internet as a medium is perfect for working such a scheme. No one digs too deeply.
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  26911. Read the Military Times account of who Richard Fierro is. His daughter and her boyfriend were with their group and the boyfriend was killed.
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  26912.  @caboose3903  If you don't know how much harm individual billionaires have been doing to the rest of us, you must be singularly oblivious.
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  26913. A country that has had problems with EUGENICS for generations is now using treatments that sterilize kids simply because they have what is usually a fleeting emotional issue. "What could go wrong?"
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  26914. 😂😂😂
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  26915. How can anyone say, "just move on??"
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  26916. The problem is that it is not conclusive, and we don't know the origins yet -- and the reason we don't is that scientific inquiry was deliberately and systematically stifled. This would tend to show that the virus originated in a laboratory in a court of law, but science is supposed to have a higher standard of evidence than the standard used in law, especially where human DISEASES are concerned.
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  26917.  @rinaf6550  There has been news, but you have to go searching for it. When Fauci said he could not exclude a lab accident, MSM did broadcast that. Likewise when some of his most suspicious emails came out. Weak sauce, true, but those who want to know did notice the shift.
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  26918. @TheDoubleLibra We know. Look what's happening on Wall Street, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, etc. Hell, the US never recovered from slavery. Now, their semi-slaves are offshore.
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  26919.  @jamesgarvey8402  Oh, look! My explanation of precisely why Musk is wrong is not visible! Huh! Maybe if we sort by Newest and then scroll, they might let us see it? They do that a lot, in solidarity with fellow b_____ .
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  26920. There are no progressive lawyers or economists? No progressives know anything about logistics? WOW has education gone into a tailspin.
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  26921. The real problem seems to me that investigators did not investigate other possible perpetrators. That doesn't mean Peterson is innocent. It means that you cannot decide who did it and then build the case. You might turn out to be right, but "might" is not good enough.
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  26922. In America, the hospital has been saying "pregnant people" for a long time.
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  26923. Jimmy, this is worse than censorship. It is a prior restraint on anything the person might say, not removal of actual incitement. They can remove actual incitement.
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  26924. ​ @FeathersMcGraw420  Evidence? I mean audits, obviously.
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  26925. ​ @gianni-bull 👏👏👏
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  26926. Bernie can do what Manchin can do. No more, but no less.
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  26927. You got a PhD in mathematics and invest with Peter Thiel, too?
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  26928. The only thing I find appropriate in this generally disgraceful and utterly misleading defense is the assertion that the jury needed to be sequestered. That is asking a LOT during COVID, but this country has the means to provide the jury with a very comfortable and very safe sequestration. Probably would have been better for them as well, in the long run. Shows you what we value.
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  26929. What proportion of whites own anything except a home, and how often do they have a mortgage? What does it matter to a resident of East Palestine that the BlackRock crowd is rich?
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  26930. This is a content observation: pedophilia is not only immortal but also illegal. I was struck by that omission. The two are not the same. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recently made that point in a concurring opinion.
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  26931. @user-zy4wv7yx1z  Children have no such urges. That is the point. How can children know what that will feel like in 10, 12, or 15 years? They don't and they can't. Therefore, informed consent is impossible. But you know that. You are counting on the Puritan Sickness to sweep away the truth. Blocked and reported.
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  26932.  @theoneandonlyroelle  Parenthood is an adult choice. Pro or con.
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  26933. @theoneandonlyroelle  It can happen, or it's a choice? A choice you impose before 18?? Or a choice you preserve, so that it's there, for 18 to 45 and beyond. For the person to decide.
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  26934. @jcorb Not correct. The Israeli study published end of August already showed myocarditis and pericarditis were more frequent from vaccination than from COVID. Other studies have as well, and The Guardian carried the story weeks ago. This is well known. Who told you differently?
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  26935.  jcorb  Nope. Got that wrong. See above.
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  26936.  waptek  Sure. There was no mention of source. That's YouTube.
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  26937. But Jimmy . . . They have to concentrate on impeachment! /s (And if that fails, they BETTER figure out a strategy to get Trumpism off the scene. They haven't achieved that, yet, when it should be easy.)
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  26938. ​ @scooterrockets7815 False
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  26939. So well said! No one should be put in this position.
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  26940. Looks like. /s
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  26941. I wish I had bought that stock, too.
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  26942.  @kevinjohnson6331  Yeah, but the stock. I get that part.
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  26943. Of course Trump woke up and supported the checks, when he realized most of that goes to landlords and mortgages.
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  26944. The testing requirements are all right. Why the rest? The rest is malicious segregation.
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  26945. Whatever anyone may say, and quite apart from any ethical considerations, America's reputation is now terrible. No one believes anything that America says, because of Gaza. "Humanitarianism" has been exposed as pure opportunism. This should concern you.
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  26946. Foreign policy "elites" --- are the ones who don't understand what a no fly zone is?
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  26947. The case fatality rate is about 2% overall. But you still have a point, especially for children and teens, and even people under 30.
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  26948. "COVID payouts soar" . . . Well . . . Why do you think people were denounced and ostracized? Inhibit them, get those statutes of limitations to expire.
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  26949. Now imagine it in 2002, just after the terrorist attacks.
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  26950. Exactly.
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  26951.  @hrs2044  His picture is evidence.
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  26952.  @leepopwell3021  Not at the nightclub where the shooting took place.
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  26953. The manufacturers are immune from liability (that immunity is strong), but doctors and hospitals that fail to treat victims of vaccine injury properly could be liable if they committed medical malpractice. There are lawsuits filed already.
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  26954. This is quite possible. So immoral.
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  26955. YOU don't . . .
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  26956. Brie was great here, agreed.
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  26957. Not really. They make a whole lot of money for absolutely nothing. That counts as "winning" in this joint.
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  26958. ​ @GregorBarclay You call this scurrilous slander and sheer ad hominem "criticism?" There are ways to criticize actual positions without mud slinging. Really. It can be done. Explain something to me: why are mainstream Democrats constantly trying to outdo Trump? I remember when they promised a return to some measure of normalcy and decorum. Instead, we got Hunter and this kid, who sounds like a juvenile delinquent who knows no one can lay a hand on him because Daddy's $$$.
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  26959.  @oderblock  That's different from what he said about John never hearing no, not following checklists (🤣), etc. We in the States all heard this. Bottom line, he took two lives with his. But we need to make up stuff? The facts aren't damning enough? What a mentality! It's why people exaggerated how bad TRUMP was! As if there were a need . . . ! (But if it means so much to you, ok ur rite)
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  26960. @audi presley No. Trump is out.
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  26961. ​​@ashp3387 That is where most of our medicines are manufactured now. But not for these vaccines. Funny, isn't it?
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  26962. Why am I being scents err . . . ?
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  26963. The real irony is that at least one study showed fewer vaccine side effects and better immune response in people who had good vitamin D levels. Those who pushed it were not just evil but remarkably stupid.
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  26964. Why are people dumping on Brie? Where did she so much as hint that the teacher was right? She SAID the teacher was wrong, and that it's a slam dunk. She said the kid should not have been singled out in the first place.
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  26965. She's often flat-out wrong as well. Standards have fallen.
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  26966.  @Hunterchuck  No, the responses are to this story. Do you think this story focuses on the wrong issues? It is quite comprehensive.
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  26967.  @Hunterchuck  Correct. I joined while my state was in shutdown, to save videos to playlists and subscribe to various channels. I am on NO other social media of any kind, and never have been. None. I wouldn't have joined were it not for the pandemic and shelter in place requirements. On balance, a loss.
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  26968.  @Hunterchuck  I didn't insult you. I asked a question. You can see I am not part of any twitterverse, much less a hate club. You, on the other hand, sound like Trump with your instant abuse, and using archaic imagery at that.
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  26969.  @Hunterchuck  I thought my playlists were public?
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  26970. 20%, not 30%, and the program is about learning in general, not any specific subject.
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  26971. Hate to admit there is such a thing as TDS. Chips must be allowed to fall where they may. :/
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  26972. Look, she has politicized this as well, which is the mirror image of what the activist/cultists are doing. What we need to ask is whether there are endocrine disruptors involved. I am more and more concerned that there is some underlying biological cause we know nothing about that is harming these children. Something is very wrong with this picture, and social contagion can't be the whole explanation. The issue was surfacing long before the current craze. But yes, the craze is making everything worse.
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  26973.  @suesamagalski3945  The Bible doesn't change? You must have never compared various translations of the same Bible, much less considered that not all Christians recognize the same Books. Or didn't you know that, either? Biblical Studies, even among the most devout, is a life-long pursuit, involving at least three ancient languages and is fraught with error.
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  26974. @June VanDerMark I don't disagree in the least. Abigail Shrier acknowledged the reality of transgender youth very explicitly during the Q & A session, when she probably surprised a lot of people by saying she was opposed to making medical treatment of these youth a criminal offense. But there is something going on, and she has described a new cult-like contagion very well. This will cause a backlash that harms transgender kids, and already has. People need to keep a sober head on their shoulders and take a hard look at this phenomenon. The Frontline documentary on growing up transgender was fascinating. Not one of these children was ever, EVER comfortable with their biological sex. As toddlers, many gave the appearance of being the opposite gender than the one that conforms with their biological sex. People would spontaneously react to them as trans before they even expressed any preference at all, while their parents were still dressing them. I don't want to see these kids deprived of the help they need because of a new and spurious gender ideology that has no basis in good social practice or medicine. We need to ask more questions. This reminds me too much of the propaganda around the vaccines. The Precautionary Principle and First Do No Harm, and respect for the individual and for personal autonomy are supposed to guide all medical decisions. FAT CHANCE, huh?
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  26975. @June VanDerMark Except that there sometimes is that one exception, that one out of ten million. I can believe it is literally that rare. The issue for kids that young in any event is medication. And if a gender reassignment is wrong at 17, I don't think it necessarily becomes right at 18, "do what you want, your own business." It may be right at 25, or 35, or never. If one day we regard this as more akin to a lobotomy than it is to sound treatment, then it should not be done to anyone. But I doubt that; I think it is time to treat everyone as an individual, using the basic principles of first do no harm, doing less is generally better, fully informed consent, including being informed about what we don't know, and the precautionary principle: the burden of proof for the benefit of any intervention is always on the proponent.
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  26976. @June VanDerMark Shrier clearly does not agree with Peterson. But concerning the treatments for adults, we have banned a lot of things that we used to do. Certain types of restraints, the harshest electroconvulsive treatments, and gay conversion therapies are illegal, even if someone begs for them. Most of the world makes selling a kidney or part of the liver illegal. No one allows elective abortion at every stage of pregnancy.
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  26977. @June VanDerMark Wrong person. I'm agnostic.
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  26978. @June VanDerMark Yes, okay. And what if the billions who believe in reincarnation are correct? Better stop eating fellow mammals, at a minimum.
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  26979. Considering what politicians think of us, that is possible.
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  26980. I think you told us?
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  26981. COVID case fatality rate in the US is clearly below 2% now. The infection fatality rate is always lower.
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  26982. Plenty of them want to forbid free speech if it's offensive, and curtail Fifth Amendment rights. Just now they wanted to make Brian Laundrie's parents talk, and prosecute them for remaining silent. Whenever Americans think something is "immoral," rightly or wrongly, they go full Witch Hunt.
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  26983. Tesla is facing a huge lawsuit in California. That's what this is about.
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  26984.  @fredschnerbert1238  Not what the suit is about! 🤣
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  26985.  @fredschnerbert1238  No, the state did. You've read the verified complaint? GASP DON'T TELL ME YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO FIND IT!!!?
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  26986.  @fredschnerbert1238  No, no!!! It cannot BE that you don't know what that is!!?
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  26987.  @fredschnerbert1238  Besides, Washington DC has the most lawyers per capita, New York state has the most lawyers of any state, and even Illinois, New Jersey, and Minnesota have more lawyers per capita than California does. California bar used to be real hard; Minnesota is the easiest of these five.
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  26988.  @lancesmith889  Of course.
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  26989. Why would people believe that the vaccinations used in children all developed countries, all of which have some form of universal health care, are dangerous?
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  26990.  @serpentines6356  Please prove to me that anyone thinks 2 + 2 = 4 is white supremacy. There is a vile Numberphile video that confuses the issue of infinite series, but those are some British-sounding guys asserting their supremacy to impose wrong answers on the rest of us Because They Are So Smart. Mathologer debunked that. Other than that, I've never seen what you're talking about, and I have searched for it.
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  26991. This is the kind of information everyone should have, and a viewpoint they should hear, in order to make an intelligent CHOICE. The CHOICE must be up to them. Too bad no one reads literature anymore. They would know about how fraught relationships always were.
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  26992. Now that it is crystal clear that the mother in Florida was merely rude, and not threatening anyone, why doesn't BCBS ask that charges be dropped? Not only do they corrupt the politicians, they also waste our tax dollars -- on this. On violating our most fundamental right. Lovely. Remember the first time a corporation paid more in lobbying than in taxes? It raised eyebrows. Now, that's their business model.
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  26993. Now that it is crystal clear that the mother in Florida was merely rude, and not threatening anyone, why doesn't BCBS ask that charges be dropped? Not only do they corrupt the politicians, they also waste our tax dollars -- on this. On violating our most fundamental right. Lovely. Remember the first time a corporation paid more in lobbying than in taxes? It raised eyebrows. Now, that's their business model.
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  26994. You know this is a stunt, correct? It has no bearing on funds disbursed from the US TREASURY.
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  26995. @jsamadams  It isn't agreed-upon, not even in the US. Unless gender dysphoria is a wholly different condition in UK, Sweden, France, etc. This is laughable. Remember the SSRI fiasco in teens? It turned out that it can exacerbate suicidal ideation in that age group, and now has black box warnings.
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  26996.  @rauminen4167  "Sounds about right?" Sheer nonsense, on both counts. What won't you believe? "They don't dare show themselves," and "no place for that in this interview??" Well, you've even contracted yourself. Can't you see that? YOU all are just parroting the same things in on this comments board without thinking. Oh the irony. If this "sounds right" to you, talk to someone, at least when something important to your own well being comes up. If you have ever been to Columbia University, or even to NYC, I would be shocked.
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  26997.  @nobuyukiakayama  Oh right. NO ONE at Columbia, one of the very finest universities in the world, respects free thought, free speech and free expression except this phony. Good thing she escaped North Korea to set Americans straight. Without her, we would never know. However critical I am of the US, I could never come close to what you apparently think of it. You blow my mind with your anti-Americanism. It's pathological.
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  26998.  @goeticfolklore  I know she's unreliable. Why the lemmings on this website don't see through it is anyone's guess. Maybe I'd rather not know.
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  26999. Is that so? And if it is, how do normal people manage to live without finding new reasons to despise this "culture" every day?
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  27000. You are a sweetheart!!
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  27001. Western Europeans have something wrong with them.
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  27002. Amazing work by Jimmy. 16:27 16:41
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  27003.  @Bwuggad  Okay. Say, I have a thought: see her interview with Russell Brand. "Shocker!" Just kidding. People who follow her are not surprised. After all, she did not vote Biden/Harris in 2020, and makes sure everyone knows it.
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  27004. 16:05 That's what they need to do -- journalism -- to demonstrate that someone else's journalism is out of context, selective, misleading, falsified. etc.
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  27005. 18:15 Ford Fischer gives the perfect answer.
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  27006. They were taken off YouTube simply for an unedited tape where Trump made the assertion. Has Hillary ever been censored for talking about Russian interference and Russian operatives?
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  27007. It's not a true threat. It's too vague, under First Amendment law.
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  27008. He's not on trial. He already lost a defamation case on these basic facts.
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  27009.  @yesyouarecorrect1315  That's not an issue in a defamation case. If he abused a terrible person who was just as bad or worse, that terrible person still has a right to mention it in an article. The article is not defamatory.
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  27010. The only left I've heard consistently oppose mandates were the PCF and LFI, French communists and hard left, basically. Watch Aude Lancelin's independent channel to see the protests. The real point is, a person can strongly support vaccination without supporting US policies.
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  27011. Wait for permission.
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  27012. No one said that. Anyone on medication who wants to lower their dose needs to do that very slowly and carefully -- and even those protocols are often too fast for an individual patient. Some drugs require years to taper.
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  27013.  @OxfordAdmissionsCoach  💯
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  27014. @ correspondence committee I'm sorry. I didn't know I was required to genuflect. Perhaps next time we could come up with a signal, comparable to the one for sarcasm? Y'know, something like "/g," . . . so that we don't get caught up in personalities? And to think I basically agreed with your comment to the original post.
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  27015. Due process isn't implicated. By suing Heard for defamation, Depp is asserting that her speech should not have First Amendment protection. That is at the heart of every defamation claim. Emily doesn't know the law. That simple.
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  27016.  @jamienelson3470  This is exactly what I don't understand. Depp is the last person to be a poster boy. MeToo was killed off by Biden and the Clintons in 2020, for obvious reasons. Labelling something "woke" is just telling you "sic 'em," which is more of the same but targetting the opposite side. This case will not make life safer or better for anyone, I can assure you. If it is true that he abused her, then her article is not defamatory. Even if she was worse, even if she is worse, even if she's a Terrible Person. They don't weigh the equities in defamation. It's that simple.
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  27017.  @jamienelson3470  This is no different from the mob that went after Eric Clapton, or Brian Eno, or Brian Laundrie's parents, or the unvaccinated, or all Russians, including Russian musicians on record for opposing Putin and Russian-bred cats banned from cat shows. This is hysteria redux. It's not a balance. It's putting a deeply disordered drug addict on a pedestal for no reason, and the people who did this will be embarrassed after this bubble pops. She's a kid compared to him, she could be his kid. That alone should make you pause at least.
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  27018. Drug money keeps the banks alive. See the HSBC case, which was too big to jail.
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  27019. 90 is not 75. I agree with you --- not him!
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  27020. ​ @alexmorgan3435  Clearly OP isn't French. 😂
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  27021. ​ @DudeSilad Nope. Shows the poster isn't French.
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  27022.  @JohnSmith-ye5gj  LOL, I like your comment. 💕💕🥀😍
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  27023. You're much too kind.
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  27024. @jasonolinger7585  So . . . He just made money and garnered supporters by misrepresenting First Amendment rights, and some American kids exercising those rights in order to protest the US financing a foreign war. Nice work if you can get it?
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  27025. @jasonolinger7585  So . . . He just made money and garnered supporters by misrepresenting First Amendment rights, and some American kids exercising those rights in order to protest our funding of a war. Yeah, definitely listen to him.
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  27026. @betsybabf748  You're the one who doesn't. Yeah, Jill Stein is alleged to have "assaulted" a police officer for wresting her foot from his grip as he tried to take her down, risking a head injury to an older woman.
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  27027. @betsybabf748  Certainly. Too bad about the cents errz who don't want me to say more.
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  27028. Yeah, and yet every last person I know who has looked for a job during the past 20 months has had a LOT of trouble finding one. This was done to people. This wasn't something people did. Where were you? Dislocation is not something all people can quickly adjust to, in an environment like the crisis and fear-mongering we were just put through.
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  27029.  @JoJo-vg8dz  Baldwin said it best: he called them "people who think they're white," a mentality, socially constructed, and adopted, not predestined. Baldwin never found any in Europe right after WWII. There were horrible racists there, and even some who still believed in Hitler, but there were no "white" people. Read Toni Morrison, On the Backs of Blacks. That explains it perfectly. And read Ecclesiastes 9: 11. That's the place to start.
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  27030.  @JoJo-vg8dz  Do black "racists" have social benefits for being racists? Or is it inherent in the system that only white racism can count on being rewarded? Have you ever heard of the book called The Torture Machine? You should read the first few chapters, at least.
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  27031.  @mwfmtnman  But the concept of "race" is much newer. You really don't see it before the 17th century. The ancient Greeks didn't have it. Neither did Medieval Europe. The first conquistadores hurried up to baptize the most "beautiful" Aztec women in order to marry them. Homer mentions the Kush, calls them "Ethiopian" (they were from modern day Sudan), and considers them comparable to Greeks.
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  27032.  @JoJo-vg8dz  You aren't interested in reading anything. That's your right as an American.
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  27033.  @JoJo-vg8dz  Do blacks live under a system where being prejudiced against whites will be materially rewarded? Do you think whites who are prejudiced against blacks are ever rewarded for that prejudice? Are you an open minded observer at all?
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  27034.  @corpsefoot758  Well, I agree with your second point anyway. The first is too categoric. There certainly was a time when Critical Race Theory was American history. But you're right: "was"
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  27035. I thought she could. Wow.
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  27036. Now Robbie loses it. He's lucky Nomiki set a very low bar. Once in a century?😂😂😂🤪🤡🌎
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  27037. The "gender narrative" is a complete fabrication. US troops were ordered to LOOK THE OTHER WAY when "allied" tribesmen committed pedophilia on boys kept captive. One soldier who refused to accept this arrangement was assassinated. Mainstream sources reported this, such as NYTimes.
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  27038. All multilinguals are like that. That's not a disorder.
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  27039. @Scott Covert Western Chauvinism is made up? Someone introduce this guy to Adam Curtis documentaries -- any segment that treats of, say, the chaos in Thailand and Indonesia, and the waves of ethnic war in parts of Africa formerly controlled by Belgium, all wrought by the West. When insatiability is treated like a virtue, chaos is never far behind. One crazy scheme after another to grab more, more, more, and a bizarre new cover-story to justify it -- until the world blows up. You have to be a chauvinist to support it.
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  27040. @Scott Covert No interest.
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  27041. @Scott Covert Hmm, let's see: should I watch Adam Curtis, the renowned and eccentric BBC documentarian, who has made all of his work freely available, or should I consult The Proud Boys? Decisions, decisions.
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  27042. @Scott Covert Whom to trust? That's not hard. Trust no one. Who can inform me about the history of Western imperialism? An American founder of some dubious magazine? Or social media platform, etc.? What would his incentive be? Adam Curtis is in his 60s, though you'd never guess. He is British, and well-read.
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  27043.  @minagray8574  In the immortal words of Francoise Dorleac, "nobody asked your opinion."
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  27044.  @apethae1  I have worked in both as well, and you may not realize it, but you just proved my point. Of course people are pushed out of their jobs -- in academia, and in the private corporation, in precisely the way you've just described. It's practically a human algorithm by now, and it works like a charm. Of course certain people are protected -- in business and in politics. (Harvey Weinstein sure lasted a LONG time and had many, many friends, until the winds changed and his films started flopping.) The central point is, in business, no one has First Amendment rights. You can get fired for expressing your views, even outside the workplace, and it is legal to do so in the private sector. In academia, this, too, is more and more the case, and the reason comes down to a very similar mindset. (I will bet that the tenured faculty in the fistfight was either a political animal extraordinaire, or a "star," with lots of publications and name recognition. He was not a run-of-the-mill tenured prof.)
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  27045. 5:47 They always do in cases of "right wing extremism" -- and don't be so sure the FBI doesn't support it, too.
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  27046. I bet you don't. You never wrote anything.
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  27047. Think of all the young black men who are not shot during a police encounter. So glad to hear there's no problem, then. Without comparing players to nonplayers, no generalization is possible, much less a claim that video games cause violence. But you don't know whether they do create a small risk, by comparison to not playing them, either.
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  27048. As long as the oligarchy was buying Hunter's paintings, what was not to like?
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  27049. That is the worst math website ever.
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  27050. That color is perfect on Krystal.
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  27051. ​ @capttrips1523 That was part of the discussion. Did you tune out too soon?
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  27052. Are you this good at predicting the stock market?
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  27053. I wonder if he'll pay for his candor.
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  27054. ​@kathydoty8718 She did start talking about how she supported a Yes vote. That's how they got away with it. They just played the tape.
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  27055. The truth is the government is pushing kids TO these corporations. Every grammar school says "connect with us on Facebook." Facebook started out as a slambook against Zuckerberg's female college classmates. Where are the wokesters to "call this out?"
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  27056.  @TheSands83  Actually, if someone has a wardrobe malfunction, good manners IS to pretend you saw nothing. A joke isn't harassment! It's just mildly to moderately RUDE. If someone, especially a superior, keeps flashing you in the workplace, consider speaking to a lawyer. That's not funny. Guys show too much at work all the time; e.g., plumbers, etc. They need to get a better fit in their work pants and a belt, or overalls.
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  27057.  Wynn Wynn  On Facebook, Tik Tok, and Twitter, right? That's how far you've fallen? Why are you telling me this? I don't want to know.
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  27058.  @monotech20.14  belated thanks!! :)
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  27059. If a bunch of people die in infancy, and a bunch more after age 70, but not many in between, you still get a mean life expectancy around 45 or 50.
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  27060. The answer was not quite satisfactory. But keep asking. We have heard worse. :/
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  27061. Wow, did Mr. Nice Canadian unleash a lovely little hatefest here. These are the worst comments I've seen anywhere.
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  27062. I'm so glad that the First Amendment has been eviscerated. /s
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  27063. Take it as an opportunity to practice tolerance.
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  27064. ​ @bryanemmel6516 It is immensely difficult to win tort cases against major multinational corporations, which he has consistently done.
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  27065. ​@bryanemmel6516 Various drugs that have been proven to be safe and effective only turn out to have unexpected risks when used in millions of people and in combination with other drugs. I support a multivariate analysis for all of these drugs, which is hard to do, takes a lot of time, and is expensive.
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  27066. Learn from the best, then take it to another level. What's not to like?
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  27067. 13:19 You need a camera on Ana and Cenk just as much as you need a camera on the cops.
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  27068. Cute intro. I admit it.
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  27069.  @tilleryinnovations592  True. He will mumble but stick to his ideological stance.
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  27070. This isn't even relevant. AP is elective, and is supposed to lead to college credit. The College Board sets the standard for curriculum and the AP test. The College Board is a private organization. The job of a governor is to ensure truth in advertising, not to censor. These are ELECTIVE courses. If the courses do lead to college credit, and there are teachers who want to teach and students who want to study, that is all that matters. If the courses do not really lead to college credit, they should be scraped, not revised by a politician.
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  27071.  @PabloTheThinker  It's not indoctrination, it's an AP course, purely elective. Florida students will go on to college all over the country. Will this lead to AP credit or not? If yes, let them take it. If no, scrap it. You're not thinking. You're reacting to Whoopie Goldberg's nonsense. She never knows what she's talking about.
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  27072.  @TylerRein  Not for AP. The College Board decides if the courses are worthy of credit. CB is private.
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  27073.  @PabloTheThinker  You think voters should get to vote on what merits college credits?
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  27074.  @PabloTheThinker  College Board is a private entity. They design and administer AP tests.
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  27075.  @PabloTheThinker  Well, for your information, those facilities are used for a lot of things outside the required curriculum, including prayer meetings for kids who form a club and choose to attend. I don't look to stop them, just to make sure there is no pressure on anyone to go.
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  27076. I don't know why they had Whoopie Goldberg to start off the segment. She confuses everything, as usual. She thought Jill Biden had an MD and would make a great Surgeon General. She proved she doesn't know WWII history. Now she's an authority on AP curricula? Stop the madness, lol.
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  27077.  @PabloTheThinker  AP is not part of the curriculum for graduation, but only as an elective for those who want to sit for the exam to get college credits.
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  27078.  @PabloTheThinker  That's what I meant about Whoopie's complete ignorance of the whole matter. She is an example of someone who should have zero influence on curriculum, and I don't care if she goes and wins an election tomorrow. Perfect example of what I mean!
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  27079. It's a game of chicken.
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  27080.  @katymeigs5290  Great, great point. Thank you.
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  27081. He worked in NY, got disabled in NY. Then, reasonably enough, moved.
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  27082. "LOW STAKES MISTAKES" Everyone remember this. Perfect.
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  27083. No one can do that.
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  27084.  @sygrene  What's your source for this? It's not lost wages or something. Why would it be "income?" It's a division of property owned that should have already been taxed before division.
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  27085.  @TheUntaintedTreble  You just made no sense at all. Nor did you respond to what I said. Nor did I say or suggest what you put in quotes. Why bother?
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  27086.  @variousthings6582  Most of "Russiagate" fell apart. Russia hatred is alive and well.
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  27087.  @TheUntaintedTreble  Judges, especially at the Supreme Court, do pose questions as hypotheticals. That's the most common form of questioning employed, to understand the full ramifications of a given position and what sort of precedent it would set for a class of future cases.
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  27088.  @LP12576  He decided not to understand. Don't waste your precious time.
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  27089.  @LP12576  Nadine Strossen wrote about this in her book on hate speech. She gave examples of every hate speech law that ended up being used against the very people it was supposed to protect. It shocked me, I can tell you.
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  27090.  @mcgruff3309  I never thought of it that way.
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  27091. ​​ @TR4G1CK No, that is a real trend. Countries with real health care are stepping away from aggressive gender treatments for kids and the youngest adults.
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  27092. ​ @TR4G1CK Adults used to have to have at least a full year of psychotherapy prior to undertaking drastic medical measures that can never be undone, and were often told to continue with psychotherapy for a second year, if not turned down. Perhaps this was too rigorous, but what is happening now is too lax. Every child, no matter what their psychological issues may be, has a human right to preserve their future reproductive choices to the greatest extent possible. Government should not be coercing doctors and patients, but ask yourself why we are here. I can't believe that a country with the sorry history of eugenics toward "the imperfect" that this one has, has bought into this sudden increase in adolescent transitioning. Sinister.
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  27093.  @VanessaSchmithorst  Because preserving a child's future reproductive choices shouldn't be something parents can prevent. They used to be able to. Remember? Today, it is a human right.
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  27094. @VanessaSchmithorst  Taking every possible precaution to preserve a person's future reproductive choices, especially while they are a minor, was once considered a universal human right.
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  27095.  @VanessaSchmithorst  You do you. We'll stay out of it. 😂
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  27096.  @VanessaSchmithorst  You got my point. 😂😂😂
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  27097. First I had to stay in my house. Then I had to double mask. Then it was time to be injected with some new vaxx. Or else. (Hunter's laptop is Russian dis/mis/malinformation I swear it is, don't come for me.) Next, I had to fly the Ukrainian flag. (I had to buy a Ukrainian flag.) And then I have to be for some DRUGGIE because Bad Women and pirates. Or else. America, Land of the Free.
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  27098.  @OakleyAirN10777  What opinion? That was a scientific falsehood, and a morally repugnant one at that.
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  27099. AMEN
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  27100. That is normal. No, I'm serious.
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  27101. ​ @tuckerwalden2049 This was a pro bono case that her Prestigious Law Firm took for more prestige and stuff. Partners don't write this stuff, either.
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  27102. ​@tuckerwalden2049 The judges I worked for were far more hands on.
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  27103. ​@christineadam6764 She said she read it, and that it's ten years old. I don't defend her answer, but if that is her worst, yawn.
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  27104. No, that is her job. $$$
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  27105. I know. Such a brilliant, lucid man who overcame a stutter to be eloquent in the extreme. 😊
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  27106.  @mrjohnnyk  Plus the war mongering.
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  27107. This will burn out. Lunacy cannot be sustained. We've been here before.
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  27108. Online courses as they exist now have been proven not to work for the vast majority of students. This is well known. Sometimes they are a way to obtain a credential for something you mostly know already.
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  27109. @jamesreed9013  I won't deny it, juries worry me. The appeal could only be based on ineffective assistance of counsel or something of that nature. You could also say insufficient evidence as a matter of law, but that's harder, actually. You have to prove that no fair-minded juror could convict on the evidence presented, not just that your trial was mishandled. The jury was instructed as to the law by the judge. Wasn't this guy listening? I just read the biography of a major attorney in my city who died recently at an old age. It bragged about how he won a case for a major hospital that had transplanted a kidney to a young woman and gave her HIV and hepatitis B. Both. There was no doubt as to the source. The excuse was that they followed standard of care at the time. The jury gave her nothing. I wouldn't want that biography, come to think of it.
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  27110. This puppet "thinks?" Um, I don't think so. Agree with your last line.
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  27111. ​ @Oldmusician1357 NIH maintains a free library of medical journals in pdf form. Start reading.
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  27112. I don't care about that twit, either.
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  27113.  @rynovisionrl  Sure I do. Say, have you been watching the BRICS+ summit? Just popped into my head for some reason. Or Naledi Pandor? She's amazing.
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  27114. If it is low-hanging fruit, why would it be on the twitter feed of diplomats who had some real influence over war policy?
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  27115. Oh, so Global Warming doesn't compel the US to drop tariffs? Just like the pandemic didn't compel the pharmaceutical companies to drop patent protection. Uh huh.
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  27116. I think all sorts of scenarios should be studied, absolutely. A lot of the rules they set are to keep police from panicking and shooting a fleeing student whom they mistake for an accomplice. The rules aren't always set to save kids from the actual shooter, but to control the scene. Anyway, what we're doing isn't working.
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  27117. He wasn't prescribing it for anyone. He was describing its nature and effects, from his standpoint as a mental health professional.
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  27118.  @JIRM88  Sheer nonsense. If a psychotherapist is entirely unfamiliar with the effects of commonly-prescribed psychoactive medications, then he is incompetent. Even social workers have a familiarity with such medications -- anyone who might treat a person with a psychological disorder has to be able to spot such issues, in order to alert their patient or their psychiatrist in case of a problem. Whether a particular drug had a very unusual effect on a particular person is beyond the ability of anyone who has not treated that person to judge. That I agree is true. Dr. Grande is not diagnosing Brittany, but informing us about likely and unlikely side effects of medicine she is purported to be taking. Strictly speaking, we do not know her diagnosis or her prescription medications. Those are all confidential.
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  27119. It's a stunt. Gaining conservatorship over an individual has no bearing on funds disbursed from the US Treasury, even if it were possible to leapfrog over their next of kin. You think our servicemembers wouldn't get paid? Social Security checks wouldn't go out? The lights would be shut off at the Capitol? 🤪
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  27120. Well? /s
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  27121.  @privacyplease1556  I think his parents better take out a long-term care insurance policy.
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  27122. Sure they do. France still has a Communist party.
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  27123. Democracy Now has comprehensive reporting.
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  27124. Perfect lineup. I'm in heaven.
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  27125. Who is doing what to whom now? See the ICJ report.
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  27126.  @easymoney7007  Israel IS in fact committing war crimes this very moment. On the other hand, alleged words are not bombs. Nor have you shown that "ALL Muslim countries want, etc." You haven't because you can't. There is no such evidence. Muslim countries have signed many peace treaties with Israel, and are not joining the fray now.
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  27127.  @easymoney7007  Reply invisibled. Hallelujah.
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  27128. ​ @bobgillis1137 All privatized, like rents? That would work great! /s
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  27129. Which segment?
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  27130. So . . . If you are a journalist, is telling a source how to contact you confidentially, without being detected, A CRIME now?
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  27131. So, let me see whether I understand . . . People who believe in hierarchy always put themselves on top. Is that right? Or no?
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  27132. ​@waltonsmith7210 Exactly. Will he also say he was "tricked" into microdosing hallucinogens?
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  27133. No police report, no report to an attorney (who is an officer of the court), no sworn affidavit, no testimony under oath in a court or tribunal --- an anonymous report to mainstream media. Speaks volumes.
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  27134. @mvujnovi1  The law that lets Coach Kennedy (v. Bremerton) "do his thing" is now allowing ideologues of a different persuasion to do theirs. None of it belongs in public school.
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  27135.  @Sundancer09  I'm an agnostic since age 15.
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  27136. @Sundancer09  You don't understand my post at all, do you? OP wants Trump to "do something." Well, parents can do something -- but that involves invoking the IDEA, which also means facing the fact that they have a child who is suffering, and putting that child's best interests first. But parents of children with these problems DO have rights, as well they should, and their views must be taken into account. And sometimes schools do make it worse, in all different directions, and they have to face that, too. Starting to see?
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  27137. You're right about one thing -- feelings are irrelevant. It is illegal to use lethal force in defense of property. If no person's physical safety was put at imminent risk by these kids, then the man can be found guilty of an illegal homicide.
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  27138. Don't worry, she will. /s
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  27139. Because we HAVE TO tweet, and tweet quickly. 🤣
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  27140. Odd that this is coming out now, before the election. Aren't there interests aligned to suppress this news until after the 2025 inauguration? Or not?
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  27141. @sonnyjs15  Sure. Hitting someone with a flimsy stick on the soles of his gym shoes will cause them to scream every time. He had "gestured" for a weapon, with no sign of one, but at the end, they said they'd let him go. No sign of police, or holding him for the police. No sign that he was at any point patted down for a weapon. LOLOL, what will deep fakes do to your brain if this doesn't raise a doubt?
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  27142. OMG, is this good -- and shocking. Who's here August 2020?
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  27143. ​@C_R_O_M______ Irrelevant, how? It responds to the fake biography presented here -- which just happens to use the same tactics as those denouncing Thomas Jefferson (he owned slaves, had children with a slave who were not recognized, put together his own Deist Bible by literally cutting up the Bible and pasting it into a commonplace book, etc.)
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  27144. ​​ @C_R_O_M________  Irrelevant, how? It responds to the fake biography presented here -- which just happens to use the same tactics as those denouncing Thomas Jefferson (he owned sl*ves, had children with a sl*ve who were not recognized, put together his own Deist Bible by literally cutting up the Bible and pasting it into a commonplace book, etc.) None of that has any bearing on his role in founding the United States and the Constitution.
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  27145.  @C_R_O_M________  It's so bad that my cogent reply is . . . A free country with choices and markets and everything, and yet . . . Endless scents err ship.
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  27146.  Bugler55  I'm thinking about what you said, and I just can't see it. Denounce the book? Sure, why not? A person can credibly condemn anything they've read and consider to be ill-conceived and oppressive. But ban? Based on what? Do we go back and burn Henry Miller? Or how about Zola?
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  27147. Aaron, PLEASE sue these people. They are benefitting from their rhetoric. They need to disgorge those profits. Ana is now trying to come between Jimmy and Stef. Seriously. It's no longer enough to laugh her off. She won't stop.
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  27148. $20b would be enough to house every homeless person.
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  27149. No he's not. The French Communists denounced forcing vaccinations during the pandemic. The left in France made it illegal to ask a minor their vaccine status. This broadcast just called him an "arch capitalist." A megalomaniac with totalitarian tendencies is a better description. He's not a supporter of FREE markets, that's for sure.
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  27150. She seems unstable. I saw several videos, including where she was sobbing and saying strange things.
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  27151. @GodVoid_  In Paris, most parents are not married. Catherine Deneuve and the last president of France with kids didn't marry their children's parent. What is very unusual, however, is child abandonment.
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  27152. So, it's safe to say it now. Who did the calculation of how long they would have to wait? I mean, based on our typical memory span, disaffection, and so forth.
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  27153. He always omits payroll taxes and Medicare. Those are regressive taxes. He also omits the Roth IRA, where withdrawals of capital gains have zero tax. Seriously, do not listen to these 🤡s. They have their own grift, and a very easy job. I don't have to know you to know you work harder/are more productive. Practically everyone is.
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  27154. P. S. Check out all the corporations that pay no tax or get rebates. Or spend more on lobbying than they pay in taxes. It's . . . Fascinating.
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  27155. What a shame that he joined a cult that hurt his credibility and caused others to mistrust the true things he said.
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  27156. Legal in UK. No Mann Act there.
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  27157. ​ @iandresari726 She was formally punished. I don't consider that consistent with First Amendment principles. They could have passed a resolution condemning the slogan. Instead, they formally doled out a punishment of her.
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  27158. ​ @TheLastDonaldYouMcRonald Hate speech is legal.
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  27159. ​ @adamh4594 Why punish a person for words that are First Amendment protected? 'Splain me this one.
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  27160. ​ @adamh4594 Both Tlaib's words and Miller's words, even if you interpret both in the very worst way possible, are First Amendment protected speech. Congress could have passed a resolution condemning her speech and asserting support for Israel. Instead, they doled out a punishment, after swearing an oath to protect and defend the US Bill of Rights. They should be ashamed.
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  27161. ​ @beepseatsfindingfoodtreasu8756 That's for her constituents to decide in less than a year. I mean, if we still get to vote. Maybe there will be another "emergency."
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  27162. ​ @adamh4594 This was grossly disingenuous, by the way. Miller was not exactly lamenting the leveling of Gaza.
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  27163.  @TheLastDonaldYouMcRonald  "Promoting violence" as a theoretical matter (as Jefferson and Paine did) is also legal. "Inciting imminent violence" is not. See Brandenburg v. Ohio, or have Glenn Greenwald read through it for you step by step.
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  27164.  @TheLastDonaldYouMcRonald  Anyway, censure, not censor. But it is punishment intended to chill free speech. Shame on them, they swore to uphold THIS constitution.
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  27165. @adamh4594  I'm supporting the Constitution, AND I am stating correctly what it says. That Americans don't know anymore, or recognize a GOOD argument from a bad one, is the real problem. Actually, I was shocked by October 7, and by the instant support "for Palestine" that I heard within a day. I came down with COVID a few days later, for the first time that I know of, and I have no doubt it was due to the emotional jolt. That has nothing to do with the Constitution. I can separate feelings from principles.
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  27166.  @adamh4594  You should go back to the top of this thread and read all my posts. You would have yourself a mini lesson on the First Amendment, complete with a key reference, all for free.
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  27167. @adamh4594  "Espousing how blind you are?" Er, do you think that sounds Real Smart, or do you think other people do? Maybe you're right.
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  27168.  @adamh4594  No you don't. And you're using Big Words to hide it. "Conflation of concepts" 🤣
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  27169.  @adamh4594  I didn't say I was "an authority." I said my posts are a free mini lesson, which they are. (Say. Why do you conflate those concepts?)
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  27170.  @adamh4594  It's not "my expertise" that has authority, and it isn't "my" knowledge in any event. Yes, there is a distinction between writer/speaker on the one hand, and what is written or spoken on the other. The latter stands or falls on its own merits. I'm not telling you to believe me because I have some special access to esoteric truths, but because what I have stated happens to be correct. Supreme Court opinions are the authority on American constitutional law, not persons. I read them. I suggest you do the same. They are open to everyone.
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  27171.  @adamh4594  A formal censure isn't "nothing more than outside criticism." It is a finding of wrongdoing and a punishment, in the form of congressional reprimand, for that wrongdoing. Consider the following analogy. If a bar formally censures an attorney, do you think that's just "criticism?"
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  27172.  @adamh4594  You kept bringing up the very same things that had been long ago addressed as if they hadn't. I'm actually starting to think there's something wrong with you. I've given you far too much of my time.
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  27173.  @johnfuzz5179  She never claimed they did.
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  27174. Kim, the translation of what Macron said is a lot saltier.
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  27175. I would not worry unless you are pregnant or breastfeeding. Assume it is not dangerous until proven dangerous.
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  27176. Things are SOOO bad that the DNC first ran Biden, then Kamala, to put things right. The major parties are playing with our heads.
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  27177. Joe apologized but did push back against the unfairness.
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  27178. We take from those who work and give to the dominant class. See how Bezos made his money in reality. Ditto Bill Gates.
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  27179. The New York Times did, for purposes of making the statistics more vivid and comprehensible.
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  27180.  @donnyj5805  PayGo is window dressing, much less consequential than the ficticious debt ceiling. Didn't all the legislation passed to deal with the pandemic show you that?
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  27181. He knew what a woman was when he picked Kamala. I think. Right?
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  27182. Have you seen his book on Picasso? I think you'd love it.
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  27183. For the money? They paid her.
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  27184.  @altergreenhorn  THIS
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  27185.  @bobbunni8722  Right. A subsidy for bankers, not support for education; support for education was deliberately gutted. Did my post have too many words for you?
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  27186.  @AQuietNight  Excellent point. As far as I know, only California still allows that. Illinois does not. I agree with the California system and wish it were much more robust. (BTW, I am licensed in California.)
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  27187.  @t-revs_taste_tube  Look up some of his videos. Gabor Mate.
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  27188.  @t-revs_taste_tube  The book is called In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. Immensely compassionate.
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  27189. Long gone.
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  27190. Is it traditional to expose your intimate family life to the press? No, it's a new, illegitimate way to make money. Exposing your minor children to the media when they cannot consent is a disgrace. If the reporter participated in it, he's part of it as well. I don't know whether she is oppressed, but the children are.
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  27191. Every psychoactive drug -- literally every -- has been proven to have serious side effects, either immediately in some, or over time in nearly all who take it. The brain is simply too complex for us to predict what may happen if we interfere with its processes. I exercise caution with DHA, magnesium, and B12 supplements, much less anything else, and look to food first for my nutrients. I wonder how many of these jaded money hoarders will have some form of dementia by age 60.
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  27192. 😂😂😂
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  27193.  @Jagnyy55441  "Gutfeld?" Autocorrect is on a tear lately. Show me where she fomented imminent violence, within the meaning of Brandenburg v. Ohio, i.e., American law. Just show me what she did.
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  27194.  @Jagnyy55441  Oh, so you don't bother to find out something about free speech? No problem. It won't concern you. When do you have anything to say?
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  27195.  @Jagnyy55441  Since you don't like American law, which law do you prefer?
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  27196.  @EricRichard-il9hh  SI
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  27197. Krystal Ball never said that.
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  27198.  @wvu05  She said that things haven't changed under Trump? What things? Everything? Or, Trump failed to make the changes he promised (and probably forgot with his next tweet)? She has said the latter, sure. Trump adopted some faux populist rhetoric and did nothing good, just engaged in more scapegoating and signaling approval to ultraright militias.
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  27199.  @wvu05  I follow her regularly and I have never heard her say anything that sounds anything like that.
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  27200. @greenbat Sure. That's better.
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  27201. Do they not know our troops were told to ignore pedophilia in our allied tribesmen in Afghanistan? Even the NYTimes reported it extensively, no sugar coating.
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  27202. He takes it for granted. Having to answer, for once, would be . . . confusing.
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  27203. Joined TWO months ago, for this? Hunter Biden has more pride.
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  27204. Yes. And the point stands nevertheless. What Jimmy said implies as much -- local authorities did not cooperate with Trump.
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  27205. Paris Vogue
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  27206. SOURCE??
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  27207. Why is America funding it?
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  27208. Adam Smith also warned about privatization of the commons, and about the nature of neo-feudalism. Smith said that only the dishonest machinations of the neo-feudal class could prevent the Invisible Hand from operating to create optimal markets. He never said nothing could interfere with "magic" of the Invisible Hand. We are so far below Smith, much less Marx.
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  27209. Look at all the people praising Kyle Rittenhouse. Not merely defending him from murder charges -- but praising. See what Tucker Carlson said, and that was mild compared to what a lot of people said. The police encouraged him.
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  27210. @fragefuchs  🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm a lawyer, I know the entire line of Supreme Court cases. That is not what they say. "Wikipedia" -- 🤡🌎 Well, to be fair, people with PhDs have plagiarized it!
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  27211.  @fragefuchs  Trust less. Verify.
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  27212.  @fragefuchs  Yes, and that line of cases did not protect elective abortion as a constitutional right up to the time of birth.
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  27213.  @fragefuchs  Apparently, criticizing wiki is Verboten now on YT. Surprise, surprise.
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  27214. Time stamp?
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  27215.  @georgehugh3455  If they live on a coast, YES. Are you kidding?
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  27216. I once got a review removed from Yelp. Their algorithm tagged it as paid advertising. This was about 20 years ago, and back then they would answer emails. They must not have been billionaires yet. Never go on Yelp unless some small business expressly asks me.
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  27217.  @CoercedJab  If you can make that kind of money at 15, please go ahead. Working over the summer used to pay for a year of tuition, in-state. Hey, if you can star in a movie, or maybe win an Oscar, or a US Championship in a sport, please. No pearl-clutchers should stand in your way.
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  27218. I feel for you. He's not for real. Maybe people do need Plato, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky . . . James Baldwin.
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  27219. 😂😂😂
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  27220. You took the bait.
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  27221. Is Asia part of the world? How crazy are you all?
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  27222. Funny, that's how sex scandals were always used in the past. Everything old is new again . . .
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  27223. 4:40 Proof of how much women are hated, by very sick minds, obviously.
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  27224.  @Buttlather  Well, I commend your resourcefulness and I am so sorry about the shootings. It takes a toll on everyone involved; you may have incipient trauma and not even know it because you gradually got used to a degree of heightened vigilance, and nightmares, and simply deal with all that.
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  27225.  @Buttlather  Well, the poorest neighborhoods where I live have unbelievably bad basic services. You see dangerous empty dwellings, you see broken sidewalks and potholed streets, you see apartments so far below code that they are dangerous and catching fire all the time -- and of course the first thing anyone does is blame the residents, who usually had nothing to do with it. Then the concept of food desert is real --- whenever a nice store opens in a neighborhood close to a poor area, you will see very poor people buying groceries, even at Whole Foods when they have sales. Liquor stores, convenience stores, and small storefront churches, empty lots, broken sidewalks, impassable streets, broken street lights, flooded streets, lead pipes . . . and why? Why would one part of the same city have new schools, sidewalks, streets, and street cleaning every month?
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  27226.  @Buttlather  I'm talking about neighborhoods I've visited and where my friends live, not something I read and repeat. 1. I'm bilingual since my earliest memories, multilingual now. I can actually talk to people. 2. I have not made a new white friend in this century. Gosh I wonder why that is, so weird. (As far as manners are concerned, POC are much more like the Europeans I know. Anyone who's actually been around would know exactly what I mean.) You failed to respond to the rest, of course. Never mind, I'm done talking to you.
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  27227. Not to mention LFI and PCF -- the hard left and the Communist party, of France. They are squarely against vaccine mandates and passports.
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  27228. Where do Latin American left parties stand? This kind of frenetic, mindless panic is more common here. Twain even put one in Huckerberry Finn.
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  27229. This also shows that no one seriously reads in foreign languages. Remember when every French student read The Little Prince in the original? Check out some pictures of the bookstores in Latin America.
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  27230. A few years ago, "lived experience" was a huge step up from "my truth." Sigh.
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  27231.  @erickrajniak8424  Sounds like an excellent start. This has become a new cult.
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  27232. @erickrajniak8424  When vaccine mandates first were imposed, those who resisted really felt sure there was no hope. Well, more people were reinstated with back pay than I would ever have thought. Even the EEOC cautioned employers not to dismiss all religious objections. One woman who was pregnant and felt, from a spiritual standpoint, that she had a sacred duty to do everything to protect her baby, and took all steps to register her sincere religious objection to the vaccine, was fired, and then she sued, and won. :)
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  27233.  @joncrane7661  Real facts don't sell. Hence they have no value. /s
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  27234. @RadiusG60  A good education was a leftist value. Under Mitterrand, French kids could start Ancient Greek in 5th grade, and complete two years of college-level Mathematics in high school. The Soviets gave medals for achievement in Mathematics and Physics, not just music or sports. Le Monde printed notices of births, deaths, marriages, and doctoral thesis defense, and the student who wrote the best philosophy essay for the baccalaureate was interviewed on all the major media outlets. Mélenchon wants to bring back more Latin and Greek. By comparison, DEI, LGBTQ, and all this stuff look like strategies to make a quick buck, divide everyone, and turn them away from what matters.
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  27235.  @robzombie5928  How interesting that my post about actual socialists in Europe and details on how they give kids a classical education is . . . You guessed it. Every time.
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  27236. ??? Hardly
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  27237. They keep acting like rich people agreed Epstein was a bad guy.
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  27238. 10:27 WHAT is wrong with that? If you believe it is incomplete, fine. Listen to the end.
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  27239. Suppose Putin himself revealed true, authentic, classified information that the US is about to attack Iran, or China, or Venezuela with unconventional weapons. Would it be wrong to blow the US government's cover?
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  27240. What? You don't want to pay for WARS? Then you better be ready to face prosecution and prison -- and the rest of us have to pay for THAT!
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  27241. That describes no one from U of Chicago. There are stronger and weaker, yes, but no one that dim.
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  27242.  @Niawithnat  Makes perfect sense.
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  27243. I knew Hasan was despicable, but I had NO idea.
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  27244. BOND?????????
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  27245. Well, based on my own research, I have goat cheese, yogurt, or kefir several days per week, but certainly not daily. I'm good with that. And I'm done worrying about it.
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  27246. Samantha Power cares about Samantha Power, not the American people. Samantha Power cares about Samantha Power's power.
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  27247. "I would suggest that whatever institution gave you the award revoke it immediately." Is this little genius going to save your women and children from the wokster mob? Hey, maybe he's your last best hope. 🤣
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  27248. Yes he did.
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  27249. Sure. Which is exactly why Biden is in. We have seen this movie.
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  27250. Barrett's questions suggest exactly the opposite.
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  27251. Socrates? Oh please, don't go there.
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  27252. WOW, this clip was PERFECT. It's not about Nancy. Bush and Bowman plan to represent their districts. How refreshing.
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  27253. 5:10 Back in the day, Los Angeles Times broke the story that pro-Hillary PACs were operating extensive troll farms to hunt down and denounce every criticism they could find of Hillary online. Especially when it was true.
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  27254.  @stevembouadeu7540  Thank you. People's listening abilities are starting to scare me.
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  27255. Kanye West is actually intelligent, creative, and legitimately diagnosed with a mental illness. No comparison with this dude.
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  27256. You speak Chicago, too? Excellent. :)
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  27257. 🤣
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  27258. I start near the beginning: The Apology, Gorgias, Symposium. Every one of the philosophers you mention were STEEPED in these three dialogues. Of course, Republic, Sophist, Statesman, and Parmenides are essential as well, but those three are the foundation.
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  27259. The remedy for bad speech is MORE speech. Debunk the film -- don't ban it.
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  27260. America needs more readers. Fat chance.
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  27261. "Bashed," Robbie? They've been government subsidized since birth. 😉
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  27262. She had a cognitive issue and lost her sense of where she was in space. This could kill a gymnast who does the moves she does.
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  27263. Look at the number of views. They need to feature Jimmy.
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  27264. This is the private school game. State universities are not like this.
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  27265.  @anthony13299  Not what he said.
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  27266. I suspect the missing video isn't an accident.
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  27267. @Naylor Broughton How come tens of millions of people "made some bad choices?" And how come at most 10%, and probably far fewer, could possibly hope to fund their own retirement without Social Security or a reverse mortgage? IOW, how is something that is NOT WORKING for between 80 and 95% of people be a good plan? Are they all making some "bad choices?" That is not possible. The answer has to be elsewhere.
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  27268.  Cannabis Dreams  No need to get snippy. Who cued you to insult someone who is telling you their story as they see it, and as best they can at this moment? Why would you do that? What dog whistle are you obeying?
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  27269. @Naylor Broughton Never, ever, EVER speak a critical word about family, especially a parent, except among your very closest and behind closed doors, and then only when necessary. (That's advice no one will pay me for, but it's the best advice you'll ever hear in this venue.)
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  27270.  Haya Almousa  Jane Buckingham, is that you? :D
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  27271. Reality. Thanks, now I can exhale.
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  27272.  @tinyknott  Which is, of course, turning people into instruments. The tiny number who get sick "don't count," EVEN THOUGH WE KNOW what to do to help prevent the problem.
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  27273. ​ @subo88 No, you are.
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  27274. The CIA can override choice. This isn't Miss Manners we're talking about.
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  27275. And if you have no knowledge about, or control over, who will ultimately obtain your data and what will be done with it, MORE than your privacy is violated.
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  27276. ​ @chriscross5188  The best help is from a good tort lawyer who can obtain justice for this atrocious malpractice with abuse on top. That helps with bitterness.
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  27277. This is a problem, too: the curriculum might be fine, and the goal of making every child feel welcome at school is essential, no matter what kind of family the child comes from, BUT what happens when an activist teacher teaches something that is not part of the curriculum? Would people be all right with a teacher saying that everyone who has had an abortion is a murderer, when a lot of the kids' mothers may indeed have had one? I bet they would not. No teacher should say anything that undermines parents in this way.
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  27278.  @coolhandvader  I think you're right.
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  27279. I had the same reaction, furious with the vitriol-for-profit. And I am far left in many ways, but Euro-left. Not this. I am so angry this happened. I will never accept this vitriol, this lunacy. Do people understand how close the bullet came?? I can't, I just can't. Those who spread this hate are making money from it.
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  27280. Well, based on my own research, I have goat cheese, yogurt, or kefir several days per week, but certainly not daily. I'm good with that.
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  27281.  @JamesFinborg-g6j  Who is Morales?
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  27282. ​ @jkauz8975  I know. America has the worst people. Do you think Russians live like this? Ha.
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  27283. Actually, none other than Adam Smith and John Locke talked about the dangers of the privatization of "the commons," and the distortions the new rentier class introduces into the productive, entrepreneurial sphere of the economy. So, a simple answer would be that you do receive essential services from a state that we have to pay for. But the bigger answer has to do with what can be privatized, and what you can be forced to pay for things you literally cannot live without. Even allowing severe air pollution without penalty and clean-up is an encroachment on free air for all. It's incipient privatization.
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  27284. A generation after Columbine and Wisconsin's legislature was incapable of drafting a reasonable and constitutional gun law. Ponder that. Rittenhouse should have been tried as a juvenile in a low-profile proceeding, and been placed under court supervision, including a remedial education plan. He never finished junior year high school. Now he is free to go out and get himself a much bigger gun.
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  27285.  @cglenn1457  Did YOU read the jury instructions? Did you notice the McGinnis instruction? Know why it was there?
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  27286.  @cglenn1457  And the reason to speculate on matters not in evidence would be . . . ? When evidence exists? Did you download the 36-page instructions and read them? They were great. A civics class.
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  27287.  @cglenn1457  Excuse me, I did not call you names or characterize you as "hysterical" or anything else. Are you okay? You accused someone else of being uninformed, and told them to refrain from commenting. You appear not to be well informed either, which was why I asked.
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  27288.  @cglenn1457  You're the one calling me names. Not vice versa. You can go back and look. My comments are pristine, and do not confuse the issues. You may be angered by the fact that someone else is less emotional than you are, and you may lash out at them with insults, accusations, and slogans like "word salad," that clearly do not apply. This is common now. This is for you to think about, if you choose.
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  27289.  @cglenn1457  A living person testified he believed, rightly or wrongly, that Rittenhouse was an active shooter. Another living person testified he was an innocent bystander in the line of fire when Rittenhouse first opened fire, before anyone had touched him. In fact, that person, McGinnis, was a journalist from a conservative publication that had a generally positive view of people like Rittenhouse. Huber's filthy house was not in evidence. Is there some reason to focus on facts not in evidence, when actual sworn testimony exists? Sure there is: bias, for one. Not sound analysis, not logic.
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  27290. This!
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  27291. You are right, nobody wants to work anymore.
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  27292. General strike
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  27293. ​@user-pu4bk7bf1g Mandatory mouthing of words is actually dubious under the First Amendment, which is America's single greatest accomplishment.
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  27294. The DNC clearly does not take Donald Trump seriously as a threat to anything. They've had since the first Wednesday in November 2016 to find outstanding people to defeat him clean.
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  27295. Yes, seeing you all go ballistic over a joke is rough all right. Unless AI already rules and is actually convincing kids that George Washington was black, or anything else that it wants to misrepresent. Then yes, you do have problems. Big problems. The election should be a doozy.
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  27296.  @RedWing88  Yes. Obviously getting ready for the election, huh? This really is bad.
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  27297. This is perfect.
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  27298. Wackadoodle journalist.
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  27299. ​ @scottmcclure4153 Read what you just wrote. His whole family supported BIDEN
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  27300. ​ @scottmcclure4153 Yeah, BIDEN 😂😂😂
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  27301. NO, Jimmy. They didn't know. They thought we were compliant morons enthralled by Technology.
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  27302.  @martinh1437  Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber, was treated. But I appreciate your point.
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  27303.  @ericswart3786  Of course. Strange that people are unaware of the eugenics movement. It's hard to know whether the choice to use birth control would have been as widely accepted as it was, when it was, without the support of eugenics.
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  27304.  @troywalkertheprogressivean8433  💯 . . . Every time
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  27305. "Scary groupthink" Believe it.
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  27306. Four legs good, two legs better.
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  27307. Thank you for the realism.
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  27308. Wait, does this mean they can't run for office? Or that they can?
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  27309. Of course not. Religious exemptions, private schooling, home schooling all exist as options.
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  27310.  @jimbojamesIV  YES there is a test for COVID. In several countries like Netherlands and Germany, you can go to the pharmacy and pick them up for free. Are you a false flag, too?
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  27311. Tori, say it ain't so.
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  27312. Could they know more about advanced weaponry in the hands of other powers than they want to reveal? Could any of it be made from material harvested from meteors, as a psy-ops project? Or, an advanced hologram, that we haven't discovered yet? If there is space junk from other planets ("off-world"), it is only that. Civilizations on other planets that died out who knows when sent something out that ended up here. I doubt that it's that much, but I can't believe it's anything more. Won't the exact same thing happen with lots of our probes that have exited the solar system?
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  27313. But the BAD news is that everyone knows someone who had an unacceptably severe reaction to the pseudo-vacc.
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  27314. @MysticOblong  No, in fact, it is a further sign of supreme goodness. Surely no one should dream of questioning the goodness of the goody good good.
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  27315.  @fortusvictus8297  The Hill invited the investigative reporter who had broken similar stories, and then interviewed Reade, to speak about it. He said Reade's discrepancies were nothing remarkable for someone in her position. I believe Katie Halper was interviewed here as well.
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  27316.  @fortusvictus8297  Just found a ton of stories on The Hill Rising, favorable to Reade, over a period of many, many weeks. A cinch to find. Links might be shadowed.
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  27317.  @jonathancarrillo7739  Rising is The Hill's premiere show. They were planning to sell it, but as far I as know, they didn't.
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  27318. Global dollar hegemony allows us to run phenomenal deficits with no real ramifications, and military might is one factor in that hegemony. Significantly smaller than other factors, but nevertheless essential.
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  27319. ​ @oliviasukamto947 PRECISELY. Putin IS a thug, and it is in the best interests of the United States to listen to what he has to say. You make peace with enemies, no? And enemies are enemies for a reason. This is exactly how an American president should think.
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  27320. One look at the presidential candidates shows you there is no meritocracy.
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  27321. Google doesn't take this video down. They think they are being far too tolerant. Their minds stopped working normally long before Joe Biden's did.
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  27322.  @Rowsy91  Shows what you know. Do you think France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Russia, etc., pay for college tuition? Annual fees only. As for the late, great state universities, a summer of minimum wage work, full time, covered a full year's tuition. Yes, at Michigan, Texas, Wisconsin, Virginia, Illinois . . . I think California might have cost even less.
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  27323.  @LukewarmEnthusiast  If Trump is the new standard that we measure every president against, it's time to consider emigration.
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  27324. There are some things every child should participate in, and be acknowledged for mastering, and some things that should be based on competition and on rewarding outstanding performance. Why are you ideological in the opposite direction? Sheesh. We are talking about kids, not older teens, not adults.
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  27325. This is true. The Eighth Amendment permits life in prison for aggravated kidnapping. This was Tennessee's decision.
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  27326. Legal Eagle is a legal eagle only in his own eyes.
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  27327. Bravo! It worked for you!!
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  27328. ​@helendavis6141 It is? Oh great.
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  27329. If she loves you for it . . . most of the time.
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  27330. ​ @tangreen7267 I feel sorry for you. You are sure you can read minds.
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  27331.  @찬칯  Better yet, sleep with them.
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  27332.  @lyno2834  Most of the time, exactly that. And it is always discounted anyway.
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  27333.  @joeterzio7175  "Occurred naturally?" What does that mean? That it jumped from an animal to people, without at least being collected by TWIV for study? Without any intervention of that nature by that laboratory?
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  27334.  @joeterzio7175  But lab accidents are common as well. VERY common.
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  27335.  @norman_5623  An advanced knowledge of expert witness evidentiary standards. No, he doesn't sound like he has a level of knowledge above that found in reasonably educated people. But as you like. It doesn't matter. Does it?
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  27336.  @norman_5623  Did I suggest shutting it down? Straw man necessary? Why would that be? /s
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  27337. Grosskreutz testified. McGinnis testified. Huber's dirty house did not. This analysis was highly tendentious, while feigning fairness. Typical of American media. It's how you get subscribers.
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  27338.  @zando5108  You didn't look up the ChatGPT flaw that I described? 🤣
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  27339. @athenathegreatandpowerful6365  Try reading the OP. Then you might understand the discussion.
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  27340.  @athenathegreatandpowerful6365  That was my point. I guess irony doesn't work online, like, at all.
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  27341. So, in other words, anything can happen. Good to know.
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  27342. TYT sound psychotic.
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  27343.  @JaIch9999  Of course. Because our own comfort is paramount. /s
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  27344.  @JaIch9999  So . . . For example, if a person bought stock in a firearms manufacturer during a pandemic and the stock goes up, the universe offered them that abundance. You're right. It is so ridicuous.
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  27345. Guess
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  27346. That's not evidence. The DNC refuses to run strong candidates in fair primaries and abide by the results. Why?
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  27347. Re: Thumbnail, "I hated that dog!" Me: Which one?
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  27348. 😂😂😂
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  27349. @reinsmano  It's not a personality issue. Most of her friends and colleagues believe the US is feeding a genocide with money and weapons. What would you do if you had been persuaded?
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  27350. Record drug overdose deaths in 2020: 93,000 people perished.
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  27351. No, no one should attack her, but investigators do have to find out why she didn't, for sure, not fro a distance. This requires a dispassionate investigation. Everything else is less than justice. Everything else is speculation. For those who are damning her, I would just say that clearly she provided this information of her own volition. We wouldn't know this without her cooperation. So, that is a good start.
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  27352. They're judgement proof. It is like COVID, actually.
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  27353. Or in the back alley. I hear they got some good stuff in the alley.
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  27354. Just kidding. I am SO not into drugs.
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  27355. 1:13 hilarious
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  27356. How do they fly around? Lolita Express flew a lot of them.
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  27357. I don't think the average person understands the nature of this kind of wealth -- or even the mathematics of it. A dollar is not a rigid yardstick. For Gates, $10 million is peanuts; it is worth far less than $1000 is to the average American. He can literally buy anything from almost anyone.
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  27358. Nope. The problem is that it will take a while to get to the Supreme Court. It will be struck down there.
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  27359.  @MarkoArillius  Oh please. What did Trump, Fauci, and Cuomo do? Don't you get it? The powerful will get away with their misdeeds yet again, and so far they are getting away with it, but our rights will be curtailed. Of course. This is a pattern now.
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  27360. @patricksullivan7140  Well, if he had bought one in China, you'd denounce him for buying it in a state-capitalist communist-party-dominated system.
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  27361. @patricksullivan7140  So . . . If someone won a Nobel Prize after once having had to sleep with her thesis advisor for access to the right scientists and research grants, or if an actress gave a truly great performance and won an Oscar after mentoring by an abuser, would you say, SEE!!! The system they denounce worked for them! HA!
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  27362. @patricksullivan7140  The American gymnasts became the best under a system that allowed them to be SA. So, . . . Should they "appreciate" it??
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  27363. @avibhagan  k ur right 😂
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  27364. @avibhagan  This discourse is starting to sound like LGBTQIA+ 🤣🤣🤣🤪
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  27365. If you teach college kids, try this experiment: ask them if they think they could become multimillionaires. All of them do, and they'll be furious if you give them any impersonal descriptions of economic forces that might suggest not. (After all, "attracting abundance" might be true -- kind of a primitive Pascal's wager they've got going.) Now, give them a challenge: take a year of Calculus and get an A on every exam. Hmm. Or, for a whole month, cook everything you eat. You will hear groans. No one has ever leaped to take on the challenge and achieved it. If becoming a multimillionaire is easier, how can it be based solely on hard work?
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  27366. People are angry at the choice we have between two incompetents.
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  27367. LOL, all are protected speech. What country do you live in?
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  27368. Jimmy, the Epstein tapes ARE nuclear.
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  27369. Do you know how many people make it their life's work to prevent others from getting jobs?? Right. I don't get it, either. 😒
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  27370. What people do when they realize they can't be artists.
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  27371.  @LaMangouste  lol, great. :)
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  27372. I heard Niall Ferguson extolling "the West" on Lex Fridmen's show, and Lex, quite astutely, asked him whether he includes the great Russian writers in "Western" civilization. Do I have to tell you Ferguson's answer? (It was "yes.") What a tool. Alternative facts does not begin to describe it. And of course HE tried to smear ideological opponents as a tactic when he was a student and an academic. No one should be surprised, ever.
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  27373. Dr. Eric Topol recently gave an interview where he said that the US has been overly "vaccine-centric" and that taking a multipronged approach would be preferable. I though he was great. I'm surprised to hear this. And blaming the Russians? The Russians produced the first vaccine. You can get it across the border in Mexico.
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  27374. The point of allowing some evictions but not others is to slow evictions down. We need to slow evictions down for Wall Street. The banks could get in trouble if evictions came too quickly.
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  27375. Good that he gets paid. Who would do this for free? Yeah, the sum is pathetic. No billionaire can tell you his net worth to the nearest million.
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  27376. 9:48 I knew there would be a Russia angle.
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  27377. 😂😂😂
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  27378. I know why. See the lawsuit against Tesla in California, and the complaint against Neuralink. Or did you think something else was going on? Musk cares about the little people. Just like Bill Gates does.
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  27379.  @patrickd5274  I was addressing Musk, and not your other points. The Trump years were simply more losses for my family, nothing unexpected. It became impossible to teach at community college, for one thing. The students became ungovernable.
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  27380. Considering we have the burden of providing necessary services for all the people residing in our state, I support this. The problem is the voter rolls. Those have to be perfect.
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  27381. They have been taught to tell about guns but not knives. I know that sounds simplistic, but it isn't. Kids that age have a default not to tell. They must be expressly taught to tell.
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  27382. 9:27 Why we love Jimmy.
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  27383.  @jacquelinemca6614  I just told you I've been doing my own research, and listening to independent sources outside the States that are asking these very questions. No, a "competing narrative" is not useful. There are three little words that a person has to say concerning the pandemic, and the vaccines, and various treatments, in order for me to have confidence in them and believe they care about telling me the truth: "We don't know." This goes for doctors above all. If I don't hear those words, I know there's a problem.
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  27384. They are talking about might makes right. Health care, to SAVE lives, is the opposite of military might.
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  27385.  @SteadyRolling  No need for me to read it. My relatives got bombed by the neocons. I know all about the song and dance already.
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  27386. How can thi$ happen? In America, we know.
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  27387. The truth is the government is pushing kids TO these corporations. Every grammar school says "connect with us on Facebook." Facebook started out as a slambook against Zuckerberg's female college classmates. Where are the wokesters to "call this out?"
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  27388.  @williamcondon7729  You want power. We get it.
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  27389. ​ @virginiahobby3726 Leave that part to God.
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  27390.  @donalddon5  Most people know you cannot criminalize abortion. Recognizing that does not make a person pro-abortion. Personally, I believe in "CHOOSE Life."
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  27391. Just six months ago, COULD YOU HAVE MADE THIS UP?
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  27392. When the Beatles and Stones properly credited black music for their success, did anyone have a fit?
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  27393. @jtomczak100  If this feels weird, just wait until they start divorcing. Hope not to find out the details -- trust me, you don't want to know.
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  27394.  @PolyMadd  It's extremely important to find a job where there are smarter people than you. If you don't, you will suffer every day. That's just how it is.
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  27395.  @margyrowland  A woman I knew tried church. Married a closeted gay guy who got arrested for peeping. She thought he respected her. There are no simple formulas.
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  27396. @PolyMadd  My GREs put me there. I had that when working with top lawyers, but nowhere else -- true.
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  27397.  @PolyMadd  It was such a relief, too. A lot of other people disliked all of us, come to think of it, but in very smart, hardworking people, I easily forgive quirks, no problem.
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  27398.  @Yomel123  Don't worry. Not you. 😂
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  27399. I agree with Greg that nobody should join the military to defend his @$$. I hope all young people get the message.
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  27400. Dr. Segal, do you know Professor Carl Elliott at Minnesota?
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  27401. Oh no, hair on fire. ;)
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  27402. I think the problem is that people don't learn math and physics, actually.
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  27403. There is no evidence for that. Perhaps she wanted to be famous? I say that as someone who declined vaccination. Nor am I overly optimistic --- but most people do recover from most toxins. I hope that will be true this time as well. Some have clearly improved greatly, after their first year post injury.
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  27404. It's always Them against Us.
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  27405.  @vger9186  You think a public option will create a viable insurance pool? Who will choose public option, except the least healthy people? Why do people think we have Medicare in the first place?
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  27406.  @vger9186  No idea what you mean. The two programs are fundamentally different, first of all. Second, Medicaid isn't working. Self-selection skews every pool.
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  27407. Every other developed country has universal health care. No other developed country has bankrupties due to medical bills. Every other developed country has fewer obese people, opioid deaths, teen pregnancies, substance abuse, and lower infant and maternal mortality. Every single one has a longer life expectancy. And now, we are doing the worst among developed countries in stemming new COVID outbreaks, while those still looking for jobs will soon be without insurance and without the means to pay for ACA. The lowest premiums in ACA are for policies that have huge deductibles -- as much as $6000 a year in some cases. What needs to happen? Medicaid is state-by-state; some states grant access based on income alone. Others require you to exhaust your savings first. Are these too many facts for one political soundbite?
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  27408. Makes me feel safe on Twitter.
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  27409. ​@jasonmataafa5983 EVERY single developed country found a way to provide all of those things for its people, and for that matter, in 1970, in-state tuition at all the premier public universities was something a kid could earn with a minimum-wage summer job. Then, when you graduated debt-free, all you'd need to do was to team up with a couple of roommates and you could afford an apartment in Brooklyn or Queens, or even Manhattan, not to mention anywhere on the West coast. Health insurance was cheap. There was once a time when none of this was an issue, and now it's insurmountable for most people. You need to take a hard look at what changed. On a side note, when universities were affordable, calculus and Shakespeare and foreign languages were typical college subjects --- as were Nietzsche and Marx, for that matter. Now we're debating identities and pronouns.
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  27410. Last year when they risked their lives that was fine. But today that no longer counts. That's because we don't have morals, we have hashtags.
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  27411.  @matthewingerson  So well said!
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  27412. @drewc771  P. S. Thinking that his running mate is the real candidate is also realistic. Thinking that presidents no longer running the country is as well, and thinking that this power vacuum needs to be filled is eminently realistic.
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  27413.  @drewc771  We shall see.
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  27414. @kjhuang  What do you mean by "on the record?" It's no myth.
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  27415.  @kjhuang  See Politico, 12/11/2019, for example; US News & World Report, The Hill, etc., from around the same time. You forgot?
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  27416.  @kjhuang  Oh my goodness, well . . . It's hardly a "myth" if his aides leaked it to multiple outlets.
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  27417. It is not hard to tell the truth: "Right now, we need to reserve medical masks for medical workers and first responders. We know they work in hospitals, where people are trained and there's universal compliance. We don't have the same data supporting public use." See how that works? You tell the truth, and you stress universal compliance. You don't lie and suggest masks don't work.
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  27418.  @i8am8kemraj84  Almost no one did. I'm slow to believe it. If my town didn't have the number of shootings it does, everywhere, and especially on public transit, my head would still be in the sand. Had COVID never happened, I'd still be stumbling along, expecting everything to be all right, "probably." Well . . . no. It is not all right. I better get a grip. Your wife is a very lucky woman. Getting a tiny condo somewhere in the US, and getting out with all the rest -- my desire if I can swing it.
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  27419. He pled guilty to federal charges. Trump can't pardon him for his state conviction. But hey, let's have more chaos. Good for the short sellers.
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  27420. Reply already ________.
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  27421. Samantha Power has been a danger to all sentient beings for quite a while now.
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  27422.  @testboga5991  But who would talk about that except to report it? Are you in a position where it is your job to investigate such a report? I wouldn't believe gossip, either. I would take seriously a confidential statement brought to my attention as an administrator.
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  27423. Biden could not be more hypocritical than by nominating Neera Tanden.
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  27424. No comparison.
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  27425. These 🤡s are shameless 🤡s now.
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  27426. So Biden did a good job shaking them . . . I mean signaling disapproval.
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  27427. "To keep us safe"
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  27428. @ryansreaction  P. S. The post you wrote that I reacted to went poof. For our own protection I suppose. LOL
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  27429. Nuclear codes missing for nearly 20 months. I wish I could say that's impossible. 😂
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  27430.  @jgalt308  That's not what happened, lol. Shows what you "know." 🤣🤣🤣
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  27431.  @Liberty-fi7mg  Unfortunately, if I document the actual facts, my post will go poof. Just don't dupe an innocent spouse into doing this. This guy's spouse has been declared by a court to be tax delinquent, right along with him.
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  27432.  @Aireck174  It could happen.
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  27433. The Guardian, which is mainstream UK, has covered the story. We don't know whether what the whistleblower says he saw was what they told him it was, or what he now claims it is, obviously, but this is a real story. That said, I don't believe him. Something is off about the whole thing.
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  27434. 😂😂😂 Look at what the market wants!
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  27435.  @lbdeuce  Why don't you look it up in a Webster's? I did. It had several definitions.
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  27436.  @lbdeuce  You might also print out or buy a stylesheet.
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  27437.  @lbdeuce  I shouldn't be here at all. A bad habit I only developed during the shutdown last year.
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  27438. I have an idea. Listen to what she SAID. What is the point of free speech if you won't bother about the hearing end?
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  27439.  @hughhunsinger6132  Not what she said. Laughable. Why be for free speech? Your reflex is to put her in a box as quickly as possible.
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  27440. They did buy the people. Enough of them anyway.
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  27441. ​ @charleneji6759 no
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  27442. Love how you put that. Designed to scare us.
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  27443. Not one person on this stage is a credible person, but in this particular argument, Gladwell and Goldberg were dreadful. All they did was signal to their elite neoliberal colleagues concerning what the current right think is --- the right think that gives you access and pays.
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  27444.  @LeeLee-BB  Great point. Exactly.
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  27445. 😂😂😂
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  27446. She was pointing out the hypocrisy, which this time is correct.
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  27447. She scammed all those directors and investors and medical researchers? Wow, a story for our times all right.
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  27448. Well, Mearscheimer (not a fan) and Stephen F Cohen (loved him) both pointed out America was setting Ukraine up. The US should not have repeatedly used Ukraine to antagonize Russia. Either follow through with NATO membership, or leave them alone. This was another US regime change operation. I think that perspective makes Putin look worse. He knows who put the innocent Ukrainians in this position, and how powerless the very few Nazis there would be without US encouragement to exist. Cannon fodder indeed.
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  27449. In the face of true greatness, some become very frightened and small.
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  27450. They will do whatever they are paid to do, and nothing they are not.
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  27451. Just some run-of-the-mill white on black envy. Why do you think it's being circulated by Trumpers?
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  27452. COVID has disproportionately struck minorities.
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  27453. Why all the false witnesses in the chat? Why?
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  27454.  @wackadoodle4446  Who in their right mind would be envious of people who are obviously cognitively disordered? The Emperor's New Clothes has never been more applicable.
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  27455. This was supposed to be the next president. No, it's not funny.
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  27456. "Police," or provocateurs? Who will investigate fairly?
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  27457. The sum involves having a very nice home in a segregated neighborhood. That's what costs so much. And that's why the median income is so much lower.
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  27458.  @a2eoas  Who has the research skills in psychometrics to analyze Charles Murray? The kids who say "what do I need algebra FOR?"
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  27459.  @a2eoas  Yes, exactly, concerning the Fox audience: read the comments. Some were ready to make this kid president, 2048.
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  27460.  @taw1967  Any more cliches you care to add to your string? This was not too bad, but a little anemic. Insufficient ad hom? Something.
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  27461. Mean (or average) is informative only when you have a normal distribution. Otherwise, it's almost always misleading.
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  27462.  @MaxwellsDemon9  Nope. https://youtu.be/64A7A8QWDNc
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  27463.  @sgspecialfaded  This one's on every thread, denouncing M4A. On mine, s/he played the ingenue, lacking in sophisticated vocabulary and logic. Don't know what's in it for them. Once they see they are getting no traction, with their points demolished, they turn up elsewhere, needling someone else.
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  27464. @Yo Momma Your dispute with me was factual and interpretative. It was not logical. Books!
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  27465. Maybe stop spending tens of billions to arm countries at war?
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  27466.  @Michael_Smith_1  How do you know?
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  27467.  @johnsphpaulin1162  I'm not. It's a repugnant thing to say when there are people facing homelessness and lining up for food. I want everyone to be all right and have what they need. Then I'm comfortable.
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  27468.  @freeunderratedmusic4273  Well, I hope you do help someone with this pre-Psych 101 spiel. Students of Literature 101 studying irony may not, however, gain as much . . . or perhaps they'll gain more, come to think of it.
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  27469. It's that bad, huh? I don't plan to watch so I don't know whether it's unacceptable.
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  27470. Computers don't suffer. Replace people with computers. Problem solved.
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  27471. Some of its banks have. Don't be so sure this wasn't what Russia wanted. It is a stress test of sorts. China is backing them all the way. First salvo in the fight to end dollar hegemony as the global reserve currency. Double-digit inflation, here we come.
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  27472.  @richardw3052  OH COME ON. Brie did not vote for Biden OR Hillary. What is she supposed to do to satisfy you?
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  27473. Please do see his latest interview, where he explains how Kamala will win.
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  27474. Source? I read a lot and have not heard.
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  27475. The 2020 documentary released on Amazon Prime is a total whitewash. I don't blame the mother. She was utterly shattered, and clearly doesn't understand strong human emotions. The filmmakers spent a substantial part of the documentary advocating for mindfulness training in kindergarten and primary grades. They seriously argued this would prevent mental health problems and school shootings. It was absurd.
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  27476. Robby, the kind of society you want is hardly conducive to discouraging s______. It would make a lot of people want to.
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  27477. You joined a few months ago to harass this channel?
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  27478.  @6236003  They do it in small towns, too.
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  27479. ​@G360LIVE You're right. Americans are the lowest, lol. Nobody else has problems of this magnitude, unless they're in a civil war ravaged underdeveloped country.
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  27480. @Sheep #5491 WHAT do you think Trump did for you?
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  27481.  @TheCarmelswan67  Okay, I'll look more closely.
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  27482. 😂😂😂
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  27483. Ryan, 94% of deaths are in people 50 and older. But at 40, more men die than women. So there is that.
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  27484. You don't see through this? Seriously? Forget the stories, forget the labels, and forget the tiny coterie of ardent supporters who expect to gain when their candidate comes to power. How does a Le Pen actually function? To ensure the election of a Macron.
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  27485.  @lydialutz  P. S. If gerrymandering is out in the open, there is no conspiracy. If those poised to challenge the redistricting are promised some benenfit to shut up, THEN there is a conspiracy. Sheesh.
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  27486.  @lydialutz No, but that is one example of what may constitute a conspiracy, and yes, people enter into them for the purpose of gain that they can dissemble. Look up RICO and civil RICO. If an act is entirely legal, and comports with various open meetings laws and so forth that may apply, then it's not a predicate for a "conspiracy" under the usual meaning of the term. A "conspiracy in plain sight" does not exist.
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  27487.  @lydialutz  Snowden makes the distinction I made, using slightly different words: he distinguishes between true and false conspiracies. Where did you place your focus, to end up misunderstanding that crucial distinction? He himself exposed an actual conspiracy, then became the object of baseless accusations of being part of a conspiracy himself. Does using the word make it sound too much like you're breaking bread with the disenfranchised, which could cause damage to your apparent status? "Conspiracy theory" = "I'm not rich?" = "Maybe I'd even vote for a Trump!" Er, NO.
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  27488.  @ihategoogleplus5308  Here's a quite viable conspiracy theory: "Intelgate," a term coined by Stephen F Cohen. See his talk at the 92nd Street Y. About 20 min. in, if you're impatient.
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  27489. @Runaway Puppet You read his book, huh? Princeton and NYU prof, America's leading Russia scholar. At that talk, the man predicted this war. Days before it happened the current crop of pundits said there would be no invasion. Two years ago he refused to say there wouldn't be, put it at a strong maybe. Saw through the Steele dossier well before it was discredited and explained why he thought it was a fake and why it didn't even make sense. Well, anyway. He died last year. Those old intellectuals are gone.
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  27490. @Runaway Puppet "nonsense," your response to me, was cryptic. I agree that's a reason to ask, or better yet, ignore. Anyway.
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  27491. I am so sorry to say it, but you see we must depend on a non-Western country to do this study. I do not accept this.
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  27492. Totally wrong, to boot. A defamation case is harder to prove in the US. Speech is presumed First Amendment protected, and proving that it should not be means overcoming that presumption.
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  27493. Well, some of us had two married parents and were very close to them. Should we diss those who didn't? Should we say they don't really understand family life?
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  27494. Wait. You think having birth children is unselfish? It's a healthy form of selfishness, . . . but "unselfish?" Nah.
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  27495. ​ @biguy617 Sounds like it would be interesting. /s
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  27496. ​ @corymcdowell7295 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  27497. Just the opposite is true. Where a woman has a choice about whether to terminate a pregnancy, the ethics of making that choice is staring her in the face.
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  27498. Example: Brian Laundrie's parents had a right to remain silent. Was it ethically sound? The police power of the state does not intrude with force on that question.
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  27499. I didn't criticize them at the time, but I thought they were mistaken. They were mostly right. They made some mistakes, but fewer than we did.
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  27500. No. They just got rich during COVID. Moreover, the $2000 stimulus will pass if the landlords support it.
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  27501.  @fredschnerbert1238  How do we pay for Medicare for the elderly, who need the most medical care? How did in-state tuition used to be something that was covered by a minimum-wage summer job? Yes, a year at U of Michigan, or UC Berkeley, or U of Texas, and on and on and on. When you figure that out, come back to us. Health insurance issues are the number one reason people hesitate to start a small business. School debt, and not just for college but for a whole host of vocational programs, is a major reason kids live at home instead of getting on with life, getting married, etc. But you worry about "TAXES!!!!!" Great, keep it up.
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  27502.  @roryfleming2320  Let me know when The Squad passes this program.
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  27503.  @fredschnerbert1238  I cannot comment because I am unfamiliar with this theory and the evidence for it. I don't know what it has to do with our discussion, though. When education and medical care (and rent for a studio or one-bedroom in major cities, for that matter) were affordable, the US had no access to Chinese markets, labor or consumer. Life just keeps improving! :) /s
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  27504.  @fredschnerbert1238  Not responsive. Necessities used to be affordable without the debt levels you see now. This was the case when taxes were higher. Corporations are routinely spending more on lobbying than on taxes (and the first to do that provoked surprise -- consult, e.g, Forbes for a list). Who pays for that?
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  27505. Anyone who followed the trial is not surprised. They tried to turn a Title VII case into a crime, because Title VII is so hard to use against real wrongdoers. That's what's bad. For some reason, people think that all you need to do is scream discrimination and cha-ching. No. Big no.
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  27506. Who will be running the show now?
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  27507. That's not a stolen election. Did anyone plant chips in the voters' heads to make them believe that sheer rot?
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  27508. My vote was not always secret in my precinct. I'm serious. They would print giant ballots for local elections, and anyone could see who you voted for from across the room. Or, they would "run out" of sleeves to place your ballot in. Asking you if you intended to skip certain races is routine now, so skipping a major race is never secret.
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  27509. Um, no, that's not Marx's biography, LOL. He wasn't a pampered American Gen-Xer from a suburban cul-de-sac. Or a journo. He couldn't stand liberals, and thought Adam Smith was the best economist after him. He made on impression on everyone from Erich Fromm to Albert Einstein to Helen Keller. And he knew plenty of workers.
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  27510. They have NO fear. None. None. None.
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  27511.  @michellelowe15  Thank you for saying that. . . . And isn't that crazy, really? As in, what is going on??
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  27512. Wow, Jessica is far worse than Briahna on this issue.
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  27513. What a president/ex-president says, true or not, is NEWS. Similarly for a former Secretary of State. Hence, Hillary Clinton's claims about Putin having influenced the election in favor of Trump is news.
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  27514. Maybe that's the only way he has to keep track of it? He's pretty impaired.
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  27515. 💯
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  27516. Why the Hunter Biden-esque thumbnail, hm?
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  27517. Re: the propaganda structure . . . How is it possible that Obama paused funding gain of function research based on a careful review of the risks, Fauci looked for ways to get around that pause, and Trump simply lifted the pause, but the DNC supported Fauci? Say wha????
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  27518. ​ @whitneyanders5945  MYOB
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  27519.  ladyj7085  I do see the connection. When a mob tells you to hate, either hate or get out of the way. That describes most people. And birds of a feather . . .
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  27520.  @misstamica  Her other screen name is Life.of.a.Mobwife.
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  27521.  ladyj7085  Who says I have to join? Oh, that's right, you do.
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  27522.  ladyj7085  🤣🤣🤣
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  27523.  ladyj7085  Celebrities are disliked by busy bodies. Normal people outgrew "Taking Sides" by sophomore year in high school.
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  27524. @ladyj7085  I said celebrities! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Okay, you're "Mob Wife" . . . We get it, we get it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 🤡🌎
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  27525. @ladyj7085  On the contrary, you've proved that you're the kind of person who should be avoided, and you did that all by yourself. I take no credit. I didn't need to do anything. So you got that partly right.
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  27526.  ladyj7085  Yawn. Omit the "celebrities" part. Two sentences in one paragraph confuses some people. Is that possible?? (This means a lot to you, huh? Tootles.)
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  27527.  @willowtree9291  Will you spank us? Again?
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  27528. ​@donnacabot3550 Sure they could. You need an outstanding civil rights lawyer.
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  27529. HE LOST IN COURT. He's exercising his First Amendment right to lie.
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  27530. People without children do not have the same fear for the future of the civilization. Today's 20 year old faces a bleak world unless he has a trust fund -- and that is barely a buffer. That angers me. I grew up when a summer job covered in-state college tuition.
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  27531.  @TaylorKilledTheCat  You're a rock star.
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  27532.  @barbaral5056  Get an attorney. If you are underage, seek out an interview with the public guardian. You'll also need a social worker. Remember that the educational level and licensing requirements for attorneys and social workers are usually vastly higher than for police. If police actually fabricate evidence (as opposed to collect evidence in the belief that you may be culpable, which is something they may do -- they are allowed to believe your brother and suspect you; IOW, they have a right to be honestly mistaken), then you could have a civil rights claim against them.
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  27533.  @keemsupreme22  Standing alone, that is true. In combination with severe cruelty to small, weak animals, especially in addition to any of the other traits, and it does become important. It means more than those two traits without the bedwetting. But the doctor stated that even all the traits together do not mean a child will become a psychopath, much less a criminal one.
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  27534.  @keemsupreme22  Thanks, I'll research that.
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  27535. Perhaps it's by the pound?
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  27536. There were some surprising abstentions: Mexico (!)
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  27537. "Perfection?" Where? Boeing? Self-driving cars? ChatGPT? Vaccines? 🤣🤣🤣
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  27538. Jimmy, Jimmy! Come on, man. The Progressives have to tweet more, until they can elect more Progressives. Then maybe they can do something for us. You know, the thing.
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  27539. If this were "necessary to end the pandemic," PATENT protection would have been lifted a long time ago. "Look at all the variants" from countries that can't afford this stuff. /s No, the variants come from the unboosted children, in the RICH countries! Who still believes that?
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  27540. A "blessing?" Exactly what are these people's JOBS? A "blessing" that they misled the people they represent, during a true crisis? Where does such nonsense come from?
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  27541.  @TerraPosse  You are very lucky. I know people with no children due to a medical mistake. I know people who changed adult diapers for years due to a medical mistake. How did you manage? I'd prefer your experience!
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  27542.  @TerraPosse  That, my friend, explains A LOT.
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  27543.  @alexusbratva878  I suggest you look it up. https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-data-on-covid-19-vaccinations-race-ethnicity/ https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/health-equity/vaccine-equity.html https://blockclubchicago.org/2021/04/20/black-south-siders-not-getting-vaccinated-against-covid-as-much-and-are-getting-sick-and-dying-more-lightfoot-says/ How could you not know? That's weird.
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  27544.  @LongToad  Most vaccine hesitant people are minorities. Hence, vaccine hesitancy is very slighly higher among Democratic voters than Republican voters. So much for Rational National's truthiness.
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  27545.  @NickC2001  I was referring to actual vaccinations, not attitude surveys, or self-reporting. The lower rates of vaccination among minorities, and the relative low number of Republicans compared with Democrats and Independents, has been enough to skew the totals, just as I said. Krystal Ball reported on it this week. You can post links, but you didn't read them.
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  27546.  @2DRonaldo  People need to make their own decisions, without being belittled, and to be respected for their lived experience. But thanks anyway. P. S. You are not a doctor or a mathematician, and certainly not a psychologist in the true sense of the word. I can tell.
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  27547.  @2DRonaldo  Goad Goad Goad Goad Goad Goad Goad Ridicule . . . Browbeat . . . Bully . . . Jeer "Oh. . . " "Something went wrong? Huh. Too bad for you, I'm fine. . . . Loser!" We know the drill.
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  27548.  @2DRonaldo  For every person I know who lives alone, when they told me they were going to get vaccinated, I offered to come with them. How about you?
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  27549.  @buffy4500  More politicized, absolutely, but have you been watching French news in the original? But everything is going to have that special viciousness, here. I haven't checked the weekly numbers, but last time I did, Germany had about the same number of fully vaccinated as the US, France had fewer, and Russia far fewer. Japan has very few. Only UK embraced it, but Oxford developed their vaccine. Serbia had an impressive rollout, with a wide choice (three non-mRNA and one mRNA vaccine, see the PBS report on that), but it seems to have stalled. I really did look this up.
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  27550.  @buffy4500  In France, 40% of those in the medical field, primarily nurses but also doctors and others, have not yet been vaccinated. https://youtu.be/uUOtKz1ml3I
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  27551.  @Sam-yf9up  No. I think people have more or less well-founded -- as well as unfounded -- concerns, which are not being addressed. Instead, we have quite a bit of bullying. Bullying always builds confidence.
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  27552.  @Sam-yf9up  Anyone who doesn't respond properly when bullied is a real idiot. /s
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  27553.  @Sam-yf9up  I can't figure out what your point is. Ranting is beneficial to the ranter and the rantee. It's been shown to be true.
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  27554.  @Sam-yf9up  I don't care about clowns. They provide zero guidance on what anyone should or shouldn't do. I don't take a drug because some clown will or won't. Zero influence.
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  27555.  @Sam-yf9up  Blocked, BTW
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  27556.  @smita7776  I did not cite any countries where there is a vaccine shortage. I thought of that. I know America is a rich country.
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  27557.  @b.a.r.3687  Who? What are you talking about? Israel is almost exclusively using Pfizer. Pfft. You care about accuracy in health information (not).
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  27558.  @buffy4500  Oh please. Vaccination is measured in PERCENT of eligible population.
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  27559.  @cypriano8763  I posted the official figures. Maybe POC "don't count" in your worldview? Does it disrupt the hate narrative? Well that's inconvenient isn't it?
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  27560.  @cypriano8763  https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/health-equity/vaccine-equity.html
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  27561.  @ajpend  During the time when delta variant is becoming dominant, it's likely to harm others. Vaccinated, asymptomatic carriers are spreading it, this time to younger people and children. Science. By the way, flu vaccines do exactly the same thing. Vaccinated people might get a mild sniffle, and be contagious to everyone who isn't vaccinated.
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  27562.  @leif5046  I like this summary. Very nicely argued. The absence of any sign that the person is aware of Occam's Razor is also a strong indication of a conspiracy theory. If a simple explanation clearly fails to account for all the relevant facts, a much more elaborate one won't, either. Like pre-Copernican astronomy!
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  27563.  @gingerpetrini6205  (1) Everything I've said is evidence based. (2) I have offered to accompany people to their COVID vaccination and to check in on them. (Have you?) (3) Painting the hesitant as reprobates and complete idiots will NOT reassure them. It is simple browbeating, and causes more mistrust. (4) You sound like a grammar school bully. (5) Browbeating does not present facts. People should not let anyone like you persuade them not to get vaccinated. People like you, who refuse to have a real discussion and try to silence others, should have zero influence on anyone's medical decisions, pro or con.
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  27564.  @gingerpetrini6205  Wait. How did your name on my notifications feed appear as Kris, but here you are GINGER?
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  27565.  @gingerpetrini6205  Like I said, no good can come from talking to you. Can't argue there.
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  27566. America has no left. Some billionaire is behind this trend, almost certainly, and the motive is unclear. Even Elon Musk signed for his minor son to transition, and now claims he was "tricked." Don't you find that odd?
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  27567. Why is my reply ________? Why can't I say what happened to it?
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  27568. Kim Iversen is on the case.
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  27569.  @SpellboundTutor  During the campaign, Biden and Pelosi both said they categorically opposed vaccine mandates. Is America one giant memory care unit? The ad men hope so. Oh wait. So you didn't watch any videos. You go by thumbnails. Yep, the ad men have you where they want you. As for people who spread actual anti-vaxx propaganda, I suspect most of them are vaccinated, especially if they are over 40. And those who push vaccines on others are not vaccinating their younger teens. You can be sure of it. Both. And the few to suffer serious side effects are being told to shut up, it's all in their heads. Or they are losers in the survival of the fittest. That is exactly the society we have.
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  27570.  @SpellboundTutor  This is not a scientific question in which the empirical evidence changed in this short period of time. It is a public policy question. The political winds shifted. Exactly: The fact that people who are injured are on their own, they can go shove it, is precisely one source of mistrust. The pattern is the continual offloading of risk on to those least equipped to bear it. Health, education, unemployment, disability, retirement, everything. This is why no European left supports mandates -- and this, in spite of their excellent comprehensive health and disability benefits. At least they can deal with it, rather than face isolation and scorn. Sad: it was Dore who pointed out you're being trained to hate that one guy in Wisconsin. And so you do, complete with swearing. Bravo. You proved his point. That is sad.
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  27571.  @SpellboundTutor  Not how THESE vaccines work. The definitive studies with large sample sizes are now coming out of Israel, and are published in top journals like NEJM, late August or later. Norway does not recommend vaccination for kids under 16, or mandate them on anyone, not even for school. Switzerland does not recommend a second dose of an mRNA vaccine for those who had a proven case of COVID and recovered. See their ministries of health websites.
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  27572.  @SpellboundTutor Then you're not informed, or not objective. You're taking sides for no rational reason. Go ahead, it's a nationwide affliction. If you don't want to watch The Hill Rising, for example, or read The Intercept, then you won't see any evidence. Your call.
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  27573.  @SpellboundTutor  I'm telling you where the information that I personally found very persuasive can be found. Since other people can't read my mind and uncover my sources that way, I have to indicate them. I think Sam will let you watch Ryan Grim. Granted, Kim Iversen may not be someone he approves of, but in this case Grim went further than she did in criticizing Fauci, because he has done more homework on the issue. This channel isn't about informing you of anything except what Talking Points will make you look Cool in front of the Right People. I grant you, that is usually much more important than anything actual news is likely to impart. Carry on.
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  27574.  @StoveToTheFace  Not the only time by any stretch. The Hill Rising just did a summation of all the major lies Fauci told. Iversen and Grim.
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  27575.  @StoveToTheFace  I gave you the information, Iversen and Ryan Grim. Look it up yourself. Ask Sam if it's okay. Fact allergies can be serious. Care should be taken.
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  27576.  @StoveToTheFace  Why do you believe the herd immunity through these vaccines claim? Talking points. You repeat talking points. No interest in talking to you, I can find the ever-shifting talking points anywhere. Show me the "science" that shows vaccines need to be mandated because Republicans. LOL, how absurd. Almost everyone who posts here is competing to show who can repeat the newest slogans first.
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  27577.  @StoveToTheFace  I don't worry about being smarter. I'm responsible for making up my own mind and living with the consequences. I also know how to read peer-reviewed research, and I understand the Precautionary Principle and the Daubert standard. Majoring in math is also a useful thing. It teaches deductive logic.
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  27578.  @StoveToTheFace From repeating slogans to name calling, that was quick. You must be a genius yourself.
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  27579.  @righteousindignation8879  "Triggering" Can you talk without the most insipid cliches?
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  27580.  @timw8649  You didn't read my other comments AT ALL. This is perfectly evident. I gave lengthy, substantive analyses. You just chalked me up to "pro-student," and that is as far as you went. Then you trotted out your typical cliches and two-dimensional stereotypes. If that is the best you can do, it might be time to change.
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  27581.  @timw8649  The reason so many people are "offended" by these students is because of partisan politics. ("Offended" -- my goodness, how wokester of them.) The students inside the auditorium -- in contrast to the people outside, creating that obnoxious din -- were neither rude nor indoctrinated.
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  27582.  @heathfairbairn2460  I analyzed each question based on the actual facts of what was said, by the student posing the question, and by how Bannon took it and answered. And I showed how all the questions showed perspicuity, and that from them, an overarching theme emerged: Bannon has some very good policy suggestions, and those go nowhere. You should think about that. But more to the point: everybody here, or very nearly so, thinks exactly like you do. One lone individual does not -- and you are apoplectic. You can't stand it. (Is that your underlying weakness for Benthamism that has you so agitated? You always count heads, as though they were money? I'll bet! The continent holds a more Kantian view.) And you are compelled to insult me, and you think I have a problem. In fact, I'm not qualified to comment! I've failed to honor your feelings!! You must not embarrass easily. Either that, or recursive thinking isn't happening over by you.
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  27583.  @heathfairbairn2460  The real truth is, people are jealous -- especially of Oxford. It is Oxford that agitates them so much. It's all so much simpler than we've made it. But that's humans for you.
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  27584.  @heathfairbairn2460  So . . . Do you think Project Veritas actually tells the truth, or has it been caught doctoring videos now and then?
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  27585.  @righteousindignation8879  The "projection" is all on your side. It is only you who can't bear it that one lone person shows up, and inexplicably doesn't moo in unison with you. If it mattered to me, I'd make sure never to read a board like this one. I think these are symptoms of a more serious decline coming. There had better not be another depression. The West, especially US/UK, cannot stand it. Not this time.
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  27586.  @righteousindignation8879  Orwell. Politics and the English Language. Today. Make time.
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  27587.  @timw8649  It's unfortunate (or not?) that you have no understanding of the true nature of this exchange. Take out a sheet of paper and write down who was personally insulting to whom, from the students to those commenting -- not counting criticism, even sharp criticism, of arguments. Count only insults and aspersions cast on people.
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  27588.  @timw8649  You started by attacking the students, characterizing them as rude and arrogant, instead of pointing out examples of what they said, that you consider rude. There were seven students asking questions. Show where four were rude. BTW, that was exactly what Bannon said to them: give examples of what you mean, and don't look at your notes. That was excellent, a mini-master class. Not one appeared angry or miffed by the challenge, they all realized his demand for examples was correct. Too bad you seem to have missed so much of this video. Overall, it was good.
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  27589.  @timw8649  Of COURSE! What's polite is to lie about what the kids said! Polite is not to listen carefully! Polite is to silence! Polite is to wait for permission from you to speak! Polite is to moo and bray in perfect unison. Black is white, up is down. Even Stalin didn't destroy Bukharin's love letters. But those were different times. Now, it's the first thing anyone would eradicate.
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  27590.  @timw8649  Thanks, I actually laughed.
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  27591.  @timw8649  How impolite of you.
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  27592.  @righteousindignation8879  So . . . You aren't going to read the essay. Some wiki told you something about something. Good 'nuf. Why am I not surprised?
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  27593.  @danielhutchinson6604  Defense of whom? Go read Chemerinsky on free speech at the university. (I won't suggest the magnificent Nadine Strossen. She's too much of an unapologetic free speech champion, a near-zealot, and she'd made you uncomfortable.) The irony is that the students IN the conference room, doing exactly what they were supposed to do -- challenging Bannon's nonsense and doing it very well -- are being . . . DENOUNCED! Well of course. What do you expect? They are supposed to act like brutes instead, so that they are easy to criticise and, above all, don't provoke envy.
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  27594.  @danielhutchinson6604  Whaaat? How crazy is this? Every one of my posts criticizes Bannon. False flag much? I know this works now. No one reads. Insult some random person of color, accuse them of White Supremacy. Don't worry. No one will look up their picture (despite no reading required). And if their picture happens to pop up, they'll briefly scratch their heads then say, "well, it . . . could . . . happen."
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  27595.  @danielhutchinson6604  Chemerinsky over your head, then? Aww. Don't cry. Practice makes perfect.
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  27596.  @danielhutchinson6604  Why would I be sensitive? I'm a reader.
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  27597.  @syberphish  We have? I though the Russians were invading Ukraine!
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  27598.  @tenzinthokmey7581  Look it up.
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  27599.  @e-spy  Yeah, I did, too.
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  27600. The California Supreme Court in the Yelp case ruled that Section 230 shields companies from having to remove specific, proven defamation: this doesn't involve damages, it doesn't require banning a screenname, none of that. A plaintiff gets a judgment, the plaintiff tries to get the defendant to remove the defamation, he cannot. So he goes to court to get an order to get the platform to remove it, meaning only what was already proved to be defamation. The Court said no. Section 230 means they don't have to.
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  27601. No comparison at all. You believe your media, and hence have no idea what took place or how.
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  27602. What is a woman?
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  27603. No, no. The watchword is "democracy." C'mon, man!
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  27604. Good point.
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  27605. And he does not even have to say it out loud. How perfect.
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  27606.  @hehheh382  Well, I suspect The Guardian has to record all calls. They must even get crazy threats all the time. I suspect Aaron could only talk to Townsend via his Guardian number and because Guardian records as a matter of course, Aaron can and does as well. The usual phrase is "this is on the record." But even if this system were not in place, I don't think any major journalist who consents to speak to someone they wrote about in highly critical terms (now imagine if they declined to talk to them . . . they can't, they'd have to hide to avoid declining) can expect not to be recorded, or to be able to protest later if they were recorded without express consent. It doesn't make sense.
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  27607.  @joshbell5387  Thank you for real information! That sounds like Aaron. He won't himself do what he knows no one should have done to him.
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  27608. You'd think real journalists would have read the court documents, and asked someone with legal training what they meant if they didn't understand them. But no. This is 2024. No need. /s
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  27609. Easy. It's a defamation case. It is about whether an article is false, not whether the person who signed it is "fake" or "toxic." Even fake, toxic people have free speech rights. Even murderers do.
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  27610.  @SimplestUsername  Reasonable doubt isn't the standard in civil cases. It is, however, in perjury, which is exactly why Depp is suing rather than writing his own article. He can say horrible things about Heard, and never face a perjury allegation if he believes what he's saying, and never be sued for his testimony even if it is false, because testimony is immune from a defamation claim. Now do you get it? Is it starting to get clearer?
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  27611.  @SimplestUsername  This little show is as dirty as it gets.
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  27612.  @Physics072  Exactly. The media has no reason to tell you the truth, they are profitting from this obsession, so someone who actually lays it out accurately will sound weird. Of course I'm saying something different from what you're being told. Check out Glenn Greenwald's latest videos on that. Too bad they shadow links.
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  27613.  @ardendragoon  Maybe I need to make it clearer to you: if he abused her, then her ARTICLE is not false, much less defamatory, and hence it is free speech. That's true even if she was worse. Bad People have First Amendment rights. That's the issue. Not who was worse. Who was worse is for family court, or some other venue. Defamation trials are about speech. (You see progressives defending free speech lately? Not so much, lately.)
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  27614. What if this is all a lie??
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  27615. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  27616.  @narkelnaru2710  RFE 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  27617.  @narkelnaru2710  What makes you think I'm taking sides? (What makes you think Glenn Greenwald is taking sides?) Pure projection. You cannot imagine a mind that doesn't work like yours does. (That's why I love mathematics so much, by the way. If you're puzzled by that, start with Plato, and don't stop.)
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  27618.  @narkelnaru2710  Not exactly an endorsement of YOUR media diet. Poor intellectual hygiene, to put it nicely.
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  27619.  @narkelnaru2710  Chinese in English, multiple French sources in the original, TeleSUR in Spanish and English, the experts invited by alternative media stations, with preference given to those invited by clear antiwar voices such as Chris Hedges, Aaron Mate, and Abby Martin. BTW, with the unconscionable banning of RT, we lost a treasure trove of Hedges interviews, including one very recently of Leonard Peltier's tremendous lawyer.
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  27620.  @narkelnaru2710  What is Shock and Awe over a densely populated city?
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  27621.  @narkelnaru2710  Hilbert my arse.
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  27622.  @narkelnaru2710  BTW, the hysteria, hypermoralizing, and general trash talking is because Russia is poised to do serious economic harm to the EU and US. Can they pull it off? The move seems premature to me, but who knows? Follow the money, every time. That is where the real answer will always lie. Economic interests are the only interests that will be defended.
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  27623.  @narkelnaru2710  PRECISION weapons? You are either a purveyer of propaganda or you believe that, which means there is literally something wrong with you. I pick the choice more likely to effect an income stream. Just a guess, no conclusion possible on limited data. Anyway, I have got better things to do. So do you, if you have a copy of Courant. Or hey, it's the weekend, TGIF. Have some fun with Smullyan.
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  27624.  @narkelnaru2710  Oh, I get it. The multilingualism freaked you right out. It shouldn't. Were you able to read the rest? Y'know, what China does might matter. 🤣🤣🤣
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  27625.  @VladK-1  Anyone who claims our DU warheads are precision bombs does not merit the time. These are not minor matters. This is sinister.
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  27626. It didn't used to be.
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  27627.  @michaeldose2041  Not at all. Marxists split off decades ago. ACLU was often libertarian, and some prominent members were lauded by the Federalist Society. Have you ever read Nadine Strossen's book against hate speech laws? She takes the hardest line against speech codes and for free speech of any major lawyer.
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  27628.  @jasandraadaniels6181  That's nice. We don't care.
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  27629. ​ @MrM1729 "National socialism" Please read up on it. Don't take anyone's word for it without investigating, especially online.
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  27630.  @chrisjenkins203  Oh, right. In fact, I actually have misgivings about charging and trying him as an adult. He strikes me as not quite "abled." In any case, they should not make adult charges automatic for anyone under 18. I don't see why Rittenhouse should be charged as an adult. Scalia was the one in favor of executing people for stuff they did as older minor children. I'm not for executing anyone, or putting kids in jail for decades on end.
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  27631. And I do not like Weingarten one bit, either. That's not the point.
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  27632. @schmuck3787  The point is that marginally qualified/unqualified people are everywhere now. DEI is new, the problem exists since the 1980s.
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  27633.  @nasty__nancy998  I wonder what job you might be qualified for.
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  27634. VENEZUELA has a freer press. It has opposition channels on the air. 25:18 Ponder that. Boggles.
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  27635.  @capngeo2002  :)
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  27636. Did he eventually mention record turnout? Là bas si j'y suis mentioned it.
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  27637. @prsimoibn2710  Oh, so that's why there's an epidemic of trans . . . Gobsmacked.
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  27638.  @Omni0404  Or self mutilation?
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  27639. Unhappily married, feeling the old ball and chain.
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  27640. If only the Dems weren't . . . If only.
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  27641. I can't believe that in 2024, people think they can understand First Amendment jurisprudence without reading a single Supreme Court case, or knowing that that is where it is found.
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  27642. ​ @Musonius231 What do you mean?
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  27643.  @morganspicer3105  Why would you offer a dangerous animal to some other family, or to a shelter? How is that ethical? You consult a couple of veterinarians, and if they agree the cat is abnormal and cannot be treated or trusted, then you euthanize it. People come first.
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  27644. 66% didn't vote for her. She needs to get about 1/4 of those to come to her side to win. Are the English-speaking peoples math challenged, too? Watch Prime Newtons. Great math prof.
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  27645. 100 -- 34 = 66, even in English.
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  27646.  @psrabe7444  Try again? Nah, useless: https://youtu.be/64A7A8QWDNc
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  27647. ​ @Squee898  Correct. And asking for a lawyer is sufficient. You can refuse to talk to them. What you cannot do is lie. That's why it's always safer to decline to talk to them. You could get nervous and blurt something out that might be considered untrue. Never lie to LE, or risk telling them a partial truth.
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  27648. Imagine what that's like, for the Bidens to lose a playground like that. /s
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  27649. What's scarier? Social media muzzling of all speech coming from certain people, or the fact that Trump is persuasive?
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  27650.  @_fukunicorn_164  I'm saying exactly the opposite. And if you don't know it, examine your lifestyle. Either you are being disingenuous in claiming I said the very opposite of what I said, when I posed a counterfactual conditional to contrast what happened in an actual case of sexual harassment and assault, and compared that case with what Ana just attempted to do by weaponizing a worthy and noble movement to settle a personal score, or you . . . need to consider your neurological well being. So, you want take down MeToo, huh? That's the plan? See, anyone can accuse anyone, and my theory is more believable.
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  27651.  @_fukunicorn_164  My first sentence analogized Ana and Dore, and was counterfactual with respect to Weinstein. My second described what happened in Weinstein's actual case. That is how investigators got a victim to wear a wire. Remember? Is this really too tough for you?
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  27652.  @_fukunicorn_164  Anyway, blocked as time waster, perhaps worse.
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  27653. Most people over 90 will. Their mortality rate will be relatively high (compared with 9 year olds), but nowhere near 50% or 40% or 30% . . .
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  27654.  @RCaugh  Thanks for that one. Won't forget it.
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  27655.  @matthewmcclain1316  No.
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  27656.  Gus Althorp  That's adult all right.
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  27657. He was paid well. His lifestyle is expensive and stuff.
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  27658. What do you mean we're not Number 1? Don't we produce the most tweets?
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  27659. You want those people around kids?
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  27660.  @QueenLolaBouli  Thank you for the clarification. You said you wanted to make them "participate" in these things, not make them pay. Of course they should pay. Young people have to go into massive debt to afford the things they once had in return for working at a minimum wage job -- literally. A summer of minimum wage work paid for a full year of tuition and fees at most state universities for in-state students. Ponder that! You know what used to support that? State taxes, and the fact that university faculty and staff had access to safe, affordable housing.
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  27661. That is ridiculous.
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  27662. ​@kayef5724 So therefore, DJ Vance has a bad marriage and is disappointed in his kids. Must be.
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  27663. Glenn Greenwald did a whole show on the phenomenon. Greenwald cracks me up.
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  27664.  @jstreets1983  Whoa, you don't know what that is, do you?
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  27665.  @jstreets1983  The Nuremberg Code "is a set of ethical research principles for human experimentation created by the court in U.S. v Brandt," which was one of the war crimes trials after WWII.
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  27666.  @jstreets1983  OP was a great joke. Yours on the other hand didn't land.
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  27667.  @DakarBlues  Of course.
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  27668. Anyone who read the complaint would know this is not some new case aggressive lawyers have dreamed up. It is a long-standing controversy scientists have tried to rectify for years, without engaging the legal process.
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  27669. Source, please. Note that excess deaths means unexpected. An aging population (such as those born between WWI and WWII) were expected to die around the year 2000. Drawing conclusions about this is actually very difficult, and requires a lot of thought and analysis.
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  27670.  @brockreynolds870  But COVID deaths are not the issue here (though some of those may not be characterized properly, or by the same criteria in every country; with COVID or OF COVID). We know COVID killed a lot of people. The issue is non-COVID excess deaths.
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  27671.  @brockreynolds870  Who cares what "anti-vaxxers" have to say? I pay no attention to kooks. You can verify this video with the links provided, and use these to search for more information if you believe the video is only presenting one set of data.
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  27672.  @brockreynolds870  Let me see if I understand. Drug companies needn't prove their products to be safe and effective, and monitor them upon release. They just need to hire a claque to put up false flags, and the public will believe the opposite of what the claque says. Hey, what a clever plan! /s
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  27673. No good guys in this picture, but the responsibility lies mostly with the West, and within the West mostly with the US --- as usual. But no good guys in this picture.
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  27674. Guess what? John Campbell was just smeared by the BBC, and they lied about contacting him prior to airing the hit piece. Wow is coercion falling apart fast . . .
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  27675.  @emilia3310  Amen.
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  27676. No, we should give vigilantes water in appreciation. And we should never prosecute a nice boy with a big ole' gun because we know he means well.
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  27677.  @somebody700  Nearly everyone but the truly destitute buy supplemental insurance coverage with Medicare. No one is forced to sign up for Medicare, but if they wait beyond their equal consideration eligibility window, they must pay more for it.
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  27678. Insight into chaos theory could help with the environmental sciences. No. Really.
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  27679. @crewchief5144  You kinda have to read a thing to know what the thing says. I asked three questions. I made no comparisons. I assumed you must know, since your feewees are sooooo strong. When I feel strongly, I actually do work; you know, research, read, think.
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  27680.  @scrubjay93  Nixon was still afraid of the working classes.
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  27681. Where do you start with Robbie? Kids in my rough grammar school read Penthouse in 5th grade. That does not mean Maus should be in the public school required reading curriculum. Kids really do go through a sensitive period, and then . . . they outgrow it. "Age appropriate" is real. Give the stragglers breathing room.
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  27682. Well, the consent form for Pfizer stated up front that protection from vaccination is not known to last more than six months. The second (and third, in some places) boosters are real-world evidence that Pfizer's official documents are accurate. Too bad the media is telling us something else.
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  27683. "No one," huh?
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  27684.  @LawsonEnglish This is a perfectly solid hypothesis. But that is all that it is, at this point. Should we be prepared for the worst? I don't disagree that we should. I'm just curious what public health policy you believe should be pursued? We have not had calm, level-headed discussions about what the risks are, what we know and what we don't know. People who point out the endless contradictions are shouted down and smeared. For one thing, if stopping transmission to prevent new variants were ever a priority, we would have lifted patents and shared information globally. We would have the humility to admit what we do not know, and work hard to find out.
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  27685.  @LawsonEnglish I've heard Campbell discuss future variants and what increases risk. Here is another perfectly viable hypothesis: a person contracts Omicron and a coronavirus cold at the same time. They are healthy, and hardly sick. They think they had a simple rhinovirus. It mutates in them.
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  27686.  @LawsonEnglish  There have been several peer-reviewed studies in major medical journals that found previous infection to be marginally superior to vaccination. It is true that only the vaccinated who then contract mild COVID appear to be extremely well protected. Many countries do not advise boosters for this subgroup generally, absent special circumstances (immunity issues, co-morbidities, and so forth).
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  27687.  @LawsonEnglish  How do we know this? It remains to be seen. We know new variants of other viral respiratory diseases can arise in this way. I doubt that it's the only way. I've never seen data on how frequently this happens in various classes of virus. Well, we don't know for sure how this virus arose.
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  27688.  @LawsonEnglish  Here's a thought: watch Lex Fridman's interview of Abramson. Absolutely crucial.
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  27689. The smirk on everyone's face who cites satellite images from mid-March of bodies in the street that were only closely photographed in April showing no decomposition . . . No, forensics is not that hard. "Common sense," hm? Indeed.
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  27690. Why are people surprised that so many Americans think the pandemic is a scam? You see politicians acting like it's a true emergency?
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  27691. ​ @johnpublic6582 Exactly the idea.
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  27692. "Veritas"
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  27693. Yesterday, NYTimes ran an op ed against unions that were trying to protect their members against being fired for declining COVID vaccination. Yeah, you read that right.
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  27694.  @freebirdjackson5511  No to mention halfway house options. People have to move from inpatient to complete independence stepwise. Also, that tells you when a particular patient has reached most of what he can do without assistance for the time being.
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  27695.  @adamwal4591  Fine. Psychiatric wards to rehabilitation centers to halfway houses, as rapidly as possible. How would that be?
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  27696.  @adamwal4591  I won't attempt to argue the point, for obvious reasons, starting with lack of knowledge about what the chances are that that is exactly how it would go, but it IS a separate issue.
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  27697.  @adamwal4591  If some program of this nature could be devised, and kept honest (another BIG "if"), it would be an huge improvement. This is precisely what wealthy people who suffer a psychotic breakdown will be offered.
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  27698.  @joshuamitchell1733  Look up "The American Mental Asylum: A Remnant of History." That gives an overview.
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  27699.  @joshuamitchell1733  You don't know whether "those people" are "responsible for their conditions." You have no idea either way.
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  27700. Of course not. He's rich.
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  27701. @jonathanfarley2023  Fine, but this goes far beyond the First Amendment argument. These politicians are misleading the people, to rake in contributions.
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  27702.  @edwink1467  You have to wonder whether some people have talked to a 7-year-old lately! Kids have no real understanding of politics before high school, and some don't until their early 20s.
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  27703.  @KalashnikovPaouzzi  No, they claim it is ancient Greek. Didn't you listen for about five minutes before commenting?
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  27704. I love baby anything.
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  27705. What does the law say? The First Amendment preempts local laws to the contrary.
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  27706. ​ @kennethroberts8568 Those have been struck down.
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  27707. Everyone should watch the Frontline documentary The Confessions. Must be seen to be believed. Four innocent people spent years in prison because one of them was so disordered that he became willing to say anything a person in authority over him wanted to hear, and another felt guilty over having been attracted to the murder victim, who was his neighbor's wife. He never approached her. He had emotional problems as well. Both of these men suffered from excessive, lifelong shyness around women. You have to watch to see how these vulnerabilities led to seven suspects in total, four incarcerated, none guilty. (The detective on the case was later convicted of fraud in a separate case.) Had they had therapy in time . . . If only!
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  27708. There was even one study that Fauci and Collins would like, saying that Vitamin D improves response to vaccines, making them "safer" and "more effective." Collins didn't even mention THAT. What at clown.
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  27709.  @AmericanPoliticsFan  Right. They were, seven years ago. Then what happens?
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  27710.  @AmericanPoliticsFan  Of course, today someone who does not identify as a woman might wear a "nice news skirt." Hence blurting out the comment may not be misogynistic; indeed, it may not be gendered. But it remains crass and inappropriate to the workplace. It was good that he apologized the very next day, in writing.
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  27711.  @davee930  See, something you thought you settled at a previous job, years and years ago, can just spring up any time that it's convenient. That's the new boss.
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  27712.  @SuMMeRFLi5  Abigail Zwerner did not observe any gun until a few seconds BEFORE SHE WAS SHOT. With a life-threatening injury, she nevertheless escorted her students out of the classroom. Go back and look at the official statements and press releases the police issued.
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  27713. Follow the money. Always follow the money.
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  27714. "Don't go getting your political supporters killed by Biden's FBI" sounds rational to me. Is there some other side to that one?
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  27715. Try to listen to entire interviews, like for practice.
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  27716. Monopolies that provide essential communications should not have the power of prior restraint. Removing material that violates terms of service is fine. Removing people is a different matter. There has to be a compelling reason. For example, if just about everything they ever post is a TOS violation, to the point where monitoring has been shown to be futile, and much of the material is not protected by the First Amendment, that may be compelling. See Nadine Strossen on hate speech. If any channel transmits practically all of the content of a channel that was properly banned for cause, what is the argument against banning that channel, too? So the content can stay up if someone on it pretends to "disapprove?" Oh brother! Think this through.
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  27717. Trump MUST be held responsible for what he did.
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  27718. Vincent James is not very bright or accomplished.
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  27719. He explained why that is not possible.
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  27720. She is the LAST person I would want to have any control over my life, and that's saying a lot. Okay, Hillary and Kamala tied for last, and add in any friends of Jeffrey and Ghislaine. Then Amber.
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  27721. Well, it's obvious. Unvaccinated mice are at fault.
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  27722. Please. They need time to engineer blame shifting. Plausible deniability won't go down as easily for this, as it did for Ukraine, etc.
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  27723. ​ @Reclaimer77 Weren't most of us thinking COVID came from a laboratory accident, and that something was the matter with the vaccines, but people were fired or ostracized for saying so?
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  27724. Nice
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  27725. Great point.
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  27726. ​ @TheGlobuleReturns So he gained weight every decade?
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  27727.  @ThePantygun  You don't even bother to look anything up, do you? A judge at the court where I worked was appointed arbitrator, in an effort to settle the case without a trial.
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  27728. Freedom was being able to earn in-state tuition OR trade school tuition by working for the minimum wage over the summer, then afford a studio apartment in any city -- New York, San Francisco, Denver, Dallas. That was freedom.
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  27729. 🤣🤣🤣
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  27730. No one is forcing people to get vaccinated, we're just trying to share information that they are dupes of right-wing conspiracy theorists and are going to die. Don't hate the messenger. We're here to help. 😎
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  27731.  @drmattbarnes1371  Irony is not your strong suit, is it?
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  27732.  @natashak8946  In other words, he can't cite a study. But more to the point, have you ever found a study concerning happiness, fulfillment, flourishing, etc., that helped you make major decisions or plan your own life? Such "studies" exist not to accurately describe phenomema, but to shape behavior ---- much like the information (and absence of information) we've received to push vaccination. Sometimes they contain good efficiency tips for breaking an iphone habit or cleaning your house. A good novel or two, or three, can give you more insight, because art is more likely to stir your unconscious and your imagination, lead you to productive dreams that tell you something important for your own life, etc. These decisions are too personal and too individual to be made on any other basis.
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  27733.  @drmattbarnes1371  You see unmarried women ages 35 to 42 rushing to sperm banks? Gosh I wonder why not, doc.
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  27734.  @drmattbarnes1371  I didn't tout it at all, nor were my concerns about them fully addressed to my satisfaction.
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  27735.  @drmattbarnes1371  So much for your intuition.
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  27736. @UC2huyHfk-h98WBoJxALeXcA This link led me to Page Not Found.
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  27737. @UC2huyHfk-h98WBoJxALeXcA 🤣🤣🤣
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  27738.  @natashak8946  And so much for our interlocutor!
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  27739.  @drmattbarnes1371  Don't hate me because I'm a writer.
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  27740.  @drmattbarnes1371  You said I hate all things Trump, obviously, etc. Blocking you, you've wasted my time.
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  27741.  @drmattbarnes1371  If you're a doctor, you know ages 35 to 40 is too late to freeze ova. How ridiculous!
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  27742. Simplistic. Quoting Havel (!) should tip you off. Whoever made this video depends on the audience knowing nothing about Havel, or Solzhenitsyn, or what they ultimately, and fundamentally, disagreed about by the 1990s. Also, read Stonor Saunders. Find out who various "artists" really were.
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  27743.  @init100  It is known that Biden held back witnesses who were literally, physically present waiting to corroborate Anita Hill's testimony, and he denied them entry. But if he said "high-tech lynching," and, as we all know, words are Magic now, they create reality, then that settles it. What are actual bodies next to Words? In any case, there is no such suggestion. You are taking a metaphor for a literal description of who did what to whom. That's . . . I want to say bizarre, but in 2023, I feel like I'd be going out on a limb.
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  27744. Some people still believe in laws. Fewer and fewer, apparently.
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  27745. Nice innuendo you got there. Do you have facts concerning misconduct?
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  27746. Fauci and Trump played good cop bad cop.
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  27747. In the meantime, the BRICS expand and the Fed believes it can lower interest rates in 2024. Hm. No, NATO is not getting stronger. More and more countries will resist US leadership in case of an attack. The Russian casualties you cite are not likely to be accurate. I expected this escalation to cost Russia more overall. Countries joining BRICS? Now? That shocked me.
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  27748.  @davidwong5197  Thank you.
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  27749. 33:51 Accidently the truth comes out. No, Trump wouldn't be president if he didn't spout racist tropes routinely and regularly. Bannon himself claims he doesn't do that, and . . . HE will never win any office unless he starts.
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  27750.  @Kunfucious577  None of it had anything to do with what happened. Biles had a neuro-cognitive issue that made her lose her awareness of where she was in space. This was potentially lethal due to the routines she performs. Here is a VALID criticism: the Olympic Committee that decides on gymnastics scoring was right to discourage some of her moves, and planning a less spectacular program just in case she could not go to the limit during a very unusual and fraught year would have been much wiser, and perhaps more sportsmanlike. But she is the greatest. Sorry you don't like it, but you'll have to live with it.
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  27751.  @Kunfucious577  You have access to her medical records?
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  27752.  @Kunfucious577  That our very finest performers are being ill-served by the doctors who should be protecting their health and well-being is plausible, certainly, and has been proven time and again, and you are correct that it is very dangerous. You still don't have access to her individual medical records. We know what she suffered. We don't know why. I'm not sugar coating anything.
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  27753.  @Kunfucious577  As for this YouTuber "Paul," he claims he never finished secondary school because he was always drunk and high. His words. How ironic, typical DARVO.
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  27754.  @Kunfucious577  We know what the US Olympic Team and Biles herself stated had happened. We don't know why. That's in her private records. Anyway, if she's an addict, it is surprising she performed very well in most of the qualifying events, and at the end pulled it together to win one bronze. I'm not saying it's not possible. I know practically nothing about ritalin or adderal addiction. I'm not sure I spelled them right. How do you get through life? I know no one pays you to be this illogical. Not everybody can work as an online Influencer.
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  27755.  @Kunfucious577  What PROOF (not rumor) do you have that she, or any other stranger, is medicated in the first place?
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  27756.  @Kunfucious577  Oh I see what I wrote. Tend your own garden. You're the one who isn't doing well.
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  27757. ALL BAD
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  27758. Trump himself tweeted "Free Michigan!" etc., while openly armed people were inside Michigan's capitol. At the same time, the FBI under HIS watch was provoking and encouraging a serious crime. How is that not similar to what those in power now are doing? Hm?
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  27759.  @ericaugust1501  Perfect post.
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  27760. That trend has been effectively reversed in this century.
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  27761.  @Attmay  You know something? You're right. I hadn't thought of that, but should have, it is so perspicuous. Exactly what we need to watch for.
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  27762.  @twonumber22  People who jeer at those with legitimate, well-founded concerns about vaccination should be presumed to be false flags, just as anti-vaccine activists who spread proven, and obviously illogical, falsehoods should be presumed to be false flags, until proven otherwise. That's how to deal with you, and them. This is an intelligent program, for people who think critically and care about staying informed -- and who don't simply buy into what Democracy Now! is presenting. I don't understand what your comments are intended to do, except possibly cause more vaccine mistrust. Well it won't work.
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  27763. Alarm system? What's an alarm system? /s
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  27764.  @mayamichelle6741  People think "socialism" is trannies and "d___th panels." And Hillary and Hitler. Bill Gates.
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  27765. Private universities can use whatever metric they like, including legacies and parental contributions.
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  27766.  @cocorna3282  Harvard recently stopped requiring SAT, and won't for the next 5 years. That was already a trend, starting in 2005 if not earlier. Forbes (which Harvard parents read) wrote about it.
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  27767.  @drewskij2175  Texas stopped admitting the pinnacle of every high school class? I thought that was a worthy policy. Kids who make valedictorian (or close) anywhere should have admission to their top state university. Kids can't pick their high school. Anyway, her story should be reported.
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  27768. Communists are leery of this, too.
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  27769. Well, Katie was great, anyway. Especially about Scalia.
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  27770. Finally.
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  27771. THAT'S what BILL GATES looks like????????
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  27772.  @andybrice2711  Omg, I just saw it. Perhaps it only shows up under the Newest sort.
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  27773. Because they are a criminal gang gone berserk.
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  27774. The indictment is available online. It is for manslaughter and such. Nothing big will happen to these guys. Your intuition was on target.
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  27775. I don't think that what is happening in Gaza is penetrating people's minds. This isn't meant as an excuse. I think people are generally no longer cognitively or mentally healthy, and it is very serious. Who knows what could happen next? I see nothing better ahead.
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  27776.  @TechnoEstate  Give an example of what you mean. I don't get it.
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  27777. When the Beatles and Stones properly credited black music for their success, did anyone have a fit?
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  27778. Okay. How does someone this bad get this far?
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  27779. Nah, they should just shut up and pay. /s
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  27780. "WHY is Jordan Peterson so popular? Why, why, why??"
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  27781. LADY, people are suspicious of Hank Aaron's death. Has there been a proper investigation? Has the data on VAERS been audited yet? These could all be exaggerations or fabrications -- or, barely a small percentage of actual grave side effects. Ask Congress to FIND OUT.
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  27782. 12:54 Jimmy proves his point.
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  27783. Poor Nancy. She still doesn't have enough money. I'll pray for her. /s
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  27784. You can look up the (German) Paul-Ehrlich-Institut safety report, English language version. You can see what other countries' ministries of health are recommending (like Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, etc. -- the civilized places).
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  27785. He knows who goes to war. It's not the kids from affluent suburbs in the "blue" states now is it?
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  27786.  @katchi5784  So did Alexander Cockburn. That's why The American Conservative printed some of his articles and gave him the most touching obituary, real class act I have to say. But I'm Euro-left. Quite "far" left, actually, but . . . Different animal.
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  27787.  @patched8789  Oh I see. Good thing I'm moving.
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  27788.  @patched8789 You forgot already? It's PUTIN'S fault.
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  27789.  @patched8789  Putin's fault.
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  27790. If a man micro doses and claims he was "tricked" into permitting his son to transition, he should not be anywhere near the power of government. Use YOUR head.
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  27791. What government contract has he lost under Biden?
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  27792. Okay, you can figure this out: Prince George would have a regent until turning 18 (or 21). That's how this nonsense works.
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  27793. Thinking that way used to be considered a possible sign of schizophrenia. Now it just means you believe what's on television.
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  27794.  @gugy68  He's going to be lionized? Are you serious? Non-Western peoples are earning their top spot. Heads up.
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  27795. BRICS+ will help out.
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  27796. What do you believe should follow? War crimes on top of war crimes? No one said yeah but. Watch Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman. Her father was a rabbi. That has been the best reporting. No surprise.
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  27797. She said no mandates.
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  27798. Because this is easy and pays.
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  27799. ​ @veenamishra8950  "Worked" is a stretch.
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  27800. Not likely. It was a proxy fight among billionaires, with the testimony being pivotal. No one would have scrutinized her work were it not for that (admittedly poor) performance when she testified. The proof? No one ever had -- not hers, and not Ackman's wife's, either. As for Stefanik, easy fundraising. What's not to like?
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  27801. Charlemagne Tha God had a better analysis than DNC and the mainstream media. Not surprised.
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  27802.  @scoobertmcruppert2915  Aileen's post was excellent. Why did you swoop on it? Sounds like you proved your own point.
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  27803.  SidneyPowellThinks UrAnIdiot  The video with Cenk using the n-word repeatedly in a supposedly ironic but in fact NOT funny way is everywhere. Look, they used to imitate Howard Stern. But only Howard Stern can get away with being Howard Stern.
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  27804.  @janeryan2709  Why don't you look up Title VII? There is literally no possibility of bringing suit for Jimmy's comment and prevailing. It was not a Title VII violation. If you think real people have that degree of control over a workplace, you must be living in Palo Alto or Manhattan. Where do you get this notion? At least Dore and Stef, and Ron Placone, actually know what work is like. There seems to be a dwindling number of such people.
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  27805.  @aileenpi73  You're welcome. I just told the truth. Other people noticed, too.
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  27806.  @jocksharerock7318  The version Ana relies on seven years post, after threatening Dore for denouncing her smear of Aaron Mate? What did she actually say happened? That she hid all through the time Dore worked there, and when he endorsed Cenk for Congress, and even after MeToo swept the country? Even though she was above Dore at TYT? When her role was employer, his employee? That "version?" A jury? Anyone here under oath?
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  27807.  @jocksharerock7318  Don't be so jealous of excellent posts. It's a bad look.
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  27808. Well, I guess he's a stable genius, too.
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  27809. Which was and is idiotic.
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  27810. Why does there have to be a Republican Senate and House to find out, and fire Fauci? Regardless of what anyone thinks of Dems, this is bizarre. "The coverup is worse than the crime" is the mantra since Nixon.
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  27811. The police insisted she leave. She decided not to.
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  27812.  @islandgal500  I see what you mean. I agree.
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  27813. Have you ever looked at a Harvard or Yale syllabus? Or check out MIT OCW, it's been posted for years. See what they actually study.
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  27814.  @TheGodsrighthandman  First, I checked my numbers. I'm right. Only one university in Canada charges five figure tuition. Second, I conceded the Five Eyes do charge tuition. This isn't France we're talking about.
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  27815.  @TheGodsrighthandman  Oh I see. You posted this to the wrong thread. Cute trick.
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  27816. But Pfizer did, too.
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  27817. Has anyone bothered to check court records? Or do you believe this simplistic version? No, she wasn't making it up. That she always went back for more is incomprehensible.
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  27818. ​​ @tochukwuifeanetu4336  He left behind texts that are unbelievable. I mean, really sick stuff that makes no sense, makes bizarre remarks about her mother, etc. He needed rehab and felt too trapped by his job to get help. That's the really sad part This case could serve as a lesson. Why are they spinning it instead? .
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  27819. Adam Curtis explained this better.
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  27820. Didn't a bunch of billionaires just say they were setting aside jobs for Jewish kids? I mean, even if that often correlates with merit, isn't it illegal?
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  27821. Don't look now . . . No one is earning it any more.
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  27822. Trump's DOJ indicted Assange, Obama's didn't. He put John Bolton and Mike Pompeo in charge, and did nothing to rein in Fauci. Why don't people see how LAZY Trump was? Because he said a handful of true things?
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  27823.  @blizzardjm  It happened at Harvard. Perhaps here it is not the same, but it's not implausible.
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  27824. And worse yet, she cannot believe that she has to think. She thinks that what she IS doing is thinking. She has never had to do more.
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  27825. Ha. Evidence?
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  27826. The only election disinformation that should be censored within 48 hours of an election are false reports that a candidate is dead, disabled, or in jail.
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  27827. So . . . President Trump, why did you endorse this dude?
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  27828. They don't even blush.
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  27829. And when has our safety and our economy been this vulnerable? Were we a debter nation back then? Was the Chinese economy on a par with our own in any sector? What was our national debt to GDP ratio back then? Did we import the minerals that run our world?
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  27830. Robert Whitaker was just published in the BMJ. He is a journalist and leading authority on the politics of psychoactive medications. Everyone should read his book.
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  27831. And here Robbie is advocating for the complete dismantling of universal public education, and you don't see that. Well, then education has failed. People fall for this rot . . .
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  27832. Does jihad exist? Do jihadists exist? Have innocent people been accused of jihadism simply because they are Muslim men, and for no other reason? Seems to me that yes, yes, and yes, are the correct answers. I would have to watch the film to see whether it buries these facts.
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  27833.  @cassiescornerreviews6884  The people who invented and propagated this story, wasted millions of our money in pointless investigations, enriched themselves, destroyed the careers of thoughtful and honest journalists, and undermined the electoral process. Those guys. Why? Who did you think the post was about?
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  27834. "Restorative justice programs" -- second watching, cracked me up: 36:22 They are ready to ruin these programs, too. That part is not funny.
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  27835. Those who know basic facts of social psychology know how specious this is. For example, you will never get at the truth of whether a person is happy; what you will find out is whether their social group values making the assertion that they are happy, or considers claiming to be discontented a signal of greater depth, intelligence, higher ethical standards, and so forth. It also depends on whether a group considers candor imperative -- you owe it to everyone to answer a survey truthfully -- and whether it is considered immoral, or even sinful, not to express happiness, which is a sign of gratitude toward God. So . . . A researcher has to use various indirect methods to find out who is truly happy. Do any of the people on Fox look happy to you? They are railing against someone at least as much as The View.
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  27836. Happens all the time. Both prosecutor and defense make motions they know will be turned down.
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  27837. 💯
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  27838. PLEASE please please invite Glenn Greenwald to comment. It will be great.
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  27839. I get the feeling that he simply cannot face the facts, and not facing the facts will sink him. The Fauci Collins emails show that they agreed to actively suppress the fact that the pandemic resulted from a lab accident. They suppressed this theory because the laboratory in Wuhan was conducting experiments that should not have been done, and certainly not with our funds. Obama tried to stop this. He signed the moratorium on funding such research. Fauci looked for ways to skirt that rule, and Trump lifted the rule, then pushed Operation Warp Speed. WHAT PART OF THIS IS "RIGHT WING?" It's not any wing. This is simply what happened. Any honest actor who has read works on medical ethics from before 2020, written by the leading thinkers in the field, knows that the vaccine mandate was completely unethical. Could there ever be a vaccine mandate that is ethical? Open question; this one was not.
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  27840.  @deadgolfer6345  I don't actually. Third parties have arisen because of the DNC and the hold the Clinton cabal has on it.
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  27841. ​​ @josearaujo8616 That's not possible. In 1950, there were 2,500,000,000 people on earth. Today, there are more than three times that number, and EVERYONE in the West has larger homes and more stuff in them, and things like major appliances have a far shorter life. Someone is making this very tangible stuff, and transporting it across larger distances.
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  27842.  @josearaujo8616  WHERE DID YOU FIND THIS NUMBER? I can only find historical statistics for the US. Globally, the manufacturing workforce was put at nearly 500 million, with nearly 20% of them in China (just under 100 million). Did the US have 100 million working in manufacturing in 1950? Er . . . No. Not possible.
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  27843.  @josearaujo8616 One more proof you are American. Math-blind.
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  27844. @josearaujo8616  The global manufacturing workforce is probably somewhat below 480 million; in any event, below half a billion. Of those, almost 100 million are in China alone. In 1950, the US did not have a manufacturing sector that employed 100 million people.
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  27845. @josearaujo8616  Edits to test if my replies were un see able again. The algae rhythm does not appreciate fact-filled posts. Did you see the actual math? Oh, my sense or'd post reappeared! The one with the shouting. 🤣 Now, to get down to the nitty gritty . . . Why were you repeating propaganda? If you watch shows like this one, you must know better. Or you can easily figure out on your own that something we are being told literally does not add up. I mean, in the domain of arithmetic.
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  27846.  @josearaujo8616  As a matter of fact, the US manufacturing sector peaked in terms of total people employed during . . . Jimmy Carter. That late. The minimum wage in terms of purchasing power peaked in the late 1960s, nearly a decade earlier. In around 1979, about 20 million Americans had a manufacturing job. I look stuff up. :)
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  27847.  @josearaujo8616  Well, somebody is making all the tangible stuff we've got. Somebody is extracting resources to make it and transport it.
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  27848.  @josearaujo8616  THAT was not what you said. No one denies mechanization or increases in productivity.
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  27849.  David Vazquez  You can vote for whomever you want, using any criteria you choose. Do you think you are right to publicly disparage people and urge others to vote against them, AND cheer on those who systematically smear them, all because their sexual orientation makes them "less worthy" humans, according to you? Is that the moral code you impart to your children?
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  27850.  David Vazquez  And what are you trash talking people for? Who do you imagine you outmanoeuvred? Where?
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  27851.  David Vazquez  I do agree with your integrity point, though.
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  27852. No.
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  27853. If topical CBD is free of THC, I would consider it. Why not?
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  27854. If it were only masks for people 12 and over in enclosed areas. If that were all . . .
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  27855. Jimmy is so funny about people's shadows. It is striking how many people who are apoplectic about Trump yet imitate Trump all the time.
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  27856. Pelosi knows the propaganda is working. I think she knows her typical constituent. As long as most people would do what she does if they were elected, and grab every dollar they could grab, this won't end.
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  27857. Kamala Harris. Just wait and see. Same stuff, different day.
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  27858. Yes, and this could be a rare flu shot side effect, or, of course, a side effect of the flu itself (given that the shot is poor protection). It is permanent. The official insert provided to doctors and pharmacists lists it as a very rare side effect.
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  27859. Look up Gray Zone and Moderate Rebels. He also has an indie presence, but I'm not sure exactly where it includes video format.
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  27860. Exactly. He knew he made a mistake, and apologized immediately, in writing. We all know what that says about a person. The cagey ones say it, but never write it.
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  27861.  @edward481  He said it out loud in the newsroom, their shared workplace, and everyone laughed at Ana. Context matters. Notice I didn't say it was sexual harassment -- much less "hostile environment." Anyone with a passing knowledge of the law would know that Jimmy's joke doesn't rise to that level. It does not come close to that. He did the right thing by saying he was sorry, in a card, and showed real class by buying a small gift as well. If Ana needs money, she could auction the card?
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  27862.  @edward481  Er, what makes you think you have freedom of speech at work? No. Everyone knows you don't. I hope everyone knows. It's a private business. Government can't force them to grant employees free speech rights. It would violate their freedom of association. (I.e., the freedom to fire you if they don't approve of what you say on their premises during work.)
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  27863. You think Microsoft can't fire someone who updates other employees on the latest Bill Gates-Jeffrey Epstein revelations? If they don't fire him, it might be because they fear the publicity. But it's up to them to weigh it. The government can't do anything about it. The employee can't win a suit based on the First Amendment.
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  27864.  @edward481  I don't agree with it. I'm telling you the truth. In America, you can express any opinion you like, or make jokes, and your job can have security escort you out the door the same day. That's how it works here. That is literally the law, absent a contract (such as a union contract) to the contrary. Where did I say I agreed? You'd advise individuals to test it? They'll risk being summarily fired without a right to unemployment compensation.
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  27865. @gianni_schicchi  Look, I thought it was utterly laughable because the vaunted AI made a mistake a learning-challenged 10 year old would know better than to make, but I concede I may be wrong. I better get up to speed here.
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  27866. @utah_koidragon7117  Well, all right. I forgot how people Worship at the Altar of the High Tech Billionaire. If AI shows Napoleon as black, the kids will soon think he was black. Or at least they will learn that if they make Napoleon (or George Washington or Leonardo DaVinci) black, they will get money for it. They may even get into Harvard, if not MIT, if they make him black and that may very well be worse. Mea culpa. But distributing an obscene fake image of a living person IS objectively worse for the simple reason that it is a tort or a crime. Making Shakespeare black is only a crime figuratively. My advice, if I may, after this insensitive performance on my part: have a physical library. Buy your kids real books. Start now.
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  27867.  @idnintel  Who told you her IQ?
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  27868.  @utah_koidragon7117  Well, as usual, my response to you is no longer present. They do not want the two of us to talk! Lol
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  27869.  @spawnjg  A "typical Democrat?" She didn't vote for Biden. She didn't even vote for Hillary!
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  27870. Why do facts scare you? Long COVID includes depression -- which always has multiple causes, the COVID politics being one! Compassion for anyone with COVID aftereffects is just as important as compassion for anyone with vaccine aftereffects. Most long COVID is not "serious." It will not kill or disable the vast majority. We can help the depressed. Let them acknowledge how they are suffering, for starters. Making them stay quiet is placing a burden on them.
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  27871.  @lukebandolino882  Okay. You know what style message is best for you. I have been shocked by the fearmongering, and I hate it. I guess this video didn't bother me. I think fearmongering exacerbates symptoms, of every illness.
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  27872.  @lukebandolino882  So he told us both sides. I think that's excellent.
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  27873. @ashleyjohansson230  Banned "for a reason," like the people who stated something true about the pandemic or Hunter Biden or Palestine? Glenn Greenwald had to leave The Intercept -- the Internet journal he founded -- because they censored him concerning Hunter. And mRNA does travel around the body.
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  27874. In America, no person will help you, so there had better be an app.
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  27875. No. More than one treatment or vaccine can exist, even under EUA. We would not have several vaccines EUA if that were true. We would not have various penicillin type and macrolide type antibiotics if that were true. Plus, vaccinated people get COVID, and sometimes get hospitalized.
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  27876. He's 55. He lived in a tiny bungalow for 23 years. Did you used to say he was "jealous" of the "successful" people?
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  27877. Is Hillary trying to make Biden lose, out of envy?
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  27878. This is one time I also blame Pelosi.
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  27879.  @jim6038  You are talking about Title IX abuses at universities, which I agree are horrendous. The tide on that has turned as the result of many lawsuits, that were very expensive for the first victims of the abuses. Look up the criminal statute in your state concerning rape and sexual assault and see what it describes. It is obvious that a woman committing the same acts specified in the statute against another person, regardless of sex, would be held criminally liable. (The differences in anatomy are not significant as a matter of law, given that nonconsensual digital sexual penetration or sexual penetration using some object are illegal.) If a woman gets drunk to do that, I would consider enhancing the penalty, as they do in some other countries.
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  27880. You ABSOLUTELY can turn this around. If you are under 40, you have 20 more years of being young and 30 years of work life. If you feel old, it could be depression. Don't let that happen. Start by talking long walks and eating well. Don't fall for fad diets, eat the things this video said to eat, and buy organic whenever you can.
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  27881. Wait a second, does anyone still believe we care about mass shootings? Robby couldn't remember the details of the one that just happened in Maine. After Sandy Hook, after Uvalde . . . ? Maybe this one counts because it can be politicized as anti-Christian?
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  27882. Going against the "left," so called, has created new multimillionaires.
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  27883.  @therealdeal3672  She's worthy of criticism. Anyone who avidly promoted The Secret, not to mention Dr. Phil, is very worthy of reproach. Why not mention the books? Odd that you don't.
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  27884.  @Nope2022HugeTheWarningFan  Well, people interested in actually reading have to look to the Nobel, Booker Prize, and so forth, and pay attention to British writers and reviewers, and the few surviving small presses, to unearth contemporary gems. Even the acquisition lists of major public libraries and the recommendations of their librarians are valuable. Like anything else, rabid capitalism unbridled turns culture to sh___.
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  27885.  @Nope2022HugeTheWarningFan  Wow. That is powerful. Sounds like you did make the best of it, at any rate. That the best was THAT bad is disturbing.
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  27886. It's based on something Trump just said a few weeks ago. The ad he bought, backed when everyone still thought they were guilty, was free speech.
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  27887. @Manish Mims I do. The pressure was intense. I felt like a hunted animal and I almost gave in as well.
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  27888. The demonstrators are Jewish, too -- many of them. Please keep up.
    1
  27889. $36 billion is almost a million dollars a day, for . . . a century. Well, not quite, so . . .
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  27890. Not at all.
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  27891. I agree that every parent should take an interest in the vaccine schedule for children in every developed country with better childhood health than ours. In Europe, the schedule is not as onerous as ours, but whether the differences are large or significant is another matter. If it were my child, I'd generally follow the schedule where the healthiest kids live, and I would also look into side effects discussed in the research, which anyone can find in the NIH medical library. I'd delay any vaccine that can be delayed, but that wouldn't be many. And then I would not worry about it.
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  27892. @djinghiskhan9199  EVERY European country vaccinates against measles. I've read that it is one of the best, in that it enhances the immune system overall in most children who take it, so that they are more resistant to other contagious diseases as well as being immune to measles. That's what you want a childhood vaccine to do.
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  27893.  @djinghiskhan9199  CDC: "During January 1-December 31, 2023, a total of 58 measles cases were reported by 20 jurisdictions: California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New York City, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin." This is due to anti-vaxxers?
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  27894. Oh no they're not. Jimmy and Ron are. You OTOH repeat the elites' talking points.
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  27895.  @IMurderdTheDevil  Keep saying that. Create your own truth. You're entitled to it.
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  27896.  @IMurderdTheDevil  Big business in a capitalist economy deciding what rights you have and don't have is a feature of fascism. "Those with money get to decide" sure isn't "socialist." Jimmy is socialist. Ask him.
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  27897.  @IMurderdTheDevil  Okay. Thanks for murdering the devil.
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  27898. And rich people never pay their fair share, the US runs huge deficits, the rich buy Treasury bonds to finance the deficit, and WE pay THEM interest, from our taxes. And that's too many steps for the average person with an American education to follow. Reagan knew what he was doing when he gutted mathematics education all right.
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  27899.  @smb123211 Who are these people? What is the evidence? When did they make this determination? Why are multiple news outlets, including Reuters, which is mainstream, still reporting that the news is, as yet, unconfirmed? By the way, the Syrian gas attacks were the fault of Assad, vaccines will end the pandemic, and Russia gave us Trump. The laptop is fake. Numerous intelligence experts said the laptop had "all the earmarks" of Russian disinformation. Saddam had WMDs. Gaddafi will not be deposed.
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  27900.  @Bronson37848  Do you see how these people all do the same thing? Now suspending judgment = justifying war crimes. So dirty. Just a silencing tactic, designed to intimidate.
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  27901.  @alzer6467  Check again.
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  27902.  @cybervigilante  I endorse your questions.
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  27903.  @alzer6467  Or are you pressing me to go full ad hominem? Is that it? Ad hom used to be recognized as dubious, now it's required?
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  27904.  Troyphy  🤣🤣🤣 The 🤡 deserved that!
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  27905.  @smb123211 Reuters again reported the Pentagon can neither confirm nor deny that Russian troops were responsible for the deaths.
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  27906.  @smb123211  NOTHING to do with narratives. It is either true, or it is false, that X murdered Y. Not "narratives," not who is a proven liar, not about "sides." How have we lost the desire for truth? I never thought I'd see it.
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  27907.  @smb123211  So, because the Steele dossier was fake, and Hunter's laptop real, should we believe everything Russia says? Automatically disbelieve everything our intelligence services state? Re-elect Trump?? This is crazy.
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  27908.  @smb123211  Tell me where you found this. (Not in the American press I hope.) Reuters is as mainstream British as you can get. TeleSUR and CGNT are reporting skepticism. I consider the Reuters report to mean that the perpetrator is still unknown. They have not updated that. China has called for an investigation. Good.
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  27909.  @smb123211  AP and ABC News: China calls for probe, assigns no blame.
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  27910.  @smb123211  India condemns the killings, calls for independent investigation.
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  27911.  @smb123211  Pakistan is in the middle of its own political crisis. Its parliament has been dissolved. Say. What are you trying to pull?
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  27912.  @smb123211  You're a great example of the mental illness that has overtaken this society. How did this happen?
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  27913.  @smb123211  Where did I say it wasn't true? I said it needed to be independently verified. So I'm for India and China. I'm on their side.
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  27914.  @smb123211 WHO supports Putin?? Look, I consider Trump an abomination, and his election a watershed event from which we have not recovered, BUT the Steele dossier was nevertheless fake. The laptop is real. It's called empiricism. Try it, put your toe in the water.
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  27915.  @smb123211  Both India and China called for independent investigation. I support them. Your claim that they condemned Russia was false, BTW.
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  27916.  @smb123211  I offered my home to Ukrainian refugees back in February, should the need arise. You? What have you done, except cheer for more more more war? Pfft. Like I said, try empiricism. It's not virtual, it's real.
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  27917.  @df6077  One has become desperate to raise the level of discourse.
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  27918. Pathetic.
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  27919. Paradise Papers: Jeffrey Epstein's crowd?
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  27920. Outstanding point. No one is seeking to exclude anyone, with any psychological condition whatsoever.
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  27921. Whatever anyone may say, and quite apart from any ethical considerations, America's reputation is now terrible. No one believes anything that America says. "Humanitarianism" has been exposed as pure opportunism.
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  27922. I didn't know parents were this miserable.
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  27923. Immunity from liability, full patent protection allowing corporations to refuse to share crucial information, and mandates for vaccines that have poor effectiveness --- all of this contradicts the claim that we're in an "emergency."
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  27924. Does anyone have a normal love life?
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  27925. Zinc is an essential mineral. "Therefore Graham is wrong. Something else was going on with his ex. I don't know Graham." See how that is, Graham? Except this post is at least scientifically accurate. Zinc is an essential mineral. Anaphylactic shock in reaction to an essential mineral raises questions.
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  27926. ​ @acheron9456 Cela n'a rien à voir avec le wokisme. Le wokisme vient de la décadence bourgeoise lamentable.
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  27927. Western Europeans are bizarre.
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  27928.  @heznise  After the COVID lockdowns, I would give him a pass on that one. Or at least the benefit of the doubt.
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  27929. ​@stolearovigor281 You mean like when every last gauleiter followed AH, while Sophie Scholl stood up for what was right? You mean like that?
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  27930. ​@liseernie Because she knows kids are kids, and do kid things? She was the only healthy looking person on the show, by the way. That alone ought to give you pause.
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  27931. Why does she look like the new wife??
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  27932. In which chamber of Congress do spending bills originate? Who is in control of that chamber? And what is the rhetoric of that party, compared with the reality of what they do? Of course Biden will win, barring some totally unforeseeable event. What do you expect to happen then?
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  27933. Unsub from Dore. Better plan.
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  27934. Yeah, . . . the least reversal in life, and they are on drugs (Jordan Peterson, Rush Limbaugh).
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  27935.  @dmunjal  If you politely correct them, do they come back and say they'll pronounce it however they want?
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  27936. @dmunjal  Mispronunciation wasn't the issue. Her saying she'll call Kamala whatever she wants to call Kamala was the issue. That was a strange thing to say. And then she said, "are you calling me a racist?" She used that word in self-defense, because it's SO BAD to call someone racist. People don't see through anything any more, wow. Anyway . . . It was not her best day.
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  27937. @kurtaquino2  Close to 1 in 4 adults don't have children. Thank you for helping Trump/Vance lose. Say, Vance supports increasing the child tax credit to $5000. I do, too. Do you think he can build support by jeering at those who won't get their taxes lowered? 🤣🤣🤣
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  27938. @michaelgee683  Or how about one person to another. I don't have special respect for Biden, or for Trump except insofar as respect for how he carried himself after Butler.
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  27939. @capnpugwash5403  Yes, and what a disaster that the vaccine has such poor effectiveness on top of everything else. We will need a good coronavirus vaccine.
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  27940. @westleyjohnstone4719  No we won't say that. COVID is clearly a dangerous disease that can affect multiple organ systems and bodily processes. Too bad we don't have a good v____ for it. We will need one.
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  27941. @sharonlawrence4830  We have GOT to act, it's true.
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  27942. @RogerMcMillan  Anecdotes lead to case studies, and case studies lead to devising testable hypotheses. That's the impetus. That's why there is a yellow card system, VAERS, etc. They are not pure data, no. They are not vetted. Yet we collect those anecdotes. Surprised to hear this about kids without arms. Thalidomide is banned, correct? Yes, it was iatrogenic.
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  27943. That's not what this resolution says, or means. You mean you don't know the US (not to mention the world) is full of Orthodox rabbis and other devout Jews who consider Zionism morally wrong? Just what do you know about other cultures? That doesn't mean they support an entirely different state, dominated by terrorists no less, to replace the Israeli state. Look at what words mean for a change.
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  27944. His whole family? So he remembers them.
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  27945.  @thyme4thought422  This is true.
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  27946.  @VanIsleIceQueen  So sorry! Links are always shadowed, or at least mine are --- too hard to monitor for TOS violations is why, or so they say. I'll look it up again and try to provide keywords. Prashad said unequivocally that Putin had other options at the time, and gave concrete examples of things he should have done. Great big exhale --- excellent segment.
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  27947.  @VanIsleIceQueen  Letters and Politics, another view of the war in Ukrainian, from March.
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  27948.  @VanIsleIceQueen  Putin deserves more blame than he's getting. Why don't people realize what that means? It's blowing my mind. :/
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  27949. @kevinstaggs5048  Well, the very question is what the consequences should be, isn't it? Heather Graham suffered personal consequences for Boogie Nights, and I, for one, am sorry. Are these videos on that order, or worse?
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  27950. 9:58 🤣🤣🤣 love it
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  27951. I don't understand what either of you mean.
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  27952.  @sopheakko697  I didn't pay tuition for my Master's degree, only about $700 in administrative fees per year. Of course in Europe. I call that opportunity. American unemployment statistics have been tricked up for years.
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  27953.  Hello There  Yeah, the Americans of northwestern European descent often seem to need a lot of support to live. Expensive medical care, elaborate emotional support, issues with food and obesity, drug abuse, inability to control their emotions or their conduct, an inability to accept responsibility for what they should be able to control or at least work to control, yet bullying others all the time over the things no one can control. They also seem to have a need for overweening praise and privilege. All just to survive. It's not about race. Race has nothing to do with it. It's about culture. Now I bet you're angry. If so, consider whether you've proved my point.
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  27954. "We are chosen. No one can tell us what to do, we know better." --- said every East Mediterranean ethnic group that ever existed. You're not so special. 😅
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  27955. "Devoid of intellectual . . . " stop right there. 😂
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  27956. This was stupid. I don't go after people with little kids who have these severe issues. I back off. Megyn always goes after other women.
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  27957. @timgormady3610  This mainstream media report is misleading. They were apart for nearly a week. Brian flew home to Florida to clear out his storage unit and sell a few things. She was alone with the van. She had time to talk with friends, think, and get home. This story skipped that part. It's 2025. You still trust the media?
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  27958.  @joyful5506  I believe aliens are hiding him. I believe he's working for Elon. I believe. 🤣
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  27959. ​ @betsybabf748  False. Brandenburg v Ohio and RAV v. City of St. Paul made that clear: subjective feelings are irrelevant, and political speech and expression can be expected to provoke discomfort. Only true threats or incitement to imminent violence are unprotected speech. In RAV, Scalia wrote an opinion that struck down an ordinance that prohibited cross burning and displaying swastikas. These cannot be banned under the First Amendment. Cross burning has to amount to vandalism, or be a violation of the fire code if it is to be punished. It cannot be punished for the opinion it expresses, no matter whose feelings are hurt, and any law that tries to punish its expressive content is unconstitutional. Why did you think someone else was wrong?
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  27960. ​ @cyrusthegreat3081 Actually, it is. If you can praise Likud, you can praise Hamas. If you can denounce Hamas, you can denounce Likud. That's how it works.
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  27961. OH WAIT. ABE ISN'T EURO EITHER. Now I get it. Took me some time.
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  27962.  @thebullgator  It was treated almost as an afterthought. Would you consider this a proper report of an American ex-president's assassination? Emily starts out the segment by laughing. They talk about some political pop psychology report first. Abe should have been the lead.
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  27963.  @chaosking911  I'm fine bro. I wonder what you're on. I bet I've never heard of it and couldn't pronounce it. Well, you took that name for a reason . . .
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  27964.  @thebullgator  Forgive me. I guess I lived in Paris too long in my youth. I actually know something about how one conducts oneself towards others in times of massive shock for them, regardless of what you may (justifiably or not) think of the person in question. Our school shootings are reported with more sensitivity abroad.
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  27965.  @thebullgator  I said HOW they reported it. Went back to check. Is there some reason you must falsify the remarks of anyone who doesn't agree with you? Or, I should say, why are you compelled to falsify? Then demean?
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  27966. ​@rep.dancrenshawtx-2688 😂😂😂 good one!
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  27967. We've given shelter to people. They were grateful, and petrified of the streets.
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  27968. If these comments teach one younger person not to join the military and not to care about anyone but themselves, it will have been worth it. Absolutely.
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  27969.  @AnyaGB  Watch the video of Trump announcing the strikes. Anyone can see in his face that he did NOT know who the guy was. Hypothetically, let's even assume for the sake of argument that it was the "right" decision. Trump STILL didn't know who the guy was. It's mind blowing. Lazy f***.
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  27970.  @AnyaGB  THIS is what I cannot get. How do Trump "fans" not see it? This transcends politics. Scary.
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  27971. If the cops aren't white, it's not racism? Oh wow. Like when a woman undercuts a woman, it's not sexism. Sure, fool the kids. Mind f***. How many lies are you making them believe before Saturday? Will you make them repeat lies, too, or else?
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  27972. As it happens, Moira Donegan called this. The Guardian.
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  27973. @North Korea Is Best Korea Your original post is missing from the current thread. And look who's talking. Blocked.
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  27974. @North Korea Is Best Korea You say "Russian aggression" and "American aggression" as though they were equivalence classes. If these countries have reason to believe the first is in response to a so-called "existential threat," and the second is about securing raw materials at a low cost, supporting dollar hegemony, and extending American ideological influence among the global elites, LOGICALLY speaking there is zero hypocrisy. But that is an empirical question to some extent, of course. You're not analyzing this correctly, but what else is new? 🤣
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  27975. @North Korea Is Best Korea See? You're wrong about the logic. Fallacy of equivocation. You label two things with the same Magic Word and voila, the rest is "logic." 🤣
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  27976.  @illuminatedbestchoice1042  Exactly -- except that Biden and Trump really are more representative of white American males than Jean-Pierre is of Haitians. After all, they were actually elected president.
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  27977. ​ @DeaPeaJay I thought conservatives were pro-free speech. Gee, what happened?
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  27978. @rogerward801  The ONLY thing? Does it get much more important? In any case, the guest agreed to a broad interpretation of Tinker. I thought the discussion was very valuable, and the guest did a great job. The First Amendment affects everyone. The gender nonsense affects a relatively smaller number, but affects them very strongly. The First Amendment lets us discuss it.
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  27979.  @mikeottersole  You have a point about uniforms.
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  27980.  @Ricolas_Cage  They've got you going all right.
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  27981.  @TheChase008  I said exactly that, unless it is in the yt shadows. No one knows anymore what anyone else can see. (All the better to fight amongst ourselves, my dear?)
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  27982. @tcorourke2007  That's what you heard. That's not what she said. Greenwald supports the First Amendment. Why would he care about personalities? Why would that have any bearing on the issue? I doubt he has noticed her at all.
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  27983. How does that justify threats? Sounds like you believe her life will end up being miserable enough, no? Or do we have to hurry up and make her live in fear now?
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  27984.  @lazyam1523  He didn't say that at all. Of course the system permits expert evaluation based on medical records. That is how insurance companies deny coverage all the time. 💰💰💰
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  27985.  @lazyam1523  Exactly, Depp has a right to refuse to talk to this guy, short of a court order.
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  27986. Except that we don't. What if their next concoction is a version of Ebola? I don't have any confidence in the judgment of "authorities" at all at this point.
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  27987. ???
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  27988. "And besides, she had it coming!!!" 🤣
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  27989. After Harvard lost its lawsuit brought by Asian students, the truth about undergraduate admissions was laid out: over 40% of white students were admitted on other criteria than academic merit. Legacies, major donors, athletes, and "special development" are the reasons. An outstanding athlete or a gifted actor or musician has merit in my eyes, but those are not academic criteria.
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  27990. Thank you.
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  27991. Why oh why doesn't every American watch this?
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  27992. Are you sure that wasn't a doctored audio or video? There is even one floating around that purports to show Putin is WEF. The greater the chance that it was intentional, the less the chance you will find an outright admission. Fauci didn't keep his job for so long for nothing.
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  27993. I know what space WE want to to be in: the one where THIS RESEARCH IS BANNED pending a long and thorough investigation. The risk is always offloaded on us, who are least able to bear it.
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  27994.  @michaellombardi3638  Very nicely explained.
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  27995.  @morgjones13  Mathematics is never "magic." It is universal. The set of all partial sums of the natural numbers under the usual definition of summation contains only natural numbers.
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  27996.  @Dashman100  The Numberphile video is illogical. All mathematicians deal with infinity all the time. Every mathematical proof is true of some well-defined infinite set of mathematical objects.
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  27997. Or better yet, don't.
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  27998.  @hywelgriffiths5747  Source? Do we have reliable information on that?
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  27999. 1. First time I've heard Gabbard genuinely sound upset and flustered. 2. Who is going to join the military? Why? What are they thinking??
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  28000.  @jpt00711  You're tuning him out before he gets to his point. It takes a lot of patience to get there, I grant you.
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  28001.  @arthurcainii  He's been saying this for a while. The Intercept reported on it, and FOIA requests are finally being upheld by federal courts . . . Nearly two f--ing years into this. But anyway. :/
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  28002.  @jpt00711  Strictly talking about this report. Not delving into his long record . . . Don't doubt you.
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  28003. Read Frankel's Love and Math. Don't worry, I'm not perverse. This is a rigorous book, but a FUN book.
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  28004.  @elijahclaude3413  Western countries, or primarily US/UK? They are generally the worst of the developed countries on every quality of life metric, and have been for a long time. I consider them the least Western, if by "Western" we mean the inheritors of Ancient Greece, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment. In some ways, Latin America is more culturally Western by that standard than is the US.
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  28005.  @JM-qn3tf  Yes it is. Try reading the Westboro Baptist Church case, for example. Or RAV v. City of St. Paul, or the seminal case of Brandenburg v. Ohio. RAV was a Scalia opinion, and Scalia joined the opinion on the flag-burning case, Texas v. Johnson. You could start with those four cases, or any one of them, and find out what the law is. As an American, don't you feel strange not knowing? Where's your pride?
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  28006.  @JM-qn3tf  You think people can burn a flag in symbolic protest, or display a swastika, or demonstrate at the funeral of a fallen service member, as long as they create no obstruction to attending the ceremony, but they can't object to American dollars financing a foreign war? How do you figure? Our First Amendment law is strong.
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  28007. Retracted. Why?
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  28008. A middle-class student at Yale is relatively underprivileged, on a scholarship, and rare.
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  28009. The middle-class kids probably worked very hard to get there.
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  28010. Puleez, Musk is making excuses for his behavior and his father's. It could not be more obvious.
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  28011. I don't generally like Josh Hawley, but . . . BRAVO!!!!
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  28012.  @cogit8able  Nowhere did I say anything even remotely ressembling that. I'm being sense ored. Don't you get it? I never took that thing you think I'm shilling for.
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  28013. If they turn everything into "sides," they generate more ad revenues.
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  28014. WAIT. It took the school board THIS LONG to pass a &^%$#@#% dress code? Oh no. Oh my goodness. EDIT: it's not even a dress code? Oh no. . . . NO no no . . .
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  28015. "Marxist??" The ideology that government can do nothing is Ayn Rand and Ronald Reagan.
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  28016. 12:50 So . . . Kyle is warning "progressive" Democrats that they have to throw the left a bone, to "satiate" them? Democrats are not sufficiently placating the Bernie faction, watch out . . . !
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  28017. Er, no. Listen to the Fauci clip again. HE wants to make this about himself, rather than about the real issues. He's paid for that (diversion, decoy, red herring, fraud). He protests too much for a reason. Brie takes too long to make her point, and then includes caveats, which is confusing. But here she is finally over the target: 10:28
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  28018. @gfys756  She is Scandinavian. That's apart from the fact that it's irrelevant anyway. If you're going by "appearances," she has some Finnish ancestry, and Finns can come across as Eurasian. Wow, your r*cial antenna are as fine-tuned as H__tler's. You must be fun at parties.
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  28019. ​ @lovo908 Right. So why were all of these stories labeled Russian disinformation by all the security agencies?
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  28020.  @CharlieTWilbury  This.
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  28021. There weren't just one or two. Not just in 2020, either.
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  28022. What we NEED is not obedience but authentic discussion, and we need to CONFER on major decisions that upend everyone's lives.
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  28023. I remember when I was in grammar school, the girls just several years older than I was sought out rock bands, to become groupies. THIS is what the billionaires and royals are emulating, and consider themselves entitled to. They want to be rock stars. They are that abject, superficial, morally repugnant, and utterly ridiculous. Why do they have the power they do? WE give it to them. It's all a complete SHAM.
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  28024. What exactly did he say?
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  28025. No one gets paid to tell the truth. Lying, on the other hand, . . .
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  28026. I am so disturbed that anyone would question Fauci's reign as Master of the Universe. I hope I can sleep tonight. Or ever again.
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  28027. Internet Research Agency is basically running experiments -- to see what effect these social media interventions might have. This information is much more important to them than the supposed aim of designing posts to "influence an election." I don't believe they were even trying -- a good part of the trolling occurred after the election. See the Adam Curtis documentary, "Hypernormalization."
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  28028. If I were rich and were some sort of noble in UK, yeah. I'd quit and go have a nice life.
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  28029.  @afisemenaborevlaka48  Human nature?
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  28030. A hundred ^^
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  28031. LOL
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  28032. The only people I know, personally, who haven't been vaccinated against COVID are those who have suffered serious injuries due to medical errors. All of them plan to be vaccinated, are following the data, and are keeping up with their other vaccinations. All of them wear masks. "Hesitant" isn't necessarily delusional. No comparison with this sad case. Our local ER has a D.O. as chief physician. Cost-cutting. I don't have faith in D.O.s in general. Or in a hospital that saves money this way. A D.O. should work under an M.D., in general.
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  28033. There was a study -- possibly reliable, possibly not -- that having a good level of vitamin D reduced serious side effects from the COVID vaccines. The point is, Fauci & Co. suppressed the study. They never told anyone to improve their nutrition. What if vitamin D could have saved some kids from myocarditis?? Since we say "if even one child could have been saved by MMR," well, what if one child's heart could have been protected by vitamin D? P. S. I oppose giving this stuff to kids in any event, but . . . Wow. How unethical!
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  28034. @The Underdog And clean air and water should be YOUR problem, and homeschool your kids while you're at it. I didn't tell you to have kids, or drink, or breathe. Your problem.
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  28035. @The Underdog Well, work it out with those companies yourself. "Why should my tax dollars . . . "
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  28036. @The Underdog So, you won't apply for Medicare at 65? Great! Perfect.
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  28037.  @brentb5303  Oh my goodness. Straight to ad hominem.
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  28038.  @brentb5303  Yeah, because Contracts. Or something. I have never had debts for school. My last car note was paid off a year early, in 2008. No mortgage, either. Man, when this economy implodes, people will not know what hit them.
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  28039.  @DisappointedBuddha  Nicely said. And think of it! The decision you make before attaining the age of majority is the one that can result in debts that CANNOT be discharged in bankruptcy! And how is anyone supposed to believe that in an evermore mechanized world, there will be jobs for people without a college degree? Of course there will be some, but are guys with asthma supposed to become construction workers? Are petite women? Can everyone be a plumber? An electrician? A roofer? It's not even evident that high school alone prepares a person for every trade school. In any event, foisting this burden on the young is beyond unconscionable. There are things in this system that are allowed to pass that I would have never believed. The biggest thing these kids "did wrong" was to be born to the wrong parents. No one else rations education this way, or impairs the future wages of the student who didn't start out rich.
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  28040.  @brentb5303  What I did wasn't good enough. My family suffered repeated tragedies and the pandemic was the final blow. I can be all right for a while, even a few years, but will probably have to emigrate in the end. And that is probably a very good thing. When you get out, that's when you realize how crazy all this is.
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  28041.  @DevilJin01  Yeah, and think of who could "work from home" this past year -- and who couldn't. Were the high school students graduating over the last ten years supposed to plan for this? Were they responsible for foreseeing it? Blame them if they didn't?!
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  28042.  @DevilJin01  Predatory, yeah!! Perfect word for it. Extract every last drop, from everyone, and leave no one's little nest egg in peace.
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  28043.  @patrickharrison871  That's not a small example, and it is not the first time we were lied to, to induce us to go to war. The reality is that the global elites know how fragile the financial system is, and, rather than being in a position to control it, they know they are likely to botch it (though they wouldn't put it like that, since they'd never blame themselves). They certainly do meet and discuss what to do about the rest of us during the next cataclysm, and it is not out of benevolence. Conspiracy theories serve as a perfect cover. The global elites can point to any analysis of how they align their interests, and evade the issue by assimilating it to an unhinged conspiracy theory. Perfect move. They don't have to account for their actions to anyone, they can just titter dismissively.
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  28044.  @muneebahkhan288  Check the news. First, would anyone have believed that there existed someone like a Jeffrey Epstein, with the connections he had? Most of us wouldn't have. Ponder that. Next, would you have believed that none other than Bill Gates had quite extensive associations with Epstein -- no, not just one or two visits to his NYC penthouse? Now, we don't know the motivation; in Gates' case, it is not obvious. A desire to become friends with Prince Andrew and similar "luminaires" cannot be excluded.
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  28045.  @DerHammerSpricht  I like how you put that!
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  28046.  @patrickharrison871  BTW, you talk about jumping to conclusions and you throw in a crass insult ("your low IQ brain"), which is as ad hom as it comes. But the person you said that to said nothing at all about the truth of all conspiracy theories or any other conspiracy theories. They simply produced evidence of a real conspiracy, to show there are such things in the world. Is that too hard for you to ponder? Must be, since you jumped to conclusions, not he.
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  28047.  @drmantistoboggan2870  Links are shadowed on YouTube. The post you are taunting to provide sources just told you, and said it was everyone's duty to verify information for themselves. You made it appear they are deliberately withholding sources. Having said that, I like Dr. Grande and do not think he smeared anyone. Recent news has shed light on Gates and his foundation. Look up The Nation article on how the foundation operates. A recent book on it came out in France, but has not been translated.
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  28048.  @muneebahkhan288  What? I suggest you look up (1) Acosta's role in protecting Epstein from federal prosecution, Acosta later being appointed by Trump, then having to resign from Trump's cabinet; and (2) read the WSJ article and follow the hyperlinks it contains for a better picture of the extent of Gates's ties to Epstein. Let's just say it's all very hard to believe. And yet . . .
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  28049.  @muneebahkhan288  Actually, I don't believe you don't know. There is some other reason for minimizing the truth.
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  28050.  @muneebahkhan288  How interesting. What are YOUR sources that "Trump didn't have anything to do with it?" I assume you have not been in the same room on every occasion when Trump and Epstein were together. Would you trust WSJ for, say, a stock market update? A weather report? Or are you afraid to peek?
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  28051. Well, but they're poors.
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  28052. The press was responsible for that video.
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  28053. Remember, AI is training on your comments. 😂
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  28054. You say that like it's a bad thing. Just kidding. 😅
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  28055. "The only person who could press the Republican caucus was Donald Trump." THIS
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  28056.  @naiIzz  That wasn't what he meant.
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  28057.  @iamashithead  Prescribing a pill with no psychotherapy is ordinary. You must not understand how therapy is usually financed, or not. Administrators have more to do with it than the individual physicians.
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  28058.  @ansillypants  This is because the younger the person, the higher the risk of provoking suicide using Prozac, especially Prozac with very little support. But you are right, pills ought to be a last resort in most cases. There are so many other things to do first, and that make you stronger against relapse for life.
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  28059.  @ansillypants  So glad you got great therapy! Also, I think major depression is more common than the statistic that 15% will have it at some point. The most severe forms, maybe. . .
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  28060.  @ansillypants  I had a less severe case, a typical "girl" case, LOL, around a typical age (about 19) and was cured, with no true relapses, but I feel that I missed the comprehensive treatment plan I needed. So, I overcame an illness, but never really came into my own. No flourishing, that's for sure. Health is more than just not being sick. :/ Before, when there was no FMLA, people couldn't take off from work to do what truly needed to be done. (Today, they can't afford to, but that's another problem.) If everyone could get three solid months of attention: a walk in a wooded area or on a beach every day, yoga every day, an excellent diet, massage every week, some sort of meditation or self-hypnosis, some sort of art to work on, and someone to pay attention to them, LOTS of hugs, but also to insist on a schedule, love and warmth without coddling or slacking -- you'd see a lot of stronger people bouncing back. What is three months in an entire life?
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  28061. P.S. Also, when you're young, three months is plenty to lay a solid foundation. As you get older, getting well takes longer. People need to do it when needed, and get on top of it -- I wish I had.
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  28062. No, the opposite: the Red Army defeated Hitler, the Vietnamese defeated France and then the US, and a Soviet (Vasili Arkhipov) prevented WWIII. All exceeded reasonable expectations somehow. Churchill was right, only extend it beyond Russians. If socialism doesn't work, simple. Stop intervening. Leave them alone and let them fail. You'll be rid of them soon enough, thanks to reality.
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  28063. E.g., "It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma."
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  28064.  @lepidoptera9337  Nor did Marx claim his theory of historical materialism could make any such predictions. He predicted the eventual end of capitalism, gave reasons why, and presented a theory of something better that could displace it -- just as capitalism was in many ways vastly superior to feudalism and mercantilism. Even Nouriel Roubini says Marx is great on descriptive economics, but not on prescriptions. IOW, what Marx said IS what capitalism does. What you believe can come after is a different matter, and will depend on how greatly the world is poisoned (by environmental toxins, unstoppable climate change, viruses, etc.). N. B. Engineered obsolescence creates profits quickly and pollution and toxic landfills just as quickly -- not to mention people who are less and less resourceful. As in, when I was a kid, most people knew how to rebuild the engine of a car. Now they need a keyboard and power source to write anything.
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  28065.  @lepidoptera9337  Actually, Marx did describe the kinds of conditions that could give rise to fascism. But who could envision a Hitler? That was new. There always is something new.
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  28066. ​​ @whateverwhatever4026 I do. I just don't like a few of her positions. Well, I don't like most of them, but she herself is fine.
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  28067. ​@ca8824 It depends. Would I hire her to be a paralegal? You bet.
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  28068. ​@Nottallblonde An employment attorney would hire her. Next Erin Brockovich. 😊
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  28069. Corruption and government embezzlement is usually performed much more deftly that this. What's with these guys? They are clearly incompetent.
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  28070. The only one I'd believe if he said he did not know is Mike Pence. They'd hide big time from Mike Pence.
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  28071. You should see how MSM is smearing him --- including Rolling Stone. Really, go look. It's psycho.
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  28072. @tracyleighbasham  HA! RFK Jr has won landmark anti-pollution cases. That is his specialty, and it is usually litigated in federal court.
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  28073. I have been too compassionate in life, so I'm going to say this from that perspective. Please carefully consider dropping this "friend." I know that's harsh, but please. Think about it, and listen to that inner voice. If you remain friends with her, chances are you will regret it. And if you do come to regret it, drop her then.
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  28074. But you can tell them anything about any country and they won't know the difference.
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  28075. The WSWS speaker's take would be sensible ONLY IF the other speaker were a false flag. Not otherwise. Jimmy is right -- reach out to everyone who can be reached. Jimmy is also phenomenally brave. Phenomenally!
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  28076. Read Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic -- from 2010. It's about the epidemic of mental illness, brought to you in part by the big pharmaceutical corporations. SAME PLAYBOOK. It is staggering.
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  28077.  A Fridge Too Far  And under 50.
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  28078. They nominate an impaired candidate who might not finish his term, then for vice president someone who is not popular, nor seen as presidential. Who thinks the Dems WANT to win?
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  28079.  @Chinsanity23  Anyone who is actually well-read in philosophy is unimpressed. But saying that is not supporting censorship. I have no idea why they are after Peterson. It is ludicrous. My advanced philosophy degree is from Paris IV, by the way. Back in the late '80s.
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  28080. 💯
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  28081. Because the interactive nature of the games may be dangerous to some, frankly psychologically and neurologically abnormal, people. This is known. The video does not keep making digs at violent video games. The point is, Lanza was allowed to retreat into his own world without any treatment or supervision. Anyway, it is quite obvious that if HE had not had access to firearms provided to him, HE probably could never have figured out how to get his hands on them. That was what I got.
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  28082. If you put that in a dystopian novel, publishers would think you were really a kook.
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  28083. WHAT "riot??"
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  28084. A regular ingestion of bugs is necessary for good health. Shut up and chow down. P. S. Stef was 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Thank you, Stef, that was great.
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  28085. We have to face that even Trump (Trump!!) has shown more compassion for the homeless. My GOD.
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  28086. 💯
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  28087. America's case fatality rate has been above 2%, with deaths concentrated in men over 50. Some very young have had horrifying systemic effects, which are rare. But the flu this is not.
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  28088. Questioning the line we've been fed and making up new sh*t are two different things.
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  28089.  @stevenpadilla4294  Who said anything about being afraid? I never think about an illness I did have, which has a 2% death rate; maybe 6% lifetime. It's not about fear.
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  28090. He went many times before being denied entry. Duh.
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  28091. I was just about to! 😊
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  28092. I have to say, I did not expect the pro-fox comments.
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  28093. False. Read the Complaint. The facts are in court documents, not on YouTube. In New York, you could not maintain a civil rights suit without evidence of actual innocence, much less settle it for $41 million. A vacated verdict was insufficient. That requirement was just relaxed by the Supreme Court very recently, in a case that came out of Brooklyn. Kavanaugh wrote the opinion.
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  28094. So why did she go to therapy?? And he had to go to Russia to detox. Okay. Tootles.
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  28095. Did he make money? Well then.
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  28096. Nice analysis by Krystal. She's on fire this morning.
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  28097. Trump/Musk is turning out to be more sinister than I ever thought possible. What you see is the power and the fury of billionaires when they decide to settle scores.
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  28098. 1000% Thank you
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  28099. @augustgreig9420  "Standing" is a technical legal concept involving who has asserted a sufficient legal injury traceable to the defendant that they can come to court to sue. The real point is that the question of who has standing to sue comes before any ruling on the merits of the complaint. So, the alleged censorship, if true, might be a civil liberties violation, but the people who sued can't trace a specific injury they actually suffered to a specific defendant they want to hold responsible for it.
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  28100. Beautiful.
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  28101. When I lived in France, injection-quality vials of zinc could be bought over the counter, and consumed by holding it under the tongue.
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  28102. Oh gawd this was painful.
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  28103. THAT, TOO.
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  28104. Is it easier to believe Gates is into young teens, or was involved in contracted killing, than to face the fact that the emperor has no clothes? He is amoral, awkward, arrogant, and very, very stupid.
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  28105. Does Jessica actually believe this?
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  28106. Why doesn't the CDC censor the FDA? Why doesn't the FDA censor the CDC? /s
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  28107. Tremendous!
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  28108.  Young Kekistani  That college used to have great language classes, including evening classes. Past tense. ;/ Now you can't even minor in French there.
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  28109.  @mjkittredge  Obviously Uvalde is set up for exactly that.
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  28110.  @markmatson3468  It certainly is this time.
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  28111.  @markmatson3468  Send them to places that have resources and infrastructure? El Paso, Uvalde . . . Sorry, this time they do have egg on their faces. The stunt was terrible, their response was worse. No good guys in this picture -- sort-of like the last two presidential elections and the major party candidates, huh? I see a pattern.
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  28112. Who's taking Jeffrey's place now?
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  28113.  @yourinnerlawyer4035  Yup. That's the point.
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  28114. Lucie Castets would have revisited the pension issue. She would have brought it up for vote. THAT is the difference.
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  28115. So . . . You don't need to read the study?
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  28116.  @MrNiaman  And you're not using AI? 😀
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  28117. They are endorsing the "Prager University" view that Hitler was a commie.
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  28118. They have a public duty that individual people can't sue them for if they fail.
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  28119. The real nightmare is the degree to which people who are doing well are utterly blind to what is happening. Even this interviewer is blind to it. Under feudalism, the aristocracy needed an ornate, well-thought-out religious superstructure to render them complacent. That's no longer necessary. A few catchy slogans and a willingness to believe is sufficient.
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  28120. What I want to know is who read any of the key court documents? ALL have been posted on the Minnesota Courts website and are available in pdf form.
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  28121. Explain.
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  28122. You might spell better when you explain.
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  28123. ​@LT-wt8jn All the more reason not to fund a war against one of the BRICS. Connect a few dots, sweets.
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  28124. @LT-wt8jn  Oh my gawd, I didn't think anyone believed such rot. We have overthrown more democratically elected governments around the world . . . I was about to say, "than countries we have bombed," but the latter is probably a higher number. Of course, many of those were democratically elected, they just didn't pursue policies "we" (read: our corporations) liked. Thanks for reminding me to reread Chomsky, Arundhati Roy, etc., the sooner the better.
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  28125. @LT-wt8jn  You do know we owe the Chinese money, correct? You got that part? So, we borrow from them to finance the deficit, then we send it off to Ukraine. Maybe this isn't a plan?
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  28126. @LT-wt8jn  BTW, I didn't expect the BRICS to expand while Russia was escalating this (very localized) war and changing its character. I didn't think any country would ignore that and apply to join. But here we are.
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  28127.  @LT-wt8jn  That is such an abject lie that I have nothing more to say.
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  28128.  @LT-wt8jn  I wonder which of my posts is visible to you, thanks to the algorithm.
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  28129. He was President while this went down.
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  28130. Brilliant reporting from Matt.
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  28131. "What are they supposed to say?" Um, something about Russia?
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  28132. "Conjure up adequately supplies . . . " A "lawyer momma" whose grammar is below first grade level . . .
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  28133. Under the First Amendment, that doesn't matter.
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  28134. See Brandenburg v Ohio.
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  28135. @kickbackrelax2819  False. You are wholly unfamiliar with First Amendment law. If foreign entities are breaking the law here, they can be prosecuted for that.
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  28136. @kickbackrelax2819  Not for their speech. But even constitutionally protected speech can't be used as a cover for other acts that are in fact crimes.
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  28137. @kickbackrelax2819  And it's not about perceptions. Speech that is protected as a matter of law doesn't go to a jury to find out whether they perceive it otherwise.
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  28138. @kickbackrelax2819  See RAV v. City of St. Paul. See Virginia v. Black.
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  28139. @kickbackrelax2819  I wonder if yt will permit true information? Always fun.
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  28140.  @kickbackrelax2819  Why don't you learn about your freedoms while you still can?
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  28141. I regret Elon Musk got away with calling a man who helped rescue the kids in the cave "that pedo guy." Rich people have enough protection.
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  28142. IT'S NOT THAT TOUGH. See what Canadians do, other English-speaking countries do, Europeans do, etc. "Distrust of the government" is an excuse. You shouldn't "trust" them, or the corporations, or private actors touting vaccination, like Gates Foundation, for this, or for other things they push. You really can do your own research and think this through for yourself.
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  28143. 40 billion dollars is almost $20 million a year since the Crucifixion.
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  28144. Just think: the best strategy was to reject the vaccine and buy the pharma stocks.
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  28145. Hand it to Jimmy to find these videos. One of his BEST.
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  28146. Well, but Jimmy, she's dancing with kids. You are so mean. /s
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  28147. Yes, Jimmy, France does have a high cancer rate -- and a longer life expectancy than almost any other country anyway, thanks to universal health care.
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  28148. Mine was January 1, 1992! Thanks for reminding me. ;)
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  28149.  @vader88x  LOL, that was great, thanks.
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  28150. I'm a dog and cockatiel person.
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  28151. Oh, and no pills for me. You?
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  28152. So beautifully stated.
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  28153. 0:07 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  28154. I love his description of the old England of the 1960s.
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  28155. Sure they did. Made bank the fun and easy way.
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  28156. Oh, you mean the job of reporting news! My bad.
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  28157. To Maga. I mean Mega. No, Meta. Meta.
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  28158. "American gymnast Simone Biles holds the record for the most World Championship medals (25), as well as the most gold medals (19) in World Championship history for an athlete of either sex."
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  28159.  @nashonabo821  It's a lie not to malign people? It's a lie not to swear? I suppose it could be -- imagine describing a Jeffrey Epstein, or a Ted Bundy. But in general? Is this the world Trump made?
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  28160. Note to self: For every "crisis," look for how to make money off of it. That's the program, obviously.
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  28161.  @sankaratrucking5255  Who said demonstrations weren't protected speech?
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  28162.  @subhadramahanta452  Q, being the product of all the primes by hypothesis, must be even. Hence Q + 1 is odd.
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  28163. You haven't been the freedom fighters. You've been the slave mongers.
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  28164. This is wise. Every time I had solid information about a case, the mass media got the details wrong -- and yet people believe it, as long as it flatters their preconceptions.
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  28165. She is not a Democrat. She didn't even vote for Biden.
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  28166. And people of Pelosi's generation could earn a full year's tuition at their state university with a summer job. Literally $2.20 an hour for 12 weeks paid for a full year of tuition. Gee. What happened?
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  28167. Nancy and Joe didn't struggle, and neither did their kids, but they made sure you did, literally. Student loans cannot be discharged in bankruptcy thanks to them.
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  28168.  @77Tadams  I never had any debts, in my life, except for a car note I paid off early. 2004 Volvo S80 AWD, so of course I still have it. In some states, you can declare bankrupcy and keep your residence. Should we force those states out of the country? I say go for it.
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  28169.  @fitzemzfatze  Perfect point.
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  28170. Where to begin?
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  28171. Some people really are less prone to envy. They are called non-Westerners.
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  28172.  @JordanHarbingerShow  However you like is fine by me. But research "collectivist" mindsets, which are often hinted as being -- somehow, vaguely -- "inferior" to individualistic ones. Anyway, it primes people to construct social realities a bit differently. Or so I hear.
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  28173. If you can't be vegan, start out by never eating fellow mammals again. It's a big hump to get over, but once you do I promise you'll never regret it, and never go back.
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  28174.  @BringDHouseDown  I eat cheese and eggs in moderation, wild caught fish when my doctor insists. Beans and mushrooms, of course. All organic or non-GMO. This is a very healthy diet. No one (or almost no one) needs mammal flesh to survive.
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  28175. India used that as prophylaxis as well, against WHO advice. Do we know the outcome?
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  28176. What this shows is that subsequent to its emergence, the COVID virus found animal reservoirs; in other words, evidence that it had become endemic, and may never be eradicated -- certainly not with a leaky vaccine.
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  28177. OMG, same birthday as Oscar Peterson!!! Happy Birthday, Briahna!!
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  28178. ​ @utah_koidragon7117 And do you have an "irrational hatred" of Bill Gates and George Soros? I don't, but I do apply the very same logic to them as to Musk, and so does Brie. I want their influence out of my life. Life has gotten far worse since this whole cabal entered the Shadow Government. All of them are plainly disturbed, they cause grave harm on a global scale, and their antics are probably due to their irrational fear of their own mortality.
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  28179. ​​​ @utah_koidragon7117 9:28 See, she did say it. This is what NASA once did.
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  28180. ​ @polarxta2833 It is a fact that you and I have literally zero control over the board of directors and the c-suite of any private corporation, and that at least in principle we do have some influence over the political process taking place in our government. She said we don't have enough. Say, why do you think the First Amendment does not apply in the private workplace? I mean, unless you possess some contract, union or otherwise, with a free speech clause? Hm?
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  28181. @DavidV619  The same fan boys of Musk today were just as meek and delusional as those who were once kowtowing to Bill Gates. Some people have a need to be submissive to those with money. Pick worthier heroes.
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  28182.  @bdfunke  She says the very same thing. That is why she brought up NASA and the NASA model.
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  28183. @utah_koidragon7117  As to your last question, I was ready to say no, but then I remembered, private corporations have sent so much production of basic materials offshore that we may be relying on possible adversaries for steel and rare earth metals. Not good. A private company is under no obligation to manufacture here, or to use suppliers of its materials based here, if it can make a greater profit by doing those things offshore or by trading with the suppliers based in other countries. But what happens if we need those things for our defense? Our defense is what kept the shipping lanes and the air and ports safe for those very companies. They could not do what they do absent US presence. It's most obvious in the Persian Gulf, but it is true everywhere.
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  28184. Such a great observation.
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  28185. I simply don't understand what is wrong with the women on The View. Literally.
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  28186. If you have the capability to impregnate someone, based on certain anatomical and physiological traits, it doesn't matter how you identify psychologically and socially.
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  28187. He thinks that's modest. He's peeved that he made out so badly, compared to, say, Nancy.
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  28188. Donald grab-them-by-the-p****-pro-life Trump, "the most pro-life president we ever had."
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  28189. I think your basic point is well-taken, but if you think one child losing a parent during a pandemic does not affect an entire grammar school class, then you don't know kids. It is a very big deal. I never forgot the kids who lost a brother or sister to leukemia, for example. It is only in senior high school that you see greater resilience. The pandemic was handled poorly overall, with Trump blustering and abusing more than usual, others fearmongering, censoring and attacking, no one trying to calm people, no one trying to be truthful . . . and a lot of people cashing in. The pandemic created new millionaires and billionaires. As we gripe about teachers.
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  28190.  @yh125d  I'm never in the same conversation, because I never take the narrow view and just accept what I'm being told and react. Hence, I do not support online education, or vaccine mandates, etc.
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  28191. But let's say Chipotle's CEO works a 60-hour week, all 52 weeks per year. That's over $12,170 per hour. Impressive! I could retire in two weeks, no problem. Sweethearts, start doing the math.
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  28192.  @kyle-ri5mz  I never do.
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  28193.  @kyle-ri5mz  "Perception is reality." See where that gets you.
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  28194.  @CaKo-mq9dv  BTW, all that happened before "hashtag me too," hence it didn't count.
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  28195. What part of Western Europe gets 40% of its natural gas from Russia is lost on you? Replacing 10% of a vital natural resource in economies made fragile over the last 2 years (and really over this entire century; see, e.g., 2001; 2008-09) would be a struggle. We're talking four times that. 2022 may be a watershed year.
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  28196. That's funny. All the police in the affluent suburbs around me have been bragging for most of this century that they carry antidote and save lives.
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  28197. ​ @headlightfluid7965 "Hate speech" most certainly IS First Amendment protected. There is no general category of "hate speech" that can be punished consistent with the First Amendment. True threats and incitement of violence are narrowly defined. See Brandenburg v. Ohio; see RAV v. City of St. Paul. Even cross burning and swastikas cannot be banned.
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  28198. ​ @annabodot962 It has nothing to do with that "fire in a crowded theatre" slogan. Political speech, even odious political speech, cannot be banned consistent with the First Amendment. Well, I found out a couple of years ago that our bosses and politicians thought it was fine to coerce us to take a EUA experimental drug. Now I get to revel in the joy of finding out no one knows what American free speech principles are. The Fourth Amendment is dead, knew that part already.
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  28199.  @kevindavis5966  That's not the law of true threats and incitement to violence. Those are very narrowly defined exceptions. Read Brandenburg v. Ohio. Read RAV v. St. Paul. Do it for yourself. Don't let people grab your emotions and dupe you.
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  28200.  @mikemartinez654  So-called "hate speech" IS generally protected speech under the First Amendment. Who persuaded you differently?? I bet half my posts explaining it are mysteriously gone.
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  28201.  @ori0n9r0jekt  Who is killing whom? At some Ivy League school? "Oh no, words are violence, I need a safe space and a comfort dog."
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  28202.  @kevindavis5966  No they don't qualify as unprotected speech. Even burning a cross (not to mention a flag) has been upheld as protected speech, repeatedly. Try some reading. RAV v. City of St. Paul should be your go-to place to start
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  28203. @matthewmiller6568  Those chants are protected. As for "targeting Jewish businesses," that is vague. Who did what to whom, when, how? Who do you think you can punish for that? The perpetrators, or can you invent new culpable people? During the George Floyd demonstrations, were people who protested peacefully responsible for those who burned and looted? On January 6, were those who protested peacefully responsible for the would-be insurrectionists?
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  28204. @josie_the_valkyrie  Have you followed the story? If a peaceful protester can be punished because someone else broke a law, how is that freedom? Any provocateur can jump in and get anyone else arrested.
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  28205. @thethpian  Thought crimes aren't real. "Hateful" intent is protected if the speech itself is protected. You're confusing this with grounds for divorce. 🤣
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  28206. @thethpian  There is no such category of unprotected speech in the law, no. The phrase itself is not brilliant, he's right.
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  28207. 4:52 THIS IS IMPORTANT
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  28208. 6:20 Why would they be concerned? All is proceeding exactly as planned.
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  28209. It does not surprise me at all that the vaccinated in a given Scandinavian country are spreading the virus more than the unvaccinated are. The unvaccinated are probably being more cautious. These are pro-social societies. They don't force vaccines on anyone. They rely on personal judgment and conscientious. Funny how that WORKS.
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  28210. A rheumatoid arthritis drug that was approved nearly a decade ago just got a Black Box warning, because of heart risk. How can anyone pretend we have a solid grasp of these side effects for a new vaccine?
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  28211.  @huguesdepayen1  Was that humor, or for real?
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  28212.  # 3.14  A small family business that does business in only in one state is probably not covered by the minimum wage law. For those that are covered, they will have to think through the current exemptions.
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  28213.  @huguesdepayen1  *exacerbate Second time I see this very mistake. How odd. I never commented anywhere on social media before the shutdown. I think the prudent thing would be to go back to that.
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  28214.  @huguesdepayen1  You just corrected it, from exasperate to exacerbate.
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  28215. Doors flying off of aircraft are fine, too. Massive toxic spills, ditto. Water quality is fine, GMOs in food are fine, prove they're not. Bill Gates shoved Paul Allen out of Microsoft because he was concerned that Allen might have developed cancer due to overwork. So Gates pursued a relationship with Epstein? He wanted to advance Science. "Dual-use technology" doesn't exist, it's just a talking point. Big Pharma never lies. Just read White Coat Black Hat and Anatomy of an Epidemic, you'll see. We are lucky to have their Science helping us all. People who refuse EUA drugs should lose their jobs.
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  28216. Consciousness is embedded in a body and includes the qualia gleaned from bodily sensations.
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  28217.  @ThibauldMASSÉ  lol, he's playing to an ignorant American crowd . . .
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  28218. @RegnaSaturna  Did someone fail to grasp I was praising Mitterrand? He was the post-war peak.
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  28219. His wife is an immigrant, his son bilingual from early childhood . . . Sheesh. Why lie?? As if legitimate criticism doesn't exist?
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  28220. No one is clearly worse than Trump. Biden is AS bad, in a different way.
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  28221. Chomsky doesn't believe it because Trump said it, but in spite of that. He believes it because it's true.
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  28222. I was assigned a post office box that contained "88." When I found out what that meant to some people, I paid a pretty penny for a new, larger one. You can't fight this. It's what people will see. It's a lucky number in China . . . oh well . . . :/
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  28223.  @smiles2spare  Excellent point. The actual consent forms and information sheets that you had to sign in order to receive the vaccines, that were written by the manufacturers, were hardly as sanguine as the media pressure and political pressure, AND they said explicitly that if, after reading everything, you decline to be vaccinated, there will be no change whatsoever in your medical treatment. Did you hear that message in the media? Ha!
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  28224. Le Pen is collaborating with Macron. Why? To prevent Lucie Castets from becoming Prime Minister, because SHE would propose to lower the retirement age back to what it was, exactly as the vast majority of Le Pen's own supporters want, and the vast majority of French want. But then, why does Le Pen resist this agenda? Because it would expose her party: they don't want a vote. They don't want to be forced to go on the record. They are for Macron's cuts to retirement, but don't want to openly vote with Macron. They want to support it quietly. Get it? Not yet? IOW, played. Again. That's what's really happening. (So much for your "nationalists," who put "the French people first.") Could it work? Sure. It's what the WEF wants, and they're rich.
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  28225. She's on the DC Circuit. You don't get how this works, do you? She got a promotion.
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  28226.  @alvadagansta  People denouncing "lack of merit hiring" have no clue about what they're saying, but somehow that's not an example of lack of merit.
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  28227.  @Mikesorrento3344  No, what it means is that Biden is stupid. It tells us nothing about the nominee's qualifications either way. Is it news Biden is stupid? I didn't think so. 🤣
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  28228.  @Yellowspider1776  She was already on the "feeder court" for the Supremes, and she clerked for Breyer, AND she had two clerkships prior to that. This is THE most conventional, conservative path for close vetting of actual credentials.
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  28229.  @Yellowspider1776  She was in private practice at Big Law as well as being a public defender. So she has heavy private experience as well.
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  28230. GASP! You mean they lie to get MONEY???
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  28231. @__Rob  That's not what these letters are for. They are part of the presentencing investigation. He was found guilty. The issue is the appropriate sentence. They are supposed to begin with the premise that he did commit the crimes he was convicted of and tell the other side of his character, chance for swift rehabilitation, and so forth.
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  28232. @__Rob  That's just it. Most of the people reading the letter think Ashton is asserting Masterson is innocent. He has every right to believe whatever he thinks is most likely to be true. I respect that, but that's not the problem. You don't tell that to a judge after the verdict is in. You will notice the letters had no effect in court, but did provoke a backlash instead. Predictable.
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  28233.  @panpluto13  Oh! So, where is the Julian Assange commentary? I can find it from Chris Hedges, etc., with ease.
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  28234.  @nunyabusiness9056  Thanks for confirming my suspicions about people who watch this insipid fellow.
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  28235.  @panpluto13  You don't even make sense for a druggie. Yeesh. Way to confirm my suspicions. Please stop. Who is Nick Fuentes? A buddy of yours? Blocked, btw.
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  28236.  @panpluto13  No, you're my evidence. How little do you read that you don't know who Chris Hedges is, and believe no one else does? Anyway, more evidence. Blocked now. Meant to do that last time.
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  28237.  @franklin9400  How do you propose to do that, stop giving them power? In any case, they serve the oligarchs on Wall Street.
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  28238. Read the paper. It's from Yale. I never take anyone's word, especially not in the media . . . but then, I know how to read technical material.
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  28239. @billgreen8966  What context is lacking? You assert that these EUA vaccines have "saved tens of millions." What is your source for that? It's a phrase that's been repeated many times, hence you want to hear it repeated again? It is only now that some epidemiological researchers have conceded that the "lockdowns" may have cost more lives than we realized. The real problem is that we don't have definitive answers yet --- concerning the risks and benefits of any of the mitigation measures employed so far. And the people who should know better are refusing to concede the limits of their current knowledge, or to show the basic honesty and intellectual curiosity and integrity needed to answer these questions. We should know a lot more than we do by now. A lot of unexplained -- or inadequately investigated -- data has been accumulating. Did severe COVID spare Africa? Did countries that declined to approve mRNA-type vaccines have better outcomes? Why have some studies shown that those who received more boosters have also contracted more COVID? Why are so many vaccinated and boosted people dying of COVID now? (Or are they simply dying with COVID?) Previous vaccines have been withdrawn upon determining that one potentially fatal side effect per 100,000 doses was present. This is because under the Precautionary Principle, the burden of proof is on the proponent of a vaccine to prove safety and efficacy, not on the patient to justify his reluctance. That's the right context. Moreover, these vaccines were forced on people. That's unethical. You can see what was written about the anthrax vaccines for a rational discussion. "Context" has become just another phrase. You forgot "nuance." That's big now, too.
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  28240.  @billgreen8966  I wonder if my very cogent, factual reply was shadowed. Soften us up to believe in AI.
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  28241. @billgreen8966  I don't have an audience. I don't tend my channel, nor do I intend to. You didn't respond to my points. This isn't a job for me. No one pays me.
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  28242.  @billgreen8966  I'm the one who did take a broad view. Do you pay attention to what other countries did? Three of the BRICS authorized no mRNA vaccines, and Africa is largely unvaccinated. What were their results and why? Any ideas about what they did right or wrong? Shows how little we know.
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  28243.  @billgreen8966  I said no such thing. If coherent posts I have made are not visible, that's not on me. That's what social media algorithms do, and we all know why.
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  28244. @billgreen8966  In the past, no vaccine with this poor of a safety profile had been allowed to be distributed. Actually, I don't agree with that, either: I think that informed consent is the right policy. Obviously, the danger of an illness, the efficacy of a vaccine against it, and the risk of the vaccines are factors for individuals to consider. Obviously, no vaccine this flawed should ever be mandated. I don't think it should be withdrawn except for minors.
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  28245. @billgreen8966  I've posted no videos. So, what are you getting from my videos? I have none.
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  28246.  @billgreen8966  You lied about my position. Why should I interact with you? Blocked from my feed.
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  28247.  @billgreen8966  And I was just censored, for making a Socratic point about awareness of the limits of knowledge.
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  28248. I know a conservative Republican who has those Suri-type devices in her home, gave DNA for a legacy test, got the COVID vaccine after contracting COVID. I don't get it. I'm far left, but Euro left. Way different animal. P. S. I have done none of the above and never will.
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  28249. In a single state. Overturning Roe does not ban abortion. It leaves the issue up to the individual states.
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  28250. Twice divorced, once bankrupt, and didn't raise her two oldest children, who grew up with their father's parents. You must not know much about Americans.
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  28251.  @janeknight5070  So then you must know that grift is everywhere, and some of the best-sounding people are reprobates, or were, in their real lives.
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  28252. Every time more people take gratuitous jabs at people they literally know nothing about, and have no point of reference to judge, they prove Meghan and Harry right. Did Samantha ever meet Prince Harry? One time? But she knows what makes him tick. How would you like it if someone said this about you?
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  28253.  @janeknight5070  Look, Harry wouldn't have married you instead, if only . . . so chill. You have no idea about any of these people, and I'm sure you didn't know "Samantha" (not her given name) couldn't even raise her children. I remember how everyone hated on Paul McCartney's wives, too. Only Linda became a saint by dying far too young.
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  28254.  @janeknight5070  I DON'T CARE!! Can you be serious? How about None of the Above? How about, I Was Not There? How about There Is No Reason To Believe Samantha? I think I'm old enough to be Harry's mother, too, more or less. How can someone your age still be so easily led? "Fact-checked" by whom? After the pandemic, you should be wary of any such claims. I think you're all relishing the mass flogging of The Woman Who Married Harry, and that would have been the upshot regardless of who married him. It was for Paul McCartney's wives, all three. The first had to develop cancer at a young age to be acceptable to the mob. The last one is grudgingly accepted for the most part, if not liked, because most of the hate was spent on No. 2, and Paul is old now. Do you plan never to grow up? Why? Anyway, done here. Carry on.
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  28255.  @singtweetypie  Believe what you want, based on whatever irrelevant or spurious personal experience you can find to assimilate to the lives of celebrities you don't know. I don't criticize her life. That is no one's business. I criticize her reliability, for good reasons. Anyone watching this video who is not already determined to join a ridiculous hate-fest would question her reliability based on simply watching and listening. It is said that she is still estranged from those kids. Perhaps she has done nothing to deserve that, and it's tragic. But that would be rather unusual. In any case, a wrinkle in the loving parent story. Most people find a way not to give up their children. More important, it's not our business. You judge it positively, I see no reason to speculate -- and plenty of reasons not to believe her account here. If this is your idea of a reliable actor, all I can say is watch your wallet.
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  28256.  @singtweetypie  Upholding what? I don't watch Oprah. I haven't had a television in ten years, and I've never watched cable. You write this essay? For what? Look, a lot of people are lonely. Reclaim your social life, meet new people, go to a play, walk on a beach. Do not live in your imagination with virtual friends you don't know and never will. blocked as a nut
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  28257. I don't want a white doctor under age 50. Smug little gaslighters. Wake up. P. S. Where were you during the pandemic??
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  28258. ​ @ClownCarCoup Each round is a brand new race to the bottom.
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  28259. Women often want to sterilize other, younger females. And men send young men to war. Same principle.
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  28260. Nomination or Accusative, etc.? (In other words, we or us?)
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  28261. Oooh, you give her credit.
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  28262.  @ElaineWalker  I'm so sorry. Please hug your Mom for me.
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  28263. It's an honorific. Everyone knows who the current president is. We still call former presidents "President" here.
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  28264. Does this explain Jeffrey Epstein's black book?
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  28265.  @michaelmcghee858  Oh no, someone with real facts. But real facts don't sell well. Money = Truth /s
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  28266. ​ @asingh7874  So, they're perfect? 😮😂
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  28267. 39:22 That doctor should be sued. On top of it, he tells her to see a therapist. The business card should be for a lawyer.
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  28268. So next vacation, Moscow via Istanbul.
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  28269. @deanosaur808  No. That's exactly who I had in mind, since they do it ostentatiously, as if proud of themselves.
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  28270.  @deanosaur808  Are rock stars your gods or something?
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  28271. No one wants to talk about vegetarianism being relatively protective. I dare not say more.
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  28272. That's exactly where things stood when Roe was handed down.
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  28273. How can this happen during a PANDEMIC? How can property taxes continue? How can an economy be shut down without emergency UBI? Is this a real emergency or isn't it?
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  28274.  @1massboy  Huh. How could you not know the "V" in "Sputnik V" does NOT mean "five?"
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  28275.  @bradleyrose811  Are you kidding? A major corporate owner of restaurants just announced all employees have until mid-July to be fully vaccinated. (I also heard a report that the EEOC considers such job requirements to be non-discriminatory. I would advise research on that point, however, given how bad our news reporting is.)
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  28276.  @bradleyrose811  Just wrote it, and it just disappeared. Our local business paper is carrying the story. I originally heard it on the radio and just verified it. A local corporation that owns high-end restaurants IS requiring full vaccination of employees.
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  28277.  @bradleyrose811  Where do YOU get an 8% chance of dying? Are you over 75, with preexisting conditions? Also, vaccines are preventing deadly COVID at a very high percentage, nearly universal, across all populations, even if you catch it.
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  28278.  @bradleyrose811  I'm a Parisian Maoist.
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  28279.  @bradleyrose811  The post you were responding to must not be up any longer. I found one other post also asking about the source for the 8% figure. At any rate, by now the risk of mortality from COVID by age and health in the developed countries is fairly well established, and does not reach 8% before around age 75.
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  28280.  @1massboy  The Times of Israel reported in March that Sputnik V was in great demand around the world, to the point where Russia didn't have the manufacturing capacity to satisfy it. Now THAT is scary in its own right. Will they "cut corners?" I would have a healthy concern about that.
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  28281.  @bradleyrose811  T'as pas compris la blague? Tu ne savais pas ce qu c'etait?
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  28282.  @1massboy  Scary for people dependent on dollar hegemony for their bloated lifestyle. That is not most people on earth.
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  28283.  @bradleyrose811  Please don't interfere when normal people are having a serious discussion. It looks desperate, and is awkward for all present. (A bumper sticker I saw at a grocery store parking lot: "Monolingualism can be cured.")
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  28284.  @1massboy  And one day, it won't. Just like with the pound sterling. But a lot of stuff had to happen first, very true. Much more than we've seen in our time.
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  28285. What a shame. Do they know the words?
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  28286. From the Statistica website: the proportion of all COVID deaths that have occurred in children under 17 is 0.0749%. Or, to put it another way, 99.925% of all deaths were in adults 18 and older. Over 94% were in people 50 and over. Go do the math. It's worse than I thought.
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  28287. @ijustwannaleaveacommentony6511  These are not just "women;" these are my close friends who didn't want to discuss it, and who told me at a time when they knew they would be blamed for it --- LONG before any hashtags, or even an Internet.
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  28288. She's awesome on many topics. Why she periodically invites kooks like that tax evader who literally lied with no pushback from her I will never understand. Yes, literally lied. I looked up court documents. If he doesn't serve time for his convictions, there might be an alphabet agency reason.
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  28289.  @LKaramazov  They're a couple of sweethearts. Grew up on the opposite ends of Route 66. :)
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  28290. Never joined. And only joined this during the pandemic shutdown.
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  28291.  @sthomas7211  Most of the Internet is, now.
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  28292.  @AGalacticMerger  Someone who tells people to go back to Russia is lucid. Well, by American standards? I mean, what possessed you to say that??
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  28293.  @donnybrooks71  Will he eliminate his government contracts? Trade in emissions credits?
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  28294. She conceded that here. You assume that rich people in general are treated better, but maybe not this time.
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  28295.  @killerecho  Yes! All the more reason!
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  28296.  @michaelhomes8049  I like this, too.
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  28297. Her contract claims against Harvard were not dismissed. Look up the case.
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  28298. Thank you, Amy Goodman, for reporting on police violence in every report. You are one of the true greats.
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  28299. "All the speech that money can buy . . . "
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  28300. The HSBC story was fully reported by The Guardian. Surviving families of the Mexican drug cartels' victims sued HSBC, and the class action was dismissed for jurisdictional and procedural reasons, not based on the substance of the claims.
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  28301. Hey, remember Eddie Haskell? 🤣🤣🤣
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  28302. You have NO IDEA how lucky you are not to be in the US.
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  28303. Three innoculations plus a case of Omicron --- I have never heard any legitimate doctor anywhere suggesting additional doses. See pro-vax Dr. Eric Topol in The Guardian, months ago. Even he won't suggest any such nonsense.
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  28304.  @vietimports  Why do you ask? BTW, Kim Iversen has.
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  28305. Google is demonetizing, but runs more and more ads. Follow the money.
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  28306.  @wandadelange1322  Didn't work for the Nazis, did it, unless you consider the rat line good.
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  28307.  @Danne1886  Not at all. Supporters of the BDS boycott of Israel, wise or not, were fired and blackballed outright. No one is trying to make Jungian psychoanalysis illegal or defining it as racist, and no one prevents Peterson from teaching or continuing his clinical practice. He's making more money in other pursuits. Maybe you should heed your own counsel? I've read Nadine Strossen on why we should reject hate speech laws. Have you?
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  28308.  @Danne1886  You suggested that I care much less about scrutinizing the truth of claims that fundamental rights are being violated when people who (appear to) have very different politics from Peterson's are asserting that their rights are being violated. I just automatically believe them, no questions asked. What made you think so? Did you start with yourself? Throwing in trendy German words adds nothing to the argument. If you want to go off on a tangent about "the Zeitgeist," we can talk about all the states that passed anti-BDS laws. BTW, I'm not even sure BDS is wise, and tend to think not. I know it should not be illegal.
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  28309.  @Danne1886  You're the one who jumped to a wrong conclusion about me, and then swore. Perfect. Thanks for making my point.
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  28310.  @Danne1886  Nah, you just can't reason or express yourself without the most vapid cliches (trigger, clutch pearls, cudgel, whataboutism, LOL). I prefer the f word. It has a nobler history. You think I should admit I'm wrong about something? You don't even know what I said. Of course you don't have any idea how many people have been fired over BDS.
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  28311.  @Danne1886  " The next time you see a lefty making claims of systemic oppression, I hope you keep the same energy . . . " --- if you already forget you wrote that, eat more fish and greens and get more exercise.
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  28312.  @Danne1886  I did not. I claimed he chose to leave his position as tenured professor and his clinical practice.
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  28313.  @Danne1886  Fish and greens. No joke.
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  28314.  @Danne1886  I have no information about the Canadian government either way. But nothing from any Five Eyes government would ever, EVER surprise me, especially after COVID.
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  28315.  @Danne1886  That was in the context of his university tenure! And his free speech rights in general. That was the issue. Cambridge was disgraceful, and I said so, because it was. That's what we were talking about. No wonder I didn't recall this failure on my part to "admit" what you're blathering about. You have some evidence that he suffered an unwarranted probe into his taxes for purposes of harassment? Why not tell us? (As for audits, who hasn't had one?) Tell me, does he also get pulled over for speeding because pronouns?
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  28316.  @Danne1886  I just searched for this "frivolous tax investigation" you speak of, in press generally highly favorable to him, as well as MSM. No sign of it. Clue us in.
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  28317.  @Danne1886  IOW, just your opinion. It's also when he started to make money online. Or, it could have been random. A tax audit, standing alone, is not a violation of rights. It's not the government "doing something" to you. I couldn't even find it reported!
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  28318.  @Danne1886  Of course, I couldn't find evidence that he was audited in the first place.
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  28319. Japan has a very low vaccination rate, too. I'm not criticizing them, just making an observation.
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  28320.  @blkgm7005  Thanks, I didn't even think of it that way. You are absolutely right.
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  28321. @michaelsmythe4031  I can see that. If it were a concession to the fact that the neoliberal globalists are center-right, it might make sense. Populist right is a better description of Le Pen and the party today. Her father did denounce her for moderating.
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  28322. Say. Got a stock tip?
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  28323. If the diplomats weren't in on it, and really believe they have neurological injuries, that is severe psychological abuse. They were traumatized. They could need treatment to recover. You don't do this to people. Well, unless you're a mobster.
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  28324.  @guyfaux5010  I said if they weren't in on it. If I had to bet, I would believe a few weren't. If it turns out that they all were, well then I am shocked, shocked that lying is going on among the CIA and CIA adjacent.
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  28325.  @arthurmorgan332  That made sense. /s Just curious -- regime change is not a concern at all? Libya, Syria, Iraq, who cares?
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  28326.  @ashkebora7262  Reread the first sentence very slowly. Possibly twice. I am suggesting that the people you see on this program are quite strongly OPPOSED TO, say, for example, overthrowing Venezuela -- BUT that they may not be able to prevent a BIDEN type from doing so. Strategy, anyone? Tactics? Have ya thought about it? You need to stop swearing. It screams hyperprivileged amerloque.
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  28327. Tate is "one of the big guys?" She is delusional, with her mind arrested in early adolescence. "Trust no one" means she may be a false flag, to discredit the real message. At least Whitney Webb has footnotes and seeks to emulate journalists like Sy Hersh.
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  28328. Imagine what a mind-f*** they have accomplished. Now, advocating "free speech" puts YOU at risk of being accused of . . . fascism. "Corporate control," you say?? What? Are you a "conspiracy theorist?"
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  28329. Look and see who the Clintons are friends with. If you go after their friends or associates, you are "right wing." How do they get away with this? I have no clue.
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  28330.  @kerwinbrown4180  LOL, because we all could control what was imposed on us in 2000-01, 2008-09, 2020 . . . just mentioning the highlights. I'm sure the best ones are saints, and have to be. But I know what I'm talking about when I say that, in general, it molds a certain kind of personality. So do many fields. Mainstream media, advertising, politics . . . prosecutors who cash in by defending the richest white-collar and celebrity criminals all come to mind -- especially media/advertising. You are what you do.
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  28331.  @deadgolfer6345  Not in principle. Empirically, however . . . don't jump into a discussion you are too lazy to follow, at all. You know. It proceeded from the initial hyperbole to something else. Terrible to be impatient, reading challenged, pugnacious, . . .
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  28332.  @kerwinbrown4180  I think that is the smartest thing anyone said in this thread, for real.
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  28333.  @kerwinbrown4180  Oh, funny! I said your last comment was the best of all, sincerely. I dare not say more. :D
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  28334. Don't worry. Seriously. Don't worry.
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  28335.  @suspicioustumbleweed4760  Me too!!! We should form a movement.
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  28336. Well, your post is cryptic. Give us one example, or anything concrete.
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  28337. Yeah, especially that AOC tweet and the Biden video compilation. Clearly a Kremlin product.
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  28338. There are no speakers supporting either major party with a "tremendous intellectual pedigree." Those people are quietly researching and writing books and spending a lot of time abroad, especially in England and France.
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  28339. ​ @fresatx Oh, "they." It's "their" fault. "Must be."
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  28340. No. They want more.
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  28341.  @lucasottens8506  LOL thank you
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  28342.  @geoxeph  The wars and the bailouts are for them. The bills are for us.
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  28343.  @margasway  ^100
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  28344. The case is easy to find, by the way, and has an extensive summary in its press release. Now we're getting somewhere!
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  28345. "If you owe $1000, it's your problem, if you owe $1,000,000,000, it's the bank's problem, . . . and if you owe trillions, it's the world's problem" China: Oh really??
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  28346. How many House and Senate members adjusted their stock portfolios after their briefing on COVID? Who investigates the investigators?
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  28347. The question I have is how MSM persuaded me that this could be close. 🫤🤔
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  28348.  @AtticTapes14  Gary Gauger
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  28349. This is lofty. This. During wars and pending wars. The E. Jean Carroll judgment got MUCH more press than the ICJ verdict. No one knows who the SA foreign minister is, much less how eloquent.
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  28350. If I look up "Pandor," I get sent to Pandora Jewelry.
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  28351. @nemosays6337  I agree. My father and my mother's only brother were British Army veterans, WWII, from former Yugoslavia. I wonder if there were some way for me to resettle in Britain . . . ? Or France? I lived there and went to school there, at least.
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  28352.  @midnull6009  By not getting beaten up while everyone else was.
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  28353. We have always withdrawn drugs when serious safety signals emerged. What's different now?
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  28354. Amen
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  28355. Why not start with opposing unfair speech with more speech, not threats of lawsuits? Defamation suits are always anti-free speech. See R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul. Anyone who threatens a suit is claiming the person or group they are suing has no free speech right in the matter. That would be Musk in this case, turning to Daddy Government and its courts. If Musk himself has alienated advertisers, and if he really supports free speech, then he may have to eat the financial loss that comes with it.
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  28356.  @threeofeight197  It is soothing to hear your rational argument at this point. Thank you.
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  28357.  @emerpus01  Exactly my point. Go back and look.
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  28358.  @justingrimm6642  Well, I am sorry to see they did that. How could your post be shadowed, but you were able to see my reply? That is gross and unfair.
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  28359.  @OffbeatsMusic  Of course, thank you.
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  28360. @Snipergoat1  Oh, advertisers are amoral! And they do damage! Not only that, but lobbies and pressure groups lie and bribe to get their way. Fancy that, it never occurred to me. If the only damage they do is to the revenues of a multi-billionaire, that would be one thing. In fact, such groups have been behind every sort of manipulation and atrocity. The "science" of shaping attitudes and behavior has reached dizzying heights. If a small group of well-placed masters of propaganda wanted a world war before this decade is over, the chances are far from negligible that we would have one. And everyone who mouthed their slogans would think they were coming up with something original. I assure you, they would. I know you think you've "got me" or something, but I don't even get your point. Suppose Musk sued and won. Would a court order ADL to cease and desist? Would advertisers be obligated in any way to come back to X/Twitter? (Would they do it of their own volition, based only on the outcome of a lawsuit? Ha.) No. Money would change hands. Money. If you see some higher principle at work here, please be clearer. I actually don't understand. I'm not being pigheaded, I actually don't.
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  28361.  @jason-ow8cq  Too bad they made abortion illegal instead of letting you decide when to mandate it, huh? /s Sorry, your post is barely less absurd.
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  28362.  @dickmonddickelheimer9452  Not relevant. We are talking about what you are allowed to do when someone breaks the law.
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  28363.  @dickmonddickelheimer9452  We already agreed stealing cars is illegal.
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  28364. Creep
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  28365. Sick, sick people
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  28366. I was wondering where this diversion went.
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  28367. Re: the resume study -- I had thought everyone knew about that study. They appeared not to believe it. Look, there is a real problem with what you tell kids. I would never tell a college student, much less K - 12, the truth about the workplace and workplace hiring, and it's not only because of race. A person who keeps getting passed over for jobs that less qualified people get has to remember that the person hired may be related to someone, money may have changed hands, that person may have slept with someone or may have done drugs with someone for that job, not to mention a whole host of less nefarious things like lying, flattery, denunciations of others by friends, jealousy of something on a great resume that turns the interviewer off and leads to hiring the less accomplished, etc. People who aren't from big cities may not understand how common corruption is. I don't want to tell a KID this stuff. It wasn't rare to get one's friends to make derogatory social media posts about a competitor and positive statements about oneself during hiring season at the most prestigious law schools and MBA programs. Some people were sued over it. It's also no secret that an "ordinary" job won't hire someone from an Ivy, which is harsh -- suppose you want to work in a bookstore while you write your first novel or before leaving to join the Peace Corps? Patti Smith worked in a bookstore. Actors wait tables. This is a message you have to craft carefully and deploy only when needed. The goal is always to strengthen the young person to rise above the fray and be happy and successful in life, not to feel hopeless or dejected. Even Jordan Peterson said a few good things about this issue, such as never let anyone in the workplace punish you for your virtues.
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  28368.  @drumdelorean7341  You saw big words in that post?
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  28369. ​ @bevo65 Autocorrect thinks it knows better. Soon, AI will know better and none of us will having any idea how to tell the difference between reality and manipulation. If you thought the "mainstream" lying during the pandemic was bad . . . Brace yourself.
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  28370. ​ @C_R_O_M________ "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." Hey, pretty good writing.
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  28371. He has? Not all the lies spread about these vaccines by governments, possibly in order to enrich the already rich? (Of course, that might have been purely accidental. :) I don't tell anyone else what to do. I back off. It's too personal of a decision. I can't do anything for them if something should go wrong. Hence, I have no right to prey on their panic. Who is still distributing these vaccines to the general public, as opposed to targeted populations, such as the elderly in nursing homes, or those over 50 with certain comorbidities? No one in Europe. Campbell never suggested any vaccine was a cure, what a bizarre non sequitur. Effective vaccines have always provided more complete and long-lasting immunity than any of these did. They were recommending five inoculations during the first two years in the US. Have you ever heard of a single vaccine with such a protocol? Not once in history.
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  28372.  @crowsroost9918  Me too.
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  28373. You give the man credit.
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  28374.  @joefrancis759  Yes, and vice versa, too!
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  28375. I think it's true that VAERS has been contaminated with false data. This should worry every doctor, because it is ruining our picture of how risky the vaccine might be.
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  28376. No, there is something very profoundly wrong with them, for any media to have this effect. I agree the new media is generally a bad influence on most kids, but only seriously abnormal kids can do this.
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  28377.  @pl3459  I wish I knew. More news: TeleSUR (Spanish edition) just reported China demands that the US provide a full accounting of all biological laboratories it funds throughout the world. Recall that we went to the UN with evidence Iraq had similar laboratories to justify our invasion. Nothing I've seen as official US explanation of what we are doing in Ukraine right now makes sense. The highest risk of dangerous biological agents being released was right after the fall of the USSR. Why the increase in funding now? Why so many labs? We admit to at least six. The Indian press and even AFP have been raising questions about the DOD funding of biolabs in Ukraine, without pretending we have real answers, and George Galloway was denounced for reporting on this over the weekend. IOW, you tell me! :/
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  28378. It is the nonsensical ones, which are patently absurd, that provide cover for the actual conspirators. Cases in point: Epstein. The Paradise Papers. The Snowden revelations. People suspicious of Epstein were classified with the "pizzagate" nonsense, and silenced, which gave Epstein years of freedom.
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  28379. As the saying goes, "you tell me."
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  28380. And I hope young adults hear him and know not to join the military.
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  28381. The entire world does not play video games.
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  28382.  @hunger4wonder  Not only that, but there are still people who know "its" is possessive and "it's" is a contraction of "it is" (or "it has"). Crazy.
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  28383. Was letting Fauci run the country into the ground and lie about virus origin, and playing good cop bad cop with him honest? Was Operation Warp Speed a good thing? Was lifting the moratorium on gain-of-function research a good thing, instead of cracking down? Trump permitted an unconstitutional shutdown of the country, because he was too lazy to do anything about it, even though he swore to uphold the Constitution. RFK Jr would never have done that. No pre-Clinton Democrat would have.
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  28384.  @JabVRni  No idea . . . Excellent! ;)
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  28385.  @markgarcia6887  Nice point!!
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  28386. Actually, the vaccination release form that every person who goes in to be vaccinated is given tells you that after reading it, you can refuse vaccination and there will be no change in the healthcare you are entitled to. It says so on the form. Look it up. Or, if you're vaccinated, you got the form.
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  28387. According to Rachel Maddow and President Biden, these did.
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  28388. The idea is to goad them. :/
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  28389.  @kundalini1953  East Europeans kill each other . . . This would be a problem for the US, er, why, exactly? Raise your cynicism quotient.
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  28390. While we are all obsessed with abortion and COVID, Medicare will be eviscerated. How many times can they pull this off?
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  28391. What were the "conspiracy theories?" Funny label, from a network that assured us any questions about a laboratory accident were racist and that vaccines would halt the transmission of the virus -- all from a network that somehow led people to expect a 15% infection fatality rate, and is now trying to get parents to vaccinate their toddlers, which no European country with a solid public health system is doing. (In the meantime, cha ching.)
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  28392. Exactly. It shows you they are phony left: instead of encouraging sound health practices, mental health support for all kids, and sensitivity toward the well-known challenges of adolescence, they make up specious nonsense about basic mammalian biology. These kids need real support, not more delusion and medicalization.
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  28393. Any of us can click the link to the Australian government website and see for ourselves that AZ was discontinued three weeks ago due to a serious side effect directly attributed to the vaccine: thrombosis with thrombocytopenia (TTS). It is no longer in use there, for anyone, for exactly that reason and no other.
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  28394. Open Secrets tells you how much money politicians get from billionaires. Some have given over $91 MILLION during a single presidential election cycle. THIS is poisonous. Criticism where criticism is warranted is good.
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  28395. @GrandChessboard  Meant to say "private," obviously. Made the correction. (Clear from what I responded to, and the rest of what I said in the first place. Hence I'm just fixing a typo.)
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  28396.  @kekwayblaze3176  Where did I say that? Maybe someone else did?
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  28397. It made them all rich. This is what the prize is FOR.
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  28398. Looks like they want him to lose. Check for underground betting. Follow the money, every time.
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  28399. What audit? Who is on the team of independent auditors Musk has assembled, with CPAs, CFAs, extensive industry experience, and no government contracts to create conflicts of interest?
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  28400.  @johnr5312  I have audited the auditors. You can rightly accuse lawyers of a lot of things, but a limited perspective is not one of them.
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  28401. ​ @Michelle-bn1fu  I have heard him attack processed foods, fast foods being the worst. But will he do anything? I reserve judgment.
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  28402.  @zachstone6717  Yup. Check his stock portfolio.
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  28403. Was that car lot that was set on fire minority-owned? I think so.
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  28404. 🙏🙏🙏
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  28405. She did an excellent job lying. She's persuasive. That commands a high price.
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  28406. You know who was healthy? The kids who could pay their entire year of in-state tuition and fees and books with a summer job. And could take that degree to any city and afford an apartment without having a trust fund. Needless to say, they had little or no debt. They had agency all right. Anyone barely out of high school who says they have "agency" now might be conforming to the new rhetorical standard -- or they might be deluded.
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  28407. Truth
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  28408. Why? It's clear no one cares.
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  28409. I agree with Aaron. Of course it did have options. That does not take away from the US game of chicken, which it always plays.
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  28410.  @diegoharo7943  We can explain the 2020 excess deaths due to COVID. We know what those were due to. Are you so dense that you do not realize that some of the 2022 excess/unexpected deaths may be attributable to vaccine injury? Who is doing the analysis of the data? When many independent variables change at once, then they have to do a multivariate analysis to find out the contribution of each variable. You can't cover it up with handwaving, "we had shutdowns," blah blah BLAH. The German study of people who dropped dead unexpectedly at home had about 30% inexplicable deaths except for recent vaccination. These were based on autopsies. That is the most definitive method for figuring out what happened.
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  28411.  @diegoharo7943  I think that's a good thing.
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  28412.  @oscarlarmour  You joined last week, perhaps for this purpose.
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  28413.  @oscarlarmour  No need to reply, already blocked you.
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  28414.  @LemGray  💯
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  28415. Well, I can give you an answer. Doesn't mean it will appear.
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  28416. @paulgibbon5991  I suggest you read some real Supreme Court cases, because it most certainly is a "license to screech hate." I didn't like the outcome of RAV v. City of St. Paul, either, but perhaps the opposite would have been worse?
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  28417. @paulgibbon5991  Brandenburg v. Ohio is an old case. The one from Virginia -- Virginia v. Black -- is new. Where were you?
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  28418. @paulgibbon5991  More citations, to Real Cases, but will that be permitted? Free speech believers ponder, and wonder if they will be able to find out. I can see them. Can anyone else? You?
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  28419.  @johnwolf2829  So why would you support a fraud with a different story to monetize? Do you seriously think her story checks out? I'm not convinced. Consider A Million Little Pieces. Consider George Santos. Consider Anna Sorokin. (Consider the "babies ripped from incubators". That story was dangerous.) Every one of those people got something they wanted. The Russian girl ended up in prison, but now she's the subject of made-for-television series.
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  28420. It is very easy to find articles that dispute her story from nearly a decade ago, long before "woke" was a thing. Also, she'll be 30 this year. Exactly when did she go to Columbia, and in what program, only to discover that it's full of woke?
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  28421.  @annan7728  Americans already know how to blab for money.
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  28422. I liked this, because I also had never heard of this person, if she's even real.
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  28423. There was no good way for that election to end.
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  28424. @Jason She doesn't get official briefings, so it would be prudent to ask her about her sources. I suspect that as a service member and former member of Congress, she does have more sources than you or I. But they should ask her.
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  28425. @Jason Well, imputing that to all guests may not make sense. If this gets you to pay attention to Ukraine, it served a purpose. Gabbard may or may not have sources we don't. I suspect she does. "Journalist" Tucker didn't ask.
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  28426. @Jason I agree 100%+ with your second paragraph anyway. Perfectly stated.
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  28427. Dore is against Trump.
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  28428.  @_maxt  One thing is for sure, though -- Dore will give Trump credit whenever he deserves it. As will all the independent journalists I listen to. Even Krystal Ball will. It does feel phony to say "Trump is a disaster" when the DNC is an abomination. Both have been horrible.
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  28429.  @buticks6388  I don't follow her. I know both have said they have had significant emotional problems. Well . . .that sounds true. I'm not a voyeur, I haven't scrutinized them.
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  28430. I hope that student can prevail in a lawsuit. Astounding.
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  28431.  @elisevillemaire8344  SUPERB points! Shouldn't it be obvious?
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  28432. REAGAN didn't lie? 😂😂😂😂 He gave us the 1986 vaccine law, taxation of Social Security for the first time, and the Iran-Contra fiasco. He disrepected the last decent president we had. He began the economic "reforms" that led to the dominance of Wall Street and Silicon Valley we have today.
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  28433.  @edward_3ps4  She didn't lay out the argument well. That happens too often.
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  28434.  @edward_3ps4  I'm not surprised that people can't follow her. She structures her arguments in an odd way. She too often ends where she should begin.
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  28435. Mais qui a inventé tout ça?
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  28436. Banning individually-owned cars is easy: make the insurance so unaffordable that only people who have yachts today will have cars tomorrow. Have people scream at each other that if you can't afford something, it's your own stupid fault. Oh wait. Part Two is in place.
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  28437.  @lrod312  I'm sorry, no comparison. Bill Clinton's wife was the Democratic Party's nominee for President. Their speeches have made them rich. Questions about what Bill's role would be in a Hillary administration were not only forbidden, but denounced as sexist. And let's not forget how close Bill, Epstein, and Maxwell were. This whole incident REEKS. Why shouldn't Monica Lewinsky have a life, eventually? What did she do to be deprived of every joy for the rest of her life? Woman flogging at its lowest. And for what?
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  28438.  @lrod312  Lewinsky should have emigrated. Buckled down, gotten a doctorate in social work, served those of limited means -- something along those lines. No one treated like she was should live here.
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  28439. Why do you believe Trump wants to win? What is your evidence?
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  28440. 1. We need a multivariate analysis to find out what the role of xxxxxxxx is in this. 2. Stress echocardiography for ALL young people, especially if they play any sport.
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  28441. He made it rhyme with Freud. Happens to be wrong in this case.
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  28442. Who?
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  28443. @MattAngiono  Now that you mention it . . .
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  28444. ​@ericheick7044 The résumé studies demonstrated it, and were replicated. U of Chicago was involved in one, and they are nobody's fools.
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  28445.  @johngresham-im6xl  Totally false, lol. The flak is directed at everyone with the wrong opinion on Palestine now. So, two can play your game: you are savaging her on account of Likud.
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  28446. Russia looking better EVERY day.
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  28447. There are infectious diseases that are more dangerous to children than adults. The question is vaccine mandates. How much risk should be imposed on children in order to protect adults?
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  28448. ​​ @marshmelows Work harder in media means lie better.
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  28449. ​ @matthewh4717 And this young woman got a better job.
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  28450. ​ @BB-ed4om Why shouldn't you record it? If recording it is breaking a law, sue her. 😂
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  28451. ​ @Duc-n5u Then why does she hate women younger than her?
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  28452. ​@junior-corradosoprano9435 The CEO himself agreed that letting an employee go should not be done via video and should not come as a shock without some prior indication from her supervisor that she needed improvement. Does Megyn Kelly know better? 😂 No, what Megyn knows is how to improve her own numbers, which is all Megyn needs to know. 💰
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  28453.  @jnhook8086  No, she turned to the power of the state and used public resources for her own benefit.
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  28454.  @forever-pk1hn  Oh!! Sexual harassment! Of COURSE.
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  28455. @kenevans3304  Of course. A lawsuit demands the engagement of the power of the state, to vindicate one's claims. Self-help is just self-help. It could be wise or unwise, it might work or make things worse, it might come across badly, but no one's taxes go toward paying for it.
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  28456.  @kennardjohnson7875  Envious of this woman who live-streamed her firing? She is very young and attractive.
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  28457. @kennardjohnson7875  So was mine. Megyn is always denouncing other, younger women. 😂 It's a Kelly specialty.
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  28458.  @mrwealthysoon  She sued for that? Was anyone criminally prosecuted?
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  28459. @annabellelee4535  A lawsuit demands the engagement of the power of the state, to vindicate one's claims. Self-help is just self-help. It could be wise or unwise, it might work or make things worse, it might come across badly, . . . but no one's taxes go toward paying for it. Don't you know how courts work? No clue, huh?
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  28460. @1601tgc  Right. And self-help doesn't take up a court's time, and your taxes don't pay for it.
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  28461.  @higurashianduminekoconnect1702  Well, the court system commands the power of the state, and we pay for it with our taxes. Self-help may be wise or unwise, or very unwise, but it costs me nothing. It's entirely the choice of the person who does it, and no fancy state machinery is involved to vindicate anything. So, filing suit is much more than whiny. It engages a whole bunch of other people.
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  28462. @Honorthetruth  Yes. The first claim, true or not, can give you access to courts and a sizable settlement. The second, true or not, leaves you with no recourse and possibly a spoiled reputation -- earned or not. If you had as much money as MK, wouldn't you be nicer?
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  28463. @thumbsaloft  Don't tell people what to think if you don't even know how to spell her name.
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  28464. The Hill's lineup has been shaping up.
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  28465. ". . . believed he was damaging his career as an influencer." Let us pray.
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  28466. I know to move once I can't work. I mean, out of this "sh-t h-le country." If you only knew how other people live . . .
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  28467. Truth bombs in succession.
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  28468. Money is a big motivator. And they know who can be manipulated with it. Keepin' it simple, . . .
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  28469. A great time for an open border, huh? /s
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  28470. They probably can't because of the huge body of Commerce Clause jurisprudence. So, the strategy is to chip away, in every way possible.
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  28471. Tout à fait: en Angleterre, il y a un racisme de classe qui n'existe nulle part sauf en Angleterre.
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  28472. Current Medicare does allow enrollment after 65 for those fully covered by their employers. Once they retire or reduce their hours, they have a deadline for enrolling in Medicare (without penalty for enrollinng late). How come no one knows this?
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  28473. Lying, by itself, is never illegal in the US. It must be defamation, etc., to be actionable, or fraud, etc., to be a crime.
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  28474. Now we know what you better not say and to whom.
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  28475. ​ @hughjanus5518 Much like BIDEN? 😂😂😂😂
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  28476.  @elizabethsmusicandarts1590  Oh my God. I am speechless.
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  28477. THIS
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  28478.  @N00bcrunch3r  I knew someone would rush in to say that.
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  28479.  @real-patriot-b9j  What made you think that made sense? I tried hard to parse it.
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  28480.  @N00bcrunch3r  Has everyone on earth had a chance to be vaccinated? Are our international airports closed? Should people in chemo whose doctors were concerned or who themselves were too worried to get vaccinated remain under house arrest? Ghoul.
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  28481. ​ @pau8727 Consult a lawyer. The hardest part is finding a truly competent lawyer. There are fewer great lawyers than great doctors, and you know how rare those are. Of course a misdiagnosis could be medical malpractice. There is no way to generalize without a careful examination of the case, including by an expert. Each case is unique. Most cases that are filed will settle with the doctor's malpractice insurance carrier.
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  28482.  @ericwithers6552  FALSE, LOL
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  28483. He said he wouldn't.
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  28484.  @Jeff-wj4wy  It wasn't about that in part because Wisconsin has thoroughly insane gun laws. Running the streets with an assault-style rifle strapped to you is legal. It cannot be considered a provocation. A good-faith belief that you are disarming an active shooter, and thus acting in the defense of innocent people (wrong, but in good faith) does not mean that if you do try to disarm him, he cannot shoot you. He can.
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  28485. Yes. No one should volunteer to fight for billionaires. That'll teach 'em.
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  28486. Very important to deflect the blame to nonwhites. The "Russia" meme is strictly DNC/CNN/MSNBC. They've occupied that territory.
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  28487. What did this man DO to earn $500 million? He wasn't a pediatric neurosurgeon. He didn't invent the water purification plant.
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  28488. You're right we need a new word.
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  28489. U of Michigan Law School is on the case. They run an innocence project.
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  28490. Don't take YouTube so seriously.
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  28491.  @tomasinacovell4293  They said it to Aaron Mate. OKAY they didn't. /s
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  28492. "War of independence?" That's what minorities in the Donbas were demanding.
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  28493. This is knowingly lying. Yeah, I am surprised. I thought they needed cover to do this.
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  28494. Her second question was to ask what this expert suggests as a solution.
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  28495. Better that they don't know. Americans are very nativist and easily embrace prejudice.
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  28496. Correct, and there is a defined perimeter and a defined time, based on content-neutral noise and nuisance ordinances, for exactly such First Amendment protected demonstrations. Thus abortion clinics had to accept such protests, and still do.
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  28497. There is no left. The neoliberal globali$t$, certainly.
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  28498. The data should consider any dose of an mRNA vaccine, one dose or two, and compare it with NO vaccine. That should be a third bar. You're right that the data as presented is not correct.
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  28499. Nancy Mace has principles.
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  28500. Do you blame anyone who refuses to believe there is a pandemic? The federal government isn't acting like there is anything dangerous going on.
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  28501. The liberal Justices concurred in the judgment. You think this was a political decision? It was not. It was a constitutional decision.
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  28502. What 30 years were those?
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  28503. So, are the radiologist and lab techs who picked up evidence of pericarditis and myocarditis, and the cardiologist who diagnosed him and is still following his case, all mentally ill, too? It took the Soviets vastly more suffering to get to this point, you know. (Nah. You don't know.) Maybe it's simpler: you are jealous of athletes.
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  28504.  @eelnoops5200  How could the patient create a blood test result that indicates inflammation of the heart muscle, or an MRI or CAT scan indicating the same issue? Could the persistent problems he is experiencing have an emotional component? You must know nothing about the heart. EVERY heart condition has an emotional component. That's why rehab has to be step by step. Your heart can handle more, but your mind is still getting scared, which can trigger a too-rapid pulse and hurt your heart again. Fear can trigger a vicious circle. You're rehabbing your heart muscle and your emotional control together. I'm so glad there are still real cardiologists in this world. Imagine if everyone sounded like you. Instead of recovering, people would be dropping dead.
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  28505.  @eelnoops5200  You also have it backwards. If a patient presents with a possible mental health issue, the first step is to rule out a physical disease process. You know, like how George Gershwin was sent to psychoanalysis when what he had was a brain tumor. That is a mistake.
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  28506.  @eelnoops5200  Can you read? Or is my post saying that every heart condition has an emotional component, and carefully explaining why, shadowed?
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  28507.  @eelnoops5200  It's not up to a patient to self-diagnose. (??)
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  28508. She did.
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  28509. And when Novak Djokovic is the healthiest athlete . . .
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  28510. He did a great job this time.
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  28511. No, he just said that reporting what a president's campaign states is not defamation, even if that campaign is lying through its teeth. Let's see what emerges at trial, in the way of real evidence that Fox also lied, rather than simply reporting the fact that the Trump campaign or its lawyers stated blah blah blah.
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  28512. This is in the San Francisco Bay area, if you can believe it.
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  28513. AOC is corporate-centric. Of course she thought only of where the Amazon warehouse is located. That's what counts, to her mind.
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  28514. NEVER ONCE did Brie bring race into this segment. Robby even agreed with her main point in response to his radar. In fact, Brie pointed out that the president of MIT is also being targeted, and there are no allegations of academic misconduct against her, nor is she black. You know, literally lying about what someone said -- literally bearing false witness -- has become a much bigger social problem at this point than any of this other stuff. What goes around comes around.
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  28515. I think this business about the Trump cabal being anti-Deep State is sheer ruse. His DOJ indicted Assange, his administration discussed assassinating Assange. The Deep State increased its prestige enormously during Trump. Don't be sure this was a legitimate reaction to Trump's disdain for the Deep State. It could have been his plan all along to rebuild it.
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  28516. ​@thomasm1964 If there is no such thing as society, how did language come about? How is it that we all understand our core grammar? How did we all come to agreement concerning money?
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  28517.  @thomasm1964  Of course I do. I was living in Paris when she said it. Everything out of her mouth was thoroughly ideological. But I know enough not to attempt to discuss this with you.
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  28518. @thomasm1964  No I haven't. As for your post, you just presented a somewhat more cerebral version of the Welfare Queen/Pink Cadillac discourse. That anyone can still think such a thing, post 2008 and post pandemic, is worse than sad. Do you see the people responsible being held responsible? Or are power structures within society preventing that?
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  28519.  @thomasm1964  LOL, that was coherent all right. Thanks anyway.
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  28520. No it hasn't. Plaintiffs in a case will be allowed to present evidence that it is not a vaccine but a therapeutic. That's what the court ruled in the Los Angeles Unified Schools case, 9th Circuit.
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  28521. Bring back the draft. NO war that is not declared -- NO war without a universal draft. That should shut the warmongers up.
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  28522. Is every Israeli vastly more PRODUCTIVE than every American? If so, we better improve our educational system and our health care. All the more reason to get on it, it's critical.
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  28523. Condoning physical assault is not the same. Ben's reflex was to call for the guy's award to be cancelled. People didn't pick up on that, huh? He lost his cool fast, and over WHAT? Shapiro is making these people out to be more important than they are, because that way, he will get everyone angry and . . . MAKE MORE MONEY for himself. You call that a proper job for a graduate of Harvard Law? He could be in court setting precedent on what public schools cannot do because it encroaches on parents' constitutional rights, for example. But that would mean . . . work. Hard work. Ooops! 🤣 Taking sides on this one is being duped into believing there are sides.
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  28524.  @ZachMorris2035  Actually, I've turned down offers. But that's beside the point. I was joking.
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  28525.  @ZachMorris2035 I didn't even pick up on the insult that frustrated and rattled B.S. so much that he said the kid should have his research grant revoked. What did the kid say that is comparable to a criminal act? I missed it. You should teach me.
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  28526. No emergency UBI is pretending the pandemic is not a true emergency. All the politicians are pretending that, especially Trump. Only Wall Street emergencies are real.
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  28527.  @4foxsake571  It doesn't work for several reasons: privatization of public goods always undermines the public goods. See, e.g., Adam Smith on the rentier class, not to mention the privatization of the commons of his time. Second, MUCH of the charter school experiment has ended up in looting of public monies. The best informed parents make grave mistakes, and children have to meet educational milestones every year (as we've just seen) --- they simply cannot afford failed experiments. Third, and related, the quality of charter schools and established private schools is extremely variable, possibly more so than the quality of public schools in a single tax district. No one can deny that the very best are outstanding, but the worst are nightmares. So, the fate of minors again depends on who their parents are, how much money they already have to support academic achievement, and how well informed they are, plus a hefty dose of sheer luck? The New York City public schools and City Colleges educated generations of immigrant children to the highest achievement. Look at what was different then. Not just school, but the culture of school. Who upholds that now? The people on top are the most clever liars. Integrity is for chumps. You think the kids don't notice?
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  28528. When he was mega MAGA and I criticized him, simply for objective reasons, EVERYONE went after me. 😂😂😂
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  28529. ​ @joyduncan9434 Exactly --- but life expectancy for the top 10% is increasing. Chicago has a wealthy neighborhood on the lake and next to its best hospital where life expectancy touched 90.
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  28530. ​@Nuttyirishman85 I wish it were a gimmick, considering how much it costs. Do some research on the proliferation of pesticides and GMOs. Organic reduces exposure, and for some foods, it increases the nutritional value. We are being inundated with chemicals, and Bill Gates is pushing GMOs and buying farm land.
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  28531. Darling. That's the plan.
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  28532.  @jessenone3708  Party operatives know. They wouldn't support him otherwise.
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  28533. The Iranians are saying to themselves good thing we joined BRICS+.
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  28534.  @williamsmith8271  Mine have, too.
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  28535. In all seriousness, placing biological males into women's prisons is a grave human rights violation. The women must be protected from assault. You never heard of things like this in the semi-deveoped (supposedly developed) world.
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  28536.  @VanderbiltMr  THANK YOU. First pointed out by Socrates in The Apology, I kid you not.
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  28537.  @kyle-ri5mz  There is no law against preferring children of alumni or donors. Too bad the late, great, state universities get so little funding now, except for football stadiums.
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  28538. I see no evidence that Europeans or Americans are Christian.
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  28539. @egatycasi  The fact that you are voluntarily appearing out in public means you have relinquished your privacy. If you discard something in the garbage, you have no expectation of privacy in the thing you've discarded. No one can take DNA from your person without your consent or a warrant (or at least not yet), and if they don't have DNA in a data base, then finding it on a discarded coffee cup means nothing. People throw stuff in my garbage all the time.
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  28540. @egatycasi  Well, in my state, an indictment for certain serious felonies means you have to provide your DNA to the state, and misuse of the sample is a felony as well. Otherwise, it's by consent or warrant. It's not something they can collect just because you went outside.
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  28541. Should you or should you not learn to pronounce people's names correctly, and if you make a small mistake, should you make a quick apology or just say, I'll call them whatever I want? Maybe the day will come when you won't have rudeness privilege or ignorance privilege. It isn't about race at all, I agree.
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  28542. @nox5555  You're right. No one should have to learn anything. You gave up on physics, gave up on math, now you give up on "soft skills." I guess your bullying skills are No. 1.
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  28543. @deadgolfer6345  No, she said she would call Kamala Harris whatever she wants. That was the uncool thing. Mispronunciation itself is no big deal. People make a quick pro forma apology and move on.
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  28544.  @deadgolfer6345  Who brought up race first?
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  28545. @deadgolfer6345  Mace brought it up. Why? Let her opposition go there first, if they plan to.
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  28546.  @deadgolfer6345  0:37
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  28547.  @deadgolfer6345  0:37
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  28548. @deadgolfer6345  I put in a time stamp, with no comment. It's not here, for some reason. 😂😂😂 Probably because we're having a conversation. 🤣
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  28549. @deadgolfer6345  Sigh. Mace had a bad day. When someone says, "you're being insensitive to people in non-traditional marriages, and you might not mean it that way, but . . ." and you pipe up, "Are you saying I'm a homophobe? Is that it now? Am I anti-human rights??" -- what do you think about that? Well played?
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  28550. @deadgolfer6345  Mace used the r-word as a defense, because it is EXTRA bad to call someone the r-word. Not her best day.
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  28551.  @deadgolfer6345  I'll listen a third time now. EDIT: I did, and I'm right. How ironic. "With all due respect."
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  28552. @deadgolfer6345  Sorry. I'm right. When I put in the time stamp, the post goes away. He talked about white and black first, and she then said the magic word racism, and he said he wasn't saying that. All the rest comes AFTER that. It's exactly like the analogy I gave. (And in any case, "I'll call her whatever I want" is an assertion of societal superiority.)
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  28553. @deadgolfer6345  Now explain to me how you got that wrong. I find that scary. Imagine being in front of a jury for something important.
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  28554. @deadgolfer6345  You're lost. SHE said racism. You mean, she can say, "I'll call her whatever I want," but black and white are Magic Words, too? The list grows. This is like dealing with trans ideology. He SAID he was not calling her racist. Is TALKING about race an accusation now, too? Verboten? So . . . I guess there is no freedom of discourse around these topics. You simply can't bring them up. (So it is like trans! Wow.) I'm not surprised.
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  28555.  @deadgolfer6345  In short, I was wrong to say "race" when I meant "racISM." They are not the same. He did bring up white and black first. It is unambiguous.
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  28556. No police report, no report to an attorney (who is an officer of the court), no sworn affidavit, no testimony under oath in a court or tribunal --- an anonymous report to mainstream media. Wow. Debank him, too??
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  28557. Yes, PERFECT.
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  28558. They think that they can buy everybody all the time.
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  28559.  @johanstinson  No we don't. The babies haven't grown up yet, for one thing.
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  28560.  @johanstinson  Who's denying it? Um, false flag much? Sure, make it sound like everyone with grave concerns about these "vaccines" is science-illiterate and evidence-free. That'll work.
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  28561.  @Willowy13  Yes. Based on the Precautionary Principle, they have been vehement about NOT vaccinating pregnant women and women planning to become pregnant, and have called for ceasing the practice and systematically studying babies who received it in utero, to establish the facts, and following all of them closely on the presumption that their health was affected. That's called science and ethics. I agree with them.
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  28562. Reagan was the beginning of the fall. The financialization of the economy was the beginning.
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  28563.  @sdrc92126  BTW, your post is being shadowed except on my notifications feed. Too bad. The algorithm doesn't like good points I guess.
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  28564. Love your posts. Small caveat: that is what First World is, under financialized capitalism.
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  28565.  @ArchlordZer0  Seder is too narrow and condescending. Refuses to see big picture issues. Too bad, I actually like him. Aaron Mate has been the best of all. He's so brilliant, yet never condescends to anyone. The best people never do.
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  28566.  @ArchlordZer0  Shouldn't 2020 have been a landslide for Democrats? It wasn't because of . . . Why, exactly?
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  28567.  @ArchlordZer0  Oh brother. Where to start? So . . . A Clinton victory would have lead to better outcomes in the 2018 and 2020 congressional elections? You must be kidding. You can't mean it.
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  28568. Bigger picture. Step back for perspective. I mean, if you care. If your stocks are soaring, then Biden/Harris plus Senate gridlock is the formula, for sure. Wall Street loves it.
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  28569.  @ArchlordZer0  I urge you to watch the videos I posted. It is obvious you are not familiar with all sides of the argument, which is The New Big Thing -- the Foxification of the country, where everyone only listens to people they agree with. I will grant you, it is very annoying to listen to an opposing argument poorly drawn. That is why I gave you a link to a guy who has lived in the rustbelt AND did his doctorate at Cambridge. And Aaron Mate, who of course urged voting for Biden. Or, don't listen. Suit yourself. But then I really don't care to waste my time. I have a hundred pages to read today, etc., . . . I also have somewhere to go. (I can emigrate.) I know it's rude and brusque to say so, and to put it so baldly, but I am hoping to see signs of people waking up soon. It's late in the day . . . You think it over. Sleep on it and come back. P. S. Also, the Supreme Court doesn't work that way. For example, we have Medicare now. The Court would not oppose expanding it. There is no basis to object to that. Abortion, marriage equity, a higher minimum wage than the national standard will exist in most states. The Court can't do anything about it, even in a worst-case scenario. The erosion of the Fourth Amendment is the most frightening, and that has been going on for 50 years. Even a few extreme right wingers have been afraid of that -- for good reason. The worst part is, society itself has participated in accepting limits to our Fourth Amendment rights. The "reasonableness" standard is changing, and we have been complicit. Big mistake.
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  28570.  @ArchlordZer0  However you like. Seder is wrong about the big picture. And you don't understand Supreme Court jurisdiction, obviously. (Why IS the Senate STILL in Republican hands, by the way? Because TRUMP? No, that's why real Democrats could and should have won.) Your country. I don't identify. Those are superb videos. Too bad you want to argue in soundbites. And of course you add a little smear! Facebook/Fox win again. Cha-ching.
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  28571.  @ArchlordZer0  His perspective is too narrow. He is too wrapped up in winning small skirmishes rather than looking at the big picture. He condescends to working class voices without considering how they may have a larger point to make, even if they are less knowledgeable about how government is structured. Examples of what I mean -- by "big picture-thinking" -- have been generously provided. HAVE IT YOUR WAY. Predictions are for the stock market. If you have a stock tip for me, do tell.
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  28572.  @ArchlordZer0  Bad faith time waster. Seder places far too much emphasis on the Supreme Court to the detriment of what matters, namely ELECTING people to the executive and legislative branches using the appeal that was proven to work. To wit: in EVERY congressional race where a Democrat embraced the progressive agenda the people want, the Democrat won, and wherever the Democrat opposed it, they lost. It is NOT true that the Court can overturn an expanded Medicare. People 65 and over have Medicare now. It is not true that the Court can affect the minimum wage. We have (an inadequate) minimum wage now. This is settled law, not subject to whim. The legislative branch decides these things. ELECTING progressive people changes these things. Electing DNC neoliberals hands over more power to Wall Street -- and FYI, business litigation is MOST of what is on courts' dockets today, Supreme and otherwise. It isn't obvious to you that the DNC just failed spectacularly, that it should have been a landslide against not only the WORST president ever, but a man who is clearly unhinged? I mean, his tweets alone should be enough to sweep his entire party out of office. So. What happened? You still want a SOUNDBITE? I wish it were so easy. (Did Seder convince you it is? I doubt that. Even I think better of him.) You should care about informing yourself. If you don't, I don't. Your joint, soon not mine.
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  28573.  @ArchlordZer0  Let me ask you: when the DNC very obviously cheats progressives in the party, must we nevertheless reward them by voting for them, every time? When the DNC moves further to the right in every election cycle, must we nevertheless reward them by voting for them, every time? When the DNC keeps nominating people with war mongering records, and even race-baiting records, we MUST vote for them? Because Supreme Court something something? Well. Then. Game over. Someone who calls for voting this way is right? This? Really? I'd love to hear.
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  28574.  @ArchlordZer0  No, that's fine. You're right. They didn't talk about withholding the vote from DNC warmongers and turncoats, and why one might justifiably do that, despite the Court. I told you to have it your way a long time ago. It's your joint. I was calling YOU a bad faith actor here, not Seder -- because you are. Of course the discussion is over for you. You can't answer my points! The minute I ask you something, you hightail it outta here . . . and I explained why Seder's emphasis on the Court is flat-out WRONG. He poses the Court as a reason to vote for EVERY Democrat, EVERY time, regardless of their record and their position on WAR. That is the inescapable, logical conclusion of his argument. How can that be right? It can't.
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  28575.  @ArchlordZer0  Where do you see the word "dumb?" I wasn't even thinking it, much less . . . "Bad faith" implies deliberation. And if you can't answer my questions, it's probably because you don't want to. You don't like hard questions. Gathering new information takes time and effort, ad hominem (and accusations of ad hominem) are easy and quick. You really should take the time to watch those videos.
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  28576.  @ArchlordZer0  FYI: the only thing that would make me feel better would be to know I can get out of the US by 2025. Seriously, hon.
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  28577.  @SuperTyler53  You're right. I shouldn't participate. I really, REALLY shouldn't. The loneliness of COVID has gotten to me. Big time.
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  28578.  @corn_pop6082  Does smoking cause lung cancer in all smokers? No, it causes lung cancer in at most 15%. Hence a group of 15 or 20 smokers may have no lung cancer victims, or only one. "Conspiracy theory!!"
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  28579.  @corn_pop6082  The mind is exceedingly complex, as is the brain. It is the most complex material thing in the known universe. To claim that because a particular concentrated form of psychological abuse did not create a series of near-identical Unabombers, it could not be to blame to any extent for having created one, is sheer nonsense. Its role in creating the Unabomber has to be examined point by point, not dismissed like you do.
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  28580. I read a review of the documentary Particle Fever, which is about the confirmation of the existence of the Higgs boson. The reviewer said that she cried when she saw it. I scoffed at that a little bit, but was touched that she was so naive, still. Then I went to see it and I cried, too.
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  28581. 35:28. WOW . . . There are still Americans around!!! ❤
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  28582. The issue is the age. Shouldn't trans people have the same reproductive choices as everyone else? Well, that requires puberty.
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  28583.  @thomasc9036  Therapies that preserve all opportunities and basic life choices and reproductive freedom should have to be tried first.
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  28584. The idea that only cheerleaders who wear pink and football captains in blue get to be parents is eeew for me. Believe it or not. Reproductive freedom for all, even "non-normies!"
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  28585.  @thomasc9036  I would not allow a parent to choose to have a child sterilized unless all other, less drastic, treatments for the child's condition have been tried and have clearly failed. The right to have birth children is a fundamental right. You are supposed to get to grow up with that opportunity in place. We're supposed to try to preserve that choice for everyone.
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  28586.  @cassandrajoiner9933  Oh is it? These are children. CHILDREN. They are no one's property. I support universal reproductive rights. You don't? By way of comparison, I don't occupy my mind in any respect with, say, adult pornography, much less adults' personal lives.
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  28587. At the rate this is going, Russia will end up bombing the cities. Clear where this is headed.
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  28588.  @scott1674  Shelling. And not targeting civilians. Don't confuse other countries with aerial Blitzkrieg, or Shock and Awe. Western specialties.
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  28589.  @scott1674  False
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  28590. You know. Maybe raiding Trump's house in Florida might not have been the best course.
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  28591. Wow are they TRYING HARD to beat Trump! /s
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  28592. I wrote a really derogatory comment about HITLER and it was so bad it was removed. I have never been prouder. (EDIT: No, I didn't swear. How cool is that?)
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  28593. Notice how the story has come out in little drips and drabs? . . . Remember how Bill Gates had only one dinner with Epstein, and donated only one million dollars to a science lab at Epstein's suggestion? Then it was two dinners, and two million bucks, then . . . Yeah, well.
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  28594. They also have to have a minor cold, with no harmful aftereffects.
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  28595.  @eternaldelight648  If Barack Obama had not received a Nobel Peace Prize as well, you would have a point. Alas . . . "Unrelated events?" Like the 2014 coup? Or the 2022 build-up of Ukrainian forces to attack their own citizens in the Donbass by spring? The Western intervention to stop the peace talks between Ukraine and Russia?
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  28596.  @dustinbaker8272  Yes. She was still a minor. Is there or is there not a clear-cut, bright line rule?
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  28597. Yes, she muddled this. The simple fact is that you cannot use lethal force to defend mere property. That is illegal. You can only use lethal force to defend the physical safety of a person.
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  28598.  @Iris-hx6ox  False. It does not. Of the 50 states, only Texas makes a small exception, and Texas requires so many conditions, including attempting non-lethal force first, that practically speaking it means the person who does the shooting will eventually hand over their property to a defense lawyer. Inform yourself.
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  28599. When I worked a minimum wage job, during a meeting with management, one worker asked why they were docked for being late when everyone knew there was a public transit emergency or accident and it was announced. The boss said it was because the federal government forced them to pay the time stamp on the time card. (The time clock sets a floor, obviously, not a ceiling.) I don't know if anyone believed him.
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  28600. It's almost like studies that no one can find are nevertheless true if you want them to be true, academic malfeasance being rampant notwithstanding.
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  28601. I finally found the abstract, from 1980. They ran the study four times, and this positive result - that is, the one described here - was true in only two of the four trials. Looks like (1) research standards were higher 45 years ago, as this team replicated their own research before publishing it; and (2) we have a real crisis in standards today, as you can see by how Kisin reported the study. Athenians believed that truth was what pleased the most people in the agora . . . until they lost a big war. No one was sorry for them in the entire Greek world, until one Spartan leader took pity. Victor's honor.
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  28602.  @CleverGirlAAH  And Kisin himself gets ahead on the phenomenon. What would he talk about if he didn't have this to decry? He might have to WORK work. Glenn Greenwald just did a definitive takedown not long ago. It was funny.
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  28603. The First Amendment IS on point.
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  28604. Post-viral syndromes usually do. Less severe disease but longer period of recovery IS more common in women than men, especially fertile women. If you ever studied evolution, you can think about why that would be adaptive.
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  28605.  @HughRGlen  Is that who it affects, or is that who doesn't need to hide it?
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  28606. Her claim for breach of contract against Harvard is allowed to proceed.
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  28607.  @mikedavis6690  Who said not?
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  28608. @mikedavis6690  Who said I was? You talkin' to me? 😂
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  28609.  @mikedavis6690  You don't realize that we're talking about Musk, right?
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  28610.  @samliew6610  true
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  28611. Both of these people make vastly more money than they are worth. Read any major European philosopher, psychologist, or sociologist and see what THAT sounds like. It is quite a shock.
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  28612. This is a STUPID broadcast. Anyone who has read Michelle Alexander knows better. Charlemagne is right, but that does not mean no black person can make it.
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  28613.  @stephenbrown3653  Totally. I'm stunned people fall for this. Stunned.
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  28614.  @Adamdidit  I made part of it. Has that been shadowed?
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  28615.  @Adamdidit  Censoring the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis "to protect Asians" (against "racism!") is classic. So we floated a wet market story? No, that research was funded by Americans. It was to cover up for certain Americans. I bet a lot of Chinese are furious Wuhan accepted that money. Also, Joe didn't "apologize." He gave a response. He regrets what's-his-name felt he had to leave Spotify.
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  28616.  @Triception  How do you know Rogan is still beholden to advertisers? Legacy media personalities were hired for existing positions. Joe Rogan created his job on his own. People's picture of the world blows my mind.
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  28617.  @Triception  Who said Spotify was pressuring Rogan? If someone did, ask that person. I don't know the logic underlying astronomical contracts, or how or why any of these "apps" generate overnight billionaires. (Consider Facebook. Can you eat it or wear it? Does it heat your house?) I do know Rogan invented his own show and his own format, and was one of the pioneers of the multi-hour conversational podcast, essentially for fun. I'm not on Spotify, because they use birth dates to authenticate identity -- just like the pharmacy and most doctors' offices and hospitals. Sorry, I don't bite. I never joined Facebook. Or Twitter.
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  28618.  @Triception  Who said I didn't? He put in place a platform, then attracted the audience, and then attracted advertisers, OF COURSE. How beholden he is depends on how much he thinks he needs still more money. He has claimed he is extremely lucky to have f u money. Is he sincere? I do not know the man.
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  28619.  @questioneverything7582  Simply not true. The biochemical mechanism of viral and bacterial infection is now known. Biology is so complex it is almost always statistical. Consider there are people who worked to clean up Chernobyl and did not develop cancer. Consider there was a man who survived Hiroshima, took a train to Nagasaki, then survived that, and lived into his 80s. Ratioactive particles and viruses are analogous. IOW, a 100% infection rate is unusual. The same is true for the number of mutations different people develop from the same (survivable) radiation dose, and what happens next to those cells.
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  28620.  @Triception  He does not need to generate a living. BTW.
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  28621.  @Adamdidit  Thank you. That was a nice post, appreciated. I think my posts about certain research in a certain place were in fact shadowed. Too bad.
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  28622. Any debt that cannot be discharged should be zero interest. Now we can talk about whether there should be a debt that cannot be discharged.
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  28623. But they are. /s
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  28624.  @unbroken1010  Other countries got that, too??!
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  28625.  @jimbond8984  Never watch it. As a matter of fact, someone who watches CNN and believes every word stopped speaking to me. LOLOLOL
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  28626.  @jimbond8984  Surprised? (Don't be.) :D
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  28627.  @MrJay-tv2vt  Are you claiming he was acting as law enforcement without authorization, as a minor without a high school diploma? I would not go down that road in court. In any case, the causal chain has to begin closer in time to the act of self-defense alleged to have been illegal. Like I said, a real court.
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  28628.  @MrJay-tv2vt  I'm not saying he didn't, I'm saying "self-defense" is not as a simple question as people are making it out to be. You clearly do not comprehend how self-defense works. Sorry, it's not based on your feelings about the ones who ended up dead. Two things: Rittenhouse IS presumed innocent, after all; and I am opposed to treating juveniles as adults in virtually all cases. The law in Wisconsin automatically treats a 17-year-old as an adult. I consider those laws unjust. Where did he get the gun? What happened to the cops who EGGED HIM ON, expressing appreciation, and giving him water, instead of checking IDs and telling him to GO HOME? Have we, um, all lost our minds? Good to know.
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  28629. Nobody with COVID feels better. Some people have very mild cases.
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  28630. COVID causes huge fatigue, if nothing else.
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  28631. Well, you get what you pay for.
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  28632.  @timw8649  A PARDON means he will never stand trial on those charges in a federal court. He will never be exonerated at trial. State charges, if there is probable cause, are still possible.
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  28633.  @timw8649  I didn't insult you. I characterized your previous talking points accurately. Since you know the facts, you yourself have no reason to identify with ridiculous talking points.
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  28634.  @timw8649  Reread your very first post, and see how much is factually incorrect. Someone fed you this stuff. After you yourself looked into it, in the most cursory way, you clearly knew and understood the facts. It didn't take a ton of your time or copious research. So, next time don't listen to whoever fed you the talking points, and do your own thing.
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  28635. How do you know he didn't deliberately default, as a litigation strategy, to bypass the issue altogether? These parents had a right to their day in court, just like anyone.
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  28636. RFK Jr in the primary, and if he doesn't get the nomination, West in the general.
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  28637. MRNA as a type of vaccine is entirely new. Every major country had at least one COVID vaccine that was non-mRNA, though some of those had serious side effects.
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  28638. This is indeed the question. How is that legal, by the way?
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  28639. Moved the decimal point. But he should decide my health care.
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  28640. Your spelling shows merit.
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  28641. Are the cited studies and the new directive in Denmark part of the anti-vaxx conspiracy? Dore was vaccinated, Dr. Campbell endorses vaccination. That intramuscular injections are administered differently in different countries is well known. That different medicines meant to be injected intramuscularly may have different risk profiles if they inadvertently enter the bloodstream is well known. I mean, "it's an anti-vaxx conspiracy!!!!" /s
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  28642. Prager U videos are pathetically false, infuriatingly false, or just tendentious. Yet even they came out with a perceptive one: of a young hipster checking his Twitter feed to find out which Cool Person makes what claim, so that he'll know what to meme. Great advertising stance, but not so good for getting at facts.
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  28643. ANYONE who opposes any of Peterson's politics or ideology needs to ask themselves why they are failing so many of the young generation, especially young men. Because failure is there.
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  28644. Brie said so right at the beginning.
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  28645. And yet, neither China nor India authorized mRNA vaccines. China was probably politically motivated. India was science-based. (Pfizer declined to do a study in India, or to waive IP protection to let India do it themselves.)
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  28646. A carnival barker con man who threw his last vice president under the bus and a preeminent toxic torts lawyer who has saved kids from cancer with his victories. Yeah, RFK Jr should definitely bend over for Trump. How crazy are people? Why? Maybe it is pharmaceuticals.
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  28647. Gee. I wonder how many were traumatized by SA as kids. Or as service members in combat. Or were harmed by psychiatry. I'd like to add all of those groups up and see the percentage then. The really funny part is that smart phone addicts think drug addicts have choices. 😂 Those 40%+ obese got that way for some reason . . . maybe their "choice?" Funny, no one chose that after the depression and WWII, when the temptation to overeat was greater.
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  28648. Did you all read the opinion? No, huh? LOL
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  28649. Analysis? 😂😂😂
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  28650. But it's simply true. A lot of it is experimentation, frankly. They try something, then watch what effect it will have, if any. It is a way of gathering information. The US is constantly threatening the RF. They consider these moves against the US to be "self-defense."
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  28651.  @reginaldstubtoe4185  It may not make sense to you, but it is a well-known tactic of theirs, and a way to collect intelligence and test propaganda. But have it your way.
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  28652.  @Internetbutthurt  I have seen evidence, though not from American sources. I knew that by the time of Reagan. Who didn't?
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  28653.  @Internetbutthurt  I'm not going to post links, as the entire post is likely to be shadowed or censored, but my main sources are Stephen F. Cohen (books, and articles in The Nation) and the BBC documentarian Adam Curtis. Both are controversial in different ways. I read/watch critically, and can put together the pieces for myself. I know I've used other sources, including RT and RT in France as well, etc., but my main ones are Cohen and Curtis. Cohen is certainly not unsympathetic to USSR or RF, and Curtis is not exactly a fan of the US.
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  28654.  @Internetbutthurt  You misunderstood. I've had a good idea of how much the US lies, at least since Reagan. I wasn't living in America during most of Reagan. Though to be honest, America lies so much that it's naive for anyone to claim they can keep up.
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  28655.  @Internetbutthurt  I found an article in The Nation right away. I loved Cohen, what a loss. Nearly all of Hillary-promoted Russiagate was nonsense, or worse. I hope you don't think I'm crediting that story.
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  28656. You're right. :/
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  28657. Neera Tanden and Rahm Emanuel both have jobs.
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  28658.  @chickenfishhybrid44  What part of stiffing, extracting more wealth from, or putting up roadblocks against the people whose labor we rely on to make our pharmaceuticals and medical equipment sounds like a good idea to you? Even without a pandemic? You popped up because the point is good. Hope they paid you.
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  28659.  @chickenfishhybrid44  That is not what I said. Your first remark was flippant. This one is flustered, for some reason. THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO ASSERT PATENT RIGHTS. Especially against people on whom we depend for the manufacture of most of our medicine.
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  28660.  @chickenfishhybrid44  Jonas Salk did not patent the polio vaccine.
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  28661.  @chickenfishhybrid44  Well congrats, my response to you was taken down immediately. I'm proud. Um, we know that now, the people who make our drugs for us need drugs that we have. Yes, we know patents are a thing. Like even before this, not just now.
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  28662.  @chickenfishhybrid44  Okay. Never mind. Good God.
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  28663.  @chickenfishhybrid44  This brings up the question of why the US has the standard of living it does. Obviously not merit based.
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  28664.  @chickenfishhybrid44  Upvoted you for that. Wise of you!
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  28665.  @Varun-vv9mi  P. S. Why did you think I was stupid?
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  28666.  @Varun-vv9mi  Where did I suggest having an absolutist mentality? The NYT is not the paper it was twenty years ago. That is true. I still read it -- which is how I know about how it treated the death of Samuel Paty at the hands of terrorists. Its reporting of the college admissions scandal, by contrast, was exemplary. A lot of its Jeffrey Epstein reporting was well above the usual, but then fell flat.
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  28667.  @Ronniezim  All true. There should not have been Biden campaign vetting of the sexual misconduct stories. Ask for comment, of course, not editorial suggestions, without saying "a campaign spokesperson strongly disagreed with this characterization," or some such.
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  28668.  @Varun-vv9mi  I gave you a link which detailed every indictment and guilty plea arising from the Mueller investigation. And a quote. If you persist in believing there was some form of collusion, cooperation, or conspiracy, you must have more information than Mueller did, or considered actionable. I'm not saying it didn't happen. I'm saying The Story greatly outpaces the facts presented.
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  28669.  @Varun-vv9mi  Do you see where we are? Now, during a pandemic, the mainstream media has lost the trust we need for it to have, to face this challenge. Do you see how dangerous this RATINGS GAME has turned out to be? Media is supposed to be more careful than it has been. In this instance, FOX has been the major offender by far. But do you see how hard it is to refute them, after imitating them, for ratings?
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  28670.  @Ronniezim  I read the NYT, too, and consider them less bad than others, but let's not turn this into yet another lesser evil/race to the bottom. What needs to happen? Another war, based on a false premise, another Chris Hedges forced out? Another catastrophe comparable to COVID?
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  28671.  @Varun-vv9mi  FWIW, I think Trump wanted to build in Russia. He was looking to make money, as were his cronies. Russia was having a building boom, and he wanted a piece of it. I think this was all about money all along. If Trump had succeeded in flipping Venezuela, little Jared would have been sitting on the board of a really big energy company. Purely my opinion. (Counterfactual as well, since he didn't succeed in either aim.) Does not belong in a major paper. LOL
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  28672. Did you hear any evidence that the protests in Western cities were for terrorism or antisemitic? None was presented.
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  28673. I WISH I could forget. I am ruined.
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  28674.  @oigioioivn  How large is large?
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  28675. ​ @VeronicaSparks-oq5qo Love how you said that. Good luck!!
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  28676.  @60skidlostinspace  Who's doing the "meaning?"
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  28677.  @EnclaveAgent  First Amendment protected speech does not have consequences that any branch or level of government can impose on you -- well, in principle anyway. :/
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  28678.  @joefilter2923  I didn't even catch what that meant, it's so idiotic.
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  28679. The neo-Nazis have an outsized influence on Ukraine's government, politics, and especially the military. That is well documented. Look up some serious articles or talks from well before the invasion for an objective report. Stephen F. Cohen and Meersheimer, from different political viewpoints, come to mind, or Lev Golinkin in The Nation, who is very anti-Putin. We have trained neo-Nazis in Ukraine. That brings to mind . . . Osama bin Laden. You're just smearing Dore. That's a favorite grifter pastime how.
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  28680.  @jliv6536  So, you should go tattle on people? No, the joke was wrong, so Jimmy apologized for it, in writing (and as we all know, writing can be used against you one day). You tell the person in private, or leave an anonymous note for them. But if their whole business model at the time was imitating Howard Stern, that makes it awkward.
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  28681. Did you read her article? That's what the case is about. Whether the article is First Amendment-protected or whether Heard can be punished for it by having her assets seized and turned over to Depp. Briahna was too quick to look to societal ramifications, rather than the core issue: every defamation case is about speech or writing that is presumed to be First Amendment-protected, and the plaintiff is trying to prove it should not be. He is trying to silence someone else rather than telling his own story. I thought Americans believed "the remedy for bad speech is more speech." I also thought Americans were opposed to show trials. Ha.
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  28682.  @graywalkerjoin3rdparty74  You think that being held liable and having your assets seized is not a punishment? Yes it is. It is a civil penalty. Second, Depp has the means to obtain the BEST legal counsel in the world, but somehow subjected himself to the British court system, and his lawyers were unable to warn him about what you just informed us of. How did that happen? If he lost work AFTER losing a defamation suit, by what rights do you imagine he is entitled to compensation? He subjected himself to a foreign court system, lost, and as a result, had contracts cancelled. That's not a result of the article, it is a result of a court case. By the way, this case is not about persons, it is about a writing. Have you read the article alleged to have been defamatory? Just curious. The deeper issue here is that we are turning into little mobs at the drop of a hat. I saw through MeToo. I knew it had rapidly deteriorated into a mob. It hurt men without protecting women. Depp v. Heard is doing the opposite, and it has unleashed a more ferocious mob. Will things get worse before they get better? I don't want to contemplate that. At some level I cannot understand, I really cannot.
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  28683.  @graywalkerjoin3rdparty74  What is your source that UK courts apply the Duluth Model? This is not a legal standard anywhere, not even in the US, where it originated. It is a program for intervention and rehabilitation of proven domestic abusers, and it is biased in that it was designed to reeducate men who abuse women. It has no bearing on defamation at all. Did Heard call an expert witness who uses it? Then Depp could have easily countered with his own expert. I think this is just a talking point you picked up.
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  28684.  @graywalkerjoin3rdparty74  If he lost work only after losing a prior defamation suit, then he cannot pin it on Amber. The proximate cause is losing the lawsuit. BTW, did you ever read the allegedly defamatory article? Just curious.
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  28685.  @graywalkerjoin3rdparty74  Not the point. Whether the article is defamation or protected speech is the sole issue in a defamation case. Not whether the person who signed it is generally a louse.
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  28686.  @graywalkerjoin3rdparty74  I commend your opposition to Duluth Model, and I mean that sincerely. We need more passion for rights, and that means everyone's. We are losing them.
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  28687. Actually, the initial incident, locking a kid out of the school for more than a minute or two, is pretty serious. But I cannot grasp the overreaction. Why in that year didn't anyone suggest that Jill get serious therapy? A normal person would at most find a new school. I thought therapy was something people did in California. Well, maybe adulterers tend to avoid it.
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  28688.  @mobus1603  This has nothing to do with politics or language. Something actually happened. That's lost on you? I don't know, I grew up in a rough big city, so losing track of a kid for that long would have been a big deal.
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  28689.  @peopleskarmasquad1042  In my neighborhood, more than two minutes would be cause for investigation for sure. I guess you grew up where it's safer. Good for you.
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  28690.  @mobus1603  Well, this is hardly an example of being "offended by everything." This would offend any parent, but a normal parent would never think to do anything more drastic than write letters and look for a new school. This isn't MAGA hats or pronouns, this is real.
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  28691.  @peopleskarmasquad1042  You're an example of how people's minds can be twisted by anything. At least hold out for better advertising. Make them work for it.
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  28692.  @peterstafford4426  Of course RussiaGate is real. It sent MSM ad revenues THROUGH THE ROOF.
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  28693. The "philanthropist" who tried to push Paul Allen out of Microsoft the minute he found out Allen was diagnosed with cancer. That's the "philanthropist" you trust with your health?
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  28694. Her point was proportionality speaking, not that anyone should face heavy charges for unarmed demonstration.
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  28695. Who would have chosen Epictitus? He was a slave.
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  28696. Horrible cartoon about a serious subject, to the point where it's hard to pay attention, even for this short video.
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  28697. We are supposed to believe there are no neo-Nazis. O-kay.
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  28698. @lesaamoore  I agree. I don't think Brie said that. The lawsuit is up on the Reason magazine website, in free pdf. It's really hard-hitting. Bettinger is a very sympathetic plaintiff.
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  28699. Only the extreme speed is a surprise. Raises the question why. They could have waited until February to censor, no? What was the reason?
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  28700. Explain how genocide is a proportionate response.
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  28701.  @kennethgambill4751  There are so many counterfactual claims here that I'd have to go sentence by sentence, and it's tedious. You can't justify war crimes, no matter what. And if you could, then all you would ever need to justify them is a false flag to commit terrorist acts, and you'd have an excuse to commit genocide against anyone alleged to be affiliated. We erased the Nazis? We escorted them to the Americas. Operation Paper Clip, the rat line, etc., etc., and most of their collaborators did not take long to be rehabilitated without even admitting their role.
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  28702. I'm so sorry.
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  28703. Too soon to tell. AstraZeneca turned out to be very dangerous.
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  28704. He had no criminal record apart from traffic violations.
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  28705.  @Hank-ch5qr  We will find out . . . A sealed juvenile record from a decade ago? Possibly? The man was 25 years old, seven years of adulthood, no record.
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  28706.  @Hank-ch5qr  you joined two weeks ago?
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  28707.  @chasca23  Well, but what if you die three whole months later? Riddle me that.
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  28708.  @ryanelliott6706  America has no left that would be recognizable as such in any other developed country. It has a very strange and extreme neoliberal, left-libertarian group pushing odd obsessions and paraphilias, from browbeating minors to get COVID vaccines (illegal to mandate that in France, and the law prohibiting such browbeating was passed by the left, naturally), to pushing a bizarre trans agenda that most LGBTQ people have no truck with. And for all of it -- follow the money. What else? That's neolib ultra-capitalism.
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  28709.  @Clay8668  What do you mean by "majority rules?" If most people think you are disgusting, are you therefore disgusting? If they think you are wonderful, does that make you wonderful? That's not how majorities work. I still remember when Bill Gates was worshiped . . . No one cared that he tried to fire Paul Allen the second he found out about Allen's cancer diagnosis.
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  28710. The Mummy?
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  28711. That's called free speech. It's not illegal yet. Are their opinions making you feel unsafe? People who are ready to throw out the Constitution for comfort make us all unsafe.
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  28712. He needs to resign pronto.
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  28713. Melenchon gave a good speech, not translated unfortunately.
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  28714. Industry funding of the regulatory agencies seems to correlate somewhat with the degree of restriction imposed on the citizens during the pandemic.
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  28715. Read Jose Saramago, The Cave. That is the punchline.
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  28716. ​ @erwan6227  merci bien, je craque
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  28717. Over 1/5 of people don't, and it's hardly a choice in all cases.
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  28718.  @michaelneufeld4515  Exactly.
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  28719.  @JD-gk7eh  Oh, all right. Most of that (not quite all) has been idiotic. Not generating a compelling counter-discourse is also lazy. The fundamental principle is that you meet speech you find odious with more speech, not censorship. So you write up and produce leaflets, you hold alternative teach-ins, or you even question the administration about how student activity fees are allocated, to make sure your group gets its share. You start your own YouTube channel or podcast. But all of those take WORK.
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  28720.  @myrhev  Trust me, I AGREE!
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  28721.  @varsityathlete9927  Well, that's true, but . . . Discussing some sort of parental alert, comparable to the system for rating films, and having a small label on various media (music, video games) does not strike me as a prioir censorship. It can devolve into that, true. But if done correctly, it can also just be information. Look what happened in film: the R rating broadened far beyond what anyone would have predicted. No movie that is not totally porn is ever rated X. I agree with that, by the way. But back in 1950, did anyone think Midnight Cowboy and Boogie Nights would be R? Good that they aren't X, but . . . It's kind of funny.
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  28722. @awoo Let's say the first part of your comment is right -- up until the "grifter" slur. WHO ELSE in the public eye talked about this de facto bankruptcy FRAUD? Who is bringing it up? This is legalized fraud -- even worse. The laws themselves are fraudulent. It is long past time to make these schemes known. Anyone complicit is a fraud, political party nonwithstanding, and they are all playing with fire.
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  28723. His point in this video is that in Denmark, we cannot ascribe the presence of mRNA in the blood after 28 days due to faulty injection technique, because they do not use faulty injection technique. Hence this finding is exceptionally important. It's an a fortiori argument; wherever they do not aspirate, the risk can only be higher, not lower. :/
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  28724.  @evad7933  Granted, I don't know that, but it's quite possible. Did any adult in the US get injected in the buttocks? Or into a vein on top of their hand or their inner arm? All right, those are extreme deviations, whereas correct injection technique at the correct injection site is more subtle. So, you could be right. I did, however, characterize the argument properly.
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  28725. "Neo-Marxist??" So they did get you to take your eye off the ball . . . These are Clinton-Blair-Gates-Schwab neoliberal globalists, with massive contempt for anyone worth under $100 million. That's the minimum needed to join their cabal.
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  28726.  @bunangst8415  Source? The lobster guy? 😂😂😂🤪
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  28727.  @bunangst8415  Sorry, I don't get my primary political information in English anymore. I learned that in the early 1980s.
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  28728.  @bunangst8415  ??? Blocked
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  28729.  @vmj361  These people don't read.
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  28730. @bunangst8415  You're the one wedded to sheer nonsense.
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  28731. Seriously? Kyle decided to post a video about it, and say false and misleading things. Dore and Mate thought this episode was over. I still don't know why Kyle did that. He did not have to.
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  28732. So, $33 billion in weapons to Ukraine, where they will destroyed, or fall into Azov Battalion hands, and in any case be used to kill. But Brittany Griner is still being held.
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  28733. The only way for the 0.1% to rake in billions for their "services" is to fleece those who actually work to create that wealth.
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  28734. Yes, this is a problem.
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  28735. @deathmetaldouglas69  That was Hillary Clinton's famous line, alluding to the Central Park Five.
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  28736. @MegynKelly  Megan Markle, Candace Owens, Brittany Pietsch, and now this Emily person, and this one is handicapped. What is your job, exactly? I think I see a pattern.
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  28737. @MegynKelly  And why should we listen to someone who says he was "tricked" into consenting to puberty blockers for his son? He will be deciding public policy for all of us. Does that sound like a plan to you? This Emily person has a relatively innocuous job and is paying her own bills so that we don't have to. People with her medical history get on disability all the time.
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  28738.  @deathmetaldouglas69  Hillary Clinton said that, not Matt Walsh. 😂😂😂
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  28739. And that's legal.
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  28740.  @maximr6576  Are you referring to the satellite images that purport show the bodies in the street first observed on the ground in early April were there since March 19? You do understand about decomposition? That is literally impossible. Why are they feeding us more impossible biology? There is also some circumstantial evidence that those executed were pro-Russian Ukrainians. The reality is, we don't know.
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  28741.  @maximr6576  I don't know why I should trust obvious liars. I.e., the West and its media is no more reliable than Putin, and it shut down RT for absolutely no reason. On the other hand, TeleSUR is operating, and it does in fact broadcast Russian propaganda segments quite regularly. But Venezuela. Oil.
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  28742.  @maximr6576  Impossible. Inform yourself.
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  28743.  @maximr6576  Look up the OPCW scandal. How naive can you be? Only the major non-Western nations (China, India) calling for a serious investigation are treating this event with the gravitas it deserves, instead of jumping on anyone's propaganda wagon. You can find the (entirely circumstantial) evidence that these were Russian collaborators on any alternative media such as Aaron Mate, who broke the OPCW scandal and testified before the UN. The truth is, we don't know. That Putin is primarily responsible for escalating the Ukraine conflict, and hence bears some responsibility for anything and everything that happens after, is a respectable position. Believing that Russia is directly to blame for these war crimes is being a dupe. (By the way, did any MSM directly address the issue of decomposition and definitively put it to rest? NO. Biology has been suspended, dontcha know?)
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  28744.  @maximr6576  What satellite images did they fake? A joke, right? WMDS IN IRAQ. And you do know tech can do more today than ever before? No wonder. That's all I can say. Mattias Desmet is right.
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  28745.  @maximr6576  Look up the temperatures yourself during that time period. They were far above the consistent 34 to 37 degrees necessary to delay decomposition. I found quite a few 50+ degree F daytime temperatures, and several days when it rained. Could that be wrong? I guess it's possible that world weather info is faking the information, or is simply mistaken. The real point is, neither you nor anyone else (nor any other victim of mass formation?) thought to ask. Remember the long tube "cannister" pictures from Iraq, presented to the UN, which, as it turns out, weren't evidence of WMDs? I don't care whether I convince you. You need to have a talk with you, before you start believing ten impossible things before breakfast every day.
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  28746.  @maximr6576  Speaking of news I will bet you have not heard, there were massive demonstrations in Pakistan in opposition to the removal of their PM, who was no peach but who was seen as a decidedly lesser evil. Most Pakistani people think the US had a hand in it.
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  28747.  @maximr6576  Look up the temperatures. I found them in three places -- which I am astute enough to know isn't proof. But if what I read is true, Ukraine had a veritable heat wave at the end of March, with high temperatures reaching 60 on one or two days.
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  28748.  @maximr6576  Yes I did. Well above average, on two websites concerning international weather records, and one video making the claim. The websites were unrelated to war or politics. They just gave the weather.
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  28749.  @maximr6576  Links are shadowed. Time and date is the name of one of the websites. It has a drop-down menu allowing you to check past weather.
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  28750.  @maximr6576  That website had reported 50 and 60 degree days in Kyiv during that time. Here's who you need to consult: Mattias Desmet
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  28751.  @maximr6576  What happens if you leave steak out in 50 and 60 degree weather for two weeks? (Not that I eat meat.)
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  28752.  @maximr6576 Biology suspended. I know. Mattias Desmet is your man. Only, I disagree with him vehemently on one thing: asking those of us who still have our wits about us to "use our voices" is asking too much. I'm not getting paid here. You're echoing the crowd, and that brings some satisfaction. I'm just having to witness another sign of a society in serious decline. That's a drag for anyone who isn't perverse.
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  28753. She says the real issue is the coordination between the spy agencies and the mass media, and the pressure placed by the FBI, etc., on the media. They can express any opinion they want, just like anyone else, but their opinion should not result in suppression of important news. Good analysis. Do you see why "their letter was a deliberate lie" could pose problems? Telling the truth or spouting lies, how could they be permitted censor the press and social media regardless? They have one opinion alongside everyone else's. That should be all they get to have.
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  28754. ​ @mackthnife3 Yeah, and so?
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  28755. They're trying to hurt your feelings, LOL.
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  28756. ​ @jeepstergal12  And his malpractice insurance should pay her the max.
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  28757. Everything they said was right. They raised all the right questions.
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  28758.  @kosmosXcannon  Well, but I didn't vote for him. That's the answer to that. It's not about the FBI stepping in to decide. That is not their role. Nor can Biden interfere in any investigation involving his son -- or at least not legally. The pardon power does not include the power to cover up the misdeeds.
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  28759.  @jpoeng  Pardons excuse misdeeds, and essentially erase their consequences. Or at least in principle -- though Nixon was an exception, and possibly Gen. Floyd. So, no, insanity is not part of my picture. Why did you bring it up?
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  28760. ​ @kripaharris237 HOW IRONIC
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  28761. 😂😂😂
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  28762. Too bad the greatest thinker on the subject, ERIC SADIN, writes in French.
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  28763. Vaccine? We just had a report in our state that we can't expect vaccines to make a difference until this time NEXT year.
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  28764. I think the neo-Nazis are calling the shots. I believe the reports that Azov Battalion dominate the militias and have gone so far as to threaten Zelensky's life if he attempts to negotiate anything without their approval. Our role will come to light one day.
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  28765. But do you see the problem with suing? "Opinion" is never libel. The scope and limits of what constitutes "opinion" has changed. That's the landscape Greenwald just described.
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  28766. P. S. I wish Aaron had sued, though. My sympathies are with you.
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  28767.  @colinfffff  I know, but Glenn just reported on these sorts of cases, with Maddow and Carlson, and mentioned Maddow here. The argument that no reasonable viewer would take such commentary seriously, and would know opinion was being expressed in an exaggerated way to generate interest in the program, was enough to defeat the defamation charge. Bizarre but true.
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  28768.  @colinfffff  OH WELL. :/
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  28769.  @vicki6624  And the jury can and should take that into account. OTOH, Depp's expert was obviously incompetent and diagnosed Heard with two new disorders on flimsy grounds that are nowhere mentioned before by any other psychologist or psychiatrist. Do you believe her?
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  28770.  @vicki6624  My point is they are forced to make assumptions based on clinical evaluations of one person, and have extensively researched how to do that to the greatest extent possible. Also, Depp had no obligation to agree to being examined, none. I would never blame him, or anyone, for declining.
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  28771. It is a shame that a woman who has to protect her identity and privacy due to fear has to go through this to prove her innocence. If she gets traumatized, beaten, or killed, then she won't need her degree, huh?
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  28772. You mean like arrest them? Doubt it. The private prisons can't drain profit from most of 'em. /s
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  28773. By the way, those two did not vote against McCarthy. The principled Nancy Mace did.
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  28774.  @Dolphinsz  Good for you, hon! You WILL be fine.
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  28775. Euro Left is uniformly against vaccine mandates and passports. The French Communist Party denounces them. The CGT organized a demonstration of vaccinated health care workers in support of their unvaccinated colleagues and against mandates and passports. A mostly neolib news source (L'Obs) reported on it favorably.
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  28776. I admit I thought I was ready for anything from Maddow. This I did not expect.
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  28777.  @robbsclassics  THIS. If you do careful research, and especially into what countries with better childhood health are doing, you will see that some vaccines are proven to be beneficial. The thing to look for is whether the child has lower all-cause mortality after the vaccine. THAT is what a childhood vaccine ought to do. Those are the good ones.
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  28778.  @j.a.c.3776  I respect RFK, and what he has done takes huge courage in the current environment, but keep in mind that Kennedy is an outstanding tort lawyer. He will therefore make a case with the evidence for his side, and not give the other side. If you know that, then yes, do read him, and check his footnotes, too. But he will not give you the whole picture. That takes much more digging. I believe there are good vaccines. I believe there are better schedules than the one forced on our babies.
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  28779.  @robbsclassics  Hon. I just agreed with you. "THIS" means 100%. I just agreed with you. Not everyone has your source of information. We post for others as well.
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  28780.  @moosehead1183  No, actually, it's not the whole picture, but it is an important part of the picture. Of course RFK has been effectively challenged, because some of what he says is not factual but a matter of judgment. Should you give an infant all of the recommended vaccines at the earliest recommended age, versus giving them the measles vaccine the summer before kindergarten?
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  28781.  @AnaLucia-wy2ii  I have no special knowledge about it. *If* being spared chicken pox can prevent shingles later it life, without another vaccine, then it seems like a good idea. At least it has been around a long time, so there should be decent information about it. I'm sorry I can't be more helpful.
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  28782.  @AnaLucia-wy2ii  I wish that these idiots had not done what they did with the COVID vaccines! A vaccine, like any drug, is strictly case by case. There are some that are great, and we know that because we've used them for generations -- and that is the only way to be absolutely sure. Too bad they have the same label, "vaccine," as this stuff! The basic principle is that the ones that result in lower overall mortality from all infectious diseases, because they've managed to stimulate the developing immune system in just the right way (which usually means they've imitated nature very well), are the best ones. There are vaccines that do that. It's not asking too much! They are supposed to. :) Plus, there is NO drug that is right for every person. None. Humility is essential, instead of having "authorities" pushing people around.
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  28783. When we add it all up, Trump did a dreadful job during COVID. His narcissism and abject laziness were what defeated him. Joe didn't.
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  28784. False. Vaccines have been withdrawn at lower levels of serious side effects, once it was known the vaccine did, in fact, cause them.
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  28785. How is this "against white people?"
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  28786.  @harnessriscallous7466  Unbelievable. Okay. I forget how people Worship at the Altar of the High Tech Billionaire. If AI shows Napoleon as black, the kids will soon think he was black. Or at least they will learn that if they make Napoleon (or George Washington or Leonardo DaVinci) black, they will get money for it. 💰 💰 Yes, I see how this is wrong.
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  28787. Innocent of what? If he abused her, the article she wrote is not defamation, it is free speech. Why isn't he exercising his own First Amendment rights and writing his own article? He is suing instead, to punish her for her speech. Defamation cases aren't about who was worse. Even bad people have free speech. By the way, Depp already sued and lost a better defamation case in UK, and lost a movie deal after that.
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  28788.  @emiliag7858  He lost a deal after he lost his first defamation case against The Sun in the UK -- a much better case.
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  28789.  @emiliag7858  I saw through Russiagate and MeToo. Why don't you see through this? I know mobs when I see them. The frequency with which new ones are cropping up is disturbing. They cannot be predicted.
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  28790. Please keep playing the Lawrence O'Donnell clip. Once or twice will not get the message across.
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  28791. ​ @johnmorales7057  Why Acosta?
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  28792. I don't like Biden, but this editorial was not right. Not even for the present (sub)culture, not even for this president. Is anyone ever serious?
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  28793. "If the murder of black youths by authority figures and the system generally can be ended or attenuated in the here and now by shaming the dominant group, it is not an unworthy goal, although far from adequate." There is no legitimate way to argue against this. The fact is, the premise that "the murder of black youths by authority figures and the system generally can be ended or attenuated in the here and now by shaming the dominant group" never happens. Seems to be going the opposite way, as one would expect.
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  28794. Re: the bullying There are only three questions --- Do you have a supportive husband who loves you? Are your kids all right? Do you have enough money? If all three are "yes," and you're sure, then you need therapy to put this in perspective, and an outstanding lawyer to go after these flying monkeys, both.
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  28795.  @vainezaiven6677  Full agreement. Please reread what I wrote. The full discussion was supposed to happen first.
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  28796. ​ @penultimania4295 So . . . You have to use Cyrillic to be Eastern European? GOOD TO KNOW. /s
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  28797. ​ @mattluszczak8095 Why? Is Eastern a slur now?
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  28798. OH GREAT. China and Bill Gates are scooping up American farmland. Sounds like a bad movie.
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  28799. ​ @fireteamomega2343 If it's images of illegal acts, why not report? You can then quit.
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  28800.  @zakglove6536  You never saw them! Well, that settles it. Case dismissed.
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  28801. YES THERE IS
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  28802. Astounding, isn't it?
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  28803. Lord, what America has done to you . . . my GOD.
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  28804. He had six bankruptcies.
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  28805. Well that does it. Buttigieg will be the next Democrat nominated for President for sure.
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  28806.  @emersonmanning6523  How did you find this? I have been following his parents' case, brought by Petito's family, and have read court documents from that case, and never heard a whisper about it. I would be very interested in reading it. This is the information that needs to be shared with young adults.
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  28807. Well then you clearly never bothered to learn a single thing about our most important right.
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  28808.  @Dani68ABminus  Gee, you are welcome. ;)
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  28809. They used to. Charlie Hebo did all the time.
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  28810. They know what not yet fully approved means. Once it is, we will all have compensation for any injuries under the 1986 law. That will tip the balance for the vast majority of rational people.
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  28811. The two on the right are smearing her, misrepresenting her views, and saying her brain is broken. She didn't engage in similar ad hominem. I would swear at them and leave.
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  28812. Consider: a group of men break down your door in the middle of the night without announcing their office, and you cannot see them or their uniforms. But if you attempt to defend yourself in your own home, they have the authority to kill you. Does that sound right to you?
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  28813. Check out Robert Whitaker 's book, Anatomy of an Epidemic -- about the explosion on mental illness diagnoses and the risky drugs used to treat them. The playbook is described there, and it works every time. He is an investigative journalist who has specialized in this area. He just had an article published in the BMJ describing a new antipsychotic drug for elderly people with cognitive impairment that didn't address their issue but did increase the risk of death.
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  28814. People think Biden will run again?
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  28815. ​ @angelabrooke5059 Nah. Just the States.
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  28816. Zelensky banned all opposition parties to the left of him. There are credible reports that Azov Battalion-dominated militias are threatening Zelensky if he negotiates without their approval. I don't believe these were "free choices" on Zelensky's part. Yes, neo-Nazis. Look up reports from well BEFORE this war. Golinkin, Mearsheimer, Stephen F. Cohen. Anne Laure Bonnel in France, and her documentaries. That's how you get unbiased information. Golinkin is profoundly anti-Putin, by the way. No equivocation on his part.
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  28817.  @ladylestranj  True. It is reasonable to assume they must have asked questions, but not that they got straight answers. But even if they "knew," that is not a crime.
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  28818.  @kbrock1145  We know those people are insane.
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  28819. ​@v2ike6udik Funny how that is, huh?
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  28820. @stevetice  Oh, so this guy is British, too. Sort-of like Jussie Smollett being French.
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  28821.  @ronalbertoroccosan4418  Something that was done 4 years ago for many elderly, during the pandemic.
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  28822. You don't know what AP is, then.
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  28823.  @krillin876  Examples of AP subjects: AP Comparative Government and Politics AP European History AP Human Geography AP Macroeconomics AP Microeconomics AP Psychology AP United States Government and Politics AP United States History AP World History: Modern AP Art History AP Music Theory AP Latin yeah oh well . . . but if someone won by 30 percentage points . . . I guess they don't have to work as hard at their job . . .
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  28824. Like letting Fauci run the country in 2020?
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  28825. The investment bankers' bonuses were not clawed back in 2008-2009. Tony Hayward's very recent sale of stock was allowed to stand when BP blew up the well in our Gulf. Where have you been? By the way, I looked up the case. According to the Memorandum Opinion, several of her breach of contract claims against Harvard were not dismissed. The opinion is dated Sept. 11, 2024. She has until mid-October to file an amended complaint, against Harvard alone. So, this video is misleading as well. When nonlawyers tell you about a case, look up the case.
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  28826. Let's at least see about discussing vegetarianism calmly, and ending the use of real fur, when fake fur is great now. Develop better leather-free shoes and boots. Those still need upgrades.
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  28827. That's like saying the solution to malpractice deaths is to close hospitals.
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  28828. "Everything is my fault?" You are a passenger in a car with a responsible driver on a sunny day, and a drunk driver broadsides you and takes off. It is not your fault. You can survive, and you can rehab and recover -- even if it isn't your fault at all, and you know it. What? You should have done something else? You and your friend didn't have a right to be on the road? Why not, you guys were sober! There is nothing more useful to the world's Bad Actors than misplaced self-blame. Just cut it out.
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  28829. All true. It is hard to admit it, on the part of those of us who did NOT become part of the hysteria, much less those who did. I thought people were a little stronger than that.
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  28830. You think he's smart? He's not even neurologically normal.
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  28831. ​@valcaronNot on this topic.
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  28832.  @rmpj13  LOL
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  28833.  @dom_diggity.1488  OP will get more up votes anyway. And people wonder why everything is on a downward trajectory.
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  28834. ​ @lazydaisy2292 You are wonderful. 🥀🥀🥀
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  28835. 1. No, unless you are thinking of a disease vector that reproduces so rapidly and massively that it kills the host. 2. No (but see 1). 3. It contains the seeds of its own destruction. More to the point, don't confuse metaphor with science. Your questions are actually far too vague.
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  28836.  Fugeeface Entropy  I don't mean that if someone is obsessing over Facebook, then they are right wing, or tend toward that view. I mean the people who I know, in the real world and independently of any social media presence, to be right wing, are all on Facebook incessantly. I was suspicious from Day 1, never joined. My way of life has slipped away to such an extent that my family in the US died out and I have to emigrate. I'm not complaining. I might as well say, "I get to emigrate," instead of saying I have to. AOC is not "left wing." AOC and Trump are just two varieties of comic-book media freak. The Hulk needs a nemesis for the story to play. That's all. One day the dollar will not be the global reserve currency. Perhaps not in our lifetime, perhaps in 20 years, or 50 years. Or twelve. Then you'll see what mass suffering is.
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  28837. This tiny excerpt was what was misleading. What was its purpose, now that you mention it?
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  28838. LOL, that was good.
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  28839. Ha ha. Check the numbers. Seems MR still needs to talk about other channels to get any views.
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  28840.  @MClaudiusMarcellus  The ISSUE is mandates, not the vaccines themselves. PCF is against mandates and passports, for crying out loud. No Scandinavian country has them. Why is that? Why indeed.
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  28841.  @dcaseng  The Harris Biden Pelosi comments on the "Trump vaccines" were obnoxious, and I myself don't trust anything that had anything to do with Trump. But those three didn't think ahead at all when they cast doubt on the vaccines, purely for their own partisan political reasons.
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  28842. I have an idea. Don't go to war with them. They don't have insane barkers ripping their fellow citizens for money like this guy does. You can't beat them.
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  28843. What do you think preposterous conspiracy theories about pedophilia do to stop actual pedophilia?
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  28844.  @dpierce379  Speaks volumes. And if Biden starts a war, we may have to backtrack on that -- though there is little reason to suppose any president wouldn't start wars if confronted with the same conditions.
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  28845. Suresh crammed your program rather than studying for his academic exams.
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  28846. @cnice7903  By joyriding, they are having (what they consider) fun that they couldn't otherwise have. I agree it's not worth it, but it's not the crime of the century.
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  28847. Hard to believe -- they are good, but not that good.
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  28848. I think this is an absolutely disgraceful hit piece. This post is an embarrassment. RFK Jr is his mother's first cousin, hence the relationship is similar to uncle and nephew. He could present his reasons for opposing RFK Jr without sounding worse than Trump.
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  28849.  @alesh2275  First of all, Harvard is private, so it does not have to abide by the Equal Protection clause. In fact, the First Amendment freedom of association gives it a lot of leeway in how it determines admissions. What Harvard cannot do is accept federal funds and use impermissible racial criteria to determine any applicant's admission. Up until now, there was a line of Supreme Court cases that allowed limited use of race in addition to other factors, for the purpose of building a diverse class (private schools all do this, starting with private kindergartens). Waxman was arguing that Harvard meets these criteria. The other side wants the whole line of precedent that permits using race in college admissions to be overturned -- or to force Harvard to stop accepting federal funds, and admit whoever it wants on its own dime.
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  28850.  @alesh2275  Seth Waxman was Solicitor General. These guys all know each other since forever.
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  28851. How do you do physics labs online? How do you do practicum online?
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  28852. "Profound moral failing" not to claim to know what you DO NOT know? 😂😂😂😂😂
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  28853. What do you think HE did??
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  28854.  @mrrreddy8067  Oh that's right. We had monthly emergency UBI when the economy was shut down! Gosh. I forgot.
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  28855.  @mrrreddy8067  I never voted for any of the above, in any year.
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  28856.  @mrrreddy8067  If I expected no better, I can't be let down. In fact, I didn't even vote for any of them, much less become emotionally invested in these people.
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  28857.  @mrrreddy8067  I'm with whom? Who would that be? I care far less than you seem to think. My real name sounds Russian (mother part French) and by 2025, I want to live where that is not "problematic." Ta ta.
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  28858.  @mrrreddy8067  Americans all think they're the center of the universe. Everyone on earth is mesmerized by your latest buffoon, and "loves" him or "hates" him. Tell me, how does a person (meaning, you) get so weird?
    1
  28859.  @mrrreddy8067  Then you stop it first. Simple. In most of the world, America included this time, you don't tell other people to do something that you yourself refuse to do.
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  28860.  @mrrreddy8067  Huh? Who cares? And what "demands?" I'm not sticking around. I can go where so-called progressive demands are called a normal life.
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  28861. Will the president of Princeton now be removed? Keep us updated.
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  28862. What an angel!! 😢😊
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  28863. We should suspend the Bill of Rights. We should vote on Facebook. Elon Musk will save us. Bill Gates is a doctor. Storm Brian Laundrie's house and make his parents talk. Fauci is Science. Hunter is hot, you're jealous. War is Peace. Seize $50m from Amber, hand it over to Johnny. Put Novak Djokovic in a camp. Homeland Security!!! Putin did it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  28864.  @wendymcclanahan8719  You can find a character in the Brothers Karamazov making fun of the common trope in wars that the enemy tore apart pregnant mothers. Came out around 1880.
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  28865.  @donnybrooks71  Look up how Musk makes his money first.
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  28866. @donnybrooks71  I was not expecting to be confirmed in my suspicions so spectacularly.
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  28867. The excess deaths figure cannot be ascribed to the virus alone, given the harm Western governments have done. I'm not familiar with what restrictions have done to the UK population, but in the US we have had record opioid deaths and other "deaths of despair" during this pandemic.
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  28868. Jimmy, Jimmy, SMH. They are keeping their powder dry.
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  28869.  @captinbeyond  🤣
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  28870. No "bombshell" for anyone who pays attention. What baffles me is how one group understands that January 6th did have some undercover provocateurs, and another group understands that so-called antifa also had some undercover provocateurs, but somehow the two groups never compare notes.
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  28871. Another home run for Jimmy.
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  28872.  @gamehengeful  Scary, but true. I wish Trump had zero influence, on anyone. Alas, he pulls the strings, still.
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  28873. Israel is determined to have this war. "La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu" Si, elle aura lieu. . .
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  28874. GREAT SHOW, KATIE!!!
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  28875. It takes additional explanation to understand that if certain people's lives are devalued, they are devalued by everyone, even by their "own" group? Like, it isn't the case that lower income people devalue other lower income people, and fawn over celebrities and the rich? You know they do. It isn't the case that women sabotage other women's careers? Wow, we really have to go through some mental gymnastics to deny racism. I wonder why that is?
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  28876. No. Abby is left, Kim is as well, to a degree. These are sick neolibs we're talking about, a breed apart.
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  28877. All right, let's all give it up for Briahna.
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  28878. Money money money MONEY Apparently no one has enough . . . love.
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  28879. I gave some thought to the little girl taught to say "my body, my choice." This is a complex society. She might be a harder target than others when it comes to assault.
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  28880. Trump is thinking of real estate interests. He wants to see rents and mortgages paid. Of course he wants bigger checks.
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  28881.  @rudyrubio2475  OH! You already KNOW all the facts, before they've even been tested in court! But I can tell from your answer that you haven't found those key pleadings, have you? Crazy how that's obvious.
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  28882.  @rudyrubio2475  If you did listen to all the testimony, other police officers stated under oath what alternatives should have been used. What violent act was Floyd suspected of in this instance? Passing a fake $20 bill, perhaps unknowingly, but let's assume (without evidence) deliberately, is not a violent act.
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  28883.  @rudyrubio2475  Well, I already know I'll be emigrating by 2025. Thanks for giving me more reasons. I never mind hearing those.
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  28884.  @rudyrubio2475  WAIT! You know stuff. Like, what's gonna happen and everything. Got any stock tips?
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  28885.  @rudyrubio2475  I'm waiting for the stock tips. From a guy who can foretell the future. Hey, I want what you want. $$
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  28886.  @rudyrubio2475  It's exactly the opposite. You are arguing pure feelings. Floyd's criminal past is entirely irrelevant in THIS matter. It is not only the pure, "valuable" people who are protected against homicide by police, but literally everyone. You feel Floyd was not valuable. You feel sworn testimony by other police was not truthful and lacked integrity. You have zero facts to back any of that up. Just your feelings. Actually, "at the end of the day," unknowingly passing a $20 bill is not "stealing." That's not a fact, that's your "end of the day" feeling. Where do you get the idea that it is someone else and not you who is operating from feelings?
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  28887. I wish I had four baby mamas and could live with Daddy Donald. It's not fair.
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  28888. People have been outraged at the DNC since at least 2016. That's the slow crowd.
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  28889. I gave some thought to the little girl taught to say "my body, my choice." This is a complex society. She might be a harder target than others when it comes to assault.
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  28890. AOC is giving a speech? I thought it was an ad for T shirts.
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  28891. Now that we know Bill Gates was a Friend of Jeffrey/Lolita Express Traveler, how can we withdraw from using the things he's invested in?
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  28892. Naive? A provocateur, government agent, or a grand jury witness is more like it.
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  28893. Do Seth Rich's parents have a 66-year life expectancy?
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  28894. I know a conservative Republican who has those Suri-type devices in her home, gave DNA for a legacy test, got the COVID vaccine after contracting COVID. I don't get it.
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  28895. Just explain Alexander Acosta. That's all I ask.
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  28896. ​ @peetky8645  That part certainly appears true. That's not the whole story, though.
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  28897. It hasn't been that way at least since Napoleon in modern times. A gross underestimate, but striking enough to elicit agreement I hope.
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  28898. Dr. Abramson, who is pro-vaccine BUT is truly great on big pharma issues, just stated that ivermectin was working extremely well in Asia by comparison to the US. He thinks this is because a lot of people in other countries live with parasites, so that treating the parasites will give their immune system a boost. But even Dr. Abramson says we need more studies. He refuses to condemn the drug based on the evidence as it stands at the moment. Dr. Racaniello also supports more studies. He is mainstream as well. Two guys who will never be bought.
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  28899. That was the rule prior. See how George Annas argued against mandates during the anthrax scare, which was a terrorist act that came soon after 9/11.
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  28900. I hope that's not true!
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  28901. No. They did not vote for The Mummy. They voted against Donald Trump.
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  28902.  @plateoshrimp9685  It's my belief that the DNC will do exactly what the DNC always does, and thus lose the House and the Senate in 2022. Just like their moderates lost in this election. It's my belief that this assumption is already baked in. So, why are they proceeding this way? Ask Goldman Sachs et al. They set the agenda. Why? What's your belief? That there won't be suicides, foreclosures, and bankruptcies due to health care bills, on top of all the other debt?
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  28903.  @plateoshrimp9685  It's also my belief that whoever expands Medicare to cover everyone would be unstoppable. But it would also be necessary to work very hard to get the message out. It's far more work than any of them are used to doing, and for less money, too. It doesn't make sense to them to work like that, to benefit "ordinary" people.
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  28904.  @plateoshrimp9685  If it's not obvious to you why you need to push for real change now, not tokenism that might incrementally improve a few people's lives, until the next crash, pandemic, and environmental catastrophe, then I guess you're comfortable, naive, and lacking in imagination. We have been hearing about incremental improvements to American health care since the mid-1980s. Close to TWO generations. Try somethin' else, maybe? You're also assuming that what usually happens will happen this time, too. And that pushing for what SHOULD happen won't bring M4A any closer. Why would you assume that? We are not living through a true catastrophe? Okay then, back to the usual, but don't laugh at anyone who thinks COVID is a hoax. The DNC is acting like it is.
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  28905.  @plateoshrimp9685  https://youtu.be/IiQM9YI1ZYg Don't pretend it hasn't been analyzed.
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  28906.  @plateoshrimp9685  How do you argue with THIS? https://youtu.be/64A7A8QWDNc Please.
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  28907. None of you know anything about France. It's not a version of England or Germany.
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  28908. NFP has nothing whatsoever in common with any viable politician in the US. Their coalition includes actual communists. Nor are they into trans nonsense, wokism, etc. 10:10
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  28909. The major exponents of privatized public education are the advertising specialists who are able to pull off the story that the education is better, and that anyone who disagrees is a sorry loser whose kids will be left behind. The new private education schemes spend more time on crafting this story than they do on curriculum development.
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  28910.  @maitreya1906  Yes, and "suck it up," too!
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  28911. LOL. So many great comments here!
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  28912.  @thehiltongirl  I refuse to get involved. I don't care what anyone says. "If this, if that." What part of IT IS NONE OF MY BUSINESS is a bloody mystery?
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  28913.  @sandratruster3305  Not your business. Just ignore her then. Pfft.
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  28914.  @michelleackerson4524  There used to be rules. In fact, even in law, "intentional affliction of emotional distress" is rarely considered actionable, UNLESS the target is a young child, is with a young child, is literally unable to get away from the person engaging in it, or is pregnant. But if you tell me all rules are out the window, I'm not shocked.
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  28915.  @lorirose7126  Still don't see how any of this is your business. Escapes me completely. Why do you care? Novels are better.
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  28916.  @Funksinthehouse  No stranger can make something your business, no matter how hard they try. Turn the channel.
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  28917.  @cynthialawson6971  Most people I know don't care. By contrast, concerning Prince Andrew and Bill Gates, there may be debriefings in order, by some investigative services, in their respective countries. That's something real.
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  28918.  @curiouscanuck  Well, my father and my mother's only brother were WWII British Army veterans, and I singlehandedly took care of my father in his old age, at great personal sacrifice, for five years. So maybe you should reconsider what ugly things you said to me. I doubt you've done more than emote. Your ugly words sound like they're from someone with zero perspective on real life, and a rather bizarre fantasy life, to boot. I don't see reasonable posts, like "it was wrong to speak publicly about their family matters, especially now." (I think that's true. I would never have done it, or suggested anyone do it.) Instead, I see tit-fot-tat, extremely vicious and escalating personal attacks on them. How is that taking a stand? It's joining in by taking sides and doing the very same thing. This is a social media disease. Get well soon.
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  28919.  @sandratruster3305  Candace Owens is making money. That always counts. Why is she personally attacking a married, heavily pregnant woman? For money. There is no conservative principle or Christian principle that tells anyone to do that. Jesus said let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
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  28920.  @Funksinthehouse  I don't see reasonable posts, like "it was wrong to speak publicly about their intimate family matters, especially now." (I think that's true. I would never have done it, or suggested anyone do it.) Instead, I see tit-fot-tat, extremely vicious and escalating personal attacks on them, especially on Meghan. How is that taking a stand? It's joining in by taking sides and doing the very same thing, to her. This is a social media disease. What goes around often comes around, you know? At this rate, everyone will be bullied online.
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  28921.  @lorirose7126  Did you read what I responded to? Those weren't opinions. The person claimed to have a right to heap abuse, and wanted to stop me from expressing my opinions, which they seem to think I have no right to. Is "u r a f*****g w****" an opinion? Perhaps a day with an English stylistics manual might not be time wasted. Who said you didn't have a "right" to express any opinion? We weren't discussing the legalities, were we?
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  28922.  @lorirose7126  If she doesn't have a weak bone in her body, that's wonderful news. Thanks for your thoughts.
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  28923. ​ @chillie000  Why do you believe all of this? I reserve judgment.
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  28924. ​ @maika2449  It's so bad that they run to a major national publication with the story.
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  28925. @chillie000  Why would I believe them? Women who need to go public on a global stage, to deal with their romantic disappointments?
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  28926.  @chillie000  I see policing other people's private lives is very important to you. I don't believe them. They have no character (either?).
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  28927.  @maika2449  Oh really? I cannot imagine doing it. First of all, if someone did this to me, I'd want to put time and distance between us as fast as I could. Revenge is engagement. Hurting someone back is continuing to be involved. No thanks. Yuck.
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  28928.  @maika2449  Other women will marry a man who was in prison -- or is. Their isn't a single well-known inmate who didn't have admirers. This was not "for the greater good." 😂
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  28929. Check the University of Michigan rules for instructor/student romance. They are shocking. For example, an adjunct instructor at one U of M campus cannot date an undergrad from another. This extreme position does exist. How did we get here?
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  28930. A nation of gun owners, and even Robbie doesn't know that it is illegal to use deadly force in defense of property. Only if someone puts a person at risk of physical harm is it legal to use deadly force.
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  28931. Lethal fungus? Hallucinogenics? So the US was using chemical and biological weapons against a head of state.
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  28932. In any case, she kissed Harvey Weinstein on the ear. Hard. He had money and power then. To be fair. 😂
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  28933. GREAT VIDEO
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  28934. Irony. It's like MeToo. It matters when people like Mackey say it does. He has his finger on the pulse of the DNC elites.
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  28935. Whether people come out to vote will determine the outcome. Only apparatchiks and TDS people will vote for Kamala. Only people who are not overcome by Trump fatigue will vote for Trump. A lot will just stay home.
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  28936.  @Johnbg-e5l  I just wanted to make the distinction. I know you support choice. But very early pregnancy isn't a fetus, and the premise of a lot of abortion laws around the world is that you are within your full rights to use RU 486 to abort an embryo, but you must declare a reason to abort a fetus.
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  28937. By whom? In the US, the law of false light defamation involves a civil tort, and it probably hasn't kept up with this. You have to find a lawyer to sue. And someone to investigate who made it. The person responsible might not have enough money to make it worth filing a case against them. Tech bros strike again.
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  28938. The opinion and three dissents run well over 200 pages. Does anyone think Maddow read it? I accept just skimmed. Does anyone think she skimmed all 200+ pages?? This should tell you that they are pronouncing talking points purely for 💰. The question is, who is paying them?
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  28939. You can't beat South Side of Chicago, Jimmy! (Route 66 straight to LA, Stef is honorary South Side Chicago, too.)
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  28940. Why not? Isn't she saying what she is paid to say? And then they paid her, like they said they would. She's good with it.
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  28941. ​ @bakermartin8089 😅
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  28942. Enough Americans are still too rich, or want to be.
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  28943. He is very happily married.
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  28944. Bend over
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  28945. Because it never happened. And Gates doesn't deny it, he denies knowledge or consent to the questions. Okay, Hon.
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  28946. @galaxylucia1898  Okay, I'll help. Not having to worry about hospital bills is reasonable in many countries, but is wildly unrealistic here, where such bills can easily be ruinous. See?
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  28947. @jakestephens3751  YOU ARE VERY YOUNG. Most important: do not let anyone tell you otherwise. At age 40, you have nearly three decades of work ahead, and possibly longer -- plenty for any career.
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  28948.  @DAndyLord  I think you both make good points.
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  28949. Give everyone the equivalent of minimum wage, full time, every month, for the length of the emergency. That's not much.
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  28950. Amen
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  28951. ​@The Monkey Should Mein Kampf have been burned, or studied in order to sound the alarm? We need to think harder about how the monsters come to power. We need to know more, not less. Notice the two positions that have become the loudest: "she's not a fascist, what makes her a fascist?" and "she is a fascist, ban her." Wrong and wrong.
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  28952.  @utah_koidragon7117  I am multilingual, obviously. Nor did I accuse HER of BEING a fascist (so, you are challenged in one language? yeesh). Sorry for knowing something other than the currently preferred memes. My family were refugees in that war.
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  28953.  @utah_koidragon7117  I don't trust American media for any purpose. I don't listen exclusively to English-only media anyway, for any serious information. You are meme factories. That's where the money is. Clearly it isn't in knowing history.
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  28954.  @utah_koidragon7117  You stepped into it, lol.
    1
  28955.  @utah_koidragon7117  But you are far more right than I am. I should not be posting here. I should monetize this, not give it away.
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  28956.  @utah_koidragon7117  Show me where I made any such accusation. Show me an example of someone who fits the description you just gave, that has anything to do with me. OH THE IRONY. You just accused me of something I have no . . . . oh never mind. Blocked.
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  28957.  @utah_koidragon7117  Blocked, you're a time waster and bad faith actor . . . so someone should provide YOU with a free political science essay? 😅😅 If you wanted one, for school, I'd have more respect. That would make sense at least.
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  28958.  @utah_koidragon7117  Not at all. I said that there are objective reasons to watch her more closely, but certainly not to draw any conclusions. I actually mean what I say, and I don't engage in slogans like "plausible deniability." (I, unlike you, have no need to.) You claim you know she cannot possibly be a fascist, and has said nothing that could cause anyone to take a closer look? Have you or your parents ever lived in Europe, Italy in particular, but elsewhere where there were allies or collaborationists, with the Axis? Never mind, the answer is obvious. You are breathtakingly monolingual and monocultural, and beholden to parroting your local crowd. Too bad your country is so well-armed and run by nefarious elites.
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  28959.  @utah_koidragon7117  You know what else is genuinely, pathetically sad? You think I have some interest in Meloni being a fascist! As if I really care about your talking heads scoring a point in your insipid culture wars. Megalomania strikes again. I care about the Italian people. I think Meloni says quite a few things that are clearly true (a longer list that you hear from any American politician), and I HOPE she is good for ITALY. I fear she isn't. I hope she is. You think you're important? You think YouTube is? Wow. Only an American. No one else can do it like you do.
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  28960.  @kaushikbasu3778  Feel free to think that. It's not so horribly wrong -- especially if you call the new neoliberal globalists "left." I don't, but then the debate is about words, not things.
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  28961.  @kaushikbasu3778  Just came back from Europe. My intuition -- and it is no more than that -- is that Meloni is cosplaying. She is using slogans to get elected, and is just as much a player in the new neoliberal world order, dominated by finance capitalism, as anyone else. In other words, her talk is all talk. She's a phony. Review what happened in Greece -- everyone was so sure a "new day was dawning." Then the new government just played along with EU bankers and did nothing for the people. Because the bankers are the government. Just my impression, obviously could be wrong. Let's see how this unfolds.
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  28962. The animals didn't all die. The real question should be whether they completed a normal life cycle and reproduced, with normal offspring. If you believe the story that they all just died, that forecloses the real question -- how long did they live, and did the lab mice or rats have normal pups, and how are they doing? We should know the answers by now.
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  28963.  Ajax Aidy  Rittenhouse wasn't even from that community. So a 17-year-old crossing state lines with major firepower is your idea of a wholesome activity for youth? You would just release him now? The last place I would go is Kenosha, and I've never had the least interest in Portland. THAT makes sense. Good thing most schools are closed. Fewer opportunities for school shooting.
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  28964.  @evankoch2575  If all of you believe the civil unrest is so dangerous, with "commie filth" causing destruction everywhere, shouldn't all minors stay home with their parents right now? Or should they do like Kyle? What's your suggestion?
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  28965.  @evankoch2575  "Probably?" He probably should have stayed home? You're not sure? Self-defense does not exist as a defense to all the charges he is facing. Nor does the prior record of any of the people he shot matter. No wonder there are school shootings.
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  28966. Even Trump doesn't say this 💩
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  28967. "This may as well have been a drive-by shooting with a gun." This is impermissible and unfair prejudice at closing argument.
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  28968. I want to clarify what people mean by "underemployment" of college grads. They are taking jobs for which nothing beyond a high school diploma is needed. Fine. Are fellow employees in the same positions, in the same generation, also college educated, or are all or most of these employees high school grads?
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  28969. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a tremendous effort to AVOID criminal prosecution and extrajudicial score settling. I'm sorry the history of the Commission has been distorted, but not too surprised. The official "narrative" had been that the end of apartheid in South Africa would result in a mass bloodbath. Well it didn't. The generosity of the black South Africans was astounding. Europeans have nothing comparable to point to, unless you count forgiving the (actual) former Nazis. Shameful distortion here, by all parties, pro and con, to the Trump debate.
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  28970. I still remember when this level of hypocrisy caused shock and revulsion.
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  28971. Kystal is right. Trump is Biden/Harris's gift.
    1
  28972. ​@astronautical1082 Immunity from liability for vaccine injuries, full patent protection, and mandates -- even with proof that a vaccine prevents transmission, but certainly when that was not true and was not even part of the clinical trial -- are radically inconsistent positions. Jonas Salk tested the polio vaccine on himself and declined to pursue patent protection. The swine flu vaccine was withdrawn in 1976 for one case of Guillain Barre per 100,000 innoculations.
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  28973. ​ @astronautical1082 Exactly --- the Precautionary Principle places the burden of proof of SAFETY and EFFECTIVENESS squarely on the drug manufacturer, which includes continuous monitoring for both. The burden is not on the patient. Patients retain the right to refuse any medical intervention. See, e.g., George Annas on the ethics of vaccine mandates. Try consulting a book written after the anthrax attacks but before 2020, if you care about objectivity.
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  28974. @rideordie1162  Not only is it important to kow tow to authority, you must also blame the victim, every chance you get.
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  28975. Well, sounds like this one wasn't engineered, at least.
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  28976. Another great point.
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  28977. Devil's Chessboard, by David Talbot
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  28978. Look up the complaint yourself. Court documents are public information. I already have a copy.
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  28979.  @masercot  Full FDA approval for a drug requires an in-depth analysis of data. And yet, even fully approved drugs end up withdrawn, or with "black box" warnings. Everyone I know who is waiting for more information has had injuries from drugs, or a member of their family did -- serious injuries, not trivial. Everyone I know got all their other vaccines as recommended. I've heard of anti-vaxxers but never met one personally.
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  28980.  @masercot  It doesn't concern you that health has been politicized to this degree? You don't see this in other countries.
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  28981.  @JakobVirgil  Your comment has only four "grifts." What happened? The last time I checked, the minimum was five.
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  28982.  Kathryn Elizabeth  Coercion is "common sense," to you. Good to know. Why am I not surprised? Common sense to fire people who were on the front lines all last year, going to work and risking COVID? You do know that during the CAMPAIGN both Biden and Pelosi said they opposed vaccine mandates, don't you? Why did they oppose "common sense" then? (Say. Did you "work from home?")
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  28983.  @thomas2082  No, no -- this is "framing." 😂 If not "narrative." They went to collage.
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  28984.  @dudeman5303 Oh brother. Not true. The compilations are FUNNY. And that's just one issue.
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  28985.  @dudeman5303 Would you deign to watch The Hill Rising on that? Ryan Grim? Is he all right, or no?
    1
  28986.  @dudeman5303 Ask Sam if it's okay.
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  28987. Yo, buddy. Eighty to ninety percent of us would like to find out whether material success would make us happier.
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  28988.  @vladtheinhaler8940  It's so bad it's mind boggling, even by 2022 neolib standards.
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  28989. They got very rich during the lockdown. There is no reason not to do it again.
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  28990. COOL MOM
    1
  28991. This report puts all major American media to shame. Facts delivered directly. So refreshing!
    1
  28992. The disgrace of it on one side, and the sheer fabrication on the other: Mark Kelly was a captain in the Navy and piloted the Space Shuttle. Both of his parents were police officers. I think he may know a thing or two about guns? The ad would be laughable if his family weren't struck by tragedy. Reminds me of Reagan making training films for the armed forces, while others actually served.
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  28993.  @MichelleHell  I agree wholeheartedly. BTW, if you weren't sure, that's a troll.
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  28994. They fixed it.
    1
  28995. The lockdowns are part of the problem. In response, people have locked themselves down.
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  28996. You'd be surprised how many people didn't get any of that. Section 8 is designed not to cover the vast majority of people. There is a long waiting line in my metro area, to the point where many social workers don't encourage relying on it at all.
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  28997. 35:25 35:50
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  28998.  @HandleUnclear  Well, Christians did excommunicate people, which was a death sentence. I never thought that mentality died out, frankly.
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  28999.  @panamareg  There is an entire field of historiography, designed to find objective facts. It is analogous to reading some newspaper account of a contemporary event, rather than examining the court documents that were produced when the person actually sued. I can give you a great example: how many people thought Depp v. Heard was about who is truthful and who is a pathological liar? No, a defamation case is about a written or spoken text, and the focus is on the truth or falsity of the text, not the character of the speaker. Almost no one who had an opinion about it read the actual text. (So, we sacrificed a little freedom of speech to get the "satisfaction" of allowing a grown man to get even for a bad relationship he voluntarily entered with a crazy b******. Good times!)
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  29000. In keeping with the spirit of popular media references: Yes, I wanna spread the news That if it feels this good gettin' used Oh, you just keep on usin' me Until you use me up Until you use me up My brother Sit me right down and he talked to me He told me That I ought not to let you just walk on me And I'm sure he meant well Yeah, but when our talk was through I, I, I said brother if you only knew You'd wish that you were in my shoes Etc.
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  29001. This was awful. Grosskreutz testified. McGinnis testified. Huber's dirty house did not. You liked it, that's all. Grande pandered to what he pretends to oppose.
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  29002. Oh no. Her, too?
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  29003. ​ @mytruthslays1303  To be fair, Elon has an IQ of 5,672 and a 700-hour day. And we know he won't cut our pensions and medical c . . . FREE LUIGI!!!!!
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  29004. Notice the demand that others prove over and over and over that they are not "fascist" or "racist," no matter WHO they are. Clearly a loyalty oath, a demand for ritualistic self-flagellation. Glenn helped get Lula Da Silva out of prison, fights for Assange, and needs bodyguards. But this kid thinks he is "better" than Glenn.
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  29005. What statute are you citing?
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  29006.  @clayc8115  The dictionary is not used to convict anyone of anything except bad spelling by Miss Grundy.
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  29007.  @clayc8115  Great, I will.
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  29008.  @clayc8115  I did, and I agree with the ACLU position in opposition to Section 802 of the Patriot Act, and I believe it could be struck down for being excessively vague and encroaching on First Amendment rights.
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  29009. That's not for the parlementarian to decide either way. Dig?
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  29010. As this radar points out, she needs to recuse herself.
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  29011. Trump operates exactly like an organized crime boss. WHO could believe that one single person has the authority to change the outcome of a presidential election?? And that someone is a running mate? Someone better look at the schools. Someone other than Betsy DeVos, or Bill Gates.
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  29012. She got the shakes. She might have been exposed to COVID.
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  29013. 🤣🤣🤣
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  29014. If you are not expecting anyone, don't answer a knock at your door. I never do.
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  29015. Do these politicians understand what this story DOES to people who ALWAYS played it straight, and whose 30-year-old son lives at home and makes under $40,000? Half the things Hunter has done make him totally unsuitable to have anything to do with an energy board in a global hotspot, or pretty much any other responsible job. Plenty of people with Hunter's record are barred from voting, much less holding any job above minimum wage.
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  29016.  @justsomeguywithahugepens8940  That lowers the death rate, not the transmission rate.
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  29017. No doctor will tell you that is safe. They don't want anyone to try it unsupervised.
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  29018. He is embraced because this society has a penchant for mass formation psychosis, and it's time for a fix.
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  29019. Check out what the US did during the Cuban Missile Crisis --- we nearly provoked a nuclear exchange, and Soviet commander Vasili Arkhipov prevented it, fully believing he would soon be dead. Source? BBC, The Guardian . . . Yes, mainstream British press. This is not controversial.
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  29020. Trauma . . . Depersonalization.
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  29021.  @burntupretardporn  So that we can have, like, no basic medical supplies.
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  29022. Do you know the words of the anthem, or its history? I don't, hence I would not have stood.
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  29023.  @BEGGARWOOD1  In America, people of character took a knee instead. Remember? Yes, I do need to know what something stands for before I support it. My late father knew Jesse Owens statistics by heart. Now do you get it? Still too obscure?
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  29024.  @rumples2698  Monoclonal antibodies brought Trump back from a very serious state almost overnight. Fact. So, can you get them? Not saying you must chose them. Are they an option for you? Or do you have to haunt various health food stores and hope for the best? Cutting risk 50 to 60% is nothing to sneeze at, but it isn't 99.9%
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  29025.  @Xyz99899  What federal statute or CFR section prevented him? I don't think the liberal media could tell me!
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  29026.  @callmebyyourname8332  Well, Trump would have had to replace him with someone clearly better. To find that person would have taken some hard work, and Trump doesn't like work.
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  29027.  @callmebyyourname8332  There is one monoclonal that does work against Omicron. You're right, most don't.
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  29028. No.
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  29029. Look on the bright side. No one is making them shill for mandatory vaccines or droning Russia. Yet.
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  29030.  @cvf628  Does your local community college have a logic class?
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  29031.  @awaynow  Kids. Adults, do what you like. Not kids. Kids have rights. Affordability shouldn't be an issue. I support universal health, which means full coverage for all psycho-social emotional therapies, including gender reassignment where needed, or where it is clearly the optimal treatment, whether "needed" or not. But as the saying goes, "that's not my problem." (See, "It's Me, Eddie," recently mentioned in Adam Curtis's latest documentary) I don't have to be "appeased." You're being so rude and aggressive because my argument is the correct one. We're hep to that move.
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  29032.  @lennyg1233  I cannot believe that we are discussing treatments that could easily result in sterilizing a MINOR who is trans and diagnosed with dysphoria. This is a reason to permanently eliminate reproductive choice? THIS early? It blows my mind. Where did human rights for so-called "non-normative" people go? They were here just the other day.
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  29033.  @awaynow  If you had a brain in your head, you'd see this for the sinister proposition that it is. Instead of broadening opportunities for all young people, you support narrowing them for some, and dress it up with insipid rhetoric about the painting called life, and other such nonsense.
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  29034.  @awaynow  All you've done throughout this thread is ad hominem, some of the most artfully vicious I've ever seen. For what? Honestly, though, it is easier to give up than you think. I don't even plan on staying in America, or the Anglophone world, and regret being here now. Your mentioning Thatcher reminded me. Your problems are your problems, and they're engineered to be insoluble. Get some money and RUN. That's all anyone can commit to any more. Poor kids, born here. Any other developed country is clearly better, and lots of other countries are, as well.
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  29035.  @lennyg1233  True of literally everyone, even Trump or Pompeo.
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  29036.  @awaynow  Other people? Like, adults?
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  29037.  @awaynow  Because the US is a country that had an exceptionally vicious and vigorous eugenics movement, which I am not sure is gone, and we're duscussing treatments that can render a child sterile for life. But have it your way.
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  29038.  @awaynow  What data? You have data on children who consented to gender reassignment, and forty or fifty years later are not regretting it? There is no such data, anywhere. No, America doesn't have a history of eugenics! Or of cults, or notable instances of mass hysteria, or some of the most powerful propaganda systems ever devised! We are so calm, well-educated, and broad minded that even our pre-pubescent children are fully equipped to consent to . . . Oh never mind. You win. "Not my problem." My family doesn't live here.
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  29039. You hope.
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  29040. They have a joint venture, CGTN and RT?
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  29041.  @abyssmanur3965  Amwn.
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  29042. War is "help" -- it helps certain Americans!
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  29043. I took the GRE in 1987-88 in a foreign country under abysmal physical conditions, and I was sick. I made several mistakes, including leaving a question blank by accident and changing one right answer to wrong (my specialty). I could use the result to join the Triple 9 Society. I barely practiced for it, never scored quite that high before or since on any standardized test, and certainly not one that correlates to a verbal IQ that high. I was living in a country where my ethnic group isn't discriminated against. Not even a little. Gee. I wonder if there's something to that?
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  29044. Time to watch the original Blade Runner again.
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  29045. The line of Supreme Court cases Waxman relies on all say that Harvard can use race in the way Waxman claims they did. The other side wants those cases overturned. The first discrimination Harvard performs is legacy and "special development" vs. everyone else. All legal, because Harvard is private. Too bad Harvard has the influence it does.
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  29046.  @christines8529  No, a university is not a business, nor does it open its doors to commerce or to the general public. I suggest you read the briefs. UNC is a state university, so its admissions are subject to scrutiny for racial discrimination, but Harvard is in this particular lawsuit, and its admissions practices are being scrutinized, only because it accepts federal money. If Harvard didn't, then it could basically admit whomever it wants -- but it has to do that strictly on its own dime. Really sorry to see that we are at the point where we think universities are "a business," but I'm not surprised.
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  29047.  @christines8529  What federal laws govern all private university admissions? Meaning, regardless of their charter and regardless of whether they accept federal funds in any form. Please tell me. Have you never heard of women's colleges, the historical black colleges (where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Justice Thurgood Marshall were educated), very strict religious colleges that train people for the ministry? Read the briefs.
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  29048.  @christines8529  The pertinent statute is Section 601 of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance. -- 42 United States Code Section 2000d (emphasis added) That's from the Asian students' petition for cert and brief in support of granting relief.
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  29049. ​ @christines8529  No, Harvard DOES benefit from federal funds, even though it's a private school, which is why it must also obey federal anti-discrimination laws. That's why this lawsuit made it all the way to the Supreme Court. It is rich enough to finance all of its needy students and to extricate itself from depending on public money. But that is surprisingly hard to do, and complicated, so it won't. Besides, the money is green. What I really think is that these elitist institutions shouldn't have the stranglehold on society and politics that they do. I think their legacy pools and "special development" pools are just as discriminatory, or more, than anything else they do. If they want to be modified four-year country clubs for the Jared Kushners (or Chelsea Clintons) of the world, bless them, they can rely on First Amendment freedom of association and go their merry way. But then they go on to affect the lives of the rest of us, and of the rest of the people on this planet -- and they do it for their benefit, on our dime. A really interesting read was the letter Harvard's President wrote when it was revealed just how much Harvard was mixed up with Jeffrey Epstein. Am I changing the subject? No. To me, this is the heart of the matter. We argue about who is qualified to be admitted to Harvard -- and I say, who cares? Why are they then "qualified" to control the lives of the rest of us? They clearly are not. That's what I care about. There is no way to make Harvard admissions fair. There are too many qualified people vying for too few seats, and too many people who want to game the system, and can. Why do so many people apply? Because it really is as close to a guarantee of success in life as you can possibly find at age 18. But why is it?
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  29050. VERY important analysis of Dr. Stone's letter. Every person, but especially every educated person like Gail, should have understood exactly what it meant.
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  29051. Well, we do need a test in a neutral country (Sweden, non-NATO, comes to mind), to see if results are replicated. If they are, I want the Sputnik V because I trust this approach. I also suspect it is better for the future -- we will need boosters, for mutations, just as we do for flu, and this is a proven approach. MRNA every year is too new to trust.
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  29052. This!
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  29053. 🤣
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  29054. She is being fed these points by someone.
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  29055. ​ @dianegroves1141 Did she report his bizarre conduct at the time? As a vegetarian and animal-lover, I can't imagine standing by and doing nothing.
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  29056. How odd that I started reading Morris Berman, The Reenchantment of the World. I'm a partisan of science --- but it is partisan.
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  29057. Not in the Constitution.
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  29058.  @markrichey3914  No kidding.
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  29059. Give up the Democrat party. Simple answer. Only answer.
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  29060. Rachel Maddow has something to say about it? The same billionaires were pushing her line until yesterday. All she and her cohorts need to do is win big, with a real candidate.
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  29061. Is it a serious question? No lawyer may EVER divulge infirmation like that.
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  29062.  @steppenwolf3252  Nothing to do with money. You don't have to buy them off. They must not divulge what you told them.
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  29063. This wasn't her funeral, but a public event.
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  29064.  @SuperJjsmiles  I wouldn't have chosen to heckle him at that moment, either. Nor would I arrest and charge the heckler. At most, remove him from the scene and have a quiet talk -- at the very most. Andrew is the one who did, the heckler is the one who merely said what Andrew did. That can't be worse than the doing. And it wasn't the funeral. That does make it different.
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  29065.  @SuperJjsmiles  Yeah we get it. No one said we should follow him around to his private home and say stuff.
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  29066.  @infopackrat  "Felt compelled?" He was an Internet-fed kid with delusions of grandeur. This isn't obvious to you? And he's not a bad kid. He was used, and is still being used. Tell me you'd support your MINOR in this activity, especially if your family has always struggled to put food on the table. He has to live with this the rest of his life. He didn't become independently wealthy. But he is in a position where he will have to dance to the tune of whoever pays him, possibly for the rest of his life. Where did judgment go?
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  29067. "I will be staying to the end." Dr. Campbell is great. 😅
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  29068. Only in America is the neoliberal globalist millionaire class considered "left."
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  29069. Expect silence.
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  29070. @kristinstrickland1038  I can appreciate why, but in any case, she has the option of wearing the very finest wigs. You know those can be custom made. I would -- not to be superficial, but to keep my morale up and not worry my kids. They are too young for this. It's important to keep things "normal."
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  29071. The business about crossing state lines with a gun is pure red herring. There was no evidence he did. Two factors are under deliberation: (1) a person cannot contribute to creating the need for using lethal force to defend their life, and then claim perfect self-defense. (2) In using lethal force to defend their life, a person cannot act recklessly, given the circumstances. The real tragedy is that under Wisconsin law, carrying that assault-type rifle openly, at age 17, is not a crime. Let that sink in. After how many mass shootings, they still can't pass reasonable gun laws? To cover MINORS, in public, not in their own dwelling, at least? Apparently not.
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  29072.  @paigeu23  You can't use the bad character or mental health issues of the deceased to decide whether his death was on balance a positive thing.
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  29073.  @paigeu23  That is different from your original comment. I agree completely with THIS comment, concerning what happened, as distinct from what was likely to happen even taking Rittenhouse out of the picture.
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  29074. 5:20 Simple. He thinks it won't happen to someone he cares about.
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  29075. Jimmy, "lived experience" is an improvement over "my truth." I've been using it for 5 or 6 years. :( (To avoid "my truth.")
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  29076. Well, Robbie never stops trashing teachers and demanding vouchers. Now, we learn that we had two decades of progress in math and reading scores? And that not having schools open was bad? All along I had been hearing from the Bill Gates of the world that online education, vouchers, and charter schools are the way to progress. Who is the ideologue, exactly?
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  29077. Since she already has a ton of medals, she will not be able to oblige. Find something else to make you happy. Say, a girlfriend or something. Or get your car detailed.
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  29078. It is VERY hard to figure out causation when an illness has many cofactors. Multivariate analysis is complicated and can take years to complete. If vaccines in combination given to a baby predisposed to some neurological problem are a factor in making the condition worse, it will not be easy to find out. To say we KNOW that it's not happening is not true. DeNero put it well, it is not a simple thing at all.
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  29079. Ana was his boss. She could have fired him. Instead, she threatens to expose him seven years later, written apology in hand, to get him to stop defending Aaron's GROUNDBREAKING reporting from Syria, a very dangerous place. The reporting and UN testimony could get him killed. This is how we advance the cause of women.
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  29080. How to deal with a wardrobe malfunction is so much more important than Syria. I can feel it deep down.
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  29081.  @kyle1910  Okay. I'm honored. I hope to get many more f-bombs thrown at me, just like Aaron does, and for even better reasons than this post.
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  29082.  @kyle1910  I know. Who am I to think Syria is more important than comments about wardrobe malfunctions? It's unamerican.
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  29083.  @kyle1910  Oh I see. Saving up evidence of harassment for when you might need it, to threaten someone, advances the cause of women. Huh. I don't know about that. You also misunderstood. I want you to drop f-bombs. Shows us who you are. Not my problem.
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  29084.  @kyle1910  Of course the destruction of millions of people doesn't matter. They're dirt poor and homeless. Dirty jokes and wardrobe malfunctions and millionaire spats dressed up as pwogwessive issues are what matter. It's how money is made.
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  29085.  @kyle1910  No. You're missing the point. You got the real issue and the nonissue (seven years after the fact) mixed up. Ana was his boss. She could have dealt with it immediately. She only picked now, to weaponize a serious feminist issue, purely for her own personal advantage. This doesn't work. This ruins it for OTHER women. She doesn't appear to care. Actually, the joke he made, and asking about where Ana gets her clothes, do not rise to the level of sexual harassment from the standpoint of the law. Do you know anything about what a non-celebrity woman has to put up with, before she can hope to win a case? On the other hand, Ana was Jimmy's boss. She had the authority to discipline him or fire him. Why didn't she? Maybe because it wasn't as bad as she claims? Could that be it? You swore at me, a woman. Maybe you're a misogynist.
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  29086. Musk at least seems to understand mathematics. He knows a billion dollars means nothing to him.
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  29087. Do not do drugs. Simple.
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  29088.  @Acissejkhoh  Laws are man-made, and law books are open to everyone.
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  29089. @Acissejkhoh  Nevermind. Blocked.
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  29090. Guess who got which? LOL
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  29091. Did you know Ursula plagiarized her doctoral thesis, too? Small footnote. They are all alike.
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  29092. So now, you have to be an AOC fan to be "progressive." Oppose NATO expansion when she's for it? Support Amazon unionization when she won't appear? You traitor!
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  29093. Alex Jones was found liable for smearing the families of the children murdered by Adam Lanza, and convincing some aberrant people that the event was simulated.
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  29094. So the journalistic equivalent of insider trading. Sure, why not? /s
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  29095.  @82Catfish  You're witnessing group psychosis, and it's coming on faster and faster. I've already lost count how many directions we switched. This is what the beginning of collapse looks like. You can literally make people believe anything, and you can count on it getting worse. Drug use is not doing any of these people any favors, either.
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  29096.  @GertusMaximus747  The muffin lady was incompetent and had duping delight written all over her.
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  29097. Say no to drugs.
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  29098. Not necessarily. It depends on how much money they owe for "frills" like education and health care and their house. If a person can afford real necessities, and drops consumer stuff manufactured abroad, and pays off their debt load, it may turn out to be all right. Let's see what the bondholders will cook up next, to prevent those in debt from seeing this possible relief.
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  29099.  singerliljermz  It has.
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  29100. How come those people weren't Attracting Abundance?
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  29101. I heard a virologist say on Lex Fridman that he knows of a hospital that routinely uses ivermectin. Approved drugs can be prescribed for off-label use. The NIH recommendation Jimmy cited permits, but does not encourage, doctors to use it that way. Their malpractice insurance carriers might block them.
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  29102. For ANY other drugs, we ask about their safety in combination. We especially need to ask where the welfare of infants and toddlers is concerned.
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  29103. Have you been concerned about the hundreds freed from prison through innocence projects, some who spent decades thete? How did that happen? Where was the concern then? Weinstein actually asks, "was this department policy?" As if that could sanitize the action in any way! It is a wholly irrelevant question. In any case, Rogan answered it carefully. Rogan was excellent here. We have to recognize everyone as a human being, a part of our community. He is not trying to skip due process for anyone. He is supporting the decision to charge Chauvin.
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  29104. 23:22 What was Jeff Epstein's favorite media app? How about the people in his Black Book? What app do they like? /s
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  29105.  @metalted6128  Mansplaining was when a man explained to a woman that she was unaware of the latest research on some topic or other, not knowing and not wanting to hear that that very woman wrote the research paper he was quoting to her. That happened to Rebecca Solnit. Her friend kept trying to tell the guy, "Rebecca wrote it." It took a long time to register. It's like when a man starts telling a woman mathematician about some simple algebra, not knowing she teaches real analysis at Stanford. :)
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  29106.  @Richard_Potato  Maybe because she returned to school later in life and got her doctorate at Oxford? That could be it.
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  29107.  @Richard_Potato  Actually, no, that is not correct. The IQ measure, which you seem to assume is a measure of "intelligence," is actually highly correlated, and regarded as highly predictive, of formal educational attainment in the present system of secondary and higher education. What can happen and what usually happens are two different things. A person of normal intelligence may or may not have a high IQ, and may or may not attain a doctorate at Oxford. Whether we can nevertheless consider attaining a doctorate at Oxford, especially later in life out of pure intellectual desire, as a marker of a high IQ is beside the point you've made. It need not be such a marker -- no necessity there, as Bertrand Russell used to say. On the other hand, it almost always is. Yeah. This took only a couple of minutes. Glad I could help.
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  29108.  @Richard_Potato  Did you actually think you got me or something? LOL
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  29109.  @Richard_Potato  I'm sorry you did not understand my post, or what performance on an IQ test (or any other aptitude test) means, or pretty much anything else I said. I will not take the obvious jab at what that might mean about your "intelligence." That would be cheap, and of course incorrect. You are obviously flustered. IQ tests do not measure "intelligence;" there is no test that can, for lots of reasons. IQ tests correlate very strongly with educational attainment in the present system, as it is commonly found in the West. You really don't know what either you or I are arguing. That's kind of . . . funny. (You bring up drink. Is there a reason it came to mind?) BTW, didn't you know that there have been some Nobel Prize winners in the hard sciences who had a rather ordinary performance on IQ tests, documented? Even Roger Penrose was not considered gifted in math because he really took his time and did problems slowly when he was young. Already as a child, he understood that the right answer was more important than the fast answer. He already knew math was different from other things he was being taught. (You do know that IQ tests are timed, correct? Speed strongly influences score. See the preceding paragraph and make a conjecture as to why there are true geniuses in this world who did not perform well on IQ tests.) And Russell is famous for making the distinction between necessary truths and contingent ones, and deepening our understanding of their ground, later using various pithy formulations when making the point in his talks. In any case, a person's performance -- in writing books, in completing a doctorate at Oxford -- is evidence of their intelligence. There is no need for some test to "prove" what is already known with greater certainty by other, more reliable, means. These aptitude tests usually take a few hours, and only rarely may be administered over a number of days. What someone actually does with their life, over years and years, trumps whatever those tests might turn up.
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  29110.  @Richard_Potato  Yeah, that's what people thought when it was believed we were born with all the neurons we would ever have. That was found to be false nearly two generations ago. Tell me, do you also think clinical depression is due to a "chemical imbalace" that SSRIs "fix?" Oh, and is it "genetic," too?
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  29111.  @Richard_Potato  As long as you have no influence over people, I suppose it doesn't matter what you think. You couldn't be a doctor and are highly unlikely to be a lawyer, that's evident; I cringe to think you might be an educator. That field attracts every stripe.
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  29112.  @Richard_Potato  I was referring to your express definition and characteristization of intelligence, which is wrong. It is so wrong that I'm not interested in reviewing what was said so far, a good while ago, formulating a lengthy response, and taking any more time with it. In short, you believe a wholly discredited view of the human brain, its nature, and how it functions. If you don't know about all that, you surely do not understand what intelligence is. You are debating about words, not the things they describe.
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  29113.  @Richard_Potato  Well, this is old. I've moved on. Try reading Norman Doidge's books, which give a popular account of contemporary findings concerning neuronal networks and what has come to be known as neuroplasticity -- although even he strikes me as somewhat overstating the case (in that the most remarkable people give us an idea of what may be possible, but certainly not what is typical, at our present state of knowledge), but it is the case in favor of what I'm saying. Interestingly enough, he taught at Toronto and is good friends with Jordan Peterson. So you're safe reading him. ;)
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  29114.  @rolandboeing7477  Exactly. Has he identified as the father, or the mother?
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  29115.  @rolandboeing7477  Lookism?
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  29116. Yes, and they know some probably will.
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  29117. By that logic, someone seeing the man shooting the kid should have been allowed to shoot him.
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  29118.  @Diablofeb4  thank you beat me to it LORD!!! What is with these people, meaning politicians and the press? Do they ever stop lying?
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  29119. The President's nominees were all just confirmed by the Senate to head the various agencies and departments of the government. Perhaps it would make sense to seek out their views on how to improve efficiency and cut costs? Why do you think Patel and Gabbard immediately told their employees not to respond? Because they want to hide fraud? Or they're already attached to doling out their alloted budgets and aren't on board to make this administration succeed? Maybe you didn't think this through.
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  29120. I thought the story that several regions in India were using ivermectin as prophylaxis was just an Internet rumor. Then I found out (1) it is true; (2) the WHO strongly criticised India for this decision; and (3) the likely results were not reported -- not even to say that the numbers are being studied and the analysis isn't complete, or that there is some reason we can't determine the effect (confounding variables, etc.).
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  29121.  @deregulatethisnow4555  Horrible if true. Sad case, Amy.
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  29122.  @eddycurrents8073  Aaron Mate is such a "joke" that he spoke before the UN about his findings concerning the OPCW coercion and cover-up. Your ilk can only do ad hominem. Don't you get tired? If you aren't paid, then I have even less respect for you. That's just nuts. Look at how much Hunter Biden is making.
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  29123.  @eddycurrents8073  Zelensky banned all opposition parties to the left of him weeks ago, and there are credible reports that the ultra-right/neo-Nazis have threatened Zelensky's life if he were to attempt to negotiate without their full approval. Does any of that sound like he is free to govern? Not to me. People should look up reports from well BEFORE this war. Golinkin, Mearsheimer, Stephen F. Cohen. Anne Laure Bonnel in France, and her documentaries. That's how you get unbiased information. (Golinkin is profoundly anti-Putin, by the way. No equivocation on his part.)
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  29124.  @runrebelscum855  The kids who chatted her up did. The teenaged boys, to be precise. Not everyone is LGBTQIA+
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  29125.  @runrebelscum855  Teenage guys still care, apparently. Thank goodness. I hope that's okay with you.
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  29126.  @Agnar669  The study you cite was conducted on adult male prison inmates, you FOOL.
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  29127.  @Agnar669  Nor would the identification of changes in the brain "support the belief that psychopaths can't be rehabilitated and therapy only makes them worse." People with traumatic brain injuries, tumors, and strokes have been successfully rehabilitated. I hope you aren't in any medical field or other profession. You are simplistic in the extreme, and you like to use information to bully others.
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  29128.  @Agnar669  Even the existence of what you deem to be "the empathy center" is no more than a decade old, controversial, and frankly, the nature of the labeling hardly sounds scientific -- it smacks of a desire to become well-know, publish books in the popular psychology/self-help domain, or achieve tenure. Everything is advertising now, and a lot of money is at stake. Only recently have we learned that the notion that antidepressants work by bringing neurotransmitters into balance was a metaphor, and didn't have a scientific basis. It certainly sounded scientific. If you think that Harry and Meghan are doing unethical things, what prevents you from saying that? Why are you trying to don the lab coat of science to make it sound more objective? You have no idea whether they have a diagnosis, or what their diagnosis is, and you weren't with them when they claim they were systematically undercut and made to look horrid to the British public. You must know nothing about their tabloid culture. It is the most vicious in the world. Your "science" is Fauci-style, a claim to an authority you lack.
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  29129.  @Agnar669  I've had relatives who've systematically destroyed relationships. So? I'm going to believe that puts me in some relationship with this drama? By the way, Samantha has been divorced twice, bankrupt once, appears to crave attention, and her two older children were raised by their father's parents. Does she have those psychopathic traits you've identified in one of her close relatives, too?
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  29130. He already lost one lawsuit. This one is pure vindictiveness. To get the crowd on his side. Another Mattias Desmet moment.
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  29131.  @philyoosays  Smollett lost his case. As did Depp in UK.
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  29132.  @infernodtw2423  Same factual basis, only there he had a better case. And lost.
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  29133.  @philyoosays  Certainly not. I'm not disputing that. A person here can face federal charges and state charges on the same facts, but different laws.
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  29134.  @philyoosays  This is a new hysteria, with new enemies. When you're in it, it just feels so right.
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  29135.  @philyoosays  That cannot be dispositive. There was ample evidence in that case. The other side is only beginning to present its case, but you already "know the truth." Listen, this is more cult behavior. I'm not going to continue arguing with you. I disagree with the premise that those of us who are not swept up in it have a duty to speak. I think we have a duty to ourselves to identify the phenomenon and steer clear until it dies down. I noticed Kim was the only independent thinker here. AGAIN. She did not pile on.
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  29136.  @infernodtw2423 Where did I say there are no questions of material fact? Show me. I said the article alleged to be defamatory has nothing to do with Heard making baseless claims. We've only heard one side because plaintiffs have to proceed first, to make their case. BTW, did you read the article that is alleged to be defamatory? Did you read the complaint?
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  29137.  @infernodtw2423  And how does that make her like Smollett?
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  29138.  @infernodtw2423   By the way, you are obviously knowledgeable, so I am sure you are aware that every defamation case chips away at free speech rights. The remedy for "bad speech" is more speech. That's the bedrock First Amendment principle. Why didn't Depp hire a ghost writer and an editor, and write an autobiography? Instant best seller. Nothing whatsoever prevented him from telling everyone his side. And creating artistically, instead of this vindictive rehashing of the same facts. Of all the witnesses so far, Dr. Hughes of course stands out, but so does Depp's friend, the artist who teared up. I'm sure it was hard for him to have to say he doesn't pay rent, yet he contributed something human and heartfelt to this trial. I agree with him that this needs to end. That's the moral element of the story for me.
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  29139.  @kevinh3979  No, it's that I am not prone to join a mob, or participate in ritual stoning. My first language wasn't English, so your attempt to put me in my place will not work --- but my independence of spirit will infuriate you. That's jealousy, by the way. Who do I think I am, to resist the noble crowd? Well, you can't get to me. (You can't get to Kim, either. No traction.)
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  29140.  @kevinh3979  Right, I'm supposed to forget that defamation cases chip away at free speech. We've had to forget lots and lots of stuff over these past few years. Well, since 9/11, but more so since COVID.
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  29141.  @kevinh3979  I just reread my comments. They're better than I remembered. You should read everything I wrote here, especially about the artist. If it's shadowed, that would come as no surprise. Well-founded and well-written comments have been removed from the Internet for years, on suspicion of being professional ad copy. You knew that, right? 🤣
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  29142.  @kevinh3979  I see from your comments that you are right wing. Do you remember Depp's assassination joke directed at Trump? Days after the DC shooting? How misogynistic are you that you've forgotten, and lined up behind this clown? The real left is smarter. Gee I wonder why.
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  29143.  @AnaLucia-wy2ii  Maybe. I feel for him. I don't care for Tim Pool, however. He got an interview on Lex Fridman, and I don't know what possessed him to go on Pool afterwards -- because of Trump? No one should do anything because of Trump.
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  29144. A grocery store can require them, correct?
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  29145. 😅😅😅
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  29146. Remember Geffen's tweet about weathering COVID lockdown on his luxury yacht? "Oops!"
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  29147. If not better, which says a friggin' lot.
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  29148. I wish I had spent far more time at work. I wish I had had the rewarding work I prepared myself to do, but never got the opportunity. EDIT: Yet. I haven't gotten the opportunity yet. I don't give up easily.
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  29149. Tribalism = easy 💰💰💰💰
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  29150. I think ignoring her work at Actor's Studio and her genuine literary interests paints a misleading picture. She was very talented and intelligent. She used to disguise herself to haunt the used bookstores of New York on Saturdays. Her only niece (from a half-sister Marilyn met as an adult) has a Master's degree and a huge passion for literature.
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  29151. Wow, the IQs and the productivity of the top 0.01% sure soared. Do they have any tips for us? Diet, meditation, supplements? 😂
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  29152. 10:10 You think DNC sounds like this guy?
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  29153. You expect a lot from billionaire Geniuses.
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  29154.  @godbyelebenohnegott  If you're mentally ILL, you're mentally ill. If you could simply "turn it around" by taking responsibility, then obviously you are not severely ill. What do you think of people who try to cure cancer by dieting and meditating, like Steve Jobs did?
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  29155.  @godbyelebenohnegott  But that is precisely what Marilyn Monroe did. She read and journaled avidly, and went to psychotherapy regularly. She never bought any drug illegally. She was even a jogger, and ate a normal diet. Her autopsy states she presented as well-nourished. For her time, that was all that anyone knew to do.
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  29156.  @godbyelebenohnegott  In fact, she got mercilessly used, not helped. It's one of the saddest stories I've ever heard. If people could be this cruel to a woman like her, who was effectively orphaned, and everyone knew it, then what wouldn't they do?
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  29157.  @godbyelebenohnegott  Sure, of course. Her fault. Slaves also begged to be captured, and were lucky to be here. BLECH
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  29158.  @godbyelebenohnegott  That's what you did to me. I never said everyone used Marilyn Monroe. I expressed chagrin that ANYONE used her. You, on the other hand, pursue a misplaced discourse of victim blaming, without holding the offenders responsible, though the latter simply needed to refrain from viciousness, not contemplate how to deal with viciousness directed at them, why it happened to them, and how to escape its effects. I took the analogy to a logical extreme to make the point.
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  29159.  @godbyelebenohnegott  Do you seriously believe that an actress with one of the most remarkable bodies of work in cinema ever created, had no "inner stability," and lacked the ability to form "supportive relationships?" Do you know anything about cinema? No highly productive artist, in any art form, is ever that lame, no matter how much they may suffer from emotional illness. What they may have a hard time dealing with is ordinary, everyday cruelty.
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  29160. I disagree. No one is refraining from voting in lockstep with the latest DNC lesser-evil travesty on any grounds of "self-actualization." But that DNC will try circulating that story (smear) is certainly true, yes. They'll try anything. It is all part of the shallow image tending, and making people fearful of projecting the "wrong" image, that Krystal rejects.
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  29161. If you live in a cloud.
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  29162. Robbie wants still more fragmentation.
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  29163. Briahna? She's a genius.
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  29164. EXACTLY If the point is the question, as Grim said, then show the whole segment.
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  29165. Trump is pure organized crime -- though less organized than some gangsters.
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  29166. ​ @peterroberts4415  Joe, Kamala, Nancy, and Hillary made sure of that.
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  29167. You say that like it's a bad thing.
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  29168. They waited FIFTEEN YEARS, since the 2008 collapse and rescue. In that time, how many speculators became multimillionaires? How much did Pelosi rake in? The Clintons? How much did they rake in thanks to COVID?
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  29169. Wow, beautifully said. I'm so sorry you had this experience. (Has no one heard of Liberation Theology?) Why leave the figure of Jesus -- or Socrates -- to the right wing to exploit? James Baldwin knew both. In connection with this, what I want to know is why people like Richard Wolff, and the (real) left in places like France saw through the vaccine mandates and passports, while Naomi Klein did not? How did she miss it? The first person I heard object to requiring health care workers to be vaccinated or lose their jobs was a leading member of the French Communist Party. As he correctly pointed out, these were people who had risked their lives in 2020 to care for the rest of us, and many had contracted COVID and recovered. Why would you force them to vaccinate with an experimental drug? Then in early 2022, Clementine Autain pointed out that over the holidays, she had contracted mild COVID and could be admitted anywhere with her vaccine passport in hand, while a healthy unvaccinated person would be barred. All of this is obvious. Why is Naomi Klein weaving this story about alternative truths to obscure it? The lady protests too much.
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  29170. False. They are married. The suits will be dismissed, and court costs will be assessed against the Libertarian Party. Their lawyers might be fined as well. No one can get conservatorship over the US Treasury.
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  29171. Krystal said that we should not imput insincerity in the student. The student might have believed that what she said was true, but she was wrong to make an accusation of racism based on her feelings, not evidence. Zaid seems to believe she engineered this incident to her benefit, because she thinks it is prestigious to claim this form of victimhood, and she was in fact rewarded for it. He also said that people familiar with racism do not react the way she did.
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  29172.  @adosjustice3242  I agree it isn't. But it's not trivial, either. People lost their livelihoods. That's nothing to you? FYI, a good third, if not more, of the people we encountered in ordinary life did not perceive my father as white-- and this included black people. He looked like a cross between Puerto Rican and Lebanese. I see you LOVE love this game of accusing people cooler than you of racism. What a joke.
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  29173.  @adosjustice3242  Two hundred years of "whites only" is part of a genocide agenda. (It was longer than that, BTW).
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  29174.  @adosjustice3242  I see that point. Most such stories are presented ahistorically, as if the world were born the day the people in the story were born.
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  29175.  @adosjustice3242  I don't disagree. What is not said is often more revealing than what is.
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  29176.  @johnschmalbach8243  Exactly. The more I think about it, the more I fault the administration. The people various "sides" are pointing fingers at are far less responsible. Listening to a Cornel West interview right now, really on target. He does not dehumanize actual white supremacists, much less . . .
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  29177. YES THEY DO LOL
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  29178. Wait --- you think blacks aren't great musicians, in every genre?? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  29179. This is a Senator now. Well, look at presidents. Of the Ivies, of the country. Okay, never mind.
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  29180. Show me one vaccine that required four, five, or six innoculations in 24-30 months, and STILL did not prevent infection.
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  29181. ​ @bill5129-q7l  You make Stalin sound good.
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  29182. A lot of people who opposed occupation and supported BDS had to emigrate because of death threats on their minor children. Now you have a "so-called" left wing as a result.
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  29183. He is, but he's not hurting anyone except possibly himself.
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  29184. This segment failed to address a perfectly proper and legitimate concern about the new technology, namely, its short-term and long-term side effects. When people fail to talk about that aspect of the vaccine, when they show themselves to be reluctant to say "we don't know yet, but we have a very good basis for believing . . . , because . . . , " I find my trust eroding. And I am someone who is PRO-vaccine. I've had vaccines that are optional, I've asked for vaccines that ended up not being available to me, and I am strongly inclined to take any of the approved COVID vaccines. This discourse didn't impress me at all. And when he threw in "scientists and entrepreneurs" there at the end, that really did it for me. Salk didn't profit from the polio vaccine.
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  29185. A "bit?" "Maybe??" Do you actually not know the history of anti-Semitism as a form of RACISM? Let me make it simple: do you think that Jewish people who converted to Christianity, and were not considered Jews by the Jewish community, AND married gentiles, were safe from the Holocaust? The Nuremberg law defined Jews based on how much Jewish ancestry they had; they called it "Jewish blood." A person can always change their conservative politics and cease being identified as a conservative -- though why would they? "Conservatism" is usually a money-making act to put on.
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  29186. Making a valid historical point and THEN adding on the nonsensical comparison to political opinions as a punchline is worse than going straight to the nonsense. People who are ignorant of history are more likely to be persuaded when hard truths are interwoven with a rank falsehood.
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  29187. "Even if you feel the analogy is a stretch." It's not about feelings. Some things are false.
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  29188.  @ewaldbracko1534  You wrote: "You're just leaning into hate culture!!!" No, no, no --- you're a hater, you're a hater, nah nah. Congratulations on finding the solution to this pressing issue. /s
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  29189.  @ewaldbracko1534  Okay, non-genocide is just like genocide. Please consult Aristotle's Metaphysics, Book Gamma.
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  29190.  @texmexican3654  No, it's because she's a Nazi. Sheesh. Are vapid talking points that tough to produce?
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  29191. @tiffanyramirez9760  If you communicate this to your child, don't be surprised if he spends most of his time in front of YouTube or TikTok or video games, and at 14 can barely read or do fractions. Find a new school that doesn't give you such a grim view of what it's doing to your child. That's the parents' job. You'll notice Weinstein was straight Ivy League through PhD. Look up how he makes his money now. It couldn't be less creative.
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  29192. ​ @tiffanyramirez9760  Too bad you'd have to look under the Newest tab to see my response. Don't tell your child this stuff. Find him a better school.
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  29193. We need the money we are sending to Ukraine for metal detectors in our schools, and grants to private schools and businesses to put them up, too.
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  29194.  @TheTechnocrat78  You would do anything for your son, including helping him get a politically sensitive job in the energy sector in a poor country on Russia's border, that allows him to draw an unconscionable salary from that poor country? Nice when the world is your playground.
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  29195.  @chriskeller272  I noticed that move. Biden is awful.
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  29196. Okay. Exactly when did people begin to believe that one can use deadly force in defense of mere property? How did we get here? Who told them that? Why did they believe it? Etc., etc. . . .
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  29197. They clearly aren't mentioning the probable origin of this outbreak. It was seen in London first. You can consult The Guardian.
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  29198. It has to do with the live vaccines still used in the Third World, which have been phased out in all developed countried. Not the unvaccinated. Look up vaccine De Rived
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  29199. Remember all the Hitlers? Every time the Deep State wanted to bomb, a new Hitler popped up.
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  29200. You are too kind my dear.
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  29201. I know this is superficial, but what is with AOC's voice? I see more and more of this.
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  29202. Where? When?
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  29203. Was that a parody?
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  29204.  @MRGUSTAVOCHICKENFRING  I believe you, but how did you know?
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  29205. ​ @utah_koidragon7117 These are all troll farm comments. You find them everywhere, suddenly.
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  29206. I'm frankly sorry to see how good Carlson has been. I won't hide my dislike of Tucker. Very disappointing that a person can trust him on this particular story more than any other major media. But Tucker did rely on a NYTimes story for the scoop on China's role. At least he got people to notice it. Everyone should read that. Harrowing!
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  29207. Very sorry.
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  29208. ​@Thezuule1 That has been illegal in the 7th Circuit for decades: AA imposes a religious faith, however abstract it may be. Hence, a court cannot order it. If a state-employed social worker believes AA is a good program, she has the freedom to say so, but must make it clear that it's a matter of personal choice.
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  29209. Oh. Is that why Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard immediately told their agencies not to respond?
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  29210.  @stevesmythe8556  Wow, thanks for helping me with that. Huh. It works in video games.
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  29211.  @stevesmythe8556  What made you think I disagree with you? Retrace your steps.
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  29212.  @stevesmythe8556  I agree. And I said the entire story will be tested in court. This little interview isn't definitive. So . . . ? The relevance?
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  29213. Animals are our real friends.
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  29214. I don't think it's obvious. She sounds like an average divorced mother.
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  29215. Plus alcohol or drugs or both.
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  29216.  @paulweeldreyer7457 I wasn't listing the elements of a defamation case, I was contrasting a potentially defamatory statement with something like a simple denial of an accusation, which is never defamatory. I'll have to look up the complaint and see what her claim was.
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  29217.  @jirikurto3859  Well, given that a jury believed her allegations and credited her testimony, that is sufficient legal proof that they were not a con job.
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  29218.  @jirikurto3859  You asked, I answered. If what you say is accurate, that means Trump is probably intellectually dishonest as well, and thus may be lying now. Especially when he has a clear and obvious interest and motive to lie.
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  29219. Megan Markle did have a miscarriage between Archie and this baby. She will be 40 years old this summer.
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  29220.  @harrynewhof3165  🤣🤣🤣 When none other than Tucker Carlson (!!) is correct (!!!) about the new style of lying, then you know society has hit a new low. Do you seriously think we can't find that video and see for ourselves? Or do you figure you can lie so that we won't?
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  29221. @xcell3217  I hope Shapiro has finally discredited himself in everyone's eyes. As a Harvard-trained lawyer, he could be taking a few cases every year, to actually do something about the causes he supposedly believes in, but he'd rather grift. Quick, dirty, and incredibly easy. You don't have to make your case, just bloviate, and when you know you're on thin ice, talk faster.
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  29222. You can't wave away the résumé studies so easily. One came from the U of Chicago. They were replicated many times. One even turned up anti-Russian discrimination. So, what's your solution?
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  29223. Yes, she's awful.
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  29224. But your cat lady slogans isn't helping your case, dear. If you want to alienate people who would agree with you . . .
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  29225. P. S. I agree with you.
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  29226. Confirmation is useful these days.
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  29227. Who condoned genocide?
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  29228. Just think: what they propose instead is BIDEN.
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  29229. I know ardent, life-long Republicans who brought Alexa, Siri, and other devices that spy on them into their house. The have children, too. I don't understand.
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  29230.  @ThnkDfrnt  Strawman. No one said they did. Give me a list of Western democracies that have no elective abortion. Roe never stood for the proposition that elective abortion was a protected right throughout pregnancy.
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  29231.  @ThnkDfrnt  Who is "we?" I live next to two states that just banned it.
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  29232.  @GoSlash27  Who do you think you're talking to?
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  29233.  @Saxxin1  I don't care how Americans live. I don't plan to stay here.
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  29234.  @Saxxin1  You must have missed my very first post -- or it is being hidden from your sensitive eyes. 😂
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  29235.  @GoSlash27  Far be it from me to deny a sliver of Schadenfreude. Make further fools of yourselves on the global stage, please. You cannot get most of Asia, Africa, and Latin America to condemn Putin for something that is clearly wrong, because they see through you.
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  29236.  @GoSlash27  I didn't cry over a "dreaded" diagnosis, or a burglary soon after. I'm non-Western. 😉🤣🤣🤣
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  29237.  @GoSlash27  "Who do you think you're talking to" is a question only you can answer, whether construed as literal or, quite obviously, not. I guess you're not too up on reading and logic yourself, huh? But repeating some nonsense cliche about popcorn presents no challenge at all.
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  29238.  @DarkEmpress925  You are correct. The law is clear. This was not a true threat. Much, much stronger and more specific language has been held to be protected speech. Why is there now a small handful of people who want to erode our most basic civil rights?
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  29239. @jwill9237  Not a true threat that can be criminalized consistent with our Bill of Rights. As you know by now.
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  29240.  @jwill9237  Blocked from my notifications for wasting my time. 😂
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  29241. Looks more like it every day.
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  29242. This is misleading. The Memorandum Opinion I just read states that several breach of contract claims against Harvard were not dismissed. It is dated Sept. 11, 2024. I checked, and the docket shows she has until mid-October to amend the complaint. Obviously she has no defamation case. She defamed these researchers, not vice versa. Whenever someone tells you about a case, look up the case. 😒
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  29243. Too short
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  29244. Kim said EXACTLY the opposite, loud and clear and several times. Why are you pretending she opposed free speech for anyone? Kim said free speech for all, no exceptions.
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  29245. I wonder about her mental health.
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  29246. Did this medium cause people's inner 14 year old to come out and take over?
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  29247. We have gender affirming care for that.
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  29248. Because he will make money there? It could happen.
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  29249. Well, as it turns out, we still don't know who was responsible for the hospital bombing. Do you think any of these will apologize for their commentary?
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  29250. @Will_Moffett  You didn't watch it, but . . . Briahna's video is not an interview of Kennedy but of Dr. Prasad, analyzing Kennedy's assertions. They take it slowly, point by point.
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  29251.  @codeheretic  I tend to think like you most of the time, but hear Jo out. She has a point.
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  29252. We need something to explain it. Something big.
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  29253.  @TheBandit7613  Who told you that?
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  29254. Sadly
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  29255.  @tairz2013  LOL, you're right.
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  29256. A perfect example of rejecting DEI in favor of merit. /s
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  29257. Once when I got a flu shot and got a mild flu anyway, my doctor told me to stay home as if it were a severe flu, to help other people.
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  29258. Original public meaning is what Scalia supported as the sole means of interpreting constitutional law. It's the most conservative method in common use.
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  29259. None of it close to true.
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  29260. Except that Trump was a fraud, too. A sheer con. It's always that way. Notice all the good ideas Bannon has that are never implemented. Think about why.
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  29261. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Wait. What if it's true?
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  29262.  @gnlout7403  So do I. You again failed to address my point. When someone comes up with a hysterical reaction and then some trivial something, granted that ad hominem in response cannot be justified, but it certainly can be explained. I say the same in all similar circumstances. After the last round of hysterical fearmongering we have been subjected to -- of course I speak of COVID -- I really cannot stand anymore . . . And in service of WHAT? You're the one who needs to think this through. Who, in the face of a THREAT, calls the police in the presence of the Threatening Person, when she could easily get away first and then report what happened? No one. And shame on anyone who refuses to acknowledge that. It is the most basic advice of what to do in the face of danger.
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  29263.  @gnlout7403  Went back and reread all my posts. Nope, no ad hominem. Where did you see any? You don't have the temperament for law enforcement if you see true threats where there are none.
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  29264.  @gnlout7403  When did I deny he said that? I demurred. It is not an objective threat. And I find fearmongering and all the other attempts at inducing irrational/hysterical fears very tiresome at this point. Blocked
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  29265. For what? Naming buildings and schools after major donors, instead of people of real stature? Agreed.
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  29266. Brilliant analogy
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  29267. The clearance rate for murder is very low, despite sophisticated forensics available today.
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  29268. Please send all this data to China!! Please please please . . .
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  29269. What you're trying to say is that prosecutorial discretion has limits --- selective prosecution is fundamentally wrong. Trump did that to Assange, as a matter of fact.
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  29270.  @cutekitten9856  I did, in other posts. Where did you?
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  29271. Biden pardoned the judge who put kids in juvenile custody for MONEY.
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  29272. It's another mob, and you haven't joined it. These are like cults. I'm worried about all the mobbing. It never seems to stop any more.
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  29273. ​ @EroticOnion23  Sounds like stuff that you can wear, eat, drink, cook with, or use to heat and cool your house . . . /s
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  29274.  @EroticOnion23  Your autocorrect went on strike, better tend to it?
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  29275.  @EroticOnion23  There is no measure by which the US and Canada are the second and third largest countries on the planet.
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  29276.  @EroticOnion23  China's landmass is larger than ours, though the fifth (Brazil) is significantly smaller.
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  29277. Did Depp already lose the defamation case in UK against a tabloid, before the ACLU got involved? What was the time line?
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  29278. Wait, dear. No one said 2024 would be Trump v. Biden.
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  29279. Oh Ben, Ben, this is what you did with your Harvard Law degree. Why don't you represent some homeschoolers or something?
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  29280. Our hero: Glenn
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  29281. The West has the ideological hegemony to create "unworthy" victims. Russia does not have that. No one knows how many civilians the US killed across the Middle East and in Africa. ("Shock and Awe") This is a rude reminder to the families of victims.
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  29282.  @PSOnoni  😅 thanks 😉
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  29283. ​ @2852DamsVult  Who can stand her?
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  29284. "She asked for it." "She had it coming."
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  29285. These PEOPLE are the best.
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  29286. The program with Briahna and Glenn focused on the First Amendment, not impeachment. This excerpt was misleading.
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  29287. Truth
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  29288. "Weaponized empathy?" Anyone who makes ANY claim of having been harmed is ridiculed and denounced in real life -- as a lot of the vaccine injured found out fast. These observations are about screen life. They are true on MSM and the Internet. They don't exist in reality.
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  29289. Those "DEMOCRATS" made more money than ever under Trump. Ask to see their portfolios.
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  29290. Hitler never set foot in North America.
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  29291.  @rockyfjord3753  It is true. Someone misled you somehow. A misprint? It was JESSE OWENS who got a ticker tape parade in NYC after the 1936 Olympics. Hitler never set foot on this continent, or on British soil, either.
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  29292.  @rockyfjord3753  Nor could you have a false memory. I assume you were not alive in 1936 to see it, or imagine you did. You were misled somehow.
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  29293.  @rockyfjord3753  Someone on Quora spread a story that Socrates wss fictional, and I had students who dudn't believe me that he existed. 🤣🤣🤣 🤡🌎
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  29294.  @rockyfjord3753  Aryanism in the Anglosphere predates Hitler. His brand of racism wasn't new with him, and having Nazi Germany destroy the Soviets was overtly hoped for. Nevertheless, Hitler never had a parade in New York.
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  29295.  @rockyfjord3753  You have no physical proof Plato existed, by that logic. He wrote stuff? Oh come on. Someone put the name "Plato" on some texts.
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  29296.  @rockyfjord3753  You know, you really are off. Get your head together before the next wave of catastrophes.
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  29297.  @rockyfjord3753  I have an advanced degree in ancient philosophy from Paris IV. Among other things. No interest in continuing with you.
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  29298.  @rockyfjord3753  You claimed I was just winging it, when that is what YOU do, obviously. Typical wh it emerkin, projecting to infinity. No, I actually devoted years to the study. What, do wh it emerkins just buy diplomas, or inherit them like titles? That would explain a lot. You think you're disciplined because you say you are? You just changed the definition of a ticker tape parade! 🤣🤣🤣
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  29299.  @rockyfjord3753  Also, it's TOUT, not "taut." Tout credentials. If you assert someone has none, expect to be contradicted on that point. I think we have a good idea of your knowledge base. So tell me, are you the creative type?
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  29300.  @rockyfjord3753  Well, yes, I do have better things to do than respond to your posts, but that's true of everyone. Tootles.
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  29301. The résumé studies were replicated many times. U of Chicago did one, and they are nobody's fools. Another major study found bias against both black-sounding and Russian-sounding names. Accept the reality.
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  29302. More speech is not censorship. Just the opposite.
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  29303.  @hmmm2357  Part of the proverbial Race to the Bottom? So. Who's winning?
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  29304.  @hmmm2357  He certainly is. And it's not an easy race.
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  29305.  @dlodge4966  The 1% want communism. Where do you get this???
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  29306.  @dlodge4966  Um, I think that is the percent that runs the government, and the lives of the rest of us on the planet.
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  29307. Very unfunny joke . . .
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  29308. Actually, that is exactly what it is: capitalism is the capture of all major institutions including communications and, above all, the government by monopoly capital. You have been propagandized to equate Adam Smith's Free Market with contemporary capitalism. I would love Adam Smith. It would be a huge improvement. Don't hold your breath.
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  29309.  @darkgardener9577  I'm placing it in time. Drop "contemporary," no problem.
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  29310.  @darkgardener9577  Go to h*ll with your comrade sh*t. That's all you know. Ever took a math class?
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  29311. @darkgardener9577  Where do you see "collective ownership?" Capture of political institutions by monopoly capital has nothing to do with collectivization. I was right. Take a math class. Start there. Be sure it's one that involves logic and designing proofs. Don't waste any more of MY time.
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  29312.  @shamsheerg7519  No kidding. Blocked.
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  29313. @daphnemichelejoyce427  Impaired fertility and sterilization is the usual side effect of early puberty blockers and cross sex hormones administered at a young age. People have fertility issues as it is.
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  29314.  @daphnemichelejoyce427  Get better information.
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  29315. The idea was to describe the syndrome, not determine its frequency. They are trying to find out something about those who have it.
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  29316. @timothywebber7404  I just reread the Discussion. This is precisely how you begin to probe the existence of a syndrome. It is analogous to case studies, where a careful description alerts us to what is possible, and may merit further investigation. It doesn't tell us anything about prevalence, or really anything else from which we can make any generalizations. What control group do you envision? There is no independent variable here except vaccination, which is correlated with the onset of certain symptoms within a one to eight day period. Once they define a constellation of symptoms that people who never interacted with one another independently report, would you recommend they try to find unvaccinated people experiencing the same symptoms and investigate them? I agree.
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  29317. @timothywebber7404  In law, to illustrate the difference between probative evidence and proof (sufficient to meet a given standard, like "beyond reasonable doubt"), our evidence professor used to say, "a brick is not a wall." Nor does it have to be, to be a brick.
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  29318.  @timothywebber7404  Correct. And?
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  29319. @timothywebber7404  Perhaps the rush to vaccinate people with pre-existing comorbidities should not have been done? Is that a possibility? Did the clinical trials that led to EUA have any such people in them? Have they been followed since? You know, it is going to be very difficult to figure out the contribution of vaccines and the contribution of COVID and COVID exposure to these syndromes. Among other things, people were pushed to get vaccinated after recovering from COVID. No one tested any vaccines on this population, either. Multivariate analysis is needed, and to do it right, researchers have to do it honestly. It takes impeccable ethics and careful judgment. Do you have faith in the system to do that? I have my doubts. The money isn't there, for one thing. There is a doctor on YouTube who removed every post that mentioned "multivariate analysis" --- even though such analysis might show that the vaccines are safer than they appear to be so far. This doctor is a tool. How many more are like him?
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  29320. "Question begging" In informal logic, assuming what you are trying to prove, and (usually) disguising that move. "Begs the question" The known facts lead directly to the given question, which is not only well-founded, but crucial to understanding the issue.
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  29321.  @jacqdanieles  It's the dream of most people, if you count Asia, Africa, Latin America.
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  29322.  @robertsuchocki7908  Now the shooter will suffer grave consequences if his safety was not in danger and he used lethal force to defend an unoccupied, parked car. That is illegal.
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  29323. Too late for a vaccine for him.
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  29324. Stick to your yoga self-improvement. Breath.
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  29325. Overall, yes. BUT not for all of them.
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  29326. No. She asked for suggestions on how to defeat bias.
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  29327.  @ghostofmookie  This.
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  29328. "What's not to like?" /s 😀
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  29329. Nah. Too weak.
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  29330. Not to mention Normandy butter. And I don't eat butter.
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  29331. WHEW!!!!! Exhale.
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  29332. ​@bean-spiller Rail workers wanted to strike for sick days while we were in a pandemic, and Biden blocked it. Biden is systematically supporting aid to Ukraine over the welfare of working Americans, even those caught up in horrendous tragedies like people in Ohio and Hawaii. Biden has no problem with fighting inflation the way that hurts workers the most, by having the Fed raise interest rates. You can say the Fed decides, and it does, but the politicians do influence the Fed. This is the Reagan approach. Biden always privileges Wall Street over the real economy. They all do.
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  29333. ​@andrewdegeorge9649 Well, this dictator who invaded another country just scored another coup, and not incidentally, one that is good for his economy and not good for the dollar: scores of countries want to join BRICS, and among the six that will join soon are Argentina, Ethiopia, and Egypt, not to mention the Saudis. Mexico has expressed interest in joining, and Turkey (a NATO member) is interested in the proposed currency, if and when it is issued. Your mainstream media is leading you down a primrose path. For the record, I am opposed to Putin, but facts are facts. I was surprised that this happened during the war. Ponder that. I thought the war was causing the BRICS to fray. One would think so, huh? Oops.
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  29334.  @rudistorm3348  Well, but do "MAGA" people have any grasp of politics? What does it matter if they can't? Who expects them to?
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  29335. Wait until Used Car Salesman Vivek cuts your Social Security. Watch 14:57 to the end.
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  29336. So LOOK UP AND SEE what Vivek says about cutting Social Security. Just, do it.
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  29337. 1. Evident why the Bidens will not sue for defamation. 2. UNDER OATH We need people like this to be closely examined under oath. I simply don't care about jawboning, and then someone makes a buck without earning it, and then nothing happens --- as usual.
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  29338. MERCI
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  29339. No wonder we had vaccine mandates. No one has ethics. Socrates was right to doubt it can be taught.
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  29340.  @ffffnnnnul2125  There are rules for war. Are you at war with your neighbors? Why would that not surprise me?
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  29341. @DarkPassenger  Among other things, attacks on any resources actually essential to maintaining the lives of civilians, especially minor children, is prohibited by the Geneva Conventions.
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  29342. The Guardian put up a video entitled something like Mourning a queen, . . . the view from Britain’s streets, about 3 months ago. I hope I'm not shadowed for recommending it. It provides stark and graphic evidence of what you just wrote.
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  29343. All of the people in this picture make easy money. And lots of it. I'm guessing most of the people commenting here work for real?
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  29344. Now that we know Bill Gates was a Friend of Jeffrey/Lolita Express Traveler, how can we withdraw from using the things he's invested in?
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  29345. Follow the money?
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  29346.  @brockreynolds870  Did anyone force the lady to take Advil? Did politicians and doctors actively lie about the risks associated with Advil? Was the lady threatened with loss of livelihood if she were to decline to take Advil? Did Advil first come on the market in 2021, as a Emergency Use Authorization drug? Did anyone tell her that her failure to take Advil could kill grandmas everywhere? No, huh?
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  29347.  @brockreynolds870  "Might as well be mandated, because everyone takes it." Ha ha ha . . . if everyone does it, it's the same as being forced. You really are intellectually bankrupt. Who hires you to do anything? BTW, I have never once taken an Advil. There are safer ways to deal with pain.
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  29348. Think about maybe listening to the entire report? Or something.
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  29349. If a SINGLE ONE of these people would ADMIT they do not know what they quite obviously DO NOT KNOW, and propose STUDIES, and basically act scientifically humble, it would be quickly forgiven. All they have to do is the right thing right now. But they won't. Why?
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  29350. Only one I believe.
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  29351. No.
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  29352.  @barefootjakejake7765  This chain-link fence analogy is pure nonsense. Read Nassim Taleb on risk mitigation. He will explain it to you.
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  29353.  @hrs2044  Do you disagree that vaccinated people need not wear masks outdoors, other than in crowds (which should probably not happen in the first place, at least not yet)? Personally, I don't understand the resistance to masks. It defeats facial-recognition software.
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  29354.  @barefootjakejake7765  Are you sure? That's bad news.
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  29355. Super point!
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  29356. Yeah, that's what you say now, but JUST WAIT until Osama bin Laden gets his dirty paws on that disappearing ink recipe.
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  29357. ​@jayostis8839 Stop and frisk requires PRIOR reasonable suspicion. Arbitrary, racially motivated, or random stop and frisk is a Fourth Amendment violation --- but don't think "qualified immunity" won't get squeezed in to prevent the person who gets stopped and frisked from getting compensated.
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  29358. Everything she said was true. You need a Hollywood movie with a Hero and a happy ending?
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  29359. She has exhausted one mine and now needs to find another.
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  29360.  @lurice0  Why would she? It makes her look bad.
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  29361. Which ones? Where?
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  29362. @easy_sheetmusic_play_along  Those were either studies her organization promoted, or where she was a case study and described her experience.
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  29363.  @easy_sheetmusic_play_along  I responded. Cents erred
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  29364. When Glenn reviews those anti-Republican tweets he made just recently, you wonder why Tucker invites him. Maybe Tucker has a modicum of character, despite a lot of his repugnant positions.
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  29365. Girls, at least at my playlot in blue collar Chicago.
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  29366.  @michaellong9214  👍
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  29367. Wait. Y'mean tweets don't run my car? WTF???
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  29368. She does know why people support Trump. That's the disingenuous part. Most of the rest I believe.
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  29369. @jameshurst6119  Huh? I wouldn't let Trump in my house, any sooner than I'd let in Hunter Biden on a bender.
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  29370. Most trauma victims will either experience panic attacks, or become emotionally numb, or both in succession. These are two of the most deeply painful psychological states a human being can experience.
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  29371. What are the significant risks from the vaccines? How do these rates compare with the risks of other, commonly-used vaccines that we all have taken? In countries that have comprehensive social safety nets, including universal health and universal disability -- and universal post-secondary education -- it makes sense to do what you advocate. How does it make sense where a vaccine injury could bankrupt you or have you end up in the street? It is evident we are on our own. I agree with your subtext -- if no other countries used these vaccines, no way would I consider them, based only on CDC, FDA, etc., recommendations. BTW, in France the CGT organized a demonstration of vaccinated health care workers in support of their unvaccinated colleagues and against mandates. All the comments below the video praised them for their humanity. CGT is communist-allied. Maybe listen to this whole video again.
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  29372. "You have to be a complete moron to question . . . " Sorry, not an argument. We have enough data to be handling this illness better. Someone needs to demand some real answers.
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  29373. Brie, it's pernicious when we don't know that DNC is paying people who pretend to be independent voices.
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  29374. We are the only major country without Universal Healthcare, and the one with the most COVID deaths. The whole world is watching.
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  29375.  @shawncrawford3146  Because this time, we have known what was at stake for years and years. The DNC acted as though this were an ordinary year. It isn't.
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  29376. No, she's not just "curating" -- she accuses other people of crimes against children, and calls for the arrest of people who are doing nothing more than exercising their First Amendment rights, albeit really stupidly. I don't agree with doxxing --- but anyone who uses social media as a journalist (which Libs of Tik Tok did), and who denounces others as responsible for the worst crimes, has to provide SOME way to be contacted. Glenn himself is remarkably accessible, at serious danger to himself in fact. Glenn is right, though, that the celebration of the doxxing is purely ideological and hypocritical. Disgusting.
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  29377. You just disagree with me. You just do not see that. 🤣
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  29378.  @srs-swooz  To be serious for a change, I think collecting those Tik Tocs was fine. (You know some aren't real, right? They're parodies.) In any case, it was a good idea. I support it. Calling for people to be arrested for First Amendment-protected speech/expression, on the other hand, is a bad idea. Is this too tough for you? Please let us know in the comments. 😂
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  29379. 10:37 "It doesn't effin matter." It does matter, Jimmy. It makes things worse. Talking without acting is WORSE than not talking at all. Talking and doing nothing is vastly more demoralizing than not saying anything. AOC et al are trying to get you to believe that "nothing is possible." They are spirit killers. "Everyone is the same." "Everyone sells out for a Vogue shoot." "Everyone loves money most." This is the big LIE.
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  29380. Three kids
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  29381. ​@Lerian_V Read his biography carefully and see what conclusions you draw.
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  29382. So . . . Microdosing isn't such a good idea after all huh?
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  29383. Er . . . The original peoples weren't colonialists. You've never read a history book on America during "colonial times?"
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  29384. Name one Russian or Greek founder . . . lol.
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  29385. Not much unites us.
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  29386.  @silasbishop3055  Well, thanks to speaking three languages, I have somewhere to go. Every "Next Big Thing" that was cooked up over the last four decades has "somehow" harmed my family. Yet somehow, someone else made a hefty buck, though --- every time. And you think assimilation is the issue? Wake up. On second thought, never mind. Sauve qui peut la vie.
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  29387.  @silasbishop3055  Thanks for letting us know who you are.
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  29388.  @silasbishop3055  Why? I'm not part of it.
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  29389.  @silasbishop3055  How is a multilingual person weak?
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  29390.  @silasbishop3055  Immigrants are the least decadent people here, especially those with strong ties to where they came from. During this shooting, parents of Mexican descent wanted to storm the shooter. Take a good look at who stopped them.
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  29391.  @silasbishop3055  Oh I get it. I failed to buy shares of stock in gun manufacturers on Monday. Yup, you got me there. Okay, sigh . . . you win.
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  29392. So . . . Why are they misprescribed to tens of millions, to be used for years?
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  29393.  @ChucksSEADnDEAD  Ha ha ha . . . don't be a fool. Get your cut for that one! BTW, what's the going rate for that? I don't know if it's very good. . . . Unless it's false flag. That might "create value."
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  29394. ​ @jamesgaffney3873 You're falling for that? 😂😂😂 He wasn't living off his family. They reported him missing.
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  29395. Krystal outdoes herself every day lately.
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  29396. You mean like Congress? No, they have a right to pass unconstitutional laws.
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  29397. Nobody in Hollywood is going to do anything that might cost them 5 cents in taxes.
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  29398. No bearing on it.
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  29399. Exactly
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  29400. Pfft. First comment I've seen not worthy of a response besides 🤣🤣🤣 Guess what? It IS possible to disagree with someone without starting a smear campaign.
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  29401.  @ashleygraham1011  Laughed at you first.
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  29402. Who reported on Jeffrey Epstein? Who stands up against illegal harassment at work, even of minors? I have never once seen it happen.
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  29403. False
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  29404. If he predicted this right, he gets a lot money for being first. It's about money for him, too.
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  29405. Alexander Cockburn was willing to join with The American Conservative on the issue of peace.
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  29406. 8:08 Democrats are warmongers. It makes sense that they want to hide "dual-use" research.
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  29407. The line about the president needing to be able to speak on American history was right. Jackie Kennedy could do that.
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  29408. No.
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  29409. The vaccine, such as it is, was developed during the prior administration. But it was THIS administration that supported mandates.
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  29410. That makes it worse.
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  29411.  @Kenboslice3  🤣🤣🤣 Funny but not funny. :/
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  29412. Saw some videos of Elian Gonzalez all grown up. He has only the kindest things to say about America and wants to visit. His relatives in Florida denounce him, and talk about how his father never paid them back the money they spent on him, when it was a miracle he survived the shipwreck alive.
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  29413.  @djangokill65  The videos are weird.
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  29414. Shows how scared he is, not to have seen his mistake.
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  29415.  @jenniferhigber595  And he's not even a dude. I bet Joe Rogan knows about his kids. And I'm not even a fan. But I bet anything he does. Literally nothing solid about Ryan, as we come to find out.
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  29416. The burden is on Trump to PROVE outcome-changing fraud. Do you get that part? That's what it would take. You see any evidence? Even less than for Russiagate? Something like that?
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  29417.  @x7xDJx7x  It's called court. Any evidence of fraud has to be entered into evidence there. I have no opinion on how the case(s) will turn out.
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  29418. You're a baaaad person. Baaaa
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  29419. P. S. Trivial, but cool: love how Jimmy says "my wife," rather than "my partner." (In Chicago we used to say "partner in crime" as a joke, but not "partner.")
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  29420.  @HalfMaester1  You don't know that she's being abused.
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  29421.  @HalfMaester1  Exactly the contrary. People egging Claudia on in the new media are exploiting her. She is a minor. I don't have any opinion on her emancipation except to hope that if she needs to be emancipated, she will be. What she says to a counselor, psychiatrist, or lawyer is strictly confidential. And family court records are almost always sealed. THAT is how it should go. And reread what Williamson said. You are totally misrepresenting it. YOU are the one attacking people, and in America today, somehow everybody is claiming that someone else is doing exactly what they themselves are doing. Used to be only Trump and his minions were that dim.
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  29422.  @HalfMaester1  "You spent your day attacking a depressed child." How sick are you??
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  29423.  @EMJean99  Okay, you're right about everything. No. Really. I see that now.
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  29424. He's wrong.
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  29425. Hmm . . . When you put it that way . . .
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  29426. ​ @miscthings2559  This is a problem.
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  29427.  @ferrouswheel2677  Negligence isn't a criminal offense. A person has a moral duty to call 911, but unless they are responsible for creating the risk, or are a parent or spouse of a person who is in danger, they have no legal duty to call. That's true even if calling could have saved them.
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  29428. ​​ @eldenfindley186  Because others do even worse, yes. That's sad.
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  29429. Never happens.
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  29430.  @joeyharper4976  There's something to destroy? I thought Wall Street got that done 16 years ago. The rest is hand waving and bombs.
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  29431.  @Mkrake2024  It's a distraction. Quite an effective one, too.
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  29432.  @joeyharper4976  My comment on the banking system went poof.
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  29433.  @MrJoey321red  De facto, they're not? According to whom?
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  29434. Not what the actual reports say. The surge in opioid deaths alone created a higher excess death rate than that.
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  29435. Tomboys are the best! How dare anyone "treat" them in dangerous ways that could deprive them of the choice to be birth parents someday? The "treatment" used to be reading Pipi Longstocking.
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  29436.  @AwakenedAvocado  A normal woman is an adult female human who does not need extensive gender reassignment surgery or lifelong maintenance on dangerous drugs to support her gender identity. You treat dysphoria because it is not normal. It is a condition requiring treatment. Medicaid and private insurance should cover it, American With Disabilities Act should protect anyone who has it, whatever treatment they decide to opt for or not, fair housing should protect the people who have it, other workplace laws should, in addition to ADA, etc.
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  29437.  @AwakenedAvocado  Why? What did you think?
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  29438. Nancy Pelosi needs a job. Oh, she has one! Nancy Pelosi needs to do the job she has. If not now, when?
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  29439. No one can deny that a remarkable number of dead bodies are of people who were one or two degrees of separation from the Clintons. Baseless accusations are one thing, but let's be honest -- would you let a Clinton into your house? Nope, I'm fine, thanks.
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  29440. Of course.
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  29441. That was the video. Look up the indictment.
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  29442. I clicked the link and found it.
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  29443.  @mattbarneveld815  Wow. Thanks. Yes, "banned" is too strong a word here. It was not made illegal; existing supplies were not confiscated or destroyed; they may have been retired from use. Other probable side effects that Dr. Campbell asserts have reported do not appear to have been taken into consideration when AZ was discontinued, but TTS -- which is very serious and has resulted in deaths -- certainly was explicitly cited by the Australian government. Considering the draconian penalties attached to declining a vaccine, this is a BIG STORY. Sadly. Look at the big picture. It is not pretty.
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  29444.  @iamwhoiam7773  Your comment: best in class. Maybe best in century.
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  29445.  @emeryt45  Why don't you check the facts instead?
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  29446. @emeryt45  If wild speculation is your cup of tea, then I think this guy is an alphabet-agency asset. The cases he lost, the cases his acolytes have lost, plus the fact that he's not in prison at least gives some credence to that theory.
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  29447. @emeryt45  FYI, I saved a widow's home after her tax protester husband destroyed the family's entire life savings, then died. This is not innocuous stuff -- but if you fall for it, no one will take pity on you. That I can promise.
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  29448. @emeryt45  Why don't you verify what I said instead?
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  29449. 46:22
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  29450. She'll never have that money.
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  29451. What is this new word, "cancer??" Over 5300 women are diagnosed with breast cancer every week, and that's just one form of cancer. I'm seeing this word everywhere now, especially on business websites. You'd think people would be more enlightened during a pandemic.
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  29452. Douglas Murray? You poor thing.
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  29453. THIS is the real question. BTW, the measles vaccine is one of the most investigated, and it seems that most children's immune systems are primed by the measles vaccine, so that they show greater resistance to various infectious diseases in general, not just measles -- which is what childhood vaccines are supposed to do. Not all of them do, unfortunately. Not to mention your question about the sheer number administered so early on.
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  29454. What is truly a shame is that there are a handful of traditional vaccines that we know, based on generations of use, are beneficial for the vast majority of young people -- but any intervention has got to be individualized. In any case, kids are now getting this JUNK, and skipping the beneficial vaccines. Unbelievable. Of course people have lost faith. The establishment has broken faith with us.
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  29455. Tiens . . . on le savait.
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  29456. It's the fault of the unvaccinated. Not only that, Jimmy, but the unvaccinated are Putin puppets.
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  29457.  @zamfambam  Obvious coaching. Why did thousands of kids tell tales during the so-called "satanic panic?"
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  29458. WHY do people hesitate to get vaccinated? Could it be the fact that we don't have M4A, so that younger people without insurance hesitate? Because they don't feel they will be taken care of if something goes wrong? Could that be it? Seniors on Medicare are getting the shot. Not pushing M4A now was so immoral.
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  29459. Megyn loves to go after other women. Remember when it was Candace Owens, right after she gave birth? 😂
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  29460. Why should we listen to someone who says he was "tricked" into consenting to puberty blockers for his son? He will be deciding public policy. This Emily has a job and is paying her bills so that we don't have to. People with her medical history get on disability all the time.
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  29461. Right. China should manufacture all of our vehicles for our armed forces. What could go wrong?
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  29462. @Parialated  Go for it. I'm against US global hegemony so please keep it up.
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  29463. @Lerkero  WHICH "industries?" Ford was doing a great job, and had to sell Volvo to a Chinese corporation. The "industry" that failed was the investment banking industry, which produces nothing tangible. It is parasitic. Of course Wall Street will never pay.
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  29464. Nothing. You have a right to remain silent. They can hold you for 72 hours without charges. After that, they have to charge you or let you go. Confessions to police are to help them to hold you over for charges. It can never help you to confess to them. In fact, anything you might misstate can be considered obstruction of justice or be used to impeach your credibility later. A full and truthful confession can only help once you've talked to a lawyer and you decide to approach the prosecution. They did not have enough to hold him at the time of this interrogation. It's not evident that they would have had enough within the 72 hour window.
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  29465. Yes, that case was just decided.
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  29466. ​ @jailman1  Wait. Are you this crazy? It's not possible. No one is this crazy.
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  29467.  @zahrans  Um, someone who doesn't have to worry about money will be inclined to pontificate about such matters.
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  29468. Where did that come from??
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  29469. You forgot Buffalo already, huh?
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  29470. Worked for Nancy. $$$
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  29471.  @sugadagud3093  Wait, wasn't your post SATIRE?
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  29472.  @sugadagud3093  Thought so.
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  29473. Great idea! /s
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  29474. Wow, Goggins looks younger again. Wow, seriously. He had some health issues --- stress fractures and things. I see he recovered and became stronger again.
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  29475. Source? We saw Jimmy's source on the screen.
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  29476. I see a lot of people agree with you. I don't know what it is, but I never look twice at guys who look like this.
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  29477. He is constantly saying what he desperately needs to hear. Poor guy
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  29478. I take 30 mg about twice a week. Plenty.
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  29479. You tell me.
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  29480. Le Pen will do exactly nothing to change the material conditions of the French.
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  29481. ​@sethboooooi23245 The problem is that it is. Most people have to work until age 70. What do you think you can do for the last 20 years of that period? Why do you think police and firefighters retire to a second career? Why do you think retired teachers take part-time jobs? And they all have pensions.
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  29482. We voted for Caligula, how come we got Caligula??
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  29483. Classic, isn't it?
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  29484.  @somebodyontheinternet1090  All true, 100 percent
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  29485.  @mikecar52  Amen, in my book.
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  29486. He's drawing an analogy between antibiotic overuse and "leaky" vaccines because it is something lay people are familiar with. Of course they are not the same. If a virus can replicate in any host, vaccinated OR unvaccinated, there exists a risk of more infectious mutations occurring.
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  29487.  @igbc176  That would be plausible if "breakthrough" infections were rare, and if the vaccinated were taking the same precautions as the unvaccinated to avoid infection. As for your last line, enough with the name calling and ad hom. Jimmy and Stef WERE vaccinated. Malone thinks high risk people should be.
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  29488.  @igbc176  You are so angry. Do you regret getting vaccinated, or are you a false flag, surreptitiously working to discourage vaccination? This is what I think of all the ad hom crowd, starting with Kimmel. He's clearly worried at night about having taken the vaccine. He should chill.
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  29489.  @igbc176  As I said in another thread: "Mutations in bacteria and in viruses arise spontaneously, and in general are more likely to arise the greater the rate of replication. (Yet the four major variants of COVID, including Delta, did not arise in the United States, even though the US has the most COVID cases in the world. There's an element of unpredictability due to randomness at work here. We could of course find that the next variant starts here.) A mutant bacterium or virus is not "stronger" because it is exposed to an antibiotic or an antibody that doesn't kill it, nor does it become "stronger" because it wasn't killed. The mutant organism does not have the genetic features that make such microbes highly susceptible to the existing antibiotics or antibodies, purely due to chance. It survives, and thus may replicate, and thus also may pass on the genetic features (the "mutation") that made it less susceptible to antibiotics or antibodies to the next microbe generation. When you have infected but asymptomatic or barely symptomatic vaccinated people circulating with a false sense of security, that spells trouble. Time to admit it." This us how it works.
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  29490.  @stereotype5868  Exactly. So, everyone is hiding this? What are other countries saying, if anything?
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  29491. Nice way to make Glenn's point. Nah. Not even.
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  29492. The two parties most like the Republicans and the Democrats LOST. 😅
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  29493.  @thekentuckyan8088  "French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is at it, again: it has chosen to republish the derogatory cartoons of Prophet Muhammad which provoked a violent attack against it in 2015. The editors say it is “essential” to reprint these on the eve of the trial of the perpetrators of that violence." From Sept 2020
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  29494.  @ffffnnnnul2125  Except that it's wrong. Major corporations spend more on LOBBYING than they pay in taxes. And rather than paying taxes, and reducing the federal deficit, they buy Treasuries and get paid INTEREST, from the federal government, which means those very same tax revenues they are able to avoid. In the meantime, it is they who need the court system (and its police power) to assert their intellectual property rights and thrash out their contract claims, it is they who need 700 bases in 80 countries to police the global shipping lanes and prop up the dollar as global reserve currency . . . get it? Just keep looking. This stuff isn't too tough to understand. You could start by taking a look at what was done by the government during the pandemic, and who profited the most, as well as how each little decision seemed to have an independent, "scientific" basis, but all of them together pointed in one direction.
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  29495. That is why a series of Supreme Court cases allowed for affirmative action and taking into account diversity based on race. Read the cases and find out.
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  29496. @gordonstewart8897 Quora is no authority for anything. It's a very good discussion platform, but that is all.
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  29497. @gordonstewart8897  Have you yourself ever reviewed a syllabus from Harvard? Have you tried reading what's on it? I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying you have no basis for that statement. At any rate, the hardest part of any desirable school or job may indeed be getting in the door, but that does not mean the demands are not high once you are admitted. Sometimes they are high to the point of being unfair. Yale had a lawsuit against it for discrimination against those with significant health issues, especially mental health. No state school pushes anyone out for such a reason, or creates barriers to readmission. Not everyone can meet Rhodes Scholar standards, or should have to. Certain issues are ubiquitous among the most talented.
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  29498. Not to mention FAA. If you think Boeing is bad now, . . .
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  29499. You guys are excellent.
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  29500.  @EbluestarE  Law? LOL
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  29501.  @EbluestarE  Ever worked for one?
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  29502.  @EbluestarE  About any law firm I have ever worked for or known about, yes. They consider themselves so far above the hoi polloi, they would never allow it. Would they tell a client to do it at its business, as insurance against discrimination claims, provided it would not result in "reverse" discrimination claims? If they thought it would be effective, and they got paid well for the advice, OF COURSE.
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  29503. True. Until one day it does.
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  29504.  @jcsjcs9777  I'm more optimistic, but optimism is just a feeling, not a fact. I appreciate your point, though.
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  29505. Not from this excerpt.
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  29506.  @drewgotit3569  Once burned, twice shy. But in principle you are right.
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  29507. Perfectly said.
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  29508. He misspoke. This was immediately after the verdict.
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  29509. Unless you're a mass shooter like Crimo. No worries.
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  29510. Uvalde police: "Teachers left a door propped open."
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  29511. Well you were free to day trade from your laptop from home.
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  29512. Exactly
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  29513. To surprise people that someone like her is not a Musk cheerleader.
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  29514. Yes. Goodness is rare, evil much more rare, but base mediocrity is so much bigger than anyone with a grain of ethics could ever believe. The mediocre will get you every time.
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  29515.  @XRinger  You mean, these folks over 50 have all lived outside the country?
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  29516.  @XRinger  I know what happened. The Red Army defeated the Wehmacht, causing close to 80% of all the casualties inflicted on the Nazis in WWII. They themselves suffered the equivalent about 10,000 9/11s on a smaller population base (you see how crazed we were after just one), and yet they produced Sputnik, a Gagarin, and an Arkhipov, all impossible under such a system. I lived in France when PCF was in the coalition government. It was fine. Great quality of life. I know this isn't working. I wonder whether you still count on robots to save you (or slay you.) Something like that. At least we have Facebook and financial engineering, real testaments to human creativity and spirit. You did not expect to read this.
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  29517. ​ @deadgolfer6345 Sure they were. Do you know how banks work?
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  29518. But SHE GOT THE MONEY. You don't get it yet?
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  29519.  @jocksharerock7318  The issue is whether Greenwald is a "reactionary." That issue was addressed.
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  29520. This is how it actually goes: The hyperrich get government contracts and tax breaks, because they are "job creators." They use their earnings to lobby for more preferential treatment from government, including the ability to offshore jobs. Then instead of paying taxes, they buy T bonds. Then, tax revenues go straight to them to pay the interest on those T bonds. Neat, huh? 🤗 The students are poor because they didn't do that. 😂
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  29521.  @raindogs451  See a (real) neurologist. That response wasn't even marginally normal. Blocked.
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  29522. If Hillary Clinton believes Putin interfered in the 2016 presidential election, that is newsworthy, even if it turns out to be batsh-t crazy.
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  29523.  @jamesredbow6346  I love Dr. Cornel West. Gentle chiding for saying "twat." I mean come on. It's the 21st century . . . ??
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  29524. She looks and sounds paid off to me.
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  29525. Wow all the people Russiagating for free must feel real stupid right now.
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  29526. Voyeurism
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  29527. AND . . . Bari Weiss is starting her very own university, to get back to the "first principles" of free thought and free speech, and evaluation based on merit. You cannot make this stuff up. (What were her qualifications before October 7? Slim to none?)
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  29528. She sure does.
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  29529.  @Semper_Iratus  Too bad you were unwanted and grew up to hate those who were loved.
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  29530.  @Semper_Iratus  blocked Please keep it up. I like to clean up my thread.
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  29531.  @Semper_Iratus  They did practice choice. Were you a "you play, you pay" child?
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  29532. I actually don't care about this. I want an insider trading investigation instead.
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  29533. Okay, we want to hear them. Okay, six of them.
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  29534. 7:09 is crucial.
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  29535. Yeah, I just love the trend of denouncing something no one needs and didn't know they wanted but rushing out to get one for yourself. Has that Environmentalists With Private Jets and Yachts vibe, doesn't it?
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  29536. Yes. He was just a late bloomer, and never got "straight As." But that he wasn't a good student by the time he was 14 or 15 is a myth.
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  29537. ​ @mE-zx7pt It has been happening to them since 2008.
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  29538. "It was like, you know, a proxy war, like, you know, sideline dictators, like, we are anti-imperialists, you know . . . " -- Who ARE these clowns?? 57:23 . . . And it gets worse. Wow.
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  29539. And here I could have sworn Marx was a materialist, tracing the origins of his thought to pre-Socratic times.
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  29540. Oh we are? When college grads cannot do the math that high school grads of 1960 could do, and we are more and more responsible for our own retirement, medical care, financial planning, savings and investments? The grades and degrees are inflated. That is not the same thing.
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  29541. 8:08 Preach, Jimmy!
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  29542. 💯
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  29543.  @rdub5999  So, no national guard? No trained personnel? Just let the self-appointed vigilantes come. You tell me to get real?
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  29544.  @rdub5999  I don't need or want an idiot like this "defending" me. What freedoms? You have got to be kidding. Is everyone stark raving mad now?
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  29545.  @rdub5999  Did he finish high school? Where does he go to school? Has he read a book this year? He's too young to sign most contracts. He's too young to vote. He's below the age of consent in NY and California. He can't buy a drink anywhere, or a pack of cigs in many places. He can't sell a six-pack at the grocery. MADNESS.
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  29546.  @rdub5999  As a matter of fact, I do not support charging or trying him as an adult. He strikes me as not fully abled!
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  29547.  @rdub5999  What's that supposed to mean? Whoever wins, America has a non-neurotypical president. I don't plan to vote. Go elect Kyle when he's old enough. That about the level of common sense.
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  29548. Well, can you afford to buy a Senator?
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  29549.  @georgehugh3455  If you aren't being paid, and paid well, I have NO respect for you.
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  29550.  @georgehugh3455  Nothing you said is correct. If you blather for free, the joke is on you. Nobody with a brain does that.
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  29551.  @Yondainc  Okay, I get it now. My mom was from a similar ethnic group as Melania's late mother. WE don't like it. 😊
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  29552.  @saraw8503  "In fact, I like a He-Man." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  29553. No one.
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  29554. Okay. HOW can we blame anyone who suspects COVID is "a hoax?" Do you see the politicians acting as though we are in a national emergency? The emergency is to line their own pockets.
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  29555. Which ones?
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  29556.  @althunder4269  "Swine?" If you ever feel any illegal impulse, please seek counseling. You're welcome.
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  29557.  @althunder4269  I don't do either. Not in this century.
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  29558. Absolutely superb report. Delighted to see this, one "truth bomb" after another.
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  29559. All of the French sources I'm listening to are not holding back one bit. I don't know what you're listening to.
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  29560.  @Sars1-k6f  All of their shows with anchors who are pro-Macron and grill LFI leadership, which describes pretty much their entire MSM.
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  29561.  @Sars1-k6f  I don't know why my simple answer, without links, of course, is no longer around.
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  29562. 4:44 THANK YOU JIMMY . . . we are the Iraqis and Afghans now. What they did to us does not count.
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  29563. Darvio Morrow trying his best to keep it real.
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  29564. Stefanik duped you, huh?
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  29565. Reminds me of An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser. Tampered evidence. WHY??? It is always wrong.
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  29566. She may not need to improve her performance. She may need to improve her job hunting skills.
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  29567. Of course. Your nose belongs in another marriage. I'm sure your own is shooting stars and firecrackers.
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  29568. Reminds me of Joe Paterno. I remember believing him that he just didn't know. Then right before the truth came out, he passed away.
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  29569. How is it that in the 1960s, Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe could live in New York City on minimum wage, and start their art careers? Why do you think there is so little opportunity now?
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  29570. Amanpour is being disingenuous, perhaps? Has she sought to interview Putin since he escalated the war in Ukraine? Evidence?
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  29571.  @Rusty_Spy  Trump had a personality cult, based on ersatz "strength." He changed his tune every 24 hours, then claimed he didn't. He signed on to what any flatterer put in front of him, whether it be bombing Syria, executing an Iranian general via drone, or trying to flip Venezuela -- none of which the DNC opposed, by the way. He and Fauci played Good Cop, Bad Cop on COVID, he knew about it in January and hid what he knew, and failed to stand in Fauci's way when Fauci wanted to end the moratorium on gain-of-function research. It should have been strengthened. I agree about not letting a day go by without challenging the DNC from the left. Why do you think AOC doesn't? Better yet, why do establishment Dems need to be pushed so hard and still won't go?
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  29572. There are actually people who can make it look like Amber has special expertise. Yes. This is accurate. There are.
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  29573.  @VincentVegas64  You will find a companion. One will come into your life, you'll see.
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  29574. I can verify most of this, in fact.
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  29575.  @justinshin2279  All right. Let's presume that all the medical and scientific community who advocate mass vaccination have the best motives. This does not mean that the consensus is correct. You don't perceive the intense pressure to conform? I've never seen anything like it in the realm of science or medicine. Succumbing to pressure is the most human thing to do, but you can't call it noble. The people who do it don't believe they are doing it. And we have policy decisions to make which must be open to discussion. The way the actual news is trickling in is not painting a good picture. A fully vaccinated person with a breakthrough infection may be less likely to be a super spreader, but that is not clear. Not anymore. The Guardian just reported that teen boys have a higher risk of hospitalization for myocarditis from the mRNA vaccines than they do from a COVID infection. The Swiss ministry of health considers a person fully vaccinated if they had a proven COVID infection and then received ONE shot of an mRNA vaccine. India did use ivermectin as a prophylactic in certain areas, and the WHO strongly criticized that decision. (I have not found clearly credible reports on the result of that choice, and I remember thinking at first that it was a rumor. That is pathetic.) Do you see consistency here? Or good reasons to question what we are being ordered to do? This is a new virus, and a relatively new technology that has never been pressed into mass use before. That usually means proceed with caution, and justify your steps. Persuade people, rather than bully them. Why doesn't it this time? I had a bad impression of Malone simply because he agreed to appear on Bret Weinstein's show, and Weinstein opposes vaccination. Well, Jimmy and Stef WERE vaccinated, and Malone had COVID and does believe that certain groups should be vaccinated. I don't think that everything Malone says in this segment is true, but I don't find him to be generally lacking in credibility or doing any kind of disservice. We NEED to reason this through. The top-down diktat is causing chaos. We're now in a world where Russell Brand is making more sense than most people. Good gawd.
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  29576.  @justinshin2279  We don't even have a clear picture whether "breakthrough" infections are merely that, or are evidence of vaccine failure. Vaccine failure would be when the vaccinated are in hospitals and on ventilators, can we agree? That may be starting to happen, but we cannot be sure yet. Do we have evidence for the safety and efficacy of boosters? No. It's too soon to tell. We do have tons of censorship, though.
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  29577.  @justinshin2279  I wrote two fact-based, well sourced replies. Let's see if they both stay up or are removed.
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  29578.  @justinshin2279  I just saw that one of my factual posts in another thread was taken down. I'm an attorney, expert witness testimony is one of my specialities, and my Master's is in ancient philosophy and philosophy of science. I take truth EXTREMELY seriously. Censorship, too. My parents were immigrants, and were always presumed to be lying because of their accents (not to mention that my father didn't come across as lily white). No, this is no joke to me.
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  29579.  @justinshin2279  The one removed was in a different thread, and basically questioned whether there have been deaths probably due to vaccination, and if so, how many, and how many are acceptable, among which cohort, and why. I better not say more. I think the case for vaccination is stronger than against, and I think vaccination needs to be an individual determination. Now that Pfizer is approved, and a study came out in the NEJM at the very end of last month that FINALLY gives some solid guidance on risks, I think the balance is in favor of vaccination. I'm not sure. What I really think is that the pandemic has been grotesquely and brutally mishandled from Day 1. I can accept that some people have lost all trust. I know only one person who is adamantly refusing vaccination. She just volunteered for a monoclonal antibody study and devoted four hours of her time during the Friday before Labor Day to be prescreened. Sound selfish to you? Rhetorical question.
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  29580.  @justinshin2279  BTW, see Kim Iversen on The Hill Rising. This is the approach I truly value and appreciate.
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  29581. This has happened to a small number of vaccinated people, and appears to be due directly to vaccination. Long COVID from COVID is much more common than from vaccines.
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  29582.  @jwilson2500  I'm far left and I despise everything that was done by CDC, FDA, Fauci, et al. Well, I'm non-Western and planning to leave the States, so . . . Different animal.
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  29583.  @carlitaticconi6655  AMEN. Vaccine mandates were a crime.
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  29584.  @TheBuzzSaw  Physical theories NEVER serve as proofs of mathematical theorems. Numberphile hid false assumptions, it didn't explain why a different branch of mathematics, with different definitions for operations, has a string theory application. The application does not matter to the mathematical proof. Whether string theory is right or wrong is irrelevant.
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  29585. They can access the treatment Trump had, or better. Almost everyone with real money can be saved.
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  29586. ​ @KeyboardWarrior-r9b Examples from today, in the US? There are Palestinians who have been stabbed or shot since October 7. Any such incidents involving Jews? What motivated them? There's another problem. We know psychopaths have found material online and in bookstores that motivated them to commit murders. Do we ban the books, for inciting violence? Arrest the owners of the websites? Try to draw a line other than the one the Court drew.
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  29587. Classic setup. Who hasn't had a Customer Service Rep yell, "stop shouting at me!" when you didn't? This is so 20th century.
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  29588. Only someone who hates Americans could support AOC for President. Or Hillary, or Trump, or Biden . . . Which candidate's fanboys are the biggest haters? Vote:
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  29589. This is the most ordinary nonsense. What the old guys at the corner barber shop used to say gets you a million-dollar career now.
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  29590.  @RosygreyglassesS  I'm familiar with him. Complete waste of my time. I've got a stack of books to get to, including an old professor's essay on Kant's theory of causation, and an Annie Ernaux. What makes money now is seriously scary. You used to have to be good.
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  29591.  @RosygreyglassesS  Shapiro has to count on a population of nonreaders in order to impress.
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  29592.  @RosygreyglassesS  Nonreaders usually lack the information to see through his spiel. He can sound smart real well. Socrates describes that phenomenon in the Gorgias, so it's as old as the hills. I recommend the Gorgias. It describes well what happens in societies that are in danger of imploding.
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  29593.  @RosygreyglassesS  Did you just engage in vapid ad hominem, confuse grammar with sylistics, and still manage to get my pertinent response to all that removed at lightening speed? How perfect. I won't be creating excellent content for free at this channel any more. Someone around here certainly can dish it out but cannot take it. I thought the crowd here was a little more devoted to free speech and expression. But no.
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  29594.  @RosygreyglassesS  You had a pertinent and complete answer to this nonsense removed, and you are pretending you didn't. "Jealous," "obsessed," "not as smart as," and so forth, is ad hominem. But the likely broad cultural reasons you consider it normal discourse was pointed out to you, and you had it censored immediately. That speaks volumes. I had no idea about the sensitivities I'd encounter, here. Of all places.
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  29595.  @RosygreyglassesS  So, are you going to continue, knowing full well that if I say what I consider to be uncontroversial, and tragic, about your value system and your myopia -- and their cultural source -- you can have me censored lickety split? How brave of you. You did a nice job on the Internet today. I would be mortified if I did that. It wouldn't cross my mind.
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  29596. Yes, she is.
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  29597. Reminds me of an organized crime chieftain.
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  29598. Could be a factor, Robby? Follow the MONEY.
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  29599. Love this post.
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  29600.  @rayal4395  LOL
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  29601. We have no motive so far. Do you recall that the initial "profilers" insisted that the slaying was targeted, and that murders of this nature, using a knife, are almost always highly "personal?"
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  29602.  @CatBrash  I don't see that. Even serial killers have desisted, and you can read the accounts of those who crossed paths with them and survived. I knew once such person who got a ride from John Gacy.
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  29603.  @markusmuller6173  Good thing your opinion doesn't count in court.
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  29604.  @markusmuller6173  "Must have been an accomplice?" "Obvious?" I think they need to find, like, EVIDENCE and stuff. I'm not saying not to investigate. I'm not saying I'd be stunned out of my mind if he did have an accomplice. Or two. I'm saying there is no "must" about it, because there isn't.
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  29605.  @markusmuller6173  So far, their probable cause affidavit spells out a very, very strong case -- against him. I'm glad. That's the sort of thing regular, rational people wait for, before having opinions about something that heinous.
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  29606.  @markusmuller6173  Where did I say that was impossible? I trust that the investigation will continue, and that many questions will be answered. If you know about this, then so do the detectives. I don't know what that stilted, lofty language is about. It doesn't make you more right.
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  29607.  @markusmuller6173  Not that I know of.
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  29608.  @markusmuller6173  I don't recall either of us proving anything, but only one was observing the principles of modal logic. Seriously, though, now that I think about it, I grant you it should be obvious, to anyone, that there were problems at that house long before this crime -- based on how frequently the police were called, for one thing. I don't know the full extent of those problems, nor am I in a hurry to hear about them. I am quite content to allow the legal process to play out. I hope they take it nice and slow, and investigate carefully, and that they respect all the survivors' rights.
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  29609.  @markusmuller6173  No, modal logic is something that Aristotle founded. It has to do with reasoning about possibility and necessity. But I don' want whatever is in your drink, thanks.
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  29610.  @markusmuller6173  You know, if something is necessary, it must be possible. If it is possible, it may or may not also be necessary. If something is not necessary, it may nevertheless be possible. I'm sure you've run across it. You could look it up and stuff.
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  29611.  @markusmuller6173  Go ahead. Take a writing class. You know you want to. (I'd recommend screen writing, actually. At a real art school.)
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  29612.  @markusmuller6173  I'm not asking for information or offering anything . . . wait. Are you a bot? Yikes. BLOCKED
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  29613.  @dfinite1111  That may be true, but if you've never served on a jury, tried a case, or observed an actual trial, you may be overestimating the influence of media. The courtroom becomes a different world, one in which all the participants focus intensely on the evidence. Not every single time, but most of the time. Sequestration was needed here. It would have helped everyone, jurors included.
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  29614. I believe Hunter and Joe that they don't remember, but for different reasons. Well, it could be for different reasons. Anyway, I believe they don't remember.
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  29615. Hillary Clinton Joe Biden Macron Tony Blair Come to mind . . .
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  29616. Notice how lack of universal health care disadvantages the small businesses already.
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  29617. They can, unless he declines to talk to them. They can try.
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  29618.  @chelseastevenson8767  Any one of these kids could have declined. Everyone has a right to remain silent. What they cannot do is lie.
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  29619. My fillup was 30% more.
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  29620. Start with a review of the ICJ decision.
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  29621. NYTimes just reported yesterday that fully vaccinated people who develop mild COVID (cold symptoms, basically) will no longer be tracked or counted by the CDC. There is ample evidence those people are contagious, just like vaccinated people with a very mild flu can infect unvaccinated people, who might get very sick.
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  29622. Well, a lot of us don't say mother. We say Mama. You all go right ahead with whatever . . .
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  29623.  @dakotalowe1194  No amount of money would get me to associate with a convicted pedophile. He is not the only source of money.
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  29624. Good god, this conference was supposed to be about preferred pronouns and such. Ultimate irony.
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  29625. She was fundraising. She succeeded. I thought she got a little thrill repeating the question. I wonder why.
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  29626. The fact that the Bidens were flagrantly corrupt is reason to believe the rot is everywhere. The Bidens were generally more timid and uncreative in their approach. Biden is a follower, not an innovator, in matters of corruption. He only takes the well-worn path.
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  29627. She just spouted misinformation on vaccines.
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  29628. Katie has no need for the money. She's doing fine. You?
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  29629. LOL, perfect.
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  29630. It was obvious before WWII started that the hope of the US was for Hitler to destroy the USSR. Truman said it out loud. After the war, the Rat Line confirms what side the US was really on. No one has ever defeated a peoples' army defending against an invasion of its own territory.
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  29631. The Wuhan wet market is strictly under Chinese control. The Wuhan lab is a joint venture and has international ties. How is the latter theory xenophobic but not the former?
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  29632. @louisfifteen  The swine flu vaccine caused one severe neurological side effect per 100,000 innoculations. It was halted for that. I've never had a vaccine side effect or met anyone who has, but that's not the standard. The standard for flagging a safety signal is an objective one, and the burden of proof is on the side advocating vaccination. The person who refuses to take it is within their rights to say no. Denmark now recommends that minors not receive the vaccine. France has made it illegal to ask a minor their vaccine status. How do you feel about that? I love it, it's about time.
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  29633. Maybe more riots will up the ante?
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  29634.  @ToTheStardom  Well, in 2024, what level of risk do you think boldness brings? How large do you think the dishonesty factor is in making a lot of money? The risk of boldness isn't 100%, and the reward is above 0%. Dishonesty isn't a necessity, but it is often a large factor. Edison and Steve Jobs both knew that, as did Bill Gates. Every truthful biography is eye-opening if not shocking. I like Greene because he speaks truths others won't. You could say Edison was bold, but the same facts cited here also show he was manipulative. He did not succeed by "hard work" alone.
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  29635. More war. A lot of people liked that.
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  29636. I agree. All of this has the flavor of an experiment to see how much we will swallow. So far, the experiment is going phenomenally well, for them.
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  29637. That was even a part of the plot of Rosemary's Baby.
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  29638. I had noticed that.
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  29639. Voted for him in the primary, of course, but once he picked Joe Biden, I suspected. Once he bailed out Wall Street, everyone knew.
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  29640. No worries. This means Biden is cooked.
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  29641. ​ @unitedstatesofmordor I preferred a little later myself: 8:17 😅
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  29642.  @gianthills  There is no "left" in the US to speak of. No real left anywhere is wokester or a gender warrior, or a closet eugenicist. The French left, including communists(!), was against vaccine passports and mandates, and helped make it illegal to ask a minor their vaccine status.
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  29643.  @DowntownsUptown  I see I'm shadowed. I mentioned opposition to certain cough cough man dates among the French left, including PCF.
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  29644. ​ @schooloftonyhumphries2647  Degrees matter? I don't see that. Not anymore, and probably not since 2008.
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  29645. If he looked in the mirror he could faint.
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  29646.  @bgandjsco1  Could you please clarify? "Group" IQ leads to treating individuals as individuals? How so?
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  29647.  @bgandjsco1  I blame individuals for underachievement. For example, this author is your touchstone. My touchstones are Plato and Shakespeare. This is not "IQ." This is my choice. Anyone who can read can make that choice.
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  29648. Where did you find this?
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  29649. Ozempic?
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  29650. ​@skontheroad What ii shows is that they are insensitive to student concerns and incapable of articulating First Amendment principles and zealously defending them --- probably because they don't really care about either. Their job is to fund raise. Liz Magill was a clerk for Justice Ginsberg. No, RBG didn't accidentally hire an antisemite for the most sensitive job on her staff.
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  29651. For free!!😅😅😅😅😅
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  29652.  @paulhill6559  I don't think he's dead.
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  29653. Consider how many women who were later divorced or even killed by their ex wrote extremely complimentary comments about their husbands. Those are the ones I remember, and shudder. That is the insecurity that should worry you.
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  29654. The really funny part is that smart phone and McFood addicts think drug addicts have "choices." 😂 Those 40%+ obese got that way for some reason . . . maybe their choice? Funny, no one chose that after the depression and WWII, when the temptation to overeat was great.
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  29655. YES HE IS
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  29656. You're forgetting one thing: all of these people have ethnic biases that are not disapproved. It can never cause you a problem to spew anti-Russian hate. Same for all the rest Jimmy mentioned.
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  29657.  @addictedtopiano  Of course not. Nothing has anything to do with anything, ever.
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  29658. In a global emergency, it's crazy not to do it.
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  29659. ​@KJ-ut4rw The children's lives are paramount. No one is perfect, and no one has to be. A normal parent is expected to protect her children's lives; that's not a demand for perfection. If she can't, no matter the reason, she isn't fit. With him away, I hope she recovers. She deserves every opportunity.
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  29660. His defense of Aaron Mate raised him, bro.
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  29661.  @afroheadwes  Fact.
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  29662. Still visible.
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  29663. Robby, how much money changed hands? "What's not to like?" "Jealous?"
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  29664. Read the LRB article about him, a review of a definitive biography.
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  29665. "Intervention by Russia's central bank . . . " No, . . . people need energy to manufacture things, grow crops, transport foodstuffs and other goods, and heat their homes. They do not need Mastercard, iPhones, McDonald's, Google, or Twitter to manufacture things, grow crops, transport foodstuffs and other goods, and heat their homes. I know, it's counterintuitive. /s
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  29666.  @LegoAnimationGuy1  That's called legacy admission, and it's legal.
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  29667.  @schokoladenritter7969  A lot of immoral things are legal.
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  29668.  @schokoladenritter7969  My point is that admissions are not on the basis of merit, and that a private university is allowed to admit using criteria other than merit. Funny how that is. Follow the money, as usual.
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  29669. True, but why did medical experts mislead us, too? Devastating in this situation.
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  29670. 21st century fox
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  29671. PERFECT. Thank you. I am sick to death of all of these politicians grandstanding. We need real science and real answers, and I no longer expect to see either.
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  29672.  @cynthianaylor9514  Keep them safe? With what, an EUA vaccine that does not prevent illness or stop its spread? This cat is long out of the bag. Do you know who Clementine Autain is? She is a far-left French politician. Back in 2021, she talked about the irrationality of having her "vaccine passport" allow her to enter anywhere, while she was positive for COVID. France soon made it illegal to ask anyone under 18 about vaccine status. You cannot ask a child there whether they got vaccinated against COVID. The left spearheaded the law.
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  29673.  @pebblepod30  💯
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  29674. Democracy Now! is doing an immense and brave service with its reporting. Absolutely outstanding.
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  29675. If the vaccines were capable of ending the pandemic, why weren't the Rachel Madows of the world clamoring for LIFTING THE PATENTS? Don't we have to vaccinate all of Africa and Asia to prevent new variants from emerging??
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  29676. If AI-generated images generally converge in the way that the pictures of the elephants converged, it also means AI does not understand the meaning of simple nouns the way we do. See, for example, Wittgenstein on "family resemblance."
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  29677. You looked like a guy. Now you don't. You decide.
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  29678. What makes you think you will decide when to remove those headsets? How much of our behavior is beyond our control already? You already discussed that part, including the mechanism.
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  29679. Moms wanting to go back to work when kids are older, and well-established in school? Nah!!! Take out LOANS to educate them. Bigger mortgages!! (What? Aren't you a optimist?) /s
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  29680. Sarkar was born in London. It is her country.
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  29681. Don't fall for this.
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  29682. Eisenstein reminds us that there are things you may not want to survive.
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  29683. She just supported a DEBATE. Sheesh
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  29684.  @Allenlong69  But that wasn't the point. She said Biden needs to debate.
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  29685. France recently made vaccine passports illegal for minors. Hurrah!!!
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  29686. They have these positions, and have ZERO knowledge of free speech law, and ZERO ability to communicate, and ZERO knowledge of the history of their own institutions. What a disgrace.
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  29687.  @assaf  I have an idea. Look up Brandenburg v. Ohio and see what speech is First Amendment protected. You can find a summary on Oyez and a one-page analysis on Legal Information Institute. We can start there. Then see what the Title VII workplace harassment rules say. This body of law will inform the standards of conduct on campus as well, though not exactly. The campus is a forum where demonstrations can take place and work, in general, is not. More speech is protected at university. But that gives no one a right to bully or harass or torment anyone else. Why didn't these university presidents explain this to the members of Congress? That's their job to explain it, when Congress calls them in, even if the hearing was grandstanding.
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  29688. 💯
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  29689. Jimmy, it's all about the money.
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  29690. What law is that?
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  29691. I think we should just give up. Anyone who can't pass first semester calculus should not be admitted to university. How does that sound, Robbie?
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  29692. A very small family business doesn't have to pay the federal minimum wage. Those whose employees get tips have a different minimum. Why not revisit exemptions? Because there are exemptions, and there always were. BTW, working for a full year at minimum wage, living at home, and saving your entire check for a year is NOT ENOUGH to afford one year of in-state college tuition. Yet people say "minimum wage is a starter job, for kids." Starter FOR WHAT? A lot of people will work two minimum wage jobs, and never get out from under them. Obvious why.
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  29693.  @IMurderdTheDevil  There is no way for most people on minimum wage to afford a state school, and most people can't get better jobs without college. A minimum wage SUMMER JOB used to be enough of one year of tuition: yup, three months of full time work used to equal one full year of in-state tuition. "Gee. What happened????"
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  29694.  @IMurderdTheDevil  You mean if the parents can't pay, right? An 18 year old who can pay doesn't need college to get out of a minimum wage job.
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  29695.  @IMurderdTheDevil  Some can. And they usually need more than high school, no?
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  29696.  @secv  All right. Neither Robert Mapplethorpe nor Patti Smith finished college, and Smith either didn't go for very long or didn't go at all. Mary Travis, of Peter, Paul, and Mary, was allowed by her parents to leave high school. For their generation, a MINIMUM WAGE JOB and a roommate paid the rent in New York or San Francisco. THAT is called opportunity. They had real choices, and working full time was enough to afford choices.
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  29697.  @secv  College tuition for state school is also an excellent proxy for opportunity. If you have the money to afford college, you can choose to go or not. How about if you don't have the money? "Elitist" my arse. "Paradise?" I'm describing what used to exist, for everyone. What happened? (Rhetorical question. The answer is obvious, and if you are literate you know.)
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  29698.  @IMurderdTheDevil  I've never been in debt for any education. I haven't had a mortgage in this century. I paid off my car (my only new car) about 16 months sooner than required. Any more advice? Pfft.
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  29699.  @IMurderdTheDevil  Most people lose on investments. And lie about it! Or, the only money they made was in interest and dividends. Most investment advice is inaccurate as well. The wealthiest, most financially stable person I know is a good friend's uncle -- with a teacher's pension.
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  29700.  @IMurderdTheDevil  You can also win the lotto. You can also marry well. One of the women in the Manson "family" married a Harvard Law School grad while in prison.
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  29701.  @IMurderdTheDevil  My family's finances were destroyed by Enron-level misconduct in the C-suite, not at just one employer, but two, in two different industries. I don't count the additional misconduct that didn't rise to the level of a jail sentence, but that certainly hurt our finances as well. (Actually, someone I worked for did have a brief house arrest, and his conduct caused the firm to collapse, but I don't consider that such a big deal. Stuff happens.) Then there were the medical malpractice tragedies. Plural. My future Social Security requires me to move abroad. The good news is, I get to leave. What's left of my family is outside the States. Now you can have this heavenly joint all to yourself, aren't you happy? I am.
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  29702. Last Days of Pompeii?
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  29703. So let's see if I understand --- people who make an immensely good livelihood in an elite profession in the wealthiest, most powerful nation in human history cannot weigh their words or control their speech. Yup, I do understand. Thanks for letting me think this through out loud.
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  29704. That shows you how important universal vaccination really was.
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  29705. Didn't Dr. Grande present a report where police briefly followed a car they were trying to stop, the driver drove slowly, put on his turn signal, and stopped at the closest well-lit area? This only took about a minute, and the driver's intentions were obvious. I believe the police drew their weapons and wrestled him to the ground. Am I remembering this case correctly? There was a debate concerning whether a person has a "right" to do what most law enforcement advise you to do! Fake cops appear in my region all the time. Real cops always say to be cautious on dark, secluded roads.
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  29706. So is the idea supposed to be to dissuade people from listening and finding out that BJG is NOT defending Santos, but exactly the opposite . . . But like Lee Fang, she is concerned about FBI overreach and completely unjustified selective prosecution. Both can be true. So, why did you say a false thing? I'm curious.
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  29707.  @mazibukomail  Is that you, Hillary?
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  29708. McDonald's positivity
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  29709. Probably true.
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  29710. Jordan Peterson going to Moscow to detox and Belgrade for rehab, and Musk whining that he was "tricked" into signing for puberty blockers for his son (to be fair, second opinions are expensive) is right up there. Worse than an innocuous newspaper column, I'd say. Emily won't be deciding public policy anywhere, will she? Advice columnist is a job and pays her bills so we don't have to.
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  29711. Because no one buys anything from China, India, or Vietnam.
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  29712.  @babblo1389  This is what has been happening. We should think of this episode as a dress rehearsal/stress test. Because this is exactly how the -- very unsentimental -- great powers view it. The humanitarian pablum is for us.
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  29713. ​@gunnib7495 He brags about Operation Warp Speed and was vocal about taking the vaccines, even after he and his whole immediate family contracted COVID and recovered. He was against mandates.
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  29714. Excuse me, but are you out of your mind or something? By this logic, puppy videos have more impact on the world than refurbishing boots, and cats top everyone -- except, possibly, a Kardashian. And Trump has more followers on Twitter than Biden does, so how come he lost?
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  29715.  M B  Nicely done!
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  29716.  @rockyroad9959  Well then watch some nice baby owls.
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  29717.  @rockyroad9959  Link?
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  29718. Only if he also brings in Nadine Strossen, who has demonstrated with massive research that various censorship initiatives are invariably turned against the people they were supposedly designed to protect.
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  29719.  @maineman2317  UK does not have a FIrst Amendment. That fact alone makes it easier to sue for libel. In the US, an article is presumed to be First Amendment-protected, and must be proven to be false and defamatory. Not misleading -- false.
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  29720.  @maineman2317  I would not repeat Depp's talking points without reading the trial transcript, or asking why he did not appeal if he was the victim of blatant judicial misconduct. This has become another cult.
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  29721.  @maineman2317  No. I was talking about accusations against the UK judge. Why?
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  29722.  @maineman2317  This is no different from the mob that went after Eric Clapton, or Brian Eno, or Brian Laundrie's parents, or the unvaccinated, or all Russians, including Russian musicians on record for opposing Putin and Russian-bred cats banned from cat shows. You should worry about all the new cults popping up -- and MeToo certainly falls into that category, but Depp does not have the cure. Not a good sign.
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  29723.  @maineman2317  No. I mean I think you're all nuts. And Depp controlled that suit. He could have withdrawn it. A plaintiff always can. Why submit to that jurisdiction, where you cannot hope to receive an unbiased hearing?
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  29724.  @maineman2317  Did you find the UK appellate court documents? I did.
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  29725. After seeing what others are doing on social media, I am grateful for each and every one of these reasoned voices, no matter how wrong they may be. Dore is being subjected to unbelievably vicious character assassination (not too strong a word), and now Justin Jackson is being mobbed on twitter. This is the only show I've seen so far that presented arguments, not ad hominem. After what happened to Glenn Greenwald, and now the suppression I've seen of anyone who dares to demand a vote on M4A, I fear much bigger issues are at stake. Only police killings, executions, and war have shaken me more.
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  29726. So . . . Miller is saying that Trump is too wussy to seek a declaration of war?
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  29727. Eventually? I've seen nothing else for 25 years.
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  29728. In the US, full patent protection, full indemnity, no fund to compensate the injured, no comprehensive health care or disability insurance, and a captured regulatory apparatus -- how could mandating an EUA drug under these conditions be legitimate? It cannot possibly be.
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  29729. I'm curious now. What will Trump's biggest fans do when he loses?
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  29730. "PIVOT" (said some Republican Trump lackey/apologist) "Pivot!!!" Why are you trying to make me throw up? I'm tired.
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  29731. Lately the microphone goes in and out. Unusual before this week.
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  29732. If we are going to unfund PUBLIC education, then I want my cut back for me. I'll spend it on night school. I'm not going to fund charters, private, and all that, where there is no possibility of democratic control --- where as a matter of principle, I have no voice, nor should I. But then you can't have my money, honey.
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  29733. I have to say, I would have thought the king and his daughter in law both being diagnosed with cancer would have raised real questions, without assuming an answer. But I didn't see many people ask real questions, open to any answer, and strictly based on scientific evidence. How did this happen??
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  29734.  @xyzsame4081  Amen to all, and thank you for sharing real insights and information.
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  29735.  @devalapar7878  DUH. They could REFUSE TO PASS SOMETHING ELSE -- like raising the debt ceiling, as just one example. It's called fighting. It's also called strategizing. That is why you buttonhole Republican Senators you know might be vulnerable in the next election, and you implore them in private, before any nomination is announced, to stick to the principle they claimed to support when OBAMA was refused his nominee in advance of the 2016 election. This nomination was made during early voting. So these people are powerless? They are conveniently powerless in the face of MONEY and monied interests, PERIOD. And they took the worst possible course with Barrett, who should never have been a federal judge in the first place. Seeing her tormented, then seated (!!!), left a bad taste in my mouth -- and I'm practically a "commie" by American lights.
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  29736. "Nice news skirt" -- um, that is crass, did you get it? Which is why he apologized the very next day, very graciously.
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  29737. I don't want to explain that one, LOL. It's pretty bad.
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  29738. The company that made Polartec is the only ethical company I ever heard of. I'm sure everyone knows one, maybe two. Well, maybe not. 🤣
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  29739. We found the one guy who didn't just use Epstein's jet.
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  29740. I think you are on to something. The point is that we need real journalists to demonstrate this, Seymour Hersh style. These "antifa" rioters could very well be provocateurs and false flags. The two reporters filming them could very well have similar (or even the same) affiliations; absolutely we should know about it. Did The Intercept aid in establishing that with any evidence whatsoever? Or are they just floating memes, to see which one might stick?
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  29741. Who trusts these people not to hit a commercial jet?
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  29742. Are you THAT scared? You've got to be kidding. If you're vaccinated, you still think others are a danger to you? Why?
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  29743.  @ashleecantu6470  Well, what makes you so sure I'm not one of those people who cannot be vaccinated at this time? I am not afraid of the unvaccinated at all. I take for granted that I have to limit where I go and observe the rules that were in place before any vaccine was available, and take tests -- which I am glad to do, and which vaccinated people should be doing as well, given the growing body of evidence that the protection OF OTHERS (as distinct from protection of vaccinated persons themselves) that vaccines afford is not extremely robust and wanes rapidly. But I make no demands. This is just my view. The vaccinated have excellent, though not perfect, protection against death or hospitalization due to COVID for at least six months, which should persuade most people to do it. I don't expect others to go get vaccinated for me, especially not with these vaccines. I categorically oppose coercive tactics. Kyle himself took Johnson and Johnson. Check how good the protection of others works with that one. In France, the CGT (hard left union) organized a demonstration of vaccinated health care workers in support of their unvaccinated colleagues and against mandates. A mainstream publication, L'Obs, carried the video and all the comments praised the CGT for their humanity. That's called civilization. The Scandinavian countries do not mandate vaccination, either, or recommend it for the very young. There is a reason why they all have longer life expectancies and healthy kids, while we had record drug overdose deaths last year. I don't know about this other stuff you're saying. What does this have to do with my post? Who and what do I have to "call out?" Are you all right? Don't you see this IS NOT WORKING? It reminds me of the hatred and panic that swirled around HIV.
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  29744. Get off of CNN/MSNBC and watch some great movies. You'll forget about the tantrum at Target, etc.
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  29745.  @ashleecantu6470  Nothing you said is responsive to me. Why bother? Also, I can assure you I am not laughing. Remember when hearing that the illness you have has a 2% case fatality rate was a cause for celebration? I certainly do. It's fresh. Also, my family in the US did die out, not of COVID but of medical malpractice. Luckily the ones abroad did not die under US bombs. (They were bombed. The bombs missed them.) Also, paragraphs?
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  29746.  @ashleecantu6470  Five million have died globally, according to Worldometer, 765,000 in the US. Current case fatality is below 1.7%, possibly in part due to vaccines. It went down a lot. You would not know that from the mainstream press. As for not allowing people to EAT, we feed the Boston Marathon bomber and the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas school shooter. Nice going if excluding the unvaccinated from any semblance of normal life sounded reasonable to you. Anyone who seriously thinks so is being hysterical. But someone else's comment is gross and insensitive. Never fails.
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  29747.  @ashleecantu6470  Wait. Let's back up here. Do you think unvaccinated people should be under strict quarantine, so that groceries have to be brought to their door? Please explain why that would be necessary. People shopped for their own groceries all last year, before vaccines were available.
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  29748.  @ashleecantu6470  Chomsky's first comment about access to food was "that's their problem." If you didn't hear that, could the vaccine have had a harmful effect on you, possibly? Or the fear mongering did! I vote for the latter.
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  29749.  @ashleecantu6470 What media has you this hyped up? Do you think this is healthy? It isn't.
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  29750. You mean you don't know Lara Logan's biography? You're like Trump: there is no bottom.
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  29751.  @Leksa135  What would that really stupid thing be? Concern that these still not fully approved vaccines cause unusual patterns of reactivity and seem to lose effectiveness too rapidly, or that Russian disinformation is behind all anti-vaxxer nonsense? The former is not stupid; while no educated person really believes the latter anyway. If they give that impression, they are just exasperated and misspoke.
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  29752.  @Leksa135 You poor thing.
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  29753.  @Leksa135  Now I envy you!
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  29754. There are quite credible reports that the various ultra-right elements in the armed forces are threatening Zelensky and may be calling the shots, preventing him from negotiating without their approval. Of course this is conjecture, strictly speaking, but the way he banned all opposition parties only from the left, and the analyses by people like Stephen F. Cohen from long before this invasion, support this view -- as does the fact that the Russians vowed to destroy all neo-Nazis in the region.
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  29755.  @TheTruthHz  The bid shot Dems like the Clintons and Nancy took short positions.
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  29756. @robertrudometkin1020  So in other words, we need to save Social Security and Medicare. The 401k is not a plan. I knew that.
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  29757. They are responsible for monitoring and for the coverup.
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  29758.  @zoeandrews241  I can't think of anything. Can you?
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  29759. @Wormopera  Learning how the inventors of calculus initially went astray in understanding its foundations is not useless by any stretch. You still hear about epsilon being infinitely close to x in standard analysis. Er, no. You still have people not understanding the fractal nature of the reals. In other words, when we still make the same mistakes when initially learning calculus, the history gives us insights. Same for the discovery of the paradoxes of set theory.
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  29760.  @SMC01ful  So well put.
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  29761. Well, there were a lot of people in South Africa who opposed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, so I'm not sure that some people won't always find a reason not to have a serious discussion of history. But Truth and Reconciliation, and hashtag mobbing over pronouns -- or CRT authors for kids too intellectually immature to comprehend them, for that matter -- are very different things. Yet they got the same pushback. Why?
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  29762. My dad used to sign Dr. Mabuse and Dr. Mengele. He was a hoot.
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  29763.  @valerieschiller7658  Well, since a full generation after Columbine we cannot come up with reasonable and constitutional gun laws with respect to minors and adults, let's create some Boogey Men. That work$.
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  29764. You are quick to accuse.
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  29765. Peterson: "You're racist against the superior ones."
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  29766. Nah. They're lying to the survey.
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  29767. All last year, RF spent under $66 billion on its military, a huge increase.
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  29768. ​ @gr8gracefreight986  Until Hillary pops back up.
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  29769. ​ @ForageGardener Most people don't. Dramatic recantations against interest is the stuff of movies. In life, it's rare.
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  29770. ​​ @wesleyorange8133  Because gross negligence/reckless endangerment and first degree murder are very different things.
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  29771. ​ @Savssmiles Columbia canceled classes and called police out of fear of Stefanik and her ilk in Congress, trampling on the rights they swore to protect. Professors are furious. No one was prevented from attending classes by the protests. Aerial photos prove it.
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  29772. First of all, it was obvious that the vaccinated were a danger to the unvaccinated because they had no incentive to test, or stay home if sick, etc. Their magic card got them in everywhere.
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  29773.  @stonerubber  AMEN TO THAT
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  29774.  @eddievangundy4510  pity is right
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  29775. The joke is on you. There is no such thing as "liberal elites" and "conservative elites." There are two tribal factions of the ruling class at odds with one another, and clearly not very elite -- the Machine keep stuffing their pockets, they don't have to be competent anymore, and so they are not. That scares them, and they work on scaring us. (Remember European royals before that system finally imploded?)
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  29776.  @zainabamadahy9918  Okay.
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  29777. The United States The United Kingdom The United Arab Emirates The Philippines The Netherlands etc.
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  29778. The number of ads on this video is a disgrace. This is too important of a discussion to have this many irrelevant and risible interruptions.
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  29779. So in short, the conventions against war crimes and crimes against humanity are a big joke to you and an invitation to jeer at the dead from your safe and unearned perch?
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  29780. The First Amendment will not permit this. Watch. A politician cannot use their power beyond what a private citizen can: to request deplatforming of someone who engages in proven defamation, actual threats of violence, criminal conspiracies, etc.
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  29781.  @jpusar  First Amendment rights are stronger than that. A FISA court still has to be given specifics, not engage in broad prior restraint.
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  29782.  @dianabaskin1944  A minor child cannot be held responsible. This is why all the adults around her, including IOC/WADA, have heightened responsibility to behave ethically, and to be careful not to damage her mental health. This was BRUTAL.
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  29783.  @sakurakumari7305  Age of majority exists for a reason.
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  29784.  @mikewhocheeseharry5292  Well, after the US gymnastics abuse scandal, I guess I'm not shocked by anything that may be done to the world's finest young people. The bottom already fell out, we're just deluded to expect better.
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  29785.  Sam Morris  I don't have a televison. So I don't watch CNN regularly, and don't subscribe. Do you suggest this video is false? And are you, by contrast, a Fox devote(e)?
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  29786. Brie, when did Katherine Maher EVER support the working class???
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  29787.  @MultiKalwin  You two exemplify exactly what the first comment said. What a sad way to prove his point.
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  29788.  @socialenigma4476  I know this is just talking points to you. "Your precious indigenous people" -- you're not ashamed to write that. Don't call yourself a "European." You're an amerloque.
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  29789.  @socialenigma4476  Keep proving the points of the first two posts. We're good with that. Whether you see it or not is pretty irrelevant.
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  29790.  @MultiKalwin  What does your observation, even if it were true (though I wonder how you would know), have to do with anything? Are WE living in peace? Are WE a democracy? Are we civilized? Do rapists, human traffickers, and drug lords have coteries of admirers, defenders -- and money launderers? In the very same country that holds the most incarcerated people on earth, and often uses as forced labor? Well then, let's hope the BRICs can form an army, invade, and set us all straight. That would be the "logic" you endorse. You're a funny one to say someone else has their head in the sand.
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  29791.  @socialenigma4476  I think your feewings are the issue. You're the one swearing -- already! That was quick. "There there, sweetiekins, did a mean lady say you don't get to have your own facts? Well you do get to have your own facts! So there. Go ahead, you tell her!" America is less than 5% of humanity, but it is dependent on the largest military that has ever existed in history, and on other countries to buy its Treasury bonds for its "lifestyle." Rather than getting into pointless battles of talking points about the 1600s, contemplate that for a while. Maybe you'll come up with some ideas. After the 1940s, I don't think anyone can say Europeans prevented more atrocities than they caused. Funny, Europeans know that now. They face the truth.
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  29792.  @MultiKalwin  I'm not the hater in this picture. Are you that out of touch? You're identifying what you feel, and imputing it to someone else. You both go for ad hominem so fast, too -- you seem to think every political/philosophical disagreement is personal in the first place. I joined YouTube during the COVID lockdown, I have never used any social media before, and this has been a royal waste of time. I had no idea what the level of discourse was -- although that is a lesson I should have learned, I guess. Anyway, I didn't know.
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  29793.  @MultiKalwin  OH MY GOD!! They sold the slaves to the white people!!! And the white people said, "no, no, we don't want to buy," but those terrible greedy pushers made them buy, and buy, and buy, and buy . . . It was practically like Jeffrey Epstein, forcing all those underage girls on those nice upstanding men, who only wanted to help. I could just cry thinking about it. SO unfair! Thank goodness none of them are in jail. /s
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  29794.  @MultiKalwin  No. You do. You said that people of European descent improved the world by colonizing and subjugating it. I said no one improves anyone through invasion and subjugation. You really don't hear yourself? (Reminds me of what Jimmy Dore says to the DNC: "You don't hear yourself?") I also said your claims, even if true, are irrelevant. Of course they're not true. But even if they were true, they don't justify colonization and genocide, anymore than another power would be justified in invading the US after the next George Floyd or Breonna Taylor, or child separated from parents at the border and never reunited, or whistleblower tortured in prison. To be clear, I am not calling for the BRICs to come.
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  29795.  @socialenigma4476  We are entirely dependent on our military for ensuring the dollar remains the global reserve currency, which is why we enjoy the standard of living we do. You connect the rest of the dots. This is tiresome.
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  29796.  @MultiKalwin  Not what I said, either. In fact, I said the opposite. There is no "best." Right and wrong, good and evil have literally nothing to do with race, creed, color, or descent.
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  29797.  @MultiKalwin  Okay. I did. Is that better? Whatever you need to be true, is. I promise.
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  29798. Someone I know who served in the military, and reenlisted several times, then went to a top university, debt-free, is temporarily living with family. He will be buying a house, but he can't right now. All COVID related. He is very prudent, he won't do anything until he sees a clear path. He has been in heavy combat and knows what he is doing. He is quite concerned about what he sees. Don't even try to tell me HE did anything wrong.
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  29799. I believe you.
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  29800.  @kateruterbories2692  Exactly! ❤️
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  29801. Except if interminable restrictions are placed on you.
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  29802.  @McCoymiked  I think it's a hoot. This stupidity deserves it.
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  29803. This dude hasn't been carjacked, this is clear.
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  29804.  @168KDW  I don't think I want to find out how awesome I could become after seeing a mass shooting at the school across the street.
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  29805.  @markferguson3745  Are you going to tell us you never fell for one, and now are furious with yourself and everyone else who doesn't immediately "see the obvious?" Understandable, but . . . you know. Not everyone is the same. You learnt that in psychology.
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  29806. ​@indridcold2872 Wait. How does someone "know" something without evidence, especially when there is exculpatory DNA in her vehicle? Not just any DNA, but from an unidentified suspect in three other cases. The prosecutor's law license was suspended for multiple ethical lapses. Plural. Did you know that?
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  29807. Or imagine not. Imagine that being a crazy image rattling around the brain of a prosecutor who has since had her license suspended.
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  29808.  @indridcold2872  No. DNA from an unknown man whose DNA has turned up in three other crime kits in unsolved cases.
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  29809. @indridcold2872  Perfect example not of proof of innocence but of reasonable doubt. Anyway, Barry sued for violation of his rights, saying his arrest was baseless. He will have to testify in that civil case, unless they drop prosecution and settle. This was just a one-sided show. Every woman should be mad that there is still a predator out there somewhere. That's who is putting us in danger, not this clown.
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  29810.  @michellemooresings  Really? I fear copycats, like after Columbine High School.
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  29811.  @penelopelopez8296  I know how you feel. All I can say, honestly, is find refuge in a much-loved hobby, a person, sports or solitary exercise, hiking, biking, one of the arts, and above all, read every day. Read in more than one language. You can shed this feeling. Also, these people are not worth your agony. I'm not saying to ignore the world and where it's going. I'm saying don't let it get to you to this point. They are not worth it.
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  29812. Clearly did. Decoy.
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  29813.  Hannu Rikkaartipoika  You mean Maddow identifies as female?
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  29814. Have unvaccinated been sicker, or with a higher mortality rate by age group?
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  29815. It's the most affluent who they are focusing on. None of this describes the majority who have to work. They are worrying about their own. That's normal.
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  29816. Or not being able to get rid of her for some other reason.
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  29817. ​ @elisereynolds945 John Wayne Gacy did clown shows for hospitalized children. Ted Bundy worked on a crisis hotline.
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  29818. ​ @JTS-u3l Links are always shadowed, being too hard to monitor for TOS violations.
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  29819. ​ @elisereynolds945 Masterson is denying everything and has slandered the victims.
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  29820. I listen to podcasts from other countries about these vaccines, and the most intelligent critique I heard was logically structured very much like what you just said. Here was what one professor of medicine said, in a society where vaccines are generally much better accepted: First of all, speak to your doctor about whether you should be vaccinated. Too much of what has been presented to the public is advertising, not information. Second, all of these vaccines have a significant risk profile. Be aware of that. Our annual flu shots are far less risky. Third, as for the data, people under 50 in good health are not at high risk of death or disability from COVID. People 70 and over, really, REALLY are. Ages 50 to 70 is a highly individual determination. Most probably do have the risk that makes vaccination highly advisable. Fourth, never discount the psychological costs of not being vaccinated. If you are truly afraid of contracting COVID, if the past 12-14 months of isolation have taken a toll on you, this is a very good reason to get vaccinated. Prolonged stress and isolation, poor sleep, etc., is harmful to health. This should be part of any risk assessment. Fifth, at this point we hope the vaccine, if administered rapidly, will help keep the virus from mutating into a variant that the vaccine is ineffective against. We hope, but do not and cannot know. A yearly shot is within the realm of possibility. Finally, we also have reasonable hope that the vaccine will protect others, not just the recipient. Unfortunately, we don't know that yet, either, due to the problem of vaccinated asymptomatic carriers. We don't have enough data to assess that risk at present.
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  29821. All of this looks more like false flag every day. And I'll believe the DNC opposed Trump only after I see the history of their stock portfolios. We're supposed to be diverted from real concerns for some reason, and I think Eisenhower had it right 💯.
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  29822. It's a pipeline to money.
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  29823. I downloaded it on the tablet I use. Is it a counterfeit?
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  29824. How do you it's not photoshopped?
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  29825.  @Melchersson  Don't be so sure it's not psy-ops. I'm serious. They will drop hints that something really strange is going on, in the hopes of getting people to become hysterical. Then they can say, "See!! Only the unhinged, the psychos and the hysterics criticize us." A very well known, often used technique to deflect and discredit criticism. You can expect this now.
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  29826.  @See_thru_it_all  Let me know when you adopt a normal screen name . . . On second thought . . .
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  29827. Still no timestamp. Say, I bet you would love being accused of saying something you didn't say. That's always fun. And if you can get a crowd all aroused . . . Wheeeeeee!
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  29828. Right. And for how long?
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  29829. Harris would allow Obama and the Clintons to have even more influence. A lot of astute observers from abroad expect it now.
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  29830. Graham Elwood seems like a nice guy at heart but he is not very brave and he is not very smart. It was always obvious. I hope Jimmy can forgive Graham, I feel sorry for him. He was swept up in the insanity.
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  29831. Depends on which stocks.
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  29832.  @sampsonlittle7368  Will the kids learn the Nazis were defeated by the Red Army? Wait. They don't mean the Nazis were victims of Communism, do they?
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  29833. The View put people in danger by giving them a false sense of security. Some vaccinated people have died. The risk of death may be lower, but it is not zero.
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  29834.  @taylorlibby7642  Amen. Another friggin' cult. New ones are coming faster and faster. Remember Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie? We were supposed to ignore the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, "just this once" . . . "for Gabby."
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  29835. Newsflash: the EEOC has stated that federal employment discrimination laws were not suspended during the pandemic; states cannot refuse to consider religious exemptions from vaccine mandates.
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  29836. How mentally ill are you all? (And can you purchase firearms?)
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  29837.  @ajarnold8444  How is that their role?
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  29838.  @stephenboyd4934  It's not impossible.
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  29839. Piers should limit himself to his areas of marginal competence: taking sides in royal family intrigue, etc.
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  29840. That's what Muslims said about Charlie Hebo.
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  29841. It would be easy, lol.
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  29842. Desisting from continuing the killing in the Donbass by Azov-infiltrated Ukrainian militias could have been a plan. Anne-Laure Bonnel made a documentary about that.
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  29843.  @Spright91  No. Full approval requires a very close scrutiny of the data. New information on safety is sure to emerge. For example, it was Israel that confirmed rare myocarditis in young vaccinated men was due to the vaccine, and determined it was highly treatable in the same way you treat inflammation from a case of COVID. Our CDC still thought it was a coincidence.
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  29844.  @rashonn  Full approval requires a really hard look at the available data. More information is very likely to emerge.
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  29845.  @Spright91  Look, if cases go up again, I may get vaccinated. I can stay home a lot right now, or be outdoors. I prefer to wait for full approval, but that may not be possible. I like (approved) vaccines. I get them all.
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  29846. Did you read the statement?
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  29847. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  29848. Man, you people kill me. STAB WOUNDS. You deliberately omitted stab wounds. Also spider bites. Spiders can smell COVID or something.
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  29849. ​ @decolonizeEverywhere Excellent
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  29850. @stultuses  No, she has the hot dog, too. Prove he doesn't. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  29851. Kim Iversen explained that. It's up to 105 million impressions; actual views are likely 7 to 15% of that; for this tweet, it could be more.
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  29852. I am asking naively now. Why is no one in America talking about this? We are being told that Ukraine is winning. That China and India are pulling away from Russia. That Putin will be overthrown. This is what people believe.
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  29853. Douglas Murray??? That's who calls Norman Finkelstein ugly names? That's is a badge of honor.
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  29854. I don't think any of this is real. The neoliberal globalists know the next few years will be fraught. I think they want to "lose" --- they want their opponents to be the ones holding the bag when the dollar implodes and wars escalate. In the meantime, they are planning another expansion of their monopolies. Too many countries are experiencing the very same thing. No, it's not organic.
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  29855. 4:13 Nice
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  29856.  @_BhagavadGita  Eew, hon. Not on a Friday night.
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  29857. Dr. Campbell, your outrage is a gift. In the US, it's simply assumed that the "malcontents" are primitive right-wing losers and of course jealous. Nothing matters here except the dollar. You still care.
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  29858. She always backs it up. Keep listening. Don't let anger distract you.
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  29859. @johnjames4681  I know. That's why it's very important to add depleted uranium, so that the Serbian kids and the unborn know what their lives are worth in the humanitarian scheme of things.
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  29860. @johnjames4681  Albanian kids got doused with DU, too, come to think of it, . . . for good measure I suppose.
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  29861.  @johnjames4681  I did, too. But you had said you rely on empire for your crust of bread. I'd rather not, thanks.
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  29862.  @davemwangi05  Don't worry. He'll never read The Jakarta Method, for example. Those of us who have know we are lucky it was written. Journalists get killed for less.
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  29863.  @cijeel3975  One percent of Bezo's wealth puts a person into the billionaire class. One one-hundredth of one percent (0.01%) is plenty. With prudence, you and your children can almost certainly have basic necessities covered, for life.
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  29864. To think that it was just yesterday that Epstein finally got arrested.
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  29865. Thank you Jefferson, thank you Franklin, bless you George . . .
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  29866. Rush Limbaugh made millions for lying creatively. He did not do it gratis. Have some pride.
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  29867.  @shannonmackenzie7261  Well, since when is less than 1% of about 120 million equal to ten million?
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  29868. You missed what that was about. She was justifying why concern about this right-wing guy should exist across the entire political spectrum. The left will be next. They are criminalizing freedom of expression and freedom of assembly. THAT is what she said.
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  29869.  @localfixx4184  They have you repeating high school squabbles while fundamental rights are being eroded.
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  29870. Oh stop. You freak.
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  29871.  @mwmatthews1  You support what keeps alienating people.
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  29872. I see that she is knowledgeable.
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  29873.  @rijudehingia1381  They have no children. Depp left the mother of his children, who are adults and live in Paris. This was Depp's third marriage/domestic relationship.
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  29874.  @baristaz8834  It's Putin's fault.
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  29875.  @baristaz8834  He was the enemy in the last cult. Now we have a new cult, with new enemies.
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  29876.  @baristaz8834  🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  29877.  @baristaz8834  blocked
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  29878.  @baristaz8834  Amber is as all-powerful as Putin. 🤣
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  29879.  @baristaz8834  Nowhere does the alleged defamation say he was the abuser. It's not an issue.
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  29880.  @lizwadsworth6918  No, no. All men are good. They may get physical if severely provoked, or if women force them into addiction. Now, women are the killers. Career killers, baby killers, killers simpliciter. We must take sides in a court case with complex interpersonal dynamics and First Amendment implications BEFORE we hear both sides, to demonstrate full loyalty. . . 1984 took a little longer, needed hashtags. /s
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  29881.  @JadeEyedJinx  None of that counts in Hashtag World. We are in the midst of another cult phenomenon/moral panic. You cannot reason with these people. In fact, I'm surprised you haven't been censored.
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  29882.  @cjwhosthat9216  We should seize the assets of people who are ratioed by YT and hand them over to "Johnny."
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  29883. Give your parents a hug for me!💗💗💗 I remember when the "treatment" for this was reading Peter Pan or Pipi Longstocking.
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  29884.  @amyh3873  Just the opposite. Hating pink and loving corduroy overalls and fishing does not have any bearing on gender identity. None. He did say some other awful things, however, such as calling these parents evil. They are obviously well-intentioned and doing the best they know how.
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  29885.  @boghund  Learn English verb tenses. Learn better.
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  29886.  @amyh3873  I just meant that he stressed that it doesn't. I know you don't think so. :)
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  29887. The one with the most COVID deaths, where people forced out of their jobs lose their health insurance, too. That one. Nothing urgent going on. Make this about Jimmy's manners. /s
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  29888. She didn't suggest he was responsible.
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  29889. Nah, he's in it for the money. He says it, they pay him.
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  29890. And plenty of people don't need to worry about making good choices and still have tons of money. In fact, Donald Trump, Hunter Biden, Ghislaine Maxwell . . . So many come to mind right away.
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  29891.  @TheWhisperingPenis  How do the exceptions logically negate the statement, "Plenty of people don't need to worry about making good choices?" Trick question, they don't. I didn't say those exceptions were the rule at all. But some exceptions those are, when they include a president, the son of a vice-president, and a personal friend of a crown prince. I mean, I didn't mention the Kardashians or anything. How drole.
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  29892.  @TheWhisperingPenis  And why do you immediately need to suggest you know my politics, and that I should fear looking dumb? A little attitude policing on your part? Very poor ad hominem, that. But I don't want to inadvertently improve your skills, so keep it up. (The jelly metaphor is poor, as well. Couldn't resist. Yeesh.)
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  29893. No good guys in this picture. Only bad (Putin) and worse (a tiny American cabal pursuing their own interests).
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  29894.  @figplucker3052  Now, now. Cat free.
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  29895. THIS
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  29896. They were all graduates. She was an adult, legally at least.
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  29897.  @giiavvana  As are plenty of 28 year olds. In principle, no adult needs a chaperone. They are a grown up. They can go to war, marry, be parents without anyone's oversight.
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  29898. She's making bank for her own. That's the sum total of what's up with her. IOW, the usual.
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  29899. Oh my goodness, you are the second logical person I saw here today.
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  29900.  @shaunpatrick8345  I suggest you read the article, available in pre-print. John Campbell explained it well.
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  29901.  @shaunpatrick8345  Their (claimed, or actual) intentions are not material. The virus does not know them.
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  29902.  @shaunpatrick8345  I suggest to you to read something, and this is your reply? Say, have you ever heard of the Precautionary Principle? Nah.
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  29903. @Ernesto Danger The great state universities used to have such low in-state tuition that a minimum wage summer job could cover a full year, and campus work-study covered your dorm. Where do you think that money came from? Taxes.
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  29904.  @chuletaization  Well, you can tell by the people debating you what the level of education is these days. People think BIDEN is a "communist." Well, clearly, a person could tell them anything. There is nothing they wouldn't believe.
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  29905. @Ernesto Danger America has no left.
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  29906.  @SandraMartinez-gv1yf  Consider all the corporations that spend far more in lobbying than in taxes. Then consider how many of those corporations need the US military to protect global shipping lanes and air space for them. We pay for that. They should pay for their own security.
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  29907.  Googlag Inmate #666  Well, in France it is the Communist party that is protesting against having vaccination papers and against firing people who choose not to be vaccinated. Socialists are protesting as well. It's the neoliberal globalist, DNC-adjacent Macron who wants to force the issue and make it impossible for the unvaccinated to live normal lives.
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  29908. @gina bella Come back in five years and tell us whether he is bankrupt or facing fraud charges.
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  29909.  @chuletaization  The Ivies run half of their admissions pool to cover legacies and "special development" (which was supposed to be youth with remarkable talents, like musical prodigies and Olympic athletes, but ended up being children of donors -- Jared Kushner is Exhibit A). The federal government is much more involved in their financial structure since the advent of guaranteed loans. This is a quote from an article that came out a few years ago (links are shadowed): "Because Ivy League schools are nonprofit institutions, they don’t pay taxes on any investment gains their endowments might make — which saves them a lot of money. Between the 2011 and 2015 fiscal years, the Ivies received a $9.6 billion tax break on the $27.3 billion growth of their collective endowments. At the same time, they receive money from the government for a number of purposes . . . [such as] millions in federal grants for research projects."
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  29910. @Ernesto Danger I've never been in debt. Sounds like you're projecting again.
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  29911. @Ernesto Danger No, they didn't. I left school for two years to work. And yes I have a home, with no mortgage.
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  29912. @Ernesto Danger Immigrant family. Forget your Western stereotypes.
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  29913. @gina bella I have no college debt, and never did. Trump declared six business bankruptcies. SIX. The ongoing investigations of his business practices by the judicial branch are legitimate, but I wonder whether forcing him to release his tax returns to any legislature, whether it be Congress or any state, is right. I would have to read the opinion and the briefs. Seems odd to me.
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  29914. @Ernesto Danger Did your last wife keep the house? Is the guy she ran off with . . . Never mind. I think we know.
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  29915. @Ernesto Danger Silly me. You were never married? I didn't think of that, but should have.
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  29916. @Ernesto Danger People do what they do for love or money, and we know the first plays no part . . .
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  29917. @Ernesto Danger You joined two weeks ago to spout this?
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  29918. Criminals get our money. Sounds about right. Jimmy, remember Operation Greylord in Chicago? From your childhood?
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  29919. I think it's weird that we can't talk about rainbows without someone thinking it's a political issue.
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  29920. 😂😂😂 except it's no longer funny It's literally the plan.
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  29921. Did it ever cross your mind that the attitudes you express and the policies you push are exactly the reason why American public education is poor? Or, not to exaggerate, a big reason why? EVERY country with outstanding education respects and rewards its teachers, demands academic excellence from them, and values that excellence.
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  29922.  @robyenney951  Brilliant. Have you considered writing a memoir of your work? The schools are in crisis post COVID. You KNOW what you're talking about. People would listen to you.
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  29923.  @johnguilfoyle3073  Oh no. Sigh.
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  29924. Are these the same people who criticize French secular policy? Sounds great right about now.
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  29925. That's what Djokovic said.
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  29926. Remember all the initial reports about how Ukrainians are just like us, and how they are blond?
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  29927. How did we get any of these leaders??
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  29928. They didn't have to try hard, luv.
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  29929. Name them.
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  29930. I'm sure this happened. They have to justify their existence, and their budget. It's Job 1. EDIT: I wrote this before she said "they're working overtime!" LOL
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  29931. You forgot Charlie Hebo. Equal opportunity mockery.
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  29932. As did the Uvalde police. More.
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  29933.  @silurkrita4023  LOL
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  29934.  @antonyjh1234  blocked
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  29935.  @rafmatt1607  You called that a while ago. 🙂
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  29936.  @nomnomyam9379  Thanks! No surprise.
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  29937.  @heatherhall7899  If you're right, it's because today, Americans don't care about other Americans. Ponder that.
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  29938.  @allen7986  Great post!
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  29939. Impossible to listen to.
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  29940. Show me evidence that Planned Parenthood is pushing trans drugs and surgery. I will believe it, if you bring me credible evidence, but show me first.
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  29941. Rebecca Goldstein's book: Betraying Spinoza. You will thank me for that. :)
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  29942. $75 billion in two years is well over $4.1 million per hour, 24/7/365. Understand these numbers.
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  29943. ​ @nenevz2948 Yes, parts are shocking.
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  29944. You know, whenever it comes to the ultra-elites, suddenly the presumption of innocence and the burden of proof beyond reasonable doubt are alive and well. Huh. Wow.
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  29945. We've lost the capacity for rational political discourse since the March 2020 shutdowns. It started to get real bad by the summer of 2016 and never got better.
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  29946. For the same reasons they think there is a constitutional right to, for example, birth control, or to decline a vaccination . . . oops.
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  29947. "100% stolen?" It is plausible that both Georgia and Arizona were miscounted -- but if you subtract both from Biden's column and add them to Trump's, Trump STILL loses. The burden of proof is obviously on the proponents of the stolen-election theory, and they never met it. It was an abnormal election, that is true. But Trump fumbled badly on COVID and mounted a horrible campaign.
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  29948. Is anyone surprised? (Um, are they vaccinated, though?)
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  29949. Makes me think Vance not so happily married. 😂
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  29950.  @alejandronopasanada5302  Organic vegetarian over here. Well, fish occasionally . . . a few times per year.
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  29951. Oh stop. Shame on you.
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  29952. Do you add up all votes in all congressional elections together, or does a representative have to win their district? 😂
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  29953. ​ @coloradokid8321 No, it's not proportional voting in France.
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  29954. She was threatened. If there is anyone who understands exactly what the legal system can do, it is Dershowitz.
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  29955. Trump risked that, when he assassinated the Iranian general.
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  29956. Agreed. Not sensible, in a story about disinformation. LOL You would think being truthful overall would be a higher value during an emergency. Y'know, like a pandemic?
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  29957.  @67y3j3fv2wg  👏👏👏
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  29958. @scratchpenny  I don't think that's clear. You would have to believe that the Age of Imperialism that shaped today's world was a net positive.
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  29959. @PuppetMasterdaath1111  It's a great time for Robby. People like him don't have to work as hard as they once did to attain the levels they do. Jobs in the media/advertising/propaganda sector (the persuasive dark arts) have, in fact, greatly changed their character and proliferated. (Now, whether that is ultimately a good thing, even for him, isn't questioned. It's merely quantified, and more is better.) Consider Facebook. Can you eat it or wear it? Does it heat or cool your house? How did that spawn overnight billionaires?
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  29960. Or maybe she believed men should lord over women, that men are superior to women? If it's between her suspicions and his words, his words come first. You're right, that never attracts a good marriage partner. 💯
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  29961. I actually think they should wait until after the election. Hunter is not going anywhere. Then throw the book at him. Gives DOJ time to build a case, and then bring all charges for which there is evidence. Nothing anemic --- the whole shebang.
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  29962. Good for you! Thought up something more creative than "incel" or "Nazi!" It's important to devise your own ad hominem.
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  29963. Oops, I spoke too soon. "Cringe" is a cliche.
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  29964. @Mass Debater Prove, not solve.
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  29965. @Mass Debater Prove that every possible string generated by the function ends in a 4 2 1 loop. There are infinitely many, one per positive integer. Watch it until you get to that part.
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  29966. Robby. Dear. Here, in a way you can understand: major corporations spend more on LOBBYING than they pay in taxes. And rather than paying taxes, and reducing the federal deficit, they buy Treasuries and get paid INTEREST, from the federal government and those very same tax revenues. In the meantime, it is they who need the court system to thrash out their contract claims, it is they who need 700 bases in 80 countries to police the global shipping lanes (and prop up the dollar as global reserve currency) . . . are you starting to see? No?
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  29967.  @Stop_Gooning  Then who would sign up? You'd need to triple the salary and perks.
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  29968.  @rogerdoger3376  He didn't touch Fauci.
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  29969. @the_inquisitive_inquisitor  You cannot criminalize incompetence. There must be some level of intent, or at least recklessness, which is more than incompetence.
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  29970. @the_inquisitive_inquisitor  Because it flies in the face of the most basic difference between mere negligence or incompetence and crime: mens rea. You must have some level of intent to be a criminal. Your superior is supposed to know if you're competent. If you lie to him about your credentials or any other aspect of your knowledge base or your experience, that can be a crime. You cannot lie to a government agent involved in enforcing the laws (as Martha Stewart found out).
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  29971.  @Stop_Gooning  Citizenship revoked, lol.
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  29972. @the_inquisitive_inquisitor  Okay. Do what you want with your failing society. Every proposed cure is even worse than the disease. Every time someone gets mad, they want to do something to repeal constitutional protections -- one of the very few good things we've still got going at this point. Have at it.
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  29973. @the_inquisitive_inquisitor  You will need a draft soon, to man your military. You don't see that? You already cannot find competent people to fill essential posts. You should ask why the incompetent are attracted to this line of work, and fix that, pronto. Because incompetent law enforcement is appearing at all levels. Remember Uvalde? Or currently, Sonya Massey?
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  29974.  @Stop_Gooning  Ah, so you do want to trash the Constitution. Go ahead.
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  29975.  @Stop_Gooning  And you're qualified to do that? 😂
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  29976.  @willis7404  MOST AP classes that lead to college credit are math, science, and similar subjects.
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  29977. My porn star name is Kenneth Cerberus. Yours?
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  29978. The Guardian wrote about it a while ago. It emerged in London before NYC. Oral live attenuated is still causing outbreaks in the Third World. It is called vaccine . . . Derived. Let's see if this is sense ored.
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  29979.  Nightwing690  Not evident.
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  29980.  @klarion  No worries!! Ryan does not know whether his children are vaccinated against polio. My GOD. I thought this story was already known. It has been reported in the mainstream media. I'm genuinely shocked by this whole video.
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  29981.  @Kanaka-Haole  Oh marvelous. The mindless shills are out already. The story has already been widely reported. You can't pull this nonsense off. Not this time.
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  29982. ​ @terrysteaveson7192  You are right, naturally, but that is hardly the point.
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  29983. Irrelevant. If they did not put any person in physical danger, then it was illegal to shoot.
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  29984. Here is a research topic, which would be difficult to explore, for objective, apolitical reasons: Are women more susceptible to messages of innate inferiority, and more likely to give up if they are told they lack some ability? For example, if young women are told there exists powerful evidence that men are superior in mathematics, are they more likely to give up mathematics, compared with men who are told women are greatly superior in foreign languages? Will men nevertheless persist, or not? If there is a difference, what accounts for it? Is it correlated with things like propensity to depression? These are just questions, I don't know the answers.
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  29985. I thought the first 20 minutes weren't science, they were simply common sense based on ordinary observations and (occasionally crude) generalizations. Hasn't everyone noticed most of these things, just from observing people?
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  29986. ​ @nomadicam  Great points.
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  29987.  @dcocz3908  hysterical, ty
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  29988. I think Kamala will win, but Litchman is straight-up misrepresenting the answers to these keys.
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  29989.  Valmora  That would have enshrined separate but equal.
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  29990. Well, at least they know what a woman is now. You have to give them that.
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  29991.  @goldilox811  That's not what it's for.
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  29992. Exactly. It literally can.
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  29993. What is your source for this disinformation?
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  29994.  @andrewh3079  Of course.
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  29995. Facebook just renamed itself "Meta." META!? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Why not Mega? Or how about MAGA? Put out a MAGA hat, I mean META hat, Mark. Best to secure a second stream of income.
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  29996. Yup. Accept that Americans are inferior to everyone else and leave it there.
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  29997.  @davejones9469  Do you realize how much you sound like Hillary Clinton with your massive projection? (How did that b---- get to have the influence she did, to the point where people imitate her all the time? Still a mystery to me.)
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  29998. You are not confused. 😂
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  29999. You're kidding, right?
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  30000. I wish she were less mild. That turned me off in 2016, and I didn't vote for anyone in the general.
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  30001. @veenchelednilao1133  Yeah, usurping the Cabinet picks that were all just vetted and confirmed. Trump might ask them about their ideas for efficiency. The crazy appropriations Trump listed were all public record. The Congress voted on them. I remember hearing about stuff like this since grammar school. There was some senator who had a yearly list.
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  30002.  Tidal Slug  Alex Jones lost a lawsuit and has cases pending. It's about "liability." IOW, money.
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  30003. It must be so disorienting.
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  30004. Clearly recorded long ago.
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  30005. This sounds more like pathological confabulation. He may be objectively unfit for office.
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  30006.  @ForwardGuidance  I said "sounds more like," not "is." "Sounds like" means that if you were a member of his immediate family, you'd probably suggest a visit to a doctor. You know, for a diagnosis.
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  30007.  @ForwardGuidance  Nonsense. Words mean what they mean, not what you need for them to mean. Besides, there is no such "diagnosis;" it is a possible sign or symptom of some sort of issue. It is in no way even a tentative or suggested diagnosis. But please, please don't be upset. Be happy.
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  30008.  @ForwardGuidance  If you actually think this, you are an idiot. But then, isn't that a synonym of typical American? "Admit?" Like I would care what you "think."
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  30009.  @ForwardGuidance  blocked
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  30010. ​ @CLCL748 Americans are more compliant because they are easier to threaten or bribe.
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  30011. Gosh. I wonder how Steve Jobs, who refused medical treatment for a rare, curable form of cancer originating on his pancreas, later got a LIVER transplant.
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  30012. Was this ever reported in the press? This is remarkable. Everyone should have an exit plan (emigration).
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  30013. Source??
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  30014. ​EscapeEscapism364 Sorry, Bub. Multiculturalism is still real.
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  30015. I hope so. Otherwise, I have no respect for him.
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  30016. I thought that was a hare!!
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  30017. You don't think the DNC loved Trump? They had to do exactly nothing to win, and their news networks raked in billions, all thanks to Trump. Not to mention the Clintons and Trump travel in the same social circles.
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  30018. Grosskreutz testified. McGinnis testified. Huber's dirty house did not.
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  30019. Maybe you should read all the Supreme Court cases that permitted affirmative action and see how they justified it. Did you think this was the first case anyone brought?
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  30020.  @detroitcityman6622  Not so. You don't know the history of the Court. Reagan and Bush appointees were Justices for a generation. Most of the Justices have been conservative Republicans for a long time.
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  30021.  @detroitcityman6622  Wait, am I being silly? Any excuse not to read is more like it . . .
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  30022. 1:11 This is the next president? Okay. So, who is going to be president, really?
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  30023. Consider postponing your self-criticism. For example, I'm scheduling mine for next Friday, which means I don't need to worry about it until Thursday. My worry schedule is Thursday, from noon to one.
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  30024. Jessica is misinforming the public on First Amendment law. Oh the irony.
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  30025.  @RaquelSantos-hj1mq  You're both doing the same thing, ad hominem.
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  30026. The Memorandum Opinion I just read states that several breach of contract claims against Harvard were not dismissed. It is dated Sept. 11, 2024. When a nonlawyer presents a case, look up the case.
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  30027. He just told you. Force the Wage.
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  30028. How common this syndrome is was not a research question. The point was to describe the syndrome, based on what those who researchers can determine actually have it, have to say about it. The pre-print gives a very detailed description of the symptoms those people are experiencing, including their severity and persistence through time. Is there some reason to lie, when the link is right there?
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  30029.  @davidyoung6331  Read the paper. It's from Yale.
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  30030.  @davidyoung6331  Thanks for that. I hope your patients know.
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  30031.  @davidyoung6331  Or they just didn't tell you. For the last time, Campbell is not the source of this information. He is reporting on a study. And yes, its source does have some bearing on its credibility. It is not a guarantee of its having been well done, but it certainly increases the chances. I go to good doctors, so this exchange is puzzling, to say the least.
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  30032. @davidyoung6331  Drbeen Medical Lectures addresses all the points you've raised in detail --- by showing exactly what the study says. Reading and thinking should suffice.
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  30033. This may be the greatest living man. I am serious.
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  30034.  @nicofelie  School has enough hoops. Craziness. Miss Grundy takes over college. Etc. LOL
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  30035.  @dennisfyfe920  It takes a few seconds to look up. See for yourself. As if you'd believe me, lol.
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  30036.  @dennisfyfe920  Of course you'll make a new excuse. Statements made under oath in federal court are nonsense. Candace's grift is real. Well, she does make more than a federal judge does, and if money = truth, . . . But why did Chauvin plead guilty? What did he have to gain? Nothing. It can only hurt his appeals and his habeas corpus chances.
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  30037.  @dennisfyfe920  But why did Chauvin plead guilty? What did he have to gain? Nothing. It can only hurt his appeals and his habeas corpus chances.
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  30038. @dennisfyfe920  A guilty plea and allocution under oath is nothing. But a documentary by Candace Owens is truth.
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  30039. Le Monde diplomatique has published Aaron Mate before, and in a quick, superficial search I was able to find one story from years ago that questioned the official line on the gas attacks. Maybe they will report it?
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  30040. Timestamp? Do you dispute that Dore and his wife were vaccinated, that she was a little stiff for a few days and such, then felt fine, and that he had a significant, long-term reaction? Or, if it happens to a former bricklayer, it doesn't count?
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  30041. The emails were widely reported as authenticated. Much of the rest could be "deep fakes," one must suppose. The emails are apparently real.
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  30042. And will we know the difference between real pathogens being created, and made-up stories about them?
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  30043. I'm still waiting for them to run Bugs Bunny. This isn't fair. When is it our turn?
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  30044. But . . . Impeachment!!
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  30045. It's more conservative.
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  30046. I think you're absolutely right.
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  30047.  @dustinavant2003  I agree.
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  30048. We were never told these mRNA COVID vaccines had been tested on animals having a short lifespan, so that they could be observed throughout an entire life cycle, to see what would happen to their pups. Isn't that what we used to do with laboratory rats and mice? Why wasn't this done here?
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  30049. Dan Hodges . . . Oh. My. GOD.
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  30050. He destroyed it himself with bad COVID policies or neglect. Either he did the worst thing, or he did nothing, and then turned the country over to FAUCI. Then his whole campaign was whining about how unfair everyone is, to him.
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  30051.  @sawyer4713  Ummm . . . er, gee. I'm . . . speechless?
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  30052. Tesla was sued in California. That's the real story. Sheesh, what did you think this was about?
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  30053. Took MUSK to "wake people up?"
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  30054. The American Conservative is fairly good. Even Alexander Cockburn could work with them on war and peace issues, no problem.
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  30055. Something wonderful just happened: NRA v. Vullo, a victory for the First Amendment. Sotomayor for a unanimous Court.
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  30056. Where white supremacists have infiltrated local police, there is. But infiltration of police by drug smugglers is bigger. More money involved, vastly more.
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  30057. I listen to Le Média, QG (Aude Lancelin), Clémentine Autain, LFI, and countless others, and this is what they found? Angela Davis was at Fête de l'Humanité this year, and that's mostly in English. This video smacks of false flag.
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  30058. ​@BajatheChickenMan No she didn't. Mad she mentioned Palestine? Barely? Mad she said Fauci is primarily a partisan politician? He is.
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  30059. There is a free-speech crisis at the university. Start with Norman Finkelstein. Supporters of the Palestinians, even those opposed to BDS, have been systematically thrown out of jobs. Don't let these Koch-sters convince you to take your eye off the ball. When students graduate with the kind of DEBT that they do, you better believe there is a free-speech crisis, and it runs deep. Why do you think "Business" has been the single most common major for at least three decades? Unless it leads to CPA, it's usually worth little except to signal docility to corporate employers.
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  30060. Based on what Biden said, you would think Trump had already been indicted and convicted of a serious crime, when neither has happened. To think that this man is a lawyer. Allegedly. And swore to uphold the Constitution. Allegedly.
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  30061. 8:20 holy shit
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  30062.  @ThankYouJesusTheChrist  I don't think that's true, actually. I'm not sure what the theory of the case would be. Antitrust, tortious interference with contract, acting as a government agent in violating First Amendment rights . . . ? Really not sure. A complaint could include all reasonably arguable theories in separate counts.
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  30063. It wasn't a coup. Nothing to do with the messanger, or the messanger's past statements. It was not a coup. Where did you see a scintilla of a chance that Trump and his gauleiters could prevent a change of power, in the White House or the Senate? Where was there a danger of that? Some highly delusional people thought they could prevent the electoral votes from being tallied. Some still believe it.
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  30064.  @MsHarunaMoon  Now he disappears. Pfft!
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  30065. We are confusing the substance of the issue with this odd and anti-democratic move against an elected representative. In general, I don't want laws that make medical procedures illegal, but I am totally flummoxed by the embrace of these highly invasive therapies that can render children sterile for life, long before they can comprehend what that means, in a society that has had a very long and ugly history of eugenics. You don't see a reason to pause? Wow.
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  30066. The burden of proof is on the party bringing a defamation case.
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  30067. DSM-V joke: 😂😂😂
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  30068.  @LonelyTreeSunset  "The assessment by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is that the health benefits from vaccination are marginally greater than the potential known harms. However, the margin of benefit is considered too small to support universal vaccination of healthy 12 to 15 year olds at this time. It is not within the JCVI’s remit to consider the wider societal impacts of vaccination, including educational benefits. The government may wish to seek further views on the wider societal and educational impacts from the Chief Medical Officers of the UK 4 nations. For the vast majority of children, SARS-CoV-2 infection is asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic and will resolve without treatment. Of the very few children aged 12 to 15 years who require hospitalisation, the majority have underlying health conditions. The committee has recommended the expansion of the list of conditions to which the offer applies for at-risk 12 to 15 year olds. There is evidence of an association between mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and myocarditis. This is an extremely rare adverse event. The medium- to long-term effects are unknown and long-term follow-up is being conducted. Given the very low risk of serious COVID-19 disease in otherwise healthy 12 to 15 year olds, considerations on the potential harms and benefits of vaccination are very finely balanced and a precautionary approach was agreed." NO WONDER UK has greater vaccine compliance!!
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  30069. ​ @mfh6982 War psychosis. Face it. This is savagery.
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  30070.  @mfh6982  I know you are crazy now. Way to prove my point.
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  30071. Not only that, but the US has barely any inflation.
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  30072. Jimmy and Glenn are leftists.
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  30073.  @nuqwestr  The instruction was included because the evidence supported including it. Therefore a reasonable jury could have convicted him on that count -- or not. The inclusion of lesser included offenses for the other counts shows that the prosecution no longer imagined it had established intent. I agree with you about openly wearing a large firearm in that context. I think it's inherently provocative, but I see why it is farfetched to say it is provoking any particular individual. A generation after Columbine and still there are states that lack reasonable, constitutional gun laws, not even for minors. Would you have believed it?
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  30074.  @lachlanbell8390  The first four shots were the ones that gave rise to the recklessness charge I'm talking about, which took place before anyone had touched him, not after he was struck. The veterans you spoke with may have more expertise than The View, and more sense, but they have this in common with The View: their opinions are not evidence. If you were correct in your analysis, Rittenhouse's excellent lawyers would not have accepted the McGinnis instruction, which you did not read. Shooting at an assailant in self defense when innocent bystanders are in the line of fire most certainly can support a charge of reckless endangerment, depending on the totality of facts and circumstances. (One question that arises is whether all four shots were necessary for self-defense. This question is less likely to be pertinent when no innocent bystanders are around.) Who told you differently? Obviously they were wrong.
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  30075. ​ @dascokc  See, there's this funny thing --- unless you watch, you really shouldn't judge. Some people who watch shouldn't judge, either, but not watching definitely means you have no basis to judge. Weird how that works.
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  30076. 6:22 Jimmy's position
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  30077. Yeah, sheer torture. Take care.
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  30078. I describe myself as Liz Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, and Catherine Deneuve rolled into one.
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  30079. "Near" the court or residence is the key. The Supreme Court has seen legal protests of all kinds, including many huge pro-life protests against Roe v. Wade, for years. All of those protests and rallies were legal. Are memories that short?
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  30080.  @jacappy111  reported, blocked
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  30081.  @niclewis9610  The one who just got arrested for murder.
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  30082.  @stuartdryer1352  💯 thank you
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  30083. @stuartdryer1352  Counterpunch just posted a series of Christmas cards sent out by politicians showing their entire family carrying firearms. This is the power of NRA money.
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  30084. @anthonywilson4181  "Assault weapon" is a journalistic term for a rifle that is intended to be used in combat rather than in hunting, and is optimized for use in combat. No law restricting such weapons can be vague. Criminal laws generally have to be carefully crafted, or they won't apply. (That's why Kyle Rittenhouse's gun charge had to be dropped: he was a minor, but the law wasn't sufficiently clear that he had to be in a hunting zone during hunting season to legally carry a rifle. This is how criminal laws are supposed to work: they have to be clear and unambiguous, or else no dice.) Needless to say, there are ways to write these laws. (Legislators have to work and stuff, but that's a different discussion.) See? We do know.
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  30085. It is.
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  30086. SHE got that job?? Oh. Now I understand the Libs of Tik Tok.
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  30087. Nobody wants free sh-t for you, don't worry. Memo drafted.
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  30088.  @randygram9310  Yes.
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  30089. Note. A note. Please, not a gift.
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  30090. He's bitter about something.
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  30091. I can hardly wait to see how the US "thrives" after the next 2008-style implosion, only bigger. Um, not really, but I think we may have to.
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  30092. @robisverybad75  So . . . First, Elon has promised to wring all the fraud out of the system, then Elon proceeds to assert that Social Security is one of the biggest frauds. In other words, look up the definition of "Ponzi scheme," then use a logical device known as a syllogism. Appears to support the claim of this video, hm?
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  30093.  @robisverybad75  I presented a syllogism. It was immediately shadowed.
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  30094. All these "revolutionaries" were SO scared! 🤣🤣🤣
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  30095. You think Cuomo did a bad job? Made money coming and going . . . 😂
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  30096. You can look up Chauvin's federal plea agreement and see what Chauvin pled guilty to in federal court. It describes exactly what Chauvin himself agrees he did. I guess college-dropout Candace missed that part? 😂
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  30097. She is turning to the federal courts for help. The NIH helped as well. It was Biden who gave OSHA unconstitutional powers. Trump put on a show, but basically listened to Fauci where it counted.
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  30098. She is turning to the federal court for help.
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  30099. I checked the "study." First, it's not a study but an estimate of the number of undocumented workers with real Social Security accounts. Second, those workers would have to be filing tax returns either with accurate addresses, or bank routing information, or both, to get the checks. Let's suppose some undocumented workers do all that (not impossible). Why shouldn't all taxpayers residing in the US with accurate addresses and bank accounts get a check?
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  30100. O​h give me a break. Are we so superstitious that we don't accept the existence of psychosis? Is this where we're at? Go to any Catholic hospital or Luthern hospital or any other hospital affiliated with any religion you chose. You will find practicing psychiatrists there. Try it and see. Learn something new. Make an adventure of it.
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  30101. 🤣
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  30102. @hapablap2088  MDS: Musk Devotion Syndrome A prior infection with GDS (Bill Gates Devotion Syndrome) makes you more susceptible, and impairs memory so that you don't remember your prior illness, regardless of severity.
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  30103. @hapablap2088    MDS: Musk Devotion Syndrome A prior infection with GDS (Gates Devotion Syndrome) makes you more susceptible and impairs your memory so that you don't remember your prior illness, regardless of how severe it was.
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  30104. We've been sacrificing since 1980.
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  30105.  @panamareg  Praise the Lord. /s
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  30106.  @titus653  Why, precisely?
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  30107.  @titus653  I actually want information about that. Do you have search terms to suggest? If you are referring to her position on Ukraine, I generally agree with it.
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  30108.  @titus653  Iversen's emphasis is probably better than Abby Martin's, but she has also said she is not taking the Russian side by any means. She is more realistic overall, being the child of a Vietnamese refugee family on her mother's side.
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  30109.  @titus653  I didn't know. I want to know about this stuff, thanks. I mean it straight up.
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  30110.  @titus653  I like Abby and Ben.
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  30111.  @urAnusFighter1  Who is defending censorship? Please keep lying now. Please. Don't stop, don't stop.
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  30112.  @ronwest7930  Now that's being fanciful.
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  30113.  @ronwest7930  And a lot of veterans could never be called "the right." I know lots. Neither label, "right" or "left," actually fits.
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  30114.  @ronwest7930  I just had a thought. I wonder how many people in management at YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc., ever served in the military. Someone should ask them. ;)
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  30115.  @urAnusFighter1  Wrong thread.
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  30116. Why didn't Kennedy pick a real vice president? What' that about?
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  30117. We also need property tax credits, obviously. And a mortgage moratorium.
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  30118. No, you are.
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  30119. What Musk is trying to do and succeeding is to gain access to data that his mentor Peter Thiel of Palantir fame can use.
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  30120. ​ @marie-laure.  More than that, undoubtedly. Musk spends more on lobbying for the laws he wants and on elections than on taxes. Then Musk gets government contracts and buys US Treasuries, and WE owe him our taxes, on the contracts and in interest on the national debt. Who will stop this?
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  30121. @andrewlim7751  Who are the "auditors?" Which team? From which public accounting firms? With what experience in forensics (because, of course, there may be crimes to uncover)? Let's have the administration introduce them to the public. They work for us.
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  30122. @SThrillz  I was just wondering -- if people can believe this, what resistance will they have to AI?
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  30123. @andrewlim7751  Oh I see. So, you don't mean an "audit." You mean tracing an instrument, or a wire transfer, or commercial paper, etc. You said audit. My mistake. In any event, who is tracing what, exactly? And who do they work for? And why do you think that's an easy job? Seems that the cases filed against those who did transfer funds illegally were not easy to prove at all.
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  30124. @andrewlim7751  Have you ever had to assist someone whose bank account was stolen? You know they have to prove to the bank's satisfaction that a surrogate did not receive the funds? Have you ever done that?
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  30125. @andrewlim7751  Party!?? My party is La France Insoumise.
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  30126. @andrewlim7751  Look whose judgment is clouded. Interlocutor, meet mirror. And look up some words. "Ad hominem" and "projection" come to mind -- both DNC specialties, too, as it turns out, to the surprise of no one.
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  30127.  @andrewlim7751  Zero for three. 😂👍
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  30128. Trump did do that. He admitted to Bob Woodward that he knew COVID was dangerous by January 2020, and sat on it.
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  30129. Means all the more right now. Thank you.
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  30130. ​ @perritthead AND you have headwinds. Very serious ones.
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  30131. Snoopy: "It was a dark and stormy night."
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  30132. Pittsburgh is.
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  30133. DUH . . . No one read any ancient Greek works? Does agora ring a bell?
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  30134. Mm, Bezos, maybe?
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  30135.  @FrightNight47  I don't even agree with removing her from the floor, and I would hope medical ethics were sufficiently solid that we do not need new criminal laws (so that if there is that one child in 2.5 million who may need more treatment than talk therapy, they should be able to have it without worry), but frankly, she makes me sick. I care about the individual, she clearly does not give a f___ f___. "One or two percent," my ___.
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  30136. The first time AOC supported a right-winger, her supporters should have abandoned her.
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  30137.  @utewbd  Here's a clue: COVID is real. It's worldwide. Watch news in other countries. Or talk to a nurse.
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  30138.  @utewbd  So, suddenly there are no sick people? Hospitals are ghost towns? Over by you, the coronavirus is acting like an elixir. We believe you. /s
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  30139.  @utewbd  I'm being mean. The reality is, Democrats are acting as if this were not a real pandemic. No one can be blamed for wondering about it.
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  30140.  @utewbd  All the more reason for comprehensive, universal health care -- M4A, no age discrimination.
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  30141.  @TheCaptainSlappy  The KGB was dissolved in December 1991. So Glenn is genius and also a time traveler?
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  30142. I think Putin's move is a sign of weakness. What the ultimate result will be isn't evident, however.
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  30143. Suing is a remedy for a sick infant? An 80 year old who unknowingly got an ineffective vaccine?
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  30144. Notice how they throw in "anti-Semitic." Who does it refer to? Jimmy? The assailant? Both?
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  30145. If X, a bad actor, tells the truth about y, please tell me how it is right or useful to pretend X didn't tell the truth.
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  30146. Okay. Someone thought you could change your sex. We have MUCH bigger problems . . .
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  30147. Have they mandated vaccination in order to live normally -- work in any job, buy anything besides food and medicine, enter a restaurant, coffee shop, movie theatre?
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  30148.  @owlishgamer2937  See Jimmy Dore's Friday show. Oh brother. Or on second thought, don't. It's grim.
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  30149. Hanson supports war more than Hillary does, if that's possible. I grant you, it may not be. In any event, don't be so easily led.
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  30150.  @jackabel4499  Hanson supports war more than Hillary does, if that's possible. (I grant you, it may not be.) In any event, don't be so easily led. I agree with the post that said read more. Not that I have any hope in seeing that.
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  30151. After reviewing human evolution in an origins of human language grad seminar, it struck me that most high school freshmen are too young for this. If taught honestly, certain facets of primate sexuality will come up, and 13 or 14 is young for that. A short time later, I found out that some of the top private schools teach evolutionary biology senior year. That's what you do.
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  30152.  @stevebrindle1724  Amen to that.
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  30153. Yeah, with a memory like that, I didn't think he could still lie.
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  30154.  @michaeladams8303  There are good reasons not to. But don't let this political climate influence you to be unwilling to change your mind, especially if better vaccines become available.
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  30155.  @michaeladams8303  I support everyone's right to make decisions about their health. Especially in a society where if you guess wrong, you could find yourself on the street.
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  30156. Rush to UT, take your time at Uvalde. Be the law and get away with anything.
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  30157. ​ @bellingdog 💯 ❤ your post
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  30158. ​@daveisbrill All true, but you still need to push back. Calmly tell them about the downside. Tell them these are designed to create behavioral addiction. These bad actors take advantage of corporation/rich entrepreneur worship. Start by not glorifying those who don't merit it. Does your kid know more about Elon than Einstein? The first famous person I ever heard of was Einstein. Okay, Marilyn Monroe and Liz Taylor were next, but CEOs weren't.
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  30159. ​ @daveisbrill Agreed. Of course.
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  30160. ​ @daveisbrill But do not be defeatist. You know what kids are like. They don't hear a word one day, then suddenly perk up and listen the next. There's no accounting for it. Keep trying, and don't lose your cool. The calmer your discourse, the more they listen. The more serious it sounds to them.
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  30161.  @daveisbrill  Well, thank you for saying that. I actually care, so it's easy to be normal here.
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  30162.  @ab8588  Put that mirror down and pay attention.
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  30163.  @TheDionysianFields  We do not disagree. I was conversing with a very nice person who DOES advise his youngsters. He is probably an exception. I never got a smartphone. I never joined Facebook, Twitter, etc. I know they are designed to be addictive. Human relationships have suffered gravely.
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  30164. @TheDionysianFields  I wonder how many are in visible, lol.
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  30165. Why do either of them want to inflict themselves on this country? GOOD QUESTION.
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  30166. ​@TT_09 The word is "minor." A child is someone who has not completed puberty. That does not usually describe a 17-year-old, or even some 16-year-olds. But they are all underage minors.
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  30167. To be fair, we don't know his drug history. He may indeed be functioning at this level, now.
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  30168.  @thenewtalkerguy496  Most of the Hitler "racial" hierarchy still exists. Nor did it begin with him.
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  30169. 🤣
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  30170. Outstanding clip. Notice how much changed by April 2024. Glenn's recent videos on free speech hypocrisy, on the part of supposed conservative champions of the First Amendment, have been brilliant.
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  30171. You give her too much credit.
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  30172. There are very rare reported fatalities, "possible/likely" fatalities in fact, not confirmed, with the mRNA vaccines, and they appear to be generally safer than many vaccines, so far.
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  30173. No one is silencing their effort to silence others when they express those thoughts through speech, such as in an editorial, rather than by shouting, threatening, banging on walls, and stuff like that. People are speaking up, and urging administrators not to give in to the demands.
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  30174. Notice how they do not demand ample time for questions or rebuttal, then study to prepare some good questions or a rebuttal. Funny.
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  30175. There is no such thing as "their truth." I happen to like the phrase suddenly being vilified for some reason --- "lived experience."
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  30176.  @Kurgana  Have you ever bothered to read a single Supreme Court case on it, even in summary form? I recommend (the incomparable) Nadine Strossen's recent book on hate speech. Or Chemerinsky on campus free speech. You can't say Chemerinsky isn't a leftist. Speech is subject to time/place/manner restrictions, not content restrictions. Heckling a speaker while he's trying to speak is subject to a time/place/manner restriction. You can say the VERY same things to denounce his discourse once he is done talking. So the wrong would be if the university invites Pence, then refuses alternate forums to denounce what he said, refuses a question and answer period, suppresses a speaker who offers to debate him, straight to his face while he's there, and all that sort of stuff. You don't get it, huh?
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  30177.  @thistooshallpass3000  Notice how Q q ignores me? 🤣
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  30178.  @Kurgana  Yes, and a university can invite a former Vice President to speak. And students can register their displeasure in a news article. They can also demand a free forum to rebut him and ask him questions, and if they are denied, then their complaints are clearly meritorious. Public universities are free speech fora. The students can keep a speaker out of their dorm room, not out of lecture halls, absent a truly compelling reason. The fact the guy is a religious nut is not a compelling reason at all. Listen to what Robbie said about the Westboro case for an idea of how compelling the reason must be. Does this help?
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  30179.  @Kurgana  Why do you think you can control speech in your own home? There are lots of reasons, tons, but I'm curious to hear yours.
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  30180.  @Kurgana  No one is trying to shut them up. The point is, their request shouldn't be honored. Moreover, saying his speech (Pence's??) is violent is ridiculous. People are free to claim it is, and the rest of us are free to laugh. How do you know what he's going to say? If he is lame, it should be a breeze to rebut him. But wait. I thought that tragic milquetoast was violent.
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  30181.  @Kurgana  Here's a hint: who are the students appealing to, to ban this speaker? The authorities. But the authorities in this case are clearly state actors, and cannot curtail constitutionally protected speech based on objections to its content. In your own home, there is no way anyone can frame that as coming from the state. You're not a state actor, you're exercising your right to free association. And you don't have to have anything to do with Pence. If people actually listened to this whole video, the main points are all there. I'm no fan of Robbie's, I find him childish and smug, but everything he said was right. Anyway, college has become a trade school with some fancy resort properties put at the students' disposal. Maybe they shouldn't bother inviting anybody to speak unless it's for career advice, stock tips, etc. People begged to make university more like a private business, where as we all know speech is severely curtailed. Business was considered the ideal model. Well here we are.
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  30182.  @Kurgana  Agree mostly. I think?
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  30183.  @Kurgana  Makes a lot of sense, wish you had said that in the first place, i.e., culture schlock is sheer diversion, bad faith, etc., and ignoring it is more likely to make it go away. Astute, that.
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  30184.  @Joy2theworld24  Now we know she was lying. She did not know what she claimed to know, and was fully aware that she had no basis to make these claims about the "danger" of the unvaccinated, and how "safe" the vaccinated were. In fact, if there was any difference, the opposite was usually the case. The vaccinated were more lax in their hygiene, and in the care they took to test and isolate when they did have cold symptoms, because they assumed they weren't spreading the disease, and of course they themselves thought they were invulnerable to severe illness, so they had less incentive to be careful.
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  30185. Note that neither the State Department nor Victoria Nuland has issued a clarification. It has been a while, huh?
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  30186. Briahna should be the first woman President. Her first answer shows it. The rest of her comments confirm it.
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  30187. Yeah, I speak a couple of languages, English not being my first, and when I can't think of the English word for some ordinary thing, and a foreign word pops into my head instead, I make sure no one notices.
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  30188. If someone were to tout bee pollen, meditation, and southeast Asian snails for breast cancer, all right, take it down. But Dr. Campbell is a lifelong educator in the field, and always posts a link to the actual study or data he reviews. He should never be removed from the "airwaves." YouTube is too lazy to post an advisory? I guess it is. Too lazy, too dishonest.
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  30189.  @Americansikkunt  When did Fauci provide access to a single study he relied on? When did he encourage reading actual studies? He said opposing him was opposing Science. Either bully or charlatan, often both.
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  30190.  @Americansikkunt  I'm not a member of any cult. Only the hopelessly stupid or tragically disordered ever fall for that. Also, not having America parents, and growing up bilingual and secular, well . . . Never mind. 😂
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  30191.  @Americansikkunt  And you use the word TRIGGER! 🤣🤣🤣
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  30192.  @Americansikkunt  "Trigger" was a horse, I think. Or a dog. Probably a horse.
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  30193.  @Americansikkunt  What question? I forgot and I'm not going to look it up. (Who cares?) And Trigger was a horse. Or, was Roy Rogers insensitive to name him the equivalent of shell shock? 🤣 Anyway, blocked.
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  30194.  @Americansikkunt  No. I was asking for the actual source for your opinionated arse. Of course that's meant jokingly. I don't expect you to know. You just have tropisms.
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  30195. This is new information. Our focus should be on the CDC, FDA, Fauci, Hotez, and others who actually PUSHED this on people. They must be held accountable. You're still worried about owning Brie? This is verging on the criminal, not Internet Gotcha.
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  30196. No court case is about any "group justice" but about the individuals facing the judge and jury in that case, and no one else. All of you who are projecting your own sorry episodes on two people who are complete strangers to you and screaming for show "justice" will come to rue this day.
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  30197. Say no to drugs.
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  30198.  @LBenn302  First I had to stay in my house. Then I had to double mask. Then it was time to be injected with some new vaxx. Or else. (Hunter's laptop is Russian dis/mis/malinformation I swear it is, don't come for me.) Next, I had to fly the Ukrainian flag. (I had to buy a Ukrainian flag.) And then I have to be for some DRUGGIE because Bad Women and pirates. Finally, I have to shut up. America, Land of the Free.
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  30199. Yeah, and Depp cannot be sued by Heard for defamation even if that was false. His testimony is immune from civil suit, and he'll never be charged with perjury if he actually believed she did it.
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  30200. Why is it so much harder to get a French person to adopt self-loathing? Why are they unbowed?
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  30201. The death rate in the US most certainly did rise during COVID, especially in younger people, and many such deaths were "deaths of despair." Drug overdoses soared.
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  30202.  @TacRifle  I agree with this.
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  30203. 😂😂😂
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  30204.  @DJSouthFlorida  Routine now. :/
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  30205.  @DJSouthFlorida  Can you see the Be s lan comment?
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  30206.  @DJSouthFlorida  When Russian bots were posting pro-Trump stuff (an experiment IMO; most came right after the 2016 election), they began to sound semi-literate. Those got through.
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  30207.  @DJSouthFlorida  skool mass acre, can be seen?
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  30208.  @DJSouthFlorida  in bes l an, now I wonder . . .
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  30209. What other colleges did they visit?
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  30210. Robby, if everyone is a terrorist, no one is a terrorist.
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  30211. And that wouldn't be exactly what he wants to see? Because it's a "lesser evil."
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  30212. Thank you.
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  30213. The issue is who to hold liable. Is it defamation to report on Trump's lawyer's false claims about Dominion voting machines? No. That is simply newsworthy; it is newsworthy to report on what a president has to say, about any matter, even if he is lying. On the other hand, would it be defamation to endorse those false claims? It could be. (Look up "New York Times malice." It is a term of art, having nothing to do with the colloquial definition of "malice.")
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  30214. Oh. Did Greenwald's and Finkelstein's views on the matter, which Brie cited and echoed, offend you? I think we have some idea of why that would be.
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  30215.  @KirbyHenry10  You didn't listen before commenting.
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  30216.  @KirbyHenry10  Either you have no idea what this is about, or you have a very particular agenda, because your comments have zero to do with what either host said in this segment.
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  30217.  @KirbyHenry10  If I'm "actually interested." 🤣🤣🤣 You should be concerned about all the bearing of false witness going on here. That is a bigger issue, that could actually affect you. It has become normal.
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  30218.  @KirbyHenry10  You can't handle the truth. For some reason.
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  30219. Listening to this makes me think . . . many peoples all around the world share a custom of being polite and respectful to their elder scholars. I have to wonder whether the disgraceful behavior of various careerists toward Professor Cohen ended up harming his health. I wish we had that custom, for lots of reasons.
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  30220. Wow, your need to flog some woman-symbol you don't know is almost amusing. I feel no need to go after anyone, I wonder why that is.
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  30221.  @theophrastus3.056  Whoa. Where did I say this? Is there someone who can come pick you up?
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  30222.  @theophrastus3.056  So, our knowledge of this family squabble is on a par with our knowledge of who participated in various atrocities of the 20th century. And interjecting ourselves in family dramas based on tattler books written for 💰 is a sign of character and fortitude. Yes, do find a friend to talk to, right away. People with fortitude only focus on Andrew. There is no other story worthy of general concern.
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  30223.  @theophrastus3.056  blocked by the way
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  30224.  @helengunter378  Have all the opinions you like. My opinion is that they are stupid opinions, designed to ignore what's right in front of you.
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  30225.  @theophrastus3.056  Advanced degrees from two countries, advanced math as an undergrad, studied ancient philosophy in France, and an American JD. Father and uncle veterans of the British Army, WWII. You do have problems assessing other people. Don't pick anyone up in a bar. Let trusted friends introduce you.
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  30226.  @mistydevillier2197  All the anger here is by people like you who hated Megan before she said or did anything, as if seeing her mother discriminated against all her life in America didn't make her hypersensitive. Did you know that as soon as she made money, she put her mother through school for a Master's degree? You can hate her all you like, but that is not an ordinary person, especially not in America. American kids don't do that.
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  30227.  @helengunter378  I'm the only one disagreeing here. If that upsets you, you should think about why. P. S. I'm not on Facebook or any other such nonsense. Only took up YT during the lockdown, and regret it.
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  30228.  @helengunter378  I'm so sorry for your loss. This was a very short time. I know how it is. No words for it. As for this gossip, all of these people are complex, with complex lives and unusual struggles. We can't know what happened, or how it was understood or misunderstood at the time. Meghan was treated badly from the beginning, before saying or doing anything, by people who thought she was wrong for Harry. Some people who are treated badly rise to the occasion, some don't, and most try hard for a long time, then break and lash out all the more. Some people take being blamed for a minor misstep by their staff in stride, calmly and with a noblesse oblige attitude. Others feel it as a personal slight, assume it reflects on them, and crumble right away. No reason to hate anyone. Obviously the noble attitude is better, but no one is perfect.
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  30229.  @lastjellyontheplate8828  Ancient philosophy, mathematics, law. You know, the usual.
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  30230.  @lastjellyontheplate8828  Americans say nasty, vapid things about Harry, too, and for no good reason. Their shtick is that she's better than he is! Lunacy rampant now. Take more walks in nature.
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  30231.  @inthelandofmorethansmall7582  🤣🤣🤣🤣 sick puppy No, Harry wasn't going to marry you instead.
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  30232. That's the strategy.
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  30233.    Directed to wrong screen name. Go back, check it.
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  30234.  MOTEEF MEDIA  It's one moment. It's not a reason to desert someone. It's a reason to watch what they do next. To stop being naive.
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  30235.  @artestra  Fixed it.
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  30236.  @artestra  Fix your spelling.
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  30237. Your comment is the best one here.
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  30238. He's bragging. He's on the side of the New Rentier Class. Even Adam Smith didn't fall for that.
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  30239.  @King-zx4qr  Good, I'm glad the global warming issue has been settled.
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  30240. And opioids are safe. So are mRNA vaccines, especially for teenagers. Ritalin or Adderal, Prozac, Paxil . . . Abilify? You mean your kid isn't on them? How come? /s
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  30241.  @BIENLEBONJOURDANDRE  What left?
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  30242. Yes
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  30243. Well, look on the bright side. If you regret being born, that won't last.
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  30244. It's not evident whether most self-styled "antifa" rioters were false flags of some sort. We all know that some right-wing riots and plots had provocateurs, but somehow no one will acknowledge the same for the riots that followed the legitimate George Floyd protests. (Even Kyle Rittenhouse's older sister attended one peaceful march.) Why do you believe "antifa" was real? I don't. I reserve judgment on that one.
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  30245.  @dbesson  I have to say, that was so brilliant that I'm speechless. /s Are you always this lucid? Life must be easy for you. You must know many, many things that no one else does. /s Actually, there was video evidence of provocateurs everywhere, and all the major independent sources commented on it. But if you didn't see it, it must have been my imagination. As for me personally, I stopped taking things our corporate mass media feeds us at face value a long time ago. Across the board. I suspend judgment a lot. I can do that pretty easily. Experience is a great teacher.
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  30246.  @dbesson  No, I really don't care what you think. "You think" may be an oxymoron. I don't know why you imagine your reasoning is logical. We aren't in a relationship, dear. You don't even know whether I'm real, and vice versa. Americans are getting crazier by the minute. Unless you're also false flaggin' it. I have to hope so. OTOH, various odd forms of narcissism are allegedly rampant now.
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  30247.  @dbesson  Oh wait, I get it. You're mad because I beat you at this (rather silly) game. I always forget about that. I don't take being wrong personally, so I never realize that other people do.
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  30248.  @dbesson  you carry on, I'll just block your blather, thanks
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  30249.  @dbesson  BTW, Bub, I was just visiting family in a country that the US once bombed. I don't blindly accept anything out of any American's mouth at face value, especially where politics are concerned. You are SO lame with your psychobabble. (You really believe that stuff? How do you survive?)
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  30250. No! He's recycling a potent brew of Nietzsche and Jung. I remember the last time that came around. I was still in grammar school.
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  30251. Excellent
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  30252. No one says he did. He was one of the lead researchers responsible for the basic science, and the original mRNA immunotherapy/vaccine technology.
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  30253. No one is surprised.
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  30254. @peterkilby1497  Oh really? The Boston Marathon bomber got a hospital bed, a convicted mass shooter gets a hospital bed . . . Ethics down the toilet, huh?
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  30255. Vacation
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  30256. Do you realize how many unemployed people here do not qualify? Talked to one just the other day.
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  30257.  @laithali8004  By that logic you can excuse anything. It's an argument that proves too much. Who was asking for "perfection?" Have you ever lived in Europe?
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  30258.  @laithali8004  I have the distinct impression that you are not the person to consult about how life is.
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  30259. Gates and his ilk give a LOT of money to both parties.
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  30260. Follow the money.
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  30261.  rs_ Wait. Where did I say you can run a multivariate analysis "on the number of cases?" We were talking about distinguishing the relative contribution of two (or more) independent variables to an outcome (the dependent variable)! Bad faith, bro. Bad faith. 😁
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  30262. Can you be serious? She thought she was going to be Queen? She has a degree from Northwestern. Is yours from Trump U., or Google U.? Silly me, it's from Dark Web College.
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  30263.  @robertandhollyscorpiofan2697  I didn't realize how sick you all are. Lesson learned.
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  30264.  @blackminnie  Oh, good one! The line of succession is William, George, CHARLOTTE, Louis, Harry. Keep up, please. And fifth in line is close. But no, Megan never thought she would be queen, or wanted anything of the kind. Her time as the target of the tabloids was quite enough.
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  30265.  @robertandhollyscorpiofan2697  So then ignore her. Easy.
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  30266.  @piscesvick  Oh how quickly other women join in woman flogging, and with what relish. How soon we forget Ghislaine, and the NXIVM cult enforcers, all women.
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  30267.  @robertandhollyscorpiofan2697  Fan?? I ignore her. You have her wishing death on her children's only first cousins, for real. You are off. Binary thinking ("fan/foe") is a symptom of various personality issues.
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  30268.  @williamwhitten7820  "it would simply be . . . " Say. Got a stock tip?
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  30269.  @gabrieljimenez9946  I hope you don't think I disagree.
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  30270.  @williamwhitten7820  Here I see your point.
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  30271.  @williamwhitten7820  I look forward to having that evidence made public. I'm sick of the gaslighting. By the way, I think there is clear evidence of provocation on January 6th. I hope you noticed the same, after peaceful marches during the George Floyd protests turned into riots. Provocateurs in evidence there, too -- many times. Not to mention in Michigan, during the COVID lockouts, etc. Funny how often some people see some, and not others. /s (No. Not funny.)
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  30272. But Gino is already on leave without pay and has filed suit. Fraud in research is much more serious, comparable to massive plagiarism of one's thesis statement and concept, not just lazy plagiarism of prose here and there. I agree with you, though; the person themselves should offer to resign. Or, they should have to go back to assistant professor status and repeat their application for tenure. In a lot of cases, that would be fair.
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  30273. No flu vaccine is like that. Those of us who always get one know that.
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  30274. Well he said so, hey?
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  30275. 17:20 "curiosity deficit disorder" Will never forget that.
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  30276. 12:00 Yey STEF. Yey JIMMY.
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  30277. Amen.
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  30278. Police are right, the community should still be careful. After seeing this person's face, I am worried there could be an attempted copycat. I almost wish we had not been told about his criminal justice studies. It's not so different from mass shooters who imitate other mass shooters. Could some other "mastermind" criminal try to top this, to "prove" they could get away with it? I am so saddened, this whole day is so sad, and so hard to accept.
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  30279. ​​ @johnf.1969 Actually, Brandenburg holds that in the abstract, you do have a right to call for genocide. Read the case. Read Nadine Strossen. She'll explain it to you. People routinely call for getting rid of blacks and Latinos. You're telling me you don't know? You've never heard it or seen it on the Internet? No one can be arrested for that. People have the right not to frequent someone who says such vile, odious things, but you'd be surprised how many friends they often have.
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  30280. ​ @Silence_Duder_Gooder No, not true.
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  30281. Thank you.
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  30282. Why are they lying to us about the origin of the virus? So we won't be afraid to take the vaccine.
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  30283. How many believe blue-haired trans Harvard students were chanting "gas the Jews?" Not one student anywhere has been found who did. We have Glenn to thank for debunking that nonsense as well.
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  30284. ​ @snowstreams7503 😂😂😂😂😂😂 thanks you made my day
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  30285. ​ @snowstreams7503 So the actual aliens are the Chipmunk People.
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  30286. You got a Like from this channel . . . You think these people's kids won't go to the best possible colleges?
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  30287. Russia hate is always on the menu. Racialism needs a safety valve, this one will do.
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  30288. I'm not surprised that we care more and more about who your parents are, rather than who you, an individual, are -- whether it be for citizenship, a career, or admission to Harvard.
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  30289.  S S  You're the one living in your own fantasies. I'm not a liberal by any stretch.
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  30290.  S S  Sure, okay. Moreover, she does not label the group as a whole a cult, she describes the cult that she dealt with. She can only speak about her own experience in one small city. She does not try to broaden her conclusions. Her experience gives us reasons to ask questions about other chapters of the same organization. The same could be said of the Boy Scouts, Alcoholics Anonymous, and pretty much any religious organization, among many others.
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  30291.  S S  Anyway, you skirt the point. A person who writes and publishes a book about an ordeal is not a "victim." Far from it.
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  30292.  @gigin9774  The "take responsibility" nonsense is designed to let perpetrators off the hook.
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  30293.  S S  Anyone who is concerned about saying something actionable, or too revealing (such as anything that could reveal where they or their children live), and anyone who is simply a nervous speaker, especially a formerly traumatized one, would use a script. Ask how the book was vetted. That would be astute. Autobiographies have in the past proved to be less than perfectly truthful. (Who has forgotten "A Million Little Pieces?") The "scripted" business is irrelevant. It supports the story of trauma and fear, if anything; in no way does it undermine her claims.
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  30294. Question: why do you need a woman to flog? Amber Heard withdrawals?
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  30295. Normal grown people do not put their noses in other people's marriages. If the latter want the attention, we deny them the attention. It's very simple. And no, I don't dislike Megan. She paid for her mother's tuition for a Master's degree, as soon as she had some money. That's a big one in my book. You don't see that, especially in Americans. She's not the first person to feel stifled in that family, for obvious reasons. I have no opinion beyond the obvious.
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  30296.  @MarquisDeSang  Now that's really nuts. Was she a friend of Epstein's and Maxwell's?? Did she start wars and cackle laughing about war crimes? Did she represent a rapist of a young teen by asking that the teen get a psychological evaluation (which was denied, and soon became illegal as a defense tactic).
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  30297. OH. **NO.**
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  30298. She DIDN'T. Her point was that in an even worse case, Turner was allowed to have a career, no problem, until suddenly he wasn't. The timing was suspicious there, too, and the facts were known all along.
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  30299. ​@theawakeningblk I thought, "oh, I have to take a better look at Robby's hair." 😂
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  30300.  @theawakeningblk  I haven't made a new white friend in this century.
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  30301. Troll
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  30302.  @J25DJTJ34MAGA  So, WHY should Jimmy and Stef tangle with that fool again? Everyone knows what Cenk is about.
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  30303. "Everything is my fault?" You are a passenger in a car with a responsible driver on a sunny day, and a drunk driver broadsides you and takes off. It is not your fault. You can survive, and you can rehab and recover -- even if it isn't your fault at all, and you know it. What? You should have done something else? You and your friend didn't have a right to be on the road? Why not, you guys were sober! There is nothing more useful to the world's Bad Actors than misplaced self-blame. Just cut it out.
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  30304. Collages, huh?
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  30305. Were you complaining when the Supreme Court made Bush president? All of this flows from that act. It IS horrid, and getting worse by the minute -- you are right about that part.
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  30306. This is all ridiculous. Do pediatric neurosurgeons make anything like this kind of money over a lifetime, nevermind in a few years? No podcaster is worth that kind of money.
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  30307.  @SSs-lr1jq  True! People care even less about spineless sycophants who crave a Boss, and are willing to proclaim anyone "Boss" to satisfy their abject need. But yeah, the jealous ones are as annoying as the ones who scream jealousy based on projection.
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  30308.  @deadpoolgaming997  There is some good evidence that vaccination plus a mild case of COVID gives the strongest immunity. Dr. Campbell has presented some of those studies. Know that right now, everything is still preliminary.
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  30309.  @deadpoolgaming997  I would have done the same. :)
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  30310. ​ @kyle-ri5mz She didn't even vote for Biden.
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  30311. You mean like that Rachel Maddow hoax, where she spread the story that Putin was offering a bounty for US soldiers? Why does someone join (only a few months ago) to write stuff like this?
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  30312. I'm sure he would, and will. He'll probably need to.
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  30313.  @speckledmike  Reported your smear of Krystal. I hope it's taken down, as it should be. Ha, as if YOU would watch a movie by a Frenchwoman of Senegalese descent, with subtitles, before making damning pronouncements about it. Pleeze.
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  30314.  @speckledmike  Oh, name calling! Wow!! I thought you'd say "Karen." But you picked a more complex slogan to utter, with more syllables! Although you failed to spell it out. Ou bien, je pensais que tu me dirais que tu parlais francais. -- Non, c'est pour rigoler, que je dis cela. Ne me prends pas au serieux.
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  30315.  @speckledmike  I didn't defend the movie -- or condemn it. I pointed out that you are tossing off an accusation of very serious criminality when chances are excellent you have NO idea of what you're talking about, because YOU would never watch a movie by such a filmmaker in any event. (I think the French nationality clinches it, well before race enters the picture.) Or was the reasoning too tough? So stick to memes and smears. I'm sure it works fine.
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  30316.  @speckledmike  That was an ugly smear, you know. But that sort of thing seems to be tolerated all the time. It's easier to remove the posts of those who stand up to bullies. Just saw an old Audrey Hepburn film called "The Children's Hour," based on the play by Lillian Hellman. Perfect timing.
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  30317.  @speckledmike  Oh now I get it!! It's easy for you to accuse someone of apologetics for pedophilia because YOU don't see that as a big deal. It's just another effective talking point. Like SJW, or something. Okay, now I get it. Took me a while. Thanks for setting me straight.
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  30318.  @speckledmike  PROVE SOMEONE SAID PRECISELY THAT. Sounds like something you read into something someone said. But more important, how do you suggest the sexualization of children be stopped? Exactly how do you communicate the message effectively? Did you know, for example, that beauty pageants for toddlers, complete with swimsuit competitions, exist? Did you know dance competitions for preteens that imitate adult erotic dancers exist? Do you have proposals for doing something about it? Do you think you can do something about it without showing what it consists in? You cannot legally ban a movie if the distributor sues under the First Amendment to lift the ban, without showing the whole movie to a jury. This is apart from whether such competitions "normalize pedophilia." You say so, without any evidence. But they are certainly not good for kids, even if they lead to nothing worse. I don't need persuading. I think anyone who endorses first person shooter video games for kids under 18 is endorsing something that harms brain development and normalizes homicide, but I don't expect to convince anyone, sadly. Applying a slander term to them never occurred to me. Quick and dirty, huh?
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  30319. Did you hear her whole report? Bernie Steinberg, former executive director of Harvard Hillel, comes out head and shoulders above anyone.
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  30320. "Pope Francis makes almost daily calls to a small Catholic community in a church in northern Gaza that is giving refuge to about 700 Palestinians who have lost their homes in the Israel-Gaza war." Nov 11, 2023
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  30321. Do you realize you have lost touch with reality?
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  30322. I thought so, too, and checked it.
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  30323. Technically, it is not a true threat. Learn First Amendment law before it becomes quaint history.
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  30324. Because government plays no role in the globalization of the labor market, huh? /s
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  30325.  @marciamakesmusic  rprted, blked
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  30326.  @marciamakesmusic  congrats on one hideous 22-second video posted in 8 years, at least it was the shutdown that got me to subscribe in 2020! 🤣, you 🤡
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  30327. https://youtu.be/75BH7F0AqsI Warning: Very strong language. See what David Goggins says about racism. He was being called n***** , threatened with death, had his property repeated vandalized, when Shapiro was a kid in grammar school. He became a Navy Seal and the world's greatest ultra-endurance athlete. As for "the rules today are not racist," Michelle Alexander addressed that in depth. And Shapiro must know that. He's pretending he doesn't.
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  30328. Commercial endorsements 💰💰💰
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  30329. If we can't challenge Nancy over health care, because a Republican will sneak in, then we can't challenge Nancy over anything at all. Same issue. Except . . . it's NOT TRUE.
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  30330. Isn't a nanoparticle 1/100 to 1/1000 the size of a red blood cell (comparing diameter to diameter)? Who would have that injected into them as a vaccine -- rather than, for example, as a cancer treatment?
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  30331.  @trinitytwo14992  You made a mistake there. Let's not use bad arguments against the vaccines. There are plenty of good ones.
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  30332.  @ryanthomas4069  I see. And this is literally meaningless without knowing exactly what the RATE of myocarditis among unvaccinated youth who have contracted COVID infection is, compared with the RATE of myocarditis caused by the vaccination itself -- and in particular, the rate of COVID-induced myocarditis in unvaccinated people who have contracted an Omicron variant, since the more deadly variants of COVID are all long gone.
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  30333.  @ryanthomas4069  False. You don't understand Bayesian probability. If your risk of X is very, very tiny, then clinical outcome is less important in making a cost-benefit analysis regarding preventative strategies and their risks than when the risk of X is higher. Do young people contract severe COVID with myocarditis at all? If they don't, or very, very rarely, then the fact that it presents a danger to them is not a reason to take a vaccine known to cause an apparently milder case of myocarditis more often than COVID itself does, especially where, as this study acknowledges, there were a handful of myocarditis deaths associated with vaccination. The study also listed the 90-day time frame as a possible limitation on the value of the data. This simply acknowledges the fact that we don't know long-term outcomes for either COVID or the vaccines. I'm an attorney who specialized in the federal rules of expert witness testimony under Daubert. This is the common sense interpretation of risk analysis, and it is also the law. You're the one who has projected feelings (and dumb slogans) into the discussion, for some reason. Some obscure reason.
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  30334. 5:09 et seq. was outstanding. Only about a minute and a half. Attention spans have taken a hit, huh?
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  30335. I walked to school four times a day, morning, for lunch break, and at the end of the day. Not only that, my parents took me to Los Angeles on Route 66 in the back seat of a used Chevy with a rebuilt engine and no AC. We had an open umbrella to keep the sun out of my eyes. No seat belts.
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  30336. No. Thoughts are not crimes yet, and religious beliefs are not tested. Government can't do that. Yet.
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  30337.  @TheSpartan3669  I haven't read the complaint yet. I will after I make dinner.
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  30338. JUST THE OPPOSITE. The cosplay left is demoralizing everyone by making it look as though nothing we need is possible, as though nothing we should do can be done.
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  30339.  @debutts7723  Oh please. You had a point, possibly, until you said "Tim Pool." Well, thanks for letting us know what you think. Or not. At any rate, it's obvious you don't follow Dore, which is certainly your prerogative, and I know he is not to everyone's taste -- understandably not. But if you don't follow Dore, then you do not know where he fits in the left wing landscape, or why a Cornel West, Richard Wolff, Chris Hedges, Max Blumenthal, Briahna Joy Gray, Matt Stoller, etc., etc., will come on his show, and will defend him to a large extent, even when they disapprove of certain tactics he uses. You don't know he was a bricklayer, you don't know he was the youngest of 12 children and grew up without a bookshelf in the house, you don't know he had to declare medical bankruptcy due to a rare disease and was so despondent over it that he was suicidal, etc., etc. "Tim Pool." Oh brother! This is why people on the real left will not let you smear him. Clear now?
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  30340.  @debutts7723  As for AOC, and Bernie's latest comment, they are demoralizing. I'm not saying they cannot walk back from them, or that ultimately they will not accomplish anything real. I am saying that the disappointment we've had in all the Democratic administrations since Reagan came to power in the 1980s, and the DNC's de facto embrace of Reaganism, has been a disaster. A COMPLETE and utter disaster. Why do you think US/UK are in the worst shape of any developed countries at the moment? This has become dangerous. This isn't a joke any more, or a photo op, or a vehicle for selling merch.
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  30341.  @debutts7723  Okay, neither do I, Mr. Butts. Or Ms. Whatever.
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  30342.  @debutts7723  By the way, I see you're subscribed to various gun enthusiast channels and such, not to any progressive ones, with the arguable exception of Joe Rogan. So interesting. I wonder where you get your information on Dore and his role, good or bad, in progressive causes.
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  30343.  @debutts7723  But your observations aren't true. So, I wanted to see how you present yourself on this platform, in case it might shed some light on why you say things that aren't true. Of course, that might not work, but it seemed to be worth a look. Anyone who prefers privacy has my blessing, that's for sure. I only joined YouTube during the hard shutdown in my state, due to COVID. I see the downside of being here, absolutely. It is probably greater than the benefit. (That's usually the case with any "social media.")
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  30344.  @debutts7723  Dore does not excoriate Republicans to the same extent as DNC and its lackeys because anyone with a brain knows the Republicans will NEVER serve anyone's interests apart from the oligarchs, and hardly pretend to. They try to foment absurd culture wars, and DNC chomps on the bait. Why not? They both serve the same class. I wonder how you explain the fact that both Chris Hedges and Richard Wolff just came on Dore's show. I will be frank: I was surprised. Hedges had worse to say about AOC, by the way. Namely, that he never expected better. Jimmy Dore is so angry because he did. I don't endorse everything he says, nor even his general approach (Wolff had constructive criticism), but I understand why he reacts as he does. Also, since you called me "some Joe Schmoe on the Internet," to whom you need not "prove anything," you practically invited me to look you up! You need to get that clue.
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  30345.  @debutts7723  There has been no "Dore about-face." As fo "these guys," Hedges and Wolff, they are both rich -- as in, independently wealthy. They have absolutely no need to appear on Dore. The suggestion that they might is preposterous. It's a risk for them, if anything! As for the rest, you've distorted what I've said. Of course. Have it your way. As a matter of fact, the neolibs almost did lose the election to Trump, as anyone who is objective must see. If they took the Trump threat seriously, why did they run Biden/Harris? Why didn't they start in November 2016 to plan for 2020, to run a truly popular candidate? This election should have been a landslide for Democrats, not one where they barely won the White House from that menace, and lost seats in the House. (BTW, every more progressive Democrat won, and it was two progressives who handed over the Senate to Democrats, FINALLY. The DNC types barely hung on.) Anyway, keep it up. Who cares?
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  30346.  @debutts7723  Nice how you pretended I didn't say this -- early on, in fact: "At any rate, it's obvious you don't follow Dore, which is certainly your prerogative, and I know he is not to everyone's taste -- understandably not. But if you don't follow Dore, then you do not know where he fits in the left wing landscape, or why a Cornel West, Richard Wolff, Chris Hedges, Max Blumenthal, Briahna Joy Gray, Matt Stoller, etc., etc., will come on his show, and will defend him to a large extent, even when they disapprove of certain tactics he uses. You don't know he was a bricklayer, you don't know he was the youngest of 12 children and grew up without a bookshelf in the house, you don't know he had to declare medical bankruptcy due to a rare disease and was so despondent over it that he was suicidal, etc., etc." If you don't like Trump, don't imitate his lack of candor. BTW, do you think Dr. West needs to be on Dore? LOL . . . I mean, how farfetched can you get?
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  30347.  @debutts7723  Speaks to his bona fides. The noliberal elites create the conditions for Trump.
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  30348.  @debutts7723  "Relatively, It [sic] was a Landslide [sic]." Now I know you're some species of false flag/shill.
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  30349.  @debutts7723  Hedges has his own show. Wolff is an Ivy Leaguer with a nice retirement income, teaches at New School for fun, and has taught at Pantheon-Sorbonne. (You think any of these people need YouTube? Do they also need Facebook? LOL) You have heard of book royalties? No, I don't like Dore's f-bombs. Big deal. He's got some trauma going on. Real people make allowances for that.
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  30350.  @debutts7723  Does Dore have a fan club? The only blog I support and have ever supported is Glenn Greenwald's, since his departure from The Intercept. His is the only charity I could wholeheartedly get behind, as well -- homeless people looking after abandonned dogs in Brazil. He is a noble guy. Why wouldn't prominent people go on Dore? ALL of YOUR posts answer that question. You're really irrational. Sorry to hear you like guns.
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  30351.  @debutts7723  I don't identify as an America or see myself in anyone here. Parents met in refugee camp, American by accident of birth, get my inspiration from French left, Lain American left, etc. Of course don't get most of my news here, or in English. Plan to emigrate permanently. . . . So much for all that.
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  30352.  @debutts7723  Spoken like the real morons who bombed my country with DU.
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  30353.  @debutts7723  The results of your efforts are on display for all the world to see. Your "left" is every civilized person's center-right. Your right veers off into flagrant fascism. Glad the other 95% (of humanity who live elsewhere) now know where this leads. Best possible outcome, given the circumstances.
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  30354.  @debutts7723  I am? No. Only monolinguals are.
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  30355. Start by not calling yourself "debutts" why don't you? Since you're so smart about politics.
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  30356. Joe Rogan exposed them: the rich can get effective treatment. No one has to take up an ICU bed, almost no one has to die. That's why they're furious with Rogan.
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  30357. Maybe you took more challenging classes. If I didn't understand 95% every day, I was crazed about it. I had a full minor, so: calculus, adv. calc, diff eq, etc., and my most advanced class was . . . Abstract Algebra.
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  30358. This is why people resort to lawsuits. Now you see why it is necessary.
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  30359. THIS
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  30360. WHICH criminals?
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  30361. I don't understand why being in the possession of a missing person's property (HER van) was insufficient to place him under surveillance. It was.
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  30362.  @drebk  These types of stories make me suspicious -- I begin to think they are being deliberately spun to erode constitutional rights. That's the pattern we see. People do fall for it. In this case, it was naive, gentle Gabby who made statements to police she should have been taught never, ever to make. We have a whole video of it. The only statement anyone should ever make in her position is "I feel unsafe." All the rest can be sorted out later. Any confessions, admissions, etc., if they should ever be made, should only be made in open court, under oath, with counsel present. Nowhere else, ever.
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  30363.  @faulltw  Some of us do know more about the law than you do. Confessions should never be made to law enforcement. They are part of guilty plea colloquies that a defendant states under oath before a court. Everyone has a right to remain silent. OTOH, no one has the right to lie to law enforcement. Never lie to police, absolutely never. Just zip it.
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  30364.  @drebk  This cop doesn't even recognize a correct statement of the law. If anyone proposes any funding reduction, it better not be a reduction for training. More like increase it!
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  30365.  @karenvickery6070  Daytime television version of "the law."
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  30366.  @Chaoitcme  He had her van, which was also her sole shelter on this trip, with no evidence (call, credit card use at a hotel, etc.) that she had transportation, or any other form of shelter anywhere else, so far from home. I do not understand how something that concrete is not worthy of investigation. How is that just okay? That scares me, not that they didn't try to force him to talk! They aren't supposed to.
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  30367.  @Chaoitcme  So, if you don't report your van -- which is both your vehicle and your dwelling -- as missing, and someone turns up with it under suspicious circumstances, you are okay with this odd situation not being investigated, within the bounds of the law?
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  30368.  @Chaoitcme  All of you are saying the same thing, that "police hands are tied." It's not true.
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  30369.  @johnpaul5474  I agree, but how is that relevant? It isn't. THIS report was about high school teachers approaching current high school students. That is never, ever acceptable. A high school graduate who is a former student is a different matter.
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  30370.  @lidahall5928  Perfectly put.
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  30371. I wish this sh!t wasn't always in Norman's and Aaron's faces. That they have to deal with it today, AGAIN, is nauseating.
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  30372.  @chimpskij  So are we.
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  30373.  @chimpskij  Greenwald just dropped an outstanding video that also addresses this Chomsky statement in a sensitive way. The full Chomsky interview is posted on Primo Radical. It is pretty bad.
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  30374.  @chimpskij  Links tend to be shadowed lately. The full Chomsky interview is on Primo Radical. Greenwald added his video to his System Update playlist, and his comments are toward the end. Both are easy to find. I'll link separately, in case it escapes censorship.
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  30375.  @chimpskij I think his point is that as a general matter, you don't compel minor children to take a vaccine to protect people in their 80s and 90s, unless there is a clear benefit and minimal risk to the kids themselves. At least I hope that's all he meant. Hm.
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  30376. @bethere5151 Not writing for his benefit, but to refute him, and support the person who made a good point. Falsifying what other people said like chimpskij did is almost a smear.
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  30377. @bethere5151 I am SO sick of people trying to push more sacrifice on the young for those approaching 90 or 100. At first I though, good, respect elders, don't give in to age discrimination and so forth. Little did I know . . . :/
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  30378. A few years ago, "lived experience" was a huge step up from "my truth." Sigh.
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  30379.  @qjtvaddict  LOL. This one is pretty bad, but anyone who likes the Ronettes cannot be all bad.
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  30380.  @onefreepalestine  Exactly. I also wonder why China instituted actual, complete lockdowns, as you see done in prisons. Do they know something about the virus that they are not sharing? I mean, apart from its origins, which they probably knew all along. I love how no one can ask questions. All questions are "questions." All questions have to be probed for their "subtext," so that we can categorize the speaker and call them out -- and bury the question in the meantime. It's about personal condemnation, not about learning the truth about anything. This isn't working out too well. I'm waiting for one of these freedom fighters to grasp what they're actually doing.
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  30381. Not her job.
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  30382. They didn't just pick this issue. It is making a difference. It appeared that the Democrats were about to get punished for the state of the economy, general incompetence, and their lying about opposing vaccine mandates, until they got elected and then began coercing people. Well, they've quietly backed off from the mandates. Now, the Republican fringe is making a ten-year-old cross state lines to get an abortion, and her doctor got death threats. In the meantime, Fox News said she did not exist, and never apologized. That caught people's attention.
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  30383. If words meant what they say, then that would be exactly right.
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  30384. Tremendous guest, thank you. Why don't more people know about Dr. Horne? I love the latest fiction: that college is a hotbed of radicalism. The most common major by far is, of course, Business, and has been for many decades -- more than a generation. The next most common majors are in Biology and the health sciences. A general business degree, without advanced math or accounting, often won't be a college-level program. It's there as a demonstration of obedience, to reassure your future employers. An art degree from a top school is a better education.
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  30385. No wonder they want Assange dead.
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  30386. What? Are you able-ist? 😂😂😂
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  30387.  @martincagle9226  THIS
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  30388. Trump is the ultimate narcissist, yet he let the message he won on -- PHONY as it was -- to be crushed by the Republican swamp. Trump is not only corrupt, disordered, and morally aberrant, but too lazy to lift a finger.
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  30389. Do what you believe is best and don't worry.
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  30390. A substantial number of people were exposed and asymptomatic. This is like a naturally acquired vaccination. With all the people you interacted with, it's more likely you were exposed than it would be for most people who were never sick.
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  30391. I feel sorry for Mario Cuomo, RIP.
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  30392. And why don't they know that the world's finest bookstores are in Latin America? And that UNAM is like its own city, and Harvard Yale Princeton Stanford Michigan rolled into one? And that the mayor of Paris through all the terrorism and the strikes and the demonstrations is a Spanish woman? Wait. The last one I get: her family fled Franco and America supported Franco. Okay then. The other ones.
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  30393. So that was what your high school was like. How was kindergarten?
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  30394. The ones coming out of Facebook and Twitter are going to be even worse.
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  30395. ​ @CHRISTSPIRACY.comJESUSwasVegan  I can accept that every person is different and that there are people who thrive on carnivore diets and those who need a high-fat diet, primarily from olive oil and similar oils. But that's not most people. I eat vegan at least two days a week, and usually four or five. I eat goat cheese for vitamin K2, occasionally duck eggs for choline. That's it.
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  30396. President Joe Mummy.
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  30397. They are THAT stupid? Good to know.
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  30398. Gates
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  30399. Y'mean like not being able to deny coverage for "preexisting conditions?" Having to pay for a 3D mammogram? Those horrific regulations?
    1
  30400. EXACTLY. Place it in an escrow account, and make its existence known to the bankruptcy court and the appointed trustee, and then just wait and see what the court decides. That's all that should happen. THIS IS NOT TOUGH. Well, the right thing to do is clear. Maybe it's tough to do? Pfft.
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  30401. ​ BernieCorruptSanders  Students used to not need loans. They used to have a summer job and an on-campus cafeteria or library job, or wait tables a few nights per week and not need more than a few bucks from mom and dad for airfare, train fare, or gas to come home for Christmas. This is news to you?
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  30402. ​​ @ericvolkman1490  If a corporation can give it, then it can take it away.
    1
  30403. It is. Very -- especially at their age. Your body went through its natural changes. This is all a crime.
    1
  30404. which two?
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  30405. If that is the case, then those students cannot benefit from a reasonable accommodation and would not qualify to receive one. Not everyone who has had a major depressive disorder IS a danger to anybody. That is the point of anti-discrimination laws: just because someone, somewhere, committed suicide in their college dorm does not mean that you can exclude anyone who ostensibly has something in common with that person. Maybe you should read the complaint? Find out what the suit is about first, before you disagree with it.
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  30406. I WISH this had not been censored. His language is appropriate to the message, and is sincere, not for shock. He is a great communicator. Put up a warning for kiddies, no problem. I appreciate that.
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  30407.  @Jeangrey567  The tech giants who censored this enjoy Section 230 immunity, a federal law that preempts any state's laws. A lawsuit would be dismissed. They would move to have the lawyer fined for filing a frivolous nuisance suit.
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  30408. Even I am not enjoying them. I should be, but can't. This is much too grim.
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  30409. True. Scary.
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  30410. What idiot told you that? Why did you believe him? You didn't know Communists and socialists were sent to concentration camps as well?
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  30411. In the 1920s and '30s, no one could hope to attract workers without "socialist" branding, the prestige of the term was that great. Albert Einstein and Helen Keller considered themselves "socialist." The fact that so many in the DNC do corporate bidding, and consider certain "elites" to be entitled to lord over the rest of us, is a classic fascist position. That's why the DNC forced the vaccine mandates, while in Europe you had Communist Party members and allies who were critical of them.
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  30412. You are quibbling. Use the term "discontinued" if you prefer. It was discontinued BECAUSE OF that particular side effect.
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  30413.  @hazmat5118  I accept that. Will you agree that it was discontinued, and is no longer recommended, because it apparently causes a potentially lethal side effect, namely TTS? Any of us can click the link to the Australian government website and see for ourselves that AZ was discontinued because a serious side effect was directly attributed to that vaccine, namely thrombosis with thrombocytopenia (TTS). I agree that there is no indication that anyone will go to jail if they administer that vaccine, or that existing stockpiles were confiscated and destroyed.
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  30414.  @hazmat5118  I read the website. It didn't speculate that way. It said TTS has been attributed to the vaccine. Bad faith. Blocked.
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  30415. Trump made the statements just recently. Nothing weird about it.
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  30416. Making $100k per speech.
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  30417. The biggest lie is that they were "rude." But then, everyone thinks they are entitled to their own truth. If all else fails, there's a big army to back it up. If you call these kids rude, then every person who claims discrimination must be right.
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  30418.  @dellingson4833  Does not respind to a word I said, now does it? FIGURES.
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  30419.  @dellingson4833  General Flynn would have had an ample defense fund. Not the same situation as Bannon at all.
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  30420. That's generations ago now.
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  30421. ​@brodieobrien-pickering2202 Of course Harvard is private. Americans are a fact-challenged bunch.
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  30422.  @oleladywho  Sure. A preeminent toxic tort lawyer -- a VERY hard specialty -- is a "nutjob," and this little vacant-eyed overly made up talking head just exposed the truth. Good luck to you, too.
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  30423. The irony is that the Clintons, as the power behind the DNC, are the two people most responsible for the Trump presidency. They also bear some responsibility in the degradation of US-Russian relations, which is no joke. If they did nothing else, they would be evil.
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  30424. That's funny. A living person testified he believed, rightly or wrongly, that Rittenhouse was an active shooter. Another living person testified he was an innocent bystander in the line of fire when Rittenhouse first opened fire, before anyone had touched him. Huber's filthy house was not in evidence. You are easily led.
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  30425.  @SteveK139  America's a video country.
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  30426.  @SteveK139  The story that people rushed at Rittenhouse, who they believed -- rightly or wrongly -- was an active shooter, because the media uses terms like "assault rifle," and scares them, and not because, say, Columbine, or Sandy Hook, is beyond laughable. You can think whatever you want of Grosskreutz, but at that moment HE believed he was saving lives, not interfering with self defense. A high school sophomore knows more psychology. A generation after Columbine and Wisconsin's legislature was incapable of drafting a reasonable and constitutional gun law with respect to minors. They get paid because . . . Tell me again.
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  30427. Do they expect these evictions and foreclosures to occur slowly enough to prevent solidarity and resistance?
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  30428. "Entirely?" "Entirely," huh? Excuse me, but has literally everyone lost their minds?
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  30429. 💯 Material reality.
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  30430. ​@rphilipsgeekery4589 You should know by now that you can get anyONE to agree with anyTHING.
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  30431.  @vintageglee6406  Good luck with that. Not that anyone else will do worse. That much is obvious.
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  30432. You know how. (I realize you know.)
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  30433. ​ @jmsblk1 Troll, lol.
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  30434. ​ @JohnMartin-pjasca On the contrary, he makes bank easily.
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  30435. @sfu4028  ​In a world where everyone on a college campus has a video recording device, why has no one produced a single video of the alleged antisemitic attacks he describes? Glenn Greenwald has repeatedly called for such videos, with the promise that he would air them on his program. No one has taken him up on it. Why has no one been arrested for these supposed assaults that Murray insists are occurring everywhere? We do have laws against "hate crimes" (the crime being, for example, an assault, while the motive leads to enhanced penalties). Major billionaires have promised that no one who participated in perfectly legal demonstrations would never have a good job. If that kind of power of surveillance exists, then no one would miss an actual crime -- although in the nighttime attack on a pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA, the police stood down. On the other hand, ICJ and ICC have said that there is an objective risk of geno--de in Gaza, and have documented these concerns.
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  30436. @sfu4028  I just showed you. I hope it's allowed by Alphabet. Edit: NOPE 😂😂😂 Then I guess it didn't happen.
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  30437.  @JohnMartin-pjasca  He gets paid for little work. Profit maximization, lol.
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  30438. Epstein-friend Clinton is speaking, too. But for a former president not to speak would be glaring: it would be an admission of sorts. So, brazen better than glaring. We knew that.
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  30439. ​​ @loribaker8339 It wasn't speculation at all. The original post stated due process principles correctly.
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  30440. ​@alllifematters You thought this was "information?"
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  30441. ​@alllifematters Yeah, he talked to all of the suspect's immediate family, and they all blabbed. 😂😂😂
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  30442. Just happened upon a film review by an NYU grad student in film who went to Paris in the 1970s with barely broken French and wrote to ROBERT BRESSON, asking to meet him. He said sure. But Phetasy (or however you spell it) is above her old high school buddies. Ponder that.
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  30443.  @patrickwrightson2072  I already read between 50 and 70 books per year, plus legal opinions in their entirety, and speak three languages fluently, and know two others a fair bit. You?
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  30444. ​ @patrickwrightson2072  There is a whole science of making people do what they don't want to do, based on manipulating them using their known needs, and has been noted at least since the 19th century. We've just seen it in action since 2020. Why does a house cost what it costs? Did families with young kids suddenly decide that having two breadwinners working 50 hours per week and spending two hours a day commuting, and taking out a mortgage that was just a little too high, was their American Dream? Actually, speaking of history, economic history is a fascinating subject. As for, say, Microsoft, the published cases from their antitrust trial are fascinating. The whole history of its dominance was tested in court. People never read those because they came away with the technically mistaken but pragmatically correct impression that Microsoft won!
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  30445. Kosovo/a was much more unfair to Serbia, but most people recognize that at this point, all or most of Kosovo/a can't be returned to Serbia. So how do they imagine that the Donbass, much less Crimea, can ever be part of Ukraine again? The very idea is obscene.
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  30446. 👏👏👏👏👏 -- directed toward the OP
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  30447. ​ @brasshouse-fireball  Do you not know the US role in Cambodia? They made the killing fields possible.
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  30448.  @АлександрИванов-ш2я2п  Well, that's hard to believe as well, given that non-Western Europeans tend to be very critical of society and of the state, but NOT in the way you see here. Not at all. The mentality couldn't be more different. I'm sure they were happy to have a secure base for their lives. That was something the USSR did strive to provide.
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  30449. People are psychologically unwell -- says Hunter's father. Give me Hunter's monthly income as my three-year salary, and I'll be just fine. I'm not needy, I'm resourceful.
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  30450. ​ @josephsimonelli8764  THANK YOU for stating the law in plain language.
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  30451.  @davidsheriff9274  Excerpt from NYTimes: "[Anita Hill stated] she cannot support Mr. Biden for president until he takes full responsibility for his conduct, including his failure to call as corroborating witnesses other women who were willing to testify before the Judiciary Committee [concerning Clarence Thomas's conduct]. By leaving them out, she said, he created a 'he said, she said' situation that did not have to exist." This is about the kindest spin you can find.
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  30452.  @davidsheriff9274  Not at all. Biden was chairing the hearings, and he could have but didn't prevent Hill from becoming the focus of really dirty innuendo by the Republicans, while preventing FOUR corroborating witness waiting outside the chamber from being heard. It has everything to do with how Biden views sexual harassment and women in general, and how he deals with credible allegations of harassment. All of these people (Biden, Clinton, Thomas, and Trump, for that matter) swam in these waters. Any woman who worked for any of them during this period was taking a grave risk. Someone like Hill could have had a breakdown and become disabled after such an ordeal. (Which is convenient, for perpetrators, isn't it? "See! She's nutty!!")
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  30453.  @davidsheriff9274  No, of course it doesn't make Reade credible. She stands or falls on her own merits. The harassment that was routine during that time tells you a lot about mentalities, however. I think the real question is why the Democrats didn't get to work in November 2016, right after the most surprising defeat ever, to find a candidate who was competent, and had an unimpeachable character. And was under 70 years old.
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  30454.  @davidsheriff9274  No, there weren't. It was almost an entirely uninspiring field of id-pol apparatchiks, scarcely better than the one who lost in 2016. They were only better than Trump, which is a lower bar than anyone ever expected to see. I'm sure we disagree about a lot. My goal is to emigrate by 2025.
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  30455. Jacques Baud reported this. Kim Iversen just featured his recently-translated article.
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  30456. Oh this was GOOD.
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  30457. He got worse because he crammed the program rather than cramming his exams. 😂
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  30458. If communism doesn't work, why do they have to be sanctioned?
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  30459.  @krismartin1181  True
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  30460. "Only four times" No one could make this up.
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  30461. He didn't cross state lines WITH that weapon. MSM reported this case badly, allowing the right-wing to react as you're seeing. A full generation after Columbine and Wisconsin's legislature was incapable of drafting a reasonable and constitutional gun law, not even as it pertains to minors. Grande's commentary was tendentious. We had a living survivor testify he thought Rittenhouse was an active shooter -- and after all, Rittenhouse did shoot four times at the first victim before anyone touched him, with McGinnis, an innocent bystander, in the line of fire. McGinnis testified as well. Testimony is evidence. A dead person's dirty house isn't.
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  30462. The weapons charge was dropped because it is badly drafted.
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  30463. ​ @np1324 Dr. Campbell has been on blood pressure medicines since his booster. He has expressed concern, but he's British. He won't whine.
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  30464. @np1324  This problem is CONSTANT on YouTube. The new thing is to "deamplify." This means a reply is only visible if you sort by Newest tab. Then all replies not deleted reappear. I'll try.
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  30465. ​@np1324 Links are always removed. In any case, this was a long time ago. I won't do a search, thanks. I have a good memory. I know pi to 57 decimal places. Believe me or not, as you choose.
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  30466. ​ @willn8664  That story is probably false as well.
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  30467.  @MiraculousAngelTarot  They were apart for nearly a week. This infotainment fails to mention that.
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  30468.  @bobgillis1137  Great catch!
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  30469. Exactly how is deficit spending not a factor in raising the risk of inflation? Sure, Biden is simplistic and misleading, as usual. But rather than having major corporations pay taxes, they buy T bonds and we pay them interest.
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  30470. I wonder which Republican wants to be President in 2024?
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  30471. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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  30472. The DNC recycle the same stuff every time. What do these people do for WORK?
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  30473. I knew MeToo was over when Tara Reade spoke out, but this is ridiculous.
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  30474. ​ @StevenCasper-o4n  I did it.
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  30475. ​ @MeRiaNevaMynd NIH Library has the paper.
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  30476. This was never prosecuted if the borrower paid back the loan on time and in good order. Maybe the prosecutorial discretion in favor of the capitalists gives them too much (as usual), but selective prosecution is at least as bad.
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  30477. So the vaccine prevented severe COVID, which means vaccinated people with mild COVID were circulating in the population rather than testing and staying home. Those with a more severe case KNEW they had it and stayed home.
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  30478.  Jonathan Edward  I know you are exactly right, but Peterson is not worth getting angry over. Anyone who has read anything serious in the realm of philosophy and psychology, and is at least in his late 20s, sees through him. All in all, he felt he needed money due to all the health problems in his family, which have only gotten worse. He did what he needed to do, or felt he needed to do, to get money. I feel sorry for him.
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  30479. Well, Bill Friend-of-Epstein Gates is the single largest owner of US farmland. What is his intention in hoarding farmland?
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  30480. Where did you hear this??
    1
  30481.  @deannasmith4443  Or like working on the investigative reporting that freed Lula da Silva, former president of Brazil and committed socialist? There are other countries too, you know.
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  30482.  @sailingthevic3966  If she thinks it's false, then it is. These idiots will get us involved in another war, just watch. And when the maimed veterans come home, they will turn away.
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  30483. @jessiebedlam6094  No more than there is un-actual mistreatment. "Un-actual" is not a word
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  30484. Superficial, historically and psychologically. No one who has studied these phenomema in depth is impressed. This video itself has many features of propaganda.
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  30485. This is so ridiculous. Tell the kids that there will be complete choice in how they dress for Halloween. Everyone will be treated the same, costume or not.
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  30486. Not the first time.
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  30487. @phillip wareham What do you think the risks are of increasing hippocampal neurogenesis? It sounds like a formula for cancer! I check the research every so often on the older drugs, like tricyclics, where the profit motive is absent, and no one seems to think they pose long-term harm to the brain of that nature, . . . So far! I have to wonder.
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  30488.  @joncumberbatch852  So astute, and well said!
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  30489. ​ @deankirby7237 He loves money. He loooooooves money.
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  30490.  @Aurinkohirvi  I truly hope not. None of the people deserve this.
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  30491.  @dashriprock8596  Naive.
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  30492. ​@rob grey Then do something about the police. In my city, about $1 billion has had to be paid out, of course by us.
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  30493. ​ @robgrey6183  No one even got fired. No one got more than one week's suspension. What do you think about THAT? Suppose she has no family. Would that be more convenient for you?
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  30494. ​ @robgrey6183  11:52
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  30495. Right. This one was exaggerated. No, I mean it.
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  30496. In a real emergency, no vaccine or treatment would carry patent protection, nor would its formulation be the subject of trade secrets. Everything would be shared, and studied everywhere -- especially where liability protection were lifted. Clue Number 1 of something else afoot.
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  30497. @Christopher Edwards  You missed the sarcasm. I think that by the Omicron waves, the danger was clearly exaggerated. Perhaps it was exaggerated before that. This pandemic had the same natural history as viruses usually do: the very first wave is dangerous, and each succeeding variant is more contagious and less lethal.
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  30498.  knowbody9169  Hope not
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  30499. So read the d*mned paper.
    1
  30500. Another "problematic" figure, and GBD author Dr. Battacharya was on Lex Fridman's show. Dr. Battacharya supports targetted vaccines more than most of the so-called dissenters do. MUCH more. The degree of censorship over tiny differences is mind-boggling!
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  30501. Trump won't win.
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  30502. I would need an $80,000 a month job for two months. Okay, three. Could be three.
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  30503.  @squatch545  There are any number of reasons why police chose not to act on what you may well have correctly identified as a true threat. That has nothing to do with the law being unclear. Does every act that could lead to arrest actually lead to arrest? Is every arrest correctly based on an actually illegal act?
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  30504. @LenRenBen  There was a recent "stolen valor" case before the Supreme Court, where the defendant lied about serving not for the purpose of gaining any tangible benefit except to impress a group he was with, basically comparable to bragging at a sports bar. The Supreme Court said his lie could not be prosecuted. It was protected by the First Amendment. The law didn't reach that far, and couldn't; lying to get people to like you, in an ordinary setting, could not be criminalized. (If he had gotten so much as a penny for it, his conviction would never have been reversed.)
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  30505.  @squatch545  Of course you have to apply the law to the evidence. That two people may legitimately disagree about what constitutes defamation doesn't mean there is no rule, or that "the rule" is fake and a cover, and is always bent to favor one's own tribe. Deviations from fairness don't prove fairness lacks a definition. Disagreement about that definition doesn't prove there isn't one. Disagreement about whether something is free speech in extreme cases does not mean free speech has no core definition. It's like the police case you mentioned. They could have failed to act for a bunch of reasons, even if you were in fact threatened. Maybe they weren't sufficiently persuaded to take action, even if they thought you were probably right. Maybe they were too lazy. Maybe they thought it should be up to you to obtain legal advice and sue, and get unemployment benefits in the meantime. Or, maybe they are rank incompetents. Consider all the recent cases where police failed to act and it ended tragically. (But also consider the times when they overreacted and were sued.)
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  30506. @squatch545  Defamation has always existed, and the Sandy Hook families had to overcome a high bar to succeed in their suit against Jones.
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  30507. Being a stock trader isn't success at anything except sweeping money from other accounts into yours. It's dependent on dollar hegemony, which depends in turn on military might. I'm not saying you don't make a lot of money. I'm saying you do. Why is "success" the euphemism here?
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  30508. Oooooh! The new word is "grift!" I remember when it was "illuminate," and then "Karen." Also "gaslight." Suddenly, no one could talk without them. Ruin a good word through misuse, why don't you?
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  30509.  @ellharney3332  Weren't you supposed to say "snowflake" now? Or would that be "whine?" Or, wait, it must be "triggered!" I don't know the appropriate tropism. You tell me.
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  30510. EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE. Brie did not vote for Biden OR for Hillary Clinton.
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  30511. We need a multivariate analysis. Do you trust researchers at this point? Multivariate analysis is very difficult, and requires careful judgment. It takes time and COSTS MONEY. Need I go on? You know that the CDC has reported soaring maternal mortality rates?
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  30512. All true, but consider Starbucks when there is an enormous line. Watch what happens. You must have seen this. On the other hand, the shootings haven't moved in yet.
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  30513. Confidentiality
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  30514. No non-FDA approved medicine has ever been forced on minors, who usually cannot choose for themselves. I hope older teens will be allowed to choose. In some states, they can't.
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  30515. Brirish, huh? The Attack on Mers-el-Kébir redux? Gallows humor, yes; just to say they aren't above that sort of thing, the weasels.
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  30516. If it's not a religion, then placing its symbols on public property is not a violation of the Establishment Clause. 😂
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  30517.  @CuriousJenJen  I agree with that.
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  30518. Are we ready to concede that the treaties and conventions against WMDs are not working?
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  30519.  @nrcbtnue  Thank you. Suddenly, no one is trying to be honest. Why??
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  30520.  @TheJohnnyonthespot1  Approximately 0.195% of Americans have died from COVID. Approximately 2.5% of Americans died in the Civil War, so, more than 12 times the rate.
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  30521.  @TheJohnnyonthespot1  That wasn't the issue. And I REALLY take strong exception to bad math. That bothers me more than any other snide or belittling thing you have to say. You were the one who brought up the analogy, as though it had the least pertinence, especially given that full FDA approval is likely this year, allowing for meaningful compensation in the event of injury.
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  30522.  @TheJohnnyonthespot1  My first response to you was scrupulously accurate, with no emotional manipulation, "SMH," etc., which seems to be your go-to. Pfft.
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  30523.  @TheJohnnyonthespot1  No, not just that, though it is disdainful. And 25% was not the death rate for all Americans in the Civil War, though in any event the comparison you drew is inapt. Civil War deaths have no bearing on COVID death rates. So, why did you bring it up? (To make fun of someone in this thread? Brilliant.) Once the vaccine IS fully approved, all injured parties will have access to the 1986 compensation fund. That changes the calculus significantly, at least for those I know who have hesitated. I don't know those other people with bizarre beliefs, who are so far beneath you. /s
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  30524. You are a rock star!
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  30525.  @buddygrimfield7954  Well, I give her credit for curing me of watching this stuff, just in time for glorious summer!
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  30526. @karenturner4888  Yet no one came to UCLA to stop it, when counterprotesters turned up heavily armed. Law enforcement stood down, just like on January 6th. The hate that is taking place is in Gaza: Fifty years of American diplomacy and coalition building against terrorism down the drain. Maybe you should start listening to what Bernie Sanders has been saying about it, if this show isn't to your liking.
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  30527.  @Jake-777-7  That's pretty French. Remember Charlie Hebdo? You should see how they mock politicians.
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  30528. "Oh, the emails"
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  30529. @sanjivjhangiani3243  Well then the premise is flawed that fewer men going to college is hurting the economy. Maybe they are wise to pick careers that can't be off-shored and that technology cannot replace. Do people in the trades work until 70? If they retire at 55, how will they make up those 15 years? Do they save more? Or do they switch to management? Can they?That's what's facing people. But there is a bigger picture here: China, Russia, India, and so forth are training scientists, engineers, and mathematicians. The US isn't.
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  30530. Precisely. The oligarchs get different treatments, like tailored monoclonal antibodies. They saved Trump, they saved Chris Christie. Both are fine. That's what must be silenced. FOLLOW THE 💰💰💰💰
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  30531. Biden will win. He's being hired to flip Venezuela. Just watch.
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  30532. What gets you admitted is being in the legacy or special development pool.
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  30533. I personally look for the times when prenatal supplements are on sale, and buy only when there are plenty on the shelf, not to deprive a mom. Supplements are concentrated, as are spices. So you cannot try to save money and give up on quality. You have to shop quality. Sad with today's prices, though. :/
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  30534. At the time of the Columbine massacre, the US was quite proud to be bombing cities and regions in former Yugoslavia with depleted uranium, even though these cities and Montenegro had firmly anti-Milosevic governments in place. Don't worry, it doesn't count.
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  30535. AOC voted for more money for her own protection.
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  30536. One more example of some victims count.
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  30537.  @muratmurat9906  Amy Goodman finally interviewed Vijay Prashad yesterday. Not to be missed.
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  30538. It was a hoax, and it was also a criminal conspiracy.
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  30539. Let's hope so.
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  30540. Aww . . . Robby . . . WHY is Kim Iversen no longer with you all? Do tell. 😉
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  30541. He's a con man. But he's great at it. In a class by himself.
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  30542.  @stimulatemyexistence5669  No. I've read the complaints. Do you know how to look up court documents? The Neuralink report has about 700 pages of documents. The discrimination suit against Tesla has sworn statements of conduct I have not heard of at a major corporation in this century.
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  30543.  @stimulatemyexistence5669  Some reason you have to embrace this one's fesses, now that Bill Gates has lost his desirability for that purpose? I've given more to other people relative to what I have, by far, than either of these clowns. Just offered a room in my house to Ukrainian refuges if it's needed back in February.
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  30544.  @stimulatemyexistence5669  That's only a recent example. I gave more than half my income one year to free an innocent man chased down and beaten by police. No comparison. Ever had an economics class? You've heard of the marginal value of a dollar? Never mind. I know it's way beyond what you could grasp.
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  30545.  @stimulatemyexistence5669  I just looked up the Starlink story. Most of the funding came from others, not Musk. Private sources and governments. It wasn't charity. But Musk did smear the man helped who saved the kids caught in a cave, and got away with it by having far better lawyers.
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  30546.  @stimulatemyexistence5669  You have some weird need to identify with someone who is Big on the world stage, and don't seem to recognize what normal, healthy self-esteem is. You might want to explore that before you wake up one morning and discover you're 50 and have done nothing except tweet.
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  30547.  @stimulatemyexistence5669  A HIT? I didn't think you've had economics. It requires math and stuff like that. Yawn. Time to block you and clean up my Notifs thread. Consider talking about this with someone you trust has your best interests at heart.
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  30548.  @babyamyxo-o6c  I think that's an excellent question. My initial reaction is to think they are pandering, like all politicians do, but that's probably simplistic.
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  30549.  @christopherleslie  True. Do you have those personal experiences? If you are within 10 years of Brie's age, it is unlikely. In any case, the family lost half its income. The accident happened in Africa. There was no one to sue.
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  30550. Back to the central question: no, these are not wonderful times, and homelessness and drug abuse should tell you that. ​ Fifty years ago, minimum wage jobs covered rent, medical care, and in-state tuition literally everywhere in the country. This gave people opportunities to become educated, live where they want, and try out different jobs without being petrified of debt or even ending up on the street. The top four quintiles in income had a chance. Now, only the top quintile does; in fact, only the top 10% is truly secure. Silicon Valley and Wall Street have not provided us with a better life. They have provided us with a financialized service economy and mass surveillance, plus advertising we can no longer spot and defend ourselves against. When people are always watched and don't make real things, count on lying to be a major job description. No, it's not good. And I haven't even touched on the political class, or the pandemic. Also, if you've ever lived in different cities with different levels of inequality, you know from experience that less inequality is better. Some inequality is normal; San Francisco level makes no sense. No job is worth 10,000 times more than any other. Work isn't organized that way.
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  30551. @christopherleslie  Yes, of course I looked at data. First of all, nearly everyone either had one roommate or was married, and sometimes, people had more than one roommate. That means that two people sharing an apartment spent well under 25% of total earnings for rent. To live alone comfortably, it is true a person would need to make about $3.00, hardly out of reach for a high school grad. But people were convivial, and didn't want to live alone. $1.75 per hour, 40 hours per week (the norm) meant that within 10 to 12 weeks, you earned a full year of in-state tuition and fees. In other words, the lowliest summer job covered it, for an entire school year, in-state, exactly as I said. No one lived with their parents because of a lack of money, or because of debt for college. It was either a choice, or the result of some illness or disability. A college grad was a free human being. I personally know people who did it. We haven't even started to talk about the intense pride that working your own way through school brought to a teenager, and what the freedom to live wherever you wanted, in a vast country, without needing a TRUST FUND, meant. The exhilaration can't be captured in numbers. But you didn't even do the math. You just eyeballed it.
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  30552. @christopherleslie  I've never had an iPhone, or anything Apple, or a streaming service, or cable. Right now, I don't have a television. YT is trouble enough.
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  30553.  @fatbachelors3922  OOPS, just saw the rest of this thread. You are way beyond me.
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  30554.  @joelhenry5489  Links are typically shadowed here, because they are too hard to monitor for TOS violations.
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  30555.  @joelhenry5489  And Hale's criminal lawyer, Thomas Durkin, also represented Guantanamo Bay detainees and worked with the Center for Constitutional Rights in NYC, where the legendary Michael Ratner was director for years. I see you simply ignored by comment and pressed on with your neoliberal talking points. Lawyers see these things differently. Or at least the best lawyers do. Sam Seder dropped out of law school, BTW.
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  30556.  @joelhenry5489  This "socialist" business you keep bringing up is out of context. Keep it up, and all creative use of language in the US will be dead.
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  30557.  @joelhenry5489  Did Glenn also misgender someone? Did he dare to express mild reservations about top surgery for 13-year-old trans men? Please tell us all about all the cancellable things he said. You must have a list all ready.
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  30558.  @joelhenry5489  What are you on about now? What gotcha do you think you got? "What about black people getting killed by cops?" You thing YOU care about that? How many times did you put up more than half a meager salary to bail a victim of police brutality out of jail? You think YOUR ersatz solicitude would impress my brothers? Anyway, I would seek their opinion of what Greenwald is doing, certainly not yours. The suggestion to do exactly that is certainly sound. I will.
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  30559.  @joelhenry5489  Question: are any of the people the US has bombed with DU really considered "white?" "Asking for a friend."
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  30560.  @joelhenry5489  Didn't see this. Take down this vulgar ageism or I report you. How old do you think I am?
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  30561.  @joelhenry5489  I was making fun of woke-washing, in case you missed it. Sure you did.
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  30562.  @joelhenry5489  I'm defending Durkin, actually, insofar as he represented . . . Oh never mind. You're right, this isn't worth it. And I'm not white either. Which matters not at all.
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  30563. Yeah, thanks. Jeez, so much for multiculturalism.
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  30564. Not only that, but data is coming in that indicates myocarditis from the vaccines, though rare, is more common than believed, and myocarditis in the young from COVID is less common. It could also be a feature of Omicron, for that matter.
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  30565. Hot pink guns are a Texas thing now?
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  30566. Of course. Her job was to put a stop to Internet mobbing. So of course when an Internet mob went aftef her, DNC got rid of her. Makes sense. /s
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  30567. And why are monoclonal antibodies only for the rich?
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  30568. So . . . A 90-year record is just "being sold a bill of goods."
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  30569.  @kristinchamberlain531  A propensity to believe in Russiagate is based on prevailing racial stereotypes. It would be very hard to get Americans to believe these things about any Westerners.
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  30570. ❤ 😊
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  30571. I think the West is totally clueless about the West.
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  30572. You can tell Aaron hates every minute of it. /s
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  30573.  @blackiemwe1481  Um, you recognize: /s. Right?
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  30574.  @faightfromfire  Where did you get those numbers? For your information, these various savings schemes have existed for nearly two generations. Where are the people who can retire with their Roth and no other pension? BTW, it is estimated that a secure retirement requires a million dollars in financial assets and a home without a mortgage. Guess who has that?
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  30575. Research the European data, etc., and see. I no longer consider FDA/CDC reliable.
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  30576. If it's a traditional platform, and not based on the spike protein, it might be a good vaccine. It's possible. What our government has done is create a generation of anti-vaccination people, just like in 1976 with swine flu hysteria and defective vaccines. A vaccine is CASE BY CASE, like every other drug, but with higher standards because you give it to healthy people. Our government "forgot" that.
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  30577. Actually, no one can teach you that. But they can at least point you in that direction, making it more likely that you will grasp it for yourself. The problem is, no one wants to take those courses: calculus, real analysis, abstract algebra, set theory, topology, and serious foreign language and linguistics courses, including a classical language. Bertrand Russell is always good, to illustrate the trajectory of a brilliant person's thought, and what he did upon discovering some of his most cherished ideas were wrong..
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  30578. Then she realized? Only then?
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  30579.  @michaeldob9526  I think you're right. When the bubble happens to dovetail with material self-interest, it is all the harder to believe something else is true. That makes a lot of sense.
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  30580. Editing an interview to make the subject look better and outright defaming someone are treated differently by the law, for obvious reasons.
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  30581. And the next Congress can repeal that legislation.
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  30582. It's so obviously the opposite. She doesn't have a real dog in this fight. When she mixes "differently abled" with race, it is obvious.
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  30583. WOW tremendous photo, Katie!! 1000 watt smile.
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  30584.  @do_care919  The CDC just acknowledged it.
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  30585.  @do_care919  "PBS Vaccinated People With Breakthrough Infections Can Spread The Delta Variant, CDC Says July 30, 2021 3:34 PM ET" And since then we've learned their viral load is higher than previously believed, making them as contagious, not to mention that they are more likely to be asymptomatic carriers. Vaccines work, just not to protect those who don't get them.
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  30586.  @do_care919  Where did I use the word infectious? I said people with identical viral loads are presumed to be equally contagious. Look it up yourself. My city is back to universal masks. -- and what of it? We need to be.
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  30587.  @do_care919  By August 19, reported everywhere. Pfft.
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  30588.  @do_care919  https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/grim-warning-israel-vaccination-blunts-does-not-defeat-delta
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  30589. Actually, we do not know what is behind this wave of non-COVID excess deaths. (If you go to the anti-Campbell websites -- don't; I did it for you -- you will find them insisting that not getting vaccination is causing excess deaths. Of COURSE they have no idea.) The point, however, is that we need a dispassionate assessment, that a multivariate analysis must be done, that it is complex, not easy to do (you can't leave it to an "algorithm"), and takes time and prudent judgment --- all the essential things we lack, thanks to the mass hysteria that has been directly imposed on us by our governments, MSM, and the elites who direct them.
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  30590. This show is excellent.
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  30591. And it was Israel that confirmed it. The US noticed and prevaricated ("well, maybe it would have happened anyway").
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  30592. The people who got that were treated for up to 4 days in the hospital, using the same protocol they use when COVID causes it. The story is they are recovering faster than the COVID cases of heart inflammation did. As far as they can tell. :/
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  30593. Plus this is much bigger than money.
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  30594. See Lev Golinkin in The Nation, circa 2019. That has the advantage of having been written before the pandemic. If you think Ukraine having a Jewish president who is a former entertainer makes it "impossible" for neo-Nazis to have been given free rein in the eastern breakaway regions, then you have a lot of reading and studying to do.
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  30595.  @AwakeNotWokeBruh  Rockets have already been launched and stuff.
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  30596. Far too often, correct.
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  30597. Now THIS makes sense. He was not merely a playwright, but an actor, director, and producer. Could one man have done all that? Theatre is a collective art.
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  30598. Also, as director, he was likely the final editor of the script before it was performed and during its run. Think about how screenwriting is done.
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  30599. I was wondering why no one has raised this question.
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  30600. Kim Iversen just treated this issue, with a longer clip of Weingarten's testimony.
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  30601. Agreed!! I don't think parents should be able to choose therapies that end reproductive freedom for their child, unless EVERYTHING else has been tried first. The opportunity to have birth children if a person so chooses is a fundamental right. How dare anyone take it from trans people.
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  30602. ​@beavis4play Considering that a full year of in-state tuition could be earned in three months over the summer, it seems to me we have some questions.
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  30603. Truly a pity, and so deceiving. In France, the left supported the law against asking a minor their vaccine status --- correct, it is now a misdemeanor simply to ask anyone under 18 whether they were vaccinated against COVID. The first person to denounce the firing of health care workers who declined vaccination was a member of the French Communist Party. (Needless to say, never translated.) How far have we fallen! How did this happen??
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  30604. In France, a case like this would be suspended sentence plus additional punishment. Not trivial -- any misstep means doing the time. And a record, obviously.
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  30605. In America, it is very easy for a bullet to find you, George.
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  30606. Excellent point!!!
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  30607. We are interested in the sources. Which ones? Nothing surprises anymore.
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  30608. The elite colleges have a stranglehold on media and federal government -- and Brie opposes that.
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  30609. Once someone is fleeing with property, that is true. If you can intercept them before they act, or if they hurt a living thing (person, or service animal, etc.), then you certainly can act to prevent them or to stop them after they hurt someone.
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  30610. He is a US citizen and the US is propping up Ukraine with billions.
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  30611.  @jackflack4253  How old are you? Giving Biden a run for his money?
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  30612.  @anoopg7006  You missed the stark irony, too? Ponder that.
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  30613. @ITeachRick  So, just how many people didn't get the sarcasm part? I don't believe it. I'm in too good a mood today.
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  30614. @anoopg7006  Oh my god, tons of you who took me seriously. Oh my god oh my God. How?? HOW???
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  30615. @id10t98  What do you think "demand" means in this context? It means dollars available to offer for a given product or service that exists in some not unlimited supply. "Demand" is not an equivalent of request, desire, approval, etc. It's a technical term.
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  30616.  @jamesw1659  What makes you think that? Trump turned over the country to Fauci, then played good cop bad cop.
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  30617. Here's a point worth considering.
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  30618. So, the typical case is like a bad cold, the kind you cannot run around with even if it were ethical.
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  30619.  @MatthewLevine79  LOLOL
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  30620. Remember when the Epstein story made you look like conspiracy-adjacent, or possibly a trafficked youngster yourself? There are all sorts of ways to silence.
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  30621. LOL
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  30622. ​ @UKnowtheThing  Look who's talking. A war for TRUMP 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  30623. ​@UKnowtheThing Selective prosecution --- What the Trump DOJ did to Assange.
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  30624. ​ @drewthompson7457 Who trusts them for such a thing anyway? I don't trust the ethics of organ harvesting.
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  30625. ​ @stanweaver6116 Amen.
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  30626. Well, Ana taught me what "camel toe" means. Now I have to check the Urban Dictionary for "pocket pussy."
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  30627. ​ @l3eatalphal3eatalpha Astute!
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  30628. ​@jgalt308 In every possible way. He has lost MANY cases. He cites Supreme Court authority on the 16th Amendment that precedes the ratification of the 16th Amendment by over a decade.
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  30629.  @jgalt308  You think the Supreme Court grants cert to frivolous tax protester cases?
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  30630. @Liberty-fi7mg  This is all nonsense, but if I provide links, they will be removed. It is EASY to find all of these cases and read them yourself. And yes, this clown was citing some case that did precede 16A by about a decade. Unbelievable!
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  30631.  @jgalt308  Please do it. I don't rue your demise. "The Supreme Court" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤪
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  30632. @Liberty-fi7mg  NOTHING in the Constitution has to be repealed to be amended. Find out how Senators were elected in the early days of the Republic.
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  30633. @Liberty-fi7mg  "Originally, under Article I, Section 3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, each state legislature selected its state's senators by vote for a six-year term."
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  30634. @Liberty-fi7mg  No, you haven't read it or shepardized it, or know what that is. Do you even know the difference between apportionment and uniformity? Every US citizen who owes $X in income taxes in 2023 owes exactly $X, regardless of where he lives. It is not the case that the residents of each state owe $Y collectively, and then divide Y among themselves based on the population of their state to determine their individual tax liability. That's what Brushaber says, and that's what the 16th Amendment means. So, it says exactly the opposite of what you claim. See, you need some middle school math here. Not everyone can follow. 😏
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  30635.  @Liberty-fi7mg  Reported and blocked
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  30636.  @notawinemom8540  Well, I don't see that. If I reference outside sources, I get sense oared.
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  30637. This wouldn't be the Uvalde sheriff?
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  30638. The armed forces have been saying for years that most young adults are unfit for service.
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  30639. She does? No, Robby does. The 401k has existed for about two generations, during an unprecedented boom market. Where are all the millionaires who can self-finance their retirement with no other revenue source?
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  30640. In most of the English-speaking world, the people who made serious money in their prime will have outstanding medical advice and care for the rest of their lives. As far as they are concerned, the rest of us should hurry up and kick that bucket. In my city, before the pandemic, the very richest neighborhood had a mean life expectancy very close to 90. The very poorest, about 60. Yes, the richest live almost 50% longer on average than the poorest, though of course the concentrations of excess deaths among the poor are in infancy, and then again after 65 or so (no point in having them collect a SSA, i.e., government, pension).
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  30641.  @godofbiscuitssf  Sure. Me, who is fluent in three languages and reads regularly in two of them You have something to tell me.
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  30642.  @godofbiscuitssf  I have an idea for you. Take a look at the map of the world and see which countries are adamantly refusing to side with NATO, in spite of the obvious injustice and brutality of Putin's massive escalation of this war. Consider how many people they represent. Then ask yourself why that might be. Think it through. Try to answer honestly. The change in perspective might do you good . . . if anything can . . .
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  30643.  @justinm1200  It's never acceptable, but it is often First Amendment protected speech. If a university chooses to embrace the full panoply of First Amendment freedoms, then there are times when odious speech will not be subject to any discipline.
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  30644. My cousins in Europe also take zinc -- in moderation, not mega doses. High quercetin foods (onions, apples, capers) are recommended as well, to help avoid cytokine issues in case of infection. I'm eating this stuff daily. We are back on a shelter-in-place advisory and other restrictions in my city. :(
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  30645.  @NotSure421  Based on my experience, that is outlandish. But stranger things have been true.
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  30646. Therefore? What? Turnabout is fair play?
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  30647. People who read the New York Times articles won't. People who know the vaccines are not being given to little kids in other countries won't.
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  30648. Precious. I get all fuzzy inside.
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  30649.  @Beauty_within_33  No. Honest.
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  30650. Cute story. When was the last time you saw ants or grasshoppers, when they used to be ubiquitous? Or are you suggesting the Clintons worked hard, as did Jeffrey and Ghislaine, and nurses aides and warehouse clerks and bus drivers don't? No. You can't mean that. Clintons, et al.: That is who gets the money, so your last line "must be" envy.
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  30651. These will never be upper-middle class affluent neoliberal suburbanites. A lot of DNC don't want them.
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  30652. Bri's point was that Robbie's comment went beyond what she was talking about: every school, private or public, has got to accommodate more than one family. That was what she said. She wasn't talking pro or con about privatization this time. But have at it. You're as much into cancel culture as the average blue-haired Tic Tocker . . . well, okay, not that bad, but . . .
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  30653.  @vainezaiven6677  Excellent points. We need to cut to the chase.
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  30654. Nonsense. They are not factfinders. If no set of facts here could result in liability, then there is no point to seek out more facts. If some facts could make him liable, then zero in on them and do it. Here's an idea: win against Trump at the ballot box.
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  30655. It's helping a lot. Imagine having the money he has in part because of hair.
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  30656. ​ @dureally Here she is most informative --- starting with the fact that someone on his staff wrote this. Then she made an insightful point about support for Israel's government, and the fact that antisemitism is so often conflated with criticism of Israel, so that people accused of it will embrace the Israeli government as "proof" that they aren't antisemitic. IOW, RFK Jr is allowing somebody to box him in a corner. This is how they got rid of Corbyn in UK.
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  30657. I think someone did this to mess Kennedy up. And yeah, it's real. You can't have 1488 or some variation (14 88, etc.) on a license plate in my state. People in prison have that as their tattoo, etc. I knew about it years ago.
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  30658.  @ML-my8qq  If that did happen, I apologize. My tablet malfunctions all the time. Assume a computer error. How, you may wonder? By accessing my clipboard when I didn't want it to, or suggesting text based on something I wrote a week ago . . . Stuff like that. (For the record, no self-driving cars for me.)
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  30659.  @ML-my8qq  I'm not angry at all. That part is wildly off. If I made a mistake, I made a mistake. I'll fix it.
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  30660.  @ML-my8qq  Wow. Er, have a mirror handy? Blocked for weirdness.
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  30661.  @ML-my8qq  I already forgot what this was about. Reported you, too. Yeesh.
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  30662. But did you listen to this report? A dissenting voice was invited this time.
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  30663. So, you advocate limiting the most fundamental life choices of people while they are very young via bribery -- or do you call it a nudge? Because you think they're "evil?" You do understand that rape is not rare, that reluctance, and all too rational fear to express reluctance, is ordinary, and that rich women, and rich men's girlfriends, will always have options -- including IVF and surrogacy? You get that part, correct? Maybe the problem is general culture. Like from books and discussion and writing, and keeping serious journals, and thinking a lot, and wanting to know things and to be fair.
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  30664. You're very much behind the times. Very few people are having pleasure. It has become so unusual that to stand in their way is not a culture of celebrating life. What happened to "CHOOSE Life?" I'm good with that, and always have been, provided the emphasis is on the "choose," where it belongs. Try persuasion, not policing pregnancies and the wombs of utter strangers. Have people read Play It As It Lays, or Hills Like White Elephants. Or read those yourself. I mean, if it's changing the culture that you're really after. I would almost bet money you won't even check to see what's in them.
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  30665.  @JosefK2275  Sheer nonsense from beginning to end. Martin Luther King Jr was not for criminalizing abortion, but exactly for what I said: persuasion, and ministering to women who think they want to abort to show them otherwise.
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  30666.  @JosefK2275  So you didn't read Play It As It Lays. Why am I not surprised? It presents the story of a woman who regrets her abortion, and is a fine piece of literature, not propaganda.
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  30667. Where was it debunked, and by whom? Not by UK sources. Here are British sources on the issue. Reuters:   Sept 20 (Reuters) - The White House on Monday criticized the use of horse reins to threaten Haitian migrants after images circulated of a U.S. border guard on horseback charging at migrants near a riverside camp in Texas . . . Reuters witnesses saw mounted officers wearing cowboy hats blocking the paths of migrants, and one officer unfurling a cord resembling a lariat, which he swung near a migrant's face. The Independent: Sept 22 -- The second-in-command at a union for US Border Patrol has tried to defend the use of horse reins around migrants in Del Rio, Texas, where tens of thousands have arrived from Haiti. . . Recent images from Del Rio have shown migrants fleeing Border Patrol agents on horseback who are wielding their reins like whips, with a Reuters witness catching an agent unfurl and swing one in front of migrants. How is this wrong? Did a union official explain and defend the tactic, and thus tacitly acknowledge it is substantively true? If Reuters and The Independent are wrong, which is possible, why hold it against Jimmy?
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  30668. @EvanCarmichael  Are you kidding? I can never retire. People have been destroyed, yo. Good thing I love to work.
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  30669. What a president/ex-president says, true or not, is NEWS. Similarly for a former Secretary of State. Hence, Hillary Clinton's claims about Putin having influenced the election in favor of Trump is news. I despise CNN and MSNBC for promoting this story, but I do not think they should be found liable for defamation.
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  30670. Why not get them a piano?
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  30671. We know the leadership of Harvard was a struggle between billionaires, Wexner and Ackman on one side, Pritzker on the other. 😂
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  30672. You'll get better, you'll see. Count on it taking time, though, and don't get discouraged!
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  30673.  William Webber  Depends on what you mean by "success." If the term includes defeating Hitler's Wehrmacht, and bringing a definitive end to Western imperialism, then we should acknowledge the Soviet Union and Viet Nam. Or, who did you think did it?
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  30674.  William Webber  No one said anything about "socialist utopia." Seems to be some obfuscation in your remarks. Just how many red herrings are needed to obscure the simple point?
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  30675.  William Webber  Now tell us how Johnson and Nixon helped General Giap.
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  30676.  William Webber  I'm a hypocrite? Based on what? I know WWII history, and you don't? That didn't get me any money. I'm sure The Market would reward your views first. It does all the time. That proves they're true. Since you know everything, why are you so mad?
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  30677.  William Webber  Maybe capitalism needs a war machine. Maybe dollar hegemony cannot be maintained without it. Just a little maybe. Is the author of The Jakarta Method a "hypocrite," too?
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  30678.  William Webber  So you write a book. "It's a free country."
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  30679.  William Webber  You can monetize your rants long before I could ever monetize my reasonings. "Just do it."
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  30680.  William Webber  Yeah, sure. I'm the one who calls people hypocrites in all caps. Monetize it, what are you waiting for? "The streets are paved with gold."
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  30681.  William Webber  Yawn. You're still here?
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  30682.  William Webber  Marx lived in poverty, and often lacked sound nutrition and medical care. That's well known. I haven't looked at the life stories of all of the others you mention to know for certain, but I think you picked the wrong list.
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  30683.  William Webber  Also, I didn't call you a conspiracy theorist. Where did you get that?
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  30684.  @marktester5799  Of course. It was obviously clear to you right away. Why it wasn't to everyone is a mystery. Somebody explain this to me, please. I don't understand.
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  30685.  @jeremyshelman9716  Who's clutching to Ryan Grim? 😂
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  30686.  @jeremyshelman9716  If Hunter's claim is false, he's a liar or may have a tendency to hallucinate and confabulate. If his claim is true, he's an even bigger threat to national security than anyone thought. Does the word Russia elicit a Pavlovian response?
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  30687.  @jamesevans1890  It's not all about you. But now I get it. You think it is.
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  30688. Yes. Keep going after other women. It's profitable, obviously. Her fans love it. 😂
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  30689.  @ish7957  Unjustified criticism of Trump is beneficial to a demagogue like Trump. Criticism of Trump should be TRUE, not an imitation of Trump's wild, malignant lying. Don't pretend you don't know. Don't embarrass yourself.
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  30690.  @percybedford6266  It ALL deserved more. But anyone paying attention certainly knew about it. Concerning the post office fiasco, a deliberate move by Trump to RIG the election, the media left people with the impression that the outcry prevented the strategy from working. True or false, the media preened as being on the winning side with their expose. I'm interested in your take.
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  30691.  @percybedford6266  I think Trump's admission to Bob Woodward that he knew about the dangers of COVID and lied deserved vastly more coverage. The way the story was treated fueled cynicism. A lot of people made it all about Woodward, and dismissed it as scandal mongering for bigger book sales. Tragic. Cynicism has consequences.
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  30692.  @percybedford6266  In the meantime, we're still hearing about Russia. Trump wanted in on their real estate market. Okay. And Hunter and his buddies wanted in on Ukraine. Anyone who knows anything about the RF since Yeltsin, which would be anyone who read Stephen F. Cohen, knows how Americans lined up to loot Russia and its former satellites. Of course that includes Lil' Jared, etc.
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  30693.  @ish7957  I linked to two articles by Glenn Greenwald, on Trump's reckless use of drones against civilians in the Yemeni genocide, and on his immigration policies. It may be YouTube that shadows posts containing links, being unable to check them, or concerned about copyright. Sorry you missed the articles when they came out. /s
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  30694.  @percybedford6266  Try to link it. See if it shows up. Because I watch Rising all the time and that episode does not ring a bell. I do remember that once Sanders was out, Krystal was uncharacteristically quiet for a short time. That didn't last, LOL.
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  30695.  @ish7957  The media pushed FALSE Russiagate stories for the sensationalism and the ratings all the time. I mean literally false and proven to be false. I can't think of much that's worse for foreign policy and domestic politics, either, because it leads to polarization and erodes trust, and harms people's critical faculties. We did not need that in advance of this pandemic.
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  30696.  @raycebannon6374  Re: your Bolshevik argument. "Cats are animals. Dogs are animals. Looks a lot like cats are dogs. Maybe . . . " This doesn't work.
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  30697.  @raycebannon6374  The hammer and sickle is in wide use all over Europe and the rest of the world, and by unions. My Volvo has a tiny version of it on the window, showing it was union-made in Sweden. It was in wide use just now during the strike in India. It did not originate with the Bolsheviks and doesn't refer to them now. Tell me how the swastika compares . . .
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  30698.  @raycebannon6374  "most logical thinking people" OH BROTHER, LOL In the US, the right wing has colonized the notion of logic, too. Here's a clue: some of us have lived elsewhere. We know stuff.
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  30699.  @raycebannon6374  Where? I gave real examples and named actual places. You of course didn't. Semiotics, like languages, are a collective product.
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  30700.  @raycebannon6374  Besides, when did I tell you, or anyone, to "embrace" the hammer and sickle? Your style of sophistry is odd. This isn't argumentation, this is parody of Rush Limbaugh.
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  30701.  @raycebannon6374  What question? Whether the heavily armed vigilante groups who display a symbol they themselves associate with racial superiority and Hitler's Third Reich are actually referring to its ancient roots and pre-1930s meaning, expressing devotion to a Hindu diety, or identifying with Native American spiritual beliefs? Is that the question? I suppose we could ask them. I thought we were discussing contemporary political symbols, not some New Age appropriation of an ancient spiritual or religious icon. But hey, people are pretty eclectic when it comes to piling on the symbols these days.
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  30702.  @raycebannon6374  Where was I condescending? Losing what argument? Wasting time, yes. If you want to believe that the hammer and sickle signifies identification with Bolsheviks and Bolshevism, then Europe and India must have hundreds of millions of them. Somehow I don't think so.
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  30703.  @raycebannon6374  What I really need to know is will you shoot me for having an old Volvo? This was the Swedish union that worked for Volvo when Ford owned it. A stylized hammer and sickle was their symbol. I didn't put it there. I won't take it off.
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  30704. Well, but it's not sushi.
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  30705. Purely weaponizing the term "anti-Semitism" to serve neoliberal capitalists! What a thing to seize upon, given that actual anti-Semites do exist. To think anyone would use the term in this way, for political gain, is chilling. If anything should be off bounds, this should.
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  30706.  @Kehvan  It made laws that prohibit birth control unconstitutional. You didn't know?
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  30707.  @Kehvan  Who said differently? See how that case is related to both abortion rights and privacy rights. That was the point. Or maybe you're unaware that some forms of birth control do allow a zygote to form, but prevent implantation? You never heard of such methods referred to as abortifacients? Well, in the coming weeks, and assuming you're paying attention, you will.
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  30708. I am. I've lived there before. My closest relatives are there.
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  30709. To Feldman: WHAAAAAT? Leave those 5 year olds alone! They don't need your help.
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  30710. Fauci II
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  30711. For a young man, it probably is.
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  30712. Let's go Tony.
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  30713. He looks like he should be married to this.
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  30714.  @ianmcshea913  Exactly!
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  30715.  @rogervincent2092  How do you know what he is willing to discuss? Sounds to me like he sees through the game real well. Climate change is being used to divide people. That has zero to do with finding solutions.
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  30716.  @rogervincent2092  Well, I don't see what the most likely outcome is, and can't conjecture on that, but your prediction is certainly near the top. The pattern you're talking about is in-our-faces blatant.
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  30717. That's an interesting thought. It seems that to build pressure, you must go public in this way, especially now. But in general, I think a person should always ask that question.
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  30718. Not to me. She looks like she's in it for the money. 💯 all the talking points . . .
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  30719. ​ @bl8388 You know the answer.
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  30720. I just made a math post. I pointed out how large a mere 15% of __ is. It was scents erred. ChatGPT doesn't like math, either. 😂
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  30721. @karagi101  Yes, such as inflation (undercounted), unemployment (undercounted), labor force participation rate (a pretty honest number, relatively), consumer debt (also very solid), budgetary deficit (same), national debt (same). Then there is the debt-to-GDP ratio, a subject of endless, rollicking good debate and general amusement. Now don't get me started about the current zero reserve requirement, or derivatives and swaps.
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  30722.  @karagi101  Look at the costs of categories of things such as higher education and health care and single-family homes. This has been a subject of discussion since at least the 1990s.
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  30723. @karagi101  Those who have not searched for a job for a certain period of time, and those who are involuntarily working one or two part-time jobs, or independent contractor jobs without any benefits, are never included in the unemployment number. Not a good measure, in other words.
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  30724.  @gfarrell80  didn't think of that . . . Thanks
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  30725. There is some reason people are no longer candid with polsters. They register "protest votes," for one thing, where it doesn't count yet.
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  30726. You can't, like, put a pillow over the head of a dying person. You get that part? Right?
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  30727.  @Ixaglet  The point is, you cannot hasten the death of a dying person. Even if their demise is imminent. It is still a homicide. We are not an abstract thinker, are we?
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  30728.  @Ixaglet  Hastening the demise of someone already close to the end is a crime. Looks like using the real words is verboten. Well, the real words sometimes appear, sometimes not. What a world.
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  30729.  @Ixaglet  YES THEY DID Yes Be calm, face facts. They did. Candace needs money. That's what this is all about. Not truth seeking. Credit cards.
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  30730.  @Ixaglet  The court documents were all made public, the entire file. You don't have to believe me. You can see for yourself.
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  30731.  @Ixaglet  Or better than that, look up his federal plea agreement. That's a short document. See what he agreed to plead guilty to.
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  30732.  @HotBoxnChevys  Okay. I'll say it slowly. The guy you took seriously was kidding. (Sorry you missed it, it was funny. Don't be jealous.)
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  30733.  @bbbbbbb51  I have only one critique. Well, let me ask you, which one is funnier: "lern the Facts" or "lern them facts" I take it back. Maybe he did hit the right tone.
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  30734. They told her not to go back. They needed an arrest warrant, they told her.
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  30735.  @themanfromdystopia807  Well, I know the law, so there's that. The jury didn't apply it.
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  30736.  @martell203  I hope both verdicts will be thrown out. I have never, ever heard of such a law as was applied to Depp, and I have two licenses, one of which is California. Depp's liability for his lawyer's speech, without clear and convincing proof that they conspired or something on that order, is a travesty.
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  30737. When in fact it is Gates, Clinton, etc., who consorted with convicted p______iles.
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  30738.  @robb7398  Is my post under shadow? You can't fill in the forbidden letters?
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  30739. ​ @Snuffaluffagis  <-------Gossiping 😀
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  30740.  @Snuffaluffagis  I could have sworn I was replying to a remark that didn't deserve attention, granted. YT keeps suggesting this nonsense, and I took the bait. So, in essence, you're right.
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  30741.  @Snuffaluffagis  Oh, so you're just a moron. Sorry. I didn't know. How was I supposed to know? I never met you in the real world. Blocked. Oops, I mean @d fobroy <----- blocked
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  30742. Has their been a civil war in Texas for ten years, with reports that areas bordering Mexico that have declared independence from Texas are being shelled from inside Texas, and refugees from those regions are flooding Mexico? Um . . . Gee. Rather not.
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  30743.  @jaemate21  What do you mean by "come down?" Is that an amerloque druggie reference or something of that nature? Your analogy was inapt. That's not my problem.
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  30744.  @jaemate21  "I am not sure I understand what you are trying to say right," and "The dispute is still internal to Ukraine regardless of close to Russia," are not grammatical, BTW.
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  30745.  @roseforyoubabe  We don't have a coroner's report yet. Here, she confesses to police to slapping him. I wish she hadn't.
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  30746. THIS! THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS Exhale. Settled. ;)
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  30747.  @ThanosDidTheRightThing  "Soft skills?" Working to end actual wars on actual humans is always, always doing more.
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  30748.  @ThanosDidTheRightThing  To save a life is to save a world.
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  30749. ​ @utah_koidragon7117  Sure. When the minimum wage had the greatest purchasing power, that was what people had --- real freedom. To move, to try their luck, to pursue their dreams. That was what a couple of roommates could do, and did. They didn't need a trust fund. The current DNC are monstrosities. Everybody knows that.
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  30750. ​ @jonnyjfive You mean the Alphabet Mafia? If the real leftists sinned, it was in being oblivious to LGBTQ, and even hostile to them, not in promoting them. It used to be called bourgeois decadence. I still see it that way --- to demand extensive surgeries and expensive drugs for life, and to considered yourself immediately entitled to them without first trying talk therapy, better nutrition and exercise, wholesome hobbies to take your mind off yourself, and so forth, is decadent. The most extreme treatment should come last, after you've tried everything else. I'm not surprised that Joe Biden doesn't see it that way. Cha-ching.
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  30751. @utah_koidragon7117  That isn't what happened. The major difference is in the state tax support for higher education. I will agree that regulations have caused an explosion in the size of college administrative costs, which have mostly harmed education. The small benefits some regulations provided could have been accomplished at very low cost. At any rate, that is the second most important cause of skyrocketing costs, after the withdrawal of state tax support. Then, there are also the dubious building programs at so many schools that have increased costs. (Does every state school need a luxury sports arena? Really?) Minimum wage certainly was a living wage. I once lived on it with one roommate. Who works their way through college now? In four to five years? They cannot be in school full time and working enough hours to cover both. It can be done over a somewhat longer time frame, yes, but not on the usual schedule. The least expensive state school near me graduates people on average after 7 years, and offers a lot of night classes. Most students who go there live at home, and they have their degrees by age 25 or so, which is not so bad. It's easy to continue for a Master's also, which is good. The more expensive state schools all require loans.
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  30752.  @fritzforsthoefel8031  Minimum wage should be a living wage. No frills, but all necessities. This has gotten crazy.
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  30753.  @fritzforsthoefel8031  All of those high skilled workers depend very heavily on the "low skilled." Who do you think provides child care, elder care, taxi service, landscaping, pizza, coffee? Who picks the crops and delivers them? Who do you think cleans office buildings, schools, hospitals, shopping centers, airports, and commuter trains to the suburbs? Who do you think picks up all the high rise garbage, not to mention medical waste? Who makes sure the sewage goes where it's supposed to? None of that can be outsourced to China, yo.
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  30754.  @fritzforsthoefel8031  No, a LIVING WAGE. All of those workers should be able to live. All of those federal tax claims are spurious because they ignore payroll taxes, excise taxes, other state and local taxes, and property taxes embedded in rents. All of those fall disproportionately on workers. Most are not even assessed against interest and dividend income.
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  30755.  @fritzforsthoefel8031  Should Zuckerberg or Bezos or Gates make so much more than a pediatric neurosurgeon? Why?
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  30756.  @fritzforsthoefel8031  ALL politicians are beholden to the hyperrich, regardless. They all have to cater to the same people.
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  30757. @fritzforsthoefel8031  There was a time when working 40+ hours a week covered the basics, no matter the job. What was actual is possible. Every real job has dignity. The most lucrative field today is propaganda. (State surveillance, corporate surveillance, advertising and marketing, operating social media companies, social media influencing, trolling for local politicians and foreign governments alike, etc.) Tell me why that pays more than picking up garbage. The field is full of Ivy League grads.
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  30758.  @fritzforsthoefel8031  Buy a less luxurious home. They will survive.
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  30759. @fritzforsthoefel8031  At the level of the highly skilled professions, money is not the primary motivation. If it were, all neurosurgeons and theoretical physicists would trade derivatives and swaps for a few years, then retire. No one chooses not to be a surgeon or a lawyer upon hearing that a sanitation worker or a barista makes an adequate living. Or that a trader (or a televangelist) can get rich quick. Look it up.
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  30760. @fritzforsthoefel8031  1. You don't read much, or know many different kinds of people very well. Nor are you interested in hearing about what others know. 2. If you think that's how it works, read Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic. It's an old book, not about the current catastrophe. Much money has changed hands, yet very little progress has been made in American public health. I have to wonder whether you're one of the people who was harmed in the way Whitaker describes.
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  30761. @fritzforsthoefel8031  Well, then you will like the book. It doesn't have a political tendency. One theme, that children are too often overmedicated, tends to be considered conservative now, but that's only by current lights. He makes his case very carefully. I found it compelling.
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  30762.  @fritzforsthoefel8031  No, I don't. :/ Sorry!
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  30763. THIS IS NOT A KIDNEY ON THE TRANSPLANT LIST. No one is wasting a kidney on anyone in this picture This is a volunteer donor. Persuasion is the answer. Coercion breeds suspicion.
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  30764.  @cuisinwithkev2699  Why is there a glaring discrepancy in the advice? Dore is not qualified to give advice or make suggestions about medical care, but he is qualified to point up contradictions -- just like he did right here.
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  30765.  @cuisinwithkev2699  There is conflicting advice on how these vaccines should be administered.
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  30766.  @cuisinwithkev2699  The study Dr. Campbell relied on does not advocate a clinical practice, but does state it may need to be considered. Studies on animals never suggest a change in clinical practice, but signal possible problems and areas of research. Jimmy also cited instructions for administration which suggested aspiration to ensure no blood vessels are reached. These vaccines contain nanoparticles and have caused excessive reactions compared to most other vaccines in history. Any discrepancy in directions for administration shows that we do not have solid knowledge, and need to do something about that.
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  30767. It worked splendidly for a no-talent like her. 💰
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  30768. Suppose there were a valid rule we can all agree on. HOW is anyone supposed to know what they should do, to conform their conduct to a fair rule? Trick question. YouTube gives no guidance. They seem to be engaged in defamation of independent media instead.
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  30769. Unless she goes into, say, employment and labor law.
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  30770. I'm shocked at how bad she is. I don't believe this was a serious campaign.
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  30771. 14:18 et seq. Everyone should judge for themselves. The 1619 Project is not a work of historical scholarship based on researching original sources, which is what real historians like Horne actually have to do.
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  30772. Will this hurt Joe Biden's feelings? Well then.
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  30773.  @boostinggtirtime  Look, pending full approval, I don't swear the immune enhancement issue has been resolved. But so far, SO good. And I am not relying on Fauci. Give me some credit.
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  30774.  @boostinggtirtime  It IS true that they are looking at it very closely. I trust their data so far, because I believe they are watching this issue. This much I believe, absolutely.
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  30775.  @jontomas2271  There are a handful of marijuana deaths that doctors could not explain any other way. Super rare, no question. Comparable to eating contest deaths, drinking too much water, etc., stuff like that.
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  30776.  @jontomas2271  I found several. Links are generally shadowed. These were all cardiac arrhythmias in people with preexisting frailties, but no heart attack or previous serious arrhythmias, and really a lot of marijuana, smoked and ingested. I can understand why you might reject them. Then, a few psychotic breaks in people already predisposed to psychosis, and they got killed because of the psychotic episode (apparently accidental, not suicides). I understand why you might not count those, either. Possible high driving deaths, also less clear.
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  30777.  @jontomas2271  I got the information from a non-hysterical, medical website with no apparent agenda. I think it should NEVER have been illegal, the reefer wars were pure persecution, it should make zero difference now whether a person ever smoked it, for security clearance or any other reason, and . . . it doesn't interest me as an activity, either. No dog in fight.
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  30778.  @jontomas2271  Wait a second -- does full legalization depend on zero deaths for all of humanity, throughout eternity? Whoever demands that is in a cult.
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  30779.  @cosmosofinfinity  Are you kidding? Who makes more money for less work? He is the late capitalist poster boy for "smarts."
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  30780.  @sunnychandi  Without working! (What's not to like??) /s
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  30781.  @sunnychandi  Shapiro has a law degree from Harvard, no less, and could actually work on real cases, representing people he believes were wrongly accused of civil rights violations, or overzealous Title IX tribunals. Does he? Of course not, that takes hard work, and the other side gets a full hearing. Shapiro obviously doesn't want that setup. How do people like him dupe so many? Has it ever been easier?
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  30782. Because of WINTER!! 🤣🤣🤣 Good one. I guess global warming will end that . . . We can go get their raw materials soon! What won't you swallow? (Say, it's August 9th. Why two nuclear bombs, in three days?)
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  30783. 💯
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  30784. You mean we are NOT going to consider this possibility?
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  30785. ​@savannah505 Are you sure woke isn't a false flag, to ensure cutbacks? One of the main functions of DOE is to provide federal funds for the education of children with special needs. Those laws protect parents' rights, but no one will tell you that. See the IEP rules, which also cover emotional issues.
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  30786. Okay, wait. Should "Twitter" be a job??
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  30787. You think regime change in RF would lead to peace? Can you be serious? You know, you might want to inform yourself if you want to venture out of your sandbox and have a seat at the grownups' table. Start with Stephen F. Cohen. He foresaw this and was not afraid to say so, back in 2019 when those with irrational views of Putin (both pro and con) were insisting he "would never do that."
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  30788. The power of the dollar comes from the barrel of a gun. What does anyone think those 800 bases are about? When he said the dollar is an instrument of imperialism, think guns. There must be guns.
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  30789. Uh . . . That didn't land.
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  30790. America has no left.
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  30791. Yes. But she's wrong about Foucault. They teach a gross misrepresentation of Foucault. He was closely allied with Pierre Hadot and Pierre Vidal-Naquet. No way did Foucault think truth was nonsense. His last lectures were about truth tellers like Socrates.
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  30792.  @jonnyenough1531  Hep B? Check that.
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  30793.  @notabene7381  Entirely case-by-case, and with full democratic participation. Were there a disease as contagious as the Omicron variant and as lethal as Ebola, it would present a different balancing of interests. And if the proposed vaccine killed or crippled 15% of those who received it, skewed toward those under 30, that would alter the analysis as well. Or don't you think so?
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  30794.  @notabene7381  Now suppose in the scenario I described, there is a therapeutic which must be administered within four days of symptomatic infection, cures upwards of 98%, kills 0.001% due to allergic reactions, and costs $40,000 for an in-hospital course of treatment, even though it was developed by the (public) universities of Michigan and Texas, using public funds. Now what should happen?
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  30795. Does Ma Bell decide who calls you? Does the post office privilege some letters over others based on content? Any entity that doesn't do those things certainly deserves full Section 230 protection.
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  30796. Ew, harsh, LOL.
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  30797. Slavery has a long history here.
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  30798. Famous for being famous? Apotheosis of.
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  30799. These are death RATES. You can compare all larger countries by comparing rates. There is somewhat less reliability in comparing very small and very large countries.
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  30800. At sentencing, a psychiatrist testified that he had a severe alcohol abuse problem, much worse than he's telling the detective here, and severe dissociative disorder.
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  30801. Sounds like a whitewash. None of these players were so innocent -- not after Epstein's first conviction in Florida, and not even before that.
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  30802. You forgot viciousness.
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  30803. ​@davidabulafia7145 The more skill and hard work, the more unwanted attention by those who seek to pull you down. Whether they can is mostly a matter of luck. Too bad no one in America reads The Apology of Socrates. It's all there, 2400+ years ago.
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  30804. When normal people become angry and frustrated, they might for a split second THINK what Moore said -- and then they realize they are wrong. But Moore puts it on display. He's proud of himself and his tweets. Unbelievable. (Olberman is just sick, real sick.)
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  30805. The mass shooters want notoriety. Read Ceremonial Violence.
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  30806. ​@juliehodges5592 I thought this was appalling. This is exactly how they repelled so many people, by lying about Trump and being hypocritical, when a calm recitation of facts would have been sufficient. (The problem is, they agree with Trump when he favors the MIC and Wall Street.) (By the way, Uncle Teddy wasn't a "predator?")
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  30807. Depp already lost once. Seems that a UK court didn't consider them false, and they have no First Amendment. It is easier to win a defamation case in UK than here.
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  30808. FINALLY someone tells the truth about drugs. Thank you. We on the authentic left are against drugs.
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  30809. He never did. He presents the facts. You are unfamiliar with this channel. Or you are a false flag!
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  30810.  @Farhadmusic29  He's not pushing the vaccine. He has reported favorably on ivermectin. Sounds like someone gave you a medal to fabricate stuff. (That's why you mentioned medals. That's how it usually works.)
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  30811.  @Farhadmusic29  💩
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  30812.  @elrti319  Say. You're the guy who says Tesla doesn't have major lawsuits against it. Maybe up your basic research skills? Though when it comes to this story, I think it's a nonstory.
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  30813.  @taylorlibby7642  My experience is the only people who call other people trash are the ones who were once too trusting and were then very badly disillusioned. It's a familiar path.
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  30814.  @elrti319  The State of California DFEH, among a slew of smaller suits that even I hadn't heard about. These are discrimination suits with some of the most horrendous allegations brought in decades against any company. You don't even bother to look up Tesla's own statement about it, in its defense, on its own website. Anybody can put anything over on you.
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  30815.  @taylorlibby7642  That sounds more like a gross lack of perceptiveness of how other people function. You can't always judge others by starting with yourself, and your own tendencies.
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  30816.  @taylorlibby7642  Examples: some people are too ashamed to make excuses, even when they have a right. Some people are very embarrassed to show disillusionment, so they act tough. Some people will never cry in public. Lots of diversity out there. Maybe those people stay away from you?
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  30817.  @taylorlibby7642  Do you have someone you could call, to pick you up? Otherwise, stay where you are for tonight.
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  30818.  @taylorlibby7642  My parents are deceased.
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  30819.  @taylorlibby7642  Memento mori.
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  30820.  @taylorlibby7642  If you put all your money in Tesla last fall, you should have considered buying a put.
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  30821.  @taylorlibby7642  Memento mori WAAAAY over someone's head.
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  30822.  @taylorlibby7642 Do you know about puts? Or, instead of investing in Tesla, like Nancy and her gang did, are you counting on Elon to defend your constitutional rights and deliver the politicians you like? You have that vibe.
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  30823.  @taylorlibby7642  the "half-assed" vibe . . .
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  30824.  @taylorlibby7642  Did I say burying previous generations, as is nornal and universal, is a personal problem? No. That was you. Do you imagine all intelligent people have something wrong with them? Is that how you soothe yourself, instead of picking up a book?
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  30825.  @taylorlibby7642 I hope that whoever you called is coming. Now your vocabulary and reflexes resemble Biden's. Uh oh. Someone is in trouble and it's not me.
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  30826. People who have listened to Malone know that the first few minutes are already lies.
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  30827. Explain to me why Congress is involved again. That's all I ask. If she were expelling students who demonstrated against Israel, would they focus only on her? If you think so, well . . .
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  30828.  @zelda1966  Okay, she should. But by CONGRESS? Or by Harvard's Board of Governors, or whatever title they use?
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  30829. OMG!!!!! /s
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  30830. He's not wrong. The really funny part is that smart phone and McFood addicts think drug addicts have choices. 😂 Those 40%+ obese got that way for some reason . . . maybe their choice? Funny, no one chose that after the depression and WWII, when the temptation to overeat was great.
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  30831. MRNA can (rarely) cause swollen lymph glands, and interfere with a mammogram. The August 25 Israeli study (NEJM) said so. The anecdote is therefore not patently false.
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  30832. Well everyone knows viruses don't cross state lines.
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  30833.  chris younts  Biden/Harris to "improve our image abroad?" How is that going to work, realistically?
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  30834. Did Children's Hospital perform them? I do want to know.
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  30835.  @norman_5623  Thank you for this. I had no idea.
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  30836. Raising a strike fund is a noble tradition. GoFundMe says no?
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  30837. That's exactly the template the DNC is using: Trumpers who demonstrated on January 6th "are worse than Al Qaeda and ISIS."
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  30838. 31:22
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  30839. ​ @blackswan4486 😂😂😂
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  30840. ​ @respectthethorn Lincoln. And old Volvos, from when Ford owned it.
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  30841. GREAT commercial by Kasich. "Look, guys, Biden is no Democrat!" Strange to hear a politician tell the truth.
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  30842. Why am I thinking of Dave Chappelle, suddenly? 😅
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  30843. Aux Etats Unis, c'est surtout le FBI, et le CIA -- mais on ne sait pas qui les dirigent en fait.
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  30844. 😂😂😂😂 that was good, thanks
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  30845. ​ @jahmikbrown2380  Why do you think life sucks?
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  30846. There is no such thing as free market + capitalism. A free market doesn't result in concentrations of wealth far greater than actual countries that can impose their will on us.
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  30847. ​ @luchacefox259  Repeal the 19th Amendment?
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  30848.  @searose6192  It isn't about age. Their competence shouldn't be a question. It should be obvious.
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  30849.  @searose6192  Does Putin need a cognitive test? As distinguished from a psychological one.
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  30850. This.
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  30851. Megyn Kelly loves money. She focuses a lot on promoting popular cat fights.
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  30852. Belated congrats to your dad, Jimmy. So sorry for your loss, but what a perfect life!
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  30853. If he sounds like a robot, some people think that's wonderful. WEF people, Silicon Valley people, even Wall Street and City of London people . . .
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  30854. Robby! 👍👍👍
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  30855. Wow . . . 💯 Very nice point.
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  30856. Exactly. To anyone falsely tweeting that Kyle failed to report real news, he could have linked to ten videos where he reported real news. End of story.
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  30857. Well I do care that "nonconforming" youth are being medicalized, and their issues are being treated in ways that could impair their right to try to become birth parents of a normal baby one day.
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  30858. ​ @miophx8283 We can do that, too. I have to say, when I disagree with The Duran, I can always pinpoint exactly why. That alone shows that they are solid. It's not like when you sense something is off, something's wrong, but you don't know where to begin: that's a sign of a good snow job.
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  30859. The Russian accusation that Ukraine may have biological weapons and its call for investigation, as did China, was aired because of NULAND'S testimony under oath. It was her admission that raised the issue. The issue still exists.
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  30860.  @KyleRuggles  Mainstream Dems are busy lining their pockets, in anticipation of much more severe economic problems.
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  30861. She's a well-known journalist. She is controversial and does have some ardent fans.
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  30862. ​​ @jackfiercetree5205 So . . . This account you've just given is either a false flag of some type, or the direct result of a cognitive disorder. Thanks, got it.
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  30863.  @johnstrawb3521  Exactly!
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  30864.  @optimusprimer4392  🤣
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  30865.  @nickcharles1284  OP made no mention of proof, or anything that sounds like proof, unless you have a special way of picking up those signals and intimations without them being stated explicitly or, as best as the rest of us can tell, implicitly. If you do -- which is hardly impossible -- then the burden is on you to articulate them. Hinting without saying is not exactly new; perhaps OP did that. So by all means, give us the evidence that this is what OP "really" meant. Next time, we'll all know better. (Just how much logic have you studied?)
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  30866. ​@bidhrohi12 Actually, the IARC has investigated whether there is a link between cell phone and other non-ionizing radiation sources and various cancers, and has not been able to exclude the possibility that it is a cofactor in increasing the risk of leukemia in humans. The notion that we should keep an eye on this possible link is recognized as scientifically sound. As for cell phones, wifi, etc., and brain cancers, it looks like we have all lucked out. Yet to be on the safe side, some countries tell parents not to give these devices to a small kid.
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  30867. There isn't a procedure for impeachment? A governor can just do this?
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  30868. I decided in 2019 to emigrate. Too bad for the pandemic delay, but anyway . . . I didn't need one more thing.
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  30869. Yeah, what Trump did was different. Every single time, the person trying to delegitimize the election did something worse than the previous one. Exhibit A: Hillary. Trump just had to one-up her.
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  30870. Given that Stacey was astoundingly stupid, how did her second husband and daughter not see through her, or at least have doubts about her? To suspect her of being a serial murderer is excessive, but to mistrust her would have been normal. How do people miss the signs? Do they see, but talk themselves out of it?
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  30871. Yeah, I needed to know what a "p ssy p cket" is, to strike a blow against sexism.
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  30872. Good thing Hasan clued me in. /s
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  30873. America does not have a parliamentary system.
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  30874. I've come to be frustrated by these long-form videos. Please give us actionable advice upfront. No way is watching 45+ minute videos good for you.
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  30875.  @lilyblossom1240  None of these actions justify murder.
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  30876. Public policy is up to those who represent the public, after consulting experts from many fields and weighing carefully what they say. "Experts" brought us the 2008 financial crisis, too.
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  30877.  @jordanallen3078  I could believe this, with proper evidence. Definitely not too strange to be true.
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  30878. Yes. They are both brave journalists and natural comics. It's wild.
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  30879. How do you know who that person really is? The one who claimed to be "Hamas." I don't see that person's face.
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  30880. Oh, so you won't see a general mandate as long as Trump was president. Got it.
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  30881. Oh my goodness, you can't be serious.
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  30882.  @MS-ns2pj  I already read over 100 pages a day, including legal opinions.
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  30883.  @MS-ns2pj  Haaretz begs to differ.
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  30884.  @roderickkarladdun7798  Where did you see he said that?
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  30885.  @roderickkarladdun7798  Do you know what Haaretz is?
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  30886.  @roderickkarladdun7798  BTW, did you know that at one point, Netanyahu supported Hamas? Just like the US supported bin Laden. Pro tip: find stuff out. Emoting is easier, thinking is better.
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  30887.  @roderickkarladdun7798  Oh I get it. Yeah, of course. Emoting is easy, thinking hard. I keep forgetting.
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  30888.  @roderickkarladdun7798  And MY point is PRECISELY that NO ONE SAID IT DID. That was your inexplicable gloss.
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  30889.  @roderickkarladdun7798  LOL, if you had a smidgen of knowledge of history, and of why it is studied, you wouldn't have written the last post. No, it's not for justifying atrocities. I'm not coming back. No one is paying me and I'd have to be paid per letter going forward.
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  30890.  @roderickkarladdun7798  Okay, now we move to a smear. Mm hmm, of course, what else? Nothing else worked. Blocked from my notifications.
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  30891.  @MS-ns2pj  I answered your question multiple times. (Say no to drugs?) Take a nap, eat something wholesome, reread the thread. Israeli has eminent friends to make its case, and offer criticism. It doesn't need hangers-on like you, or these faux journalists/true grifters with their insipid propaganda, making it look bad.
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  30892. ​@BigMrFirebird-ne1wt. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 That wasn't even a nice try. I guess it's too easy?
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  30893. I am shocked, shocked.
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  30894. I don't understand. In 1950, the US population was 6% of the entire world; today it is about 4%. That is a relative decline of about one-third. In 1950, easily 60% of Americans had an excellent standard of living, and a very good quality of life based in large part on being able to trust that the standard would be stable or would improve, not decline. In 2023, who in the US has that? 10%; 20%, maybe? Not more than 20% since 2008-09, if that many. What about the other 80%+? China's interests today are in Africa, not Taiwan! Compare China's position during the Greek solvency crisis with that of the Western powers (i.e., banking interests). I wish that Peter Zeihan were asked more big-picture questions. He has interesting ideas, I would like to hear how he views these facts.
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  30895. Whatever you may think of his policies, which were not beyond reproach, he was the last fully qualified president we have had.
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  30896.  @sharonharris9782  Reagan Bush I Clinton Bush II Obama Trump Biden The only other veteran (and the only other president who was not an obvious phony) was neither independent, nor self-made. In fact, he was CIA. To weep, seriously. A remarkable fact, Carter once worked on a disabled reactor and had to expose himself to radiation to do it. He was called in for the purpose. (To think he is pushing 100! Not that that part matters.) I value those sorts of things. I want to see them prove themselves when it matters.
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  30897.  @sharonharris9782  I think we agree on that. :)
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  30898. ​ @krillin876 Because it says Black or African American, White or Caucasian, etc.
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  30899. @JayHayyy  The central "hate speech" case, RAV v. City of St. Paul, took place in Minnesota, and invalidated a "hate speech" ordinance. You would think the governor of Minnesota would have heard of it. 😒
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  30900.  @I321Oo  There is no such thing. That's a journalistic slogan.
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  30901. Isn't Orthodox Easter next week? I'm genuinely asking.
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  30902. Great comments from both Robby and Ryan this time.
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  30903. ​@cpamvca6858 People who don't profit from arms merchants or pharmaceutical companies that lie to us are the ones suffering from bad karma? Why am I not surprised that this is not sarcasm? I'm not. It's to be expected in a rapidly declining society.
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  30904.  @paragonexperience  No more so than the mandates crowd. You forget the burden of proof is on THEM. Or always was prior to this. There used to be something called the Precautionary Principle. You must prove a medical procedure is safe and effective. If my concerns are not addressed, I have the right to decline it.
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  30905.  @paragonexperience  Anyway, suppose someone lies about the vaccines, or any drug. Do you think that shifts the burden of proof? Great. Big Pharma needn't go to great lengths to test new drugs. They can just hire false flags! 🤣🤣🤣
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  30906.  @paragonexperience  Well either my last post is being shadowed, or you're pretending it is. In any case . . . yawn. Toodles
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  30907.  @paragonexperience  Fascinating. I can't find Wolf's article. It was retracted.
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  30908.  @paragonexperience  OH WELL THAT'S A FAIR HEARING. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 love you, buddy, a joke a minute
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  30909. Very few. That's just it.
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  30910.  @Xpistos510  THANK YOU.
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  30911.  Harold Ladino  People who think you should be careful when you make accusations of heinous crimes, such as arson, during a pandemic, are destroying America?
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  30912.  Harold Ladino  Who the F do you think you're addressing? P'tit connard.
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  30913.  @jameshopkins6168  Why do you need to believe something that is not true? I thought all good, red-blooded Americans demanded to be paid to believe things that aren't true.
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  30914.  @jameshopkins6168  That's not what the Rolling Stone article said. It said the claim (or rumor) that the milkshake contained cement was debunked. It did not speak to what Ngo's private medical records contain.
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  30915. What causes it? Usually jealousy of some sort. There was something you had that they wanted. I always thought there must be some other reason. I always looked for some other reason. There never was.
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  30916. So Chuck Schumer is openly rooting for the Deep State. Straight up. 22:25 22:52
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  30917. Thought it was a tee shirt ad. Wait, it is.
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  30918. Thank you. This is an extremely dangerous man, and not just to her.
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  30919. I suspect it is to obfuscate the fact that only the very rich are getting effective treatment.
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  30920. Yeah, nice work if you can get it.
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  30921.  @sagittariusa2283  I guess it's a matter of the comparison, then. I've had to go to BBC and Reuters for news. To me, it felt refreshing.
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  30922. Did you used to worship Bill Gates, too? If Musk made you a millionaire during the pandemic, then by all means, call him a visionary. Otherwise, don't embarrass yourself.
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  30923. No, they are demanding declaratory and injunctive relief.
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  30924. The arrogance of this mob! If Hunter were merely a troubled man, due to repeated tragedies in his life, that would be bad enough but I hope we'd have sympathy. But he is traipsing around the world, accepting bribes from the worst of the worst.
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  30925. Question: every time a person is without a job, and gets dejected and demoralized, why is there always some little chump who shows up to JEER at him? And neither Wall Street nor China pay this chump. (I don't think?)
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  30926. When the truth is quite bad, why add in some lies? You'd think they were a false flag or something. Functionally, they are.
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  30927. Job training and connections. At that price, what else?
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  30928. Is this a Dore-related channel? False flag or something?
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  30929. I think you've got it. That's the Zeitgeist all right.
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  30930.  @gonfreecss529  That guy is gaslighting. Maybe it's psy-ops. He's a closet anti-vaxxer, because his nonsense is having the opposite effect he says he wants.
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  30931.  @chegadesuade  Acting like a mob of highschoolers, instead of showing some decorum, and gravitas, when over 500,000 Americans have died? Thanks for telling us where you stand on solidarity, etc. Thinking that some people are more valuable than others is a classic symptom of being right wing.
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  30932.  @chegadesuade  I'm not making "anti-vax" comments. Is your entire level of concentration and comprehension one great big hashtag? Don't answer that.
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  30933.  @chegadesuade  As a matter of fact, I have had other vaccinations over the past 15 months. Of course. Most people do.
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  30934.  @chegadesuade  I've just reviewed all my posts in this thread. They are highly informative. The German researcher I mentioned in a prior post is the one who claims to have results on his team's study of the J&J vaccine.
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  30935. Bravo Kim.
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  30936. AOC hates women in any event.
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  30937. In education, you are often evaluated on whether you affirm students' individual "learning styles;" as it turns out, research on this pedagogical method fails to support it. Remember Goleman's EQ -- "Emotional Intelligence?" This method of assessment was put in use LONG before there was much solid research to support it; it was based on observations Goleman had made as a management consultant, and they may have been pragmatically valuable to the businesses he advised. Only later was there some research (rather thin) that supported the positing of an EQ. It's more of an advertising slogan than a solid concept. Ironic, given that some of the uses to which IQ itself has been put have been shown to be questionable; all we need is a proliferation of more quotients.
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  30938. I believe Biden doesn't know stuff. Of course his press secretary has to be cagey.
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  30939. Vaccinated? Boosted? Or not? Recovered from an infection? Recent variant, or earlier one?
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  30940. Are you kidding? She is obviously stupid.
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  30941. 8:17 Try listening. Expand your attention span. Note: you need to listen for over one minute. C'mon, you can do it!! 😊
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  30942. The two on the right are smearing her, misrepresenting her views, and saying her brain is broken. She didn't engage in similar ad hominem. I would swear at them and leave. Yet in the end, she agreed with Natalie on Ukraine. She let it go for the sake of principle.
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  30943.  @sthubbins4038  How do you know what the mortgage is? You got Dore's taxes handy?
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  30944. As expected.
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  30945. Err, . . . yeah.
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  30946.  @jeanleavitt5371  Thanks for responding so that I can block you.
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  30947.  @jeanleavitt5371  The Five Eyes seem to breed crazy. Or is it the drugs?
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  30948.  @joeyboedeker2047  Minding my own business is this thing I have. Weird.
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  30949. Well, as a parent, I am sure that you do not want your parenting decisions to be placed under scrutiny and to have your child taken away. I would like to see it acknowledged that we should go slow before criminalizing anything, as a general rule. A person doesn't have to be a parent to know that you cannot coerce parents to the degree we do, and that includes parents opposed to transition for minor children, and the insanity of freezing them out of the discussion as though their view were "bigoted."
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  30950. @chilo8187  OH PLEASE. I was just reading a brilliant book on medical ethics, and you pipe up with this. Maybe they just weren't Attracting Abundance? Risible.
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  30951.  @chilo8187  About the fact that you have absolutely no knowledge or expertise to venture such a diagnosis, and if you were a doctor, you'd be on ethical thin ice. It makes about as much sense as the "abundance" fad.
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  30952.  @Puleczech  But isn't that always true? If a person goes out tonight and drinks, and then is assaulted, they would not have been assaulted had they stayed home sober.
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  30953.  @Puleczech  They most certainly can let a person wanted for a possible property crime, of which they themselves may not have been aware, go. Nor do they have the right to use lethal means to restrain anyone who does not present an imminent danger to life and limb. My example isn't of random actions at all. If you think so, you must be unfamiliar with American street scenes, not to mention such establishments as frat houses. But suppose you're right about everything. A person couldn't have come up with a stronger condemnation of current policing tactics than you just did. This means we live in a police state, where in any encounter, even involving arrest for the most petty misdemeanor nonviolent property offense, a person can wind up dead -- even given that fleeing is a perfectly normal and predictable thing for a person to do. A LOT of people are petrified of being held in custody, much less jail. It is normal to flee. It is not rational, but irrationality is also normal. People are irrational every day.
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  30954.  @Puleczech  Ever heard of this case? "Kalief Browder was sent to Rikers Island when he was 16 years old, accused of stealing a backpack. Though he never stood trial or was found guilty of any crime, he spent three years at the New York City jail complex, nearly two of them in solitary confinement." He committed suicide.
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  30955. Well, she didn't vote for Biden or Hillary. That's pretty solid in my opinion.
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  30956. What is the purchasing power of that sum?? In 1970, two people working for minimum wage could afford a modest apartment in ANY city, and take a night class in college, in-state tuition. They could afford to get married, too. The top four quintiles (= 80%) had a decent quality of life in 1970 (though it was far from luxurious -- but that's a good thing, usually). Today, only the top 10% do.
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  30957. Have you ever looked at the Federal Reserve Board's survey of family finances? It comes out every 3 years. Maybe get a clue
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  30958. Larry Summers just admitted the dollar is based on con fidence.
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  30959.  @hizzlemobizzle  Very well stated. ^^^^^^^
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  30960. The Democrats own Tesla stock. Enough said.
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  30961. Only Western European country that might want to, but NATO would prevent it undoubtedly.
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  30962.  @dingfeldersmurfalot4560  Thank you to you, too. Simple, no?
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  30963. If only it were so simple, and everyone with a mild case recovered without repercussions. But even the young are showing subtle heart and lung damage, and we don't know whether they will get better. Even if we could protect the old without restricting the young, we would still have this problem. In COVID, men get sicker at every age: for COVID, a man at 50 is like a woman at 60. Still, a debate on what to do about it is necessary. We have to minimize the harm of COVID, including the harm of lockdowns. Where was emergency UBI?
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  30964.  @broadkast477  You guys didn't listen to her report.
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  30965. This is the FUNNIEST thing that has ever, ever happened. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  30966.  @voxomnes9537  This is exactly why an organized debt strike would be essential. You imagine that if, say, 60% participated, there would be no "restructuring?"
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  30967.  @fortusvictus8297  Newsflash: pieces of paper do not have magical powers. Laws exist because people obey them. Money is real because we treat it as such.
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  30968. Look, people take out loans for trade schools, for-profit job training "colleges," community college certification programs, etc. Of course college debt is higher because college takes longer.
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  30969. Adam SMITH warned against such parasites!
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  30970. You sound like you are talking about a video game with money.
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  30971.  @AQuietNight  What isn't getting exposure? The real reasons we are arming Ukraine? You talk as though there are no human beings in this picture. Maybe it's not so mysterious after all why most of the world wasn't in tears and shock over 9/11. That was just a "game," too.
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  30972. Thank you Andrew Lawrence for letting us know who you are. Jimmy dissects this like a communications professor!
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  30973. ​ @Sam-wd9ly Trump also had all of his nominees to head the key government departments and agencies confirmed by the Senate. I would think they might have some thoughts about how to conduct an evaluation of those working under them? Patel and Gabbard just told their people not to respond to Elon, and RFK Jr's face at the Cabinet meeting spoke volumes.
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  30974. ​ @JDoe001 He's the face of ketamine abuse.
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  30975. @Sam-wd9ly  State Department also, and NASA did an about-face . . . Listen, if it is this easy to play on your resentment and get you on board for something this obviously idiotic, we have much bigger problems than a few goldbrickers in the federal workforce. Say, I have an idea. Read up on the privatization of Chicago's parking meters. Do that, and think about it for a while. See whether patterns could exist here.
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  30976. "Making up quotations is the same as making up your face." - Jake Roper
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  30977. @thomasespositio3139  I agree with what you said about Congress. Obviously true. My point still stands.
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  30978. ALL of this spilled over into COVID. Suddenly, patients had to prove they had a reason to decline the vaccine. That is NOT the law. The EUA consent form stated that the patient certified they read everything, AND had a right to say no, AND if they said no, their future medical care would not be affected.
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  30979. Guns aren't mentioned in the Constitution. They did not exist in the late 1700s.
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  30980. You are comparing market capitalization with annual gross domestic product. Yes, it is still a shock, and clearly perverse. But don't be imprecise.
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  30981.  @WeToddEd-r3g  If true, GOOD. Why is this bad? Stand up for yourself.
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  30982.  @LtCdrRoyFokker  "her previous behavior" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 You sound like fun.
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  30983. Uvalde comes to mind, no?
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  30984.  @justinm1200  When the Supreme Court said that a First Amendment forum tolerates that, and more. Since Brandenburg, RAV v St. Paul, the Westboro Baptist Church case. Since then. Chemerinsky wrote a book about all that. So did Nadine Strossen. You've heard of books? College students still sometimes read them.
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  30985. @badmofaux  Nor is the outrage directed at these three --- though they were so dim and inarticulate that it's infuriating.
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  30986. WHAT NEXT??
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  30987. How about this? Infants and pregnant women should be protected from respiratory illnesses? Rather that given SHOTS?
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  30988. Agoraphobia is horrendously painful. If a person has never experienced it, it's impossible to understand.
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  30989. You mean the fix is in?
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  30990.  @mkrake2429  l know. It's much more reasonable and realistic to accept that a corrupt, frail, demented guy and his cackling running mate should be president and vice president of the United States for nearly a decade. I agree. Because vaccines. Something. Whatever. Ben Shapiro says he's a good dad.
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  30991. You're right, they don't know. Until they do a credible study, they should stop saying "there's no evidence" of harm from the vaccines. I started following ministries of health recommendations, and research conducted outside the US (such as the Scandinavian countries, Germany, Switzerland, France) about a year ago. :/ I simply don't listen to CDC, FDA, NIH anymore.
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  30992. Who funds the wars? We borrow money, by selling Treasuries, to fund our wars. Japan and China fund our wars.
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  30993. And Corbin in UK.
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  30994. Reagan gave is the income tax Social Security benefits.
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  30995. ​ @CornPop09090 Yes. Wall Street is not full of techie-spectrum hipster wannabes. Wall Street is serious.
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  30996. @sergpie  Oh no. The casino capitalists command armies in addition to mass media. They are ready to kill.
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  30997. No, "lived experience" is not nonsense. "My truth" is nonsense. I started using "lived experience" to indicate the proper source of my beliefs, as being empirical, and subjective yet real, about ten years ago, and to push back against "my truth." This is long before it became trendy in MSM and among the globalists.
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  30998. I want to see whether these types of developments end up being used to excuse martial law by the globalist neoliberal elites. I take nothing at face any more.
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  30999. You know who made that point? Are you sitting down? PCF. The French Communists. How far we've fallen!
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  31000. Here's a question: Facebook started out as a puerile slambook against women. Where were all the liberals to boycott Facebook, rather than make Zuckerberg into a 30-year-old billionaire, who returned the favor by undertaking mass propaganda and mass surveillance? Good for the Christians, good for principled people!
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  31001. Very Rasputin. Makes you wonder. 🤔
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  31002. Why didn't the Democrats do this for Uvalde?
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  31003.  @jeffarnold3800  Truth is a defense to defamation, sincere belief is not -- unless we are talking about "New York Times malice" (false statements about a well-known entity in the public eye must either be a deliberate lie, or they must be asserted with reckless disregard for the truth). So, the target can't be just a neighbor, unless you have well-known neighbors.
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  31004.  @saxonderohan9723  That is the essence of what that portion of the memorandum of law to support her motion to dismiss says. We know politicians engage in hyperbole. No reasonable person takes it as hard fact.
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  31005.  @danny.b3  And a remarkably successful one, too. :/
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  31006.  @danny.b3  As a matter of fact, I speak three languages fluently, and find that I am always much happier when I function in the two that are not English. So much for needing "authority figures." You can't even tell me in which language to think, much less what.
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  31007.  @danny.b3  I was responding to your comment about Bundy, and in a subsequent post gave details about his astounding trajectory, to explain what I meant. What in the world did you think I meant? My response disappeared almost instantly. I guess I ruffled some feathers in quoting James Baldwin. Figures.
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  31008.  @danny.b3  Can you be serious? You attacked me for no reason. You completely misconstrued an innocuous comment, in reference to how far Ted Bundy got -- and it is not a rarity for psychpaths to fool people, for a long time, and to be remarkably successful at it. Bundy got into law school not once but twice, based on glowing recommendations from prominent people. Do we even know how many women he killed -- talking about "love," as needed, I might add!
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  31009.  @danny.b3  You have more in common with Trump than you think. Clearly from the same culture. P. S. You brought up Bundy. Look and see. Sheesh.
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  31010.  @harmonys2102  ME TOO.
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  31011. Look up the lawsuits Tesla is facing. Worst employment discrimination suit I've seen in this century. Happening in California. Look up the Neuralink complaint, 700 pages of documents on monkey torture.
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  31012.  @Bonzi_Buddy  What "leftist colleges?" Who? Where? Have you ever seen one? The most popular college major by far is Business, and has been for generations. If you take Business, and fail to study advanced mathematics and finance, or take enough accounting to become a CPA, your degree is propaganda and fluff. People who study Shakespeare understand reality better.
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  31013.  @Bonzi_Buddy  I didn't say there were none. In a country this diverse, I would expect to find colleges for snake handlers. YOU made an assertion about "leftist colleges," as if they were a social force to be reckoned with. Which ones do you mean? The burden is on you to show me some. The most common major is Business, and has been for years and years. Generations. You didn't know? (BTW, I didn't insult you. Insults are neither facts nor arguments.)
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  31014. AOC has nice shoes.
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  31015. Okay. Deep breath. This is why people think it's no problem to lie to you.
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  31016.  @Geewasright  I see you internalized the memo already.
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  31017. Well, the US had to bomb Serbia for 78 days with DU, then Yeltsin had to tell them no natural gas would come their way, for them to give up.
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  31018. OH NO 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  31019.  @danielmacmaster5822  True, but consider what he said.
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  31020. I don't have to. Both supported bombing where my parents were from. Don't worry where that might be. Americans cannot find it on the map. (Hence, I don't have to do anything. Ah, freedom.)
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  31021. Jimmy says so himself. He doesn't claim to be without flaws. Nor does he omit apologies.
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  31022. So Brandon is so literal, he didn't get the irony? (To tell someone Russian that he has no soul is grotesquely insulting. It means something different in Russian. Why do that? No matter what your politics, you have to face that Brandon is incompetent in everything but influence peddling.)
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  31023. Intelligent to exclude the unvaccinated, because of an illness that has at most a 2% case fatality rate? The first responders who risked their lives last year should be excluded this year, even if they had COVID and recovered? CGT just organized a demonstration of VACCINATED health care workers in support of their unvaccinated colleagues and against mandates and passports. L'Obs posted a video and all the comments below it praised the CGT for their humanity. Only the US is Dogville.
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  31024. 32:25 (about 2 minutes, then Max weighs in)
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  31025. Scandinavian countries do not mandate vaccination. Are they less intelligent? That would be a first.
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  31026. Bases in Germany are pointed at Russia.
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  31027. A ceasefire means by all aggressors. If you are telling me Americans don't know THAT, well . . .
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  31028. During a pandemic?? This is extreme.
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  31029.  @nicholasmosley8707  🤣 Thanks for that.
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  31030. Only do the minimum necessary. And start checking out the ministries of health of relatively civilized places like Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, etc., to find out their v policies. Prepare to be very surprised.
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  31031. @arctain1  Correct. Today, the Supreme Court pointed out that a number of states have banned race-based admissions, including California.
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  31032.  @ezesagus6177  A lawsuit was just filed against the legacy system. Super great news!
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  31033. There is nothing wrong with her cross-examination. Depp is claiming 50 million in damages. HE has to prove he lost 50 million.
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  31034. What does this have to do with anything?
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  31035. ​ @BDnevernind  The early coverage was that any allegation of responsibility on Eco Health Alliance's part was disinformation.
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  31036. ​ @ks-hg5vo  He has not testified yet.
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  31037. Imagine being a responsible adult and not knowing not to make permanent electronic communications of this nature. Psst, hey . . . Hey. It's called a burner phone. Oh, and you talk on it. You remember talk? 😂😂😂
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  31038. Leslie Wexner did, and he gave hundreds of millions. Wexner was Jeffrey Epstein's close friend and patron. They were taking his money until this happened and he withdrew his support.
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  31039. Will payment on any of Musk's government contracts be interrupted?
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  31040. Musk spends more on lobbying for the laws he wants and on elections than he does on taxes. Then Musk gets government contracts and buys US Treasuries, and WE owe him our taxes, on the contracts and in interest on the national debt. Who will stop this?
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  31041. Musk spends more on lobbying for the laws he wants and on elections than he ever did on taxes. Then he gets government contracts and buys US Treasuries, and WE owe him our taxes, on the contracts and in interest on our national debt. Who will stop this? DOGE?
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  31042. My answer to this was ____________.
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  31043. Neolib warmongers are not opposed to war crimes and atrocities against Russians. They've proved it for eight years. Why stop now, when the propaganda wave is in their favor?
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  31044. Maybe you shouldn't be so quick to believe her. She has been caught before not being quite "accurate." An immigrant comes to America, obtains her degree at one of the very finest private, Ivy-League universities, has nothing nuanced to say about it, only drops slogans about "woke," claims it is much like being in North Korea again (!), and you believe every word AND you think she is doing the United States a favor. No, she's doing her bank account a favor. That this stuff sells is a symptom of the troubled times we live in, not a solution. Columbia exists as such since the 1780s. Where is your pride? You've lost your skepticism and your pride -- that is "what is occurring in the US these days," and people are making bank for doing this to you. Just because you think she's on your side. Oh brother.
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  31045.  @davidwallin5734  Great point.
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  31046. LOL
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  31047. Understood
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  31048.  @briandingle665  Evidence?
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  31049. @TheMansfieldlad  Wrong. I'm an attorney, and evidence is my area of expertise, as are burdens of proof. So . . . I really mean it. You are welcome to believe that I shouldn't mean it, but whether, in fact, I do is not something you get to dictate.
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  31050. @TheMansfieldlad  By the way, have you ever been in a classroom where someone whips out a smartphone, (apparently) to check a fact, and announces it to the class? How are other people supposed to weigh that? Hmm? 🤔 They have no idea what he's looking at on his Magic Phone.
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  31051. @TheMansfieldlad  The first comment was general, the second, specific. Glad I could clear that one up.
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  31052. @BrokenGlass2024  My Circuit had a giant class action against CPS for exactly such overreach, and the parents won on most of their claims. Prominent attorneys who are known in the field and a major law firm took their case. They also sought damages for defamation, but I don't remember at the moment how those were framed. Do you know what a Circuit is? (Federal Court of Appeals) Do you know what "overreach" is? (Stuff like this.) Do you know how to find a published case? Have you ever seen one? Is your legal education from your Facebook friends?
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  31053. @BrokenGlass2024  You'll notice I took no position on whether the doctor was legally mandated to report her because of this in UK. I don't have any idea. If the case is unusual, and made the papers for that reason, then I have to wonder. Do you think it was ethical not to warn her that she was mandated to consent? In any case, the class action I mentioned dealt with these specious assertions of neglect against parents -- if you can see that reply.
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  31054. How would you know? Did you listen to what the prosecutor said? The law was already struck down as unconstitutional under the FLORIDA constitution.
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  31055.  @no1toolmkr  If he is upholding the STATE constitution then he is doing his job. You stopped listening before he stated why he took the position he did. That's the new thing now. Never listening to the guy you already decided was wrong.
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  31056. Same function here.
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  31057. I don't believe any "research" that this new thing or that new thing is "harmless" (or even "good for kids") when it coincides perfectly with what multinational corporations want. I don't know that violent video games cause harm: I believe the jury is out. I don't contend SSRIs increase the risk of violence: I believe the jury is out.
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  31058. Do you know who Lula is? Do you know how to find stuff on a paper map, without google highlighting it for you?
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  31059. Okay, but they pay her millions for this.
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  31060.  @lilacer6841  What is the "problem?" The problem is that this war should have ended in April, and when that failed to happen, then by the end of June. There is no putting lipstick on this pig. Yes, the US had its filthy paws all over this initially . . . and Putin played directly into those paws.
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  31061.  @winstonsmith7801  Dupe Or, get your cut. 💰 That, I can respect.
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  31062. The Real Damar Hamlin is with Obama's Real Birth Certificate.
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  31063. We know how you feel.
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  31064.  @ProfessuhLemon  I can tell by your discourse that you REALLY want to persuade people to get vaccinated.
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  31065. It's evidence of prior reputation, which goes to damages. He has to prove her little, measured article is what cost him 50 million smackaroos. He can't just send the sheriff over to seize and collect.
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  31066. That's true. Is that what happened? Remember the Westboro Baptist Church case?
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  31067. She is obviously mentally ill. I would be concerned that she will have children one day and develop Munchausen by proxy.
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  31068. ​ @Straightjacket154  She's mentally ill. Isn't that clear?
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  31069. Love this. Just wow, eh?
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  31070. Unless he's lost his touch.
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  31071.  @sachavanmeir1591  I'm so sorry. I hope you will recover.
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  31072. Exactly. This event exposed more than they realize. They thought we were stupid. Turns out there is such a thing as too much money. Being a little hungry is very good for the brain. "Necessity is the mother of invention."
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  31073. Seed oils that are entirely organic and expeller pressed, with no contact with GMOs or chemicals, have a place in our diet. Good luck finding them . . . 😒 It might be impossible -- it IS unaffordable.
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  31074. ​ @harnessriscallous7466 Someone didn't listen to his argument. Maybe it's too hard for you?
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  31075.  @harnessriscallous7466  Too hard. Got it.
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  31076. The résumé studies were replicated many times, in this century. One turned up discrimination against Russian names, too.
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  31077. Speaking of other countries, what have Norway and Japan been doing? If we had their death rate per million, we'd have fewer than 1/10 the deaths we have had. We should be sharing information.
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  31078. If THIS can invade France, all is lost.
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  31079.  @JAMESWUERTELE  Spoken like someone worthy of trust. That's . . . different.
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  31080. He was president. What do you expect?
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  31081. To me, it's a nuisance, . . . An essential nuisance. It is the most important thing, which is truly sad. I consider it something you must get so that you can move on and do something you really want, but you might never get enough money to do what you want.
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  31082. OH. NO.
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  31083. We noticed that. He apparently believes in war.
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  31084.  @iBlazec  SO perfectly stated.
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  31085.  @marlinmurrell620  False. In every state. If you are not put in any physical danger by the act of the person, you cannot shoot that person.
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  31086. He'll fit right in.
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  31087. Sounds like Elon Musk.
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  31088. I said Musk before Dr. Grande did.
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  31089. The case isn't over. Her contract claims were not dismissed.
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  31090.  @brandoncoax  Read New Yorker magazine article from June 2021 for a more nuanced view. His older sister marched in BLM demonstrations after the murder of George Floyd. Rittenhouse is a perfect example of a minor who could have been rehabilitated. BTW, I oppose trying minors as adults. We all know who those laws were written for, don't we? I hate those laws.
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  31091. When Tucker reported this story, before the trial, and literally said, "what's a kid going to do?," and endorsed heavily armed vigilantism by minors, I thought he should have been fired.
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  31092.  @brandoncoax  Where did you find this? I admit I didn't know about it. I agree that a lot of stuff is kept out of a criminal trial, when the defendant can afford one!
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  31093.  @brandoncoax  That business where he went to a bar and some Proud Boys were there was planned by his ex-lawyer, a real right-wing zealot and POS. I don't know that Rittenhouse ever hung with Proud Boys before that. He was involved with his sisters, who were against all of that, especially the older one. His birth father isn't with them because he is a drug addict. In the 1960s and 70s, people rehabilitated kids just like this. In my city, there was a Black Panther Party affiliated group that did this. I remember it well. Most of the members were displaced coal miners. They put out a magazine called Keep Strong. Kids like that can go either way.
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  31094.  @ManiacMayhem7256  I'm talking about his relative qualifications and his style. I tried to watch. Thought it sucked. Have heard better. Ironic, Garland is an ex-cop. He has a classy manner I like. When I saw this notice, I had no idea who you were talking about. Your guy made no impression on me.
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  31095. Because the Trump elections were about the deindustrialized Midwestern swing states. A remarkably small number of voters in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Iowa decided this election and the one in 2016. A quirk of the system that could never happen if the election were based on popular vote. Or so they believe. Also does make any "analysis" more dubious, however. IOW, it sounds like BS because it is more speculative. But it's not based on nothing.
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  31096. The default position is DO NOT divulge any medical information. The burden of proof has to be on divulging any such private information. That has to be the exception, and an exception requires a reason, a strategy of implemention, etc. Dr. Grande described the strategy in the event that disclosure is necessary perfectly. Consider something else: all the times "normal" people behave badly in the workplace, and consider how often it is habitual. If you are the one with the label of not being "normal," you could easily become their target, and have less support from management than you might otherwise have. This is a real risk.
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  31097. ​ @paulweeldreyer7457 The US is arming and funding what most of the world, fairly or not, regards as a genocide. If you are a humanitarian OR a believer in Realpolitik who cares only about US power, you should care.
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  31098.  @mystuff9999  How is that an example of intuition rather than fear, which is frequently unfounded?
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  31099.  @bobmcbobbington9220  The popular book Blink explains it well in lay terms. Ultra-rapid nondiscursive pattern recognition: that's what intuition is. As for distinguishing between maladaptive fear and the instinct that could save you, try The Gift of Fear. You think you know things that you don't. What's that like?
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  31100. How crazy are they? I thought there was some limit.
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  31101. Great, great post. No surprise, either. Thank you.
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  31102. Have you ever watched her show?
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  31103. Ha ha good one. /s (I agree obviously.)
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  31104. So, China, India, Vietnam, most of Asia in fact, much of Africa and South America aren't crazy after all. Turns out we are. I'm shocked, shocked.
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  31105.  @yvetteaharrison2726  No surprise. The more intelligent the comment, the more likely it will be censored. Jeering is just an opinion, so they leave it alone.
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  31106. Then how did shutting down schools hurt learning? I am mystified.
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  31107. And how much $$$ he rakes in my putting on his dour face and bloviating about it.
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  31108.  @alfasiger4178  The knife was never found.
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  31109.  @candravandyne3836  He didn't think to leave his phone at home, lol.
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  31110. @alfasiger4178  It was stated that "a knife" as well as a firearm were taken from Kohberger's home, which is supposed to make you believe it is the murder weapon. No mention of DNA taken from the knife seized, no mention of it fitting the sheath left at the scene that I can find. If they've said more, feel free to point to your sources. Any normal person wants to see actual perpetrators arrested and convicted.
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  31111. @alfasiger4178  No knife used in the murders was left at the scene. Hence no perpetrator staked out the house after the murders in order to retrieve the knife.
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  31112. Thinks what? She asked a good question. I also wonder why China instituted actual, complete lockdowns, as is done in prisons. Do they know something about the virus that they are not sharing? I mean, apart from its origins.
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  31113.  @mkhud50n  You'd have to timestamp that. I latched on to the important stuff -- like how much are they failing to share.
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  31114.  @vainezaiven6677  Okay. And I do think the questions are very much worth asking. I don't presume they do or don't know more than they are sharing -- I don't know either way. I don't expect answers from China, but I do from our intelligence services. The notion that they have certain scientific details on point because their lab was the origin of the virus strikes me as possible. That they did before anyone else, even more so.
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  31115.  @vainezaiven6677  I saw your post while listening to Alina Chan being interviewed by Russell Brand. She is a molecular biologist at Harvard and MIT, and received a number of death threats for stating the obvious about where the virus may have originated. There was a concerted campaign by some affiliated with the Chinese government to discredit her and smear her as a scientist. Chan talks about all the data that China to this day refuses to share, though its relevance appears to be primarily related to virus origins. The issue has been so politicized here as well that I'm no longer so sure that those who need certain information have it, or are treating the information they do have objectively and dispassionately. Pretty much our worst suspicions are being confirmed daily. That's how I think about this.
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  31116.  @Christian___  No, I'm not American. I don't have a dog in your fights. 😂😂😂
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  31117.  @Christian___  Who said your pay was modest? I said you were bitter. I consider clearing $3000 a month to be fine. I'm not like you.
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  31118.  @GreaseGodWang  The same people who bombed where my family is from with DU. Lol
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  31119. Le Pen is not smart enough.
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  31120. Celts lived next to the Slavic tribes in good relations for a long time. They were the first to settle what is today Belgrade. This is the basic prehistory of Europe -- the Celts were everywhere.
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  31121. There were a few hot spots in the world where there were insufficient beds. Literally just a few, such as in Queens -- not New York City as a whole, but only Queens. This did happen, and it did not last long. It was not the vaccines that ended it, as the bed shortage had already subsided by the time the vaccines were released. The extra hospital beds rigged up in Chicago were never used. This was in 2020.
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  31122. Look at the US Embassy in Ukraine website. The US Department of Defense funds these biolabs, not the National Institutes of Health. The Indian press and TeleSUR are reporting China has demanded a full accounting from the US.
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  31123.  @kingkartabyo6206  I know. This video is great. Numberphile were obnoxious. Of course they misled people deliberately. I don't think "post truth" is very funny anymore, sorry.
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  31124. Brecht's Antigone comes to mind.
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  31125. If he censored Matt Taibbi, then he is a hypocrite.
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  31126. But that isn't the real point in any case. Of course Claudia has a right to seek emancipation. Juvenile family court records are sealed for a reason.
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  31127. REREAD the Williamson tweet. It does not say what YOU claim it said. There was NO pressure to stick to anyone, at all.
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  31128.  @akikotaku9670  You did not quote the whole thing. And family court records are sealed, which is presumably where a petition for emancipation is filed. Counselors, psychiatrists, lawyers -- ALL are strictly confidential relationships. What part of that seems wrong to you? How does "handle family issues privately" = "sticking with an abuser?" Trick question, it doesn't.
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  31129. The NIH funds vaccine research and similar scientific research. These labs were funded by the US Department of Defense.
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  31130. You mean you do not know the neoliberal globalists eviscerated Russia? Russia declined for a generation after Gorbachev. Putin was selected to keep the oligarchs rich while raising the standards of living for everyone else sufficiently to maintain the oligarchs in power.
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  31131. Are the American people responsible for starvation in Afghanistan? If you think so, start protesting and demonstrating about that.
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  31132.  @smb123211  You "hear constantly" -- from whom?
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  31133. Glenn Greenwald just wrote about this -- the spying Snowden revealed was judged to be illegal. The case came down recently.
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  31134.  @pierredelecto7069  If you want the news about a case, look up the court documents.
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  31135. It's worse than that: at 40, the typical woman is at her sexual peak. So sad she doesn't know, and perhaps better.
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  31136. ​@michaellong9214 I didn't say she did. My point is that I would not trust her to. I'm not hinting that she hasn't earned a platform to share her opinions. That was not my point. I have no problem with that part.
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  31137. The government gave vaccinated people a false sense of security. They were told they made grandma safe. They did not.
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  31138. Call someone to pick you up.
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  31139. 1. Marijuana should never have been illegal in the first place. Not one human being should have been in police custody for two seconds for marijuana. 2. Anyone in jail for anything to do with marijuana should be released immediately, and compensated. Serious money. 3. Why do people have to get high all the time? Like, what gives? There are more interesting things to do.
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  31140. Do Republicans and Democrats believe Trump and Biden are immortal and will be the candidates in three years??? And you're surprised someone has doubts about the pandemic?
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  31141. I thought they had moved on to puberty blockers.
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  31142.  @FXLASTYLE  I haven't made a new white friend in this century.
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  31143.  @kamisakura568  At best?
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  31144. @trishpetty6685  Western Europeans were a far higher proportion of the total of humanity at that time, and not dependent on Asia for manufacturing. That could make it worse temporarily, but it won't last long.
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  31145. AP is elective. The College Board is private.
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  31146. Wasn't my first thought, but okay. Cool.
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  31147. If there is no solid third party candidate to support, I stay home. You are way behind the curve.
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  31148. Trained animals.
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  31149. This makes sense.
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  31150.  @davruck1  If a debt cannot be discharged, which is wrong in and of itself, but bear with me, then it should be zero interest.
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  31151.  @davruck1  Agreed.
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  31152. And they can.
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  31153.  @albaniaball897  Who is "they?" There were no minors in that venue, ever. Why was the story of this crime diverted like this? Look at what they focus on instead of the hero that stopped the massacre.
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  31154. Counterfactuals are generally dubious. A lot of people called Trump cowardly for not speaking to the protesters.
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  31155. Anyone who knows anything about Israel knows about the profound disunity. It has been apparent at least since the assassination of Itzhak Rabin. Anyone who watches Democracy Now must realize it. Anyone who ever reads Haaretz, even one time, must know. I mean come on.
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  31156. January 6 was a gift to DNC, Nancy most of all.
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  31157. Me, too. And my father and my mother's only brother were WWII British Army veterans. I should have been born in Europe. 😢
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  31158. Does he ever stop lying? Can he?
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  31159.  @babyamyxo-o6c  Full agreement. It is a travesty that they are not more careful than strictly necessary, as a matter of principle.
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  31160. I've never consumed the content of any of the media referenced. I've heard of Harry.
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  31161. How so? Horne did not endorse the 1619 Project. Who has reviewed HIS new book? His book meets historiographic standards.
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  31162. Miriam Grossman did not make this video for children but for adults. So Emma's entire rant is pointless.
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  31163. @Scoobystyle  Thank you 🙏
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  31164. @Scoobystyle  I appreciate why BCBS reported her, and why they wanted police to check it out. That's reasonable. But now that they KNOW she isn't a threat, why are they still pressing charges? It's a civil matter: drop her from coverage, sue her for intentional infliction of emotional distress of your customer service rep, and leave the criminal justice aparratus out of it. That is the most they could do. But instead . . . this?? Wow, just wow. "Merry Christmas."
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  31165. When you see unsophisticated people, who have never traveled, etc., suspect that COVID is "a hoax," can you really blame them? At first I was furious with them. As time goes on, I have more and more compassion. The politicians are NOT acting like this is an emergency. They make me sick.
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  31166. ​@golden-63 This is the one of the few things you can be jealous of. If you're jealous of money or beauty, you'll be jeered at and laughed out of the room.
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  31167.  @golden-63  You can be jealous of intelligence and count on attracting a cheering crowd.
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  31168. In general you're right, but this wasn't changing facts, at least not this time. The new definition is correct.
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  31169.  @aalvarez2914  not what I said . . . but this is the Internet . . . you get to say what I said whether I said it or not . . .
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  31170.  @aalvarez2914  An actual heart with four chambers appears at about 9 to 10 weeks, and at about the same time a true heartbeat, controlled by the central nervous system, appears. This is a qualitative difference: it marks the moment when an embryo becomes an early fetus, and miscarriage becomes far less likely. (Miscarriage of embryos is very common; by the time there is a heart, the risk plummets.) It is true that many states, including mine, make no differentiation and allow elective abortion at that stage as well. But no, at six weeks, that is not a heart.
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  31171.  @rhysqqq  Is the oven risking its own life to bake? Wow, I've heard of cyborgs but this is a dystopia that makes me glad I'm mortal.
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  31172.  @aalvarez2914  It has nothing to do with semantics at all, but with biology. Anyway, you're right, I don't have a dog in this fight. The rich will come to my state to have abortions -- which isn't wonderful, but all right . . . so what? The less well off, who are disproportionately POC, will not be able to afford it. I don't see a downside in the demographics of this issue, frankly. It would be a welcome shift as far as I'm concerned.
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  31173. Except that non-Western truly means something, and Russia is not Western.
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  31174.  @NoOne-qw9uw  No corporation likes lawsuits.
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  31175. Actually, medical ethicists such as George Annas stated after the anthrax attacks that vaccines may be urged upon people but can never be coerced. 6:41 How in the world would anyone under these circumstances not WANT a vaccine? And if the vaccine was effective protection, why would 100% compliance be needed --- an unattainable goal in any event? No, if think it through, it does not make sense. The fact that (1) full corporate immunity from liability for vaccine injury, (2) full patent protection, (3) a demand to protect IP for up to 75 years in response to FOIA requests, and (4) no rapid sharing of information across national boarders all happened, and are obviously inconsistent with vaccine mandates, should have tipped rational people off that the biggest danger was not the virus. Something else was afoot. I grant you, this does not tell us what. But this is not how anyone acts in a true emergency. Jonas Salk refused to patent the polio vaccine and he tested it on himself.
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  31176. Musk is facing a huge lawsuit in California and Neuralink has been cited for primate mistreatment. You can find the complaints online.
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  31177. Dr. Campbell is a wonderful person.
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  31178.  @chicomalo4862  Really? You think that? It's a major engagement to use this technology. That's why it did spawn billionaires and does cost $44 billion to buy it today.
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  31179.  @chicomalo4862  Please go on. Dig that hole.
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  31180. Ha ha ha
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  31181. Oh no, he played the Holocaust card. That proves mandates are good.
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  31182. Speaking of mainstream sources, Nature wrote an article on the history of mRNA, Sept 2021, and cites Dr Robert Malone. Look it up.
    1
  31183. Trump wasn't a disaster during COVID, no.
    1
  31184. ​ @cinesonicvibes SMH
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  31185. Medicare exists now. Will this Court strike it down? Abortion will remain legal in most states, as will marriage equality. We have a minimum wage now. The Supreme Court has no basis for overturning it. ANY state can make its STATE university system free, or nearly so. Previous generations could earn a year's tuition, fees, books and supplies with a SUMMER JOB. What happened?
    1
  31186. It is truly hard to listen to this.
    1
  31187. The vaccine release forms state categorically that if you refuse, your medical care will not be affected.
    1
  31188.  @OnimenoJason  Robert Barnes is a horrible lawyer. I find glaring mistakes in his statement of the law ALL the time. Truly sad that such frauds gain such followings. Oh well, Rev. Jim Jones was worse, and had powerful political friends.
    1
  31189. Now you know who JAILHOUSE SNITCHES usually are. Great job, Jimmy!!! Stef, and Ron! Love you.
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  31190. The question was whether they faked the Hunter Biden materials. The answer is no.
    1
  31191.  @kellygoodman6167  The really sad part is that people are fine with it. "Will my stocks go up or down? Well?"
    1
  31192. The capitalists are doing fine, better than ever.
    1
  31193. No kidding. He was told by his doctor that it was imperative for him to be vaccinated, because he has a rare bone condition, and he was injured by the vaccine and has been in treatment ever since. These people have it the worst -- they followed the recommendation, were harmed, and then were denounced. I'm not a People's Party fan, by the way.
    1
  31194. ​ @hrs2044  As long as it's just white kids getting sterilized and frigid, no. /hs = huge sarcasm
    1
  31195. My parents both had 50-hour a week jobs, and my father had a degree from a prestigious university, just in order to live in a moderately safe city neighborhood. In the 1960s. Of course, my parents were a bad ethnic group and had heavy accents. So now it's happening to . . . I better not finish that.
    1
  31196. @charliebukowski6652  Well, let's just tell all of them to answer the Ketamine Kid right now, or be considered to have resigned, and if it turns out that some of them were right not to respond, we can just hire them back. This saves money, sure.
    1
  31197. @charliebukowski6652  Have you ever read a Supreme Court case where a FOIA refusal or extensive redaction was upheld? Or one where the state secrets doctrine was invoked? No, huh? Then maybe you're not familiar with how classified information, or material that could lead to such information, is handled in the real world.
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  31198. @charliebukowski6652  Okay, so you're not familiar with, say, CIA v. Sims or the Zubaydah case, but you know some ad hom clichés. Good. That passes for work. 😂
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  31199.  @charliebukowski6652  yikes, forgot to block
    1
  31200. We have to laugh in their faces more often.
    1
  31201. Does someone think Northwestern University has no standards for its theatre program? Nixon's brilliant granddaughter graduated summa from there.
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  31202. No she's not.
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  31203. Why are attorney/client communications admissible? This is supposed to be confidential and privileged. What took it out of that category?
    1
  31204. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
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  31205. Quit social media.
    1
  31206. People who imagine they can win it (or bring about the Rapture) are very dangerous, yes.
    1
  31207. And during the last administration we had the CIA mulling over the idea of assassinating Julian Assange.
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  31208. ​ Nightwing690 False flag psy-op --- everyone knows this has zero to do with Jewish people. Everyone knows why you suggest the contrary.
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  31209. Not on this score. Are the political machinations too hard for you to follow? That's the idea.
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  31210.  @josephlongo3109  Well, look at the choices in 2016 and 2020. Was anyone, who ran for President or Vice President . . . um, "neurotypical?" Orange Caligula or The Mummy doesn't sound like a plan to me.
    1
  31211.  @josephlongo3109  That was not what I said. I said, these candidates are unqualified. That one may actually be even worse than the other is true. Is there some reason you misunderstand what someone says? Have you automatically translated it to something else in your mind?
    1
  31212. How much formal education did you have before you did? But more to the point, what only a small percentage can do is not a plan.
    1
  31213. Jimmy Dore was vaccine injured. Are you suggesting not? There was just a peer-reviewed article on long C symptoms arising from vaccine injury.
    1
  31214. Try vegan for 25 out of 30 days per month. That should help.
    1
  31215.  @nellyross8761  I agree wholeheartedly.
    1
  31216.  @nellyross8761  💯 agreement
    1
  31217. I also wonder exactly why China had literal lockdowns. Do they know something about the virus that we don't?
    1
  31218.  @vainezaiven6677  I think that's nonsense. A regime that oppressive has no conscience -- if any political leaders ever do.
    1
  31219.  @vainezaiven6677  That makes sense.
    1
  31220.  @TOM-os9rk  No worries. It takes all of 48 hours to stop caring about whatever the new abomination is, so this is easy.
    1
  31221. ​ @TheCatbert2010 This is based on, what?
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  31222. I think you're right.
    1
  31223. Oh come on.
    1
  31224. But with the new mandates proposed, they can't. Wherever testing is an option, I agree with you, even though in some places testing is made deliberately onerous. Another issue: mandates may force compliance, but they also FOSTER MISTRUST.
    1
  31225. I wonder what growing up in affluent suburbs in the 90s was like . . .
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  31226. ​ @jrjr7390   Let me see if I understand. RFK Jr. will debate people who smear him, but Scientists are too Big and Important to debate him. They won't perform the public service of showing new parents that RFK Jr is wrong, after this pandemic fiasco, where many are now understandably worried. And Kennedy's father and uncle were both assassinated, so smearing him is no big deal. Okay, got it.
    1
  31227. ​@MirceaKitsune A bank is not a business just like any other. It must be heavily regulated because banks create money. If they violated regulations designed to prevent things like criminal money laundering, there should be criminal charges. Look up HSBC and laundering drug cartel money and terrorist cell money.
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  31228.  @chaschristiansen  Okay, you know exactly nothing about banking.
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  31229. Woke is about crawling over other people and getting to the top the easy way -- not by making yourself excellent, but by destroying everyone in your way. I saw that pattern well before the adoption of wokism. When wokism stops working, watch for the substitute.
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  31230. LOL
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  31231. Wrong spelling, bruh.
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  31232.  @msheart2  There has been better research since I wrote that post, including evidence that a natural infection produces better immunity than the current vaccines do, and even some evidence that recent infection by another class of coronaviruses, such as those that cause severe colds, creates some immunity as well. Mutations could be a problem, however. They are a problem for the rhinoviruses. A person could catch five different rhinovirus colds in a matter of a few months. Apparently, coronaviruses are not like that, but just what they can do is still unclear. I said there was a lot we don't know. What's coming to light is changing the picture.
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  31233. When I listen to Jimmy, I wonder if we can avoid war. I mean big war, before the end of the decade.
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  31234. Biden will restore dignity. Biden. OMG don't tell us this.
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  31235.  @elenabistiu  blocked
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  31236. Does it require really good technology? Mine is very slow.
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  31237. "Gain of function" is just a tweet. C'mon. /s
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  31238. This motion is always brought, and practically always denied.
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  31239.  @calebwinfield1403  No, he's admitting he doesn't know criminal procedure.
    1
  31240. Listen to the interview.
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  31241. I really can't understand how anyone can think police do not treat blacks differently from whites. They must not even know the statistics on traffic stops and Terry stops.
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  31242.  @bjones8470  THIS
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  31243.  @blueknight07  You mean like when people say the majority opposes racism? I can see that. Maybe we need better leaders.
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  31244. @bonitahobbs2374  No. He did get an annulment from his first wife to marry her, but after she committed suicide, he was free to remarry. You don't need an annulment when your spouse or ex-spouse dies. That's obvious. I think Trump, and before him Reagan, opened the door to tumultuous marriages. I have to say I regret it, but at the same time refuse to judge anyone's personal life. You should have been around to see how they trashed President Carter. He was thoroughly decent. Ford and his wife were cool, too. It should be more appreciated.
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  31245.  @timetheory84  It feels like the US was highjacked by the DNC, especially the Clintons, and a handful of their alphabet agency buddies. It doesn't feel safe anymore, truly.
    1
  31246. Which was because Macron's party candidates did come in third in the initial round of voting.
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  31247. ​ @01jbeals A person born with missing fingers can STILL be a concert pianist, don't you know? /s
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  31248.  @Lerkero  Perfectly stated.
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  31249.    You must be kidding. No one who can use a keyboard is that crazy.
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  31250.  @philyeary8809  Truth
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  31251. Oh stop Robby.
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  31252. ANYTHING but run a halfway decent candidate against Trump. "Oh no, not that!!"
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  31253. Love how you put that.
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  31254. There are a handful of childhood/adolescent vaccines that are very safe and beneficial for most people, and the young were missing those and taking these instead. Disgrace.
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  31255. Mitch McConnell is right up there, too. Lord. How? Just tell me, how??
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  31256. I've been shocked at how anti-Trump Republicans are being kneecapped by the party. I didn't expect it, six months later. And after January 6th.
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  31257. I think the cartoon is great. Free speech.
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  31258. To the ketamine crowd and baby mamas everywhere . . . Get a grip.
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  31259. ​@ryn8068 She lives as a woman in literally every respect, and does not want her documents to raise issues about that before strangers. When it comes to her day to day, she wants to blend in, like everyone else. She will have issues with feeling targeted otherwise. She's used to this life, considers it normal, and doesn't want it disrupted. Where's the mystery?
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  31260. Fewer than 1 per 1000 likes/views; under 0.1%
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  31261. She did.
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  31262.  @alvincyt  Um, because she's not?
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  31263.  @alvincyt  She owed more and more AS she was paying it off. Well, some educational system is clearly in shambles. English verb tense and aspect should be clear to 8th graders.
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  31264.  @alvincyt  She doesn't owe more now. She owed a lot more at the end of her first year after graduation than she did the day of her graduation. Good god, get a math book of Story Problems. You know what that is, right?
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  31265.  @alvincyt  That isn't Briahna.
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  31266.  @alvincyt  I guess pronouns are an issue after all.
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  31267.  @alvincyt  Okay, now I get it. Yes, you are/were entirely correct. And no, the lack of corroboration in Whoopie's account gives me pause. She is hardly a journalist. Someone had to clue her in that Jill Biden is not a medical doctor.
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  31268.  @alvincyt  Bri is in her 40s. That would put her 15+ years post law school.
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  31269.  @alvincyt  Anyway, you're right.
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  31270.  @alvincyt  I'm wrong again. She's only 36, soon to be 37. So, about a decade or so post law school, 12 years possibly.
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  31271.  @alvincyt  Why did you think the 91 year-old-woman made "much more" money when she was younger? That would be what Briahna did, as she said.
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  31272.  @alvincyt  She said "may not be making the money they made. . . " On the other hand, if she was working in her 30s, she undoubtedly made less back then.
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  31273.  @alvincyt  Who is "she" this time?
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  31274.  @alvincyt  Doesn't it depend on how much she makes? If it were like any other debt, and could be discharged under certain conditions, that would be taken into consideration. Anyway, it's evident we were not speaking in real dollar terms (neither of us), or comparing purchasing power. Fifty years ago, housing really was about 25% of a typical person's salary. Good food was inexpensive, and a restaurant dinner or a family breakfast once a week was quite ordinary.
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  31275. The truth is, it's very hard to think. You can do it, of course, but it is not easy. No one is entirely immune from emotional appeals and manipulation. Most people not trained in Venn disagrams and statistical reasoning will get the following wrong: "What's the greater risk -- being injured in a natural disaster in California, or being injured in an earthquake in California?" Also, if you're pushed to answer really fast, because "the faster, the better," the chance that you'll get the answer wrong goes up as well. Once people pick an answer, they fight for it. You'll see people argue about settled mathematics all the time. How weird is that?
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  31276. I haven't read the case yet. Have you? Will you?
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  31277. Are you this easily duped?
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  31278.  Liz Skelton  Nothing she said can lead to prison for anyone. The substance of her testimony was not firsthand knowledge of what Trump did, but pointed to WHO actually was there and has firsthand knowledge of Trump's actions on 1/6, and needs to be subpoened to testify by Congress -- or a grand jury, if they are going to seriously consider indictments. I've never seen legal news reported worse than it is now. This entire video was nonsense. Pure grift. As a Canadian, this guy doesn't even take the time to get the most basic facts about the US legal system straight.
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  31279. ​ @ryleighloughty3307 They can buy laws. Literally, they can. When Russian oligarchs do it, you see it.
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  31280. ​ @ryleighloughty3307 Are you trying to bait people with the names of notorious DNC donors? I have only voted in a handful of primaries for candidates from that party in my life. They don't dupe me.
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  31281. @ryleighloughty3307  I'd actually give the money away. I fantasize about winning a Mega Ball and being a secret donor to people I know, making them millionaires. I'm non-Western. Really. I am. 😊
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  31282. @ryleighloughty3307  What do I really think? None of the oligarchs ever had a good love life or artistic talent, and now they've made sure that far fewer of the rest of us will, either.
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  31283. @ryleighloughty3307  You do realize that they take out massive, massive loans using assets as collateral, and raise cash equivalents without triggering a taxable event? Or how did you think they bought castles, yachts, and islands?
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  31284.  @ryleighloughty3307  You do realize 1. I know exactly how they finance their lives, and 2. I am being scents erred when I explain it. Right?
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  31285.  @ryleighloughty3307  You do realize that when I answer, it doesn't appear. Right? 😂
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  31286.  @ryleighloughty3307  You know people take loans against assets . . . Right?
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  31287.  @ryleighloughty3307  And that is not a taxable transaction. You know that . . . Right? 😂😂😂
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  31288.  @angieabadie4579  Maybe we should have a petition to abolish the Eighth Amendment. We could also have a petition to abolish constitutional rights without having to go through the muss and fuss of amending the "constitution," so called. We could put it online.
    1
  31289. Have you listened to him, or only to other sources about what his position is?
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  31290. ​ @MFK1967 I don't think so. He would never signal to Russia what he would do if elected. That was obvious.
    1
  31291. I like how he gives his opinion and repeats the segment, sometimes several times.
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  31292. I don't like either one, frankly.
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  31293. This is harassment. Is there a report on record?
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  31294.  @nedrane297  That can be testified to. "I cannot say more about an ongoing investigation on advice of my attorney." Or, "I made a report (submit it redacted) but it was ignored by the administration." Don't sweep any of this under the rug. Robby was right, they are all wrong.
    1
  31295. Wait. NO. really?
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  31296. We should not imagine. We should know, or we should admit we do not know and be diligently analyzing the data to find out.
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  31297.  @Jayjayuk12345  It's not at all impossible. Multivariate analysis and other statistical techniques are what led to the conclusion that mRNA vaccines present a risk of myocarditis and pericarditis, especially in young men and adolescent boys, and that AZ had an unacceptable risk of TTS. It's also why in 1976 the flu vaccine was withdrawn due to increased GBS risk. It's not easy, but certainly possible -- and necessary.
    1
  31298.  @Jayjayuk12345  Okay, buddy. A second ago you said it was impossible to know. Blocked. Time waster.
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  31299. Depends on which one. Some are very good for you, lower all-cause mortality.
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  31300. I supported Richard Jewell. Defamation per se is not constitutionally protected. Malicious or reckless disregard for the truth when defaming well-known or newsworthy people is not protected. It's a high standard, and should be. Not evident that Rittenhouse can meet it. He has a right to try. He has a right to access to the courts just like anyone else.
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  31301. ​ @17Clovers I don't see how the variables he considered are relevant. Willingness to seek help, or to self-diagnose, or to be more self-involved and intolerant of ordinary anxiety or low mood could all be correlated with being a liberal. Some of these can produce actual mental health issues, but some probably don't. They show a propensity to self-identify as troubled, which isn't necessarily bad nor good. If your social group thinks talking about being depressed Makes You Special, well . . . You will talk about it.
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  31302.  @ElGeetaro8929  Read the statute and read the indictment, and the briefs concerning the motion to dismiss. The entire court record has been converted to pdf and made available online, Minnesota Courts.
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  31303.  @ElGeetaro8929  I see you didn't find the indictment. Enough is enough. So long.
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  31304. Greatest respect, deepest sympathy to her dear sister.
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  31305. ​@mopmedia33 Then why did MTG seize upon it? The real question is what drugs (legal, illegal, etc.) these shooters are on. That's what I want to know at this point.
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  31306. ​ @LPAFilm Exactly
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  31307. Not at all. Have the FTC prosecute false advertising. It's called a court of law.
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  31308. How does a man who is involved in a heavy adulterous affair and wishes more than anything that he could get out from under his wife and soon-to-be-born son, and his wife in fact disappears, act?
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  31309. Thank you for this information. This was what the Internet was supposed to be for.
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  31310. Yes. Or at least I hope so.
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  31311.  @brandonmiodowski5949  But your example is inapposite. You clearly had two parents who both loved you, and did not chastise you when you made your feelings known, and wisely advised you to wait two years, and then respected your choice. (BTW, your parents are saints. But you knew that.) There is no way in the world to make this into a law imposed on families, none. Your experience tells us nothing about what should happen in court. Court orders have to be obeyed. Disobedience usually means jail.
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  31312.  @brandonmiodowski5949  P. S. Congratulations on the best parents I have ever heard of. And I've been around. I adored my parents, but wow. I think you win.
    1
  31313. False flag false flag, who is waving the false flag?
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  31314. And your comments, above all.
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  31315. Mm hmm . . . Except that in a number of other interviews Matt gave after this dust up, he came across worse and worse concerning Gaza, even refusing to regret the death of children. A person could mourn all the children who were killed, starting on October 7 to the present. Matt couldn't.
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  31316. Unicorn poster . . . No sparklies? ;(
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  31317. Why be punished for their opinions?
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  31318. He's not in Epstein's black book, and he makes something, rather than, say, Facebook kinds of stuff. That's pretty good. I mean, look at this presidents and the last one. Seriously, though, this neural link stuff should not be endorsed.
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  31319. ​@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Some hippies were criminals. There were so many hippies, it would be odd if they didn't include sinners and saints.
    1
  31320. No one ever went broke lying to Americans.
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  31321. The Harvard study may have turned out as it did because vaccine protection wanes. To achieve a high rate of immunity with two-dose vaccines like these takes a long time. So the first to get it are already not as immune. Recency of vaccination may be the more important variable.
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  31322.  @BigislandEJ  We were talking about government mandated closures, which have affected people not just in the US, but globally. I think it was completely unethical to FORCE shutdowns, and FAIL to make all of those harmed by the shutdowns whole. I know full well that the pandemic has made some people richer. If you are doing so well, why are you so angry? The conversation is not about what you've brought up. It is about those deprived of their livelihoods now, through absolutely no action or inaction on their part. If you are doing so well, where does the anger and resentment come from? Who do you think is getting off better? The restaurants on the verge of bankruptcy?
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  31323. Let's see if I understand. The teachers are all about critical race theory and LGBTQ+pronouns, while the kids are staring at their godphone. Okay, sure.
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  31324. Stop it, Jimmy. Reading is for rich people.
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  31325. Biden the candidate in 2024?! What is the secret sauce that people like Biden are using to stay alive?
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  31326. The only difference is that in some communities, she would need to have better rhetoric. That's it. She'd work for exactly the same outcomes more deftly.
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  31327.  @iamdanyboy1  Hm. Except, this was Texas. She probably voted Trump. People in Illinois, for example, are more effective at opposing Section 8 without being so obvious.
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  31328. In the US, everyone has the right to remain silent. The detective noticed this kid was less mature than the others, so he pressed him and threatened him with nonsense. The other three kids didn't realize that police had no reason to hold them at all. They were all free to go, and Nick had to be charged or released in 72 hours. In the US, police investigating a crime are allowed to lie. Anyone is allowed to refuse to talk to them. But now, three young juveniles have a video of them out there, showing the world what they said and did.
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  31329. Read Nadine Strossen on hate speech.
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  31330. Yeah. No wonder he's the next President.
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  31331. She said she was targeted for suspension, and deprived of housing she paid for without due process. Is listening too hard? Complexions distract you?
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  31332. ​ @Markus-s2v Not what she said.
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  31333. ​ @garenthal9638 Poor Trump, followed around by women his whole life.
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  31334. ​ @Markus-s2v Every private university maintains a First Amendment forum. They are already in court over denying student organization status to Jewish Voice for Peace.
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  31335. ​ @kkrolf2782 💯 ❤❤❤
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  31336. The opinion of someone who insists another inquiry would cause harm is not infallible either.
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  31337. Is the story true? Who cares "who said?" Is this sophomore year high school forever?
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  31338. I think he's only a little worse than typical. What do you imagine people are like?
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  31339.  @jenniferlane9000  If he's rich, they are proud. They got over it.
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  31340. Anyone victimized by smear campaigns shouldn't just take it lying down. They sued, and should sue. It is their right. Not create twitter mobs, not ask major corporations to censor free speech, not beg Congress for new laws that curtail all our freedoms. Go to court, prove your case. Boom. Funny that Jimmy Dore is crystal clear on this point.
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  31341. They sound like a cross between UFOs and the result of psychotic breakdowns at seeing them. EDIT: Oh good grief, I wrote that before he mentioned UFOs or hallucinogens.
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  31342. Don't count on taking the LSAT anytime soon. 8:27
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  31343. Again?? Whoa.
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  31344. He is a newscaster. He is not a journalist, much less an investigative journalist. So? So, don't expect investigation. Learn to check stuff. It's a needed skill? Maybe?
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  31345. Some of the language she used ("humanitarian") was drama queen, but the request itself was fine.
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  31346. Everyone is more astute than the West now. That's what happens when your money is fake.
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  31347. There will be no stimulus payment only because Pelosi and Schumer fear it might help Trump. Not only that, but the market is up, and DNC believes in trickle down.
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  31348. ​ @deanadutcher5877  So you're really lost. Okay. Lost is the usual for 2025.
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  31349.  @rjb7569  Jean Moulin saved lives by refusing to speak -- he maintained silence while being tortured by the Nazi occupiers.
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  31350. It's not the left. Show me a trans Black Panther.
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  31351.  @deliamcmahon4603  I mean it sarcastically in the first post, approvingly in the second.
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  31352. I can never, ever accept this. Such a beautiful little boy . . . Impossible.
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  31353.  @kreativeforce532  What do you THINK I'm saying? I agree wholeheartedly that you should not have to pay back your loan. In fact, a full refund is in order.
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  31354.  @JohnDoeX1966  Yes, nicely said. 100% agreement.
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  31355. This mooing and braying is easy. Latin and calculus is hard.
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  31356. It's almost as bad as calling Bill Gates a hypocrite.
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  31357. There is a problem, and it is not widespread but it is serious when it happens: some police departments have been infiltrated by right-wing extremists. We are not unfamiliar with this. Organized crime has done this in the past, and drug cartels have done this as well, and worse. We don't need more laws to fix it.
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  31358. How much total revenue did he generate throughout all these schemes?
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  31359. Well, that's entirely up to him. /s
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  31360. They sound idiotic to me. Instead of hiring a real lawyer, they take this to FACEBOOK??
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  31361. ​@mkand2084 Everyone accepted these rules? No wonder the reception Novak Djokovic got. My uncle was a WWII British Army veteran, and spent a total of five years in northern Africa and then Palestine. He opted to live in Australia after that. He was a different breed. I can't picture any of the men in my family putting up with it. Why fight only to have your own people deprive you of your freedom?
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  31362. ​ @lumailisa Tell yourself that, sure.
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  31363.  @AprilShowers560  No Novak wasn't "disrespectful." He had a waiver, and was arrested and held. Shame on you for defending such state tactics. He could have been immediately deported -- which might or might not be fair, but we can differ on that, whereas incarceration made no sense from any point of view. If he presented a danger to public health, why make the staff hold him? It defeats the purpose of the rule, doesn't it? It is purely retaliatory. Shame!!
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  31364. @mkand2084  So instead of deporting the danger to public health, you make law enforcement interact with him in close quarters and risk their own well being?
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  31365. @mkand2084  But you support them even when they are the opposite of sensible and deprive a person of their liberty to no good purpose. Now I'm glad America is full of wacky rebels. It could be worse, I guess.
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  31366. ​@GraceHarwood88 What is "behaving normally?" We've had women astronauts, men in nursing, girls whose best subject was math, boys whose favorite subject was French, . . . And???
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  31367. ​@travistaylor8532 Simply remain silent.
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  31368. ​ @StacyBates-u6w  No one can punish you for invoking your Fifth Amendment rights. Remaining silent is most important.
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  31369. This CLIP of Tucker Carlson is completely inadequate to judge the interview. We don't know why Tucker is being asked what he is being asked. We don't know what they are both commenting on. IRONIC.
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  31370. SAME
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  31371. I have only one question: is this insanity going to continue? Or has the war in Ukraine broken the spell?
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  31372. @dobsr1184  Try again. Think "irony" this time. As in, The View would say anything to defend that reprobate and his father, no matter how ridiculous or disgusting.
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  31373. @keithn4304  Probably not "what was she wearing?" ;) OTOH, just think how much they could get paid to say bad stuff about her and make excuses for him in that event.
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  31374.  @jared_r  Whatever myth you may be invested in at this point is no problem, . . . for me.
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  31375.  @jared_r  You must not know who this is. Abby Martin's husband, an anti-war veteran who supported LaRiva Peltier last time. So much for your perspicuity. 😂😂😂
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  31376.  @jared_r  You claimed he was a DNC operative. (What, covert?) Check in with your handler. Bad talking points. Blocked
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  31377.  @jared_r  I don't follow him. I don't care. I don't plan to live in the US much longer. Nothing would surprise me . . . except good news.
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  31378. Price freezes and rationing are ordinary measures taken during a war. Oh wait! We were not supposed to be at war, were we? /s
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  31379.  @Evan_Infinite  You are a cool guy.
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  31380. Then there was no need to freeze the bank accounts of grandmas who sent 50 Canadian dollars.
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  31381. We will need to learn always to ask whether a video is authentic, or a spoof, or a false flag. Part of the problem is that today, nothing is impossible.
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  31382. @LifewithAshleyJ  Are you sure the statement is authentic? I'm not trying to be contrary. I don't know whether it is or not. I'm saying this is already happening, well in advance of the AI deluge. You have to ask every time. And you can't trust common sense to be your guide. I agree these people have none. They go the opposite way from common sense.
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  31383. Remember when Wall Street said that if the Democrats run Bernie, they will line up behind TRUMP? I do. And they will do Bobby Kennedy Jr. exactly the same way.
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  31384. During the campaign Biden claimed he was against mandates. (Care to comment, Grim?)
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  31385. Yes. To hear innocent people feeling responsible is terrible. Probation and a fine is for shoplifting.
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  31386.  @DeanChavayez  And they all contend that Bri is "Doing Something." I have to wonder what social media is doing to people's brains, especially if they don't remember a time when they were free of it.
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  31387.  @helenahanley  I hope you're right.
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  31388. He's not on trial. He's pursuing his second defamation case after losing a stronger one.
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  31389. Is there a GPS for that? 🤣🤣🤣
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  31390.  @dianavaldez3371  He said his levels are followed by his doctor. Nothing works 100% for absolutely everyone, vaccines included. This intake is not DYI. Also, people with poor diets may be vitamin K deficient, and very high D with low K is not advisable. Dr. Campbell has discussed this, and he did get vaccinated, because of his age and other factors. These are not irresponsible people. Fauci is irresponsible.
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  31391.  @Dez083  The fact is that polio vaccines BMGF promoted throughout Africa and India -- oral live attenuated vaccines to be precise, which are no longer used in any developed country and haven't been for years -- carry the risk of seeding vaccine-derived polio outbreaks, because they can and do replicate and mutate. This is amply documented and has been known for years. (If you're not much of a reader, that's not our problem.) And Gates' claim that safe, modern polio vaccines are logistically harder to deliver to the global south is a LAUGH. He can't afford it? Oh, that's right. Jeff Epstein promised him money, at those dinners. But he failed to deliver. Notice I haven't even touched on the shambles he has made of education in many communities with his experiments, or his dubious promotion of GMOs in food, or the self-dealing characteristic of his foundation that has been described at length. But more to the point is his quite obvious inability to connect with other people in any normal manner. Compassion is missing. It's evident that it is, and it does matter. No one is required to trust someone like that. Get him off the world stage. If he wants to direct how global health is handled, when he has zero qualifications, then that is not generosity. That is buying power over others' lives. That is all he's been good at doing.
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  31392. Kosovo was justified, whew! Then so is Donbass.
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  31393.  @johnmcdonagh374  I wonder how many people know that after the destruction the US wreaked on Vietnam, all the destroyed rice paddies, all the Agent Orange, today Vietnam has 10 million more people than Germany. Remarkable recovery.
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  31394. ​@ConstantChaos1 Oh stop it. I'll see your "trespass" and raise you a "defamation!" 😅
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  31395. This business about "victim" thinking is so odd. It sounds like one of those "think positive" mantras that are the staple of training in sales techniques. The actual classics of the West, like Plato or the Bible, always hold the victim of injustice as the moral superior of the perpetrator of injustice. In Gorgias, Socrates says being the perpetrator is far worse than being the victim, even though the victim suffers more pain -- because the perpetrator exceeds everyone in evil. The Book of Job agrees. Toni Morrison always said she was taught at an early age that she was the moral superior of anyone who discriminated against her. She never flinched. Her father taught her that. If you worry about not being a "victim," you're still thinking about it.
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  31396.  @entium1  Okay, okay your essay was just as good and it shouldn't count anyway, . . .
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  31397. Keep blaming the voters. Pretty soon some will suspect that it could be a false flag.
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  31398. So I guess the Democrats have made huge strides in improving public education. 😂😂😂
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  31399.  @Dead_Guy_Bob  No, I think what we mean is that medical intervention in a minor child to create irreversible transitioning should be extremely rare if not prohibited, that only age-appropriate sex education should take place in school (so that before about age 12, you make sure that every child feels welcome, no one is bullied, and you say that every family is a nice family, whether it has one mom and one dad, just one mom, just one dad, two moms, two dads, a mom and a trans dad, etc., but you do not go beyond that before, say, the 6th grade, and you save some stuff for senior high school), and that pronoun changes should be shared with parents whenever a child's actual safety is not at risk. You know. That sort of thing. Get it? (No? Yes?)
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  31400. Katie, yes -- do invite your parents. They are GREAT.
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  31401. This inventory of cliches was great.
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  31402.  @syourke3  Clinton doesn't come close. His slimy character leeched through all the time.
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  31403.  @Nostaljikone  I was suspicious when he picked Biden as his running mate, but with Clinton as Secretary of State, no less, then I thought so. You were ahead of most people.
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  31404. No they haven't. Someone who gets it: https://youtu.be/64A7A8QWDNc
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  31405. ABSOLUTELY 💯
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  31406. Glad to know I made the 1% again.
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  31407.  @Beavereaver  Actually, only the standard deduction. Since you ask. Nor do I lobby Congress on matters of tax law.
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  31408.  @Beavereaver  Don't be ridiculous. I pay precisely what I owe. That's not "finding some way to pay less," but precisely what the IRS tells me to.
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  31409.  @zoomzoom3950  It is neither. The "res" is not "publica." The body politic is now in a few greedy hands.
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  31410.  @zoomzoom3950  Name calling is a sign of cerebral abdication. (Your brain is on holiday.)
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  31411.  @zoomzoom3950  OK, you're right. No one wants to upset you.
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  31412. Defamation suits are disfavored because they carve out an exception to First Amendment-protected speech. Most courts will find a way to find no defamation in any case against the press, if there is any way to do it. "Pure opinion" that every reasonable person would see as opinion is never defamation.
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  31413. P. S. Not saying I always agree.
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  31414.  @brucemarmy8500  I recommend Baldwin's essays, Library of America. They are life changing for a lot of people.
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  31415. America has done the same all around the world, over and over and over. That's what everyone wants to sweep under the rug. This is what bombing is. Of COURSE there should be a cease fire.
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  31416. What's the subtext? These people can't afford their mortgages, either?
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  31417. Meloni's pro-war stance shows she's a globalist, too.
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  31418. We must work hard to smear anyone who sees through this.
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  31419. Now you know why I don't do LinkedIn.
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  31420. Harvard isn't the government or an agent of the government. This case is based on the fact that it accepts federal funds. Up until now, its admissions were legal based on Supreme Court precedent. The other side wants that precedent overturned. Interesting case, and harder than it sounds.
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  31421.  @samuraimath1864  Let's just cut to the chase: read the briefs. It's actually faster. Also, no court exists to enforce morals. It must rule based on law.
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  31422.  @samuraimath1864  Also, no American university is open to the public, which makes it qualitatively different from a restaurant. In Europe, universities are open to everyone, actually, and anyone can simply audit a course. Or at least they used to be. I was there during two waves of terrorist bombings in the 1980s, and it did not occur to anyone to stop the practice of opening all lectures by the department chairs to the public. Now we just had a shutdown over a severe flu-like illness. God help us.
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  31423.  @WhyNotTruth  And now it's vastly worse.
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  31424. I could be in the last decade of my life and I never think about it. That would be a waste of my time. I do take the precautions because I want to live WELL. Once I know I did what I can, I turn the page.
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  31425.  @vincentschicchi4647  You know what? It's just another push toward private schools, as if we needed one more. Public school kids need to be sure that the AP classes they take, and the AP exams they pass, really do lead to college credits. If it turns out that almost no college will accept this AP exam for credit, then it should be scraped, because it is misleading. If colleges do give credit for it, as promised to the kids who take the class, then leave them alone. Politicians are not experts on curriculum, but they can enforce basic "truth in advertising." They should not be censoring, and they should care whether public school kids get the same opportunities as private school kids, as much as possible. That is their real job. I would bet anything DeSantis never read those authors. Nor did he look into the objective value of the curriculum for obtaining college credit -- and warning people if there is an objective problem. (That serves all "sides.") Then Whoopie Goldberg is even more ignorant. She sounds like she has no notion of what the issue is, and just wants to push something that sounds like it agrees with her biases. We already know what an expert on history she is. /s Everyone in this picture is making bank. Do you see them, er, working? Pandering, more like, for their own advantage.
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  31426. Exactly. It is a US GOVERNMENT agency.
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  31427. In fact, Samantha Power runs it.
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  31428.  @MrRhetorikill  K ur rite
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  31429.  @khernandez46  That I don't doubt. There were many anaphylactic reactions in the first official trial used as the basis for EUA, and millions upon millions of doses have been administered since then. This side effect appears to affect women more than men, while COVID is more dangerous, in general, to men. Suddenly we can't be feminists. :/
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  31430.  @khernandez46  Also affecting menstral cycles and mammograms. What a PRETTY picture! :/ I wonder how many premenopausal women actually need this?
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  31431. I'm strapped. $250k would do it for me. I know, I know . . . 😢
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  31432.  @ikramrasid3257  Just the opposite is true. She is a national leader in the field of trauma, teaches at an Ivy, works pro bono (for free), treated veterans and abused children, and is board certified in both specialties. Curry had smug, duping delight written all over her, and is impressed by Hollywood.
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  31433.  @ikramrasid3257  Her name is not Karen. Blocked for Orwellian sloganeering.
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  31434.  @vickiebrown9625  Is that a threat?
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  31435.  @loristoneking4536  That's what they said about Charlie. Manson, I mean.
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  31436.  @vickihazelwood4003  So you didn't watch the direct examination, only the cross? You would be perfect as a judge, or FBI agent, missed your calling.
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  31437.  @kellybeveridge8916  Have you always hated pretty women, or is this new? EDIT: No, wait. Amber is thin. Now I get it.
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  31438.  @irene9263  She's been practicing since the 70s. She treated veterans at the VA. She treated people who were abused as children, for free. You should be ashamed for joining a mob so easily.
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  31439.  @toddcorley464  I believe in the First Amendment. Every defamation case chips away at free speech. No one should get away with defamation, and no one should bring a case lightly. (If they already lost on the same core facts, that's a clue to consider other remedies. An autobiography, for example, tell your own story. Best seller. )
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  31440.  @h.dungore839  The issue in the Arias case was not guilt, it was the death penalty. Arias did not deserve death.
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  31441.  @marycarman8579  Her parents are dead. Is that okay with you? Do they get a pass, then?
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  31442.  @KJ-xc6qs  That's nothing. CEOs of defense contractors make $50,000 a day, 365 days a year. For example.
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  31443.  @luneuforever8790  That's why she works for free regularly.
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  31444. Say no to drugs.
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  31445.  @karenanthony4684  Say no to drugs.
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  31446.  @marlak4203  He already lost a defamation lawsuit in UK on the same basic facts, but over there he had a stronger case. He's repeating the performance here out of sheer vindictiveness.
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  31447.  @hania5928  In real cases of various forms of abuse, PTSD, and so forth, when there is a legitimate perpetrator, usually they cannot be located or they refuse to come in, and (absent court order) it is always their right to refuse. So these therapists have to develop ways to determine whether the patient is being truthful, evasive, etc. She explained all that under direct examination. This is COMMON. It never occurred to you?
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  31448.  @hania5928  I don't know what his team suggested to him, obviously. If he chose not to, or if they advised him not to and he agreed with them, that's his right. I don't see an issue, actually. I don't know why you're speculating about what she would have had to write down. Her notes aren't magic. He is pursuing this case, so she knows his sworn testimony.
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  31449.  @hania5928  Are you suggesting that was the judge's sole basis for his ruling? Are you a lawyer?
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  31450.  @hania5928  Not at all. My POINT is that in this FIELD, therapists must assess relationships on the basis of one person's reports of it, together with any other evidence they can obtain about the other person, ALL the time, and they have developed methods to help them to do that. It's not illegitimate. It's not remarkable. It's also not ideal.
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  31451.  @hania5928  She got his side of the story, just not from examining him.
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  31452.  @hania5928  Well, I started a reply and the tablet crashed, so I won't bother continuing at length. Dr. Hughes is a perfectly normal expert witness, with much better experience and credentials than you usually see, and I can tell you as an attorney, these complaints about her are trivial. It is the jury's job to be fair, and they are entitled to discount all of her testimony if they consider that fair. Consulting notes for correct dates is normal, not noting every impression is normal, and introducing the data upon which you based your assessment is normal. Hearsay is actually a difficult subject, even many lawyers misunderstand it, and Depp's lawyers are right to object whenever they suspect the line has been crossed. It's not a big gotcha, it's what they do, and should. They were usually overruled, but were right to object anyway. I'll tell you what concerns me. I've lost count of the number of mass hysterias that have been unleashed on the public since Russiagate, and they've only been succeeding one another at shorter and shorter intervals since March 2020. I fail to see why so many people are this invested in the sordid private lives of two very rich people who engage in serious drug abuse and for whom $10 million is spare change. I don't identify emotionally with either one, much less see my life reflected in theirs -- and yes I've been lied about, and left a job because of it. Who hasn't? Every defamation case chips away at First Amendment freedom of speech. We already have a problem in that area. You might not remember, but when Gabby Petito went missing, a mob formed in front of her ex-boyfriend's parents' home, and demanded that police violate their Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights. This was insane. Even immoral people have First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment rights, even very immoral people. Even murderers do. Among other things, the pandemic invocation of "emergency powers" degraded these rights. This is what worries me. This, and the way people seem to lose their minds, not seeing that this time, the hysteria is just like the last time, and the time before that. Any mob can go after anyone. It does not care about truth. It's funny. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn describes exactly such an incident. Pure genius. How did Twain know?
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  31453.  @Gabriel_F4924  Once a person starts to recover, they usually know what they need better than any therapist. That's usually a great sign. :)
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  31454.  @hania5928  The very same people so outraged over Heard's alleged lies are trying to defame Dr. Hughes and destroy her reputation. I guess they must have lofty principles. They must really be against defamation and realize how bad it is. Mobs do not care about truth. America is mob-prone now.
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  31455.  @cryptoking7093  🤣🤣🤣 No, sweetie kins, I'm a writer suffering from writer's block and using this as an on ramp. Get a clue. I believe everything I wrote, but I don't care about either of them. "Sans intérêt."
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  31456.  @hania5928  Who brings a defamation case after losing a stronger defamation case on the same material facts concerning their conduct in a relationship? I support real victims of defamation. Of course defamation should exist as a tort. That's not my point. (Ask yourself why you assumed so.) Defamation law: he cannot win if he abused her, even if she was horrid. He cannot win meaningful damages if his reputation was already toast, his drug use made him an insurance risk, and he was fired after losing the first case. (So, why is he doing this? Hm?) The tendency toward mob justice is something you see growing in the US, a country with a Second Amendment, too. It is a dangerous phenomenon here, more than in most places. We have more guns than people. Death threats toward people in the news are common.
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  31457.  @hania5928  She never called him a "wife beater." The Sun did, a real rag. It won anyway.
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  31458.  @cryptoking7093  You must be. Everyone can tell. Creative screen name you've go there, "overflowing with creativity and creation . . . " Jealous much? 🤣
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  31459.  @cryptoking7093  "Nobody know what Johnny been through . . . " Another representative sample? There, there, dear. You're a REAL writer. Not only that, but you're "built Ford tough."
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  31460.  @cryptoking7093  Have you talked to someone about this?
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  31461.  @h.dungore839  That means any litigant can win a case like this by refusing to talk to the other side's psychologist.
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  31462.  @h.dungore839  In chaotic couples, it's common for one party to refuse therapy, and it's their right to refuse. In that field, they had to develop methods for having some idea of whether the person who was coming in was mostly being truthful or fabricating. Of course they can't know for sure, but this has been something they have been working on for a long time. No professional can substitute their opinion of anyone's veracity for that of the jury. The jury can decide to discount both experts.
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  31463.  @cryptoking7093 oops, forgot to block
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  31464.  @h.dungore839  You didn't wonder why Heard agreed to speak with Depp's expert, but Depp never saw Heard's? Hint: analogous to the Fifth Amendment.
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  31465.  @h.dungore839  You really don't get it? Sure you do. JD's team was counting on producing exactly this outrage, because the other side cannot mention that Heard agreed to be evaluated as counting in her favor. Like the right to remain silent, there is a right to refuse to talk to your opponent's expert, and no one has the right to judge you for it. No one is allowed to call attention to it. I support that right with no reservations. Of course Depp was asked to see Hughes. Of course he said no. It was his right to say no. And he was right to say no. 💯 I don't hold it against him. On the contrary, it was wise. Good for him and his lawyers.
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  31466.  @h.dungore839  The only issue in Arias was the death penalty or life in prison. No one who murders a person who just slept with them, and humuliated them, and tried to put them out should receive a death sentence. That case has zero relevance to a defamation case.
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  31467.  @h.dungore839  Hard for me to believe people are as naive as they are, and convoluted. This is simple.
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  31468.  @hania5928  I did not use that "logic" -- not that it would matter, if it were sound. But it does not prove what you wrongly say I said it did. Prezel logic, guilt by association, and the association doesn't exist. The loss of the prior case limits or eliminates damages that can be obtained in a subsequent case, rightly or wrongly. It breaks the causal chain (the article I'm suing on is the one that cost me $50 million, which but for that false and defamatory article I would have earned). I know all this law, and from how you write, I know you don't -- you're parroting someone else.
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  31469.  @hania5928  Here is the actual First Amendment issue: Let's put this case aside. Let's try a pure hypothetical. A man abused his former wife. She, however, abused him as well, and engaged in truly odd psychological behavior intended to goad him, rather than making honest attempts to get his abuse to end. Does he have a right to tell his story? Can he publish it? Suppose he tells the truth about her abuse of him, but fails to acknowledge his abuse of her? That may be a pretty seedy discourse, even an infuriating one, and partial, and misleading -- but it is First Amendment-protected. Or at least it used to be. "Be careful what you wish for." This is tedious. Don't waste your time.
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  31470.  @hania5928  Don't waste my time, either. The tone and style you adopted is awful, by the way. If you thought you were imitating how lawyers sound, well, you were imitating how imitation lawyers think real lawyers sound.
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  31471. @MastersMasterson Think this through. 😉
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  31472. @MastersMasterson What "appeal to authority?" When people say this woman is objectively unqualified, they are stating a falsehood. In this field, anyone can be very wrong. Horribly wrong. The therapists Heard saw, or Depp and Heard saw together, either agreed that he was abusive when intoxicated, or that it was mutual and that she played games to goad him. I find it plausible that he was abusive when intoxicated AND that she played games to goad him, and often gave as good as she got. The real moral of this story: tell youth never to play choking games. Leave anyone who touches your neck.
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  31473. @MastersMasterson I know precisely what I'm talking about, and you sound very angry that I do.
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  31474. WAIT A SECOND, Jimmy. No hardship?? Did she emigrate through Detroit? /s
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  31475. The locusts are swarming.
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  31476. Posts discussing the latest angle (r word) are being censored here.
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  31477.  @jessepitt  Is a Volvo okay?
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  31478.  poofendorf  You have absolutely no idea. FIRST, not all the charges admit of self-defense; it is not a defense to all of the charges pending against Rittenhouse. SECOND, a person cannot cause a dangerous situation and then claim he acted in self-defense. This is why a thorough investigation will be necessary, to see who did what, when, why, and with what mens rea.
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  31479.  @-Thunder  It wasn't his business to defend. He was not legally present in Wisconsin because he had no right to be armed or to cross state lines to engage in any endeavor while armed. You do know private security guards are licensed, insured, and bonded, and of AGE?
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  31480.  poofendorf  Pfft.
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  31481. @astrobullivant5908  Is it "kind" and "lenient" to lose a kid? Maybe some people just bend, get all spiritual, start gratitude journaling, etc., but I assure you that no one living in France is like that, irrespective of ethnic origin.
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  31482.  @Dr.Frankensteen  If they were unaware of the case, they may have been unaware of the exception to the ban for her as well. Or the clinic where the procedure was scheduled may have had a temporary moratorium pending a legal opinion from their counsel. Say. How is it that so few people can THINK any more? Maybe stuff like literature and philosophy have a purpose after all? Just a stab in the dark, who knows.
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  31483.  @cabney7726  THANK YOU
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  31484. If the DNC was suggesting censorship during a presidential election, that's news.
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  31485. Correct. He's not qualified for this job.
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  31486.  @neuuser7071  Is that what he said?
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  31487. @davidbarnwell6180  Well, you do get it, right? Hamas isn't hungry. Kids, however . . . In war, it is ever thus.
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  31488.  @fretbuzz_  Great. Blocked.
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  31489. I haven't yet, but he's a zealous tort lawyer. In general, that means that if you check his footnotes, they are likely to be solid, the type of stuff you can use in court. His commentary is likely to be heavy advocacy (also called bias, also called spin). So it's probably a good book overall.
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  31490. Faith shouldn't matter. Privileging one set of beliefs over another in deciding who gets the ultimate punishment is worse than a violation of the First Amendment. It is essentially totalitarian.
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  31491.  @kevinsyd2012  Smallpox vaccines are NOT routine.
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  31492. @kevinsyd2012  I did read it. They were selected for no known risk factors. Are you suggesting they had some Mystery Source for preexisting myocarditis? This is in 3%+ of the population suddenly? Well then, they should not have received vaccination at all, absent extensive testing to rule it out. The preexisting risk to them was unknown. Indeed, one wonders why such a flawed study was published. Have you ever heard of the Precautionary Principle, not to mention the Hippocratic Oath? And speaking of studies, have you read the AAAS's Science Immunology lately? It is (again) treated as standard science that a leaky vaccine cannot prevent the rise of new variants. Tell me again why adolescents should routinely have this stuff? "FFS"
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  31493.  @notsurewhattobelieve2990  The people pushing this are nuts. I don't understand how it could be this easy to dupe so many.
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  31494. @kevinsyd2012  Oh, and did you miss WHY the researchers said no blood was drawn prior to the Moderna dose? Because it was believed that a blood test could interfere with the motivation to get innoculationed. Researchers did not want to influence the study participants in either direction. (The mild myocarditis appeared in nearly 4% of women and fewer men.)
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  31495. When America has so many wonderful billionaire philanthropists and generally stable geniuses, I wonder why we have the most COVID deaths?
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  31496. "Said person" 🤣🤣🤣 Thanks for letting us know your level of general culture.
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  31497. The watchword is, stamp out all populism. Because as we "know," populism is always Nazi. Let Hillary tell you.
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  31498. ​ @117Ender Because Trump participated in the cover-up (see Bob Woodward's interview). Because Trump turned the country over to Fauci. Because Trump lifted the moratorium on gain of function research. Because Kennedy has expertise in the field and scares the DNC.
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  31499.  @AbdullahMikalRodriguez  Sure, because religious people believe you should SAY that you are happy, as a way to show gratitude to the Creator. Are all the ones caught up in abusing children happy? Get a grip, will you. This isn't reality, it's pop psychology nonsense. It sells. That's the sad part.
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  31500.  @shirmelduggins9984  What does "a good fit" mean?
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  31501.  @robertmadison1205  With respect to Harvard, the 14th Amendment has nothing to do with this case. Harvard is private, but accepts public funds. That's why it's in court.
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  31502.  @studyboy5829  Ha! If any university excludes any group disproportionately, based on race or ethnicity, we can presume it is discriminating unless proven otherwise. They can't cover it up with tokenism. If 7% of the applicant pool with those achievements is admitted, provided they are white, but only 0.2% with those achievements are admitted when they are South Asian, that needs explaining all right.
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  31503.  @Nordic_Sky  Do people really not know who the blacks are who get into Harvard, etc.? Many are Africans, or recent African immigrants. This has been true for a long time.
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  31504.  @ssuigeneris  Great posts. I can see you know what you're talking about. Have you read the briefs in this case? I assure you, they are worth your time. I'd love to know how many veterans over the age of 25 they admit to Harvard and other Ivies. How about the decorated ones? That is certainly a mark of merit, and would increase the diversity of the class in a substantial way.
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  31505.  @MrTodayistheday  The Harvard Law grads I've known are great. Were some difficult? Yeah, but these are lawyers we are talking about. I found most of them really fun to work with and obviously tremendous lawyers. I did not, however, work in shark settings, so my experience cannot be considered representative.
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  31506.  @studyboy5829  I'm not saying he was passed over for something he was entitled to. I was just making the point that the existence of people of his ethnic group at a school does not by itself prove anything. I wasn't endorsing the position, I was criticizing obviously poor arguments against it.
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  31507.  @robertmadison1205  Please read the briefs. There isn't a quicker way. The civil rights struggle, or most of it anyway, required the passage of new federal laws pursuant to the 14th Amendment "enabling clause." Before certain laws were passed, the 14th Amendment standing alone did not protect anyone from discrimination in the workplace, on common carriers, etc., and "separate but equal" was legal. We don't have a body of federal law governing private college admissions, but we do have federal funding that cannot be used in ways that are contrary to the Constitution or any federal statute. That would mean we are all forced to support what is not in line with our laws. Abortion is a perfect analogy: even during Roe v. Wade, there were federal laws prohibited use of federal funds to facilitate abortion except in certain very limited circumstances, such as saving the life of a woman with an ectopic pregnancy at a VA hospital.
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  31508.  @robertmadison1205  Yes and no, because under the Constitution, all federal statutes are the law of the land, but all federal statutes have to have some provision in the Constitution that gives Congress the power to legislate on behalf of everyone, and preempt laws to the contrary that might exist in the states. And then of course federal laws have to be consistent with the Bill of Rights, etc. The U of North Carolina part of the case does implicate the Constitution in a way that Harvard doesn't, because it's a state school. No state can discriminate against people in any way that the Court has held to be unconstitutional. Right now, Harvard can do pretty much what it wants in deciding which of its applicants to admit, but not on our dime. Congress could probably change that, too, by invoking the 14th Amendment, but don't hold your breath! :/
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  31509.  @robertmadison1205  Roe v. Wade was a direct constitutional challenge to all state laws banning all or most abortions, and that case struck them down. Now with Roe overturned, the states have a lot of freedom to pass whatever laws they want, up to the point where children under the age of consent are prohibited from having an abortion, and someone sues based on the 14th Amendment to ensure that they can. Same with serious threats to the pregnant woman's health or life. Etc.
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  31510.  @robertmadison1205  The thing about news reports on major cases, is that this isn't hard to explain. It really isn't. But they almost never do.
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  31511. Classic grifter.
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  31512. Average life expectancy was low in the 1940s because of infant and maternal mortality.
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  31513. Now please explain the rapid and equally extreme pivot to gender-affirming care.
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  31514. But he is mummified?
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  31515. Who'd a thunk it?
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  31516.  @colincharan-kumpula6424  Reinstated, for obvious reasons. Also, I did not find the Intro video for the two new cohosts if Rising. I searched for it and it was unavailable, at least where I am, when I looked, no matter how I tried to locate it. Haven't your posts ever disappeared only to reappear? Another favorite. /s
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  31517. I wonder whether the "cool leather jacket" photos were deliberately placed as campaign material. They seem to have had a positive reaction.
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  31518. No it isn't. It's saying what was once a right us now subject to vacillating majorities in state legislatures. Whatever is codified can be repealed just as easily.
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  31519.  @dqh6429  I don't believe you've read the case. It's 213 pages. I'm not even finished reading it.
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  31520. The First Amendment doesn't mention artistic expression. Should the several states have Art Codes, too? The Thirteen and Fourteenth Amendments don't mention interracial marriage. Should marriage licences for couples of different races be state-by-state? So Kim's parents could have been married in some states, but not others?
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  31521.  @dqh6429  The constitutional right to elective abortion prior to 12 weeks of pregnancy has just been withdrawn. It was a right I had my whole adult life. Now it's up to the state, not the individual. BTW, I knew vaccine mandates were softening up the public for this.
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  31522.  @dqh6429  You did not read the case. 🤣
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  31523.  @dqh6429  Exactly. Each state can do whatever it wants, based on who puts the most money into electing legislatures to enact their preferred policies. A rich enough lobby can pass laws to put people in prison for bringing the morning-after pill into the state.
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  31524.  @leonhart2178  There are no constitutional rights by that logic.
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  31525.  @leonhart2178  I'm a civil rights lawyer. I recommend you read a 2010 Yale Law Journal article entitled The One and Only Substantive Due Process Clause, which analyzes the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments from an originalist perspective. See what you think. By the way, I have a library. No television at the moment.
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  31526.  @leonhart2178  Roe didn't make any laws, actually. It preempted laws that curtailed a constitutional right. The very same thing happens when a law is struck down for curtailing First Amendment rights or Second Amendment rights, and so forth.
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  31527.  @leonhart2178  Anyway, I know I'm emigrating -- if not next year, then by 2025. COVID nonsense stopped me. But something always goes wrong here.
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  31528. There are no billionaires on the left. America has no left. It has two warring factions of oligarchs, and they take turns ousting each other from the top political spots pretty regularly. In the meantime, none of their stock portfolios suffer. They all got briefed on the pandemic in 2019, under Trump. And they will all get briefed on the next big thing again, whatever that turns out to be.
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  31529. There are no billionaires on the left. America has no left. It has two factions, and they take turns ousting each other from the top political spots pretty regularly. In the meantime, none of their stock portfolios suffer. They all got briefed on the pandemic in 2019, under Trump. And they will all get briefed on the next big thing again, whatever that turns out to be.
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  31530. Stand-up is very edgy. The problem was that he wasn't funny. See what Chris Rock can say. 😂
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  31531.  @iansanford6544  PERFECT
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  31532.  @Weiner-Worm  I know people who refuse flu shots to this day because of the one problem with the rapid rollout of the swine flu vaccine in the mid 70s. I don't get it, but at any rate, the flu vaccines are fully FDA approved, and people are allowed to decline them anyway. There has never been a required vaccine at the EUA stage. It is not a trivial matter. Dr. Eric Topol, a strong COVID vaccine advocate, has addressed this issue.
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  31533.  @iansanford6544  When I was a kid, advertising had only then become a billion dollar industry. Look where we are today.
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  31534. The CDC itself has succumbed to anti-mask rhetoric. Of course you're right about the need for universal compliance. So why has the CDC taken this tack? There are times I hate masks, but what a tiny price to pay!
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  31535. France takes off August, then goes on strike in October. Their quality of life is fine. Let's take off Christmas to January 31st.
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  31536.  @timsievers2067  Well, we can catch them and vaccinate them. Then we don't have to worry about masking them, which would be hard I think, no?
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  31537. If we don't, we'll die and go crazy, I mean go crazy first, then die.
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  31538. He didn't address that at all.
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  31539. 28:01 About 5 minutes
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  31540. THIS
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  31541. Susannah Cahalan is a journalist with the New York Post.
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  31542.  @charlesiragui2473  Azov controls Zelensky.
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  31543.  @ruledbysaturn  Okay. An ostensibly democratic country. "Democracy" is shorthand. The USSR wasn't a communist country, either.
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  31544. @DeusVult16832000 showed us that experiment is underway.
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  31545. There will be fraud to prevent that.
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  31546. I say that though I think Le Pen is wholly unqualified to be president, and has a handful of repulsive views. I still think it will take some measure of fraud to assure that Macron remains in office. He's a horror show.
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  31547. @MichaelWilliamsWMA  The US benefitted inordinately from the Nazis, who were given amnesty to serve in our weapons programs. The Soviet mathematics and sciences programs were essentially homegrown. There was no Soviet Operation Paperclip, etc. There couldn't be, after Barbarosa. Sputnik was, however, a surprise. It was not a tall order for Americans to match and exceed Soviet technology once they set their minds to it, though the Soviets were great, too. Just not in first place.
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  31548. Oh my. At this point, I sometimes envy those who died in 2019.
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  31549. @lumailisa  I remember losing my retirement savings. The lockdown was the "one more blow" in a long series of blows that I could not sustain. I remember thinking 2020 would be my year of freedom, and having every reason to look forward to the best time of my life. Instead, it is one I'll never recover from. I guess life is sometimes more complicated for those whose parents met in a refugee camp. But thanks for asking. /s Glad it was good for you. (no sarcasm)
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  31550. ​ @naomivought9317 💯
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  31551. Who was that?
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  31552. I thought Peter Maas (!!!) was the hatchet man. Anyway, the entire story, plus documentation, is free to read on Greenwald's substack.
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  31553. They are paid not to get it. Things are bad here. They need the money.
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  31554. ​@de6212 Get some news from a real source, with maps. Because the very opposite is unfortunately the case.
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  31555. Why? Oh, I don't know. Maybe there is a God.
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  31556. ​ @DannyBoy443 It's true of every market. By this logic, you are always at the mercy of forces you can't control. Think about how to escape the merry-go-round. I'm not saying it's easy.
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  31557. Kyle, what BOSS can be obligated to offer testing or accept testing, instead of requiring vaccination? How do you figure Biden can do that? It's called a contract.
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  31558. I think it means being able to confront or film an administrator in a public place, in broad daylight, in what appears to be a designated free speech forum on campus. If that Shai character (or someone else) were saying the same things but in opposition to genocide, or to the US funding this war, would you think it's "harassment?"
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  31559. The difference between a Hillary presidency and a Trump presidency? Um . . . Epstein isn't busted? Maxwell is still a socialite?
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  31560.  @Jason-rn3gw  You mean pseudo.
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  31561.  @Jason-rn3gw  Is pseudo-fake real?
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  31562. Oh come on, Jimmy. He is way too nonbinary to do time.
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  31563. Sounds good to me. :) (The proposal is more criminal laws . . . who would have thought?)
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  31564. No luxury condos.
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  31565. The 1980s sowed the seeds of EVERY disaster. Osama bin Laden, financial deregulation, full immunity from liability for vaccine injuries, soaring trade and budget deficits, a decline in union membership and industrial sector jobs, and Iran-Contra. That decade even gave Epstein his start. Oops, I forgot the end of affordable education. In 1980, no one needed to go to a private university, and people easily paid in-state tuition with minimum wage jobs. Today, we are in the age of private K - 12, with tuition the size of a professional income.
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  31566. Why don't we all admit that overall, this WAR has been a disaster, for all concerned? Putin was wrong not to try to avoid this, first by calling an emergency session of the UNSC, with proof -- which he had -- of Ukrainian troops planning another, more massive offensive against the people of the Donbass. That was the only ethical course, the only place to start. He DIDN'T start there. No free pass on that, sorry. Never. How can anyone excuse not doing everything possible to avoid this WAR (not "special intervention," my GOD). Every war that can be avoided, MUST be avoided, paraphrasing Chris Hedges and many others. The sane ones, the ones with hearts, minds. To fail to do everything to avoid a war during a pandemic, just when people were looking forward to a more normal spring, was unconscionable.
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  31567.  @pausereflect5911  So far, Putin's only clear success has been with the currency -- he proved, without any doubt, that Western financial interests cannot destroy the Russian economy using decrees and papers written in poisoned ink. Thank God for everyone on Earth that he did succeed in that, and of course India (and most of the planet) support Putin in succeeding there. Yet even that success was ultimately undermined by the criminal sabotage of the Nordstream pipeline (by Western interests, obviously), not to mention all the destruction on the Crimean peninsula, and its effect on the Russian economy. This is a disaster all the way around.
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  31568.  @pausereflect5911  P. S. Most of us who ever come here agree with your description of the bigger picture, more or less.
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  31569.  @pausereflect5911  For a country as impoverished and corrupt as Ukraine to have suffered such a loss of housing stock, never mind the human toll, just as the world was emerging from the (largely Western imposed) insanity of the pandemic IS a disaster. How will they rebuild to undo just the physical losses? The people are gone forever.
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  31570.  @pausereflect5911  Then do the United Nations Show. Great, I'll even accept that it is a show. You call an emergency session, you make the case, and you spell out the consequences. Who floated the story that the Russians were just doing military maneuvers and had no intention of crossing into Ukraine??
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  31571.  @pausereflect5911  I know what the West is doing: colonialism by another name.
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  31572.  @LVArturs  Who told you this? An anagram of ACI? Wow, I guess the vaccines stop the spread. And they are excellent for young men's hearts, I hear.
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  31573.  @LVArturs  On the contrary, the initial economic sanctions of the Russian Federation were swift (no pun intended) and literally unprecedented, and at least some people in the US/UK were sure they would cause the Russian economy to implode. When it looked like Ukraine and Russia might come to some cease-fire agreement, UK intervened directly to tell Zelensky to desist. As for "slow-walking support," first, what do you call these 12-figure appropriations? Second, what do you call the sabotage of the Nordstream pipeline? Third, suppose that what you call "slow-walking" is just a reflection of the struggle in the US between the hawks and the ultra-hawks, as well as the realization by both that the "best" they can do is bleed Russia; they cannot expect to beat the Russians. It would be materially impossible, absent changing the character of the war yet again and taking a bigger risk than they are prepared to do, not to mention that it could unravel the skein in a lot of other places, including Taiwan, the Korean peninsula, Iraq, other parts of the Middle East . . . What evidence do you have that the Ukrainian military as currently constituted -- meaning without American advisors and possibly even foreign troops -- could make use of that materiel? Do you consider any of the reports that weapons shipped to Ukraine are already being sold and turning up in places like Africa credible? I don't claim to know, I claim the reports are quite plausible. Sorry, what you've said makes no sense based on the information I believe to be accurate. I will admit that we are all steeped in propaganda. For both the war and the pandemic, I've looked to background information from well before each one materialized. Only there have I found anything that strikes me as honest and clear. And I see no good guys in this picture. This is quite apart from the issue of whether the Western military-financial powers should be meddling in Eastern Europe at all. You seem displeased that they are "slow-walking support," when there is no reason they should be offering that brand of "support" at all.
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  31574.  @LVArturs  The US has been fomenting discord in Ukraine for over a decade. They caught Victoria Nuland on TAPE. I mean, you sound like a nice guy. Give it up. Really. She's getting her way and getting paid, as are the other neo-cons -- are you?
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  31575.  @LVArturs  So, in other words, you're biased and everything you've said is special pleading. Okay. I should have known. I didn't. I thought you were an American, so I couldn't figure out what the h*** you had been listening to. Cheers.
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  31576.  @LVArturs  Except for two things: I don't deny facts, and I don't support Russia's escalation of the war. You support NATO, no questions asked, and you compose insipid rationalizations and apologetics for everything the US does. You may as well endorse THE RAT LINE. Pitiful.
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  31577.  @LVArturs  Russia didn't start the war. It escalated the war to the point of changing its character. Not the same thing.
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  31578.  @LVArturs  Sorry, we've already been through that. You are wasting my time. Your sedition scenario, after the US first supported a coup in Ukraine, is beyond laughable. So who, exactly, is the traitor? Maybe you live in an area that does not allow access to information. Anyway, I'm going to block you from my thread. If you were sincerely interested in the truth, you'd do what everyone who has that interest does: you would consult the preeminent sources of information on Russia from well BEFORE Russia invaded Ukraine. Stephen F. Cohen at the 92nd Street Y comes to mind, when everyone present said "you don't think Russia would actually invade Ukraine, do you?" and he answered, yes, I most certainly do think Putin might invade. Those are the types of sources I use. (He died before the recent escalation of the war began, of lung cancer. Huge loss to mankind.)
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  31579. LFI and the New Popular Front are against WEF.
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  31580.  @NewNormalWorldOrder  Except that there isn't evidence of deliberate release.
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  31581. @D34D 3D I think it is a legitimate question. We don't have evidence of deliberate release, and we do have LOTS of cases of accidental release.
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  31582.  @mikhailbakunin5000  I just read the article you referenced. It claims that origin in the wild has more evidence to support it than does a lab accident. That may be, but the question remains open. What I don't understand is how the story "mutated" from an accidental infection during the type of research that has been going on in Wuhan since the lab's inception, to a deliberate release of an experimental bioweapon? There is no evidence of any sort of intentional release. A lab accident does have circumstantial evidence, not the least of which is that accidents do happen, a lot. Bottom line: No reason to believe that article in full, either. We need more candor and more information. We need scientists to tell us the truth, including saying "I DON'T KNOW" when that is the truth.
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  31583.  @mikhailbakunin5000  Did you read the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists article, or just the one you agree with?
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  31584.  @drebk  Agree wholeheartedly. Great analysis.
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  31585. C'mon. Tell us precisely why. 😉
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  31586.  @chineseredneck1211  I've not only studied it, I've taught it.
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  31587. That used to be called "catastrophic" insurance, you had to have basic insurance to buy it, and premiums were a fraction of that. I.e., no one paid $100 a month. Some people paid $20.
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  31588.  @marcusmilling5296  What counts is life expectancy at retirement age, not life expectancy at birth.
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  31589.  @marcusmilling5296  First of all, higher infant and maternal mortality certainly DO have a very large effect on overall life expectancy; life expectancy does not fall on a normal curve, hence the mean life expectancy is, well, not very meaningful (the mean is informative only where you have a normal curve, so that both median and mode are close to the mean). Second, what matters is life expectancy at retirement age, not at birth. Consult an actuarial table for that, like the ones the life insurance companies use. Plato lived to 80, Sophocles to 90; the human lifespan has been what it is for millennia. In their cases, longevity could very well have been thanks to their diet and the mountains, seas, clean water and air around Attica, plus the custom of walking, and practicing gymnastics for life.
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  31590. Masks worn properly do play a role in slowing spread, and unlike vaccines, you can take them off as needed.
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  31591. @Tony X Except that my mask helps protect you, and your mask helps protect me. Most things don't work that way, so I understand the confusion.
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  31592. @Tony X Where did I push vaccines? Or fear mongering? I simply stated a fact.
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  31593. Let's see you read a couple of books before January 1st. 😂 what a joke Much less . . . 😒
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  31594. @Michael James Astounding. Then they are all worse. No argument from me.
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  31595.  @jeffreybarker3819  Well then, if someone like Johnson knew how to work the Senate and get his legislation passed, then it should be a cinch for Trump. Right?
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  31596. P. S. No wonder we have innocent people in jail.
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  31597. But but but money?
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  31598. You mean Olayemi?
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  31599. Great post! I don't understand how anyone over the age of 16 can be excited by a psychopath, or anyone over 21 or 22 can persist in pursuing "bad boys" and abusive males -- unless they themselves have some emotional problems that genuinely need to be worked through. The way you spotted the girl equivalent is brilliant. I love Kate Winslet, and didn't find her character in Eternal Sunshine attractive in the least. That sort of thing stopped being enticing to me by the time I got out of high school.
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  31600.  @JiveDadson  It wasn't about stable relationships, it was about seduction and obsession.
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  31601.  @JiveDadson  No one said that, concerning Shakespeare. Either.
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  31602. @UCH9QIK8Oql9PklUv3UBUJhw Your comments are inapposite to great points being made, especially in the first post. The original post never suggested the relationship was likely to be healthy. Why the "strong suggestion" to watch the film again, or even two more times, when no one you're responding to got it wrong the first time? Okay, done here. Most interactions in English are exactly this unsatisfying. Oh well, no biggie. No expectation = no disappointment.
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  31603. Wait a second. Did Feinstein get the shingles vaccine??
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  31604.  @NishanthRajiwtbawlb  None.
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  31605.  @13dove  We already knew how little Presidents matter. :/ The lawsuits against his companies that don't seem to get press include one of the worst workplace discrimination cases in this century, against Tesla, and numerous complaints about primate torture by Neuralink. The documents are all available online.
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  31606.  @13dove  Some bizarre stuff. The best that can be said is that he was not minding the store.
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  31607.  @bbchester6  I did, and you are right.
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  31608.  @maddog1011  Then don't criticize Bill Gates, either. "Literally the richest person in the world" -- anyone paying you for that rot? Bankman-Fried was a billionaire until a few days ago. I had thought Musk tried to get out of the deal, and that court documents exist that give an inkling as to why. Seems like you might be unfamiliar with Briahna's intellectual accomplishments, or with the concept of intellectual accomplishments in general.
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  31609. ​ @randygraham926 THIS
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  31610.  @timelord3420  Doesn't take much to amuse you, huh?
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  31611.  @danielasanchez4674  But his art is as well.
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  31612.  @danielasanchez4674  Everyone with a shred of sense (and artistic sensibility) agrees with that. Marguerite Duras and her Communist Party buddies agreed with that.
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  31613. @danielasanchez4674  I answered this. Too bad I was subjected to scents -- sheep.
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  31614. Well. Jimmy will be suspended soon, so watch this while you can . . . 😂
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  31615. Just the opposite: legacy admissions, and non-academic accomplishments matter for undergrads. Grad school is highly merit based.
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  31616.  @skontheroad  So, then what do you know about grad school at Brown?
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  31617. Didn't come up.
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  31618. P. S. The laptop is fake.
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  31619. Release the affidavit(s).
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  31620. They are no saints, either, but why the West persists in using force against others is beyond comprehension. The BRICS know that is over. I was very disappointed -- and frankly surprised -- that the BRICS expanded before Russia concluded a peace with Ukraine. But consider what that says about how the rest of the world views us. Isn't that a shock? What will it take for people to wake up??
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  31621. ​ @garyddlewis3067  Too bad you have to resort under Newest and scroll to get the real thread.
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  31622. Oh no! When Alex said "shock and awe sanctions," I automatically assumed he meant for shocking the West. 🤣 But they did think the sanctions through: they are playing a game of chicken, with our lives. They won't lose a dime.
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  31623. It's from the French Revolution. It's a translation.
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  31624. Oh no, LOL!
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  31625. I think an investigation of Fauci and Collins, to determine definitively whether they conspired to subvert President Obama's executive order declaring a moratorium on funding gain-of-function research, and to hide that COVID may have been a product of such research, is absolutely imperative. Lives were lost in a VERY direct way. I don't see it happening.
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  31626. We were not before we were born. Everyone dies, how bad can it be?
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  31627. Never happened. See The Guardian, which explains what happened.
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  31628. It defined beautiful human as white.
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  31629. Jimmy: Fundraise to relocate to Sorrento.
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  31630. The antitrust case, which he lost but never paid a real penalty for, the history of Microsoft, the accidents with vaccines, his dishonest support of GMOs, his experiments with charter schools that failed (and many of the schools had to close), the proposal to include microchips in vaccines ("only in places like Africa and India, where record keeping is hard"), and his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, which was closer than he let on at first. The fact that he is nerdy is the reason why he got away with so much. He doesn't seem sinister, just nerdy. That's pretty bad. You should also look at his ultra-extravagant lifestyle. Very strange for someone like him, who is supposedly a scientist at heart.
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  31631.  @_this  I provide facts, you provide amateur psychoanalysis. Welcome to 2020 America. What could go wrong?
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  31632.  @_this  I was referring to your instant resort to idiotic, ad hominem terms like "paranoid," which do qualify as amateur psychoanalysis. I don't need google for this, I study logic and I read Freud and others in the original. Well, I read, obviously. It's fun.
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  31633.  @_this  Look at it this way -- you probably have more money than I do, considering your rhetoric. It is, after all, more likely to be rewarded than mine is. Hence, you are better. You win. What, still not satisfied? But why?
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  31634.  @_this  I said "probably," based on your choice of tropes. But you're right. Emulating your cheap ad hominem, even a little bit, was wrong of me. I frankly do not understanding kowtowing, in the face of all facts and reason. It baffles me. But a lot of people do it to appear rich, don't they? It's a strategic choice. Just like a recent survey showed the majority said they were not less happy today than they were a year ago -- in the midst of a pandemic, thousands dead, social distancing, racial tensions rising, and a looming recession! Why do this? I don't get it. You denigrate yourself by erecting FALSE IDOLS, and saying what you think they want you to say. That, in my opinion, is YOUR problem. You don't need to have that problem. You can ditch it right now.
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  31635.  @_this  You forgot about the antitrust violations already, that went unpunished. Not to mention the dubious (though very likely legal) way donations from the Trust are structured to benefit the very corporations whose stock is owned by the Trust. You express attitudes, I deal in facts. You've been told those attitudes could lead to riches. That is sheer propaganda. There is no truth to it, at all. I'm glad we had this discussion. Turned out to be productive.
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  31636.  @_this  Okay. Have it your way. Tootles.
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  31637.  @_this  What "name calling?" Where? ("False idols" is not name calling.) If a crime goes unpunished, the perpetrator is innocent? If the court is derelict, there are two wrongs, not zero.
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  31638.  @insolator1775  LOL, good one.
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  31639.  @insolator1775  Juvenile court, suited to considering such cases. No problem.
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  31640.  @cloehemmer4815  Not at his age at that hour and with that gun, but Wisconsin generally considers those misdemeanors. What are you people teaching your kids?
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  31641. In previous videos, he mentions that between the police encounter and Gabby's death, Brian flew back to Florida to clean out a storage locker, then returned to rejoin Gabby. This interrupts the buildup of rage.
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  31642. Here is the timeline, available in many places including CNN: August 12 -- the videotaped police encounter we saw August 17 -- Brian flies back to Florida to clean out a storage locker and get some supplies, and possibly money August 23 -- Brian returns to Salt Lake City, rejoins Gabby; they were apart for about 5 or 6 days August 27 -- incident in restaurant, last text from Gabby to parents that was clearly from her By August 30, Gabby was dead. This timeline shows interruptions to the buildup of rage described here. It also shows that Gabby had a real opportunity to get away, or at least to talk to someone she trusted, August 17 through 22, a solid five days. Something is wrong with this picture.
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  31643. ​@noadlor Must be, lol.
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  31644.  Giovanni Magz  The first one pertains to what I consider comparable to a crime against humanity, so if I must pick one, that one has got to be the most odious. Since you obviously, and rightly, hate Trump's lies, then you must agree with me that to emulate him in any manner, however slightly, and to give his (frequently crazed, and often dangerous) supporters any reason to doubt the news media concerning the truth about Trump and his habitual lying, is the wrong road to take. It's wrong to do, and it won't work. Isn't that what you mean? Yeah. Thought so.
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  31645.  Giovanni Magz  P. S. Um, who watches Fox News? That's a cable subscription, right? You have to pay them? Yuck.
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  31646. Well, with an overall case fatality rate of 2%, being healthy will only lower the chances of death, not eliminate them. Even some children have died of this, though flu is much riskier for children.
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  31647. You poor, poor thing.
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  31648. @garrettgutierrez2677  This is extremely unwise, and any honest lender will tell you that that is the last thing you should consider doing. It could not be more obvious. The whole point of incorporating is to shield your major assets from being seized in the event of insolvency. Paying off a mortgage as soon as possible is an obvious goal, not impairing your title to the roof over your head. I have known many people with small businesses, and many did go bankrupt, usually due to nonpayment by someone else in the chain, but not one had used their home to secure a loan. If that's the only way to get a loan, maybe consider that to be a message? If you don't understand that you are swimming with sharks . . . Entire countries lose their patrimony, much less a small business. What message did you get from 2008? My best friend was an accountant who had many small business clients. I'm going to have to ask her about this.
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  31649. @garrettgutierrez2677  Well, looks like YT did its usual snip snip. I guess it wants you to have the last word, however ••••• it may be.
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  31650.  @garrettgutierrez2677  nonsensical
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  31651. So why shouldn't the prosecution *have* to prove exactly that -- the predicate intent to commit some definite offense? I mean, if they could prove that beyond reasonable doubt, no problem. But somehow, that didn't happen. Somehow. /s
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  31652. ​ @Mark-zx2bq  No, he was right about this. The judge instructs on the law, the jury alone determines what the facts are. The only "legal expert" in any trial IS the judge. BTW, interesting that the Harvey Weinstein verdict was just overturned on appeal. That's what happens when trial judges make errors of law, or juries behave with extreme irrationality, "prejudice or passion."
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  31653. ​​ @Mark-zx2bq Not exactly. An expert cannot draw the legal conclusions that are the province of the jury. Actually, he went too far in stating what expert witnesses can testify about. Please look it up. I did say where, but . . . Well. Better not say more, lol.
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  31654.  @Mark-zx2bq  FWIW, I think this verdict will be overturned, eventually. Maybe by 2032, lol.
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  31655.  @Mark-zx2bq  "How to Avoid Accusations That Your Expert Witness Offered Legal Conclusions" is a good place to look. Free handouts and everything.
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  31656.  @Mark-zx2bq  The authoritative ref I gave is, of course, not here. This is how things go now.
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  31657.  @Mark-zx2bq  You caught my drift, no?
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  31658.  @Mark-zx2bq  I substantiated my assertion with a very good reference. But posts with references are disfavored.
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  31659. @Mark-zx2bq  You don't catch on too well, huh? 🤣🤡🌎 That could pose communications issues for you, in the current climate.
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  31660.  @Mark-zx2bq  A person who approves of censorship when it appears to favor "his side" . . . That says it all.
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  31661.  @Mark-zx2bq  Guess who is blocked from my notifications thread?
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  31662. Investigated for what? You want to remove private universities from private hands and nationalize them?
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  31663. THIS
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  31664. This.
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  31665. How do you know they're accurate? Thanks to AI, we will be less and less able to find out.
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  31666.  @joez7407  They've both been good on a few stories lately. This was sad. Very. :/ Edit: They've both been surprisingly good on a few stories . . .
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  31667. The US should end all sanctions and normalize relations immediately. Let Cubans see how wonderful Americans are, and how fortunate, when they arrive to their shores. Let their terrible system fail all on its own.
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  31668.  @pjfan173  Yes, it's so terrible it should fail on its own about as fast as our "allies" in Afghanistan did.
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  31669. Which he could have done four years ago, as was done for elderly prisoners during the pandemic.
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  31670. 👏👏👏
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  31671. Ha.
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  31672. And in other news, a school shooting has taken place in Iowa . . .
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  31673. They made a tape, released it later. No way was this live . . . even if this were an actual booster, which we have no way of knowing.
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  31674. Amazing video.
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  31675. Section 230, baby. Immunized like the pharmaceutical companies are.
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  31676. I bet Emanuel will have some "small" role.
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  31677. Nice!!
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  31678. ​ @bonusman  When it is, acknowledge the smarts.
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  31679. Did you hear that Russia is rid of McDonald's, Coke, Pepsi, and Starbuck's? Wow are they lucky. BP is out, too.
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  31680. Thank you. It doesn't know. It doesn't mean harm.
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  31681. Except she isn't. This is not a criminal case, or even a friggin' reprimand from the bar. I wish you were right; I wish she had to face some real consequences for her PERFIDY. Other than making money, and now trying to protect her cash stash. When is enough, enough??
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  31682. ​@Semper_Iratus No it isn't. (Is your post "violence?" LOL)
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  31683.  @utah_koidragon7117  No kidding.
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  31684. I thought that "annoying woman" was mostly right, though her choice of topics is somewhat frivolous. And "covered" is not associated with contemporary Christianity. You must recognize that term?
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  31685. @p2pportal  Because that's how constitutional law works: the Bill of Rights limits governmental power, and the full extent of those limits was made applicable to the states upon the ratification of the 14th Amendment, together with a number of Supreme Court decisions that so ruled. Any state that wants to extend, for example, Fourth Amendment rights beyond what is found in the US Constitution is perfectly free to do so, as long as it doesn't interfere with any other state. Any state that wants to ban the death penalty, another example, is likewise free to do so --- it just can't refuse to extradite a suspect to a state with the death penalty.
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  31686.  @terrific804  Quick subject change. Well, I talked to a person with that thumbnail. Whose fault was that but mine?
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  31687. Oooo, "gifter!" It's the OED Word of the Year!
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  31688. The Harvard DIVINITY School doesn't take proper notice of the death of Dr. West's mother. You could not make this up.
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  31689. They'll just say it was for entertainment purposes only.
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  31690. Except that Depp already lost a defamation case in UK, and was not fired from anything based on the article at issue here. So, anyone telling you this is "just like" that is fabricating. Typical, it's what the media does.
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  31691.  @tsensuke5259  It MEANS that he was not fired due to Heard, but due to losing that case against Heard -- Depp had a stronger case in UK, and defamation is easier to prove in UK, not harder, because there is no First Amendment protection in UK. When Depp v. Heard comes up, reason flies out the door, and for what?
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  31692.  @tsensuke5259  And AMERICAN ones are fair? Police, too. Their testimony is rock solid. /s In any event, my point stands: he lost work because he lost a case, not because of the article at issue here. (Did you even read it?) Not because of he said she said, but because the judge said. Reason out the window . . .
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  31693.  @tsensuke5259  No I'm not. The fact that movie studios treated it as significant is the point. Sorry you are so enthralled by this hysteria that you still cannot grasp that.
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  31694.  @tsensuke5259  Being removed from a job based on mere accusation, and losing a role after a trial has taken place are not the same. If you don't see that, some emotion or other is interrupting your thought process. Where is your proof Depp's suit was lost due to corruption? It was HIS suit, he brought it and he could have withdrawn it if he thought the court was biased.
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  31695.  @tsensuke5259  You still don't get the point. Not my problem. "Poor poor multimillionaire victim Johnny, everyone so unfair, and SO hard to fight back. That Bad Woman and that Bad Court and those Bad Movie Studios, we'll show 'em!!! Well, one out of three at least." That's what makes sense to you.
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  31696.  @tsensuke5259  If you bring a lawsuit, and you refuse to withdraw that lawsuit or settle that lawsuit, or you fail to appeal or fail to win an appeal, are third parties entitled to take cognizance of the fact that you lost? If you whine to them that IT WAS UNFAIR!!! and your fans all agree, should they just believe you? This guy's fans treat him like a child, not a grown man.
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  31697.  @tsensuke5259  Why does it bother you?
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  31698.  @tsensuke5259  Because I'm making entirely different points in the two, and long posts are uninviting to read.
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  31699.  @tsensuke5259  Sure I did. First, if one post is shadowed, the other may get through. Second, you refused to acknowledge the point, that losing a job over a bare accusation and losing a job after losing a court case YOU decided to pursue, are not comparable. Keep it up, and let everyone see the irrationality on full display. No problem for me.
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  31700.  @tsensuke5259  It's a fact that the verdict exists. Lots of verdicts are incorrect. People in business rely on them anyway, and cannot be considered blameworthy for doing so absent some truly remarkable circumstances which you do not find here.
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  31701.  @tsensuke5259  Tell me, are you as concerned for Julian Assange?
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  31702.  @tsensuke5259  Sorry, forgot to block you. I didn't have you pegged as a reader, no.
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  31703. @mikehamblin6272  If you know literally nothing about anything that has happened since October 7, you might think so. Shmuley is an example of the trumpification of all American discourse. This is hopeless.
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  31704.  @danarthur771  🤣🤣🤣
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  31705. @greenbay123100  I watched the video where he discussed that incident and he said no such thing. I don't know where you heard what (you claim) you heard.
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  31706. @greenbay123100  Is this an example of how you reason generally? For matters that are actually important to your life, I hope not. This issue obviously is not.
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  31707. @janinesymondson5324  Oh he has? Well then. I assume you've read his work. No? Of course not.
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  31708. @janinesymondson5324  A guy who first made his name writing a gay biography would "sweep the floor" with one of the leading historians of our time. In other news, both Biden and Trump are cognitively sound.
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  31709.  @greenbay123100  No thanks. Not in that incoherent string of childish abbreviations. I'm supposed to know acronyms and sound out words? "See Sally run. Run, Dick, run."
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  31710. @janinesymondson5324  Your third sentence is a testament to how rational you are. What does 3000 years (it's over 5000, friend) have to do with present-day war crimes going on this very moment? The heroes you choose these days are more and more bizarre and repulsive, frankly.
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  31711.  @janinesymondson5324  Does Bernie Sanders agree with Murray? Does Amy Goodman? They know less than Murrray does? Have they attacked Finkelstein? • • • Have you read Finkelstein?
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  31712. @janinesymondson5324  "Douglas knows everything there is to know, etc.?" So, he's not a hero, he's a god.
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  31713. They really try to speak truthfully. It's . . . startling.
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  31714. Dream on :/
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  31715. Now I know why, for my entire life, I've gotten along so well with veterans.
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  31716.  @y-yyy  The best anti-war Americans are anti-war veterans. Abby Martin married one.
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  31717. @y-yyy  I said a few things in praise of anti-war veterans and it's gone. Wow, just wow.
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  31718.  @y-yyy  Mentioned the husband of one Abby M. Bet that's what done it.
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  31719.  @y-yyy  Sense
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  31720.  @y-yyy  or
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  31721.  @y-yyy  ship
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  31722. It is as though research has frozen. Most of the studies I see are from other countries.
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  31723.  @MrsSusanVA  I got that vibe, too. Still, you make a quick pro forma apology and move on.
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  31724.  @sereksusvictar7888  I have never voted for a ticket with Biden on it, and I don't pay attention to anything he says. I have more regard for Mace. No comparison.
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  31725.  @tacocanada1888  Never underestimate the power of sheer laziness, lol. The whole political class has succumbed. I don't understand why they don't have to get anything right, except what brings in the campaign funds. 💰
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  31726.  @sereksusvictar7888  So then Biden can mangle Trump's name? Makes him sound more daft, and nobody's laughing.
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  31727. Neo-slavery.
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  31728. 💯 ❤❤❤
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  31729. It could be related to the microbiome in the lower digestive tract. Poor diet and overuse of antibiotics can bring this about, and the worst part is that people who have poor diets are more likely to need antibiotics. So sad.
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  31730. Oh stop.
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  31731. False premise. It is illegal to use deadly force in defense of mere property, in every state. Lethal force is justified if you put any person at risk of imminent physical harm. It is never legal for defense of mere property. Social ills, etc., are irrelevant. The age of the perpetrator, time of day, etc., all irrelevant. Whether he put a person in imminent danger of physical harm is the only question that matters. Also, this is exactly why a carjacking, or a home invasion while there are people in the house, can be met with lethal force. It doesn't matter if the assailant turns out to be unarmed, or was just looking to burgle and thought the house was empty, or was "only a kid." There is no question about this. It's called self-defense for a reason.
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  31732.  @deadgolfer6345  We're talking age appropriate. Only that.
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  31733. Lots of scents or ship here.
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  31734. ​ @rosieE121  After following the collective insanity playbook during COVID? To force an inferior drug on everyone? In a country with no real medical or disability safety net? Take a look at who other countries vaccinate. Sweden, for example. That might wake you up.
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  31735.  @Jd-zk8zl  It's a market like any other. If bosses can demand more, they will. If employees can, then they will. The rest is rhetoric. Maybe these people all got rich on Tesla stock during the runup. They can move to Austin, live on less, start podcasts . . . . :D
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  31736.  @Jd-zk8zl  You do know a lot of people in NYC got rich between March 2020 and the end of last year, correct? This isn't news to you?
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  31737. ​@amyfaith2350 Oh my goodness. This is who you think will save you? You are lost. So, just starting with hallucinogens . . . No one who doesn't use hallucinogens? No one who didn't agree to transition his son and now claims he was "tricked?" Well, to be fair, second opinions are very expensive and not always covered by insurance. 🙄 Notice I haven't mentioned his PayPal ties or his dirty takeover of Tesla or his abuse of monkeys in experimentation or his Title VII violations or his government contracts or his X CEO.
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  31738. Why was I just censored here?
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  31739.    Aaron Mate is one of the finest journalists in the business, and a fine person as well.
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  31740.  @RetroDawn  Yup. They have no idea what morals are, they really do not. That's the scary part.
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  31741.  @RetroDawn  Or anyone who calls a recently deceased woman "a hag," or worse (of whom there are many).
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  31742.  @RetroDawn  Anyone else with a mentality that does not allow them to resist an impulse comparable to calling Justice Ginsburg a "hag." Praising a vigilante because you despise the person he killed comes to mind. Wishing harm to a person's children, or threatening them, or bullying them online because you hate that person comes to mind as well. If I can quickly think of more examples, I'll let you know.
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  31743.  @RetroDawn  Party affiliation is often a matter of convenience, spelled with a $. When it comes to that, I admit cynicism.
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  31744.  @RetroDawn  Also, I like Rachel. I think everyone does.
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  31745.  @RetroDawn  That's funny. I am very left (part of my "growing up" took place in Europe), and I really like Rachel. She strikes me as trustworthy, as having very good judgment, and as someone who would be level-headed in emergencies. That's her vibe for me. For a laugh, try to picture her swearing. Has she ever?
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  31746. Um, that won't work anymore. That's so 2019.
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  31747. In France, during the Gilets Jaunes demonstrations, the FIREFIGHTERS protected the protesters against the police. This went on for weeks in 2019 . . . It ended with . . . The LOCKDOWNS.
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  31748.  @youtubelibrary_10  These bots/spammers are all over. Why are you pretending you don't know?
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  31749.  @KucheKlizma  See the book I recommended.
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  31750. He was less wrong than the worst of them, except for saying bosses should have a right to tell me what I have to put in my body, or show me the door.
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  31751. The Internet "educates" the youth.
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  31752. The experiments virologists were running at Wuhan and elsewhere don't put lives at risk. Tweets put lives at risk.
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  31753. Stefanik is fundraising. The cleavage was an inspired touch.
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  31754. Keep listening.
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  31755. Third party or no one, from 2020 on.
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  31756. This is very scary.
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  31757.  @nelsonx5326  It's Internet shorthand for strong agreement . . . Like 100%
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  31758.  @sadenbrick  Blocked for wasting people's time.
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  31759. @Drew Taylor Can't disagree. Your right to take the stance you do.
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  31760.  @ewawyso2052  And then her guest drops "pocket pussy." Hey, way to avoid cringe sexism!
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  31761.  @meltedsnowman9637  Ana did this. Kyle didn't read the part of her DM with the explicit threat: either Jimmy stop "running his mouth," or she would go public with claims of harassment.
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  31762.  @establishmentshill-troll9854  True. No comparison between that roster of greats and the Barbie and Ken imitation Kyle aspires to. Jimmy's real friends understand him. He never said he had no flaws. Classic working class kid, even laid bricks for a living.
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  31763. This is not the law. The government's use of third parties to censor First Amendment protected speech is illegal. They cannot use someone else as a cat's paw to censor speech they disapprove of, which they cannot suppress themselves. The government itself is perfectly welcome to broadcast its own views. But instead of warning people about social media manipulation and how dangerous it is, the government has jumped right in as social media's most enthusiastic user. They've used this media, like all media, to manipulate. That's how we "knew" Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11, and Hunter's laptop was a Russian fake, and a drug used in many countries was really horse paste. Why don't they get serious?
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  31764. She didn't vote for Biden or Hillary.
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  31765. I have an idea. How about a video that includes people who didn't have a "great career?" For some reason, you cling to rich people.
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  31766. 😂😂😂
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  31767. Um, she defended her bronze on balance beam.
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  31768. Katie glows much more when her dad comes on. Imagine, that is possible for her.
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  31769.  @davidsegura4910  Irrelevant. There is no "stand your ground" law that permits you to use deadly force on someone who did not attempt to cross the threshold of your door without your permission. Your imagination, your cowardice, or your video watching history are irrelevant.
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  31770. Go Chicago!!
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  31771.  clot shots  Oh my gawd. Okay.
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  31772. Where did you hear that? If that is what you heard, I'm not sure what job you would be qualified to do. What do you think lawyers do, by the way? They make a case. Every case means zealously taking a side. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a perfect example.
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  31773. Would it have been all right with you? I don't go for putting kids up to this.
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  31774. You imagine the same applies to Romania?? Andrew Tate is one of the big guys? Or the good guys? Schoolyard logic.
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  31775. THIS
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  31776. Remember, the AI you train with these comments might come around to define you someday.
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  31777. I believe it. This affects her very directly. I love Briahna, but we are all only human. Of course anything that silences a leading candidate will bug her more. Look what happened with her boss, Bernie.
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  31778.  @thomashauer6804  I have researched that and failed to find evidence that wasn't a deep fake. I'm curious now. It's an example of something that should be very easy to determine.
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  31779.  @layinlow77  The people he knows don't! LOL
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  31780.  @nuclearcatbaby1131  Those go away. Everyone who has them doesn't believe they will ever get better, but they do. It is shocking how many people had them. Half of Hollywood, for one. Emma Stone had atypical ones that lasted for a day or longer at a time. She had to be homeschooled for a while because of it.
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  31781.  @kelliintexas3575  Me too! LOL
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  31782. BIDEN? will RUN? Okay, we definitely do not all have the same medical care.
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  31783. Jimmy is buddies with all the tough guys in the neighborhood. Love it.
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  31784. IN THE MEANTIME . . . Derek Chauvin made bail.
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  31785. Um, so . . . you don't know you're mentally ill, do you?
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  31786. Logical question
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  31787.  @Web5ter-94  They are supposed to have their noses in everybody's business, which of course means that only the very worst people will go into teaching -- worst intellectually and worst ethically. Sounds like a plan, but it wouldn't be my plan.
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  31788. ​ @rubyruby6358 Her eyes were open. She is 💯 right across the board.
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  31789. You won't get fat or wrinkled or age faster if you do blame billionaires. Honest.
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  31790. Name a product that has done us good. Here's one example: The smart phone has created behavioral addiction and abnormal cognitive development in kids, not to mention emotional problems. Here's another: wherever processed fast food turns up, obesity doubles, then doubles again. Notice something else: in both cases, we are trained to blame ourselves and loath ourselves, as if these items weren't engineered to addict.
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  31791. Well then we better torture some folks.
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  31792. /s 😀
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  31793. Oh brother, why do you think the Republicans did so badly in the midterms? Amber just handed the DNC more ammunition.
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  31794. They even get paid to do it.
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  31795.  @sbondesson  Look up "New York Times malice." Read what happened in the Richard Jewel case, after the Atlanta Journal-Constitution declined to settle, and the case was finally decided against his estate, long after he died.
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  31796.  @sbondesson  You are welcome. Their freedom to smear people with impunity is shocking. Now, the line between uncovering facts in the world, and reporting on what people believe, thanks to social media amplification, has been blurred to such a degree that I wonder whether anyone would settle with a Richard Jewel today, absent a hashtag hysteria. The one newspaper that refused to settle with Jewel, on the ground that they reported the news as best as could be determined at the time, according to them, won in the end. You can probably imagine what is likely to happen now, without reading any more than you already have. But it is a horrible story, because a hero who saved lives during a terrorist attack was smeared. He got his reputation back, but it took forever.
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  31797. Should someone who says he was "tricked" into consenting to puberty blockers for his son decide public policy? This Emily has a job and is paying her bills so that we don't have to. (People with her medical history get on disability all the time.) I don't mock people I should pity. That makes no sense to me. Megyn loves to go after other women. (Remember when it was Candace Owens?)
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  31798. My explanation was ______
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  31799. Looks as though the jury ignored First Amendment law (and provable damages) to punish wrongdoing, in the proportion they saw fit. If that is what happened, then we lost again, as usual. That's what happens to ordinary people when drugged millionaires duke it out.
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  31800. Wow, have we had an 0rgy of gutting First Amendment freedoms lately. Is it thrilling for you?
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  31801. You can't give that a rest, can you?
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  31802.  @fvc233  Serious claims of criminality require commensurate evidence. Or else we just tweet like Trump did on his worst days. Blech.
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  31803.  @fvc233  Because Putin paid him? Must be.
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  31804. Agreed
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  31805. ​ @LazyEyePolitics What do polling numbers have to do with truthfulness?
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  31806. ​ @jamescox1375 💯
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  31807. Breaking news: Glenn Greenwald just posted a short excerpt of Victoria Nuland testifying on the Ukrainian biolabs -- which, oddly enough, were funded through the US DOD, not the NIH. TeleSUR (Spanish) has just reported that China demands the US provide full information on all biological laboratories it funds throughout the world. The Indian press and even AFP have been raising questions about the DOD funding of biolabs, without pretending we know the answers. George Galloway was denounced over the weekend for reporting on this. :/ Ooooh brother.
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  31808. Everyone wants to repeal Darwin so bad. Sentience is a property of living things and the product of millions of years of evolution.
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  31809. @legacyofcatastrophe1363  Really? The great beauties of Hollywood and the modeling world tended to peak between about 28 and 34.
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  31810. Always remember that the most obnoxious, irrational person may be a false flag, or someone with a hidden agenda. They may not be articulating a trans-supportive position at all.
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  31811. She's using it as an example. She's the one who pointed out the way DNC condemns the least deviation from political orthodoxy, while the conservatives embrace people from all walks on fundamental policy agreements.
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  31812. This is sad. :/
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  31813. Gee that's funny. Ro Khanna is a U of Chicago and Yale Law School grad, and he saw the First Amendment issue.
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  31814. Chris Rock could not have been better. What a class act!
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  31815. @anthonyjames2021  Even if true, SO WHAT? I don't plan to trust her with my secrets, first of all. Second, she is mostly Caucasian. Her kids are redheads. I think mixed race people in competitive fields are perfectly all right in identifying however they think they will better succeed. If it shouldn't matter, then why care what they write down? There is (almost) no such thing as virtuous unemployment. (Exception for getting fired over the vax, obviously -- that would be virtuous unemployment. ) Yeah, that's right. You should be able to get a job without specifying anything. Why does the head shot + CV ask such questions in the first place? You don't assail them for asking.
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  31816. This relates to Brownian motion and chaos theory, both of which have applications.
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  31817.  @jonathanwhite3507  The video gives you a start.
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  31818. So play into their hands? Since when is "antifa" identified with Black Lives Matter? Antifa is amorphous, we don't know who they are in every instance. We don't know whether the violent fringe in these video reports are provocateurs. Accepting at face value that they are actually pro-BLM, and against fascism, is naive. Too bad there are no journalists to investigate. /s
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  31819.  @anthonyelwick3600  Very likely. At the end of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck emigrates. He can't stand so-called civilization.
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  31820. YES vaccine mandates are WORSE THAN MASK mandates.
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  31821. Maybe the instructor lied to cover up HIS incompetence.
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  31822. It also follows that we all support it in some way. I consider that nonsense.
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  31823. "Metaverse" = PANOPTICON
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  31824. He is carefully monitored for doping, in part because of his nationality. People are suspicious of Serbs. There is zero evidence of doping that anyone can find, despite the scrutiny.
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  31825. If you have other information, state your source.
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  31826. Shush. The Clinton Foundation works diligently all over the world to empower women and girls.
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  31827. Scarlet Johansson, definitely.
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  31828. ​ @maddogilmc812  Exactly. How strong a signal that surveillance is the sole avenue open to them? This is definitive. This lady is SUPER.
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  31829. ​ @Mcmelcher1209  As long as you restrict this to Western European kids, be my guest. /s 😂 You're all nuts. Keep it to yourselves.
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  31830. ​ @user-dc2dt2ts4b Parents are signing permission for this.
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  31831. ​ @Kimbermom4908 Same place as mine?
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  31832. I thought and still think Reagan was an utter disaster, and a watershed event in the US, announcing the current decline. Moreover, Reagan was responsible for significant crimes throughout the world. I nevertheless almost fainted when he was shot.
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  31833. Amazing that Plato writes about this in The Apology.
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  31834.  @tripe2237  Well, in the US under the First Amendment, it is unlikely this conduct could be disciplined in any way, and I agree with free speech (see Nadine Strossen and Erwin Chermerinsky). On the other hand, you give great reasons why this man should not be listened to. I feel more and more sorry for him, frankly. HE is not well. "JP creates chaos and mental distress in his fans and detractors alike. Read these comments and tell me he doesn't. He's doing it in this video!" Assuming that is true, my response would be, so what? In the US, that is no reason to curtail anyone's freedom of speech and expression, and at the rate things are going, the US won't have that one civil right, the only one that truly sets the country apart, for much longer. All someone has to do to discredit nearly any demonstration is bring a swastika, and there are people who won't see through it -- they will be afraid to ask who brought the swastika and to what purpose. This is a bigger problem than any of Peterson's insipid grievance mongering. He doesn't see patients anyway. I wouldn't advise going after him in this manner. It creates another pseudo martyr. Some of the stuff they have cited him for is frankly nutty.
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  31835.  @pc2555  I sincerely hope you will do some reading on the psychological processes that impel a person to scapegoat an "other." Print out what you wrote, underline every time you wrote "THEY" in capital letters, put it away for a week, and then discuss it with someone with some wisdom, or expertise, or clinical background, or deep knowledge of history, etc.
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  31836.  @sliceoflife5812  Wow, look at how many people make up a character in their minds, and then argue with that character. For the record, I declined vaccination. I declined, because my concerns were never addressed, and were unlikely ever to be addressed -- that simple. Plenty of people sympathized with the convoy and saw that it was being unfairly maligned. You are trying to over-politicize a basic demand for civil liberties, which most people agree with once they've calmed down, rejected the fear-mongering, and tuned out the din.
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  31837.  @tripe2237  Yes, it would, actually. Every government entity in the US is subject to the First Amendment prohibition on curtailing protected speech and expression. People who were members of a neo-Nazi outfit who were declined a law license on that basis got the order rescinded.
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  31838.  @tripe2237  Whether it would be unethical in an experimental setting is exactly what is irrelevant to free speech, as long as he takes no steps to require anyone to listen -- as he might if he were spouting some of this stuff in a clinical setting rather than on the Internet. You don't understand the standard, if this is what you think it means.
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  31839.  @tripe2237  I don't support the man, by the way. I support free speech. See, e.g., Nadine Strossen. Erwin Chemerinsky. I don't go quite as far as they do in supporting free speech, and the latter is definitely left wing. (I am probably farther left, though.)
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  31840.  @pc2555  I did not make an argument in response to your post. I made a suggestion in response to your post. The arguments I did make were in favor of free speech and against censoring Peterson, whom I have grown to pity most of the time. There was nothing ridiculous about my suggestion, nor about my free speech argument. No, there is not a single, specific group of people "causing a problem for all of society." Speaking of the Nazi party is odd in this context, as an example of a group that caused problems; one of the reasons they caused problems -- indeed, one of their chief symptoms -- was their obsessive conviction, verging on hysteria, that there was "a specific group of people causing a problem for all of society."
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  31841.  @tripe2237  But that is exactly my point. Peterson is not treating patients. He has no captive audience, no persons dependent on him for their psychological well being, and only a fan club that would do well to find a different person to take advice from -- but they are all adults, they are not presumed to be vulnerable, or to be consulting him from a position of vulnerability. Trying to yank his license is giving him exactly the publicity he craves, so that he can go on the largest platforms in North America with his grievances. The only time it would be sensible to do yank his license would be when it actually is imperative to protect PATIENTS. But he no longer sees patients. And unless he is lying, actual patients did not complain. (Lying about the proceeding against him would be something they could take into account, however.) Having a license to practice psychology isn't an endorsement of his political views. And in the US, a lawyer can state that he supports eugenics without having his license lifted. What he can't do is demonstrate that he has contempt for his oath to support and defend the Constitution. Pretending that eugenics is the law and inducing people who come to him for advice to believe that it is the law, and that the 14th Amendment permits it, would be grounds for disbarment.
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  31842.  @tripe2237  Actually, there are "sovereign citizen lawyers," and they have lawyers to represent them, too. They just know better than to spout their nonsense in court as if it were the law. But there is no law to prevent them from claiming their views to be "aspirational." Good grief, the Chicago mob had lawyers. Maybe the US is crazier than most people want for a way of life. I can relate.
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  31843.  @tripe2237  The ABA is a private advocacy organization. Membership is entirely voluntary. It has no power to license attorneys. State bars -- technically, state supreme courts -- do that.
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  31844.  @tripe2237  Please explain in what sense his license to practice psychology is an "endorsement" of his popular social media nonsense by the licensing board. I would say it is no more an endorsement of his tweets than it is of his decision to go to Russia (!) to be placed in a coma (!!!) to overcome his toxic reaction and dependency on benzodiazepines -- or to take them in the first place. This is one sad case.
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  31845.  @pc2555  That wasn't what I said but that's what you got out of it. Okay, now I know not to address comments to you. No problem.
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  31846.  @pc2555  Maybe if you had taken up my suggestion it might have caused you to reflect, and waste less time and energy on unproductive stuff, and on people you don't need to worry about so much. Maybe I should fashion some version of the same advice for myself.
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  31847.  @cole9058  Not sure what you're talking about, probably some new trendy word. LOL, I grew up working class, and went to inner city public schools, K through 12, and didn't speak English to my parents. Who is "you people?" I don't live in the fantasy world you inhabit, that's for sure. Oh, is ages like, a whole year for you?
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  31848.  @cole9058  I don't see one other person who is not a Peterson fan but opposes this assault on his freedom of speech. It's both wrong in principle and pragmatically misguided. It's why he got to go back on Joe Rogan to pretend to be a victim of galloping Maoism. People are replying, and getting censored, for no good reason that I can detect. You must be new to this game.
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  31849.  @pc2555  I no longer care. Sorry. People who have had even a smattering of legal reasoning understand me: a may or may not be the case; for the sake of argument, assume a. b may or may not be the case; likewise assume b. Concede a and b both; that still doesn't justify c. I've just summarized for you 90% of legal briefs.
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  31850.  @pc2555  I'm an outstanding communicator. That wasn't the problem here. You don't like what I've said is all.
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  31851.  @pc2555  You're just used to categorizing people, instead of understanding their arguments. The former is easier, hence basic free market utilitarian logic tells you to do it.
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  31852.  @pc2555  I may have mixed you up with someone else. All of this is starting to sound alike. I apologize. In any case, I support free speech. I do not like Peterson, but I have compassion for his issues. Am I on the right thread now? sigh
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  31853.  @pc2555  I think I mixed this up with the "Keenan Anderson deserved what he got" thread. Yeah, it does all start to meld into one big amalgam.
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  31854.  @pc2555  That was well said -- it is the barest minimum.
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  31855. So, Chocolate Bunker Nancy still doesn't have enough ice cream.
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  31856. C'mon Bill, nobody gives a **** about anybody. 😂
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  31857. That you cannot be found civilly liable for First Amendment-protected speech (or writing), no matter who it may hurt. The speech must either be constitutionally unprotected, or the defendant must default in some way, to be held responsible to pay damages for his speech. "You can say what you want but you can't escape the consequences" is the new vague slogan. Yes, your private-sector employer can fire you, and your friends can drop you, but a court can't make you pay damages, to anyone, for speech that is constitutionally protected.
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  31858.  @russell7445  Excellent points!
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  31859. People will hide anything for money.
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  31860. Those are Russian regions. Most civilians who left went to Russia.
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  31861. When I vote, people die. Um, not exactly. I don't vote for Republicans or Democrats.
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  31862.  @schubajo  But when they keep swallowing their rivals, it becomes an issue. They cannot monopolize all discourse on the Internet, hide behind Section 230 immunity as if they perform no editorial function, AND then say, "we're just a private company, we aren't the government. We're not responsible for upholding First Amendment rights. We can just deploy our proprietary algorithms."
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  31863.  @ciaarmedtherpfandinterahamwe  Yes! Sweet.
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  31864. Because once under oath in an official proceeding, he would have testified. He would not have invoked the Fifth Amendment. Did you forget that amendment?
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  31865. It does not matter whether they are. If he were 18, she would still have a case against the school for this degree of negligence.
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  31866. How is it that so many of the world's richest people started companies that made no profit for YEARS . . . and even got tax rebates? Or paid much less in taxes than to lobbyists? How does that work in a "free market?" I remember when only Soviet companies didn't worry about profits. LOL
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  31867. Matt Taibbi wouldn't say he regrets seeing children die on Sabby Sab's show.
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  31868. Interesting. He often does that, and people miss it.
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  31869.  @hrs2044  The other post was talking about the kinds of excuses for bad behavior that amount to victim blaming, but I have no idea why. I don't see that you were.
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  31870.  @keredeht  I bet you read the opinion and dissent.
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  31871. Yes, but which one?
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  31872.  @glenkeating7333  Which conspiracy theory has evidence? Conspiracies exist, but are even hard for DOJ to prove -- when they want to, that is.
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  31873. I'm feeling unwell, also..
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  31874. ALL of the tech companies are all about surveillance. Of course a robot can fire a person.
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  31875. Also, you don't think Russian intelligence has penetrated just about everywhere? Of course it has. There is collusion, but not the kind you imagine. The kind you imagine is a distraction, and a lucrative story to peddle for third-rate journalists who would have been an Elmer Gantry in a previous century.
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  31876. Film buff? Here I thought the rest of the snake had cocaine in it.
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  31877. Who was offended before they were instructed to be offended?
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  31878. One study showed that 11% of those who believed they escaped the very first wave were in fact infected. Another study showed that of proven cases, the antibody tests administered early during the pandemic were failing to detect antibodies in 30% of those with mild cases, 90 days after full recovery. So, we need a LOT more information.
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  31879.  @susanrollis2411  Thank YOU! :)
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  31880. Every solid European system uses knowledge-based education.
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  31881. That stuff doesn't count. Those people don't count. It's another way to say "losers" without saying it. Because that would sound like Trump.
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  31882. The evidence was highly circumstantial. It would have been good to see the actual trial.
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  31883. Well, she does have a child-voice. What's that about?
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  31884. This is almost everyone.
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  31885.  @brentshowers741  I read this and I'm not clear on what you're saying. Who did what and why?
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  31886.  @brentshowers741  I read the entire resolution and I would have voted "no" as well. A pointed blaming of Hindus is one-sided and counterproductive. Do you get anti-vax Trumpers to behave by calling them deplorable? Or better yet, racist? What would that accomplish? A better question is, what, if anything, did Gabbard do to get a handful of offensive clauses removed, to create a better resolution?
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  31887. ​ @Metaphix  You think so?
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  31888. How many countries did the US bomb to make them free?
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  31889. Look up the Swiss ministry of health recommendation for people who have had a proven case of COVID.
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  31890. 0 isn't a positive integer yo.
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  31891. During this video, I got an ad for Slavic Ladies, that sounded like they were describing a dog breed. They even said gentle temper. Available for immediate acquisition? That was the impression. This is permitted by a corporation that will ban you for a pronoun mistake. Well, this is a paid ad, so . . .
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  31892. No, she's from, Ohio. She spent 7 years total at Harvard.
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  31893. There are fewer class distinctions in Europe today. This isn't 1950 anymore.
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  31894. Okay. You think a monkey would stay still for that? Watch some monkeys. They would maul a person or recent human ancestor.
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  31895. Sure, we've just watered down the First Amendment because grown people make disastrous choices. Now let's do that with the Fifth Amendment, too. Sounds like just what we need, fewer rights.
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  31896. Why did the CCP allow the US to fund research through the Wuhan laboratory? Well??
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  31897. Bull. Who leaves a Montenegrin woman? If she's 30 years older, okay, maybe.
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  31898. I predict a nuclear weapon will be used, or will be reported to have been used. I don't say by whom.
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  31899. Not imperative to arrest at all -- especially not during a pandemic. Impound the car, ticket the driver and take his license (no bond in lieu of taking the license). If he does not resist relinquishing control of the car, there is no reason to deprive him of liberty. And if he can't get his car back for a while, or ever, so be it. We used to know life and liberty are more important than property, and we used to know how to achieve goals without violence. When did it become jail or nothing, deadly force or nothing?
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  31900. Now you have to admit AOC, etc., are entirely fake.
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  31901. Correct
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  31902. What collage scam? Blue Nude II? Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?
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  31903. ​ @stevensica5918  Exactly.
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  31904. ​ @ginnymurray1869  No we don't. Those are bots.
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  31905. ​ @cl8804 It's expensive. A lot of the most talented people are looking into it.
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  31906. Look up Lula de Silva.
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  31907. Why wish Piers on Norman Finkelstein, or truly, on anyone?
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  31908. The burden of proving that is on you.
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  31909. I think it might be helpful if American elites could be persuaded that one cannot eat tweets, or use them to run one's car. Do you think this could be done? I welcome your thoughts.
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  31910. A diamond . . . This is a baaaad gangster movie.
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  31911. Director for the Georgetown Center for the Constitution is first and foremost a Public Relations position. Fair or not, he displayed a lack of public relations skills. If he wants to tweet whatever he wants, that is fine, but then a different position, such as simply Professor of Law, would be a "better fit."
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  31912.  @4foxsake571  Briahna did a GREAT JOB here. If you cannot credit her for once, well . . . Shapiro finally stated exactly why he resigned in advance, which was entirely legitimate reasoning as well, and presented in a strongly persuasive way. If she had not pressed, there is no reason to think we would have gotten to the heart of the matter, which is what I care about.
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  31913.  @4foxsake571  I don't think you understand what an interviewer's role is. Watch some old video of Oriana Fallaci. See how she got people exasperated, and brought out their strongest responses as a result.
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  31914.  @4foxsake571  You lack sophistication. Have you ever lived anywhere else? Functioned in any language other than English? Know who Oriana Fallaci is?
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  31915.  @4foxsake571  She has her own show, but I respect your point here. See how my pushing you worked? Each post you made was better and stronger than the one before. I know this stuff. 😉
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  31916. "Near" the court or residence is the key to this law. The Supreme Court has seen legal protests of all kinds, including many huge protests against Roe v. Wade, for years. People came from all over the country to join pro-life rallies near the Court. These were all legal and First Amendment protected. Are memories that short?
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  31917.  @verilyveronica8430  Of course. You hear them going off all the time, in every major city in America.
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  31918.  @robertchiarizia9463  Castle Doctrine has never allowed anyone to do whatever they like on their property.
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  31919. @robertchiarizia9463  The very few laws that allow for protecting personal property with lethal force have so many conditions and caveats that no lawyer would advise you to do it. The only case I can think of where the person could be sure of being able to invoke the law is where the property is needed for life or health. An example would be a backpack that contains medicines you need to live and cannot easily obtain.
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  31920. @robertchiarizia9463  But if you are present in your home and a burglar has broken in the door AND breached the threshold, it is presumed that your life or limb is in danger, absent evidence to the contrary. If he turns around and rushes out as soon as he sees you, then you cannot use lethal force. I'm sorry, it is not obscure. It really is not.
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  31921. 💰💰💰💰
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  31922. So, you can call someone a p____phile, but don't you dare call her a man! Madness.
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  31923. Hamas?? Oh, they control Congress, all right.
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  31924. I looked up the case. According to the Memorandum Opinion, several of her breach of contract claims against Harvard were not dismissed. The opinion is dated Sept. 11, 2024. She has until mid-October to file an amended complaint, with Harvard as the only defendant. So, this video is misleading as well. Figures.
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  31925. I remember this well.
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  31926. No he didn't. He's not qualified. What part of qualifications don't people get?
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  31927.  @Rjsjrjsjrjsj  What I said.
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  31928.  @Rjsjrjsjrjsj  You know, you should have some points of comparison. People who cannot control themselves, who take to Twitter in that manner, who fail to appreciate the weight of words, and who blurt out stuff about a soon-to-be confirmed Supreme Court Justice in front of whom they should ASPIRE to argue one day soon, do not have the temperament to train top lawyers, or to set an example for them. The US has become a giant high school ("with money" --- Frank Zappa). I said the same thing about Justice Barrett, and my politics could not be more different from hers. A nomination (_any_ nomination, not her nomination) at that juncture should have been blocked ab initio, which the Democrats failed to do, but their minions took to Twitter, to smear her. It made me sick. Here, Shapiro admits BIDEN is responsible for the whole thing. I agree. Take it up with Biden. You don't cast aspersions on the candidate instead.
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  31929.  @Rjsjrjsjrjsj  I'm not outraged at all. I'm calmly telling you what you don't want to hear, and providing reasons for my conclusions. Hence your accusations, irrelevant points about my attitude, etc. You're all alike now.
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  31930.  @Rjsjrjsjrjsj  So, it is about attitudes, not arguments? You are opposed to tone policing, cancel culture, etc., because . . . ?
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  31931.  @Rjsjrjsjrjsj  You're the one with the Outrage Caps, hon.
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  31932.  @lifeintheolddog5768  Correct. I just made a better argument for why this guy isn't the right person for the job off the top of my head. Georgetown babbles about "safety?" For real?
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  31933.  @Rjsjrjsjrjsj  "He did EVERYTHING right and got crucified for it."
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  31934.  @Rjsjrjsjrjsj  Oh my goodness. You're the standard setter. So, you're not against cancel culture? You simply want to be in charge of it. I believe his tweet does show he lacks the qualifications for the job, and not because of anyone's feelings. So, I disagree with you. No lawyer worth his salt would transmit such a comment on a platform with potentially global reach, and that could exist in perpetuity. I thought the net savvy learned that 20 years ago. I remember when kids were losing job offers because of something they posted on MySpace. I remember when lawyers expressly advised people not to post.
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  31935.  @Rjsjrjsjrjsj  Okay, blocked. Boom. Done.
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  31936.  @Rjsjrjsjrjsj  If you cannot bear disagreement, don't post. I was actually adding something valuable to the insipid knee-jerk response to this prof, who strung together a bunch of cliches to get a crowd on his side. A poseur.
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  31937.  @Rjsjrjsjrjsj  Now that you've got what you want you don't want it. Except that Marilyn Monroe made art. Yes, how far we've fallen indeed.
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  31938.  @Rjsjrjsjrjsj  I'm one of those people with a sense of humor. I won't invite you to try it. You've got it, you'll get it, or you won't. 😂
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  31939. ​@roslyntchakedjian927 OH. PLEASE. Fine if it's entertaining for you, but I hope you don't believe it.
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  31940. Thanks for the info!
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  31941. It never is justifiable. It could still be speech protected by the First Amendment. A lot of immoral speech is. That they could not explain the scope and limits of free speech at university tells you everything. They don't care about free speech. Why should they bother to learn about it and defend it properly?
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  31942. Well, she is doing something good by volunteering at a wolf refuge at least. That was much better than I expected.
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  31943. This is over. The time bomb is ticking on this society.
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  31944.  @saltyyankee5149  Try reading the case itself, and the two dissenting opinions.
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  31945. They are "forced" . . . ? They are paid to Russiagate, they are paid to attack people in bad faith, . . . etc.
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  31946. "Regime change" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Well, obviously, Russia needs a Biden to take the reins.
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  31947.  @Silence_Duder_Gooder  Yeah. Looks like.
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  31948.  @puttintane9937  Upon his arrest, I heard no mention of his race, either.
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  31949. ​ @peterbelanger4094  I answered that in another thread.
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  31950. ​ @peterbelanger4094  . . . As you well know
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  31951.  @AidenMarcelle887  Not "that;" "WHO"
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  31952. P. S. Ditch that beard and hair. Not flattering. You're holding yourself back, for nothing.
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  31953. @franwi1722  Then see her analyses today and yesterday (especially yesterday) of Matt Gaetz' strategy to remove McCarthy from the speakership. They are the most solid I've heard. Brie does have one problem in her communication style: she tends to develop relatively tangential propositions first, and then she comes back to her main point and quickly shows how her other points followed from her main point. That's not ideal, certainly. It takes some getting used to, sort of like a language that builds sentences by putting verbs last. I wish she wouldn't do that. If you're mad at her about her COVID and gender stuff, I don't like any of that, either. Is that it? She did do a pretty good segment on her own podcast, with a doctor admitting where RFK Jr's criticism of the COVID response was correct. They didn't own up to everything, but they were pretty good overall.
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  31954. @franwi1722  Do you have a reference? Because that would be guilt by mere association. My understanding was that he was a fan of Tim Pool's --- but everyone has unhinged fans now. It means nothing.
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  31955. @franwi1722  I found an account at MediaMatters, complete with transcript. Do you consider it accurate and not out of context? It shows Pool laughing the incident off nonchalantly, while also conceding there was one than a single clip of his show that the shooter saved. That does play to his audience. Pool could have made it clear the person had nothing to do with him, that of course he condemns the shooting, and THEN ridiculed the people trying to draw a tenuous link. Pool did not distinguish himself, no. He sounds like a bratty high school sophomore. But if someone is going to cite Pool, it's not fair to make it sound like the association was more than it was. It was very tenuous, and the social media mob played it up. I agree about that part. Ironic: Pool did what Brie does, failing to make his main point stand out. Lol. Figures.
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  31956. @franwi1722  I'm not spreading anything, btw. I'm sick of guilt by association. If someone has millions of fans, you can be sure some have been convicted of the worst felonies. That is true of absolutely everyone. Ted Bundy probably watched Walter Cronkite.
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  31957. @franwi1722  Okay, but this isn't just any person. No, he has no obligation to be serious, he can be flippant, but I'm no fan of it. Whether he did something wrong (no) is separate from whether I like his attitude, personally. I guess I'm not clear on how off-base Brie is. Now I'll have to listen to her again. Not now, lol.
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  31958. @franwi1722  I can see there was a lot of cut-and-paste, people just calling the shooter a fan. I agree that's bad -- way worse that Pool being childish. He had no obligation to distance himself from the guy. But I think it would have been good to be serious for five seconds. Watching Jeffrey Sachs on Chris Hedges. They were quoting from one of the speeches of JFK. What people used to be like! It's unthinkable now.
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  31959.  @kellyw8017  Timestamps?
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  31960. @poloshirtsamurai  So, no timestamps. I am shocked, shocked.
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  31961.  @PikachooUpYou  Or as a foil.
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  31962. ​ @Critical-Thinker895 exactly
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  31963. ​ @michaellowe3665 THANK YOU. 😂😂😂😂😂
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  31964.  @valerierogers9609  Where is the allegiance of the members of Congress who swore to protect and defend OUR First Amendment?
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  31965.  @3ForestAnimals  SHE WAS BORN IN DETROIT.
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  31966.  @danielsharp3683  Do you support kicking anyone with dual citizenship with ISRAEL out of government? I DON'T support that.
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  31967.  @tomroyse1540  That's just a story. Immigrants are let in to lower wages. They are hated by "real" Americans, and they know it.
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  31968.  @jf7078  Is Palestine an enemy nation with respect to the United States? Evidence? Their representatives have been in meetings in Moscow as we speak. In the meantime, Ukraine is losing and the BRICS are expanding. Maybe your knee jerk reactions are not too geopolitically smart? Maybe Mearsheimer has more information on these issues than Gutfeld? Is that possible? Maybe?
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  31969.  @beansibub1527  Everything you're proposing is ILLEGAL because it violates the First Amendment and most of the rest of the Constitution. What is "fabulous" about America if not the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment? That's pretty much the only thing left.
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  31970.  @beansibub1527  No. For standing up for freedom of speech. If you don't want to hear it from her, Tucker and Glenn Greenwald have been talking about it all week.
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  31971.  @beansibub1527  Oops. I argued with stupid after you warned me.
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  31972.  @beansibub1527  Do you always insert "because" between paragraphs willy-nilly?
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  31973. Yup. This channel's idea of news is gossip about other channels.
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  31974. When Democrats talk about minimum wage and health care, people know they don't mean it. When they actually do something, it's ID Pol, every time. And the identities aren't related to Jim Crow, systemic racism, or the country's slave past. They are related to the latest memes. The advertisers determine those.
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  31975. Really? I get the marital issues vibe from him.
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  31976. Reagan gutted mathematics education for a reason.
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  31977. Just saw the latest vote count update, Thursday night. Either they are milking this for ratings, or the race really is a tossup.
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  31978.  @masterchief9291  All right. The problem is, those very same events ARE occurring, right this moment, and the defense budget just got passed without anyone batting an eye. But aside from all that, and more importantly -- I like your spirit. EDIT: with the last line, perhaps I spoke too soon.
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  31979.  @masterchief9291  Dore is not a clown. I'd say a good 80% of his shows over the past month were excellent or outstanding. He is far from flawless. He's a former bricklayer who had a medical bankruptcy, FYI. There's a reason why the best people are defending him in spite of his shortcomings, and some of the worst are smearing him.
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  31980. Bravo for this post, Cynthia.
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  31981. Pfizer just got full FDA approval, but only for 16 and up. Sounds like a good sign, perhaps they refused to bow to pressure. Now parents of kids not yet through puberty (ages 12 to 15) have a solid reason to wait, generally. This is science-based guidance, for a change. Enough with pressuring people to take EUA vaccines.
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  31982.  @hertugen.online  That was true for a long time. Dr. Campbell will never know for certain whether the vaccine contributed to his high blood pressure at the time it emerged. Multivariate anaysis requires large samples. It is not counterfactual speculation. What was the cause of the alleged "too much stress?" That's not a common cause of high blood pressure; it is a cofactor in some cases.
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  31983. ​ @udayviruppal3730  Socialists always encourage education and raise standards, especially in mathematics, physics, and literature. Do you know anything about it??
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  31984. ​ @Pbdave1092 He's poorly educated. Even in the 1980s, Mitterrand fostered high standards while Reagan-Thatcher gutted education. Today, the most common major by far in the US is Business, and kids graduate with debt and unable to write. This started under Reagan.
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  31985. ​ @udayviruppal3730  "Competition" has led to United Health Group dominating the American insurance market. Now, multiply. (See what Socrates said about "competition.")
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  31986. 1. No one should join the military. The sacrifice is too great. 2. Remember, the AI you train with these comments might come around to define your life someday. 3. Who is your true friend in this picture, Gutfeld -- or Jimmy??
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  31987. So they messed up this time, better cover story next time?
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  31988. Watched the whole thing again. It's a big nothing burger. So you don't agree with her views? So what? All the parties here are adults and this is college, not high school. Everyone has full free speech rights. We had far more heated discussions, and it certainly did not make the news. That's because it isn't news. It's just playing gotcha again, instead of doing real journalism. Funny, though, how no one specifies how the controlled environment of the Zoom classroom was breached. Students are supposed to be able to count on their privacy being respected on the Zoom platform.
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  31989. But . . . but . . . It has WELLNESS apps! Are you against wellness? /s
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  31990. @4637jvb  This is false. Some of them said things suggested to them by police, that ended up inconsistent with actual facts. The indictment was political. Remember how Hillary said they were super predators who needed to be brought to heel?
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  31991.  @akb811  Know that lives will be saved thanks to people like you.
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  31992.  @akb811  I'm so sorry. Our family has had its share of life-changing medical mistakes. Every doctor would have urged you to have him vaccinated. Never blame yourself.
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  31993. 😂😂😂😂
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  31994.  @dbarker7794  They had another impeachment show. Didn't you enjoy it? Then he nominated Neera Tanden for Office of Management and BUDGET. What's not to like? /s
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  31995. The size of the loss matters.
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  31996. 1. TYT supports Russiagate 2. TYT made a huge push against Force the Vote, or any other strategy to get a floor vote on Medicare For All, or on any other progressive policy that DNC opposes, while pretending to be in favor of "pushing Biden left." 3. TYT now smeared Aaron Mate, who recently came back from Syria, and then they went after Jimmy for supporting Aaron.
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  31997. Not a personal vendetta, IOW.
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  31998. No liability for injuries BUT full patent protection? Why don't I believe this pandemic was as serious as they claim? Jonas Salk tested the polio vaccine on himself and declined to pursue patent protection.
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  31999.  @baileymaloney1961  Your first sentence is correct. The second, only up to "lies."
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  32000.  @Polidoriltd  "Needs to" pander? Love him or hate him, he has FU money and an ornery streak. He is still too close to his roots and his Tough Guy persona to pander. Wouldn't suit him, and would be glaringly visible.
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  32001. The new media censorship debate is ongoing. Who are you kidding?
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  32002.  @Polidoriltd  Why would he do that? Why would anyone? Work to change their perceptions. It's one thing to avoid them personally, and another to actively alienate half the country when you are a broadcaster. That's the Tucker Carlson stance toward many dems that you're advocating for the other side.
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  32003.  @Polidoriltd  Oh, I "bought" something? I speak three languages, on track to emigrate by 2024. Your circus, etc.
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  32004. Now picture AI on sarcasm . . . If you thought multi-eared elephants were fun.
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  32005. The owner of The Hill is. Not really fair to say that of Krystal and Saagar's show.
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  32006.  @Sjsharksfan88  True, it isn't.
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  32007. Over the last few terms, the Supreme Court has been very open to arguments concerning the means of execution, and allowing a Section 1983 case to be brought to challenge the method of execution.
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  32008. Not in my hood.
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  32009. I found the (German) Paul-Ehrlich-Institut safety report, English language version. You might want to take a peek, to verify. It is always a good idea to go to primary sources to verify anything a politician says. Do we have firm numbers on how many people must be vaccinated in order to save one life? In order to prevent one crippling case of COVID? Please tell me where to find the current data. I'm interested in reality, no problem.
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  32010.  @pmm8621  Prove that up. I indicated where anyone can find the German report cited by the MP. There is plenty of evidence to warrant a careful inquiry. No one knows how that will turn out a priori, because a multivariate analysis has to be done, and that is neither easy nor quick. A lot of things could be happening -- people who already had COVID might be at higher risk from vaccination, people with low vitamin D levels may be at risk for COVID or the vaccines or both. Being shut in may have contributed to obesity or excess drinking, and that plus stress could be behind the various heart issues, more so than any other factors. We need to find out. You, apparently, need to trash the people sounding the alarm. You need to ask yourself why.
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  32011.  @pmm8621  So you joined just this summer, for this purpose? Cha-ching, I hope. Then I would understand. And if not, then I have even less respect.
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  32012.  @pmm8621  Well, that may be true. I don't interact with others in the way that you do, so I couldn't know. Yet you attacked me personally, thinking I was stupid. Perhaps fewer people are as stupid as you think. I don't know that, and you have a lot more information to form an opinion about it than I do. But maybe I've made you think some, which can only be to the good.
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  32013.  @pmm8621  I don't tweet. I'm not on Facebook and never have been, etc., nor Twitter. I only joined here to save videos during the lockdown, and I'm not sure it was worth it.
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  32014.  @pmm8621  I'm reminded of the possible breast cancer cluster in the San Francisco area, which took a LONG time to analyze. It turned out that the number of cases, though higher than what may have been expected, was within the norms of the demographic affected, and the "cluster" was not statistically significant. Yet it was important to let women know to be vigilant, and do what little we could determine might lower risk (such as exercise, occasional fasting, more plant-based foods, vegan days, etc., and of course regular mammography). Similarly, we DO have a problem with vaccine injury, and we DO need to get to the bottom of it. Screaming at the victims is vile. Multivariate analysis is not easy, and takes a long time to complete because there are unavoidable judgment calls to be made. The report from Germany is a basis for starting a serious inquiry. I don't prejudge how it will end. There is too much signal amidst the noise. Dismissing it is bad faith, and does nothing to reassure the public concerning the integrity of the medical system.
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  32015.  @pmm8621  Did you know, for example, that last year the Swiss Ministry of Health recommended only one dose of an mRNA vaccine to all those who had recovered from a proven case of COVID? My closest friend received her first dose, not knowing she had already been exposed to COVID, then was sick from COVID, then was rushed into her second dose as if she had never had COVID by her doctor and the state health department. Her side effects were massive, and included a serious bout of memory issues. She should have waited three months for the second dose. She now refuses boosters. Do you grasp why? Please think it through. No one would admit to her that they did not know what was best, and no one would apply the usual principles, such as the Precautionary Principle and the Hippocratic Oath, to her case. No one treated her as an individual, and now she has lost faith. NOT GOOD. Don't try to lay this at the doorstep of the John Campbells of the world.
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  32016.  @pmm8621  Where did you copy these talking points from? It's what is known as "boilerplate." It is simply inaccurate to say that "the COVID vaccines" have the same safety profile as "other vaccines." First of all, "the COVID vaccines" don't all have the same safety profile as each other, by any stretch. Moderna, for example, has already stopped being used for males under 30 in MANY COUNTRIES. Those of us who are actually informed have been doing things like reading articles from major medical journals and watching to see what the ministries of health of other major European nations are doing. Germany, France, Switzerland, and every Scandinavian country is following different protocols than the CDC; vaccine mandates and passports for people under 18 have already been made illegal in France, and the French Left took the lead. It's easier to demonize and cast aspersions on anyone who doesn't toe the line in the English-speaking world than it is in other European countries. Those of us who are multilingual and multicultural sure do know that, from bitter experience.
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  32017.  @pmm8621  Now that I see how much SOLID information I contributed to this thread, I also see how disrespectful it was to foist that irrelevant boilerplate on me. Sorry I responded. I would never trust you for unbiased information. Go do whatcha gotta do. I'm blocking you from my notifications thread.
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  32018.  @pmm8621  By the way, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is now strongly disfavored where I live. They were giving it to walk-ins for months and months, no appointment necessary, at an outpatient clinic affiliated with one of the best hospitals in Chicago, last year. Now they recommend that people take an mRNA vaccine unless there is some reason they cannot. YOU are misinforming people. It's not working out too well, either.
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  32019. Doesn't matter. Illegal to use deadly force in defense of mere property.
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  32020.  @jocksharerock7318  Heh? Je ne te comprends pas. Je prefere Aude Lancelin.
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  32021.  @jocksharerock7318  I don't have a television. I read, in three languages. Almost four.
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  32022.  @jocksharerock7318  Who is Allysa Milano? Sorry if I misspelled that. I can't see your post as I write this.
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  32023.  @brnrik500  Ha. The duping worked.
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  32024. @Marlene-oy6sd  More garbage? That's like the DNC, who lie ten times more than Trump does and violate our rights more than he did.
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  32025.  @carolineoates5964  And I'm supposed to read that impudent gas bag, too?
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  32026.  @mark-147  How about Glenn Greenwald? How does he come across? 😂
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  32027. @180sammy  People are making bank saying this. 🤣 In the meantime, BRICS+ study and work and never get billionaire grants or CIA money.
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  32028. 10:14 🤣🤣🤣 Gallows humor
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  32029. So it depends not on what was done, but on who did it . . . we, um, knew that.
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  32030.  @LawSavant  P. S. Your style is too pretentious. Work on that.
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  32031.  @LawSavant  You seem to think I'm advocating for the cultural evolution I've described. Why?
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  32032.  @LawSavant  I like your dog thumbnail.
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  32033.  @LawSavant  Even better.
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  32034. @Quinta Perfeita What is something good?
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  32035. @Quinta Perfeita I wonder if one of my replies was shadowed. To take the example of marriage without children: when I was 18 or 19, I thought that was tragic. Today, almost all of the happy marriages I know are without children. It used to surprise me, and I thought those "must be" exceptions. Then I gained more life experience, and the numbers kept rising on one side only.
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  32036. Or humanized mice . . . 😒
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  32037. I don't see that. No one cares about kids whose parents aren't PMC millionaires.
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  32038. Feed the mob. Cha-ching.
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  32039.  @Buttlather  Constitutional RIGHTS are not "legislation from the bench."
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  32040.  @sarahg2653  It was not. This is a talking point, not an analysis. But that's where we are.
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  32041.  @Buttlather  Constitutional rights are something that cannot be taken away from you, by ANYONE in the elected government, at any level, without amending the Constitution. You have the right to decline to exercise them. You have the right to try to persuade others not to exercise them. The right to use birth control, including forms of birth control that may prevent a zygote from being implanted, falls under that very same analysis. A lot of religions oppose artificial birth control. Some even frown on rhythm. They have a right to advocate for their view, but not to criminalize those who disagree. . . . Well, now the state gets to run your life in one more way, and by "state," that almost always means the richer lobby. And you think it's progress! Tell me, were you fooled by the vaccine mandates? How about the Poor Johnny Depp uproar (a First Amendment case)? Or did you want Brian Laundrie's parents to be forced to give up their Fifth Amendment rights, "for Gabby?" How come I saw through all of it -- and ALL of it goes in one direction. You lose rights, and you feel sure ("feel," the operative word) that something else happened. Something good for society. It would be 🤣, but it's not.
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  32042.  @chet9128  "You get what you give?" I would take that deal every time.
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  32043.  @mikesmith-nj1ij  Human nature is to be more radically adaptable than any other living species, and in particular, to be cognitively flexible. No other species has language or culture, and the range of ways of life human societies have created through time and space is astounding. If you start with your own way of life, you could never imagine how other peoples have lived and live now.
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  32044. @grannyannie2948  You're the one who wrote some of the most vicious, embittered posts on this whole thread, no mean feat (pun intended). Hence you do sound as though you made mistakes a' plenty, and have taken to advising minor teens to do likewise.
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  32045.  @jenniferwildflower4249  Exactly. Why does no one else know this? The attacks all miss the mark completely. I think they are just jealous of her because of her second husband, who sounds like an absolute peach.
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  32046. Didn't you listen? This was discussed.
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  32047. Didn't you listen? This was addressed.
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  32048. Agreed. Minors were kept from advertising when advertising was nowhere near as nefarious.
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  32049. I have a crazy idea. Democrats should nominate a viable candidate, no pun intended.
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  32050. Yeah, even right by a college campus. The sun was starting to come up. Imagine how good she had felt that morning, running at dawn.
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  32051. Do all their readers live in a cul-de-sac?
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  32052. Brandon is starting to make me think maybe he didn't win.
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  32053. Are you familiar with Chicago? Infiltration of the police and even the judiciary by organized crime figures (including drug gangs) has been endemic. Neighborhoods are never reclaimed until a year or so before real estate speculators get interested in them. Why, it's like magic.
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  32054. P. S. It should be obvious that reporting on THIS would be about as safe as Serpico's life was. There are easier ways to make a living.
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  32055. "No one likes Megan" because the tabloids told them not to like Megan, and they have all the independence of thought of a paramecium. It's a diversion from the real problems in that family. It's not hard to find a woman to flog, especially if you can make people envy her and believe "she got more than she deserves" because bedroom. Isn't that it?
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  32056. Exactly. If (IF) you legitimately fear for your life, then act like it.
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  32057.  @nateb4543  For how long? Half a year, okay.
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  32058. Where did you go to school?
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  32059. Fire Hasan. I'm serious. We are firing people for far less.
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  32060. Mentalité de Reagan-Thatcher
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  32061. Krystal was hysterical here. Great radar!
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  32062. But they are here to "educate" us.
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  32063. ​@Asturias14 Please provide access to a list. I see this repeated, and never substantiated. Sort-of how Kisin et al operate.
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  32064.  @user-ro9md9wp3j  If you are vaccinated, you must know that the EUA release form explicitly states two things: first, your signature verifies that you read the form and the latest fact sheet, and second, once you have read the materials, if you choose not receive the vaccine, your right to medical treatment will be unaffected by your decision. If you have been vaccinated, you must have the form. Don't you?
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  32065. Now I get it. Making an autistic child a hero helped pave the road to Joe and Kamala.
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  32066. From their Howard Stern imitation days.
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  32067. Harsh!
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  32068. The clubs made the mistake of thinking the women would be too embarrassed to go public and organize. Why should they be? As she said, this is an entirely legal form of entertainment. If Boogie Nights could be made 25 years ago, I don't see how the club owners thought they could shame anybody today for dancing. Serious fim and cabaret/erotic dance has fewer guardrails in Europe.
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  32069. Don't feel bad. Now there is a major called Financial Engineering. No. Not a joke.
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  32070. I think the more you insult people, the more you will persuade them to inject a substance into their body. It works for smack.
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  32071. I don't know, but it's instructive, isn't it? "Popularity" has never been more worthless. Yet it can create overnight billionaires, too, while real jobs disappear. Strange times.
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  32072. The time line for Cenk's support/opposition re: M4A is suspicious.
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  32073. Sure. That's why he was successfully sued by the Sandy Hook elementary school surviving families whom he smeared.
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  32074. What does a celebrity have to do for you to finally be leery of their shtick? Lie about a massacre of first graders? Does that qualify? As for sometimes breaking a real story, so does the Enquirer.
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  32075.  @allenvestal4474  Denied a trial? Bull! He defied court orders to produce evidence, which could have resulted in worse than a default judgment. Here's a clue: in tort, you have to produce evidence. Otherwise, there is nothing for a jury to try.
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  32076.  @allenvestal4474  The Supreme Court rejected his appeal just this year. You poor thing, believing these nut cases.
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  32077.  @jonz23m  Why would you believe someone who did that? He's not credible. Are some of his stories, or his speculations, true? Yes, sure. But why would he do such a thing, to those families? It's on a par with denying 9/11 first responders got cancer, or claiming anti-war combat veterans are Putin puppets. IOW, it is vile.
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  32078.  @allenvestal4474  Truth is a complete defense to any defamation claim. In tort, you have a burden of production of evidence. If someone were to defame me and claim I was a pedophile, I would have to produce evidence that their claim was a lie in order to have a complete defense. In that case, my sworn testimony would be evidence. But since Jones did not witness a Sandy Hook cosplay event himself, he has to present to the jury what it was that convinced him that it happened, whatever that may have been. Sorry if this is news to you.
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  32079.  @jonz23m  Wait. You think someone who doesn't find Alex Jones credible would listen to Kyle, Ana, or Cenk?? 😂😂😂
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  32080.  @allenvestal4474  He lost every appeal. All conspirators?
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  32081.  @allenvestal4474  His testimony is not evidence that Sandy Hook was fake because he was not a witness to the faking of the massacre. His testimony that someone else told him that Sandy Hook was fake is pure hearsay. He has to produce evidence that he got that information, somehow, from somebody. He has to try to subpoena that person. He has to produce writings or recodings. Since he wasn't there, he must have relied on something. Why are you so hung up on him? You think the courts in his own state of Texas were biased?
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  32082.  @allenvestal4474  I just did, and it was removed. District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble of Travis County, Texas issued default judgments against Jones and Infowars. Time for YOU to get a grip.
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  32083.  @allenvestal4474  Oh. Did he witness the Sandy Hook cosplay?
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  32084.  @allenvestal4474  Not only that, but did you know Elizabeth Taylor sued the National Enquirer? Rhetorical question.
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  32085.  @allenvestal4474  You didn't know discovery comes before trial? You didn't know a default may be entered against you if you fail to produce triable evidence at the discovery phase, after the court tells you twice what you need to do? You didn't know Jones could have fired his lawyers and hired new lawyers, and requested more time? You didn't know every appellate-level court has rejected his appeals, and the Supreme Court refused to hear his case just this year, when it has quite a few judges who might be sympathetic to him? Good thing you are an expert on IQ, whew that reassures me. That way you at least know who to listen to.
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  32086.  @allenvestal4474  ha ha ha good one
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  32087.  @allenvestal4474  Any more cliches ya got there? I'm not a pill popper. Your domain? For someone who pretends to oppose corporate media, they sure know how to make you repeat their slogans.
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  32088.  @allenvestal4474  OH RED PILL IS Unique With YOU. You wrote the script for The Matrix, was it? Or am I wrong, and you're a pill popper? That's what made you repeat it.
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  32089.  @allenvestal4474  No idea what that is. But YOU know.
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  32090.  @allenvestal4474  You support someone who mistreated people who lost their children in the worst school massacre in American history (note: he was not obligated to believe them, only to LEAVE THEM ALONE), and you think I'm a sociopath. The real tragedy is that people who think this way surprise no one. It is expected.
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  32091.  @allenvestal4474  If you could have me exterminated, would you? Yawn afterwards, then go to dinner?
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  32092.  @allenvestal4474  Did someone say "sociopath?" LOL
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  32093.  @allenvestal4474  I don't take unproven vaccines any more than I take those pills you know about and I never heard of.
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  32094. Sweet lady.
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  32095. Another issue: it seems that COVID has had a higher death rate in men, but all of the vaccines in use so far have had more significant side effects in WOMEN. We're all feminists when it's about hashtags. Now something serious is at stake. Let's at least acknowledge it and talk it through.
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  32096. Oh you are too kind.
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  32097. ​@oceania2385 Not at all. Our Department of Defense website conceded that it had funded some of these labs, and built some. I don't know whether it is still up, but it was certainly there in the early spring of 2022, a few months after the invasion.
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  32098. Okay. HOW did we get stuck with this guy? How?
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  32099. "BATSH*T" is really funny now. COVID bats. 🤣
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  32100.  @newmannewmanz7110  People who watch Jimmy and Max can spot the pile on. You take sides in that?
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  32101.  @autodidactpolymath1851  Why would she? Defamation suits are anti-First Amendment and help increase self-censorship.
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  32102. ​ @wh2174 Colleges claim to embrace the First Amendment. It's sad when the presidents of the most illustrious colleges cannot explain First Amendment freedoms. Someone should send her Nadine Strossen's books as a retirement gift.
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  32103. ​ @wh2174 So, college should be a business? Lol, it's already ruined as a place of free inquiry. Maybe Silicon Valley fads in management should be enshrined as governing principles. That way, you can fire (expel) a person for pronoun errors and not worry about it. Serve cricket pilaf at the dorm as an experiment, require mindfulness meditation before breakfast, reward students for viral memes, etc.
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  32104.  @JS-dt1tn  Private universities can choose to embrace speech codes instead of free speech, because they are private, but they can have very serious problems if they discriminate in the enforcement of speech codes. They could end up in court on Title VI. Could? Would!
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  32105. @andrewduff2048  Congress cannot ban First Amendment protected speech because it would be struck down as unconstitutional. But the rest of that post is great.
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  32106. @JS-dt1tn  Title VI doesn't force a private entity to embrace the full panoply of First Amendment freedoms, it just mandates strict equality in enforcing any speech or conduct code they adopt. They can't favor Jews over Palestinians, etc. PEN American Center has a great explanation of free speech on campus. Anyway, those private universities DID adopt the First Amendment, so this is moot. They have to apply it to everyone.
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  32107. @peggypasson8794  That's simple. Discrimination isn't covered under free speech. That's why it can lead to loss of employment, expulsion from school, a lawsuit, etc. Just like defamation, harassment, criminal conspiracy, all sorts of things that are crimes or torts. If speech is free, the consequences are more speech, not censorship. Pro-Israel students must have every opportunity to demonstrate and to denounce the political positions they find abhorrent.
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  32108. @alphafort  Other countries don't have a First Amendment. I hope we can keep ours. We believe the perpetrator is responsible for violence. An instigator has to be very explicit and has to incite imminent violence to be culpable.
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  32109. @maryjohnson1890  That's up to them. It's not a law that they can't. I think people who fall for the hysteria du jour, after all the hysteria we've already had in this decade, might benefit from therapy, too.
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  32110.  @57Thumper  💯
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  32111.  @JS-dt1tn  Exactly! Great point.
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  32112. Look up Ben Norton, Multipolarista -- US has launched 251 military interventions in the past three decades. Source? Congressional Research Service You can download the report yourself.
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  32113.  @dothehokeypokeyandgetbusy6359  A lot of us have been in emergencies. Some people are veterans, for one thing. Not me, personally, but I cared for one.
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  32114. That's the man to ask.
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  32115.  @akula89  He's arrogant because he's rich.
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  32116. The prototypes in the Holtzman article reflect exactly that! Most of the high Dark-Triad faces are more attractive than those considered low on the traits. Scary.
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  32117. ​ @liseklerekoper2441 Yeah, Leslie Wexner, a huge donor, withdrew all support. You remember Wexner? He was Jeffrey Epstein's closest friend and patron. That wasn't a problem, apparently.
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  32118. So, Emily, how much of your paycheck are you willing to give up? As for that thing on your wrist, it will never be on mine. I'm not needy in that way.
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  32119. Oh I believe it, LOL.
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  32120. EXACTLY. You wear a mask to protect others.
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  32121.  @Kakearya  Your mask is primarily to protect ME, and my mask is primarily to protect YOU.
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  32122. Beautifully said.
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  32123.  Master of the Blue Cape 33  I hate fast food. (I'm also a vegetarian.) Is that okay?
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  32124.  @abrahamreviews  So we can boycott Etsy as well, and go to local boutiques. Thanks for the head's up.
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  32125. I've seen people who are permanently impaired.
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  32126. Any crime at gunpoint is a violent crime. A pickpocket is different. That's not a felony.
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  32127. Curtis didn't say it doesn't.
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  32128. The end aged great -- in 2016, the "intelligent" PM classes wanted a do-over of the election/revolt of the electoral college. Well, look where we are in 2020. The next step down is what you see today among a sizable number of Trump supporters, who actually think the election will be handed over to Trump.
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  32129. Same
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  32130. Stef is great here!
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  32131.  @turdfurgeson517  That would be Emily. Denounces a trend, rushes out to buy New Toy. What's not to like? That's how Nancy Pelosi made her millions.
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  32132.  @turdfurgeson517  🤣🤣🤣
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  32133. She's an adult. She makes her own choices now.
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  32134. Neither one is.
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  32135. I still can't wrap my head around this. I thought teachers were not teaching anything, they are a bunch of SJW, LGBTQ groomers, and homeschooling and the Internet are the answer. Now it turns out that they actually teach math and reading, and we need them. I'm really at a loss here.
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  32136.  @bklynbass  Fair enough! I was being too ironic for my own good. ;) The teachers are constantly accused of not teaching. I thought it was rather sweet that it turns out that they are needed -- just when so few people want the job.
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  32137. Emily is actually pro-life. That's . . . different.
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  32138. He'd be dead.
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  32139.  @selfcoutureny1  Right. He's dead.
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  32140.  @CBfrmcardiff  Well, we have plenty of incidents where black men are unarmed, not resisting, AND begging to be allowed to breathe. Does begging to be allowed to breathe count as a form of verbal self-defense?
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  32141.  @CBfrmcardiff  Right. They didn't live to get to trial. To find out if their neck belligerently got in the way of someone's arm or knee. But I will see whether I can find a case where they lived and got a first-class legal team to defend them.
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  32142.  @CBfrmcardiff  They are accused of resisting arrest.
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  32143.  @PureTranceSoul  It's all about who said what for you, too, huh? How is that better than wokester id pol?
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  32144. 11:30 Brilliant, absolutely moving statement by Dr. Campbell.
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  32145. Sweet shirt, Jimmy. Very Spring.
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  32146.  @commonsenseconservative  No, she was unresponsive. There is no proof that she mischaracterized her public social media accounts. What she said she usually posts about may indeed be what she posts about.
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  32147.  @commonsenseconservative  Calm down and spell. I watched all of it. It was a show, to impress you.
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  32148.  @commonsenseconservative  Watch for the indictment. LOL
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  32149.  @commonsenseconservative  BTW, I would be just as cautious in entertaining the shrieks to prosecute Trump. First, no one is above the law -- true, and most important. BUT you have to be very, VERY sure that you have the grounds to go after a former president. If you are that sure, fine. But otherwise, no. Same for Biden, once we get a grip on the Hunter mess.
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  32150. This is nonsense. Yes, he compares favorably to a lot of Western/Five Eyes politicians, but you seem not to appreciate how low the bar. You cannot underestimate Five Eyes. It is not possible. Putin could have avoided this war at the time he chose to pursue it. Every war or escalation that could be avoided must be avoided --- which of course includes the arming of Ukrainian troops and militias by the US, etc. No good guys in most pictures. None in this one.
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  32151. ​ @JamesMilne-hi2ot  It's a joke. J - O - K - E. Google it.
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  32152. Yes. It was a huge mistake, and an obvious one.
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  32153. Astute.
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  32154. They're not in power, and haven't been since Mitterrand's first term, over 40 years ago. Macron is a centrist globalist banker.
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  32155.  @AaronB99999  British sources have it, even The Guardian.
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  32156. How much risk should be imposed on children in order to protect adults? These are minor children, who can't decide for themselves.
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  32157. Murray challenges the mainstream narrative? This IS the mainstream narrative. As for the kids, they never read anything.
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  32158. ​@Judy-n3m That's actually not true. Everyone begins with a presumption that he did not do anything wrong. Those who say he did have the burden of proving it. "Some people said" means it could be true, or not. It's pretty weak evidence, but it is evidence.
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  32159. Biden should do GoFundMe, just like all the victims of COVID or school shooters have had to do.
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  32160. The picture suggests the Cynic, but Dilettante suggests a game.
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  32161. ​ @zivkovicable 😂😂😂
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  32162. Yep, looks like. ;)
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  32163.  @siddbastard  possible
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  32164. Good.
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  32165. To think that Walz was an exceptionally competent educator. And he was. "Ponder that."
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  32166. A man who micro doses and claims he was "tricked" into permitting his son to transition should not be anywhere near the power of government.
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  32167. I was just cents erred for citing the Great EM's actual record. THAT'S what you can expect.
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  32168. @paulsnow  The federal government provides massive funding to the states for all sorts of purposes, notably for educating disabled children.
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  32169. @paulsnow  Maybe you need to read up on the IDEA. That's one area where the Supreme Court often voted 9 to 0. Then you also have FERPA, which requires agency oversight, since individuals usually can't go to court to get damages if a school commits privacy violations. Just two examples.
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  32170. @paulsnow  Titles VI and IX are supposed to prevent invidious discrimination in educational institutions that receive federal funds. That would be a good thing, if they did.
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  32171.  @paulsnow  Read the first sentence first.
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  32172. @paulsnow  An IEP, as provided in the IDEA, would guarantee that parents be involved in their troubled child's education plan. It is a federally-protected right of the parents. Look it up.
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  32173. @paulsnow  Try invoking it, and see what happens. A TON of Supreme Court opinions are on the side of parents here. They are part of the IEP team. It's not a regulation, it's the law. There is no opportunity for capture here.
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  32174. @paulsnow  You know, I hope they let you see what I wrote. I also fail to understand why you talk about things you clearly don't know about. Statutes aren't regulations. There is no opportunity for "agency capture." The Supreme Court already made that crystal clear.
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  32175. @paulsnow  Nothing to do with it. Zip. See the Winkelman case, 2007. Supreme Court. Seventeen years ago. Also see the Forest Grove School District case, 2009. A school district can even be obligated to pay for private school. Think. If I say more, you won't get to see it, if you know what I mean.
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  32176. @paulsnow  These are cases from 15 to 17 years ago. I sure hope my post is allowed to appear.
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  32177.  @paulsnow  So, Bill Gates is a virologist, and now Elon is a constitutional lawyer. Meritocracy on "both sides," huh? 😂
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  32178. She thinks it's her business to say what Prince William's only brother should do, and whether he is wanted? Really? Isn't it up to them? The manipulation these gossip mongers get away with! How do people fall for it?
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  32179. Nothing lovely about directing what estranged family should do, who is or is not wanted, and so forth. She takes this occasion to bring all that up? That's his only brother.
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  32180. They are going after Glenn Greenwald, too.
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  32181. Media critique is legit. WSJ is big enough that you can now assume everyone has heard about the story, so you have a right to criticize the WSJ.
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  32182. No, YOU are crazy. Not one thing he said was true. But he gets paid to rant. No woman gymnast has won more medals than her. She had a potentially lethal issue with her cognition. She suddenly could not tell where she was in space. This could get her killed. Should she have prepared an easier program? Maybe. But she qualified on every apparatus at the Olympics before this happened. One day when something important turns up in your life maybe you will get sick, too. Count on the same sympathy you offer others.
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  32183. That skeleton still doesn't have enough.
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  32184. Goggins, YOU ARE A SMART GUY. A GUY WHO FIGURES OUT HOW HIS MIND WORKS, WHO USES MIND TO UNDERSTAND MIND, IS SMART. That is the definition of smart. Oh if only I could get every student I have ever had to do what you do!
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  32185. As a lawyer, he could have studied science and become a member of the patent bar. Not having done that, he shouldn't have this job. He is not qualified to work with medical doctors on policy that affects 330 million people.
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  32186.  @spinafex5729  Jonas Salk knew personal sacrifice. He tested the polio vaccine on himself, and then refused to apply for a patent. (P. S. But look who he married. ;) You agree with the proposal to offload risk to the most vulnerable instead, and talk it up as noble. Emblematic of the rotten times we live in. How come you haven't noticed?
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  32187.  @spinafex5729  I never, EVER said that no one got vaccinated for altruistic reasons. I myself have, many times. (I don't think utilitarian means what you think it does, by the way.)
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  32188.  @notuber1435  So beautifully stated. :)
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  32189. I don't think the majority of police are thugs. I think they are heavily infiltrated by white supremacists and similar ultra-right groups, and are afraid. I think it's Serpico all the way down.
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  32190. What are you on about? This is called journalism, not advertising. Are people that weak, that ANY platform tempts them to slavishly imitate the person they see? They are, aren't they?
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  32191.  @icytides  If your first sentence is anywhere near true, then that is appalling. What are they thinking?
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  32192. "That's amazing." 8:51 Even they laughed.
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  32193. Sounds about right.
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  32194. I disagree. Free speech for Davidai, too. At least where this video was filmed is a well traveled public space that I assume is a designated free speech forum. So, why couldn't the COO stand up for free speech in a free speech forum? Why couldn't he say anything? A COO is supposed to be able to talk. He gets paid enough to talk, doesn't he? He doesn't believe in free speech, he believes in his paycheck. PERIOD.
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  32195. Yup, when you feel like tweeting, those philosophers would counsel self-discipline instead.
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  32196. More political truth: yes, the RNC will want to punish Gaetz, but don't be fooled. No one cares about McCarthy. He's the loser. He's yesterday. No one will gamble their tomorrow on his yesterday.
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  32197. Everyone had to homeschool to some extent during the pandemic. Some of the inevitable challenges of homeschooling then came to light --- as did some of the grave problems with the classroom curriculum. You can't fix something you won't face.
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  32198. Infantile creeps like Hotez have turned twitter into a cesspool --- he helped normalize gross defamation on social media. None of the clowns like Hotez sound like adults. They sound like what a high school senior used to be ashamed of having said when they were in 8th grade.
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  32199. Money IS speech, protected by the 1st Amendment, when neoliberals want it to be.
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  32200. Why did you spoil a decent point with a word like "coping?" Cut the Newspeak, regardless of "side."
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  32201.  @robweissman5952  Well, what word did you used to use before "cope" became a meme? You weren't born in 2012, so you must have a larger vocab than the latest Internet drivel.
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  32202.  @robweissman5952  Don't tell me, let me guess. Are the views you agree with "based?"
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  32203.  @robweissman5952  You remind me of a character in a novel I just finished, late to the party on my part: Tony Webster.
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  32204.  @humanbeing2420  And I said they weren't "spot on." Well, I didn't repeat the cliche, but . . .
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  32205.  @humanbeing2420  But first you laid on the innuendo real thick. Wow. What goes around comes around, Bud.
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  32206.  @humanbeing2420  Look up innuendo. Then reread your first sentence. That is worse than saying your schtick straight up, and out loud. And they are NOT "spot on" that Dore "harms" the progressive cause, as is obvious by the interest and support he has gained for this idea already, and from some of the best people. Looks like there is concern he might have disrupted a few career paths, however.
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  32207.  @humanbeing2420  Look how everybody is talking about -- him!! Sad to say, that is not a sign that he is ineffectual. Sad, because it would be true even if this proposal were a horrible idea. Luckily, though, it's a very good one.
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  32208.  @humanbeing2420  Innuendo? Did I hint? Insinuate? No. Said it straight up. Did I allude to vague, ambiguous, insider sources of information, like you suggested Sam would have access to? No. I looked at this video and your remarks. The texts we all can review. Nope. Not the same.
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  32209. On the radio yesterday, the talking head said that Congress had approved $1.7 trillion "to support democracy at home and abroad, and for suicide prevention." The voice did not flinch. No one notices this stuff any more. They just read the teleprompter.
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  32210. Amen. "Agency an gratitude!!" Oprah has monetized this much more effectively -- with more agency and more gratitude, 😅😅😅 This must be for non-readers.
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  32211.  @liuj88  Don't waste my time with this puerile junk. Of course the RNC are a reactionary force -- as is the entire political class in the US. I don't believe they consider us fully human, nevermind anything else.
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  32212. 6:53 9:33 So in 2008 the NYTimes still had some reporters.
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  32213. She said at the end that he wasn't a "racist." He's a kid. He's too young to be labeled like that.
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  32214. @millergdonald  That wasn't the question. What will happen if something else were to happen (often a very useful exercise, even essential at times) was not the question.
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  32215.  @millergdonald  Where did that happen? The aerial photos of the Columbia campus showed that the demonstrators were very easily avoided, for example -- absurdly so. The police called in to arrest them filled the area that had been mostly empty. NYU was probably different, because it is in a congested urban setting. Their presence probably forced some to go around them. I support speech and assembly. That will, in some areas, inconvenience some people.
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  32216. People are jealous of anything. They might be jealous because you have blue eyes or a talent for photography. Or a cute mom. Anything.
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  32217. Certainly there are. I've heard them myself.
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  32218.  @kadarabdullahi  I believe both Dr. Eric Topol and Dr. Racaniello have. One of them has for sure.
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  32219. We can start by outlawing China from buying our Treasury Bonds. Oh wait.
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  32220. ​​ @KB-sv7fm ​ No, they did not "test it a million times." And solid evidence, published in the top tier medical journals, of significant problems in about 1 in 1000 people is mounting. Anything serious in above one or two people per 100,000 is considered noteworthy. You don't read journals? NIH makes them available for free in its library.
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  32221.  @KB-sv7fm  Also, that never happened "60 years ago."
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  32222. Why wouldn't a person who has become independently wealthy, and then some, on a gamble not take some profits along the way? More, more, more . . . ?
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  32223. Peterson slips in ideology and pseudo-facts that are outright false or misleading, often in a sinister way, but I feel for him as a person. He should have known better than to become addicted to benzodiazepines, but both he and his family have suffered from odd, debilitating illnesses, and he does have it hard -- objectively. He's not just whining. I understand why he does what he does to make money, but know that is why he's doing it. FOR THE MONEY. An amalgam of Nietzsche and Jung gets recycled every generation or two. He made it more popular by making it darker, strangely enough.
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  32224.  @doilookwasted2u  What do you know what someone else will write? Speak for yourself. "Oh I get it. You're an addict, too. That's why you defend Peterson, and excuse and exaggerate other people's drug use." -- That's how your jeering sounds. If a person is a hypocrite about their drug use, that happens to be relevant in evaluating the value of their advice. Not determinative, but relevant. (Too bad about your inability to write a book, by the way. Two can play your game.)
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  32225.  @dnbjedi  Archetypes greatly violate Occam's Razor. I have seen a foundation for ethics laid in a much more compelling way, without making such strong assumptions about where they come from or what basis they need to have in any "collective unconscious." So I reject the elaborate story. Kant, for example, can explain the foundations of ethics in a way that has nothing to do with archetypes whatsoever -- and he understands why he should. If someone says to you, "those stories do not speak to me, they leave me cold," what will you say in response? People who believe in hierarchies will say, or insinuate, that they are above the "nonbeliever" in the hierarchy, and that the hierarchy is real. Anyone who disagrees, disagrees because he has a "naturally" low position. You don't see this is implied by Peterson, and that it is nonsense? You don't see that in Socrates, you don't see that in Kant. It's a fraudulent move.
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  32226. Drug abuse is a reason to ask questions about the credibility of someone who sets himself apart as exceptionally wise about how to live life. They don't invalidate the person's message, of course not. I don't think it's beside the point. If someone sets themselves up as a wise seer, and he hid his drug problem (which Peterson did NOT do), what would you say?
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  32227.  @dnbjedi  Totally disagree with "everything is an opinion." Exactly why Socrates opposed the Sophists. "Everything is an opinion" always devolves into might makes right. A person who has spent decades in prison for something they did not do and had nothing to do with is not very high on any hierarchy, but they do know the truth, and they do know that their imprisonment is unjust.
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  32228.  @adammckevin6330  And what if the man doesn't have an antidote for a snake bite, but as it turns out, he only says he does?
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  32229. This is insightful. When police beat you, it may be better to remain silent. I assume that most people are at risk at this point. The police act like roving gangs.
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  32230.  @theciakilledjfk5973  We are supposed to trust people who jeer at us and call us names to take care of us if something goes wrong. Well, as you can see, there was a groundswell for Medicare for All as soon as we realized we were in a pandemic. /s The irrationality is staggering. And I am very PRO-vaccine. I've asked for some they've said I don't need. I got Prevnar 13 the minute it was recommended for more general use, not just people over 60 or 65. That was in 2016 I think.
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  32231. This is for you to say.
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  32232. I genuinely don't. Not because of what he turned out to be. But I don't particularly like how Robert Redford looked, either. My tastes are different.
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  32233. FYI: In Sweden, in 2024, boosters are generally recommended for those over 80. I know of no European country with universal health care that recommends vaccination for those under 50 absent some VERY compelling reason. Also, this is a recommendation, not a mandate. This was already true in fall 2022.
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  32234.  @Noki-y6g  Yes, of course.
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  32235.  @Noki-y6g  France made it illegal to ask a minor their COVID vaccine status years ago. LFI was the leader in passing that.
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  32236. @user-ic2fk3sb6y  See the title of the video for topic.
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  32237. Considering all the coverups he successfully used, it sounds like he purposely flubbed the test. It would be hard to join the Navy with an IQ that low.
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  32238. 💯
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  32239. She wasn't good here.
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  32240.  @klausstimpy2292  No, that's in the transphobe agit-prop.
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  32241. Among other things, Dore expected the Democrats to work to take back the Senate in 2018, not to expend their political capital on Russiagate, about which Dore was right. Dore expected too much from the DNC. They spent the four Trump years increasing their net worth, as would any rational lackey of oligarchs. In 2020, it looks like they still won't have the Senate. "Gee. How did that happen?" Ha.
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  32242. Super analysis of Piaget. Really wow.
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  32243.  @78md74  If she had defended that wacko, you'd have a point. And Robbie thinks an employer should be able to get rid of an employee for any reason -- including refusal to take the COVID vaccine.
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  32244.  @78md74  IOW, Robbie is the most biased person you could find.
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  32245.  @matttorrence2900  No. You do. You need to stop following me around with your logic-challenged self.
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  32246. America's latest poster boy for "men's rights" made an assassination joke within a week of that shooting.
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  32247.  @JL-gt1kc  I was duped at first. I thought it was a bona fide scoop. Something sounded wrong pretty soon after the very beginning, and I stopped watching before that part.
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  32248.  @richesandgold  European countries with higher cancer rates have longer life expectancy.
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  32249.  @Persefone94  Welcome to America. You'll hear worse.
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  32250.  @craig7350  Healthcare a business? How elastic is THIS demand curve?
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  32251.  @azimmer  Someone doesn't know? That's what surprised me. I thought everyone was aware of the children of living former presidents.
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  32252. @smellmyfinger85  No, you are. The petition didn't cross into unprotected speech. Fact.
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  32253.  @JescaML  How stupid are you? I thought civics was a high school requirement.
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  32254. Well you're as quick to get rid of the First Amendment as a typical wokester or vaccine mandate promoter. And why? Because Americans -- rightly OR wrongly -- criticized a foreign government. When does this ____ stop?
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  32255.  @WhyHandleYouTube  You sound compliant.
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  32256.  @grarx.elg60txkkl2d0fkalufgxrfe  Deport Americans for exercising their First Amendment right to criticize another country? I don't agree with their petition. They still have a right to publish it. Get a grip.
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  32257.  @FYI003  Or maybe it doesn't want to lose a First Amendment suit? Could that be it? So glad you all showed your true colors, lol.
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  32258. VAST First Amendment violations, because they figure People's Party can't afford lawyers. Zero respect for the Constitution they took an oath to defend and protect. None of it means anything to them.
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  32259.  @mandom9484  Tu ne sais pas lire? Tiens. 😏
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  32260. Everyone should have the option: any of the three, or none.
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  32261. First, no one said any such thing, that is an abject lie. Second, English is not something you know well enough to teach any subject, anywhere. Nice colloquialisms, though. You learned the f-word.
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  32262. Nursery school in France has required a Master's degree for ages now. "The youngest should have the best" is a basic principle anywhere where you see kids excel in reading, mathematics, piano, gymnastics, theatre, ballet. Private schools in New York are the same, but they cost a fortune.
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  32263. Do other people remember September 12, 2001? We were told that over 6000 people were killed on September 11th. It took a while to find out it was just under 3000.
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  32264. If CHINA did this to our civilians? WE bombed their embassy in 1999. Why did you invoke China?
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  32265. It took COVID to get that animal out of the White House. Dems lost seats in the House.
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  32266. "Political class" . . . I guess he assumes these are the children of that generation.
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  32267. Jimmy, Chicago cops under investigation like this would be suspended with pay, not searching a prior mayor's private residence.
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  32268. @Appregator  If you have any interest in facts, try reading the Complaint. I call your attention to paragraphs 16 to 40 in particular.
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  32269. NIH statement is supported by MANY mainstream virologists. Of course ivermectin merits close study.
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  32270. ​ @tonyprice2256  It was not this bad. We had our moments, true. But very few people flaunted such contempt.
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  32271. This is lovely.
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  32272. ​ @969omo No one should be forced to finance abortion. I am an agnostic, by the way. 😮
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  32273. Wait. If you know that you MUST do everything you can to advance your career because you have serious obligations, and you dare not fail, you will feel impure if you were to attend networking events?? You might feel resentful, perhaps, but impure? 😂😂😂 In other words, it does not pass the laugh test.
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  32274. As soon as Hunter Biden can persuade Daddy?
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  32275. How do you know this? You knew it before the fact?
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  32276.  @purplematteronly  I accept that. It certainly means he should not have been out now, in 2022. In any case, I don't believe in releasing violent offenders from prison straight into society. Robust halfway house programs and intense monitoring work in other countries, where the levels of violence and recidivism are lower to start with. I also don't believe Shon Hopwood should have become a law professor quite so easily. I saw through that one.
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  32277. Why is it that among the English-speaking peoples, hero worship is rampant? You don't see this in France, or in most of Eastern Europe. Ethics transcends the worship of pseudo-heroes.
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  32278. ​ @ScruffyTubbles  Excellent point.
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  32279. @lestrem11  Musk He is off. He should have no influence.
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  32280. Why did it take police so long? They got to Uvalde quick. /s
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  32281. The few times Bernie showed backbone everyone CHEERED.
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  32282.  @jonc7330  I don't like fearmongering in general, no matter how well I've slept. Fearmongering concerning health is probably the worst.
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  32283. "The letters were first published by legal affairs reporter Meghann Cuniff. In them, Kutcher refers to Masterson as a “role model” and “extraordinarily honest,” adding, “he is among few people that I would trust to be alone with my son and daughter,” whom he shares with Kunis." Sounds more like he's hinting that Masterson is innocent.
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  32284. I wish -- not exactly. But almost. It ruled that that old smallpox case from over a hundred years ago can't apply to COVID vaccines to permit mandating them for work unless they actually prevent COVID. It still might be wrong to mandate them, but all these different government entities relied on that old case to require the vaccine. The 9th Circuit said nope. It also made fun of the CDC phrase "safe and effective." The court said, "Safe and effective for what?" 😏
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  32285. @lucrum8  We can't, yt won't allow. Try LAUSD + vaccines + case. That should work.
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  32286. Ben's reflex was to call for the guy's award to be cancelled. People didn't pick up on that, huh? He lost his cool fast, and over WHAT? Shapiro is making these people out to be more important than they are, because that way, he will get everyone angry and . . . MAKE MORE MONEY. You call that a proper job for a graduate of Harvard Law? Not what most people would do with an opportunity like that. He could be setting precedent on what public schools should not do because it encroaches on parents' religious rights, for example. Taking sides on this one is being duped into believing there are sides.
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  32287. Yeah, so right to have his DOJ indict Assange, and turn over the country to Fauci during the pandemic and before.
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  32288. No. Glenn was perfect. Ana wanted to force people to take sides, and she did.
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  32289.  @ljdellar8123  No, he didn't.
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  32290.  @TheNadscratcher  I was using (--1/12) as a JOKE. But the point stands.
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  32291.  @TheNadscratcher  Marks have to be from the set of natural numbers? I thought rational numbers were included. You know, like 4 1/2 on a scale of 5.
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  32292.  @TheNadscratcher  Right. Fewer apples, less applesauce. Partitive. "Zero marks!" "[He deserves] less!" I would have said that.
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  32293.  @protonx80  However you like. I suggest you ask someone who sat in jail for a crime they had nothing to do with, or ask someone whose child was gunned down by police because they mistakenly thought his cell phone was a weapon, whether there is such a thing as "truth," or whether it's all just opinions. (Are Innocence Projects news to anyone? Still?) Infinite series aren't about anybody's "opinion," in any sense of that word. But I see it has to be your way. No worries. Have it your way. I just wonder how you expect to force it on everyone else, when it comes to math, no less.
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  32294.  @protonx80  Please stop. You've just made me feel sorry for you. (Look up Bertrand Russell sometime, and Pythagoras, and Plato. Libraries have books on the philosophy of mathematics. Really. It's true. And from the other side, there is no single subject that has had a more profound influence on philosophy than mathematics.)
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  32295. Maybe we can resurrect Stalin, make him president, and open a gulag.
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  32296. Read all the excuses why Obama was born in Kenya and Macron's wife is a man. If they can believe that, this is trivial.
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  32297. This is doubling down on what has not worked. Or maybe it's necessary for the sheltered, overwrought, overpampered suburbs.
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  32298.  Eugene Fisher  DanielT made that up. Tell the truth. Does legal recreational marijuana have something to do with this?
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  32299. BEST commentary on the Elon Twitter purchase.
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  32300.  @luisgutierrez8047  Can a young person take precautions against contracting COVID, and are they willing to? Then their risk of contracting COVID and developing significant myocarditis or other serious issues from it may be much lower than their risk of complications from the vaccine. You have got to look at that -- it's not FDA approved, and it's being given to minors. They have their whole lives ahead of them.
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  32301.  @FierceZs1  The zero bad effects is totally wrong. But the different cost/benefit analysis for people under 25, and especially under 18, is true.
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  32302.  @luisgutierrez8047  That makes sense. We still have to take a hard look where kids are concerned. Also, you cannot ask minors to get the vaccine to protect an older teacher who is opposed to vaccines but has no health conditions that make them more risky for him or her. But I think you're right to look at vaccines that way. If I were at home with a child, I would take the vaccine schedule more slowly than usual. If the child were to start preschool, then they need the vaccines before they go. Stands to reason.
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  32303. 😂😂😂😂😂 ​ @Shadowman092-s9o 
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  32304. See Jane. See Jane run. See Dick. See Dick run. See Spot. See Spot run.
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  32305. @Monkeyweasel44 Excellent. Weaselpox? Just kidding. Cute name.
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  32306.  @JP-st9hn  Amen!
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  32307. Section 230 allows them to take down a specific post. If they can ban people, they are acting beyond Section 230. They are publishers.
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  32308. Please name some. This has shocked a lot of conservatives. They didn't expect these calls for firing people, removing them from elected office, etc., from Fox et al. Have you been paying attention?
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  32309.  @mahirrahman7  J'aime la France.
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  32310. Very interesting post! Thanks.
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  32311.  @farmingganja5277  You're too kind. Generally, they're in it for the money.
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  32312.  Janet Baker  I think he is alluding to the fact that Jimmy is a (small-s) socialist, as are Aaron Mate and Ron Placone, and the whole Grayzone crowd, etc. A lot of people are. They aren't partisans, they may not be Marxists -- or if they are, then nuanced ones -- but socialists they are. Big tent.
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  32313.  @jocksharerock7318  Well, I read Aaron and I like him a lot. I don't think you listened closely to what he had to say here, or elsewhere.
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  32314.  @VictorHarrys  Where my closest relatives are, which is to remain confidential. (It's not a big place.)
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  32315.  @YIASEMIDE  Ratner's memoir just came out. It is one of the rare books that can change a life. Thanks very much, and all the best!
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  32316. No one can decide but you. There is a sweet guy in Canada named Dr. Moran who always links to the actual journal article with the data. He is pro-vax but first of all pro-truth, and pro-civil liberties. Lex Fridman interviewed Vincent Racaniello, a real virologist from Columbia University, who is also pro-vax but not insane. Lex made it a point to underline that each of us should have the right to decide for ourselves. They also discussed ivermectin rationally. The honest doctors are admitting there is a lot they do not know. I was just watching news from France, where the government has gone full authoritarian with the public, massive mandates, firing people, etc., and there are demonstrations every week. The guest on the show said that across the border in Spain, there is less coercion, more public admission when the truth of the matter is still unknown -- and more vaccination as a result. I am not shocked. No sane person is.
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  32317. Also, there is a lot of really interesting information from other countries. BMJ (formerly British Medical Journal) had an article that vegetarians and vegans are far less likely to develop severe COVID. The German press picked it up right away. Ours did not report it. :/
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  32318. Think about why he was acquitted. What would be the reason?
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  32319. Do you think Medicare, as it exists, is "government" healthcare? Medicare recipients can choose their own doctors. Private insurance designates "preferred providers." Or, worse yet, "networks."
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  32320.  @PearComputingDevices  Well, America has proved again and again that it can't do what everyone else can do. My parents, my friends' parents are/were all happy with Medicare, and have no complaints about their supplemental insurance payments. This has nothing to do with "ideals," misplaced or otherwise.
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  32321.  @PearComputingDevices  This is all complete nonsense, without paragraphs. EVERY developed country with universal health has better outcomes than the US, using objective measures. There are no exceptions. The deadweight is on our economy, supporting the most massive health care bureaucracy in the world. Moreover, people are tied to employers they don't like and jobs where they cannot flourish, solely for fear of losing health insurance. They cannot start their own businesses for the same reason. Our system is make-work for bureaucrats, and shortchanges doctors and nurses.
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  32322.  @PearComputingDevices  You know what else is specious? Do you have any idea how much of our basic research takes place in the nonprofit sector -- the major universities and their associated teaching hospitals -- and is financed through the NIH? The stereotype of British people with bad teeth is laughable and outdated. (As for me, it just so happens that I had an orthodontist ruin my teeth here, and my dentist hid it. She only admitted it after I got a second opinion on all the root canals she tried to foist on me, which a former professor of dentistry told me I did not need. I could have and should have sued them all.) Personally, this is all moot for me. "I have mine." Maybe you can explain why COVID has affected the US the worst, as usual. As has obesity, teen pregnancy, opioid and other substance addiction, and on and on. With all of these great "market incentives" to take better care of oneself, you'd think "rational actors" would!
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  32323.  @PearComputingDevices  Anyway, we debunked your first post. Fauci had power in the present system. There is exactly zero reason to think that under M4A, we would have government bureaucrats replacing layers and layers of insurance company bureaucrats to control health care. People only find out how good their coverage is when they get sick. Naturally. The insurer's incentive is for people to be well or die quickly. That's what brings in the highest profits. Therefore, that's what's "best."
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  32324.  @PearComputingDevices  I speak three languages fluently, watch news in all of them, read regularly in two, and have some knowledge of two others, lived in Europe for over five years, my late father and my mother's only brother were both WWII British Army veterans, always had friends and family in Canada and Australia (uncle wisely opted for the latter), etc., etc., etc., etc. Where do you get YOUR notions?
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  32325.  @PearComputingDevices  I'm thrilled you just humiliated your arrogant self. Please don't delete your posts. They say exactly what they need to. Perfect.
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  32326.  @PearComputingDevices  What languages are you fluent in? I recently used three in one day.
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  32327.  @PearComputingDevices  Say! I bet you're one of those Americans with money. That's why you think you're so smart. LOL
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  32328.  @PearComputingDevices  P. S. You didn't present "bullet points," either. Why say so? Bizarre entitlement. Run-on paragraphs are now bullet points, because you have so decreed (bullied?). Also, it would be obvious to any unbiased observer that I know economics. Economics is easy.
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  32329. See Lev Golinkin in The Nation, circa 2019. That has the advantage of being before the pandemic.
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  32330.  @artistpres  Okay. Then don't read Golinkin in The Nation, which carefully documents what Aaron is asserting about neo-Nazis here. Instead, read The Secret. Or, I know! An airlift! Drop copies of The Secret on Ukraine.
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  32331.  @catherineshaw1122  Funny. I heard the same thing.
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  32332. Cue the trained seals to yelp "Jimmy Dore bad Jimmy Dore bad."
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  32333. Look in the mirror when you say that.
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  32334. Nixon was afraid to treat working people this badly, or to legalize counterfeiting by banks.
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  32335.  @jennie271982  You said it! 👏👏👏
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  32336.  @darrylbradley  Did you know you had to major in this in school? 😅😅😅 Yeah, well . . . You don't.
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  32337. 9:50. Well, what do all the critics of Brie have to say now?
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  32338. @emilienazareth8881  Very sensible. His politics are ridiculous, but his advice to people having career problems is perfect: you must be honest with yourself. Are you failing to do your job well, and thus breaking your promises when you were hired, and forcing others to pick up the slack? OR are you being targeted because you excel? Are your virtues being used against you? You needed to know the true answer yesterday. Now is good. Try now.
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  32339.  @match20x  Why are you joining a Team? Did you join Team Vaxx or Team Antivaxx? Team Russiagate or Team QAnon? Team Kate or Team Megan? Team Proudboys or Team Antifa? I left out 20 more, but there's so many I can't keep track. If I missed one that was extremely important to you, I'm sorry. It was unintentional.
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  32340.  @pineapplesonpizza7726  The case really is about whether an article is defamatory, and whether that defamation cause damages. It's not about who was worse. All the rest is diversion. If Depp can get the jury to focus on something other than the law and the facts that pertain to his claim, or if he can get a mob together on his side that scares the jury, then he can win. If he WAS an abuser, then the article is not defamatory. It's free speech. It doesn't matter whether she was worse.
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  32341.  @conmanumber1  Exactly. It is about settling scores. Court is not supposed to be for that purpose. He could have written a memoir. Best seller.
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  32342. Anything to say about the most recent bombing of non-whites? Anyone?
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  32343. Yes, do. You know you're right.
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  32344. She is from London.
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  32345. Astounding. My doctor, who retired just before the pandemic, was very "conservative" as far as testing and supplements were concerned, and he started checking Vitamin D years ago, possibly a full decade.
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  32346. Her point was that they now propose to arm the very people they insist are incompetent to educate the youth and instead maliciously indoctrinate them.
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  32347. Exactly. It is a matter of upholding reproductive freedom for all. Adults get to decide if they want to be birth parents.
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  32348. First things first.
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  32349. My price is $2 million after taxes.
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  32350. But when a real free speech issue was before us, namely Amber Heard's article (not Amber Heard the person), Emily babbled on about "due process," which had zero bearing on any issue in the case. You should see through ALL of the chattering classes.
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  32351. So, a person fell asleep in a drive thru, seeking food, and could not be revived. How would anyone know it is because he got drunk, and not due to diabetes, epilepsy, or COVID for that matter? I would call an ambulance. The paramedics are competent to assess him. As for drunk drivers who are NOT caught driving recklessly, seize their cars and ticket them. There is no reason to take custody of them. It is not cheap to get an impounded car back. Life and liberty are more precious than property.
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  32352. Elon is taking us to Mars!! But first, self-driving cars.
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  32353. Read the opinion, and the three dissents. The opinion (only four justices) and three dissents together run well over 200 pages. Does anyone think Maddow read it? None of them did. Talking points are prepared in advance.
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  32354. @kdubs9111  I don't understand what you mean, then. What was "nullified?" A stay should be entered pending appeal whenever permitting the decision to be executed right away would mean the appellant will lose their rights before their case is even heard by a court of last resort. If the Colorado Supreme Court had not entered a stay, the US Supreme Court would have.
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  32355. We want government to coerce others. That is why we are the largest carceral state.
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  32356. Actually, the vaccination release form tells you that after reading it, you can refuse vaccination and there will be no change in the healthcare you are entitled to. It says so on the form. Look it up.
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  32357. I didn't laugh, not exactly. The statute has no definition of "near." There have been decades of pro-life rallies held near the Supreme Court, all of which were protected speech and assembly. First Amendment. A lot of people are going after the First Amendment lately. Watch for that move. This looks like a good-cop, bad-cop routine with one goal in mind, and it's not to help you.
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  32358.  @stuartmoore6310  I think the fact that we cannot trust other people's perceptions anymore is the most frightening thing. You could time stamp everything, and it would make no difference. What I find interesting is that it was Naomi Wolf who demanded accountability and clear consequences for bad acts, and somehow she is getting dismissed. When Dr. Peterson points out how important accountability is, and brushes aside excuses, everyone praises him. Why is that?
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  32359.  @Baron_Blue_Max  Oh. You again. Pretending to miss the point.
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  32360. Socialism was once a highly prestigious term, on everyone's lips. Everyone from Helen Keller to Einstein called themselves "socialist." Just like Nancy Pelosi says she's a "progressive!" Tells you something about language and lying, not about socialism.
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  32361. You mischaracterized hearsay. Hearsay is, "he told me this happened." Well, HE has to come in and be the witness to what happened, not some third person he supposedly told. "I was present and I heard X" stated under oath and for the purpose of proving not that X is true but that X was said is NOT HEARSAY. "I heard the defendant scream, 'I will kill you'" -- not hearsay.
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  32362.  @bigboots6114  No, TheDudeOfLife is correct. OP did NOT properly explain the hearsay rule.
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  32363.  @CapriciousBlackBox  No, DudeOfLife is correct about the rule. OP stated it incorrectly. The witness in this segment IS offering hearsay, BECAUSE she was not with the president that day. She never witnessed what she claims happened.
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  32364.  @2bRealist  She didn't bring them up in court. Had she, she would have asserted privilege, not that they were such obvious hyperbole that no reasonable person could have taken them literally, as assertions of actual fact.
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  32365.  @emma-eventing  When someone demonstrates that he's wrong, he just jumps to a different thread. Same stuff, different day.
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  32366. He sure acts like it, though.
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  32367. ​@Tooldruid Age increases the risk in everyone, always. But I agree, there is a big difference between risk and actuality.
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  32368. What puzzles me is why so many people are out of control. I don't get it.
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  32369. No, no, that's "merit." /s
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  32370.  @chibaby  Unless another post was subject to sense or ship.
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  32371.  @chibaby  Where did I say her doctorate wasn't real? The fact that she does have one is what is surprising.
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  32372.  @chibaby  It takes away from her doctoral program. She met the low bar, obviously, and she attained the doctorate. So, what were we talking about? 🤔
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  32373.  @hansmueller3029  They found no dope. Missed that part, too?
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  32374.  @hansmueller3029  They found no drugs.
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  32375.  @marwynthemasterful6369  Just last week? Then when did he have time to tweet? Edit: Speaking of scents or ship, I wonder if my real reply, below, will be verboten?
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  32376.  @marwynthemasterful6369  Well, my real response isn't here. What do you know?
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  32377. @marwynthemasterful6369  Huh. Trump got all of his picks confirmed. They would get to say something about staffing and resources at their agencies, one would think . . . Maybe that's why so many of the layoffs had to be reversed.
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  32378. @marwynthemasterful6369  Yes, but mine contained facts. I just reposted it with redactions, but it went poof again. What a shame! They were funny redactions, and answered all of your points.
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  32379. @marwynthemasterful6369  In all seriousness, the cars are, first of all, surveillance devices, and they have spurred the drive for new sources of lithium that has resulted in destruction of clean water and farmland all over the world. Feeding the war in Ukraine is no achievement; as many as a million Ukrainians are believed to be _____. The value of ____ in allowing the paralyzed to walk is still highly speculative, and judging from primate experiments, is probably too dangerous. X, formerly known as Twitter, is still censored, though it doesn't appear to be as sinister as before. There is not a strongman from _____ to leaders of the CCP that he hasn't cozied up to. (You know how to fill in that blank, right?) The list of who allegedly likes what was particularly funny. For those who follow crowds, good to know.
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  32380. ​ @marwynthemasterful6369  Well, well. It's not exactly censored; it appears after sorting under the Newest tab.
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  32381.  @marwynthemasterful6369  My factual reply, hidden. Your hagiography? Highlighted. 😂
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  32382. ​ @reginamemoriesforever-vc8ql LOL "Snowflake?" Now someone you idolize needs compassion. See how that works?
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  32383. What is WITH these people???
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  32384. Wrong, Robby. Read the Burdick v. US case. Acceptance of a pardon is acknowledging culpability.
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  32385. Because at least people on Medicare aren't in danger of bankruptcy. Because the insurance companies in charge of health care is hardly better. Being in charge of your own health care is the only good option, but that takes an eight-figure net worth in financial assets, to be sure you'll always have it.
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  32386.  @rorrschach8339  Maybe sarcasm needs to be spelled out every time? Can you tell what is irony and what is simply true? I mean, you're so smart and everything.
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  32387.  @rorrschach8339  Laws of stupidity, circulating NOW!!! "Law 3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses."
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  32388.  @rorrschach8339  "Law 4: Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake."
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  32389.  @rorrschach8339  🤣🤣🤣
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  32390.  @rorrschach8339  "sarcasm or not" 🤣🤣🤣 k einstein
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  32391. Leverage.
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  32392. No one on the Euro left supports her -- NO ONE. This show is a bunch of complete nonsense. They think they can recycle a handful of slogans for Americans and we won't know the difference.
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  32393. So you do need to question research on pharmaceuticals, where massive amounts of money are at stake.
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  32394. Stop it.
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  32395. Take a closer look at the actual numbers and do the math yourself. They are not quite that good. But that COVID has been catastrophized for partisan political gain is true.
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  32396. Then what was the point of vetting, interviewing, and confirming Patel, Gabbard, Hegseth, Kennedy . . . ? I guess all that was a waste of money, too.
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  32397. Oops, wrong thread.
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  32398. Well, you're wrong, too. 😂
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  32399. Brie didn't vote for Biden. She didn't even vote for Hillary.
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  32400. 10:10 you've got it
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  32401. Tesla is named after a Serb.
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  32402.  @CanoeToNewOrleans  Hm. That by itself does not prove lack of racial bias, though. What happened to (former) Dean Sullivan there was mind-boggling.
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  32403.  @CanoeToNewOrleans  That doesn't prove that every black candidate is judged by the same criteria as every white candidate -- that all other things being roughly equal, if a white candidate would have been hired, the black candidate would be as well. There hasn't been a blanket ban on black faculty, explicit or hidden, for over 50 years. That doesn't mean there is no bias. I wonder just how much experience the typical Harvard student has had with black people, given the disparities in income. That will affect all their personnel decisions on an unconscious level. I think that's what's behind the outcry against Dean Sullivan, which also resulted in his wife being removed, since they were hired as deans of a house at Harvard as a couple (how archaic, BTW), and were the first black couple to hold that position.
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  32404.  @202One  You actually think he needs the money? Um, have you ever seen the books he has written, including popular ones? The list of projects and organizations he has participated in or co-founded goes on for pages. To get an idea of the wide diversity of projects West has been involved in, take a look at The War Against Parents: What We Can Do for America's Beleaguered Moms and Dads.
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  32405.  @202One  I hope the link I post below is not shadowed or deleted. It explains the history of Dr. West's academic career. In short, he had already HAD tenure, several times. It appeared in Boston Review.
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  32406.  @202One  Well, he doesn't want to renew his contract at Harvard without tenure, as a matter of principle. He, er, did not get asked to leave, but to sign a new contract. Why comment without knowing anything?
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  32407.  @202One  And I am telling you he already has created organizations of his own. The more free-spirited grad students at Harvard want him for their thesis advisor. You don't know how stuff works, do you?
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  32408.  @popireal3628  Yes, it is . . . until it isn't.
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  32409.  @CanoeToNewOrleans  Well, I HOPE YOU'RE RIGHT about race being irrelevant in Dr. West's case. We can agree on that one.
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  32410. Is she unable to keep her private life private? That's a sign of personal efficacy as well --- or lack of it. Is it a big deal? Not really. Is it part of a larger pattern, as in, has she shown poor judgment in other contexts? More than, say, twice? Important questions.
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  32411.  @elliey7162  now, now . . . No evidence.
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  32412.  @iansneddon2956  That's a list of films I never saw, lol. Cannes is better, yeah, if you want to know what to see.
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  32413. The greatest doctors in the world who always understood the Precautionary Principle have been sounding the alarm for years now. The fact that so few younger doctors understand it is of even greater concern than the current vaccine fiasco. This is a fundamental flaw in their ethics. This has got to be fixed now. If we let this go, count on seeing worse.
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  32414. "If we want a healthy country . . . " But the top 10% wants big quarterly dividends.
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  32415. I think Harris will get people to the polls for Biden who sat out Clinton in '16 and were somewhat inclined to sit this one out as well. That is all she needs to do. She won't attract new voters for Biden. Like no kidding. "Top Cop" reassures the suburbs. "Progressive prosecutor" is supposed to sound hollow. That's a good thing.
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  32416. You're pushing this lurid garbage, too? This is not scientific information, this is propaganda. I'm speechless, too. And I am a vaccine proponent. This is NOT how you address the hesitant. Shameful! Unsubscribed.
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  32417. They need to bomb the Chinese embassy now. There's precedent for this.
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  32418. ​ @AnaLucia-wy2ii How did you form this belief? Where did you investigate? Do you read foreign languages?
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  32419. Thanks for letting us know. Um, where does he need to go, exactly? You know about how prison requires a trial or a guilty plea, right?
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  32420.  @matthewschwartz6607  Apparently Gaetz is not running again. How the h*ll he got elected in the first place merits an investigative report. That's what the journalists should be doing. I don't want to see a clone replace him.
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  32421. If he is so irrational, how did he ever win a single case against major global corporations, which have teams of outstanding lawyers? Has Caroline ever brought any cases against polluters? Working-class paralegal Erin Brockovich did more. 😒 The truthful way to handle this is to acknowledge the good, then calmly go through point by point on why he is nevertheless unqualified, and show that the case against him is uncontrovertable. These tactics aren't working. How do you think Trump got in??
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  32422. ​ @Memphis2010GFC Exactly. Being trans is not a qualification of any kind.
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  32423. Poor guy.
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  32424.  @RodrigoOswego  Because he knows which side the bread is buttered on.
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  32425. Lex does one of the best imitations of a good guy that I've ever seen. He never crosses the neo-libs who control the money. That tweet was very well-crafted.
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  32426.  @michaelpetrovich5353  OH REALLY? Aaron Mate, Max Blumenthal, Katie Halper, Norm Finkelstein, Glenn Greenwald, . . . 'splain me these . . . sincere apologies for anyone who didn't come immediately to mind. God I hate anything that smacks of anti-Semitism.
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  32427.  @niarlatotepbasset  Fridman isn't his real name. They changed it when they emigrated. Not sure if Fridman is a family name from some other relative. Lex's paternal grandfather was a decorated hero of the Red Army. His last name was Fedotov.
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  32428.  @DeezNuggz  Do you know for fact that his mother is Jewish? I thought she might not be. Strange reactions from you all. Sit down and read a book yourselves. Read several books. See how that goes. It might even work for you.
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  32429. Robby, people under 50 know nothing about the Kennedys.
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  32430. No, they aren't, but amazingly enough there are no homeless anyway.
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  32431. He last called or communicated with his parents in early October 2020? What does that have to do with vaccines? There were no vaccines available then, for anyone. This was about a month before the election. Someone is surprised that a young person, isolated, and with mental health issues, would do anything to bail? Quite a few billionaires advertised that they were quarantining on their yachts, and quite a few were panic-stricken by COVID as well. This sounds like the poor man's version.
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  32432. "Dr. Phil" is allowed to do what he does, practice pseudo-therapy without a license as television entertainment, because of the money. People who exceed a certain threshold of wealth can do what they want.
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  32433. Well, that CNN title gives them a clue: sell the good stuff. Lace those cookies.
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  32434. And 90% actually lose principal, in real dollars -- even after accounting for inflation. Some make it up in dividends. Some do not. Fewer than 10% of people could fully fund their own retirement, with no Social Security, Medicare, defined benefit pension plan, etc. That tells you how "good" owning stock is. It is much better than going to casinos, I'll give you that.
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  32435.  @ninvusoogoar6098  So, this will be part of a loyalty oath for having the right to bear arms? Hm.
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  32436. Why are we suddenly obsessed with gender? Well take a good look at Bill Gates.
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  32437.  @theciakilledjfk5973  What? He told the truth.
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  32438.  Matt Terialist Lol  You are correct that "Goliath" is a tremendous book, and Stoller is a compelling writer. That is true. But read it closely. His instincts are not leftist so much. Still, that detracts nothing from it. Great book. I think you can get about 65 pages in preview, just about anywhere.
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  32439.  @Fartoid  You could spell his name right once. Are you in a hurry? Running interference for Nancy and the Squad?
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  32440.  Richie Dontrelle  Capitalism promotes whatever exploits more labor markets and brings in more profits. Does not matter what it is.
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  32441.  Richie Dontrelle  Go back and reread. Or consider a simplified analogy: who is supporting legalized marijuana? Why?
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  32442.  @danchatka8613  YOU should "shut up." People brandishing guns instead of putting on a damn mask? The post was too kind. "Hurtful," my arse. Is everybody a snowflake now?
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  32443. It's not hard: https://youtu.be/bPiHHQAkbmk
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  32444. This is why people who want to Look Rich praise them. Branding, image tending . . .
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  32445. Megan, you're a lawyer . . . What's your opinion about a Yale-trained lawyer making an unforced error? So, he said it more than once, too. Wow. Does this stuff make childbearing sound like a great idea, or . . . ?
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  32446. She resigned. That forecloses a suit.
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  32447.  @johnsmith7140  Oh wow, lol. Easy job. 🤣
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  32448.  @sellmav  She doesn't know 1/10 of the First Amendment law I do. I was flabbergasted. She is supposed to know it and defend it with passion. Well. Okay. Silly me.
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  32449. In the US, where medical obesity is rampant, younger ages were affected, but not that much younger. In general, men over 60 and women over 70 were most affected.
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  32450. Imagine the fright.
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  32451. Yes. It came at a truly bad time for me, truly bad, and caused trauma. All I wanted was to find out more about dreaming, and expected a pleasant read. I hate him.
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  32452.  @thomasc9036  No American state prisons rehabilitate anyone, and whether the federal system does is questionable. I would never release anyone, let alone a violent offender, from prison directly to society. We need halfway houses and intense monitoring. Ordinary people who never commit crimes find dealing with our current dystopia a real challenge. Did any other country have a surge in opioid deaths during the pandemic like we did? Does any other country have the mass shootings that we do? From pandemic to George Floyd and Uvalde and a crime wave is pretty hard to take.
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  32453.  @christopherings7996  No. Americans are most certainly not collectively coddled by success and relative safety. You are describing at most the top quintile at this point. We have a very tough society. Did the pandemic bring other countries a surge in opioid deaths, a George Floyd, a Uvalde, and a jump in wealth inequality such as the world has literally never seen? And yes, now a crime wave. You call that coddled? Add insult to injury, it's what we do.
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  32454.  @thomasc9036  The penitentiary system is rehabilitation? In other news, the earth is flat.
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  32455.  @thomasc9036  They need to rehabilitate themselves? My mind is boggled. They failed at that task in the first instance. Everything that every other developed country does is "unrealistic" here. Hence George Floyd, hence Uvalde, hence Eliza Fletcher, hence an unprecedented surge in opioid deaths -- during a pandemic.
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  32456.  @thomasc9036  Because it is literally essential. Because people are not born fully formed, and what happens to them between conception and age 18, including much over which they literally had no control, none, can make them unable to function in society. Because then everyone suffers. That's why. If you can buy a fortress in a cul de sac, and a luxury condo in Europe, good for you. Everyone else (99.9%) has to deal with this.
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  32457.  @thomasc9036  In any event, halfway houses with intense monitoring is what other countries do successfully. Caring for small, helpless animals has often been used, as has being responsible for maintaining a garden, and generally making sure they are occupied with something productive during waking hours. You'd be surprised what that can do for a person, and tell you about them -- such as whether they have normal compassion or not.
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  32458. The fact that journalists pushing this lie became so rich they are set for life, while those questioning it lost their jobs? That, too?
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  32459. The students with debt aren't themselves in the 1%. So what if a few of their parents are? Maybe they need to get out from under their parents' control, and live their own lives.
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  32460. Mitterrand, with the first government he formed, certainly was not. Neither were some of their revolutionary governments.
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  32461.  @anon_y_mousse  When the MIAMI HERALD series came out and got massive traction, you mean? Acosta, like every cabinet hire, was thoroughly vetted. But Trump may not be much of a reader, huh?
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  32462.  @anon_y_mousse  Well, you have to go through several steps to find my factual response to that.
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  32463.  @anon_y_mousse  No, my factual response is shadowed. Good of you to support sense or ship. A little goes a long way.
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  32464.  @anon_y_mousse  Oh, you don't know what YT is doing, or how? Why am I not surprised?
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  32465. ​@anon_y_mousse Just found it, through the Latest feature, which allows more posts to reappear. "​@anon_y_mousse When the MIAMI HERALD series came out and got massive traction, you mean? Acosta, like every cabinet hire, was thoroughly vetted. But Trump may not be much of a reader, huh?" That was when your "grab 'em by the _______" hero finally got rid of Acosta. But if Trump picked him on the word of some flatterer and dropped him on Jared's advice (as opposed to something much more nefarious) I would not be surprised.
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  32466. ​ @anon_y_mousse  Let's see if my repost appears. You really don't know how this works, do you?
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  32467.  @anon_y_mousse  That made sense. 😂😂😂
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  32468.  @anon_y_mousse  Say. How come I know you're white? 😂😂😂
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  32469. "Socialist?" Why is it that real socialists in Europe were all resisting this? The first person I heard push back hard against vaccine mandates for health care workers was a member of the French Communist Party. (How far we've fallen!)
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  32470. But Oppenheimer used it, after the first atom bombs were detonated.
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  32471.  @carolr4871  I had honestly thought everyone had heard it. I'm sorry.
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  32472. Prove it happened.
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  32473.  @kingboobs20  Contempt of court is punished inordinately harshly. But contempt of court is NEVER invoked "just for saying . . . ," etc.
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  32474. I know. It's so shocking how inferior Americans are to everyone else. You think Russians accept this? No way. I bet not one country we bombed had this problem, at least not until we got there.
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  32475. A heart transplant requires a deceased donor on the registry. This is a live, volunteer donor who is sufficiently healthy to donate one kidney. No one is asking for priority on a registry.
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  32476. Mischa ROCKS
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  32477.  @AfricanDanceInternational  I follow the French press, so I know her brother is a shop owner in their natal town. Are you monolingual? Aww . . .
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  32478. I BELIEVE IT. Do we cry, or wring their stupid necks? Or both?
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  32479. It took 10,000 9/11s for the Soviets to go mad, and still they defeated Hitler, and still Arkhipov prevented a nuclear exchange. Why is the US mad? After one horrific day? If you're British, I know you know better.
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  32480. Bari Weiss started her career as an undergrad trying to get a pro-Palestinian professor fired. Simply opposing his positions was not enough, simply silencing one presentation by him was not enough, simply asking that he be disciplined for some actual misconduct, if he committed any, was not enough. I have never seen any special talent, or higher ethics, in her. And now she's starting a university? Let's be serious sometimes.
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  32481.  @Dave-cf4vd  Do define "second-order thinking." Don't leave us guessing.
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  32482. @blueseaview 22 I hate to agree with you, but you're mostly right. The emphasis on a single generation is exaggerated, but other than that . . .
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  32483. Of course the FBI had undercover false flags/infiltrators on the premises on 1/6. When does it not? Entrapment is the question.
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  32484.  @teqzilla  Why did DOJ decline to prosecute?
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  32485. Mars has very little atmosphere and no magnetic field. Guess what cosmic rays will do. Colonizing Mars makes even less sense than extreme gender ideology.
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  32486. ​@McD-j5r Look up magnetic fields. Then look up cosmic rays. It's not hidden knowledge.
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  32487. Now tell me why scientific information is in _visibled. Mathematics is, too.
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  32488. ​ @neplusultra4196  Where did you see and hear that happen? You heard politicians tell you it happened. Those politicians are fundraising for November. You still don't get it? Wow.
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  32489. ​ @wubuck79 Where did you hear actual threats? Where did you see anyone prevented from going about their business?
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  32490. ​ @ix-bi5fh What have you seen on videos that warrants heavily armed SWAT teams to come out and wrestle people to the ground? I have seen nothing of the sort.
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  32491.  @ix-bi5fh  Were you for vaccine mandates, too? 😂😂😂
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  32492. @Joshua-kp2lg  Let's go back to when a summer job paid for a year of in-state tuition at major public universities. If how college is paid for has something to do with how students turn out, then having students pay for it themselves in real time can only mean improvement.
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  32493. ​ @Joshua_36514  Wait. Is Joshua he/him?
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  32494. I have always known that pressuring sick people, especially those with cancer, to be "positive" is a grave mistake. Let them be however they need to be. Give them space. You aren't an expert on how they should face cancer. In fact, you know nothing about it. Show that you trust THEM to know how they should face cancer, and that you would be happy to learn.
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  32495. Close to a billion people are working in manufacturing in the world.
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  32496. I still think Reagan really didn't know. He was very stupid and very lazy before being shot and developing cognitive impairment. I was living outside the States, and had no interest in believing one story over another. It's simply how it looked to me.
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  32497. When I was little, pick pockets used to take your money and mail your wallet back. I'll never forget the look on my mother's face when she got everything back but the cash. She didn't mind losing the cash at all.
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  32498. 💯
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  32499. Jimmy, re: your questioning of the official story about the gas attacks In 1938, that was called being a "premature anti-fascist."
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  32500. Amy Goodman: And it's really important right now to focus on world peace and the children.
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  32501.  @jeremiahdavis360  It's impossible to give a single figure on scores needed for admission, since admission isn't based on scores. First of all, all applications, regardless of race, are divided into legacies and "special development," before any other factors come into play. "Special development" is supposed to be for people like Olympic athletes or gifted musicians, or winners of major science or mathematics competitions, and thus based on merit, but these can also be people whose parents gave a million dollars to Harvard. You can buy your way into a private school, hon. Not directly, of course, because they could still reject you, but if you want a real leg up, the right color is green. We fight over crumbs. Passionately, over crumbs.
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  32502.  @jeremiahdavis360  You know that, how? Do you have any idea what the black students at Ivies are like? For one thing, many are children of African immigrants, including refugee families, and many more are children of very prominent, and quite affluent, African people. You're not aware that Nigeria now has a local intelligentsia that looks to rival India's? The world is changing. You have never met these people.
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  32503.  @jeremiahdavis360  What "college charter?" What does that refer to?
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  32504.  @jeremiahdavis360  Not necessarily. The people whose parents are African immigrants or from prominent, wealthy African families are legacies, or "special development." The rules for admission for them are different from all other applicant pools. Barack Obama is a perfect example -- father went to Harvard, mother related to a half-dozen former presidents. Is the "special development" pool tainted? Is Jared Kushner's degree tainted? You have a strange way of looking at things. Not every black person has a father who can donate seven figures to Harvard. I don't know why you directed the comment to me, by the way. I wasn't justifying any of this. (By the way, see the letter Harvard's president wrote in the wake of the Epstein revelations. I mean, just for some larger perspective.)
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  32505. Suddenly, we have an entire gallery of miscreants "sure" that Chauvin should be acquitted. Gosh. Remember when this happened? I do. "President Donald Trump remarked on the death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd, after video was released of Floyd being killed by a police officer who restrained him by pressing his knee into his neck for nine minutes and cut off his oxygen supply. The video sparked outrage across social media and the news, and has lead to widespread protests across the city. "I feel very, very badly. That’s a very shocking sight," Trump said about the video, according to the Associated Press. He added, "That was a very, very bad thing that I saw. I saw it last night and I didn't like it...what I saw was not good. Very bad." “This has nothing to do with politics and is only about making sure justice is done, and anyone who suggests otherwise is only seeking to sow division and ignore the President’s unwavering support for the African-American community,” Deere said. The president has been making an open bid to win Black support for his re-election in November. On Wednesday (May 27), Trump tweeted that he has instructed the FBI and Department of Justice to investigate Floyd's death: At my request, the FBI and the Department of Justice are already well into an investigation as to the very sad and tragic death in Minnesota of George Floyd.... — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 27, 2020 ....I have asked for this investigation to be expedited and greatly appreciate all of the work done by local law enforcement. My heart goes out to George’s family and friends. Justice will be served!" Even TRUMP saw it, back then. When did the talking points change? Who changed them?
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  32506.  @lone982  Do you sell out for it?
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  32507. What you get is fewer dead people? Maybe something like that.
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  32508.  @kylehunt26  But where do you see infringement? We found out during the Kyle Rittenhouse trial (and I was opposed to trying him as a adult, if at all) that Wisconsin had failed to draft a viable law to prevent minors from carrying AR-15s. In principle, someone who is subject to curfew laws because they are a minor, and cannot enter into most contracts because they are a minor, and cannot buy cigarettes because they are a minor, can, however openly carry an AR-15 on a street during urban unrest. Just tell me what restrictions you think you are subjected to.
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  32509.  @kylehunt26  Well, my best friend is a member of a gun club and practices marksmanship as a sport, and she strongly supports written and performance tests for licensing, similar to autos, motorcycles, trucks. She does not live in Texas but has extended family there, so she and her late husband took the Texas CC exam, which was tough at the time. She said it was what everyone should pass to take a gun off their own property. People who don't train can get in big trouble in an emergency, and anyway, she takes pride in knowing how to shoot straight. She thought the Texas test was a minimum competency everyone should demonstrate. Why would anyone want to sawed off a shotgun?
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  32510.  @kylehunt26  More people die of gunshots. Check the new numbers.
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  32511.  @kylehunt26  Buying a car is not expressly enshrined in the Constitution, but the contract clause and our right to travel freely protect the right to own and operate a motor vehicle. Neither of those provisions say anything about militias. The "militia" language isn't restrictive, we know that, but it's not meaningless. It obviously implies some level competence. It obviously implies no guns for eighth graders.
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  32512. I don't believe the 1% see the rest of us as human.
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  32513. I knew the main problem was nuclear waste. It is by far.
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  32514. ​@gigaman6 Glenn Greenwald reported yesterday that there is an organized campaign to get Brie fired because she is too sympathetic to Palestinians. That explains the attacks that are blatantly counterfactual.
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  32515. I think Harris will win, but Litchman lied on most of these. 😂
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  32516. That smoke isn't good for you, and a **small** amount of red wine with dinner is, comes as no shockeroo.
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  32517. Nadine Strossen analyzed these laws. They are even worse than they sound.
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  32518.  @nancysimmer9908  Okay. Newscaster.
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  32519. @careyfreeman5056  "Applying consequences?" For speech. For reporting. For conducting the kind of interview that was once coveted. Remember Oriana Fallaci? Were there "consequences" when ABC news interviewed the leader of the terrorists who took hostage and massacred school kids in Beslan? Is firing a government whistle-blower just "applying consequences?"
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  32520. @careyfreeman5056  Or mentioning ABC News and Beslan. Oriana Fallaci. What was offensive? Facts? Now even autocorrect destroys discourse.
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  32521. @careyfreeman5056  Apparently Or i ana Fal laci is off the table.
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  32522.  @careyfreeman5056  Beslan
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  32523. @careyfreeman5056  Cannot mention who interviewed those terrorists.
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  32524.  @The1stLumiens  The point is, you don't say that in this moment. For example, you can say, "Abe was a complex figure. It's not going to be the case that everyone in Asia will mourn him, and they have reasons not to." See? Like that.
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  32525. Should we have no SEC, Robbie? No FDA, anyone can claim their Magic Elixir can cure cancer?
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  32526. ​@alexaiz7521 Do you think Ukraine can win? His analysis of that war is complete nonsense -- but he never says anything that, when proven wrong, could possibly hurt him. That's his paramount skill. Whatever else anyone may say, and quite apart from any ethical considerations whatsoever, it is simply a fact that America's reputation in the world is now terrible. No one believes anything that America says, because of Gaza. "Humanitarianism" has been exposed as pure opportunism of the most cynical kind. If you are American, it should matter to you, regardless of how you would want that war to turn out. His take on the BRICS+ is whistling in the dark. To mention China's debt and ignore America's is risible.
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  32527. The guy isn't kidding. The West ALWAYS goes to war for raw materials.
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  32528. ​​ @vickyfellers7046  Does Warren run it? Do you know anything about it?
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  32529. Complete agreement about the death penalty, and this analysis.
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  32530. Yeah good thing we have a solid industrial base here. Whew.
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  32531. Well isn't this a SNAFU.
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  32532. Well, people of the Jewish faith believe this. So there is that.
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  32533. From the Statistica website: the proportion of all COVID deaths that have occurred in children under 17 is 0.0749%. Or, to put it another way, 99.925% of all deaths were in adults 18 and older. Over 94% were in people 50 and over. It's not possible to pinpoint the median age of those who died, but it's clearly over 75. Worse than I thought.
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  32534.  @yodaiam1000  Tell me the last time you, as a healthy person, took a vaccine within months of its initial introduction, that was developed in under a year, that requires two doses, that has very serious side effects in some people, where the protection wanes in 6 to 9 months significantly enough to require additional vaccination, for a disease that is almost never lethal in people under 40 and has an overall case mortality rate of about 2%? Never? Is never a good guess? But this time is different?
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  32535.  @yodaiam1000  Conjecture and fuzzy hand waving. Leave those kids alone. Besides, those things are not true about the measles vaccine. You might need one booster during your life, years after your first shot. Edit: I am being censored for citing Nat'l Geo., which discussed incomplete vaccines several years ago. I can't use the word THEY did, making it impossible to reference the article. THAT should worry you more.
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  32536. Because they are all about filling their pockets. Kamala ran to grab a billion and spread it around, not to do this job, for which she was not qualified.
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  32537. Because they're in it for the money.
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  32538. ​ @mile_high_topher Great idea.
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  32539. New York Times just said the same thing as Robby.
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  32540. Do you know who Lula da Silva is? Does that ring a bell? No, huh?
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  32541. He has a lot of money. And she's too lucky. Remember the hate mobbing of Heather Mills? I do.
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  32542. Why does anyone sleep with that?
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  32543. You need to ask yourself why the DNC has mounted no actual resistance to ANY of this. That is the heart of the matter. Jimmy Dore is irrelevant. Stop trying to pretend like he's that important. That is ridiculous.
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  32544. Tremendous guest!!
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  32545. Because he never says inflammatory things, and the DOJ under Trump didn't indict him for wire fraud in a "Build The Fence" scheme.
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  32546. Here we go!! THANK YOU
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  32547. I admit it. I thought it was a hoax. I had to look it up to be sure.
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  32548. Glad I didn't watch. I knew, I can't take anymore.
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  32549. You think this was sound? You can't be serious.
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  32550. Kim's radar yesterday, and Briahna's own podcast with Glenn Greenwald on the same night was a one-two punch they had to retaliate against.
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  32551. I even saw a pro-vaccine study that found that people with good vitamin D levels had a better response to the vaccines with fewer side effects. STILL our governments said nothing. (What? They were afraid it would cut into boosters??)
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  32552. These shootings have characteristics of domestic terrorism. That's what's different about them. Yes, they are disproportionately young white males.
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  32553. I agree with this, and so does Glenn. We all have every right to know about the videos teachers of minor children have voluntarily posted. But there's another part: Libs of Tik Tok has ALSO accused people of the most heinous crimes against children and minors in general, and called for their arrest for what is basically First Amendment-protected expression. Have you seen any videos these teachers posted with minors included in them, or any unconsenting adults included?
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  32554.  @kenhiett5266  Er, time stamp??
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  32555. I have no problem at all with Libs of Tik Tok "curating" videos that adults themselves voluntarily posted. In some instances, it may be a public service. I tread carefully around any "power differential" arguments as well. Also, it must be known by now that whatever a person posts will subsequently escape their control, and whoever doesn't know that by now is probably too dim to teach. However, in this case, Libs of Tik Tok actually accused people of the worst crimes and called for their arrest, when all they could point to was a First Amendment-protected video. Sorry, I won't bite. None of the videos I saw were illegal, and some were probably parodies. All of that stuff is constitutionally protected. Whether their judgment is so poor they need to have observers in their classes or be suspended or fired is not for me to say -- or for Libs of Tik Tok to say, either. Schools have well-paid administrators. They can do their jobs for once. I once read that nobody likes the First Amendment, not really. I see what they meant.
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  32556.  @kenhiett5266  I'll watch again. Glenn is always worth several looks. He isn't into cancel culture, if that's what you mean.
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  32557.  @kenhiett5266  I wonder if all my posts are visible to you. Sounds like not. Which would be ironic, as in Deep Irony. The main one was primarily about the First Amendment. Okay, have to 🤣.
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  32558.  @floydblandston108  Punishment for following your CONSCIENCE? When you are proposing punishment, it used to be that the burden was on you to explain and justify such a severe intrusion. But since we have the world's largest penal colony, perjury is the norm, and most pleas are bargained, I guess that noble principle is on its last legs.
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  32559.  @floydblandston108  Oh! Well then! Actually, that's a bedrock principle of criminal procedure. In fact, we just saw it applied in a pretty shocking way when the gun charge against Kyle Rittenhouse was dropped. Or, consider that the Boston Marathon bomber got a hospital bed.
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  32560.  @floydblandston108  Your question was, when has the principle I invoked ever been applied? My response was twofold: first, it should be, America as penal colony aside; and second, I provided examples where it was followed that I thought you might be familiar with, given your obvious level of knowledge of constitutional law. You follow? No?
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  32561.  @floydblandston108  Back to the point: the proponent of punishment has the burden of proof that the alleged transgression is one, that punishment is warranted, proportionate, and that it does not violate fundamental rights. Good luck with all that.
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  32562. You mean because they have principles? Yes, that can be confusing.
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  32563.  @jlmoses16  Our death row that 12 factually innocent people on it, and one whose conviction was unconstitutional but his innocence was unclear. One of the innocent ones was a farmer who came home to find his parents murdered. He was a blonde-haired, blue-eyed, soft-spoken man whose brothers and sisters hired a private attorney. It took a couple of years to find the real murderer. That was in one state, a "blue" state.
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  32564. True, but that depends on the motive.
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  32565. JD is the first to say that is not a good thing.
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  32566. That is odd, you're right.
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  32567. Dowland's life overlapped much of the time Londoners went to see Shakespeare's plays. Edit: of course you mentioned that. 😶
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  32568. Trivia: wow, only Americans use subjunctive, i.e., it is important that everyone get vaccinated. Okay, I said it was trivia.
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  32569. The COVID censorship WAS driven by the major advertisers, like PFIZER. Robby missed that somehow. 🤔
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  32570. Please keep it up. Show everyone how absurd the case for this proxy war really is.
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  32571. Amy Coney Barrett actually says something similar: 2:00
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  32572.  @therealcirclea762  Her intervention starts before the two minute mark. She absolutely did state that government should give preference to a "real" religion such as Christianity. In the realm of religion, recognition and protection from ridicule by members of "phony" religions IS preference in several respects. This did not even make sense. If you accept that these self-styled Satanists represent a religion, that is a stronger reason to say that their statue has no business being in a state capitol, because it violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. But the very same argument means that symbols of other religions having no secular purpose need to be removed, too. No special treatment for the "real" religion that worships ("the real") God. Listen, I don't really care. You have no rights anyway unless you are worth a minimum of eight figures. This experiment has failed. The Fourth Amendment has been trashed beyond recognition, so why not the First? Or the Fifth? Some of us are multilingual and can move. How about you?
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  32573.  @therealcirclea762  Where she talks about laws of general applicability?? Those were NEVER considered anti-religious. For example, animal sacrifice is unlawful no matter what religious beliefs you hold or do not hold. The motive doesn't enter into it. It's a simple non sequitur. Here's an example: if one religion sacrifices roosters and some others sacrifice dogs and you make dog sacrifice illegal but exempt rooster sacrifice because you don't believe dog sacrifice is really part of any legitimate religion, THAT would violate the First Amendment. But making all animal sacrifice illegal irrespective of the motives for it is fine. This discussion is laughable.
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  32574. When they have to lie about what you said and smear you, the game is OVER.
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  32575. "Don't go into debt to go to college." Only lazy rich kids should go to college.
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  32576. Are "the walls closing in?" Silly me, it's "game over."
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  32577. Changing what words mean is like a tropism for the Democrats. It's not just a strategy; it's an irresistible impulse.
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  32578. Soviet Union. Yes we know Nazis didn't like it.
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  32579. How does the legal status of the parents' presence in the United States have any bearing on the child's commitment to our country? It doesn't. It's as arbitrary and archaic as any other rule, and not dictated by the text of the Fourteenth Amendment. I'm not surprised that we care more and more about who your parents are, rather than who you, an individual, are -- whether it be for citizenship, a career, or admission to Harvard.
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  32580. If the American-born child of illegal immigrants were abused, would a court place him in foster care, or just deport the whole family?
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  32581. ​ @LTPottenger CORRECT. And most likely, nothing short of it does.
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  32582. Why?
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  32583. He didn't this time. Listen to the whole thing,
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  32584. Good grief, Whoopie Goldberg has no idea about the racial theories that underlie the Holocaust, and this is what they're teaching highschool kids? I bet no one has read Crenshaw, either. That would be an eye-opener. But it's grad level stuff.
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  32585.  @loribreese-darling8636  Take a look and see what you think.
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  32586.  @loribreese-darling8636  Take a look and see what impression you get.
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  32587.  @Brandi0071  1. Make sure she's eating a pure diet. I suspect Kennedy is right about that. 2. Don't let her go down this road, no matter what. A goal is always to not have a prescription. All of these drugs are dangerous. 3. Pick your battles. Swift isn't important. In 5 years, there will be some other fad. (Swift will be 40.) On the other hand, no "gay-straight alliance" before age 18 and high school graduation.
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  32588.  @kirst.  Jealous of a stranger. A blond stranger.
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  32589.  @kirst.  Er . . . That would be YOU. 🤣🤣🤣
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  32590.  @TheColdrush22  🤣🤣🤣
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  32591. @OwnYourLight  For three years, at her age? Or, you fixated on it? Seriously, find better art. Or something. There has got to be some better use of a high school student's time.
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  32592. @OwnYourLight  1. The fact that there is madness swirling around some pop star doesn't mean that pop star is "evil." Indifference to ridiculous fandom and imputing "evil" to its object are two different things. One of her concerts had to be canceled because of threats. 2. Since you have a presence online, you shouldn't talk about your child during a sensitive period of her development. She shared her views with you. Why should you share private mom-daughter conversations with us?
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  32593.  @t74guard78  Sharing private mom-daughter conversations with the Internet (for Likes?) is a sign of maturity and depth.
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  32594.  @t74guard78  I don't care about Swift at all. The person you're praising has a website concerned with astrology and tarot, with art that is evocative of witchcraft. It is almost 🤣🤣🤣 but not really.
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  32595. @OwnYourLight  You're the one who posted that your child (who never gave her permission to overshare, by the way) has been saying a pop star is "evil" for three years, no less, and that she "sees it." Even bullies leave a victim alone after a school year ends. Maybe your daughter didn't say this stuff for three years, either.
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  32596.  @loribreese-darling8636  My impression of the aesthetics presented, as I clearly stated: "art evocative of . . . ." I personally prefer to avoid that sort of thing, and I'm not conventionally religious at all. You make up stuff, then make up more stuff to paper over the first stuff.
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  32597. @loribreese-darling8636  This started with a claim that some middle-brow pop star (who had a recent concert canceled due to serious threats) is "evil." Nothing less.
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  32598.  @OwnYourLight  Sure we do. We took physics and math. And art history and graphic design, for that matter. You'd be surprised.
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  32599. @loribreese-darling8636  Just watched the Newsweek interview of Routh, where he mostly talked about "evil." They interviewed Routh despite the fact that he had a serious weapons felony in 2002, shortly after 9/11. The New York Times did as well. Real good judgment everywhere.
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  32600. @dvt1393  Who is mocking? What's sad is this nonsense. Some pop star is now the equivalent of Jeffrey Epstein (or Dahmer) because she meddled in politics where she has no expertise? We should encourage extremism in little girls, and brag about it on the Internet, rather than laughing it off and reassuring them that this is nonsense, there has been frenzy over pop stars before, and that this, too, shall pass? No wonder. Judgment is gone and isn't coming back. That should be your worry. I'm no longer surprised that it isn't.
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  32601.  @dvt1393    Who is mocking? What's sad is this nonsense. Some pop star is now Jeffrey Epstein (or Dahmer) because she meddled in politics where she has no expertise? We should encourage extremism in little girls, and brag about it on the Internet, rather than laughing it off and reassuring them that this is nonsense, there has been frenzy over pop stars before, and that this, too, shall pass? No wonder. Judgment is gone and isn't coming back. That should be your worry.
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  32602.  @dvt1393  The censorship of reasonable people and amplification of hysteria over nothing is much sadder.
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  32603. "Positivity" has nothing to do with a beneficial psychological state. It is an advertising strategy, and a threat: you won't be marketable if you don't adopt this phony image. If someone makes you do this, they aren't your friend. But they might be your employer. Feel free to be phony if you want and if that's easier. You have a right to protect yourself and your income.
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  32604.  @Atmost11  I didn't reference that clip. Dr. West did not appear in it, correct? Nor was there a discussion that included a doctor and a prominent health journalist (who have reservations about this idea, and don't make it about All Dore, All the Time), as Katie Halper presented. If Seder et al are opposed to Dore's style of commentary, they should not break the meter to imitate him and outdo him.
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  32605.  @Atmost11  Do you know how to find stuff on YouTube? Real easy, use the magnifying glass icon. Do you know how people make clips of videos to show you what they want you to see? That's kinda how they make their arguments. Then if you want to know stuff, you have to look for what the other side has been saying as well. I'm sure you've heard about it.
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  32606.  @Atmost11  What I saw from this panel was worse than embarrassing. At this point I'm frightened for free speech. Is there anything they won't say to destroy someone they don't agree with? I saw no limit, and I saw punching down. I don't see the same from Dore.
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  32607.  @Atmost11  She never spoke to him or acknowledged Dore after being elected, on this or any subject. (She just went on his show before becoming popular.)
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  32608.  @Atmost11  Complete nonsense. There is no path to Speakership for anyone worse and to the right of Pelosi. This argument counts on everyone's being totally ignorant. There was a point to voting against Trump no matter who was running against him. There is NO point to voting for Pelosi's right-wing agenda. Pelosi already passed over AOC for a committee chair, AND appointed a woman who withheld her vote from Pelosi the last time! Excellent, just what weak "progressives" deserve. Learn to fight for what's right. Show some spirit!
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  32609.  @Atmost11  Skip the main points why don't you? 1. A Republican cannot be elected Speaker without Dem votes; and 2. Someone who withheld her vote from Pelosi, which AOC will not do, just got something AOC wanted. Precious, isn't it? I'm not against it. Where did I say I was? At this point, you are wasting my time.
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  32610.  @Atmost11  Okay, we suck. Thanks.
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  32611.  @Atmost11  Is there some reason why it's you who is apoplectic with fury? It didn't cross my mind to swear at you, as tedious and incapable of dealing with actual reasoned arguments as you are. I assumed you just don't have much experience in this area, not that "you sk." Oh well, good to know.
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  32612.  @Atmost11  Katie's program invited a majority of guests who have expertise and were reluctant to embrace ForceTheVote, and they offered REASONS why. It isn't about personalities. Except for you and this channel.
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  32613.  @Atmost11  No. I keep thinking this is about M4A.
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  32614.  @Atmost11  Yeah, I saw character assassination. I saw Seder et al. say that a man who was a bricklayer for ten years and had a medical bankruptcy despite having health insurance is a "phony" because he got his first nice house at age 55. That's what I saw. If you didn't see that, I wonder why you think strong language FOR A REAL CAUSE is so bad.
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  32615.  @Atmost11  Thank you for reminding us of what liberals are really like. They are never, ever allies of the working people, and instead despise them, and know they are easy marks for character assassination. Liberals/neoliberals open the door to fascism every time. This country already has those tendencies because of its slave society past and its deeply-rooted racism. Can you leave? I sure can. Those who keep lying will have to live in the stew of lies they cooked up. I pity them.
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  32616.  @Atmost11  You can see Seder said that by watching the video! Oh gawd what a laugh. What has America come to?
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  32617.  @Atmost11  Where have I said anything about her specifically? I don't care about her and knew she was not genuine in her pronouncements from Day 1. I had no expectations. She's a politician. That's not personal. It is a status. And her status has no bearing on the argument. Anyone else could be in the same office, and we would see the same conduct. Either you push a politician, or you pay a politician, or you do not exist for that politician. Fill in any name for "politician." Sorry to see you take things to heart in ways that blind you. Sorry there are 318,000 dead from COVID, and sorry there will be even more bankrupt because of it.
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  32618.  @Atmost11  Actually, I pity you. I see you hold yourself out to be religious or something. Good to know.
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  32619.  @Atmost11  Not what your profile says, LOL.
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  32620. Humanitarian intervention, so called, has been exposed for what it is. If these members of Congress cared for nothing and no one, apart from fundraising for November, they should at least be mindful of what feeding this war has done to American diplomacy in the world.
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  32621. That is generally true, apart from those handicapped from birth or due to an accident caused by someone who was judgment-proof.
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  32622. Yes, WPA
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  32623.  @Deathlordalmighty  That's what the Musk-Taibbi issue is about. We haven't seen the Don Lemon interview yet.
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  32624.  @jj3682  No one said there was a rich guy behind the curtain. I wonder, though -- how do you account for the massive shift in wealth to the very top, which has been going on for 50 years and has been accelerating wildly since the 1990s, especially since financial deregulation? Are all of these people "working harder," "working smarter," or "adding value?" If giving people money were so sure to ruin them, and was fraught with such risk, please explain why rich people have highly sophisticated estate lawyers, place money in trusts for future generations, place money in off-shore tax havens, and even buy their children's way into schools like Harvard? Who would want to ruin their own child? Seems like they all do. How odd. The founders of these various tech companies were worth several billion by age 40 if not a decade sooner. That is like accumulating $1,000,000 a year for every year since the birth of Jesus. Please explain how anyone "earns" that -- especially by creating something like social media. (You can't eat it, wear it, or use it to heat your house, but it can be used for propaganda and surveillance simultaneously. Brilliant invention, huh?)
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  32625. Recommend some books! 😊
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  32626.  @annickalexander  Why were those charges dropped?
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  32627.  @satsubatsu347  Entirely different case. Also, I am talking strictly about cases where there was a trial, not where a person declared unfit to stand trial was committed to a mental institution, potentially for life, only to be improvidently released some years later.
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  32628.  @satsubatsu347  I had to look up Sagawa. I remembered the facts of the case but not the name. You knew he was not a serial killer, or at least was unsuccessful at it, being caught the after one murder. He confessed to planning others and not going through with it. He was deported to Japan and placed in an institution there. That institution eventually released him, something like 5 or 6 years later. At any rate, a very short time.
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  32629. So, these are Trumptards, eh? Why do so many countries -- France, Germany, Russia, Japan -- have more vaccine hesitancy than the US does? Why do minorities here hesitate more than whites? Why do poorer people hesitate more than the affluent ones?
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  32630. The Harvard grads who took "gender studies" don't have debt.
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  32631.  @godssara6758  Have you ever met a Harvard grad?
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  32632. Are these sanctions working now?
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  32633.  @ClownCarCoup  Sure, Bub. Only if Russia turns on the spigots and Biden gets out of the way. And not even then.
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  32634.  @ClownCarCoup  No one believes that. The resort to strawmen is Bidenesque, pre-cognitive lapses. (Say. Who owns over a trillion of our national debt? And has been reducing their holdings systematically? Trick question --- two countries, actually.)
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  32635.  @ClownCarCoup  BTW, negative GDP over the last 30 years includes the Yelsin debacle. If you include that paroxym, the picture, then, was much more dire than simple "negative GDP." You've never read Stephen F. Cohen I am wildly guessing . . . 🤣
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  32636.  @ClownCarCoup  Because he was the leading expert on Russia in the English speaking world. Oh I get it. You never read anyone who doesn't support your nonsense. By the way, Cohen was pressed to say that Putin would not invade Ukraine in an interview at the 92nd Street Y in New York long before it happened. He was alone in saying Putin might indeed do it.
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  32637.  @ClownCarCoup  So, you're basically ignorant. Great. Blocked.
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  32638.  @ClownCarCoup  Cohen wasn't employed by RT. He taught at Princeton and NYU. Wow, you devolved to fact-free pretty quickly. Or is smearing your usual MO?
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  32639. "But Jimmy, doesn't negativity cause early death?"
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  32640.  @IncognitoSprax  SURE THEY DID: Fight to take back both chambers of the Congess in 2018, not waste time on Russiagate, and other Clinton projects.
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  32641. Why are the students so poorly dressed?
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  32642.  @panama2468  We need a draft. People don't grow up here. They live in the mental space of endless highschool.
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  32643.  @hammurabitheawesome674  Maybe we should all just Manifest Abundance. We could also Visualize Flourishing. Nah. Manifest Abundance.
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  32644. Open a book.
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  32645. Looks like she wants a Vogue photo shoot, too. Give it to her, please.
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  32646.  @Towner69  What part of he acknowledged his error and apologized in writing at the time, and promised never to repeat it again, is everyone missing? So . . . Jimmy's crass joke couldn't have been all right. No one apologizes like that over nothing. Once this incident was weaponized and Ana threatened his and Stef's livelihood during COVID (they had to cancel all live shows) if he didn't quit "running his mouth," he had a right to a vigorous self-defense.
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  32647. Bri's point was that Robbie's comment went beyond what she was talking about: every school, private or public, has got to accommodate more than one family. That was what she said. She wasn't talking pro or con about privatization this time. But have at it.
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  32648.  @llcoffin  The pandemic was handled poorly overall, with Trump blustering and abusing more than usual, others fearmongering, censoring, and attacking, no one trying to calm people, no one trying to be truthful . . . and a lot of people cashing in. The pandemic created new millionaires and billionaires. As we gripe about teachers.
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  32649.  @llcoffin  I think Robbie's pushing for vouchers does so vastly more.
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  32650.  @llcoffin  I upvoted the OP, by the way.
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  32651.  @llcoffin  Robbie is always attacking teachers and supporting "vouchers." Pay closer attention, a new moneygrab is in the works.
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  32652.  @llcoffin  I was giving you the big picture. There is a teacher shortage in many places. Guess what that means for property taxes.
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  32653. ​ @E_Clampus_Vitus 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  32654.  @maryolee8303  I think I understand now. Owners have no Eros in their lives. Not even sublimated (art, music, poetry, etc.). Your post made that clear.
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  32655.  @maryolee8303  WHOOSH to top every whoosh I've ever seen. Cool. We have yet to hit bottom.
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  32656.  @maryolee8303  Ha. Neither I nor anyone with any real talent will be here. Let's see how well you do by your own devices. I can hardly wait.
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  32657. Italy
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  32658.  @LadyBug1967  Well, for most ailments, physical or psychological, the advice is to continue with daily activities as much as possible and as soon as possible. I think that's right. I don't believe in lengthy "rest cures." I think Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, had a pretty definitive view on that, even before the scientific research bore him out. Taking more time than you actually need is a trap, and creates bad habits that a person will have to break. I agree that people with psychological problems are vulnerable to picking the wrong friends. They often feel unworthy, which harms their good judgment. The danger now is that those wrong friends could be into drugs or otherwise dangerous. That wasn't very likely in 1950. I grew up in the 1970s to early '80s. A lot of people then thought a girl with brown eyes couldn't be "really" pretty. This was well before social media.
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  32659. This isn't about MeToo, it's about the First Amendment -- every defamation case is about whether speech is protected, or can be silenced and punished. That's where to begin every analysis of a defamation case.
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  32660.  @guillermoelnino  White says she is a biological male and a trans woman, and that she transitioned because her lifelong severe dysphoria did not resolve by age 20, like it usually does, and psychotherapy alone did not work. No, she's not a man.
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  32661. ​ @tarikviaer-mcclymont5762 Easily. A substantial number of Americans are very prejudiced.
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  32662. 💯 Every word
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  32663. @bonniebucksbar737  Yes it did happen, in Ireland. Here we had a ten year old pregnant girl that right wingers called a hoax.
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  32664. @bonniebucksbar737  Human medicine is the same everywhere. What happens in one developed country that prohibits abortion can happen in any developed country that prohibits abortion. Sepsis can happen anywhere where doctors hesitate to act for fear of reprisals. You saw the cowardice surrounding EUA vaccines.
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  32665.  @czarcastic1458  Or because the pregnant girl is ten years old.
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  32666. @ruaraidh74  I suggest you look up the story in The Guardian. It did happen, in Ireland. No, it's not common.
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  32667.  @czarcastic1458  So you don't know the case was CONFIRMED, the assailant confessed, and the girl got a therapeutic abortion and her doctor got death threats. There was real revulsion in the whole country over it.
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  32668. THIS
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  32669. 💯
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  32670.  @hootenholler5105  Try reading. "Reading is Fun."
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  32671.  @hootenholler5105  This freak is the opposite of. The kids should come to school with prostheses, too, and say they are exploring diverse identities and modes of self-presentation and self-expression.
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  32672.  @hootenholler5105  You are? EEK! blocked
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  32673.  @emilys5024  VERY Official CDC numbers
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  32674. If my child were straight, I would tell them no LGBTQ friends before age 18. I mean it. 18 is the age of consent in California for a reason.
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  32675. Obvious, yes.
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  32676. ​ @sellmav This is generally true, but unless they study First Amendment law, or at least watch Glenn Greenwald for a while, they won't know. It's a specialized field of law, and you can't always rely on intuition. The real disgrace is that these university presidents can't explain free speech. They never learned it. They don't care about it.
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  32677.  @nancymiller4557  That has nothing to do with this. And many of the Founders were disestablishmentarianists. Seriously, it was a movement, to make sure no public money went to support any church in any form.
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  32678. ​ @TheStampedeVista  I think you're right. But I already have a track record and professional licenses with my name. :/ By the way, my friend's boss asked his secretary to throw out resumes from people of Indian descent. My friend retrieved them and put them on his desk. Let him throw them out himself. (Anti-BRICS prejudice, lol? Maybe not funny . . . ??)
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  32679. Testimony is immunized. No one can sue her for defamation. But she could be fired for incompetence.
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  32680.  @metrez4537  Oh come on. He keeps insinuating that this is what "must have" happened. The fact is that at sentencing, it was revealed that Nick had a much worse alcohol problem than he admits (surprise, surprise), and that he has severe dissociation, which you find in traumatized children. He may have had an obsession about his father loving his brothers but hating him. He drank enough to have cognitive damage, at his age.
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  32681.  @metrez4537  He doesn't have characteristics of it. That's to make us feel better about the horror of these murders. We have to believe he is fundamentally different from half the other 15 year olds with his social history.
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  32682. w @metrez4537  So the facts themselves are bad enough. I agree with the OP. I didn't know you were a forensic psychiatrist. Wow.
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  32683.  @metrez4537  Yeah, I think killing people is Bad. I don't even eat animals or kill spiders, much less sweet, tender, sleepy little brothers. I hope you are reassured.
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  32684.  @kishiyomo993  You're the only person whose mind went there. We may conclude that you are the groomer. A forensic psychologist you are not.
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  32685.  @kishiyomo993  Then why did YOU bring it up? Cf. Cain and Abel
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  32686.  @kishiyomo993  No one said that -- except you. You are fixated on groomer, whatever that means to you. It is a legal concept, in fact, inapplicable here. Blocked.
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  32687. I self-funded Sorbonne, had to learn a third language to go. But that's misleading: under the leftist government in France at the time, all universities in France were tuition-free for everyone. A thousand a month to live meant having everything you needed.
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  32688. Why is my post shadowed, but I keep getting notifications to additional replies in the thread? I'd rather have what La République Française gave to all qualified applicants alike (and my own work and savings) than to benefit from what the Gates Foundation decided to bestow upon me.
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  32689. 💯
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  32690. Remember when Wall Street said that if the Democrats run Bernie, they will line up behind TRUMP? I do.
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  32691. ​@dudebruh88 I recommend listening to someone who actually did it: David Goggins.
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  32692. Well. She certainly has an imagination.
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  32693. He explained that he had no reason at first to doubt them. He only found out later.
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  32694.  @redknight9740  "Controlled?" Controlled opposition doesn't get fired and smeared. It gets a little, performative slap on the wrist.
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  32695. ​@WileyHickok Well, they could be wrong. They could be too quick to see it when it's not really there, for obvious cultural reasons. They also don't have the free speech and expression that we do. But for anyone to suggest that only "deranged lunatics" saw it, the way Robby just did, is unimpressive. It's more like Musk can buy the reputation wants, isn't it?
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  32696. Hey, she's working.
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  32697. YES, Curtis is genius.
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  32698.  J Doctor  F R O M W H E R E?
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  32699.  J Doctor  Who has that income from the US government? Sheer nonsense. You never served that population.
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  32700. Djokovic strongly supported Naomi Osaka. Where ya been? Anyway, he's E. European. He'd never lower himself to the rant you see from this loser.
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  32701. I never got one. My habit is a tablet, and the pandemic shutdown did it.
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  32702. It's crazy, isn't it, that we went from the COVID travesty to trans? And support for every war.
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  32703. ​@P.90.603 Merkins don't need no evidence. Evidence is for sissies.
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  32704. I heard Bill Gates was after it. Seems Epstein knew some people . . .
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  32705. ​@drewdrewson1384 They all do now, if you are in a fragile state. Even the one that comes when you call 911.
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  32706. ​​ @drewdrewson1384 "Answers will not appear in this space" but may or may not emerge out of the shadows using the Newest tab/sorting function.
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  32707. No. Plato was a philosopher.
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  32708. In the present poisoned social environment, hearing Aaron Mate's voice is soothing to the mind and spirit. The abandonment of all logic and rational discourse IS Trumpism. The "joke" is on The Intercept editors, only it is a hideous joke.
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  32709.  @jakecorenthose2901  Really? I hate anti-intellectualism.
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  32710.  @ellharney3332  My response to another post, six months ago:  @Jake Corenthose  Well, then you will have to account for all the solid arguments advanced by Krystal Ball and Briahna Joy Gray, among others, for pursuing this strategy at this time. You'll also have to concede that the pandemic is real, has killed more people here than anywhere, has thrown millions out of work, and that a needed change that has been on the table for two generations has yet to be enacted using the old tactics. If you know a better way, absolutely suggest it now. No problem.
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  32711. Soave deserves a lot of critique, but this is a bad rap. Simply untrue.
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  32712.  @mschwage  It was about who pays.
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  32713. @mschwage  Actually, there is a GOOD reason why we should pay: regulatory capture. The regulated SHOULD NOT pay the regulator. The regulator must be independent. He is there representing the public. His very day-to-day presence on the boats is motivation enough to be sympathetic to the fisherman and overlook infractions. If the fisheries also pay him, he WILL look to placate them. There is a second good reason: a sudden and complete withdrawal of subsidy will be a shock to the industry, and smaller fisheries will go out of business. Big ones will grow bigger, then lobby to get the regulations they want. They will invariably have greater power to make the rules and bend them when it suits them, whereas the small fry can't. Pun intended.
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  32714.  @billsmith9737  Ha.
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  32715.  @billsmith9737  Then why didn't she vote for Biden or Hillary? That doesn't sound like TDS to me.
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  32716. Nicely stated. Only a comprehensive approach can bring the change we need.
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  32717. Who dropped two atom bombs? Who uses DU? Who stopped a nuclear exchange twice? Trick questions. Doesn't matter.
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  32718. And exactly why do the other oligarchs attack this move? Note what they aren't saying: Tesla has a huge discrimination lawsuit pending. The affidavits are among the worst I've ever seen. They also aren't saying Neuralink has a complaint against it for primate torture with 700 pages of supporting documents. No, what's important is shutting people up. Elon is slimy, but that's not what matters. They all are. Their focus, as usual, is on "the narrative." Nothing concrete, ever.
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  32719. I remember all the times he praised Bill Gates. More money than can be spent in ten lifetimes does something to people.
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  32720. How so?
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  32721. ​ @Mat-ss8uw France isn't like that.
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  32722. Why?
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  32723.  @factanonverba7547  No, I mean why doesn't his (her) family believe MSNBC/Maddow is a shill, no matter what evidence they are presented with? That's weird. Isn't it?
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  32724.  @factanonverba7547  Because there are never enough true things to criticize a politician for. /s
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  32725. That's funny. I was just reading a book by Norman Doidge, a friend of Jordan Peterson's, who made the point about the extreme variability in what human beings find attractive in a mate, and how neuroplasticity in humans (something that is the product of our evolution, and has made us the most adaptive species on earth) has led to that remarkable variability. The book is called The Brain That Changes Itself. BTW, any man who doesn't see that Naomi Wolf really likes men, and hence expects good behavior form them, might want to stop pointing fingers and look in the mirror instead. If you don't know how to read women to that extent -- that you don't see that Wolf is a woman who likes men a lot -- then you might want to work on that for the sake of not missing out on a good thing the next time she crosses your path.
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  32726. No one is compelling her. Read the briefs in the case.
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  32727.  @Redbird1504  I will have to read the briefs to see how she had standing to make a hypothetical claim, since no one has done anything to compel her at all. First Amendment law does have the concept of prior restraint, so that could be how she got standing.
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  32728. ​​@Graham Hodge Other studies have said exactly the opposite. Chances are excellent the study you cite pertains to the original virus and perhaps its first variant. Does it pertain to the Omicron variants?
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  32729. ​@Graham Hodge Just read the methodology. A meta-analysis that fails to distinguish between variants is likely flawed and should not be the basis for giving current advice to men under 50 without special risks factors, and certainly not to teenaged boys.
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  32730. 6:57 Oh my gawd.
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  32731. At least they still bring Adam Curtis documentaries, but other than that . . .
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  32732. The people who got solid degrees know that you are being manipulated into believing this, and they also know why. Who do you think can change careers, as most will have to? Someone with a quality BA/BS, or a plumber or welder? Who do you think can work at least part-time into their 70s? Yeah. Do the math. For this entire century, most people were looking at one career change before retirement. At age 40, most people have the better part of three decades of work ahead of them. Who do you think will be able to swing it? If the plumber or welder can create a larger private business, he'll be fine. The auto shop I go to now has an owner who inherited the business from his father, and his father steered him to an MBA for just that reason. His daughter will go further, she's already a math and ballet prodigy.
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  32733. Even TRUMP doesn't say this.
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  32734. Let me see if I understand. RFK Jr. will debate people who smear him, but Scientists are too Big and Important to debate him. They won't perform the public service of showing new parents that RFK Jr is wrong, after this pandemic fiasco. And Kennedy's father and uncle were both assassinated, so smearing him is no big deal. Okay, got it.
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  32735. A billion dollars at 32 is like collecting over $85,500 a day . . . every day, from the day you were born. That's just one billion. Founding Facebook "earned" this??
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  32736. Will they learn the Nazis were defeated by the Red Army? Wait. They don't mean the Nazis were victims of Communism, do they?
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  32737. @Gary Geiser Not like the fire bombings of Tokyo and Dresden, and the two A bombs, not just one. Good to know American public education is doing its job, or a job at any rate.
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  32738. @Gary Geiser No idea what you might mean, nevermind what you do mean. Sounded kind of cool, though, like a renaissance fair but for Vikings? More authentic.
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  32739. @Gary Geiser Oh, I see. Blocked
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  32740. 18 U.S. Code § 2381 - this is where the crime of "Treason" is codified. Maybe if you can prove Putin made her do it, you can have her tried for treason, though I doubt it.
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  32741. ​ @okirrama3587 Letting Peter Thiel's ketamine-addled protégé loose on confidential materials he and Palantir can profit from is the height of common sense. We saw that common sense when Trump turned the country over to Fauci last time.
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  32742. Tests!? Then all the fully vaccinated and boostered who turn up COVID POSITIVE will come to light.
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  32743. Thank you for this. Of course you're right.
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  32744. ​ @TheXello  You know, the other day, my hairdresser said, "Netanyahu, that name sounds familiar." Her youngest child is a boy and will need to register for Selective Service at 18. What can anyone do? She probably has an opinion about Taylor Swift . . . , Elon Musk, . . . She probably had an opinion about Angelina Jolie's divorce.
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  32745. ​ @ThirteenAerems It is in . . . Visible-d. Techno-feudalism in action, huh?
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  32746. This is true, and open-minded. This is precisely what happened.
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  32747. To be scrupulously fair, Brie did say that the CDC lied to the public. Straight up. And they did.
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  32748.  @drinkxyz  nooo, it's rich and beautiful
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  32749.  @diredistress4005  LOL "My truth" has been driving me crazy since 2009.
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  32750.  @nope5657  He was a minor who should have been tried as such. An exceptionally messed up minor who never completed his third year of friggin' high school. Let's watch and see whether there are even more black youth set up on adult charges, with the real fascists crowing "Rittenhouse faced adult charges, he could take the stand. He could deal with it, etc". I give it three months, maximum. Learn to analyze and pick battles. The US is worse than you think it is.
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  32751. What makes you think these are all of non-French ethnicity? That was already not the case in the 1980s.
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  32752. ​@tbishop4961 Of course you're right. American ignorance is more startling every day. They are all saying the same thing, even in response to other videos where it is obvious people of French descent are rioting. Is it ignorance, or a need to believe a little story they are wedded to? Or is it drugs?
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  32753.  @davemartino5997  Because you lived in France and went to school there, and I don't mean through American junior year jazz.
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  32754.  @LetsAllDrinkToTheDeathOfAClown  Nazi screen name? Superior eyes, maybe? The vision thing? LOL
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  32755. Until the crime wave results in the pregnancy of your high school freshman -- or seventh grader. Then you'll be looking to see which states have comprehensive care and no mind games. GET REAL.
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  32756.  @emort6  Y'mean like an Epstein, or one of his many cronies?
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  32757.  @stevenhicks8159  Entirely incorrect. Marriage is most certainly a civil matter. No church can ever be required to recognize any marriage from a purely religious standpoint. Even some don't recognize divorce and remarriage. It is their First Amendment right to decline to recognize any of that. But by the same token, they cannot dictate what a CIVIL marriage is.
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  32758.  @ARoll925  That there was a brilliant analysis.
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  32759. To lead you straight to war without your having to stop and think, you mean? How is he better than Joe?
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  32760. But the CNN dude wants Russians to die. That was the idea. They weren't against the Wehrmacht, then.
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  32761.  @jbrown6030  Of course. Harvard BA, JD and Bernie Sanders press secretary. But she didn't have the lowdown on some blue-haired *****.
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  32762. Yes, Jen, many families were heartbroken about their INCARCERATED sons and daughters.
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  32763.  @obediahpolkinghorniii564  Nothing in the articles you linked states that one or the other hypothesis concerning COVID's origins has compelling evidence to support it. Both hypotheses remain viable, with some scientists strongly favoring one, and others considering the evidence to be balanced. Let's keep in mind that viruses are presumed to be naturally occurring, absent evidence to the contrary. The burden of proof on the lab leak side is greater (and indeed, a lab leak of a naturally occurring virus, not an engineered one, is hardly impossible -- leaks are not rare), which accounts for the language you rely on. You thought no one would read the articles or grasp what they're saying. Or that they aren't aware of the open letter of scientists to the NYTimes, etc., asking for more research.
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  32764.  @obediahpolkinghorniii564  Wouldn't studying the effects of a class of coronaviruses in humanized mice have the potential to accelerate their natural evolutionary pathways, just as we now see new variants of COVID 19 emerging, since the time it has passed to people? Lab leak does NOT imply "man-made." Nor does it imply the virus would have tell-tail markers of engineering. The mice they use are genetically engineered. The viruses aren't, or not necessarily. It's not obvious how the viruses could mutate when introduced into the mice? They do in nature. At any rate, the moratorium on gain-of-function research was indeed lifted, in 2017. That's also a fact.
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  32765.  @obediahpolkinghorniii564  Nice try. Now we can confirm you are making assertions BEYOND the evidence. Both articles consider both hypotheses, and do not disconfirm lab origin. For example, the latter: "More scientific data could swing the balance of evidence to favor one hypothesis over another. Obtaining related viral sequences from animal sources would be the most definitive way of revealing viral origins. For example, a future observation of an intermediate or fully formed polybasic cleavage site in a SARS-CoV-2-like virus from animals would lend even further support to the natural-selection hypotheses. It would also be helpful to obtain more genetic and functional data about SARS-CoV-2, including animal studies. The identification of a potential intermediate host of SARS-CoV-2, as well as sequencing of the virus from very early cases, would similarly be highly informative. Irrespective of the exact mechanisms by which SARS-CoV-2 originated via natural selection, the ongoing surveillance of pneumonia in humans and other animals is clearly of utmost importance." Thanks, sweets. Expert witness testimony under Daubert was a specialty of mine. 😉
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  32766. And pay people handsomely for it. May as well . . .
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  32767. 20:03 From the Church Committee and Operation Mockingbird, to contemporary MSM: we are propagandized by CNN and MSNBC using former CIA and FBI agents, many of whom were caught lying, left public service, and then got MSM jobs. (Just over three minutes)
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  32768. True
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  32769. You would coerce an African or Palestinian woman to take a vaccine? Or you would attempt to persuade her, then step back and allow HER to decide? Who should control these women's medical care?
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  32770. If NPR gets any government money, then they cannot do this. They cannot suppress speech in this manner.
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  32771.  @rynovisionrl  Thanks for revealing your position.
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  32772.  @fuckamericanidiot  Vijay Prashad is on Democracy Now today, explaining how the West is incapable of seeing anything from another person's side. This fluff piece on Shapiro and the thread is a small example. Go see the big one.
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  32773.  @kylacassandraandog1383  Research awards is how grad students and post-doc assistants get paid. Calling for it to be cancelled is cancel culture. Shapiro, on the other hand, is a Harvard-trained lawyer who COULD be representing people who have been victims of the woke mob, and he could be defending First Amendment rights in court, where it counts, but notice how he instead has chosen a much easier, more lucrative "job." I have no respect for that. What I want to know is, why are standards so low? No wonder SBF, no wonder Hunter Biden on an energy board, no wonder the main candidates in the last presidential election . . . . there's something very wrong with the whole picture.
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  32774.  @kylacassandraandog1383  Feel free. I'm not Western, either. But watch first, at least. The period of easy money cannot last. Someone has got to get serious.
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  32775.  @autogirl53208  What YOU don't get is that Shapiro is a Harvard-trained lawyer and could be representing people in First Amendment cases, and defending the education rights of parents and students to not be inundated with bizarre woke propaganda in public schools. He could actually be doing something other than throwing fresh meat to the crowd and getting paid for it. But law is hard work. He picked the easy money. How could anyone still be duped at this point?
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  32776.  @joshbobst1629  In 2020, over 45,000 deaths from firearms, more than half being suicides, and over 40,000 deaths from motor vehicle crashes. The injury figures in each category are substantial; modern ER medicine saves a lot of people. There must be well over 100,000 shootings per year. There are hundreds of thousands of people alive today who were present in a school while a shooting was taking place there, though not necessarily where they could witness it. Well, they probably heard it . . . :/
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  32777.  @reddirtwalker8041  Well, the drinking age is 21. Lots of major urban police departments and fire departments will not take anyone under 21, and scrutinize people under 25 more closely. (This gives them the opportunity to become 30-year veterans pretty easily, if they want to, so there is no cause to complain.) There is nothing magic about 18.
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  32778.  @reddirtwalker8041  The military is the exact opposite of a lone wolf activity. They give up a lot of basic rights to serve and to get that training. They are watched nearly all the time.
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  32779.  @lucthin6245  AMEN
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  32780.  @briandewolfe  It's not for you to decide, either. Everything you said is vague. What is "gender affirming care?" Pulling out a prescription pad after a 30-minute appointment? Fast-tracking people to major surgery without considering other options? All medical care is regulated in some respect. We don't do electroconvulsive therapy the way we once did, either, nevermind lobotomies. Believe me, most of us care a lot less than you think. No need to shout. "Not my kid, not my problem" is the American default position, isn't it? Actually, I wonder what you think you're responding to. Maybe the fact that I did approach this logically, and opposed instant criminalization? Is logic a threat to you? LOL
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  32781. @Phil Davidson Agreed. I think it's a hugely drastic measure for anything but precocious puberty, BUT it might be truly necessary for someone.
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  32782.  @MaisieDaisyUpsadaisy  You know exactly what I'm talking about, and I know exactly why you're all over me, when I said I was opposed to criminalizing these treatments. But it's never enough, is it? No one has a problem with counseling youth. What are you talking about? Everyone agrees with that, and the goal is to make sure all INSURANCE pays for the counseling and other psychological care young people need Blocked as being in bad faith.
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  32783.  @MaisieDaisyUpsadaisy  All doctors do what the very best doctors do, huh? Sure they do. Insurance pays, too. /s
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  32784. A true one-in-a-million rate of complications occurs in every single medication and procedure. Aspirin. Circumcision. Peanut allergy is about 1% of the population. So peanuts are 10,000 times more dangerous. OTOH, the people who wonder if the true rate of vaccine complications is higher are asking a question that deserves an answer.
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  32785. Of course there's a way to get Russia to part with its oil without their getting paid for it: you bomb them and then you rob them. What's not to like? /s The US has plenty of experience in this. It doesn't win wars in any traditional sense, or engage in a hidebound 19th-century version of imperialism, but it does seize resources in sufficient quantities to maintain and control its massively indebted economy. That's the point.
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  32786. That isn't a true threat. It's far too vague. She didn't indicate she had any intention of doing anything. She didn't even specify what was "next." The rep on the phone being denied health coverage when they themselves need it most? That's not a threat, it's a solid prediction. She also said something about karma at some point. That's like saying I'll pray for you that you don't . . .
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  32787. ​​ @mrtarka  Well said. They are the sad ones. Who wants to live like that? And speaking of politics, look at all the people on the independent left who knew this was a scam, and have resisted the propaganda all along. This time, it is beyond right and left.
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  32788.  @CoachAndrew77  But it doesn't know it doesn't know. It needs you to point it out.
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  32789.  @CoachAndrew77  You know if you don't know the answer to a math problem . . . Right? LOL
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  32790.  @CoachAndrew77  I doubt that. You know when you don't know the answer. That sort of reflexivity is characteristic of human consciousness. Don't underestimate it. It's the whole key to real intelligence.
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  32791. @CoachAndrew77  Computers already can assist in identifying prime numbers. The largest known prime has over 82,500,000 digits, as of last month.
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  32792. Well, either that's a truism (free speech is the speech that cannot be abridged under the First Amendment), or it's not quite right. True threats, incitement to imminent violence, conspiracy to comment an illegal act can all be prosecuted.
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  32793. ​@ywtcc What you posted has nothing to do with First Amendment free speech in the US. If someone wants to sue for breach of contract, or to report inaccurate advertising, or to sue for divorce, and the opposing party's speech was incidental to that, fine, but they have to prove up their assertions. There is no roving commission with the "authority" to restrain anyone's speech. Nor would losing something like a breach of contract case restrain your future speech. You could walk out of court and issue a statement that the ruling was unfair.
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  32794. @ywtcc  The First Amendment states that "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press," and thanks to the Fourteenth Amendment and Supreme Court jurisprudence, neither shall anyone else. (You've got a problem with that?) Read a few cases, like Brandenburg v Ohio, or the Westboro Baptist Church case, or Virginia v. Black, and learn something.
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  32795. My state university is requiring vaccination for admission. Is it right for public universities to require vaccination with a drug not yet FDA approved? Another report said there were 1200 myocarditis cases. I had thought all resolved with treatment. Seems that is not quite true either. At this point, being heavy-handed will hurt the vaccination drive.
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  32796.  @icecreamcheesesticks  Actually, that use of the word "smarter" is vague, but you appear to quantify it by using the phrase "orders of magnitude," thus creating the illusion of profundity -- which you imply you have and that others (such as OP) lack. Say. Are you a bot?
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  32797.  @brothersandsistersofvalhalla  There is a credible report that Gates frequented Epstein to gain access to someone close to the Nobel Peace Prize committee, which Gates coveted. There are also reports he was interested in Epstein's views on women and sex, since Epstein appeared to be successful in that area. There is no evidence Gates was looking for underage partners. He just didn't care that Epstein trafficked in girls for elites. Why would he care? He has shown time and time again that morals are meaningless to him, starting with how he behaved during the Microsoft antitrust proceedings and how he treated Microsoft employees from the very start -- not to mention how the Foundation is run. Self-dealing and influence peddling are at the top of the agenda. If you don't care to read about this, why do you care to comment? Get a cut yourself, or give it up.
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  32798.  @-ABC-  There is not a single major publication, independent of his public relations machine, that has not criticized the Gates Foundation's influence on education. You can't miss it, it's been that bad. Read it if you care. Even an investment book, Alpha Brain, talks about an egregious mistake Gates Foundation made in determining causality in their poorly-thought-out initiative to impose smaller class sizes, which ruined some very good schools. Anyway, it's a common mistake, which is why it was used as a paradigmatic example by the writer. It was then amplified, because lots of foundations copy Gates rather than doing their own research, assuming that he must be right because he's so rich.
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  32799. I agree. It's not for school. But in the videos I just saw, which were purely voluntary-attendance presentations at libraries, these story hours were no different from having a clown read to kids. It had that vibe. The makeup and costuming were not suggestive or sexy but very clownish, and a lot of the kids were preschool. All the kids had their parents with them, of course. Figures.
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  32800.  @steveillz8655  I would think that's illegal under 18? Or under 21 if alcohol is present.
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  32801.  @steveillz8655  If it's not illegal, it should be.
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  32802. He's a fake through and through, making an easy buck. A Harvard Law grad who never once took a First Amendment case --- not one time. But podcasting is easy, civil liberties law is hard.
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  32803.  @hrs2044  As long as they are rich white people, I don't care what they do. I say have at it. /s Seriously, though, a failure to provide certain types of life-saving and health-preserving treatment to a child is indeed considered child abuse or child neglect. If you don't know that, then you are not sufficiently informed to discuss very difficult policy issues like this one. I'm not for criminalizing these treatments, because it will deprive that one rare child in several million from getting the care they truly need. But that's because I believe care must be individual. I also believe that the medical community is failing to regulate themselves properly. This is why you see the state stepping in. Of course we should care.
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  32804. In general, the vaccine lowers the severity of the COVID cases that do arise, lowers the risk of death, and keeps more hospital beds free. Those are the only things it has ever been shown to do. And for only about 6 to 9 months.
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  32805. Also, and yeah, I'm going to go there: this prof is cute.
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  32806. ​@NornIronMan. WWII? The Red Army defeated the Wehrmacht. The Normandy Invasion had two purposes: to accelerate the Axis defeat and to stop the Red Army and their resistance allies in Western Europe. In other words, to ensure that the victors of WWII did not gain political power in Western Europe in the aftermath of the war. For a more realistic view of America's role, see Operation Paperclip and the rat line. The fact that our NATO allies are all on financial thin ice today is no accident, by the way.
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  32807. @user-rl8mg2nw2s  So what was this except about, exactly? Is it doctored? What's the timeline? Adoptions and fostering happen at different times. I take him at his (apparent) word over undated photographs, at least for now, though I agree an explanation is in order.
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  32808.  @jasoncrum-dn1dn  Do you know what the risk is? Do you know how the classroom will change if armed security is not separated from teaching?
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  32809. $120 billion is over fifty million a year for every year since the birth of Jesus. To be fair, if your IQ is 1754 and your day has 50,000 hours . . . 😂🤣🤣🤣 "meritocracy" 😂😂😂😅
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  32810. Who is responsible for censoring thoughful, and fully TOS compliant posts?
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  32811. Epic Jimmy.
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  32812. 1. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. She provides essentially none. She claims people told her. (Maybe they did.) 2. The fact that something is extraordinary DOES NOT make it impossible. Not even close. JD is right over the 🎯 about that.
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  32813. The comment section tells you that? Really? What Jimmy keeps saying doesn't count, huh? Half the commenters didn't watch the video, and never do. Your country is becoming unlivable. Unless you have an exit plan, you might want to pause and think about your whole approach.
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  32814.  @ricksimon9867  False. But that never stopped anyone.
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  32815.  @ricksimon9867  You joined two weeks ago? Your first words tipped me off to check. It's always the same story.
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  32816.  @darwinLee81283  Exactly. And over what? This guy is not very attractive.
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  32817. THIS
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  32818. Oh, the family of that Friend of Epstein. Yes, tell us all about women's rights. Speak truth to the real power.
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  32819. Pamper yourself all weekend.
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  32820. Those are little people.
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  32821. Don 't use Facebook. I never did. I'm alive.
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  32822. Walz: "That's the Supreme Court test." MASSIVE disinformation.
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  32823. Thank you
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  32824.  @GoodVibesOnly1914  I have, too. Soaking overnight is necessary, as is a long, slow simmer. But you did your research, you're welcome to disagree.
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  32825. ​ @darklelouchg8505  It did not used to be.
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  32826. Except it goes up right along with the rent and the price of food.
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  32827. ​So . . . This is about owning the dems? With people like Kamala, Joe, Nancy, and Hillary, that's hardly an accomplishment. In 2012, people thought the gutting of the middle class could not get worse.
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  32828. Consider a vaccine that has nothing to do with the West. I'm serious. Gates, Fauci, etc., should have zero influence on you either way. Mexico has given emergency licenses to six vaccines so far.
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  32829. So someone's Bible doesn't contain Ecclesiastes 9: 11? Was it censored?
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  32830. You do notice the advertising continues during these videos. But the revenue sharing agreement is suspended.
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  32831.  @ForeclosureGhost  I can appreciate that. Imagine being Google C-suite and how poor that would make you next to Bezos and Musk.
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  32832. Look closer
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  32833. Nope. Not what she said.
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  32834.  @billypardew2337  I don't doubt that. They were close.
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  32835. And what have you done to make sure you don't lose it? I remember having enough to live modestly but securely. 2001 did not destroy us or come close, 2008-09 did not destroy us or come close, 2010 did not destroy us, but did affect us. 2020 nearly destroyed us. At least I can emigrate. Good thing, because I have to.
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  32836. You mean no one knows that Hanson is a warmonger? Wow. He can give Hillary or Samantha Power a run for their money.
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  32837. Has any "journalist" asked her whether it is logistically impossible to withdraw? Would the last ones out end up dead? If so, why? Is this like Too Big To Fail? Too deep to get out? Well, if so, how did we get here? Someone ask.
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  32838. What party ran him? Lol
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  32839. @L A Cutty pastey?
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  32840. ​ @utah_koidragon7117 Then why does each round of deregulation make life worse? You must realize that there is a business incentive to engineer obsolescence, correct? For example, a vaccine that requires boosters every 6 to 12 months makes more money than "one and done." A LOT more 💰 😂 but not really
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  32841. ​ @utah_koidragon7117 Then why does each round of deregulation make life worse? You do know there is a business incentive to engineer obsolescence, correct? For example, a v___ that requires b**sters every 6 to 12 months makes more money than "one and done." A LOT more 💰
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  32842. ​ @utah_koidragon7117 Now we agree. That is a civil liberties issue. At least the Supreme Court struck down the OSHA directive as overreach. Do you think Musk is qualified to streamline the bureaucracy to our benefit? I don't know where to start with that one.
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  32843. ​ @utah_koidragon7117 The pharmaceutical companies that fund the agency get to decide on a lot of stuff. Those are their private funds, after all. How's that working out?
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  32844. ​ @utah_koidragon7117  Now tell me why 95% cannot self-fund a retirement and must have Social Security and Medicare to live. This is a matter of who can best bear the risk. You imagine individuals can? By themselves? That is an automatic increase in risk, just at the time when a person can least bear it.
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  32845. ​ @utah_koidragon7117  So, you want government to force investment? And that would be better? That's probably unconstitutional. You have a right of contract, which includes the right to decline a contract.
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  32846. @utah_koidragon7117  Not at all. You can vote and petition and argue for any law, such as a tax, or Social Security, to be changed -- just as we are doing now. The Social Security Trust Fund is not invested in the stock market. Government programs may have some features of contracts, but they actually are not. When it comes to freedom of contract, such as you have to buy a given stock or to decline to buy that stock or any stock, if government creates an obligation for individuals to do that, it is probably an infringement on the right of contract under the Constitution. Could they get around that? They could get around most things, yeah. Some want vaccine mandates, others, investment mandates . . . How did we live without all this?
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  32847.  @locovaldezakarichardmccart843  And attempted to replace Fauci . . . Oh wait. How duped can you be?
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  32848.  @locovaldezakarichardmccart843  How duped can you be?
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  32849. From what, exactly? Please be specific.
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  32850. I take her point about law firms. This is a political office. The standard is different.
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  32851. Yup. An infestation.
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  32852. HE RESIGNED
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  32853. Your head is still with Depp or something? 🤣
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  32854. Cha ching!
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  32855. Other countries have more choices of mRNA or non-mRNA vaccines. I intend to get vaccinated but I don't like how this has been politicized. They are constantly trying to bully, browbeat, and shame people over what is a personal decision. The more I hear this, the less I want the vaccine. They'll talk me out of it in the end, when they shouldn't influence me, or anyone, at all.
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  32856.  @Lp78Ch  He also makes false claims of knowledge that NO ONE HAS, yet. I don't trust people who cannot say, "we don't know, we're studying that now."
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  32857. ​ @nolongerblocked6210 They sure didn't acquit themselves on that score, or defend free speech very well.
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  32858.  @silencedogood9747  💯 It is amazing, isn't it?
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  32859.  @medbob1  In America, you can fly or burn any flag. That makes us different. Different is good.
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  32860. France has no death penalty. No country has a death penalty for 17 year old kids, except possibly some failed state or the Saudis. Americans worship violence.
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  32861. @jerrytheant  Now I know why there are over a thousand police shootings every year in the US, year in, year out, and no one bats an eye. ALL of our societies are lost. NATO, EU, BRICS, everyone. We cannot handle the post-industrial, neocolonial world. We weren't built for it.
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  32862.  @carolynforge8586  Shout louder. Dear. You might eventually feel safe.
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  32863. @cashaeleatemla  Will payment on any of Musk's government contracts be interrupted?​ He spends more on lobbying for the laws he wants than on taxes. Then Musk gets government contracts and buys US Treasuries, and WE owe Musk our taxes, on the contracts, and interest on the national debt.
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  32864. Not to mention their arts -- Sally Rooney helps keep me sane. The lady just married her long-time boyfriend, who is a high school math teacher.
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  32865. No we don't.
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  32866.  @Joe-rx7ht  Gee. I wonder how many were traumatized by SA as kids. Or as service members in combat. Or were harmed by psychiatry. I'd like to add all of those groups up and see the percentage then.  P. S. No one should volunteer their life and livelihood to serve in the military. They will have to crash the economy and produce a spectacular false flag to meet their recruiting goals. ONE homeless veteran shames us ALL. Homeless veterans and rich crypto traders . . . What could go wrong?
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  32867. @Joe-rx7ht  My response to that go poof. H8 yt
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  32868. What event? Her pregnancy?
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  32869. Sure. Try to preempt criticism of their position by falsifying it and exaggerating it, then shaming it, based on the exaggeration. A well-known technique.
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  32870. One of Jimmy's best, AGAIN.
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  32871. I had to laugh. And I'm a girl. Sanna looked like a freak, frankly. I cannot imagine a more repugnant political leader short of a Clinton.
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  32872.  @madworldisrael7584  All the more important not to have a warmonger in any position of the smallest modicum of power, forgive the pleonasm. I want to make it real.
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  32873. Contract terms contrary to federal law and public policy cannot be enforced. I see you went to an unaccredited law school online.
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  32874.  @AceRamone  A "status" stemming from any medical condition or disability cannot disqualify you from being a lawyer. Obviously, it can from being a pilot, and in some states from having a job where you have access to firearms, but these are considered exceptions to the general rule: the Americans With Disabilities Act protects the disabled. There is no general disqualification from practicing medicine, but certain specialties, like surgery, may be off limits. On the other hand, if a person commits any offense during a manic or depressive phase, that changes the picture entirely. They are not excluded on account of their illness, but on account of their crime. Even having said that, though, there are lawyers who were once convicts: Shon Hopwood is the most famous example. He taught the president's daughter at Georgetown University School of Law. Some psychiatrists have definitely had serious disorders, and have written memoirs about the insight their own cases gave them in treating others with similar issues. A psychiatrist with a history of mental disorders would probably be part of a group practice, and wouldn't go out on their own to establish an independent office. It might be a condition of his license to practice with others and be open about his challenges.
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  32875.  @AceRamone  You're right, I totally agree. I only meant that state licensing cannot prevent you from practicing the profession of your choice, not that any employer is required to hire you. In principle, they are not supposed to discriminate but in practice, you are totally right, they do.
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  32876. Nonsense. He researched the authenticity of everything Wikileaks published. They never published a deep fake because of Assange's investigative journalism.
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  32877. Why would Joe Rogan go up into space? He has two young daughters, and can book time on a lot of telescopes.
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  32878. ​ @jacquelenevonweyhe-o1y They are in the court record. Don't believe Internet blather.
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  32879. Have Vogue do a border photoshoot. Kamala and AOC will be there.
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  32880. There was never a time when most people died in their twenties.
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  32881.  @dnice4145  You can't use character evidence to prove crime.
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  32882.  @talon310calif  It's that time of month.
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  32883.  @suprabh2108  I see. So this is like a cross-examination in court, where the cross cannot exceed the scope of the direct. And here I thought it was an open discussion.
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  32884.  @suprabh2108  "Beyond belief!"
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  32885. Wow he does it AGAIN . . . /s
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  32886. By praising Biden, you discredit yourself. I thought you understood the message of the groundswell reaction to Luigi's (alleged) act. Biden was president. We know what he did.
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  32887.  @jellyfishi_  You know what? I think that was brilliant. You've got it. Add in the new media. If memories were short before, the new media has made them almost nonexistent.
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  32888. The real "mystery" is why the Democrats are trying so hard to outdo Trump. It's constant. If the discourse is SO bad, why do the Dems go to every length to make it even worse? And if Trump is so dangerous, why are they running BIDEN against him? They had since the first Wednesday in November 2016 to figure it out. This is what they came up with? REALLY?
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  32889. Aaron and Jimmy are both great in their own ways. Love Aaron.
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  32890. It is prohibited on license plates in my state.
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  32891.  @divawendy  Why was there a satanic panic? Remember those cases, where kids told of abuse rituals in daycare?
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  32892.  @divawendy  Remember the "satanic panic?" Thousands of kids made up stuff.
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  32893. You are so right, Jimmy. Trump is too lazy to be a dictator. When he can make money doing reality television? At Kardashian levels.
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  32894. ​ @ЛарисаБронникова-ы4в  How about simultaneously??
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  32895. They were DNC creeps until just yesterday. Musk even signed permission for a transition.
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  32896. There was no federal trial, you talking head.
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  32897. @payleryder45  HE PLED GUILTY, in two cases. DOJ has a press release.
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  32898.  @payleryder45  He pled guilty.
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  32899.  @payleryder45  For some reason, they won't let me tell you a guilty plea is not a trial.
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  32900.  @payleryder45  Two civil rights charges, not one -- in two entirely separate cases, not just Floyd's. I agree with you concerning why. He's much safer in federal custody. Fun fact: Ben Shapiro went to Harvard Law. That's funny.
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  32901.  @payleryder45  A pardon is not justified.
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  32902.  @payleryder45  And he didn't go to law school with the prosecutor or read all the court documents like I did.
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  32903. @payleryder45  There's that other thing: the jury agreed with me. 😊
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  32904. @payleryder45  The jury is the factfinder, and solely the factfinder. The judge is there to determine the law. And actually, your premise is wrong as well. Attorneys and other legal workers used to be excluded from juries, but that has not been the case since the end of the last century.
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  32905. @payleryder45  Right. Admissibility of evidence is a pure question of law. And I was responding to your ad hom with actual facts about how juries are picked. So of course you needed to revert to more ad hom. No problem, my sympathies.
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  32906.  @payleryder45  But if someone is rich or has political power, they don't need to do that law book readin' stuff. "Whatcha readin' for, boy?"
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  32907.    Everyone gets their own facts and a pony. Or else.
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  32908. They are expected to recuse themselves if there is any conflict of interest, broadly defined; if, however, a Justice is in a position where he must recuse himself a lot, then his continuing as a Justice is obviously at issue. If Thomas had needed to recuse himself and failed to do so in a particular case, that may be a reason to impeach him. The theoretical possibility is not enough for impeachment.
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  32909. Try following complex arguments, for cognitive health if nothing else.
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  32910. Their focus is on the most affluent and the students who are admitted to the Ivies. No one who has to work has these problems. They have real problems.
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  32911. @haydenwayne3710  This is just another move in the one-upmanship game. They know what to say to get special consideration in school, at work, etc.
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  32912. @haydenwayne3710  Here's an idea. She has a Yale Law degree. Why doesn't she represent some parents whose children have been harmed? I know they exist. I've represented severely handicapped children and children with cancer pro bono, with my little state school degree. We need to start seeing through all of these people. Don't buy her book. Buy your kids some books.
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  32913.  @81banga  12,000 years ago is 500 generations, first of all. Second, modern archeology has found evidence that East Africa (a likely cradle of mankind) became agricultural long before that, but that agriculture was relatively primitive and never took hold or spread. A plant-based diet is traditional, and meat is for feasts. Show me a major religion that says you can eat any meat, any time, in any quantity, and in any combination with other foods. There isn't one.
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  32914. And the Supreme Court eventually agreed.
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  32915.  @tangodelta7809  Yes, for a lot of people.
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  32916. All of those involved invading actual countries. Gaza is not.
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  32917. Same thoughts on the Warsaw Pact?
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  32918. That was the result of Dodds, not the principle. The principle is that the Constitution does not protect the right to elective abortion.
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  32919.  @texajp1946  I wonder whether their reported cases and total deaths are accurate. They are phenomenally low. But even Japan's per capita fatality rate translates to about 50,000 deaths here -- which is a very severe flu season. How is that possible? Are we all counting the same way? We need more information sharing. NOW.
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  32920.  @aquato33  WHO is taking resources for "ego and pride?" (Who put you up to this? I mean, thinking this way?) I do look at other countries, both their statistics and the statements made by their Ministries of Health, which anyone can find online. I would never go by the CDC alone. Not anymore. Another thing I wonder about: did India stop its surge? If so, how?
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  32921. "The people most triggered by Trump are the people for whom Trump is their shadow." I never thought I'd endorse this form of psychological explanation, but I have seen evidence of the phenomenon. The latent racists were the strongest Hillary supporters, and now they support Biden and endorse everything MSNBC, CNN say.
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  32922. "That office should mean something." If it did, we might have a "neurotypical" president, now and next year, too.
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  32923.  @jaykoval5957  Heartbreaking how stupid he is.
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  32924. This is a court case. Have you seen the complaint? An AG is unlikely to fabricate supposed facts and file a complaint containing falsehoods because he can and will be disciplined, and the case will be dismissed. That is certain. That doesn't prove the claims are true. It means he will get an opportunity to prove them in court. Political slogans are irrelevant here. Think it through.
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  32925. @SillyGrandma99  Oh. I see, you read and analyzed the complaint. Where did you go to law school, tell me again?
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  32926.  @sthubbins4038  I agree. We need to face that many people want exactly that.
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  32927.  @afromaniac760  And do you see what a problem it is that the DNC failed to wage a solid, concerted campaign to win at the ballot box, starting the very day after Trump was elected in 2016? Instead, "Russia Russia Russia," and these two neoliberal stooges for president and vice president. IOW, a nightmare. Who will march for them? A lot of people won't even vote.
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  32928. She said straight up that the CDC lied to the public. Subtext: The CDC got Brie to get a vaccine she very likely didn't need "to save her grandma's life." Listen better, seriously. She was wrong about a lot, but not what you're saying.
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  32929.  @ringbearer1420  Masks do not involve injecting a drug into your body. The risk-benefit analysis is always relevant in human health, as is the obligation to protect one another.
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  32930.  @cybervoid8442  Name-calling tells us something about the one doing the name calling. Intimidating others is a likely motive. You're right, don't feed these poor, deluded souls by being fearful of their puerile rants.
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  32931. @Alexa M Exactly. The most common major is Business and has been for many decades. The next most common group of majors are all health-related, with Nursing at the top. Business is pretty useless without enough accounting to pass the CPA, or enough advanced mathematics to comprehend advanced finance. Gender Studies majors are very rare, and can lead to a career in fashion merchandising, as do various communications and creative writing degrees. No Business major can compete.
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  32932. People make all kinds of fortunes on a false premise. Mark Twain described it. That was ages ago.
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  32933. You must have had fun.
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  32934. ​ @Freddiebrockk Because she's useful as window dressing. She diverts simple minds from drawing the obvious conclusion concerning our support for Netanyahu.
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  32935. 15:12 THANK YOU Professor Wolff! THIS! A few minutes of sheer brilliance.
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  32936. It wasn't a "landslide." It WAS a decisive victory. So, . . . Precisely what's her point? Vague.
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  32937. A criminal like what? You must mean the cop, not the 17 year old whose life over the past three years was spoiled by COVID insanity.
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  32938. Not at all. Politicians have to be willing to do a lot of harm to get that rich.
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  32939.  @krystal7958  This is the story of economic life for everyone who cannot live on their investments. It is truly astonishing how often being responsible and measured turns out to be a setback. Seriously, look around. Debt is a significant risk, but savings are so often penalized. Every one of these decisions is fraught with risk, and can turn out to be well below optimal. You find out later. :/
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  32940.  @antonioj123  So impressive! Very cool. I majored in math for a while, ended up only minoring in it. My regret!
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  32941. @TNerd The opposite is true. At Stanford, Chicago, or an Ivy, Gender Studies can lead to a very solid MFA, MBA, MPA, MSW program, or law school. Or PhD, where you WILL get tenured. At community college, take math and science. Tons and tons, every math they offer. Get certified in something, as a backstop. Gender Studies is for Stanford people. They will get HR jobs in Silicon Valley. (Alas? :)
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  32942. @TNerdWell, if they learn how to design web pages and take good photos, and if they take some advertising/marketing classes, they can have a career in fashion merchandising, luxury goods, stuff like that. Or at an ad agency. If not, they better get a Master's. I agree, I have no idea what else they could do. I mean, no obvious choices. They're short a professional degree with a major most people laugh at.
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  32943. @TNerd You'd be surprised, though. If they take a lot of psychology classes and basic biological sciences, they can get a clinical MSW, get licensed, and counsel people. They can be making very good money in a short time. Gender Studies and such have got to double major and plan ahead, basically. That is a very unusual major anyway, maybe 1 or 2% of all degrees. Google or Apple HR Dept. 🤣
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  32944. Jimmy, there is no other world. 20:41
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  32945. @justinukere9848  That's not why. People are not getting married for financial reasons. People are not having children either because they cannot meet the right person, or have a health issue. Both of these affect women more than men, for obvious reasons. But they will get you to blame ideology. Perfect. Good job. They win again.
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  32946. @justinukere9848  I have never met ANYONE who discouraged women from having kids. I met a lot of women who used in-vitro fertilization or other assisted reproduction. In other words, they were prepared to do anything, just to have a child. Some had children alone, and were well over 40. That's real life, not screenlife.
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  32947.  @justinukere9848  My main reply isn't here. HOW NICE, YOUTUBE.
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  32948. @justinukere9848  People aren't getting married for financial reasons. Women most often forego motherhood because of health issues, or because they never met the right person. Not because they didn't want children. Most people want children. How could anyone make us think otherwise??
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  32949. @justinukere9848  The women who hate other women (and they are legion) try to stymie other women's careers and marriage prospects. ESPECIALLY their marriage prospects. Shows what you know.
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  32950.  @justinukere9848  I wonder if you'll be allowed to see my re ply.
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  32951. @justinukere9848  No I'm not. You're just not very perceptive. Do you actually think a career harms a woman's marriage prospects? 🤣
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  32952.  @justinukere9848  Read up on "assortive mating."
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  32953.  @justinukere9848  A woman with a powerful husband is immune to those pressures. Other women know to leave her alone.
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  32954. No one rational agrees.
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  32955. Were people like Einstein and Bohr corrupted by grant-chasing? No need to answer.
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  32956. 18:28 Why we love you, Jimmy. The whole story in under a minute . . . But keep listening.
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  32957. It cannot be used on license plates in my state.
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  32958. Imagine eating healthful food. Even McDo's is forcing healthy fats on you?? Dayum!
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  32959. I love Kim more every day.
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  32960.  @sjboyer2536  "You will own nothing and you will be happy." Ring a bell? I want the bugs I eat to be MY bugs and the rats I eat to be MY rats. Enough's enough.
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  32961. ​ @grandpalizardhogge9501 You REALLY think it's so easy? If he ended up unemployed, then you'd jeer even more.
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  32962.  @kimberlykonop2661  He did say "worked." He probably no longer does.
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  32963. Robby gets sick a lot. They should dock his pay every time until he figures this out. Why should other people keep picking up his slack? They're not the ones who are sick!
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  32964.  @silex9837  That's what I thought was the history as well. It is always important to verify facts, and suspend judgment in the meantime.
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  32965. The one day I wanted to see less scents err sheep. But no.
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  32966. It's banned from license plates in my state. It's a common prison gang tattoo. I think someone on Kennedy's staff is working for someone else.
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  32967. Ryan is making an abstract point. He broke a story where official sources denied the truth of what he found from other sources. But what he found was a deal in favor of Big Pharma.
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  32968.  @leevy6753  Like "one time in bandcamp." So funny!
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  32969. The remedy for bad speech is MORE speech. The remedy for medical misinformation is a lawsuit, not censorship.
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  32970. Have any of these people read about the rise of fascism between the two world wars? Has their intellectual curiosity been stunted to that degree, to the point where it's dangerous?
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  32971. Glenn Greenwald (that "Trumper," according to DNC sh*tlibs) just posted a video of Jeremy Corbyn opposing vaccine mandates. Leave it to Jimmy, Glenn, and Max to defend our liberties against the juggernaut.
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  32972.  @215ILLicit  It was a question, not a presumption. Of the people you know who are 65 or older, is THEIR healthcare "like the DMV?"
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  32973.  @215ILLicit  Every outstanding doctor I know accepts Medicare plus supplemental. I mean the best doctors at the best hospitals. The only specialists I've ever heard of who don't are psychiatrists -- not something most people need.
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  32974.  @mrbadguysan  I don't believe voting for Biden necessarily set the stage for a worse Trump "next time." It's a risk, certainly, but we don't have strong evidence for it. What we do have is incontrovertible evidence that every DNC candidate was worse than the previous one, in every election, for 40 years now. Something's got to give.
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  32975. Nicely stated.
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  32976. If you need a vacation and can't afford one: pretend you are in on a plot, get the FBI money for travel, then at every conspiracy meeting argue against doing anything illegal.
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  32977. No they aren't. ACA is insurance care.
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  32978. He disagrees with all of those.
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  32979. Indeed
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  32980. Trump didn't even fire Fauci. Good cop bad cop routine.
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  32981. Great point.
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  32982. ​ @OtherSideAus Anyone who thinks identity politics has anything to do with Marxism has never read a real book, or even a half-baked book by a European writer.
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  32983. ​ @shaunkellison1761 So tell us what you believe woke to mean. Now I'm intrigued. Please don't use an online dictionary. I would like your view, not someone else's.
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  32984. What I got from this is what we all suspect but don't want to think about: Epstein may be dead, the structure is still there. It was there before him, and continues after.
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  32985. Sigh. The MSM reported a lot of false things here, which people still believe, and which allows the extreme right to seize upon what you said to undermine your main point. KIDS do not belong on the streets with rifles strapped across their chests.
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  32986. On what basis? This is immunized, as long as she wasn't, say, bribed to do it. Although . . . Hmm.
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  32987. You compare 1/6 to planes hitting buildings? Well, in a country with cancel culture, vaccine mandates, "pregnant people," and candidates for president like Hillary Clinton, Trump, and Biden, I guess sanity has left the room.
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  32988.  @richardbaker_0086  Bots were created to amplify the insanity, not denounce it.
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  32989. How is it that people are unprepared, seven years after the 2016 election?
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  32990. Recognizing a constitutional right is not exactly "judicial fiat." Do you say that in the pro-gun cases? Because the contours of that right were not clear at all until the Heller case. A lot of states had very severe laws.
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  32991. Check out the Robert Reich tweets Jimmy highlights here.
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  32992.  @patrick6213  Nonsense that the Second Amendment is "crystal clear." What does the "well-regulated militia" clause mean? (Does it mean the Uvalde shooter had a constitutional right to buy an AR-15 on his 18th birthday? Really?) What do you make of the fact that the "arms" it mentions are technologically nothing like the arms of today, and modern bullets didn't exist in the 18th century at all? An embryo is alive and belongs to our species, as is a zygote, as is human sperm, as are human ova, and life exists as an unbroken chain. None of these facts has anything to do with personhood. A woman may mourn getting her period after trying and failing to conceive for months on end. So may a man mourn along with her. I don't care at all about Democrats, nor do the Democrats care about women. We had a right that we lost. After all the rights we have seen curtailed in this century, especially since COVID, I submit that this was not a good time to lose one more. I don't know what was wrong with "CHOOSE Life." I support both the "choose" and the "life." Persuade women not to choose abortion. Then step back and don't criminalize their decision. They're the ones who have to be pregnant, and I hope you don't propose to police pregnancies as well --- or shut down fertility clinics. (You do know they eventually discard embryos, don't you?)
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  32993.  @crushinnihilism  If a baby is a life, why should anyone ever be allowed to abort? Including gang rape victims, including the girls Jeffrey Epstein victimized? How can that be "up to the states?" And why should it be? Obviously some states are legalizing homicide this very moment! /s
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  32994.  @patrick6213  No he didn't have a "right." No Supreme Court case excludes all state regulations. The cases say the opposite. Many regulations are constitutional. Why can't you saw off a shotgun?
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  32995.  @patrick6213  I never said all arms should be confiscated.
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  32996.  @crushinnihilism  NO, THE REAL "QUESTION" IS YOU FIX THE EPSTEINS FIRST. Then we'll talk. The most offensive thing of all is that EVERY young woman has spent years of her life in fear of rape, and you're all worried about her deciding about whether to abort an embryo, which is exactly what nearly all elective abortions come to. You find that more of an issue than crimes against women that have been epidemic for generations now? There are between 300 and 400 reported rapes PER DAY in the US, according to the FBI. We can only surmise how many go unreported. 50%? 80%? More? If someone were to ask me whether they should abort, and I was sure they wanted my opinion, I would tell them no. Act like a human and maybe some troubled woman will ask your opinion, and then you can tell her no and have a proper influence in the world, not based on coercive force.
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  32997.  @crushinnihilism  Have you ever lived in any other country?
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  32998.  @patrick6213  Including rocket launchers.
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  32999.  @crushinnihilism  Sorry, I said nothing about abortions being due to rape, and the truth is, we don't know how many are. Of course you're out as soon as rape is mentioned. That was what I said. Of course you've proved my point and don't know it.
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  33000.  @MJ13ish  None of you know the first thing about constitutional law and think you do. You need to be asking who misinformed you and why.
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  33001.  @MJ13ish  So . . . Over 200 pages of opinion, concurrence, and dissent to say "abortion" isn't mentioned in the Constitution? Looks like they just needed to ask you. Or consult CliffsNotes for Constitution 101.
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  33002. I agree that Follow the Money is always the first place to look. Great post!
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  33003. YES
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  33004.  @inbox0000  How much money did the C-suite of that company make?
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  33005. Posh sounding accent.
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  33006. People with that kind of money and privilege know that the press attacks will blow over.
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  33007. ​ @luckylunaloops  "I have already received my draft classification as 1-A, and I have got to report for my physical this Monday . . . I am not going. If they ever make me carry a rifle, the first man I want to get in my sights is L.B.J." Was this a true threat against President Johnson? It was a real case, and the man said it in Washington DC, in front of a small group of people. Guess the outcome.
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  33008. One wonders whether Hillary in the White House would have kept Epstein out of jail . . .
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  33009. @dannyyy97  If you have been fine so far, I see no reason to worry.
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  33010. Rogan used to praise B. ill G. ates to the skies. The first time, I assumed it was nothing. Then he kept it up.
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  33011. This video needs a content warning. Seeing Taylor Lorenz's performance was too much for me.
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  33012. No wonder Tucker was fired.
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  33013. I noticed only one feature of the riots that resembled a coup: some police appeared to be affiliated with or infiltrated by right-wing militias and other extremists. This calls for an investigation of them, not more monitoring of us. Who is monitoring the monitors? Who ARE the monitors? . . . Affiliates of these rioters? Compare Kenosha.
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  33014. It is counterintuitive, and needed to be broadcast widely, for that reason.
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  33015. Yes. He. Did.
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  33016.  @Malcolm.Y  I cited an article in Bloomberg, Oct. 26, and it was immediately censored. No link included, no quotes. That's how much TJDS is censored by YT.
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  33017.  @Malcolm.Y  The article includes links. These are not opinions. We know in PRACTICE who benefitted, and by what average amount, because the bill was passed in 2017, and the DOT and OMB had the 2018 and 2019 numbers in 2019 and 2020, respectively. In any event, quotations and live links are immediately removed. You must never have attempted to post them here, or you would know that.
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  33018.  @Malcolm.Y  Well, I wasn't lying, or posting in bad faith!
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  33019. Good observation
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  33020. Smart? The President's nominees were all just confirmed by the Senate to head the various agencies and departments of the federal government. Perhaps it would make sense to seek out their views on how to improve efficiency and cut costs? Why do you think Patel and Gabbard immediately told their employees not to respond? Because they want to hide fraud?
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  33021. I respect Danny Sjursen vastly more than any lifelong civilian. My closest friend that I've made recently is a guy who is half Asian and was 18 when 9/11 hit. He joined the Marines and stayed for well more than half his adult life. Then he went to art school. There are not better anti-war people. I don't feel the label is sufficiently dignified for what these people are.
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  33022. Glenn Greenwald just posted a very short excerpt of Victoria Nuland testifying on the Ukrainian biolabs. There is more to this story all right. What it is, we don't know.
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  33023. Is the information cited from Germany true or false? Simply provide the keywords, as links are likely to be shadowed. We'll gladly verify a politician's assertions.
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  33024. Never mind, I found the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut safety report, English language version. You might want to take a peek. It requires a knowledge of basic algebra, however.
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  33025.  @scottekoontz  You clearly did not read the report. I suggest it's time to get serious.
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  33026.  @scottekoontz  Now you will lie about the safety report. It most certainly DOES provide a basis for demanding a full, systematic inquiry on significant side effects. Something IS wrong with this picture, and we don't know what. We need to find. You know, I never thought significant risk of myocarditis in young men from a vaccine would ever be brushed aside like this. What happened to people? How did we get here? Well, we haven't been sending that population into wars in sufficient numbers lately, so . . . maybe this is just reversion to the norm.
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  33027.  @pmm8621  I'm not interested in antivaxxers, or any other special interest group. As I've told you, I go to the primary literature. I have expertise in federal evidence rules, especially the Daubert standard. I know how to read the major medical journals. You put your foot in it. You are hounding me because you can see that I know what I'm talking about and am persuasive. You are just barking slogans. All puns intended.
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  33028.  @pmm8621  So you joined just this summer, for this purpose? Cha-ching, I hope. Then I would understand.
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  33029.  @pmm8621  What a quick search of JAMA revealed was a June 29, 202,1article entitled "Myocarditis Following Immunization With mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines in Members of the US Military." How ironic. I'm not doubting that your article exists, but you need to provide "more context."
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  33030.  @scottekoontz  Yes I did. It clearly makes the case for further, careful inquiry, which is the real issue at this moment. It makes the case that questions concerning a full cost-benefit analysis of vaccines, by demographic, are well-founded. We don't have the answers. We have people trying to shut down the questions. Blocked for dishonesty and wasting my valuable time.
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  33031. The real irony is that I am the only person who gave everyone here sufficient information to find the report and read it. Of course. Never fails, does it?
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  33032. No, this is significant plagiarism. Wherever a writer omits quotations or the citation of source, it is plagiarism. It is not academic fraud, true. But no one said it was. The fact that she is getting support from the people who she plagiarized is politics. But her persecution is far and away more political. This was a squabble between billionaires. But what I really think: not one of those three Ivy-league university presidents gave a spirited defense of the First Amendment and the importance of having First Amendment fora on campus, or showed any concern for the feelings of bewildered and frightened students, for that matter. You can do both.
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  33033. They are paid. Or brain damaged.
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  33034. ​ @lindaroberts2297 You have no idea where this might be going.
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  33035. Ask for DNA next. See all the morons line up to give it. Same for chips in your hand, or your brain. Or who knows where.
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  33036. Yeah, but food. You know. What about smartphones? Eh?
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  33037. ​ @soxari Oh yeah, a keeper.
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  33038.  @tonyg76  Okay.
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  33039. I want that money, too. Gimme.
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  33040. The hyperrich of California do not need monetary assistance.
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  33041.  @joenewman6494  Shhh! Karinia.
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  33042. ​@benthomas4544 Read a book that explains the regulatory capture of the FDA, CDC, etc., by major pharmaceutical companies: Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic. It refers to the overuse of psychoactive drugs, especially on kids. You'll find the same players, and a less political, less heated story line. What he says about these drugs applies to all drugs used en mass. Individual vaccines are submitted to clinical testing, but whether the combinations of vaccines given to the very youngest kids are risky for some of them has not been studied with the rigor it should have been.
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  33043. 8:52 I guess maybe McDonald's can afford a $15/hr wage without hiking prices after all . . .
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  33044. Let me see if I understand. The kiddos at Evergreen State are a harbinger of the reaction we have to police brutality and excessive force directed against a community that is at this very moment bearing the brunt of mass unemployment, death and disability from COVID, and, when its members still have work, are doing some of the most at-risk essential jobs for minimum wage or slightly more. Sure, I see the comparison. 1. James Baldwin was right. 2. Tell me again why Cariol Horne was fired a year before vesting her pension.
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  33045. If they made bank, they didn't fail at Job One. Who are they kidding?
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  33046. A couple can just manage if both make that. A high school grad can live at home and go to night school without debt. People used to be able to do this -- afford an apartment, get married or not, afford a year of in-state tuition by working full time over the summer. Get a roommate and move to San Francisco.
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  33047.  @Beast777Mode  A collapse of the value of a dollar is not impossible by any means. I would not predict it as imminent, however.
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  33048. If a person (forget Trump) is actually innocent of charges, then the indictment becomes political --- designed to prevent the person from running for an office for which they have a right to run. Everyone should oppose such tactics, not acquiesce.
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  33049. Not sure what you mean. Bret and Heather have two sons.
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  33050. Thank you. Keep in mind, however, that the right wing routinely conflates the money spent on a given sector and money that actually reaches people. Does anyone think ordinary Ukrainians are receiving any of the money allotted to Ukraine? Or that the per-pupil public education expenditures mean better textbooks and school supplies for the kids? They don't even have air conditioning during a hear wave. This propaganda has been current since Reagan. It existed before him, but most people saw through it. Post-Reagan, they lap it up.
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  33051.  @TK2692  As it turns out, the police officer who died was not beaten. People inside the capitol were unarmed. The arms that were found were in locked vehicles outside the capitol. This was horrifying enough. No need to exaggerate it.
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  33052.  @Evlogite19  This statement about "leftists" is completely untrue as well.
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  33053. The question was, were the insurrectionists ever close to getting their hands on her? (No.) Was her fear nevertheless genuine? (Yes, absolutely.) Could she be playing up her trauma, for self-aggrandizement? We don't really know. She may be. I don't impute something like that to anyone in those circumstances, and even in less dangerous circumstances. They are entitled to their voice.
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  33054. Try 27:47 to the end. Or better yet, the entire program. But 27:47 to the end is two minutes.
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  33055. @ala fringe That is a common alternative around the world. Check out the Swiss ministry of health. Check out the studies, with links, Dr. Moran (Medicine With Dr. Moran podcast) presents.
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  33056. $233 billion since the election? Wow, they work hard.
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  33057. Exactly. Governments have a monopoly of force. That's why they can impose their will.
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  33058. @Truth NeverDies Right, and people have died from aspirin. Drugs have also had unexpected positive side effects. Look up beta blockers, for instance. (Less risk of invasive breast cancer in some users of some types, less risk of cardiovascular disease overall in some users that is not otherwise explained, etc. Even less risk of PTSD after trauma, such as a car crash. Look it up.)
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  33059. @Truth NeverDies Sure. Accutane, for acne, is one. Drugs with abuse potential are often banned elsewhere. That is the most common category, includes ritalin, sleeping medications, etc. Sometimes travelers with valid US prescriptions need to be warned not to carry them and seek substitutes. Also, other countries approve drugs that the FDA bans.
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  33060. @Truth NeverDies Did you know there are drugs with beneficial side effects that were unexpected? That is also where off-label use of well-known medicines with a long track record comes in, which has saved lives.
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  33061.  @ravendarkjolls4028  No, but animal studies, using animals with rapid life cycles, will give us a lot of information fast. About long-term effects. We'll know a lot by next year, even more by 2025.
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  33062.  @ravendarkjolls4028  I know animal studies are not definitive, and cannot be analogized to people perfectly. But they do provide information. By the most extreme logic, we would need a generation of humans to have a complete life cycle, and check their kids for epigenetic effects. Then we would know. I, for one, want to know about the test animals and their offspring next year. Lots of information there. I also want to know about the need and safety of boosters. That worries me more. What if mRNA recipients can't have boosters, or must have mRNA boosters every time, or who knows? This could get complicated. (I know! Implanted microchips will solve it!! /s)
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  33063. @Truth NeverDies One dose of a beta blocker has prevented severe PTSD in shooting survivors. Just one example. Flu vaccine against one type B flu virus gives good resistance to other, different type B flu viruses. Type A is trickier. Prevnar 13 given to adults makes the senior pneumonia vaccine given later work better. It's not just bad news on side effects.
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  33064. @Truth NeverDies I always watch what other countries do as well.
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  33065.  @ravendarkjolls4028  Very best of luck to you. I'm so sorry workplace mandates are allowed. I don't agree with that, either -- not for an AEU vaccine, at least. They are pushing hard against personal choice and autonomy.
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  33066. ​ @teddycheong You must not know about Jefferson, Franklin, and Paine. 😅
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  33067. Water means Detroit is coming back. Watch.
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  33068. What I want to know is who pays this guy? How can this be worth money, and to whom?
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  33069.  @LD86  Immunity from a confirmed prior infection = natural immunity = as good as any vaccine, even the more effective ones than this one.
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  33070. That would be you.
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  33071.  @CellarDoor-rt8tt  I am a lawyer and you are exactly correct. This was not a hard case.
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  33072.  @Leo-ty2nl  Actually, short of threats, incitements to immediate violence or other criminal conduct, criminal conspiracies, and the like, the rest is a civil matter, and that is up to the victim to sue, if they choose. Defamation is never a crime, literally never. Only recently has goading a person into committing suicide been punished as a crime. You'd be surprised how much bullying is legal in every respect. You won't even win a lawsuit. I know. "Different."
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  33073.  @jimilong1  This is on its last legs. When someone says that, ask about patent protection being lifted. Obviously we have to get the billions of people not living in the West vaccinated, super important . . . /s
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  33074.  @TheVeratrix  When a doctor proposes to inject you with something, ask no questions. After all, you're not a medical expert and he is. There is a consent form and fact sheet, but who reads?
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  33075.  @mushroom13cfh  I was without health insurance for a decade. But it is bankrupty insurance. Zero to do with health.
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  33076. Edit: No, they were not. The Podcaster issued a correction and pinned it.
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  33077. I think she is guilty but mentally ill.
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  33078. Because the ICJ didn't happen and the American judge didn't vote with the majority. No evidence for Brie's position, none whatsoever. It's all a delusion.
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  33079. Life began at least a billion years ago and never ended.
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  33080. As much as their paymasters demand.
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  33081. It was interesting. I did not suffer much guilt. I suffered intense fear and isolation.
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  33082. Flagrant First Amendment violation.
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  33083. @Tony X um, non sequitur
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  33084. This is true. Are you okay with that?
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  33085. What did they say exactly? Show me in this video what they said. Defamation, harassment, and so forth are about actual words.
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  33086. And someone thinks we don't need a Black Lives Matter movement?
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  33087.  @emiliavenka  100%+++
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  33088.  @emiliavenka  Sadly!
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  33089.  @bperez8656  Well, even Olayemi did NOT say he should be fired. She even stated twice that he should consider consulting an employment lawyer about a claim. 8:49
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  33090. Look up the Irene Garza case -- murder as well.
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  33091. That's what she said. Suddenly, this story, which Russell never hid, is crucial.
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  33092. No outcome-changing fraud will be proved. That is what matters.
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  33093. ​ @silvanaacevski 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  33094. A disappointing discussion overall . . . I expected better, frankly. I know Briahna can do far better. Robbie can be remarkably self-involved.
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  33095. He specifically attacked Tucker Carlson. You could check it out to see for yourself.
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  33096.  @pettheshark  I think the argument is that neutral platforms analogous to telephones, which transmit any message users choose to deliver, should have full Section 230 protection, for obvious reasons. But insofar as they act like traditional editors, they should be subject to liability to the extent to which they are being traditional editors. They should not have it both ways. Without Section 230, these platforms would be subject to being set up like crazy. The cost of vetting and monitoring is prohibitive, and worse for both free speech and privacy for those using platforms that have the means to do the vetting and monitoring (i.e., only the very largest companies). .
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  33097.  @callawaymotorcompany  Who's going to check whether they are Isis, or some high school kids horsing around? (You've heard of the Macedonian troll farms, correct? Cha-ching.)
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  33098.  @callawaymotorcompany  How do you know they are? They may be posting underground (assumed names, etc.). It may be their former sites, or false flags, that are banned.
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  33099. If testing as an alternative to a vaccine is an option for everyone, even if only the unvaccinated are required to be tested, why is there a problem? The lack of choices (and safety information) is the only problem.
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  33100. Someone tell this woman on the left what the risks of puberty blockers are. The full list.
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  33101. I love these spammers, lol. Perfect.
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  33102. Remember in March 2020, when it dawned on us that most of our pharmaceuticals and medical equipment are manufactured in India and China -- because of LOWER LABOR COSTS? But when India needs vaccines, suddenly we block them? Bill. You're smart all right.
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  33103.  @fireheart1026  Victim of what?
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  33104. I wish.
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  33105.  @CyndiLarper  He is an ex-parrot.
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  33106. I care for the simple reason that we are in a proxy war with Russia, and she is an American citizen, a civilian, and a world-class athlete who has psychological vulnerabilities in a society that is not friendly to people like her. Just let her go. Now. Not an endorsement of anything she allegedly did, believe me. I have no deep criticism of contemporary Russian cultural norms. I respect them just fine. But let her go.
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  33107.  @djchaiwallah  I said the opposite. She belongs HOME.
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  33108.  @djchaiwallah  I'm trilingual. My real name sounds very Russian. Or Dominican. 😃 Oops.
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  33109.  @djchaiwallah  sorry I responded to you
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  33110. I think that's right, but I also suspect that many people find it too scary. I hope not.
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  33111. Let's be fact-careful so that no one can stomp on our main point. Hipgnosis Songs Fund is owned by Blackstone Group, and it bought a 50% stake in Neil Young’s catalog for about $150 million.
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  33112. Good point.
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  33113. She was born in the States. Some of her ancestors are Caribbean. She lies a lot anyway. Cha-ching. 💰
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  33114. 6:56 But, but . . . What pandemic?? Congress just took off their masks.
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  33115. It could be related to having had COVID, it could be related to the COVID vaccines. It could be due to vaccinations against COVID in combination with a case of COVID. It could be related to the lockdowns, sedentary lifestyles, and all the above in combination with these. The problem is that we cannot trust the scientists to research this fairly and dispassionately.
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  33116. We should suspend the Bill of Rights. We should vote on Facebook. Elon Musk will save us. Bill Gates is a doctor. Storm Brian Laundrie's house and make his parents talk. Fauci is Science. Hunter is hot, you're jealous. War is Peace. Seize $50m from Amber, hand it over to Johnny. Put Novak Djokovic in a camp. Homeland Security!!! Putin did it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  33117. Briahna is brilliant as usual.
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  33118.  @Face56737  Yes, a pure true diamond. . . . "Get that ice or else no dice . . . "
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  33119. Reality
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  33120. I hear all about "socialist indoctrination." Do people know "financial engineering" is a major? https://quantnet.com/mfe-programs-rankings/ What do people think is actually happening in the world? I have never hear this mentioned anywhere. What do you think the indoctrination is in those programs?
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  33121. ​ @MotherofMycroft So, you read the federal plea agreement? Funny it wasn't mentioned.
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  33122. This report can't tell you either way. They didn't even read the court documents. They didn't see the demand letter. They truly have no clue about what is going on in this case, pro or con.
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  33123. Well said. Emily's happiness is in being a far right scold.
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  33124. Adam Curtis has done a MUCH better job discussing all of this.
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  33125. I'm sure they match all their friends. That's how it goes . . .
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  33126. Please. Do you not understand that she is from an entirely different culture? She said she blames herself. She actually means it.
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  33127. ​ @swallowedinthesea11 Thank you. A DIFFERENT culture. Different cultures are real.
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  33128. ​ @redacted2275 💯
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  33129. @staceyshaffer180  Well this is ironic. People are attacking her for taking responsibility AND blaming her for raising him. No one can raise a murderer. What's the formula? Some kids who were held responsible for everything fail to develop compassion and become cold, hard criminals, or LE who break laws. Some kids who were pampered become doctors and save lives.
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  33130.  @wolfpack3812  If everyone here is an expert on raising kids, why are kids so bad? Because they are.
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  33131.  @wolfpack3812  This is why people with your life experience are excluded from juries. You see too much of your tormentor in other people. Where do you see that this mother actively sought to cover up known crimes? Was your ex Asian?
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  33132. @wolfpack3812  Learn about different cultures, it's fun. Or don't, in which case you won't know.
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  33133.  @wolfpack3812  Oh I see what the conversation was about. You assimilate this case to your own experience. So, was your ex Asian?
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  33134. No loss? 😉
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  33135. Professor Hanson, did you serve?
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  33136.  @RetroDawn  You're right. Also agreeing with A A, I believe. Tiny interface, . . . Sorry!
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  33137. 10:04 yup
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  33138. "Five percent?" Oh really? My law school just declared that 28% of its 2022-2023 first year class identifies as LGBTQ+.
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  33139. Biden damages himself.
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  33140. @Douglas Mendez "news"
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  33141. ​@HyperVaccinated In Europe, no one under 30 is routinely vaccinated, and no one under 50 is given the recommendation to get it, absent some significant reason (comorbidities, etc.).
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  33142.  @anthonyjbrostayshigh9422  I wish. I suspect they don't think about us any more than they do about ant colonies or a stray cobweb.
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  33143. Shapiro is a Harvard Law graduate. He could actually be defending parents and setting legally binding precedent. But that would mean WORK.
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  33144. No, the Soviets got his skull and recently made it available for study. They reached his bunker first.
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  33145. Shows what you know.
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  33146. 36:24 What?? His publisher made him speculate about the future? So . . . He didn't want to, but the bo$$e$ "made" him? Are you happy now, Chris?
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  33147. Nope. Just wait 6 months. The people who repeat it will be regarded as geniuses.
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  33148. Woman on girl hate. I'm not surprised.
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  33149. The Ustasi were a small group of Nazi collaborators who were able to exterminate Yugoslav Jews, Serbs, and resistance fighters (such as many Croatian and Slovenian Catholic priests) because of the Nazi occupation. Nedic had a national socialist ideology, but wasn't in a position to participate in any genocide, and Chetnicks were a very mixed bag. Most were simply royalists by default and resisted the Nazis and helped Jews escape. Yet some (very few) even committed war crimes. They weren't as centrally organized the way the other two groups were. The March 27th revolt that brought down the Yugoslav government which had signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler took place in Belgrade, and most of the participants were Serbs. Their ethnicity was not central to their resistance. There weren't many Ustasi, this is true, and most regions of Croatia had few or none. (Did Dalmatia have any? It wasn't a hotspot of collaboration, that's for sure.) They were able to do what they did only because of the Nazi occupation. It's not likely they would have been able, or willing, to do anything of the sort had there been no blitzkrieg and no occupation. In 1941 and after, most Serbs were to the left of most Croatians. Most Serbs were less racially biased than most Croatians. Generalizations, yes, but factual ones. You're just taking sides instead of telling the truth. "It was them, not us!!" --- that stance always reveals who you are.
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  33150. 19 million people face homelessness in January, millions more are food insecure, and a bunch of people here think they are all in the "global elite?" Even the ones without $500 in an emergency fund?
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  33151. Did you read the complaint?
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  33152. Which ones do you guys predict?
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  33153.  @peewee-nv8yc  Norway and Iceland??
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  33154.  @peewee-nv8yc  Wow! You're probably on to something there . . . :/
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  33155. How do you know Brownian motion is not useful?
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  33156.  @jameshale5331  Try this search term: "application of Brownian motion in daily life." Or try "importance of Brownian motion." Or don't. You may be too smart to read these articles; you may have far better things to do. Like, maybe you're an artist.
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  33157. @Rich Wightman Amen!!!
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  33158. Oh. You again.
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  33159. Adam Curtis described this years ago: to cover up a conspiracy, intelligence services use a red herring, usually by floating a competing conspiracy theory. If it's plausible, MSM will broadcast it. If not, those who repeat it will be marginalized as kooks. Works extremely well.
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  33160. How are you doing in math?
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  33161.  @Jacob_217  I didn't ask about your grades. I wanted to know what you are studying.
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  33162.  @Jacob_217  I should have made that clearer, I see.
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  33163.  @Jacob_217  This time, my question was clear. You must know what broad topics you are doing in math now. Never mind, you don't have to answer.
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  33164.  @Jacob_217  Higher mathematics requires quite lengthy periods of concentrated attention free of any distractions.
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  33165.  @MichaelAronson  Is there some reason you don't want people to watch The Majority Report?
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  33166.  @MichaelAronson  I expected something better than this. This was shameful. They are outright lying now, and for what?
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  33167.  @Nicole-ww4lg  At this point, those are statements you need to substantiate.
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  33168. Did Depp lodge a complaint?
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  33169.  @CardinaleVattene00  We should suspend the Bill of Rights. We should vote on Facebook. Elon Musk will save us. Bill Gates is a doctor. Storm Brian Laundrie's house and make his parents talk. Fauci is Science. Hunter is hot, you're jealous. War is Peace. Seize $50m from Amber, hand it over to Johnny. Put Novak Djokovic in a camp. Homeland Security!!! Putin did it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  33170.  @TwinsBigLikeTia  Any case SHE had? He's suing her. She didn't initiate this trial. This is a defamation case. It's not a divorce, or a criminal case. If the article at issue is not false, then she is not liable for defamation. Do not collect $50 million. Even Bad People have First Amendment rights. Even crazy ones. Even criminals do.
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  33171.  @jeffm1083  Not an issue.
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  33172.  @JAF2991  So he can write his own article. That's how free speech works.
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  33173.  @kaiyugunther1177  Precisely. 💯 It's not hard at all. It is very, very simple.
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  33174.  @JAF2991  Er . . . HE must prove that the article she wrote is defamatory. Did you read it? She mentioned "domestic abuse" (not violence) one time, while most of the article was about her life as a teen and young woman before she met Depp. If Depp abused her emotionally while they lived together as a couple, more than trivially, then her article ISN'T defamation. It's free speech. That's the law.
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  33175.  @jeffm1083  Whether she also abused him is not an issue in this case. This is a defamation case. At issue is an article she wrote that was published in the Washington Post. If it was truthful, it's not defamation. Even if she lies 99% of the time, and was the bigger abuser in their relationship, it's still not defamation. Even liars have First Amendment rights. (Crazy, I know!)
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  33176.  @sharonlong881  Not an issue here. That's all to confuse you.
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  33177.  @JAF2991  Then Depp is abusing the legal process. Court isn't for the purpose of pulling someone through the mud, it exists to vindicate rights. If public opinion falls for it, then they deserve what they get. Why would anyone cheer using the courts for that? Who do you think pays for the courts?
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  33178.  @JAF2991  Well what a noble goal. Get behind that! It's his third relationship. He's 23 years older than her. What happened the prior two times, eh?
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  33179.  @JAF2991  He already lost in a moral sense. He initiated this fiasco.
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  33180.  @jessamalala6203  Let me see if I understand. According to Depp, she assaults him, a crime, but he does nothing. She writes a mild article, and he sues her for defamation, after already losing one defamation case where The Sun called him terrible names. Yeah, that makes sense, to initiate this circus now. Bravo.
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  33181.  @jeffm1083  Read. The. Complaint. It's online. Read it. See what it's about. Oh, and read the article, too.
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  33182.  @jeffm1083  There is something called a statute of limitations. There's also something called a First Amendment. Whether what I say "impacts someone negatively" doesn't matter at all. It is still my right to say it. To be actionable, it has to be defamatory, and that has to be proved. It is presumed to be First Amendment-protected, and has to be PROVED otherwise.
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  33183.  @jeffm1083  The countersuit will be dropped if and when he loses.
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  33184.  @jeffm1083  I know how. I'm licensed in California.
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  33185.  @jeffm1083  Cornell has a good website. Maybe you should look it up.
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  33186.  @jessamalala6203  I know! Even horrible people have free speech. Even convicted criminals do. They can write articles, and biographies, and essays, and stories drawn from their lives . . . Actually, I appreciate why that can make people mad, me included, but do we want it any other way?
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  33187. "Cultural Marxism" is an advertising slogan -- no less than "gender affirming care." It would be wise to learn to see through manipulation as quickly as possible. The chance that you will be able to keep up is dwindling.
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  33188. ​ @matthawthorn3461 Advertising slogans are part and parcel of the capitalist stage of political economy, along with the gutting of broad public education. It's no accident that actual Marxists in France support the wide availability of Latin and Greek in public school, and insist that all students be trained in critical thinking. The first person I heard strongly object to firing health care workers who refused the experimental COVID vaccines, pointing out they risked their lives to care for people and had acquired immunity through that exposure, was a member of the French Communist Party.
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  33189. Thanks for making your racism clear. It's so crazy I have to think false flag.
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  33190.  @KlipsenTube  False flag. Got it.
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  33191.  @KlipsenTube  blocked
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  33192.  @DarkPassenger  ​NEVER ONCE did Brie bring race into this segment. Robby even agreed with her main point in response to his radar. You know, literally lying about what someone said -- literally bearing false witness -- has become a much bigger social problem at this point than any of this other stuff. What goes around comes around. They are getting so good at stoking hysteria.
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  33193.  @bromack3  That's exactly what you just did: you in fact did what you accuse your opponents of doing. That's a classic Hillary move, actually.
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  33194. ​ @Bitwise1024 I think you both have good points this time. What you are saying is not necessarily contradictory.
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  33195. Both of his parents lived past 95, and his mother was reported to have had some form of leukemia or lymphoma. His grandmother survived two forms of cancer, to live beyond 100. The genes are not against him.
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  33196. Funny, not even a ripple about all the people Joe Rogan has invited who advocate hallucinogenic drugs. Never crosses anyone's mind. But someone who advocates targetted vaccination, well! How dare he? (Tip: Don't go to war with Russia.)
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  33197. The honorable thing would be a spirited defense of First Amendment freedoms, and an explanation of the scope and limits of conduct codes in light of those freedoms. But maybe they don't really care about that, huh? Maybe that's it.
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  33198. ​ @quintessenceSL LOL
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  33199. @jimosborne2  When this sort of thing happens, I'm reminded of the British rockers of the '60s. No one batted an eye, and most people lacked the sobriety to feel sorry for the girls. Seems like a lot of people have wanted to relive the era --- and the law lets them. It is simply true that the mores we have now were formed in that time. The war had changed people to a degree few can imagine. You have to have been an avid reader and really close to grandma to get an idea. I can appreciate that 16 is a common age of consent, but then make it illegal for someone more than 5 years older to sleep with them before they attain full majority at 18. In any case, I think the law as it stands is flawed. My personal opinion --- and those who enthusiastically disagree are not thereby criminials or reprobates. (As for the Committee of Wise Elders, aren't some of them counseling "gender affirming care" at 16? 15? Something has got to give.)
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  33200. @jimosborne2  Not at all. I'm laying out why this happens. You know, why the lid is off. How it comes that different people REALLY DO see the world differently. I'm also saying that does not make them immoral. MY judgment tells me this is not how stuff should go down --- either now, or at any time. But that is not the gospel truth. That is one view. I hold to it. I wish to persuade more people to agree, and even change the law, but apparently, I'm not extremist enough to do that in the Internet age. Thanks for your comment. LOL
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  33201. @jimosborne2  No one can do "whatever they want" with anyone, including their spouse. Weird non sequitur. You sound like you're in the smear business and just tried to smear me. Ask yourself why you did that. Should make for an interesting afternoon.
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  33202. @jimosborne2  Of course. Now, if she says she said no, and she says it to a news channel but not in a police report, to an attorney (who is an officer of the court), in an affidavit, or in a court under oath, what do you think we should do with THAT? Maybe wait and see what she does next before we judge a particular person culpable of a very serious crime? Is that okay with you? Yes? No?
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  33203. They aren't.
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  33204. 47:41 So, the Invisible Hand of the Free Market isn't enoùgh?!
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  33205. The Stoics didn't believe in the Bible. Small detail.
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  33206. Did you listen?
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  33207. Had to go to WION to see what Putin had to say. Lord.
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  33208. What parent would want their addicted child to have access to great gobs of unearned cash? This does not make sense on a personal level.
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  33209.  @FaranFronczakTV  Oh, and here we thought you were fair and balanced!
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  33210.  @FaranFronczakTV  Of course not. The issue in a defamation case is not who was the worse person, the issue is whether the speech or writing is defamatory, and hence should not have First Amendment protection. The case isn't balanced at all, it is clearly not defamation, even if the person claiming abuse was abusive as well, even more abusive -- and even if some expert claims they were "the primary abuser," whatever that's supposed to mean. So the strategy has to be to get the jury to focus on something other than the law and the facts. They can't return a verdict for the plaintiff if they are objective. But the real reason Depp brought it was revenge. He can claim anything he wants about Heard, if he truly believed it in his drugged state. It's not perjury. The real tipoff is your glee at describing the petition to get Heard cancelled from her film. Tremendous stand against cancel culture, huh? (Notice that Galloway listeners spotted it. They are not stupid.) Shame on you for promoting hate on a woman 23 years younger than her ex. She has a lot longer to live with this.
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  33211.  @FaranFronczakTV  BTW, in the UK, a defamation case is easier to prove than in the US. In the US, it is presumed that an article in a newspaper is First Amendment protected freedom of speech/freedom of the press. The plaintiff has a heavy burden of proof to show that it's not protected. Otherwise, he cannot recover. If your opinion is something different, then it's wrong.
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  33212. No they did not. Compare the Vullo case.
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  33213. Who do sanctions hurt? And, how much? The rest is theatre.
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  33214. That heat could be one causal factor is possible as well. The call for honest, dispassionate investigation must be heeded. But you jumped to the conclusion that there is something "misleading" about this video by calling attention to excess deaths. Those 26 weeks were not all part of the summer heat wave; 26 weeks is a six-month period.
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  33215.  @Real_PlayerOne  True. But do you trust anyone but specialized legal media to report this stuff with any insight?
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  33216. @Real_PlayerOne  It's true. Regular MSM usually gets stories like this wrong.
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  33217.  @rach101  So that's what the hate is about. She got the chance to marry someone you think is hot AND rich, and she's not behaving herself. You would have been so much nicer. 🤣
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  33218. Tinker v. Des Moines 1969
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  33219. WHAT??!
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  33220. People who aren't millionaires are supposed to die off.
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  33221. Does the NYTimes think Biden almost lost because he is too far left?
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  33222. Yes, a very, very charming dog.
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  33223. You clearly didn't go to college. How many students do you think have majors such as Gender Studies? About 1 to 2% of all degrees are in such fields, and they can be pre-law, or lead to a career in advertising or clinical social work, with the right minors or a Master's degree. The most common major BY FAR is Business, and has been for about three decades. Various medical fields come next, with -- yes -- Nursing in the top position. Say, why didn't you find this information on the Internet? Some talking head has you repeating their talking points -- and the money they make will allow them to send their children to a private university. Just watch.
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  33224.  @randallfowler9348  Paris IV (like Aude Lancelin, a superb journalist based in Paris)
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  33225.  @randallfowler9348  Is there some way you could tell? Still carrying water for the people whose kids WILL go to college? Why? Anyone who thinks the Internet is a substitute for college "because feminist dance class" deserved what I said. Wake up.
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  33226.  @randallfowler9348  Paris IV has no tuition. France used to have no tuition for anyone, citizen or resident.
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  33227.  @randallfowler9348  Got any more wrong takes?
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  33228.  @randallfowler9348  I'm a lawyer. And it is never a mistake to go to the University of Paris.
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  33229. Oh I laughed at this.
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  33230. Shocking, isn't it? Would anyone have foreseen this a mere 20 years ago? Or even 10?
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  33231. Bernie. This was not well-timed.
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  33232. I'm shocked, shocked.
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  33233. Murakami wrote a journalistic account of Aum Shinrikyo called Underground. Brilliant book. Edited for bad spelling.
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  33234. He's always gotten paid for it. What do you expect?
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  33235.  @whawkins8636  exactly
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  33236. You know what Sam Seder/MR have taken up, to boost ratings? They've been following Lara Logan around and making her out to be insane and evil. Lara Logan came close to death while reporting from a hot zone. They can't show her the respect of refuting her content without smearing her personally. (BTW, I disagree completely with her politics. Entirely beside the point.)
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  33237. Those eight-figure bonuses had nothing to do with it . . . 😂
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  33238. "You're going to pay me enough in one year to set me up for life, and after five years, my children and grandchildren will be set for life? No! No! I can't take that money! Taking it would be wrong!!!"
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  33239. That's giving her some credit. Are you sure she deserves it?
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  33240. How so? By asking students to use reason in evaluating claims about the impact of the war on Gaza, in an optional assignment? That used to be considered Socratic, and an antidote to mindless passion.
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  33241.  @jaybefaulky4902  Even that much shouldn't be the role of college. Criteria that can be gamed by any group of people, so that anyone can be labeled a "good person" or "helpful," or "bad" and "unhelpful," should have no bearing on a university career. Case in point: Cuomo's reputation for "goodness," last year compared with now. I don't mean some made-up moral goodness, but whether he objectively managed the coronavirus crisis well as governor. IOW, whether he did his job as promised.
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  33242. With what? The money they loaned us?
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  33243.  @ariel-y-e-m  Have you done any reading on the subject? Just curious.
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  33244.  @ariel-y-e-m  Actually, Gavin de Becker assembled the research on it. He's not a scholar by any stretch, but he did organize security for a number of high-profile people, and the chapter devoted to the subject in his book was well-researched and sticks in my mind. I don't claim it's definitive. I think there is no reason to give these miscreants a world stage in any event. I am persuaded it is a risk.
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  33245.  @ariel-y-e-m  I don't claim it is a main motivating drive. I don't think anybody thinks that.
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  33246.  @ariel-y-e-m  You're right, OP seems to suggest it is THE driving force. Hyperbole, maybe. A real factor, though? Yes, I truly believe that is often the case.
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  33247.  @jstreets1983  Some people want to broadcast their racism. They want to display it and disseminate it and be famous for it.
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  33248.  @ReactionShot  Links are hard to monitor for TOS. They all get taken down.
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  33249.  @kerwinbrown4180  A virus that kills only the oldest people in large numbers, and hardly affects people ages 15 to 30, is not likely to be part of a eugenics plot, or experiment.
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  33250.  @kerwinbrown4180  Eugenics seeks to prevent those who are considered "unfit" from reproducing. The elderly are done reproducing. You are describing Social Darwinism and beliefs sometimes adopted by various fascist movements, not eugenics.
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  33251.  @kerwinbrown4180  But yeah, eugenicists hate the "weak," too.
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  33252. "Hate speech, extremism, and disinformation" are not generally unprotected categories of speech and expression; any one of them could be, in context, but not because they are "hate speech" or "extremism" or "disinformation." They would also have to be defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, etc., for example.
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  33253. Something happened to him.
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  33254. Until we have a serious and careful multivariate analysis of the matter by unbiased researchers, we will not know. As a matter of public health, and since the Omicron variant became dominant and the original virus became extinct, many countries' ministries of health have changed their policies and their vaccine recommendations, for various reasons.
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  33255. ​@scottekoontz Were they counting all 2020 cases as unvaccinated, or are they comparing contemporaneous populations with the same variant? Were they counting one injection as unvaccinated, or were they looking at the vaccine naive? I remember when regions that were heavily vaccinated had as much or more COVID as the unvaccinated regions, and then newspapers like the NYTimes changed the definition of vaccinated to three doses. That worked, for a while. The reality is that only a multivariate analysis can provide answers, and those are very time consuming and expensive to do. But until then, no --- we do NOT know.
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  33256. LOL
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  33257. More "successful," or making more money? Twerking videos and pet tricks make vastly more money than math tutorial videos. I'm not making light of money, not in the least. But once you can reach a certain threshold without undue stress, it's what you're doing that matters. I'd rather do something real.
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  33258. Checking out a tip using public records is legal. I noticed that you don't deny making an illegal post right here. Oh that's right. What would there be to deny?
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  33259. You know what? Do some reading of real articles, that summarize and link to the best peer-reviewed research. Your fear is harming you. The risk of serious COVID or death is very, very low in the vaccinated, and even lower if you already had it, and were vaccinated. Fear is not good for you. Close to 95% of all COVID deaths occurred in people 50 and older. On the other hand, a vaccinated person can give you COVID. A mild case in a vaccinated person may turn out to be the best way to establish real, long-lasting immunity. I don't know where you got the idea that you can get this many times.
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  33260.  @ArashArfaee Then the rational risk-benefit analysis would be far different.
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  33261.  @ArashArfaee It is always about the particular virus. And a society that practices commercial medicine is one where trust is commensurately low. People who have been injured by rare side effects from vaccination and were told they had "anxiety" and sent home are already filing malpractice law suits. But this happens every year, not just due to COVID or COVID vaccines.
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  33262.  @ArashArfaee  From the Statistica website: the proportion of all COVID deaths that have occurred in children under 17 is 0.0749%. Or, to put it another way, 99.925% of all deaths were in adults 18 and older. Over 94% were in people 50 and over. Go do the math. It's worse than I thought it was.
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  33263. You have never read Rawls, I'm guessing.
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  33264. Well, if they are going to be anywhere, better Disneyland than Ukraine.
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  33265. Brie is trying to make the CRUCIAL point that self-defense has a specific definition and specific standards, especially where potentially lethal force is used. "He was a bad guy" doesn't cut it; only the facts of the case matter. I wish she were clearer in making that point. Lee Fang is right about the larger issue and he agrees with Brie's point -- but her point fails to address the larger issue Lee is trying very hard to address here. Oh well. :/
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  33266.  @akaElleLatham  LOL, perfect comeback.
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  33267. He can report it himself.
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  33268. LOL
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  33269. Was that ambiguous?
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  33270.  @AnxiousHearts  Prove it.
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  33271. HA!
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  33272.  @G360LIVE  Look, this channel shadows external links. There are a lot of studies showing the efficacy of masks. The key question is their efficacy in preventing COVID transmission, so most are post Jan 2020. There is epidemiological evidence as well.
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  33273. Put ANY of the following in any search engine: 1. Face masks effectively limit the probability of SARS-CoV-2 transmission 2. Face masks: what the data say The science supports that face coverings are saving lives during the coronavirus pandemic, and yet the debate trundles on. How much evidence is enough? 3. Still Confused About Masks? Here’s the Science Behind How Face Masks Prevent Coronavirus 4. An evidence review of face masks against COVID-19 5. Prior to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the efficacy of community mask wearing to reduce the spread of respiratory infections was controversial because there were no solid relevant data to support their use. During the pandemic, the scientific evidence has increased. Compelling data now demonstrate that community mask wearing is an effective nonpharmacologic intervention to reduce the spread of this infection, especially as source control to prevent spread from infected persons, but also as protection to reduce wearers’ exposure to infection.
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  33274.  @miller-joel  Right. People who are healthy (virus-free) do not transmit the virus. I knew that, but thanks anyway.
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  33275.  @G360LIVE  Pathetic
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  33276.  @G360LIVE  The truth is America is unliveable, and anyone who can get out will.
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  33277.  @miller-joel  Look, however you want. I don't care.
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  33278.  @miller-joel  You're proving my point, America is unliveable. But we all knew.
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  33279.  @miller-joel  "Leffler et al. (29) used a multiple regression approach, including a range of policy interventions and country and population characteristics, to infer the relationship between mask use and SARS-CoV-2 transmission. They found that transmission was 7.5 times higher in countries that did not have a mask mandate or universal mask use, a result similar to that found in an analogous study of fewer countries (30). Another study looked at the difference between US states with mask mandates and those without, and found that the daily growth rate was 2.0 percentage points lower in states with mask mandates, estimating that the mandates had prevented 230,000 to 450,000 COVID-19 cases by May 22, 2020 (31)." Not hard to locate and verify these studies. Oh, it takes some WORK, true. But if your ideal is to become rich from, say, Bitcoin, then I understand your reluctance. No problem.
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  33280.  @miller-joel  The truth is, anyone who can move, will. Learn some languages. Helps to get news in other languages, too. You can see the state of discourse in English right here.
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  33281.  @miller-joel  The study isn't anonymous. But you are.
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  33282.  @miller-joel  Of course I know you're a white American, which only narrows it down because you are all alike.
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  33283.  @miller-joel  I was already done. I don't care what you do, believe, etc.
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  33284.  @miller-joel  No. You're a hot steaming.
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  33285.  @miller-joel  imitation is the highest form of flattery
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  33286. Could you provide the case name or link? I'd love to read it.
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  33287. Everyone should read The Atlantic article on Ted Kaczynski. Read what was done to him at Harvard.
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  33288.  @trufflesrheaven  Anyone could die. The question is, what's the point of living? We are racing headlong into that question.
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  33289.  @trufflesrheaven  So you made an individual decision. You were not coerced.
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  33290.  GuitarGeek72  BRAVO. Hearing someone think is a relief these days.
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  33291. THIS
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  33292. Godspeed. I love people who stand up for themselves.
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  33293. I'm so sorry. How are you doing?
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  33294. Give Hunter the plea deal, Biden will go away.
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  33295. Timelines? Anyone?
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  33296. Who told you this? Why did you believe them?
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  33297. ​ @ulysse9471  See my post above. If you see no post, . . . Sense or ship?
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  33298.  @oldsoundz  When I did precisely that, my post was taken down.
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  33299.  @oldsoundz  It didn't fit the narrative.
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  33300. @Joshua Jones  It is correct, and has been acknowledged for a long time. To realize why, consider the relative size of the two groups, plus other facts Y T will not allow me to state and has removed already, nevermind that I cite peer-reviewed research and use sound reasoning . . .
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  33301.  Joshua Jones  I guess you're not a math person?
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  33302.  Joshua Jones  Or a literature person . . .
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  33303. It's time for nuclear bombs, clearly. What are we waiting for? /s
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  33304. Everyone wants to ignore the fact Gabby had a chance to get away. He left her alone for a week and went back to Florida. Why not take the correct lesson from this? Even the police failed Gabby. She, like so many young, good-hearted, innocent women, needed to save herself. Nobody was going to do that for her. She had ample opportunity. All she had to do was talk to a few real friends, then run. He would have never found her. That's the tragedy, to me.
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  33305. @falconquest2068  You wondered whether I was going the old "blame the victim" route.
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  33306. Remarkable life expectancy in that family.
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  33307. Dore told people NOT to vote for any Democrat. He opposed LOTE voting 100%, he said not to fall for it.
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  33308. Dore opposed the Russiagate garbage since Day 1.
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  33309. I'm sorry, NOBODY whose mommy and daddy paid for their college has anything to say about this subject. This is one of those few times when they should have no place at the table.
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  33310. If she gets people who sat out Clinton '16 to drag themselves in to vote, that is all she needs to do. If Biden looks physically very fragile by then, the choice could backfire. This is SO calculated, all of it. We don't know who will really be president.
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  33311. Should France surrender? Mexico? Uruguay?
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  33312. Bankruptcy is due to laziness, too . . . Oh wait, Kudlow's boss is the Bankruptcy King.
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  33313. But that's not what happened. Manufacturing jobs did increase for a while, then seemed to hit a wall, and then clearly went into decline again --- all BEFORE COVID. Look it up. Nor was the real economy booming. The stock market was booming, and is booming now, since making a bottom in March, and up until just the other day. People in part-time gig work counted as employed. This was not a healthy economy.
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  33314. I think that's right. Once Hunter gets his deal, Joe will withdraw.
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  33315. Trump likes to do things in a really big way. But yeah, it is clear that the Clintons and the DNC created a recent precedent.
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  33316. Actually, they would. The ADA protects people with disabilities, as does the FMLA. They would not be fired and have to reapply to their jobs, but instead they would be able to return to productive life as soon as they could meet their employers' reasonable expectations. And on top of it, in school, you pay the school. On the job, your job pays you.
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  33317. How? Years ago I signed up because at the time I had to, for a single payment. Then I tried to cancel. They kept denying me. Somehow they added $5 to my account, and now refuse to close it on that ground.
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  33318. No, she's not. Selective prosecution exists and is turned against one "enemy" after another, depending on who has power.
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  33319.  @mrogs12  Sigh. This is why I always end up watching math videos, or yoga nidra.
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  33320. Typewriters as a hobby are BIG.
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  33321. ​ @randysmith9841 Did you miss that Chauvin pled guilty in federal court, too? His plea agreement takes a few seconds to find. It describes what he himself admits he did. Federal pleas require that that be spelled out in detail.
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  33322. Did ANY of the critics read the complaint? Eleven numbered paragraphs, four double-spaced pages tell you all a layperson needs to know to understand why the case was filed . . . C'mon, you can do it!! Is the fact that no one will pay you to read it stopping you?
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  33323. ​ @SabineHossenfelder Anyone who is commenting without at least reading the first four pages of the complaint carefully is part of the intellectual dishonesty problem. I see no reason to believe you read them. Show me where the costs justify colluding to obtain free work, then placing the result behind a very steep pay wall, even for university libraries. No one is suggesting that the editors work for free and that the costs of database maintenance not be covered. That isn't what the case is about, nor is it a likely consequence of victory -- unless the publishers have gotten too used to their lavish lifestyles and cook up a new scheme to maintain them. This scheme reminds me of how the top-heavy administration of the modern university developed, and mired the youngest adults in debt in order to finance what is, for them, a necessity. Hospitals in the US now work this way, too. Hmm.
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  33324. Staying in lowered vitamin D levels.
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  33325. Ghislaine isn't Jewish. Her (secular) father's parents were.
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  33326. They have destroyed all of our lives. This is a mirror that foretells the future.
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  33327. ​@lesiemehle1901 Or maybe she believed men should lord over women, that men are superior to women. If it's between her suspicions and his words, his words come first.
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  33328. IT IS.
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  33329. Why not? If people like Biden, Trump, Hillary Clinton, or even RFK Jr can be president (and Harris or Shanahan can be vice president), ALL bets are off.
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  33330. @gwenynmel5682  Well, did you know that ultra processed foods change the microbiome, so that wholesome food is no longer palatable? I remember all the kids who got stomach cramps when my mom gave them very well rinsed, fresh blueberries as a snack . . . And went right back to candy and chips. Do you think 60% want to be overweight and unhealthy? No. No way.
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  33331. Why not a trillion, you antisemite?
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  33332. It already can be.
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  33333. What's that?
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  33334. Glenn wasn't the owner. It's called a corporation. /s
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  33335. No one ever said they had a right to contract and transmit any illness.
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  33336. Cool! They know you. ;)
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  33337. This is what she got from these segments?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Russia HOMOGENEOUS??? Not since the 12th century. (By the way, who are the BRICS+?)
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  33338. @Brandon Nicol How so?
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  33339. I did not see copycats coming. I still don't know this culture.
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  33340. As MOST important? Seriously? I agree that it is important.
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  33341. That there was no relationship between the price of a buffet and the satisfaction with the buffet IS a STUPENDOUS result.
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  33342. We generally reward astute law breaking. It shows entrepreneurial spirit. Yeah, I really don't like it, either. But I'm not naive as to why it is happening.
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  33343. @dougjones1074  Try reading it again. Take it slow. Though now that you mention it --- yes, usually. They don't think they are entitled to six figures to start, for example. Or to bully their coworkers.
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  33344. Rapes are up, Emily? You mean real rapes? Tell us all about your "prolife" stance.
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  33345. No.
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  33346. Never joined either FB or Twitter. Knew they would be treacherous.
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  33347. Like Hollywood does? Probably a good idea. But the résumé studies also saw discrimination based on zip code. BTW, I have a post office box in a rich suburb. I'm not dumb.
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  33348.  @diversitydeliverer7094  No you didn't read all the documents Glenn made public. Laughable.
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  33349.  @tylabarros1506  He doesn't understand about contracts and such. He just has feelings about how things should go. Don't we have to honor his feelings? /s
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  33350. Ryan isn't here.
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  33351. So far they certainly are. :/
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  33352. 42:28 Oh this is getting weird . . .
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  33353. Do the clowns attacking RFK Jr think toxic tort cases against major corporations are easy to win?? Yeah sure, honey. They must think we live in Twitter World.
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  33354. Yes, brilliant.
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  33355.  @JustFingAwesome  Exactly.
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  33356.  @peachbun  Well, we have a result. Looks to me like the jury looked beyond First Amendment law and provable damages to punish wrongdoing, in the proportion they saw fit. If that is what happened, it means we all lost. As usual.
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  33357.  @richardkovacs2006  Looks like he did not need more than that. The affirmative verdict on both his claim and her counterclaim may not even be coherent. Lots of First Amendment lawyers would take either appeal for free. It smacks of proportional punishment for wrongdoing, not liability for defamation.
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  33358.  @peachbun  Way more worried about that than about one case. Can you name all the Enemies? I know I can't.
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  33359. Not as bizarre as these two. Wouldn't want to cross paths with them at night.
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  33360.  @alistermacpherson7120  Many, in fact.
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  33361. Liability was limited under Reagan. After that, the vaccine schedule exploded, for some reason. /s
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  33362. What? That her performance was good for fundraising? Now she doesn't have to do anything, just like all the rest of them.
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  33363. What is the labor participation rate?
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  33364. I am sitting here and swearing under my breath. I cannot believe it. I truly cannot.
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  33365. @nottheonlydreamer9512  You fell for that, too? Here, I can't blame you. All three university presidents FAILED to stand up to religious harassment on campus, FAILED to take a clear stand on free speech, and FAILED to explain exactly how and why the First Amendment applies to the unique setting of a private college campus. When they should have been eloquent, they were diffident, smug, and barely coherent. But all things considered, don't take the bait. What is going on, and what they want you to think is going on, are two different things as usual.
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  33366.  @PaulBengtsson  It's about race for you.
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  33367. ​ @Toolgdskli  She has nothing in common with them. Gray didn't vote for Joe OR Hillary.
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  33368. I'd want to take a close look at the statistics first. If all the COVID deaths are due to COVID alone, that is a case fatality rate around 2% or slightly under. The question becomes, how contagious is it? So far, about 0.2% of the entire population of the US has died of COVID. If everyone eventually gets COVID, that could rise tenfold. But does everyone??
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  33369.  Aberdonian DotCom  Ha ha ha. Wrong.
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  33370.  @zawyehtike3089  I am very serious when I say, go back to Plato. The central question of education is: how do you know what you need to learn, until after you've learned it? This is not a trivial question. For example, I did not know until recently that I have some talent for acting, and that not learning how to memorize lines as a young person is a huge handicap for me now. In the US, we do not learn poems by heart as children. Many, many places teach children to recite poems by heart. How did they know to do that? Did the kids ask to do that? No. Purely a matter of culture. We often criticize school for teaching memorization. Only now do I know that is wrong. Some things should be learned by heart. I think "educational freedom" is a talking point more than anything else. I think those sorts of schemes create greater inequality, not greater opportunity. I think you might make money for yourself with the idea.
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  33371. I wasn't good in math as a kid, then something clicked and I was great at certain branches of math. Why am I not surprised that Robby gave up on math? 😂😂😂
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  33372. They have to shove trillions into the money supply to keep the economy out of a massive depression, so the only chance they have to stem inflation is to keep the velocity of money low. This also means the money will go upward, to a very, very small number of people -- a coincidence I am sure.
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  33373. Sociopaths lose elections? When?
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  33374.  @FrightNight47  Random 50% could easily include you. Thanks for your candor. 😄
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  33375. ​ @starwarfan8342 Oh brother.
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  33376. Black is White, Up is Down . . . What??! Stfu!!!
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  33377.  @minniemins2837  Just the opposite. Greenwald did NOT tie 9/11 to the anthrax attacks at all. Victoria Nuland has failed to issue a clarification. People misspeak or are misunderstood all the time. And issue written clarifications, after taking some time to reflect and compose them. So . . . What's the problem, exactly? The problem is that she essentially told the truth: there are Department of Defense funded biolabs in Ukraine and they do contain dangerous pathogens. The main thrust of this reporting is to demonstrate the decline in journalism and the rise of propaganda and denunciation. He just did that, and you helped confirm his report.
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  33378.  @rawintwNIOUx2  So, Nuland didn't make the statement she did under oath. Nuland is a videogame avatar. Cool.
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  33379.  @minniemins2837  That wasn't coherent. You obviously cannot handle what Nuland said. Not my problem.
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  33380.  @minniemins2837  So, watch The Hill Rising.
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  33381.  @minniemins2837  Who said any lab, anywhere, was making viral strains to target any ethnic group? That is not even possible. Whose insanity are you imputing to eminently rational people? That's like saying accurate reporting on Jeffrey Epstein supports that bizarre pizza parlor story, Comet Ping Pong or whatnot. Maybe the inane story is sometimes made up to shelter the actual wrongdoer? We know various intelligence services (including Russian and American) have floated conspiracy theories for exactly that purpose, as a classic red herring.
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  33382.  @minniemins2837  The US Embassy in Ukraine website ties the labs to the US, and to DoD funding.
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  33383.  @minniemins2837  You didn't check the Embassy website? Last time I looked, it wasn't scrubbed. Sorry, forgot to block you. Don't waste my time.
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  33384.  @minniemins2837  DoD = Department of Defense. You also don't know what a red herring is. You're welcome for the free logic lesson.
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  33385. Try reading real books. This bowing to nonsense is becoming serious. No one has any critical faculty.
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  33386. ​ @C_R_O_M________ And lots of conservatives in America today started out as leftists. Jordan Peterson and Candace Owens come to mind immediately. This is because they tested the waters and figured out what sort of rap would bring them more money or power, and they like money and they like power. It's not that tough.
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  33387.  @C_R_O_M________  Apart from the fact that a philosophy grounded on universals was suddenly deprived of any semblance of universality, in other words. But you just echoed my point: they saw the lay of the land and figured out how to gain power quickly under those conditions, which was their sole aim. They certainly did have to kill a lot of leftists to do it, who then ultimately defeated them. Red Army (75%+ of all casualties inflicted on the Wehrmacht, i.e., the actual Nazi fighting forces), the Resistance in France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, etc.
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  33388. @meganmcdaniel6568  My arguments are so poor that You Tube kindly prevents you from suffering the pain of seeing them.
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  33389. You think the communists were for tearing down bodies rather than building them up? The Soviets banned lobotomies a generation before the US did, where it was once a lucrative business.
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  33390. Notice how the little drips and drabs that are coming out . . . Remember how Bill Gates had only one dinner with Epstein, and donated only one million dollars to a science lab at Epstein's suggestion? Then it was two dinners, and two million bucks, then . . . Yeah. Well, . . .
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  33391. More money for Amazon.
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  33392. Couldn't come to an agreement to extend the license. Robbie actually talked about it. You're not alone in noticing. :/
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  33393. He keeps telling you, over and over, not to be duped by MSM and the corporations into hating on your neighbor. Somehow you don't hear it. Weird.
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  33394. A six-week embryo does not have a heart. Some states permit abortion of early fetuses that do indeed have hearts. These are the biological facts. You can take electrical impulses and create a sound with them, just like you can take sounds and create a picture with them. There's nothing remarkable about this. It's not nonsense.
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  33395. "Don't compare COVID with influenza!!!" Dangerous misinformation!!!" "COVID vaccines are just like polio vaccines." Cancel whoever refuses to repeat the loyalty oath.
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  33396. Is she going to lose the Speakership? No? Is she going to lose donors? Then it wasn't a mistake. Not to her mind.
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  33397. @cedricwilford  My other posts invisible to you?
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  33398. He had a rare liver condition that sometimes becomes cancerous -- even more rare. He would have needed a transplant right away to have had a prayer of surviving.
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  33399. Life with possibility of parole.
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  33400. ​ @helenmcdonnell2585  Explain the satanic panic cases. Thousands were accused.
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  33401. ​@@Helium688Anyone with a cursory knowledge of the eugenics movement should be posing questions. Yet legitimate questions are forbidden. Hmm . . .
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  33402. I'll laugh even if he doesn't. We learn a lot LOT either way.
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  33403. Even Forbes and Fortune write about how many corporations spend WAY more on lobbying than taxes.
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  33404. Your first sentence answers your question perfectly.
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  33405. Noam Chomsky called it social studies.
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  33406. Has he been out enough? I can't tell.
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  33407.  @YoniCrisis  Yeah. It could be like Flint water.
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  33408.  @YoniCrisis  If you let people know vaccines are contaminated, they won't take any vaccines. As for baby formula, maybe a lactating cat can adopt the baby. Leave it up to the individual. Picture those cat videos.
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  33409. What a baldfaced lie. It was widely reported that American troops who witnessed child molestation in the camps of allied warlords were told this was not our business. One of the servicemen who tried to stop it was murdered. I don't remember the precise aftermath of that vicious crime.
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  33410. ​ @Dantianblue We need a serious and careful multivariate analysis to find out exactly what is going on. Where are "the right people" to demand that? The people who are "better" than Dr. Campbell?
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  33411. ​@bioschneid8811 And what was yours? Press releases from medical associations, or Rachel Maddow?
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  33412. ​ @spiderjerusalem6887 Irony
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  33413.  Grainne Ni Malley  Do you seriously believe the fertility industry will be harmed by "conservatives" (i.e., the right wing)?
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  33414.  Grainne Ni Malley  I don't disagree, I don't think -- you're not exactly crystal clear. My point is, follow the money. The right will not do anything the monied interests do not want. Actual nationwide banning of abortions except under the most extreme circumstances? That would cut into too many people's profits. It's a ruse to get the evangelical vote. It's culture war dupery. No one is going to be investigated or imprisoned for a miscarriage.
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  33415.  Grainne Ni Malley  "my wording misconstrued my point?" How is that even possible?
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  33416. Remove Trump from office and better people's lives. Removing Trump is the first step.
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  33417.  @nolanarmstrong2458  The Russiagate nonsense was almost entirely invented. The management of the COVID crisis was grossly mishandled by every political actor, yet it benefitted a certain class every time. Then there's Epstein. And Maxwell. I don't care to speculate about what's "really" true, I just know we don't know. That much is obvious. Remember, Trump gave Acosta a big promotion. And said worse things about peaceful protestors against police brutality than he dared to about dear little Ghislaine.
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  33418. The irony: "misinformation" is protected speech, BUT DEFAMATION ISN'T. What is the DNC doing?
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  33419.  @dblock20  What data? Do we have robust data on prepubescent children who transitioned 40 or 50 years ago, and are pleased today? No opportunity for birth children of their own, so what? No regrets? Later medical complications from lifelong medical support, including hormones, so what? No regrets? "First do no harm" is a meta-principle, it applies to ALL medical interventions, even the simplest and least risky.
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  33420.  @chriskb2495  I would think the human right at issue here is to preserve reproductive freedom.
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  33421.  @jeffthompson1869  Nice discussion! Thank you.
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  33422. The DNC has "fallen into the trap" of culture wars? They have joined the ultra rich by doing that. Funny way of putting it, bro.
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  33423. I can.
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  33424.  @jameswyman3973  You obviously misunderstood my point. How you could miss it is a mystery.
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  33425.  @Michael_Mane  Actually, it isn't. Some may have the hands but not the elbows.
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  33426. @paolo3287  I defer to Socrates in The Apology: there are two ways to reach "the top." One involves making yourself as excellent as you can possibly be. The other involves being willing to do anything to destroy your competition. Guess which has become popular lately?
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  33427. @paolo3287  Hands are a metaphor for real productivity. OTOH, there is a saying about "sharp elbows," meaning you didn't earn your way to the top, you elbowed others out of your way.
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  33428. "You just have to . . . " is so much worse. Computer people say this when a program breaks down. Blame shifting. LOL.
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  33429.  @sayrewilkin-dalby619  You can edit out the "you should," start at "think . . . " Not a big deal, but it might work better. Also, strangely enough, making it less personal sounds stronger. More objective, maybe?
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  33430. Nooooo . . . Do not feed McFood to Russians!
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  33431. Ha ha, good one!
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  33432. He's 55. There's no way he just made that money. He's been in a modest bungalow for decades. He's been working for 40 years. Do you know anything about him? Do you know what a house in L.A. costs?
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  33433.  @charlotteruse8718  I saw that. What do you think is so wrong with it? Do you know anything about him? I didn't say he didn't buy it. I said there's no way he just got that much money all of a sudden. He's 55. I'm surprised he was in the same small bungalow for so long -- 23 years.
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  33434.  No Name  Of course it's ridiculous.
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  33435.  No Name  The same people will point to a leftist's modest bungalow and say, "he's a loser. He's jealous." LOL, so bogus.
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  33436.  @charlotteruse8718  Hey. Looks like he's not "jealous" of Jeff Bezos after all! Pfft.
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  33437. He has been threatened by YouTube, and could be banned at any time, with no recourse. This would mean his videos from long before this pandemic would be removed, and he really doesn't want to see that. He has worked in Africa a lot, in medical education, and wants his former colleagues to have full access to the materials.
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  33438. 💯
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  33439. No one ever went broke lying.
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  33440. Wow,I thought it was lemon, not Le Mans.
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  33441.  @andrewdelvalle4622  Yeah. And they aren't supposed to charge what they can't prove.
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  33442. I'm beyond anger.
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  33443. Perfect comment, perfect summary of the Zeitgeist. Is school just entertainment now? Is that what the kids want?
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  33444. 💰 could it be 💰?
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  33445. A divorce settlement does not earmark where funds from the settlement have to go. No such agreement. The ACLU is not Depp's child.
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  33446.  @kevinh3979  No, you have a mob mentality problem. Of course you don't know it.
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  33447. So . . . Does this provision make it more likely student loans will be cancelled, or less likely? Or does it have any effect at all? How do you figure, AOC?
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  33448. They think acknowledging there are COVID treatments (not cures), such as monoclonal antibodies, will cause people to avoid the vaccines? I already know I won't get the treatment millionaires get. I always knew that.
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  33449. ​ @SarahPerine  You're all crazy now, aren't you?
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  33450.  @dao8805  She is an attorney. Show me her published cases or her pro bono work. Every bar in the country asks its members to do pro bono work. Show me hers.
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  33451.  Tom Field  🤣🤣🤣 Trump didn't start any, either, he got his the old-fashioned way, from Daddy. But read the comment I responded to. As far as trash talking is concerned, they are all about the same. If you really press me, okay, AOC is worse. Happy now?
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  33452. Biden, Harris, and Pelosi all promised no mandates, and no disclosure -- that HIPPA privacy would be intact -- until they got elected, that is.
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  33453. ​ @myprofile-i15g 💯
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  33454. He should have used the opportunity to tell the young never to join the service. The really funny part is that smart phone and McFood addicts think drug addicts have choices. 😂 Those 40%+ obese got that way for some reason . . . maybe their choice? Funny, no one chose that after the depression and WWII, when the temptation to overeat was great.
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  33455.  @vannakinder352  Amen.
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  33456. Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker explains all this. We've all been there. Trust that you WILL be better!
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  33457. Not only that, it's dangerous -- and please forgive that overused word. These are people ripe for a fascist movement. I mean this sincerely. Yet another overused word, but think about what it means if we end up unable to use it at all.
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  33458. And hope they have the right address.
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  33459. Mars has almost no atmosphere or magnetic field -- hence, complex life is impossible due to radiation. We are already dying om THIS planet, where we evolved. A mindless billionaire vanity project/trick.
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  33460. ​ @LAMAKMUSIC You didn't see that MTG highlighted that one shooter was a trans woman? Why?
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  33461. ​ @AndyPrimeOne We need to look more closely at various psychoactive medications.
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  33462. People should check out Kim Iversen's report today. See who was involved in Theranos.
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  33463.  @martman123456  I'm an attorney, too. I know people lie under oath and blurt out things that they normally wouldn't, due to the unfamiliarity of testifying and the sheer stress. I specialized in expert witness testimony and appeals, where you have to read and scrutinize every relevant document from the trial at least twice, though that's not usually enough. I have come to find those docs are the least likely to harbor lies, provided you know how to read them.
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  33464.  @martman123456  I was wondering whether this organization made a FOIA request and got a redacted copy. In any event, watching the documentary with a critical eye would either answer the question or be conspicuously absent from discussion. And as I said, I would have told the mother not to make this documentary. If this is indeed a problem, then there are ways to make it known to the public without risking any particular minor child's privacy.
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  33465. @yangzone7773  What does that have to do with self-help advice based on neurology? In any event, I literally always check other sources, including first of all the NIH medical library, AAAS publications, and the like. I never do anything without vetting the information, and would do the same for saints or sinners.
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  33466. ​ @badomaji  Is it realistic to expect fidelity before engagement and marriage? To try to make a man exclusive who shows signs of not desiring that sort of relationship is simply a gamble. A mature woman knows she is taking a risk. The funny part is that a lot of his followers assumed he was gay. I pity guys like him. If he did anything illegal, go after him in court. Going to a magazine is lame.
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  33467. ​ @Anabee3  Very little of what he says is controversial. It is not pseudoscience.
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  33468. ​ @mojavemel Agreed!
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  33469. @Anabee3  Where did he advocate for deceiving anyone? If he committed a crime, or did anything that could give rise to a lawsuit, absolutely take him to court and call him to account. Or, go to the press, get the Internet to condemn him, and so forth. That's a person's right, too -- but I don't respect that. When you enter into any affair and marriage isn't on the table, you know you're taking a chance. From what he has said, quite openly, about his misspent youth, it is not a shock to me that he has relationship problems now. I wouldn't have dated him.
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  33470. @iche9373  How is his lifestyle "sexist?" Women cheat, too. I'd have to check the percentage of babies born to someone other than the putative father. It's not huge but it's tiny, either. Sometimes the putative father has to pay child support, too.
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  33471. @iche9373  Why can you use that s word but I can't?
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  33472.  @MaximilianonMars  He is not married or engaged. That's the problem. These women did not know how to read that.
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  33473.  @GrapeCheez2  Did you ever listen to his videos? It's not about his private life, except to say that he was a mess in high school and was very lucky he got another chance to straighten up and do a PhD. Sounded authentic to me.
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  33474. @iche9373  If they are telling the truth, you mean? I care when the law instrumentalizes human beings, which I can assure you it does. When affluent adult women take a chance and it doesn't work out, well . . . If he did anything illegal or actionable, of course hold him responsible. In a real court and everything, where both sides have an opportunity to be heard, under oath.
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  33475. @jimwerther  There is evidence of abuse and torture from both Hamas and IDF. So the question was not baseless.
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  33476.  @jimwerther  Although we disagree, EVERYONE should be appalled by the nature and the extent of scents or ship. You usually get ___ if you mention it.
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  33477. ​ @pb5640 Failure to become dependent on the medical system for life. Those who are making money off of it are 😢
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  33478. ​@Chimchimchu Your personal risk may have been less than 2% from the very start. It probably was by the time the shots were offered to everyone, late spring 2021. This was a fiasco all right. I decided against vaccination as well. It gave too many people a false sense of security, too. :/
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  33479.  @tellmemoreplease9231  I chose not to _____, and only had a proven case recently. I took care of myself at home.
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  33480. Why is there a five-day gap in this story? It was widely reported that Brian flew back to Florida on August 17 to clean out a storage locker and get his finances together, and that he then returned to Gabby on August 23. What happened during the time Gabby was alone and could talk to her real friends and reflect? Was this report about them splitting up incorrect? If it's true and being omitted on purpose, that is misleading.
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  33481. We were given an entirely different timeline when this happened. We were told that they separated for five days when Bryan flew to Florida to clean out a storage locker and raise some funds. Then we were told that there was another incident where Gabby and Bryan were in a restaurant and he was being aggressive and she was crying. This was a very short time before she was killed.
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  33482. Me, too. Every electrical engineer I know refuses to carry a smart phone now.
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  33483. ​ @jbcfamily4802 Oh, HE said. Okay. 😂😂😂
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  33484. ​ @jbcfamily4802 He said it's a giant drug cartel, not a country.
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  33485. Whoopie is an ignoramus, and smug about it. What do people learn in school??
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  33486. At the rate things are going, all someone has to do to ruin any demonstration is to pay a dozen people to show up with swastika flags. Look at the roster of speakers. Do you seriously think Ron Paul, Chris Hedges, Dennis Kucinich, and Roger Waters are pro-Russian? (Do you also decide on your medical care based on what Maddow says? Gawd help us.)
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  33487.  @Toxicplyer  Brock Turner's father called it "twenty minutes of action." Unfair comparison, Turner committed the crime.
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  33488. The two on the right are smearing her, misrepresenting her views, and saying her brain is broken. She didn't engage in similar ad hominem. I would swear at them and leave.
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  33489.  @chrism7969  Excellent, thank you so much!
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  33490.  @chrism7969  Which comment? Anyway, I agree you're right. Certainly selection pressure for both greater transmissibilty and greater lethality in a virus with such a long incubation period, and low lethality to start with, is possible.
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  33491.  @DrBeauHightower  Which "board?" You are not an MD. You are a Doctor of Naprapathy. Do you prescribe?
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  33492.  @chrism7969  And people providing real information, with real references (but not links, which are disfavored since they are, after all, too hard to monitor for TOS) are being censored again. Maddening.
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  33493.  @chrism7969  I cannot mention pre-2020 Scientific American, Smithsonian, or vaccine manufacturers' own information sheets without having my post removed -- much less peer-reviewed journals, which it is presumed I cannot possibly understand. This is the story of the Internet: do you see conspiratorial speculation censored? No, because it is mere "opinion." The more you deal in facts, the more likely your post will be removed.
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  33494.  @winniecash1654  He isn't an MD.
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  33495.  @DrBeauHightower  I asked which one. Which board?
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  33496.  @DrBeauHightower  I have a professional license too, but I don't care to use it here because that would constitute a fallacious appeal to authority.
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  33497.  @DrBeauHightower  Campbell most certainly is licensed by a medical licencing entity, just not as an MD, and not in the United States. He had a position with policymaking authority over nursing education in the UK.
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  33498.  @DrBeauHightower  Were you present when I consulted my doctor, just a few weeks ago? No you were not.
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  33499.  @DrBeauHightower  Nor have you stated which board. You just threw some ad hom my way. You play the truthiness game well. EDIT Doctor of Naprapathy in New Mexico -- what qualification is that, exactly?
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  33500.  @chrism7969  I think I give too many details about exactly where I found a fact I cite, to show what persuaded me to believe what I do. Hence, it is tantamount to a link, and posts with links are strongly disfavored.
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  33501.  @chrism7969  I think that there may be a way to censor the actual giving of medical advice directly to particular individuals, whether that advice be sound or not. It may be excellent advice, but it shouldn't be given, just like a doctor cannot diagnose someone they never met. As for conspiracy theories that do actual harm and defame particular people, the leading purveyors are being sued, and the plaintiffs are winning. Just showing people how that happens should be enough. Another interesting fact is that such theories have at times been planted by various governments, for the purpose of discrediting all critics and making them all appear to be in league with the wackos. Adam Curtis, also UK, has documented this. Some of it is funny. US and USSR/RF have both done it. These days, a Russian troll farm will float a story as an experiment, to collect data on the reaction. They don't care whether they persuade, they want to study what happens. Seems more sinister? Hard to say.
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  33502.  @chrism7969  I'm not on any social media. I only joined this right after we got shutdown in March 2020.
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  33503.  @breez706  People who contract measles will not get it again -- literally almost never. The issue is that a case of measles can have terrible complications.
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  33504. Wow, great lying by Biden.
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  33505.  @Exercise-01  Yes it is.
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  33506. Defamation isn't First Amendment protected, and if it were, you could not sue over it (you can't sue someone for what they have a right to say, and win . . . You might end up paying their legal bill, actually.). Read Nadine Strossen on that. Romney is too much of a 🤡 to be believed, so he has a good defense.
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  33507. How many right wingers always said that when a Bad Guy loses rights, it's not that important. What is important is that the Bad Guy Did Bad Things, and "we got him." Well, civil rights and civil liberties are important. VERY. Now you know.
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  33508.  @Wise__guy  Well, we'll see where these cases go.
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  33509. Let's just agree that you're supposed to know your baby's father and take it from there.
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  33510.  @bleechrcreechrr  In that event, a civil suit for fraud and battery is available.
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  33511.  @bleechrcreechrr  In that event, civil remedies are available. But you're right, those are torts, not crimes.
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  33512.  @bleechrcreechrr  Wow, I wasn't sense oared after all!!! 😊
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  33513. ​ @rickbeniers667 Wrong 😂
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  33514. FALSE. You did not even BOTHER to click the link to the Australian government website which Dr. Campbell has provided. Shame on you.
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  33515.  @paulafraser-shaw1992  Don't take his word for it. Click the link to the Australian government's actual statement. AZ has been discontinued due to the one side effect cited, which we know about ("Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome"). Other -- possible -- side effect(s) are not mentioned as carrying weight in arriving at their decision to discontinue it.
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  33516. "AstraZeneca is no longer available as of 20 March 2023, so no further cases of AstraZeneca-related TTS can occur in Australia." Missed that part? And the rest as well?
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  33517.  @charliemedina6362  😂😂😂 You never have to watch or to read anything to make that broad claim. You can cut and paste it everywhere.
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  33518. If you want to stay reasonably safe, stop falling for guys like this.
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  33519.  @tedunguent156  Prolong the war. Give the sanctions more time to undermine the BRICS economically. What do you think this is about?
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  33520. Realize that it wouldn't matter. That's the tragedy.
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  33521. @johnpatmos1722  Why should we listen to someone who says he was "tricked" into consenting to puberty blockers for his son? He will be deciding public policy. This Emily person has a job and is paying her bills so that we don't have to. People with her medical history get on disability all the time. And Megyn Kelly makes her living going after other women: Megan Markle, Candace Owens, Brittany Pietsch, and now this. Those are the ones I remember, and I don't follow her. Why pick on someone with a mental illness? Strange job, that.
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  33522. @Dutch_Rudder  And I've seen this woman go after other women and make bank. That's a funny job. Emily whomever has a job. It's not a weighty job. She's not a nurse, a teacher, or law enforcement. She pays her bills so that we don't have to. She could be collecting disability instead. And now MK is going after the disabled. Lovely.
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  33523. @Dutch_Rudder  This Emily person has a job and is paying her bills so that we don't have to. People with her medical history get on disability all the time. And Megyn Kelly makes her living going after other women: Megan Markle, Candace Owens, Brittany Pietsch, and now this. (Those are the ones I remember, and I don't follow her.) Why pick on someone handicapped? When did that become entertaining?
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  33524. @jmardel1522  Yes, going after some disabled, rather pitiful woman who has an innocuous job is about hate. I agree.
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  33525. @arielepouhe80  His repeating the question, "if all this were true, where were you 20+ years ago?" you regard as softball? That was SO in Putin's face. It humiliated him. Multiculturalism . . . will never happen. Impossible. Americans just don't get how other people see things. They don't even understand most of Western Europe, much less non-Western peoples. Half of French culture is terra incognita.
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  33526.  @ariel-y-e-m  Well, my one-point reply went poof.
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  33527. @arielepouhe80  Well, I had some replies but once they are unseeable, am not supposed to signal that. Those all go into the aether as well.
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  33528.  @ariel-y-e-m  Am being sense oar ed.
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  33529. What in the world are you talking about??
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  33530.  @Killbayne  If they have no probable cause to place you in jail, you most certainly will be allowed to leave. That's what they need the confession for, to hold you. Otherwise, they have a short window during which they can detain you while they investigate. Don't you know your rights? There was no murder weapon, no autopsies, no gunpowder residue test, no blood on Nick -- on what basis could they hold him? Confessing to the police gives them all the reason they need to keep you in jail. The time for a confession that can help YOU is after you consult a lawyer and you and your lawyer approach the prosecutor. Then you tell the whole truth and nothing but.
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  33531. Wow, Emily, the disconnect between your First Amendment analysis of Donald Trump and of Amber Heard's article (she herself was not on trial, freedom of speech was) is quite the disconnect.
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  33532. I hope not.
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  33533. He would take you up on it. He'd go out and share food and coffee, take photos, and get more fans for his channels and live shows. He and Stef always do.
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  33534. ​ @yusong1227 I never joined Twit or Face, or anything except this during the COVID lockdown, to save videos. Of course this, too, has a big downside. :/
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  33535. It's just you.
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  33536. Anyone with a real job is treated like a chump. Look how they turned on essential workers who saved our skins during the pandemic, then dared to question (not refuse -- question) the vaccines.
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  33537. They already know the 2022 midterms will wash them out. They are going to line their pockets now.
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  33538. @@NaesGalaxy Did you think I got it? I did not. I had concerns, they were not addressed, and when the bullying began, I knew. Even Jay Bhattacharya suggested that (1) people over 50 should consider it, especially if they have any comorbidities; and (2) childhood vaccination with this stuff, or mandates for anyone, are deeply unethical and should never be imposed. I guess he made no one happy? But he was giving good advice.
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  33539. Well, your account is over 6 months old, I'll grant you that.
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  33540. If you left people alone, you just might get better results. Try that.
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  33541.  @AFSOC2  No one can argue with that.
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  33542. The fake biography of Marx just happens to use the same tactics as those denouncing Thomas Jefferson (he owned slaves, he had children with a slave who were not recognized, he put together his own Deist Bible by literally cutting up the Bible and pasting it into a commonplace book, etc.). So. What's the difference -- besides the fact that Jefferson became incredibly wealthy from slave labor and Marx always lived on the edge of poverty, just like the workers he aspired to lead?
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  33543.  @wildbill9681  Look how great social media turned out. /s
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  33544.  @wildbill9681  You inject shampoo?
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  33545.  @wildbill9681  You are wild.
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  33546.  @wildbill9681  No, I don't take them into my body, or use them externally if they have warnings about side effects. I've thrown away shampoo that does. You mention shampoo and accuse me of being coy. That's persuasive. /s
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  33547.  @wildbill9681  In fact, I care a great deal. Especially because the most serious side effects of the vaccine have been almost exclusively in women. (Let us know when it's okay to be a feminist again.) All of this will be studied pending final review and FDA approval.
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  33548.  @wildbill9681  Excerpt of news that I follow: "Following the pause of J&J’s vaccine administration, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has reiterated the verdict issued for AstraZeneca’s offering, such that J&J’s vaccine label will carry a warning, with EU member states to determine use in line with needs, clearing rollout to commence across Europe. In view of a recent agreement with J&J, Dr Andreas Greinacher, a researcher at University Medicine Greifswald in Germany, has indicated plans to study the vaccine components. As well as detailing thorough accounts of patients developing VITT in the New England Journal of Medicine, Greinacher and colleagues have released a report outlining potential mechanisms in which AstraZeneca’s vaccine may trigger these effects. The report is yet to be published in a scientific journal."
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  33549.  @Frugustin  I'm arguing evidence. And I care far less than you think. I'll be emigrating by 2024, to join my family in a lovely Mediterranean coastal city. COVID has slowed my plans.
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  33550.  @Frugustin  Point out the hypothetical. Grosskreutz testified, McGinnis testified. Did Huber? Ha.
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  33551.  @Frugustin  I didn't say it wasn't self defense with respect to the assailant. I said it was very likely a reckless execution of self defense with respect to an innocent, and sympathetic, journalist who was a bystander. Read the jury instructions.
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  33552.  @exhaustguy  Not according to the jury instructions, which state the law, and are also a great civics lesson in due process. Anyone can download them. Sheesh.
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  33553.  @exhaustguy  From Columbine to Rittenhouse. As long as America starts no new wars . . .
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  33554. ​@hikingwiththedog6078 Didn't the President just have all of his nominees vetted and confirmed by the Senate? Perhaps he could see what they have in mind for their agencies?
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  33555. ​ @Relevant_Saga0  Exactly.
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  33556. So, a conscientious objector to military service is given no consideration for political asylum. But if you can pay $xxxxxx.xx, then no problem. It's almost like having to post bond when you did nothing wrong to be deprived of your freedom in the first place.
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  33557.  @BillMcGirr  Protected speech never killed anyone. Words are not violence.
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  33558.  @BillMcGirr  Incitement to crime or conspiracy to commit homicide is not protected speech under the First Amendment or any other free speech guarantee in the world.
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  33559.  @BillMcGirr  That was just plain silly.
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  33560. Cuba has a very long tradition of outstanding doctors. This sort of thing exists in the world. Neither the Communist excesses nor the American mania for sanctions was able to ruin it. Tradition sometimes does survive. Sorry you didn't know about this. You must not know any Cubans?
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  33561. My thought as well. If true, this level of exposure could be dangerous.
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  33562.  @RKO1988  After forcing it on us?
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  33563. Did the US support and finance it? If so, then you're right.
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  33564. Knives aren't in the Constitution.
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  33565.  @itisfinished4U  There was no good way for the last election to end. Or the one before that, or the one before that, . . . Etc.
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  33566. Wow you really don't understand politics, do you?
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  33567. Nice innuendo ya got there.
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  33568. That is irrelevant. No one is allowing him to compete against women.
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  33569.  @kanetrinidad3627  His differences are insufficient biologically to take him out of the dimorphic human species, nor are they of a character to allow him to train far less than others, yet to win over them with ease. He has close competitors, if you watched him. That every winner has some inherent "biological" advantage just casts doubt on sports as a whole, not on the individual winner, if we accept your logic.
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  33570. I think it's God-dollar.
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  33571.  @rickb3650  Where do you work where they can't be shredded?
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  33572.  @dereka5037  He said legal, and explained why. The risk of being seen as destruction of evidence of illegal discrimination under federal law is one reason; having a stricter law at the state level is permissible.
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  33573. 11:00 EXACTLY. The virus strains that caused the most serious disease, including myocarditis, are extinct.
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  33574. Listen to some of the post-DNC Convention rhetoric from Trump. It is some of Trump's very WORST appeal to the extreme right. It should be easy to beat him. Yet it won't be easy -- for the reasons Krystal keeps saying. Unbelievable.
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  33575. State schools used to be so close to tuition-free that a summer job at minimum wage covered a full year of tuition, fees, and books. Work-study covered most of the price of a dorm with food. WHAT HAPPENED?
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  33576. @samcorkerasmr3710  Even if true, that's after the act. You could look at his parents' actions and say they did not prevent his suicide, and you could judge that failure in more than one way. In any event, that would make them more culpable for his death than for hers, wouldn't it? There's no causal connection between Gabby's murder and Brian's parents. He is responsible. No one else.
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  33577. Undoubtedly
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  33578.  T. McVie  We are both right. ;)
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  33579. ​ @falconquest2068 That's exactly what OP just did. Everyone wants to ignore the fact Gabby had a chance to get away. He left her alone for a week and went back to Florida. Why not take the correct lesson from this? Even the police failed Gabby. She, like so many young, good-hearted, innocent women, needed to save herself. Nobody was going to do that for her. That's the tragedy, to me.
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  33580.  @jsmalls9575  I hate to tell you, but Federal Sentencing Guidelines allow this conduct in the back door, as a basis for sentencing.
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  33581. @gortnicktu3177  I'm not of any school. I accept that it's possible that Shakespeare did not write the plays (or at least all of the plays) attributed to him, or at the very least did not write them alone. Perfectly possible. I have not read this author's book, and have only heard her in this one interview, which amounts to clever at burden shifting. She presented no real evidence in this interview, apart from the indisputable fact that there are serious vested interests set against reopening the issue and reexamining the evidence we have. That does not change the fact that she has the burden of proof here, not those who believe Shakespeare was the playwright of those plays, within the meaning of that term in his time. (Modern notions of authorship were not current then.) These other candidates for being "the real Shakespeare" were all more powerful than he was, and England was always a class-ridden society. Why didn't they insist on placing their names on this work? Even if the theatre was considered risque, and we know it was, you would still expect the real writer(s) to whisper about it to someone, especially after a triumph. If it were to turn out that one of them was the author or principal author, I'd find that interesting. If authorship was in some sense collective, just as theatre is a collective art, that would be even more interesting. (Personally, I doubt that it wasn't collective. But that's just an opinion, and my opinion is not evidence of its truth. Laugh out loud.)
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  33582. @gortnicktu3177  You know something else? The lionization of Shakespeare is relatively recent. No one in his day took him to be a genius. I sure hope my primary reply, above, is visible.
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  33583. @gortnicktu3177 You think you know what his last days were like, and what he said? Reminds me of people who insist Socrates and Plato had s3xual relations.
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  33584.  @gortnicktu3177  What were the laws for bequeath of intellectual property back then? Did anyone else's will bequeath those plays, or any others?
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  33585. @Nullifidian  Thought as much. :) So it is not a case of "the dog didn't bark." ;)
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  33586. This was pathetic. False flag level, and unlike any left in France that I've ever seen.
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  33587. This was done well. Most of their points stand.
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  33588.  @johnmartin4641  His job was public relations. Whatever the job title, PR is the fact. Of course he should have a job -- for which he is qualified. So, these people don't even have "soft skills." What are they good at, exactly? I mean, a lot of people know multivariate calculus. Any one of them can master the technical side of his work.
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  33589.  @markishbasedgod5251  Why the name calling? That sure devolved quickly. Why?
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  33590.  @johnmartin4641  The C-suite is always, always, always the public face of a company. Even the CFO, though he is usually the least involved in PR.
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  33591.  @markishbasedgod5251  You think a clerk at a drive through represents the company, but a C-suite employee doesn't?
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  33592.  @jameshall9320   Taking a larger view, I guess that's not so bad. Either we end the age discrimination in Medicare, like every other civilized society, or US global prestige and hegemony take another hit. What's not to like? /s
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  33593. This tells you how people actually get prestigious jobs. A lesson to anyone who gets rejected.
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  33594. I think it's even more ironic that the president who said "grab them by the ****" made sure they don't have a constitutional right to control what happens to their bodies if they find they've conceived. Every civilized, developed country recognizes some right to elective abortion, if only of embryos and not fetuses.
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  33595. Blinkin claims . . .
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  33596. No report on Musk and Neuralink that omits the VERY well-documented complaint against Neuralink for primate abuse is a fair report. The documents are available online.
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  33597.  @monotech20.14  Well, what you can do is consider how information is evolving when it is allowed to do so, and celebrate that, rather than politicizing one approach or another to stemming the pandemic, when a multi-pronged approach is essential. Real virologists pretty well agree. Those who tout vaccination as a cure-all are barely better than those who claim ivermectin is a miracle drug. Dore is pointing out that mistrust is not all due to idiocy or Trumpism or whatnot. This is true. He got vaccinated because his doctor told him to. His wife had a very mild reaction, whereas he had a reaction mimicking long COVID, which is unusual. Eric Clapton got a very rare, serious reaction and had to find an online support group. Think on that for a while. You don't find it perverse? I do. The lack of basic compassion disgusts me.
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  33598.  @dudebro1628  This is true.
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  33599. How could any scientist label the hypothesis that the novel coronavirus originated in some sort of laboratory accident a "conspiracy theory?" The fact is, they did not know the origin. Why would they stifle legitimate debate? We might know for certain, now, had we had an open inquiry.
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  33600.  @dansands8140  If the people who do that for you were treated properly, the price would go up and the service would go down. Costs are even lower for private prison labor, because the 13th Amendment does not apply.
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  33601. Thank you.
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  33602. Admit? Brag!
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  33603. False. It is illegal to use deadly force in defense of mere property, everywhere. Lethal force is justified if you put any person at risk of imminent physical harm. It is never legal for defense of mere property. Social ills, etc., are irrelevant. The age of the perpetrator is irrelevant. Whether he put a person in danger of physical harm is the only question that matters. It is a bright line. We have a lot of gun owners in America, and this isn't common knowledge? Wow, just wow. Also, this is exactly why a carjacking, or a home invasion while there are people in the house, can be met with lethal force. It doesn't matter if the assailant turns out to be unarmed, or was just looking to burgle and thought the house was empty, or was only 13. There is no question about this. It's called self-defense for a reason.
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  33604.  @tiergeist2639  There may be an association between the two, but no one as of yet has concluded such a close connection.
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  33605.  @tiergeist2639  I meant Alzheimer's and ALS. ALS is not the same disease process. As for the va xx, anything that provokes a strong inflammatory response can be a factor in neurodegenerative disease. We know Guillain Barre Syndrome is associated with this va xx as well as a few others.
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  33606.  @Darkpara1  Funny, that.
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  33607.  @Rahab111222  Everybody isn't like you. I don't care like you care. My whole family is in Europe now. I'll be leaving by the next presidential election. This is your sh** sh** to worry about.
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  33608. People have become famous for less.
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  33609. Just like adults, they must assert their right to remain silent and to have a lawyer or parent present. I can see why that's unfortunate for minors this young, but they do have that right. Teach people to invoke their rights. Then there won't be cringe videos of them out there ten+ years later.
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  33610. Well this turned into a Streisand Effect moment!
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  33611. The reason why it is not a "Ponzi scheme" is that the dollar is not a rigid yardstick, and we all know it is not. In simple terms, everyone paid in with stronger dollars, but the payout does not fully keep pace with inflation. In the meantime, the dollars are invested in US Treasuries -- which, as Elon well knows, pay significant interest when large sums such as these are involved.
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  33612.  @michaelmalzahn-tx2zi  Do you get a secret thrill from Hamas?
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  33613. @michaelmalzahn-tx2zi  Why would you bring up support for sharia? One non sequitur deserves another.
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  33614.  @michaelmalzahn-tx2zi  I don't answer questions from Hamas supporters.
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  33615. ​@TheGrandy123 Did this video present the actual words used by Rowling et al? How do you know they were bullying her, and not criticizing the Olympics for its decision to allow her to box with non-intersex women? The words used matter. That's what charges of harassment, bullying, and defamation ride on. The words.
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  33616. ​ @Keithdogyouknowitson Did they attack the athlete or the Olympic Committee that authorized the match? Attacks on the Olympic Committee should be free speech everywhere. We hear an interview from her, but not the actual words used against her or against allowing her to box by Rowling or Musk. So we don't know from this video what was said by these defendants. With this mentality, our First Amendment won't survive.
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  33617. @peterschaeffer  Be that as it may -- then whole issue is the IOC. It's on them, not her.
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  33618.  @peterschaeffer  She didn't rule on her own application.
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  33619. Wow. You know how to address facts even better than Obama does -- or Biden, or Trump. Run for office? Or at least start your own YouTube program and monetize this.
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  33620. 32:00 INSANITY
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  33621. Nikki Haley wanted to be a millionaire. Nikki Haley is a millionaire. Not my opinion -- an objective fact
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  33622.  @danalexander2149  That is a LATIN text.
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  33623.  @moonasha  Oh boy. Joking . . . right?
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  33624.  @moonasha  Obviously Chauvin should have investigated himself.
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  33625.  @snuffeldjuret  Put some steak out in 50 degree weather for two weeks. That won't tell you what livers, kidneys, and intestines do, but it might be an interesting experiment for you. (BTW, the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis is a hoax.)
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  33626.  @crhu319  This guy is a time waster. When this shows up in your notifs thread, be glad. They lost the argument and you can mute him. I just did.
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  33627.  @twatts1523  Again, that's not proof. It just points where to check to see if there may be evidence. Assange is, however, in prison for a reason.
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  33628. Wrong thread, partner.
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  33629. I read two different cohorts of cicadas are emerging at the same time, which is unusual. It is centered in Illinois -- or, at least the Illinois newspapers say it is, lol.
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  33630. Kennedy's presentation on the economics and politics of vaccines in the US is very interesting. But this is why I research childhood vaccines in other countries, where infant mortality is lower and life expectancy is higher. Most of them vaccinate, but not with as many vaccines so quickly. Japan gives very few vaccines before 22 to 24 months of age. A lot of places known for the good health of children, like Germany, Sweden, etc., use a slower schedule. But kids all over the world ARE vaccinated. Not just American kids.
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  33631. Maybe Putin works for them. I bet the tiki torch bearers work for Sam.
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  33632. I've worked for a level of government. The statement is always, "we cannot comment on an ongoing investigation/pending lawsuit/etc." Another one: "we'll make our position known in our report/in court/ etc." It has always been necessary to be forthcoming to the public, and thus to justify silence. "I can't answer that" tells you nothing. It could mean, "I don't know."
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  33633. The Eighth Amendment permits life in prison for an aggravated kidnapping. This was the decision of Tennessee to let him out. People don't like to hear that. Our reflex is supposed to be to blame the "liberals" who misread the Constitution. Well, that pig don't fly.
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  33634. She's not on trial. The only question is whether a particular writing is defamation, and if it is, whether it is the cause of the plaintiff's damages . Too bad what could be truly educational is being wildly distorted. BTW, did you ever read that writing? I mean the mild article Heard wrote, that Depp calls defamation?
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  33635.  @unabellavita6541  Depp is pursuing a case. He already lost a stronger case. Who do you think brought this case?
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  33636.  @AfrewSpines  Where do you get the idea the case is stacked for Depp? He lost a much better case already.
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  33637.  @retrojohnny1899  These people's minds are gone. This isn't a court for them, it's a psychodrama and they are as involved as if it were happening to them. They are reliving their own relationships through two weird people they do not know, and would pity if they did .
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  33638.  @madtrigger6835  So, you're incapable of hearing what this lawyer actually said just now? And you don't know what a defamation case is? Every defamation case chips away at free speech rights. I would defend a defamation case that should not have been brought in the first place.
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  33639.  @Stayler17  This is a civil case. She cannot be found guilty of anything.
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  33640.  @brandonwalker5011  They have made objective mistakes? Please cite the mistake and the law underlying it. I'm thinking you must be an attorney yourself to make such an assertion.
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  33641.  @tbk29  She's not going to be punished. Depp failed to press criminal charges.
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  33642.  @Terrible_Peril  Yeah. So, Depp brought this case as a show trial, a re-do of his divorce and to settle scores. That is not what court is supposed to be for. Legal process is not for the purpose of getting even in the eyes of the public, it is to vindicate actual rights. Every defamation case chips away at free speech rights. Be careful what you wish for.
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  33643.  @casualfoodenjoyer7951  Her alleged abuse of him has no bearing on defamation, no. Who the bigger abuser was has no bearing, either. Did you read the article? The CASE is about the ARTICLE. Not about who is badder.
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  33644.  @joelgarcia3907  Depp brought the case. Yes, it is vindictive. He lost one defamation suit already, and he had a much better case in that instance, and his loss there might not have been fair (but the plaintiff bears the burden of proof, so in a close case is likely to lose just for that reason). In this case, he is attacking free speech, in a country with a real First Amendment. That's how comparatively flimsy it is.
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  33645.  @madtrigger6835  Mm. Tell me exactly where in the article that Depp asserts to be defamatory Heard lied. Tell me her words, and contrast them with proven facts. Right. You have exactly zero idea of what you're talking about, and the absurdities promoted here, plus the censorship of cogent views, means I am abandoning this nonsense. Depp already lost a case on the theory you seem to believe. I wonder if you even read the article that is the gravamen of Depp's complaint? Nah. I don't wonder. 😂 Blocked.
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  33646. Jewish Voices for Peace??
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  33647. $ure it make$ $en$e.
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  33648. Why doesn't Neil Young care about the fact that ordinary people can't get monoclonal antibodies to treat COVID? Oh, that's right! It's not an issue for rich people like Neil Young! He can get anything any time.
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  33649. People who have no arguments come at you with hashtags. And of course threaten to smear you.
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  33650. Jimmy, Stef, Ron, and Aaron are actual leftists. You know that, right?
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  33651.  @beni4366  Your arguments mirror those of The Best in MSM. /s
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  33652. If he still can.
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  33653.  @rafters35  You believe that Quora answer you linked?
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  33654.  @rafters35  Yes, do read what actually happened: https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/anti-gay-activist-ordered-to-pay-55000-to-b-c-trans-activist-in-fight-over-hateful-flyer
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  33655.  @bradspitt3896  Simply disagreeing with notions of gender identity isn't what happened. If that were all, that would violate no law anywhere. In the US, the leaflet would not be the subject of any criminal law, but the target of the smear, in which it was asserted that she likely carries and spreads diseases because she is a trans woman, could bring a defamation per se lawsuit, where damages are presumed.
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  33656.  @kevinsky86  This is nonsense. Why won't anyone link to the actual law, or the case where it was applied? The harrassment was severe, and in the US it would have given rise to a civil suit, but not criminal charges. I don't agree that hate speak that is only tortious (defamatory or intentionally inflicting emotional distress), but not a true threat, should be considered a crime. However, the target of the hate speech in this case could have brought a civil suit instead, and gotten a much better recovery than the size of the fine. Title VII harrassment at work is also a civil matter, not a crime. France has a criminal law against severe and persistent harrassment on any basis, no special protected categories, in the workplace. There was a case of systematic abuse over a period of years, leading to several suicides, and the principals of the employer got jail time. Good.
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  33657. If you think you know what happened based on a bunch of news reports, much less what defenses apply to each of the charges brought, then you are stupid. The detectives and prosecutors who will be doing a real investigation have their work cut out for them all right.
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  33658.  @801proshot6  First, not all the charges can be defended on that basis. Some of them don't have "self-defense" AS a defense. Second, a person CANNOT take part in causing a danger to themselves, then claim they acted in self-defense. So, investigators will have to determine what happened. They have to establish the time line, including what happened before the cameras were rolling. Real detectives and prosecutors will have to work on that, not amateur video watchers.
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  33659.  @801proshot6  Was my post too long to read for you? You cannot first CAUSE the danger, then claim you had to shoot to prevent the danger. You cannot shoot into a crowd recklessly and claim "self-defense," even if your intent was to save your own life. No wonder we have school shooters. Now I get it.
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  33660.  @801proshot6  I wouldn't doubt it. This country is a zoo. And he is an unemployed high school dropout who is only 17 years old. If he has a criminal record, it should be sealed. He should not be charged or tried as an adult in the first place, he's clearly not "abled." You really don't see that? You think he should have a big gun? He's never had a real job. Where is your brain?
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  33661.  @801proshot6  His life guard job ended in March, with the COVID shutdown. Sure, cheer on 17-year-old vigilantes. Live in your little world, and feed Rittenhouse's pathetic fantasies. I bet it's substance abuse. It must be. Otherwise, how did everyone lose their bloody minds?
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  33662.  Steve White  Okay. No need for a careful investigation, no need for a timeline . Prosecutors should just ask you. Save taxpayer dollars. Maybe email them?
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  33663.  Steve White  In a real court, each video must be authenticated, with the sworn testimony of the person who took it, and a chain of custody must be established. Then, people who witnessed what was unfolding before the video was shot and during the video and after need to be interrogated. They will ask, "what prompted you to film this? What did you see?" And stuff like that. Under oath. It is not even easy to identify people in these clips, much less see all of their actions. I'm sure experts in forensics will analyze it.
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  33664.  Steve White  But why waste your time on me? Email the prosecutors.
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  33665. Oh come on. NONE of these people can control themselves. Literally none, starting with the current "president."
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  33666. You don't understand her argument. Defamation suits are always anti-free speech. See R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul. Anyone who threatens a suit is claiming the person or group they are suing has no free speech right in the matter.
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  33667. Brie said Musk himself has alienated advertisers, and if he really supports free speech, he may have to eat the financial loss that comes with it. It's only money that is at stake for Musk. These are the facts.
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  33668.  @Froward_Thinker  Defamation is not a crime. It is a tort. No one is ever prosecuted for pure defamation. Are you thinking of extortion?
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  33669. @Froward_Thinker  Of course you have a right to lie. Only certain lies can lead to successful lawsuits. Otherwise, to be an actual crime, a lie has to be under oath, or to law enforcement so that it constitutes obstruction of justice, or in furtherance of an antitrust violation, or securities fraud, or other fraud. The general rule is that you can lie. All the rest are exceptions to the rule. Where did you get that lying was illegal? Weird.
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  33670.  @Froward_Thinker  Someone can sue you for it and recover damages if it's defamatory, sure. No prosecutor goes after ordinary defamation.
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  33671. That would be a good start. I.e., have Nazis demonstrate wherever The View tapes their show.
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  33672. Maybe it's a false flag of a false flag. A second-order false flag. (You can tell I watch Adam Curtis documentaries, BBC 2.)
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  33673. But . . . but these are geniuses.
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  33674. @davids.2703  All right. What was his sentence? At whose instigation did he do so? Where did he get the gun?
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  33675.  @LeadMe2TheBliss  From the Washington Post, July 2022: "Six men were arrested that day for having guns in the vicinity of the U.S. Capitol, and a seventh who arrived after the riot ended was arrested the following day. Despite some instances in which alerts about people with guns turned out to be false alarms, accounts from police officers and rioters indicate that many firearms were spotted on Jan. 6 but were not seized as law enforcement focused more on defending the Capitol than on arresting gun-law violators." (Emphasis added) Please provide updated information. I'm always ready to be educated.
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  33676. @leadme2thebliss21  From the DOJ: " As he kept moving, Reffitt urged others to keep moving forward, too. He eventually made it up the stairs to outside the Senate wing of the Capitol, as others breached the building, but he did not personally go inside. While narrating a video he recorded that day, he stated, “I said I wasn’t leaving till I got in there. I didn’t make it in there. But I started the fire.”" Thus he breached the grounds of the Capitol armed but did not enter the structure itself. Of course bringing a firearm to the Capitol ground and even the stairs leading into the building is a serious felony. But he did not enter the building, and he got a sentence just over 7 years in prison. Please continue to educate us.
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  33677. @davids.2703  Again, as stated, not inside the building. Gun charges was not the issue.
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  33678.  @davids.2703  Were my direct quotes from WaPo and DoJ allowed to stay up? Do you consider the sources credible? I was told to educate myself.
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  33679. @davids.2703  So then we presume they did? Sounds to me like at least some of the ringleaders deliberately avoided entering the structure itself with a firearm. If we'll "never know," then why are you "right," and why was my original question unfounded? Quite the opposite. The Sentencing Guidelines may make a distinction between bringing a firearm to the grounds and the actual building, both of course being illegal.
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  33680.  @MilwaukeeF40C  They hid their cache outside in any case.
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  33681. @davids.2703  Criminal law requires proof, not your personal speculative opinion. No, whether someone brought a gun into an occupied building, be it the Capitol or the most humble home, is not "semantic." Not yet anyway. Vitual realities, lol.
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  33682. You can't make this up.
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  33683. Oh wow, Dowd . . . Great call.
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  33684. No wonder the 70s were the last good decade.
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  33685. Certain Ukrainians had the motive, not Russia.
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  33686. Just how scared are you? You think a yard sign is reassuring?
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  33687. When you look at a map of countries that abstained in the UN vote condemning Russia, it covers essentially all of Asia. What does your family think that's about? Why do they think that is?
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  33688.  @karirobbins2984  It took me a long time just to find a map of the countries that abstained from voting with the West to denounce Russia. (And the map I found was colored in a way that makes it less easy to see which countries had what position.) I was just reading in the New York Times that young artists from Russia are having their engagements rescinded if they refuse to denounce Putin's invasion of Ukraine. They did this not only to people known to have been close to Putin but also to the pianist Malofeev, who is a prodigy and only 20 years old. Most of the letters to the editor think that's fine. These are dark times. I follow Chris Hedges, Abby Martin, Aaron Mate, George Galloway, Kim Iversen, Glenn Greenwald. Hedges has moral clarity on the matter and spends more time condemning Putin than many of the other critics of US policy do, which I appreciate a lot. Abby does as well. All of these people are good. Librairie Tropiques in Paris (14th) just translated Jimmy and Max!
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  33689. ​ @tedmarley4341  How? Just . . . How?? How did we get here? There has not been a decent candidate for president or vice president in years.
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  33690. That's a joke in France, heard it from Aude Lancelin and Emmanuel Todd: What is a philosemite? An antisemite who likes Jews.
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  33691. Brilliant at fundraising, which is the only kind of brilliant for the contemporary politician.
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  33692. You have a good heart. :)
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  33693. "Vote for Biden and we'll push him left!!" 🐩🐩💐🏵🐳🐳🐙🌹
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  33694. She's entirely wrong here, as anyone who read the Complaint would know. There's no question. When they settled their civil rights suit for $41m, evidence of innocence was required to avoid dismissal. To be fair, none of these three appears to have so much as glanced at the Complaint. They are all bad.
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  33695. You think Biles didn't work hard her whole life? How did she win all those medals? You haven't seen her performances?
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  33696. This is too convoluted. Most of what Trump said may be reprehensible, but it is FIRST AMENDMENT protected. Pressuring state officials to dig up some votes, IF HE DID, is a different matter. That is tampering with the vote count.
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  33697. After I got done laughing, realized how cruel Powell et al are, using those poor, desperate people at the "rally," and leading them by the nose. For what?
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  33698. I wonder how much. $$$
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  33699.  @utah_koidragon7117  Are you sure he meant that? I have yet to see a legit video
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  33700.  @jiminismine8506  Me too.
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  33701. @Foob2TheR  In the end, all that will matter is how big your money pile is. I don't agree, but I don't delude myself that I get a say.
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  33702. ​@RomanShein1978 Too many vaccinations too soon. And I would examine every vaccine that requires more than two doses within an 18-month period. What is that?? Why do people trust it? I remember when Oprah questioned it, inviting Jenny McCarthy and her allies to speak.
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  33703. 1. Wear a symbolic scarf. 2. Buy stock in the scarf manufacturer and retailer.
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  33704. @robws007  I could see saying, "don't boo a minor." That makes some sense. But that's my limit.
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  33705. @djinghiskhan9199  How so? And has she tried to join boys' track and field? Soccer? Basketball?
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  33706. @stonehorn4641  She's right about Palestine. She's wrong on most medical issues -- not just this, but COVID mandates. She never voted for Hillary OR Joe. That's not a dreadful record, huh?
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  33707.  @stonehorn4641  Why is my reply to this unfair post shadowed?
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  33708. 19:58 Oh, I get it. "What was she wearing?" This guy sounds like he never had anything happen to him, but did cause quite a lot of grief for others.
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  33709. When you start off with a statistical falsehood, why should we listen to anything more? "Average lifespan" is meaningless if length of life is not a normal curve -- if the deaths are concentrated during the first year of life and again in childbirth. Plato lived to 80, and Sophocles to 90. The human lifespan has been what we know now for thousands of years. Saving young children, lowering maternal mortality, improving emergency care of accidents and reducing death from infection is what has made a long life available to so many. The business about people not being productive after their early sixties is also ridiculous. And I'm saying that as someone with less fear of death than anyone I know personally.
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  33710. This is truly ugly.
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  33711. Elon Musk? Did you think Bill Gates was a great guy, too?
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  33712. Wow. So Brandon is waaaay below everyb . . . Oh wait. Pfizer CEO, Fauci, . . . . They all got it. And here I thought Maddow was denouncing Biden.
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  33713. So, we should chuck the First Amendment for a war criminal? Sure, that makes sense.
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  33714. Who is surprised that someone who runs hotels and resorts would support Medicare for All? A lot of people who employ unionized low-wage workers want out from under providing any benefits, ever. So I believe Trump is for M4A, sure. $$
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  33715. Medicare FOR ALL would help people 65 and over. If we ALL had a stake, and leverage, the most vulnerable -- like older people -- would have better care, too.
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  33716. If 6 months of unemployment won't wreak your prospects and lower your future earnings for years, then it's not like a typical recession. But the Redefiners don't care about that.
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  33717. Question: did they open the window to film?
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  33718. So, that's your standard? So post all your financial records online. You have the right.
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  33719. Knew not to have anything to do with Facebook.
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  33720. Mary McCarthy, The Groves of Academe. In hypertrophy.
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  33721. Her story does not stand up to scrutiny. Well, that people jump to believe her is a symptom, too, of the post-truth world we live in. George Santos wasn't the first and won't be the last.
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  33722. Funny how your plan has never worked.
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  33723.  @mgpBLARG  Keep it up. P. S. No one should join the military, ever. "For who, for what?"
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  33724. That is not how science is done. Tell me, how do you think various governments, starting with the Israeli government, came to find out that mRNA vaccines carry a risk of myocarditis and pericarditis, particularly in young men? Of course there was a baseline risk of myocarditis, in general and from contracting COVID itself, as well as other viruses. But it was determined through careful multivariate analysis that certain vaccines carried that risk as well. In any case, any one of us can click the link to the Australian government website and see for ourselves that the AZ vaccine was discontinued three weeks ago due to a serious side effect attributed directly to the vaccine: thrombosis with thrombocytopenia (TTS). The Australian government does not state that any other alleged side effect had a bearing on their decision, but this one was confirmed and it is the reason for the decision to discontinue the drug.
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  33725. Brilliant
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  33726.  @feelthejoy  Where did I so much as hint that they did?
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  33727.  @feelthejoy  Late to the party.
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  33728.  @unboxedcharacter  It is illegal to use DEADLY force in defense of mere property, where no person's physical safety is at risk, in EVERY state. Fool.
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  33729. Well, asbestos lobbyists have money, Jimmy.
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  33730. You two actually believe this? Design a Plan B.
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  33731.  @guesswhat7499  They only see what's in the video. They don't know about her divorces and so forth.
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  33732. If someone is a danger, then no reasonable accommodation is possible, nor would reapplying be possible. They are not asking for an unreasonable accommodation. This has nothing to do with anyone protecting their kid.
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  33733. What do you think "due process" means?
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  33734. Democrats WILL NOT deliver jobs. They refuse.
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  33735. 27:47 to the end (a couple of minutes) is great
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  33736. Ah. I see you've not met Diderot. 😃
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  33737. Why did Trump fail to do anything in late January 2020, when he already knew the grave risk, as expressly admitted to Bob Woodward? Why did Trump allow the moratorium on gain of function research to expire? Why didn't Trump fire Fauci? (Why did they play good cop bad cop instead?) WAKE UP
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  33738.  @newtonia-uo4889  "Media's darling" -- wow, are you gone.
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  33739.  @newtonia-uo4889  Yes. He should have done all three.
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  33740.  @newtonia-uo4889  No, I never trusted Fauci. I think for myself.
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  33741. What's not to like?
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  33742. The jeering mob is causing more vaccine hesitancy than Clapton ever did. If people were kind to him, that would be an advertisement for the vaccine. That would say: bad reactions are rare, and if it happens to you, we'll be there for you.
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  33743. @Mac Thomas No, she's not. She'll be sued every time she does. Did you read the article?
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  33744.  @SeeHang  You do need to read the op ed to determine whether it was about Depp and to determine whether it states falsehoods about Depp. Not whether Heard in general lies a lot, but whether the article is false. The law is funny like that. I understand the frustration. We should just stone her.
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  33745.  @macthomas8899  You obviously don't know anything, and consider it your sacred birthright not to learn. The First Amendment protects you anyway. Say. I bet you didn't know that.
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  33746.  @macthomas8899  Oh. No. I'm being Rude. I'll never live it down. Forgive me for interrupting you.
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  33747.  @macthomas8899  Show me where I said I had a law degree. I said so in a different thread, where another genius said I was unqualified to criticise, or even comment on, the Uvalde police response!
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  33748. Well, it's obvious what's happening. Last days of Pompeii.
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  33749.  @don7117  I wouldn't censor anyone for lack of humor.
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  33750.  @don7117  "Male" what? Cocker spaniel? Unicorn? Dolphin?
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  33751.  @sportsfamily4569  I'm not sure that a night club comedian doesn't have a soft spot for the demi-monde. See, e.g., Dave Chappelle.
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  33752.  @TheZodiacz  It's not enough to oppose censorship? He has to laugh at lame jokes, too?
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  33753.  @don7117  You should go to his show sometime.
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  33754.  @gustavofinklstein9730  Oh I see. So, your opinions are not fact-based in the smallest degree. Your prerogative. Thanks for letting us know.
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  33755.  @gustavofinklstein9730  Ad hominem means attacking the person. He attacked only the comment itself.
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  33756.  @gustavofinklstein9730  Blocked No worries
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  33757. Did you read the case, or is that a howler? 🤣
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  33758.  @TS-lw5nv  But you just did. You stated Robby trounced Bri. I made no mention of Bri. But now that you bring her up, she conflated nonsectarian and secular. Reading the case and the Breyer dissent (not Sotomayor's, for reasons that are apparent to anyone who does) is essential. But you won't. Because you believe in education. Pardon me while I 🤣.
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  33759.  @scottmcloughlin4371  I know. I miss the Muslim community I knew in Paris. Brilliant people, and so easy to get along with.
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  33760.  @brantkim  Another one who refuses to read the opinion and dissent. Look, the rights you lose will be your own. Billionaires do not have this problem. I fail to see why tax dollars from Jews, Muslims, and Hindus should fund a school whose stated mission is to inculcate the Christian faith (by its own sectarian lights) into children. The Establishment Clause was always considered a bulwark against demanding that taxes support any such endeavor.
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  33761. Masks on children don't help the teachers, either. That's the key.
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  33762. ​ @skosh6359  Or his own child. He was "tricked" into signing, or so he said.
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  33763. @marinakoujman7665  Well . . . I don't think mothers cause schizophrenia!
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  33764. The very concept of the corporation is to limit the legal liability for its principals and agents. The worst that can happen to CEOs if a well blows in the Gulf, an airplane door falls off, or a tanker takes out a bridge is that they will lose their position. They will not lose a penny of prior compensation or of vested stocks, vested pensions, or other benefits. They cannot be sued. How is that "taking personal responsibility?" The whole point is not to; the corporation can be sued, not its C suite.
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  33765. ​ @damianbylightning6823 Actually, I remember when unemployed people could go to a state office and speak with a real, live, human social worker who helped them find a job. My aunt, who was a physicist, needed to do that after a period of ill health. They could also have someone review what benefits they could legally draw until they found work. Yes it certainly was helpful to have human contact.
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  33766. ​ @TheNightWatcher1385 Those poor bankers, resisting $10 and $20 million per year bonuses all the way, kicking and screaming, and the government making them take them. Tsk.
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  33767. ​ @Gandalf_the_quantum_G So tell me . . . How did the pandemic happen? It resulted in the greatest upward transfer of wealth in history.
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  33768. ​ @straightfacts5352 Who got the $10 million+ bonuses to bundle these mortgages and sell them as A+ rated or better, to pension funds no less?
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  33769. ​​ @NombusoThabethe-m3i I don't understand your question. It does pay taxes, and it can be sued. Its C suite is shielded from having to take personal responsibility. Its the CEO who doesn't put his personal wealth on the line.
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  33770. ​​ @NombusoThabethe-m3i What a shame so much of this has been . . . . . . . Yes, gone. The c-word, ending in -or.
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  33771.  @theredboneking  Are you a false flag? Because you are functioning exactly like one.
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  33772. The article he is suing her for does not say "domestic violence." It mentions "domestic abuse," but mostly focuses on experiences she had much earlier, as a teen and young woman, before she met Depp. Maybe you could read it? BTW, "domestic abuse" refers to any abuse that occurred while they lived together as a couple, including emotional abuse. If it's true he did that, it's not defamation, even if she was worse than he was. She could be a very bad person. She could have had the upper hand. She still has a right to write articles. It's called the First Amendment.
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  33773.  Big Chungus  Why don't people understand this? Yes, even abusers have the right to write articles, and biographies, and opinion pieces, and stories drawn from their lives. Even the worst criminals do. An article is presumed to be First Amendment-protected, and has to be proved to be defamatory.
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  33774.  @Jana-wx3lp  I hate to tell you -- everyone. Rich people have ghost writers and editors. The way that ACLU witness described it is exactly how things get into the major papers. Sick, isn't it?
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  33775. Ce serait quoi, selon vous?
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  33776. ​ @Alexis_dOlt12 Et c'est qui, qui souffre maintenant? Les même qui en sont coupables?
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  33777.  SubversiveMemes  I agree. I am personally not attracted to late adolescents or young men (even if they are out of high school and of age), but I don't think the attraction is necessarily perverse. If there are any true, idealistic romantic feelings, the teacher will feel ethically bound to wait for the younger person to graduate and begin adult life. I know people who married their teachers, senior high and college -- but they got to grow up first.
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  33778.  @streetsiswatching9660  🤣🤣🤣
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  33779. Props to the two orthodox Jewish guys who agreed to act in this. Perfect.
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  33780. But MBNA is doing fine.
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  33781.  @FrankShaffer  But this isn't "exercise," any more than being a Navy Seal is exercise. His goal isn't "perfect health," it is ultimate toughness.
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  33782. You are being too kind.
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  33783. I guess everyone hears what they want to hear. The privacy rights you lose could turn out to be your own. Keep your eye on the evisceration of the FOURTH Amendment.
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  33784. Replicate that study. In fact, first post the link. "Weaponized empathy?" Anyone who makes ANY claim of having been harmed is ridiculed and denounced in real life -- as a lot of vaccine injured found out. Your observations are about screen life.
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  33785. @babyqueenxo  Easy. I joined during the (unjustified) lockdown of 2020 because there was no other way to save videos. And this is a pseudonym, albeit based on my real name. Had there been no pandemic, I would not be here. My quality of life has markedly declined since then. I'm not one who made bank from it.
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  33786.  @babyamyxo-o6c  Wait. You couldn't figure out what I said for yourself? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤪
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  33787.  @babyamyxo-o6c  Where did I say it did protect me from Alphabet? Obviously it does not. I don't have to go all in, on all platforms, do I? I don't have to work to enrich FB.
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  33788. He could not have made the question plainer.
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  33789.  @GM-db4bv  Whether the CIA is playing a role (i.e., its usual one) in the current demonstrations is unconfirmed. From Reuters: "[Cuban President] Diaz-Canel, who also heads the Communist Party, blamed the unrest on old Cold War foe the United States, which in recent years tightened its decades-old trade embargo on the island, in a televised speech on Sunday afternoon. Diaz-Canel said many protesters were sincere but manipulated by U.S-orchestrated social media campaigns and 'mercenaries' on the ground, and warned that further 'provocations' would not be tolerated, calling on supporters to confront 'provocations.'"
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  33790.  @GM-db4bv  Sounds to me like their president did. Didn't bother to read his entire quote, from Reuters?
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  33791.  @GM-db4bv  It pinpoints exactly who is the arch imperialist in this picture. Why does the US need access to foreign labor and markets to live??
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  33792.  @Gil7111TX  Who said they did? I know you have something wrong with you. I don't want to know how bad it is!
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  33793.  @blnunya6689  Building a relationship and closing a particular contract are two different things. But unless you are your own boss, you don't get a vote as to what is more important when dealing with a client.
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  33794. ​ @jakeviolet2195 Our economy depends on China buying our T bonds. See what happens when they stop. You're whistling in the dark.
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  33795. When was he?
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  33796. No, not a conversation. Demonstrations. You know, Brie. Like in Paris. Bordeaux. Marseilles.
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  33797. You can't make the résumé studies go away with your comment. 😂
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  33798. ​ @wekurtz72 And how did Naledi Pandor get her job? Hmm?
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  33799. OH MY GOD, I just checked. The Russian central bank tried to lower its value relative to the dollar AND FAILED. I thought easing interest rates in Russia, which worked briefly, would continue to work. Silly me, huh?
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  33800.  @wouldntulike2no125  you are too right No, I'm not kidding, not one bit.
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  33801. How sinister is this? Are those who remain poor supposed to feel even more bereft? Should they blame themselves more?
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  33802. Watched this twice. Moore is worse the second time.
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  33803. What do we do with embryos from fertility treatments that remain unimplanted?
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  33804. See, e. g., the history of the RATLINE.
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  33805. You missed what that was about. She was justifying why concern about this right-wing guy should exist across the board. The left will be next.
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  33806. Aren't the most successful movies full of these scenarios?
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  33807. Interesting. If I fantasize about success and think about the people who bullied me, I imagine how floored they would be. I never want to get even -- in fact, I'd be afraid to meet up with them without an entourage, if not a bodyguard! They are the last people I'd want to interact with. Real bullies are dangerous.
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  33808. Is Medicare worse than Big Pharma and rapacious insurance companies? How? Every European country with universal health has a better system. Even poor countries like Greece, much less Norway, have a better system. If your point is that Americans can't do as well, I guess you need to explain why we flub everything for everybody who isn't a multimillionaire. I'm waiting.
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  33809. Oh no. This is bad news. :/
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  33810. The Red Army saved France. The US made sure the PCF would not emerge as the ruling party, despite having the largest number of votes. That's what Normandy was for.
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  33811. You've covered this story very well. And rationally. I can exhale now.
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  33812. @Shalanaya  Now that sounds like it should fetch a very decent commission. Not like some of the measured praise that fails to tap into visceral reactions.
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  33813. That's normal now. :/
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  33814. Second question: no.
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  33815. We all know he wanted to sniff the shaman.
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  33816. Funny how no one did anything to stop the safety violations while NYC was a COVID hotspot and people were dying, and now, Amazon has made more money in 2020 than it ever thought possible. They are in great shape to face the lawsuit now. "11 months later" -- straight from Chris's lips . . .
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  33817. ​ @ltsd7 Oh that's not proof. I would suspend judgment on this one, either way.
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  33818. HA
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  33819. Keep wishing.
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  33820. Now that sounds like major trauma. 😅
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  33821. This requires a dispassionate investigation. Everything else is less than justice. Everything else is speculation. For those who are damning her, I would just say that clearly she provided this information of her own volition, to help in the arrest. We wouldn't know this without her cooperation.
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  33822. People who are successful will almost always be approached with these sorts of offers. Abigail Thorn is a perfect example. I'd be shocked if no one approached her.
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  33823. Let's be honest: 50 years ago, the top four quintiles had a decent life and a real shot at becoming rich. It was still an unjust society, but materially, 80% had a fairly decent material existence. Today, at most 10% are truly well off and fairly stable in their standard of living. They have more luxury than anyone had 50 or 60 years ago, but even they are not as secure as we once were.
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  33824. ​@thepersoner1182 You need to look up vaccine derived.
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  33825. ​ @JSt-sn4we Look up vaccine derived. Relates to the type used. I am afraid to use more words. Sense er sheep. 😂
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  33826.  @coachwhitford7315  You talked down to me, I pushed right back. And your government bombed where my family lives with depleted uranium. You bet you've lost your humanity. I've lost a good chunk, too, given how little I care. But bombing civilians is something I do not support. I'll never go that low.
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  33827.  @coachwhitford7315  Good point. Blocked.
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  33828.  @philyoosays  I suppose some people would say the same about an American president --- but I would hope not out loud, much less before the funeral. Memento mori.
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  33829. Brie criticized Kagan, in fact, for drawing a salary from Harvard while there is a discrimination case involving Harvard pending before the Supreme Court.
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  33830. Engineered scarcity keeps you both scared and greedy. Those who have "must" believe they are doing something better than those who lack. Having opportunities for some, not all, feeds that mindset.
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  33831. Jimmy and Max are the best combo. Both are tough. Max has Chicago roots, North Side.
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  33832. We need a serious, careful multivariate analysis now. The real answers are not known.
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  33833. 6:35 Truth
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  33834. @harrymills2770  Guess those post-war tax rates are in order. Of course, here, the billionaires lobby for tax cuts and government contracts, then buy T bonds, and we owe them money. BTW, I know what those 700 bases are for. France doesn't have those, I grant you.
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  33835.  @FelixRoseAs  You're going to go after me after I said our big brother won't let me speak? Is that a Le Penist move?
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  33836.  @FelixRoseAs  My replies to you are going poof, as well.
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  33837.  @harrymills2770  I did. I'm not redoing it.
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  33838. The reporter?
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  33839. Which is exactly why the sanctions on Russia backfired.
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  33840.  @VIZZIONASMRtainment  This was written before Depp v. Heard. Now they would all follow the newest hashtag.
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  33841.  @kresimirzex2720  Nice false flag ya got there.
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  33842. Hard work in the wrong context can harm you, too. You've never been in a office where hard work is so resented that people actually try to trip you up? Or where an incompetent supervisor imagines you are after her job? (A classic pattern in employment discrimination cases.) It is very important to be in a context where your work matters, to "find the right pond." That is always partly luck.
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  33843. How was she able to do this a second time to Joe? That requires an explanation.
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  33844. Ten years ago, Jimmy Carter was more qualified, and he was almost ninety.
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  33845. Amber was guilty of not being very funny --- until her boss took the joke the wrong way. Then it was funny all right.
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  33846.  @stephenwilliams3213  I agree that that is the correct question. The problem is, to answer it, we would have to go back in history to find out the projected harm of swine flu at that time, versus its known harm, and we would also need to figure out the projected harm of COVID compared with its known harm. I hope you realize that currently, we do not have clean numbers on that. Second, there are lots of ways to deal with a novel drug that has serious, unexpected side effects. You put a black box warning on it, you limit use in those under 50, you stop requiring it for anyone. European countries have done all of those types of things, after being hysterical for a while as well. In France, it is illegal to ask a minor about their vaccination status. It's a misdemeanor. (As a practical result, no one is asking anyone.)
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  33847.  @stephenwilliams3213  It IS possible that swine flu was deadlier in men under 30 than COVID is, by the way. Hmm.
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  33848.  @Jensth  Not at all. Read up on Arthur Andersen, for example. They got away with helping Enron hide misdeeds for a very long time, by riding on their previous stellar reputation for conservative accounting. This tactic is common. If you ever studied white collar crime and white collar tort, you would know.
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  33849.  @44ARISEandSHINE44  You're still in there?
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  33850.  @fortusvictus8297  They will never admit they cannot force vaccination.
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  33851. 8:59. Musk comments begin
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  33852. Newsflash: the Constitution does not protect privacy. Digest that one.
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  33853. The divide-and-conquer is obvious: Some of these people will lose their homes to the BlackRocks of the world. Only some, so that the rest breathe a sigh of relief and turn away. Then those who think they're safe will see a series of other, seemingly disconnected things happen, like persistent problems with utilities, especially water, then tax issues that require paying a high-priced lawyer to fix, but it does get fixed, seemingly . . . Death by a thousand different, tiny cuts . . . Ultimately, they will be priced out. Oh well, "get a better job, . . . "
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  33854. Tesla created electricity.
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  33855. Should only people who live in the woods ever be allowed to criticize? Should they have to made their own papyrus and use feathers as quills?
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  33856. Channeling the dark queen . . .
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  33857. Forget the slogan and do the reasoning.
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  33858. I have found that ultimately, it is money that makes the difference. ALL of our service members should have all they need. It should NEVER be an issue. Heros like this man are a breed apart. He is immense. Massive respect!
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  33859. If Cuba is so bad, let them fail on their own. Sanctions are cruel overkill, right, Robbie? These losers are gonna lose.
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  33860. What can a parent do if they have a truly incorrigible child who does things that could kill others?
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  33861. Please don't. You remind me of Ana.
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  33862.  @mary5305j  THIS
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  33863. Remember how the sanctions (aka theft by decree) were supposed to destroy the ruble? Just like the vaccine would end the pandemic.
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  33864. This 11-minute clip has some real strong language, mature audiences only, from David Goggins. You might not agree, which is fine. Hear what a man striving to tell the truth -- the whole truth -- actually sounds like. Then see what you think of Shapiro's little version. https://youtu.be/75BH7F0AqsI
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  33865.  @kamilszczesny2563  You, too.
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  33866. Inviting a person to present newsworthy claims is not lying or inviting others to lie, even if the claims are lies. Endorsing the claims when you know they are false, or with reckless disregard as to their truth (as long as you make a buck by doing it) may lead to liability for defamation, sure. It should. Most of what Trump spouted on a daily basis was false. It was newsworthy anyway.
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  33867. ​​ @drewdrewson1384 Those who know why it's superior and can explain it intelligently don't get to reply and appear here. You get that, right?
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  33868. ​ @drewdrewson1384 We know. If we write, the Shadow takes over.
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  33869. ​ @angelshalo06 How is it that you can make multiple posts but those of us who disagree, and can provide solid reasons, are in the shadows?
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  33870. ​ @angelshalo06  My father had one of the best specialists in the world for his condition while on Medicare -- and if this no longer happens, time to take political action.
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  33871. 2:30 Made sure to like this video.
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  33872.  @TyrianHaze  Perfectly said.
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  33873. Those of us who are familiar with the phenomena that Carl Elliott and Robert Whitaker describe in their books, not to mention authors like Glenn Greenwald, With Liberty and Justice for Some, might have a more realistic view. Not to mention, what do you think those who truly achieved great things -- a J. M. Coetzee, a James Baldwin, a Toni Morrison, for example -- are or were really like? Anyone who is well-read does not appreciate pablum.
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  33874.  @migduroli  Scientific? Who lived to reproduce? And then, whose children, once born, survived to reproduce? Start by thinking that through. I can figure out why propensity for both trust and distrust, optimism and pessimism, persist in human populations, with the latter being more common. Besides, to "trust others" must mean to trust cynics, too. That there is mathematics.
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  33875. ​ @scratchpenny I will.
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  33876.  @scratchpenny  Future generations of mankind? Or of Americans? Western Europeans? Five Eyes? Eastern Europeans? China, Japan, India, Vietnam, Brazil, Nigeria, Somalia? Were you told "no one" will learn cursive? Except that the other major languages of this hemisphere (Spanish, Portuguese, French) all use cursive. This sounds a lot like that.
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  33877.  @CoachAndrew77  Wow, you've bought the propaganda, lol.
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  33878.  @scratchpenny  "Arguing against?" I'm pointing out your narrow view. You may have a privileged perch from which to survey the impact of AI on the top three quintiles of Americans, classified by income, and of other Western(ized) speakers of English, and perhaps somewhat beyond that group. This doesn't give you any special perspective on what the rest of the planet will be doing, especially considering that you think AI's "virtues" will cause it to become pervasive and dominant. Well that's not how the world works. All of this rests on a different foundation, and that one is shaky.
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  33879.  @scratchpenny  "It's going to have an outsized effect on how people perceive reality." --- Which people?
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  33880.  @scratchpenny  "Future generations will be entirely dependent on it." Future generations where? In the BRICS?
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  33881.  @KL-lt8rc  I said no such thing, and this post said no such thing. You keep making up some other person, and attacking that person, whoever they are. Muted. Blocked. Tootles. Spit your venom on your own time, you get the last saliva.
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  33882.  @MP-ut6eb  I'd switch Talent and Hard Work, but otherwise, ^^^
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  33883.  @allein1001  What is a woman? (Whatever some dude says?)
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  33884.  @carlsaganlives4036  🤣🤣🤣
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  33885. Weiss panders.
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  33886. ​@iosmom So, you don't know about Separation of Powers, either? The executive has zero authority over the other two branches of government. Absolutely none. As for Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard, who were duly vetted and confirmed, they told their departments to pause responses and address any concerns about performance reviews to their supervisors, internally. I thought the Ketamine Kid had to pass a citizenship test. He forgot what was on it?
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  33887.  @liberalismisaids9564  Are the courts part of the Executive Branch? 😂😂😂
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  33888.  @liberalismisaids9564  So, why did agencies that cannot respond without risk of violating strict protocols get threatening e-mails, too? Sounds inefficient. BTW, did I mention the NIH? No, huh?
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  33889.  @Irintje  Release the results of Elon's citizenship test.
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  33890.  @BreezyJuarez  Don't be mad that I can spell Jay Bhattacharya.
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  33891. Notice how the little drips and drabs that are coming out . . . Remember how Bill Gates had only one dinner with Epstein and donated only one million dollars to a science lab at Epstein's suggestion? Then it was two dinners, and two million bucks, then . . . Yeah, well, . . . The question is, how can it keep working?
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  33892. More police like those in Uvalde. 🤪
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  33893. @utah_koidragon7117  And some "cat lady" is the problem, not the fact that $3,000 per month is insufficient in most cities to provide for a family, even at a very modest standard of living? (That's 15% above "the fight for fifteen.") Or should moms be forced to work even if half of what they make goes to child care, because that other half is essential to cover the soaring rent? But the problem is other people's "happiness," influencers, and memes. Well, that's easy. Then the political leaders don't have to do anything except invent slogans and sic people on one another.
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  33894. @user-hf2dr7sh4y  Vance claims he supports a $5000 per child annual income tax credit. I do as well -- and I'd extend it any dependent child to age 21. I support it wholeheartedly. So, Vance is building support by attacking people without kids? Nearly 1 in 4 adults don't have kids, although some of them eventually will. If you add in those with grown children, that must be a huge number. They're going to want to see someone else get lower taxes? 😂 Either he's a doof, or he wants credit for the proposal while making sure it will never pass. (He's Yale Law. Which way would that cut?)
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  33895.  @utah_koidragon7117  My comment above about my support for the child tax credit is directed at you as well. Hope it shows up . . .
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  33896.  @utah_koidragon7117  No. I think his "cat lady" rhetoric and his "sociopaths" rhetoric is an attack on people without children, who will then be all upset and ill-disposed to listen to the good reasons for increasing the tax credit per child, which really does need to be increased. The childless won't take kindly to a tax cut that is only for people who have kids, now will they? Vance can be praised for the suggestion, while not having to actually work to get it passed. Clever move. Welcome to 2024 America.
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  33897.  @utah_koidragon7117  Were you allowed to see what I posted?
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  33898.  @utah_koidragon7117  Answer was for bidden . . . Again
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  33899. @utah_koidragon7117  No. I think his "cat lady" rhetoric, etc., is an attack on people without children, who will then be all upset and ill-disposed to listen to the good reasons for increasing the tax credit per child. They won't take kindly to a tax credit that is only for people who have kids, now will they? Vance can be praised for the suggestion without actually having to build support to get it passed. Clever move. Welcome to 2024 America.
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  33900. @utah_koidragon7117  Not if the main spokesman for the idea starts by insulting them, they won't. You must not know what most people are like. People get mad if their brother or sister gets a tax break they didn't. (Playing coy again, I see.) As for me, no one has to convince me. I supported it yesterday. I had no idea it was so low in the first place. I think Vance is best defined by his PayPal links, frankly. He could have done anything with his degree, such as representing the indigent like Michael Ratner (who was #1 at Columbia Law) did. PayPal is what he chose.
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  33901. @utah_koidragon7117  So . . . He's a poor politician. Saying divisive things is more important than keeping it cool to build broad support for a much-needed tax credit for children. Got it. I believe it, too. On a related note: are you catching on about how low our standards are now? They're in the sub-basement. Speaking of, have you read Glenn Greenwald, With Liberty and Justice for Some? I'm rereading that now. You must know Greenwald from Tucker and Laura Ingraham. It's a staggering book, and remarkably patriotic. (For example, he praises the Founders and Teddy Roosevelt without presenting their flaws, as these are not relevant to the specific issues he discusses.)
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  33902. His visits (plural) to Jeffrey Epstein's apartment in New York, and the millions (plural -- look it up) he gave to a research lab purely at Epstein's suggestion didn't raise a question in her mind? His experiments with charter schools, some of which actually harmed education, didn't either?
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  33903.  @zevyzevness3800  The guys in this video are leftists.
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  33904. You mean they are not Putin puppets?
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  33905. I found several such articles on the Nature website. All had competing interests. This is sad. The government is supposed to fund this research.
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  33906. That takes work, and it won't increase clicks.
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  33907. Yeah, getting math wrong by a factor of ten is always worthy of a shout out.
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  33908. er, check the Constitution
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  33909. Don't worry. The board of directors will announce the dividend on the 21st.
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  33910.  @I-Libertine  Well, I hope you never catch me oversimplifying, so . . . :)
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  33911. Moon landings? Let's not go there, for many reasons.
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  33912. ​ @Courtannica You mean like the goon squad just convicted in Mississippi?
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  33913. ​ @curiousone6129 transportation?
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  33914. They are lying about that, too, BUT this time there are independent sources in other countries that you can consult, and there are also peer-reviewed journals dealing with mRNA technology and coronaviruses (including SARS), all published before 2019. The government will take advantage of every issue to experiment with managing public opinion by floating lies. That it's lying about X, Y, or Z tells you nothing about the truth either way.
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  33915.  @americangirlx4  WOW, you were judgmental toward these young people, but I am not allowed to point it out without your labeling me! No one would believe this . . . Well, in 2023, all right. Everyone believes it now. And yes, what your parents did as a self-help measure IS one form of therapy for agoraphobia, colloquially known as "flooding." It works very well -- except when it doesn't. There is no one-size-fits-all where anything as complex as HUMAN minds and bodies are concerned.
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  33916.  @americangirlx4  Yeah, if you think YOU should decide what career a young person who is not even full grown yet should qualify for, you are worse than a megalomaniac. You are a wannabe dictator. Edited to correct autocorrect that mangled "if;" I suppose hypotheticals are beyond its comprehension.
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  33917.  @americangirlx4  Well then your whole comment is a non sequitur. You never had agoraphobia or anything like that. The young lady in this segment who experiences severe physical symptoms and literally freezes does have something that you never did. So, you simply have no knowledge whatsoever about what is best for her. I have no opinion on "safe spaces." I don't know how they're structured, and for what purpose or end. I have read that they are probably not a good idea for those with agoraphobia or other anxiety disorders. That may be the preferred opinion among experienced therapists today, and it seems to make sense. But of course, I don't know.
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  33918. @americangirlx4  If it were MY kid, I'd get them into a program of outdoor activities: sports (non-competitive at first), caring for animals, tending a garden, and stuff like that -- outdoor work and play. I'd give them some form of art lessons as soon as they were ready, or music, or drama, and they would be responsible for working on it in return for the privilege. They'd be out every day unless it was literally dangerous heat, cold, storms, or wind, and they'd be on a no-sugar, no refined carb diet, lots of olive oil, organic vegetables, and wild salmon once a month, all that. They'd be up by 7am every morning. If they had to start just by walking for one hour with me by their side or bike riding with me, then they'd start there. And move up. And I would expect a full recovery. That would be my "unsafe" space, lol. Can we agree on that much, at least?
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  33919. @americangirlx4  You based your whole comment on your own experience of having a (perfectly natural, not abnormal) distaste of school, then pop in about how you know about agoraphobia because you know one person who had it. Therefore, you are qualified to talk about what this young lady should or shouldn't do, what career she should aspire to, "safe spaces," etc. Pro tip: (1) People make money to rail about safe spaces, so it certainly seems cool to do; money = truth (or at least, money = value) and all that . . . (2) Psst. Nobody's paying YOU. 🤣 Why not apologize to this young lady -- Sarah was her name, I believe -- and call it a day? That would be different.
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  33920.  @pariah_carey  If there are ever real solutions, it will be thanks in large part to people like Michael Bell Sr.
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  33921.  @pariah_carey  Okay, you want to be mad. I'm not lily white, either. I simply stated a fact, I did not endorse it. I think it's tragic. Nevertheless true.
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  33922.  @pariah_carey  You are lying that I'm doing that. Interesting tack you're taking. You couldn't pin the other nonsense on me, now you're desperate. Interesting you've made no comment on the video I linked, since it does not fit your narrative, and all your whining "they don't care if people who look like me are shot by police!!!" I proved that people DO care, about police error and police violence, for ALL victims. That is when you started the really heavy defamation. Interesting psychology you got there. Must be fun to be you.
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  33923.  @pariah_carey  I support Michael Bell Sr. He is the nemesis of a "terrorist!" LOL
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  33924.  @margottfon330  Yes, you are right. I just noticed, and was going to correct my response. But the gist is the same. I repeated what she said, ironically: psychologizing invites psychologizing.
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  33925. What he said.
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  33926. Of course there will be a red wave.
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  33927.  @ZackKcaz  Thank you for real information. Perhaps we need to wait for Kim to hear something astute. As for the bad manners on display here, these two treated the story shamefully, almost as an afterthought. Emily begins the segment by laughing. Would anyone think a report of an American ex-president's assassination anywhere in the world should be like this?
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  33928.  @Games_and_Music  Sigh!! Me too. Thank you. :/ "No matter how cynical you get, you just can't keep up." --- attributed to Lily Tomlin.
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  33929. Depp is suing Heard for $50 million. Guess what? Before a court orders someone to pay money, and seizes their bank account and other assets, grabs their house, and so forth, the plaintiff (Depp) has to PROVE he really lost $50 million on account of the defendant, and for no other reason. Funny how that is. We should just get to vote on Facebook instead.
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  33930.  @Alex-xp9vv  Not in this phase of the trial. She can demonstrate as a matter of law that Heard cannot possibly owe Depp the $50 million he is demanding that she give him. If she does that, feewings don't matter.
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  33931.  @zurfergoth  Who told you this? You believed it? 🤣
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  33932.  @jjayguy23  NO lawyer will allow a client such control. Not one. Absolutely never. Remember the interviews Kyle Rittenhouse's lawyer gave after securing acquittal? Go watch those. Listen closely. He says as much.
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  33933.  @SkoomaCat  Of course not. These people are wallowing in rumors.
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  33934.  @janiesuper3222  Who do you think has to prove what?
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  33935.  @juliestanfield8433  Not at all. This is a defamation case. It has NOTHING to do with their marriage, which was dissolved a long time ago. Depp must prove that Heard defamed him with the simple phrase "domestic abuse." If he abused her emotionally while they lived together as a couple, then the article she wrote is NOT defamation. This is true even if she was worse than he was. He can go write his own article about his own experience with her. He can't make a court find liability and collect money from her. Depp is trying to prove the article was not only defamatory, but cost him $50m, because that's what HE is suing HER for. He's failing to prove that so far. Hint: the media is always manipulating people's feelings.
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  33936.  @supersonic7605  The issue is not whether Depp was a victim of domestic abuse. The issue is whether the article Heard wrote is defamatory, and if so, whether she owes him a lot of money. The plaintiff (Depp) appears to be trying to get the jury to believe that whether or not Heard abused him is the issue. But that is not the issue. This case is about a text, and whether the text is defamation. It's not about who is the Better Person.
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  33937.  @lblincoe2094  Certainly not. His reputation due to his substance abuse was already bad, making him an INSURANCE RISK. You must know nothing about Hollywood, and the real power behind the movies. Read up on it. And did you read her mild article? And do you realize he lost a much bigger suit, which further eroded his reputation? All the accusations against him appear to be true, and his only goal is to smear his ex in a way where SHE can never retaliate or recover. The result is right in front of you. This case has no merit. It is pure vindictiveness. He is the only one doing what you accuse her of, and massive contemporaneous evidence was just brought forward for THAT. Why you all fall for it, I will never understand. But I don't have to. My family is in Europe now, and I'm getting out of the Anglosphere.
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  33938.  @lblincoe2094  By the way, are you aware that every defamation case chips away at free speech rights? Maybe you should read up on that, too. Erode the First Amendment some more, for a pirate movie. 🤣 The remedy for "bad speech" is more speech. Why didn't he hire a ghost writer and an editor, and write an autobiography? Instant best seller. Nothing whatsoever prevented him from telling everyone his side. And create artistically, instead of this.
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  33939.  @christianpaleka5063  These people are like a cult. It seems to me they are being swept up in one thing or another that is extremely irrational at a faster and faster pace. They're identifying "enemies," too. That's the worst part. Heard just had one of the leading experts on PTSD in the world testify for her, board certified, faculty at an Ivy, but best of all a woman who used to work extensively with veterans. She did a massive assessment, including contemporaneous treatment notes from many therapists from the time of the marriage, not created for a lawsuit. Makes no difference. Absolutely none.
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  33940.  @okbutthenagain.9402  You do know the only evidence so far was the plaintiff's case in chief? Did you think juries ought to decide based on one side? Like mobs do.
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  33941. She needs to up her propaganda skills. This was neither subtle nor brash.
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  33942. Great news!! The major donor to the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Leslie Wexner, has severed all ties!! You remember Wexner? Jeffrey Epstein was his protégé.
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  33943. But Chauvin did plead guilty in federal court. The document stating what he himself admits to doing is very easy to find.
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  33944. @johnnysalt  Federal guilty pleas require an allocution: he must precisely state what he is pleading guilty to. The presentencing report is even more detailed. When I first heard about the open questions in this case -- alledged open questions -- I was surprised his petition for cert to the Supreme Court went nowhere. Now I know why. More to the point, Candace is misleading you for dough.
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  33945. I agree. The German study on occult myocarditis that caused sudden death is new information. I want everyone to calmly analyze how risky this vaccine is. That's all I want: real science.
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  33946.  @blackyodaprime  Happened to my dad in Chicago, one night when he was walking the dog. No one got hurt.
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  33947. What do the Clintons have on Obama?
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  33948. Don't forget the role of the Israeli leaders in brining them to this. Yes, they are shells of a human, and will collapse after this frenzy is over.
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  33949. Facts are facts. Plenty of Bernie voters follow Jimmy and Max.
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  33950.  @SusanYeske701  Exactly.
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  33951. Why kill the roach? I thought that was worse than seeing the scurrying roach.
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  33952. LOL
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  33953. Have they filed suit? And, do they have an FBI file? They should appeal to Biden to have it expunged.
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  33954. Yes, let's mind our own business and stop sending money to Ukraine, funding biolabs in Ukraine through the DoD, sitting on energy boards . . . Detach entirely.
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  33955. ​ @SERGEGRANDBLR And Zelensky was elected in the hope of ending it.
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  33956. DID TRUMP'S LAWYERS MAKE THIS ARGUMENT? I mean, is it true or is it false that they made this broad immunity argument? (I'm not saying which --- I don't know.) *If* it is true, you should care. It's your country, correct? Or is it just a crime wave with a business front office as a cover? Demand a bigger cut. 😂😂😂
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  33957. Thanks to both commenters. :/
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  33958.  @DZR-qo2px  Interesting. I had thought D M was correct.
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  33959. ​ namelastname-qg6qw That's an antisemitic trope.
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  33960.  @AFuller2020  Which is why the average teacher in my state bails after an average of five years. If they can tough it out, that's about when the better money starts to come in.
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  33961.  @chinookvalley  Why would you believe police rather than seeking legal representation? Police know nothing about the law.
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  33962.  @chinookvalley  It is NOT a common crime, in the sense that "everybody does it and gets away with it." Not true.
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  33963. @imveryhungry112  The only true rags to riches story I know was an artist. He had a National Geographic cover barely out of art school, and eventually went into advertising with his own production company. At least a few of his ads were Super Bowl worthy. (He's unhappy now that he gave up painting and never made a real movie. But I digress.) He made more than that in a year, before this century.
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  33964. I guess a lot of people didn't realize that asking Putin why, if all he said were true, he didn't attempt to stake a claim to Ukraine 20+ years ago, was seen by Putin as hugely aggressive. How does anyone miss this?
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  33965. I'm starting to think that's the idea.
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  33966. 😂😂😂 Not really
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  33967. Wait. How many non-falsehoods did he string together here? Why now?
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  33968.  @ethancarey3922  I think you're basically right. What can I say? A person has ample reason to deny Saagar the benefit of the doubt. I don't deny him that, yet, but I can't argue with anyone who does. You are probably the realist in this picture. I'm the wishful thinker.
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  33969.  @ethancarey3922  One thing, though -- the working class has been marginalized, not "seemingly." The white working class took their privileges for granted. They had no idea where Reaganism was leading. They believed the manipulation and the slick "culture war" appeals. They never thought they would face job loss and homelessness exactly the way people of color always did. They believed that all a person needed to do was "work hard," and that anyone who does would be fine.
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  33970. See New York Magazine, August 2019, for a discussion of Marianne Williamson's position on vaccines --- far from unequivocally in support.
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  33971.  @clickrick  Thank you again. All this should be simpler than it is.
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  33972.  @d.jparer5184  HER sworn testimony.
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  33973.  @hughmungus1235  Who decided that? You and your Facebook friends?
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  33974. He doesn't disagree. That's why he mentioned Rawls.
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  33975. Which will drive wages down as well.
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  33976. But if a serial plagiarist, liar, architect of the 1994 Crime Bill, and warmonger, who graduated at the bottom of his law school class, can get this far -- he's a "winner," obviously. This record impresses a lot of people, and we all know why. "Now who's being naive, Jimmy?"
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  33977. All false. Look up the cases HE lost. His wife has been adjudicated tax delinquent right there with him.
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  33978. I don't even think you can follow her arguments. I see no evidence of that.
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  33979. No. These women were all full grown.
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  33980. Read Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic -- from 2010. It's about the epidemic of mental illness, brought to you in part by the big pharmaceutical corporations. SAME PLAYBOOK. It is truly stunning.
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  33981.  @eze2190  What robot wrote that for you? Don't pay for that app.
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  33982.  @eze2190  oops, forgot to block sorry
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  33983. Guacamole dip served . . .
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  33984. People's Party ran a candidate for Virginia governor?
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  33985. Real responses removed, and mentioning that they are, likewise. Nice.
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  33986. Responses re moved, and mention of that fact, likewise. The morality is staggering.
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  33987. How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy.
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  33988.  @Darke_Exelbirth  You protest peacefully, as is your FIRST AMENDMENT right, and you are on guard for provocateurs, and you stand ready to leave the scene when you see evidence of provocateurs. But take a video of the evidence first. -- especially of police collaborating with self-styled "militia." Then you go home. That's my suggestion.
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  33989. That's something they do to WOMEN?
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  33990. Chaos theory is essential in studying global warming.
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  33991. These are normal, ordinary moms. That's what is so upsetting. You know you know people like them.
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  33992. Because 800 bases in 70+ countries aren't really there, and the US isn't feeding two wars at the moment.
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  33993. Joe and Kamala will give the police raises. Obviously the job is harder. /s
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  33994. ​ @breft3416  They only care about "sides."
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  33995. ​@Jubilian3000 It's not history, friend. More like poetry.
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  33996. ​ @Jubilian3000 Which theology? Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Tao, . . . ?
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  33997. Glenn Greenwald has repeatedly called on anyone who has a tape of "Death to the Jews" to send it to him, and he will acknowledge it and play it on his show. So far, there has been no response. (Glenn is Jewish.)
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  33998. I also have no trouble waiting for the affidavit to be unsealed on Tuesday, and to see whether they can establish a motive as well. I remember a month ago when all the Forensic Experts were saying this was not the perp's first murder. They all "knew" that, then.
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  33999.  @anisa-mb5sn  What research? The affidavit hasn't been released yet.
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  34000. Does anyone on earth think Buttigieg is more qualified than this gentleman? Really??
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  34001. Just more training for us to accept the unacceptable.
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  34002.  @RightByChoice  Not proved, yet, but certainly merits at least as much scrutiny as "Russiagate." To think the DNC wasted time on impeachment on account of the BIDENS, but refuse to pass stimulus now. They are all complicit -- meaning ALL the politicians -- with whatever is uncovered. They all pass laws to their own advantage.
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  34003.  @beautifully_scarred_lea  Let's see exactly what she has to say when confronted with the plain facts of what these drugs do to a child, as explained by someone who knows and is not afraid to speak up. Yeah, I'd like to hear it. (I'm not sure she's aware. As Blaire said, you see pictures of pregnant "transmen" quite regularly. And now we all have to say "pregnant people.") What I am sure I personally heard Briahna say is that if the "gender affirming care" is made illegal, then that forecloses all discussion and debate -- which would be authoritarian. I wonder if she knows what has been going on around the country with the explosion of dangerous hormones being prescribed to minors. If all you have seen is the Frontline documentary on the subject, you would see no reason at all for any law banning gender affirming care. The cases that documentary focused on all had a clear need for something more than counseling, and where any medication was concerned, they were counseled to "take it slow." That was a tiny number of kids, not the explosion we have seen over the last few years. I'm with you on the substance, by the way. I find it very suspicious that we have gone from vaccine mandates for children to this. I think it's criminal. (Actually, France did make asking a minor about their vaccine status a crime. Of course no mandates for minors are permitted. Seriously, it's illegal there. I love it.)
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  34004. There are Americans who would say, "is your epilepsy MY problem? I am a slave to your epilepsy." This gives you some idea why Pfizer, etc., can do what they do.
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  34005. Why doesn't janibeg look up their website and see what AP courses are available for college credit?
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  34006.  @janibeg3247  They still have the Advanced Placement program, which allows kids who are academically advanced to demonstrate that they have mastered certain 100-level college courses, and to obtain credit. Have you checked on what a state school costs, and how much a kid can save by obtaining advanced placement credits? Most people don't go to "elite" colleges, or have the kind of MONEY the parents of Harvard, Stanford, Yale, etc., students have. Most universities still require or accept SAT scores, and most kids take them.
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  34007.  @janibeg3247  So you didn't or couldn't find their website to see what AP exams they offer for college credit?
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  34008. Looks to me like French thug cops won't be shooting kids again anytime soon. Sorry to hear you're aggrieved by that, but c'est la vie.
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  34009. @zarni000  One is enough. If the fact that the defendant is likely to lie were enough to prevent recovery, no suit would ever stand a chance. If you can defeat the defense motion for summary judgment, the defendant WILL settle rather than have a trial. They come to an agreement about confidentiality in exchange for MONEY. If you worked for them, they promise a glowing reference and you promise not to badmouth them, which is ultimately in your interest as well. (Who ever says my boss was perverse, or my kid's school is awful? Not in your interest to say it.) People do not have a realistic notion of how this stuff goes. (Pro tip: never lie under oath. Really, don't. Not for a boss, not for anybody. That is the one big thing no one should do.)
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  34010. @franciking  FIRST, do not mix criminal indictments and civil suits. Speaking of O.J., he LOST the civil wrongful death suit brought against him. Everything else you say could be true -- though your maladroit invocation of O.J. should cast doubt on everything else you counted off -- and a plaintiff could still get a settlement, and probably will. In this case, there has been no denial. The excuse seems to be that Gates neither knew nor approved of the strategy -- and granted, that is not a position he has actually taken in court, so we can't really form an opinion. The hardest part is finding a good lawyer, but as long as there is a deep pocket in the picture, that is possible. (Gates is popular? At this point? LOL)
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  34011. @zarni000  It is simply wrong that one is not enough -- or that more than one greatly improves your chances. I mean, as if two can't collude!
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  34012.  @francikoen  The DEFENDANT does. These are contingency cases. LOL, you should give up.
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  34013. @franciking  And just how big does a retainer have to be, when the attorney could become famous for doing a great job on the case? A lot of lawyers jump at such cases. The only questions in their minds are whether the plaintiff is (1) objectively truthful; and (2) believable.
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  34014.  @francikoen  O.J. lost in the civil case. Give it up. 😂
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  34015.  @francikoen  Sworn testimony is evidence. You seem to confuse evidence and proof.
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  34016. @franciking  An allegation in a complaint is not evidence. Sworn testimony subject to cross examination by defense counsel, and otherwise tested in court, is.
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  34017. Remember Lenny Bruce? I didn't think so.
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  34018. Do we know this with any certainty? I have an open mind on it, I don't deny it.
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  34019. Is it time to rid ourselves of this? Man, or whatever.
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  34020. Scalia thought sentencing a 14-year-old to death should be up to each state. It's not cruel or unusual punishment. 16:15, under a minute . . . But keep listening, for the Hedges laugh.
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  34021. "Speedy trial?" Ever heard of Kalief Browder? Look it up.
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  34022.  @OnimenoJason  You're right.
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  34023.  @nuancedmilitarism8402  Who is the alleged Nazi here??
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  34024.  @airsculler  Oh! I see! Make something up, then be scared, or outraged, or . . . whatever. Y'know. In response to your own made-up accusation.
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  34025. It is amazing how much trust there still is. I would expect a demand for better vaccines. But everyone has low expectations now.
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  34026. The Boston marathon bomber got a hospital bed when he needed one.
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  34027. Not for achieving the "best schools" designation he's talking about, which is rigged. But for excellent universal education, they are most important.
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  34028. What is it about? We all know c, f, and n.
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  34029. Okay. If a teacher with a gun asks you out for a date, what do you do? We need some guidance.
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  34030. Come on Jimmy. Biden doesn't remember who Rick Snyder is.
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  34031. I think we have a problem with promoting singularity antisocial people to our most powerful positions, and that the problem is not new.
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  34032. Who here has been fluffing mainstream media or DNC politicians? No one on this channel.
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  34033. No, it was not "by the book." What would have happened if the police had handled it properly, we cannot know. Pure speculation, probably based on stereotypes.
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  34034. The laboratories are not secret, or at least not all of them. Consult the US Embassy in Ukraine website. The Department of Defense funds these biolabs. DOD, not NIH. Check it yourself. DOD -- so, Fauci isn't involved in this one! 🤣 Sorry, I have a thing for gallows humor.
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  34035.  @pin65371  SHHHHH, misogynist
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  34036. I disagree with his advice to confess. A person does not need to bare their shame to others. Thinking you do is not a good thing. First of all, it is not true.
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  34037. Count votes as they come in, and THERE WILL BE LEAKS. (Or hacks, LOL.)
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  34038. Too bad he displays none. Seriously, this maniac speaks to something in you? Then change your life.
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  34039. Well that's funny. When the mastermind of the Beslan school massacre got a platform on Nightline to air his views, and Russia protested, the US said "free speech." No one thought the sky, or the "West," were falling.
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  34040. @Shreshth Kaushik  Roughly half that many are "millionaires," and equity in one's home must be included to get to that number. The state with the highest proportion of millionaires is New Jersey, and fewer than 10% there are millionaires, including equity in real estate. Misleading, because many of these "millionaires" could be at risk of foreclosure if they were to lose their jobs. We normally think of a millionaire as secure from foreclosure, unless they make some huge financial mistake. The Federal Reserve Board never defines anyone as a millionaire if they do not have a million dollars net in financial assets, and some sources count only liquid assets (cash equivalents), net, to determine who is a millionaire. This makes more sense.
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  34041. Not a contradiction in any case: the TOP 10% hold most of the wealth by far. That was what they are describing. Wealth is radically skewed.
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  34042. I voted in person, on election day, for LaRiva/Peltier, as a protest against Leonard Peltier's continued imprisonment. After seeing his fantastic lawyer, Kevin Sharp, on Chris Hedges' show, I was heartened -- Sharp is THE best. Tremendous! Well, that interview was taken down . . . when the RT archive was destroyed. If I had been absolutely sure Biden would reunite the children separated from their parents at the border, I would have voted for Biden. I was almost sure he wouldn't, hence there was no way . . . he is a life-long warmonger.
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  34043. EVERY doctor has a right to urge his or her patients to get vaccinated. Should anyone be COERCED into vaccination? Should those who decline based on what is known so far be smeared for it by Rolling Stone, in their desperate bid to raise readership? Give me a friggin' break.
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  34044. Look up what Swiss ministry of health recommendation for people who have had a proven case of COVID. They do not say not to be vaccinated. But go see what they say, and compare with what you "know." It may take a few clicks, but persevere.
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  34045. I love what they said about liberty. Saved the best for last. This is why Heying and Weinstein are great.
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  34046. They certainly did not have enough evidence to hold him. They didn't even have autopsies, a murder weapon, or gun power residue, or any evidence that Nick had had blood on him. They made up the story about the keys, which was a risk. An older suspect might not have fallen for it, but a child would, to "set them straight." Police are allowed to lie to a suspect to elicit a confession. The person does not, however, have a right to lie to police. He has a right to remain silent and to demand a lawyer. The time for a full confession is after you have an attorney and are ready to approach the prosecution.
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  34047. A testament to the efficacy of propaganda Nick just spoke about. He also mentioned how mandates erode trust -- as did Fauci himself in prior times. He also mentioned that his community has the lowest vaccination rate of all. Why do you seem to believe something entirely different? Go back to paragraph one.
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  34048. Medical care requires informed consent. Otherwise, it is an assault and battery. You are born with a body. A car is not attached, nor is its operation any sort of absolute right. Kim Iversen on The Hill Rising today presented a summary of global protests against mandates, which have been huge, and Emily, who I don't usually agree with, said on another segment that she is more and more uncomfortable with a narrow elite willing to embrace all kinds of authoritarian policies without batting an eye. I hope the tide is finally turning.
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  34049. @Internet Critic If he gives references, YT will delete the post.
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  34050. Let's all take a stand for educational standards and fail to read a nationally significant Supreme Court case on First Amendment rights.
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  34051. Absolutely. Maddow gave people a false sense of security. That hurts no one? Really?
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  34052. Looks like the joke is on you, then. /s
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  34053.  @SandraMartinez-gv1yf  Frito Lay workers are enslaved, as it turns out. Coal miners, ditto.
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  34054. Soon it will be a "bombshell" when some careerist didn't plagiarize.
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  34055. EXACTLY But that would be work. Would it get more clicks? Well, then.
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  34056. You have to cross the ocean to find them.
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  34057.  @TheRealAb216  Why? John Durham was a DOJ Special Counsel.
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  34058.  @TheRealAb216  Durham was never an FBI agent. Look it up.
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  34059. Biden and the Clintons put an end to MeToo during the 2020 primaries. This isn't their divorce case, which ended a long time ago, and Depp is using this claim to replay it. Every defamation case chips away at First Amendment freedom of speech. Even creeps, even criminals have that.
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  34060.  @FamousMovieScenes09  I personally dislike it, especially when in practice it's being imposed across the board, but I see Jimmy's point at the end.
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  34061. Biden a good-faith actor? Is he able to do anything except shout and make everyone cringe?
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  34062. Notice how they do not demand ample time for questions or rebuttal, then study to prepare some good questions or a rebuttal. Funny.
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  34063. If China is committing genocide or extreme civil rights violations against any ethno-religious group, why were we allowing any sensitive research to be funded with OUR money at Wuhan? Couldn't it be diverted to genocide?
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  34064.  @svetlanak7766  It's true. Russia defeated Hitler. The winner was America.
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  34065. Are their union leaders part of the working class?
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  34066.  @BCXradio  IF ONLY :/
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  34067.  @BCXradio  Who is the "owner" of the public school system, exactly?
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  34068. This parent.
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  34069. Race is a social construct. Historical ethno-linguistic groups have an objective reality. Hebrew is part of a language family that includes languages with African speakers, Ethiopians being the best known. Just like Indo-European includes Hindi and Farsi, and Ancient Greek was related to Sanskrit.
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  34070. Ethnicity isn't genetic.
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  34071. No correlation is ever perfect.
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  34072. The government didn't "shut down" capitalism. The capitalists are doing better than ever before. Where ya been?
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  34073.  @m7silvestri  You are confusing FREE MARKETS with capitalism. That's all right. Everyone does that. Well, the propaganda has been sooooo thick, for so long. :/
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  34074.  @m7silvestri  O . . . . kay. "Dialogue des sourds."
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  34075. Which retracted paper did this? A ton of his work clearly was not retracted. So, the video talks about a subset of his publications.
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  34076. thank you sheesh
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  34077. I seem to remember a Fourth Amendment. Has anyone else heard of it? I'm not sure.
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  34078. There's reason to believe Zelensky had relatively good intentions at first, concerning the neo-Nazis in Ukraine. But he's also a corrupt politician, like all the rest.
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  34079. This alone means a Republican wins in 2024, and the DNC knows that. So, what exactly are they thinking?
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  34080. ​ @djackson4605 "Agency?" Agency, huh? 😂😂😂😂 I love the smell of hashtags in the morning.
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  34081. Actually, he filed in state court. The federal government is prohibited from interfering now. It's a strict line, one of the few.
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  34082. You don't see this ANYWHERE else. In France, the left made it illegal to ask a minor their COVID vaccine status. They sponsored the bill and it passed. That's how you do it. Now, no one asks anyone.
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  34083. The Red Army liberated Auschwitz. This is what she said. This statement was careful and accurate.
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  34084.  @danielsheill6752  Agree about the DNC protests, by the way. Of course people should have a right to make their views known where these politicians can see them and hear them.
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  34085.  @danielsheill6752  And about your TSA point: TSA would be wrong, agreed. Flights at O'Hare are often late.
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  34086. How many of you have lived anywhere else?
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  34087. Well, there are a lot of excellent websites maintained by law schools. Rather than posting, you could try researching the answer.
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  34088.  @omarromero396  Because a petition will result in an indictment? They teach zero civics in schools now?
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  34089.  @krispeekream  We were discussing the police encounter. At that point, both were alive.
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  34090. @Effoff027  Well first of all, suing the estate of Brian Laundrie and winning meant the Petitos obtained custody of everything that ever belonged to him -- every book, every post, every email, every journal, every little scrap of paper. That's important. That is a small measure of justice.
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  34091.  @jordanlee3078  I like your attitude, Dad!! 😊
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  34092. @icare4you123  Wrong. But if I cite the exact statute, word for word, to show that the Laundries could not be prosecuted unless they lied to law enforcement or destroyed evidence, my post will dis_______.
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  34093.  @kitcat901  Try reading 777.03. It's obvious you didn't. It excludes immediate family.
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  34094. @mrabene87  They have sued for many millions -- Brian's estate, Brian's parents, the Moab police. Brian's estate was for possession of all of his books, papers, videos, posts, emails, etc. Good move, Brian's parents did not fight that.
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  34095.  @xmillion1704  Too many posts are shadowed for you to follow the thread. My point was that AOC was more than half fake, and someone else had piped in, saying she was "100% right." Right about what, I wonder? Well, this post will be shadowed as well, no doubt.
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  34096.  @tbest29  A lot was shadowed when this was a new story. Not paying attention any more, frankly. We all know the story was all too real, though at the time it was mind-boggling that HB could do something of that nature.
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  34097.  @RossM3838  Not even where children are concerned. Biden's posturing was repulsive. BTW: Remember Acosta (of Epstein fame) was Secretary of Labor.
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  34098.  @jcmeadows1  Single-source is not verification. That was the point.
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  34099.  @taoliu3949  Yes, true. (I did say "most.")
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  34100.  @cyrus7805  You are not kidding. That is astonishing.
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  34101. The Surgeon General announced that they caused cancer in the late 1950s. During the war, soldiers smoked as a mild mood boost. In war, lots of troops still do. There is no safe smoking but it's not the 18 months of smoking that kills, it's the ten plus pack years. I quit smoking for good January 1, 1991. I can't even get a baseline lung scan based on my history of smoking. Even if I exaggerate it, my risk is too low. Wish I could.
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  34102.  @grantmcphee5149  It never supported this.
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  34103.  @grantmcphee5149  Which is why all the earliest tests consistently showed English are smarter than RUSSIANS! 🤣
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  34104.  @grantmcphee5149  No, I'm talking about the fact that it pretty well ended with the defeat of Operation Barbarossa! On a more serious note, Alfred Binet invented the first IQ test for one purpose only, to identify children who might have trouble with the academic program of modern universal education, and to find ways to help them succeed in school. It was never intended for any other purpose, least of all to rank groups by their intelligence. When I was in school there, aptitude testing of any kind for university admission, or advancement in school at any stage, was illegal. Only achievement testing counted, because it was objective. If you think they were touchy-feely, well, at the time, the very highest grade was "very good," and was rarely given. Your prof is excellent, or should be. Einstein and Plato were outstanding. Failing the baccalaureate on the first try was common. A perfect score on the philosophy essay, traditionally the first test, made national news, and the student would be interviewed everywhere. Took an American test there, the old three-part GRE, no prep class, horrible testing conditions, a lousy day for me, physically unwell, several dumb mistakes -- and got a Triple Nine Society-worthy score. It's the environment, honey. Believe it.
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  34105.  @grantmcphee5149  "When we were still trying to figure out . . . " 🤣🤣🤣
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  34106. Wait. Do you not know what Trump is doing? Trump has to shore up his fundamentalist Christian base, especially after moderating his position on a abortion AND alienating Pence.
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  34107. ​ @David-iv6je I refer you to an older (pre-pandemic but post-terrorism/anthrax attacks) book by George Annas called American Bioethics. Scientists do not and should not have final say on public policy, especially where there is a question of curtailing fundamental rights. It makes no sense "simply to let science take us where it will. . . . Science has no will . . . "
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  34108. Good god, don't lie to police. Remain silent.
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  34109.  @bornkinggamer3347  Look up the study Dr. Campbell is citing.
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  34110.  @bornkinggamer3347  Okay. Never mind.
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  34111.  @bornkinggamer3347  Anyway, I was just censored again, and I did NOT provide incorrect information. Nor have I ever received a warning.
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  34112.  @bornkinggamer3347  I quoted verbatim from the article Dr. Campbell relies on. That was censored. Edit: twice. It was VERBATIM, copy and paste.
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  34113.  @bornkinggamer3347  That sound good to you?
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  34114.  @setag54321  Animal studies were done. My comment is correct.
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  34115.  @setag54321  What do you accept? Physicians' Committee for Responsible Medicine? Every major news source, including from other countries?
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  34116.  @jennyk6360  We were initially lied to. Who released the initial false reports?
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  34117. There's an MSNBC video claiming Tucker Carlson lied in his editorials concerning biolabs in Ukraine, and the comments are full of demands he be tried for treason. The MSNBC video itself misrepresents the source it quotes to show Carlson lied. Did I need to tell you?
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  34118. 1:17:37 Most important part
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  34119. That's because you think the whole world revolves around you. No. 10:10
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  34120. @traru4  OF COURSE. Eugenics is at stake here. We have to get on it, quick.
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  34121.  @traru4  Of course! Our genome is at stake here!
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  34122.  @jman75234  We need to ask for something else, besides health care in a pandemic? Okay. Give us your suggestions. No problem.
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  34123.  Ill President  The whole world is watching.
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  34124.  Ryan DeGrave  Is there some reason to try to make this about personalities and not the issue?
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  34125.  @jimberkt  I know what it means. Irony over someone's head? More important, you think this isn't the time to work for M4A? Political capital is an instrumental good, health care an intrinsic right.
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  34126.  @jimberkt  I.e., you build political capital (instrumental good) to secure medical care for all (intrinsic good/intrinsic right). That's all that it's good for. It's worthless in itself, until you use it.
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  34127.  Ryan DeGrave  Not at all. I am referring people to editorials that develop the position, which is not an appeal to authority. I am also illustrating that the position has supporters who cannot be called bad actors. Although I apparently did not mention them in this thread. Seems you copied and pasted your remark here, where it happens to be a non sequitur.
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  34128.  Ryan DeGrave  Why do you persist in ad hominem? Didn't you claim to be opposed to it?
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  34129.  Ryan DeGrave  So you joined a couple of days ago with this name, to write such remarks? Who does that?
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  34130.  Ryan DeGrave  Oh, yeah, that's right. You wanted to make this about Krystal, whose editorial I cited! Fine. Then read Briahna Joy Gray, or watch Katie Halper's recent shows. Find out what their thoughts are. They have more time to develop the arguments on other platforms than this one.
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  34131.  Ryan DeGrave  BTW, I just saw that someone calling themselves "Ryan DeGrave" had an account terminated for repeated abuse. Do you have any idea who that Ryan DeGrave was, or is the same name a coincidence?
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  34132. I think that this is such an important issue that the Supreme Court should weigh in and establish binding precedent.
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  34133. 4:30 "That's what they're saying now?" Why we 💖 Jimmy. ;)
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  34134. Let's see how many leftists of Parenti's stripe they hire to teach, even as visiting profs. Cornell West was denied tenure for his views, and has never shied away from criticising Obama. Chris Hedges was censored many, many times. Let's see if either one is invited to teach, or to speak. Then you'll know.
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  34135. Do Not Kamala. Agreed.
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  34136. EU won't embrace diplomacy. Wonderful. /s Let China and India and South Africa and Brazil take the lead in finding a diplomatic solution. See a pattern?
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  34137. That anyone could still believe what you just said . . . you strung together every cliche that still exists, and that has been disproven in every major financial panic over the last 150+ years. A billion dollars at age 32 is like accumulating $85,500 a day -- from birth. Explain how, say, an "essential service" like Facebook can "earn" that. Well, I can explain it: at its inception, it functioned as the most effective combination of advertising and surveillance -- corporate and government -- ever devised, and the users themselves participated willingly, but not with informed consent. Anyway, yawn. I don't know about "human nature," but the nature of your character gives me pause. I only hope you are paid to post, and in the present economy I can grudgingly respect that. Otherwise, it's unfathomable.
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  34138. Half? Wow. You're sweet. I like you.
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  34139. We shoukd be shocked, shocked.
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  34140. You don't understand the meaning of those words. "Plausible" MEANS the existence of credible evidence. It is analogous to probable cause, as compared with proof beyond all reasonable doubt.
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  34141. @Aisha.Ricci005  Yes. And that the best find this hard. Now imagine a person with fewer inner resources and a much more maligned behavioral addiction.
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  34142. How so? It's a defamation case. Looks to me like Depp brought it to settle scores, not because he has any hope of winning. He already lost a case where he had a much better claim. He wanted a showcase for his bitterness, not to vindicate rights. The legal process is not supposed to be abused in that way.
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  34143.  @Miss_nu_vintage  She didn't initiate this case.
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  34144.  @Miss_nu_vintage  Or this spectacle. That's what I mean. I guess family court wasn't a big enough stage for Depp. The divorce was the place to air these grievances. Read the article Heard wrote, then tell me whether $50 million in damages is warranted.
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  34145.  @Miss_nu_vintage  Or, he could have written his own article. Or an autobiography, with a ghost writer assisting. But that takes work.
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  34146.  @Dragon-wt1vv  This particular case? And after losing a much better one? No. I have a California license. I would have never brought this case. I would have worked my butt off to get his autobiography written. A best seller. The best remedy for bad speech is more speech. Ever heard that?
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  34147.  @roscoe4092  He cannot prove that this article caused him any damage at all.
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  34148.  @roscoe4092  I'm not a watcher, I'm a reader. I read the complaint and exhibits, and I know the law. It's all available online, and easy to find. The watchers are being duped again.
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  34149.  @Miss_nu_vintage  How do you know it was a lie?
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  34150. NEVER ONCE did Brie bring race into this segment. Robby even agreed with her main point in response to his radar. You know, literally lying about what someone said -- literally bearing false witness -- has become a much bigger social problem at this point than any of this other stuff. What goes around comes around. Be sure of it.
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  34151.  @TheSachingm  Flu vaccines have a better safety profile.
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  34152.  @TheSachingm  Just an observation. You say you avoid a safer shot because it's optional. Well, the COVID vaccines are not mandatory, either. I am not at all a vaccine sceptic. I've asked for more vaccines than I have gotten (notably meningitis, which they insisted I didn't need). I just know this vaccine is EUA, not fully approved, and that the emergency has been politicized on all fronts. Not a pretty picture.
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  34153. You said, verbatim: "I've never even taken any optional shots like flu shots." But the COVID vaccine is optional. In fact it is both optional, like flu, and unapproved, unlike flu. But you did take it. Flu also may be more deadly than COVID for people under 25. Many flu outbreaks have killed very young children, up through young adults, and we know flu shots can protect others, not just the person who takes them (though that is not always the case). COVID is not a highly deadly disease in most people. It is much more deadly than the flu overall, but it does not rise to being highly deadly. Other diseases with these mortality rates by age are considered highly treatable. Of course, COVID is highly contagious -- hence the real rub.
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  34154.  @TheSachingm  Arguing to "concussions?" My arguments are sound. Unfortunately, the media insists that we all become borderline hysterical, their ratings having collapsed since Caligula left office -- hence the need for a substitute. I'm not swayed by that. I can disengage. In any event, no one who is not a doctor should be advocating for or against a vaccine that is not yet FDA approved. You don't know what conditions some person may have that makes the vaccine unsuitable for them. UK's health service is recommending caution in administering the Astra-Zeneca vaccine to people with prior severe allegic reactions, for example. Here, people who have had COVID are often told to wait 90 before taking any vaccine. My conclusions are fine. You're just not used to reasoning. You are steeped in ADVERTISING. Tip: advertising is what keeps getting repeated over and over; reasoning is what rarely sounds familiar. What sounds familiar is comfortable and cosy. Good luck with that.
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  34155. These are sadists. More and more of them around these days. Don't feel bad about being phony to protect yourself if necessary. That's your right. Consider taking an acting class, try to make it fun.
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  34156. 😂😂😂😂😂
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  34157. harsh
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  34158. 1. Pinker was disproved pretty definitively. The rest ("evolution," etc.) is a biological version of psychobabble. You can prove anything with those arguments. 2. The women I know who watch crime shows are rooting for the detectives. They watch these shows to remind themselves that the world is a dangerous place, and to learn how to foresee danger and avoid it. Also to see the good guys catch the bad guys.
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  34159.  @KatJ3st  Amen!
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  34160.  @Lindsey0007  NEVER let them get inside your head. Anyone who blames you is a monster.
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  34161.  @BeckBeckGo  Of course. If you MUST hide a so-called "mental" or "emotional" illness to keep food on the table and a roof over your head, well then -- there are other words you can use that involve the brain and do not include "mental illness," etc. Virtuous unemployment is almost never an option. If it IS an option for you, hey, go for it. There's nothing wrong with that, either, if you can do it.
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  34162. Did MSM lie about what Rogan did, or not? It did. And it could backfire, so that some people might actually take an animal version of ivermectin? Moreover, Jimmy demonstrated everything he says here in other videos. Try keeping up.
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  34163. Never. Would never work for you?
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  34164. 💯
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  34165. Over $8800 while sleeping every night of the year isn't bad. 😊
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  34166. Horray! Suggest a book. For example.
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  34167.  @kevinkelley1205  Thank you. I have that one. About time I read it.
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  34168. Exactly.
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  34169.  @Asma-ep9bx  Here we are in September, for something that should have ended in April, with Donbass liberated and Crimea firmly in Russian hands, and no further NATO expansion. Instead, Crimea has been destroyed and civilians who had lived there for generations had to evacuate. Not to mention the Ukrainian refugees, not knowing what has become of their modest homes, or the young men they left behind, and facing a winter where even Europe will be hurting for heat. What kind of person can defend the indefensible?? To have escalated this conflict to full-fledged war without any measure of certainty of quick success was a crime. You just do not do this, ever. It is never justified.
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  34170.  @kachala  How did the US do it in Iraq, before sending a single troop in?
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  34171.  @kachala  "Shock and Awe" (tm)
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  34172.  @mrjerzheel  You missed the evacuations? Of civilians? That was a nice air base.
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  34173.  @kachala  True. But you know how they proceeded. Vietnam was a long time ago. Subsequent wars have begun with massive bombing.
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  34174. JIMMY those MSM editors who write the headlines don't read the articles.
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  34175. Wait until Used Car Salesman Vivek cuts your Social Security. Watch 14:57 to the end.
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  34176.  @davidcanatella4279  Wow, he did that, too? I had no idea. That right wing rocker who kills his own food is more honest.
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  34177. It sounds like Biden doesn't think any black woman is qualified. That's how he comes across.
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  34178.  @MAGA-Conservative-x1  Okay, that's nuts.
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  34179.  @BDnevernind  NO, YOU ARE WRONG. You are not just wrong but spreading legal misinformation about things that matter, to real people. I voted LaRiva/Peltier, in person, on election day, in protest. I'm very pleased with my choice. You? One more thing I was right about.
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  34180. @mrx2062  Chief Justice Boatright, Justice Samour, and Justice Berkenkotter basically agree that the Colorado election code was designed to provide a summary, expedited procedure to decide simple questions, such as whether a proposed candidate was old enough to be inaugurated president. It cannot be use to make a Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3 determination. Basically, what the other four Justices decided violates Due Process. I think everyone should at least try to read this, to see how technical and abstract these issues REALLY are, and how they don't lend themselves to social media polls, or off-the-cuff MSM comments. You can be sure none of the talking heads, or the "experts" on either side, read the whole case before commenting. They just took sides.
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  34181. ​ @thefelonattorney  No she didn't. She did not endorse this decision.
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  34182. Only the government or its agents can violate the Fourth.
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  34183. ALL of the same is true of the "Russia did it!" conspiracists. Russia did not make people vote for Trump. The deluded people you see interviewed at CPAC made Trump president.
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  34184. Oh goodness. Read what Jefferson did to his Bible.
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  34185.  @Thurgor_Supreme  Nope. Ahistorical.
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  34186.  @iyoutubeperson4336  Of course I did. But history didn't start in 2016. Did you read my posts?
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  34187.  @iyoutubeperson4336  And all the lifelong defenders of free speech I mentioned are on the left. Greenwald actually fought for free speech in court, taking unpopular cases.
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  34188.  @iyoutubeperson4336  Keep up the tribalism. It gets more Likes.
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  34189.  @iyoutubeperson4336  Everyone I follow reported the Hunter Biden story. AND the unconscionable censorship of that story. I don't follow anyone who suppressed the story. Sorry.
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  34190.  @iyoutubeperson4336  Look at the thread. I'm defending the LONG LIST of people who were ALWAYS against censorship. Lots of people, for a long, long time. Why do you want to discount their speech? (I don't follow TYT, by the way.)
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  34191.  @adiabeticturtle2463  I don't mean to minimize that. You are right. But wasn't it just a few weeks ago that people were screaming for jail time over the movie Cuties? It's perfectly fine to call for a boycott, no problem. You have a right to advocate boycott. But then you can't impose jail time for a work of art you refuse to see. The First Amendment doesn't work that way. Anyone who made the point I just made was "cancelled" by being called a "pedophile." A magic word against which no one has an argument. My "problem" is I still have a memory. It was not "the left" that did that.
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  34192.  @iyoutubeperson4336  Where did I bring up Trotsky? That was someone else. Everyone I mentioned is a contemporary American -- and there are many more. (P. S., are you okay?)
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  34193.  @iyoutubeperson4336  Exhale. Okay. I accept that. I think free speech defenders "on the left" are much more numerous, and MUCH more dedicated, than you do, BUT now we don't disagree all that much.
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  34194. The demonstrators are trying to influence the verdict. You are, too. Sorry to see.
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  34195.  @kinghenry238  I would never defend the Democrats. No argument there. They never act on principle but instead look for political expediency. They cannot win anything in November without trotting out a bunch of boogeymen, that's clear. That takes nothing away from my point. Look at January 6th objectively, forget about the partisanship.
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  34196.  @kinghenry238  I had a feeling we were close to agreement. Yup.
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  34197.  @kinghenry238  Agree again.
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  34198.  @america3373  The issue was stealing, and whether it is uniformly wrong. Is stealing from a human to save a non-human sentient living being always wrong? I say no. I'm not vegan. Vegetarian, with a rare exception for fish a few times most years.
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  34199. It's called a gig economy for a reason. If money is the measure of value, how can anyone begrudge her?
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  34200. The end of the draft was the end of anti-war as a position in American two-party politics.
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  34201.  @trentbateman  There are trans cats? I don't know. I'm a spaniel-cockatiel person.
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  34202.  @trentbateman  I was kidding.
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  34203. What a shame the vaccine fails to prevent COVID. I agree.
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  34204. @marclambert1283  Nope. Amber was wrong. I refer you to the Complaint, paragraphs 16 through 40.
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  34205. @marclambert1283  I doubt that anyone on the show read the Complaint. I see no reason to think so.
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  34206.  @alwhite6303  A fact in Newspeak: what I want to hear.
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  34207. @4637jvb  No. This case had to do with actual innocence. That's what they had to show, to maintain a civil rights suit. That's what the DA stated was the case, that the perpetrator acted entirely alone, when she asked the court to dismiss all charges.
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  34208. @4637jvb  You seem like someone who doesn't like reading. Pro tip: when you don't read something, you don't know what it says. You get that, right?
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  34209. @4637jvb  That has no bearing on a case where there was a conviction, and only then was actual innocence proved many years later, and tested in court when they filed a civil rights suit. Someone, somewhere who was guilty was found not guilty. That has zero to do with this case.
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  34210. @4637jvb  There was no innocent verdict for OJ Simpson. There was a "not guilty beyond reasonable doubt" in the criminal trial, and liability for wrongful death in the civil trial. That means OJ could never sue anyone for calling him a murderer and win a defamation case.
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  34211.  @4637jvb  Your story is all false. Someone duped you and made money telling you what you prefer to hear. Cha ching.
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  34212.  @4637jvb  OJ was never found innocent. He could never sue in defamation. You must not know how this works.
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  34213. Safe trip, dear Kim. Love you.
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  34214. No!! China is not evil to mainstream Dems. China us Hunter's Friend. China buys our debt. You want the repo market to seize up again? Well?
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  34215. Notice how short of a time it took to admit it. I expected much longer -- 6 to 12 months, after all the primaries. The way they admit it without worry so early is scary. They are NOT worried about us at all, and they expect to pick the president again without a problem.
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  34216. Only if you think America's navel is the center of the universe.
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  34217. American seniors are slaves, the entire populations of every developed country and a lot of undeveloped ones are slaves . . . But when an insurance company refuses to pay a bill for a necessary medical procedure and the hospital sends the bill to you, you are free, gloriously free.
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  34218.  @maxbootstrap7397  I've lived elsewhere. I will go back "where I came from," promise. But thanks for asking.
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  34219. Now you know why they cannot admit the true origin of this virus and are claiming the vaccines are just fine, too. Now is a good time to reread Glenn Greenwald: Liberty and Justice for Some. Find out how the powerful are shielded from having to take any responsibility for their actions, while we suffer for our own mistakes and theirs, of course. Someone has to.
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  34220.  Shocked  This!
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  34221. I appreciate your passion but let him finish the sentence. He said that.
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  34222. Are those states that had dueling in the culture?
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  34223. At this point it's evident that Russia and US/UK are all steeped in propaganda. If Germany accepts Russian conscientious objectors to the mobilization, we may hear some real news from them. We can hope.
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  34224.  @soilentgreen7  This guy (?) is a troll. He might be the plant, which is why he brings it up!
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  34225. IOW western European children. Take a look at which Brilliant, Productive people are in debt, and which ones have a national budget and trade surplus. Then take out a few of the things you own and see where they are made.
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  34226. Briahna, 💯
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  34227. Really? I hate Nazis, serial killers, and the Manson Family. But that's just me. I usually don't think of them at all, unless someone bring up how bad hate is and stuff like that and how I better watch out. Then I feel entirely free to say I hate them.
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  34228. The twelve people they targetted as being the major sources of medical misinformation almost all could have been sued by the FTC a long time ago. Like Jimmy always says, take them to court. Censorship is NEVER the answer. NEVER.
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  34229. Reminder: this is why NO ONE is required to prove innocence.
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  34230.  @NoFeArChiC2  How much? By the post or by the hour?
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  34231.  @pt17171  It has been greeted with accusations of grisely war crimes, and vicious denunciation of anyone calling for impartial investigation. Putin should never have invaded as long as all other options had not been thoroughly exhausted. War is hell. A war of choice is always wrong.
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  34232. What countries did that? France passed a law against asking any minor for proof of vaccination for any purpose, which makes it harder to ask anyone. The French left spearheaded the law. I don't think it was ever reported in the US press, by the way. I wonder why. /s
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  34233.  @reddirtwalker8041  April 2022 Guardian article: "German government drops plan for Covid vaccine mandate" I'll check Austria next. That rings a bell.
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  34234.  @reddirtwalker8041  Yes, Austria did that, but had to cut it out: "Austria is suspending a law making Covid-19 vaccinations mandatory for all adults, just a month after the legislation took effect in an EU first. [Austria] was among few [countries] in the world to make coronavirus jabs compulsory for all adults. The law took effect in February and called for fines of up to €3,600 (£3,000) from mid-March for those who did not comply." -- Also from The Guardian, 2022.
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  34235. Wait. Didn't YOU double your money on people stuck at home and staring at screens? Why didn't anyone ask him that? In the interest of full disclosure.
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  34236. What RFK Jr. said to do in the event of a pandemic was exactly what I wanted to see done.
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  34237. Er, election year?
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  34238. "Equality of result" 😅😅😅😅😅 When the CEO of a corporation he WORKS for, and did not himself found, made about 15 to 25 times what the lowest paid worker did, we had a solid country. Now when the difference is 200- or 300-fold, or worse, you see what we've got. Keep it up. These two are looking to profit from it, nothing more.
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  34239. No one cool needs to have their talking points right. Only losers have to worry about "facts." People without money. Ha ha.
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  34240. The MSM headlines compilation shows MSM is a complete DISGRACE.
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  34241. Not in the U.S. Supposedly.
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  34242. MSM, Acosta included -- and especially Rachel Maddow -- made money during Trump, and off of Trump. They protest too much.
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  34243. Richard Wolff's best is right here. Tremendous, brilliant job, thank you all!
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  34244. I thought Speaker Johnson's statement on race was perfect. 💯
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  34245. ​ @madgoldnz If I look in the mirror, I won't see you or anyone like you. 😂
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  34246. 💯
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  34247. She had no problem not voting for Biden and making sure everyone knows it.
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  34248. Several months ago Putin acted decisively to undermine US energy independence. Don't people at NYTimes see this, and appreciate the ramifications? Or do they look away, because it disrupts their pet "narratives?" This was something Putin himself did, for real -- though the people whose water was polluted by fracking may be grateful.
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  34249. Hypocrisy unbounded.
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  34250. Adolph Reed is brilliant. Are people THAT afraid of diversity of views?? Fear the fear!
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  34251.  @TotalConScience  That distinction IS key. You are absolutely right. They have to allege and prove "New York Times malice," which involves knowing the assertions were false and actively endorsing them anyway. If they can prove that, then they can maintain a case against Fox as well as against the people who invented the lies.
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  34252. ​@EmphaticNoticing The joke's on you but it's not funny.
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  34253. LOLOLOL thank you
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  34254. Lots of great threads to these videos.
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  34255. Summary executions of anyone advocating surrender, summary executions of opposition mayors, reported by Grayzone among other alternative media --- not to mention foreign sources like Chinese media, which are officially neutral and bring a variety of voices to programs like The Heat. Zelensky decorating an Azov Battalion commander, Zelensky bringing Azov Battalion with him to address Greece's parliament, etc. None of this sounds like he is operating on his own free will. Far from it. Not that you will be convinced. 🤣
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  34256.  @rogerout8875  In any case, the way he is being praised and blamed (depending on who's talking) lacks all realism.
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  34257.  @rogerout8875  The stories of a fortune stashed abroad is a joke as well. As if that could help him, even if it were the Gospel truth. I suppose it could be . . . At this moment, who cares? Bizarre and unserious, what the media does to these leaders of relatively small countries.
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  34258.  @rogerout8875  More evidence is past performance: see Aaron Mate and Stephen F Cohen on the Minsk accords: there were forces in Ukraine opposed to signing and implementing them, and threatening Zelensky. Zelensky relied on the US's support in resisting the far right. This was well before the invasion. Cohen has since died. I mean, I think it's a pattern. I can't know. I think the reports are credible.
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  34259.  @michaeljones825  One of the best summaries I've seen in a long time.
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  34260.  @rogerout8875  Here's more: Push Back, Aaron Mate, today, April 21st. Information that precedes the invasion by a couple of years, hence cannot be influenced by it. BTW, Cohen was asked whether Russia would invade, and he pointedly refused to say no. He always said it was very much a risk.
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  34261.  @rogerout8875  Evidence that you asked for a while ago.
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  34262.  @rogerout8875  About 16 minutes, 45 seconds in.
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  34263.  @rogerout8875  Wait a second. You joined ten days ago? Oops, never mind.
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  34264. Biden won't be laughed at? OMG
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  34265.  @bozodeathgod  Licensed to practice in California, you?
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  34266. 0:54. You think this is true? "Opportunity, calm, and COMFORT?" Take a trip to any major downtown. Spend the day. Look and listen. Our need to believe something so obviously wrong is quite interesting in itself.
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  34267. ​ @Winterascent  Read the exception in the Thirteenth Amendment.
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  34268. A generation after Columbine, and Wisconsin's legislature was incapable of passing reasonable GUN laws. Explain that. Zeroing in on Rittenhouse is falling for a ruse.
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  34269. @derekekoch  Gosh, you're welcome. I wasn't particularly nice, I thought. Kind-of normal. Kind-of normal is good, lol.
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  34270. The problem is that Masterson insists the relations were consensual and has on occasion denounced the victims.
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  34271.  @immanuelsuleiman7550  Wow is your head in the sand.
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  34272.  @christinafidance340  Do you really not know what many people are doing now? We don't know what happened in this case. I do know what I would tell a young person, though --- NEVER. Absolutely NEVER do that. Anyway, there was a reason your husband pondered that possibility. It should never be normalized.
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  34273. Are you confusing monopoly capital (our world) with the free market of Adam Smith? Adam Smith would be heaven compared to this. It is inaccessible to us now.
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  34274. Why . . . do you take him seriously? That's not helping.
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  34275. Oh, I see. They call it HARMONY Communities! So, are you against Harmony?
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  34276. ​​ @GavinLawson-v7c PRECISELY. Why do you think I suggested multivariate analysis? Too bad it is costly and time consuming, and there are such strong material disincentives to conducting a careful, thorough, and wholly unbiased multivariate analysis. Too bad, yup.
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  34277. So the FBI is the private enforcement arm of Amazon.
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  34278. Source?
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  34279. Great news!! The major donor to the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Leslie Wexner, has severed all ties!! You remember Wexner? Jeffrey Epstein was his protégé. He's not handing out his money any more, for this. Wexner has principles.
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  34280. Well, does the phone decide to privilege some call over others in any way? Does the post office? No! Try listening to this discussion.
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  34281.  @JFloz  Yes it does matter. Why do you think this case wasn't dismissed at the trial level, instead of being argued before the Supreme Court? It has nothing to do with "blaming Google." If they were responsible, they would be criminally prosecuted. It has to do with their design and use of algorithms, and whether they are sheltered from any civil liability when those algorithms help facilitate crime. The algorithms are their own product. Terrorism existed long before all kinds of things. This is a non sequitur. Notice the difference between your vague, emotional appeal and the issues in the actual case.
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  34282.  @JFloz  No, that's not comparable to a telephone -- at least not necessarily. It is designed by the company to prioritize various messages. So, it depends on the design. That there are benign algorithms is not the issue -- of course there are. How does that prove that all are benign? There are helpful pharmaceuticals, including those for severe pain. Does that mean pushing oxycontin is all right? The telephone simply rings when someone calls you, night or day, real or bot. If this were the same, the case would not be before the Supreme Court.
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  34283.  @JFloz  There is no point in giving obviously well-informed people these little lessons, as if I didn't know "you and I have used literally hundreds of computational algorithms . . . blah blah." Throw in "computational," sound Really Smart. All irrelevant. Read the briefs, find out the issues. There's an algorithm that will take you to the page that has all the court filings listed and available in .pdf form.
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  34284. One in 8.5 women will develop breast cancer in their lifetime. Not one in 20. But most will not die of it.
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  34285. Remember the life of Afeni Shakur. She identified a provocateur in her Black Panther group and resisted their suggestions to obtain firearms, then represented herself at her own trial and won.
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  34286. Bernie knew Biden could not be budged leftward. Biden would rather lose. Too much money is at stake. Bernie's failure to try to push Biden tells you everything. Not a failure of will. He knew it was impossible.
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  34287. Wait. Somebody went to dinner with somebody, according to somebody?
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  34288. Robby, who paid for your college?
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  34289.  @vandor1976  Did you notice? No one did.
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  34290. 100%? Better check on that.
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  34291.  @KernowFay  WHAT PRONOUNS DO BANANAS HAVE???
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  34292.  @jamesc0890  We both know that's nonsense. Sorry.
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  34293. No. He's a con man.
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  34294.  @GabrielVelasco  You said financial genius. He claims he engineered those things. If he holds the patents, fine. I'm not suggesting he didn't. I'm saying I do not assume one way or the other based solely on his representations, without corroborating evidence.
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  34295.  @GabrielVelasco  Tesla is also facing one of the worst discrimination suits ever brought. Neuralink is also facing a complaint for primate torture, which is illegal. Musk himself is being sued by the SEC. I can document those assertions.
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  34296.  @GabrielVelasco  So, with all these things on his plate, plus his very young children by several women, why is he involved in this suit? Doesn't that seem like a bad idea? I mean, with all these serious and important breakthroughs he is shepherding . . . I still remember when serious people were . . . serious. They wouldn't have time to tweet, much less . . .
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  34297. And if that were all: if a "perfectly fine and noble person" is attacked on social media by Bad Actors, then the DNC abandons them? Yup, sounds about right. You could not make this **** up.
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  34298. Dr. Ezike has been about the most candid public official since the beginning. She just told you how the numbers are calculated.
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  34299. 🤣🤣🤣
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  34300. On second thought, not like The Onion. No one could make this up.
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  34301. Definitely. Anyone who worked in health care all last year during the pandemic should get what's coming to them. Clearly a bunch of Trumpers. Or Russians, or something. Anyone stupid enough to sacrifice themselves for others deserves every insult they get. Especially on YouTube.
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  34302. They cannot be banned at the government's behest as long as they are protected speech. Things like true threats and inciting riots are not protected. Suggesting the COVID vaccines have genuine risks is protected. Opining that Hunter's laptop is authentic is protected, just like suggesting that Saddan Hussein was not involved in 9/11.
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  34303.  @RobinMarks1313  Gosh, what WAS his stance? Still not clear to me, but you guys all know. So tell the rest of us what you mean.
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  34304.  @RobinMarks1313  Well, when one of these vaccines receives full approval, I'll be taking a close look again. It is not necessarily irrational for a person to refuse to sign the EUA release papers, depending on their own risk factors and medical history. I'm going to try to tune out the noise. The way this pandemic has been handled by the political "leaders" in this country has been a disgrace and a crime. I do not want to be influenced by them in any direction concerning my health care. It seems to me that people with diabetes, or suffering from obesity, and men over 50 and women over 60 have mostly had good reasons to get vaccinated. The rest of us? Hmmm . . . That depends. Even Dr. Eric Topol, probably the most pro-vaccination person I've heard speaking out, has called what we're doing overly "vaccine-centric." Um, YEAH. I found out from watching one of his interviews that Germany and Netherlands can get at-home COVID test kits for free, and routinely test themselves. Wow, just wow. Anyway, it is too easy to be revolted, and decide once and for all not to get vaccinated. That is letting Fauci et al. have far too much influence over your life. Tune. Them. Out.
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  34305.  @RobinMarks1313  I don't disbelieve you. At the start of this spring, I was regularly reading European sources on the vaccine, and looking carefully at what they were doing. I can say it has been interesting. France got too politicized, so speaking French ceased to help much. I looked to countries with the highest vaccination rates and at countries with longer life expectancy and better infant mortality and childhood health statistics than the US. For example, Israel told the truth about the myocarditis and endocarditis risk when the CDC was still talking about the correlation likely being a mere fluke. So, now I check Haaretz. UK was allowing longer gaps between the first and second Astra-Zeneca vaccines than originally recommended, with no apparent downside. Some people believe this has increased their effectiveness. Switzerland's health ministry stated that anyone who had had a proven case of COVID (specifying how it needs to have been proven) was fully vaccinated after ONE dose of an mRNA vaccine, and in its seven reasons why everyone eligible should get vaccinated, they omit any mention of stopping new variants from arising, because that is too conjectural to impose on its citizens. Different picture, huh? As for our "breakthrough" infection rate, at what point is it a breakthrough, as opposed to a failed vaccine? Anyway, I am keeping an open mind, and remaining optimistic about having a good vaccine. I don't know that we do yet. Yet if I were 70 years old and obese, I promise you I would have been first in line.
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  34306.  @RobinMarks1313  Oh, another interesting fact: BMJ (British) ran a peer-reviewed study that showed that vegans, vegetarians, and vegetarians-plus-fish all had a substantially lower risk of severe COVID and death. DW (German) picked up the story right away. Our press did not touch it.
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  34307.  @RobinMarks1313  I hate fear mongering. I hate manipulation. I have to be careful not to let the fear mongers influence me against the vaccine. Just because they cannot or will not give me good reasons to be vaccinated does not mean there are no good reasons. BTW, the WORST people I know are pushing vaccination. I do not want that to sway me against it. That is not evidence of anything either way.
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  34308.  @RobinMarks1313  Well, but that is where I am skeptical of the claim that EVERYONE is using corrupted data. That is not categorically impossible, true, but it ultimately makes little sense. Then the data relied upon by the strongest vaccine critics may not stand up to scrutiny, either. Radical skepticism gives no guidance. Those who reject all vaccines now and in the near future might turn out to be guessing right, but it is still a guess. Is China telling the truth about its low rate of COVID? If so, how did they achieve it? What can we learn from them? Is Russia being candid about Sputnik V risks? If Sputnik V does not have the blood clot issue that J & J and Astra-Zeneca have, is it the best vaccine of all so far? Questions I'd love to have answered.
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  34309. 45 years old?? Ever replicated? 😂😂😂😂😂
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  34310. Uh oh. Now you've scared me.
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  34311. It's really important to name call. What took you so long? Also, consider a fresher repertoire.
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  34312. En democratie, les gens peuvent avoir un choix de vaccins. C'est ce que j'aurais pense, moi.
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  34313.  @NMemone  AMEN. That should be the FIRST question.
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  34314. Well, it's their own fault something something. They should't rely on government something.
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  34315.  @anahernandez4043  I'm so sorry you weren't taught to read in school. Look for an adult literacy program.
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  34316.  @anahernandez4043  A therapist can help you with projection.
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  34317. @anahernandez4043  A guy is dead and you're worried about whether the media blah blah is balanced. Maybe it's not someone else who has the wrong focus?
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  34318. @snuffeldjuret  Listen to the video again. Brie was outraged by the killing, taking great pains to describe the frailty of the man. This outcome in any interaction with LE has become routine. Brie is the only person commenting that I've heard who made this point. He was an unlikely threat, if anyone was. We're killing slightly daft old men that I could take down?
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  34319.  @anahernandez4043  I didn't assume you don't care. Wrong focus.
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  34320.  @snuffeldjuret  So then you are biased. Where else have you heard how frail he was? CNN? LOL
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  34321.  @snuffeldjuret  Good, neither do I --- and they expect to be paid for it. They would have to pay me.
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  34322. When something gets a catchy name like Operation Warp Speed, I know that is not a sober scientist addressing me. That's an ad agency meme.
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  34323.  @joesecord3066  The real truth is, the rate of vaccination has dropped and vaccines have expired. Many people want more real information. See what we got instead?
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  34324.  @DEEPSTATE000  You don't recognize ADVERTISING slogans? You think they are real things? Yes, they are real advertising.
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  34325.  @DEEPSTATE000  The surveillance cameras are too far away for iris analysis. LOL
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  34326.  @DEEPSTATE000  Right. I didn't attend Prager U.
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  34327. Not to mention that some of the tribal leaders who were supposedly our "allies" in Afghanistan had child sex slaves. US service members were in some cases ordered to ignore it. One American soldier who couldn't ignore it and tried to put a stop to it was assassinated. This was all reported by the NYTimes, as well as the independent press, of course. They couldn't hide it.
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  34328. Did anyone peek into her window, or is she broadcasting this? Why?
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  34329. Where did you find The List?
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  34330.  @hans-joachimbierwirth4727  I found it. Nearly all, and probably all but Kennedy, can be prosecuted for false advertising by the FTC. Some should have been prosecuted a long time ago. That is how you deal with it.
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  34331.  @hans-joachimbierwirth4727  That's my conclusion. Jimmy said that, too. Take them to COURT.
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  34332.  @hans-joachimbierwirth4727  Read Nadine Strossen on hate speech.
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  34333.  @hans-joachimbierwirth4727  The government using private actors in this way can give rise to a Section 1984 civil rights suit. The government cannot use private actors as its cat's paw, but it certainly can PROSECUTE these people. It should have prosecuted some of them a long time ago. Bogus medical advice has killed many already, and the super tiny fine print disclaimer ("this is not medical advice") is an ugly joke. Facebook itself can censor, that is true. But that was not what Jen Psaki said.
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  34334. If so, not a good idea. LOL
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  34335. You think those are compelling endorsements? Kamala and the DNC cabal make Trump look good, a seemingly impossible achievement. And yet they do. Either face the truth that we are $%#@&, . . . or whistle in the dark if you can't face it. We don't have two parties, we have two cults.
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  34336. We don't have proof yet of the kickback ("ten percent for the Big Guy"). She agrees the rest has been proven, PLUS Biden lied about it repeatedly.
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  34337. ​@protoman1214 It's the 10% kickback we cannot prove yet -- and no, we cannot. The rest is pretty well there.
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  34338. Okay. This is insane. These are cases where even proponents of the death penalty oppose the execution because they don't want an innocent man executed. They don't want that "on their record." 😢
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  34339. Worse than I thought.
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  34340. In Israel, they are being hospitalized. Whether the case fatality rates and the rates of critical cases have dropped, I don't know. This report was dire. Worse than expected, and sooner than projected.
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  34341.  @crescendyr8438  Almost exclusively Pfizer from what I've read. Check the report to be sure. Check Haaretz. They have not been downplaying problems.
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  34342.  @yusufabdul7147  Never happened. They convicted Microsoft of antitrust violations, then on appeal rejected breaking it up as a penalty. The 9/11 attacks occurred while the penalty phase of the case (on remand) was pending. Of course no onerous penalty was imposed on Microsoft after that. They were told to stop leveraging their monopoly power to freeze others out of the market -- basically told to stop breaking the law.
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  34343. It's called irony.
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  34344.  @silentbob8635  I hate to say this, but WHOOSH.
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  34345. They are interested in fundraising.
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  34346. This is immunized. This is why congressmembers can do this without worry.
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  34347. Exactly. It's an ideology. I don't need any ideology to exist. My life doesn't depend on one.
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  34348. Le Pen isn't conservative. The conservative parties are small.
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  34349. ​ @Pugetwitch  Is that your hope? Or are you a seer? 😂
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  34350. ​@Pugetwitch People who psychoanalyze others are very unlucky in life. Sometimes bad luck happens soon after their aggressive psychobabble. 😂
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  34351. Why is it that after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, people understood that scientists were not gods and science could be grievously misused, but suddenly we are supposed to forget all we've once known, and throw all scepticism away? And I do mean genuine scepticism, not the claim that "the opposite stance" is true. I mean deliberately suspending judgment while we investigate. What happened to that?
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  34352. ​ @properpolymath2097 He made a very easy living. Parasitic.
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  34353. I'd love to know how many veterans over the age of 25 they admit. How about the decorated ones? That is a merit-based criterion and would really increase diversity.
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  34354. ​ @plzsavethebeez743  Because her stocks quadrupled during the plan demic.
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  34355. Of course! Twenty-first century inequality is unmatched! :/
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  34356. So, will all jobs in the future be a handful of Elons doing their celebrity ape act?
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  34357. Nice little reminder, well presented. Okay, now go back to watching advertising.
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  34358. One in 20? It's already more in the US, and has been for a long time.
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  34359. To base such a conclusion on only one study, that contradicts the plethora of studies showing loving relationships to be the single strongest predictor not only of subjective happiness and optimism, but also objective measures of physical health, not to mention the myriad studies, especially from UK, that having a low rank in your workplace is literally deadly, even if you do a good job there, is dubious. I simply don't believe it. Studies of things like healthy longevity, which are more concrete and don't depend on any form of self-reporting, are more persuasive, and they show relationships matter. This study did not even mention the importance of aesthetic pleasures, that come with creating or viewing art. That doesn't matter? To humans? Music, hugs, good food and brisk walks can coax you out of a mild depression, not to mention making happy people feel even better. I hope these COVID lockdowns showed everyone that we need each other.
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  34360. So, everyone is crazied now? HE was polite, she, hysterical?
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  34361.  @annolsen7494  He shot his own grandmother and she immediately called police! Yeah, if your adult child embezzles or molests a kid, we should go after you. Well, if you insist.
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  34362. @cocoacrunch09Yes, and that was a minor who was encouraged, and the parents got him the gun and covered for him. They are responsible for their own actions.
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  34363. @cocoacrunch09 We don't charge anyone who has no more than mere notice that another person is likely to commit a crime. This is why conspiracy statutes are written as they are. In the US, there is no generalized duty to report, and difficult to impute knowledge, as distinct from fear or suspicion.
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  34364.  @mxcope  When you said "WAS" in caps, you hinted at it, yeah.
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  34365.  @mxcope  No, both of my licenses are current.
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  34366.  @travisbickle1689  Between choosing not to renew a license (a money issue) and having it yanked? Lol
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  34367.  @travisbickle1689  You aren't a lawyer? Wild guess.
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  34368.  @DM-sy4hg  6:34 and 6:53
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  34369.  @mxcope  No, I'm not Brie. She isn't licensed in California.
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  34370.  @travisbickle1689  It's a big distinction. Remember how Clinton got his law license yanked? I do. It was sweet.
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  34371.  @travisbickle1689  Duh.
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  34372. @travisbickle1689  Actually, you are a lawyer but not an "attorney at law." That distinction is outdated, and few recognize it as such today, but I do know it exists and people do use "attorney at law" in ads, on business cards, etc. That's why. Once you pass the bar, you are an attorney at law for life unless they disbar you. What you do with it is your business. Retire, let the license lapse, etc., you know whether you can practice or not, or if you don't, you will find out the hard way. Law is pedantic. :/
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  34373.  @StarScreamReee  No one said that making a false police report, or committing perjury, is generally punished. (We should all know by now that police perjury is often unpunished, for example.) The only point was that simple defamation is not, in general, a crime but a civil offense. Perjury is a crime. Making a false police report is a crime. In a lot of big cities, most murders are unsolved, and therefore unprosecuted -- nevermind perjury, or making false police reports.
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  34374.  @WhoopsyDaisyDoo  Not a crime.
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  34375. If the reports discrediting her are accurate, they immediately raise the question why Biden, already a powerful Senator, chose to hire her. How in the world did that happen? The fact that she was harassed was corroborated. The true extent of the harassment does depend on her credibility, but the fact of the harassment cannot be denied.
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  34376. So are you done with Amber Heard, is it? Withdrawal can be a beach.
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  34377. LOL
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  34378.  @ValisJnr  Read the complaint and see what the university did. They are culpable.
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  34379.  @StevenPenny Bettinger brought a federal lawsuit against the University of Virginia. The pdf of the complaint is up on the Reason magazine website. She has super good lawyers. It's a civil rights action for an injunction and major damages, and I think she'll win.
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  34380.  @ValisJnr  Like I said, she can sue for defamation. In any case, the University is not the victim here. Not by ANY stretch. Do you think Russel Brand should be deprived of a big chunk of his income, too? I don't.
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  34381.  @ValisJnr  Robby is editor of Reason, which claims it broke the story. Their reporting here is consistent with Reason magazine's reporting, and what the University did to her goes far beyond finally agreeing to release her degree. I support Bettinger if she chooses to file a defamation suit as well, and get some of that Dove money to satisfy the judgment. Looks like you didn't do your research. Read the complaint. (Did you just listen to videos or something?)
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  34382. If it contains names of victims or other persons, REDACT them. No problem.
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  34383.  @gamophyte  He's qualified to say that those who take the vaccine do it out of love, like his co-workers have, on his show? Well I guess. Not sure what that has to do with me.
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  34384.  @fishingbeast1844  Race to the bottom redux.
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  34385.  @nafaidni  Did someone listen to ELVIS for their young child's medical care? Oh the irony.
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  34386. ​ @stanleybarton We may not agree, but at least you are on point here.
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  34387. ​​ @jennie271982 10:10 Does Brie support plagiarists as professors? No.
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  34388.  @7.62juarez  It's called hard drugs. Look into what they can do to young minds.
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  34389. 6:55 These reserves would get sent back to Ukraine and then disappear? Paging Hunter Biden.
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  34390.  @daffidkane8350  I had no idea. I just had to check it in relation to Hume -- it came ten years after Hume's work. Was it intended as a response to his Treatise of Human Nature? How funny one is called a philosopher, the other an economist, when both were both.
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  34391. ​ @aveaguila7679 Actually, it does.
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  34392. ​ @ahnguyen1 Actually, it does. Try listening to Glenn Greenwald for a few hours and find out.
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  34393. A "censure" is a finding of wrongdoing for having spoken, and a formal reprimand for her words. They could have passed a resolution stating they disagreed with her and affirming their support for Israel. They didn't. They doled out a punishment instead. It is intended to have a chilling effect on her speech. That is its purpose. You all give up rights too easily.
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  34394. @nanettevinson8249  Yes, you are nuts. Not every speech you believe is immoral is therefore subject to legal sanction. You can vote someone out of office, you can support whoever runs against them. You can't deprive them of their citizenship or lock them up. If you think you can . . . If you think you should . . . Then you're nuts.
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  34395. Your hyperbole is mild at most. A substantial minority of Anglo-Saxons have always endorsed Nazi "racial" hierarchies, for one thing. Hell, the rat line wasn't purely cynical. There was real sympathy for a lot of these monsters.
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  34396.  @markswang8987  You are so on target, thank you. Have a good year!
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  34397. I see everything that has happened from 2020 to the present as illegitimate.
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  34398.  @utah_koidragon7117  no
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  34399. 😅😅😅😅
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  34400. ​@Qwijebo Probably not. It's still 2023 and he can't walk now.
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  34401.  @screwsinabell  LOL
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  34402. @Сперти за правду Didya count? (???)
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  34403. ​ @unipartyhellscape8895 💯
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  34404.  @brandonburns5365  I do too, OBVIOUSLY.
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  34405.  @brandonburns5365  Watch the rest of her segments just from today, such as the one on censorship and how much of a risk it is that Biden will continue the pressure and skew the election. How do you think I know Brie has repeatedly said she did not vote for Biden?
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  34406. @dom. one_  In a the public square, in an announced event, like a parade, or in a private space open to those who want to go, like a nightclub --- no problem. This is the White House. No one should ever be afraid to bring their child because a daytime celebration could turn soft core or burlesque. Not even one time. No.
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  34407. The fact that they ran Clinton and Biden against TRUMP proves that they don't mind a Trump presidency, they don't really believe the Russia story, they don't see him as a threat to our democracy, etc.
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  34408. Do these "factor X" people have improved vitamin D levels if they take vitamin D and go out in the sun every morning? Please give some keywords for the studies. We can figure them out.
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  34409.  @NovemXI  LOL, great! I didn't think of that!
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  34410. The media lied again, lol.
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  34411. Do this many people not know how to see through a scam? Look up the cases he lost. It takes under a minute. Look up the Sixteenth Amendment. Look up all the people who lost challenging it. That may take 5 minutes.
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  34412. I mostly agree. What many don't seem to realize that if the only two states that were in fact close, Georgia and Arizona, had gone to Trump, he would have lost anyway. Court cases aside, why does anyone think he won? He did not win Pennsylvania, or Michigan, or Wisconsin. Useful Idiots had an excellent debate concerning the federal indictment for election interference last Friday --- well worth watching.
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  34413. @johnwong5317  ​Billionaires spend more on lobbying for the laws they want than they do on taxes. Then they get massive government contracts and buy US Treasuries, and WE owe THEM our taxes, on the contracts, and interest on the national debt. Needless to say, they also pay talking heads to obfuscate this fact, though they barely have to hide anymore.
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  34414. @johnwong5317  What would be even better would be to end private censorship of the facts concerning how money flows to Musk.
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  34415.  @JoeJoe-go4vd  To look at my tax records? Has it done that? And if it has, should Musk do that next?
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  34416. @johnwong5317  ​ Musk spends more on lobbying for the laws he wants than on taxes. He then gets government contracts and buys US Treasuries, and WE owe HIM our taxes, on the contracts and the interest on the national debt. Will that be paused, too?
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  34417. @ExtraordinaryLiving  Well, it comes to this: do we pretend there is no law? "No one follows it anyway." Same for First Amendment? Same for Fourth Amendment?
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  34418.  @ExtraordinaryLiving  No one is safe from homicide, either.
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  34419. Funny how the US has some of the most stringent sanctions on Venezuela when obviously it would fail all on its own without our intervention.
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  34420.  @martinfiedler4317  Gawd, you are both brilliant.
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  34421. Excellent
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  34422. Good for Amal. This isn't antisemitism.
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  34423. This is so sinister, lord.
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  34424. So, microdose Musk can trash the agencies that regulate brain chips. Sounds like a plan. Let's see how that works out.
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  34425. Who is hunting whom? True threats were always illegal, and incitement to violence was always illegal. The actual casualties of violence in the US in reaction to October 7 have all been Muslims: a little boy stabbed to death, and his mother was stabbed and survived, and three students shot over Thanksgiving. So we should make Ben shut up, huh? What space was safe for George Floyd? Breonna Taylor? Kalief Browder?
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  34426. Where did the demonstration with the second chant you put in caps happen? If I write it, I am immediately sense oar ed.
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  34427.  @echodeltatango8030  In the US? Or in Australia?
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  34428.  @echodeltatango8030  It is sense or ship.
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  34429.  @mindgrind2261  Or your dad is, say, president.
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  34430.  @mindgrind2261  Gasp, you mean . . . ??? There can't be two sets of laws! This is America!!!
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  34431.  @mindgrind2261  I'm sorry, I'm too stunned to process this. Give me a moment.
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  34432. ​@samknobeloch503 Depends on who, doesn't it? That's how we live now.
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  34433.  @dm0065  You may be right about that. I never set foot in a private college, or private school K-12, except for some art classes as a student-at-large, on my own dime.
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  34434.  @dm0065  Earning your own way was possible when the states supported ALL levels of education with tax money, and the minimum wage kept pace with real productivity. No one should have to risk death, or having to kill to live, or becoming disabled, or PTSD, for an education. Or a small business grant. You think that should be the deal? In order to have what you need to live, you may have to kill someone else? Well then do open all the prison doors.
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  34435.  @dm0065  Don't get me wrong. Many of my very closest friends are veterans. In fact, pretty much the only realistically antiwar people I have ever known are combat veterans. They are among the most intelligent people I've ever met, too. No surprise. There is no way to pay them back. GI Bill is barely a start, if that.
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  34436. @arthur0227  And the men who defend him are unmanly. I'll say it. 😅
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  34437. 45:22 Reminds me of the story that Hollywood suggested Liz Taylor lighten her hair.
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  34438. All of these are fads, verging on cults. As for the "official recommendations," those exist for one reason and one reason only: 💰💰💰💰💰
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  34439. @karleedu  You could say the same about Trump, or Netanyahu. It's an empty comeback.
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  34440.  @karleedu  Mussolini made the trains run on time?
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  34441. @karleedu  Peltier just got clemency, so at least he is going home. A convicted felon, but at home. Biden could have done that in 2021. It was done for many elderly during the pandemic.
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  34442. He just got clemency. He remains convicted, but at least he gets to go home in peace. Biden could have done that four years ago. It was done for many elderly inmates during the pandemic.
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  34443. So she once had a job of sorts as a Senator, and now she got a big promotion and does what highschoolers do. Poorly raised highschoolers. I'm shocked shocked.
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  34444. ​ @cennon I thought it was brilliant.
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  34445. 15:03 I missed part of Vijay, needed the timestamp to get back to it. :)
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  34446. @user-rc2xs5ti2w  There was a dissent. The Justices of the Colorado Court didn't all agree, and they stayed the decision pending review. So, we aren't in the realm of lawlessness --- yet. I still remember 30 years ago when Hate Radio and the afternoon talk shows were convincing housewives that the Constitution makes it impossible to punish vicious crimes and keep kids safe. They believed it, too. We have zero civics education. Look at what people were willing to do during the pandemic! :/
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  34447. This dude, whatever his name is, is ignorant of basic facts of social psychology. For example, you will never get at the truth of whether a person is happy; what you will find out is whether their social group valorizes the assertion that they are happy, or considers claiming to be discontented a signal of greater depth, intelligence, higher ethical standards, and so forth. It also depends on whether a group considers candor imperative -- you owe it to everyone to answer a survey truthfully -- and whether it is considered immoral, or even sinful, not to express happiness, which is a sign of gratitude toward God. So . . . A researcher has to use various indirect methods to find out who is truly happy. Do any of the people on Fox look happy to you? They are railing against someone at least as much as The View.
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  34448. I was always surprised that Jordan Turpin was believed.
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  34449. I'm not a doctor and cannot give advice, but what I have been doing since before the pandemic is doing careful research on the foods and other health habits that reduce inflammation in the body. I use the peer-reviewed journals, which have lots of articles on the subject now, and sources like Linus Pauling Institute. It's a lot of work, but I started doing it when I was a caregiver for my father. I believe people can rebuild their health. Don't despair! 😊
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  34450. ​ @trex19681  Ha. Even Stalin banned lobotomies twenty years before the U$ did. Wake up.
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  34451. But Jimmy, "probably" is a better loyalty test. Asking people to believe true things proves nothing! /s
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  34452. If he's thought through it all, then it must be a condition precedent spelled out in the actual, you know, contract.
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  34453. Smells Like Teen Spirit
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  34454. The problem is that you're describing an extremely serious Title VII violation. But Title VII is really hard for plaintiffs to use, and was time-barred in any event. So they tried to turn it into a crime.
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  34455. @willman9567  Wrong, LOL. Where did you get that? Actors aren't objectively under the control of producers? It's easy to get away with discrimination, but it's not that easy. At any rate, as soon as Weinstein attempted to destroy the career of anyone who turned him down, any pretense of an arms' length relationship between the two, with real choices for the "independent" contractor, was gone.
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  34456. 😂
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  34457. Biden doesn't lie anymore. He lacks the mental capacity to lie.
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  34458. Good point, but if it can be fairly read in a way that is consistent with the First Amendment, it won't be struck down.
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  34459. Er, no. Listen to the Fauci clip again. HE wants to make this about Fauci, rather than about the real issues. He's paid for that (diversion, decoy, red herring, fraud). He protests too much for a reason. Brie takes too long to make her point, and then includes caveats, which is confusing. But here she is finally over the target: 10:28
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  34460.  @TriggaTrey361  Is BLM "hate speech?" Is CRT? See the problem?
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  34461. Of course.
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  34462.  @fmbar00  The actual videotapes have been played constantly. You must not be paying attention.
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  34463.  @fmbar00  Who cares? I voted La Riva. (So, am I vaccinated, or not? ;)
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  34464.  @anthonyhadsell2673  You actually don't know? Then it didn't happen.
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  34465.  @The_MES  You never say a show was "taped," even though we all know no tape was used? It was in 2020, before the election, and during "Operation Warpspeed." Also, if you make fun of a comment, do you get a kewpie doll, or your own personal facts? Or both? I wouldn't know, I stick to verifiable claims. No prize for me.
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  34466.  @anthonyhadsell2673  It did. Kamala Harris said so, expressing concern over whatever Trump was pushing, Biden said he would only consider vaccination with assurances of safety. Pelosi said absolutely no mandates, which I grant is not the same. All were statements made prior to the election, and before any vaccine was approved. You know full well that links are shadowed because they are too hard to monitor for TOS violations. Hence you say someone else cannot prove up a claim, knowing full well why they cannot link the proof. That's called bad faith.
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  34467.  @anthonyhadsell2673  BTW, blocked. I have no use for bad faith actors.
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  34468. Wait until you hear how TYT reported this. A new low. Sub sub sub sub basement.
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  34469. Of course. Some of their favorite stocks doubled.
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  34470. ​​ @karenhaynes3125 Taibbi wrote Insane Clown President. Excellent book, btw.
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  34471. Yeah, get rid of Bri and bend over for Musk.
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  34472. Where do you think you saw that here?
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  34473.  @Phoenix8Rising  Then I wonder why he wasn't held for stealing her van. I don't say there can be no good answer, because I don't know. I would like to hear the answer. It better be good.
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  34474. If that were the criteria, the case would never have been granted cert.
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  34475.  @coachduke9323  GPA, SAT? LOL, being a legacy or "special development" (like a child star or Olympic gold medalist, or the child of someone who gives $1 million+ to Harvard) is by far the single most important criterion.
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  34476.  @coachduke9323  Non-merit admissions have always been an issue. I don't think there is any way to change what private universities do, and it is pointless to discuss criteria when we have absolutely no influence over criteria and cannot have influence. What we could change is the fact that these are the feeder schools to all major positions of power, especially in politics. If I had kids, I'd want them educated in the UK and France, unless they have a scientific bent. Then I would want them to go to a great engineering school, which ranges from MIT to University of Illinois. In other words, those schools are not all private. For pure mathematics, Oxford or Cambridge, definitely. Only the empirical sciences and technology are worth running the gauntlet here.
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  34477.  @coachduke9323  It is possible to discriminate even when grades are not the sole criterion for admission by demonstrating that only if you are Asian will your grades be given markedly less importance than they are for everyone else. That is a difficult statistical analysis to present, and usually a discrimination claim has to have other evidence to support it, such as "smoking gun" evidence. For example, Kim Iversen's mother was a refugee from Vietnam, and Kim was expressly told not to say she is Asian, since her name allows her to pass for Northern European. I guess having a mother who was a refugee from Vietnam just isn't the narrative that gets you ahead anymore. Once you put the statistical evidence together with specific examples, though, you do have a case.
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  34478.  @jorgegonzales9815  Sorry, but you didn't understand what I meant, and you don't understand evidence. Sworn testimony, if offered, that you were expressly told to hide your ancestry to improve your chances for an opportunity most certainly is not a mere anecdote. If it were, then any time a worker testifies that they were propositioned by their boss in exchange for favorable treatment is merely an "anecdote." If students of any racial minority have to meet significantly more stringent criteria concerning region of origin, lower socio-economic status, sports success, and so forth, than do others not of that minority, that is evidence of discrimination. I never said that "just the fact that the Supreme Court accepted the case" means the plaintiffs have "proven" discrimination. That's not the point at all. If on this record, no reasonable jury could find discrimination because the facts taken as a whole do not amount to discrimination under the applicable legal standard, then the Supreme Court would not have granted cert. The only plausible exception would be if the Court wants to change the interpretation of that legal standard. That's simply a fact. Inform yourself about Supreme Court jurisdiction.
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  34479.  @jorgegonzales9815  Thinking you can avoid charges of discrimination purely based on arguing statistics the way you do ended by the 1990s. One of the favorite moves of employers with a workforce that on its face appeared racially diverse, but in fact resulted from discrimination, was to hire only black women and actively discriminate against black men. This strategy was finally exposed by the end of the last century. The concept of intersectionality was devised in law (not, say, sociology) to address exactly this form of racial discrimination.
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  34480.  @jorgegonzales9815  I never said Kim's experience was evidence in any lawsuit. I gave an example of the types of incidents that, if proven, can serve to show discriminatory animus. Kim isn't a party to this suit. LOL
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  34481.  @jorgegonzales9815  You sound like a bot. In any case, you're not a lawyer.
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  34482.  @jorgegonzales9815  Blocked as possible bot, certainly a time-waster.
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  34483.  @jorgegonzales9815  Oh, here is a remark that doesn't sound bot-like. But of course it devolves into ridiculous ad hominem and nonsense. But thanks for letting me know what I better say around incompetent politically correct people. I forgot to stop thinking and start stringing phrases together. Guess what -- you would be incompetent to argue this case in a way to protect anyone from discrimination, least of all black applicants, who are the ones always subjected to systematic discrimination, to the greatest extent of any group.
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  34484.  @jorgegonzales9815  No one said statistics aren't "valid benchmarks." I said your simplistic proportionality argument, which has NO place in elite college admissions, isn't. Go look up how Seth Waxman argued in the brief in favor of Harvard. You are so lame.
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  34485. @Sandy Jones You mean like when Ted Cruz wanted to hit Netflix with criminal charges just the other day?
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  34486. @Sandy Jones Netflix didn't produce it. It is not an American film. I'm not defending it. I haven't seen it, and have no basis to defend or condemn it. Are you a narcissistic whiny child who sends in federal agents to stop everything you don't like? Because what you don't like is pure evil, and what other people don't like is based on their narcissism?
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  34487. @Sandy Jones So. None of this is up for discussion. What matters is who can get the Outrage Meter to go higher. This involves many adjectives: "whiny, narcissistic, vile, disgusting, evil" . . . I think you win.
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  34488. @Sandy Jones You do know Cruz was grandstanding, don't you? You get that part?
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  34489. @Sandy Jones I'm not defending Netflix. Nor do I subscribe. Are you defending a man who sent crowds over to the bereaved families of Sandy Hook victims to harass them and accuse them of being fakes? Is that what conservatives support? See. Two can play the Outrage Game.
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  34490. @Sandy Jones "Wow. Actual children were murdered and you support the man who harassed their grieving parents!!!" See how that works? Or DOESN'T.
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  34491. @Sandy Jones If Netflix employees protest a film they sincerely believe exploits children, good for them. It's not being whiny or entitled or narcissistic. They are not throwing a tantrum. They should not shut up and get another job.
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  34492. @Sandy Jones Mm hmm. Because you are right and everyone else is evil. You don't know what the internal discussion at Spotify consisted in, because you were not privy to it. You believe the media account of that internal discussion that you want to believe. But we all know the media distorts most stories. You do not know what Alex Jones did because you did not read any of the court documents. You don't know whether "Cuties" should be banned or prosecuted because you did not watch it (you have an absolute right to boycott it -- but then it makes little sense to denounce it as if you saw it), and if there is a trial, the jury must watch the whole movie and the people who made it must have an opportunity to tell their side in court. There is no law against "commies."
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  34493. @Sandy Jones And yeah, if Netflix employees believe that film, or any film, exploits children, and they protest it, GOOD FOR THEM! Even we agree on something. :)
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  34494. Yes, but she may have been voicing her sincere views. What is going on now is clearly bogus AND could end her career for good. That's a big pill to swallow.
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  34495. WHO is? You don't mean Glenn?
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  34496. This
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  34497. Speaking of the propaganda structure . . . How is it possible that Obama paused funding gain of function research based on a careful review of the risks, Fauci looked for ways to get around that pause and get other scientists to agree, and Trump simply lifted the pause, but the DNC supported Fauci? Same principle, perhaps.
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  34498. I wonder if he's ever been to France?
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  34499. Please remove this.
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  34500. I think she should go into law.
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  34501. So, is Biden in Putin's pocket now, too? /s
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  34502. It suffers in translation. Most Americans thought she already had won. Smh
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  34503.  @Didnt_ask69  Jawohl
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  34504. Dr. Campbell, a trillion seconds is well over 31,000 years.
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  34505.  @utbigpapa  How much help do you think is available to the families of the murdered children? And their friends and classmates? Why don't you follow this story and find out? You do know one of the mothers of a Columbine victim committed suicide?
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  34506.  @utbigpapa  This never goes away.
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  34507. That's not what he's doing. He's taking a stand against censorship of unpopular ideas. It always ends up hurting the very people it is intended to protect, and it is always turned against the left.
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  34508. The remedy for bad speech is MORE speech. Censorship is a cudgel, and the lazy man's way out. "Weapons of mass destruction" and "Gulf of Tonkin" were totally non-fact-based conspiracies, too.
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  34509. I wondered about this, too. We've been told that the vaccinated with breakthrough infections have a lower viral load but enough to spread the virus. The latter was grudgingly admitted. I have not read anywhere that the vaccinated can be stronger spreaders. But the issue with vaccines that are no longer effective in a matter of 6 to 12 months strikes me as very ominous. People vaccinated in February may not be immune today -- and they think they are.
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  34510.  @Fangfeaster12  This website shadows all links, because they are hard to monitor for TOS violations.
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  34511.  @kellifranklin4432  You could also shut up.
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  34512.  @billybeads3328  Worse than that. She almost died. A group of women saved her. President Obama had her come to the Oval Office after she got out of the hospital and rehab.
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  34513.  @user-uo1qr6vn1q And decent people leave them alone. Well, decency and 21st century America cannot coexist. The impossibility may as well be a law of physics. This channel can't get views without making up a controversy about someone whose excesses normal people understand and don't listen to. Take a look at their viewer numbers. Pfft.
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  34514.  @rgdssd  One of the recent "reports" on MR was "Russian models destroy Chanel Bags to protest Russophobia!!!" Right up there with their exclusive interview of the "Birds are FAKE!!!" guy. They better attack Jimmy Dore ASAP, and thrown in a Max and an Aaron. This is getting serious.
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  34515.  @kevinmackfurniture  Look at the number of views.
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  34516. So why did you say this station was popular? Wait, did you say these are progressives? That's not even 🤣. Then what is Abby Martin? Briahna Joy Gray? LFI in Europe?
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  34517. My heart also breaks for all the Israelis who've wanted peace and justice their whole lives. What that must be like . . .
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  34518. "This?" Please come back and edit for spelling and content.
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  34519. Was it legal for him to carry it? It was less clear whether Kyle Rittenhouse had that right, being only 17, but he did act in self-defense.
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  34520. ​ @SpaceMen508 Maybe you might watch Bernie Sanders' recent speech on the issue.
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  34521. Did any of these people ever hear of RAV v. City of St. Paul? It's a Scalia opinion.
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  34522. It is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of Anglo-American Five Eyes hegemony. And yet the later is well on its way out.
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  34523. Global dollar dominance will end very, very slowly, then all at once.
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  34524. So why did he turn the country over to FAUCI?? Lazy bag of ______.
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  34525. ​ @portalarizona AMEN
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  34526. 52:47 😂😂😂
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  34527. "Is he getting any answers?" Of course not. What can they say? She's not a millionaire?
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  34528. Jails are for little people. Besides, he's not even tan.
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  34529. This is all thanks to Biden, who made it the law to bar student loan discharge in bankruptcy.
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  34530. Oops. Er, . . . No. https://youtu.be/64A7A8QWDNc
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  34531. I don't mean this as advice, but as a sincere question (this means the answer could be "no"). Is it acceptable to teach children to refuse to answer various kinds of highly personal questions from other adults, including school? That's what my immigrant parents taught me. Questions of this nature are a violation of privacy. They have nothing to do with parental abuse or neglect, where teachers, therapists, and medical professionals are mandated reporters -- and rightly so. I'm raising this for purposes of discussion. Could this cause more problems than it solves? How do you avoid these invasive questions without attracting attention?
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  34532.  @robertfetrow4612  TUCKER said it was hiring based on "skin color." That is a quote. Go back and check. Start around minute 9 or so. You space on that?
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  34533. Depends on where the money is. They're happy to do it either way. $$$€€££
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  34534. Power and Pompeo are criminals.
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  34535. "We tortured some folks." "Stuff happens."
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  34536.  @phantomblacklove  You call her a groomer because that is one of those Magic Words that shut people down permanently. You know, like "racist."
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  34537.  @phantomblacklove  This is another moral panic. If it's mutilation, why should a doctor be allowed to do it to an 18 year old? I'm serious. We need to have a real discussion, which you are working hard to prevent. I'm usually called a transphobe, by the way. But if I don't want to send in a SWAT team over it, now "your side" will vilify me.
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  34538.  @phantomblacklove  Oh I get it. We all have to call her a GROOMER now, preferably in unison. Or else. Just like we all had to get vaccinated, we all had to denounce our families and ourselves as racists, and we all had to stand in front of the Laundries' house and MAKE THEM TALK, Fifth Amendment be damned. Read up on how the Chinese Cultural Revolution degenerated. No, not "at all cost." I don't expect the police to stop subway crime in my city "at all cost." Or school shootings "at all cost." Listen to yourself. Will you get a grip?
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  34539.  @phantomblacklove  So explain your position. Precisely what procedures should be illegal, and what should be the penalty, and how do you plan to enforce it? Should CPS be involved? Search warrants on clinics? Scrutinize puberty blockers prescribed for other purposes, such as pediatric cancers? Monitor talk therapies, presume they are "grooming?" Everyone is opposed to predators. WHO are the "predators?"
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  34540.  @phantomblacklove  The irony is, I don't support irreversible procedures, either, and they don't magically become a good idea at 18. It's a matter of whether we should be expanding the criminal statutes yet again. Because we don't have enough people in prison. /s Tell me, are you as concerned for underage pregnant girls, some as young as 10? Because they seek abortions by the thousands every year. By comparison, drastic treatments for gender confusion is a fringe issue.
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  34541.  @phantomblacklove  Okay. So you're not going to try to pass a law, you're just going to denounce people on social media. No problem. Free speech.
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  34542. ​ @SterileNeutrino  Exactly what I fear. This virus wasn't particularly dangerous. Hmm.
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  34543.  @Parkupton  No, I don't care for that literature.
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  34544. In many countries, minors are no longer vaccinated against COVID. It is even illegal to ask them for proof of vaccination. In many countries, if you are under age 30, it is recommended that you don't.
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  34545.  @factmanamerican882  1821 > 1776, 1781, etc. Second, today, "Judeo-Christian" does not refer to converts from Judaism to Christianity. That it once did tells you that the same term once had a different meaning. You are perfectly welcome to espouse any cultural values you wish, including those of Thomas Paine, who fervently believed that the Bible led people astray, and away from God. If America was indeed built on Judeo-Christian values, explain the destruction of the Native Americans, the enslavement of Africans, the two atom bombs, . . . the 2008 financial meltdown, the incessant lying to induce support for endless war, and the existence of a single homeless child. Seems like Amber is the least hypocritical from that perspective.
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  34546.  @factmanamerican882  And Jesus was raised Jewish.
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  34547.  @shelleyabbate9824  I love how people think spending two minutes on Google is just like reading real books for the past 30 years. This is not rare. Not that reading guarantees anything . . . But not reading certainly does.
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  34548. @@Neuroburger Great point.
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  34549. @@Neuroburger Best comment, in keeping with the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights.
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  34550. Congress could have passed a resolution distancing themselves from her words and affirming their support for Israel. Instead, it voted to censure her, which is a finding of wrongdoing for having spoken and a formal reprimand for her words. They did this even though her speech is First Amendment protected. Instead of passing a resolution, they doled out a punishment. And for WHAT? (Did they make us "safer?") You all give up your rights too easily.
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  34551. @sdmoralesma  No. I think a censure was not appropriate, because it is a punishment for speech, and was intended to chill speech that I know is constitutionally protected. I think for myself. No one in Congress thinks for me. Read the Brandenburg case, or let Glenn Greenwald explain it to you.
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  34552.  @sdmoralesma  You can't be prosecuted by the government under the First Amendment. Are you sure you're making sense? When you don't like someone's speech, you vote them out.
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  34553. @sdmoralesma  The Constitution preempts all other laws. You need to rethink this. My advice stands, especially concerning Brandenburg v. Ohio. Congress should be ashamed of themselves. They swore to uphold THIS Constitution, not to cast it aside for political gain. Congress could have passed a resolution distancing themselves from her words and affirming their support for Israel. Instead, it voted to censure her, which is a finding of wrongdoing for having spoken, and a formal reprimand for her First-Amendment protected words. And for WHAT? (Did they make us "safer?" Laughable.) You all give up your rights too easily. A Palestinian woman from Detroit has more guts than Gutfeld.
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  34554. Even that is not clear. There are credible reports that the ultra-right have threatened Zelensky's life if he were to attempt to negotiate without their approval. Question: what is the US doing? Is it subventioning this??
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  34555.  @yukas1ngas  Possible. I'm skeptical, but we don't know. You're right about that.
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  34556. Sane and stone cold crazy -- there is also that. I'm "Euro-left" and this new mob active here is something I cannot recognize except as pathological. I have no explanation for the new insanity. Peterson just called it a toxic brew. He is being too kind.
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  34557.  @layinlow77  LOL
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  34558. The fact that this was a coincidental finding should sound alarm bells AND immediate study. These drugs need to be suspended until further studies are completed.
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  34559. Rufo "played the race card."
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  34560.  @BigOleSwingers  That, if true, depends on the precise wording of the law in that state. In a few places, that does qualify as, you know.
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  34561.  @rebeccar1036  This was not known at the time. It SHOULD have been. There are even questions about the integrity of the trials, obviously.
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  34562. Do you work for Microsoft?
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  34563. ​ @studiobauhaus7740  Because you can't put a pillow over the head of a dying person. You know that, right?
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  34564. ​ @studiobauhaus7740 Funny, in the rich suburbs of my city, cops have been saving kids for over a decade with narcan, and bragging about it. Took a lot longer to get it into the city proper, for some reason.
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  34565. So . . . No one fired on the tires? Didn't cross anyone's mind?
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  34566. ​ @captain_context9991 THANK YOU
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  34567. ​@Davao420 That's what Anglos think. They only bow to money. Where do you think the Epstein phenomenon came from? Zero character.
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  34568. @Johnjohn-rr5dn  This phenomenon is too bizarre. We have a video, the car is not moving, a police officer distinctly threatens the driver with a bullet to the head. What kid wouldn't panic and flee? Wasn't this translated? How could anyone condone this? Because of anger over the riots? That has no bearing on it. You find out things about other people that you don't want to know. Maybe we can't escape another world war. Who knows anymore?
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  34569.  @zahrans  Good point, I hope so!
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  34570. ​@blockx8607 He won the genetic lottery by not bring born you.
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  34571. ​ @jasonhoerner9954 JUST???
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  34572. Does Shapiro? Didn't take long for him to call for the kid's award to be cancelled.
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  34573. ARRRRRRRGGGG!! Please. Not that.
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  34574. Except that it . . . isn't.
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  34575. Devastating expose. Devastating. AND just happens to be where Trump administration ghouls agreed with the story TYT, Intercept now push. Trump bombed Syria.
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  34576. Show us the Hamas supporters who are not false flags.
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  34577. How odd. Then how did she end up divorced twice, bankrupt once, and unable to raise her two older children, who ended up with their father's parents? I hope that in real life you are more astute about people.
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  34578. A kid used to be able to work over the summer for minimum wage, afford a full year of in-state tuition and fees, and oftentimes books and supplies as well, then get a couple of roommates together, go to New York, San Francisco, LA, Seattle, Denver, Austin, Chicago, get a minimum wage job right away, and afford to live. That was post-war America for decades. That was opportunity. Those kids grew up, too. Not like now.
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  34579. SHAME. P. S. Let's go Brandon.
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  34580. When salaries were not ridiculous, no.
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  34581.  @robdi4585  Thank you. YES, they broke laws, and YES the sentences are absurd (and yes, what else is new?) . . . :/
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  34582. It was for 50 years. Constitutional rights are something that cannot be taken away from you, by ANYONE in the government, state or federal, without amending the Constitution. You have the right to decline to exercise them. You have the right to try to persuade others not to exercise them. You have a right to advocate for your view, but not to criminalize those who disagree with it. Well, now the state gets to run your life in one more way, and "state" usually means the lobby with the most 💰.
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  34583.  @jaybrown8807  No one ruled abortion to be unconstitutional. The right to abortion was declared no longer constitutionally protected. That means states can protect it if they so decide. Or ban it outright. That's why Biden is talking about codifying a federal right, and Pence is talking about codifying a federal ban. Maybe you should think this through?
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  34584.  @jaybrown8807  Oh I see. You're Canadian. Nope, not how US constitutional law works.
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  34585.  @mollynash2597  And then there's people like Helen Keller.
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  34586.  @ANGELSVEN  True, but there is a big difference between scrutiny, skepticism, and demanding that a burden of proof be carried, and supporting an alternative explanation that is much more elaborate, extremely improbable, and that the proponent will not give up no matter what the evidence. Only the latter is worth condemning. The term "conspiracy theory" has been used to discredit both healthy questioning and bizarre counterexplanations that people cling to like their lives depended on it. Nice trick! :/
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  34587. Musk ditto
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  34588. Jimmy is generous, a TRUE ORGANIZER!
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  34589. No, it's the opposite. To treat him this way, as some sort of new poster boy for badness, is what is exploitative, because he does suffer from BPD, a serious condition not exactly rare among writers and artists.
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  34590. Appeal?
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  34591.  @change691  Appeals from which cases? Criminal cases?
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  34592.  @scroopynooperz9051  I was quoting one of the warmongers who argued with JD. Genteel warmongers.
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  34593. When I read about the way mRNA vaccines were engineered (on the MIT website), and when the Janssen vaccine was suspended due to unusual blood clots, I knew that if I were injured, no one would help me (US citizen). That was why I decided against it. I am most sorry for those who took it, were injured, and expected to be taken care of. I am mystified. How could anyone believe that? What were their lives like before?
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  34594. But why are the Cool Kids passing flagrantly unconstitutional laws? For . . . Fundraising? Maybe.
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  34595. I'd go one step farther. Listen to that clip again. Fauci wants this to be about Fauci. Making it about Fauci is a classic deliberate diversion and a fraud. Why are we not discussing the nature of this research, where it's taking place, and how risky it is? Why don't we all know exactly what OUR part in Wuhan was, and the major evidence for the virus's origins being there? Why were the biolabs in Ukraine funded by the Dept of Defense mentioned, then dropped? All of these questions are well founded, and based on (bits and pieces of) information straight from the mouths of government officials and agencies. Turn this into another Depp v. Heard, instead. That'll work. There's a reason Fauci gets the money he does. His protests are an act he's paid to put on.
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  34596. It has been pushing the envelope hard. Say, I have an idea. Since you can predict the future that far, let me know when to sell my puny mutual funds.
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  34597. Ukraine has also made various left opposition parties illegal.
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  34598. ​ @TheMcgojoh Sure they did.
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  34599. How do you count for Congress?
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  34600.  @aaronuaconaill5688  There you go again, being mathematical. What about soft skills? 🤣
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  34601.  Mjira Achieng  And I think that's nuts. Well, no wonder we incarcerate more people than China does.
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  34602.  Mjira Achieng  And you don't see anything wrong with that law? There is a movement now to get rid of it entirely. You don't see why?
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  34603.  Mjira Achieng  The felony murder laws need to be gotten rid of for a whole host of reasons. The fact that they're used against minorities, and to squeeze accomplices to turn state's witness, are right near the top.
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  34604.  @thomasmacisaac1503  Thanks, both points excellent.
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  34605.  @Titan_319  Was responding to a different point, concerning invoking constitutional rights. But anyway.
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  34606.  @kommisar.  If you continue to seize upon small parts of an old discussion, and start an argument with the voices that are found only in your head, and have nothing to do with anything anyone out in the external world has actually said, or believes, you might want to think about whether this pandemic, and the (too-often) ill-advised government response to it, has affected your health. "A word to the wise is sufficient."
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  34607.  @kommisar.  In fact, did it cross your mind, especially this week, that there are intermediate charges that a wrongdoer may face, between murder and nothing? We will see a version of the foreseeability issue play out in the cases of Crumbley's parents, and possibly even the school officials. I'll be interested. Haven't found the indictment of the parents posted yet, just that of the actual shooter, but involuntary manslaughter was mentioned at the news conference. (Apparently Michigan has no gun safety laws that apply directly. Such laws would crush MAJORITY rights, after all.) /s
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  34608.  @kevinmclarkey621  Of course. The news isn't what the UK appellate court just decided last week, or whether Assange just suffered a stroke. The news is when was the last time this guy talked to that other one. If the CIA didn't pay you, be embarrassed. The smart set would never do that for free.
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  34609.  @kevinmclarkey621  Is the Ghislaine Maxwell trial also old news?
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  34610.  @Ixaglet  The "Madame Macron is a Man" series is what should really be fun to check, especially given that Macron's wife's oldest daughter was once his classmate.
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  34611. Wealth is created by arcane algorithms (and poor spelling).
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  34612. It's, um, false. And a repugnant thing to say.
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  34613. She never said that. So, why did you hear it?
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  34614. ​ @AngelSlayer99 And the people who support Netanyahu do have empathy?
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  34615. Do they tell musicians or artists to break a board?
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  34616. What are Pete's chances? Depends on how much money Wall Street and Silicon Valley decide to put into the race.
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  34617. Cruz just made Maxine Waters look good. This is Cruz's superpower.
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  34618. ​ @aprilnelly  No one should volunteer to defend anyone making comments like yours. Ridiculous. Trade crypto or something, make money, and you can do whatever you want, like Epstein or P Diddy. Just be quieter, no problem. Everyone will kowtow.
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  34619.  @aprilnelly  You do know why we all speak, don't you? For ourselves. 🤔😂
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  34620. ​@aprilnelly On a serious note, who should join the army for you? Oh brother! No, just no.
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  34621. Well, but the Constitution doesn't say anything about a danger to himself and others. /s
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  34622. What was the purpose of the deception?
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  34623.  @nchevrea  Exactly
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  34624.  @tluk1900  That, too.
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  34625.  @tluk1900  By the way, Kim Iversen's interview of Ed Dowd is fantastic -- just dropped.
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  34626. Whistling in the dark. Trying to hold on to a sliver of pride.
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  34627. 😂😂😂
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  34628. We need to talk about self-mutilation. We do. Why is this happening?
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  34629. None of this comes to any surprise to anyone who is well-acquainted with a substance addict.
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  34630. We swallowed Biden "because Trump." What's the story now?
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  34631. Read Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic -- from 2010. It's about the epidemic of mental illness, brought to you in part by the big pharmaceutical corporations. SAME PLAYBOOK as for the vaccines, aggressive trans care for kids, everything.
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  34632. ​ @Thesalviashop  Even more are on Facebook. Why? Do people know how that started?
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  34633. For most of this century, in many EU countries severe harassment on the job can give rise to criminal charges. See what happened to the Orange Telecom CEO in France. Employees committed suicide, and the CEO went to prison.
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  34634. AOC has been able to use the disgrace and travesty of the January 6th riot to avoid a whole bunch of stuff she doesn't want to do. Those "Proud Boys," "Oath Keepers," etc., gave the biggest gift to AOC. Political geniuses all right. Hope all are prosecuted to the fullest extent, for every last crime they committed.
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  34635. Same. ❤
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  34636. I agree that a woman is an adult female human being. If gender dysmorphia requires treatment (it does, if only psychotherapy and nothing more), and if insurance should pay (it should), then it is a medical condition. It is not the ordinary state of affairs. The surgeries sometimes needed to treat it are not "cosmetic." I don't see other possibilities.
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  34637. All the more reason to get your money back? Just kidding.
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  34638.  @nateb4543  It worked as planned. But Trump made the biggest error: actually acting on his promise to appoint extreme right-wing Justices. The ten-year-old pregnant girl who had to cross state lines to obtain immediate treatment got to everybody. Most Americans don't like to see rights curtailed like that; they know their own rights could be next on the chopping block. Abortion was the cash cow of the RNC and the DNC. The Republicans cannot forgive Trump for that. Chief Justice Roberts was the only politically astute player in that scenario.
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  34639. Of course not. This is a new virus.
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  34640.  @20alphabet  Same virus? That causes COVID 19? That is a new virus, having first emerged in 20*19.*
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  34641.  @20alphabet  You know this? Wow. Better contact the NIH right away.
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  34642. Found it immediately from the tearsheet: Jacques Baud, Postil.
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  34643. Even found the original, in French. That took some doing.
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  34644. "He reaches out" -- don't remind people of his hair-sniffing behaviors.
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  34645. Finally, a dignified and fully justified demonstration. I didn't think the Dems had it in them.
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  34646. What these people consider fun is what I don't get.
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  34647. Re: Congressional stock trading -- but Paul Pelosi needs the money. I mean look what happened.
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  34648. Their first reflex is to freeze people out of jobs and to crush First Amendment-protected speech and expression. Concerning law firms, NYCLU is already representing Jewish Voice for Peace against Columbia on First Amendment grounds. Dig up the complaint.
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  34649. @spiritofseventysix1155  Thanks! I think I have that book somewhere but didn't look for it. Took the lazy way. It is so true.
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  34650. 24:30 Glenn
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  34651. 0:45 😂😂😂😂
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  34652. We once understood the meaning of "risk."
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  34653. Robbie is entitled, but he's not the poster boy for his generation, that's for sure.
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  34654. @JohnM-sw4sc  There are vastly more. This was revealed after Harvard lost its case against the Asian students. Over 40% of white admits are there for some reason other than academic excellence. Ted Kaczynski was the classic outsider admit on pure merit, from a modest home, and they experimented on him. The Atlantic article about it is still up. I just found it.
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  34655. @lanceolot007  Oh yeah? She is getting in a lot of trouble for her stance on Palestine, and for being vocal about the fact that she didn't vote for Joe or Hillary.
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  34656.  @JohnM-sw4sc  Well, sense or ship, yet again.
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  34657.  @lanceolot007  Rants never sense oared. Facts, ALWAYS.
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  34658.  @JohnM-sw4sc  I guess not allowed to give soc class-based facts about Ivy admissions, much less mention what happened to una bummer at H. Or tell you where to read about it. Decipherable?
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  34659. Great points, K.
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  34660. Well, Spanish speaking people use paper and pen and write in cursive, in a language closely descended from Latin. I consider that a big step up. It sounds facetious to your ears, but I actually mean it.
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  34661. WHO called police? They don't know not to do that? Yet?
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  34662. Most of the Internet message boards, chat forums, and so forth, ARE garbage -- including NYTimes comment boards. Maybe especially NYTimes comment boards. The truth is, most competent people who have some measure of expertise will leave. That is probably a good thing.
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  34663. Not why he was invited this time. He predicted Trump's win last time, and they want his view on Trump's chances this time.
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  34664. You look so sad. 😢🫣
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  34665.  @MrJest2  I don't think this is right. Mathematics isn't a "language," it is not imprecise, and its symbolic conventions are distinct from what it is about, namely, the things that are symbolized (mathematical objects and their relations).
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  34666.  @MrJest2  The problem is precisely stated, and consists in proving or refuting the given conjecture. Once proved, we know the conjecture holds for the infinite set of positive integers. "Infinity" isn't an abstraction any more than other parts of mathematics are. There is a rigorous theory of infinite sets and transfinite numbers, and every theorem addresses the properties of some infinite set of objects. Even the Pythagorean Theorem is about infinitely many right triangles.
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  34667.  @RadarFinsR  Applied mathematics does not require the same architecture of deductive demonstration. What is practically useful in an engineering context has no bearing on the discussion in this video. Applications are secondary. It's not what mathematicians are after.
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  34668.  @RadarFinsR  Mathematicians use axioms and rules of inference that are not approximative. They must be precisely defined.
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  34669.  @RadarFinsR  I thought people knew what proof was. This is all, like, wow.
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  34670.  @TheNeomare  Brilliant observation -- but there are ways to do it, similar to how convergent infinite series are proved. I wonder what it would look like?
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  34671.  @TheNeomare  I came back just to see this again. Great insight, make it a separate post. This was gratifying. To see how many people didn't even have the patience to watch the video and think about it was upsetting. A lot of people must be browbeaten in school and turned off of math. Here, when it's in a great video and nothing is at stake, they still can't focus. It must be due to some bad experience of some sort.
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  34672. Lying to the public is never acceptable.
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  34673. How the ruling class is running the country is to the detriment of ALL people. They reward each other and temporarily get hughly rich --- but did Biden help his son? Really?
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  34674. Going public could protect him. It is a risky move, true. He should not have reported on his father. Talk to his father's doctor, find a lawyer, seek out alternatives. Reporting to LE or doing nothing are not good choices.
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  34675.  @terrykjones1  There are lots of good choices between reporting and doing nothing. Reporting on immediate family, unless violence is imminent, is not a good one.
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  34676. @terryjones2053  Actually, no. A conviction is for past conduct. Look up the legal meaning of the word.
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  34677. @terryjones2053  Also, violence could be "imminent" on the part of someone who never committed any crime before. You don't get one freebee. (And what gives you the right to judge when you don't know what words mean?)
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  34678.  @terryjones2053  Too bad my detailed answer is _______________. As usual.
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  34679.  @maggiewillowstine3353  Grosskreutz testified. McGinnis testified. Huber's dirty house did not.
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  34680. The very weakest Democratic candidate ever was "discriminated against" -- by the voters(!!!) No, DNC discriminated by nominating a candidate by an illegitimate process who just happened to be a woman of color. Why did they do that to Harris? She deserved better.
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  34681. I really liked Ben Aris and admire his perspective and his style, but there is one thing I can't quite get past. Westerners always seem to assume, tacitly, that the raw materials of non-Western countries have to be shared with them. Why? Why should every country's resources have to be shared with countries so quick to eviscerate that country at the first opportunity? What is a free market? Isn't it the freedom to say NO, I do not want to enter into contracts with you? Wouldn't that be included in a free market? I assure you that this attitude is not part of the non-Western mentality. I can't get past it. Russia does not owe natural gas to Western Europe. Will the West attack Russia to get it? Your heating, your problem. Isn't that what is said to the working classes by Western neoliberals?
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  34682. It took me a while to grasp it was real. Still a little tough, to put it mildly.
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  34683. Will young Americans trot off to war before the entire Epstein files are released?
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  34684. The models AI uses are statistical. It is simply the volume of data that it can process extremely quickly to recognize patterns and create generalizations that is immense and unprecedented. No group of humans assisted by the computers that have existed prior to AI could possibly process the data AI can process. This works beautifully, . . . until it doesn't. AI cannot understand the real number line the way people do because it cannot understand infinity the way people can. AI cannot be mathematically creative absent humans to verify the result of its processes. This is the linchpin, and shows that it cannot match the human mind. Even the simplest fractal, like the Cantor Set, is beyond it. (Now, I won't say investors won't make huge bucks on the story. Sure they might. In fact it would be shocking if they didn't.)
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  34685. 10:28 is a great point from Brie. I think Fauci wants this to be about Fauci. Think about what he is paid so well for. Decoy.
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  34686. Psst, Nomiki. "Marxists" don't vote for Democrats. Harris threatened parents of truant kids with prison and kept people who should be released in prison. There is no Marxist who supports any of that.
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  34687. Well? 🤣
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  34688.  @brademerick9181  Oh cool. So, "we" get some back.
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  34689.  @brademerick9181  It. Was. A. Joke. A sarcastic joke. Okay, we have to use /s EVERY time. I can't disagree.
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  34690.  @brademerick9181  I thought the quotation marks would be enough.
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  34691.  @brademerick9181  Oh, okay! Well, I apologize then. You're right for sure.
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  34692. I found the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut safety report, English language version. You might want to take a peek, to verify. It is always a good idea to go to primary sources to verify anything a politician says.
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  34693.  @pmm8621  I'm an attorney with special expertise in federal expert witness testimony. Try barking up a different tree. I take nothing at face value, but consider the literature in BMJ, JAMA, NEJM, and so forth. I understand science, philosophy of science, and minored in advanced math, too.
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  34694.  @pmm8621  So you joined just this summer, for this purpose? Cha-ching, I hope. Then I would understand.
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  34695.  @memebump7612  Okay. I admit it. Then what happens?
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  34696. Learn his name? Maybe? (Or did you believe autocorrect?)
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  34697. Communist countries had no homeless.
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  34698. ​ @ceoofepo4078 So, you believe a supposed IQ test, and stuff about Einstein's IQ, when he never took an IQ test? I found court documents that do support what that person says. Those are public records, open to everyone to read. IQ tests, if real, are confidential.
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  34699. ​ @j4irooo Everything you said checks out, based on my research of actual court cases.
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  34700. ​ @CPAgamer313 About what?
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  34701. ​ @ceoofepo4078 ​ So, you believe a supposed IQ test, and stuff about Einstein's IQ, when Einstein never took an IQ test? You think that's "research?" I found court papers that do support what that person said. Those are public, open to everyone to read. IQ tests, if real, are confidential.
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  34702. ​ @j4irooo The court records I found support what you've said.
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  34703. ​ @ceoofepo4078 Funny, if I mention actual c o u r t d o c s, it ____________. But IQ nonsense stays up. Einstein never took that test. Anyone else's IQ, if real, is confidential. You cannot verify it online.
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  34704. ​ @ceoofepo4078 Why are COGENT responses to this ________? Why are they in the shade?
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  34705.  @CAPS0L  Maybe if this thread weren't so heavily cents __ err _____, we might have a decent discussion here. But no. Lots of ad hom stays up, though.
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  34706. And pay us again now.
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  34707.  @markbrownner6565  AMEN
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  34708. Brie, WHY would it matter whether this was an "order?" The government is supposed to meet speech it does not like with MORE speech, not censorship. Why would the government go via a back door to tell social media this or that statement is a lie? They can announce it loud and clear, publicly. They can tell FB, Twitter/X, etc., that x, y, or z is false at the same time they tell ALL of us that x, y, or z is false.
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  34709. That would put him in his 80s, I believe.
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  34710. Happens ALL the time. I had an anti-Hitler joke removed that had no bad words or risque imagery.
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  34711. When are they gonna push Biden left?
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  34712.  @spindragon  You live in the real world. Count on serious pushback. 🤣 Remember, money itself has become virtual. We have to believe it's real, or else. There are a lot of things we had better not see through.
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  34713. We didn't see enough of this interview of Carlson to judge why Smith is pressing this point. This was a totally inadequate excerpt. How ironic. 🤣🤣🤣
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  34714.  @spindragon  Thank you. That freaked me out completely, and I agree Rittenhouse was misunderstood and wrongly maligned, but WOW. That anyone would praise the decision of a 17 year old to do that in the first place is MIND BOGGLING. I think it was New York magazine that did an investigative report about his family. They are totally decent people who had it very hard. Tucker played with them, too. He doesn't care. At least the post-trial interview was good, and gave him a chance to say what he had to say. Anyone who knew anything about his family wasn't surprised that he supported the black lives matter principle. His older sister went to one peaceful march.
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  34715.  @myopinion378  Did you see the whole interview? It was actually very good overall. Too short, too much interrupting. They moved on to another topic after this. I would have liked to hear more.
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  34716.  @myopinion378  I'm so sorry, I don't. Links are generally shadowed in any case, being hard to monitor for TOS violations. I found it as an embedded video on a website, no paywall, but it took a while. Sorry to be so unhelpful! :/
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  34717. ​​ @ernestd hanks for explaining why over a thousand are shot to death yearly by the police in the US. You like it like that.
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  34718.  @sgili586  So sorry.
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  34719. Disagree. Anyone who supports more speech in response to speech they disagree with is being consistent.
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  34720. Imagine if you could START YOUR OWN BUSINESS without worrying about insurance.
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  34721. YES, this is disgraceful.
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  34722. Marxism is a thoroughly Western ideology. Marx was a reader of Latin and Greek and did his doctorate in ancient Greek philosophy. He was a child of modernity and the Enlightenment, not "post-truth" nonsense. He had no patience with sloppy thinkers, and he admired Adam Smith. He WAS Western civilization.
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  34723. $22 billion in profits? Earned, how? Ten million a year for every year since the birth of Jesus. All in a single year. Wow, they must be good at what they do, huh?
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  34724. He was elected. It's that simple.
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  34725. Keep it up, gentlemen. Because without that pressure, Clintonites/DNC/MSM would do it again.
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  34726. The US fights Russia and expects China to pay for it.
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  34727. That was why very rich people would give anonymous gifts. Remember?
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  34728. Marxism isn't woke at all. Woke (= divisiveness along identity/tribal/marketing segment lines) is a typical product of capitalism. Keep your eye on the ball. Follow the money.
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  34729.  @boomchick3n458  I thought he was snide, frankly. He didn't call you names, so I guess that's something.
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  34730. @Roa Okay. So you got my point.
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  34731. "Well, if the maternity wards are full, then yeah."
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  34732.  @eddievangundy4510  Each and every one of them? Evidence?
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  34733.  @KonigGustavAdolph  True
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  34734. I oppose Biden/Harris but would never go near Trump. One ticket is horrendous, the other is a dangerous con.
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  34735.  @samcriisfree4432  His COVID chaos alone has been disaster. His encouragement of right-wing militias, his pledge to send in the armed forces against cities with mayors he doesn't like. His disdain for any law except the Second Amendment, and I'm not sure he respects that one, either. Depends on who is toting the gun. What he has done to children at the border is unprecedented in scope and hasn't been rectified, and it is one thing that does implicate us all. If Biden has done worse cumulatively, it is only because he has had decades to do it. But which is worse.? To pay lip service to truth and pretend to tell the truth, or to pretend truth is for losers? That is not an easy question.
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  34736.  Luis Alejandro  I don't have to vote. My surviving family is in one of those places the US has bombed with DU and Americans can't find on the map. This is your circus. And I do have somewhere to go, literally. Back there.
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  34737.  Luis Alejandro  FYI I don't vote. Every vote is for imperialism, here.
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  34738.  Luis Alejandro  Hey, are you an example of what DNC is, thus proving my point? Or are you a false flag, covertly drumming up support for Trump? What a dilemma. And say, is depleted uranium a "sob story" to you? How about to Biden and Harris? Is depleted uranium a "sob story" to them, too? Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Somalia, Afghanistan -- so many sob stories, so little time.
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  34739.  @Shivpi3141592654  Immigrant rights is the only issue that might get me to the polls. What has been done to asylum seekers at our border is a crime against humanity. How tragic that we have to think "maybe, just maybe, Biden will be less bad." We don't feel certain of it. It's an utter disgrace. It is not the case that Biden's record on immigration is good.
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  34740.  Luis Alejandro  And I'm telling you I do. It's called emigration. Look it up.
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  34741.  @samcriisfree4432  I am not naive about the Obama/Biden record at the border, trust me. Trump is harming people more and faster, but not cumulatively more. He hasn't had the time.
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  34742.  @samcriisfree4432  Imagine "campaigning" for someone with this pitch: "Ya got nowhere else to go."
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  34743.  @billypardew2337  Not what they meant.
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  34744. ​@ChicagoGuy2100 There isn't any evidence. It's just another diversion, to stymie addressing real problems realistically. Someone always brings up Amish. People oriented toward solutions consider what other highly developed Western countries similar to our own are doing -- not to imitate, but to investigate scientifically.
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  34745. ​ @serendipityme9371 But there are fewer and fewer bugs.
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  34746. 10:24 They certainly have enough biological research labs. Financed by the USDoD.
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  34747.  @heinzbaron9129  Was it strategic, or was the default imposed on him?
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  34748. Who is an illegal citizen?
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  34749.  @barbarafranklin3378  If I want to learn?
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  34750.  @alanholmes2366  It's not about the coding, it's about the clearance. MIT is not just about the education, it's about the vetting. This wasn't a startup, or a startup culture.
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  34751.  @alanholmes2366  So you had military service. In the absence of a draft, that is a huge statement -- certainly more than college. He "came from a family . . . " Oh, do we judge individuals based on their family now? So, two facets of hereditary nobility going for him: his family and brand Snowden. Funny, neither would have impressed me. A lot of people could do his job, certainly including Marine Corps veterans and MIT grads. Jobs are structured that way. They had no trouble replacing him.
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  34752.  @hollygolightly8048 Pfft. If you really did work for a university you must have noticed that the most common major BY FAR is Business, with Health Sciences not far behind, and Nursing at the top of those. Kids who graduate in debt have to sing the boss's tune, and Silicon Valley HR departments want to hear a woke discourse, at least up to a point. That's their brand. Hence the discourse is useful for getting and keeping a job. As for Snowden, you think he was (1) "brilliant;" and (2) not a leftist by your lights? Please answer. I want to hear this!
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  34753. Marx was a real pater familias. This is sheer bourgeois decadence. And they are convincing you of nonsense. "Marxist" is just the new code word. They are talking about the top 10%, which is their focus. It's natural. It's their crowd. It has nothing to do with my life -- probably not yours, either.
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  34754. 💯
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  34755. ​ @Skag_Sisyphus Thank you.
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  34756. And this channel thinks their gossip about other channels is news.
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  34757. My mother had an employee stock ownership program where she worked for over 30 years, in addition to a pension that would not pay to feed our cocker spaniel. Then the company she worked for was bought out by BP PLC. We know what happened in the Gulf, and who died, and who suffered financially. We also know who got a new job, forming a hedge fund with a Rothschild, and made vastly more money than he did as CEO with BP. Tony. Tony Hayward did. He also sold off a ton of BP stock a few months before the well blew. Smart move on his part. He's a very hard worker. That proves it.
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  34758. @brandonb5075  These people were dependent on stock dividends in place of real pensions. The pensions were about $750 per month, if that. And if they took cash, they would have to pay taxes on a lump sum.
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  34759. Military euphemism. Odd, huh?
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  34760. I'm trying to remember the last time I voted for president in the general election, rather than just in the primary. I vote in primaries, where there is some choice.
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  34761. You still can't spell her name, what a non-surprise.
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  34762. It would be easy if US/NATO actually wanted to.
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  34763. Or if Europeans resigned from NATO.
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  34764. He is not the owner.
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  34765. Not only that, but you can buy your own truth. What's the matter? Aren't you successful?
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  34766. In the US, most people's Social Security pension is not very good before age 70. If an older couple has one really good breadwinner, that person can retire at full retirement age (67 for most new retirees), and the second can just wait it out to reach age 70. Yes. I'm serious. Only about 5% can fully fund an early retirement with IRAs, 401(k)s, other investments, a primary residence owned free and clear, etc.
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  34767.  @darrylgilbert9  Go back and watch some of Trump's early rallies. He didn't throw this? Or he's idiotic, too? I do not trust any of them.
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  34768.  @y.t.a180  "We manifest our circumstances" he says on another active shooter day, and while millions of Ukrainians are the latest refugees. "The Secret" is purely a sales technique. Who doesn't know this, in 2022? Were you in sales? P. S. I expected 2020 to be the best year of my life, in many years. December 2019 was great, and confirmed that impression. Hm. I must have failed in the Manifestation Olympics. Maybe you could manifest COVID out of existence for us? Next, tackle inflation.
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  34769.  @Azy205  No problem with Trump's age? Delusional. You can point to someone worse . . . Okay! 🤣 Where have I heard that before? "Race to the bottom?"
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  34770.  @artmakersworlds  None of this proves that Trump will be qualified in 2024 to be president from 2025 through 2028 (age 79 in January 2025, to 83 in January 2029). You're just repeating what I said. Biden is cognitively worse.
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  34771.  @artmakersworlds  Trump's first term? 1. Why did he decide to prosecute Julian Assange? 2. Why did he make Jeffrey Epstein fixer Acosta the Secretary of Labor? (A lot of carrying water for the Clintons in 1 and 2, huh? What's all that about?) 3. Why did he assassinate the Iranian general via drone without having an idea of what his role in the region actually was? 4. Why did the national debt continue to explode, even before COVID? 5. What was the problem in financial markets in the fall of 2019, when repo suddenly became an issue again? 6. Why was the moratorium on government funding of gain of function biological research lifted, just as Fauci wanted? 7. Why wasn't Fauci fired instead? 8. Why did he give encouragement to various sad sacks to break the law at various times? Or wasn't FBI entrapment under his command? Trump tweets "free Michigan" while the FBI sets up stings. 9. Do you support "Operation Warp Speed" for an entirely new virus and technology? Wasn't it predictable the Dems would try to impose mandates, just as they did with lockdowns? Was "warp speed" wise in any event?
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  34772.  @artmakersworlds  I thought of nine items off the top of my head. Hope the al go rythm doesn't hide them. 😂
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  34773.  @TCt83067695  To compare the two is what the gilets jaunes would call "hallucinant." (I wish there were a translation.)
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  34774.  @TCt83067695  Yes.
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  34775.  @TCt83067695  Chris Hedges is on Jimmy Dore livestream at this moment. "LOL" is on you, I think.
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  34776.  @TCt83067695  "hallucinatory;" "hallucination-inducing" more like that
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  34777.  @TCt83067695  If that was a new word for you, you must not watch much foreign news. Or, perhaps you're generally oblivious, preferring to jump to unsupported conclusions rather than to listen closely . . . Voila la preuve. (Recognize that phrase? Hint: Introduction, Tarantino, at Cannes)
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  34778.  @TCt83067695  If you listen to Dore's interview with Chris Hedges posted last night, whoa are you going to get an earful.
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  34779.  @Drew7s  Always defend the rich. See Diderot on that point.
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  34780. Why would she? Did her bosses tell her to?
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  34781.  @macgp44  So . . . Is the pandemic real? The only time the Dems act like it is, is when they close down a small business. I guess no emergency, then.
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  34782. Sure there will. They will get rich. That's the consequence.
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  34783. Amber was wrong. Yes they were exonerated, and they settled a civil rights suit for $41 million. You cannot bring a civil rights suit absent exoneration. A vacated verdict is insufficient.
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  34784.  @TC-zf1ji  Blocked
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  34785. @godismyhero247_  Oh I see, you wanted the actual perp to get away with it.
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  34786. ​ @wiserthanwise54 He's explaining why anyone would vote for Biden.
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  34787.  @ks9610  He has served the American people with the toxic tort lawsuits he has won.
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  34788. @Lorne.Mccuaig  You are qualified to diagnose complex personality disorders from a distance. Sure you are. Pro tip: only things like possible dementia can be conjectured via television broadcasts.
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  34789.  @povertybay3260  LOL, great.
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  34790.  @serjarmen  Facts don't matter here any more than they matter in Trump World.
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  34791.  @Silverfang447  Forgot to mention "grift." No, wait. You said "hate." Good enough.
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  34792.  @Silverfang447  Acknowledged Expounding Revel Delusional Please continue. I'm writing this down.
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  34793.  @Silverfang447  Great idea, thanks! Which language?
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  34794. ​ @KateWoodehouse I saw no "theory."
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  34795. Did either of you read the demand letter? Do you know how it compares with other demand letters? Do you know that he had no inkling of the allegations prior to receiving the demand letter? Have you read the actual court documents? EDIT: It is obvious you didn't read the documents. Nor is the alleged demand letter attached to the complaint available online. Nor is it evident why he sued her in federal district court in Mississippi, rather than seeking removal of her state court action in California to federal court, when it pertains to the same set of facts. THIS is legal incompetence. Maybe read next time? Nah. 😂😂😂
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  34796. Nomiki even got confused about who claimed who made the d-threat against whom. Wow. 😂
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  34797. ​@cre8tion26 He's too intelligent for the audience, looks like.
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  34798. The more I look at his head, the more I understand why he said this. It's not about black people. LOL
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  34799. If they don't find it, they'll make it.
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  34800. ​ @drisgorilla5382 Real leftists oppose eu-gen---ics.
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  34801.  Valerie Mac Fair  It's not for every day, that's for sure.
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  34802.  @johnbanach3875  Thank you for your realism.
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  34803.  @viskarenvisla  How many people are dead directly traceable to Hillary? That Trump was an abomination is true enough. I am talking not about one being better than the other, only about relative body counts.
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  34804.  @elaineteut9579  Who still doesn't suspect false flags/provocateurs during the summer riots after the George Floyd protests, AND on January 6th? I hope everyone is considering both possibilities.
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  34805.  @viskarenvisla  Oh good grief, how many times did Clinton fly on Epstein's private jet? And how did Ghislaine Maxwell end up near the front at the Clintons' only child's wedding? It's absurd to pretend one bag of miscreants is better than the other.
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  34806. Oh, the Other is to blame! Not the wars and sanctions that have destroyed other economies, not the secret support for lowering wages and raising real estate prices by opening the border. Oh no not that. LOL WE did this. No one else.
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  34807. Obesity is associated with poverty and poor nutrition. I grant you that those with no food at all are not obese. A good body is not available to most Americans because most Americans do not have the time and money to eat well.
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  34808.  @doc7eight  Come again?
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  34809.  @bbchester6  Do you know what math books they are discussing? Do you know who Alice Walker is?
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  34810. Yes, and to look at what the ministries of health of other countries are doing. That is important.
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  34811. The claim is that had he contracted COVID, then his risk of myocarditis would have been greater than from the vaccine. A lot of people who took this are now in denial about the error they made. That's normal.
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  34812. Think about this, too -- why would an area have a negative value? Don't take it for granted. (I'm not suggesting it's wrong . . . Just to think about it. When does it make sense, when not?)
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  34813. @Brauggi the bold Interesting, though, isn't it? Definite integrals can have negative values, but the area of any polygon is positive.
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  34814. @Brauggi the bold I'm not suggesting there is. I'm suggesting that we too often take mathematics as though it were a set of little recipes, without thinking about what we are doing and why. I'm not into that "mystical" crap, so I do know what you mean.
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  34815. @Brauggi the bold P. S. Not a fan of Numberphile. Takedown well deserved.
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  34816. @Brauggi the bold I did actually study math, and metamathematics, and did a Master's thesis on Zeno's Paradoxes, which as we know are not trivial.
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  34817. Clinton gave us Trump, Trump gave us Biden.
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  34818. The first student brought up a contradiction in Bannon's rhetoric concerning "Judeo-Christian" values, and his response was a little too rambling and defensive. The second student did the same, highlighting actual contradictions in what Bannon is on record as having said. This is classically Socratic. The answer was very interesting, because Bannon's best ideas are NOT the ones that are implemented. Travel bans, sure. Accountability for the economic destruction wrought by Big Money? HA. Trump depends on Deutsche Bank. Bannon also used a slogan word in his answer, "triggered." Not a good sign. In general, his style of speaking is above that. The third student gave him an opportunity to comment on the demonstrators, who were the real deplorables in this picture. No problem. Bannon again gave an answer that shows that his best ideas are NOT the ones that are implemented. The student then pointed out that those who have attained political power are publicly distancing themselves from him, and asked him to comment. Again, interesting. Bannon did not mind the question. The fourth student began by taking a stand for freedom of speech, and only then asked an excellent question about Bannon's view of Trump's and the Republicans' election prospects in 2020. The fifth student first thanked him for staying over, to talk to them. Then she asked a very astute question about about political trust. Bannon appreciated the question, and was enthusiastic about answering, because it gave him a chance to talk about the things he is most passionate about. She made a counterpoint, and he tried to play folksy. He used another trope that she did not, "sorry for mansplaining." The sixth student said that the economic progess was not thanks to Trump, and that Trump did not, in general, solve the problems Bannon correctly highlights. AGAIN, Bannon's best ideas were NOT not not implemented. And Bannon DOES have lots of good ideas. The seventh student asked a very open-ended question on immigration, allowing Bannon to express himself on a matter he is passionate about, and show off some more of his good ideas. Which go nowhere. See a pattern here? So, who was ridiculous? I thought it was illuminating. Bannon is interesting to watch. Nothing ever comes of the good policies he endorses -- especially on taxes! Ha.
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  34819.  @picklethepepper  ADE is the one problem the researchers were aware of and have solved, at least for the COVID variants that are currently known. Also, of course the virus has been isolated. How do you imagine all the vaccines in use were developed? You are right to consult foreign sources, however. Just make sure it's BBC, Reuters, AFP, Haaretz, not Americans reporting about other countries.
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  34820.  @picklethepepper  The whole controversy concerning whether the virus might have been released in a lab accident in Wuhan, or had a purely animal-to-human jump in "nature" (or in a coal mine, etc.) presupposes that we have isolated the virus.
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  34821.  @picklethepepper  From now on, when people repeat false anti-vaccine talking points, they should be presumed to be a false flag. Let them demonstrate they are not. It's the only fair way to deal with rampant and grotesque misinformation. Reminds me of "the vaccine was never tested on animals and all the animals DIED!!!!!!!"
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  34822.  @micheledinsmore1786  I provided a link, which was shadowed. This is common, as links to non-YouTube sources are harder to monitor for TOS. You gave zero references for your assertions.
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  34823.  @micheledinsmore1786  Who is the plaintiff, exactly? I know how to find cases. In general, I consider outlandish, hysterical claims about COVID to be false flags until proven otherwise, designed to feed the false narrative that all questions about COVID and the vaccines are being raised only by irrational people who reject logic and scientific evidence, when nothing could be farther from the truth.
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  34824.  @micheledinsmore1786  I just found my link. It's still up. You are disingenuous.
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  34825.  @micheledinsmore1786  Who's suing whom over WHAT? LOL
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  34826.  @Mike_Jones281  That's not even a coherent question. What is my position? C'mon, take a stab at it.
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  34827.  @Mike_Jones281  No. I said patently and provably FALSE claims about COVID (and I would broaden that to false claims about many other, "hot button" topics) should be presumed to be false flags until proven otherwise. I think ridiculous and bizarre arguments against vaccination, for example, may be planted to make mandates more palatable or to make censorship appear necessary ("so sad, but we have to, to keep us safe"). This is what I think. You? Take stuff at face value? Study history.
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  34828.  @Mike_Jones281  Was this too hard for you? Really? Or you just gloss over stuff? If you do, you make yourself an easy target.
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  34829. "In general, I consider outlandish, hysterical claims about COVID to be false flags until proven otherwise, designed to feed the false narrative that all questions about COVID and the vaccines are being raised only by irrational people who reject logic and scientific evidence, when nothing could be farther from the truth." Verbatim. Emphasis added.
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  34830.  @Mike_Jones281  Read more slowly. When a statement is repeatedly proven false, and is clearly bizarre and ridiculous as well, but people keep pushing it anyway, and even embellishing it to make it more extreme and ridiculous, why would you presume they are good faith actors? I presume they aren't acting in good faith. Let THEM show me they are. People lie all the time. Don't be quick to take them at face value.
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  34831.  @Mike_Jones281  I'm not talking about the claims. I'm talking about the people who push them. Claims are true or false regardless of who states them. I'm talking about how to treat possible bad actors, who keep repeating patently false and ridiculous claims over and over and over, no matter what evidence anyone shows them. After a point, I don't believe they're not fakes or shills. Why should I? They have to prove they aren't. Ever heard of a provocateur? Read the biography of Afeni Shakur, who identified an FBI plant, confronted him, then successfully defended herself and her friends in court, proving that they had had no interest in violence. The FBI plant was the only one pushing violence. Extreme example, but same principle.
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  34832.  @Mike_Jones281  You're still not separating the person from the claim. What's your theory of why people press false and bizarre narratives over and over, in the face of all contrary evidence, and then get hysterical and attack you for contradicting them? Because they are stupid? Because they are emotionally disturbed? Because that's how they do? Maybe. But sometimes there's more to it than meets the eye, especially when it keeps happening. Read Afeni Shakur's biography. It is a landmark in legal history. No non-lawyer acting pro se ever did what she did. I'm neither pro nor anti-vaxx. I believe in the right to universal, individualized medical care. I don't believe in vaccine mandates and passports without a truly compelling reason, which has to be presented to everyone and then discussed, not imposed by a tiny ruling class. Even OSHA regulations are supposed to have a comment period before they're adopted. I don't believe in making an exception "just this once, to keep us safe." I've heard that before.
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  34833.  @Mike_Jones281  I did, and it was removed!! I can't say I'm sorry. You can use your imagination. The worst conspiratorial nonsense. I'm sure you've seen it, it's everywhere.
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  34834.  @Mike_Jones281  Please don't embarrass yourself further. Please. See the name? I have a maitrise de philosophie and am reading Lawrence Sklar at the moment.
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  34835.  @Mike_Jones281  All you have done is to misuse big words and hurtle ad hominem. But that's lucrative these days. It can make you rich. It can even make you President. "What's not to like?" Everything. Blocked from further notice.
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  34836.  @Mike_Jones281  I'll tell you what I've learned: that it's time to emigrate permanently. At this level of ignorance, there is no foothold, and hence no hope. You can't even tell that you are the one who is incapable of reasoning.
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  34837.  @paulaharrisbaca4851  People under 18 (minors) account for 0.0749% of all COVID deaths in the US. Now, unless kids under 18 are having crippling effects from COVID, or are "super spreaders," or have some special need, like being highly asthmatic or immunocompromised, exactly why would we be vaccinating them with a new vaccine/new technology?
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  34838.  @Mike_Jones281  WRONG. The burden of proof of safety and efficacy is ALWAYS on the proponent of any medical treatment. The doctor is obligated to obtain informed consent for vaccination. The consent form you sign even states that you received all the information, and that your medical care will be unaffected if you chose not to be vaccinated. If you are vaccinated, you must know that. It's right on the form you signed.
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  34839.  @garrethoien6666  Hey, you're good.
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  34840. Examine the report Dore cited for yourself. Look at apparent trend lines. Look at raw numbers. He put his source on the screen. Please do the analysis for us, then, using numbers and stuff. Case fatality rates, critical case rates.
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  34841. @LostRams Agreed. (And yeah, "I was there," too.)
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  34842.  @BroganTDB  Er, read the OP again. I think they embrace it.
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  34843. Oh, y'mean pregnant people?
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  34844. This isn't working.
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  34845.  @rodster811  It may look like it, but I actually do believe in the First Amendment. See why it's being trashed?
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  34846. It's not just for the money. There is real fear, of something.
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  34847. Perfect radar, Bri. Perfect.
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  34848. Is a girl who looks like Barbie or a boy who looks like Ken ever referred for drugs and surgery? I'll take a wild guess and say no.
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  34849. Whoopie is an ignoramus.
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  34850. GOOD
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  34851. ​ @TheIndianaGeoff  YouTube substitutes for school? We tried that when Biden/Harris locked us all down.
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  34852. Higher self
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  34853. ​ @jacklanham7311  I hear you. She taught at Harvard, which "could not do anything about, . . . , " and has taken money from Epstein's mentor Wexner. But she could not go teach at U Mass, SUNY, City Colleges . . . Sure, I get it. I guess she needs more support from a group. She can't do it alone. /s Don't let these people turn you away from education.
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  34854.  @HawklordLI  Only fourth richest? She must obsess over that.
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  34855. Where is Samantha Power to protest ethnic cleansing?
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  34856. "Conservative influencers?" Bezos pays someone to write that? Shoot. Me. Now.
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  34857. To some degree and temporarily, yes. The vaccines do reduce transmission. As long as the vaccinated don't refuse tests and social distancing and PPE, like they accuse the unvaccinated of doing. The efficacy of vaccines declines before they know about it, and before it affects their own risk of severe COVID.
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  34858.  @cornishhh  Firefighters were protecting demonstrators against police in Paris for weeks on end. Look up policiers et pompiers for videos. A line was indeed crossed. Of course our media failed to make that known. This one comes as no surprise. One right-wing Brit with his own YouTube channel was saying the gilets jaunes were wearing their emergency yellow vests to protest the legal requirement that drivers own one. (Can you believe it? Where to start?)
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  34859. @deadgolfer6345  Megyn Kelly loves to go after other women, and those two in particular.
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  34860. @deadgolfer6345  Why would she? Why does she? Probably lucrative, and cathartic.
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  34861.  @deadgolfer6345  Not like she goes after women. Maybe you just don't get it.
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  34862.  @deadgolfer6345  "Identity game?" Pointing out how much women h_ate other women is verboten, no? Recognizing the existence of women is already being on thin ice.
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  34863.  @deadgolfer6345  I'm talking about the culture you pretend to oppose but contribute to instead. 😂
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  34864. I know, but it was Jon Stewart in front of a live audience. It would have been hard to censor.
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  34865. MATH hat
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  34866. Lol, truth.
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  34867.  @Manormouse-04  I agree, but remember, both of her parents were teachers, working full time. Today, having your hard work really pay off has become a "privilege."
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  34868.  @dnah02  Well, I am taking my first vacation in almost 30 years in October. I go to restaurants at someone else's bidding a few times a year. I'm non-Western, not lily white, either. For context only, no big message intended.
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  34869.  @miguelvigoa7271  Try making sense if you want to have a dialog. Who is "she?" I thought Robby's pronoun was "he." No, I'm not clueless. I'm multilingual, in reading as well as speaking, and my parents met in a refuge camp. Thanks for your interest.
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  34870.  @dnah02  Well, I've had family tragedies and responsibilities, so that was the reason. As a child, we saved up for yearly vacations, always road trips, and took them. The rest of the year, both parents worked 50 hour weeks. I'm the canary in the coal mine; when I hear people say that the next generation won't have it as good as their parents, well, that was true of two generations for us. I haven't been on a plane in this century. I cook everything I eat, every day. It's not that big of a deal; lots of other countries are affordable. I don't like having to leave, I would prefer that it be my choice on my timetable but oh well. I'm hardly alone. I still have the illusion (?) that something marvelous could happen at any moment to turn things around. I'll stick to that for a while longer.
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  34871. On top of everything else, being lied to is very deeply stressful. It does not honor the bereaved or permit them to mourn. No one can recover with this weight on them.
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  34872. ​@connieskinner4069. Are they vaccinated?
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  34873. Not impossible at all. All attorneys have incredibly strict rules of confidentiality. If they win a highly publicized case, tried in open court, they cannot link to it from their web page or as part of information about their work that they produce and disseminate without express permission from the client, and are not even supposed to ask for that permission if it could be significantly detrimental to the client in some obvious way. The prosecutor is supposed to be the most careful of all. He represents the state and is seeking to deprive individual people of liberty or property.
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  34874. What would be the topic?
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  34875. Yeah, too bad they didn't just have abortions and not be such a burden. If they worked for Amazon, etc., they could get it subsidized. Say, are the newborn infants horrible patients, too? That's who they're there for.
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  34876. @crappycrane7325  Maybe that's what's Forbidden? 😄
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  34877. ​@HyperVaccinated some do, yeah But it's not a magic word.
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  34878. ​@thesleepstate Back up your accusation that Campbell put anyone at risk. How? By demonstrating that these rushed vaccines are neither as safe nor as effective as they were claimed to be? You do know that fully vaccinated and multiply boosted people are dying from COVID anyway? And no, not merely in rare cases. Immunity from liability for injuries, full patent protection, and mandates -- even with proof that a vaccine prevents transmission, but certainly when there is no such evidence -- are radically inconsistent. Jonas Salk tested the polio vaccine on himself and declined to pursue patent protection. In a real emergency, patents are lifted and scientists share data as quickly as possible.
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  34879. These guests are eminently worthy of everyone's attention. If you don't agree, turn the page.
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  34880.  @christopher2215  Thank you. :/
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  34881.  @antoniosoares9273  He was wrong to expect the DNC to take back the Senate in 2018. They STILL haven't. That should tell all the political geniuses something.
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  34882. Globally, yes. More than that, I think.
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  34883. Really? A remarkable number of future "leaders" in business, law, and politics saw fit to drink their way through Yale. Clearly the academic demands cannot be all that great. None of the students in this lawsuit are "defiantly" demanding to stay in school. They need a reasonable accommodation, and in order to qualify, they will be required to demonstrate to a court that they could benefit from a reasonable accommodation, and meet the university's expectations if they got one. A person with major depression who can attend school part time or work part time most certainly should, and in fact, dropping out and isolating themselves could be very dangerous. I suggest you talk to a real psychiatrist about these disorders. Some of the most talented people in the US had them. You could start by reading Redfield Jamison's work, for example. I could appreciate having a limit on how long someone can take less than a full academic load, but entirely excluding those who can perform but need some relief has got to be one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. Very few universities in the world do that.
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  34884. Comedy Central. Perfect venue for Bill friend-of-Jeff Gates.
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  34885.  @donaldvonglitchenberger4108  My relatives are in Europe and they would go to a fortune teller for entertainment before they would do a DNA test. Catch me for what?
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  34886.  @wallacethomas9844  DUH, that was the premise of the whole discussion. Did you all hand over your DNA without HIPAA protection? ;)
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  34887.  weneedangels1632  We know that they need a sample FROM him, and that there are many ways to obtain one without a warrant. The sole issue here was how they first zeroed in on him.
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  34888.  @mboiko  Proves too much, as it could glibly excuse anything. "Have to?" What are actual "have to's?" There's the rub.
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  34889. ​@FrydClips If a university is a public institution, it IS the government. If not, it is still governed by Titles VI and IX if it accepts federal funds, and also has a contractual obligation to its students to maintain designated First Amendment fora as promised, OR to let students know in advance that it has closed down such fora and imposed rules that would encroach on some constitutionally protected speech and expression. A private university can do that, as long as it doesn't discriminate. You are welcome.
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  34890.  @GrimSower  Which is ridiculous . . .
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  34891.  @longshot7253  I looked at the actual charging document. You?
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  34892.  @longshot7253  Shooting into a crowd recklessly, as one example, is not a charge that goes away when you say "self-defense." It is not "first-degree murder," either, but it is not a legal means of defending oneself. You have no idea what the result of this case will be. You enjoy trash talking about serious matters.
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  34893.  @longshot7253  1. Look at the charging document, which explains the basis for probable cause, without which a charge must be dropped; 2. What I want to happen is to be living on the Mediterranean by 2025.
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  34894. I am so, so sorry. This is so unjust.
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  34895. Prove the conjecture or refute it.
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  34896. The well-regulated militia clause suggests the States can pass reasonable regulations.
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  34897. There are vastly more people alive today than during the heyday of US Steel Southworks and Pittsburgh steel. They drive bigger cars. They own bigger refrigerators. They fly more. Everything isn't made of plastics. So who is making the steel?
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  34898.  @BILLYMORGAN1971  🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  34899. You just don't like the accurate REAGAN quotes. Maybe you can't handle the truth. Well, there was a LOT lot wrong with Reagan. HE started the 1986 fund and law that indemnifies vaccine manufacturers and incentivizes the explosion of vaccines for infants and preschoolers. HE started taxing Social Security benefits. This doesn't even touch Iran, or Iran-Contra, or financial deregulation, or the first big post-war expansion of the national debt. Reagan undermined the economy and the working class, and privileged FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate -- Adam Smith's rentiers).
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  34900. That sounds voluntary.
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  34901. No one ever said they weren't. If a drug has enough of the characteristics of a vaccine to be considered one, does that mean it has ALL of the characteristics of a vaccine? Is "vaccine" a magic word?
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  34902. "Secretly seeking help from Satan . . . " 😂😂😂 I think?
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  34903. What happened in France was even more radical than Professor Wolff mentions in this segment: there was a true general strike, then the firefighters started protecting the demonstrators from the police -- not just one time, but over and over, for weeks. THAT line was crossed. Of course Macron had to back down. He wouldn't have, but he had to. He is that bad.
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  34904. Once upon a time not that long ago, a student could pay in-state tuition and fees for a full year at the great state universities (Michigan, Wisconsin, Berkeley, Virginia, Texas, . . . ) with a full-time summer job making the minimum wage. People who did that were a different people.
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  34905.  @reedlarsen5441  In the 70s for sure. I'm not sure after about 1983. I left the States. Later returned, went to a state school for law in the early 90s, and it was not cheap but affordable to the MIDDLE class. By 1995, I think that was over. The student cost of living in my time, where I lived, was about a thousand a month, if you cooked your own meals and omitted Spring Break. The only time I went anywhere for break was the one time when I had a job lined up for after graduation. And Spring Break was usually around my birthday. No matter.
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  34906.  @reedlarsen5441  Why is all this okay? You shouldn't have been put through that in 2009, either. I bet it changed you, too.
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  34907.  @bboldt2  :)
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  34908. "Eh ben, on ne peut pas s'alimenter de Facebook??"
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  34909. This is exactly the belief that leads to poor performance.
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  34910. It is a bright-line law. You cannot use deadly force to defend mere unoccupied property, no matter how expensive that property is. If the kids did not put any person at risk of physical harm, then it was illegal to use deadly force.
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  34911. Some people still thought this could be a country. My bad. Now we know: take the money and run.
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  34912. It's called innovation. /s
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  34913. Q anon followers.
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  34914. 16:56 THANK YOU
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  34915. ​@bmass0828 What is the extent of US funding of other recent wars that included war crimes, with our money and our weapons? What is the extent of the death and destruction in those conflicts? If they are comparable, that does not negate protesting this war, but it's a good question to ask where people were during these other, US-funded conflicts.
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  34916. We're just going to have to have more surveillance. To keep us safe. More vaccines as well, undoubtedly.
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  34917. I certainly hope so. Sounds like this _ is trying hard to cause problems in Jimmy's marriage.
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  34918. He's allowing what? A conversation? Of course this guy could be a plant, fake, false flag, provocateur. I don't trust him. So . . . Jimmy should not present a single interview with him because? Because people are such idiots now that they will be hypnotized by THIS guy, and join his movement? I pity him, frankly. I want to hear from people like this, to see what they will say.
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  34919.  @Paul-ly5ht  Did he "spew hate" on AOC the FIRST time he interviewed her?? Memory. Requires discipline and training. Hard for Americans, for some reason. I hope you'll think this through.
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  34920.  @Paul-ly5ht  You might be what your last line says, if you are this quick, and susceptible. Sorry. Is it your position that no one should interview "Magnus," in any space? Why? At the very least, it is practice in recognizing bad actors, bad arguments, disturbed or distressed people, false flags, etc.
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  34921. Take a look at this study and who provided the funding for it.
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  34922. You liar.
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  34923. Professor Greene, I love you. ❤ No, really. Very much. No one is kidding around anymore.
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  34924. The other two don't hold a candle to Justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson. Just not fair to mention them in the same breath as Biden did in picking them.
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  34925. Interviewed him.
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  34926. You bought that headset, too, huh? Plus stock in Meta?
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  34927.  @FirstSuiGeneris  Wow. I thought everyone understood sarcasm by now. "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?" Emily just basically made the biggest commercial for Meta headsets a person could possibly concoct. You comment on her wardrobe. I thought you were being facetious. I mean I thought you knew you were.
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  34928. Well? If you don't like it, you're politicizing our health and causing death. /s you knew that, right?
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  34929. So, the Constitution doesn't protect my privacy in making some of the most personal, intimate decisions about my body and my health? Why does that notion make me uncomfortable during a pandemic? Hm. I wonder.
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  34930.  @ProDeo04  Small problem: the Founders left regulation of slavery up to the states. Clear intent, no question.
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  34931.  @ProDeo04  Another small problem: you cannot force a father to donate a pint of blood to save his toddler's life -- or his pregnant wife's. We all agree he is immoral to refuse, and we're shocked by his callousness. But the state cannot make him do it.
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  34932.  @ProDeo04  One more problem: at the time the Constitution was adopted, the US did not have strict laws concerning abortion. Read Roe v. Wade and find out.
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  34933.  @johnhodge1263  All the neoliberals played a role, absolutely. Who said not?
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  34934. Huh?
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  34935. Well, I think after the Biden economy, $500k could bribe me. Er, no, make that a million. Two. Two million, and we have a deal. . . . Wait.
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  34936.  @ShirleeKnott  Of course not. How convenient.
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  34937.  @ShirleeKnott  You would.
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  34938. @bradybaker7650  Run-DMC? The only one I ever heard of.
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  34939. ​ @robertstoolman Show me in the letter where they did that.
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  34940.  @Yunitoony1107  IOW, fail.
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  34941. They are not trying to tell the truth. They are signalling marching orders.
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  34942. The people who made the decision DIDN'T die in the collapse, you tool. They might lose some money. Maybe. Tony Hayward left BP and got fabulously RICHER after the Gulf well blew. HSBC laundered drug money and was TBTF.
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  34943. Maybe you should take the time to read about the First Amendment. Start with Brandenburg v. Ohio, then RAV v City of St. Paul.
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  34944.  @superdupeninja8149  All the more reason for her, and everyone, to obediently get behind Pelosi. /s
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  34945. They must pass a budget. It's in the Constitution.
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  34946.  @realmonster5866  LOL
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  34947. @realmonster5866  Well, if Congress does not pass a budget, they won't be fined or go to prison, no, but the US could default, bond markets go into a tailspin, and the world slip into a depression. Military pay, pensions, DOJ, DOD, FAA, SEC, DHS, ICE, FBI, CIA, everything -- all the checks would stop. No one but the House can initiate a budget resolution. If they entered into some illegal conspiracy not to pass a budget, or accepted bribes, or instructed their agents to short the bond market or the stock market --- then yeah, they could even go to jail. They WOULD go.
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  34948. FIRE THIS COP.
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  34949. 56:16 If only they were left alone. They aren't abandoned, they are actively aggressed against.
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  34950. Le Pen does not have the strategic ability to play each of these groups against each other and emerge unscathed, as the "patriot," no less. No.
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  34951. Troll to Aaron: "But can you prove 'hydrocarbons' means OIL?? That's what you say."
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  34952. Democracy Now! is doing an immense and brave service with its reporting. Absolutely outstanding.
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  34953. ​ @jennireid6537  Must be US. No other country is doing this.
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  34954. People were startled by the utter power of the ruling class. We didn't think the rest of us had become little more than vermin in their eyes.
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  34955. Here is a quote from the current CDC website: "In the first ten months that COVID-19 vaccines were available, they saved over 200,000 lives and prevented over 1.5 million hospitalizations in the United States. This is the purpose of these vaccines: to save lives and prevent severe disease. They can also reduce the risk of Long COVID." That's the most they can say for it? Seriously? You vaccine tens upon tens of millions, most of them involuntarily, and most of them at no significant risk of hospitalization or death, with a vaccine known not to prevent disease or prevent spread, and known to have significant side effects, for this? That's assuming it is true that it saved "200,000" lives. I've had people scream at me that it saved "millions of lives." The CDC today says no such thing. That said, only multivariate analysis can give us some insight into what is going on. I also suspect a lot of excess deaths are due to COVID. Perhaps multiple infections combined with multiple boosters weakens the immune system. A lot of European doctors suspect that to be a risk.
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  34956. Look at the difference between the COVID deaths in nursing homes coverage and the hashtag-MeToo coverage of Gov. Cuomo.
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  34957.  @lilithstarchild5098  Some TYT fans swear it was "professional courtesy." I am not kidding.
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  34958. A lot of people are trying hard to get her fired because of her views on Palestine, just like they did Katie Halper.
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  34959.  @FrogOf4Chan  And they don't realize that what they said to you is a sign of mental illness.
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  34960.  @TK_100  Cute how you twist this. Are YOU immune from a defamation lawsuit? No. Are newspapers? No. Do the social media giants have to remove proven defamation from their platforms? No. Not even that!
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  34961.  @adanactnomew7085  Shows what you know. :/
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  34962.  @TK_100  Brilliant obfuscation. The FCC does not need the legislature to waste its time, it has the authority to regulate, and the courts have the authority to apply law to facts. NEWSPAPERS are private entities, too -- they are not the government. But they don't have special immunity, carved out just for them, the way Twitter does.
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  34963.  @TK_100  I don't have an auntie, or a Facebook account, or a Twitter account. Any more nonsense or trash talk you care to spout?
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  34964.  @TK_100  Two can play that game: "awww, did your social media stocks just take a hit? Don't cry." Pfft!
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  34965.  @adanactnomew7085  The POINT is exactly the one Krystal and Saagar have been making: Twitter enjoys BROAD immunities that no comparable entities do, because they are a "platform," not a "publisher." Now, they not only want the immunity, but also the right to do EVERYTHING that publishers do, without the responsibility that publishers have. Clear now? (Or, you could just watch the entire video before skipping to the comments.)
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  34966.  @adanactnomew7085  But no one says these platforms are not allowed to delete content. Of course they are. The only question is, what level of immunity should they enjoy when they do act as editors? Can they choose to delete whatever they like, and leave up whatever they please (including proven defamation -- they have the right to leave it up, see the Yelp case, Supreme Court of California), and be responsible to absolutely no one for their decisions? You're responsible for the consequences of your speech. So am I. So are newspapers. You, I, and newspapers can face a lawsuit. "Moderation" is not a neutral act. If one viewpoint is censored but not another, it makes it appear that no one agrees with the censored viewpoint, and everyone agrees with the viewpoint allowed to stand. Usually, complaints about moderation are deleted as well. Just how much immunity for these decisions is appropriate? Hm? This is getting sinister.
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  34967.  @adanactnomew7085  Non sequitur. Sec. 230 immunity is the issue. Full stop.
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  34968.  @adanactnomew7085  Red herring . . . :D
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  34969.  @adanactnomew7085  The individual freedom to sue someone who has actually harmed you, and to hold them individually responsible instead of looking to government or other collectives to look out for you, and keep you "safe" in advance, is a fundamental free market principle, too. Except not under Sec. 230. Funny how suddenly, no free market.
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  34970.  @adanactnomew7085  You're just trolling at this point. NO ONE is saying what you are imputing to them, but you just repeat the same non sequiturs. That's because you cannot deal with my arguments. So go argue with yourself. Who cares?
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  34971.  @asnmdnss  He's just a troll. Notice how trolls are never moderated, LOL.
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  34972.  @adanactnomew7085  We never said they can't moderate. Please prove that we said they can't moderate. You needn't do research. Just copy and paste where we said so, right here. Saying we said what we never said, and pretending to disagree with something we never maintained, is a non sequitur. Gosh you're lucky to get so much free education today.
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  34973.  @adanactnomew7085  How does that imply they cannot "moderate content?" No one said they can't be a publisher.
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  34974.  @adanactnomew7085  That's true. YOU are not a troll. You are a commenter who happens to be trolling now. Thanks for correcting me.
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  34975.  @adanactnomew7085  They can be publishers if they want to be publishers. That's called freedom. We are for freedom.
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  34976.  @asnmdnss  Private companies have huge leeway in censoring, but they also face real world consequences for it. And there is a ton of stuff they can't censor or retaliate against ("deplatform") with impunity: an authentic, good faith whistle blower, a discrimination complaint properly brought, union activity that follows the law, etc. No one is free from the consequences of questionable decisions. Except the twits at Twitter, etc., LOL.
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  34977.  @adanactnomew7085  Oh yeah? So, end defamation suits? End injunctions ordering someone to cease intentional infliction of emotional distress, such as urging a depressed minor to commit suicide? Not your place to say? You'd decline jury duty in a defamation case, or an aggravated bullying case? Or, is it only private companies that should have complete freedom, "no limits," while the rest of us, private individuals, should have to bear the consequences of what we say? CUT THE CRAP.
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  34978.  @adanactnomew7085  No one has this "complete freedom." No one can say whatever they feel like, and suppress whatever speech they feel like, without consequences. Consider this: one person uses Facebook to urge another to commit suicide. Another person comes in and says, "No! Don't kill yourself, don't listen to them!" Facebook moderators censor the one saying don't "kill" yourself, and leave the one urging "suicide" alone. No consequences for Facebook? Not up to you to say? Maybe Facebook censors the word "kill," because it is offensive, whereas "suicide" is a neutral, quasi-scientific term. LOL but not funny.
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  34979.  @adanactnomew7085  Total bad faith on your part. Done here.
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  34980.  @adanactnomew7085  You've failed to deal with hypothetical, where FACEBOOK does NOT censor the person urging suicide, and DOES censor the person saying "no, don't kill yourself." One post (urging suicide) stays up, the other (begging the person not to kill themselves) goes down. I didn't say you were rude. I said you argue in bad faith (voila la preuve), and you are wasting my time.
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  34981.  @TK_100  Project much? This has devolved purely into a matter of whose ox is being gored. That's exactly what it should not be. Read Nadine Strossen for an explanation why.
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  34982.  @adanactnomew7085  Its "own" posts? What in the world do you mean? No, Facebook is NOT legally required to remove posts by its users on its platform urging anyone to commit suicide. Look it up. Because you clearly don't know.
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  34983.  @TK_100  Your reading list should include Nadine Strossen.
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  34984. So does Robby. Listen harder.
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  34985. ?????? 😅😅😅😅😅
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  34986. This. 😢
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  34987. Learning the sh*t is easier.
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  34988.  @robbybee70  It was nuts.
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  34989. And that your job gets yanked from you. Get your Tony Fauci candle right here, folks. Selling those was a job, too. So-called.
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  34990. JIMMY! Sarah Silverdaughter. You know why they say perSON. It's a dog whistle for sure.
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  34991. France has no extreme left.
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  34992.  @FranFerioli  Combien de langues est-ce que vous parlez?
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  34993.  @FranFerioli  Macron est "la gauche" comme Clinton est "la gauche," ou bien Bill Gates. C'est hallucinant. Le candidat de la grande bourgeoisie banquiere est celui qui vous appellez "la gauche." Tout compte fait, Nixon etait plus a la gauche que lui.
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  34994.  @FranFerioli  It's the Danny le Rouge types who dominate the EU parliament and McKinsey thinking. How old do you think the Clintons are? Who do you think is Melenchon's base? Maybe you're getting yourself exercised about something else.
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  34995. Step back for the bigger picture: Russia's aggression was disproportionate by any measure that we know of. Yet outside of the West, most of the world is neutral, sympathetic, or supports the invasion. No one wants to pause and find out why?
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  34996. ​@KlausRiede They were paid to believe. Wait. You believe stuff for free? In 2024?? 😂😂😂
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  34997. They can easily pay their attorneys' retainer. Most of the fee will be contingent upon winning.
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  34998.  @4637jvb  That's one of the most prominent lawyers in the country. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford.
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  34999.  @4637jvb  Specter is one of the most prominent attorneys in the country. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford.
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  35000. @4637jvb  He has never chased an ambulance in his life. 😂 He even got an LLM at Cambridge, in addition to his law degree from University of Pennsylvania here. Cambridge, . . . you know. England. He's the late Senator's son.
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  35001. WPA WPA WPA WPA
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  35002.  @TheGAdamstalkshow  I know she isn't just mistaken. I know she knows the law and is misrepresenting it for clicks.
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  35003. @TheGAdamstalkshow  She's misrepresenting the law in Minnesota -- THANK GOODNESS.
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  35004. @清梦-m9v  Not what I said. I said that because SHE is a lawyer, I know SHE both knows the law and is lying about the law. It is NOT possible that she is mistaken. No one in Minnesota will have a child removed from their custody absent proof of extreme neglect or abandonment. This is because it would be unconstitutional to do so. You have a right to parent your children. The other cases are where the parents are divorced and disagree. I think the parent opposing a physical transition should prevail, but the reason it is a question at all is because one parent WANTS transition.
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  35005. @清梦-m9v  I just told you the truth about the law, which Kelly misrepresents. Now let's see if YT lets it stay up. I'm not holding my breath.
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  35006.  @清梦-m9v  Well?
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  35007. Actually, where the law (and not ethics alone) is concerned, in order to make them cut it out, you do need a judge.
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  35008. This is how science should be approached. A higher risk post-vaccination is not proof of causation. A lot of things are possible: people who had COVID prior to vaccination, or were exposed to COVID after vaccination and did not know it, might be at much higher risk. The lack of careful investigation and candor by the CDC et al. is infuriating.
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  35009. No, it wasn't. SMH
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  35010. ABC News gave a platform to the terrorist who masterminded the Beslan school seige and massacre, where schoolchildren were held hostage for four days, and 333 perished. The Russian Federation protested, the US government said tough.
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  35011. Who knows what contemporary parents would do.
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  35012. ​ @TheSapphireSprit You must know nothing about Kamala.
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  35013.  @adrichapoy6525  No excuse. They are in a life-death situation, literally.
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  35014.  @adrichapoy6525  What's it like, being stuck getting used to stuff like this? A new demand every month.
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  35015.  @adrichapoy6525  You can call it your life. I guess you have to?
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  35016. Remember, he says he was "tricked" into approving his son's transition. Well, second opinions cost a fortune!
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  35017. Evil Jack Nicholson vibe . . . Go into the movies.
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  35018. As in?
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  35019. You could read the complaint and know something about the case. Or you can listen to these three and take sides in their fact-free drama. I see no reason to believe any of them read it.
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  35020. It's not evident how Robby earns his money. He's not very good at what he does. He spouts the same slogans over and over. That's not ethics or politics. That's advertising. With the right hair, it doesn't matter much what goes on inside his head?
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  35021.  @AshGreen359  So, rocket launchers are Second Amendment protected? I didn't assume you weren't pro-choice. My point is the US Constitution is not a Napoleonic Code.
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  35022.  @AshGreen359  So, rocket launchers protected, birth control and marriage rights unprotected?
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  35023.  @petercollingwood522  I suggest you research that.
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  35024.  @petercollingwood522  Modern guns that do not require reloading did not exist at all in 1776, and were not mass produced until a couple of decades before the Civil War. The Colt is a modern gun. The weapons used on the frontier around that time were modern guns. What was used in duels in the 18th century were not.
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  35025.  @petercollingwood522  What "arms" meant then and what guns are now are two different animals.
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  35026.  @petercollingwood522  I never said "modern arms." I said "arms." That is the word the Constitution uses, and it does not refer to something that did not exist when it was drafted. I think originalism is so incoherent it verges on being a scam. Like every other political position, it means whatever its proponents want it to mean. They start with their own desires and work backward, then hide their tracks.
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  35027. Who? I didn't. Jimmy, Stef, Ron didn't.
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  35028.  @aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa372  La Riva/Peltier, to register my opposition to Peltier's continued incarceration. I almost never vote. No interest in the major parties.
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  35029.  @OrangeySky11  Where do you get assumptions (or pronouns) from my post? Didn't cross my mind. Women play soccer, too, and have for a long time. It's not touch football.
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  35030.  @OrangeySky11  Oh, so I wasn't censored after all, lol. The last post was superfluous.
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  35031.  @OrangeySky11  Then what's all that pronoun jazz about? Anyway, that wasn't meant literally in the first place. You need to understand figurative or metaphorical language to read, lol. No one assumed you played any sport. That wasn't the point. The point was that bullies take the low road and real athletes take the high road in the game of "competition."
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  35032.  @OrangeySky11  FYI Your original post where you did support bullying is no longer up. I did nothing to have it removed.
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  35033.  @theoceandragonfly  💯
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  35034. Misinformation is when you air raw footage WITHOUT CLEARLY IDENTIFYING who it came from. The real source needs to be accurately identified. Then we have been told WHAT was SAID by WHOM. That is called INFORMATION.
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  35035. "Be kind."
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  35036.  @menwithven8114  Relatively speaking, I don't disagree. I consider Biden's record to be that of a full-fledged warmonger.
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  35037. I guessed all 5 -- it was an educated guess.
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  35038.  @aaronpeaty6619  Is bringing a defamation case to court after losing a significantly stronger defamation case on the same factual predicates not wasting a court's time? Or only if girls do it?
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  35039.  @aaronpeaty6619  Hint: the boy brought these lawsuits, not the girl.
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  35040.  @aaronpeaty6619  Do you guys have trials or hashtags? Vote on Twitter? OOPS, I mean Facebook. Obviously.
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  35041.  @aaronpeaty6619  You accidently let Novak Djokovic go free, then. My GOD what a mistake. /s
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  35042.  @LAVAZZ.  Um. I'm making fun. How big of a problem are drugs, anyway? The question just popped into my head for some reason.
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  35043.  @cjb34  Routine motion at the end of the case in chief. The defense always says that the evidence brought forward is insufficient as a matter of law to find liability.
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  35044. It could be fear based. I feel for anyone whose mind was hijacked by this. I was not afraid of dying of COVID, but I am now much, MUCH more afraid of other people than I had ever been, and I already knew what people can do.
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  35045. @hammervproductions  Show me (or point me to) a court document. The federal district court in New York just ordered him to be brought back to New York, and for deportation proceedings to be halted until a hearing can be held to figure out the basis of this action. It appears that he is married to a citizen and that they are expecting a child.
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  35046.  @Jmaters83  Nothing to do with Biden or the DNC. It's the aftermath of the pandemic.
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  35047. What "survival?" What is this pseudo-scientific blather? Can a little girl make it through life without a Birkin bag? 😂😂😂😂
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  35048. The Guardian, which is mainstream UK, has covered the story. We don't know whether what the whistle-blower saw was what they told him it was, obviously, but this is a real story. I agree it should not be treated as substantively true. That a whistle-blower with access to certain classified information said he saw off-world materials is true. Does he want 15 minutes of fame? Does he need money? Or, is he reporting what he believes to be accurate? (Was he lied to? If so, why?) The point about classification of documents WE SHOULD SEE is correct.
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  35049. He needs to be released. As long as HE does not plead, any way he can be released as soon as possible ought to be tried.
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  35050. Any Trump supporter who still does not see that Trump was quasi-fascist and a monstrosity, by now must realize that Trump was lazy and stupid. Absolutely anything with a brain could have beated Biden.
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  35051.  @lindahammond7759  First, please, PLEASE don't worry. Don't listen to fear-mongering, pro vaccine or con. Just don't. The chance that it is either nonsense, or simply inapplicable to your case, is very high. Second, stay as well informed as you possibly can. From now on, first do no harm. Certain things you can do right now, involving nutrition and exercise, are safe and beneficial, and the standard advice on reducing inflammation is very important. Third, find the right doctor -- that is not going to be easy! Don't let these people get you down. You are going to be fine. Take it slow.
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  35052. There is now a teacher shortage for a reason. Maybe you need to think about the reason.
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  35053.  @MJ-cv5ye  In other words, you can't make sense if you try, and some strange bot is spelling for you, but it doesn't speak English as its first language. 🤪
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  35054. What I want to know is, HOW did the corporate overlords get self-proclaimed "leftists" to support this obvious destruction of workers and workers' rights?
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  35055. New producers did this. She explained how The Hill was recently sold.
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  35056. Because that is a meme.
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  35057. You give me hope.
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  35058. 27:47 to end. No good doctor will tell you NOT to be vaccinated. He will present your options to you, to help you make your own decision.
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  35059. Best political journalist working in the Americas. Aaron and Max, too!
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  35060. ​ @datruth4766 Dr. Bhattacharya, Dr. Malhotra.
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  35061.  @datruth4766  True
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  35062. Mind your own business. Or is harassing a heavily pregnant, married woman a conservative family value now?
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  35063. He cited his peer-reviewed sources. Go examine it. Involves reading and stuff.
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  35064. Was she disciplined for that?
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  35065. Colossal anything is frightening. I agree. Colossal fortunes top the list.
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  35066.  @black_eagle  There has been some sheer randomness in the deaths from COVID. A person over 50 has appreciable risk. If you aren't, I appreciate your stance. There are people with excellent health habits who almost died and have organ damage from it. I admit I know of no one who actually died.
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  35067. No problem. This clown got paid for it anyway. Money = Truth.
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  35068.  @claysmell  Nothing he said was even marginally true. Not one purported fact was indeed a fact. His rant was tendentious hate mongering, and pretty rich from someone who himself claims he left high school because he was always drunk and high. What were American Olympians doing with their lives while he was drunk and high? He reeks of malice and envy. Classic DARVO (deflect, accuse, reverse victim and offender). Watch for it, it's the new favorite of all politicians, regardless of ostensible party affiliation.
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  35069. Musk does ketamine? Figures. Clearly something is wrong with the man.
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  35070. It was a joke.
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  35071. They get paid to say walls closing in, beginning of the end, bombshell, tipping point. I would pay them to shut up.
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  35072. Whoopie Goldberg doesn't "feel" it was about race. Excruciating.
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  35073. "Worst stuff" Gag me.
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  35074. Saw the whole clip. Dr. Birx's logic is that 80 to 95% of people over 70 are fully vaccinated, but they account for only about half of all deaths, not 80%+, as expected. So, vaccination does cut the death rate in people that age. She is recommending Paxlovid to bring the rate down further, and still recommends vaccines and boosters for 70 and older. MSM won't bring you that "nuance," and YT will punish people who do. It's not coercive enough.
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  35075.  @joeterzio7175  I wonder if her numbers are correct. Instead of saying confusing things, if there were just one person to acknowledge that the vaccines have, in some respects, been a disappointment but that they have the following benefits, and then list the information honestly, and THEN comment on how great that is. The vaccine critics who were themselves vaccinated all do. The fact that they solved antibody-dependent enhancement when they developed these vaccines is huge. The worry among some doctors that there is such a thing as too many boosters is real, but so far, no matter how many boosters and how many bouts of COVID, no one has ever gotten a worse case, but has either gotten no case or a milder one than their last case.
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  35076.  @joeterzio7175  The reason she says that is that the time period of observation post vaccination/placebo was so short, and there still appeared a handful of breakthrough infections. Read the first Pfizer consent forms. They never once promised full immunity from contraction, of any variant; they said very high degree of resistance to infection for at least six months, and likely longer. It was the media that exaggerated the efficacy; the manufacturers and informed medical care providers did not. That's just true. No one can point the finger at them.
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  35077. Just cuz.
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  35078. Smart people typically underestimate their intelligence, and do not understand why people around them are put off. They are not trying to show off. That said, I don't think Mensa is likely to help in this area, any more than any other social interaction may help, or hurt.
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  35079. Right. Neo-feudal.
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  35080. So . . . Over one in five college graduates are not rushing out to get vaccinated. How many of these know the difference between FDA approved and EUA? Offering money, lotteries, etc., makes me pause. Ce n'est pas serieux.
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  35081. @Dean, Hanson is a relentless warmonger and Peterson makes many good points but gets stuck too often in ressentiment and surprising flashes of inexplicable anger -- which in 2023 is a sure moneymaker. I studied ancient Greek philosophy in Paris, BTW. I think I can evaluate these two cogently.
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  35082. Hanson is a backward warmonger. His way will lead to more problems for the US, at least at this juncture. Apart from the sheer immorality of it! He is no different from the DNC in that regard. (Blech!!)
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  35083.  @axhed  It might sound that way if you don't, like, read and stuff. (My room is messy. Books all over.)
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  35084.  @paulietv2162  No. You spend your time going after anyone who you imagine is dealing with their trauma or their medical issues in an inferior way to how you have dealt with yours. Yes, childhood nutrition lays a foundation for adult morphology and metabolism via epigenetics, among other things, but it does not decide a person's fate. It creates challenges.
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  35085.  @paulietv2162  Well . . . I don't know how many times you've faced death, "snowflake," but . . . Well, you're right. Futility. You don't care whether anyone has a nice day, nor is it your "duty." Just bag it up and go.
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  35086.  @jagdtiger9287  Exactly. I know from experience.
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  35087. @Rick Vis Well, it's remarkable how many diseases are associated with drinking full-fat milk into adulthood. Of course this will not apply to everyone, and no this isn't based on some fad diet. It's solid research done mostly within the last ten to fifteen years. We don't have a mechanism, actually; we only have statistical tendencies. By definition they will not apply to everyone. But the statistics are strong enough to think twice, and not to make a blanket suggestion. If a person is young and has tried everything else and the milk tastes good to them and agrees with them ("listening to your body" is real), then try it, sure. Why not? I'd be careful to suggest it as a general strategy, though.
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  35088. @Rick Vis I'm talking about very recent studies, and those mostly show no difference based on fat content. I know that was once believed to be the issue, but it generally is not found to be. There's even research showing kids benefit from the fat profile of milk from grass-fed cows as opposed to grain-fed, and recommended not limiting it beyond what's just reasonable. One example in adults is a very large breast cancer study. (I hated to say it, what a hot-button topic!) The results were significant. In fact, one hypothesis was that women who drink other vaious "milks" such as soy or almond, have lower rates exactly because they substituted soy, etc., for dairy milk. Bottom line, the dairy industry, the beef industry, etc., have all propagandized us. I still remember when my family was duped into substituting CORN oil for olive oil. How pathetic. So, we fell for something, too. I can hardly believe it. At least we got rid of iceburg lettuce and had real salads as soon as they showed up in stores.
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  35089. @Rick Vis I know for sure dairy in Europe is very different. I never knew what butter was until I had Normandy butter. The various yogurts, kefirs, and cheeses are great for most people. I wouldn't eat American butter.
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  35090. @Rick Vis Not the only example! I wasn't saying a man is likely to get that. It's simply the first study that comes to mind.
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  35091. He said retirement age is 65. IT IS NOT. The earliest possible is 62, the earliest full retirement is 67, and Social Security is not very good for most people before age 70.
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  35092. I don't agree with this assignment and even less with holding a mock election. You know what the idea is, don't you? A mock election is surveillance to see what's going on at home. At that age, the kids vote like their parents do. Will any of this end up on social media? Kids do need to be protected from politics until they are at least high school juniors. Getting them young was a Soviet policy.
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  35093. In other words, you should have complained.
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  35094. It's easy to find online. The journal is called Circulation, the article is from Aug 22, I believe. I found it pretty quickly, though not on the first line in my search engine.
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  35095. Do get involved in another marriage. It's time. What have you been waiting for?
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  35096. Was that confirmed? Interesting.
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  35097.  @michaelduffy3866  Concerning "your gut," I would defer to Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear, on exactly when to trust your feelings. There are many times in life when your gut tells you to get away from someone. Believe it.
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  35098. Safe and effective, clearly.
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  35099. Why are they lying? So that we won't be afraid to take the vaccine.
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  35100. It's always about the money.
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  35101. No one said to vote for him. Are you all right with smearing him for his good views? WHY? I'm with Dore on this.
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  35102. QUESTION: Is naked shorting illegal? Do the billionaires do it anyway?
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  35103. They don't. Trust me.
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  35104. If this is a 2020 redux, Trump v. Biden, then no one can believe in fair and free elections again.
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  35105. Don't let them influence you either way. Be flexible. FDA approval brings much better data analysis, and MUCH better compensation for injury. Being influenced by liars is the worst! Take care.
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  35106. Mandatory vaccination is one of the most intrusive working conditions a person could have imposed on them. Truckers are alone in a cab during most of the day. If you're still scared of transmission, give them all test kits -- especially the vaccinated, who might think they have a cold.
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  35107.  @reidfmorthel5597 BTW, it appears to me that part of my post is shadowed. Just for the record.
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  35108.  @reidfmorthel5597 I am being censored. Your counterfactual post stands, however. Congrats. In any event, you did not address the points I made that were allowed to see daylight. I don't know why you think you have.
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  35109.  @reidfmorthel5597 My truthful response to your strawmanning and non sequiturs is being repeated blocked. No one said it was all right for anyone to spread a deadly disease. Every country with comprehensive universal health also had better outcomes. But you want to blame your neighbors instead, and you're proud of yourself for it.
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  35110.  @reidfmorthel5597 Seems I can't talk about the J n J specs, LOL. A sponsor? I agree about civilized societies, though. Emigrating to Europe by 2024, proud to have decided in 2019. :)
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  35111.  @reidfmorthel5597 So, is anyone not vaccinated by that very fact in favor of spreading a deadly disease? Who made you think this? What else can they make you think? Why are so many vaccinated people supporting the truckers? Why are European leftists anti-mandate? Corbyn, Melenchon, Autin, the CGT, . . . It's the norm there. I know my responses are shadowed. I tested it.
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  35112.  @reidfmorthel5597 I'm being censored again. I provide facts, I get shadowed. Why do you think that's happening? That alone should make a person suspect the official line.
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  35113.  @reidfmorthel5597  BTW, see John Campbell: animals are becoming infected now. And meat production is a risk for creating deadly disease in people. I don't eat meat. Do you? Meat eaters spread deadly diseases.
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  35114.  @RenderMyBalls  I'm a vegetarian, though I will eat wild-caught fish on occasion, when a doctor tells me to. Thank you, though. Now I have an idea of what to prioritize.
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  35115.  @RenderMyBalls  BTW, I eat full-fat cheese in moderation, never think not to, and trust myself with nuts. I don't worry I'll overeat, nor do I count calories. I eat "high fat" foods based on what feels right. I go through about a liter of olive oil each week. But meat is a bygone thing for me now. Mammals in particular feel too close to us to eat.
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  35116.  @RenderMyBalls  I can respect someone who hunts their own food, or catches their own fish. Or, as some people in Europe do, buys from a small farmer they actually know (still exists). That is very different from participating in the Big Agra sector. Those people do not have our best interests at heart. That's our job.
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  35117.  @myaccount3402  I do as well. The point is, let's not do like they did. We don't know there will be a lot of grave, long-lasting effects. I can decide not to take the vaccine without believing things about them that we don't know yet.
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  35118.  @chasca23  They just made vaccine passports and mandatory COVID vaccines for minors illegal in France.
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  35119. Right now I miss the Judds.
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  35120. WHO is really behind this insanity? There is something going on here that has not yet been uncovered.
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  35121. So, you expect teachers to be trained for urban combat, too? And you think teachers will sign up?
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  35122.  @FirstSuiGeneris  So this is going to be one more thing teachers have to do, and you think I'm spouting nonsense? Who will you find who is qualified for this job? What do you know about most teachers?
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  35123. You beat me to it.
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  35124. 2 and 3 for sure . . .
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  35125. Of course he starts with a slur against those over 60, disguised as a self-deprecating joke. What a truly unattractive man. Now let's go after China. Throw in some more Axis of Evil while you're at it.
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  35126. First rational account of a possible encounter with alien technology.
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  35127.  @dukemocchi  Except that it appears to be wrong as to the source of infection.
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  35128. ​@furzkram The best numbers I could find was that vaccination reduced the risk of long COVID following a breakthrough infection by roughly 15%.
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  35129. ​@funbarsolaris2822 The data is hardly compelling. The risk reduction is about 15%. All in all, disappointing since it was hoped it would prevent infection. So it just reduces severity and risk of sequelae.
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  35130. ​ @ismalali The more studies I read, the more tentative they are in their assertion that vaccines prevent long COVID. It's not a robust result in any case.
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  35131. ​ @DM-sy4hg  She has repeatedly made it clear that she did NOT vote for Biden.
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  35132. ​ @spacemanspiff3529  She won't even vote for Biden. She didn't in 2020.
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  35133. We are the only major country without Universal Healthcare, and the one with the most COVID deaths. The whole world is watching.
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  35134. Brilliant and extraordinary!
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  35135. A 19-year-old man, obviously.
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  35136. LOL, that was perfect.
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  35137. The donor is opposed to this vaccine for religious reasons. The recipient had COVID, survived, and has a reasonable concern that vaccination could harm her now. Look up how the ministries of health in other countries handle the issue. It is enlightening.
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  35138. Except that it IS necessary surgery. Gosh. I wonder how Steve Jobs, who refused medical treatment for a rare, curable form of cancer originating on his pancreas, later got a LIVER transplant.
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  35139.  @rhuttrho88  needs to get a dictionary, perhaps
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  35140.  @ransomcoates546  I'm very pleased mine studied mathematics and literature.
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  35141.  @ransomcoates546  If those are your only choices, well . . . all right. I mean, who can argue with that, then?
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  35142. Debt does not exist to give us access to higher education. Higher education exists to service debt. That's why Twitter hires those people.
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  35143. A closer look at the results, especially comparing Melenchon with the bourgeois left (Greens, PS), who attacked Melechon for condemning the Russian incursion yet refusing to escalate tensions, and refusing to back away from his anti-NATO stand, shows that the French have little taste for the kind of frenzied Russia hatred characteristic of the US at the moment. You could persuade half of these people that Putin created the COVID virus.
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  35144. Can you picture Sy Hersh doing anything like this?
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  35145.  @MichaelAronson  What? Hello?
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  35146.  @MichaelAronson  This will be presented to BIDEN. Not Trump. Do you truly not know?
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  35147. Yup. I could tell you were nice for real, and above all thoughtful. It was obvious.
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  35148. ​ @ladyboni This is why multivariate analysis is so hard to do, takes a long time, and is expensive. In other words, what are the chances it will be done?
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  35149. @JeikuAnimeReview  What is it with you people that you think because I denounced legacy admissions, I supported the race-based "corrective?" Where did I say that? If these "elite" universities admitted veterans who distinguished themselves in the military, especially those who stood up against misconduct at risk to themselves, and who oppose endless war now, they would automatically have a much more diverse student body and create better leaders. Funny how they never think of that . . .
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  35150.  @JeikuAnimeReview  Funny how my post above won't appear on your thread. Wonder why? Shadowed?
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  35151.  @JeikuAnimeReview  What is it with you people that you think because I denounced legacy admissions, I supported the race-based "corrective?" Where did I say that? If these "elite" universities admitted veterans who distinguished themselves in the military, especially those who stood up against misconduct at risk to themselves, and who oppose endless wars now, they would automatically have a much more diverse student body and create better leaders.
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  35152. @JeikuAnimeReview  It isn't unconstitutional at all. The OP said that if Brie was so much against privilege, she would have turned down admission to Harvard. But why? Her parents were not alumni, or rich, and her father died in a car crash when she was a kid. She acknowledged her advantages in living abroad, when her very smart parents taught in elite US embassy schools. My point is that favoring legacies is fine. (EDIT: not fine with me, fine with the Court. Nothing illegal about it.) Do you know why all the previous cases allowed race-based admissions? In order to make up for the fact that the legacy system favored whites over all other groups, or at least it once did. That's what's behind the "in 25 years" rhetoric. All in all, I agree with this outcome, BUT there was no good way for the case to turn out. This did nothing for you or for me. Count on it. BTW, did you read it? :)
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  35153.  @JeikuAnimeReview  I responded, again nothing lit up. Can you see it? These YT platforms are curious. Lol.
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  35154. Let's see how it works out in practice.
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  35155.  @hangukhiphop  True. This alone had bankrupted people, at their most vulnerable moment.
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  35156. Yes, history, like Lev Golinkin in The Nation, circa 2019. Good starting point. Stephen F. Cohen, always.
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  35157. @precambrian.rabbit Oh, I'm sorry. I thought Rittenhouse identifies as white. You're right, I don't recall that anyone asked him.
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  35158.  @rmooreg  Juries convict innocent people all the time. Hold outs are brow beaten all the time. My remark was flippant, obviously; too flippant, even in light of the OP I responded to. Yours is uninformed. To be serious for a moment, are you suggesting a guilty verdict of recklessly endangering innocence bystanders would have been a "tainted" one? No. It would have been well supported by the evidence. It is not unusual at all for juries to look for ways to acquit certain classes of people, thus tacitly acknowledging that prison is a very harsh and dangerous place where human beings go to be destroyed. FWIW, I oppose trying juveniles as adults. So I disagree with everything that happened here, start to finish. This was a kid in dire need of court supervision and help in attaining a high school diploma, among other things.
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  35159.  @rmooreg  Who are you arguing with? Not me.
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  35160.  @rmooreg  Read the jury instructions, in particular with respect to McGinnis. Obviously you don't know what I'm referring to. As for howling voices, I don't know whether Rittenhouse has the stomach to sue for defamation, but considering what some MSM said about him, he certainly could maintain a case, and win. I'd welcome it. Tgeir lying has got to be punished, they are doing it for money at this point. The howling voices on the other "side," however, that endorse vigilantism and think it's fine for minors to strut around with AR-15 style weapons strapped to them, and proclaim Rittenhouse a "hero" (and this clown here seems to think nomenclature is the issue, and that nomenclature creates fear of guns -- when two people approached Rittenhouse to try to disarm him after he fired four shots, and many other shots were heard as well, no fear there), well, I see that as a far bigger problem going forward, and much more likely to harm me directly. Do you really imagine we have the largest incarcerated population in the world, with the large majority non-white, because those other people are Bad People? Do you think they are committing vastly more crime? Really? Anyone who thinks so needs a good dose of Chris Hedges. As for the racial implications of this case, have you considered the analysis of anyone who disagrees with your anodyne view, like Briahna Joy Gray, a Harvard-trained lawyer turned journalist? You should. If I can listen to Grande, Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, etc., you can listen to Hedges and Gray.
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  35161.  @rmooreg  Have you ever looked at who the various Innocence Projects free? Of course all kinds of people. But check how long DNA exonerations are taking, and for whom, when the science is over a generation old.
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  35162. Wow. We could save money on trials and just hire you.
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  35163. Bucktown is an expensive neighborhood. It is not a safe one, and never was. Locals know, innocent suburbanites and others from outside the area imagine it's hip. Poor artists lived there about 30 years ago, always a harbinger of coming gentrification. The poor artists knew to be cautious.
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  35164.  @joshanonline  Poor people under socialism had endemic drug abuse and 40 or 50 shootings every weekend in their neighborhoods? And were often unable to read and write? Tell us more.
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  35165.  @jfangm  If you think eating healthy is inexpensive, you must not be doing it. I cook everything I eat, no exceptions. I pick up coffee to start the day. I don't make my own juice, when I do have it, which is not daily. That's it. I cannot afford a restaurant. That's why I do all my own cooking. Good food is a fortune.
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  35166.  @jfangm  Well, how does the quality of life just keep declining then? In 1965 or 1970, a couple of friends could get together and decide to get an apartment in any major city, from New York to San Francisco, and afford to split the rent on minimum wage. No college grad had debt, and high school graduates had a better education than many college grads do today. We didn't live under elaborate surveillance, we weren't forced into bankruptcy by medical bills, drug abuse wasn't rampant, most people read a lot more, guns weren't ubiquitous, advertising wasn't sinister, and the phrase "school shooting" referred to exactly ONE incident. And we didn't have a oisive huckster class of con artist millionaires and even more depraved billionaires. Nothing truly great is accomplished by anyone who only cares about money. It is simply not possible to aim for doing the least in order to get the most money in return, "profit maximization," so called, and accomplish exceptional things. Did money come first for Einstein, Picasso, James Baldwin, or Jonas Salk? Does money come first for a pediatric neurosurgeon? A concert pianist? Do you really think that's what motivates great artists and scientists? Or even people with a rich family life? (Money hoarding? How pathetic.) All four of those mentioned, by the way, saw themselves as socialists to one degree or another. That's because their entire lives didn't consist of nothing but an insatiable appetite.
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  35167.  @antikommunistischaktion  If the dollar ceases to be the global reserve currency, the house of cards will fall SO fast and this whole discussion will be revealed for the puerile mess that it is. How many more 2008-style implosions do you think can be sustained? We might have the bad luck of finding out.
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  35168.  @antikommunistischaktion  No one is stopping YOU from thinking for yourself. Once you do, you don't feel like going back.
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  35169.  @jfangm  Okay honey.
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  35170.  @jfangm  Limited liability means the businessmen cannot be sued in their individual capacity for acts performed in furtherance of the proper business of the corporation. Only GOVERNMENT can confer that limitation of liability. It is what prevented individuals from suing TONY HAYWARD for the Gulf of Mexico BP oil spill. Otherwise, they could have. DUH. P. S. Ever heard of Section 230 immunity? LOL
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  35171.  @jfangm  WWW is not the Internet. And you just said the government invented the Internet. I'm on to math problems, and just got a hard one right, don't bother me further. Good night.
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  35172.  @jfangm  With EACH client? Well, that would require quite a legal department, for each business, big or small. And the contract is enforced, HOW? Where? A contract each time? What if the victims of an oil spill, dangerous chemical release, etc., claim they were not advised they were contracting away their right to hold those responsible for quasi-criminal acts or reckless acts to account? The contract didn't envision that. (What happened to "personal responsibility??" Ha ha ha ha . . . ) You never thought anything through. Back to math videos. I promised myself I wouldn't take the sour bait.
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  35173.  @jfangm  No it isn't. The most cursory research will explain it to you. One is infrastructure, the other is every aspect of content. It's like saying operating systems are applications, only worse. I linked to CERN, it was removed. I guess you can't find it yourself. And the Internet was developed by government and universities, which are nonprofits.
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  35174. How do they all know to say the same thing at the same time? They need a new meme generator.
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  35175. Attempts at incomplete dictatorship are a lot like the leaky vaccines.
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  35176. ​​@RtistiqSkubie You are both correct. Two travesties: Wisconsin requires someone like Rittenhouse to be tried as an adult even though he was a minor. There should be no such blanket requirement. A full generation after Columbine, and Wisconsin still lacks a reasonable gun law for minors: one that does allow hunting with a license, with a "learners'" permit, and in the company of someone 21 years old or older with relevant experience (at least one prior hunting season). What is their legislature doing??​ @RtistiqSkubie 
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  35177. @JohnnieWalkerDread  There was a curfew, there was unrest, he was a minor, he was openly carrying a large gun. How is this analogous to going to a store? When you patronize a store, there is no question whether you had a right to be there or whether there was anything possibly unwise about going there. It's not a gray area.
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  35178. @JohnnieWalkerDread  Yes there was a curfew declared. Whether it was being actively enforced is another matter. So a minor taking a gun to a riot is like going to a store? And we wonder why . . . Whether a minor can openly carry a firearm everywhere in Wisconsin is not clear; the law appears to say no, but the rule of lenity was correctly applied (for a change). If a law is ambiguous, it must be read in favor of the accused. It doesn't mean he didn't break a law. It means that fairness requires dismissing the charge rather than attempting to convict based on a law that is unclear in any way. The Supreme Court just had a case similar to that, concerning 1/6. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson surprised everyone by voting with conservatives. She wrote a great concurrence explaining why the law the DOJ used against the demonstrators didn't apply. A lot of plainly unethical conduct cannot be prosecuted as a crime. This is somewhat different, but the same sorts of principles apply. Criminal laws have to be crystal clear and properly limited in scope.
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  35179.  @JohnnieWalkerDread  Emergency curfews are authorized under Wisconsin Statutes Chapter 323.
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  35180.  @JohnnieWalkerDread  Nowhere did I say that. I said exactly the opposite. Literally, the exact opposite, in more than one way. Is that you, Hillary? 😂
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  35181.  @JohnnieWalkerDread  The prosecution didn't admit any such thing. One officer tertified that there was an emergency curfew in place.
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  35182.  @JohnnieWalkerDread You can't read. Okay. This is America. I should have known.
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  35183. @JohnnieWalkerDread  An officer's testimony under oath was deemed insufficient by the judge. Where did you get "worthless?" A different judge could have exercised his discretion and deemed that testimony to be sufficient. Had it been overturned on appeal, that's no black mark against him. It's no more evident that Rittenhouse had a right to be where he was during a riot than did any of the three people who assaulted him. In a declared emergency, you have a civic duty to make your way home. That applies to everyone in this picture. If the third man Rittenhouse shot had shot Rittenhouse instead, he would have been able to claim self-defense, too. If a robber in a store were to shoot you, he has no defense. The curfew kerfuffle shows you how used to winning prosecutors are without having to work hard for it, like they should. They didn't expect the judge to ask for more evidence.
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  35184.  @JohnnieWalkerDread  Citations, even without links, are removed by Big Brother. I gave citations a long time ago. Long gone.
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  35185. @JohnnieWalkerDread  You don't know what happens to cit_ ta_ tions? Which I provided. Three guesses.
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  35186. @JohnnieWalkerDread  1. Are you a lawyer? PLENTY of people are convicted of misdemeanors every day on less. 2. I'm being cents erred. So I stop. I refuse to be subjected to that. Good bye and good luck.
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  35187. @JohnnieWalkerDread  Whether or not an officer was told that there was a curfew in place during the declared emergency is NOT a "legal conclusion." What is unusual is for a judge to demand more evidence than was presented.
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  35188.  @JohnnieWalkerDread  Blocked
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  35189.  @johnybalohny  Yes.
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  35190. @johnybalohny  Well, fine. I didn't go to those lengths. There is good reason to believe that at least some elections in Chicago are not by a secret ballot. I've personally seen it. They have font big enough to read across the room and then run out of sleeves to put them in, etc. Yes, in my precinct, that happened.
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  35191.  @johnybalohny  Great. I replied. Scents erred.
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  35192. @johnybalohny  I included info about non see cret voting in Chi-town. I mean that I myself saw. No no to share?
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  35193.  @johnybalohny  Tried again. No dice.
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  35194. Yikes, harsh.
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  35195.  @Walmart_Sandal  Never watch that. Only Carlson when he has Glenn or other pro-Assange people on. If you have a video title, I will watch it.
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  35196.  @mjcard  We know that about Hillary. The point was that Pompeo considered some way to assassinate Assange as well, as a possible option. This surprises some people. I don't see why. I'd be surprised if every "option" were not discussed, including dropping the extradition demand as a propaganda coup, or to make it look like it was quid pro quo to benefit Trump, and Assange just handed over some valuable secrets to gain freedom. (If people believed it, he'd be discredited forever.) These people are all power mad. They never limit themselves. They'll consider anything.
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  35197.  @ironmonger27  No police report, no report to an attorney (who is an officer of the court), no sworn affidavit, no testimony under oath in a court or tribunal --- an anonymous report to mainstream media, about events taking place a decade ago, and a "documentary" featuring actresses in the shadows, not interviews with the accusers. Where do you see evidence? I see a ratings coup, at least so far. Let's see what real investigations will yield.
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  35198. Maybe the truth is that our public health agencies are incompetent? Could that be it?
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  35199. Trump just made the remarks they are suing on.
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  35200. There were no kids at that venue. Say, is this story being promoted to take the focus off Bankman-Fried, maybe? 😆
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  35201. How is making imperialists look like those they colonized discriminate against whites? It's a whitewash, lol. 🤪
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  35202. My new hero.
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  35203. Anyone who doesn't see through Stefanik is no genius. 😂
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  35204. Briahna is brilliant, and that just made everyone madder. Predictable.
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  35205. The blond smeared her.
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  35206. If Kennedy is confirmed, we'll get the truth? Well then we can be sure he will not be confirmed. If you apply for a federal job, you still must prove vaccination. I just saw that yesterday, on job postings.
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  35207. Gosh, CNN has tech problems just like ordinary people do!
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  35208.  @mouseypublishings  You are likely right about that.
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  35209.  @thesandqueen2559  LOL
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  35210. I am still a dévotée of Loomis. Loomis hit the spot for me. It honed my intuition, which is not something I am naturally good at because my spatial abilities are poor. I think I have the strongest logic and poorest spatial intuition combo of anyone I have ever met. In fact I'm sure I do. 😢
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  35211.  @azeitonaland  Yes there is. Look it up. It is not, however, the best example because a course of shots is in fact recommended.
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  35212.  @azeitonaland  No one mentioned Africa.
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  35213. Chekhov, Ward 6
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  35214. To call this muddled is to be too kind. It's not about feewings, really, it's not!
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  35215. A billion dollars is 10 million a year for a century.
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  35216. ​@DukeGMOLOL Everyone who is cured of cancer is cured by the activation of their own immune system. Various therapies can arrest the progression, greatly reduce the tumor load, and kill cancer cells while sparing normal ones. The rest is up to your body. There will never be "one" cure for cancer. It is too complex and idiosyncratic. Special diets have a history of working in some people -- relatively rarely, but incontrovertibly. There are plenty of case studies dating back decades that have documented it.
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  35217. ​​ @DukeGMOLOL  Interesting. My reply to you doesn't come up. Funny how that works. It contained real facts and everything, made no outlandish claims.
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  35218. ​​​ @DukeGMOLOL ​ Everyone who is cured of cancer is cured by the activation of their own immune system. Various therapies can arrest the progression, greatly reduce the tumor load, and kill cancer cells while sparing normal ones. The rest is up to your body. There will never be "one" cure for cancer. It is too complex and idiosyncratic. Special diets have a history of working in some people -- relatively rarely, but incontrovertibly. There are plenty of case studies dating back decades that have documented it. It barely takes a few minutes at the NIH to find them.
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  35219.  @DukeGMOLOL  I did no such thing. I know that about links. I'm not going to redo what I did. I'm sick of this. And NO, I did not say "food cures cancer."
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  35220. This case is being misrepresented and giving rise to a new moral panic. The rapid substitution of one moral panic for another is the story here. The US can't seem to stop itself anymore. Mob mentalities are normal, thinking for yourself is deviant.
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  35221. @stevekaylor5606  You tell 'em bro. You're in a position to know, and dictate.
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  35222. I just had an experience at the endodontist. They gave me a lot of epinephrine, and I'm not supposed to have that. Well, my heart raced and thumped hard, and I couldn't talk myself down, like I usually can. No traction. We waited ten minutes, then proceeded with the root canal when I could finally take it. Most people would have panicked and rushed to the ER. For me, this is an example of what I could NOT control. I could NOT control my racing, thumping heart. Not what I could control -- what I could not. I found out Monday after talking to my doctor, then calling back to the endodontist and confirming he did use epinephrine. I was mad. I'm still a bit miffed. I can't control that, either. NOR SHOULD I. Reality is first of all material. Get a clue.
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  35223. @PazLeBon  Okay. The person you responded to has control over his spelling, and reasons creatively and well. You?
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  35224.  @PeaceIsWork  Great point.
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  35225.  @emersonsitorus1136  I guess when someone is tortured, they need to control themselves better. It would be funny, but . . . well.
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  35226. She said she wouldn't have fired him.
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  35227. No you don't.
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  35228. LOL
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  35229. Totally right about one thing: it was deeply, deeply immoral for the government to order a SHUTDOWN of an entire economy, to restrict people's fundamental freedom of movement, and then NOT TO MAKE THEM WHOLE. This transcends right and left. There is no political theory in the world that can possibly justify what Congress AND Trump did. Emergency M4A, emergency UBI, were the bare minimum. Instead, they rewarded their friends. Again.
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  35230. His reward
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  35231. Does the Dalai Lama provision violate the First Amendment?
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  35232. Biden GOT ELECTED ON WHAT PROMISE?
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  35233. Don't compare anyone with Trump. He was incompetent, narcissistic, and devious in a way that no other politician can possibly match, absent the same amorality and mental illnesses.
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  35234. They act like there is no pandemic, then ridicule the people who wonder if it's a "hoax." No wonder the country is fractured, and has the least public health cooperation and the most COVID deaths.
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  35235. Vasili Arkhipov stopped a nuclear exchange during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was in a submarine, and expected to suffocate. Put yourself in that position.
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  35236. Two died, not three. Not that lives count for much.
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  35237. Palisades is full of the people you call leftists.
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  35238. "Excused for their behavior?" Thank you for letting us know that in a post-Hiroshima world, you approach international relations with the mentality of a romper room teacher.
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  35239. Bri didn't spin it at all. She told the truth about how much slack MSM are willing to cut for people like this Bankman-Fried person. It makes it easy for people like him to commit fraud. "That kind of behavior has no cultural cache for me." That's what she said.
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  35240. Avoiding 2008 would have helped preserve the New World Order a little longer, yes.
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  35241. Were you happy that Bill Gates decided our vaccine policy?
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  35242. He makes Ted Cruz look suave.
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  35243. HE JUST SAID : "force her to admit" SORRY, BUB -- we have a Fifth Amendment. Your role isn't to make her talk, it's to vote her down based on her answers or nonanswers. I'm glad she stood up for free speech. Showed some backbone.
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  35244. Good gawd, I knew Kamala had no class but this is absurd. As a little girl I knew about never turning my back on an adult.
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  35245. I am really good (but not absolutely brilliant) in logic, and have an "algebraic" mind, but really poor spatial intuition. This was why I only got good in math after studying philosophy. I ended up majoring in both. And in no way am I gifted in it. I have limitations I've accepted. Also . . . Smullyan is a blast. If you think like me, check out Smullyan. You'll love him.
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  35246. You need to know his baseline. But I tend not to believe him as well.
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  35247. The issue is whether it should be illegal to heckle him where he appears. I wouldn't have, I agree with you. I also wouldn't have arrested the guy.
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  35248. @TheLazyLiberal  "Whenever I see a white male pilot, I have to wonder if he drinks and is getting away with it. If he's cute, you know stewardesses cover for him." Now do you see what's wrong with such statements?
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  35249. If you need something to cheer you up, watch the videos from Fête de l'Humanité this year with Angela Davis in attendance.
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  35250.  @hotrox2112  At least we could attach a name and face to that one's author. That's all I ask.
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  35251. @hotrox2150  Excuse me? I have a doctoral level degree and an advanced degree from a European university. You are a bad guesser, lol.
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  35252. Let's suppose for the sake of argument that Alex Jones is very dangerous. That is a reason to watch a documentary about it. Or used to be.
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  35253.  @gruelichkulsheim9445  It's not whataboutism if it involves the same class of acts. Selective prosecution is hard to prove, but certainly wrong if done.
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  35254.  @gruelichkulsheim9445  Right, selective prosecution could mean that someone who should have been scrutinized wasn't, but it does not mean that because one wasn't scrutinized, the other cannot be, no matter what the evidence or the nature of the crime. That is bad logic and bad pragmatics.
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  35255.  @gruelichkulsheim9445  Then why do you call the OP whataboutism? It's a claim of selective prosecution.
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  35256.  @gruelichkulsheim9445  My guy is Jean-Luc Melenchon. Incidentally, La France Insoumise party office was raided, as was his home. He's not quite as left as I'd like, but when you refer to "my guy," that would be him. Briahna had a radar on a related topic today. Maybe you might want to keep up? As for your logic, you keep failing to make the distinction I made. I don't know what to suggest there. Raymond Smullyan?
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  35257.  @gruelichkulsheim9445  Exceedingly lame of you to try to recover from that one. Know when to fold 'em.
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  35258.  @gruelichkulsheim9445  How am I wrong? There is no such thing as "selective prosecution?" I just happened to string random words together, Dada style, that don't exist in law? It's not part of in general, the law should strive to treat similarly situated people similarly, absent certain well-founded exceptions that in some sense aren't? As in, when it is not possible, or when the situations are only apparently similar but distinguishable in some important way, etc.? Tell yourself that, because "my guy." 😉
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  35259.  @gruelichkulsheim9445  In logic and semantics, an NP consisting of a first-person possessive pronoun + singular noun usually picks out a particular individual, relative to the person indicated by the pronoun in that context. Or is that just me? /s 🤔
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  35260. Any of us can click the link to the Australian government website and see for ourselves that AZ was discontinued three weeks ago due to a serious side effect attributed to the vaccine: thrombosis with thrombocytopenia (TTS), and AZ no longer in use there, for anyone. The reason is the side effect. It says so right there.
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  35261. Okay! You also hate on the brilliant Briahna! I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked! 🤣
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  35262.  @jeremiahmud  Don't be scared. You are healthier than you think.
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  35263.  @jameswatson5807  False. Using, say, painkillers to get high every other weekend is also drug abuse. Clearly, it is not addiction.
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  35264.  @achillesglacia7700  The DSM-V lists "substance abuse disorder" as a diagnostic category.
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  35265. Every psychoactive drug -- literally every -- has been proven to have serious side effects, either immediately in some, or over time in nearly all who take it. The brain is simply too complex for us to predict what may happen if we interfere with its processes. I exercise caution with DHA, magnesium, and B12 supplements, much less anything else, and look to food first for my nutrients. I wonder how many of these jaded money hoarders will have some form of dementia or similar neurological disorder by age 60.
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  35266. Every psychoactive drug -- literally every -- has been proven to have serious side effects, either immediately in some, or over time in nearly all who take it. The brain is simply too complex for us to predict what may happen if we interfere with its processes. I exercise caution with DHA, magnesium, and B12 supplements, much less anything else, and look first to food for my nutrients. I wonder how many of these jaded money hoarders will have some form of dementia or other neurological disorder by age 60.
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  35267. One wonders whether the reason anyone believes this could never happen to them is because they are white and not poor. I mean, just taking a stab at it. This country has a history of Bad Stuff happening to black people that a few years later happens to white, too.
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  35268. Please get counseling.
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  35269.  @nancyk7954  Needless to say, I told a Ukrainian friend back in March that if anyone in his family or close to him were ever to need a place to stay, my door is open. I reiterated this several times during the year so that he would know I was serious. The real kicker is that my family in America died out, I'm not wealthy, and I will have to leave the States to live near family and have a decent old age someday. All true. (Of course!!) These people blow my mind.
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  35270.  @bkolumban  "Good parrot?" Look who's talking.
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  35271.  @member5488  Excuse me? There is literally NO psychometric test, of any type, which has a 0.9 correlation with any form of achievement or success you might care to name. Where do people get this stuff?
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  35272.  @sarahtonin4649  It should surprise you. It's ridiculous.
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  35273.  @member5488  You got THIS from Jordan Peterson? I knew he had problems, but I didn't think he was patently dishonest, and I have to wonder. Do people know literally nothing about psychometrics, so that, for example, if Peterson simply misspoke, or phrased something in a way that was unintentionally misleading, you wouldn't know that what was stated is literally impossible? If a math book answer key has a mistake, could you find it? I once corrected a mistake on a Mensa quiz. They fixed it.
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  35274.  @sarahtonin4649  From this very video, you can conclude that the correlation between a person's score on one IQ test and another, or an IQ test and its functional equivalents, like the MAT, must be below 0.9. Dr. Grande just explained how you can raise your score.
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  35275.  @member5488  I found that video myself. He first cites the standard accepted correlation of 0.5 between IQ and academic performance and other achievement and success, which he states accounts for 25% or so of what you are able to do in life, "which is a lot," his words, then he says he considers the correlation even higher, around 0.6. MY question is not about a trivial mistake (anyone can make or repeat a typo, dyslexia or not), but about why the glaring error in the message itself wasn't spotted? An impossibility was repeated. (Maybe you think too highly of IQ?)
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  35276. And what does that have to do with the economy, Wall Street, the tech giants, Ukraine, or Gaza?
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  35277. @janetjacks3406  Yes, and I mistrust him on that. Whenever people start to do what they do not for love, but for money, they bring up spirituality. You haven't noticed?
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  35278.  @janetjacks3406  Read my last sentence again, and heed it. It applies across the board. Of course, in this instance I meant Taibbi. You could say the same about Oprah, for example. Or a ton of televangelists, dating from last century to the present. Just watch your wallet.
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  35279.  @janetjacks3406  Lucky you. I mean it! Me = 😢
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  35280. 💯
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  35281. I know. The jealously toward Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, Nancy and Paul Pelosi, the Clintons, Bill Gates, Clinton confidante Ghislaine, and Jeff (a/k/s dik pix) Bezos was already out of hand, but the assault on Our Betters at the World Economic Forum meeting for our benefit in Davos really does take the cake.
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  35282.  @titanstown2452  Who "made" what, and how? They "worked" for it? Do you know what $70 million in a year is? It's nearly $8000 an hour, for every hour of every day in the year. Who "earned" that? How? And isn't it odd, that only about 50 years ago, no one "earned" that much more than the people working under them; the lowliest worker made 1/25 of what the CEO made, not 1/355. How did this get decided? Elon Musk? Tesla has one of the worse employment discrimination cases filed against it (that for some reason no one hears about) in this century or the last, and Neuralink has complaints against it for primate torture that are harrowing. The court papers are available online; the usual excuse is that "Elon didn't know," which kind-of contradicts that he "works so hard." The case where he tweeted and the stock market reacted is getting a lot of press time, though, as if that were more important. You can find all of this online -- I mean the actual court documents, not someone's dubious regurgitation of them. What do you think rich people do with their money, besides control others? What do you think it's about? Ordinary people put money to far better use overall.
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  35283.  @titanstown2452  By the way, what's Bill Gates going to do with all that farmland? If I ask, does that make me "jealous of rich people?"
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  35284.  @titanstown2452  Nobody's crying. Have you ever been to Montenegro? That's where my family lives, and I'm moving. You have no idea what quality of life means. Ordinary people have four balconies; eggplant, arugula, and fresh-caught fish are not a luxury, they are staples. They walk to work and get off at 3 pm. I don't think any of these freaks you mention live better. I don't want "their" money, it's dirty for sure. You're too primitive to understand anything. Of course the banks are going to try to make M go the way of Greece, but there will be resistance. It's too French-leaning to give in easily, and bend over like the people in the Five Eyes do.
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  35285.  @titanstown2452  It's none of my business what he does with the farmland? And if he creates so much pollution and GMOs, which he supports, that organic food (= real food) costs triple? Still not my business? Anyway, I have somewhere to go. Do you? You deserve the Epstein crowd. Too bad the rest of the planet doesn't. Do you really not see what these people LOOK like? That alone would deter anyone normal from wanting to emulate them, or defend them. Something is wrong with this picture.
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  35286.  @titanstown2452  Oh now I get it. The gentleman protests too much. You accuse others of being "jealous of rich people" to deflect from the fact that YOU are jealous of rich people. You know, this doesn't work. Most people will see through it sooner or later. You denounce in "others" what you don't like about yourself. This took me a while, true. Everyone starts with themselves, and by starting with myself, I couldn't get to where you are.
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  35287. The result in Ile de France for Macron's party was abysmal. The three left parties together did well. A union of the left would be viable if it could be achieved. I know that is practically impossible, now. But these are interesting times . . .
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  35288.  @Jezmac1969  As far as predicting what will happen in 2022, you are absolutely right.
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  35289. I sometimes wonder whether this is deliberately done by the government (i.e., killing civilians) to see what they can get away with. It's all a psy-op experiment. They will use the information in larger contexts.
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  35290. Glenn Greenwald posted an excerpt of Victoria Nuland testifying on the Ukrainian biolabs -- which, oddly enough, were funded through the US Department of Defense, not the NIH. The US Embassy has admitted to six such labs. TeleSUR reported that China demands the US provide full information on all biological laboratories it funds throughout the world. The Indian press reported that China states there are 26 such labs in Ukraine, not six.
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  35291. @fionamcgrath8982  Oh? I realized it when Paul Allen developed a highly treatable form of cancer and Gates immediately moved to push him out of Microsoft. Then his conduct during the antitrust trial was another tell. Granted, the extent of his relationship with Epstein was yet to be revealed. Explain to me why Trump couldn't simply hear RFK Jr. out? It's not like he needed to DO anything, like fire Fauci or renew the moratorium on GoF research. Just hear the man out. See what he has to say.
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  35292.  @fionamcgrath8982  Let's see if my post stays disap . . .
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  35293.  @fionamcgrath8982  Maybe mentioning Paul Allen is forbidden? Or could it be J. Eps . . . ? J. E. did come later. In any case, I guess we have to believe you, although . . . It's un truthy.
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  35294.  @fionamcgrath8982  My real reply . . . Cents errr . . .
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  35295. ​ @Mark0003260  I'd rather live in Haiti than among the Amish. I'd rather live in Europe above all, but if you forced me to choose . . .
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  35296.  @Digger-Nick  Why do you see anger wherever intelligence is on display? You might want to explore that question.
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  35297.  @honorafox4709  You think someone else is cherry-picking? What I wonder is how anyone in this country holds a job anymore. How many ad hoc hypotheses do you plan to generate, and then congratulate yourself for your "creativity?"
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  35298.  @paulboccuti8675  All right. And since when can you kill a dying person? This issue has TWO parts, no?
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  35299.  @paulboccuti8675  Please explain your need to repeat this lie. I don't understand. What does it do for you?
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  35300. Jimmy, I am so sorry you got Moderna, and SO GLAD you are so much better now.
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  35301. What? Bill Nye was a successful engineer and inventor, before going into media.
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  35302.  @CarltonSmith45  If you can't stand "lying," then start by not throwing that word around.
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  35303. Because we funded the research. We bribed them to do it. Don't think every CCP member agreed with it. I'd love to be a fly on the wall, especially to hear what the old timers think about it.
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  35304. He's a one-person ad for not joining the military. Fight and die, for him and Gutfeld to get rich running their mouth?
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  35305. WE have an obligation to choose our doctors, and then to consult them and consider whether to follow their recommendations, or seek another opinion, or choose among the proposed treatments. So, how can ANYONE say not to do your own research? It's your responsibility to do your own research. You are the one who has to decide.
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  35306. The police act as if they need no reason to use lethal force. The target has to prove he didn't deserve to be shot.
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  35307. Or, write a stand-up routine.
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  35308. False. The legally requisite element of premeditation can occur in minutes. You're describing where it is easy to prove. Most cases are closer.
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  35309. Black Studies majors go on to MSW or JD degrees, or get a second major in Education. If you don't like the Education majors with a Black Studies degree, I can appreciate that (though I don't agree), but the MSW, JD -- and the MPA, for that matter -- all lead to real jobs.
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  35310. Fine. Now tell us how this supports mandates. Trick question. It supports individualized medical care, just as Jimmy stated here. Nowhere does Jimmy ever say no one should be vaccinated. He himself got vaccinated because his doctor recommended it, and not in response to any coercion from any politician.
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  35311. P. S. No it was not expected. Reduced transmission was promised us, before there was solid evidence that we could count on reduced transmission.
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  35312.  @jondoe1622  I don't disagree, then. I think mandates are wrong, but would NEVER argue anyone out of (or into) being vaccinated. I support freedom of choice. Total agreement about the health care system.
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  35313. THEY JUST EXPLAINED TO YOU. How could you think that ONE PERSON, any ONE person, can reverse the apparent winner of an election? These are the electors sent by the states. Challenges to any slate will not be upheld absent agreement to decertify by congressional vote. How could you think one sole person, acting alone, could make that decision?
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  35314. NO, neither Bernie nor AOC could do that. 16:55
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  35315. God help us. Well, at least we know for sure he deserved to lose.
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  35316. @solenvy  I want Acosta to testify before Congress. This salacious side-show involving independent women who were clearly of age at the time has nothing to do with Epstein, kompromat, and human trafficking. Two different things.
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  35317. When the leaders of Podemos had surprise twins and bought a house in the suburbs of Madrid that cost about $780,000, they faced a no-confidence vote. (They did survive the vote.) Other BLM leaders called for an investigation. That does show integrity.
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  35318.  @ThirstyEye  Yeah, Robby was really intelligent when he finished off with "he sounds like someone who would do this," and Bri stupidly said to wait for actual evidence. /S Bri is no fun at all at all.
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  35319. You weren't an idiot. You thought he had some integrity because like most people, you started with yourself. :/ Oh well.
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  35320. How did they bring in Crimo without firing a shot?
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  35321. Why would it be common practice to use FOIA to gain access to someone else's FOIA request? I mean, that sounds to me like it needs an explanation.
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  35322. "The day it broke was one of the worst days of my life." WOW where does a normal person begin? "HR on steroids leavened with woke politics . . . Ideological metastasis . . . " I can't believe he got the f ing job in the first place.
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  35323. Don't you see how much of this analysis applies to Russiagate? If not, consult Glenn Greenwald. This conspiracy is vastly crazier, but the Russia stuff was very lucrative, and had a strong racist element. You can always hate on Russians.
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  35324. WHO thinks puberty blockers are "risk free?" Antidepressants are not risk free!
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  35325. 5:05 In the meantime, have you seen the new Moscow metro stops?
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  35326. You say that like it's a bad thing. :)
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  35327. I remember how I was always somehow leery of Gloria Steinem, but when I heard she had been CIA, at first I thought it was a smear. Well . . .
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  35328. What a thing to say about Willie Nelson. Remember when he refused to file for bankruptcy? He was a hero then.
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  35329.  @josefranciscorosalesblandi3688  I would just die if someone compared me to her in any way whatsoever. :)
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  35330. They got promotions.
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  35331.  @peepeevs  I suggest you listen to what retired Navy SEAL David Goggins has to say on the issue. (But you won't. None of you will.)
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  35332.  @leonhart7306  I don't think that's persuasive either way. It's very possible that the reaction came from a life-long entitled little princess, or that THIS interaction -- with campus police, no less -- on a nice day when she was just relaxing, reading, and eating her lunch, was the straw that broke the camel's back. This time, she was not going to let it pass. What reference do you have for the proposition that the kind of adversity a person suffers due to racial profiling will build resiliency? Abuse wears most people down. What Chris Hedges has written about war heroes is more persuasive. IOW, the aftermath is complex. Those who have performed valiantly are often unsure whether they could repeat the feat. But strong they are, compared to most of us. Both traumatized and strong.
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  35333.  @leonhart7306  But yeah, she was horrible to the staff. She destroyed their lives, and got rewarded for it. I put that at the doorstep of those who enabled her as well. They had a duty to be evenhanded.
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  35334.  @jayxavier6930  Yes, and that is the real disgrace. Who tells staff to summon campus police -- and then pretends staff is to blame when they do? Why can't these clowns be reprimanded or fired?
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  35335.  @jayxavier6930  Amen. Horrible. Apparently the administration did not even attempt to hear from staff about what happened before reacting.
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  35336. Because it was literally Trump's job as president to prevent CIA election tampering from happening, and then Trump claimed the election was stolen by an entirely different mechanism that he failed to prove. Trump is a lazy narcissist who could not do his job. I am not surprised that he lifted the moratorium on federal funding of gain-of-function research with the stroke of a pen. I would be surprised if he knew what he was signing. Trump generally signed whatever the last flatterer put in front of him and asked him pretty please to sign.
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  35337. Americans are losing interest, hysteria is dead. Up the ante: sex crimes are good to catch attention; also, ramp up the atrocities, etc. Given the price of gas, it isn't likely to work, but you have to try.
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  35338. Jimmy. YOU'RE NOT DUMB. Got that?
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  35339. What university in Canada charges more than $8200 per year in undergraduate tuition for any course of study? How many charge around half that? The US death rate from COVID is 2.7 times that of Canada. Anyone can look this up, yo.
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  35340.  @rick3461  I just checked the prices of ALL Canadian universities, which listed tuition and fees for Canadian students. I am right. I also checked the PER CAPITA deaths due to COVID on Worldometer. The US rate is 2.7 times that of Canada's. Are you talking about case fatality rate? That is less reliable, for obvious reasons.
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  35341.  @rick3461  If you believe case fatality rates, Johns Hopkins lists substantially lower case fatality rates for Russia and Serbia than for the US. Why am I somewhat skeptical, though I don't outright deny it? I guess it is possible. I think it's a poor measure for international comparisons.
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  35342.  @rick3461  No, it isn't, because the number of actual cases that come to the attention of the public health authorities will vary drastically, depending on cultural and economic factors. Or do you believe Russia is doing a great job with its COVID case fatality rate? I look at that rate to assess my personal risk locally, meaning where I live, not even to compare it to the risk in another state, much less other countries. If the US per capita mortality from COVID is higher than that of other developed countries, then it has not done well. Simple.
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  35343.  @rick3461  Canada (and the English speaking world in general) does not have free tuition, true, but there is more scholarship money available in Canada than in the US, and most people have at least their first year free. Continental Europe, and code law countries that take France, etc., as their model, are more likely to be truly tuition free. The English-speaking world likes to pit people against each other to control them.
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  35344.  @rick3461  The US rate of testing is high, but a lot of countries have higher per capita rates of testing, including UK, Denmark, Israel . . .
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  35345. He can't go there. His mental state is too fragile, he can't take the pollution. Please.
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  35346. "People here just don't care." Krystal is referring to Washington DC, but this describes personal relationships, too, throughout the country -- hence the suicides, etc. This is where rabid capitalism has led.
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  35347. Ye happens to be very intelligent, and unwell.
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  35348.  @josephmassaro  Well, I've actually listened to Ye when he has been lucid, and he is very intelligent.
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  35349.  @malovina  This is your example of imposed equality? In a country where a CEO makes 300 times the salary of the average worker, and a "mere" $10m bonus equals well over $1,100 per hour, for every hour of every day, 365/24/7? We have never had such concentrations of wealth, and in obviously unqualified hands. And ANY school, anywhere, lacks a physical education teacher, and has to beg? (You've noticed obesity and depression? Well guess what, sports help with that, especially after the COVID fiasco.) This woman is a perfect example of what makes money: producing propaganda makes money. In that way, it is a lot like the Soviet system.
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  35350.  @tonymistreacts4158  I know.
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  35351. They care about Blame Game. It has worked so far for them, no?
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  35352. She did pass the prelims for the California bar, but I don't know whether she pursued it further. It's a lot of real work.
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  35353.  @charliecharlie9984  Thanks, I didn't know and would never have guessed. I find him effeminate. James Dean was a Hollywood He-Man next to this one.
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  35354.  @charliecharlie9984  I seriously doubt this cutsie poo is Brie's type.
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  35355. @kat kin Yeah, cha-ching!
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  35356. Duh.
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  35357. True, but that's not a technicality. It means the plaintiffs cannot demonstrate a direct stake in the matter sufficient to bring suit. That's pretty bad.
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  35358. Prove it.
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  35359. Love Aaron Mate.
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  35360.  @hob976  Amen. I was joking. Appreciate the chance to clarify! 😉
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  35361. ​​ @jimdoe3288 You must not watch many math videos on YouTube. A large number are from Africa now. More than half of the ones in my feed are from Africa. (Prime Newtons is superb.) Bourgeois decadence ("soft skills") is an American thing. BRICS+ do math.
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  35362. Wait! Wait!! I have an incredible idea! The Democrats could run a better candidate and win that way . . . Um, . . . No? Yeah, never mind.
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  35363. ​@MichaelYoung-kc4nh Did you think that comment was "smart?" 😂
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  35364. Will you know? Anyone who got vaxxed and boosted and jeered at anyone who didn't --- either they are a multi-millionaire, or they will eat bugs.
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  35365. Thank you again, Amy. No one else has been as dedicated and inspired in their defense of justice, freedom, and peace.
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  35366. Listen to this discussion about someone who should be pushed out.
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  35367. So, should we try to get a stock tip out of him? LOL
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  35368. It is illegal to sentence a person to Bible study. No judge can do that.
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  35369. They must have formula over there.
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  35370. If there ever was any reasonable benefit for anyone young, relative to the risk, by the time Delta was over, so was the alleged benefit. This vaccine was unacceptably dangerous for nearly every group, at every point. With fair and complete warnings, perhaps some people over 50 with genuine (not cosmetic) obesity might have been rational in taking it -- 18 months ago, that is.
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  35371. If there are carjackings, then I do prefer to go to a station with guards. The cops are more likely to behave themselves at a station with guards, too.
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  35372. 6:35
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  35373. What I find interesting is that it was Naomi Wolf who demanded accountability and consequences for bad acts, and somehow she is getting dismissed. When Dr. Peterson points out how important accountability is, and brushes aside excuses, everyone praises him. Why is that? This was not a therapy session, by the way. Wolf is an immensely accomplished person and even went back to school late in life to complete her doctorate, at OXFORD. She resisted the COVID hysteria. And her husband is a veteran. Sounds to me like a truly successful life. If someone like that can still feel what it was like to be a vulnerable, idealistic, naive teen at Yale, in awe of all the famous people there who turned out to have feet of clay, then maybe that really is a big deal? When Dr. Peterson's wife became ill, he himself had a problem, with prescribed drugs. You don't hold that against him, do you? Then why this?
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  35374.  @kwg5044  Gee, thanks. No snark from me, either. My late dad was a vet, too . . . WWII, ultimately with the 8th British Army (he was from Yugoslavia). When he got very old, and had to have a very long operation, some of the aftereffects of his wartime trauma resurfaced. I was an only, took care of him alone. The most recent close friend I've made was a Marine for 13 years, joined right after 9/11, then went to art school on the GI Bill. (He doesn't like debt. :) BTW, one thing I've always liked about Naomi Wolf is that she obviously likes men a lot.
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  35375. Nothing is ever done. Those who complain will need to find other jobs. That's the norm.
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  35376.  @ricksta5350  You repeat nonsense that validates your bias. I really don't care, I won't be here for whoever takes office in 2025.
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  35377. How else could the worst rise to the very top?
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  35378. ​ @easymoney7007 JD is.
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  35379.  @LEP021085  Agreed.
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  35380. @hunkgod Great. You've made my point in a single word. Stability has more than one leg, and at least one is shaky.
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  35381. @john lee True, that. It only wants certain stabilities, and very few of them, like preventing even a mild, generalized inflation, which would benefit debtors to the detriment of bondholders. That would be an instability it would be sure not to allow. All the rest are grist for the mill.
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  35382. It's no longer available in the US.
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  35383.  @sodapop83  Oh! Thank you!!
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  35384.  @kd4315  Source? I read he was fired and ordered off school grounds.
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  35385. @Lilman Yellow Good reminder, thanks!
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  35386. So that's where they put the border fence. Huh.
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  35387. The government SAVED these auto companies in 2008 - 2009, after the deregulated financial system imploded. Now the CEOs should pull all the benefits to themselves? And NO, Robby, the 2008 implosion was not due to manufacturing companies making poor decisions. It started in the FIRE sector and spread throughout the world. That's why BRICS is now expanding.
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  35388. Makes you wonder what Paul Pelosi did, huh?
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  35389. I don't even think people know what critical thinking means. Words like "logic" have been corrupted to the point where you find plenty of people who think it means you agree with Scalia or Ben Shapiro. Speaking of that, it's interesting how the math videos all seem to be produced by people with heavy accents . . .
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  35390.  @shaboidagoober1304  What makes you think parents know what critical thinking is? It means more than the ability to resist the crowd pushing the latest fad -- and when it comes to that, most parents don't know how to escape the tug of war, and show the kind of warmth that wins kids over rather than causing them to rebel by dumb reflex.
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  35391.  @xChimkin  Yeah, and those schools taught that clergy sex abuse was your own fault, if it happened at all.
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  35392.  @xmathmanx  The fact that people who did not grow up with English as their L1 are the ones making math videos is the point. How is it relevant? Well, who is actually studying this stuff and taking the time to disseminate it, hm?
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  35393.  @xmathmanx  🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Thanks for the display of critical thinking there. Maybe, just maybe, mathematics is a good way to learn logic and we need to start "connecting those dots." (A little cliche there, to soothe you and keep your focus on what is being said. I see that unfamiliar ideas might scare you.) Don't take my word for it. See what Bertrand Russell had to say.
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  35394. He is encouraging flagrant violation of federal law. (How is it that a senator doesn't know the law? . . . Passing familiarity? . . . Something? Not his job?)
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  35395.  @Nimbereth  Then what are you doing trash talking all over these boards? Go talk to your spouse.
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  35396. ​@daphnemichelejoyce427 So, you are a woman, not a child? Great. Rock on, lady!
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  35397.  @sonjakozman1699  At least this time.
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  35398.  @spayshipearthdestinationunknow  Sigh. You are 💯 right about that. 🙁
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  35399. Where do you see that? Or do you actually find it hard to follow someone whose thought is complex and whose speech pattern is faster than average? Practice, practice, practice . . .
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  35400.  @oceania2385  Well, she sure didn't press for censorship. She said the precise opposite on another segment just today, in fact. Next time, time stamp.
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  35401.  @malebovinemanure  The questions were shameless grandstanding, and as long as she excoriates someone not on your team, you think it's brilliant.
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  35402.  @Kimbas3274  Why do you think? 💰 💰 💰
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  35403.  @babyspider99  💰 💰 💰
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  35404.  @annazaman9657  It is an example of what can happen that we were all "sure" couldn't possibly happen.
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  35405.  @troy3456789  A mother with a record of being tried for murder, and repeated divorces due to infidelity? No concern there . . .
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  35406.  @troy3456789  In a case of alleged domestic abuse, certainly. The standard of guilt beyond reasonable doubt for a criminal conviction is very high, and should be. The evidentiary standard for acting to protect vulnerable children is more lenient, as it should be. She may have been factually innocent of murder, but even domestic self-defense points to a risk of a violent home. No one butt in here. A child begged for help. Of course you take everything into account, sometimes even including the presence of (perfectly legal) guns in the home, much less a home where they were once used against a family member. Let me ask you: a young child says he's scared of daddy because daddy carries a gun. Daddy has every right to. So, the child's expression of fear deserves no added scrutiny? You don't want to be absolutely sure daddy never threatened the child with it, or pointed the gun at any family member, questions you probably won't ask when daddy doesn't carry a gun?
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  35407.  @troy3456789  I don't know what her divorce decrees said, or whether they were made public only after she killed two of her children. I'm assuming that either a journalist or Dr. Grande verified this, and that CPS could have as well. I consider multiple divorces, especially for cause rather than no-fault, also a cause for added concern. Obviously they could be innocent. Obviously a parent could be more careful with their kids, not less, due to experiencing bad marriages, while their children of course want "more freedom." This is probably more likely. But not to take a close look, not to be sure to interview children carefully and away from mother, is stunning -- not that cutting corners is ever justified.
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  35408. JIMMY! PLEASE post your antiwar segment from yesterday's livestream. PLEASE!!! It was beautiful.
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  35409. Good point -- and he intruded in a global hotspot.
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  35410. To this day I'm stunned at how badly Microsoft products work. I mean that. It's like a parasitic overgrowth.
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  35411.  King Yellowman  From NPR: "The bad news, doctors say, is that half of Israel's seriously ill patients who are currently hospitalized were fully vaccinated at least five months ago." Links are generally shadowed, but this article is easy to find.
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  35412.  King Yellowman  From Science: "As of 15 August, 514 Israelis were hospitalized with severe or critical COVID-19, a 31% increase from just 4 days earlier. Of the 514, 59% were fully vaccinated. Of the vaccinated, 87% were 60 or older. 'There are so many breakthrough infections that they dominate and most of the hospitalized patients are actually vaccinated,' says Uri Shalit, a bioinformatician at the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) who has consulted on COVID-19 for the government. 'One of the big stories from Israel [is]: ‘Vaccines work, but not well enough.'” The surge of infections has increased since then.
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  35413.  King Yellowman  Where did you get your numbers??
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  35414. Ha, you expected that??
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  35415.  @DanDanny-p6q  Exactly
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  35416. 25:37 I don't need a "we," or an "us."
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  35417. ​ @eemoogee160 NO
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  35418. ​ user-qx3ti9jj3d Well, Brie didn't vote for Biden. She says it loud and proud.
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  35419. 1:25 Why it's "fine to laugh at a Joe Biden impression."
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  35420. @Edilio A Maybe we better invade them to make them safe for democracy. /s
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  35421.  @user-pampam70634  It is beyond absurd. It is vicious.
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  35422.  @user-pampam70634  Yes, we all need that. Hits the spot! Have a good weekend, have a nice fall!
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  35423. All that money, and he still sent X-rated selfies to a girlfriend, like an unimaginative delinquent.
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  35424. Except that he didn't. It was obvious to me by yesterday that there is no discussing this issue, much less solving the problem. Which is exactly what Mike said.
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  35425. 31:20 to the end of Mike's segment. I know about attention spans, etc., but this isn't five full minutes or anything crazy.
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  35426. We have to be able to discuss the fact that there exist significant groups that do, in fact, believe X and are fully persuaded that X is true, and prepared to act on that belief, even though X itself is at best dubious and probably outright false.
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  35427.  @njsoapdish  No he didn't. Okay. Never mind.
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  35428.  @njsoapdish  Right. Never mind. Like I said.
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  35429.  @njsoapdish  He didn't say it could happen. (Did you check his pronouns, btw? Did he use the right pronouns?)
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  35430. LOL -- that's a slogan. Hallmark cards have more "wisdom." You can probably influence someone else to do what you want them to do better than you can make yourself do what you want to do. You are, to a large degree, a mystery to yourself, for starters.
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  35431. No. It's easy. Welcome to America.
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  35432. Do you know who Wexner is? Look up Jeffrey Epstein.
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  35433. The First Amendment guarantees an American's right to repeat foreign propaganda for commercial purposes. If he is a foreign agent, he may have registration requirements, but to suggest he can't say something simply because the Chinese want him to is ridiculous.
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  35434. And so are these two.
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  35435. Now, now. Let's not be hasty. No one wants a war over her.
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  35436. Reminiscent of "Destiny" versus Norman Finkelstein.
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  35437. To think this is only a CIVIL case she is fighting right now.
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  35438. So this was the First Woman Speaker of the House. Thanks, Nancy.
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  35439. The Epstein videotapes ARE nuclear. 🤣🤣🤣
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  35440.  @maxhell4033  Thank you for that 🤣🤣🤣
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  35441.  @jenni0278  History and geography is for sissies. Memes, twerking, and day trading is where it's at.
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  35442. Wow is she playing you.
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  35443. Yeah, Biden, Trump, Pelosi, Hillary Clinton --- that shows you where merit went.
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  35444. Every REAL European Left is anti-mandate and anti-vaccine papers. Every last one. No Scandinavian country has a mandate. Yes there is data. Unions are opposing mandates here and worldwide.
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  35445. Jimmy's doctor advised him to get vaccinated. You know HE has an incentive to see new therapeutics -- and SAFER vaccines, if that's even possible.
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  35446. 😂
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  35447. She has childhood diabetes.
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  35448.  @ains7327  You don't know what diabetics "look like" unless you treat them. I don't know if she could do better. I can believe she could. I do know she could not do her job if she didn't take excellent care of her condition. Simple fact. She will be 68 in June. She is in the prime category for serious crippling or death from COVID. She can do nothing to change it. Where do you get the idea you can change everything? (And if exercise doesn't work, The Secret? LOL)
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  35449.  @ains7327  SHOW ME WHERE I SAID THAT? I said IF it doesn't work. The meaning is obvious -- or do you think it works every time for everyone? Every single overweight individual, every time, regardless of lifelong health issues, no exceptions? You sound like a DNC gaslighter. Blocked.
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  35450. The IRA and 401(k) have existed for well over a generation. Where are all the multi-millionaires?
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  35451. This must have aged the law enforcement by years in one day.
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  35452. Well, there was a time when a summer job paid a year of in-state tuition and fees. The middle and lower middle classes were creating real competition for the rich. Why am I shocked, shocked that had to end?
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  35453. ​@m4l490n It was luck in reference to him, the son. The son was a child, he couldn't control whether the parents he was born to valued books.
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  35454. ​@ggh_-ts6pn When in fact viciousness plays a role.
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  35455. So that's Joe's problem.
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  35456. This TYT plea for money is shameful.
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  35457. Fear
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  35458. LOL
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  35459. Um, we are on to how these narratives are composed ("I love X and hate Y, which means you need to credit me when I call out some speculative sh!* about X.") Every infomercial sounds like this.
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  35460. If that is true, it is vital to report it. Why didn't The Intercept do that? A weak, evidence-free innuendo is worse than ignoring the whole matter. If these "journalists" targetted by TI are in fact FBI/CIA agents, we need evidence of it. BTW, Chris Hedges has always pointed out that antifa is particularly susceptible to infiltration, and opposes them strongly. Hedges believes antifa endangers real protestors. I am still neutral on the issue. I am not sure that everyone claiming to be "antifa" really belongs to a rational, stalwart opposition to fascist elements. In fact, it's clear they don't.
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  35461. 28:00 33 seconds. Care to refute? I mean, with facts.
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  35462. Well, if industrialists once placed bids on manufacturing Zyklon B, what do you expect?
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  35463. Lord that sounds like a complete nightmare.
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  35464. Kyle is not corrupt. AOC is.
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  35465.  @annaclarafenyo8185  Wow that was, like, instantaneous.
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  35466. Did you watch all of it?
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  35467. A Saturday night under COVID. Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful. I needed this.
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  35468.  @MEOWMIX305  Read, think, sleep on it. Might come to you in the morning?
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  35469. @bluhturn1051  Do you not see that ethnic French are demonstrating, too? And that this is nothing new? Several years ago, police were fighting the striking firefighters. Firefighters were defending demonstrators from the police, in the streets. It has been going on for YEARS now. Yes, this is a paroxym, and it has taken a more serious form. But anything could have triggered it, with President Investment Banker at the helm.
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  35470.  @MEOWMIX305  I did. Maybe it was subjected to the shadows of sense or ship.
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  35471. @MEOWMIX305  Did you see the video? The car was stationary. It is perfectly clear on the recording that one of the police threatened the kid with a bullet to the head. Only then did he start moving and was immediately shot in the chest. Wasn't this translated into English for you? I know that in America police act like a hostile occupying army, shooting over a thousand people every year, but up until neoliberalism, globalism, WEF, and the major investment bankers taking control, this was unheard-of anywhere in Europe.
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  35472. @MEOWMIX305  Now what do the police do, besides turn it over to the prosecutor? I guess they miss their chance for live target practice. Aw shucks.
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  35473.  @DrVelvetPHD  All true.
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  35474. @franwi1722  Of course. I called for the same. And you just did denounce the hypothetical psycho shooter, in perfectly acceptable terms. Nothing more needed. That's why I said 💯.
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  35475.  @sirtra  Not for me, either.
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  35476.  @sirtra  no worries, thanks for reminding me to block you
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  35477. So that's who Norman Bates dated in high school.
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  35478. Trump? Yup.
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  35479. Yup, this is what our governments are responsible for, now.
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  35480. "It" refers to what?
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  35481.  @ShamanKish  The way it started in Yugoslavia was with Western encouragement. See what Oskar Lafontaine said about it, ot Tariq Ali, or Alain Badiou. Lafontaine has more inside knowledge and probably more objectivity than the others I mentioned.
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  35482.  @Denali1600  She told you: she got the numbers from Worldometer.
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  35483. Maybe you need to learn about the Middle Passage and the death rate of black Americans ever since. Nor did slavery end in 1865. Read Slavery By Another Name, among others. How can you assimilate mass industrial genocide and crimes against humanity incomparable to any other in their savagery, which happened four generations ago on another continent, to the lawful exercise of First Amendment freedoms in the United States? And you think someone else sounds insane? The first group, which was mercilessly mocked exactly as Glenn says, can make a better case for "safe spaces" here in the United States than the second group can. Preventing lawlessness can be accomplished without infringing on anyone's civil rights and civil liberties. True threats were always illegal, and yes, more vigilance was always needed. That's probably the only place where I hear you and agree.
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  35484. 11:26
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  35485. It's true, but what else is new? Big yawn. As people get older, they do what they do for money, not "love or money."
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  35486. It's called the Precautionary Principle, Robbie. I don't trust studies that "prove" social media is safe for the very young any more than I trust the studies that COVID vaccines are safe for these kids. Kids and adults do not have either the same First Amendment protections or the same self-awareness to recognize a behavioral addiction. Kids will say they want to use it.
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  35487. Made his $$
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  35488. Imagine, blurting out a crass joke in response to a wardrobe malfunction, and apologizing for it in writing, promising never to do it again, and giving Ana a card and a small gift. Seven years ago. Why do I think no one will ever do that again, and that we are the poorer for it?
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  35489.  @thesystem5980  He did. He put it in writing. That's why Ana can use the apology to threaten him now.
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  35490. Speaking of parents, these two have awesome parents, . . . angels.
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  35491. Oh just shut up.
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  35492. He just endorsed the Precautionary Principle. I guess the statistical significance discussion was over some people's heads.
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  35493. ​ @ken2win671 Oh, so a man who abuses a woman means the woman is to blame.
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  35494.  @DadsCigaretteRun  You know. Like, packin' heat?
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  35495.  @DadsCigaretteRun  Just wait.
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  35496. Why is his thumb so red?
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  35497.  @MeRiaNevaMynd  Emergency medicine is very good, but when it comes to chronic illnesses, or care after the person has stabilized and is on the road to recovery --- it is not good. The best doctors know it.
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  35498. Rachel Bovard is outstanding here. She is having a lot of success, and earning it, but I don't want to see smug creep into her presentation. She's modest at heart. Bovard is a conservative I can listen to, even being "far left." Everything she said was true, and important.
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  35499. Obama's chefs drown? And I thought working for the Clintons was dangerous.
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  35500. ​@gracenote108 Mars has hardly any atmosphere or a magnetic field. Why aren't we irradiated here, where we evolved? And why do small alterations in our environment affect life? I.e., here?
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  35501. ​@p4radigm989Maybe microdosing isn't a good thing? 🤔
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  35502. 18:35 "You can't believe anything you ever hear from the government and especially the intelligence community, unless there is evidence and you can verify it." (About 2 minutes long) Does anyone find anything wrong with this statement?
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  35503. Samantha Power: But this is different, this is our genocide.
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  35504. Oh! I'm supposed to vote for someone who would have tied me down and injected me with an experimental drug, and laughed in my face if it harmed my heart? Okay, sure. I'm not one of "the crazies."
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  35505. In California, the age of consent is 18. That means minors who are not supposed to know what sxx is like can supposedly consent to losing their natural body forever.
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  35506. I didn't see this as support of Trump, and I listened closely. I heard Briahna Joy Gray say Trump was right when he was, more than once. What's the point of lying?
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  35507. You base that conclusion on what, exactly? You've investigated on your own? Whose word did you take? Do they have your child's best interests at heart? I'll bet.
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  35508.  @retroqueenbeeart  I'm so sorry. My family has been riven by malpractice as well.
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  35509. @MasteroMatter You are correct that they are legal. Absolutely.
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  35510.  @chadjespersen8780  Barnes is not a very good lawyer where the Constitution is concerned. I've heard him make outrageous errors (like saying noncitizens do not have the same First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment rights as citizens). Any local law that cannot survive the First Amendment standard of scrutiny can be enforced. It is preempted. Demonstrations and intimidation are not the same thing.
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  35511.  @jasonhenry8067  There have been pro- and anti-Roe demonstrations in Washington DC, before the Supreme Court and elsewhere, for generations. Nick Sandmann's class went to Washington expressly for the purpose of protesting Roe.
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  35512. That's who you have to brag on? I'd say the Prime Newtons podcast has done more for the world.
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  35513. @drunkenskeptic6633  The Nubians were Pharaoh for a little over a century around the time of Homer, who referred to them in the Illiad and the Odyssey as "Ethiopians," i.e., people with sunburnt faces. You never read literature? Greek gods used to visit the Nubians, meaning that they were seen as akin to the Greeks.
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  35514. Briahna didn't vote for either one. Nor did I.
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  35515. No, it doesn't. That's why every dollar spent on care goes farther in every other country. No massive insurance apparatus to support. There was a time when we innovated the most, although that was slightly exaggerated. That's gone, as well. What single-payer universal health does is incentivize better nutrition for the entire population. Everyone has a stake in universal good health. No country with single-payer has our obesity and chronic illness!
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  35516.  @3dmaster205  Men in general did not assault her, two specific men did. Some men (and probably some women as well) made it easier for those who did to do so. I see no general statements about general men.
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  35517.  @3dmaster205  Sure, dear. Say. I have an idea. Turn off the sound and watch the (very beautiful, not that it matters) facial expressions and gestures. There you go.
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  35518.  @benjaminz2523  All I can say to people like you is THANK GOD my father was an immigrant, very Mediterranean, had a gun, and was known to be capable of using it. In the area where I grew up, that kept me safe. My best friend in high school and my best friend in college were both raped. (The father of the latter thought the incidence of rape was greatly exaggerated, by the way.)
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  35519.  @3dmaster205  She's not whining. You are.
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  35520. They're asking for pitchforks.
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  35521. Humans have been eating cheese, yogurts, kefirs, and other fermented dairy for 400 or more generations. I don't believe in milk for any grown person. Goat cheese, however, is a different matter.
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  35522. Elise Stefanik is on the case. /s
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  35523.  @lachlanbell8390  There is solid evidence that the vaccines lowered the risk of hospitalization and death in the very oldest patients and those with a handful of comorbidities, IN THE EARLY VARIANTS. There is solid evidence of that. Take it as you will. There was never a reason for mandates. Those were criminal, especially since the risks of vaccination were not sufficiently monitored and clearly quantified -- and the ones they knew about were minimized. Acknowledging all the facts ups your game.
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  35524.  @lachlanbell8390  Evidence from published studies conducted all over the world on the early, more lethal variants. That doesn't justify mandates, that doesn't mean the risk profile was acceptable, that doesn't mean people over 70 couldn't do better by staying home, eating better, using certain unmentionable prophylaxis. That doesn't mean taking away choice. You cut off my point.
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  35525.  @lachlanbell8390  No one says you need to trust FAUCI on this. Quite the contrary.
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  35526. When Nancy Pelosi saw all the Republicans who beat the market even more than she did, you bet she was open to changing the law. Pelosi must have been furious with hubby, what underperformance!
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  35527. There is one thing a person could try: practice being unattractive. Repellant, in fact. You can put on an act of not being desirable. There are ways. Make it seem like you aren't special at all. Claim you once had cancer and can't have children, and that you're tired of getting biopsies twice a year. Claim you are torn between liking men and women. Drone on and on about nonsense, and don't be responsive to him. Complain about physical features you have, say they make you self-conscious and shy. Use your imagination. Most important: STOP feeling you need to be sincere. Pretend that "now I'm finally telling you the truth." Then lie. Make him think breaking up was his idea.
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  35528. Someone thinks this "algorithm" supports FREE SPEECH? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 😂
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  35529. Very astute. This proxy war has been a game of chicken all along.
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  35530. The chart seems to show fewer and larger hurricanes. If we don't make presumptions and actually ask whether this is a real trend, and if it is, examine why it's happening, we might actually find out some facts and stuff. That would be different.
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  35531. Trans is a psy-op here, too.
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  35532.  @tobito3100  Read Nadine Strossen's book. It's all there, and it's not long. It doesn't take a long book to explain it.
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  35533.  lucy fair  Hate speech is not a crime. But publishing a hate speech manifesto can alert law enforcement on who to watch.
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  35534.  @Volticymo  Where in my post did I compare Macron to a dictator, etc.? I said his recent authoritarianism seems half-hearted, though his disdain for most people not of his class is astounding, and repugnant to the vast majority of the French, who don't go in for that sort of thing at all. I am pleased to see you discredit yourself with your gross non sequitors.
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  35535.  Gene Eric  "He's regularly used police . . . " = "He has . . . " (the grammar is fine) I thought it was stylistically rather elegant, though style is purely a matter of opinion.
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  35536. Yes, I envy you. Sally Rooney novels kept me sane since 2020.
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  35537. ​ duncansmith7562 I remember when police shot out tires, not chests. Those were the days.
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  35538.  @8ofwands300  Well, but OP journals and everything.
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  35539.  duncansmith7562  I do. Fleeing suspects on a highway are stopped that way all the time. An urban area has different rules, true.
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  35540.  @thomasgentry6201  Yes, feelings.
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  35541. ​@benjamintaylor4402 But, but . . . That's a long sentence. Your sentence is twice as long as his sentence. (In fact, he may have prevented a mass shooting, but I digress. What cop is going believe that, heh heh?)
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  35542.  @tigerunlimited4219  This.
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  35543. You are too generous. You must be a nice guy.
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  35544. These are often seen as lucky numbers.
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  35545. ​ @dougiesherwin9591 It certainly is pertinent.
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  35546. ​@Jessica_Noelie The defense attorney’s point that the crime scene was contaminated is, unfortunately, true. It was contaminated because the roommates called other people and other people came over before law enforcement was summoned. That's not accusing the roommate. She may have been impaired, and was incapable of thinking clearly. A lot of people don't know anything about forensics and don't know they contaminated a crime scene. It's not deliberate.
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  35547.  @4Him4Ever  It should not have been torn down prior to trial.
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  35548. HSBC. Find out what the US did when it uncovered the laundering of drug cartel money. The British press wrote about it.
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  35549. Psst, Nomiki. "Marxists" don't vote for Democrats. Harris threatened parents of truant kids with prison and kept people who should be released in prison. There is no Marxist who supports any of that. If Nomiki knows this, then she's a fraud. If she doesn't, then she's still a fraud.
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  35550. MJG has at times said kooky things, and no one can accuse her of being a genius. That said, I am very glad and very heartened that she is receiving the respect she deserves for her anti-endless-war and anti-proxy-war stand. It is about time. Agree about her free press points.
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  35551.  @vivalaleta  That's fair. Yes, I like it. 👍
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  35552. It sounds like a cover.
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  35553. We've got to fight fight fight, to the last Ukrainian.
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  35554.  @quitefranklysamanthatheres1018  Are you kidding? Provoking outrage is a strategy. Remember Archie Bunker and Meathead? People watch to get mad at her = people watch.
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  35555.  @ChrisPBacon-nn9vy  You need to laugh more.
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  35556. ​ @ribanbiangsuchiang1193  You are very welcome! I would look for a program that allows you to complete the MSW in five years, and make sure it is geared toward licensing as a clinical social worker in as many states as possible, which will undoubtedly include working under psychologists and psychiatrists (possibly for very little pay at first). You will get to meet a lot of interesting people. Start out at a top teaching hospital, and later see about joining a group practice. It takes some time to get to a good salary, but you will see more and more opportunities open up as you advance. It is remarkable how many people now prefer to consult an MSW for counseling, because psychologists and psychiatrists are prohibitively expensive. A community college where I taught part time had MSWs do career and academic counseling. I'm not sure what their specialties were. They didn't have education degrees, but they did have some sort of specialization or advanced courses in educational psychology, and that sort of thing. Community college students often want to go to school for a few basics plus certification for a job, and stay only four or five semesters, so they need more active support for the short time they are there to make sure they get on the right track and finish on their timetable. They often cannot afford to go to school for longer than it takes to have vocational certification. Then, later in their careers, some MSWs get a law degree and work in juvenile justice or as guardians ad litem for minor children or incapacitated adults. Some just work with divorce lawyers as social workers, without a law degree -- there is a movement for "ethical divorce," meaning the attorney never takes a case before making sure the couple cannot reconcile. Those lawyers usually have an MSW on staff. They don't push counseling since that is not their role, but they do have the social worker do one or two interviews as part of the intake process, especially when there are young kids involved. If the woman needs emergency housing or could be in danger, it's good to have her talk to a social worker right there, rather than sending her elsewhere. It's a flexible field with close ties to medicine and law and lots of interesting work.
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  35557.  @vaataja  A few abstentions wete a real surprise -- Mexico, for one.
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  35558. The smirk on everyone's face who cites satellite images from mid-March of bodies in the street that were only closely photographed in April showing no decomposition . . . No, forensics is not that hard. "Common sense," hm? Indeed.
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  35559. I think we can agree Putin was wrong to start any war of choice, as is any country and any leader. "Paranoia" is an exaggeration, as it turns out. Sadly. But yes, Batya is a treasure. She allows us to exhale, and stop having to believe fifty impossible things before breakfast.
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  35560.  @douglasnewman4163  Pulling that interview was unforgivable. Did you ever think the Internet would turn into this?
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  35561. This isn't the left. The US has no left, and now it's losing its civil libertarians and classical liberals. Did everyone already forget that this logic was used against peaceful and reasonable students rallying in support of Gaza? But that was just a few weeks ago . . . SMH
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  35562.  @Alex-gh8iu  You're an _____.
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  35563.  @rogerward801  Exactly
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  35564. Hardly the first time.
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  35565.  @knob3887  How do you know they would run to the hospital? People decline to go to the hospital all the time. At least in my family they did.
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  35566.  @maggiewillowstine3353  Why not 15?
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  35567.  @noellerebekah9653  Why not 12? Certain types of laws must have bright lines. For example, the Eighth Amendment prohibits executing anyone who was under 18 when they committed the crime they were convicted of. One day short of their birthday, and capital punishment is off the table.
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  35568. Perfect comment. Says it all.
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  35569.  @SunnyIlha  What part of "by her logic" eludes you? She stated that the unvaccinated are a threat to the vaccinated because they can infect the vaccinated, who can then pass the virus to their unvaccinated family members. But in that event, unvaccinated family members, with whom vaccinated individuals interact most intimately, can infect those vaccinated people, who in turn can spread the virus. It's commutative. You know. Like algebra.
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  35570.  @SunnyIlha  Why the ad hominem? Who trained this into you, to the point where it is a tropism? Reminds me of Trump, who got all red-orange in the face and hurled insults.
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  35571.  @SunnyIlha  Another post below put it perfectly: tools of power telling us to hate each other instead of challenging power.
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  35572.  @SunnyIlha  My first comment dealt with the discourse of a guest on this program, and nothing else. I said nothing about anyone personally, not even her.
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  35573.  @SunnyIlha  You really don't see? But it's all there. I made a comment about her logic. You made a derogatory comment about me.
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  35574. No they're not.
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  35575. Why would someone have an opinion and then look for confirmation? You would think that the motive of preserving one's health and the health of children, especially one's own, would be enough to prevent people from being so irrational.
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  35576. @blockyuniverseproductions6587  I find it odd that you would think the problem is journalism -- on a channel dedicated to carefully reviewing research fraud. How do people get away with it? Sort-of like a priestly class no one dare question, huh?
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  35577. @augustaseptemberova5664  The evidence is the research fraud carefully documented here, and the fact that people get accolades for it for YEARS.
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  35578. If a story were about you, should the journalist contact you and ask you your view on it? Even a criminal would get this courtesy.
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  35579. Shut up
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  35580. Her testimony is immunized, but she could be fired. He's wrong about "defamation" in the technical sense.
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  35581. ​ @MicahMicahel I finally found the abstract, from 1980. They ran the study four times, and this positive result -- that being, the one described here -- was true in two of the four trials. Looks like (1) research standards were higher 45 years ago, as this team replicated their own research; and (2) we have a real crisis in standards today, as you can see by how Kisin reported the study. Athenians believed that truth was what pleased the most people in the agora, . . . until they lost a big war. That sounds relevant all right.
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  35582. Did you get to choose the class? If someone wanted to withdraw, were they punished?
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  35583.  @treadstonegaming6574  Then that's excellent. This segment was about coercive tactics.
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  35584.  @treadstonegaming6574  Not what the video says, as I understood it. If the facts stated are indeed correct, then there were cases of coercion, and there were parents who found out and protested. Let's agree for the sake of argument that those cases are rare. Okay, considering we are talking about a public school, when does that become a problem? Does it have to reach some threshold? I think rare is still too frequent. Schools do a lot of stuff for funding. They push kids into a lot of various schemes that are not in their best interest at all. Maybe just focusing on JROTC does not give a clear picture of the real problem.
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  35585.  @treadstonegaming6574  I don't know why you're spinning a story to justify it, or to disculpate the school administrators. This is all speculative. We don't know why it happened. Could the remedy be purely local, maybe even confined to a few schools, rather than worthy of national news attention? Of course; in fact. it might have been a slow news day, and some minor reporter went on search for something to be outraged about -- but all that is an empirical question as well.
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  35586.  @treadstonegaming6574  But you weren't part of programs that used coercive tactics. Maybe when they report, they give the false impression that a limited problem is ubiquitous? I didn't get that impression, but okay. It's not exactly rare when they do!
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  35587.  @kevintewey1157  Sheesh, where did that come from? He was just concerned that one bad program would give every program a bad name. Maybe his wasn't sicko Social Darwinian?
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  35588. The truth comes out . . .
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  35589. I don't identify socially as white. Obviously on a form, that is the box I check. I wouldn't permit the wokesters or the neolibs to use me as a token, a diversity hire, or something. But in my personal life, that's another matter. Thar's my business.
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  35590. No. She didn't vote for Joe or Hillary. They would never overlook that. Not even vaccines and boosters can overcome that. Not even gender-affirming care can.
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  35591. ​@jeremiahblackwood9225 Also, there is a difference between a standard and how a particular individual strives to meet it. This is most obvious in math: a mathematical truth is universal, but each person comes to an understanding of it on their own, following a unique path. This is because each brain is unique, literally. The standard may not need to change, but flexibility in meeting it has got to be part of every subject and lesson. I wonder, has Common Core made schools worse? I say that because many of its proponents are known to be rigid people (thinking of Bill Gates).
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  35592. Then so are most people in UK and Germany.
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  35593.  @hollyweirdland940  That's not a word.
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  35594. @donnamoore5977  I know. Our gun laws are way too restrictive. /s
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  35595. ​ @kennethgee2004  Harming the country? The US bombed where my parents were from with DU (depleted uranium). The country harmed us, and not just that time. Every president's schemes hurt us in one way or another. There is no way to make it up to me. This Bogossian is SUCH a liar, lol. He cares about you so much that he's making bank off of you to deceive you.
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  35596. I thought this was appalling. This is exactly how they repelled so many people, by lying about Trump and being hypocritical, when a calm recitation of facts was sufficient. (The problem is, they agree with Trump when he favors the MIC and Wall Street.)
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  35597. "Free markets" degenerate into monopoly capital. Pretending capitalism is based on "free markets," and linking the two in people's minds is the biggest scam they've been able to pull off. The last "free market" existed in the 19th century, if it ever did, by any fair measure.
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  35598.  @wmski  If socialist experiments are doomed to fail, why are they subject to sanctions? Why all the CIA efforts to overthrow literally hundreds of countries to make sure socialism fails? Just leave it alone, it will. BTW, I saw no effort by the US to resist the Chinese Communist Party. We've accepted that bargain. It's inextricable, now.
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  35599. Bet? Like 💰?
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  35600.  @cgi9498  You think that's the reason for the decline? You think it is the "radical left" WHO has been lining up to grab more lucre from "globalization?" The neolibs don't like to share, you know . . . they are still in charge . . .
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  35601. If you have enough money, apparently. Vance sounds like he has marital issues. No one picked up on that? What happily married father is worried about "cat ladies?"
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  35602. It's almost never something you did. Roughly half the human race will develop detectable cancer cells, if you include noninvasive cancers (in situ, sometimes called Stage 0). It's not possible that half of humanity did something wrong. And when you include cancer among other mammals, what in the world could they be doing wrong? Apart from smoking, which is usually a choice (unless it's second hand), various forms of pollution as probable triggers come next.
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  35603. You should really pay more attention. She is not what brought us here --- to one round after another of retribution.
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  35604. I'm guessing you are unfamiliar with her biography.
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  35605. Ha ha.
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  35606. In teen boys?
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  35607. In people over 50 or who are overweight or diabetic, I'm sure it is much higher. Dr. Campbell got his vaccination and booster.
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  35608.  @iansmith8731  Well, I just stated a known fact and was immediately censored. The response to your claims happens to be well known by anyone with a solid education, in any profession. I'm done arguing with people who confidently state the received misinformation.
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  35609.  @iansmith8731 It's not anecdotal at all. You have absolutely no business chiding me, after making an assertion not generally known to be accurate, and in fact highly questionable according to the CDC itself. We are talking primarily about minors here, and I have experience in representing them in civil rights cases. Blocking you from my feed.
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  35610.  @iansmith8731 Absolutely nothing I have stated is anecdotal in the least, whether censored or allowed to stand. I'm a math lover, and majored in it for fun. In fact, I'll go do some logic puzzles now to clear my palate. Gaslighter.
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  35611.  @iansmith8731 Oh now I get it. Joined last spring, to do this. Please be responsible and cut it out. Or are the principles of sound argumentation unknown to you? False, misleading, or unsupported claims about any medical intervention get people to mistrust doctors unduly, and cause serious harm in the long run. (We hope kids will have a very long run.)
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  35612. ​nope
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  35613. ​ @rockon8174  nope
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  35614. I was in 8th grade, working-class public . . .
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  35615. That's actually not true. In-state public university tuition used to be so low that a summer job at minimum wage covered a full year. It was a political decision to withdraw tax support and replace it with federally-subsidized loans. No other country in the world does this. The kids who who worked their way through school were a different people.
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  35616.  @timmeyer9191  Can you be serious? I know of no small business that hasn't had at least one bankruptcy. I mean that seriously. The last president had six business bankruptcies. A student loan should be like any other. If fewer loans were available, the upward pressure on tuition would subside as well. In any case, other solutions would have to be found, all to the good. No other country saddles kids with these types of loans at the very start of adult life. We all see the result.
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  35617.  @jeffreysweet3458  There was a GI Bill along with in-state tuition that students routinely earned themselves, and work-study and jobs on or near campus to cover the rest. Any family that could afford to give their kid a couple of hundred a month could easily keep them out of debt. As far as private college tuition is concerned, I agree, but why was the great state university system destroyed?
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  35618.  @timmeyer9191  No. The gutting of the public university system, where at least 75% of students get their education, is the problem. This system did not exist, it came into being. Well how and why and when did that happen? NO other people do this to their young.
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  35619.  @timmeyer9191  Oh gawd, you know nothing about the economics of the university, then! Professors and other college instructors, and their salaries, are not the reason for the outrageous tuition at all. Administrators and various "development" initiatives (basically land acquisition and building projects) are the main reason.
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  35620. How many people know that the most common degree BY FAR is Business? Next come the health care fields, with Nursing at number 1. This has been true for decades now. Those so-called "vanity" degrees (the infamous "Gender Studies" major) make up maybe 1% of all degrees. Hardly anyone majors in English unless as an Education major or pre-law; now, they do "Communications," which is great to impart some practical skills, sure, but is substantially less rigorous. Or does anyone think Advertising class is more challenging than Shakespeare?
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  35621.  @timmeyer9191  Plenty of European universities are TUITION-FREE, and they do not employ scads of part-time instructors who have never passed a rigorous civil service test to be allowed to teach at that level. The system of adjuncts you find here is literally illegal in lots of places. In Europe, fees are the equivalent of $750 to $1500 a year, in general, sometimes even less. American students take out loans to go to trade school, and talented students need to be at university, not community college -- which is not free, either. Talented students need to meet real professors and doctoral candidates in their field on Day One. It's bad enough that few high schools provide a solid education. Now you want them to wait two more years? (And then what, an unpaid internship?) Joining the military means giving up your rights under the Bill of Rights and risking you life. Someone should chose freely to defend their country, not be forced to do it because they have no real choice. I don't know why I'm pleading for your kids, though. I'm not really an American. If you don't care, I shouldn't either.
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  35622.  @timmeyer9191  State universities used to be very low tuition: a full-time summer job at minimum wage covered a full year of tuition and fees, and sometimes books as well. What happened? Suddenly, there's a new deal in town, and it's your own fault if you take it at 17. Right.
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  35623.  @timmeyer9191  I never took out a loan, except for one new car in my 40s, which I still have. Of course it was a Volvo S80 with all the frills. I paid it off early.
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  35624.  @timmeyer9191  State universities used to be nearly free.
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  35625.  @timmeyer9191  I don't care about celebrities.
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  35626.  @timmeyer9191  Well, okay. Big picture. Take a look at the plunging birth rate. (I don't mean the fertility rate. I mean the birth rate.) It took a plunge in 2007 during the Great Recession, and it never recovered. That's 15 years ago. Someone who was in 6th grade then is in their mid-twenties now, and isn't having children. Maybe we need to tune out all of these "thought leaders" and "influencers," and figure this out. If forgiving this debt can help, then figure out a way to do it. Who knew what 2020 and 2021 would be LIKE? How were they supposed to prepare? How can they be to blame?
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  35627.  @timmeyer9191  When I was a little kid, like 7 or 8, people used to say a girl was going to college to get her MRS degree. They were being offensive and making fun of women, obviously, but in retrospect I only HOPE parents are privately telling their kids exactly that, and swearing them to secrecy. Who do you think has a better chance today, things being as they are, a young couple BOTH of whom have college degrees, or a couple where only one does, or neither? No one is even talking about finding the right person to marry, when that matters the most for a good life, and is really hard to do. Or is Silicon Valley supposed to colonize that, too?
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  35628. Kelly lies about everything. She's always after other women, too. I can't stand "gender ideology," but the Minnesota law does NOT say what Kelly says it says. The real issue only comes up in cases of severe neglect, or in divorce, where the parents disagree about medical care. Kelly is a lawyer and knows this. She knows she's lying. By the way, I don't care for Swift. I have no need to go after her or smear her, however. Ignoring is good enough.
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  35629. Grève Générale!!!
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  35630. Diderot wrote about it in the 18th century.
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  35631.  @carolynrossiter8141  So you have got your eye on Harry, have you?
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  35632. I suggest you read the letters. Some parts hint that Masterson is innocent. I don't know about you, but I don't like being duped. If someone turns out to be an entirely different person in his secret life, well hidden from me, then he does not have a good character.
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  35633. @user-dx1jb4zq9e  Of course they are perfectly entitled to believe he is innocent, exactly as he claims to be. But that is not something you write to the judge in advance of sentencing. Writing a character reference in advance of sentencing presumes agreement with the verdict. Maybe that could be why the judge obviously discounted their letter?
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  35634.  @GlynDwr-d4h  Wait, didn't you know why people write to the judge??
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  35635. Listen to the end. They settled a long time ago. Very hard to reopen, probably impossible.
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  35636. There is no such thing as a "right wing" drug.
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  35637. The comparison is NOT with "base rate," but with rates of myocarditis in patients who had had proven cases of the earlier, more virulent strains of COVID. Base rate of myocarditis is vastly lower than in either of these cells.
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  35638.  @aroundandround  Gotten "it?" I think we know by now that different variants of the virus produce markedly different degrees of illness.
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  35639.  @JorgeAlbertoJerez  Does the Treasury Secretary have any role in advising DOJ about financial prosecutions? Would her opinion be sought, or no? I ask because it was remarkable how many FOREIGN leaders were consulted when HSBC was caught laundering drug cartel money and accused if laundering terrorist organization money, an escaped prosecution (look it up). There are reasons why people in high places need to recuse themselves whenever the appearance of impropriety is clear. Please come off it. No one is talking about clawback!
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  35640.  @JorgeAlbertoJerez  The first post is perfectly on target. That is what she was paid for -- continued access. She must avoid all APPEARANCE of impropriety, and all TEMPTATION in that direction. She's not a god. These are her buddies now. Not a good look.
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  35641.  @JorgeAlbertoJerez  When you point out trades are "free," as if that means anything here, you reveal something about . . . your approach. So does your condescension. The blurb on the video is not content. Even children know that. As for RobinHood, it has a contract with users, and regs from the SEC. It violated some or all. The rest are non sequiturs, or ad hom. I wasn't "debating" anyone.
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  35642.  @JorgeAlbertoJerez  And you "somehow" failed to parse the last two sentences of the first paragraph in my response correctly. But why make this about personalities, much less throw down little hints about Trump along the way? I have a better idea: instead of MAGA, MATH! Why would anyone be paid over $800,000 for a single speech? Anyone. One person, one speech. $800,000 is a perfectly respectable salary for a full decade's worth of work, or an outstanding salary for four years. Salary, not wage. But let's look at it in terms of wage, so to speak. Why, it comes to over $90 per hour -- for all 24 hours in the day and all 365 days in the year. Waking, sleeping, everything. So, why does anyone pay anyone that much money for ONE speech -- especially someone in the private sector, to someone in government? More important, this should be defended, or ignored, because . . . ? Because . . . Personalities, better things to do, . . . Trump, . . . Russia (JUST KIDDING) . . . And unless you are not only an attorney, but also an attorney specializing in securities law, then I'm afraid you are barking up the wrong tree. In short, a time waster. Blocked.
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  35643. Medicare? That's a problem?
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  35644. Isn't McConnell worried about losing the Senate runoffs??
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  35645. You think the progressive caucus can compare with Dr. King? Whoa. Must say that never crossed my mind.
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  35646.  @2906justblaze  Did Bernie sell out? I don't mean 65 years ago. I mean now. I felt sold out. Biden was literally the worst possible candidate to run. The man's record is abysmal. He is only less bad than Trump, a race to the bottom if there ever was one.
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  35647.  @2906justblaze  He also has Glenn Greenwald, Max Blumenthal, and Cornel West on. "Disrupts your narrative?"
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  35648.  @2906justblaze  Oh stop with the fantasy. He'd call Malcolm X a sellout and embrace Charles Manson. "I bet he would." So, the son of a prominent East Coast lawyer (i.e., Sam) begrudges a 55 year old man whose entire family had to declare bankruptcy due to medical bills (i.e., Jimmy) a new house, after 23 years in a tiny bungalow. Pfft. The only person you won't accuse Dore of befriending is Jeffrey Epstein, because the Clintons already did! This is how far America has fallen. Oh well. If the rest of the world can only keep you from further bombing sprees . . . That would be nice. Dore is against that, consistently and categorically. That alone gives him some props. Lesser of two evils thinking must include that, too.
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  35649. 🤣
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  35650. True, but not what he said.
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  35651. The only issue is whether Neely was sufficiently threatening this time to justify the use of potentially lethal force. There is no other question in this case. Whether he was severely mentally ill or a bad guy, or has an outstanding warrant, or any of that is not relevant, either. Did he pose a true threat in that moment, to justify what the Marine chose to do? If he did, then the Marine will be acquitted.
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  35652. Well, he has money. And he dropped out of college, so take that! Ha!
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  35653. Re: corporate media I've never seen them trying so hard.
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  35654. If people don't see through THIS guy . . .
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  35655. Well, betrayal before taking office -- a new record! I guess Biden isn't slowing down after all.
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  35656. Yes, those three are supposed to be free of government interference.
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  35657. @MilwaukeeF40C  Because it would interfere with "the pursuit of happiness?" If natural gas bans in homes resulted in an inability to stay warm or cook food at reasonable prices, then yes, it certainly would interfere with the pursuit of happiness in a serious way. We need warmth and cooked meals, and both need to be affordable. So, do bans do that?
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  35658. 7:46 WHAT could possibly be objectionable about THIS??
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  35659. BREAKING: Glenn Greenwald just posted a short excerpt of Victoria Nuland testifying on the Ukrainian biolabs -- which, oddly enough, were funded through the US DOD, not the NIH. TeleSUR (Spanish) has just reported that China demands the US provide full information on all biological laboratories it funds throughout the world. The Indian press and even AFP have been raising questions about the DOD funding of biolabs in Ukraine, without pretending we know the true answers. George Galloway was denounced over the weekend for reporting on this, for so much as daring to mention it. My GOD.
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  35660. Krystal SAID Biden had the right response. An unpoliticized response. Why don't you go back and listen?
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  35661. 7:18 Listen for about two minutes. Sheesh.
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  35662. David Riesman explained it all, some 65 years ago. Long before social media. But social media made it all vastly, vastly worse.
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  35663. 🤣 that was good
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  35664. The price is right?
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  35665. I've never heard more lies strung together, especially on Tucker, where this sort of thing is not the norm.
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  35666. ​ @eyoung1683  That's not why Jimmy took the vaccine.
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  35667. As for mental health -- call an ambulance. If they need police backup, they will determine that, and they will be on the scene, controlling the scene, FIRST. No way should police ever arrive first on the scene of a mentally ill person.
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  35668. ​@ericarn Whites have nothing going for them anymore, so they have to pull out this. That was always how race functioned. That is is purpose. In the UK, the different social classes function like races.
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  35669. ​ @matane2465 Those aren't races.
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  35670.  @PrezVeto  No, actually, everything is not a social construct in the same sense. Ethnolinguistic groups have observable criteria that distinguish them and do not depend on racial ideology. Justin E. H. Smith wrote about the rise of the modern concept of race around the time of Shakespeare's late plays. We know from ancient Greek sources, notably Homer, that no such idea existed back then. The Nubians ruled Egypt at the time, and the Greeks saw no "racial" difference. They assumed color was from the sun.
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  35671.  @PrezVeto  I like how you combined "culture" and "education," which are two distinct things. It is impossible to devise a test that is "unaffected" by education, and culture, in turn, affects educational practices. Education begins at birth, and by age 7, all human children have acquired the core grammar of their first language. This in itself changes the very architecture of the brain permanently. It is only then that you can attempt to test "IQ." But by then, a child's brain is profoundly changed. But that's not the only time you find profound changes in response to the environment: adolescence is another. As it turns out, a person's fundamental cognitive abilities aren't typically discernable at 7 but at about 27. The kids whose cultures valued cultivating calm concentration and who read an extra hour or two per day and who learned more than one language and more than one alphabet over a period of two decades have very different brains than those who did not. All of the stuff you're spouting belongs to a time when it was wrongly believed that we were born with all of our neurons. Oops.
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  35672.  @UniverseExp91  The opposite is true. Ethnic groups are distinguishable objectively, based on ancestral tribal migrations and ancestral languages. Race is something that was made up in the 16th century in Western Europe. Even the Russians found it dubious: hence, Pushkin.
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  35673.  @PrezVeto  You have better things to do? Why does that sound like the most dubious thing you've said in a string of dubious things?
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  35674.  @MsGreenmermaid  No, it didn't, actually. The modern concept of race did not exist before the Early Modern period (circa 1500) in Europe. Justin E. H. Smith is the person to read on that. You must have never read the Illiad or the Odyssey with any attention if you think modern racialism has always existed. Racism and in-group chauvinism are not the same thing.
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  35675.  @PrezVeto  How do you explain the studies that show that at most half of intelligence is genetic, not anywhere near 80%? Or the fact that the methods used to assess the relative contribution of genes and environment to cognitive talent appear to change in favor of genes in adulthood, when one should expect the exact opposite if the methodology were sound --- at least until late adulthood at any rate? One interesting conjecture is that what we inherit is a fascination with learning, as an activity, rather than any preset template for what we learn. But then, childhood IQ doesn't mean much. And you can kill the desire to learn in a young person, can’t you?
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  35676.  @MsGreenmermaid  Biases, yes, based on any highly visible characteristic. That is true.
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  35677. @PrezVeto  Right. You've got nothing to respond with. I knew that. For those who might mistakenly believe this person's use of Big Words and snide tone mean he actually knows something, read up on adult neurogenesis. The NIH has a series of important articles on the topic in its free library. Some of the most important parts of the brain generate new neurons throughout life, unless the person is suffering from some form of dementia. The popular accounts usually use the phrase "brain plasticity." If you go that route, be sure to pick something by an actual neurologist.
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  35678.  @JaneFleesTexas  If you want a good laugh, try to find the IQs of famous people. The IQ cult then goes on to estimate them for people who never took one, like Einstein and da Vinci! They expect the readers to be so smart that they do not spot circular logic. Horoscopes of famous people make more sense. At least birth dates were actually recorded. 😅🤣🤣
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  35679.  @danklordsupreme8864  The humans that exist today did not originate separately at all. We originated in eastern Africa and spread throughout the world.
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  35680. Thank you. I've heard about that.
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  35681.  @earlydew  And? Voyeur much?
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  35682. I found the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut safety report, English language version. You might want to take a peek, to verify. It is always a good idea to go to primary sources to verify anything any politician says. Obvious.
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  35683. The study wasn't designed to determine the frequency of the syndrome. It was designed to understand the symptoms of those who do indeed have it, to try to find out more about it and to help them. Crazy, I know.
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  35684. Nice point
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  35685.  @gdiwolverinemale2745  There are no "left-wing billionaires." You're naming globalist, neo-liberal practitioners of a particularly vicious and repulsive form of (pseudo-cultural) divide and conquer, which is sure to bring about psychiatric problems, unemployment, addiction, homelessness, and suicide. And make them and their untalented kids even richer.
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  35686. I know, I know! Force bankrupt students to work as Alex Jones' research assistant! Or Bill Gates' social secretary. No! Bill Clinton's. And make them visit Ghislaine in prison. We need to put these people in their place!!
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  35687.  @davruck1  Full agreement.
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  35688. ​@mabelheinzle2275 I missed hearing the fact that most of the world believes we are arming a genocide. Are they wrong? Well, you'd need to acknowledge that the view exists, and to present the basis for it, before demonstrating that it is wrong.
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  35689. @danyalghaznavi6818  I know. Funny how it was skirted completely, huh?
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  35690. Robbie, there are 19 children who would almost certainly be alive if the shooter could not have bought the guns he did. The total death toll in the US for 2022 might be unaffected, and there is no reason to assert it would be lower. FINE. That is not the point.
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  35691. She wouldn't dare. Her story does not stand up to scrutiny.
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  35692.  @reformed7939  Can you be serious? Why would you want a FAKE to teach your youth anything? You don't think it could backfire? What do you know about what Columbia teaches? Why do you take her word? Columbia exists as such since 1784. Where is your pride? No wonder so many people fell for the COVID fear-mongering. The last thing you need is to oppose lies with more lies. It's still lying, and it pays too well.
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  35693. A Million Little Pieces. Three Cups of Tea. George Santos. Anna Sorokin. "Babies ripped from incubators." (That story was dangerous.) Yeah, send all of those people on a college tour. Just what we need.
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  35694.  @reformed7939  I did no such thing. So an immigrant comes to the US, obtains her degree at one of the very finest private, Ivy-League universities, has absolutely nothing nuanced to say about it, only drops slogans about "woke," claims it is much like being in North Korea again (!), and you believe every word -- AND you think she is doing the United States a favor. Where is your pride? Columbia exists since the time of Washington and Jefferson. She just got here. No, she's doing her bank account a favor. The fact that this stuff sells is a symptom of the troubled times we live in. Anyone who tries to call you to your senses gets accused of communism. How is that different from Rachel Maddow and company calling people Putin puppets? It is exactly the same. Only Rachel gets paid. They've got you doing it for free.
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  35695.  @reformed7939  So you need someone honest to criticize those who promote lying. Can you put that together, or is it too difficult for you? If she was so oppressed at Columbia, why didn't she transfer? If it reminded her of North Korea, that must have been excruciating, one would think, for someone who went through what she did. She could have gone to University of Chicago, or Princeton, or a state university, instead of feeding the beast with enormous tuition dollars. But she chose to stay. And now she has nothing whatsoever good to say about it, and you think that's just great. Where is your pride?
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  35696. I know about this. Extremely rich people will sue over peanuts all the time. They consider it a line in the sand.
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  35697.  @slewone4905  Does living in a homeless shelter count?
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  35698.  @slewone4905  Where did your father live?
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  35699.  @slewone4905  There are tent cities everywhere.
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  35700.  @slewone4905  A LOT of undernourished people are overweight. They eat prefabricated pastries and drink soda as their basic diet. Note that I am not saying the food from McDonald's is the culprit. Most of their menu is poor nutrition, but does not result in undernourishment. You can grow up on it and be more or less normal.
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  35701.  @slewone4905  So, you don't think that someone who lives on $1200/month in America is impoverished? Because there are poorer people somewhere else? $1200/month is plenty in some European countries. Eastern Europe, not Western, needless to say, but with a moderately Westernized lifestyle.
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  35702. The actual contracts and the timeline are what real courts look at. Did Musk, who can afford lawyers, make revealing these statistics a condition precedent?
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  35703. Sure
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  35704. It's all completely phony, and every rational person knows it. The Democrats are about dividing up their ill-gotten gain. What was Harris's billion-dollar-plus campaign about??
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  35705. @billpierce3037  Well . . . The IRA and 401k have existed for roughly two generations now. Where are all the millionaires who don't need Social Security? Something that works for 10% of people isn't a plan. If it worked for 85%, you could ask what the other 15% did wrong (and the answer might still be nothing, but the question would be sensible). You cannot claim 90% did something wrong.
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  35706. @kcoutdoors8688  Give me back what we lost to crime and I'm fine. Why aren't they accountable to me?
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  35707. Stef and Aaron are adorable.
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  35708. Compare this victory with Sweden. That's what we want to hear about.
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  35709. ​ @jacobzindel987 What is an F150? I have a 2004 Volvo S80, AWD, with around 109k miles on it.
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  35710. Because this woman is horrible. This is a well-known case. He is innocent.
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  35711. ​@Coromi1 Look. She is advocating for someone in prison for life, who has already been in prison for life. We owe these people some polish. Anyone with blue hair can have chestnut hair instead. One example.
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  35712.  @ablinkin65  💯 perfect
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  35713. Sure we do. Books already cannot compete with the screen, any more than red kale can compete with Joe Biden's ice cream cone. So let's keep going down that road. What can go wrong?
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  35714. So . . . What did Hamas do for Israel? Oops, I mean for the Palestinians. Er . . .
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  35715. Yes it is, but you can recover from it. It takes a lot of work, like most things of this nature.
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  35716. What do you think about that now?
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  35717. "Vote for the other Biden."
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  35718. For what?
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  35719. "He's not in a bubble." -- Jimmy Dore, on Joe Rogan.
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  35720. @charharn7011  Which court? What jurisdiction? With which resources? To what end? Does a US president or Secretary of State choose advisors on the basis of what is known about them, from archives and from their own statements, or do they have to seek judicial review? What do you think court is for? What do you think it can do?
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  35721. ​ @Erick360. Where did you get this nonsense?
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  35722. She's sooooo smart. Keep up the walks. ❤️😊
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  35723. Maybe Howard Stern needs some therapy. Anyone could have developed a phobia from the fear-mongering.
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  35724. I'm not sure this "failure" is not a plan. There has been talk of risk of inflation in various shareholder letters from major mutual funds. Someone will have to be squeezed to prevent the velocity of money from increasing, and to protect stock market gains. Guess who that will be.
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  35725. Biden is unprincipled and always has been.
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  35726. Too kind.
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  35727. This is common.
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  35728.  @bevturner2258  What does "completed" mean? Were the animals, mothers and pups, allowed to live out a normal lifespan under observation, or were they all dissected? According to this video, we don't have the data. I find that puzzling.
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  35729.  @bevturner2258  I would really like to see a real animal test: a mammal with a short lifespan, have young, and watch those young. If some had been kept alive, we'd have a lot of information now. Thanks for writing!
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  35730.  @bevturner2258  What is your opinion about vaccine safety overall, but especially in pregnant and nursing women?
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  35731.  @bevturner2258  My feelings exactly. The more I give it thought, the more I realize that my initial desire to get vaccinated was simply because this drug was labeled a vaccine. But I also decided to wait.
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  35732.  @bevturner2258  Thank so much for your thoughtful posts. Truly heartening.
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  35733.  @waqasusmans  Nah. He's just a bit of a loser.
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  35734. Because no one in that crowd wore, endorsed, or was amused by the Auschwitz tee shirt. When people tell you, over and over, who they are . . .
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  35735. I feel nothing when white American haters die.
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  35736. The US certainly should realize that the world is turning away from them. What Putin has done by escalating the Ukraine war and radically changing its character is unconscionable. A true disgrace, no justification. He did not exhaust other strategies by any stretch. And yet --- do you see condemnation of Putin, except from the West? NO. That tells you everything. What more do they need to see?
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  35737.  @romanyarkov8426  Good for you! Try Hemingway's collected short stories next. Masterpieces.
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  35738. @Aphrodite Health Coaching Does America have any other response in its repertoire? Sort-of like humanitarian bombing.
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  35739. This is the FUNNIEST thing that happened in 2024.
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  35740. Explain how indigenous Hawaiians speak a language related to Tagalog (Philippines). We don't know everything about the original peopling of Oceania and beyond.
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  35741. Unless someone is funding this, he is straight up psychotic. If it is for 💰, well . . . In 2023, people will say and do absolutely anything for 💰.
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  35742. Trump v. Biden redux is beyond my worst nightmare. Do you see anything presidential in this picture? Before you come for me, know that I have never voted for a ticket with Biden on it.
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  35743.  Googlag Inmate #666  Harvey wasn't available? Oh that's right he's on trial. Never mind.
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  35744. 4:55 She is a failed actress, just like Kamala.
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  35745. THANK YOU BATYA Why doesn't anyone else say "the quiet part out loud?"
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  35746.  @Top_Weeb  Seriously, it's balanced. The last show had three with strong doubts about this, or were against it, and only two (counting Katie) who support it.
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  35747.  @Top_Weeb  That's not the one. Katie's latest does not have Dore, and does have a doctor and a journalist specialized in health reporting. It's a calm discussion, LOL.
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  35748.  @shadowywarrior  A defamation case is about what was said. Did anyone read the article? The actual words count. The actual words do not imply physical abuse, so the lawyers argued emotional abuse, which Depp admitted, was sufficient for a dismissal.
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  35749. This report was fair.
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  35750.  @tonys32948376  This is all highly conjectural.
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  35751.  @DS94everXev  China showed this in their Olympics? WHEN WAS THAT?
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  35752. War psychosis has taken over. Yes, literal madness.
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  35753.  @RichardWagner-hi4zn  It's the combination of all of these things in a single person that's remarkable.
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  35754. It's protected speech. In this conflict, each says it about the other, in fact. Have reports to that effect been censored? You should want to know.
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  35755. Tell us the context. Tell us the context.
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  35756. Who do you think took Epstein's place in this network? (I keep wanting to call it a ratline, what irony.) This didn't die with him, that's for sure.
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  35757. This is true. We do know, however, that the transition from prison to society for someone like this is very rocky and a risk to everyone, including him (no one did him any favors by releasing him). We have to have halfway houses, step down transition, and intense monitoring. We won't know who will be less of a risk for several years.
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  35758. I've never heard someone manage to make free speech sound bad the way this guy does.
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  35759. How so? She didn't even read the opinion she's "reporting" on.
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  35760. Works for Hunter.
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  35761. If there is further evidence that this vaccine is safe and effective, I want it. This seems to me to be the right approach. We cannot ignore the possibility of politicized information, on anyone's part.
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  35762. He isn't. The issue is how this invasion came about, and where the responsibility lies. I don't see how the refusal to excuse anyone who bears responsibility equals excusing Russia(?) Just the opposite.
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  35763.  @michaelreid5307  Of course the ultimate blame rests with Russia. There is no question. People looking forward to a respite from COVID, and a peaceful spring, are now refugees and being killed, their homes shelled. Wars have multiple causes. Frankly, after the 2020 economic collapse, I expected one somewhere. The causes for this one are looking worse for the US government by the day.
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  35764.  @michaelreid5307  Hard of reading?
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  35765. The first sentence of the description of this video says "opening remarks." So . . . this lady risked her life for her country, and you can't read a sentence before you criticize her. Here's a question: why should anyone lift a finger for you, much less be willing to give their life to protect you? Help me with this. Seriously, . . . no one wants to be law enforcement, no one wants to be a nurse (few want to be doctors, and all the exams for lawyers were made easier), no one wants to be a teacher, no one wants to come into the office on a daily basis . . . you're sanguine, huh? No worries? LOL Keep it up.
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  35766. Thank you.
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  35767. Hunter was paid for spiritual advice. 🌈🦄🦋🦈
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  35768. 💯 Robby re: celebrities
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  35769. ​ @YippieKiAy That's not what it's about.
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  35770.  @soulfireonfire6423  Figures
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  35771. @saylorgirl799  That said, why do you trust Prager on such a sensitive matter? Prager literally defends everything Netanyahu does. (Lots of Israelis don't.) We know why I can't elaborate. A person does have to look behind today's "influencers," especially where family is concerned. I saw your post, agreed with everything else you said.
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  35772. @tisenhow  I know. Shakespeare and Plato. Who knows what the kids might think after reading that stuff? They don't admire great writing, they just try to Please Teacher -- and then The Boss. There are "low prestige" public colleges with night classes in every major city, and great professors who got shoved out of the politicized private universities for not playing the game. You don't know unless you go.
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  35773. @carolmcln5028  It's interesting to read the comments from the people who think this is a material issue versus those who see it in a more spiritual light. In most countries, higher education barely costs anything. It's considered just as necessary as K through 12 (and in many places, it starts with excellent preschool). Parents owe their children an education, and they need to do their best to provide it if they can. Having a rift like that with your child is devastating regardless of what you spent on them or didn't. No matter what she encountered at college, short of powerful drugs, it did not deprive her of free will.
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  35774. @carolmcln5028  How do you know it's a good video? Is it part of the new anti-sending your kids to college scam? Every one of those people will do everything they can to get their kid into Harvard or Yale. They make money spouting stuff like that, then spend it on their kid to make sure he gets ahead. No, I wouldn't listen to anyone who approves of torture, regardless of the subject. We went through that here.
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  35775. @carolmcln5028  Also, in case you didn't know, in-state tuition used to be so inexpensive that a full-time summer job at minimum wage covered the entire year. That's what it was like when I was a kid. Is what college costs today fair? Why isn't it a right for school to be something you can work your way through? Why have these kids' lives been ruined by both parties? The Republicans demanded the cuts that forced in-state, public university tuition to skyrocket, and the Democrats pushed bizarre ideologies and ugly culture wars just as hard as Republicans did, if not harder. The minimum wage in my state is $14 per hour. $14 × 37.5 hours per week × 14 weeks should equal one year at the state colleges. That comes to about $7300 gross. That should cap in-state public college tuition. Why doesn't it? That's over $3500 per semester, hardly chicken feed.
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  35776.  @carolmcln5028  Well, I just got censored. One post disappeared. One finally reappeared.
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  35777.  @carolmcln5028  Guess what? Remember what happened to your perfectly decent post? Well . . . Me, too.
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  35778.  @carolmcln5028  Interesting that one of my posts contained math. You'd be surprised how often math posts (this one was about tuition, and what minimum wage in my state comes to) are scents oared.
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  35779.  @shawnwilliam4653  What? Honey, I think you're all crazy. Like, literally all. Keeping with specifics, what do you imagine this video "exposes?" It makes it appear as though freedom of speech were a right wing concern!! (Church Committee, anyone? Ever look at their report?) Let me ask you -- as all the commons become privatized, and all the space where First Amendment rights could in theory prevail becomes privatized, what do we have? Plus a state wholly devoted to protecting private interests, to the point where that's what its military is concerned with, as its first mission. I don't care how you dress it up, or what weird story you tell yourself. That is a form of fascism. Moreover, no one in the world went bonkers over COVID the way the Five Eyes did, with the sole exception of a single country: China. (Where a good part of our labor force resides, as it turns out.) Say. What do you think Taibbi did? What did they tell you he did?
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  35780.  @shawnwilliam4653  Oh I see, you've appointed yourself hall monitor. Channeling Ash Sarkar's brilliant retort to Piers Morgan: "I'm a communist, you idiot. No, I'm literally a communist." I don't even plan to stay in this country. It's too far right, too imperialistic, too racist, and too violent -- and too given to mass psychosis, from Salem to the present. I don't want to contribute to its crimes. To a great extent, I've managed not to, actually, and partly by the "luck" of being unlucky. You know, one mistake your groupuscule has made during Trump was to lie about him -- as if there were not enough odious things that were true to point out calmly. That alone could take months, years. But no. You lied about a liar. Well that's not exactly upholding principles of truth. At least Taibbi wrote Insane Clown President. What did you write? Oh yes, that's right. A comment to me. BTW, my family lives in one of those places your country bombed with DU, and that you can't find on the map. I haven't made a wh*t* friend in this century. (Whew!!!)
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  35781.  @shawnwilliam4653  Yawn. Blocked. Get counseling.
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  35782. Too bad. This report was fair. You would have been surprised. I admit I was, actually. 😏
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  35783. The two on the right are smearing her, misrepresenting her views, and saying her brain is broken. She didn't engage in similar ad hominem. I would swear at them and leave.
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  35784.  @Sam-gy3ok  In my experience, a woman I know who will not take these vaccines before full FDA approval has just volunteered for a COVID monoclonal antibody study.
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  35785.  @thegreen2504  This is nonsense. All vaccinations, and all medicines in general, are tested for "safety" and "effectiveness." Safety always entails evidence of no significant harm, either in the short term or over the long term. This MUST be investigated in vivo, not just based on things like "no apparent mechanism for long-term harm to be produced." I wonder if you believe your own schtick. I also wonder about false flags -- are you actually trying to make the vaccinated look stupid? (If so, a decent start.)
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  35786.  @thegreen2504  Why do you think they test vaccines on animals having significantly shorter lifespans than humans do? It provides some evidence of absence of long-term side effects.
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  35787.  @smozhright789  It depends on how you view the animal data, and the degree of confidence that may be ascribed to the animal studies for a particular kind of drug. For example, drugs are now tested on "humanized" mice, which go through a life cycle quickly. So, we don't need a generation to be sure of a vaccine's safety. But do we have long-term human safety information on the COVID vaccines based purely on observing humans? Uhh . . . no. No kidding. How big of a deal is that? Well, that's why I believe in individualized medical decisions. (Is it a real big deal for a 70 year old man with Type II diabetes? Is it a big deal for 15 year old kids? I mean come on!)
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  35788.  @smozhright789  Oh, missed this business about "idiot," etc. Blocked.
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  35789.  @smozhright789  You had no reason to say I sound like an idiot. What I don't agree with is throwing all ethics out the window. This country is having "emergency" after "emergency," giving up more privacy and more freedom, "just this once." "Just once more, we promise." I don't believe in mandating vaccines. I believe in individualized medical advice. Testing on animals and observing their entire life cycle gives important information. Otherwise, no vaccines could be approved until 40 years went by. I mean, what's ten years, after all? You give a baby a vaccine, ten years later they haven't even passed through puberty.
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  35790. Norfolk Southern were warned by their lawyers not to say a word.
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  35791. ​ @Surelockohms  "Gender affirming care" was a slogan concocted by advertising.
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  35792. ​@furey fiar Does that abuse -- and I concur that it is very often abusive -- render you permanently unable to choose to become a birth parent some day? With no recourse? Psychotherapy cannot help?
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  35793. @Three Of Eight  As for the mental health care, amen. All the support they need. P. S. This has features of a cult.
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  35794. EVERY program fails to protect some people. This is deliberate. It is designed not to work universally. They will engineer "competition," complete with "winners and losers," where it would not otherwise exist. The government did this to people. The virus did not.
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  35795. 1:19 Oh. My. God. This takes the cake.
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  35796. Gates, Bezos, Musk, etc., are already not normal people.
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  35797. They are describing something that happened that was not deliberate and not a violation of the rules against WMD development -- and they are STILL covering it up. When something is done illegally and deliberately, what will they do then? Lock up truth tellers? Several hundred Assanges? Worse? I'm betting on worse.
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  35798. It's true that people who get a flu shot are more likely to be asymptomatic carriers. They have the flu but it is so mild they ignore it and are contagious. I've had that happen. I had such a mild flu but had to stay home anyway, to avoid infecting other people.
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  35799. 12:34 AWESOME
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  35800. @aquariandawn4750  May it continue.
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  35801.  @Nitroscion  Um, no. I have seen Christmas cards with them.
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  35802.  @SuperDoNotWant  A father cannot be forced to give a pregnant mother a pint of blood to save her and his future child. He can't even be forced to give a pint of blood to his five-year-old. We would all agree it is hideous morally (not scientifically, not logically) on his part to refuse. Yet there is no law to force him. And good that there isn't.
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  35803.  @ricky4673  "Soros Soros Soros" "Russia Russia Russia"
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  35804. @stephenhood2948  Anyone who could be scared into injecting their healthy child or teen with you know what, or into transitioning them can believe absolutely a n y t h I n g.
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  35805. You beat me to it.
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  35806. The irony is that one of the early peer-reviewed studies showed that people with good levels of Vitamin D had fewer side effects from the vaccines and better antibody production. STILL we were being censored when we tried to discuss it.
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  35807. Impossible I am.
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  35808. This is our world since Reagan. In this respect, Clinton was somewhat worse than Trump, though comparisons are not simple.
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  35809. He resigned.
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  35810. Asking for what?
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  35811.  @ahsokabun-o2583  Jimmy didn't excuse Jimmy's behavior. He wrote an apology. He promised never to do it again. He is defending himself now against a threat to bring up the incident many years later, using the note he wrote against him. Plus Ana took a swipe at his wife. Very feminist of her.
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  35812.  @ahsokabun-o2583  You mean years later, when that person threatens to publicly expose the incident and use the note against me, in retaliation for my justified criticism of their profanity and their smear tactics? That's what you mean? That means the apology wasn't sincere? I hope you are more clear-headed in real life.
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  35813.  @ahsokabun-o2583  I'm glad Stef laughed at Ana's attempt to come between her and her husband, and insinuate that she, Ana, was more desirable than Stef. Now that is a joke.
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  35814.  @ahsokabun-o2583  Do you actually not know what happened? TYT smeared Aaron Mate and Jimmy defended him. Then Ana threatened Jimmy. This show won't tell you.
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  35815.  @ahsokabun-o2583  Look at her whole DM to Dore. She said that Jimmy asked her where she got her jeans to get a pair for his wife so she would dress better. TYT read the whole thing on their video, as did Jimmy, with Stef laughing. Nice, subtle dig. That these Sensitive Damsels somehow missed.
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  35816. @madgoldnz  Oh, at $1140 per hour, for every hour of every day of the year, 24/7/365, he's just an employee. He has no responsibility for anything. Is AI rejecting these claims? Then pay the robot.
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  35817. @SalamHerbs-db5nt  No. Hemsley is WAY privileged. Don't count on the media to tell you about it.
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  35818. I recently read a book about school shooters, and what came out about Columbine was unbelievable. The football team and other sports teams were conducting ritual bullying. This was not your ordinary teasing, but more akin to hazing that didn't stop. It was really sick. The teachers and administrators always looked the other way and even condoned some of it. After what those two shooters did, everyone tried to cover everything up, to avoid taking any responsibility. There was even an unexecuted search warrant on Eric Harris. It was a very sick place -- extraordinary. The average kid who survived that day is close to 40, even older.
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  35819. Tesla is facing a huge lawsuit in California, and Neuralink has been cited for primate mistreatment. You can find all the main legal documents online.
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  35820. @Gator Nuggets He's facing a lawsuit, brought by the state of California. These suits are rarities. Tesla has horrendous allegations against it, filed last February. Look it up yourself. Musk is no more capable of fairness or acknowledgment of other people's rights and interests than Gates is, Jobs was, etc. Of course he doesn't like the Democrats anymore.
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  35821. These other candidates for being "the real Shakespeare" were all more powerful than he was, and England was always a class-ridden society. Why didn't they insist on placing their names on this work? Even if the theatre was slightly risque, you would still have the real writer(s) whisper to someone, especially after a triumph. See? I can think critically. 😉
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  35822. An officer could have gone to heaven instead, but no.
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  35823.  @saprakr  I mostly listen to news and commentary in French (my fav is Aude Lancelin), but thanks for the warning. Duly noted.
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  35824. Let's hope so at least.
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  35825. We need more investigation of this.
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  35826. The power of advertising . . . a/k/a, propaganda. That's what this tells you. That's where people make money. Production of propaganda.
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  35827. Jimmy, who wants to hear this guy do a PRESS conference?
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  35828. Strategist? You think Ukraine can win? His analysis is complete nonsense -- but he never says anything that, when proven wrong, could possibly hurt him.
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  35829. ​ @zorrodm And you still don't get it, huh? 😂
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  35830. @Boababa-fn3mr Well, he can talk. That's different.
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  35831. @Boababa-fn3mr Good gawd. We have no floor, do we? None whatsoever.
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  35832. ​ @JC-vf7zs 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  35833. No, a conservatorship has no bearing on the US Treasury or the federal budget. It pertains to that person's own money. This is a stunt, but I don't mind --- let it happen. Just know that it is a stunt.
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  35834. If you can prove it impairs the freedom of a person to chose to have birth children one day, a basic human right, then it should be considered. But if not, what's your argument?
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  35835. Le génocide est l'autodéfense.
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  35836. Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, is much better. Scathing, too, but not unfair --- or bone-headed.
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  35837. This is a bunch of bull. Read a real biography of someone who achieved things you truly admire, and you'll find a jumble of all sorts of emotions, including of course resentment. What you will notice most often is an absence of self-censorship. Of course! It's a waste of time. Not only that, but it is fundamentally unethical to misapply responsibility. It is not at all easy to determine exactly why something happened and the scope and limits of each person's responsibility in the matter. By the way, butterflies encircle me as well. All the time. (I don't eat animals. That might have something to do with it. The discipline needed is not just an inner state but an action.)
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  35838. ​ @jb1139 Actuarial tables that insurers use. The fact is, the raw data needs to be carefully vetted first, then multivariate analysis must be done -- a lengthy, expensive project requiring careful judgment and candor. Nah. Won't happen. But nothing less can provide definitive answers.
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  35839. So true.
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  35840. @tanker3356  My mother's brother was IN the British Army for the entire war. His country was bombed in April 1941 in a blitzkrieg and fell soon after, and his region was overrun by collaborators, so he escaped and fought in North Africa. I don't consider Time-Life a serious source, or at least not a definitive one. Materiel does not change facts, and you appeared not to know the difference between the US role in the Pacific theatre and Europe. I have a multilingual library. (How old are you, anyway?)
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  35841. @tanker3356  That means they created documentation that historians can study, not that they became historians themselves. It is common for journalists in the heat of the moment to get something wrong, though their work is often the best evidence we will have. You should calm down.
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  35842. @tanker3356  I wouldn't tell you ANYTHING that has the remotest chance of identifying me. I've already said too much. You're not smart enough to make it worthwhile. There's nothing in it for me.
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  35843.  @tanker335  Nobody is refuting facts. You should calm down. And visit a major library.
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  35844. Benazir Bhutto?
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  35845. By telling the truth about mandates?
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  35846. Um, we know what they can do to us. :/
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  35847.  @VidarrKerr  That is understandable, but Glenn is a real lawyer. And a real journalist.
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  35848. In the US, almost no one took boosters in 2023. Correlation is not causation; it is a reason to look for indicia of causation. I was suspicious all along of "excess deaths" --- due to COVID included. There is a lot of data that remains unanalyzed, and I don't expect solid answers this decade. This MP gave the best speech I've heard yet --- the most rational. What a relief!!
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  35849. Full indemnity + full patent protection + little or no funding for compensating the injured = cannot be honest; literally impossible.
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  35850. Besides, with all the elderly who died in the pandemic, shouldn't excess deaths have declined by mid-2022? See how this analysis is actually pretty hard?
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  35851. ​ @scottekoontz The data I saw was in the elderly, and only from COVID.
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  35852.  @FrankieG13  BRAVO
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  35853.  @matthewstone1362  LOL. Seriously, though, this is not freedom.
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  35854. A day without Glenn is always a little bit sad. This is a treat. Thank you, Glenn.
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  35855.  @colinfffff  Public health policy is not purely a matter of science, and scientists who seek to influence that policy have to be scrupulously honest about what they know and what they are still not sure of. Public health policy has to be informed by law (especially constitutional law) and ethics. It is ALWAYS the proponent of any drug who has the burden of proving safety and effectiveness. The person who declines any drug for any reason is always presumed to be within their rights to say no. If you want to overcome that presumption, then you are the one who must prove mandating the drug is the least coercive way to further a TRULY compelling public interest, and that there isn't some other way to do that, without encroaching on the patient's fundamental rights. The burden is never on the person who says no. Well, people like Hotez tried to make you think otherwise. They did that for a reason, to muddy the issue. Why do you think we lived through this mind f___? They had no basis for forcing everyone to take it. They didn't even have evidence it arrested the transmission. So they pulled out all the stops. Even EEOC lawyers admitted that religious objections had to be taken into account, and people with religious objections are now suing and winning. This was unconscionable.
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  35856. @YouTubeCensor  Okay, but you asked what I meant. Not like you're obligated to read it.
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  35857. Or . . . Watching too many videos. That's practically a behavioral addiction.
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  35858. Does anyone think the corruption doesn't include Musk, Thiel, and . . . Trump? They're not trying to end it, they are trying to make sure their friends get the biggest share. It's in your face. And the DNC elitists will find some way to cash in, too. That's Job One for them, every time.
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  35859. ​ @linguaphile42 Are they secure? Do they know they will never end up hungry or on the street? Think for a minute. I can't stand consumerism either. Oprah became a billionaire by promoting it.
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  35860.  @linguaphile42  You think that's where that kind of money comes from? Advertising (= propaganda; see, e.g., Bernays) is what you are swimming in, like the fish that says, "Huh? What's water?" It is one of the most important "industries" in a service economy that runs on debt.
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  35861.  @linguaphile42  People in many poor countries are far more secure than we are. They can count on having the same basic necessities tomorrow as they did yesterday to a much larger degree than we can, unless the capitalist rovers show up at their door to loot their real assets (basic materials, land, etc.). You really don't know what finance capitalism is and how it operates, do you? Even Adam Smith (especially Adam Smith) warned against the rentier class, which is essentially unproductive and looks for ways to escape the discipline inherent in true free market competition. Your sentimentality is misplaced.
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  35862.  @linguaphile42  Everywhere where I've lived where equality was greater also had calmer, more stable,mand happier people. True in France, true in American cities. Money becomes not a means to good ends, but pure addiction with all that that entails. It's no accident Epstein moved in the circles that he did. He attracted those people.
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  35863. @linguaphile42  I know you're into feelies. No worries. I have a (multilingual) library. Don't hold it against me. It's just one of those things about a diverse world. That may sound facetious and smug, but I'm actually being sincere now. It's not something I can talk about in general without getting in trouble. I could talk about my sex life first.
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  35864. @linguaphile42  Oh, she has hurt people along the way: by promoting The Secret, Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz, a ton of other worthless gurus, and various consumer culture manias. None of these people are honest about how they built their fortunes, and all of them are literally insatiable. There are worse people around, I'll agree to that. Anyone modeling this lifestyle and claiming to be progressive ends up poisoning people's minds against actual progressive policies, exactly like Ocasio Cortez has done. They are rightly written off as phony. (Say, how old do you think I am?)
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  35865. @linguaphile42  Also, you're not sure I'm "very nice" at all. That's fine. You have my full permission to experience any normal, honest, human emotion.
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  35866.  @linguaphile42  Look up the notorious guru John of God, sentenced to several hundred years. Read up on that one. It's important.
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  35867. Gymnastics is different, due to the great risk of injury and death.
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  35868. I agree it's not something to be celebrated -- nor decried.
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  35869.  @iamnottodd  But even in France, the movement appears to be weakening. I truly hope it is not. At the moment, it doesn't look that good, but I am hopeful. The shutdowns could not have come at a better time for Macron. :/ The firefighters shocked the establishment, I can tell you that much. Really shocked them.
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  35870. No one has morals. What you have is called marketing. Yours is more rational, for the most part -- which is remarkable. Think about what that says.
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  35871. Which ones?
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  35872.  @vititom  lol, touché
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  35873. Mm hmm. Yes.
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  35874. So, she's saying he did not die due to the asphyxiation caused by Chauvin?? Does she know the outcome of the trial, or . . . ?
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  35875. There are a lot of problems with Kyle Rittenhouse, not the least of which is that the POLICE are on video praising the armed vigilantes and giving them water. Are the police infiltrated by right-wing extremists? They influenced Rittenhouse, instead of checking his ID. Rittenhouse was a minor. Why did he have a firearm? Who bought it for him? Who was he with? He has been charged under a law that mandates charging him as an adult. I oppose such oppressive laws. Now, he's partying with the right-wing extremists who bailed him out of jail. Chaos, and unprincipled from beginning to end.
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  35876. It's not funny.
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  35877. ​ @ProleCenter Of course not. Smh.
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  35878. More stuff on woke? 😂😂😂
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  35879. A leftist would never destroy musical instruments. Russian music schools open to talent started with the Soviets.
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  35880. Deist is correct, and remarkably many were. Some were Unitarians as well.
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  35881. Why did they decide to quote the discredited AOC?
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  35882. Robby wants some privacy rights to be constitutionally protected. I say let's all vote on it, Robby. Are you against democracy??!
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  35883. You heard this? Where?
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  35884. OH, AI will be the new TRUTH DETECTOR for these guys.
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  35885.  @mikedar8484  Who said it was?
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  35886.  @mikedar8484  Slavery ended in British-controlled areas long before it ended here.
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  35887.  @mikedar8484  You brought it up.
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  35888.  @mikedar8484  Let's have child soldiers like the mujahideen.
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  35889.  @zacnewman7140  I see 52 "likes" for the OP right now. I mean, how? What you pointed out is perfectly stated. Do you understand what's going on? Because I don't. The story was about misrepresenting people.
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  35890. Speaking of drugs, the money laundering, too big to jail scandal of HSBC was widely reported at the time.
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  35891. Crazy, isn't it? MRNA is immunotherapy.
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  35892. @viperrecords3288  Yes, a plausible case of impending genocide according to the ICJ (with the US judge who examined the evidence concurring in that assessment), and our money paying for it, is kind of important. Or are we so jaded we don't care? Will the next Hitler narrative ("Saddam is Hilter, Assad is Hitler, Gaddafi is Hitler," etc.) get you going again? Because we have got to Stop Hitler. Or is Hitler a "purity test?"
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  35893.  @viperrecords3288  "Deal-breaker," as if this were some kind of a joke, or fluff stuff, . . . Or your assessment of a first date.
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  35894.  @viperrecords3288  Pink highlights, not a deal-breaker. Blue hair all over, deal-breaker. $115k, not a deal-breaker. Under $75k, deal-breaker.
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  35895.  @viperrecords3288  "Be quiet," deal-breaker 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  35896. @viperrecords3288  Nobody was "watching" you. You were not invited on this show. 😂😂😂
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  35897.  @viperrecords3288  Thank you for this opportunity to block you. Excellent.
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  35898.  @viperrecords3288  I didn't know you'd be so hurt about not being invited on Jimmy Dore. Sheesh. I'm sorry!
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  35899. Jill Biden has a doctorate in . . . Education. Oh My God
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  35900. EXACTLY
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  35901. ❤
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  35902. @valcaron Look it up yourself, you fool. You can use lethal force to defend a person, if their physical safety is threatened. You cannot use LETHAL force in defense of mere, unoccupied property. You want references to 50 states' statutes and DC?
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  35903.  @Xyz99899  Actually, there are not. In 49 states, there are none. In Texas, the conditions that have to be met to before you can be justified in using lethal force to defend property are so extreme, it is essentially impractical. (Among other things, you have to prove necessity by trying something less than lethal first.) Your defense lawyer will get your property. But never mind, believe your Facebook Friends. They can do a GoFundMe for you.
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  35904.  @Xyz99899  You do realize that self-defense against a carjacker, or against someone who breaks into your house when you're at home, are not property crimes? They are threats to the safety of persons. Think it through.
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  35905.  @dorian7215  No, it doesn't. In fact, the College Board is technically a nonprofit with public service/charitable aims, pays no taxes, and has a huge portfolio of investments, some of which is offshore. They solicit money from the state only to subsidize AP and SAT exam fees for students from lower income families, not their own operations.
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  35906. The only people impressed by him are those who really have read nothing. Then he sounds good. And you tend believe him, that this is really what school is, and what kind of propaganda is being pushed at universities, and so forth. Newsflash: the most common major in America BY FAR is Business, and has been for decades and decades. As for the real "left," which exists in France, Spain, and so forth, it strongly supports Latin and Greek and calculus in high school. J-L Melenchon. Look it up.
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  35907. Here's how this might go: market crash leads to push for major stimulus, major stimulus requires going deeper into debt, selling the debt requires some measure of acquiescence on the part of current and future T bill holders, and current and future T bill holders include various sovereign entities. See where I'm going with this? N. B. Nothing here is a "major risk," until after it happens. Lots of fragile spots baked into the system -- could they all hold? Sure. It's not impossible. :/
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  35908. Pairs well with his wife's Vogue spread.
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  35909. COVID fearmongering was psychological abuse.
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  35910. Actually, that is certainly no longer true during the Omicron waves, IF it ever was.
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  35911. Yeah, at age EIGHTY. At 23, not so much.
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  35912. That's why a proof is necessary. That is exactly why.
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  35913. She's a typical kid who doesn't know. I don't expect much. What is her incentive to learn the truth about 20th century history?
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  35914.  @cqtaylor  Matt Taibbi? He WROTE "Insane Clown President!" All three were appalled by Trump and treated his election as a watershed moment, a truly tragic event.
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  35915.  @jonesybot_5000  You're right.
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  35916.  @sabeto5527  Three words: Insane Clown President And how do you think we got him? The sober view is that 2016 was the Democrats' to lise.
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  35917.  @DarkKnightTrinity  Suggest a strategy. You see a path to that? You sure it means voting for Pelosi? Maybe the spectre of Pelosi is what is scaring Georgia voters into keeping the Senate Republican. What is clear is that it is not either/or -- is it?
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  35918. Oh, dark. I didn't think of it. I must be S L O W . . . .
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  35919.  @swanlake8827  I have misgivings about anyone pulling out being allowed to participate in individual events. But the venom spitting against this genius athlete in a dangerous sport is unconscionable.
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  35920.  @swanlake8827  "Never live it down?" Wow am I glad I'm leaving the States, and sorry my parents ever came. As was my mother. She saw through it.
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  35921.  @swanlake8827  The Lord? Now I get it. Figures.
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  35922.  @swanlake8827  Where did I say you directed it at her? The idea that anyone even YOUNGER than Biles would "never live it down" is even uglier. Most of these competitors are kids.
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  35923.  @swanlake8827  I'm not going to move to where the rest of my family lives now? Instead I'll stay here with you. :) News to me.
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  35924. Epigenetics: What Lyshenko noticed and completely misunderstood.
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  35925. They are in coalition with actual communists. Not at all neolib. They oppose Macron.
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  35926. Her mask protects others. I use two, for that reason.
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  35927. Bravo!
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  35928.  @nowaskmehow  This is relevant, how? Was this journalist questioned about his plans to assassinate anyone, based on some unknown person's TWEET that turned up on a thread he started?
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  35929. No you're not. Defamation is judged strictly statement-by-statement . . . or at least it used to be, until Depp and Heard turned it into a show to relitigate their divorce.
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  35930. Check out Vijay Prashad's interview today on Democracy Now. Yes, they dared.
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  35931. Just realized how Hillary's laugh is an attenuated Bill Gates.
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  35932. Suspended with pay?
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  35933. I'm reminded of the satanic panic, where thousands of people were accused. Reminds me never to work in a setting where I'm alone with children. Too much actual harm and too many false stories; too complicated.
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  35934. She's a kangeroo!
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  35935. She just did a pro-Bill Gates movie. Or unintentional mockumentary.
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  35936.  @Julie-ub1zi  No argument from me. You are absolutely RIGHT.
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  35937.  @basketcaseface813  LOL. whoosh
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  35938. That's what University of Virginia lawyers were once like.
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  35939. Fauci should be in prison. Fucci? Were you thinking of Gucci?
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  35940. What Bri said was devastating to our government: it knows, or at least has an excellent idea, and it won't tell us. What conclusion do you draw? The worst possible, as far as I'm concerned.
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  35941.  @RS-oq4wu  I can make predictions, too. I can tell you are a white American. Europeans don't think like you. 🤣
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  35942. Absolutely read the whole letter. It contains enough half-truths and outright falsehoods to make you question the judgment and credibility of the writer. Perhaps he is simply angry, because, after all, he feels that this (incredibly expensive) school is failing his daughter. He has every right to protest, like everyone else. That doesn't mean he's right. We don't know what is in Brearley's curriculum. We have not seen any of their classes, or examined the books and other materials they assign. Have we? But isn't that what intellectual openness and thinking for oneself means?
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  35943. "Safe and effective"
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  35944.  @amerie1987  Where did you see rage? Please quote verbatim. I don't get it. EDIT: Oh, I found it. Yes, ridiculously bad. I wonder why? A couple of posts were decent and nuanced.
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  35945. This formal ruling might turn out to be more important than a ruling that Israel has in fact committed genocide. The latter would have been denounced as partisan by the usual claque. The failure to call for a cease fire to prevent genocide is terrible. ANY war that can be stopped must be stopped.
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  35946. Both 1/6 and the George Floyd protests had lots and lots of undercover provocateurs. How do people not see that?
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  35947.  @jgalt308  Don't tell me -- let me guess. You think that the free market described by Adam Smith is capitalism. No, capitalism is what that "free market" invariably devolves into. Smith thought this devolution was a risk, and that it posed a danger to freedom, because in essence it meant a turning away from the productivity, creativity, and discipline of the free market and a return to feudalism (a good thought, actually). Marx saw capitalism as an inevitability: a fundamental change, and thus a new stage in which freedom would necessarily decline. FIRE is not an aid to free markets, but has become sheer rent-seeking. Both Smith and Marx would of course agree. The irony is that the freedom sought in establishing a free market carries the seeds of its own destruction.
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  35948.  @jgalt308  But I did respond, just not in the way you like. F.I.RE is not a free market, and does not operate according to free market principles. It is, however, capitalism; late stage monopoly capitalism, to be precise. I would like Adam Smith to have been right. Brilliant man. Plus it would have made things much easier. Just, like, work hard, think hard, then work hard some more -- you know? Actual merit and all that.
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  35949.  @jgalt308  I don't know where you got your "mind reading" slogan, but it's pretty good. I tend to try to look for the logical presuppositions of various positions. Without reading anyone's mind I can guess you do, too. I can't respond to your criticism of Wolff because I don't know precisely what you mean or what you're targeting. You haven't provided me with any time stamps or texts. I never said that "capitalism" existed either as a concept, or empirically, when Smith was writing. He didn't see that coming, and for good reasons, actually. The "elites," so-called, do function a lot like the old feudal lords, but often more irresponsibly. They certainly don't function like small entrepreneurs.
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  35950.  @jgalt308  I didn't know what statement or statements YOU were specifically referring to. Only you could tell me that. I don't see how what you've quoted is pertinent to your critique of Wolff, frankly. Anyway, bored. May come back in a few days, who knows?
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  35951. Exactly. The government is supposed to meet speech it does not like with MORE speech, not censorship. Why would the government go via a back door to tell social media this or that statement is a lie? They can announce it loud and clear, publicly. They can tell FB, Twitter/X, etc., that x, y, or z is false at the same time that they tell ALL of us that x, y, or z is false. No "hamstring," no problem.
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  35952. Exactly. The government is supposed to meet speech it does not like with MORE speech, not censorship. Why would the government go via a back door to tell social media this or that statement is a lie? They can announce it loud and clear, publicly. They can tell FB, Twitter/X, etc., that x, y, or z is false at the same time that they tell ALL of us that x, y, or z is false.
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  35953. An AP class is an elective for the motivated kids who want to earn college credits and save on tuition. Look at a college catalogue some time; after the broad survey courses, everything is a close reading of a specific topic and period. That's how history is done. Look at catalogues from 50 years ago if you think the ones from today are contaminated with PC/SJW.
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  35954.  @phantomzxro1  In any case, for an AP class, which is purely elective, the role of any level of government is to make sure it is a bona fide course, and that kids who complete it will indeed get college credit by taking a College Board-sponsored exam in the subject. (In other words, is this all legit?) If there are students who want to take it and teachers who want to teach it, it is not the government's business to prevent them.
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  35955. Don't insult Rachel like that.
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  35956. I thought that kids were learning nothing in school, except Gender Bender Studies, and they were better off home schooled and online. Y'mean teachers teach math and reading?! Even the union members? What is the narrative I have to believe so that the mob doesn't come for me? This is what we, and every child, needs to learn.
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  35957.  @rustyshackleford8370  Well, close the schools completely. I don't get it. Schools are clearly terrible for children. Teachers have had a tax deduction for supplies they provide to the students for decades now. Either they are all lying on their federal income tax, or they are buying school supplies for the poor kids.
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  35958.  @ameliam7898  Touchy, touchy. I can listen to Tucker Carlson, much less Briahna.
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  35959. Those who forced vaccines, insisted on no liability with full patent protection for the pharmaceutical companies, and deprived those who disagreed of their liberty, property, and good reputation, and even undermined young people's physical and mental health were not dangerous. A toxic torts lawyer is. Sure, Hon. Say, how do you think he won all those cases that require the testing of reams and reams of scientific information under cross examination in court?
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  35960. @Kami84  Not what he said. He said it was a COMPLEX question and that endocrine disruptors may have a role and that he wants that investigated. Now, on top of all other ignorance, I see that few even appreciate the existence of multiple cofactors in contributing to illnesses, or have even heard of multivariate analysis. Do you ever think that you might deserve what happens to you at this point? How much ignorance do you think this society can bear and still function? I suggest getting a grip. We've had two psychologically or cognitively abnormal presidents in a row.
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  35961. Performative Campaign fund raising
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  35962. In front of the UK Prime Minister? Oh no. They don't even care about maintaining the smallest amount of dignity.
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  35963. No one who does not have to go to jail will ever go to jail, if they are marginally sane. According to this video, UK agreed she had immunity, and afterwards the law was changed. That's a good outcome at least.
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  35964.  @simonw1313  Then you do not know what PRISON is, despite the US being the world's largest carceral state.
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  35965.  @simonw1313  Why am I not surprised?
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  35966.  @simonw1313  How many people have you saved from prison, at serious financial harm to yourself?
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  35967.  @simonw1313  Are you serious? Persuade YOU? I have no interesting in speaking further with a moralizing hypocrite. My aren't we full of ourselves. Blocked.
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  35968.  @simonw1313  It was two questions, neither one rhetorical, BTW.
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  35969.  @simonw1313  OH WELL THEN. Your insipid moral posturing was pure non sequitur. Here I thought we were actually talking about going to actual prison! Well, if there was no risk of that, then of course the balance tips in favor of waiving immunity.
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  35970.  @simonw1313  I'm against going to prison when it can be legally prevented. See, this is what you somehow continue to miss. Accountability and prison are not the same thing. Well, to some small minds they may be, but . . . A gent like you knows better I am sure. We are supposed to trust whom, exactly? The world's largest carceral state, or the one that continues to hold Julian Assange? Gimme a hint.
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  35971.  @simonw1313  But I'm still puzzled. Why did you mention that she was at no risk of being imprisoned in the US? That was relevant? How?
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  35972.  @simonw1313  I'm leaving the Anglophone world, deadline 2025. I know why.
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  35973.  @simonw1313  But the jailer would be the same as Assange's, would it not? A system one can believe in.
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  35974.  @simonw1313  Is "leaving" the same as "fleeing?" Or is the latter a rather overly emotional take?
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  35975.  @simonw1313  Accountability and prison are not the same thing.
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  35976. C'est quoi, un nouveau racisme chichi?
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  35977. Well he is less deranged than Gates or Bezos, so there's that.
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  35978. Now I know I'm in the Anglosphere. I hope I live to see the end of this hegemony.
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  35979. Chez Robert is over by Robert's. But more. Dépaysement feels like the opposite of déjà vu.
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  35980. ​ @JanelleDianeH Really? It happened to my family as well. Three instances of Enron-level malfeasance, in three distinct industries. But as we all know, that can't happen to you. 😃
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  35981.  @JanelleDianeH  So, if BP destroys the Gulf, it's the fault of a retired Amoco employee? I took care of my father and changed adult diapers single-handedly. We ended up overpaying in taxes because I declined an inheritance at the wrong moment. (We got legal advice, too -- from two people, not one, and it was also a moral issue for me.) James Baldwin was right.
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  35982. @JanelleDianeH  Martyr? I'm very proud myself. Please stop making me more proud. I'm fine like this.
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  35983. @JanelleDianeH  You know, the French word for martyr doesn't have a negative connotation. Funny how that is.
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  35984. @JanelleDianeH  So, tell us about your issues with food. 😂😂😂
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  35985. You mean "liberating" oneself from the effort needed to understand how contemporary societies function, and the responsibility for making that effort? If the dollar loses its global reserve currency status, you will find out real quick how important it was to make the effort, and how it was your responsibility as a rational adult human person to do so. You might, however, be too upset to do it then. Maybe start now?
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  35986.  @steveb9713  I just read Peterson's article, and it is misleading. The paper that was removed was an opinion piece of a prominent research chemist on the sociology of his field. The paper was not within the field of chemistry itself, where we would have to bow to superior knowledge and empirical evidence. I basically don't agree with removing papers because they are controversial -- let them stay there, so that we know what people really think. But I don't see why the opinions of a chemist on how it's dangerous to extend more opportunities to women and minorities to work in science because it harms the field and weakens "meritocracy," according to him, is any more worthy of being published than anyone else's opinion. His expertise is in chemistry, not cognitive science or social psychology -- or ethics, obviously. Peterson is convoluted, and makes it sound like the scientist's research in chemistry was attacked, when it wasn't. He used his prestige as a prominent scientist to push his personal opinions in a totally different field. That's like when actors tell us what foreign policy should be, or whether to vaccinate our children. It is not an attack on STEM to say more people need to have an equal opportunity to study STEM subjects.
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  35987.  @filminginportland1654  "We must be willing to be lined up against the wall" . . . "unravel the very foundation of western [sic] civilization" . . . "no compromise" . . . What in the world are you talking about? If I better be willing to line up against some wall, you will need to be more specific. The old slaveowners said that ending slavery was an assault on civilization, too, when the opposite was true.
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  35988. She was slated to cohost for one week, from the start.
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  35989.  @webman1956  Right. Aaron Mate is stupid. Anyone can see that.
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  35990.  @webman1956  Trumpers are anti-war? Show me ONE. Some of them want a war here, as we saw on January 6th.
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  35991. No socialist state, not even a social democracy, can keep up with the pace of the arms race set by the US. That's really what capitalism is best at. They took the bait by trying. That alone may have tipped the balance. An untestable hypothesis, obviously.
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  35992.  @danros6530  I answered a real question anyway.
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  35993. @felixjohnson3874  In America, jail is the first reflex, the "answer" to every problem. It's no accident we incarcerate more people than does China.
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  35994. You think it can control French people?
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  35995. It looks to me like neither side wants to win. They know something we don't. That is what scares me.
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  35996.  @DowJonesDave  America has no "far left" in any major party. It's a right-wing country. Identity politics is divide and conquer, and useful for posturing. Ordinary people of color are demeaned as much as working class whites are by the so-called left Democrats. Harris proudly proposed jail for the parents of truants, said it shows how important she believes education is.
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  35997. Aaron really is the finest human being in journalism.
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  35998. There is no such "law."
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  35999. If there were, the current and future president, whichever one he may turn out to be, would be impossible. That's just one example. Jeffrey Epstein's wealth and Mozart's poverty -- two more. Chekhov and Kafka dead in their prime due to tuberculosis. Pediatric cancer. Death in a mass shooting. 9/11. Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Holocaust. Anne Frank. Operation Barbarosa. I'll stop. Now pick up a book. If history isn't your thing, try poetry.
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  36000.  @andrethorpe6183 Dirty business. :/
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  36001.  @andrethorpe6183  Whoa. So it must be directed at screenname + key word? Is that it?
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  36002.  @andrethorpe6183  Not to mention all the thoroughly vicious and unhinged comments that stay up! Well, they do serve to drive division, and to make us believe everyone is highly irrational. But just try countering them with straight facts and sound arguments. . . .
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  36003. Great reminder. Exactly how the (self-proclaimed) elites think.
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  36004.  @haithai7022  Let me ask you this. Suppose an actual abuse victim comes to a psychologist, and the actual perpetrator refuses. Can the psychologist make an assessment concerning whether the patient is likely to be telling the truth or fabricating, being evasive, exaggerating? They have to, all the time, and have methods to help them do that. They can never be sure they're right, but they can form an opinion. Now suppose Heard had refused to go to Depp's expert. Would that mean Depp's expert can form no opinion of the relationship, based on studying him and the medical and psychological records of the both of them? Could Heard deciding not to cooperate have ruined the witness for him? Then an abuser can always prevent a psychologist from testifying. Simple.
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  36005.  @birgip.m.1236  In abuse cases they make assessments of the relationship all the time. In PTSD, whoever may have played a role in causing it won't be available to interview, and certainly has a right to decline. Does that mean you can't diagnose it? If Heard had decided not to cooperate with Depp's expert, could she have blocked her from giving any opinion of their relationship? Why? Then the actual abuser, whoever that may be, can always block an expert on abuse, neat trick.
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  36006.  @haithai7022  Actually, no medical professional can diagnose anyone without meeting them in some way, at least through teleconference (and teleconference is a poor way). They can make an assessment of a relationship, as long as they realize they could be wrong. They have to do it all the time. A real abuser in a real abuse case will often refuse to come in, as is their right. The therapist can later testify as to the limited basis of the assessment, and the jury can then chose to ignore the assessment.
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  36007.  @haithai7022  Every lawyer calls the other side's experts a professional witness.
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  36008.  @haithai7022  Reread what I wrote. Follow the logic. It's there. Don't get caught up.
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  36009.  @haithai7022  Here's a fascinating question: why didn't Depp see Dr. Hughes? Why was no reason given? Hint: the Fifth Amendment is an analogy.
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  36010.  @haithai7022  Right. And do you get the Fifth Amendment analogy?
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  36011.  @haithai7022  One more hint: Heard went to Depp's expert.
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  36012.  @haithai7022  Exactly. JD's team was counting on producing this outrage, because the other side cannot mention that Heard agreed to be evaluated as counting in her favor. Like the right to remain silent, there is a right to refuse to talk to your opponent's expert, and no one has the right to judge you for it. I support that right.
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  36013.  @haithai7022  Focus. Dr. Curry never treated Heard. She assessed Heard for purposes of this lawsuit only. So . . . Why didn't Depp see Dr. Hughes, too? You don't see it? That's what happens in crowd psychology.
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  36014.  @haithai7022  SHE IS NOT ALLOWED TO MENTION IT. And good that she can't. JUST LIKE the Fifth Amendment. If you really don't get it, either you are extremely naive, or caught up in crowd psychology. Or both. Someone who can still think normally can understand perfectly well what I just said. Very simple.
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  36015.  @haithai7022  Don't do this to yourself. Don't let crowds convince you to stop using your mind. And over what? A couple of self-involved, hypermillionaire druggies? A sixth pirate movie? A misguided belief this helps other men?
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  36016.  @haithai7022  yeah, her lawyers forgot to ask Depp to see their expert, too . . . 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  36017. Putting people in debt for the education they need to function in this society is "empowering" them. Imagine having tuition so low that a summer job covers it? That creates snowflakes.
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  36018.  @malapertfourohfour2112  This is what I think people suspect -- that he mentioned the word on purpose because he wanted to say it, and not for any educationally valid purpose. But what if he did mention (not use) the word for a valid purpose? (There is no reason to use the word, but there could sometimes be a reason to mention it.) This happened several years ago. When, exactly? Also, in an employment discrimination suit, if someone used the word at work, it has to be quoted verbatim in court. Same thing in a criminal trial for child pornography. The jury must see the actual pictures. I'm not saying that's easy. It is not easy, and that's the point. We have to build a thicker skin for exactly that reason, the better to punish real transgressions.
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  36019. Lucky you
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  36020. Scrutiny of their work is in order as well.
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  36021. The COVID Team somehow let a COVID-positive staff member get close to the President.
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  36022. Batya looks like a delight to work with. Must be a cheery office over by her.
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  36023. ​@user-fl1pc7zu7f That other places are riskier is not a reason not to reduce risk overall. "Most abuse happens in the home" -- because homes are riskier than boarding schools, or because abuse happens more often where children sleep, and for the vast majority, that is home?
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  36024.  @yohei72  Access, in all cases.
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  36025. Same for me.
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  36026. This can't be the explanation. Whole language learning was generally abandoned before the current 18 to 22 year olds were born. And the Harry Potter series was in general use from its beginning in 1991 until well into the 2000s, although the last book came out around 1998. When did kids stop reading that?
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  36027. Batya perfect here.
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  36028. And they are STILL subjecting these comments to sense or ship. WHY?
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  36029.  @matthewbalsinger3238  They seem not to understand that a person cannot contribute to the circumstances that led to their need to defend themselves, then claim perfect self-defense. Self-defense does not work that way. This is a close case. The one survivor has the most valuable testimony.
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  36030. They are???
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  36031.  @omarscarborough4274  The POINT Brie made was that the outrage materialized suddenly, at a suspicious time in his career, when the facts were known much before that. The same seems to be the case with Brand.
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  36032. Blacks resist? Because they don't know about Eric Gardner and George Floyd? Did you even listen? She was not simply citing incidents where the police were called about a black person, but the ones where black people summonded the police for assistance. In one case in my city, where a family had a young member in apparent psychosis and called the police for help, two people ended up shot dead by a rookie, including the neighbor who opened the door for them.
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  36033. Wait, you're asking why there are so many lost people? Have YOU stood up against DRUGS?
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  36034. Time stamp?
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  36035. I did not hear anyone say Trump was guilty.
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  36036. So then why did he participate in it?
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  36037.  @DEEPSTATE000  Masks defeat facial-recognition technology and street cameras. I kinda like them.
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  36038. EXACTLY
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  36039.  @markzuckergecko621  Vegan but with occasional wild-caught fish (with scales and fins) is a real diet. This is the traditional Lent for many Eastern rites/Orthodox Christians. True, it's not pure veganism, but it is very traditional. A lot of people need fish every 4 to 8 weeks, their doctors told them to eat it. It' not a crime.
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  36040.  @markzuckergecko621  sorry she was a jerk to you, most people hate that, they don't think it's funny
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  36041.  @Fr33Kingdom  Exactly. They do research to determine how better to addict people.
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  36042. It just so happened that vaccine policy made them richer. That has nothing to do with it. Superior people deserve to benefit from The Science. They earned it.
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  36043.  @LeeLee-BB  Listen to Chinese and Indian sources, or TeleSUR. They believe the West is in large part responsible for provoking the war. Listen to Kim Iversen's report on the Jacques Baud article that was recently translated. Look at the abstentions in the latest UN vote to remove Russia from the major UN human rights committee. See who abstained and where that was concentrated. Far more abstentions than in the vote condemning the invasion. See what conclusions you draw.
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  36044. If you cannot bring back the works of Shakespeare to Shakespeare as a young person, then you cannot bring yourself back to any time in the past for the same reason -- because you yourself are a concentration of information that can only exist, as such, in the present. The medium in which the information is embodied and how it arose there (the molecules of paper and ink, or those of DNA) are irrelevant. We cannot travel back to before we saw this video. :)
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  36045. No, Liz. We are turned off by YOU.
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  36046. I didn't know AOC identifies as a woman. Is she a biologist?
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  36047. The Market will never punish a pseudo-intellectual, nonsense-laden discourse like this one. Nor is it punishing identity politics, now is it, Dr. Peterson? Well then.
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  36048.  @alphasylpheed3861  Blocked.
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  36049. ​ @stephenkennedy1609  If you live in a capitalist country, you must understand why: the prices. The CIA Factbook calls it Purchasing Power Parity.
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  36050. ​ @nbrown8464 You should see Montenegrin condos. Four balconies, high ceilings, parquet everywhere. I'm describing a working class neighborhood in a tourist area. Food similar to Italian, with more eggplant, ginger, and arugula.
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  36051. ​ @Darr-vp4um The bikes not tied down, and no litter. SO sad.
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  36052. @jasperpike242  The MIT survey, which measures the proportion of tree cover, disagrees. This was reported in The Guardian in November 2019.
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  36053. 😅😅😅
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  36054. ​ @griffinarcher2911 And who will make sure corrupt local politicians like in New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Louisiana, Florida, etc., use the funds as directed? You have heard of charter schools collapsing due to misappropriation of funds, haven't you??
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  36055. ​ @Timewave-Zer0 What "propaganda?" I've represented kids with cancer in these cases for free. I do know what I'm talking about.
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  36056. ​ @Timewave-Zer0  Re: propaganda . . . Look who's talking.
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  36057. @scottmcloughlin4371  If you can give me keywords for finding a study that compares private school and public school academic achievement by decile of parents' income, I will download it and read it right now. We know based on results in other countries that public education open to all can be outstanding, but often is not. The reasons why are rarely simple, and intangibles like respect for the teaching profession play a role.
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  36058. @sidauthur7836  💯 I hope yt allows him to see my reply, too.
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  36059. @craigclermond8001  To the extent that this has any element of truth, it's due to the Biden administration, and will be over soon. Any federal agency can be diverted from its true mission. See, for example, DOD, DOJ, FDA, and CDC.
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  36060.  @craigclermond8001  I responded, but YouTube had better ideas. I thought that after the election, they'd censor us less.
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  36061. That is theft of intellectual property by Amazon.
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  36062.  @XtomJamesExtra  I agree. I wasn't suggesting they are ever held responsible for it.
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  36063. Why does he need so much now? Really puzzling. He can go get some more where he got it in the first place, then. Well. At least he's not Bill Gates hitting up Epstein for dinner and philanthropy. /s
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  36064. Fascinating: my ancestors interrupted the Ottoman Empire slave trade, and one came over from Europe to fight for the Republic in the Civil War, then went home. We never had the opportunities we earned, due to Enron- level corporate crimes. Yet I'm opening to listening.
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  36065.  @johnwally928  Haven't agreed yet, lol, but thank you. This was an interesting take, and I am open to dialogue. Why not? I don't understand the reaction. What do people think will happen, worse than what already has happened, as a result of THIS discussion? The century has been a series of disasters.
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  36066. Well, but Jimmy -- she's a WOMAN. (See Katy Halper on "wokewashing.")
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  36067. ​ @VioletteToussaint  C'est le niveau ici.
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  36068. This shows acumen. That's consistent with what actually happened.
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  36069.  @BrokenAbyss  Not at all. Feel free. A real edit that changes meaning is labeled "EDIT."
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  36070. THANK YOU
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  36071. Thank you for that.
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  36072.  @markzuckergecko621  An' here I thought falsies was sumptin' else. Live an' learn.
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  36073. Let me see if I understand. This dude has to get praise and money for every opinion no matter how stupid. Or will he come after me and make me delete and recant? LOL tough guy . . .
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  36074. Kamala, Kamala. Lying again.
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  36075. I am shocked, I tell you! Shocked, SHOCKED.
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  36076.  @ucesfossil6188  what? WHAT??!
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  36077. Joe Rogan did make a comment about the wildfires that could have gotten someone killed. He retracted it and apologized. I wouldn't put prior restraints on his show for that. Freedom of speech means freedom to make a mistake and then correct it. But you're all acting like these are simple questions when they are not.
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  36078. 😂😂😂 excellent
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  36079. You can't wave away the résumé study. U of Chicago conducted one of those. They were replicated many times. One study even showed that having a Russian sounding name leads to discrimination.
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  36080. Try putting his full name in a search engine, and see some of the tax cases he lost come right up.
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  36081. This was good. 😅😅😅😅😅
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  36082. ​ @jeffdo9195 How do you know?
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  36083. ​@MrCldean1828 The reason this is nonsense is that Harvard has SO much money, it can fully fund the education of thousands of needy students every decade. It won't.
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  36084. @JayM928  He did compare it to the strict merit pool -- those who are not children of alumni, faculty, donors, or "special development" (which would be an actress, for example, or a musician --- which is a form of merit, and thus may not be comparable to legacies, etc.).
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  36085. Why don't I believe this? I don't know. But I don't.
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  36086. One of the articles (Medical News Today) linked the wrong article to support their claim that there is less cognitive decline in people with good Vitamin A levels, and the error was repeated in the description box. I was wondering how Dr. Campbell made the mistake because he never does.
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  36087. NYTimes just reported yesterday that fully vaccinated people who develop mild COVID (cold symptoms, basically) will no longer be tracked or counted by the CDC. There is ample evidence those people are contagious, just like vaccinated people with a very mild flu can infect unvaccinated people, who might get very sick.
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  36088. "Diversity" is for undercover surveillance, not bodyguards!!
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  36089. ​ @joycelynnelobert8779 Perfect
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  36090. @anon69_q  Oh brother. Give it up. That is not accurate, and if you can't tell that I know what I'm talking about, well, . . . Never mind.
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  36091. Wait. Is food free?
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  36092.  @bass7100  Liar
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  36093.  @bass7100  The shooter is a black guy. He works for the DC government. They did not specify further except to say he is not in law enforcement and is currently on leave.
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  36094. Is recognizing Hind Rajab "toxic compassion?"
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  36095. Me, too. So . . . Kennedy was under oath when he testified concerning this clip. Was this CNN Talking Head under oath? LOL
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  36096.  @kingofthekludge  That's not consistent with the documents TC just produced. You must agree there are well-founded questions that can no longer be swept away. You must agree the Department of Defense, not NIH, funds these biolabs. You must agree that Nuland and Rubio just expressed grave concern about the contents of the labs falling into the wrong hands. ALL established.
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  36097.  @kingofthekludge  You're citing bureaucratic esoterica, as if a "certification" holds sway over material reality.
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  36098.  @kingofthekludge  I'm not saying that. I'm saying that the question is well-founded, amply so, and that it is urgent. A week ago, it would have been labeled Russian disinformation. It would have been a "when did you stop beating your wife" type of question. Face it.
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  36099.  @kingofthekludge  Go back and look. Why do I need to spell it out a second time? That's a question for you to ask yourself.
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  36100.  @kingofthekludge  I'm not believing, I'm asking. What I do believe, as a general matter, is that the truth, about anything, doesn't count any more. The post-modernists have won. I don't know why we wouldn't teach them, then. Go Foucault! rah rah
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  36101. It's not illegal to be weird.
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  36102. 1. Sworn testimony is evidence. 2. The jury, not the judge, is the fact-finder and both plaintiff and defendant participated in jury selection.
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  36103.  @waynemangan9925 Like I said. That's not even true. You literally dismiss the corroboration. Depp said enough on the stand himself for a legitimate defamation case to be thrown out. You've never seen one before, I'm guessing? I bet you never read the allegedly defamatory article. I mean, people aren't readers any more. 😂
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  36104.  @waynemangan9925  Kim saw through it.
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  36105. Perfect. Literally. 💯 +
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  36106. This! LOL
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  36107. First, millions of dollars and the business were inherited. Then, every time one major bank would refuse to deal with him, he'd find another to take its place. Look into the history of Deutsche Bank, for example.
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  36108.  @tedmaloof234  LOL, love it.
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  36109. This was a weak case.
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  36110. Nice point!
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  36111.  @PSASitch  That wasn't the point Damore made. He stated women were not equally represented in engineering because of genetic differences between women and men. He was misled by Google, which led him to believe they wanted to hear how he really felt, and that he was welcome to pin it to a workplace bulletin board. LOL. Oh brother. Not a hill to die on, bro.
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  36112. Right, sure. Leftist men get pregnant and give birth.
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  36113. To think that that was less crazy. It left you in one piece and able to form new ideas.
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  36114.  @anitacs  So impound their car and ticket them, and make them pay for the tow as well. If they lose their car in the end, it's harsh, but so be it. They stay alive, and so do innocent motorists. It's all good. Force is not necessary.
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  36115. The principle itself even applies to the unprincipled.
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  36116. Yeah, brilliant, isn't it?
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  36117. These are all liars and phonies.
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  36118. This is your focus? You are FINE with how they announced the assassination? Emily begins the segment by laughing. The pop psychology report coming on later is mentioned before Abe.
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  36119.  @CplTom88  Well then you must be right. That's the only test. /s What would you think if an American ex-president's assassination were to be reported this way in Japan? Or anywhere? I would not like it too well.
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  36120. What do you know about PCF?
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  36121. The first speaker seemed unqualified. She confirmed that impression in spectacular fashion.
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  36122. The total impoverishment of the culture is what I see, with Biden and his last-minute pardons high on the list as well.
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  36123. @gregwhatley6778  Well my post already _________. It wasn't favorable to Biden, either.
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  36124. No way to analyze them without finding out what the lawyer told them to do, and the lawyer cannot divulge the details.
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  36125. But you're right, Economic is plain wrong.
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  36126.  @big.sweetheart.energy  NICE!!
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  36127. They know how to rake in the billions. Is there something else they need to learn? I think that's everything.
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  36128. 20 years old?? That's like 15 from Jimmy's generation.
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  36129. Robbie Soave just said the same thing on The Hill -- he doesn't want to criminalize this. No one had a problem with it.
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  36130. ​ @rafthejaf8789  There is this book called a dictionary that you might want to check.
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  36131. Dominion v. Fox News is a 400+ page complaint. Now I know it's worth my time to read most of it.
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  36132. The most common major by far is Business, and has been for 30 years. Most such degrees are a demonstration of docility. An English degree is more rigorous. In 2001-2002, and 2008-2009, computer science grads were not getting offers. If a corporation will not interview you unless you have a degree, a corporation will not interview you unless you have a degree. (I don't believe anyone thinks that is fair. That changes nothing.) I don't think people understand the current labor market. BTW, daughter of Vietnamese immigrant Mom Kim Iversen has a degree in Philosophy. She always talks about the value of college, and all the women she knew who did pedicures 55 hours per week to make sure their kids went to college. Once upon a time not that long ago, a student could pay in-state tuition and fees for a full year at the great state universities (Michigan, Wisconsin, Berkeley, Virginia, Texas, . . . ) with a full-time summer job making the minimum wage. People who did that were a different people. And they often majored in liberal arts, and made a life for themselves. They had independence.
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  36133. "Is he advocating for the homeless?" You KNOW Jimmy's live shows will be a SCREAM.
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  36134. 5:50 Did they forget OBAMA placed a moratorium on funding GoF research? They are trying to create a massive dystopia of zero memory. (Then what? They wring their hands about "education?" And galloping cognitive impairment?) These people are getting paid for this . . . think of it . . .
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  36135. So, let me see if I understand. Trump is bad only because Putin? I think Trump is very bad, without making stuff up. No need.
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  36136. ARKHIPOV!!! I already loved Glenn forever.
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  36137. Religion, politics, huge wealth -- all about coercing sex, among many other things. Strategies of control.
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  36138. I feel that. :/
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  36139. He misled you. The contract claims against Harvard were not dismissed. Whenever anyone talks about a legal decision, look up the decision. :/
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  36140. 2:27 Katie Halper calls it woke washing.
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  36141. She gets paid anyway.
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  36142. You are correct. She didn't bother to read the complaint. If the other two had, they could have told her. I wonder what their salaries are. Is it defamation to call it unearned? 😂
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  36143.  @thesandqueen2559  Oh my goodness. :) :/
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  36144. Why do you believe this report? The demonstrations in Western countries are not predominately anti-semitic. They are in favor of a cease-fire and an end to the seige of Gaza. Having said that, I would never go to one, because I know anti-Semites are present, and are using legitimate concern for Palestinian children, and for preserving the Geneva Conventions, as a cover. I would never want to be present under those circumstances. I can understand making a different choice in this instance.
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  36145. Rahm is RICH. That's all you need to know.
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  36146. Show me who. One example of someone actually expelled or fired in the United States.
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  36147. ​ @AB-ol5uz Show me the example.
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  36148. NOTHING makes protesters more angry than police infiltrator provocateurs. Remember Afeni Shakur, who represented herself and her companions, exposed the undercover incitement, and won her case!
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  36149. See the National Geographic article on that subject.
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  36150. 2:17 Or just be trans? Then you don't have kids and you don't have to worry about paying for them. Choices.
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  36151. I don't know why this case is being misrepresented. The court documents show a much more complex scenario. It could serve as a lesson. I'm surprised people don't see through it.
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  36152. Maybe that lady from the NED really doesn't know. Read about the cultural cold war. Writers didn't know they were writing for CIA cutouts.
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  36153.  @underside483  Never a bad policy!!
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  36154. "No regulation," Robbie? So get your own private security force on call 24/7, and defend your own shipping lanes. If someone breaks a contract with you, tough. Court? No, that's government.
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  36155. This is true, but this allegiance was imputed to them automatically -- which is to say that they were not treated as individuals, which is to say they were discriminated against, as everyone else assumed they were either openly or secretly loyal to Rome, and that anything any one Catholic might say to the contrary was pure ruse. That's the problem. IF someone actually is loyal to Rome, and wants to impose the Pope's encyclicals on the rest of us not by persuasion but by using state power (!!!), believe me, I'll be the first not to like it.
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  36156. I heard of him after his side-kick had a transition.
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  36157. Oh. Trump opposes GoFundMe. Well then I have to support it or I'm racist and will lose my retail gig?
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  36158. 10:32 could we do better? Maybe, but I wonder.
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  36159. 6:54 TRUTH
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  36160. ​@OMorales-pe4xq This was a choice? Really? Funny, I can't see one. I have to wonder if we've had one since 1960.
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  36161. 8:18 THIS Lying about Trump was by far the biggest gift to Trump -- as if there were a need to make anything up about Trump.
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  36162. Beating the Republicans is SO important that we will do nothing about it now whatsoever. 7:37 thank you, Bri
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  36163. "It's got to be Kamala?" No, it's going to be Joe.
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  36164. I hope so. Do we know that?
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  36165. @Ed OH SURE. Smear me. Smear away. Blech. Thanks for letting us know how seriously to take your calomny.
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  36166. @Nathan Anderson YUP
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  36167. @Ed You joined in mid-December to spread this nonsense? And you think someone else has "issues?" Snort-laugh, thanks, cleared my sinuses.
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  36168.  @cherryapplebottom5006  Look it up, lol.
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  36169.  @cherryapplebottom5006  Interesting. I can't find it. Looks like another case of shadowing.
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  36170.  @danielmikulsky3036  Trump is a gentleman? Then I'm the Queen of England.
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  36171. @cherryapplebottom5006  Trump picked him, he could have picked someone else, he could have sought other opinions. Ordinary clients make decisions in low stakes litigation, much less the President when he learns of wrongdoing that might be illegal. Counsel gives counsel, not orders. One more person who can't handle the truth. What's in it for you? His DOJ indicted Assange, and he himself ended the moratorium on gain-of-function research funding. Oh well oh well. All of these monsters contributed to our destruction, and to curtailing basic rights.
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  36172. Four legs good, two legs better. Let's all rally around our common ground --- legs.
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  36173. I agree with you, however. If it is legal, it should not be censored.
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  36174.  @rh81454  But this is giving them CREDIT -- if they care about anything more than about money, that deserves some respect. You never see that happen. Krystal gave a balanced view here. Saagar, not so much.
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  36175.  @rh81454  Maybe some people are careful not to overspend and have decent emergency savings just so they can live by their principles. Maybe it's about self-discipline. Gee I remember when conservatives had that. I was a kid back then.
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  36176.  TheStormfall  The employees were there before Joe Rogan. They can voice whatever concerns they want. Management can say "no." The thing about platforms is not so much that they are "free to leave," but that they are free to start their own and say what they think -- unless management forced a noncompetition agreement and a nondisclosure agreement on them. You don't know what contracts any of these people have signed.
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  36177.  @rh81454  What do you mean "what?" Your question is a pseudo-question. It makes no sense.
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  36178.  @rh81454  Oh really? So, the employees can't start their own podcast, on their own time and their own channel, independently of their job, and say whatever it is they want to say? They should be fired -- to protect free speech??
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  36179.  @rh81454  Should Netflix employees who object to Cuties -- or The Exorcist, or Taxi Driver -- be fired?
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  36180.  @rh81454  Joe Rogan did say something that could have gotten someone killed -- concerning the wildfires. He made an offhand remark, accusing certain people of domestic terrorism and ecocide. Of course he corrected himself and apologized. I don't see a reason to censor him for that. But I wonder if you care only based on whose ox is being gored.
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  36181.  @rh81454  No, it's not. I disagree with prior restraints on speech, like these people proposed. But once the podcast is released, can these employees criticize it? Not censor, but criticize? How about their freedom of speech?
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  36182.  @rh81454  Should Netflix employees have to quit? Why not? Maybe Cuties is more profitable than you'd like to believe.
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  36183.  @rh81454  But that's exactly what I said. Do these employees have a right to start their own podcast, on their own time? Or is that against some noncompetition agreement they had to sign to work there? If they can start their own podcast, and fact check ANYBODY they want, on their OWN time, then they should do that. Not complain, but do. Not censor someone else's show, but put out their own show.
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  36184.  @rh81454  I agree. But that wasn't the question. Can they criticize a Joe Rogan episode?
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  36185.  @rh81454  Okay, then money is more important than freedom. Because on their own time, they should have the freedom to start their own podcasts and criticize anyone they want on matters of public concern, including Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan is not a sacred cow. If he's really so good, criticism won't hurt him but improve him. Then to have freedom, you first have to make serious money for someone. Otherwise, you have no freedom. This is different from MSM, or DNC logic, etc., how? Remind me again.
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  36186.  @rh81454  You keep deflecting when you know exactly what I'm saying -- and I bet you don't really disagree. It makes more sense to start your own podcast than to try to bend the people at your job to your will. It's more independent. It's entrepreneurial. It's in keeping with the spirit of the First Amendment.
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  36187. He could very legitimately get a full scholarship to SAIC or RISD, yes.
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  36188. The real problem is that they get that money.
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  36189. Nope.
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  36190.  @thalinpans9302  You can translate the conjecture into binary code, no problem.
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  36191. Odd positive integers have 1 as their final digit, evens have 0. You can do the rest.
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  36192.  @thalinpans9302  Start with 7. In binary code, 111 (seven). Multiply by 11 (three) and add 1 (one). You get 10110 (twenty-two). Divide by 10 (two). You get 1011 (eleven), etc. Same thing.
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  36193. Yes it did.
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  36194.  @zach3955  Agreed.
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  36195. There is no death penalty for juveniles.
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  36196. When Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen was diagnosed with a highly treatable form of cancer, Bill Gates immediately tried to push him out of Microsoft. That's who I want to control my food and health care. What could go wrong?
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  36197. ​ @aryandefenseleague8243  When I hear "rat," I think of the rat line. But I grant you, three generations of my family spent part of their lives in Argentina, so I took the post-WWII smuggling of NAZIS into that country more seriously, and to some extent personally. You may be right about what the word signals to most people.
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  36198. Now watch Stephanie Harlowe on Jeffrey Epstein.
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  36199. Facing the draft to be sent to Vietnam was not "spoiled."
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  36200. You're making Jimmy's argument for him. He doesn't need your help, it's obviously a really lame false flag.
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  36201. We need far more criminalization, and house arrest and ankle monitoring. It's about time.
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  36202. Hire the unemployed as vaccine police. Hold people in contempt of court, then have the vaccine police pick them up and throw them in jail.
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  36203. I'm embarrassed to laugh but I can't help it. Discharge of tension by laughing is often good for you. I like that excuse.
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  36204. You know this is a stunt, correct? A conservatorship has nothing to do with funds owned by the US Treasury. It pertains to the individual's own assets.
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  36205. No, actually. The truth is, the risks he talks about are risks. His style of messenging, his emphasis, and so forth, are not appreciated by the mainstream. That is because a real discussion is not allowed. Politics is everything.
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  36206.  @GarosGaming  No, he was a researcher at Salk and was a key part of the team that developed mRNA technology for immunotherapy vaccines. He played no part in developing this vaccine.
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  36207. Well don't sound cheerful, my G-d.
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  36208. He made a good point which Kim picked up. And clarified, true, but still.
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  36209. Source?
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  36210.  @8114梦见  Understood. Thanks for trying.
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  36211.  @8114梦见  They won't even let me thank you. 😂😂😂
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  36212.  @8114梦见  My thanks are in the shade portion.
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  36213. Thank you ​ @8114梦见 
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  36214. ​ @8114梦见 Let's see if a simple ty is permitted.
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  36215. So did he just show up without proper papers? Is this a distinction with a difference?
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  36216.  @lukebilby4409  I know. But yeah, he should have known before he got there. No surprises. In the US, it is not recommended to take the vaccine within three months of a COVID infection. So he could not in any event.
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  36217.  @lukebilby4409  No. It is evidence that it may be risky, or riskier. Not that this or that particular person must not or should not take the vaccine. I was wrong to say could not.
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  36218. You're too Dunning Kruger to know.
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  36219. Oh, good you spotted that.
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  36220.  @LD86  So what? She died.
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  36221. I miss Stephen F. Cohen. 😢
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  36222.  @YoungSandyGray  And not watching very carefully. This was widely reported. Scandal that another country had to assert it was real.
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  36223.  @YoungSandyGray  We were told, "well, sometimes young men get myocarditis anyway." Pfft.
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  36224. Kasparian has that cynical look etched into her face, like a permanent makeup tattoo.
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  36225. But it so happens that they were also getting legitimate bad reviews. Looks like they told you who they actually are. Wow, it's really true -- women are being cancelled. Breeders, pregnant people, anything but Mom.
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  36226. You and your mentality are the problem.
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  36227. ​ @Cole99v  He wasn't saying that at all. He was saying no single person can earn what amounts to the net worth of millions of people. No one is that capable or that grand. No one has a 24,000,000 hour day. This is on the level of the pharoahs. And it's ridiculous. No normal person would seek this.
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  36228. @donsolos  Indentured servitude seems to be coming back. Well, Indentured Servitude 2.0.
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  36229. Really? I'm afraid someone won't hire me. I would hire me in a heartbeat.
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  36230. ​ @human7491 😂😂😂😂😂 The opposite is more likely.
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  36231. What someone thinks of you can get you keeled. You know I have to misspell that. 😊
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  36232. But not Dr. Racaniello, who stated ivermectin appears to have some merit and needs further study.
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  36233. If I report that such unfounded questions are being asked of a news and comments anchor, in apparent retaliation for defending journalistic free speech, am I liable for defamation?
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  36234. After the Beslan school massacre, ABC News interviewed the terrorist mastermind who claimed responsibility. Russia protested, the US government said we have a First Amendment. Now tell me why RT is suppressed? We can hear from Nazis and from terrorists, apparently. I wish we did have a First Amendment. Let's go back to that.
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  36235.  @ralphpal  Shows what you know. And what was more likely pre-2008. The middle class has finally been gutted over the last two years, in favor of a sliver of the upper-middle class, which does consist of millionaires now. A million is not a lot in Chicago, never mind New York.
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  36236.  @xkaiokenx10  Exactly
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  36237. This is what Jimmy actually said: 6:08
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  36238.  @snaggalfrash9013  Some will, yes. More than for Kamala? Hm. Possibly quite a few more.
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  36239.  @lazylady8591  I know. It, somehow, didn't hurt her.
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  36240.  @will7its  Kevin just told you. But yeah, Biden's was off the charts. He plagiarized other people's autobiographies.
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  36241. I thnk you're right. (I'm not much younger, this tells me. Maybe not at all.)
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  36242. ​ @link10909 So . . . The US cannot manage these costs somehow, when countries with lower per capita GDP somehow manage. Why was in-state college tuition once something that kids paid in full, all on their own, with an ordinary summer job? Why was rent affordable for anyone working full time? Why was a roommate needed to live in NYC --- not a trust fund? If state universities were subsidized through state taxes, like they once were, it would create DOWNWARD pressure on all tuition. On the other hand, loans are just like leverage, and create UPWARD pressure on all tuition.
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  36243. @mns8732  Okay, I didn't change adult diapers for five years, whew what a relief I get to rewrite that part of my life.
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  36244. Very rich lunatics, unfortunately.
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  36245. She did a poll on Facebook? Why be on Facebook?
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  36246. What is Reich babbling about?? Incitement to violence is already NOT protected by the First Amendment. You can actually prosecute that without banning anyone. Convicted criminals have free speech.
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  36247. You don't know how bad the blowback will be. But I can't disagree. The US HAS broken every rule, and when its role is that of reliable middle man, why do they think they are entitled to get rich without performing as promised?? Bizarre.
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  36248. @klauskinski5969  They've propagandized you into enforcing blame-the-victim ideology too, huh? Hmm . . . And suppose it is our job to address what is happening in the US. Doesn't that start with frank discussion? Why did you label it "complaining?" They've really got you, lol.
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  36249. So . . . Johnny Depp isn't your darling anymore.
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  36250. The researchers even published a paper, in preprint. This is all incredible and insane. Of course there are worse experiments we know nothing about.
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  36251. You got it. P. S. Musk isn't an engineer. That's a false origin story. He didn't start Tesla, he bought it and shoved out an engineer who founded it.
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  36252. ​ @ChaseDizzie We saw it.
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  36253. ​ @ChaseDizzie I did.
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  36254. If I correct the record and state that Musk is not an engineer and that he bought Tesla, why can't anyone see it?
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  36255. ​@ChaseDizzie Why so much scents or ship on this thread?
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  36256. ​ @GotoHere That used to be possible. In state tuition used to be something a student could earn by working full time over the summer. One summer at minimum wage equaled a full year of tuition, full time. Now it can pay for one class.
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  36257.  @elpatron9116  I don't even know what "pushing supperatist" and "defending Krym" means.
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  36258.  real balance  Like I said, I had expected idiotic trash talking to end when Trump left. I thought people were tired of pushing abject idiocy. I guess I'll never keep up.
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  36259.  @elpatron9116  The right thing to do is to obtain an immediate cease fire. Other than J-L Melenchon, I know of no Western politician who might actually have the brains to assemble a team to bring that about. Peace is the right thing to do. Clearly it's not happening.
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  36260. LOL, because she's not pretty. 😅😅😅
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  36261.  @thespicypimp423  You think someone who insinuates she's bitter is making sense? Well, you chose to call yourself spicypimp.
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  36262. @thespicypimp423  I once corrected an error in a Mensa puzzle, actually. It was UK Mensa, so they thanked me and fixed it.
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  36263. Exactly. I don't understand why Musk is GIVEN power. He is obviously troubled.
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  36264. You can't handle the truth.
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  36265. They got paid. Look, did anyone tell Epstein, "hey man, what are you doing??"
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  36266. Not on this score. Are the political machinations too hard for you to follow? EVERY branch of government that can act should act NOW.
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  36267. @FM-ln2sb  I don't know whether she can insist on warrants (Columbia is private -- maybe at SUNY, etc.), but she could consult with her attorneys and then make a statement -- absolutely. Great question!
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  36268.  @berlinorama  Why am I ____ every time I state facts?
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  36269. Austerity reduces tax revenues by raising unemployment. Isn't that a no-brainer?
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  36270.  @nickthompson1812  I had already decided to emigrate by 2025. I did not expect to have three or four more reasons to leave every damned day.
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  36271. First of all, no one can confirm that means anything more than the traditional childhood vaccines in use for many generations. As for COVID, Brazil has accepted a lot of non-mRNA vaccines, such as those from China. I agree, though, no child should be obligated to take a vaccine against COVID.
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  36272. ​​ @branchingoutnurseries4403 Excuse me, Trump lifted the moratorium on gain of function research, rather than making sure it was obeyed. Trump knew by January 2020 that this would be bad. Trump FAILED to fire Fauci. Trump supported Operation Warp Speed. What more do you want? What information are you waiting for? As irrational as the libs! "Oh, someone called him NAMES!! Boo hoo! Get him a safe space!"
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  36273.  @bobm9509  The part where Congress is authorized to pass legislation for the General Welfare. Didya look, or would that cut into doom scolling?
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  36274. @bobm9509  Article I, Section 8: Enumerated Powers Clause 1 General Welfare: "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; . . . " The rest was modified by the Sixteenth Amendment.
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  36275.  @bobm9509  I wonder whether YT will permit me to cite the United States Constitution? They let you do it. Providing funds for the General Welfare is a power delegated by Article I to the U.S. Congress.
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  36276.  @mcl6406  I corrected him. Let's see if it says up. 🤣
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  36277. @bobm9509  So . . . You don't understand that the Constitution expressly authorized Congress to pass legislation for the General Welfare? So . . . how do you imagine the Tenth Amendment applies? The power to pass the Social Security Act is a delegated power.
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  36278. @bobm9509  A quote from the very case you cited, verbatim: "The scheme of benefits created by the provisions of Title II is not in contravention of the limitations of the Tenth Amendment. Congress may spend money in aid of the 'general welfare.' Constitution, Art. I, section 8 . . . " Helvering v. Davis, 301 U.S. 619 (1937).
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  36279.  @bobm9509  At this point, this is sad. I'm not going to risk embarrassing you further.
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  36280.  @bobm9509  Political debates do not state what the law is. The Supreme Court states what the law is.
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  36281. If some transman somewhere in the universe of billions of human beings gives birth, why is he not the mother? He is. This doesn't even make sense.
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  36282. THIS. YOU are wise.
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  36283.  @junglesuperstar9270  I only mean until all the women's gymnastics events have concluded.
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  36284.  @npgibson69  Tell that to the ones who married former students.
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  36285. Okay, let's think this through -- we are forced by insurance companies to report various nonviolent incidents to police. No one should HAVE TO report a fake $20 by calling the police on the person who passed it, and could have passed it unknowingly. Insurance has to cover this without calling in armed agents of the state to take the person into custody. I feel for all the people who will be suffering guilt for the rest of their lives. Consider how the system is set up.
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  36286. You should have the opportunity to resign as well.
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  36287. No. Alex Jones lost a lawsuit and others are pending.
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  36288. Passionate teacher. Truly brilliant.
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  36289. Jung himself went along with the Third Reich. He claimed that the Aryan collective unconscious was the most creative.
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  36290.  @krinklyfig  Oh please. Pfft.
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  36291. Surveys from France and the US are never comparable. In France, it is considered a sign of discernment to be critical of your life circumstances, and it doesn't mean you are clinically depressed or pessimistic. In the US, people are scared into never complaining about anything. Not only will ordinary people not complain about ordinary things, but even people who are sexually harassed or threatened at work will pretend everything is fine and look for another job; even people who see serious lawbreaking will not report it. If you report, the onus is on you and you are perceived as being a problem. It's all about being "marketable."
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  36292. 8:29 If this doesn't shock you . . .
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  36293.  @varab6287  OP mention Orwell's 1984. Ring a bell?
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  36294.  @VTAcraft  😉
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  36295. This time it was directly relevant: the shooter put a sticker on the weapon with that word.
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  36296. BTW, I would fire someone who came to work like that, no problem. And this was a high school, so "children" does not quite describe the setting.
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  36297. Maybe they aren't really against Trump . . . ?
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  36298.  @daniellincoln2693  No, you cannot defend mere property with deadly force, and I see you are being censored because you keep saying that it is legal when it is NOT.
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  36299. @josephredmond623  One of his points was, about the acts of the three branches of government not being strictly analogous; these may be weak analogies at best. I was impressed that he spotted it. He tends to be vague pretty often.
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  36300. Now that Assange is neutralized . . . Good to see others are picking up the threads, at least.
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  36301. Anyone surprised? EDIT: Wait, Democrats are surprised! 😂😂😂
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  36302.  @richie9878  An example would be where a blue-eyed blond sorority girl gets a job as "bilingual" because she took two years of Spanish in college and got As, while someone who is obviously Latina, qualified, and is perfectly bilingual gets passed over. That's an example. Because being bilingual from childhood as a result of your heritage is looked down upon.
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  36303.  @richie9878  You mean you didn't know that bilingualism is looked down upon in America? It shouldn't be, and obviously it has not harmed you, but I know for certain that in the schools bilingual children are routinely presumed to be weaker than other students in English, no matter what the facts are. And Spanish is a great language to know, since so much English vocabulary came from Latin. But a lot of (Anglo-) Americans don't know that. The attitude is based on sheer ignorance. If you have kids, don't let them get tracked as needing remediation.
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  36304.  @richie9878  Think? I represented kids in schools where it was an issue, and a presumption of a need for intervention had to be rebutted, because it was suggested to the child -- falsely -- that if he were bilingual, then his English was likely impaired in some way. I'm sure you see the problem with that. But as you like.
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  36305. You mean it' not?
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  36306. Do all people exposed to COVID die? The element of free will is stronger in choosing to commit crimes, but the other factors predisposing the person also play a role, possibly a crucial one. It's not a matter of shifting blame. He is ultimately to blame in any event.
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  36307. But France made it categorically illegal to ask a minor their vaccine status. France had more resistance than most places.
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  36308. @gerafinali4384  Still, I have to concede -- this much compliance from the French is appalling. The pro-Atlantist, petit bourgeois mentality has penetrated much too far. Really out of character.
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  36309.  samford hikes  Ha. This was perfect.
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  36310.  @yn5568  After Katie Halper was fired, Bri made it clear that she was ready to walk. They must want her to stay on, and know they better let her do this.
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  36311. All they know is grift.
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  36312. Je pensais qu'uniquement les américains étaient suffisament bête de croire tout ça.
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  36313. Really interesting. Based on my own extensive reading of peer-reviewed lit, I'd put organic apples and organic apricots to the top, and demote grapefruit (problematic for some) and pineapple (great in many ways, but sugary, so you can't eat a lot). No way are bananas better than apples.
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  36314.  @alexwalker5645  This also explains why the election was statistically anomalous relative to other elections, not "stolen." The pattern of votes is easily explained. The Republicans had a majority of governors, a majority in the Senate, control of the Administration for the past four years, and most federal judges are Republicans. If they had wanted to prevent the "irregularities" they complain about now, it would gave been a breeze to do it. Trump doesn't like to work. He likes to inflame people and get them to show adulation, then walk away. Carnival barker con man.
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  36315.  @Nick-qj7ym  That is not the definition of "hearsay," not legally, not colloquially.
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  36316.  @Nick-qj7ym  It is not someone else telling you second hand, as in rumor. It is the principal in the dispute telling you himself, what he himself said and wrote an apology for. You don't have to believe it. Always your right.
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  36317.  @Nick-qj7ym  Pfft
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  36318. He is bringing on knowledgeable people for purposes of discussion. Is that okay?
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  36319.  @Oakleylaurie  It documents the role of Big Pharma. Say, guess who Whitaker says has the best marketing strategy? Just guess.
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  36320. DNC worried? I didn't know they had any sense of reality left.
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  36321. Period?
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  36322. This is entirely misleading. They are covering up the fact that transmen are usually unable to have children. I don't like the way medical care is being sold at all.
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  36323. ​ @thmaginnis1  Monopoly capital always takes over the reins of government. Today, Pfizer is more powerful than most countries. When people didn't think money was everything, and money did not control everything, people like Jonas Salk tested the polio vaccine on himself, then refused to apply for a patent.
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  36324. Are the numbers accurate? I suspect an undercount.
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  36325. I don't think it's inexplicable, but to meet the proper burden of proof under the law, it needs to be explained.
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  36326. At least most people in France know this is the policy of a pro-finance party, nothing more. Some have been warn down by the fear mongering. Fewer than 25% will vote for Macron in the first round, watch. (Sadly, he could still win in the end.)
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  36327. Gavin de Becker is known for being one of the very finest security experts in history. De Becker is Jewish. He didn't go to college as far as I know. He went to one of the best Hebrew schools in the country.
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  36328. That's funny. A living person testified he believed, rightly or wrongly, that Rittenhouse was an active shooter. Another living person testified he was an innocent bystander in the line of fire when Rittenhouse first opened fire, before anyone had touched him. In fact, that person, McGinnis, was a journalist from a conservative publication that had a generally positive view of people like Rittenhouse. Huber's filthy house was not in evidence. So much for objectivity. Omissions of salient facts can mar objectivity, too.
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  36329. She was the Press Secretary of a major presidential candidate. Small thing. /s Or didn't you know?
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  36330. "We know what Donald Trump said." -- Emily We do?
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  36331. 🤣
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  36332. The technical reason it is not a Ponzi scheme is that the new dollars coming in are taxes from salaries that generally keep pace with the overall economy (and when they don't, people in the labor force have options to rectify that), whereas the payouts do not. Social Security benefits are never raised to account for the full impact of inflation. Hence, the benefits depend on the salary you earned pre-inflation, for the rest of your life, and the only sure way to rectify that is to return to work. That's not a Ponzi scheme. You're welcome. Please clap.
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  36333. OH I SEE . . . unapproved vaccines can be mandated, we can all be forced to stay in our homes, contrary to the Constitution, children with gender dysphoria should not have their future reproductive choices protected, and FIRES DON'T NEED WATER. It all makes sense now.
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  36334. ​ @melchior2678 Not in normal countries.
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  36335. ​ @truthprevails_theoriginal  See Yanis Varoufakis, who just got refused a platform in Germany.
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  36336. ​ @magicamari Reading is a communist plot.
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  36337. The USPS is by far the best courier for the money you can find. Try sending an overnight letter with anyone else -- just try.
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  36338.  @kevinjohnson6331  He's making money promoting that rot. Works for him.
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  36339.  @rhys5567  FedEx is awful. I had to pay over $30 to send a simple, one-page overnight letter 30 minutes away from the FedEx office I used. Thirty minutes in rush hour.
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  36340. Yes, perfect.
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  36341. The College Board sets the standard for curriculum and the AP test. The College Board is a private organization. The job of a governor is to ensure truth in advertising, not to censor. These are ELECTIVE courses. If the courses do lead to college credit, and there are teachers who want to teach and students who want to take the class, that is all that matters. If the courses do not really lead to college credit, they should be scraped entirely, not "revised" by a politician.
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  36342.  @dorian7215  I love how you put that.
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  36343. ​ @johnnyearp52  Dr. Grande is correct. This is not a simple case.
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  36344. ​ @zyrrhos  Withdrawing money from a joint account, if Mark had the capacity to open such an account, is not theft. They can assert they were employees. If they had the presence of mind to pay taxes, they will have a good case to be acquitted.
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  36345. ​ @Somegirl811  I agree.
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  36346. Right. This guy who is commenting is the loser. He's lying, and getting paid for it. None of his rant is true, and that doe$n't matter.
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  36347. They believe the first primes your body to attack the spike protein, and in rare cases its own tissues. Then when presented with that spike protein again, the risk is higher.
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  36348. The truth is, that's a good possibility but we don't know yet.
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  36349.  @JohnBaleshiski  You know what? Of course you are correct, but vital health information should not require the recipient to solve a logic puzzle.
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  36350. I can believe RT outside of Russia makes it a point to give non-Russians great freedom, even greater than they would enjoy in the MSM of their own countries. It should be obvious what their motive is. Why is this a surprise? Someone as astute and ethical as Chris Hedges has much more freedom on RT than he had at the NYTimes at the end, post-9/11.
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  36351. "Toxic?" Is that a legal term? Courts are not supposed to decide these matters, or any other, on the basis of fiction. When they do, there's your outrage.
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  36352.  @christopherhorn1161  If I were advising her, I'd tell her to fix herself up and get married to a man with money. I'd never advise her to make this documentary. Marriage proves nothing, marriage above your social class likewise. I've seen deeply disordered people pull it off. Depending on the fashion of the day, it could even be easier for them.
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  36353. Every mother and daughter go through real tough times at puberty. Every. Unless they are both pathological liars and truly don't care about anyone on a human level except themselves. But sure, anything's possible. That's why the law intervenes in these disputes only on solid grounds.
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  36354. He pled guilty to federal charges.
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  36355. Very thorough examination of this study. Thank you, Dr. John! Everyone should listen to the whole thing, to understand what happened. There were inaccurate, hysterical reports on this case, which serve as a cover for dangerous research ("only conspiracy theorists and illiterates oppose this necessary science").
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  36356. ​@thepoetesskhansaa They are issued devices with appropriate security. Not a DIY project.
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  36357.  @MrBrndin  😂😂😂 💯
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  36358. I guess you don't know who this is.
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  36359.  @domingodesantaclara1130  Correct. The US has failed to accomplish its immediate economic aims, but in the military aims, they are progressing quite well, or seem to be.
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  36360. I can believe literally anything about almost anybody short of Mom.
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  36361. They aren't describing any facts. There is no evidence the demonstrations in the West support Hamas or any terrorists, or that they are full of anti-semites. Are anti-semites infiltrating the demonstrations and using them as a cover? Most likely, and that's why I would not join. The demonstrations themselves and most of the people in them are, however, for an end to the seige and for a general cease fire. There are Jewish people joining them. Don't you ever watch Democracy Now? Amy Goodman's father was a rabbi, I believe. Watch it now, to hear what actual Israelis are saying.
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  36362.  @leif54240  This person thinks that anyone on Fox who quotes ( or misquotes) the Bible is speaking Truth because she has the right feelings.
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  36363. Biden fast-tracked Thomas's Supreme Court nomination, and refused to call corroborating witnesses literally waiting outside the hearing room to back up Anita Hill's testimony. Thomas is not only incompetent but compromised. But that's nothing new.
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  36364. Someone's saving human existence? You could've fooled me.
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  36365.  @LP12576  Trick question. There is very little thinking going on here . . .
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  36366.  @LP12576  Agreed.
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  36367. I wish that line about babies torn from their mother's arms did not sound like "babies torn from incubators" by Saddam. If anyone is going to say anything this inflammatory, they need to present real evidence, not soundbites -- especially if it is true. Our evidence-free emotionalism has harmed us too much. It's time to cut it out.
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  36368.  @Berkhoi  If you believe your employer is your oppressor, find a new job.
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  36369. ​ @craigreinhart8960 Thank you for demonstrating how delusional all supposed alternatives are.
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  36370. ​ @woodforthetrees3496 Exactly
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  36371. ​ @sdlavender  Is Amy Goodman fine with Oct 7?
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  36372. ​ @thebillryan 💯 Exactly
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  36373. Did pretty well against the Wehrmacht. Say, here's a thought. End all sanctions regimes and see what unfolds.
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  36374. BTW . . . Did you recognize the person Brie mentioned? Debs? Just curious.
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  36375.  @EverettBurger  I think we had an election about whether a ten-year-old pregnant child should be able to get immediate medical care without having to leave her state. I think that was implicitly on the ballot, and the Republican Senate put it there.
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  36376. And what do you know, but we're at [proxy] war with them this very minute? Huh. Odd.
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  36377. 💯
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  36378. The garage was left open with a sentient being in it. Anyone would have the right to quickly check on a dog in those circumstances, then quickly leave. Sometimes you can find out an elderly person is in distress that way. Sheesh! Think, people.
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  36379. Ryan, who is deciding against vaccination because they think ivermectin will be a magic cure? Who believes they can get ivermectin, or monoclonal antibodies, or anything else that rich people can get? We all know by now that we won't be treated. Kim just told you.
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  36380. When they were accused of anti-Semitism they did not fight back. Aaron Mate covered this well. As if any politician in UK could end the NHS. As if Medicare should have age discrimination.
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  36381. Have you seen Dogville? See that.
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  36382. Thank you .
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  36383. Do you know who Lula da Silva is? Have you ever heard of Brazil, the country? Not a cosmetic procedure.
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  36384. Name the study. We'll look it up.
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  36385. NIH website: “Several months ago, our studies showed that natural infection induced a strong response, and this study now shows that the responses last,” Weiskopf says.
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  36386.  @theotherview1716  There. That's what I'm adding.
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  36387. He only harmed himself. I'd love to see someone publish his salary.
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  36388. "So, for example, our deep commitment to . . . unheard-of social stratification." That there is your Achilles' heel.
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  36389. Because the way it was reported here was fine. Emily starts out this segment by laughing. The assassination ends up like an afterthought. Well, Abe wasn't Euro either, so . . . Olayemi wasn't born here. If she were to sound like these two, big IF, I would blame her more. I know she was raised properly.
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  36390. If this occurred while Hegseth was in active service, AND under a military law that made infidelity illegal, then (and only then) is it relevant. But if not, then it should not be pursued.
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  36391. Read the paper. It's the severity and onset that matter. It's totally plausible, given that people who have had the infection commonly experience it for two to twelve weeks after getting better, even if their COVID was quite mild. WHO does not recommend doing any sort of work-up for "long COVID" before 12 weeks post infection.
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  36392. No European country allows police to shoot in these exact circumstances. Americans, on the other hand, adore a boot to the face, to paraphrase the poet Sylvia Plath.
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  36393. 😂😂😂
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  36394. It's all about the money.
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  36395. Please suggest some references. I want to read more.
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  36396. Thank you both.
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  36397. You're right that the signs were there much sooner than last week, I grant you.
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  36398.  @71kimg  Sheer nonsense. This is the NYTimes view, and that of a handful of European neoliberals -- you know, the ones who presided over the destruction of Greece.
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  36399. Russians are not Western or Western oriented people.
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  36400.  @pikecollisionllc9868  How is having been a successful engineer and inventor not science?
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  36401.  Jim Harol  Right. He's an engineer.
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  36402.  Jim Harol  Being a science teacher wouldn't make him right, either. If what he is saying is true, then he is right to say it.
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  36403. So Jimmy Dore was right about another one of you. That's as big a shock as dying people still opposed to vaccination. But here we are. Thank you for your divisiveness. We didn't have enough yet. Your contribution was lovely. /s
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  36404. Les grands corrompus . . . Tout le monde le savait.
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  36405.  @MrIkesimba  Well, that would depend on the efficacy of the vaccine when weighed against its risks, and compared in turn with the risks of the disease itself. It would also depend on whether (near) universal vaccination in this case would lead to eradicating the disease.
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  36406.  @techbubble7609  Also, there is a lot of really interesting information from other countries. BMJ (formerly British Medical Journal) published a study that found that vegetarians and vegans are far less likely to develop severe COVID. The German press picked it up right away. Ours did not report it. :/ I guess Europeans trust their people to exercise good judgment and take all reasonable precautions. Funny how berating people and hoping they die doesn't have the same effect.
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  36407.  @fenril6685  This is very important. Will look it up. The degree of risk, and the means of risk assessment, are important. I would not expect this to be highly common, but obviously scientists need to think about it. They damn well better.
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  36408.  @chrish3669  This talking point is already in question. Some vaccinated people appear to produce just as much delta variant virus in their nasal passages as the unvaccinated do, which would make them very contagious for a period of time. The difference is in the ability of the virus to invade other organs or provoke cytokine storm, and in the length of time they are contagious.
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  36409. I appreciated her point. The Clintons get away with far too much. Which is worse?
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  36410. Two words: Peter Thiel
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  36411.  @kyber7503  It might have legs. Registered broker-dealers have strange rules. I wish it were crystal clear that the suit is bogus. :/
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  36412. He doesn't sound like he knows enough to teach math.
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  36413. OTOH, first responders clearing the rubble from the WTC terror attack were at first told their sickness was "all in their heads."
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  36414. thank you
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  36415. @portlandhasbecometrash8437  She's putting on a show for her donors. She cannot not know about freedom of speech on campus, and that true threats require the assistance of law enforcement. Congress passing a resolution is performative. It has no bearing on First Amendment law and cannot put otherwise protected speech outside the realm of First Amendment law. That's just Congress expressing an opinion, not rendering speech illegal. See RAV v. City of St. Paul (a Scalia opinion).
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  36416.  @portlandhasbecometrash8437  Let's see whether my response is deemed acceptable for your eyes by yt.
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  36417.  @portlandhasbecometrash8437  I suggest you read RAV v. City of St. Paul, a Scalia opinion on the First Amendment. You could also read Nadine Strossen, Erwin Chemerinsky, etc., or listen to Glenn Greenwald or Amy Goodman. I think you need to. All of your questions will be answered.
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  36418.  @portlandhasbecometrash8437  As a slogan, or an opinion, rather than a true threat? Yes it is covered by the First Amendment. As are swastikas, white hoods, etc. True threats, incitement to imminent violence, and similar acts can and should be prosecuted. And you can also sue (civil action) for intentional infliction of emotional distress. The Supreme Court is clear. I'm thinking your background information is in dire need of improvement. As is your spelling.
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  36419.  @portlandhasbecometrash8437  As a general matter, no. Not anymore than the same chant directed at Syrians, Russians, North Koreans, etc., or their leaders. You need to calm yourself, put down your screen, and open a book. RAV v. City of St. Paul; Brandenburg v. Ohio. Find out real information. Who knows? You might need to know some day. It could happen.
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  36420. In Chicago, some years 70% of murders are unsolved. Yup, the clearance rate is SO low that it's making it more likely people will calculate their chances of getting away with it when they kill. Chicago needs detectives.
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  36421. Jimmy's mother was Polish. In Polish, you pronounce the "p."
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  36422. I can tell you why: Depp had already sued The Sun for defamation in the UK on the same material facts, and lost. In the US, defamation suits necessarily implicate the First Amendment. That is why the ACLU does have an interest in it. You may not find that answer satisfactory, which is fine, but you seem not to understand what happened.
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  36423. Speaking of Russia, they don't have homeless.
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  36424. NEVER take a vaccine that other countries with great public health do not recommend. Look up their ministry of health websites. Let's see if this stays up.
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  36425.  @coursecorrection870  Yes. Or neo-Nazis. NATO, Russia, neo-Nazis . . . What chance do normal, peace-loving people have??
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  36426.  @coursecorrection870  That would be funny, but this is 2022; everyone expects no self-awareness.
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  36427.  @coursecorrection870  I read reports about the Nazi movement in Ukraine years before this invasion. And it's weird, but because I'm an avid reader and writer, speak three languages, and don't follow The Next Big Thing, my memory isn't trashed and I can think clearly.
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  36428.  @coursecorrection870  Who said it was? Lecture me. I don't know the difference between right and wrong, I don't have Ukrainian-born friends, my own parents didn't meet in a refugee camp. I need you to help me out with this, you have so much wisdom.
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  36429.  @coursecorrection870  You call NAZIS "toxic." That's wild. If we weren't talking about Nazis, it would be sheer comedy. Let me ask you: should the West arm Nazis?
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  36430.  @coursecorrection870  "ideology's" Just shut up.
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  36431.  @coursecorrection870  This has been addressed ad nauseum. A small, heavily armed, heavily financed group that infiltrates the armed forces can have vastly more influence than the voters do, and reports that Azov-infiltrated troops were ready to shell the Donbass region again, before this invasion, turned out to be true. At this juncture, both the West and Putin are strengthening the neo-Nazis' hand, and it's doubtful that Zelensky has been functioning as a head of state, or that he even can. The difference may be (I mean may literally: hence, maybe not, too early to tell) that the West has no problem with the Nazis in Donbass, while Russia most certainly does. So . . . You reject the Right to Protect? Interesting. Or is that only an American Right, like so many others? All you've done is parrot the talking points you've heard. Is Abby Martin a propagandist? Kim Iversen, Chris Hedges, Aaron Mate, Anne-Laure Bonnel? The analysis of Stephen F. Cohen, from several years ago? See his interview at the 92nd Street Y, where he predicts where we are now. For Bonnel's reporting, you need to speak French, but her documentaries have subtitles. Oh, but you haven't mastered autocorrect yet, I forgot. Before thinking you should decide the fates of millions, learn to spell and write without stringing together buzz words and cliches and utter nonsense, and letting autocorrect write for you. Take a class or something.
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  36432.  @coursecorrection870  Have you conveniently forgotten . . .
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  36433.  @coursecorrection870  Joined two months ago. Blocked.
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  36434. ​ @m____w____6981 Are you kidding?? Trump and Fauci played good cop, bad cop, and Trump let Fauci effectively subvert the Bill of Rights and run our lives. It was Obama who signed a moratorium on gain-of-function research, and Fauci and company immediately took to figuring out ways to subvert it. Then Trump just rescinded it. Still no clear explanation why. Someone flattered him just right and put a piece of paper in front of him.
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  36435. Remember when Biden promised to end the divisiveness of the previous president's term? I do. Biggest political lie yet, and that is saying a lot.
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  36436. 48:30 and 49:25 and 50:40 -- does that sound like "forgiveness?" It sounds like putting resentment to sublime use.
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  36437. ​ @meanderinoranges No, we have not. But rising psy-ops . . . That, you can count on.
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  36438. ​ @meanderinoranges Look up the number of countries bombed and the quantities dropped since Nagasaki. Then look up growth in real wages by the bottom four quintiles. Compare with the top 5%.
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  36439. ​ @meanderinoranges Rising standard of living? Can you be serious? This is where (even) RFK Jr has it right. No point in obfuscating that. The Trump coalition won for a reason, and it's not because any standards have risen.
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  36440. All of these labels have been distorted for a reason. We have the spectacle of people calling Hillary and Nancy Pelosi "communists."
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  36441. The Sam Bankman-Fried of "alternate" ocean transport.
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  36442. Full transparency about what? That their kid is acting like a fool during puberty? Most weird behavior that does not disrupt the school or involve the use of illegal substances or self-harming will probably go away faster if it is ignored like the childish nonsense that it is. A teacher should call a student by the name with which they were registered by their parents, and if they insist on playing with pronouns, either humor them or don't. Big deal. In fact, avoid the whole thing by using their name.
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  36443.  @justin79811  So don't use pronouns when addressing your students. Use the NAME their parents registered them with.
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  36444.  @hrs2044  AMEN. Finally, someone has refused to take the latest hysteria bait!
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  36445.  @justin79811  Nope, I was responding to your very first comment, not the others. I agree with hrs2044. This is devolving into a new moral panic when the real problems with schools involve things like illiteracy, poor mathematical skills, serious bullying, and the need for metal detectors. It appears to be easier to talk about bloody pronouns. We need more distance between students and teachers in general. We know that works better for the aim at hand -- educating them.
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  36446.  @justin79811  Oh. Cool. I hope parents won't feel constrained by the "culture" to make that clear to the school. Little Johnnie's name is JOHN, and Little Abby is ABIGAIL, thank you very much.
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  36447. So, a public information campaign explaining exactly how to vote by mail won't work? The DNC could not afford it, if the state can't or won't?
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  36448. Which, if true, is in itself an important observation. Why don't we rehabilitate our citizens?
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  36449.  @wesleythompson7  Of course. They all traveled in the same circles. It's not even irony, it's something Epstein engineered.
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  36450. We didn't ruin everyone's life, Jimmy. We improved the lives of billionaires, Hunter Biden, and the Pelosi family.
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  36451.  @trailersfromhell2539  I believe so, I'd have to check. The honorable First Amendment defender would rely on anti-SLAPP laws, not "it's only entertainment! It doesn't count!! . . . wail wail . . . " 🤣 Kyle Kulinski never has the instinct to pause before denouncing an underdog, however unpalatable that underdog may be.
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  36452.  @trailersfromhell2539  I hope so, too!! Too funny.
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  36453. He may have good insurance. His total bill could be so large that $60,000 represents less than 10%. Not to mention, his Social Security disability could be tiny relative to his obligations. Did everyone suddenly forget about deductibles, policies that cover only 10% of all costs, etc.? Wild.
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  36454. Who is arming Hamas with rockets? We need better information.
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  36455. I thought he said Happy Nagasaki Day. Nothing would surprise me. Not anymore.
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  36456. Le Pen is a cow. Just a cow. As for Macron . . . I'll be censored if I say. He should never have been elected. Absolute disaster. Neoliberal globalist who despises half of France. They don't come any worse. Clearly Jimmy and his guest don't know France very well. The first term of Mitterrand was the swan song, it seems.
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  36457. I cannot tell you how sorry I am. Notice that no one is incredulous. We know this is what happens. I have no words, truly.
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  36458.  @mp5249  You are an angel.
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  36459.  @lukemehalick370  He says this to a mother who buried her child? And his sick post isn't "hate speech," a violation of "community standards?" Wow, just wow.
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  36460.  @thing1thing2themediamaniac43  You misunderstood completely. @lukemehalick370 criticized a post that was ultimately removed, and I agreed with him. The post blamed . . . never mind. I will not repeat it.
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  36461.  @thing1thing2themediamaniac43  This was a direct attack on a person, not a general opinion. In principle, I agree. I did not say the speaker should be silenced; I think a direct, personal attack on the OP is a different matter -- you can take down a particular post or shadow a post without removing the person who posted. In "real life," the post could be considered intentional infliction of emotional distress on a vulnerable person. For example, you cannot directly abuse the bereaved, right to their face, the Westboro Baptist Church case notwithstanding (they kept a distance and made a -- very, very weird -- political point of sorts).
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  36462.  @thing1thing2themediamaniac43  So . . . you can't admit you were mistaken about my post, and leave it at that? LOL
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  36463.  @thing1thing2themediamaniac43  It is shadowed and I've decided not to repeat it. Sorry. Imagine whatever you like.
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  36464. @user-Jo915  You think this is a problem? Ask your parents about when the Beatles took LSD, and went to India to follow some guru with Mia Farrow and her sister. That was a real problem. BTW, Kelly is lying about that law, thank goodness. She's a lawyer, she knows she's lying.
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  36465. Usually, yeah. Exactly like that.
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  36466. P. S. Look up swatting.
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  36467. Now we find out just how sick half of America is. I had enough information. I didn't want to know more. Should any of Jeffrey Epstein's victims, had they fallen pregnant, been denied an abortion?
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  36468. In what way?
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  36469.  @kyleyp8690  What interview would that be? The two full interviews I saw said nothing of the kind. Perhaps the law enforcement present will make a statement. I would consider that more credible.
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  36470. @grejambri  She said the issue was a "slam dunk," and that the kid should not have been singled out in the first place. She did not express outrage, no.
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  36471.  @disappointingdbdclips  How is it white power? Sincere question. I thought it was just Yankee.
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  36472.  @trumpsteinoyvey8583  His personal physician recommended it. It was a reasonable decision at the time. He did not expect to develop prolonged COVID symptoms from the shot.
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  36473.  @jolaholladay3150  Tip: check this person's channel. OH BROTHER
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  36474. If Ana needs money, she could auction Jimmy's note.
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  36475. This is nonsense. Actually, all of the culture nonsense is manipulation and posing.
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  36476. I just read the study, and that's not what it says. The data is from the 2017-2018 flu season, so it has nothing to do with COVID either way. People who got the flu shot were either the same as the nonvaccinated, or slightly less likely than the nonvaccinated, when it came to getting most other respiratory viruses. However, in 2017, there were coronavirus colds around, which tend to be just bad colds. People who got flu shots were more likely to get those colds. Kennedy is overstating it. It's a reason for concern, and to repeat the study now before forcing more shots on people, but not to think that flu shots will make you sicker.
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  36477.  @maxinel1776  So, you're saying that hospital workers are permitted to decline a very old, very well-established vaccine against the flu, provided they take special precautions? Why? Flu vaccine is safe. The one significant problem was in 1976, and that was less of an issue than the ill effects from COVID vaccines have been.
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  36478.  @danaashton9297  We had record drug overdose deaths last year, during the worst of the pandemic. What will it take? What has to happen, to chasten people? I'm for vaccines, but anti-mandate, and anti-bullying. The safety record is not great, and other countries are stepping away from vaccinating the young, and many are ending two-dose protocols for younger people, especially teens, especially if they already had COVID. That's what CARING looks like! Caring, and a willingness to be flexible as new information emerges.
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  36479.  @maxinel1776  No one should have volunteered to serve after 9/11. Better to get a job you can do from home.
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  36480. That's . . . How many people??
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  36481. I feel more embarrassed if we are falling for this story without verifying it.
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  36482. What do you know about what Columbia teaches? It exists as such since 1784. Why do you take her word? Where is your healthy skepticism? Where is your pride?
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  36483.  @vikinglife6316  If you care so much, I suggest you visit the campus. I suggest you examine some reading lists. I suggest you engage students in conversations and see what they say. Or, just believe the same people who lied to us about COVID, Iraq, etc., which includes all the major media organizations. Those vignettes do not demonstrate that she is telling the truth about being oppressed at Columbia. If this can pass -- if an immigrant can come to America, obtain her degree at one of the very finest private, Ivy-League universities, have nothing nuanced to say about it, only drop slogans about "woke," claim it was much like being in North Korea again(!) and you will believe every word -- then things are in a very bad way. No, she's doing her bank account a favor. The fact that this stuff sells is a symptom of the troubled times we live in, not a solution. She's claiming oppression, too. Columbia exists as Columbia since the 1780s. She just got here. Where is your pride?
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  36484.  @vikinglife6316  You "know" nothing of the kind. You believe it. If she was so oppressed there, why didn't she simply transfer? I mean, if it reminded her of North Korea, that must have been truly painful, no? Not to mention feeding the beast with the huge tuition dollars for four years. She could have tried to transfer to Princeton or U. of Chicago, or she could have chosen a state school and paid less for a poor education. More oppression Olympics, for fun and profit. She is playing people for fools.
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  36485.  @vikinglife6316  No they're not. Chicago isn't. Princeton isn't, to name two. It's more of an advertising slogan, subject to massive amplification by social media. The universities went along because of the outsized tuition they charge and the pressure to be more like businesses, which have no First Amendment rights for employees, are required to follow Title VII anti-discrimination laws, and exist to satisfy customers. I think Silicon Valley and mainstream media had much more to do with wokeism than the universities did. I think they still do. They want a certain kind of employee, and they are going to get it. At the universities, it is true that a lot of basically lazy, unqualified people were crawling all over one another to get tenure, because that has become harder and harder to achieve. A lot of them resorted to underhanded tactics, including being "more woke than thou." This has been true many times, and it is bad. Mary McCarthy wrote about it in Groves of Academe -- what? Some 70 years ago? Not new. A lot of people lack scruples, especially where money is concerned.
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  36486. If the Bill of Rights and Fourteenth Amendment do not protect privacy, then the states and Congress can pass these laws. It's up to the voters to deal with them.
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  36487.  @jposhpaws2588  This sounds like the most potent birth control ever devised. Who will agree to get pregnant?
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  36488. 11:53 and 12:13 Aaron, they are afraid of something. It's not just for the money.
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  36489. ​ @rhonmc2782 Please tell me more about what you do on a daily basis. What is a regular day like? What is a day when you do something different like?
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  36490.  @markzuckergecko621  Keep talking, please. You all sound more and more crazy.
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  36491. No hon, no one is asking about a chip in the vaccines. We are asking how you liked the island. How, literally.
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  36492. Remember when you were supposed to ask your doctor questions? And if you didn't, it was your own fault?
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  36493. If you believe it. In the current atmosphere, no way am I going to believe any story at first blush. And yeah, I said the same during January 6th, the George Floyd protests that turned violent, Gretchen Whitmer, Kyle Rittenhouse, . . . and "Russiagate." And the pandemic. What does it take? What has to happen, for people to hit "pause?"
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  36494. No, you did. Unless they pay you to go after her.
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  36495.  @toddstapelton3117  I have the court documents, they are available to the public and can be downloaded for free. Her memorandum in support of the motion to dismiss runs to about 90 pages, so I haven't finished it yet. Perhaps you should do a little research yourself. I have never known a news report of a case, presented for a general audience or even for a specialized one, to be a perfect representation of the law and facts.
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  36496.  @nothxgg8324  From the actual court filing, NOT a press release, "Reasonable people understand that the 'language of the political arena, like the language used in labor disputes … is often vituperative, abusive and inexact.' Watts v. United States, 394 U.S. 705, 708 (1969). It is likewise a 'well recognized principle that political statements are inherently prone to exaggeration and hyperbole.' Planned Parenthood of Columbia/Willamette, Inc. v. Am. Coal. of Life Activists, 244 F.3d 1007, 1009 (9th Cir. 2001). Given the highly charged and political context of the statements, it is clear that Powell was describing the facts on which she based the lawsuits she filed in support of President Trump. Indeed, Plaintiffs themselves characterize the statements at issue as 'wild accusations' and 'outlandish claims.' Id. at ¶¶ 2, 60, 97, 111. They are repeatedly labelled 'inherently improbable' and even 'impossible.' Id. at ¶¶ 110, 111, 114, 116 and 185. Such characterizations of the allegedly defamatory statements further support Defendants’ position that reasonable people would not accept such statements as fact but view them only as claims . . ." You don't see the wee, little contradiction? Actually, it is pretty big. Also, as everyone knows, a press release is offered as spin. On the other hand, legal briefs filed in court always argue in the alternative. Most of the memorandum deals with "New York Times malice," which acknowledges the statements may be false, but requires the speaker either to know they are false, or act in reckless disregard concerning whether they are true or false. Sounds to me like that would not be impossible for Dominion to show. Oh well, we'll see . . .
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  36497.  @nothxgg8324  Also, you may not know, but "legal opinion" has a technical meaning. "A, B, C are true," where A, B, C are statements of fact, is not a "legal opinion." It is an assertion of fact. Even if a lawyer says it. "In this case, we plan to show that D violated such-and-such law, based on documents, affidavits, video recordings, etc." is one form a legal opinion can take. Paradigmatic, pretty much.
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  36498.  @tomanderson1942  Yes, it will be. It is a fine line.
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  36499. With what? Didn't you notice that this video didn't bother to tell you the exact words? That's what harassment and defamation are about: words.
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  36500. This logic was already used against students for Palestine -- even the peaceful ones, basically saying what Bernie Sanders and Amy Goodman are saying.
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  36501. Defense attorneys do not testify, under oath or otherwise.
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  36502. This is maddening. This was not use of the word, but mention. If you had a racial discrimination case where someone did use the word, you would HAVE to say the word in court. Out loud. Same if a cop used it. You report him, you testify. If a child pornography case goes to trial, the jury has to look at the pictures. Same thing for obscenity. Things that are clearly crimes have to be looked at. The jury will be prepared for it in advance, because it is difficult, but people often need to face difficult things.
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  36503. So . . . The impeachment is primarily to boost the ratings of CNN, MSNBC, etc.?
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  36504. @mruncletheredge  Well, here is why it did to me: The alleged perpetrator, his poor acting skills, his gesturing toward a weapon but no sign he has one, the voice over at that point saying to wait for police, the way he was supposedly apprehended bare-handed, the stick used to beat him, the fact that so many blows hit his shoe soles and other places where they won't hurt, and then the comment at they end that they would let him go. Maybe more stuff -- this was from memory. I guess we don't need deep fakes. World wrestling stuff, or stuff that is even more lame, is plenty.
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  36505. @commonsenseincalifornia2579  You sound like Hillary, with her bogus accusations of Russia Russia Russia. If you don't have any doubts about THIS video, in 2023, maybe you need to think more critically.
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  36506.  @commonsenseincalifornia2579  Here's another clue: if I think this was fake, that means I think there are no criminals in the video. I think it's cosplay.
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  36507.  @commonsenseincalifornia2579  I explained why I thought so. Was my post shadowed? How convenient. That's right, you've got it: I don't take a poll before (gasp!) thinking for myself.
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  36508.  @commonsenseincalifornia2579  I said I thought so, not that I know so.
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  36509.  @commonsenseincalifornia2579  Correct. That is what I think. Think does not equal know.
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  36510. @b.d.walters9402  Maybe you should be more skeptical, since you have no basis to "refute" me, nor are you able to prove I'm wrong. You think it is real. You don't know, either. You could be played that way, you know.
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  36511.  @b.d.walters9402  Does this resemble the authentic videos where a shop owner actually defended himself, like the gentleman in New York City got arrested for self-defense and then was released after the outcry? Not that all will be the same, but . . . Seriously?
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  36512. @b.d.walters9402  Hitting someone with a flimsy stick on the soles of his gym shoes will cause them to scream every time. Sure it will, lol. He had "gestured" for a weapon (with no sign of one, but who knows?), yet at the end, they said they would let him go. No sign of police and no sign of holding him over for the police, which is what should happen. No sign that he was at any point patted down for a weapon. LOLOL, what will deep fakes do to your brain if this doesn't raise a doubt?
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  36513. @b.d.walters9402  You made the knowledge claim. I did not. I asserted skepticism, which is doubt, not knowledge. If you are too easily led, that sure isn't my problem. And if you get so angry over this, well . . . Chances are you see my point! 🤣
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  36514.  @b.d.walters9402  k blocked Then why did you bother? Really worth your time? Really?
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  36515. I don't believe 60% are "pro-choice" so much as anti-government intervention. Many people who would never get an abortion do NOT want it criminalized, and do not want roving pregnancy police acting for the state. I think vaccine mandates showed people what that form of authoritarianism can mean.
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  36516. ​ @kafir-magriban8009 They are talking about a child.
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  36517. A living person testified he believed, rightly or wrongly, that Rittenhouse was an active shooter. Another living person testified he was an innocent bystander in the line of fire when Rittenhouse first opened fire, before anyone had touched him. Huber's filthy house was not in evidence. You are easily led.
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  36518. Cruelty. It's called cruelty.
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  36519.  @changingoftheguard7256  Shame on you.
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  36520.  @Anthony-xe2pz  Thank you and bless you.
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  36521.  @Sopheann168  Hi!
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  36522. They can't be an officially recognized student organization, but if they want to open an independent chapter in town, right down the street, and they can afford it, they can.
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  36523. Optimism in 2023.
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  36524. ​ @Random2027hgk 💯
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  36525.  @lokitus  extent matters
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  36526. Had Russia concluded the SMO by April then these lives would not have been lost. Putin didn't plan for this?
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  36527. As long as you're not his wife, you're safe. 🤣🤣🤣
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  36528. So you know that Le Pen's party has its roots in Vichy? Her father was an actual fascist. She did moderate it, to her father's consternation.
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  36529.  Jonathan Evans  This is not unlikely.
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  36530. The data also tells me that the vaccinated are dangerous to the unvaccinated. I suspected so.
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  36531. Poor you.
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  36532. Interesting what you see that no one else does. Why is that?
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  36533. Appears to be a higher risk. We don't know for certain, as you can see here. :/
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  36534. Under him? Or vice versa?
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  36535. Not this much. I don't do ugly things to get more. Why would I?
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  36536. You've accepted yet another mode of obesity.
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  36537. The way Lavrov received the BRICS at their summit a few years ago was instructive.
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  36538. $14.8 million per year is $1689 per hour -- for every hour of every day of the year, waking, sleeping, holidays, . . . Over $40,500 dollars a day in fact. Every day. Wow these people must work hard . . . /s
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  36539. WOW is that a reach.
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  36540. Exactly
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  36541.  @oluwatosin221  Okay, if you don't see though this cheap grift, the next recession is going to be a doozy. Just watch your wallet. This guy is barely literate.
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  36542. THANK YOU, KATIE. Excellent, as usual.
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  36543. "Post-modernism" is just one more way to make money without working, agreed!
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  36544. One of the very greatest gymnasts had an issue with suddenly not knowing where she was in space, a potentially lethal issue that most certainly is cognitive and neurological, and she came back to defend her bronze on the balance beam with a smile so sincere and modest, you'd have thought it was a gold in the all-around. And you want to make £££$$$ on this cheap, ignorant personal attack? What real thing have YOU ever accomplished? You're a classic loser.
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  36545.  @marcusosuna687  Not asinine at all. It required an essentially new Constitution to end slavery. "Whose business is it who or what I own? Or what contracts I enter into?"
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  36546.  @Mike-In-O-Town  It's not spelled Sonya.
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  36547.  @jimeagle1155  Where do you get this? A property right in persons as chattel was in the Constitution.
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  36548.  @Mike-In-O-Town  I thought all lives mattered. And the right is unfailingly courteous. Just like the woksters.
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  36549.  @dustinluadzers320  No I'm not.
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  36550.  @dustinluadzers320  Truth and politics (and hagiography) are two diffent things. One motive of joining the Declaration of Independence for many was to have the ability to deal with slaves as the rebels saw fit.
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  36551.  @dustinluadzers320  What history? Or where did I do constitutional law? Try that. Never pays to try to punch down.
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  36552.  @Mike-In-O-Town  I suggest you read it carefully, and think about its possible ramifications for vaccine mandates. No major case stands alone, or only for a highly narrow, partisan proposition. Finding a privacy right in the Constitution reassures me more than it ever did before, in my own life. Be careful what you wish for, as the saying goes.
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  36553.  @dustinluadzers320  Oh! Is that the card you really want to play? Blocked.
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  36554. OMG, I remember this now. She gets away with this in the post-Epstein world, and is the nominee anyway? I guess children's lives don't matter.
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  36555. @thekentuckyan8088  You know what this is really about? It's the New Popular Front trying to further erode support for Macron. The leftist LFI leader Jean-Luc Melenchon criticized this display. I like him a lot, but I understand why he's grabbing on to this. Just like the left was more critical of Charlie Hebdo, and very critical of recent v mandates. In France, the memes are different.
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  36556. Just wait. Lol.
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  36557. It's because in this wildly prudish society, the word SEX makes people too uncomfortable. Gender is a euphemism for sex.
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  36558. Look up the European countries with higher cancer rates and much longer life expectancy. Huh.
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  36559. Suddenly no one is talking about testing. I'd be glad to take a weekly test and pitch in for a copay to do it, no problem. Testing is better than vaccines, vaccines have breakthrough infections.
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  36560. Thank you for reminding me why America is unlivable for decent people. I had forgotten.
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  36561. ​ @billcollins6894  I'm shocked, shocked by it.
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  36562. Elon was a Democrat just the other day, wasn't he?
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  36563. EVERY Silicon Valley millionaire I ever met at some point sent me pirated music. I'm working class and always put it straight in the garbage. It's envy of the artists. Non-artists are insanely jealous of artists. It's the one thing their mobey can never buy.
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  36564.  @CrabFiles  Oh good grief. Never mind.
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  36565.  @CrabFiles  I guess YT doesn't like people to mention MIT.
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  36566. Oops.
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  36567. The accusations of "antisemitism" are being hurled against the New Popular Front and La France Insoumise, just like they were used to take out Jeremy Corbyn.
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  36568. Wow, really appreciated this application of Adam Smith (the extraction of rents, the commons) to our day. Really nicely done.
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  36569. 💯
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  36570. Are they going to be allowed to say that when non-white or non-Western people are discriminated against, this stratagem has historical roots and it is wrong?
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  36571. Wokism? The WEF has you where they want you, thinking this is what matters while they rob you, and use people like Meloni as an excuse to clamp down. They shut the world down once. I think they called it a dry run! Exaggerating only slightly, or maybe not at all.
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  36572. America can no longer raise an army. GOOD
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  36573. 12:04 Where the fun starts.
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  36574. Well, Trump's fact-free living is spreading faster than COVID. Did he think Biden couldn't outdo him in lying? Nepotism? Graft? Biden has had over 40 years of intensive practice.
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  36575. Isaac isn't anti-vaxx.
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  36576.  @djinghiskhan9199  Right. He doesn't oppose vaccination. Didn't you listen? He had COVID, and has decided not to take this (very new) vaccine at this time. Does a person have to take every vaccine in order not to be an "anti-vaxxer?" Have you had Prevnar 13? It's been recommended for all ages for at least 5 years.
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  36577.  @djinghiskhan9199  Any more slogans ya got there? No?
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  36578.  @djinghiskhan9199  Did you also jeer "Horsey Paste" at the appropriate time, at prescribed intervals?
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  36579. I was just thinking, here comes a foreclosure crisis, just before Kyle mentioned it. Oh brother. What is WRONG with people like Manchin???
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  36580. Depp is the one vying for Victim laurels.
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  36581. @jefferygoines  Why should someone have to prove innocence? No police report, no report to an attorney (who is an officer of the court), no sworn affidavit, no testimony under oath in a court or other tribunal --- instead, anonymous reports to mainstream media about something that took place a decade ago, and a documentary with actors, not the actual accusers, in the shadows. This is insufficient for an arrest, much less a demand that Brand prove his innocence. If you actually believe what you're saying, tell us how you got that way so that we can avoid the same fate.
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  36582. @onepartyroule  You can be sure Russell Brand's attorneys will take a close look at that contract. I don't want to imply they will find anything wrong or that YouTube is in breach. (I would take a wild guess and say YouTube can do pretty much whatever it wants.) I simply mean that we don't know his response yet. It may not be so simple, given that YouTube does make serious money from 6 million+ follower accounts.
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  36583. No. He really is Exceptional.
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  36584. A year ago, we thought the wealth disparity could not grow larger. Those were the good old days.
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  36585. Exactly
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  36586. ​ @stephenglasse2743  He told you. The real message is to support MIC and more war. It is not to save anyone's life.
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  36587. Have you ever read Extraordinary Knowing? Please do. Almost all of the information in that book has been repeatedly confirmed, although some has not. It is a serious book and will give you a sense of calm after you know for sure you are not alone.
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  36588. ​@ApacheMagic Another explanation, that has more evidence, is that the mind of the person who experienced this "knew" the mind of the person driving that car, directly and non-discursively. This is simpler, and not uncommon.
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  36589. @Dawn-e5n  Actually, the perception of light or wetness does appear to need a consciousness, though not yours or mine, but the entities we know as the shining sun and H2O were certainly around first.
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  36590.  @Dawn-e5n  Then there's also Occam's Razor, the least popular principle on these shows. 😅
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  36591. @Dawn-e5n  Oh my goodness. Never read Locke, et al?
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  36592. @Dawn-e5n  blocked
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  36593. Every kid has wondered this.
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  36594.  @allanthomas6097 Conflicts are analyzed from the viewpoint of the first case you took. Any case that represents a conflict with that case must be refused, with certain exceptions. Just dropping one of them is not enough; the conflict persists if the first client is in any way jeopardized -- and in this case, something the mother told the attorney in confidence potentially could help Kohberger's defense. I consider that a conflict of interest, but I don't know if it is technically permissible and just disfavored in some people's eyes. It's a tough call, but I expect criminal defense lawyers to volunteer themselves to act as counsel pro bono, so in the end Kohberger will probably opt not to use the public defender's office. If this case goes to trial, the lawyer will have a book deal in the millions.
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  36595.  @deecastle5053  If he goes to trial, he'll end up with a private lawyer. Just watch.
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  36596. Biden does not look good. And he's probably going to win.
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  36597. There is no such thing as a "white nation." Hence the term itself is racist. But the debate here was pure semantics.
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  36598. If Trump and the others are being truthful, this is not a very good gotcha, is it? What, exactly, did the person who Trump was referring to do? Viper's nest, Trump chief viper.
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  36599. @OSnoopySnoop1  No reason not to OPEN THE FILES. Is there? Did you think I didn't mean it? Oh I mean it all right.
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  36600. Wanted to watch this and could not.
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  36601. When the first shot has clearly unusual effects, and we KNOW this is a new type of drug shown to have significant side effects in many people, WHY is a second shot given? I'm starting not to believe in innocence.
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  36602.  @occamsrazor1285  Sorry about that, but I get censored so much I fell into the habit. Pragmatically, this is Brie's livelihood and she's not going to get a call from MSM to host a show. She has said over and over she did not vote for Biden. She frequently praises something Trump said when she agrees with it, in spite of her disdain for him, and how much wrath praising him attracts from the libs. She clearly likes Kennedy, and of course Cornel West. So . . . She may sound like she's right on the verge of calling for censorship, but she will not. Pure pragmatics, bread and butter . . . .
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  36603. Trump was too lazy and unfocused to do anything about the Deep State, except tweet a lot and scowl.
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  36604. How often does she need a thorough groom?
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  36605. Glenn would never say that. He really believes in free speech -- just like the video he just brought us with Matt.
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  36606. No. He is not running as an independent/third party, but in the Democratic primary. He would have to draw enough votes away from the Republican primary in closed primary states to have an effect on Trump. Not plausible.
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  36607. I have always supported the post office. They have been systematically smeared for decades. What did people think was behind it? Systematic destruction of public goods.
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  36608. The DNC wants to keep Barbara Lee out and put in a warmonger.
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  36609. Then it must be necessary to offer testing to everyone, no exceptions. After all, we all have to shop for groceries, go to the doctor, the dentist, the pharmacy . . . You know. The necessities. None of that is outdoors, either.
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  36610. You're misrepresenting what she said, just like that segment on fake tweets. Look at the big picture. What I would like is for the in-state tuition of the late, great public universities to be something a kid could pay by working all summer. Up until the 1980s, a minimum wage summer job covered a full year of in-state tuition and fees, and oftentimes books and supplies as well, at nearly all of the public universities. Work-study covered most of the rest. The kids who worked their own way through school were a different people. Nor do I want qualified kids to be held back by being shoved into community colleges. This almost always holds back the most talented. They belong on the campus of a real university, with doctoral students around to interact with from Day 1. They need that rush of enthusiasm and motivation. They shouldn't have to wait two more years. Enough of this waiting! That goes for unpaid summer "internships," too. Every internship should have, at minimum, a stipend equal to $15.00 per hour, 35-hour week. Anything else is bull****.
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  36611.  @Magnet423  Briahna Joy Gray is an AOC/"Squad" critic.
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  36612.  @John-tx1wk A tiny sliver of what she said. Among other things, she mentioned all the minorities shoved into fields like nursing, and told to get the most minimal education to qualify for their RN, rather than the degree that is now strongly preferred, and they could not get jobs that paid enough to shoulder the loan payments. This is ridiculous. Come ON.
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  36613.  @John-tx1wk  So, if I took you out of context, would everything you said stand up to scrutiny? If you don't want discussions, don't post. Even easier.
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  36614.  @TheFlyingFox14  Another issue: women are brutal to other women, but are never allowed to say so, to anybody. You can figure out the rest.
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  36615. @GrimSower  Have you looked into that? (Quiz: what happens on a planet that has no magnetic field?)
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  36616. The cognitive issue she suffered from happens at the other end of the body.
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  36617.  @HughRGlen  That's not what "hit dog will holler" means; that was a reference to his tweet, which made little sense. If Musk hates Chase (and who doesn't?), then why wouldn't he agree to turn over documents that might reveal Chase acting unethically? On the other hand, if as a matter of principle he believes he should not be required to comply, he can send in his lawyers; he can afford a legal team. Or, he can do like that Google exec and hide from being served, I guess. Some reason you can't see through Musk?
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  36618.  @HughRGlen  If Tesla stock had made me rich, I'd just say I like Elon because he made me rich. The Five Eyes style of boot-licking will never be my style.
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  36619.  @markislivingdeliberately  Kim Iversen explained the logic of the subpoena very well on her show tonight. Which is funny, as she is not a lawyer.
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  36620.  @HughRGlen  LOL, I just explained how she used it here. His tweet was the hollerin'. It doesn't mean obey the subpoena if you have nothing to hide. It also means challenge it where it counts -- in court, not the twitterverse. As for court, that's not hollerin'. He has every right to stand on principle.
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  36621.  @HughRGlen  It means the lady protests too much.
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  36622.  @HughRGlen  So that is not the same as obey the subpoena if you have nothing to hide. Brie is a lawyer and I honestly think she meant comply or challenge -- or even evade service if you can do so legally -- just don't tweet. If Musk hates Chase, he may still think the subpoena is shameless fishing, sure, but he should like the fact that Chase is not escaping scrutiny for once, assuming the action is legit.
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  36623.  @HughRGlen  Well, there are a lot of times when I agree with her and think she should be a lot more careful in how she presents her point.
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  36624. 22:22
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  36625. Mm. I think I'd put it at 0.01% and 3%. Small refinement. There are a lot of rich suburbs in the blue states.
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  36626.  @travisethridge4062  I suggest you look at the independent research on nutrition, which has nothing to do with this creep WHO IS PUSHING GMOs. We already have substantial evidence that vegetarians are much less likely to die of COVID, for example, not to mention heart disease and cancer, but all the people who fell for the "paleo" craze are adamant that they won't touch a red leaf lettuce salad. Newsflash: if you take vitamin D, you better eat vitamin K-rich foods. What's behind paleo? What, and who?
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  36627. No she's not. They couldn't maintain a civil rights suit without showing evidence of innocence, especially in New York (Second Circuit). Their suit would have been dismissed. Read the complaint. That will put you ahead of these three, who make an easy living. No reason to think any of them took the time.
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  36628. I followed these links to find a draft copy of the WHO Treaty itself. First, you are correct: at the very start, the WHO Treaty reaffirms individual state sovereignty. But this raises two questions: what does the mean legally, and what does it mean in practice? We would need an international legal expert to answer the first question. In the US, treaties generally have the force of federal law, which preempts state law. We need to know the scope of "sovereignty" in this document. As for the second question, would powerful governments and private NGOs and their foundations have the ability to tell WHO what to recommend, and then would politicians use that as a cover? This time, their recommendations may or may not have saved lives, but trillions in wealth certainly changed pockets.
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  36629. Too short, Jimmy. You could have made this 30 minutes.
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  36630. THIS
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  36631. Ye is being exploited, but he seems not to know by whom or how to fight back. He is very intelligent, which is obscured by a serious mental illness, and he is being treated like a carnival freak. His life is in danger because of his bipolar disorder, and people are more fixated on parsing this outrageous statement or that outrageous statement. The man is not well. Someone should care. I hate how he is being treated. Where are the people who, like Freud, would never have judged him but would have treated him? Victor Frankl, all the great Jewish psychiatrists and psychoanalysts were like that, truly cosmopolitan in the very best tradition and outstanding clinicians as well.
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  36632. What I find interesting is that it was Naomi Wolf who demanded accountability and consequences for bad acts, and somehow she is getting dismissed. When Dr. Peterson points out how important accountability is, and brushes aside excuses, everyone praises him. Why is that? Wolf is an immensely accomplished person and even went back to school late in life to complete her doctorate, at OXFORD. She had already earned a fortune from her writing and raised two children. She did not do this for material reasons. She could have just, you know, bought a yacht or something. She also resisted the COVID hysteria and pushed back on the vaccine mandates. And her husband (second husband) is a veteran. Sounds to me like a truly successful life. If someone like that can still feel what it was like to be a vulnerable, idealistic, naive teen at Yale, in awe of all the famous people there who turned out to have feet of clay, then maybe that really is a big deal at 19? When Dr. Peterson's wife became ill, he himself had a problem, with prescribed drugs. You don't hold that against him, do you? Does he "wreak of being violated?" He has dissolved into tears many times since his ordeal. So what? But she can't even talk about what happened to her, and do so unemotionally? You're making the case for the people who insist that we live in a "rape culture."
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  36633.  @_nines8270  LOL
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  36634.  @_nines8270  root of 9.869 is not half bad . . . yeesh
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  36635. No she didn't. She married her way in.
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  36636.  @leevy6753  Not a "feeling." Deadly force in defense of mere property is illegal. You can use deadly force to defend yourself and your own safety, not your car.
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  36637. The "overseas problem" happens to be the US Dollar under attack, and no one is taking it seriously. At this rate, if no one sobers up and leads, expect war.
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  36638.  randyp070129  You think support for vigilantes is a "real insight?"
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  36639. ​@mikebardel9420 Wow they let you say? 😮
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  36640.  @AdilMouhammed-zf1br  There is no question Hunter used his name and relationship to his father for material gain. The emails, even if authentic, are not evidence that anyone obtained actual access to the Vice President via Hunter. (Who hasn't gotten an email saying, "Thank you for your support!!" This is not much more.) As Glenn Greenwald noted, there are no "bombshells" here. The real story is the censorship. Greenwald is always astute. What we do know is the emails are a basis for raising questions. What Biden does with those questions is up to him, and the voters can then decide whether they care about his evasiveness.
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  36641.  @brentshowers741  We don't know that it's "likely true" Biden did favors in return for Hunter's board position. But someone should be looking.
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  36642. @Brent Showers I'm not minimizing it. I have huge suspicions, and would never vote for Biden -- or Trump, for that matter. What we already know about Hunter's foreign activities is plenty. But even the story about how the emails were obtained and leaked is strange, and raises questions about their authenticity. You can't draw firm conclusions on this basis -- except to say it is sufficient to call for investigation. Anyone could be setting up either side, looking to embarrass Biden OR Trump.
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  36643.  @brentshowers741  The Hill Rising seems to be taking the emails at face value: https://youtu.be/dsxx2KrLFyk I thought this was interesting. There is corroborating evidence for things that are stated in the emails, but also reasons to be suspicious of them. Different news outlets are reporting them totally differently. Tech is weird now. Think about it: real emails, videos, etc., could have been hacked, then planted. Fake emails could have been fabricated, but the substance of what they say could all be true -- and if you know it's in a fake email, you might not believe it. There have never been more ways to fake evidence, or to steal it, and to make fakes look real and real things look fake.
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  36644.  @roberts.1604  Can you be serious? I would never vote for Biden. I don't prejudge him here, because we don't have the solid information yet. Would I be shocked shocked were it to turn out that he has been in neck-deep with Hunter since Day One? NO. He is corrupt. He always has been.
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  36645.  @roberts.1604  May I suggest rereading? Because this is TRUE: Tech is weird now. Think about it: real emails, videos, etc., could have been hacked, then planted. Fake emails could have been fabricated, but the substance of what they say could all be true -- and if you know it's in a fake email, you might not believe it. There have never been more ways to fake evidence, or to steal it, and to make fakes look real and real things look fake.
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  36646.  @maelstrom2313  Except that I'm not. I'm not suggesting we regard the emails as fake or otherwise unreliable. I'm suspending judgment, and explaining in a more abstract way why tech in general is potentially treacherous -- including the fact that REAL evidence and real information could be made to look dubious. Read it again. I'm not defending Hunter. I think his trajectory is a disgrace, and potentially dangerous to all Americans. Eastern Europe and China are not the new playgrounds of the dissolute rich. I did not need the email dump to know that. The antics of people like him put us all at risk.
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  36647.  @maelstrom2313  In fact, I'll say more: the story (i.e. RUMOR) being circulated right now that "US intelligence" suspects that the Hunter emails are "Russian disinformation" not only IS itself disinformation, but is exceptionally sinister disinformation. Falling so far and SO fast . . . :/ People only care about whose ox is being gored. Very scary.
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  36648. Innuendo. What do you actually mean? There is little in the world that is worse than innuendo.
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  36649.  @jackcslewis2009  LOL, perfect
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  36650.  @Bigwheels161616  $15 by 2025.
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  36651. ​@shnom10 No they aren't. In Florida, it is not illegal to allow your immediate family to continue to live with you.
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  36652. Nope, she said straight up, the CDC was lying to the public.
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  36653. Anyone who sees themselves in this case . . . Well, I just don't get it. How?
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  36654. She was fired? I bet she could write some mean bullet points.
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  36655. Don't scare people. We have no reason to be SO pessimistic. He's not pessimistic, nor is Dr. Campbell.
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  36656. ​ @angie99656 Exactly! Two billion dollars is roughly a million a year for every year since the birth of Jesus. Someone explain how that is "earned?" Now, multiply by 100. How is that earned? Now ask them to explain how a billionaire can find it profitable to pay vastly more in campaign donations and lobbying than he will ever pay in taxes, while relying on the armed forces far more than any of us do to protect his interests -- not to mention reaping our taxes in the form of government contracts and interest on Treasury bonds. Well, I guess what I mean to say is to explain why they support it.
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  36657. ​ @Curt-Gevert ​ The major corporations have found it profitable to pay vastly more in campaign donations and lobbying than they will ever pay in taxes, while relying on the armed forces far more than any of us do to protect their global interests -- not to mention reaping our taxes in the form of government contracts and interest on Treasury bonds. They buy the politicians, and the politicians make us pay. They do because they can afford it. It's no accident that tax rates were so high after WWII, when the difference between the value of the common man who fought when called upon and the parasitic class was stark and unmistakable. You couldn't get away with this back then.
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  36658. ​​ @francislenetti5016 Do you understand how they finance their lives? You do know that they borrow against their holdings, which frees up hundreds of millions in cash equivalents that are not taxable income? You know that, right?
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  36659. ​ @Curt-Gevert When you use your stock portfolio to collateralize loans, that is not a taxable event.
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  36660. ​ @DanA-nl5uo 💯
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  36661. ​ @francislenetti5016  I always find it funny when someone clueless thinks other people are.
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  36662. ​ @abc33155 Now it is the norm to pay much more in lobbying and campaign contributions than to pay in taxes. At those levels, there is nothing the oligarchs can buy in the way of material things. They buy power and influence over hundreds of millions of people. As you can see, they can.
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  36663.  @abc33155  I'm sorry. Harris supporters were better . . . How?
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  36664. @abc33155  Someone programs the algorithm. Someone has control.
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  36665.  @Curt-Gevert  ​ ​ The major corporations have found it profitable to pay vastly more in campaign donations and lobbying than they will ever pay in taxes, while relying on the armed forces far more than any of us do to protect their global interests -- not to mention reaping our taxes in the form of government contracts and interest on Treasury bonds. They pay the politicians, and the politicians make us pay. They do this because they can afford it. That is their purpose in becoming wealthier than small countries. It's not money their owners can spend on more things. It's no accident that tax rates were so high after WWII, when the difference between the value of the common man who fought when called upon and the para_sites was stark and unmistakable. You couldn't get away with this back then. This comment gets removed regularly. Explaining how it's done is verboten.
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  36666. ​​ @francislenetti5016 A "risk?" Do you imagine a dollar is a rigid yardstick? The people we are talking about are set for life for generations. The ones you cite could be living under a tent in five years if they impair the deed to their home. You think this is comparable? This is obvious for the middle class. A person making $125k can sustain 20% inflation. A person making $40k cannot. That's a scale you can grasp, correct??
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  36667. What do I really think? None of the oligarchs ever had a good love life or artistic talent, and now they've made sure that far fewer of the rest of us ever will, either.
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  36668. ​ @abc33155  The information is here, but only available if you sort by Newest. As for this guy, he slipped up and answered a post in Russian. 😂
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  36669. @francislenetti5016  I only want to sell my screenplay and finish my novels. And return to practicing civil rights law. Billionaires have no bearing on my goals.
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  36670. @angelainamarie9656  What's really funny is that accurate information about how the economics of these concentrations of wealth are achieved and increased, and pure mathematics are taken down. I do mean pure mathematics. It has happened to me in multiple contexts. Now someone explain to me how math is a culture war issue?
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  36671. WHY AREN'T THE POLICE UNDER ARREST?
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  36672. He actually dressed modestly.
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  36673. Reminds of the guys in the old neighborhood who hung around after high school. They all sounded like this. Did they have the facts? I don't know. I was a kid.
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  36674. How do you know what those places are like?
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  36675. He would say you're entitled to try to persuade him, and nothing more.
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  36676. OMG, then it's a bigger risk than I thought.
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  36677.  @hugomaritz692  Thank you for reminding us. Reality.
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  36678. Anyone can also fire their lawyer for any reason. No one is entitled to be your advocate before the court.
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  36679. Or Kamala. I don't have to finish that thought.
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  36680.  @Dan-y6l3k  Yes, grooming exists. I said an actual case should be prosecuted. The accusation should never be made casually. If false, then it is defamatory. I agree with all the rest.
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  36681. @user-nu4py2mu6o  Why did you read what I said as denying the existence of a criminal activity which we all know is real? Where did you get that?
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  36682.  @jlmoses16  Tell yourself that. Tell yourself hard.
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  36683. Question: Is Murray poor? Is Stossel? A person who challenged the mainstream narrative is in jail in the UK.
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  36684. I'm opposed to the choice they made AND I want them released to America immediately.
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  36685.  @user-om4nw8ee6l  I didn't insist that it was "our problem." It is their problem. And they are US citizens. There are many hopelessly stupid people in the world. I opt for rescue anyway. There's just too many to ignore. 😉
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  36686. There isn't a soul who went from little or nothing to immense accomplishment, in any field, who didn't go through some version of this. Read the memoirs of the latest Nobel Prize in literature, Annie Arnaux, for just example. In fact, that's her specialty.
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  36687. You are too right.
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  36688. This is very hard on law enforcement, the prosecutors, and the therapists who deal with them, as well. They themselves may need some therapy to avoid being traumatized.
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  36689. ​ @DonaldBiden420 Oh yeah. Bring NATO troops in. That is exactly what Russia needs now.
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  36690.  @DonaldBiden420  I'm sorry. How could I have guessed that post needed an irony alert?
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  36691. So . . . Hunter can't get a good-paying job from Americans? Fascinating.
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  36692.  @clementemunoz9915  thank you
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  36693. @CD He has addressed mandates. You're right that Glenn could say more.
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  36694.  @GabrielleTollerson  I'll tell you why. Links are routinely shadowed. They are too hard to monitor for TOS violations. Start by thinking. Thinking is good.
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  36695.  @GabrielleTollerson  I had no trouble finding serious criticism of her stories, by knowledgeable people, from as long ago as 2014, before "woke" was a thing. Don't do what the wokesters do. Seriously, don't.
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  36696.  @MP-tj5xv  All of those countries are secular. You confuse ceremony with zealotry. Religions have actual political sway only in Ireland and Poland, and regionally in a few other countries such as Italy and Greece, usually in the least developed regions. France is so secular most people haven't had a church wedding in generations. Germany is secular. Spain is anticlerical. In Sweden, Fanny and Alexander had a made-for-television version about 40 years ago. No one flaunts religiousity or demands religion be interjected into politics. In Italy and a few other Mediterranean countries, most men regard religion as a feminine thing, and we should protect devout women from atheist harrassment (describes my agnostic, anticlerical father to a T, and to his death).
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  36697.  @MP-tj5xv  Check the percentage of out-of-wedlock births in those countries, by the way. In France, it's 60%. Only the Muslim community brings it down. In many of the Scandinavian countries you mentioned, around 50%, higher in a few, including Denmark.
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  36698.  @MP-tj5xv  Actually, of the major nations, UK is the least secular, has a group of ardent, well-known proponents of atheism (figures), and fewer solid social programs for mothers and children than do France, Germany, etc. Figures.
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  36699.  @MP-tj5xv  Wait a second -- no state school in France EVER inculcates religion. What they call "secular teaching of religious facts" was introduced as a multiculturalist agenda about five years ago. The effort is in part to moderate the taste for Charlie Hebdo-style offensiveness. They still ban overt symbols of religiosity in school. France teaches philosophy in the final year of lycee, not religion. There's a reason for that.
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  36700. I always hated hippies.
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  36701. I'm sorry that one more example of surveillance state overreach was buried in a story about who owned twitter and who said something stupid again. Even criminals are supposed to be protected by the Bill of Rights.
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  36702.  @hayzed9491  It wasn't TO you, it was about you.
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  36703. Get a new job. This one isn't good for you. If you are at the point of following these tenants on Facebook and noting who has gone on vacation, and vetting sneaker costs, you need a new job.
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  36704. The current budgets reflect no such "defunding." None. Anywhere. Places where crime was relatively low have had a higher percentage increase, correct. Yes, it is serious. It correlates more with COVID economic depression for certain groups, and an increase in net worth for most of those in the top quintile.
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  36705.  @ahhcmon9604  But economic depression and crime are not correlated everywhere. It's first of all an American phenomenon. We were talking about this society. Funding cuts have taken effect NOWHERE. Simple fact.
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  36706.  @ahhcmon9604  Yes, the rhetoric has heated up, true. And the Serpicos are sacrificed. I don't disagree with that -- since it is true.
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  36707. Then attacks MICHAEL RATNER.
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  36708. EXACTLY what you won't get. Here's some "confirmation:" Mattias Desmet on mass formation. This hysteria has gotten to the point where one of the greatest child prodigies in history, Malofeev, who is only 20 AND has condemned the invasion, an incredibly courageous act, is nevertheless having his concerts cancelled. Mattias Desmet. Remember that name.
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  36709. BTW, the "woke" haven't noticed how you can divide the globe pretty well by color to find out who is lapping America's sh*t up and who isn't? In microcosm right here, too. That sign-off was pointed. Missed that, too?
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  36710. Yes, but it brings home the bacon, doesn't it? :/
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  36711. Outstanding holiday week edition, best wishes for a Happy New Year!!
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  36712. Simple. Biden didn't talk about changing a vote count. His crimes involve various forms of corruption.
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  36713.  @theredscourge  Freedom means the ability to decide upon your own destiny. What good is money hoarding when the generations after you, including your children, are at risk of not having their basic needs met?
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  36714.  @theredscourge  And if the company you work for goes bankrupt and you're 45 years old, it's freedom for you, too, when a night class at a university costs $100 per credit hour or the equivalent at trade school, and unemployment benefits aren't affected by your efforts at retooling. At 25, a person needs to count on working 45 years; at 45, the better part of three decades. People who thought they had saved enough for early retirement found out differently in 2001, 2008-2009, 2020, or, if they lacked good health insurance and got a dreaded diagnosis without warning (and despite excellent health habits) at age 58. I don't understand short memories.
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  36715. Oh! Look how this good news on vaccination was reported! https://youtu.be/zLEiniuTzsU
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  36716. I'm afraid I disagree. I live in an area where, within ten minutes, there are immense mansions in one direction and frame ranch homes that looked like parked trailers in another -- and pretty much everything in between. I've never seen the quality of life depend so much on money as it has since March. The people in the mansions are having a great time and getting richer. The poor people are suffering more than ever, and they are very afraid. They don't know what the next month will bring. Sure, an occasional billionaire will be miserable. No homeless person is happy.
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  36717. How could she do this to her two sisters, too?
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  36718. Victim blaming is a time-honored tradition, especially by the right wing "responsibility" crowd. You reap what you sow.
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  36719. Outstanding scoop.
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  36720. The research we have so far supports this advice very well, and the dissident doctors do, also. In any case, Dore says it is always a personal choice.
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  36721.  @tuckerbugeater  Because . . . It doesn't?
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  36722. ​If you don't realize how corrupt these people are, it's because you stopped paying attention around the turn of the century.
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  36723.  @connorlanker5952  I think his reporting sprung a former president of Brazil from jail, the socialist Lula da Silva, who is expected to run again and win. Let us know when you do something like that. Or, you could tweet more.
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  36724. It's not about safetyism or feelings. The US is arming this war. So, if the ICJ rules against Israel, it is relevant to all Americans. But to have all professors state clearly that they do not speak for the university, and have the university itself stay out of it, is sensible overall.
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  36725. Joe Biden is a crook . . . so the DEMS want to make him President . . .
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  36726. Any evidence would be appreciated because this display was sad.
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  36727. I'm sure it's true for the women he knows.
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  36728. Did anyone mention . . . Work?
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  36729. Brave, too. He has no magic shield that wards off bullets.
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  36730. Hypocrisy on a rampage.
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  36731. But do 51% of investment bankers support M4A?
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  36732. ​@DF-ss5ep I like your approach a lot. I'm not sure I agree overall, but there is certainly truth in what you say. In any case, this is how a person should approach the issue.
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  36733. AND DON'T FORGET CARIOL HORNE. She prevented the choking to death of a black man, and was FIRED for it. She just won backpay and her pension. Now she needs to get damages for the 15 years between her firing and her winning her case.
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  36734. If Musk is who you need, . . . Oh brother.
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  36735. Did you notice the same thing during Depp v. Heard? If you hated Heard enough to miss it, did you at least pick up on the ridiculous $2 million verdict against Depp, for something he didn't say? These were ALL First Amendment cases. Hey, kiss it good-bye, they got everyone to diss it, "both sides."
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  36736.  @davidzawistowski4073  When was the last time Jones' claim was republished by him or using means under his control?
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  36737. @Brian H How could there not be? One set of questions and claims has an evidentiary basis. The other does not. In defamation, and under the New York Times malice standard applying to broadcasts about people and events of legitimate public concern, that's the whole shebang.
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  36738. @Brian H "I doubt that God exists." "I know God does not exist." Same thing?
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  36739. @Brian H 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Best in class. So, human logic is better than God's? You need a different god.
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  36740. @Brian H Of course not. You don't like to think. 🤣
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  36741. @Brian H With respect to any statement, which is true or false, the possible epistemological positions are multiple: knowledge that it is true, if it is; belief that it is true, whether it is or not; knowledge that it is false, if it is; belief that it is false, whether it is or not; acknowledgement that one does not know whether it is true or false. At least these. Goldbach's conjecture is certainly true or false. No one knows which.
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  36742. @Brian H Actually, not every theologian agrees that faith is a choice. Many believe it is a divine gift.
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  36743. @Brian H Okay, now we know. You don't know logic. Obviously you don't consider that a problem. You also imagine that memorizing a many-times-translated Bible study group verse gives you deeper insight that that of people who devoted their entire lives to reading ancient languages, understanding religion and religious faith, the mystery of revelation, and so forth. When I taught philosophy, I occasionally met people like that. It was before the heavy social media and belligerent ignorance became entrenched. I bet you'd all get lots more Likes today.
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  36744. @Brian H A photograph without chain of custody and testimony to authenticate it is never evidence in court or any serious proceeding. Literally never. The burden of proof is in the proponent to prove the photograph is real, or at least to show some evidence that it is, and that it actually shows what that person purports it shows. If anyone could easily believe such a photo, of a kid who was killed at Sandy Hook, is real, then this society is lost.
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  36745.  @screwtape1848  But look, you know that spiel by heart and in your sleep. It's the rot you're supposed to believe, and you do. So, what's the problem? What would you need a new video for?
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  36746. Offloading responsibility is how business is done. That is why people incorporate: to limit liability. This is why a corporation can declare bankruptcy without putting at risk the owners' personal assets that are not included in the corporate's financial structure. The owner is protected from having to be personally responsible. As for Wall Street, when they structure transactions to "minimize risk and maximize rewards," that's the very same thing. The idea is to avoid having to be responsible for losses, while benefiting from gains. That's called being a success. But preach the gospel of "personal responsibility" to the hoi polloi, ha ha. Good one.
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  36747.  @screwtape1848  But then we would have to modify the corporate form quite drastically. Cool. :)
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  36748. We're supposed to be excited that a woman of color . . . etc. If you're not, you're a racist, etc. Keep it simple.
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  36749. Another subtext: MSM/surveillance state count on us to have the memory of an average housefly.
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  36750. 😂😂😂 excellent
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  36751. If they're in the will they would.
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  36752. V derived. The Guardian wrote about it when it turned up in London. I wonder if the posts where I spelled it out are subject to sense or ship.
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  36753.  @EB-cr5yy  This story is already in the mainstream media. I thought it was a permitted discourse, and that everyone knew about it. They even have a word for it. They call it vaccine (wait for it, wait for it) de (abundance of caution) rived.
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  36754. Well? /s
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  36755.  @dertythegrower  He is plenty well known where he lives, and where his reporting sprung a former socialist president from jail by proving the charges were trumped up.
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  36756. Well then the people with severe reactions don't count. "Cull the herd!" /s
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  36757. Then why does each round of deregulation make life worse? You do know there is a business incentive to engineer obsolescence, correct? For example, a vaccine that requires boosters every 6 to 12 months makes more money than "one and done." A LOT more 💰
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  36758.  @toddtravis2596  The chaos. I said IF. I meant IF.
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  36759.  @talesofgore9424  On the contrary. Those areas are left to ruin deliberately.
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  36760. 24:59 And Hillary Clinton is a humanitarian peace-builder.
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  36761. 9:19 YOU think Gates will tell you "the real story?" Look, when the pandemic started, we came to the realization that most of our medicine is manufactured in China and India. But when to came to vaccine PATENTS, Gates argued strongly against lifting them, during a pandemic. Then India had a huge outbreak of the new variant. This fawning interview is a disgrace.
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  36762. But the simulation he did showed that all of the qualified applicants who were rejected -- a very large number -- were simply unlucky.
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  36763. The women rock!
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  36764. Let's keep our eye on the ball. Who created this virus, how was it released, and why was the world not warned about it immediately?
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  36765. ​​ @cj-bd3ql  Say. It's not supposed to cripple you. Right?
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  36766.  @King-IbnDragon  Or to be armed against their students. I agree, we're there. We have been since Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.
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  36767.  @King-IbnDragon  I know you didn't. I did.
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  36768.  @mckenzie.latham91  He left The Intercept. She writes for it.
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  36769. Best comment ever. Much appreciated!
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  36770.  @realericanderson  So . . . he's just a LACKEY of that socioeconomic class? Okay.
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  36771. This bill might be unconstitutional. This wouldn't be a simple question. The pharmaceutical companies should have never gotten both indemnity and patent protection. Very suspicious.
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  36772.  @jasonj6206  Do you think CGT/PCF are left wing? They've been saying what Max says.
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  36773. Back to pretending the man does not have cognitive issues.
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  36774. Very strange.
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  36775. So why did they issue him the visa?
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  36776. You must be an American.
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  36777. He claims to have assembled the evidence in a 600-page book.
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  36778.  @michaelsanger8327  I don't know what's on their paid channel. Do you?
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  36779. CRT in K through 12 is ill conceived. To understand and truly appreciate the brilliance Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow, for example, a person has to be well-versed in history, political science, ethics, and most of all have some notion of applied probability theory. This is beyond a typical college freshman. Maybe some well-read high school juniors and seniors can appreciate it -- maybe. Do all their teachers understand it? So, what are they encouraging? Memorizing SLOGANS? (As long as they're the "right" slogans?) Posturing? Showing off approved attitudes? A disgrace all around.
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  36780. 11:45 "We have four months to figure out how we're going to 'save the country' from Donald Trump." No. You've had since mid-November 2016. If Trump were SOOO dangerous, you would have gotten serious in 2016. So I don't believe you. I will never believe you.
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  36781. First thing I turn to every day is Kim's radar.
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  36782. Where did he tell anyone else what to do? He was smeared by Rolling Stone. Hence he spoke out, and explained HIS decision. BTW, regular testing of all people, vaccinated or not, would do more to stop the spread, and has no side effects.
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  36783.  @pkz420  Everything you've said is simply false. Given that we do not know how long immunity from vaccination or natural infection lasts, routine testing is essential, and has been widely implemented in other countries without drama.
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  36784.  @pkz420  Your fear mongering and belittling are not empirically based science or medicine, they are just obnoxious and telling. Incessantly repeating talking points does not make them true, nor does it increase their persuasive effect.
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  36785.  @pkz420  If you think Isaac is ignorant, I guess you must not have listened to what he had to say, or had any interest in looking up the studies that tend to support his view. (Curious. Why is that?) Where a new virus is concerned, we are all to some extent ignorant. You don't know what you claim to know because no one does, yet.
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  36786.  @pkz420  Article in NYTimes today: "Rapid Tests Are the Answer to Living With Covid-19"
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  36787.  @pkz420  I suspect meds is your thing. You brought it up. Dear.
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  36788. Yeah, but Jimmy, Ben is white. This is serious.
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  36789. Not what she said. See, for example, 11:20.
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  36790. agreed
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  36791. The public must be protected against the risk that murderers pose. Innocent people have to be given priority. Life in prison achieves that goal.
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  36792. Le vaccin Johnson & Johnson est fait sur la meme base scientifique que le Spoutnik V. C'est le seul vaccin qui est prudent d'utiliser aux EEUU, a mon avis. Je ne veut pas me faire vacciner avec un vaccin ARN messager. Mais j'ai bien envie de me faire vacciner.
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  36793. ​​ @timdeilly5971 Beat me to it.
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  36794.  @nottherealxandercrews4742  👏👏👏
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  36795. Please provide sources. Links are usually shadowed, so preferred search terms.
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  36796. Tweet aggregator. Wow.
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  36797. Great observation.
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  36798. He IS a government contractor.
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  36799. Perfect radar
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  36800. Once he got a shot off, whether in self defense or not, why wouldn't bystanders have a right to try to disarm him? People in the vicinity might think the initial shot was the beginning of a mass shooting. They might reasonably believe they were defending themselves and others.
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  36801.  @michaeledwardhunter  I hope you're right. Things look pretty bad now.
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  36802.  @michaeledwardhunter  Snuck part of it in. :)
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  36803.  @laurabornhauser3077  If you can follow French, their MSM, like Europe 1, is now interviewing tremendous doctors. Dr. Desbiolles on Sonia Mabrouk. I'll try to link, but it will likely be removed.
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  36804.  @laurabornhauser3077  https://youtu.be/kMiqjwlOAe8 is the interview link.
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  36805.  @laurabornhauser3077  More news: the Rio Tinto project in Serbia, officially cancelled.
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  36806. That means you're normal. Take it from someone who did go to reunions. Many reunions. 😂
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  36807.  @neon_trotsky  "Had" is right.
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  36808. The reason in-state tuition in the public universities is so high is that state taxes no longer support them. In 1975, a kid working all summer for $2.50 an hour easily earned his annual tuition and books. Another $800 a month covered all living expenses. Part-time jobs, parental help, roommates, and small loans covered it, no problem. Kids with apartments cooked bean soup rather than order out. Tax support of universities encouraged self-reliance, not the opposite, because kids could make enough TO PAY THEIR WAY. Think of the difference in self-esteem, between working your way through college, and returning from school to live at home with major debt.
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  36809. 🙏🙏🙏
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  36810.  @lldavidbanks8701  Trump wasn't there. Was he?
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  36811. Almost as if that's what they want, huh? $$$$$
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  36812. Why? Did he sock his wife? Or cheat? Or get stoned? Or make a movie? Then why would it be titillating?
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  36813.  @kirkha100  Are you joking? The US is good with all that.
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  36814. No, I don't believe people who write about "royals" for money. No sane person does.
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  36815. "We feel that you have received due process." Have more chilling words ever been spoken?
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  36816.  @Stopfascists0204  Often, she is, yeah. 😂
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  36817.  @artkirakosyan2633  Or are you saying Biden isn't President? Yes he is.
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  36818.  @casperwallace9685  What part of raw materials has you confused? Tweets don't substitute for titanium in jet production. Facebook won't heat German houses. Well, Think and Grow Rich. Or something. Drop copies of The Secret on Europe.
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  36819.  @casperwallace9685  Then maybe you're about to extend your knowledge of the full range of possibilities.
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  36820. Don't they read Orwell over there any more?
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  36821. Y'mean they didn't? /s
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  36822. Check the news, Bub.
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  36823. 11:10
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  36824. You certainly should have gotten a reward. I mean good grief, 5% is $850. I would have been embarrassed to withhold it. Makes me think the cash was not legal in some respect: should not have been in the possession of the owner of the backpack, or it was his but he did not obtain it through legal transactions.
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  36825. You've never heard of double jeopardy?
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  36826. Where would you go?? Serbo-Croatian is a breeze for a Greek-English bilingual speaker to learn. Parts of Belgrade are a very authentic emulation of Paris. Serbs are more likely than Hungarians to have laudible leftist/communitarian instincts (as opposed to the evil ones). What's not to like? P. S. Greece and Montenegro are right nearby. It's no contest.
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  36827. YES, study remission in a careful, scientific way.
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  36828. None of these WEF-style regimes care about their people. Humans and markets are one and the same; humans can get ornery at times, unfortunately. /s
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  36829.  @malemaline  You tell me why she stayed. She was free to make her own decisions. She was not in custody. Should she have been placed in protective custody? Maybe.
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  36830.  @anamae7668  K You get your own facts. No problem.
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  36831. There is sadly too much truth in this.
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  36832. Actually reading the complaint might give you a better idea. (I see no reason to think any of these three bothered.) They can easily afford this lawsuit themselves. Easily.
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  36833. @nunyabidness3075  Wherever a teacher is required to submit grades for students, some form of protection against retaliation is needed -- but so is some way to appeal an unfair grade. I don't claim that should be tenure, however. I think you're basically right. It's obvious.
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  36834.  @peterbelanger4094  And . . . You imagine you aren't indoctrinated?
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  36835. I suspect she'll vote third party.
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  36836.  @sheilamacdougal4874  She treated that study. It was garbage. I suggest you consult Jonathan Cook on Ukraine, at MintPress. Aaron Mate, Chris Hedges, Abby Martin are solid as well. Note that I am NOT suggesting anyone who is or can be painted (smeared?) as pro-Putin. Of course not.
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  36837.  @sheilamacdougal4874 Pushback against you is being censored. Happy?
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  36838. We need real vaccines, and the effective treatments to be available to all.
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  36839. Probably THE best analysis I have yet to hear. Rip the masks off -- only the figurative ones.
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  36840. Mattias Desmet. Remember that name.
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  36841.  @randomfools808  Why do you insist on having an opinion about something this serious RIGHT THIS MINUTE? I mean that as a real question. Because I don't get it. This reporter's story could fall apart in court, and he could have legal problems himself for all you know right now.
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  36842.  @randomfools808  "They were there, you were not." I'm not the one taking a position on what happened. YOU are.
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  36843.  @randomfools808  I don't have a position on what happened. To take this report as the one true and final word on the matter IS gullible, and THAT is what I said. I really don't care "what people are saying" about what has now become a criminal case, unless and until they are placed under oath. And I don't trust anyone who wants to be a juror, either. That is a somber obligation a normal person prefers not to have, but accepts out of a sense of duty. THAT'S what I think. I don't know about what you've spun out. What did you think I was saying? Yeesh.
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  36844. No wonder Hunter had a $81k per month gig sitting on an energy board. Merit based.
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  36845. He was on Democracy Now not too long ago, with Chris Hedges.
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  36846.  @davidmun1601  Not in the regions where their countrymen begged for their presence, no. Unless all Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, etc., etc. should be returned to Mexico. Last time you checked, huh? Checked your Facebook?
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  36847.  @davidmun1601  You don't know much but are sure of everything. That's where I'm going with this. At least get paid to repeat memes and fail to apply the same standards to all.
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  36848. Look on the bright side. She isn't pretending to have Come To Jesus.
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  36849. If the book is not yet another grift, I'll be stunned.
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  36850. It is! 😊
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  36851. I like this idea, actually.
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  36852. Well, the President-Elect bragged about expanding the federal death penalty to new crimes. I wonder how many of these people were sentenced under the 1994 crime bill. So yes, he should speak up and say he was wrong and wants to make a change starting right now.
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  36853. 0:08 If only Jimmy Carter had said that to Ronald Reagan. Just that one thing. Not the rest, ugh.
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  36854. Just saw it again. Yes, Trump was right to say it. Let's be honest here.
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  36855. That's their right to impose health and safety rules. They could face being closed and having to pay for deep cleaning yet again, if there is an outbreak. It happened to the small coffee place I go to. They were shut down for three days, and lost all weekend business. (Note that this is not a Starbucks, it's a small, local business.)
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  36856. I totally agree. The two comments above mine prove your point, of course.
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  36857. Wow, my doctor (now retired), who is not at all a fan of anything "complementary," started testing me a decade ago. There must be a way to get this information.
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  36858.  @omarsoulay4764  Outside of very close friends and family? Under rare circumstances, well-established colleagues? In America today? Don't ask me. Observe.
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  36859. GOOD NEWS, by the way: That freak Sanna Marin is OUT in Finland.
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  36860. THIS
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  36861.  @goozebump The actual left, which exists in Europe, is strongly anti-mandate (and anti-patent). CGT is anti-mandate, Norway, Sweden, etc., have no mandates.
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  36862. Not what she said. I also wonder why China instituted actual, complete lockdowns, like the kind you see in prisons. Do they know something about the virus that they are not sharing? I mean, apart from its origins, which I suspect they know. Apparently, no one can ask questions anymore. All questions are "questions." Great, keep it up. It's worth it, to get another dig in at Bri.
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  36863. Ukraine has been shelling its separatists, on its own territory, for years. No dispute about the fact, the dispute is about whether it is justified.
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  36864. Well, what do you expect? They can't go after billionaire tax avoidance schemes to pay for this.
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  36865. I was wondering why Russia and China were not participating. No, I mean it. I was wondering. Now I know one reason.
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  36866. Do you see obligatory JROTC as a solution?
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  36867.  @Assenayo  Oops. LOL!
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  36868. Re: the size of the world's real economies . . . WE KNEW THIS
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  36869.  @barquerojuancarlos7253  Just listened to Vijay Prashad, who criticized Putin fairly for Ukraine, on solid principles, and rightly criticized the West even more so as well. It was a giant exhale. Normal thinking people still exist.
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  36870. Oh, this billionaire has a platform at his full disposal, and STILL needs the courts to help him. Turning to Daddy Government so quickly? Why not start with opposing unfair speech with more speech, not threats of lawsuits? Defamation suits are always anti-free speech. See R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul. 6:41 These are simple facts; "advertisers don't care about free speech." This is a financial decision. This is always a financial decision.
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  36871. We could ask how someone like him, or Trump, gets elected.
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  36872. Maybe. Depends on whether anyone was actually scratched or bitten.
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  36873. I found the Gallop poll which showed that everyone greatly overestimates the risk of hospitalization for COVID. It contained that statistic. But for unvaccinated people, the risk is strongly linked to age, somewhat to sex, and very much to comorbidities. So the overall number of less than 0.9% is kind of misleading because you can't assess YOUR risk on that basis. If you're a healthy, slim 30 year old woman, it could be less. If you're 55 and overweight, with low vitamin D levels, well . . .
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  36874. Or do you mean the Aug 6 article, saying vaccinated people do transmit COVID?
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  36875. So . . . Are they really against all the school sh----ters? After all, it has been a full generation since Colombine, and nothing has changed.
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  36876. In formal communications, that is not stylistically preferred, but believe it or not, it is not strictly wrong. He is treating "you and your family" as a collective unit. The proof is that native speakers no longer notice it, except possibly to sense that it's colloquial, not formal. British English never does that, by the way. That is very American.
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  36877.  @LKaramazov  Perfectly acceptable view. The people who rail about "split infinitives" are annoying.
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  36878.  @jsmyth024  Angela Marsden is computing just fine.
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  36879. Of course. /s
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  36880. Does Dr. Gupta know what a woman is? How about a man? Does he know what a man is? Just checking.
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  36881. ​ @cobracommander8133  In the end, they need two woman to replace Briahna. No surprise.
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  36882. Hawley asked about the nature of this RIGHT and she lays into him about his violent language. 0:43
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  36883. Now it's kings all the way down. :/
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  36884. Wait, what's a b10w j0b?
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  36885. Will this take as long to admit as Rotherham?
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  36886. Tucker's field has serious First Amendment implications AND has literally no trade secrets or similar IP implications. So as long as he gives up the money, the non-compete clause should be null and void.
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  36887. Not even celebrate (and after all, the USSR no longer exists) -- commemorate the event. Simpler than the neoliberals are trying to make it.
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  36888.  @Johnarchiebald  I don't think they have to, but adopting speech codes is trickier than embracing free speech, which comes complete with a century of jurisprudence. If they had a code instead, and enforced it inequitably, they would be sued under Title VI because they take federal money.
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  36889.  @ustmissouri8029  No, free speech does not carry "severe consequences." That's sort of like, you are free to refuse to allow police to enter your home if they come without a warrant, but if you don't let them in anyway, you will face severe consequences. You are free to decline to answer questions without a lawyer present, but if you don't talk, you will face severe consequences.
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  36890. Not only that, but Kim is PRETTY! I mean WOW! It's sickening.
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  36891. My experience exactly. All the kids in the neighborhood had read my parents' marriage manuals a couple of years before my mother ceremoniously pulled them off the shelf and threw them in the garbage.
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  36892. P. S. These had no pictures. LOL
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  36893. I appreciate that he was concerned, and rightly so, but you do not report on your father to the FBI. You speak with his doctor, you seek legal advice.
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  36894. You're blind to what she said. She blames identity politics for undermining every good idea Bernie Sanders suggested.
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  36895.  @bmass0828  Okay, whatever. Keep it up. Imagine that getting rid of "woke" will solve the mess you're in.
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  36896.  @bmass0828  Pfft. I was going to reply. SMH. Why bother?
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  36897.  @antonioj123  Amen. I was just thinking this. People think tutoring means 3 months.
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  36898. ❤❤❤
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  36899.  @thedeal9526  Ha! What were her credentials for the job at the time she was hired? For one of the most sought after jobs on Capitol Hill? And she only had a dubious Bachelor's degree, or maybe not even that? Well, then she must have been a person of exceptional character and discretion, well-suited to working for the chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Only explanation.
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  36900.  @havable  Exactly. The Weinstein accusers contradicted themselves even more, and praised him to their closest friends, in emails and such, around the time he assaulted them. He was convicted anyway.
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  36901.  @xyzsame4081  That is the part that bothers me the most. It strikes me as sinister. Paula Jones, Monica Lewinski, etc., . . . I hate to say they are not particularly likeable, it seems so mean and I am sympathetic to what happened to them, but women with certain social profiles are what certain men consider a cost-free target. There's a reason for it. :/
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  36902. The Lex Fridmen interview of Dr. Racaniello covers the hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin issues. He's mainstream, Columbia University, the whole shot. In short, it's complicated, and no, they do not "cure," but what legitimate doctor makes that claim? What is important is that off-label, compassionate use of medications in emergencies is a long-standing principle. One more principle down. :/
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  36903. You, too?
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  36904. "F U Aaron Mate" -- said a woman If you criticize that, you are a misogynist. And Majority Report will call on YouTube to remove Jimmy Dore from the platform.
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  36905. I don't. I think he has worked for the feds.
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  36906. Let's back up here. What is the nature of this research and why is it being done? Start there.
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  36907. They'll find a way.
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  36908. ​ @sykotikmommy  This is a fad diet for most people. Some do need it. It's like the gluten-free fad, only that even fewer people need to avoid all gluten.
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  36909. ​ @PaulnJenna But only the best ones, yes.
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  36910. @sykotikmommy  Believe what you want. Whether it be carnivore diets, Ukrainian flags, MAGA, or trans, when the True Believers show up, get out of their way.
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  36911.  @sykotikmommy  I bet my reply is cents errr . . . d. Too rational.
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  36912. @sykotikmommy  There is a species of bird that just evolved to eat an invasive species of snail in three generations. You think several hundred generations of eating grains has had no effect on our evolution? Besides, if we accept wholeheartedly your theory, we evolved primarily to eat wild game, not factory-farmed cows. I can believe wild game is superior nutrition.
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  36913. 6:40. Yes it does. Thank you, Robby.
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  36914.  @sittingindetroit9204  Assumptions are worthless. If you haven't read the actual court record, then you don't know.
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  36915.  @sittingindetroit9204  Perfect. You just earned a byline.
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  36916.  @sittingindetroit9204  It was easier to find than I thought it would be, too. You were right.
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  36917.  @Birdpoo777  No he's not. He did his homework.
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  36918.  @Birdpoo777  Are they suppressing the factual posts, or are you just not reading them? This was not an ordinary mistake at all. That story might be pushed for market reasons.
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  36919.  @Infectd  Nope. Read the whole story. The state prosecuted her for a reason. Hospitals don't prosecute people. The most they can do is fire them and recommend a license be lifted. They can't lift the license -- nor should they be able to.
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  36920. Twitter and Facebook are advertising platforms. I'm sorry anyone in movies or television thinks Twitter is a place to air their actual political opinions. They are supposed to engage in image tending and self-promotion, to the widest possible audience. Any network that does not explain this, and offer image consultants to those who may need them, is not playing fair.
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  36921. A lot of people do that, but it doesn't give them orgasms like it does Bernie and the Squad.
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  36922. You can.
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  36923.  @arleneshanley9889  I'm so sorry.
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  36924.  @Jane_under_a_tree_with_a_book  I think some will end up voting Biden, most will vote Green, some will abstain, and a few will vote for Trump. Most listeners of independent media will come out like that. Green is gaining ground in Europe, wherever people are sick to tears of conventional partisan political hacks. It's not just here that people are flummoxed by the choices, you can be sure of that.
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  36925.  @MrLeadb1  The original post said "tax bill" -- no indication whether a court case concerning that bill was (or was not) filed.
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  36926. We ALL have got to get on this program! I sort-of knew that. 😢
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  36927.  @JoJo-vg8dz  I didn't say it had no value. Considering all the people with long COVID that may also manifest as intestinal inflammation, and considering they've even put a few kids on steroids because of it, I'm sure they would have been grateful to have had the chance to try it. Also, it might be more useful in later variants that don't affect lungs as much as the first variant did. What Racaniello said about it on Lex Friman, and his endorsement of ivermectin clinical trials, sounded reasonable to me.
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  36928.  @soakupthesunman  It's rare but has happened. Do you believe in vaccine injuries?
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  36929.  @soakupthesunman  I haven't taken the vaccine. My concerns about it were never addressed, so I didn't. I'm taking a risk either way. That's the reality. There are credible reports of long-term negative effects from BOTH.
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  36930. Not all Israelis would agree.
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  36931. ANY job that presents physical risks to the worker NEEDS to be unionized. THINK IT THROUGH. As for the people who disagree, have they ever done a dangerous job?? Others can benefit from unions. Workers in physically risky jobs NEED them.
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  36932.  @Teetee-kp3ph  SAME HERE
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  36933.  @gabriellazordan  She was the only child of her two parents, and she inherited her father's house, and that's where she stayed. She was married one time, and divorced quite young, barely over 30, and never remarried. I never said she had no relatives. She's a little different. So? And when she and her daughter could afford it, she got her MSW. To my mind, she rocks. I could dig a Mom like that.
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  36934.  @gabriellazordan  I was talking about Megan's mother.
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  36935.  @gabriellazordan  Megan is 100% Northwestern, Evanston, IL, majoring in theatre and international relations. She never attended any other college. You think her kiddos are cosplay? Lady, please. Just don't give money to whoever told you that.
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  36936. Yes he does. People's Party. In a highly divided country, a third party can have at least the power Manchin currently does. It takes some deft strategizing and hard work, but members of Congress used to work hard. They can get to work again.
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  36937.  @jimluebke3869  She reported the incident while he was alive, many years ago. Toxic? Yeah, Bloom was.
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  36938.  @jimluebke3869  Certainly. Look it up. What made you think not?
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  36939. If all these kids die, who will be buying the gender affirming care drugs?
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  36940. "Put your big girl pants on," says Kelly. Thank you for letting us know definitively that you have no judgment.
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  36941. "They know his history of corruption. They know his history of bullying." Devastating clip! Excellent.
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  36942. If you are a spy, what's the difference for whom? It's the lowest thing there is. They spy on us without blinking an eye. Ever heard of the Church report? MK-ULTRA? Interesting that the Unabomber just died, likely by suicide. What should have happened to those who experimented with him, at age 17, before he could even consent?
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  36943.  @michaelneufeld4515  Amen!
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  36944.  @Flamingtorpedostrike  👏👏👏
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  36945.  @michaelneufeld4515  P. S. WHAT will it take??
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  36946. Now is a good time to read all of Stephen F. Cohen and watch his videos. About two years before the invasion of Ukraine, Cohen discussed it at 92nd Street Y. Everyone else was surprised that he saw the invasion as a real risk. They wanted him to agree that it was unlikely. He would have none of it.
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  36947. No one was having __ anyway.
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  36948. Why does anyone watch this guy? We just found out that some of the worst got Russian money. Who funnels money for this?
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  36949. When there actually are babies ripped from incubators, whose side are we on?
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  36950. Same
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  36951. Why why why do the MSM keep lying, even about this?? Seriously, this is disordered.
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  36952.  @jfbshxjfb  I'm relieved.
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  36953. You're bitter, too? I can't believe having kids is this bad. Maybe we need to rein in the cost of food, housing, education, . . . Don't see anyone running who might do that.
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  36954.  @josephknaak9034  Ask the producers of The Hill.
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  36955.  @JamesReedy  No, no one got your drift.
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  36956.  @mrk6753  LOL, 💯
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  36957. ​@norbertgeorge7700 The Soviets restrained the neoliberal globalists from looting their (supposed) Western allies and Japan. That was its central function. The Soviets really did save Europe twice, first from Hitler, then from the US.
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  36958.  @NDJ1978  Then why are your drawers in a bunch? Blocked.
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  36959. 6:39 🤣🤣🤣🤣😆
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  36960. But read up how Vioxx turned out to be dangerous. How was that uncovered?
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  36961. The "conservative" Democrats are not "putting a knife in Biden's chest." BIDEN and family will benefit from any tax cut for the rich.
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  36962. ​@dariusus9870 And I think anyone who (1) obsesses this much about "happiness," and (2) believes "happiness" is within a person's control, is not only not happy, or any other thing I'd aspire to be, but should be given wide berth. Keep your distance from these people. Chances are good they will stab you in the back at the first opportunity, for no other reason than to achieve the most banal and limited definition of "success" you could imagine. (For those who think this is a cynical view, I invite you to read Rick Rubin's book, The Creative Act, and in particular the chapter entitled "Non-Competition.")
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  36963. ​ @mikhail.mp4 Eat super-well, exercise, make art, take walks in nature, and sleep tight. Don't worry.
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  36964. Even THIS discussion is being sense__ord. I'm not happy about that. 😅
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  36965. ​ @dariusus9870  And I think anyone who (1) obsesses this much about "happiness," and (2) believes "happiness" is within a person's control, is not only not happy (or any other thing I'd aspire to be), but should be given wide berth. Keep your distance from these people. Chances are too good that they will stab you in the back at the first opportunity, in service of achieving the most banal definition of "success" you could imagine. (A version of this went poof. I wonder if it is visible resorted.)
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  36966.  @MrTriple3D  I'm a girl.
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  36967. Yes. Of course, if this virus is not natural, we may be at risk of a different pattern.
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  36968.  @taragnor  thank you
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  36969. Meta? Uber was taken, Maga was taken . . .
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  36970. What a way to forget Sophie Scholl. Unbelievable.
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  36971. ​ @Disneydreamgirl33 All false. Wow. That almost never happens.
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  36972. Justin Jackson is genius.
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  36973. 2021-2022: We need to be ready in case we can't get out of our social and economic mess without a new war.
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  36974. ​@gemmster14 I don't know that case. If that's what happened, he should be freed immediately and, possibly, file a civil rights suit. I will look it up to see whether there was any plausible reason for government action against him. Apparently, and whatever the details, the First Amendment is fragile and that's not good. I like Nadine Strossen more every day.
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  36975. Great choice of guest for this topic.
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  36976. GOOD REMINDER! Thank you.
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  36977. I would reject any ultimatium game share less than 50-50 unless my share were life-changing money. For life-changing money, I'd consider it.
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  36978.  @MisterHowzat  Give me a break! Yes, for them to think they know something is ridiculous, but for you to equate them with someone who can and does influence global policy -- and is unqualified, and elected by no one, AND we can do nothing about it -- is absurd. Gates has given no indication in public that he knows anything except how to manipulate others, and he's abnormal in failing to hide his glee over it.
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  36979. ​@l.h.3586😂😂😂😂😂 Well, but people should talk to the US, despite it all.
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  36980. It was Trump who lifted the moratorium on funding gain-of-function research. Someone probably flattered him, then put the paper in front of him. He isn't a big fan of reading.
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  36981. Briahna Joy Gray was underwhelmed by this indictment, and she is Bernie Sander's former press secretary and a Harvard Law grad. She's not alone, either.
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  36982. No.
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  36983. Agreed! SO worth the time!
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  36984. Who paid for the ad?
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  36985. I could put every one of the perpetrators of fraud mentioned here in JAIL for a long time.
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  36986. @Александр Кузнецов I'm sorry you don't know how to do computer simulations. Maybe if you work harder at it, or if someone suggested the right book to you, you could replicate the data for yourself and feel pride instead of phony tough-guy scorn.
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  36987.  @bwake  Well, the people I replied to have since left the discussion, so I don't know what this was about.
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  36988. If you teach college kids, try this experiment: ask them if they think they could become multimillionaires. All of them do, and they'll be furious if you give them any impersonal descriptions of economic forces that might suggest not. (After all, "attracting abundance" might be true -- kind of a primitive Pascal's wager they've got going.) Now, give them a challenge: take a year of Calculus and get an A on every exam. Hmm. Or, for a whole month, cook everything you eat. You will hear groans. No one has ever leaped to take on the challenge and achieved it. If becoming a multimillionaire is easier, how can it be based solely on hard work?
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  36989.  :D  Are you multilingual or non-Western? If neither, that's both expected and bloody funny.
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  36990.  :D  On second thought, thanks for writing this. I have several excellent comments on this video I had forgotten about, and enjoyed rereading.
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  36991. ​@Lurch685 But it didn't. This is mutilating kids, many of whom would probably have grown up to be LGB. Marriage equity means they have no incentive to try to hide their orientation or marry a straight person. They can follow their heart.
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  36992.  @alterego157  I still found some of them.
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  36993.  @joecater894  Still not proof. Reason enough to demand answers, though.
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  36994.  Erol Sayn  You should go to the UNSC and tell them that. Maybe you can get a grant.
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  36995. It gets better: 34:10 ROFL
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  36996.  @zeidenmedia  Correct, they were never married. Yet they had a child together and adopted a child together. Hence they had a relationship akin to marriage, and were parents of Soon-Yi Previn's siblings. It's a question of ethics. Obviously marrying Soon-Yi was legal. No impediment whatsoever. But who thinks this could be ethical? (Also, it isn't evidence either way about the abuse allegations.)
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  36997.  @zeidenmedia  I made clear what I think. Perhaps you could reread it without your bias? He did co-parent two of Soon-Yi's siblings. That raises an ethical issue, not a legal one. People often disagree on ethics. The issue of the ethics of unmarried people adopting together is also raised, but we all know we dare not go there! But now that we have marriage equity, and adoption equity, I think it is fair to bring it up. Not to judge, but to raise the question. Or, to put it another way, single and unmarried couples should think it through carefully before they do it. KIDS COME FIRST. They have to.
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  36998.  @zeidenmedia  I don't care enough to bother, frankly.
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  36999.  @zeidenmedia  No problem.
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  37000. Bush is a better painter than Hunter Biden, but some of Hunter's stuff is pretty creative. I wonder who painted it.
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  37001. When they engineer guilty pleas for people presumed innocent but in jail nontheless, they are worse. You are "clearly blind to reality."
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  37002. A little portly, are we?
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  37003. Reminds me of believe all women but not that woman.
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  37004. Yup. We are supposed to believe that the IOC didn't have the technology to determine her eligibility before she got to the Olympics? Or the grace to let her skate in peace, and sort things out afterwards? "You can skate. You may not medal no matter what you do." Congrats IOC on the emotional destruction of a brilliant 15 year old, a true prodigy. I don't remember the last time I was so disgusted. Oh wait, sure I do: Jeffrey Epstein, the abuse scandal in US women's gymnastics, the impoverishment and starvation of Afghanistan, . . . The list grows.
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  37005. @Hank254  But just very slowly go through the possibilities. Or look at it this way: suppose Monty doesn't know where the car is. He opens one of the two remaining doors, and we see the car. Therefore, we know the contestant lost. Now suppose Monty opens one of the two remaining doors, and we see a goat. He just eliminated one of the ways the contestant might have lost. Obviously the contestant should switch. Or, say A and B can randomly pick any one of the three doors. A picks Door One, and B has no idea that A picked Door One. Then B has a 1/3 chance of picking Door One as well. Now suppose B does not pick Door One, but picks either Door Two or Door Three -- revealing a goat. Obviously with this new information, the probability of the car being behind the door no one picked is now 2/3. It was never 1/2, because it wasn't 1/2 between Doors Two and Three when B made his choice. Is this correct, or am I loopy now as well? 🤭
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  37006. @Hank254  No, the information gleaned in my first example is exactly the same. Monty not knowing he is about to reveal a goat doesn't matter. The fact that he does reveal a goat is the additional information.
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  37007. @Hank254  The problem involves revealing a goat behind one of the doors the first contestant did NOT pick. It does not matter who reveals the goat, or whether with foreknowledge that they were about to reveal a goat. "Monty knows" simply eliminates the possibility that the car is behind one of the remaining doors and is revealed to be. Once a goat has been revealed by Monty, what does it matter whether Monty revealed it knowingly or not? This was actually a debate among savvy statisticians who agreed with Marilyn (and thus did not err in the original problem). This is the interesting problem, not the original one. I go back and forth on this one. I don't think the knowledge of the parties involved has the least bearing on the analysis. I think that's window dressing to make a plausible story.
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  37008. @Hank254  This is so interesting. When I first saw this problem, I also analyzed it as you just did. Now I wonder what made me change my mind? Cognitive question, not a mathematical one.
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  37009. ​@Hank254 Wait a second, though. The contestant knows nothing about whether Monty showed him the goat because he knows where the car is, or simply by chance. Or in any case, his belief that Monty knows would be, strictly speaking, conjectural. So why does it matter, from his standpoint, having in that moment to decide whether to change his answer, knowing only that he was just shown a goat behind a door he did not pick?
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  37010. @klaus7443  All right. Suppose he doesn't. (In fact, how could he, practically speaking, were this to be an actual scenario rather than a logic exercise? He can only know what he was told. Whether what he was told is true was a separate question.) How does that change the decision chart presented in the video, if at all? Notice that I am asking literal questions. I am not suggesting the chart does not change. I am asking for a chart based on the premise that the contestant does not know whether Monty chose deliberately or randomly. It may or may not be different from the decision chart provided in this video, with the given premises. I literally don't know. I do remember that it was a subject of debate among statistics professors who immediately saw the analysis when the given premises are adopted. I also remember that one side, then the other, seemed more persuasive to me, but that I never really knew the right answer.
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  37011. @klaus7443  My "problem" is that I have to think this through for myself. You've revealed nothing to me beyond restating the answer. So? Big deal.
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  37012.  @klaus7443  Good question. Blocked.
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  37013.  @klaus7443  BTW, I wasn't arguing. I was seeking authentic instruction. Too bad I picked up an answer from someone incompetent in that area.
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  37014. ​​ @hieronymusbutts7349  agreed Not fake data!
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  37015. Is this a joke? You need to read the results of the Intercept's FOIA request.
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  37016. People PAY for trademarks. Lord!
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  37017. Who are you kidding? The right was blaming the victim until yesterday.
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  37018. To riff on Glenn: wouldn't you have to watch, to suggest an edit? Um, yeah. You would.
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  37019. At best, it gave people a false sense of security.
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  37020. Did you listen?
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  37021. 16:28
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  37022. So, DB is openly attempting to influence Fed policy this time.
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  37023. Any doctor incapable of saying these three little words is not a doctor I can place my faith in concerning a new viral illness: "We don't know."
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  37024. How do we know his children are not vaccinated? First of all, aren't they all 18 or older? It's up to them now.
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  37025. I agree with all the rest. Can you imagine his mindset now, after getting off with NO ramifications from his relationship with Epstein and Maxwell (other than the divorce he wanted anyway)?
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  37026. In English speaking countries, you have to say you are happy. Look at their crime and loneliness statistics. That tells you how unhappy they are.
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  37027. What do you think we can do about it?
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  37028. Balancing interests is a principled position in deciding public policy. A safe vaccine that is close to 100% effective should not be mandated, but we should be clear that turning it down is unwise and probably anti-social. But as matters stand, we have no right to say refusal is unwise, and clearly not anti-social. It's simply false to pretend it's unwise.
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  37029.  @MasterKeyMagic  Up voted, of course.
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  37030. ​@sr2291 I don't know that the Bible belongs in a school library before 8th or 9th grade. What do you think?
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  37031. @Breshvic  It's a question of what they put in a grammar school library. This isn't senior year high school we're talking about, or restricting books in public libraries. These are libraries specifically curated for pre-pubescent kids within the school building.
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  37032.  @ShaggyRodgers420  The one to force the Bible on children and close off public libraries to anyone without a government issued ID proving age 18 or older. I'm part of that conspiracy. /s
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  37033.  @ShaggyRodgers420  The one that just got the scents oars attention, apparently.
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  37034.  @ShaggyRodgers420  Safe and effective. No FOIA violations, either, silly.
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  37035. Imagine posing as Labour when your most ardent secret wish is to profit from Thatcherism more than anyone else does. Plus, you pull your country into foreign wars on a flimsy, dubious basis. No wonder they accuse others of all kinds of stuff.
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  37036. If his agent did at his instruction, legally it's the same.
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  37037. Time to read. Holidays coming, you'll have the time.
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  37038.  @juku666  Look, it's much too long a story. A sound bite is effectively a lie in this context.
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  37039. Maduro, whatever else may be wrong/more wrong with him, has nothing to do with that bunch. He's closer to Putin, if anything.
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  37040. Why was Facebook ever considered a "good guy?" It started out as a slam book against women at Harvard. Whenever something actual does go wrong, everyone looks the other way. Go$h I wonder what the rea$on could be??
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  37041.  @twoshedsjohnson8540  Olayemi is a lawyer. Look it up.
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  37042.  @twoshedsjohnson8540  You think there is a distinction between this case and Kaepernick? If speech, religious or not, is protected, then a state actor (such as a public high school or college) CANNOT impose "consequences" on that speech. Who taught you this "consequences" talking point? WHY did you believe them?
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  37043.  @twoshedsjohnson8540  No. And that's the difference.
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  37044.  @twoshedsjohnson8540  IOW, the absence of a state actor, and not the "consequences" blather, IS the difference. Unless you work for a public institution, you don't have freedom of speech on the job. Bezos can fire you, as can Musk, Bill Gates, etc.
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  37045.  @twoshedsjohnson8540  Religious speech has NO preference over political -- or vice versa.
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  37046. I never would have thought so many people were morons and cowards.
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  37047. Listen to the pro-vaccine side on Lex Fridman's Sept 1st podcast, where Lex interviews a real virologist from Columbia University who is honest. The pro-vaccine side is not nearly as good as the propaganda on mainstream. The "anti-ivermectin side" needs to be quashed, it's nonsense. As Jimmy just showed us, the NIH supports clinical studies, and Jimmy is in one. Also, one of the biggest proponents of vaccines, Dr. Eric Topol, called our approach overly "vaccine-centric." And The Guardian (UK) just reported that teen boys have a higher risk of hospitalization for myocarditis from the mRNA vaccines than they do of hospitalization for COVID itself. Data keeps coming in. They're pushing vaccination hard, before we get wise? That seems like one possibility.
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  37048. I know, I know! Make all the kids who didn't learn well remotely take some drugs. /s Oh. Wait. They surely will.
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  37049.  imeverywhereandnowhere56  I thought you asked for the source of his report. I thought you assumed it may not be accurate. Now I'm not sure what you're asking. BTW, it was about two million who went on strike in France, and more demonstrations are planned. We may have data soon? I really don't know what back-up plans the billionaires have for maintaining the electrical grid, but based on the Paradise Papers, etc., they are clearly afraid of something derailing their hegemony. This time I know that doesn't answer your question, but anyway . . . a semi-relevant aside. :)
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  37050.  @thenoneckpeoplerepresentat8074  On Avenue Foch, perhaps not.
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  37051.  @demsandlibsareswinecancer4667  Productivity is an economic concept, and its definition is market value of product produced per manhour worked. It is never optimal to work, say, 12 hours per day; your overall productivity could easily be lower than for someone who works seven hours but diligently, with a fresh mind, and consistently so, rather than working without a break, and then needing to take sick days, etc. (BTW, my mother is from the same region as Nikola Tesla. We get weird migraines, we love math, etc. Something tells me you know nothing about him except what you might have found on Facebook.)
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  37052. You should have heard Francois Ruffin denouncing Macron in the National Assembly: "Instead of writing in the book of history, you won't be a footnote on an accounting ledger. You've made us pity you." Whereas we still invite Bll (friend of Jeffrey) Gates to pontificate.
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  37053. He had already done serious harm in his various education experiments, and now has turned his sights on public health. He does not have a good record.
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  37054.  @KevinUchihaOG  It is based on the Precautionary Principle, which is a way of allocating burdens of proof based on the Hippocratic oath, "first do no harm." Before the WHO was Gates-dominated (as for currently, I don't know), it said that each GMO in food must be evaluated for safety case-by-case; if you understand the technology, you know why, and it does not take much work to find out. You cannot generalize and claim they are all fine. The PP puts the burden where it belongs -- you do not presume safety and try to disprove it. You presume absence of safety and try to disprove that, just as in medicines. But apart from safety, there may be risks of creating monocultures in certain foodstuffs, and thus a need for more technology to "fix" that as a result. There is also the fact that its major innovation, golden rice, has turned up in some studies to be of no appreciable benefit at all. Turns out kids need carrots or sweet potatoes or red cabbage or spinach.
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  37055.  @jairkerker2821  Easy enough to tell him.
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  37056.  @KevinUchihaOG  The PP is fundamental to medicine and environmental sciences.
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  37057.  @KevinUchihaOG  Strawman. I eat mostly organic, and almost pure vegetarian, with wild caught fish every few months on doctor's orders. I avoid fish, though, on principle. A lot of people know that food with a chemistry set list of ingredients is not a good idea, yo. This thinking has been around since the 1960s.
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  37058.  @romyan5382  You think you can speak your mind in America on camera without losing your job? Where have you been? There was a vaccination requirement for jobs, nevermind a speech code --- and suddenly, it's being lifted. Russia didn't have a vaccination requirement. Glad you could shift your focus.
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  37059.  @romyan5382  A lot of people would lose their jobs if they voiced legitimate criticism of Biden, and the video of it were to go viral. Most people would, in fact. We don't have morals, we have hashtags. WHY IS ASSANGE STILL IN PRISON? People have called for Gabbard's arrest. Go see what she said. It is so easy to ruin a life that it's mind-boggling. Character does not matter. Image counts for everything.
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  37060.  @romyan5382  Most Europeans today would say "no comment" to a roving reporter, due to the risk of a video casting them in a false light. If Americans still use social media to say what they think under their real names, rather than to cultivate a positive, marketable image, then they are naive. Facebook and Twitter created overnight billionaires because they married advertising and surveillance. Hence, use them to advertise your brand, not to tell anyone what you really think.
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  37061.  @xminusone1  Why would the Soviets imprison a WWII ally? Did they doubt his identity, or did they suspect him of doing intelligence for the US?
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  37062. Have you read it?
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  37063.  @adosjustice3242  The 1619 Project is not that Robin DiAngelo nonsense. The originator of the project is black. We have a problem that in high school, we only teach ideology, and always have. A real university course would take essays from the Project, and then present highly critical views from other historians, and examine both. We never do that in high school. We think the kids are incapable of dealing with that. It's too contentious. I never knew what history was until college. My response was for David Wilson, who "knows" it's just propaganda. I'll bet.
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  37064.  @A_Derpy_NINJA  Anyone who wants the young to understand the mainstream media, what appears there and why. Better to hide it from them?
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  37065.  @A_Derpy_NINJA  Well then ban it from school. Seriously, we can't agree on basic curriculum any more! No one is saying the NYTimes should dictate curriculum, or actively seek to influence it for that matter. That is not a newspaper's role. If you believe that what you just said is true, should it be taught in school -- say, in 12th grade civics? And how do we address the new media? Do you tell kids that anything could be amplified by rapid repetition on Facebook, for example, and that a certain number of people will believe it? Do you tell them that believing they are "first" to know something gives them a little thrill, and the thrill is addictive, while reserving judgment whenever they can is usually better but boring?
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  37066.  @timayjust  How would you know? Are you familiar with, for example, francophone Africa? How much do you know about Nigeria? Botswana? Can you find them on the map? I suppose you also understand Purchase Parity Power. Sure you do.
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  37067.    Of course. I read fast. It's a quirk I have.
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  37068.    ""Revisionist" and "critical race theory" are slogans, not arguments. But have it your way. I'm smart enough to know when it just HAS to be your way.
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  37069.    Ha. I already made my points throughout this thread, before you showed up. There was a discussion here. Sorry you missed it.
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  37070. Because Syria isn't important, and manufacturing consent isn't important, and exposing propaganda designed to foment US-Russia tension is a big yawn from the peanut-crunching crowd. Who said what to whom in response to a wardrobe malfunction seven years ago, now that's very important.
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  37071. To be serious, though, the OPCW scandal is important. Did you understand what happened before this week?
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  37072. Mr. Davis, you were too intelligent to make sense of the senseless.
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  37073. What is the student debt for trade schools and private, for-profit colleges that do pure job training?
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  37074. This guy is SUCH a consummate creep he's mesmerizing.
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  37075. The central "hate speech" case, RAV v. City of St. Paul, took place in Minnesota, and invalidated a "hate speech" ordinance. You would think the governor of Minnesota would have heard of it.
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  37076. The left in particular? "Our problems will disappear if we bring back prayer to the schools." Who does that sound like?
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  37077. Give them time.
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  37078.  @CallousCarter  Shhhh!
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  37079. K.I.S.S. Release it.
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  37080. Hugs!!
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  37081.  @stargazerh112  You missed that Robby brought up Kyle Rittenhouse: 4:30
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  37082.  @stargazerh112  Yeah, Robby brings it up, 4:30, and nothing Briahna said in response was incorrect concerning a jury's sympathies and the fact that such sympathies are not easily predicted. Maybe the one who is "not objective at all" is you? Could that be it? Everything I said about Rittenhouse was factual.
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  37083.  @stargazerh112  Not everything? I may have followed the case more closely than you did. People tend to believe the familiar is the truth.
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  37084.  @stargazerh112  He was an unaccompanied minor with a large firearm out after curfew in a chaotic event that turned into a riot. Of course he had no business being there. He was only 17, and his family needed him safe at home (look up his biography). That changes nothing about the fact that he ended up being forced to use that firearm to save his life. The fact that he had no business being there was used as a reason by many people to claim he should have been convicted, when as a matter of principle his age alone should have kept him from being tried as an adult under circumstances where LE and the state both knew he had been forced to defend himself. So whether he could make a successful self-defense case or not, technically speaking, no KID should be subjected to that kind of prosecution under those circumstances. It's just not fair. If you prefer to get all emotional and direct hate at Bri, go ahead. I won't engage again. Sorry your feelings can't handle the facts.
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  37085.  @stargazerh112  Nowhere did I call him a vigilante. He apparently went there with the intention of playing medic, and actually had some training for that. He claimed that he was recruited by the gas station owner to act as security (which the owner denied). He was not old enough, or (needless to say) licensed. Nor did he leave when curfew went into effect. Just how many school shootings will you need before you realize that an AR 15 is not something we want minors to possess? Is any number enough for you? This has nothing to do with a teen going hunting with their dad and uncles. I didn't hear the sympathy comment the way you did. The jury could have easily found him guilty by bowing to the media pressure to rule that way, which would not have been according to the law.
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  37086.  @stargazerh112  Re: the last part. We do have a bright line for age of majority, for reasons that are ultimately pragmatic, but well-founded nonetheless. I oppose trying minors as adults. Regardless of anything else, he did not belong in the adult system. I knew the gun charge was dropped, and I understand why. The problem with the Wisconsin statute was nothing short of a disgrace. These state legislatures do no work, they really don't. Why are they paid? Barring minors from having most firearms, requiring tests comparable to driving tests for anyone who takes a gun off their own property (out of their home or garage, off their land, etc.), requiring minors to be accompanied by an adult when they carry a firearm, for hunting or otherwise, background checks, and so forth, are all consistent with the Second Amendment. I don't know whether you agree or not, but that is the law. Then there are simple facts of our sad lives today: Uvalde cuts in favor of having more people carry. I see that.
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  37087.  @stargazerh112  TRUE, that, too.
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  37088.  @lady4191  Or because most people don't have the patience to listen to her finish a sentence.
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  37089. What's indefensible? Ana's smear of Aaron Mate, followed by this desperate attempt to deflect attention from what she did, by playing the sexual harassment card, over a crass joke for which she received a prompt written apology? Hm. Pretty much indefensible. I agree. Now Ana needs to apologize.
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  37090. So-called left. This is unrecognizable as leftist in any other country. These are globalist neoliberal oligarchs who are pulling these stunts.
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  37091. The demand is for America to arm Ukraine even more than it has, to increase hostilities. There is nothing arrogant about questioning that. I'm no fan of Mearsheimer's, but you need to listen to him. Librarie Tropiques' channel has excerpted key videos of his, for a French audience (subtitled, not dubbed). The extracts are short and to the point.
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  37092.  @jobo8281  Take my advice.
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  37093.  @jobo8281  You believe untrained civilians should be given heavy arms in a war zone? An untrained person with a gun in Cincinnati risks having it taken from him by a well-practiced intruder, much less an ordinary person in a war zone. Furthermore, I don't know what reports you've heard, but Russians are not going house to house like Americans did in Iraq. Stick to make-up and yoga.
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  37094.  @jobo8281  Some of Mearsheimer's presentations predate the current war by 8 to 10 years. Hence they cannot be the same as what you've heard everywhere since February 24.
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  37095.  @jobo8281  "Trigger?" What did you say before social media told you to say "trigger?" I don't remember what we were talking about. Not worth looking it up.
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  37096.  @jobo8281  I always check how long people who post dumb things have had an account. Obvious why.
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  37097. She's lying to you, she knows it, and she goes after other women like crazy. 😂 Megyn is a good lesson for your daughter: "Dear, see what women do to other women?"
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  37098. ​​ @chrimony They are historically descendants of Vichy. The original party, run by Le Pen's father (whom she did split with), was an actual fascist. As for far left, they still have Communists and those voting with them. To confuse you further, the Communists opposed vaccine mandates in France. The left and right joined forces to make it illegal to ask a minor whether they were vaccinated. Yes, a crime (misdemeanor), punishable by a fine. After that, people just stopped asking at all. This news was not translated. 😂
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  37099. ​ @johanstinson  Examples will not be viz able. Duh.
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  37100. ​ @johanstinson Dude, why do you think stuff is left dangling? Suddenly, silence? You don't get it yet??
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  37101. ​Try sorting via Newest tab. It might look different?
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  37102. The mass of federal executions during this pandemic, and now, just before the holidays, is the most ghoulish and despicable thing I have witnessed in a long time.
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  37103. ​ @johnmcdonald5636 💯
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  37104. Where did you see evidence that any student group made terrorist threats? Is a bare claim in a letter enough? I thought we were against cancel culture.
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  37105.  @peterardison5930  Oh good. So someone can write a letter about me, or about some group I belong to, and because they don't like my opinions, I can be fired from my job or removed from a class. Or, it's enough to trigger an investigation. Wonderful. I better not cross anyone with beaucoup bucks.
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  37106.  @peterardison5930  What law was broken? Before you answer, read Brandenburg v. Ohio. Then try R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul.
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  37107.  @peterardison5930  Jesus loves readers.
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  37108. Macron is a centrist globalist with some right-wing tendencies. His party came in a distant third. The two opposition groups both beat him.
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  37109. So . . . Churchill's father was Chancellor of the Exchequer? So, Churchill was not by any stretch self-made. (Just kidding. Knew he was an aristocrat.) The Red Army stopped Hitler. And did not destroy the French Navy first, or drop two atom bombs on civilians, as demonstrations of "strength."
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  37110. The report that the condition of the repo market was unhealthy again in late 2019 needs to be pursued, with FOIA requests. What did happen? Did the Fed pour money into the biggest banks before the pandemic?
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  37111.  @dtriniboss  If it affects human behavior in creating and exchanging real goods and services, yes. Money is money ultimately because we believe it is.
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  37112.  @bubasmollett8610 You're making a claim about 2008 that is not true, and if I answer explaining about deriv a tives etc., which is true, I get censored. I still haven't figured out the trigger. Surprising that comments about repo stay up. I would have thought that was a trigger word. That story is being suppressed.
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  37113. Have any prison rapes occurred in states that ban all abortion?
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  37114.  @davidwhite4149  Really? Looks like the audience here needs it. Ninety percent of what I'm seeing is tut-tut, tisk-tisk misrepresentation of the students that has no bearing on what happened at the talk. In fact, one student began by saying he supports free speech before asking a question, and another thanked Bannon for staying longer than planned. BTW, you do know Bannon faced federal indictment for wire fraud, and was pardonned, correct?
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  37115.  @davidwhite4149  I write fast. Thanks for calling it professional.
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  37116.  @davidwhite4149  Well, you're right, I joined during the COVID shutdowns so I'm new. I feel someone has to set the real record straight. I expected to hear activists and "snowflakes" based on the comments, when what I heard were excellent questions -- and they pinpointed something important: Bannon's best ideas were not implemented. I'm shocked, shocked. :/
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  37117.  @wishfix  The single most common major in US universities by far is Business Administration, and has been for some 30 years. The next most common majors involve the health sciences, with Nursing at the top. Look it up. Business courses that are not purely quantitative, and some that are, are primarily propaganda.
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  37118.  @jlondon158  By the DOJ under the Trump administration. Do you know how to find an indictment? It's public information.
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  37119.  @jlondon158  YOU suggested it was a politically driven prosecution. I suggested that was highly unlikely, as the DOJ is one place Trump was able to influence during his first term.
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  37120.  @jlondon158  The fraud charge was based on collecting money for a border wall and, um, keeping it, essentially.
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  37121.  @jlondon158  Look something up, like an actual indictment, and read it. I don't believe the press when I can read a real document. Rush Limbaugh was paid to jeer, make stuff up, peddle outrage, and concoct soundbites. So are the stars of CNN, MSNBC. Are you?
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  37122.  @jlondon158  Who is defending all the faux charities, foundations, and NGOs that get away with it? No one here.
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  37123.  @jlondon158  No, just jealous. There may be limits to greed, but to jealousy there are none.
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  37124.  @jlondon158  Good, you clearly need it.
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  37125.  @jlondon158  This time it's e before i. Atheist, not athiest.
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  37126.  @jlondon158  WWJD?
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  37127.  @williamgrimberg2510  I didn't mean to hint that natural causes should be hurried up or something.
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  37128.  @williamgrimberg2510  They are making The Cynic's Calculation.
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  37129.  michael nola  Plus you think Jimmy has an alpha personality. That was a cute joke, but not up to the standards of this show.
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  37130.  michael nola  That was a long-winded nothingburger. Go back to my highlighted sentence. You described what usually happens. That is not what always happens. Your logic is the same kind of thinking that has caused people to lose their entire retirement savings in the stock market. I'm not touchy at all, it's obvious I'm smarter than you. I'm pointing out your supercilious tone. This isn't about Jimmy, or personalities at all. Who is surprised that you keep insinuating it is?
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  37131.  @krishanpaul2  Timestamp?
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  37132. "Toady" means someone who assists a charlatan or a fraud in duping others. A toady is not a sycophant. A sycophant cosies up to the powerful and, once gaining their trust, praises them and denounces others for personal gain. So, someone like Bari, maybe.
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  37133. Posts discussing the latest angle (r word) are being censored here.
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  37134. It is to them. They must actually live in a cul de sac of the mind.
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  37135. I see you haven't been following the news from Ukraine. It is about to matter again.
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  37136. I know that a "nanoparticle" is, generally, three orders of magnitude smaller than a red blood cell. I had concerns when I learned that. I had to verify it several times, I thought it had to be wrong. Someone else look again for me, to check. I can't go through this any more. Mathematics does not lie.
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  37137.  @keithramaphele4278  Kim covered this the other day. The UN vote is telling -- look at a map of the countries that just abstained.
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  37138.  @franciscomap75  Someone who wants an immediate diplomatic resolution is a "russian bot?" I think not. Also, not a "Mr." Shoot for three of five, or is that already gone? You just can't win.
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  37139.  @virtuosa69  Maybe you do. Maybe most people do. I don't. Ponder that. It's true.
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  37140.  @virtuosa69  I lived abroad for a big chunk of my adult life and found out what I, personally, was missing. Sorry, you can't dupe me ever again.
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  37141.  @virtuosa69  Do you know we collaborated with tribesmen in Afghanistan who practice ritual child abuse? Do you know our servicemen who protested were told to shut up? Do you know that one of our servicemen who refused to let it go and bravely continued to try to stop it was assassinated by an older boy integrated into this practice, and this boy was very lightly punished? I refer you to the New York Times for these stories, not some fringe publication.
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  37142.  @virtuosa69  No one said it was "okay." It is a list of horrors you seem to think no one can top. I beg to differ. On second thought, you did say so. It was you who said American crimes are okay because there are worse crimes. That's what confused you into thinking I reason as badly as you do.
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  37143.  @virtuosa69  Also, try spelling. Doesn't your account allow editing? Or are you upset now?
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  37144.  @virtuosa69  The best you can do . . . Wow, even I didn't expect this lame.
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  37145.  @virtuosa69  Yeah, readers are thinkers. Too hard a habit to break. Apologies, forgot to block you.
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  37146.  @virtuosa69  P. S. There is nothing you need to do. I already made my home available to refugees from Ukraine, if it's needed. My parents were WWII refugees, so I know.
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  37147.  @virtuosa69  Mine is much larger, in four languages. No idea of the value. Never tried to find out.
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  37148.  @naijaplayer  The UN vote to remove Russia from the Human Rights Council? China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, South Africa -- most of Africa, actually -- both Iran and Iraq, and Mexico all voted against the resolution or formally abstained. Among others. You don't notice a pattern?
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  37149. Ha. She's an economist. She knows to look at Labor Force Participation, which has been a more accurate measure since the 2008 crash. Unemployment numbers are not accurate, not in the US.
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  37150. In fact, the participation rate looks as "high" as it does because those who join the military and those incarcerated are not counted as being in the labor force at all. And we have a big military, and a BIG incarceration rate.
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  37151. Oddly enough, a trans woman did try to make me suicidal for having questions about the vaccine. I told her, "I hate white people," and that ended it.
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  37152. Oh no he's not. Check out his income. Making more money for knowing less and doing less is called profit maximization.
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  37153.  @jeffcarino4077  This persuades you? How? No wonder we have the politics we have.
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  37154.  @jeffcarino4077  Who sponsors Oliver?
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  37155. Vaccine is not a magic word that makes everything called "vaccine" good. Far from it.
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  37156. WHO and WHAT is really behind this?? Something doesn't fit.
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  37157. And so does this.
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  37158. Taking snippets is bad enough, but all right, they are at least accurate, though the color is mysteriously off. But why the misleading intro? This was NOT a podcast on impeachment at all, but a program about free speech and the limits of current First Amendment law to protect it. Why not say, "an interesting program on free speech took an odd turn?" Okay. You have a right to your opinions, but not to your own facts.
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  37159. She said exactly the opposite, right from the start. Wow, is everyone suffering from the same cognitive issues as Biden?
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  37160. But he's rich. You jealous? /s
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  37161. Take good care. People who have had this before you have recovered. Treat yourself to a super-clean anti-inflammatory diet for the rest of this gawd awful year.
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  37162. They have been trying to get her fired because of her view of Israel and Palestine. That's why she won't let up. You would never have the guts to defy your boss, huh? 😂
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  37163. BULL. Laughable.
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  37164. Well, but Jimmy, they lied to us for 💰💰💰, I mean come on!!! 🤣
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  37165. But that was in France. Billionaires in English-speaking countries have zero to fear.
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  37166. This again? This time you disappoint me.
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  37167.  @frenchitaaki7357  Back in the 1980s, Paris at noon was like the United Nations.
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  37168.  @EverettBurger  Four apps to complete math assignments? I never heard of this before. Tell us more about it. Is this required in a public school? What do you think of the curriculum content? Online learning has never been very effective, which is not to say it never will be, or that it cannot be improved. So far, it does not have a good record. The people who get the most out of it are the ones who know 70-80% of course content already, and are primarily looking to obtain a credential to prove it.
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  37169.  @EverettBurger  That is astounding. When does she have time to concentrate on actual math and reading? Not to mention her favorite things to do, family life, friends . . . Seriously, it sounds like all of these applications are a waste of time.
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  37170. If everyone quits Facebook, he can't. See how simple?
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  37171. And when is Fauci held accountable? Does never sound good?
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  37172. No, that time it was Haitians, I think.
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  37173.  @ReadWell572  Babies in incubators?
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  37174. ​ @Silence_Duder_Gooder And he LOST. People don't know how to look up something THIS simple?
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  37175. ​ @midnull6009 False. He lost. He is LYING.
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  37176. ​@jho3902 He lost every case, you blessed m●r●ns.
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  37177.  @DIVISIONINCISION  Yuck. Younger people are vegetarian, if not completely then on most days. You could not pay me to eat steak.
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  37178. I think they are testing this for increased outrage, which means more views.
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  37179. Of course.
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  37180.  @thrillhouse1980  Because toxic harassers and bullies always write out their apologies. Everyone knows that. /s
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  37181.  @Drew7s  Technically, a single joke would not usually rise to the level of harassment, and is not comparable to unwanted physical touching, which is always an assault.
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  37182.  @Drew7s  I never said those things. No, she wasn't "asking for it." Etc. I'm still not clear on your complaint. Do you believe that what Jimmy did -- provide a written apology and a small gift -- was appropriate under the circumstances? Should he also have been fired? A lawsuit on her part would almost certainly not have been viable. Do you grasp why? Do you also understand that senior staff with managerial duties do have an obligation to make a workplace sexism-free, and that back when Ana and Cenk were imitating Howard Stern for fun and profit, they did not meet that obligation? Is that context also clear to you? (Or are these sentences too long?)
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  37183.  @Drew7s  No, hugging is not a factor. Disingenious.
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  37184.  @Drew7s  I said none of that. You have a problem, or an income from this. Time waster. Blocked.
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  37185.  @fatbachelors3922  Yes. With no liability whatsoever. She could have done that.
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  37186. @sail253  Exactly
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  37187.  @Pumpkin0_0  She has a massively positive reputation and teaches at Cornell's medical school.
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  37188.  @theresagomez2605  This was cross examination. Her qualifications were established on direct, not here.
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  37189.  @Pumpkin0_0  Negative reviews? Those were all posted by loonies after she testified, and have since been purged. Just how big of a problem is drug use? P. S. Don't go to war with Russia. Bad idea.
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  37190. The way they recruit is with unemployment and overpriced college. The first is coming, the second isn't going anywhere.
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  37191. She is not a used car salesman. She is a pre-owned luxury car dealer. Simple.
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  37192. In cases of various forms of abuse, PTSD, and so forth, when there is a legitimate perpetrator, either they cannot be located or refuse to come in, and (absent court order) it is always their right to refuse to come in. It is not a stigma to refuse and proves nothing either way. Hence these disciplines have to develop ways to determine whether the patient is being truthful. She explained that under direct examination. But if you don't like her, that's what counts. There, there.
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  37193. On the contrary, they get paid.
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  37194. I don't believe that.
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  37195. This mental landscape is simply abnormal. You cannot persuade him that he is wrong anymore than you could persuade the 9/11 hijackers that the Koran does not sanction their murderous acts. Obviously your coworker is petrified of ending up without money. He has an abnormal fear, to boot.
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  37196.  @LinkRocks  The Guardian just did an article on how many of Forbes' 30 under 30 have been arraigned or convicted on fraud charges.
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  37197. ​ @anthonythevettedude8270 Wake up
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  37198.  @diai557  Then either she was a convert to Christianity, or only her father was Jewish. She was never of the Jewish religion.
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  37199. American health statistics are worse than they look. Check how many European countries have a higher cancer rate and longer life expectancy.
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  37200. He's busy with assisted repro baby mamas. IOW, how naive can you be?
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  37201. Well, that is a pretty dress.
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  37202. THANK YOU
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  37203. Aha! And vat did you doo?
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  37204. There is ample evidence that the FBI has infiltrated "leftist" organizations, true to form. (See Adam Curtis on Afeni Shakur.) If I can see they likely had provocateurs on the ground January 6, and in plenty of other right-wing actions, why are you blind to the obvious provocateurs present during the riots following the George Floyd protests? The protests, while they were still peaceful, had very wide support. You can figure out the rest, no? You also know what happened to Occupy Wall Street under Obama? Especially by comparison to what happened to Wall Street. This isn't tough.
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  37205. Or, to put it more briefly, finish your last thought. Amen to that.
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  37206. This is what a tiny number of honest virologists have said: the most likely outcome is that everyone is going to get COVID. With the vaccines, it will almost always be milder, but will most likely confer natural immunity anyway. Without the vaccines, it might end up being very serious, deadly, or result in long COVID, especially in the elderly. It will almost certainly confer long-lasting natural immunity. We still don't know for sure. It' too soon. "Emerging scientific evidence . . . " -- THIS.
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  37207. For this to come out during a pandemic is beyond mind boggling.
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  37208.  @andistillar9579  That's just it. More questions, no answers.
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  37209.  @MetalNick  perfect response
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  37210.  @briansutton7764  You don't seem to understand. The right to have access to certain contraceptives, which can medically cause a zygote/early embryo to be expelled, and fertility treatments, which contemplate creating more embryos than will be implanted, are intertwined with abortion rights as well. It's a more complicated issue than you think. Cases of this natural will undoubtedly have to be relitigated at some point. Don't think fertility clinics in the most right-wing states aren't scambling, and calling up their lawyers for advice. It's not just the 13 year old with an appointment next week who has a problem.
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  37211.  @briansutton7764  Just out of curiosity -- we don't know whether any of Jeffrey Epstein's victims ever got pregnant, but let's say they did.
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  37212.  @briansutton7764  “Roe isn’t really about the woman’s choice, is it?” Ginsburg said. “It’s about the doctor’s freedom to practice…it wasn’t woman-centered, it was physician-centered.” --- Ginsburg at the University of Chicago. She actually took a case of a woman in the Air Force who was told to have an abortion or quit the Air Force. Ginsburg fought for that woman's right to choose not to abort. The Air Force backed down before the case came to court.
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  37213.  @briansutton7764  I do grasp all of these things. I also grasp that I have better things to do than engage with a bad faith or uninformed interlocutor. It is later in the day than I had thought.
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  37214.  @briansutton7764  You don't understand how certain forms of birth control work, OR why states have been unable to ban them.
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  37215.  @briansutton7764  Spell better.
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  37216.  @briansutton7764  There is one tiny, tiny good thing about the new activist Court: at least it is helping to erode further America's claim to global cultural hegemony. Small consolation, clearly not worth it, not even close . . . but maybe some people, somewhere, will have slightly better lives thanks to that. The hope is not entirely vain.
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  37217.  @briansutton7764  I decided to emigrate in 2019, and the pandemic disrupted and postponed those plans. (If you knew how little I care, then you'd really hate me. 😉) However sick I think this society has become, I just can't keep up.
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  37218.  @briansutton7764  You know everything. I know you must be why t. 😂😂😂 see how I got that right?
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  37219.  @briansutton7764  I see you need to think I care much more than I actually do. Thinking about why you do might be amusing but I have Ukraine news and a Sebald novel to get back to. The bottom line is you support removing constitutional rights and I do not. You support putting a whole slew of questions up to a majority vote -- a vacillating majority -- and I do not. If popular sentiment were the standard, Brian Laundrie's parents could have been arrested and imprisoned for invoking their Fifth Amendment rights, Amber Heard could be committed to a mental hospital for filing an appeal in her case, and god only knows what might have been done to anyone who declines a COVID shot -- or what might still be done to them after the midterm election (but not now). The rights you squander will be your own. That much I am sure of.
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  37220. Biden's express PROMISE was to be a President of all the people. This was his main platform, to end this divisiveness. Did he tell the truth about anything?
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  37221. 1. Do New York Times reporters understand the First Amendment? 2. If she received true threats (such as, for example, Glenn Greenwald received when a cyber stalker was able to recount to him details of his movements that were not generally known), did she follow protocol: advise HR, contact law enforcement, etc., and were these people helpful? Did they suggest paid leave, for example? Did they heighten security around her? Her crying display was of no value whatsoever, to anyone.
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  37222. Please correct autocorrect. Please?
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  37223.  @UKVeteran2024  Anything the West does at this point benefits the BRICS. Did you expect it to expand before the war on Ukraine was concluded? Right. Neither did I. Now Trump has to top Biden in that department.
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  37224. @bestboy1986  You must not know about the uranium deal. The NYT reported on it in detail at the time.
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  37225.  @UKVeteran2024  What a shame that the trenchant replies dwell in the shadows.
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  37226.  @randygram9310  Thank you, you're kind! I agree with one thing for sure: it's important to read Chris Hedges' take on this. He has seen civil war and the sea of lies it brings first hand.
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  37227. "Russian flags appearing . . ." Why oh why is the West so crazed? Why can't they calm down and see other people as people? What did they expect to happen??
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  37228. So rebrand it. That's what they always do. USA = an ad agency with nuclear bombs
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  37229. Btw, is NGO money trying to flip Serbia now? Did that fizzle?
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  37230.  @debbiesherman3215  She did not "incite violence." That is a fabrication. Read Brandenburg v. Ohio, or have Glenn Greenwald read through it for you, step by step.
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  37231.  @actuallyitisrocketscience  A censure by Congress is a finding of wrongdoing, and a formal reprimand for that wrongdoing. It was applied to punish free speech. Thus its purpose was to chill free speech. I'm not cheering that.
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  37232. @@fjbbiden9352 Read Brandenburg v. Ohio. Everyone should. It should be taught in high school civics, along with Tinker v. Des Moines.
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  37233.  @Whataworld134  Very few people have. I was shaken by that, to the point where I caught COVID. I'm not kidding. It was an emotional jolt.
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  37234. @judykendrick8259  Is opposing Netanyahu antisemitic? Then Israel is full of Jewish antisemites. These easy equivalences (supporting Palestinian liberation = supporting 10/7) reminds me of how the wokesters "think." Or whatever you could call the swarming they do. But you know what? Praising Hamas is legal. Waving, or burning, any flag is legal. The US is unique in the world in that way. I know of no other country with free speech laws so strong. Tucker has talked about it all week. It's a hot topic because it's CHANGING, and that's terrible.
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  37235.  @Whataworld134  I'm fine. No vaxx. ;)
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  37236.  @Whataworld134  Thank you.
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  37237.  @debbiesherman3215  Clue me in, I'd love to hear.
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  37238.  @carolbatchelder1  Yeah, it's time we finish with this free speech crap. Speech should have serious consequences, just like the woksters say. Anyone who makes me feel unsafe needs to be fired and arrested. And while we're at it, they should have to give me their house.
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  37239. @user-pv9ev3nu6s  Take a look at the Brandenburg case and see what "incitements" means. Or just consider January 6th. Do you think Trump "incited violence?"
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  37240. @NEVERAGAIN5784  What's happening on our soil is already evident, and has been for decades: those standing up for civil rights and civil liberties are being rebuffed daily, and those violating the law are getting away with it --- or profiting from it. But thanks for the head's-up, I had no clue. /s
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  37241.  NEVERAGAIN5784  No one needs you as a client. Well, unless they are desperate for money, and even then.
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  37242.  NEVERAGAIN5784  Phone s*x would be more palatable by far.
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  37243.  NEVERAGAIN5784  Just to be clear, I didn't mean with you. 🤣
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  37244. @donnaa9581  Did Trump raid their house? Did he raid Hunter's house? Serious question; I no longer remember. His DoJ did indict Assange, so . . . No angel, but by their deeds, you shall know them . . .
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  37245. JIMMY tops himself again. Thank you, Jimmy Dore.
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  37246. What they don't want is to associate with people like YOU.
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  37247.  @web-angel  Exactly. Our lives are more and more fraught with risk. He made a conscious decision by balancing the risks, and his entire family joined. I appreciate his perspective.
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  37248.  @odeleya1768  YES IT IS protected speech, because it isn't a true threat unless imminent violence is actually threatened or incited. I suggest you do some reading, since you care so much (paraphrasing Socrates right there). Start with Brandenburg v. Ohio. It's the most important case. Next, R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul (about cross burning and swastikas, etc.; a Scalia opinion) Find out what our rights are . . . before we lose them. Before they become quaint.
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  37249.  @odeleya1768  I really am chagrined that people are this quick to give up rights. I'm starting to wonder how we ever got them in the first place. RAV is a case where a St. Paul ordinance banning cross burning, swastikas and similar symbols was struck down as unconstitutional. A liberal decision? No, a Scalia opinion, with concurrences from Justices who came to the same conclusion using different reasoning. IOW, solid First Amendment law. Don't be so easily led. Did you support mandates, too? Were you scared and everything?
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  37250.  @odeleya1768  White people can say the police in the George Floyd case did the world a favor. I hear that one all the time. Do you correct them, or no?
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  37251.  @AEMoreira81  Thanks for this!! Will read it immediately. With all the anti-free speech warriors around, there is no time to waste. :(
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  37252. She claims she is being locked in one.
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  37253.  @RealRapEST  I laughed
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  37254. Read the comments, kids. NEVER EVER volunteer for military service, for these people. Not ever. Just be clear on what you need to do, for YOU. Don't look back.
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  37255. Fox doesn't believe in The Market? FOX?
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  37256. 12:30 Great find!! 20:25 Even better.
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  37257. @msstern3056  A fine is punishment for a crime of some sort, including a misdemeanor. A recovery in tort is purely a civil matter. Proving a crime is harder everywhere. I could link to a video, but it is in French, and links are disallowed in any event. Her brother appears in that video, as well as including scenes from both of their lives. And no one can stand Macron. I feel for you, truly. How do you function?
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  37258.  @patriciaotoole5930  :)
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  37259. Those who happened to be under Europeans bombs might disagree, but who listens to them? They don't have money.
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  37260.  @marvinbrando722  They are dumb in one sense but brilliant in another. Their elites make money using less brainpower than anyone else on the planet. No one does it better.
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  37261.  @driveby73  When the petrodollar collapses. Follow the money. The US buys its friends.
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  37262. ​@heavymetalhomesteading I'm not benefitting from those systems. America bombed where my parents were from with depleted uranium, and my father came across like a weird cross between Puerto Rican and Lebanese. No English spoken at home, of course. I always put down "white" on forms that pertain to any form of benefit, and always will. But I'm not socially white. It's not my identity. (You do know that "valuable" genes don't get a dose of DU? You get that part, right?) I even have an ancestor who came to fight in the Civil War for the Union, and then went back. Distant ancestors from the region disrupted the slave trade of the Ottomans.
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  37263.  @IndianSummer79  Where did they claim they should get reparations? The issue is who owes them.
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  37264.  @ABagOfLag  You don't find it odd that after all the research he did on things like alcohol abuse, he himself became addicted to benzodiazepines and went to Russia to detox, then Serbia for continuing rehabilitation? I do. Don't get me wrong, it made me sympathetic. But not admiring of him. As for his rhetorical style, it is classic pandering. He knows exactly how to time his outbursts of anger for maximum effect. He is good at that. I think it's a shame. He has a few good things to say. I think he sold out for the money.
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  37265.  @ABagOfLag  Of course I know, and I take HIS word on the matter, not some "click bait" -- it appears that an unusual reaction to the substance was the main factor. But he is highly knowledgeable, correct? And chose to take it, knowing the risk? And then did some strange things to recover from the dependency. And has had an odd, life-long fixation on Russia and other Slavic ethnicities (of which I am one, primarily). Sorry if the truth is something you can't handle. Drop your need for superhuman heroes. It's late in the day. You should know there are none.
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  37266.  @ABagOfLag  Oh really? Okay, honey. You didn't know that in his youth he admired the Soviets? Hm, and HOW exactly would a "fascination with . . . totalitarianism" lead him to seek very serious medical treatment for a very serious condition, in today's Russia? (Or to name his daughter after Gorbachev?) Oh brother. I better not step on the toes of an acolyte. You are making me feel embarrassed for you. And I don't even hate on Peterson, or have any truck with those who do. (I have sympathy for him, especially after what happened. I don't blame the victim here. I simply see him for what he is.) I listen to HIM, not his critics, I read HIS website . . . and I have some experience in these matters. A Western fascination with non-Western Europeans is a well-known phenomenon. As is the need hero worship, but you're supposed to be done with that by the time you reach your mid-twenties. Notice how you have to attribute an ignorance to me that I very obviously do not have, in order to push your "narrative?" I have never heard anyone else point out what I just did -- no one does, LOL! How about ditching the narrative instead? Sounds like that could work out better for you. I see no evidence Peterson wants you to deify him, although he does seems inordinately money-hungry, still, thinking his family's health issues require more dough than he already has. Wake up.
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  37267.  @ABagOfLag  No one has said what I just said, buddy -- they won't touch it with a ten-foot pole.
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  37268.  @ABagOfLag  I never disputed his research. In fact, its nature, scope and breath was one reason I was surprised that he succumbed to the addiction he did. I would have expected greater caution on his part, but obviously I don't know the details of how quickly that medication made him sick. Many people try it, or are persuaded to try it, and few have the reaction he did. I'm not judging him for that. None of this has any bearing on my point, of course. My point has to do with how he dealt with his addiction. Apparently Western medicine could not help him. Odd, no? You avoid that issue, for some reason. None of this has to do with his opposition to totalitarianism, either; if he had such opposition, he would not be a mouthpiece for capitalism, which has given birth to the monster. I think that's obvious. (See, e.g., Hobsbawm, among others.) I have a doctoral-level degree from an American university, and an advanced degree from a prominent European university as well. Thinking and writing come naturally to me, and I do it fast. I've taught college courses, among other things. Maybe you might want to learn something from someone online? Glean a new perspective? Mature as a thinker? Better than throwing an opportunity away. I don't see why writing something cogent is worse than throwing off stupid one-liners and hashtag phrases. Clearly it inspired you to write better as well.
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  37269. @TheDrewSaga They don't know they're lying. Not anymore.
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  37270. Well, . . . We are clearly not listening to a lawyer.
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  37271. Time stamp??
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  37272.  @adambakker4321  I see. He said some swelling, not swelling of the heart. He needed to say some measure of inflammatory response, not swelling, which is true of any vaccine. But what he said is unconscionable in any event.
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  37273. I like you! :)
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  37274. Read the article. New York Times.
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  37275. Which one?
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  37276. Jamaican accents are the best.
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  37277. Gavin de Becker discussed this long before Columbine, in fact. Important to think about this for sure.
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  37278. I thought of that, watched closely, and doubt it. You could be right, but I honestly do not think so.
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  37279.  @TallyDrake  For the most part, maybe. Identifying Jon Stewart with that truly dubious Republican Senator whose name escapes me did seem excessive to me.
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  37280.  @TallyDrake  Anyway, as I said, you could be right.
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  37281. If screen time is one factor on the list, will we hear about it here? We already know the pandemic mitigation harmed toddler's eye development. Older kids are apparently not affected, or if they are, can recover.
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  37282.  @mikem4481  When someone, anyone, cries, it is because they cannot help it.
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  37283. Top quintile and other four quintiles? Worse than that. Only the top 10% are both secure and stable; the next 10% are certainly doing well, and are comfortable, now, but a serious illness or accident can derail them. They can lose everything they worked for. Look to who can self-finance a retirement, and all or most of their children's college education. That is not the top 20%; that is the top 10% at best. Those are two fundamental things that every social democracy provides; goes without saying.
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  37284. DID TRUMP'S LAWYERS MAKE THIS ARGUMENT? I mean, is it true or is it false that they made this broad immunity argument? (I'm not saying which --- I don't know.) *If* it is true, you should care. It's your country, correct? Or is it just a crime wave with a business front office as a cover? Just be sure to get your cut?
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  37285. I believe RFK Jr would listen to this journalist.
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  37286.  @Strange9952  And scary.
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  37287.  @maddogfpv  Where did you see this? 🤔
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  37288.  @jameshersom2536  Trying to pin it on someone else is evidence of the psychopathic trait. Just leaving and denying responsibility would be narcissistic, in my opinion, especially if the child turned out to be very beautiful or successful and then, "poof!" -- they are back in the picture again.
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  37289.  @floriankrause7203  America makes one set matter, the other not. A change of sorts.
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  37290. That's funny. His insights just sparked new ideas on my part -- before 6 am local time.
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  37291.  @72mespo  I kind of doubt that. I have journals full, starting with my days at Paris IV. I have ideas in several languages.
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  37292.  @flamekeeper-oracle13  For her choice to recuse herself from the FIRST case she took and did substantive work on, which she decided represents a conflict of interest with the SECOND one. Did she ask for advice from a private attorney who has expertise in the rules of professional responsibility? Did she request an opinion letter from the Idaho Supreme Court/Character and Fitness Board,, or whoever it is who is responsible in her state, if anyone? When I witnessed what appeared to be significant wrongdoing on the part of an attorney, I certainly got some very high level advice on my duty to report, if any, and the advice was not free (nor should it be). Well, California trains you for all that. A lot of people go the cheap route, "a wing and a prayer," etc. I certainly did not. Some were never trained. Not every state does it that way, I suppose. (What I witnessed involved money, however; not poor people . . . smh) Sorry, this stuff is no joke. Or at least it didn't used to be. Hmm.
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  37293. The Memorandum Opinion I just read states that several breach of contract claims against Harvard were not dismissed. It is dated Sept. 11, 2024. She has until mid-October to file an amended complaint against Harvard as sole defendant. When someone who isn't a lawyer talks about some case, you have to look up the case. 😒
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  37294. Then why is he where he is, on ketamine to boot? Hint: government contracts is one reason.
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  37295. ​@RyanWelling-dm8wz You just know nothing about politics in UK and Germany, and Amber doesn't, either, so Amber sounds good to you. She isn't paid to know things. Simple.
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  37296. Is homelessness segregated just like neighborhoods are?
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  37297. It's not so much hard to regain self-esteem as it is very time-consuming.
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  37298. Marines here have explained it. Actually, they do. It's impressive.
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  37299. @Geewasright  That's not the issue at all. He took an oath. Of course he should be expected to uphold it. No one disputes that.
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  37300.  @Geewasright  Answered in previous post. Besides, Brie just told you.
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  37301.  @Geewasright  No, they're not. Why do you think Brie agrees? This is a LOCAL prosecution with national implications. That means it has to be solid. 100% clean, so that OTHER jurisdictions will accept a guilty verdict. Listen, are principles dead? Is that it? Reminds me of when Trump said hideous things about women over and over, and then people went after his wife and kid, to the point of wishing them harm. If you're so against him, why try to one-up his worst character traits?
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  37302. @Geewasright  It just dawned on me why my much better reply from before is missing. The algorithm is flagging my strong writing and reasoning as professional. This happened to me back when the Internet was new, and my reviews were always being taken down as ad copy. When I emailed Yelp, etc., to complain, they told me. Wow, just wow.
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  37303.  @Geewasright  Carry on with dumb soundbites.
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  37304. @Geewasright  So, you don't care whether he is elected again?? Oh. I thought you did care. Sorry, my mistake.
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  37305. @Geewasright  If you can't face facts, how are you so different from Trump tell me again.
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  37306. @Geewasright  If I so much as attempt to say the case affects more than that, because the alleged violations affected the whole country, I am subjected to sense or ship. Are you good with that?
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  37307. Did she do this in her official capacity, and is her relationship with these council members professional? THEN THE PARTY IS IMPROPER.
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  37308. Man, the distortions are coming fast and furious. Criticize what they said, not your gross distortion of what they said.
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  37309. You sound like it's you who needs the protective bubble.
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  37310.  @Brett_S_420  I'm not Russian.
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  37311.  Kwok Wai Lai  🤣🤣🤣 A retrospective on the Cuban Missile Crisis isn't news any more!
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  37312.  @josephmassaro  It is entirely state-by-state, and in the plurality of states, it is 16. California's age of consent is 18. Illinois, Texas and New York, 17. I think New York changed fro 18 not that long ago. Pennsylvania is 16. So, those are the more populous states. In California, it is one year beyond age of consent, so I guess they are in California?
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  37313. It is 18 in California.
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  37314.  @hrs2044  It is 18 in California, one of the rare states where it is. I can't think of another.
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  37315. Oh yes it does.
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  37316. Please look into "mirror bacteria."
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  37317. So . . . The student debt moratorium expires closer to the election. Biden is a true genius.
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  37318. Perfectly said.
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  37319.  @tbirch55  It is highly unlikely that Plato was ever sold into slavery, for one thing.
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  37320.  @Bigballz1993-k2c  Timestamp
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  37321.  @Bigballz1993-k2c  FYI, I'm a member of two state bars, including the hardest one to pass.
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  37322. @DungareeDong  What do you mean? Remove them from a job, undermine their professional opportunities, or disagree with their position and state why? Where did this happen, exactly?
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  37323. FU
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  37324. 🤣🤣🤣
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  37325. 🌟No. You weren't "dragged into this." 🌟All you had to do was to keep reporting the news, and posting videos of your reporting the news, in response to every false accusation of your not reporting the news.🌟
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  37326.  @davidscott5903  Nicely said. But I swear to you, the truth may be worse: they KNOW they are supposed to do this. They swore an oath to follow the law. This "charity" stuff is deliberate smoke and mirrors.
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  37327. LOL, because they are so married.
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  37328. By law all doors open out into the hallway, for generations now.
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  37329.  @peetky8645  All do. They must. Fire code.
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  37330. Everyone should watch the Frontline documentary on the Norfolk Four. There, a prosecutor became convinced that an obvious case of a single assailant was actually a nine-person orgy.
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  37331. Gosh does Obama look phony. I can't believe he is as phony as he looks, not in this disaster.
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  37332. "What about the 10%?" It is ALWAYS about picking people off one by one. Ten percent is the maximum number they can kick to the curb at the moment.
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  37333. If you want to discuss creationism as an explanation, by all means, I'm for it --- but be sure to study Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. See how that goes.
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  37334. 😂😂😂😂😂 "Mama i Tata" is casual/slang in a lot of EE languages for mom and dad. Montenegrin, notably. How did they come up with it? (Slumming?)
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  37335. But Operation Warp Speed, no problem?
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  37336.  @aylio3745  Is it "whataboutism" when a black kid is thrown into Rikers on a bare claim that he stole a backpack? The way the SAME class of acts is ignored in one case and prosecuted to the hilt in the other is not whataboutism. Look it up.
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  37337. Well . . . What did people think having concentrations of wealth greater than the GDP of smaller countries would lead to? Who runs Harvard was already a brief skirmish between two billionaires. And Musk is counting on removing Maduro, whether he won or not.
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  37338. The vaccine consent forms said that after reading all the information, if you decided to decline the vaccine, your health care would be unaffected. You'd be treated the same as anyone else. Anyone who threatened people with being denied a hospital bed were contradicting what the consent form said.
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  37339.  @DrAlexanderHamilton  Wrong. I never said I believed her. I suspend judgment. It's obvious.
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  37340.  @DrAlexanderHamilton  I'm not required to believe women. You are not required to learn how to read before commenting. You are just required to be categorical, ascerbic, and very quick to jeer. Oh, and be sure to impute views to other people that they obviously don't hold. The algorithm thanks you.
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  37341.  @Nyet-Zdyes  It's not at all evident. But have it your way. In any case, as I've said, she had the burden of proof and statutes of limitations exist for a reason.
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  37342. @nyetzdyec3391  "Evident" means "clear to the vision or understanding;" it comes from the Latin videre. If you accept something as true based on the best available information, that is a reasonable belief. That is not knowledge.
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  37343.  @Nyet-Zdyes  "Evident" means "clear to the vision or understanding;" it comes from the Latin videre. If you accept something as true based on the best available information, that is a reasonable belief. That is not knowledge.
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  37344. @nyetzdyec3391  You don't know what burden of proof means, hm? Okay, good bye . . .
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  37345. ​ @lyno2834 AND have kept other white women out. Classic.
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  37346. Don't be sure people like Martha Stewart aren't consulted on geopolitics -- like Stewart, only richer. Betsy DeVos was Secretary of Education.
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  37347.  @petel3366  And then as soon as Paul Allen developed cancer, Gates The Health Benefactor tried to FIRE him.
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  37348.  @dianapugh1534  Actually, it's not his money. It's NIH money, it's money from various foundations, not just his, which are separate entities, it's major universities, it's even Department of Defense money. It's, in short, our money mostly.
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  37349.  @kevinsyd2012  Does Gates just preach? Do Rogan and Brand decide global policies, and then by some odd accident make gobs of money from them, even when others are harmed?
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  37350.  @oculartremors  Except they have less and less to do with each other. That is a problem lately, huh?
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  37351.  @nannerpants7  Notice how every worthy movement is co-opted immediately by people who see some benefit in it for themselves. Sometimes they literally set up a charity or a nonprofit to steal.
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  37352.  @evukelectricvehicles  Thanks for the recommendations.
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  37353.  @Eventual-Visitor  Trick me once, shame on me. Trick me multiple times, get rich and earn my worshipful envy.
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  37354. Why do you imagine Max or Jimmy cannot read a peer-reviewed journal article, or the website of another country's ministry of health? Research is not Facebook. Google Scholar leads to solid information. In any event, Jimmy followed his doctor's advice to be vaccinated and became chronically ill for several months after his second shot. You expect him to say and do nothing about his health, or to bully the unvaccinated -- if he got sick from vaccination, let them risk it, too? If he hated on the unvaxxed, would you criticize him, or no? Where has he cited a dubious source?
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  37355. Follow the news from other countries, then. It is not just happening here.
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  37356.  @russellbarbee6974  I was referring to COVID and the various mitigation efforts, different types of vaccines, and debates about all of the above. (BTW, a lot of countries are not relying on mRNA vaccines at all, or relying on them less than on the other vaccine types.)
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  37357. To think this guy could trigger people to harass the bereaved families of the children who were killed in the Sandy Hook massacre. My GOD.
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  37358. These are just ordinary moms. That's what's hard to accept.
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  37359. Because it was so obviously duplicitous. AND there is still hope of correcting it quickly. If someone in commerce were to shortchange you, would you bring it up? Or do you recommend not standing up for yourself?
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  37360.  @glintinggold  Shocking that you have to point that out. Imagine the surveillance necessary to do such a thing.
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  37361. She was great here. She knows Southern and Eastern Europeans were not always seen as "white," in the sense in which a lot of Americans used to use the term.
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  37362. Why did you think that? By the way . . .
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  37363. ​ @BHarris25  There's that, too. Very suspect.
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  37364.  @testingmysoup5678  Yes, this can happen as well.
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  37365. There is also something else going on here. According to Reuters, over 17,500 American kids got puberty blockers from 2017 through 2021, AND the numbers were surging every year -- roughly a third of those 17+ thousand got them in 2021 alone. Who ever heard of this, in these numbers, just 15 years ago, nevermind before the past few years? Where is the basic, scientific curiosity about this? Some people blame "the leftists," or "the schools," or "pharma," or " social contagion." Anything, just to grasp some "narrative" or other as quickly as possible. It seems to me that this is some sort of a mental illness, it is extremely serious, and we need real answers, not another culture war. (Culture wars are money grabs, mostly.)
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  37366. There is also something else going on here. According to Reuters, over 17,500 American kids got puberty blockers from 2017 through 2021, AND the numbers were surging every year -- roughly a third of those 17+ thousand got them in 2021 alone. Who ever heard of this, in these numbers, just 15 years ago, nevermind before 2020? Where is the basic, scientific curiosity about this? Some people blame "the leftists," or "the schools," or "pharma," or "social contagion." Anything, just to grasp some "narrative" or other as quickly as possible. It seems to me that this is extremely serious, and we need real answers, not another culture war. EDIT: Let's see if this is permitted.
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  37367. Fact-based posts about the true extent of this are now . . . (You can't see how I finished that? It's not the only thing you can't see.)
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  37368. He is sleazy, and manipulative. I would hate to go up against him in court.
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  37369. Heard that Kim left The Hill due to sense or ship.
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  37370.  @harmonys2102  I agree wholeheartedly! The people who abuse the unvaccinated are the ones I suspect may regret their choice. There is so much that we don't know. It is also possible that those who got significant side effects from the vaccine would have been very sick had they contracted COVID. Some legitimate doctors who aren't just pushing vaccines think this is quite likely. So there is no way at all to say you made the wrong choice.
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  37371. So she faked an honesty paper. I had students who cheated on their ethics paper, but she blows them out of the water.
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  37372.  @jeffroberts6428  I agree. I didn't mean my comment to be hostile in any way. What is a parent to do? When grade school children are already hanging out with adults with records and running away from home, every family needs some assistance. Look, I knew 14- and 15-year-old girls who were already dating men in their 20s who were dubious, including some who had been in jail. Every single one of those girls got to grow up, and every single one is living in a nice suburb right now. I am serious. We all know what made the difference, for them.
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  37373.  @arnoldlueders7500  So you concede he was not pointing the gun at any person or other living thing. Thank you for admitting that.
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  37374.  @arnoldlueders7500  I won't bother asking what is wrong with you. You wouldn't know, but everyone else has a decent idea.
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  37375. I think she means the opposite. Explain to me why Congress is involved. That's all I ask. If she were expelling students who demonstrated against Israel, would Congress focus on her? If you think so, well . . . Robby brought that up first, to give credit where credit is due. No pun intended.
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  37376. They think they're smart, so you must be stupid. Do you do actual WORK, for less money than they make? Well then.
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  37377. Voila!
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  37378. Obvious
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  37379. Also, she didn't vote for Biden in 2020.
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  37380.  @zaccoop6727  I think they could all easily pitch in and make that happen if they wanted to, because they have $$$.
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  37381.  @zaccoop6727  Oh it's obvious all right. These people belong in places like El Paso, Uvalde, . . . you know. We all know.
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  37382. The European far left is anti-mandate. It has been all along. The PCF (actual communists) is anti-mandate. I kid you not.
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  37383. "Slut shaming" is a meme. It's that simple. We don't have discussions anymore. We have advertising slogans.
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  37384.  @nalejbank  You're beginning with the moderator's questions. I addressed each of the student questions from the audience.
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  37385.  @nalejbank  I wonder where these talking points come from -- but I know who they serve: the neoliberal elites. (See, e.g., David Harvey)
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  37386.  @nalejbank  Calling things "cancer" now is a dead giveaway, BTW. We no longer have argumentation, or even agreed-upon facts; we have rhetorical signaling to fellow tribalists. Your last two sentences ("Make your decision. Pick your side.") inadvertently admit it. I guess you got excited.
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  37387.  @mirapilates  It certainly used to be; it isn't necessarily at present, but I've been saying all over these threads that the Trump DOJ, With Barr as Attorney General, indicted him, and he was pardoned, not exonerated, and state charges may still be brought. I don't know what has to happen for these people to wake up. I don't know what facts they are waiting for.
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  37388.  Bethnal Green  Bannon is the one who is selfish. How can he dupe you so easily? It would be plenty difficult for anyone under 30 to compare with Bannon with respect to engaging in dubious dealings for petty personal gain. They haven't had enough time.
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  37389.  @nalejbank  Hamilton, Madison, and Jay aren't exactly icons at OXFORD.
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  37390.  @AngelaBecker1966  No one suggested any such thing. But when any political operative consistently claims to advocate policies that are NEVER adopted, you should consider why. It may or may not be disingenuous on their part . . . you do notice a lot of prominent DNC types do this all the time, no? What questions does that raise for you?
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  37391.  Harald Blåtand  Your ad hominem is as pointless as it is banal. We already knew you were ill informed. You don't have to prove it three times.
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  37392.  @Jg09098  Because it's easy. Well, for me. P. S. Resolved: Sharpen math and logic skills for 2022. Okay, try a little bit. There's cool videos on that.
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  37393. Did they attack the athlete or the Olympic Committee that authorized the match? Attacks on the Olympic Committee should be free speech everywhere. We hear an interview from her, but not the actual words used against her or against allowing her to box by Rowling or Musk. So we don't know from this video what was said by these defendants. Did you miss that part? With this mentality, our First Amendment won't survive.
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  37394. @sandrols7  Nowhere did I say that defamation should not be available, if it applies. Of course it should. Do you know anything about defamation law in the US? Do you know why "opinions" are not actionable, in the US?
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  37395.  @sandrols7  A discussion about first principles harms no one.
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  37396.  @sandrols7  Fundamental rights don't matter? . . . How do you think university protests against arming the war on Gaza are shut down? They make some people feel unsafe. The rights you give up are ALWAYS your own.
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  37397. @sandrols7  A discussion about first principles harms no one --- what part of that is elusive?
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  37398.  @melanie1825  Where did you hear that she gave birth?
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  37399. @peterschaeffer  Well, in that case, it lies at the doorstep of the IOC, not the athlete. She didn't declare herself eligible, she applied to compete like everyone else. It was up to them to rule properly. But to be clear -- I agree with all your points.
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  37400.  @resourcedragon  I know. But this video is American and influences Americans.
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  37401. Julian Assange in his heyday could have gotten to the bottom of this.
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  37402.  @RockPile_  Last time I checked, the stand against anything that smacks of eugenics is leftist.
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  37403. Martha Stewart was never convicted of insider trading, or even charged with that. They went for the easy win: she lied to federal agents during an insider trading investigation, trying to make herself look good, and to hide her affair with the object of the investigation. Well, that was so stupid. Remain silent. It's still a right.
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  37404.  @kdub3892  Even mainstream, pro-vaccine doctors in Europe have doubts about the wisdom of so many shots in under two years. What happens if you actually were to need a vaccine, for something with a 15 to 20% mortality rate?
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  37405. Sick society. I wonder how many of these people have unwholesome relationships with food, alcohol, drugs, or sex.
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  37406.  @mitch6160  What do you mean? Oh!! I get it. LOL.
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  37407.  @mitch6160  Didn't speak English at home. Your assumption doesn't land!
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  37408.  @mitch6160  Right, it wasn't. Insinuation, innuendo, . . . the usual.
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  37409.  @mitch6160  Why? I don't have a problem with any of the things I mentioned. You need a dictionary. It's that cut and dry.
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  37410.  @mitch6160  I see plenty wrong with jeering at Biles. There is no reason to believe that she had any inkling in advance that this would happen. Her performance up until now gave no clue. If she had had these episodes before, then there would be something to debate. It still would not warrant scorn, but it would warrant criticism. But she was at the top of her game in the qualifying events. This is TRAGIC for her. She did nothing wrong.
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  37411. Zaid, have you READ Foucault?
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  37412. Why? The more Americans turn Europeans off, the better. Europe needs to get the message for once.
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  37413. I hope you're right. The lady looks worried. God, let it be an act.
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  37414. I can tell you how I felt after I bought the first new car of my life in my forties: FANTASTIC. It was the first time money solved a problem: I bought a Volvo S80 AWD and felt perfectly safe driving, even surrounded by enormous SUVs. Now I know how much money matters -- and so do you guys.
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  37415.  @layinlow77  You'll love it.
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  37416. Because of reliance on McDonald's. Traditional cuisines of Latin America are generally healthy.
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  37417. It should also be cheap to compensate properly.
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  37418. 💯 correct
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  37419. He knew what a woman was when he picked Kamala. I think. Right?
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  37420. Okay, are you kidding, or do you not know this was a region in Africa with a similar name?
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  37421. Sheesh. You're supposed to say they want Hamas to be fruitful and multiply.
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  37422. @benettinger5910  Yes you do.
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  37423. @ionamcbrid  By the way, bravo! You're a hero! At least in France, if something were to happen to you, the benefits would be more than the amount sufficient to keep a collie well-fed, which is all most people would get in the US. You can judge the mentality here. It has become frightening. The only thing the vast majority cheer is war, and you can never admit you lack money. That is the surest way to be hit with contempt that you cannot escape.
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  37424.  @xiaodaigu5659  You have no evidence for that whatsoever. So, why do you believe it, and repeat it? Multipolarista just did a video on who HAS been starting wars, all over the globe, based on US Congressional sources and similar authoritative materials. I suggest you look at that, and better yet, read the actual sources. That's how you find out real stuff.
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  37425. @Gaeuvyen Why accuse the Democrats? Because it's . . . True?
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  37426. You have to prove things in math. You can't generalize. There are infinitely many positive integers. So 158,743^1087 examples isn't enough.
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  37427. This YouTuber Watson has said he quit school because he was always drunk and high. At that age, Biles was in school and gymnastics, putting in 12-hour days. But he's not the quitter, she is. . . . Her twisties got better, LOL. His are making him too much unearned cash I guess.
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  37428.  @IronHeel  He pointlessly hijacked this thread.
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  37429.  @32brookse  I believe you.
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  37430.  @32brookse  Notice how there isn't a Seymour Hersh out there today to investigate what is really going on, and among other things interviewing people like you?
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  37431. You're so right that that is important. His team will probably submit an application if the form already exists, but lobbying for special privileges? No, no one should.
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  37432. 24:25 Suicide an option?
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  37433. Ever been to Europe?
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  37434. Almost!
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  37435. I WISH everyone thought like Krystal and Saagar. The truth is they DON'T. That is why Trump said what he said. He knows exactly what he is doing.
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  37436. Took Assange almost 12 years to be freed.
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  37437. ​ @foylebutler8952 A state university isn't private property. It also maintains a traditional First Amendment forum in some open areas, but obviously not all. We can't go to a classroom and audit, or start teaching. We can go to their library but not take out books or make noise. We can go to the quad/lawn/yard and pass out pamphlets and cheer the speakers.
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  37438. ​ @whizbang7130 Brandenburg v. Ohio and RAV v. City of St. Paul say it is.
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  37439.  @whizbang7130  That is a bare claim. There is no evidence. On the other hand, as soon as any students, anywhere, criticized US policy, they were doxxed, demands for organization lists were made, sound trucks bearing their pictures were broadcasting a call not to hire them, and three from Brown University were sh o t at, one paralyzed.
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  37440.  @whizbang7130  Do you know what Brandenburg v. Ohio says? Or what it is?
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  37441.  @whizbang7130  Sorry to hear. No surprise.
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  37442. Most normal people were very surprised by the reaction to Luigi. (1) I sure was; and (2) I got the message. :/
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  37443. Not what she said, at least not this time.
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  37444.  @naijaplayer  She says requiring Head Start two- and three-year- olds to wear masks was "a goof," and that Robbie is right. Exhale.
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  37445. No one is "conflating" the two. Dr. Campbell has called for two things: FIRST, suspend genneral use of mRNA vaccines pending further studies, and SECOND, we need to find out what is causing these deaths. We don't know. Among things we don't know is whether these vaccines are particularly dangerous to those who already had COVID. A lot of young people had COVID and don't know because they were expecting to be very sick and just had a cold.
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  37446. A father cannot be forced to donate a blood transfusion to save his three-year-old. We all agree he is immoral. Still, governments cannot force him.
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  37447. One word: Roe. No, not because anyone normal likes abortion. Because no one feels comfortable with uncertainty, and everyone hates the thought that a 10 year old girl could be denied an abortion. So an Epstein could hold her fate in his hands. Think it through.
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  37448. Now do Bill and Melinda.
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  37449. Good for you.
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  37450. Wow. The Russians sound like Bobby Kennedy Jr.
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  37451. ​ @dazeyknows6736 You don't have a legal obligation to call in most states.
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  37452. See Adam Curtis's documentary, where he talks about political cosplay deliberately deployed as cosplay. It works like the panopticon -- destroys all trust.
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  37453. No. She's doing her job. Depp wants a court to order Amber Heard to pay him $50 million. So, he has to prove that her article was defamatory and cost him $50 million.
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  37454.  @GrumpyStoic  Oh yeah? But Depp trying to get $50 million from Heard, because Heard referred to "domestic abuse" in an opinion piece. And he already lost a defamation lawsuit in UK. That's nice.
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  37455.  @Jana-wx3lp  So, what makes Depp entitled to the $50,000,000 in damages he is claiming?
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  37456.  @mimasam5528  Yeah. The judge rules on the merits and the law, not based on who you think is the Bad Person.
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  37457.  @annmarieknapp2480  You cannot do that in a court proceeding. The agent must be clearly indicated. A lawsuit is an adversarial proceeding. You cannot hide who you are asserting did what to whom by "softening" the language.
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  37458. Yes. It's really old.
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  37459. 💯
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  37460. That's the hypothesis.
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  37461.  @icemancometh1188  This is a function with the positive integers as domain and range. F(x) = 3x + 1, if x is odd, and x ÷ 2, if x is even. The conjecture is that for every positive integer (infinitely many), F(x) generates a string that, after some finite number of steps, always terminates in a 4 2 1 loop.
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  37462.  @icemancometh1188  These aren't equations. This is a function. The problem is to prove the conjecture.
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  37463.  @icemancometh1188  Or disprove, for that matter.
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  37464. Read White Coat, Black Hat.
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  37465. Just wait. He will come out as trans before anyone prosecutes him.
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  37466. "Self-defense" DOES NOT APPLY against all the charges that were brought. So no, you cannot claim "self-defense" against all of them.
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  37467.  @luckyjordan8139  So, you support ordinary people shooting up all the Bad Guys? Even minors. Minors get to decide. If they luck out, and it turns out that they shot a Really Bad Guy, they get a prize.
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  37468.  @luckyjordan8139  It was not his community.
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  37469.  @jesuschrist9933  SELF-DEFENSE DOES NOT APPY to all of the charges he faces.
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  37470.  @luckyjordan8139  When the police saw him with that weapon, they did not have the presence of mind to suggest he go home?? They offered water, in appreciation? What is this BULLSHIT now? The police let him down, too, I agree. They see kids with big guns, they forget Colombine, Sandyhook, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas. Nice. The problem is bigger than looting.
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  37471.  @jesuschrist9933  That is possible. A thorough investigation may result in that charge being lowered or dropped. But we don't know yet. He did get bond set.
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  37472.  @jesuschrist9933  I have no idea whether he has any politics. I don't take that seriously in a crazy, loser kid. And I have no sympathy for anarchists. Blech. Or the people egging Claudia Conway on, for that matter. I like her, but not the people encouraging her to take her private life to Twitter. Bunch of ghouls.
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  37473.  @jesuschrist9933  If I'm ever mad, it's at myself for not emigrating.
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  37474.  @luckyjordan8139  So he should have gone to Hawaii.
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  37475. Wow is lying lucrative. If I only knew.
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  37476. You all are crazy.
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  37477. THIS
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  37478. I think that the fact that "one side" is exaggerating January 6th, and "the other side" is minimizing it is what is the most troubling. I see that there were undercover agents provocateurs on January 6th AND during the summer of George Floyd protests. Why doesn't everyone? It happens to be TRUE.
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  37479. Nadine Strossen is still for the First Amendment, for real. Everyone should read her book.
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  37480.  Two Wongs Don’t Make A White  I'm not.
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  37481. Joined two months ago to cut and paste this post over and over?
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  37482. FALSE . . . The Guardian reported on what happened. Very easy to find. Guardian is mainstream.
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  37483.  @KarenLewis-mu1ud  Hasan, in particular, has a terrible reputation in unfair debate tactics. I put far less store in talk than in documentation, especially now. The Guardian article also shows how important it is for medications to be administered properly, because trust lost tends to make people avoid doctors altogether, and that IS very risky.
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  37484. All of this is based on a desire to be Special and Famous. That's why you almost never see POC or non-Western kids and parents involved.
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  37485.  @Skooms89  Have you ever heard of "multivariate analysis?" You know what could turn out to be true? It could turn out that it is incredibly risky to give a YOUNG person an mRNA vaccine against something they were already exposed to, and possibly recovered from without symptoms. This would be consistent with other facts known about the young immune system. But it will take years of careful, unbiased study to find out. A lot of things happened. Psychological problems were induced by the fear mongering and the shutdowns. Inactivity, drug abuse, etc. And then the vaccines, which we know so far have an abysmal safety record -- we were supposed to believe COVID is soooo much more dangerous, hence the vaccine should be taken. That's what my doctor prattled to me. And he had NO way of knowing whether it was true. None.
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  37486. @hammer44head  Yes, I know why the university professors agreed to appear. And what does Congress propose? To stop funding? The agency through which they distribute the funding can be sued if the funding is denied on a discriminatory basis, in violation of free speech, and so forth. This is for fundraising. It worked super well last time.
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  37487. Wrong. The study has been replicated many times. Zip codes were chosen to reinforce racial identity. U of Chicago was involved in one study, and they are TRULY nobody's fools. Marquette also discovered anti-Russian bias when they replicated it. Don't tell me that's dubious.
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  37488. Of course. They are all in on it.
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  37489.  @Penguzilla  So sorry. These are far more unpleasant experiences than people realize.
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  37490. Jimmy, when someone distinguishes himself as a Marine, you know he earned some college credits that were accepted at a state university for full credit. Besides, adult students often go to summer school. I mean, why not? He wasn't 19.
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  37491. What we all thought about the last one . . . Unreal.
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  37492.  @questworldmatrix  Astute! Sadly . . .
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  37493. ​@beavis4play I hate Hamas. I hate genocide, too. I don't place any trust in Hamas. I don't know why they did what they did. What's your position on Amy Goodman, Bernie Sanders, Glenn Greenwald, Neve Gordon, Miko Peled, Gideon Levy, Naomi Klein, the ICJ, . . . , wow this is getting long.
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  37494. Why not start with opposing unfair speech with more speech, not threats of lawsuits? Defamation suits are always anti-free speech. See R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul. Anyone who threatens a suit is claiming the person or group they are suing has no free speech right in the matter.
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  37495. COVID mishandling defeated Trump, and rightfully so. Too bad the DNC made sure we wouldn't get a competent president. Twice in a row.
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  37496. 8:05 Can you show this in any animal, such as the mouse? Its generations are shorter.
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  37497. ​ @CecilGrey-u8e  It's unconstitutional to remove the pardon Biden gave. It can't happen. But the States and other countries can go after him. 😊
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  37498. @4thebees  Fauci, along with everyone else who worked on developing a vaccine, got a commendation from Trump. It wasn't an individual honor, or a medal. But it was a commendation.
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  37499.  @paulineackermann2598  It was a group commendation, not a medal, and it is easy to find.
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  37500. @paulineackermann2598  Links are removed, duh. I saw no ceremony. I found the declaration. Paper, not vid.
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  37501. @paulineackermann2598  They already ___ my post that contained more detailed info.
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  37502. He knows people have already forgotten his visits, plural, to Jeffrey Epstein's, and that no one read The Nation article.
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  37503. The exact opposite happened to women who were laid off at an older age and then got discrete plastic surgery to look younger and got better jobs than the ones they had lost. Similar experiments were done with different hair colors and padding. I'll leave the details to your imagination.
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  37504. ​ @SeanSandberg-j3q Was that a parody?
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  37505. ​ @Nyet-Zdyes No link to the study, no information about it ever having been replicated. 😂
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  37506. No. This dispute is about money, and people with money (in this case, advertisers) get to decide where to spend it. Brie said Musk himself has alienated advertisers, and if he really supports free speech, he may have to eat the financial loss that comes with it. Musk is a billionaire and has a platform at his full disposal, and he STILL needs the courts to help him. Turning to Daddy Government so quickly? Why not start with opposing unfair speech with more speech, not threats of lawsuits? Defamation suits are always anti-free speech. See R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul. Anyone who threatens a suit is claiming the person or group they are suing has no free speech right in the matter.
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  37507. ​ @templarw20 How many pro-Palestinian groups would be bankrupt?
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  37508. It is, technically, but standing is more than just procedural because it is a ruling on who has a big enough direct stake in the matter to actually sue.
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  37509.  @robertjohnson-mt8pz  Held by the States or the PEOPLE. Nice try, but you left out an important part, lol.
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  37510. Why pretend Andrew is the outlier?
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  37511. Exactly. They refuse to lift patent protection, which would allow closer study of mRNA technology as well. They refuse to work together with other countries developing conventional vaccines. Immediate vaccination must really be important. (Sarcasm alert) Another example of offloading risk onto the individual.
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  37512. A German team is looking into the blood clot issue with Johnson and Johnson, and just a week ago they reported they had a result. The article is undergoing review and should be published soon. But LOTTERIES are scientific!
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  37513. @walterhahn4130  Do you think a complex criminal case concludes with a verdict in a matter of weeks? Or does it take more than that? Congress can order an independent investigation and can bring articles of impeachment. Let's see what they do, besides perform for campaign fundraising purposes. Say, why no release of the JFK assassination archives, from nearly three generations ago?
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  37514. She said the CDC was.
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  37515.  @frankstallone3864  How odd that in Europe, people like J. K. Rowling once spent time on welfare. Or bilingual J-L Melenchon was born hard of hearing and no one knew. The mayor of Paris was once a refugee with her family from Franco's Spain. Americans just stay on welfare as a lifestyle choice? Are you sure about that? In America, look up "welfare for the rich and corporations." Spending more on lobbying than what a corporation pays in taxes once raised an eyebrow. Now it's quite ordinary. As for hyperwealthy individuals, first they lobby Congress for tax cuts. Then instead of paying taxes, they park part of their fortunes in Treasury bills, and the government pays them interest. At least some states don't tax that interest income at all.
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  37516. ​@3366larryandrews I voted for LaRiva/Peltier, to protest his continued incarceration. I did that in person, on election day. The US government has bombed a lot of countries, including the one my family is from. Wake up.
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  37517. Suppose Chelsea Manning now believes no one should appear on Tucker, or Fox. She can say that. Jimmy just makes the point! WHY did she SMEAR Glenn??? It even weakens her supposed "point."
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  37518. Her next job will be lots more 💰
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  37519. ​ @Nat_BLSK  Excellent summary. You'd be the perfect juror. It's sad that more people don't believe in our Constitution.
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  37520. ​ @maher.itorer How did he fail to recognize his mother in the courtroom?
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  37521. ​ @Italian-j2k From falling. Only a fall and bump on the head could explain why a person panicked and failed to stand up. That was a large pool. No child should be in it without adult supervision. Funny how no one asked the mother why she wasn't at the pool when the kids were. That would be my first question. As for coroner's reports, they are often disputed.
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  37522. ​@rollbamaroll6518 Shame? You're supposed to question testimony. You just made a story up yourself. Did you miss how that child failed to recognize his mother in court, saying she was in jail?
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  37523. ​​ @alabama.worley Polygraphs tend to have false positives, not false negatives. Passing one while lying, with no prior experience taking them and no prior record, is not easy.
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  37524. ​ @shannonroberts5466 Not if she hit her head falling in. Drowning is very easy. My question is why kids that young were playing by a pool of that size unsupervised. No one in this report asked that.
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  37525. ​ @aroseinwinter05 Abused is not the same scenario at all. Stating what just happened to you (and it's something a child is not supposed to know about) and stating what you witnessed happen to someone else is not the same. Remember the satanic panic?
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  37526. ​ @JK-zu1np I see that people don't know about the dangers of a pool. Kids drown in shallower water very frequently. I question why she wasn't supervising them. But I don't see evidence beyond reasonable doubt here.
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  37527. @DramaNina  This has nothing to do with feelings, impressions, or what can happen. Neglect, reckless endangerment, and first degree M are different crimes. This child changed his testimony many times, while she passed a polygraph -- and polygraphs are notorious for false positives. The coroner's demonstration was a classic prosecutor's trick. They use it because it works. There is reasonable doubt here. Children invent much more than this. Read up on the satanic panic cases. Everyone ought to.
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  37528.  @nabbyr8112  That is precisely what was questioned.
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  37529. Where did Brie support the Maine Secretary of State?
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  37530. We're already there. People in their 20s are more likely to be celibate than any generation before them, and teens are into gender bender. I didn't see it coming.
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  37531. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 The FIRST thing he talks about in response to Ryan is how miserable he was because of BLM, and exaggerated it of course. All the rich neolibs are perfectly fine. They don't know or care about anyone else. Most of the rest, the non-rich ones, are mad because they don't have Pelosi's money.
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  37532. Remember the Beslan school seige and massacre? ABC News interviewed the terrorist mastermind of the massacre and gave him a prime time platform -- Nightline. When Russia protested, the US government said "First Amendment." They did not even offer sympathy. But you want to remove elected American Congress members for criticizing a foreign country. Well, well.
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  37533.  @YesuAiNimen  The excuse Trevor Noah gave in his "defense" of Joe Rogan was that the lab leak theory was racist, and we had to protect them -- with the wet market story! You can't make this stuff up. Trump allowed the Obama moratorium on NIH funding of gain of function research to expire, though there's evidence Fauci skirted it anyway.
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  37534. You are correct.
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  37535. Any of us can click the link to the Australian government website and see for ourselves that AZ was discontinued three weeks ago due to a serious side effect attributed directly to the vaccine: thrombosis with thrombocytopenia (TTS), and is no longer in use there, for anyone, for precisely that reason. But blab on.
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  37536. It isn't that this is true. It is that influential people at all levels (including at the very top) believe it. Yes it has effects.
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  37537. A minimum wage summer job paid a full year of in-state tuition and fees to all the major state universities in 1978. The students who could pay their way were different people.
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  37538. Things are better for him. He struck me as exceptionally contemptuous a few times, of the "losers."
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  37539.  @taragnor  He likes Greenwald, Hedges, Blumenthal, Jackson, Gray, Halper, Taibbi, Wolff, of course Dr. West, among others . . . . And I'm not interested in your sloganeering ("pixie dust," BLAH BLAH). To advocate for change as AOC has, and then do absolutely nothing except tend her own brand, is vastly more demoralizing than saying nothing. AOC's message ("subtext") is that ordinary things like health care, which every other developed country has, is far beyond our reach even during a pandemic and recession. (We're on track for over 500,000 dead by March, by the way.) How shameful. AOC is the one who is all talk and no action. You seem to lack self awareness. Say, are you a politician?
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  37540.  @taragnor  Also, "ephemeral hypothetical" isn't well written -- nor does it make sense. So, your effort at Sounding Smart falls flat, too.
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  37541. How many Biden lies are we up to now? $2000 checks; $15 minimum wage; vaccine incentives, NOT mandates, never mandates; Afghanistan will hold . . . What have I left out?
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  37542. Yeah, Amber, and people didn't call me for a job because their ignorant __ couldn't pronounce my name. No big deal, to you. Dave Chappelle: it's always funny until it happens to you. 😂😂😂 ❤
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  37543. Cancel culture strikes again.
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  37544. Jerry Falwell's case went to the Supreme Court, and the Court ruled that satire is protected speech. ANYTHING that doesn't violate the First Amendment should ever result in a suspension. Remove a tweet, so what, but never the speaker.
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  37545. Point one out. She was exceptionally strong in this segment. The better she is, the more you hate. I've seen this movie.
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  37546.  @quitefranklysamanthatheres1018  Emily was an idiot globbing on to Depp v. Heard without any knowledge of the law.
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  37547. If a person isn't paying attention, they might miss one line above: "The cops then used public information to find him." DNA tests for entertainment were not supposed to be "public information." No one thought so. Having said that, anyone who handed theirs over with an expectation of privacy is naive. DNA can always be handed over to law enforcement because that is an extraordinary circumstance and is not done for commercial purposes. It can also be subpoenaed, and for that very reason, the companies will forego being subpoenaed, and just hand it over in cases where they know they can and will be, to avoid any possible expense. Business is business. (Of course, once an arrest is made, Kohberger's own DNA can be gathered. A person can also be tricked into handing it over voluntarily prior to arrest.) But do the people who used these commercial DNA tests know this? Now they do. Another line: "You do not own rights to the data that comes from your DNA or the DNA of your family members." I certainly do own "the rights" to the data that comes from my DNA, though not anyone else's, insofar as I have the right to say who can see that data. I have never provided DNA except where the results of the analysis were protected by HIPAA. And we do have a reasonable expectation of privacy for that, under the Fourth Amendment, because federal law protects it. So there. Study harder in law school. :)
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  37548. Oh, let's not be equal. Let's make sure Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Gates, Hillary Clinton, and Queen Camilla run this show.
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  37549.  @tropickman  Because in 2022, none of them will have challengers. /s
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  37550.  @JohnDoe-i5z5c   That's not her fault. That's Biden's fault. Her background is outstanding, and the opinions, concurrences, and dissents she has written prove her capabilities. Same for Justice Barrett. They've both proved themselves. (BTW, I've never voted for a ticket with Biden on it. I saw through that 16 years ago.) Try reading some opinions and see. Or, let cable television decide for you. 😂
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  37551.  @Shalompaz-m7w  Why is everyone
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  37552.  @Shalompaz-m7w  who does not agree
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  37553.  @Shalompaz-m7w  in
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  37554.  @Shalompaz-m7w  visible
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  37555.  @Shalompaz-m7w  Riddle me that
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  37556. I agree none of these drugs should be illegal, but the way the most popular newscasters and podcast celebrities support drug use and talk about how great the stuff is is really a pity. No one respects their own mind anymore.
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  37557. astute
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  37558. Beautifully stated. Exactly this. 😢
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  37559. Hillary has lost it? She hates free speech as much as you do. You have so much in common now.
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  37560.  @ibeezisi3847  "Nothing he said was controversial." Well that's crystal clear. Now we know what he said, thanks.
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  37561.  @josewilliams6094  I have to admit that again, I don't know what you're referring to. By generalizing, I assume in good faith that you mean several practices that are risky. I don't say there are none, I simply don't know which ones you have in mind. For the record, because masks help somewhat, they should be used in junior high and high school, and parents should not be resisting such reasonable, albeit inconvenient, practices.
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  37562.  @josewilliams6094  For the record, in 2020, the private schools around me, all working-class Catholic in my neighborhood, opened in the fall, established the school routine, closed for a long Christmas break and had some online instruction while infection rates were high, then were cleaned in depth and welcomed the kids back. Masks indoors but not outdoors were mandatory. It worked out fine. Sweden is another example of where it worked, with fewer precautions, but I prefer the Catholic school approach. (I'm agnostic, by the way, and was never Catholic.)
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  37563. No it is not. But anyone who tries to give the technical reason why will be shadowed. Well, what does that tell you? ​As for Musk's "explanation" of the alleged "Ponzi scheme" in the clip, he assumes that the dollar is a rigid yardstick!! 😂😂😂😂 You didn't spot that? In short, people pay in with stronger dollars, but the payout doesn't keep pace with inflation.
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  37564. Wow I was never so glad to be vegetarian.
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  37565. ​ @broco6608  Does he offer relationship advice? That would be embarrassing.
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  37566. Not the same.
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  37567. Did you read it?
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  37568.  @DriveInFreak  False.
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  37569.  @DriveInFreak  IM Gender Clinic is propaganda . . . ?? Never mind. Blocked.
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  37570. Section 230 protects Facebook. There are civil liberties suits against the government. That's the case they are talking about.
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  37571. Check Open Secrets to see how much money politicians get from billionaires. Some have given over $91 MILLION during a single presidential election cycle.
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  37572.  @veronicanicholls7132  Also, the interviewer let him off the hook: the NYTimes reported that Gates did give at least two million dollars to a favored Epstein cause, at Epstein's behest. Gates makes it sound like that did not happen. It was just dinner and a movie without the movie.
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  37573. We SHOULD have political leaders we can trust and who respect our intelligence. But, well . . .
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  37574. @elenaweintoegl4064  I'm Eastern European, "Russia adjacent." We aren't nicey nice, we're gruff. We can be oblivious to others whom we don't know, but to shirk a responsibility to a real friend is a disgrace. Only, the list of real friends is correspondingly short. Anglos are very dirty, this is true. Tony Blair-Tony Hayward dirty, and sneaky.
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  37575.  @elenaweintoegl4064  I answer, yt makes it go poof. Maybe if you sort by Newest? Prob not. Outta here.
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  37576.  @elenaweintoegl4064  Won't let me, or tell you they won't. Scents errr . . .
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  37577. In a 60%+ Democrat state, voting for LaRiva was a vote for Trump! 🤣🤣🤣 Tragic.
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  37578. They haven't forced all the farmers off their land yet. They have to get busy.
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  37579. He used AOC's own words to criticize her. As for how he was tagged, this is a classic set-up. Comparable to SWATting.
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  37580. If the unemployment insurance pays more than full-time work, all the more reason to provide it. It is NEEDED to weather the coming storm.
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  37581. But why is Congress voting for a law they know is unconstitutional? A performance to gain more campaign funding for the fall, maybe?
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  37582. ​@TheDarkLasombra What is wrong with you? Terrorism cannot be met with war crimes and genocide. Is this Israel's only means of self-defense? NO it is NOT.
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  37583.  @pro-choicemom  Dore claims no expertise on Nicaragua. He invited Convo Couch to speak. Did you review what THEY said? If not, your identity has no bearing on the issue whatsoever.
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  37584. Erm, how was he selected?
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  37585. The journalist should.
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  37586. "People have to get in a room and already be in agreement . . . It's kind of the opposite of how we make progess in most dimensions." GOOD GRIEF
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  37587. AOC has done a lot. She went to the Met gala and stole the spotlight.
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  37588. I unsubbed for good this time. He's been saying all over that Gaige Grosskreutz was a criminal. He was NOT. In any event, we don't have outlaws in the US that anyone can shoot. Rittenhouse was acquitted because he acted in self-defense. Not because the victims were Bad People. Grosskreutz even had to change his name because he could not move on with his life after the trial. I believe he has a lawsuit against the police pending, for actively encouraging vigilantes that night. Good thought. Rittenhouse was a minor, and a victim of the adults around him as well.
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  37589. So we have created slaves in Libya AND Afghanistan.
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  37590. Kamala Harris is an actress who happens to have a law degree.
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  37591. The tower bombing in Gaza is reminiscent of a smaller World Trade Center destruction. Watch the color and thickness of the smoke.
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  37592. ​ @johnsmith7140  no, you are.
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  37593. Panarin? Wait! Believe all women!
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  37594. How does the legal status of the parents' presence in the United States have any bearing on the child's commitment to our country? It doesn't. It's as arbitrary and archaic as any other rule, and not dictated by the text of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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  37595. The WORST part is that Gupta tried to make Rogan look stupid, purely by pulling rank. No way did he not understand -- and if he didn't, he's even more unworthy of being viewed as a credible authority on this issue.
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  37596. During the French Revolution, the left wing of the revolutionaries pushed for freeing all slaves and indentured servants in French colonies and ending French rule and establishing democracy. It ultimately didn't work, but in 1789 they knew that what their country was doing was wrong.
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  37597. You mean like, if the most decorated gymnast in the world has a cognitive issue that causes her to lose the awareness of where she is in space, which could be lethal, she suddenly wants equal outcomes?
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  37598. @Nicholas Olesen "Survival of the fittest" may be the only mentality you know from directly experiencing its effects, but it has not been with mankind for millennia. Social Darwinism is typically Anglo-Saxon, and relatively recent.
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  37599.  @ForumArcade  I have an idea. Find out how the world actually works: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/05/the-quiet-coup/307364/
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  37600. @itp5x5 Me too.
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  37601.  @norman_5623  Why are you stating an obvious lie? Iversen was SCHEDULED to participate in The Hill interview of Fauci, then removed from The Hill's panel on very short notice with no credible explanation. She had to leave to maintain credibility with her audience, as she had promised them she would not bend to any form of censorship. That's just jealousy? Interesting how that came to mind just to you. I wonder why.
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  37602. @norman_5623  What EUA vaccine of a novel nature has EVER been forced on minor children, even one that provides near-complete immunity, nevermind one that needs multiple boosters in under two years?
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  37603. I didn't think this was a big deal, but I'm ethnic. 😂
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  37604. Keep it simple: "Waddya mean? I only criticize smart people."
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  37605.  @DriftRacing77  Where did you find those?
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  37606. 5 and 1/2 seconds is not a short time. Check it out. Assuming that is accurate, she had time to think.
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  37607. I support everyone in their CHOICE. Let's keep our eye on the ball. Besides, he may have comorbidities.
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  37608. Anyone who is well read sees so many holes in his theories that they ultimately throw up their hands. It would take too long to unravel. He has painted himself as the quintessential underdog who triumphs, as were Jesus and Socrates. Good use of archetypes, it works great. Seems like a nice enough guy. His family had to face a lot of rare illnesses, I give him credit for making the money they actually needed and putting it to good use. He's not motivated by greed.
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  37609. @luigivincenz3843  Who buys it? Why? I've never seen it.
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  37610. ​ @Surelockohms  Eugenic sterilization was once common.
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  37611. ​ @Surelockohms  In fact, eugenic sterilization is becoming common again.
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  37612.  @mr.saturn7833  Read the words. If stumped, use a dictionary or ask a friend for help.
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  37613.  @mr.saturn7833  No child should be. I am condemning the idea, OBVIOUSLY. Is my second post explaining that shadowed? I see it. Seems that you don't.
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  37614.  @mr.saturn7833  The real question is why you imagined I support it. That says a lot about the culture. I always thought "sterilization" and "eugenics" had the worst connotations, as bad as "genocide" and "lobotomy," or just about. What was it that you thought? Why?
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  37615.  @emilianosintarias7337  Can a parent have a child lobotomized? How about straight-up sterilized, no fancy footwork re: "gender issues" required?
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  37616. @Mr. Saturn  That dude was trying to defend this practice by calling it a "commonly accepted medical procedure." Unbelievable!
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  37617. I thought I was the only one thinking that. My family in the country where I now live has died out. My closest relatives are in a country I've never seen. I want to go.
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  37618. @Under Fan Don't ever hate yourself. Think of these things as tragedies that happened to you. They are not you.
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  37619. There is no evidence that she read the actual complaint.
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  37620. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  37621. No, that's capitalism. Vast sums of money have changed hands yet again.
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  37622. @georgemetesky5519  You don't notice the discrepancy? That's not "millions." I am noting what they themselves asserted about the initial rollout.
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  37623.  @georgemetesky5519  Should I believe you instead? Or better yet, a politician?
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  37624. This was great.
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  37625. ​ @quemades If not the needle in the vein.
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  37626. "Adult children of alcoholics" 😂😂😂 cannot keep a straight face anymore!!
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  37627. Trump is a total narcissist. If he is for M4A, it's to avoid paying hospitality workers' benefits at his resorts. If he is for $2000 stimulus, it is because he knows it will got to paying rents and mortgages. Still, if we get it, we get it. That's Jimmy's take, and he's right.
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  37628.  @Waspytcu  You know nothing about me. (Or Trump, obviously.)
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  37629. EXACTLY. I can't believe it any more. This brat has dropped out of high school, cannot sign most contracts, has never held a real, full-time job, and there are people not simply saying "this looks like self-defense" (not all the charges allow for that defense), but "bravo, he's a hero, he killed the 'right' people." With Trump in office, there seems to be no bottom. I would have never believed it. What will the rest of 2020 look like??
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  37630. Having said that, I also don't believe in automatic adult charges at 17. This kid seems somewhat disabled to me.
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  37631.  @theBaron0530  I hope my heterodox comment is not tossed for safety.
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  37632. @darlingdeb7010  I agree with the true maverick journalist Whitney Webb: don't pay too much attention to what people say. Watch what they do. Do you imagine these two aren't setting up trust funds for their children? Really? Peterson earned a doctorate, and whatever anyone may think of his politics (personally, I find them 80% laughable), he was and is a highly qualified clinician who helped many people. His daughter didn't finish college and is a podcaster, thanks to being his daughter. Abigail Shrier is the daughter of two judges and a Yale Law graduate. Does she take the cases of struggling parents, to vindicate their right to parent their children as they believe to be best? She could represent some of the people they are talking about, who were targetted by this gender madness, and turn some lives around. Children's lives are at stake. Doing something to change that is harder than writing up a rant about it. If she really believes what she says, why doesn't she help some individual families? She could. She's a lawyer.
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  37633. @darlingdeb7010  The "boomers" worked their way through college and were drafted to fight in Vietnam. Cushy life! Good thing Peterson's kids aren't being pampered like that.
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  37634. If Jerry thinks the other guy is lying, he needs to say so. If he doesn't think the other guy is lying to us and false flagging, then he SHOULD try to reclaim him for the left.
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  37635. They should be outraged for real.
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  37636. I thought this was excellent.
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  37637.  @darylhenry9595  I hope he means that he won't get myocarditis from the vaccine. Anyone can get myocarditis. It existed as a complication of certain viral illnesses and other conditions before the COVID pandemic. I think we know that.
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  37638.  @darylhenry9595  Fascinating to see exactly what was subjected to sense or ship in this thread. Well that makes me trust medical advice. /s
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  37639.  @deadgolfer6345  When I posted truthful information about what other countries are now doing, it was . . . well, it's no longer around. I suggest everyone look up that sort of thing for themselves.
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  37640. You're right. This is where we are.
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  37641. ​ @christopheredwards7846  So consult the pro-vaccine Alliance For Science. Read carefully.
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  37642. ​​​ @christopheredwards7846  EuroChoices, a journal available at the NIH library (open access): Is the Covid-19 Pandemic a Game Changer in GMO Regulation?
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  37643. Americans have had to go to European and Israeli agencies, in particular, to FIND OUT this was an issue. How many young people went untreated or undertreated in the meantime? All of these agencies are PRO-vaccine, so our agencies and media cannot use that excuse.
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  37644. Trump trailing?
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  37645. They don't need to know that for their job.
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  37646. THANK YOU Perspective!
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  37647. @Subher0  Do you listen to news in several languages? Or just this claptrap?
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  37648.  @Guitarking1054  I found it preposterous. Now I see that had to be explained.
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  37649.  @molonlabe9602  The Cosby evidence came from his own sworn statement in a deposition, where he confessed, after being given immunity from prosecution on that charge. So, he waived his rights under the Fifth Amendment in exchange for immunity. This allowed him to pay money to prevent a prosecution. The case is published. You can read it, instead of repeating talking points.
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  37650.  @singularitysquaredllc.895  Read the opinion. It's online.
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  37651.  @singularitysquaredllc.895  You said all the evidence was from a bunch of stories from years ago. The court never reached that evidence at all. It found that the prosecution itself was in violation of Cosby's agreement.
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  37652.  @singularitysquaredllc.895  Wait. YOU are calling someone else ignorant?
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  37653.  @DixonsCider  I go by the published case.
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  37654.  @singularitysquaredllc.895  That has nothing to do with this case. This case was tried. Okay, you all, just admit you can't find the actual opinion, which just issued by the appellate court, or you don't want to read it, or can't understand it, or don't like to read but like to pretend you know stuff. Whatever.
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  37655.  @singularitysquaredllc.895  Exactly! Those who actually do read and do know are irrelevant! "Soft skills! Soft skills!"
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  37656.  @singularitysquaredllc.895  Direct quote from Castor: "'Once I decided that there wasn't enough evidence that I thought the case could produce a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt, I had two choices,' Castor said. 'I could do nothing and hope it got better... or I could set the pieces up so that civil lawyers who knew what they were doing would know how to achieve a victory in civil court that would punish Cosby.' The statement that he would not pursue criminal charges, he said, was designed to prevent Cosby from invoking the Fifth Amendment and refusing to answer questions in civil court." (Posts with links are are harder to monitor, hence usually shadowed.) This is very clear, and not unusual. Rape is not usually prosecuted absent dramatic and visible signs of struggle and injury. Is this news to you? I don't understand your problem.
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  37657.  @singularitysquaredllc.895  I said the opposite. OH WELL.
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  37658.  @singularitysquaredllc.895  Since when are Fifth Amendment rights a technicality? Not to me.
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  37659. ​ @himoffthequakeroatbox4320  I like your reasoning. So I'll ask you: why are we alone here?
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  37660. They need lemming-like quasi-zombie consumers. The mass market is what enriched them.
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  37661.  @davidpatton7298  Are you asking a serious question?
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  37662.  @davidpatton7298  If only we all had the sex appeal of the three richest people on earth. Or of lesser luminaries. Ghislaine comes to mind . . . We can only dream.
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  37663. SO astute!!
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  37664. You know this, how?
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  37665.  @bunk95  It is to the OP, of course.
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  37666. Which is why Edward Snowden picked him and Laura Poitras to contact . . . . /s
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  37667.  @cygnusx-3217  So, Snowden had superhuman trust in the man who dismissed that covert action?
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  37668. I didn't know people were this afraid of death. It's bloody weird.
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  37669. Listen to what she is reporting. Nevermind about her criticism of RFK Jr, who I do support. She's not going to turn anyone away from Bobby.
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  37670. @soberanisfam1323  This is true, and it is the greatest change: from the end of WWII through most of the 70s, the US clearly had the greatest upward mobility, and generally good living conditions for at least the top three quintiles in income, and probably four. We were the best in that regard. This hasn't been true for nearly two generations now -- and we all see the result. Add in the fact that money seems to be all that matters, and . . . Well.
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  37671.  @williammatthews5422  No it does not. Is it or is it not a fact that this way of interpreting Title IX has by far targetted white men and ruined more than their college lives? And that black men in general receive harsher and more frequent punishment in the criminal justice system for the same offense? These aren't facts, suddenly? Or are these Facts That Must Not Be Spoken? Remember Kalief Browder.
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  37672. The reason they won't be, is because then more people would actually remain silent.
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  37673.  @hf2138  The other three kids were free to decline to talk to police. They didn't have to talk at all. None of the others would have been held.
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  37674.  @derrickjoe1872  Who categorically said she was lying? Declining to corroborate an allegation is not the same.
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  37675. @derrickjoe1872  Not at all. There is also suspending judgment in the matter. "It happened or it didn't" is not the same thing as I know whether it happened or didn't happen. I don't know --- nor do you. Having said that, obviously, she bears the burden of proving it. That's also a separate matter.
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  37676. @derrickjoe1872  Exactly -- a random high school party, where underage kids drank, and we ALL know assaults of that nature happened ALL the time. No one batted a eye about it, much less thought anyone should lose any future job over it. That's why I won't be a shill against her, either. No thank you.
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  37677. @derrickjoe1872  She testified that she remembered the incident itself vividly. The details surrounding it, such as the precise date and place, are not going to be retained. It would be odd if she did remember such details. That's why we have very well-justified statutes of limitations.
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  37678. I don't want someone anti-reproductive choice in that office.
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  37679. Notice how the news is coming out in little drips and drabs . . . Remember how Bill Gates had only one dinner with Epstein, and donated only one million dollars to a science lab at Epstein's suggestion? Then it was two dinners, and two million bucks, then . . . Yeah. Well. . . . it's the same playbook, every time.
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  37680. @cassiescornerreviews6884  What are you talking about? We were not locked down, and businesses were not forced into bankruptcy? We were not mandated to take an EUA drug, and roundly denounced and bullied for having ordinary questions and concerns? Fearmongering was not the order of the day? We were not promised that the shots would "stop the spread?" People were not fired for legitimate noncompliance, including those with religious objections? The EEOC did not issue a corrective on that, pointing out that legitimate religious objections could not be routinely dismissed? Court cases ordering rehiring with back pay haven't come down? In other words, what THEY did to US has been proven, including in COURT.
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  37681.  @maggiewillowstine3353  That is why a minor child without three full years of high school had to come in, with a large firearm strapped to his person? P. S. I stopped paying attention to school shootings. They are not my problem.
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  37682. No.
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  37683. ​ @ProleCenter It has a lot of military veterans, yes, and various groups like Focus on the Family.
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  37684.  @ProleCenter  Oh! Lol. It's not a Paris suburb we're talking about.
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  37685.  @Juan-os4hs  Only in America.
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  37686. You got that right: not the SAME government
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  37687. One of Kulinski's best.
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  37688. A challenge of a juror for cause cannot be based on having voted for Trump. It would have to be for MAGA activism, possibly. You cannot be excluded from a jury based only on a vote, are you kidding?
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  37689. Guessing right is nothing to be proud of. The information given here is evidence-based.
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  37690. Japan has had far fewer deaths per capita. I want to know why.
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  37691. If we had had Japan's death rate, we'd be well below 80,000 deaths.
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  37692.  @linuxman7777  The Tokyo metro has a lot of physical contact all right. Japan is very crowded. The other hypotheses need study, they all sound plausible. In any case, we first need to know whether the numbers are being counted the same way. I take nothing at face value any more.
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  37693. Always look for authoritative information from the ministries of health of other countries. FDA, CDC cannot be sole sources of information.
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  37694. Imagine a world where most guys have Bill Gates' personality. YIKES
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  37695. That blonde with the sign doesn't look authentic to me. She's not Palestinian, that's for sure.
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  37696. ​​ @daveisbrill If that's true, it's devastating. Then consider emigration. I'm serious. If it's really that bad, drastic measures are needed.
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  37697.  @fatrobdouble  Reason magazine, where Robby is an editor, is opposed to the Dove boycott. FYI, simply. They are center-right libertarians. Go figure.
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  37698.  @fatrobdouble  Neither am I.
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  37699. Guilty of what? They were never indicted.
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  37700. Thank you.
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  37701. Where is Williamson's "spine" concerning Ukraine? When did RFK Jr say the kids were not killed? So, is this a "Stop RFK Jr" movement after all ? I was hoping not. Push him on the issue, all right --- but call him a liar, swayed by one rabbi, to boot?
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  37702. Same
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  37703. I've given factual information and had it removed immediately, so . . . .
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  37704. If a three-week hard shutdown would give us Japan's numbers, I'd be all for it. Tell people to prepare, and cook beans and rice, or pasta, for three weeks. I'm cool with that. A nice holiday break.
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  37705. Read the 2015 Guardian article about him. He did some really strange things to other people using fake identities on social media.
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  37706. So, how much did they give her? $$
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  37707. ​ @WolfhoundPilot  A tent on a spacious quad disrupts absolutely no one.
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  37708. He is lying. 100% lying. About everything.
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  37709.  @theaveri  Just put his name in a search engine. The search engine will do the rest.
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  37710.  @theaveri  He has lost a ton of cases. Anyone can find this. Anyone can read the Sixteenth Amendment. Anyone can look up these types of challenges to federal taxation and see they always fail.
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  37711. They do it faster now.
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  37712. ​ @theoldfelix  If it's not an illness, it doesn't require major surgery and lifelong hormones. One court recognized it as covered by the ADA.
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  37713. ​@karenrichardson8768 💯 Girls should be like Barbie. Boys should be like Ken. Mommies should be Barbie, and daddies Ken.
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  37714. You only just noticed?
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  37715. "I'm sorry you feel that I insulted you."
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  37716.  @kw2080  Senseless. A strong man resists the pressure to bully, to join in on hazing, and garbage like that, but he will protect his family and friends when there is objective danger.
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  37717.  @kw2080  Well, all I can say is, do your best not to alienate kids by lashing out at them. They did not choose the age to be born in, so be gentle: just tell them that these vaccine cultists and trans cultists are very sick people, and we have to be kind to them because we don't know how sick they may be, and what might happen if we confronted them. I think that's closest to the truth. If they come home with this stuff, someone imposed it on them. They didn't come up with it themselves. You don't want to shout at them, provoke them to rebel, and start defending this sheer insanity. That's what happens to some of the normal kids. They get drawn in, thinking it's important to defend their friends. :/
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  37718. Whatever you may think of Bannon, this is true. 😂
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  37719. Try listening to the end, bro.
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  37720. I've joined university libraries for a pittance, and I've found that they will gladly let me take out any number of books and come in to renew as many times as I like.
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  37721. More important: why were you pretty sure, instead of checking it?
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  37722.  @petecampbell60  "Income" has to be adjusted to PPP. A simple number is close to meaningless. Accumulated wealth measured in US dollars poses problems outside of the Westernized economies, but it is more straightforward to calculate.
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  37723.  @petecampbell60  I posted a link. Are the posts with links shadowed? Before the pandemic, roughly 70% of Americans were NOT in the global 10%. Can you see that post?
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  37724. UK sources for Jimmy's story: Reuters:   Sept 20 (Reuters) - The White House on Monday criticized the use of horse reins to threaten Haitian migrants after images circulated of a U.S. border guard on horseback charging at migrants near a riverside camp in Texas . . . Reuters witnesses saw mounted officers wearing cowboy hats blocking the paths of migrants, and one officer unfurling a cord resembling a lariat, which he swung near a migrant's face. The Independent: Sept 22 -- The second-in-command at a union for US Border Patrol has tried to defend the use of horse reins around migrants in Del Rio, Texas, where tens of thousands have arrived from Haiti. . . Recent images from Del Rio have shown migrants fleeing Border Patrol agents on horseback who are wielding their reins like whips, with a Reuters witness catching an agent unfurl and swing one in front of migrants. Now, either THESE non-US sources are lying for some unknown reason, or the union spokesperson of these agents defended the tactic and did not say it never happened, hence giving the story some tacit confirmation. In any case, to say Jimmy is spreading falsehoods is wrong. Should he have been more careful? Possible; remains to be seen.
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  37725.  DMV 420  What's not true? That at 50, your risk is higher than for people under 25? Or that most people recover just fine, even those who are 70, much less 50? Both are true. Considering vaccination starts to make sense for older people.
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  37726.  @thereishope5676  PLENTY of people who are enthusiastic vaccine supporters are reluctant to take this vaccine, based on the cost/benefit analysis as it stands so far. Keep repeating untrue talking points, see where that gets you. Not only that, but kids are missing their first meningitis shots. That is not good. I know what a 13-year-old of mine would be getting, if I had one!
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  37727.  @lolawhite3916  You have zero idea how healthy I am.
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  37728.  @lolawhite3916  By the way, a lot of men are harming their health by taking up all meat, "paleo" diets with no berries or greens. See who survives COVID. There is more data available now, and it's not the meat eaters.
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  37729.  @sergeikhripun  Nope, this is school now. 🤣 almost
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  37730.  @iFlatWater  Dore has been condemning the Dems and endorsing third-party voting since, like, forever. He is no more of a Democrat than Tulsi Gabbard is.
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  37731. Dore voted third party last time.
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  37732. @williamfarmer3841  Trump gave us COVID. He ended the moratorium on funding gain-of-function research, he knew about the pandemic in December 2019 and did nothing, and he let FAUCI run the country when he should have fired him. Then he rushed vaccine development. "Operation Warp Speed" You expect HIM to end LOBBYING? Whoa. Okay.
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  37733.  @twatts1523  Then it should be reversed on appeal as violating due process.
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  37734. Possible, certainly.
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  37735. DID TRUMP'S LAWYERS MAKE THIS ARGUMENT? I mean, is it true or is it false that they made this broad immunity argument? (I'm not saying which --- I don't know.) *If* it is true, you should care. It's your country, correct? Or is it just a crime wave with a business front office as a cover?
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  37736. ​ @JohnTightlips The moat is in your eye.
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  37737. Brains and beauty in one person triggers you badly?
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  37738. WHAT evidence do YOU have that Gaige Grosskreutz had ANY criminal record? A misdemeanor? Dropped charges? Some naive attempt at "citizen journalism" in a police parking lot where he decided to photograph squad cars for no apparent reason? Some accusations in the tabloids with no conviction? He did admit his CC license was expired. That is true. In any event, we don't have outlaws in the US that anyone can shoot. Rittenhouse was acquitted because he acted in self-defense. Not because the victims were Bad People. Grosskreutz even had to change his name because he could not move on with his life after the trial, and had no problem changing his name. I believe he has a lawsuit against the police pending, for actively encouraging vigilantes that night. Good thought. Rittenhouse was a minor, and a victim of the adults around him as well. He should never have been tried as an adult, if at all, although at least he was acquitted.
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  37739. Undoubtedly. What do you propose?
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  37740.  @waltergrace565  LOL, exactly.
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  37741.  @rgzhaffie  Show me a major global corporation that does not oppress and endanger workers. They may not overtly advocate for it, and they will surrepticiously buy politicians who support it, true.
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  37742.  @rgzhaffie  "Are you saying" reminds me so much of Rush Limbaugh that I really cannot answer the loaded question that follows. What I am saying is that today, a lot of people are tragically naive. Who has not been duped? I am sure I have. Do we write them all off as unrecoverable? What is your proposal? What I am also saying is that a cheap cover story can buy a multinational corporation a lot of undeserved good will, with which they can then do all sorts of bad stuff.
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  37743.  @rgzhaffie  Okay, that's fair. That's your assessment. I personally don't want to engage with anyone who brought a gun to any government body, and would be a hypocrite if I were to pretend otherwise. But could it be that those are exactly the people we need to approach and try to change? Could it also be that they have absolutely no clue who is behind their protests, Koch or whomever? (BTW, did you know there was this much ignorance in the country -- and they have guns, too? I have been observing closely for a long time and did not know it was this bad.)
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  37744.  @rgzhaffie  Oh yeah? I thought most of them were losers. Meth in their past, etc. So, if someone has a small business and they show up at a state capitol building with big, assault-style weapons, and the pictures are broadcast everywhere, who is going to patronize that small business? Plumber, electrician, remodeling contractor, roofer . . . You'd let that guy into your house after seeing him? Or you'd rent from him -- rent anything, least of all your dwelling? Let's think this through. Not to mention that there is no reason to demonize small business. Not everyone can stand working for Jeff Bezos. To order the shutdowns without emergency UBI in place was one of the most spectacularly immoral things this government ever did. A year ago I would have doubted it could happen. FYI, in other countries, notably France, it is the hard left that is demanding an open discussion concerning shutdowns, vaccine reluctance, etc., and an exploration of alternative measures -- notably J-L Melenchon, whose FI movement includes Marxists and PCF members.
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  37745.  @rgzhaffie  Americans in general are right wingers. Are the small business owners exceptionally bad? I'm sure a few are, but . . . Worthy of a blanket observation/condemnation? Doubt it.
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  37746.  @rgzhaffie  I wasn't making a moral judgment. I assume most people here are worse than elsewhere. Glad you stepped back from the notion that actual business owners allowed themselves to be photographed with big weapons at state capital protests. Most Americans are right wing, as most draw benefit from the labor of a proletariat that does not live here. But they protest loudly that no such thing ever happens and that they've "earned" every penny they've got. The "left," such as it is, often pushes them further right.
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  37747.  @rgzhaffie  Back to the particular guy discussed in this video. Should HE be regarded as a natural ally of the petite bourgeoisie proto-fascists?
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  37748. False. A state employee enjoys certain First Amendment protections that a private employee does not. The Bill of Rights still preempts state laws.
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  37749. Let me see if I understand. RFK Jr. will debate people who smear him, but Scientists are too Big and Important to debate an eminent toxic torts lawyer. They won't perform the public service of showing new parents that RFK Jr is wrong, after this pandemic fiasco and the understandable concern they now have. (And Kennedy's father and uncle were both assassinated, so smearing him is no big deal.) Okay, got it.
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  37750. If DeSantis doesn't believe children can be trans, how can they be antisemitic?
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  37751. Police are naive about set ups? Un huh. They are experts at set ups.
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  37752. Jimmy is so right, the DNC is repugnant. I was surprised John Fetterman won, then read his biography. He was a good guy, and it was because of his record that he got so many sympathy votes. What a cruel thing to do to him. He does not deserve any of this.
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  37753. They know about that. They live it. They think Trump will fix it. And, isn't it six bankruptcies? We should know that precisely. Too vague.
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  37754. @TheBearGrappler  Up vote, of course, but remember: everyone will need medical care someday.
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  37755. Yes, Kathleen Rice did withhold her vote. Not only that, but Rice started out in politics as a Republican. Just wow. Pelosi is the snake in this picture, and AOC won't stand up to her for health care during a pandemic. (How rich is Rice, BTW? She must already be way rich, or she'd get no respect from Pelosi.)
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  37756.  @MsLuath  Try the Indian press. In fact, there should be an archived page from the US Embassy in Ukraine that talks about the DOD Threat Reduction Program or some such.
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  37757. We don't know yet, but the US MSM is trying to set the stage for painting this story as misinformation. I think we need to practice suspending judgment, after the way we've been whipped around for two solid years. No other press I'm reading, like mainstream Indian and mainstream French, have labeled this story "Russian misinformation." There has been US DOD money pouring into many Ukrainian biological laboratories. The risk that bioweapons, or bioweapon technology, would escape was highest in the 1990s, after the fall of the USSR. Why is the US money pouring into those labs now? We do not have answers yet. I HOPE we will.
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  37758. Not true. Precisely because they were not charged and acquitted, they most certainly can be investigated further, by both state and federal authorities, which are two separate sovereigns. If what you said were true, tainted grand juries during the civil rights era could have made sure no assassination or lynching were ever prosecuted.
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  37759. "He had this, he had that on him" -- in case it wasn't all planted. All of these recent high-profile crimes are puzzling, to put it mildly.
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  37760.  @carl13579  I didn't call for firing him.
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  37761.  @medhue  Oh really? Applying all the rules even handedly is now a sign of bias? White is black, up is down? "Yes or No??!?!" We have always been at war with East Asia.
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  37762.  @carl13579  Well, why not point it out and make it known? At this point, wouldn't that be sufficient "punishment?" And tell me, why was it ignored when first uncovered? He was a professor then, and he retaliated by making sure the person who found it and proved it could never get tenure at a much, much less prestigious school. Harvard is a funny place. The top donor to its Kennedy School of Government was none other than Leslie Wexner. You remember him: Jeffrey Epstein was his protégé. Wexner's money was still accepted all these years, no quiet untangling. He withdrew support only about a month ago, because of the pro-Palestinian stand of some student groups. Apparently he found ethics suddenly.
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  37763. @medhue  Motives don't change the truth, I agree. That's why I always end up watching math videos after one of these discussions.
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  37764. Watch closely. His very best ideas are never implemented. Don't take my word for it. Watch. Because it is important. And you're right about his best ideas, too. Let's see where they go now, when COVID has made everything worse.
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  37765. If ONLY someone had told my parents, "Do Not Come." Oh man. (I'm going back, BTW. Not easy. Changing countries never is.)
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  37766. @Badatallthis Stuff This is an example of why people should sue over defamation at least sometimes. I appreciate why Aaron chose not to, but a letter from his attorneys to TYT's producers would have ended it. Instead we have this nonsense. I agree with you. It is of no real interest.
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  37767. See Glenn Greenwald on this supposed risk to lives that Assange was responsible for. Greenwald is adamant that this is a false narrative.
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  37768. He said "Clinton wing," I heard Clinton RING.
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  37769. ​ @AgxntAqua It will boost her income, and her supporters' political fortunes.
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  37770. Glenn Greenwald did as well, a few days ago on his Rumble show. It was very moving.
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  37771. ​ @מיכאלקליין-ש3ס He's "crying?" He's not crying.
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  37772. I'm so sorry.
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  37773.  @amandap9332  Not surprising in the slightest.
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  37774. I've never seen so much insanity. She should appeal. So should he.
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  37775. Good for you, Jimmy!
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  37776. Clear-eyed view. :/
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  37777.  @Tes7000  I don't think he meant equivalent. I didn't hear it that way.
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  37778.  @oldschooljack3479  I have an odd question: are you a veteran? If not, a small business owner? The reason I ask is that the only people I know who think that way are veterans, small business owners, or both. I mean that literally.
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  37779. @CAPS0L  I've never seen crack, or anything like it. But the thought comes to mind right away, for you.
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  37780. I don't place great importance on anyone's personal life. I have no idea why anyone would.
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  37781. "We're tired of being played for suckers." Wow this is how presidents sound now. Trump had more influence on the culture than anyone would ever believe possible.
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  37782.  @briandingle665  EVIDENCE?
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  37783. 13:53 Because the BRICS+ look just like NATO.
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  37784. It's a simple sorting problem. It's a logic problem, really.
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  37785.  @janegarnham  For four whole seconds. Okay, five. 😅👏👏👏
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  37786. ​ @Im-ahthegreat And it would not have mattered who won. Look at the accelerating upward transfer of wealth since 2020, which includes both administrations.
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  37787. ​@someonenotnoone That is almost every American now.
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  37788. Well, Bill Gates is worth more, so . . .
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  37789.  @Nagaz_  Lol
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  37790.  @Nagaz_  Ah! A psychic! Got a stock tip?
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  37791. No, he's standing up to rotten little fundraiser Stefanik. FINALLY. Not one president of an Ivy showed any backbone.
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  37792. ​@robertaccorsini4663 Personnel matters are confidential. He has every right to testify to that fact.
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  37793. ​@MissMU-xi3kh Finally, someone stood up to Stefanik and showed some backbone.
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  37794. The adoption of First Amendment freedoms and free speech fora via contracts is in force at private universities.
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  37795.  Gordon Fornow  The horrifying fact is that openly carrying major firepower is often legal. IOW, things are worse than you (reasonably) thought.
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  37796.  Gordon Fornow  Firearms are prohibited on federal property. State laws vary by state.
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  37797. Wait. WHAT???
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  37798. Why did Congress let him?
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  37799. The cop she stopped from choking a man he had in his custody, and who later ended up in prison because of another felony he committed as a police officer, was racist. That's what this story is about.
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  37800. Great intro. Perfect.
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  37801. I think you've got the single best take on this . . . Unfortunately!
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  37802. @nutmegara6452  "Imminent" refers to future conduct, the serious risk of which one has direct, personal knowledge. Someone just left your presence armed, angry, and fuming about an ex-spouse. Yup, call the police. And warn the person. Everyone at that demonstration wasn't about to commit a violent crime any more than anyone at the George Floyd demonstrations was, no matter who torched what later. With George Floyd, the number was zero or close to zero in nearly every demonstration. January 6th numbers were higher from the start, but not close to all.
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  37803. @truthhearit1471  You know, if people keep this up, we won't have First Amendment rights when we need them. That already happened, at Columbia, UCLA, Harvard . . . You can't take them out of a box when convenient, and put them back in when not. (Is "Free Palestine" a true threat? Have you ever read a single Supreme Court case on true threats, as opposed to political hyperbole? I'm betting not.)
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  37804. @perfectlittleangel  Prison NEVER improved anyone's mental health. I'm sorry his son didn't speak to an attorney and a doctor or some therapists before calling LE. In other interviews I've seen, he strikes me as brilliant. If he had had more life experience, he would have handled this better. Yet most people have the common sense on Day 1 not to do this. FBI is never a first resort. That's just crazy. Now, his mother is digging in her heels, too. A tragedy all around.
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  37805. Macron is centrist globalist with right wing leanings on many things. The left was in the opposition in parliament all this time, and occasionally voted with Le Pen. For example, they joined forces to make it illegal to ask a minor their COVID vaccination status years ago. The PCF opposed mandates, which hit the working class the most. Fabien Gay even opposed mandates for nurses. Starting to get it? Or no? They still have a left.
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  37806. Ben Shapiro got a Harvard Law degree for this? He has no better ideas, to "benefit society," according to his lights at any rate?
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  37807. Overall, it's still true that statistically, a group of vaccinated people will have less severe COVID if they do contract it than a group of the unvaccinated, but I think you're right that the difference between the two groups is smaller than they claim it is. Nothing new. :/ They lie and they browbeat.
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  37808. If there had never been a Holocaust, never a Nazi Party, never a world war --- this development would still be extremely ominous. Now, add history.
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  37809. It didn't remove any rights that we had for 50 years? You're more willing to twist your rhetoric into a pretzel than most people today, and that is saying a lot.
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  37810. P. S. Consult the 9th Amendment. A right to privacy is implicit in the Fourth Amendment, and has always been --- and no wonder that's the amendment being slowly eviscerated. When the "conservative" Court upheld vaccine mandates for public universities, I knew what was coming next.
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  37811.  @pittzu33  I have read her analysis. If a Supreme Court states that a constitutional right exists, then it does. It's called Marbury v. Madison, first of all. Ask any lawyer.
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  37812.  @pittzu33  That's incorrect as a matter of law. If a Supreme Court case is binding precedent concerning a federal constitutional issue, or a federal statute, then that IS the law. It does not matter that it was wrongly decided or that it was later overturned. For a period of time, executing someone for a crime they committed as a juvenile WAS legal in several states. Now, it's unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment. Same thing for deliberate segregation of schools. It was legal. After Brown v. Board of Education, it became unconstitutional.
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  37813.  @pittzu33  Are you joking? It's not obvious to you that I'm a lawyer? Up your game, then. No, no biologist thinks personhood is based on science. It's not a scientific determination. As for life, it represents an unbroken chain beginning at least a billion years ago. Gametes are alive prior to fertilization. A zygote is alive. The embryos in fertility clinics that were created using IVF are alive. (For a popular account, consult Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying.) In and of itself, this provides no ethical or legal guidance at all concerning personhood, and different religions define it differently.
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  37814.  @pittzu33  Blocked Blech
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  37815.  @pittzu33  Jealous people are a PITA, by the way.
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  37816.  @chirob32  Oh that's whose word you're taking? Thanks. Now I get it.
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  37817.  @chirob32  After all, what could British reporters possibly know about riding horses, compared with Tim Poole.
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  37818. 1:28 Why did people forget this?
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  37819. Medicare has no mandates. Anyone can refuse a doctor's recommendation.
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  37820. Briahna is the best.
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  37821. "Four legs good, two legs better." George Orwell, Animal Farm
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  37822. No clue. Once under oath, he would have exercised his right to remain silent, no?
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  37823. You could find the complaint and see. It's online, pdf, anyone can read it.
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  37824. It's starting to sound like it, isn't it?
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  37825. Kim, YOU know it's cruel. Please.
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  37826. Egyptian pharaohs were from the Upper Nile or, more often, the Lower Nile at different times in their history. It's true that they did look different. As for the rest of the ethnic stuff, it's a bunch of silliness. Why do you take it seriously? Will people be fooled by it? The fake images that involve real people, and create obscenity that looks real and lasts forever online IS serious.
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  37827.  @ianmedford4855  I got the point all right. Did you? AI will spread propaganda faster than an engineered virus spreads disease. It is not to be trusted.
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  37828. @porter9494 I don't vote for the major parties. Even Brie did not vote for Joe OR Hillary. Now you're saying stuff I agree with, and interjecting some weird conflict, for some reason. Sorry your other post is gone. I did not complain about it. EDIT: One of my posts keeps appearing then disappearing. That is one more example of what this stuff does to discourse in general.
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  37829. I was just thinking, this reminds me of Montenegrin grocery stores. Then they go to piazzas for fresh produce.
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  37830. Here's a thought. Research and read articles that predate the Russian invasion: say, from 2013 through 2021. That could be something you could do, to avoid current biases. Steven F. Cohen, at the 92nd St. Y with his wife a few years ago, is a good introductory video. His interlocutors tried to get him to say that Russia would not invade Ukraine ("after all"). He declined to do any such thing. Then there's Lev Golinkin, The Nation, Feb. 2019, who has been unequivocally opposed to Putin and of course to the invasion. Read up on who we were supporting in Ukraine since 2014. (Who we were supporting is what is not new.) I think you are naive concerning how a relatively very small group in Ukraine has nevertheless had an outsized influence on the government and military there. As for doubting, pondering, etc. . . . Your musings are important only as long as the dollar is, I'm afraid.
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  37831. Lol
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  37832.  @matthewc6342  How is that even possible?
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  37833. 5:30 THANK YOU BRIE 90 seconds = the whole story What gives?
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  37834. $1.9 trillion to 330 million people is over $5,700 per person.
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  37835. I understood it right away, but if most people think it's ambiguous -- then it is.
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  37836. Amy Goodman even called him "white supremacist Kyle Rittenhouse." She was disgraceful. I said from Day 1 that I oppose all laws that require trying minors as adults. No exceptions. The adults in this picture, including vigilante Rittenhouse fans who are now praising this lost KID, are to blame.
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  37837. This took you a long time. No worries, it's a testament to your character.
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  37838.  @danawelch5593  Oops, you misunderstood. My point was you didn't jump to that conclusion about Pete because YOU have a good character. It took you a while to get there. Someone more cynical would have thought that long before he even took the position. (Equal opportunity casting couch?) Remember the old adage, everyone starts with themselves? That's how bad actors can operate for as long as they do before normal people are able to figure it out. BTW . . . Funny how everyone assumes the internet is adversarial to the max. A compliment will read like a slur . . .
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  37839.  @Jdonam  Who said I voted for Biden? You're really off. And you imagine I'm "projecting?" I don't vote for apparently non-neurotypical people, or for war mongers. Ever. I've never voted for Biden. I voted for Obama in the primary, then did not vote for him in the general, when he added Biden to his ticket as a poison pill, nor for McCain. I didn't vote for Trump, or Clinton. Of course not. I don't vote Republican, ever -- or Republican Lite. I also lived in Europe. You don't sound like you do, frankly. Either that, or it really changed.
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  37840.  @mbnks04  And WHAT was it that kept his head in the stream of the car exhaust pipe????
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  37841.  @medusareigns  YES
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  37842.  @ceelow107  The expert witness presented by the defense brought up this issue.
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  37843. Took the words out of my mouth.
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  37844.  @1Reevee  That would be a good thing; gosh do I wish I could be convinced. I'm afraid it is STILL follow the money.
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  37845. Seriously? No.
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  37846. "Nothing will fundamentally change." Except DNC stock portfolios will go up. First things first.
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  37847. That would be some subcultures in the West.
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  37848. In this environment, you might have a point. I don't plan to watch, so I can't judge. That simple.
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  37849. They were charged with manslaughter and a bunch of other nothing.
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  37850. How much more likely are the unvaccinated to develop severe COVID or die from the Omicron variant, compared with the vaccinated who contract it? Any public health that fails to tell us, OR fails to address the question and admit we don't know yet, lacks context.
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  37851. See Lev Golinkin in The Nation, circa 2019. That has the advantage of having been written before the pandemic. If you think Ukraine having a Jewish president who is a former entertainer makes it "impossible" for neo-Nazis to have been given free rein in the eastern breakaway regions, then I really don't know what to say. Do you fall for IdPol here, too?
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  37852. It's not illegal in Florida to allow your immediate family to continue to live with you, regardless of what they did. Nor is it illegal to invoke the Fifth Amendment. It is illegal to lie to police, destroy evidence, interfere with their investigation, and so forth. So, did they just let him live there and refer questions to a lawyer? If that's all they did, they didn't break the law.
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  37853. ​ @Beautyaddixion "Embedding?" 😂😂😂 autocorrect is wild
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  37854.  @doctorfeelok8575  No wonder we imprison many more people than China, Russia, India, . . .
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  37855. In the meantime, if you watch math videos, pretty soon you'll see that most of the instructors are Nigerian.
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  37856.  @draoi99  Prime Newtons?
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  37857. ​@draoi99 Oh look who doesn't like math. "Soft skills," huh?
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  37858. To call a vaccine-injured person "anti-vaxx" tells you everything about this vicious cult. It makes people shun whatever it is you're pushing -- and rightly so.
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  37859. Well, every other "culture" in the developed world has universal health care and free or very low tuition university, and decent public housing for those priced out of the market by speculators. Do all of these people lack "values?" Funny, their kids are far less likely to get pregnant, use drugs, or drop out of school (like Rittenhouse did), unmarried couples and divorced couples raise children together, no one runs around heavily armed, and police don't shoot people at the drop of a hat. So . . . what was that about "values?" Where is Rittenhouse's high school diploma? Where is his FATHER?
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  37860. I'll tell you something else. I have not met a polite white person in years and years. No black person EVER speaks to me with the sheer prepotence and rudeness whites consider their birthright. I recently had a medical test that resulted in many anguished weeks waiting for another appointment during COVID. The first technician, white, made an error. The second one, black, fixed it. I see this all the time. Maybe you're not noticing? Start looking around.
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  37861.  @Octavus5  I don't see them as hardships. Why? Oh, the medical thing -- welcome to 2020. All's well that ends well. There is nothing "morally wrong" with black people. Unless the same thing is wrong with everyone in France, Spain, UK, Germany, etc. There isn't a black problem in America, there is a white problem. See James Baldwin. If virtue brings money, explain Uber, Facebook, Steve Jobs, Ghislaine Maxwell, Wall Street in toto, and the Veles kids. https://www.wired.com/2017/02/veles-macedonia-fake-news/ Maybe virtue used to bring money. Quaint. I liked that better, too.
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  37862.  @Octavus5  Whites emphasize education?? Whites have regard for the nuclear family? WHO is this? Do you think there aren't a lot of whites like Kyle and his parents? Do you think there aren't "sister wives" all over the West? Or is that just "the media" making it up? Talk to someone who lives outside the biggest cities in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah. Do you think the "opioid" crisis isn't primarily affecting whites? Methamphetamine before it. This "agency" discourse is a big pile of excuses. NO other country is as dangerous, everywhere else people can count on medical care when they need it and affording college without massive debt. Also, in most places with comparable cultures, police are not infiltrated by gangs of every stripe, from drug lords to white supremacists. Parents don't have to live in fear about what sort of peer pressure their child might face, either. All my life, I've seen black people work hard and take home less money. I can cite real examples.
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  37863.  @Octavus5  Do you have black friends? Who told you this stuff about "their community?"
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  37864.  @Octavus5  I absolutely did nothing to cause any deletions. This is the new accusation I see.
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  37865.  @Octavus5  At least you assume I "must be" black. I take that as a compliment. Because it IS.
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  37866. Will the next mass psychosis be easier to pull off, thanks to Russiagate? It's not like the Nicole Wallaces and Rachel Maddows of the world have to disgorge their unearned profits.
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  37867. @jenisejackson5408  I've never voted for a ticket with that stooge on it. Prevented me from voting for Obama in the general after voting for him in the primary. I knew where this was going.
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  37868. @jenisejackson5408  Anyway, the rest of the world is not sorry about this fiasco. We aren't organizing but they are.
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  37869.  @eddievangundy4510  Get a #$%%^ grip.
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  37870. @DANGERMAN-oo5my  Marianne Williamson supports the NATO proxy war in Ukraine. This is absolutely unacceptable, and would be unacceptable even if SHE were the eminent environmental tort lawyer, instead of being the spiritual guru who left college without a degree. You must not believe NATO proxy wars on Russia's border are a threat to our wellbeing. Williamson is not serious. She is so transparently a diversion. Support for her is empty posturing about Palestine. Were she actually elected, does anyone think it would make a difference in Gaza? And do you imagine she has the capability to take on the expanding BRICS? That, plus her uncritical acceptance of the Fauci regime, disqualifies her.
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  37871. Only a short time ago, the California Supreme Court refused to make Yelp remove a defamatory review when the defamed person had a judgment in hand, and could not locate the liable party who posted the defamation to get them to remove it. There was no question that the liable party could be ordered censored going forward -- of course it could not. There was no question that only statements specified in the judgment had to be removed, and they had to be specified verbatim. There was no question that the victorious plaintiff could not locate the defendant. Yelp is too important. $$$ Now, "democrats" want private companies and the surveillance state to censor, no court needed. Wow.
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  37872. You're Harvard Law, too?
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  37873. You read the indictment? You know what an indictment is?
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  37874. Hunter needs to compromise and not take millions from poor countries. Or am I being a purist?
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  37875. Remember Vasili Arkhipov, who prevented nuclear war.
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  37876. She must be here to make Elon look stable.
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  37877. Remember the Beslan school seige and massacre? ABC News interviewed the terrorist mastermind of the massacre and gave him a prime time platform -- Nightline. When Russia protested, the US government said "First Amendment." They did not even offer sympathy. But you want to remove elected American Congress members for criticizing a foreign country. Fascinating.
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  37878.  @hizzlemobizzle  Russia did not make anyone president. The deluded people you see at CPAC, right here in this video, made Trump president and would do it again. MSM friends of DNC got rich pushing the Russia conspiracy.
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  37879.    What do you call BIDEN?
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  37880.    When comparing Trump to Biden supporters, the differences are more a matter of style.
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  37881.  @stannyb3346  My least shitty option is to leave the US. In fact, I don't have another option.
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  37882.    Why are you insulting people? Since when does that cause anyone to vote for your side, especially on a Lesser Evil principle? Maybe you're the false flag, secret Trump supporter. On the Internet, that is not rare.
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  37883.  @KL-lt8rc  Russia was part of the reason Trump became president? And here I thought the new official talking points were Assange Did It. No, the deluded crowd you see at CPAC made Trump president. Believe it.
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  37884.    Trumptard and worse about a dozen times is a compliment? I pointed out your discourse could be a false flag. Sorry you took it personally.
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  37885.    False flags function exactly like this. It's the standard playbook, right here.
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  37886.    I'm not interested in talking to you. This is for the benefit of others. Your nonsense persuades NO ONE to vote for a lesser evil. It makes reluctant voters more uneasy. So, what is it for?
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  37887.  @KL-lt8rc  You're as hopeless as they are? Think about it. Listen to other views. Because that makes no sense.
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  37888.    Anyone who can read knows what you were saying. Your vocabulary is elementary.
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  37889.  @KL-lt8rc  Obviously they are susceptible to propaganda. You, for example, are highly susceptible to nonsense having a certain tone and style.
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  37890.    Blocked, muted. Time waster, possible false flag.
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  37891.  @KL-lt8rc  You know, I shouldn't be doing this. It's just a bad habit on my part, started during the COVID shutdown last year. Trying to talk to people who lack a certain literary culture can never work. But just this once, and never again, I will spell it out: yes, I do believe people are susceptible to propaganda. YOU are a perfect example. It has an effect on you. Trump propaganda won't appeal to you, but, for example, Maddow's propaganda will, no matter how many of her claims are proven to be FALSE, and no matter that her own lawyers asserted in court, on the record, that Maddow never defamed anyone BECAUSE no reasonable person would ever believe that she was asserting facts. She is an entertainer, a polemicist. Her show, and all the other "the Russians did it!!!" nonsense, is propaganda you believe. That is because its tone and style appeal to you. It makes you feel smart. So, yes, obviously, propaganda does have an effect. You are Exhibit A.
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  37892.  @KL-lt8rc  Because it is NOT a fact that Russia helped Trump get elected. It is a meme broadcast and very nicely monetized by Maddow and her ilk. I didn't accuse you of watching her in particular. You don't have to watch a particular purveyor of a given propaganda narrative, or, in this case the leading one, to be influenced by them. Next time, don't start out by suggesting someone's English is flawed and you might not end up being embarrassed by them. Think about what you're saying: there is absolutely no proof that "Russia helped Trump get elected," some of the finest journalists have systematically and thoroughly debunked particular stories to that effect, it has become the go-to smear, and it requires believing that millions of Americans were hopelessly duped, WHILE THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION looked on with its hands folded. At best, a person could say it is not impossible, and suspend judgment. But you insist it happened, and that someone who doesn't agree is triggered, or something. Sorry, that is pathetic. Don't look now, but your country is close to unlivable. If I had younger generations here, I would not be sanguine.
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  37893.  @KL-lt8rc  Oh, me, a Trump supporter? Please consult the Ash Sarkar video that went viral! 😅 You really insist on proving a lack of brains. Your Russia smear is as accurate as your Trump smear. Trump is a real home grown product of the USA. Everyone else is horrified.
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  37894.  @KL-lt8rc  Accusing me of being a Trump supporter is a classic Maddow move. So she has your brain whether you watch or not. What do you think propaganda does?
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  37895.    My bubble? I avoid news broadcast in English. The rewards for lying are too great. $$$$$ What is incentivized, multiplies.
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  37896.    You spoke to Putin?
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  37897. A lot of people secretly admire that.
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  37898. Because most of the stories are on a par with the Ghost of Kyiv? Could that be it?
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  37899. She just told you: sanctions NEVER harm the oligarchs, they only harm those least able to influence any body politic. Leaders have an absolute duty to find a way to bring about peace.
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  37900.  @Wikimedian  Really? Are they cold at home and food insecure --- or just upper middle class for a while, which they never expected to be? If it is the former, good. Somehow I doubt it.
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  37901.  @Wikimedian  Well. We could let China, India, South Africa and Brazil take the lead in finding a broad, diplomatic solution, I suppose. Oops. See the pattern? (BTW, you know who abstained from voting to remove Russia from the human rights committee at the UN? A whole bunch of "unlikely" countries -- like Mexico. Maybe consider hearing what they have to say.)
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  37902.  @Wikimedian  When have unfair sanctions done anything but steel resolve? We've repeatedly tried to force a coup in Venezuela, and tried to assassinate Castro in Cuba, all to no avail. Of course, in a society more like our own, with massive inequality, a handful of oligarchs who answer to no one, and mutual hatred among identitarian groups, like Putin's Russia, I suppose it stands a chance of working. We've always imposed sanctions on more collectivists peoples, with strong non-European roots, as if that could possibly motivate them to flip governments that weren't already on their last legs. But could it work on Russians? Hm. Maybe.
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  37903.  @Wikimedian  We have to figure out a way to an immediate cease-fire. I don't think the West can possibly play a central role, now, except to press China, India, and South Africa to find a way to broker a deal. It was stated from the start that a request from Zelensky to be allowed to use sanctions as a bargaining chip in peace negotiations, so that Western powers would agree to roll back certain sanctions at his request, should be honored. There have been credible reports that neo-Nazi elements in the armed forces have threatened Zelensky's life if he were to attempt to negotiate a ceasefire on terms they do not agree with. Are we protecting him? What's our role here?
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  37904.  @Wikimedian  So you chose to stop reading after the first line? Is it too subtle for you? There isn't much the US can do except get out of the way of peace. Its history in the region and its actions so far mean that it must work behind the scenes to implore China, India, etc., to take the lead. Which it won't.
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  37905.  @Wikimedian  This is a Marvel Comics movie plot for you? I offered my home to Ukrainian refugees back in February. What action did you take?
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  37906.  @Wikimedian  BTW . . . Insofar as the sanctions will harm the West as well, a lot of dubious characters are not opposed at all. Just an aside to mull over. After all, I presume you support them because you believe they are "effective," and not for any other reason.
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  37907.  @Wikimedian  I gave some somethings. You just don't like them because they are not VISIBLE and not spectacular. They don't lend themselves to easy jingoism and propaganda -- hence the comic book analogy. It's too good, actually.
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  37908.  @Wikimedian  No, I wasn't. I am not convinced you're an honest actor, so I don't want praise from you. That might put me in bad company, possibly. BTW, how many countries in the world are under some US sanction? Why?
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  37909.  @Wikimedian  I wasn't. My point was, this is what we call an "action." Something spectacular, to impress individual Americans. Consider why.
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  37910.  @Wikimedian  If you cannot name all the countries under US sanction and very briefly say why for each, without a mad search, then you need to pause before you recommend sanctions, hmm? So, why don't you? Afghanistan is one, and there, it is effective --- to bring about famine.
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  37911.  @RealYRM  False. You must not know the full story on Covid. Trump bears a lot of responsibility. That Biden is a disaster is something no one needs to be told.
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  37912. 3:13 When a man speaks the truth . . . Oh lord. It's striking.
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  37913.  @janbeck7989  Oh my God. Her family and friends must break through her shell and get her out. She will die from this. No one can live like this.
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  37914.  @khatdubell  Nothing to do with that. A civil rights suit will be dismissed UNLESS they were exonerated. But believe some nonsense if you need to. No one is ever paid to tell you the truth.
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  37915. @khatdubell  "no, they were" -- what does that even mean? Blocked
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  37916.  @khatdubell  They were what? 🤣
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  37917. ​@khatdubell They were factually innocent. There is no question about it. Why don't you read the Complaint? The basic facts are there, paragraphs 16 through 40, in particular. Can't you find it? No? Aww. That's a problem.
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  37918. ​ @khatdubell  They were factually innocent. There is no question about it. Why don't you read the Complaint? The basic facts are there, in paragraphs 16 through 40, in particular. Can't you find it? No? Aww. That's a problem.
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  37919.  @4637jvb  The settlement for $41m for a civil rights suit shows their innocence. That suit would have been dismissed had there been no evidence of actual innocence. The complaint cites the words of the DA in asking the court that all charges be dismissed. You didn't read it, huh?
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  37920. @4637jvb  The five never confessed, and maintained their innocence when going along with this travesty could have shortened some of their sentences.
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  37921. @4637jvb  That's false. Read the court documents. I found them, no problem.
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  37922. @4637jvb  What am I saying? I'm saying read the documents. But you prefer videos. The documents are what count.
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  37923. ​ @erin_3569 It does. We live among savages. There is no evidence that could possibly dissuade them. They support this.
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  37924. This! 💯
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  37925. Look, we borrow from one of the BRICS to finance a war against another. Maybe think this through . . .
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  37926.  @donkeybus  That was my point. ???
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  37927.  @elenasalvatore832  Social pressure.
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  37928.  @kirby7475  In France I'm seeing more critiques and more questions from the left, as one would expect. American DNC types are center right in Europe. Or worse.
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  37929.  @johnnycanread9978  Can you give us keywords to find that testimony?
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  37930. This is frankly ludicrous. You must know nothing about Martin Luther King Jr.
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  37931.  @mandelharvey3429  When has Williamson risked her very life for the civil rights of the progeny of slaves? When has she been incarcerated, unless as a stunt? She has risked nothing. She has been self-involved and self-indulgent for most of her life. She has catered to the celebrity crowd, because that's where the money is. She has carved out a niche because very few of these sorts of New Age people actually know something about politics and economics, and have left-wing views. That much does set her apart. All well and good, but comparing her to King? SHE wouldn't do that.
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  37932.  @mandelharvey3429  This is who you're singing the praises of: https://www.lamag.com/longform/the-new-age-of-marianne-williamson/ Nathaniel West was right. Or Henry Miller: "my God, these people are capable of electing an actor!" written nearly four decades before Reagan.
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  37933.  @vainezaiven6677  Nobody talks over Blaire. She's been there before.
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  37934. Only one federal appellate court has said that, in a 2-1 decision, only last year. Oh brother.
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  37935. 26:20 During the summit held in Moscow to welcome the new members of BRICS+, Lavrov made a quip about "diversity, equity, and inclusion," surrounded as he was by non-Western people.
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  37936. These people talk like they think there is no risk of war in this decade.
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  37937. Yes. Perfect.
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  37938. Well, after seeing Blaire White on Kim Iversen's channel, I watched some of her presentations, and she transitioned in her early 20s. I think you're making a generalization without evidence.
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  37939.  @Banana_Split_Cream_Buns  You are saying "some" but sound like you're saying "all." I agree with you about some. But then again, there are others. Look around.
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  37940. I thought we all supported Saint Obama. But when he stopped funding this research, he was wrong?? This was what the bureaucrats evaded?
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  37941. Wrong analysis. If they simply reported that Trump or his lawyers made claims that turned out to be false, that is newsworthy. If they endorsed the claims, knowing full well that they were false, that is different. Free speech law isn't your sandbox, dear.
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  37942. How many need to be vaccinated to prevent one death? How many who are vaccinated experience serious side effects from the vaccine? These are numbers that need to be very carefully vetted in order for people to make their decision -- and it should be up to them. Lots of doctors opposed to mandatory mass vaccination do believe some people should be vaccinated (such as all people over 70, most people over 50, those who are obese, etc.). Clearly they are doing the cost-benefit analysis with the data they have.
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  37943.  @register1430  Your remarks had nothing to do with answering the questions I posed. That is because we do not have firm answers. I believe we should find out. I believe the answer won't be easy to arrive at, because multivariate analysis is hard. I believe we should start the serious inquiry now. Many first responders were fired from government jobs for declining vaccination. Australia came close to strapping people to chairs. I don't deny the existence or seriousness of long COVID. All non sequiturs. Why do you bother?
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  37944. Exactly. A man who finished college in three years to a woman who never did, and that's for starters.
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  37945. I like my dark side.
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  37946.  @paulhadlington8179  The US begins every invasion with an aerial Blitzkrieg. No one can do that in the Russia-Ukraine war, current combatants or third parties who may wish to aid Ukraine. By the way, the US didn't win in Iraq or Afghanistan. Or Syria, Somalia, Libya. Nor did it lose. These are absurd wars.
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  37947. Wow, Nuland handed them a job.
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  37948. 💯
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  37949. That wasn't mean enough. Try harder. Jump when this lapdog tells you to jump.
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  37950. Podcaster foments more divisiveness. You comply because you are Smart.
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  37951.  @rogerward9684  How is it that people don't stop and think? On the other hand, let's see where the anonymous JFK revelations go . . . :/ And after that, more information about 9/11, among other things.
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  37952. European education -- the perspective of distance, and the end of illusions about America. Stepping out is all it takes. You never unsee it again.
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  37953.  @kelvindoang1228  Chicago too. It's insane, you're right.
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  37954. Well, we should have seen this coming.
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  37955. Yes, great point.
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  37956. Isn't it weird how Biden's kids keep leaving intensely personal materials out where other people can see them?
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  37957.  @galois022  Exactly. They forgot this tiny little thing called the RIGHT to REMAIN SILENT. I can't believe how easy it is to dupe people. No, without a blanket immunity, Congress could not "make him talk."
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  37958.  @musicdcguy1  What, exactly, do you think Congress can do? They cannot suspend the Fifth Amendment. This story is too ridiculous.
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  37959.  @musicdcguy1  No he would not have. Once in the country and under oath, he would have invoked the Fifth.
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  37960.  @musicdcguy1  Besides, Congress cannot promise him a lighter sentence based on his cooperation. That is interfering with the judicial branch of government.
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  37961.  @musicdcguy1  And my point is that he cannot be forced to divulge any of this now. At sentencing, a full accounting will be considered in his favor under the Sentencing Guidelines. And if he doesn't provide a full accounting, then it won't be considered in his favor. He has a lot at stake, actually. Years of his life.
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  37962.  @davidwhittington7638  I hope my reply is visible.
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  37963. @obsidianjane4413  In the end we say amen.
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  37964. There was a time when a woman-bashing twerp would have never attracted followers. But that was a time when a Trump or a Clinton or a Biden would never have been elected president, either.
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  37965. Jimmy, thank you! Those countries you mentioned have LESS COVID. Every country getting emergency checks has fewer cases per capita. WE need the checks MORE.
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  37966. Um, gymnastics can get you killed.
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  37967. Just a small point . . . did you know that many major corporations pay more in lobbyists' fees than in taxes? Even magazines like Fortune and Forbes, and the WSJ, report that -- because it no longer needs to be hidden. Now here is a fun fact: instead of paying taxes, they pay the lobbyists to write the taxes. Then, the government sells bonds, and the corporations buy them. Hence, the US government owes those corporations money, in the form of interest on those bonds, instead of collecting money from them. They are now a creditor. You work, you pay, your money goes to pay them. Who has power in this picture? Does it sound like a democracy to you? Just one small example that you seem not to have been informed about.
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  37968. Is the content worthwhile, or click bait?
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  37969. ​ @c6dbes932  Vous avez raison. Ce que je tire de ce témoinage, c'est qu'il faut absolument protéger les enfants. Je trouve ce qu'il dit choquant quand même.
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  37970. Green card holders are not required to be students.
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  37971. TERF sounds good. They goofed on their "derogatory" meme.
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  37972. Her lack of clarity is fatal to coherent discussion. The facts at the moment don't support passage to humans from an intermediate animal host, either. Have you seen the report?
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  37973. Go big or go home --- or both?
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  37974. I think he is saying what he believes to be true.
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  37975.  @mcomeadow  Calling on epidemiologists and virologists to verify what other countries are doing, and analyzing whether it is helpful -- nearly 20 MONTHS into a pandemic -- is "rubbish?" It should have happened without saying.
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  37976. It all has pretty much the same explanation. :/
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  37977. Do you know what rents are today, in 2020? People whose middle-class parents are willing to give them thousands a year for college and living expenses, and who suffer NO discrimination in the workplace, cannot afford to do what you are proposing. And by the way, is a target of discrimination supposed to blame themselves? Does that sound right to you? Why is Breonna Taylor dead? Did police ever "accidentally" break down your door with a no-knock warrant bearing the wrong address? Why was Cariol Horne fired?
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  37978. Well, look up the cases he lost. He is lying. DUH
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  37979. I like your attitude.
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  37980. ​​ @Mal35m-ub6uj What law school did you go to? The lawyer arguing the case is supposed to explain the distinction they support to the Court. Is that too tough for them? Then they should get a different job.
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  37981. @txt4r  That's not her fault. That's Biden's fault. Her background is outstanding, and the opinions, concurrences, and dissents she has written prove her capabilities. Same for Justice Barrett. They've both proved themselves. (BTW, I've never voted for a ticket with Biden on it. I saw through that 16 years ago.) Try reading some opinions and see. Or, let cable television decide for you. 😂
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  37982. @hanabiber1823  That's just a slogan. She is as qualified as any other Justice -- easily.
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  37983.  @txt4r  I clerked at the appellate level. You don't have a clue.
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  37984. @txt4r  You know zero about it. I bet you've never seen a Supreme Court opinion, much less read thousands of them. Blocked for wasting my time. I have stuff to do today.
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  37985. @txt4r  I'm getting censored now, for providing real information? Great, then you get blocked from my feed.
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  37986.  @txt4r  Why are factual replies scents erred? Oh Gee, I Wonder Why.
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  37987. @Mal35m-ub6uj  Look, they won't let me explain. I get ____ right away. Her question was proper. This is exactly how hypotheticals are framed. The lawyer is supposed to explain the legal distinction. Her question does NOT imply SHE thinks they are the same. She knows they're not. (Read her concurrence in the January 6th case. She voted with conservatives.)
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  37988.  @Mal35m-ub6uj  Sadly, my replies go poof, like a puff of smoke.
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  37989.  @newlearner5560  Robby wasn't even listening to her. Classic "smugnorant."
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  37990. When it said Musk's lawsuit, I wondered which one.
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  37991. We supported the systematuc killings of ethnic Russians in the Donbass for 8 years, carried out by neo-Nazis infiltrators into the Ukraine military. Putin's invasion is likely to have strengthened their influence rather than weakening it, so far at least, and contrary to his declared intentions but predictable enough.
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  37992. @PeterMoss54321  Okay.
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  37993. @cujokila  Why do you all say this? How could it possibly be Fortson's fault? How? Opening the door is the most eloquent display of innocence there is. Moreover, too many people think you "have to" open the door to police. No you don't.
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  37994.  @cujokila  Of course not. WHO shot the gun???
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  37995.  @cujokila  I said it wasn't. Quit putting words in my mouth.
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  37996.  @cujokila  And I'm saying NO KIDDING. Why is this "corrective" deemed necessary?
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  37997.  @cujokila  Wait. Has "The Secret" had this much penetration? 🤣🤣🤣 . . . Except that it's not funny.
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  37998. That was alleged; it remains to be proved. Normally, just reporting that a president or his lawyers said X, even if X is a deliberate, defamatory lie, is reporting the news.
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  37999. Biden just has a stutter.
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  38000. Do these clowns think toxic tort cases against major corporations are easy to win?? They must think we live in Twitter World. Yes, a lawyer makes a case. That does not mean he is unbiased. He is a zealous advocate for his side, and brings to bear FACTS that support his position. We are in dire need of exactly that challenge to the Fauci-infused and infested atrocity that is the current NIH. Kennedy is our corrective. Let the debate begin!
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  38001.  @lynnebarnes3840  The slave drivers did at any rate. (Or did they politely deprive people like Jim of their families?)
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  38002.  @hugomaritz692  You have a point. In principle, though, they are accountable to us. Okay. Stop laughing.
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  38003. A person can set up a trust for their child and put the insurance policy in the trust. Why would you make a boyfriend the beneficiary??
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  38004. Then why does each round of deregulation make life worse? You do know there is a business incentive to engineer obsolescence, correct? For example, a vaccine that requires boosters every 6 to 12 months makes more money than "one and done." A LOT more 💰
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  38005. Already has.
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  38006.  @dennismitchell5276  This is true as well.
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  38007. Right, left, libertarian, progressive are all fraudulent labels anyway. This obfuscates the underlying politics.
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  38008. W
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  38009. @danbruno5945  The CEO of the company wrote a comment on this incident, and said that she was right. Her termination was not handled well. I think he was sincere. It didn't come across as window dressing to me. He stated what he thought should have been done differently.
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  38010.  @Bahamamos  Others on her team were being fired and told her.
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  38011.  @jaysons7581  That's okay. I appreciate your optimism, especially these days.
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  38012. I just found the arrest warrant and indictment, should be interesting. Much of what they did sounds immoral but consensual to me. Still, it only takes one crime, plus a conspiracy, to be amply sufficient for indictment and conviction. The old gangsters were sent to prison for tax evasion.
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  38013. Droning innocent civilians never caused Colbert to cry. Droning weddings and funerals never caused tears. Gotta love it. Jimmy, he deserved every word. Great job.
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  38014.  @Sideshowbob4100  It was on a broom??
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  38015. ​@buckfiden1228 There ARE more white people. There are more Latin American people, too. There was a trial. I know the prosecutor. ALL documents were made public, on a website that was updated with pdfs every day. The Supreme Court denied cert. But Candace knows better. She should go back to claiming Macron's wife is a man. To think that lots of people still work for money. Weird.
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  38016. ​ @D-Fens_1632 What is it okay with you for police to do, exactly? What's the limit?
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  38017. He's not that great looking, no. I didn't notice until you mentioned it.
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  38018.  @tonys32948376  Ecnedive? I do not doubt anything. Or, most things equally is more like it.
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  38019. Notice how the little drips and drabs that are coming out . . . Remember how Bill Gates had only one dinner with Epstein, and donated only one million dollars to a science lab at Epstein's suggestion? Then it was two dinners, and two million bucks, then . . . Yeah. Well, . . .
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  38020. @anticom6099  You . . . you mean I said that? What was I thinking! Maybe someone hacked my account!! She is after money. She was always after money. She's in her 40s and was making a million a year from Harvard alone. If they failed to follow the contract in firing her, she'll get some more money. She'll be all right in the ways that matter most. And she will work again, just watch.
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  38021. @anticom6099  We'll see. The world sees who Trump, Vance, the Clintons, the Obamas, the Bidens, Mike Pompeo, Victoria Nuland, and Bill Gates are, don't they? I wish more people cared about what you care about, frankly. Then they wouldn't pull these despicable stunts in the first place.
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  38022.  @anticom6099  Too bad I just got censored, or shadowed, or paused.
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  38023. Fauci and Gates caused vaccine hesitancy.
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  38024. That joke fell flat.
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  38025.  @toolthoughts  Don't quit your day job for stand-up comedy. Seriously, don't.
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  38026.  @brianc5581  thank you
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  38027. Here's a thought: watch Lex Fridman's interview of John Abramson. Absolutely crucial.
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  38028. @counselthyself YES, and from two very different viewpoints. Chris Hedges, Abby Martin; Anne Laure Bonnel in France. Not everyone is crazed.
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  38029. 💯
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  38030. Even larger problem: certain "consultants" will write any report they are commissioned to write. Their skill is in knowing their audience intimately, not in ascertaining facts.
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  38031.  @kenshirolucario2836  You say that like there's just one.
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  38032. I guess a lot of people didn't realize that asking Putin why, if all he said were true, he didn't attempt to stake a claim to Ukraine 20+ years ago, was seen by Putin as hugely aggressive. How does anyone miss this?
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  38033.  @Sabu113  Who "started it," according to you? Being a white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant male was never a "qualification" for the Presidency or the Senate, being ethnic Catholic (and of course male) was never a "qualification" for running a union or being mayor of half of the big cities in America? How fascinating.
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  38034.  @Sabu113  BTW, did you think the US "hated communism," or did you know they hated Russians? Just curious.
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  38035. Why did Camila get immunity in return for her testimony?
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  38036. 6:44 Bravo, and THANK YOU. If Trump is so dangerous, why hasn't the Democratic Party stepped up to defeat him? Consider who we are talking about. It should not be this hard to defeat this man.
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  38037. I prefer not to wear a mask, but whenever I get sniffles due to probable allergies, I wear one.
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  38038. I am soooooooo sick of this. Did they catch all of them?
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  38039. That was great.
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  38040. Jen Psaki = mini Hillary How many of these are they going to force feed on us until they get the message?
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  38041. Curious: are you bilingual?
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  38042. ​@ZappyOh Suppose they don't come back out . . . 😂😂😂
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  38043. What Michelle Alexander told you about how contemporary racism works, well, that's how classism works now, too. People refused to believe racism is actually pervasive, because the laws don't explicitly endorse it anymore. Now classism is just as pervasive.
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  38044. If the US had the same death rate from COVID as Japan has, we would have fewer than 50,000 total deaths. Okay, WHY? What happened here? What are they doing in Japan?
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  38045. I'm very sorry to hear this.
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  38046.  @d.r.4453  No one is jealous of Musk, any more than they were of Gates. But I agree about sourcing comments. Do you believe the highly visible head of a massive corporation has no influence over what happens in his factories? If people are in fear of complaining and putting an immediate stop to it, then there is something wrong with the structures in place. That kind of severe abuse is a low-level criminal offense in many countries. Here, people cower until they develop psychiatric conditions, then can't work, then have to sue. And it takes serious money to begin a lawsuit, because of the way the process is set up.
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  38047.  @d.r.4453  Check the LA Times. He's right.
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  38048.  @d.r.4453  Okay, no one healthy and sane is jealous.
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  38049.  @d.r.4453  It's not just a matter of direct orders. Workplace discrimination is (1) extremely hard to prove; (2) more likely to get the victim black balled rather than compensated; and (3) has not required "direct orders" for about two generations, for obvious reasons. When it keeps happening, and C suite keeps insisting that it is not happening, then yes, the CEO is responsible. You mean Musk lacks the RESOURCES to uncover the truth and put an end to it? I mean, seriously? I guess he has to tweet, and pump up share prices instead. Who cares about the people actually making cars? Sheesh. (Bad performance for a South African, don't you think?)
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  38050.  @obione69  Jimmy thinks spreading lies about what ivermectin is and what it is used for is fundamentally wrong.
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  38051.  @obione69  I don't take any medical advice from anyone who is not a doctor or who advocates the use of psychedelics. Ever. You?
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  38052. The vaccines do reduce the risk of severe COVID and hospitalization or death for those at high risk, and do so quite reliably, for about 6 to 9 months. The risk-benefit analysis for the individual is the next question. Kim Iversen is the journalist doing the most objective reporting for a lay audience. Dore IS vaccinated, as is his wife. He had significant, persistent side effects from vaccination and is now being treated. See 27:47
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  38053.  @obione69  I don't like Joe Rogan. I also don't like lies and smears. I can not listen to Joe Rogan. Can I avoid all lies and smears? How??
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  38054.  @obione69  I like your last line. Sound advice.
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  38055.  @obione69  Now that you edited out the insult directed toward me . . . Well, no need to reply to you, then, huh?
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  38056. THIS
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  38057. Claim to be quoting FBI
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  38058. Are you kidding? How much did they pay?
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  38059. Millions is orders of magnitude greater than thousands. Correct data suddenly doesn't matter? Oh, that'll work.
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  38060. The jeering mob is causing more vaccine hesitancy than Clapton ever did. If people had been kind to him, that would be an advertisement for the vaccine. That would say: bad reactions are rare, and if it happens to you, we'll be there for you.
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  38061. Was there incitement of violence under Brandenburg? If so, no problem, it's unprotected by the FirstAmendment. Do you know? "Emotional harassment" is not generally actionable. Is this a Title VII case?
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  38062. Too bad mention of actual Supreme Court precedent disa p ______ . . .
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  38063. Posts about Supreme Court cases? Funny. I just saw one a minute ago.
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  38064.  Music  Of course whites are disproportionately represented among legacies, for whom admissions criteria are relatively lax. Didn't you understand Krystal's point? And why are you being vulgar? Is that a white thing?
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  38065.  Music  It's called irony. Try it, it's amusing.
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  38066.  Music  OF COURSE poor people are discriminated against, AND most poor people in America are white. Who suggested not? Calm down and do some Venn diagrams or something. Sheesh.
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  38067.  Music  Oh give me a break. Of course it was irony. Are you going to stalk me now? For what? Pfft. "Maybe they should change it" -- what does that even mean? Incoherent.
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  38068.  Music  It's the 21st century.
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  38069.  Music  Good, you fixed it.
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  38070. In the truncated clip you saw, Gabbard just targetted some of our staunchest allies, all right-wing governments, of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey (a NATO member). That was the real shock.
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  38071. He's a rich guy. Any further questions?
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  38072. Not what happened. OH WELL. I'm not going to be living here much longer, so if you don't care about surveillance overreach, it sure makes no diff to me.
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  38073. ​ @skosh6359 They may be quite happy with the money, but so are Fauci, Collins, Gates, Pelosi, etc. This is why I absolutely always look to solid research, usually available at NIH or PLOS for free, and to ministries of health in Europe. Relying on American sources alone is no longer wise, sadly.
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  38074. ​ @cassiescornerreviews6884  Three of the five BRICS declined mRNA based vaccines --- you can claim China and Russia had political motivations, but India certainly did not. It was purely based on science.
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  38075. ​ @cassiescornerreviews6884  Could they all be lying? Remember lobotomies? That procedure garnered a Nobel Prize in Medicine. Maybe read White Coat, Black Hat. Reality check.
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  38076. Why? In real courts, not Twitter mobs, AJ failed to prove his statements were true and not defamation. That said, he himself should not be censored.
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  38077.  @steviegbcool  Great point! Plus really 🤣🤣!
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  38078. Yeah. Joining the service is for chumps.
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  38079. In 2020, pretty much all 20-year-olds were at home with their parents, and hunkering down to make sure they could afford basic necessities. A lot of college students did not return to school, which was online only in most places. We had just come out of massive shutdowns four months prior to the last time his parents heard from him. This had a terrible effect on a lot of young people, especially those who already suffered from mental health issues. Is all this already forgotten?
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  38080. Le Pen's candidates got 33% of all votes in the first round. 67% voted for someone else. Most of those people did not want her.
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  38081.  Commander Shepard  It's called evidence-based medicine. I follow peer-reviewed literature, a few major papers (NYTimes, Guardian, Haaretz) and foreign ministries of health in countries with better public health and public policy than the US. I have a doctoral-level degree and a master's in philosophy of science from a major European university. Reading Space From Zeno to Einstein this weekend. None of which means I couldn't be wrong. Far from it. It means I expect MY concerns to be addressed, and I know that I decide what to do with my body, not anyone else. The burden of persuasion is on whoever proposes any intervention, not on me to justify myself. No or maybe are the default answers, absent evidence to switch them to yes.
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  38082.  @jacobhafar538  These vaccines have little in common with polio vaccine. It's not wise to keep repeating mere talking points that are scientifically baseless. It weakens your case. It's obvious shaming, bullying, etc., rather than scientifically sound. Consult the National Geographic article on leaky vaccines from around 2017 or somethings like that. Others have read it.
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  38083.  @johnmatthews3427  Yeah. The health care workers who risked their lives last year during the height of the pandemic and sacrificed their safety and peace of mind for us are now being kicked to the curb. They are learning what the 9/11 first responders learned, and the war on terror veterans learned. Never sacrifice for anyone, not here, not now. The Trumps and the Pelosis and the Hunter Bidens are laughing in your face. Anyone who traded stock last year rather than toiling in a hospital is vastly better off. No comparison. And if they managed to put together a few hundred grand, no way would you be jeering at them. You'd be all sheepish and chastened. One day another "emergency" will be declared, and no one will come to answer the call. Then it will be your turn to learn. Oh well!
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  38084.  Commander Shepard  Was it you or someone else who said I was stupid, or something like that? So . . . My transgression is that instead of trading insults, as is the custom, I stated that I've done the heavy lifting that leads to having some knowledge to speak cogently about the topic at hand. Cool, I get it. I don't usually come here. I won't again. I'd heard it was bad, but it's SAD -- a bunch of angry simpletons who need to find enemies to swarm and be flattered for it. Barely different from Trump's crowd, yeesh.
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  38085.  @makingknowsense8979  I have an idea. Urge people to talk to their DOCTORS and to keep an open mind. That might work !!!!! Unless your aim is something other than to defeat vaccine hesitancy. Hmm.
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  38086. You think the Clintons are like communists?? Who got you to think that?
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  38087. Good luck with that. If your family had a small farm, that would be different.
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  38088. Prison NEVER improved anyone's mental health. I'm sorry his son didn't speak to an attorney and a doctor or some therapists before calling LE. He strikes me as brilliant. If he had had more life experience, he would have handled this better. FBI is not a first resort. Now his mother is digging in her heals, too. A tragedy!
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  38089. "How come THEY have all the Third World friends when we're the cool ones?"
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  38090.  @smythharris2635  They exposed themselves for all the world to see. So, let China and India and South Africa and Brazil take the lead in finding a diplomatic solution. (See a pattern? If not, you'll be seeing it all over the place soon.)
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  38091. Don't worry. Soon, no one will join the military.
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  38092. @ericdelossantos1  I think we should all believe people who say they talked to people who saw people who saw the aliens. Oh, and videos. Believe all videos. Believe all people with wild eyes opened too wide. That's another tell. Wild eyes connote sincerity and solid mental health.
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  38093.  @sugarsore  If that were so important, why does it have patent protection?
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  38094. Having been a bricklayer, Jimmy knows what bricklayers are like. 🤔
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  38095. Self-referential, innit?
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  38096.  @lonniewilkerson5137  Including "idea" and "wrong?" (How would he know?)
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  38097.  @lonniewilkerson5137  Oh please. If you didn't catch the humor in what I said, go lecture yourself. Or better yet, read Raymond Smullyan.
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  38098. Please point out lies gently. Never argue, never raise your voice one decibel. This is important because she spreads medical misinformation.
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  38099. @jaredbaratta8589  2020, voted in person, election day, scantron paper ballet, LaRiva/Peltier --- to register my opposition to Peltier's continued incarceration. After I saw his lawyer interviewed by Chris Hedges (a real peach of a lawyer, civil libertarian and Navy vet, super principled), I knew I had done the right thing. It's partly luck for sure.
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  38100. Stop misspelling slurs. At least prove you can spell before you criticize.
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  38101. I looked up the 2024 booster recommendation in Sweden. They recommend, but do not require, universal boosters for those age 80 and over. I always want to know what other countries are doing. Switzerland never gave more than one shot of the two-shot regimens to those who had recovered from a proven case of COVID. Russia, China, and India never approved mRNA vaccines -- Russia and China, very likely for political reasons, but India's decision was purely scientific. The only country I know of recommending these vaccines to people under 40 is the United States, that great leader in public health. /s It's really interesting when you read a lot.
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  38102.  @jumpers500  Yes. I only joined YT during the COVID lockdown last year. I see the downside, too.
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  38103.  @alphasylpheed3861  You've stopped making sense. Reread this in the morning.
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  38104.  @alphasylpheed3861  She made the threat after Dore denounced her, and denounced Cenk even more so, for defaming Mate. This is how she weaponizes MeToo.
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  38105.  @inspectortanzi  If you don't believe Ana, you're a misogynist. /s
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  38106.  @alphasylpheed3861  Echolalia . . . Well, with added emoji. That's reassuring.
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  38107.  @123lowp  Well, I guess Kim Kardashian, Dr. Phil, and Jack Dorsey, among others, are incomparably more "skilled" than you are, and a lot of civil rights lawyers, oncologists, and commercial pilots are less "skilled" than you or the better-paid engineers you mention. Good to know.
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  38108.  @123lowp  Actually, your plan to go out on your own is a bigger incentive to your employer to give you a raise, if he wants to keep you in particular, than any skill you could demonstrate. In certain corporations, people get pushed out rather than promoted for being more skilled than their bosses. (Classic scenario in successful employment discrimination/wrongful discharge cases, though they also have to show discriminatory animus, etc., to win. Without that, or without an enforceable contract, etc., it's "just the way it goes.")
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  38109. Should we check in with Likud on who can be in Congress and what they are permitted to say? Please let us know.
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  38110.  @lazm3518  Campbell caused illnesses and deaths? You are all crazy. Or else you are false flags -- with your hyperbole, you function as such.
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  38111.  @philtucker1224  In the US, at birth, the life expectancy of a man is about 76 years. How is that much longer than a decade after retirement? For women, it is about 80 years, so that is longer. For men, it isn't at all. Full retirement in the US is now 67 for most people, and over 66 for just about everyone.
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  38112. Third party. He always does.
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  38113. Selective prosecution: what the Trump DOJ did to Assange.
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  38114.  @orladowdsroddy3983  People who suffered side effects are silenced, and if they persist, they are depersoned. They don't count.
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  38115. Yes we were told otherwise. We were regaled with nonsense about achieving "herd immunity" from leaky vaccines. The real kicker is that the detailed information sheets from the vaccine manufacturers themselves, which you had to sign that you received and read as part of informed consent, made no such promises.
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  38116.  @avenuePad  You do have a point. When you read the actual manufacturers' MODEST claims, they certainly better describe what the vaccines do. Suggesting they lied, or even overstated the benefits, is really a stretch.
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  38117.  @edennis8578  Um, how does that contradict what I said? Or do you claim there's no problem?
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  38118.  @Uarehere  oh my goodness
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  38119.  @iamshebeeloloindigenous  Try putting his full name in a search engine, and see a few of the tax cases he lost come right up.
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  38120. No way to surrender, either.
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  38121. Funny to happen upon this video, after all the True Crime stuff that gets recommended by YT, too.
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  38122.  @flowersinherhair3930  And they literally need it.
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  38123.  @kyle-ri5mz  I love spunky people. We need more of them.
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  38124.  @ashkebora7262  I'm utterly stupid. You're the intelligent one. You know how to accomplish things, and when to give up and sputter swear words, ad hominem, and other invective, because that's just who you are. You're vastly too smart for me.
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  38125. ​ @AlwysBclosing You poor, poor thing.
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  38126. ​@CorpMcfur How can you be duped by someone who was that out of control? Was lifting the moratorium on gain-of-function research good? We Operation Warp Speed good? Was the assassination of the Iranian general good? Was moving the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem good? Was claiming he'd make Mexico pay for a wall even plausible? Was promising to pursue the Clintons (who deserve to be investigated for real) and failing a good thing? Was putting John Bolton and Mike Pompeo in charge of foreign and domestic policy honest? Was running a lousy campaign full of personal grievances, then not accepting he lost because he deserved to lose commendable? Was letting Fauci run the country into the ground and lie about virus origin, and playing good cop bad cop with him honest? Need I go on? Oh, wait, I do need to add that the Trump DOJ indicted Assange and then Trump failed to pardon him. What does that say about a society that could make ANY of these people their President? I wouldn't let them in my house.
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  38127. It depends on the state. In general, elective abortion anywhere from 8 to 12 weeks wins majority support, but beyond that, there is not a lot of support. Did you forget the case of the ten-year-old girl who had to go to a different state to get immediate treatment? Fox News types claimed it was fake (it was real) and her doctor got death threats. This sent a shudder through the whole country because it was medically necessary, and STILL there was an issue. No one wants to live like that.
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  38128. Great post, thanks.
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  38129. False. It has no formal precedential value.
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  38130. ​ @WorksopGimp Not precedent
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  38131. ​ @shreder75 Not precedent
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  38132.  @tonyrmathis  Sorry. Not what the word means. Go to Cornell, look it up. Precedent is not merely a guide for the exercise of discretion, it is a constraint on the court. Precedent has the force of law. Either it applies and has to be followed, or it has to be distinguished from the case at hand in some material way.
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  38133.  @tonyrmathis  She can approve a plea agreement different from any she has seen before. When it became apparent that the two sides disagreed about what this one even says, and the extent of the immunity from prosecution for OTHER bad acts it offers Biden, that was the end of it. She was 100% right to reject it. It's not clear that there was an agreement.
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  38134. You must enjoy propaganda. Haaretz doesn't say this. He can denounce American "intellectuals" because they are stupid and vile, but he cannot answer Haaretz with this spiel.
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  38135. Six weeks is not an fetus, it is an embryo. Most developed societies have elective abortion at that stage. Robby is wrong. It is not a heartbeat, yet. It is not a heart yet. Making corrections is fine. Abrams sounded insensitive. That is the issue.
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  38136.  @AB-ol5uz  At six weeks, the tissues that will become the heart do not have chambers yet, and the impulses are not controlled by the central nervous system, so they are not a true heartbeat. On the other hand, all of that develops well before the end of the "first trimester," at about 9 to 10 weeks, and many states permit elective abortion well after that. Say, I have an idea. Persuade people to reject abortion. Don't create new criminal laws to force them to do what you want them to do. Persuade them instead.
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  38137. What were you thinking?
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  38138.  @evannunsince9357  I have watched him. He is the best example I have seen of someone who deserves no attention. Your time is more valuable than that.
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  38139. A nanoparticle's diameter is 1/100 to 1/1000 the diameter of a red blood cell.
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  38140. It is easy for people to believe there were infiltration and provocateurs on January 6, but dismiss entirely that that is exactly what happened with antifa as well.
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  38141. Now you know why they cannot admit the true origin of this virus. Now is a good time to reread Glenn Greenwald: With Liberty and Justice for Some Find out how the powerful are shielded from having to take any responsibility for their actions, while we suffer for our own mistakes and theirs, of course. Someone has to.
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  38142. @girl That is a very good question.
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  38143. There's a Quora takedown of Dr. Clancey that relies on our not reading. It cites a paper they say supports the benefit of the vaccines because myocarditis is more commonly due to COVID than to vaccines. Except that the paper admits that vaccinated people can catch COVID, that there were deaths from the vaccine, and that men under 40 were over six times more likely to develop myocarditis from a vaccine than an infection. The data was from the UK, December 2020, through December 2021 -- when a more dangerous variant was circulating.
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  38144. You got Bing to work?
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  38145. Doing live shows has had a great effect on Jimmy and Stef all right.
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  38146. When? Where? Which ones?
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  38147. Reuters reported that in 2017 through 2021, well over 17,500 received puberty blockers. These are the verifiable numbers, and they end before this really exploded, 2022 through present.
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  38148. I just posted the number from Reuters. Let's see whether it stays.
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  38149.  @JYes-s5o  I gave the actual number on p blockers. It was, shall we say, omitted. Reuters wrote the series.
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  38150. Not even!
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  38151. Robby does a nice job on this: DO look at what UK and other countries are saying and doing with kids under 16. Look up Norway, for instance. Their people are being told something other than what Fauci is telling us.
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  38152. Best wishes to you and your wife. Make time to have fun together.
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  38153. ​ @Verysimpleinvesting Just the opposite. Russian resourcefulness perplexes the Americans. There are ancient texts in Latin remarking that Slavic peoples can withstand more than Roman armies could ever accept. Watch Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky) sometime. Pay attention to the "impossible" bell.
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  38154. ​@Verysimpleinvesting You're allowed to talk šit, and if I answer you intelligently, quoting a classic text and an outstanding film, I get tossed. Congratulations on your freedom.
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  38155. 13:10 THIS A thousand times THIS.
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  38156. Worse.
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  38157. Now, now. 😄
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  38158.  @PreservationEnthusiast  SHE IS A CHILD. She is either outdoors or in her home. Do you know nothing about the mask guidance? 2022??
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  38159.  @PreservationEnthusiast  This is a joke. Right?
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  38160.  @PreservationEnthusiast  Minors?? She's not a teenager, she's PRESCHOOL. And outdoors. Your joke is dumb.
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  38161. NYTimes tweets are marching orders. Now you know what words to use.
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  38162. I'm not a father or husband. Well?
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  38163. Certainly we need careful journalism, like the work Whitney Webb always brings us, but is anyone SURPRISED that Epstein assembled kompromat? Or that Jamie Dimon is involved? I'd want to look into HSBC. Their escape from charges for laundering drug kingpin money, and probably laundering terrorist cell money, not to mention Prince Andrew's involvement, makes me think they must have been involved in this network as well.
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  38164. How is it possible that people as vile as the Clintons still wield so much power?? This is the best the DNC has to offer?
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  38165. OF COURSE. Perfect example. She does real investigative journalism. Real investigative journalism is dangerous. Abby is always eloquent and poised. You know what Sam Seder/MR have taken up, to boost ratings? They've been following Lara Logan around and making her out to be insane and evil. Lara Logan came close to being killed in a mob while reporting from a hot zone. They can't show her the respect of refuting her content without smearing her personally? (And I do not agree with her politics at all. Not the point.)
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  38166.  @peterstafford4426  THANKS FOR RESPONDING, FINALLY! Now I can block your @rse.
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  38167. Look up what happened to our troops who opposed the systemic pedophilia among certain tribesmen in Afghanistan. They were told to leave it alone. And they talk about women's rights?
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  38168. Clearly someone does not want Cuomo to run for President.
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  38169.  @DH-lm6kh  I certainly hope you're right. The media emphasis on the harassment allegations over the nursing home issue does not inspire confidence, but that could be a function of our media rather than a reflection of our true concerns.
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  38170. Then for her to say that in a series of tweets would have been very useful, rather than this outburst, which did not communicate those FACTS.
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  38171. ​ @Beachnance 45 minutes? Long for an adult.
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  38172. She owns a Tesla?
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  38173. Proof he's not all right in the head.
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  38174.  @khernandez46  They are so petrified.
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  38175.  @joshpeck9266  The truth is that we don't have reliable data. In the case of Omicron, it appears not to be true at all, but we do not know with the degree of certainty we should have. If this strikes you as terrible, I agree.
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  38176. Oh good grief.
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  38177. ​ @almondflour4785 You beat me to it, lol.
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  38178.  @briansholer5455  WHO SAID A WORD ABOUT MASKS??? Wasn't the issue under consideration a LOCKDOWN? "Sounds like." I actually am planning on emigrating. America is quickly becoming quasi-fascist, by my lights. And what's the subtext? You won't "pay taaaaxes" to compensate everyone who cannot work from home, not to mention hazard pay for essential workers? Is that really why you bristle at the mention of full compensation? Love how you twist it to make YOU sound noble. Typical American? I'm starting to suspect it.
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  38179.  @artemisblue3908  I totally agree. Lockdowns have been instituted by local governments and states, which cannot compensate people. The federal government must. A hard lockdown early, with emergency UBI for all, and no equivocation by anyone concerning masks, and we would not be here. I can hardly believe how bad the latest surge of cases has been, figuratively and literally. Did not see this coming.
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  38180.  @userumbleandgettr4freespee501  I don't know whether you've noticed, but erotic love between men and women has taken a lot of hits lately. Maybe it cannot take another blow. Just . . . just BUTT OUT.
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  38181.  @userumbleandgettr4freespee501  You assume too much. Vastly. Why?
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  38182.  @userumbleandgettr4freespee501  The environment I am describing has served to make people intensely hesitant about entering into relationships or having children. Cynical, even. It's not just a body count, even if we concede your premise for the sake of argument.
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  38183.  @userumbleandgettr4freespee501  Excuse me? If abortion kills a human person, then tell me how any state can permit it, at any time. Then it has to be a crime, at every stage, from fertilization on. BTW, was that a threat?
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  38184.  @userumbleandgettr4freespee501  You discredit yourself with your bullying. How do you propose that any state police pregnancy? If a pregnant woman attempts suicide and lives while losing the pregnancy, should any state have the right to try her for a homicide? Tell us your plan. You have so much experience . . .
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  38185. NO "CONFUSION" about lab leak. That very viable theory was systematically suppressed by Fauci and Collins.
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  38186.  @britsareweak  I can't disagree. He was angry about the fact that Bernie rolled over, and demanded nothing from DNC types, and Jimmy's anger was justified, BUT he did not express it correctly and should apologize to two very nice people who have been very tolerant. Also, they both appreciate that they don't know a lot of working class people, working class for real, and were always open to hear Jimmy's views -- no weird tone, never patronizing him or Stef. All true. :/
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  38187.  @britsareweak  Did I say you said I had to? We each just expressed our views, no? ;)
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  38188.  Bill Gates Of Hell  Comcast bought out Microsoft, not that long ago.
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  38189. How dare they politicize this? Everyone should support a careful analysis of data, which requires advanced statistical techniques and a lot of fair judgment and time. If there is EVER a vaccine we actually need, millions will, of course, refuse it. What is wrong with these politicians?
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  38190. A default essentially means Jones refused to mount a defense. If what he did does not amount to refusing to defend (which itself could be a litigation strategy), then entering default was not proper. There are other ways to enforce court orders.
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  38191. @ Joao Sousa (sorry, this was to thewrong person originally) Well, the actual lawyers who are among the most popular on YouTube make glaring errors all the time. Kim wasn't wrong in what she said, actually. More like incomplete. But a default is not immune to being overturned on appeal. Alex Jones wanted to default and did it deliberately, for all we know. Or, on the contrary, the judge overstepped by entering default. Not evident on its face either way.
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  38192.  @saulespino2510  That's obviously not an opinion shared by most people. You are aware that fertility clinics discard embryos, correct?
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  38193.  @saulespino2510  The First Amendment protects your right to try to persuade others of your views. Why is police power necessary, to make them do what you consider obviously right?
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  38194.  @saulespino2510  America still has a First Amendment. Well, had? You're God's spokesmodel. Good to know. I still remember when Jim Jones assumed that role.
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  38195. 14:04 "Nah" Max is perfect. 😂
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  38196. Racist. They need an approved safety valve. Russia is perfect.
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  38197. That IS significant. Anyone with any scientific background knows two things: This is a bona fide signal that must be investigated immediately. We don't know why this is happening; too many variables could have a bearing.
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  38198. In France, May 1 is a mandatory paid holiday for everyone. Not Bastille Day. May 1.
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  38199.  @karinetteyoutube1293  Cela m'a fait penser de La Chanson d'un jour d'été.
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  38200. Good people need an emigration plan as backup. Believe it.
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  38201. Good for Joe Manchin. He's not scared. He is not scared to use his power for bad policies, the pwogressives won't use theirs for good ones.
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  38202. Did you ever wonder or suspect that Hamas might be infiltrated? I have no hypothesis, I only know that nothing is as it seems. That tells me nothing, except to suspend judgment.
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  38203. Gosh, you might think Biden and AOC, etc., shouldn't have campaigned on it? BTW, did you see the timetable for implementing it? No reason to believe small business would be hurt.
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  38204. Why do the people who do the worst things make the most money?
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  38205. What is the proportion of scholarship students, and the average size of a scholarship?
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  38206. ​ @WhoaBo  ❤ your post. Thanks.
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  38207. ​ @donquique1 It depends, doesn't it? You imagine you could arrest half of Wall Street for this?
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  38208. ​ @David-iv6je Actually, the public policy debate IS with lawyers, politicians, regulators, civil rights experts, and members of the public. It isn't just with scientists in journals. That's one reason why Hotez is all over the media all the time.
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  38209. ​ @timogul So then make it a discussion, not a debate. Your points sound good to me, but they don't provide a reason not to have a discussion. It's a matter of format and appropriate gravitas.
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  38210.  @David-iv6je  Well, I just wrote a factual post and was subjected to scents or sheep. You wrote a speculative one, and here it still is.
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  38211.  @David-iv6je  No, the science is not "simple," nor is the ethics simple. Drugs are evaluated strictly case by case.
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  38212.  @timogul  False, LOL. Don't imitate bots.
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  38213.  @timogul  On second thought, do. Make a fool of yourself.
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  38214.  @timogul  I believe I should respect myself enough not to respond to someone/something who/that parrots my words mindlessly, or post here at all because my excellent information is being sense oar d. That's what I believe. Why should any intelligent person subject themselves to this, OR create free content for YT, for that matter?
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  38215.  @timogul  Is this The Joe Rogan Show?
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  38216. @timogul  Irrelevant to the question. What, is this some kind of a snowflake moment? I agree that someone much better than Hotez should meet with Kennedy and discuss this issue, and two scientists at the table with Kennedy would be even better. (As an attorney, "two against one" is no problem for Kennedy.) Hotez was singled out because he has been smearing people, but that is because he is primarily engaged in advertising and public relations, not medicine. So you do have a point.
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  38217. Oh I see. A crazy has entered the room.
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  38218.  Eric Moore  That's far more than they ever would have gotten some other way.
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  38219. What's the difference? They are comparing black college graduates to white high school graduates.
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  38220. The Constitution was trashed. Once that is gone, what is left?
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  38221. What have these people done that's so bad that they have to keep proving they're good?
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  38222.  @VicGrimes  Are you in Europe now? What is your view of Serbia and Montenegro?
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  38223.  @cygnusx-3217  Given that the vaccine prevents severe or lethal COVID, but cannot prevent infection (hence rendering COVID mild or asymptomatic for most vaccinated people), does that mean those who were vaccinated and contracted COVID are still at higher risk for heart issues, including blood clots, arrhythmias, and so forth?
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  38224.  @cygnusx-3217  Let me know whether you saw my post about mild COVID after vaccination.
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  38225. Justin is a great guy. Thanks to Katie for inviting him. Invite him again!
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  38226. Crossed what line? He was never their teacher. Show me the policy that a guest lecturer cannot date any student of that university, including those he never taught. Then tell me why that should be a policy. Plenty of students were older than he was, including graduate students and veterans.
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  38227. Who is "we?"
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  38228.  @James-o2u9x  Are you from there?
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  38229. @joycegibbs5267  No, I mean on behalf of the electorate of which country does OP speak?
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  38230. @joycegibbs5267  So, you had French in high school? Well, you're an American. Of course you should dictate their politics.
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  38231. ​ @BigK0498 Learn geography.
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  38232.  @rastrosus5176  Speak for yourself.
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  38233. ​ @J.J.8790 Catholics always got ashes on Ash Wednesday. You never lived in a big city?
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  38234. Any evidence the child had it and was deprived of proper care?
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  38235. "There are Jews who are fair, etc.?" It's not rare. They are systematically silenced.
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  38236. I hope Chappelle sues them. They KNEW about his special a long time ago.
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  38237. WHO . . . would do this?? Have your food putrefy . . .
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  38238. Manslaughter charges only.
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  38239. @The Chosen one It's a problem no one HAS solved. We don't know that it can't be.
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  38240.  @xenphoton5833  That is exactly the point. When you PROVE a theorem, it is true of an infinite set. No, computers are not "smarter" than people. They process in finite time, they cannot test every number.
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  38241.  @lskdfoIS  Does everyone know this person is faking?
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  38242.  @cute_funny_gamer  Like 12-dimensional Dunning Kruger.
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  38243.  @JustPotBro  Cool
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  38244.  @ruy_mascarua  0.1 doesn't go anywhere.
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  38245.  @shanejohnson587  It's not an equation, it's a function, and its domain is the positive integers.
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  38246.  @philippschmitz1787  Nicely said. Math either is not taught, or is taught really badly.
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  38247.  @shanejohnson587  It is not an equation but a function, where the domain is the positive integers. And it has two parts. (Apply 3x +1 to all odd outputs, x/2 to all even outputs).
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  38248.  @existenceisillusion6528  Looks to me like Philipp can do math and you can . . . Argue about stuff, in the usual trash talkin' style. Oh well.
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  38249.  @existenceisillusion6528  No, theorems are not "the result of a proof." There are some good books on the philosophy of mathematics you might want to look at, as you don't seem to fully appreciate the positions you are taking with respect to mathematical objects and their relations. It seems you may be inadvertently saying something other than, or more than, what you mean. I don't know why you cast aspersions at Philipp's education, when his posts were spot on and he clearly can do the math. Where have you studied for any substantial length of time where university is tuition-free? What languages do you speak? And do you equate money with "success?" Every mathematician you see here has less money than the C-suite at Facebook, or any other large corporation. McDonald's, WalMart, Uber, Black Rock, etc. I know who I'd trade places with if I had to. In any event, we call the hypothesis of this video a "conjecture" because it has not been proved. But to say that proving it thereby makes it a theorem is a little strange, as it seems to suggest mathematics is invented, not discovered. If this conjecture is true, a lot of mathematicians would say it was always true, and hence was always a theorem of number theory; we just needed to discover exactly why, and satisfy ourselves that it is. (Godel was in that camp, surprisingly enough.) I don't know if you are disagreeing. I can't tell. Scoring points you are not. Interesting fact: when the great state universities in America were nearly free, to the point where a minimum-wage summer job paid for a full year of school, students read more than they do today, and put in longer hours studying. Why is that? The most common major today by far is Business, and has been for decades. Without enough accounting to pass a CPA, that is not a rigorous degree at all. (It sure does demonstrate docility to employers, though.) That is not the usual course of study that you see Europeans embarking on.
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  38250.  @existenceisillusion6528  I don't care. Doesn't matter.
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  38251.  @ruy_mascarua  LOL
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  38252. He can, but the standard of proof is much higher. The story is a matter of public concern now.
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  38253.  @nomad062  Harder to win.
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  38254. 1. Musk didn't do anything to eliminate these assaults on our right to make medical decisions for ourselves. 2. Some of us get our information from public records, including court documents. So, we have a better idea of how EM operates. If I say more . . .
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  38255. It makes sense not to count any ballots before polls close. The interim tally (or a fake interim tally) will be leaked or hacked.
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  38256. ​@colorock07 As a proportion of all babies, there were fewer happy, healthy babies before birth control. This is because having pregnancies too close together is a major reason for infant mortality. It may be the major reason. If you care so much, why don't you know these things?
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  38257. ​ @Joseph_Soars I think the fact that Americans remember the ten-year-old pregnant child who had to leave her state to get immediate care, and rallied around her, is one of the best things I've seen happen. It gives me hope.
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  38258. ​ @joeterzio7175 There are ways to criticize a person's political positions without this scurrilous ad hominem. He sounds like a juvenile delinquent who knows Daddy is good for bail. I've never seen anyone stoop so low. Unbelievable.
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  38259. What a red herring. Who suggests that the shooting of black men by police is driven by animus? It is driven by excessive FEAR.
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  38260. There were several dissents from this opinion on the Colorado Supreme Court. Did you see it? Planning to?
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  38261. This is garbage, and don't tell me it's "leftist." The sin of the left was being too macho, and we all know why.
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  38262. Don't try stand up comedy.
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  38263.  @This_gonna_be_good_I_know_it  No one knows what David Pakman's assessment is.
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  38264.  @This_gonna_be_good_I_know_it  Just found out Pakman claims he has no idea who Aaron Mate is. So . . . He has an "assessment" about which he knows nothing? Well, what's knowing next to feeling . . . you don't have to know to feel. :)
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  38265.  @This_gonna_be_good_I_know_it  Why? Did you just get stiffed?
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  38266.  @This_gonna_be_good_I_know_it  Okay, that was mean. Obviously you got stiffed. Didn't mean to rub it in. You're a progressive. Go on strike or something.
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  38267. LOL, excellent.
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  38268. That can't happen. Speakers require a majority vote. The Dems are the majority, each Dem votes for a Dem or votes "Present." Do the math.
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  38269.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  You're right, they do have to vote for a person. Still requires a majority, i.e., an absolute majority. A Republican cannot win without Democrats crossing over to vote for the Republican, which will not happen. So strike "or" and what follows.
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  38270.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  Still be a plurality, not enough -- assuming more Democrats than Republicans vote. If more Republicans than Democrats were to vote, then your scenario could happen. If every member votes, 218 votes are necessary. To be honest, I don't know if remote voting, which I believe started in May, can be used to elect the Speaker. This is going to be more interesting than I thought.
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  38271.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  No one is trying to make her lose. People are trying to make her work for someone other than her donors during the worst emergency the country has faced since the Roosevelt administration.
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  38272.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  Right. You were correct and I was wrong; (b) is the proper course, and that any other path does risk a Republican Speaker, however unlikely that might be. It could happen. Democrats have to vote for a person, who must be a fellow Dem. Great. Let's do it.
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  38273.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  Taking a larger view, I guess that's not so bad. Either we end the age discrimination in Medicare, like every other civilized society, or US global prestige and hegemony take another hit. What's not to like? /s
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  38274.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  So demand something else from Pelosi that WILL further M4A, in exchange for voting for her. What committee will work on it? What timetable? Since Pelosi says this is her last term as Speaker, she should be GLAD to shepherd some progressive legislation. What does she need from her megadonors now? Everyone knows no universal Medicare creates headwinds for people trying to start a business. What are all the unemployed supposed to do? How do you expect them to wait? M4A isn't EVEN progressive. It is a basic necessity. Not having it makes Americans less competitive in the global economy.
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  38275.  @TheHuxleyAgnostic  Also, to be clear, the risk of anyone but a Dem becoming Speaker is very small. Not zero, but very, very small. Ryan Grim explained this as well. For all practical purposes, it is non-existent. Too many weird things would have to happen.
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  38276. Not me!! 😅😅😅😅
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  38277. How did you go from rationality, and truly the fewest mistakes during the pandemic, to these sorts of mistakes? NATO and anglo-neoliberal-globalism are the things you least need to adopt. They aren't even in line with Swedish ethics and values; they are rogue utilitarian, not Christian, not social democratic, not Kantian. What happened?
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  38278. What part of metal detectors and, where necessary, armed security is lost on you?
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  38279. Okay. If a teacher with a gun asks you out for a date, what do you do? We need some guidance. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  38280. Think about THIS: Breonna Taylor died because a no-knock warrant was issued -- To search FOR DRUGS.
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  38281. Brie will say Trump is right when he is. And she didn't vote for Biden. You hear anything here that's wrong?
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  38282. America has no great intellectuals. Literally none.
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  38283. I always knew who essential workers are. This is a surprise to rich people? They thought they were?
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  38284. First time a Representative stopped carte blanche for UNDECLARED war. And who did it? Matt f@#$% Gaetz!
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  38285.  @richardvalentine9990  Apple and Microsoft execs give money to both parties. They aren't stupid.
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  38286. @Curmudgeon2  I think U of Chicago may be objectively the best. It may not be listed in first place, but I know where I'd want to go. Virginia is still great --- Michigan and Berkeley as well. A top grad from any of those can write their own ticket.
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  38287. People always ask, or have it in their biographies and on the state bar page that lists their licenses. It's not that big of a deal, to lawyers at that level.
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  38288. It's obvious why AOC loves Biden.
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  38289. Who had to? No one had to. Remember the Beslan school seige and massacre? ABC News interviewed the terrorist mastermind of the massacre and gave him a prime time platform -- Nightline. When Russia protested, the US government said "First Amendment." They did not even offer sympathy. But you want to remove elected American Congress members for criticizing a foreign country.😂
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  38290. How could Biden even be president, in light of HUNTER'S corrupt "job" bleeding money out of Ukraine? Trump is their secret pleasure --- he demolished every objective standard or qualification for the office, normalizing every travesty.
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  38291. You mean you actually do not know professors who married their former students? How small is your slice of reality? In any case, they were not HIS students, and they did not meet him in the context of the campus where he had a temporary adjunct position.
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  38292. My first college roommate married her former instructor at the end of the academic year. My parents congratulated them warmly. This was a biracial marriage, in the '70s. I had the best parents.
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  38293. How much did the MSM and governments lie to us about the safety and effectiveness of COVID vaccines? Pfizer consent forms were careful not to say the vaccine was known to halt spread, but then they sponsored the Rachel Maddow show, and Rachel said it.
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  38294. I think it is a conflict of interest, but I tend to view those laws more strictly than most. A typical lawyer will not ask whether representation is forbidden or ethically disfavored -- when a case that could get them a major book deal and make them rich comes along, they ask "how do I get on?" Conflicts are analyzed from the viewpoint of the first case you took. Any case that represents a conflict with that case must be refused, with certain exceptions. Just dropping one of them is not enough; the conflict persists if the first client is in any way jeopardized -- and in this case, something the mother told the attorney in confidence potentially could help Kohberger's defense. It's a tough call, but I expect criminal defense lawyers to volunteer themselves to act as counsel pro bono, so in the end Kohberger will probably opt not to use the public defender's office.
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  38295.  @TheShadowMan.  WRONG
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  38296.  @stellahead  thank you . . . that is right!
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  38297.  @TheShadowMan.  The implication was that a lawyer would take any case. They are like hired assassins, or what?
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  38298.  @deecastle5053  This is incorrect. EVERY lawyer is a professional, and is bound by the same ethics rules, and is responsible for obeying those rules, even if it means disagreeing with a superior in their office, or with a court. It's their duty, and they can't pass it off. I have a California license, and we are trained and tested heavily on PR rules -- or at least we used to be. 2023, don't hold me on it. Refusing a case for personal reasons and refusing a case that represents a bona fide conflict of interest are two different things.
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  38299.  @daniellecruz2917  Agreed. The other person was spouting sophistry.
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  38300. Well. Now we understand the Epstein phenomenon. Okay.
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  38301. ​@Whoknowsme007 All false. Every critical post literally misrepresents what she said. Robby even agreed with her main point.
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  38302.  @Whoknowsme007  You should be worried that bearing false witness is normal now. I mean, unless you're as rich as Ackman. Then you can always buy supporters.
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  38303.  @skywriter9359  Yawn
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  38304.  @bubasmollett8610  Where does the Constitution suggest that? I would say the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments say otherwise.
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  38305.  @darkwingduck4793  Yes. I knew that was bad, too. :/
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  38306.  @pranavdixit6157  For purposes of determining representation in Congress. You're right, in other ways before the Civil War, they didn't count at all.
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  38307.  @jlpowell51  Nothing wrong with it. Can a parent buy one for their fetus? Cool gift.
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  38308.  @MyerShift7  Lots of birth control can induce expulsion of a zygote or a very early embryo. Biology is complicated.
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  38309.  @AD-bb9np  Not with impunity, but I see your point. Pardons can't be prospective, at least.
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  38310. Wait. Is this the Onion?
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  38311.  @TPR-wx1yj  But if it gets Likes on YouTube, then he's an Influencer. Just kidding.
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  38312.  @mitchyoung93  Exactly. See, for example, Slavery By Another Name, by a Wall Street Journal reporter named Douglas Blackmon. His book started as a WSJ article. We had "separate but equal" for generations. It was only when nearly everyone who had had enslaved grandparents had already died that the US started making progress on equality. The brief on the other side of this case talks about 20th century prejudice against Asians, which has no bearing on the Civil War in any respect. They also claim that whites are by and large the group favored over Asians, not that blacks are. Blacks are barely a double-digit percentage at Harvard, and that includes the children of prominent Africans who are studying in the US, or whose families are recent immigrants to the US. It has zero to do with the civil war.
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  38313. We knew that. BLM/George Floyd as well, Gretchen Whitmer, likewise . . .
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  38314. So, the Constitution doesn't protect my privacy in making some of the most personal, intimate decisions about my body and my health? Why does that notion make me uncomfortable during a pandemic? Hm. I wonder.
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  38315. @Hollyucinogen  I think they are simply discharging tension in a world that feels like it has spun out of control. And it has. There is evidence for that: a very tiny number of very rich control our politics and our courts. There are studies showing that. We are just spectators, trying to keep our own lives on an even keel. Now is a good time to read or reread Glenn Greenwald, With Liberty and Justice for Some.
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  38316.  @Hollyucinogen  Why was my cogent and factual reply _______? Fill in the blank. Get it?
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  38317. @Hollyucinogen  And what makes you think I haven't done "something productive?" How about you? What have you done? In any event, you don't grasp that they have high-powered lawyers? You don't get that? Other lawyers cannot contact them.
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  38318. Nothing to do with Marx. He was a prude.
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  38319. 18:55 Why people like him . . . And yet he contradicts himself (other people do get to say when it's over).
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  38320. Exactly. It's not funny.
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  38321.  @sailingthevic3966  Who watches her? This was my first time this year, and stumbled upon it due to the war.
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  38322. Yes there is evidence.
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  38323. Good God, what IS happening in Germany??
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  38324.  @Sushiphu  That was GREAT, thanks!
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  38325.  @allenbuning9094  Socrates said the same thing. I guess the phenomenon isn't . . . new?
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  38326.  @Cas8228  Honey, my family is from one of those places the US bombed with DU, and Americans can't find on the map. So you really don't have to tell me that no one's got my back . . . I've lived it, in nearly every workplace, government office, etc. During a recent emergency room visit (first in decades) for a possible allergic reaction, several people interrogated sharply me as to why I was awake at 3 am. "What was I doing up?" Talk about fascism! Anyway, apology accepted.
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  38327.  @Cas8228  Nor do you get irony. You're not alone.
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  38328. 💯 If he's staying out of prison, there's a reason.
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  38329. ​@BishopVampire69 Oh that made sense.
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  38330. ​@cplmpcocptcl6306 There most certainly is a measure of free speech in public schools. See Tinker v. Des Moines. You don't shed your constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door.
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  38331. ​ @cantthinkofaname750  "Hate speech," so-called, is legal.
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  38332. ​ @itzhexen0 Math exists for bragging rights and oppressing others?? Don't tell Prime Newtons. 😂
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  38333. @Mrs.Deanna_Ember  Blocked
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  38334.  Star Dust  James Baldwin described the phenomenon perfectly, when he moved to Europe a short time after the war. He met some of the worst racists he ever crossed paths with -- the kind of people who said the wrong side won the war -- but he never met a single white person. He finally came to the conclusion that "whites" only existed in the US. I know that no longer makes sense to people. When you read his nonfiction works, you see what he means.
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  38335. 5:30 😂😂😂 yeah, those were the days . . . WERE
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  38336. Five years ago, he could have. Crazy times.
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  38337. The very first person on the panel who spoke was mostly correct.
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  38338. ​@buisyman "Children?" College students are adults. Well, maybe your 20 year old is a basement dweller and you do his laundry . . .
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  38339. Posted here because couldn't there: One thing I can say about the people who revile RFK Jr. as an anti-vaccination, anti-science "conspiracy theorist," is that they misunderstand who Mr. Kennedy is, and what his role is. He is a preeminent TORT lawyer, one of the best in history. Zealous tort lawyers tend to overstate a case, because they present the facts selectively, and in the light most favorable to their case. THAT IS THEIR ROLE. That is what advocacy and zeal mean. That is who you pray to have on your side. He's not a doctor, to give you advice. He is the person to ask about what can go wrong, and he can inform you about the most rare problems. He will never dismiss or silence any victim. He can tell you EXACTLY what to ask your own doctor, and what answers not to accept. Censored at the other video.
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  38340. Things are working out for Hunter. Things are working out for Nancy.
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  38341. Human bites are dangerous. Halloween never allowed you to assault other kids in any form.
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  38342. There is also research on people who decided to get vaccinated, and those who took vitamin D with the vaccines had a better response. This article says so, too. That just goes to show how much of a snake Fauci is.
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  38343. Crazy that this couple is hate bombed, and no one has a problem with Charles or Andrew.
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  38344. She could have actually been joking. People in that state of mind do. She was in an abnormal psychological state, totally divorced from reality.
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  38345. @@mimibabe2334 Agree wholeheartedly. :/
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  38346.  @rhondasisco-cleveland2665  I know. And there was a week for her to get help. If only a psychiatrist could have told her, if you engage with anyone to do them harm, you will be tied to them for life. Get away and close the door. Don't let anyone tell them where you went. Then after calming down, if you decide to report what they did to you, see a lawyer and seek justice. Lawsuits have an end date, and suing can actually protect you, since the other party cannot legally talk to you but only to your attorney.
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  38347.  @myahill7475  You're an exceptional person. You have to wonder who throws away a career for that. She really did need help.
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  38348. Or plant some bad actors to sabotage their press office.
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  38349. 5:34 THIS is what is most infuriating. 7:24 Unbelievable! The most odious!
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  38350. Can a doctor be forced to perform elective abortion? Can you be forced to pay for it?
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  38351. We don't know the extent of Joe's involvement yet. There is some evidence of illegal kickbacks, among other things.
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  38352. As far as the election is concerned, however, I pretty much agree.
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  38353. @artemisjuno  Remarkable how many of us agree with her entirely, and feel the same way. I'm . . . shocked. 😄 Happy.
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  38354. @johnbarnes-c9q  Well, but I believe everyone who can work, and needs to or wants to, should have a job they can do. No special merit needed.
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  38355. Northwestern
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  38356.  @vulcanh254  No leftist thinks like this. Jimmy is a leftist.
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  38357.  @vulcanh254  Well, those of us with roots in other countries see it differently. You know who opposes vaccine mandates and vaccine passports in France? LFI and PCF. That's the hard left and the Communists. America has no left. It has a bunch of trendy neolib insatiable monstrosities who enjoy finding new ways to emotionally abuse 80 to 90% of their fellow citizens, because they themselves are an utter mess.
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  38358.  @YouTuberr285  No. The plaintiff goes first, with their case in chief. They have to prove defamation and prove damages. They must carry the burden of proof. All of the defense attorneys' questioning you see of plaintiff's witnesses is cross examination of opposing (or hostile) witnesses. The RULES permit cross examination to be rather harsh, since it was the plaintiff who dragged the defendant into court.
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  38359.  @shavonne4831  Media is misleading you, AGAIN.
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  38360. @Bright-It  He's a hero because he believed he was about to die, and by all appearances, their submarine was doomed. Had it not been for that, I'd agree with you.
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  38361. So let me see if I understand: if a "perfectly fine and noble" person is attacked on social media by Bad Actors, the DNC abandons them? Yup, sounds about right. 😂
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  38362. Jimmy. You're very gracious, but that's really bad writing. She's much better on discrete issues.
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  38363.  @jamestoney6599  He was on a public street carrying a gun he wasn't supposed to have on that public street. I'd like more attention paid to whoever gave it to him, then was "mysteriously" nowhere to be found when things got hot. The kid could have easily been killed.
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  38364. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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  38365. No, it was valuable.
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  38366. 1. How well established is the flu vaccine, and for how long has it been in use in children? 2. What technology do the COVID vaccines use, compared with flu vaccines? 3. How dangerous is the flu to children?
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  38367.  @easternundergroundsounds6977  Not available in the US, not evident it is necessary for children. Look up the Norwegian ministry of health recommendation. They do not recommend any COVID vaccine for children under 16, or administer it at all under age 12. Also, no mandates for anyone.
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  38368.  @easternundergroundsounds6977  I was looking everywhere for Johnson and Johnson/Janssen. Could not find it. Then it got pulled for a period of time. Boosters at 6 months, evidence of waning immunity after 3 months, and after TWO doses, the second of which causes significant reactions in most people? Something is wrong with this picture.
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  38369. Read Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic -- from 2010. It's about the epidemic of mental illness, brought to you in part by the big pharmaceutical corporations. SAME PLAYBOOK.
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  38370. I'd like to know the truth about the relative "safety" (i.e., relative RISK) of Sputnik V. I am not holding my breath to find out.
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  38371.  @christopherrobinson7541  I knew this was a bad idea from the start. I would never, ever knowingly take anything prepared that way.
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  38372. Start by not believing this nonsense. You think these people's children and nieces and nephews won't go to college, the most prestigious ones they can get into? Oh yes they will. As maverick journalist Whitney Webb always says, don't listen to what people say. Watch what they do. That's called critical thinking.
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  38373. ​ @jeffreyg607 That you fall for these two grifters shows education is sorely needed. Before Reagan, a kid could earn a full year of in-state tuition at all the great public universities, from Michigan to Virginia to U of Texas. That has been categorically impossible for two generations. It wasn't "Marxists" (or Russians, or Chinese) who put an end to that. Also, the most common major for decades has been Business. Do you think that's an education? If you don't take pure economics and finance, calculus, and enough accounting to pass the CPA, that is a worthless degree. These are people who graduate without being able to write properly and who never read.
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  38374. ​ @leskobrandon691  You don't "believe" Elon Musk and Bill Gates went to college? 🤔 Why don't you . . . look it up? You could do that, right? You know how the search engine thingy works? More important: do you think they got where they did either through exceptional family connections, or government contracts and subsidies, or both? You should think so, because they did.
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  38375. ​@Bebetter-ef3yx He's a fast-talking guy with a chipmunk voice who seems oddly obsessed with bizarre culture wars. Making an easy buck I guess.
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  38376. She is London-born.
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  38377. They collect excise taxes. Federal and state taxes on profits cannot be passed on to the end user or consumer on a linear curve, dollar for dollar, if that was what you were trying to say. Sometimes it means corporate bonuses and dividend payments will have to be cut.
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  38378.  @grumpydave7329  Do you understand what he said?
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  38379. And, er, you don't remember all the years Amazon had huge revenues, no profits, and a negative federal tax? Cute. Bezos et al. have zero to worry about. And their drivers don't pee in a bottle. /s
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  38380.  @januarysson5633  So we don't disagree after all!! Excellent. That almost never happens.
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  38381.  @Letsgrababeer  Nope. Read the opinion.
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  38382. After Roe v. Wade was struck down, there is no arguable case to be made. Their courts have immunity anyway.
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  38383. So, is lying a qualification, or a disqualification?
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  38384.  @zuriyel5368  LOL, yup.
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  38385. Explain to me how a billionaire looks poorly nourished and does not take care of his skin. Isn't that simply basic? Who neglects that?
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  38386. No one should be able to jeopardize a child's future reproductive choices.
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  38387. That goes for the anti-abortion zealots, too, sending death threats to the doctor of a 10 year old girl who had to leave her state to be assured of having immediate care. AND claiming the little girl was fake!
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  38388. No he doesn't. Since the pandemic started, Dore made a point to say, "just enjoy the video." They don't ask for Superchats, they simply agree to read them. Not the same.
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  38389. Only one prime number: the even prime.
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  38390. 1:50 YOU think you have something to say? Lord.
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  38391. Depends on the job. Some jobs require people who are not meek. Quite a few do, actually.
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  38392. He cannot be president. He does not meet the constitutional requirements.
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  38393. Wow I had no idea the hyperwealthy worked so hard.
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  38394. That is, sadly, a correct statement of the law.
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  38395.  @rsvy91368  How would you know? If someone saw baby chicks mutilated, why didn't they intervene? I would have.
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  38396.  @jameschristopher3405  People who WORK for the FDA and then move to industry jobs certainly do!
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  38397.  @warrendefienne8824  Listen to Dr. John Abramson on the FDA-Pfizer effort in court to keep the original study data confidential for several generations. This is a court case now, not an anonymous opinion thread. You can find the documents in news accounts or on PACER.
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  38398. @user-cg1qq2er8x  You're right. There is more than one kind of POA, or circumstance where it is used. I wasn't thinking of guardianship, no. For adults, that requires a court appointment.
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  38399. @user-cg1qq2er8x  The OP was describing a POA where the person holding it is making decisions on behalf of the person granting it, not simply fulfilling a ministerial role. Actually, it was ambiguous, because then they described what you do. We should look up California law, tbh.
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  38400. Consult The Guardian about the recent outbreak in London. Live attenuated vaccines are no longer used in developed countries because . . . Check it out. Mainstream.
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  38401. Because we can't find a counterexample and yet we don't know if it's actually true. No one has proved it.
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  38402. This guest wasn't.
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  38403.  @anneb889  Not with deadly force, no. Not unless they themselves are in danger. A nation with a Second Amendment should know about the law. I'm surprised so few do. Signs of decay are everywhere, and not just with kids stealing cars. If only it could stop there.
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  38404.  @Newton14alan  Including in Israel. I don't understand how people don't know.
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  38405.  @toffanful  Are you serious? Have you ever lived with people from the Magreb? Honey blonds are by no means rare.
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  38406.  @codycheek1035  All those people from East European shtetls were "controlling Europe?" Say, I have an idea. Read widely and do your math homework. You can be smart, too. You just have to do it.
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  38407. GOOD Why risk your life and health for billionaires?
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  38408. /s
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  38409. Because those non-Westerners have no intelligence of their own, to alert them, of anything. Ha ha, they are so inept. /s
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  38410. There is overlap.
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  38411. Not according to this talk.
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  38412. Wall Street, on the other hand . . .
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  38413. "Donna" 😂😂😂😂😂 except it's sad
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  38414.  @emmata118  Of COURSE it does. He's a "valuable commodity." This is important information for you: do not let your guard down. Do not assume he's "safe."
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  38415. No, you wake up.
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  38416. That was his father, apparently. There isn't a whole lot there. Most rich people of that generation believe they have superior genes.
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  38417.  @Dangic23  Give me a hint where to look. I know a link might be shadowed (too hard to monitor for TOS).
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  38418. Astute!
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  38419. Exactly
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  38420.  @JayBee-cr8jm  I agree with you about the CDC and its pandemic response, but I'm not sure what you mean about quartering soldiers?
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  38421.  @JayBee-cr8jm  In practical terms, the Fourth Amendment AND the funds/resources with which to hire an attorney.
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  38422. @JayBee-cr8jm  Okay, nevermind. Blocked. Although the government should have taken over payments. Taking of property without just compensation.
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  38423. So, these are Trumptards, eh? Why do so many countries -- France, Germany, Russia, Japan -- have more vaccine hesitancy than the US does?
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  38424. Actually, the vaccination release form that every person who goes in to be vaccinated is given tells you that after reading it, you can refuse vaccination and there will be no change in the healthcare you are entitled to. It says so on the form. Look it up.
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  38425. I got better advice on JOE ROGAN.
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  38426. "Low bar," 😂 Truth
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  38427. Massive sense oar ship here, and over nothing. I know what some of them said. YT is worthless for sharing thoughts now. You see the worst things stay, and reasonable stuff go.
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  38428. Biden counting on everyone in America having a memory as good as his. Not a bad calculation. It's the drugs. Hunter has company.
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  38429. Paper backed with lawyers and guns.
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  38430. 6:22 All right, but would you have believed a Jeffrey Epstein existed? (And that Ghislaine would nevertheless have an isle seat at Chelsea Clinton's wedding?) And . . . Could the pizza parlor story have been a red herring? I don't think so, but it is hardly an irrational conjecture. Similar tactics had been deployed during the Cold War.
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  38431.  @LetsGetitBoah  So . . . the answer is death threats? The answer is a new moral panic? I thought her point about laws that permit a 16 year old to marry with parental "consent" never provoke this level of hysteria, and that we should calmly ask why, is right. These trigger issues, like Lorenz (who is awful) and Libs of Tik Tok (who posted obvious parodies as if they were real, and vilified teachers in general -- see Robbie's radar on how important they actually are) are a diversion. How do they keep getting away with these diversions?
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  38432.  @ashleytheisen6693  Anyone who asks people to step away from titillation and think for a minute will never be popular. You are addicted to the rush of instant condemnation.
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  38433. It's still for his cronies. He's thinking of real estate interests. He wants to see those rents and mortgages paid.
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  38434. ​ @Sleightofhand-m2e Words alone are not "hate crimes."
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  38435.  @vasilyfamilienko4318  What do you mean by "enforcement?"
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  38436. @raxxtv1998  You would love Nadine Strossen's book on "hate speech." She carefully demonstrates how every law designed to limit discussion of those topics, or advocacy of those systems, has backfired big time.
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  38437. Because there is no evidence that the vaccine is preventing infection for more than a very, very short time, and the burden of proof is on the proponent.
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  38438. @texanallday  Oh come off it. That's what acolytes said about Obama. He was a quantum mechanics genius. Allegedly.
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  38439. I don't think we have the evidence to draw that conclusion, but you're certainly right to raise the question. "Cui bono?" In 21st century America, it is never misplaced to ask.
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  38440. The happiness on Dr. Cercek's face is wonderful.
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  38441. When I lived in France, the limit was at late embryo for purely elective abortion. I am no longer sure if that was 10 weeks. The three-doctor panels were willing to consider many things, including mental illness, as reasons for a medically necessary abortion after that. It was a process that required counseling and signing an affidavit. The government paid 70% for elective abortions, 100% for pregnancy. "The French Republic does not believe in abortion solely for financial reasons," or something to that effect, was in the packet of information given to the "mother in distress." (That's what a woman seeking an abortion was called.) The government was socialist at the time, and a few communists were in it as minor ministers, too. 1980s. I think any liberalization made it worse. CHOOSE life -- emphasis on choose.
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  38442. If you're against wars, you're a racist because Obama.
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  38443. Depends on what the contract says. This isn't a game of schoolyard pick up.
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  38444.  @kinghenry238  Is that in the contract?
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  38445.  @kazekagekid  Your conjecture is theoretically possible, but requires a trial. Musk can't just say "fraud!!" He might be right, but if that's what happened, it's HIS burden to prove it to the satisfaction of the court. "Fraud" is not a magic word. P. S. This is true even if Twitter has the initial burden of proof and the ultimate burden of persuasion. Affirmative defenses can't just be asserted with no evidence.
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  38446.  @rjwintl  Nah. Hyperbole is all.
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  38447.  @rjwintl  Abysmal campaign.
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  38448. Did you read the opinion? Megyn didn't, either. 😂
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  38449. 4:50 Wow, and someone thinks these Israelis represent Jews?? WOW. Where to start?
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  38450. ​ @Blurb777  Not necessarily. People used to kidnap babies from maternity wards to raise them as their own.
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  38451. Robbie, the ARTICLE stated no such thing. A libertarian doesn't understand that this is a First Amendment case about a specific article?
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  38452. Please more comedy like this Jimmy. Please. 🤣🤣🤣
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  38453. Then nominated his fixer to the Cabinet.
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  38454.  @arielsanchez465  Say . . . Whatever happened to "multiculturalism?" 😂😂😂 Yesterday's meme, lol and smh.
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  38455. @ThomasFromTN You're right, I did miss that. Excellent observation. Certain people seem to be allergic to learning anything. Now even the Ivy Leaguers among them are trying to talk ordinary people out of sending their kids to the local state college. One of the saddest things has been seeing Democrats imitating Republicans across the board on bullying, ignorance, shutting down legitimate discussions, etc. Scary.
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  38456.  @ThomasFromTN  Oh my goodness, my post agreeing with you is _______. Fill in the blank.
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  38457.  @ThomasFromTN  YT cents or ship has become ridiculous.
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  38458. All someone has to do to gather support for a presidential campaign is to say they are "anti-woke." If I were a cryer, I would start weeping now.
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  38459.  @peterstafford4426  He just said he taught in prisons for roughly two generations. I want to do that.
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  38460.  @peterstafford4426  Wait. You can't understand his accent. Can you?
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  38461.  @peterstafford4426  Thirty-seven years.
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  38462.  @peterstafford4426  Everybody has an accent. Jimmy's is Chicago. (You never had linguistics, have you?)
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  38463.  @bidmcms3  Especially the unemployed, especially the uninsured. F*** "emergency funds." /s
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  38464. So, how does COVID compare to a severe flu? We have never locked down for flu, even when various forms were killing children.
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  38465. big mistake
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  38466. Not anymore . . . . :)
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  38467. OF COURSE. Thank you.
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  38468.  @elizabethsmusicandarts1590  Great point.
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  38469. Your utterly vicious and unwarranted comment betrays the object of your fantasy life. Markle graduated from Northwestern University with a double major. When she started making money, she paid her mother's tuition at USC for a Master's in Social Work. In addition to acting, she learned calligraphy to make extra money before she made in in a television series. Yeah that sounds like a high school dropout sex-obsessed murderer all right. And there are people who agree with you? Wow is this a repressed society. Too bad they can't both move to France or something.
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  38470. The difference between murder and not murder is rather large. No?
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  38471. Wise to delete the diatribe. :)
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  38472. So look at other sources concerning the US and Ukraine. Should anyway.
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  38473.  @briansmith3791  I don't agree. It just so happens that I am reading Murakami's Underground right now, and I have gotten to the part where Aum Shinrikyo followers who did not support the gas attack and had no idea it was being contemplated, much less about to be carried out, get their chance to speak. They tell their stories, and make a far more compelling case for Aum than anyone here has made for Tolle. The first Aum member Murakami interviews is particularly sympathetic, in fact, and Murakami is candid with him that he is furious with Aum and disdainful of anyone who was part of it. They are able to communicate anyway, which is quite impressive. I'm not telling anyone what to think. I know what I think and why, and I am telling you to read Underground and think about it for yourself. Most Americans are far too naive, frankly. One is naive at one's own risk.
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  38474.  @iannaughton9295  is my explanation shadowed?
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  38475. Anyone victimized by smear campaigns shouldn't just take it lying down. They should sue! Not create twitter mobs, not ask major corporations to censor free speech, not beg Congress for new laws that curtail all our freedoms and that we don't need. They SHOULD got to court. That's what you do. Funny that none other than Jimmy Dore is crystal clear on this point.
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  38476. P. S. It sure is their money now. 🤣
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  38477.  @Tj-mb7ch  HA! But making money by tormenting the parents of first graders killed in a school massacre is an honest job! What do you say when the New York Times lies?? It's their money?
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  38478.  @Tj-mb7ch  No. He tormented the families and smeared them. Simply discussing an outlandish conjecture is always protected by the First Amendment. Let's keep it that way. So Alex Jones countered the lying media by telling a bigger lie? And at whose expense? He didn't hurt the MSM, he hurt bereaved parents.
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  38479. Notice how the news always TRICKLES out. Same with Fauci. Same with Bill Gates' relationship with Epstein. Same with Biden's cognitive issues. Same with the vaccines. Those just happen to come to mind instantly.
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  38480. So that's how we get rid of him?
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  38481.  @bl7240  "Protecting him?" From what? I suggest you see Greenwald's analysis of the important issues this incident raises.
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  38482.  @bl7240  So, why did she send that direct message at all? She has a platform, she could merely present the information she believes the public should know. Why did she need to tell Dore she still had his written apology to her from seven years ago? Why did she need to tell him anything? "He's a vicious harasser!!" So, warn the poor, unsuspecting public.
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  38483.  @bl7240  That incident wasn't sexual harassment under the law. It was a crass joke he should not have blurted out, anywhere but especially not at work, and for which he amply apologized, in writing. (Who does that? No one will again.) This was his "punishment" for defending Aaron Mate, for which he deserves praise.
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  38484.  @bl7240  If we should believe all women, should we believe Ana that Jimmy considered her sexier than his own wife? Should we believe in shaming other women's wardrobe malfunctions Howard Stern style? Should we believe Aaron Mate supports gassing children? His own father and grandfather were Holocaust survivors. Just tell me what we need to believe.
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  38485.  @bl7240  I know the law. You're another deliberate time waster. Yes, referring to someone as "running their mouth," and insulting their wife and their marriage, and telling them they better watch out, is a "courtesy!" You should be blocked by every rational person.
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  38486.  @bl7240  I'm female. Ana makes me less safe, because she weaponized MeToo to settle a personal score. And misconduct for which a person can be fired from a job is very, very little. It is not hard to fire anyone who is without contractual protection. The fact that Ana was above Dore and could have had him fired is one more factor that makes this NOT be a Title VII case. You have every right to dislike someone. That doesn't mean different laws should apply to them. Stop the hysteria.
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  38487.  @bl7240  She sent the DM after Dore criticized her for smearing Aaron Mate. This very video right here says so! It starts there.
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  38488. No. It sounds like mentally ill people are being used and abused. Again. It doesn't sound like a vacation to me.
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  38489. Did they, though? A lot of them are rich, and not by earning their money.
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  38490.  @chrisstclair3954  La Riva for me.
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  38491. So . . . We just invent good memes now? 😂
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  38492. When police kill citizens you cannot say you have "no responsibility." That is not the same as assuming collective guilt. There is no such thing as collective guilt. There is such a thing as civic responsibilty. It does have something to do with all of us.
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  38493. LOL
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  38494. This is all entirely true. It is also true that Putin has in large part made grave mistakes. His management of the economy is his only clear success, no small matter. But to expand this war well beyond what it was 2014 to February 2022 and changing its character -- which was already wrong as long as there were other options available -- then failing to bring it to a rapid close, and all this on the heels of a pandemic, in the poorest country in Europe, was and is terrible. I tend to have some sympathy for Putin for the simple reason that the West is led by far worse. Faint praise, though. A tragedy all the way around. A terrible failure so far. War is a last resort. A war of attrition is unconscionable. Destruction of housing stock in any country but especially a poor country is a tragedy, nevermind harming civilians. How easily we accept war!
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  38495. These old news and comedy shows tell you what the standards for president used to be.
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  38496.  @robertmatthews2009  In the Constitution, and in his political writings on the theory of the Constitution.
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  38497.  @robertmatthews2009  You mean you are incapable of reading the Constitution? Up to the Bill of Rights? How is this even possible?
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  38498.  @robertmatthews2009  You are not embarrassed to ask that?
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  38499.  @robertmatthews2009  I don't follow. Can you give an example of where the government does that? As distinct from, for example, taxing earned income to pay for Medicare and Medicaid, or for Social Security pensions and disability payments, or taxing property to pay for education? These are the universal programs the first post mentioned. Great observation. Maybe you could also enlighten us on why any person or group should have their freedom of movement curtailed and their ability to earn a living curtailed by government edict without just compensation for the loss?
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  38500.  @robertmatthews2009  The government can do all sorts of things in a national emergency. It can even draft people into the military, which deprives them of all sorts of rights. It can regulate commerce. Of course it can take property, provided it compensates people for it. It can borrow money to spend on the general welfare, and then collect taxes to pay the interest on those bonds. The first post got it right, basically.
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  38501.  @robertmatthews2009  All of those are subject to reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions. Look it up. This standard has some flexibility in it. Example: In normal times, you cannot hold a prayer meeting in a location that impedes traffic without a permit. You also cannot walk into a public school classroom and start giving a speech, on any topic, no matter how important. A national emergency may change what "reasonable" means. I have an observation for you: whoever is feeding you these talking points is SO not your friend. You need to see that. It could become important really, really soon. The end.
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  38502.  @robertmatthews2009  No one is preventing you from doing that. Anyone who tells you they are is lying to you. No one will be stopped or fined or mistreated in any way for visiting anyone in a private home on Christmas or any other day. Large parties in commercial venues are another matter. Just don't invite the public or charge admission.
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  38503. WE DIDN'T. MUCH TO THE CONTRARY.
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  38504. ​ @neerajchaudhary1821 Yeah, sure. Can you say, VIETNAM?
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  38505. My family were prodigious savers. Then, a series of major blows: including three family members working for companies that committed Enron-type offenses. Then illness, and serious medical malpractice. And then, COVID.
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  38506. @kurtschlarb9762  HOW many people can withstand a $200,000 hit? How about twice? More to the point, should they have to?
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  38507. @Chris_at_Home  You lived modestly? I have a flip phone. And nothing from Apple. When I bought the best Volvo, AWD, I kept it and still have it. It's a 2004, from when Ford owned it. It was my only brand-new car of my life. I don't want more. I do eat organic, though. I cook everything myself to save, but I draw the line at bad food. No way.
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  38508.  @Chris_at_Home  2000 square feet? 1,350 is big, no?
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  38509. @aaronoconnor606  A plan that works for at most 10% of people IS NOT A PLAN, YO.
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  38510.  @thenerdgirl1  For example, I own nothing from Apple and never have, and never eat at McDonald's or any fast food. We're talking trillions lost.
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  38511.  @BOSSDONMAN  someone needs to jeer to ahem harden but it is not working . . . 🤣
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  38512. @phattorangecatto  Pro tip: don't develop cancer before Medicare.
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  38513. @JTSunriseMusic  A few of them did. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, the Clintons, Trump, Bush, the Bidens, Jeffrey Epstein, Jeff Bezos come to mind.
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  38514.  @FarFetchedFlorida  So, the real joy in having money is to one-up someone else.
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  38515.  @patricial.6758  There's always some idiot who jeers and tries to pit people against each other. Making someone else feel small (or trying to) is a national pastime.
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  38516.  @patricial.6758  See? You're not supposed to get sick before Medicare! Why did you go and do that? You should have written in your planner, "Patricia, do not get sick. You can't afford that, so forget about it. Live within your means."
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  38517. I can imagine. It's not easy, but I can do it. /s
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  38518.  @emtee40  What question do you have in mind?
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  38519.  @emtee40  no clue who or what you are, but thanks for letting me know to block you . . . always appreciate cleaning up my thread
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  38520.  @mb-3faze  You really believe this rot? I am for targeted vaccination based on INDIVIDUALIZED health care, always mindful of the three pillars of human health and ethical treatment: the Precautionary Principle, informed consent, and the Hippocratic Oath --- is that what you call "anti-vax?" "Muzzle the loudmouths for the good of the nation" is a totalitarian proposal. What's the point of saving lives, even assuming you will save them and not ruin them, if it is to live without basic human dignity and civil rights? I don't know what our government wants, or what the UK or any of the Five Eyes want; their record is poor and their willingness to jeopardize human health with risky experiments is legend. They serve the major corporations first, and the rest of us as an afterthought, if at all. I have every reason to suspect that reducing the average lifespan is not something they are averse to doing, and I know the US has no plan whatsoever to stem gun violence or youth suicide. I look to the ministries of health in the Scandinavian countries, Switzerland, and even France to see what I should consider doing, not the FDA or the CDC. The Precautionary Principle places the burden of proof of every new drug or other intervention on the proponent, to show that it is safe, effective, and suitable for the individual patient for whom it is being prescribed. We don't have to justify saying no. The burden of proof is not on us. BTW, you heard about the New York case, I hope? Fired workers reinstated with back pay. Is that why you are out of sorts today?
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  38521. You think that because you start with yourself.
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  38522. ​ @yenifa5925  She would have been fired when she stood up for Katie Halper if it were not for the backlash against Katie's firing, plus the fact that she is black AND was Bernie Sander's press secretary for the campaign. See how that works? But you think it's only about race. No. Not close.
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  38523.  @hrs2044  The incentive is that M4A is life-long, no matter what may happen. Health care is supposed to be stable. It's not like, "last time I bought a used Taurus, this time I can afford a BMW." Did you foresee a pandemic this year?
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  38524.    You are not the craziest person on this thread.
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  38525.  @hrs2044  Did you actually not know that a person who has comprehensive insurance at age 65 can usually keep it until they leave that job, and will have a window to sign up for Medicare at that time, after age 65, provided there is no gap in coverage? I don't know that that would work if Medicare were universal, but it is instructive. The program is more flexible than you make it out to be. Well. If every other developed country can do this, but the US can't, I admit that would come as no surprise. That's pretty much the story of America.
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  38526.  @hrs2044  Reasoning never works. Fortunately, no reasoning required. When they lose their insurance for one reason (ha) or another, or their plan keeps changing every other year and denying care they need, or the benefits are tweaked but the cost and deductible soars, then they'll know. For example, my plan was fine, but my deductible went from $350 to $7000 in one year. Don't believe it, have it your way.
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  38527.  @hrs2044  But I agree, America is where optimism goes to die.
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  38528.  @moon_wizard1250  Not only that, but with how younger people have had to struggle, put together gigs, and be nimble, why should they EVER be tied to a job, for healthcare? Why should it be SO hard for them to start their own company, and so risky? Every young person I know wants the chance to start their own business. They know it's hard. They aren't fools. They just want the chance.
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  38529.  @hrs2044  As if the DNC listens to the people. Biden needed a TRUMP to win. Nice work.
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  38530.  @hrs2044  Neoliberal Democrats chose not only a non-M4A candidate, but one who has a two-generations long record of supporting war very strongly. Did America just vote for more war?
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  38531.  @hrs2044  Not a rhetorical question. Americans may not care if their neighbor goes bankrupt due to hospital bills, but they seem to enjoy dropping bombs. So, is that what they voted for? Do tell.
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  38532.  @hrs2044  Actually, I don't. What I do think is that by voting for Biden, in the primaries or the general, no one ratified his prior stance on war and supporting intervention all over the world.
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  38533.  @hrs2044  You just said in another post that liberal Democrats voted for a non-M4A candidate, and that their vote shows there was not massive support for M4A. How do you figure? Did most voters know what Biden's position on Medicare was? Or did they just believe he was a nice guy who could beat Trump?
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  38534. Is it or is it not true that severe, prolonged illness can cause a person to LOSE their job? (ADA, FMLA, etc., protect people who can work from discrimination.) What happens to your health insurance then?
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  38535.  @hrs2044  That doesn't prove people knew Nice Guy Joe was against it. Maybe they thought Joe was more likely to bring about all of these lovely DEMOCRATIC policies. You're not doing too well with this.
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  38536.  @hrs2044  Well, at this point it's evident you have some special interest here, or there is some special pleading involved. Your claim that a vote for Biden is comparable to a referendum against M4A in an election where "who can beat Trump?" was the central issue, eclipsing all others . . .
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  38537.  @hrs2044  So the vote was against "socialist Bernie." The vote was NOT against Medicare for All, which isn't socialist at all. It's a non-means-tested program we already have, expanded to all ages, which would free up more people from deadening jobs, allowing them to start their own businesses, and work for small businesses that can't afford massive benefits. It would be good for entrepreneurs. Glad you see that.
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  38538. The US CDC recognizes the soaring maternal mortality rate, figures finalized through at least 2021. I didn't believe it until I saw it. Soaring.
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  38539. Truth
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  38540. 💯 💯 🎯 THIS
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  38541. Love your comment.
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  38542. By working hard? /s
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  38543.  @ramacass108  Yup. That's the question all right.
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  38544. ​@jerrysmith3517 Have you ever read a single case? Try it. Pick something from the Supreme Court, or from your state supreme court.
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  38545. Or a memory test. When the Beatles and Stones properly credited black music for their success, did anyone have a fit?
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  38546. Groping or any actual touching is serious bullying, I agree.
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  38547. @rjung_ch  Well, there are pressures in two directions, and it all has to do with MONEY. When you marry, your spouse becomes your next of kin, which means they can make decisions about your life when you can't. Who can you trust with that power? Especially with life insurance or other survivor benefits in the mix? On the other hand, the financial security that comes with marriage is still unique. Remember the marriage equity movement? Remember the statistics that show young divorced or never married women with children are the most likely to be impoverished or to fall from middle class status to poverty?
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  38548.  @charlescarter3867  Thank you.
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  38549.  800mEric  So far, since the MARCH lockdowns, we have gotten a grand total of . . . $1800. This is a disgrace. Enhanced unemployment does NOT make up for it, as is evident everywhere. Not everyone profoundly affected qualifies for unemployment benefits. Lord, I know a sole practitioner lawyer with an Ivy undergrad degree who is getting $200 a week (!!) in paycheck protection. This, to maintain his office in his apartment. Absolutely unreal. What is wrong with these idiot politicians? What do they imagine their job to be?
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  38550. So . . . Maybe a candid performance review around November 25 would have been a really great idea, huh?
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  38551.  @socktier6334  Police reports standing alone cannot be used to convict. You know that -- right?
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  38552.  @S2pidMedia  Not always the case. Usually, yes. And that probably should be the law, drawing a bright line like you just did. But it isn't in all instances.
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  38553.  @socktier6334  Prove it. Someone said something to someone, according to an Internet prevaricator with a troll name. I better watch out. /s
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  38554.  @S2pidMedia  I don't at my fingertips, it has been too long, but I have seen cases where the initial approach was certainly not with the intent to kill, and the intent formed in the course of the activity. The right analysis may indeed be what you said -- the perpetrator must have been engaged in some other felony that is dangerous to human life from the start. (I'm going to look for one of these cases, because they are unusual.) Anyway, the law must be specific to be constitutional, but state laws are not uniform, and what is traditionally thought of as "premeditation" is often not required. Or, the requirement is effectively skirted, by saying it can be formed in a matter of seconds, such as in a flash of anger, etc. Premeditation is definitely not the same as "planning."
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  38555.  @S2pidMedia  I think you're right.
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  38556. My cousin's father in law did.
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  38557. @lindaabernathy4876  If I tried to get inside their minds, I'd certainly fail. If I said anything about it, I'd be lying. Given how corrupt Biden and the rest of them are, anything is possible. We should know what's true. We're supposed to know.
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  38558. Any time there is a war to divert attention from, or some horrendous domestic policy, up pops a juicy sex scandal. Never fails. 1. Syria isn't the issue. Dore blurting out one crass comment about a wardrobe malfunction SEVEN YEARS ago (for which he apologized right away) is the issue. 2. The management of COVID in New York, and the needless deaths, aren't the issue. Did Cuomo make women uncomfortable by hitting on them? He says he didn't mean anything by it. 3. Who cares about the extent or motivation of Bill Gates' relationship with Jeffrey Epstein? Did he try to date a Microsoft employee? 4. How crazy are you? How crazy do you think we are?
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  38559. "Afraid to publish books" -- not because of "Marxism," because of MONEY.
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  38560. It was not obvious that the homicide of George Floyd would be charged and tried as such UNTIL the police station was burned down. I'm sorry that was the case.
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  38561. At gunpoint.
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  38562.  @duce7999  I bet you need /SARCASM ALERT!! spelled out for you. I bet you don't love.
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  38563.  @duce7999  How can these words be applied to guns? Do you love or like screwdrivers, hard drives, extension cords? Lumber? Turpentine? Dust cloths? Live bait?
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  38564.  @duce7999  Right. Because you said to "quit this weak stuff and just mandate everyone." Or else? Or else WHAT?
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  38565.  @duce7999  Whatever smear you think best is, of course, Truth. This is how it works.
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  38566. And you deserve whatever you get. It won't stop.
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  38567.  @sandrawilley8374  In California, a 14-year-old pregnant child is presumed a victim of abuse and physicians and other medical personnel are mandated reporters. If they fail to report the abuse, they risk their license. Three times, huh, and no report? That's four years below the age of consent in California, and below the age where they might not prosecute her fellow student when it is "just two high school seniors" involved in this conduct. You're describing a child the age of some of Jeffrey Epstein's victims. This has got to be reported, if people follow laws anymore.
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  38568. You know what else Pfizer did? In the multi-page fine print statement you were supposed to read before consenting to receive the shot, it attenuated its positive claims. But on the television programs Pfizer sponsored, newscasters made HUGE promises -- safe, effective, conferring full immunity, protecting your family, everything. They also greatly berated anyone skeptical of these claims as cowards and worse.
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  38569. In America, they will study better means of persuasion and deception. Be sure of it.
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  38570. Multivariate analysis EDIT: testing lol There are medical websites that removed this term . . . can you believe it?
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  38571.  @gailwendtland5970  You probably signed that away in your admissions papers. They are required by HIPPA to keep it confidential, however.
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  38572.  @Mistmantle88  You have got to be kidding. Meanwhile, the BRICS+ study math . . . :/
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  38573. Ghislaine is spelled with an 'h' to make the 'g' hard. Like gain, gone, gun.
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  38574. "Desanctimonious" was a very sly dig. It calls attention to DeSantis's ethnicity. Trump always knows how to seduce the lowest mentalities. Count on it.
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  38575. The technical reason Social Security is not a Ponzi scheme is that the new dollars coming in are taxes from salaries that generally keep pace with the overall economy (and when they don't, people still in the labor force do have options), whereas the payouts do not keep pace with the overall economy. Social Security benefits are never raised to account for the full impact of inflation. Hence, the benefits depend on the salary you earned pre-inflation, for the rest of your life, and the only sure way to rectify that is to return to work. That's not a Ponzi scheme. What it is dependent on is adequate revenues -- just like police, fire, public education, DOD, DHS, and well-maintained highways.
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  38576. One loss, and the Trump Brand is done. That's how Trump played it.
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  38577. Trump is the one who loved the "loser" taunt. Here it comes for him . . .
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  38578. Why does anyone use GoFundMe, anyway?
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  38579. But he can make an easy buck. At this juncture, expect nothing better.
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  38580. Yup.
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  38581. Read some of the verified complaints filed in court against his companies. At least in court, there is some incentive to tell the truth, and lying is, in principle, illegal. On any media, the incentives go in the opposite direction.
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  38582. @theart7111  Of course there are. That's beside the point. If you had read these, you might know what you're talking about. I think that apart from the craving for heroes to worship that people seem to be stuck on, the fact that the MSM is after Musk on the flimsiest, most ridiculous grounds has people jumping to his defense. The unwarranted criticism they heap on him proves nothing about him either way, it only tells us about the people who stoop to do that. If you find yourself reacting to that sort of thing, pause; the antidote is to ask yourself whether it could be a false flag. You can make a person seem good by hounding them with unfair attacks. We're being played all the time.
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  38583. ​ @JeffCaplan313  💯 ❤
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  38584. In fact, an interim report from Israel to the ICJ is due on Monday, stating whether and how it is complying with the ICJ's directives to protect the Palestinians from genocide. Everyone should read the findings. It's really worth the time.
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  38585.  @Christina-71  Yes. You're absolutely right. Just looking at the subsequent surges proves that. Lockdowns must be very hard, and brief -- under a month. If hard and brief doesn't work, then a lockdown won't work. This incessant half-hearted stuff we have been subjected to has done vastly more harm than good. I am only now recovering from the trauma of these 22 months. Only now. ;/
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  38586. Wow. You should write the next Hamlet.
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  38587. This sounds about right. :)
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  38588. @atomicwedgie8709  Nothing to do with it. Can't find the documents, huh? How new are you to the Internet? 🤣
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  38589.  @Nan-59  You're still in my thoughts. Take care, you, too!
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  38590.  @DorothyJanetoo  I tend to think so, too.
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  38591.  @DragoonBoom  That this was a lazy video about a nonstory -- in stark contrast to what Briahna offers her viewers on a regular basis, for example. If you watched her, I think you'd know.
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  38592.  @DragoonBoom  She interviews people like Cornel West and Eddie Glaude, and other leading thinkers.
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  38593. These are not "evil parents." They are doing the best they know how and need emotional support to help them through this ordeal. How do you know who actually scared them?
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  38594. Well, there is a teacher shortage and there are state universities all over that specialize in teacher education. The one 15 minutes from me is one of the least expensive in the state and has night classes, once weekly for each class.
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  38595. Actually, she doesn't, either, but . . . It's pointless.
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  38596. The trickle of news in the MSM is more sinister than they said -- it is how they get the public used to accepting genocide. In the meantime, dissenting youth find themselves tens of thousands in education debt and their job offers withdrawn. You know why that has the public's attention.
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  38597.  @ll-eb2rt  "Don't throw me in the briar patch, no no no."
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  38598. They were systematically scared into that. If they didn't comply right away, the pressure kept increasing.
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  38599. His legal team cannot speak to why they left. They would lose their law licenses.
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  38600. ​@lmoore6612 She is wrong about the law. You cannot bring a civil rights suit absent exoneration. A vacated verdict is insufficient. The Hill fired the real lawyer.
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  38601. ​​ @lmoore6612 Maybe you should read my post for the real facts. A civil rights suit on these facts will be dismissed if the plaintiffs were not exonerated. It WILL NOT settle, for any amount.
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  38602. No one thought Don Lemon was an intellectual.
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  38603. LOL
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  38604.  @kevinsyd2012  The Oct 23 article you expressly referenced? NO IT DOES NOT. I SAID the vaccines do slow the spread. Finally you concede as much. (I don't care about "narratives." I'll be out of anglophonia and the anglophonies by 2024. Good luck to YOU.)
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  38605.  @kevinsyd2012  Moreover, the fact that these vaccines are so poor at preventing COVID may, perversely enough, end up forcing everyone to get them, as the vaccinated may become a grave danger to the unvaccinated. That's what could happen. I am not optimistic at all about avoiding that development. Say. Did you ever notice how planned obsolescence in manufacturing creates much bigger fortunes than sturdiness of design? Seems to be the case with the vaccines as well. Probably an accident . . . A remarkably lucky accident for Big Pharma. The rich have never gotten richer faster than since March 2020. Lucky accidents again! All the luck seems to be going in one direction, so weird. (Are you one of those people who thinks you've won something by saying "narrative" first? Or are you one of those people who cites an article and actually thinks no one will read it because you didn't? Or both?)
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  38606.  @jamesfranken8676  I think both you and Jared Hall are making interesting, cogent points. So rare! Therefore, please please let's stay civil.
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  38607.  @lukewoodley6932  Don't agree. I support real debate.
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  38608. 💯
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  38609. What is this new hagiography about? This was the rot people used to spout regarding Bill Gates.
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  38610. @nevillegoddard4966  Generations of Indians were and continue to be vegetarian from birth. Their population is not exactly declining. Nor do they lack brainpower, for that matter.
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  38611. ??? She didn't vote for Joe --- or for Hillary. That seems smart and principled to me.
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  38612. THANK YOU
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  38613. One has no bearing on the other. I don't know whether Rittenhouse has filed, or if it's too late. I found this complaint, I'll see whether there's one available for Rittenhouse. Courts with normal, functioning judges treat each case on its own merits.
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  38614. Yeah, but that's MONEY.
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  38615.  @mhicaoidh1  Exactly!! Knives aren't in the Constitution!! /s
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  38616. 6:29 Yup, that is bad. Reminds me of Dostoevsky, The Devils.
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  38617. Exactly. The actual vaccine consent forms and fact sheets never said that.
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  38618. Until the market tanks . . .
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  38619. ​ @sbffsbrarbrr Brie has the same position with respect to Brand and BOTH of these women. Stop the cancelation madness.
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  38620. ​ @sbffsbrarbrr Actually, not quite. She agrees a boycott is within the rights of anyone who chooses to have one. But she thinks all of the allegations and wrongdoing (such as by that university) need to be tested in court, not in these little mobs that keep forming like locust swarms.
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  38621. @fetB  Okay. Could you please explain to me what you think should happen? Sue the university, sue for defamation? Does that sound right to you? I think that's fine. What else should happen?
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  38622. @fetB  Why did I answer you? That's the only question. I don't care. This stuff belongs in court. The woman targeted should be compensated fully, for everything done to her. Don't buy Unilever products. Your money, your right. What else has to happen?
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  38623.  @fetB  Just checked. The Reason magazine story is consistent with Brie's account here. Reason claims that they broke the story in the first place. Go look.
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  38624. @fetB But where was she supposed to get the facts YOU consider to be facts? Where did you get your facts? Now that this is in federal court, we can actually count on some real facts coming out. Brie's account here is consistent with what Reason printed, down to the smallest detail. With a federal case against U of Virginia pending, Brie is not supposed to call anyone a liar. Jeez, this so primitive. The complaint in the case is hard-hitting, a really good read. Bettinger should get her life back after this travesty, all right! Outrage in the comments could not help her out with that. A lawsuit will.
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  38625. @fetB  Well good grief, you go find them. You are really nuts. Where did you get YOUR facts? Were you an investigative journalist on the scene? With this in court, we will all get facts.
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  38626. @fetB  Great, blocking you, forget it. You didn't do ANY research, you wouldn't know the difference between a federal complaint and a supermarket tabloid, and you can't stand being found out. You just want everyone to crank up the outrage meter to 11. Then they are doing the right thing. Isn't that what the activists did to Bettinger? Yeah. It is.
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  38627. @CaroleCouture-xt6qe  I explained to you that with a case pending, Brie is handling this as she should be at the moment. Maybe you didn't do your research? Is that possible? Or that informed people might disagree on how facts should be handled, especially with a case pending? How the University handled the investigation IS an issue in the case. It's a major issue.
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  38628.  @fetB  And where did you get them? I read the magazine that purports to have been first to break the story. I also read the complaint.
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  38629.  @fetB  blocked from my feed
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  38630.  @fetB  Name your sources, I promise to read them. I mean it.
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  38631. Sadly, that is the law. He certainly can remain silent, and being that young, in most states he can request having family present as well. But he has got to assert himself. Now that there is a video of these guys as minors, I hope people realize that they should all have exercised their right to remain silent.
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  38632.  @mikec3971  And if you don't like it, start your own Google.
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  38633. THANK YOU
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  38634.  @deadgolfer6345  Sigh. So, no one can follow an argument with more than one step. Great, wonderful. You just have tropisms. Well, the wokester mob has tropisms, too.
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  38635. Yeah -- for the author!
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  38636. So . . . Shoot her? /s
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  38637. What does Wall Street want? (I thought I'd cut to the chase.)
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  38638. The new rule is be as brazen as possible, then crank it up some more.
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  38639. My mother had an employee stock ownership program where she worked for over 30 years, in addition to a tiny pension that would not feed our cocker spaniel. Then the company she worked for was bought out by BP PLC. We know what happened in the Gulf, and who died, and who suffered financially. We also know who got a new job, forming a hedge fund with a Rothschild, and made vastly more money than he did as CEO with BP. Tony. Tony Hayward did. He also sold off a ton of BP stock a few months before the well blew. Smart move on his part. He's a very hard and smart worker. That proves it. 😉 P. S. Hi, Briahna! I know you know. 👋👋👋
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  38640. Are commentators in the UK and Germany resentful of Musk's influence and looking to smear him?
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  38641. Not surprised by betrayal. Surprised it happened BEFORE the inauguration. Leave it to Biden -- a NEW record.
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  38642. Just the opposite, as everyone knows by now. 😂
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  38643.  @letsbeclear2013  The Lancet and Nature from 2017 and 2018 reported on the fact that the moratorium on gain-of-function research was lifted in 2017. These are scientific/medical journals. Precisely how much money from our taxes went to such research, de facto, before the moratorium was lifted and after, is one more thing we are entitled to know, but don't.
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  38644. Also, note that these articles date from well before the pandemic. That's also important. :/
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  38645.  @obediahpolkinghorniii564  Who is doing that?
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  38646. Evidence?
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  38647. In Asia, adult people masked on mass transit, long before this hysteria. That seems reasonable.
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  38648. Domestic violence. You have your answer.
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  38649. Damn, I am laughing! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  38650. ​@StephenMair Judge Napolitano and RFK Jr too?
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  38651. Okay. So these are the possibilities . . .
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  38652. DNC/MSM owes Trump such a debt of gratitude. It slips out all the time.
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  38653. The fraudulent colleges are off the hook. Those who drew salaries from those schools can never have the money clawed back. The students cannot declare bankruptcy.
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  38654. The only person who prevented people from voting against Trump was Hillary Clinton.
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  38655. For every problem, we are fed more of what created it.
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  38656. ​@docilenation101 Imagine having no notion whatsoever of First Amendment jurisprudence. No, actually, I can't.
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  38657. ​@aidananstey9848 There is nothing "woke" here at all.
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  38658. @Lucille Bollucks Eew, on second thought. 🤣
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  38659.  @ProgrammingNewbie  I agree with those dates. :/
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  38660. If the Russians deny they put bounties on Americans' heads, that just proves they put bounties on Americans' heads. /s
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  38661. Truly appreciate guests like Col. Wilkerson.
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  38662. "The left" in the US is unrecognizable to any normal leftist European. For example, in France, the left lead the effort to make it illegal to ask a minor their COVID vaccine status. (As a result, no one asked anyone anymore, obviously.) This woman is also using the moment for indoctrination. That is a shame, as she is so right about so much. Integrity is lacking across the board. No one misses a moment to push an agenda or make a buck.
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  38663. If Sweden and Finland are admitted into NATO, will Taiwan be "admitted" to PRC?
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  38664.  @17Clovers  Of course. Idiocy triumphant.
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  38665.  @17Clovers  I don't stalk people on current videos based on what they have said in previous videos. I stick to what can be verified here and now. Blocked
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  38666. I would never go to any such demonstration because I am not convinced that there are no anti-Semites present. But the cause of maintaining the rules of war under the Geneva Conventions in every conflict, no matter how it started, is worth fighting for. That includes water to Gaza, not striking hospitals in Gaza, etc. There is zero evidence that most of those demonstrating in WESTERN cities are anti-Semites. Whether the anti-Semites who are there are taking advantage of the protests, and using the honest protestors as a cover, is a different matter. They are, or at least they are trying to. That's why I wouldn't go.
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  38667.  @polyseed12  Pfft. "Grifter" is the new word. Did you know how to talk before that meme arrived?
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  38668.  @donnyj5805  And you're going to say who needs to be "weeded out," eh? No wonder we have amnesty for Assange, Snowden, Manning, and a progressive president now. /s
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  38669. Was the "new job" of our national security state to protect the jobs of people like Hunter Biden, and much bigger players who are unknown to us? (Not to harp on Hunter and his cohorts, he's a small player.)
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  38670. Listen to this excuse: fast pivot to politicization. SHAME!!
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  38671. Depends on how she's wrong.
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  38672.  @Paradox8823  Why? They are. Would you have wanted to start life as a forced pregnancy? And a forced adoption? Or just the forced pregnancy?
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  38673.  @Paradox8823  If my mother had been forced to bear me? Of course I'd prefer not to have existed. We're European.
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  38674. @TerryTerryTerry  You think I don't know 1/6 and the George Floyd protests both involved provocateurs, for example? Lol.
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  38675. @carlsanders7824  I'm being scents erred. What part of my responses are suppressed is a mystery to you?
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  38676.  @TerryTerryTerry  Oh! Another deep thinker!! What you should be worried about is that CNN just did a piece supporting a blatantly unconstitutional bill Congress passed that they all must know violates the First Amendment on its face, and their reasoning was, if Marjorie Taylor Greene opposes it, it must be good. In other words, your logic.
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  38677. @TerryTerryTerry  Wait, that law wouldn't bother you. You clearly have no problem with censorship when you think it's to your benefit. Of course it never is, but . . . Being a deep thinker and all . . .
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  38678.  @TerryTerryTerry  What you should be worried about is that CNN just did a piece supporting a blatantly unconstitutional bill Congress passed that they all must know violates the First Amendment on its face. Their reasoning was that if Marjorie Taylor Greene opposes it, it must be good. In other words, your logic.
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  38679. @mikelivingood7797  Oh, you mean like the law Congress just passed? The blatantly unconstitutional one? Posts about that are _______, too.
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  38680.  @TerryTerryTerry  Funny that you can jeer at me, but if I name four major Supreme Court cases that deal with First Amendment rights, it's nowhere to be seen. What do you think about that?
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  38681. There is no such thing as a "cultural Marxist" and there is no such thing as a "post-modern Marxist." Nor is there any Marxist anywhere who is opposed to science. These are all chimera, and . . . sprinkled with false flags? They function as such.
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  38682. I'm surprised this wasn't removed. When I mentioned that an anti-Hit ler post I made, not equivocal, not obscene, was re moved, that post was immediately re moved. LOL
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  38683. Correct --- this has NEVER been done before.
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  38684.  @lenawagenfuehr53  I saw the story about Neuralink torturing primates in animal experiments, if that was what you had in mind. This may even be seriously illegal (if that matters, to them).
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  38685.  @rneedham667  WOW, super insight!!
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  38686. Read the story of Afeni Shakur.
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  38687. You wonder why kids don't study. Seriously, why?
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  38688. Actually, she describes how she was gaslit by the CDC. Listen closely to the whole thing. She got vaccinated to protect her grandma. She clearly knows, now, that that was bull.
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  38689. THANK YOU. Finally!!!!!! A sensible position! I am SO done with this garbage. Of course her license should be pulled. (A formal reprimand, noted in perpetuity next to her registration, would satisfy me at this point. I'm afraid she'll just get away with it, as usual, and laugh all the way to the bank.)
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  38690.  @scoobertmcruppert2915  Thank you!! The commentator analyzing her segment does an excellent job of marshaling the all the relevant facts, then hits Krystal with superfluous ad hominem. The facts speak for themselves. Of course she was wrong -- but now let's see what the Biden administration does. If nothing happens to Trump over this, then you know how his actions are really perceived by the power structure.
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  38691. Incorrect, and you know it. This was debunked in another thread. The study pertains to ALL Americans, not "adult" Americans, because it is a study of INCOME, not salary. It is not based on "adults," or "labor force," or any other subgroup of all Americans. Hence roughly 70% of Americans are excluded from the global top 10% in income.
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  38692. N. B. I don't fly. I don't eat meat. I drive 5000 miles per year. I use public transit. You're also a bad guesser.
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  38693. I admit I did not see copycats coming. I can't believe it.
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  38694. 3:50 😅😅😅
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  38695. In a recent documentary, Adam Curtis talked about how Putin's intelligence services were doing exactly this -- creating or provoking "movements" where no one knew who was really behind the scenes pulling the strings. Obviously the goal is to undermine all trust. Even more obviously, this technique is being used all around us. This is why Curtis highlights it.
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  38696.  @debbiedogs1  I'm gullible? I've been following the uprisings in Europe for longer than that. In France, the firefighters were already taking the side of demonstrators against police, and protecting them -- and I don't mean just once. This happened before the pandemic, of course. If you think you can rely on Americans, or anyone from the Five Eyes, to be authentically what they seem to be, and not be bribed, well . . . have it your way and good luck.
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  38697.  @debbiedogs1  When did I say Russia was causing any of that? If any Westerner read what I said that way, that says something about them. If I want to know about Russia, all I have to do is to compare the mourners in Moscow for Gorbachev with those in London for the Queen. The English look so much worse that it is shocking, and disturbing to anyone with a heart. I'm saddened, truly. That doesn't change the fact that Putin experimented with propaganda exactly as described, and that his experiments did not go unnoticed here. It's the only thing these oligarchs will emulate.
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  38698.  @debbiedogs1  I should have been clear -- Putin experimented with funding movements in Russia proper. Remember how the US co-opted and funded Otpor in Serbia? Some of the young Serbian members of Otpor featured on ABC Nightlight could not manage to hide their smirks. This is the sort of thing I was thinking of. I should remember my audience; most have no clue about it.
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  38699. All of this is dupery. If you let it influence you, your children will have even less ability to compete with elitists' children for jobs. It's just another version of sour grapes. Don't fall for it. Get your child into the very best school you can.
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  38700. Endorsing "Trump colluded with Russia" doesn't involve making a statement, having truth value. It is a loyalty oath.
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  38701. Do you know the words to God Save the King? Look them up. Will kids be punished if they burst out laughing about begging a monarch to reign over them? If not, there may be a case for it.
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  38702. Is it a thing now, that someone tells you to take a drug and you say sure?
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  38703. The DNC Democrats emulate everybody's nightmare BOSS.
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  38704. Unless you were thinking Saudi Arabia? PRC? I don't know. Have you researched it?
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  38705. Question: are trans boys trying to compete with other boys -- in figure skating, diving, or gymnastics, where they might have some advantage? Hmm. WHY NOT?
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  38706.  Clarence Wallace  Trump sure risked a conflagration by assassinating Iranians. You forgot?
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  38707. 12:48 There is Texas. That's a factor.
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  38708. Well, how can we tell what 148 blank pages used to be? They can call it anything.
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  38709. You're correct. You are not a lawyer. EDIT: Wait a second. Did you actually read this complaint? I see no reason to believe so. Did you read someone's account of what the complaint says, instead?
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  38710.  @googleisevil8958  I'm a civil rights lawyer. I thought about it since people in my high school were arrested for demonstrating. I thought about it during the COVID fiasco. I thought about it when George Floyd was murdered. I thought about it when Angela Marsden's bar and grill was shut down. Etc.
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  38711.  @googleisevil8958  I knew Depp v. Heard had serious First Amendment implications that were lost in the righteous outrage and not-so-noble titillation. I know Gabby Petito's family is calling into question the Laundrie's Fifth Amendment right to remain silent. Did you catch all that? "I bet you never once thought about" the First and Fifth Amendments in those cases, when they are staring you in the face . . .
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  38712.  @googleisevil8958  I lived in a country where, at the time, elective abortion was impossible after 12 weeks (embryonic stage, plus two weeks in case the conception date was incorrect), and abortion had to be preceded by a written declaration of "mother in distress" and counseling -- it was never offered that day, on demand. Pregnancy expenses were paid 100%, including a clothing allowance; abortion at only 70%. After 12 weeks, a three-person panel had to approve, but it was humane. No seriously mentally ill woman at 15 weeks would be denied, for example, nor a woman beaten by the father of the baby well before viability. No one thought a woman should be put through a pregnancy like that. No one. It was the best abortion law I know of. I wonder if they changed it. I suspect they did.
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  38713.  @jstreets1983  🤣 You're right. I missed that part.
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  38714. Maybe as many as half are Jewish. A large proportion in any case.
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  38715. Listening to Scott Adams now, he is thinks Trump is the stronger candidate. He is less persuasive by far. He is entertaining, though, if you don't take it to heart. He also goes on a wide tangent against teachers in public education, after complaining that the Democrats are failing to tie their points together. I don't think this election can be predicted. COVID changed everything.
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  38716. BMJ ran a study that suggests vegetarians have lower rates of serious COVID, and urged further study.
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  38717.  @GrahamBarth  Why didn't the Democrats prevent the last nomination? Whose job was that? Did they even try?
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  38718.  @MrBungle4u  You must not listen to Dore with any regularity, then. Sam Seder has taken it upon himself to take down Jimmy Dore for some reason. I don't get it.
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  38719.  @jon9428  Well, if all of that is true, why are you so upset? It should be obvious to everyone.
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  38720.  @MrBungle4u  Okay. And Chris Hedges is crazy to go on his show, as is Max Blumenthal, recently Ro Khanna, etc.
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  38721.  @wvu05  And had the House refused to approve increases to the debt ceiling, etc., or any other legislation that was essential for them to pass, as long as the Senate Republicans pressed ahead with any nomination after early voting had already begun, then what would have happened? Remember Nancy and the arrows in her quiver? (Remember how the Republicans played Obama?) But as it turns out, the only thing Nancy stopped was stimulus. Let's see what happens now, after 8 million more people slipped below the poverty line since July 2020. Bernie is pushing for $2000, as promised in the Georgia runoffs.
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  38722.  @DavidSexton77  We can realistically hope.
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  38723. Are you sure of what it is you are doing? It sounds to me like you might need to find a really intuitive and experienced counselor to figure this out. From what you say, it isn't obvious what you're doing, or that you are causing this. When you see the terrible, criminal side, do you find it hard to walk away, or do you run in the other direction? If you extricate yourself quickly and deftly (they move on, don't stalk you), don't be sure you are doing something that's hard to figure out and stop. You probably can. In fact, I'm sure you can.
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  38724. Every apparently white person in America isn't racist. Some of us have a non-white parent. Some of us worked in majority non-white workplaces. Some of us got bombed with DU by NATO.
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  38725. The left coalition that came out on top in the French parliamentary elections put out a position paper and in the last chapter, a team of accountants run the numbers and explain how the program can be accomplished. It is published in French and then in translation. When they translated it into Japanese, they proudly announced it. Do you notice anyone in the DNC working? (Or the RNC? Occasionally.)
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  38726. So, after this sweet taste of victory . . . Let me guess. AOC is going to push Biden left even harder!
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  38727. Kennedy gives reasons for looking to non-American media and research institutions for unbiased information. The whole world is not controlled by the NIH, CDC, and FDA.
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  38728.  @chance2929  As long as they don't torture some folks . . .
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  38729. ​ @gwopgetta2091 😂😂😂😂 Same to OP.
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  38730. If people look around and see that all the chipped are richer than the naturals, watch them line up to get chipped. This show is over.
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  38731.  @MichaelAronson  Krystal Ball, Katie Halper, and Briahna Joy Gray are grown women. Are you a sexist?
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  38732.  @friday6014  An example of what SHOULD be censored.
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  38733. ​ @kingmasterlord People do this on purpose all the time.
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  38734. ​ @curtevartt9064 Remember, the AI you train with these comments might come around to define you someday.😂😂😂
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  38735. END THE ANTI-DEMOCRATIC SUPER DELEGATES
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  38736. I saw that law. Your statement is not correct. Nor has the law passed. There are several more steps before it becomes the law. Don't get me wrong, I oppose the law. But it is more on the order of an anti-euthanasia measure, to stop charlatans from urging ineffective treatments that could cause a vulnerable person to reject lifesaving care. I am afraid it is too broad for that purpose. But it is not pro-mRNA. France stopped using that. Look it up.
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  38737. ​ @debbieking3442 Inaccurate story. Language/culture barrier.
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  38738. ​ @nikkygovier3783  This law is against assisted dying.
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  38739. @craigfrith7024  Look, I happened to know what the proposed law says. (It is not part of the Code Pénal yet.) I was censored when I explained it. I'm not creating more content for Google, aka Alphabet.
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  38740.  @craigfrith7024  A look around? Lol
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  38741. ​ @Drinkingyoursaltytearsallah That's called an opinion.
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  38742. Not a surprise.
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  38743. Wrong starting point: we have a lot of mass shootings. Far too many happen at school.
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  38744. You can't make the résumé study go away that easily.
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  38745. ​@tangreen7267 How many people not of your race go to your family's weddings and funerals? In life, I've found that tells you the most.
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  38746.  @rogerc23  THIS!
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  38747. Has the new media and virtual "living" caused people to believe we can dream up raw materials?
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  38748.  Bad Dude Corn Pop  Dissing the pregnant people, are we? "Pregnant people" is my favorite. /s
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  38749. I'm so sorry. Saw a heartwarming video on the channel of a mainstream French news magazine called l'Obs of the CGT-organized demonstration of VACCINATED health care workers in support of their unvaccinated colleagues. All the comments were positive and polite, and praised the demonstrators for their humanity. CGT is a hard left labor union, and has actual communists among the leadership. Shocker, I know. "How far we've fallen."
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  38750. At this point, does anyone want to see Biden or Buttigieg?
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  38751. ​ @MrsRitchieBlackmore  😂😂😂 Yup
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  38752. Could you give details?
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  38753. The most common major BY FAR is Business, and has been for 30+ years. What do you think is going on? Do you think everyone suddenly has a passion for Business? No, they study something they don't care about just to have a job. Funny how that does not lead to excellence. Who would have thought? /s
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  38754. Non sequitor of the century.
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  38755.  @abewilcox4560  IOW, people are literally out of their minds now. I don't need Google to see that.
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  38756.  @abewilcox4560  IOW, it should be the same. This is a KID. Does he even have politics? SMH
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  38757.  @abewilcox4560  No. They are literally out of their minds if they apply double standards to deranged gun-toting teenagers, depending on their supposed "politics." Sound familiar?
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  38758.  @abewilcox4560  Does the brat even have a high school diploma?
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  38759. The new populist right under Trump, with some cult of personality characteristics.
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  38760. So tragic. Very brave woman.
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  38761. ​ @korytrevor9597  He was 7 years younger.
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  38762. ​ @somethingsomething8511 Sooo sorry I was cents erred. 😂😂😂😂😂
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  38763. This is completely insane. Rittenhouse is a MINOR. He cannot enter into most contracts, he dropped out of high school, he has never held down a single full-time job. He had NO business whatsoever being in Kenosha, and no business carrying any firearm, anywhere. Look, I don't even support charging and trying him as an adult. He is not fully abled. You truly do not see that? What is WRONG with you?? How can you possibly support a 17-year-old carrying a big 'ole GUN, when we live in the country where Columbine, Sandy Hook, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, and Virginia Tech took place? How disordered can you be?? Ms. Jabali IS correct -- NO other developed country is this far right wing.
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  38764. Moreover, have you seen the charging document? "Self-defense" does not apply as a defense to all of the charges he is facing, and whether it applies to any of them will be determined after a thorough investigation. How conceited can you be to imagine that you know what legal defenses apply, based on watching a few unauthenticated videos? I am quite sincere when I say he should not be tried as an adult. He needs rehabilitation, not decades in jail. Some of the adults egging him on are probably beyond redemption.
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  38765.  @robmorgan1214  I'm not ignorant of any reality. My parents met in a refugee camp, you twit. I speak three languages, and I only hear things this ignorant in English, and exclusively from people who think they're white. (See James Baldwin for the definition, which has nothing to do with "race" and pertains to mentalities. Baldwin met no such "white" people in Europe.) You think you have a right to impose identities on me, and make pronouncements on what I supposedly fear. Look in the mirror. Actually, come to think of it, not everyone considered my father to be "white." He looked like a cross between Puerto Rican and Lebanese.
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  38766.  @robmorgan1214  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/21/2020-is-shattering-gun-violence-records-we-must-act/ https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsr1804754 Time to face reality.
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  38767.  @robmorgan1214  Source?
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  38768.  @robmorgan1214  The only mention I have seen of his father is in this brief report, debunking the baseless rumor that his father was a member of local law enforcement: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/28/viral-image/no-alleged-kenosha-shooters-father-isnt-kenosha-sh/
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  38769.  @robmorgan1214  He is a dropout and has never held a regular, full-time job -- which is no surprise given that he is a minor. His life guard position ended in March, due to the COVID shutdown. This is a troubled KID. If you want to protest something, protest adult charges.
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  38770.  @robmorgan1214  Other countries prevent school shootings pretty well.
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  38771.  @robmorgan1214  You're monolingual. I can tell. LOL g'nite
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  38772.  @robmorgan1214  All the reports say divorced, not dead. Pretty odd, if he is dead. https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2020/08/30/witnesses-detail-kenosha-shooting-seeing-kyle-rittenhouse-protest-jacob-blake-wisconsin-17-year-old/5656907002/
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  38773.  @robmorgan1214  You know so many things. Why have an investigation? Prosecutors should save all their money and just ask you. Any more rumors you want to hashtag or meme?
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  38774.  @robmorgan1214  People who disapprove of minors running around with AR-15s and who believe in careful timelines and investigations, and in not charging any KID as an adult, ever, have lost their collective minds. Got it.
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  38775.  @robmorgan1214  You're the one who stated his father was dead, with no basis. Now you "know" he dropped out due to bullying over his "politics." So, there is only one high school he could go to, and that one violated his rights, and he had no recourse. That's plausuble, sure. All your mistakes go in one direction. Why is that? Do you even know how video is entered into evidence, in a real court? With witness testimony, establishing authenticity and chain of custody. This is not an easy case. They have not even BEGUN to investigate and interrogate everyone who has material evidence. They may drop or downgrade some charges once they do, or perhaps not. Or maybe they should just ask you instead? Ask the right-thinking people.
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  38776.  @robmorgan1214  I'm not "tribal." I plan to emigrate. I don't identify with any "side" here. This is madness in my book. If Kyle ends up president one day, it wouldn't shock me anymore. He'll probably end up rich.
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  38777.  @robmorgan1214  Oh. Sorry. I get it now. I'M a total dirtbag. Great. Don't waste your time on dirtbags.
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  38778.  @robmorgan1214  I didn't "hear" they were divorced, I read it in three places, including a Milwaukee paper that asked a neighbor for comment, and she suggested the three kids in Kyle's family had tough lives.
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  38779. Russia has never used its air power the way the US does ("Shock and Awe"). What you are proposing means no more basic resources for any US allies from Russia.
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  38780. So it took our security forces roughly 20 months to go get our nuclear secrets. An actual spy could have photographed them and sold them countless times.
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  38781. Well, even Trump is better than the DNC. That is where we are. God help us.
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  38782. @RedWing88  Not if it wasn't disruptive to education. But I get your point. In any case, those two you mentioned are very different. One is exclusive, the other is open to interpretation, and at least on its face appears to be inclusive. Have you ever seen the "Choose Life" tee shirts from UK? George Michael featured them in a cute video. That was part of an anti-sui_c_i_de campaign which everyone in Britain recognized. I thought it was cool. (Of course they all knew that it meant something different here.)
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  38783. @babyqueenxo  In any case, if a tee shirt is not disruptive under the Tinker standard, it cannot be censored in public school.
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  38784. @babyqueenxo  If it meets the Tinker standard, it should not be censored. It is legal to wear it. I was simply pointing out that those three phrases are not identical in their scope of meaning. They are not symmetric. Take a linguistics class. You can still find an unbiased one. What does "Choose Life" mean?
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  38785. @babyqueenxo  I can prove to you quite easily that they are not symmetric: did anyone ever think to point out that wlm before the phrase blm became current? Why is that? Not that that matters for First Amendment purposes. There would have to be some truly compelling reason to disallow either one, or to allow one but not the other. On their face, they appear to meet Tinker.
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  38786.  @therealcirclea762  ". . . Like all of you [sic] do" And you think someone else has problems. 🤣
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  38787. Not that it matters. /s
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  38788.  @brandonbath6097  Your commitment is touching and inspiring. If only everyone were like you!
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  38789. I never think that. 😮
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  38790. Is this show just gossip about other media? "Context" is an extremely vague word. "FYI"
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  38791. So, planting a double agent or false flag can upend any investigation of a powerful politician. Cool! Game plan in place.
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  38792. Wow, Christian Smalls beat the owner of the Washington Post!!! Another ovation for Smalls!
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  38793. @OreozBnB Of course there are no alternatives besides letting them go and lethal force -- in a possible fake $20 bill case. This is because in America, we raise creative thinkers.
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  38794. You don't think it implies an admission, though perhaps not agreement in every detail? What she said he did was bad, but to me it's not earthshaking, frankly.
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  38795. ​ @yn5568 She said she doesn't want to be prevented from hiring Italian chefs for an Italian restaurant. Do you think Olive Garden hires chefs? No, those are cooks.
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  38796.  @rustyoak8860  Say! You got my point. Awesome.
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  38797.  @yn5568  Wow. Another genius.
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  38798.  @Calaxt01  How long does the FBI keep files on us?
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  38799. Reminds me of the best story to come out of the college admissions scandal: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/style/jane-buckingham-college-fraud.html?rref=collection%2Fnewseventcollection%2Fcollege-admissions-scandal&action=click&contentCollection=us No one can make this up.
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  38800. "Social media?" If people quote court documents that are public, guess what? You never see that, huh? Weird.
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  38801.  @sayeretjoez9297  To avoid mob justice.
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  38802.  @panayiotou5671  You don't know all the facts he had to weigh.
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  38803. Three minutes in, and I've already spotted outright falsehoods.
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  38804. They were joking around.
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  38805. She's an ignoramus.
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  38806. You're right. There's no point in reading grumpy nasty gloomy icky things about Nice Successful People, especially stuff like this, which could harm your Po$itivity.
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  38807. We have to support feeding this insane war, or be called a Putin Puppet. Just like we had to take a vaccine or be called a Grandma Killer. We had to vote for Jeffrey Epstein's buddy's wife and then Hunter's dad, or else be called a Trumper. Or would that be a Putin Puppet? Arg, go for both.
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  38808. Mean (or average) is informative only when you have a normal distribution. Otherwise, it's almost always misleading.
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  38809. That's right!! Too bad they were so stupid to work all last year during the pandemic, sacrifice themselves and take that risk, just to take care of the sick. Just think, ten grand on the right stock would have turned to $60k, $70k, . . . $100k. They could all go back to school for better jobs. Remember, self-sacrifice is never worth it. Oh! Sorry! You clearly know that. (P. S. Did you work from home?)
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  38810. Who's lying? If I report that Trump states X and X is a lie, or that Trump's lawyers say X and X is a lie, did I just lie? If I report that the White House asserts that the Nordstream pipeline was destroyed by Russian agents, and that turns out to be false, did I lie? If I report that leaders of the DNC believe Trump was elected in 2016 because of Russian state interference in our election, and that turns out to be false, did I lie?
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  38811. I think the stopping, commenting, and replaying is effective.
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  38812. The main character in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter could do that with music.
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  38813. We live under rabid capitalism, you fool.
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  38814. We had the Self-Esteem Movement already, remember? And the worst kids became dangerous.
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  38815. Uh uh. NO one trying to write a Maddow parody would ever come up with this. Sorry. Only Maddow could.
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  38816.  @joesmith4965  Does private charity fund Medicare? Does private charity fund CERN?
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  38817.  @joesmith4965  Give examples. Fundamental flaw of charity: it creates winners and losers, and is never anything a person can feel entitled to, and hence on some level it shames them.
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  38818. The tone of voice of the 911 operator, you know she suspected the bicyclist who found her of some wrongdoing.
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  38819. The CGT (the French hard left labor union) organized a demonstration of vaccinated health care workers in support of the unvaccinated health care workers. The real left everywhere is against mandates. Kim Iversen just had a segment on huge mandate protests all over the world.
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  38820. If Trump is soooo dangerous, strange that they run Biden against him, huh?
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  38821. ​ @dirtbagleftist5412 This is true. In fact, if Hunter had gotten his deal, I think Biden wouldn't be running.
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  38822. Chauvin pled guilty to TWO separate charges in TWO distinct cases of misconduct for which he was charged in the federal indictment.
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  38823. Commercial endorsements 💰💰💰
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  38824.  @Unfamous_Buddha  I would have to re-read her memoirs to know. You?
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  38825.  @Unfamous_Buddha  Nor is she alone. Heard of macular degeneration?
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  38826. @Spirit Unbound Well, if they measure truth by Likes, why would they? We can see in a week whether you're right, depending on the number of Likes.
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  38827.  @Unfamous_Buddha  There was a QWERTY error. Google can tell you what that is.
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  38828.  @Unfamous_Buddha  On the tiny keyboard and very old device I use, which has been damaged and fixed, causing it to be less sensitive? All I can say is don't speak to your kidsthis way, unless drug or alcohol abuse doesn't worry you because "that can't happen to us." I'm not being jokey jokey. We're setting a record every year.
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  38829.  @Unfamous_Buddha  Oh, and LSD! Now I get it! 🤣🤣🤣 Yeesh
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  38830.  @Unfamous_Buddha  I'm not Western. I don't need that stuff. I don't have a drug-shaped hole in me . . .
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  38831. If consciousness has its origins in the fully-functioning brains of living things, and if living things come to exist through the process of evolution, then any purported consciousness that does not arise through evolution should be presumed not to be a consciousness like the one we experience. Don't confuse our direct experience of consciousness with the way we deduce that beings other than ourselves possess consciousness.
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  38832.  @dashx1103  Because that is where sentience and consciousness came from. Because living/nonliving is a real distinction. Because the burden of proof is on you to show otherwise. Speculation about what computers could do is not an argument.
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  38833.  @scottmcloughlin4371  Oh! Feel free to recommend your favorite books on this subject! (I studied ancient philosophy at Paris IV, and the other subspecialties there were not very good at the time. Also did some grad linguistics in a night school near me, for fun.) I was just in an argument with someone else about "information," essentially saying to that person much of what you just did here. Love this stuff. Book list, please.
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  38834. Of course Assange can be extradited now. Biden is in power, so America is a democracy again. /S
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  38835.  @michaeldoe7051  They certainly are for these purposes. You've been to their house? You know about their ethics when they find themselves under stress? You know about their private lives? You're not even supposed to know about their private lives.
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  38836. No one will ever apologize to anyone or give anyone a card or gift. Thanks, Ana! You're a feminist par excellence.
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  38837.  @bobthomas6846  That's the idea of this segment. You produced the right reaction quick. Good job!
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  38838.  @xyzsame4081  I agree with this. The delta variant originated in India. In this context, to pretend that American anti-vaxxers are an issue verges on the ridiculous. The American ruling class who refuse to lift patent protection and ramp up production, and cooperate with ALL other countries, in a pandemic are the problem. Mexico, just next door, has licensed SIX vaccines, with all three technologies available. Do we even have information on the two Chinese vaccines, which are technologically similar to a standard flu shot? Has Sputnik V caused blood clots like Astra-Zeneca or J & J? Start asking real questions, see if you can get answers. Or, let's hate on these sick people. That's always an option. I can't believe how easy it is to manipulate people. It is weird. Media can make people believe anything it wants. (Spelling edit. Hate typos, ugh.)
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  38839.  @bobthomas6846  Of course. This segment is devised to make you furious with the man depicted. (You don't even ask how and why a camera crew was admitted to a hospital, where confidentiality rules are strict. You don't even wonder about that part.) You are supposed to have contempt for him, and blame him. You're not supposed to wonder why India, which as we found out in March 2020 is an essential supplier of medicine to the US, does not have the vaccines it needs. You're not supposed to ask why other countries, including Mexico just to the south, have a wider choice of vaccines than the US. You're supposed to sign that you read the EUA consent forms and fact sheet without reading them. You're not supposed to know what full FDA approval is, or why it matters. (Hint: $$$ access to the 1986 compensation fund for injury) You went straight to saying you hope these morons die, and you GOT THE MOST LIKES!! No argument there, you won. I offered everyone I know who lives alone to go with them to get their shot, and to check in on them. Did you?
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  38840.  @bobthomas6846  I'm very confident because I put in the very hard work to build the mind I have. This is how minds are built. If you were told differently, you were misled. (Also, it's never too late. Find out the life story of Hokusai.)
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  38841.  @Drew7s  Didn't see this, already have you blocked. Will keep it that way. If YOU still don't see that our political leaders and economic overlords who have real power have NOT mobilized to deal with this pandemic (any more than they have to deal with climate change, the unprecedented and ever growing gap between rich and poor and the fragilized global economy, etc.), and instead you obediently blame individuals for their choices, then nothing will persuade you. Black, brown, and poor people are disproportionately unvaccinated. Trump and his family got their shots long ago. Why do you think that happened?
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  38842.  @Drew7s  Never said it would have. The poor guidance on the real need for masks, and the stigmatization of masks by all the players -- including, now, the CDC and various neolibs -- has been a crime.
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  38843.  @Drew7s  Look how THIS good vaccine news was reported: https://youtu.be/zLEiniuTzsU
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  38844.  @bobthomas6846  BTW, I support fast-track FDA approval. That simply means a close analysis of data and an inspection of facilities. There is no reason to delay it. Well, except that there is no reason for people injured by an *approved* vaccine to be denied compensation under the comprehensive program put in place in 1986. Follow the money . . .
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  38845.  @Drew7s  DUH.
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  38846.  @Drew7s  What led to the deaths of people across Europe? Especially in countries where vaccination is high? Are the current statistics on pandemic disease and death in China accurate? IF so, how have they stemmed the tide? Can we adopt some of their measures? Can we learn, and share?
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  38847.  @Drew7s  Watch the PBS video I posted, then get back to me. It's short.
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  38848.  @bobthomas6846  Do whatever you want. Wishing death on others will . . . probably come out exactly as you (say you) want it to. But it won't get people to vaccinate. Your personal struggles are your personal struggles. They are not a basis for adopting political policies. This attitude is an example of the new right to narcissism. I don't know why you support a YouTuber who heaps scorn on the kinds of people you find in your community, and perhaps in your own family. You should resent him, not me. He is not helping. I never allow anyone to disrespect my family or belittle them, no matter what, and I'm telling you to take a deep breath and rethink this. Don't emerge from the pandemic worse than you were. No reason to.
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  38849.  @bobthomas6846  I don't care what you think of me. The United States is not my real home. As is obvious.
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  38850.  @bobthomas6846  Who said anything about MY vaccine status? You're as ideological as the man in the video.
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  38851.  @bobthomas6846  Anyone who feeds this narrative, and makes money on it, IS part of the problem. David is in Canada, and needn't worry about health care and disability. He can pontificate to his heart's content. "Get real." Pfft.
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  38852.  @bobthomas6846  I offered everyone I know who lives alone to go with them to get their shot, and to check in on them. Did you? If not, then I guess you didn't care for the lives of others in the most reasonable way.
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  38853.  Trump Felonius  Joined August 1 to offer us this? I love how this crisis heightened our sense of reverence for life. /s
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  38854.  Trump Felonius  You're the one wishing death on others. What's that about? Did you fail to read my second line? (I happened to like PCF, but that's neither here nor there.)
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  38855.  Trump Felonius  From now on, I report every post that expressly wishes death, on anybody. Period.
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  38856.  Trump Felonius  "I love how this crisis heightened our sense of reverence for life. /s"
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  38857.  Trump Felonius  Also, blocked.
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  38858.  Trump Felonius  Yes I did, LOL. Is your first name your hero, too?
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  38859. Libraries in my town have lots of copies . . . Hope yours do.
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  38860. ​@deadgolfer6345 Sure. You ask for receipts and you place them in a dedicated accordian file. OP is 💯 right. Let's not be drawn into dissing cash.
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  38861. Coolest thing ever.
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  38862. Do you realize what they did to us?
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  38863.  @billwatcheshere  Any of us can click the link to the Australian government website and see for ourselves that AZ was discontinued three weeks ago due to a serious side effect directly attributed to the vaccine: thrombosis with thrombocytopenia (TTS). AZ is no longer in use there, for anyone, for this reason. You are quibbling.
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  38864. There is NO perfectly secure investment, or currency.
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  38865. I hate Nazis, serial killers, and the Manson family, but I have never said -- or thought to say -- they were "non-persons," "absolute nothings."
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  38866. 😅 Feels that way.
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  38867. So, all of you got the Rambouillet treatment? At least you were not subjected to DU.
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  38868. Did you listen to 25:12? About three minutes, a little over. (But keep listening, it's so good.)
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  38869.  @RaquelSantos-hj1mq  I disagree with the law, obviously.
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  38870.  @benc2972  Where did I say that? I liked seeing the Black Panthers armed with modern weapons while inside their headquarters. No complaints from me. You?
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  38871.  @RaquelSantos-hj1mq  I just made it clear to you, I disagree with the law with respect to firearms. Who is questioning putting out a fire? Blocked.
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  38872.  @RaquelSantos-hj1mq  Who said they did? Do you think someone said that? That doing any of those things, and more, means someone can kill you, and you can't defend yourself? Are you okay?
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  38873.  @RaquelSantos-hj1mq  You're arguing with either MSM, or someone you made up, or the voices in your head. The OP was about gun laws. That's what we were talking about.
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  38874.  @benc2972  How is it extreme to say that a person who doesn't have training and a license should not be able to go off his own property (owned or rented) with an AR-15 style rifle strapped to his person? That's extreme? Look up the FOID rules in Illinois, where Rittenhouse lives.
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  38875.  @benc2972  No one is talking about handguns, or CC. Look up the concealed carry test in Texas. Gun laws and gun safety paper test, and a performance test, to show you know when it's loaded and how to shoot straight.
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  38876. But can a fetus bear arms?
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  38877. @Tronald Dump UK acknowledged that she could assert diplomatic immunity at the time. Apparently the law has changed, THANK GOODNESS.
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  38878. @Tronald Dump I don't support a carceral state anywhere.
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  38879. This election was close. She did her job. The rest doesn't matter.
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  38880. Hey, great title!
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  38881. Excellent point.
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  38882. Not a good analogy. They all had to know literature, languages, and very advanced mathematics. Their education was not a joke.
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  38883. ​@yl9154 That's because you had an American education. You know nothing about other peoples.
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  38884. @yl9154  Not really meant as a criticism of you, but just an observation. Anyone who has lived any length of time in any other country is struck by the differences and their perspective shifts dramatically.
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  38885. @julieuk5855  Great thought. You yourself chose location A, the coffee shop. Going where someone you only just met has suggested, and happens to be an environment where there is more objective risk (however small that increase in risk may be), IS location B. Thanks for the reminder!
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  38886. @UnknownUser-j3n  Suave persuasion can be even worse, because you will fail to see it for what it is.
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  38887. "Sociopath" was what caught my attention.
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  38888. 36:10 Designed to prevent a BIG lawsuit.
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  38889.  @robertsimms5861  So you endorse the race to the bottom? Hold them all accountable, no problem. Who cares what the Democrats think, or say, or do? Do the thinking with your own head. Does any of this look right to you?
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  38890.  @robertsimms5861  All right, THIS I cannot and do not disagree with. All those you named have been horrible leaders, some in the same way, others in ways that differ from one another. Trump had to try hard to be worse (in some ways, not all) than this bunch, and he managed to pull it off. What made you think I liked any of them?
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  38891. Didn't a bunch of billionaires just say they were setting aside jobs for Jewish kids? I mean, even if that often correlates with merit? Isn't it illegal?
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  38892. Everyone is imputing something different to her.
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  38893. Who TF is Joe Biden? A public servant.
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  38894. He would never speak on that without examining the documents himself, slowly and carefully. He made a name for himself in uncovering hoaxes.
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  38895. I thought this was 80% fair, for once. Maybe 85%. :)
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  38896. ​@user-he3op5pi6i You're right. Neither of the wars we are funding and massively arming have caused much blowback yet. And those mandates are so yesterday.
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  38897. He needs to stop microdosing hallucinogenics. That might help. Go on a retreat, get away from the screen life . . . Reacquaint himself with trees. Could be hopeless . . .
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  38898. ​@lawrencehubbell9397 wow, I wonder why they did that! 😅
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  38899. So, tell me if I'm wrong about this. Joe Rogan used a medication that has been thoroughly tested in animals.
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  38900. It seems that he is a veteran, as were many of those arrested. The government should be deeply ashamed that VETERANS cannot get the help they need and are treated this way. Of course when someone is in large part responsible for the harm, that person will be extra harsh, in order to shift all blame and let the rest of us know to shut up or we'll be next. BTW, I take 1/6 more seriously than do Glenn or the journalist he's interviewing. But I don't believe in suspending the Bill of Rights over it. The Republic was never in danger, nor was any member of Congress. Not one iota. But we know that now. It wasn't entirely clear then how far they would go.
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  38901. No, it's not a fallacy.
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  38902. 7:52 You don't think Congress should be prohibited from insider trading?
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  38903. "Enormous respect, love and adiration[sic]?" You're worse than Brie at her worst.
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  38904.  @levonandreaskarayan9035  It was a bunch of slogans strung together.
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  38905. Oprah interviewed her and allowed her to promote her book.
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  38906. Don't worry. You have the trans activists taking care of that for you.
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  38907.  @johnv6421  You mean like men, or just pregnant people?
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  38908. What is "this?" Platforms that act like publishers should not have Section 230 immunity. The newspapers don't. The newspapers have First Amendment freedom, which does not cover them for reckless publishing of defamation. But platforms can't be held responsible at all.
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  38909. I appreciate the debt clock.
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  38910. Citation.
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  38911. Or /s ?
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  38912.  @butHomeisNowhere___  It's not sexual harassment. Not legally. It is inappropriate, which is why he apologized. In writing. Get it? So now it can be used against him.
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  38913. His older sister Faith went to one peaceful demonstration because of George Floyd's killing by police, and he's close to his sisters. It's not that tough.
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  38914.  @valerieschiller7658  See The New Yorker article on his family, for example.
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  38915. @Scenic Splash Thank you.
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  38916. Lay out any argument and tell us why it is flawed.
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  38917.  @GodzillaGoesGaga  Modern calculus does not use infinitesimals. Mathematicians saw they were contradictory in standard analysis.
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  38918. Only on the Internet could people argue about mathematics.
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  38919.  @stanbondarev9256  Numberphile! Never, never, never, never, NEVER listen to those jerks. Never. Really. Never.
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  38920.  @ejrupp9555  Yeesh. Believe it or not, Aristotle got tangled up in this. The set of natural numbers, which are in one-to-one correspondence with the digits of the infinite expansion 9.999 . . . , is not being generated somewhere. It is already complete. To say it "goes on forever" is a metaphor. It isn't "going" anywhere. And it is not temporal in that sense, either, as might be thought of as implicit in the metaphor. There is no unfolding through eternity. It simply IS.
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  38921.  @ejrupp9555  You are confusing notation with what the notation refers to. 9.9999 . . . is precisely equal to 10, just as 0.3333 . . . is precisely 1/3. 9.9999 . . . and 10 are equal, as are 0.3333 . . . and 1/3.
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  38922.  @ejrupp9555  I already showed you how you're wrong. You're assuming 9.999 . . . "can never reach 10." It IS 10. All the digits are THERE. They are not waiting for you (or anyone) to pluck them from some netherworld and to write them down or conceive them. They are all there, just like the set of all natural numbers already IS. This is your error. I can't force you to see it.
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  38923.  @ejrupp9555  Read Shadman Shahriar's explanation of why REPEATING DECIMALS are rational numbers. He explains it perfectly.
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  38924.  @ejrupp9555  Infinity is neither rational nor irrational. It is not a number. It is, first of all, a property of certain sets.
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  38925.  @ejrupp9555  There is no such real number. Between any two distinct real numbers there are infinitely many real numbers. Read the first chapter of any decent topology book, or the first few chapters of a real analysis book. You don't need abstract algebra or calculus to understand the initial description of the real number line. Your desire to speculate about it is enough. IOW, you are wrong in interesting ways.
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  38926.  @ejrupp9555  What's the smallest positive real number? (Trick question)
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  38927. I guess you'd have to subtract "the smallest positive real number" from 10 to get . . . Oh wait.
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  38928.  @Chris-5318  This is why most teachers quit within five years.
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  38929.  @ejrupp9555  There isn't a largest real number between any two real numbers. Nor a smallest. If a, b are any two real numbers, a < b, there are infinitely many real numbers r such that a < r < b. It's kind of like a one-dimensional fractal, the very same structure repeats on every interval.
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  38930.  @ejrupp9555  I think you need to read some math books. The way you formulate these questions is naive. I don't know what you mean by making up a number or getting to a number. Do you think the natural numbers stop somewhere? If it would take too long to write a number (the earth would end long before anyone or any group could write or recite all the zeros in a googleplex), does that number somehow not exist the way 28 exists? If I can write it 10^(10^100) have I just "gotten to it?"
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  38931.  @ejrupp9555  I just did, by indicating the sum of an infinite series. Sorry if you don't like them. I'll never understand. No different from using N as a symbol for the natural numbers. That is infinite in precisely the SAME way, perfect one-to-one correspondence. In fact, the elements of N are the exponents of the 1/10. I think you're just goofing around. Divide successive integers by 9 and see whacha get.
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  38932.  @ejrupp9555  You know, you're not benign. I'm perfectly serious when I say this is why teachers quit. Anyone who can do this math isn't going to be teaching your kids. OTOH, teaching is a respected profession in many, many places. Basically all, except, well . . . N. B. The dots indicate ellipsis, not an infinite sequence. I know you think this is funny, but I assure you it's not. Not anymore.
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  38933.  @ejrupp9555  Say. I have an idea. Why don't you produce an/the "infinitesimal" between 9.99999 . . . and 10.
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  38934.  @ejrupp9555  Sorry, this is not coherent. But it does point up the problem with the whole notion of "infinitesimals" -- namely, they blink in and out of existence. Your description of an asymptote is like the difference between open and closed intervals on the real number line. Both [a, b] and [a, b) have the same supremum. The first interval contains its supremum, the second does not. The existence of the second interval does not have any bearing on the possibility of the first. TAKE A TOPOLOGY CLASS.
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  38935.  @ejrupp9555  Read a topology book. Infinitesimals do not play any role in standard analysis, none. Absolutely none. Not even a wee bit. And the analogy between asymptotes and open intervals on the real number line was lost on you. The sum of the infinite series 9/10 + 9/100 + ... + 9/10^n + ... really does exist and really is 1. You are thinking of the sequence of partial sums, every one of which is less than one (but not "infinitesimally" less; on the contrary, less to a precise number we can calculate), and you are pretending that that is all that can exist. I'm sorry, but that is wrong. It's like saying open intervals "prove" closed intervals cannot exist. But suit yourself. No one is paying me to post. I'm done now.
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  38936.  @ejrupp9555  In fact, I'm giving you too much credit. Most of what you said is not just wrong but muddled. For example, your first statement after the question mark is not coherent.
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  38937.  @ejrupp9555  "If 10 were an asymptote" -- except that it isn't. Like, whatever. There are uncountably infinitely many real numbers between 10 and (10 minus epsilon), for any epsilon.
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  38938.  @ejrupp9555  Actually, I did a thesis on this for a master's in Ancient Philosophy of Mathematics. In Paris.
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  38939.  @ejrupp9555  Don't believe me, LOL!
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  38940.  @ejrupp9555  The least upper bound of y is 10. No number less than 10 is in the set of upper bounds of y.
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  38941.  @ejrupp9555  Why don't you actually want to know things? The real math is more fun than your ersatz version.
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  38942.  @ejrupp9555  I gave you that answer a long time ago. There is no such number. Just like there is no set of all sets. Of course it is simple English. If it were not well defined, we could not say, as we can, definitively, that it does not exist. Look, I understand. YOU can't get to these numbers. I can. I thought mathematics consisted of universal truths. Turns out it's just another part of lived experience. Hope you'll have more luck in the future.
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  38943.  @ejrupp9555  Oh, BTW. Blocked and muted.
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  38944.  @ejrupp9555  Sure I can. 1/11 = 0.090909 . . . 10/11 = 0.909090 . . . Rational numbers are closed with respect to addition. Hence 9.99999 . . . = (9 + 1/11 + 10/11) = 10.
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  38945.  @stanbondarev9256  Then you don't know what transcendental numbers are. Pick up Ivan Niven's book, Numbers: Rational and Irrational (Random House, 1961). Not exactly new stuff.
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  38946. @Vorraboms They keep confusing the series with the sequence of its partial sums. The partial sums tend toward the limit. The entire sequence IS equal to its limit. The entire series does not have to be "generated;" it is already there. If it were not, we could not produce its partial sums, of which there are as many as there are positive integers. The 9s in 0.9999 . . . are all already there.
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  38947. Brie has made it clear that she did NOT vote for Biden.
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  38948. Notice how the hero who stopped the attack is being ignored?? Rich Fierro, say his name.
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  38949.  @leonardhughes5461  Thanks for the post. Please be kind to her. She is family and is not well. I mean this straight and serious.
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  38950.  @maneprisekeller355  What guys are those?
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  38951. I wish she had decided it wasn't true. And what if it wasn't, after all? Denial has its uses.
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  38952. Newsflash: the EEOC has come out to say that states cannot arbitrarily reject all requests for a religious exemption. The state mandate does not and cannot invalidate federal employment discrimination laws.
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  38953. I do not support the sentence, and in any event I support suspended sentences, but these guys should do their research. This nurse made no fewer than nine major errors. Warnings were plastered all over the drug. Then, she neglected the patient in obvious distress. Look it up yourself, don't just believe what they tell you. In any case, whenever there is a criminal trial, the state has a very high burden of proof. See what the prosecutors said to persuade the jury. Audi alteram partem.
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  38954. Do you have an opportunity to leave the US?
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  38955. The engineering is astounding. Who builds this? Who designs it? Wow.
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  38956. What scares me is that we wouldn't be able to trust them in the event of a truly serious disease. Very few people had more than a 1% chance of death, but what if we were to have a virus with a 20% fatality rate? And a poor vaccine??
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  38957.  @syourke3  My preferred term. :)
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  38958. @highroller-jq3ix  At RFK Jr's age, musculature is correlated with good health and healthy lifespan. Frailty becomes a problem after age 65 for men. But you are right that a "good build" is not necessarily indicative of good health.
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  38959. @billmoretz8718  That was because of infant and maternal mortality, duh. The human lifespan has been abot 80 years for a long time, provided you reached your first birthday. Sophocles was 90 and still writing. Plato was 80.
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  38960. @billl4977  Good for him. That's more honest than what most rich people do, and they have a lot more to show for it. This dude isn't living in luxury, and he isn't coming after me to force me into my house or to get vaxxed against my will.
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  38961. No, there are idiots this big. Hard to accept, yet true.
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  38962.  @FamilyManMoving  Nothing to do with the constitution with respect to Harvard. Harvard is a private university and can run its admissions pretty much however it wants. (Not so for University of North Carolina, obviously.) What Harvard cannot do is accept public money while doing it. At least, that is the posture of this case. Harvard is arguing that their admissions process fully conforms with existing Supreme Court precedent, which allows limited use of race to meet certain goals, and that that precedent should not be overruled. The other side is expressly asking the Supreme Court to overrule that line of cases. Fascinating argument, actually. The briefs are worth your while if you're interested in this stuff. I'm going to reread them tonight.
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  38963.  @FuddOnFirearms  You don't have a constitutional right to go to Harvard. Harvard is private, so it has First Amendment-protected freedom of association.
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  38964.  @deponensvogel7261  This is a case about federal funding, at least with respect to Harvard. It is not about the 14th Amendment.
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  38965.  @deponensvogel7261  I did, too, and I agree.
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  38966.  @FamilyManMoving  I was struck by the fact that the other side's petition only presented one request -- that the governing precedent allowing for limited use of race in admissions be overturned. Wow! By the way, the lead counsel is from U of Chicago, and he once studied to become an astrophysicist. He does patent law, I believe, in addition to this.
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  38967. @a.wadderphiltyr1559  If your business is small enough, yes, actually. Each of these issues has a federal statute that governs the practice for private actors. It's the government that cannot create any job, benefit, etc., and decide to exclude based on race.
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  38968. But lying is okay now. The proof is everywhere, starting at the top.
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  38969.    "Truth" has been redefined. It means "saying what gets you more money." Trump has been on board with that, though not as blatantly nor as often as the Russiagate grifters.
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  38970. But what if thxy were LGBTQ+? Then what happens?
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  38971.  @mjkittredge  Whx are you to say how sxmeone else identifi(es)?
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  38972. ​ @Inferno361  If he envies them, no.
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  38973. You're an adult. It's your choice. And if this child were to be emancipated, the family court record would be sealed to protect her, and she could live her own life without the whole world voicing an opinion on the details, or taking sides.
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  38974. Well, they aren't leaders, they are celebrities. Joe Biden is one archetype, Kamala another, Hunter Biden a third . . .
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  38975. In ten years, a defamation suit for sure.
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  38976.  @rosesoulis1840  James Baldwin died in France in the 1980s. He was a WRITER.
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  38977. It's so hard to accept how inferior Americans are to other people. Alas, it's true.
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  38978. Reminds me of James Baldwin: " . . . why do you think I WANT to marry your sister?" Why do they think I want to go to their restaurants?
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  38979. Immunity from liability for injuries, full patent protection, and mandates -- even with proof that a vaccine prevents transmission, but certainly without it -- are radically inconsistent. Jonas Salk tested the polio vaccine on himself and declined to pursue patent protection.
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  38980. "Well, there was no fire by my house, so I guess those people must have done something wrong." /s
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  38981. In our state, 13 factually innocent people were on death row, including a farmer who came home to find both of his parents murdered (it was later established that meth dealers did it). Not one, not three, not five -- thirteen. As long as there IS a death penalty, the state will put to death someone who is either completely innocent, or not deserving of death. The state shouldn't have that power.
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  38982. @DukeNukem421 OH THAT'S THE STANDARD! Do tell us more.
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  38983. Why would anyone vote DNC?
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  38984. Do you like the legacy pool?
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  38985. Well, but . . . they're doing fine. I guess I just don't understand your point. /s
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  38986.  @poorthing  Looks like it was his wife's disapproval that became the issue. We would not know otherwise. (See, e.g., NYTimes, WSJ, etc., the generally fawning press but not this time.) Gates has a lot of political power and global influence, and what he decides affects hundreds of millions of people's lives. His judgment is therefore an issue.
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  38987.  Naples Kaching  Widely reported in major newspapers . . . But if you know better . . .
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  38988. Way too young.
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  38989. Not particularly. Probably vastly smarter than AOC, but that's no standard.
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  38990.  @juliotorres3618  I'm not planning to be in America in 2024. My goal is to be gone by then. I voted LaRiva/Peltier in the last election, in person, on election day. I don't care about the Establishment parties in America. They are all warmongering agents of the spy services and the FIRE sector, and their reputations are built on how well they serve their masters. I remember when Biden was caught in so many lies on his resume that all the commentators swore he had lost all hope of ever becoming president. I was still a kid. Times have changed, I guess. You should reread what you wrote and what I wrote. Or, have someone else read it, and ask them to tell you honestly whether you are still sane, or need to talk to someone.
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  38991.  @KRSonbe  With respect to his resume, and his repeated plagiarism. I didn't say Biden was the same or worse in general, although he has been casual with the truth concerning various aspects of the pandemic (promising there would be no vaccine mandates, claiming the vaccines prevent contraction, etc., that sort of thing). Trump never lied on his resume because he had no desire to inflate his academics, and he didn't plagiarize because he didn't think anyone writes better than he does. :D I also wonder about just how much he imposed on women. His reputation while in the Senate was horrible, but back in his day, people thought that was amusing, and even charming. "Randy," they used to call it. By all accounts, Trump was worse.
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  38992.  @KRSonbe  Ha ha.
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  38993.  @KRSonbe  Then consult, for example, Counterpunch, which did a comprehensive review of Biden's political career to date, in 2008, soon after he became Vice President. Or, consult some in-depth articles published around the time of the humiliation of Anita Hill, which Biden in large part orchestrated by declining to call as witnesses women who were prepared to corroborate her testimony. "It was the times." I mean, if this stuff actually interests you. It's not hard to find.
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  38994.  @KRSonbe  Seriously, though, if a person wants to find objective information about DNC stalwarts, they really have to go to material produced before Trump began his run for president. If a person wants to learn about vaccines, they have to consult materials produced before 2020. If they want to understand what is happening in Ukraine, then start in 2021, or better yet, even before the pandemic. Etc. You know what I mean.
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  38995.  @KRSonbe  Therefore it didn't happen. Say, when did he apologize? At a politically opportune moment, or did he risk anything whatsoever by mouthing the words? Did she accept his apology? Hmm. That's awfully facile. You're not going to look up his resume lies, repeated and genuinely bizarre plagiarism (such as plagiarizing items from someone else's biography), the article from 2008, or the ones from the time of the Clarence Thomas hearings? No, huh? Well, he did apologize, so . . . If you go back and READ what I wrote, the POINT was not only what he did to Hill, but what the ambience was at the time he did it, how he treated women, and WHY. That's where you can find information about his reputation concerning how he viewed and treated women during that time. That's what you asked about. Not whether he's truly sorry now.
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  38996.  @KRSonbe  Where did you see this interview? More important, was it prepared for the last election, or did it take place back in the 1990s, contemporaneous with events? You do know that people make calculated, self-serving statements, don't you? Did you expect anyone to say anything different during the 2020 election? To paraphrase Diderot, do you job any old way but always praise the master. 18th century. Not news. I don't recall Hill forgiving him. I seem to recall having read something different, NYTimes, in fact, but I will look it up. She, unlike Biden, is courageous, and not opportunistic. Can the rest of us forgive him? His actions gave us Thomas for life. (You still don't remember the fake resume and plagiarism, by the way?) I can't believe Americans. They pick their heroes from among politicians and billionaires. No wonder you're in the sauce you're in.
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  38997. You should hear Fox these days, and their comments. Maybe have a drink first.
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  38998. THANK YOU. This time, the story is not about dumb memes/tweets.
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  38999. Why aren't people seeing this?
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  39000. Nope, that was the decade of the Civil War. Hanson never served. Military service, like taxes, is for little people.
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  39001. There are no "slander laws."
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  39002. Joe "apologized" -- wrong (nor was there any need). Spotify is operating on the basis of sunken costs -- Noah doesn't know that. "Broken clock" -- that wasn't Joe's point. Holding minority views on matters we didn't have firm evidence about was getting people censored and banned. Now, we have been granted official permission to state them. The lab accident hypothesis had to be hushed up "to protect Asians from racism" -- what a howler! So, we made up a wet market story, and disrespected their dietary customs instead? The lab had American funding. The wet market story was to protect Americans. Of course. (My, how noble!)
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  39003.  @kbean5338  The divorce case has nothing to do with this suit. But it helps Depp if everyone mixes them up, so . . .
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  39004.  @kbean5338  You mentioned $7m.
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  39005.  @BurnLikeAFlame  No. The point is to accuse someone on one very dubious person's word and to try to destroy his livelihood by having YouTube shut him down is not ethical.
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  39006.  @BurnLikeAFlame  Or does that sound pretty good to you?
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  39007.  @BurnLikeAFlame  Of the one joke, of course. There is his written apology. The other incident? Asking where Ana got her blue jeans? Y'know, the part where Ana takes a nasty swipe at Jimmy's wife, which these clowns omitted? It's in the part of Ana's DM that they didn't read. LOL
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  39008.  @BurnLikeAFlame  That joke was inappropriate, and a person can get fired for that. But it does not rise to the level of "sexual harassment" under the law.
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  39009. You've never read a Supreme Court case, I'm guessing. Sotomayor is great.
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  39010. ​@kj-y9y It is true. They are still subject to congressional subpoena and must tell the truth. Anything uncovered that was pardoned can never be prosecuted, but they cannot lie under oath.
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  39011.  @tilleryinnovations592  Duh. Of course I listened. Cat did not transition when she was a minor but in her late twenties. The question let her elaborate on why she is testifying now, and on what basis, concerning prepubescent and early pubescent transitioning, which has suddenly proliferated. I don't see the problem with the question, frankly. I though she gave a good answer, too. Someone who looked up Cat's bio could have found that out, and then attacked The Hill for inviting her "because she didn't transition as a minor!!?!?"
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  39012. You marry someone without knowing their SSN. How?
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  39013. Doesn't this sound like police incompetence? Sounds more like that than a tryst. Could be lots of things.
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  39014. ​ @parkloqi LOL, nicely done
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  39015. ​ @egobrain6826 JFK Jr cares a lot more about chemical pollution. He's right.
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  39016.  @egobrain6826  You will have to prove that up.
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  39017. Anyone who believes this will never, ever hire a depressed person. Then what happens?
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  39018.  @chazontour  Is false dichotomy the new go-to? She just said prisons need more money, for guards first of all. What do you expect to happen when most of these people are released one day? You are naive.
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  39019. Ten trillion seconds is over 317,000 years.
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  39020. It doesn't.
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  39021.  @merryl55  Exactly.
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  39022. Bartle is easy and intuitive. I did beginners calculus with Loomis, then bought other books to do the problems, mostly. Older editions of Bartle include the Cantor set. I think the latest ones don't.
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  39023. If an attorney decides to become a foreign agent and represent foreign governments, they should cease practicing law, meaning representing individuals. If they don't, then they will risk compromising client confidentiality and attorney-client privilege. Laughing off attorney-client privilege, like this report, does is a disgrace. That's not the problem.
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  39024.  @CyranoForever101  By whom? Who gets the power to mandate a drug that has not been FDA approved? Politicians? Bosses? The serious side effects are almost all in women. Let me know when it's all right to be a feminist again.
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  39025. @Danyil Underwood How meme of you!
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  39026. ​ @HarmonixHealing  answered at least twice . . .
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  39027. Also Gorsuch
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  39028. ​@lchpdmq Because it's just a cool opinion . . .
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  39029. Anyone who counts on a mob to rectify the injustice of a mob is worse than a fool.
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  39030. I regret Elon Musk got away with calling a man who helped rescue the kids in the cave "that pedo guy."
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  39031. The agricultural life was physically vastly harder.
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  39032.  @woodstream6137  I didn't know this was legal under ACA!
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  39033. Well, clearly their is more individualism from the standpoint of thinking for oneself and having the courage of one's convictions than you see in the West.
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  39034.  @SerginhoPMoura  Actually, Moscow is Europe's largest city, and one of its most beautiful.
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  39035. ​ @drewdrewson1384  False. Denmark has publicly funded universal health care and no insurance requirement. Some drugs and services require a small copay, so people have the OPTION to buy insurance to cover that.
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  39036. ​​ @drewdrewson1384 "True information will not appear in this space." It gets shadowed immediately.
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  39037. ​ @drewdrewson1384  False
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  39038. You're right. Neera Tanden and Rahm Emanuel both have jobs.
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  39039. Most people will be all right. Don't listen to anyone who claims your life will be shortened; that is nonsense. The problem is that, from everything we are able to glean, the risk-to-benefit ratio for these vaccines was far outside of anything that was considered acceptable for any other vaccine, or any other drug for that matter, since we started keeping records. This is unprecedented. Live super clean. It's not easy, and it's expensive. An anti-inflammatory diet, organic and non-GMO foods, etc., as well as health clubs, yoga, massage, etc., are very expensive. But accept that you very likely need this now. Don't cut corners any more. ;/
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  39040. Sadly, it is a true statement.
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  39041. @ravishankarsrivastava2212  I always follow research done outside the US or other English-speaking countries. I'm sure it's not corrupted.
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  39042.  @ravishankarsrivastava2212  Blocked from feed. Yeesh. Calm down. Target someone else.
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  39043. Read the opinions and you'll know.
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  39044.  @aratosm  Then don't read them. You're an American. Reading is for sissies.
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  39045.  @aratosm  Chief Judge Howard, First Circuit, which affirmed the ruling, was first appointed as a federal prosecutor by the elder Bush, and then as judge by George W. Bush. But never mind. If it feels like he was a "leftist fascist," then that's all that matters. It's true for you.
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  39046.  @aratosm  Which court? The judge who presided over the case in the U. S. Court of Appeals was a Bush appointee and a life-long Republican. You don't even know what you're talking about.
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  39047.  @aratosm  Of course not. They are typically a three-judge panel, and Judge Howard was presiding. Three judges of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit heard this case (it was not heard en banc, which makes sense, since petitioners is asking for an overturn of Supreme Court precedent). At the time the opinion in this case was issued, one of the three who heard oral argument had withdrawn.
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  39048.  @aratosm  If you think you know everything, you'll never learn anything. But that's your right. You have guns and money, which is everything you need to own truth as well. I mean, let's be serious for a minute. Don't think I don't know that, too.
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  39049.  @aratosm  You got your own truth. You won't hear any argument from me. When you got guns and money, you don't need lawyers.
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  39050.  @aratosm  I do?
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  39051. Oooh, against free speech, are we?
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  39052. My deductible was $6000. Thanks, anyway. What do you think ACA is?
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  39053.  @mikeincalifornia  Therefore we have GOT to fight for better. Because what you've described is insane. And it's not health care. Sorry to hear this, BTW. :/
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  39054. Yes you can make the same moral judgment about infants killed in Dresden and infants murdered in the Holocaust, because they are INFANTS.
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  39055. "They may not know" . . . about the emails between Fauci and Collins and others that show they agreed to discount the lab leak hypothesis for political reasons despite the evidence.
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  39056.  @slowginn7712  Who still watches television? Is that, like, a boomer thing?
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  39057. What real candor looks like.
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  39058. Israel isn't responsible for our political woes! The Clinton-dominated DNC, and the ever-present power of money, played the biggest role in that.
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  39059. No one else sees it's FAKE??
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  39060. @tormentfromhell73 I'm sorry they took your bunny. That was mean.
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  39061. @tormentfromhell73  Someone in this picture needs to be CTG's Donkey of the Day --- either the criminal for doing it, or Gutfeld for thinking it's real. If you don't have doubts, . . . STUPID.
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  39062. Notice how universal Medicare would make it easier to start your own business? Republicans should be for this, if they thought about it.
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  39063. You think mega-billionaires are the left? They really have you exactly where they want you.
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  39064. It's called eminent domain. Sure the state can confiscate all bikes. They just got the right to order all health care workers vaccinated with an EUA drug, even if they had COVID and recovered. The Supreme Court said the federal government can refuse to disburse Medicare and Medicaid funds to any hospital that failed to mandate vaccination. So the government did. States can go even farther to mandate vaccines. That's how the big cities lost so many police and firefighters. They blame the demonstrations, but that's at most half the story. Anyway, they did something worse than grabbing your bike.
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  39065. The moral of the story is that Westerners can be so stupid and yet somehow get so rich. Privilege kills.
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  39066. I wish this had shocked me. I envy everyone who is truly shaken by it. You are lucky, you know?
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  39067. Fauci doesn't say get an at-home test before going to a party because there aren't any.
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  39068.  @cassiescornerreviews6884  What is your source for that? First of all, in Switzerland, the definition of full vaccination includes those who had a proven case of COVID and ONE dose of a two-dose vaccine such as Pfizer (source: their ministry of health). Second, all of these countries have restricted the use of certain vaccines to those over 40 or over 50, and no longer recommend vaccination for the young, or boosters for anyone who is not elderly. Then there are also several special measures taken against mandating vaccination. For example, in France, the National Assembly passed a law prohibiting anyone to ask a minor their vaccine status. It is a crime now to ask, much less mandate, a COVID vaccine for anyone under 18. Naturally, this has effectively ended posing the question, or imposing the mandate, on anyone. Then, the EU parliament subjected pharmaceutical executives to some serious questioning, which exposed the flaws in their initial clinical research. I bet you didn't know all that.
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  39069.  @Crosley-1520  This war started in 2014, and has American paw prints all over it. Which is not to justify anything Putin has done since the beginning of 2022.
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  39070.  @HOT_GURL  Bull. She left on priniciple. Or she's being untruthful? I believe her. The video is up, go see it. And it had zero to do with Alex Jones. It was about FAUCI.
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  39071.  @Mawyou  Russiagate" was also an election fraud claim. Should anyone who reported on it be liable for defamation? I don't think so. Did Fox News invent this defamatory claim against Dominion, or simply give the defendants a platform? Think this through.
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  39072. Now trust this social media stuff to report on the war in Ukraine.
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  39073. I found the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut safety report, English language version. You might want to take a peek, to verify. It is always a good idea to go to primary sources to verify anything a politician says.
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  39074. 💯 If the Communists sinned, it was by being macho and intolerant of ordinary diversity in gender expression. Why do we keep getting false history?
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  39075. Why was my post agreeing with this tossed?
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  39076. I love mammals.
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  39077. Jimmy knocks it WAAAAY out of the park.
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  39078. No cheating involved. The left in France is part of the opposition to Macron. Macron's was a new centrist globalist party. French politics has nothing in common with the Anglosphere. Different legal system, too.
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  39079. Following fairly closely, Anya is the FIRST person I've heard to use the correct term, naked short selling. Yes, this is COUNTERFEITING. Within five minutes, we hear the real words. Thank you. That exhale sure felt good.
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  39080. Didn't cross my mind.
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  39081. Nah. This is a performance that worked incredibly well for fundraising.
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  39082.  @BenDover-nl8qk  That's your best shot? That? 🤣🤣🤣🤡🌎
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  39083.  @BenDover-nl8qk  Oh! Thanks! 😍 P. S. Love your screen name. Did you think of it yourself? Are you from Dover, England? How cool is that? English, like the Beatles. Sigh!
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  39084.  @BenDover-nl8qk  Oh, I'm sorry. You need /s to get it. I forgot.
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  39085.  @BenDover-nl8qk  I thought you could spot sarcasm without a road map. My bad.
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  39086.  @BenDover-nl8qk  Uh oh. Decompensated. Okay, I will leave you alone now. Yikes.
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  39087. Let's say that "white people" have "higher IQs." Let's assume so, why not? It's for the sake of argument. What does that prove about you, yourself? I'm really curious to hear your answer.
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  39088. Pro-Palestine demonstrators blocked the Golden Gate Bridge at that hour just yesterday.
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  39089. The Golden Gate Bridge was occupied at that hour.
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  39090.  @braddeal6445  Strange how the problems are not quite the same once you get away from the 5⃣ 👀.
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  39091. They just say it's a deep fake or a conspiracy theory or AI simulation or . . . The list is long.
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  39092. It's called a poison pill in business. Applies to politics much better.
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  39093. @DogTrekker  Did you watch the video? How do you see Brie's support for Palestine to have anything to do with the Democrats? The DNC leaders are arming the Israelis under Likud. If you're going to play Identity Politics, at least learn the names of the chess pieces.
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  39094. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  39095.  @vincewallett  Putin is black.
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  39096. Um, that's a tough argument.
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  39097. I respect that young man so much for speaking out. Courageous.
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  39098. @KHY 001 It's clearly insufficient as a legal definition. Colloquial language is perfectly fine for ordinary discussion. This is grammar policing, just like wokesters do.
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  39099.  @nicwelch  It most certainly does include semi-automatics. That is the key feature.
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  39100.  @nicwelch  Not everyone in the world minds seeing this. You do know about that part, correct? If not, there may be a qualification you lack as well -- a big one, in my opinion, and it's not semantic. Just my opinion.
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  39101.  @scottosborn6193  Thank you.
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  39102. THIS!
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  39103. Between social media and legalized marijuana, they didn't think anyone would remember Buttigieg.
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  39104. What won't people do for money?
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  39105. You're sweet. Now go make some art (music, poetry, etc.).
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  39106.  @tok713  She's an expert because she did the work. But you prefer the liars who say what you like to hear. So, your stance is part of why we are where we are. Work isn't rewarded, and you know it.
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  39107.  @tok713  What do you think a law degree is? What do you think lawyers do? It is one of the great encyclopedic human sciences. How do you think she became the Press Secretary of Bernie Sanders? And do you think she stopped serious study after she got her degree? As for your background, maybe you do know a great deal about economics. More than one psychologist deeply versed in mathematics has won the Nobel Prize in economics. You may be well qualified. She is for sure.
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  39108. Those eyes . . .
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  39109. WIKIPEDIA?? 😅😅😅😅😅 No, that does not merit a real response. I might use it for live links in the footnotes, or celebrity astrology.
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  39110. You compare a brilliant woman like Briahna to the rest of them? You do know why she's gone, correct? The management decided what they wanted us to hear, and it wasn't about _ _ _ _.
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  39111. I just raised some non-rhetorical, entirely sincere questions about Japan and India, both of which had a foundation, and both of which were open to any answers or discussion, or refutation of any facts mentioned. I got censored immediately. Is this all right with people?
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  39112.  @mack1305  Because she is not a monopolist in any event. That is what makes Google different, under the law. Her own spending habits might be virtuous or not, she may be happy to pay more in taxes or not. That is what has no bearing on the issue with Google.
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  39113. That's how you communicate vital information? With clarity? LOL
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  39114.  @HeartDocAndrew  I'm . . . Not incoherent.
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  39115.  @HeartDocAndrew  blocked
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  39116. You and your daughter are on a good road now. This nightmare is ending, you'll see.
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  39117. No, it's optimistic. It usually starts more wars.
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  39118.  @sophiesnuffy2563  You posted this in the wrong thread.
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  39119.  @AndreaWKR  Please look it up. Can't use those words. NYT, Guardian, you can find it in MSM.
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  39120. The problem is that Biden announced extraneous criteria, having no bearing on merit. SO TAKE IT UP WITH BIDEN.
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  39121. @michaelhoule2134  Pfft. I didn't know they admitted preschoolers, or 3rd graders.
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  39122. I guess AOC doesn't believe there's a real pandemic, then. She's just afraid to say it because she sounds like Trump.
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  39123.  @jasonpickett2448  She made it clear she never voted for Biden or Hillary.
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  39124. yeah . . . it's been like this for a long time
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  39125. True. There's also no such thing as a "cultural Marxist."
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  39126. Intriguing title. I will go read that now.
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  39127. See? Someone is already on board. I expected as much.
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  39128. Seth Waxman was the Solicitor General. He argued in front of the Supreme Court countless times and they all know each other well. I'd be shocked if they don't go to the same parties. If you look up the briefs, which the Court always publishes, you'll see no one thinks it's a "slam dunk." The other side is represented by a lawyer who considered becoming an astrophysicist, and almost did. No, I'm not kidding.
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  39129.  @richcook2007  Seth Waxman was Solicitor General. He's in front of the Court all the time. See my other post.
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  39130.  @RS-oq4wu  No you can't, because you forget that at the extremes, everyone suffers prejudice that is unpredictable, especially in circles where the person has clearly the lowest, or the highest, intellectual talents.
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  39131.  @RS-oq4wu  Neither race nor intelligence are genetic or inextricably linked. As for predictive value, what do you think happens to someone with clearly superior intelligence in an unexpected package? Say, a young black man, assuming he lives to grow up? You think everyone welcomes him with open arms? Don't make me laugh. His talents will be his problems, in every group. For example, a black youth with a Master's in mathematics ends up with you as a boss . . . I can predict what will happen.
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  39132. @augis888  If that's what it takes to defeat actual fascism, the actual descendants of Vichy, well then I'm glad they came.
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  39133. What? Their statement reasonably calling for additional studies, given their surprise in finding these mRNA remnants in roughly 10% of the sample, OR their conclusory statement that the study should not be interpreted to contradict the mantra that "the vaccines are safe and effective?" You call that "cherry picking?" I say we do more studies, as Campbell just stated.
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  39134. What "some are saying" is the direct result of what these irresponsible governments have done to us.
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  39135. That grandpa died.
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  39136. Calling it style is generous of you.
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  39137. Why she got the deal . . .
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  39138. Stock photo, chosen for that purpose. Oh is AI going to be fun!
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  39139. There is solid evidence it has in the comorbid over 40 and in people over 75. So take that for what you will.
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  39140. He's ugly.
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  39141.  @daddyleon  No, I'm saying you're pretending to have said something.
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  39142.  @s.n.9485  NO THEY DON'T. You must know nothing about the carceral state. A person with no one on the outside to give them housing can be discharged to the street or charity.
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  39143. Trying to kill someone for Hillary . . . Why does this sound like it may not be the first time?
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  39144.  @ibprofinnope8779  Why doesn't he take a case? See what I said just before this. Another phony.
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  39145. She is? What color?
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  39146. ​ @paulbentley1705  But you've heard of Bessie Coleman?
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  39147.  @sdrc92126  A ton of math video channels are African now.
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  39148.  @sdrc92126  Why would a post about math videos and where they're often from (A f r i _ _) be shad__ed?
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  39149. @sdrc92126  Of course not. They are engineered for flexibility.
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  39150.  @janetamerasinghe7824  "Marxism" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  39151. Either you push a politician, or you pay a politician, or you do not exist for that politician.
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  39152.  @peasant7214  The tests are poor, and asymptomatic or very, very mildly symptomatic COVID-infected people are common (contrary to the stuff they told us about how dangerous and deadly, etc.). Correct use of a high quality mask seems to provide marginal protection of others, so they want you to do that. I checked the CDC, they still recommend the masking, and the employer does not want to end up sued by someone who says "you failed to follow guidelines! You put me in danger!!!" My question is, how did this person end up exposed at work in the first place? Was the employer following guidelines before he or she was exposed?
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  39153.  @thislazylife  I'm not saying they should tell. It's supposed to be confidential. I'm asking whether they knew and failed to carry out the precautions under the guidelines, to protect everyone else.
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  39154.  @ThomasPetitbon-ki5qj  Outstanding organization, I listen to your leaders' videos all the time.
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  39155. Oh, I can think of worse: Pay them for being wrong. Make them rich.
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  39156.  @bsymissy  Exactly why did we go to war with Iraq?
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  39157.  @williamdawes7866  I suggest you watch today's The Hill Rising, and find out what the whole world knows.
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  39158. @Green Grugach Reading Sally Rooney over the past couple of years kept me sane.
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  39159.  @peaceandlove2617  I assume all Americans of either party applaud a war they start or have a chance to enter or gain from. I think they want to see this one prolonged.
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  39160.  @jeffengland2791  Briahna Joy Gray brings much stronger thinkers on her program.
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  39161.  @williamdawes7866  If Victoria Nuland told the truth about the "danger Russia will gain control" of these microbes, in our Department of Defense-funded biolabs, why are WE not demanding inspectors and threatening war, like we did in Iraq? Based on our actions in Iraq, it would stand to reason that we should be the party pushing for inspections.
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  39162.  @parisg3758  Le Pen is monstrous. She is SO obviously stupid that I simply cannot understand her appeal. Nepotism, atavism. That's all. The few things she does almost right (giving a voice to a handful of legitimate concerns), she then proceeds to distort grotesquely. Why does anyone believe her election could improve their lives? Many others clearly could do more, yet are trusted less (!) than she.
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  39163.  @adamh4594  Yes, Maddow used this defense as well. You are entirely correct. They themselves claim always to be entertainers offering opinions. If something matters, I go to the primary sources they rely on. It's always enlightening and surprising.
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  39164.  @viaceslavmikhailovich9825  Note that neither the State Department nor Victoria Nuland has issued a clarification. Note what has happened instead.
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  39165. Since when do you impose mandates for such a flawed drug? Since when?
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  39166. The political leanings of NPR are a matter of public concern as long as they get any tax money. That means you cannot suppress employee speech about its political leanings. The only real issue is whether the employee is disruptive of the workplace. He did not try to disrupt his workplace, he tried to critique it on a matter that the public has a right to talk about. He published on a separate platform as well.
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  39167. P. S. Can't stand Bari Weiss. So this has nothing to do with her.
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  39168. I hadn't noticed, but from what we see, she has impeccable taste. This is my ideal apartment decor.
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  39169. Yes. They'll make money on oil futures.
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  39170. Or her dad will, for her.
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  39171. Extraordinary assertions require clear, unequivocal evidence. No one has produced that yet.
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  39172. A lot of mean people out there.
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  39173.  @alexandrenawordie3565  Your make-believe world includes Walt Disney royals who in real life go after underage girls. So distract yourself with this nonsense.
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  39174.  @usmc_1998  I had something else in mind, but the basic tactic is the same. It's always to gain an advantage.
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  39175. Well, Sam Seder will undoubtedly make a show about Jimmy talking about Joe Rogan, and you know Jimmy. He feels sorry for Sam, anything to help Sam.
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  39176. Why is naked shorting "perfectly legal?" Why isn't it a form of counterfeiting?
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  39177.  @TheNancypoo  He know$ what he mo$t need$ to know.
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  39178. Wow, almost as great as Qaddafi's torture killing, huh, Hillary? -- thought of that, too.
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  39179. In so many pictures, Epstein looks like he's made of rubber. Like a lifelike doll, not a person.
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  39180. Yeah, I was so happy when Trump fired Fauci and pardoned ASSANGE.
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  39181. We can't say a four-letter word. R a c e.
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  39182.  @VincentTroia  None of those things are comparable to forced medical treatment of ANY kind. Medical interventions depend on informed consent. Absent consent, it is considered a battery. My parents were forced to be vaccinated, over and over for the same diseases in some cases, when they were in a refugee camp. You know the saying about how we want our children to do better than their parents did . . . ? Well bravo.
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  39183.  @VincentTroia  WHAT vaccines are already coerced?
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  39184.  @VincentTroia  But you do not have to attend public school, or do military service. Many countries with better public health do not coerce childhood vaccination for admission to school, but strongly urge it, and that has worked. I don't know what will come next, though. It could be changing.
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  39185. I almost did -- if my elderly father had been alive, I would have. My desire to protect him would have blinded me. As it stands, I didn't, and am so happy I didn't. The right thing to do was not obvious, until the Biden administration started turning the screws and violating our right to bodily autonomy. That was a big hint. :/
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  39186.  @tpowell3776  Greenwald just did an excellent analysis of what is important in this incident, and how it relates to the harmful new patterns in media and politics of substituting smears for reasoned rebuttal. He doesn't get into personal issues, and doesn't even mention Kyle. I think you would like it. Well under a hour.
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  39187.  @couldbe8348  Exactly
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  39188. Peterson's definition of racism is nonsense. Racism is an ideology that emerged in the 16th century in Western Europe, which questions whether non-Western Europeans are fully human or a separate species, or inferior ("degenerate") exemplars of the human species. It does not exist in pre-modern European history, and it is not a simple preference for one's own ethnolinguistic group, which is a general tendancy in all social groups. Anyone who reads the ancient Greeks or Latin literature cannot help but be struck by it right away. Or, consider the conquest of the Americas by the Spanish and compare it to the English; you cannot miss the difference. The Spanish were eager to convert the most beautiful Aztec women to Catholicism and marry them. Cultural supremacy? Ethnocentrism? Obviously, and deeper than any that's familiar to us now. Racism? You must be kidding.
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  39189. Trump was such a perfect FBI foil you could almost wonder whether he played that role on purpose. After all, it was his DOJ that pursued Assange. And no one questions the FISA courts now. How perfect! It couldn't have worked better had it been expressly engineered thst way.
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  39190.  @brasshouse-fireball  They don't understand the difference between "legacies are disproportionately white" and "whites are disproportionately legacies." Only the first is true.
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  39191.  @brasshouse-fireball  I'm agreeing with you.
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  39192.  @leos8019  The people attacking Krystal on this particular point. Sorry for the vagueness.
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  39193. Please get in touch with Dr. Chris Palmer. Read his book. His mother suffered from this. But read his book and find his interviews. Please.
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  39194. 2 am? No one alerted him?
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  39195. ​ @DadSavesAmerica  More than half the marriages entered between the ages of 18 and 25 end in divorce, and no, those numbers are not due to multiple divorces.
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  39196. ​ @DadSavesAmerica  "selfish coward" 😂😂😂 smh
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  39197.  @treyreedmd  Self-defense is an affirmative defense. The person who claims it has to assert it.
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  39198.  @SclountDraxxer  Maybe because a man can't be forced to donate a pint of blood to save a pregnant woman and his future child. We would all agree it is reprehensible on his part to refuse. But it's within his rights. We can't force him. We have to persuade him. Women used to be treated that way. Just a short time ago, in fact.
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  39199.  @cht2162  Who reported on Jeffrey Epstein? (Who is following the Maxwell trial now?) These people frequented presidents and royals. Just look at all the people who stood up against the Holocaust, and dropping two atom bombs in three days apart.
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  39200.  @sodone4078  You're not a lawyer. Don't spread misinformation. Someone might believe you and shoot an unarmed kid in the back, fleeing from your house with something they grabbed from an open back door.
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  39201.  @sodone4078  ALL THOSE LAWS pertain to inhabited structures. Self-defense IS OF THE PERSON.
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  39202.  @sodone4078  The first thing out of people's mouths is that "Kyle was defending property." If that were true, he'd be in jail. Kyle was defending his life, and proved that. "Castle doctrine' played absolutely no role in this case by any stretch. Not even a teensy bit.
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  39203. Let us hope it is catastrophic. As an American, I'm no longer sure.
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  39204. Jimmy is disrupting Nancy's chocolate bunker. "Calm down."
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  39205. Selling a fake diamond as real may be criminal fraud.
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  39206.  @daviru02  Well, if he said it was fake and still got $50k, that isn't fraud.
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  39207. @omensoffate  If he got $50k for what he openly acknowledged was a fake diamond, that isn't fraud.
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  39208.  @daviru02  No, dear?
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  39209.  @texasgirl6000  It's a common request in many religions. Orthodox Christian Lent is mostly vegan.
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  39210.  @aidananstey9848  So . . . Did ICE, border patrol, etc., get the e-mail, too? 😂😂😂
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  39211. @aidananstey9848  Oh, so then they can safely pause those emails, just as Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard advised their agencies to do. Cool. No problem.
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  39212.  @aidananstey9848  The Separation of Powers in the United States Constitution. You don't recognize the term? As for Musk, I demand that his citizenship test results be released.
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  39213.  @aidananstey9848  I don't mind Trump at all. I'm BRICS-adjacent, and this is better, or at least less bad, for them. I mean us. Did you think I was a Kamala voter? 😂😂😂
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  39214. ​ @miki_9034 💯 Cults are forming and proliferating at break-neck speed . . .
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  39215. I think it's great.
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  39216.  @PCamron90  Oh it's not certain at all.
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  39217. This is a very good question. I don't think you want an honest answer. You are starving for Hope, Faith, etc. This is what decline looks like.
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  39218. @saprakr  "Uncovered?" This was public information.
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  39219.  @saprakr  Ended up on another thread? That happens.
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  39220. The irony is, she almost certainly would not do time. Very cowardly person.
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  39221. @Star Traveler She still is the most decorated gymnast at Worlds, by far.
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  39222. @Star Traveler "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, not the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all." Ecclesiastes 9:11, King James Version 9:11 . . . Irony!
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  39223. @Star Traveler . . . time and chance happeneth to them ALL. Doesn't matter who.
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  39224. "What do you hope will come from this?" I am sure that what he hopes will happen is not what is likely to happen. I can tell you what WILL happen: very few children whose parents are not loaded, and who cannot afford the very finest private schools, or the very finest public school districts, will have a good education. That's almost here.
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  39225.  @energyscholar  Yes, mass psychosis, like a cult. I have to think long and hard to find another example of such hypocrisy.
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  39226.  @LP-dc7fh  I often get the feeling that they are experimenting with us to see how we react, and to gauge just how far they can push us. I've offered to accompany people who I know live alone to their vaccination appointment, and to go get something to eat or just hang out afterwards, so that they won't be alone for the first few hours after being vaccinated. One of those people denounced me for not supporting mandates. You tell me. I sure don't get it. ;/
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  39227. ​ @BL4CK0UT17  Once a month hits the spot for me. Seems to last 90 minutes on the dot. 😊
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  39228.  @nohbuddy1  You're counting on people not to read. Or understand what they read.
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  39229.  @nohbuddy1  The only white friend I made in this century is a trans woman.
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  39230.  @nohbuddy1  I agree the legislation must be strongly denounced.
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  39231.  @nohbuddy1  Yeah. Whatever. You said I should talk to actual trans people. I said I do. But whatever. See how YOU twist people's words? Are you okay?
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  39232.  @nohbuddy1  Your style of attack is feeding the fascists who push these bigoted laws. No one will dare get involved to denounce them. You really think those right-wing legislators read anything, much less Singal's very long and nuanced article? Ha. Prove that one, it's a doozy.
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  39233. Well, more death is becoming usual. Hence, more than usual is now usual. Simple.
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  39234.  @musicallyassureddestruction  Where did you go to law school?
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  39235.  @musicallyassureddestruction  You just made a clerical error, calling a defendant a plaintiff.
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  39236.  @musicallyassureddestruction  Wrong. Holding the Secretary of the Treasury in contempt under these circumstances would have been a constitutional crisis, but even then, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit would have issued a mandamus to prevent that.
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  39237. Consequences as to what, exactly? To targeted threats or harassment? Certainly. To attending a lawful demonstration in support of Palestine? The First Amendment protects that. Laws against swastikas and cross burning have been struck down as unconstitutional. Repeatedly. In America, you can fly any flag --- or burn it.
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  39238.  FreDDyjewGer-co6cq  Is mine in vi si bled?
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  39239. Bioengineering . . . With massively toxic chemicals and genetically modified plants that can live despite being poisoned. And for ordinary people, do you realize what organics cost? If you can trust them.
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  39240.  @hrs2044  You mean you think only neo-Nazis and white supremacists are losing jobs? You haven't been paying attention. There has been more and more infighting at many major news outlets, and dismissal, over minutiae. As noted, just recently a person who questioned firing someone over the mention, not use, of the n word in an educational context was himself suspended. It's unclear whether he himself used or mentioned that word; most reports I've heard say he did not. I'm not even talking about the initial case, which may have been more egregious than generally reported; I'm talking about being penalized for discussing the case. Blithely saying Slate can fire whomever they want is not responsive. Do you think being fired for racist speech is a small matter? It is generally career-ending. If you agree that racist speech in the workplace is a very serious matter, then it should not be charged when racist speech did not occur. Otherwise, you dilute the principle and undercut the serious nature of a real offense. By analogy, patting someone on the rear at work is disgusting and grounds for immediate termination. It could be grounds for a lawsuit. But it is not rape. Now consider a pat on the shoulder -- is it the same? Please. But there's a bigger principle involved. Journalists and educators work in fields that (we all used to agree) require free and robust discussion in order to do their work properly. You said a teacher could be fired for being a neo-Nazi. All right, that's fine. Is it acceptable to fire a teacher who presents the history of the ACLU in defending a neo-Nazi's free speech and assembly rights to his class, and encourages debate? Could a teacher present the incident that just happened at NYTimes and Slate to his seniors in Modern American History and Civics class and discuss it with them? How about in community college? Would that be all right? What do you think most teachers would do? They wouldn't bother. Use an old textbook, give them a multiple choice test, and take home your paycheck. Done. I think this fight in journalism and at the university is all about the money. These people are jockeying for the few plum positions left in a declining profession. They're not protecting vulnerable people, and I doubt that they care. They're fighting over what's left in an economy that creates a handful very big winners, many losers, and fewer and fewer people in between. They'll use whatever they can to do it, too. There's no focus on ethics here, or civility.
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  39241.  @hrs2044  I see you're still minimizing the letter. It was not just a matter of two members of Congress acting as private citizens and asking some questions, as anyone could do. First, it was sent on Congressional letterhead. Next, it contained a number of pointed accusations, including: ". . . AT&T [and others] plays a major role in the spread of dangerous misinformation that enabled the insurrection of January 6th and hinders our public health response to the current pandemic." Finally, the seven questions were highly intrusive, framed like interrogatories in a lawsuit, and demanded extensive documentation or other materials to substantiate each response; the last question asked whether AT&T and others (a separate letter was sent to each target company) plan to continue hosting Fox, and if so, why. It's now a problem to decide whether to answer such a letter, and how to do it. In the meantime, Trump was again impeached, the House leadership again failed to call witnesses to testify at his Senate trial, and he was again acquitted on a party-line vote. I don't see the necessary changes being accomplished.
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  39242.  @hrs2044  Are Katie Halper and Shahid Buttar also engaged in "fear porn?" How do you figure?
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  39243.  @hrs2044  I see you're using buzz words like "amplify" and "outrage," and evasive talking points made famous by Nancy Pelosi, like "calm down." The next time you get a letter containing such questions and requests for documentation concerning your exercise of constitutional rights, be sure to let us know. When a company gets a letter like this, it's damned if it doesn't respond, and very likely damned if it does. It better not be caught in a "lie."
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  39244.  @hrs2044  You didn't watch Katie's show. I think they did minimize the letter's import. In any case, Buttar is a constitutional lawyer, so HE was equipped to comment intelligently.
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  39245.  @hrs2044  In the meantime, no witnesses were called at either of Trump's impeachment trials. That's called "doing their job" in DC, perhaps? You didn't comment on that part of my post, you just said Katie Halper and Buttar (an accomplished attorney) "work for clicks." I think we all got the lay of the land, as it looks to you at any rate.
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  39246.  @hrs2044  Who's Tucker?
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  39247.  @hrs2044  Shahid Buttar is a Stanford-trained civil rights lawyer who ran against Pelosi in the primary. And for the record, the Supreme Court held in Norwood v. Harrison (1973), that the government “may not induce, encourage or promote private persons to accomplish what it is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish" on its own. So I guess government cannot suggest to AT&T that it censor Fox News. But sure, anyone can write a letter and request information. That's also protected speech.
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  39248.  @hrs2044  I see. More ad hominem. Judging from your posts, you must be someone's sock puppet. I originally wrote sick puppet by accident. Perhaps I should have left it there. So, no analysis from you. Just "you sound like," and then you name some nefarious character.
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  39249.  @hrs2044  Tell me something. Are all Americans alike? Because you make these distinctions (such as between yourself and some Fox panderer) that people on the outside really don't see as being all that great. The combination of hatred and homogeneity could be amusing, if you didn't have so many guns floating around.
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  39250.  @hrs2044  How many opportunities, complete with verbatim quotations from actual documents, did I give you to interact in an intellectually honest manner? Trick question, too many. You launched into ad hominem right out of the gate.
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  39251.  @hrs2044  "censorship hysteria" "fear porn" "nothing to debate" -- posted four days ago!!
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  39252.  @hrs2044  You are all alike. If you spoke other languages and listened to news from outside this country, you'd realize that.
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  39253.  @hrs2044  Correct. The questions are not simple questions, but require very careful work, and attention, to answer with the requested proof. Moreover, they are argumentative questions -- the argument being, if you do not carry all channels, if you do "censor" some, then you have to explain why you don't censor more. They attempt to shift the burden of proof. Censorship does not require an explanation. ABSENCE of censorship requires an explanation now. Hence Question 7. Sorry you missed that. I documented it. You didn't.
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  39254.  @hrs2044  If ad hominem is all you know, I can do that, too. No problem.
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  39255.  @hrs2044  I see. Now you understand why it is so disconcerting for AT&T et al. to be accused of being RESPONSIBLE for the January 6th disgrace -- especially when Trump has yet to be held responsible, for anything. Good! Progress.
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  39256.  @hrs2044  I'm not disputing the facts you keep repeating (well, number 3 is a hypothetical but I think it is a correct statement of the law, as far as that goes). They don't meet my arguments. They are basically beside the point. Let's try this: if you were an AT&T consultant, what would you advise AT&T to do? How should they respond?
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  39257.  @hrs2044  Disingenuous. We had the same discussion in another thread. Mislead much?
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  39258.  @hrs2044  More to the real point, when AT&T or YouTube get letters asking them about hosting Black Lives Matter-produced videos and such, we'll see what you'll say. Fox News has money, BLM doesn't.
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  39259.  @hrs2044  No argument is "based on hyperbole." That's a contradiction. It's also false. Anyway, this is boring now. You haven't had a new thought in days.
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  39260. What is your evidence for that?
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  39261.  @marcothehammer  Of course they do, though they are not called the same thing.
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  39262.  @Bam_Bam_Bam_Bam  FRANCE??? Whoa. Not only is France multiethnic, but it has the highest marriage rate between first generation French immigrants and ethnic French. Yeah, even from Africa.
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  39263. ​@bluebyyou7504 oh no, 😅😅😅😅
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  39264.  @Riverbank290  bull
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  39265. Do we trust the reports from Japan? We have 15 times the death rate of Japan. If we had Japan's rate, our total deaths would be fewer than 50,000, comparable to a severe flu. Are the numbers from Japan accurate? What is Japan doing?
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  39266. She said it didn't go well for Russia and there were other unintended consequences. To me, the contrast means the fall of the USSR was the hoped-for consequence.
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  39267. When no one understands logic, then the show is over. You think logic means agreeing with your feelings.
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  39268.  @btudrus  Agree in part, of course; this is a novel virus. This variant, however, presents much like the flu in a patient. Thank God.
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  39269. He didn't. Watch the entire video. It's misrepresented here, as usual.
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  39270. You think they had to?
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  39271.  @stigrynning  Mine have been taken down, while ad hominem and swearing are allowed to remain. Youtube personalities do not like replies that are more intelligent than their videos. Also, if you post a lot, they don't think, well, some people write fast, believe in the cause, etc. They think you must be a paid actor. I mean, they would never stand for something on principle, for free. (I'm done doing that as well. Not worth it. I have my healthcare.)
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  39272.  Jay M  So the pandemic is a hoax according to you?
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  39273.  Jay M  Easy. You act like health care is not absolutely essential, absolutely right now.
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  39274.  @stigrynning  I'm new to this. I only joined during the initial shutdown this year. I just know they are missing. I don't see a clear pattern, except with my own. I think posts with links may be more likely to be removed, because they are harder to monitor for TOS. That is the only possible pattern I've been able to see that seems to apply to everyone. Posts that are supportive of a nice post even get taken down. Strange times.
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  39275.  @stigrynning  When I had Yelp reviews taken down, I wrote and asked why. They told me that algorithms pick up posts that sound too polished, like an ad agency wrote them. That would explain good posts being removed and posts full of weird errors being allowed to stay. I've had posts disappear but never a warning about them, which I would expect if they fell under one of the Report categories for banned speech.
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  39276.  @stigrynning  You know what happened to me? A bunch of my comments disappeared, including very uncontroversial stuff like compliments and "fun facts" about where my family is from, really mild. Then out of nowhere, someone I never saw before or since writes a comment addressed to me: "a lot of your posts are being taken down, huh?" Never got an email warning or anything of the sort. Funny, huh?
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  39277. How do you tell the difference?
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  39278. Every time. :/
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  39279. WPP: You will never hear from them again. Immediate family sometimes cannot contact the person without special precautions, and brothers or sisters, never. They weren't married. Hence, the story is bogus. No way would he be able to contact her.
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  39280. No expert has drawn that conclusion. Believe me, when it shows up in Northern California among the richest, people look hard. ADHD may well be underdiagnosed. Autism is not.
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  39281. Her testimony is hearsay. Its sole value at present is to point to who has firsthand knowledge of these events. Her testimony supports a subpoena for each of those people, who told her they witnessed what Trump said and did for themselves. She wasn't there.
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  39282.  @t.dmytryshyn2615  The agents who she testified told her what happened need to be subpoenaed immediately. Let's see whether they are.
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  39283.  @elginmarble5009  "If you don't shut up now, I will go public with the apology you wrote, and I'll embarrass your wife, too." That meets a lay notion of blackmail. It is also a feminist move, apparently. Er, not.
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  39284. "The bat that flew a thousand miles . . . " I appreciate the humor.
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  39285.  @markeric1337  I think you guys agree . . . The only issue is, does Maddow purport to offer hard news?
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  39286. More to the real point: this person is, of course, entitled to live by his own lights. But WHY should he have any effect on MY life? I'll wait.
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  39287.  @kaushikbasu3778  I'm not politically naive, but feel free to suit yourself. No fear-mongering in my comments. Please excuse me for knowing things. But as Hume pointed out, there is never any logical guarantee that the future will be conformable to the past -- not even in the physical sciences, much less history and politics. Hence the chance that I'm wrong is always there. That's no surprise to me.
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  39288.  @kaushikbasu3778  Id pol-ing me out now? One-uping me on that score? That's your strategy? I don't think so. My family got doused with just as much depleted uranium as anyone's, thanks. (🤣 but not really)
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  39289.  @kaushikbasu3778  Nowhere did I suggest that you were smug in your ignorance. I suggested that you were opposed to people who have put in the work to develop intellectually and reflexively disrespected them. That is something you have in common with the true-bluest Americans. I suggested that you and they may come to regret that, for purely pragmatic, self-interested reasons. For example, I used to teach community college, including STEM subjects, as a public service. I'll never make that sacrifice again.
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  39290. He has. Have you?
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  39291.  @jonathancopeland1014  Then why wouldn't you study the Eastern religions themselves?
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  39292. ​​ @vikroy3777 Actually, yes. Have you followed the studies of immunotherapy? The results range from complete remission and very possible cure, to a rapid demise. Some would prefer the stabilization that can often be achieved. Some would prefer to try for a cure and accept the risk.
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  39293. Why wouldn't the US use a Nazi slogan? They operated the Rat Line. Nancy's stupidity here is relatively trivial, and she can always claim it is subject to more than one interpretation. The Rat Line is completely unambiguous. The deaths in the Donbass are unambiguous as well.
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  39294. Do you care about mass shootings that can't be politicized in some way that strokes you? You don't. No one does. If Columbine didn't prove it, Sandy Hook did. And Uvalde reminded you all. Just give me a break with your grievances. "Brie said, Brie said" matters more to you than the people who died.
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  39295. Far too many adolescent and very young men who took an mRNA vaccine (especially Moderna) they did not need developed myocarditis. There is no debate on this May 2023.
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  39296. @Charlie The Unicorn  Incorrect. Even the mainstream medical journals admit to a rate at least 20 times that in adolescent and young adult men, and to far fewer, though clinically more severe, cases from the illness itself. You know, false talking points from 2021 aren't working anymore (though social media are still policing our corrections and letting your falsehoods stand, possibly duping people into thinking they are true).
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  39297. Her Wellesley speech was ridiculous, too. She married into the firm.
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  39298. ​ @ClownCarCoup Yup. A conviction before Daddy Joe leaves office means a pardon. And yeah, if Trump were in the same position, he would do the same. Duh.
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  39299. La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu
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  39300. Or maybe you never read a book, just Cliff Notes. Silly me, you never read Cliff Notes.
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  39301.  @zero2three1  I was right.
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  39302. Watch the story on the abortion for a 10 year old child hoax. Don't miss that. Then come back and tell us what you think. (P. S. Briahna is outstanding in that segment.)
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  39303. ​ @richard2218188 So she wanted a wrong answer.
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  39304. Great post. Also, Rubin is misleading people about American law. "Promoting violence" as a theoretical matter (as Jefferson and Paine did) is legal in the US. "Inciting imminent violence" is not. Brandenburg v. Ohio is the seminal case that explains it. And the ACLU was right. Glenn Greenwald has been posting videos where he reads through Brandenburg step by step. (Obviously, Piers, Murray, or Rubin fans won't look it up themselves.)
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  39305. Does someone think that isn't CONTEMPT?
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  39306. Continuing her contract claims against Harvard. This video is misleading too. 😂 but not really.
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  39307. Ned Price hasn't even had to learn to lie. "The documents need to be redacted and we hope to have them to you in due course. It's important, obviously, to let you know about this now."
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  39308. When it starts making them rich and richer?
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  39309. Anne-Laure Bonnel, the French journalist also. I think her documentaries have subtitles.
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  39310.  @aris8332  If you won't tell us which sources YOU found persuasive, how can we know? You know what persuaded you and what terms you used to search and uncover it. You have some reason to play hide-and-seek on the gravest matters?
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  39311.  @aris8332  What is this special education you have that eludes everyone else? I got my degree in the same university and department as Aude Lancelin. I think I can follow your reasoning if I try hard. /s In all seriousness, do share.
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  39312. I thought it was Dionysios.
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  39313. Those 800 bases aren't for nothing.
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  39314. @MaitreMark  Do you have a source for all those details? I knew he lived and I believe he was able to speak in the hospital before he died. At least, I had thought so. Has the foreign press covered this? They had more objective information on the pandemic in Europe than we did, and the politics of it were a lot different.
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  39315. Do people know that $11 per hour is under $24k per year, gross, for a forty-hour week? Could a person from a low-income family go to college at night, and live at home, on this? Not easily. BTY, the current minimum is about $15k per year. Does a year of working, living at home, and saving earn a year of in-state tuition, anywhere? So don't tell me this is enough "for kids starting out." And then blame them when they have the same job 5 years later.
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  39316. Instead of fighting for the $15 minimum wage, AOC gave us an Easter Egg and a puppet show. A failed actress. Why doesn't she get some coaching, rather than running for Congre$$?
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  39317. Look up vaccine-derived polio. The Guardian has reported extensively on it.
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  39318. ​ @meelvis939 Wow!! Congratulations! ❤❤❤👏👏👏
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  39319. ​ @meelvis939 Depends. If they are not obese or nearly obese, and exercise every day for an hour and don't sit at work all day, then yes. Then the term is cosmetic, not medical.
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  39320. ​ @dogstar5927 I think these fads are risky. It might be better, but olive oil has vastly more evidence. No comparison.
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  39321. ​ @shinkouhadoken  💯
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  39322. Did you read her article? That's what the case is about. Whether the article is First Amendment-protected or whether Heard can be punished for it by having her assets seized and turned over to Depp. The article makes no specific allegations at all, talks more about her life before she met Depp, and says she never saw herself as a "victim." I bet you didn't read it.
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  39323. I thought Americans believed that "the remedy for bad speech is more speech." I thought Americans didn't approve of show trials.
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  39324. Well then you know next to nothing about his current positions.
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  39325.  @heatherhall7899  I guess the ten-year-old should have given birth, then. Or did you believe she was made up?
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  39326. 10:00 and 10:34 Will it take the revelation of a dozen Jeffrey Epsteins to change mentalities?
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  39327. Certain foods are literally formulated to make it extremely hard to stop eating them. Corporations literally research how to do this, including McDonald's. What should be done about that?
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  39328. Why didn't he pick a real VP? What was the idea there?
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  39329.  @dmelson7502  It was fine, but thanks. You made good points. There is just so much competition in the grand nepotism space, huh? LOL
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  39330. Very interesting points. A court considers only the case before it, not more general questions such as the ones you raise. Speaking of, I looked up the case. According to the Memorandum Opinion, several of her breach of contract claims against Harvard were not dismissed. The opinion is dated Sept. 11, 2024. She has until mid-October to file an amended complaint. So, this video is misleading as well.
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  39331.  @reddirtwalker8041  They are similar in the fact that the parents have more oversight and control over their education. For this supposed reason, online education is something you hear people advocate for to this day. Did you know, by the way, that we had two decades of progress in test scores? All I hear ever is that teachers are underperforming and wasting class time -- or grooming children. This is a new tune I'm hearing suddenly.
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  39332. This report is followed by an ad for a violent video game. Yeah, I don't care, either.
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  39333. Tell me about it. My real name sounds Russian. 😀
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  39334. False, lol. And weird grammar issues. What country are you posting from?
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  39335.  @AmayIia  This really makes sense. Thank you!
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  39336. She looks dazed.
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  39337.  @tearofaangel1  Me too.
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  39338.  @brandonzettel8444  I hope he and the family of the other child file suit.
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  39339. Wolff is tremendous.
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  39340. Read the actual, printed information the pharmaceutical companies put out. It sounds nothing like what the politicians said.
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  39341. I was just surprised it took this long. :/
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  39342. Nice try. Just kidding. Not even.
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  39343. A terrible night for children?
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  39344. That someone this young believed these talking points (which obviously feather his own nest very nicely, mere coincidence) before 2008-09 is disappointing but comprehensible. That anyone sincerely believes them in 2022 means they are unqualified for the cushy job they have. I have to hope they are lying. Being paid handsomely to lie is a centuries-old tradition. Being way ignorant and an "influencer" -- this is new.
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  39345.  @coryCuc  She made huge money from Russiagate, more than ever before, and is already set for life. "Nice work if you can get it."
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  39346.  @coryCuc  I don't believe any other motive comes close. And people did love it.
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  39347.  @coryCuc  I didn't say she "needed" it. I said it rewarded her far more than any other story she pitched -- and for less work. Maybe look up her salary history, and take out your smartphone calculator? Or maybe read Matt Taibbi's book? There are things you can do besides condescend to those more astute and more realistic -- and better read -- concerning MSM and its motivations than you are. But you probably won't. This is more fun for you, and Russiagate was sure fun for her. $$$$
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  39348.  @coryCuc  Huh? "Defend?" Where in the world did that come from? I do not have a television at the moment, I have never had cable, and I'm not American. To say, as I did, that someone does what they do for money -- especially in the realm of journalism, or writing or film of any kind, and especially if they already have enough money -- is the supreme insult. How could you take it any other way? Do Americans really think like this? You are joking on some level? You cannot mean it. This had to have been a language barrier of some sort.
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  39349.  @coryCuc  Matt Taibbi wrote "Hate, Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another," (hint: $$), and Maddow is one of two people on the cover. Taibbi often does good work. He is a well-known Russiagate sceptic and critic of Wall Street avarice. I would recommend Aude Lancelin on media corruption even more, but I don't think they translated her yet.
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  39350. The house has been in the family for three generations. What part of time and arithmetic still eludes anyone?
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  39351.  @joekubina5897  Have you examined the documents? Link?
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  39352. In any case, Oxman was an MIT professor until she decided to leave, and her lab benefitted from a Jeffrey Epstein gift. And yet . . . She isn't a nobody. She is the wife of a man who can get top administrators fired from leading global universities. That's not a nobody. Nobodies work for a living, or else.
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  39353.  @johngibson4341  I was giving a hypothetical. Strictly hypothetical.
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  39354. @johngibson4341  The point about publishing a book was key. Publishers vet. They have a crucial material interest in making absolutely sure there are no possible copyright or plagiarism issues whatsoever.
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  39355. First World white people problems. Here we go again.
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  39356.  @gj1695  You think someone falls into politics?
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  39357.  @Midwit_Madness  Fantasy. Look at the receipt$$$$.
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  39358.  @Midwit_Madness  I suggest you research how much a campaign costs and where the money comes from --- and what happens when, by some chance, someone squeezes through. What happens when they face reelection, or a recall? Do that. Check numbers. It's one of the few things we can still do. (I think?)
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  39359.  @Midwit_Madness  If you want to go for it, do it. Be sure to get some consulting first, to make sure you and your family cannot be easily targetted and harmed by bad actors. Just to take basic precautions, so that it doesn't harm your finances, etc.
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  39360.  @gj1695  You omitted that he taught history for only one year, then went to Harvard Law School (and Yale before that). I'm curious how you imagine that happens? "Merit?" He has taken some dubious positions, and then defended them not with solid argument but by demagoguery. I know he must know the difference; Harvard Law teaches that.
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  39361.  @leithsapitan1428  I don't listen to Fox, can you be serious? I have gotten most of my news from UK and France for most of this century, and occasionally TeleSUR, but not generally. Some of RT was very good -- only some, but not generally. I'm not monolingual. Duh.
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  39362.  @gj1695  So he went back for more. Get outta here!
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  39363.  @leithsapitan1428  Obama and Biden weren't at issue in this video or this thread, nor did I say anything that suggests I support them. Ever heard of Chris Hedges? His view on them is one I generally agree with.
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  39364.  @leithsapitan1428  You made no sense. I don't have cable, never did. CNN is particularly bad. MSNBC, NYTimes are warmongers.
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  39365.  @gj1695  Right. You tried to slip that Ivy League background by, with the selfless innocent/blue collar cover story. Well, people who don't understand how elites function will believe that just this once . . .
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  39366.  @leithsapitan1428  Name-caller 🤣
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  39367.  @richardeastman9846  Kindly reply to wherever that was.
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  39368. Check his stock portfolio.
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  39369. The labor force is approximately 161,000,000, so the number receiving unemployment benefits is about 18% of the total labor force.
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  39370. Hard to listen to this Krystal Ball tape yet again. Yeesh that voice. Kim, on the other hand, is soothing.
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  39371. ​ @floydclark6710 So you think everyone is as bad as you or worse? I'm going to take a wild guess here and say you aren't POC.
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  39372. 😂😂😂
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  39373.  @peterhargett9702  Ever heard of the First Amendment? Well, not here anyway. Understandable.
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  39374.  @hf2138  LOLOL
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  39375. They better pay me in advance this time. 😂
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  39376. This could very well be the case.
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  39377. This could very well be the case.
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  39378. Compared to the rest of Europe, we're left. Not the new left, with its identity trash. Stuff like all mothers and babies should be supported, every child should have opportunities and a good education, workers deserve jobs and a voice, universal medical care, etc.
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  39379. When did Russian Federation exit the Partnership for Peace (PfP) program? That information is absent from any description of the program that I can find.
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  39380. "Partners for Peace" (your designation, apparently intended to mean PfP) is program dedicated to ending domestic violence. You had something to say about someone else's mental state.
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  39381. If anyone could make a legitimate decision to hire a private entity to assist in an investigation, it would be the FBI or the DOJ.
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  39382. Learn statistics. Then come back and listen again. Sheesh.
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  39383.  @davidromero3487  She didn't say most athletic scholarships go to whites. Go back and check. But since you didn't follow the college admissions scandal, you obviously missed the fact that the televised college sports covers very few of these students. There is soccer, lacrosse, track and field, the whole panoply women's sports (Title IX, remember?), etc., etc., etc. . . . These are not what you see on television. Read much? "Knucklehead."
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  39384. Wow. I wonder what the Dark Web is like.
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  39385. Oh god not funny.
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  39386. False
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  39387. Outstanding use of Supreme Court precedent.
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  39388. Education does not have "customers." See who the top students in the public schools are, and see who the top students at MIT are. We all know: the children of immigrants. Our mothers work. The Market is what has given us social media addiction.
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  39389. Jimmy and Stef were marvelous here.
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  39390. Hiding that police killing is a LEFT WING agenda?
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  39391.  @SandraGardner-n4q  AND you should not be!! 💯
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  39392.  @mdoy5667  And?
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  39393. Emily ran out and bought this thing. That was the message.
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  39394.  @ellenstonehill678  "that type of real work" -- can you parse that phrase?
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  39395.  @drewfleming5584  Is marijuana legal in your state? Somehow that popped into my mind.
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  39396.  @drewfleming5584  Keep it up so I know who to block.
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  39397.  @drewfleming5584  You think you're different from Trump. That would be funny if it weren't grim.
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  39398.  @jesspavlichenko5745  But they can't be out of touch with the working class!
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  39399.  @jesspavlichenko5745  Sam has bad ideas. And Trump did better in 2020 than ANYONE thought he possibly could. Mea culpa. I thought he didn't have a chance. I suggest you read a dispassionate analysis of 2020, it is sobering. Not that it's likely, but you ought to.
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  39400.  @jesspavlichenko5745  JD doesn't mention Sam much. LOL
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  39401.  @jesspavlichenko5745  I wonder why someone turns up on this thread again every few months.
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  39402.  @jesspavlichenko5745  Sorry, but this is boring. Have it your way. We have not had a single qualified ticket for president and vice president in this century. Listen to the people who soothe you, and refuse to confront reality. See how that works out.
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  39403.  @masterchief9291  You mean because of ROE? It's not evident who is to blame? Jimmy Dore, huh? Or Susan Sarandon.
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  39404.  @NJ-wb1cz  I'm sorry, I actually don't know what you're referring to right now. But this was an interesting thread to review. I, for one, am sorry Sam Seder doesn't do better. I know he's smart, and I think he's cute as well. With someone like him, I wonder what happened. What a disappointment.
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  39405. For those who don't believe this to be possible: remember Rotherham.
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  39406. "We need to caution him not to send the military into our cities." "Huh. Err. Hmm. . . Um, . . . WHY? . . . " 😲
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  39407. And . . . How many people don't get that I'm joking?
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  39408. He's great.
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  39409. "Do not fall for the game of the rotating villain." -- Nick Cruze.
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  39410. So . . . No data, right, prof? Way not to answer Kim's question.
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  39411. It wasn't normal.
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  39412.  @UnPocoLoco1120  He did not die of natural causes by any stretch.
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  39413.  @Daniel_Rood  You need a private shooting range, and that's called success? I wonder what you would have had if your grandparents had encouraged you to study mathematics and physics, and practice a sport that helped train you to lessen the effects of your motion sickness.
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  39414. 😂😂😂 Exactly Yeah, it IS about the money. As if we didn't have blows in 2001, 2008-2010, 2020-2024. These guys weren't on the short end, somehow.
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  39415. Now that we have concrete, scientific information on the substantial risks of vaccines that were not disclosed, the subject of COVID is off the table. Why am I shocked, shocked?
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  39416. Look at the statistics from South Africa, where over 70% are unvaccinated. Or, repeat MSM talking points. But then get a cut. $$
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  39417. Vaccination greatly lessened the risk of developing serious COVID, and came close to preventing death from COVID, for about six months -- which is all that the manufacturers' information sheets ever expressly promised. That was true. Looking at the map of highly vaccinated populations and comparing that with where the greatest Omicron variant is spreading now raises . . . questions.
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  39418. I wish I were an introvert. I think it's a better way of being. I'm serious. If I could change only one thing, it would be to ditch the extroversion.
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  39419. I'm sorry, I can't date a girl for a job.
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  39420. 29:14
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  39421.  @tooitchy  The people who first served in the military, went to community college for two years, then finished their Bachelor's degree on the GI Bill aren't like the ones you describe. They are more like the ones I remember, or better.
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  39422.  @datruth4766  Yes, TRUTH!
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  39423. Isn't a nanoparticle 1/100 to 1/1000 the size of a red blood cell (comparing diameter to diameter)? Who would have that injected into them as a vaccine -- rather than, for example, as a cancer treatment?
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  39424. Look up the Swiss ministry of health vaccine recommendation for people who have had a proven case of COVID. I am afraid to repeat it. It is usually removed, even if I demonstrate where I found it. Keep clicking until you find it. You'll be glad you did.
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  39425. Umm . . . Where ya been?
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  39426. I've been wondering that too.
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  39427.  @rundmc555  He's also a man of eminent virtue. 🤣🤣🤣
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  39428. Ha ha, cute joke.
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  39429. "Common sense censorship" Its icon is a unicorn with its glittery hoof in its mouth.
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  39430. Well, Biden didn't win the nomination fairly. And Trump did not campaign like he was trying to win. Neither did Biden.
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  39431.  @cecilrhodes1057  What won't you believe?
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  39432.  @cecilrhodes1057  Yeah, because mainstream told me Biden didn't win the nomination fairly, or campaign like he wanted to be president. 😀 /s
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  39433.  @cecilrhodes1057  MSM just said he was following COVID protocols and has a mild stutter. Sure, that makes sense. 😂😂😂
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  39434.  @cecilrhodes1057  Was there some good way for either of the last two elections to end??
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  39435.  @cecilrhodes1057  Where did you get the idea I supported The Mummy?
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  39436.  @gnielsen07  Two things: this election was a historical anomaly due to the pandemic. It was literally unique. Second: our elections are suspect. We never have clean vote counts, we have probabilities. After a certain point, the probability that any candidate can defeat the frontrunner in a given state becomes very close to zero, we declare a winner! This isn't just the media that does it. That is literally how the elections are called.
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  39437.  @FSpoon-iw9yj  He is correct about bellwether states. It would be a statistical anomaly in a normal year. In 2020, it wasn't important. We voted in an entirely different way from any previous year, so we can't compare. This election is no more suspect than any election -- no more, no less. Bush II didn't win in 2000.
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  39438.  @FSpoon-iw9yj  That is merely unlikely. It is not impossible.
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  39439.  @FSpoon-iw9yj  I agree that it is not impossible. Merely unlikely.
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  39440.  @FSpoon-iw9yj  Same principles apply.
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  39441. ​ @sysbm4life923  How a lie is hidden matters. That's why gaslighting by politicians, especially DNC, infuriates people.
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  39442.  @JustinFREAKIN  Yes, death is certainly a lagging indicator, that is true.
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  39443.  @JustinFREAKIN  Yes, YT generally shadows all links, on the theory that they are too difficult to monitor for TOS violations.
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  39444.  @JustinFREAKIN  If a virus infects 100,000 people and kills 1000, and a different variant of that virus infects 275,000 people and kills 1015, which one is more deadly? Take a math class. Then get back to us.
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  39445.  @JustinFREAKIN  Blocked
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  39446.  @JustinFREAKIN  Answered someone named FREAKIN. Whose fault was that? How could you know stuff like the definition of fatality rate?
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  39447. The philosophers who believe in free will were simply determined to argue for it, hence there is no reason to argue against them. They are simply unfolding as they were determined to unfold. Of course, you are also determined to argue in favor of a deterministic universe. If you had never encountered people who insist there is free will, would you be insisting that it is an unscientific view? Or is that nonsense? Of course you would encounter people who insist there is free will, because you did. There is no evidence you could have not encountered them. I think I see.
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  39448.  @williamrosales5718  All of this has been litigated countless times. Try reading.
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  39449.  @williamrosales5718  Try reading. Supreme Court cases set the law. It's not about your experience. Or my experience. It's in that caselaw. That's, like, where it is.
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  39450.  @williamrosales5718  That case struck down a law based on the content of speech OR expression. The laws against various acts of vandalism suffice to stop cross burning. So, painting a swastika or a BLM slogan on someone's private property ARE TREATED THE SAME. Good luck to you. You need it.
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  39451.  @williamrosales5718  It wasn't a KKK case. It was some teenager.
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  39452. It's a job to generate these.
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  39453.  @BionicDance  Well, did your mom or dad generate them? Hm. Not sure you can break in now.
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  39454. ​ @BringDHouseDown ALL the rest are tiny by comparison. TINY.
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  39455. ​@doofyler How did you come up with that one? You're on drugs and you started with yourself?
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  39456.  @Mark-tb1zq  You're right.
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  39457.  @maximus7727  Come off it.
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  39458. If that were the case, we in the West will never find out. We should all know the truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
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  39459. ​ @jonathanperry4189  And that's good because . . . ?
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  39460. ​ @rugged04270 I have no problem understanding parental alienation, and I believe this was in fact done to her. What about her two sisters? Was she alienated from them, too? She helped take their mother from them. She put the youngest in grave danger. How? There's more here.
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  39461. Organic seed oils that are cold pressed, with no GMOs or chemicals involved, are probably not very nutritious, but they are not harmful. Good luck finding them.
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  39462. Democrats don't delay the Supreme Court nominee. They just delay stimulus to people.
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  39463. 19:17 When Dick Cheney was sheltering in an "undisclosed location," where was that? Anyone ever tell us? LOL
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  39464. Not exactly a new pattern. The Reagan administration supported Osama bin Laden when we thought it was in our interest.
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  39465. ​​ @erikprestonTV False. Read the Complaint. The facts are in court documents, not on YouTube. In New York, you could not maintain a civil rights suit without evidence of actual innocence, much less settle for $41 million. A vacated verdict was insufficient. That requirement was just relaxed by the Supreme Court very recently, in a case that came out of Brooklyn. Kavanaugh wrote the opinion.
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  39466. Long COVID is very real. Long "fill-in-the-blank" after a viral illness of any kind is real. WOMEN (i.e., adult human females) are generally more likely to have a milder viral illness AND a prolonged, bumpy full recovery, for obvious reasons (so they don't get pregnant too soon after, duh). Long COVID is more common in women, as one would expect. I wish more people were biologically literate.
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  39467. I doubt it's viewed that way. Being the first to slice a loaf is an honor, no?
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  39468. Well, if the choice is to live by you . . . 😂
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  39469. Who knows what he would do if he could? No limit.
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  39470. By simply having only the previously discredited talking about it. Also, when a practice is this extreme, ordinary, normal people look away, thinking it must be an exaggeration or outright false, and they do their best to put it out of their minds. It's not that hard, iow.
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  39471.  @johnneville403  People who cannot control themselves, who take to Twitter in that manner, who fail to appreciate the weight of words, and who blurt out stuff about a soon-to-be confirmed Supreme Court Justice in front of whom they should ASPIRE to argue one day soon, do not have the temperament to train top lawyers, or to set an example for them. The US has become a giant high school ("with money" --- Frank Zappa). I said the same thing about Justice Barrett, and my politics could not be more different from hers. A nomination (any nomination, not just her nomination) at that juncture should have been blocked ab initio, which the Democrats failed to do, but their minions took to Twitter, to smear her. It made me sick. Here, Shapiro admits BIDEN is responsible for the whole thing. I agree. Take it up with Biden. You don't cast aspersions on the candidate instead. That shows a poor sense of . . . justice? Hm.
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  39472.  @Rjsjrjsjrjsj  Yeah. A brain. It is a shock. Something must be up. You don't find brains here, so what's going on?
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  39473.  @Rjsjrjsjrjsj The incentives are not on the side of thinking, obviously . . . Then the next time someone is cancelled, remember that you just joined in.
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  39474. Prediction: Shapiro is going to work less and make more money this way, than he would have by not resigning from Georgetown. That's the story behind his choice to resign -- and it makes sense, too.
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  39475. So hard to listen to. I dread having to say this, but we do need to hear it. We need to be reminded that monsters do exist. We forget.
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  39476. Undercover antifa are going to "dress like antifa?" Oh, just to confuse us, huh? False-false flaggin' it?
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  39477. THEN SAY THAT.
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  39478. @Honest Avatar 95% of all grads have never heard of Bertrand Russell or David Hume, never mind an ideologue and political player like Popper. It's not the profs that don't want to teach this. The students don't want to learn it because they don't see how it could be relevant to career climbing and image tending.
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  39479.  @chubsley2000  You should read some cognitive science research. You should also check out what the Symbolic Systems major at Stanford is about.
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  39480.  @latinomifune4700  Totally right. In fact, some of the currently available social science research is applied to some pretty nefarious ends. For example, the new social media designers look for ways to make it "sticky," resulting in behavior awfully close to what psychiatrists see in addicts. Another obvious example is targeted advertising, and obtaining participation in consumer-generated advertising. The information they use comes straight out of the social sciences. We're swimming in it now, with results that are predictable to high degrees of confidence. Ironic, huh?
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  39481.  @chubsley2000  In the furthest reaches of science and mathematics, the line between the so-called "hard sciences" and the human sciences becomes blurred -- which is not to say that you can approach these fields without first laying a foundation in methodologies specific to the objects of their study. It is after you study them in some depth that you can start to talk about how they dovetail, and why, and what it means -- especially practically. Anyway, Symbolic Systems majors take quite a lot of psychology, linguistics, and philosophy to complete their degrees.
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  39482.  @chubsley2000  Just the opposite. I have an idea what questions to ask.
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  39483.  @chubsley2000  Never heard of it. You a fan?
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  39484.  @chubsley2000  Is it good?
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  39485. Yes, bad example, agreed -- even though the point he was making at that moment is sound: WHY did Ford wait? This is a very important question. Kavanaugh was gaining power for years and years. He was sitting on the most important federal appeals court before this. And Ford is not a vulnerable person without resources, starting with adequate counseling to help her confront her reluctance. She had all that. Kavanaugh's reputation is ruined, but you're right, that is relatively trivial given the bigger picture.
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  39486. Actual politics in the arena of health care has been tried since the mid 1980s, when AIDS was epidemic. Sorry you don't know your history, friend. https://youtu.be/64A7A8QWDNc
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  39487. 🤝👏👏👏👏
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  39488. Bannon sounds like he wants to appeal to the Luigi right.😂
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  39489. Glenn Greenwald: The ACLU, Prior to COVID, Denounced Mandates and Coercive Measures to Fight Pandemics -- incredible article on his substack page. The ACLU produced a working paper in 2008 on why persuasion, not mandates, were needed in the event of a pandemic. You have got to read it to believe it.
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  39490. @wootwootyouknow  There are serious cases against him and his companies pending, in court and before regulatory agencies. Do you know how to look that up? A lot of them can be downloaded, if you care to read them. Just because MSM hasn't focused on them . . .
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  39491.  @wootwootyouknow  How does that "promote genocide?"
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  39492. @wootwootyouknow  Those who have don't see their posts last.
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  39493. I wish I were surprised.
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  39494.  @agricolaregs  Sophie Scholl was German, and she was no Nazi. The Nazis executed her.
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  39495.  @mr.beatnskeet6876  You can't compare Chomsky to Jordan Peterson. Please, we have suffered far too much dumbing down, it has become dangerous. Anyone who has read half the books Peterson recommends on his own website can see right through him. Chomsky is one of the finest minds of this, or any, generation. Jimmy is the first to concede this.
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  39496.  @professorpancakes6545  Absolutely: right now, research the third parties, and get involved with justice reform in some way. Contribute to a bond fund, for example. Let there never be another Kalief Browder.
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  39497.  @professorpancakes6545  Dore is involved in a third party -- which includes a few members urging a vote for Biden in the swing states. How is that "nothing?" That's not even "purist." Sorry, he did a great job here.
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  39498. @Mr. Fringes To be fair, Dore included that clip of Chomsky that he does agree with, AND it is excellent. Manufacturing Consent is seminal.
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  39499.  @jameswalsh3112  You should never ask that, with the implication being he has done nothing. You'd be surprised what people have done.
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  39500.  @professorpancakes6545  Is electing Biden the solution to our problems? Let me ask you.
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  39501. This!
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  39502. Nice suit on Jill. Where can I get one?
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  39503. "Black Lives Matter." In fact, they are very useful in internecine fights among elite whites. But what's the big deal? He's only going to be an ambassador to those yellow people. /bitter IRONY
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  39504. Won't last.
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  39505. No. What do you call Krystal? "Right?"
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  39506. ​ @jeanalice4732 That's also your right.
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  39507. Why do so many young women have Baby Voices now? No joke intended: is there an environmental issue?
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  39508. Nonsense. Fortunately.
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  39509. All of this smacks more and more of false flag. I'll believe the DNC multimillionaires were against Trump only after I see their stock portfolios before and after. We're supposed to be diverted from real concerns for some reason, and I think Eisenhower -- the quintessential Republican, Texas born, Kansas bred -- had it right 💯.
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  39510. The Homestead Act? Whose land was that, that they were distributing?
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  39511. Ned Price is out of practice. "To the best of my knowledge, redacted materials should be available to you soon. This press release obviously needed to go out as soon as possible." Prevarication 101.
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  39512. This isn't the left. This is unrecognizable in any other country.
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  39513. Corporate bankruptcy.
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  39514.  @jamiepaulzine6725  Not to mention Maddow's vaccine lies. That was truly irresponsible. The fact sheets accompanying the consent forms contradicted what she said. Maddow will say anything for money.
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  39515. There was never any good way for this to end.
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  39516.  @disneytoysr4fun975  Good point. I never considered joining one of those.
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  39517.  @FaranFronczakTV  😂
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  39518. A few aspects of the misogyny displayed are similar. Also, both women were blonds who married great wealth. Neither had a pristine character, which all female victims must have.
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  39519.  @GenXer333  This frankly makes no sense. I have the impression this case was not well tried by her lawyers. (I wonder what they did to fight the absurd venue, for one thing.) I'd have to read the entire transcript to give an informed opinion. The Guardian coverage was outstanding, for a change!
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  39520.  @wouldbabyhitlerkillyou4217  You think? Yet not one of them has posted a solid, reasoned critique of any element of it. What are the chances that they are all too busy to toss off a few cogent lines? I guess we are unlucky that they haven't seen fit to share their knowledge with us. P. S. Thank you for swearing. Swearing is information: don't bring up this video at parties, or at work, etc., at least not without being prepared to elicit hostility. Most people know not to, but just in case a few optimists might be tempted, you provided the corrective.
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  39521. So, if an abuser refuses to see a therapist, does that prove he is right? He can block any expert by refusing an interview? Obviously not. OTOH, refusal proves nothing either way. Everyone has a right to say no to seeing a psychologist.
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  39522. Not what she said.
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  39523. Er, . . . If you do disagree with the masses on the necessities of basic survival, . . . what does that make you?
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  39524. Mass of the population in shutdown mode, the unvaccinated vilified -- and high-ranking pedophiles have little to fear. Yeah, sounds about right. /s
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  39525. The tech wreck didn't undermine us. Neither did the 2008-09 financial crisis. Neither did multiple, huge family tragedies, over and over, that also involved misconduct by upper management where each of us worked (Enron-style stuff, and pseudo-woke stuff). We were hard targets. The lockdown finally did us in.
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  39526. School shooters get medical care. Terrorists get medical care. Boston Marathon bomber Tsarnaev got medical care.
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  39527. Exactly.
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  39528. If you read Cliff's Notes in high school, you might think so.
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  39529.  @raedmundson11  You wouldn't recognize the references she makes, or where her arguments come from. You haven't read those cases -- or perhaps any cases. You haven't read the same books -- or perhaps any books?
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  39530. Prove it.
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  39531.  @evitthought9641  Prove it with a link. I don't believe he played the same trick.
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  39532. What is with these people?
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  39533. False flags in both, obviously.
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  39534.  @Rspsand07  Realism.
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  39535. Russia's initial demands were modest. Let's see what happens next.
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  39536.  @ClownCarCoup  I have a suggestion. Look up articles that predate the current conflict, including by people like Lev Golinkin, who wholeheartedly opposes Putin and the Russian invasion. See what those people said about the Nazi infiltration of the Ukrainian armed forces.
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  39537. Let's all only do what the disabled can do. Anything else is aggression.
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  39538. Katie is gorgeous today.
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  39539. 😊
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  39540. "Vote for the corpse!" If only we could count on that level of candor. JD, at this point you are making people p** in their pants from laughing.
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  39541.  @TCt83067695  Of course you can. In fact, all risk analysis is exactly like this: What are the risks of having lockdowns to fight COVID? What are the risks of not having lockdowns to fight COVID? There's an example for you.
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  39542.  @TCt83067695  (1) What are the risks of claiming a major political figure is a "fascist" when he is not? (2) What are the risks of claiming a major political figure is not a "fascist" when he is? The difference is that it obscures burdens of proof. We assume someone isn't a fascist, and have to produce evidence that he is. So, when we aren't sure, we agree that (1) should be considered riskier. Is that what you mean? Medicine is more likely to invoke the precautionary principle, so that if we aren't sure, we think doing less to prevent disease is generally worse than doing more. You would not do that when accusing someone of something horrible, "just to be sure he doesn't hurt us."
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  39543.  @TCt83067695  Well, if someone is indeed a fascist, and I mean for real, then presumably they are opposed to the American constitutional system, and cannot be counted on to fulfill the promise they made when they took their oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution -- and people need to know about that, or at least recognize it . . . I guess. But other than that, it's no big deal. Like Brad Pitt said in that weird movie, "America isn't a country, it's a business, and I want to get paid."
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  39544.  @TCt83067695  Who are "our guys?" PLEASE don't presume any major political actor on the current scene. Just please don't do that. Too painful.
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  39545. These people are more idiotic by the day. I was above this by junior year high school.
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  39546. Fast and furious.
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  39547.  @peterrevens8454  Or just nookie.
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  39548.  @TylerDurden9LB  oh well then
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  39549. And the oppressed will find ten more ways to fight right back!
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  39550. You need a Chief Guru that bad? Sanders was domesticated, yo.
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  39551.  @olllloollllo  See Greenwald today, on TJDS. Interesting. No one said it's easy.
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  39552.  @olllloollllo  Yeah, and they were just exposed. See Dylan Ratigan today. Exposed very quickly. Unique in WS history, frankly. Is MSM lying about it? I don't follow them.
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  39553.  @stayfly68  Way to have literacy issues. Keep laughing . . .
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  39554. Seriously? People don't know about the Blue Line?
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  39555. ​ Steeled18 Are you kidding? This was brilliant. There are more conflicts of interest here than anything Hillary or Nancy touched . . . Well. Okay, . . . maybe not that many, but you get the idea.
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  39556. 💯
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  39557. Mobs form, dissolve, and form again with frightening frequency --- faster faster faster. "We were always at war with East Asia."
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  39558. ​@gringott12You're living in a fantasy: a dystopia.
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  39559. ​@kelleymcbride4633 "Breaking in" to unoccupied property (a backyard, a detached shed) is not a threat to your life.
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  39560. This is a REALLY nice guy. Gratitude!
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  39561. Musk is so busy with Important Things that he has time for this . . .
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  39562.  @kyle-ri5mz  A job that requires you to evaluate people whose parents pay your salary, and that requires you to conduct shooter drills is inherently dangerous. Therefore the workers need a union. If you think the pressure to give everyone a trophy is high now . . . where is the protection from that pressure? It's easier to mark every paper an A.
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  39563.  @firstlast9292  It's for the money. If it were for the education, they would be clamoring to go to the University of Chicago.
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  39564. It's a social constraint, not a legal one. And the word is used all the time.
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  39565. Oh, actually, in the workplace, using it is generally a Title VII violation, which means that the target can sue you. An employer can fire a nonunion worker any time anyway, in nearly all states, so of course they can fire for that, and would. But we all know we don't have First Amendment rights at a private employer, and they are curtailed in the public sector.
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  39566.  Jordan Powell  Ask Oscar Lafontaine and Tariq Ali what happened in Yugoslavia. Among others, who actually know.
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  39567. Yes, great point.
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  39568.  Jordan Powell  None of your business. Pfft. Nice try. If you served there in a NATO action, then you must know what was done: depleted uranium raining down on cities with ANTI-Milosevic governments in place. But don't consult the sources I named. Of course not.
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  39569. Oh I get it. If everyone doesn't immediately bark against "woke" like a bunch of distressed seals, they will be excoriated. That's a trigger word, it is supposed to elicit some major outrage. Don't examine what identity politics has done. Don't hear Bri when she calls it a "monstrosity." Don't hear Bri when she tells you how Bill Maher has used this fact to promote his own schtick and undermine people who wanted to do something real about galloping inequality. She told you what she thought in the clip about the TRAIN DERAILMENT. She tells you what she thinks here. If you stopped listening this clip before 6:30, try starting there.
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  39570. What is even sadder is the story that has taken hold that Adam Smith's free market is "capitalism." It is not. Not even close.
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  39571.  @stringX90  I think Nicholas had a money bet with someone.
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  39572. Um, if Joe Biden is older and starting to have cognitive issues, isn't it important that he be surrounded by good people . . . and not Wall Street corporatist tools? I thought that was why we were supposed to vote for Biden. He would pick the Good People.
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  39573. But her name sounds Russian?
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  39574. ​ @LabSessionz  Care to point out what you mean?
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  39575. @dallasneudorf  You stated her word choice made them feel excluded. How can you conclude from their "feeling" excluded that they were being excluded? That doesn't follow. The assignment wasn't mandatory. Was there any prohibition against writing a paper that begins by questioning the premise? When I was in college, the Marxists understood that in class, they would be required to master the syllabus, which was usually set by conservative Republicans, and only then to read Marxist sources in self-organized study groups. Most of these students also had jobs. Rarely did the profs mark down the Marxists (and everyone knew who those profs were, who would do such a thing), and the Marxists didn't think to complain about their workload.
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  39576.  @LabSessionz  And as of this moment, I'm not allowed to answer that. It all dovetails beautifully.
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  39577. @dallasneudorf     This gives students a veto over teachers --- which means you no longer have a university. Which is, in turn, perhaps the most honest admission of where we stand. Universities have been businesses for a long time. The "learning environment" is analogous to the modern office, where free speech has no place. Students have the remarkable dual role of customer and worker, but the real clientele are the donors and the business community that will eventually pay them money. My views don't matter. Theirs must be served. But, tell me, what happens when the students don't all agree about the impact a professor has on the "learning environment?" For example, there were serious demonstrations against firing Norman Finkelstein. Of course, let's be real. Students' views can't override those donors. I mean, after all, students come and go. The donors possess the true hecklers' veto, and if things get heated, law enforcement will be summoned. It's obvious, too, that the smart students will make sure their views match those of the biggest money-bags, I mean, philanthropists. What a pretty picture. I know the neolibs brought us to this.
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  39578.  @LabSessionz  Looks like the algorithm is slow to decide, lol.
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  39579. @dallasneudorf  I'm sorry to hear that, but not surprised. :/ It's sinister, because all the tech platforms know intermittent reinforcement creates behavioral addictions. On a more cheery note, something wonderful just happened: NRA v. Vullo, a victory for the First Amendment. Sotomayor for a unanimous Court. She recently wrote a concurrence in the denial of a cert petition that also had a First Amendment claim, ostensibly on the ground that the resolution of the free speech issue was obvious and didn't need the Court's elucidation. I hope people realize this case has nothing to do with the NRA as such; it's a great victory for free speech, and could foretell positive outcomes on a whole bunch of cases. Hope so, anyway.
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  39580. They are doing just fine for themselves. "Jealous?"
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  39581. Consider a psychic.
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  39582. Maybe the EPA could treat this like the crisis that it is . . . nah.
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  39583. So did these two Cuomo guys make enough money yet? Imagine their panic.
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  39584. ​ @davidkariuki5813  -- you think that's FUNNY?
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  39585. That little "after-school" job used to pay the rent on a modest apartment AND pay for in-state college tuition. That is what young adults did in 1970. They could even afford to get married, and start real life. How about today??
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  39586. ​@@blackjock953 Really? It's automatic at this point. 😂
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  39587. Insults are all you've got, apparently. Um, blowback? Heard of it?
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  39588.  @brittanybutts4529  Thank you.
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  39589. And the next thing is aggressive medicalization of "gender nonconforming" children.
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  39590. She does not care AT ALL about Ukraine. She is posturing for career achievement. It's working great, too.
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  39591. Notice how she proposes nothing? Her main concern is "but Trump."
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  39592.  @danielsoto8601  Er . . . There is this thing called irony. I bet you can look it up and everything, and find out what it's about.
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  39593. @danielsoto8601  There is this thing people don't want you to know about called irony.
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  39594. @danielsoto8601  As soon as I write i r o n y, everything gets dark.
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  39595. Re: your P. S. New Yorker or San Franciscan. You're welcome. 😅😅😅
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  39596. Only Congress can legislate with respect to taxes. Do you actually think the DOE has anything to say about how higher education is financed? The major banks do . . . You know, the too big to fail, too big to jail crowd. Debt does not exist to give us access to higher education. Higher education exists to service debt. That's why Twitter hires those people. Follow the money, honey.
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  39597. The curriculum? The most common degree is in Business, and has been for about 35 years, if not longer. Next come Health Sciences, with Nursing on top. What did you think people were studying? A bunch of grifters are selling you a line at a hefty price. Their kids will go to college, if they want. They won't need to. As for a Bachelor's in Business, unless a person gets a CPA or takes advanced mathematics and finance, that is a useless degree. An English major with a calculus sequence and a minor in Economics will get into law school or an MBA program first.
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  39598. I follow Charlemagne Tha God, so it came as no surprise to me.
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  39599. There is a link you can click to get rid of the whole channel.
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  39600. Sensitive dependence on initial conditions . . . Always wanted an example.
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  39601.  EL CHUPRA NEIBRE  Um, needs a /s.
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  39602. Oh come on. Her point stands. Is Shanahan fit to be President? Maybe a tiny, tiny bit more than Kamala is, sure, but how low a standard is that?
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  39603.  @MicheleDBorland  Give a few examples, preferably from the previous century. Today, all bets are off.
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  39604. @deannaartzbennett244  A specialist in the theory? What jobs has she held? What is her actual, real world, non-academic experience? What are her published cases, or her pro bono cases?
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  39605. That wasn't his point. He didn't contradict himself .
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  39606.  @akragt01  Because they didn't teargas peaceful marches and cripple people by knocking them over or bashing in their heads. /s Yes they did, but you didn't count those incidents for some reason.
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  39607. A student could pay in-state tuition and fees for a full year at the great state universities (Michigan, Wisconsin, Berkeley, Virginia, Texas, . . . ) with a full-time summer job making the minimum wage. People who did that were a different people.
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  39608. So, this is an ICE statistic . . . What, precisely, is the truth? During what time period did these people enter the States, where, and how? Why is there a dispute about such basic facts? Who is responsible??
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  39609. Wake up before the people around you start accepting chips in their brains.
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  39610. I hope I can help you with that. Most people who flail for some reason other than health issues, emotional issues, or simply not doing the work are allowing worry or self-criticism to sap their energy. If all the time that you're studying, there is a little voice telling you you won't be able to do this, oh my gawd what does the teacher want(??!), and stuff like that, then you won't reach your potential. If you are undermining yourself, don't add worry on top of worry. When you notice that voice, just tell yourself, oh, there it is again, and bring your attention back to your work. Ignore it without battling it. If you keep ignoring it, you will find that it will go away. The other thing is to consider what you're studying. Do you like it? Does it resonate with you in some deep way, or are you studying it only because someone told you you had to pick something that will lead to a job? The problem with that is that for the rest of your life, you'll be in competition with people who LOVE love their work. No one who doesn't even like it can possibly compete with those people. I recommend taking one class in a subject that you are intrigued by or passionate about, and become consumed by it. See what it feels like to succeed, and see if you can repeat it in other classes.
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  39611. Did you listen to this video? Have you read Haaretz?
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  39612.  @salvatorefarmerson3226  LOL
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  39613. There is no category of illegal speech known as hate speech.
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  39614. Pete Judo on fabricated studies. Be sure to find it and listen.
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  39615. He can make up anything. Ad hoc.
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  39616.  @wolfganga982  Having no attachments would make it very hard to be a member of a family, wouldn't it? No spouse, no children, no parents, or, you would not be "attached" to them.
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  39617.  @darrylschultz6479  Insinuating that someone who dissents from elevating any of these Elmer Gantrys has problems ("malaise," "sour grapes," blah blah, the usual) is a classic tipoff of a cultish, guru-worshipping mentality. Plato has been around longer, by the way.
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  39618.  @darrylschultz6479  Why did Oprah endorse The Secret?
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  39619.  @darrylschultz6479  Okay have it your way. I'm listening to him now and all I can hear coming out of his mouth are sheer platitudes, but entertaining ones. Little manipulations here and there, pandering -- as in, we are special, it is we who are living in a pivotal age of human evolution; conceptual thinking has been exhausted (thus downplaying what his audience finds hard to do); the more information you have, the more confused you are; and so forth. He can take you beyond it. Right. I tend to like his weird little laugh, though I also see that it could be misused. Laughter and funny facial expressions are not arguments, or proof of anything. I'd rather hear what people I admire have had to say, and find out more about how they achieved what they did. Maybe you need to read more? See whether the more you read, the more confused you are. The Buddha always said "try it and see."
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  39620.  @spiritsypher2502  Indeed. Here is Haruki Murakami on the subject of following gurus, and ultimately on the subject of seeking a way out of living with integrity: "If you lose your ego, you lose the thread of that narrative you call your Self. . . Yet without a proper ego, nobody can create a personal narrative, . . . But once you've consigned your ego to someone else, where on earth do you go from there? At this point you receive a new narrative from the person to whom you have entrusted your ego. You've handed over the real thing, so what comes back instead is a shadow." (Murakami, "Underground")
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  39621.  @darrylschultz6479  And that's what the followers of Aum Shinrikyo said, even long after 1995. No one suggests they were lying. I agree with Murakami.
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  39622.  @darrylschultz6479  Aum attracted a few of the very finest minds in all of Japan. Did you know that? I doubt it. I think it's a shame Tolle gave up the real study of philosophy for this schtick.
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  39623.  @darrylschultz6479  Murakami wasn't just talking about Aum. He was talking about precisely the desire to give up one's ego, which necessarily leaves someone or something else in control. That was the whole point.
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  39624.  @darrylschultz6479  You would care what Tolle thinks of you. You care what I think of Tolle.
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  39625.  @darrylschultz6479  But I must be closer to having No Ego than you are because testimonials make absolutely no difference to me. You can find testimonials praising absolutely anyone. Harvey Weinstein had tons.
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  39626.  @iannaughton9295  Drop this nonsense and read Murakami's Underground. Take it from someone who IS from a Buddhist culture, rather than join in ersatz Eastern Thought For Profit.
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  39627.  @Alfieruben-j1l  Maybe you should start with Plato, The Apology, then move on to The Gorgias. Find out what the word "persuasion" means. That would be a good place to start.
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  39628.  @receipts324  Oh, you're thanking me for turning you on to some good books, right? (I mean, egoless people never play one-upmanship games, . . . try to undermine others, . . . and all that weird, childish stuff, right? Why would they?) You are so welcome! I hope you enjoy Plato (Apology, Gorgias, definitely before The Republic, although Socrates' words in Republic Book X about not knowing what is truly good or bad in life's most tragic accidents is sublime) and Murakami's Underground. Great winter reads! :)
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  39629.  @receipts324  And just think, I made no money suggesting this. I did it selflessly. Wow, huh?
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  39630. You forgot Charlie Hebo? What's with people's memories?
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  39631.  @George-Gibson  But almost no one does.
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  39632. He had a drama class once.
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  39633. Net migration from Mexico to the US is negative.
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  39634. 1. I do believe Trump would be a disaster. 2. I do not trust Liz Cheney. I mean, not at all.
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  39635. Pre-Clinton mafia Democrat.
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  39636. Now they have to get into the TYT-Dore-Aaron Mate controversy to get anyone to watch. And after people hear Aaron, they'll go from The Hill to following Aaron.
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  39637. What do you know about what they teach? Why do you take the word of a person known to have "discrepancies" in her story? Columbia exists as such since the 1780s. Where is your healthy skepticism? Where is your pride? So, an immigrant comes to America, obtains her degree at one of the very finest private, Ivy-League universities, has nothing nuanced to say about it, only drops slogans about "woke," claims it is much like being in North Korea again (!), and you believe every word AND you think she is doing the United States a favor. No, she's doing her bank account a favor. That this stuff sells is a symptom of the troubled times we live in, not a solution.
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  39638.  @Chester-yu1tm  It's plain to me that you are easily duped. Where is your pride? If Columbia reminded her of North Korea, why didn't she transfer? It must have been so painful for her, to spend four long years there, after all she went through. Spare me. No wonder George Santos. No wonder Anna Sorokin.
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  39639.  @Chester-yu1tm  I'm going to emigrate, but thanks anyway. Go ahead and line the pockets of those who have no respect for you and yours. My parents were immigrants. Do you think they ever spoke like this? No. They gave donations to the colleges that admitted them, of course, every year from their modest salaries. If they had criticisms, they made them in the appropriate places, and didn't look to GET PAID for it. They WORKED for their money. Be a dupe.
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  39640. ​ @utah_koidragon7117  Thank you. And, we are not talking about adults, but kids. It's called the Precautionary Principle. I don't trust studies that "prove" social media is safe for the very young any more than I trust the studies that COVID vaccines are safe for these kids. Kids and adults do not have either the same First Amendment protections or the same self-awareness to recognize a behavioral addiction. Kids will say they want to use it.
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  39641.  @SushiLady  That doesn't mean the next step should be twitter. What did kids do before social media?
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  39642.  @Rebecca-zw4pm  Before social media they were silenced? The average kid had more access to a competent social worker, for free, decades ago, when there was proper funding for social services. A high school friend whose mother was hospitalized and whose father beat him checked himself into an orphanage near school. The new media has you mesmerized. Creating a global "permanent record" a person can never leave behind is horrifyingly dangerous for kids, and has already caused depression rates to spike. Kids are less independent now than they were before, when two or three roommates working minimum wage paid the rent.
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  39643.  @Rebecca-zw4pm  I'm not surprised you think this way. You're out of touch if you don't know what social media has done to them -- providing FAKE friends, actual permanent records (we used to laugh when teachers threatened us with that), and little twitter mobs that turn on a person at the drop of a hat. At the same time that they are deprived of necessities, like a college education they can pay for with a summer job, or an apartment in any big city they want, and that three roommates together can easily afford on minimum wage. Even wholesome food is expensive, now. I'm not dismissing it at all. I just think the problem is in a totally different place than you do. Kids have been made more dependent by technology, especially on the empty-headed opinions of others. If this child's parents weren't famous, would twitter help her? Or cause her to lose her next job offer?
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  39644.  @Rebecca-zw4pm  I didn't assume anything. You said I seemed "out of touch," and stated "dismissive" of a young person in pain. Why? You had no basis to say that, plus it wasn't very nice. Social media is treacherous. That's why. That's how it usually functions.
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  39645.  @EMJean99  No worries. It has to be your way. I know that part.
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  39646.  @damirzanne  He told you. More than anyone else on the planet. /s
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  39647. Do you know how The New York Post reported this? That Petro "buckled" under Trump's demands and even offered his own plane to transport Colombians.
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  39648. ​ @briaf3370 ???
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  39649. And another guy accused him of being a leftist.
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  39650. The most distressing fact is that NO member of any country's ruling class/elite cares about our lives at all. Yes, we are in danger all right.
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  39651.  @christopheredwards7846  I'm telling you what they had all said prior to this pandemic, and prior to the vaccine rollout as well. I find that reading stuff about vaccines from before 2019 is quite eye-opening.
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  39652.  @christopheredwards7846  P. S. You call this a vaccine?
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  39653. @christopheredwards7846  Yes, I accepted the designation, since we are all using that term and it therefore speeds communication. It is unlike any other vaccine that has ever been proposed to me. Offering four innoculations in under two years, and it is still unable to prevent contraction or transmission, and it has not eliminated all need for hospitalization, either. It has not performed as promised by any stretch.
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  39654. I see your point. So, Russia moves nuclear warheads into Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. No problem. You're not even listening. Hedges explained why this invasion is nevertheless an illegal war. "A satanic level of evil," huh? What countries has the US bombed or droned since it sponsored the Ukrainian coup in 2014? If you can name them and find them on the map, you are a rarity.
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  39655.  @Sneakyboson  Ample. Start reading, from sources before the invasion. Stephen F Cohen is a good place to start.
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  39656.  @Sneakyboson  IOW, you can't name them or find them on the map. Don't feel bad, you're not alone.
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  39657. No one said that. See Lev Golinkin in The Nation, circa 2019. That has the advantage of having been written before the pandemic. If you think Ukraine having a Jewish president who is a former entertainer makes it "impossible" for neo-Nazis to have been given free rein in the eastern breakaway regions, then you have a lot of reading and studying to do. The world is not so neat.
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  39658. Uh oh. Laundered drug money props up the banking system. (See what happened when HSBC was caught.)
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  39659. ​@dthomas9230 If Trump is so dangerous, for some reason the DNC nevertheless cheated their only viable candidate in 2016, then in 2020 they ran a cognitively compromised elderly man whose son engaged in massively corrupt transactions in Ukraine. Then, they tried to run that same man -- at this point, clearly senile -- in 2024. When that was impossible, they offered a woman who was possibly the worst candidate in modern memory. All without a fair primary -- THREE elections in a row without a fair primary. I think Trump is a disaster. The Dems don't act like they think so. I bet their stocks did well.
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  39660. Why wasn't Brian arrested for possession of the van, since it belonged to Gabby? It is up to a judge to issue a warrant, not the parents. I can't figure that out. The length of time the lawyer knew the family is a positive. It helps to motivate zealous representation.
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  39661. Check Open Secrets to see how much money politicians get from billionaires. Some have given over $91 MILLION to one side, during a single presidential election cycle. That's over 45,500 $2000 checks, from one person for one campaign. Power drunk.
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  39662.  @unboxedcharacter  It is true in every state. How do people not know this? A man was prosecuted in Texas for shooting someone in the back who was running away from his house with his television set. You should know this as a matter of civics, but you even have examples on tee vee and everything, since basic rules seem to be over your head.
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  39663. Nye gave him an answer: absent the acceleration of warming trends that exists due to human activity, the climate today would be as it was in 1750. Can he make a better soundbite? This isn't a documentary, he doesn't have time to give a comprehensive answer.
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  39664.  @lmaoanatorhilarious2582  So, you expected Nye to be armed with the peer reviewed studies and to cite them there and then? Considering the level of seriousness, and the persistent denial, I guess that's fair.
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  39665. Michael Shellenberger is even worse, and it undermines his VERY important work. It undermines his credibility as a neutral reporter on the important issues he has special expertise on --- hard-won expertise. People covering the medical establishment and the pharmaceutical industry need to maintain the most scrupulous neutrality.
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  39666. Agreed.
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  39667.  @KMC597  Was she age of consent when she got pregnant? Too immature to tell right away and abort an embryo? She might be underage in my state, depending on when her birthday is. New York also. California, underage for sure. This would be viewed differently depending on where in the country it happened.
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  39668. Ah. I see you've read With Liberty and Justice for Some, still one of the books he is most proud of.
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  39669. @ChannelMath  Another non-reader impressing the non-readers.
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  39670.  @nityapatel6558  I was not hanging around anywhere waiting to be born, and given that my parents met in a refugee camp, maybe in a better world I wouldn't be here. That doesn't bother me. There is no reason to condemn anyone based on feelings they express, unless they are lying to you, to dupe you!
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  39671.  @smasher.338  Ah, I see. You are in some sort of state of delusion. Because everybody has 800 bases in 70+ countries, has intervened in 251 countries over the last three decades or so (per Congressional Research Service reports) and will do so again, as it must, at the slightest threat to dollar hegemony, because that is how it maintains its standard of living, and has the most extensive global surveillance network known to man, and the most sophisticated and pervasive propaganda. My family lives in one of those places where the US bombed. These days, it's kind of hard to avoid meeting such people. You should see their "modest" condo. It would cost millions in New York. I've never seen a nicer one in America, actually, including the ones that cost millions. No, I don't think you know how other people live. And these are ordinary people with ordinary jobs. The father was handicapped for a good while, in fact -- but most of the planet has adopted some socialist principles, fortunately, so that didn't leave them vulnerable. Small heads up: if you are worried about the influence of China in Africa, it might be wise to rein in your billionaires and their vaccines and their IMF and World Bank ideas, and ask people what they need. No, not just the top 0.1% of greed-driven sycophants in their respective countries, who parrot the slogans you love to hear. That will no longer do.
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  39672.  @smasher.338  No, I'm the one who has actually lived "in these places." You sound like you have a dog in this fight. Or, let's say your nonsense is not disinterested. Blocked.
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  39673.  @smasher.338  I told you want to do about Africa and China. It couldn't be simpler, but for some reason . . . And no one with 1/12 of a brain is "jealous" of Bill Gates, Nancy Pelosi, the Blackrock crowd, Bezos, Musk, the IMF, Davos, or any other freakshow.
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  39674.  @smasher.338  Plenty of Africans speak English or French, almost none speak Chinese. Doing what I suggested should be a cinch. So, why the immediate reflex to name calling? Why the long face? 🤣
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  39675.  @smasher.338  No, considering what they look like, and the stuff they do and did, I don't think so. Do YOU think anyone was jealous of Jeffrey Epstein? How about Ghislaine? How about Harvey Weinstein? Bill Cosby? Bezos? Musk? Leslie Wexner? Don't be abstract. Name some people. Could there be someone, somewhere who is this primitive? Well, in biology, much is possible, so I guess one should be cautious in making categorical statements. We know no one has ever grown wings or fins, we don't know that no one has been jealous. I say it's rare. I think this jealousy crap is either projection or pure propaganda. You gave yourself away there . . . "Russia Russia Russia." (Is Putin Hitler, too? LOL) France is doing a nice job lately. You can't use Paris as your bogey man, now can you?
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  39676.  @smasher.338  Of course they are being deleted. Intelligent comments will be. Trash talk never is. Intelligent comments will contain facts, and of course today that creates instant suspicion. Trash talk is mere opinion. It will therefore be less scrutinized. So, we end up believing that the level of knowledge of other people is vastly lower than it is. Neat trick, huh? Thank you for letting me know. I appreciate it, sincerely.
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  39677.  @smasher.338  Worse than that, they are being shadowed, so that I won't know at all unless someone tells me. So, gaslighting is built into the algorithm.
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  39678.  @smasher.338  Now a bunch of yours are being deleted. YT is s i ck.
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  39679.  @ab8588  Batya has her head on straight and her perceptions in order. She doesn't worry about what label you might think fits her on a Monday morning. 😂
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  39680. Too bad she inflicted her deep psychological problems on the rest of us.
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  39681. Post-Manson "Family," everyone should have known better. What does it take?
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  39682. After FDA approval, I know I will.
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  39683. The fact that CDC recommends not aspirating due to the risk of pain, as was treated extensively in another video, and the fact that nurses have stated that they are no longer trained to aspirate, as Dr. Campbell has noted in another video as well, provides the background.
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  39684. He didn't say incorrect administration is the sole cause. "If you do X, then you increase the risk of Y." Refraining from doing X is not promised to eliminate Y. Males and the young may be more sensitive to flaws in vaccine administration. Proper administration may prevent only some cases of myocarditis. Medicine is usually like this.
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  39685.  @Naxzgul23  You're right. Knowing that depends purely on background knowledge. They weren't clear here.
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  39686. Of course the plan is regime change in Russia. Jimmy has explained this in nontechnical terms, as related to the American economy's reliance on the petrodollar, and its need to keep the dollar's status as the global reserve currency. Without that, our inflation would dwarf the 1970s by a lot. Either we effect these "soft revolutions," or go to war.
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  39687. Good grief is Trudeau a creep.
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  39688. Because you're almost as crazy as Fuentes?
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  39689.  Hmmm-hmmm  Believe what you need to, to get you through the night.
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  39690. His accent reminds me of David Goggins. But Goggins has brilliant things to say, by contrast.
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  39691. VIP Section? Wasn't Jeffrey Epstein in the most exclusive VIP Sections?
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  39692. I'll believe the DNC multimillionaires were against Trump only after I see their stock portfolios before and after. All of this looks more like false flag every day. We're supposed to be diverted from real concerns for some reason, and I think Eisenhower had it right 💯.
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  39693. All of this is sounding more and more like McCarthyism. A lot of people will be ashamed in 10 years.
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  39694. That's not illegal in America.
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  39695. Bri wouldn't. She made it clear she did not vote for Biden. She is not part of their crowd.
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  39696. OH NO, THE CHILDREN!!! Now we know where this is going.
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  39697.  @my-1903  I believe it. I'm a small part Italian, my parents met there, I know them. They (we) often disappoint me. I know they know better. It's very odd, honestly.
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  39698.  @CIARUNSITE  You're right in a sense: it cannot be a matter of "faith." It is the First Amendment that constrains government. It does not constrain private actors.
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  39699. Especially liked Stef's comments. Perfect. Remember when people asked what Bill Clinton's role would be if Hillary were elected, and they were shouted down, as if the simple question were indecent? I remember.
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  39700. So glad you beat the 1000 mark! :)
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  39701.  @BlueDirt_ProAggressive  Who laughed off the shortage of hospital beds??
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  39702.  @BcroG11 There was a Gallup research study of beliefs around COVID. They asked people from various demographic categories and political preferences what they thought was the risk of hospitalization for COVID. They used 0.89% as the true figure, to demonstrate that everyone overestimated the risk, to varying degrees. I have tried to find out more, but only saw others repeating that number from Gallup. EDIT: It was Gallup. Excuse me, not Pew. I originally said Pew. I need to read this more carefully, because later in the article they explain exactly where they got their numbers.
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  39703. The penalty is to be dismissed immediately and to be disbarred. If Judge Pirro is ignorant of the oath that federal law clerks take, and what the possible federal crimes a person has violated by violating their oath, she should, um, LOOK IT UP.
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  39704. He thinks a lot of whites are far beneath him, including a lot of girls.
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  39705. @ChristianPena-ob3ke  Oh, are you supposed to have a certain degree? She does have a Master's, actually. Sorry to hear you can't listen and judge content for yourself without official guideposts. It must have been really hard for you when Fauci was running the joint.
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  39706. You are SO RIGHT.
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  39707. Welcome to the real world.
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  39708. Report says Cuomo is expendable . . . I mean, guilty of horrible behavior toward women. (Whew, that was close.)
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  39709. Read up on shortselling. A Reddit group uncovered that GameStop shortselling was overdone. Well, those short sales had to be covered.
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  39710.  @YouTubeCensorsMe  Who is "they?" One grandfather fled the Holocaust, and his mother perished. A lot of people who live in America have ancestors defined as 3/5 human, or part of the indigenous flora and fauna. Oh brave new world! To quote Shakespeare.
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  39711.  @RCaugh  Which is a bad thing, after all.
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  39712.  @mariocroatia9321  Good to know some victims don't count. Those who say that they exist are called liars. The advocats for victims who don't count themselves don't count. Germany cannot, however, use your posts as heating fuel, so reality must intrude at some point.
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  39713. Did anyone approach Epstein or Maxwell and tell them to stop what they were doing? I mean, of all of these elite people, including multibillionaires, a former president, and a royal, one would think someone would show some of the vaunted individuality and individual responsibility they always claim they embrace, and that they credit as the reason for their vast success? I guess I just don't understand.
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  39714. I thought it was obvious Bret Weinstein is not trustworthy. Unfortunately, neither is our mainstream media, though it is less bad than Weinstein. None of these people are competent, caring doctors capable of advising anyone.
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  39715. The profitability of death is the basis of the health insurance industry. Be well, or die = they make money.
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  39716. ​ @Michelle-bn1fu We'll see. I'm not optimistic, but I am reserving judgment.
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  39717. I'm Eastern European, and I've thought the same thing for the last 40 years.
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  39718. Sweden does not administer COVID vaccines to anyone under 18, or give universal boosters to anyone under 80. Everyone 18 to 79 needs some reason.
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  39719.  @robuk3723  Which one is for that??
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  39720.  @robuk3723  There is no beta blocker "for anxiety." Nor is that a common off-label use.
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  39721.  @poempadgett4664  Beta blockers are NOT anxiety medications. That is not even a common off-label use. Arrhythmia is a heart condition, and like all heart conditions, anxiety will have a harmful affect on it, and will need to be treated in some judicious manner.
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  39722.  @robuk3723  No it is not.
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  39723.  @robuk3723  Actual, clinical arrhythmia is not due to anxiety. It is, however, exacerbated greatly by anxiety -- more so than most illnesses are; often more than high blood pressure is. But it is not a psychological or emotional disorder. People may not even know they have it without a Holter monitor. Most people know if they're anxious. Pretty well all know, absent severe psychosis.
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  39724. This was a self-defense case.
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  39725.  @camillecloninger9660  Oh really? Do you remember who brought up that case? She didn't.
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  39726. @друг-з5ъ  "A Soviet" refers to an individual person, just like "an American" does, or "a Spaniard" does, or "a Canadian" does -- no more, nor less. In English, the noun phrase consisting of an indefinite article and a singular noun does not refer to a group. It always refers to an individual. (Russian doesn't have articles, only demonstratives. Perhaps that causes confusion?)
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  39727. And yet he oozes lack of self-confidence. WHY?? May as well join the globalists. The pay is better.
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  39728. ​ @nomnomyam9379 Maybe because she's very beautiful and he has issues.
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  39729. Not necessarily.
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  39730.  @dra2033  No generalization is possible.
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  39731. The neolib globalists collaborate with the extreme right. SURPRISE SURPRISE That never happens, right? 🤔
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  39732. Why are we being misinformed?
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  39733. If they did that, it would be HIPAA protected.
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  39734. There was no vaccine in 2020. People who contracted COVID had no reason to get this new vaccine, and no information whether the vaccine would not only be superfluous for them, but possibly riskier. NO information. Sounds like a mandate scenario to you?
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  39735. All of us have worked retail. When did any employer explain to us what their loss prevention policies are? If you do not sign that you agree to be held and searched in case you are investigated because of a suspicious loss, why should they be allowed to hold you? That should always be false imprisonment. You should have the right to walk out of ANY job, unless you promised in advance to cooperate with investigations. This is a contract, people!
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  39736.  kat  Even Fox isn't as nuts as this guy.
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  39737. I think American hatred of Russia has the very same substrate as every other American hatred: race. The Hitler hierarchy did not originate with Hitler, nor did it die with him. The biggest clue is the peculiar combination of hatred, fascination, and surprise: you see the very same emotions directed toward people of African descent. Who are these backward "white" people, who are clearly not Western --- and so many of them have vaguely Asian features, too! Even the blond ones do. How is that possible? And how come they get along so well with the global south? We're the diverse ones! Why don't those people like us better? We're clearly so much cooler, not to mention richer. That's what I see.
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  39738. DON'T DO THAT TO YOURSELF. Spend some time outside of the US as soon as you can.
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  39739. How does this help him now? More chaos?
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  39740. This is the left.
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  39741. ​ @S.Wally. You're right, it doesn't.
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  39742. @lisetteunk4961  For certain types of indications of abnormalities on x-rays or in the blood, that is very unlikely. No one gave themselves blood clots. If vaccines can have lingering effects, why would that be impossible in COVID? I'll say one thing about all of this --- if a person feels unwell, the worst thing you can do is to be dismissive. That guarantees a surge in symptoms. They need to feel listened to. They need a diagnosis, reassurance, and an action plan. Very often, the best thing for them is some sort of mild, progressive exercise and a better diet. The worst thing is brooding, or giving them something to brood over.
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  39743. What's remarkable to me is that all the vaccine injured were told they were hypochondriacs. Well they weren't. And now, those with lingering effects from having had the engineered virus are told the same thing. Considering how many had the vaccine and COVID and lingering symptoms . . . Hmm, sound to me like they were set up for it, not that they are to blame.
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  39744. The lips still give it away.
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  39745. Oh really? This is OUR doing. WE (and our billionaires) supported Likud and Netanyahu, against all the Israelis who have wanted peace with justice for three generations. All that human rights claptrap has always been an excuse to kill.
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  39746. Half of the replies are shadowed. Sort by Newest and see.
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  39747. Parfait
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  39748. I'm sorry, but does AA include members who are either under 18 or still in high school? You've got to be kidding. I also thought AA very strongly advises adults who meet there to wait a year before so much as going on a date. I know it cannot be enforced, but the strong warning should be a tipoff that being approached is not likely to involve true love.
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  39749.  @bobcat24  You are evil but you made me laugh.
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  39750.  @B.I.-EIO_macdonald9786  Look, I did not know they admit minors without a guardian, if that is what you are hinting. Maybe I misunderstand. I have no clue, either, why you target me with this spiel, but this is the Internet. Whatever.
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  39751.  @B.I.-EIO_macdonald9786  Morever, I've never thought to use any substance. It literally doesn't occur to me. My pain medication from an operation several years ago remains unopened. Took a cab home by myself the next day. Didn't need an aspirin. (I know this is in very large part genetic luck.) Sorry. You may need to consider some additional counseling if a simple expression of surprise that minors are admitted without an adult guardian leads you to this.
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  39752.  @B.I.-EIO_macdonald9786  I did report your post for harassment, just to let you know. You have no right to impute illegal activities (you mentioned drugs) to some stranger in a forum such as this. I suspect you were emboldened by the "like" from Dr. Grande. Perhaps I ought to unsubscribe as well.
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  39753.  @B.I.-EIO_macdonald9786  I know whether or not I'm on drugs, or whether I've ever seen a drug. Don't you? You have no right to insinuate criminality or alcoholism on someone simply because that person believes that MINORS unaccompanied by a guardian should not attend AA. As if there's no danger of exploitation! Your initial post was about that very issue. Maybe additional counseling beyond amateur group therapy might be helpful. Or consider a logic class. (BTW, is believing that minors unaccompanied by a responsible adult do not belong in adult AA meetings a symptom of alcoholism in your world? If so, I won't stand up for them. Why bother? Not my problem.)
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  39754.  @B.I.-EIO_macdonald9786  You're right. Logic class is futile.
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  39755.  @B.I.-EIO_macdonald9786  Reported again.
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  39756.  @B.I.-EIO_macdonald9786  Poor Dr. Grande emboldened you. I was right, and unsubscribed. I already caught on, by the way. Emigrating by 2025; aiming for 2023.
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  39757. This is exactly the problem. Perfectly stated. I don't want this to be the subject of a new criminal law, because it would deprive that one child in several million who truly needs early intervention, but it is obvious that the medical profession is failing to regulate itself. We must protect children, just as we do from parents who neglect them when they need emergency medical care to save their lives.
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  39758.  @zoobrizz  People who use the term "loser" are at risk of becoming a cat lady.
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  39759.  @nancywalker1325  How is that pertinent? The Trump DOJ, headed by Barr, indicted him. Not exactly a crowd hostile to the man, one would imagine. Um, maybe read the indictment? It's online, public info.
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  39760. THIS
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  39761. Very frustrating to see legitimate questions and conjectures mixed with so much obvious nonsense, and all because of the influence of a European hierarchical view of civilizations and peoples. It's not even true that all European cultures are as hierarchical as, say, the British and the German cultures tend to be.
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  39762. Not what he said. He did not trash organized sports, but actual hazing, etc. This means tolerating assault and battery if it's against a male, because "he can handle it" and "it will make a man out of him." No. That is ridiculous. A lot of people go into martial arts to push back against hazing and similar evils. I think that's often a great idea.
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  39763. Who's asking you to "support" gay people? What does that even mean? You think someone needs your approval? Wow.
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  39764. When Paul Allen got diagnosed with a highly treatable form of cancer, BILL GATES immediately tried to push him out of Microsoft. Sounds like just the guy to tell us to take an injection that will make him more money.
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  39765. It is Russian property. Do you seriously believe they have no standing to request investigation? And is terrorism a "Nato thing to do?"
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  39766. BTW, this was only if you tested positive and showed symptoms of COVID. But yes, she acknowledged a potential overcount.
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  39767. More money in not breaking the case.
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  39768. Thank you
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  39769. Justin Jackson is great.
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  39770. Man is mortal.
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  39771. You guys know what happened, right? High school became feminized, then the university did. There used to be men teaching high school. Now, men only teach graduate school. That's why docility passes for "academic merit."
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  39772. Strictly speaking, if government actors pressured or simply requested that Twitter censor the Hunter Biden story, then the First Amendment most certainly IS implicated. Robbie was misleading about this as well.
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  39773.  @negrildoc  "From your mouth to God's ears" is the phrase that comes to mind. :)
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  39774. Not only that, but you can look up Chauvin's federal plea agreement and see what Chauvin pled guilty to. It describes exactly what Chauvin himself agrees he did. I guess Candace missed that part? She should stick to saying Madame Macron is a man. 😂
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  39775. We don't have two round voting.
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  39776. Also, our media lies to you.
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  39777. $6 by me
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  39778. There is no such citizen's arrest law in Wisconsin. Had Huber survived, and killed Rittenhouse, could he have claimed self-defense/defense of others based on his reasonable belief he was disarming an active shooter? Very possible.
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  39779. That's not even a correct statement of the law in effect at the time Ahmaud Arbery was killed. It says nothing about "hearsay," which is a term of the civil procedure concerning introduction of evidence, and has nothing to do with whether an alleged victim reported a crime.
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  39780.  @djanitatiana  "Common law?" Kindly cite a case.
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  39781.  @djanitatiana  The reason Grosskreutz is not facing first degree intentional homicide charges is because he didn't kill or shoot or beat or even touch anyone.
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  39782.  @djanitatiana  Where did you go to law school? What bar(s) are you a member of?
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  39783. No one ever made $54,000 a year in my family. I thought I was lucky because I had $1000 a month from my parents while a full-time student. To cover everything. I thought that was a lot of money. I still do.
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  39784. 18:58 HOORAY for Brie!!
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  39785. FINALLY
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  39786.  @sydnacious4239  Because abortion can be made illegal by any state and childbirth before late teens carries serious risks. There's one reason right there, which is purely logical.
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  39787. EXACTLY. But the contrast really is striking. Goes to his mentality . . . get to the part where he is sleeping at his girlfriend's house.
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  39788. Also, these women are very beautiful. You can't not see it.
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  39789. Well. No wonder we are where we are.
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  39790. I'm seeing Glenn's fundamental point: the lies woven to support Biden cannot be justified because Trump is so awful (he is). The only problem the mainstream press and the DNC had with Trump all along was that he was not "one of them." They had no problem with Harvey Weinstein or with Jeffrey Epstein when they were still serviceable.
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  39791. The power of love. ❤
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  39792. ​ @Clyde_Ono  He supports this administration on First Amendment rights and Gaza?? Sure he does . . .
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  39793.  Josiah Stirner  Wait. What's walnut sauce? (I got the other two.)
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  39794. Well, this channel covering Pool is pretty weird, too.
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  39795.  @beanabovethefrank1499  I prefer reading. You learn much more than from videos talking about other videos talking about magazines featuring celebrities. This is insipid gossip about gossip.
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  39796.  @beanabovethefrank1499  This is worse gossip than Dr. Grande. 🤣🤣🤣 Just kidding. There's no way to compare this nonsense anymore.
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  39797. 10:00 This is terrible.
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  39798. ​@NBrown-kh8lp No, silly, it's collage education. 😂😂😂😂😂
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  39799. But Jimmy! All the better people listen to CNN and Jim Acosta. /s
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  39800. Best
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  39801. No clue why the sympathy.
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  39802. Does anyone watch NBC?
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  39803. NFP isn't establishment 10:10
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  39804. The reason that people panicked was because a handful of severe cases and deaths that seemed to have absolutely no risk factors were so widely publicized, creating the impression that they were common and anyone could die. They really pushed the fear. "You could be next!!" What Kim said in her radar about a friend with a preschooler at home who still cowers at home was heartbreaking.
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  39805.  @norman_5623  Certainly COVID causes death directly, by causing the immune system malfunction known as cytokine storm, and by causing the lining of blood vessels to become inflamed. What you are describing is more often found in influenza, especially certain varieties of Type A.
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  39806. He kept getting sued for illegal practices, which is surprising.
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  39807. She's great. Don't be so jealous.
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  39808. Did Depp lose work before losing his case in UK?
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  39809. Too rich to have none other than Stefanik announce this. No pun intended. I would prefer to hear this news from the Speaker. (Is he all right?) Also, are they calling for the invocation of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment or not?
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  39810. OF COURSE
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  39811. "Fighting for their values" is a very vague slogan. It seems to me that a good part of what Zelensky does is based on fear of the small but powerful neo-Nazis in the Ukrainian military. (Consult Lev Golinkin on that issue; he is very knowledgeable, profoundly opposed to Putin, and published his work well before the invasion.)
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  39812. ​ @cardboardboxification  You mean it wasn't the soccer moms this time?
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  39813. At sentencing, a psychiatrist diagnosed him with severe alcohol abuse and severe dissociative disorder. He has won fiction prizes while in prison. The act of killing his brothers is chilling and appears psychopathic. The rest, less so.
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  39814. I'll walk that back a bit: you don't hear it in the MSM. You sure do from KIM IVERSEN.
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  39815. U of Michigan took this case in their innocence project. This video does not help.
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  39816. So, he makes a $44b offer, before LOOKING? Stop bending over. Ditch the knee pads.
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  39817. Who does Sciutto think defeated the Wehrmacht?
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  39818. If you watch math videos, you find out how many of them are from Africa. They teach standard mathematics, I hope you know.
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  39819. I knew the vaccine mandates would have to be abandoned. It was obvious that if you could ride it out, you'd be all right.
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  39820. This is what shocks me the most. I just don't get it.
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  39821. "Misinformation" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  39822. A carnival barker con man who threw his last vice president under the bus and a preeminent toxic torts lawyer who has saved kids from cancer with his victories. Yeah, RFK Jr should definitely bend over for Trump. How crazy are people?
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  39823. 16:35 Je vous remercie, M. Todd. Maintenant, je respire mieux.
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  39824. Tout ce qu'il a dit est vrai.
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  39825. Not very many people read it. They are already claiming it says things it does not say. So that they can have the thrill of taking sides.
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  39826. ^^
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  39827. I had to find out: he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy for the Department of Energy. Because he got his Master's at MIT.
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  39828. ​ @dorothyclemmer5099 Not me
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  39829. ​@simc... I am not allowed to say there was a hospital bed available for a certain person who did a certain thing during a very famous long distance race that took place in a famous east coast city whose name begins with the letter bee. How about that? 😂 What he did involves a word beginning with that very same letter. Huh.
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  39830. Those who forced vaccines, insisted on no liability with full patent protection and process secrecy for the pharmaceutical companies, and deprived those who disagreed with them of their liberty, property, jobs, and good reputation, and even undermined young people's physical and mental health --- those are tyrants.
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  39831. No. He really made no sense. The people who drew salaries from these schools cannot have the money clawed back. The schools themselves would be liable for fraud BUT they are bankrupt. So, who should be on the hook? The victims?
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  39832. Scary. Also, notice how so many rich Americans do NOT earn their money.
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  39833. Then they have a duty to do that.
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  39834.  @ghettotrippin9498  Then why are they violating confidentiality to make statements outside of court or Congress --- if they are?
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  39835.  @ghettotrippin9498  We are not far apart it looks like.
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  39836. Russell Brand finds the Catholic Church suspiciously soon after being accused of s_x cr_mes. 😂
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  39837.  @rifleman4005  I won't argue with anything you said in your opening paragraphs, as it is either a non sequitur or pointless (and by the way, what is it to me that corporations with zero profits can spawn billionaires, and control what I have access to, without my being consulted? Is there some reason I should be impressed, or celebrate that?) But what in the world makes you think I worship government? Why would I ever think government "cares" about me in any sense? The very same corporations, where I have no vote, run the government, too. Most of what the US has achieved is thanks to its geography, which has allowed it to grow a powerful army without being challenged, which in turn allowed it to extract wealth from the rest of the world. We can measure the wealth extraction using its own numbers: the national debt in foreign hands, and the trade imbalance. Of course it is much more than that -- a lot of raw materials were extracted very cheaply from the Third World, for generations, apart from extracting slaves -- but those two very current numbers start to paint a more nuanced and intriguing picture. They make you start to ask questions, instead of parroting the same nonsense every day.
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  39838. ​@phillustrator But what if that's her super power? 😅
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  39839. M4A is the right thing to push Pelosi on even without a pandemic. She managed to lose seats, even with TRUMP in the White House. And it wasn't the progressives who lost!
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  39840. ​ @sues3218 Does she also have to support Likud? A lot of Israelis don't.
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  39841. Why does she believe them?
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  39842.  @what_a_beautiful_noise  On the contrary. You don't know who is behind the most bizarre conspiracy tales, or what their motives are. Separating you from your money is one major theme. It is more and more important to understand risk, and evidence, and things like burdens of proof and Occam's Razor.
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  39843.  @what_a_beautiful_noise  I do. And I get news from other countries as well. Our media thrives on getting people to take sides, become almost hysterical, etc. It is a game to them. They make their money that way.
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  39844.  @zeusathena26  And I do not know a SINGLE person who is vaccine hesitant who has not had a serious injury from a drug, either to themselves or immediate family. EVERY one of those people has taken all their other vaccines as recommended, and would take this one if their concerns are addressed. Well, if you can start a thread by smearing your poor mother-in-law, it's a very small step to smear other people. I can see YOU are dedicated to improving public health. Smearing people is always a good plan. That'll get them to comply. I would never take any drug to "prove" I despised Trump.
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  39845. Are you against capitalism?
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  39846. 😂😂😂
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  39847. ​ @AnthonyKComedy I've been studying MK-ULTRA, done to Americans and allies. Enough said. 😥
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  39848. I think this is reversion to the mean. Those with property held the vote for themselves until they found a way to grant it to the rest of us while maintaining full de facto control of the reins of power. This is what they always do. The real vote mirrors a corporate election: not one man, one vote, but x shares, x votes. They don't even have to work particularly hard to hide it anymore.
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  39849.  @vanforeman3829  Thanks!!
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  39850. No evidence for 40 child beheadings, though sadly it is not impossible. But let's stay with facts.
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  39851. 10:10 try again
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  39852. I don't believe it, but to be fair, those who do maintain it happened ONE time, and was a miracle.
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  39853. Those platforms are private, and Section 230 permits extensive censorship. Nothing to do with the US Constitution. Actually, the last Supreme Court Justice to question this kind of private censorship of speech was Thurgood Marshall. I was just reading what he wrote about it, last century. Those were the days . . .
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  39854. Trump is SOOOO dangerous that the Democrats are taking out their big guns and running Joe Biden against him. Wow they are serious this time.
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  39855. Read the reports about Rotherham; NYTimes did a good job there. Great point, by the way. And the tabloids in UK only talk about Megan. Unbelievable.
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  39856. Shapiro got to calling for the kid's award to be cancelled really fast, I thought. And over what? This? I thought he opposed cancel culture.
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  39857.  @MatthewGraham027 Pointing out that they both acted badly, in surprising ways, is the exact problem? I think being duped into taking sides yet again is the problem. Ben's reflex was to call for the guy's award to be cancelled. People didn't pick up on that? He lost his cool fast, and over WHAT? Shapiro is making these people out to be more important than they are, because that way, he will get everyone angry and . . . make more easy money. Do you think that is a proper job for a graduate of Harvard Law? He could be setting precedent by limiting what public schools can do that encroaches on parents' constitutional rights, for example. But that takes work.
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  39858.  @MatthewGraham027  The actual issue of transgender was hardly touched on. I'm not in favor of the way the trend is unfolding at all. Shapiro is cashing in on the controversy, not actually doing anything.
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  39859.  @MatthewGraham027  And you're weighing in on "who got owned!" Um, maybe you? Maybe you got owned?
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  39860.  @MatthewGraham027  Excuse me, who are you? Oh that's right. According to you, my view is the problem. Weighing in on "who got owned" is the solution. 🤣
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  39861. Ironic, as Americans were assured that former East Germany had the greatest animosity toward Russia.
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  39862. I think he's hinting at euthanasia?
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  39863. ​ @arcguardian  Well, I can promise you that it once did. This is very new.
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  39864. @urbansetter1  I did not say any of those things. I was talking about reading. If YOU are a critical thinker, then go back and look. I don't care if other people conflate any or all of these points, I don't care if you've heard them conflated in the past, I don't care if they have been conflated so frequently that it has become difficult to see one without thinking you've seen the others. I did not do that, and I do not agree with those who do, AND I made that clear. Go back and read it.
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  39865.  @urbansetter1  Was your post shadowed? It did appear on my feed.
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  39866. He doesn't remember how much money he has.
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  39867. ​ @norman_5623 Then why didn't they tell the truth?
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  39868. 8:25 His image of being a heavy drug user probably made him more popular . . . One of the saddest lines I have ever heard. ;(
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  39869. Bernie Steinberg stands head and shoulders above everyone else in this picture.
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  39870. Thank you.
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  39871. C'est vrai?
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  39872. ​ @kingcecil7126 try again
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  39873. David Hume said something very similar in Dialogues On Natural Religion. Striking, really.
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  39874. Apex predator Newsom got it wrong. Or should I say would-be apex predator?
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  39875.  @randomsasquatchwithwifi4090  What died and who ate half of it?
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  39876.  @Suki0428  Also, why is his voice the boy equivalent of AOC's?
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  39877. Did you hear what she said?? Her analogy?
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  39878. Notice all the things around us that have the strong feeling of false flags. If not, a lot of people are neither bright nor disciplined.
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  39879.  @orsors2129  What does that do to Ms.?
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  39880. Remember the Beslan school seige and massacre? ABC News interviewed the terrorist mastermind of the massacre and gave him a prime time platform -- Nightline. When Russia protested, the US government said "First Amendment." They did not even offer sympathy. But you want to remove elected American Congress members for criticizing a foreign country. Remarkable.
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  39881.  @barbarabrooks4747  all true SADLY!!
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  39882. We are millions. 😊
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  39883. "Bankman" you could not make this up
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  39884. @heyitsme That's not how past trauma is analyzed under the law. If you commit an assault against someone, and their suffering is more extreme than it would otherwise have been because it was not their first experience of assault, that is a reason to increase the compensation you have to pay if they were to sue you in tort. You don't get to pass that off as their tough luck. In criminal court, judges take victim impact statements as well, though those are more on the order of catharsis than to make a large difference in penalties. Look how no one wants to take responsibility! Neither those committing assaults and rapes, nor those making false accusations.
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  39885.  @JordanBPeterson  I do not know what "coercion leading to permissiveness" means.
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  39886.  @09bamasky  You sound like you might not be the best therapist. You cast aspersions on my social circle (by innuendo, of course), and I set that straight, and you assumed people who have been raped would confide in you -- so that the fact no one has confided in you must mean it never occurred. I made/make no such assumptions. I stated a fact. Actually, several. Like I said, law is not a soft social science. ;)
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  39887. You're guaranteed to be hired if you meet eligibilty. It does not mean you get a check forever, no matter what happens later and no matter what you do. Opportunity should be available to all.
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  39888. Wait. Shapiro calls what he does WORK?? When did he ever work in the first place?
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  39889. ​​ @vladthedragon8250  You would appreciate US v. Alvarez, where the "stolen valor" statute was struck down. Or maybe not. In any case, you should read it.
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  39890.  @vladthedragon8250  A free speech advocate
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  39891. Please no.
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  39892. It started with Saint Reagan --- who also indemnified vaccine manufacturers and for the first time taxed Social Security. Of course back then, the CIA supported bin Laden.
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  39893.  @Colin-v6q  Can you believe the propaganda has convinced Americans that universal, comprehensive health care is worse? First, gut the education system . . . Starts there.
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  39894. After Trump proved alternative facts can be used to get ahead, everyone else adopted them with gusto, and tried to up the ante. Why wouldn't they? Plato already described this phenomenon. See for example Gorgias.
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  39895. 4:47 Devastating
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  39896. Excellent reasoning.
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  39897. Trump's conduct might be the cause, objectively.
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  39898. @OscarLangleySoryu  What do you think "the administration" is? Look up the new Title IX Fact Sheet. Claiming a woman's "gender identity" is enough to be admitted to women's sports and women's spaces, and schools must comply. This is a decision the Biden administration has made. How carefully was this considered before it was adopted? Even if you consider that wise and fair, you certainly cannot deny that it was politically fraught.
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  39899.  @OscarLangleySoryu  I just did, citing actual regulations. Guess what happened to my post?
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  39900.  @OscarLangleySoryu  Do you think no one is providing that? Guess what's happening to re_____ies.
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  39901. @OscarLangleySoryu  Well, my reference is verboten. It was to something much more tangible, in fact. And l've made sure my notifs are free of your blather.
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  39902.  @OscarLangleySoryu  Blocked
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  39903.  @OscarLangleySoryu  Now we know what you think about censorship, too. All good, as long as it's good for you. Bari Weiss is your spiritual twin.
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  39904. The "moral lens" could be criticized as well.
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  39905. There was a trial. I know the prosecutor. ALL documents were made public, on a website that was updated with pdfs every day. But Candace knows better.
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  39906.  @Ixaglet  There was a trial. I know the prosecutor. ALL documents were made public, on a website that was updated with pdfs every day. I watched or read about the proceedings every single day. The Supreme Court recently denied cert. But college dropout Candace knows better. "In other shocking news, Madame Macron is a man!!!!"
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  39907.  @Ixaglet  I never watch any cable station, and never have. I never watch Tik Tok. You?
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  39908.  @Ixaglet  But I do get censored here if I present actual facts from the trial and the court documents.
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  39909.  @Ixaglet  Where did you find "the" coroner's report? Which one? The one presented at trial?
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  39910. ​​ @Ixaglet ​Have you looked up Chauvin's federal plea agreement, to see what Chauvin pled guilty to in federal court? It describes exactly what Chauvin himself agrees he did. I guess Candace missed that part?
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  39911. Funny she missed Chauvin's federal guilty plea. Takes two seconds to find. Federal court requires allocution: he had to say what he did, to support the guilty plea.
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  39912. ​ @tmnt10000 Actions speak louder than words.
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  39913. ​ @goosey235  There is no legitimate First Amendment argument that supports Gates. Really none. See Nadine Strossen on that.
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  39914. I do not support the sentence, and in any event I support suspended sentences, but you should do your research. This nurse made no fewer than nine major errors. You skip to what's convenient for you. Warnings were plastered all over the drug, she overrode a code to get to it, and then ignored a patient in obvious distress for a long time.
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  39915.  @alexkorneev6469  OH, it does not take long to make serious money in the police force. But the stress is huge.
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  39916. @Bo Didley In fact, funding increased. The slogan increased, too. That seems to happen a lot.
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  39917. @Bo Didley  Yes it is.
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  39918. When I hear about her work schedule and how she is treated when she is not working, I am shocked. If she isn't well, why doesn't she have ample relaxation, regular walks in nature and visits to the ocean, a wholesome diet that she enjoys? All of this is essential for recovery and for maintaining mental balance. Wouldn't most people with emotional illnesses who are being forced to work 70 hours a week, even occasionally, have problems with their mental and physical health? If she's so fragile, all the worse. That schedule requires a supportive environment and solid health.
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  39919. Please cite the statute under which they were convicted so we can look it up.
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  39920. I thought it was rather a relief, considering . . .
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  39921.  @song4night  I can't believe that anymore.
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  39922. He's not wrong. The really funny part is that smart phone and McFood addicts think drug addicts have choices. 😂 Those 40%+ obese got that way for some reason . . . maybe their choice? Funny, no one chose that after the depression and WWII, when the temptation to overeat was great.
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  39923.  President Elect ToolGal462  LOL my goodness. :D
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  39924.  President Elect ToolGal462  I don't care. I didn't vote for either one, and never would. The proof needs to be presented to the courts. Or do you think a Twitter poll gets to decide? Ask someone you respect about how that works.
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  39925. His personal physician recommended it.
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  39926.  @fuhkshet9703  Well, but Jimmy is under a doctor's care for a rare bone condition. His body was unable to metabolize the minerals needed to keep his bones healthy, so he always follows his doctor's advice on this stuff. It was the rational thing to do. If you don't have preexisting conditions, if no one you live with has preexisting conditions, and no one you frequent is 70 years old or older, do whatever you want.
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  39927. ​ @standupguy12 How long was Kalief Browder in jail? For a bare allegation of a stolen backpack.
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  39928.  @royjacobs1204  Which country do we have more to say about? Which one has more effect on our lives? Browder spent 700 days in solitary confinement alone.
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  39929.  @williamyonan529  That is often a condition of bond in the US. It is harsh, true. We all tried it during COVID!
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  39930. Oh what nonsense. Our cities are not a mess? They are not covered with human waste? Tent cities are not growing? Every crisis doesn't result in more money flowing upward? Or, rather, gushing upward? Do you think labels like "woke" and slogans like "individual freedom" solve anything? This is STILL your strategy? If someone as horrible as Putin and his cronies can solve these problems, shouldn't it be easy for the superior West? Yes. It really should. Inventing memes may line your pockets, and that may be your priority. It doesn't take a single person off the streets.
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  39931. It is going to be very difficult to figure out the contribution of vaccines and the contribution of COVID and COVID exposure to these syndromes. Among other things, people were pushed to get vaccinated after recovering from COVID(!!!) No one tested any vaccines on this population. Multivariate analysis is needed, and to do it right, researchers have to do it honestly. It takes impeccable ethics and careful judgment. Do you have faith in the system to do that? There was a doctor on YouTube who removed every post that mentioned "multivariate analysis." How many more are like him?
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  39932. Who's Tim Black? Honest. I don't know.
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  39933.  @tayan219  Because I never heard of a minor player in this space? Plz don't be ridiculous. Thnx.
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  39934. Which case was that?
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  39935. Found it. That wasn't the US Supreme Court, that was ONE federal appellate court, in a 2-1 decision, 4th Circuit, last year. What is with people? Who is worth parroting? Who do you trust that much?
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  39936. Donald Trump: Firing, jailing, and bombing. And it has only been two months, with forty-six more to go. Don't think his supporters don't like it.
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  39937. ​ @kyle-ri5mz Oh, educating kids makes you broke, but coddling dysfunctional billionaires and allowing them to set the social and political agenda is what? Good for "growth?" The dollar is more and more dependent on military might, and that was predictable. The dollar not being backed by other things, the way it once was.
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  39938. ​ @kyle-ri5mz Tell that to China and India, lol.
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  39939.  @kyle-ri5mz  And I answered your second post.
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  39940. I know. He refused to marry his husband while it was still illegal in the US . . . Oh wait. He emigrated to marry his husband.
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  39941. OMG, I didn't notice how old this was!!
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  39942.  @anonymousperson1771  What [the __ ] do you think you know about me? It's like you all live in an alternative reality now. I singlehandedly and for no compensation took care of a combat veteran with PTSD (no, not a husband and not because I had to) during his final illness. It lasted five years. I already know you have exactly zero idea of what that means. That's merely one responsibility of many that I've voluntarily taken on. And why do I feel like I just cast pearls before swine? Maybe because I did.
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  39943.  @anonymousperson1771  And talk about misplaced! Do you understand this thread? Read the first comment -- which was realistic. Sad, but in harmony with reality as it exists today. The very second post asserts the first person to comment is personally "part of the problem." I don't think this is right; I pointed out the problem is larger than any one person. Thanks for stopping by to prove I'm right. There's tons of you out there.
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  39944.  @anonymousperson1771  You know what else is typical in me me me me me America? If someone gets attacked, and you defend them, like I did right here, the next harpy will come after you. Never fails. Nice little society ya got there.
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  39945. I see him as too weak to feel good about his death. I'm indifferent.
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  39946. It's personal? Is it always personal for you, or something?
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  39947.  @davemartino5997  By whom? LOL
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  39948. Oh really? In high school and college all of my close friends' parents were having their last babies. My best friend's mother was 45. My aunt was almost 47. No one ever touched a fertility drug, either.
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  39949. The market went down but didn't crash. Of course no stimulus.
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  39950. "We have to say the same points over and over . . . " How did that work for "Russiagate?" Um, not so much?
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  39951.  @tosaye  Okay. But the substance of the speech was that the current election is "an epic struggle."
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  39952.  @tosaye  It was a great performance, exceptional not just for the field but for any field. And if you believe her, performance is the least important thing to care about.
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  39953.  @tosaye  If Trump had to go in their eyes, like it does in mine, we would have a better candidate. Trump does, however, act like he wants to go. Who is Biden a place-holder for?
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  39954.  @darlenemiller1550  The problem is, hard work hasn't made money in a long time. Is that what you think the new hyperrich are doing, working? Maybe the truth hurts too much to face it.
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  39955.  @vainezaiven6677  This is nonsense. Law is hard, and solid political analysis is rare. Gray is far better than a lot of people in media. She makes less money because her broadcasts are on a high level. That's the truth of the matter. She could never match Maddow or Ingraham in money.
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  39956.  @vainezaiven6677  Wait. Gray was the Press Secretary of a major presidential candidate. Or didn't you know that?
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  39957.  @vainezaiven6677  She worked in a law firm, then in journalism, then for Sanders. Now she has her own business. Most people want their own business.
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  39958.  @vainezaiven6677  Doesn't mean she doesn't know about economics.
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  39959. Yanis Varoufakis is excellent on this point. As long as we have the national debt and trade deficits we do, the money needs to cycle back -- and where do you think it is going to go? Wall Street needs the Chinese to place their dollars in our markets, and to allow them access to its markets, of course.
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  39960. What do the Clintons have on Obama??
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  39961. Great idea. The lapse of time would make it more dispassionate. How do people believe in things that have no basis? Always important to know.
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  39962. So no Senator but Manchin believes vile actions should have consequences?
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  39963. Good question. This video approved of going after these defendants for their words without telling us their words. We just learned that the words were mean and hurtful. Criticizing the IOC should generally be protected as free speech everywhere.
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  39964. How much debt is for trade school?
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  39965. Jobs that are dangerous physically NEED real unions and always did.
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  39966. Who is coerced by Medicare and Medicaid? Point to one doctor or nurse.
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  39967. Not what she said. But I'm starting to think this is a marketing strategy. Outrage brings in eyeballs.
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  39968. Yeah, but come on . . . You know the mentality by now.
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  39969. ​ @causewaykayak Don't be silly. We know better.
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  39970. Ethiopia just joined BRICS, Indonesia has expressed interest. . . . Hmm 🤔
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  39971. Can you be serious? This escalation could have been avoided, and it could have ended in a matter of weeks. US/UK intervened to cause Zelensky to pull out of peace talks. At this point, Ukrainians continue to die for nothing because they cannot win.
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  39972. @charityakampumuza5632  Hm, so, who has she promoted, or covered for? Harvey Weinstein The Secret authors/grifters Bill Gates Dr. Phil Dr. Oz John of God, sentenced to several hundred years for trafficking That's just off the top of my head. I don't blame her for the scandal at the school she founded in South Africa, unless the issues there persisted.
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  39973.  @poliziagrammaticale9430  I think he's indecipherable. He could be worse than Biden, or better. Also, he'd be subject to threats that he'd hide from us and take very seriously. So, that makes it all the harder to know.
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  39974. Red herring. Focusing on Matt Walsh and Joe Rogan is new media gossiping about other new media, when the real issue is incredibly serious. No one is defending kids any more. This reminds me of the Salem Witch Trials and every other cult that has swept through this sorry society.
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  39975. You must know why he didn't.
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  39976. His security consultants told him to cut it out. He can follow their advice or pay them more or pay someone else more.
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  39977.  @shostako1284  What is a criminal case? Are charges pending for stalking the car his child was allegedly riding in?
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  39978.  @shostako1284  Of course it can. I'm asking whether this is simply an anecdote, or whether a police report was made.
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  39979. 1:57 instant "Like" This was channeling George Carlin. One of your best, Jimmy.
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  39980. That's not what he said. Passive voice, no agent. Neither the FBI nor Congress was mentioned, OR unambiguously implied, as the source of planted "stories." 0:20
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  39981.  @garymorris1856  Tell me. Is it drugs? What is it? I'm sorry. I can't figure this out anymore. I wouldn't want to be in the same room as you anymore than I would with her. What happened to people's reasoning faculties? Where did they go? What if you need for someone else to be rational? Then what? What do you do when nobody is? Aren't YOU worried?
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  39982.  @garymorris1856  I answered your question and cited an actual Supreme Court case, when you thought I couldn't. Is that why you're so angry? I'll bet.
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  39983.  @garymorris1856  This has nothing to do with sympathy or passion. Have you ever heard of Kant?
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  39984.  @garymorris1856  The facts of what this woman did 16 years ago have no bearing on whether she is legally sane at this time, and thus can be legally executed under the Eighth Amendment. No one is petitioning to attack her conviction.
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  39985.  @gillian123ist  Check it yourself. Public record.
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  39986.  @patriciabrenner9216  No one is discussing her sanity at the time of the crime. The only issue is whether she is sane at the time of execution. Why does this elude you? I have no special "sympathy" for this perpetrator. It is about principles, not feelings. It is unconstitutional to execute someone who cannot appreciate what is happening now due to mental disease or defect.
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  39987.  @truthseeker7612  The real irony is that they are in the grip of their passions, and they think it's me who opposes this execution based on misplaced feelings, rather than the law. Our Eighth Amendment standard is really low already, and they want it lowered further. It's truly sad. We were still sentencing people to death for things they did as juveniles into this century. This was illegal almost everywhere else on the planet.
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  39988. Because for most of those demonstrating in Western cities, it's not true.
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  39989. Disappointing.
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  39990. Precisely.
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  39991. Who is surprised?
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  39992. The lockdown left deserves EVERY word that Max uttered, and MORE.
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  39993. 1. Lawyer-client communications are (supposed to be) confidential. That comes first. 2. This is how a president's son, who himself is a Yale Law School grad, and his lawyer talk. 3. Who doesn't miss the Soviet Union? One more year of this and I'll miss Madame Mao.
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  39994. Just the opposite. I never want to hear lies about who defeated Hitler. Or that the Red Army had no Jews. Weird detail the official Western account omits as well.
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  39995. This thread is heavily ________.
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  39996.  @dmelson7502  Sort under Newest, you'll see a whole bunch were shadowed.
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  39997. WHAT "stuff?"
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  39998. The claim was that the blockade is preventing supplies of essential goods from reaching Cuba. Either it is the case or it is not. What is the point of mentioning trade agreements? They set the rules, and the intentions, they don't guaranteed a game will take place.
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  39999. Therefore, blockade is too strong a word. It is a comprehensive embargo.
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  40000.  @peachmelba1000  Well, little you has the power of the US war machine behind you. So your preference is law -- because in the jungle, might makes right.
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  40001.  @peachmelba1000  You still have the power of the US war machine behind you.
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  40002. Believing this lie and refusing to file income taxes has rendered elderly people homeless more than once. Nice work, Bub.
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  40003.  @paulburger8036  No. As a staff attorney for the court, assigned to assist them, I've seen this tragedy unfold over and over, often due in part to senility.
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  40004.  @paulburger8036  Nope, saved people from this fate. And did. You think people want 80-year-old homeless in the rural Great Plains or something? If some vultures could profit, sure, they would push for it, but that's not possible.
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  40005. Trump is such a Danger to the World that they are running Biden against him.
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  40006. ​@ThisisKyle Russians within Ukraine's borders were being killed since 2014. Israel periodically attacks Gaza. Not that that justified a terrorist attack on the civilians. Do you think either war arrived out of the blue? The US is feeding both.
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  40007.  @Columbus1152  Redundant. You already said the important ones. If Taiwan ended production tomorrow, would all essential DoD functions be unaffected? If Taiwan were invaded, must the US go to war?
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  40008.  @ChalrieD  His post implies that is not necessary.
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  40009.  @Columbus1152  Well, that is reassuring. So, this report lacks essential details. Or, raises questions that have some answers after all.
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  40010. What a motley crew. I would get rid of all of them and start over.
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  40011. Hearing the pain in his voice is hard.
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  40012. @JasS-hu6cf  Her very good friend Harvey Weinstein paid lots of taxes, too. Good thing, it's going to his upkeep now!
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  40013. @elaine1034  nope, it was a mistake in spelling "Orpah," the daughter-in-law of Naomi who became widowed but did not accompany Naomi and Ruth.
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  40014.  @mE-zx7pt  That is amazing, sincerely. What are you doing now?
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  40015. 15:15 -- hmm, the "support it gets from us," Marc said. Members of Israeli's Labor party and a lot of people who write op ed pieces in Haaretz believe that people in the US are supporting the Israeli right and preventing a solution. I take them at their word.
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  40016. @evancoates2186  Well, with any luck at all, you have 20 more years to be young, then another 20 to be middle-aged. Fight back by eating well and exercising every day. Try that first. My late mom used to say, when times are tough, food comes first.
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  40017.  @julieoelker1865  PLEASE read White Coat Black Hat. This is by an MD who decided to go into philosophy and is currently a professor of philosophy. Pristine credentials. You will not believe what you'll read about the pharmaceutical industry. They own everyone. The book dates from 2010.
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  40018. @euclidy2681  A very small, phenomenally rich ruling class, whose collective net worth exceeds that of some countries, and who have inordinate power over (supposedly) democratic governments to set public policy for the rest of us. Trace the roots of pandemic policies. Then look at the 2008-2009 crisis again. Or maybe for the first time.
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  40019. @euclidy2681  I think they will let you read my reply, this time.
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  40020. You can look up Chauvin's federal plea agreement and see what Chauvin pled guilty to. It describes exactly what he agrees he did.
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  40021.  @DavidNefelimSlayer  Why? Federal court requires allocution, before a federal judge who is not elected. Why not look it up and see for yourself? You think Candace is more trustworthy?
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  40022.  @DavidNefelimSlayer  But why did Chauvin plead guilty, then? What did he have to gain? Nothing. It can only hurt his appeals and his habeas corpus chances.
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  40023. THIS Many jobs fall into cult-like thinking, too.
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  40024. Is a Proud Boys demonstration, or a speech by the author of The Bell Curve, "harassment of blacks?"
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  40025. Totally false. In New York, a civil rights suit would be dismissed absent evidence of actual innocence. They were indeed exonerated before settling for $41 million. It's in the complaint. This is who Hillary once called the super predators who needed to be brought to heel. Remember? The laws that caused the prison population to soar were mostly passed under Clinton.
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  40026. ​ @MR-nl8xr  Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic. It's all there, copiously documented. All of these drugs are overprescribed, especially to people under 25.
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  40027.  @Against_my_odds  Hope my post to you was not shadowed! I dare to cite (gasp!!) a book that fully supports you. (Is that still okay, lol?)
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  40028.  @Against_my_odds  I mean, what else? LOL. ;)
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  40029. Of course the Russians didn't put bounties on US soldiers. They put up UFOs over our nuclear plants. /s
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  40030.  @CheesyChez421  Neera, Neera, really. You're almost as bad with your comments and tweets as The Donald.
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  40031.  @CheesyChez421  And I'm the Tooth Fairy. Where do you get this paranoid delusion that you're talking to a mere mortal? Because I gave you too much credit? How was I supposed to know mortals trash talk for free? Gosh, I'll know better next time, I guess.
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  40032.  @CheesyChez421  Yeah, who is "Timmy?" I thought you were talking about Jimmy. Tim Pool doesn't go by "Timmy," and Pool is trying to milk the "Trump may have won" nonsense for all it's worth. He's even asking for donations during his podcast, not waiting for the conclusion.
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  40033.  @CheesyChez421  Does Jimmy Dore go by "James?" You don't even know how to designate people correctly. But you do seem to love the Neera Tanden method of insult, only you don't get paid for it. And you think someone else is stupid? Hey, keep going, don't stop.
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  40034.  @CheesyChez421  I suppose you also didn't know "mook" is often regarded as a racial slur. Based on your skills, I believe you didn't.
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  40035. Aaron doesn't like Putin, or support Putin's war.
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  40036.  @redpillsatori3020  Keep telling yourself that, all the way to the point where the BRICS take one of their currencies to challenge the dollar as global reserve. Then you will wonder where all that "prosperity" went. And then you can try to get paid for mindless slogans, too. Nice work if you can get it.
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  40037.  @redpillsatori3020  Despite our universities, despite our highways, despite the GI Bill? LOL And now "we" have prosperity . . . . Because of YouTube! Eat it, wear it, let it get you to work. It can even heat your house.
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  40038. ​ @redpillsatori3020  Debt leads to prosperity, doncha know? 😂😂😂
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  40039. But Jimmy, would Bill Gates ever try to influence science using his charities? 😂😂😂😂😂
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  40040.  @emiliavenka  Yeah, sure. This is a new moral panic. Jump to change the law, before any discussion takes place . . . that's a plan. /s Having said that, of course I prefer Amy's view.
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  40041. Why in the world they made a police report concerning that tip is beyond me.
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  40042. All those Silicon Valley guys TALK to each other?? That's a conspiracy theory. /s
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  40043.  @GarosGaming  You didn't get the joke. Okay. No problem. Irony. Y'know. Of COURSE they are combining to limit freedom of speech and expression, and have been for twenty years at least. Of COURSE elections are massively manipulated.
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  40044. Why do you read her as "taking sides?" Do you think the university presidents were "taking sides" for Hamas? If someone makes an unfounded accusation against you, then there there is a flurry of sicial media mob activity (even if it's just in your little corner of the world) demanding that you be canceled, and someone else digs up something you did thirty years ago -- how does that strike you? I say that even though I agree more with Ribby. But you all can't see Brie's point? REALLY? So the back and forth, junior high taking sides fools you still.
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  40045. WOW it must be really important to vaccinate the whole world against COVID. You can tell.
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  40046. That may be reasonable. Of course.
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  40047. Not one case of myocarditis in a 15-year-old is worth it to make a dent in the risk for someone elderly, possibly. But we're not sure that vaccinating the young can do that. Come ON.
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  40048. I can't. And I despise that crowd, too.
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  40049.  @kerrijill7442  You're deliberately spreading falsehoods. All of these stories were repeated many times before they were disproved. Clearly you never read Aaron Mate's report on the OPCW scandal. He testified before the UN concerning what he uncovered. In short, we do not know who used poisoned gas in Syria. Beware of false flags in general. They will come to haunt you.
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  40050. Can you be serious? Shame on you.
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  40051. Well, but as long as you support gender affirming care . . .
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  40052.  @benisjamin6583  Looking at it in another way, if Trump (or Biden) can be President, no less, why then, surely Jordan Peterson can be an intellectual. Why not? Oh, and . . . are friends bound not to point out contradictions in each other's arguments? And when they do, they didn't really? If Rogan and Peterson are friends, then Peterson didn't contradict himself? Hey, okay. Have it however you like.
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  40053.  @benisjamin6583  On the contrary, I specialized in Socrates and Plato for one of my degrees. Socrates DID walk the walk -- I refer you to some of Foucault's last lectures on precisely that subject, a long meditation on truthtellers (MIT published them). Socrates was always coherent: he said exactly what he thought, and he did what he said. (BTW, in case you believed Peterson about Foucault -- OOPS.) A person who knows about benzodiazepines and nevertheless turns to them in a moment of despair is NOT coherent. I thought you knew enough about him -- that he does have health issues, as does his daughter, and now his wife, that were not self-generated in the least, in contrast to the ones in which he certainly played a role, and which you assumed I alluded to when you said these clips predate his drug problem. He also has a strange fixation on Russia (he even named his daughter after Gorbachev, look it up), and as a non-Westerner, I always note that. I mean, I like that civilization a lot, it's not foreign to me, but . . . it's something to watch out for in Westerners, generally. Not that it proves anything; it may mean nothing -- just that when you see it in people who don't have those roots, be a little bit on guard. Let's put it that way. This is a waste of MY time. Have it your way. The Secret made more money, didn't it? As did reality shows. As did casinos, plastic surgeons, all sorts of things. If YOU ever bothered with Socrates, you would recognize that fallacy as one of the key fallacies he pointed out. Popularity hardly proves anything, especially during certain points in history. Like right about now. I was about to say more, but it's really futile. You could have learned something from me . . . you could have at least gotten a few recommendations for really good books. Well, I have a minute, so: The Apology -- read it carefully, then read it again, then again. See what Socrates says about people who make money to impart pseudo-wisdom. See what he says about the wisdom of the common people, who are usually looked down upon. (A veritable commie before the fact! And so much for hierarchies and lobsters!) Gabor Mate for real wisdom. Any self-help book that deals with doing something else, rather than dwelling on the self, is vastly better than any straight-up "self-help." So, books on writing, or on music, like The Perfect Wrong Note, or books on acting (Audition; How to Stop Acting), or on investing (AlphaBrain) will always do more for you. If you go for darker entertainment, and wry, edgy advice with literary flair, by all means Robert Greene. And he's probably not someone I agree with politically, or socially, and his advice shouldn't be taken too seriously -- as he himself tells you. But he's really funny, and great at what he does. You can find some good books to read when reading Greene -- unlike Peterson, who is a dead end. I've just given you so much, and for free! Out of sheer generosity. Imagine, this is not monetized! I can guess your reaction. But one day, when you might be tempted to, say, pop a pill, get drunk, or some such, you just might come back here and start reading, and doing, instead. That would be great. I'm always for that.
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  40054.  @benisjamin6583  WAIT A SECOND. You think MONEY is a measure of how someone's doing?? I need to see bank statements, to know how someone's doing? No. You're, like, kidding. Right?
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  40055.  @benisjamin6583  Have it your way. If a person is doing well, they say what they say because they believe it. If a person is not doing well, they say what they say for the money. (EDIT: Doing well is an inner state, obviously. It is not defined by bank balances, retweets, etc., etc.) I've caught him in a lot of contradictions, and he spouts tons of nonsense, much of it obviously bad faith and quite a lot of it harmful (such as, for example, his claim about the inevitability of hierarchies, his misuse of evolutionary biology, and his advocacy for LESS tax support for public universities, when he must know that that support has been systematically gutted, ruining the futures of millions, because someone, somewhere is a . . . Gender Studies major!). Still, there's something sad about him that makes him hard to dislike. I dislike most of what comes out of his mouth. Just one question: why would you think Plato and Socrates are examples of why health is unrelated to the pursuit of philosophy? They both cultivated good health, and were in good health. I think they believed doing so was needed as a first step toward pursuing philosophy, or more precisely, that it was a part of philosophy itself. The notion of philosophy was much broader than just intellectual development. It was to be lived, in every sense. I'm guessing you thought of them because Peterson uses them as examples, and falsifies Socrates. I seem to remember that, but I could be have him mixed up with someone similar. Falsified Socrates is a popular right-wing trope, right up there with "cultural Marxism," which is allegedly "post-truth." ("Post-truth!" Okay, that is a complete hoot. Tell that to anyone working in an Innocence Project.) If it is Peterson who is telling you this stuff, then he just misled you again. OH WELL. Don't shoot the messenger.
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  40056.  @benisjamin6583  I'll be honest with you, I'm not going to read this. I suspected you might be using the name of Socrates without knowing anything about the man, but I was hoping not. In the moment of his great anguish, James Baldwin turns to him, and quotes him in one of his autobiographical works. Read some good stuff. For real.
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  40057.  @matthewfusaro2590  DUH
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  40058.  @matthewfusaro2590  Try again, yo.
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  40059.  @matthewfusaro2590  That was almost as obnoxious as the person whose remark I directed my comment to, in order to demonstrate that HIS assumption that "they are all murderers and rapists" was obviously, patently wrong -- that the length of their sentences should alert the most die hard right winger to that fact. 'Splainer.
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  40060.  @lazylady8591  Yes, exactly!!
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  40061. He's describing what the politicians and globalists want.
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  40062. ​@Donahue250 In other words, it was allowed because the Congress knows his objections are futile.
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  40063. ​@rayRay-pw6gz Exactly. You are perfectly welcome to ask someone who disagrees with you to leave your home, and you can refuse to have anything to do with them, if that's what you believe you should do. The government has NO comparable right at all.
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  40064. ​@rayRay-pw6gz The First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments exist to limit government power. Now what I'd like to know is what algorithmic process was able to make you forget that?
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  40065.  @IndepenisDay  They're taking notes on how to invest in it. "This should be good."
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  40066. Wow. I never saw crack before. Was that it?
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  40067. @BDnevernind  No, it is very simple. You can make no assumption about what they meant without giving them the opportunity to be heard. So, the school can either call them in for a preliminary hearing concerning what the slogans mean, or leave the students alone. They cannot move against them without giving them an opportunity to be heard. A campus can refuse to allow its buildings to be used to project any message deemed to be advocating for anyone's genocide. It's analogous to Title VII hostile workplace/harassment rules. They have lawyers who can take a close look at those cases and see which would arguably apply to the context of a college campus. In general, more speech will be tolerated on campus --- much more. Nadine Strossen and Chemerinsky have both written on this. Students should come with the expectation of encountering ideas they vehemently disagree with, but they shouldn't come with the expectation of seeing campus buildings strewn with advocacy for genocide. That goes for some of the things Israeli politicians have said, correct.
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  40068. @deadgolfer6345  Well, as a bystander interpreting a message, you have every right to interpret it as you see most plausible. They chose to project it. They can control the words, they can't control how others receive the words. That's how communication works. I'm still in the "I don't know camp." So, you might be right, and if so, you were right faster.
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  40069. @BDnevernind  I wasn't advocating for punishment. I was spelling out the minimum criteria for imposing anything like that. Private universities do not have the same laws concerning the First Amendment as do state schools, true, but they typically adopt the very same rules and enshrine them in a contract with the students.
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  40070. Chauvin pled guilty to TWO separate charges in TWO distinct cases for which he was charged in the federal indictment.
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  40071. Chauvin pled guilty to TWO separate charges in TWO distinct cases for which he was charged in the federal indictment. And Shapiro graduated from Harvard Law! 😂
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  40072.  @Mike_Cosentino  So bald proclamations of opinion and standard jeering are all here, but my information about what Chauvin actually pled guilty to went poof! Behind the curtain, in the shadow. The Shadow knows. 🤣🤣🤣
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  40073. On tour. Yeesh.
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  40074. This is why I loved Loomis for calculus: it trained my intuition without ever leading me astray.
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  40075. Tim Robbins said he was sorry, in a big way. A good way.
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  40076. Calculating excess deaths in the US poses an important problem: we have had a surge of opioid deaths and a (much smaller) surge of suicides. We have also had more traffic accidents; at least some are due to the COVID mitigation programs, and some are due to long COVID/brain fog, and quite a few are both (an abnormal life following COVID is going to mean a slower complete recovery).
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  40077. And simply use the name the child was registered as having, by their parents when they signed them up for school. Ditch the whole pronoun business; let them play with pronouns in their own secret sandbox and they'll grow out of it faster.
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  40078. Amber was wrong. Yes they were exonerated, and they settled a civil rights suit for $41 million. You could not bring a civil rights suit in New York unless you were first exonerated, and that had to be based on some evidence of innocence. A vacated verdict was not enough. The Supreme Court just relaxed that requirement somewhat in Thompson v. Clark, a case from Brooklyn. Kavanaugh wrote the opinion. Read the defamation complaint. I bet these three didn't. It's all there.
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  40079. 3:04. 😂😂😂😂😂
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  40080. I am so sorry. Go back to it. You'll see. How dare anyone hit a musician's hands! What a monsterous thing to do.
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  40081.  @Joseph1NJ  How is that not a reason to speak? There's some level of expertise he has to have? This is a forbidden discussion now? Are you an expert on Bill Maher? What do you know about what he's read? I don't presume to know what you've read. Whether a person is entitled to express an opinion and whether the opinion he expresses is sound are very different questions. And if kids are not being influenced to adopt a trans persona, then how can Maher influence them to abandon it? Heaven forbid someone not fill a puberty blocker prescription! Heaven forbid they pause and try psychological counseling first! Stock portfolios are at stake.
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  40082.  @BenReillySpydr1962  And we are welcome to disagree. I think Brie made too much of it.
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  40083. @nathanmaherlevy5004  He's wrong that he wouldn't go full throttle on surgery, but would preserve his body such as it is and go to psychotherapy instead? Maybe he knows himself well enough to predict what he would do. I mean, even Hollywood types sometimes can.
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  40084. @nathanmaherlevy5004  No, he's not. Not at all. He is talking about HIS views on medical care that he would seek. You have to resort to abuse. There is such a thing as First Do No Harm. There is such a thing as patient rights, which includes the right to refuse drastic treatments. And the only sensible thing to do, for any condition today, is to see what the medical community in OTHER countries is advising.
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  40085. @nathanmaherlevy5004  Aww, now I see: you don't understand the Precautionary Principle. Why didn't you just admit it and read up on it?
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  40086. ​@orenbernstein3277 Repeatedly lied and suppressed evidence, and bullied other scientists into submission by threatening their grants or their careers. Why? What do you think happened?
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  40087.  @havable  You're right that it's a hard question.
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  40088. If he didn't, is he jealous? Wasn't that the plan for Venezuela?
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  40089. Yooo whooo, now do you know what Brie has the jobs she does? She kills it. 💯
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  40090.  @BillMcGirr  ANY post-WWII President who served in the military and had either a law degree or an engineering degree was objectively more competent than any who did not have those two qualifications. That does not make him great, or good; it makes him competent. It's called the real world. Most of humanity lives there. You should check it out.
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  40091.  @BillMcGirr  Didn't expect you to get the point.
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  40092. When it comes?
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  40093. Does Naomi Biden's unoccupied vehicle merit Secret Service protection? Is it acceptable to use deadly force in defense of property that is unoccupied, and the owner is nowhere nearby? Since when?
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  40094.  @CCCCC40  So go ahead, shoot??
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  40095. Actually, in this area, if it's not technically "obscene," it doesn't. In any case, he is invoking the First Amendment, and public sector employees do have a measure of protection. The specific facts matter, not buzz words like "abhorrent." That's one person's opinion.
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  40096.  @rickysampson8759  That has been and is being challenged, at trial and on appeal. The prosecutors are all swearing up and down that it falls under a clear exception, etc. It's their burden to prove it, not Trump's.
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  40097. If Kamala thinks incarcerating parents of children who are absent from school was a good idea, what is her position today on asylum-seeking children wrested from their parents at the border? NO ONE is addressing the ongoing atrocity.
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  40098. You missed what that was about. She was justifying why concern about this right-wing guy should exist across the entire political spectrum. The left will be next. They are criminalizing freedom of expression and freedom of assembly.
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  40099. Wow. WHAT A SCOOP. A new Seymour Hersh!!!
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  40100. Great post, loved it. Sorry a troll seized upon it, but dare to write anything heartfelt these days . . .
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  40101. It's called explanation. Bovard mentioned it.
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  40102. The paper that Rand has IS from the Wuhan Institute, and has an NIH grant number. That's not a definitional issue, but evidence of funding.
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  40103.  @etchalaco9971  Wonderful. Cite them.
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  40104.  @etchalaco9971  You understand the difference between evidence that Study X was indeed funded by US tax revenues, and expert opinions concerning the nature and proper regulatory characterization of Study X. Right?
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  40105.  @etchalaco9971  "Peer reviewed means . . . " oh please, as if we don't know
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  40106.  @etchalaco9971  I'm not shifting the burden. I'm asking for citations to the papers Fauci chose to present. I'm not saying he was legally bound to present them; I don't know that. Congressional hearings are open to public inspection, hence anything introduced is open to public inspection. You are the one asserting the papers Fauci chose to present do, in fact, say thus and so. Hence you need to provide the citations to the papers, which (of course) say what you assert they say. That should be a breeze.
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  40107.  @etchalaco9971  Nowhere have I said papers Fauci chose to present fail to say what you say they say, or fail to prove his point. I just said Show Me.
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  40108.  @etchalaco9971  Cite them. Or, haven't you seen them?
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  40109.  @etchalaco9971  You think this is a game? Your posts all sound like you think so. (Got a bet riding on it? Just kidding.)
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  40110.  @etchalaco9971  NO, friend. A public servant testifying before Congress is expected to be forthcoming to any and every Member of Congress, who was elected to represent the people. It was Trump (along with people like Rush Limbaugh, Antonin Scalia, and many others) who made obnoxiousness not only acceptable, but an impressive power move. Fauci and Trump's good cop bad cop act was theatre. Nice you fell for it. And you obviously have no clue what peer-reviewed papers Fauci cited in this testimony. Great. I'm done here.
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  40111.  @etchalaco9971  No problem. You don't understand the nature of congessional hearings. This is not an adversarial proceeding at all. I don't care. It makes no diff to me, planning to be out by 2025.
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  40112.  @etchalaco9971  You didn't understand what I said. Are you bilingual? Cuz I am. But mostly lived in the US.
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  40113. No, you.
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  40114. True, and up voted. But Trump MUST not get away with this. The neolibs cannot cower, slither away, and tend their friggin' "portfolios." And then push another version of Russiagate and cash in on that, too. Because that's what they do, instead of taking a real stand. They act based on their bottom line.
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  40115. To Gene: You can't stop your kids from doing one thing without substituting something else. Have them read good books and take them to good movies. Take them to concerts. Here's an example of what I mean: Rick Beato recently did a video on Martha Argerich. In the comments, MANY people said they have never heard of her before. (!!!!!!) Please don't let that be your kids. Also, let the kids read more mature stuff. Don't worry about that. Murakami, Houellebecq, and all that stuff, even J. M. Coetzee and Arundhati Roy are not appropriate before adolescence, but don't be afraid to get these books for a high school junior, especially if they are already 17 years old or close. Ditto for Cassavetes arthouse movies. I know this may make you nervous, but don't let it. Video games should make you nervous.
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  40116. ​@mauricewolfthal7500 Hunter's laptop is Russian disinformation. Joe Biden is the best Biden we ever had. He just has a stutter. Joe would never pardon Hunter. Trump colluded with Putin to win the White House. Julian Assange is a Russian asset. Bernie Sanders is courting fascists by appearing on Joe Rogan. Affordable Care Act is health care.
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  40117. ​ @mauricewolfthal7500  Looks like already _____ .
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  40118. ​ @mauricewolfthal7500 You're not allowed to 👀 that. 😂
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  40119. ​@Eric-bk9ji Not random --- an unidentified suspect in three other cases. That is bad. Were it random, no problem. But it is in multiple crime databases. Remember about the burden of proof? I hope they find him so that they can close some cases, and see where he was when she disappeared.
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  40120. ​ @dianahernandez1709 He said so in a sworn affidavit?
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  40121. Thank God.
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  40122. The Clintons and Biden did that. Heard didn't get the memo.
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  40123.  @words4dyslexicon  Maybe you do deserve whatever happens. I guess some people do? 🙅‍♀️
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  40124. Haley is not the head of a criminal organization.
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  40125.  @bmass0828  Where do you get the idea that we supported those mon_sters? If this channel makes you think that, stop watching.
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  40126. Yeah. That's not aging well, is it?
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  40127. ​ @kevinstaggs5048  A state employer is subject to certain First Amendment constraints that the private sector does not have. Duh.
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  40128. If Grim is branded as a mainstream Dem, slightly to the left, he will get more invitations to various networks to speak as a Dem. This money is very, very important to him. Brand tending $$$$$
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  40129. Who examined all of these documents in the first place? Within weeks? No one, obviously.
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  40130.  @lamesamelame  If (big if) it is true that the Chinese economy is growing faster than any Western economy, expect more slavish imitation. :/
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  40131.  @lesaamoore  If that were the motive, no one would have supported patent protection for the vaccines a full year out. Skepticism concerning the real danger is not unwarranted.
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  40132.  @enshrinehd  Yes, if you make sure to check RFK Jr's footnotes. He is a **very** aggressive torts lawyer, and has had substantive success, not just thanks to the family name. But that means he's very biased. Worth a read if you know what you're reading.
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  40133.  @enshrinehd  He has litigated, yes. I don't know whether he does now, or would if a case similar to cases he has won in the past were to cross his path. Sure everyone is biased, but this is different. Plaintiffs' side tort lawyers are a breed apart. I don't mean it as criticism. They are good at what they do. I'm just saying check his receipts.
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  40134.  @enshrinehd  Agreed.
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  40135.  @enshrinehd  One death per 100,000 vaccine doses that is in fact due to the vaccine should alert scientists and require explanation. This is nothing new. What is so different now that the issue has been suppressed?
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  40136. Everything out of his mouth is tendentious and even bad as hyperbole. He hasn't read any good novels in the past decade. Inexcusable.
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  40137.  @Frank_inSA  Because it was idiotic.
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  40138.  @gandydancer9710  You actually expect me, or anyone, to go back and figure out what this was about? O . . . kay. You did take something literally that was probably not meant that way, that much seems possible. So tell me, is this funny? Would I enjoy revisiting it? It doesn't look like it. Nah, never mind.
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  40139. "Hitler" 🤡🌎
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  40140. Why Trump will lose: in 2016, a lot of people voted for Trump just to see what would happen. In 2020, a lot of people will vote against Trump, for the very same reason.
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  40141.    Won't change the outcome. I will not vote for either major party, for obvious reasons. Neither thought it necessary to present a neurologically normal candidate. And if you call this "liberty" . . . No comment.
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  40142. Then watch Brie's analysis from yesterday.
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  40143. The lunatics who forced this catastrophe on us are not even capable of being happy that the virulence of COVID has finally declined, much less apologize and atone for all they got wrong.
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  40144. Casey and Calley Means were just on X with Tucker Carlson.
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  40145. 😂😂😂
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  40146. You mean you think this is a brilliant stunt -- not that it's for real . . . Right?
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  40147. Fake work.
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  40148. You do have a point.
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  40149. Laughable set design.
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  40150. We might get more when the past rent comes due and the foreclosures overwhelm the system, causing the big banks' housing stock to drop in price and their balance sheets to implode.
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  40151. Consider how many women who were later divorced or even killed by their ex wrote extremely complimentary comments about their husbands. Those are the ones I remember, and shudder.
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  40152. There is another factor: Doctors were ALWAYS not only allowed, but supported, in off-label, compassionate use of approved medicines in an emergency. THIS long-standing, important practice was undermined, which is dangerous.
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  40153.  @kennadyyoung8237  I know. This new trend to demonize the practice really worries me. Everything has been turned upside down! :/
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  40154. A slime like him is a savior? How? HOW???
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  40155.  tasoj  And what makes you think we don't? Cute little assumption ya got there.
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  40156.  tasoj  And you think it's a choice? I assure you it is something else that is the matter.
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  40157.  @brasshouse-fireball  Okay, well at least this is reasonable. Know that tax support of education was withdrawn first, then schemes that favor FIRE (finance, Insurance, real estate) were devised -- of course. (And speaking of industry, we are deindustrializing.) Which corporations do you think pay taxes in America? Check the list of the ones getting rebates instead. Check the longer list of the ones that spend more on lobbying every single year. Check the list of the ones that pay bonuses to the C-suite that would set anyone up for life, and then declare bankruptcy. Our policies are hyper-friendly to capital formation . . . To wealth creation? Not so much. There is a growing gap between the two.
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  40158.  @brasshouse-fireball  University of Michigan: annual in-state tuition 15,558 USD; out-of-state tuition 51,200 USD No, NO ONE can earn that with an ordinary summer job. A working student would have to clear $1300 a month for all twelve months, and still need to borrow for books, supplies, electronics, living expenses. BTW, 40 hours per week at minimum wage comes to about $15,600 net, roughly.
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  40159.  @brasshouse-fireball  More talking points. The single most common major in America, by far, and for decades now is . . . Business. The next most common group of majors are all health care related, with Nursing at the top. A Business degree without enough accounting to pass the CPA, or math beyond calculus, plus advanced finance, is worse than Art History. It's a demonstration of docility and lack of imagination, and it usually means the graduate can't write well and doesn't have the patience to read in depth. Art History majors are rare. If they minor in photography and learn how to set up a web page, they will go farther in, say, fashion merchandising than any business major could hope to. They might even be better prepared for a Master's in Public Administration, or law school, or even an MBA, depending on what else they studied. This is where lack of funding for higher education has brought us. It has not made students work harder or more creatively. Debt does not take the place of tax support. It doesn't build pride or a sense of responsibility. The tax support for the great state universities was withdrawn first, before debt schemes were introduced. That's what happened. Sure, it has only spiraled since then, true enough. One other thing -- a "moral" risk. Price inflation is related to grade inflation. Obvious why!
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  40160.  tasoj  Just did some research. The proportion of people on public assistance who are very young children, elderly poor, or permanently disabled were higher than I had thought. People don't choose public assistance. There is always something else going on: at least clinical depression or perennial substance abuse, plus lack of family ties. If what you say were true, how would Uber, McDonald's, Walmart, or Amazon warehouses ever get workers? How would the post office? How would an all-volunteer military be possible?
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  40161.  @zachgates7491  I've never voted for a ticket with Biden on it. La Riva last year, to register my protest against the refusal to release Leonard Peltier. In France, even serial killers have been subject to compassionate release after that length of time -- to halfway houses, obviously. No one worships might like we do. I think it's a weakness.
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  40162.  @denisem1080  💯
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  40163. What happened when Don Imus made his disgusting remarks, on April 4th no less?
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  40164. If he is so irrational, how did he ever win a single case against major global corporations, which have teams of outstanding lawyers? Has Caroline ever brought any cases against polluters? Working-class paralegal Erin Brockovich did more. 😒 The truthful way to handle this is to acknowledge the good, then calmly go through point by point on why he is nevertheless unqualified, and hammer it home. This letter was nothing more than a lazy smear.
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  40165. ​ @nualamartyn4918 If you speak French, I recommend listening to Clémence Guetté. Find out what real intelligence sounds like.
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  40166. 🤣
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  40167. Wow has spycraft deteriorated. Remember how hard they had to work to cover up the Kennedy assassination?
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  40168. Gonzalo Lira is alive and physically well. His computer and phone have been confiscated, and he cannot leave the area where he is, or speak freely.
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  40169. Attorneys have special rules of professionalism that are designed to protect their clients, and to prevent the opposing party from being able to leverage their personal conduct against their clients. These exist prior to there being any risk of compromising their clients' rights. The client (ICE) is not supposed to have to run that risk.
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  40170. We should know everything about everyone who was on every one of those four planes. Do we? If we do, his remarks were very misplaced. If not, why not? Brie is perfect here.
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  40171.  @anasevi9456  Western propaganda is extremely effective. Sadly. It is inescapable. They make you believe that you arrived at any number of ridiculous beliefs all on your own.
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  40172.  @gomahklawm4446  I hope you aren't ever on a jury. You can't follow a simple argument. I hope you aren't, but you will be. Lawyers like the gullible.
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  40173. Find out what he actually said on WION, or even the British press. They translate it verbatim before launching into the "analysis."
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  40174.  @tylerl4768  Exactly. The veterans I know agree with you.
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  40175. If this is news, to anyone, then clearly the act was necessary. And more.
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  40176. Elon Musk Peter Thiel Jeff Bezos Bill Gates Blackrock Chase That's who runs this show. Say, that Epstein black book . . . Better summary, no doubt.
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  40177. He made money both ways. That, erm, was the IDEA.
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  40178. So . . . the neo-Nazi militia men are "socialists?" Socialists are not universalist, who support equality among all peoples, and instead want to confer benefits on others based on their membership in a supposed "race," and their "racial purity?"
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  40179.  @Asgard2208  I'M conflating? You conflate the NAZIS with "socialists" based on branding, which is as flimsy as it gets. I'm not surprised that people who are unfamiliar with 20th century history might do that, or who have been fed talking points by Fox News, but to see you do it was frankly a surprise. As for Jimmy's point, Nadine Strossen's recent book on hate speech makes essentially the same point: these speech codes, which on their face come across as feel-good nicey nicey progressive, end up being used by the right to silence the left, in the modern developed democracies. She is about as extreme a First Amendment absolutist as I have ever seen, and I do not agree with her completely, but I respect her the most. Anyone who wants to propose the smallest restrictions on freedom of speech really must read her book and meet her arguments first. Also, after reading her, I can better pinpoint where I would argue for stronger protections: that would be in workplace, the hostile environment standard. (Not in the free press, that is for sure!)
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  40180.  @Asgard2208  Okay. Now I see who you are. Never mind.
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  40181. If Netflix employees protested offering "Cuties" on its platform, your reaction would be . . . to see how much money the movie can bring in first? I love how people think these are simple questions.
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  40182. @Aqua Fyre Your post I was responding to is no longer visible. We should all agree that is bad.
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  40183. @Aqua Fyre Not at all. You didn't know that it's ordinary for YOU to see your own post, but for others not to? Since you're going to be snippy about it, I'll return in kind: you haven't been paying attention.
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  40184.  @mE-zx7pt  You're right. Maybe it's a good sign, too. They shouldn't pay so much attention, to this! I mean let's get real. :)
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  40185. @Aqua Fyre Nope.
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  40186. @Aqua Fyre When you wrote this, there were 20 replies logged, but 17 visible. I remember you had said Corbyn could never win, but in more colorful language. My response is that is no grounds to smear him. Tell the truth about __ (fill in the blank) to show he is unqualified to lead. Okay. Nevermind. Rush Limbaugh and Rupert Murdoch did not get rich that way.
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  40187. @Aqua Fyre Found it in my feed -- well, the beginning, not the whole post. You called him a "nut job" and said he could never win an election when obviously, he did. 🤣
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  40188. @Aqua Fyre He was a Member of Parliament. He was the leader of the Labour Party, a position he won, for five years. The Blairites looked to sabotage him from the very beginning because of the threat they thought he represented to their holding on to their ill-gotten lucre -- and Corbyn was to blame for attempting appeasement. As soon as his supporters suspected he would be nothing more than a milquetoast, feckless, diluted version of Blair, with possibly a little tinkering around the edges, but only if the banks gave permission, of course they fled. Who wouldn't? For all his many and obvious flaws, and his quite checkered past, a George Galloway would never stoop to that. He knows how to open his mouth. I'm not British, though I should be. My father and my mother's only brother were veterans of the British Army, WWII, and I cared for my father as the ravages of that war resurfaced during his old age. You're welcome.
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  40189.  @Sealia77  I can't anymore, either. In fact, almost all of his posts that I replied to are now in visible.
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  40190.  @chiragpatel2423  I don't recall that they did prior to the 2017 elections, but I would have to research it. Questions about what Assange actually did in Sweden, and whether the warrant issued there was pretextual, or not, were certainly legitimate when first raised. Once you had witnesses to Assange's various alleged misdeeds falling away, and the UN stating that it it not regard his continued incarceration as warranted, all of these issues were clarified and the Guardian's continued criticism of him (and indifference to his human rights) became indefensible. This is a very general summary; for a solid answer, I'd have to do the research. Chris Hedges has done some of the best reporting on this case.
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  40191.  @jmwoods190  I've heard one of them consistently support vaccination over age 50, or for anyone with comorbidities. This is "not enough" for them, apparently. Anyone who does not emit the prescribed lies must be stopped.
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  40192. We're supposed to believe Russians are so deprived thanks to our sanctions that they don't have freshly baked bread. Get with the program.
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  40193. We were told our sanctions would destroy the economy there and topple Putin. Even blowing up Nordstream didn't. This bit was a diversion. You can dislike Tucker all you want, it doesn't change the fact that the BRICS just expanded.
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  40194. He wasn't supposed to see it in Moscow.
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  40195. Amen
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  40196.  @JackFlash771  Thank you.
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  40197. ​​ @TC-zf1ji I think you are right. What follows? See around 10:00.
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  40198. If any government actors pressured or simply requested that Twitter censor the Hunter Biden story, then the First Amendment most certainly IS implicated. What Taibbi said was that federal law enforcement did not pressure Twitter. I never thought it was the FBI that was behind this.
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  40199. Great recommendation, but Hedges reads all the time. Can't you tell??
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  40200.  @susanmercurio1060  I'm planning to. I told you in another thread, where I thanked you for the suggestion.
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  40201. Who told you this?
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  40202.  @galvanaut7119 You admit you don't know how to read peer-reviewed journal articles, or don't want to. That's what counts, and every newspaper story has to be verified by checking their sources. I didn't check The Guardian's sources. That is true. I don't know whether they relied on the Israeli research.
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  40203.  @galvanaut7119  There are lots. Myocarditis after BNT162b2 mRNA Vaccine against Covid-19 in Israel NEJM Largest real-world study of COVID-19 vaccine safety published by Israel’s Clalit Research Institute in The New England Journal of Medicine Etc. Those are two different studies, in reverse chronological order, the earlier one being much more comprehensive. There are others as well.
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  40204.  @galvanaut7119  Found the article you relied on. Data based on a pre-print, not yet peer-reviewed. No comparison to NEJM. The same article also states that "the UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) recommended that 12- to 17-year-olds should only be offered a Covid vaccine if they are extremely vulnerable, or live with someone at risk."
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  40205.  @galvanaut7119  You said there are no Israeli studies. Now look at the prior one. Look at the graphs, which are key.
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  40206.  @galvanaut7119  Yes. The second one, chronologically prior.
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  40207.  @galvanaut7119  That study, which is the best one so far, compared myocarditis in all vaccinated, in all unvaccinated, and in all COVID cases. Not in the demographic that accounts for the unusual concentration of myocarditis from vaccination, which also happens to include minors. I concede that in the review of research I did yesterday, I have found no confirmation of my position OR of yours, and very little information on myocarditis deaths in either the vaccinated or the COVID sufferers, except that they have happened. The only evidence in favor of your general position in favor of vaccinating people who account for a tiny fraction of a percent (about 0.075%, see Statistica) of all COVID deaths is that vaccine-induced myocarditis is very likely to be significantly less serious than myocarditis in COVID sufferers, and likewise endocarditis. Again, no demographic information -- but that could be because it is true across demographic groups. But it does not support your claim concerning relative incidence in teenaged boys. Can you? Do you know what the current FDA warning on the mRNA vaccines says? I haven't looked.
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  40208.  @galvanaut7119  Not how I read the Israeli study. Will reread the whole thing. We'll see.
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  40209.  Kay Theo  True. :/
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  40210.  Kay Theo  And cackled over it.
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  40211. I don't know, I'll listen again, but talk about extreme birth control . . .
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  40212.  @Nancy-uq4ob  Was my accurate response to you shadowed, I wonder?
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  40213. WEF 1 France 0
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  40214. Raise kids on video games, and they will think this "art" is good.
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  40215. ​ @tammykoble236 No.
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  40216. Affordable Care Act ruined my insurance. I recognize that is unusual, but ACA had a lot of different undesirable consequences.
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  40217. So, Trump couldn't be a false flag? To cause us to trust the surveillance state? Functions as such.
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  40218. "Near" the court or residence is the key. The Supreme Court has seen legal protests of all kinds, including many huge protests against Roe v. Wade, for years. Are memories that short?
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  40219. Let's see the petition.
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  40220. In fact, if you need police protection in order to stand on a soapbox and say "God is dead," you're supposed to get it.
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  40221. He has been attacked while on stage.
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  40222. @Vann Siggi No one deserves the slighest blame for feeling scared, based on the race of another person or anything else. But feelings don't justify actions.
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  40223. @Vann Siggi True. And?
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  40224. @Vann Siggi So, they could avoid people of that race, or refuse to hire people of that race, or tell racist jokes, or . . . get some counseling for their phobia? I'm sure there's other stuff they could do as well, including make a firm decision to label their feeling as an unimportant obsession, ignore their discomfort and press on by treating everyone fairly. A lot of obsessions can be overcome that way, depending. Sometimes they need more help.
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  40225. @Vann Siggi What made you think of robots, or of programming?
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  40226. @Elleanoire Your posts are being blocked. I wonder if mine are, too. Feelings are neither valid nor invalid. Is hunger "valid?" Is love? I agreed no one deserves "blame" for any feelings. Actions can be controlled, feelings not generally. I'm not sure a person should always try to control feelings. Examine them with curiosity, try to understand them, etc., not stifle or punish.
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  40227. False. Their passive income based on their accumulated wealth is already astronomical. See what ONE billion dollars in 10-year Treasuries yields, never mind in equities. How do you not know? Seriously? How?
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  40228.  @Baron_Blue_Max  THIS was my point. At a minimum, they must have enormous income on that wealth base. If it were all in savings accounts, it would be huge, given their principal.
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  40229.  @Baron_Blue_Max  This was obscure?? Again, how? Truly at a loss now.
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  40230.  @Baron_Blue_Max  Now I get it. A fortiori arguments are beyond you.
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  40231. THIS
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  40232. AMEN
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  40233. Don't worry. This video doesn't address that.
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  40234. You don't remember all the pro-life protests near the Supreme Court over the last 50 years? They were legal.
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  40235.  @randycooper3940  I agree that it should be up for discussion. I am concerned that the First Amendment has been severely undermined, and after what has happened to the Fourth Amendment, I am very leery of enforcing such a law to criminalize all such demonstrations. But that's just my opinion. It needs to be thrashed out. I see your point as well, of course.
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  40236.  @randycooper3940  Wrong. The Constitution preempts any law held to be to the contrary, as written OR as applied in a particular case. Hence, the pro-life protesters were never arrested, though they may have been directed away from the immediate vicinity of the Court steps. They relied on the First Amendment to protect them.
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  40237.  @randycooper3940  Never mind. Why do you think any law, state or federal is ever struck down as unconstitutional? What does yelling fire in a crowded theatre have in common with political protest? Nothing that can be analogized in actual legal practice. I'm an attorney and you obviously aren't. End of story.
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  40238.  @randycooper3940  Intimidation and protest are not the same thing. Intimidation of various sorts is comparable to true threats, or to conspiracy to commit a crime -- it is not protected speech at all. It didn't need a federal statute for that. There is no issue, nothing to legislate about. Read some Nadine Strossen. She wrote a book on hate speech recently, and why the category has no place in First Amendment jurisprudence. It is brilliant.
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  40239.  @randycooper3940  Statutes are overturned all the time. I already explained it to you. YOU try to define "near." In front? Blocking access? Or down the block, where you know the demonstration will be seen but is not in any way disrupting the life of the judge -- so that he can choose to ignore it without changing his route or routine? I actually don't agree, ethically speaking, with demonstrating near someone's home, or at a court. But to pretend it is always illegal or can be made illegal or should be made illegal -- nonsense. You don't like reading? What a shame. Well, most people agree with you! In fact, they don't like math, either.
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  40240.  @randycooper3940  I'm going to block you. You're wasting my time.
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  40241.  @randycooper3940  Nowhere did I say true threats and intimidation were "the same thing." You can't or won't read a post properly, and you think you have a right to tell everyone else what to do, and to tell them they will be or should be arrested on federal offenses. Be careful what you wish for.
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  40242. Biden's Justice Department indicted Hillary's lawyer? So DNC is finally going to get rid of the Clintons? Sometime Clinton friend Ghislaine Maxwell on trial should be fun.
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  40243. You failed to finish the quote.
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  40244. "The typical titer for someone who is vaccinated is 1:2,000," Landau told MedPage Today. "You can take that down to 1:500 and it will still kill the virus. ... Natural infection titers tend to be 1:200, on average, and that's still protective."
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  40245. ​@chuckwalla123 Everyone had to homeschool to some extent during the pandemic. Some of the inevitable challenges of homeschooling then came to light --- as did some of the grave problems with the classroom curriculum.
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  40246. ChatGPT has been making errors in simple math. A major peer-reviewed journal article described it, and said we are not sure why this is occurring.
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  40247. 😂😂😂
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  40248. Had the French been feeding a war with weapons for eight years before the War of Independence, against an ethnic minority? As for what would have happened -- Canada, maybe? Less slavery, fewer Native peoples killed? I don't know. You brought it up.
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  40249. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  40250. LOL
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  40251.  @cattreeoflife980  Of course he's not going to read the article.
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  40252.  @grumpyjohnny6982  Do you ever ask yourself why such large segments of Asia, Africa, and Latin America are hesitant to condemn Russia? Only the lily white affluent West . . .
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  40253. You refuse to listen to what he is saying.
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  40254. I think cancelling Jimmy's interview without telling him, then minimizing the direct threat Ana made against him and his livelihood during COVID, is what got to Jimmy. They just said this is the last time they will address the issues.
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  40255. They are likely higher. If we look at the way statistics are kept during flu pandemics, by calculating "excess mortality," we have an undercount of COVID deaths. There have been, for example, more premature heart attacks and strokes than usual during this time frame, especially in men. Being exposed and asymptomatic can harm the heart, and a person can get a heart attack 10 or 20 years sooner than he would have had otherwise.
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  40256. The central "hate speech" case, RAV v. City of St. Paul, took place in Minnesota, and invalidated a "hate speech" ordinance. You would think the governor of Minnesota would have heard of it.
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  40257.  @jeffreyblack6611  True
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  40258. @Roger Vieira You're all freaks.
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  40259. I'm not sure "Lesser of Two Evils" guarantees a worse Trump, but it definitely guarantees a worse Biden. And it risks a worse Trump. The last two elections were beyond disgraceful.
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  40260. 18:57 What every non-Westerner grasps. Believe it.
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  40261. @chuckstable165 Glenn Greenwald on his own channel gave an analysis and a media critique that was great. He is very pro-defense, but he's a real lawyer. I don't agree with everything he says, but you can count on solid logic from him.
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  40262. 😅 perfect
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  40263. ​ @shakostarsun We don't know who approached Taibbi, when, how . . .
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  40264. ​ @TapoutT Math?? What MATH in American schools? There are college grads who have trouble with fractions.
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  40265. The contract portion of the case, against Harvard, wasn't dismissed. Guess what? Misleading video.
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  40266.  @VoteBlue450  Yeah, where does Rudy Giuliani stand now? He's in trouble. Was he suspended from the NY Bar?
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  40267. Don't be mean to the new girl. /s
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  40268.  @LazyEyePolitics  "Weird stuff" usually does not refer to major felonies, but well, words mean just what we choose them to mean, eh, Alice?
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  40269. He just addresssed that again.
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  40270. ​ @louisethompson7706 And military applications and mass surveillance and irresistible propaganda. "What's not to like?"
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  40271. ​ @FredPena-rd5cf Do you think a link to evidence would stay up? How new are you to YT comments?
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  40272. ​ @limbeboy7 You were the best engineer? Of course that's why they fired you. You weren't hired to show up the managers, hon.
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  40273. ​ @FredPena-rd5cf You try to post a link, to any factual matter you like. Test it. See what happens.
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  40274.  @FredPena-rd5cf  That's not a correct quote. Nice. 😂😂😂😂
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  40275. @FredPena-rd5cf  "You try to post a link, to any factual matter you like." As a test. 🤣🤣🤣
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  40276. Jimmy, Americans don't like Putin more than Biden. They worry about dementia more than about mild puffiness.
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  40277. That Kenyan leader did not commit suicide.
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  40278. THIS is how you treat the news from Japan? This is how you report it? I'm so glad I'm emigrating. You have something very wrong with you.
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  40279. They do not need WMDs to win this war. What is the objective now? It is not even clear what they want now. They should have secured Crimea, taken control of the Donbass as an independent, Russia-allied region, and possibly created a corridor between the two. That is maximalist, and should have been accomplished without escalating the war in the first place. And once they did invade, they should have completed the "special military operation" by April. This has been a brutal disgrace, coming on the heels of a pandemic and creating millions of refugees from some of Europe's poorest regions. The destruction of housing stock is a disgrace, never mind the civilian deaths.
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  40280. @erincoco612   The First Amendment certainly does prohibit government from making hate speech illegal:  Brandenburg v. Ohio Watts v. United States Virginia v. Black RAV v. City of St Paul It is absolutely settled law that you cannot criminalize even the most odious speech unless it constitutes a true threat of imminent harm or incites imminent violence. You can't even ban cross burning or calling for revolution unless it meets one of those criteria, evincing intent to cause an imminent breach of the peace or to intimidate a particular person or group of people who are present when you said it, or did it (for symbolic or expressive conduct). It's not a gray area. It is unconstitutional. The real question is, why don't you know? You should know.
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  40281. @erincoco612  Sure, because absent the gag order, you can trash talk about a witness or juror. See how that works? If it were illegal, you wouldn't need the order in the first place.
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  40282. @justinstephenson9360  I'm talking about the bill they passed, prohibiting certain speech. They are welcome to define things to their heart's content, and to deplore what they find worthy of being deplored --- that's free speech, too. Moreover, NO other country has the robust free speech rights that the United States has, enshrined in its constitution. So international standards are of no legal importance here. See, e.g., Nadine Strossen on that whole subject. This has nothing to do with whether one agrees with the speech they prohibited, or are trying to. Absolutely nothing.
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  40283. @justinstephenson9360  I had a great-grandparent die in the Holocaust. I know about this stuff.
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  40284. @erincoco612  You clearly haven't read anything. Right now, people are trying to hold BLM leadership liable for exactly that -- their rhetoric lead to riots, supposedly. Have you ever seen a Supreme Court case? Do you know they are all published?
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  40285. @erincoco612  Because of Title VII. And because absent a union contract, an employer can usually fire anyone they want.
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  40286. @erincoco612  Why don't you put down your phone and read about what "true threats" are? Do you know people are suing to try to hold Black Lives Matter responsible for riots and make them pay for the damage? You didn't hear about that? See, because rhetoric. Bad words.
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  40287. @erincoco612  What do you think of the cases against organizers of the George Floyd protests? Plaintiffs are seeking money to pay for the damage from the riots. I think their speech was protected. The rioters, and the police, are responsible for their actions. The protests were protected by the First Amendment.
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  40288.  @erincoco612  You can be fired even if they believe you said it. You don't have to say it. Workers without unions have very few rights.
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  40289. @erincoco612  I'm trying to inform you that people who organized protests after George Floyd are being sued now, because their free speech supposedly led to violence and property damage. I'm getting posts removed for that. I think the protests were fully protected speech and assembly. How about you?
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  40290. @erincoco612  You see the category "hate speech" in that list? It's not a legal term. Remember the protests that took place in the summer of 2020? Some people are trying to hold the organizers liable for property damage, on the bogus theory that their protected speech led to riots.
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  40291.  @erincoco612  I'm being censored here, I'm going to stop. Hate speech is not one of the narrow categories you listed. It's a journalistic term, not a legal category.
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  40292. @erincoco612  Some people call BLM "hate speech" and are suing them right now. See where such nonsense can go?
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  40293.  @erincoco612  I'm being repeatedly censored now. So I'm out of here.
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  40294. @erincoco612  There is no amorphous category in the law called "hate speech." Your employer can prescribe your speech generally, while you're at work. That's nothing new, and has nothing to do with the First Amendment. Your boss isn't Congress, passing unconstitutional laws to control everyone.
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  40295. Understand something: it goes the other way around much more. A certain pressure group in the US is responsible in large part for Netanyahu. Read Haaretz or watch Amy Goodman and listen closely. It is not true that the ordinary Israeli wants war. They are angry now --- of course. I was stunned and horrified on October 7, too. But I have an Israeli friend who told me 25+ years ago that Netanyahu would be a disaster.
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  40296. It's for military use. I see you can't handle the truth. You still think our MIC is a benefit to us. Our young volunteers are idealists and want to protect us. They are being used, too.
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  40297. ​ @dustinavant2003  I don't think Biden knows anything anymore. He is nevertheless responsible. He is the head of his administration.
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  40298. Well, but doesn't every older lady in Puerto Rico have a rich American granddaughter? /s
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  40299. Ha, ha, ha. I liked that.
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  40300. 25:21 listen to the end
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  40301.  @Firerose101  Totally disagree that Biden was worse, BUT what is hard to believe is that the idea that the carceral state is an unreasonable use of resources and government power was placed on the agenda during Trump, and by right-wing Republicans. Of course DNC is on board, now. Their corporate masters signaled acceptance. At the moment, however, it makes no sense to say Biden was a worse choice, or less bad. It is too soon to tell. Both are "non-neurotypical." Lord!
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  40302. Every time.
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  40303.  @Positiveenergy68  Correct. That was my point.
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  40304. I admired you before, now I love and admire you. This is so, so hard.
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  40305. Words do exist.
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  40306.  @subrosian1234  Languages would not exist without people. It is not clear that the same is true of mathematics.
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  40307.  @coady4577  I was not an am not. I saw through it, and I'm sure you did as well. It was easy, frankly.
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  40308. "Breakthrough pain" 😅😅😅🤣 🤡🌎
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  40309. We succeeded in removing the Native Americans, defeating Mexicans, and enslaving Africans thanks to Jesus? Based on the Sermon on the Mount, I would have never guessed . . .
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  40310. It's not a good essay, but I think that one small flub should not matter at all.
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  40311. Vučić gets along fine with China. Weird.
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  40312. Are you kidding?
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  40313. The police could have gotten his address and phone from the guest book.
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  40314. I wish. :/
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  40315. Brock Turner got SIX MONTHS for raping an unconscious woman. Two Scandinavian exchange students witnessed it. The woman was Asian. Raping an unconscious person has some serious implications about the offender, usually. Blond offenders included.
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  40316. They had practice making excuses for the unethical vaccine mandates.
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  40317. Politicians "are supposed to be offering people things to make their lives better. Joe Biden is not participating." Seriously. These are Democrats? These are successful politicians, of any party?
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  40318. These are all FDA approved, correct?
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  40319. This is what I've been saying all along. They are using a new word for sterilization and castration: "gender affirming." This is insanity. Or evil. No other possibility.
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  40320.  @NotAPacifist825  Untrue. The only medical decision that is entirely your own is to decline treatment, if you are conscious and competent. For anything else, you need the cooperation of other people. They have to agree to do what you want. The only unequivocal obligation they have is to save your life and stabilize your condition.
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  40321.  @mxm6809  I already spotted inaccuracies. If it's on Quora, that just means somebody wrote it. It does not mean it is true. Dr. Grande's strong and principled stand against police brutality has ruffled some feathers. Police brutality won't be solved by Mindfulness or Vibrations. But you are welcome to try that if you like. It can't hurt I suppose.
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  40322. Alex Jones: Proven to be a liar about Sandy Hook in court, and intentionally inflicting the worst emotional distress upon vulnerable people that words can create. That said, HE should not be cancelled. HE retains his First Amendment rights. The (unprotected) defamation and abuse he dished out THIS time, he will pay for and is paying for. This is the stuff courts should decide, not Google, Twitter, FB, etc.
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  40323. ​ @philpaul9634 Well, it may be reversible if used properly -- started at age 8, closely monitored, and stopped by age 11. It is not reversible if the goal is gender reassignment.
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  40324. ​ @GangsterInternet You took the words out of my mouth. Is this an example of the much-vaunted critical thinking we are all suppose to engage in? 😮
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  40325.  @janetg.1477  Encouraging vigilantes comes to mind. You don't see it's pretty much all of them -- all the politicians?
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  40326. Oh brother. The pandemic was devastating to everyone but the very affluent. This tells me how wide the gap.
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  40327. 👏👏👏👏👏👏 Robby
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  40328. 😂😂😂
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  40329. I think I must have been afraid to see it.
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  40330. Tragically easy prediction: the next war we start will be based on some lie.
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  40331. "Non-violent" is not up to Marianne and those who agree with her. It is also up to the 500 richest people.
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  40332.  @dustinbaker8272  Pfft
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  40333. Fun, huh? Hard to believe that across a little channel, you have a language that's so different.
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  40334. Someone thinks Le Pen is good? She is very stupid.
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  40335. So . . . These women need a global platform to sort out their adult, consensual relationships? New York Magazine needs to help them out? Hunter Biden's illegal conduct makes his father, the president, vulnerable in lots of ways.
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  40336. ​@educatethemonster6198 Because that "proves" he cannot have an opinion about war and peace, as is consistent with the Western value of tolerance and basic respect for LGBTQ people. /s
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  40337. I believe dollar hegemony is, at this point, dependent on troops all over the world. Try to pull one thread without unraveling empire . . . Try to maintain vast concentrations of unearned wealth with an empire that is unraveling.
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  40338. It has no longer has much to do with merit, unless you think merit was on display on the part of Elise Stefanik or Liz Magill et al. On the contrary, standards have come close to collapse.
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  40339. @denverlove  Well, when I was in the French system, all admissions testing was achievement-based, and aptitude/IQ testing for admission to any program was against the law. Each diploma gave you a right of access to the next level. Their production of world-class writers, philosophers, Fields medalists, filmmakers, etc., relative to their population is either the highest in the world or close. The Ministry of Education set the standards. It's uncanny how many of our great writers lived there, too. They have that certain something. I don't know how they're doing now, since "modernizing." In other words, they started copying us. So far, the results in general are meager, but some good stuff is emerging. I think. I don't know how Oxford/Cambridge run admissions, but I think their tutorial system is the best education in the world. I also think that any system that throws you into practicums that make you apply what you've just learned is better in principle than studying, writing papers, and taking tests. That's why lab sciences should be part of every degree. I think our system for teaching lab sciences is the best -- or was? That was our thing. And it can't happen online or with AI simulations. Also, do any of us really know what Russia, China, and India are doing? We hear a soundbite now and then.
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  40340.  @denverlove  Maybe a sort by Newest might let you see. 😂
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  40341. ​​ I replied. Guess what? The Shadow knows.
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  40342.  @denverlove  Sort by Newest
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  40343. @denverlove  The new scents err sheep . . . It's not gone, it's in the shadows.
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  40344.  @denverlove  Right. YT hides it.
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  40345.  @denverlove  You know what's going on here, right? Or, no?
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  40346.  @denverlove  Most of these were in the shade, too. Do you know how to sea it? :) You know now, right?
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  40347.  @darkeimp555  That's not the definition of blackmail. You seriously don't know? The original post, however, was hyperbole. There has been no crime here, by any stretch. I only wish Aaron had sued for defamation. Then all parties would have been silent on advice of counsel. Anyway, more proof that kids cannot be educated by computers. You decline to look up the definition of "blackmail," when it is right at your fingertips.
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  40348.  @dorianoeser1529  Now let me ask you: let's say Ana was simply sick and tired of Dore and had decided to expose his past conduct. Fair enough, of course. WHY MESSAGE HIM FIRST? She has a big show. She can just do it.
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  40349.  @dorianoeser1529  Read the message again. Or have Greenwald analyze it for you, in his excellent video. What was the point? Someone determined to right a wrong has no cause to jeer at the wrongdoer, or insult his wife. Or give him advanced notice of her decision in any form, and least of all in this way.
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  40350.  @dorianoeser1529  "Stop acting like something you are not." Or else? Or else what?
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  40351.  @dorianoeser1529  As a COURTESY? That's sticking to reality all right. That DM was hideous. Okay. If you don't know the weight of words . . . Oh well.
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  40352.  @dorianoeser1529  I also wonder why she made the strange comment about Dore's wife. Was she trying to stir something up? Intrude in their relationship? Let him know how bad this could be, if he's not careful? What response was she seeking?
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  40353.  @dorianoeser1529  He admitted to "nice news skirt," a crass joke in response to a wardrobe malfunction. That isn't sexual harassment under Title VII. Look it up. Crass jokes are unacceptable in the workplace, and Ana could have had him formally repremanded or fired. But they don't amount to sexual harassment under the law. She could not bring a suit. Tell me again why she sent the DM seven years later. Perhaps you can clarify.
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  40354.  @dorianoeser1529  Yes, he could have been fired for it. Or for much less. But not sued for "sexual harassment." I suggest you inform yourself.
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  40355.  @dorianoeser1529  Dore must have known it was wrong, since he apologized immediately and in writing the very next day, and promised not to repeat that "performance." No disagreement about that. Dore agreed.
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  40356.  @dorianoeser1529  Look up Title VII.
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  40357.  @yuuka926  Pure ad hom. Putting us on notice that if we look at Dore and TYT objectively, we'll be ACCUSED of supporting Trump. But he's not trying to threaten us or anything. /s
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  40358. I wonder if it's hard to pretend to be this stupid, or is it natural?
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  40359. Did Norman Finkelstein basically become a conservative? Most of this "woke" garbage is a psy-op.
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  40360. 2:33. 😂😂😂😂😂
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  40361. Austin and San Antonio are generally Democratic. The rest of the state isn't.
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  40362. Not possible. How could anyone think this is the law??
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  40363. LGBTQCIA?
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  40364. Good for Dr. Campbell, for stressing the point that this somewhat milder variant is sheer luck.
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  40365. I feel as a Chicagoan that I have got to add: we have to be so much more grateful to Jimmy and Stef, more than we know, because Jimmy HATES to talk about this. HATES. People wonder why he will lose his temper at times. Well, telling this story again made his wife cry. This is always a big deal, to everyone, but . . . Understand what that means to a South Sider. Thank you guys. Happy New Year.
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  40366.  @letBIGGIErest  When you lose world reserve currency status and food goes up 70%, you might do a rethink.
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  40367. This was beautiful, thanks. The video is lunacy. I'd be ashamed to make a cent off of this rabid drivel.
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  40368. ​@smurfette1509 Why? Is Social Security or Medicare means tested? Is public school? With CTA/Metra, the only people who use it are those with a real need. Seniors who have cars don't take the bus to shop for groceries or for doctor appointments. Please. And billionaires don't apply for Social Security.
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  40369. ​ @smurfette1509 But as trans, you expect accomodation. You're in the closet: closeted right winger.
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  40370. @Isaiah-cs1cr  He was prosecuted and convicted for that, but I could never find out which convictions were overturned. Several were. 🤷‍♀️
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  40371. Voilà.
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  40372. I believe Aaron Mate should sue TYT. It won't be a joy for him, but it will be important for us. The reason he should is that they smeared him for money. This has got to stop, and it won't stop as long as it's lucrative. Today Aaron, tomorrow, who knows?
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  40373. Why? It's well known. This time, we have dubious jabs on top of it.
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  40374.  @XarezX  You don't see that you're crazy? The mob psychosis bubble has yet to pop?
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  40375.  @Viamii  Her actual accusations? A defamation case is about speech or writing. Did you ever read the article?
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  40376. Musk's "explanation" of the alleged "Ponzi scheme" assumes that the dollar is a rigid yardstick. He must know this is flat-out false. And you think she's being hyperbolic?
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  40377.  @cmontes7961  Intentionally lying to Congress under oath is not legal. Using your authority over the NIH budget to bully other scientists is not legal. Finding dubious ways to skirt the Obama moratorium on federal funding of gain of function research is not legal. As far as his doing such a bad job during the pandemic is concerned, that's on Trump. Trump could have removed Fauci and sought better advice. That might have caused more honest scientists to be more candid about their concerns, too, and would have opened up an honest discussion. Trump helped empower Fauci. We were steamrolled to no good end.
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  40378. ​ @cmontes7961  Too bad my reply isn't here, somehow. Or maybe they'll you see it? I can, under Newest.
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  40379. @oceania2385  That was precisely Fauci's job -- to build a consensus around terms like gain of function, so that we could always deny we were doing bioweapons research we had signed conventions promising we would not.
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  40380. @user-fq8zr2jy8w  Frantic efforts to hide what you're doing from the public, on the public dime, while you control the public, is just a concern for privacy. Everybody needs privacy. Thank goodness there are still people who defend it. /s
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  40381. Sounds like another Clinton-Trump choice doesn't it? NO and NO.
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  40382. Plus their cushy lifestyle would evaporate.
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  40383. Jimmy kept telling us: it is not evident that Biden is the lesser evil. I thought we might have to concede he's not by 2022 or 2023, not by December.
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  40384. ​ @Banana_Split_Cream_Buns  Ye is very intelligent and talented, which is obscured by a very serious mental illness he suffers from, and he is being treated like a carnival freak. His life is in danger because of his bipolar disorder, and people are more fixated on parsing this outrageous statement or that outrageous statement. The man is not well. Someone should care. Self-reflection isn't the problem. If he could do that, he wouldn't be in this predicament. And yoga is an adjunct to therapy, but he needs more intensive treatment. Hunting is the last thing a person with BPD should do.
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  40385.  @JudithRudyonald  What difference would that make if he suffers from psychotic episodes? I'd trade mental stability for money any day. I hope that's obvious?
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  40386.  @JudithRudyonald  Nope, trilingual Paris IV grad, ancient philosophy. But les amerloques are slow on the uptake.
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  40387.  @JudithRudyonald  Oh now I get it. Mental instability is endemic over by you, so you may as well be rich. If you can't fix the first, at least grab the second. Makes utilitarian sense, you're right.
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  40388.  @JudithRudyonald  And you go through some strange screen names for some reason. It never crosses my mind to use the words you apply to yourself.
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  40389. Ten? Not twelve?
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  40390.  @aicram62  What do you mean by "Cornel West's twitter page?" West just wrote that solidarity with Assange is more crucial than ever, and pinned the notice for Katie Halper's upcoming livestream on this issue. So, what did you mean?
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  40391.  @comingviking  BRAVO × 2 . . .
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  40392. Any of us can click the link to the Australian government website and see for ourselves that it was discontinued three weeks ago due to a serious side effect attributed to the vaccine: thrombosis with thrombocytopenia (TTS), and is no longer in use there, for anyone.
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  40393.  @rexxx777  It's the first one in the description box to the video. If I give you the link here, I might be automatically shadowed, as links are too hard to monitor for TOS violations.
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  40394. C'mon man. Hospitals are for plastic surgery.
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  40395. If the US government didn't make use of sociopathic pedophiles, then the government wouldn't make use of anyone at all.
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  40396. 4:24 "Frankenstein horror show" is the mildest thing that can be said about it.
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  40397.  @floriankrause7203  Psychobabble aren't facts.
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  40398.  @floriankrause7203  I see the real argument here is over your head.
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  40399.  @floriankrause7203  In the meantime, there are reports that Afghans are selling their own kidneys to buy food.
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  40400.  @floriankrause7203  🤣 Yeah, no.
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  40401.  @floriankrause7203  Reread OP. Scroll.
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  40402.  @floriankrause7203  We can stop famine in Afghanistan with a single executive order. We destroyed their bank.
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  40403.  @floriankrause7203  But tweet about Putin instead.
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  40404. Vaccine consent forms explicitly state that refusing vaccination will not affect your medical care. If you're vaccinated, you read the form before signing it. Surgeons operate on terrorists, drug dealers, pedophiles, serial killers. They saved Tsarnaev. But I wouldn't want medical care from anyone who doesn't treat all equally.
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  40405. Why did the CCP allow the US to fund research through the Wuhan laboratory? Well??
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  40406. ​@tonyking9235 Not what he said, or suggested --- I hope.
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  40407. Glenn Greenwald didn't come from wealth but did start out as a scrappy lawyer, and it shows.
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  40408. Prove it. If links are shadowed, provide references and key words.
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  40409. I found it, the WHO report. Of course your claim is misleading. You glanced at one chart. Cuba even has a slightly higher life expectancy than the US, in spite of generations of sanctions and a lower living standard.
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  40410.  @paulrobertson7980  Cut and paste of that WHO chart counts as one. ;)
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  40411. If Hillary had won, would Epstein be alive and Maxwell free? I have to ask.
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  40412. Well, immunology has changed. Why not decomposition?
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  40413. ​ @cheeseofultimatedoom  You sound like you think geopolitics is a high school lunchroom.
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  40414. The people praising Fauci have the same mentality as the people fawning over Bill Gates until a few days ago.
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  40415. You'd be surprised how many did not.
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  40416.  @coreydoucette6441  Oops, sorry. That never did happen by you, did it?
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  40417.  @coreydoucette6441  I agree. We were inundated with pictures of the ONE part of Queens where it was true for a period of time that there were insufficient hospital beds, and led to believe that it would sweep the country. I have never seen anything like this fear-mongering before, and I didn't expect it. I remember when the Financial Times in the UK said that the average age of death from COVID was slightly higher than the average life expectancy. How did people not immediately question what was going on, and demand better information?
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  40418. He agrees that the "sin" argument is nonsense.
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  40419.  @robfarrell9104  My point is that this is the only approach I have heard that makes sense at all.
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  40420.  @robfarrell9104  Who said I'm for it?
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  40421.  @robertgiles9124  She needed to get out of the States and afford security. She had death threats from psychos all the time. She and her sister were in the same social circle as Onassis for a long time. Are you basing "hideous" on his appearance, or something real?
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  40422.  @robertgiles9124  Took some time for the frenzy to die down. I had a feeling ethnicity had something to do with it. The usual.
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  40423.  @ananasvostel  Of course she is, but these people are entitled to their own facts. Let them have their own facts so they don't scream.
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  40424.  Zombie Apocalypse  SHE IS A PUBLIC DEFENDER. And high up in that office, too. Not a recent grad.
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  40425.  @beckiehubley5798  "We Can't Consent to This" a UK website will explain that sidebar I had with someone who thinks it's just "a choice."
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  40426.  @beckiehubley5798  I'm not saying this happened. I'm saying it has become normalized and is very dangerous. Needs to stop.
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  40427.  @beckiehubley5798  Thanks, I appreciate it, and it's very hard to talk about. No one wants to be thought to suggest, well . . . We can't consent to this sums it up!!! ;(
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  40428. Seriously? If he were put under oath before Congress, he wouldn't invoke the 5th Amendment?
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  40429.  @toordog1753  No it wouldn't be "easy to make him speak," except somewhere off shore maybe. Here we still have a Fifth Amendment.
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  40430. Are you sure? Anyway, it's generally tolled if a wrongdoer took steps to hide his tracks that delayed discovery of his actions.
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  40431.  @joshuaprets2044  Oooookay
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  40432. My real name sounds Russian. You think that's easy? 😂😂😂 but not really
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  40433. ​ @vladimiramiller3738 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  40434.  @johnlotz7341  Even death doesn't make me cry. You are supposed to say I'm without feelings, remember? You don't have your Russkie talking points in order -- yet?
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  40435.  @martijnvangammeren1868  Which part of Paris? My classmates at Paris IV lived in fifth-floor walk-up cold water flats with the toilet down the hall, shared with two other apartments. This was all over the city. Not Avenue Foch, no, but we are talking about university students. They were not impoverished.
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  40436.  @johnlotz7341  Some people like marijuana, greed, and gender bender, some people are more into stuff like piano and sharing. Oh and gender specific, if that's still okay. I know I'll regret saying it. It's just a preference, not intended to impose on those who aren't into it.
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  40437.  @DerrickRG  My relatives have more freedom of speech than we do. No one wore masks except indoors in crowds during this whole time. You've never been outside the states, have you? "Enjoy your school shooter drills." See how nice that is?
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  40438.  @BrotherAlpha  Sorry, it looks as bad as the US with respect to vaccine misinformation = MANDATES, when there is no possible reason to have them. (By the way, France made them illegal for minors, with the actual left leading in passing the bill, not the faux left like you see in North America.) It's certainly cold compared to the Mediterranean. (Who did this survey? I should trust them?)
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  40439.  @BrotherAlpha  Your "information" was incorrect. It does not lower all-cause mortality at all. VERY easy to find, in highly reputable sources, including one from Canada later mentioned in the BMJ. The last time I was told I "didn't count," it was racist, so I guess this is an improvement? LOL
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  40440.  @onlylexus  It's not the left, it's the neoliberal ruling class globalists. The left just outlawed mandates for minors in France, last fall. Macron is the globalist there.
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  40441.  @vinchenta3325  South, my dear. Croatia is dull by comparison. :)
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  40442. @@jassasingh9880 I did that as a child. The people are not beautiful. I like beautiful people.
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  40443.  @martijnvangammeren1868  No, these weren't student facilities at all, or student ghettos. These were people with working-class neighbors, regular families. I am surprised by the fact that a person cannot know absent direct experience. There should be more work in this world for honest journalists.
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  40444.  @nono-ck5xr  My cousin has a three-bedroom condominium with high ceilings and four balconies. Parquet everywhere, and doors that are soundproof, of course. She was a dental technician. I forgot what her husband did, but he was handicapped due to COPD so I'm not sure how much he earned, and he died young. Believe whatever you need to believe. I was stunned so greatly that I have no words. Only a multi-millionaire could have this in NYC, LA or even Chicago. I had to see to believe, so I understand.
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  40445.  @GregoryMcStevens  You haven't been there lately.
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  40446.  @BrotherAlpha  You are from one of those alphabet agencies, aren't you? I know the way you turned up isn't real. Everyone needs an extra buck these days, huh?
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  40447.  @darylhudson777  Well, the truth is that you need some serious money to get the legal help you would need. This is something that can be bought. I hate to put it so baldly, but it is true. Something that long ago can be entirely removed from a record, with the right resources (people with knowledge and the money to pay them), and emigration can be expedited as well. :/
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  40448.  @haggismacphreedom  Yes, and keep in mind that all were written by people in the West. Consider the "subtext." I love all of the above, by the way. I'm glad you got to read it young, it's a real gift. It was a harsh realization to find out how much we were lied to about Eastern Europe. You will believe the OP. You will never believe me. I understand. I wouldn't either, and didn't until I saw it for myself. It has to be seen in person. To think I felt so sorry for them, and guilty for having such a "good life." I fear all I've written here could come back to haunt me, and will. If I lived there, I'd have no worries. Believe it.
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  40449.  @rollitup419  I just found out my bff was raped in college. She hid it her whole life,. At this point, most of my closest friends were either raped or abused as kids. You have a very wrong view, I suspect?
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  40450.  @rollitup419  Both Rogan and Peterson used drugs, and Peterson got inadvertently addicted. You know that, right? Or do you overlook that, too? Rogan has promoted people who advocate drug experimentation all the time. Missed it?
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  40451.  @vinchenta3325  Still wrong.
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  40452.  @haggismacphreedom  You know this? How? But wait, didn't the Free Market fix all that???!
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  40453.  @haggismacphreedom  My relatives have a high-pressure toilet like the ones in skyscrapers, which never gets plugged up like mine does whenever the neighbors (in the separate house next door) have a party. My relatives also have a bidet, like millionaires do. Don't believe it. I wouldn't have, either; to say I was shocked does not begin to describe. But whatever you do, don't seethe about it. It looks bad. Pretend you're above all that. It's the best policy.
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  40454.  @haggismacphreedom  Wait a second. You read all of those tremendous books, and still make a snide remark about "Mother Russia?" Yeah, you missed a whole lot of what they said. I guess you're not a writer at heart, or it would have made a real impact on you, not just provoked an equal but opposite ideological stance, and a desire to jeer. So, your digs aren't as good as my cousin's, huh? It's down to that? Of course it is. Go read all those books again.
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  40455.  @haggismacphreedom  My obvious point was that ALL of those books were by Westerners, who experienced totalitarianism while living in the West, not behind the Iron Curtain. That's what you obviously missed. Orwell's Homage to Catalonia and Down and Out in Paris and London are also must-reads, as is his book on how life changed after WWI in England. I forget the name, . . . but it also describes a horrible marriage from the point of view of a husband trying his best as a subplot. Very good.
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  40456.  @TrueBluZulu  I have a perfect record and a California law license. You mixed me up with someone who had some trivial traffic issues a generation ago. I don't want to live in Canada. Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
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  40457.  @TrueBluZulu  THIS is exactly why I want to emigrate. I can't live with stupid anymore. Not like this.
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  40458.  @TrueBluZulu  Don't tell everyone how jealous you are. Keep it to yourself.
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  40459.  @TrueBluZulu  Oooo nice swearing. Moron read what I said as a confession of prior felony. If that isn't stupid. That's beyond stupid.
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  40460.  @TrueBluZulu  Oh, see where you got it. Watch better vids. Blocked.
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  40461.  @TrueBluZulu  Who's crying? Being told I was about to die didn't make me cry.
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  40462. I HOPE so.
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  40463. Yeah, no kidding Macron isn't "guaranteed." Is all the MSM truque now?
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  40464. @lachlanbell8390  No. Just the ones with tons of credible ___xual allegations against them, who have a sudden volte-face. It could still be sincere, stranger things are true, but watching with a skeptical eye seems reasonable to me. And hanging on to your wallet? Definitely.
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  40465.  @sherryshenellbeauty  Good luck finding an honest and competent lawyer, that you can afford.
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  40466. People need to stop joining the military. Let billionaires buy mercenaries.
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  40467. Surprise, surprise.
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  40468. AOC has failed to meet expectations. We thought her price would be higher.
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  40469. Why are you obsessed with following Jimmy Dore around and insulting him? You've mentioned you're in a more civilized country, Sweden, with better laws than America and higher social credits. /s So enjoy your superiority. Don't waste your time on a working-class kid, youngest of 12, former bricklayer from the South Side of Chicago.
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  40470. The 14,000 dead in the Donbass are cancelled. How nice it must be To wield the hegemony To declare some victims Nonpersons.
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  40471. ​ @jamesgarvey8402 Well like anything else, it will depend on what they say, and their general track record.
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  40472. @Ffff Nnnnul, you're the one who doesn't get it. That is actually not the same. If the girlfriend had a history with that particular man, she has evidence of how much danger she is in. If this servicemember had witnessed the victim be violent on previous occasions, that would have a bearing on what he chose to do this time.
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  40473.  @JoeBidenHatesU  BTW, that sounds like good enough for you, to move to potentially lethal force? How are you known in your community? Does anyone fear you? Did you ever give them a reason? (I say eff that! This "standard" will, by the way, usually result in discrimination against men.) We have people losing livelihoods based on very dubious social media "reputation." Are we about to jack that up to 11?
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  40474.  @aussierob390  This point has already been answered I see. Also, my responses to Nick Smith -- I hope they aren't shadowed, as usual by these ghouls, so that no one can even have a discussion anymore.
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  40475. Hare Krishna? I remember when they appeared on our campus and the daughter of a prominent philosophy professor joined. I couldn't believe it, but I had the sense then that they would have a larger influence than anyone thought possible. Well, guess who was involved with them? None other than STEVEN JOBS.
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  40476.  @kenneth804  It was intended to be comical.
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  40477.  @kenneth804  Okay have it your way.
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  40478. I knew not to join Facebook. Please. Remember MySpace?
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  40479. The data does suggest that some highly vulnerable people benefit from vaccination. It should be available for them, worldwide, if they choose.
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  40480. 🐂
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  40481. I know links are routinely shadowed, so could you provide a reference for this?
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  40482. Also, why does NIH agree that ivermectin merits further study? Why does Dr. Racaniello agree (see his brilliant interview on Lex Fridmen)?
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  40483.  @HR-yd5ib  A 1994 article in a journal on parasites That is what that is. WOW
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  40484.  @HR-yd5ib  Only one article Campbell cited is a computer simulation. So, are you lying, or false flagging? Doing this to discredit this channel, or to make it look like the criticisms are all as baseless as your own? This is why Grice's Maxims are essential. No good faith means no communication.
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  40485.  @HR-yd5ib  A paper on parasites has ABSOLUTELY NO BEARING on the QUESTION of using ivermectin to impede viral replication, which the NIH agreed merits further study. Campbell explained all this. Carefully. Liar. Blocked from my feed.
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  40486. Is Owens broke or something? Did she run up her credit cards right before getting fired? Go back to claiming Madame Macron is a monsieur. 😂😂😂
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  40487. Jimmy, let's be honest. The election was close. Therefore politically she was right to make sure Trump's name was not on another check. She considers this call an unequivocal win. You're right, it's a game. Pelosi just won again, by their standards. We haven't counted since the banks were deregulated.
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  40488. 👏👏👏
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  40489. He didn't say it was their "imagination," although I agree with your basic point. Being misdiagnosed and psychologically manipulated can lead to PTSD, a very real illness. This type of prolonged trauma can leave a person in need of rehabilitation. It's not a joke at all, I agree. We need to hear from the victims, in their own voices.
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  40490.  @dustyfeller  I think you're right. I oppose silencing anyone, least of all a person with neurological symptoms. But I don't say PTSD as if it were not very serious. I believe some cases have neuro-physiological signatures. I think I've also seen that PTSD sufferers are at higher risk of depression, heart disease, and eventual dementia -- even if they don't drink too much, etc.
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  40491.  @dustyfeller  No worries. Basic agreement. The whole picture worries me. This should never be about "taking sides." People were harmed. That much is certain. How, by whom, etc., is much less clear, which means that the best course of treatment is not evident, either. We need to care more about one another.
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  40492. The location of the entrance wound is the only strong evidence against him. Apart from that, reasonable doubt. The discrepancies in the questioning happen all the time, and he never joined his virtual girlfriend.
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  40493. ​ @Primal341  Oh really? Because this is America, it's not as though a bullet might find you.
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  40494. Why doesn't she SHOW us the pages? None of this is reporting, actually. They need to SHOW us the pages, if only briefly. SHOW us you actually LOOKED.
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  40495. Someone should take a hard look at Musk's run-ins with the SEC.
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  40496. This shocked them? This?
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  40497. "Why won't it win?" Love Jimmy for that. "Oh! Oh! There is a pandemic! We have to close the businesses THAT PROVIDE YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE!" But Medicare stripped of age discrimination "will lose."
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  40498.  @DetectiveHouse  I love people who think big.
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  40499.  @iorr98  There are a lot of factors that go into the decision. "New York Times malice" and the Larry Flynt case would have a bearing for sure. I still hope he does sue them, and I believe they would settle. Complete impunity for TYT does not strike me like a good outcome. :/
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  40500. @lindanorris2455  Judges have absolute immunity for judicial acts.
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  40501. @christheghostwriter  You could have said judges have absolute immunity for judicial acts. No, wait. You couldn't. 🤣
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  40502. @awakefromwoke  That's not the standard. "Common sense" has nothing to do with these determinations. What nonsense. Then anyone could accuse, or deflect; it would have the rigor of Facebook Likes.
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  40503. Lab mice have a short lifecycle. We could have observed a group of them for two years, for reproductive issues, normal pups, and normal lifespan.
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  40504. So they can't pin this on Assange, eh?
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  40505. All the approved vaccines prevent deadly COVID. The one Kyle took (JnJ) is like AstraZeneca.
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  40506. Or how about KAMALA is horror?
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  40507.  @radioguy8662  Well, what the "solution" is requires a dispassionate, non-ideological look at how the world actually works. How did China actually develop? How did manufacturing become a very small sector of the labor force in Western countries but not in Asia? How are we, in fact, furnishing a much larger global population and market with more manufactured goods? Economics always has many "moving parts," moving all at once. You never answered my question. I hope you weren't imputing bad arguments to me, simply because I asked a question. It was a real question, not a tendentious one. (An aside: even Adam Smith knew that under certain conditions free trade could cause serious harm to a society, even though it was better overall. But that's the rub, isn't it?)
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  40508.  @radioguy8662  Wait a second. You teach this stuff at the university level, and you don't know the difference between A imputing bad arguments to B, and A giving bad arguments to B? And you don't know that Adam Smith examined the possible pitfalls of free trade as well, in order to avoid them and prevent them from undermining the basic principle? Did you go through grad school using computer quizzes and flash cards? What the h_ll is going on at universities today? Does getting a job their mean you get to spout Your Very Own Ideology, whatever that might be? Not to mention the math challenged bit: of COURSE the proportion of people involved in manufacturing can go down -- and be in a downward trajectory -- at the same time as the raw number of such people can rise. Guess what? That involves a growing world population, and more important, a growing market for manufactured goods. See how those fractions work? No more. A college teacher who doesn't know logic. Just yesterday I heard of a philosophy professor who never had calculus. At least he decided to plunge in and take the class with undergrads as classmates. Bravo to him. I admit I didn't read your entire post. Why should I?
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  40509.  @radioguy8662  "I certainly wasn't giving you bad arguments. I'm a professor." 😂 "Oh, and I'm passionate!" Well, then. How very special. Excuse me, but adults were having a conversation about destroyed livelihoods.
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  40510. This is her brand. She gets paid for this act.
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  40511. ​@sharinaross1865 Disbarred? Who should be "disbarred?"
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  40512. I wish cigarettes were safe. I'd have three to five a day.
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  40513. So, Princeton doesn't teach Celine or Ezra Pound any more, huh?
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  40514. Sure they are. We'll see whether arms to the ME stop. (You caught that?)
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  40515.  @bozo5632  That is scarier.
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  40516. @roccocupido5082  This is a global venue, correct, and France is the host country. But do you know what this "culture war" is really about? It's the New Popular Front trying to further erode support for neolib Macron. The leftist LFI leader Jean-Luc Melenchon criticized this display. I like him a lot, but I understand why he's grabbing on to this . . . Just like the French left was more critical of Charlie Hebdo than the centrists were, and much more critical of recent v mandates, as well, which were imposed by Macron. In France, the memes are different. They have a long tradition of parody and burlesque, and using it to take down politicians. Grab some 🍿
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  40517.  @roccocupido5082  Too bad my response went poof. YT doesn't handle truth too well.
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  40518.  @McJerkenstien  There's Charlie Hebdo for that.
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  40519.  @MeirHarZion34  Are you joking? Ulcinj is famous for disrupting the Ottoman Empire slave trade! The people all intermarried, too. It's a point of great pride. The people from Africa -- modern-day Chad, mostly -- set up fishing villages and then some moved inland to Podgorica. This was in the 17th century. Look it up. People in Montenegro really hate racialism. It's a bunch of Nazi crap. 🤮
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  40520.  @RiotforPeacePlz  Halfway joking -- it's the title of a book. But I do think claiming there is no God is incoherent. Not believing is one thing, thinking believers are wrong is something different.
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  40521.  @Angelalynx999  People aren't supposed to believe in me, hence no loss. You don't recognize the book title? Chris Hedges? It's a joke, sort-of. Anyway, I'm strictly agnostic. That means I know I may be wrong.
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  40522.  @Angelalynx999  As you like.
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  40523.  @Angelalynx999  I know what they mean in several languages, actually. But I digress.
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  40524.  @Angelalynx999  Comme vous voulez. Aucun raison de vous inquieter, ce que vous avez besoin de croire est vrai, et doit etre vrai, pour toujours. C'est le principe de base chez les americains. Sinon, ils commencent vite a se facher et insulter les autres. C'est un tropisme chez eux. ;)
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  40525.  @Angelalynx999  So, a nice thread supportive of this (obviously wonderful) lady sure did degenerate fast. Because you didn't get a joke/contemporary literary reference. Blocked from further notifs.
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  40526. Who do you think led the Resistance in France, on its territory? Do you think, or just echo US Deep State propaganda?
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  40527. Who are these people who staff the schools that they "know" by SIXTH GRADE who will succeed academically and who won't? These are people who very often cannot do their own jobs very well. But they can tell who should end up where! Wow. Just wow.
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  40528.  @charlesiragui2473  In "Europe?" Every country? Who told you this? What languages do you speak, to check it for yourself??
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  40529.  @charlesiragui2473  Mon Dieu, je ne le savais pas! C'est nouveau. Par exemple, je me rappelle tres bien quand il etait formellement interdit d'utilizer les examens comme les "IQ tests" de decider quoi que soit au sujet d'un etudiant et son parcours eventuel. Aussi, Pierre Bourdieu demontrer comment les prejuges de classe etaient utilizes contre les etudiants. Je ne peut pas imaginer un Gaston Bachelard ici. C'etait comme si Jude the Obscure avait reussi a entrer a Oxford.
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  40530.  @charlesiragui2473  L'Allemande, je savais. Les autres pays, je le doutait. Quand est-ce que la France etait aussi rigide? Est-ce que vous dites que c'est fini maintenant, ou . . . ?
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  40531.  @mr-peabody  I had to look up LARP. Brand consciousness and meming is your thing. You think it's real. 🤣 Say. Who did you trust on that? 😂😂😂
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  40532. 28:40 Katrina vanden Heuvel
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  40533.  @TheZodiacz  Attitude is everything. 😉
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  40534.  @cejannuzi  Non sequitur. No one believes that. Have you looked at any of the research, published in leading medical journals, on who escapes with mild illness and no detectable long-term effects? It's not mainly about supplements, or any quick fix. Look up vegetarians and COVID. Look up lysine/arginine ratios in food and virus replication in general, this one in particular. Look up vitamin D obtained naturally. Look up quercetin rich foods, and probiotic foods. Look up intermittent fasting. When I realized how much researchers do know and failed to transmit to us, I was truly shaken. The number of dead might have been cut in half.
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  40535. Public education has been defunded. Rely on Bill Gates and other billionaires to direct your children's education. That's basically what has happened.
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  40536. ​ @nancyrobertson8661 What do you know about her biography? 😂
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  40537. ​ @saltynameredacted9117 You mean you watch this SkyNews woman and think that's a journalist? 😂
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  40538. Timestamps?
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  40539. There was no information about the biological mother.
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  40540. Remember how MSM lionized Shon Hopwood? How Gates Foundation paid for him to go to law school? I saw through that. Rittenhouse certainly deserves a chance MUCH MORE than Hopwood.
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  40541. Do you get paid for lying, too? MSNBC and DNC demand a decent price. (You do know that, right?)
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  40542. No, Norman Finkelstein's timeline is the correct one.
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  40543. MSM crying wolf was a grave mistake, and a distraction, true. Enough real wolves are at the door now.
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  40544.  @nm515  The point is, the neoliberal MSM has been demonstrably lying about Trump and exaggerating about Trump. Most level headed people knew that was risky. It was implying that his actual misdeeds must not be so bad, if you have to exaggerate. Well, it turns out he was much more dangerous than most people thought. If the DNC appreciated the risk, why didn't they start getting ready to beat him right after he got elected in 2016? Why didn't they run a better candidate and better campaign? This election should have been a LANDSLIDE for the Democrats, a totally decisive win. You must know it wasn't. Do the math.
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  40545. Sorry. AOC fails again. Let us know when she shows some progressive courage. Do we gut the Bill of Rights "because feelings?" Anyone's feelings? Suppose she feels Russia is going to drop a nuclear warhead on Capitol Hill. Do we initiate retaliation, or provide her with confidential counseling?
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  40546.  @sirnimbus3498  He will run for President. Why not? In 2038, he turns 35. But in troubled times, we could lower the age. To keep us safe.
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  40547.  @blindliberty4478  "Y'all?" I have no identification with ANYONE in this sick picture. They all violated curfew, too.
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  40548.  @blindliberty4478  There isn't a curfew charge in the document, nor did I suggest there was. I was pointing out the simple fact that ALL parties were violating curfew. You obviously have not seen the charging document and have no understanding of the statute, or of burdens of proof.
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  40549.  @blindliberty4478  I'm not listening to the crazy stuff. For example: "Rittenhouse is guilty of murder because he is a 'white supremacist.'" -- or -- "Rittenhouse is a hero because he eliminated two scumbags." This is sheer insanity. This was a lost KID, and no KID should face adult charges. This KID does not have 'politics,' he has major delusions. He couldn't complete high school. His father is out of the picture. His mother is struggling. He lives in a fantasy world, fueled by the Internet. He is 17 years old. And the adults around him, who should want to rehabilitate him, are mostly crazy. They are trying to say he has a "right" to carry an AR-15. MY GOD.
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  40550.  @blindliberty4478  There are more and more kids like Rittenhouse. The few good teachers are looking for other jobs. Nobody wants to deal with kids like this, because it is not worth it any more. THIS should worry you. This is a real-world problem, not the latest nutcase on MSNBC spouting nonsense for money, because their kids will be fine. The rest is pure distraction.
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  40551.  @blindliberty4478  Between COVID and the all Rittenhouses out there, not one person qualified for a better job is going to stay in teaching. Do you really not get it yet? This is the real bread-and-butter stuff.
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  40552.  @blindliberty4478  Of course not.
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  40553.  @blindliberty4478  If you are asking whether I think Rittenhouse is guilty, I do not know, and I don't think anyone does. I think it is a hard case requiring careful investigation, and I think charging him as an adult is wrong, which pertains to punishment. IOW, I could actually be a juror because I am not biased. But was he "in the wrong" to have gone to Kenosha, and especially heavily armed? Of course. He is a KID. He is not a licensed, insured, and bonded security guard. If any adults asked him to come, they are MORE IN THE WRONG. (Notice how no adult is copping to having invited him to cosplay security/medic? Figures!) Bottom line, he had no business being there. What is wrong with people?
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  40554.  @blindliberty4478  The problem with any video is that whoever took it made certain choices -- to start and stop filming when he did, which is crucial. That's apart from any issues of visibilty of all actions material to the charges, and varying interpretations of what is visible. Plus every video has to be authenticated, and a chain of custody has to be established. All of that requires witness testimony. Rittenhouse is presumed innocent, so I'm not saying he's guilty. And I am totally serious when I say that if some adult put him up to this, with this result for him -- which is already REALLY bad no matter what happens in the end -- I want to see that adult charged. This is all politicized b*llsh*t. He is a kid. The idea that he is facing charges that could keep him in jail for 50 years or whatever is disgusting, and that anyone thinks that's just fine (because of some Facebook posts he made!) boggles the mind. And the people who were egging him on and are now denigrating the deceased are ghouls. They have no morals whatsoever, no sense of right and wrong. That's what I think.
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  40555.  @twoshedsjohnson8540  I agree with that.
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  40556.  @twoshedsjohnson8540  Reread this. Well said, all true.
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  40557. Is my Marine veteran friend who is waiting for more information a "coward?" Oh wait. He's also biracial. Oops, Keith. Better walk back on that.
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  40558. So . . . When are the children old enough to tackle these hard, hard questions?
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  40559. None of which is "progressive." This election had no one even marginally left. Nixon was more progressive on several issues than these pseudo-progressive bathroom-obsessed ID pol clowns.
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  40560. Finkelstein is pure NYC. He taught college for a few years in Chicago.
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  40561. THIS
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  40562. She sounds like she's auditioning for a softcore porn role.
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  40563.  @ruthx3346  Absolutely right.
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  40564. That's all well and good, but it doesn't make real money. And we all know that money is what matters.
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  40565.  @karashea7823  White?? You must mean Jeff Epstein's crowd.
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  40566.  @marcusmaddox2176  Ha! It was a cover for hucksters and pedophiles. It was perfect while it lasted. It still has legs. (Can you say "megachurch?")
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  40567. 💯 💯 💯
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  40568. ​ @Philemaphobia If any of the lawsuits against Tesla are true, oh brother . . .
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  40569. ​ @unclebensrice4702 You think that's a good thing?? Yet another financial middleman.
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  40570. ​ @christinepark1398 That never matters. Welcome to 2025 America. There's a reason why the monitoring favors jeering over facts.
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  40571.  @icorrectly  That was a classic video. I miss those days.
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  40572. Jonas Salk didn't patent his vaccine. Of course Jonas Salk had a love life.
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  40573. I thought public funding -- "Operation Warp Speed" -- and various not-for-profit institutions, like Oxford University and other research institutes all over the world, developed these vaccines. The manufacturers could produce for cost. Amazon and Tesla, among many others, seemed to do fine without profits for years on end, I wonder how that worked . . .
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  40574. I think they were scared into it.
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  40575. You joined a few months ago --- for this?
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  40576.  @cheguevarasfist4018  Never. Never is good.
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  40577.  @cheguevarasfist4018  Joined in 2020 during the lockdown. I don't do soc med.
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  40578.  @cheguevarasfist4018  I was surprised by your first retort. Maybe I misunderstood you.
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  40579. What part of First Amendment rights is so obscure suddenly?
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  40580. ​ @mikewilder6728  They are used twice.
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  40581.  @republitarian484  Oh okay! Lol, duh on my part.
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  40582.  @robertortiz-wilson1588  Of course. It all makes complete sense. And Arkhipov didn't save the world. I'm sure Joe will! Or Elon?
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  40583.  @robertortiz-wilson1588  At least you have better talking points than most. Don't tell me, let me guess: August 6 and August 9 were both essential.
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  40584.  @youcantpredictthat  💯 perfect, exactly that
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  40585. This is no "left" I recognize. He creeps me out.
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  40586.  @ResoluteDeicide  I'm a Parisian Maoist. The "creeps me out" comment was separate from the political judgment. Does Ryan have politics at all, or a Sixties Caravan "lifestyle?" That was a deliberately apolitical life, and took inspiration from people like Kerouac, who were frequently right of center.
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  40587.  @ResoluteDeicide  Oh, if you tell me that they're phonies at worst, unaware at best, and parasitic (someone else has to engage politically, and militarily, to secure this life for them), you'll get no argument from me. Plain as day. But this type of sheer self-indulgence and self-centeredness does not emerge in "collectivist" societies, in whatever way you decide to define that. I mean, follow a historian-archeologist-anthropologist like Emanuel Todd, if you like (probably the best of the bunch on this point). Or consider Marx's vision of an eventual communist society. Or modern-day Vietnam. It really doesn't matter. It's a subculture you find most often in the Five Eyes, and especially in its leader, the US. By far the US. But believe what you like. Blaming the Other is an American tradition.
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  40588. See the FOIA government website. Lots of stuff can be redacted. :/
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  40589. I never thought Frank Zappa's dictum that life was high school with money could become this true. My high school wasn't high school. Not like this.
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  40590. People who are willing to accept provocateurs played a role in 1/6 will deny until they're blue in the face that at least some of the George Floyd demonstrations that later degenerated into violence had government agents provoking that violence. Even Jimmy Dore presented evidence early on that there were provocateurs in the George Floyd demonstrations.
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  40591. Benjamin does? That's illegal. Hence your post is a smear.
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  40592. I think we can agree Putin was wrong to start any war of choice, as is any country and any leader. "Paranoia" is an exaggeration, as it turns out. Sadly.
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  40593. YES. Those with that mentality are the most despicable.
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  40594. You're a hero. Thank you.
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  40595. But it could be --- among other things.
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  40596.  @ToriZealot  A small group of elites who stand to profit the most from it. I'm shocked I tell you, shocked, shocked!
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  40597. Read the opinion and see.
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  40598. Get a lawyer on air to explain the indictment. It has NO murder charges whatsoever. Manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, assault, etc.
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  40599.  @curtw878  Well, but do you want to work for a company that produces, for example, anti-white male content? I'd say, it depends. As far as I'm concerned, Chappelle can say crazy stuff about women, but if I had a boss who took it seriously and let it affect the climate in the workplace, that would be different.
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  40600.  @curtw878  Not what I said
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  40601.  @curtw878  Did you stop reading at the first sentence?
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  40602. That's an enormous number of people. Now they don't count? That's not the only consideration in any case. What if it risks a person's cognitive development and intelligence? Brains don't complete development at age 7, the way various religions once insisted they did.
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  40603.  @jsirivanchai  Some lobotomies resulted in calm people, too.
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  40604.  @EZEonIon  I usually don't mind Robbie, and Kim and Bri could both hold their own, but he simply is not sufficiently well informed to be so disdainful. He comes up with so much nonsense, and his lack of knowledge and maturity (life experience, etc.) really shows. I don't care if someone that young happens not to have heard of something or other -- they know many things that I don't. It's when they think they are so much smarter than they are that it irks me.
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  40605. Nonsense. No one, man or woman, has to go to the police for permission to tell their story in the press, or to anyone. Consult the Bill of Rights, Amendment I. You are pleading for the speech to be ignored unless it has certain indicia of proof. No employer should act on it, no school, and certainly no law enforcement or other government. That's different.
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  40606. Besides, she did make a police report.
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  40607.  @GFTCNJ  Agree 💯about the media. Absolutely. Jimmy Dore has been on fire about that lately.
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  40608.  @GFTCNJ  The court granted her request for a temporary restraining order. I wonder how that happened.
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  40609.  @GFTCNJ  Can I ask you something? Do you honestly imagine this was one-sided? She's making it all up? And his massive drug and alcohol abuse has no bearing on the case? It doesn't affect his memory, for example? What marriage with an addict is like that, all in his favor? People talk about bias, well . . . LAPD are notorious for their bias in favor of major stars. Read up on Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys and his crowd. You can find the details in accounts of Charles Manson.
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  40610.  @GFTCNJ  This is no different from the mob that went after Eric Clapton, or Brian Eno, or Brian Laundrie's parents, or the unvaccinated, or all Russians, including Russian musicians on record for opposing Putin and Russian-bred cats banned from cat shows.
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  40611. One more reason why juveniles should not be charged as adults. This should have been a low-key juvenile proceeding with court supervision, no right to handle firearms, an education plan, etc. The services he very obviously needs. This was a more nuanced case than most were led to believe. The New Yorker wrote about him and his family, and the in-depth view paints a different picture.
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  40612. Nothing like the freefall imposed on Russia in the 1990s. The global neolibs shouldn't have gotten Russians used to this.
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  40613. Goldman Sachs and Moody's want us vaccinated. Biden said so.
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  40614. French
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  40615. How would we know, this soon? We don't. When FDA approval supplants EUA, we will have a lot more data. It may take even longer (1 to 3 more years) to establish what you claim is already known.
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  40616. Do you question that several teammates who are vaccinated all turned up COVID positive? How did they contract it? Why were they tested? Did they have minor cold symptoms, or worse?
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  40617. ​ @GM-db4bv NO HE DIDN'T 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  40618. It never went to trial.
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  40619.  @krollpeter  Good point.
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  40620.  @krollpeter  To recap at this point, toward the end of June, what do you believe, ideally, should be done?
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  40621.  @NotSure421  Exacto! Beat me to it.
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  40622. Jackson Hole, Wyoming?
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  40623. Yeah, that was great -- but people would misunderstand, watch.
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  40624. So, you believe that leashing her dog will allow her to stay and keep the rent down? What else do you believe? Entertain us.
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  40625. The Dalai Lama? Sentience arises through biological evolution. It is detectible in living organisms in myriad ways, only one of which manifests as speech in only one species, on Earth at any rate, and is evident in pre-linguistic infants.
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  40626. How do we know this is safe for this long, and with no conditioning? With intermittent fasting, I did a 36 to 42 hour fast once a week for an entire summer before I even tried to go for 64 hours. I would not do this more than 48 hours for the first time.
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  40627.  @abc-wv4in  No, it's not.
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  40628. Pearl Harbor was in 1941.
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  40629.  @Gr8flGrrl  👏
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  40630. People who are surprised by the COVID origins coverup, thinking it would be impossible -- just look at the JFK assassination coverup.
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  40631. See Glenn Greenwald's new post of Victoria Nuland testifying on the biolabs. Familiar trajectory: Biolabs in Ukraine is a conspiracy theory. Biolabs in Ukraine is Russian misinformation. Biolab funding is to make sure dangerous pathogens are destroyed. Biolab funding is in one place only in Ukraine, and is purely peaceful. Biolab funding is by the US Department of Defense, in its threat reduction initiative. Biolab funding is in six labs, at least, for the purpose of comprehensive threat reduction. Biolab funding by DOD exists throughout Ukraine, to reduce the threat. "Putin puppet!!!"
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  40632. I know you didn't read the case. I doubt Robby did. I have to wonder whether Briahna did. Wow, those educational standards . . .
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  40633. I read a bunch of stories from several sources about this incident, and skimmed the official report of no racism. This is what I really think: First, to be wrongly accused of racism, much less fired as a result, is horrendous. Unbelievable. This was the most severe harm suffered, and I hope the employees will have redress. Second, why are people pushed to be so officious? Was there some compelling reason to get campus police to question the student in the first place? The employees were told to do this. Why? Whatever happened to approaching someone, without a show of force, and saying, "I'm so sorry, you can't sit here. It's officially closed for _____. I could help you move over there." Or just leave people alone. Was it THAT big of a deal where somebody sits to have lunch, on a summer day? If the area is closed, spring for a posted sign. Cordon it off. This joint can afford it.
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  40634.  @MindNow  I found mine just the other day. Someone who was horrible to me, really horrible, gratuitously and out of the blue, about a year later (supposedly) had a spectacular opportunity. When I found out even later that the opportunity got scrapped, even before COVID, I was so happy. They have a nice job, a happy marriage, a healthy daughter -- all good. I'm happy for their nice little job, etc. They earned all those things. So the whole picture is satisfying. :) That was my dark side. I accept it just fine. :)
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  40635.  @SteveJonesOwnsDSP  She's not my favorite, but this is outstanding. Full credit. Top notch.
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  40636. Why was in-state college tuition once something that kids paid in full, all on their own, with an ordinary summer job? Why was rent affordable for anyone working full time? If state universities were subsidized through state taxes, like they once were, it would create DOWNWARD pressure on all tuition. On the other hand, loans are just like leverage, and create UPWARD pressure on all tuition. Financing college using earned dollars is not the same as borrowing against future earnings. A state subsidy of state universities holds the line on tuition, and private colleges feel the pressure to follow suit, at least to some extent. Letting all colleges set their tuition as they see fit, more or less, while underwriting loans (which means borrowing against future earnings) will always create upward pressure on tuition. You find money to pay for it that doesn't actually exist yet, in the sense of having been earned. Liberalized bank lending for mortgages forces home prices upward as well. You already know this. How did they fool you into not knowing it?
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  40637. @chankston7954  Barely. Fifty years ago, they were almost entirely supported by state taxes. And that was when a summer job covered a full year. Look into leverage. For example, consider what buying stocks using leverage does to the risk and reward. Financing college using earned dollars is not the same as borrowing against future earnings. A state subsidy of state universities holds the line on tuition, and private colleges then feel the pressure to follow suit, at least to some extent. Letting all colleges set their tuition as they see fit, more or less, while underwriting loans (which means borrowing against future earnings) will always create upward pressure on tuition. You find money to pay for it that doesn't actually exist yet, in the sense of having been earned, but is created for the purpose, by the federal guarantee. This part you understand. Liberalized bank lending for mortgages forces home prices upward as well. You already know this. Of course that created the conditions for the 2008-2009 collapse.
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  40638. Find out what happened when HSBC was found to be laundering drug cartel money . . . Nothing. Nothing happened.
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  40639. Show me where any African-American person is supporting American involvement in a war, much less one where international bodies have found war crimes and a plausible risk of genocide. Just show me. Having said that, Shapiro has the First Amendment rights he wishes to deny to others. He can say all that stuff. I'm not having a cow over it. Good that we know what he's about.
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  40640. Why was I just censored? I can see it under the Newest sorting tab. Maybe only I can?
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  40641.  @InTenMinutes1  Property rights included property in human beings. No. Just no. During the French Revolution, ordinary people agitated to free all slaves in their overseas colonies. Its own territory was always free soil.
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  40642. For the US, this is about oil. For Russia and China, it is about dollar hegemony. I expected them to move on the dollar in this decade, just not so soon. Our national debt is 135% of our GDP, give or take. Russia's is under 20% of its GDP. And we owe China money, and China is our offshore manufacturing colony via private contracts and US bases protecting those contractors. Just think it through. :/ Poor Ukraine, pawns like the Serbs.
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  40643.  @Dowlphin  Whoosh
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  40644.  @lm3049  You do make good points. I think we'd actually have to discuss this in person, al length, to come to some sort of conclusion that can stand up to scrutiny. I have noticed that a lot of wealthy people at risk have been brought back from the brink, with treatments most of us cannot hope to afford. That observation does not negate your points, true.
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  40645. Teaching to the test has only gotten worse. Top-down directives have only become more massive.
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  40646.  @chicpotpie3494  And . . . You think someone else is nutty.
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  40647. Sounds like Taibbi's book will be super!
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  40648.  @davidbarry6900  "Vanity project," LOL. Because they should have taken Pfizer and Moderna instead, hm? No mRNA vaccine has been approved in China. Considering their drive to attain (the unattainable) Zero COVID without destroying their economy (a significant incentive right there), you would think they would have adopted mRNA as quickly as possible.
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  40649.  @shotgunkawaii116  What lie did I tell? That different vaccines have different risk profiles? That is true. Look up any European ministry of health known for its excellent public health: Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden. See what they recommend. When you talk about several billion people, then 0.5% is important. One-half of one percent of one billion is 5 million. Stop your lying about mathematics. It's so awkward.
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  40650.  @shotgunkawaii116  You wrote: "By the way the current global mortality rate for covid 19 is 1% to 2% since day one regardless your are vaccinated or not." I supplied the emphasis. So, why get vaccinated?
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  40651.  @ewhite1546  J&J is not a live, attenuated virus at all, or an inactivated virus.
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  40652.  @shotgunkawaii116  In 2022, J&J is no longer recommended at all in my state, and this is where the governor got one of the first doses at the state fair grounds vaccination center (I commend him for that, actually -- lead by example and do what you ask other to do).
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  40653.  @shotgunkawaii116  I am, too, and I can reference ministries of health who have determined the differences to be significant. Every one of them has a web page in English. YOU ARE COUNTING on other people to be too lazy and ignorant to check for themselves. That is not wise, not on this channel. Blocked as another bad faith time-waster.
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  40654.  @davidbarry6900  That makes sense, because of the extreme refrigeration needed.
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  40655.  @goh123superman  Interesting, given the costs of refrigeration.
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  40656.  @energeticgorilla  LOL
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  40657.  @SimonHaestoe  I'm sorry. Please don't call me out.
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  40658. What are you talking about? Forced immunotherapy "vaccines" that merely lessen the risk of spread, for less than six months, and possibly for less than three months? This is reasonable, or even doable? According to who?
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  40659. We have the example of South Africa for studying the current Omicron wave, where fewer than 30% are vaccinated. Look on the world map to see where the highest transmission exists. Then look on the map to see where the highest vaccination rates are. Someone needs to explain this, pronto.
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  40660.  @Mman.  I think we're in trouble. I don't know. Your thoughts on timeframe?
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  40661. Is it now against the law to refuse a vaccine that was only approved for emergency use less than a year ago? This new law is a huge encroachment.
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  40662. In any event, there is a difference between a fine and being deprived of your livelihood. Or no? Independently wealthy, are we?
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  40663.  @barkerjackson7579  My parents met in a refugee camp and my family died out here. I have to emigrate to live. To one of those places the US bombed with depleted uranium. Try that.
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  40664.  @barkerjackson7579  You as well!
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  40665. But will it? Needs a proof.
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  40666. Amy has been brilliant. Who else has given voice to Israelis and others who are truly for peace and justice, while clearly condemning the terrorist attack of October 7? I love her for her work on this. This presentation is inspired. Sorry you cannot appreciate this defense of the First Amendment. We are close to losing it.
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  40667.  @Walter-x1j  No, it's not. That's what makes it different.
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  40668. Without a murmur? MSM all agreed it was suicide.
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  40669. How much they like war is sometimes a difference.
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  40670. ​@jaynenord101 This avoids radiation, and possibly medication. Discuss it with her further, it's important information. Believe it.
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  40671. ​ @jaynenord101 If I post about it, you won't know. Please discuss it further with her. There are good reasons. I wish I could say more.
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  40672. Well . . . She didn't vote for Joe Biden OR Hillary Clinton.
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  40673. Bingo
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  40674. When have we objected to anything "our guys" do? American servicemen were told to ignore ritual child abuse by Afghan tribal leaders fighting on "our side," and those who refused were disciplined. One was assassinated by our "allies." The assassin was barely punished.
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  40675.  @yoholmes273  Where in the world did you see disagreement? And no, the latest new word ("whataboutism") never crossed my mind.
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  40676. Reuters and Facebook using women, people of color, and LGBTQ as human shields. Woke washing at its finest.
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  40677. ​​ @est9949 The surgeon who devised the lobotomy got the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
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  40678.  @featherkutz5894  Why are you so emotionally involved with these people? Especially after Andrew? Did you see that coming?
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  40679. PRECISELY
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  40680. "On the left?" WHAT left? There is no such thing in the US except for a tiny handful of people like a Max Blumenthal or an Abby Martin, and they were not duped.
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  40681. Oh really?
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  40682.  @lindahammond7759  Please don't be. Just stay informed, take meticulous care of yourself, and be more prudent. You'll be fine. FWIW, I've had to eat perfectly, exercise, and so forth, because I was born with a heart murmur. You can do it! The information on anti-inflammatory diets and so forth is out there.
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  40683. I hope this means it will be harder to rig the next election against RFK, Jr.?
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  40684. Biden is the worst president ever. I didn't think he was up to it, but he proved me wrong.
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  40685. People are being accused of "racism" in the most dubious, bizarre, and frankly psychotic ways. Now when it is a valid QUESTION, no one peeps a word. (QUESTION. I don't know the answer. Do you?)
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  40686. Is anyone surprised that a man with a serious weapons felony on his record was interviewed by the New York Times and Newsweek? No one seems to have ANY idea who is reliable, competent and rational, and who is not. This is everywhere now.
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  40687. I had read of a study where as many as 49% of visits to ER for heart-attack related symptoms were for panic disorder. The article at the time, from a Harvard publication (Harvard Heart Letter or Harvard Health Letter, I don't remember), was immensely compassionate, and urged everyone to go to ER and rule out the heart. No responsible doctor would ever diagnose any emotional illness without first excluding a physical one. I've known psychiatrists who declined to diagnose and treat for anxiety before being satisfied a heart issue had been excluded. Not to mention that both together are not exactly rare, and the psychiatrist needs to know that.
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  40688. BTW, are you a doctor?
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  40689. No, because Supreme Court precedent allows a certain, limited use of race in admissions, and has allowed it for generations. The other side is arguing that the precedent that allows this use of race should be overturned. The Court published the briefs, so you can see what their positions are. These are interesting, this time. If Harvard stops accepting all federal funding, it can do whatever it wants about its admissions. But then it has to start spending down its gigantic endowment. Yikes.
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  40690. So, YouTube can get rid of the RICO laws? Awesome, dude! 😊
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  40691. Citations? You know this, for a novel coronavirus? Tiny droplets from the nose and mouth cannot contain virus particles in an asymptomatic person?
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  40692. I know. I'm watching people get smarter every day. /s
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  40693.  @thomaskalbfus2005  Tell it to Elon. Of course, he is a private person and does not need to listen to you.
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  40694. 10:20 Oh yeah??
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  40695. If he's happy and healthy, the breeder did right.
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  40696. By finding a "reason" to throw out the "outliers," rather than actually uncovering the underlying pattern you described, in order to support the general hypothesis.
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  40697.  @longshot7253  Yes that is the law. I don't know if he can prove self-defense and you certainly don't know, either. If a firearm is shot illegally, then those present have a right to attempt to disarm the person carrying it. That is self-defense. It's why you can legally disarm a school shooter, a shopping mall shooter, or a workplace shooter, for example.
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  40698.  @longshot7253  My best friend since 1972 practices marksmanship and wins most of her matches. My newest good friend was a Marine for 2/3 of his adult life. I don't carry because I don't have their level of training. We maintain standards around here.
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  40699.  @NickElliottOutdoors  I said "probably." This is not simple, which is why real investigations have to be conducted to make a halfway decent decision.
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  40700.  @jukesfood5601  Yeah, my most recent real friend. Not acquaintance, and not friends for very long yet, only since about 2018.
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  40701.  @atom_gray  If ALL present in an indoor area were vaccinated? Fine. Otherwise, you still need masks, because people who are vaccinated are protected against severe COVID, but we already know they can get mild COVID and can test positive and be symptom free. We have to presume they are contagious to the unvaccinated, until proven otherwise. See the NYTimes Upshot article for full details.
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  40702.  @atom_gray  Sorry. Not clear without @ Or maybe the "this" is unclear? So we agree, apparently?
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  40703. America has no leftists, just a few nut cases among the hyper greedy.
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  40704. ​@DMAN590 The technical reason Social Security is not a Ponzi scheme is that the new dollars coming in are taxes from salaries that generally keep pace with the overall economy (and when they don't, people still in the labor force do have options), whereas the payouts do not keep pace. Social Security benefits are never raised to account for the full impact of inflation. Hence, the benefits depend on the salary you earned pre-inflation, for the rest of your life, and the only sure way to rectify that is to return to work. That's not a Ponzi scheme. What it is dependent on is adequate revenues -- just like police, fire, public education, DOD, DHS, and well-maintained highways. You're welcome. Please clap.
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  40705. Yup. Americans s***
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  40706. How ignorant can people be? It is illegal to use deadly force in defense of mere property. Lethal force is justified if you put any person at risk of imminent physical harm. It is never legal for defense of mere property. Social ills, etc., are irrelevant. The age of the perpetrator is irrelevant. Whether he put a person at risk of suffering physical harm is the only question that matters. It is a bright line. We have a lot of gun owners in America, and this isn't common knowledge? Wow, just wow.
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  40707. It was a poor essay. Any avid reader sees that immediately. I don't think it should have mattered in the end. An essay should only count in your favor, in my opinion.
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  40708. No one can have cancer before Medicare. It's forbidden in America.
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  40709.  @genac4561  This is normal. It happens to millions of people.
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  40710.  @jebe4563  liar
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  40711.  @BusArch42  You think cancer care isn't enough to bankrupt you?
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  40712. @LeeGordon-fp9zf  Our public ambulance starts at $1100, and you used to be taken to the closest hospital. You were given no choice.
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  40713.  @rong4733  You love your fellow Americans, huh?
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  40714.  @kirbyjoe7484  Now try having a sick child.
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  40715. @cindysmith6833  I had no income one year and my premium was $250 per month, with a deductible in the thousands, I forget how many thousands.
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  40716.  @user-gz4ve8mw9l  We weren't rich, but it required three major blows to bring us down. Emergencies sometimes came three times per week. I don't even count those.
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  40717.  @patrickruvolo8427  No. This is ordinary.
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  40718.  @SNESpool  Yes, they are more selfish and hateful.
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  40719. @ronrendon  Either they had a second mortgage on it and the debt was unsustainable, or they got bad legal advice. A paid-for home of a disabled person is legally protected in various ways. You can qualify for all sorts of aid and keep your home because it is less expensive than subsidized rent.
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  40720. Does anyone still think these people are normal?
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  40721. Jimmy has been candid from the start. He got vaccinated because his personal doctor advised him to. Stef was achy and tired for a short time, Jimmy never got better from his second dose and had long COVID symptoms. He is under a doctor's care for those now.
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  40722. Jimmy is 56 and has a preexisting condition.
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  40723.  @saltyprincess4182  Could you please repeat that? I mean the part before "God."
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  40724. @beanybabyrabie  Because I found reliable sources that quoted court records, and because failing to recognize his own mother in court renders those sources plausible in my eyes, and because our system presumes innocence until guilt is demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt. Why are you making accusations? What's in it for you? But believe what you want. Have it your way. Our system has serious problems. People who spent decades in prison are released every year on the basis of actual innocence. That's what you should care about, as it could affect you. When innocent people are imprisoned, the actual perpetrators are free to roam and repeat their crimes -- and they often do. One did where I'm from.
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  40725.  @beanybabyrabie  I read that those events did not all happen that day or close in time to that day. And I would not expect him to recant until he was psychologically, socially, and financially independent and stable. Not at 18. Let's ask him at 34, assuming he has a job and is married. Ask him after he has children.
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  40726. LOL, I hope this stays up.
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  40727. We have had MASSIVE deficits for decades. Explain what happened now. N.B. Did you know that "fractional reserve banking" has set the reserve percentage to ZERO? Maybe we need to look into this big picture a little more closely. Why did minimum wage cover a modest apartment and in-state college tuition back in 1970? How did we manage THAT, during the Cold War?
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  40728. It comes out on top in surveys of happiness. I wonder about those, but that is ultimately what we are talking about, surveys. :/
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  40729.  @TheLordRichard  I agree with that. Self-reporting is notorious for being unreliable, except that it does tell you what the survey participants believe is an expected answer. But have you checked suicide rates lately? They have changed since the Great Recession, and in the US, they have been affected by the opioid epidemic in certain regions.
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  40730.  @TheLordRichard  This makes me wonder how accurate the suicide rates are, too. The most troubled countries have the lowest recorded rates. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/suicide-rate-by-country
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  40731.  @TheLordRichard  OTOH, this sounds like good advice: https://www.afar.com/magazine/7-lessons-learned-from-the-happiest-country-in-the-world These are all things that would increase my happiness a LOT. Being part of a society where everybody does them would be even better.
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  40732.  @TheLordRichard  I posted a couple of links, including one that shows that US suicide rates are higher than they once were -- no surprise. Posts with links are often shadowed, as they are impervious to algorithms designed to prevent TOS from being violated. Those posts might be invisible to anyone but me. (I don't like it, but understand.) I basically agree with you. To ignore suicide, and suicide attempts, in determining the quality of life in various countries is inexcusable.
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  40733.  @TheLordRichard  You're also right that the UK numbers are strikingly lower than those in most European countries including Scandinavia, and lower than in the US or Canada. I wonder what they're doing, too? It's interesting, too, because they roundly use euphemisms for mental illness. I know that for a person in deep depression and contemplating suicide, they will say something like "close to a nervous breakdown," or simply, "close to a breakdown." (To me, the latter sounds more like sobbing in public.) This might feel like oppression to some people, as though the real feelings must be covered up, but to others, it creates a welcome zone of privacy. I've read that cross-culturally, the use of euphemisms, and generally downplaying mental illness, are not associated with worse outcomes. All very interesting for sure.
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  40734. 🤣 harsh
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  40735.  @dorian7215  Not at all. EVERY "selective" college includes non-academic criteria for admissions, and there have been scholarships based not only on merit but on all sorts of extraneous criteria ever since I can remember. This is because in a privatized system, the ones with control of the money/resources get to set whatever criteria they like. A boss can prefer Mets fans over Knicks fans, White Sox fans over Cub fans, blonds over brunettes (of the "same race"), and people who grew up in a big city or on a dairy farm over those who grew up in a posh suburb. College is only marginally different. FAR MORE qualified people apply to colleges than are accepted. People who deserve to be somewhere are turned down all the time. You don't get the game, do you? To make something seem really desirable, just turn down a lot of qualified applicants. It's part of market logic.
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  40736.  @RAGSTAluvsDA90z  No one should support that, either.
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  40737. Years ago I got cyber-stalked for saying that. Should have seen Trump coming.
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  40738. 💯
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  40739. Spending bills originate in the HOUSE. Of course Pelosi is more to blame.
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  40740. @robisverybad75  Well, considering he said all fraud should be wrung out of the system, sounds like that means . . . You complete the thought. YT gets mad when I do.
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  40741. His sport doesn't risk paralysis and death.
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  40742.  @harjasdhariwal5960  The people who listen to this nut and approve are ensuring many bad days for America.
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  40743. @Seldom ForeverJust curious: suppose you were a roofer, or a construction worker working on skyscrapers. You develop severe vertigo, and it does not go away for days. Do you call in sick? Or should you just endanger yourself and everyone else, to "prove" how "brave" you are?
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  40744. @Seldom ForeverIsn't the guy who started this channel some kind of a guy who left high school because he was never sober at that age? Something really transformative and inspirational like that.
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  40745.  @KL-lt8rc  Is that how you've approached this? Is that what this video commentary leads one to believe? No one suggested it was a protected status. I suggest the video is MISLEADING about WHY we still have so many unvaccinated people. Misleading, and profoundly unhelpful. Simply designed to get the hate going, as you can see for yourself. I unsubscribed.
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  40746.  @KL-lt8rc  Look at the comments for yourself.
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  40747.  @KL-lt8rc  You're the only person talking about "protected status," whatever that's supposed to mean. The REASONS why there are so many unvaccinated are not as simplistic as you (or this David guy) insist on making them out to be. Lower income people are also markedly less likely than the affluent to have been vaccinated. But hate on. You know you want to. At least David gets paid. Do you?
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  40748.  @KL-lt8rc  For every person I know who lives alone, when they told me they were going to get vaccinated, I offered to come with them. How about you?
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  40749.  @KL-lt8rc  Well, people from other cultures are more social and collectivist. I already knew you don't think about other people. You just like to hit them with invective.
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  40750.  @KL-lt8rc  You must never get laid.
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  40751.  @KL-lt8rc  Said none of the above. The reasons hesitant people are hesitant are many and varied. THAT is what I said. These patients are not representative by any stretch. They are being featured for some other reason.
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  40752.  @KL-lt8rc  I'm planning to emigrate. Decided in 2019, I'm proud to say. What you consider "babbling," most consider wisdom and character. OH WELL.
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  40753.  @KL-lt8rc  All of my family is in Europe. The American branch died out. I'm trilingual. My best years were outside the States, of course. It comes as no surprise to me that diversity is merely a slogan to you, which elicits not a thought but a tropism. You don't even see the people in your own country, or know them. In my city, the nonvaccinated are concentrated in the poorest neighborhoods, and are POC. That's true in most cities. And yeah, I did offer to go with people to get their shot, and to check in on them. Of course you didn't. I knew that. Tell me something new.
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  40754.  @KL-lt8rc  It's spelled "Shangri-La."
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  40755. Wonderful! Fantastic!
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  40756. I am so sick of all of these irresponsible people who failed to buy Apple stock in 2002, failed to attract abundance when Oprah graciously told them how, and failed to install their own generators and sea walls and private dams and helicopter pads. It's their own fault, obviously. Now they want MY money! Go get your own money!!! 🤪
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  40757. This ploy isn't working. "I used to think. . . . , but then I realized . . . ." Late-night infomercial sales pitch. You think memories are utterly shot?
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  40758.  @dao8805  Well, if gender is confused, who can be expected to know history?
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  40759. @dao8805  Farmer, distinguished war veteran, county judge, then senator. This describes decades of experience. But he didn't make money in fashion retail . . . That's in his favor, too.
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  40760. With "he sounds like the kind of person who would do this?" That's how Robby ended the segment. That's about the stupidest thing he ever said.
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  40761. They also mentioned money for war rather than firefighters.
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  40762. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  40763.  @fishinghuntingfool  Trump has got to be the laziest person to ever be president.
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  40764. Buy a Tesla and put a bumper sticker on it 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  40765. ??
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  40766. Say. I have an idea: let's list the people who don't have any relationship with Epstein.
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  40767. Disagree. He declined to say it was tragic for babies and children to _____ in war. You get what I mean, correct?
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  40768.  @chrisj2502  You make a compelling point. This being Ukraine, and Russia, I think objective inspections are more likely, but there are no guarantees.
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  40769.  @strongchallenger2269  Some of the information is still up on the US Embassy in Ukraine website. Then there is the Nuland testimony. Show them. They may be shocked if this deteriorates.
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  40770. One of Jimmy's BEST.
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  40771. @ludwigvanification I don't have a television, never had a cable subscription, much less a contract. You, on the other hand, have been spamming all day.
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  40772.  @GM-db4bv  Because she didn't vote for Biden? (She makes sure people know she didn't.)
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  40773.  @GM-db4bv  whoosh
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  40774.  clot shots  False. The globalist hegemony did this to us. Some people have severe anxiety. No one asks for that.
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  40775. He is presenting an analysis from Dr. Campbell, who has a PhD in public health nursing and nursing education, which involve both science and policymaking. Take it up with Campbell.
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  40776. Campbell did not say the molecules are identical or have an identical action.
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  40777.  @kbgorden  I got censored for pointing out that a person certainly needs a doctorate to do the research, but not to understand it, and so forth. You should worry about the censorship. Especially since your posts are false or misleading.
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  40778. Just watched an old video on Gandhi, by Norman Finkelstein. Very enlightening discussion of what that's about.
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  40779. ​ @the80386  💯
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  40780. Unless she was bribed, she's immune. She can lose her position, however.
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  40781. Definitely
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  40782. I have to credit Tucker for the first question. Why now? A new book, all right, . . . Hm.
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  40783. MARIANNE WILLIAMSON???????? Okay, who is paying this guy?
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  40784. Of course. Incentivize the spread of nuclear weapons.
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  40785.  @kathydb613  So warn people not to go to the White House when Biden is there. Remember when he promised that he would never be so divisive? A lot of people would have avoided the White House while the last president was there. Remember how we were told that sense of dread is over? What a friggin' joke.
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  40786. The FTC can prosecute actual false advertising. So, do it!
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  40787.  @Sixstringman  Trump encouraged killing "Antifa," among many other things.
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  40788.  @Sixstringman  There have been few good presidents. None in 40 years that I know.
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  40789. Do his medical records say that is his only diagnosis at this point?
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  40790. I had students plagiarize their ethics papers years ago.
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  40791.  @timop6340  💯
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  40792. Too much credit. Just because they like rich people of color.
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  40793. Because they are presumptively civilians . . . If that is unsatisfactory, I understand.
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  40794. Next, read Carl Elliott. Please. It's about human testing.
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  40795. This is a weak case.
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  40796. ​@jmacaulay4406 ABC News interviewed the mastermind of the terrorist cell that committed the Beslan school seige and massacre. That's what journalists do. When Russia protested, the US State Department told them we have a First Amendment.
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  40797. During the Cold War, the socialist experiment that was the Soviet Union greatly enhanced the living standards throughout Europe by maintaining pressure on the ruling class to behave. Now, the Russian Federation, after having been gutted in the 90s under the ascendancy of Clinton-Blair neoliberalism and globalization, has come back strong and is challenging the West, which in turn is being gutted by its oligarchs. Well, the solution is simple --- we shall blame Russia. I'm not surprised current relations are worse. Bourgeois Norwegians in particular got a lot of free stuff thanks to the Soviets, back when their ruling class had to prove it could feed, house, educate, and heal everyone "just as well as the commies can, or better."
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  40798. They are trained to shoot multiple rounds as well. I have never been about to find a justification for that.
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  40799. Small problem: people are paid to lie, misrepresent, and mislead. This has been the case at least since Clinton became president and people like Bill Gates became billionaires. Telling the truth doesn't sell books --- or anything else.
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  40800. ​@andyarellanoChannel Meaningless recommendation. Tells you nothing -- either way -- about whether the book is truthful.
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  40801. @markdelacruz1322  You seem to be sure she is a "long-tenured, well-respected, and seasoned, and credentialed journalist." What does that possibly prove, or make more likely than not? This tells me she has connections. It tells me zero about her veracity. Being a number one best seller means the author made money. It means nothing more, and certainly nothing about what's between the covers except that it appeals to enough people that they buy it. (McDo's is the world's most successful franchise. I guess the food is wonderful.) When I knew something about a court case, the newspaper report was always wrong in some serious way. The only exception was Supreme Court reporting, which was so-so, but sometimes maddeningly misleading about fundamental rights.
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  40802. How much did you get?
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  40803.  @trolljones4386  Great take. Exactly.
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  40804. A new WPA. No time to waste. Not now.
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  40805.  @erikmeyer5207  Bill thanks you for the cover.
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  40806.  @inavejin1894  What region? If you don't mind my asking.
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  40807.  @inavejin1894  Jasenak, not far from Ogulin
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  40808.  @yanniritsarntyios5744  We don't know the origin of COVID.
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  40809.  @yanniritsarntyios5744  Naturally acquired immunity to SARS via infection and recovery seems to be quite stable. COVID is pretty new, we don't know the long-term effects of anything, including COVID infection. With some viruses, immunity after a first infection is strong, but if a second infection ever manages to get a foothold, it is worse.
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  40810.  @danielsan2570  What Jones did to the Sandyhook massacre families is inexcusable. Sorry. That he is sometimes right is irrelevant. He is bizarrely cruel without seeming to realize what he's doing.
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  40811.  @googlesucks7954 The health care workers who marched against mandates didn't look like communists. 🤣
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  40812.  @danielsan2570  I admit I did not follow the aftermath. Did he ever actually apologize, or would that undermine his defense against their lawsuit? I don't condemn him as a person, or wish him ill, but he is finished as a news source. What's to say he won't become paranoid again, and attack someone again? This was our worst school massacre. Look, I never forgave ABC for giving the mastermind of the Beslan school massacre a platform. (He was an avowed terrorist. See the BBC on that.) I don't hold Jones to a different standard. WE treat the vulnerable with contempt. Jones did that, and now wants sympathy. Personally, no problem. He's entitled to it. Professionally? No. Same thing where Jordan Peterson is concerned. Why do people fall for it?
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  40813.  @ricksimon9867  There are dozens of countries across Europe that HAVEN'T implemented the same policies as the US. If I post about, I risk censorship. I suggest you look up the ministries of health of Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, etc., and in addition see what India is doing, for example. If you do some real research, you may be very surprised. As for what France, Italy, etc., are doing, well, they are provoking mass demonstrations with their policies. The European left is resoundingly anti-mandate and anti-passport. No exceptions.
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  40814.  @ricksimon9867  WESTERN EUROPE has comprehensive health care, a longer life expectancy, less obesity, and less substance abuse, not to mention less of a gulf between rich and poor. You think their lower death rate "must be" from a still-unproven vaccine that appears not to last a year to stem infection and spread?
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  40815.  @ricksimon9867  And if they recover fully, chances are certainly good that they are immune. There has been zero discussion about how to deal with this pandemic, only top-down coercion. And a bunch of little squealers eager to jeer at anyone who objects.
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  40816.  @ricksimon9867  Isn't that how the vaccine is positioned? You may still get COVID, but you almost certainly will not die?
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  40817.  @ricksimon9867  No discussion whatsoever. People "taking sides," becoming hysterical, issuing mandates, being censored for no reason, yes. Discussion, which is, by implication, rational, no. Funny, I never heard of anyone getting a breakthrough case of mumps or measles or polio, unless they were significantly immunocompromised. Posted a quote, NBC news affiliate, one sentence long, with quotation marks, stating that over 100 fully vaccinated people had died of breakthrough COVID as of July 31 in Massachusetts alone. Seems to be missing now.
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  40818.  @ricksimon9867  Do you call this a discussion? Have you been in a coma? If that's what you call a discussion, best to block you from my notifications thread right away.
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  40819.  @danielsan2570  Where did I say Jones was evil? But he did do one very evil thing. Sympathy is one thing, credence on matters of public policy, another. I said I didn't condemn him as a person or wish him ill. I hold Jones to the same standard as I do ABC News and its platforming of the mastermind of the Beslan school seige. You just don't do that. After Peterson's recent issue with medication, he is the last person to scold anyone else about sorting themselves out before having a right to say anything about societies and how they are organized.
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  40820.  @ricksimon9867  We had worse numbers than Europe long before vaccines were available, and we had a faster vaccine rollout than most places, including much of Europe and, notably, Japan, once they were approved. Sorry, you are hysterical. That never worked in any emergency, of any sort. Literally never. I'm cool in emergencies. (I never need painkillers, somehow, either.) It's my superpower.
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  40821. THIS is how you'll stop Musk? Seriously? Streams of profanity, and like, evil salutes, and like, "conspiracy theory" and, like, "Alex Jones sh_ _?" You sound like you're on his side. And you're (rightly) criticizing the mass media for failing to do its job. Try filling in what they left blank.
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  40822.  @janibeg3247  Not if he wasn't married for long enough.
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  40823. Everything is up to the individual? Starts in the petri dish?
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  40824. Anti-BDS laws are against free speech.
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  40825.  @bentritle9221  Israel is doing that stuff over and over and over again, though. UN just called an emergency session of the Security Council. Our emergency is the growing power of the BRICS. Think of her as a window to their thinking, because it probably is. Too bad RT is banned. It would be a good time to spy on what they are pushing, for those who want to know.
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  40826. He asked, "of the 836,000 deaths . . . "
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  40827.  @isaacdeems499  Any more fables ya got for us? At least be entertaining.
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  40828. ​ @geniegenie2453  ​The rate is much higher in young men, a group least likely to need the vaccine. Swine flu vaccine was withdrawn for ONE case of Guillain Barre per 100,000. Myocarditis in young men from this drug is more than five times that rate. How is this all right, when it does not prevent transmission? What is the reason for it? You are not protecting others. Hence it should be up to you.
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  40829. ​ @geniegenie2453  ​​​​ What do you mean by "severe issues?" There is no such thing as "mild" myocarditis. One of the reasons they pushed young people to get vaccinated was to prevent myocarditis. It soon became apparent that it was no longer necessary -- if it ever was. This is 2023. The initial strains that caused serious illness (in certain groups) are extinct. I would not necessarily rush to be vaccinated against a virus with a 1% case fatality rate -- which never materialized over all demographic groups anyway -- especially if I had already had it and recovered. At this point, I live with a 1% risk of death from several things and I never think about it.
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  40830. For every person I know who lives alone, when they told me they were going to get vaccinated, I offered to come with them. How about you?
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  40831. You give people a lot of credit. Also, if you can force people to vaccinate who still have reluctance, you can seize their pets.
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  40832.  @derrickbrossard1966  That, too! Plus the very middlebrow conviction that whatever brings more money must be more valuable in some way.
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  40833.  @daysjours  Perfect word for it! I'll borrow when necessary. :)
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  40834. ​@frankthetank130 No he was not. He was related to a bunch of presidents, through his mother, and went to private schools.
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  40835. ​ @jimkane9832 It certainly is not.
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  40836.  @JohnDoe-oj5it  Then don't marry him.
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  40837. Only friends of Epstein-Maxwell should ascend to important political positions, clearly.
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  40838. So they should transition?
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  40839. No they didn't. Read the complaint. These three didn't bother.
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  40840. Why? Don't you like your kids? The kids aren't enough, huh?
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  40841. Trump himself tweeted "Free Michigan!" etc., while openly armed people were inside Michigan's capitol. At the same time, the FBI under HIS watch was provoking a serious crime. But Trump's fans don't notice.
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  40842. This video isn't anti-vaxx.
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  40843. To be frank with you, you sound too trusting. Please don't take this as harsh criticism. I recognize the trait from what my parents were like (father was a veteran of the 8th British Army, by the way). People raised in simpler times were more candid by nature. Please give this point some thought. I never joined FB or Twitter. People who promised respect for my privacy betrayed me without a thought -- as in, let it slip that they did, right in front of me, not realizing what they just said. They didn't even have the presence of mind not to talk about it in front of me.
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  40844.  @januarysson5633  I gave my opinion, based on what I know. No need to get tied up in knots over it. The person I responded to, who is not you, made me worry because of his candor, for good reason. In the US, people who are this candid routinely get harassed. If the UK is much more cordial, it would come as no surprise, and I'm glad. P. S. As an attorney, I've represented pediatric cancer patients whose rights were violated. Of course, I donated my time. Litmus test: if you respond kindly, I'll know you're in Europe. If you don't respond, or double down on rudeness, I'll know you're . . . not in Europe. LOL
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  40845. Gupta was really obnoxious here. I am surprised, he's not usually that bad. Pure gaslighting, and from a DOCTOR. Wow.
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  40846. Ad hominem? That's all you got?
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  40847. Yeah. Thinking we are going to have martial law is pretty cultish.
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  40848. That would make me stateless, and allow me to seek asylum in France. Excellent. Where do I sign up?
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  40849. "Sous-titres," je crois.
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  40850.  @jonasion  Merci.
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  40851.  @Paul-tu8fg  None of the questions were about trans issues. Not sure why it comes up here.
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  40852.  @ThatsRight1776  Not true. Why are you misrepresenting what happened?
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  40853. Why is it that BANNON enjoyed these questions? He didn't take a dim view of them at all. He also gave them a good workout in rhetoric, demanding examples. These are young people in front of a celebrity, of course they were a little flustered, but they responded well and Bannon acknowledged that. (Maybe that's one reason why he is where he is and you are not?)
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  40854.  @robertgalloway3771  Exactly. Not one of Bannon's good ideas (making Wall Street accountable, Silicon Valley less monolithic) ever goes anywhere. The saying is, "connect the dots."
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  40855. She isn't. You don't see how tired she looks? Compare this with a previous video.
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  40856. Can you imagine any words today making any difference?
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  40857. But Shakespeare did do vastly more than write the plays: he was an actor, director, and producer. Authorship had a different meaning before modern copyright laws and plagiarism conventions. The plays, or at least most of them, were probably a collective effort to one extent or another, and Shakespeare, as director, made the final cut.
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  40858.  @greatopinionator6146  THANK YOU for this. (In case you have the stats on Victor Hugo, please share!)
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  40859. Laughable. No majority = impotence = what the globalists WANT.
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  40860. We also have to ask what the vaccinated are doing to stop the spread. I agree with frequent, routine testing as well, and masks indoors. Here is a good rule of thumb -- always pick two of three and implement them: be outdoors, social distance, wear a mask. Or take a COVID test before violating this rule.
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  40861.  @abnuridd24  I thnk YOU just revealed more about yourself than anyone wanted to know.
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  40862.  @abnuridd24  My target date to get out of the US, or any Five Eyes country, was 2025. I've moved it up to 2023. Thanks for reminding me of how good my judgment is.
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  40863.  @joncarr1200  How much trouble? Giving up Brittney Griner, seized for carrying hash in a vape pipe for personal use? They've saved themselves the trouble of keeping her incarcerated. The opportunity to debrief this guy is not without benefit, I would think.
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  40864. Of course it is. Duh.
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  40865. I don't believe her. I don't believe France changed to this degree since Mitterrand.
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  40866. The rich kids with no drive are already staffing those positions and it is a nightmare. Oh well.
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  40867. Brie and Robby just gave people a game plan for getting ahead in the DNC.
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  40868. @Dr.Vas0  You know he lied about his medical record? I doubt that, unless you have special knowledge about it.
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  40869. @Dr.Vas0 That's not evidence he lied about being vaccine injured. That's only a reason not to believe him. It's not evidence of the truth of the opposite at all. Following me around, are we? 😂😂😂
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  40870. @Dr.Vas0 Wait. You're British? But . . . You don't know basic logic and you're not an empiricist at all? O-kay. 🤣🤣🤣
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  40871. @Dr.Vas0  Let me explain it slowly, and use law as an example. If a witness is revealed to be untruthful in any matter, it is permissible to disbelieve everything they say. It is not, however, logical to believe that the opposite of any of their statements is, or is likely to be, true. "I have good reason to disbelieve X" is not evidence that not-X is true. Not-X is of course possible, and remains to be proven. See?
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  40872. This is the problem. People don't even know that theft of property is never a reason to use lethal force. A person has to put another person at risk of injury to justify use of lethal force.
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  40873.  @mkrake2429  I have said exactly the opposite. What is wrong with you? It is never legal, much less ethical, to use lethal force in defense of mere property. Not EVER. That's what I said. Like, 50 times. There's really no hope, is there?
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  40874. Do all the hyper greedy have horrible love lives? Is that it?
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  40875. He's duped you, then? What a sad time. There really are no intellectuals of standing today.
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  40876. ​ @canadianrepublican1185  And that prevents violent crime and mass shootings, moderates inflation, offers wholesome food at a decent price, makes housing in areas safe for families and kids affordable, ends homelessness, and punishes corruption, market manipulation, and police brutality? Maybe you should look at what corporations can get away with in the US for a better picture. The discrimination Tesla has been accused of, and the primate torture described at Neuralink, are unlike anything I had ever seen in a major corporation post 1970. The court documents are all posted online. On the other hand, do you think small entrepreneurs have an easy time of it? The last three years should have dispelled that idea. It has been no better in the US than in Canada during the pandemic, and probably worse, since health care is privatized for all but those over 65 and medical bankruptcies did not abate during the "emergency." (The biggest "emergency" was that Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos needed more money.) The "innovations" that allowed the Internet to combine new forms of advertising and surveillance, and induce people to do nothing about it even in their own private lives -- and even to participate and generate it themselves -- are pretty amazing. I will grant you that. Imagine becoming a billionaire from that, at age 32! That's like accumulating $85,600 a day since the day you were born. Wow, some people are hard workers.
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  40877.  @canadianrepublican1185  Horrified to hear about your daughter. Well, I wish you luck here. The top 10% can have an outstanding material existence, and secure it for their kids, too, so it's more than just money. It is stability and peace of mind as well. That is 35 million souls, after all. As for me, corporate crime destroyed everything we worked for, we were too low in the hierarchy to matter, and my family died out in the US -- so, I'm emigrating. I have somewhere to go.
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  40878.  @WhatEver-gu9pz  Don't be so sure that people without antibodies didn't have COVID. The antibody test I had in July 2020 for apparent COVID in March was so poor that proven cases came up antibody-negative at 90 days post infection for most people. Better tests have been in use since then, but I don't trust any of these tests to the exclusion of clinical impressions by an experienced doctor treating their own patient. There is no comparison. Telling people not to isolate for 5 days, not to test, etc., is not a medical decision, either. It is a political one. Maybe staying home when you're sick can prevent a prolonged recovery? From anything?
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  40879. One more post I made re sensitivity of anti__bodee tests was dis appear ed.
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  40880. So, is there a patriarchy? Or can we just change some words and make it disappear?
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  40881. Auto correct got you, lol.
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  40882. He's opposed to mandates. No leftist supports them. Well, there is no real left here.
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  40883. Um, WHY would you agree with the underlying right-wing premise, and identify "antifa" with Black Lives Matter? There are myriad reasons to question that identification, and to question the assumption that "antifa" and BLM are always allies. "Antifa" is highly amorphous, and vulnerable to infiltration. See Chris Hedges on that point. There is no reason to assume BLM would engage in apologetics for the particular acts of vandalism shown in the video presented in The Intercept article. That is assuming what Laura Ingraham always does, with no evidence, of course. (She routinely lies.) IF you yourself were covering these events, and doing the investigative journalism needed to find out who these groups are, then you could speak authoritatively on it, correct? Too bad TI, with all its resources, did not do that.
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  40884. Nursery school in France requires a Master's degree. The younger the kids, the more and better attention they need, because they are vulnerable. Parents don't want to be worried about their little kids.
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  40885. ​ @winnmatthews True. MANY.
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  40886.  @forgotmyname4971  👏👏👏👏
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  40887.  @jaredleicht1656  Even darker?
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  40888. I wish you would read some real research on masks. This chain-link fence analogy is pathetic. It's the size of the droplets and the ability of the material to trap them that matters, as the virus doesn't float in the air outside of a medium such as droplets. See Nassim Taleb for an analysis. The master of risk reduction in all types of fields.
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  40889.  @shadracarthur  Who cares about personalities? Oh yeah, Sam cares.
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  40890.  @moety2  Of course we thought about it. Let's see how many Republican Senators have no fear whatsoever of voting down M4A during a pandemic, and having that vote dog them for years -- as Briahna Joy Gray ably explained. That should be fascinating. Looks like you're the one who did not think this through. This is exactly how much "controversial" legislation has gotten passed many times in history. "Controversial" to the political class and the donor class -- but controversial to the people? Not so much. END AGE DISCRIMINATION IN MEDICARE. It's a no-brainer.
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  40891.  @moety2  Say. Do you have a stock tip? Including puts, calls, shorts.
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  40892.  @moety2  So . . . The DNC impeached Trump knowing nothing would come of it, AND that there would not even be a full array of witnesses testifying under oath in the Senate (which would have been useful to the American public), because . . . ? Whereas during a pandemic and new shutdowns, there is no point in pushing for the healthcare that the rest of the world has . . . ? Anyway, you didn't respond to my comment. Either Republicans vote for M4A, or contemplate having their vote against M4A haunt them in the states where they are vulnerable. Let them vote no this time. That's not a loss, that's a bump in the road.
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  40893.  @philesq9595  "Dore's fans are not ideological, educated, or interested in politics. They are hurting . . . and hurt people hurt people." Well, thanks for providing actual progressives with an opportunity to practice on you! (Also, that little story about how "once you were a fan of sorts, but then you realized" is a well-known trope, used extensively in infomercials.) The problem with your story is that some of the very best educated and most astute political actors are in favor of ForceTheVote, in many cases, quite frankly, in spite of Dore's communicative style. The list is amazing: Cornel West, Briahna Joy Gray, Katie Halper, Krystal Ball, Kyle Kulinski, Dylan Ratigan, Ben Norton, Max Blumenthal, and, perhaps one of the finest human beings in all of journalism, Aaron Mate. I've course I've missed many. I know I have. But do you realize the intellectual firepower I've just listed? There is no plausible way to make them out to be pathetic. There isn't all that much plausibility in your innuendo about Jimmy Dore, either, considering who he married. He won life's real prize, the big one. The one that matters. :) My, my. How could you not see that? But Sam Seder thinks he lacks a swimming pool.
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  40894.  @moety2  All of this looks implausible now, just like hashtag MeToo looked impossible, until it was real. As of today, UK has nearly double the number of new COVID cases relative to how many it had 14 days ago. There is a new, more contagious strain circulating there. The hope is that it is less lethal (very well could be), the expectation is that the vaccine will still work on it (pretty likely) -- but what if not? You think by next Christmas, we still won't have Medicare minus the AGE discrimination? I sure do. The people PUSHING for it now will soon look like visionaries. FDR used to say, "you have to make me do it." You bet.
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  40895.  @philesq9595  Why is your first line ad hominem? I won't bother with people like you. Did you think I posted the rebuttal for you? My goodness. The answer to that is an obvious no. You aren't the intelligentia you seem to think you are.
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  40896.  @philesq9595  Um, how shall I put this gently? You are not talking to a monolingual, monocultural American. The way that you are contorting yourself in wild and incessant ad hominem and sheer psychobabble (an attempt, apparently, to . . . get under my skin, or something?) makes me embarrassed for you. You mean you really don't know? This is the best you can do? Jimmy has all kinds of fans. The people I mentioned all watch him regularly, before inviting him on their shows, or coming on his show, of course. I mean, they are hardly stupid. The only kind of fan he usually seems to lack is . . . someone like you. When it comes to comments, too, one never knows who is there simply to provoke. Ad hominem and swearing are a tipoff -- though these days, you can't tell just by that. Some are even false flags. I tend to think Sam Seder is too smart to approve your message. I don't understand why anyone would go to the lengths you do, for a politician. There is no one for whom I would write the bizarre, self-referential invective you just wrote.
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  40897.  @philesq9595  What bothers me is when people are unfair, to anyone. Not "feelings." I'm very Kantian about this stuff. Do you know what I mean?
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  40898.  @philesq9595  Because the issue is not Dore. That's why. I addressed the real issue in discussions with people interested in substance over messenger. Gray Zone just did a program including Dore as one guest, and they didn't shy away from constructive criticism of all parties turning this issue into ad hominem, as well as of Dore's style of communication. Great, I'm all for it. There are GOOD actors throughout this movement. Do you think objections to ad hominem rest on "feewings?" Fine. I can't persuade you not. If you don't see what it is and why it is fundamentally wrong, I guess I have to rely on Socrates who asserted that you cannot teach morality. It's impossible. Well, to explain what he meant would take too long. Thanks, but I don't celebrate Christmas. Will you "pray for me," LOL? Or, "I wish you peace." And here I thought you knew all the deft means of asserting superiority that would impress a mediocre mind.
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  40899.  @philesq9595  Wait. Is all this because I said Jimmy Dore has a wonderful wife? Oh my goodness. Gasp! Okay!!! Sorry.
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  40900.  @moety2  I'm saying it's not predictable. Did you really not get that part? It is not predictable because PANDEMIC. Etc.
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  40901.  @moety2  You predict it cannot pass. I say it could -- not that it would, necessarily. I think it could. But if it didn't, anyone who voted against it would have to answer for that vote. If you have memory challenges, consult with a professional. Oh. Wait. Maybe you don't have good insurance . . .
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  40902.  @moety2  It was a joke. A hypothetical joke, at that. You were pretending you forgot the thread of the argument, and claimed that I "jumped to the opposite conclusion," leaving the door open. For the joke. Inviting it, in fact, by adding "Makes perfect sense lol."
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  40903.  @moety2  Or is modal logic the problem here? You can find free books on that online. Sheesh.
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  40904.  @moety2  You know what for real? I've got mine. I'm insured. Why should I care? That's the real American credo. The "good job" is all yours.
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  40905.  @moety2  I didn't at all, and you know it. Why this righteous indignation, suddenly? It is not amusing. Neither useful nor decorative. But have it your way. If people won't put up a real FIGHT for health care, they will not get it. Not my problem. I've decided to give up on this one. My sole political focus will be to prevent new wars and new slaughters of Third World peoples, here and abroad. That will be the challenge. Health care is not worth the candle.
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  40906.  @moety2  Agree with most of para. 2
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  40907.  @moety2  How is Pelosi an "ally" if she refuses to put M4A up for a vote during the worst pandemic in over a century? She's an ally of the monied interests. What does she think her job is? Did Pelosi give AOC a committee chair that she wanted and was qualified for? No, that went to one-time Republican Kathleen Rice, who once withheld her vote from Pelosi for Speaker. Need more information?
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  40908.  @moety2  The only person with something to lose in this picture is the person to pressure. That's Pelosi. She is NOT an ally. Hence there is no problem with pressuring her. (Hence I put "ally" in quotes. And I made it a question. See it now? Or did you stop reading at the first clause?)
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  40909. 💯
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  40910. It may have been filmed before the announcement.
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  40911. THIS
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  40912.  @dan10400  Whoever shorted in December made a mint.
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  40913. THIS is what I have been saying for over a YEAR now!! If I had a teenager, there is no way I would have permitted a COVID vaccine, OR omitted a meningitis vaccine, if indicated. There are a handful of safe, effective, and necessary traditional vaccines that are beneficial for most children and adolescents. Those are the vaccines they should be getting, based on INDIVIDUALIZED advice and assessment by a qualified pediatrician who can think for him/herself. How the h*ll did this become controversial??? It is basic. (I would never take any shot from anyone who says "pregnant persons." LOL, thank you Dr. Campbell, for everything.)
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  40914. @utah_koidragon7117  Of course I don't think Trump drove that decision. What did he do to prevent it? If he did nothing, then why not? Given that this research was already highlighted as potentially dangerous, whose job was it to prevent administrative agencies from harming us? All of these agencies are part of the executive branch, and ultimately answer to the president. And by the way, I am glad the Supreme Court is reining them in -- getting rid of Chevon deference and stopping OSHA from ordering you-know-what of all employees. Hallelujah. 😒
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  40915.  @utah_koidragon7117  ________ again. Someone has something against our conversations.
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  40916. Of course I don't think Trump drove that decision. What did he do to prevent it? If he did nothing, then why not? Given that this research was already highlighted as potentially dangerous, whose job was it to prevent administrative agencies from harming us? All of these agencies are part of the executive branch, and ultimately answer to the president. And by the way, I am glad the Supreme Court is reining them in -- getting rid of Chevon deference and stopping OSHA from ordering ____ of all employees.
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  40917.  @utah_koidragon7117  Scents err again
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  40918.  @darrellchavez7194  No one is allowing me to reply.
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  40919. @utah_koidragon7117  Of course I don't think Trump "drove" that decision. What did he do to prevent it? If he did nothing, then why not? Given that this re_search was already highlighted as _________, whose job was it to prevent administrative agencies from harming _____? All of these agencies are part of the executive branch, and ultimately answer to the president. And by the way, I am glad the Supreme Court is reining them in -- getting rid of Chevon and stopping OSHA from ordering _______. 🤣🤣🤣
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  40920. @Corey_Otis  Try the Newest sort, and see what's in the shadows. Is he also unaware of what Musk is doing? The IDF as well? Job qualifications for president aren't what they used to be. Congress? Trump was elected to protect us from Congress.
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  40921.  @Corey_Otis  Guess where you can see a real discussion.
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  40922.  @rachelhadji5269  ^1000
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  40923. ​ @Squee898 Judges have absolute immunity for their judicial acts.
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  40924. 😅
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  40925. This video shows how "racist" Joe is.
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  40926. There was a trial. I know the prosecutor. ALL documents were made public, on a website that was updated with pdfs every single day. But Candace knows better. She also claims Madame Macron is a man. I guess some people are desperate for money.
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  40927. AMAZING how we never heard of the Parliamentarian under Trump, or Bush . . . see how good the Dems are for civics education?!
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  40928. No scrutiny of the FDA, CDC, NIH; don't watch Fauci or Collins. "Look! Over there! Terrorists!!!"
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  40929.  @mikenunya4491  No, under 50. This becomes serious around 50, and is more dangerous to men than woman. In other words, a 50-year-old man who contracts COVID is at greater risk than a woman of the same age, all other things being equal.
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  40930.  @tmsphere  And Russians. Seriously, good one.
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  40931. Even Hunter Biden would not have a blast with her. Even Hunter.
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  40932. Because people won't hesitate to continue circulating. Demand won't drop. Only Wall Street should get UBI equivalents, in the trillions, they are Job Creators. /s
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  40933.  @DynamicDolphin  Wow. So people cannot do arithmetic. Or follow a simple report with numbers in it. No wonder America needs an army. You can't keep all this stuff for yourselves without a LOT of firepower.
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  40934. 9:12 THIS
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  40935. The case is called CARSON v. MAKIN. You could read it. Or just go by cable television and what sounds right to you based on what they tell you.
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  40936. Let's all take a stand for educational standards and fail to read a nationally significant Supreme Court case on First Amendment rights. That'll show 'em.
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  40937. Interesting point.
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  40938. Be sure to read David Servan-Schreiber's book; he lived a full life with terminal brain cancer for nearly two decades. No one gets out of this alive. He lived well before he died.
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  40939.  @KiwikimNZ  And what's also strange, some very old people as they age seem to lose susceptibility to cancer. There have been studies of this done at the level of the immune system. Queen Elizabeth's mother is a classic case: had two forms of cancer around ages 50 or 60, then lived past 100 even though she drank. Not to excess, but the customary way in their culture. Older people with the means have a cocktail before dinner and a little wine with. No doctor will tell you that it's all right for a woman who had breast cancer, or a daughter of a woman who did. But as we can see, it's not so cut and dried. Anyway, this is why most women at 80 do not need an annual mammogram. Their peak risk was almost 20 years ago. People can still have it, but it's not urgent anymore, or it may be every other year.
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  40940. ​ @SurvivingAnotherDay No, she's right. It's easier to believe you can make it all transactional.
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  40941. To OP: I'm a failed artist, lol, and multilingual, and lived in France. I would not trade any of those for money. And I'm single! Add in love, as you did, and you've got it all.
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  40942. Robby, how much media ownership consolidation occurred since the 1980s? Address that, not the content of speech.
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  40943.  @dougrobertson555  Shut up.
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  40944. Does anyone think any major foreign power, friend or foe, is not collecting polling data to predict our presidential elections?
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  40945. Tariffs on China = less money to buy US Treasuries. Oops. I guess interest rates have to go up. And that means . . .
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  40946.  @bulldawg202  Exactly why is my reply to this gone?
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  40947.  @bulldawg202  It seems to be back. I thought algorithms were faster than that. 😂😂😂
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  40948. @bulldawg202  I agree too! 💯
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  40949.  @Youbetcha769  That sums it up. They are just elitists who did not work for what they have.
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  40950. ​ @dookieboy2106  This is yet another fad, politically driven.
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  40951. "Marxists" 😂😂😂😂 Did Lobster Man persuade you of that?
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  40952. Biden White House lies that censorship is necessary. The FTC can SUE purveyors of misinformation for false advertising.
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  40953. Thanks for your post. 👏
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  40954.  @reidcrosby6241  Yes. BP in the Gulf of Mexico.
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  40955. Brie got this.
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  40956. She has no trouble crediting anyone when they happened to be correct in some limited context.
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  40957. Who made that claim??
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  40958. @TcoButt SmellyStench Blocked
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  40959. Borrowing this joke: New COVID variant identified --- BS 24-7😊
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  40960. My thought exactly. If this thing happens to your family, is there some way to emigrate?
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  40961.  @Tom-jy8rz  Timestamp? I listened to that. I told you what she said.
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  40962. Duh
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  40963.  @1LaOriental  On average, Seder gets more views whenever he attacks someone. Sometimes he gets more views for news, true. But on average, he needs to mention Jimmy, Joe Rogan, Max, Glenn Greenwald, etc., to boost his numbers. Those are his and Emma's preferred targets.
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  40964. Yeah, well, I just saw a law school newsletter saying the entering class was 28% LGBTQ+. These are future lawyers. They know what to say.
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  40965. @donpietruk1517  Well . . . As it turns out, a gun was fired by a police officer in Hamilton Hall. It was accidental, but when it happened they had to check that no one was hit. Ohio State and U of Indiana had snipers at the ready. This makes sense to you?
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  40966.  @coryCuc  Especially when shots ring out at night, the police come, and then still more innocent people are brutalized. They should all look on the bright side.
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  40967. Hey, you're better at gaslighting than Megyn is.
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  40968. Ha ha, good one.
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  40969.  @Allyourheroswenttohell  I don't say anything to the contrary.
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  40970. Are any delegates staying at those hotels, or thinking of shopping at Versace?
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  40971.  @_blank-_  When my father and I were on the bus in France speaking Montenegrin (a Serbo-Croatian dialect), people would listen to us because they thought it was pretty! LMAO, um, NO, not compared to any Romance language -- though I admit Greek and Latin had some influence on pronunciation all over the north Mediterranean, so there is that. Helped a little.
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  40972. Lots of racists coming here accusing people with good-faith concerns --- just like BRIAHNA --- of being Putin puppets. See how that works? 😅
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  40973. I'm sorry, but this made no sense. What, exactly, happened that you cannot get out from under? If you are being blackballed, get legal advice.
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  40974. University affiliation greatly enhances the chance to publish. Major, prestigious universities are quasi-literary agents. They serve the same function. If you do your dissertation at Yale, it will be read by someone at OUP. A better manuscript from University of Kentucky is less likely to see the light of day unless that author gets lots and lots of papers published in various journals first and gets admitted to all the symposia to present research. "Hope" gets a person nowhere.
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  40975. Who believes Bill Gates has anyone's best interests at heart except his own?
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  40976. ​ @tonyg76 It is PRECISELY what his campaign's minions are saying. That is why she brought it up. To juxtapose that nonsense claim with the reality.
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  40977. Now that we are rid of Lightfoot, I feel sorry for her.
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  40978. Isn't that what makes it all the more chilling?
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  40979. The only use of billions of dollars is to control other people -- including by buying influence. There is nothing else these people can buy with that much money. Gutting mathematics education was the smartest thing Reagan and Thatcher did. No one is equipped to understand economics, like, at all. They think about their high school cliques as a guide.
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  40980. This is nonsense.
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  40981. Her husband is a US Army veteran and has a security consulting business.
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  40982. ​ @shdwbnndbyyt I do not believe that.
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  40983. @High_Caliber  So sorry to hear this. Follow up, if it's practical and feels safe.
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  40984. Before you can get a court to set aside First Amendment freedom of speech, you have to prove it does not apply. Yup. Correct. Before a court orders the sheriff to seize your assets, like your bank accounts, your car, your house and place it on auction, a person has to prove you owe them $50,000,000. Well, in Canada, Trudeau did it to the truckers, and here Biden does it to Russians, but you get the general idea.
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  40985.  @claudeseymour  Did you read that op-ed? He lost work after losing a much better defamation case in Britain. You think the mild article Heard wrote without naming names cost him $50,000,000? He cannot prove that.
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  40986.  @K.N.H.  He cannot sue anyone to get even with the UK court. There is no law to let anyone do that.
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  40987.  @kcg8162  Because the Washington Post is incorporated in Virginia.
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  40988.  @schumiprofan  Right. On the civil side, it's called liability, not guilt.
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  40989.  @zeenaabdura5686  She corroborated all of it with prior, contemporaneous consistent statements to multiple people, like relatives and therapists. That is not hearsay.
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  40990.  @payamal-abid2651  What do you think this mob is?
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  40991.  @jacobdestern4288 He lost work mostly because of his addiction and because he lost a prior defamation case and because he said lots of weird things like that "assassination joke," which you can find on YT right now.
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  40992. No he didn't.
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  40993.  @fchiarel  A brain surgery could easily reach a million dollars, leaving the insured patient with a $60,000 bill. Deductibles, 10% of hospital fees, 10 to 20% of doctors' fees, and so forth, can add up to that. ER may be covered in full, all expenses above a certain limit ($500,000 to $1,000,000, depending) may also be covered in full, but all of that can still leave an insured person, who now cannot work, with a large bill. To get full compensation, he will have to sue.
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  40994.  @estlee1583  He might have good insurance. $60,000 is only 6% of a million, and if he had brain surgery, the intensive care alone will top $60,000, nevermind the operation. Paying 6% of what's billed is good insurance
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  40995.  @nootnewt3  So you think $60k covers brain surgery, and all hospital expenses as well? Well, I guess that explains why we have the politics we do.
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  40996.  @auntiez4917  On the other hand, to keep it clearer and simpler: Trump is by custom still the leader of the party, having been its last president. Trump could also be facing indictment, and his actions over the past year have generally seemed very disorganized. So, by that logic, and as a matter of principle, this midterm loss is primarily his fault. I see your point.
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  40997.  @auntiez4917  I see both sides. Er, do you?
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  40998.  @auntiez4917  As I explained, it's not "just" abortion. It's a much bigger assault on personal autonomy, and personhood itself.
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  40999.  @auntiez4917  "The evidence suggests . . . " Weasel words?
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  41000.  @robertburnett5561  They have to be, so they are. There's nothing more to it than that, for most people.
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  41001. Ya think?
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  41002. At least one police officer who broke the John Wayne Gacy serial killer case was so traumatized that he developed cardiovascular disease and died of a heart attack at an early age, with no prior personal or family history of such problems. I believe his family sought to have it declared work-related. I don't remember what the ultimate decision was, but the family received a lot of support from police organizations. I don't know whether the officers in the Gacy investigation got all the help they needed(!) . . . Pretty bad.
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  41003. He never met a war he did not support.
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  41004. "A really bad misstep" because it could hurt LGBTQ+BDSM NAMBLA SJWs. Plus the purses aren't anything I would carry, they aren't worth the money.
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  41005. Are they good? Serious question, I need some.
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  41006.  @bullmoose5574  Reagan? The man who gave us taxation of Social Security benefits, the only guaranteed defined-benefit pension program all working people have? That guy?
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  41007.  @bullmoose5574  You believe Social Security is ending? Now we know your level of political sophistication. Here's a self-interest clue you might pick up on: if your family pays off a mortgage, you'll inherit more if they don't have to take out home equity loans or reverse mortgages. You get that, right?
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  41008.  @bullmoose5574  One of your replies was shadowed.
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  41009.  @bullmoose5574  The average "baby boomer" did not see great growth in wages relative to productivity. A PMC was created, giving about 10 to 15% of families great affluence and leaving the rest behind. Compare mean net worth and mean annual income with the median of each, by year. See what you think. The US post-WWII and before Reagan was a country where being in the top three quintiles was a good life, and the fourth quintile had hope of rising. But he sold you image in place of reality. You're still eating that.
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  41010.  @bullmoose5574  If you think more than 10% of people (if that) could possibly fund their own retirement, you must have bought a castle on the moon. We will not have tent cities of 80 year olds, or public housing for them. Social Security will be shored up, absolutely. The 401(k) and the IRA have been around for decades and are not working as planned. They do not generate reliable income streams. If your parents don't have a condo or something, looks like you need to plan on having them move in with you. Then you'll hope their taxes are lower. Oh wait. You think Baby Boomers cleaned up! You should be mad at the people who lied to you. They deserve your ire.
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  41011.  @Mike-In-O-Town  Too bad there's so much censorship, or you'd know it's right. Oh well, thank Alphabet.
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  41012.  @capttrips1523  Everyone knows the drastic inflation reduction policies Reagan adopted immediately caused the recession. No one denies that.
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  41013.  @tracybarhite1764  I did before I wrote my post. There was a stagnant economy and rapidly rising inflation under Carter, which Carter refused to stem via harsh federal reserve policy, knowing it was necessary to control inflation but also knowing the economy was extremely fragile, and likely to go into recession in 1981 no matter what he did. Before Reagan, avoiding severe unemployment and deindustrialization were the top priorities, and some inflation was considered tolerable. After Reagan, precisely the opposite macroeconomic policies were pursued.
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  41014.  @tracybarhite1764  IOW, I know you're wrong. 🤣
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  41015.  @tracybarhite1764  Now I know what you're talking about. It's debatable whether the two quarter downturn in 1980 was a recession; technically, two quarters is a recession, so yes. That ended June 30, 1980. The Reagan recession lasted nearly 18 months, without a recovery in the industrial Midwest at all, while the rest of the economy grew. IOW, a real recession with a technical recovery at that point. And it was the most severe and life-changing recession to occur before the so-called Great Recession. If you found something else, consider your source -- maybe it's propaganda.
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  41016.  @tracybarhite1764  I went through it personally as well.
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  41017.  @tracybarhite1764  As for the recession of the early nineties, that one was objectively worse on the coasts, but the aftereffects and the memory of the previous recession was so strong in the Midwest that pessimism and a reluctance to hire or to start businesses was greater there, even though the economy was in fact not as bad. From a psychological standpoint, the coasts, especially California, snapped out of it faster. The coasts and the heartland have grown apart culturally ever since.
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  41018.  @tracybarhite1764  Just curious: why did the US deindustrialize? Germany didn't, and it's not as though their cost of living, and hence their labor costs, are competitive with, say, China's.
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  41019. Actually, the initial incident, locking a kid out of the school for more than a minute or two, is pretty serious. But I cannot grasp the overreaction. Why in that year didn't anyone suggest that Jill get serious therapy? I thought that was something people did in California.
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  41020.  @orionta  Not if I emigrate as hoped and planned.
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  41021. This is criminalized under French law. It has nothing to do with the US, UK, Democrats, or LGBTQ++. The real problem is that France cannot ignore a complaint from an Algerian person, no matter what it may look like to others. Figure out why.
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  41022. ​ @toddtheisen8386 They aren't. French law criminalizes hate speech. US law does not.
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  41023.  @LG123ABC  A lot of people would. They disgust me at this point.
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  41024. We don't have to imagine. :/
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  41025. Title VI deals with discrimination in education. "Hostile environment," student-on-student harassment has a VERY narrow definition, and has nothing to do with any of this stuff. This law is unconstitutional.
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  41026. I think Roger Waters is in real danger.
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  41027.  @justtryme2020  I don't advocate for her confirmation at all. That's not my point.
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  41028.  @justtryme2020  Reading Is Fun
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  41029.  @justtryme2020  So let them vote her down. No problem.
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  41030.  @picnic66  This is the new sensibility. I remember when people were outraged to find that what you posted on your own time could get you fired. She didn't get flustered, she said what she believes, whether it be wrong or right. And they are welcome to vote her down for it. That's the extent of their power. (Speaking of the Fifth, didn't you hear Hawley say at the end that they needed to make her talk? That is not his role.) I would love to see you in the hot seat in front of Kamala Harris, and whether you would answer her like that -- and you would (rightly) get applause instead of this slew of comments. Could you do it? I'll bet.
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  41031.  @picnic66  I didn't call her a paragon of anything. Could she have been even more principled? I think you're right. She could have. I also think most people would have been much weaker in this context, AND I think the only role of the Senate is to vote her up or down, which her choice to answer the way she did put in stark relief. Why are you attacking me, now? Calm down. She's not "my own." I think Biden nominees in general have been abysmal. I didn't vote for him, ever. When Obama added him to the ticket, I sat it out. Gawd this partisanship is weird.
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  41032.  @utah_koidragon7117  I actually thought Briahna's take here was to play devil's advocate, and then intimate that the view that RFK Jr was cringe at least, nodding to the far right wing at most, was in fact wrong. Biden was the one who brought up push ups, in a macho way, not Kennedy. I thought she was pretty slick, tbh.
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  41033. This irony is not working.
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  41034. Affirmative Action originally meant information-sharing and recruiting. Just like everyone knows that legacy applicants to Harvard are privileged, everyone also knows the boss's nephew will get the job. The idea was to eradicate the effects of that discrimination through intensive mentoring. But . . . That's hard. Corporations want a plug and push algorithm, cheap. 😂
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  41035. What I find interesting is that it was Naomi Wolf who demanded accountability and consequences for bad acts, and somehow she is getting dismissed. When Dr. Peterson points out how important accountability is, and brushes aside excuses, everyone praises him. Why is that? Wolf is an immensely accomplished person, who made a fortune with her writing years ago, and even went back to school late in life to complete her doctorate, at OXFORD. She resisted the COVID hysteria. And her husband is a veteran. Sounds to me like a truly successful life. If someone like that can still feel what it was like to be a vulnerable, idealistic, naive teen at Yale, in awe of all the famous people there who turned out to have feet of clay, then maybe that really is a big deal? It could be, you know.
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  41036.  @mrmichaelhallett  Was this a joke?
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  41037.  @mohamedsamy1431  Maybe a grasp of irony would help?
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  41038.  @grahamstull2330  This breaks more than my heart. I am so sorry. I have a hard time believing it, frankly. Thanks for your post.
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  41039. It was Kyle who decided to dredge this topic up again, and post a misleading narrative. I still don't see why. Dore and Mate thought they were done talking about this.
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  41040. Well, that makes all of this more potentially dangerous. If the FBI poses a threat, it's also incapable of protecting us from any real threats. They're too busy doing the wrong thing.
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  41041. Great post. Sadly! :/
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  41042. It's not common.
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  41043. So AOC had to wait for people with starvation wages to give up a day of pay to summon the courage to "push?"
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  41044.  @magdelanax2122  So he just duped some of the finest commentators and most astute political minds in the country? Wow.
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  41045.  @magdelanax2122  It's not about Dore. Remarkably many people want massive action right now, because they are not naive about the lives of the four bottom quartiles.
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  41046. French people draw a pension at 62. They don't generally stop working. Ageism is less rampant there, and anyone who has something they love to do will continue to do it.
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  41047. "Lots of kids don't have their minds made up about gender . . . " 😂😂😂😂😂
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  41048. I looked up the case. According to the Memorandum Opinion, several of her breach of contract claims against Harvard were not dismissed. The opinion is dated Sept. 11, 2024. She has until mid-October to file an amended complaint pertaining to Harvard alone. So, this video is misleading as well. IOW, when a nonlawyer presents a case, look up the case.
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  41049.  @jvanek8512  Absolutely. She defamed them, not vice versa. The video could have mentioned that. Read the comments; see what people were led to assume.
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  41050. Why do people confuse capitalism with free markets? The possibility of free markets as described by Adam Smith was seriously undermined with the rise of the energy grid, and it ended with the Great Depression.
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  41051. COVID referendum -- Trump will lose. Had there been no COVID, this man would have been reelected. Had he shown some humanity after catching it himself, and committing to stimulus, do or die, he almost certainly would have won. This one is easy.
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  41052. He lisped when he said swastika, I swear he did.
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  41053.  @fe5018  People don't want their kids to emulate her. Crazy idea, I know. The whole country runs on coolification.
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  41054.  @fe5018  And you don't know how other people in the rest of the world live, or how they raise their kids, and why. You have zero clue. You don't even know how deep the propaganda is, here.
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  41055. Promising $2000 checks -- which one was that?
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  41056. Identity discourse is to prevent reform while silencing and shame bombing. "Diversity" means the same cupidity and corruption available to a few people of color as the affluent whites take for granted.
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  41057.  Harmony Alexandria  Krystal Ball looks like a girl to me.
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  41058. HSBC. Find out what the US did when it uncovered the laundering of drug cartel money. The British press wrote about it.
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  41059. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Yep, best in class.
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  41060.  @TS-gn2wy  I know. Scary if he has any company in that thought.
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  41061. Oh please. Who hasn't caught Pool in lies?
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  41062. Like someone who says he was "tricked" into consenting to puberty blockers for his son? He has a ton of government contracts and will be deciding public policy. This Emily has a job and is paying her bills so that we don't have to. (People with her medical history get on disability all the time.) I don't go after people who I should feel sorry for. That holds no interest for me.
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  41063. In previous generations, this is what the minimum wage could do: 1. A full summer of full-time work at the minimum wage equalled a full year of tuition at a state university. Now, only living expenses were left, and people had ways to meet them (part-time jobs, small loans, help from parents, scholarships, work-study). A hundred bucks a week was usually fine. 2. Two roommates working full-time, minimum wage, could afford a small apartment anywhere -- Manhattan, San Francisco, Denver, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston. Then, they had a base from which to find BETTER OPPORTUNITIES. 3. A married couple working minimum wage could afford their own health insurance and save up for a baby. For real. They did not live in Mom's basement. Nope, Mom was now a doting grandma who babysat for their bundle of joy. People had a future. Life moved forward. Does any of this sound possible any more? Well, what happened?
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  41064. We are supposed to believe September 11th was a watershed event and that we had to give up our liberties to prevent another one. We have to accept mass surveillance all the time. But after unprecedented terrorism in Israel, we are supposed to accept an open border. Oh, okay.
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  41065. @FreefallSC  Totally wrong, but the algorithm censors me if I actually explain why.
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  41066. @FreefallSC  It can be the very first time a person is objectively threatening, and self-defense is justified, even if his prior record was perfect. Or, a person may have a history of threatening others, and no matter how many times he did before, he did not do so this time. Then, given that self-defense is appropriate, there is the issue of proportionality. He also had a history of imitating Michael Jackson on the subway. Which way does that cut? Trick question, it proves nothing about what he did this time.
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  41067.  @FreefallSC  Right. How does that contradict what I said? What matters is what he did this time. They will all be under subpoena to testify to what they saw him doing THIS time.
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  41068.  @1JamesMayToGoPlease  And that is all that will matter. Actually.
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  41069. @1JamesMayToGoPlease  So . . . Why the need to consider any other alleged incidents? Hm?
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  41070.  @FreefallSC  Same question
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  41071.  @1JamesMayToGoPlease  So your response to my question, pace OP, is that there is no need. Cool. 😊
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  41072. Amen to all.
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  41073. The Biden administration's OSHA mandated vaccines or twice-weekly testing, until the Supreme Court said it had no such power. THIS was the crime. Now it turns out --- as many of us knew --- if you're hurt, it's your problem. As usual.
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  41074. All the Jordan Peterson fans believe it.
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  41075. No one reads. Oh great.
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  41076.  @SpockCanYouSaveme  Oh he must. Because everyone is an idiot but The Majority Report Read Books. They will Explain Things to the rest of us.
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  41077. I think he was talking about conduct, not appearance. I agree with you about the principle of the matter, though.
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  41078. This was a weak case. Come on.
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  41079. NAFTA destroyed local economies in Mexico. Jimmy is against NAFTA and similar neoliberal schemes. More people go back to Mexico from the US every year than come from Mexico, and they come here because they forced to do something to find the work they once had at home. And they pay into Social Security while here without ever touching the benefits. That's how it usually goes. They are not living off of you!
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  41080. Jose Saramago wrote a novel like that. The Cave.
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  41081. No.
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  41082. That's not their role. Conspiracy theories are red herrings: the point is to make up a truly outlandish story that any rational person would disbelieve, to make the TRUE story appear crazy, too. The whole area becomes tainted, and cannot be mentioned in "polite company." Conspiracy theories are often floated by the bad actors themselves. Epstein benefitted from the Comet Ping-Pong hoax.
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  41083. Or consider the story about mRNA shots, that they contained tracking chips. This wasn't true. The idea was to make all questions about an experimental drug appear "looney." "See what those ignorant people believe?"
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  41084. Five replies, huh?
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  41085.  @chedderburg  okay Nevermind
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  41086.  @chedderburg  I'm the one who would never think of Putin as good. It would never cross my mind . . . Remember?
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  41087.  @chedderburg  "On a typical day, there are more than 20,000 phone calls placed to domestic violence hotlines nationwide . . . "
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  41088. Wait a second. Why is everything so beautiful?
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  41089. This story still could be true, or indeed may not be. How does his war record have any bearing at all on the issue? I hope you don't mean that one cancels the other. That is truly repugnant. Let the chips fall where they may.
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  41090. I will never donate or receive organs or tissues. Not EVER. I believe in reincarnation, so this doesn't worry me particularly.
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  41091. ​ @Blueberrymuffinfan ??
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  41092.  @jimforthew  That Russiagate was invented is a viewpoint? Are the latest bombing sorties a matter of opinion, too? It would take reinstating the draft to sober people up at this point.
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  41093.  @jimforthew  Oh I see. Except, are the bombing sprees themselves a matter of opinion? You seem confused. The bombing happened.
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  41094.  @jimforthew  The bombing of Iraq and Syria THIS WEEK.
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  41095.  @jimforthew  Thank you for that unforced error. Now I can ignore you.
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  41096. The term "assault rifle" is colloquial, and perfectly legitimate to describe weapons that are designed for use in combat, against people, as opposed to "hunting rifles," which are used in . . . hunting. As a term, it is insufficiently precise to place in a statute intended to criminalize possession, transfer, or use. Nice repetition of talking points. But it's wrong.
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  41097.  @Easy_Skanking  I don't dispute that. Of course nothing stops anyone from using a hunting rifle against people, or a carving knife, or rat poison, or . . . The term "assault rifle" is still acceptable as a colloquial designation. Or do you contend people buy an AR 15 for the purpose of pheasant hunting, or deer? No they don't.
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  41098.  @Easy_Skanking  Nice non sequitur by the way. NOT.
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  41099. @bobrown582  Sure she did: "from her perspective, . . . " etc. That's enough for a newscaster to cover themselves, even without relying on The New York Times v. Sullivan case.
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  41100. @hillaryclintondidnothingwrong  It's in this video. From E. Jean Carroll's perspective, she was _____. You know, gaslighting when there is no record is one thing, but claiming that what is right here isn't, in fact, here is scary.
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  41101.  @hillaryclintondidnothingwrong  3:55 Just click. It will take about 15 seconds, tops.
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  41102. Show me the people who can finance their own retirements -- IRAs and 401(k)s have existed for two generations. Where are all the millionaires?
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  41103.  @killswitch1125  🤣
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  41104. ​ @donnav3270 So . . . This was a good start?
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  41105. ​ @RadagastBrown420 Exactly. The moment your counterparty is vulnerable, break your contract with them. That's how you can go from merely affluent to super duper rich. Don't worry. You will always have supporters. Remember, you're rich.
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  41106.  @janeryan2709  Yes. TYT engaged in the first, rather cynically, to attract some of Howard Stern's fans, then refused to deal with the second, when they were Dore's employer and could have reprimanded him or fired him. And they only bring it up after their smear of Aaron Mate blew up in their faces. This is very good for women.
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  41107. He escaped justice for nearly a lifetime -- nearly two generations, in fact. His actions after being stuck in the blizzard were radically inconsistent with guilt, and he apparently had no prior record and never repeated this type of crime. It is no surprise he escaped for so long, and that only DNA could inculpate him. I feel for his victims and his poor kids. What a blow.
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  41108.  @anonone8954  Where did I say they didn't? I didn't read the trial transcript, so I don't have enough information to go either way.
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  41109.  @junitosama9267  True, American kids will. But they'll also fail fractions, play first-person shooter video games instead of piano, carry assault rifles. Y'know. Kids.
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  41110.  @jerdog333  She invites people with opposing views all the time.
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  41111.  @AntonioRivera28  People get mad when she's right.
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  41112.  @AntonioRivera28  She's right right now.
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  41113.  @jerdog333  Smug?? She's nervous! I know her from her own show. She is nervous about making her points here, and trying to attenuate them. . . For the very reason you see displayed in this thread. Wow, this is getting scary.
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  41114. Vastly more diabolical than I had remembered. Obviously I did not want to remember, or focus on the details.
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  41115. Does anyone have a list of all the people who have perished like this, at the hands of police? No one could remember this, there are too many, and it doesn't stop. We need a written list. Make it visible.
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  41116.  @johnrambo3239  Agreed. If that remains unacknowledged, we will never get to the bottom of it. But a LOT of things changed, and people who were never vaccinated are dying of non-COVID related things, too. The stress they deliberately created plays some role. Losing a job, and being in a lockdown for no apparent reason, and being hectored, lied to, fear-mongered, and even losing a home -- these are killers.
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  41117. "Big tech?" BIG surveillance.
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  41118. $64 billion is $31 million per year, every year since the birth of Jesus. Math is fun.
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  41119. Dr. Campbell is a modern saint.
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  41120. AOC is doing nothing about ICE? With all the cool merch and dance routines she developed?
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  41121. Children actually have fewer of the receptors the virus attaches to, to enter the lungs.
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  41122.  @jasonj4865  What's your source for that?
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  41123.  @RiotforPeacePlz  I'm scared this is about to go up.
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  41124.  @tconbo4514  I found research in a UK publication that states smokers may be less likely to contract COVID but more likely to die of COVID, if they catch it. The latter may be due to the fact that statistically, smokers are more likely to be male and to have comorbidities. Being male and having comorbidities are risk factors for serious COVID. So . . . It's complicated.
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  41125.  @jasonj4865  Links are routinely shadowed. I don't know what to tell you. This channel has higher locks on it by YT, the idea being that posts with links are harder to monitor for TOS, and Jimmy is highly monitored for TOS. :/
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  41126.  @jasonj4865  Blocked. Thanks for letting me know.
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  41127. you win the Internet today
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  41128. I'm so sorry. What our politicians and MSM have done is cruel and inexcusable. Give the kid a big hug for me.
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  41129. @AEMoreira81  They did not make a case for the First Amendment. Instead, they used contemporary buzzwords like "context." You have to wonder whether they understand freedom of speech or support it. I'm truly chagrined by their incompetence. The First Amendment isn't supposed to be bent to satisfy this constituency or that constituency, this fat donor or that fat donor. Why didn't they stand up for free speech?
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  41130. He knows exactly what he's saying. Great call.
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  41131. I taught kids in community college who were rotating the couch they slept on. What do you call them? I don't call them homeless OR housed. They are neither. In Britain, they say "sleeping rough," meaning outdoors. If they have nowhere else to go, it's called homeless. If they can double up with cousins, etc., they are unhoused. Maybe you don't know these people?
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  41132. I taught kids in community college who were rotating the couch they slept on. What do you call them? I don't call them homeless OR housed. They are neither. In Britain, they say "sleeping rough," meaning outdoors. If they have nowhere else to go, it's called homeless. If they can double up with cousins, etc., they are unhoused. Maybe you don't know these people?
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  41133. ​ @billtomson5791 If they've never been ordered deported and stayed here against the court's order, they aren't "illegal."
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  41134. Nope.
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  41135.  @catherinekasmer9905  Why? Has Putin been shorting you, and you want to know what everyone else is getting? Try TYT.
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  41136.  @catherinekasmer9905  Why? Are you afraid he's shortchanging you, and you're wondering what other people make? Sorry. Can't help.
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  41137.  @michaelneufeld4515  I was surprised, too. But believe whatever you like.
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  41138.  @michaelneufeld4515  Trash talking is always fine.
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  41139. That may be true, and not unusual. But read up on what happened in Kenosha, and on gang infiltration, including KKK infiltration, of police departments. In any case, defense of property and defense of occupied structures have different rules, as do attempts to intimidate legislators, courts, etc., while in session. It's one thing stand back to refrain from killing a looter, it's another to allow insurrectionists free rein because you agree with them.
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  41140.  @Jivansings  You're very welcome. I appreciate that the looting of an underinsured business is the end of someone's livelihood. Police infiltration by gangs has become a growing problem across the country.
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  41141.  @Jivansings  I hope I was clear. Gangs have joined police, not unlike the way organized crime once had supporters in the local police force, and major drug trafficking rings did as well.
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  41142. There is no such thing as a "free speech absolutist." This is an epithet intended to throw shade on true advocates of First Amendment law.
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  41143. Question: If people work two jobs, how do they improve their lives and find better jobs? There is literally NO WAY to launch an effective job search with two jobs, much less DO WELL in school. Well, if you're a fraud and cheater I suppose you can. Maybe this guy gravitates toward the cheaters, I mean entrepreneurs.
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  41144. 22:47 Why I like Batya. 💯 exactly that (You don't see that in Europe.)
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  41145.  @stephanieh6306  She has posted about it. Why don't you check? In any case, her point is relevant to public and private schools; many conservative parents have taken their kids out of very exclusive private schools over these issues.
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  41146.  @stephanieh6306  Private as well as public -- but obviously, it is worse when you have to remove your children from a public school, where every child has a right to be.
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  41147. You have to lie to get anywhere. Trumpism triumphs through you.
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  41148. Funny how absolutely no major religion says it is acceptable to eat meat in any quantity at any time in combination with any other food. Russian Lent is vegan plus occasional fish. The really devout fast for Christmas and the Virgin, as well as every Friday.
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  41149. As Madeleine Albright once famously said, "I think it's worth it."
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  41150. NO HE DIDN'T. He is a total opponent of lesser-evil voting, and got in fights with good friends over it.
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  41151. That deserves to be questioned. I don't think it should be sidestepped. You admit, though, that it does not prevent fatherhood one day.
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  41152.  @richardandrews9017  And why is it unusual in most other countries?
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  41153.  @richardandrews9017  Yeah, like the nominee did. I do agree that circumcision may be questioned. There has to be a positive reason to do it, rather than having to justify not doing it.
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  41154. His best, hands down.
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  41155. Those Dems need acting lessons.
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  41156.  @fuzzymeep  He said Teamster. You know the answer to your question.
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  41157.  @JohnSpartan-117  The union is the supply.
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  41158.  @JohnSpartan-117  Actually, this will be your problem. I'm leaving the West within two years. Pro tip: speak languages
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  41159.  @JohnSpartan-117  LOL you can't handle the truth? You can't recognize it. Figures.
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  41160.  @JohnSpartan-117  "Supply and Demand" is a cult slogan.
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  41161.  @JohnSpartan-117  I've never been a union member. Economics is not physics. It has no laws. Blocked for being boring.
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  41162.  @JohnSpartan-117  He said he was a Teamster. What's your job? Claiming construction workers will be replaced by robots? I can believe that pays. 🤣
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  41163. Unless you're Steve Jobs.
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  41164. 💯
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  41165. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  41166.  @etpelle72  No evidence that that's who's violent.
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  41167.  @etpelle72  Actually, a conjecture with no evidence to support it is not as good as every other theory, unless conjectures get participation trophies, too.
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  41168.  @katiek.8808  I agree.
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  41169.  @katiek.8808  Watching Dr. Warren Farrell, TEDx, on that issue now. OMG scary.
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  41170.  @katiek.8808  I never said kids should never fail, or never lose. Credit for participation is not an "excuse." Your children may be fine, but not everyone's are -- and by fine I mean not sedentary or obese. Being in front of a screen and shunning all sports is bad for mental health, for that matter. There are noncompetitive sports. You can give everyone acknowledgement for completing a half-marathon, for example, or some other event that takes real work, just like the C student gets the same high school diploma as the valedictorian. Same diploma, different transcript. That's fair. I was just thinking, I cannot imagine having this conversation in a different language. I've known real hardship. My parents met in a refugee camp, etc. No further comment. There's something bizarre to me about this whole discussion. If you need to invent things for kids to fail at, to teach them what that is, well . . . Good for you.
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  41171. He's probably already working for them.
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  41172. Great point. A patent attorney with extensive experience in presenting or challenging expert witness testimony might have something to offer. Other than that, . . . 🤔
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  41173. Nah, they're on a canceling rampage and finding allies.
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  41174. This is unreal. Do you imagine that a black person who works hard and excels will suddenly be welcomed? What world do you live in? You think black people who are smarter than whites are given big hugs and great jobs? Or that once they get that great job, they'll be treated decently, like everyone else? That is when the real trouble starts. Plus the fear that if anything goes wrong, they will be blamed and they'll never get another chance. Anyone who believes this "opportunity" story knows NO black people. Or maybe they sense your mentality and would never confide in you.
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  41175. ​ @LittleHarryBrother1 Chomsky? Alain Badiou? Harold Pinter? Jose Saramago? Annie Ernaux? The great intellectuals are socialists. It's true Einstein and Helen Keller were.
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  41176. ​ @pascal8306 It's how he makes bank. He feels that with all the health problems in his family now, he has got to get his hands on more money.
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  41177.  @akoilngas1215  How do you plan to end American, and other Western, dependence on China's role in the neoliberal global order? We use their labor and they recirculate dollars into our markets -- notably our Treasuries, but also equity markets. We depend on them.
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  41178.  @joshwokojance3790  He's a known shill.
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  41179.  @akoilngas1215  Nice point. Makes me remember that it's always a good time to reread Shakespeare.
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  41180.  @krj15489  Because it is illegal to use lethal force to defend property. You can only use lethal force to defend physical safety of persons.
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  41181.  @michaelrunk5930  The knife presented no threat to anyone. Dr. Grande explained this. No one suggests that had he exited the car with the knife and moved toward anyone with it, officer or not, a shooting would not have been justified. But that never happened. Don't you wonder also why they do not shoot to disable? Why six shots? A friend of mine who served in Iraq knew how to disable not only the soldier, but the weapon he was carrying, based on weapon type. (In some encounters, you need to do that, as you can well imagine.) How is it that police are not trained to shoot better when dealing with civilians here at home? I find these multiple rounds fired bizarre. Modern emergency medicine can save a lot of people if the police desist from emptying their guns into them. I don't understand why this is tolerated.
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  41182.  @troy3456789  But they do. This isn't based on faulty generalizations, but on knowledge of their actual training. I remember excessive force cases when I worked for a court nearly 30 years ago, and it was exactly as it is now. It is a matter of how they are trained. There are multiple documentaries on this topic, Do Not Resist (2016) being among the best (the filmmaker is the son of a career officer; he and his father get along great and he is obviously not anti-police). You're making it sound as if police are a social group akin to racial or ethnic groups, and are being criticized as a group for the purely personal characteristics of a few. That's nonsense. It's also a faulty analogy that could never be used as a legal argument in court. (You use the word "logic" as if it were a magic word; the first person to use the word wins?)
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  41183.  @troy3456789  I never do that. That is why, for example, I was not duped into believing that Depp v. Heard was not a First Amendment case about a written text, rather than a "proper" referendum on the participants in a bad marriage. Nor was I duped into believing the parents of Brian Laundrie don't have Fifth Amendment rights. Nor have I been duped into thinking that censoring a particular text (because it violates either terms of service or is unprotected speech) is the same thing as imposing a prior restraint on a person, to ban them from using a quasi-utility forevermore. Nor have I been duped into thinking opposition to vaccine mandates under certain circumstances is opposition to vaccination. How about you? Did'ya see through all this? Or did you decided based on some ersatz "woke/anti-woke" classification some media persuaded you to use?
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  41184.  @troy3456789  Um, you can reason using multiple negation, I hope? Willing to do that?
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  41185. ​ @wotiluv Glenn is always very much worth a listen, and often the best commentator. No one should be a person's sole source of news and analysis.
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  41186. Not useful for those who overthink and tend to blame themselves for things they cannot be held responsible for. Some kids were raised too harshly to benefit from this. Also, sometimes it IS one person: a complete stranger harasses you, a drunk driver forces you off the road. YOU had a right to be there.
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  41187. Her son is saying, "thank you" to his mom for helping him on the high monkey bars. ❤
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  41188. Probably the single best informative video on this issue anyone has ever produced.
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  41189. GREAT QUESTION. I had had no idea they were still pursuing this. And what about the (very few) vaccinations that are likely necessary or beneficial for most college students, such as the one against meningitis? How does that combine with COVID mRNA vaccines? Trick question: we have no idea. This is unconscionable.
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  41190. When ChatGPT started getting very simple math problems wrong, and then declined to show its work . . . 😅😅😅
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  41191. Redo the title, please.
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  41192. You remind me of Donald Trump. See? Anyone can play that game.
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  41193.  @alexheffner3089  Sorry. You remind me of Donald Trump. You exaggerate, you punch down. I'm a woman. I sense these things.
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  41194. "This person reminds me of that person." Well, more creative than "Russian blanket." How about this? No one is like Donald Trump, except Donald Trump. Could we agree? And Dore isn't a narcissist at all. He was greatly underprivileged in his life, especially as a child, used to be a bricklayer, and used to believe everyone was smarter than he is. Finding out that that was not true came as a shock to him. He is a jerk at times. His friends, like Aaron Mate, have compassion for that.
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  41195. This did not age well. We now know that vaccinated people can be asymptomatic carriers of the delta variant, with enough virus to be contagious, to everyone. Universal mask mandates just returned to my city. A vaccine primarily protects the vaccinated. A mask protects others more than it protects the wearer, and universal compliance increases the global efficacy of masks. Why has all of this been politicized?
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  41196. But . . . but Elon is going to take us to Mars, which has a poor atmosphere and no magnetic field to deflect cosmic radiation. He's going to bequeath to us brain optimization chips, too!
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  41197. Is it true? Don't you want to know before picking sides, like the vaxx mandate crowd did?
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  41198. Look at a map of the countries that have refused to recognize independent Kosovo/a. Never mind the substance -- no one cares about the people living there. The point is the symbolism, and the lineup.
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  41199. One should NEVER take any drug whose benefit is nil, even if it is not a risky drug. Where children are concerned, it is even more important to maintain this principle.
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  41200. The New York Times reported that American troops who tried to stop p---philes among "our allies" in Afghanistan were told to shut up, and one who refused to shut up was later assassinated by these "allies." That's what happened to our service members who tried to save KIDS.
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  41201. Briahna is on 🔥 here. Bravo, Brie!!
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  41202. Just another day in the fact-free life. Seriously, every day we find out how little general knowledge most people have. Education has way deeper problems.
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  41203. He has cat issues. So does Vance. 😂😂😂😂
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  41204. Of course the virus has been isolated and genetically mapped. It likely came from a lab in the first place, though we never were able to obtain confirmation of its origins, from the "experts," with any reasonable degree of certainty.
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  41205.  @justinengland9814  You can find that evidence anywhere. A moment of reflection concerning the vigorous debate as to its origins, and the terms of that debate, and the references to its genetic code, should be enough to convince you. The debate itself presupposes the isolation and genetic mapping of the virus, like a tsunami presupposes an earthquake or other massive displacement of land somewhere.
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  41206.  @justinengland9814  Links are shadowed, as they are hard to monitor for TOS violations. I suggest a search engine. I suggest avoiding Facebook.
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  41207.  @justinengland9814  I just told you they were shadowed, as anyone who has used YouTube for more than a few weeks would know. Blocked.
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  41208. Keep shoving more and more money upward, which is exactly what pandemic policies did. See how that goes. Should be fun.
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  41209. Re: abortion . . . You know what? I have no objection to the following message, protected for you (and everyone else) by the First Amendment, no less: choose life. Provided both words are meant wholeheartedly. In fact, with the emphasis I just supplied, I can really get behind it. And unless you want a pregnancy police and a hugely expanded CPS, not to mention even more surveillance than we already suffer under, there is no point whatsoever in trying to make elective abortion illegal. Not to mention that every fertility treatment would have to be reviewed, with many of them banned. IOW, not the force of criminal law, but persuasion. That's all anyone has a right to try.
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  41210.  @OfftoShambala  That prediction was an incorrect translation of a quote from the eminent French virologist, Luc Montagnier, who was the first to discover the HIV. He won the Nobel Prize in 2008. He was skeptical of the origin story of the COVID virus, and felt certain it was engineered in some respect, he was leery of the vaccines, and he supported trying various off-label treatments that were banned here. But he never said that people would drop dead en masse within two years. He was critical enough of the response, no need to exaggerate.
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  41211.  @raymondblake5765  Which study is that? I have been keeping up, and have heard of no such study. We only barely have two years since the first vaccines were administered, and those were reserved for the oldest and most vulnerable. As for Luc Montagnier, he was against the rush to vaccinate but he never said that people were likely to be dropping dead left and right. I'm with Montagnier, by the way. I didn't get vaccinated because my concerns were never addressed. There was more than one way to avoid the more dangerous variants, and the current variants are simply not as dangerous as the COVID that emerged in January 2020. The first to contract it were the unlucky ones, as is generally the case with a new virus. Getting vaccines and refusing vaccines both carry risks. Informed consent should be the watchword. It wasn't. That worries me more than the vast number of viral illnesses we might come in contact with.
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  41212.  @beewalk34  Trump was telling people to get the vaccine. He is bragging that he is responsible for it, because he is the one who oversaw Operation Warp Speed, and the libs are trying to steal credit away from him for his accomplishment. Get your talking points straight.
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  41213.  @beewalk34  clicky blocky goody bye bye
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  41214. Yup.
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  41215. Give Hunter the right plea deal. Biden will step down once the fix is in.
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  41216. EXACTLY. Write a solid critique that lands, and there is no chance it will appear.
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  41217. 💯
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  41218. @Boababa-fn3mr  You've just zeroed in on the problem: how do we know? Is this always the case, or is it sometimes the channel? People have posted the very same thing on different channels, with different results. Could some of this be random? Random would fuel more engagement; it's a way to make apps "sticky" (i.e., behavioral addiction).
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  41219. @Boababa-fn3mr False. But do keep it up.
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  41220. @Boababa-fn3mr  What??? Who said HUMANS were involved in individual decisions? The same algorithm is not operating the same way at all times. You don't know about intermittent reinforcement, do you? 🤣🤣🤣
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  41221. @Boababa-fn3mr That there is a single algorithm and that it never operates randomly.
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  41222. @Boababa-fn3mr Blocked for wasting my time. You literally know nothing. Or, maybe some of my posts are not visible. In_ter mitt__ent re_in_force_ment is not exactly a favored topic, lol.
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  41223.  @andie_pants  Shame on you.
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  41224. You're kidding -- right?
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  41225. Holding Fauci accountable IS a big part of preventing further wrongdoing. A VERY BIG part. Briahna, who gives a &%$# whether this is an "outsider movement" or an "insider movement?" What in the world??? P. S. Of COURSE rich people are off-the-rails scared of their own mortality. This isn't news to you. But you are right about mandates being put in place precisely because we have no safety net we can choose to rely on. We are always on our own. But wait a second --- isn't that an argument against mandates, too?
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  41226. Now that it is crystal clear that the mother in Florida was merely rude, and not threatening anyone, why doesn't BCBS ask that charges be dropped? Not only do they corrupt the politicians, they also waste our tax dollars -- on this. On violating our most fundamental right. Lovely. Remember the first time a corporation paid more in lobbying than in taxes? It raised eyebrows. Now, that's their business model.
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  41227. 27:47 Where does this doctor tell you not to be vaccinated? Are mandates persuasive or coercive?
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  41228.  @mugetsuu23  Yes, everyone should listen to you. Good plan.
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  41229.  @mugetsuu23  I don't have people around me. My family in America died out. I plan to emigrate. But thanks for your insensitivity, and gaslighting.
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  41230.  @mugetsuu23  More to the point, this doctor does NOT tell anyone not to be vaccinated. He's simply being a DOCTOR, not a political agent. That is a reason TO trust, not mistrust. Too bad you don't get that. As for you, did you ever think you might be mistaken for a false flag? IOW, people's reaction to your mode of pushing guilt is to reject the message, when your opinion should have ZERO influence on people's medical decisions either way.
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  41231. I am sure there are.
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  41232. Just watched Mattias Desmet again on mass formation, Max Blumenthal's Rokfin. Watch that.
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  41233. I knew she would die today. I don't know how, but I thought of her this evening, and knew.
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  41234. Suppose it were psychosomatic, in whole or in part --- since when is that not treated???
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  41235.  @goldnutter412  Just study the easy parts. Then it's easy. That's what I did. 🤣
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  41236. Tucker is not a genius, and he has no problem admitting it. The look on his face whenever someone expresses some complex thought -- like Jimmy saying the reason they won't investigate the Nordstream pipeline or the origins of COVID is because they already have a pretty damned good idea of who is responsible -- is priceless.
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  41237. The neighborhoods you mention are EXPENSIVE neighborhoods, not safe ones. I never understood why they cost what they do. No one who grew up in the city proper has any desire to live in any of those areas, except maybe in parts of Lincoln Park, near the lake, or in River North, also near the lake. Those who do know to take precautions. When the economy gets dicey, the crime in those areas goes up.
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  41238.  @milomilo6404  Let's see whether they put conductors on all the subways. I will never vote for anyone who doesn't. Watch, no one will unless the number of people willing to be motormen dwindles. That could happen.
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  41239.  @wello5839  Did Eliza Fletcher's mindset need adjustment? No. She was angelic already. Stop with the misinformation. You can't The Secret your way out of violent crime.
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  41240.  @ksmooth2671  I don't disagree. Her natural optimism and belief in the human spirit, which are beautiful things, increased her risk in a perverse environment.
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  41241.  @ksmooth2671  I can't stand this "positive thinking" nonsense. It can kill a person.
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  41242. The only real rags-to-riches story I know for fact was a fine art major who went into writing, producing, and directing commercials.
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  41243.  @Nimbereth  The most common major is Business, and has been for more than a generation. Around 22 to 25% of all degrees are Business. About 1/2 of one percent of degrees are in Gender Studies. If those peopke know photography, they go into fashion. If they get an MSW, they can become counselors. They can also go to law school.
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  41244. Anyone victimized by smear campaigns shouldn't just take it lying down. They should sue! Not create twitter mobs, not ask major corporations to censor free speech, not beg Congress for new laws that curtail all our freedoms. They SHOULD got to court. Funny that Jimmy Dore is crystal clear on this point.
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  41245. The WHO considers "long COVID" only after 3 months; the CDC diagnoses it after 6 weeks and STILL says a vaccine can help!!
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  41246. @HelenKistler  I vote third party when I do vote. (I'm a member of the NLG, which isn't a party.) Why?
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  41247. Hillary Clinton prevented people from voting against Trump.
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  41248. @Lj-ok9ok  Look, if you are not going to engage with the debate, or even listen to the video to see what it's about, then why bother? The woman just explained to you how this regulation operates like a massive tax on fishermen, which they will have to pass along. The issue isn't the regulation itself, it's the fact that the fishermen themselves have to pay for it because Congress refused to appropriate the funds.
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  41249. @Lj-ok9ok  It's irrelevant that a lot of industries pay for regulation --- in fact, in pharmaceuticals, that has led to regulatory capture. The issue is the cost. You can't just wave your hands and accept any and every cost. Is this one reasonable or unreasonable? Eat less fish, eat less good food in general, and . . . take more pills. Keep it up. I support the people who do real work. You can't eat pixels.
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  41250.  @norman_5623  Actually, there is an answer: regulatory capture. The regulated SHOULD NOT pay the regulator. The regulator must be independent. He is there representing the public. His very day-to-day presence on the boats is motivation enough to be sympathetic to the fisherman and overlook infractions. If they also pay him, he WILL look to placate them. There is a second good reason: a sudden and complete withdrawal of subsidy will be a shock to the industry, and smaller fisheries will go out of business. Big ones will grow bigger, then lobby to get the regulations they want. They will invariably have greater power to make the rules and bend rules, whereas the small fry can't. Pun intended.
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  41251. The anti-Russia hysteria has gotten to the point where one of the greatest child prodigies in history, Malofeev, who is only 20 AND has condemned the invasion -- an incredibly courageous act, considering his home is in Moscow -- is nevertheless having his concerts cancelled. Mattias Desmet. Remember that name.
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  41252. This is what always happens when a working-class ethnic comes up with an idea they can't grasp.
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  41253. . . . It's not working.
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  41254.  @nznative8825  Oh, you mean you just wanted someone to comment? Okay. I see.
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  41255. Exactly
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  41256. ​ @michaelc1063 Washington had no kids. Lincoln's line died out, as did Mark Twain's.
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  41257. Nah. He's just struggling to avoid the temptation of divorce.
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  41258. In France, Sorbonne, Hautes Etudes, ENS, etc., are tuition-free, and fees are under 1000€ a year. In America, free community college -- no can do.
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  41259.  @athleticguy15  Dr. Fauci has admitted prevaricating about masks. He does not come across as frank. The public health officials in my state (who happened to be women) were far better. One of them did a mini-class on statistical reasoning for the public. Fauci's routine smacks of authoritarianism and showman-light, like he's been affected by spending too much time with Trump.
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  41260. Well, it could be from exposure to COVID itself. We've all been exposed, and it is a cytotoxic virus all by itself, without having its most reactogenic protein injected into you.
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  41261. I still don't know why people think they can defeat the world's biggest liar by lying harder.
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  41262. "Hate speech" is not illegal as such. It can be sanctioned only in certain very narrow contexts, and only in civil suits, not criminal: Title VII hostile environment claims, intentional infliction of emotional distress, defamation, and the like. Colleges are supposed to use Title VII to inform their regulations. If you are subjected to hate speech, the position of the government is that you should walk away. If you can't, then you might be able to sue for damages, depending on all the facts and circumstances. If it rises to the level of a true threat, then you can call the police.
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  41263. You never heard of Brandenburg v. Ohio? The white guy didn't go to jail. You never heard of the cross burning in R.A.V. v. St. Paul? The white kid did not go to detention or pay a fine.
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  41264. Illinois Dems cast over 42,000 "withheld" votes. The MSM is not including them in the official results. (Williamson and Phillips got around 25,000 each, give or take.)
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  41265. This was filed under French law. The US has no such law. DUH
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  41266. 6:19 😢 ❤
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  41267. Clare Daly knows what's happening. The extreme right is threatening Zelensky . . . To be fair, Putin's decision to invade when and how he did temporarily strengthened the extreme right's hand, but (as usual?) the US is giving them the greatest support of all. Yet they are the greatest obstacle to a cease fire and peace negotiations.
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  41268. Good grief, these are OPTIONS contracts. Look it up.
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  41269. Wait. You were joking, right?
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  41270.  @howardj602  She can pass the ethics rules she wants and is exempt from a whole host of rules that apply to others. She has insider information with which to buy and sell options -- which are actually bets, not shares of stock -- on information you could never get. . . . Oh, on second thought, maybe they took care of you? If you're not drawing a paycheck or other benefit to write this stuff, you should be embarrassed.
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  41271. RFK Jr's statements in these excerpts, and Jimmy's comments, WERE PERFECT. Keep your focus. Your post is basically misinformation. Jimmy is not "pushing this guy." He's doing a perfect media analysis here.
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  41272.  @sprucewayne10  I didn't hear that at all. What is it with people? No one EVER argues the idea, it's always and obsessively about the man? Is this because of Trump? Did Trump break everyone's brains? Or is it Trump plus the lockdowns plus Biden? Was that too much, finally? I can appreciate that. I'm sorry, this is like an endless psy-op. I can't live like this.
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  41273.  @Jon-oi3me  MDS Msk Devotion Syn drome
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  41274. She was SMUG, as if she knows better. She is a complete ignoramus. "I'll take your word for it," she says.
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  41275. Tiens, Dostoïevski n'est pas ukranian?
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  41276. Because you don't know what AP classes are . . . so this sounds good to you.
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  41277. The history of the ethnic Catholic migration to the United States most certainly is a college course, and yes, even specific courses on the Irish or the Italians. Look at a few college catalogues some time.
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  41278.  @MaxwellsDemon9  And this suggests WHOOSH.
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  41279. Not to be missed: https://youtu.be/64A7A8QWDNc The logic, impeccable.
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  41280. @Yo Momma Oh give me a break. Don't impute ignorance to others. It looks like you must have started with yourself.
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  41281. @Yo Momma You know what IS hard? Getting the jerks in Congress to WORK. What do you think their job IS? "Wonky." Give me a break. It's called drafting legislation. They should get busy now. Or isn't this pandemic real? We'll have to wait for a bigger one. Dore and Kulinski and Krystal Ball and every real progressive is asking Pelosi for a COMMITMENT to fashion this legislation, and then put it on the agenda. Otherwise, she shouldn't be Speaker. The speakership is not a show job.
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  41282. @Yo Momma Clear now?
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  41283. @Yo Momma What did you think they were calling for? A vote on a slogan, in January? Is that what Matt's nonsense made you think? That's the picture he painted in your mind? Well then, we know who misled you.
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  41284. @Yo Momma Whoosh.
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  41285. @Yo Momma Did you think there was zero starting point for productive discussion? Umm . . . Yeah, there is plenty: https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/03/politics/medicare-for-all-annotated/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/policy-2020/medicare-for-all/
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  41286. In case posts with links are shadowed, for TOS reasons (hard to monitor; understandable), I've linked to Krystal Ball's editorial today, and two analyses of specific proposals for M4A legislation, a very solid starting point for the committees to WORK on. No, kids, it's not a slogan.
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  41287. What in the world is Carlson talking about? Biden is glad DNC lost ground in the House and failed to get a Senate majority. Now he can hide in his basement and collect a check without doing anything. That's the "system" he likes best.
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  41288. Jails house people awaiting trial. They are presumed innocent.
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  41289. But Jimmy . . . Stocks just soared again!
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  41290. ​ @markislivingdeliberately This is why we women benefit from having men in our lives, including as friends.
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  41291.  @kCI251  💯
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  41292. Every single resident of East Palestine, Ohio, could be made whole for 1% of the money sent to Ukraine for war.
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  41293. Loved that.
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  41294. When someone turns up dead, then we'll talk.
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  41295. ​@scott3660. The ten-year-old pregnant child who had to leave Ohio to get immediate care, and whose plight was denounced by the radical right as fake news, sent a SHUDDER through everyone. And her brave doctor got death threats. Americans do not want to live like that. Face it.
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  41296. After then Beslan school massacre, ABC News interviewed the terrorist mastermind who claimed responsibility. Russia protested, the US government said we have a First Amendment. Now tell me why RT is suppressed? We can hear from Nazis and from terrorists, apparently. I wish we did have a First Amendment. Let's go back to that.
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  41297. Age 10 for a first period is not something that is considered abnormal. It is early, but it is not treated. It is not considered a dysfunction, or at least not necessarily. How did we lose all our bearings suddenly?
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  41298. Tragedy?! No, a crime. Escalating this war was not a last resort, hence it was wrong. Russia chose to escalate it, hence were honor bound to win it by April -- May at the latest, when they knew exactly what the US was going to do. Every life that has been lost, and every square foot of shelter destroyed (in an already poor country) since May is unconscionable and horrifying.
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  41299.  @LeadLeftLeon  Oh that's a great idea. Oh brother.
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  41300. We also have quite enough druggies of our own now. Deport Musk.
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  41301.  @robertbrawley5048  You think Dorothy Day and Helen Keller (both Wobblies) were communists? Well that's a new one.
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  41302.  @onemediaadvocate3371  Who told you that whopper? Hitler cared about non-Aryans, so-called? Ever heard of "Lebensraum?" I once met a girl who said we fought the Russian Nazis in WWII. I don't mean she assimilated Stalin to Hitler. I mean she missed the fact that there was a Hitler. Do you know her, by any chance?
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  41303. You're right. The frenzy around making an easy buck off of big pharma investing is over. Hence the interest is over as well. Injured, schminjured. Whoever was unlucky, was unlucky. Too bad for them. 😊
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  41304. But Jimmy. Stef. Feelings were hurt.
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  41305.  @usernameluis305  No. You can't judge all women by those NUTS. Or jaded liars.
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  41306. Anyone who comments and takes sides without reading the case has just been subject to propaganda, exactly as Mark Crispin Miller has defined it and explained it. You are taking sides without investigating. Why? I actually believe Miller that he would appreciate this post. That part is sincere, I think.
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  41307. This is called bitter irony.
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  41308. To . . . California?
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  41309.  @AFSOC2  More like Elon Deification Syndrome at work. (Did you used to worship Bill Gates, too? How did that work out for you?)
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  41310. One more point: if a math student never makes a mistake, then they are either doing math that is too easy, or they are immensely gifted. Probably the former.
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  41311. I don't know what sort of tech I'm supposed to upgrade to, to hear this program. Everything else I've listened to lately is fine. Super frustrating, this is one of the most important programs about this topic ever featured on DN.
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  41312. "Something far worse" --- amen to that.
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  41313. It's not evident they did it.
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  41314.  @webman1956  Everything they said was sincere, constructive, and very gracious. Burned no bridges, either. The truth hurts, yeah.
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  41315.  @webman1956  Jimmy interviewed Assange's father and brother first. Whoa are you kidding, or was that a typo -- or do you actually not know?
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  41316.  @webman1956  All patently false.
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  41317. The death rate is that low only for the young. It is about 2 to 3% overall.
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  41318. Watch the actual interview with the actual professor of psychology on Max Blumenthal's show. A clear explanation, no interruptions from Blumenthal.
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  41319. LOL. Yeah, and certain approaches get you thrown out, too, before COVID!
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  41320. Let's back up here. When there is a gas attack and children are killed, under what circumstances would it be helpful, to children, to bomb the country where this attack was committed? How would you go about that, for the wellbeing of civilians? "We have to do something."
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  41321. 1:19 Priceless
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  41322. Has any doctor suggested that you take this vaccine?
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  41323. The suits filed against Tesla and Neuralink are a horror show, and the way eminent scientists won't say a word about Neuralink reminds me of how none of them would criticize the vaccines. As for Musk personally, he has violated securities laws.
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  41324.  @Kash_Munni  I did the research. Tesla has the worst discrimination suit pending against it that I've seen in this century. Neuralink has a complaint with 700 pages of exhibits on its grossly illegal primate abuse.
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  41325.  @Kash_Munni  You know something else? Whenever I see a man sheep herding the rest of you behind the new Alpha, I find it unseemly. That was once Bill Gates we were supposed to be awed by. Remember how that turned out?
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  41326.  @IrishAnnie  You jumped to that conclusion fast. Is tweeting that important? I never opened an account. No Facebook, either, or Instagram, blah blah. The lockdowns brought me here, and my life has not improved because of it.
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  41327.  @scottslotterbeck3796  Look up the suits against his companies here.
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  41328. Wow did this prove true this past week. My God. I knew what Gates was -- he tried to push Paul Allen out of Microsoft while Allen was undergoing radiation treatment for lymphoma. That tells you everything. But even I would not have expected the extent of his dealings with EPSTEIN. It is sobering.
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  41329. Any person (1) opposed to censorship; (2) opposed to endless war; (3) opposed to mandates; and (4) with a brain, wants to know what Fox is reporting (not what DNC/MSM says they're reporting).
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  41330. What do they care about? They care about insider trading.
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  41331.  @dirtfarmer7472  Well, I wouldn't want either of them near my house, so . . .
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  41332.  @xpsxps1339  No. Silence is never a lie. Absolutely never.
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  41333.  @xpsxps1339  On the contrary, that is the law. Not that law matters. Even constitutional rights don't. See how well you like that.
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  41334.  @xpsxps1339  Remaining silent when one should speak could be morally very wrong. It is still not lying. Not in any world is pure silence lying. Lying is stating that something is true when you know or should know at that moment that it is very likely false. It involves making deliberate or reckless statements. Other people's opinions have no bearing on it. We live in an "advanced" country where tens of millions can't figure out math problems involving fractions. That they prefer feelings to logic, and having their own way when they want it rather than pausing to think things through, is not exactly a shock.
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  41335. False. This is about MONEY, and nothing more. Defamation suits are always anti-free speech. See R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul. Anyone who threatens a suit is claiming the person or group they are suing has no free speech right in the matter. That would be Musk in this case, turning to Daddy Government and its courts. If Musk himself has alienated advertisers, and if he really supports free speech, then he may have to eat the financial loss that comes with it.
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  41336. ​​ @scottm2553  Love speech could be violent speech. An incitement to imminent violence could be framed in terms of patriotism and love of country, and pity for the target "but we must do what we must do," to "save" our homes and families. See? Has Jessice ever seen a Venn diagram?
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  41337. ​ @ryancappo It would be a good idea if our schools taught civics. That is literally not First Amendment law, and Brandenburg proves it. RAV v. City of St. Paul took place in Minnesota.
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  41338. ​ @scottm2553 There is no guarantee that all artistic expression is protected because some art is obscene and obscenity is unprotected. Do you see what is wrong with this framing?
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  41339. Steve Bannon flipping, and having his audience claim Bannon was always pro-Musk, is the oddest thing by far. Makes you wonder about drug use.
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  41340. I see there are.
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  41341. Starts out with rank projection. WE only understand force.
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  41342. @serendipidus1 No.
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  41343.  @veronicasanacion  What if gods are just as bad as (the rest of) our leaders? I wonder about that. What if the ancients weren't entirely wrong? I'm not convinced any religion is entirely wrong.
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  41344.  @veronicasanacion  This is really interesting. I'm agnostic, and I mean it literally: I don't know. Claiming there are no phenomena we can document as having happened but that we cannot explain, much less that there is no/are no god(s), is claiming vastly more than we know. Also, we don't really know all that much more than all the people who came before us knew, the billions of people across millenia. What they were experiencing and tried to capture poetically was not some "delusion."
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  41345.  @tynao2029  Yeah, good thing the Republicans have been going after all those woke corporations to make them pay more in taxes than they pay to the Washington lobbyists, PR firms, and "think tanks." Er, . . . um. Wait.
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  41346.  @philwalters3579  Why do you bother? No, please, don't answer that. We know. blocked
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  41347. ​​ @SteeleHand Didn't Biden-Harris offload all the risk of a new vaccine on us? Didn't the investors prosper? (See how that works?)
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  41348. Here's a question: Facebook started out as a puerile slambook against women. Where were all the liberals to boycott Facebook, rather than make Zuckerberg into a 30-year-old billionaire, who returned the favor by undertaking mass propaganda and mass surveillance? Good for the Christians, good for principled people!
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  41349. I ❤ NY
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  41350. The National Lawyer's Guild has come out against the Uhuru indictment.
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  41351. ​Faux. Son père l'a toujours reconnue.
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  41352. This country has such an ugly history of eu-gen-ics. ANYTHING that could sterilize anyone should be suspect --- especially if they don't conform to gender stereotypes, or are on the autism spectrum, or are "different" in any way whatsoever.
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  41353.  @richardschneider294  So far, they have.
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  41354. He's pushing hate at minorities and doesn't realize it. A lot of the haters realize it, though, and jump at the chance. David is Canadian and fails to appreciate the diversity of regions and peoples in the U.S., diversity in every sense of the word.
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  41355. Are you rooting for that, too?
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  41356. She claimed she still had the written apology in hand. That was why she could threaten him if he didn't "stop running his mouth." So Jimmy told the story of why and how he apologized.
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  41357. Jimmy claims that was the only incident between them where he said something wrong to Ana, and apologized immediately. If there was only one, then he was right to explain what happened that time. That was the one she brought up.
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  41358. Also, why would Ana bring up her own bad actions? Of course she won't.
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  41359.  @lurice0  What's to apologize for about asking someone where they shop? But to take a dig like that at Stef, seven years later, shows you the extent of Ana's "feminism." She hasn't changed since her "camel toe" segments.
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  41360. It's widely thought that the tweet was a thought crime.
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  41361. You think someone can change that in two years? Seriously? If it were possible, I'd agree.
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  41362.  @hollywoodartchick9740  Amen!
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  41363.  @agentsituation1034  Thank you for correcting me.
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  41364.  @anthonytwohill9726  So it is possible -- but you must know that's remarkable, too.
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  41365. What if your regrets have to do with someone else's actions? For example, I regret that my mother worked as much as she did, and as hard, starting when I was 3. Then there are people who regret much bigger things -- that their parents were abusive, for example, or alcoholic.
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  41366. The COVID censorship WAS driven by the major advertisers, like PFIZER.
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  41367. Financial Times April 25 "Vaccine makers have warned US officials that temporarily scrapping patents for Covid-19 shots would risk handing novel technology to China and Russia, according to people familiar with the talks.  As industry lobbying has escalated in Washington, companies have warned in private meetings with US trade and White House officials that giving up the intellectual property rights could allow China and Russia to exploit platforms such as mRNA, which could be used for other vaccines or even therapeutics for conditions such as cancer and heart problems in the future."
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  41368. Oh that's easy. For example, Mommy, or Daddy.
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  41369. ​ @NoOneCaresIckyThump Are you kidding? For 250k, I would.
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  41370. They had evidence. They were keeping it close and quiet.
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  41371. Prove they exist.
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  41372.  @heartysteer8752  Taser someone who "is a danger to himself?" Do you hear yourself? Funny, every "nice" suburban police department northwest of the big city where I live carries that antidote for opioid overdoses. I forgot what it's called. Our local public library does now, too. How is it we don't have a comprehensive policy yet, or even some notion of what proportionality means? One person gets an antidote, another, like Keenan, gets tased. Or tased, then shot, like Christian Glass.
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  41373.  @johnnyfive9815  Yep. Christian Glass, too. So terrible those cops were fired and put on trial! They tried so hard!! /s
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  41374.  @hasan7786  And now we have Tyre Nichols. It did not take long. Are you sure this is a good idea? Oh brother.
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  41375.  @hasan7786  You must be trying hard to have missed it until now, and I cannot blame you this time. Indictments have already been returned. Not to mention, there has been another mass shooting in California. It's over for this society. What we're doing isn't working. It's not going to work.
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  41376. The Hoarse Whisperer should be a con man for the corporations. If he is tweeting this garbage for free, I have even less respect for him.
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  41377. Angry? Passionless, and yet biased. That's what I saw. I'm tired of anger, but this is weird.
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  41378. Yeah, Rachel is sharp.
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  41379. This is about MONEY, and you can't handle the truth. Why not start with opposing unfair speech with more speech, not threats of lawsuits? Defamation suits are always anti-free speech. See R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul. Anyone who threatens a suit is claiming the person or group they are suing has no free speech right in the matter. That would be Musk in this case, turning to Daddy Government and its courts. If Musk himself has alienated advertisers, and if he really supports free speech, then he may have to eat the financial loss that comes with it.
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  41380. Winter will kill what's still working in the economy. The politicians act like they never heard of winter. Wow will these politicians look like deer in headlights, like in 2008. I still remember Pelosi's face when she was told the world was on the verge of having no financial system left.
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  41381. No. Le Pen's party has its roots in Vichy. Her father was an actual fascist. She is more moderate than he was.
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  41382. She's talking about how you prove a case in court.
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  41383. Oh, silly me. How could you possibly know that?
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  41384. Medicare will not pay. You need serious legal advice to get Medicaid to pay you directly, and I'm not sure that they would if you yourself do not have an appropriate license or hire licensed care. Medicare stops paying once there is no longer treatment, but only maintenance. You can, however, get companion care to be with your family member while they are in a nursing home. The very wealthiest people I know have at least two shifts of companions with their family member, and with 16 hours covered, the nursing home personnel are tipped off that they better be careful around that person -- not just when the companion can see them, but all the time. The best qualified staff appreciate the help. The unqualified steer clear of doing anything questionable around them.
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  41385.  @toddsmith293  Sorry about your brother. Hope you can get him out of Mom's basement. /s (IOW, can you say "special pleading?")
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  41386. @medhue  It used to be worse. All right. So, certain efforts have succeeded, against all odds. That's a reason to find some momentum and continue to make progress. It's not a reason to give up, anymore than it would be a reason to push unconstitutional, odious policies.
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  41387.  @moodist1er  He did have massive support. And no president in my memory had 50% + 1 of all eligible voters. In any case, that wasn't what I was referring to.
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  41388. @moodist1er  Actually, when the country my parents were from signed a non-aggression treaty with Germany, the people overthrew the government. My father was in that movement.
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  41389.  @moodist1er  The reply I did not expect to be censored isn't here. The one I thought was verboten is. Waddya know?
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  41390.  @moodist1er  Too bad my real answer is _________. Great, huh?
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  41391. I'm suspicious of the lockdowns and artificial increase in chronic stress and strife, engineered by governments worldwide. It must have affected public health.
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  41392. In the US, which has far worse statistics than Canada, almost 95% of deaths were in people over 50. Comorbidities are the usual cofactors in these deaths. Who are these young, healthy people dying of COVID? The overall case fatality rate is under 2%.
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  41393. Listen to this whole segment, then READ the actual articles they cite, from real sources like Nature and New Scientist.
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  41394.  @peterfrancisharris  That wasn't the issue. Dying over 50 is not exactly dying "young," and at any rate, median age of death from COVID is not much different anywhere in the West from average life expectancy. Concerning life expectancy, we hit a record number of drug overdose deaths in 2020, over 93,000. Life expectancy in a lot of places like France and Germany barely budged during this time. Maybe fear-mongering, jeering, and hectoring are not a way to live?
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  41395.  @peterfrancisharris I'm not fine with anything in the US. I decided in 2019 to emigrate, deadline 2025, but I've moved it up. I'm more and more chagrined at having my intuition turn out to have been THIS good, yet rather proud that it was. Chagrin outweighs pride, obviously, by a lot.
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  41396. Depp has no obligation to speak to her.
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  41397.  @guyrichardson7358  Mass, coordinated censorship. The corporations controlling our communications infrastructure should be held culpable under the antitrust laws. Coordinated violation of freedom of the press should give rise to an antitrust case.
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  41398. Thank you for the reminder. Yes, you're right.
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  41399. That's the hard right mantra.
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  41400. ​@RenjiXIII just how dumb are you still? How does MUSK have time for this?
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  41401. The Aetna CEO (former) 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 "It da gummit's fault"
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  41402. It's in his biography. He is a type of counseling psychologist and counseling educator and supervisor.
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  41403.  @Theonetruegod-hw2ei  I had hyper smart parents, multi-lingual, of course. Draw your own conclusion.
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  41404.  @Theonetruegod-hw2ei  So it must be true: the further right the political spectrum, the lower the standards across the board. I thought so, but hate being self-serving like that. It's so "entitled American."
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  41405.  @ebrown0071  THIS And why does everyone expect it to end well, remind me again? :/
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  41406. It follows that they likely would if they could. Trump has to prove that they did. See the difference?
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  41407. Accusative case; "I just had me and my brother" is colloquial speech and not fundamentally incorrect. "Our family was small -- just my brother and me" is correct. As in "just us," not "just we."
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  41408. Lotteries are not sales, they are science. /s They are also not patronizing. /S
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  41409. It's interesting to me that my parents, as immigrants, had a very bright line of demarcation: a high school student is a pupil, a child. Upon graduation, they are an adult. College students are adults. It was literally a rite of passage in their minds. I thought the American style of bringing up adolescents step by step, and treating them differently at 14, 15, 16, and 17 was so much wiser. I'm getting the sense that this culture has moved to seeing all people under 18 as children, and all sex between adults and adolescent minors as "pedophilia," with all the horror that entails. I don't think that makes sense at 17, or 16. The law is written that way, too, to account for small differences in age (one person 16, the other 19, for example). Teachers have no business approaching students, ever -- nor do professors, no matter the age. Former students who are adults when first approached are a different matter. I know marriages like that. Everyone does. I don't see a problem.
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  41410. No, hon, he didn't like the revenge porn Cenk and Ana were joking about. He's older than they are, and was already married.
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  41411. Money.
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  41412. LGBTQCIA?
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  41413. Well? /s
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  41414. Thank you for the recommendations!
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  41415. Other than labor organizing, which has its own rules (consult a union lawyer!), I think this is usually the rule. Before quitting, see about constructive discharge/getting unemployment benefits. So many companies have extensive contacts with government, and some employees might be working exclusively on government contracts. That should make a difference. I don't think it does, though . . .
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  41416. So that nothing disturbs your personal comfort, which is to say, everything stays the same?
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  41417. He's setting the record straight -- long before the latest attacks.
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  41418.  @dantheman1998  Did Whoopie Goldberg write that dictionary? 🤣
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  41419. ​ @janetbaker7848 Yes, plus it's too scary.
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  41420. ​ @jameshayden3952 If Bezos wants one, . . .
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  41421.  @stevekern7235  Is he less of a joke? "You decide."
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  41422. Children aren't chattel. Preserving every person's future reproductive choices used to matter. Now the locus of authority of the adult human being over their own body is rapidly passing out of their control.
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  41423. Well, you are far from being in charge of your own destiny if this is the fable you spin from Briahna's comments. Someone put you up to that. It is never ignorant to ask a pointed question. I also wonder why China instituted actual, complete lockdowns, like you see in prisons. Do they know something about the virus that they are not sharing? I mean, apart from its origins, which they probably knew all along. Robbie was the one blathering, rather than acknowledging that China is an authoritarian country, that they have very likely covered up the virus origins, and that COVID's origins may not be all they are covering up. I love how no one can ask questions. All questions are "questions." All questions have to be probed for their "subtext," so that we can label the speaker and call them out. In the meantime, funny how we missed the fact that we don't know the answer.
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  41424. ​@laylow597 Every capitalist society has classes, and most buttress class supremacy using some sort of "biological" justification.
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  41425. I'll repeat the comment I made as an OP: Why don't billionaires educate their children properly? I'm being serious here. He should be fluent in several languages. He should have had tutors, speech therapists, debating coaches, and drama classes. You see middle class people work two jobs and turn out their pockets to educate a child with minor challenges, and fight tooth and claw to get help from the public schools. Shouldn't he at least reach some level of competence before he interferes in the lives of others? My first instinct was not to blame him, either. Soros the father should be ashamed. This is a disgrace.
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  41426.  @beantreats  Not at all. You have the means to address this. You fight until you get it right. It's ultimately a matter of the work you yourself put in, but to have parents capable of offering every possible resource and failing to do it is appalling. David Goggins somehow managed.
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  41427.  @beantreats  Actually, I listened twice and don't know what he said. I'd have to listen a third time, take notes, and try to edit it, then listen yet again to make sure I got it right.
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  41428.  @beantreats  "Perfect?" False dichotomy.
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  41429.  @beantreats  I'm trilingual, and have no memory of being monolingual, so I kind-of doubt that. Also, I don't fill in with what I think someone means. I'm opposed to putting words in anyone's mouth. But if you need to Feel Superior tonight, please. Be my guest.
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  41430.  @beantreats  I've never had a smartphone. I don't have one now.
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  41431.  @beantreats  I have a Maitrise in ancient Phil from Paris IV, back in the day. And Jose Saramago is one of my favorite writers.
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  41432. @beantreats  Oh, I see. You might not have had psycholinguistics. A bilingual preschool child is forced to be a good listener, by their environment. It's not a choice. It's a stroke of luck, in a way. If I were up to me to choose, I'm not entirely sure I would -- not before kindergarten, at any rate. I'd go for one language plus music that young. Yeah, I think having real values, with education of the young being at the top of the list, and standards, like earning your platform rather than having it handed to you based on money, is better. I think pleading for those values is better. But I think in terms of universals, not decadent bourgeois hierarchies and the new pseudo-compassion.
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  41433. That is the problem. We do not know the true rate of harm. We don't have a proper audit, we have a problem of both false reports and under reporting. All we know is that there has been harm. We don't know how it compares to, say, the flu vaccine.
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  41434. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Snitch hotline!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  41435. Because Trump cannot approve the vaccine, so Harris's remarks are a non sequitur. Wait, let me back up -- we better be sure he cannot.
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  41436.  @belkyhernandez8281  If THAT is what Trump is doing (i.e., pressuring federal agencies to rush vaccine testing protocols), then Harris should say so. That is an extremely serious matter and could jeopardize the health of millions of people. But that wasn't what Harris said. BTW, the FDA does the testing of vaccines prior to release, and CDC monitors administration, keeping records of numbers of doses administered, adverse effects, efficacy in actual use, and so forth. Did you mean the FDA was being pressured?
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  41437.  @belkyhernandez8281  Is Harris saying we cannot trust FDA approval of a COVID vaccine as long as Trump is in office, applying pressure? I didn't hear it stated directly. If it is true that we can't trust the FDA under Trump (and the premise has to be proved, but it is not so farfetched, considering this is Trump we're talking about), then we need to know. Someone needs to say so straight up, not all giggly. She's a prosecutor, she knows what evidence is. Trump does not approve vaccines and he is not supposed to interfere with the doctors and research scientists who do.
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  41438.  @belkyhernandez8281  BUT WHO BASES MEDICAL DECISIONS on what any politician says anyway?? How crazy are we?
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  41439.  @belkyhernandez8281  If anyone has EVIDENCE of political pressure on the FDA and CDC, they need to come forward. This is no joke. We already have the worst COVID record of any major developed country, and most other countries as well. I'm not expecting it to get better.
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  41440. Ha, perfect!!
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  41441.  @shaunroths7087  Took me a long time to figure that one out.
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  41442. So Europe will have to slow down with wasteful activities that exacerbate global warming. What a shame. /s
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  41443. The quotation of Van Roden contains facts -- damning facts, if true. The other quotations contain opinions without any factual predicate. Rankin's contains an obvious fabrication.
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  41444. ​ @ohhansel People who can follow complex sentence structure like Brie a lot.
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  41445. Oh no. Please don't mention snakes on planes. We are close to that.
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  41446. Does that make her qualified for this post? To be fair, no one --- NO ONE --- addressed that issue. My question to you is, do you care about that?
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  41447. Love of money is the root of all evil.
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  41448. Prices will SOAR unless you get vaccinated, serf!
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  41449. Does this mean they should be Qs for G_cide?
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  41450. Dr. Campbell's video today is crucial -- they have got to have the data in order to perform this analysis. Causation is hard enough to determine, even with very complete data, because multivariate analysis is hard.
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  41451. Black dogs are good luck.
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  41452. We know this reporter's life is in danger. We hope you will be all right.
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  41453. THIS is a reasonable position, and a reasonable critique. Notice how few people are saying what you just did, all of which is true. Why is that? 1. Why did Rolling Stone smear this man? If they wanted to promote vaccination, it backfired. This is unfortunate. 2. Do you agree with vaccine mandates and passports, with no option for regular testing? Do you agree that with evidence of waning immunity from vaccination, testing should be broader? See, that's what I think.
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  41454.  @blairkarasiuk4681  Total agreement. Now, for another question, opinion this time: why is your reasonableness so rare in the US? Why doesn't everyone think like you do? Also, it is evident you are perfectly ready to change your mind in light of better evidence, and . . . what you've just said may be the best evidence we have to go on right now. Well, you don't see that style of independent, empirical thinking here. :/
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  41455. I wouldn't know how to answer that. It just became available to me, and I'm sure I will get it, probably before fall. But not now. I think we are still finding out what is the best course. I know that means more testing for me, and quarantine pending results.
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  41456. Considering that he was responding to a politician claiming that someone else is not in their prime, I don't think Lemon was so outrageous. I am not defending his general stupidity and rudeness, but this time, it was not Lemon who broached the subject.
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  41457. Make a fortune by your early twenties, and then talk.
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  41458. The Internet has shown us just how much ignorance is lurking under rocks.
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  41459.  @samuelalzate8573  You could snap your neck in the shower? What kind of shape are you in? Consider assisted living.
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  41460. You don't have sick days? Why? Do you change jobs every few months?
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  41461. This YouTuber Watson has said he quit school because he was always drunk and high. At that age, Biles was in school and gymnastics, putting in 12-hour days. But he's not the quitter, she is. . . . Her twisties got better, LOL.
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  41462.  @PeriodDrama  😂 And if you're a roofer and are dizzy one day, you better shut up and get your @ss on that roof. If you fall, cue the laugh card. Oh well, there's always another roofer to replace you.
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  41463. Healthy sexuality is "fascist" now.
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  41464.  @datruth4766  Outstanding point: young adults with no diagnosable affective disorder of any kind have trouble deciding upon a career, and they also marry and then divorce. But we expect dysphoric children to make irreversable decisions about medical interventions that could render them sterile? Wow, just WOW. How crazy do we have to be now?
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  41465.  @franmoore8811  Excellent! Thank GOD people are speaking up.
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  41466.  @dustinbaker8272  Why are you lying about studies? Shame on you and your agenda.
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  41467.  @kateofone  No, puberty is not "essentially torture."
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  41468.  @AthenaNKnight  How many 12-year-olds who feel sure they were assigned the wrong gender outgrow that conviction? Saying that most or even nearly all transgender kids know they are transgender, even if true, means nothing unless non-transgender kids know they are NOT transgender. If non-trans kids think they are trans, overtreatment and inappropriate treatment is certain.
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  41469.  @dustinbaker8272  Say, aren't you the same guy who pushes vaccine mandates? You seem to opt on the side of more medical intervention, regardless of risks known, highly likely, or reasonable to suspect. Leave other people alone.
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  41470.  @AthenaNKnight  As a matter of principle, I am very leering of supporting legislation that prohibits a medical treatment, BUT in this case we need to take the time to consider all sides carefully, because a fundamental human right is involved: namely, the right to try to become a birth parent someday, without huge impediments because of what doctors did to you when you were still a minor. Would you allow non-trans kids who were treated as trans to sue for malpractice once they attained adulthood?
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  41471.  @kateofone  I know what the word "torture" means. Unless you're using it figuratively.
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  41472.  @dustinbaker8272  Ha, ha. My multicultural, multilingual ECHO CHAMBER! (not)
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  41473.  @dustinbaker8272  What strawman? The Precautionary Principle and "First do no harm" are fundamental principles of sound medical care. Do you agree? "First do no harm" presumes taking the time to examine and weigh all options in all non-emergency, non-life-threatening settings. Well?
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  41474.  @kateofone  As do a lot of people without gender dysphoria. We have nevertheless abandoned lobotomies and never use any form of electroconvulsive therapy as a first resort, and we give antidepressants to kids under 20 or so with extreme caution because of the suicide risk. See James Baldwin on the madness inherent in trying to end all suffering. His suffering led him to Dostoevsky by age 15. You know the rest.
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  41475.  @kateofone  People with infertility issues who need assisted reproduction also report severe depression, distress, anxiety, and panic. Plus loneliness, abandonment fears, the suspicion that they are somehow "defective," and guilt.
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  41476.  @kateofone  Except that certain gender affirming interventions can cause fertility issues.
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  41477.  @kateofone  Do 12-year-olds have the capacity to decide this??
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  41478. Another issue: the age of puberty has been declining over the past 125 years, by a lot. Could this be a factor in dysphoria? It's not easy to start puberty at age 10 to 12, and look at all the children who do. We need to consider why this is happening and how to help all kids, not undertake irreversable medical procedures on the most severely afflicted when we don't even know what's going on or why.
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  41479.  @kateofone  At 12 you knew you didn't ever want birth children? And you knew how other people going through puberty felt, and that it was less distressing for them than it was for you? Considering various body dysphorias are highly resistant to treatment for substantial numbers of people, as is depression (see, for example, Naomi Judd), I'm glad that hormones worked. I'd like to see the racial/ethnic breakdown for this phenomenon. Social contagion is real, medical interventions can be permanent.
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  41480. So Ana has exhausted this grift. Good to know.
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  41481. I never do. Harris is hebephrenic. Brie is not.
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  41482.  @kevinschmidt2210  Obviously, this is just an opinion. He has a good sense of humor, I don't deny the entertainment value. His comparison on authenticity with most other people in this space suffers. I think everyone should read Finks, or The Cultural Cold War.
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  41483.  @kevinschmidt2210  No I'm not. I'm just a multilingual person who reads a ton. I appreciate that you are not used to people like me. But do read Finks, and The Cultural Cold War. And do watch those long-form videos, and see whether some little contradiction -- some little something -- starts to nag at you. Whether a person is trustworthy is not ad hominem at all, but important to consider; what argument of his have I attacked on the basis of the fact that he is the one advancing it? After all 2 + 2 does not cease to equal 4 even if a Hitler were to say it. I just wouldn't take certain people's word for it.
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  41484.  @johanstinson  It would take too long to watch his interviews again, as you well know. I do remember that he claimed that his latest book was the first to treat the subject of crimes under communism, and that it was essential that someone do this. It was probably on Lex Fridman. That is such a howler that it's not even remotely amusing. Most of his stuff is highly derivative.
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  41485.  @kevinschmidt2210  Celebrity culture fan clubs are so puzzling. Tell me, did you ever stand up for a real person, like a friend or a coworker, the way you do for celebrity strangers? I would bet money that you never have and probably never will. Doing that could cost you. This is free. I mean, speaking of keeping it real.
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  41486.  @kevinschmidt2210  No, I haven't "doubled down," used ad hom, or "ad Hitlerum." You need to do some reading. Or, maybe my responses were subjected to sense or ship, so you don't know that I did provide evidence. That could happen. LOL I see I did strike a nerve. But why is there a nerve? This is what I still don't get. I do know to block YOU, however. Thanks for letting the world know.
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  41487.  @kevinschmidt2210  I cited Malice's claim that his latest book addresses communist crimes for the first time, and that people need to know about them. That is a specific assertion I remember well, and its purpose is obvious. If that isn't abject, I don't know what is. What a howler.
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  41488.  @kevinschmidt2210  I still remember when I was subjected to cyberstalking and threats for daring to suggest that Arnold Schwarzenegger might not be a good choice for governor. 🤣 Those were the days . . .
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  41489.  @kevinschmidt2210  So, tell us all about when you did stand up for a real person, not a celebrity. What did you do? (Did you lose money, or make money?)
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  41490.  @varsityathlete9927  Have it your way. I have some experience in this, more than I would have liked to have had, and I did give a specific example in Malice's case. Did that get censored, or just overlooked by you? I guess you misunderstood. I wasn't playing victim, I was saying there are people online who are that weird with their celebrity nonsense that a perfectly appropriate observation can set them off. When a person presents themselves as an podcaster and public figure, and even a public intellectual, they are inviting critique. I have every right to state my impressions. Why was I attacked personally for it? It doesn't make sense. You want to shut ordinary people up, and give these clowns the podium? Why? If you are an anarchist, isn't that the opposite of what they preach. I wish this didn't exist. It certainly does. When I first heard about Gloria Steinem's CIA ties, I was incredulous. Well, it was true. I suggest you do some reading and closer observation. You may remember this some day and realize how naive you were. More and more "impossible" things are true every day. Finks and The Cultural Cold War -- a word to the wise. Then apply what you've read to the best of your discernment. I'm doing you a favor. You should thank me.
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  41491.  @kevinschmidt2210  I certainly did give an example. Neither you nor I know what's shadow banned; it's still visible to me. Why did you assume I'm a man, by the way? Is there anything you guessed right? High school critical thinking -- oh brother. I have a JD, among other things. You need to brush up on your Latin phrases. When a person presents themselves as an podcaster and public figure, and even a public intellectual, they are inviting critique. I have every right to state my impressions. Why was I attacked personally for it? It doesn't make sense. Why don't you simply disagree and leave it at that? You want to shut ordinary people up, and give these clowns the podium? Why? If you are an anarchist, isn't that the opposite of what they preach? Interesting -- Glenn Greenwald got this mobbing for questioning Lex Fridman, although one aspect of his guest's critique of Lex was misplaced, so there is at least something there to push back against. Looks like anyone associated with Joe Rogan is off limits. Maybe you are just very, very naive. That could be it. Have you ever stood up for a real friend, in real life, or only for Celebrities here? You need a king to feel secure, maybe? This is too fluid for you?
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  41492.  @kevinschmidt2210  You've done me a favor. I'm never going to watch Jimmy Dore again. Thank you, I was wasting my time.
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  41493.  @johanstinson  I gave a reason as well, concerning his promotion of his latest book, which was utterly phony. Your first full paragraph, on the other hand, has no facts, just your opinion. What reasons for considering him smug, etc., did you just give? Moreover, I invited others to watch him and see for themselves. Of course you're entitled to your opinion, but I see no reasons, or examples of what you found so smug or condescending. It was only when I said, "this is just my opinion" that the other guy thought he noticed a weakness, and swooped in, calling me the phony. This is usually how interactions in this society play out. This is a move that works. Ask yourself why it worked on you.
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  41494.  @kevinschmidt2210  Here, let me help you out on the critical think front: the way you argue the point is not to start screaming, "YOU'RE the phony!!!! Mudslinging!!!!!" It is to say something like, "that is a very serious charge that requires very serious/airtight evidence. Even a kid who stole something resents being accused of stealing unless you can prove it -- and rightly so. You have no proof except your impressions. Why should anyone trust that?" My answer: Fair enough, I don't have proof. But once you've seen this done in many other contexts, you start to see a pattern. Media is in a bad way right now, and heavily infiltrated, so I am going to say something. The CIA in particular has a long-standing practice to create "alternative" media as a false flag. I think that's too important not to signal. They always take over whatever media has cultural prominence, and twist it to their purposes. If you don't believe me, look into it for yourself. That is their practice. It's not new. At least be vigilant. The alphabet agencies have been overreaching everywhere, but especially where podcasts, YT, and stuff like that is concerned, because it exploded in popularity in short time. Things are not what they seem. See? You're welcome.
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  41495.  @kevinschmidt2210  BTW, speaking of sense or ship, lots of your posts are missing. I didn't complain, and I don't see why they decided to shadow any of them.
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  41496.  @varsityathlete9927  What is "glowing?" Let's see. If I don't give "reasons" that's bad. If I do, that's worse. (Actually, I agree.) Okay, whatever you need. I block this thread now. You should print it out, and show it to an objective person, perhaps even a medical professional. Sorry you're jealous, but that's what drives the capitalist system. Do your part! :) (Say, wonder why they need "Malice's" latest book so bad? Hm . . . ? Nah, can't be that. Can it? Vive la revolution.)
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  41497.  @varsityathlete9927  BTW, I don't know whether you are two unique people, having no association of any kind with an alphabet agency. I don't say you aren't. I reserve judgment, and would rather bet ten bucks on a lotto.
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  41498. If we are going to discuss the economy, and posts with links to actual data are shadowed, then this is a waste of time. Too many people have NO idea about the world economy. They actually think all Americans are in the global top ten percent.
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  41499. Y'mean, we had to pay to get rid of him? Huh.
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  41500. WOW, Johns Hopkins . . . this is getting serious.
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  41501. Keep it simple. She makes 💰.
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  41502. ​ @Blake-gh8xl Who is the "flat earther?" Kennedy has won toxic tort cases against major corporations by presenting copious scientific evidence.
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  41503. ​ @1MarkKeller Who is the "flat earther" according to you? An eminent toxic torts lawyer who has won cases against major corporations by presenting scientific evidence and having it tested in court, where the burden is on his side to prove up all their claims?
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  41504. That reporter took a vaccine, and he's not a doctor?
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  41505. That won't work. It's the jurisprudence that matters. For example, the central "hate speech" case, RAV v. City of St. Paul, took place in Minnesota and invalidated a "hate speech" ordinance. (You would think the governor of Minnesota would have heard of it, but no.) Everyone should read that.
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  41506. Your interview of Dr. Cohen from Israel was wonderful.
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  41507.  @pomcrzymimi  Not according to the consent forms.
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  41508. Precisely. She is a demagogue here, however. That never goes out of style.
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  41509.  @FaranFronczakTV  If you read the complaint, the answer, the actual article at issue, and a basic summary of defamation law, such as is available on Cornell's website, I'll faint. You're reporting on the reaction to the trial, not the trial. Consult Mattias Desmet on that issue, sadly.
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  41510. Family 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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  41511. Law students are "kids" now?
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  41512. 1:08:25 why you are not not NOT hot Can't picture my late father saying such a thing, thinking such a thing. Mediterranean father. 😎
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  41513. Of all the commercials he could have made, he picked a shootout with Gabby Gifford's husband? BTW, Kelly was a Navy Captain and an astronaut who piloted the Shuttle. He was also a Navy pilot in war zones. Last I heard, the Navy trains people in how to shoot straight. Also, his parents were . . . police officers. And you're a dupe of memes. Nice going.
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  41514. What a disgrace. You would expect only the most ignorant person to know nothing about when and how their children were vaccinated, and with what.
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  41515.  @racerxfiles1111  Your rant motivated me. I hope I can get out sooner. I'm going to work toward that end tonight. Carpe diem.
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  41516.  @racerxfiles1111  I made no such assumption. There are alternative ways of protecting others that do not involve vaccination. That's fine with me. I oppose mandatory vaccination. Anyone opposed to vaccination who is willing to quarantine if they do fall ill -- I don't see the problem.
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  41517. @Dave Blackman Both can happen.
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  41518. This is akin to a moral panic.
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  41519.  @thalesnemo2841  If you're not joking, please seek counseling. BTW, you just proved my point. The Boston Marathon bomber and the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas school shooter got admitted to hospitals. The vaccine consent form states that if you decide to decline vaccination, your medical care will be unaffected. If you are vaccinated, then you must have gotten one.
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  41520. Your post just proved my point that this is akin to a moral panic. Seek counseling. Step away from your cable television. Eat a better, anti-inflammatory, memory-protective diet. Take walks. P. S. Blocked
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  41521. HE JUST SAID: "force her to admit" You love that?? We have a Fifth Amendment. His role isn't to make her talk, it's to vote her down based on her answers/nonanswers/lack of qualifications.
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  41522. Maybe that's because ACA is already an unprincipled compromise and a failure. They didn't even provide a PUBLIC OPTION. Start keeping promises and see what happens then. I mean, just for a change of pace. An experiment.
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  41523.  @friendlypup5650  I'm missing the point? OF COURSE the DNC is on track to lose. They lose when their working-class voters stay home. And those voters stay home when they have no reason to come out. You must be pretending. No one thinks like you do. Not really.
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  41524. Disagree wholeheartedly. Listen to the whole thing and learn.
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  41525. ​ @lizthomas335 PLEASE DON'T LISTEN TO THIS. You must know better.
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  41526. ​ @Poor20  A bit wrong? He had a meeting with FDA officials. See what they said to him. It's damning all right.
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  41527. ​ @mrsme33-cy7lf  Fraiman isn't.
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  41528. ​ @stevezivkovich4591 Not what he said.
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  41529. @artfulexpressionofand4you2019  Are you all crazy? This was an excellent guest. He wrote an excellent paper. He also expressed strong skepticism about RSV vaccines. He said he never once tested an older person for RSV, and that it looked like a vaccine looking for a disease. How would you like it if no one listened to you?
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  41530. @stevezivkovich4591  Yes I did. He said that early on, they didn't know about the problems with the vaccines, and he explained how that can happen, using the example of Vioxx. As for systemic problems at the FDA, I know about those, too. I've read Carl Elliott, a man whose time has come. I'm guessing this doctor hasn't gotten that far yet.
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  41531. A job? People had those in February, remember? The best way to improve your memory is to eat well, sleep well, and exercise.
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  41532.  @Hughster49  COBRA is a bad risk pool and expensive. Every developed country has universal health care. Do you rely on government for clean running water? For air traffic control? For securing global shipping lanes? Wimp.
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  41533.  @Hughster49  That is exactly what I'm planning right now, thanks. I speak four languages, and my family is in Europe. (P. S. Get your own clean running water. And your own security forces, land sea and air. If you can't afford a yacht stay home where you belong. I don't want to pay air traffic control for you. I'm not getting anything out of it.)
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  41534.  @Hughster49  Wow. Is that door/ass thing original with you? I could swear I heard it before . . . ?
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  41535.  @Hughster49  Obesity-related, then? You're right, no idea.
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  41536. Thank you.
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  41537. "Boomer," Gen X, and so forth are advertising categories. I thought everyone knew that.
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  41538. Those of us who read some of the court documents and know the law understood what he meant. But in our Vast Meritocracy, we will never get to ^1000+. 🤣
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  41539.  @gregsmith7828  Is there a law against an amicus brief? I'm seeing the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments trashed, but not to this point.
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  41540.  @gregsmith7828  Have you ever seen one? Public information.
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  41541. There are plenty. They are systematically silenced. No one who watches MSM has EVER heard a speech like this!
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  41542.  @elephantintheroom5678  Mine said nothing remotely controversial this time. I said that certain Israeli voices were system*tic*lly s*lenc*d. But in any case, a rational, informative post has far less of a chance than anything calm and factual. Gee. I wonder why that would be? 🤔
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  41543. That is not a change of de facto alliances.
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  41544.  @GG-yy4yx  Thanks for yet another example of self-awareness. /s
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  41545.  @GG-yy4yx  So, the ruble is imploding, huh? And the Russia-China-India-Brazil alliance is fraying? I see that, too.
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  41546.  @GG-yy4yx  Absolutely! They can see your tweets from their window.
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  41547.  @GG-yy4yx  My family isn't in the US 😊
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  41548.  @GG-yy4yx  My "permanent record." I remember when that was a joke. Those were the days.
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  41549.  @papalegba6796  Well, if you are the sheep, then I see your point . . .
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  41550. Those who shouted down our veteran are people who know which $ide their bread i$ buttered on. That $imple. Nothing else matters to them, nothing else will ever matter to them. They can't grasp anything else.
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  41551. @swgame2511  I can see you're well-versed in First Amendment jurisprudence. And how much Strossen and Chemerinsky do you know?
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  41552. @BOURBON, do you imagine you can produce hospitals and doctors and drugs and medical equipment? (Gee, how did all that stuff get here?) The most self-sufficient widely known person was the Unabomber.
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  41553.  @bourbonstansell8823  Yes I have. Ever heard of their drug problems and incest? You are one to talk about FANTASY.
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  41554. Wow, never thought of that. You might have figured her out! That's pretty good. I mean that seriously.
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  41555. Would you say the same about lobotomies? I don't know, I'm seriously asking whether there should be some limit. As long as you find a doctor who agrees, the question is settled? I point this out even though in principle I don't want to see new criminal laws. If one child in 2.5 million needs these invasive treatments, I do want them to have what they need. But suddenly thousands do? And no one proposes a year of talk therapy first? No one is trying to find out what underlies it?
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  41556.  @droolalot5795  Regulations of medical procedures is not "nanny state."
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  41557.  @droolalot5795  Regulations where minors are concerned are even more vital. Minors do need nannies.
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  41558.  @droolalot5795  Everything is pick and choose. Traffic signals are nanny state. Let people drive military-grade jeeps on the street and muscle their way first through every intersection. If you can't afford a bigger jeep, too bad. Make more money.
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  41559. Very charming. Oh, sorry, charmant.
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  41560. ​@arlosmith9504 You do not have a responsibility to society to take an experimental drug that does not even stop transmission and whose safety profile is still unknown. The burden of proof is always on the proponent of a drug.
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  41561. ​ @arlosmith9504 My post just disappeared. It contained accurate information. NO ONE claims any COVID vaccine prevents COVID or prevents transmission.
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  41562. I get the feeling that he simply cannot face the facts, and not facing the facts will sink him. The Fauci Collins emails show that they agreed to actively suppress the fact that the pandemic resulted from a lab accident. They suppressed this theory because the laboratory in Wuhan was conducting experiments that should not have been done. Obama tried to stop this. He signed the moratorium on funding such research. Fauci looked for ways to skirt that rule, and Trump lifted the rule, then pushed Operation Warp Speed. WHAT PART OF THIS IS "RIGHT WING?" It's not any wing. This is simply what happened. Any honest actor who has read works on medical ethics from before 2020, written by the leading thinkers in the field, knows that the vaccine mandate was completely unethical. Could there ever be a vaccine mandate that is ethical? Open question; this one was not.
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  41563. Sweden did have higher rates of COVID than other Scandinavian countries but overall, not dramatically so. I agree that we need to look at what other countries are doing, with an open mind and genuine curiosity, not judgment.
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  41564.  @elisereynolds945  I agree with that.
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  41565.  @Heathernd  🙏
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  41566. A thousand people think this is clever.
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  41567.  @queensrule4450  I find that links are shadowed routinely. You can consult peer-reviewed journals, you can see what ministries of health in countries with better public health and vastly better life expectancy are doing. There are a lot of reliable sources, and new information is coming to light all the time. Or, you can repeat idiotic slogans so old they have dinosaur feces stuck to them, and you can bully, insult, posture, and use words like "fart." Haven't heard that one in a while.
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  41568.  @queensrule4450  Actually, in matters of health, the burden of persuasion to obtain consent is on the proponent of any intervention, not on the patient to justify themselves for withholding that consent. That is the law. Your body really is your choice. Or, it used to be.
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  41569. Oh wait. You can't find the NYTimes online edition? Well, you can spell "fart," good enough for you I guess.
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  41570.  @kenhiett5266  I still remember AIDS. I sat it out in France. The US was a looney bin, with shameful outbursts of violence and panic. In France, parents were rallying to make sure teachers with HIV got to keep their jobs, tenured or not! No wonder France has a much higher life expectancy. Will they ever wake up from their latest round of utter hysteria and disgraceful Schadenfreude and stupid, stupid jeering, and be embarrassed? I highly doubt it. They will find another enemy to distract them. The plot never changes.
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  41571.  @markdoldon8852  Right, it's an Enemies List and a Purge. It's not a call for universal health care, it's not a call for solidarity. It's not a call for a minimum of respect and understanding for those who risked their safety and peace of mind last year, and provided us with health care during the pandemic. Because that doesn't count. They are Bad People now. Their heroic service last year is now forgotten. "Hey, they got paid, what's the problem?"
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  41572.  @markdoldon8852  Of course it's a right/left thing. America has no left. The real left is against mandates and passports. In France, the CGT (hard left labor union) just organized a demonstration of vaccinated health care workers in support of their unvaccinated colleagues and against mandates. Don't wonder why France has a much higher life expectancy than the US, don't wonder why it was barely affected during COVID. Don't wonder why the US had record drug overdose deaths last year. Don't wonder why so many first responders on 9/11 or veterans of the wars since then feel pushed aside, isolated, and depressed. Take a look at who you are and what you spread. And your rank ingratitude posturing as superiority is worse than a gag. It's not funny anymore.
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  41573. "Escalates" to violence --- just now? Dear?
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  41574.  @kellharris2491  Of course children should know about safety, bullying, and where babies come from. Sheesh, what did you read into my remark? Get off your high horse.
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  41575.  @ednathompson7185  I though Belle's comment was great.
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  41576. Krystal: YES, this will be a highly problematic election. It does not follow that Biden should not concede if he loses.
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  41577. If we listen to Robbie, it is the end of universal education, as poor as it often is. It means only the top 20% have any hope of educating their children. Of course that works for him.
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  41578. Briahna Joy Gray ended up being right about Taibbi, as was proved when Sabrina Salvati invited him and gave him every possible opportunity to tell his side --- and invited him in the first place because she disagreed with BJG on Taibbi despite generally being allied with her. I was surprised, and find it very regrettable.
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  41579. Please a hint (about the search terms).
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  41580. Tried; can't find it.
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  41581. A quote from the paper, emphasis supplied: "The reported incidence of (epi-)myocarditis after vaccination is low and the risks of hospitalization and death associated with COVID-19 are stated to be greater than the recorded risk associated with COVID-19 vaccination." Notice the choice of words. Fascinating, huh?
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  41582. When Continental Bank of Chicago collapsed in the mid-1980s, the REAGAN ADMINISTRATION prosecuted.
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  41583. ​@TrickyVickey France has been doing that for a long time. Pregnancy is fully paid, including a maternity clothing allowance for all, not based on need. A third child gives a family that needs it a subsidy, and all they need to do is to fill out a simple application. Three children is defined as a large family by law. Countries that had real revolutions are like that.
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  41584. Liars like Barr are supposed to be smarter than that.
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  41585. @comyuse9103  Yup. People who don't think it's true need to read David Goggins. He was constantly bullied -- in the 1990s. And he credits whites for his opportunities as well. The dude has no race prejudice. He just hates injustice, but refuses to use it as an excuse.
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  41586.  @joshuaprets2044  It's not a dumb comment at all. Cuba has a long tradition of outstanding health care, predating Castro, and Castro paid attention not to destroy it. Simple, historical fact. Sorry if it upsets you.
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  41587. In a few small experiments, a small, stable UBI did increase employment. People had the means to go on interviews, and got more ideas about what they could do with more money.
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  41588. Link?
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  41589.  @metalhead9061  Evidence?
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  41590.  @bearislandthuglife3463  I saw her rapid critique of Gabbard's position on drone use. It was outstanding, and delivered with no hesitation. This is obviously a police-the-populist-left, sheepdog channel. Iversen said herself she was fully vaccinated and never told anyone not to be vaccinated. The way any reasoned discussion surrounding the issue has been vilified and suppressed has created unwarranted vaccine skepticism. Sadly. I'm not sure any more that it's not deliberate.
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  41591.  @metalhead9061  I watch her all the time. I don't know what you're referring to. On The Hill Rising, her "lane" is the non-DNC left. I see her and Ryan Grim agree on more than her and Robby. Did you see her criticism of Gabbard? Very thorough, delivered before testing the waters.
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  41592.  @metalhead9061  Did you see Glenn Greenwald's recent video with a critic he invited to thrash out these sorts of points? Watch that instead of this. Or better yet, watch a math and logic puzzle channel narrated by someone from Asia. Sharpen your mind. This crap from the Five Eyes can't help you.
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  41593.  @metalhead9061  The neoliberal elitist allies of the new oligarchs WILL push ordinary working people to fascism at the rate they're going. Don't you see that?
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  41594.  @metalhead9061  I'm not falling for anything. I get my news in three languages. You may be the one falling for the latest frenzy of personal denunciation instead of looking at larger patterns. But looking at larger patterns is vastly more frightening. So tell yourself we just need to "get rid" of a few "bad apples." Good luck with that, you will need it.
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  41595.  @metalhead9061  Logic puzzles from India. Listen to me on this. I'm not joking, either. Not one bit. And good literature, preferably Russian. It's a start. You'll remember this exchange one day.
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  41596. We're supposed to believe this BLM member has seen the light and reformed. You really don't get Trump? YET?
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  41597. Federal agencies can institute regulations, but they have a procedure to follow. And they didn't.
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  41598.  @msqway11  My first and third languages are not English, and I don't like ridiculous mispronunciations of my name, etc. Since when do fake ass libs think you should try to pronounce Russian correctly? News to me. Maybe Quechua or something.
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  41599. Lee Fang just told you, the investigation is not complete. This is accurate.
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  41600. QUESTION FOR BRIAHNA: Is California a Daubert or a Frye jurisdiction? It matters, because they may have different standards for what constitutes "misinformation."
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  41601. And it was a bigger conspiracy than we thought. The President at the time was in on it. What do the Clintons have on Obama??
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  41602. That it would happen to infants is the shocker.
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  41603. It was common at one time in Europe for veterinarians to be involved in vaccine development. This is partly because such drugs were extensively tested in animals first, over a period of years. In other words, he knows all about it. He knew better.
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  41604.  @quentinjaxon7309  Rumors? Uh huh.
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  41605. My process: In 2021, I consulted the MIT website for an explanation of mRNA vaccines and decided against it. It was impossible to find Johnson & Johnson because everyone wanted it at that point. I asked in person everywhere. Then it was suspended because of the clot issue. Then I started looking much more closely. BTW, Sweden suggests boosters for those over 80. Swedish kids are not receiving this drug.
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  41606. "This is still a center-right country." Whoa are you in for a SURPRISE. Just keep it up.
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  41607. Mad that someone way prettier than the Fox Girls doesn't agree with you? You can handle it. 😉
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  41608. Last time I checked, Mexico has licensed SIX choices for emergency use vaccination, only one of which is Pfizer. Five are not mRNA.
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  41609.  @USALibertarian  I think this is correct. Obviously, in such cases, mental health professionals should seek guidance. In general, when someone plans to do something illegal, it should be reported, while anything they have done in the past that they talk about is generally confidential. The difference between fantasizing and planning is probably an issue, though. Fantasies that patients report are usually strictly confidential.
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  41610.  @HumanHamCube  I agree wholeheartedly.
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  41611. We knew it was a game of chicken. We figured that out in March.
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  41612.  @bocilketenangan  But she's a Russian, so it can't be true. /s
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  41613.  @brianchoi1148  Do you know what /s means? It is placed after statements on the Internet to reinforce that they are SARCASM. (BTW, my real name sounds Russian; mom part French.) I expect an apology for the stupid swearing. If you are going to swear, be more creative about it.
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  41614.  @xandirp.wifflebottom2596  No Scandinavian country has mandates. Anyone can go to their ministry of health websites and see for themselves. Example: no mandates in Norway, no one under 16 recommended to get the vaccine, and no one under 12 offered vaccination. If a parent wants a young child vaccinated, they cannot do so in Norway. As for the rest, it sounds like these vaccines are of very limited value. We need to face it and do something else. Pushing vaccines is ridiculous, and becoming sad.
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  41615.  @xandirp.wifflebottom2596  What do you think about vaccines?
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  41616. 💯
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  41617. Whaaa ??? 😂😂😂😂
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  41618.  @LordOfLight  Not on the scale that we see in the modern period since the French Revolution, no. You're the one who needs to wise up.
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  41619. ​ @ChiefBrianIrons 💯
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  41620. ​ @deepdiver849 That's so stupid it's not funny.
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  41621. @deepdiver849  Doing what? Softcore?
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  41622.  @deepdiver849  Why does your channel from years ago have hardly any views?😂😂😂
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  41623.  @deepdiver849  Bill Gates' mother got him a job. His father was the founder of the largest Seattle law firm, and his mother sat on corporate boards.
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  41624.  @BetaBuxDelux  You can apply for jobs all over the country from home. Then you have to be ready to drop everything and go on the interview. And then drop everything and move.
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  41625.  @davesiringo7147  He should have bought Nvidia a few years ago. Set for life.
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  41626. @vikramgupta117  He doesn't even have to do that. A person could talk their way into a class at a prestigious university, or just go to a no-name state school at night. The "no-name" state school over by me has professors who got their doctorates at Chicago (see? crisis in hiring), and one math prof who left for the Institute for Advanced Study. I kid you not. You have to get your resume in front of real people, not gatekeeper bots. The more places you go to meet people, the better.
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  41627.  @vikramgupta117  My response is still invisible.
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  41628. @mustang19ms  Why does it seem unbelievable? You bought the STEM propaganda? That was designed to blame the victims. This problem has existed since the 1980s.
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  41629. @aurei44  We're talking about a JOB. This is some huge privilege now? How do you think druggie Musk got his seed money? By studying instead of partying? 😂😂😂 (Where does he find the time to tweet and follow people online now?) No, he got in with Peter Thiel real early, on scams.
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  41630. @aurei44  We're talking about a JOB. A job is some huge privilege now? How do you think druggie Musk got his seed money? By studying instead of partying? 😂😂😂 (Where does he find the time to tweet and follow people online now, to jeer?) No, he got in with Peter Thiel real early, and ran financial scams.
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  41631. France just outlawed vaccine mandates for minors (under 18). You should have seen the celebration. It's a start.
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  41632. Both. Let's be honest across the board. I mean, why not? It's late in the day . . .
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  41633. I always thought that one of the few good things about life is that there are men and women.
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  41634. You know, those crazy Russians.
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  41635. NO, Japan is NOT "part of the West." No Western country has been bombed with nuclear warheads.
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  41636. No more Hunter laptops emerging, either. Great job.
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  41637. Silverperdaughter
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  41638.  @bmass0828  Oh, so you can't give me a reason. Huh.
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  41639.  @bmass0828  Let's try a different way. What are Musk's qualifications? No rush.
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  41640. ​ @jimbaxter8488 Well, the Senate just confirmed all of the President's nominees. It might be collegial to ask them for proposals concerning how better to run their departments and agencies? Just a thought. Otherwise, what will their Five Accomplishments be? 😂
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  41641. I would be glad to. When a de facto poly_gam_ist says jump, the only question is, how high?
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  41642. Let them eat Vogue.
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  41643. No, the Red Army prevented that.
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  41644. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  41645. Because . . . There is no such thing, except in fevered imaginations?
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  41646. America has no left. These are gaslighters looking for ways to create guilt in others and obfuscate. ALL they want is to hoard money and increase their control.
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  41647. ​@Soy_Bomb What a neat trick, to make people believe gender nonsense is "left."
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  41648.  @TheseBitchesWantNikes  Having power change hands will, in general, bring more money to parties and their acolytes. Also, if the DNC have no intention of actually solving the big problems, they don't want to be left holding the bag when the economy implodes, etc., or something else goes wrong.
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  41649. "We want to make it a healthy debate and discourse."
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  41650.  @jgalt308  States do not confer citizenship. You are a RESIDENT of your state.
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  41651. States do not confer state "citizenship," and no one has thought so since at least the Civil War. You are a **resident** of a state and its subdivisions (cities, counties, etc.).
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  41652. @jgalt308  There is no such thing as state "citizenship." There is only state residency. Why is this rank misinformation permitted, when so much that is true is not? Think about why that might be.
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  41653.  @FrankCastle-tq9bz  Well that's a relief.
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  41654. Don't tell strangers your business. Teach your children not to, ESPECIALLY now!
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  41655.  @mikemiller7957  You're very welcome. A great word, I'd hate to see it lose its punch through overuse. But then, people do it more and more, so then you have to say it.
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  41656. 15:42 What if some of us don't live in Robin's world? What if we, like, speak languages? 😂
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  41657. Harsh! Too close to true, too . . .
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  41658. They can't allow actual working people to demonstrate how competent they are at organizing themselves. A instant smear and massive suppression are essential.
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  41659.  @Skank_and_Gutterboy  Funny that people don't understand the main feature of our legal culture -- that we DO NOT rely solely on texts and codification. That is not what the English-speaking countries usually do. Britain's constitution isn't even written, yet it exists.
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  41660.  @allangibson8494  Nowhere did I say it did. Just checked.
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  41661. This was fine. What's the problem?
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  41662. @astrobullivant5908  Drawing a weapon is an assault. Any objective, credible threat of imminent bodily harm is an assault. Shows what you know. Try looking something up, like, for a weird change or something. Thinking can't be that hard.
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  41663. @rarjun100  So, do you think police can execute every reckless driver on the mere supposition that he might possibly hurt someone? And the shot did not stop him. He drove with the bullet in him. Why do you see shooting the person without disabling the car as a safety measure? You just love death. More brutes around everywhere, and beneath every brute lives a coward.
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  41664. @astrobullivant5908  You gave an example that is not only counterfactual to what happened in this case, but also has absolutely nothing to do with my point, which was that you do not deploy lethal force on mere supposition. That is never self-defense. Someone wielding a lethal weapon in an objectively threatening manner is already committing an assault -- a crime. You don't have to wait. The crime is right there. "Reckless driving" comes nowhere near that. "He could have had a weapon" is sheer conjecture. As if something that is remotely possible can be treated as true for purposes of shooting someone! Come on.
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  41665. @JV-dc7om  Do you know any veterans? A friend of mine was a sharpshooter, and he knew where to shoot various rifles to disable them while they were in use. Yes it is possible to blow out a tire with training, but it is usually considered too dangerous to do except on an empty highway. Anyone who thinks reckless drivers who take off should be shot is mentally ill.
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  41666.  @astrobullivant5908  Not what I said. But anyway.
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  41667. @JV-dc7om  In Europe, it is highly irregular to believe that if you disobey an officer during a traffic stop, you could be shot to death. I appreciate that you're right about the US, although even there, the weird blond guy in Ohio who shot all three of his sons to death, wounded his wife, and ignored police commands, is fine. I guess it's a lot like derivatives trading -- a crap shoot.
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  41668. As it turns out, the car was not moving when the encounter began. Nahel was threatened by one of the police officers with "a bullet to the head." It is perfectly clear on the recording. ONLY THEN did he take off. Wasn't this translated into l'anglais? I just heard a full report in the original.
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  41669.  @robertcabu1947  Le policier l'a menace avec une balle a la tete. C'est a ce moment qu'il a fuit. C'est parfaitment clair dans l'enregistrement.
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  41670.  @DeepClips0  In France, they can't lie.
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  41671.  @irenedhakde4692  It DID scare him. What do you expect from a 17 year old?
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  41672.  @lero7031  Look, stop telling me how sick you are, that you think police should act like a hostile occupying force. I don't want to know. I want to believe you're marginally normal.
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  41673.  @BarnoRenfro  American-style, huh?
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  41674. @petitben5240  This is the horror of the Internet. You find out behind the cloak of anonymity just how many people have no ethics at all. No sense of right and wrong. I didn't want to know.
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  41675.  @diannefurey7990  Yeah, they get to grow up and everything. True, that. In fact, the lighter, the likelier.
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  41676. So . . . Tweeting a video OF AOC speaking for herself is enough to get the police on your tail. That makes sense.
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  41677. There was no good way for the election to end.
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  41678. She agreed with him. Sheesh. Complex sentences seem to elude a lot of people.
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  41679. Is that what Trump said about the event? No. That's what was mind-boggling. Why didn't he say that?
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  41680. It's the speed of it that still surprises me. I knew he lying, but he started the big reveal before he was inaugurated. That's pretty good, huh? I guess at his age he better pick up the pace.
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  41681. Please provide keywords so that we can confirm or disconfirm this politician's assertions about what Germany is doing concerning reports of side effects. That's all we need.
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  41682. Never mind, I found the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut safety report, English language version. You might want to take a peek. Basic algebra required.
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  41683.  @scottekoontz  I found the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut safety report, English language version, quite easily. You might want to take a peek, to verify. It does require some knowledge of algebra, however. You don't sound like a math/logic person.
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  41684.  @scottekoontz  The safety report provides ample evidence that a serious, comprehensive inquiry concerning the risk-benefit of the vaccines, by demographic, needs to be conducted. It won't be easy; multivariate analysis never is, and we live in a politically poisoned atmosphere, where most people are interested in lying low and keeping their income safe. Quite reasonably so.
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  41685. Because they don't know what health insecurity is like.
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  41686.  Sir Isaac Newton  Nice one! :)
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  41687. Can the world support three times as many advertising and salesmen on cocaine? Triple Facebook, triple Twitter. Triple the pollution and waste of resources.
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  41688. For students who -- for whatever reason -- cannot take a public stand and fight, let this be a lesson: DO NOT share your mental health status with your school anymore than you would with your employer. The privacy of your medical records is federally protected for a reason. If you are accused of threatening suicide in front of a roommate, deny it. Or claim you were rehearsing lines from a play. I'm serious. Don't confess anything, and force your opponent to bear the burden of proof. Once you share, you can't change your mind and take it back. It's a bell you can't unring. This is a life lesson, too; you have a right to remain silent, and to seek care from those who will guard your privacy and put your well being FIRST. Allow yourself that. Remember, when Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen developed cancer, Bill Gates tried to make him quit. He lived well over 30 productive years after his diagnosis.
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  41689. Wow, can I get money for my vote? Price list, net: Biden $750,000 Kennedy $500,000 Trump $2,000,000 Name the ticket, all races $2,250 000
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  41690. I can tell you why I hated him: he was so utterly lazy and narcissistic, and steeped in getting his way by bullying, that he was incapable of remembering at noon what garbage he tweeted the night before. He overtly supported some of the worst groups in this country. He was a meta-liar: it wasn't just a matter of lying; the Clintons surely do that more than he did. Trump believed he was the sole source of truth. If he says it, it's Truth. If he changes his mind in 48 hours, then that is Truth. When he had the Iranian general assassinated, I had the distinct impression he had no idea who the guy was. When he learned of COVID, he sat on the information, and told Bob Woodward about it, fully expecting it not to matter. The sheer avalanche of falsehoods he uttered was impossible to keep a tally of. Hence he got away with it. This was NEW. Everyone can name ten Hillary lies, ten Biden lies, ten Bill Clinton lies. Trump altered the landscape. He made that impossible. As for why liberals hate him, probably something to do with money . . .
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  41691.  @michaelheerdt6845  I'm sorry but that was not my point. Please read it again. See what you're saying? "The media lies more." So the race to the bottom is on. Plus there is no bottom. Our last TWO elections had deeply, deeply disordered candidates. Both major parties, all three candidates. No point in denying it. Do you think any of them had presidential stature??? Do you think any were qualified? (Would you hire any of them to do a serious job?)
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  41692.  @michaelheerdt6845  I agree about the media. They greatly amplified the problem by how they reported on Trump, to get attention and more revenue for themselves. Instead of resisting lies by being truthful, they tried to lie even more than Trump did. They accepted his lead.
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  41693.  @michaelheerdt6845  We're to the point where being careful to tell the truth is viewed as a weakness. Real Men don't have to worry about "truth." They impose truths as they see fit. That was Trump, among others. And he was imitated. Everyone in the MSM tried to one-up him.
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  41694. Microdosing . . . . 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  41695. Not quite everyone.
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  41696. Jon Stewart doesn't deserve to be referred to as a member of the mob.
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  41697. ​@The-Heart-Will-Testify The evidence of early Likud support for Hamas as the political entity least likely to make a good case for the two state solution is the most chilling part of this ordeal. There is nothing simple about this story except the First Amendment rights part. Yet people don't get that, either. And it's OUR amendment!
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  41698.  @ncirel1  Of course, when journalists are killed in record numbers, that affects the documentation. Still, the information gets out.
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  41699. 💯
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  41700. Sure. Olympic champs all over.
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  41701. This YouTuber Watson has said he quit school because he was always drunk and high. At that age, Biles was in school and gymnastics, putting in 12-hour days. But he's not the quitter, she is. . . . Her twisties got better, LOL.
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  41702. Jeane Kirkpatrick made a career out of elevating "worthy" victims and treating "unworthy" victims as though they were beneath vermin. It worked too well, it's with us today.
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  41703.  @Technomancer666  Thank you for the explanation.
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  41704. People who still think Trump had any virtues should consider that he never fired Fauci. He played good cop bad cop instead. And let the moratorium on gain of function research expire.
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  41705. @charlesprice7608  Let's hear your legal argument. Have at it.
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  41706. @charlesprice7608  Jackson's quote is exactly how law school teaches you to fashion hypotheticals. Why is one categorical classification valid and another considered a constitutional violation? A lawyer is supposed to be able to explain why to the Court. That's the idea. But instead of reading and thinking, let cable television tell you what to believe.
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  41707. @Jeffski82  I hope they let you see my answer.
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  41708. @charlesprice7608  I don't even know what Sunny said.
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  41709. @charlesprice7608  What do you mean by "four years of constitutional law?" I know of no law program, JD or LLM, that offers "four years of constitutional law." I was a federal appellate clerk. I do know what I'm talking about.
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  41710.  @charlesprice7608  We are both being scents erred here, btw.
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  41711. @Jeffski82  When we tell someone that they or we are subject to sense r sheep, that goes poof as well.
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  41712. @MisguidedLogic  America has no left, extreme or otherwise. This is a nonsense narrative. Show me a trans Black Panther . . .
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  41713. ​ @will7its Yeah, like the Mom who fought police in Uvalde.
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  41714.  @Dragonslairminis  Nature is known to publish such studies. /s
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  41715. I love how the dog adopted her, too!
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  41716. Germany needs raw materials at certain price points to retain its industrial base. China will take over that segment of Germany's economy. This, to the War Party, is like a game of chicken. As though they were day trading.
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  41717.  @philyoosays  Don't out her here. That's family stuff.
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  41718. OMG OMG, isn't he skerd??
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  41719. I won't forget this post.
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  41720. N. B. One percent of 1.85 billion is 18,500,000 million.
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  41721. Hysterical.
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  41722.  KM KoolGang  No one said not to wear them in the privacy of the home and stuff.
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  41723.  @lewstherintelamon1377  Some guys dig ballet slippers. Trust me on this one.
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  41724. These lifetime-earnings salaries "earned" in THREE MONTHS are bogus. No one is "working harder or smarter" for that. A measly $10 million is over $1,140 an hour, 24/7/365. Do the math.
    1
  41725. What are the rewards, then? There must be some.
    1
  41726.  EyewatchlessYTeach Timetheylockmeout  Wow what a loser.
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  41727.  EyewatchlessYTeach Timetheylockmeout  Moyn, who apparently still does not have enough money. Attacking one of the very finest civil rights attorneys in American history, in this deceitful way, has got to be one of the worst things I have ever seen anyone do. Although over the last few years, people seem to be playing "can you top this?" I only hope it's one of the worst things. I hope I don't have to brace for more.
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  41728. No one in France is "still defending" Epstein.
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  41729. No, actually. Lethal force in defense of property is not legal.
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  41730. CNBC is perverse. Asking creditors for "help" might be a benefit (lower interest rates, waiver of one late fee) -- or it might alert them to send you to collections quickly and press you for the money, before you can file for bankruptcy protection or other safeguards. You usually do not know in advance which it will be.
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  41731. In a true emergency, government can add its voice, both legally and as a pragmatic political matter -- that is speech. The government CAN'T CENSOR SPEECH, directly or indirectly. That is NOT LEGAL.
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  41732. You must not be an Adam Curtis fan. 😁
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  41733.  @weirdshibainu  It's a hard call. I tend to think the truth leans slightly toward your side.
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  41734. ​ @TinaBradley-s8i You don't realize that you're forming yet another cult.
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  41735. The pattern has stood for a long time: what you see them doing to blacks you will see a version of it coming for whites. Yet they only howl when it starts happening to them.
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  41736. Malik Oussekine etais tue par un policier. George Floyd aussi. Annecy est bien different.
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  41737. Where did you find this case? The Supreme Court website has no such case that I could find, using your suggested search terms separately or together.
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  41738. Did someone hack Cenk's account?
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  41739. Wow, Dr. Sax plagiarizing Hold On to Your Kids, of which Dr. Gabor Maté is a coauthor. 😂😂😂
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  41740. Oh now I get it. The letter was from a group with MORE MONEY than the groups that then got investigated and banned. Silly me. That took way too long.
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  41741. D'Sousa? Thank you for letting us know where these idiot talking points came from. He pled guilty to breaking campaign contribution laws, which has got to be the stupidest move possible. Of course he was pardoned by that other stable genius, Donald J. Trump. No, Fascists and Nazis are not "leftists." But keep it up. Let everyone know the extent of your knowledge base straight away.
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  41742. Read Tariq Ali's Letter to a Young Muslim, then tell me what Ali is.
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  41743.  @pauldawson6138  Read ANY of Plato's early dialogues, but especially the Gorgias, and wake . . . um. Never mind. This isn't going to happen. I'll just move where people do read it. There is no other answer.
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  41744. We had an unprecedented global pandemic --- so even more billions rushed upward to the 1%. Funny, that.
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  41745. What is a woman?
    1
  41746. @Dan Aaron Mate just addressed that very issue.
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  41747. No /s? This was sarcasm, correct?
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  41748.  @rayman9983  One has to wonder how any society became literate. There was usually a generation that could not read, then one that could. What is really scary is that we probably could not accomplish that now, despite all our technological advances and knowledge of the brain and cognition.
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  41749. Never say that about your mom. Stef's mom has some rather unusual beliefs, but they treat her well, go to her church with her, stuff like that. Working class LA, working class Chicago . . .
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  41750. ​ @charleso6316  They are saving up for the election.
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  41751. ​@supergram7409 Certainly medication has a role -- but see Harvard professor Dr. Chris Palmer's experience with intractably psychotic patients. It's astounding.
    1
  41752. Follow the 💰
    1
  41753. Has anyone ever done a controlled study, comparing kids who play video games with a group that doesn't play video games at all? Where would you find them? And would they be so odd by comparison to everyone else as to make the results impossible to generalize from? Saying video games do or don't desensitize people to violence makes no sense. When you point to all the kids who play video games and never commit violence, it is comparable to pointing to all the young black men who are not shot to death during a police encounter. It tells you nothing either way.
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  41754. A neoliberal globalist with an eight-figure net worth would. American MSM and major party politics has no "left."
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  41755. Rank traitors, yes. Leftists, no.
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  41756. Possible. And frightening all right.
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  41757. Eric Harris turned on a former friend, and that former friend and the friend's mother pressed police to search Harris's house. Police had an unexecuted warrant that "disappeared" after Colombine. The former friend was later ostracized because he dressed "grunge" and was allegedly spared, as were many other kids who Harris questioned before deciding whether to shoot them. The cheerleader type who bought the guns for Harris and Klebold was never charged with anything.
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  41758. We're talking about minors who are literally being damaged in their cognitive development. Should "Big Government" regulate the pediatric use of opioids? Explicit material, posession, and production, for minors?
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  41759. That would be a good start but wouldn't necessarily show the real difference. There could be something fundamentally different about the two groups apart from vaccination status. For example, BMI, educational level, vitamin D status, number of times they have had COVID, which COVID variants they have had, pre- or post- vaccination COVID for those who did take the vaccine, and so forth. Obviously age is a major factor as well. Multivariate analysis is needed to figure this out, and multivariate analysis is expensive and takes careful judgment and time. (Surprised we don't have it yet? Me neither.)
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  41760. ​ @le_th_ You're right. This is why multivariate analysis is essential. Where is the push for it?
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  41761. This.
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  41762. Compassionate, off-label use of drugs that are already fully approved in an emergency is a long-standing policy, and many doctors consider it a moral imperative. What changed??
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  41763. This is even worse. It is against the law in every state to defend property with lethal force. If these kids did not put any person in imminent danger of physical harm, then it was illegal to shoot them. The value of the property is irrelevant. You can use lethal force against a carjacking, or when the driver is pointing the car at you, putting you at risk of being hit, etc. You can't shoot someone just to keep a car parked on the street from being stolen. (A nation of gun owners doesn't know this? Robby doesn't know this? Wow.) Bri muddled this. She should have simply stated the law.
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  41764. Wait a second: who is Fauci kidding, aren't "relations with China" a two-way street? There were probably CCP who didn't want US funding research in their lab. Count on it.
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  41765. If it WERE true, and being hidden, it's because they don't want to rattle global financial markets.
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  41766. Oh is that so? 7:18 Listen for about 2 minutes.
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  41767.  @nelsonartemio4218  What's up, sweetie? Trying to get other people not to click and listen?
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  41768.  @nelsonartemio4218  I always notice when there is a decided difference between what someone said and what people say they said. I do that even in the case of Trump, so with Krystal Ball it's hardly a chore. I find it easy to see through stuff.
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  41769.  @nelsonartemio4218  This, I agree with. But Krystal's points were sound, and her segment was longer than two minutes. I was simply saying that two minutes of careful listening would be enough to show that Krystal does not simply echo Saagar.
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  41770. @malachia908  Ha. I remember well. Two weeks may be enough to drop most restrictions except contact sports (look up the spleen in these illnesses), but it is by no means a full recovery. I had a friend who accused everyone of faking illness until she developed hepatitis during a trip to Central America, and was still nauseated and occasionally tired nearly 12 months later.
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  41771. @utah_koidragon7117  You're "willing to bet . . . " Why? Do you have some vested interest here? I'm not betting. I'm listening to what the so-called "heterodox" doctors have to say. Most suspect the vaccines play a role in these problems, contrary to what we've been told. A novel virus that very likely originated in a lab, in the course of research the purpose of which has never been made entirely clear to the public, is causing post-viral syndromes. But that sounds farfetched to you. I think we've lucked out, all in all. (Do some some people milk it? Does a bear, etc.?)
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  41772. ​@malachia908 That's not what I'm talking about. Of course most people do not develop a full-blown post-viral syndrome, for any of the diseases I mentioned. But dragging around for months, not yet yourself, and fighting to get your full energy back -- especially if you got sick in the dead of winter -- isn't unheard-of. In fact, it was the usual. More sleep, a better diet, and progressive exercise were recommended, and no drama. Don't tell me it wasn't real. We are disagreeing about semantics ("long COVID"), and how it should be treated. Now I'm remembering even more people I knew with pneumonia who experienced this issue. One was initially misdiagnosed, and ultimately had to take off a semester from doctoral studies at U of Chicago. Heavy-duty. She did complete it, of course, but she really had a scare and was tired for a long time. Same thing happened to a woman I knew who was in the army. Please. A severe chest cold with a fever can take two weeks to get back on track. Maybe people just don't tell you about it? They know what you'll say. 😂
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  41773.  @malachia908  Fun fact: the CDC is already talking about "long COVID" after 6 weeks. The World Health Organization doesn't consider the possibility until months after the acute disease. Feeling kind-of crummy and not like yourself for six months is within the limit of what can be expected.
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  41774. They compared their $$ to his.
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  41775. She thinks that those big families with teenaged mothers are HAPPY? For once the interviewer set her straight.
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  41776. I wish this were true. It would make things simpler. In fact, the West has perpetrated the most monstrous acts, and benefitted from them as well. You seem to think there is a spiritual dimension to victory. To be able to sell that idea, while not believing in it one iota, much less acting on it, is the secret of secular power. Do you think, for example, that the Axis lost WWII? In a sense yes, especially in Asia. But every Nazi and Nazi ally is better off today than those who resisted them from the first day. The rat line saved more people than were ever obligated to face justice.
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  41777. @To The Horror But you have a less prepotent mentality. Westerners and Western-influenced peoples are so much more aggressive than you can imagine. There is a Chris Marker documentary that condemns, rightly, all the aggression of the late 60s by the US and USSR. But the contrast between how the US reveled in every strike against Vietnam, and the shame so many Soviets had written all over them when they entered Prague, is striking. When you see it, you will never forget it. Yet . . . All followed orders. ;/
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  41778. Can you give us some keywords so that we can find it?
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  41779. I hope that this will not degenerate into a fight about accusations, rather than addressing the issue itself. We know Fauci suppressed evidence of a lab leak at Wuhan. Fauci wants this to be about Fauci. He protests too much.
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  41780. Always
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  41781. Ha ha ha. Better let Richard Wolff know.
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  41782. Each video from Jimmy tops the last.
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  41783. Oh gawd. I stop by expecting Kulinski to make sense. No such luck. Does he not know the bare basics of the issues and recent history of Ukraine? No one is fit to govern. No DNC, no RNC, no faction, no third party. No good leaders are emerging. Worry about that.
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  41784. ​ @jamesmurphy9426 😂😂😂
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  41785. Did you hear what happened?? How it happened?
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  41786. If you don't know anything about NYC cost of living, you are indeed confused.
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  41787. What does "successful" mean to you?
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  41788. Perfect guest here.
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  41789. Every young person I know who had any serious viral illness (meningitis, hepatitis, mononucleosis, pneumonia, encephalitis) needed about a year to feel 100% like themselves again, as if they were never sick. Young people. A year.
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  41790.  @therealpaincake  BTW, have you checked which COVID vaccines are in use by country? Many countries offer no mRNA vaccines to its public; some offer just one out of a choice of four. The other three vaccines offered use established technologies. Why is that?
    1
  41791.  @erica.7231  Why label it "anti-vax?" How about he dares to raise the questions any rational person would ask about this NEW technology pressed into mass use, for a NEW virus we still do not know a great deal about? I got other vaccines this past year. For example, Prevnar 13 is now recommended for all adults, not just those over 60. And of course, a flu shot. "Anti-vax" is just another political slogan.
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  41792.  @therealpaincake  You're not going to believe this, but . . . I was just watching a YouTube presentation in French on COVID vaccines and Sputnik V in particular, which many in Western Europe want, and one of the panelists said exactly what Max said, and for the same reason -- none of these medications are a true vaccine, because vaccines confer essentially total immunity, and are capable of eradicating a virus or bacterium from human populations. All the COVID vaccines are probably going to be like annual flu shots. Please don't misunderstand -- I still think you have the better point. But Max is not out in left field, not how you think. He is not being an irrational anti-vaxxer. He did not dream up this use of the term ad hoc.
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  41793.  @erica.7231  Well that's certainly true! No argument from me.
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  41794.  @numenoreaneternity6682  I thought Podgorica had a Latin vibe, too, but I see what you mean. Maybe Cetinje is different; I've never been. Part of any impression has a lot to do with expectations, and I frankly did not expect (and did not hope for) such a Westernized country. It's more than just appearances, though. The Orthodox Christians are the most pro-Catholic you will find anywhere. The dress, the food, the books in translation in the big box grocery stores (Elena Ferrante, who else? They were the only novels in the magazine section.). The educated people who frequent bookstores often read Italian anyway.
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  41795.  @BEhistoricStudios  There was no "genocide" in the Balkans since Hitler. There were war crimes during the break-up of Yugoslavia -- which also include some staged to make it appear as though a particular side had committed a war crime when in fact it hadn't, or at least not that time. Come to think of it, though, bombing Serb cities which had well-established anti-Milosevic governments already in place with Depleted Uranium warheads simply because of their ethnic makeup, and notwithstanding their spirited resistance to the Milosevic regime, certainly smells like an attempt at genocide -- perhaps comparable to that espoused by Hitler under his Aryan doctrines? Some genes are better than others, some say.
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  41796.  @BEhistoricStudios  I call it a war crime. You can call it whatever you want. First Amendment freedom for cult beliefs. See Tariq Ali's incomparable collection of essays, Masters of the Universe, for example.
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  41797.  @numenoreaneternity6682  No argument there. It's not the country my father knew.
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  41798.  @BEhistoricStudios  BTW, your picture is worth a thousand words.
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  41799. Well, it worked out for her.
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  41800.  @AJGreen-cn8kk  I know I'm being caustic, but this whole scenario is a nightmare. Chances are, they will win. This is the best the two major parties could do??
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  41801. @@user-jj5mp7ib1f 1:37
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  41802.  @zzzT.  At least Jess was funny.
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  41803.  @zzzT.  Amber isn't dumb at all. She knows exactly what she's doing as she flexes her muscle at the earliest opportunity.
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  41804. ​ @surijosuperbaby icing. He won damages, too.
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  41805. So . . . Trump really did badly, huh? I didn't watch. I tried a few times. I couldn't. I couldn't last 7 seconds.
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  41806. A post I wrote that showed the algebra expressly was subjected to sense or ship.
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  41807. ​ President Joseph Biden  Was baffled until I saw your thumbnail. 😂
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  41808. Wow. Watch Trump tell the truth. That only happens occasionally. When he does, it's a real bombshell.
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  41809. Do you know what an artist is? https://youtu.be/2uey1oHqIAE Doubt it more and more.
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  41810.  @TRUMPSEARR  Is that a Magic Word, too?
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  41811. Look up "bacha bāzī" and find out what happened when our service members tried to stop it. Hyper patriot Tucker's memory is short.
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  41812. They tolerate vaccine mandates, mass surveillance, colonies of homeless, human feces in the street, and evidence of genocide in a war they are arming.
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  41813. I thought that was what al Qaida did. Huh.
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  41814. There was no evidence of infidelity on her part whatsoever. She was never married to her would-be killer. You made up a story, then got mad at the person you made up in your made-up story. Why is this normal? It isn't, but it sure does happen a lot nowadays.
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  41815. In a world where most people will need to work into their 70s, no it's not. No trade school diploma can carry you through.
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  41816.  @bogdanpopescu1401  Look, I can't argue with that.
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  41817.  @veganconservative1109  💯💯💯 I understand completely. I wish I didn't.
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  41818. @susanmercurio1060  Exactly. Not clear whether cause and effect are involved, or if so, in which direction -- or both. We are complex. 😉
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  41819. What's going on in this society? We are addicted to hate.
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  41820. My how cryptic. Why the multiple posts over several weeks? No clue what that's supposed to mean, btw.
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  41821. The US Attorney looks physically sick to his stomach describing this.
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  41822.  @nox5555  This is a court case. I suggest you look up court documents. Unlike mass media, there is threat of a real penalty for LYING to the court. And it rarely makes you rich or anything. It can even get you thrown in jail. But seriously, get in the habit. We have open courts. We can find key documents online now. Don't trust, verify.
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  41823.  @yesicaaguirre1574  I was dealing with the actual things he said this year, which were not factual. I expect Trump to lose, but not because of this. In any case, it's objectively too close to call.
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  41824. Wait. I thought Alaska was in Russia.
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  41825. Meloni resurrected slogans last used during WWII. That's what people in Italy and those who speak Italian are focusing on. It's not proof that she is fascist but it certainly raises the question. In France, the collaborators used to say "work, family, fatherland." Kind-of ironic, since they were betraying France. Imagine knowing history rather than advertising. I mean, a person can't make a buck on history.
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  41826. $93 million, plus all the new jobs? You don't have a chance.
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  41827.  @55bigcheese  Bribery is rampant because it works.
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  41828. This channel actually does give voice to people with many different views. This one is lying. Not hard to tell.
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  41829. Hillary lost to the worst candidate in history, and she was the second worst. Sounds like a new tradition.
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  41830. When police came to my door and knocked so hard that I thought they were going to break it down, I called the police. A 911 call was therefore recorded. When I called, I had no idea the people at my door were police. It was obvious from my statements to 911 that I had no consciousness of guilt of any sort. 😅
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  41831. Before anyone votes for anyone, I want to know what role, if any, Biden or Harris had in Butler, PA. They have some questions to answer.
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  41832. ​@yourartist3885 I have a lot of criticisms of Dore, but this isn't one. He said that when Trump opposed the Deep State, or even worse, when he revealed the true face of the Deep States, then the Deep State went wild. This is true. Look who has endorsed Kamala Harris. Even John BOLTON. Wow, just wow.
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  41833.  @tinturtle9168  A lot of troll farms are financed by independent PACs. Hillary Clinton's were. LA Times did an expose before the 2016 selection. Neither DNC nor Clinton were connected to her biggest trolls.
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  41834.  @tinturtle9168  Links are very often automatically removed, on most YT channels. They are too hard to monitor for TOS compliance, or even possible copyright issues. Oh well. :/
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  41835. This is how it actually goes: The hyperrich get government contracts and tax breaks, because they are "job creators." They use their earnings to lobby for more preferential treatment from government, including the ability to offshore jobs. Then instead of paying taxes, they buy T bonds. Then, tax revenues go straight to them to pay the interest on those T bonds. Neat, huh? 🤗
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  41836. Not what he's arguing for.
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  41837.  @justine8387  I did mean "most." Not all.
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  41838.  @justine8387  Firsthand experience.
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  41839. Biden could change this with the stroke of a pen? HE SAID HE'D VETO M4A. That's one of the arguments they used against this movement.
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  41840. ​@angelxxsin Speaking of which . . . Where is Samantha Power to protest ethnic cleansing?
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  41841. What is this new hagiography about? This was the rot people used to spout regarding Bill Gates.
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  41842. When my late father was in cognitive decline, he was MUCH better than Joe. He was trilingual to the end. We had a deep philosophical discussion three weeks before he died. This is beyond anything. And my father was 90.
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  41843. That was enough money to send John to the very best rehab center.
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  41844. Good grief, it's a round number. Do you grasp what that signifies?
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  41845. Given that the US is arming one side in this war, and the ICJ has ruled that that side is engaged in a plausible genocide, then yes, there is a logic to protesting in the US. Ask yourself why you don't see that.
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  41846. Was Joe involved with that escapade? I am surprised.
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  41847.  @gunguru7020  All right, but Hunter is an adult. And deeply disordered. I would not expect Biden to kick him out, even over something as immoral and sordid as refusing to pay the child support he owes. I WOULD expect him to prevent Hunter from using the Biden name to enrich himself, in any manner, but especially not by sitting on an energy board in a foreign country with ties to Russia. You do raise an interesting question, though -- does Biden support Hunter financially, too? Does he give him money, in addition to offering a room, family dinner, and medical care? I'd offer a room in my home, meals, and medical care to nearly any child, if I could. Giving a person like Hunter cash is practically inviting him to overdose.
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  41848.  @gunguru7020  I agree with that. It is HIS grandchild. (I wonder whether Hunter told Daddy this was extortion or something? Who knows, with that one.)
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  41849. Jimmy, they want to ban abortion after anywhere from 8 to 14 weeks, for any reason except an immediate danger to the pregnant woman's life, depending on which politician you ask. They've made that clear enough!
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  41850. Before Reagan, a college student could earn a full year of in-state tuition with a minimum-wage summer job. THAT was freedom. But massive deficits brought us so much "freedom" that today, no one can count the number of sanctions we are enforcing against other countries, or wars we are financing.
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  41851. False. American Department of Defense dollars funded them. The Soviet Union fell in 1991, over 30 years ago. The US Embassy website still has some information, though the links are no longer active.
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  41852. Vive la difference!
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  41853. The excitement comes from the latest device from $ilicon Valley.
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  41854. None of those are illegal when advocated as a theoretical matter. Incitement has a specific meaning, and must be directed at a particular person or group and involve some form of imminent physical danger to that person or group. Glenn Greenwald covered this, in his discussion of Brandenburg v. Ohio.
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  41855.  @integrallens6045  If there is no armed group you are addressing or nearby group you are targetting, then there is no danger of imminent violence. It's not controversial, it's really First Amendment protected.
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  41856. Not only that, but "hate speech" is not illegal as such. It can be sanctioned only in certain very narrow contexts, and only in civil suits, not criminal: Title VII hostile environment claims, intentional infliction of emotional distress, defamation, and the like. Colleges are supposed to use Title VII to inform their own regulations. Nadine Strossen wrote about this extensively. If you are subjected to hate speech, the position of the government is that you should walk away. If you can't, then you might be able to sue for damages, depending on all the facts and circumstances. If it rises to the level of a true threat against you, then you can call the police.
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  41857.  @integrallens6045  I have an idea. Read Brandenburg v. Ohio. It's online. Read the whole case. See what it says. Then when you're done, read R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul. Then see what you think.
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  41858.  @integrallens6045  In any case, I anticipated your objection, and I didn't say the group perpetrating violence had to be nearby. Obviously, they can plan in one location and travel to another --- although that would be prosecuted as a conspiracy, most likely. No Internet needed for that, conspiracies have been around for millenia. Yet even in such a case, it is not instigation of an imminent attack, so the analysis is different. It is not the speech itself that is inherently unprotected and criminal, but the fact that the speech is an essential part of another crime (criminal conspiracy) that matters. In any event, that's not what "or" means in what I wrote. Go read the cases. That's where the law is.
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  41859.  @integrallens6045  It's really sad for me to see, that after all of this cancel culture garbage, censorship of valid questions and information sharing during the pandemic, and all the rest that we've been through during the last decade and since 9/11, there is no appreciation for what the First Amendment is. People have no idea, and no taste for it. Then there's nothing special about America. That was the last thing left.
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  41860.  @integrallens6045   You're welcome, it's fine. I really am chagrined that people are this quick to give up rights. I'm starting to wonder how we ever got them in the first place. RAV is a case where a St. Paul ordinance banning cross burning, swastikas and similar symbols was struck down as unconstitutional. A liberal decision? No, a Scalia opinion, with concurrences.
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  41861.  @jaredgreathouse3672  No, no one forced Russia to invade and it was wrong to do it. Certain Ukrainians, under US sponsorship, have been waging war within their borders against the ethnic Russian minority in Ukraine since before the 2014 US-sponsored coup, and were massing troops to attack the Donbass again in 2022, as soon as the spring came. The Russians fell into a trap laid by the US in concert with a neo-Nazi minority in the Ukrainian military, which is small, has a ridiculous amount of power for its size, and which the vast majority of Ukrainians have wanted to rid themselves of for a long time. This explains but in no way excuses the Russians. They did not have to react in this way. It was wrong, and it was stupid as well. The US set the trap, as it had done so many times before, and the Russians rushed right in. Notice it is also not the first time the US has acted in concert with fascists. Read up on the ratline. Or consider their hopes that Hitler would destroy the USSR, and their view of Hitler as useful. Read up on all the praise Hitler got very, very early on from major Western leaders, including Churchill. This is a long-standing theme in the history of relations between these countries. (As an aside, none other than D. H. Lawrence said that the US and Russia are the birthplaces of the two great, original literatures of our time. No coincidence about that, either -- at least that's how it seems to me.)
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  41862.  @bradbell4022  It's not evident that "Ukraine can only lose" in the geopolitical sense of the term. Ukraine already lost, objectively speaking, when you look at the damage done. But Russia has not won, and probably cannot.
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  41863.  @jaredgreathouse3672  Really? I thought it was what NATO argued in Kosovo. I thought it was all about self-determination and stuff, like in the post-colonial period. But it's not? It's really a lie? Pure ploy? Something only Nazis invoke -- sincerely, and not cynically? This was the best you could do. Got it. You know, there are Nazis in America who hide behind the First Amendment. Be careful arguing for freedom of speech.
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  41864. Well, his brain is safe, too.
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  41865. OF COURSE $2000 a month emergency UBI -- now that we have a better idea of how much longer this pandemic will last, AND we have actual devastation all over the country. We know people are not surviving. We know $2000 is necessary, obviously. Now. No excuses.
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  41866. Well, not only that -- there are people into BDSM. They say things we wouldn't say or want to hear. (To be clear, I avoid all such people. I don't worry about whether that makes me "intolerant" or "judgmental.")
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  41867.  @UnknownUser-by4le  Seriously, people don't know about this? I thought all the kids were warned about choking games. It's the talk you need to have now. (Or do we have to play naive for this segment?)
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  41868.  @MoCa5545  Do you know any seniors?
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  41869.  @steve1279  Well, we are the only developed country where people are "responsible for themselves" -- and the one with the MOST obesity, opioid addiction, teen pregnancy, cocaine abuse, and . . . COVID. Some of the worst infant mortality, maternal mortality, and shortest lifespans found in developed, "Western" countries. Working out just as "market logic" predicted! /s If you think "healthy eating" can prevent disease before age 65, wow are you in for a surprise. You don't know any young people with cancer? And you don't know how petrified they are to lose everything? You also don't know most addicts find a way to obtain Medicaid? And that people looking to start a business fear the health care costs, not the other risks?
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  41870.  @steve1279  You think Justin Jackson's mother caused her own cancer somehow? Are your mother's sons world-class athletes, bro?
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  41871.  @MoCa5545  Yeah, that's what Steve Jobs tried, for the rare, curable cancer he had. Then he got a liver transplant, which should never have gone to an advanced cancer patient.
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  41872.  @MoCa5545  You think Jobs didn't? Oh brother . . . nevermind.
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  41873.  @steve1279  It's a great idea to teach kids to eat properly. Have you noticed what good, wholesome food costs now? I spend the money, and never go to restaurants. Try avoiding all GMOs. There is no mandatory labeling. In any event, the POINT is, in countries with universal health care, people take MORE personal responsibility, not less. Why? Well, whatever the reasons may be, the fact of having health care for everyone does not cause them to have poor health habits. They don't say, "well, I don't have to pay for it!" Of course not. The incentive is intrinsic.
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  41874.  @steve1279  Advertising for McFood will win out every time.
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  41875. @ImGoingSupersonic  You said "paranoid." Not worried, not excessively cautious -- paranoid. That was your word. Therefore, you are biased.
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  41876. Something is way wrong. Family has 💰💰💰
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  41877. Why? Are you married to yours? ​ @barrymalkin4404 
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  41878. Glenn Greenwald just posted a short excerpt of Victoria Nuland testifying on the Ukrainian biolabs -- which, oddly enough, were funded through the US DOD, not the NIH. TeleSUR (Spanish) has just reported that China demands the US provide full information on all biological laboratories it funds throughout the world. The Indian press and even AFP have been raising questions about the DOD funding of biolabs, without pretending we know the true answers. George Galloway was denounced over the weekend for reporting on this. I remember how the US bombed Serbian cities that had anti-Milosevic governments in place with depleted uranium anyway. It happened in easily a dozen places. The US is always looking for ways to promote unconventional weapons. "To keep us safe."
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  41879.  @william_marshal  NATO bombed at least a dozen cities with anti-Milosevic governments in place with depleted uranium anyway. NATO bombed Montenegro, which had an anti-Milosevic government and was receiving refugees. These facts were reported in the MSM, including the New York Times. This was a WAR CRIME, poisoning people not yet born.
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  41880.  @dkoz8321  Milosevic was actually acquitted of such charges after his death.
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  41881.  @william_marshal  Mm, really? You need to hit the pause button. There is more here than meets the eye. See my breaking news update in this thread. It's not pretty.
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  41882.  @william_marshal  False. Montenegro did NOT have a pro-Milosevic government, its government was opposed to Milosevic. It's free THANKS TO NATO?? Wow, I'll be sure to let my family know about that. Svinja!
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  41883.  @william_marshal  BLOCKED
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  41884.  Kevin Young  So were my parents. So, you had the presence of mind to change your name, did you? In the West, branding is vital.
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  41885.  Kevin Young  Blocked
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  41886.  @Wink_Dinkerson  😂👏👏👏
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  41887.  @Kehvan  1. Look up non sequitur. It has a broader definition than you think. 2. Your response to wry, ironic humor is extremely poor.
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  41888. Ha. Women hate each other.
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  41889. Oh really? Hanson is an inveterate warmonger, no less than Samantha Power. Perhaps even more, if that's possible. BTW, Elizabeth Warren never got a Harvard appointment based on her heritage. She was very good in her area of law, but much more important, MARRIED a Harvard law professor. So, she made it on terms these two could (perhaps grudgingly) accept. (Look up "spousal hire.")
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  41890. No kidding. This guy sounds ignorant of basic facts of social psychology research. For example, you will never get at the truth of whether a person is happy; what you will find out is whether their social group valorizes the assertion that they are happy, or considers claiming to be discontented a signal of greater depth, intelligence, higher ethical standards, and so forth. It also depends on whether a group considers candor imperative -- you owe it to everyone to answer a survey truthfully -- or whether it's fine to build up your life a little. It also matters whether it is considered immoral, or even sinful, not to express happiness, which is a sign of gratitude toward God. So . . . A real researcher has to use indirect methods to find out who is truly happy. The people on Fox don't look happy to me. They are railing against someone at least as much as The View and other awful programs. I wouldn't be happy making a living like they do, though I could appreciate the paycheck for a few years. I could retire and be so happy!
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  41891.  @sssarzzz  I suggest you keep up on the latest news. The US justified its war in Iraq on the basis of WMDs. We still don't know how many civilians were killed. Well, Victoria Nuland just testified on the Ukrainian biolabs -- which, oddly enough, were funded through the US Department of Defense, not the NIH, as one might expect. See Glenn Greenwald's new posted videos. Now, TeleSUR (Spanish ed) reports China has demanded that the US provide full information and an accounting of all the biological laboratories it funds throughout the world. The Indian press and even Agence France Press have been raising questions about the DOD funding of biolabs in Ukraine, without pretending we have real answers, and George Galloway was denounced over the weekend for reporting on this. Wish that he were wrong! But if you dismissed ample evidence of neo-Nazis being given free rein to kill 14,000 in the Donbass region since 2014, you may close your eyes to this as well. It will be harder, however. It's getting harder all the time.
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  41892. OF COURSE.
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  41893. How could Biden even be president, in light of HUNTER'S corrupt "job" bleeding money out of Ukraine? He is not cognitively competent, on top of it. Trump is their secret pleasure --- he demolished every objective standard or qualification for the office. Now the gates are open for them.
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  41894. Who told you this? Hunter?
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  41895.  @RJL612  No one said they were full time.
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  41896.  @RJL612  No one said one person.
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  41897.  @RJL612  Two full time (one per person). Then, the husband also has TWO part-time jobs in addition to his one full-time job. You could just have read slowly?
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  41898.  @RJL612  Time waster, blocked
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  41899. ​ @archduke0000 LOL, perfect.
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  41900. It's a function: f(x) = (3x + 1), for all odd positive integers. That's one part of the hypothesis, which allows you to generate these strings.
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  41901. She didn't even vote for his daddy.
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  41902. Of COURSE. The wealthy get different treatments, like tailored monoclonal antibodies. They saved Trump, they saved Chris Christie. Both are fine. FOLLOW THE 💰💰💰💰
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  41903. Please tell us where you read this. Links are usually shadowed.
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  41904. Look up vaccine-derived polio. The Guardian.
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  41905. ​@ButterflyG673 No it isn't. Just like it isn't assault, it isn't murder, it isn't fraud. You may consider it morally wrong. That doesn't make it p______lia.
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  41906. Except that by that logic, why are Jews entitled to return to Israel?
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  41907.  @Roman_4x5  Exactly, a classic fog of war. That is evident to anyone at this point.
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  41908. The arming of Ukraine to continue a proxy war with the Russian Federation does not put lives at risk. Tweets put lives at risk.
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  41909. Kiddo, you sound hoarse.
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  41910. Do you REALLY not understand? People of color within the Democrat counties are also less likely to be vaccinated. Even PhDs have a group of sceptics. It's correlated with alienation.
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  41911. CNN did a piece where they said the new law must be fine because Marjorie Taylor Greene opposes it. And their audience laps it right up. The mentality of the kids in my senior year in high school was more mature.
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  41912.  @tessa63627  Maybe my post was shadowed?
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  41913. TeleSUR and CGNT have not been removed from YouTube. For obvious reasons.
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  41914. Do you feel the same about her daughters? Especially given that girls tend to stand by dad.
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  41915. Defensive? Tempted to commit crimes and need to despise anyone you see as an enabler?
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  41916. ​ @earthrooster1969 He was the PLAINTIFF.
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  41917. ​ @PatyBN  Most defendants never testify. The burden of proof is on the prosecutor.
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  41918. ​ @Team33Team33 Are you mad that woman defense attorney made sense?
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  41919. ​@jameshunt1444 Actually, this show was manipulative. The case has glaring problems, including the fact that the second perp has never been found and the murderer denies Monica was involved. A lot of what 48 Hours said was speculative.
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  41920. ​ @djlildee  You didn't notice the case against her containing a lot of twists and turns? And the second man with the murderer was never caught? Hmm.
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  41921. ​@MrBobbo18 Watch The Confessions, about four US servicemen, in the Navy to be exact, in Norfolk, Virginia, who were wrongly convicted. Frontline documentary. Everyone should watch that. Then you'll understand.
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  41922. @user-oe1mb9hu9i  You've got this wrong. I'm not taking sides. What's the rush? Why are you so up in arms? This is television, not court.
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  41923. @user-oe1mb9hu9i  Yes. I certainly support innocent until proven guilty. And the fact is, that principle is practically dead. You are too trusting, not me. I can't tell you how many cases I've seen that appeared more solid than this one, and they turned out to be false convictions. Start by watching The Confessions. If that could be done to our service members, stationed in Virginia no less, then it could be done to anyone.
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  41924.  @Team33Team33  For someone who thinks a television show tests evidence, not that it presents what is most likely to gain attention and approval, exactly as its advertisers want it to do, that's rich. 🤣
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  41925. No one carries mace or something similar?
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  41926. "Where is Tommy Atkins?"
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  41927. ​@eilyoussef9953 Tell me you know nothing without telling me you know nothing. I was squeezed out of jobs by far less qualified people due to being naive and assuming the best about them. P. S. I'm a lawyer. (You're not, I'm guessing?)
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  41928. ​@eilyoussef9953 I stated a fact. Actually, I stated two facts. (My first sentence was an opinion, and hyperbole, at that.) You may chose not to believe me. That is your prerogative.
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  41929. ​ @eilyoussef9953 I'm pointing out that your pollyanna attitude could cause a good hearted, naive person to let their guard down and get hurt in some way that matters. Cut it out.
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  41930. Pretty bad, but amusing.
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  41931. Rah rah
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  41932. If you want to know what's going on, watch Amy Goodman.
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  41933. Check with your doctor on that dose, though you are going into winter so it may be fine. In the summer in the US, it's considered too much as a routine daily dose.
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  41934. No, we don't. I think that's the point.
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  41935. The violent fringe that claims it is antifa isn't harming BLM? I could swear they were.
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  41936. But you do have 71 year old historians.
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  41937. 6:24 YES -- thirty golden seconds . . . Katie then points out FDR always said this, for good reason.
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  41938.  @sarahg2653  You think there was time and money to go to court to get a declaratory judgment? Traveling was cheaper. When you feel like invoking the heavy hand of the state, just be careful what you wish for. It could backfire on you.
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  41939.  @sarahg2653  BTW, I say the same about Biden's disgraceful speech the other night. This society is becoming dystopian faster than I can keep up, and I'm pretty tough. Nor am I a libertarian; I think they're childish. But it is no accident that we literally have the most incarcerated people in the world, in actual numbers and as a percent of the population. Coercion is our reflex.
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  41940.  @sarahg2653  Well, then even Emily, who is pro-life, lied about it on this channel. No, there was no lie. The case was as described. Was some other course possible? No one can claim that; after all, a person can go to court and get a declaratory judgment and pay a lot of money. Maybe they can even get a payday loan, or pawn something. I explained why they did what they did. It's not supposed to be like running a gauntlet. You must have also heard that some states are contemplating laws with literally no exceptions. Perhaps in extremis a doctor can do what he must to save the woman's life, but he has to try to save the embryo/fetus as well. Well, if we agree that the Dems are bad, then ask yourself why they have some new life in their campaign. It's all lies? No it's not.
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  41941.  @sarahg2653  Basically, it's not the doctor I'm worried about. It is these patients, who are relatively rare -- relatively -- and that makes their suffering all the greater. Who gets pregnant at 10, or 12, or 13? Have you ever met anyone? Who has a hopelessly deformed fetus, so severe that they cannot give birth to it normally, and the doctors may even be traumatized by the experience of delivering it? Very, very rare. Imagine what it's like to have to leave your home and your state to find care, and to wonder how you will pay. We are risking traumatizing people to the point where they won't be able to work, or succeed in school, or to take care of existing children, or function normally in the aftermath. I can't imagine it. Taking care of these people does not require no restrictions. There were restrictions under Roe.
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  41942. Keep listening.
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  41943. Police have a right to lie to suspects. People have no right to lie to police. All of these kids had a right to remain silent. There was no gunpowder residue test, no autopsies, no murder weapon -- the point of getting him to confess was to be certain they could hold him. It doesn't help him at all. After an offender gets an attorney and talks to him, and he is charged and a prosecutor is assigned to the case, only then does making a full confession makes sense. Police can never do anything for you, nor would they.
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  41944.  @randomnobody9229  Not so much.
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  41945. They will have to get their swastika tattoos removed first.
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  41946. Protection from reinfection sure looks like the protective item is an immunotherapy agent, rather than the other thing they sometimes say it is.
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  41947. Well, if Facebook is now Meta (Meta??!), why not?
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  41948. Cette fois uniquement, je me permets de vous prier de donner cette emission en integralite gratuitement.
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  41949. Crazy like a fox. 💰
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  41950. You do for the 65+ crowd. Maybe paying for the 12-to-16 year olds might be more COST EFFECTIVE? Fun fact: countries like France with more smokers (which is a very poor choice all right) have longer life expectancies, lower maternal and infant mortality, less obesity, etc., than the US. Maybe there's something to this universal health care thingy.
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  41951. State level was Hillary's idea. Um, states don't issue currency. Nor do they have comparable wealth.
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  41952. This is one of the worst channels for that. They censor real information, allow trash talk to remain.
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  41953. I'm so glad they could leave.
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  41954. The Illustrated Man
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  41955. Yeah, I'm shocked that she came to this comedy show. /s
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  41956. Survival is about 97-98%, except for except for . . . Over 70, preexisting conditions, worse disease in men than women, and 20% prolonged disease, including anything from blood clots and serious organ problems to a foggy mental state and clinical depression that get better in 6 to 12 MONTHS. Are the warnings nevertheless excessive? I think they are. But let's not minimize COVID.
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  41957.  @KB-sv7fm  Certainly true, they don't. Nor do they know everything about the vaccines. And boosters may present a design problem: remember how people got sick from the second dose but not the first?
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  41958.  @KB-sv7fm  I don't eat processed food, or additives, preservatives, coloring, or added sweeteners of any type. Or animals. I cook what I eat.
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  41959.  @KB-sv7fm  Well I am not surprised I was censored quickly. But it did stay up a bit, longer than I expected. I hope you saw it. Because it is true. Someone needs to say it.
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  41960.  @KB-sv7fm  Why shouldn't you be censored? You implied I'm an anti-vaxxer, when I got two vaccines just last year. Name calling is just fine, innuendo even better, and attributing ignorance best of all.
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  41961.  @KB-sv7fm  I get my news from British and French sources, peer-reviewed journals, and the websites of major medical schools. Not from insufferable louts with their pretence of superiority. Or from American media. No one with options should trust that. Reports on the pandemic include stock prices of the various vaccine makers, and no one blushes.
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  41962.  @KB-sv7fm  I see you have to persist in insults. I see you have no self-control whatsoever.
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  41963.  @KB-sv7fm  Did you see my censored post? Oh I hope so.
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  41964. ​ @JimmyCerra  😂😂😂
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  41965.  @iTXS  What do you imagine has been "proven?"
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  41966. @iTXS  Moreover, when it comes to social science of this nature, I put more store in history, biography, literature, and philosophy than I do in contemporary American "empirical" studies. Chomsky has been quoted as saying "social science" is an oxymoron. "Social studies" is more accurate.
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  41967. Outstanding, tough questions right out of the gate. And Glenn relishes them! Wonderful!
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  41968.  @hollywoodexec1023  To say I hate antisemitism does not begin to describe what I think/feel about antisemitism. But anyway, it's a modest start. Antisemitism is deeply disordered.
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  41969.  @rickducharme7429  What does any of that have to do with Krugman? Can you possibly know his view of, say, Likud, unless you ask him? Trick question, because the only possible answer is NO. Same for Katie Halper, or Glenn Greenwald, or Noam Chomsky . . . same for anyone. I don't think I know your views unless you tell me. Is there some magical way I could?
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  41970.  @truthdweller3454  What?? Why are you falsely accusing me of having "edited out GREENWALD?" What's your next move? To pretend I added him in only after you made your false accusation? And only then wrote the present post? Interesting moniker you picked. Thanks for the lesson in Modern Internet Theory.
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  41971. Why do so many people think Trump can run in four years, or even be alive in four years? He has taken massive proportions in people's minds. I'm more afraid of someone politically worse, more manipulative, with an impressive presentation.
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  41972. Group hug.
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  41973. This one really hurt. I will never accept it, never. Believing it is so close to impossible. I'm so, so sorry for all of the families and friends.
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  41974. Mad? Please. What psychosis first makes its appearance at age 69-70? We do know what Putin is thinking.. Putin is holding back because he has no choice. See the Andrew Cockburn interview on Democracy Now! The West has the ideological hegemony to create "unworthy" victims. Russia does not have that. No one knows how many civilians the US killed across the Middle East and in Africa. Remember "Shock and Awe" (TM)? Ukrainian civilians matter to Russians, and the West can make them matter. This has been a painful reminder to the non-Western peoples who saw their loved ones dying and starving.
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  41975.  @christopherstephens2699  Collective products exist. Consider language.
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  41976. @christopherstephens2699  Whoa, you are mixing many distinct things here. First of all, what is, and how sentient beings, including rational, sentient beings, VALUE what is, are two different things. See Hume on the inability to deduce what should be from what is, and see Kant for a response.
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  41977.  @papazjose1274  🤣🤣🤣
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  41978. So well said. A "man" who would kill a child would kill the mother, too. If nothing else can wake people up, this should. This can't be news to anyone anymore.
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  41979. The idea is to test the drones. Russians and Ukranians are the crash-test dummies.
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  41980. He says what his friends say, because not to "trigger" them.
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  41981.  @rebeccacarlson9166  What's the big deal to mention this? It's not a cut. Most people probably don't know that the premise that hunter-gatherer societies were very poor and had no leisure has been seriously questioned. I appreciate facts, especially now.
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  41982. London in the '60s with Harold Wilson as PM? Paris in the '80s with Mitterrand as President? Life was worth living. And Vasili Arkhipov saved us all, so we could have that.
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  41983. The release form you sign to get vaccinated states that you may refuse vaccination after reading it, and there will be NO CHANGE in your standard of care. If you're vaccinated, you must have read that form, right?
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  41984. If you wondered how anyone could bring themselves to foment a revolution, well . . .
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  41985. Excellent question.
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  41986.  @FinneySP  Nicely stated.
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  41987. Prior restraints are vastly worse than prosecuting someone for a genuine, proven conspiracy, threat, etc. You have to prove that what was stated was illegal.
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  41988. @BigPharmaWhistleblower  No argument from me. Trump once said only guilty people invoke 5th Amendment rights. :/
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  41989. I was exactly like that, and now have too many books and too much stationary. I couldn't understand hoarding, either. Seeing stuffed animals in people's bedrooms after 6th grade used to puzzle me. Now, I wouldn't mind a few mementos.
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  41990. Those "factors" are driving us apart? No. You and your cohort are driving us apart. There is nothing you won't do for more money.
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  41991.  @vincevincent6984  Oh forgive me, that's right, actual facts make you very, very angry. So go write a novel. Do something creative with your aggression and your fantasy life. You have to buy off friends? You brought it up for some reason. Funny you think someone else is arrogant.
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  41992.  @Stacy-  I'm an attorney. It's not blah blah. I see the Constitution ravaged daily. I don't know why I'm still effing surprised. I can immigrate to a higher quality of life (Mediterranean country, fabulous food, $650 rents . . . ). Can you? I deserve it.
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  41993.  @Stacy-  Suppose his car did meet the specifications perfectly? His failure to approach police is still not an admission of anything. He might not even have heard about their press release. In any case, even if he had, it is generally not wise to approach police if there is anything about you that could lead them to consider you a suspect in a crime. That's just a fact. The right not to approach police exists to protect innocent people. You respond to a subpoena issued by a judge or magistrate, not to police sweeps. Among other things, police have a right to lie to you, but your sole right is to remain silent. It is illegal to lie to law enforcement.
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  41994.  @Stacy-  No, I'm not being difficult. YOU said "blah blah blah" with respect to the presumption of innocence. You surprised me when you said that. I did not expect it. Do you have zero self-awareness? That seems to be how people attempt to assert superiority now. Everyone heard about the crime. The bulletin about the car came close to the holidays. Apparently he was stopped by police in Indiana and allowed to proceed, despite having The Car -- perhaps deliberately, but that's doubtful considering how dangerous the murderer of these four people is. So, even law enforcement didn't consider his car suspicious, even to check in with Idaho authorities or with the FBI. You just don't like smart people. Here's a clue: you know where smart comes from? A lot of discipline and very hard work. No wonder you all don't like it! It's your Constitution to trash, and your standards to trash. You should think about that, because it won't be affecting me. I'm just "keeping it real." Someone needs to tell you.
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  41995.  @Stacy-  Wait a minute here. WHERE did you see any comment by me that even hinted at "your finances?" Nobody cares about that. What made you think I alluded to it? That's twice now. I don't think a person with a history of serious drug addiction and serious obesity is in "good shape," objectively speaking, and you read it as meaning I thought he was too weak to kill the victims(!) Whoa. Yikes. Petite women with a knife have managed to kill much larger people. Active drug addicts with a knife, same thing. Whatever happened to rationality?
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  41996.  @Stacy-  Anyway, another one to block.
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  41997.  @Stacy-  Oh I get it. I wasn't one-upping you concerning money. 😅 I was telling you not to trash the one thing that is truly unique to America -- the Bill of Rights. You may miss it some day.
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  41998.  @madirae01  Someone with a Vampire thumbnail with blood coming out from the side of his mouth posts, "He’s absolutely the killer he fits the profile perfectly. He’s exactly what I expected. . . . " and people take him seriously, and he's allowed to "discipline" the entire thread. OF COURSE there is no evidence that the family expected this. That they did or did not "know" is sheer speculation, and the entire OP is the product of one person's imagination, spun in an effort to regain a sense of control in a chaotic world. I was always leery of juries, but at this point I wonder if any jury can function in America. Could someone like this dominate the others? Sure. Sure they could. This society has bigger problems that even this horrific murder would lead a person to believe.
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  41999. Very simple: drugs that have a long history of safe use are available for off-label use, and it is common practice to use them, based on clinical experience and judgment. There was in-vitro evidence of efficacy, and, apparently, in the parts of the world where it was used, the epidemiological data looks promising. You may not find that to be a strong case, but a doctor can decide that the evidence is sufficient to prescribe it.
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  42000.  @tinoyb9294  I don't agree.
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  42001. The fact that a nanoparticle has 1/100 to 1/1000 the diameter of a red blood cell, and that mRNA induces the machinery of your own cells to produce the antigen which provokes an immune response might also have something to do with it. Generally speaking, new is not better. It may be, it may not.
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  42002. @tinoyb9294  Notice that I gave reasons and you answered with slogans. 1984 + 39 and counting . . .
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  42003. So now Stephen Colbert talks like David Axelrod? ("Passion . . . ")
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  42004. COVID lies are funny. 18:12
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  42005. Check which countries got Spunik V for free. That may have a bearing on the UN vote.
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  42006. Most Russians aren't white. Ask Hitlerites.
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  42007. Sheer nonsense. You can't contort this into a version of the Western narrative. It is a different people.
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  42008.  @joebloggs430  And you can find even less obscure evidence of Asiatic peoples invading the entire length of modern-day Russia, over many generations, and eventually intermarrying with the Slavic tribes that were there. Russia contains the only indigenous Buddhist population in Europe. The marriage of Lenin's parents would have been illegal in several states because it was "interracial." These were lands that passed back and forth, unlike the story of Western imperial conquest. Russians are NOT a Western people, and are not perceived as such by the other BRICS, or by Asians, Africans, and Latin Americans more generally. The Iberian conquest of Latin America differed from the British conquest of North America as well, by the way. The results are obvious.
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  42009.  @joebloggs430  k ur rite
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  42010. Because she asked a series of perfectly reasonable questions? Do you really not know how a case is made for believing x, y, or z? Or do you just Believe?
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  42011. Harris is constantly saying what he desperately needs to hear. Poor guy
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  42012. Of course Trump lost. He said the country is going downhill and that the rest of the world is laughing at us. You can't say that. And since when does inauthenticity matter? It's a good thing, for winning votes.
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  42013. Except let's not forget we have analogs of slavery all around us -- from "public-private partnerships" in the prison system, to debt peonage for essentials such as medical care and education.
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  42014.  @ufutz  Thanks for clarifying! I really appreciate it, serious.
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  42015.  @myraligma6137  He explained what he meant.
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  42016. What I find interesting is that this time, it was Naomi Wolf who demanded accountability and consequences for bad acts, and somehow she is getting dismissed. When Dr. Peterson points out how important accountability is, and brushes aside excuses, everyone jumps to their feet and praises him. Why is that? If you didn't hear that, listen again and start from the top.
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  42017. ​@davemathews7890 😂😂😂
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  42018. ​ @cmk921 ChatGPT does not pass the Turing Test.
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  42019. ​@trevormccarthy9019 The 1918 influenza pandemic was global, and killed at least ten times as many, relative to the global population.
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  42020. so true
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  42021.  @nondescriptbeing5944  Now that you know, you'll be fine I bet!! 😊
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  42022.  @lynnealuebben-creates  No, "intellect" does NOT "decrease[] in human beings after the age of 6."
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  42023. @semilog643  Except that there exist statistical techniques designed to determine to a high degree of certainty how much each variable contributed to a given endpoint/outcome. Multivariate analysis is hard, expensive, and takes a long time. Best not to hold one's breath. . . . I would be surprised if COVID itself wasn't a contributing factor, as well as the prolonged stress and assault on people's liberties. COVID is a serious disease. I would not be surprised if repeated vaccination (plus repeated contraction?) were overall significantly riskier than taking the original two-dose vaccine and simply taking good care when contracting the illness, and then just getting on with life. I would not be surprised if those who were infected in 2020 should not have touched the vaccines at all, and same for most people under 50, not to mention under 30. I would not be surprised if vitamin D status, outdoor exercise, and high vegetable intake were the most important determinants in how you fared over the past 3 years. I would not be surprised if having a really good job and owning a dog made you much less likely to die. Good luck with your soundbites. People are wising up.
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  42024. No, her comparison with the threats about Matt Taibbi were perfect.
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  42025. @Hellowakeup  You know this? How? We decide so cavalierly, no close look needed? Justice by twitter?
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  42026. So . . . having a wrought iron door or gate, and a camera, are not options? Subscribing to an alarm monitoring company? Not answering the door to anyone who does not call or text you first? Age CANNOT be an excuse. If he is too old to handle a gun, WHY DOES HE HAVE ONE?
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  42027. @Spirit Unbound LOL that comment was well-deserved!
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  42028. My smallpox vaccination never took. I was vaccinated about four times, at least -- never took.
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  42029. He is calling for a comprehensive review. 💯 Remember where the Precautionary Principle places the burden of proof: on the proponent of a drug or treatment. You presume it may not be safe or effective and marshall evidence that it is.
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  42030. ​ @AFSOC2 I know what you're saying. You're lying.
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  42031. ​ @russianbot88 No one so much as alluded to race. No one in this segment mentioned race at all.
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  42032. ​ @russianbot88 Are Palestinians a "race?"
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  42033. Wait, when you meet someone, you FIRST talk about COVID? You ask about vaccines or tests? You think that isn't boorish? I thought Carlson had a point. This has nothing to do with downplaying it. Carlson is horrid FOR OTHER REASONS. The oldest person I talk to regularly is 80 years old, takes a walk every day, and refuses to talk about any health matters. She's African-American, by the way.
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  42034. Apparently, mentioning that Iran is joining the BRICS and that one of the BRICS holds our T bonds is Verboten.
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  42035.  @jamiepaulzine4648  Me too.
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  42036.  @peterbulloch4328  Assange wasn't indicted by Obama DOJ. He was indicted by Trump DOJ. The idea to assassinate him was floated during Trump. Sorry you can't handle the truth and need to repeat slogans. When is the last time someone qualified ran for President? 1950s?
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  42037.  @Jasondirt  Exactly.
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  42038.  @peterbulloch4328  I hated Obama. I never voted for a ticket with warmonger Biden on it.
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  42039.  @peterbulloch4328 Yeah, well, my family lives in one of those places the US bombed with depleted uranium. Say. I have an idea. Why don't you look up all the wars you've been in since 1945? How many places have you bombed, droned, or shelled? How many people targetted for assassination? How much land poisoned? It could be a hobby for you, researching the list. Like stamp collecting, only harder.
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  42040.  @peterbulloch4328  Do you know who Ash Sarkar is? Check out her appearance with Piers Morgan, it went viral. You got the hero line from there, I'm thinking, perhaps unwittingly. She slammed him good.
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  42041.  @peterbulloch4328  Now work on your list of counties bombed since 1945. Oh, I know! Listed by president. That would be cool. BTW, speaking of unspeakable bombings, did you know that today, Vietnam has a substantially larger population than Germany? Remarkable fact. What a recovery, especially from all the highly toxic herbicides and the destruction of levees.
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  42042.  @peterbulloch4328  I can find gaping holes in just about every sentence that comes out of Candace Owens' mouth. She panders to you. I nevertheless like the idea of money flowing generally from you to her. By all means, be her fan, make her rich. I have no problem with that at all.
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  42043.  @peterbulloch4328  Well, speaking three languages and having advanced degrees from other countries as well as this one really makes it pathetically easy. I could say the same about any DNC icon of course. American political commentators don't have arguments, they have memes. Ash Sarkar is genuinely funny. And that Morgan jerk who tried to race bait her got what he deserved. Sounds like you missed the point of the reference. Say. You're not going to find out what countries the US bombed, by administration, are you? Allergic to work, are we? (Don't you think you should know about the bombs dropped in your name? Nah, dumb question. Never mind.)
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  42044.  @peterbulloch4328 Oh, I didn't see the racist post about the Vietnamese. Aren't you ashamed? (Or is that a really stupid question? And you looked up megatons and toxins dropped by administration, or counted countries?) Blocked.
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  42045. He has been attacked while on stage.
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  42046.  @mpjstuff  Some kind of biker dude, actually. You poor thing if you get your "information" here. They can't get views without mentioning Jimmy, and now they've taken to going after Lara Logan, who was nearly killed doing real journalism from a hot zone. I guess Trump proved there IS no bottom. I was hoping we had reached it, but no such luck. Yes, someone who cares about the quality of American entertainment went after a standup comic on stage. Do you hear yourself?
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  42047.  @mpjstuff  Believe what you want. I'm emigrating before the next presidential election. So have at it.
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  42048.  @mpjstuff  Since Dore is so bad, maybe you should ask yourself why he gets the views he does? Other People Bad is not the answer. Even if it is true, it is still not the answer. Can you grasp that? Sleep on it or something. Mull it over. Don't rely on the usual trained reflex. Give it a think.
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  42049.  @infamousacidrain  What is your foundation for asserting Pelosi singled her out for bullying? Notice I am not denying that! No one should dismiss that possibility
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  42050.  @homertangler9529  Oh, Glenn does not shy away from denouncing Israel's policies.
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  42051. @jaybo7813  Exactly. I don't suggest that this stuff is impossible --- in fact, the notion that no other intelligent life forms exist strikes me as very strange and hardly plausible. But the burden of proof is on those who claim alien remains have been recovered. The "something" that is "going on" could very well be a psy-op. It wouldn't be the first.
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  42052.  @-Gorbi-  I wish. I'm the strange bird.
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  42053. Government isn't forcing people on Medicare to get vaccinated. But private insurance can bail on you and force you into bankruptcy!
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  42054. I don't think anyone wants to diagnose a social media influencer who calls himself MrBeast. ;)
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  42055. Where First Amendment protected free speech is concerned? No, intent does not matter. For example, if you repost revenge porn ostensibly to show how terrible it is, or you issue what any objective person would identify as a genuine threat and claim you were just kidding, and posted it to show how ridiculous it is, your avowed intent does not matter. Even if true, it does not matter.
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  42056. "Rational" National unleashes hate fest. Isn't that special?
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  42057. YES THEY DO
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  42058. Bravo Batya.
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  42059. Money and merit don't go together anymore. I you haven't noticed, then you're way behind on that one.
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  42060.  @willashland4597  Well, I can see why "business sense," a vague term, can be defined as precisely that: wealth accumulation. So, we agree Elon is a great wealth accumulater, sure.
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  42061.  @willashland4597  Let's see whether he is a free speech advocate. I won't prejudge that one.
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  42062. It's going to cost him all his relationships?? Whoa.
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  42063. This is one of those crimes that a person can never accept. Not ever.
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  42064. Not like this. In fact, it attacked capitalism for this reason.
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  42065.  @santiagograciano8402  No it doesn't.
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  42066.  @santiagograciano8402  LOL. Maybe look at an authoritative text. Libraries have them.
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  42067.  @santiagograciano8402  Did The Epoch Times produce the one you listened to?
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  42068. What it does advocate is the abolition of child labor, as in, work for wages.
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  42069. 105 and 150. Glenn is a NYU-trained lawyer.
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  42070. Takes cringe to a new, previously unknown level.
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  42071. The Market needs more name calling. Please don't stop so soon.
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  42072. Actually, no. Having had close family victims of malpractice, which we didn't have the stamina to sue for, was quite enough.
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  42073. Wait. You're kidding. Right?
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  42074.  @missp498  They wonder why trust is dead. Also odd there are no reports of serious COVID waves among the refugees yet, or the Ukrainian or Russian militaries. I would expect cases to be high because that happens in every war. What's happening this time? First the issue was painted as a conspiracy theory, then it became a rumor, soon it rose to the level of troubling anecdotes. Now they admit evidence of correlation, reason for serious concern, and are urging an immediate, systematic study. Subtext: they should have been studying it since last fall at least, and should have answers by now. They have been so generous to give us permission to ask questions. /s A post I saw: "It's war time, already? I stii have my pandemic decorations up."
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  42075. Ask Jussie Smollett what should be done.
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  42076.  @dripshameless5605  Because indebted gig workers count as employed.
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  42077. 0:44 🤣
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  42078.  @reubenmorris487  Interesting point. Do you consider that better, or worse?
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  42079. Or, she wants him to? Psy-ops?
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  42080. You're joking now . . .
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  42081. Not what Dr. Campbell said.
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  42082. ​ @TedaR  She has an awfully cushy job.
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  42083. The labor market is too strong, bosses don't like it.
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  42084. Telling people what they want to hear. Yes, that is what this country is supposed to be about. It's how you make money.
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  42085. Saw some videos of Elian Gonzalez all grown up. He has only the kindest things to say about America and wants to visit. His relatives in Florida denounce him, and talk about how his father never paid them back for all the money they spent on him, when it was a miracle he survived the shipwreck alive and they tried to keep him from his father.
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  42086. With proper evidence that it is necessary, I would.
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  42087. @markp6621  Then one day they will realize China and Russia (and other BRICS?) are better in math and stuff, and wring their hands and . . . pay "consultants" to develop "programs." You gotta love it . . . And invest in it, preferably in your Roth. Gains won't be taxed when you withdraw them. How come things are going so badly? I just can't figure it out. Must be all the regulations and stuff.
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  42088. @PadraigTomas  See my post above for the game plan, er, answer.
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  42089. Alexander Cockburn joined forces with The American Conservative on one vital issue, and only one: ending the endless wars. Yes, even Alexander Cockburn, proud son of a "notorious" British communist. (And they gave him a great obituary, too. Better than the NYT did for Senator Gravel. No surprise.)
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  42090. This was what all US Democrats promised -- before the 2020 election.
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  42091. WHY was COVID politicized in the first place? At Trump's doorstep first of all.
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  42092.  @michaelschaefer1904  Oh, I am impressed! Please supply the reasoning.
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  42093.  @joeydoherty368  As I understand, doctors in some states are unwilling to perform them.
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  42094. I'm 100% with you. But then, I think like a Eurocommie. ;)
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  42095. Not only that, but if Hunter is this bad, at least some people you interview with will assume you "must be" worse. This is what it means when society can't find a bottom. It's not true that it "doesn't hurt anyone." It hurts EVERYONE.
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  42096. WILL NOT WATCH. Why are you dredging this up AGAIN?
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  42097.  @doradodude140  Was there a good way for the last election to end?
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  42098.  @doradodude140  None of them were candidates after the early primaries, were they? Primaries that are advisory only, given the superdelegate system.
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  42099.  @doradodude140  Only bad and vastly worse. A postponement of vastly worse?
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  42100. By telling us don't push for healthcare in a pandemic because Trump will declare martial law?
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  42101. Send one? Let people pick up tests at the pharmacy, like every civilized country in the world. If we fake it, maybe we'll make it -- out of barbarity. It could happen.
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  42102. The point is that minors cannot consent. They cannot appreciate the risks. Everyone should have an opportunity to choose to be a birth parent someday, if they so desire. No one should be allowed to ruin that for a child by giving them a drug. So what if they have dysphoria during puberty? Is that a reason to sterilize a kid??
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  42103. @ajwalker4416  If a person cannot give informed consent, then what do you call that? Freedom of choice?
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  42104.  @ajwalker4416  So, who IS deciding? The child himself cannot. So, who is?
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  42105. @ajwalker4416  No conspiracy theory. I just told you -- leave the POC alone and we're good. BRICS and future BRICS, leave us alone. Western bourgeoisie, no problem. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  42106. @ajwalker4416  Sure, no problem. Just leave POC alone and we're good. What world? The world of extreme bourgeois decadence. It had to happen.
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  42107. @ajwalker4416  Non-Western peoples. Workers who make real things. You do know. As long as you leave us out of your latest cult craze, we are good. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  42108.  @ajwalker4416  Who's talking about us? I am. 🤣🤣🤣
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  42109.  @ajwalker4416  Wait. You don't know who makes your stuff??? Proof that IQ tests are phony accumulates daily. 🤣🤣🤣
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  42110.  @ajwalker4416  Be skeptical of all those "experts," especially if they recommend anything that can impair a basic life function.
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  42111.  @genestarwind4610  Oh, so . . . No one actually gets castrated or sterilized, surgically or chemically. So it's just pronouns and clothes and talk therapy. Good to know. That's covered by First Amendment freedom of speech and expression. No problem then.
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  42112.  @genestarwind4610  I was serious. If this is just a passing fad, and no life-altering surgery or dangerous drugs are to be administered to minors, then by all means, go right ahead with counseling and pronouns. I support having all medical insurers required to pay for the counseling, even if my premium goes up. There. Now that I brought up 💰, you must know I mean it.
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  42113. ​ @ericstanley5512  That's not their job.
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  42114. ​@MotherNature26 Norman Finkelstein characterized Harris perfectly.
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  42115.  @joeterzio7175  Exactly. You just proved it could be passed. No excuse for not using the power you have to enact policies you support.
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  42116.  @joeterzio7175  Also, sounds like you didn't listen to the program.
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  42117. Always
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  42118. Alexander, you only look happy when you're in Greece. Perhaps Serbia as well, but I've not seen recent pictures of you there.
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  42119. I'm not.
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  42120.  @MrZerausogaitnas  Tell me about it! US bombed where my relatives are. Bombed innocent civilians with Depleted Uranium.
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  42121.  @MrZerausogaitnas  But some of these were actual diplomats, and victims of their own spy agencies probably.
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  42122. Brilliant analysis. We are all in danger now, and it was needless. Putin had been holding back because he had no choice. See the Andrew Cockburn interview on Democracy Now! The West has the ideological hegemony to create "unworthy" victims. Russia does not have that. (Nor should it. No one should.) No one knows how many civilians the US killed across the Middle East and in Africa. Remember Shock and Awe?
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  42123.  @MrSCOTTtheSCOT  Interesting
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  42124. When I looked at the map of what Ukraine has retaken, it was not impressive. What's the goal here? To mire Russia in a Vietnam, or an Afghanistan, if you will, but with existential stakes? I take nothing at face value in any of this. A proxy war is not an ordinary war. The decision of Russia to escalate the war in the first place, creating a sea of refugees on the heels of the pandemic, and then its failure to conclude it by May 1, is already an immense disgrace in my book.
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  42125. ​ @PfukYT  Actually, the real left objected strongly, both times.
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  42126. It's starting to look that way, isn't it?
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  42127. 💯 great point
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  42128. Someone with some money should buy all of the parents prostheses just like those, to wear to the next school board meeting or the next protest. Don't get mad, get even, and laugh in their faces while doing it.
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  42129. LOL, perfect.
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  42130.  @crhu319  How is it wrong or incoherent? The standard has been repeatedly upheld.
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  42131. The government SAVED these auto companies in 2008 - 2009, after the deregulated financial system imploded. Now the CEOs should pull all the benefits to themselves?
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  42132. https://youtu.be/bPiHHQAkbmk Gray Zone did a good show on this strategy. https://youtu.be/yBfEWdh_0Ec Katie Halper also had a really good discussion pro and con on her program, with three intelligent people expressing reservations about the strategy, Briahna Joy Gray presenting the #ForceTheVote argument, and Katie agreeing with her, but being a good moderator. No one mentioned martial law. Not clear the relevance? LOL Wait. Does a person have to say "martial law?" Is it a litmus test/loyalty oath/magic word/sole way to "prove" you don't support the Orange Caligula? Advise please.
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  42133. Cornel West, Justin Jackson, Briahna, Krystal, Katie Halper, Max Blumenthal, Aaron, Ben Norton, Susan Sarandon, etc., I've left lots out. I guess all of them are impure. Or stupid. Or duped by a crypto-right wing comedian broadcasting out of his garage. How could that happen? Oh. Maybe the pandemic is real, and so are the millions losing health care in the pandemic. Could be.
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  42134.  @tbone007  Sure. Watch the Katie Halper segment. It was informative and fair. I can't think of another video that gave both sides a fair hearing, no vitriol. These are not the best of times.
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  42135. That's not what the case is about. Depp is suing Heard for defamation. Her speech is presumed to be protected by the First Amendment and has to be proved not to be. Which person was worse, or is worse, has nothing to do with the basic question. The First Amendment has no equity exception. If the speech is not false, it is not defamation, even if she was abusive, too -- even if she was worse. The only way Depp can win is to confuse the jury about the basic question, and make them feel sorry for him.
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  42136.  @tisbonus  If he abused her as well, the text she published isn't defamation -- even if she was the worse offender. If Depp was purely a victim, merely trying to defend himself, then it is. If you think the law of defamation is something else, then Depp has confused you. Defamation is about speech or writing, not about who was worse. It does not balance the equities, since he was free to write his story, too. Even the worst people have that right. Even murderers do. (BTW, did you ever read the article?)
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  42137.  @tisbonus  She is perfectly within her rights to state that the LAPD, or any witness, is lying, if she believes that to be the case. For LAPD to cover for the hotter commodity in Hollywood is a long-standing practice.
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  42138.  @tisbonus  I'm not "trolling." If you only want people who agree with you, don't engage. The psychologist they went to together for marital counseling said it was mutual.
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  42139.  @tisbonus  So you didn't read the article at issue. 🤔
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  42140.  @tisbonus  What assumption without evidence? What the law of defamation is? That's not an assumption. Or that LAPD have a horrible reputation, and a long-standing one? That happens to be true. You mention them as though you believed their testimony was dispositive.
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  42141.  @tisbonus  The aggressor? The only one?
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  42142.  @tisbonus  What do you think is the issue in a defamation case? It is whether that op-ed, which Depp attached to his complaint, is false. Not incomplete, not biased, not misleading: literally false. I won't answer again. Look up Nolo, look up the Cornell Law School website, read the actual complaint and answer. Look up the "New York Times malice" standard (which makes it really hard for Depp to win -- if they apply it -- and even I have misgivings about applying it in this case). Or don't. I still cannot get it through my head the degree of ignorance and lack of basic, independent thinking I see. What do you get out of joining the crowd? What do you think this show with two disordered millionaires is doing for you? I can tell you: nothing good. The media has you on a string. I don't even want to know what you think this case is about, or why you think the tapes don't show mutual abuse -- in which case the article is not false under the law of defamation. It is free speech. If Heard is found liable, it will be reversed on appeal. As for calling me a troll twice: nope, you are intrigued. I think you might want to know whether the MSM is misleading us -- AGAIN. Take a wild guess.
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  42143.  @tisbonus  Certainly there is evidence he hit her and abused her emotionally while they were living together as a couple. You seem to think it doesn't count. Okay, so you have a problem. Well, it's not my problem. Tootles.
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  42144.  @tisbonus  And her sister is lying too. Everyone but Depp is lying.
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  42145.  @johnwhite950  Listen, that includes Social Security, Medicare, etc., etc.
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  42146.  @gcoffey223  Nah, gourmet ice cream and a De Luxe refrigerator to store it in comes with insider trading.
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  42147.  @bionicpuma2920  Who said we fight wars to keep shipping lanes open (except obviously in the Persian Gulf)? How did you get THAT from my post? We protect shipping lanes for the needs of billionaires, so they have access to impoverished labor markets. We also fight wars, among other reasons, to maintain reserve currency status. We need hegemonic might to maintain supremacy.
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  42148.  @bionicpuma2920  Simplistic.
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  42149.  @bionicpuma2920  Right, because everyone in the world just BELIEVES IN contracts. An Invisible Hand takes care of everything. What do you think Democracy Now tells people? They sound about as astute as you do. A person has to read, a lot, and watch news and commentary that is not American, and a good amount that is not in English, to understand what's going on. Which is exactly why it escapes you.
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  42150.  @bionicpuma2920  You couldn't even parse my comment, it all gets mixed up in your head.
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  42151.  @bionicpuma2920  Good, another Block. Keep it up, I want to purge my notices.
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  42152. Ethically and tactically, I agree. BUT protests outside of his house, provided they are far enough away and don't impede access, are First Amendment protected. It's legal. It's legal to do kind of dumb or rude stuff.
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  42153. What if you don't want to be a member of "society?"
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  42154. Theresa Jimenez's cut and paste defeats spellcheck.
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  42155. Has anyone brought a class action?
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  42156. Civility is for hetero white males. (Saagar, I think you're safe. But check that.)
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  42157. Leading universities have courses on psychological engineering that look for ways to make various applications "sticky." Clearly they believe there is ample evidence we have the ability to design programs that make it difficult to stop using social media. How did Mark Zuckerberg become a billionaire before age 30? Can you eat or drink Facebook, does it heat your house? Someone is paying vast sums of money for this "engagement," which was never paid for any other form of advertising.
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  42158. But if she ends up rich, what's not to like? /s
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  42159. Her report was fine. The headline/framing is The Hill's fault. Again.
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  42160. Wall Street needs bonuses.
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  42161. Why would they leave Melissa alive? As the fall guy.
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  42162.  @zebrajenks I wouldn't know. Maybe you can shed some light on that.
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  42163. ​ @yurichtube1162 pfft
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  42164. Actually, the simple edit of removing some posts and not others that are fundamentally similar, is protected conduct under Section 230. They are doing more: they are pushing certain items to certain people using opaque algorithms. This is an activity that should not be protected. No one has an interest in making sure terrorists or drug lords get in touch easily with other terrorists and drug lords.
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  42165. The point was that it was conceded in federal court that it is perfectly legal to prescribe off label, and epidemiological data from around the world is showing that it has been working in practice.
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  42166. Really? I personally know several who married.
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  42167. Oh wait. Do you mean not with each other, or do you mean the groves of academe must be celebate?
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  42168.  @randallj25  You said, "consensual or not, students and professors are not allowed to have sexual relationships." What did you mean? No, I really don't know how far your rule extends. These were not his students, current or former. Explain your conflict of interest point, then.
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  42169. How do you think he got where he is? By being Creative? No, that would be, say, Martha Argerich. J. M. Coetzee.
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  42170. SAMANTHA POWER??? Is there a bigger theoretician of intervention and regime change wars in the world? But when she had a chance to stop a genocide . . . Well, her job and stuff. C'mon, man.
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  42171. De Becker is better than any Secret Service, though that is not the point.
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  42172. Coming here, I did not expect to laugh.
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  42173. Brilliant segment. One of the best ever.
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  42174. How many people living in the BRICS+ got an mRNA vaccine?
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  42175. Evidence of justice system failure.
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  42176.  @onenationunderground2360  Thanks for @ me! Now you're in my notifs thread and I can block you.
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  42177.  @noodleshop7468 unclear as it gets I wonder if some of my posts are shadowed, and you then confused me with someone else. We already talked about all that.
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  42178.  @taragnor  See the ACLU page on the no-fly list. It was declared unconstitutional as it stood, giving those targetted no notice or opportunity to be heard, nearly 10 years ago. Maybe you don't know stuff. Could that be it?
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  42179. Too good, seriously. All true.
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  42180. Yes, the US bears most of the fault by far, and it has the worst leaders in its history. But Putin is responsible as well. He should have secured the Donbass by April, not allowed Crimea to be destroyed in August. This war should have been over months ago.
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  42181. Jimmy's face when he reads, "we are sorry." PRICELESS 🤣🤣🤣
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  42182. HA.
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  42183. You all fall for her performance art? She got her five minutes of fundraising time. The other Congress members want their turn.
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  42184.  @mikeottersole  He answered correctly: as he indicated, he should not discuss pending litigation or pending administrative personnel matters. Stefanik must know that much. Looks like the joke is on her fans.
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  42185. I had heard that maternal mortality in Russia is considerably lower than in the United States. I was surprised, somewhat incredulous, and checked the claim very carefully. It's true.
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  42186. peanuts
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  42187. Super PACs, multinational corporations, global finance, and the NGOs the preceding three support. Pro-peace Israelis have been systematically undermined and silenced for generations. Even Prime Minister Rabin was "too conciliatory."
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  42188. If I take issue with these posts, I'm the one sense oared.
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  42189. ​ @mistressfreezepeach And you're the "realist." 😂😂😂😂😂 Words don't mean anything anymore. This will not end well.
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  42190.  @therealcirclea762  You have no idea what I've done for others. I can point to people alive today because of something I did, at serious harm to myself -- and no, I am not a doctor, nor a soldier, nor law enforcement.
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  42191. She doesn't look like she's crying.
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  42192. Exactly.
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  42193. Defamation suits have NOTHING to do with private deplatforming. No one gets deplatformed. Defamation doesn't even have to be removed by third-party web hosting platforms. Anti-SLAPP laws should be strong to shut down nuisance suits designed to silence free speech. Let the rest play out in court, where the plaintiff has to prove his case.
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  42194. Grim was nothing like this, and I dislike him. I was glad to see him go.
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  42195.  @jizzyjake6783  Thanks so much for responding! This is a time when we all need to share our experiences honestly and WITHOUT FEAR. It's a new virus. How else will we defeat it, except though cooperation?
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  42196. ​ @PaineStakingTruth 🤣🤣🤣🤣 No traction, hon.
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  42197. A lot of the more insane ones served as an excellent cover.
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  42198. I can't. No, I mean it.
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  42199. This one apparently does.
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  42200. Very good!
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  42201. But I bet they got rich.
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  42202. Conseils ridicules
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  42203. Isn't that what trans will take care of? 😂
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  42204. This is so horrendous I have to stop listening.
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  42205. DARVO (Deny, Accuse, Reverse Victim, Offender)
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  42206. Exactly. :/
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  42207. Their aim is to exhaust everyone, like a pack of yapping hyenas. Just try to open your mouth, and the mobbing and yapping reaches a climax.
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  42208. No there is not. The direct experimental evidence for gravitation is of an entirely different order. The generation of testable hypotheses is of an entirely different order. Compare evolution to other biological theories. Then it's vastly stronger than any other, and different areas of biology reinforce it.
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  42209. @kajsorensen1207  That doesn't mean there is "more evidence" for it. It means it is more coherent.
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  42210.  @elynum  Your Dirty Pond video objectifies women and silences them. So, the fellow doth protest too much?
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  42211.  @screwsinabell  You're right about that.
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  42212. No it doesn't.
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  42213. No, she traded options contracts, not stocks. Where did you hear that Brie defended Pelosi? She criticized Kagan, in fact, for drawing a salary from Harvard while there is a discrimination case involving Harvard pending before the Supreme Court.
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  42214.  @sylviam6535  Okay. Gotcha.
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  42215.  @rhymereason3449  So then provide facts, not character assassination. This was disgraceful.
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  42216. 5:32 "collaborators" was true, Glenn . . . /s
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  42217. From the Statistica website: the proportion of all COVID deaths in the US that have occurred in children under 17 is 0.0749%. Or, to put it another way, 99.925% of all deaths were in adults 18 and older. Nearly 95% were in people 50 and over. Do the math. It's worse than we were told. If we had the same death rate from COVID as Japan's, we would have had 50,000 dead instead of 800,000. WE have had 100,000 drug overdose deaths since this pandemic started. Time to ask questions.
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  42218. This is like continuing a war because you feel sorry for all of the soldiers who already died in it.
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  42219. Wonderful, wonderful actress. And . . . ? So?
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  42220. If police attack you, they will always say you attacked them.
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  42221. Do a thought experiment: suppose for the sake of argument that Donziger is "guilty." This proceeding and his punishment are ILLEGAL anyway.
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  42222. Wrong. She had a right to remain silent and no duty to help law enforcement. What she had no right to do was to lie to the detectives, even if she only said, "I'm not sure." That was false.
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  42223. Wrong, LOL.
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  42224.  @vegahimsa3057  You know perfectly well that in an Anglo-Saxon country, I dare not say how little I made, because I would discredit myself totally. People are judged by that number. I'm not telling you anything you did not already know. My parents were refugees, FYI, and there's more to the story. I have a clue. But putting all that aside, how many Americans do you think make close to $7500 a month, hence $90,000 a year? On the two coasts they do, and in a handful of major cities -- but in those places, real estate eats a third of it. This is an immense amount of money. Only about 10% of salaries are this high or higher, though of course a substantial number of households make more, because that includes more sources of income.
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  42225.  @vegahimsa3057  Are you talking about the global top 10% now? I don't know if my posts containing links are being shadowed, but I found an article from a UK source, BBC I think, that showed that the top 20% in EVERY developed country, not just the top 20% globally, create an enormous amount of pollution and generate greenhouse gases many times greater than they should relative to their share of the population. Obviously it will be worse in developed countries with a Western lifestyle.
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  42226.  @vegahimsa3057  It is not me. Speak for yourself then. It is not most Americans, either!
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  42227.  @vegahimsa3057  That's the study I linked and quoted in another thread. I've referred to it several times. I don't know if the posts are still up. (A lot of posts with links are shadowed, for reasons unknown.) The study counts all Americans, not adult Americans, hence 330 million people. It is not a study of salaries but of income (only about 10% of salaries are above $90k, but income is higher, obviously). Hence roughly 70% of Americans, a clear majority, are excluded from the global 10%. I'm sorry. At this point this is a waste of my time. Bad faith on your part. And Jimmy was right. Acknowledge it.
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  42228.  @vegahimsa3057  Oh I didn't see this one, about "defensiveness." Go psychoanalyze your arse. Time waster. Pfft. P. S. I don't eat any meat. Do you?
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  42229.  @vegahimsa3057  YES YOU ARE BAD FAITH. It is NOT based on American adults, but on ALL Americans. I reviewed the article hours ago, and provided a link. I know what I'm talking about. At this point, you're fabricating data. Do you genuinely not know? I don't believe it.
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  42230.  @vegahimsa3057  If you don't know, then be quiet.
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  42231. A job indoctrinates employees anyway. Get a new job is the usual remedy.
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  42232. What Hamas protesters? You mean the peace and justice protesters? That wouldn't be Hamas, or Likud.
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  42233. "We just didn't go in. Try and make me."
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  42234. @姜磊-n5h  An older joke goes like this: "Everything they told us about communism was a lie, and everything they told us about capitalism was the truth." Actually, that's not funny.
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  42235. We haven't seen ADE, but the opposite (*so far.*) What we have seen is bad enough, so . . . Let's be cool.
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  42236. Unless you're an artist.
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  42237. Thomas Paine would disagree.
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  42238.  @Homunculas  🤣
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  42239. Don't listen to Sean Penn, whatever you do. Or his fans.
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  42240. We called those newscasters. That isn't journalism. We knew the difference when the difference was way smaller.
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  42241. Her ray der. JUST NOW
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  42242. 4:52 She was undercover.
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  42243.  @sc9160  Why? She didn't commit any crime in this jurisdiction.
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  42244.  @sc9160  Right, but for the courts to have jurisdiction, you have to have committed the crime within that very jurisdiction. If you commit a crime in one state and go to a different state, you must be extradited. In a civil case, there are choices concerning where to file suit; you could even be sued in federal court under diversity, depending on your residency and the amount you are being sued for.
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  42245.  @sc9160  Well, but that involves RICO and similar offenses.
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  42246.  @jilltrevail2616  It must have been a shock to the average person in the UK to learn that there are CIA agents operating undercover in the UK. If CIA is not working with UK's own intelligence services, you have to ask what they are doing undercover on the soil of their most trusted ally.
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  42247.  @sc9160  I did not say it was the only crime. I suggest you research it.
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  42248.  @sc9160  Undercover from the general public, or also hidden from the knowledge of the equivalent of the State Department in the countries of close allies (which will be treated as highly classified by those countries, of course)? Only the former. I won't be wasting more time with you, thanks.
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  42249. I didn't say they didn't. I said the very top at state departments of close allies know about it.
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  42250.  @sc9160  Is marijuana legal in your state?
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  42251.  @sc9160  In the future, the US has to notify UK in advance concerning which US citizens on UK soil intend to avail themselves of diplomatic immunity. ERGO, someone at the top in the UK already knows about the EXISTENCE of these individuals. Now, they need to know about their claimed status with respect to immunity as well. I thought this was clear. "LOL"
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  42252. See Glenn Greenwald on this supposed risk to lives that Assange was responsible for. Greenwald is adamant that this is a completely false narrative.
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  42253.  @thepants1450  Yeah, it was a bit more tasteless than you thought! LOL :) "XXXmas"
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  42254. ​ @joebloe1401  No. She won't date you. Sorry. 😂
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  42255. ​@wesjones1417 Funny they refused to answer, huh? The CEO agreed the firing was not handled well. He wrote a good post about it, actually.
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  42256. ​ @redskyatnight123  Every study Dr. Campbell cited was available using Google. I found some that were later withdrawn.
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  42257. That's how what's done? Brutalize Americans for Netanyahu? Most Israelis don't want this.
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  42258. 2:53 Bravo, Senator.
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  42259. Treble punitive damages.
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  42260. THANK YOU
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  42261. Lift all sanctions and let them fail on their own terms. Afraid they won't fail?
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  42262. @I_am_Mister_Y  Oh come off it. ALL were pressured by the US and the Western block, and the inordinate amount they had to waste on defense as a result. Part of Maduro's support is in defiance of US sanctions. Lifting them might actually lead to the outcome you prefer. And since when do we impose sanctions where there is a "humanitarian" crisis? My goodness, how cruel. Maybe we need humanitarian regime change and humanitarian bombing as well.
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  42263. @I_am_Mister_Y  Well, what do you know? A cogent answer to you is verboten. Or at least it is in visible.
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  42264. I certainly do.
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  42265. My God. You're so reasonable. We could enjoy your company in America, though I don't think you'd like it as well.
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  42266. She did a halfway decent job, though just barely. Wow, you fall for outrage peddling way too easily.
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  42267. ​ @VelvetJazz ​ That is not generally subject to discipline, IF the full scope of First Amendment freedom of speech is embraced. Under the First Amendment, you can't ban cross burning or flag burning, or even an abstract call for violence. See Brandenburg v Ohio; RAV v City of St. Paul. See what the Court struck down there -- Scalia opinion, to boot. I don't know whether Harvard upholds the First Amendment. It is private, so as long as it enforces a speech code fairly, it doesn't have to embrace free speech. If it discriminates in enforcement, it has a Title VI problem again.
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  42268. @frankfurtur5531  Most private universities have adopted the First Amendment and all the jurisprudence that comes with it, into their codes of conduct, and they maintain designated First Amendment fora on their grounds. PEN America explains this well. Everything Harvard has said up until now leads me to conclude they do, but I didn't check. All state schools have to obey the First Amendment. I hope everyone knows that much. Billionaires can't intercede there and force speech codes.
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  42269.  @frankfurtur5531  Wait. You mean you still don't know?
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  42270. What's it like to have never had a love life? Intriguing. Tell us more.
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  42271. Read Strossen's book on hate speech. Or research all the profs and others who were censored and fired for supporting the boycott against Israel. There is a debate in Israel about the boycott, and they have a peace and justice movement. Why would Americans be targetted for supporting it? She made excellent points here overall.
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  42272.  @populisttrope9385  Exactly. Chris Hedges' archive was disappeared, and with it, the best interview of Leonard Peltier's lawyer on the Internet.
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  42273. So, The Netherlands has one vote, China has one vote, and India has one vote. This is another Western-centric power grab.
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  42274. I think she should be hopeful. It is much, much too soon to lose hope. Young, healthy people do regain their equilibrium, after horrendous illnesses. She is an amazing human being.
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  42275. The case isn't over on her contract claims.
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  42276. Errr, um . . . yeah?
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  42277. 💯
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  42278. Where did you get this idea??
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  42279. Nah, they say what pays the mansion mortgage.
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  42280. I know people who to this day refuse flu shots because of the 1976 vaccine debacle. That is frankly ridiculous. Incredibly patronizing attitude toward those who appreciate the significance of a new technology + a new virus. Several countries oppose immediate mass use of mRNA vaccines, many countries offer four conventional choices, or one mRNA and three conventional. Good grief. MRNA could turn out to be a great breakthrough, of course. That doesn't mean the risk is acceptable now.
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  42281. Not the point. Who initially told a false story and why? That they don't know until a preliminary investigation is complete is fine. Whoever says "we don't know yet" when that is the only true answer?
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  42282.  @imsingincountry  Talking about the safety of being behind a desk has no bearing on the issue. The event is over, we are discussing the initial accounts from law enforcement and state actors.
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  42283.  @imsingincountry  The errors all go in one direction. What do we think when a "person of interest" answers questions that way? Stating that "we haven't been able to establish a firm timeline yet and ask for your patience" should become a praiseworthy response.
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  42284.  @imsingincountry  The errors made all go in one direction. Does that invite suspicion and heightened scrutiny? I'll let you decide.
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  42285.  @imsingincountry  EVERYONE talking now is safe behind a desk. You, me, the police, . . .
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  42286. Robbie advocates for yet more fragmentation and disintegration. It won't hurt him, I guess. Cool, bro.
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  42287. Yeah, I had no idea he thought a boss should be able to tell me what I have to put in my body or else. Because freedom.
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  42288.  @EvilMagnitude  The progressive POLICIES are absolutely what the majority wants now. It needs a candidate who is credible, who can make those policies happen. Failing that, the majority wants to be rid of Trump, but nowhere near as badly as MSM would have us believe. I sense Trump Fatigue, but not Trump Hate. He is the president, and no one in the DNC looks decisively more "presidential." Trump would likely beat Clinton again today.
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  42289.  @EvilMagnitude  Think of better non sequiturs. I implied the candidates who espoused the progressive POLICIES most voters want -- candidates who nevertheless did not win -- lacked some measure of credibility. (Either people didn't believe they supported those progressive policies, or didn't believe they could get those policies enacted, and maybe suspected that the candidates themselves knew they couldn't. Something like that.)
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  42290.  @EvilMagnitude  That cat jumped out of the bag last year, sheesh. (Taibbi has YOU pegged.)
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  42291.  @EvilMagnitude  I think your Special Mind Rays did it.
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  42292. Could not be more wrong, of course.
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  42293. ​​ @iTeerRex I'm a lawyer. I saved the house of an elderly widow whose late husband did this. He told her the VERY SAME STORY -- IN 1992.
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  42294. ​ @iTeerRex I'm an attorney. I saved a widow's home whose late husband did this to her. This was in the 1990s. He told her the same story. She repeated it in all the court documents.
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  42295. ​ @iTeerRex  Try putting his full name in a search engine, and see the cases he lost come right up.
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  42296.  @iTeerRex  Yes I have. Try a search engine. It's easy.
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  42297. ​​ @iTeerRex I certainly did. It takes at most two minutes.
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  42298. ​ @timn5008  I guess UHC didn't send a message? Or?
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  42299. Gorgeous hair, Katie.
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  42300. If the US intervenes, it solidifies global opposition to the US outside of the Five Eyes, EU, NATO. Look on the map of the 35 countries that refused to sign on to the UN resolution condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Yeah.
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  42301. Study history. 20th century Germany is a good place to start.
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  42302.  @joriankell1983  If you think these "behaviors" are not typical of people of European descent, then you weren't reading. Your eyes were glazing over while the anger mongers stole your attention.
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  42303.  @joriankell1983  Even if your underlying point were true, your comment is a non sequitur. If someone else does X, this is no evidence that you don't do X. (On the contrary, that's a Hillary tactic: point out in others what you yourself do even more.)
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  42304. The wet market and instant magic vaccine were grooming for bigger things.
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  42305. Based on MRIs. MRIs aren't woke.
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  42306. Jimmy just proved he's a saint. He actually had Ana for a boss. He must be a saint.
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  42307. Or, did at some point.
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  42308. Were you jealous of Jeffrey Epstein, too? 🤣
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  42309. Odd how much access he has to special terms, to borrow against those shares, and not from speculative entities but from banks that the government stands behind. Sounds kinda risky, huh?
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  42310.  @YamiFlyZX  Not clear what you mean. MSM says Russia invaded Ukraine because Putin is mad and evil.
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  42311.  @YamiFlyZX  I see. That's funny. The Internecine War is how they all make money. We are in a time when harm makes money. It was a hoot to see Whoopie double down on censorship, though, after her time out. And it's true these accusations of treason by serious people are relatively new. There were a few times during 2020 that I thought Tucker should be fired on the spot, but I didn't catch his usual nonsense here. The Hill Rising had a good segment yesterday with Glenn Greenwald. I haven't seen any followup yet, I was planning to go watch them. Aaron Mate reports that his sources in Russia are telling him there is growing anti-war sentiment there. We are fomenting xenophobia instead, hardly a formula for peace. It's so odd. If Victoria Nuland told the truth about the "danger Russia will gain control" of these microbes, in our Department of Defense-funded biolabs, why are WE not demanding inspectors and threatening war, like we did in Iraq? Based on our actions in Iraq, it would stand to reason that we should be the party pushing for inspections. Look what we're hearing instead.
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  42312. Please give some examples. (Or, ask an employment discrimination lawyer to describe some of his most egregious cases to you.) Even people like Robert Greene and Jordan Peterson know that hard work is just as likely to get you in trouble as to lead to success, depending on who you are surrounded by -- and who you are surrounded by is not entirely based on conscious choices you made or could have made. Or, look up Ecclesiastes ch 9, verse 11.
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  42313.  @DC-rd6oq  So, I have to take your word for it. I can believe it is possible. I know it is (no longer) usual. In any case, NO ONE did it alone. Everyone had many, many breaks, and depended on the good will of many people around them. The ingratitude is something I really can't understand. Even if you earned those breaks -- plenty of people do, but the breaks do not come. Have you ever talked to anyone who started their own business? Would they confide in you how many times their clients failed to pay them? Or a major client declared bankruptcy, at just the wrong moment? I know a couple who actually made millions, and even they had trouble getting paid -- even after they could afford the best lawyers. It was only new orders that they refused to fill until past orders were paid that brought in the past due money. SMH
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  42314.  @DC-rd6oq  No. It is literally impossible to "do it alone." At some point -- at many points -- you must have had a teacher or someone who trained you (formal or not), you must have had clients who stuck by you, you must have had a boss who wasn't determined to trash your career, you must have had food to eat and a place to live before you established yourselves. If you had no starting capital given to you, someone must have offered you a loan on terms you could accept. You must have relied on others for roads, and vehicles, and your personal safety. Many someones must have established the body of knowledge you draw from. You must have had parents or guardians for at least 18 years. This "I did it alone" sounds psychotic. Even the words you use are a collective human product. You didn't invent English. The reason a dollar has the value it does, and can buy what it can, has very little to do with you. Hate to break it to you . . . Hardly anything anyone has is something they themselves created. Why do you need to think you did? The most solitary person I can think of offhand is the Unabomber, and he relied on the US Postal Service.
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  42315.  @DC-rd6oq  Then I have no idea what you mean by saying you"did it alone." If someone, somewhere gave you a job, you didn't invent the job. You didn't bring yourself up from infancy and childhood. You didn't train yourself to do anything you do. This whole discussion is on the level of some sort of ridiculous sentimentality and magic words, Halmark card "wisdom," and has nothing to do with concrete socioeconomic facts. We are ALL more dependent on society than we ever were, and more vulnerable to what someone half a world away might do, for meeting our most basic necessities. (I don't think that's so great, either, by the way. But I won't delve into magical thinking to hide from it.) If the dollar loses global reserve currency status, then what 9/11, the banking crisis, and the pandemic did not show you, you will be forced to confront.
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  42316.  @DC-rd6oq  Okay, you're nuts. Good to know. (So, not taking the best things in life for granted is "doom and gloom and the sky is falling." Sounds like you miss Rush Limbaugh. Or worse.)
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  42317.  @DC-rd6oq  A homeless person dying of cancer could have been in that park to see that sunrise, too, so I don't see how this proves your point, but anyway . . . you're upset now. I see that.
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  42318.  @DC-rd6oq  Sorry if you can't handle the truth. I wasn't personalizing this. I'm a lawyer, and I surely did not do that alone. It is my duty, among other things, to know what actually happens in the real world. As for the larger issues, they are simply facts. We are vulnerable in a way that people who could go to the big city, find a modest but safe room, look for a job, and if they didn't find one, return to the family farm and help bring in the harvest never were. The financialization of the economy, which is relatively new, is what has made us exceptionally vulnerable, and has distorted the principle of reward for productive labor, as opposed to reward for stock manipulation. You missed that, too? (You were using slogans Limbaugh used to use. You didn't know?)
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  42319.  @DC-rd6oq  The rooster who believes his crowing causing the sun to rise tells all the other birds to get over themselves. :)
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  42320.  @DC-rd6oq  Too bad. You could learn something. For free.
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  42321.  @DC-rd6oq  True story: January 1st, took a walk in the park. Heard gunshots in the distance, and came upon a flasher. But then I ran into an elderly man and talked with him, and found out that he walks around the park every single day three to nine times, depending on the weather. I was so inspired, the day was saved and then some. Thanks to other people. The park where I spent my earliest childhood has too much gang activity now to visit. Luckily there are many other very nice municipal parks within a 25 minute drive. I didn't create those parks. I'm so glad someone did.
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  42322.  @elizabethaleman117  Well, if people who don the wokeness mantle keep kicking her, and making money from their songs, I can't blame her for pointing it out. There is always someone you can kick without cost to yourself.
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  42323. If this company actually neglected its non-Christian customers and was insensitive to its non-Christian employees, maybe it is one of the rare companies that need DEI. Right, to avoid costly lawsuits. What else?
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  42324. The conspiracy theories about Gates are his cover. There is no need to make up stuff about this character, and it undermines getting the truth out.
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  42325.  @Nofinator  I don't endorse the tabloids. I think they are odious. After they won the case Depp brought, his lawyers could not keep it out. He basically acknowledged they had an effect on his reputation and ability to practice his art by bringing the case. BTW, this is one reason why so many people do not sue for libel, even when they have an excellent case. It's a risk. 😐 Very unfair, actually.
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  42326.  @djmelodyex  It was brought in as evidence of reputation, for the purpose of challenging damages due to the article alleged to be defamatory here. They explained why it was introduced. After Depp lost his suit against The Sun, they couldn't keep it out.
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  42327. Is this election about anything except a referendum on Trump's handling of COVID?
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  42328. 😂😂😂
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  42329. Dreams and ambitions and risk-taking are for the arts and sciences, including of course literature. Not for a job, or money, basically.
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  42330. Actually, by people who cite Frankfort School and never read Frankfort School. This was just discussed on Katie Halper's show, coincidentally.
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  42331.  @alexarviso6836  No. It's a job qualification. Like, a way to show basic skills and follow-through, so that the corporation doesn't spend "its" money on testing and can cut back on training.
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  42332. Who else foresaw that MeToo would lead here?
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  42333. Twitter, to "understand the universe?" Wow will a 2250 historian have a field day with this one.
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  42334. Check Open Secrets to see how much money politicians get from billionaires. Some have given over $91 MILLION during a single presidential election cycle.
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  42335. Another adult with a middle school child's voice. Why???
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  42336. By not hearing her point, which has to do with the larger issue. But thinking is un-American.
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  42337.  @FUDBuddy  Vietnam is doing well.
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  42338.  @perry9812  Really? Then what happens when kids grow up and, assuming libraries still exist, they stumble upon a book that tells them about the role of the U.S. in supporting the rat line?
    1
  42339. YES Hillary has to deal with her husband's conduct. I still remember when perfectly legitimate questions about his ROLE in her administration were denounced as "sexist." Would Epstein have been arrested under a Clinton administration?
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  42340. Robbie: blah blah market blah blah rabbit hole Batya: and you believe Trump had so much working class support because . . . ?
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  42341. YES, great post.
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  42342. @Andy Smith So true. Terrible parenting. Protect a 7-year-old from this, especially in the Internet age. This is a child of tender age. He should never be involved in such a project.
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  42343. Oh please is this a set up?
    1
  42344. Because this time, it is the dollar as global reserve currency that is vulnerable. That's why.
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  42345. No one who is honest will claim the vaccine does anything more than greatly reduce the risk of hospitalization and death, and -- we hope -- prevent long COVID or COVID-induced organ damage. But if the vaccine does not prevent transmission itself, then why isn't it up to individuals and their doctors to decide? Why mandates? Why healthy people under 30? Or 50? This disease just isn't a real danger to healthy people of childbearing age, and really not to anyone in their teens or early 20s. Simple.
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  42346. I'm all right with him.
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  42347. Yeah, Gaza is about feewings.
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  42348. Lab safety, Robbie? REALLY?? Let the Market decide.
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  42349.  @CroisMoi  Who said there was or wasn't?
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  42350. @CroisMoi  In ordinary, non-medical, colloquial speech, "cancer" has two meanings. The first is basically the same as the medical/scientific meaning: cancerous cells were discovered under the microscope. The second is that there was an initial tumor and it spread to some extent. Cancer cells from it metastasized. You might know you had the first, but there is, still, no evidence of the second. A lot of ordinary speech assumes cancer means the second, and without the second, that you don't "really" have cancer. Er, yes, you do. The first alone is still cancer.
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  42351. Are there any credible reports of such phenomema from earlier eras, prior to the time any human society had the technological means to launch flying objects or simulations of flying objects? Was there some reason we could not see them before the contemporary era?
    1
  42352. 😂😂😂😂
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  42353.  @NotBroihon  And it is not the operation of addition as defined in the algebra of real numbers.
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  42354. No. Go back. Please!!!
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  42355. See how cowardly? Why don't they invite Glenn and state up front they will question his decision to appear on Tucker Carlson? Or is it forbidden to allow Glenn to answer that question, and to debate the issue? Someone might then turn on Tucker and watch, and be contaminated forever? How infantile are we? That's what I want to know. This isn't politics, these are religious cults.
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  42356. What is Gaige Grosskreutz's criminal record? A misdemeanor and some dropped charges? A bizarre attempt at "citizen journalism" with a camera in a police station parking lot? He did admit his CC license was expired. Rittenhouse was acquitted because he acted in self-defense. Not because the victims were Baddies who "deserved it."
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  42357. Re: Research. No doctor has been able to tell me how many people have been seriously harmed from each vaccine, what we know about preventing these reactions, AND how these significant risks compare to the risks of other vaccines we take, such as the flu shot. NO doctor.
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  42358. More than a handful this time.
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  42359. ​ @scottbrisbane223  This is, generally speaking, correct. Traditional vaccines were STOPPED when one significant injury per 100,000 was identified. That is 10 per million. We considered 10 per million far too high, and rightly so.
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  42360. Yeah, starting out this segment by laughing was great. I mean, if the Japanese reported on an assassination of an American ex-president like this, hey, no problem.
    1
  42361. Have you noticed we never have discussions? Just conversations. Well, what if I want something more effectual?
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  42362. Well this story is changing. I remember when they said Chauvin pled guilty to federal charges because he wanted to be in federal prison. He stays in state prison because all appeals were exhausted and the Supreme Court denied relief.
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  42363.  @DWayne-fk9rp  Links are deleted. Describe the webpage.
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  42364. Finally the rational people have come to comment. This report of an assassination was handled shamefully. Can you imagine a comparable segment anywhere in the world had it been our former president? At least I hope not.
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  42365. The theory is that there will be more jobs created. Dubious proposition overall. Demand creates jobs, and better wages create demand.
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  42366. Uh oh. Lost me at mushrooms. Don't get mad at me, I'm not American. :/
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  42367. Step back for just a second: did anyone EVER believe we would have a President who said and did these things? AND tens of millions still support him? It's not perfectly evident he'll lose.
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  42368. If there is an abstract but no paper, and the odd spelling ("Mrna"), could it be a hoax? Please reach out to Circulation or the authors. Contact information through their institutions should be included in the abstract.
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  42369. It means ignorance on a scale one is not supposed to see in a high school graduate, much less a person in her position.
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  42370. @liuj88  She was wrong, but no one else had bothered to look up the case, either. I found it in seconds, and a couple of paragraphs were enough to dispel the error. As for the recent Supreme Court case, I agree that's specialized knowledge. It was a fluke that I knew about it.
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  42371. There are actually reporters who read multiple accounts and watch more than one video, and then form an impression. That is exactly the type of process a jury will embark on, and they weren't there, either. No one who was there can be a juror.
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  42372. ​@ms-jl6dl Do you seriously believe that? Show me any group under age 75 that had more than a 1% case fatality rate, absent very serious comorbidities, plural, post January 2021. There is no such group. There were no vaccines in 2020, so those numbers prove nothing.
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  42373.  @jaymevogl4338  None of this comes as a surprise to me. I support vaccines that have been carefully tested, and are given with the appropriate spacing. "Vaccinated" versus "unvaccinated" children isn't the correct comparison; it depends on which vaccines, when. That none may be better than lots and lots, into tiny bodies during their first months of life, should surprise no one. Thanks for your post. BTW, have you seen the Yale News article about vaccines from February 2017, I believe? Dr. John Rose, who has worked on the Ebola vaccine, stated that it takes 15 to 20 years to develop a vaccine -- nearly a generation sounds about right to me. These days, you must read things that were published before 2020, and preferably before 2019, to get any idea of what real standards are. :/
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  42374.  @jaymevogl4338  At this point, I would only look to what the ministries of health of Scandinavian countries, Switzerland, and a few others, are recommending to make any decision about vaccines for my child. One pediatric vaccine researcher from Denmark, I believe, demonstrated a long time ago that a measles vaccine, administered properly (not too early or late, correct form and dose), lowers the overall childhood mortality rate from many infectious diseases, and that there are certain other vaccines that don't do that. (Hint hint) :/
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  42375. More than half
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  42376.  @Riccardo-v9n  Sounds like Fox can't afford him.
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  42377. I voted for La Riva.
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  42378. So should everyone over 60 retire, and everyone overweight go on disability? I vote no.
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  42379. What's the r-word?
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  42380. Nevermind. Found it.
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  42381. Y'mean, they thought the pandemic was over? Now that it's not, all their principles go out the window, to keep us safe? So . . . The bosses fire the unvaccinated, no more unemployment since "it's their own fault," the landlords evict them, and the growth in the homeless will STOP THE EPIDEMIIIIIC.
    1
  42382. Two minute attention span? Did the vaccine do that?
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  42383. Not sure we do!
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  42384. Hillary: "We learned a lot about our system of government . . . " Jimmy: "No we didn't." That does not equal "nothing." Then, when Hillary goes on about Putin, she and Pelosi prove Jimmy right, at least about THEM. They learned nothing about democracy. Did you stop listening to the rest, at 50 seconds in?
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  42385.  @calpauly310  OH PLEASE. The "Tim Pool" Talking Point resurfaces yet again. And the "I used to like him but then . . . " advertising trope. We've seen them all, hon. And like Hillary with her Russian uranium deal, her Don and Melania wedding invitation (and her husband's relationship with Epstein, and her daughter's with Ghislaine Maxwell), you accuse others of something you might be toying with yourself.
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  42386.  @calpauly310  Also, the negation of "a lot" is not "nothing." Logic matters.
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  42387. LOL, she knows the rea$ons.
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  42388. This analysis is genius.
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  42389. Of course most Russians are Eurasian. And? Asian-looking blue-eyed people trigger you much?
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  42390. See. I used algebra today. 🤣
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  42391. The times we don't even know these people are talking to each other are even worse. See, e.g., the Paradise Papers, Jeffrey Epstein's crowd, HSBC money laundering and top-level intervention to prevent its punishment, the shadow banking system, the unregulated market in exotic derivative contracts . . .
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  42392. 11:41 Why Jimmy ROCKS
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  42393. Aesthetic violence? JUST KIDDING!
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  42394. I might consult her on makeup, but you know they are overpaying her for it.
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  42395. Missouri v. Biden is currently before the Supreme Court.
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  42396. ​ @jarrettthomas4865  too many
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  42397. How brave.
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  42398.  @willarmendariz7663  Consult the statistics. Fathers generally do not want full custody, especially not when an "abuse or neglect" legal standard has not been met (and when there's no huge inheritence from a grandparent at issue, or something equally bizarre.) When they do, and they can present means and a home with two parents, they usually win.
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  42399.  @garrickrespress  People like to pretend stuff. Those who don't are odd, yes.
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  42400.  @Sara-he4dn  Agreed.
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  42401. Fun fact: the Left in France made it illegal to ask a minor about their vaccination status. It is a misdemeanor there.
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  42402.  @t.c.8837  A mother briefly lost custody for not being vaccinated. The father's attorney quickly stated that his side did not consider that relevant to their dispute and did not themselves cite her for it. The judge then reversed himself.
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  42403. I'd trust the mother's in-court statements, made under oath, much more than what she has to say outside of court as well, of course -- and for the same reason.
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  42404. This was nonsense.
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  42405. ​ @C_R_O_M________ No, because I read. It's a choice. You don't have to.
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  42406.  @danielmacmaster5822  I read three languages fluently, and have read thousands upon thousands of pages of history in two of them. But tell yourself something different.
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  42407. 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰
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  42408.  @shenebraskan4945  I know his work well, since before the Snowden revelations.
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  42409. Do you know how The New York Post reported this? That Petro "buckled" under Trump's demands and even offered his plane to transport Colombians.
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  42410. @gnlout  I haven't bothered to memorize one (and why would I?), but I do know I made specific comments to certain of his videos demonstrating that he was wrong. His "ditto heads" couldn't grasp it. I recommend spending a year with Shakespeare and Plato, as a detox. Don't waste more of your time. All he is doing is pandering to your prejudices and making bank. This has gotten out of hand.
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  42411. @gnlout  What bearing does that have? Strawman: Who supports Hamas? It's like pretending any critique of Kamala is misogynistic or Klan inspired.
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  42412.  @gnlout  Scents or ship, again. I mentioned Neve Gordon
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  42413.  @gnlout  This scents erring is too frustrating. I'm out of here. Good luck.
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  42414. @gnlout  Blocked
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  42415. 🤣 that was good
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  42416. ​ @kareemi7080 Actually, I have no idea what you mean.
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  42417. Not to mention that it was an utter disgrace.
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  42418. Why? It's not meritless on its face.
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  42419.  @PuddilyOops  I want to see pushback on mining anti-social media for "gotcha" moments, like the DNC crowd typically does. You wouldn't have had the nerve to do what she did. So, let them vote her down. No big deal.
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  42420.  @d-law868  Nonsense. Hawley said: "force her to admit" SORRY, BUB -- we have a Fifth Amendment. His role isn't to make her talk, it's to vote her down based on her answers/nonanswers/qualifications or lack thereof. Would you cower to a Senator? How about to Biden or Harris? I hope I wouldn't. No one here has principles. You're all nuts at this point . . .
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  42421.  @d-law868  Well, I hate to go that far, but . . . I don't like cancel culture, I don't like woke-ism, I don't like kowtowing to anybody, especially a politician, and I don't like how any of that junk is tolerated as long as a person appears to be "on our side." I remember when what appeared on social media was at least in theory your own business, unless you deliberately made it public and sought a spotlight.
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  42422.  @d-law868  Cancel culture has three extra letters . . . it's a cancel cult.
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  42423. ​ @kforest2745 Under Section 230, YouTube is perfectly welcome to remove a factual video, at their own initiative and discretion, with no liability. How can anyone not know??
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  42424. ​ @donrayjay kforest has no idea what he's talking about. Section 230 provides that YouTube can remove any video it likes.
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  42425. ​ @cassiescornerreviews6884 You're the one who posted smears about a murder victim.
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  42426. ​@nominalvelocity Section 230 allows all social media to remove anything they desire, at their discretion. So this person is spreading disinfo.
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  42427. ​ @Addission17  I hope you don't mean that you feel shame because you're Jewish. No. Please. No.
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  42428. Transparency and limited power? Now is a good time to read the Church Committee report.
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  42429. ​ @SpaciousSelf-gx9hc Cutty pastey. We can paste too: “When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
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  42430. ​@fredogee8108 No they didn't, except figuratively.
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  42431.  @elmersbalm5219  Nice point. Love it.
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  42432.  @sheridandoor1378  You're right. Lord, this one brief thread describes exactly how we live. A pandemic would have sobered them up, you would think . . .
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  42433.  @pizza4me298  Like I said, this is a great thread. :)
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  42434. WHO thinks other countries do not have their own intelligence services take polls for the purpose of predicting our presidential elections? Friends as well as foes? Can you be serious?
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  42435. I think they have been separated for a while, but . . . ? This is all personal stuff. I don't know what's true or who knew what.
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  42436. Let me see if I understand. A great, noble, hard-working person gets an Internet smear mob after her, so . . . DNC immediately throws her under the bus. That's what happened? Oh okay. Now I get it.
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  42437. Eurovision, Russia, weaponized disability . . . Clearly an exquisite corpse.
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  42438. @fenix6297  1) I didn't say you did. You said the OP's post referred to "Wall Street firms not hiring pro-Hamas grads." Hence I posed a well-founded question, based on your post. I didn't assume YOU thought the students' statement was indeed "pro-Hamas." I don't know your thoughts. 2) My comment about consequences was addressed to the OP. Your remarks to me are all non sequiturs. OP appears not to know that speech on political matters is indeed free of plenty of "consequences." That's the whole point of freedom of speech and expression. And if OP is just trotting out mindless slogans, why do you think he knows to make fine distinctions? Also, and this is addressed to you, none of these principles are "tidbits." I think I made a good recommendation to OP to wrap his head around some serious grappling with free speech, for a general perspective. I think everyone should read that case -- especially the concurrence. The fact that it deals with criminal law is important for the holding, of course, but the wider context is important as well. Valuing free speech as an integral part of our culture is crucial to its continued existence. In fact, that's exactly what Greenwald discussed in a serious way tonight. This show is just taking people down the wrong road . . . again. And making money doing it. But they call on someone else not to have a job. Risible!
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  42439.  @fenix6297  You seem not to know what assumptions are, as distinguished from, say, questions. Does that work out for you? 😂
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  42440.  @fenix6297  You're right, I do not suffer from self-loathing. I lived in Paris long enough to be definitively cured of that.
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  42441.  @veritas220  Nope, Paris IV
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  42442. @davemarolda5612  It also doesn't mean you can coerce a college to publish lists of members in student organizations. Remember when some of the really prestigious ones were secret? Skull and Bones rings a bell?
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  42443. I kept telling you all that Brie does not vote Biden. 😏
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  42444. And will she also bomb countries she can't find on the map?
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  42445. McCarthyism had the same basis: the USSR was growing far faster than expected following WWII. Consider who they are censoring --- the most competitive.
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  42446. Not a criminal case. Why do you think so?
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  42447. To vaccinated grandma or teachers?
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  42448.  @aileenpi73  How much risk should young children be forced to bear to protect the elderly? Actually, not protect, but reduce the risk to the elderly. Minors can't choose.
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  42449.  @aileenpi73  I think the two sides to that equation need to be practically none on the young child side, and great reduction on the elderly side. The burden of proof is on the proponent. That's why patients sign consent forms.
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  42450. Buttigieg is on parental leave. C'mon guys, don't you like children?
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  42451.  @reddirtwalker8041  If a corporation will not interview you unless you have a degree, then a corporation will not interview you unless you have a degree.
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  42452. "Disagree with the analysis?" Has anyone done a fair and careful analysis?
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  42453. Well, apparently you read the factual allegations much more carefully than half the newscasters and other talking heads did.
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  42454. Where did Greenwald say reporting on the investigation, etc., is inappropriate? How could it be? The issue is whether everyone, even Gaetz, is entitled to a presumption of innocence.
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  42455. The hysteria surrounding this case has to do with the one thing no one is allowed to mention. None of us actually knows how either of these people died. I hope we find out.
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  42456. Charlie Hebo did.
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  42457.  @lord6617  Yup. Resourceful!
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  42458. So, what's the real reason Musk gets these contracts? That's the really interesting part, huh?
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  42459. Actually, it doesn't. It has to maintain dollar hegemony, however. Losing that would mean inflation.
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  42460. In six years? We have no idea what it will be worth.
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  42461. Honorary? LOL, good one.
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  42462. Great presentation. Love the calm tone. Thank you for bringing attention to this case. Just subscribed.
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  42463. We eradicated competition? Competition has never been harsher. The top three quintiles used to have a perfectly decent, secure life. Now only the top 10% do, and that's declining fast. This is ALL bull.
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  42464. I downloaded the indictment and plan to look for this.
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  42465. ​ @shilpajain2276 You have to substitute something else. There must be something you love to do. Now you have the time.
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  42466.  @JonROlsen  Does that make 1400 equal 2000?
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  42467.  @kg-ke1fw  Ha, ha, ha. Thanks. Comic relief feels great.
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  42468. Remember when Musk got away with defaming the British caver Vernon Unsworth? Unsworth helped rescue the Thai schoolboys trapped in a cave. Musk is a fraud. He pushed one of the two actual founders of Tesla out of the company with money he got with Peter Thiel. His cars depreciate about 5 times faster than a Ford. He is constantly in court due to near-criminal business practices. Nearly all of Tesla's profits are from trading emissions credits, and Musk's biggest contracts are government contracts. A creature of the Deep State, a poseur.
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  42469. What is your relationship with France?
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  42470. Try to find qualified people to teach in community college. I will never do it again, except in an underserved, minority community. Resentful kids surrounded by affluent neighbors (who went away to school) are impossible to deal with, post-2016. I may teach in prison, like Chris Hedges does. I wish we had the Rutgers program where I live.
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  42471. "Look over there, a Hamas squirrel!"
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  42472. "They're not the Asian police." LOL "
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  42473. Examples??
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  42474. Prove it.
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  42475. I'm not at all surprised that Glenn raised these questions. He has lived in Brazil for years now. Today, it is much more accepted to speak frankly about sexuality and social psychology in an intellectual way in any Latin culture than in the US. Not only that, but Anglo-Americans are far more susceptible to peer pressure than people in pretty much any other major society. See David Riesman et al., "The Lonely Crowd." It's about 70 years old. In other words, this isn't new.
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  42476. The police need to stop creating then desecrating corpses.
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  42477. No he is not. The Supreme Court just struck down Chevron deference to the administrative agency monster, and struck down the OSHA rules as well. So, we have the legal foundation to address this problem in place. Musk has NO idea what he's doing. If he guesses right sometimes, it's blind luck. Marianne is right.
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  42478. But MSM lied about their credentials. Why? For something anyone can find out.
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  42479.  @WarmodeEngaged  It could be true people tried to buy horse paste for their own use. That was what the mainstream media reported about Rogan. Rogan never said he used any such thing, or ever would. He considered it a vicious smear.
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  42480.  @cliffordrobinson3907  🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 American multimillionaires EATING HORSEY PASTE!! STOP THE PRESSES!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  42481.  @cliffordrobinson3907  Fancy way: non sequitur; popular way: Whoosh! 🤣🤣🤣 BTW, I don't even know who that other one you mention is. Millionaires have entirely different health care, as was obvious from the start. They brought Trump back from the brink with a short hospital stay, Gavin Newsom was never afraid to go to a fancy restaurant, the very aged Nancy Pelosi got her hair done maskless, etc. All even before vaccines. And no, horse paste was not on the menu. I have relatives outside the country who told me how Pfizer was administered to them. If I tell you, I know I'll be censored. BTW, I don't have much faith in Rogan because he appears to support recreational psychedelics. But I know he did not take horse paste. Pathetic!
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  42482.  @cliffordrobinson3907  What they did was cause ordinary people to take horse paste. Not Rogan. Mainstream idiot media did that, by falsely stating Rogan did. You can't keep lying, bro.
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  42483.  @MsAppassionata  Well, that's terrible. What can I say?
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  42484. YOU shouldn't like any of this, unless you suffer from self-hate. This is the best the US can do? This?
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  42485. This proves those nice labs are good for humanity.
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  42486. Yes, there has been an ongoing "genetic supremacy" discourse from Trump -- and if he recovers quickly, that is exactly what I expect from him, more coded language about what a "superior specimen" he is. He will exploit it for sure.
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  42487. Likud bots in the house.
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  42488.  @bentritle9221  2:57 Was pretty great. Unless you vote Blue no matter who. She even gave Reagan credit.
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  42489. That's even easier.
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  42490. What will it take for people to realize how deeply disturbed most of these billionaires are? A few more Epsteins, a few more pandemics, a few more upward transfers of wealth? How many? How many are enough?
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  42491. A civil rights lawsuit can be brought against anyone who deprives a person of their rights while acting "under color of any statute, regulation, custom, or usage" of any state or subdivision of a state. They figured out that it wasn't just "laws" a long time ago.
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  42492. Okay, but I get the feeling that person was envious in that moment. He may even like you and usually be rooting for you, and have good suggestions. In that moment, he was envious. How can that be, if he is indeed the stronger artist? Easily. There is charm -- and power -- in being the one who is the relative novice, who is learning, and learning quickly, who is closer to beginner's mind. You're welcome. 😊
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  42493. To me it sounds more and more like the establishment is laying the foundation for another big war. The chances of avoiding war have certainly declined. 27:25
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  42494.  @waynemorgan6153  Exactly. I don't disagree with the broader point. OP is right about all of it except the part about onlookers stepping in with potentially lethal force absent imminent threat to life or limb. The self-defense/defense of others laws are crystal clear.
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  42495.  @waynemorgan6153  I support the mayor this time, who asked people to cool it and wait for a calm investigation, and not be prejudiced concerning what happened. I don't agree with taking sides now, or calling the Marine a vigilante. What I said. :/
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  42496. Briahna, you never heard of Munchausen by proxy?
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  42497. Perfect clip for Stef to comment on . . . Still watching . . . Yup, perfect.
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  42498. That low? Where did you find this??
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  42499.  @TheCommuted  I found some stuff at the Federal Reserve Board. Even the median at age 65 is horrible. How will these people live?
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  42500. @kommisar.  It has bearing on the criminal justice system and on whether law enforcement is provided where needed. That's not who had to answer.
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  42501.  @da9el1  Evidence?
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  42502.  @da9el1  Show us these societies, and let's see whether this slogan makes any sense. There was a time when Americans had the "freedom" to own slaves. It was no one's business but their own. Then also a time when they could manipulate the stock market, or enter into agreements later made illegal by antitrust laws, etc. Let the buyer beware.
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  42503.  @da9el1  Does a high degree of equality make each vote count more equally, or do concentrations of wealth lead to greater efficacy in lobbying and other ways for the few to influence public policy? Which leads to greater freedom?
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  42504. Well, when it comes to significant viral illnesses, the typical pattern for women is to have a less severe illness, but a longer period of time to full recovery. Men get sicker, and, when comparing men and women with the same severity of illness, the men get well quicker. Nothing new about this. Not only that, but women are more vulnerable to social stress, and to worry about being viewed as "disobedient," so when you add in what the government did to people for two years now . . . It's all too real. Chronic stress is not good for recovering from any illness.
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  42505. No, the election is structured to prevent it. We do not have a democratic system.
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  42506.  @jhpaq  There are no anti vaxxers running.
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  42507.  @traru4  He might mean shut up and bend over but I still have hope he doesn't.
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  42508. @observer8736  Replied, hope it's up.
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  42509. Aaron Mate scopes ANOTHER crucial story of our time. Thank you, Aaron.
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  42510. Was COVID an accident or a dress rehearsal?
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  42511. Jimmy Dore just had Convo Couch election observers on, who told the truth about Nicaragua, the Sandinistas, and the criminal sanctions against Third World peoples, which are acts of war. You guys planning to comment?
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  42512. The vaccine, because of how it is engineered, cannot give you COVID, but it is not so great at preventing infection. It is supposed to be over 90% effective in preventing severe COVID and death. Strange, since people under 30 already have that much resistance to severe COVID and death. People under 45 or 50 may also. Once you hit 50 and over for men, 60 for women, you see much more severe COVID, and more death. Long COVID might be worse than we think, and much more widespread, and the vaccine is supposed to prevent long COVID.
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  42513. Global inequality was unsustainable BEFORE the pandemic.
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  42514. My state allows certain tasers (not the same ones as LE carries) with a FOID card.
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  42515. The Iran-Contra mistake is baffling.
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  42516. ​@zyrrhos She added a third paragraph that rounded out the thought very nicely.
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  42517. Yeah, and federal prison. In lockdown.
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  42518.  @gsausage  Are you serious? So, you're uninformed, but your lack of information is better than the actual workers' lack of information . . . How do you figure?
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  42519.  @gsausage  How so? Did you or did you not suggest unionization would spur automation, but you failed to consider a control group? As if those industries without unions are not as susceptible to losing their jobs due to automation, BUT because you don't know either way, you have thereby protect your initial assertion? No strawman, kiddo.
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  42520.  @gsausage  Oh I get it now. You protected yourself by saying "I wonder . . . " You're right, slick move. I wonder if unions will slow down the push for automation.
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  42521.  @gsausage  After all, most workplaces are not unionized, so I wonder why Eric Clift is still having to teach AI to deliver packages despite not being in a union. Huh. I wonder if a unionized worker could refuse. I mean I don't know. I wonder.
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  42522.  @gsausage  Except I really mean it. I wonder. I guess we have to find out in the real world? I "wonder." N. B. The second "wonder" is the fake one.
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  42523.  @gsausage  So you say "strawman" with no explanation, and deliberately protect your argument from being controverted, but I'm trying to sound smart? Oh brother.
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  42524.  @gsausage  P. S. I said suggest, I did not assert! 🤣
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  42525. @nick7072  I see you've misapplied the Precautionary Principle, which places the burden of proof exactly where it belongs, on the proponent of GMOs. We already know they've harmed agriculture. And in Europe, you can't slip them in. They have to be labeled.
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  42526.  @nick7072  I answered, but yt thought better.
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  42527. @nick7072  Apparently the Precautionary Principle is controversial.
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  42528. MASSIVE scents err ship here . . . Smh, the election is over.
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  42529. 😅😅😅
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  42530. Maybe what the elites are doing about climate change is to decrease the population?
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  42531. How were they initially able to hide what happened?
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  42532. @ninedaysjane2466  That someone presumes to judge someone else "because this one is just like one I married" certainly is risible.
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  42533.  @loralieisa  Thank you. I think this is solid advice at the moment. Precautionary Principle applies.
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  42534. Of course! The merits of Clinton, Trump, Biden, Epstein, Gates, Bezos, Musk, Pelosi, Ackman, Diamond, Fauci, Collins, and on and on and on are patent. 😂😂😂 Even this couple did very little research or writing post-doctorate. I don't understand why, they could have.
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  42535.  @andrewsteel5271  My first reply? I was giving you examples of how meritocratic we are.
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  42536. Why is it that non-Western, "collectivist" cultures are now producing the best mathematicians? (While we produce advertising, and ever better means of targetting it and distributing it?) Do you ever think about these things? You know, facts and all that?
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  42537. I don't believe this anymore. It's a false flag. It has got to be.
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  42538. That's all anyone ever talks about, are you kidding?
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  42539.  @justsomenobody889  You started out pretty good . . . oh well.
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  42540.  @justsomenobody889  You poor, poor dupe.
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  42541.  @justsomenobody889  No, "dupe" has no gender. Catherine Deneuve used the term when she was accused of disrespecting the MeToo movement in favor of sexist cultural norms (as in, "no, I am no one's dupe").
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  42542. @RichardHeadGaming  False. Ask a real lawyer. As a general rule, a private business can decide to hire anyone they chose, and it does not imply endorsement of that person's prior bad acts. There are certain exceptions, of course: hiring a convicted felon for a sensitive position where they may be in contact with vulnerable people is negligence. Armed security guard would be an example; advertising spokesmodel would not.
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  42543. @RichardHeadGaming  Of course, you can sue, but the corporation would have the suit dismissed and get court costs from you. It might even ask the court to fine the lawyer for filing frivolous lawsuits.
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  42544. @RichardHeadGaming  Oh I see. Sorry you stumbled upon a source that was careless. Could happen to anyone, especially nowadays.
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  42545.  @cynthiakeller5954  Oh, she's got a great federal lawsuit against the school! It is worth downloading and reading. Reason magazine has it up. Really hard-hitting.
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  42546. Well, how can we tell what 148 blank pages used to be? They can call it anything.
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  42547. Depends on what the meaning of is is.
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  42548. You do notice the advertising continues during these videos. But the revenue sharing agreement is suspended.
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  42549. Tremendous point.
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  42550. The torture is extrapolated, however. They locked us indoors and drove us crazy, too.
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  42551.  @Games_and_Music  Great. A nation of gun owners, and no one seems to know that this is a bright line rule: you can't use lethal force in defense of mere property, only in defense of persons. If the kids did not put anyone at risk of physical harm, then it was ILLEGAL to shoot them. That's why it's called self-defense.
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  42552. Can you be a terrible wife and great mother? I think so.
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  42553.  @TheTechnocrat78  Not tired enough
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  42554.  @polly6336  Of course it wasn't put in place for this incident. If she had been extradited, her attorney would have asserted immunity, and the court would have granted it.
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  42555.  @chrism7969  I'm not a utilitarian, so a pure accident that results in death is not morally worse than a reckless act that simply injures someone. The recklessness is worse. Accidents are tragedies. My life would be changed forever if a suicidal person jumped in front of my car, or a child raced after a ball and there was no way to avoid hitting them -- even if they recovered. But whether or not they died, I would not be culpable. I'd be the physically intact and thoroughly traumatized victim.
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  42556.  @chrism7969  I was so scared of hitting a kid when I first started driving that I developed a sixth sense about what a kid might do, or where a kid I didn't see might be coming from. I can't even tell you all the accidents I've avoided. It's uncanny. I avoid small animals, too. It's called luck, at least in part.
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  42557.  @chrism7969  I think you're right about what is a true "accident," actually. Brakes failing when you always maintained your vehicle properly is a good example. I'd have to think through the rest. Recklessness is a different state of mind than negligence, and gives rise to very different charges. I think that's right. But brakes failing unexpectedly is not even negligence. Maybe it is only not-even-negligence that merits no criminal punishment. I have to agree with that. Anyway, as I said, that someone like her cannot get immunity in the future is a very good thing. The family's shock must be horrible.
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  42558. @Tronald Dump Immunity was reinstated on appeal.
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  42559.  @aarondavis8943  They shouldn't have, but . . . Anyway. The claim is that the law has been changed.
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  42560. Good inside info from Grim.
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  42561. It's working for a lot of people. The top ten percent have unimaginable affluence, and that's over 30 million people, a decent-sized country. They don't live in the world you see here. Some of them are thinking of a way to cash in; don't think none of their portfolios have shares of gun manufacturers in them. Their brokers make sure they do.
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  42562.  @nathanfielure4305  Me too. I'm emigrating by 2024, and it feels akin to leaving a domestic abuser. It's only hard for a short time. Every "Next Big Thing" that was cooked up over the last four decades has "somehow" harmed my family. Somehow, someone always made a buck, though. Every time.
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  42563.  @marks3684  FALSE
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  42564. Give me a break. Or a stock tip. Or lotto numbers.
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  42565. In Europe, actual Communist Party members opposed vaccine mandates. Most of what happens in the Five Eyes is usually different from what happens anywhere else.
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  42566.  @tedmarley4341  What happened to the pregnant 10 year old child is what. Good that people finally shuddered and voted.
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  42567. BRICS
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  42568.  @jessd4048  How many times a year do we take polio vaccines? How common are breakthrough infections? I didn't know those vaccines could cause myocarditis, menstral issues, alopecia, and false positive mammograms. Never heard about it. Hm. Of course, there were some contaminated polio vaccines, with a potentially dangerous simian virus, and a whole generation was closely watched for years, for signs of excess cancer. It appears nearly everyone's body simply cleared the simian virus. This hasn't been an issue in a very long time. There have been recent issues with the vaccines used in Africa causing injuries, but I don't see why that should matter, to us. /s Anyway, as we all know, medicine is one size fits all. Your body, my choice. Or maybe Biden's choice.
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  42569.  @charlesk2270  You're believing this?
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  42570. "Chez Rob" is over by Rob['s]. We say that in the States, or at least in the Midwest.
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  42571. @rodneydunn1419  Agreed. As Emmanuel Todd said (rough translation), all the reasonable people have left. Actually, some are left but I fear for them.
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  42572. @hmmmmmmminteresting  We were discussing Israeli Jews who refuse to be complicit. I met one who left Israel in 1983 because he considered it a "fascist apartheid state" -- his exact words. Another Israeli I knew in the 1990s predicted disaster the first time Netanyahu was elected. I thought that after Rabin was assassinated, the fissures in Israeli society became apparent. It's also apparent who the US has chosen to support.
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  42573. Peltier just got clemency, not a pardon. He remains convicted, but at least he gets to go home in peace, time served. Biden could have done this four years ago. It was done for many elderly people during the pandemic for compassionate reasons.
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  42574. La Marseillaise. It's the only anthem. 😊
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  42575. One in ten women with long COVID after giving birth is not a high number at all. Post-viral syndrome is well known, particularly in women. It's common for women (not "pregnant people") to have a less severe case of any major viral illness, but then a longer and slower recovery.
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  42576.  @marshalljulie3676  Sure is.
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  42577. Don't believe this report. They aren't telling you the truth.
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  42578. A six-week embryo does not have a heart yet. Early fetuses that we are permitted to abort in many states do have hearts. Those are the biological facts.
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  42579.  @xijujangliti4906  I'm not extreme. In Europe, elective abortion of fetuses is strongly disfavored, legally and culturally. Embryos are a different matter, for a reason. About the time the embryo has a four-chambered heart, it becomes a fetus and the risk of miscarriage drops to a fraction of what it was at 6 weeks. That is biology, not ideology. BUT HAVE IT YOUR WAY. It has to be your way. I know.
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  42580. She misrepresented this case. It's a First Amendment case, not a due process case. There is no way in which Heard, or anyone, deprived Depp of due process. Her time line is botched as well, which (in law) actually matters. When someone (Depp) sues another person (Heard) for defamation, they are asserting that the First Amendment does not protect that person's (Heard's) speech.
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  42581. I understand that Emily is not a lawyer, but I've never seen basic rights trashed like they've been trashed over the past two years, since the COVID lockdowns, and we just have more and more little mobs forming, as if no one sees through it. Her pretending to be defending "due process" is rich. Nope, she's arguing against the First Amendment.
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  42582.  @erikaoliver2591  This is the misunderstanding. If they were both abusive, her article is true, hence protected speech. Consider this: a man abuses his wife, and goes to prison for it. He writes a memoir, telling the history of their relationship, and all about the abuse he suffered at her hands, both physical and psychological, including some strange things she did to goad him. He tells the truth -- the facts are all accurate, and his opinions are his own. Free speech? YES, it IS. I was also opposed to suspending the Fifth Amendment to make Brian Laundrie's parents talk, "just this once . . . for Gabby." Depp decided to sue to be able to say these things about Heard without being vulnerable to suit himself. His testimony is immune from suit. Neat trick.
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  42583.  @erikaoliver2591  You don't have to be the victim to exercise your First Amendment rights. You could be giving worse than you got. Her article in fact states that she never saw herself as a victim. Think again about what you just said. ". . . her first amendment rights as the victim" Is that where we are? And for what? Druggie millionaires?
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  42584. I love the first thing Dr. Varma said.
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  42585. Why is autocorrect misspelling Newsom's name?
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  42586. @codythomas52  Then those witness reports concerning THIS incident are what matter to Penny's defense. Did you think you contradicted me?
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  42587. Gives new meaning to "school to prison pipeline." Does Snyder have stock in private prisons? Thirteen Amendment does not apply.
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  42588.  @manofsan  But what if it gives you a mild case that you might fail to detect? Or even an asymptomatic case? Then you are putting people in danger unknowingly, AND you think that you are safe because you are vaccinated. It needs to be made crystal clear that you are NOT safe.
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  42589. He was a coward.
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  42590. First Amendment. At least how it's interpreted.
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  42591. I love how you keep it simple and true.
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  42592. But is it true? Is it evidence-based? Genuine questions, not rhetorical ones. I want to know.
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  42593. If you wanted the girls from the most obnoxious sorority to run every aspect of your life, starting with your most personal decisions about your health . . .
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  42594. I expect they will be sued.
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  42595. @@user-ov7nq3wr2n No. It needs to be sued. This supervisor was repeatedly reported. They understand money, don't they? Every political side's money is green.
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  42596. Oh, BODY LANGUAGE. Enough with pseudoscience. A lie detector, which is highly unreliable, has a stronger basis in science.
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  42597. @LD-tn6ff  He states he will address them, and address regulatory capture, and he understands the issues because he has litigated them. But since you press me, do I think anyone can stop the juggernaut? No. Parents are on their own. Everyone is. Leadership in the right direction might slow the decline.
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  42598.  @LD-tn6ff  Exercise has PLENTY to do with anxiety, mood, and self-regulation. That you don't think so is part of the problem.
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  42599. Let me see if I understand. RFK Jr is willing to debate people who smear him, but scientists are too Big and Important to debate him. They won't perform the public service of showing new parents how RFK Jr is wrong, after this pandemic fiasco. And Kennedy's father and uncle were both assassinated, so smearing RFK Jr is no big deal. Okay, got it.
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  42600. He was excellent here.
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  42601. @mr.e1026  She didn't "speak her mind." She failed miserably in explaining First Amendment law and exactly how and when and where it protects free speech on campus, and when speech can be subject to discipline.
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  42602.  @Dimera09  I suggest you read about what happened in that incident, and who provoked it and how. You might start with the article in The Guardian for a quick synopsis.
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  42603. Martial arts: to break a board, aim beyond the board. Always.
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  42604. Oh yeah? AP is elective, and is supposed to lead to college credit. The College Board sets the standard for curriculum and the AP test. The College Board is a private organization. The job of a governor is to ensure truth in advertising, not to censor. These are ELECTIVE courses. If the courses do lead to college credit, and there are teachers who want to teach and students who want to study, that is all that matters. If the courses do not lead to college credit as promised, they should not be allowed to go forward, revised or not.
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  42605.  @hemihead001  This is America. Do as you're told.
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  42606.  @HeavyMetal45  I don't say "pregnant people." I don't take orders from anyone to accept a vaccine, or any other medical intervention. But what if a cop says I have to? Then what?
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  42607.  @HeavyMetal45  When you are at your job, are you "trespassing?" Wouldn't your employer have to let you know that you needed to get off the premises first, or could they just call in some armed people you've never seen before to order you off? If they have a uniform, you comply? Well, tenure is a bigger stake in a job than an employer-employee relationship. An employee can be fired much more easily. They would still have to be asked to leave by their employer before being physically touched by anyone.
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  42608.  @keep-ukraine-free  Some people like bullying, and they live to see others bullied.
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  42609. Thank you.
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  42610.  @DIVISIONINCISION  Quit lying to people. How do you think a previous generation survived WWII? With that idiot ideology of every man for himself? These aren't normal times, and we are all wrapped up in pretending they are. We are still whistling in the dark.
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  42611. Worse than that -- you must hate, shun, and slander anyone who points this out. Even if they oppose Republicans and advocate for a third party. Interesting, huh?
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  42612. 💯 Brie
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  42613. Why? People do what they do for love or money, and these people have one of those two.
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  42614. We don't count.
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  42615. A conjecture that has no known exceptions needs to be proved, because there are infinitely many integers. Proving the conjectured holds for all positive integers is the problem.
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  42616. Biden will keep every promise he made . . . To WALL STREET.
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  42617. How would you know?
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  42618.  @Astro1645  You will make an excuse for anything. Why?
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  42619. Acosta quotes Malinowski either because he is dumb, or because Malinowski passes along stock tips.
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  42620. "She" started the Viagra rumor, was fired, and then hired by Hillary? Are you sure "she/her" are the right pronouns?
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  42621. The question was whether left-wing policies are part of a death cult or life-affirming.
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  42622. She has a poor record for veracity, as it turns out. So, an immigrant comes to the US, is fortunate enough to be accepted to one of the finest private Ivy-League universities in the nation, which has been here since the time of Washington and Jefferson, she has nothing good to say about it, nothing nuanced, claims that she was as oppressed as in North Korea(!), and you praise her because the media made you think she's "on your side?" She's on the side of making bank. If she was so oppressed, would she have spent four years there? Why not transfer? More oppression Olympics. Don't kick George Santos out of Congress. What would be the point? Columbia exists since the 18th century, and she just got here. Where is your pride?
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  42623. ​ @burmy1552  No I didn't. Don't you know by now that active links are usually shadowed, being objectively hard to monitor for TOS violations? But for this one, you don't even need keywords. The search could not be simpler. She herself pled memory lapses due to her youth and trauma. Be duped. No one cares. You are getting what you deserve.
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  42624.  @burmy1552  All you know are slogans about "adults," blah blah.
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  42625.  @Fowlesr40  Because she is not telling the truth. And it's not all right. How can anyone praise a person who had absolutely nothing good to say about going to Columbia? Zero nuance? She didn't meet a single American who was appalled by censorship, and who wanted to do something constructive to oppose it? Well that's funny. Some of the most gifted Americans in history were alumni of that school. Suddenly we need her to trash it, to set those Americans straight. Please. I know you don't approve of that. I can tell.
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  42626. Well, rents are the result of market forces. Apparently, a lot of rich people want to live there. If they didn't, rents would fall.
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  42627. Now you know why they cannot admit the true origin of this virus. Now is a good time to reread Glenn Greenwald: Liberty and Justice for Some Find out how the powerful are shielded from having to take any responsibility for their actions, while we suffer for our own mistakes and theirs, of course. Someone has to. It won't be them.
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  42628. I got COVID. I didn't die from it.
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  42629. NO NOMIKI, the allegation is that she made up a story about Garth plotting against her. Lord have mercy.
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  42630. "Bending" and the f-word in the same sentence, oops.
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  42631.  @tobywindgassen8427  What happens to the very few who are injured by the vaccines? We all know the answer, I hope. We should know.
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  42632. ​ @petebusch9069  I bet you think you work hard. I bet you just dislike your job.
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  42633. ​ @stephenievee1126 Nah. The French have verve. Americans go the drug route.
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  42634. ​​ @petebusch9069 "Learn to work smart, not hard?" Is your job recycling the most insipid slogans?
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  42635. ​@Kuulei265 The US cannot reduce military spending. The armed forces prop up the dollar.
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  42636.  @armandovillanueva7164  Chat GPT?
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  42637. This is a big, fat lie. A big proportion of those protesting in New York are Jewish. This is fundraising for the campaign, lol.
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  42638. Check Open Secrets to see how much money politicians get from billionaires. Some have given over $91 MILLION to one side during a single presidential election cycle.
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  42639. He explained that. We need stuff. We can't live more resourcefully. He's not lying. 😒
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  42640. But they will be covered by M4A.
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  42641. 9:56 Is this what you mean?
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  42642. Most of what Trump said was reprehensible, but it is First Amendment protected speech. Pressuring state officials to dig up some votes is a different matter. That is not free speech, that is tampering with the vote count. I can't understand why his beliefs about whether he won are relevant. Please explain this to me.
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  42643. Liberty CON 😂😂😂😂😂 Truth
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  42644. @Verysimpleinvesting  No, the US-led coup started the war in 2014. Russia escalated it and changed its scope and character. I don't believe it had to have, not at that juncture. Abby Martin and Chris Hedges are basically correct.
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  42645.  @Verysimpleinvesting  You say your war materiel investments are going well . . .
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  42646.  @evolvedape3341  This guy claims Putin is behind Hamas.
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  42647.  @Verysimpleinvesting  No, my substantive post is the one that was deemed unacceptable. The nonsense one got through. Get it?
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  42648.  @Verysimpleinvesting  See how your insults are fine, too?
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  42649. The story sounds like a new scheme to boost certain stocks. That's usually it.
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  42650. Oh my goodness. Good job. No, I am impressed. 🤣
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  42651.  @davidlazarus67  Notice how quickly the misrepresentation comes?
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  42652. Kim was the only person I know who grasped Depp v. Heard was not a men's rights case or a MeToo case. It was not about the (sordid) people but about a piece of writing. It was a First Amendment case.
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  42653. Nope. We hoped we could scare them a little.
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  42654. @user-ux8nr2ej9e  Sure they do. They are supporting coercion because they like coercion. They are adept at dressing it up to look like something noble, as are so many people these days.
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  42655. I expect normal discourse. "Hey, science and innovation is a great thing." "You know. Big things you wanna do that are big." "Robert Kennedy Jr. was advising him that vaccines were causing bad things." "I told him that was a bad thing, don't do that." These are quotes from Bill Gates. Sounds like he has what Biden has. Actually, Gates sounds worse.
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  42656. They have.
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  42657. Ironic that the very people critical of US policy toward Ukraine are the ones who see that the West's idiotic pandemic response strengthened the BRICS. Maybe we need to listen to Max? Yeah, maybe.
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  42658. Not what Chauvin said when he pled guilty in federal court. Federal plea agreements require an admission to the facts of what you yourself agree you did. But those stories don't bring in the 💰 huh?
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  42659. ​@wilsonsmanz "Vaccine" is not a magic word. Every medication that merits the name "vaccine" does not necessarily have all the characteristics of the best vaccines. Some vaccines actually improve immunity to infections overall, not just creating immunity to the microbe the vaccine is aimed at. Seems that others don't. Look up the 1976 swine flu rush to develop a vaccine that ended up causing neurological damage and had to be withdrawn.
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  42660. There is no explaining this, other than PROPAGANDA. Only propaganda could produce this faux consensus. Rational thinking never could.
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  42661. When was that?
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  42662.  @vaguelymodest6239  Let's do the British empirical thing and try lifting all sanctions to see what happens.
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  42663.  @vaguelymodest6239  I have an even better idea: let's ask them. Who do you think you are to make these pronouncements anyway?
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  42664.  @vaguelymodest6239  We'll see what happens to empire when the dollar loses its primacy as the global reserve currency. Picture the tent cities. Won't that be fun?
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  42665. We are on the same page!!
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  42666.  @saintcruzin  Maybe Trump would have never been elected -- nor Hillary, for that matter.
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  42667. Sure. Just like it's. Or is that it-s?
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  42668. You need to re-edit ALL of this.
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  42669. @AG-en5y  Oh please. And Gloria Steinem, that ex-CIA operative, said women were for Bernie Sanders in order to meet boys.
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  42670. They have been essential in mainstreaming children with various handicaps and delays, who can complete the basic curriculum and don't want to be hidden away somewhere. They provide funding, so that local property taxes don't have to bear the burden. The law also gives parents rights in helping to design the program for their child. Supreme Court cases on the issue have often been unanimous.
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  42671. I provided an answer. I hope you're allowed. To see it.
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  42672. There was a strange case of a disturbed mother in upstate New York who killed her toddler and buried her body, and when the community became determined to find the child, the mother started to believe she could be found alive. Hillary reminds me of her.
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  42673. Oh, more mergers will definitely help Americans. /s
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  42674. 😂
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  42675. Ever heard of the Blue Flu?
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  42676.  @matthewkopp2391  Well, but at that time from an exceptionally small base. Still, it's true. I have a very old Samuelson economics textbook, and it had a realistic take on "guns vs. butter;" the fact is, no society either coerced into an arms race or choosing to engage, or some combination of the two, can ever take care of its people. Somehow we have lost sight of that basic fact. "Somehow." And then people are shocked (not "shocked, shocked") to find that Big Tech is colluding with the MIC, when they promised us Things Would Be Different This Time. It's where capital goes to be wasted. (Things are different; they're worse.)
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  42677. If they make "jungle noises?"
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  42678. Because anything can be twisted. Truly, anything.
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  42679.  @HeribertoPabon-bq6cv  I wish you were right. Unfortunately. . . .
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  42680. Remember -- the insurance company paying your doctors' bills has two material interests: to see that you either never get sick, or, if you do get sick, that you die real fast. "TINA" ("there is no alternative")
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  42681. Try weally weally hard to get her cancelled.
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  42682.  @snuffeldjuret  Well then, what are you waiting for? Up your game.
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  42683.  @snuffeldjuret  But you just had to dip your toe in the water. 🤣 Listen, we all do it occasionally. But not for, say, cancel culture, yeesh.
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  42684.  @PlayShorts3  You got it. 🤣
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  42685.  @snuffeldjuret  I understand innuendo, insinuation, and other such rhetorical moves. I bet you do, too.
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  42686.  @snuffeldjuret  You have a point there.
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  42687. Er, no, not exactly. The federal government made whole all of the depositors in SVB, not only those who had $250k per account, which is the FDIC limit. Say. Why comment if you didn't know that? I mean, seriously, why? Or at least get paid for the comment. Sheesh.
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  42688. WOW. No words. I knew we were being lied to, but to this extent? WOW.
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  42689. Exactly
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  42690. Oh wait. This is transphobic. Okay, that does it. Poll your trans friends and see how it originated. That will give us Science.
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  42691. How can she know that, when her life has led to a $100 million+ fortune?
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  42692. "The vaccine is our saviour" -- not an innocent mistake, but a fabrication. The fact sheets put out by all three manufacturers never promised any such thing, or even hinted that it was likely. The MSM and politicians did that.
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  42693. ​@silvercollector434 How was anyone able to persuade ANYONE of such a blatant lie? If people can be made to believe black is white and up is down, there is practically no hope left.
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  42694. @GiorgiNemsitsveridze  It is completely and utterly false. It is just another talking point, taking advantage of minds prepared to believe it based on the propaganda residue of the last Cold War. It has no bearing on reality, current or past.
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  42695. @Nackdad  Oh I know. Tragic, perilous times.
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  42696.  @mikef-gi2dg  What? Reading??
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  42697. EMDR, which involves no drugs, has had a similar success rate in treating PTSD. Comparing these psychedelics to the long-term use of various medications that are endorsed by conventional psychiatry, a handful of guided experiences with psychedelics sound like they could be safer. When it comes to the brain, first try no drugs, next try taking less.
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  42698. So . . . Biden has the power to embroil us in war, but not to secure the border. Oh. Okay, sure.
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  42699. ??? This is so anachronistic that I have no idea where to begin.
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  42700.  @johnmilner5485  I knew this. There is no firearm named "assault rifle." It's not a brand, a make or model, etc.
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  42701.  @wtice4632  Pfft. So, when people say, imprecisely and colloquially, that the assault weapons ban was tried, then was allowed to expire, they are signalling they're leftists? Or any politics, pro or con the ban? Then don't complain about pronouns.
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  42702. Oh!! I thought $600 was to fight terrorism! 🤣
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  42703. ​@gamehengeful Successful at what? It defeated Hitler without firebombing. (75%+ of all casualties inflicted on the Wehrmacht were by the Red Army) It prevented a nuclear exchange more than once. (See Arkhipov) It housed all of its people, and educated them in mathematics.
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  42704.  @gamehengeful  Yes, in two languages. Et vous?
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  42705. @gamehengeful  Granted, we have Facebook. And world reserve currency. And some 700 to 800 bases globally. A massive FIRE sector, unlike the world has ever seen. (Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate)
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  42706.  @gamehengeful  It's pretty obvious I've read a history book. Only an American could make a boneheaded retort like that.
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  42707. Fun fact: the USSR banned lobotomies a generation before the US did. That makes me 😂 somehow. It figures.
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  42708. I listen to Le Média, QG (Aude Lancelin), Clémentine Autain, LFI, and countless others, and this is what you found? Angela Davis was at Fête de l'Humanité this year, and that's mostly in English. You should find some real leftists. Just kidding, that's not your job.
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  42709. Police are permitted to lie to you. They are allowed to say anything to you, short of promising a particular legal result in exchange for information or a confession. This is one more reason NO ONE SHOULD EVER TALK TO THE POLICE.
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  42710. If he is so irrational, how did he ever win a single case against major global corporations, which have teams of outstanding lawyers? Has Caroline ever brought any cases against polluters? Working-class paralegal Erin Brockovich did more. 😒 The truthful way to handle this is to acknowledge the good, then calmly go through point by point on why he is nevertheless unqualified, and hammer it home. But that takes real work. This was a lazy smear. No wonder even Hegseth got in. What will it take to prove to you that these tactics do not work?
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  42711. Yeah. It took me a long time to realize that if I try pot, I'm not just finding out something cool and new. I am losing the knowledge I would have had of who I would have been if I had never tried pot. Same for every drug.
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  42712. Came here from Stephen F. Cohen's presentation at the 92nd Street Y in New York from a couple of years ago. People have got to see that.
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  42713.  @foop145  Firm on $2000 checks, firm on $15 minimum wage, firm on support for Social Security. In fact, none of the above.
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  42714.  @foop145  Proving themselves "politically competent" how? On Twitter? Trump was politically competent by that logic.
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  42715.  @foop145  How do I feel? If it's about feelings, I feel it is wrong for me to continue to live in this empire, and that I need to take steps to emigrate. Every point in your little litany has an asterisk. And the promise of $2000, quickly, was repeatedly made by Biden himself, as well as other Dems on the campaign trail and it was not true. Ha! Where's the $1400? And what happens when all the BACK RENT and property taxes come due? This is pathetic. Nominating Neera Tanden, for ANYTHING, much less OMB, shows a lack of commitment to Social Security and Medicare, by a candidate (i.e., Biden) who has repeatedly said they should go on the chopping block. Sorry if you don't get the message yet.
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  42716.  @foop145  Should we funnel it to people making $50k? Based on 2019 taxes? They haven't filed for 2020, so 2019 is a poor proxy for what is happening to them now. Perhaps some of them are currently in the position Angela Marsden described so well. You're a timewaster.
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  42717. Who else is in "bad faith" according to your standard? Krystal Ball, Kyle Kulinski, Katie Halper, Briahna Joy Gray, Max Blumenthal, Aaron Mate, Matt Taibbi, of course Glenn Greenwald, oh brother the list grows and grows, as well it should. There are a lot of places to hear an honest critique.
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  42718. Gee . . . What happened to "elect Biden and push him left?"
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  42719.  @foop145  Well, you are writing for someone other than me. Pfft.
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  42720.  @foop145  Opposing Tanden is a "purity test," now? I thought you were supposed to say "misogyny" and "woman of color." Better check on that. Might mean trouble.
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  42721.  @foop145  "100% bad faith" -- now who is invoking a PURITY test? All of you political trolls are alike. The Trumpists are exactly the same as the Clinton crowd -- accuse others of what you are doing and want to continue to do without scrutiny, and with impunity. The Rittenhouse supporters (!!! -- that he has any supporters) are at it, too.
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  42722.  @foop145  Okay. Now the swearing comes in. Always the same. Are you an algorithm? FYI, my family is in one of those places the US bombed with DU, and brilliant Americans cannot find on the map. I get most of my political theory in other languages, not English, much less from your YouTubers. In English, the formula is always the same. At least in French, etc., I'm sometimes surprised. I cannot fathom how anyone could vote for Trump. I don't jump all over them, I just don't understand. How did he always put it? "Sad!"
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  42723.  @foop145  I gave up on this brick before the middle. You don't interest me. You lost me with the multiple f***s.
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  42724.  @foop145  I didn't say you voted for Trump. Go back and check. Looks like the reading issues are your own.
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  42725.  @foop145  Look, I'm not interested in your [three letter word]. I think you're full of [four letter word]. I didn't say you're wrong, you keep making [four letter word] up. I said I don't care. If I got my $2000 check, or even a $1400 check, well then [four letter word] me. You remind me of Malvolio. You've read that pla . . . ugh, nevermind.
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  42726.  @foop145  "Biden . . . is skeptical [the $15 minimum wage] will pass as an add-on to COVID relief. If it doesn't, he's prepared to fight for it separately." This is hysterical. Someone is supposed to take a person who advances this "argument" seriously? If it isn't passed as part of the COVID relief, its chance of passing separately is essentially nil. He can force it through now, with reconciliation. Everyone knows this. And people are supposed to, what? Go to the trouble of addressing it? What for? Is Biden's warmongering is your favorite part of his record? Seems that might suit your belligerent mentality. Well, not belligerent by American standards, but globally speaking.
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  42727.  @foop145  I am sure I've talked to you, but you had a different name. Or, there's a text generator out there that you all use. The way you seize on a word or phrase, and misrepresent its reference, and go on and on about how great your arguments are and so forth, and how I haven't refuted your gish gallop. And of course you tried the swearing, insults, puffery, browbeating. You ALL do the same things. WAIT. Is it because you all . . . Are social distancing in the home?
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  42728. The MSM misled you yet again.
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  42729. ​ @Romans1.24-27 Well, not exactly. 66% voted for someone else in Round 1.
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  42730. Look, he added to the general and obvious condemnation of Santos, and the guest agreed wholeheartedly with Robbie. Even Bri laughed and agreed with some of it. Robbie's point is not bad at all, it's simply a relatively smaller one, this time.
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  42731. ​ @knyckname3295 Meats are low in Vitamin A.
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  42732.  @eggbenedict-gt7mw  It's true that there was a study that linked megadoses of Vitamin A with increased cancer rates in male smokers, while Vitamin A strictly from whole foods like spinach was beneficial. They are still unclear as to why.
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  42733. @mweskamppp  Anecdotes, if accurate, provide information that can lead to case studies. Case studies, if carefully done, can lead to testable hypotheses and population studies. Only the latter may be generalized. A case study only shows what is possible, not what is usual. VAERS and the yellow card system are "anecdotes." They are collected for a reason. Vaccines are supposed to be safe. Your parents' experience is what is supposed to happen.
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  42734. 💯
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  42735. She was a creep at the end.
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  42736. Bingo. I see it as the new eugenics.
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  42737. Where is the proof they had such relations at that point in his life, when he was underage? They married when he was 29.
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  42738. 100 -- 34 = 66. It's kinda that way.
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  42739. And not only that, but Hunter's laptop has all the earmarks of Russian disinformation . . . 😅
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  42740. You'll have to listen carefully, not text or sext or play Grand Theft Auto during the video. (Still possible? You tell me)
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  42741. If someone falls asleep in a drive thru trying to obtain food, call an ambulance. You don't know why he won't wake up. He could be a diabetic, for all you know. Let the paramedics determine what the problem is. An impaired driver who got drunk and then drove should have his car impounded. If he does not resist being deprived of his car, why would you even think to use force against him, or interfere with his person in any way? That arrest is "the answer" is nonsense. Liberty is more precious than property. When you take the car and ticket him, everyone stays safe. What more needs to happen? Getting the car back will not be cheap.
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  42742. This is an excellent clip, Joe said some excellent things, and I certainly voted it up right away, but if this is who you need to depend on as your best hope . . . oh my GOD.
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  42743. ​ @mournblade1066  In the US, the president is Commander in Chief and head of one branch of the three branches of government. We have a written constitution. His ceremonial role is not prescribed, as the last president and the current one show you, right in the face.
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  42744.  @kasiphia  I'm not the one who got it wrong.
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  42745. So the vaccine prevented severe COVID, which means vaccinated people with mild COVID were circulating in the population rather than testing and staying home. Those with a more severe case KNEW they had it and stayed home. I guess she can't think through the obvious?
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  42746. When did Canada take Alaska from Russia? Was this because of Navalny?
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  42747. Sounds fine to me. How are you feeling now?
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  42748. Hunter has a new gig as an artist. Sure Ukraine is safer, now.
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  42749. She understood perfectly.
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  42750.  @shishkabobby  Those votes were not for Biden, they were against the candidate who was even worse.
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  42751. If an employee can get more money and better working conditions, what is wrong with that?
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  42752. Well, I see Kim Iversen has a new video. Tootles, guys.
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  42753.  @BigB932  This is true.
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  42754.  @junglesuperstar9270  He's honorary Russian. /s
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  42755.  @junglesuperstar9270  America has a Nazi problem.
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  42756. ​ @katieritinka They are all nuts.
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  42757. ​@SunTingWong So then why do normal questions evoke your hostility?
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  42758. NSA, is that you? Again?
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  42759. @No Commentary Gaming Do tell us your politics. Include contact info.
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  42760.  Ryan Lee  Illogical.
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  42761. That was when he was Vice President. Should be double that now.
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  42762. Yes, but now I like Dickens. I didn't. Tolstoy sounds contemporary. In this particular presentation, that wss the difference.
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  42763. Simply find the complaints filed against Musk, starting with the suit filed by one of the actual Tesla founders, right up to the recent discrimination cases filed against Tesla, not to mention Neuralink administrative proceedings brought against it for mistreating primates. Does he know Musk isn't an engineer? He made his seed money with Peter Thiel. It was always about financial "engineering." Now is not the time for feelings. Show him the facts. Musk may be the very worst.
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  42764.  @AmericaRewind-db8ko  My real suggestion on what to do is ___________. Jeering? That's never __________.
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  42765. Yeah, yeah . . . But 4:30
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  42766. The letter after a "th," if there is one, is a vowel, not necessarily e. Anyway, that's my thought on this.
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  42767. They come up through the federal court system, or less commonly teaching constitutional law with experience in federal prosecution/litigation. But at least some of their experience is always federal.
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  42768. 3:12 Just get mad and stay mad, cover all your bases, never end up the last to know?
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  42769. Nonsense. You ignore the marginal value of a dollar. It is huge at $24k, essentially nothing at $24m. Dollars are not rigid yardsticks.
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  42770. Moderna in particular, yes. Pfizer in younger men than those in their 30s.
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  42771.  @wednesdayschild3627  We should have the best virologists. After all, we are creating these viruses.
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  42772.  @wednesdayschild3627  By the way, your post is misinformation.
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  42773. "Office holiday gathering," not a "party." This choice of words is a tell.
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  42774.  @JavierFernandez01  Strawman much? "Oh, maybe we should sterilize any little tomboy girls or effeminate kindergarten boys, they'll thank us, right? Right?" I'm sure the surgery is safer done early. And everyone envies child prodigies. This is the same thing. More or less. Unless you're a transphobe or something.
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  42775. Oh that image.
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  42776. Why would she be? Just how many people do you want to see in jail, and for how long?
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  42777. It is certainly starting to look that way, no joking.
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  42778.  @YayChristina  Okay, if amerloques don't understand sarcasm, they certainly will miss deadpan.
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  42779. No agency did start to investigate the problem. The President's nominees were all just confirmed by the Senate to head the various agencies and departments. Perhaps it would make sense to seek out their views on how to improve efficiency and cut costs? Why do you think Patel and Gabbard immediately told their employees not to respond? Because they want to hide fraud?
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  42780. Any statistic that does not break down deaths by age, sex, and comorbidity is misleading.
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  42781. It's the only thing that has panned out, and the numbers are not impressive for anyone under 70.
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  42782.  @erikaoliver2591  That's very kind of you. I has been tough. The pandemic cost me more than I can tell you. I'm not the same person.
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  42783. Cool. How many Olympic medals and World championships do you have?
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  42784. You don't get paid to tell the truth. You get paid to lie.
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  42785. 4:58 Devastating
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  42786. I knew Jimmy and Aaron were right, but . . . WOW.
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  42787. ​​@utah_koidragon7117 It can even impede normal neurological development and intelligence. That alone, without all the other terrible effects, should prevent it from being used in the way the activists are prescribing it. I wonder why this comment is being shadowed? It's not mis dis or mal.
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  42788. Until yesterday, we knew that many, many healthy people who have never touched a hormone may have fertility issues, and that fertility can be problematic for many perfectly healthy people. Until yesterday, we knew that hormone replacement therapy in adult women can cause cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke, and cognitive issues. Suddenly, transitioned kids will have no problem being birth parents, and no problem taking hormones. Sure, buddy.
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  42789. Yes.
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  42790. Yup. I believe Paul on this issue . . . Possibly RFK Jr., as well. I can't think of anyone else. This hearing yesterday in the House was pure performance.
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  42791. Murder-suicide because a guy wants to jump someone else's bones?
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  42792. ​ @davidryan7386 No, Robby is. Shermichael will be back a couple of times next week.
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  42793. France 24 has been reporting the assassination with appropriate gravitas.
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  42794. That's a great point. I never thought of that. /s
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  42795. If she does, good riddance. Back to her chocolate bunker. How terrible.
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  42796. Fauci doesn't have a solid answer, . . . But people WILL be fired, and WILL be excluded from unemployment benefits. Oh. Okay.
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  42797. Excellent
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  42798. WHAT "meritocracy?" The "merit" of holding the greater force and being willing to use it against others? Every European social democracy took care that the truly hard-working were not shut out and crushed by concentrated wealth (which in turn seems to give rise to a singularly buffoonish class, sort-of like royalty in decline). Even Adam Smith warned against allowing that to happen. Our apparent wealth exists primarily because of the dollar being the global reserve currency, and the dollar is still the global reserve currency in large part because of our military, which is stretched throughout the globe. For a reason.
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  42799.  @hideousruin  Timestamp
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  42800. I had to think about this for ten whole minutes before it dawned on me that a trans man might still be able to get pregnant. This new language is more sinister than it looks: they are pretending these gender dysphoria treatments can't render girls sterile. Yes they can.
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  42801. ​ @utah_koidragon7117 TRUTH
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  42802. ​@utah_koidragon7117 Notice how the story is coming out by little drips and drabs? Remember how Bill Gates had only one dinner with Epstein and donated only one million dollars to a science lab at Epstein's suggestion? Then it was two dinners, and two million bucks, then . . . My question is, how can it keep working? These absurdities function like a loyalty oath.
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  42803. Oh really? They will hear "shrooms" at 17. When they're that young, they lack the maturity to know it will not be okay, and they will not be a millionaire pop singer.
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  42804. No it doesn't. Hatred isn't illegal.
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  42805.  @thetoknboxshow  By whom? In what context? It's not illegal at all to harbor any belief you want, or to tell others about what you believe. By comparison, there are a lot of things that you can't do, without violating the law.
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  42806.  @thetoknboxshow  Maybe look up Brandenburg v. Ohio; the Westboro Baptist Church case; Virginia v. Black . . . Then tell me what you think.
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  42807.  @bidhrohi12  If NATO disbands, Russia should leave any territory where the people don't want their regime.
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  42808.  @chinaexpat1827  Minsk Accords? Ring a bell? (No?)
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  42809.  @ModjoConCarne  Once we rid the world of NATO, there is no reason for Russia to occupy any "buffer zone" where the people want to be independent of the Russian government. I think you missed the irony.
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  42810.  @D-Fens_1632  LOOK WHO'S TALKING 🤣🤣🤣
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  42811.  @D-Fens_1632  Go shove some money into Candace's pocket. The credit card companies will thank you. 🤣🤣🤣 Keep interest rates lower for the rest of us.
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  42812. And keep a close watch on when it changes. Change with the times. /s
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  42813. Whatever happened to free to be you and me?
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  42814.  @013arm  I certainly did my research. You are wrong. You are clearly confusing defense of the person and defense of property (repo and Brink's and so forth are agents armed to defend themselves, not money or other property). You are also wrong about Texas and either did not read or misunderstood the statute, which creates a number of conditions that must be met to use deadly force, not just that it be nighttime -- Texas is not that different in practice from other states, and is alone in having any leeway whatsoever for deadly force in defense of property. A person who shoots someone in Texas over a car might end up handing over more than the value of the car to a criminal defense lawyer. (Maybe you need to do some research?) Moreover, posts like yours are being allowed to be circulated, while mine, which state the law correctly, are being shadow banned. I refuse to create more high-quality content for YouTube and Google for free. You need to worry about a lot more than this one case, and defending the indefensible. You need to ask whether you have real free speech anymore.
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  42815. Third party
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  42816.  @ioidt5080  I'm NOT saying the doctor shouldn't have expressed the very same concerns using proper channels. He should have.
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  42817.  @fuzzypanda1684  I see them all. But the sense or ship is rampant. That happens a lot now.
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  42818.  @elconquistador932  Of course I would. I can't stand Biden and never once voted for a ticket with him on it. I only vote in primaries, or third party in the general election, or not at all. Voted for Obama in the 2008 primary. After he picked Biden, I was out. I knew who Biden is. No way would I have ever voted for him -- and I was right. So much for your intuition. Medicine by twitter and government by twitter are SICK. Get a grip.
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  42819.  @captaincrash12  blocked
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  42820. This is an admirable video. What bothers ME is that we cannot have a discussion of this. Just how much state control over medical decisions do people want, even for minors? Simply asking the question raises howls of "Groomer," etc. Come on. (Of course the other side attacks me for being a transphobe because I am not on board with what they propose.) I think that instituting a new criminal law is a last resort. And the point about tolerance for an adult (age 18?) who "chooses" to do this sounds broad minded and magnanimous, but wait a second -- if this surgery is akin to a lobotomy, then no one should have it, adult or not. We need to talk this out. If various medical boards can come to an agreement that everyone can live with, then we do not need a new criminal law and we do not need more people in prison. But people like Matt Walsh aren't willing to allow discussion. Do you see how he labeled Iversen? He did attempt to cancel her. I don't believe he cares about kids. The Hill Rising just did a segment on social workers in Texas who are quitting because they do not want to be required to police and report parents for how they choose to treat a gender confused child. Now the workforce needed to prevent child abuse and neglect that can result in death has been reduced, because of this "cultural" issue. This is nonsense. I may not agree with Kim on this, but her approach, and her right to raise the issue, is something I support completely.
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  42821. ​@Abeisgreat1 It receives Medicaid reimbursement, on the same basis as any other provider, with the same rules. Medicare cannot refuse to reimburse hospitals where abortions are performed, it can only refuse to reimburse the abortions. My state gives Planned Parenthood grants with no strings. The federal government does not. In states where children 14 and younger had trouble getting abortions, guess who people voted against? Fix your Epsteins first. Put that on your agenda.
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  42822. ​ @Abeisgreat1 False. Abortions are not reimbursed by federal dollars. It's illegal.
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  42823. Exactly. The principle that vaccination is generally a good thing isn't the problem. *This* vaccine is the problem.
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  42824.  @danieloyeleye3257  The latest statistic from the Israeli Ministry of Health is that of all the serious to critical cases of COVID in hospital, 70% are not vaccinated, 20% were partially vaccinated, and 10% were fully vaccinated. I found this by clicking through Worldometer. Sobering! This is not to say the fully vaccinated cases did not have other health issues, the Ministry website I looked at did not say, but now you know why they began giving booster shots already. Overall cases of COVID in the fully vaccinated is higher.
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  42825. I wonder whether it is the vaccine itself that is the problem, or whether the lack of truthfulness is. Just tell us the truth. We can take it. Build some trust. BTW, Kennedy is alarmist, too.
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  42826. Just the opposite. I suspect it was planted by a staffer working for the DNC. This is a real possibility. After the Clintons hired Steele to develop that dossier, people should be primed to consider dirty tricks as one possible explanation. It's also a good practice anyway to suspend judgment.
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  42827. The /s was needed. But you knew that.
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  42828. I want to see these stats. Where did you find them? I believe it, I just want the ref.
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  42829.  @naveenvenkateshk  What "truth?" This trial is about a published text, whether that text is defamatory, and whether it cost Depp money. Depp sued, so he has to prove these things. The trial is not about who is the Better Person. Depp is suing for $50 million. Guess what? Before a court orders someone to pay money, and seizes their bank account and other assets, grabs their house, and so forth, the plaintiff has to PROVE he really lost $50 million on account of the defendant, and for no other reason. Funny how that is. We should just vote on Facebook instead.
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  42830. ​ @deanakalberg4540  Agreed. I have yet to recover completely.
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  42831. Who examined all of these documents in the first place? Within weeks? No one, obviously.
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  42832. Is it still making money for her?
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  42833. What Murray is most known for (but he started writing award-winning books over 20 years ago): https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/douglas-murray-on-immigration-islam-and-identity-a3530586.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/books/review/crisis-of-multiculturalism-in-europe-rita-chin-immigration.html
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  42834.  @stephenarling1667  Seriously, though, universal health care doesn't mean sharing misery. It can't be done. Some people will always enjoy better health than others, no matter what they do. But we could all feel more at ease knowing everyone has the basics in place, and the basics cannot be taken away from any of us.
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  42835. Depp is suing Heard for $50 million. Guess what? Before a court orders someone to pay money, and seizes their bank account and other assets, grabs their house, and so forth, the plaintiff has to PROVE they really lost $50 million on account of the defendant, and for no other reason. This is a perfectly normal cross-examination of an opposing witness.
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  42836. Pod Save America were Obama staffers/speechwriters.
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  42837. "Even if they probably aren't" . . . Especially if they probably aren't.
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  42838. That's exactly why I defended Amber Heard's right to free speech. If you don't defend the free speech of people you can't stand, you're not for free speech.
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  42839. Thank you.
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  42840. ​ @HeavenWithouttheE  "Maybe" is not good enough.
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  42841. I think a good part of the January 6th protesters got a very bad rap. There are provocateurs EVERYWHERE. I hope you saw through the ones during the George Floyd protests. They were everywhere then, too.
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  42842. If you sort under Newest, the replies are visible.
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  42843.  @phazemekaniks  Yes I did read it. Wait. Are you that slow that you think other people don't read? Or can't? Put down that dumb phone and read a book.
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  42844. @evansgate  No, I've just litigated regarding some of the most complex.
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  42845. @dudemcgee256  How about Peter Thiel's? What's up with that?
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  42846.  @Robert-bk1dm  Lawyers work very hard. They've also read things you know nothing about, apparently.
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  42847. @Robert-bk1dm  Did I say ethical? I said hard working.
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  42848.  @Robert-bk1dm  I said hard working. It's right there. I also mentioned reading.
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  42849.  @Robert-bk1dm  B l o c k e d
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  42850.  @Robert-bk1dm  You're right. I'm a genius. I simply look at a book and know it by heart in a matter of minutes. I process a 10,000-page file faster than AI.
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  42851.  @Maryam0  Yeah, excellent thread.
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  42852. We supply the "reason."
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  42853.  @veespa_  By the amount of attention Counterpunch is giving him lately? LOL
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  42854. Agreed!!
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  42855.  @Think-dont-believe  She has a brother.
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  42856.  @julialerner3322  Her parents are teachers. Read her biography, she went to international schools all over the world for diplomatic personnel's children, where they taught.
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  42857. Kyle is way above TYT, not to mention MSM. Well, okay, that is not hard to do, unless the person is fatally greedy.
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  42858. A hungry baby isn't an undue pressure? It's like buying yoga pants or not buying yoga pants? "Let the buyer beware?" And if the parents are overly casual about their baby's health, that's their business? Robbie needs to spend about a half dozen Sunday afternoons at Walmart. In the US, lead in the environment around babies definitely affected the crime rate 20 years later. We know that for sure.
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  42859. Did HE do something wrong?
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  42860. He could provoke more violence, yo.
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  42861. ​ @jean-marcweremienko3746 Did they look lily whyte?
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  42862. That's not what free speech is. If you cannot be free of death threats, or if you cannot maintain the job you need to live, then that's not free. What a ridiculous comment. "We won't jail you. We'll fire you instead, and blackball you, like the medieval church."
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  42863.  @Mortiis558  Oh I see. Yes, of course. Trump World.
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  42864.  @Mortiis558  Good thing we still have a death penalty. /s
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  42865.  @Mortiis558  Openly? And while he's actually sick? Aren't there things you don't say out loud? (Not in Trump World.) Just to be clear, I think Rogan is bizarre in his "health" practices and advice. But he follows the advice he advocates, for better or worse. His carnivore obsession is bad for the planet, not to mention for most human beings who eat it. In short, not a fan. That has nothing to do with it.
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  42866.  @Mortiis558 That kind of reflexive, vicious jeering is Trumpist. Not you. Discussing what is happening is not Trump World. Trump World hates honest discussion.
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  42867. The Soviets weren't homogeneous, either. Russia currently isn't, either. If you think Gutfeld made sense: listen again. Concentrate on each sentence.
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  42868.  @Bensonbadger  What? Is this a battlefield? Or is it about RussiaHate?
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  42869.  @tauwan0  Did Simone Biles have ANY clue before now that she wouldn't be capable of performing? Any inkling? Any breakdown in her focus? She had landed some near-perfect performances a short time ago. (I was afraid she had peaked then, frankly. That can happen to anyone, and she cannot be faulted for failing to predict it.) If she had been struggling in the qualifying events, well, a person might agree with you. But that did not happen. If you are so good at foretelling the future, give us a stock tip.
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  42870.  @tauwan0  But I agree that what I said was too harsh. I may have had a different post in mind, or my tablet had a glitch and directed the comment to you. (It did crack a few months ago and was rebuilt.) I apologize.
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  42871. ​ @sampuatisamuel9785 That won't work anymore.
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  42872.  @MaynardCrow  Maybe you don't know enough people who are actually "diverse?" My best guess there . . . Sort-of like being surprised that a war veteran is anti-war . . . Oliver Stone notwithstanding . . .
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  42873.  @MaynardCrow  Okay. It didn't happen.
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  42874. Wait. You mean . . . Musk isn't taking us to Mars??
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  42875. Look up Rotherham. NYTimes and The Guardian.
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  42876. ​ @pwrserge83 "Enemies?" Check the National Debt. China is our creditor now.
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  42877. ​​ @pwrserge83 "Enemy?" China is our creditor. They own a chunk of our national debt.
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  42878. They support bioweapons, too.
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  42879. No it's not. All those intelligence operatives who said Hunter's laptop is a Russian plant are free to say it, and their view should be broadcast, even though it turned out to be baseless. It was an opinion on a national matter. What they can no longer do is force platforms to censor the story that the laptop was real. That's the difference.
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  42880.  @gaylecoleman8567  And plenty of people, of every political stripe, supposedly, claim to "buck the system," when what they are really doing is furiously feathering their own nests. In fact, they are so rabid about it that we should all worry about the scale and depth of the next economic crash. They clearly know something that no one is alerting us about, or explaining to us. (The handful of nutcases predicting Armageddon don't count, since they are more likely to turn people away from being concerned about the state of the world than they are to enlighten anyone about real risks.)
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  42881.  @petercarey4655  This is all true. No argument from me.
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  42882.  @denysecoop7356  But they are not the president, nor are they running for office. Every person I know who voted for Trump did so as a protest vote against Hillary, and was soon sorry they did. Well, I do not know many Trump voters. Every last one I do know is cool, and I can understand why they did what they did. Not all are white, by the way. I voted protest this past election: in person, on election day, for LaRiva to protest Leonard Peltier's continued incarceration. I wasn't absolutely sure I did the right thing, until I heard from Peltier's current lawyer, who is a Navy veteran. He is a peach, a real hero. Slightly more than half of his clients are Republicans pressing First Amendment issues, speech or religion. The biography of both men is inspiring.
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  42883.  @Eye8apie  No, we kinda mean having learned the lesson of the 2008-2009 debacle.
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  42884. Did it ever occur to anyone that so much of woke is so preposterous that it must be a false flag? It is driven by affluent whites.
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  42885. Oh. My. God. Jimmy. You are on fire.
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  42886. Yes.
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  42887. Greek "characters?" Really, Robby? It's the Greek alphabet.
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  42888. What are you trying to tell us, Jimmy? Tweets don't run your car, or heat your house? Maybe you need to open your consciousness to the universe so there.
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  42889. After Stephen F. Cohen died, there is no Russia expert.
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  42890. ​ @Antidragon-nl7by Links are generally taken down.
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  42891. Why are you highlighting this crowd? We know why.
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  42892. Good thing school will be remote. Fewer school shootings.
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  42893. Have you ever lived anywhere else? This IS a far-right country. Biden would have been right-wing just about everywhere. Except here.
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  42894.  @jammin4284  Jabali made that point.
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  42895. ​@Kurt THANK YOU. In France, the left was in the lead when they made ASKING a minor about their vaccine status against the law, nevermind trying to force kids to take it. It's been a misdemeanor there since last year.
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  42896. Not after the ban, the stress placed on him, and the Wimbledon win. No. Not Nadal's fault, of course. Though a person of great character would have refused to play. But no one can expect that of anyone.
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  42897.  @rumfordc  People of Baldwin's generation had to work for money. So yesterday.
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  42898.  @gusmartins1660  He worked really, really hard, yup. I will say that hard work is usually "the price of the ticket," but that other factors seem to be more and more influential. Probably not a good thing. :/
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  42899. You mean, anyone putting anything above Lord Dollar is a danger and sacrilege? This dude is duping you. A big proportion of the demonstrators are Jewish, as are the faculty who support them. Jewish Voice for Peace has already sued Columbia for withdrawing their student organization status. The suit was filed over a month ago.
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  42900. WE have an obligation to choose our doctors, and then to consult them and consider whether to follow their recommendations, or seek another opinion, or choose among the proposed treatments. So, how can ANYONE say not to do your own research? It's your responsibility to do your own research. You are the one who has to decide.
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  42901. ​ @JoJo-vg8dz 😅😅😅
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  42902. ​ @blackjackjester  More or less what Brie said.
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  42903.  @matttorrence2900  Nope, she said the opposite: that all are indefensible, but that some will have defenders anyway, and she suggested this woman is the only type that does not have the defenders she clearly does not deserve. Sorry your feelings interfere with LOGIC. Oh well . . . As long as people hit the Like button.
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  42904.  @matttorrence2900  So you missed my irony . . . and you think I'm slow on the uptake. 😂 Blocked.
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  42905.  @matttorrence2900  So, . . . /s is lost on Matt.
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  42906.  @utah_koidragon7117  The more I think about it, the more plausible it seems. Too many coincidences all in one direction.
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  42907. AOC SMH
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  42908. 💯
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  42909. Right 🎯
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  42910. ​ @lophiz1945  There is a court record. Amazon sued them, and it went to discovery. Therefore, you could verify all of it.
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  42911.  @lophiz1945  LOL, Amazon lost and appealed.
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  42912.  @lophiz1945  "We should never interest ourselves in what happens at a trial or in any court." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  42913.  @lophiz1945  No. I meant what happens in court stays in court. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  42914. @lophiz1945  Why should anyone think that what happens in court is their business? It's not as though it were the third branch of government.
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  42915.  @lophiz1945  There is this thing about news. You are welcome to choose. For example, a person can just follow the Kardashians. Or, a person can read Supreme Court opinions and stuff like that. It's up to the individual.
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  42916. @lophiz1945  You asked me a question. If you think I should have ignored your question, well . . . I'm in no position to argue, am I?
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  42917.  @lophiz1945  K Blocked
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  42918. This is a great post (OP). How does everything get derailed?
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  42919. It was relevant this time. Jewish students "feel unsafe?" See Batya Ungar-Sargon on that.
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  42920. So why was he convicted?
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  42921. 25:41 THIS is essential. Government cannot use tech companies as their cat's paw to destroy the First Amendment.
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  42922. Starting to bug me. I love salads.
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  42923. @hidesinlonggrass3229  That's my favorite stuff. I mastered it because I worked on it. It was more and more fun the harder I worked, and my GRE translates to an IQ of 151. Supposedly. I don't believe in those tests. I believe in real achievements, not spurious "aptitude." The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
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  42924.  @hidesinlonggrass3229  Like I said, maybe Speaker Johnson is a good dad. He sounds like it.
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  42925. @selalewis9189 Too bad my reply to that was c_______ . . . It was cogent.
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  42926. @selalewis9189 Why are you allowed to be rude, while my substantive remarks are missing? How does that work?
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  42927.  @OrangeCat1992  That's not assisting in a murder.
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  42928.  @kitcat901  777.03 Accessory after the fact.— (1)(a) Any person **not** standing in the relation of husband or wife, parent or grandparent, child or grandchild, brother or sister, by consanguinity or affinity to the offender, who maintains or assists the principal or an accessory before the fact, or gives the offender any other aid, knowing that the offender had committed a crime and such crime was a third degree felony, or had been an accessory thereto before the fact, with the intent that the offender avoids or escapes detection, arrest, trial, or punishment, is an accessory after the fact. DUH
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  42929. @kitcat901  777.03 expressly excludes the parents of an alleged offender. Brian's parents had a right to allow him to live there, and they had the right to remain silent, as long as they did not lie to law enforcement or destroy evidence. THAT would be a serious crime. You can never lie to police, and especially not when they are investigating a homicide.
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  42930.  @OrangeCat1992  I quoted the statute, but that was ____ .
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  42931. 💯
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  42932. I never trusted the Clintons after hearing how their Lab got killed. It showed their character all over again.
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  42933. ​ @heregoes8839 Right. And I don't like dog haters. Or bird haters, or wolf haters, or bear haters, or lion haters, or . . .
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  42934. ​@heregoes8839 Heck, I don't like dinosaur haters. When my father told me about extinction, I cried for two days.
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  42935. Just think: two billion dollars is nearly a million a year since the birth of Jesus. (Now, multiply.) Twelve million a year is almost $1370 per hour -- for every hour of every day, 24/7/365. Any of these people pediatric brain surgeons? I did not think so. Yup. Ventura makes sense.
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  42936. ​ @ebinrock  It's not a guarantee. Was the board member you knew well liked?
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  42937. @ebinrock  Oh I see. Something I told students that worked to an amazing degree was to (very politely) request an informational interview. Some who had had serious career troubles walked out with an offer, and it was not even a job interview. If algorithms are stopping you, try that. You won't be fed through them, or at least you have a chance of not being interrupted that way.
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  42938. Le Pen? Her role is to ensure a Macron gets into office. Do you seriously believe she herself wants to be President, or that those who vote for her in the first round are expressing something more than a protest, such as genuine support for her? Mitterrand was the last President of France.
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  42939.  @paladro  Well, there are cases pending against Tesla and Neuralink, and Musk has been in trouble with the SEC, which is not a joke. We'll see.
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  42940.  @jerrymiller9039  You read it? I'm not claiming I did, btw. I mean, it exists. He signed it. That gives rise to certain obligations, normally. But you can get out of contracts, too, of course. Legally, or not.
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  42941.  @CwyTy  EVERY normal person can tell the difference between a dream, a fantasy, and a memory, and does not think of them or organize them in the same way at all. This is just another glib "The Secret" pitch, which is not a truth about the world but a well-known sales technique, combined with the denial of the reality (and, in some cases, intractability) of real mental illnesses, which are not mere moods. Small example: I was SURE 2020 would be my best year in a decade. I pictured it, and then December 2019 was wonderful, a harbinger -- I thought. This is trivial compared with other tragedies suffered by my family. Good to know, also, that PTSD in our service members is a "state of mind," particularly those who saw their very best comrades die in front of them.
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  42942.  @JimBobsBass  Well if you believe it, it must be true. :D
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  42943.  @jzen1455  Pretty much. None of these interviews are ever without some useful advice.
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  42944. The two women are fine, this is their brand. It's how they make their living. People expected more of Sam, for good reason.
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  42945. Krystal pays alimony is my bare conjecture. Could that be it?
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  42946. ​@iloveitUbet Really? Trump is a leftist? He jeers all the time.
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  42947. People want in? People want OUT.
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  42948. Tesla has a major lawsuit pending against it, among other things. Musk has been in a lot of legal trouble.
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  42949.  @elrti319  When did it settle with California?
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  42950.  @gift6117  "Said lawsuit" 🤣 . . . and now we shall further pretend we don't know that links are shadowed. Pdfs of lawsuits take a few minutes to find. At least for those who want real information.
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  42951.  @elrti319  A major lawsuit was brought by the state, which is unusual, and is almost never done unless they plan to seek punitive damages or prosecute a class action. Why don't you find it and read it? Or do you prefer to discuss pronouns, I mean adjectives?
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  42952.  @elrti319  So you couldn't find it? Oh well, no loss. I didn't peg you as a reader.
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  42953.  @bigding8977  How many do you think Ford will produce? 🤣
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  42954.  @elrti319  Are you licensed in California, too?
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  42955. Yes, disgusting. He even said "some of you may believe the myths." (!!!!!)
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  42956. They got well less than 40%, as did every party. Hence, over 60% voted against RN. You have to win elections in order to form a parliamentary majority.
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  42957. ​ @vranckenmatthew8794 No, NFP is the largest block.
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  42958. ​ @goofygrandlouis6296 Mélenchon is not part of the establishment.
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  42959. @jean-louismorgenthaler4725  Exactly. They have never reached 40%. Hence 60%+ voted for some other party or block.
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  42960.  @Stoddardian  Good luck arguing against Clémence Guetté. In fact, no amount of luck will work. 😂
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  42961.  @Stoddardian  You don't count for much.
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  42962.  @nancywatkins5836  We knew. (I HOPE)
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  42963. Modi is right. Not a fan, but when he's right, he's right. This is unconscionable.
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  42964. Okay, Robby: Rich people lobby for lower taxes and get them. Then, the US runs a huge deficit, the rich buy Treasury bonds, and our taxes pay them interest, on the regular. So, not only do they not pay their fair share, our taxes go to their pockets. Nice, huh? 😂
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  42965. Even Gonzo and Stalin are on top of this, unlike Olberman, Moore, etc. ;D
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  42966. I see him blink. Less than other people? Sure, maybe.
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  42967. I "love" the way Bill Gates pretends to know things, just like one of those wunderkind 11-year-olds in college who know how to parrot big words.
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  42968.  @icestationzebraassociates2460  Good points. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  42969.  @miikeklume4869  So . . . having a wrought iron door or gate, and a camera, are not options? Subscribing to an alarm monitoring company? You think you should bring a gun and shoot? SICK
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  42970. Countries with hate speech laws are against this prior restraint. 12:54 (to the end; just over 2 min)
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  42971. Shockeroo
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  42972. Sociopathic fraud lives matter.
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  42973. I wish I were shocked.
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  42974. ​ @rudydesi NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware; Hess v. Indiana; Brandenburg v. Ohio . . . Looks like the Supreme Court doesn't see it your way. In the meantime, a report from Israel to the ICJ is due on Monday, stating what it is doing to protect Palestinians from genocide.
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  42975. She did programs on all that, especially Katie.
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  42976.  @EHed-kv2wb  Agreed. She did not lay out her argument well.
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  42977. 8:23 to end --- recognize facts, whatever your position on this war. You can't wish them away or lie them away. It won't work. It. Won't. Work.
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  42978. @sarabee7710  Is it possible? Yes. That is not evidence that it happened. That is reason not to doubt that it may have happened. IOW, that is ample reason not to accuse those claiming to have seen it of lying. See, I actually think we are going to need logic in the coming days, weeks, years. Practice now.
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  42979. What do you think most of what happens in courts today consists of? Divorce? Criminal trials? No, it's the ultra rich suing each other, and either SEC or FTC regulations are implicated, in addition to, you know, CONTRACTS.
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  42980.  @jeremyshelman9716  Reported
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  42981. If you're a tadpole.
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  42982. Childless cat women: Marilyn Monroe, Kim Novak, Ann-Margret. (Is that what you meant?) What's new, pussycat?
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  42983. All the reporting on this case has deflected from the core of the issue. This is a defamation case, for starters, which is about whether speech or writing that is presumed to be First Amendment-protected can be proven to be false and defamatory, and thus subject to civil liability (i.e., which means the sheriff gets to seize your assets and hand them over to the plaintiff). If you thought the case was about who was worse, or more abusive, well . . . Yup. They deflected you from the sole issue. As for due process, Depp was never deprived of that. He lost no work because of the article he's suing about. He lost work after he lost his UK case.
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  42984. Wait, is Depp an Alpha? Oh please god, . . .
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  42985.  @unknownknowable  Good points across the board. All of these presentations are not alike, obviously. As far as what is taught in school: lots of kids are in one-parent families, blended families, have unmarried parents, or are being raised by same-sex married couples, or even a drag queen father. Before high school, the emphasis should be on bullying prevention. Everyone's family is a nice family, everyone is welcome in school regardless of who their parents are. That's what you tell first graders. Later, you say more. (It's called puberty, and needs to be respected.) The mayor where I live is in a same-sex interracial marriage and they have a young daughter. Richard Nixon's stunning granddaughter, who is big in regional theatre, was married to a man, got divorced, and many years later married a woman. They are raising a daughter, too. No one should ever say a peep to these kids. Young kids have vulnerable moments and should never be teased about their family.
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  42986.  @unknownknowable  The more I reread your comment, the better I like it. I hope you post a stand-alone. You've got these people's number.
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  42987.  @davidhansen4927  Exactly. Shunning those few who brought Russian flags is distinct from opposing this rally. At the rate things are going, all someone has to do to ruin any demonstration is to pay a dozen people to show up with swastika flags.
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  42988. @Rick Vis Next door? Or down the block?
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  42989.  @morpheusrising9534  Great point. And why are they doing that??
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  42990. If that were true, it greatly exceeds the previous vaccine safety signal threshold of 1 significant, serious event per 100,000 inoculations. Vaccines exceeding that threshold are closely scrutinized and often withdrawn. This comes to 200 events per 100,000 doses, according to you. I've never heard such a high rate acknowledged before. Something on the order of 80 per 100,000 is the number I've seen for Pfizer, from reliable sources. (I think something on the order of 70 to 120 per 100,000 is more likely generally, depending on which vaccine.) Say, have you heard? Paxlovid is pretty near worthless.
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  42991. Yes it is. You do not have to submit to police unless and until they have probable cause to place you under arrest. Did anyone state, "halt, you are under arrest?" Did he do anything that placed other people in any jeopardy? Was he a danger to anyone but himself? Police do NOT have "the authority" to order you to get down on the ground absent probable cause to believe you have committed a crime or are about to commit a crime. If they cannot articulate a reason for arrest or for believing you are a danger to them or to others, no, they CANNOT do that.
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  42992.  @deadgolfer6345  Whether he had drugs in his system was determined after the fact, and is thus irrelevant to probable cause. I guess we are so used to living as though we were not a free people that we don't seem to remember that absent probable cause, you do NOT have to deal with the police at all. Did he get into a car accident? Apparently he did. Does he have an obligation to report it, if he hopes to keep a driver's license? Absolutely -- and I am for lifting the licenses of a lot more people than get them lifted -- for impaired driving, for not reporting accidents promptly, and pretty much all other significant infractions. And guess what? THAT is the penalty. There is something called a Terry stop -- which is a very brief encounter based on reasonable suspicion, and does not involve taking you physically into custody. It just means talking to you. Of course police can talk to you. BUT you cannot be arrested without probable cause, prior to the arrest, and not based on stuff that happened afterwards. If that does not "sound right," you need to ask yourself why. You are used to not being free, perhaps? Thanks bin Laden, thanks COVID. Isn't this just swell?
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  42993.  @jackgranger6539  False, and I have absolutely no idea what you might be referring to, if anything. But more to the point, why are you following me, and purporting to assert to have determined that I, and not you, are lying? I don't know you. I do, however, know the law on probable cause and Terry stops. I am guessing that you are not well versed in that area. I don't know of course. As I said, I don't know you. |Perhaps you edited law review at Yale. I am blocking you now, which I think I would have done before if what you claim were true, and if you persist in this manner, defaming me even under a pseudonym (which actually has a basis), I will report you. See how that goes. It's not my problem anymore. (Whether it turns out to be yours is also not my concern either way.)
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  42994.  @deadgolfer6345  Precisely what was his crime? A person no longer operating a motor vehicle but apparently in a state of inebriation has committed what crime, exactly, that should result in arrest rather than deprivation of the use of a car -- his car, or any car? But that already happened. Assuming there was probable cause to arrest him for that crime, what was the level of force reasonable under the circumstances? He was already deprived of his car. He could be permanently deprived of the right to drive (please, God, every time). Had he evaded law enforcement, there was no doubt as to his identity and where he could be found. I think they arrested him for disobeying an order. Since when is that a reason to use potentially deadly force? The only time there is a reason to use deadly force when the person presents a danger to the lives of other people. I think we are used to allowing police to do things that subjectively make us feel safer, but objectively make everywhere more dangerous. That's what I think.
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  42995.  @deadgolfer6345  No, actually, I did not say that at all. Quite the contrary. But all right. Whatever.
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  42996.  @deadgolfer6345  I tend to argue in hypotheticals.
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  42997. That's what neolib Americans call a success.
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  42998. This is a WOW segment. Saagar, too!!!
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  42999. No, that's not the reason.
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  43000. Of course the DNC can't say the power of the dollar comes out of the barrel of a gun.
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  43001. It would be lovely if the vaccine worked.
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  43002.  @gregorysagegreene  happy for you!!
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  43003. I know. After all, who needs court? Remember Uvalde, when the police said a teacher propped open the door? Remember when police decided Gabby Petito was the primary aggressor in her relationship with Brian Laundrie? I always believe the police, honest. Trials are for sissies.
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  43004. BRICS+ vs. LGBTQ++ Do we laugh or cry? Better yet, turn the page.
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  43005. I'm surprised and disappointed that he was acquitted, and agree he should have been convicted, but the way so many people are outraged by this is the other side of the same coin. You look to coerce and violently punish. There are too many people in jail. Locking up another human being is a violent act as well. I lived in a country where a conviction and a suspended sentence would have been the norm, with incarceration only if the person committed another offense during probation. That seems reasonable to me. Rodney was someone with no priors, and parents of young children are known to overreact easily, especially in the States. It's a shame, but they are human, too. Who knows why they were overwrought, or what experiences brought them to that state?
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  43006. Nutcase
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  43007.  @Stompedinthenuts  There were always pro-Nazis around.
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  43008. No one hates intelligent women of any background as much as white women do.
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  43009. Everyone KNOWS how important race is to life. The duty of public schools is to change that without offloading the responsibility to the kids. Model inclusion, don't bully and hector children and insult their families.
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  43010. Tariq Ali edited a collection of essays about it that is valuable.
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  43011. Good for you!
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  43012. Something was wrong with this picture from the start.
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  43013. No. It is evidence that she comes from an entirely different culture.
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  43014. ​@user-tz2ch1im3r Oh, you know Asia now. How long have you lived there? Or is this based on bad moovies?
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  43015.  @marciabradley7660  We are SO on the same page! :)
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  43016. Please link to the definitive multivariate analysis on the matter.
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  43017.  @kellyxu94  A jury acquitted him. Not clear why. No one attempted to enter his dwelling by force.
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  43018.  @logicalblackman8228  The analysis is correct. There was no attempt at break-in. Breaching the actual perimeter of the house when there are people inside gives rise to the right to use reasonable force, including deadly force. Being outside like these kids were doesn't.
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  43019.  @logicalblackman8228  Alleged perpetrator of what crime? Ringing a doorbell then leaving isn't trespass. Acting excited and goofy isn't either.
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  43020.  @logicalblackman8228  I don't defend Yoshi. Consider, however, the time line. The point is, there was no need for Rodney to put himself in a position where he could need to use deadly force, when avoiding it was easily accomplished. All he had to do was stay in the house, call 911, and have his firearm ready in case of physical breach of his dwelling. These are WELL KNOWN RULES of self-defense. If YOU voluntarily put yourself in a position where you may be more likely to need to use lethal force, then YOU could be civilly and/or criminally liable. In this case, Rodney was found liable in tort and lost his house. Your justification of Rodney is misleading, because he did end up being liable. Many self-defense laws create a defense against a civil judgment as well. Not what happened here. So, it's not just a matter of ethics.
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  43021.  @logicalblackman8228  What does the statute say in that state? Not every state has a confusing and potentially ambiguous "stand your ground" rule. Breaching an occupied structure, on the other hand, is generally very clear. A "bright line," as they say. If an acquittal in the criminal trial had meant he did nothing tortious, HE WOULD NOT HAVE SETTLED. He would have been immune under the law. This is frequently a matter of state statute. So, the fact that he settled certainly DOES matter. It's also common sense. Where you cannot be held liable, there is nothing TO settle, least of all to agree to give up your house.
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  43022.  @logicalblackman8228  No there is not.
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  43023.  @logicalblackman8228  Sounds like you're confusing burdens of proof, which pertain to evidence, with legal immunity, which, when it exists, leads to outright dismissal. These are entirely different points in the process. In any case, IF an acquittal had meant no violation of any law and no breach of any legal duty, then he would not have settled the civil suit. He would have gotten it dismissed.
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  43024.  @logicalblackman8228  Just as I thought. Motions to DISMISS come before discovery -- before the evidence to be presented to the jury is assembled. You're the one who doesn't know. Suppose someone attacks you. You defend yourself entirely within the law. Do you imagine they can now get hundreds of thousands of dollars out of you? Um, not usually, no. Neat scam, there are people who would do it. No, the issue is whether Rodney's wrong conduct was deserving of CRIMINAL punishment by the state (jury said no), or, by contrast, could nevertheless give rise to civil liability to the victim/victim's estate. Apparently the judge thought so, as the CIVIL action was allowed to proceed. If Rodney had breached no duty, there would have been no tort. No wrongful death. No excessive force claim.
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  43025.  @logicalblackman8228  Look up motions to dismiss, and when they are granted. I'm done here. Tiresome.
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  43026.  @logicalblackman8228  No, you don't understand. Rodney's wrong conduct did not rise to the level of a crime, but it did rise to the level of a tort. Conduct (some) people condemn as immoral may be criminal, or it may be tortious, or it may not give rise to ANY liability under the law whatsoever. Rodney's conduct was judged not to be criminal but could have been tortious (a purely civil wrong). So, he couldn't get the civil case dismissed. He had to settle. Sorry.
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  43027.  @logicalblackman8228  If you are "JUSTIFIED," how do you lose your house? This is tiresome.
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  43028.  @logicalblackman8228  Are you thinking of OJ, or something? EDIT: In the OJ case, the issue was to prove that OJ (and not someone else) committed the wrongful acts, not whether the acts themselves were wrongful. The jury decided that there was not enough evidence to prove OJ committed the wrongful acts beyond reasonable doubt. There was enough to prove OJ committed them by a preponderance of the evidence. No way were the acts "justified." This case stands for the principle that not every tortious act rises to the level of a crime. People can make a mistake without going to jail. You're trying to say Rodney made no mistake at all. That's misleading. Yes he did. That's why he lost his house.
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  43029.  @logicalblackman8228  If you did nothing wrong, nothing at all, then a suit can't go forward. It will be dismissed as a matter of law. It won't get to burdens of proof. "Tort" means wrong. Look it up.
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  43030.  @Jimmy911ism  I thought he settled. That was the premise. I don't know if it is the case; we presumed it was, for the sake of argument. I agree with your point, you're absolutely right. However, in this case the bare facts are not in dispute. If there were no way to find him liable as a matter of law, the case could not go to a jury. It would be dismissed. So, no trial, no settlement. There has to be a reasonable way to argue that he did wrong as a matter of law -- gross negligence, recklessness, something. Some breach of a legal duty, not just moral. Otherwise there's no case. There's nothing to try. Here's a contrast: suppose I wake up to find that a stranger broke into my house and is assaulting me. I reach under the bed, grab my gun, and shoot him. He recovers and is now in a wheelchair. If he sues me, the case will be dismissed with prejudice -- and he may have to pay my lawyer. That's because as a matter of law, I did absolutely nothing wrong. The state can prosecute him, and I can sue him, and both are viable lawsuits. His suit against me isn't. There's no legal ground for it at all. No jury gets to hear it. This is true even if he were drunk and honestly thought we were married.
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  43031. ​ @mrwackyy  Perfect comment!!
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  43032. Trump is such a malignant narcissist that he would rather see people die than admit he lost a highly unusual election, after HE messed up the COVID response. If he had done nothing else wrong, ever, that would be plenty to show he has no trace of loyalty to the country that elected him president. Mind-boggling.
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  43033. Speculation of that nature is irrelevant. If the kids did anything at the time the man shot them to put him or anyone else in physical danger, then the shooting may be justified. Lethal force in defense of mere property is illegal. It's like saying every DUI should be prosecuted as a reckless homicide, because "this has happened before . . . hmmm."
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  43034. At the major hospital in my city, it's been "pregnant people" for a couple of years now. Since it's not a veterinarian's office, I had assumed people.
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  43035. By Democrats? It seems that filing federal court actions in front of impartial judges is working.
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  43036.  @differous01  What a "hate crime" is: https://www.cps.gov.uk/crime-info/hate-crime
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  43037. Try buying something that doesn't wear out fast. Women's shoes that are high quality, acceptable in business, and don't hurt your feet cost anywhere from $350 to $900 where I live, and it's not on a coast. Shoes that cost $150 are usually athletic and wear out within two years. The life of a washing machine is about 10 years. It used to be 25.
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  43038.  @lindaflesch7303  One current example is COVID vaccines for children. Not recommended in Sweden.
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  43039. Did everyone here who claims serious side effects report to Yellow Card system, VAERS, etc., as the case may be?
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  43040.  @leonkirby8295  Easily. Any debate concerning the current war in Gaza, this fellow will lose.
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  43041. @iggyblitz8739  Wow have standards fallen. I thought Biden and Trump were bad . . . Not to mention Kamala, Nancy, . . .
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  43042. If he censored Matt Taibbi, then he is a hypocrite. The stuff about Turkey is not a major issue for me. I think proven defamation (proven in court) should be able to be removed here, as well, but a Section 230 protected platform hasn't had to if they don't want to.
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  43043.  @ChitMusik  What I said?
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  43044.  @ChitMusik  The California Supreme Court case against Yelp is one big example that surprised a lot of people.
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  43045.  @ChitMusik  My basic point is that some things, like proven defamation, should have to be removed once adjudicated. But social media companies have no such obligation. So, no, if some other country has such laws, I'm not reflexively against that.
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  43046. Thank goodness, though it makes the eugenics aspect harder to spot, for some.
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  43047.  @FisherGrubb  Exactly. The rest of this is sheer nonsense.
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  43048.  @keyonak8657  Same for all of Hunter's kids. So she has no principles of her own where children are concerned?
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  43049.  @DC-rd6oq  Perfect.
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  43050. It's a pity that voices from before 2020 are ignored as "outdated," or assumed to have been "proven wrong." The opposite is true. Look to analyses prior to the pandemic, when we all had our minds melted.
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  43051.  @alexanderleuchte5132  I would most likely hope so.
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  43052.  @johnkayoss5422  Not everybody embraces an American lifestyle. People have a right to diversity and stuff.
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  43053.  @johnkayoss5422  I was being ironic, obviously. I don't know any drunks. Any special reason you thought of them, and so quickly? Never mind, just kidding. Bourgeois Americans use more drugs than other people, especially those non-Western peoples not (yet) living under Free Market Disciple. 🤣 Where did I tell anyone what to do? I don't think marijuana should have ever been prohibited in any way. WHOM I ASSOCIATE WITH is still MY choice, though if they force themselves on me and I get pregnant that could pose problems. Let me know if you have any other directives for me, or venom. Or, consider cleaning up your own act and loving the natural mind. It's just an idea. Don't pop a blood vessel, you sound too young for that.
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  43054.  @johnkayoss5422  It's based on my experience with habitual pot smokers, meaning long-term and daily. I'm allowed to use lived experience as my guide. Maybe your imagination could use a tweak? Or could your posts be special pleading?
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  43055.  @johnkayoss5422  I don't hang around with whites much at all. It always ends up like this.
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  43056.  @johnkayoss5422  What part of I love and respect my mind too much for any of that stuff is sooooo hard for you to get? Talk to a friend before bed tonight. I'm serious.
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  43057.  @johnkayoss5422  I have nothing to do with puritanism. Not my circus, not my clowns. You, on the other hand, have a limited set of paradigms, and that's the closest one to you on your shelf. I get to say who I want to be with. I know you think you do. What you don't understand is that you DON'T. The world is changing, though your little corner of it is still arranged to serve you. Stay vigilant, because that could change, too. Talk to a friend tonight.
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  43058.  @johnkayoss5422  Listen, you are SO barking up the wrong tree. My family is from one of those places you and your ilk bombed with DU. I'll be there this year, fingers crossed. (Are all your conversations in English? Oh no!) 🤣
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  43059.  @johnkayoss5422  IOW, I'm supposed to take a poll on this? That's the utilitarian definition of truth. Cross the Channel, nevermind heading east or south, and nobody thinks that. Read David Riesman. Or better yet, James Baldwin, if you can bear it.
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  43060. So glad he is eating well! 😊
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  43061.  @Mackeson3  You did the right thing. Period.
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  43062.  @_Diana_S  Yes! This segment oversimplified his points.
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  43063. Surprised he made that mistake. Ukrainians are pretty white.
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  43064. Sounds like a path to career success.
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  43065. Why was in-state college tuition once something that kids paid in full, on their own, with an ordinary summer job? Why could two roommates working for minimum wage afford to rent in New York or San Francisco? (And pay for the gas to get there?)
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  43066. ​ @senpai_dolph7873  oh sure they are 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  43067.  @miikesnow50  Many. Malone was part of a research team. I think his name on the report of the discovery was third? I'm not sure.
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  43068.  @johnstrawb3521  Guess what? Just today, NYTimes reported that a whole bunch of countries are recommending a SINGLE mRNA vaccine dose for eligible kids. Wow. That shifted quickly -- in other places, I mean. Also, not a mandate, but a strong recommendation. What do you think is going on?
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  43069.  @cygnusx-3217  Jimmy can do nothing about it. He has no control.
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  43070.  @peterstafford4426  I love Jimmy, too, but you're wrong to set him up as perfect and infallible. Jimmy is great, but he's not God.
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  43071.  @cr4u  I agree, unless the entire locality has a vaccine mandate. Then Jimmy is confronted with the same choice as all others subject to mandates: go along, or don't work. He was vaccinated, following his doctor's recommendation, and developed moderate long-term side effects. He has been vocal about it, and he has said he personally does not care if fans are vaccinated or wear masks. What do you think he should do?
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  43072.  @cr4u  Read that comment again. If the county or the entire state has a vaccine mandate, and not just certain comedy clubs (such as based on size, for example, or whether they serve drinks), then the comment is not making a good point. So, I don't know.
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  43073.  @cygnusx-3217  How? Doesn't that exclude California entirely? Where else does that exclude? Prove your accusations. Comedy is not considered an essential service. You can go to a pharmacy, a grocery store, a department store without any vaccination, and even mask requirements are being ignored. But they check vaccination status or negative COVID tests at a lot of restaurants, especially if they serve alcohol. I don't like it, either.
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  43074.  @cygnusx-3217  I don't see what you're so hostile about. I'm not going to comedy clubs, the theatre, or any other large events now. So I'm not padding anyone's pocket, whether they are good at what they do or not.
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  43075.  @cr4u  Seriously? I don't see that happening, I mean I really think it would not work at all. Having said that, were it me, I would never perform where a negative COVID test is insufficient for admission. Has Dore done that?
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  43076.  @cr4u  I wonder whether that could be considered an illegal secondary boycott. You think punishing one venue for a state-wide rule is fair? How so?
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  43077.  @GillAgainsIsland12  The manipulation is even worse.
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  43078.  @traindr12  Work for Meta? Own their stock?
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  43079. This was good.
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  43080.  @misterdemocracy3335  You know he didn't find this clip, don't you? He created this excerpt. There is no such clip posted on the Bad Faith channel. Look for yourself. Don't be so easily played.
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  43081.  @misterdemocracy3335  You really think no one will ever smear you? If they covet your job, look out. Hey, this is Amerika!
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  43082.  @misterdemocracy3335  WAIT A MINUTE. Are you mad because I said Sam was cute? He is. I don't get why he stoops to this. Don't be mad.
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  43083. Anything you subsidize, you will get more of. If people get paid to invent new microbes, they will.
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  43084. False sense of security is great for Grandma. Works every time.
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  43085.  @Person01234  This is true -- SADLY!
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  43086.  DmY808  When you make it so personal, then it is. For YOU. Political economy is not about personal covetousness, envy, optimism, pessimism, or family tragedy and triumph . . . It's about historical and contemporary economic analysis. It's about understanding what has worked better for earlier generations and in other places. IOW, it's not about you. It's first of all about millions of young people ages 17 to 29 who could become a LOST generation. Most of them may never have the chance you had, no matter what they do. They already have debts, they don't find permanent jobs with a future, marry, start families, or leave home, especially while ACA still lets them stay on their parents' insurance. And for what? For whose benefit? How is all this good?
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  43087. Beautiful. Best comment. 😂❤
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  43088. Dupe
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  43089. Instead of asking who these violent fringe elements really are, and whether they are unknowingly or deliberately undermining Black Lives Matter, they go after the man with the camera? The question whether self-styled "antifa" are sometimes actually false flags is not unfounded. We don't have evidence to answer it, but we have a reason to ask. The Intercept hasn't given us anything to answer the real question.
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  43090. Not in "the West," in the US. Americans are simplistic. Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of James Baldwin. His essays say it all.
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  43091. You will never convince me the Democrats are absolutely determined to win. Maybe, maybe not.
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  43092. Oh please, Peterson's books are everywhere, including bookstores considered leftist. Example: Barbara's, in Chicago. I thought self-made entrepreneurs like Henderson don't whine about being "frozen out" of bookstores.
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  43093. Pinker has been debunked. His statistical analysis are simply not correct.
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  43094. Neoliberal elitist establishment figures are looting you and have looted you. "Look over here! A squirrel!"
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  43095.  @robertburnett5561  That's the only thing they will work to prevent.
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  43096. I've never seen a Tucker Carlson show that has at least one lie per segment. This one was wild.
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  43097. Wow, and I was sure it was a jackalope. I am in tears.
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  43098. Your point that actual fraud would be rewarded is excellent. Thank you.
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  43099.  @patonhill  She's a frustrated actress.
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  43100. If the DNC thought Trump were a threat to democracy, they would be running better people than Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden against him.
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  43101. Where did you see that?
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  43102. @crewchief5144  Well that was lucid.
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  43103. @crewchief5144  Well you're as quick to get rid of the First Amendment as a typical wokester or vaccine mandate promoter. And why? Because Americans -- rightly OR wrongly -- criticized a foreign government. When does this stop? Meanwhile in Israel, Haaretz has denounced Netanyahu, and this weekend, there are calls -- in Israel -- for him to resign. Are they still allowed to speak their minds?
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  43104.  @crewchief5144  Never heard of such a thing. Need to know basis?
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  43105.  @crewchief5144  Last I heard, Americans can criticize any country. Some reason to amend the Constitution? No?
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  43106.  @crewchief5144  I don't listen to that thing. No wonder I had no idea.
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  43107. "Get back to work!!!"
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  43108. "Wait for healthcare!" during a pandemic . . . But if you have doubts about the pandemic, you are a dangerous conspiracy theorist and need to be canceled. Sounds to me like the people making excuses not to PUSH FOR M4A NOW are vacillating on the seriousness of this moment.
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  43109. When DNC look at their NET WORTH, why would they think they did anything wrong?
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  43110. He won
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  43111. Thank you
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  43112. ​​ @gwyn111 Worth it, to save the whites, who do get the majority of abortions, just not in proportion to population. EDIT: I was wrong. When you look at the numbers in the country as a whole, you're right. It's in the South that you see the high rates for nonwhites.
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  43113. There is growing evidence that "long COVID" syndromes can arise from any type of encounter with the spike protein of the virus, whether through innoculation or transmission. No one is saying that only vaccines can cause this -- that would be ridiculous. We were being told, however, that only COVID infection can. Oopsie.
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  43114.  @ChadwickVonGriffindorIII  It means he hung out with Jeffrey Epstein against his wife's advice, in the belief that Epstein had influential friends on the Nobel Peace Prize committee. For example.
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  43115.  @ChadwickVonGriffindorIII  Well, a Nobel Peace Prize is a noble goal, no pun intended. Or maybe Bill just wanted extravagant dinners in Manhattan for free. There's that.
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  43116.  @ChadwickVonGriffindorIII  Someone who tries to push out a business partner while that partner is undergoing treatment for lymphoma is a sociopath. And well-suited to meting out health advice in the for-profit American healthcare system. Perfect, actually.
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  43117.  @ChadwickVonGriffindorIII  People who keep answering questions that have already been asked and answered many times are . . . misguided. 🤣
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  43118.  @ChadwickVonGriffindorIII  What's a little federal crime between billionaires? You're right. It's nothing.
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  43119.  @ChadwickVonGriffindorIII  Paul Allen is dead.
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  43120. I never joined. When something actually started out as objectively misogynistic, why participate?
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  43121. Delusional? About what story will bring cha-ching? She knows how to get paid. What else does she need to know? This is Maddow we are talking about.
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  43122.  @Rage_Harder_Then_Relax  Well, by that measure Jordan Peterson is a genius. And Brittney Spears is better than Mozart.
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  43123. Whatever else you think about him, Trump was the laziest president in history. Get a clue.
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  43124. She has one, but hasn't posted lately because she is planning her wedding.
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  43125. That's the strategy.
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  43126. Almost 4 years before George Floyd. Staggering.
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  43127.  @cuisinwithkev2699  Ha ha. Not with LaRiva running.
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  43128. When the Beatles and Stones properly credited black music for their success, did anyone have a fit?
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  43129. ​ @norman_5623  We don't know that that is true. Sadly.
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  43130. ​ @albertchurchill4845 This arose HERE, and the further you move from NW Europe and the English-speaking West, the less of it you see. Also, note who is profitting.
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  43131.  @albertchurchill4845  Of course. And I just bought a lotto ticket.
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  43132.  @albertchurchill4845  More honest money than this. Zipless money, lol.
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  43133. Noticed how he didn't mention France. Good reason. It has a real left -- as usual.
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  43134. Krystal nails it again: shaming the working class, as if they were all "deplorable" and had only base instincts, is shameful. They aren't the grifters in this picture. They are working harder and losing ground in every recession. Now, they have to risk COVID. No matter! /s
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  43135. So far, Putin is falling into every trap. This is the Realpolitik fact of the matter. Such empty shells and shameless killers, such as for example a Bolton, should not have the ability they do to manipulate non-Western peoples. And yet . . .
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  43136. Who likes Biden? For free??
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  43137. WHAT entitlement? Working 40 hours a week is not enough to guarantee against homelessness, much less . . . Oh, and if you're not rich, "it's your own fault." Think of the kind of mind that thinks that, and says it out loud. Not a resilient person, when "time and chance" happen; time and chance happen to them all.
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  43138.  @kelmoy6343  Oh I see, you mean like when the Federal Reserve plows trillions a year into Wall Street and such. Yeah, but that just ensures that Manhattan penthouse dwellers will not end up homeless. That has no bearing on your average delivery truck driver or barista, or the construction worker or sanitation worker who breaks his back. You know, the easy jobs.
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  43139. Ratcliffe is RIGHT. There. Three words. Done.
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  43140. They both got a lot out of this, considering. That's why Greenwald is speaking out.
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  43141.  @cedricrust9953  You are unfamiliar with Stonor Saunders and The Church Commission, or the book "Finks," I'm guessing? Wild guess. People who have documented FBI, CIA, MI6, etc., infiltration have had a huge uphill battle, because the truth is hidden, and hidden by layers of legal protection. So, all of these reports have been amply supported. They are the opposite of conspiracy theories. They are better established than the results of most investigative journalism, because they have to be. But if you don't know, "it can't be true."
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  43142.  @cedricrust9953  You're on my notif thread, but shadowed here. 🤣
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  43143.  @Preservestlandry  Who is y'all? What assumption am I making?
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  43144.  @Preservestlandry  Amanda Knox was not tried in the US.
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  43145. Biden has done a great job. Trump and Fauci, both -- especially together. I hope Bill Gates has more influence, too. Not to mention the other Bill.
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  43146.  @Dana-ie2bh  Don't say that about yourself! There are self-esteem videos.
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  43147. Bret Weinstein would be brilliant on a camping trip during a moonless night when everyone is huddled around a camp fire. I love a sophisticated ghost story. I bet this gig is much more lucrative, not to mention more fun, than teaching biology. He has got the right voice down, too. Great delivery. Except for one "small" problem: this "Maoist" rhetoric, and "collision course with history," "civil war," etc., is superficially cute and engaging, perfect for the camp fire, but what we could see is another Kent State, only this time with more dead, long before we have anything like the Cultural Revolution. People who take Weinstein's rhetoric seriously will applaud it, and Weinstein's bank account will not be hurting. That's the pattern I see.
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  43148. Do you not realize that this election was a statistical anomaly because of COVID? ALL of the above is more than possible. It happened.
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  43149. The concept of the commons exists in the literature since Adam Smith and John Locke. That, em, is way long before anybody was a "communist."
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  43150.  @tomharrison6607  Am I the only one here who has heard of the commons? Adam Smith? John LOCKE?
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  43151. Which is likewise false.
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  43152. Yes, and Jimmy and Aaron, too.
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  43153. The problem is, we don't know the true death toll, because everyone is lying.
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  43154. It is an immunotherapy regimen that significantly reduces the risk of hospitalization and death in those who are most vulnerable, and provides this risk reduction for about 5 to 9 months. And that's what they want to foist on everyone, even healthy kids. I didn't expect to see the day . . . .
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  43155. THANK YOU
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  43156. Krystal did run for office. And both are very intelligent and never shortchange voters. 0 for two.
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  43157.  @gadgetman136  You know so many things without bothering with facts.
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  43158.  @gadgetman136  Not at all. They strive to be accurate, AND publish under their actual names.
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  43159. Dovetails into warmongering. Whomever we bomb deserves it, too. Never show pictures of Dover Air Force Base.
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  43160.  @springbloom5940  Why? Are you?
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  43161.  @davidsomeone6839  Bri said that. Of course it is about the coziness between government and ALL of these corporations.
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  43162.  @davidsomeone6839  What did you gather from the Glenn Kessler segment??
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  43163. You beat me to it.
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  43164. That is not what I've heard, on NPR, specifically. DNA can always be handed over to law enforcement because that is an extraordinary circumstance and is not done for commercial purposes. It can also be subpoenaed, and for that very reason, the companies will forego being subpoenaed, and hand it over in cases where they know they can and will be, to avoid any possible expense.
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  43165.  @02biddle  I didn't say warrant, I said subpoena, which is by no means the same thing, or the same standard, but you are correct that without having examined these court documents directly, I don't know what they say. I do know that in general companies will share data with law enforcement in cases where they believe a subpoena could issue. Maybe some wait to be served. I think they should.
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  43166.  @02biddle  Commercial purposes is the main reason any of the data you provide is shared. Other companies might want to advertise to you, life insurance companies might want to see the average life expectancy of your closest relatives, that sort of thing. I wonder, has anyone who used DNA testing for genealogy ever gotten ads from related companies? Even a "paleo diet" company would cause me to wonder why I was targeted.
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  43167. See the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut safety report, English language version. It is easy to find. That's all anyone should need to make a case.
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  43168. Is it true that as many as 1% of all people have a psychotic break at some point? What proportion of those become chronically ill?
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  43169. So, who is doing Elon's tweeting?
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  43170. Watch the recent podcast with one of these types of people and Glenn Greenwald. Not to be missed.
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  43171. P. S. You'll enjoy it.
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  43172.  @DietersYT  Glenn Greenwald, System Update, Answers His Critics' Call to Engage. I hope he will continue in this vein and invite sharper critics next time. He has been on Briahna Joy Gray's Bad Faith podcast. She's incredible.
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  43173. She also brought in Pelosi, the Supreme Court, etc., . . . Did you miss her point about elites, so-called?
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  43174. A lot of people want to have firm evidence of safety. Simple. Many vaccines are good for you. They decrease all-cause mortality. Others are less so. Show us robust data on the mRNA vaccines.
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  43175. Agree wholeheartedly about not putting young children up to this. This is not a script, they are not playing characters, nor are their earnings held in trust for them. Nor is it an occasional cute, heartwarming video clip. This is their life, broadcast to strangers.
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  43176. No. Her candidates got 33% of all votes cast. 67% voted for some other party's candidates.
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  43177.  @alfrancis8  Well, since grabbing [ahem] doesn't work as Trump claimed it does, yes.
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  43178. Starbucks is nationwide and international. Lots of states and countries have various mandates.
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  43179. Most people aren't Americans. So, not having a stake in this society puts you with almost 96% of humanity.
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  43180. The very best European universities were always better in certain respects than American ones. Engineering is first class here, as is commercial art and design. Everything else has some serious gaps, but a dedicated student can find ways to overcome them.
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  43181. Death throes of empires. I doubt they've been the worst. We "moderns" only think we're better. :/
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  43182.  @robbsclassics  Nicely stated.
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  43183.  @robbsclassics  Even Ro Khanna saw the implications. He is a lawyer, unlike this team.
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  43184. Read the complaint. Or, have someone find it and read it to you.
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  43185.  @breakingbadenterprise328  Oh, so the fact that federal law was violated YET AGAIN is of no consequence? You don't know the race of the plaintiffs on whose behalf the organizational plaintiff is suing. P. S. Don't say this on your exam to enter Yale Law School. And stay away from get-rich-quick schemes, you'll be duped for sure.
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  43186. No it's not, lol.
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  43187. I used "Nick Cruse" and "Fred Hampton" as search terms together, and it finally came up in the results string. It's still small.
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  43188. HA
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  43189. Someone explain to me why Silicon Valley is still worshipped? What did you think was going to happen? What did you think they would do?
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  43190. By contrast, why was Shon Hopwood lionized by MSM? He didn't rob one bank, he robbed a series of banks. He didn't have one gun, he had an arsenal. I saw through him before he hired Tiffany Trump as his research assistant. But this kid can't go to school? He needs school. This society is a trip.
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  43191. It doesn't say that. What it does say is that he has been given awards for his writing. At sentencing, it was established that he was a severe alcohol abuser, which you hear him downplay, of course, and that he had dissociative disorder, not any form of psychopathy. I don't know why this narrator is diagnosing him with psychopathy. I see no signs of it at all. I see a person without a grasp of reality or agency, and extremely immature. People want to believe that there is something unusual about him. I wish.
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  43192. ​ @9395gb Doctors?? Have you carefully read your bill? Doctors are by far the least of it. You have no idea what you're talking about.
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  43193. She could be killed if she loses focus. A lot of people are opposed to where this sport has gone. And people criticize her? They're NUTS.
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  43194. Only the lucky ones.
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  43195. 14:15 THIS
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  43196.  @Reflect1998  "Cau$e?"
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  43197. Yeah, well, the Red Army and the Partisans of Yugoslavia inflicted 80% of all casualties the actual fighting forces of Nazi Germany suffered in WWII. There is no Red Army to defeat a new Hitler now. That's what should worry you as the US becomes more and more authoritarian and unhinged. Far right-wing populism is here. The call is coming from inside the house.
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  43198.  @isthatyoursomnomnom  An apology? No. That never happens.
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  43199.  @cruzintheraw  Oh! You've never read a First Amendment case, either! But you want to see objectively innocent Americans locked up. That's sweet.
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  43200. @TheCaptainSlappy  You mean, all the intelligent posts are from Russians? So, it's not just health care that's in shambles. Education, too. Just kidding. Educated Americans exist. Believe it.
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  43201. Any of us can click the link to the Australian government website and see for ourselves that AZ was discontinued three weeks ago due to a serious side effect attributed to the vaccine: thrombosis with thrombocytopenia (TTS), and is no longer in use there, for anyone.
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  43202. This is obvious when you see the remarkably high rate of unsolved homicides, and the number of innocent people in jail for decades.
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  43203. Kim was the ONLY normal teenager!
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  43204. Thought it was a surveillance ship.
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  43205. They made bank during his last administration. People like AOC and Rachel Maddow would not possibly be so rich without Trump.
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  43206. Why take them at face value? Follow the money.
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  43207. Frank Zappa: Adult life is high school with money.
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  43208. The remedy for speech you don't like is MORE speech. Big Tech is allowed to add a "warning" message on any video they disagree with, for any reason. If they can identify "problematic" videos or other materials that they think should be censored, then they can just add a disclaimer instead. More speech, not censorship. Big Tech can certainly afford it.
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  43209. He revealed himself to be not very deft with words, if not a blustering jerk, and this is whose fault? He had to tweet, he just had to. And his real beef was with Biden.
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  43210. 6:09 I beg you, make it happen.
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  43211. I've never seen or heard a more repugnant man. He makes Netanyahu look good. At least Netanyahu's motivation and personal concern is comprehensible.
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  43212. If I were her, I would have walked off the stage. I see Ferguson is part of the New Rudeness. I wouldn't permit anyone to speak to me as if I were a budding juvenile delinquent. I'm not so enthralled with 💰.
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  43213. 🤣🤣🤣
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  43214. Watching what other countries with sane medical systems are doing is always wise. I do. For example, they all recommend extensive vaccination for children, of course, but at a slower schedule. A whole bunch of separate shots at one appointment for an infant is not the custom in most European countries. Here, insurance is against many appointments, because of money. And anyone who mentions this is immediately smeared as "anti-vaxxer." All about $$$.
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  43215. Have you read Chemerinsky on free speech on campus? There is NO doubt that Chemerinsky is left.
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  43216. Few suspected he'd be as bad as he was.
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  43217.  @scottk1525  Which is not a problem. Nor did you say it is.
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  43218. I think you mean tryst. Triste is what whoever is with Jill will be, for a long time.
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  43219. Has Aude Lancelin's book been translated? Nice, clear statement of who owns us.
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  43220.  @les0101s  Read what I wrote again.
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  43221.  @sadiyasaleh233  Fix your spell check.
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  43222.  @sadiyasaleh233  I am sorry for your loss, but you see fit to attack me when you have no idea of what trauma I've lived through. Would it be normal for OTHER PEOPLE who saw the crash that killed your father to call 911? Not you, but other people. At least someone. Suppose no one had called. Would you judge that to be "normal?" I never said what you accused me of saying, and I don't believe you don't know it. Or maybe you are so personally traumatized that you don't understand how to make distinctions, and you take something that has absolutely nothing in common with the situation you lived through and you somehow find a way to take it personally. Did this roommate witness the near-instant death of an immediate family member at a moment when she, too, suffered physical injury? You don't see nuances here, just a black and white world?
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  43223.  @sadiyasaleh233  Now that you've collected yourself, I am guessing that you realized that SOMEONE called 911 when you and your father were in an accident and you could not. That was normal of them -- and yes, it was far more clear in your case than in this one. But you see, you do have a sense of what is NORMAL, don't you? And that includes a call for help.
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  43224.  @sadiyasaleh233  When you go on the attack like that, you could convince people not to call for help, do you realize that? In a lot of countries, failing to help when you can is called "nonassistance a personne en danger," and is a crime. In America, no one has a duty to report someone else's accident if they had no part in it, even if they are safe and able to call. If I were immature, an interaction like this could convince me to just mind my own business, which is my right to do, and never call to help anyone again. You should apologize for assuming my view is baseless, and for attacking me personally. Whole societies make it their law that there are times when you have to call. I never blamed the victim here, I made that crystal clear. I agreed the OP is basically right. Think about the world you want to live in. Someone called to help you. You attack someone who supports that.
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  43225.  @sadiyasaleh233  I didn't judge her, much less "crucify" her. I never asked that anyone do what they cannot. I don't care about the consensus. The "consensus" was, briefly, that anyone who was unvaccinated should be deprived of a hospital bed. Not to mention that if you are homeless it "must be" your own fault. That's an ongoing "consensus." So much for consensus. And frankly, I don't even see the "consensus" you see -- though I'd rather see posts like OP, which I basically agreed with from the start, than people blindly criticizing her. Which is why I did not do so, either. Suddenly, you're semi-reasonable, BUT you are still casting aspersions at ME and claiming I said something I did not say, or even think, much less speak. You are still putting words in my mouth. Shame on you. I am less likely to call for help today than I was a week ago, although I still have my ethics, and courage, which I have for my own sense of self, and not so much based on normal, human compassion. We have a completely dysfunctional society now. Consider what you want to contribute to, and how you want to live. Blocked.
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  43226.  @sadiyasaleh233  My gawd, your post prior to your last post is a string of lies. You don't even realize it? If a person is indeed in shock, are they in a "normal" state? No. They are not. Is it always a person's fault that they are not in a normal state, capable of doing normal things? NO. Who said it was? Who today does not know about how long shock can last, how common incipient PTSD is, how "fight, flight, freeze" is a state a person cannot will themselves out of? Who suggested these things are not real? That's not what the discussion here is about. The discussion, or at least the legitimate one, simply notes that we don't know whether this is what happened to her. We only assume it is possible. Just how much baggage are you placing on the word "normal?" And why? Good thing someone did the normal thing for you, when you needed the normal thing to be done.
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  43227.  @sadiyasaleh233  BTW, why didn't you go after one of the people who actually attacked the woman, or blamed her? Why did you go after me, who did not? I know why. I wonder if you do. Just keep trashing intelligent people. See how that works out for you when you need a doctor, lawyer, therapist . . .
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  43228.  @sadiyasaleh233  Ha. I forgot to block you. You just demonstrated that I did not blame her in the least. I continued to reiterate at every point that I did not blame her. And if she was severely traumatized, she was not in a normal state, and she may not have been able to do normal things. You can respond to any comment as you see fit, including a comment that was never made and was expressly excluded. If you want to go around misrepresenting what has been said, that is your issue. A lot of countries have laws that impose a general duty to call for help, IF a person is able to do that, and to do it safely. If they can't, no one makes them. Such laws are, ahem, normal in most of the world. (In the US, we rely on moral persuasion, assuming that still exists.) I am trying to call you to your senses to tell you that you are normalizing conduct that could come back to hurt you. If you don't care, that's up to you. I certainly don't take it personally. It's not my problem. (Nice little DARVO move, after pointlessly personalizing a theoretical discussion -- is that all ya got?) This time, blocked for real.
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  43229.  @ricfax  Take a look at every biography of any billionaire you like. Better yet, for Microsoft the evidence was developed and tested in court -- and, contrary to popular opinion, the evidentiary record was never overturned. You can go to the record of the antitrust case and see. You can consider that when Paul Allen was diagnosed with a treatable cancer, Gates immediately tried to push him out of Microsoft, long before his Epstein friendship. You can consider that Steve Jobs literally stole from Wozniak, and he emotionally abused his first child to the very end of his life. You can look at the lawsuits for severe discrimination and for animal abuse filed against Musk's companies. You can find out about Walmart and Amazon labor practices. You can read the literature on the psychology of the hyperambitious. Or you can just pretend none of it happened.
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  43230.  @ricfax  You do know how to refute a categorical statement, correct? Or an overgeneralization of the available evidence? Produce some counterexamples.
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  43231.  @ricfax  Or maybe you are math challenged. Pro tip: two billion dollars is roughly a million a year for every year since the birth of Jesus. Who can earn that? Why would anyone try to hoard it? Now, multiply. You really thought we couldn't back this up, huh? LOL
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  43232.  @ricfax  🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Just tested my substantive post. Nope, not shadowed. (I'm surprised myself, actually.) Also, what did you "dismiss?" I thought you had raised a question, so I answered it. I didn't know it was a pseudo-question. Oops.
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  43233.  @ricfax  If you can't read my posts, you are certainly not up for reading biographies or case law.
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  43234.  @ricfax  Just out of curiosity, what job do you do? If it's in advertising, demand a raise.
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  43235. Oh gawd, I wish I had stopped scrolling before reading that. Scary.
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  43236. It is not illegal to state your agreement with one or the other.
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  43237. Kim complimented them. True class.
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  43238. That strikes me as not obvious. Everyone has a right of access to courts.
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  43239.  @stevestevens8749  Well DUH. If two parents divorce and cannot come to an agreement concerning the medical care of their minor child, how do you think a decision will be reached? Either one may file suit, if they so desire. It is their constitutional right. Granted, it is mostly multimillionaires and billionaires -- and corporate entities -- who avail themselves of the court system, in contract disputes, securities disputes, antitrust, etc., but little people have a right to go to court, too, at least in principle.
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  43240.  @stevestevens8749  I noticed that, on the part of both. And I don't agree.
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  43241.  @emblemedfate4270  The USSR had the world's most powerful land army, probably the most powerful ever. So, no comparison, to any other country, actually. No people's army has ever suffered defeat when defending their own soil. Not Vietnam, not Cuba. They cannot even flip Venezuela, despite all that is objectively wrong with the political leadership and management of that country. Chavez built a people's army. It's still around, for now. Libya had nothing comparable, mini-personality cult notwithstanding.
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  43242.  @maladetts  You're right. But in principle . . . Okay, never mind.
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  43243.  @wintercomesearly  Er, yeah. Research the difference.
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  43244. They would probably sweep up a whole host of perfectly harmless, innocent kids.
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  43245. Amen
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  43246.  @vegangoddess8501  Many people are sensitive to dairy. It does take more research and work to get your uridine and such, but of course it can be done.
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  43247. "Up to an order of magnitude" usually means up to ten times, but not greater.
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  43248. Wonderful!!!
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  43249. ​ @gwendolynbarry7415 You might like Judith Herman's book Trauma and Recovery. I love it, even more than van der Kolk's.
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  43250. Like Freud. Only it so happens that's wrong.
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  43251. Panic? I wasn't. I was in mourning for my freedom. In 2020, I finally had solid health insurance for the first time in 20 years, or so I thought. Silly me.
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  43252. Five years ago, did you see this coming??
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  43253. ​@WorkNPlay-ow9dc I thought it was Dionysios -- which is also misleading. The Olympics were held to honor Zeus, not Dionysios. Other festivals honored Dionysios.
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  43254. "What's not to like?" /s
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  43255. Cha-ching
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  43256. ​ @slappy8941 Autocorrect does this ALL the time. Up next: self-driving cars! 😂😂😂
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  43257.  @MrFeeny911  You didn't know I was kidding? I believe you. Scary!
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  43258. You fell for the pseudoscience. Lovely. You're as good as the doctors in this picture.
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  43259. How would the defense introduce this "evidence?" With expert testimony? In the US, expert witness testimony on the credibility of a witness is inadmissible, because it is an attempt to substitute the opinion of a paid expert for that of the jury, which is the sole entity charged with making witness credibility determinations. But you stick to those videos. And be sure to spread the word.
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  43260.  @frogsong100  You know nothing about evidence. An "expert analysis" of this video for indicia of lying is INADMISSIBLE, on several grounds, not just one. A plaintiff gets to testify. A jury can scrutinuze him then. Those "experts" are putting on a show. Do you ever remember all the stuff they get wrong? No. 🤣
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  43261.  @frogsong100  The really funny part is that you think you're an expert and accurately assessed this guy because you watch their show. Too bad idiots like me fail to appreciate your skills. 🤣
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  43262.  @frogsong100  As evidence that he's lying? Based on analysis of body language, facial expressions, vocal quality, etc.? Of course they are not admissible for that purpose. Yes I am a lawyer. Isn't that obvious? But this is common sense. If you thought about it, you'd know yourself.
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  43263.  @frogsong100  For the purpose of demonstrating that he lied, based on his affect? No. It is not admissible. What I don't understand is how anyone can think so. You think you know this, because you had myocarditis and your symptoms were different? This is why neither side would permit you to sit on the jury. This is news to you? I can't believe it.
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  43264.  @frogsong100  You know what? Believe what you want. This is a lost cause, I've known for a long time.
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  43265.  @frogsong100  Wait, I have an idea. Find a lawyer who will tell you you're right. This is 2022; trust me, you can.
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  43266.  @frogsong100  I see. You can diagnose based on a video, when a doctor could not and would not. You are a better doctor than a doctor, a better lawyer than a lawyer, and YouTube entertainers taught you how to spot a liar. What happened to people? I'd be worried in your position. P. S. Blocked from my notifications.
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  43267. Undocumented immigrants are getting housing and health care now. Citizens and permanent residents? Not so much.
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  43268. See Lev Golinkin in The Nation, circa 2019. That has the advantage of having been written before the pandemic. The neo-Nazis given free rein in eastern Ukraine were murdering people. They weren't some false flag.
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  43269. Prove it
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  43270.  @vanessalutz9740  Go eff yourself. That's what I have to say. What did you have to say? Couldn't stop yourself, eh? I don't care what you see in the mirror. My mirror looks way different.
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  43271. And you should be damned glad.
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  43272.  Johnny G  As a matter of fact, they don't demonize Trump voters one bit, ever. They mostly blame DNC for that, as they should. Krystal is always getting criticized for refusing to condemn Trump voters, or any other conservative voters, and for supporting Tulsi against the Clinton crowd. She and Saagar are not holding back on the Epstein/Maxwell story, they supported GameStop buyers for exposing naked short selling, etc. They never criticize Greenwald or Dore for going on Fox. You must not watch her much. Glib whataboutism. Don't fall for it.
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  43273. Don't be so sure everything she says is true. Verify some of it, especially prescribed speech to psychotherapists in the US, where it raises First Amendment issues, all sorts of prescriptions for minors without parental consent, name change by public schools without parental notification, etc. Also, what may have happened in rare instances may not be what generally happens anywhere. I'm not saying it's false, I'm saying if you have kids, do the research. That said, to me, the idea of depriving a teenager of the opportunity to have children someday sounds criminal, and cultish. The teen cannot know what that will mean to them. It seems like they are eager to risk the fertility of anxious, awkward, nonconforming girls. Sinister.
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  43274. Be careful, Kim. Saying Putin wasn't really elected is disrupting the virtuous narrative that all Russians are evil, we need to ban their books, musicians, and cats.
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  43275. Couldn't be more clear: you need "stimulus?" Vote for Biden, or else.
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  43276. He has a significant pre-existing condition and his doctor told him and Stef to get vaccinated. He trusted his doctor. Come on!
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  43277. ​ @Lisa-r6u1w This was hospice.
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  43278. Yeah, that it's a lie. Look up the cases he lost.
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  43279.  @johnmcquilkin  She was a cheerleader in high school.
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  43280.  @derekconlin1180  A legal term. Please consult a legal dictionary.
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  43281. This was inevitable.
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  43282. Alexander COCKBURN reached out to The American Conservative, on the narrow issue of ending the endless wars. Alexander Cockburn. Dig it.
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  43283. If The View invites Batya to educate Whoopie et al., that would be the ideal outcome. Invite someone who actually knows about the history of the Holocaust and is articulate on it. Whoopie hasn't earned her platform is the issue. Suspending her is not teaching her anything. She still thinks she's right.
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  43284. MSM sticks a camera in the hospital rooms of people dying of COVID, only if they were unvaccinated of course. I would not broadcast the last moments of the life of a PET. My relatives in Europe can't believe it. They have no place to put it. Who gives permission for this?
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  43285. Republicans want accountability, Democrats don't? HEAD FAKE, they are all cosplaying. They all support bioweapons. Why is Ukraine full of DoD funded labs?
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  43286. Depp has a RIGHT to refuse to be examined by anyone. Do you follow?
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  43287.  @ernestshackleton6965  what guy?
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  43288.  @ernestshackleton6965  Oh, I see what you said. Yeah, but calling someone online a narcissist isn't a diagnosis, it's trash talk.
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  43289.  @ernestshackleton6965  Did you see what happened? This exchange highlighted the fact that Depp refused to see any of Heard's experts in person. I'm surprised that came out. It's like the Fifth Amendment, you're not supposed to call attention to it (unless the person on the stand invokes it himself). His right to keep away from her shrink is his right. Period.
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  43290.  @ernestshackleton6965  I get it.
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  43291. That's what she gets for being a scientist.
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  43292.  @houseofvoid2153  I didn't say he was "crazy." Blocked.
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  43293.  @AnaLucia-wy2ii  I agree. It is very unfair.
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  43294.  chad5852  I wish. Distant paternal ancestors, both parents. That isn't Jewish. Blocked, btw.
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  43295. No. A lawyer first files papers in court, with real stuff in them, and only THEN holds a news conference. If there is a true threat to witnesses, she first arranges protection, then files in court, then tells the press about what is happening. I've never seen anything this brutishly incompetent. If she believes what she's saying, all the more reason to follow confidentiality rules and procedures, to protect her case. This evidence has to be presented to a court, not to AP News or Facebook.
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  43296.  @regretlater929  I'm telling you what competent lawyers do. They file, then talk to media. Why are you twisting in pretzels to defend her? You know this yourself. I'm not saying anything you didn't know.
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  43297.  @regretlater929  Actually, I am very good. But it doesn't take much to know this. It is about protecting evidence and protecting your case -- if evidence exists, and if you have a case. I'm sorry that you've bought the line that truth depends on how well known or "powerful" the speaker is. It doesn't. Like I said, I am not saying anything you didn't know already. You did.
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  43298. See Glenn's tweet, from January 20. Sums it up.
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  43299. What a horrible line-up for the live tour. How did we fall this far? It's drugs, isn't it? I know it's drugs.
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  43300.  @halodisciple8459  Because the current conflict only started when the tyrannical infants in the West started paying attention.
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  43301.  @Face2theScr33n  Tell yourself that. And tell yourself CNN is making sense. Maybe when your dollar loses its value, you will start thinking? Or is that when you'll "calmly and rationally" cheer more bombs?
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  43302.  @Face2theScr33n  I didn't. Haven't heard of pervasive censorship? Try to keep up. Your comments that repeatedly cite excr*m*nt are gone, or didn't you catch that?
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  43303.  @Face2theScr33n  All right. Like I said, I felt like I should apologize, so, on some level we connected, somehow. Don't worry. YouTube.
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  43304.  @Brian-gw5hg  That was me.
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  43305.  @frangershwing  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/27/vasili-arkhipov-stopped-nuclear-war
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  43306.  @frangershwing  In case the link doesn't work or is shadowed, look up The Guardian, an article by a man by the name of Wilson. Arkhipov surely did stop a nuclear exchange, fully believing they themselves were about to perish. The vote to launch had to be unanimous. It was 2 to 1, thanks to him.
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  43307.  @diehardcat  Not at all. It was both vastly better and worse, because the real betrayals of the working class and the tactical withdrawal of support from revolutions that could have succeeded were never counted as bad things. They were painted as the few times those crazy communist zealots bowed to "reality." Nor did the capitalist class actually care about the unacceptable curtailment of personal religious freedom, or rights of marginalized peoples; they just used such events as propaganda. Then they also falsified things like the "show trials," which linguistically sophisticated Russian speakers realized were mostly high irony and camp. In short, we were not supposed to see Soviets as people. We were not supposed to believe the world was being made there -- that, even less! We were the spectators. We believed our movies. Well . . . Here we are . . .
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  43308.  @diehardcat  Or, in short, we were lied to in every respect. The whole shebang . . . the sole point being to dehumanize. (I like Stephen F. Cohen best on all this.)
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  43309.  @diehardcat  Okay, have it your way. I explained what I meant.
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  43310.  @diehardcat  Lack of courage, lack of agency, lack of real belief in themselves, inability to understand "freedom." Etc. All can be used to minimize what they did wrong, or responsibility for doing wrong.
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  43311.  @diehardcat  Okay. I see your point. I don't think the agit-prop we got humanized the victims, either. All these non-Western peoples were depicted as robotic, just as Soviet casualties in WWII are minimized. The killing or oppression of non-Westerners was never treated as being equal to harming "us." Because "they" don't "understand our freedoms." Therefore, nor do their victims. We're just "lucky" to be here and not there.
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  43312.  @diehardcat  Also, I'm thinking we saw different propaganda? :D Could be.
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  43313. @TimothyZhou0  Well, but if you did the research, you would find that fast food has been deliberately designed to be addictive and to change your perception of good food, which no longer tastes good or satisfies your hunger. So . . . We are not talking about simple market forces here -- in which case, of course you would have a point. If that sounds farfetched, I understand. Spend a little time doing the research.
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  43314.  @TimothyZhou0  I hope you can see that. Note that I haven't so much as touched on "sticky apps," or opioids or Wall Street.
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  43315. He is much better in later videos. He will have a long road, but he's getting there.
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  43316. "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity" -William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming (1919)
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  43317.  @amputd  Not true. Take a look at the last time when the minimum wage paid the rent and put food on the table in most major cities. It was in the 60s. UBI would not make anyone passive. Debt and division, and the fear they lead to, are what make people passive.
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  43318. Really? Has it hurt Bill Gates? His relationship with Epstein, his bizarre GMO advocacy, his involvement with faulty vaccines and buying up farmland, and how he tried to get rid of Paul Allen as soon as Allen developed cancer -- has any of it hurt him? That's not my worry. 5:30 to the end says it all.
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  43319. The stupidity is par for the course.
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  43320. It works only because in place of something like a gold standard, the world has a dollar standard: it IS the global reserve currency. If other countries again try to remove themselves from the regime of dollar hegemony, there will be war. It's certain.
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  43321.  @Bleepbloopblappp  Robby agreed that he supports parents and doctors making decisions about health care without the interference of an authoritarian state. How did you miss that?
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  43322.  @Bleepbloopblappp  It seemed to me that in this case, where the parents were in disagreement, Robby took the side of the parent who wanted to preserve the child's future ability to have birth children. But that makes it dependent on at least one parent agreeing that that is important. I think it should be important no matter what the parents think. Robby also said that state interference, when everyone fully agrees on treatment, is authoritarian. I disagree. If the medical profession cannot police itself, then the state has got to.
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  43323.  @blackjackjester  How do you read what I said as being in disagreement with that? It's obviously true, but I don't see what you are inferring from that, or how it contrasts with what I said.
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  43324. ​ @PurpleImpactStrategies What is that to you?
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  43325. ​@sburn1919 The same way anyone else gets DOD contracts. Harvard is different in that not all of its research is in defense. 😅
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  43326. What is "true?" Whatever makes the most money. What? Are you against the market??!
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  43327.  @valkimura1053  And therefore . . . ?
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  43328. @valkimura1053  I meant that the right invokes the Greeks without betraying the least understanding of who they were or what they were like. I know hardly anyone studies this stuff. Yes, The Last Supper is a painting in a museum, not an icon in a church, and the Greek rites celebrating Dionysios could be raucous and even dangerous. See, for example, Euripides.
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  43329. @valkimura1053  I hope my answer comes back, but I'm not holding my breath.
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  43330. NYT Paul Krugman just lined up full force with the "Canadian truckers = January 6" mob. By "mob," I mean the mob that believes such rot.
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  43331. Not to mention the influx of the Sophists and their dominance in Athens. Their fundamental tenet was that there is no such thing as objective truth, the point is to persuade others in politics and the marketplace. Sound familiar?
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  43332. ​ @T.D.111 But Biden was a merit hire. 😂😂😂
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  43333. Wait. You don't get irony? Hint: what were the laughing emojis for?
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  43334. @tracieb9339  NONE of them were merit hires. Not Biden, not Trump, not Reagan, for that matter. Not Mitch McConnell, not Mike Johnson . . . You mean it's not obvious??
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  43335. @tracieb9339  How was I supposed to know the level of comprehension here is similar to Biden's?
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  43336.  @tracieb9339  The point was, name any major politician with a brain, either party.
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  43337.  @tracieb9339  You still don't get it? It is ridiculous to single out women and Democrats for criticism. Especially considering the Republican ticket.
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  43338.  @tracieb9339  OP
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  43339. @1965Grit  Why were the top three quintiles in income doing just fine, and the fourth still had a life back when those tax rates were high? Housing was affordable then. Food costs were trivial unless you had more than two or three kids. Today, only the top 10% are solidly affluent. All the rest are not. Today, we have a massive deficit, which means inflationary bubbles in one area after another.
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  43340. @Polit_Burro  Yeah, I'm particularly censored when I point out that we run deficits, then pay interest to the rich. They don't pay; we pay them. We enrich them, then pay them some more. You would think the average person would have figured that out by now. Didn't the Epstein saga get them to start thinking that maybe the rich aren't so great after all? If the BP catastrophe, HSBC, Enron, the implosion of the financial system in 2008-2009, and social media turned into mass surveillance for corporations and the state, etc., etc., didn't do it already. What will it take? What still has to happen? Reminds me of the Cavafy poem, "Waiting For the Barbarians."
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  43341. @1965Grit  There is only one way to pass on all costs: to have a demand curve that is infinitely inelastic. There is no such thing. (Edited -- no clue why I said "elastic." The point was, no matter the cost, people must pay.) If you think that what you're saying makes sense, try to devise an economy of no taxes and 100% deficit spending via T bonds. Do it as a thought experiment. See where that goes. In particular, see whether you end up with what Adam Smith would have dubbed a "free market." (He considered vast accumulations of wealth by the rentier class to be the biggest threat to the free market, and he considered that avoidable. There's a lot that's true in that view, except for the avoidable part.)
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  43342.  @Polit_Burro  I just had one go poof. I mentioned when that happens the most, and . . . it did. 😂
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  43343.  @Polit_Burro  Some are g o n e. SMH
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  43344.  @Polit_Burro  They won't allow another. Or maybe thinking it over . . . ? Nah, probably not.
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  43345.  @relyt_renffeh5030  The health care workers who were there for us all last year during the pandemic, caring for the sick before much was known and treatments weren't working well, should not have taken that risk. I think they now see how foolish they were. Sacrificing yourself for others is always a fool's game in this sorry culture. In Paris, the CGT (far left union) organized a demonstration of vaccinated health care workers in support of their unvaccinated colleagues. Yeah you read that right. All the comments about the video reportage are congratulating the demonstrators for their humanity. Wonder why the French have a much longer life expectancy, that barely budged in 2020, while the US had record drug overdose deaths last year, and now a violent crime wave? Here's a clue: What you're doing isn't working. If you still have no inkling, don't worry. Life will teach you, all too soon.
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  43346.  @trufflesrheaven  Sure they'll get a job again. This is a market economy. If there is a shortage, they will get a job -- right or wrong. Plenty of nurses fired for serious negligence and causing actual harm to patients, not theoretical, were rehired. Don't pretend you don't know.
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  43347.  @relyt_renffeh5030  I don't care if my nurse is vaccinated, as I trust her to be tested and have the correct PPE. What I don't want is a nurse who swears like a sailor in a porn flick. You sound very resentful about having been vaccinated. Why is that?
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  43348.  @relyt_renffeh5030  Oh I finally saw this Guillain-Barre story. And YOU were required to get the COVID vaccine? If you didn't swear so much, and didn't generally lack basic compassion, I might believe you, but far too much of your discourse DOES NOT ADD UP. Your stories are not credible, but your desire for attention is palpable. Time to block all notices from this channel! This was a time waster all right.
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  43349. Biden has a high approval rating, considering no more than 10% of whites and a smaller percentage of people of color live well.
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  43350. Intent isn't supported by evidence. It's the recklessness charges that matter.
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  43351. Anyone who thinks Robbie's hair is professional and Olayemi's isn't . . . 🤣
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  43352. I thought that all along the story was that Trump was a coward who scurried off to a bunker below the White House. The grabbing the wheel story benefits Trump.
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  43353. The death rate in Sweden is much lower than US, UK, but quite a bit higher than any other Scandinavian country. Do we know why? Are we actually sharing information? Or jeering at each other?
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  43354. Stocks and gold are highly liquid. Who told you they weren't? Your questions ("I wonder if Bri knows that" -- no, Harvard Law School and corporate law firms don't cover taxation) throw around sophisticated-sounding terms but betray a lack of knowledge.
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  43355.  @alishavogel7926  Wrong. This was true before the 1990s, roughly. Not in this century. You must not understand how modern trading is done currently, to be using old concepts and categories in that way. If you want to call them semi-liquid, in comparison to cash and cash-equivalents, then I agree.
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  43356.  @alishavogel7926  OH, you work in the mortgage industry!! I am impressed with my own ability to obtain admissions against interest. And my point is that the "time" has been reduced to seconds, if not milliseconds. You are using fancy words you don't fully understand yet, and exemplifying the old adage that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. But at least you seem to want to learn. Great, and good luck.
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  43357.  @alishavogel7926  Your point that you cannot settle a myriad of transactions in shares of stock or gold bars, and have to convert them to cash or cash equivalents? Who in the world ever thought that you could? It's not me who looks foolish my dear.
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  43358.  @alishavogel7926  Actually, I already forgot about this thread. It's too elementary. I'm not even sure what you mean, and don't intend to reread. I wasn't "yelling" about anything, and I know "the rich" will never pay their "fair share" by any definition; they own the political system. Moreover, if your posts are making money for you, by all means continue. I would understand that. (Suggestion -- Review your post sentence by sentence, identify the vague parts.)
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  43359.  @alishavogel7926  And you have time for this third unpaid gig? I didn't say you made money for posting. I implied that I would respect you more if you did, obviously. Well that's off the table. Now it makes no sense at all.
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  43360.  @alishavogel7926  Look up "if."
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  43361.  @alishavogel7926  blocked "get a life" is usually mean or pointless, but just this once I think I'll use it
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  43362.  @kingade2931  Excellent points. It's a pleasure to read a post from someone who understands financial markets.
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  43363.  @RobertDoosh  Exactly.
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  43364. Small fact: the Soviets banned lobotomies a full generation before Americans did. One more: Vasili Arkhipov prevented a nuclear exchange, Americans very nearly provoked one. Maybe the history of the 20th century is more . . . nuanced? The agit-prop you believed without question is brought to you by the same crowd that's pushing vaccine mandates and mass surveillance.
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  43365. ​ @Jon-g2d5k Correct. Capitalism is an inherently anti-democratic force that is likely to cause more mass death.
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  43366. I don't think any of this is real. The neoliberal globalists know the next few years will be fraught. I think they want to "lose" --- they want their opponents to be the ones holding the bag. In any case, every crisis makes them richer. "Somehow"
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  43367. Isn't for them. Look up the treatments they have access to.
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  43368. Nice Christmas interview.
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  43369. I also wonder why China instituted actual, complete lockdowns, as you see done in prisons. Do they know something about the virus that they are not sharing? I mean, apart from its origins, which they probably knew all along. I love how no one can ask questions. All questions are "questions." All questions have to be probed for their "subtext," so that we can categorize the speaker and call them out.
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  43370. Isn't that what everyone learns in school, K through college? They sure do act like they've been trained exactly that way when they get to the workplace.
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  43371. Common occurence.
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  43372. "We have to do SOMETHING!!" --- if people don't end up dead as a result, we're already ahead.
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  43373. Originally from 16th century France, and appeared in George Washington's commonplace book. (We should emulate Washington and keep a commonplace book, actually. He started his as a young teen.)
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  43374.  @PermanentHigh  It's from his commonplace book. The maxim originated in France in the 1500s, at the latest. Could be older. Washington already had a commonplace book by the time he was 14.
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  43375.  @michaelbabcock6997  Shame on you. The Libyan slave market is OUR doing.
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  43376.  @michaelbabcock6997  Slavery ended everywhere except Brazil before it ended in the US.
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  43377.  @michaelbabcock6997  ". . . got outplayed?" This is your world view? . . . Does anyone love you? I mean, without a material interest?
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  43378.  @michaelbabcock6997  I'm sorry. Forgot to block you from my feed. Thanks for the reminder.
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  43379.  @markwashington1351  🤣 Someone always tops everybody!
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  43380. How people are picked off one by one.
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  43381.  @mckenzie.latham91  Watch the actual program, or at least a sustantial segment. See what it was really about. Anything can be twisted. And like First Amendment advocates say, you could be next.
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  43382. Not only that, but the 3rd and 7th of a 7th chord determine its quality.
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  43383. That part was not dismissed. She still has breach of contract against Harvard alone.
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  43384. According to the Memorandum Opinion, several of her breach of contract claims against Harvard were not dismissed. The opinion is dated Sept. 11, 2024. She has until mid-October to file an amended complaint. So, this video is misleading as well.
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  43385.  @gavincross2902  Oh. Okay.
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  43386.  @mitchjames9350  Of course push. Never invite.
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  43387. This has been cause to withdraw other vaccines in the past. I suggest you . . . ah, never mind.
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  43388. They all gave statements. They've employed enough writers to manage that much.
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  43389. Rereading With Liberty and Justice for Some, Glenn Greenwald. Dovetails perfectly. :/
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  43390. ​@Curt-Gevert You mean Jeff Epstein's buddy? That one?
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  43391. ​@Curt-Gevert Absolutely none of it is. As for me, there is nothing I need that $500,000 wouldn't provide me -- which is a low estimate of what my family lost due to Enron-level corporate crime. There is nothing I want that $1,000,000 couldn't provide, and I would want either to earn it honestly or by winning a lotto, where at least every ticket has an equal chance. If you think other people are jealous, maybe that's like Hillary saying other people steal elections? 😂
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  43392. ​ @Curt-Gevert ​ ​ The major corporations have found it profitable to pay vastly more in campaign donations and lobbying than they will ever pay in taxes, while relying on the armed forces far more than any of us do to protect their global interests -- not to mention reaping our taxes in the form of government contracts and interest on Treasury bonds. They buy the politicians, and the politicians make us pay. They do because they can afford it. It's no accident that tax rates were so high after WWII, when the difference between the value of the common man who fought when called upon and the parasitic class was stark and unmistakable. You couldn't get away with this back then.
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  43393. ​ @janetmontgomery-r6j  It's not income.
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  43394. Sorting by Newest, and you'll see what that looks like. Very different. 😅
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  43395. But he's not part Asian. Is he at least Native American?
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  43396. Actually, the vaccination release form that every person who goes in to be vaccinated is given tells you that after reading it, you can refuse vaccination and there will be no change in the healthcare you are entitled to. It says so on the form. Look it up.
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  43397. It's so simple you could explain it to a child: EU can't pay Russia by putting the money in a bank that will steal Russia's money. It has to pay Russia by paying the money to Russia's own bank, where nothing will happen to it.
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  43398. Like the freedom to own whatever you want. Including people.
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  43399. Well, we should ask whether exit polls are more accurate. At least they canvas actual, living voters. They must have other issues, though.
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  43400. ​@WeirdSmellyMan Do they joke about man against man [grape -- g]?
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  43401. So let me ask you, have you read the statement? Then how do you know what it says, and that it should be condemned? Have you read the Haaretz editorial? Does the statement go beyond what Haaretz said? Full disclosure: I have read Haaretz, I have not read the Harvard students' statement. I'm interested in all Israeli views, not in American college student views. I'm just interested in whether you yourself practice critical thinking since you assert the need to value it.
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  43402.  @Alice-m7e  If you read, you might not get duped yet again. I thought COVID taught everyone the value of finding things out for themselves. Not you, huh?
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  43403.  @Alice-m7e  Your favorite four letter word is a rather odd choice.
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  43404. There are laws against repo for a car proven to be necessary for transportation to work, and for tools of trade. There is no bankruptcy discharge of these student loans, no matter what -- thanks to Senator Biden.
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  43405. @PurpleMatter  In many states, you have special protections for your primary domicile and for your place of business. You seem to think the law is more categoric than it is. Inform yourself.
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  43406.  @purplematteronly  Because the federal government made these loans impossible to discharge in bankruptcy and because it shut down the economy during the pandemic and caused major distress to young people in particular.
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  43407. @PurpleMatter  Listen, in the end, it is easy not to care about American kids. I'll be glad to drop it.
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  43408.  @purplematteronly  I agree that loan forgiveness absent REFORM makes no sense. That part is true.
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  43409. She never said that. The Westboro Baptist Church demonstrated near the funerals of our service members, and as long as they kept a distance it was deemed legal. You might disagree with a lot of protests (Westboro is vile), but do you want to put them in jail for it? Especially where the one being targeted by the protest deserves punishment and will never see punishment? Odd, huh? "Saying" so much worse than "doing" . . .
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  43410. This wasn't the funeral. This was a public display prior to the funeral. The funeral will be on September 19.
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  43411. Robby's hypothetical is incorrect: anyone can perform a contract or violate it and pay money. That's the standard. Not to curtail market participation in lieu of money damages. Besides, Kim Iversen relied on her job here. What happened?
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  43412. Dore didn't say that.
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  43413. "But that's because of the Internet!!"
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  43414. @christopheredwards7846  Where did you find contemporary data? I realize these statistical studies are highly complex. First of all, the concept and the calculation of "excess deaths" has got to be scrutinized. Then, multivariate analysis is needed, because too many things changed at all once, and all for the worse. At the moment, there is some indication that repeated exposure to the "spike" protein is bad for your heart, regardless of whether it is from vaccine or infection. :/ Annual flu shots don't have this property.
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  43415. @stephenwilliams3213  What is your source? I cannot confirm this on Our World in Data.
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  43416. @stephenwilliams3213  Never mind, found it. Chart compares excess deaths during the entire period, not attempting to attribute them to any one cause.
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  43417. I think so, too. Lucrative.
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  43418.  @fatbachelors3922  Yup. But this has become a ridiculous mudfest. Aaron should have gotten a lawyer, who would have written a VERY POINTED letter to TYT's producers. All parties would then have zipped it, on advice of counsel. That would have been great, huh? Sometimes a lawsuit is the right thing to do.
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  43419. PhD in Nursing Education is also a qualification for policy-making, so it is more than a teaching credential. MS is all you need to teach.
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  43420.  @johnnytightlips2716  Hm. Not during a pandemic and war it's not. But I see your point. I wish!
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  43421. $$$$$$$$ nice job, keep it up That's all I see in you.
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  43422. Are you sure that's okay to do? Write it and rip it up. Or sleep on it. Over the weekend. See how you feel next Tuesday.
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  43423. You are just reacting to the label "wokeness." EVERY defamation case in the US asserts that the party being sued had no First Amendment right to say what they said. That is Depp's claim: that Heard had no right to speak. Remember how the mob wanted police to make Brian Laundrie's parents talk? We'll ignore the Fifth Amendment, "just this once . . . because Gabby!!"
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  43424. Jails house people awaiting trial. They are presumed innocent.
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  43425. The only thing that would have given me pause, and caused me to take extra measures to verify, is that it is SO hard to believe Hunter would do this with his laptop. We knew he was incompetent and had a lot of challenges, but come on.
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  43426. Yup, now you know how people really get jobs. In case you still were wondering . . .
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  43427.  @genericallyaccepted  WHAT issue?
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  43428.  @-redacted_by_youtube  I know the one in Austin was not the very first, and he was found later to have had a brain tumor. Did you read Jonathan Fast's book on the contemporary phenomenon? I did.
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  43429.  @-redacted_by_youtube  Austin was 1966.
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  43430. @-redacted9596  The score settling in 1853 --- is that what you call a "school shooting?" It was not a school shooting but a targeted hit which occurred in a workplace that happened to be a school. Trust Washington Post prattle at your own risk.
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  43431. @-redacted9596  I probably read about her in Fast's book, but I did not remember her, you're right.
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  43432.  @Christian___  You really are bitter about something, and so is Vance. Don't tell me what it is. I am sure I don't want to know. Talk to someone. Sheesh.
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  43433. The minimum we can ask of any member of Congress (or President, or any elected or appointed politician) is that they obey the laws they swore to uphold, and will have a hand in enacting. You have gotten tolerant of zero principles. That never ends well.
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  43434. December?
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  43435.  @hizzlemobizzle  Federal indictment
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  43436. She recommended it for babies, and counterfeited vaccination cards -- yes, if Martha Stewart went to prison, then Mazi can as well. Minimum security exists for a reason. If she had only peddled the magic pellets to adults, and covered herself ("not intended to replace conventional testing and treatments in the event of symptoms"), and not counterfeited the cards, then no.
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  43437. Biden go basement?
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  43438. The Court has needed to expand to eleven for years. Look at how many cert petitions they refuse. But the problem is, it can't be done now. It's too politicized.
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  43439.  @rundmm  On the contrary, they should have come to a nonpatisan consensus years ago to expand the Court. Read about how it operates. Read about its docket. It's no longer getting its work done. Oh well. In the meantime, the Obamas, Hillary, Nancy, and Hunter got rich. What's not to like? If a rich woman can get comprehensive reproductive services, including in vitro fertilization and testing for genetic disorders, and abortion when she wants it, I guess the poor women have only themselves to blame. They should make more money.
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  43440.  @Kevin_2435  Are they free to ask about legal marijuana use? (Easy for me, haven't seen it since the 1980s) How about smoking? Alcohol? (Easy for me) How about meat consumption? (Easy for me, I'm a veg) How about HIV status, or risky behaviors? (Easy for me) Nice society you got there. Will be leaving again, won't look back.
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  43441.  @morganrowell1373  I first learned the 80% figure from an Oxford University military historian, on a very middle-brow PBS program, Charlie Rose. That got me thinking, and reading. If you've only consulted US sources, well . . . I've never been to Russia, but hope to hear Alexandra Dovgan play some day . . .
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  43442.  @morganrowell1373  America inflicted more civilian casualties in WWII than anyone on the Allied side. Common pattern.
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  43443.  @Kevin_2435  Not at all. He was just in Illinois, urging companies to mandate. I saw the video tapes, he campaigned stating he would never do that. So, he's a deft liar, at his age? Still? He does not come across as that capable of nuance, but if you say so.
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  43444.  @jamesgentry6814  These people are a complete waste of time. They are here only because they have some sort of deep-seated need to bully and demean. Who does that, during a pandemic? Nobody with a healthy mind. There is a narcissistic--low self-esteem axis that is common in America now, as real opportunities are diminishing for most people. It's causing them to be more crazed than they ever were. Plus they can't seem to win a war. All of that weighs on them. They Care About Other People. Afghan Women, etc. They are always making wild stuff up to boost their sagging sense of self.
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  43445.  @jamesgentry6814  Also, don't worry. They'll get tired of this enemy and find a new enemy. They do that all the time.
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  43446.  @morganrowell1373  Of course not. I saw it on television, on PBS, perhaps as long as 20 years ago, not online. Since then, Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick have talked about it, in lectures and in their series. Don't believe it, if that's your preference. Every good American is entitled to their own truth. /s
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  43447.  @jakes658  You're the one who has no clue. Have it your way.
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  43448.  @morganrowell1373  I've heard Stone and Kuznick in person, as well. Peter Kuznick is an outstanding historian.
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  43449.  @morganrowell1373  It prompted me to read. I read a lot. I gave you my sources, that prompted me to read. You don't need to be curious and verify them yourself.
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  43450.  @morganrowell1373  I stated the statistic correctly. Of the casualties the Nazi fighting forces suffered in WWII, some 80% were at the hands of the Red Army and the Yugoslav partisans. You edited your post after I responded.
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  43451.  @morganrowell1373  A link I posted from the Washington Post was shadowed. This is common, as links are hard to monitor for TOS. I found it without a problem. Found Guardian articles as well. One, in particular, discussed how differently Germans see their WWII defeat, and at whose hands they say it happened, and why it happened, from how the official American narrative would have it.
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  43452.  @morganrowell1373  It wasn't from Charlie Rose. It was from a military historian from Oxford University whose name escapes me now, and who prompted me to read real books. I never had an inkling before that. It's called being curious about the world. I will admit one thing: I took it more seriously because a British man said it, and because he had a chair at Oxford. Sad that we trust based on a person's passport and such.
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  43453.  @morganrowell1373  This link to the Washington Post was removed. Title: Don’t forget how the Soviet Union saved the world from Hitler
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  43454.  @morganrowell1373  Excerpt: The Red Army was "the main engine of Nazism’s destruction," writes British historian and journalist Max Hastings in "Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945." The Soviet Union paid the harshest price: though the numbers are not exact, an estimated 26 million Soviet citizens died during World War II, including as many as 11 million soldiers. At the same time, the Germans suffered three-quarters of their wartime losses fighting the Red Army.
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  43455. THIS is what a Seymour Hersh-style team should investigate. There is sufficient evidence to warrant some real investigative journalism.
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  43456. Robby was very good here.
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  43457. Excerpt from Counterpunch, containing hyperlinks to sources in the original: "On the same day the CDC caved to political pressure (rejecting the advice of 100s of epidemiologists) and relaxed mask guidelines, seven fully-vaccinated members of the New York Yankees tested positive for COVID."
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  43458. She misses that day . . .
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  43459.  @nesne2167  Think harder.
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  43460.  @tivobelievo  And what would the reason be that these media sensations don't?
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  43461. @nesne2167  That reminds me of a dialogue where Socrates said, if I ask you why to go to Megara, I don't expect to hear because of my hips and legs. In other words, true enough. Look deeper.
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  43462. @nesne2167  I didn't say they weren't earning enough. Why did you think so? But since you mention it, the comparison would be with hospital administrators, insurance company C-suite executives, . . .
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  43463. Remember Afeni Shakur.
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  43464. I could only find the paper in German.
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  43465. @ChrisPBacon-vf2dz  Gee, I wonder who the different batches were for?
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  43466.  @ChrisPBacon-vf2dz  Thanks VERY much!! :)
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  43467. Okay. Wait a second,. How many tweets were parody? Jimmy, how do you expect us to know??
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  43468. You can't follow an argument with more than one step, can you? And as long as you get Thumbs Up, you think you're right. And that isn't the problem. Right.
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  43469.  @jorgeorwell1851  Don't look now, but the majority of young people agree with most of the Sanders platform, and even Joe Rogan agrees with most of it.
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  43470.  @durty_joe  They have to. That includes not s*cking billionaire d***. If 2008-09 didn't convince them, and 2016 didn't, then the fiasco of the pandemic surely has. They are not buying what you're selling.
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  43471. Look at some articles from 4 or 5 years ago. That's usually the best thing to do. Should be obvious WHY.
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  43472. See Lev Golinkin in The Nation, circa 2019. That's even before the pandemic.
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  43473. Guess again. No majority = impotence = exactly what the globalists WANT, paralysis of their opponents.
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  43474.  @veloraloves  You're both right.
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  43475. Always ragging on who is making money, right off the bat -- so ironic! None of these people are anti-vaxx. None of them have anything to do with Rubin. Phoney guilt by association is repugnant.
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  43476. I would love to have had the opportunity. The early 80s in France with PCF in the government were the best years I've ever seen. As someone who loves literature, piano, ballet, and mathematics, and hates racism, fast food, drug abuse, school shootings, and video games, and is mostly indifferent to creature comforts, it's not evident to me where I would have had it better. Especially now that our single greatest achievement, the First Amendment, has been eviscerated. The US dropped two atom bombs. Arkhipov and Petrov, in two separate incidents, stopped a nuclear exchange. Yeah, I'd like to have known more for real. Not evident to me.
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  43477. Spelling? . . . Thinking?
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  43478. The selfishness is breathtaking.
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  43479. @user-mu4cz6hc8s Dore is not.
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  43480.  @terjeoseberg990  This video had no link or other source information for the study. I expect to see the reference. That's a thing now.
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  43481.  @terjeoseberg990  I just found and downloaded the published piece, not a blog. Did you find it? "Report 49 - Growth, population distribution and immune escape of Omicron in England"
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  43482.  @terjeoseberg990  I just got censored, too, for a very gentle assertion of my capabilities, and nothing against anyone.
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  43483.  @terjeoseberg990  I guess mansplaining nevertheless stands.
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  43484. Joe Biden lied? He promised Hunter that he'd keep him out of jail. He kept his promise.
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  43485. People who have been against flu shots since 1976 die from the flu all the time. No one mocks them, or believes a flu shot would have been sure to save them. I oppose politicians pushing or opposing any medical treatment, including the woman who died. She was not a doctor. Let the real doctors speak.
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  43486. Start by dropping sanctions. WE cannot afford them.
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  43487. Still think the pandemic is no big deal? If it's not a pseudo-epidemic, then why isn't this THE moment for M4A universal health? What are you expecting to happen? The rapture?
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  43488.  @AAwildeone  Seriously? Boycotting a store, even a gargantuan one? Not a general strike for the benefits every other developed country takes for granted. If a unionization drive were to call for a boycott, absolutely. I'll be glad to join. Your proposal will do nothing to hurt a Jeff Bezos or lessen his immense influence on politics. It might, however, get quite a few people laid off who desperately need to work right this minute -- or they would never be working for Amazon, Whole Foods, WalMart, etc., in the first place. Think it through.
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  43489.  @AAwildeone  No. That isn't what I'm saying. But if that's what you need to hear, by all means . . .
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  43490.  @Jay...777  I have a Russian-sounding name. (Mother was part French.) All things considered, I wish I had grown up in Moscow. I'm not Western, so don't expect to understand me. Throw up some American slogan, while ignoring the crimes against humanity the US has perpetrated at the southern border, not to mention many other places in the world.
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  43491. The kids of the food manufacturers can afford organics.
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  43492.  @johnthepalm  Yup, that I have seen.
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  43493. Every single resident of East Palestine, Ohio, could be made whole for 1% of the money sent to Ukraine for war.
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  43494. @Language and Programming Channel Wow, that's too mean.
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  43495.  @justanoman6497  I don't agree that it indicates dishonesty or resume inflation. You should do whatever you can, prudently, to get to the interview. You are not inconveniencing people, but trying to get past a robot. If you are not absolutely sure that you deserve an interview, with a person, don't apply at all. If you are sure, then go for it -- do whatever is effective to get the interview. Don't you say what you need to say to get past the robot and to the human when calling customer service? How is this different? Being insistent about talking to a human is a good sign.
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  43496.  @angrydoggy9170  Is this still possible? Because if it is possible to show up and talk your way in, I agree that's best.
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  43497.  @ClockFink  This sounds like the reality.
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  43498.  @justanoman6497  You know what? I'm going to repeat what I said, which you "responded" to: "I don't agree that it indicates dishonesty or resume inflation. You should do whatever you can, prudently, to get to the interview. You are not inconveniencing people, but trying to get past a robot. If you are not absolutely sure that you deserve an interview, with a person, don't apply at all. If you are sure, then go for it -- do whatever is effective to get the interview. Don't you say what you need to say to get past the robot and to the human when calling customer service? How is this different? Being insistent about talking to a human is a good sign." You tried the guilt trip/narcissist routine because I made an excellent point and you didn't like that -- shows how YOU treat merit, in the wild, so to speak. I would not want to work for you. You have a puritanically punitive mind. The worst! I hope the job applicants see through YOU and move on. Next time you experience quiet quitting (a no call, no show), remember this exchange.
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  43499.  @justanoman6497  If you yourself have no need of a job, I don't know why you apply for the kinds of jobs where a bot screens your resume. Don't you write to those whose work you admire, and very politely ask for an informational interview? That's what classy people do -- you know, the group you claim to be a part of. I suggested nothing unfair, not even marginally so, and I think you are an equivocating little ** who has the delusion that you are morally superior to others, and I don't doubt for a minute that it is pure pose. (I knew that before you claimed you have the wherewithal not to need a job.) I have not only not victimized anyone, but I happened to be a civil rights lawyer, with experience in employment law, who has prevented immense injustice from getting the upper hand. I also know that every time I've fallen for the Moral Pose, I have ended up being treated extremely unfairly -- and that brought harm not just to me, but to others I care about, including my family. The Moral Pose is just a one-up-and-over strategy; it's not your principle (spelled -ple; "principal" means something else), it's your brand. Funny, just today I reread James Baldwin's famous essay, Nothing Personal. The irony is no doubt lost . . .
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  43500.  @justanoman6497  I know what you said, LOL. "Mental Health?" That's your new strategy? See Janet Malcolm on the Freud archives . . . 🤣🤣🤣 Moreover, you're the one who's down on people, planting stupid ideas in their heads to stymie them. Just shut up. Blocked. See, boys and girls. This is who you may be up against in the job market. Forewarned is forearmed.
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  43501. Wait -- good question! Is there child labor in heaven?
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  43502. If college students are THIS unable to manage adult relationships, we have BIG problems. A waiter or waitress of the same age can do better, couldn't they? Is college not just indebting people but ruining them in every possible way?
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  43503. Of course. Then they can run any apparatchik against him. It was Joe Biden's "turn."
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  43504. BBC, Guardian are reporting.
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  43505. It is much too common.
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  43506. Slogans are a sign of high intelligence. Jeering, even higher. In fact, Trump as a stable genius.
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  43507. It's Excoriate Harry time already? I still have my Kick Amber decorations up.
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  43508.  @1246dave  That is exactly what a husband is supposed to do. (My father and my mother's only brother served in the British Army in WWII, Eighth and Second, respectively, not that it's important --- though it certainly affected my life as well. Big wars can do that.)
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  43509. Doesn't need to push it, you're right.
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  43510. Mrs. Trump's lingerie was the target. (The life of a modern FBI agent is boring and frustrating.)
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  43511. 39:15. This is the noble view, that one half mistrusts the other. It is much worse than that. NO ONE trusts ANYONE.
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  43512. She didn't say that.
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  43513. @mmotsenbocker  He is a professor of philosophy at U of Minnesota. He has an MD and specializes in medical ethics. His latest book is The Occasional Human Sacrifice.
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  43514. @mmotsenbocker  The Occasional Human Sacrifice deals with medical trials in which subjects . . . Fill in the blank. His previous book White Coat Black Hat, which is about 14 years old at this point, I believe, is a good orientation to the entire field.
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  43515.  @mmotsenbocker  I hope my answer is easily viz able. 🫣😊
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  43516. "Woke" is weaponized.
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  43517. Clearly you did not read that case. The First Amendment issue was never reached in that case, because the baker was not accorded his constitutional due process rights when he made his claim.
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  43518.  @TS-lw5nv  The Court needs to be expanded. Once the number of justices is raised, other administrations will have the same opportunity to fill vacancies.
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  43519.  @TS-lw5nv  Apart from the current political debate, the Court really is too small. It cannot take all the cases it needs to. Conservatives have swamped the Court with Justices who do not have the qualifications that previous Justices were expected to have -- just compare the biographies of the most recent appointees with those they replaced. There should have been no nomination during a national emergency when voting in the presidential election had already started. Nor should Biden have been imposed on us by the DNC, nor should the contents of Hunter's missing laptop have been hidden from the public. Nor should Senators who were briefed on COVID in late 2019 have been allowed to trade stocks on the information. You have no one caring about principles at all anymore, at any level. No good guys in this picture.
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  43520.  @TS-lw5nv  DUH. I worked for it.
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  43521.  @TS-lw5nv  Do you know what a petition for certiorari is? You know why so many are denied, compared with previous generations?
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  43522. Are you confident your vote will not be hijacked and counted for someone else? I expect it at this point.
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  43523. Yes.
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  43524. If one MUST leave, then one must do it secretly.
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  43525. Jimmy, I almost want you to leave the Russian accents to Katie Halper, but I do think you redeemed yourself today.
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  43526.  @marcschneider2052  Astute!
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  43527.  @johnnybooker  It's simply a fact that there is now no protection in constitutional law for abortion rights at any stage, and that means legislatures can now pass laws without being limited by Roe v. Wade or Casey. Yes Pence can campaign for a ban at the federal level. If a ban passes and is challenged as unconstitutional, as written or applied, the question has to go back through the federal courts.
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  43528.  @Tymeb0mb  Except that freedom of expression and artistic merit are not in any amendment. Neither are time, place, manner restrictions or traditional First Amendment fora, etc.
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  43529.  @Tymeb0mb  I basically agree with you, though -- only the difference is not all that massive.
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  43530. Did you not realize Jimmy and Stef are college educated? It's not obvious? What high school provides an education to allow people to do what they do? I agree that high school SHOULD be enough, you are right about that.
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  43531.  @BillMcGirr  I've never been in debt for school, or anything else. You're right. This is America. Caring about something you yourself don't need is plain dumb. Plus anything that can force the US birthrate down can't be all bad.
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  43532.  @BillMcGirr  You don't know people have been delaying marriage and children because of the new debt landscape? People who used to start jobs at 16 and be able to pay most of their own way through STATE schools by themselves now remain infantilized, often with no job before their 20s, and on their parents' insurance until 26. I guess fewer Americans is good for the rest of the world? I don't know. Anyway, it's up to you, I don't care.
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  43533. Does reduce risk for a short period. They are not going to admit the vaccine is a disappointment. It's not a failure, as it was a hard vaccine to develop, but it's not great.
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  43534. Probably the most profoundly cultured man who practices medicine since Freud.
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  43535.  @stud6414  Brie is not neolib at all.
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  43536.  @hugomaritz692  She opposes vaccine mandates. Of course they don't make sense. They may briefly reduce transmission rates somewhat -- in the less contagious variants that are no longer circulating. Whose bright idea was it to mandate that?
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  43537. Let's suppose that the truth of an assertion is wholly unrelated to the credibility of the person (or people) making it. Then why does it matter who said it?
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  43538.  @jveebklyn1644  A confession is never unrelated to the credibility of the person making it. It doesn't belong to that class of statements. By contrast, the derivative of x^2 is 2x no matter who says so. As for what police might or might not do, all bets are off.
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  43539. Lie detector tests don't work. They are used to intimidate a suspect who imagines they can be exonerated by submitting to the test. Moreover, police are allowed to lie to you and say you failed, to test your reaction. That is their most common use today.
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  43540. I hate drugs. Oh I believe that happened, lol.
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  43541. Imagine. If you call something a "vaccine," it magically becomes safe, effective, and life-saving. This is called Science. The label itself has politicized the issue. The fact that this new type of "vaccine" has some key features of a traditional, proven vaccine does not mean it will have any of the other, desirable features, of a vaccine. It's not clear this should be called a vaccine, rather than immunotherapy or some other thing.
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  43542. @toniannbarandon-o1j  Wait . . . You're putting a lot of effort into this. Are you jealous of Brittany, too? Like Megyn Kelly? 😂😂😂 Yes, Brittany has that certain something. Very natural beauty, distinctive name. When your immediate supervisor praises you to the skies and you're very close to termination, there is an issue and it's not on you. What's that about?
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  43543. 30:01 I heard of "group therapy-style" interventions when I took a grad class at night in English. An English teacher in a hyper-affluent suburb in our area (one where major celebrities have their primary residence) conducted these sessions once per week, where they sat in a circle and talked about the sorts of things people talk about in group therapy. She was concerned because the kids wanted to do it more often. Her main concern was that too much time was being diverted from English literature. She was also worried that some of the kids needed real therapy.
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  43544. "Diversity" is for undercover surveillance, not bodyguards!!
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  43545. Does no protection in collecting the actual bat argue for laboratory enhancement of the viruses? There was some reason scientists did not fear the bats.
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  43546. This guy has a doctorate from Harvard and works as an investor with Peter Thiel. You, too?
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  43547.  @wekurtz72  No. She does have communication issues, but that is not what she did.
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  43548. Nadine Strossen. SHE will tell you how bad the restrictions to speech have been in Europe. At least give her a hearing before you decide which laws are better. I don't agree with everything Strossen has to say, but anyone who wants to introduce European restrictions here has got to face up to what she says first.
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  43549. Oooh, that was a brilliant question. Thank you for the excellent REALITY CHECK. I won't forget next time.
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  43550. You're not unherd. You're just members of a different herd.
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  43551. Easy to imagine.
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  43552.  zaxx19  But it's not evident what we should be doing. It seems to me that the jobs in the coming decades will be increasingly white-collar/service sector, which means college. High school isn't cutting it. And there is no good way to absorb a generation of workers ages 16 to 24. Where will they work? Door Dash?
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  43553.  zaxx19  Why do you think I disagree? As for whether a person needs a four-year degree for a white-collar, service sector, office job, let me ask you this: who gets those jobs? Do they need the university training to do the job, or do they need the piece of paper to make it through HR screening and be hired for the job? Notice I'm not mentioning real qualifications, job duties, fairness, etc. I'm saying employers have given up on high school grads. No, it isn't fair. I also stand by the notion of opportunity. Only an adult can decide they do not want to pursue a college degree. A minor can't make that decision. At 16, the average person has over FIVE decades of worklife ahead of them, and probably jobs in two distinct fields. Who can tell them what to do? Fifty years is a long time.
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  43554.  zaxx19  What do you think college kids major in, anyway? The most common major BY FAR is Business, and has been for decades. The next group of majors are all health-related, with Nursing at the top. Very few people major in the traditional "liberal arts" -- and those who do, and do well, go to good law schools or MBA programs, or the advertising world, or story editing in film and television, etc. "Useless degrees?" That's a right-wing talking point. General Business, without a lot of advanced math to understand finance in depth or at least a decent amount of accounting, preferably CPA level, is often pretty useless. A lot of those people don't want to read and can't write. If they also can't do math, . . . ?
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  43555.  zaxx19  Like I said . . . We agree.
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  43556.  zaxx19  The talking points are everywhere. They usually end up bemoaning all the Gender Studies majors (who make up less than 1% of all degrees conferred, and could do great in fashion merchandising, if they can write ad copy and take a good photo). In the meantime, no one is asking what the Financial Engineering majors are up to. Yes, it's a real degree, and it's everywhere now.
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  43557. A sign of wisdom.
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  43558. I didn't laugh. Jimmy point was DON'T CENSOR.
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  43559. Isn't it odd that it's RUSSIA that gets along with (other?) People of Color? Frankly, I was shocked at first that BRICS expanded while the war in Ukraine was ongoing. Shocked, incredulous, and certainly not pleased. Gradually, I came to understand.
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  43560. ​ @daralic2255 Perfect. Thank you.
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  43561.  Paul GodsReal Parker  Psy-ops, to make legitimate questions sound deranged.
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  43562. How many kids with how many women plus surrogates? Whoa.
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  43563. The vaccinated are privileged, and no one asks them to get tested. Unscientific.
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  43564. @treymc83  Oh really? The bureaucrat who denies care should rake in over $190,000 per WEEK, while a pediatric oncologist should make what, exactly? You begrudge them the vehicle they prefer? Mind-boggling.
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  43565. Now this is a good point! Rare for people to THINK for themselves.
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  43566. Now this is a good point! Rare for people to think for themselves.
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  43567. 🔸️🔹️🔸️THANK YOU KIM🌟🌟🌟
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  43568. Trust is why I can never retire. Trust is why both I and my parents worked at companies or firms where serious crimes were being committed at the top, without the rest of us knowing about it. Nor did I expect the US to bomb where my family is from, but . . . I probably should have? Well, it was a surprise to me anyway. As for the people I know who were emotionally abused following a cancer diagnosis . . . No. I'm not going to tell you, except to say it includes the mothers of pediatric cases.
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  43569. ​ @Pavanesh I'm trilingual. I use all three daily! Thanks for offering a POSITIVE suggestion. Studying a language WILL lead to learning it.
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  43570.  @ason4641  That she agreed with the state of the law, or that the state of the law is such?
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  43571. ​ @Getonwithit204 This article is a misrepresentation? Or, he's making it up? There was no article? 😂😂😂
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  43572. @chrisbarron5861  In another thread, he claimed he was a doctor. I asked him some questions pertaining to ethics but you know what happened to that post.
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  43573.  @chrisbarron5861  I'm a lawyer with expertise in ethics, medical ethics, and the Daubert standard for expert witness testimony.
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  43574. @chrisbarron5861  "briandingle665" is who I was referring to. It doesn't matter, he can't see what I asked, so he can't respond. I thought the spelling quip was funny, as I do expect professionals to spell well, but we all know what autocorrect (and fear of editing) has done to that.
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  43575. @chrisbarron5861  I answered you, but . . . oh well The scents errr is very unpredictable as well as ubiquitous.
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  43576.  @Getonwithit204  No, it isn't. I read actual research from the NIH library of medicine, among other things. If I say more, you won't get to read it anyway. To be frank, I know not to trust anyone without checking sources. And rather than engage in ad hom, why not state clearly what is missing from this presentation that was in the article and that is relevant to this legal-ethical issue?
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  43577. @Getonwithit204  I NEVER advised ANYONE on medical matters, not EVER. I never attempted to influence anyone, either. These are highly personal decisions, and our knowledge base for making them was limited. Of course, by contrast, I was subjected to coercion. How dare you make baseless accusations?
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  43578.  @Getonwithit204  So, did the mother win this lawsuit? That's the key issue, is it not? From what you've said, I would think so. The mother does not have the burden of proof, those trying to prove her medically negligent do. And they can't. Correct?
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  43579. @Getonwithit204  I offered to accompany a person I know who lives alone to their vaccination. As a reward, they tried to browbeat me and shame me into getting one.
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  43580.  @Getonwithit204  Not BY the NIH, but the NIH LIBRARY. I see you have zero familiarity with the open resource, which is outstanding.
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  43581.  @Getonwithit204  I'm stating what happened to me, personally. I am not in the UK. This has zero to do with a youtuber.
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  43582. @Getonwithit204  I happened to be better educated than Dr. Campbell. Hence, I investigate on my own. And I would in any event.
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  43583. @Getonwithit204  He never claimed to be. His doctorate is in Nursing and Nursing Education, which involves training in epidemiology and public policy, rather than hard science or medical science. His introductory video, as well as others, spell it out. That's why he did many fellowships in Africa. That is not "honorary." It is an earned doctorate.
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  43584. @Getonwithit204  Look, I'm being scentz errr d here, and you're allowed to persist. So long.
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  43585.  @Getonwithit204  LOL, that which cannot be said.
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  43586.  @Getonwithit204  blocked
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  43587. @Getonwithit204  The NIH library of medicine makes available entirely for free peer-reviewed medical research from all over the world, including of course UK, Canada, Australia -- everywhere -- for reading and free download. I'm ill-informed? Me?
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  43588. Childless cat women: Marilyn Monroe, Kim Novak, Ann-Margret . . . What's new, pussycat? 😂
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  43589. The kids he knew were the pathological ones, not him. No one plots elaborate bullying like that. Unless they plan to become, say, Jim Jones or Charlie Manson.
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  43590. The Golan Heights is real estate to Trump. As are Gaza, Greenland, the Panama Canal, etc.
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  43591. NO, Elizabeth Warren is NOT "condoning murder." Oh, and the CEOs have to charge US more because they need more bodyguards??
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  43592. Hey, it's called profit. "What are you, a commie?" Or, "jealous much?" LOL the vapid talking points are too easy. EDIT: The stuff in quotes needed a sarcasm alert, apparently. Wow.
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  43593.  @reidt5513  What do you think Jimmy Dore has?? LOL
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  43594.  @PetraKann  No. Why?
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  43595.  @PetraKann  I thought the quotes were sufficient to express Sarcasm Alert. I guess not anymore. :/
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  43596. Fraud is spreading everything.
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  43597. They hit the hornets' nest this time. Now an already exhausted public, still dealing with the pandemic, worrying about money and their kids' futures, is going to think no one's job is safe.
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  43598. I thought that, too, but he was on Glenn's side, albeit quietly. Too quietly. Still, he was.
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  43599. Ha. The CCP discussion on how to approach this took place behind closed, soundproof doors. You can bet some CCP were and are blaming it on the capitalists who were allowed to bribe their Virtuous Scientists.
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  43600. Or, it might not happen at all.
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  43601. Even if OSHA had the authority, why would there be no period of public comment? None of the usual constraints are being observed.
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  43602. ​​@ernienieves3229I Why the "hate?" It's mostly fake.
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  43603. I'm opposed to the choice they made AND I want them released to America immediately.
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  43604.  @charlesmartel342  SO WHAT?
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  43605.  @gcs9350  There are many hopelessly stupid people in the world, especially in the US. I opt for rescue anyway. There are too many to ignore.
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  43606.  @rob-8928  "The West was INVITED into Afghanistan?" Really? Are you counting on the vaccines to have obliterated all memory, or something? As a matter of fact, part of the shame of the "war on terror" is the absence of reliable information on the civilian toll. Children not yet born or conceived on 9/11 died in those wars. Children whose parents were not yet born on 9/11 died. Actually, the Soviets were invited into Afghanistan. The time when Afghanistan had a socialist government was the last time human rights and women's rights had any hope of being acknowledged in there. At least women could go to school and even college back then, and didn't have to be covered from head to toe.
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  43607.  @girumzemichael704  Insightful. But I think you're still giving them too much credit. If you start with yourself, and your own knowledge of right and wrong, you will never get to where they are. What you suspect they think of us, though, is spot on.
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  43608.  @crazytrain848  This lady looks like she lives in a tent, not like she knows how to handle any weapon safely.
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  43609.  @crazytrain848  No kidding. "Looks like" is about . . . appearances. In this case, we can't say they were deceiving.
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  43610. THIS
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  43611. There are tax incentives for offshoring. These are arcane laws that I cannot give you in a soundbite. I can follow the argument when it is presented by an expert. Making things obscure (like how credit default swaps work) has always benefited a tiny professional-managerial class.
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  43612.  @MrJedBuddy  Not true. This isn't a forum conducive to explaining these laws. They are far from transparent.
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  43613.  @dannymartinez3600  Gutfeld is mostly odd. He has a way of teasing that is his trademark, and that people like -- including the person teased. There's something engaging about it, and people wait for it. And then every so often, yes, a home run. It will be the funniest thing you heard all month. It won't happen often. His jokes will be dead for weeks after that. Nothing will land. Gutfeld in a nutshell. I would have never thought he was #2.
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  43614. "Sexist tantrum" is Donald Trump ad hom with a woke patina.
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  43615. You know what else Pfizer did? In the multi-page fine print statement you were supposed to read before consenting to receive the shot, it attenuated its positive claims. But on the television programs Pfizer sponsored, newscasters made HUGE promises -- safe, effective, conferring full immunity, protecting your family, everything. They also berated anyone skeptical of these claims as cowards and antisocial.
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  43616. Too icky. Sorry.
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  43617. I agree. But where do you see progressives on this channel?
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  43618. If Hunter is fine, why not Prince Andrew? He was just imitating rocker groupie culture. It's an addiction. The pix aren't as cool? (Er, don't tell me "Hunter only hurt himself.")
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  43619.  @Hayanomie  General Zhukov. He and others had to get around Stalin. But preserving Bukharin's papers was something perplexing, and did set Stalin apart from the Nazis. Nazis had book bonfires after all.
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  43620. Agreed.
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  43621.  @mrw417  Very good take.
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  43622. ​ @FreeDumbDaily  Realism. We need more of it.
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  43623. His wife didn't know they were being watched. She's not the one who cheated, only he did. She was busy with six kids and church.
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  43624. Why do I care about what the President's son is doing? Because he's not just a painter. He was on the board of BURISMA. In a war zone. In the most sensitive war zone in the world because of the NATO countries/BRICS conflict.
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  43625.  @jaymevogl4338  NONE of the doctors, pro or con, have provided solid information on severe side effects and deaths. That's what people want to know. People who have had severe issues are silenced, while no one audits the VAERS system to determine exactly what is happening. To me, it appears VAERS has been corrupted by reports of deaths that never happened. But note how that functions: it obfuscates just how many people have died. The European reporting system seems to suggest there are more severe side effects than we've heard about. We need to know these things.
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  43626. ❤
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  43627. Anyone who did not read the jury instructions and did not take into consideration the McGinnis instruction, should not comment on the verdict. McGinnis, an innocent bystander, was in the line of fire during the first FOUR shots Rittenhouse fired, prior to anyone touching Rittenhouse. Reckless endangerment was supported by the evidence. Grosskreutz also believed Rittenhouse was an active shooter. He testified to that belief. Was he also unreasonable?
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  43628.  @Frugustin  That was not what McGinnis testified, nor what the evidence showed.
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  43629.  @Frugustin  Self-defense is not a complete defense if executed recklessly, to put innocent third parties in danger. McGinnis was a journalist from a conservative publication that had a generally positive view of people like Rittenhouse. McGinnis was put in danger.
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  43630. Watch some of Leni Riefenstahl's work.
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  43631.  @criticalcommenter  Adam Smith is misrepresented all the time in the US.
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  43632.  @criticalcommenter  No one ever discusses the commons, or the rentier class, or the difference between monopoly capital and a real free market, or how the latter is conducive to liberty and democratic principles while the former is deadly to them. You know. Stuff like that. You don't want people to get ideas.
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  43633. @criticalcommenter  Feel free to make suggestions if that's what you think. I'll take them. No, not kidding, not snide. I enjoyed this guest.
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  43634.  @criticalcommenter  Friedman? Which Friedman, Milton? He's a poster boy for disaster capitalism. These are the people who dress up the wolf of monopoly capital in the sheep's clothing of free markets. They are exactly who muddled the issue. They are the neofeudalists Smith warned about.
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  43635. Give us one example.
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  43636.  @craigbradford4850  It depends on what those "consequences" are.
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  43637. You think Greenwald and Taibbi are right wing? Who is "left wing," then? The Clintons? Biden? Pelosi?
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  43638.  @zek9759  Then check out Abby Martin's lawsuit against the State of Georgia, or better yet, read Nadine Strossen's brilliant book on "hate" speech. Or Erwin Chemerinsky on First Amendment rights on campus. Or talk to Katie Halper, Aaron Mate, etc. I've just named five "lefties" who have fought for freedom of speech. Maybe you should be skeptical of all media "narratives?" They create what is known as availability bias, by repeating one thing over and over. Makes people think that one thing is the only thing.
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  43639. True. So, when one of these people is invited to a university to speak, why do the protestors take the lazy way and try to shout him down? Why don't they organize a teach-in, in a nearby venue, so that the numbers that show up and the noise they make are obvious to all? These are universities. You cannot tell me they don't have the resources or the knowledge base to debunk racists, point by point and definitively. Yet they can do no better than to shout them down? How is that possible? Only through laziness. There is no other explanation. And how is it that this thread is just full of slogans and platitudes? Why is there no thinking going on? You make the right look good. Why do you? It's not that hard to refute them. For some reason I don't see much of that going on.
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  43640.  @Junebug89  You don't see how in the context of freedom of speech and expression, this could be turned against you? We now have proof that during the pandemic, people who spread propaganda and supported coercive tactics had a platform at Twitter, and those who presented actual facts were censored. Case in point: One person wrote a vague and impassioned claim that "children are dying of COVID!!" Look, a child can die of a common cold, so that is of course technically true. In response, someone posted ACTUAL CDC data, with a link, showing how unlikely it is for a child to die. (Some people pointed out that flu is more dangerous to children, which was not a great comparison, since flu is quite dangerous to children, and being just a little less so is no great shakes.) Guess who got censored and sanctioned? I have no problem with inviting employees to have input on the rules that apply to all speech. They are the ones who have to enforce them, and they have the experience that comes with doing the actual work, so they should have more say than the managers as far as I'm concerned. That's not the same as giving them license to create prior restraints to speech based on the cause du jour that they just got all excited about with their friends -- or that the DNC or the FBI told them to censor.
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  43641. ​ @tulip5210 That's typical now.
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  43642. No, you are. You have no idea how other people live.
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  43643. ​ @bobdorsey9092 For one thing, she said she is not reflexively opposed to nuclear power and considers it part of the solution.
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  43644. ​ @bbael2768 Yeah. She was pushing back against the notion that socialists are in a "death cult." I listened again. You didn't listen the first time.
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  43645.  @bbael2768  Wrong. She was addressing the main point of the segment that the left is in a "death cult." Her point was that clean energy and support for all new mothers are both life-affirming policies.
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  43646.  @bbael2768  You missed the point completely and are chiding people who got it. You're like a neighborhood Karen.
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  43647. That provision is unconstitutional. But that means going to the Supreme Court, and that is never simple.
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  43648.  @sammyslam1  Go back to reading The Secret. That's the extent of your "pragmatism." What the h*** happened to human cognition here? You scare me. You literally scare me, you're so far removed from material reality.
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  43649. I was being ironic to the max. If anyone took it seriously, well . . . that tells you something.
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  43650. @Axileus IOW, everything you said was right -- and "too" well said.
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  43651. No, this is the history of that party, although to be fair, it has moderated greatly since Le Pen's father founded it. Did you ever live there? Do you know anything about France? France had a massive collaboration when it was occupied in WWII.
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  43652.  @Bouch1018  Vous êtes français?
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  43653.  @Bouch1018  My parents were in WWII. I know what it means.
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  43654. @Bouch1018  But these parties are nothing like American political parties, or the extremes of those parties. Le Pen's father was nothing like any Republicans, J-L Melenchon is nothing like Bernie Sanders. A multi-party parliamentary system is not like the American system. You impose Anglo-American categories on French politics, when they don't even match up exactly to UK, much less France.
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  43655. @Bouch1018  The opposite is true. Most of the West has little or no leftists. America has none, except for a handful of local politicians (not in any federal elected office) and a few organizations like the NLG, which has very little money. Do they have you convinced the CLINTONS are "leftists?" Then what was Jeffrey Epstein? As for the trans activists, that used to be labeled (rather insensitively) "bourgeois decadence." It's a product of American and Western European late-capitalist societies. It never existed in any socialist block society, anywhere, at any time.
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  43656. @Bouch1018  The opposite is true. Most of the West has little or no leftists. America has none, except for a handful of local politicians and a few organizations like the NLG, which has very little money. Do they have you convinced the CLINTONS are "leftists?" Then what was Jeffrey Epstein? If I say more, it _____ for your protection. That's where we're at.
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  43657.  @Bouch1018  Once we get into a real discussion, scents Or Ship.
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  43658. @Bouch1018  Most of my reply to you is shadowed; might exist under Newest tab, but who wants to scroll? Smh
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  43659.  @Bouch1018  Sound it out. We can't always say what happened to what we said. LOL
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  43660. @Bouch1018  The entire world has been moving right since Reagan/Thatcher. Truman, Eisenhower, and even Nixon were to the left of the Clintons, Pelosi, Obama, Biden. The culture wars are designed to undermine already overwrought parents, and to please Silicon Valley hegemons. They are just another ruse of the oligarchy. Divide and conquer.
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  43661. Because it's not the left and it's never an argument. They throw out labels and ad hominem. It's sniping, and signaling to one's allies what correct think is. It has nothing to do with constructing arguments.
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  43662. The "legacy" media is organized crime.
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  43663.  @FudgethePudge  If that's the best ya got . . . 🤣
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  43664.  @XP-nt9iy  He was addressing the culture wars, or helping to foment them?
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  43665. I know that a "nanoparticle" is, generally, three orders of magnitude smaller than a red blood cell. I had concerns when I learned that. I had to verify it several times, I thought it had to be wrong. Someone else look again for me, to check. I can't go through this any more. Mathematics does not lie.
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  43666.  @flamingpieherman9822  This is correct. Fasting more than 72 hours generally requires checking in with a doctor. Lots of people do a 36-hour fast three or four times per month, and confine daily meals to 6 to 10 hours, thus fasting 14 hours or more on a regular basis. But this is advice for people WITHOUT comorbidities. I would not do it if I had any blood sugar issues or digestive issues, or any other issues!
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  43667. Their amorality comes as no surprise, but their absence of conceit does. She really doesn't think her own writing is The Best in the World, and that she's so much Smarter Than Everybody Else?
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  43668. No one expects Biden et al to fix this. We know they're in it for themselves. What do you propose?
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  43669.  @jayclark2077  Court is open in America. And judges enjoy absolute immunity for their judicial acts. Something worse than a mere mistake of law has to happen for them to be removed from the bench, but in states where they are elected, you can challenge them in the next election.
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  43670.  @midwestlawyer  Her mind. The judge is a woman.
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  43671. @midwestlawyer  Now that it is crystal clear that she was merely rude, and not threatening anyone, why doesn't BCBS ask that charges be dropped? Not only do they corrupt the politicians, they also waste our tax dollars -- on this. Lovely.
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  43672.  @JP_Names  💯
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  43673. @stanallport6746  🤣🤣🤣
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  43674. @elisedemerveilles3065  Because the evidence is unequivocal: her words were sheer hyperbole and political speech. INFORM YOURSELF on just how bad speech and expression of this nature can be, and still be First Amendment protected.
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  43675. @suek.3448  We know what she said -- the whole statement. YOU don't know First Amendment law. I guarantee you do not. The media has you clutching your pearls about "hate speech," which is not a legal category of unprotected speech. Not at all. You are the one who was fooled by the media.
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  43676. @debbiesittard7653  Having to work overtime to counter all the snowflake nonsense.
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  43677. @suek.3448  Of course we know her whole statement, and you are flat-out wrong. Maybe correct statements of free speech law are getting disappeared again.
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  43678.  @midwestlawyer  Those who know the law and the facts -- censored again. :/
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  43679. Trump is deliberately dealing in ambiguities. Of course it's more likely he meant another wholesale destruction of jobs. That's how this game is played.
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  43680. Why did they pull this stunt?
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  43681. It was simply a statement of no change to the Russian Federation nuclear doctrine. The search for subtext is based on the fact that Putin simply chose now to restate it at all. Makes you wonder who or what he was possibly responding to.
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  43682.  @LD-tn6ff  What college professors have $60,000 a year? The least expensive state school in my state has tenured profs making $100k base rate, plus opportunities to increase it, plus great health care and generous pensions well before Soc Sec kicks in for all others. This is the case for the community college profs in the more expensive areas of my state, too. The adjuncts make peanuts. (N. B. This is all public information by law.)
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  43683.  @LD-tn6ff  I consider $60k a year good money. By the way.
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  43684. You think that's what it is? This is corporate culture, where there is no freedom of speech. It is the corporation that will "invite" you to work elsewhere if you don't "fit in." The universities serve the corporation, not vice versa. Anyone who suggest otherwise isn't being candid.
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  43685. Everyone who invested in these devices 25 years ago is a millionaire today. Need I say more?
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  43686. I think that was the idea. I'll believe the DNC were against Trump only after I see their stock portfolios before and after. All of this looks more like false flag every day. We're supposed to be diverted from real concerns for some reason, and I think Eisenhower had it right 💯.
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  43687.  Ricky Lafleur  THIS
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  43688.  @MMimi-mg4qt  It is very related, insofar as his problems are related to his ethnicity on a deep level. He has been misrepresented even where it resulted in harm to others in addition to him, an unending story. I doubt very much you know anything about him, as opposed to knowing everything about his reputation. But he is less responsible for that than most people in his position would be.
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  43689. Now we know: Pelosi really will say anything.
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  43690. Jimmy, the funniest part is how people like Grim DO NOT KNOW how the Internet works. (For example, TIME STAMPS. Lord.)
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  43691. Great point
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  43692. When you speak of left and right in France without specifying Macron, Le Pen, LFI, and PCF, I have no idea what you may mean. None.
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  43693. Well, we can listen and then decide whether we think you're right. Or . . . Is there something wrong with that plan?
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  43694.  @wbafc1231  Alexander Cockburn? Near the end of his life, he was writing for The American Conservative because he believed a person should seek allies for ending war, irrespective of political ideology.
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  43695.  @wbafc1231  Oh, I'm referring to OP's rhetorical question.
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  43696. 💯
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  43697. Re: the gaslighting An interesting incident involving a "leader" in the medical industry occurred in NYC this week . . .
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  43698.  @013arm  FALSE. The Texas law that allows for some defense of some property is so full of exceptions, and requires "necessity" -- meaning among other things that you have to try non-lethal force first -- that in practice it is illegal there, too. The rules are so complicated that in practice, Texas is the same as the other 49: no lethal force in the defense of property. To say that all you need is for it to be dark outside (so you can't see what you're doing?) shows how foolish you are. The Texas law supports a lot of defense attorneys, lol. Some have made hundreds of thousands from a single case. You get to shoot, the lawyer gets your house.
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  43699. Luckily, Brandon has no feeling there any more.
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  43700. The ones seeking suicide by cop. Don't misunderstand. I do not support laws that mandate trying minors as adults in the first place. There is nothing about this entire episode that I agree with, starting with roving "militia men," adults or KIDS.
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  43701.  @krotchlickmeugh627  Ha. Put my exit plan in place in 2019. I didn't need 2020 to clue me in. Good luck to you all. You will need it.
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  43702. Not after what just happened at her house.
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  43703. What is "nationalize our currency" supposed to mean? We are dependent on China, etc., to produce for us at low cost then circulate dollars back to our markets. What do you think interest rates would be if China didn't buy our T bills?
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  43704. Someone has been lying to you a lot.
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  43705. What "political capital?" This is about numbers. Pelosi lost seats in the last election.
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  43706.  @cajunguy6502  Every bold action means taking a risk on behalf of other people. Leaders don't take that part into account. It's sheer cowardice to focus on personal risk. Do you think there is no risk in not acting? How long do you think this economy will last? How many people without access to health care do you want to see during a pandemic, depression, and eviction crisis?
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  43707.  @cajunguy6502  Did you foresee the demonstrations after George Floyd's murder? Why do so many people keep acting like these are normal times? Whistling in the dark.
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  43708.  @cajunguy6502  M4A is a cause whose TIME HAS COME.
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  43709.  @cajunguy6502  Okay, if "gifting" is the New Word, this conversation is over. Did you know how to talk before that became the latest meme? Pfft.
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  43710.  @foxinthesnow1917  The Democrats who lost House seats were the moderates. The story that they were progressive was demonstrated to be a deliberate falsehood. I could link to video analyses, or news sites, but posts with links are often shadowed as they are hard to monitor for TOS.
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  43711.  @cajunguy6502  "Trigger?" You forgot "snowflake." I don't waste time on people who can't express themselves without the cliche du jour.
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  43712.  @topologyrob  Did you read the Microsoft antitrust case in its entirety? Did you forget Gates tried to push Paul Allen out of Microsoft the minute Allen was diagnosed with a highly manageable form of cancer? That's who should decide on MY healthcare, and whether I must consume GMOs in my food, huh? If I give a thousand, that is vastly more than the millions Gates has supposedly given, but has in fact leveraged so that most of the money goes back to the companies whose stocks are in his portfolios.
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  43713.  @topologyrob   As for the unhinged comments, it would not surprise me if they were deliberately planted. That's a very well known and effective technique of propaganda -- and for good reason, too. No one wants to embrace obvious nonsense. This clip contains a great example -- trying to make you believe that anyone who opposes Gates believes in Lizard Overlords. Of course. And a flat earth, and domestic terrorism, and the deification of Trump and Vance, as well as the threat to pet cats by immigrants.
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  43714.  @topologyrob  "People who oppose Gates say he's a lizard overlord!!" This clip just did that. In whose interest is it to create this "narrative?" Think it through. This method has been in use since the dawn of newspapers, nevermind now.
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  43715. Gasp, you Bad Person!!! /s
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  43716. I suppose this whistle blower could be deliberately acting in a way that makes him seem like he lacks credibility. That might be the false flag --- the crafts exist, and his demeanor makes it seem like he's lying about all of it. Because he does.
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  43717. @meisievannancy  Oh yes it does. Most people do not consider him credible. Why is he getting so much press and other attention? Where are the serious people, to discuss this serious matter?
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  43718.  @tommymyers3183  It might. Then again, perhaps not.
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  43719. If the DNC can run a mummy and win, why would they listen to anyone?
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  43720. When I was in high-school and college, with people in their late teens and twenties, a serious viral illness -- mononucleosis, food-borne hepatitis, pneumonia, meningitis -- took from 6 months to a full year for the patient to be back to 100% normal, as though they had never been sick. These were people in their prime, not middle-aged people with chronic conditions. Why would COVID be any different? This is all very common, and very well-known. When I was a kid, my father called it "post-influenza weakness" and told me to exercise or walk a little bit more each day. He was right. Obviously, in this case, we have the jabs as well. That's a confounding variable!
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  43721. And a Biden granddaughter's empty car has Secret Service protection. Wow, just wow.
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  43722.  @hotrox2112  This is true.
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  43723. If you leave people alone, they'll forget about you. Trust me. You are so uninteresting. 😂
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  43724. Who knows who the person chanting was? I don't see a face.
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  43725. Suppose a lawmaker makes an objectively improper statement on the floor. What happened to reprimand, censure, suspension? You think you should skip all that, go directly to silencing and removing an elected representative from the chamber floor? That's democratic? When did everyone lose their minds?
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  43726. We have GOT to listen to this and make a change. We have GOT to.
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  43727. The need is because it's true. I'm not sure how the great English-speaking empiricists have finally come to this.
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  43728. Only he went to shoot up his school? Where ya been? No, we'd have to compare a huge number of players and non-players, to see if there is any statistically significant correlation. I doubt we could find groups large enough to conclude anything.
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  43729.  @Yoshimatsu414  "Only he went to go shoot up a school" isn't scientific evidence of no correlation. School shootings are relatively rare. You would need to find very large groups of young people who do and do not play video games and then follow them. I'm not saying video games are correlated with violence in any way. I'm saying your observation is not the methodology for determining whether any correlation exists, and in any case you have to start with a null hypothesis and see if there is evidence to contradict it.
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  43730.  @Yoshimatsu414  Anyway, we have lots of school shootings. A school by me just went on lockdown the other day when guns were discovered. No one was hurt.
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  43731.  @minniemaeshufflebutt116  These labs were funded by the US Department of Defense, not the NIH.
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  43732.  @MF-fg3lj  You are welcome to verify every fact he has mentioned. It's easy. Who trusts Russian media? Who would believe anything they said? Strange red herring, this is about the US, not Russia.
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  43733.  @minniemaeshufflebutt116  Yes, and in Ukraine it was not NIH but Department of Defense.
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  43734. The frequency of perfect squares x^2 can approach 0 as x approaches infinity, but it never reaches 0. We know there are infinitely many perfect squares: one per integer. (Remember an infinite set can have an infinite proper subset.)
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  43735. Did Gemini AI generate images of people of color in countries where people of color are unusual? They aren't unusual in Paris. Wait. AI doesn't work? Oh my goodness I am so shocked.
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  43736. Funny, this wasn't a problem for the Soviets. It's not a problem in Russia now, either. Huh. I wonder why. 🤔
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  43737. Ça ne prouve pas qu'elle soit un homme. (Plutôt l'invers.) 😅😅😅
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  43738. I once found an actual error in one of her columns, involving The Bookworm Problem. Let's say a book has 100 pages. If a bookworm eats through the last page of a book, it necessarily eats through the next to the last page as well; similarly for the first page and the second. They are on the same sheet, and the usual pagination and binding we find in modern books were specified in the problem. (She thought mathematically and forgot physics.) I wrote to a journalist who had written an article about her. He said I was right, but failed to mention any correction in a future article. Figures. She's famous.
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  43739. This was a disgrace.
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  43740.  @trixyminx  That part is lucky.
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  43741.  @trixyminx  Very troubled family.
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  43742. First of all, those migrants need shoes.
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  43743.  @WeAreAllWittness  How sick are some of the young survivors? There is more to this virus than mortality rates. In any case, lockdowns are probably justified when hospitals run out of beds and there is no room at the morgue. That seems to be the consensus. Do you agree? If there is some other way, I'm all for it. Lockdowns harm health, too.
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  43744.  @WeAreAllWittness  I didn't say I was for lockdowns. I said they harm health, too. Fun fact: in other countries, it is the LEFT that is demanding a discussion of alternatives to lockdown. Interesting, huh? They know lockdowns curtail liberty. Hospitals in the US are overwhelmed again, in a few hotspots. There's a worry it could get worse. What do you suggest we do to avoid that?
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  43745.  @WeAreAllWittness  Okay, to believe the hospitals are not overwhelmed in a few places by COVID cases, and that they were briefly overwhelmed in Queens and in northern Italy and perhaps in Iran, you have to believe not only that the tests are inaccurate and these people had other diseases, but also that a LOT of people all over the world, in different types of societies are lying. You know. Not likely. We can't ask this of hospital workers, either. Why should they do it? Why should they go through it? You are against lockdowns. Fine. I hated them. What do you suggest instead?
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  43746. I hope all of this is true.
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  43747. That's not a good reason, if you think about it.
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  43748. Wait -- the consumer doesn't have an interest in a car that runs great to 250,000 miles, a washer and dryer that last 30 years . . . ? We need to be stripped of these items in order to incentivize their durability?? The writer is a "global leader" who has no idea why these consumer goods don't last??
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  43749. @Paul Hill I like you, then.
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  43750. Pure speculation? Eugenics would be pure speculation. Blackmail is hardly speculation.
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  43751.  @rogermoore27  I don't presume he might have. Just that it is not generally a "good" sign.
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  43752. She has always attacked identity politics, and it's obvious that id pol is the grift that both parties run all the time. What have progressives "won" over the past 40 years? Nothing at all. See what a real natality policy means, like they have in France or in the Scandinavian countries, where parenthood is so much easier and more pleasant, with lower mortality rates and fewer worries. France subsidizes pregnancies to the point where it sends every mother a check for maternity clothes. It's universal, like Social Security for the elderly.
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  43753. Don't deal with such businesses unless you have to. Or even report them to someone higher up. That is ridiculous.
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  43754. If AOC's aim is to appear in Vogue and sell merch, she can show us how . . .
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  43755. @FoucaultsPendulum610  Actually, RFK Jr is not an anti-vaxxer. The fact that he recognizes this research is being done means he also knows we have no choice but to research safe and effective vaccines that would counteract genetically engineered pathogens. Was the pandemic a one-off or a dress rehearsal? Who do you trust to be in power if it is the latter?
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  43756. Whose ___ did he ___ for money?
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  43757. Why not learn the difference between the Balkans and the Baltic before you stàrt telling other people what to do?
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  43758.  @pn2543  If the Chinese engineered this virus, all the more reason to wonder about the vaccine.
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  43759.  @3y3ofDaStorm  I have questions about that as well. Not conjectures, much less answers. Questions.
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  43760. Contempt was what came to mind for me.
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  43761.  @aztecfighter5  Excerpt from Counterpunch, containing hyperlinks to sources in the original: "On the same day the CDC caved to political pressure (rejecting the advice of 100s of epidemiologists) and relaxed mask guidelines, seven fully-vaccinated members of the New York Yankees tested positive for COVID." This new rule is PR, not science. This display is appalling.
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  43762.  @TehXygen  Yeah, but do you want him sitting next to you in class?
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  43763. 💯 this
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  43764. @markthomas2436  Yes, some call it "constructive discharge;" in other words, working conditions that no reasonable person could be expected to accept, and no amelioration after you let them know, worse treatment after you let them know, etc. Employers can't do that to keep from paying unemployment compensation.
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  43765. @annabellelee4535  Do better next time. Find a better job ab initio. It's important.
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  43766.  @aaronmarks4327  I thought we were invited to comment on a video. Right here, in fact.
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  43767. LA rules discriminate against dyslexic children and children with hearing problems and speech pathologies.
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  43768. It's not about her supporting warmongering for oil, it's about her tweets and feewings.
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  43769. Look up the legal actions Tesla and Neuralink. Tesla is facing a huge lawsuit in California based on discrimination. The complaint has some of the worst allegations I've seen in a generation.
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  43770.  @sandrad9695  For Musk, it's not about anything BUT self-interest. He wouldn't vote for a reconstituted, centrist, non-woke Democratic Party, either. You might, or you might not; he wouldn't. California sued him.
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  43771.  @Viking7771  Did you lose your income?
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  43772. Read the complaint, which asks for injunctive relief. One possibility would be one to two semesters of attending school part-time, being allowed to reside on campus, having access to the counseling that is part of student health insurance, and of not being pressured into withdrawing.
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  43773. Here is a research topic, which would be difficult to explore, for objective, apolitical reasons: Are women more susceptible to messages of innate inferiority, and more likely to give up if they are told they lack some ability? For example, if young women are told there exists powerful evidence that men are superior in mathematics, are they more likely to give up mathematics, compared with men who are told women are greatly superior in foreign languages? Will men nevertheless persist, or not?
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  43774.  @AtlantaBill  New York Times, October 8, 2008 (!) Cook County Sheriff will no longer evict people from foreclosed properties. I'm not going to keep researching. I know I have the correct timetable.
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  43775.  @AtlantaBill  BTW, links are shadowed.
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  43776.  @AtlantaBill  NPR, March 14, 2008: Renters Face Rapid Eviction As Foreclosures Soar
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  43777.  @AtlantaBill  Review those dates.
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  43778. When people asked about Bill Clinton's future role in a Hillary administration, they were shouted down and excoriated. Um, when did we find out the extent of Bill Clinton's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein? Yeah. Similarly for Hunter, this time. The Clintonite DNC is corrupt.
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  43779. Does Sputnik V have the same problems as J&J, Astra-Zeneca? If not, I would consider that one.
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  43780. ​ @tuberroot1112 You mean you don't know that Kennedy has been litigating toxic tort cases his entire career? Yes, where dumping toxins in rivers and plains is something a megacorporation simply pays a fine to do, treating fines as a cost of doing business while people die of cancers, the corporate charter should be revoked, which allows for going after the people responsible directly. Also, criminal acts should be prosecuted. None of these cases are about global warming. They are about provable acts of putting dangerous toxins in the environment.
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  43781.  @davidsheriff9274  You are counting too much on people to be too lazy to listen for themselves and think, without allowing their mind to be hijacked/triggered.
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  43782. Positive thinking? In December 2019, I was sure 2020 would be my best year.
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  43783. How do you know? Have you examined the curriculum for yourself, to see for yourself? Have you sat in on a class, or seen any video presentations, even selected by the school for publication? Have you even read the whole letter? These posts rushing to take a stand against "totalitarianism" that all say the same things in unison without examining anything are not funny any more.
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  43784.  @DownTownnnnn  I was recently advised of an opening in a federal court and looked it up immediately. There is no vaccination requirement. Is there anyone you can point this out to? A doctor and a lawyer who can go to bat for you? I don't think they want trouble now because of the election, and the labor shortages. You might be able to squeeze in right now.
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  43785.  @DownTownnnnn  I'm so sorry. Don't be afraid to push from now until the election. This is all about politics. The mood is changing, too. It's all so unfair, but yes, finally, HOPE.
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  43786. Dees and others like her are GHOULS.
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  43787. That was my first thought, but consider the comedic material Cenk just handed them. Then, also, the closing point is correct: 22:22
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  43788. Um, when has he EVER cared about facts? Did his friends sell stock today? That's what I want to know.
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  43789. Complete insanity. Individuals are responsible for what they do. We have no form of collective guilt or ancestral guilt. All right. We now know this problem can't be solved. So turn the page. Robbie's first comment, that this intervention by an Uvalde kid who made good will have no effect is right. Move on to other concerns.
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  43790.  @best5345  If Wolf mindlessly advocated for "believe all women," please show me where. I don't think you're listening to her. I think you're equating her with every manipulator and airhead that has been trotted across the mass media -- to our detriment, sure.
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  43791. That's not possible . . . but they're pushing it hard.
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  43792. ​ @kakip7700 This, in particular? Please explain.
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  43793. Thank you Elie Mystal. Outstanding. Keeping it real.
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  43794.  @jackgranger6539  Apologies. Rittenhouse sustained significant injuries after he shot Rosenbaum. No one else was shot or killed except those shot by Rittenhouse.
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  43795.  @jackgranger6539  They did not talk about local laws or customs very much. They talked about the wider implications of the case for the concept of provocation and self-defense. If a full generation after Columbine, Wisconsin's legislature was incapable of drafting a sensible, constitutional gun law with respect to minors and with respect to open carry, well . . . Rittenhouse isn't to blame, is he? If you don't care, I don't, either.
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  43796.  @jackgranger6539  Yes they are lawyers. I thought you liked facts.
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  43797.  @jackgranger6539  They are not representing anyone. Lawyers can be activists, and are allowed to comment on what they think a case will mean for future cases, or what they think the law should be. If you think this segment should have analyzed this case, and stayed there, you have a right to your opinion. I think juveniles should not be charged as adults, and said so from the very first, last summer. A lot of people were surprised, and admitted, finally, that kids shouldn't be charged this way -- if not never, then really, really rarely. I would have never brought this case. That is an activist position. I'm an activist, then. (So?)
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  43798. The central "hate speech" case, RAV v. City of St. Paul, took place in Minnesota, and invalidated a "hate speech" ordinance. You would think the governor of Minnesota would have heard of it.
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  43799. College was nearly free when Joe and Nancy got to go.
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  43800. Seeing this made me want to try Tor for the first time in my life.
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  43801. Pfft
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  43802. If a person WANTS to wear a mask, then provide the proper directions and quality masks to THEM, and everyone else go in peace.
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  43803. Should we or should we not be told the whole truth about risks and benefits? Or should we just shut up and obey? How easily do you put foreign substances into your body? I certainly do not. No Scandinavian country has mandates. No European left party supports them. The PCF denounces them, FFS. "How far have we fallen?"
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  43804.  @crungefactory  He wouldn't if it's up to him. It might not be, this time. In any event, India is planning to produce Sputnik V soon. Wasn't soon enough, tragically.
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  43805. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  43806. ​@1974Qball Vous suivez la politique française? Vous écoutez Le Média, par exemple? Ou bien, Là bas si j'y suis?
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  43807. ​Why would a party with 33% of the vote in Round 1 be the true winner "in any OTHER democracy?" 67% voted against it. By your logic, Hillary should have been president in 2016.
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  43808. @Bjarki, what do you think self-DEFENSE means?
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  43809. I'll clear this up for Piers: "Piers . . . Piers! Pssst. The billionaires don't want nuclear war. That would disrupt their immortality project."
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  43810. Believe it, Jimmy.
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  43811.  @Mezzo396  Lots of cities with anti-Milosevic governments in place were bombed with depleted uranium. Montenegro's whole government was opposed to Milosevic and was taking in refugees, but it was bombed anyway. Try again? No, wait. Read Manufacturing Consent. BTW, my attempt to add information, from mainstream sources, and to respond, is being censored, repeatedly. You did not respond to what I was already allowed to say. Also, your timeline is wrong. All of this has been established. Manufacturing Consent in action!
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  43812. Guess what? If evidence I bring up, from mainstream sources, is censored, then I guess I can't give you more evidence. But the slogan du jour is no problem, it always stays up. Explain how genocide in Kosovo justifies bombing the committed opponents of the government alleged to be carrying out that genocide, with DU no less. And you all know full well about the DU. Bad faith!
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  43813.  @Mezzo396  Then you need to re-read it, it didn't stick. Operative word is "public opinion." I have an idea: look at the map of countries that have refused to recognize independent Kosovo/a. It is highly instructive. Then look up statements many of them have made before various international tribunals. It's a way to exit your bubble. It may serve you during the growing conflicts around the world that are coming. You're just reacting based on the reception Chomsky had in your circle of friends. BTW, I lean toward independence, but the West trashed that situation yet again. Melenchon has some good proposals.
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  43814.  @Mezzo396  "Peace" treaty? That provided for NATO to be stationed anywhere in the country? No one would sign that. And it's not a peace treaty. It's an occupation agreement.
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  43815.  @Mezzo396  "It's all about me and MY truth." This is America, 2022. When is that not the context?
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  43816.  @Mezzo396  Okay, let's make it simpler. There is a legitimate debate concerning whether there was a "genocide." By contrast, there is no doubt at all that there were war crimes. If you had studied the issue, you'd know. And this is not just "Chomsky's take."
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  43817.  @Mezzo396  I can't frame an argument here without being sen so red. Come off it.
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  43818.  @Mezzo396  I though you were saying YOU were stationed there! No, the proposal was that NATO should be allowed to go absolutely anywhere, not just where they charged genocide. Silly me, to think you were an actual veteran of that NATO action. Now I get it.
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  43819.  @Mezzo396  No, you told me why NATO says it intervened. Very large difference. Oh, now I'm "rambling on!" Should have blocked you straight away. I will now. Tootles.
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  43820.  @Mezzo396  I already blocked you. You've moved on to pure trash talking. Yes, I had thought you might have served in former Yugoslavia. I see how riduculous that idea was. Of course you know nothing about it, first-hand or otherwise. Nor did you read Manufacturing Consent. The charge of "genocide" is a standard ploy, used systematically by America against its designated enemy du jour since the post-WWII period at least. Herman and Chomsky demonstrate that.
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  43821.  @Mezzo396  But thanks for showing us one reason America is in endless wars: it has a public like you.
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  43822. During the GMO foods controversy, Gates smirked at people and said, are you against science? He's been softening up the public to accept this rot for years.
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  43823. Cite your sources.
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  43824. Look up the lawsuits that Tesla has faced for how it treats its people. If he has changed, wonderful --- prove it. Talk is cheap.
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  43825. Exactly. He did a show demonstrating that she was a FAKE.
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  43826.  @ndnrb_  You weren't the only person who thought he was LOTE. Don't vote LOTE. I sat out 2016 after the primaries, then voted for LaRiva/Peltier this time, because Peltier should be freed. Not a wasted vote; a statement.
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  43827.  @ndnrb_  Lesser Of Two Evils
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  43828.  @ndnrb_  Thinking Trump was LOTE was not unreasonable, as we see now. Speaks volumes. There was no good way for that election to turn out.
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  43829.  @ndnrb_  That would have been good. Oh well.
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  43830.  @ndnrb_  Trump was lazy.
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  43831. This video is fuel for misogyny. It hurts women. The two women on this show scare most people, and make working class women feel small. And people who never finished college (i.e., most people) see stuff like this and feel they will never know the rules. Congrats.
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  43832.  @davidaponte3600  There is nothing in your remarks that could hurt a victim. I just reread them. I'm positive. I was harassed so severely that someone who saw it -- a complete stranger -- approached me to offer to be a witness. The perp also posted pictures of himself online carrying an automatic weapon, and my job refused me added security at first, and investigated whether I said something that provoked him. (All the people who handled this were women, by the way, and I had 16 years there. Of course I left that job about five months later.) If what you wrote were hurtful, I think I would have spotted it. Talk about this with her again.
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  43833.  @davidaponte3600  I'm SO gratified that someone takes sexual harassment seriously! Thanks!! Yes, the world can change. :)
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  43834.  @CedDewan  Sure. They can turn people off, from all walks of life, for lots of reasons. But this sort of thing scares ordinary people without professional backgrounds beyond belief. Visceral reaction. :/ Why don't they know that? I don't get it.
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  43835. No wonder we were told that the Russians are causing divisions. Wink wink.
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  43836. I made the choice to care for an elderly, handicapped parent, with absolutely no government assistance of any kind (and he even paid too much in taxes, due to how his assets were titled). It sure did affect my standard of living. I don't judge anyone, ever, who would make a different choice, being that I know what that choice really entailed. Too bad others judge me, huh?
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  43837.  @southerncross5360  Indeed, you could be right about that as well. We'll see what the jury decides. His remaining child's testimony is probably the only thing that can elicit reasonable doubt. Also, juries tend to be unduly impressed by a person who agrees to testify because they know he is not obligated to. It's funny, but we would have had to have been there to sense how it went over.
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  43838. Probation and a fine is for shoplifting.
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  43839. You have to subtract the $2 from the $27 dollars, not add it, LOL. That comes to the actual amount paid after the refund: 25 = 30 -- 5.
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  43840. Excerpt from Counterpunch, containing hyperlinks to sources in the original: "On the same day the CDC caved to political pressure (rejecting the advice of 100s of epidemiologists) and relaxed mask guidelines, seven fully-vaccinated members of the New York Yankees tested positive for COVID."
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  43841. Oh. Not a natural ginger.
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  43842. ALS is a genetic condition. Whether those who have the gene should avoid a given drug is not known. We have a LOT of information, solid information, about the dangers of these vaccines. An ALS diagnosis soon after vaccination should be reported, and analyzed, but to pretend we know there is a connection is not scientific.
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  43843. Inching closer to Star Trek, or BLADE RUNNER? (Director's cut)
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  43844. Emily showed her fandom when she reported, lamely, on Depp v. Heard. That was a free speech case.
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  43845.  @timmeyer9191  Excellent point. I am exhaling. Thanks for that. A business has to open its doors to everyone. It cannot discriminate based on race, creed, color, marital status, gender or gender expression, etc., etc. If the designer and the client can't come to an agreement on the custom design the client wants, then the designer loses the business and the client goes elsewhere. Ultimately, the loss to the business in time spent without generating revenue is usually going to be greater than the loss to the client, who will undoubtedly find a designer who can create a nice website for them.
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  43846.  @ScottHeritage  Of course not. But suppose someone who happens to have a disability wants to decorate a cake with Satanic symbols, should a baker have to do it? Would they be able to decline the person without a disability, but have to do it for the person with a disability? That's the crux of the matter. Could Kanye West order a cake with swastikas on it because he's black, or has episodes of bipolar disorder?
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  43847. She just told you that not so long ago, ethical leadership was a good thing. Republicans probably thought so more than the Dems, who were dominated by the Clintons. You see where I'm going with this . . .
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  43848. ​@alexlazar4738 Exactly. I simply do not understand how these haters prosper in the Anglosphere in particular. It's really a mystery. That culture has spawned some bizarre and repugnant people and movements, as well as an excess of hysterias and moral panics.
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  43849. ​ @myal7532 Ferguson begins by assuming that US/UK have some sort of divine right to dominate the world, when they've made an ugly mess of it. If you don't realize that his supposed analysis of the current war on Gaza is based on fake facts and emotionalism ("rehearsal for a second Holocaust"), for example, then perhaps you don't have much perspicuity. To talk about China having crippling debt is flat-out funny. Re: University of Austin . . . Bari Weiss made her career on cancelation and is not particularly competent. Utter hypocrisy. In the meantime, we shall not mention the name Julian Assange.
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  43850.  @johnmartin4641  This is nonsense. C-suite is the face of the corporation, not "some job." He should have a job that he understands and can perform competently, no problem. I am sure it would pay well. He is not entitled to C-suite.
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  43851.  @johnmartin4641  A LOT of people have the credentials for the C-suite; that's how business is organized. If a CEO, CFO, etc., etc., were to leave tomorrow, the business moves on. A lot of qualified people also know what social media is, and have good judgment. This is the kind of guy who would not know he was exercising terrible judgment IF he were getting praise, likes, etc. These people present a risk. If you are telling me that everyone is like that now, and you can't easily replace him, then I agree. You're right.
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  43852.  @johnmartin4641  Well, you have a right to manage your company as you see fit. And anyone can unexpectedly up and quit any job. Or be hit by a drunk driver. Or get married and their spouse really needs to move.
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  43853. 23:07 okay, this is a softcore audition
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  43854. What does any of this have to do with employers imposing vaccine mandates on workers? A mask is like any other gear. We may have them during flu season in certain settings for the rest of our lives, probably a good idea. A vaccine goes into your body. You have to give informed consent to a medical provider.
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  43855.  @warmlycalculated390  No I don't. Vegetarian organic, cook ALL I eat.
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  43856.  @warmlycalculated390  The day an employer starts feeding me like I goose, either I quit that day, or prepare to be . . . I will not finish that sentence.
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  43857.  @warmlycalculated390  The point was that any medical intervention IS UP TO THE PERSON to consent to. That isn't an opinion, it's the law. But now bosses can force you to consent? You don't see how that's an encroachment? Every leftist party and leftist union in Europe is anti-mandate. There are people who are vaccinated but decline to present their papers as a matter of principle, and there are people who are vaccinated who demonstrate in solidarity with the unvaccinated because they reject mandates. Not everyone is a Benthamite, you know.
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  43858.  @warmlycalculated390  Prove it.
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  43859.  @warmlycalculated390  All the more reason to be exceedingly careful of everything else that goes into my body? Hmm . . .
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  43860.  @warmlycalculated390  Good to know the FDA misleads us. Thanks for the heads up.
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  43861.  @warmlycalculated390  Oh wait. Now I get it. You eat junk food. Oh well. Back to David Goggins videos.
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  43862.  @warmlycalculated390 Great point. I should give up entirely. Clearly the only course. Especially for a "leftist." How weird. David Goggins is talking about people like you.
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  43863.  @warmlycalculated390  David Goggins: if you listen to negative people, and care about what they say or whether they like you(!), you are doomed.
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  43864.  @warmlycalculated390  Oh, you want that choice taken away? That's "given" to me? That's funny. Every medical care I have ever had, I had a choice to decline. Legally, and morally, both. "But just this once . . . " Under the law, an injection that you were cognitively able to consent to, but expressly declined to consent to, is a battery. Did someone tell you that right is about to be taken away? (Do you pay for cable? I never did.)
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  43865.  @warmlycalculated390  Actually, now that you mention it, I'm leaving the US in about two years. So long NSA . . .
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  43866.  @warmlycalculated390  How American liberals argue: "Your life is already CRAP. Your body is seething with pollution. You think you eat well, you think taking care in selecting your food and cooking it matters -- HA! You think you have RIGHTS! Double ha! The joke's on you, homie! Now shut up and get in line. Do as you're told. Then do a Gratitude Practice that we let you work and let you live. You're lucky to be here. Don't you know that? Or are you ignorant?" -- Yeah, that'll win elections. NOT. (It might, however, end the stream of immigration, if that was your secret aim.)
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  43867.  @lucaswilliams8572  He even vaccinated his kids. He admits he struggled with it.
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  43868.  @hughmac13  Anyone can learn.
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  43869.  @hughmac13  Then make sure to read Nadine Strossen, before you're persuaded to support "more legislation." That's all I can say. We once had a First Amendment. I'm not sure it will stick around after Trump.
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  43870.  @hughmac13  For your information, the First Amendment did not apply to the states until well into the twentieth century, and there was no argument to apply it beyond restricting what the federal government could do before the Fourteenth Amendment was passed. Nor did I impute to you positions you didn't take. That wasn't the point -- and never is, when hypotheticals are posed, modal verbs are used, counterfactuals serving as hypotheticals are mentioned to point out substantial risks, etc. The problem is, you DON'T know what you're talking about. We had much greater free speech rights before the 9/11 attacks, and before social media harrassment became ubiquitous. The very fact this government has been trying to extradite Assange is an assault on the Bill of Rights.
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  43871.  @hughmac13  Then read Strossen. Find out exactly where we stand with free speech. Or read Chemerinsky. One of these should be palatable to you.
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  43872.  @SmashmouthGame  Never say never. Though at the moment I would not bet good money on it, either.
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  43873. Jeffrey Epstein had nice looking homes, too.
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  43874. This is rational on your part.
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  43875. @73151cb None of these vaccines are FDA approved yet. The people I know who are hesitant to take them right now were all injured by drugs, or had immediate family members injured by drugs. People who suffered real tragedies are being called conspiracy theorists, fascists, or dupes. Nice going. /s This is how things always go in America. They will never improve.
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  43876. @73151cb Try spelling.
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  43877. Every day, they find new and inventive ways to funnel more money from ordinary working people to the 0.001%. I guess they still need the money? How needy!
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  43878. You never met me. But I'm not vegan all the time. Did you know there are Christians who are vegan for Lent? Some Russians do that.
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  43879. A restraining order cannot be entered except by a court and with notice to the person restrained and an opportunity to be heard. If a person has an order restraining his freedom of movement, he is deprived of a constitutional right, too.
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  43880. Did George Santos release his taxes from this "work" he did? Simple question.
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  43881. Trump is SOOOO dangerous that they are going to MAKE SURE he loses!!! By running Biden and Harris against him. So there.
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  43882. ​@falconsooner Better propaganda. Objectively easier for the dumb to get rich.
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  43883.  @nofux8586  This is true, too.
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  43884. Yup
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  43885. One wonders why Ghislaine is in prison, huh? If only she had been a fugitive a little longer . . . /s
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  43886.  @nonyab3843  On the contrary, jobs are structured so that thousands of people could do them. How were those who ultimately filled them picked, do you think?
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  43887.  @Iloveswedes  "Soft skills" 😂😂😂 There's always some excuse, at the ready!.
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  43888. I agree that had it been the Justice Sotomayor, or the late Justice Ginsburg, the liberal press would have covered it as front page headline news. Somewhat less coverage was justified for Justice Kavanaugh only because abortion rights doctors really have been assassinated already, more than once -- BUT that fact does not justify the huge disparity.
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  43889. That went away when the price tag for a semester in-state topped $2500. College tuition was something you could pay for by working 40 hrs per week mid-May through August.
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  43890. Adam Curtis described this years ago: to cover up a conspiracy, intelligence services use a red herring, usually by floating a competing conspiracy theory. If it's plausible, MSM will broadcast it. If not, those who repeat it will be marginalized as kooks. Works extremely well.
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  43891. This is much worse. This is punishment for scholarly work, and an elaborate defamation campaign.
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  43892. So . . . Vitamin D is still the single clearest remedy, in therapeutic doses.
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  43893.  @ffffnnnnul2125  We retained the actual birthdays of Lincoln and Washington, and Juneteenth, plus a Presidential election day is a state holiday here. Cool holidays, in our state.
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  43894. 15 years ago no one was being forced to "affirm" or risk being reported to child protective services, and no school was reporting anyone. This is some new crap.
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  43895.  @WardofSquid  Someone believes this happened FIFTEEN YEARS AGO? That would be 2007 - 2008. That was the Great Recession. People were getting kicked out of their homes back then, not being sent for trans reeducation. P. S. Math is fun.
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  43896.  @lamaarporter300  THANK YOU
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  43897.  @darcynicholl  Even the people who know that 2023 minus 15 equals 2008? This push to "affirm" did not happen until the last few years. I'm not sure CPS was involved anywhere in (claimed) gender dysphoria before Biden took office.
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  43898.  @shaun_rambaran  Another math person. Greetings. 👍
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  43899.  @highroller-jq3ix  For a drastic procedure applied to minors, one that can deprive them of their right to try to become birth parents someday, and can have other very serious consequences, including cognitive consequences, a 1% failure rate is horrible. That is 100 per 100,000; drugs are withdrawn for adults when that kind of harm is uncovered.
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  43900. "Pretty sure?"
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  43901. This is a conversation about advertising-marketing trends.
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  43902.  @Innocent_Villain  Well said.
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  43903.  @hrs2044  I don't disagree. That doesn't mean you can propose flagrant lawbreaking in response to lawbreaking. WHERE WERE THE WITNESSES DURING IMPEACHMENT? I wanted to hear them. I want to see Trump prosecuted for every law he broke. Let the wrongdoer off the hook and curtail the rights of everyone else? That has grown to be a pattern. You seem not to notice.
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  43904.  @Innocent_Villain  Censorship by private actors at the behest of government is a violation of the First Amendment, just as a violation of other rights by private actors at the behest of government can be challenged. The DA or sheriff can't hire private security to ransack your house to bypass the Fourth Amendment.
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  43905.  @hrs2044  I didn't say any such thing. I lived in France when PCF was in Mitterrand's government. It was fine.
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  43906.  @hrs2044  Show me the text. A politician attempting to force private entities to do what that politician himself cannot do without violating the Bill of Rights is engineering a civil rights violation. If they didn't try an end-run around the First Amendment, then my characterization does not apply. But any politicians who try to get private actors to censor on their behalf are on thin ice. Politicians have a lot to say about the regulatory framework controlling the Internet. A simple question that could reasonably be construed as government pressure to censor is very likely illegal. It depends on the question and on how it was advanced.
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  43907.  @Innocent_Villain  Agree, but that's a separate question.
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  43908.  @hrs2044  I just read the entire letter, rather than news excerpts. It is worse than I thought. I'm simply going to urge everyone to read the letter and leave it right there. I respect Nadine Strossen more every day.
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  43909.  @hrs2044  In short, the "questions" were framed in the style of discovery, as it exists in court. They asked for documentation or other material to support every answer. You think these are ordinary questions, for purposes of discussion? "1. What moral or ethical principles (including those related to journalistic integrity, violence, medical information, and public health) do you apply in deciding which channels to carry or when to take adverse actions against a channel? 2. Do you require, through contracts or otherwise, that the channels you carry abide by any content guidelines? If so, please provide a copy of the guidelines. 3. How many of your subscribers tuned in to Fox News, Newsmax, and OANN on U-verse, DirecTV, and AT&T TV for each of the four weeks preceding the November 3, 2020 elections and the January 6, 2021 attacks on the Capitol? Please specify the number of subscribers that tuned in to each channel. 4. What steps did you take prior to, on, and following the November 3, 2020 elections and the January 6, 2021 attacks to monitor, respond to, and reduce the spread of disinformation, including encouragement or incitement of violence by channels your company disseminates to millions of Americans? Please describe each step that you took and when it was taken. 5. Have you taken any adverse actions against a channel, including Fox News, Newsmax, and OANN, for using your platform to disseminate disinformation related directly or indirectly to the November 3, 2020 elections, the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection, or COVID-19 misinformation? *If yes, please describe each action, when it was taken, and the parties involved.* 6. Have you ever taken any actions against a channel for using your platform to disseminate any disinformation? If yes, please describe each action and when it was taken. 7. Are you planning to continue carrying Fox News, Newsmax, and OANN on U-verse, DirecTV, and AT&T TV both now and beyond any contract renewal date? If so, why?"
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  43910.  @hrs2044  You have no problem with government actors sending a letter like this? Then you don't understand what you just read. Tootles.
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  43911.  @hrs2044  Maybe you don't know what discovery is. Or what it is designed to do. And since when does any Internet platform have to justify carrying the channels it does? "Hate speech," simpliciter, is not illegal in the US. If it were, the mastermind of the Beslan school massacre could not have appeared on ABC News. Read Strossen. You need to.
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  43912.  @hrs2044  I'm telling you how it's framed -- like interrogatories in a legal case -- and it was sent by someone with authority to pass laws regarding their business, i.e., government actors. If it is within the RIGHT of a platform to choose not to offer certain content, then they can simply say that and ignore these questions. Do you have to answer detailed questions, and provide documentation, to members of Congress before you exercise your rights? Why would they have to give such a detailed accounting, and then possibly expose themselves to the risk of liability if they make an error or omission in their answers? You REALLY think everyone is stupid, don't you? You started out by saying that these were just questions. "All they did was send a letter asking questions." Pfft.
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  43913.  @hrs2044  Not narrowly tailored toward that end. Not even in the ballpark. You should be ashamed of supporting such overreach, on a matter of perennial importance, freedom of speech and of the press . And I only quoted the questions. The rest of the letter reeks of ignorance of First Amendment law, or contempt for it.
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  43914.  @hrs2044  You actually expected me not to find and read the letter, or understand it! By the way.
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  43915.  @hrs2044  No, you knew I could; you didn't think I would. Evident. Preparing for the next insurrection? Non sequitur. Or what are you driving at? A soft, backhand smear, with built-in deniability? That's how guys in Paris try to pick you up, with a double entendre they can accuse you of interpreting sexually. :D
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  43916. ??
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  43917. Please, in what ways do you see that? I mean, I want to know exactly how you see it.
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  43918. No. See the peer-reviewed research on "rare" vaccine-induced injuries. The best studies came out in late August or so, were based in Israel, and at least one was published in the NEJM. Myocarditis is in the warning now. Everyone who gets vaccinated signs a paper saying they were advised of the risk.
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  43919. The West will have to speed up its creation of exotic derivatives. They can still do that.
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  43920. 15:07 😂😂😂😂😂
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  43921. When teachers threatened us with our Permanent Records, we used to laugh.
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  43922. Ha. His "private property."
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  43923. At-will employment is reality. Social media os treacherous is reality.
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  43924. @censoredeveryday3320 Why do they need to care? You march right along and vote for them every year.
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  43925. Talk to people who are on Medicare.
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  43926. BREAKING:  Glenn Greenwald just posted a short excerpt of Victoria Nuland testifying on the Ukrainian biolabs -- which, oddly enough, were funded through the US DOD, not the NIH. TeleSUR (Spanish) just reported China demands the US provide full information on all biological laboratories it funds in the world. Familiar trajectory: Biolabs in Ukraine is a conspiracy theory. Biolabs in Ukraine is Russian misinformation. Biolab funding is to make sure dangerous pathogens are destroyed. Biolab funding is in one place only, and is purely peaceful. Biolab funding is by the US Department of Defense, in its threat reduction initiative. Biolab funding is in six labs, at least, for the purpose of comprehensive threat reduction. Biolab funding by DOD exists throughout Ukraine, to reduce the threat. "Putin puppet!!!"
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  43927. You buy that? It's free to read at the beauty parlor.
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  43928. You could look up the U. of Michigan Law School innocence project story. That would work. For a better idea of what real leftists look like, Clémence Guetté is good. Too bad links aren't allowed.
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  43929.  @threeofeight197  I do. Granted, we had a reality show carnival barker as president, and now a mentally deficient corruptionist president, but someone has to start drawing lines somewhere fast.
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  43930. Voilà le résultat des drogues.
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  43931. Good thought. Chances are, it is now polluted. It was good for grandma, but I wouldn't give it to a kid today without proof of purification (not sure I'd even trust that).
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  43932. Silence so far!
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  43933. ​ @OpinionFactChecker Exactly. Our cities are not a mess? They are not covered with human waste? Tent cities are not growing? Every crisis doesn't result in more money flowing upward? Or, rather, gushing upward? Do these two think labels like "woke" and slogans like "individual freedom" solve anything? This is STILL the strategy? If someone as horrible as Putin and his cronies can solve these problems, shouldn't it be easy for the superior West? Yes. It really should. Inventing memes may line their pockets, and that may be their priority, obviously. It doesn't take a single person off the streets.
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  43934. @abunchahooey  Look it up.
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  43935. @abunchahooey  So, . . . You just posted this without one scintilla of investigation. Perfect. AI has you where it wants you. Edit: my source is NPR. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  43936. @abunchahooey  I hope they let you see my answer.
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  43937.  @abunchahooey  Sign. Don't make Vivek right again. 🤣
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  43938.  @allanmarks2150  Please stop, I'm petrified.
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  43939. Did the attorney face any negative consequences for reporting the body to the district attorney? Was this considered a violation of his duty of confidentiality to his client? Or was the presence of children in the home a good reason to violate confidentiality?
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  43940.  @Normaschthewanderer  Not at all. The opposite is the general rule. Only a risk of future harm should be reported. Trying to use a lawyer to cover up a past crime can at times be reported as well. The lawyer must withdraw if he finds out a client is using him to cover up a crime, but he's not usually required to report the crime. Here, it was reasonable to have concern for the children, though, and for their well being. That changes the picture. Preventing future harm is the key.
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  43941.  @Normaschthewanderer  People who have, without a doubt, done something illegal are represented by lawyers all the time. (???) We have adversarial trials, not inquisitions.
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  43942.  @Normaschthewanderer  A guilty plea must be knowing and voluntary. No one ever has to agree to plead guilty. A right to a trial and a right to a defense is a constitutional right. Or, why not just rat people out, save time and money? /s
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  43943.  @Normaschthewanderer  Those people striking plea bargains are all presumed innocent until they plead guilty and the court accepts their plea.
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  43944. I think that's true. The problem that I see is that they don't offer a passionate defense of First Amendment freedoms because they don't believe in them themselves. Students need to feel safe on campus in order to freely engage in political speech. The two are not opposed, but intimately connected.
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  43945.  @paulmartin6419  For a lot of people, yes, exactly that. Not everyone.
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  43946. Well. Jordan Peterson could afford to go to Russia for treatment . . . 😒🤔
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  43947.  @janetdenton6674  And come to think of it, maybe we could learn something about treatments. He could have afforded any program here as well, but nothing comparable was available, apparently.
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  43948. @tradeprosper5002  She said SSI -- the disability arm. She doesn't want to take early Social Security. That is almost always a terrible idea.
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  43949. PCF is against vaccine passports and against firing first responders and medical personnel who declined the COVID vaccine. Yeah, the actual Communists. Here, doctors are discussing whether the unvaccinated should be treated, and the ACLU is defending mandates. Makes me weep.
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  43950. He did. No one has a duty to accept it, however. He also followed the negative evidence as it emerged. This was painted as a fringe position, but people forget that early on, many of the top journals published the articles. A definitive list of risks came out in the summer of 2021, from Israel. It was already a shock. Then the fall of 2021 was not a good time, with peaks in deaths.
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  43951. What Kyle is omitting is "pocket pussy." I still need to know what that is. I know he knows the truth.
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  43952. No evidence of that.
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  43953. Swiss ministry of health: look up their recommendation. I don't want to be censored if I repeat it.
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  43954. Shhhh! That was logical. Every business that serves the public and believes masks are reducing risk to employees can require masks on their premises. (But a police officer cannot stop you over it. Yeah, that sounds terrible.) And people who live with Grandma shouldn't go to festivals this year. Just give it a pass, have self-discipline.
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  43955. I had to see what travesty she'd put up after this. P. S. Who didn't always have dinner with their parents? How do you all eat?
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  43956. Explain Chauvin's guilty plea in federal court. The plea deal is posted, and describes what Chauvin himself says he did. Takes a few seconds to find.
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  43957. ​ @frogscotch19 Look at his federal guilty plea. That's a real document, not a documentary.
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  43958. ​ @frogscotch19 Didn't you read the federal plea agreement? 😂😂😂
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  43959. ​ @Pancajayna Do you need glasses to find Chauvin's federal guilty plea? You could look it up. Much faster than watching videos . . .
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  43960. ​ @I_am_not_a_rob0t Funny, that's not what Chauvin himself said in federal court when he PLED GUILTY.
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  43961.  @I_am_not_a_rob0t  Federal plea deals require allocution. You must agree to the details of the alleged crime in order for your guilty plea to be accepted. Can't find the document? Takes a few seconds.
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  43962.  @I_am_not_a_rob0t  Why would he, in this instance? He could have maintained his innocence. He had nothing to gain by pleading guilty to federal charges after maintaining his innocence in state court.
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  43963.  @I_am_not_a_rob0t  So Candace is right, but statements made under oath in federal court don't know nuthin'.
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  43964.  @I_am_not_a_rob0t  But why did Chauvin plead guilty? What did he have to gain? Nothing. It can only hurt his appeals and his habeas corpus chances.
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  43965. @karmadog4565  Oh that's your excuse? Creative, I must admit. Having said that, he is entitled to heavy protection, without harming his conditions of confinement. No solitary, no curtailing exercise or law library access, etc.
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  43966. Certain technical questions of forensic accounting are decided in advance of trial.
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  43967. 0:40 Oh that's right! There's a video of Hunter actually having sex! Well, no one does that anymore. Yes, now I have compassion. (P. S. Was he having sex with some one? Or?)
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  43968. Er, not quite, or at least not yet. This video is misleading. Her breach of contract claims against Harvard were allowed to proceed. The entire case isn't over by any stretch.
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  43969. So that the rest of us can stay faaaaaar away.
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  43970. She was explaining why she decided to testify, rather than decline the invitation. Apparently she was not under subpoena. She was also explaining why she joined, after being evacuated near the Twin Towers on 9/11. That turned a lot of people toward religion.
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  43971.  @_andre99  False. You believe the FBI is, etc. You don't know that.
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  43972.  @paulstevens9087  You know what? By American standards, I am very far left, and I am not religious, and I generally mistrust religious institutions as being a cover story for something sinister and nefarious. That doesn't matter in this instance. I actually think she is attempting to tell the truth, and that she means what she's saying. I feel for people like her. She broke down when she talked about Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School, known for its activists following the shooting there, who were generally perceived as left-wing. I noticed that. Maybe just listen some time?
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  43973.  @paulstevens9087  It was her "opening statement," not her testimony. See the first sentence of the video description. I don't know what her testimony was.
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  43974.  @paulstevens9087  It was her opening statement. It says so in the description box. Did you think this was her testimony??
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  43975. Well, did he weigh in on the case, and echo MSM and The View talking points, before learning what happened? Show us where. 15:40
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  43976. ​@eddieffect7643 Does full immunity from liability for vaccine injuries, full patent protection, suppression of information, refusal to share information, an EUA product that was obviously rushed, and vaccine mandates --- even for those who had had COVID and fully recovered --- was this was rational? None of this is consistent. Sam Harris says a boss should be able to mandate vaccines. Now a BOSS has the right to tell me what I have to put in my body, or else I may as well end up on the street? Why should anyone work for a boss like that? Lots of jobs still can't get workers. Good! They don't deserve workers. I'd never work for someone like Harris.
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  43977. Anyone who trusted Sidney Powell doesn't have the judgment to run the county dog pound.
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  43978. 27:47 start there
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  43979.  @shanecarlson1057  The evidence is that the vaccine is effective for preventing hospitalization or death, for a period of time. If I say what I really think, I get censored.
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  43980.  @shanecarlson1057  Apparently, I can't say that tyme is sh ort.
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  43981. Sorry you can't face the reality of the résumé studies. They were replicated many times. A recent one found bias against Russian-sounding names, too.
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  43982. She asked what this guy's suggestion was. Missed that, too?
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  43983.  @ryanconard87  Ooooh, I'm supposed to read the COMMENTS and get in line! Silly me.
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  43984. @ryanconard87  I've been struck by how often the comments claim Brie said exactly the opposite of what she said. It's uncanny. You do see that, but nowhere near as often with other newscasters. Sometimes the timestamp shows she said the opposite of what she said, and the person posting added it themselves. Say, if you really want to get triggered, watch PrimeNewtons. 🤣🤣🤣
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  43985.  @ryanconard87  Of course. DEI in action. 🤣🤣🤣
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  43986. @ryanconard87  Now try Naledi Pandor's comments to the press, after the ICJ verdict. She is 70 years old, completed her doctorate in 2019, and speaks without notes. SA television has them, as do other channels.
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  43987. @ryanconard87  The opening remarks of the BRICS+ summit might also be helpful here. You hear Biden or Trump (or Harris or Pelosi or McConnell, etc., etc.) sound like any of them? No, huh? 😂
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  43988.  @ryanconard87  That's possible.
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  43989. The din in the background is appalling and shameful, and I'm very left. European, though. Not American-style. Students in the hall supported free speech, and one who disagreed with him first thanked him for staying over before asking a question, as they should.
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  43990. Stock tip? Puleeze puleeze???
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  43991. ​ @LickyTee  Because some talking head on Fox said so.
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  43992.  @thatsabingo6695  Unfortunately, to some people, it is.
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  43993. @TheDionysianFields  I couldn't disagree more. "I'm doing this for MY KIDS," while they stab everyone else in the back without blinking. I actually don't even find that so blameworthy -- we evolved not to be able to resist the pull, for good reason.
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  43994. @TheDionysianFields  They aren't less likely to be selfish. If they weren't selfish (or if they were a little less stupidly selfish), they would care about all kids, not just their own kids, whom they are using as an excuse to do what they want. But since there is no such thing as society, maybe their kids don't need to have healthy age-mates. Maybe they can learn to use and discard . . .
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  43995. Absolutely be forced to sing the Anthem. It will turn the youth away from the right wing faster than anything, to be obliged to mouth nonsense in order to get a few crumbs of knowledge.
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  43996. OH REALLY? WELL THEN WE BETTER NOT LISTEN TO IT, OR ELSE WE'LL CONTAMINATE OUR VIRGIN EARS.
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  43997.  @phuphuism  Have you listened to Joe Rogan? Did you listen when he had Alex Jones on? Are you interested, at all, in what someone who doesn't have your views might think? I'm not on any "wing" in America. The whole country is right wing by my standards. Dangerously right wing. I'll be out by 2025. Can you find all the places on the map that the US has bombed since Nagasaki? I don't know anyone who can. What more needs to be said? Not enough information? Waiting to see? Just this once?
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  43998. Is that real?
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  43999. If true, tragic. In the classical sense.
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  44000. @MSBJJ  I said no such thing -- nor do you have solid numbers, but that makes no difference in virtual world. Keep it up, see what happens. You may have to beg freaks for a livelihood, if you don't already. (As for me, I don't have to live here.)
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  44001. @MSBJJ  Well, you misrepresented what I said, but guess what happened to my reply? Reporting you. Why should this stay up, if I can't answer?
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  44002. @MSBJJ  I never said you did report me, and I didn't think you did. I said you misrepresented me, which is "misinformation." (You've just done that again). YT won't let me see what I posted. Why should I take it? Not me. I'll give them work to do. They make enough.
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  44003. CDC new guidance on masks is a travesty. "Fully vaccinated" can be mask-free in many settings. We were told our mask primarily protects others, and vaccination primarily protects those vaccinated -- and not entirely from all COVID infections, but from all severe COVID. So, just like with a flu vaccine, where I'd been vaccinated and caught a mild flu, and I could STILL have passed a severe flu to an unvaccinated person, the SAME thing could happen with COVID. A vaccinated person could infect an unvaccinated one. So much for solidarity.
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  44004. Pictures of Pelosi and "Brandon" on the thumbnail look like they forgot to take off their Halloween masks.
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  44005. The real question is how the h-ll could Michelle have foreseen any of this? This case is horrific because there is no obvious clue. So, how do you protect yourself? Lots of husbands are abusive. Lots of divorces are bitter.
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  44006. Indeed, how could it? They apparently thought Jeffrey Epstein's was fine while it lasted.
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  44007. Different atmosphere than in 2016. COVID referendum.
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  44008. I saw a video from France showing a large group of smiling people exiting the hospital after making full recoveries from serious COVID. Have you EVER seen a comparable video in America?
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  44009. No it is not the same. Lethal force in defense of persons is justified. Lethal force in defense of mere property is illegal. If these kids did not put anyone in danger of physical harm, then it was illegal to shoot them.
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  44010.  @sandralewis2050  Well, my parents met in a refugee camp, and I have volunteered to take in Ukrainian refugees if needed, so this cheap rhetoric and call for escalation (to sound pretty on television?) is repulsive to me. How many veterans are you close to? I don't know one who would be so irresponsible. Have you all lost it?
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  44011.  @sandralewis2050  You are talking about escalating a war. You have no idea of what you are concretely talking about. Of COURSE I'm not going to support your delirium, because that is what it is. Get a grip. "Pitiful, pathetic, resiliency, courage, democracy" --- these are just words to you at this moment. They help no one, and have no bearing on anything that can bring actual peace, which needs to come now. Get a GRIP.
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  44012.  @sandralewis2050  Every week, people prove to be even crazier than I thought they were. I expected hitting new lows to end when Trump finally left. Well, I still have hope. I guess recovery will take time.
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  44013.  @Mas_zeppelin  Find a new sports bar.
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  44014. @Detwhat  That doesn't surprise me, sadly. A top employment lawyer will advise you to get a new job first, because then the new employer cannot fire them. It would be retaliatory.
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  44015. ​ @jgalt308 Details? Look up the cases. The cases have the details.
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  44016. ​Wait. You mean you CAN'T?
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  44017. You deserve the country you live in. You count on it never happening to someone of your race, that's all. Well, it already does.
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  44018. Strict attorney-client privilege but open courts are all of the information anyone needs.
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  44019. Political process -- Brandon cannot singlehandedly force mandates. Other branches are pushing back.
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  44020.  @jaimepatena7372  This is still a question. A well-founded question, but still a question.
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  44021.  @nikkidarkangelpnope8400  Not for an interpretation of a law! That receives absolute immunity from suit.
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  44022.  @Tijuanabill  Happened in my city. Operation Graylord.
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  44023.  @TriciaDeBary  Just know that harassing a judge is a serious federal offense.
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  44024. Do you not grasp that SHE TOLD THE TRUTH? When the vaccine was first rolled out, she was asked whether the vaccines affect women's fertility. Her straight answer was, "We don't know. We don't know because pregnant women were not part of the test subjects during the vaccine trials." It was the first time in a long time that I heard someone say something true. I nearly fell out of my chair. Now go back and check your "reasoning."
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  44025. It's the wokesters who judge based on race, national origin, or whether a person's parents stayed married. Or so I thought. /s
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  44026.  @D00kerT  What I'm talking about? Candor. Dr. Ezike is truthful. She has been consistently truthful.
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  44027.  @D00kerT  What does it matter that having two parents married to each other is a better start in life? Does that mean Dr. Ezike "must be" less of a doctor because she didn't, if that's true? Are John Lennon, Eric Clapton, and Jimi Hendrix lesser musicians because they didn't? This has no bearing after the fact.
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  44028. ​ @oliviamaynard9372 😂😂😂
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  44029. I have so much more sympathy for Peterson after this illness, and less understanding of the cult-like adoration of him. His tendentious statements and dubious political assertions are transparent and obvious. They stick out flagrantly from all his true statements. Anybody can spot it if they want to.
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  44030. Did you read the opinion that dismissed Miller's defamation suit? I suggest you do that before judging. Basically, the court left it up to his bosses at NYU to decide how to handle this. That is what a court usually does in an employment dispute. That's what it would do to you, too, under the same circumstances. Just to let you know. The accusations were made in an internal letter that was privileged because it was an employment matter.
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  44031. ​@filmcrit Look up Shon Hopwood. Not the mainstream press, but the real story. Not just one armed bank robbery, several; not just one gun, but an arsenal. He's a lawyer and law professor now.
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  44032. ​ @teej008  It depends on why.
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  44033.  @Dominique-Zipporah  What are you talking about? This occurred in the United States.
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  44034.  @Dominique-Zipporah  I don't remember the gist of this. If I misunderstood you, I'm sorry -- I apologize. Anyway, this did happen in the States. Not sure why anyone interjected UK into the discussion without making that clear. Weird.
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  44035. Thank you.
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  44036. ​ @IFIMTHEDEV1L  Yes, rudeness is always welcome. I wonder what the typical office is like. Why do people need to be threatened now, just to come in?
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  44037. Don't rag on Quebecois. I'm serious.
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  44038. ​@ghostmantagshome-er6pb No one has convicted him yet. Has he even been arraigned?
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  44039. I expected no red wave. Not after the pregnant ten-year-old girl whose doctor was subjected to death threats, and Uvalde.
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  44040.  @hankhooper1637  With the absence of a red wave, you mean? What light did Uvalde shed on the need for gun control and on the incompetence of police -- and on the wisdom of trusting in the police to help you if you are in danger? Which party rejects any discussion of reasonable, constitutional gun control measures? Which party lauds the police unquestioningly?
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  44041.  @hankhooper1637  1. Nowhere did I say that no one should have a gun. 2. Look up what sort of firepower the Uvalde shooter had, and when and how he obtained it. See whether you see something wrong.
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  44042.  @hankhooper1637  By the way, what do you think reversing Roe accomplished? Several states are already placing the right to elective abortion in their constitutions. There is no possible scenario where an embryo or nonviable fetus will be declared a person under the US Constitution.
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  44043. So, you don't know about the Separation of Powers, either? The executive has no authority over the other two branches of government. Absolutely none. As for Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard, who were duly vetted and confirmed, and are part of the executive branch, they told their departments to pause responses and address any concerns about performance reviews to their supervisors internally. I thought the Ketamine Kid had to pass a citizenship test. He forgot what was on it?
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  44044.  @mtsaz100  💯 They are going to privatize public goods. Peter Thiel will make out like a bandit again.
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  44045. C'mon man! This is the richest country in the world!
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  44046. Not only that, but babies are being pulled from incubators . . . Oops, you beat me to it, Jimmy!
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  44047. @goes2112  You are being lied to. That's the long and the short of it. Courts were never "after" Trump. People sued him or people prosecuted him. One judge in New York categorically refused to pronounce any sentence whatsoever. Would you be so lucky?
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  44048.  @goes2112  That's not what happened. No court did this. People were suing Trump and prosecuting Trump. One court discharged him with no punishment and wished him well.
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  44049. @goes2112  No court changed the law. Legislatures did. God, who tells you these things? And why do you believe them? Listen to Glenn. He actually knows, and sees Trump in a more positive light than most people do. The principle of judicial review under Marbury v. Madison is a logical conclusion based on the Constitution. Since then, the entire federal code and rules of procedure are based on it. Therefore Congress agrees with the decision. And Trump liked it when the courts went against Biden.
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  44050. @goes2112  Btw, did you ever read Marbury v. Madison? Or is it some talking point they're using now? EDIT: Well this thread was already shadowed of substantive replies. Lovely.
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  44051. They don't call it FIRE for nothing: Finance, Insurance, and . . . Real Estate. 😮
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  44052. Three words: Operation Warp Speed I'll never forgive.
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  44053. Wait. MSM told me experts agreed Putin's back was against the wall.
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  44054. If she made enough money, it won't matter. The fact that nearly everyone in the same position would do the very same thing is the real problem. Worse, no one who wouldn't do it could EVER get elected. It IS the system.
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  44055. I think this is fake.
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  44056. . . . Putin can give people cognitive impairment? Oh sh*t.
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  44057. Example?
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  44058. Who?
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  44059.  @ericheick7044  Who is "he?"
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  44060.  @ericheick7044  I can't find this explicitly stated anywhere, but it should come out at trial.
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  44061. Bri did not forget.
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  44062. Basically, yeah.
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  44063. People on Medicare aren't being forced.
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  44064. Other networks are reporting far more heart side effects: https://youtu.be/mR4_-eyt_TI
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  44065. I don't see why that would be the case, unless there is some inherent "aim" of the universe to produce what it did, in fact, produce. But then "probability" is simply the name for our ignorance. The probability that you would exist is, to God's mind, exactly 1, and was 1 all along, because that is what happened. This is not impossible, of course, but notice why it's unscientific: you are assuming what you are trying to prove (namely, Intelligent Design). Intelligent Design puts a scientific gloss on something that is purely a matter of faith. I don't think you can calculate probabilities for all that is theoretically observable in the universe, taken as a whole, because you are placing the initial state outside the realm of the universe, and who knows what principles of causality exist there? We only understand causality from inside the universe, by observing it. So, it makes sense to take some time t-zero, defined as a moment close to but before the time you were conceived, consider that the initial state, and talk about the probability that you would emerge as you -- and even then, you cannot possibly account for all the matter that could have had some effect on your being conceived. But it makes no sense to define that t-zero as being near the beginning of the universe and then talk about the probabilities that the universe would be as we find it today, and include you sitting before your computer at this moment.
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  44066.  @DrHarryT  You have absolutely no idea whether those probabilities are comparable. In fact, most physicists and cosmologists would say they are radically different, because we know life exists in the universe, in our local space, we do not know whether it exists anywhere else, and we have no way whatsoever to set the prior probabilities for that. What is the probability space? That has to be defined first. As for the probability of matter itself existing, we have no reason to think it can be calculated prior to matter's existence, even if we assume there is or can be any such time. The probability of any actually existing initial condition is 1. In your scenario, the probability of a red coin existing is 1. Only then can you talk about the probability of finding it under various conditions. No one is blindfolded and looking for matter. They already are made up of matter. You didn't understand my post. Oh well.
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  44067. The add-on for unemployment compensation should have been smaller, and EVERYONE should have had $1000/month since April 2020. Unemployed, underemployed, essental workers -- who were overworked, retired people, EVERYONE.
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  44068. She also said there were undoubtedly other factors involved as well. Where transmission occurs has been studied. Elementary school classrooms, for example, appear to be much less likely to create a superspreader event than feared. These aren't controlled experiments, obviously.
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  44069. Virtual AR 15s are legal, sweets. Take a virtual self-defense class.
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  44070. By protecting the freedom of individual choice, the federal government is imposing its will on you? Is it making you or anyone else get an abortion? Is it making you pay for anyone's abortion? Is it censoring you from speaking out in favor of choosing life? Is it preventing all picketing of abortion clinics? No × 5. There is no symmetry here.
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  44071. Well, but Jen Psaki refusing to call on reporters from Africa is because diversity.
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  44072. I would only argue in part with point 10.
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  44073.  @litac5433  No basis in evidence. Contradicted by all available evidence.
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  44074.  @Critical-Thinker895  A prominent court case settled without the whole story being revealed and the key facts being tested in court. Most people regard that as newsworthy, especially when nearly every prominent person on the planet was involved in some way, and minor girls were trafficked. But maybe you see it differently.
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  44075. @TheRosycruxian  No it doesn't. The pseudo-smart are another story.
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  44076.  @Pablo-gl9dj  Move on to what?
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  44077.  @Pablo-gl9dj  Whew, so there are no more trafficking rings! What a relief.
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  44078. @Pablo-gl9dj  Oh I get it now. Bill Gates has something new up his sleeve.
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  44079.  Tragically Comedic  They're fighting to maintain the dollar as the global reserve currency, which provides us with our standard of living. Or do you think that happened only because we are making wonderful things that the world needs? Um, not exactly.
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  44080.  @tylerskidmore6083  This is true.
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  44081.  aboctok  We just heard this guy say with a straight face that Trump will declare martial law. After that, not much sounds crazy.
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  44082. Samantha Power makes Hill look like an angel.
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  44083. @thePronto Appeal to authority. The job of every such advisor when they appear in public is to make partisan positions sound incontrovertible. Yes, to make opinions appear to be facts. That's nothing special. That is their role. It takes training. America had a true Russia expert in Stephen F. Cohen, but he died recently.
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  44084. @thePronto Appeal to authority. The job of every such advisor when they appear in public is to make partisan positions sound incontrovertible. Yes, to make opinions appear to be facts. That's nothing special. That is their role. It takes training. America had a true Russia expert in Stephen F. Cohen, but he died recently.
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  44085. @thePronto Trump has no special relationship with Russia, besides wanting to build a luxury hotel there. It's all about 💰 and ego for him. And he likes how the girls look,
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  44086. @thePronto Why does my pertinent and unbiased point keep dis appearing? Hm? But "GFY," no problem.
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  44087. @thePronto  That is mere appeal to authority. The job of every such advisor when they appear in public is to make partisan positions sound incontrovertible. Yes, to make opinions appear to be facts. That's nothing special. That is their role. It takes training. America had a true Russia expert in Stephen F. Cohen.
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  44088. @thePronto The job of every such advisor when they appear in public is to make partisan positions sound incontrovertible. Yes, to make opinions appear to be facts. That's nothing special. That is their role. It takes training. America had a true Russia expert but if I mention his name, . . . Right. It's a no go.
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  44089. @thePronto I wonder whether stating the phrase "appeal to authority" is also censored. But GFY is fine. Nope, it's the analysis of who these experts are and what their role is that is Verboten.
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  44090. @thePronto Mine were as well. I didn't think you had anything to do with it.
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  44091. @thePronto  "The job of every such advisor when they appear in public is to make partisan positions sound incontrovertible."
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  44092. "Yes, to make opinions appear to be facts. That's nothing special."
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  44093. "That is their role. It takes training."
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  44094. @thePronto Let's see what triggers the algae rhythm bot.
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  44095.  @2FINE4YOUBABYGIRL  I think that used to be true. Now, few people below the top 10% are secure, and those who are, usually sacrificed quite a lot to get there. The Federal Reserve Board's survey of U.S. households has been breaking up the top quintile into the top 10% and the next 10% for purposes of analysis since the Clinton years, for good reason. People may have a preferred socio-economic identification that does not match their circumstances. Image-tending was always important. Social media fuels it like crazy.
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  44096. @SD I think your experience speaks to the present moment.
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  44097. What age were those who died? Did they have known comorbidities? What makes you think this vaccine is safe for children when the FDA withheld full approval of Pfizer for persons under 16? Have you followed the news on myocarditis? Consult The Guardian.
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  44098. You are confusing EUA and full approval.
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  44099. Pfizer APPLIED FOR EUA in children 5 to 11. It has NOT been granted. How dare you scare parents about seeing their child suffer or be crippled? A little research exposes your falsehoods.
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  44100.  @lucibeach2697  Not FDA approval under age 16. Emergency Use Authorization, which requires signing pages of consent forms and acknowledging that you have read and understood the current fact sheet. Then the forms state that after you have read everything, you still have the option to decline the vaccine and your health care will be unaffected. Also, EUA means no access to meaningful compensation for most people in case of injury; in particular, no access to the 1986 fund set up for that purpose. My mother was studying medicine, with an interest in vaccines, when the Nazis bombed the city she was in and everything had to close. I have a doctoral level degree. You can imagine that I abhor fearmongering, and politicizing health care decisions. Yes, without all that, things would have gone more smoothly, I agree.
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  44101. Guess again.
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  44102. One death per 100,000 vaccine doses that are determined to be due to the vaccine should alert scientists, and require explanation. How does anyone expect to advance the development of better vaccines without examining the data? What is so different now that the issue is suppressed?
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  44103.  @MTknitter22  That's true. But it's hardly new.
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  44104. @lexiepink  So then why can't he handle this yapping? That's exactly the point. A President has to override the crowd around him, yelling at him to do what they want him to do. That's the job.
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  44105. @vickiemalone9098  Pfft, like I care. There's no good way for this election to end, or for this decade to end. I only wonder what the next created crisis will be.
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  44106. @lindajetton9664  She's feathering her nest, . . . as is her right for that matter. Totally performative, like all politics now. Megyn cares about Megyn and Megyn's bank account.
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  44107.  @vickiemalone9098  Pfft. No, I don't care. There is no good way for this election to end.
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  44108.  @pennymcordar7344  Poor you, if this is what you think. Last time, he did nothing to stop Fauci.
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  44109.  @Mccx-l4k  My brain takes in that Putin is in Asia planning a BRICS+ summit.
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  44110. @christinathompson9780  The pandemic was a disaster. I don't forgive anyone who had power but failed to use it. Obviously Fauci bears vastly more responsibility than just about any other single person.
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  44111. NIH supports further testing of ivermectin, and no longer counsels that it not be used off label. It simply points out that neither recommending it nor opposing its use is based on scientific evidence.
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  44112. The single most common major for at LEAST 30 years is Business. Next come medical fields, with Nursing in first place. What did you think people have been studying? People with so-called "garbage majors" typically go on for an MBA, MPA, MSW, MFA, MLS, PhD, and JD.
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  44113.  @seandawnvantures2001  LOL, where to begin?
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  44114. @SeAnDawn VanTures  Look, if American kids suffer, most of the rest of the world smirks, or cheers. So just keep up the resentment. It's doing wonders for this society.
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  44115. @SeAnDawn VanTures  Bail me out? The government bombed where most of my relatives live, and just destroyed me financially by its COVID overreaction. No, it has never bailed me out, lol. It imposed the brunt of its own mistakes on me and mine, as is the case for most people outside of its coterie of privileged few.
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  44116.  @seandawnvantures2001  In the end, I won't advocate for your kids, either. They can't be trusted. There. That was easy.
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  44117.  @MJLOVEnow  You mean you don't know? Lol.
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  44118. @MJLOVEnow  Of course. Like many in Hollywood, she was very close to Weinstein and she improbably claimed she knew nothing about how he treated women. Everyone knew, and her resources for vetting people are second to none. That's the least one can say. One could also say that she helped lend credibility to Weinstein. A lot of men in Hollywood did that as well.
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  44119. @MJLOVEnow  Among others she has promoted: the grifters who wrote The Secret, Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz, Bill Gates. And the notorious guru John of God, sentenced to hundreds of years for his role in trafficking.
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  44120. If he is entitled to any immunities for his actions while in government, then those immunities do not disappear once he is out of government. That would be anachronistic, and doesn't make any sense, either. Even Clinton had to face a private lawsuit while president. Being president didn't result in an automatic stay until he left office. Being a government actor here does not shield Fauci, either. In any event, Louisiana, Missouri, and several individuals already sued Fauci and others, and Fauci's deposition is available online. So, he has been sued and deposed before his retirement.
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  44121. ​ @bryansapp8530  AI is training on all the negative comments we make about each other.
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  44122. Posted that, got censored! It was a few weeks ago. I guess "the science" changed again, real fast. If routine, regular testing is as good or better than vaccination, should an employer accept that in lieu of vaccination, or should it be allowed to require vaccination? And you're right, let's not be naive: NBA bosses may not want to take the myocarditis risk with their stars, even though it is very small, but they are keeping quiet about that. Isaac said his team has had no problem with his position so far.
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  44123. The FDA is being sued, by the way. They are likely immune from liability for their misleading tweets and stuff, but the Court raked their attorney over the coals.
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  44124. THANK YOU
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  44125. Best comment here. Of COURSE.
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  44126. The answer is a proof (or a refutation) that no one has found yet.
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  44127.  @BooDamnHoo  A default triggers other events that they surmise will hurt Russia.
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  44128.  @foxythedirtydog4494  Well, some (not most) are being destroyed, or seized, or sold, which was predictable. The US probably already factored that in. It's not as if US arms never reach the hands of terrorists. The cynicism of US leadership is second to none.
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  44129.  @Aditya-sn4sr  Why are you so sure it will not pass? Because there isn't a pandemic? Because there won't be a recession? Because tens of millions will not lose employer-sponsored health care in 2021? Because nothing has changed?
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  44130.  @measl  Or do you think she's always right because she's right this time? Yeesh.
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  44131.  @measl  The whole point of this video was that someone known to be wrong often is one of the few people to stand up for what is clearly right, and NOBODY has any excuse not to see it if MTG has complete clarity on the issue. It shows up the DNC for the lying, hypocritical, nefarious bunch that they are. I wonder if AOC ever says something she believes to be true. Or does she always calculate for gain? Or is that a stupid question?
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  44132.  @measl  I agree with Dore's general point, often also made by Glenn Greenwald, that DNC hypocrisy is generally worse, and doing more harm to ordinary people, than most of what their favorite targets are saying and doing. The upshot is that when someone like Trump does something very wrong, there is no one credible left to oppose him.
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  44133.  @nukacola3218  oops, forgot to block
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  44134.  @Photovintageguy  Well, journalists who exposed Steele won awards. At least one person who supported the Steele dossier (by offering "intelligence" to Steele, in the case I know of) has been charged with lying to the FBI. I stopped following the story, frankly. Of course the dossier was manufactured. There is a ton of evidence of that, to satisfy anyone. I turned the page on it.
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  44135.  @Photovintageguy  Agree 💯 with the cult comment.
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  44136. ​ @maryhalverson5713 We can't predict how this will turn out because it is not US or UK law.
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  44137.  @brandonwiebe2647  Well, the other comment seemed to imply the situation was literally hopeless. I disagree with that assessment, for now. :/
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  44138. 43:28 PERFECT . . . THIS
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  44139. Gates most certainly did give at least two million dollars to a favored Epstein cause, at Epstein's behest.
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  44140.  @melita524e  Look up the Federal Reserve Board Survey of Consumer Finances.
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  44141.  @fredbologn2344  Joined a month ago to praise actual Nazis? Does Mom know?
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  44142. It changed my life forever. I weathered every blow before that, and my family had many.
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  44143. I cringe at bringing this up, but I heard it mentioned by a reputable person who is acquainted with Putin, so . . . I hope it's all right to raise it. What is with the rumor that Putin is seriously ill?
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  44144. His many priors are evidence of justice system failure. It is not evidence of what was fair and reasonable in THIS case. Whether people on the subway were in imminent danger from him THIS time is the only question.
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  44145. They have to be. Part of the props for the dollar.
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  44146.  @user-fg8ux8zo6w  LOL
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  44147.  @user-fg8ux8zo6w  Deserved, or nearly so.
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  44148. If you're not ethnic Ukrainian, or Slavic, I fail to see why you would make any distinction between Ukraine and Afghanistan.
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  44149. Refugees from the wars "against terror" certainly had an impact on Europe.
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  44150. She didn't vote for Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton. Maybe she reacts badly to being smeared?
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  44151.  @Roma-SRyan  I always support the compassionate take! 💯
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  44152. Naomi Wolf was cool for a long time.
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  44153. Batya hits it out of the park again.
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  44154.  @SlickBlackCadillac  Yes, of course. But we were told vaccination would prevent it. One more fabrication.
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  44155.  @BrianMillsSkills  thank you
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  44156. The irony is that it's a psy-op plant by neoliberal globalists. Leftists are philosophical materialists to a fault. And I will be stunned if this stays up.
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  44157. Too bad the really good jokes get taken down. The Slavoj Zizek dirty jokes.
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  44158. Always unwise, for both parties concerned. And known to be unwise. Plus, there were plenty of reasons to consider this particular relationship very unwise. Waiting, and possibly going on occasional out-of-town dates, was the only reasonable thing to do. Cool your jets.
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  44159.  @Rugelacharugula  I don't think that, at least not for the vast majority.
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  44160. @Rugelacharugula  Oh, um, she was married her future stalker? And . . . Once divorced, it is much, much easier to do stuff, like move? This wasn't just some stalker. Certain things are easier and safer to do, and you have more options and wider freedom of action, when you are divorced from Psycho and single again.
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  44161. @Rugelacharugula  That's nonsense. When confronted with a person like this with whom you HAVE TO litigate, you do what is safest for you. You preserve life and health. What "should be true" has no bearing on it, because what should be true (he gives you a divorce and leaves you alone) is not happening. Do you make everything about ideology? How about pragmatism?
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  44162. This is too convoluted. Most of what Trump said may be reprehensible, but it is FIRST AMENDMENT protected. Pressuring state officials to dig up some votes, IF HE DID, is a different matter. That is tampering with the vote count.
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  44163.  @CG-bv4of  Hard evidence of what? That Joe Biden actively assisted Hunter to peddle his influence over policy, and lied to the voters about that? Yes there is evidence. That he got a 10% kickback for doing it? No.
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  44164. Wow, please embarrass yourself irremediably. Thanks. This is PERFECT.
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  44165.  @elmersbalm5219  He knows what they want to hear.
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  44166. That's not the question. The question is, will Hilaria leave Spotify?
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  44167. Highland Park is a far north suburb of Chicago. It is just outside of Cook County, in Lake County.
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  44168. "Low confidence" --- accurate. We have had zero cooperation from China, and hence cannot be confident. It's not low confidence because other possibilities have higher probability.
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  44169. ​@jamesdavid7099 So support a draft. Otherwise, those who teach their children to stay away are right. Either make it fair and equitable, or stay away.
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  44170. ​ @MormonOnAMission  💯
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  44171. Recognizing Max's laugh was SWEET.
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  44172. Worked pretty well to win WWII (Red Army) and prevent WWIII (Arkhipov and Petrov). That counts, too.
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  44173. WHO falls for "urgent need for money?" You have got to be kidding. As for personal info, I thought only young teens did that.
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  44174. ​ @christinewarren9660 Can you be serious? Watch some debates from before the great implosion, which began in earnest on 9/11 and accelerated after 2008 -- though its foundation was laid during Reagan. I can understand not being able to face it. Harsh reality.
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  44175. ​​ @christinewarren9660 Harris never won a primary. If Trump is so dangerous, why didn't the DNC start strategizing on the first Wednesday in November 2016 to find an outstanding candidate to beat him in a landslide? Instead, they installed Harris at the last minute -- eight years later. Think this through.
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  44176. Good people, or the right people? Better bet on the latter.
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  44177. ​ @TheBruuz If he has PTSD from that, he should speak to someone, agreed. It's excessive.
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  44178.  @leevy6753  I was burgled. It was no big deal. It's the Chicago in me.
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  44179. Won't be the last time.
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  44180. Didn't you watch? The defamation is based on something Trump just said a few weeks ago. Before they were exonerated, it wasn't defamation to proclaim they were guilty.
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  44181. @singingway  Yes, monopoly capital is antithetical to democracy. At this point, it merely takes lifting the veil of propaganda to see it.
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  44182. The Senate is NOT responsible for the threats. The Justices have Secret Service protection, and today, they very likely need more and better protection. Bringing this up as though it were the Senate's fault is demagoguery. On the other hand, I agree about the Epstein flight logs and the location of immigrant children. Missouri v. Biden is pending before the Court. The US Supreme Court Justices have lifetime appointment and massive power over our rights. They need to be beyond reproached.
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  44183. No one ever taxed their way to prosperity? Oh REALLY? What do you think paid for the great land grant universities and the GI Bill, that brought the greatest period of solid economic prosperity in US history? Why do people repeat these slogans? Taxes today don't bring prosperity tomorrow, no. Even building the nation's airports and highways didn't result in overnight prosperity. He's selling snake oil.
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  44184. ​@jeffreyblack6611 And getting in at PayPal at the start, and making his seed money there. He bought Tesla and pushed out a founder, and won a bizarre defamation case, getting a court to agree he was a founder. Who does that?
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  44185. @natehiggers42069  What makes you think slavery is illegal? Read the Thirteenth Amendment, check the prison population by comparison to any other, then get back to me. Or on second thought, don't.
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  44186. @natehiggers42069  "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, **except as** a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Emphasis supplied for the hard of reading.
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  44187.  @JonathanScarlet  Did you know what the Thirteen Amendment says, first of all? I'll bet.
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  44188.  @JonathanScarlet  well, well . . . What does that incentivize?
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  44189. @JonathanScarlet  I wasn't trying to argue anything. I was trying to make sure people knew what the Thirteen Amendment says, and to make the banal observation that activities that are incentivized are more likely to be pursued. As a general matter.
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  44190. It's obvious: if you save yourself, you will very likely never know. That's why you second-guess yourself.
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  44191. ​ @ang_ro All the very best to you. You're a hero.
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  44192. Who, if anyone, pointed it out? On The View, I mean.
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  44193. Ha. He's not even good at that. Cuck is right.
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  44194. @traviscasey792  You don't know why he couldn't touch Fauci? Or why his DOJ went after Assange? Or why he presided over the single biggest transfer of wealth upward in US history, in a society where the distribution of wealth was already untenable and unjustifiable? You liked his tweets, huh? It's good to tweet.
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  44195. Maj Toure❤❤❤❤❤
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  44196. 3:58 This is puzzling. Climate is sensitive dependent on initial conditions, so a small change could have unexpectedly large effects. But that is not the issue. The issue is pure politics. Ruining healthy food from local farms is never something you would propose if you think a serious stress is coming. It is the last thing you would do. Food comes first.
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  44197. The outbreak in Chicago was in a migrant community in overcrowded housing. The Health Department blamed us for not getting vaccinated anyway.
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  44198. By moving its mouth?
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  44199.  @zelda1966  You don't get that she's mad that the CDC lied to her? She said it out loud, finally.
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  44200.  @Sawmillbandit  She knew not to vote for Joe Biden.
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  44201. Coincidence. Today is Tesla's birthday.
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  44202. Anyone who repeatedly molests a mentally disturbed teen has put themselves and their children at risk. Anyone who cheats on their spouse has a higher risk of being killed, and of having family members killed, than someone who does not do any such thing. Simple facts.
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  44203. ​ @flowerdoyle3749 I think he means people who don't want children should abstain. I wonder what his theory on being, ahem, assaulted would require of the victim.
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  44204. ​ @cavscout7113 A ra__ st might be.
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  44205.  @nancybeveridgetaylor3256  Congratulations. You must have a true appreciation of life.
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  44206. In the countries with lockdowns, or without, or both? In countries with vaccination, or without, or both?
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  44207.  @OzzyBoganTech  Yes. I know. Where are rates higher? Lower? What are those countries doing, respectively? Are we sharing information, in a spirit of genuine curiosity and humility, in order to save lives, first and foremost?
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  44208.  @OzzyBoganTech  I just got censored for daring to mention Japan and India. Are you happy with that? I'm not.
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  44209. Do you add up all the votes for Congress, or go by district to determine who won? 😂
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  44210. 🤣 Handing him material one tweet at a time.
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  44211.  @sandman1688  I certainly saw through the vaccine mandates. I knew they were softening up the people for lifting a whole host of essential rights. And YES, any birth control that can prevent implantation could be considered an "abortion," and outlawed. Just watch.
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  44212.  @janakafka4427  I think that's his worst.
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  44213. A joke, huh?
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  44214. You're not funny.
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  44215.  @David-w9i7j  Stop the ketamine. You don't have Elon's money.
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  44216.  @Uprising771  You will get no argument from me. George Carlin's quote comes to mind.
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  44217. Biden has to bomb.
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  44218. Sympathy for Palestinian civilians --- to be clear. For all civilians.
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  44219.  @cuppycakey5013  Why did Chauvin plead guilty to federal charges? The plea agreement is posted.
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  44220. 15:00 Americans never got their carte de séjour in France. They just whipped our their passport and glowered menacingly.
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  44221. No she didn't.
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  44222. "Russiagate" was also an election fraud claim. Should anyone who endorsed it be liable for defamation? I don't think so.
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  44223. This is correct.
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  44224.  @michaelsnelling3338  Exactly. Every last one.
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  44225.  @johnrobbins917  Can you be serious? Not one man one vote but one share one vote. The majority shareholders decide.
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  44226. The controversy itself is a FACT. Why isn't it reported?
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  44227.  @Leo-mr1qz  Well, that would put it sooner than their 18th birthday, simply because most states have a lower age of consent, and because students do need to have certain information before turning 18. I am not defending any particular curriculum, simply saying why there does need to be sex education. I believe what you say about the curriculum you know, and that it is not good. No argument there.
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  44228. He is leading in the polls, and we know it means nothing in general, and certainly nothing this year.
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  44229. President Obama did call a moratorium on this research. Precisely what happened after that??
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  44230. Rich people need the government more.
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  44231. Fundraising. Last I heard, Stefanik had raked in 700k.
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  44232. I wonder why you felt you had to go there. I think I know. 🤔
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  44233.  @ALEX-sp7gy  OP must have no friends who are veterans and entered the private sector of defense contractors.
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  44234.  @ronaldmalnar6259  What specifically do you mean about Marx's biography? Quite a lot of it is inspiring.
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  44235. 1:12 Jimmy is a genius.
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  44236. The kind we once laughed at when they threatened us with it.
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  44237. Anyone who voted for that mummy deserves your comment.
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  44238. This is who he always was.
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  44239.  @nchevrea  I feel the same. The problem is that the politicians and the oligarchs have fed us so misinformation and have bullied everyone, when their tactics should have NO influence over anybody's decision about any vaccine, or any medical treatment pro or con. Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Trump, Fauci should have zero influence over whether you or I get vaccinated against COVID. But sadly, they do. Something is definitely wrong.
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  44240.  @nchevrea  Also, I am getting censored like crazy, and absolutely nothing I say is misinformation. I don't rant, so there's that. Rants are rarely censored.
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  44241.  @davidforbes2557  I have watched Dr. Campbell, as well as Dr. Moran. But I prefer actual peer-reviewed journals (BMJ, NEJM, Lancet, etc.), and ministries of health in other countries like Norway, Sweden, Switzerland. You should try it. I, like the PCF, oppose vaccine mandates. I don't suppose you could follow PCF videos, or La France Insoumise. They are not in English.
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  44242.  @davidforbes2557  There is NOT a scientific consensus that the three vaccines available in the US provide greater immunity than a natural infection.
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  44243.  @davidforbes2557  Are you suggesting that the COVID vaccines "work like measles, polio, or small pox" vaccines? What other vaccine have you ever taken that requires two shots spaced within four weeks, causes significant side effects in the second dose, and a booster is recommended 6 to 9 months after that, for anyone at real risk of dying of COVID in the first place?
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  44244.  @davidforbes2557  Several years ago National Geographic published an article on leaky vaccines. Read that. Never mind, YOU won't.
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  44245.  @davidforbes2557  Just this once we have to give up our civil liberties to keep us safe. Just this once, I mean, just one more time. To keep us safe. Listen to Kim Iversen (who is vaccinated, of course) on that.
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  44246.  @davidforbes2557  I don't believe you've ever read a scientific journal article, on any subject. These are talking points you are repeating. Now, you're being more careful to insult people less. Change in tactics, not in orientation. Is it your contention that over 45% of Americans are "anti-vaxxers," or so stupid that you would have to coerce them and deprive them of their rights to get them to take a safe, effective, and necessary vaccination?
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  44247.  @RetroGaming_07  Well, they did violate his contract and then they hinted they would fire him if he gave the story "as is" to another outlet. So . . . It was more than a little dispute, tbh.
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  44248.  @RetroGaming_07  Chris Hedges at the NYTimes, similar. He got a written reprimand, so he quit. But that style of reprimand means you are being watched and they are just looking for a reason . . . you know. Lots of paper generated and stuff. :/
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  44249. ​@larryedwards1776 The President's nominees were all just confirmed by the Senate to head the various agencies and departments. Perhaps it would make sense to hear their views on how to improve efficiency and cut costs? (Why do you think Patel and Gabbard immediately told their employees not to respond to the Ketamine Kid' email? Because they want to hide fraud?)
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  44250. I listen to Le Média, QG (Aude Lancelin), Clémentine Autain, LFI, and countless others, and this is what they found?? Angela Davis was at Fête de l'Humanité this year, and that's mostly in English. The left in France is tough. They should find some real leftists. Just kidding, that's not their job.
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  44251.  @jasonrudisill299  Nah, it's not that simple -- or maybe it's simpler. Pretty much everybody is taught to undermine everybody else, and turn every encounter into a jockeying for position in a hierarchy. This is the complete obsession with competition that you rarely escape in America. This wears people down. Mix in drugs, other substances, poor sleep, bad diet, bad family relationships, intense new media usage, and of course lots of firearms -- and most people are nuts. Well, hypersensitive anyway. It's normal given the context. If you ever lived in another culture, you's be struck by how much calmer people are, and how what someone says to you or about you just doesn't matter.
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  44252.  @joshuadaves8481  See? Why say "screw your feelings?" You don't have a better way to defend free speech? Well then screw your feelings, LOL.
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  44253.  @theboys4292  This is false in every state. In every state, you must inform the court if you cannot take a case without a breach of the rules of professional responsibility, and if the judge disagrees, you take your lumps. Yes, that is what you do. Lawyers have even gone to jail for contempt to avoid breach of professional responsibility, and appellate courts have vindicated them. I suggest you read what real lawyers have said about this. There is literally no client that a lawyer must take; there are only critical points in a proceeding when a lawyer may not withdraw from representation. We don't live in times when people act with principles in mind. You might have noticed?
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  44254.  @theboys4292  Well, I just gave a very detailed, extensive reply, citing law of COURSE, and it was somehow not transmitted. I'm not going through it again. I'm frustrated, frankly. I am licensed in California. Please. I know what I'm talking about. I shouldn't be here. That's the truth.
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  44255.  @theboys4292  If you can't detect the flaws in your own argument, which in your last line amounts to the power of the stronger, then get off this website and hit the books. Procedure is hard, and highly constitutionalized, and mistakes can derail a case in ways that cannot happen in civil suits. If the state has objected to her participation, or plans to, not only would we not know because the discussions would be held in camera, but the state would also be subject to strict confidentiality rules. It may not even be an appropriate role for them to make such an objection in a case like this. Of course they will cooperate with counsel of record concerning discovery in the meantime. They must, absent some truly extraordinary exception, because of the Fifth and Sixth Amendments.
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  44256.  @theboys4292  It's not "media mongering." Of course Cara was assigned new counsel. She has a constitutional right to counsel.
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  44257.  @theboys4292  DUH
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  44258.  @theboys4292  Harping? I wasn't even sure who you meant when you said her name. So, in your view, there are no people who have principles? It's all about persons. Your post is ad hom, not mine. You may indeed be right. I don't relate to this society in its current state.
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  44259.  @theboys4292  My computer failed to transmit my comprehensive response. With an "s." So, what is college like, now? Do you read books and stuff, or just curry favor with professors?
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  44260.  @theboys4292  Say. If a public defender in Idaho has to take a case assigned by the judge and has no choice in the matter, why did this lawyer drop Cara's case? Not just why, but how? I bet you're not a math person, either.
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  44261.  @theboys4292  You wrote: "you are incorrect. In idaho Public Defenders are assigned by the judge and have no choice in the matter." But she had a choice to drop Cara's case? It's 2023. This is what passes for thinking.
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  44262.  @theboys4292  It's who did, not me. I will excoriate your "argument." As for math person, in my social circle that's a joke. That is a different claim, by the way. She was ordered to take Cara's case prior to that, was she not? I mean, by your logic. If this goes to trial, he will almost certainly have private counsel and this will all be moot. Blocked, for bad faith and boredom. Go hit the books, son.
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  44263.  @kevinschmidt2210  yup, lol
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  44264. 18 US Code Section 2381. See what it says.
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  44265.  @gailhall6283  Not usually, no.
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  44266.  @gailhall6283  There is no reason to call anyone names. I was just answering a question.
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  44267. A belligerent question, actually.
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  44268.  @GamingKeenBeaner  LOL
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  44269.  @dpz47  Lacking, how? He put it in writing. Everyone knows that can come back to haunt a person. He put it in writing anyway.
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  44270. No they are not. David Sirota is exactly right.
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  44271. Fine. Then read the d*mned paper. Uh, you can read a research paper . . . Right?
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  44272. Read the complaint and see what the profit margins are.
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  44273. Some propose keeping hospital beds from the unvaccinated, when no one knows who is taking more precautions not to contract the illness, the vaccinated or the unvaccinated. It would be immoral anyway, but it's not even logical.
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  44274.  @garfieldmcsniffit1030  Apologize to someone who smeared and tormented the Sandy Hook elementary school victims' families (as determined by a court), because he was accidentally right about some things? Real conspiracies do exist. Allege a whole bunch, some will be close to the truth. Some will be worse than suspected (e.g., Epstein).
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  44275.  @garfieldmcsniffit1030  No money can pay those parents back. If I were them, I'd seek asylum.
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  44276.  @garfieldmcsniffit1030  They didn't die. They were murdered in a grammar school massacre. If you want to hear about what that does to a parent, listen to yesterday's 60 Minutes. Alex Jones was the one making emotional appeals, to the basest emotions there are, the drive to heap scorn on the bereaved. The parents can never be paid back. I hope some of them can move to Toronto, London, etc. I know I would. I'd forego winning more court cases, if necessary, to get the h*ll out.
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  44277.  @garfieldmcsniffit1030  YOU said Jones "paid the price," dearie. Good gawd, read your own comments.
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  44278.  @garfieldmcsniffit1030  I don't hate on him. I simply don't trust his judgment. At all. To what extent does someone have to go for you not to trust their judgment? Different rules for celebrities? And for billionaires? Isn't that what Gates thinks he's entitled to? I mistrust Gates more, he's deliberately devious. (Happy now?)
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  44279. Will Rolling Stone make more money if it tells the truth, or if it lies? . . . WELL?
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  44280. Not what she said.
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  44281. AOC is suggesting that.
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  44282. I feel SO reassured when NYTimes editors do not know the difference between "use" and "mention," or arbitrarily decide to ignore it when they feel like it. Mark Twain, James Baldwin, Robert Lowell, and a ton of other outstanding writers cannot be quoted verbatim in America. I don't believe worse censorship isn't coming.
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  44283. ​ @strategery101 Read 1984. When you kill off love between men and women, this is what you get.
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  44284. @emeraldcitydreamz  I voted in person, on election day, in 2020: LaRiva/Peltier, to protest his continued incarceration. I rarely vote in the general; probably the first time in decades for me as well.
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  44285. At least someone still wants no more war.
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  44286. We've been doing that for two solid generations. How do you think we got here??
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  44287. So . . . This plan is PERFORMATIVE?? Wow. And here I thought COVID was an emergency.
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  44288. Another myth: a general business degree from a mediocre school is more practical than an arts degree from a Top-Three school for that art form. The real rags-to-riches stories I know all involved either the arts or time in the military! I'm shocked, too.
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  44289. 💯 Perfect post
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  44290.  @andocobo  I'm so sorry. I know there are exceptions. I'm hoping COVID is less tenacious, but who knows?
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  44291. Who can vote for a Biden? I don't get it. I wouldn't vote for Joe any more than for Hunter.
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  44292. ​Sanders has been great, as has Amy Goodman.
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  44293. I knew it would be worse.
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  44294. For people with deep talents, money isn't everything. It's a necessity, and too often an annoyance. No one did anything truly important for the money.
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  44295. Anyone who approves of drone strikes on civilians and torture of whistleblowers hates America. Because those chickens will come home to roost, and you know who will bear the burden. Not a Colbert or a Power.
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  44296. ​ @alonenotalone75 Good points. You are rational. Expect pushback. :/
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  44297.  @TheAaronRodgersTao  You saw that yourself? And it meant what?
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  44298. The replies in this thread seem not to load.
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  44299. A lot of people are criticizing this show and both of its anchors lately, from both sides, but the truth is, it is a miracle something like it exists. Appreciate them more every day.
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  44300. Explain the satanic panic.
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  44301. Something wonderful just happened: NRA v. Vullo, a victory for the First Amendment. Sotomayor for a unanimous Court.
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  44302.  @scottganser7787  😂😂😂
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  44303.  @scottganser7787  I'm hot for Hunter. JUST KIDDING (ick)
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  44304.  @cuteface88  Anthony Fauci's?
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  44305. 1:25:56 Says it all. Thank you.
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  44306.  @benfranklin3638  I agree with this.
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  44307.  Jeremy Purdue  No, cigarettes are not "FDA approved."
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  44308. Of course Trump lost. He said the country is going downhill and that the rest of the world is laughing at us. You can't say that. ESPECIALLY if there's truth in it.
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  44309. Myocarditis does not just affect the child, it affects ALL their classmates and ALL their friends. And some of those kids will be shushed, and told not to talk about myocarditis. After a year without school, what next for the kids?? Criminal!
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  44310. Suppose community college and the first two years of university were tuition-free. Then the students who really do well can prove they have earned scholarships for the rest of their schooling. Plus you judge adults by adult standards, and not high school kids, who are minors. Draw some real lines between adolescence and adulthood.
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  44311. The French are creative. Their nursery schools are among the best.
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  44312. You really don't get it, do you?
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  44313.  @stephenc170  Voting for either TERRIBLE candidate is endorsing the choice they present us with. Both are that bad, this time. To keep thinking "everything will be all right" is magical thinking at this point. Because everything is not going to be all right.
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  44314.  @stephenc170  "Pick who you think is best." There isn't a "best" this time. There isn't a clearcut less bad.
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  44315.  @margaretgreaves7246  Well that's a great reason to administer end-of-life drugs and to isolate the sick when it was counterproductive. Campbell has been to Africa on community health missions throughout his career AND during this time, which involved interacting with people who were not vaccinated and may not have been already infected and recovered, or may have been asymptomatic carriers. "Was the response perfect? Nothing is." Anyone could use that excuse, about anything.
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  44316. C'mon guys!! You know it's their own fault! They need to listen to Oprah and Attract Abundance.
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  44317.  @MartyBugg  So . . . The purpose of all of that surveillance is not to make sure we know when a regime may fall, or whom a drone may kill. Its purpose is to know exactly what lie to tell us.
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  44318. ​ @jfinity_362 Parents don't have the right to do whatever they please to a child. When was any of this a "right" in the first place?
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  44319.  @sandersGG  Well, someone is desexualizing some of them in advance and permanently. I support protecting reproductive choices present and future, real and hypothetical.
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  44320. "Jesus for Trump" memes are an act of war?
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  44321. @HaleTheFreeVoice  She's gaining something by saying she never voted against Trump, but instead lodged protest votes? Really??
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  44322.  @HaleTheFreeVoice  I said Biden for president or Hillary for president. Eat your blueberries. Have a salad.
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  44323.  @HaleTheFreeVoice  Blueberries. It's not an insult. It's heartfelt.
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  44324.  @HaleTheFreeVoice  You deny facts. You're too susceptible. (Why? Weird.)
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  44325. @HaleTheFreeVoice  Sorry, forgot to block notifs.
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  44326. 21:50 Ron has it right. Thank you, Ron. Then Jimmy adds to the message perfectly.
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  44327. So . . . Did Mark deserve what happened to him? Did karma work that time, too?
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  44328. In some varieties of American English, if you pronounce the "h" in a word like "what?," or "who did?," people might think you're mad at them, or at least exasperated. Better not let the "h" be audible, lol. I've gotten into trouble with it.
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  44329. Mis Dis Mal A veritable Shakespeare hiding among us.
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  44330. Wow, Tucker did this. Huh. Say, I have a question: what network did Columbine?
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  44331.  @gcsalzer  Are those people who were planning to vote for her? No, huh?
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  44332. You missed what that was about. She was justifying why concern about this right-wing guy should exist across the entire political spectrum. The left will be next. They are criminalizing freedom of expression and freedom of assembly. You can't watch a 10 minute video without getting triggered.
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  44333.  @gordonschiff3621  True. We can't compare it with other elections. It was a statistical anomaly. The last time Dems won an election like it was 1960, and that election had legitimate doubts surrounding it BUT it's not really comparable -- the South still voted Democrat in 1960. We don't know what would have happened.
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  44334. We should ask police --- for permission in advance, if possible. If not, stand by for orders.
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  44335. 1:47:38. There should never have been college draft deferrals. Never.
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  44336. @timogul  And Biden would never pardon his cronies the way Trump does . . . In other words, you accuse others of what you yourself are doing -- politicizing health care rather than looking to the evidence.
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  44337. ​ @victormulke3048 HA
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  44338. Robby seems to take pride in promoting absurdity. He looks like a two-year-old saying "you can't make me!!" As my late mother used to say, "alas, we have to eat every day." Affluence and the attitudes that come with it played a role in climate change; if everyone lived American-style, we'd need several more planets. Europe has a great quality of life and longer lifespans, and their per capita energy use is significantly lower than ours.
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  44339. Americans value what pays. "You're just jealous." /s
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  44340.  @barefootprofessor3455  Nothing to do with the economic situation? You have GOT to be kidding. Wow are you whistling in the dark.
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  44341.  @abahub6772  I doubt that most teachers are competent to teach critical thinking, and that most students can recognize whether it is being taught. In place of philosophy, literature, great theatre and film, we have advertising. We value what pays.
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  44342.  @xhawkeye8717  Remember that George Carlin gave up on America. Literally.
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  44343.  @xhawkeye8717  Hey. I can't say no. Wish that it weren't . . .
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  44344. This.
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  44345. I know. I expect to get paid handsomely to believe them. I'm no chump.
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  44346.  @Seitbp242  Blocked from feed. I know a time waster fast now.
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  44347. This happened without government run healthcare.
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  44348. All right. Why did Biden et al. promise it, then?
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  44349. What did they actually say? Are they attacking her, or the IOC? Criticism of the IOC should be free speech everywhere. The actual words they used matter, but this video didn't tell us. It just showed her reaction. You know where lack of free speech protections goes, right? It was already used against students for Palestine -- even the peaceful ones, basically saying what Bernie Sanders and Amy Goodman are saying. That's what happens when you support criminalizing opinions.
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  44350. ​ @MP-db9sw If she was defamed or subjected to intentional infliction of emotional distress, then yes. She has a case. Musk already got away with defamation once. He is in court ALL the time. He's a dubious business man -- ask the original founders of Tesla, ask the State of California. But she has the burden of proof. You should care about free speech no matter the issue.
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  44351.  @MP-db9sw  That's not a problem. Actual defamation is not First Amendment protected. Being wrong, however, usually is. Some people think the pro-Palestinian protestors are "wrong."
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  44352. @MP-db9sw  The remedy for false speech is true speech. I recommend Nadine Strossen's books on free speech. She is only slightly more pro free speech than I am, and the book is so well written that it allowed me to pinpoint my areas of disagreement and sharpen my arguments. I can't say more, it won't post. So much for free speech as a cultural value.
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  44353.  @MP-db9sw  I can't develop it because cents or ship. SMH
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  44354. @MP-db9sw  What did I say about not being able to develop this idea? Hm? I tried several times. What is your position on that? I wasn't even able to name Supreme Court cases. As for your last line, no it isn't.
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  44355. Breaking News: GEORGE GALLOWAY WON Acknowledged just under two hours ago; NYTimes reported in the US, to much neolib consternation
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  44356. WAIT A SECOND. Why would a focus on supposed ANTIFA mayhem discredit the Black Lives Matter movement? These two are not aligned. Real reporting would delve into whether self-styled "antifa" could be provocateurs. I just read The Intercept story. It fails to match the headline. When independent media, like this show, covered property destruction in plain view that police pointedly ignored, it raised the legitimate question of whose side the property destroyer was really on. I remember Dore being one who did that.
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  44357. Dr. Campbell has shown his sources, and they are well-regarded peer-reviewed journals that he links. (Moreover, he himself got vaccinated and says so.) What are your sources??
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  44358. You don't provide your sources because your numbers are made up. 40% of people who contract COVID do not develop myocarditis.
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  44359.  @theopeterbroers819 Assuming the numbers are being carefully reported. Unfortunately, that, too, is an issue, as is the risk relative to variant. But the larger point, that we must compare the risks of vaccination with the risks of disease, is of course exactly right. Also, as alluded to here, might the Oxford-Astra Zeneca vaccine have a better safety profile for young men, but not women? These are important questions.
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  44360.  @theopeterbroers819  Why are so many people math blind? That scares me.
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  44361.  @theopeterbroers819  Here's a thought: watch Lex Fridman's interview of John Abramson. Absolutely crucial.
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  44362.  @theopeterbroers819  Lex taught at MIT, so . . . This interview is probably on a different level, but I don't know. I don't have Spotify because it uses birth dates to identify a person, just like the pharmacy and doctor's office! :) Well, never joined Facebook or Twit. Don't have a television . . . :)
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  44363. Pseudo-social Darwinism . . . "Lobsters form lobster hierarchies, and using similar neurotransmitters!" Hmm. And what about the origins of different species? Funny how those pesky little mammals that were running underfoot and hiding for their lives ended up dominant after tens of millions of years of dinosaur dominance. You can find better biological analogies than the ones Peterson has dreamed up, though I think we should tread very, very lightly on those comparisons. They don't tell us much.
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  44364. 💯
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  44365. Organized boycott is the only way.
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  44366. Has Robbie heard about the complaint against Neuralink, concerning primate torture? We found certain classes of antidepressants can provoke a suicide. Lots of young people had to die first. What makes you think this stuff is safe?
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  44367. I love Dr. Cohen.
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  44368.  @RealEstateTrey  Tampering with VAERS to report events that never happened, or exaggerating harm, is illegal. Her testimony is not illegal IF she told the truth. But it speaks volumes . . . says nothing good.
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  44369.  @JayD73  If she's dead, and cops killed her, she "must have" deserved it? Not conservative, but far right.
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  44370. Realistic.
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  44371. And prayers, for those so inclined. But no pressure.
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  44372. Nice new thumbnail graphic. Actually looks like Katy.
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  44373. British tabloids are horrible. You have to observe what they do, to understand. It doesn't seem possible that mere newspapers and television could do that. They can.
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  44374. Trump lies more than the DNC? No one can do that.
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  44375. He tries the hardest, granted.
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  44376. She didn't blame Trump. She said the opposite.
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  44377. Picture this at the Kremlin.
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  44378. Now we know why he campaigned in 2020 from his basement.
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  44379. FANTASTIC article. Thank you Jimmy and Stef. You rock.
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  44380. It's light entertainment, not an Eric Rohmer film.
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  44381.  @rawlsrules  Sure, okay.
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  44382.  @rawlsrules  Just watched My Night at Maud's again. Gave me good dreams.
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  44383. Yes, a good idea and a good start.
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  44384.  @hogwartz6360  At public expense? I guess so, actually. Look at all the times Amazon got federal tax refunds. But see: 4:25 So what Cuomo did could be (legally) worse.
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  44385.  @hogwartz6360  There was nothing about how he had the TEST done that made ONE iota of difference in his chances of surviving and recovering. What part of that still eludes you?
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  44386.  @hogwartz6360  You're throwing in a bunch of emotional nonsense, on the order of "think of the children!" You expect people to be scared off by that? Pfft. Shameful.
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  44387. It's not an audit or a corrupt judge.
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  44388. I hope they held out for seven figures. I can't abide cheap sycophants. Big money or nothing. 😂
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  44389.  @adrianelittle3759  Incredible. Thanks!! Were they vaccinated, or were they infected by an earlier, more lethal strain? EDIT: You just told me alpha. I may have brain fog!
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  44390. What is the aim of education? Who is achieving that aim, and how are they going about it? We haven't answered these questions. That's why it's a mess.
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  44391. The Supreme Court isn't a trial court except in rare cases, so that's helpful. Someone else developed the facts at trial, and the Supreme Court is the last possible appeal. It can't change the facts.
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  44392.  @Name-cz5jj  Then take a civics class.
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  44393.  @Name-cz5jj  They can't alter the record in the cases that come before them. The facts are tested at trial.
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  44394.  @Name-cz5jj  I agree it was a terrible thing to say, and probably frightened parents.
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  44395.  @Name-cz5jj  Also, I oppose vaccine mandates and passports. The European left all do. I don't get what's happening here.
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  44396.  @Name-cz5jj  Her misinformation cannot find its way into this ruling, however. Thank goodness.
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  44397. Biden is too physically and mentally fragile to go there before the pollution dissipates. President Carter could have done better a year or so ago.
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  44398. The DATA suggests that regular testing is a better precaution than a leaky vaccine. A very pro-vaccine doctor, Dr. Eric Topol, has expressed concern about our overly "vaccine-centric" approach. I learned from him that countries like Germany and Netherlands pick up free home test kits at the pharmacy and use them routinely. They test their children at least once per week, and keep them home or stay home themselves, WITHOUT DRAMA. Loved Kim's comment because it is rational. Even if she might be wrong, she is coherent. Always less wrong than the nonsense we are being subjected to. The truth is, no one knows for certain. Opt for evidence, opt for reason.
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  44399. Are you kidding me? Doesn't anybody read anymore?
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  44400. @BertoxolusThePuzzled  Musk's government contracts are military related, like his mentor's, Peter Thiel.
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  44401. @BertoxolusThePuzzled   Mars has very little atmosphere and no magnetic field -- hence, the cosmic rays end that project in a matter of weeks in a very harsh way. We evolved here, and we are not thriving here.
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  44402. @BertoxolusThePuzzled  You're the one who plans to colonize Mars with Elon, which you seemed not to realize has little atmosphere and no magnetic field -- complex life stands no chance. We evolved to live here, and are already having serious problems here.
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  44403. @BertoxolusThePuzzled  Microeconomics over the short term is often a simple summation of zero-sum games -- and, as my late mom used to say, "alas, we must eat every day." So, for example, a health insurer may eventually approve an expensive treatment, but the approval may come too late. People in the next generation may have no problem with access to that treatment, but the person whose request was not approved when he needed it will be long gone. Another example: you graduate into a recession and remain unemployed for nine months. When business improves, a new graduate whose credentials are no better than yours will fill the next opening in your field, and you could end up in a job you never wanted, and paid less than you need to live on your own. "Oh well."
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  44404. @BertoxolusThePuzzled  Musk claims to want to colonize Mars. Well, Mars has very little atmosphere and no magnetic field -- hence, the cosmic rays will end that project for any complex life form. We evolved here, and we are not exactly thriving here.
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  44405. @BertoxolusThePuzzled  Pfft. This is utter nonsense, and literally impossible. But someone Will Believe, no doubt . . . Just like they believed that Bill Gates was a Humanitarian. Blocked for wasting my time.
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  44406. @BertoxolusThePuzzled  This is literally nonsense, but some scientific and engineering illiterate Will Believe, no doubt. Blocked as time waster.
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  44407. @BertoxolusThePuzzled  It was never a "plan," it was speculation, a thought experiment.
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  44408.  @pdquestions7673  They sent him to DC to demonstrate against reproductive rights. A bunch of 14, 15, 16 year old boys, too young to consent to sex, we told to weigh in on what an adult woman legally can or cannot do concerning her most intimate decisions. I did not know anyone was this crazy. Now look how they've groomed him. He does look like Hitler Youth. Tell me, did you know there were parents like this, other than maybe as part of some obscure cult? I didn't know. I mean that.
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  44409. It shouldn't. There are plenty of statospheric incomes in the surveillance, propaganda, and financial engineering professions. P. S. Financial engineering is a major now. A big one.
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  44410.  @patrickkerner1471  They all swim in the same swamp, and in the ocean off Little St. James.
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  44411. When Continental Bank of Chicago collapsed, the REAGAN ADMINISTRATION prosecuted. In 2009, Obama did not.
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  44412. Bri muddled this. It is illegal to use deadly force in defense of mere property, everywhere. Lethal force is justified if you put any person at risk of imminent physical harm. It is never legal for defense of mere property. Social ills, etc., are irrelevant. The age of the perpetrator is irrelevant. Whether he put a person in danger of physical harm is the only question that matters. It is a bright line. She could have just stated the law. Also, this is exactly why a carjacking, or a home invasion while there are people in the house, can be met with lethal force. It doesn't matter if the assailant turns out to be unarmed, or was just looking to burgle and thought the house was empty, or if the kid was only 13. There is no question about this. It's called "self-defense" for a reason. A nation of gun owners is supposed to know that.
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  44413. @Marlon Cebo I agree with the first sentence anyway.
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  44414. Amen to that.
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  44415.  @christopherhorn1161  If you seize upon a word and don't listen for the rest of the sentence before you go on the attack, then yeah.
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  44416. It was the Red Army that inflicted nearly 80% of the casualties on the Nazis' fighting force, the Wehrmacht. The Red Army was non-Western. "Values" don't defeat Nazis. If they did, there would have been no Holocaust, nor would Sophie Scholl and her brother have been hanged.
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  44417. @Thor The Wolf  I said no such thing. You need to explore why you need to put words in other people's (stranger's) mouths. It's weird.
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  44418. Sounds like this is academic for anyone fortunate enough not to have lost a family member to COVID and was not harmed by the vaccines and did not lose their income or net worth as a result of the pandemic. Nice. The economic elites knew that would happen.
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  44419.  @gs4913  Will you lose your job if you report?
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  44420.  @dreamdiction  Irrelevant to my point.
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  44421.  @dreamdiction  Aaron Mate most certainly is independent.
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  44422. 😂😂😂
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  44423. Two lovely women, by the way. Wow!
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  44424. Yes. South Asian American woman. Any questions?
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  44425. What's hard to understand is that people are still paid to say it. They should have to improve their memes, you would think.
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  44426. The US expects to be able to freeze and seize assets and impose sanctions all over the world, AND have its dollar remain the most desirable global reserve currency. Because a country that offers financial services to the world, and depends on offering such services for health of its own GDP, need not perform those services properly. Of course not, how silly! In other 🤡 news . . .
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  44427. Biden still remembers arithmetic, when it hurts people. Other than donors.
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  44428. No she didn't.
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  44429. Megyn loves to go after other women.
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  44430. 7:52 Brie asked a question. Now, no one can ask questions, excuse me, "questions."
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  44431. Newly elected MP George Galloway says he wouldn't send Joe out for a loaf.
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  44432. I oppose cancel culture. Shapiro lost his cool so fast, and over WHAT? Pfft! No wonder he isn't a practicing lawyer, where he could fight for the rights of parents against unconstitutional overreach by schools and other political entities.
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  44433. 😂😂😂 Finally, someone accusing that mummified old goat of spreading MISINFORMATION about something . . .
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  44434. Of course there's a strategy. More Vogue photoshoots.
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  44435. It's obvious. Everyone needs to look to what developed countries with universal health care will do. Europe, Canada, etc. We have the Internet now. We can find out and stuff.
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  44436.  @RufoGman  Oh I'm sure she's that way, given that her husband isn't white. /S
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  44437.  @Calle.Hutch..  Find your art. People like you become writers and actors. It's hard, but easier than this.
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  44438. Cease-fire??
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  44439. Apparently inviting the Chinese into Europe would be acceptable. /s
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  44440. He did.
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  44441.  @NearGuttersPath  He supported Sanders until Sanders started campaigning for Biden, during the primaries. LOL You're the naive one.
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  44442. 😂😂😂😂😂 hysterical, thank you
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  44443. Like, every great contemporary philosopher in France and most of them in England, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, etc., etc., is a socialist.
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  44444. @sirtra  No. Out of MY pocket. That you all don't believe it is only to my credit --- speaks volumes.
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  44445.  @katiek.8808  It was one of the most rewarding things I have ever experienced. Only publishing my novel could top this. Too bad I'm sense oared here, but somehow you're not. Huh.
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  44446. @katiek.8808  You don't know anything about me. If your missions involved dropping depleted uranium on my family's homeland, then it was not me who was "duped."
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  44447. @sirtra  Do you lie to yourself ALL the time? Do you realize by how much you proved my point?
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  44448. @katiek.8808  I wonder how much I'm being sense oared here, lol. That would just figure . . . Yup, what I said about DU dropped on where my family is from is in visible. Of course.
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  44449. @sirtra  I agree. The ICJ should be a dead letter. /s Does someone have to do something for you to merit not being a target of genocide? I know why America did not accept Jewish refugees. No need to belabor the point.
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  44450. @katiek.8808  Yup, what I said about DU dropped on where my family is from --- gone.
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  44451.  @katiek.8808  Well, you got to call me duped. Pfft.
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  44452.  @katiek.8808  I don't think Jimmy has any influence himself, but I don't know.
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  44453. And enriched themselves. Again. Don't forget the important part. Sheesh.
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  44454.  @NaptownSubaru  Good grief, you should go abroad sometime and see a real demonstration. It's a remarkable idea that anyone should bring a gun to defend a car. It's inconceivable in, say, Paris.
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  44455. I would demand $50m a year to work for MSNBC. Yes, I have a price, but it's real high.
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  44456.  @dmelson7502  The one where some standards still existed?
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  44457. He might end up being the worst. At the moment he has stiff competition.
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  44458. I like dress up, too. A very formal, dressed-up commie is luscious.
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  44459.  @BlackTarH  Which involve getting used to bending over . . . not exactly the job we wanted when our parents asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up? Well maybe today it is . . .
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  44460. Evil identity politics is RIGHT.
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  44461.  @GodBlessYou112  That's what you got from the press. Remember how at first, Uvalde was because "a teacher left the back door open?"
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  44462. Honest, responsible governments would have closed ALL such labs to new research, maintaining only what was necessary to ensure safety.
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  44463. I'm always surprised at how out of date it is. Addresses not used in this century come up as my current address (and a P. O. Box address for me is public information, because of my profession), and long-dead relatives and close friends are listed as alive. People who don't exist are listed as living at my physical address. My long-retired doctor is "accepting online appointments" at an office closed about a year ago. I have no idea where any of this came from.
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  44464.  @scoutwithoutclout  I don't disagree. I saw all that, it was disgraceful. People have a right to remain neutral, and to demand that institutions prove they are trustworthy. When institutions attempt to coerce people into taking any medical treatment into their bodies, or worse yet, to force it on their minor children, they destroy any trust they ever built. I guess I should say IF they built any.
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  44465.  @scoutwithoutclout  For any medical treatment, the burden of proof is on the proponent. It is never your obligation to prove why you shouldn't take it. Whoever wants you to take it needs to address your concerns and persuade you, not the other way around.
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  44466.  @sagathehardworker2190  This is a fluid situation, and new information is coming to light all the time. Why would that surprise anyone?
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  44467.  @sagathehardworker2190  Thanks for this! A lot of places are rethinking vaccines for under 25 or under 30 -- and especially for minors. It was in the NYTimes today. There is no point in pretending it's all fine, just shut up and get your shot.
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  44468. Maybe it's a head fake. Will they buy stock in the production company who signs him?
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  44469. 5:25 LOLOLOL
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  44470.  @a.s.4601  Anyone whose New Favorite Word is "Karen" should be blocked until their morale improves. "Karen" is worse than "triggered."
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  44471. Multi-millionaire late night comics are now getting mileage by spreading this attitude, only 18 months into the pandemic. This is how they are making their money. What do you think about that?
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  44472. ​ @arjun2394  ❤
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  44473. Ogilvy and Mather, RAND Corporation alumnus. IOW, as sophistical as it gets.
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  44474. I also wonder why China instituted actual lockdowns, as is done in prisons. Do they know something about the virus that they are not sharing? I mean, apart from origins.
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  44475.  @kyle-ri5mz  ha ha ha you should try standup?
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  44476. She was right about accountability. Funny, when someone like Dr. Peterson calls for it, everyone nods. Listen again.
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  44477. Everyone allowed near people like Gates are VETTED like we "mere mortals" could never imagine. He should be debriefed by the FBI.
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  44478. If they want young people to start businesses, have universal health and state universities where annual tuition can be earned with a SUMMER JOB. This is what WE had, before Reaganism and the financialization of the economy. With all the Good Silicon Valley has done for us (sarcasm alert), why is higher education so much worse?
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  44479. He had a right to be there. He thought Rittenhouse was an active shooter, and had a basis for that belief.
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  44480.  @nturavrgchick6055  I'm not rooting for any "team." I don't agree with the law that Rittenhouse is being charged with violating in the first place, because it mandates charging all juveniles as adults. I'm opposed to such laws, in all circumstances. The adults who put Rittenhouse in this position have a lot to answer for, as do all the ones who are trying to make him out to be a quasi-hero. Repugnant bunch.
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  44481.  @nturavrgchick6055  There was no need for a Kyle. Get that straight. This is the last thing this KID needed. Kenosha did not need Kyle, Kyle did not need Kenosha. Small point, which may or may not apply here: a person cannot contribute to creating the need to defend themselves with deadly force, and then claim perfect self-defense when they use deadly force. I don't know that Rittenhouse did. But that IS the law.
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  44482.  @dscat5908  Why do you keep repeating this obvious nonsense that it was suddenly all up to Kyle? A kid without his junior year in high school completed, a kid with no GED, no work history to speak of, no father in the picture. You do not see this is crazy? Really? You do not see he was manipulated? "Felt a need," my arse.
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  44483.  @nturavrgchick6055  Well, we've reached the impass. It absolutely was NOT something ANY minor should have tried to rectify, in any manner. Bless him? He cannot fulfill his own responsibilities thus far -- which I don't blame him for, I don't know him -- and you endorse his vigilantism? He is the last person to be making these decisions. He could have been killed. At 17. What would you say then?
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  44484.  @khester7397  Does "may or may not apply" something you can read and figure out? What I stated was the law. I do not know if it applies to these facts.
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  44485.  @nturavrgchick6055  Kyle, a MEDIC? What license? What first aid certificate? Who trained and hired him? Wow has this society sunk low.
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  44486.  @nturavrgchick6055  And was Rittenhouse's reckless endangerment of Richard McGinnis "self-defense," too? McGinnis was there videotaping on behalf of a conservative news outlet and just missed getting shot. Typical actions of a KID, by the way, who had no business being there.
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  44487.  @nturavrgchick6055  Lifeguard? You mean the basic first aid pertaining to water rescue? There was no water in Kenosha. That does not qualify anyone to be a medic. A medic has to finish high school and actually complete a certificate course. You know. Like at community college. This is a nuthouse. Good to know.
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  44488.  @nturavrgchick6055  Where do you think I attacked you personally? How?
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  44489.  @nturavrgchick6055  I'll attack you, no problem: you are glad the people he killed are dead. That's your "Christian principles" for you. Nice going. Sheer luck no bystanders were hit.
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  44490. ​ @jeffreyblack6611  Shhh! Lol
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  44491. Dore never endorsed Trump. He opposes Trump. Or, is voting third party "really supporting Trump?" No, wait -- voting third party is being a Putin Puppet!! See, I can keep up. Bear with me.
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  44492. You need to change your second and third words, in your first sentence. Neither one applies.
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  44493. She said the opposite, actually.
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  44494. 15:50 to the end: they are paid to allow the current behemoths to remain dominant
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  44495. Silverdaughter. Jimmy is a misogynist. /s 😂
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  44496. So the Japanese don't have time now for reading, math, and piano or violin? Hmm . . .
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  44497.  @corujariousa  My comment took issue with the claimed fact. I simply don't believe Japanese kids are playing tons of video games. They get more intense supervision, particularly from their mothers, and pressure to excel in school and music than American kids do. The two are not consistent, given that everyone's day is 24 hours.
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  44498. Have you looked at the data set the ONS provides? Because I just did, and the age-adjusted numbers do not consistently bear that out at all. Some months, the unvaccinated have more all-cause mortality, and in other months -- many other -- they clearly do not. Hint: Multivariate analysis is difficult, time-consuming, and expensive.
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  44499. Great observation
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  44500.  @sirgaymeerkat1994  Sure, because she will never see the billionaires preening and posturing in front of her. She hates the people she can see.
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  44501.  @jeeither  Exactly. He's common. Charity is acceptable only where it is purely a choice.
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  44502. @Angelalynx999  It was always considered a grave responsibility to protect the future reproductive choices of every child, difficult adolescence or not. Anyone who fails to see the moral imperative of that is, well, failing. Will that always be possible? Always? Will it turn out to be paramount for absolutely every child? Probably not, but if we act as if it were, we'll do vastly less harm. You know what was right for you. To insist that something so drastic is SUDDENLY right for tens of thousands is suspect. When it comes to kids, my own feeling is to hold back, not impose, see what's going on. Activism is suspect on its face. Permanent impairment is suspect on its face --- and to what end, exactly? What's so good about it? More cults swirling around kids in the West than anywhere on earth . . . .
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  44503. @Angelalynx999  Wait? Tell your best friend what? Not, "I'm trans!" That language didn't exist. How about, "I wish I had been born a boy [girl]! No, I really mean it." No one ever said it because of "stigma." Since when, the '60s?? In every part of the country? New York, Minneapolis, Seattle, San Fran?
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  44504. @Angelalynx999  Wait a second. Kids were afraid to tell their closest friends what, exactly? No one said "I'm trans," because that language didn't exist. How about, "I wish I had been born a boy (or a girl)! I really mean it. I've always felt that way." No one said it, because of stigma? Seriously? Like, even since the '60s? And on the West Coast or New York? Be serious. EDIT: Oh. So I wasn't scents err . . . After all! 😊
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  44505. It will be dismissed, with court costs assessed against the Libertarian Party and its lawyers could be fined. No one can get access to the US Treasury by filing for conservatorship. Jeez.
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  44506. I think this is a good point. Not sure I agree, but certainly worth thinking about.
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  44507. I thought you meant the spy camera on the street. Looks like facial recognition software for eyes only wasn't working, LOL.
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  44508. ​ @motelghost-AC Or, ​you could look up Chauvin's federal plea agreement and see what Chauvin pled guilty to in federal court. It describes exactly what Chauvin himself agrees he did.
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  44509.  @random9username  HA
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  44510.  @random9username  Can't find it, huh? 🤪🤣🤣🤣
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  44511. @random9username  I'm sensing a pattern, too. You are a true American. You don't read. What's the point of being a citizen of the one global superpower, if you're going to have to read? Reading is for Gazans and French people.
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  44512.  @random9username  Va te faire foutre. (Moi, je lis le grec ancien.)
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  44513.  @random9username  I just got censored for something really funny, not bad at all. I'm therefore blocking you. 😂
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  44514. Uh oh.
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  44515.  @censoredamerican3331  Anyone have images? Words are not violence, nor are they videos.
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  44516.  @p0tatobiden250  OMG, you got that screen name already. That is much funnier than the joke, I have to say.
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  44517. @Lady Kuntsparian Oops.
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  44518. @Lady Kuntsparian Missed the subtle point of the screen name. Yeesh.
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  44519. My thoughts exactly.
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  44520. I would have wanted to live in the Soviet Union.
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  44521. ​ @charlesvandenburgh7754  We've been there for a long time in America.
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  44522. Have you ever lived in Minneapolis? It does take a while to grasp how common Scandinavian poverty is. I never saw it in Chicago, where Friedman taught. I grant you that.
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  44523. How is the media grappling? By concentrating on Depp v. Heard.
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  44524. @unboxedcharacter2869  That's what happened this time, and with the goon squad that just pled guilty to torture. No, it's not always racial. When it is, it is. When it isn't, it isn't. When we're not sure, assume it is not racial. Good enough for you?
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  44525. I've started eating carrots and red bell peppers daily.
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  44526. They pay her. She likes it.
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  44527. Nice!
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  44528. Let's have some "anecdotes" where a white police officer knelt on the neck of a white person who said he was dying and begged for his mother. Or one where a chokehold is applied to a white person who says over and over and over that he can't breathe. Or a case of the wrong house being raided in the middle of the night and a white woman paramedic being shot to death in her bed. Or of a white woman sitting at home with her nephew, and someone thinks that an apparently unlocked front door is so suspicious it justifies shooting her. Or all the times a white person holding a cell phone in broad daylight looked just like a white person holding a gun. Or where a white person was thrown so violently while in the back of a police van that his spine was nearly severed. If these have happened, of course we should know about them. This seems to be taking a long time, to come up with the DATA.
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  44529.  @paulholland4908  The McWhorter video is interesting, and he is a prominent linguist, so he has qualifications to do research, but the one on Breonna Taylor is a disgrace, it has so much misinformation. No, the police did not announce their office -- they had a no-knock warrant, Taylor herself was not under suspicion, and as a result of that case, such warrants were banned in Louisville. Were you just looking for black people who criticise the protests? Because that was all those two videos had in common. And neither one had documentation in support. I don't follow mass media. I read. I don't even have a television.
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  44530.  @paulholland4908  Actually, her case only got strong media attention after George Floyd. I had police come to my house, and it sounded like they were going to break down the door. I make no assumptions about how that happened. For all I know, someone who wants to buy my house cheap was trying to scare me and called in a false report.
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  44531.  @paulholland4908  I called the police, thinking the police at the door were criminals trying to break in. On the phone, the police told me they got a call about a well being issue. I never opened the door, and they stopped pounding as soon as they got word that I called in. It was odd that I was working on a civil rights case at the time, but I suspect they told me the truth -- they got a phony call. Simplest explanation is usually right.
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  44532. ​ @papasquat355 Looks to me like he worked for it.
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  44533. 🤣🤣🤣
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  44534.  @kevinobrien1897  Oh yeah? So . . . You've read the indictment, which was returned by the DOJ under Trump as President, and Attorney General Barr as its head? Who in this picture was partisan, presumably with a bias against Bannon, according to you? Or shall we generate an ad hoc hypothesis to counter every last fact? That sounds like fun!
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  44535.  @larrypatterson2340  Collecting money to help finance the border wall while diverting it to his own private, personal enrichment was the conduct charged.
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  44536.  @kevinobrien1897  Oh how funny. And here, I was about to agree with quite a bit of what you said. I don't give a rat's rear for what any monolingual American thinks of me. I'm not planning to stay here. It is due to repeated tragedies that I'm here at all. And as a matter of fact, both my father and my mother's only brother were veterans of the British Army (Eighth and Second, respectively).
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  44537. He's not entirely well. Isn't that evident?
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  44538. The widower of a murdered teacher died of a heart attack two days later.
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  44539. She clearly disliked him by then.
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  44540. Keep an eye on France. Most people there do NOT want this.
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  44541. His stutter is really bad lately.
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  44542. Trump is deliberately dealing in ambiguities. Of course it's more likely he meant another wholesale destruction of jobs. That's how this game is played.
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  44543. Actually, the vaccination release form that every person who goes in to be vaccinated is given tells you that after reading it, you can refuse vaccination and there will be no change in the healthcare you are entitled to. It says so on the form. Look it up. If you really are vaccinated, then you have the form, COME TO THINK OF IT.
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  44544. They have been far more vitriolic.
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  44545.  @kate9576  I will look for that for sure.
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  44546.  @hereslookingatyoukid3504  Who did you think I meant by "they?"
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  44547.  @hereslookingatyoukid3504  The OP mentioned the "Blue Checkmarks." That's known as a hint.
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  44548.  @velocecarriola9214  Love how you said that.
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  44549. Kim's commentary is the only rational one here. I am not impressed with MSM or Ritter, needless to say.
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  44550. "Hillary . . . was a woman." Stop right there.
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  44551. Actually, this was a hypothetical -- only assumed for the sake of argument.
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  44552. So no one knows that LETHAL force in defense of mere property is illegal. Great, just great. If the kid did anything to put any person in imminent danger of physical harm, then lethal force may be legal and moral. If he didn't, then it was illegal to shoot him.
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  44553.  @mochawalnuts  Depp lost in the UK.
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  44554. No one can sue Pfizer for injuries from the vaccine. That does not absolve Pfizer from all other claims, like false advertising. If you are vaccine injured and misdiagnosed or mistreated, the doctor can still be sued for malpractice.
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  44555. ​ @Crazy_Terryy Nope.
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  44556.  @ianaherne77  A severe enough malpractice injury, and you can find an outstanding lawyer to represent you on a contingency basis. A vaccine injury has to be properly diagnosed and treated, like any other illness.
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  44557. @bestdjaf7499  I didn't say you could sue the drug MAKER. I thought it was plain as day I was talking about the doctor and the hospital. The issue was the cost of a lawsuit. A malpractice lawsuit need not cost you very much to initiate. "A vaccine injury has to be properly diagnosed and treated, like any other illness." By a DOCTOR, obviously.
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  44558. @ianaherne77  You knew I meant a doctor as defendant, correct?
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  44559. @UC8VB05MsXegrrYWZ97xFf0g Malpractice is always against the practitioner. It's a disgrace how they snowed all those who had injuries and then were misdiagnosed into believing doctors couldn't be sued.
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  44560. Slippery character.
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  44561. 11:55 THIS is outrageous. The insinuation that you must be a journalist to have First Amendment freedoms is a flat-out fabrication. 55:02 Great summation. The First Amendment applies to all equally.
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  44562. Excuse me? WHO created the Holocaust? Hiroshima AND Nagasaki? The Middle Passage? (The lobotomy, and a Nobel Prize for it?) The West must not self-destruct --- not any more than any other major culture should --- but a little humility is in order at this point
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  44563. I'm Eastern European. Yeah, I'm a lot tougher than this chick.
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  44564. Too many similar things all at the same time . . . I don't think any of this is real. The neoliberal globalists know the next few years are fraught with danger. I think they want to "lose" --- they want their opponents to be the ones holding the bag when the next collapse comes.
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  44565. @CWick9000  Point to me where I said "racism." Go back and read my comments. I did mention men and women, however. Someone who does defend race-based harassment and is against those opposed to a colonial war IS being consistent. That much is true. I stand by that.
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  44566. @CWick9000  I didn't realize how sensitive you are. Too bad you fell for that "from the river to the sea" story.
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  44567. @CWick9000  No one accused YOU of being a racist. Minimizing the actions of those who appear to be, while excoriating a chant directed at a foreign government on a foreign policy issue that concerns the US, was not a proud moment. That woman is an American. The Likud and the IDF are not.
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  44568. @CWick9000  Yes, actually. You see, my family is from one of those countless places the US has bombed --- with depleted uranium, in fact.
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  44569. @CWick9000  Do check that list of Places Bombed. It's impressive.
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  44570.  @CWick9000  YOU said America. I said US.
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  44571.  @CWick9000  We didn't bomb anyone. You said you were sure I never cared about US warmaking. That was false. I've cared since high school. Now you have a new theory. I care too much, or too little, or too selectively, or bombs improve a country, or other people do bad things, too, or if bad things happen to you, you deserve it, or . . .
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  44572.  @AA-od6yl  I was truly puzzled. I thought that kids were learning nothing in school, except Gender Bender Studies, and that they were much better off home schooled and online. Now I learn that teachers teach math and reading?! Even the union members? I am having a hard time believing that. Of course you shouldn't listen to what someone actually says before slamming them. That's what those snowflake groomer teachers tell you to do. We already know what they're going to say.
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  44573. Looks like the "babies ripped from incubators" story can be recycled, and it still works. Huh.
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  44574. This isn't new.
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  44575.  @robertboyd7805  Sophie Scholl was German, too. Do you have evidence the man himself was fascist or had those leanings? I don't know, I mean it as a real question.
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  44576. Shouldn't he have had security detail, if this is the case? He obviously needs one.
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  44577. Who would want to live in one of these? We were told billionaires are smart.
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  44578.  @Buttlather  Good one!
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  44579. If everyone has a degree, well, then everyone had better complete a degree, huh?
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  44580.  @JJ-nu8qi  Has no bearing on Robby's nonsense, even if true. Fine, he bought a diploma, went to college for connections/more or better connections, and now has pretty jobs that vastly better informed and more ethical or thoughtful people cannot get. So here we are.
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  44581.  @JJ-nu8qi  Great. Give me a reading list on pre-calculus algebra, on Shakespeare's Henriad, and on contemporary Holocaust denial. Or, just name one major book, or an author who addresses each of these. Good luck to you. Too "boring?" Okay. How about two major authors addressing First Amendment rights on college campuses? Both have to be lawyers. Both can be anti-censorship.
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  44582.  @JJ-nu8qi  By the way, you misread my post. I said that thanks to going to college, Robbie can get jobs that better informed people cannot. Maybe you are not as good at research as you think?
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  44583.  @JJ-nu8qi  I studied ancient philosophy in Paris. No. I could not do that with a library card and internet. It was tuition-free, under $750 a year in administrative fees, probably well under. It wasn't an American student abroad silliness. I thought you said you could find out all that stuff with those tools and without college. That was the point. So . . . Prove it. Take the last question, then. Two major books have come out relatively recently.
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  44584.  @bozejoetheclown3554  No empirical evidence of that, but I would love for it to turn out that way. :/
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  44585. Do we need to say it's wrong, because we don't know, we have to say it? Because, you know, maybe. Take a poll or something. There's money on the table. Who knows? Morals are just opinions . . . ? Is that where we are now? I'd arrest these people.
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  44586.  @pradeepspace  Lying to law enforcement is a crime. Silence is not.
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  44587.  @pradeepspace  Silence is not a crime. This has nothing to do with emotion, of any sort. Yeah, now that the First and Fourth Amendments have been eviscerated, let's start working on destroying the Fifth. Let's all do it for Gabby. Because her boyfriend's parents are skunks. Sounds like a plan.
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  44588. Absent empirical data and multivariate analysis, the honest answer is we don't know.
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  44589. You will let it happen again. And again. We've already been here.
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  44590.  @xaspirate8060  And no one seems to be impoverished by it.
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  44591. @monkeeseemonkeedoo3745  "We all lose?" You have not been paying attention -- not that I can blame you.
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  44592. @monkeeseemonkeedoo3745  Not at all, and it isn't intended as personal. But this is hardly new. A tiny minority is prospering beyond what any previous human generation has ever seen. They and their lackeys are very happy with how things are going for them. Glenn Greenwald's With Liberty and Justice for Some is already gravely outdated. It is clear who decided to take us down this road. You sound young -- and very naive. Next, try The Occasional Human Sacrifice, Carl Elliott.
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  44593. @monkeeseemonkeedoo3745  I think you're right. It is much bigger than financial wealth. The fact that those with the most power pursue only that, and create systems that recognize only that, and reward financial wealth with more financial wealth, is at the heart of the problem. Whatever you may think is a way out, I'm all ears.
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  44594.  @fastinbulvis2223  Great point. But see what I was replying to.
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  44595. 11:36 I LOVED this. Truth, in 40 seconds.
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  44596. No, the Court ruled that Harvard is NOT allowed to discriminate on the basis of race.
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  44597. He nominated Justices who everyone knew would overturn Roe v. Wade.
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  44598.  @utah_koidragon7117  The First Amendment places the burden of proof on government to justify censorship, and it's a high burden. I thought we had all gotten the Free Speech religion since the DNC and the various alphabet agencies started using social media to censor speech on their behalf. I know I have.
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  44599. When I hear this story, I think of all the people who just want a regular job that pays the bills and can't seem to make it happen. I don't think Hanssen is so different from any politician or major CEO, not to mention billionaire. How did Epstein do what he did, and for so long?
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  44600. Nancy pointed at Donald rudely. And wants a 9/11 commission. Thanks for health care, Nancy. Are you as dedicated to $2000 "stimulus?"
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  44601. What happens when more conspiracy theorists gain political power?
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  44602.  @USSAnimeNCC-  Do we have to politicize everything? We all bleed red.
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  44603. @Patvk8  While in the US, a DO will be hired to run an emergency room, to save money. A DO without extensive experience is not competent to do so. The one in my neighborhood is too young to have that. Astounding.
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  44604. No one will be left.
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  44605.  @mcomeadow  So the studies and documents he reviews and links to in his videos are . . . Fake?
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  44606. ​ @konstantinkrastev4478 Correct, but whose fault is that??
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  44607.  @michaelarmijo4112  Well, every country with a better quality of life, and plenty that are quite poor, provide universal health care. You're fine with the fact that our Medicare system is universal but discriminates based on age?
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  44608.  @michaelarmijo4112  I sympathize with you. I don't want to pay for any Americans, either, except those with roots in Asia, Africa, or the Americas, or at least Eastern Europe. The rest are one big hate fest.
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  44609.  @michaelarmijo4112  Whoosh
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  44610.  @michaelarmijo4112  Not at all. I'm emigrating by 2023, with 2025 as my absolute deadline. This joint is too small for the both of us. There is nothing I want from the likes of anyone like you. I'm done.
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  44611.  @michaelarmijo4112  No surprise we have the most COVID dead, and 25% of the total dead over the last 14 days across the entire planet, with under 5% of the world's population. Anything better would be a surprise. It just doesn't stop.
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  44612.  @michaelarmijo4112  My whole family is abroad. I have no ties with you, except tragic accident of birth.
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  44613.  @michaelarmijo4112  You think I lived here my whole life? Or speak English at home? Why would I?
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  44614. Leave it to Kim to ask a real question!
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  44615. Don't mention Greenwald's seminal books on civil liberties and the coddling of the ultrarich. Don't mention that he published all of the materials concerning Hunter Biden, who HAS had an international role because of who he is. It's not like he only paints. Did you mention Greenwald's role in freeing Lula? Did you read any of this? With Liberty and Justice For Some? Ring a bell?
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  44616. Her analysis was correct.
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  44617. ​ @michaelbarrett3270 It's the only reason the Senate stayed Democrat and the Republicans barely won the House. The ten-year-old pregnant child who had to leave Ohio to get immediate care, and whose plight was denounced by the radical right as fake news, sent a SHUDDER through everyone. And her brave doctor got death threats. Americans do not want to live like that. That's because they are NORMAL.
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  44618. Yeah, one more satirical newspaper bites the dust.
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  44619. Good news.
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  44620. Constitutional rights are something that cannot be taken away from you, by ANYONE in the government, including the states, without amending the Constitution. You have the right to decline to exercise them. You have the right to try to persuade others not to exercise them. The right to use birth control, including forms of birth control that may prevent a zygote from being implanted, falls under that very same analysis. A lot of religions oppose artificial birth control. Some even frown on rhythm. They have a right to advocate for their view, but not to criminalize those who disagree. Well, now the state gets to run our lives in one more way, and "state" means the richer lobby.
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  44621. That is a GREAT essay, a blueprint of what you should not do if you want to get ahead in 21st century America.
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  44622. Speech EXCLUDED from First Amendment protection, like true threats, criminal conspiracies, and defamation PROVEN IN COURT, is the only speech that any website open to public comment should remove. All other speech is FREE SPEECH.
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  44623. Do not post pictures of your child online. Do not. Do not. Do not.
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  44624. The Bidens, father and son, are such consummate creeps.
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  44625. So the shootings at school fall into more than one category.
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  44626.  @Apathesis0  Well, if you didn't hear about it, it didn't happen.
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  44627. You know what real inclusion is? Teach cursive. That's how Latin America and Quebec write. (Or, just say "Latinx" instead. Easier.) This is not about cursive. It's one example of how BOGUS they are.
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  44628. So, if he had declared his income like everyone else, he would be in the clear. All he needed to do was to get an attorney and tell them how he earned the bitcoins by discovering the flaw in their encryption, then follow their advice. Can someone explain why he failed to do that? Do you grasp what a billion dollars means?
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  44629. People who say "frugal" have more money problems than those who say "resourceful." But that's only a generalization. It is not always true.
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  44630. "If you listen to the press, you'd think the Supreme Court deals only with civil rights and civil liberties." -- One more time MSM has falsified the reality of what is going on. "The people who advance in the system are corporatists." -- YUP
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  44631. 5:50 😅😅😅
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  44632. Many of those degrees are the preferred route to the MBA, MPA, MSW, MLS, and of course the JD. Some also can lead to medical school. LOL
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  44633. THIS!!
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  44634. 35:54 So the Greeks were just children. We are mature. 😂😂😂😂😂 but sad
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  44635. @Nick Arjomand Per capita income and per capital wealth are what matter.
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  44636.  @supercommie  The US keeps inventing "Hitler" stawmen to knock down, when only a Red Army has been able to defeat such figures. Right now, there is no Red Army anywhere. I only hope there won't be a new Hitler, and fear there will.
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  44637. Why do the people who do the worst things make the most money
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  44638. The billionaires pledge their stocks and take out loans to live large and avoid taxes. The bankers will not let them do that for the purpose of solving world hunger. Notice Musk said he would sell the stock to raise the money. He would have to. But that would infuriate his major investors.
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  44639.  @YuliaPulia  My understanding is that cutting rates (in a currency that is not a major global reserve currency) makes it less attractive short-term, hence more units of that currency will be needed to buy one US dollar (Euro, Pound sterling, etc.) If that is not the correct logic, please let me know. I want to get this right. The US is raising rates now to stem the weakening of the dollar (aka inflation).
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  44640. But what does it matter that Carlson is a slime? If you're not in the US, you may not know that we once had a real Fourth Amendment and a real First Amendment, and due process. It's no longer evident. Even a Ted Bundy was supposed to have civil rights.
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  44641. Forcing a 10-year-old to flee her home state for an abortion will cause people to think. Yup, it will.
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  44642. ​@MicheleKalina704 Do you know who is actually creating pollution and spoiling the commons? Competitors will lie to you in their advertising. How will you know? Every risk is being offloaded: you can't rely on public school, you need private or homeschool; you can't rely on a pension, you have to invest your own money; you can't have access to health care without a "concierge" prepayment scheme and huge expenditures for medication. The same thing happened with the vaccines: the companies who made them cannot be sued, but the individual was mandated to take it at his own risk.
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  44643. Germany needs raw materials at certain price points to retain its industrial base. China will take over that segment of Germany's economy.
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  44644. ​ @potatopowerup  How Gates tried to shove Paul Allen out of Microsoft as soon as he found out about Allen's cancer tells you EVERYTHING.
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  44645. Are you joking? The minimum in my state is two years, the usual sentence is seven years.
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  44646. ​ @rhys5567 When I say a REALLY long time, it goes _________. Odd.
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  44647. ​ @Liberty-fi7mg Liar
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  44648. I don't see that. Are you sure the mote isn't in your eye?
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  44649. @otterpossum9128  Harvard Crimson: "Search committee members declined to identify other candidates they considered Thursday. Harvard spokesperson Jason A. Newton declined to comment on the committee’s process." My understanding is that it is a secretive process, and that Penny Pritzker exerts major influence.
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  44650.  @otterpossum9128  Nothing to do with social media, everything to do with billionaires.
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  44651. @otterpossum9128  Leslie Wexner was the major donor to Kennedy School at Harvard, until he pulled out over Palestine. His mentoring of Jeffrey Epstein had no effect. Harvard continued to take his money.
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  44652. @otterpossum9128  Which one? Concerning Wexner? His name was at the very top of the list of donors to the Kennedy School, above those who gave tens of millions. Next to Wexner's name, no number was given. He withdrew support when the student organizations blaming Israel for October 7th were not subject to discipline by Harvard.
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  44653.  @squid1712  Oh dear. It depends on who.
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  44654. Oops. Wrong video.
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  44655. And the neurologist who designed the lobotomy got a Nobel Prize for it.
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  44656.  @jamesharmon3827  no
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  44657. ​ @deathgrinderb3284 How would you know? You can't even follow her arguments.
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  44658.  @deathgrinderb3284  Thanks for telling me. I couldn't figure out what the anti-Brie delirium was about. I gave you more credit. I thought you at least sympathized with Israel and Jewish students, which is a perfectly respectable (and understandable) position. But no.
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  44659.  @brianbattaglia2187  No, like the last two US presidents. Does a wh male with NW Euro ancestry have to know anything? Or be cognitively normal?
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  44660. Well then Ana must be right. /s
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  44661. What's indefensible here? Ana's smear of Aaron Mate, followed by this desperate attempt to deflect attention from what she did, by playing the sexual harassment card, over a crass joke for which she did deserve, AND received, a prompt written apology? Now Ana needs to apologize. Actually, I wish Aaron would sue.
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  44662. I hope that doesn't mean she'll be president.
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  44663. That many people watch porn at WORK? Well that explains a lot. 😂😂😂
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  44664. ​ @jh5174 Wrong. "Varify" is an entirely different word. "Verify" has the same Latin root as "vérité" and "verdad," and it pertains to truth. Varify pertains to variety.
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  44665. ​ @michaeld7945 OP insists it's correct. Smh.
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  44666. @jh5174  Not at all. I just have a thing for Latin-based languages. Honest. (I also support cursive, as Spanish and French speakers use it, among other reasons.)
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  44667. The Supreme Court just struck down Chevron deference to the administrative agency monster, and struck down the OSHA rules as well. So, we have the legal foundation to address this problem in place. Musk has NO idea what he's doing. If he guesses right sometimes, it's blind luck. Marianne is right. Why don't you calmly listen to the end, instead of throwing out clichés as bad as the ones CNN was feeding us??
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  44668. @CarrieCain-vm9ct  The Supreme Court already struck down Chevron deference to the administrative agency monster, and struck down certain OSHA rules as well -- both were great decisions. So, we have the legal foundation to address this problem in place. Kennedy and Gabbard were both qualified. Musk's crew is not.
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  44669.  @hrs2044  Always. I mentioned a real SCt. case, instead of jeering at someone. Naturally, _____ .
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  44670. Who denies that the proteins are toxins, irrespective of source?
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  44671. A law that was struck down as unconstitutional under Florida's constitution should not be enforced. The principles of lenity mean that when in doubt, do not criminalize conduct. That's what freedom used to be.
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  44672. Jeff thanks you. Bezos, not Epstein. "Mr. Epstein? He dead."
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  44673. Palmieri's tweet could almost be read as the opposite of what she meant -- aa a condemnation of the horrifying intentions of the Democratic majority. Take out the words "Trump's destructive;" leave it as "police behavior . . . "
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  44674. Robbie is a typical affluent young white male who has read exactly nothing.
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  44675. Excellent
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  44676. The private entities are the ones bribing the agencies and politicians.
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  44677. @adriansolo4  I can give you plenty of examples of things they accomplished, but you could find all of that if you were interested. Just riddle me this: since their collapse is inevitable, why harm innocent victims with sanctions? Socialism always fails, and in the meantime the apparatchiks always get fed while our natural allies go hungry, because of our sanctions, which are in principle unnecessary. Or isn't that the drill?.
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  44678. It has zero to do with censorship but with money. She said Musk himself has alienated advertisers, and if he really supports free speech, he may have to eat the financial loss that comes with it. So a billionaire has a platform at his full disposal, and STILL needs the courts to help him, because money. Turning to Daddy Government so quickly? LOL Why not start with opposing unfair speech with more speech, not threats of lawsuits? Defamation suits are always anti-free speech. See R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul.
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  44679.  @boldtaa  They look for the coin they dropped across the street under the street light on this side. Better light.
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  44680. They enjoy punishing the poor. It's the main thing they like about being rich.
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  44681. I can't believe anyone fails to see through this garbage.
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  44682. @jrzygurl  I was referring to your post, not to Kennedy. Even his most vociferous critics are realizing they can't keep pretending an eminent toxic tort/class action lawyer isn't very intelligent --- and that an elderly man with cognitive issues is fit to be president.
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  44683.  @jgalt308  I had a case where the corporate veil was successfully pierced.
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  44684. @jgalt308  The LEGITIMATE business purposes of a corporation do not extend to criminal acts, of course, or to civil fraud and such --- and no one suggested as much. Any more things you care to get wrong in one post? Heaven forbid you compose another.
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  44685. @jgalt308  Is this even worse than the insistence of a dozen Americans that "zero isn't a real number," said in response to a math video, not meant in some metaphorical or philosophical sense? Tough one. Nah, that was worse. But it's close. This one may matter more, that's for sure.
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  44686. 16:42 WHO WAS RUDE?
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  44687. WHO swears to uphold the Constitution?
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  44688. The two parties most like American parties LOST. Wheeeee!!!!!
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  44689. No, that's not where he's at. He may vote Stein.
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  44690.  @Mat-fw1ky  My point is clear and you know it. I don't agree with anyone doxxing anyone, actually --- but anyone who uses social media as a journalist (which Libs of Tik Tok did), and who denounces others as responsible for the worst crimes, has to provide SOME way to be contacted. Glenn himself is remarkably accessible, at serious danger to himself in fact.
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  44691.  @Mat-fw1ky  Some "random nobody" can destroy your life. A random nobody made it untenable for me to keep my second job --- in 2017. Lucky I didn't need it. Don't pretend you don't know.
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  44692.  @Mat-fw1ky  So . . . Today we just take sides. Got it.
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  44693.  @Mat-fw1ky  Which journalist, Taylor Lorenz? She's not a journalist. She's a classic gossip monger. I don't know what "toxic" is supposed to mean. Collecting those Tik Toks was great, in my opinion anyway. Calling for anyone to be arrested for First Amendment-protected speech/expression is anti-freedom, and probably hypocritical. I oppose it. I mean, I wouldn't, in turn, try to stop her, but you better believe I'll point it out. If this is too tough, what does that tell you? Some of those Tik Toks might be parodies anyway.
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  44694.  @Mat-fw1ky  I think I could talk to Libs of Tik Tok. Not sure. With Lorenz, I'd be afraid to try. Or, I'd demand to be paid for it.🤣
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  44695. He's in court constantly.
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  44696. Americans are scary, for sure. It's not the fault of the media. Americans have the media they want.
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  44697. 💯
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  44698.  @whatevergoesforme5129  I know that unions have terrible side effects. I explained why they exist.
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  44699. ​ @johank1061 Yes. Or, they can enthusiastically join in and make bank.
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  44700. He was stranded there.
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  44701. Not this one.
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  44702. Complicit? They love it.
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  44703. I was watching Aude Lancelin and this is what I gathered: Le Pen is collaborating with Macron to prevent Lucie Castets from becoming Prime Minister, because SHE would propose to lower the retirement age back to what it was, exactly as the vast majority of Le Pen's own supporters want, and the vast majority of French people want, regardless of party. But then, why does Le Pen resist this agenda? Because it would expose her party: they don't want a vote. They don't want to roll back the retirement age. They don't want to be forced to go on the record. They are for Macron's cuts to retirement, but don't want to be forced to vote with Macron, for all to see They want to support it quietly. IOW, played. Again. That's what's really happening. Could it work? Sure. It's what the WEF wants, and they're rich.
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  44704. Who will be running the show now that the Biden Harris travesty is finally coming to an end?
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  44705.  @Nackdad  We know why. Try explaining it and see where your p o s t ends up.
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  44706. The orthodox pronouns left is a religious cult.
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  44707. That people who write so well cannot speak is perplexing.
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  44708. Of course lying simpliciter is protected speech. Lying to defraud people, or to foment a riot, or to defame someone, or in furtherance of criminal conspiracy, etc., is not protected speech.
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  44709.  @karenfitzpatrick6256  Not unfortunate at all. Read Nadine Strossen on hate speech.
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  44710.  @karenfitzpatrick6256  NO, the founders of the country were not stupid. They knew people lied. They fought a war for independence and had to deal with turncoats and spies.
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  44711. Commit to two per year, you wus. /s
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  44712.  @maryhalverson5713  You're right. It hasn't so far.
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  44713.  @greatwhite3676  killing grandma!!!
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  44714.  @maryhalverson5713  There you go, being biased against people with serious, deep-set sexual issues. /s
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  44715. Rambling. And clips out of context.
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  44716. Here's an idea: INFORM people that singing has been shown to increase spread of respiratory viruses (in general). Then let them make a decision. Wow, this could happen. EDIT: Great, this occurred to an actual doctor. Jimmy is right about agendas.
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  44717. Have we had a free and fair election, without deep state dirty tricks, in this century?
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  44718. "Children???" No. There are no LGBT children. Sorry. Be accurate. Older teens, possibly.
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  44719. @VadoVoodoo  How do you define "child?" Age 10? 11? 15? Tell me whether a child of 8 can be LGBT. Now, double their age. Same question. Possibly different answer, huh? Note that I didn't label them "hetero," either. They are children.
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  44720. @VadoVoodoo  Well? Are there "hetero" children, too? Not teens, children. Please. The obvious answer is no.
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  44721. How can Democrats demonstrate good will when they supported the 2014 coup in Ukraine and feeding that war?
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  44722. And the West acts like indebtedness -- to them -- is a great privilege. "Slavery is Freedom!"
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  44723. 14:30. He looks like that kid from The Addams Family all grown up.
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  44724. The New York Times maps of vaccination rates and COVID rates show that at present, the states with higher vaccination rates also have higher COVID rates.
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  44725.  @tracybarhite1764  Averages are misleading if a curve is skewed far from a normal distribution (where mean, mode, and median are equal). In other words, if teachers are disproportionately in their early twenties and late fifties/early sixties, then the average is meaningless. Back to math class for you.
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  44726. I hate all the fear mongering, and it has not stopped. But this mania to flagellate teachers is backfiring. The teachers I know hated online school. One day we hear about how they aren't teaching students anything, they are a bunch of LGBTQ activist groomers, next I hear that the experiment in home schooling and online learning failed a generation. "But who needs college? You can learn online." And then no one will even listen to Bri before slamming her. Someone is being irrational here. No wonder there is a teacher shortage.
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  44727. Then heaven help us. Hillary certainly isn't.
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  44728.  @alzer6467  If they are fully integrated into their military, yes. There have been credible reports that they've used human shields repeatedly, committed atrocities, and even threatened Zelensky if he signs peace terms they don't endorse. They have been prosecuting the civil war in the Donbass, which suddenly does not count. Oh to be an unworthy victim in American eyes, what a sad fate.
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  44729.  @alzer6467  Can you be serious? You just made a case against all of these shipments of arms. Is my post about reports of their outsized control in Ukraine and threats against Zelensky being disappeared?
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  44730. This is how people should make health care decisions? Good to know. Thank god I already decided to emigrate several years ago.
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  44731.  @SnowsStorm1  You looked up the case? Then how is it that you do not know your OP is simply false?
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  44732.  @SnowsStorm1  How else would you ascertain the nature of the claim and the law it is based on? That's done by reading the complaint. It's far easier to obtain the other side's views if you start at the beginning and find the case name and number.
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  44733. @Unfamous_Buddha  Don't listen to this guy. Read the complaint, which has a jurisdictional statement. That's how the plaintiff asserts he's in the right court. Then it has to state the precise law it is based on, and why it applies to the facts. If the First Amendment had no application to the case, then it would be dismissed outright. There is no guessing involved.
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  44734.  @SnowsStorm1  Why are you pretending to know something about the law? 🤣
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  44735. ​ @SnowsStorm1  Columbia has adopted the First Amendment jurisprudence into its own bylaws. Hence, to sue on free speech grounds, you bring a contract action. I argued this elsewhere, forgot to say that here. Of course, except in California, where all universities are bound by law to afford First Amendment protection to students and faculty, a private university is subject to the First Amendment only by express adoption of the full panoply of free speech rights. Which it has done.
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  44736. @SnowsStorm1  Yes it is. First, because they themselves adopted it. I've said that so many times, I no longer remember where --- OR where it was taken down by our free speech friends. In fact, I am almost certain did say it here, too. That doesn't mean you got to see it! Second, if they summon the NYC police, rather than their own, then the arm of the state is involved. The police cannot infringe on fundamental rights just because they were called in. Third, do see what the NYCLU complaint on behalf of JVP says. Read it for yourself. If a university adopts First Amendment jurisprudence by contract (which all of these universities testifying before Congress did), then it IS bound by the First Amendment. It doesn't disappear when convenient.
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  44737. @SnowsStorm1  No, other posters said that if a university takes government money, it could be a First Amendment issue. This could come under Title VI or Title IX, possibly, but not having researched it, I didn't comment. It's a good question. I'll read up on that now.
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  44738.  @SnowsStorm1  I wonder how much you will see.
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  44739.  @SnowsStorm1  I was looking at originaljazz. Who is daniel?
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  44740.  @SnowsStorm1  As for Title VI, if they allow pro-Israeli demonstrations, student organizations, etc., they can't treat Palestinian demonstrations differently. So why didn't you acknowledge the point about a contractual obligation to respect the same free speech rights as on public university campuses? That would have been simple.
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  44741.  @SnowsStorm1  Maybe there's a lot that's missing here. Scents or ship? Irony.
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  44742.  @SnowsStorm1  If a university adopts First Amendment jurisprudence by contract (which all of the universities testifying before Congress do), then it IS bound by the First Amendment. There is nothing uncertain about it. As for public sector law enforcement, they are bound by the limits set forth by the Constitution, no matter whether they are on public or private property. This is a big fight among the billionaires. That's what this is.
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  44743.  @SnowsStorm1  What's the contract about?
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  44744.  @SnowsStorm1  🤣🤣🤣 You're doing me a favor.
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  44745.  @Sneakyboson  What percentage of the guns do they have?
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  44746. Damn straight.
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  44747. Well, the differences among home-schooled youth are at least as great if not greater than the differences among graduates of the very finest schools compared with graduates of the very worst. If these objections to homeschooling don't apply to you, then they don't apply to you. As a comparison, the exclusive private high school Bill Gates attended provided at least a year of college-level mathematics, and two solid years of college literature. Some kids graduate from high school without having read a novel. Remedial math is now a college class, and only the most basic courses don't provide college credit. This was unheard-of in 1960, and only became common after 1990.
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  44748. @utah_koidragon7117  To start by answering your question: No, I don't think that the public schools in general are doing a good job of socializing children and youth, or of educating them, or of pretty much anything else they are supposed to be doing. I would never suggest that a lot of kids don't thrive in home schooling, whereas they would suffer or even be endangered if they were sent to public school. But I stand by what I said. The differences you will see between home-schooled children will be even greater than the differences among children who attend conventional schools. The disparities between the best and worst will be even greater. That has been borne out. I'm not saying Tara Westover is typical. Of course she's not. But don't think she's a rarity, either. She's not that, either. How did we come to this? Just how much does a person have to do on their own --- and not only without support, but with all sorts of institutional forces undermining them?
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  44749.  @utah_koidragon7117  I was scents . . . Need I say more?
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  44750. This is how we live now.
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  44751. That's what makes it possible.
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  44752.  @unaffiliated0437  Agreed.
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  44753.  @eyeballengineering7007  True.
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  44754. Are you all crazy now?
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  44755.  @heatherweeks7944  Emigration.
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  44756.  @heatherweeks7944  I already unsubbed from Dore in part because of this.
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  44757.  @heatherweeks7944  Jimmy Dore? IOW, it is hopeless.
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  44758.  @heatherweeks7944  I voted LaRiva-Peltier, on election day and in person.
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  44759. Great. Compare it to the lifelong welfare provided for Hunter Biden. But I think the numbers they just quoted for Ukraine vs Maui are quite impressive. MSM agrees with you. This show is the principled dissent.
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  44760. I thought Bernie's statement was fine. Contrast Dean Phillips'.
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  44761. Will people finally admit dollars are not rigid yardsticks? The marginal value of a dollar for someone who makes $750k per year is small; for a billionaire, it is infinitesimal. This is why a rise in rents and food prices is a minor issue for some, and homelessness for others. Joe Biden's loyalty is to the former. They pay him, they pay Hunter.
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  44762. No!! I'm triggered. May I have a rose-colored velvetine couch upon which one may swoon?
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  44763. Have the school shooter drills planted a seed of fear? Serious question.
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  44764.  @jongya  EXACTLY. Anything less is elitist. "Cool Smart Guy knows things the rest of us are too lame to grasp." Er, no.
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  44765.  @Skooms89  Like the ones who presided over vaccine-derived polio outbreaks?
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  44766.  @danbeard1168  You're right that that is an important factor. I personally don't consider it decisive, though. Not these days. :/
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  44767. @danbeard1168  Also, I'm not saying he is lying. I'm saying he seems to be acting in a way that casts doubt on his credibility, for some reason.
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  44768. @ckckck12  "Work on myself?" I have a doctoral-level degree, read 50 to 100 pages daily, function in three languages almost daily, and was a math major. 🤣🤣🤣
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  44769. @ckckck12  Why don't you read up on how Amazon is putting the squeeze on entrepreneurs right now? I have a client in a different matter who also has this problem, and cannot afford the legal fees needed to fight back -- and this person already has income from a modest rental property and other modest investments. Very successful for their age. It's evident you've never tried to start a business with a consumer product line.
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  44770. @ckckck12  🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I wasn't born after in-state college tuition was something students earned with a summer job, and young couples could afford a house and a baby. I was still a kid, but I remember.
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  44771.  @ckckck12  Blocked for wasting my time. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  44772. Welcome to 2020.
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  44773.  @Res1wolf  Who is insulting whom?
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  44774.  @Res1wolf  Exactly why it is an issue. So "fait accompli" is your argument? Okay. How much risk must be imposed on a child to help reduce the risk for adults?
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  44775.  @Res1wolf  For adults, or for minors? As a matter of individual persuasion, or coercion? What is the rate of serious complications from the various COVID vaccines, including those available in other countries? How do they compare with other, well-known vaccines that we've been using for generations? For example, I know people who choose not to take flu shots (I frankly don't understand, but anyway). How does the safety profile of the COVID vaccines compare with that of flu vaccines? BUT most important, what is the risk-benefit analysis for minor children? I stopped caring what other people in the US do a LONG time ago.
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  44776.  @Res1wolf  Precisely what the myocarditis data shows is WRONG. Look, advocate for adults, your prerogative. Leave those kids alone.
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  44777.  @Res1wolf  Wait. Are you a false flag? You're actually anti-vaccine, right? I mean why else would anyone repeat such obvious falsehoods . . .
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  44778. LOL, as stupid as it gets.
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  44779. There was no good way for this election to end. If there is no violence, I'll be SO happy at this point.
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  44780. Katy made the best point: they should not generalize about this politician, they should invite someone who is truly expert on contemporary Italy, its culture and politics, to discuss this development in a measured, factual way. That would be . . . . different.
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  44781. ​ @dirtbagleftist5412 The neurotypical ticket, which is saying a lot. That puts us above the sub-sub-basement.
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  44782. Accused of "bringing discredit?" But did they make money?
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  44783.  @starlightt4094  Yes, which is literally and immediately dangerous to life.
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  44784. I am both. What won't they do? What can't happen?
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  44785. @jamesgarvey8402  "Lustful on hating . . . " -- the same rhetoric that was used against the Bill Gates sceptics, and none of us, no matter how leery of Gates, could have predicted what was coming. This one has openly cozied up to every strongman who could threaten his billions, from Israel to China, and clearly enjoys creating chaos.
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  44786. Especially its citizens.
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  44787. Dr. Grande, I agree with your legal analysis except for the point about the suit being frivolous. It is not likely to succeed, and that is probably a good thing (I'm not a fan of diluting the Bill of Rights because adults make poor choices), but it is not frivolous. It does stand a chance. I think it's a closer case than it appears to be.
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  44788. It is a bright-line law. You cannot use deadly force to defend mere unoccupied property, no matter how expensive that property is. If the kids did not put any person at risk of physical harm, then it was illegal to use deadly force. A nation of gun owners, and this is news? It's called SELF-defense for a reason.
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  44789. Oh brother.
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  44790. No teacher, or warehouse worker, or farmer, will EVER make what propagandists do. Nevermind that you can't eat propaganda.
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  44791. That's illegal. All would lose their law licenses, security clearances, and possibly end up in prison themselves for obstruction of justice.
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  44792. Dr. Oz? Now what will Oprah do? 😂
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  44793. The Wall Street definition of truth prevails: if you are FIRST to jump to the right conclusion, you will get very rich. Everything is market logic, or follows the market logic model. "Due process" is too slow.
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  44794.  @ryanrafanan1453  So true!!
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  44795. That $75,000 study is SO bogus. Can a person who makes that move to New York, or San Francisco, or live where they want, generally? Can they put two children through college, meaning an ordinary state school? This sum was planted by the bosses who want to stiff you.
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  44796. How much did Harvard get from Epstein's mentor, Les Wexner, tell me again? And you never thought to teach at, say, SUNY? Or City Colleges? Mm hmm.
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  44797. America wants to impose unipolarity. Sit back and watch where that takes the world.
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  44798. Duh
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  44799.  American CNC & Design  He took them himself because of his age, and never supported mandates. I don't know anyone else who gave a platform to the vaccine injured like he did.
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  44800. Exactly
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  44801.  @Flamingtorpedostrike  So who is an Elon fanboy?
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  44802. I think this could be a turning point in the war. If Russians keep a cool head and take this event in stride, it could turn out to be a slight positive. If the recriminations start at home, and wild, unthinking retaliations are visited on Ukraine --- which is what usually happens in war --- then all bets are off.
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  44803. But this was the fear all along!
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  44804. What are you saying?
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  44805.  @JorgeRamos-xw6dy  We need to know the origins of COVID. How this could be a diplomatic issue when the possible source is a lab that US entities funded is truly beyond me. We must think we bear no responsibility for anything we do.
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  44806.  @patrickburton1401  No, Rogan was not vaccinated. He had an appointment to receive Johnson and Johnson, and it was pulled that morning due to the blood clot issue. He never went back.
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  44807.  @user-ro9md9wp3j  You must not have looked.
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  44808. If it were me, in 2022, I would rather be in Russia.
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  44809. ​ @blobjorn3248 Okay, which side are you describing now?
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  44810.  @chim-choo-ree  His "idea," so-called, is that if you reach out to the previous guest Jimmy had, meaning that particular person, then that is identical to "join[ing] with the extreme right." That isn't political logic. That is a religious test. 43:28 is politics.
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  44811. You underestimate 💰
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  44812. I know. A big mac and a big gulp, and expecting everyone else to pay for those decisions, is definitely the way to go. As a matter of principle, shouldn't a public high school education prepare you for a job that is sufficient to meet the basic necessities? Nothing fancy, just the basics? All right then, when you start going to college on your own dime, what would be the reason to have to dance to someone else's tune yet again? When do you get to study what truly interests you? In any case, Business has been the most common degree in the US for at least 30 years, with Nursing coming in right behind. Most of college is vocational now, for most people. Do you see young people with those "worthwhile degrees" thriving? Why are they living at home at 25?
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  44813. I'm so sorry. What a thing for anyone, but especially a young father or mother, to face and be asking themselves.
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  44814.  @viktorcheng2061  It's called empathy. As in, "this could happen to me or to the people I love," as opposed to "this could never happen to me." As in, "memento mori."
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  44815. Je suis montenegrine, et je suis aux E-U. Je vais partir pour Montenegro l'annee prochaine. Les E-U sont insupportables. Je ne peux plus vivre ici. C'est tres violent, et cruel.
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  44816. If Doom reports raise more money for the DNC, why would they care?
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  44817.  @imnotbenavery9220  She has to come out and be with people. Should she go to a camp like all the nutcase wanted?
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  44818. They don't need to give a reason. The legal burden of persuasion for consent to treatment is always on the proponent of treatment. The consent form for vaccination that we all signed says so.
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  44819. We don't have the data on complications from vaccination. The head of the CDC admitted this under oath before the Senate. I wish I were kidding. They do not know whether the reporting system has been compromised by vaccine opponents, among others. There is also pressure on doctors to minimize the risk of vaccination. So in short, we don't know.
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  44820.  @matthewatwood8641  The irony is that Westerners in general and Americans in particular are so high maintenance, but this anti-fragility discourse has you obsessing and "correcting" others who have more sense than you do. For example, twice I did not so much as cry about a grim diagnosis -- and both times it turned out to be wrong, of course. Maybe you need to toughen up? But that would be you, not "everyone."
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  44821.  @matthewatwood8641  Well, now we know why there is a mental health crisis among the youth . . . And a reading comprehension crisis among just about everyone.
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  44822.  @matthewatwood8641  I know. Blaming the latest mass shooter for killing your kid is just trying to shift responsibility. Your kid is your problem. /s At some point, a perp is to blame for what they do to others. A better example: the idiotic COVID policies of the government most certainly harmed me and others. Of course we now have to deal with those problems on our own. The problems I'm left with are all mine. Closer to the topic at hand, concerning workplace bullying: when it is severe enough, most European countries have criminal statutes on the books and will prosecute it. Civilized people take it seriously. Here, people line up to make a buck with dubious "self-help" rants. Support that. See how it works out for you.
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  44823.  @matthewatwood8641  I don't see that being the target of criminals is a challenge that a minor child should have to face, least of all in school. That doesn't mean it has to defeat you. That's not the point. My parents met in a refugee camp, so I know something about overcoming real challenges. It still would have been better had there been no Hitler.
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  44824. Influencer is now a very lucrative job.
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  44825. @askaneconomist8265  As shocking as it is, maternal mortality in the US just surpassed Russia's. Given its history, including very recent history when it was looted by the West following the Soviet collapse, Russia is miraculous.
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  44826. @askaneconomist8265  I was just censored when I brought up a certain vital statistic concerning safety of giving birth. But YOU are allowed to call some other place __ hole, no problem? I'm OUT OF HERE. This tells you all you need to know about America in the monent.
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  44827. @askaneconomist8265  Meritocracy? Well no wonder our presidential choices! Thanks for explaining it to me.
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  44828.  @Ghjgdsfh764  You couldn't answer the pure mathematical point, so you say "___ hole."
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  44829.  @Ghjgdsfh764  Blocked for profanity, and because I am not given the right of response here.
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  44830.  @Ghjgdsfh764  Reports are that people throughout Asia are moving to Russia.
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  44831.  @Ghjgdsfh764  Why can't I mention maternal __tality? That is a very important measure of well being. Why am I subjected to sense or sheep, while you can bloviate forever and use profanity?
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  44832.  @Ghjgdsfh764  PPP can account for ANY difference. That is a purely mathematical point. A unit of currency is not a rigid yardstick.
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  44833.  @Ghjgdsfh764  You said __ hole. Bravo.
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  44834.  @Ghjgdsfh764  You said __ hole over and over and over.
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  44835.  @Ghjgdsfh764  Our cities are not a mess? They are not covered with human waste? Tent cities are not growing? Every crisis doesn't result in more money flowing upward? Or, rather, gushing upward? If somewhere as horrible as Russia can solve these problems, shouldn't it be easy for the VASTLY superior West? Yes. It really should. Isn't that the upshot of your points?
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  44836.  @Ghjgdsfh764  OH, so your YouTube channel recommends Pfizer stock for dividends! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Well now we know why you support what you support. Makes perfect sense. No problem, carry on. You need the money.
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  44837.  @Ghjgdsfh764  No, Russia is terrible. So why are their cities so much better, their maternal _ rate so much lower? It should be a breeze for any Western country to one-up them.
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  44838.  @Ghjgdsfh764  I lived in Paris.
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  44839.  @Ghjgdsfh764  Your Pfizer stock recommendation!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  44840.  @Ghjgdsfh764  So then improving OUR cities should be a breeze. Chile, what a coincidence. I've been rereading Roberto Bolaño. I know about Chile. This is getting better and better. "Pfizer stock, for dividends."
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  44841.  @Ghjgdsfh764  Why Russia? We sanction them, destroy their infrastructure, topple governments in neighboring countries, and expect it to lead to economic collapse and regime change. Why indeed.
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  44842.  @Ghjgdsfh764  When I answer, it is sense oared. You benefit from the current perfidy. Of course you like it.
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  44843.  @Ghjgdsfh764  Why am I not permitted to respond to slander?
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  44844. Anyone who wants a guru deserves a guru.
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  44845. I agree we have to be mindful of that. The surveillance capitalists count on our complicity when things turn out the way we like.
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  44846. Perfectly reasonable and scientifically sound. Why isn't this obvious? Plus it feeds those who oppose all vaccination by making proponents of vaccines look like ideologues.
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  44847.  @bgoodfella7413  No one can criticize you for that. Well, phonies can, but anyway . . .
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  44848. @History Eraser Button You're right. Thank you for the reality check.
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  44849. Wow, Nicholle Wallace is Trump's bestie. You could not get better publicity than this. Now no one will believe the true things about him.
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  44850.  @AndrewDavidBoyd  If no one ever spoke English to you, you would never acquire it at all.
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  44851. We have no statesmen like Church anymore.
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  44852. Look up Alain Badiou's defense of the Muslim hijab in his essay translated in the collection Polemics. (Probably Verso Press; don't have it handy) You'll enjoy it.
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  44853. Nothing to do with the left. The leftists are materialists. This is some ersatz late-capitalist neolib delusion.
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  44854. Correct. It's part of a pattern.
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